jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You never had a right to eat your neighbours. Neither Homo sapiens nor other animals.

Your human rights are yours because you are human, they don't derive from any social contract, they are not granted by society. Society can only respect them or violate them, not give them to you.

You might wonder what are your human rights then? The answer is easy, is what you were born with: Freedom and Property.

Freedom because you have a will, and you can do what you want if no-one hinders you. Property because you were born with your body, it's your to do with it as you please.

Any other so-called rights that violate these two fundamental rights are false rights. The "right to eat your neighbour" could never be a real right because it presupposes that you can eat them no matter what, you wouldn't need their consent in order for you to eat them and that would violate their freedom.

Actually, there is a bunch of other false rights that are in the same line as your "right to eat your neighbours": the right to food, the right to health-care, the right to housing, the right to anything that requires someone else's labor. Saying that such things are a right imply that someone else has to labor in order to grant said false rights to you. The "has to" part violates someone's freedom. We have a name for that: slavery.
It should probably be "legal" name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_name
Changed from https://www.dw.com/en/echr-rules-obligatory-vaccination-may-..., which is broken. Thanks!
Key phrase, since we're talking about long Covid:

> Of those not admitted to hospital, 20-30% experience at least one enduring symptom around one month later and at least 10% three months later;

Still, not "very low"...
How much longer until we see one of these that imports 100mb of Javascript to make a responsive, reactive, server-rendered SPA. Saying things like "Just npx create-react-app fucker, it gives a better fucking user experience out of the box than your shit fucking browser does" and still claims to somehow be satire?
I use yourdomain@mydomain to sign up for accounts. name@mydomain is something I try to only give to friends.

According to that site, my personal email has been leaked by Adobe, and by a bunch of shady database firms I've never heard of.

(On further reflection, I probably used my Google account to log into Adobe, which leaks my personal email to the site I'm logging into.)
The Chinese paper is almost certainly wrong. A simple explanation for why other people aren't publishing the same claim is that it's both inherently implausible and unsupported by any of the available evidence. You can find plenty of equally kooky and potentially controversial papers published in Western countries. E.g. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761245146... Of course we can play a game where you keep denying that any example I give is exactly parallel to the paper you cited. However, I'm sure that if you do a few Google scholar searches you'll be able to find something that satisfies whatever criteria you have in mind.
Maybe you create a website that will connect single founders with their co-founder. It's almost impossible to have a successful start-up on your own.
Hi, the deal is only open to people who have liked it. Once the like limit is reached, people cannot like it anymore. This lets retailers control how the deal pans out.

I suppose traffic in itself is valuable, since CPC/PPC marketing in itself is a lucrative industry. We plan to charge a monthly fee as a start.
Personally I think the lesson to be learned from Northern Ireland is to avoid demonizing terrorists - it really doesn't achieve anything. Try and understand what it motivating them and you might stand a chance of working things out.
I do. Fishing my phone out of my pocket and waking it up every time I want to see what time it is gets really annoying really fast. Also I think (nice) watches look good and adds to ones overall appearance.
AIUI, Egypt is yet another African country that fell victim to land reform. The unique wrinkle to the story is that instead of taking the land from experienced farmers and giving it to the less capable masses, Mubarak took it from experienced farmers and gave it to corporate cronies. Less socialist, still disastrous! Egypt could feed itself 8,000 years ago, it could feed itself 800 years ago, and it could feed itself 80 years ago. Now, not so much...
This deserves a closer look. It appears to be making use of the ORC format used in Hive, and last I looked was implemented in Java and tied in tight with the Hive arch. So this must be a rewrite of an ORC reader/writer. Selfishly I wish they'd picked Parquet instead of ORC.
> Do you not agree that different people can have different value to a company?

I agree with that point. My point is that to management, you are a worker. You are an expense that is to be maximized for profit. That end will always be sought. You are stuck within the bounds of what they expect to pay someone for your role + wiggle room.

>Collective bargaining is the definition of muscling, as your other alternative is losing your entire workforce, even those happy with their work and pay. Most companies are terrified of becoming unionized because of the new and often unwarranted demands that will be made as a collective, just because of that threat.

Collective bargaining is legally protected and a contract stipulation employers agree to.

Employers can just as easily engage in manager lockout and prevent employees from working if they feel the bargain isn't worth it.

>Do you imagine that unions would agree to the reverse? If the total profits have declined for a sector, do you imagine they would agree to a wage deduction? The "collective bargaining" aspect of modern unions is only there as a threat to ever increase benefits to the employees whether they are warranted or not.

To quote bsder:

"Many of the steelworkers unions in the early 80's went out of their way to try to get people retired so that the younger people would still have jobs. They also worked very hard to get people transferred to other sites to reach the point where they could retire even if it meant sacrificing some salary.

Or, for something more recent, many of the unions involved with Hostess took several rounds of cuts before finally standing up and taking a hard line that eventually led to the bankruptcy. And, it looks like Hostess is going to be better off because of it."

>Base pay and working conditions are law now, and are not going to revert. If they did, I would be for unions, that is what they are good for.

Minimum wage is law, standards are set up for most work places. Industry specific laws are in place, but they do not cover all industry specific workplace needs.

Tomorrow, if Keyboard X comes out, and is proven to prevent CTS, you can bet that unions would advocate for making them available.

> Does it? You can't think of any companies that offer good salary and benefits with no union? None?

Of course I can. Do you think those niceties will last forever and for everyone? They are an expense to be cut as soon as possible.

> I am for more legal protection of employees. Class and regional minimum salaries (and wages) for different types of jobs, national health insurance, living wage guarantees and unemployment guarantees, retirement guarantees, etc.

Unions have been the vehicle for enacting legislation to provide these things at the national level. Industry will lobby against provisions if it will affect the bottom line.

Having a dozen programmers call your representative won't change much in the face of lobbyists.
The engineers are good, the designers less so.

The whole page is slow to load, solutionyogi must benefit from different optimisations, but on an ipad it seems to get the worse of both worlds.

Even after the page is loaded, the sections are mostly blank until the animations kick in.

Their features page [1] in comparison has a similar concept but is much clearer, simpler and very fast to load and navigate.

[1]https://stripe.com/features
Don't we already shame obese people?
What would be a suitable alternative? Not necessarily against this, but I can say that I'd personally never go to a doctor who hadn't had extensive clinical training as part of their education, at least not for anything serious.
Quote from LastPass in the article:

> "All LastPass users, regardless of browser or device, are given the option to opt-out of these analytics in their LastPass Privacy Settings, located in their account here: Account Settings > Show Advanced Settings > Privacy. We are continuously reviewing our existing processes and working to make them better to comply, and exceed, the requirements of current applicable data protection standards."

The options I found in the privacy section:

>Privacy

>Track History Keep track of login and form fill history.

>Help Improve LastPass Send anonymous error reporting data to help improve LastPass.

That wasn't clear to me. But I usually disable those "Help Improve" things just for this reason: they're actually using it for marketing and sharing.

I have now disabled the "Help Improve LastPass" option. But I'll still be trying out some different password managers and migrating now that I know they embed a plethora of different services in their product. This chain of security is only as strong as the weakest link and LastPass is adding several links unnecessarily. Their focus has drifted away from the core purpose it seems.
I disagree. They're the product of the same pressure. Crimes need to be solved and unsolved crimes or acquittals are to be avoided at all costs.

If that is your reality:

They can be solved by aggressive prosecution of those under suspicion - torturing confessions out of people if they are unwilling to confess (maybe because they're innocent).

They can also be solved by selective prosecution - don't look too hard at cases that seem like they'll be difficult, call them a suicide or natural death and close the book. No crime, no problem to make you look bad if you can't solve it.

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I am not alleging that Japan is actually a place with high crime rates.

Just that the deep flaws in their system provide a strong incentive to distort their crime rates. Especially for homicide, being both high profile and being a crime where the victim can't complain about how their case is handled.

You're citing their homicide rates as an example of "strict punishment does appear to have an impact on crime", and I'm suggesting Japan's homicide statistics aren't a great example.

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On a related note (and one I've read far less on), it seems the vast majority of criminal offenders basically get a suspended sentence, at least for their first offense.

So, I'm not sure that you can really say that Japan's criminal justice system is an example of "strict punishment" either.
Thanks for calling this out: you're right. I don't think I highlighted properly what I actually wanted to highlight.

I more wanted to emphasize my view as a bystander at a very hectic point of their growth, not actually complain about the experience. It was an interesting experience to me, not a negative one.

I have no hard feelings about it and I'm sure things got sorted out. I certainly have no negative views of any individual I dealt with.
Why not just buy btc with each paycheck?
Don't worry about that, I'm almost sure that's a bug. It's the default, fallback "GUI" for the LibVLC engine. I've been using LibVLC in a .NET app I'm working on, and I've seen it appear a lot of times when I screwed something up on my side (and LibVLC probably "wasn't aware" of the UI widget in my app's window).
Exactly why Java succeed - the world is dominated by mediocrity while idiots are mostly on management positions.
This is why all we got nowadays are Windows PCs with Java. It "worth us" or "suits us well".

Designers were too smart (consider David Moon) while management was "as usual".
Can I create a 'real' account and centralize all my ebooks, or do I need to create one account per ebook?
one discout per account
This is one reason I love Penn & Teller. They never insult their audience by claiming to actually have magic powers. It's hard to beat their cups and balls trick using clear plastic cups while explaining exactly how the trick is being done, yet it's still almost impossible to follow the sleight of hand for most people. It's so impressive.
This article is hot garbage. Please do not upvote it.

Here's a more reasonable article:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/increase-denmark%E2%80%9...
This is because of effective treatment. I was dx'ed with "fatal" cancer just over 10 years ago... Modern medicine FTW.
He did argue against the policy on its merits, providing several concrete examples where applying the law enables malefactors to do bad things to you. And nothing in the article refers to the FSF or the concept of free or open source software.
Did this compiler really support "auto" as a variable type, as seen in example fizzbuzz ?
One of the biggest productivity boosts, even more so than the language is ecosystem and libraries. Having libraries that do json, interface to AWS S3, interface to Postgress/MySQL, OAuth, etc is a huge productivity boost, versus having to roll your own.

Many times in software development, more work is spent in glue code and wiring stuff together than actual algorithmic development. And speaking of algorithmic development, I would bet, that just about any common algorithm, and likely many esoteric algorithms have easily available, high quality implementations that you can plug into your code without too much hassle.
Previous discussion, which the main article was got deleted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810000
If you're repeating the same status update every day then you're either blocked or you're not offering enough detail for your status update to be useful.

In the first case you're depriving yourself of the opportunity to be helped by your team.

In the second you're depriving your teammates of the opportunity to learn from your process, insights, and potentially helping them on their own task.

Get your head out of your ass, and think about the maximum value you can provide to your team in 30seconds-2minutes in a daily status report.
You don’t. You tell them you won’t be talking to them without a lawyer, and they have to drop it until you find one. They can’t demand that you magically produce a lawyer on the spot.
We're a small transport company, trying to get employees to and from work. No matter the time of day, there are always people commuting (or planning to commute). When's a good time for outage?

Imagine it's 3:30am, you just got off a shift, you can't afford a cab and the nearest subway is 10KM away. How fun is it that the transport app you rely on it down for maintenance?

Maybe that helps you understand the mindset?
Let me add more nuance to this.

What you mention is less true if corporate tax is progressive on profits.

On the other hand, Amazon wouldn't care about corporate taxes on profits because it reinvests all its revenue.
Isn't this because most users have decided that charging money is a death sentence? Hell, there's a HN article on this like every month.
I somewhat agree. Not just jargon, but the author has an impressive vocabulary and may be putting it ahead of readability.

One concrete example:
"Our work shows" would work just as well as "our work elucidates".

It's ultimately up to the author, but that kind of word choice really doesn't add anything and makes the paper less accessible to non-native speakers.
You can be as nice a person as you want, if you are talking with an asshole, you are in for a bad time.
The Raspberry Pi, while humble, probably won't last long enough.
Nothing about the past decade of American politics suggests that escalation by any extremum of the political spectrum will do anything but deepen the polarization of their political system.
Well, I'm asking because my experience is exactly the opposite. I've installed Windows countless times on systems with all the requirements and HyperV is not enabled. The day it starts being enabled, I don't even want to imagine the number of support calls.
Powerfully stupid take
You have a point, but one should point out here that WhatsApp makes this easy only if you stick with the same type of phone... if you switch between Android and iOS you're completely SOL with WhatsApp. With Signal on the other hand you can use the (admittedly non-trivial) procedure mentioned in sibling in either case.
I've found out, because wifi was subjectively slower. 5 GHz is nice, because the range is lower, your neighbors are not causing much noise anymore, so the real speeds did approach the theoretical limits (for me; in my environment; using Ubiquity APs, mostly nanoHDs).

Apple used to be one of the vendors, that bothered to put better wifi in their products than competitors; now they fell back to mediocre 2x2 that all the PC vendors use.
If you have a load of smart engineers, sometimes it can be a more successful strategy to just build something than to pay EY £250k to do market analysis, get a load of execs bought in who then will "make it work" even if it shouldn't, or kill it off even if they shouldn't, and then finally get a committee-written spec handed over to be built in a rush.
Bigger problem is that there are 11.7 B one dollar bills in circulation [1]. Even having that $100k sorted you still only stand 1: 117000 chance of winning.

[1] https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/how-...
Agreed. I think the post misses out the new file systems supporting the new Linux roll-out. I believe ButterFS is extremely interesting with regards to distributed block storage for example.
"I am a citizen, you must hold (if you are the government) or fund (if you are a taxpayer) an election for me to vote in."

What's your feeling on that positive right? I've encountered people who argue against democracy, and I've encountered people who will re-word the right as stated above and then call it a negative right. I disagree with the former, and the latter only succeed in demonstrating that the difference between positive and negative rights is one of phrasing, and not of the right itself. Do you have a different take on the matter?
"I believe what we have here is the beginning of the end of complacency. It is now apparent to me that in the haste to ensure compliance with procedures that are inconsistent if not inarticulable, TSA has hastened the likelihood of failure."

It's interesting this was written a year ago and only now are we starting to exert our right to refuse.
thanks for all your advice.
He was actually the CTO of tumblr.
I think that's exactly how contemporary disinformation campaigns work. Say its almost totally pesticides, the win for them is muddling it into 'numerous causes.' There's so much money involved in some of these issues that stakeholders can spend millions (billions if you own fossil fuel reserves) just to move the needle slightly.
If he really wants to save the web, maybe start by reversing the insane decision on EME DRM that allowed it to turn into a secret vote at the W3C

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-con...

I'm really sick of these "influencers" doing horrible things and then coming back and expecting us to give them blank checks as defenders of the web, when they only seem to do the right thing when it's convenient for them. Get your own house in order before coming out and trying to fix everybody else's.
Installed a simple keyboard shelf [1] under my desk so my full size keyboard and mouse are my elbow's height. It only took 4 screws and was a huge improvement to my desk's ergonomics.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PKVV5S/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
> Over at the TypeScript compiler we recently slowed our release cycle from 2 months to 3 months specifically because of an observation noted here: nobody used our beta (or RC) builds.

It is pretty standard in the Rust community for crates to use stable, beta, and nightly in their CI. I know testing is different than development, especially for using new features but I'm sure it does help.
You don't need proof of ownership to obtain a judgement in your favor. It would make the process easier to be sure but you can make the case based on historical ownership and other indirect proof that a judge will accept.

You don't walk into a court and have the judge say "what you don't have the receipt?! case dismissed!!" -- the judge isn't a parking meter.
Probably true for AGI but the overloaded term "AI" could be applied to learn from how people use software to _carefully_ suggest improvements.

Usage stats could help you improve a user interface, teach users new skills (eg: "you always do this, here's a shortcut to save you time"), perhaps more personalized operating system interfaces and defaults.

You probably don't need a fancy pseudo "AI" system for any of these, but that's the current gold rush so someone's gonna do it
Right, polyglot architectures have no choice, but this text talks about “5 person startups” as well. Surely they can keep the set of languages limited?

Plus, it’s not either/or situation. A fat clients for Go + Node.js; and a proxy for all others. This way your core logic can enjoy increased introspection / more speed / higher reliability; while special purpose services get a proxy which allow interoperability.
Nobody has considered gold money since the fall of Bretton-Woods. Gold is an asset class.

And yeah, if someone steals your cash or your gold, you can sue them and obtain a restorative court judgement. With your magic beans you just blame the victim and shrug suggesting they should have been more careful, aka "SFYL."
Principles on paper won't work. We need to build these principles into the technology at a fundamental level so that anyone using it can't do anything else but use it based on those principles. The technology should require it and not be able to work otherwise unless you break it.
I'm saying that payday loans are bad because there is a better alternative today, yes. We could replace payday loans overnight if the government provided decent welfare.

So, that's what we should do. It seems like you agree, so hopefully you are contributing to the political/democratic will to do this.

That clearly doesn't apply to the other two cases. I also disagree that "interventions" are necessarily preferable.
Possibly the difference between knowing something is random and not knowing anything.

Of course 'random' is a fairly complex topic in itself but it makes sense to consider it relative to the problem domain.
It's not too hard :) As you know official API doesn't support sending medias. You can send unofficially by using instagram websites URLs but you need users passwords. Its not appropriate to do in terms of user security.