skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But why does it fall on companies to create an "environment" that treats people with kids the same way when in fact their circumstances are different?

In the US. It doesn't. The Federal Government mandates every eligible employee gets 12 weeks leave to deal with certain "family" related issues:

* Taking are of yourself, your spouse, your parent, a new child

In countries like Sweden, the government mandates that parents can take up to 480 days paid leave per child.

As others have posted, for tech companies, they are doing it to remain competitive. More recently, companies like MSFT, Netflix, Facebook have started to offer paid paternity leave, as employee incentives.

Put it this way, if my company did not make concessions for parents, we would leave and find jobs else where. That would make the jobs of all employees that are left that much harder, and in all likelihood, cause the company to fail.

> "I would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had small children, or was likely to have them soon", as an example of a morally outrageous statement. But surely people with small kids are more preoccupied?

Is there evidence that startups with female co-founders with small children fail more, less, or about average? What if that family had a nanny (like I do), or the spouse was planning on staying at home? There are women who have small children, work full time, and attend night school. If they can do that, then certainly they can start a company.

Personally, with a young baby, I much prefer the stability and predictability of an established company, to that of being a co-founder, or very early employee of a startup.
Besides what the others already replied, the use in the trade industry is one of the reasons of Java having to adopt AOT, value types, JNI replacement and better integration with GPGPUs.
Don't think of it as part of the keyboard; think of it as more screen, that happens to be touchable. Like the bottom half of a Nintendo DS.
That's probably just me but a lifestyle where you have no time to take a break (or meet friends/colleagues) and eat doesn't sound very healthy and not very desirable either. I understand the desire to optimise eating times and life overall, and sometimes there's a lot of work that seems important, but at the point where you drink a supplement rather than eat it seems there's no life left in what should be more than just a person working and sleeping (or napping if you're in the sleep optimiser boat..) .

Probably it's all not that black and white, you like the convenience etc, but damn it just sounds sad. I also used to try to optimise my life to have impact etc, until i realised that i don't want to miss out on also living it.
Is it abuse if the AI doesn't feel agony? Honest question. I'm sure there's research out there discussing it. I wonder if misuse isn't a better word if the intent is to describe something similar that happened to Tay. Trying to determine the line between something like a hammer and an AI. Can you abuse a hammer?
Jeremy Kun's blog, Math ∩ Programming: https://jeremykun.com/

He is _super_ smart and his posts often sneak into the homepage here.
Does it need to be safer?
We are experiencing the same from Vietnam
You can't limit devs from prod servers. The obvious answer is to hire honest people. The place I work processes millions per day. No one is going to risk their $100k+ job to steal whatever the ACH limit is.
Usually keeping a break is better for both your health and your work
Is the play button below the header on acko.net meant to do something? The WebGL header works fine for me, but that play button doesn't seem to do anything.
How can you eat 5,000 kcal a day and not be a huge fat pig? How many miles a day do you need to run to burn that off?

I used to be a normal weight, but I had to eat 1,200 kcals and run 4 miles a day.
If that's a regular schedule for you - Don't you feel you're missing out on living life?
It is very easy to make a sandwich once you have a fridge which fills itself with fresh ingredients whenever you run out.
It wouldn't be that good of a reference. Full disclosure: I led the backend team at Vine a while back.

Vine didn't use a lot of Flask. The main piece that was used was routing (i.e. @app.route). Everything else was custom. Even flask.g was replaced with something that can propagate context properly across greenlets (the method of concurrency we chose), without a lot of overhead. If you're curious, that piece eventually became https://github.com/mikekap/gbatchy though I can't say that's well supported now.

The main takeaway from that codebase is: async needs to be part of the language. Having it be bolted on leads to...unpleasant hacks. I think Python 3.5+ is heading in the right direction there, but Vine was stuck in 2.7-land forevermore (mostly because we wanted to keep pypy compatibility even though pypy was never rolled out; not the best reason).
My favorite is the OS/2 2.0 fiasco, of course.
Almost all commercial JDKs support AOT to native code.

Sun was religious against it.

Regarding the GCJ, it failed because it is a hard problem where people didn't work for free and most of them stopped working on it when the OpenJDK was released.
> A Constitutional amendment has a much higher threshold of passage than a simple law.

You are misunderstanding the word 'constitution'. Every company and regulatory body has one. It defines who does what, and the 'what you can do, and more importantly, what you should do' of a regulatory body is defined within the act. It is not the 'american constitution'. It is created and modified during the regular practice of government with the creation and modification of an act. Every democratic government, and indeed, even non-democratic ones, does it roughly the same way. If it didn't happen this way, cars would still be driving with lead petrol.

> Sure, as long as enough other voters agree with you to get their attention.

It happens all of the time.

You know dude, I'm not really sure you know how the government functions. This is what they do, and there are so many levels of it. It's true that large multi-state regulatory bodies have larger impacts, and therefore require more support, in order to be enacted. But they get created in the first place for a reason, and end up getting modified for a reason. Your representatives create and modify acts that allocate funds to fund regulatory bodies to enforce laws. That's democracy. That's how it works.
How is that harmful to the original poster? They don't see it.

Seems adequate, especially when defining a universally accepted definition of "abuse" that isn't just censorship-as-abuse itself is such a hard problem..
> Our entire civilization has been built on the principle of not subjecting ourselves to Darwinian survival-selection.

I don't believe it's something you can escape. It largely boils down to the idea of infinite wants vs. finite resources. Bostrom and co. like to talk about how there's enough energy in the universe to power 10^XX human lifetimes, but I strongly don't believe that a human is going to be the ultimate lifeform. Already we can see that the average first-world human today uses substantially more energy than the average human 1000 years ago.

Unless we hit a ceiling on complexity (not currently in sight), there will always be people who want access to more energy. Since energy is finite, there will be competition between them for that energy. And that will more or less result in Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest, at least as far as some individuals/groups/organisms/species will be better at getting access to individuals as others.

I guess the other alternative is that we hit an entirely egalitarian society, but I think that's exceedingly unlikely, as it would require everybody to agree 100% to limit their energy consumption to exactly what they've been allocated, and not to try to acquire more.

> That aside, you should probably go count ducks in a swamp or do some other ecological fieldwork before talking about the evolutionary fitness of organisms or ecosystems. You sound atrocious at biology.

I appreciate the criticism, and apologize for the sloppy metaphors. Evolution thus far though has very clearly favored death as the primary means of design. Few species have remained unchanged over the past XX million years, and even fewer are theoretically capable of immortality (barring some sort of medical intervention). Most organisms have aging hardcoded into their genome.
I take ADHD medication and as a side-effect, my appetite is suppressed for most of the day (I can eat supper but I am physically incapable of eating lunch)

Soylent has been a lifesaver
Wel if we just look around, we see that we are overall pretty good at collaboration. This is because other people are trained to do jobs that we often can't do ourselves and so we do what we are good at, get paid, and pay others to do what they are good at.

Now lets look at what other species there are, what can they mean for us if we would collaborate...

I'm thinking we will be monkeys, then cows and then ants as the AIs evolve.
Are there any that support the current class file format? ARM jazelle is no longer being worked on. So I would be surprised if there is anything that can do Java SE directly. JavaCard of course being quite different than standard Java.
They'll have to comply, but they will probably cut corners.
I have one kid, and no startup, and sometimes the only meal I get to enjoy is lunch at the office.

When going out to eat, I would hold my son in my left hand, as I shoveled food into my mouth with my right hand, taking a break to apologize to whomever was dining with me for having such bad manners.
The article makes virtually no logical case for its own claim. The example that Larry Page should buy twitter because it is great, is immeadiately under cut by the follow up reason. Larry Page is Jewish and Twitter is an extremely vitriolic place, especially towards people of color or minority groups. The "Old Media" problem is that no-one wants to pay for content. Twitter is less of "content" and more real-time news pings-- closer to reuters than NYT. If the author were to make the case they should go the way of Reuters, I would at least entertain it, but Twitter as a b2c play seems like a stretch at this point.

Twitter has an extremely viable business. They should try this innovative model I was reading about called subscription billing. The hail mary play is to ask users for $1 a month. Users would churn and they would have to limit adverts so their current model would take a hit, but it makes sense.

I think users would pay $1 per month per 160 char addition to their monthly limit. At minimum advertisers would. kill adds, sell tweet length. I get it Jack, you want to preserve the arbitrary SMS thing, but it needs to go before your company does.
Am not sure. Pretty much agriculture is eating away vast tracts of forests. Be it in Brazil, India or elsewhere. Now is all agriculture done for food. Not really. Palm oil is an example with a ton of industrial and cosmetic use.
You like diverse food but then resort to Soylent to avoid choosing food? I suppose it's healthier than McD but it really sounds a bit crazy.
Moonbow
Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages
that how it is marketed. My assertion is that the difference is largely marketing; that we don't know enough about nutrition to make a realistically complete long-term meal replacement, making them both "something you might drink sometimes instead of eating something, but something you wouldn't want to live off of long-term"

Of course, I'm no doctor (but then, neither is Rob Rhinehart,) and it is possible research has progressed further than I know; but personally? I wouldn't take the word of a software engineer on this.
There's another problem ,at least for Twitter's users:

> from hundreds of personally chosen observers

That's quite a daunting task, selecting hundreds of observers. It's not something for most people.
Do you not cook every meal because you don't have the time, or because it's simply easier to buy something? Because I bet you have the time.

Anyway, you don't have to cook to eat a nutritious meal that you make yourself. Nuts and dried fruit is a good meal supplement, as are greens, chopped veggies, homemade granola bars, bread with peanut butter, hard boiled eggs, etc. Even a glass of milk, honestly. All of these things can be eaten on the go, and when balanced against the rest of your daily diet, can be healthy as well as delicious.

You probably do laundry at some point. And even if you pay someone to do your laundry, you probably at least take the five minutes to gather up your laundry and bring it to your taskrabbit. Those same 1-5 minutes can be used to grab simple healthy food from your pantry or refrigerator. And there's probably over 1,000 five minute meal recipes out there. You don't even have to pop down to the market to pick uo ingredients anymore. And civilizations around the world have been making on-the-go food for millennia.

Honestly, the time argument is very improbable. Proof: you have time to comment on HN.
Perhaps you should start a startup that lists sites friendly for vim-based scroll events.
For those interested in the topic, there's a really good book (also available as audiobook) that covers this in some depth, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005)
I just use JS scripts, because if node is not installed you aren't getting very far anyway.

Actions like "copy this file", "clear this subdirectory", and "pull these files over the network" are easy to write synchronously in node, are there are modules for things that aren't.

For more complex actions, there are modules like env-cmd or cross-env for setting environmental variables on different platforms. If you had something really complex, you could check os.platform() and then call scripts written for each OS.

But you're right, you can't write a .sh shell script and expect it to magically work on Windows.
PDF Files Processing in Any Development Platform Without Adobe Acrobat
Bunch of generalisation. Plenty of people use external devices via USB with Macbooks. Now all of them will need adaptors. Same goes for people who have a bunch of flash drives. New ones may not be expensive, but it's still a waste of money when nothing actually stopped working.
Sun only supported it on bare metal embedded scenarios, they were religiously against it.
I think you didn't understand the issue. Imagine you want to implement a "logout from all my sessions" like Facebook or Google have (sessions in different devices)
When we lost type safety in systems programming to C and C++.
Buy a fucking slow cooker you ignorant muppets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva#Digestion

It's not clear that salivary digestion is categorically different from non-salivary digestion -- it works on compounds the rest of the GI tract also deals with -- but as a matter of degree, as a matter of the extent to which your food is digested, it certainly seems important. 30% is nothing to sneeze at.
His estate (or beneficiary) should just assume ownership of the insurance company then. Insurance is a good business, as long as you don't have any other policies like that on the books.
Indeed it can. There are vegetable stocks (and you can make your own if you're really into it) and you can create "fond" from many vegetables. Onion in particular likes to leave sticky bits if you overcook it a bit.

BTW, don't use non-stick pans if you're trying to make a pan sauce! If you really care about cooking at home you should buy some good tools. All-Clad stainless steal is generally good. I have Falk copper but that's probably not a good place to start due to the price. But good cookware matters quite a bit. A cheap $30 pan is OK to boil water in but won't work well for a lot of decent coking.
Thank you for bringing this up. I had glossed over this fact. I think a lot of food wastage is also because of regulations around stale food. In my head the solution to solve this at scale is 2 fold
1.To help large food chains/supermarkets avoid this wastage by accurately predicting demand.
2.Bring in regulation to make wastage really expensive.
This is my view of course :)
I don't understand why you would think they are the same. Cooking a whole bean vs cooking a powdered bean is different. Digesting a whole, chewed bean is different from digesting a powdered bean. And what happens at the end of your gut is different.

An example of a related principle is "need" vs "what's needed when it's needed". How much vitamin C do you "need"? Oh, wait, it affects iron absorption.
I have found myself repeating this paraphrased quote often recently, which is relevant.

"We didn't achieve flight by simulating birds; we needn't worry about achieving ai by simulating brains."
"Ensure" (I think) is the stuff in a can that they give old people to make them NOT lose too much weight. That sounds close to Soylent.
Thanks so much for that link.
What is going on with Reddit /r/all page?
Telling someone they're "missing out on living life" just because they don't do the same thing as you is really condescending.
When I'm really sucked into a problem is one of the few times that I feel fully alive. It's like being in a flow state for multiple days, pushing every cognitive resource I have to reach a solution.

I think it happens less than once a month, and almost always lasts less than a week.

I do wish that I went hiking more often, camping more often, and I wish that I had more social interactions that were free of social and business undertones.
I am not sure if your original solution will actually work.

For example an attacker can just spoof enough accounts to sample from your distribution to figure out the true center. Imagine spoofing a grid of users with let's say K fake accounts per dot, then if you plot the histogram of who managed to connect you will see a very clear bump in the 2d histogram in the shape of circle.

The solution in your edit is much better.
I don't think it was meant that way, I didn't take offense.
You should watch Logan's Run.
Hello, this will clear things up:

https://ashishchaudhary.in/gsoc-2016-finish

I should've posted it before!
There will be a popular science book from him coming out, I read a draft a while ago. It will present it all in a digestible way.

The do-calculus to me looks a bit cumbersome. I'm not generally attracted to math that doesn't look like math, except if it is nice looking. :-)

On a more general level, when I'm building robots, I consider the interface between their minds and the world a Markov blanket. This means that state in the world can only be represented in the robot by learning through its interface by a combination of forward and inverse models. The existence of a physical barrier makes it possible to define information going through it. You might suggest that the world is created by the robot's mind, but that is probably difficult to back with any information criterion.

If the robot learns its body, it knows that it is itself who is performing a movement or if it is being pushed. Knowing that it was itself the actor is enough to know the direction of the causal arrow.
Three bugs found in the LibTIFF, one of them yet to be patched
I'm aware of the novel. You are missing the point a bit, aren’t you? It wasn't about the origin of the word. What does one make of a company which chooses to name its product after a darkly dystopian piece of fiction?
The very red flags you're raising against Wittens I would raise against you for your essay rant here. I can imagine your keyboard received quite the bashing as you pounded that out.
I'm not sure the reports say its contamination. Its possible the powder is just incompatible with the digestive system of some people in same way as, say, leafy vegetables or carrageenan affect some people's digestion but not others.

Soylent may be recalling because they don't want to be liable in the _possibility_ of contamination. However, over time, they may find they can make the best product that is compatible with some digestive systems but not others - put a warning on product accordingly.

Cheap, accurate testing of foods for compatibility with a broad range of nutrient absorption rates and microbiomes would be key in engineering foods for everyone. But right now it would just make your food really expensive to the extent its even possible.
And use the 2mm for more battery.
I personally avoid "new" food and "meal replacements" in general, because they look like garbage in a bar/mix sold by a profit-seeking company with their own best interests at heart. The only difference between Soylent and Coca Cola or other junk food is that Soylent promises time/convenience, Coca Cola promises happiness, and most other junk food relies on appealing to its taste or popularity.

I'd be happy to be wrong if it turns out Soylent is the first manufactured food that ends up beating nature, but I would never bet my health on it.
Soylent also uses the cheapest vitamers available. While the jury is still out on the difference between some of these compounds and their natural (read: biochemically native) analogues, it's cause for consideration, and possibly concern. The choice of dl-alpha-tocopherol acetate as a vitamin E seems particularly concerning to me -- there's a discussion thread on that here: https://discourse.soylent.com/t/why-does-soylent-not-contain...

While a lot of questionable notions about nutrition circulate in the tech community, this concern doesn't seem without grounds.
Scientists still don't understand the mechanisms behind lightning formation! Turbulent flow is also another great unsolved physics problem.
The tools that made us successful as a species capped our lifespans. Technology may have changed that equation such that it makes more sense to live longer (or forever), but if immortality had made evolutionary sense up to this point we'd see a few immortals walking around.

For whatever reason, hardcoded death was the more successful route for a species to take. (with some notable exceptions. I believe there are species of lobsters that won't die if you put them in the right environment, I believe a species of jellyfish as well, and then some microorganisms as well)
Turning 10 calories of corn into 1 calorie of beef is not the way to save the planet. A large fraction of corn and soybeans are fed to animals. If you want to talk about non-food usage, that's a different issue.
Today, we have the NFL.
I also block ads. But I also purchase several periodic publications - some print, some digital, none web-based.

When I'm browsing the internet, I really think that I'm wasting my time since I already pay for and therefore have quality news content. I assume that many, like me, are browsing rather than working because we have focus issues.

So here's another business model for someone to pursue. Rather than ad-block, let's have site-block but where that site that got blocked still receives a micro-payment from me. Why, you ask, would I want to pay a site that I didn't visit? Because I made an extra $20 that hour by not wasting time on the site, and I'm happy to give them $1 or 5% of those extra earnings. The fact that I'm somewhat serious here show you what a crazy game we've made for ourselves.
The Problem with Public Bug Databases
Seriously: "Soylent"??? Somebody thought that would be a good name to market mystery food sludge?

Just the link title made my WTF-ometer peg when I saw it.

As Bullwinkle used to say: "I think I shall now be sick."