skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I say this as someone who began to appreciate other cultures because I was exposed to them - I have no idea how I would have turned out if I was more isolated. It might not have been good.

While I'm still on the fence concerning the 'keep them in the open' theory when applied to societies, I think you make an excellent point here when it comes to exploring possible solutions to the problem.

I've had both the fortune and misfortune to spend much of my life in very different kinds of cultures (traditional & muslim, very liberal & mostly atheist, etc.) and to spend at least the first 25 in a very insular Evangelical environment (with full conviction, I might add!). I've 'hung out' with the richer parts of society (not much though) and been part of the 'poor' (within a rich society though), and explored many fringe communities.

Of course through all that I've had my privileges and I'm sure I still have many blindspots. I don't have the illusion that I've become 'world-wise'!

But what I can confidently say is that with every new culture, subculture, class, and religion, my thoughts and judgments became milder and more understanding, even though my beliefs have remained relatively 'rigid'.

For example, I would've easily vilified white supremacists if not for the fact that the two white supremacists I've had as friends were wonderful, knowledgeable people who somehow, at least from my perspective, fell in with the wrong ideas and crowd for entirely understandable reasons. I truly could not hate them despite their hateful ideas. One of them, pretty much by accident, ended up becoming friends with a 'non-white' and is now no longer a skinhead.

The reason why I'm on the fence about the 'keep them in the open' approach is that I'm not sure that the old rules and mechanisms of shame actually work in this internetted society.

But as far as solutions I at least strongly believe that broad experiences and significant human connection are much more effective than shame. And regardless of what we might think of shame as a useful way to 'shun' bad ideas, we can work on ways to increase the human connection.

Storytelling nights are one avenue. Entertainment that humanizes the other can be another (Black CJ from San Andreas comes to mind - I am convinced a huge portion of racists bought and enjoyed that game anyways in part because the racism is 'just' facade for them. A way to identify with something, but not necessarily part of their identity).

Anyways, your statement got me riled up and then this happened...

(PS: CJ in GTA: San Andreas struck me as a good example not because CJ is the best kind of black protagonist - there are plenty of iffy issues surrounding GTA - but rather that GTA is one of the few games that everyone has. Identifying with CJ is better than nothing perhaps.)
> the patent grant does not have license scope limitations; it terminates if the licensee misbehaves

Misbehaving as in defending your legal rights against FB?
Just because IANAL, does that mean I can't have a strong opinion and voice on the matter? This type of license is worrisome if other companies begin to adopt it.
On the contrary, I'm of the opinion that the GP's line you referenced is nearly the perfect hook for HNers. [1]

[1]: https://xkcd.com/386/

Also, you really improve your forgetting a word skills.
Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plTRdGF-ycs
They are doing stuff like this.

Lane departure warning and collision warning systems are pretty prevalent. And even autobraking collision avoidance systems are getting pretty widespread.
That makes sense. I always wondered why improvements to Siri's voice required updating the device. I figure it had to be running there, just getting the text from the web service and not the audio.
Sound indicators ... that time? Like a year ago?
Wireframing in Sketch made simple
And nobody really wanted to do these message passing single threaded event loops in other languages, because they could just learn how to use threads instead.

The real innovation that the Node environment and the Javascript language offered is one of marketing to developers who did not know better. Because there were no I/O paradigms in Javascript, one could be created to support this way of doing things, and there was no competing paradigm that people could point to in Javascript to say "Why would I do this when I could just use threads? It's not that hard."

With that out of the way, the floodgates opened, because once the first few people started adopting it because they did not understand threads, it was only a matter of time when "front end" people adopted it, because they did not know any languages other than Javascript. And thus, the current fad was born.
It's rather funny how the very types that are going on about corporations and fascism and colonialism and exploitation, etc. today, are also the ones generally supportive of the likes of Facebook, Amazon, Google and their tech-tyranny and tech-colonialism.

It's no different than the original elite's colonization and exploitation through extraction of natural resources in the past, and the neo-colonial exploitation by the elite through human-resource extraction of immigration today. It's now the new tech-colonization of societies and the harvesting and extraction of information-resources. And it is making the very few ever richer, faster.
Why on Earth would a device require a modem in order to boot? Even if the modem and the CPU are in the same package, the modem ought to have its own power and ground pins. How exactly does airplane mode work, in that type of package?
>Single-threaded isn't a benefit

Huh? Of course it has some benefits. Unfortunately everything is just trade-offs. A benefit of single-threadedness is that you don't deal with the certain pitfalls of multi-threadedness.
how does this compare to Tufte and Criterium ?
This should have 2007 in the title.
I think the whole point is elsewhere - get the UI/UX right. People forgive many things, but bad UX is not among them.

That said, I am excited about this - I love idea about pure OSS phone with hardware kill switches for mic and camera!
HPKP is based on the public key, not the certificate. You can continue to use a certificate with the same public key across renewals. You could even switch to a different CA if you pin to the key of your server (end-entity) certificate.

That said, most experts recommend pinning to a number of CA roots or intermediates instead of pinning solely to keys under your control. (Backup pins to keys under your control are still recommended.)
Happiness is paramount. And especially early on having opportunities for growth matters.

But after a couple years in the industry? A high salary goes really far. Note that "high" means different things to different people, but choosing a 300k/year job over a 200k/year job is often a good idea, even if it's to do stupid shit and not change the world. That doesn't mean you should choose misery over happiness for money, but it's rare that the choice is that stark.

Most tradeoffs are ill-defined and uncertain when you're choosing the job. Salary, on the other hand, is directly comparable, and it translates to something very real and concrete.
Positive career outlook in the future, work-life balance, better benefits that make up for it, etc.
I'm not convinced.

If we're going to tolerate Nazi and Nazi-like speech, don't we also have to tolerate those who would should them down?

Until we start rounding up Nazis, and Nazi sympathisers, and politely asking them to reside in this here concentration camp and eat this rotten-fish-head-with-cabbage soup, shouting them down seems quite reasonable.
I hope someone makes a YouTube video going back to when Siri first launched to show just how much it's evolved.

Listening to those samples I remember how big an advancement iOS 10 felt, but it's nothing compared to 11.
The provided licence is a discriminatory licence that favours only one party - Facebook. I believe that it could not be called an open licence.

Author argues that the situation is not that bad and it is still somehow an open licence or even when not then it is still acceptable. I believe that it is neither of them.
You and I live in totally different worlds. What you describe is not what happens in mine. As others below have noted.
I think there's real-world evidence that this is not the case. There have already been deaths due to Autopilot, and the reaction you're describing here didn't happen.
NatGeo was purchased by FOX recently, if that insight helps...
I rather have Civilization backup in Mars. If the Earth goes, the Moon wouldn't be in a very good shape. Just like I wouldn't go hide in the kitchen, while the living room is burning down.
I am not trying to dis Medium, nor advertise or propose an alternative. I was just pointing out that it seemed ironic the contrast between the title of the post, and the medium --no pun intended-- used.
Same discussion yesterday, and it got flagged there as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089419

EDIT: And same here as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15091217

EDIT: you know after crawling through the comments in that second thread, I don't think this is a topic HN can handle. Many, many (definitely not all though!) of us here grew up in good homes, went to good schools and won the "lottery of interest." To us society feels meritocratic because it mostly is if you can meet those few criteria. So when something comes along and holds that privilege (yes, I used the P-word!) up to your face, shows you that maybe the system isn't as meritocratic as it felt to you, it stings your sense of accomplishment. And then we get people purporting that whites are biologically predisposed to higher IQs or nitpicking minor details or generally just trying to preserve the feeling that I accomplished this.
New research reveals methods on how best not to worry
Check my submission history. I tried twice.

I dunno how I "persuade" more.
The burden of proof isn't on the claim there is no practical usage. The default hypothesis is no usage.

The burden of proof is on the claim that non-speculation uses are greater than the speculation uses.
> for [some licenses], bringing a patent lawsuit can result in termination of the copyright license as well — forcing one to stop using the code

No. Copyright law is concerned with distributing copies and preparing derivative works. Copyright law does not give a creator the tools to forbid anyone from using their copy—that too is within the realm of patents. The way that copyright law can effectively regulate use is indirect; it prevents someone from receiving a non-infringing copy to do anything with. If you are found to violate a license (say because it's a reciprocal license and you didn't provide source code for your own changes), then even a revocation of that license can't revoke your ability to continue using the software, because that is not something regulated by US copyright law. The copy you received was prepared and distributed to you legally. Filing a patent suit, or otherwise running afoul of the license doesn't change that.

There's a really pernicious cargo-culty thing going on where people keep describing a bifurcated situation, where the BSD is your "copyright license" and "PATENTS.txt" is your "patent license".

BSD is a license. It deals with rights reserved for copyright holders—the right to make copies and prepare derivative works. It also deals with (one of the) rights regulated by patent law—the right to use. It grants you both. PATENTS.txt is an additional grant.
How well does the Tesla reminder system work for you?
-More job flexibility (i.e. remote work options)

-A more desireable company mission
Will be in how much time? Considering the first man who went to the moon needed to place a national flag on it asap, I think we are risking a serious conflict and IF we could avoid it better we do whatever is possible BEFORE having people fighting directly on the moon.
In terms of legal facts, yes. But that's the start of the conversation, not its end.
But no true Scotsman would invent modernity.
http://fermatslibrary.com/ isn't opening. Help?
If you are dealing with a single-threaded, non-concurrent problem, yes, that's true. Node isn't that. In my experience, the pitfalls of multi-threadedness are more around concurrency than they are parallelism, so that tradeoff strikes me as largely a false one.
They are never entirely passive, and revenue can drop precipitously very quickly.
Royce 1970 of course: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/wate... wherein he did not introduce Waterfall, but for some reason the negative aspects of his article became the basis for Waterfall. The article for 1970 is surprisingly relevant although archaic in language. It's worth reading to the end. He wrote this describing leading teams in the 1960s do what I assume was actual "rocket" science.
I didn't say it's certain to be 100% genetic, just that it's a serious possibility that a "significant" part of the difference can be explained that way. I'm aware of the concept of the Flynn effect, but it's not going to make me discard biology altogether. IQ is known to be largely hereditary, around 75%[0] when tested in adults.

Average IQ's in Africa are between 67 and 82[1], which to me is interesting to note as it suggests that the IQ of African-Americans has increased by 3-18 points on average since they were moved to America, assuming the average African IQ has not increased since the introduction of slaves to America (otherwise the effect would be larger, but perhaps this increase happens uniformly to all groups of humans). Interracial reproduction could be one factor in this rise in IQ, as the average percentage of white DNA in African Americans is 17-18%. There are also socioeconomic factors, cultural factors, the particular African demographics of slaves imported to America, selection processes after their arrival (e.g. smart slaves reproducing more often) and selection processes after the end of slavery, to name a few possibilities.

There's also the possible factor that socioeconomic factors can be embedded in your DNA, as research suggests that things that happen to you in life can affect gene expression in your offspring.

I'm not disputing that nurture is a factor, but nature exists too. Biology is real, and race is not just a social construct.

I suppose one would have stronger evidence that African American's genes are not a factor in their disadvantages, if one studied the correlation between IQ and percentage of white DNA in African Americans, but I'm not sure what universities would approve such a study for fear of it reaching an undesirable conclusion.

Then again, this won't be relevant once we find what genes are responsible for IQ and genetic enhancement goes mainstream.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_and_intelligence
[2]: http://blackdemographics.com/geography/african-american-dna/
This. The article basically reverses its own argument with this statement.

The real purpose of Facebook's license is to stop any sufficiently large company (i.e., any company with the wherewithal to sue Facebook) from using their technology.
Patric McKenzie (patio11 here) sold either or both of his businesses via FE Int'l - Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder. IIRC he has written about both experiences on his site kalzumeus.com .
What if you bought a car that exploded and sued the car manufacturer, and then you weren't allowed to own or drive any of that manufacturer's cars anymore?
You need a far bigger (heavier) craft to get to Mars. You'll need years worth of food, water, air, you'll need radiation shielding, much more space per crewmember, more redundant systems and backups, etc.

Look at the size of the Apollo.
Ionic vs. React Native (Soon StencilJS vs. React Native)
>I do represent Facebook on open source matters, but I did not draft the BSD+patents license grant.

Beside, this is not a matter of law but matter of philosophy.
If they sue you nothing different happens than if you don’t use React at all.
My mistake then. One of the small NAS vendors moved to FreeBSD. I for the life of me can't think of the name of the vendor.
Would you still be concerned in a situation where you were the only car on the road?
GP called for a hypothetical example. I provided. I'm sorry that you feel that's lazy.

Would you share with us how you'd prefer the police to handle that situation?
We are already "letting more people die" for economic reasons. We could mandate that all cars on the road should have the most modern 15+ airbag systems, but it's too costly. We could mandate that the speed limit should be 30mph and limited in hardware, but it's too costly economically, yet I don't think anyone can argue that it wouldn't save lives.

We make these exact choices all the time.
I am saying we should "let more people die" now, so that we can save more later. That's not a novel concept.
Do you have any evidence tying the IQ race-gap to biology? It seems you're making quite a large jump there with not a whole lot of evidence.
So before gangster and hip-hop culture totally dominated african american and hispanic cultures? Thomas Sowell who has studied this topic thoroughly points to this as the primary cause of the anti-education attitudes among black youth, who previously in the 1960s were on a positive trajectory towards improving their situation.

The war on drugs, and the rise of drug culture itself, also played a big role in both influencing the culture and on the various socio-economic impacts on the education. So this isn't simply a victim blaming perspective.

And another lesson we can draw from the drug war is that culture and black markets have way more influence than even the most well financed government social engineering projects.
> The story about being flummoxed by multilane roundabouts is depressing

Don't underestimate the bizarre engineering of infrastructure in Texas. Every road and intersection is bespoke, unlike any other you have previously experienced. It is quite difficult to navigate Austin as a human driver, I suspect it makes for a good testing ground for Waymo.
My heart skipped a beat when I read the title as App Engine Farewell. Have been actively using App Engine since 2009 and the love it gets has been on a long downslide. Happy to see this feature come out though, the previous lightweight dos.yaml method was quite lacking.
It seems like the person you're responding to believes that the deaths from low-quality self-driving cars will cause the technology to not come to fruition, saving less lives in the long run.
The questions you ask are great, but slightly less important when you add the fact that everyone has the box already, and getting them to use a new box has been tried incessantly over the years, and yet here we are with the same old box.

Tl;dr -- pragmatism is why the web ecosystem is eating the world, not optimal design.
“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
If "frontend devs" are really, truly, genuinely capable of only holding one language in their heads, and that language is Javascript, then we should deprecate the term "frontend developer" and replace it.

I would propose "person who can only be at most half-competent," except that is too wordy and probably too charitable.
> what don't you understand

Exactly what I asked.

> Any educated comment on these sentiments?

Without clarity on the sentiments themselves there's not a lot to elaborate on without simply fumbling in the dark. If the concern, though, is that, in Node, you live and die by an asynchronous event loop, I'd say that's not a small footgun. I don't think that's in dispute. I'd also say that the presence of footguns doesn't, by itself, disqualify a language from being used in any particular context.

As for JavaScript being a wart, I don't really agree with that sentiment. I think that's attributable to some pretty strong and level-headed language evolution making what was once a very blunt scripting instrument into something somewhat reasonably suited to larger-scale applications.
True but if it does reduce the overall accident rate, it might still make sense. Better experience for the driver and better safety are still welcome features. If you'd rather just drive then you're increasing the chance for accidents. Everyone thinks they're a great driver.
Mars has atmosphere for aerobraking and ISRU possibilities that the moon does not. In many ways, it is much more practical from a spaceflight standpoint. That's not to say that there aren't possibilities for both, but Mars is seen as the preferred choice for a variety of sound reasons.
The better way of doing that is to set a mandate for the government itself, resulting in adoption elsewhere.
Amazon will lower Whole Foods prices right away
The power management app that comes with KDE/Plasma does a pretty good job with my laptop battery, certainly no worse than Windows did. It throttles back the CPU, dims the screen depending partly on user activity, has sensible policies and notifications for stretching out that last 10% of the battery. It also allows apps to request an exception from power management. What's wrong with the current OSS PM tools?

In my experience, the most effective power management tool on any device is actually just airplane mode.
You can also rotate the crew on the moon. Can send things to the moon you didn't anticipate. Can send replacement/repair parts.

Can't do that for Mars.
Level 2 still does not drive smoothly as many have confirmed on their forums. They do require you to jiggle the wheel every few mins to ensure you're alert. There's also
https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/tesla-autopilot-2-ap2-defect
Bought versus free
Plus the sky is, on average, empty.
> You have a blue car (by some objective scientific measure - it is blue).

Makes all other facts irrelevant.

Now what if 900 out of 1000 say god exist. What is the probability that god exists ?
just like there is water in the most arid deserts on earth ... and still they are a jungle compared to moon and mars. So I think, boone-dry is a quite correct description ...
IANAL, but in MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc. the court considered that running software involved copying it to RAM and therefore required a valid license. Congress has since made an exception, but only in the circumstances of computer repair.

Regardless, the distinction in this case is mostly academic, since React is almost always used in client software, which must be distributed.
If we aren't carbon neutral way before 2050, it doesn't really matter anymore.
Mass. Incarceration.
A reference to Chris Lattner:

"In recent months, the team has lost at least 10 engineers and four top managers—including Mr. Anderson’s successor, who lasted less than six months before leaving in June."
The details: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

> that can also become a full desktop computer with an option for a compatible keyboard, mouse, and monitor ... It can be a desktop computer and phone all-in-one.

I'm interested to see their solution. How useable will the interface be?
> So this is essentially a small tablet running Linux with an integrated cellular modem.

This reminds me that the 3G version of the 2012 Nexus 7 tablet had the baseband processor separate from the CPU. It was generally said that this was one of the reasons it had sub-par battery life, but I don't know if that was true.
We don't usually switch to a new technology unless it's > 120% better than what exists today. The cool factor will not be enough for practical adoption.