skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this guy. I know I'll be downvoted to oblivion but gotta say what i gotta say.

I'm not saying political correctness is bad, and I don't think this guy is saying that either. He's just stating the facts and I would like to also just state the facts.

There are way more conflicts and drama and scandals in America because Americans are much more "woke" than citizens of other parts of the world. Again, this is not a "bad" thing, but if you look at what this is causing, same americans are tearing down successful and ambitious american entrepreneurs who may have achieved something really great.

Let me use Uber as an example, since I know you guys will downvote me anyway. The founder of Uber got kicked out and now Uber is struggling. When Uber was struggling to grow in China, Americans were busy criticizing Uber for all kinds of things. This probably didn't help them in any way. You will say companies like Uber and the founder deserves it and unethical companies like Uber should not be left to survive.

And I agree with the sentiment that unethical companies are bad, but again, I'm just going to state the facts.

If you look at "less woke" developing countries around the world, they don't have this sense of social justice because they don't have the luxury. So they do whatever is possible to increase their GDP.

That's why a lot of developing countries are corrupt. But guess what, that's how these countries and companies from these countries grow. Companies like Samsung have always had very tight relationship with their government, and most people--while they never actually witness the corruption--kind of acknowledge that something like that happens behind the scenes. The woke Americans will say that's bad and that shouldn't happen, and samsung should be taken down, etc.

But at the end of the day, this is how developing countries actually accumulate their riches and this is how the top performing companies from these countries reach the top and end up growing globally.

They will one day become the "woke" ones as much as Americans are, but until then, they will become richer and richer and soon be a threat to the U.S. economy.

This has nothing to do with ethics, justice, or whatever. This is just how it has always been, and that's how it will be.

If you look at what's happening with China, it really IS taking over the world. A lot of top cryptocurrency projects and companies are from China. Most influential hardware are increasingly coming from China. All this while the ADD silicon valley founders and VCs are pouring money into fad technologies and having a serious identity crisis.
An overall more diverse production provides more pathways into the industry for marginalized people, and some of those pathways will lead to acting.
Discouraging driving has other benefits such as reducing pollution, noise, space needed for parking, etc.

The good schools are going to be filled no matter what, so trying to assign them the fairest way possible makes sense.
Right, wouldn't an embargo prevent them from disclosing the existence of any such bug to the media?
Scrum doesn’t prescribe enough techniques to be successful. Somewhere, maybe in an interview, I heard someone say that they never saw a successful Scrum team save that they were doing half of XP too.

So far I have not found an exception to this. Thing is that means everyone is doing Scrumbut (we do Scrum, but...) Which means you have to relearn or reargue with every single team about the exact same concerns. It’s gotten old.
So engineers should work an additional 60 hours a week each while rich VCs get to systematically steal the future with their accredited investor scam. Sounds reasonable.
Most countries gurantee a right to education, but driving a car is considered a privilege - which is why congestion charges seem more palatable, to me at least, compared to a use-fee for education.

...not that it doesn't happen already. Don't most public schools charge parents for meals at school, after-school activities, and equipment if they join the varsity sports team?
> The real problem with all these sorts of things is network effects. People aren’t going to use the Rust port of postcss unless the plugin they want to use works in it, and it can be conveniently tied into their existing toolchain, and—— and——

I've never used postcss, but I don't think this is strictly for all js build tools. There's libsass, written in C++. I've mentioned flow. I'm sure there are others.

I think you're right though that webassembly is going to be big for this kind of thing.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/jack-...

It is interesting to contrast this investor's cliches about working 12 or 14 hours day as a key to success and Chinese work ethic with what an actual Chinese business leader as to say on that topic:

“My grandfather worked for 16 hours a day. He thought he was very busy. We work eight hours a day for five days a week and we think we are very busy. But in the next 30 years, people will work only for four hours a day and four days a week”
A bit ironic that journalists then write articles shaming the "onlookers" for journalism...
> And yes, it is behind a paywall for a few more weeks, you should be buying a subscription to get this type of thing, go do that!

LWN has tons of great content and deserves any support they can get.

But I strongly suggest that in this case, there shouldn't be a paywall. The current state of Meltdown/Spectre fixes is of high public interest. And people who are normally not into kernel development should be able to read this information without having to pay (or find workarounds).
That's not "the linux kernel" though, and distros are semi-separate actors which you can interact with independently from the baseline kernel — which happened here incidentally, Lima's original comment notes that Red Hat was contacted separately from the core kernel. Something which will likely be more common in the future if the mainline kernel team don't fix their handling of embargoes, they're incentivising security researcher towards having them discover vulnerabilities at embargo lifting along with the rest of the world.
People misunderstand UX; ergonomics, usability, UI are parts of a full UX process
It's difficult. On one hand, the pharmco needs to make money to continue on their mission. (What their mission is is another difficult problem, I believe is isn't "shareholder value", that is a cancer on society.) On the other hand, the product alleviates human suffering, sometimes on a large scale.

A case study that everyone should be aware of is the story of Praziquantel in South Korea.

Here's a reference: https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/480/20...

Praziquantel is about the only thing that works against schistosoma, a very debilitating condition. The compound was discovered in the early 1970s in a joint venture between Bayer and Merck KGA. At that time South Korea had a major schistosoma problem, but Merck could not supply at a price Korea was willing to pay (at that time Park Chung-Hee was in power, it was a military dictatorship).

Korean leadership declared praziquantel a national security issue (true) and started manufacturing their own, and in a collaboration between KIST and Shinpoong Pharmaceuticals developed their own process, which was much cheaper than the original Merck isoquinoline route.

The effort was a major part of the development of a domestic pharmaceutical industry. Shinpoong still hold 50 % of the market in praziquantel.
Considering the half-life, I'd assume the housing and device would fail long before the U235 decays enough for significant loss in heat production.
Tieing knots. A lot more to it than diagrams suggest, if only because the hands have to learn the complicated movements while maintaining grip.
Sitting in my man cave [1] working on my projects [2].

[1] https://opyate.com/posts/2016/10/17/my-new-home-office.html

[2] See my profile
I wonder if it's more logistical than legal - extraordinary rendition, by its nature, already exists outside of the law. It is, however, easier to hide someone outside of the country (from legal representatives etc.) and deny their existence, it's easier to hide the facilities, and it's easier to find skilled and willing practitioners of torture in a country which practices it more widely (boy, that's a fun thought :/).

It's also face-saving to some extent - it lets the leadership say "We do not torture" accurately and with a straight face, and I believe it's _slightly_ less risky legally (knowing torture is likely rather than actively ordering).

That said, I've no doubt some government agency could use torture with impunity on US soil though (especially when you consider local police forces have come somewhat close to doing exactly that. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department#Homa... ).
Is this "subjective perception" part of the "objective reality" or somehow outside of it?
>> "in many respects, doing business in China is easier than doing business in California."

There are merits to this discussion and of course, all the comments I have seen including the top one, either simply suggest or put some words in his mouth!

The Virtue Signaling on HN is nauseating! Listen to the man, he has better worldly experience than most of us (me, for sure) and read the nuance too (instead of playing the snarky critic).
I think it's just more acceptable for roads to be a limited resource than for quality schools to be a limited resource.

It's not a logical argument, it's values.
> It seems that everybody knows everything.

I think about this from time to time -- how people build up this sense of personality related to a forum or site. I think what tends to happen for an individual is that when you're talking to millions of people you don't have the perspective on who says what anymore, it becomes "twitter thinks" or "reddit says" instead of "these 10 people."

I think the reason everybody knows everything is that because we don't look at the individuals when we talk in a forum like this. There are always going to be some 'famous' people whose names pop up over and over, but as general responses you don't really know what a person thinks about something. We internalize a consensus of opinions and then it becomes just "well, HN said this."

This is most apparent when the forum contradicts itself. If there isn't another way to denote the opinions (like a sub-forum) then you start seeing comments like "everyone was against it yesterday and now everyone is in favor?" when in reality it's unlikely to be the same people responding anyway.
But Scrum is working! Why would we ever change?
I suppose that if the situation were reversed and I was in a cage surrounded by dolphins, I'd probably spend most of my time trying to communicate, imitating the sounds they made, trying to establish vocabulary.. and if I worked out that I wouldn't be punished, I'd probably refuse to perform tricks until they reciprocated. So, if they are intelligent they're very different behaviorally from us.
You're assuming they need a bin per SKU. They don't. Multiple SKUs can share a bin. Google 'Amazon random stow'
> Some “enterprise” distributions did not backport the changes for this reporting, so if you are running one of those types of kernels, go bug the vendor to fix that, you really want a unified way of knowing the state of your system.
> Mayvethat's actually a reason BSD was contracted late, maybe they expected interested scrutiny from the other BSD projects from any kernel patches. Linux certainly ended up exhibiting that behavior, maybe they were worried about it there too but Linux's size meant a different call was made?

FreeBSD is a serious project which takes security embargoes seriously, they don't break embargoes: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-01-17-some-thoughts-on-...
Ask HN: Django or Flask?
I am noob to programming. For web development, what is your choice django or flask?
So you're saying you've never spent anytime outside the US unless it was at a vacation resort...
Invoice Home-100s of free invoice templates
> only-in-this-circumstance libertarian philosophy

Wouldn't libertarian philosophy, taken to its logical end, imply private schools and private roads, where you pay whoever owns the school/road to use it?

But if we're going to have some public schools and roads, there's more of a moral principle behind the former than the latter. I would be uneasy with congestion pricing public schools because the moral principle they continue to exist on (nb: not that they were founded on, as far as I know) is equality of opportunity. That goes away the instant you start allowing wealthy people to fill up the best schools that otherwise non-wealthy peoples' children could have attended. It might as well be a private school.
Exploiting implies unethical. I'm not too sure this fits the notion of unethical. Or, if it does, only from one perspective. Ethical doesn't become unethical the second you pass over 8 hours in a workday.
Maybe some people don't remember how popular chat rooms were back in the AOL days?
Unemployment is the lowest it's been in decades. Build your emergency fund, and interview until you get your new gig (sidenote: get your finances in order [1]).

The tech sector is a small part of the entire economy from a jobs perspective. They can be picky if they want, but the rest of the economy will absorb talent they won't. Always be able to negotiate from a position of power (ie emergency fund, not needing to take a job you don't want or that is a poor offer). Employers are still adapting to the new norm (having to pay market rate and above, not being able to dictate terms, etc).

Personal opinion: If you're in the position to, decline take home work unless you're being paid. Would you work an unpaid internship?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/CcEVQAV.jpg
Nice, will be good idea to submit it also to the ethereum util library.
Where does the printed tether go?
Nope! Quantum tunneling has made it so that the size of transistors can only shrink so far before electrons start essentially teleporting one from the other. AFAIK we might be able to get to ~3nm lithography (TSMC is shooting for it but beyond by 2020 or 2023, IBM apparently already had 5 or 7nm (forget which) lithography but hasn't published it yet), but beyond that the future is much less clear.
How does that compare to the base rate of these cancers in the population? The false positive rate in a control group can be very low, but still overwhelming when applied to the general population.
It seems that the majority of "legitimate" uses surrounding blockchain concern "trust", or rather try to eliminate mechanisms such that trust is inherent.

Imagine some authority, perhaps a non-profit that was 100% trustworthy. What could blockchain [*] do that said "authority" could not? I'm curious if blockchain could be used within an organization to make an organization itself trustworthy, as opposed to make trustworthy tools.

- keep in mind even if decentralized, many blockchain tools will likely have some authority managing it, or have mechanisms such that a small collitation could take control

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I'm really curious if blockchain is superior to a traditional approach for the following scenario:

1. You're a nonprofit

2. You take donations on your website.

3. You advertise that money donated will 100% be used for a stated purpose (categorical in nature).

4. You also say that you can see exactly when your money is spent and how it is spent, including the quantity.

I see a way to build this with traditional tools, but it seems complicated and also is prone to fraud. The problem with using Bitcoin is that your endowment would be too volatile for your finance team to really manage. I suppose the nonprofit could do an ICO, but you don't want people to actually own a portion of your non-profit (as they cannot, by definition).

How can you ensure compliance, have transparency and minimize complexity?
Some choice quotes that will show you this great society these people are thinking of. Notice it is mostly a rehashing of socialism, communism, and anarchism, and most post-workists are radical leftist hoping to to make another push into society:

>
In 1884, the socialist William Morris proposed that in “beautiful” factories of the future, surrounded by gardens for relaxation, employees should work only “four hours a day”.

> that life with much less work, or no work at all, would be calmer, more equal, more communal, more pleasurable, more thoughtful, more politically engaged

> Graeber has a point: “I do think there is a fear of freedom – a fear among the powerful that people might find something better to do than create profits for capitalism.”

> Graeber argues that in a less labour-intensive society, our capacity for things other than work could be built up again. “People will come up with stuff to do if you give them enough time. I lived in a village in Madagascar once. There was this intricate sociability. People would hang around in cafes, gossiping, having affairs, using magic. It was a very complex drama – the kind that can only develop when you have enough time. They certainly weren’t bored!”

(Or just supporters are absolutely nuts like this one.)

> “The postwar years, when people worked less and it was easier to be on the dole, produced beat poetry, avant garde theatre, 50-minute drum solos, and all Britain’s great pop music – art forms that take time to produce and consume.”

> “You get your UBI payment from the government. Then you get a form from your local council telling you about things going on in your area: a five-a-side football tournament, say, or community activism – Big Society stuff, almost.”

> One common proposal is for a new type of public building, usually envisaged as a well-equipped combination of library, leisure centre and artists’ studios. “It could have social and care spaces, equipment for programming, for making videos and music, record decks,”

> “Instead of having jobs, we’re going to do craft, to make our own clothes. It’s quite an exclusionary vision: to do those things, you need to be able-bodied.”

> With people having more time, and probably less money, private life could also become more communal, she suggests, with families sharing kitchens, domestic appliances, and larger facilities. “There have been examples of this before,” she says, “like ‘Red Vienna’ in the early 20th century, when the [social democratic] city government built housing estates with communal laundries, workshops, and shared living spaces that were quite luxurious.” Post-work is about the future, but it is also bursting with the past’s lost possibilities.

Telling people they will have less money and resources - they will have start sharing housing, but they'll like having less.
Definitely not. The "Dress" phenomenon proved that there are certainly things people perceive drastically differently from others, that unless explicitly pointed out would rarely be noticed.
Don't rat me out when you testify and we'll both only serve 1 year in prison.
What do people do if they are not working?

You better have something for them to do, because (and I say this in a non-religious way) idle hands are the devil's playthings.
Plus the NS 32000, "likely the first 32-bit general-purpose microprocessors on the market", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx
5. You’re going to need to get on an airplane sometimes

Yes, this is very important. There's still nothing like human contact. I use video calls constantly all day, but still fly a tremendous amount because so much communication happens non-verbally or with higher fidelity than video provides.
People are stuck in old modes of thinking about the city. When my parents lived in the city during the 80s, it wasn't safe to take the subway. Everybody owned a car, even in Manhattan. Now, none of my (20-something) friends own cars, but I imagine a lot of older people don't want to give it up.

It does seem pretty nice to drive to work rather than cramming into a subway car for a half hour, even if you're stuck in traffic...
If I'm remembering correctly, that was actually the main problem. Most, if not all, are being held based on evidence or intelligence that would not fly in a typical American trial.

If they closed Gitmo and brought the detainees to the US for trial, almost all would have to be released.

I'm not necessarily saying that is a bad things, surely some (or even all) do not deserve to be held and should be released, but all it takes is one coming back and committing a terrorist act (could you even blame them after being illegally held and tortured for years?) for the worst PR nightmare a politician could even imagine rains down on them.
Margin market on bitfinex mostly.
My dad owns a motorcycle training school and teaches this.
> "you can't travel because you bought an off-brand bag"

Denial of Global Entry status is not a prohibition against air travel. It means you don't get expedited screening.
I know it's been deprecated, but can I still `brew linkapps` in 1.5.0?
It is common for the data to be anonymised. Especially if there is a third party involved (e.g. a lab producing sequencing data attached to sub-sets of clinical information, according to whatever contract or legal environment they are in).
A minor suggestion: give more buttons in the UI `pointer: cursor` and hover states; it will be easier to see when a click will actually do something (thinking in particular of the black bar of icons at the bottom of the page).
As well as the browsers that use the docsets from Dash (e.g. Zeal [1] for Windows/Linux), there's DevDocs [2], a web-application that works offline and uses its own scraper.

[1]: https://zealdocs.org/

[3]: https://devdocs.io/
Yet we spend about half or more of our waking hours at it.
I think those who "derive great pleasure from writing uninspired code" are mostly enjoying their well paying job.

Very few people actively enjoy laboring for others. That's why they need to pay you to do it.

I enjoy building my own projects, but I have never found work stimulating unless I maneuvered myself into a position where I could learn something new. Unfortunately once you learn that new thing, and then refactor it as far as you can, you're back to boring uninspired work again.

Not to mention the parts of work which are actively terrible. Like hunting down a bug in a dependency.
> Why is congestion pricing okay when applying the same philosophy to other matters of public good isn't?

I think the real root of the problem is that congestion pricing is never okay in matters of public good, we've just conditioned ourselves to believe that infrastructure is this special case of impossible problem to solve, so our terrible workaround to this artificial problem sometimes seems begrudgingly reasonable in context.

Which is why, if you took the exact same logic and applied it to almost anything else, the public would be outraged.
Reclusive U.S. billionaire Robert Mercer helped Donald Trump win the p
It was a real issue for relatives of mine, who had to argue down doctors ordering invasive procedures for things that over the long term turned out to be non-issues.
This is next-level badass and here's why: Not only can we detect cancers earlier and prevent them from getting worse, but if we can detect cancer cells in the blood, we're that much closer to killing them in the blood, preventing or mitigating metastasis and improving the treatment prospects for even later stage cancers.

Go science!