skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The corporation is run by people and people favor short term results when they expect to be in their position for a short period.

Just as it's far less common for the regular working (wo)man to stay at the same company for decades, it's less common for CEOs to do so as well.[0]

If a CEO/president expects (through loyalty/control of the board, or otherwise) to be at the company for a long time, they will naturally make long(er) term decisions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hewlett-Packard_execut...
We didn't fly when the kids were little. Amazingly rude to subject many other people to that when they're already crammed into the noisy, cramped, metal can with no escape. Telling someone to put on headphones because of the noise or just deal with it when your kid is kicking the seat is obnoxious. You want to fly with them? Buy a private flight.
Forgive me for being uninformed, but why is what is basically retroactive immunity not a violation of ex post facto laws?
Thanks! I'll see if I can't track down a copy.
https://xato.net/today-i-am-releasing-ten-million-passwords-...
Go back to the 1800s please, the 21st century does not need you here.
A woman does not equal a man, and she shouldn't.

Careful with your wording here. I'm assuming you meant 'is not the same as'; however 'does not equal' could easily be interpreted as 'not the equal of', which has an entirely different meaning than you intended.
I do wish he had a little more passion in his voice about the subject. It's obvious he is thoroughly involved and cares from the material, but it sometimes sounds like a recording of the absolute worst teacher you've ever had
>This seems reasonable to me, is this supposed to be some absurd conclusion? A car that is out of control can easily kill people. If you don't have the equipment to safely drive your car when there's snow on the ground, drive zero days a year when there's snow on the ground. If you're risking other people's lives because you want the convenience of driving a car, yes, you're a menace to society.

People mostly adjust to the extra traction afforded by snow tires and behave accordingly to maintain constant risk regardless of the conditions. More traction doesn't help if your margin for error is close to constant. Same problem with stuff like blind spot detection.

>Does the word "snowflake" have a coherent meaning any more?

Fixed the phrasing.
> If you have $100,000 to go to med school, you have $250 to fly the dog properly.

If you have the money to fly to St. Maarten for vacation, you have the money to fly the dog properly. Or the money to kennel it.
> At the worst its real and you're moving some history from their home to yours.

Over a hundred thousand tons of wall, and most of it was sent for recycling. I'm pretty sure breaking one of the many anonymous segments into fragments and selling them off is an action that greatly increases the historical reverence being given to it.
Nah, adding allocations isn't a good idea. The goal of a compiler is to do less work and fewer allocations.

The js promise instance is going to be some sort of extern type with special constraints. I imagine most compile-to-js languages roll their own monad-based promise types, and then provide some sort of conversion mechanism in special situations.
The complaint isn't that it is worthless, it is that it is worthless if that is your only security measure.
The other side of this coin is the number of times a passenger has entrusted their pet's well-being to the airline, and later discovered that was a really, really bad idea.

This works out to about 0.5 deaths per 10000, but United apparently breaks guitars and kills or injures pets much more often than other carriers. That may be related to their willingness to actually attempt to transport species and breeds at higher risk from conditions experienced during air travel, like pugs.

I am not surprised that people will do anything to keep their valuables--living or not--out of United's cargo holds. I am a bit surprised that their genius solutions still involve flying United.

My terrapin is never flying. I get nervous enough about putting my clothing in checked baggage. And also, she's easier to keep fed than a cat. But cats poop in their litter box instead of their water dish, so there's that.
As someone who wears glasses that look like those every day -- I think they look great! Big glasses like these help frame my overly-large head and face features, making me look better :)
Ok, I must ask, how on earth was the decision made that dogs and miniature horses would be the two allowable service animals?

Edit: I figured it out. Pack animals.
Non-service animals, crying and seat kicking children, the sick, the morbidly obese (if you spill over your assigned seat), smokers, people who wear too much cologne/perfume, people who put their feet/knees on the seat in front of them, snorers, stinkers, those allergic to peanuts and all other classes of public irritants should have spots in a comfortable but separate cabin.
Okay, enhance some more. Okay, zoom in on the license plate and enhance some more.

... and always wait for macho boss to come in and give those instructions because the hackers would never think to do that
You'll recall that the article we're all responding to -- and the entire point of this conversation -- discusses abuses of the service dog requirement.
> One principle of politeness might be phrased as, "avoid (avoidable) behaviors that create only benefits for me and only inconveniences for the people around me."

I don't like this principle (or maybe I don't like politeness). By this principle, if I were a slave, it would be impolite to advocate for my freedom. That's an avoidable behavior; I can just keep working without pay. By this principle, if I were paralyzed, it would be impolite to ask people to have ramps and elevators. That's an avoidable behavior; it would be preferable to stay at home and wait to die. (Asking for ADA compliance is a huge disturbance!)

The obvious rebuttal is "Well, those cases don't count because being a slave or being paralyzed is a fundamental unfairness and you can advocate to resolve or work around that," but the entire question is whether people who claim to need emotional support animals genuinely are in the same position or not, whether the emotional state they need support for is also a fundamental unfairness compare to the rest of us who don't claim to need such animals.

So I don't think that the clarified principle actually helps us figure out what the right thing to do is; it just rephrases the question.
It's like gluten-free stuff. If you have celiac and are sensitive to cross-contamination, the more people hop on the trend and encourage places to chase the trend in a sloppy way, the worse off you are. A small but vulnerable number of people get screwed because a larger population piggybacks.

It seems like there might be an opportunity hiding in here for carriers to offer certain animal-friendly routes, but there's probably still a lot of liability issues to work out in there. I'd bet you could make it significantly cheaper than pet boarding, though, for a lot of trips.
Leave a confined space that has an allergic person in it? I'm not sure what your example means because of course either one could be "first". Why should one's disability (allergy) exclude the other passenger from a space?
A real service animal won’t be a nuisance to nearly everybody on board. The problem is that most dogs with vests on are not actually trained in basic obedience, much less to perform a medical service.
I'm not arguing that the price is sustainable.

I am noting that present levels of ag activity are in fact predicated on that price. And that (as is prominently noted in the article) water is the limiting factor for virtually all California ag.

And that any significant increase (other contemporary news articles are talking of "only" 10x increases in water costs) would be devastating to existing operations.

I'm finding your views charmingly optimistic. But highly unrealistic.
I can't believe that in 2018, people are still upvoting posts with lines like "A woman does not equal a man, and she shouldn't.". What the fuck.

A woman should be considered equal to a man. All sentients should be considered equal, in a political and moral framework. However, this should not be conflated with women and men being exactly equal in every conceivable way. If there was ever false equivalence then it is exactly this kind of sloppy thinking.

Do you have any idea how much social/cultural conditioning influences men and women's "biological" decisions to go into whatever field?

Actually, the extent to which biological factors vs. societal factors are at play is something we're still working out.

"Countries with Higher Levels of Gender Equality Show Larger National Sex Differences in Mathematics Anxiety and Relatively Lower Parental Mathematics Valuation for Girls"

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

"The Gender Equality Paradox"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8

Google & YouTube execs claim that Google's hiring rate for women is the same as the Computer Science graduation rate for women, then go on to espouse James Damore's suggestions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrOp8ewzJDc
Let's also consider that most jobs are bullshit jobs anyway. The children are literally the future of humanity and taking care of them is more important than anything else.
More like $500, with the significant possibility of Delta killing your puppy.
You’re absolutely right, I misread your comment.
Even if a company knows that they are dying, there's a lot of money to be made by postponing that death as long as possible.
Yeah, I wasn't saying I think the photo is real, just that the clouds looking like they're behind the moon isn't such a telltale sign that it is fake.
How do you know that it has a better track record of "stability" and "growth" than any other system at a large scale? Much of America's growth in the late 19th happened without any central banks in 1913. Most of "depressions" happened prior to that -- and there were 4 such major ones in the 19th century and many of them were directly caused by the govt policy changes -- were nowhere as severe as the Great Depression occurred after the creation of the central banking in the US.
I hope you don't work at Google!
Lazarus: Twilio’s Cloud Scale Automated Microservice Remediation System
Vicious Stereotypes in Polite Society [pdf] (1991)
I've heard neo-Nazis are usually in/from East.
How long until these NB-IoT devices get hacked cause havoc?
Yes, perhaps "avoidable" isn't the right word. You're right that this is entirely about evaluating and weighing the level of benefit against the level of inconvenience.

It's rude to run through a crowded theater because you're in a hurry to leave. It isn't rude if you're making an emergency run to the bathroom. We all very clearly and intuitively understand this distinction.

By the way, the whole point of politeness is that it requires these kinds of judgements and therefore resists strict rule-making. Ideally, we wouldn't need to make a rule about dogs on planes, because nervous flyers would feel individual shame at the idea of inconveniencing other people for their own personal benefit.

I couldn't possibly bring my dog on a plane, not because of any rule, but because I'd be embarrassed and extremely uncomfortable about my own behavior. It would ultimately result in a worse experience for me, for those reasons. I'd be a self-conscious wreck.
“The Customer Is Always Right” Is Hurting Your Business
Sorry but this is a misunderstanding of how things work. Constitutionally it is congresses job to negotiate and enact treaties, though there was that hubbub about passing fast_track which I strongly disagreed with. GP is talking about agencies which as part of the executive fall under POTUS, while treaties are treated as on equal footing with the constitution. Eg once enacted it's the executives job to enforce.
I think you will find that the people behind these things are not for equality of choice but for equality of outcome.

In particular they would say that women are not equal to men unless they hold equal power in society. They want women to be in >=50% of corporate executive roles and in >-50% of government positions.
Never had a classic mac, huh?
Can you point me to research into how XX is different from social gender? I think I'm not understanding this point. How can society construct the idea of a gender, if not from biology? How else was the social concept of gender created ?
> Maybe change that to "many people"; "anyone" isn't accurate. For example, at my workplace, there are security cameras at a couple of the doors, but none in the office itself. I don't think I'd stay long if there were a bunch of cameras here.

All the big tech cos I've seen have cameras everywhere. The cameras aren't typically for the employees, they are to keep visitors from walking off with valuables.

I've heard of my coworkers having entire computers swiped, and smaller items like phones were also at risk. An old office manager had someone go through a pallet of desktops and haul more than one of them off.

With many millions of dollars of hardware just sitting around, not to mention the IP contained on the machines, security cameras are a rather good idea.

These buildings are of course locked, but lots of vendors pass through, and determined people can tailgate past checkpoints.
How to DoS 29% of the World Wide Websites – CVE-2018-6389
> Equal, mandatory parental leave would go a long way toward leveling the playing field.

I actually thought Sweden already had this, but apparently not. At least not perfectly so, the parents have 480 days in total, with 90 earmarked to each: https://sweden.se/quickfact/parental-leave/
In just 24 hours, 5,000 Android devices are conscripted into mining botnet
Regardless of whether that's the reference, it certainly satisfies the conditions of the argument.
Lianna K does the best job, insofar as I saw, of making the societal expectations argument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIRvtA2JIIA
https://www.happy-or-not.com/en/smiley-terminal/
Not much worse than a regular door handle, I expect?
'Hitler'+'Putin'='Erdogan': What Can an AI Learn from User Comments?
Not a huge docker user but I've noticed various build systems and deployment mechanisms operating slower as a result of large docker images. Faster build times are really attractive to me so I keep my images small.
I think you just mined a completely new crypto-joke.
Starting in 1945, Russia had a very strong desire to pull out of Berlin and east Germany, it never wanted to be there. England and the US had agreed that Germany would be demilitarized, but then reneged on that promise, and formed a military alliance against Russia which west Germany joined in 1955. That was two years after Radio Free Europe in west Berlin was advocating riots to east Berliners and east Germans - which took place. And only six years after this was a wall built. Imagine if Iran occupied half of San Francisco or New York City and Iranians became indignant a wall was put up around their section? Of course much of the Nazis and SS high command was put to work in west Germany after the war in intelligence and business (union-busting etc.) other than their cleaner hands leaders like Reinhard Gehlen, or less clean hands such as Nazi and SS leader Hanns Martin Schleyer who was head of the post-war German Employers' Association (but whose past was not discussed much, most references to him are
in regards to "far-left Red Army Faction terrorism"). Also, the Rhineland was the heart of German industrial might, the Russians got the duds in Germany other than a divided Berlin which caused them and the DDR's leaders headaches.

Whereas Austria, which Russia had occupied but which did not go remilitarize and join NATO, was withdrawn from by Russia, just like Russia pulled out of Iran and a number of other places as agreed. The allies had agreed Germany not be remilitarized and made a military threat to a twice invaded Russia within a 30 year span, but then England and the US broke that deal.

So Russia, who wanted to leave and have Germany reunite, was stuck by US/UK policy. Actually, as has been revealed, Margaret Thatcher was forcibly against east Germany reuniting with west Germany at a time when the Russians wanted it. So this thread stretched all the way from 1945 to 1990.
It almost requires no study:

When there's equality of opportunity, then women tend to outscore men on average in Danish high schools (and this trend is true all over the world, given any equal-opportunity situation).

Since women are scoring higher, they have more choice in what fields they want to study since the grade average tend to determine this. In contrast, men have to pick the subjects they can "get" which tend to be the STEM fields. All the typical "female subjects" are the ones which usually requires unethically high grades in Denmark.

Now, to convince a young woman to study STEM not only requires you to convince her that it is an awesome field (which it is, and we should definitely encourage that!). It also requires you to argue why she shouldn't put all her high-grade-work into effect by gravitating to a subject which is women-dominated and the competition is fierce. And that she can live out her dream: she has worked hard and can be anything she wants!

Whereas the young boy who were lazy in school (because he had a hobby of playing a lot of computer games) has to pick one of the "boring fields" where they accept anyone because there are always space for more people.

It is a two-sided situation and as much as you want to focus on the women not picking a given area, you have to focus on why men are so friggin' outright obsessed with the same thing.

There is one type of study which determines part of this: namely that men are interested in things and women in people (on average: The split is something like 33/66 and there is a considerable overlap - but it is one of the strongest gender effects!).

Of course, reality is a mix between biology and environment. And thus also location: the strong welfare state of Denmark could easily play a role.
Some previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310690
I'd imagine so. And because of that move they lost their common carrier argument.
You could even say "this" is what professional PR looks like, since getting this on HN is certainly part of the PR as well.
> I'm allergic to cats and can't imagine the discomfort of cat dander circulating throughout the cabin

I'm allergic to cats. I'm also a former aerospace engineer. Cabin air is completely refreshed about 20 times an hour [1]. I've sat next to a cat and not noticed. They're in a carrier, too drugged or terrified to toss fur about; quiet; and small. Zyrtec won't make the screaming baby any more pleasant.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34708785/ns/travel-travel_tips/t/a...
I never said music was only listened to passively, "typically" was what I aforementioned. Typically we are driving to work, working out, cooking while listening to music. It's not too often we are at venues where it is indeed an active activity.

Kids are probably listening to just as much music (I have younger siblings in grade school, n=2) but they're also more pre-occupied nowadays with other activities while consuming it.

> If they are able to be listened to while playing video games, maybe. What kind of garbage music would that include, and what beautiful and culturally-essential music would that exclude?

We don't know and we can't assume the music is garbage just because one isn't giving it the full attention it deserves.
Edit: more connected than I thought it was!

Explanation for why I downvoted your comment:

Your comment is completely unconnected to the statement above it. It's only connected to the story in that Cloudflare was involved with both, but if you're going to try to connect it to this story your comment should go at the top level. But connecting a highly controversial subject to this one by posting inflammatory comments does not seem to be a good way to connect these two different stories.
One of the advantages of architectural design is that few building footprints vary greatly from instance to instance, or for the same instance, particularly over the course of a fraction of a second or so.

Or ... when that's happening, much more exciting things are going on.

I'm wondering just how complicated text really needs to be, and what the benefits of walking well outside gridded layout is.

A text is essentially a linear strand, wrapped. Some of those strands may present as sub-texts (tables, lists, call-outs, etc.), but you still have the concept of "how do I present a sequence of letters, arranged by words, sentences, paragraphs, etc., into some folded space?"

We've gone from tablets, rock walls, scrolls, etc., to generally codices (printed) or ... well, sort of a scroll-page hybrid for Web.

That said, interesting points, and I plan on digging into this a bit further.
Careful with your reading here. As written it is perfectly clear.
I do worry that this is the end of the current bull market and we'll be entered into a recession in the next half year or so.
At what point (BTC-USD price) does the mining mini-industry start becoming unprofitable? With the large scale investments in massive climate-controlled datacenters crammed with ASICs anchoring the world's biggest mining pools, there must at some point be a negative ROI. If the price passes that threshold, would we potentially see many of these mining operations scaling way down or packing it in and retiring? Selling off equipment? I'd love to know.
Assuming freedom to choose, I would say policies should still try to steer choice to address social needs. For example, let's say there is an imbalance in F:M physician ratio such that one class of people are being underserved. Or the market isn't producing enough physicists, for example, then step in and add artificial incentives to attract a different population.

Note, I'm not insisting on equality of outcomes, because to me that's really not the general objective, given a population can have individuals predisposed for different things. For example, in farming communities we don't expect to see the same interest in urban planning as in cities.
The most amazing thing to me was that the male income didn't budge after childbirth. Even ignoring taking time off work, my free time in the evenings and mornings, when I would often do some of my best focused work, has almost entirely vanished since having kids.
There are many things produced that bring no value but pollute the world... take cigarettes for example.
"Wow, you have a lot of happy customers who did not actually buy anything! Care to explain that?"
> I just have such a hard time working with a model where changes aggregate around so much, so changes intended for one place end up messing something up elsewhere.

You're better off with functional/atomic css then, because the styles aren't cascading like css is typically used, which, while powerful, doesn't scale. As such, the classes defined in an atomic css framework are consistent and reusable everywhere. See for example, http://tachyons.io/

It maps much better to the programmer mindset, where we're typically generating dynamic content, and so generating the sets of style classes needed entails just using our usual code reuse techniques.
Yet another problem is access-control: what if a user is allowed to access only part of the data-structure? And what if you'd want to encode access rules in the data-structure itself?
As long as only women can get pregnant, give birth, and breast feed, it turns out that choosing to make babies will (on average) be disproportionately more work for women than men.

Weirdly, there's still a household chore gap between men and women. My position on this is pretty well inline with John Green's: The pay gap is down to a single digit difference, but there is a difference in the unrenumerated work which goes into keeping society going in the context of raising children. (We might disagree on what to do about it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0EYBBl5LI