skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it that conservatives, when discussing any other aspect of a job (pay, working conditions, abuse, etc) will say that "you have a choice; you don't have to take the job," but when it comes to unions, suddenly everyone is forced?
It's $1/month to support open source software. That's not a bad price. You can also choose to use their hosting for free too; I was doing that for a few months before fully adopting it.
I think there are too many confounding factors to make a strong claim either way. For example, the older a mother is the more risk there is of a child having downs syndrome, and that in turn is associated with higher risk of ALL/AML. So without considering other factors, you may be led to think that the younger siblings might have a higher risk (remember that the paper suggested that a first hit mutation may be required before the infection).

My point is just that to test an epidemiologic hypothesis you have to really think about all the different confounding factors that could bias your results.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17105373
The truth is, big real estate companies have the resources and the incentive to be aggressive.

But perhaps that's the root of the problem? With so many units at below market rates, the current new to the market units get priced to cover the "loss" of the controlled units? And then of course there's the incentive.

I'm not defending the practice. But I am suggesting - similar to housing and a college edu - that "government intervention" often has unintended consequences.
And they still don’t have signaling that qualifies for going >= 80mph. I don’t get it?
That's not anywhere close to what we're talking about, and fuck you for making light of his death.
> My own view is ... Others might have a different personal view, but it is all good so long we all agree that A) critical thought is required for all reading in regard to controversial topics, and B) there are no perfect solutions.

I strongly disagree with the premise that every analysis - i.e., every personal view - is fundamentally equally accurate or worthy. That goes against critical thought and reason. A major point of the Enlightenment is that through reason, we can distinguish good from bad, accurate from false. You have a right to your own opinion, but that doesn't make it right. Also, you don't have a right to your own facts.
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I applaud these steps, and I hope they include concrete plans for addressing the good-evil hiring gap in their next diversity report. Perhaps a community outreach program to get middle schoolers more interested in becoming evildoers?

Not enough companies are addressing this issue!
Netflix Forming Storytelling Partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama
If the worker doesn't want to join the union, they don't have to take the job. The main issue here is that the union is required to negotiate on behalf of everyone at the job, not just it's members.
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> And also negotiates on his behalf for better working conditions and pay.

Sounds like he doesn't believe that they do, and would prefer to be left out of the bargaining unit.

> At the end of the day, that person wants all the benefits of being in the union (enhanced negotiating power, benefits, etc), without any of the cost

There's literally no evidence that he wants the union to provide any of that.
Of course I'm not being absolutist, and the only reason you say I'm being ironic is because you cannot refute my statement.
Well, by all means look for fossils of such alien octopai. But just how would you know that they were alien? Preserved artifacts, maybe?

Basically, I'm arguing that going from problematic features of octopus evolution and genetics to alien octopai is quite the stretch.
Oculus Go Sells Only – 100-200K Units in First Month on Market
I'm puzzled by your comment:

>>" The authoritarian governments in South Korea, Taiwan, and China actually helped these countries get out of poverty because they could enforce policies that otherwise would not be popular, like redistribution of land to peasants and protecting infant industries from foreign competition while they developed."

Those are not popular policies? do you mean popular for the IMF and the World bank or what?
The domain and use-case is not clear to me here. I want to know what real-world task is to be performed, not how to convert one language to another language.
I've since left, but yes and no. Video at that scale requires some unique hardware, which in turn requires some unique software. But for broadcasters of that scale, many of the problems are the same.

We actually had, prior to this system, been relying on one built by a French company, that cost hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, per year in licensing. Updates were infrequent, often included regressions, but it mostly worked.

This started as a way to get some of the smaller bureaus to have some basic functionality, and grew into a system that was deployed to every bureau, eventually replacing what we had in Atlanta (that previously mentioned system). It was extremely popular, and the business stakeholders even characterized it as the biggest success they've had from our department.

One of our group's VPs showed it at an industry trade show, just offhandedly, and an exec from another broadcaster indicated regret of having just signed a deal to purchase the aforementioned system above, rather than attempting to roll their own (seeing the success CNN had).

It's not a key differentiator for CNN, but they also don't have software sales as a core competency. So they have basically best of breed software sitting there unnoticed. shrug C'est la vie.

It also has the benefit of, since it's Erlang, largely just working without issue. There's not many there still with Erlang knowledge, but that isn't really much issue for another 20 years if it continues just working without issue.
The Inventor of the Technology Behind Siri Shares His View of the Future of AI
That's pretty spurious reasoning. Do I not have the right to do what I want with my money because I have to give part of it to my landlord?
If I understand correctly, she started out with Swift as her first language?

Wakamiya soon bought programming books and learned Apple’s Swift programming language through lessons with a programmer, nearly 200 miles away from her home in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, via Facebook Messenger and Skype.
So far the only somewhat sane alternative is prestashop.

At least I don't worry what breaks this time on a security update, which is a real PITA with magento.
For updates to magento shops I schedule time, for updates to prestashop I press a button..
If you just walk in looking like a tourist to almost any metro car in barcelona people will attempt to rob you. I have never been to a place with so much blatant crime and I am from New Orleans.

https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/europe/spain/barce...

The low level crime is absolutely insane in barcelona to the point I would recommend not going unless you are ready to get in shoving matches with attempted thieves.
They’ll drive it into the ground like what they did with Business Catalyst. The things will get stuck in middle management who doesn’t know web.
Which is why (i) it's not "free trade" then and (ii) multinationals love places where these restrictions don't apply.
Storage capacity for radioactive water at Fukushima power plant nears limit
> A theoretical "control-rate" "mtof" object would take its input value and compute a frequency value once every block when DSP is turned on.

In Sporth, the "mtof" unit-generator does a MIDI to frequency conversion for every audio sample, thus making it audio rate.

Perhaps it is better to think of control-rate signals as input signals rather than output signals. The "osc~" object, for instance, will update the frequency at every audio block. This would be the control rate. In Sporth, oscillator frequency values are updated every sample inside the audio block.

> But that's not what "mtof" does. Instead, it computes the frequency for an inputted MIDI value at the time it receives that value. That time could be once every block, once a minute, a single time when I load the program, at random intervals on Tuesday, or even never.

The important distinction here is that the resolution can't be smaller than the audio-block size, which in turn defines the control-rate.
Love this. What I've seen lately, as a contractor at several different companies, is inexperienced devs getting a very long way building apps without knowing what's going on with their database under the hood. That's a testament to the value of ORMS.

It's common, then, that the low hanging fruit for a contractor coming in to improve performance is to optimize queries and/or introduce triggers, views, and stored procedures. I've found that devs are scared of plain old SQL but the ones who know their ORM well can learn SQL easily with a little nudge and some guidance.
"agile, decentralized genocide as a cloud service"

No one will bring this to you as a business plan.

Make sure it isn't a second or third order effect.
How much energy is used by the two technologies to move 100 people 100 miles? I'd bet flying them consumes a lot more, but I don't know much about the train technologies.
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You should probably read contemporary philosophy, then! Formal logic is a central tool of most analytic philosophy, to this day. The more logic-oriented side of philosophy typically merges seamlessly into maths.

It's not limited to analytic philosophy, either - continental thinkers like Badiou have sustained engagement with set theory - it's very traditional, actually.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t blame them the Germans were their only real possible ally it’s just amusing to me that people always seem to forgo that period.
That said the Finns weren’t as passive as one might think they sought out to gain the territory they lost and they went into the alliance with Germany quite willingly and even proactively.
We tried technical, it's a losing battle. All that will happen is more and more sleazy ways to get around the technical countermeasures. Ad-blocker detectors, track-walls, back-end filled ad slots and so on. There is no way short of going the legal route that this will ever stop.

What would have worked is self regulation but the industry has clearly shown that it is utterly incapable of doing so.

> At the end of the day, users are responsible for their own security and privacy as the web is global, and you can't expect all juridictions to comply with EU laws.

That's the beauty of it: now we can. I'm really curious how the EU will go after foreign parties that decide to flaunt the law because they have no residence in the EU (and because they decided they did not want to play the representative game). That will be the real test. If that fails then the law will fall apart.

Time will tell.
We should bring this sport back.
> Rent-regulated apartments, often the only homes in New York that people of modest means can afford, are vanishing as gentrification surges inexorably through the city’s neighborhoods

Rent regulation in NYC is easily the least effective way to make housing affordable for people of "modest means". It's criticized even by advocates of affordable housing for this reason. The only reason it still exists is because there are a large number of tenants grandfathered into the system (over a third of all NYC tenants) and that makes for a formidable voting bloc.

Rent control is all-but-gone - only a very small number of units are still eligible, and that's because the tenant has lived there continuously since 1975. Rent stabilization is less broken, but still horribly broken. Anybody can live in a rent-stabilized unit, regardless of whether or not they'd be able to afford the market rents, and there's no effort made to make those units available to people who can't afford market rents.

There are plenty of other programs in NYC, like Mitchell-Lama, which are much more effective at providing affordable housing. Rent regulation is not one of them.
I think the opposite; I think it would take a lot to decide that class action lawsuits are not a concerted activity for the purpose of mutual aid or protection.
> Can you point exactly where I did that?

Easily: "our society was built on the needs and wants of men" - dguaraglia

Blaming men for the creation of gender roles and gender expectations holds no anchoring in reality. When it is used as an excuse to explain all negative gender roles for both women and men as "toxic masculinity" then I will call that bubble out for what it is. A untestable theory with nothing to support it, but that is instead used as an term of abuse.

Gender roles and gender expectations is ancient, and if someone is honestly interested in whom caused those to exist then we have to follow research from archeology, anthropology (with its many subfields), sociology, and others. To explain why "women need to look like barbies" and "men need to look like providers" we got to do better than say that its because of men.
Proof of what? The GDPR is not yet in force. Proof of Hungarian authorities targeting small businesses for minor or even non existing infractions? Here's one: the tax authority starts garnishing many taxes a few days after the payment deadline -- it's common the entrepreneur realizes they are in trouble when all the cash is gone from their bank account. But if you so want, I can find you any number of horror stories of how small businesses are treated in Hungary, now that they will have a chance to mess with rich westerns (as perceived at least), I have zero doubt they will take this chance.
Add Guatemala 1953 for an even more blatant example. Or the ousting of Allende in Chile. Nothing short of disgusting.
> Why is it that conservatives, when discussing any other aspect of a job (pay, working conditions, abuse, etc) will say that "you have a choice; you don't have to take the job," but when it comes to unions, suddenly everyone is forced?

Why are you asking me? Go find some conservatives and ask them.
"Regulatory capture? What's that?"
The main reason for that is because the advertising industry is trying to allocate the same advertising budgets to more inventory aimed at fewer users. Ad blockers are making a real impact and the novelty factor of ads wears off quickly.

That's why there is such an explosion of ad-tech firms, anything to get back to where they were last year in terms of CTR and engagement. Then the users become de-sentisized and then the whole cycle restarts.
To encourage people to report bugs they've found and to research bugs and then report them.
Put autonomous cars in the exact same conditions as all cars today rather than an easy mode Silicon Valley subset and the body count will be way higher.

I don't disagree with your sentiment about the FAA. I don't believe autonomous cars are being held to a higher standard needlessly.
> That's pretty spurious reasoning. Do I not have the right to do what I want with my money because I have to give part of it to my landlord?

If your rent is automatically withheld from your paycheck as terms of your employment and given directly to your landlord, then yes, that logic might hold.

However, I'm betting that's not the case.
I assume it produces the ability to manage a museum.

How easy do you think it is to successfully manage a museum, with a staff of dozens to hundreds of docents, researchers, restoration specialists, educators, and support staff? MSI in Chicago gets 1.5 million visitors a year and has a freaking U-Boat and a 727 (among many other amazing exhibits).
Cutting 20k police over the last few years probably hasn't helped.
This seems like a very weird match.
I understand. I did in fact believe that this applies to any highest reward RCE vulnerability, thanks for pointing out that this may not be the case.

As for the black market price - I don't consider my security background sufficient for my guess to be anywhere near educated enough, so I'm bowing out.
Comcast website bug leaks Xfinity customer data
Was Sweden at war in 1990s too? The homicide rate was higher back then.
There's been quite a few studies that learning things like new languages forges new neuron pathways and helps fight off dementia and other age related brain diseases.

I wonder if there's been any studies to the cognitive benefits of teaching the elderly to code?
Or Dutch.
The answer here is education. Build schools, problem solved.
"We want to buy Shopify but we can pay 1/10th of Shopify's valuation"

I think Magento is "fairly priced" priced at ~10% of Shopify's valuation
Show HN: PDF annotation /w screenshot exporter using Chrome Headless and PDF.js
I banged this out over the weekend.

It's really rough though.

https://github.com/burtonator/pdf-annotation-exporter

Basically I have it working with:

https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html

Whereby I can paste the pos.js into the console and it can export PDF annotations with screenshots of the annotation.

I intend on using this with Anki to read more complex books and take notes with it.

Now I just need to wire it all together with chrome headless and PDF.js
Correction: the library is too old for that specific CVE to be exploitable. There may be others, there may not be. I don't know – and that's actually the problem.

The chief complaint here is that it's very hard to reason about the security of seven year old software that distros are pulling out of their package repositories citing security issues (e.g. Alpine Linux). Advisories tend to say "versions before X", and you're left to either wonder or read tickets/code. Not everyone wants to sign on for that, and it's work that isn't going toward writing your app.
"Nobody said freedom and Democracy were easy. You don't get to coast, enjoying the fruits of all the hard labor that brought us to this point. You have to maintain your institutions lest criminal elements in the corporate world or elsewhere gain power."

Who are we quoting again?
> Show me a language that simpler and more elegant than C++, where you don't have to worry about choosing how to pass parameters, or manage memory, and that still is as fast as C++.

As someone who built their career on memory constrained, fast code in C++ I'm gonna have to say that Rust is simpler and more elegant.

You've got your zero cost abstractions, heck I can decided static vs dynamic dispatch at compile time. Lots of things are more explicit leading to less foot-guns that you see with implicit type conversion and the like. Borrow-checker catches all those nasty dataraces and ownership problems up front. I've yet to run across anything I could do in C++ that I can't do in Rust.

Listen, I love C++ but I think you may want to expand your horizons a bit before declaring it the best language ever in this space.
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>... size together so the GC could work faster.

So you wrote a non-compacting(copy)/generation garbage collector that used bubble sort?
It's working out pretty well for China, which started out with essentially nothing in terms of a capital base.

Law, order and prudent fiscal/monetary policy are all it takes. If Ethiopia can guarantee these things then the international community of capitalism will reward it and its citizens will reap the rewards.
You realise that advice is for children, right?
Well, you may be right. I don't have a crystal ball but so far all the other EU law that had this potential has not been activated in that way. VAT law for instance is a good candidate. I've missed one filing by a few days in 2016 because I was switching bookkeepers and I got fined 115 euros, it's my responsibility vv the tax authorities but the bookkeeper that messed up paid the fine so it didn't cost me anything.

I don't really understand your tax authority example though, doesn't that mean the payments are late and that the tax authority is fully with in their right to take what's theirs?

Did they take more than was their due?
I loved how NYC landlords sought a 7% increase on rent stabilized apartments and the RGB voted them a 7.4% increase instead.

Meanwhile the vacancy rate on rent-stabilized apartments over $2000/mo is 7.42%...
I'm using Zoho and have a good experience so far, they had some issues in the past but at least my experience with support is good.

When I looked into it, there weren't many appealing options. I wanted to use Yahoo but they had just spun out and wasn't too friendly.

I couldn't get a Microsoft platform for e-mail without them bundling Office365 and other stuff I didn't want, if not I'd have gone with them.
Spoken languages are a lot harder to learn than programming languages.

But think about how much faster you learned JS than the time it took to learn C (or whatever your first programming language was.)

Don't forget to account for the vast amount of learned information you get to leverage from your first language, even if you have to unlearn a few things or learn a few new things.

Even though JS is very different from C, learning JS was much, much faster for me than learning C was, because I already knew a whole lot about the way all languages work just from learning C.

I'm learning Icelandic right now, and it only took a few weeks of 30 minutes a day to cover some basic conversational skills, gather maybe 100 or so words of vocabulary, and get an introduction to the basic speech patterns & conjugation. It'll take a lot longer to be fluent, but children take years to get that far, because they're starting from scratch and don't have connections to build on. I see a ton of connections to German and English that kids wouldn't.

It's also hard to compare programming to high school Spanish, since it's easy for us to spend 10 hours a day programming, but in high school we topped out at like 3 hours a week of Spanish exposure, and most of that wasn't practicing very hard.

I moved to Mexico as a child (during my first grade year), and learned enough Spanish to go to school, play with the kids, etc. I feel like I'm picking up languages faster now than I did then.
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We actually used to run our site off of Prestashop. The biggest reason that I saw to switch was because of the lack of integrations with some of our operations tech stack. For example, Freshdesk has an official extension/add-on for Magento, but on PrestaShop the only add-on is a $39.99 option made by a 3rd party developer.

Prestashop is probably easier to administer than Magento, but that comes with tradeoffs because of its smaller developer ecosystem.
How often is failure of the car itself the cause of a fatal automobile accident? Just looking at lack of seatbelt use and alcohol make up 50% of traffic fatalities. It seems that the "Human Choice" is the biggest thing to fix when it comes to auto accidents.

* https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
At Theranos at least, they could have been very literal bodies.
Unless you're on another planet, no.
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Also: Nearly half of employers plan to not give raises for a job within two years
I read this over christmas and was completely engrossed (to the extent of being borderline antisocial).

I can certainly understand how you might find it disheartening and depressing, but I don't know I could quite see bored. The retelling of the situations was captivating, and the descriptions of how the system fails those most in need was harrowing at times. I've been recommending it to anyone who will listen.
Ancditally, I’ve had insomnia and bkue light at night seemed part of it. I still block nighttime light, but I’ve alao been going to my balcony in the sun for a bit first thing upon waking. I think it has helped.