skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's controversial who caused what, the wikipedia link actually discusses it. It's like saying the Wall Street bankers caused the famine in USA in 30's.
Too much propaganda and subversion on this topic.
Another silly license just to include the word "f*ck". These are pointless and only server to confuse open source development. These are so much more appropriate for the FSF because of their intent with software.
Maruti Suzuki Corolla or Toyota Baleno?
The big problem with Microsoft adding PWA’s automatically to its walled store
Things are early. IMO we should just see what happens. Tech is changing fast enough that all of this concern could be moot in 10 years. And I say that as someone who thinks Facebook (and social media, in general) is a cancer on our species.
The problem with infant mortality figures is that different countries measure them differently. There are cases (e.g. very premature births) that the US considers a live birth (with a high risk of mortality) while other countries consider them miscarriages and hence don't count them in infant mortality.

There have been attempts made to correct for these discrepancies. They end up accounting for a large fraction (but not all) of the difference in infant mortality rates, if I recall correctly.

Most of the rest of the effect is that premature births that everyone considers "births" have a higher prevalence in the US (for various reasons, not all of which are clear). Premature births have higher mortality, obviously.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-infants-mortality/u... is actually trying to look at an apples-to-apples comparison, and a few things jump out at me:

1) Birth defects. I wonder how much of this has to do with differences in abortion availability and again differences in definition of "birth". Many other countries count a child that dies within some number of days after birth from birth defects as a stillbirth, not an infant mortality event.

2) SUID (aka SIDS) is a huge contributor in the US. In the US this is highly concentrated in ehthnic groups that are largely missing in the comparison countries. Why that is is a good question, but makes this comparison less apples-to-apples.

To know where you'd want to be you want to know the outcomes for your specific demographic in the different countries, which is not something that gets reported very much...
at the top of the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17247779
Most (although not all) of the examples are bullshit that include people making credible threats of violence.

Which particular example are you thinking of?
> Your post is strange in how heavily it reflects your values instead of what's best for AMD or consumers.

> OH NO! Your business isn't so valuable that it's incentive for AMD to active try and stay in second place.

Not every post is about what's strategically best for a company. They very clearly stated it's what they personally wanted, and why.

What's the point of ripping into someone because they've actually expressed desire for a specific scenario? If you think they won't actually get what they want from the scenario or action they've described, just point out how you don't think it will end up that way.
Hey, I work on the web platform team at Microsoft. Do you have any more information about this? I'm not sure this is a bug that we're aware of. If you've personally experienced the bug, could you pull the Windows build number (Settings->System->About) and send it to t-jobak (at) microsoft.com along with the steps to reproduce (if any)? We'd really appreciate it and might be able to get a fix out in the next release.
> maternity costs ... complications ... if something were to go really wrong, would you rather be in the US hospital or the UK one? I suspect the NHS is more affordable, but does not handle complications and individual patient cases as well as the US system.

As someone who has lived in the UK, Australia, and the US, probably not the US?

Also, "Infant Mortality Rates of Countries, deaths per 1,000 live births[1]":

* Australia - 4.7

* United Kingdom - 4.8

* United States - 6.2

Apparently the statistics say we're not as good at "[handling] complications and individual patient cases" as you believe we are.

[1] https://www.infoplease.com/world/health-and-social-statistic...
Socialism and Capitalism both rely on an outdated assumption: that demand for human labor will always be high.

Capitalism says you will always find an employer who values your work. But whereas your grandfather worked for decades as a company man, had a pension and was able to support a family on one paycheck, today productivity per capita is 4-10x higher and people are doing 2 year stints, part time jobs, gig economy, etc.

Socialism says collective bargaining power will get workers what they want because they are valued collectively. But as much as oxen and horses unionized the fields would still be turned into parking lots.

People have needs like food and rent. A Universal Basic Income captures
Hm, this is almost entirely written in Python. Support for those things may be possible in theory (the build tooling is mostly shell scripts and not tightly coupled with KVM).
Seeing that you took the entire joke from u/disintegore, you should maybe attribute them somewhere.
It's not a question of whether "one of the richest cities on the planet" can "fund serious upgrades." It's how much money are New Yorkers willing to throw into a system where it takes several times as much money to do the same thing as other countries? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-....

New York is rich, but so is London. Based on that wealth, there is a certain amount of money New Yorkers are willing to pay for subway service. If it costs twice as much to do the same thing, half as much service will get purchased. (Indeed, it's worse. Crappier subway service reduces demand, which decreases the money available to fund it.)

Costs are the fundamental problem with the MTA (and D.C.'s WMATA), and those are union problems, not management problems. If it cost Lenovo twice as much to build the same laptop as Acer, Lenovo would simply cease to exist. Transit systems generally cannot go bankrupt for political reasons, but they can decline to a state of government-funded life support where nobody uses them except people who have no other choice. (See, e.g., the transit systems in most cities outside NYC/Chicago/DC/Boston). Consider:

> France’s unions are powerful, but Mr. Probst said they did not control project staffing. Isabelle Brochard of RATP, a state-owned company that operates the Paris Metro and is coordinating the Line 14 project, estimated there were 200 total workers on the job, each earning $60 per hour. The Second Avenue subway project employed about 700 workers, many making double that (although that included health insurance).

This is a large-scale problem in the U.S. Our public services suck, which means that they turn into safety nets instead of something that are broadly used by the population. In turn, people have limited willingness to fund them (because people naturally are less willing to spend money on safety nets versus something they also use and benefit from). Unions aren't the only reason for our public services sucking, but to the extent they drive costs out of alignment with what is the case in other countries, they're a big part of the problem. If you can buy less service with the same amount of investment, that's a problem.

One of the things that's happened in the last 30 years that nobody talks about is that Europe became far more market oriented, and their unions adapted. Anti-union rhetoric in the U.S. yielded a very different result, with most private unions dying out, and the public sector unions that survived remaining a bulwark of the "old way" of doing things.
Complying with the letter of an ambiguously drafted license is quite challenging, but it's important if you are an entity with a lot of assets and thus a plump target for a lawsuit.

The JSON license has made a lot of lawyers a lot of money.
Exactly... These licenses only serve to make open source management more difficult. There are plenty of licenses that are already great at making your code open, and that are already accepted across the landscape.

Stop making new, stupid licenses.
https://www.opensource.org

Plenty of good licenses there.
Don’t discount desperation. I can very easily imagine a struggling programmer who has the choice of putting food on the table or going without. The felon programmer who posted to HN several months ago falls into this category.
Sure, but that is the main reason.
Even the 'high influencer' subset is a massive quantity of videos.
I'm kinda thinking of Chipotle's pr nightmare over food safety. This is similar. Facebook isn't going to die but people will be far less enamored by it going forward.

Usage metrics have already been ticking down.
Is Oracle legitimately trying to kill the Java ecosystem or is it just a happy accident? They're almost going out of their way to unravel almost everything Sun stood for and what Java was meant to be...

The sad irony is that if this continues, and C# Core keeps getting better, people might move not because C# is inherently better but just to escape Oracle's influence.

Java is a lot less "free" than many like to claim see:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java...

You might say: "Well just don't use that stuff then!" sure, fine, but what if a vendor you use used them? You still owe Oracle money.

Microsoft might be bad, but Oracle is worse, and Java is Oracle.
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As an example, WTFPL is on IBM's list of acceptable open-source licenses.
Of all the dogs the ATF has shot and all the doors the FBI has wrongfully kicked down how many of them belonged to people who are part of a three letter agency?

Enforcement organizations treating their own like they treat normal people is the rare exception to the rule.

There are many lines drawn. The thin blue one just happens to have the most brand recognition among the people on the wrong side of all the lines.
At first I read it as "Microsoft has sunk GitHub in the sea...".

Sigh my brain is trained to see MS+GitHub wherever I read a news article about MW or GH as a result of all the hype for past two days.
Every time I read something about Oracle, I think this shop should be rebranded as Asshole Inc.
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Premature births correlate directly to advanced neonatal care, that thing you were arguing the US is the best in the world at. Now you're saying "oh, you can't count that"?

> [You] must take into account ... the racial makeup of America

Oh? Are black people not really counted for the purposes of birth stats? Why? Poorer genetics? Poorer healthcare access? Again, how would poorer healthcare access jibe with your "best in world" medical care?
> Do you have any specific suggestions? Perhaps tying pricing to number of contacts/users instead of sheer volume?

No specific suggestions, unfortunately. In our experience, I at least preferred when a service was $X/unit for all tiers.. that is to say, we could either afford to use the service or not. I love those services, it's clear and on paper. So to your comment, I actually like sheer volume. I'm paying for units of your service, and I like that.

However the services I complained about above, were not $X/unit, it was $X/unit until Y units and then $Z/unit. A non-linear approach to payment. They also can feel more expensive, as the paying users prop up the free users. Though this may purely speculation.

Sometimes this meant better bulk rates, where it got cheaper the more you spent. Other times it got worse, where we were seen as a bigger business because our needs were greater, and so we effectively pay more for less. Technically you usually get more features when you pay more, but in unit services like email, messages, w/e, we weren't upgrading because we wanted more features, we were upgrading because we wanted more units. So the pricing per unit got worse.

I'm not advocating you change anything to be clear, you do what's best for your company - obviously. My comment was simply giving our side of the story on payment, and how non-linear models often put us in weird positions. Also, our story is probably atypical.
Our company has, in its policy, the allowance of licenses that fall into the OSI spec. This license, along with the WTFPL, are patently denied due to their joke licenses.

Regardless of how amazing your code is, you look like a kid when you need to tag your code with one of these joke licenses. It loses a ton of credibility in the corporate world where open source is taken very seriously.
> Our decision to unionize comes at a moment when much of what defines The New Yorker—its atmosphere of deliberation and care and its devotion to factual accuracy, careful prose, and expert design—is vulnerable to competing priorities from our corporate parent, Condé Nast.

This is something that reddit users should also probably keep in mind as they use the site, as Condé Nast owns reddit as well.
> [Github] offers you to attach one of the well-known licenses to your project

Is this recent? I can't remember being able to do it last time I created a project, which was a few years ago.
My first instinct reading this was to think about the gothamist/dnainfo kerfuffle.

However, Checking the new yorkers revenue shows around 200 million/yr, I definitely did not expect that and likely means it can easily support a union. (unless the new yorker is loaded with debt, which it might be)
It's really difficult for some people to understand that there is incredible value provided by retailers. And that there is a reason why manufacturers have historically not been vertically integrated with retailers.
Increasing labor costs and reducing employment flexibility at companies that already have notoriously poor business fundamentals? Can't wait to see how that plays out.
This isn't money for studies, it's money for digital art projects.
Actually, Condé Nast hasn't owned reddit for a long time.
(1) MS brings a huge team of engineers that will exploit the IP in github.

(2) MS brings a huge team of lawyers that will exploit the licensing of FOSS (all favors), that will enable #1

Give MS credit, they are one of the smart guys in the room, and I see the tcpip stack fiasco all over again.

Github was about meritocracy? Right. It was just social coding, merits got pushed to the wayside when the VCs came in.
> please don't spam hosts like Github with it

Huh? A GitHub repository is akin to a personal website. Why shouldn't people put their personal doodles, experiments, and silliness on it?
>Otherwise there was an obvious way they were going to make money and that was Ads. Powered by data harvested about you.

Google has the same model, but takes data privacy more seriously than Facebook does. It's disingenuous to conflate any data harvesting with the most unscrupulous and casino-inspired iterations of it.

Arguably, the micro-targeting model of advertising Facebook goes after is more faddish than effective anyway. Google uses the data analytics as much to build more salable products as it does to serve advertising, so the volume of collection serves some kind of function. But facebook's actual business need for most of its data is dubious at best.

>Facebook was going to use your personal information to make money for itself. It was going to be harmful to you.

It's not really the use of personal information that's the harm though. It's the addiction mechanisms they leverage to make you keep giving them personal information and the lack of protections or responsibility they put around it. It's not at all "obvious" that it's going to be harmful to anyone, and arguably it's not even harmful to anyone individually so much as harmful to society and the body politic generally. You can't have those problems at "smaller scales" because those problems don't exist at small scales, they're an emergent property of scale itself.
The original post could have been constructive. It's at least a good possibility that a new thing can be developed based on criticism of an old thing, and some of the author's points were just building on what Dahl said, so it could have been a useful discussion. I don't agree with another comment in this thread that it's easy to (succinctly and with depth) point out what's wrong. The person who initially responded to the issue could have included these possibilities rather than playing full-on cop. These systems are still largely organic. But the original poster's replies are hostile and in light of the "radio silence" request mentioned later in the thread, it wasn't ultimately a good post.
It's also kind of pathological when someone focuses on just one technical aspect of software, like performance, or security, completely unable to reason within a large context of people doing things for other people.
It seems like Oracle has struck on a way to not just get the community to help with their maintenance and development, but a way to trick the community into doing all their work for them.

If I had to guess, I would bet that the license requires contributors to give up rights to their work so Oracle can still use it in proprietary products with little or no stipulations.
> shouldn't be blamed for trying to save their own lives

In various other countries they cannot draw their guns or even carry them.

Just like bodyguards protecting their customers, they are paid to protect citizens - even by risking their lives - that's why they get paid.
I’m always wary of unintended consequences, but I hope this works out for the staff, while not sinking the magazine. The New Yorker has been consistently producing some of the best long form journalism, as well as some of the best public policy thinkpieces.
Coupling an undersea datacenter with an offshore windfarm just sounds all-around clever.
St Anthony Discovery School's £9M Investment Waisted
emacs magit is the exception that proves your rule.
German manufacturers are not limited to few cities.

There are factories in villages too.
> In Western democracies, police and intelligence agencies are using the same surveillance tools to solve and deter crimes and prevent terrorism (see Technology Quarterly). The results are effective, yet deeply worrying.

These claims seem completely unfounded. It always surprises me when well-known outlets like The Economist just make assertions like this, without having any data to back it up.
Of course the governments implementing the surveillance regimes will claim that it's effective, but it's the media's job to actually verify the veracity of these claims. Instead they are just parroting this tired old narrative.
It's actually really simple: split off Instagram.
As much as I dislike Facebook, this feels more part the US' general anti-Chinese bigotry than anything else. Why are Chinese companies being singled out here?
You could have an entry file for your dependencies (let's say dependencies.ts) and reexport everything from there.
When you have to update, you only have to upgrade it in the entry file and you can avoid multiple versions.
The peeps building Mill CPU are claiming they can do 10x performance over traditional (x86). IIRC in an early talk they explained this is mostly by bringing the IPC on a level with high IPC microcontroller arches. They do VLIW which can do a lot of things more efficiently if your compiler can handle it (Rust should be able to pull a lot of performance out of VLIW IIRC)
Good for them. I hope that this works out well for both parties (labor and management).

I'm curious about the details. I believe that in New York if a union negotiates your contract you are legally obliged to be a member of that union and incur whatever costs are associated (dues). My mother is a labor relations specialist for NYSUT (New York State United Teachers) and she is very concerned about a coming SCOTUS ruling that would remove that legal obligation. How does The New Yorker's new union plan to deal with that if/when it comes?
> I couldn't for the life of me figure out why my sift wasn't working. Wasted like an hour on it. Turns out it was working, it was just my printing/test-harness stuff that was flawed. Sure that was a useful hard-knock, but it really served as a distraction from what I was trying to do at the moment.

What you think is an unnecessary distraction is in my opinion a very important experience and part of the learning process. Everything you hand-code for your own data structure be it pretty-print, test-harness, etc. are all important while learning.

> Having a helper class that solves some of the basics well and sets you up for success lets you focus on the larger problems without having to constantly re-visit the basics.

Once you have built the data structures bottom-up from scratch along with all the additional utilities to pretty-print it, test it, etc. you have your helpers ready already. There is no need to use someone else's helpers at that point.
unsolvable problems require unmeasurable time to be resolved
What we are doing at my company (we have a general onboarding process):

Before the onboarding:
- we make sure all access has been give to every SaaS/software/etc needed for the employee to be able to work day one. We have defined a list of access needed for each job (engineering, finance, customer success, etc).
- we make sure that we have all necessary hardware (e.g macbook, screens, keyboard etc.) and that all necessary software/update are already there.

Onboarding day:
- First meeting is about presenting our company, what we do, our values, the market in which we work, etc.
- Second meeting is finalizing the computer setup (e.g. password)
- Third meeting is about security (my job). I'm presenting security, talking about our policies and etc. It's a pretty lightweight discussion.
- Fourth meeting is the HR meeting (e.g. sign the NDA, talk about insurance, etc.)
- Final meeting is a presentation of our application.

All along the day, we make it clear that they can ask any questions, anytime.

After the onboarding:
1 week after the onboarding day, we sent a survey about the onboarding day (what did you like, what could be improved, etc.). Only the Head of HR see this (for confidentiality).
> IANAL

Yeah, we figured that out when you said that this looks great for some projects. ;-)
Not taking a position either way, but revenue is not the important number here: its excess margin, which in publishing is extremely low.
Who is the owner of reddit?
Why isn't this thread hidden?
>i had no idea that in Canada of all places "cops can use evidence even if seized illegally."

according to [1], it's not a blanket yes or no. it's a balance of whichever choice would make the justice system look worse. ie. turning someone's home up-side down to find 1g of weed vs a serial murderer getting away with murder because the judge didn't fill out the paperwork properly.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Procedure_an...
Definitely with Shopify. I have bought stuff from companies built on Shopify many times and I get all the normal promotional stuff you'd expect.
I will be sure to immediately replace my bag of chips with a bag of onions?

Poor people are likely to be both cash-poor and time-poor: it's not a question of "being bothered". If you have the available time to fully consider, process, and follow this advice, then you may not realistically be poor at all.

And, if you did manage to follow this advice, you would likely still be poor - saving pennies on food is not any way out of poverty.
In much the same way that they bought off most of the Valley in the Instagram acquisition, Facebook bought off most of congress via contributions and that is now paying off.
The licenses aren't "do-whatever-you-want". They have jokes in them that are legally confounding.
A day in the life of a digital photo, or, what's wrong with photo sharing today