skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounded like this was something that had happened in the past and was basically over with, not something that was ongoing. So either it ended amicably or HR made arrangements to ensure it wasn't an ongoing problem for the business. I'm skeptical of the delay being entirely due to "investigation", it seems more like this was something that was known about and later used to force him out.
It's not an informed choice if the offerer is lying.
Funnily enough, it links to a site (http://whatbrowser.org/) that suggests Chrome, Opera, and Firefox as supported browsers.
Developers and commentators have long held that developing for the PS2 and PS3 was fairly awful [1][2][3][4], so I'm not sure I buy your point.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/02/oddworld-creator-ex-s...

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2014/07/06/last-gen-development/

[3] https://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/killzone-developer-says-...

[4] https://gamingbolt.com/developer-explains-what-its-like-deve...
what's the diff with https://posthook.io/ that offers me .5K / month free calls ?
Personally, I would cut the military budget to ensure we have an educated society. It benefits us all in society.
To people doubting whether the ape "understood," the language, a useful test is whether it used language as a) a tool to operate on its environment through others, and b) to realize individually originated intent.

There is another criteria for basic intelligence whether the subject is capable of reasoning about objects that are not physically present.

A dog scratching at a door to signal its desire that it wants you to open it, is arguably using language.

Responding to commands is not necessarily using or understanding language as it can just be explained as being acted upon.

I'm sure there is a philosophical catgory for this interpretation, of language as tool, but it has a lot of ethical consequences.
No it doesn't. The business isn't paying the tax. They are only collecting it on behalf of the taxing agency.
But that's only if you're company doesn't have a point of presence in that state right? If you have an office in California, then you do have to use a service/API that handles all those crazy local taxes cases (or at least attempts to).
This isn't about "new and unique ideas" in the sense of some profound insight. I was responding to the "was capable of communicating new and unique ideas" from the parent, which is a way of paraphrasing some of the claims about Koko's language ability, in which it is claimed that Koko was going beyond mere use of single words to refer to literal objects or actions.

I can put together a complex sentence describing abstract ideas, which is what I'm doing here. A dog cannot; a dog can understand a single word or sign in isolation, and may be some amount of literal sequencing, but there is no ability to understand an arbitrarily complex sequence of signs or words containing abstraction like human language is capable of.

The claim about Koko's use of sign language is that she has been able to compose sentences out of combinations of words, and express abstract ideas; maybe somewhat more limited than humans in some way, but fundamentally the same way that human language works.

That's what the skepticism is about; since while it's clear that she could be trained to recognize individual words and produce individual signs, and maybe some limited pairs, all of the evidence of anything more complex seems to come from interpretation through her handlers, who could have been consciously or subconsciously prompting her, and are using their own theories of mind and inference ability to read more into Koko's actions than what is really there.

There's plenty of non-verbal communication you can do with a dog or even a cat. They can pick up on emotional states. They have memories. They can learn words or signs. They can be caring.

A lot of the claims about Koko seem to be either unsurprising for anyone who has owned a pet (yes, pets can sometimes be surprisingly emotionally intelligent), or go far beyond what the evidence actually supports, relying much too much on subjective judgements and unblinded tests by the researchers.

One of the reasons that this is a problem is that this exact same kind of thing is done with humans sometimes, in the form of "Facilitated Communication" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication), which is claimed to be a way of training "facilitators" to help calm and guide non-verbal autistic children's hands to be able to type out sentences and communicate.

This was a very popular form of assistance for a while, and it even led to autistic children being able to speak out about their abusive parents. Except, as it it turns out, it was entirely based on pseudoscience. Once you did any kind of blinded testing, where you showed something different to the facilitator as you did to the patient, they would spell out the word for what the facilitator saw. The parental abuse, for which parents had been kicked out of their own homes and not allowed contact with their children? Entirely imagined by the facilitators.

I'd recommend watching the PBS documentary "Prisoners of Silence" on this topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sO9LyXuOQY).

Allowing this kind of pseudoscience to get so much coverage can cause real harm to people, and it erodes faith in the scientific process.
Scooter-Sharing Company Wants to Fill the Streets with ‘Transit Pods’
> Postmodernism to me actually leads toward a greater tolerance of other people and the state of the world. When you tear down the concepts of "right" and "wrong" - in the context of morals, ethics, human behavior - you realize they're as shaky and subjective as anything else. If you can't prove that your way is the right way, how can you tell someone else they're wrong?

Not sure I'm understanding you correctly. Are you saying we should be tolerate everyones behaviour because there's no right and wrong?
>I'd rather have more control over my life than less,

Yes but you're speaking as if the FDA removes control over your life in a way that a snake oil salesman doesn't. They both remove control, one explicitly and the other through trickery. In that case since one is ostensibly designed to protect you and one is explicitly designed to harm you I'm going to side with giving the FDA discretion.
That's not even a minor nitpick - the AFC is much more competitive. Not quite the level of UEFA or CONMEBOL but the latter stages have plenty of potential banana skins and qualification is by no means guaranteed. Indeed Australia were narrowly edged by France a few days back and today drew with Denmark - both well regarded UEFA nations. They're genuinely a decent side.
I would rather have to search through a mountain of trash to find gems, then have nothing to search through at all.
Mind being more specific about where in Lower Manhattan you are referring? Lower Manhattan is quite a large space in regards to differing cultures, that further clarification would be helpful.
Stock Vegas are overvolted (ridiculously so) and clocked past their efficiency range.

The architecture is quite efficient up to ~1400MHz.
Uh, aren't users the most important factor here, not developers?
But I wonder if what the article is complaining about isn't actually that people have become truly postmodern, rather than "pseudo-modern".

What I mean is this: If people truly believe "how fragile any truth proposition is", then why bother to put a lot of effort into making your truth propositions as solid as possible? Why try to make your writing as clear as possible, when people are going to misunderstand it anyway? I suspect that the shallowness that the article complains about may be because people are now functionally postmodern, not just intellectually so.

In contrast, Derrida and Foucault were intellectually postmodernists, but still wrote in a modernist way. That is, they wrote as if they could genuinely communicate truth propositions and be understood.
They aren't saying that the Constitution has changed since Quill, but that Quill was wrong to begin with. See pages 2-4 of the ruling, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf
> But "the universe is" is just tautological I.e it doesn't help you understand the universe any better...

So what matters is not what something _is_ but what something _means_?

And I used that tautology because a tautology eliminates the "everything is subjective". (Unless everybody's opinion is the same. But that makes still a subjective opinion?)
Belatedly: that was a very interesting read on the history of this in both Linux and Unix more generally. Thank you for the link.
Are there commercials? If so, it's still too expensive. I will never go back to paying both money and attention.
Just because you possess certain abilities doesn't mean that you have figured out how to make use of them. Working through challenges is an acquired skill, and if you never had the need to acquire said skill until now, it's not entirely surprising when you fail to do so.
> This seems like a problem caused by relationship policy and optics rather than the relationship itself.

Yes, that's what I mean when I said, "The issue is not necessarily about whether the relationship itself is ethical, but how it appears to observers and if it affects the organization."

If you need to get Bob's manager, Carol, involved to manage Alice when things go poorly, it means that you should have had Carol managing Alice from the beginning. This is the only way I've ever seen it work well. Alice is under Bob in the org chart but all of her performance reviews are done by Carol, and Carol signs Alice's pay sheets, et cetera. I've seen this particular case happen a few times where Alice is Bob's daughter or where Alice and Bob were married before they came to the organization.

This is not possible when Bob is the CEO.
> sensible reforms to tenancy laws that protect the vulnerable while not making it impossible to build new housing.

The author also addresses this point, or rather exposes it as a non-issue.

> One common belief, even in many liberal circles, is that the cause of these outrageous rents and prices is the very government intervention that was intended to ameliorate them: rent regulation. This notion might have some validity if, say, rent regulations in New York stifled construction. But they don’t. New buildings in the city are not subject to rent control and never have been.
The players who are initially in that game might not be lying; they may offer full disclosure about the treatments so everyone is informed about what their chances are and the risks and so on. But a "can of worms" is open: all sorts of scum will notice the money-making opportunity and want a piece of the action.

The drug approval and regulation mechanism is what limits that sort of abuse. Remove it out of the way and the abuse will creep in.
Road surface damage? In an utopia where all calls are self-driving, sure, then there is real life.
The only sports I watch is when the Florida Gators play. So YoutubeTV is near perfect for me. If they'd just add HGTV, it would be absolutely perfect. I could not care less about any other sporting event... so, my subscription just sits here not being used. I am doing a week trial of DirectTvNow, and I think, for a comparable 35 dollars, I MIGHT be able to replace YoutubeTV. I'm a bit worried as the reviews say DTVN is pretty bad during sporting events.
Bingo. Same exact reason why USA doesn't dominate boxing anymore. Our would-be best heavyweight boxers are NFL Linebackers.
In these days of "distributed stuff" I'm surprised there isn't a popular forum which uses NNTP for topic/thread storage, and is basically a presentation layer on top of that back-end.
Of course. Thought that much was obvious.
That's very low for the risk in the 80's I used to work for Dar Al Handasha (one of the big 5 consulting engineers) we had whole list of countries and the extra hazard pay rate Angola was 80%

Unfortunately as the US charges tax on world wide income you cant avoid tax.

There was no EHP for head office in Beruit as the civil war was raging.
When Dickens met Dostoevsky
His way is actually considerably worse.

The new way is: The (singular) most expensive four words "this time is different".

The original parses as The four most expensive works (plural) "this","time","is", "different".
> I would love to have the browser be a local "application server" on the desktop

Back in the days we called that a WebView.

And when MS made one with MSIE and used that in Windows, we sent the EU after them.

How times change, eh?
Eh, that would save in hard disk space but that's hardly the main concern. What you'd actually want is the ability to use the same Webview runtime across processes, which this wouldn't allow. Android does it, but I don't know if it's possible on desktop OSes (easily)
Read bad pharma by Been Goldacre. It's a detailed outline of many issues with the industry. The extent that pharmaceutical companies go to make profit, mislead doctors and harm patients is crazy. This law will definitely be abused for profit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma
What are you talking about? Pharma conpanies want therapies to work because billing insurance companies at scale is where the money is, not individual patients who can't pay. That requires FDA approval. Historically iirc compassionate use distributions were free, and it is likely that will continue to be the case because the amount of money companies can make off of individual patients is rounding error relative to bringing a product to market and getting widespread approval for reimbursement.

Also, the whole point is that these people are not guinea pigs. They are allowed access to promising therapies in late stage clinical trials in the hopes that they will help them, not just random investigational compounds. Let's remember that these requests would require physician approval.

The result of blocking this is to say that dying patients should just die, tough shit, but hey at least they will die with more money right?
Arrived in Singapore recently and I'm quite impressed with the public transportation system here. My base is the slow Metro transit in Los Angeles and the over crowded system in Manila.
Oh yes, that! This is much worse if you actually have to address health issues! I was considering the best case median-paid person and their calculations!

If you have real health issues in your family, your best bet IMO is to work your tail off and be a salaryperson at a longer-lived Fortune 500, as those tend to have good health insurance. The family gets to see a doctor without ya'll going bankrupt - also, it often pays well.
“Sony's primary focus every generation is to get everything else right: development tools, hardware storage and performance, consistent controller design, software medium, and so on.”

Has the PlayStation really done consistently better than the Xbox on all those fronts? Looking at development tools, online gaming, performance and storage, I could see a case for the PS4, but did Sony do a better job with the PS2 or PS3, than Microsoft with the Xbox/Xbox 360?

The perspective is interesting nonetheless.
I would love to have a job selling something that is a real 10x improvement to someone's life and is sustainable and etc etc etc.

However these jobs aren't terribly easy to come by and are mostly handed out based on nepotism in my experience.

But, if you know someone who has made something awesome, and would like to hire me to do marketing + long-cycle sales, then please do let me know how I can contact you :)
What about terrorist masterminds on the other side of the world who are deniably plotting to kill and maim many hundreds of innocent US civilians, but whose plans will be thwarted if they are blown up? What if there are a couple of accidental civilian casualties when the terrorists are blown up? What if only four of the five targets are terrorists, due to an unforeseen and unavoidable mistake, and the fifth target is semi-random farmers? What if we have five targets, and we know one is a terrorist, but not which one? I mean, nobody in the Pentagon is actually just sitting there thinking 'lets go and blow up some farmers today, those drones aren't going to target themselves, you know...'
It’s people like you that assume I give a damn about sports just cuz I have a wiener (also assumed 99.9% of the time). So tired of the blatant stereotyping!! J/kinda
Send Tasks and Reminders to anyone in your contacts
Or maybe some form of web archive format signed with a certificate? "Do you want to install Slack? It will have access to X, Y, Z"...

We already download programs off the internet and let them run with local privileges all the time, it should be possible to safely and securely extend the capability to programs delivered as html+css+js.

Also I don't see why Electron+node isn't installed system-wide like Java or .NET. Yes, I know it's because node is a server technology whose devs aren't interested in being Java, while the people shipping electron apps are just interested in the lowest friction to deploying native apps to customers, but it still seems like the kind of thing someone would have done already if only just to show off.
Left- and right-hand traffic
StackOverflow at least has a way for curating for quality through upvotes/downvotes.

Bad blog posts can mean hours of wasted time and technical debt accruing in your solutions.
something that is not 100% proven but that has some potential is better than nothing

This is not necessarily true, and can certainly be worse than nothing.
I think we should also discuss that there doesn't seem to be any requirements on the people selling these unproven drugs. Like monitoring the efficacy and making those results public. Basically just an expanded phase II trial.

As for price, it should be free. The reward for making an unproven drug that works should be fast-tracking them through the FDA approval process.
> In other news, Alzheimer's patients breathe oxygen and drink water. Beware!

This very remark undermines your snark. We clearly would not look at 'breathes air" or 'drinks water,' precisely because these are factors that are common in the population between those who do and those who do not develop Alzheimer's. It is, in fact, the very fact that the factors that the grandparent mentioned "don't belong in the brain" that is interesting, and suggestive of models other than, for example, "Alzheimer's is an isolated, simple condition that is relatively unaffected by confounds."

It is these very same correlations that can lead us to the likely rocks to turn over, and that is where the newsworthiness and interest derives. Everybody knows about correlation and causation. It's possibly not causative, for example, but seems to be correlative that people who snark about correlation and causation tend to shoot themselves in the feet with their sarcasm. I sure know where I'll look for a deeper explanation, though!
a few bucks

Please be more specific.

Also, remember that every single one of those bucks will be passed on to the customer in higher prices.
Somewhat interesting. I have a different reason for the declining weekday rates of the MTA (NYC's subway system). More and more companies every year seem to be alright with their employees being remote on a more regular basis, which would attribute for the _slight_ decline in weekday ridership.
Thanks for all the info! Really grateful :)
Sure, I'm just saying that I would expect some people to take issue if I did.
> you don't seem to know much about how humans work [...] comes off as almost racist

You broke the HN guidelines pretty badly here, first by getting personal, and second by not doing this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."
The result was a whole litany of complaints elsewhere, which were understandable if off topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359858).

You unfortunately have a long history of breaking the site guidelines. Would you please reread them and fix this? It's really not ok, and even though I appreciate your substantive comments, their value doesn't obviously exceed the damage you've caused with harshness, swipes, and uncharitable responses over the years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know. What do you imagine someone would sue for?
When there's $2B+ at stake, people expect something a little more definitive than "goodwill".
*on mobile

For anyone confused.
how do you rack up $1m in student loans?

edit: sincerely asking, not being snarky. Is that a normal number for dental students?
Did you even read the thread dude
M4 unix builtin macro expansion tool
Node.js Guide for Front End Developers
>BrainStorm CEO Chaim Lebovits told Bloomberg he’s considering charging $300,000 for each NurOwn treatment offered through a new pathway set up as a result of the right-to-try law.

Drug manufacturers have finally raced to the bottom. The explicit purpose of charging high costs for experimental drugs is to entirely empty the bank accounts of the most desperate people without even having to tell them a potential rate of success. This is sick and preys on people in the most desperate situation one is likely to face in life.
The same question should be asked about research animals today then, as detailed in a sibling thread. “Brain grown on a dish” sounds preferable to “rat with a drilled skull.”
Especially when the drug seller and the patient have asymmetrical information. As far as I can tell, there are no requirements for the drug maker to report the effectiveness of the drug on those that they sell it to.
No streaming movie provider “rips” video from a DVD. Netflix gets a digital master and encodes it to various formats/bit rates across an AWS hosted server farm.
Africa has the fastest teams, that's for sure. There are other factors that go into a team's success other than region, I definitely said speed is an important factor among others right?
Why should I care if some random angry guys on the other side of the world hate America? We have plenty of those here in the states.
Alas, it seems we haven't been able to locate the source or binary for this important artifact. It would have been wonderful to have this preserved and a simulator, like we have for the Alto and countless IBM machines, etc.

Failing that, I'd be happy to just have a reimplementation, that's a faithful as possible to the original.
Having a high level position in a company comes naturally with an entire new set of rules to be obeyed, whatever those rules are.
I disagree. It is in no way unethical: Disclosure was made and the reader can use his judgement.

In contrast, many post on HN are veiled promotions of products by startups, and a clear disclosure is often missing.
> Always make sure you have set yourself a simple task to complete/continue the following morning. [¶] It gives an achievable goal that can help kickstart your working flow for the day.

Or as Admiral William McRaven (Navy SEAL, at the time the head of Special Ops) put it: "Make your bed." [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OoCaGsz94
Wait, entrepreneurs have healthcare costs? News to this entrepreneur. Healthcare is completely unaffordable if you start a new business and find yourself on the individual market making even a modest profit (to disqualify you for subsidies).
There are a variety of factors that conspire against small businesses. The lack of health care is definitely one of the risks you need to be comfortable with if you're going to go out and start a business. The hope is that you can grow quickly enough (in employee count and profit) to set up a group plan before shit goes wrong health-wise.
Facebook launches M Translations for all Messenger chats in the US and Mexico
I only learned about it from their GDPR notice. I declined tracking permission and they gave me the best version ever!
To be fair, Bitbucket is loads more pleasant to use than Jira.