skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thinking is hilarious, you've got admit.

The most immediate example here is the gay marriage debate. It goes like this:

Conservative: Gay people shouldn't be denied marriage to the people they love.

Liberal: That position is pure fucking evil and you're a terrible person for believing such.

Conservative: Why are liberals so mean?

Of course the classic case of conservatives insisting that liberals are "uncivil" was during the actual civil rights movement. Oh how all the protests and speeches incensed people. To this day there's still many people who believe that the 60s protest movements for equal rights... somehow broke the West.

None of this is new or particularly interesting. The heroic defenders of the status quo have always played this card. The more horrific position held up to and including, say, whether certain people should be allowed to exist, the stronger the calls for "civility" and "calm, reasonable debate."

What's interesting here is perhaps the speed of Twitter. This dynamic no longer plays out in weekly newspaper columns. Now people get called out for their evil beliefs (and have no doubt, they are evil in the only meaningful sense of the word) in a matter of minutes.

> This behavior is creating a world in which problems and conflict are just going to get worse, not reach resolution.

That doesn't appear to be the case at all. It turns out that speaking up early and often does indeed work to, say, stop the government from destroying families. Certainly it seems far more effective than anything else proposed including "civil" debate.
What is your source for the $18 worth of parts?

The same person who wrote this article about Sonos, also did a tear down of Beats headphones:

https://blog.bolt.io/how-it-s-made-series-yup-our-beats-were...

I was wrong. It's actually closer to $20.
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Children are optional on an individual basis, but not on a societal basis. A society that does not produce sufficient numbers of children now will collapse in a few decades when the ratio of retirees to working age adults becomes too high.
Oh yes! Or at the very least created aliases with the correct casing.
I watched this in action with my father's death. My mother had a long nursing career and had a talk with the doctor that lasted about 15 minutes (it was 20 years ago), after that a large morphine dose was added to his IV. Within 5 minutes I watched my dad stop breathing.
My Dad was in his early sixties, morbidly obese, this condition was aggrevated by his lifelong fear of doctors. Dad needed hip replacements but wouldn't consider it because of his medical phobia. This caused his lack of mobility which caused urinary track infections from his dificulty moving to a toilet chair.
He was in the hospital for chronic UTI's when my mom made the decision. He was lucent and not at all ready to die.
Mom has passed too and it feels cathartic to say this.
I love this picture:

https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/B3-BA230_0704MI_M...

Something about the woman in the lab coat, with a generation of men standing around her while the older generation looks on, calf and all. It's very reminiscent of early 20th century paintings from the US.
Well I guess its not that easy. Many sites are not happy about this kind of advertisement. I posted the same question contained a link to the package on stackoverflow, but the question was deleted and now my rating is so low that i got blocked for several days ...
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My wife's family has a different disease running through it, though one with very similar outcomes. Huntington's.

It's genetic and dominant (so a parent having it means 50/50 for the children). Average age of onset is 38. Symptoms are a mixture of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's (both dementia and motor control issues).

Her uncle was diagnosed at 38, her mother at 50. I wasn't around for the first one, but have been there for most of the latter case (her mother is now 60).

Watching someone you love deteriorate before your eyes and become a different person week by week is one of the most harrowing experiences one can go through.

"You pick up the phone, you talk to your mom, you don’t have to say anything. It’s a mom". My wife had to go through discovering motherhood without that and she still can't adjust to the fact that her mother is not the same person anymore, it's a constant heartbreak.

I'm just glad there's a simple test for this and that both my wife and her one brother tested negative. So I'll never have to go through what Robin did but that possibly was something I had to contemplate for a while and just the thought of it (and those 2 months waiting for the test results) almost broke me
You're describing participating preferred (that is, investors get paid out once as preferred and again after conversion to common). A liquidation preference is more common than participating, where the preferred investors get paid out (for example) at least 2X their investment (can be any multiplier, the highest I ever heard was 5X).

Most investments in Silicon Valley are clean deals, with a liquidation preference of 1X and nonparticipating preferred. Companies without a clean deal usually were too thirsty for unicorn status ($1B valuation) or had difficulty raising money.
Worth linking to the original report: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-onion-clickhole-av-club-br...

If nothing else, for its closing anecdote:

> One former Univision executive joked to The Daily Beast that UCI seemingly does not differentiate between the Onion Inc. sites, and is “not even sure what Clickhole is.”

> When asked during an all-hands meeting with staffers from one site earlier this year what his favorite article was on an Onion Inc. site, Univision’s head of digital Sameer Deen would not answer.
I'm a hipster who rides a stripped down fixie, I don't want to bolt a bunch of crap onto my bike. Minimalism is my thing.

Really what prompted me to get it was this big sketchbook I have that I wanted to be able to ride around with, and there was no regular bag of any sort capable of holding it except the portage bag.

I've done lots of backcountry hiking so I'm not afraid of carrying a big heavy bag on my back for a few miles.
I appreciate your response but respectfully disagree. Companies like Amazon are notorious for hiding their profits for these reasons. http://evonomics.com/amazon-accounting-corporate-profits-ric...
> "This isn’t a popular opinion among software engineers, but I believe that many in the field are overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do."

This is straight up classism, period. Software devs want to pretend that their high (or even just decent) salaries are due to membership in an elite, highly skilled class. Software development isn't some brain dead job like burger flipping or some gross blue collar job like, ugh, plumbing, right? And there you see the classism raise its ugly head. The denigration of entire job fields. Forcing a separation between "true" developers and other workers also requires denigrating those other workers, how else can "true" developers be raised up higher without pushing lesser workers lower?

A lot of engineering is "just" plumbing. So what? A lot of real-engineering is also "just" plumbing (or the equivalent). So what? Does that mean it's valueless? Does that mean people who aren't in the elite should be treated like second class citizens or that they shouldn't make a decent living for their work? The truth is that people who do "just" plumbing work (whether in software development, in engineering, or actual plumbers) still do valuable, high quality work. Still do skilled work (not that that even matters or is a meaningful term). And still deserve to be compensated well for that work.

Let's stop shitting on burger flippers and plumbers, let's stop trying to define hard class boundaries between some hypothetical elite of "true" highly skilled knowledge workers and everyone else. Let's stop calling for people to be paid less for their work, almost everyone (even software devs) are being underpaid today. It's unhelpful, it's divisive, it's prejudicial, and it's just mean.
Are VPNs able to skirt this?
But haven't c2 wiki changed for a slightly worse? Don't get me wrong - it's still better than most. It's now client side rendered. Also there was a short time after it introduced this change, when it looked far more wonky.

It's not a coincidence that all those pages could as good work with minimal CSS. That's why I would like to see a pure HTML cross-platform web browser. With nice proportional fonts and good support for media. It could even try to do some more complex typesetting. So links/lynx and other console browser do not cut it. Dillo AFAIK is no longer developed and it's not available on mobile.

Side rant:

I hate the recent trend with adding those obnoxious position:fixed or sticky bars at the top. All this fight to reduce browser chrome (from which Chrome takes it's name) has given web-designers more space to waste. It's horrible when one has: a wide-screen monitor, a small monitor, not full-screen window, a smartphone, a smartphone with a virtual keyboard visible. So pretty much always...

On this hypothetical HTML-only browser it wouldn't obscure the content. Just as all those newsletter, cookies and GDPR consent overlays.
It is pretty funny. The people wanting us to be polite are always the ones getting in the way of finding solutions. That's because as it turns out, it's quite rude to have to re-think your worldview!

No doubt there are some nice tactical wins. For each of those, my money says society loses more with all the people that get shut down and just don't talk any more. Admittedly that's a theoretical debate, but such is the nature of these things.

Talking about theory, direct democracy was never a goal of the United States. In fact, there was a lot done to prevent it. Twitter closing the feedback loop and making things more direct and immediate would be considered a horrible step backwards by most of the people who understood why the country was structured the way it was. If we've got to learn that lesson again, I guess that's the way goes.
Well i guess I could write a kind of tutorial showing its application. So your suggestion would be to write such a short tutorial, in form of a blog post? On sites like medium.com?
Considering that the only nation to use it in combat so far is Israel and they seem to like it and despite theirs being heavily modified I would err on the side of caution swallowing these gloomy statements whole.

The same thing was said about the F16 in it’s early days.
And in fact it was the IAF that proved that it was suited for both long distance combat sorties and old school bomb sights bombing runs when they used it to take out Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq which proved many F16 critics at the time wrong.

The truth is that these days no replacement for a fighter jet would that much superior to what it’s replacing not because it’s poorly designed but because what it’s replacing has had 40 years worth of improvements.

Current block 70 F16s have nearly nothing in common with the original fighting falcon there likely isn’t a single part that is even interchangeable between them.

That said the F16 unlike the F35 doesn’t have another 40 years it’s air frame has already been stretched (literarily) beyond its limits so we do need a new platform regardless of its growing pains.

And for people criticizing the F35 over its low order numbers well they are low compared to the F16 but the F16 has been in service for 40 years and introduced during essentially the largest arms race the world has ever seen aka the Cold War.

P.S.
On a tangent since when did Twitter outside of rare current events became a source worthy of an HN post?
I love it how you chose just one of so many things listed. And how you got it so wrong:

> This is also plain regular HTML and has been since HTML4 (1997).

What below is plain regular HTML? Taken from here: https://vuejs.org/v2/examples/tree-view.html

<div
:class="{bold: isFolder}" <--- binding to JS-like objects doesn't exist in HTML
@click="toggle" <--- If it was HTML it would've been toggle()
@dblclick="changeType"> <--- If it was HTML it would've been changeType()
{{ model.name }} <--- etc
<span v-if="isFolder">[{{ open ? '-' : '+' }}]</span>
</div>

Oh. Ooops. None of it. It's a custom HTML-like DSL with three types of magic attributes (magically bound to some Javasdcript code) with three different scripting languages in it.

For reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Events/Ev... etc.

Edit

Let's add more "plain old HTML". Plain old HTML v-ifs that accept JS booleans. Ah, plain old HTML v-fors that accept a ES6-like (but not truly ES6) mini-DSL. And other plain old HTML attributes.

<ul v-show="open" v-if="isFolder">
<item
class="item"
v-for="(model, index) in model.children"
:key="index"
:model="model">
</item>
<li class="add" @click="addChild">+</li>
</ul>
In the USA or UK ?

The UK tends to have stronger protection for employee shares -not that there haven't been some dodgy deals BAXI getting taken over by carpetbaggers and screwing the owners is a well know case in the UK.

And I have been on the receiving end of losing $1,000,000 at Poptel if only ICANT weren't such a bunch of ass%^&&S and the CoOp had been a bit more tech savvy - still water under the bridge.

Poptel was a worker co op btw so I had .5%
>>Where are you living that children are allowed to make medical decisions for their dying parent? What legal powers are the hospitals using to follow the wishes of the children?

Child in coma, doctors say it's over. Parents decide to pull plug or not. Never heard of this scenario in USA?
This comment (and the sibling one by eastbayjake) should be higher up responses, in my opinion. It seems like a lot of people in this thread are interpreting "most software is plumbing" to be pejorative. Plumbing is not a high status job, but I don't think that's a charitable interpretation of the comparison.

The other interpretation is that most software engineering work doesn't require significant theory or novel work. Implementing software solutions to theoretically resolved problems still requires skill. Likewise plumbers very rarely do novel design work, but that shouldn't be a judgement of their skill.

I think the statement, "most software is plumbing" is true insofar as most software developers need design novel solutions. There are existing frameworks, libraries and languages for the vast majority of business needs. That kind of maturity is a good thing.
Well yeah, legally - financially. Still, it doesn't seem "fair".
I came to similar conclusions as the author about the usefulness of literate programming. Even after "taking it seriously" and "doing it right" and all those other no-true-scotsman type objections. (see HATEOAS/REST for more examples of these).

Initially, I was super excited about the idea. Imagine a world where you take a book off the shelf and peruse a master programmer's in-depth explanation of the details of some famous software. What they were thinking, the abstractions they decided on, the algorithms they chose, the tradeoffs made. Wouldn't that be an amazing world to live in?

In practice, very few pieces of software are written in a way that lends itself to a cohesive narrative. Software is written by numerous developers, layer by layer, often with hacks thrown in. New people come on, don't understand the whole thing, change parts of it, and move on. The requirements change, and the system contorts itself to serve multiple purposes that weren't envisioned by the original coders.

Keeping normal auto-generated documentation up to date under those circumstances is already a herculean task, literate programming asks more: maintain a story and flow and an overarching rationale. It's just not possible for most software.

There is a type of software that lends itself to literate programming: the kind of software Donald Knuth writes. Written by a single author, with encyclopedic knowledge of the problem domain, excellent writing style (Knuth is very funny if you've read his work), and above all, the programs Knuth writes tend to be "done" at some point. There are bugs to be fixed, but no new features are added that might drastically change the narrative.

Most software isn't like that, but if yours is, then literate programming can be fun.
You don't have to be naked.
> Doctors wrestle with what constitutes unbearable suffering ...

Huh? It's whatever a patient says it is. Otherwise, it's torture.
I've done something not the same, but a compromise previously using the Window object's `beforeunload` event to fade out everything in the DOM smoothly, and then using the `beforeload` and `load` events to fade the new DOM back in. It's a bit of a halfway between having sliding transitions, etc. You might be able to simulate that even further than I ever tried.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/beforeun...
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I agree with this; I have witnessed Kratom aid people in quitting opioids, and when used properly as a quitting aid, it could help a great many people, should not be made illegal or placed under regulatory capture, and should be studied and brought into formal treatment. I personally keep some around in the rare instances where I would take ibuprofen or something similar.

In a similar vein, the generic drug tianeptine, prescribed for over 30 years in other countries for depression & anxiety, is now a schedule 2 controlled substance in Michigan (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/20...), one of the major base states for the Johnson & Johnson corp, which studied the substance (https://adisinsight.springer.com/drugs/800039841) entering clinical trails for release here, but was dropped with no reasoning. Before some talking-head chimes in that tianeptine is a μ-opioid receptor, read the atypical part and addiction data in countries where it has been prescribed widely. It is the only drug which effectively treats my depression and anxiety, it is generic so large drug companies cannot make an exorbitant profit off of it, and they are keeping it from the US through media scare-tactics, like Kratom, to ensure their profitability and the reception of their patented drugs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esketamine. We should stop them.
Most people who buy SUVs don't drive off-road. Most people who buy diving watches don't dive. They do expect those things to perform if pushed to those lengths though.

It's possible the same mentality carries through when hiring programmers. I'm not sure it's a problem either.
> There's a lot of scientific evidence

I would like to see this. Do you have a link to a peer reviewed study?
The sleep deprivation thing is really surprising to me. Does anyone know why? I would be able to sleep for probably 10-12 hours a day.

I wonder if they have research that shows that less sleep makes for healthier crew?
The primary benefit I see from SPAs is to enable pages that changes in a wide variety of ways without having to reload the whole thing at any point.

Funny thing, you can actually serve each page as a separate, stand-alone JS "app/page" and still get this benefit (e.g. each page in your app becomes separate webpack entry point).
The key is that it's their choice. A patient who says they want to forgo treatment and experience the suffering should be allowed to. But a patient who says the suffering is unbearable and they want treatment to alleviate it should get it.
If they learn to make poison and stealth, then I can finally roll a rogue class.
People sure love their cars!
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Damn touchscreens and their auto-incorrect.

It was intended to be newfangled.

I coin a new term: tapographical error
I have tears. I fear this more than I realized before.

I think I just need to say a few things. So they exist somewhere, because of that fear, anger and sadness brought to me by this story.

I remember the day I woke up, and by that, I mean the difference between being that kid, experiencing, and who I am today.

It happened for me in 2nd grade. End of year, and I realized I could no longer choose to read, it just happened. And I was angry, and excited at the same time.

Was never the same.

That year was the beginning of me, and while I remember a lot from my very early years, those memories aren't like the ones I have later on.

I would fear going to sleep. Would I be the same again, or someone new, or would I forget those realizations I had at the end of that second school year?

The idea of "me" being a fragile state, a pattern that tends to endure, provoked a sense of guardianship. I am in charge of me, nobody else.

That caused me considerable grief growing up. Others, wanting to help, were dofficult to let in. How can I tell that, the human teasing out of who we are becoming, from manipulation rooted in self-serving, toxic ends, not mine, me?

Took years to resolve, and with it came a joy in knowing me, seeing me happen, grow. And others. People of all kinds. It is fun to meet them, see who they are.

That should explain the fear. I am very aware of me, that identity I felt congeal into a thing made aware, to grasp, and guard lest it fase, shift, be lost.

To have it just degrade, fade away despite ehat I know must be a painful struggle...

We need to do the work on this thing. It could be any of us, and ours facing this quiet horror.

Jo is a lucky person. He has someone who knows his story, who can take him back, connect.
Would recommend this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...

Allows to easily audit and download the extension right from the Web Store page.
Here's the inspiration for that article: http://www.aisleone.net/

A very good and reknown site about the international style.

Apart from the Swiss stuff, or the beginnings at the Bauhaus most people know about, the Ulm school of design is interesting for the holistic approach to design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm_School_of_Design

My personal feeling is that we're already leaving the reincanation of the international style (when it comes to UI), and are moving "back" into Art Nouveau or Jugendstil, digital with a analog touch (this will be huge with AR I think, because it blends both worlds). AR is the medium where skeumorphism will reinvent itself I think, it's natural and at home in that environment.
That Diabetus 3 theory does not correlate with the actual data.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Fig-1-World-map-illustra...

Note that the data is obviously tainted by the reduced average lifespane in some countrys.

There is a nice list of theorys allready:

- If sleep deprivation was the source, then citys with a wild nightlife should show more cases then countryside citizens.

- Diets exist in all forms and colours, if one would exclude the alzheimer component- the ethnic group would stand out. Instead they seem rather more prone then the default groups.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278789418_Prevalenc...

- Blood-Brain Barrier crossing viral Infections introduced DNA-Damage
http://coconutketones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/JAD_ene...

-Genetic Disposition
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/dn/v9n3/1980-5764-dn-9-03-00219.pdf

- The usual noise.
People condemning any behavior they dislike of any group they dislike as the source.

I can only add speculation of dubious value:

- What if dementia was the result of the memory storage process being finite? But wouldn't a sensory value deprived mice for example then be save from the effects?
Has anybody seen a experiment, where high cognition loads and stress/ sleep deprivation where driven against low cognition, stress and sleep deprivation?