skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very important point, whichever choice you make in advance. My father was in a similar situation after a large stroke, a decline into pneumonia, and was clearly not going to survive. He'd made his wishes clear in advance so we felt untroubled by this course of action. The fact that he essentially starved and dehydrated to death was what we knew he wanted given the other options. He was under constant medical supervision to make sure it was as painless as possible, rather than struggling on through what he would have thought was a pointlessly drawn-out and painful death. Make sure the people close to you know what you want. You may not get a chance to express your wishes at the time, and taking the burden of that choice off the people you leave behind will be greatly appreciated, however awkward and difficult the initial conversation is.
Sure unionization, laws and lobbies are part of it too.
Since nobody's answering. Amazon is demonstrating a possible further branching into the augmented speaker market, and demonstrating a quality build that suggests improvements still to come - that is a great threat to any incumbent (can one call a firm pre-IPO that) that is a lot smaller. Sonos is left to carve a niche in the non-augmented digital speaker market. Other comments on this thread show that at least their capabilities app-wise are mediocre. Going heads-up with Amazon while lacking skills in your obvious market... that's a risky gamble for an IPO investor. (Can't say I totally buy that, but the technical teardown was very cool.)
> I actually wanted to _have painted_, and not really to paint.

Oh, this resonates so much with me... But WRT purpose of art and it having a message, I don't think that that's a valid approach. I'm into writing fiction and poetry, and (also as a graduate in literature) believe that art is not a medium for messages. It's a form of reflection, exploration, thinking, experimentation. If there ever is a message, it's what the spectator/reader/listener collects.
Just a rambling note: that kind of light switch used in the article header is the kind of timeless design I dislike. When the light bulb needs to be replaced I can't tell anymore which position is on or off and if I am getting a burn when screwing the replacement in. It's even worse when there are multiple switches for the same light bulb :D.

Funny thing is that the same experience is conveyed through skeuomorphic interfaces more often than not. /rambling_off
It seems I mixed multiple issues together. I can't claim that I understand geopolitics enough to suggest that we should stop all military spending. I was mainly suggesting that for such a huge expenditure a clear case for it should be made to the public. The other issue I'm getting at is that there's no way the F35 should cost as much as it does. For instance if Musk for some reason was tasked with designing and building the next generation of aircraft I'm sure it could be done for at least an order of magnitude less than the F35. The money is mostly lining the pockets of sociopaths and massive intentionally inefficient bureaucracies.
This is what is pushing me to write spa first now - it covers all the consumption bases. You get desktop, mobile web/progressive/hybrid and half of native.
Tomorrow’s squadron leaders will be accompanied by drones
Is hipster UI design a thing?
Interesting a comment concerned with child safety would get downvotes. How curious.
A hollow economy built on debt with most of the country living paycheck to paycheck with little to no savings, no real wage raises to keep up with inflation since the 90's, doesn't sound like a 'great economy' to me. It may be a wonderful economy for the people at the top though.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

https://www.vox.com/cards/minimum-wage-explained/minimum-wag... (for the minimum wage vs inflation graph)
The Pentagons really drove home what it is like to have this. It must be so hard...
this book is really beautiful. it is in fact filled with exposition about how to build a lisp, but also how to bootstrap a language (or more generally any non-trivial environment).

queinnec went to some pains to make this book accessible, in particular by heavily reducing his usual reliance on denotational semantics. but its not really a good causal introduction to the topic, it requires a certain amount of work to get through.

but can't recommend this book strongly enough, maybe as the ideal followon to SICP
I don't. So long as they have helmets in States with helmet laws, the risk isn't any greater than having them on one of those kid sets behind you or in one of the single wheel things you can attach to your bike.
I was going to post something about methadone. I saw the same parallel, but see it the opposite of you maybe. To me, if people are taking kratom and it's helping them, why take that out of their control and use it to pad the pockets of middlemen like physicians, pharma etc.? If they want that level of oversight, or a judge thinks its necessary, go that route, but I generally think people should be in control of their own bodies.

I see regulating kratom as just a chance for healthcare and pharma to take a cut of a substance that's in demand, by controlling the market for it.

Step 1: see substance in high demand because it actually has physiological effects.

Step 2: identify potential harms.

Step 3: claim that because of these potential harms, only highly credentialed people are allowed to administer the substance.

Step 4: profit.

The hypocrisy with regard to alcohol and common household chemicals should immediately dispel any arguments about harm reduction being the driving factor in drug regulation. Not to mention substances that have publicly been identified as harmless (or at least, within the ability of every day citizens to self-administer) in the scientific literature, but are still regulated because of concerns that deregulating them will "set a precedent" and "trigger demand for more deregulation." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9524840)
>other engineers insisted they overbuild things such that junior devs will take a long time to understand it

Anywhere that I've worked this will get your PRs or architectural ideals rejected.
It's true that the price of receiving a subsidy at all is that any money you make is going to be effectively taxed at a higher rate than it would have been otherwise. I think people can live with that as long as the effective tax rate doesn't get too high. Not sure what "too high" would be for most people, but I would guess that as long as the total effective incremental tax rate is never over 60% — meaning that after the reduction of the subsidy plus income tax, one would never keep less than $.40 of one's next dollar in earned income — that would probably be good enough. Yes, there will still be people who will find that a barrier, but at least there won't be this point where your next dollar of earned income will be effectively taxed at 50,000%.

The extreme version is UBI, where everyone receives the full subsidy unconditionally, and the effective incremental tax rate is always just the income tax rate. I'm not sure that's a bad idea, but we could get rid of the current cliff much more easily than we could institute a full-blown UBI.
Almost all states have this standard; some states have exceptions for safety or other cases (obvious one being making a left turn). There's a thorough rundown here: http://bicycledriving.org/law/guide-to-improving-laws although it may be out of date.
Absolutely; I don't know what type of effort we could do though. I think that sharing stats like these [0] can help. "Scaring" people with numbers can be a path.

[0] https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures
I kinda feel a js framework for building brutalist websites almost ironically misses the point.

Though brutalist doesn't per se imply a _technical_ reduction to barebones web pages, like in any design dicipline, a larger theory of design like this deginitely has a lot to say about underlying technology. Maybe it's just me, but kind of the point of brutalist design is to say: "you're overengineering it. Keep it raw to what it is, and as expressive as possible".

I wouldn't go as far to say this is all "wrong" to me, but it strongly feels like "stone washed designer jeans with holes in them" - just faking it.
I meant that it's effectively a high marginal tax, when you decrease the housing subsidy as the recipient earns more income.

That is, if every $100/month gain in wages comes with a $30/month decrease in subsidy, that's effectively a 30% marginal tax (on top of all their other taxes).

(And I don't know what you mean by "just tweak the numbers"; the more generous benefits you want, the more you have to disincentivize work; no amount of "tweaking" avoids the core tradeoff.)
Pretty sure the opposite is usually true around places like Hacker News or Reddit. It’s easy to pick on Beats. Too easy.
Wasn't worth taking the time to figure out, since none of us were expert level in python and we only needed a one-off profiling tool. I rewrote it in Julia, which killed the problem.
Sure but those preferences only really affect equity payouts when the company’s in distress.

When selling the a non-distressed company, equity will receive cash.
> alternative solutions

I'll give it a go. I first want to say something about the worldview required to do this sort of racial discrimination.

There is no way of quantifying the relative advantages and disadvantages between identity groups. How much is one group oppressed over another? Suppose that a simple tax would suffice to even things out, exactly how much should that tax be? There is no way of knowing precisely what that tax should be. Our attempts to define oppression are never going to be rigorous. They'll always be vague, which I believe is dangerous, since it will be enforced by some large bureaucracy. We need definition, but there will never be definition accurate enough. Feel free to argue me on this, but I don't see how you can do it.

Second, in separating people into these identity groups, you deny my individuality. Every time I speak, I speak as a member of my group, for my group. My actions are actions of and for my group, as well. With the world view taken here, I cannot speak or act without the presupposition that I'm doing it as a move in a power game between my identity group and other identity groups. Should we accept that a person's ethnicity and gender must always qualify their speech and actions?

I agree that in conversation, one can observe the race and gender of the other person - but the merit of their words is still paramount. You may know that a book author is from Spain or Russia, but that does not affect how you read the book. However, in the worldview in which a racially discriminatory VC fund is socially acceptable, people are defined as members of groups among other groups, constantly vying for power and oppressing one another.

Notice I'm not really going after the racially-discriminatory VC fund itself. I'm explaining the worldview in which the fund was conceived, and in which it is socially acceptable. It boils North America down from a melting pot of ambitious individuals trying to do great things with each other, into identity groups that are constantly holding power over, and suffering under the tyranny of, other identity groups. Obviously, the dominant narrative here is that white males are oppressing women of color founders. But you have no idea about the individual biases of the white males you're decrying. And you also have no idea whether or not they achieved funded status based on their competence. Yet you still assume the system is broken, and you still rob them of their individuality, still knowing nothing of their biases and nothing of their competence.

> Keep in mind that not doing anything doesn't seem to fix these things.

Why must we do something? Where is the evidence that people are not choosing to be founders of their free will? How can you be sure that the lack of founder diversity is evidence of a flaw in the system? I say that the system is operating in a very healthy manner.

Efforts to move power to the disadvantaged that disregard individuality has had tragic, deadly results in history (China, Vietnam, USSR).
Like another poster said. This would be useful if you’re using a server side rendering framework like ASP.NET MVC and you just needed a little bit of AJAX.

You would maintain most of your HTML, routing logic, etc. server side.
>Western culture simply understands the reality of the situation.

You mean not waking up again?

I don't see what is so worrying about that?

If one truly believe there's nothing after this life I'd think one should be very calm?

Edit: to be clear, I'm a Christian, - I just happen to be puzzled by why non-religious people are afraid of death (except for worrying about their loved ones and the pain of dying that is.)
Female programmer here: just about any of them would be more interesting personally.

As a topic it sounds cool, but it is not actually that interesting, not what attracted me and you won't be able to use those skills that much in real life or real situation. Not that practicality is standard, I like plenty of impractical things (like theory).

I mean, doing basic pen testing is repetitive mind numbing work that requires mostly rote learning. It gets interesting and challenging only later on. Fake hacking exercises can be fun, but that is not basic pen testing - that is game.
Agreed, this is a true classic.
Where I live in Los Angeles we recently acquired the USS Iowa, a WWII battleship built in the 1930's. One day I was there, going to the bathroom, and one of the maintenance workers happened to be there and we started chatting. Turns out he was a former SeaBee who was there to retrofit the very old saltwater-based plumbing system to connect to the civilian freshwater system so people could use the head in a normal way. A very non-trivial and specific skillset. If you have ever visited a museum ship you can be sure they had people who knew this stuff.
It was talked about when it was acquired. Beats streaming was mostly just their MOG acquisition at the time. The streaming service was a fraction of the purchase price.
I wouldn't be too sure about that, the Cold War wasn't a one-sided affair where only the Soviets overreacted, that was a common theme for both sides due to the stakes at play.

I also wouldn't say a scenario like that has become less likely, depending on how you look at it, especially in the context of US nuclear force modernization [0], it could actually become much more likely.

Because irrational people exist everywhere and I have no doubt there are plenty of people around, some of them probably in very powerful positions, who are still busy "wargaming" a thermonuclear scenario in which they could end up as "winners".

[0] https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
Royal Enfield Owner from Korea Ships His Bullet to So. America – Rides to Alaska
I have a trailer for grocery store runs. I feel like a total hipster, probably because I am.

But I have so much shit to do and so little time to exercise I have to multitask and game myself into doing things. A good grocery store recently opened up near me and I committed to riding my bike there whenever possible.

It literally takes 5-10m more but in return I get 20-30m of good exercise. Seems like a good trade.
Also note that the retention bonus total is known to be at least 5.5%, it's often the case that up to 10% of the purchase price in these "no money falls on common" deals is paid out to make sure that the deal closes.
So it sounds like they were "fine," and the cost was not really that high.
TLDR, in many situations in Illinois you make more money (due to benefits) by making less, up to a staggering income level of ~$70000 a year in some cases.

I have seen this first hand. When I was broke in community college I became eligable for $200 month food subsidy which quickly dropped off a cliff if I worked more than 26 hours a week. So I worked just under that. Any more would be a net loss until ~35 hours due to my low wage per hour not making up for benefits lost. I did some more math, and it turned out I would make only ~10% less money if I could find a job with very high hourly pay and very low hours per week.

With the incredibly broken way the system was set up, I ended up finding a website admin job that paid 18 hourly but only 4 hours a week to maximize the benefit. Some would say I "messed with" the system, but I was going to be broke either way and it made zero sense to work more for less money when I was going to school.

I quickly moved out of Illinois from this and a hundred other political happenings that convinced me the government there was just unfixably corrupt and broken.

I'm not surprised this is coming from Illinois, at all. Incredibly high taxes from benefits allocated absurdly. Laughable benefits for students and other blocs that don't "bring in the vote". The state has a shadow governer Madigan who has run the state for two decades no matter who was in charge on paper.

Illinois is teetering on bankrupcy and the only state with a shinking population due to so much out migration. And the average person leaving makes almost $30,000 more a year than the average person moving in. Because anyone that can afford to leave is on the way out due to extremely high taxes. Businesses have been fleeing in droves for over a decade, and it's rated in many small business polls as one of the top 5 worst states to run a business.

The state has turned to raiding the public universities and local governments in recent years. Cutting funding so severely that several large public universities are almost bankrupt. My education grants dropped from 10k a year from my low income to zero in a single semester because of budget cuts, and I have about 20k in student loan debt as a result.

Basically, don't move to Illinois, it has easily the crappiest most corrupt government of any state. The financials are so bad they've narrowly avoided bankrupcy and have a junk credit rating. If you move there be prepared to pay down the previous decade of uncontrollable debt to the state in taxes due to the inability of Madigan and friends to balance a budget while maintaining their staggering level of corruption
Looks like Visio with the "handdrawn" design/theme.
Likely the new CEO was brought on specifically to engineer a sale. The new CEO arguably brought value to investors if the old CEO wasn't willing to sell and there was significant concern that there would be no residual value. Such is life.
Book work experiences at businesses that inspire you
Aye, You reminer me of a funny story.

Before I was a programmer I was an industrial electrician and had worked on sites, after I was a programmer we where down on a site installing some equipment and a plumber walked past and said “your the guys who came 200 miles to turn on a switch right?” And I instantly replied “nah, we just heard there was a scouser doing some work so we had to come look!” the techie I was with looked like he was gonna shit himself but the other guys around fell about laughing.

The thing with work sites is you can’t take any shit but you won’t find funnier people either.
I tried this library before but Vue does pretty much the same thing and is way more powerful. Additionally, starting out with Vue makes transitioning to a SPA much easier when needed.

I also encountered some bugs when mixing the 2 during a transition phase that broke my requests. If I had to start over again I would only use Vue starting with the drop in JS library (no webpack/preprocessing)
>It's true that the price of receiving a subsidy at all is that any money you make is going to be effectively taxed at a higher rate than it would have been otherwise.

I wasn't referring to that; I was referring to the decreasing-subsidy-as-income-goes-up as being effectively a marginal tax. (I think the rest of your comment is recognizing it as one.)

>I would guess that as long as the total effective incremental tax rate is never over 60% — meaning that after the reduction of the subsidy plus income tax, one would never keep less than $.40 of one's next dollar in earned income — that would probably be good enough. Yes, there will still be people who will find that a barrier, but at least there won't be this point where your next dollar of earned income will be effectively taxed at 50,000%.

Even a 60% marginal tax is very strongly disincentivizing and makes it difficult to justify most any feasible long-term plan for increasing one's productivity from a poverty level.

>The extreme version is UBI, where everyone receives the full subsidy unconditionally, and the effective incremental tax rate is always just the income tax rate. I'm not sure that's a bad idea, but we could get rid of the current cliff much more easily than we could institute a full-blown UBI.

Right, that's the major upside of UBI. The downside is that it's really expensive (in terms of tax rate relative to benefits) and can't be concentrated on people who might need more help (temporary or otherwise) than others. And if you combine the two, then it's an even more punishing tax with its own effects.
Supposedly there is, "Irtysen Stele", "Sehel Stele" and "Famine Stele":
https://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/pyramids/pyramids-2-t...
Hillary Clinton cannot be a socialist under any definition of socialist

Trump and white suprematism are the same thing not because a lack of understanding, but because he used their rethoric to convince them to vote him (I'm the first white president)

If there's something that leftists don't save on it's analysis (on the analysis of the analysis and so on...)

We should go easy on Uncle Bob because he's older than us, not because something else
People who wish to forgo sedation at the end of life should be allowed to. Likewise, people who want a quick dignified death should also be allowed to. And everything in between as well. One size does not fit all.
> cd itself is implemented by the shell (granted, it is mostly just a syscall).

Right, the distinction I was drawing is just that the shell potentially does chdir("..") when you run "cd ..", but it can't do chdir("-") when you run "cd -". It's true that in both cases the shell has to make the chdir syscall rather than running an external program.

I just did "strace -e chdir bash" and noticed that in fact, my shell doesn't do chdir("..") at all in practice, presumably because it wants to maintain a clean notion of PWD that doesn't contain a complex series of relative paths.
Watching the uproar, I am ashamed of the tech community I've called home for many decades.

Bob's always been the kind of person that would take a position, popular or not, and ask people to reason with him so that either he's wrong or the other person is. There's no hate here, just open inquiry.

Sometimes Bob has good ideas, sometimes he has bad ideas. Like the rest of us. Sometimes he states his ideas poorly.

My mission is to make technology developer's lives happier and more productive. To do that I meet people where they are and openly and honestly try to help. I find when I get my focus on to other things, I tend to do a really poor job.

When I see this kind of herd-like mobbing and shunning, supposedly by professionals, I wonder what it's like to work with some of these people. Would I want to bring somebody in to an emotionally-charged situation that publicly shames and shuts down conversation they're uncomfortable with? At some point you're either humble and your mission comes first -- or you're sitting on the sidelines throwing rocks at people. If I ran a brothel and it caught on fire, I would want some people in a red truck to show up and put the fire out. I wouldn't want a lecture on evils of the business I was in. Save the lectures for your church group.

I apologize for the rant. I personally know people on both sides of this. It is disturbing. I feel like what happened to Bob can happen to anybody. As one person IMed a week or so "Having an opinion like Bob's or supporting him is a good way to lose your job!"

It is. And that's fucked up.