skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think the same thing, but having raised kids I have told my own two adult children to raise their kids abroad.

The Stasi-like laws are real. Anonymous tips, school and medical required reporting laws, assumed guilt and state harassment are the status quo.

I’ve known too many families that get caught up by CPS. In poor communities the harassment is disturbing. Parenting while poor is apparently against the law.

Few parents know their limited rights - so they usually talk with CPS before consulting an attorney and get caught up in the system for years when they likely did nothing wrong.

Every CPS encounter is for the primary purpose of gathering evidence against the accused. Those conversations are twisted into the most negative light possible, editorialized and presented as evidence in court. I’ve read the cases.

There are 2.3M CPS cases a year(2014), and there are 3-4M children born each year. These statistics alone show a marked trend of state harassment against families.

I appreciate and understand that CPS has a role in protecting children. I just think the system is broken, wrong and often unjust. CPS is likely causing more harm than good for most children, even if they help a small minority.
I can't wait to experience the incivility of HN downvotes multiplied by 100 on a regular basis.

I know that's kind of snarky, but in all seriousness, I don't trust the average person to know what's civil or irrelevant. Everyone talks about information and conversation bubbles, yet Big Tech continues to cause the problem that everyone and their grandma knows that they create, and we accept it because it's framed as a new toy.

It's as if Facebook isn't as unfun as it gets at this point. The only people who I know that are active on it are old people, and my friends in my age range are decreasingly online and even less active. The more that it exists to satisfy perpetual malcontents, the less useful it seems to be.
I'm not saying she deserved it. Sorry if it sounded dismissive.
is unix proprietary? macos is based on unix
I'm aware of the arguments. There's at least two things worth unpacking here: (1) creolisation =/= pidginisation, (2) not all language contact effects are the same thing as either of these.

English isn't uniquely weird, at least no more so than any other language, in any linguistic sense.

> On the other hand, it has unnecessarily complex spelling, which hasn't changed along with the language itself, leading to many inconsistencies

Sure, in addition to typically keeping the spelling of words borrowed from other languages, even though those follow different conventions than does English spelling.

But orthography and writing systems are a bolted on thing, they're not part of 'language' in any deep sense.
No worries! We actually didn't highlight it in the post :P I just find it such a cool fun fact that I wish we talked about it more.
Hard to be human and get sick on $18k a year.
Fair. I wanted to phrase my comment in a way that would be colorfully illustrated but not single out a specific political viewpoint. However, it is monumentally difficult to find a media personality on the left as dedicated to discrediting scientific consensus as Alex Jones. I chose the most outspoken left-leaning voice I could think of at the time.

Any lack of equivalency, though, should not reflect on the merit of the underlying issue: that a decision to cut off a vital service provider is not without political consequences.
Christ, you sound insufferable. Arrogant dickhead.
1) English is the poster child of eclecticity; 2) diacritics aren't exactly a huge stumbling block.
That's not really neoliberalism, moreover, nobody is getting banned for that word.

Neoliberalism is more of an academic, economic concept, it's not inherently anti-community, it just happens to be.

McDonald's and Starbucks don't want to wipe out civic cohesiveness etc., but it just might happen in some situations wherein everyone ends up working for 'large corps' instead of local businesses etc..

The opposite political ideology is called 'Communitarianism'. It does not have a current identifiable place in America politics.

The Christian Democrats (i.e. Angela Merkel in Germany) are of this philosophy, it's more of a culturally conservative kind of socialism, it puts families, communities, people and the wellbeing of said groups at the centre of political and economic objectives. It's done in a localist manner (in the same way the Catholic Church has given great local leeway to parishes etc.), i.e. local context matters more than top-down authorities etc..

Whether you buy into it or not, I suggest it's really sad that it's missing from the American dialogue because a lot of that is just what we need right now.

Inherently localist ideals have a hard fight against more globalist ones (neoliberalism, state socialism) for obvious reasons ... if there were more established Communitarian ideals, I'll bet Donald Trump would not be president right now.
One good thing about university employment is that the health benefits are usually very good, even if the salary isn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

http://newtechnologyandsociety.org
That logo is excellent!

Tangent: I hate the use of "rocks" as a generic "is great" trend in our langage.
They were saying each is tolerant of loss.
Mastodon reports ~110k weekly active users and 121M "toots" across its 2+-year lifetime. That's impressive for a federated social network but, for comparison, 121M new tweets are generated on Twitter about every six hours.

Some more basic Mastodon stats that I recently collected: https://davepeck.org/2018/05/03/mastodon-stats/
> And all the aircraft delivered from factories by female pilots.

That's true. But delivering aircraft is not the same thing as flying combat maneuvers, nor is one flying in emergency situations like damaged flight controls or extreme weather. Many of those delivery flight airplanes were lost anyway.

> And those Soviet combat pilots.

True. Perhaps the Soviets designed their combat planes with lower control forces in mind because they were meant to be flown by women. But the US planes were designed for male strength. Keep in mind that those planes were not designed for any notions of equality or fairness, they were designed as killing machines needing maximum performance. Even a 1% edge meant victory rather than death. And that meant being constrained by the limits of what the pilot could do.
If you happen to remember, which of those Amiga books was the most useful to you?

At the moment (well, for years really) I have been in a 6502 binge, but want to get into m68k programming as well (and the Amiga ecosystem specifically).
On the topic of English and speaking it better each day: the funny „upside down quotes” are an instant giveaway that you are German. It’s not really a correct typographic treatment of quotes in English (or almost any language except German, afaik).
Pakistani migrant arrested for trying to set fire in Greece
NY gives Spectrum deadline to leave state
Microsoft health unit is a 'multi-billion dollar business,' medical chief says
I remember oil exhaustion projected into the 2050 since I was a kid at the early 90's. Every time I ask for a source of those earlier dates, people point either at crazy conspiracy theorists or at projections of peak extraction rate at the early 00's, that seem to be correct¹.

1 - If you exclude oil substitutes that started being counted like oil by then. There have been two peaks at this time, and production is mostly staying steady. There was very little experience with how the after-peak of something with no replacement option would look like, so those projections were indeed very diverse and off-target.
Sean Parker on maximizing engagement: https://slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/11/fac...

Psychologists running studies on users: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

Then of course there's this guy: https://theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambridge-...
Some years from today it will be proper chunk of retro scene, but I for one am happy we’ve moved on. Flash was horrible and a burden.

Edit: missing word
This goes to Peter Thiel's point (like him or not for other reasons): all businesses claim to not be monopolies when talking to regulators or critics while they claim to be monopolies when talking to investors.

It's easy. Want to be a monopoly for investors? Just describe whatever is arbitrarily unique and claim that your market is specific to to that. Want to be a non-monopoly? Just claim that your scope is broad enough to encompass many other businesses.
yes but... 3D printed by a neural net at Trees.com ON A BLOCKCHAIN and crowdsourced with a Kickstarter from curated ambi-sexual SanFran hipsters, avail in 5 colors for pre-order at a low low annual subscription add-on for Prime members of $79.99
Or at least necessary to evolve a relational schema from a simple blogging engine to a CMS that can do the things it can now (including the plugins). Advance Custom Fields, WooCommerce, LearnDash and the like are examples.

If it can't be shoehorned into the post table, you've got postmeta as a KV store for each post.

The code base looks like it was built the same way. I noted one developer saying "this is crazy... Its like one bootstrap file that bootstraps the next bootstrap file".

Using profiling tools, you're looking at tens to maybe over a hundred queries. It's a nightmare.
They certainly must have him insured...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance
> After a few minutes of gloating about pharma bro Martin Shkreli “rotting at Fort Dix” for raising the price of Daraprim

Except that’s totally unrelated to why he’s in prison.
I mean that’s pretty much straight-up, no-ambiguity racism my friend. Kindly take it elsewhere.
كلمات اغنية وانت معايا دويتو تامر حسني مع الشاب خالد
https://youtu.be/YIMlLJQ_xiM
Software as Network: Bugs as cost function
Till you get laid off and get sick with no savings :)
Same as Inanek2. Looks like maybe related to this (Firefox 52.8 on Linux, from China, via VPN):

Blocked loading mixed active content “http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/captcha2/redirect-%7Cen%7Cdo... More] app.kontext.xyz
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://dl.opensubtitles.org/en/download/src-api/vrf-19bf0c5.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). (unknown)
Error: XHR error vendor.c1d3cea4dc48e57eff24.js:333:26904
GET
https://www.google-analytics.com/collect [HTTP/2.0 200 OK 355ms]
Which is almost the literal translation to weekend or "Week End". Pretty much the same phrase used in Spanish (fin de semana) and I suspect in other romance languages.

P.D. Funnily enough, I looked up the translation for weekend in Latin and google gave me "volutpat vestibulum" and yet for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian I got a similar "Fin de Semana" phrase. I wonder why only the latin translation looks completely different?

Here are the Translations for weekend for each Romance language and Latin:

French - fin de semaine

Spanish - fin de semana

Romanian - sfârșit de săptămână

Portuguese - final de semana

Italian - fine settimana

Latin - volutpat vestibulum

Notice how only Latin looks completely different. I wonder if google translate is broken.
Right, that bothered me a little too.
Agreed, Husky is great. I like using it with lint-staged (https://github.com/okonet/lint-staged) to run ESLint and Prettier (https://github.com/prettier/prettier).
Perhaps, but what seems to work better in HN is that the "score" is private to the OP (Until a certain downvote threshold).

IMO showing a score is unproductive for all parties involved — it encourages up/down brigades, and conflates popular opinion with useful discussion.
I majored in History in university. I graduated, was discouraged from grad school by my professors (one of my professors stressed that when he was doing his PhD probably ten years before our conversation, he was so poor he had to literally fish to feed himself), and went back to school for accounting. As someone who went through it and can honestly evaluate the return on investment for my history degree, I don't believe it has paid back yet five years out. I did not learn practical skills, which are important for getting a career after exiting school. That's why my accounting degree was necessary. I will say though that I believe I learned a lot of important soft skills in the humanities, which I believe make me 1) a better person in general and 2) a more attractive candidate for jobs, since the skills I have (critical thinking, writing, etc) are not learned in business. They try to teach it in some courses, but it takes the leisure of taking a full humanities degree to properly learn it. It put this into perspective, writing an essay is taking a firehose of data, analyzing it and presenting a critical opinion on it. Most people who I was in business school with struggled because there is no right answer, and there is no answer key. A well reasoned argument based on the data given makes a good essay and good grades.

I will also say that in the professional accounting designation program, they are emphasizing that these are necessary skills for accountants to have now. I watch people studying for exams worrying about the same things. The exams are graded based on giving a 'competent' (their buzzword) answer based on the information given, which many people struggle with. I, on the other hand, find it very easy and do not have to study nearly as hard as my peers to succeed on the exams.

I don't mean to toot my own horn, and I do not think I am better than everyone else. I think that my time spent in the humanities has really benefited me in my career, but only after learning practical, 'hard' skills. Would I do it this way again, if I had the chance to start over? Probably not. Would I recommend someone going back to school for a humanities degree, after taking business/STEM? Maybe not, but there is definitely value in them.
Mutt. Notmuch. Offlineimap.
Not to put too fine a point on it, there is a certain type of personality that loves to roll their eyes when people are concerned about something and say they are "hyperventilating". Sometimes people can see what's happening before it shows up on a chart. Just because you can't see it doesn't make you wiser than them.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to at least 1 movie each month. So MoviePass was a no-brainer. Walking to the theater and watching The Foreigner felt completely free to me. I would never have seen that in theaters. That night I would have been home alone playing games or watching TV.
The graph certainly seemed to support that - humanities degrees fell precipitously in the 70s, started gaining in the mid-80s through 90s, fell again during the dot-com boom, held steady during the 2000s, and then fell precipitously after the financial crisis.

A slightly more accurate model might be that demand for humanities degrees dries up when either students feel that they must get a STEM/professional/trade degree for economic survival, or that they should get a STEM degree to take advantage of a recent technological change. That accounts for the drop during the dot-com boom and during the mobile/crypto/AI boom that followed the financial crisis. At this point in time it's probably a stupid idea to get a humanities degree when all the jobs are in technology, and college students are simply responding to that.

This would also predict that as recent tech markets get saturated and stabilize, then assuming we don't have a major economic crash, you'll see humanities enrollment trend upwards again. Basically stability is good for humanities, but either too little or too much growth pushes people into STEM fields.
The article mentions that she was partially a victim of the social media algorithms that helped her post go viral. But even if the social media engagement algo's weren't so tuned for spreading outrage (since that is so successful at increasing engagement), I can't help but worry that governments like this may start preemptively searching for these types of content violations regardless of if the message becomes widespread.
It has more to do with judging posts as incivil or irrelevant, kind of like HN's downvote system, as opposed to an "unlike" feature, so I don't think they would apply this feature to posts for news articles. But who knows! I think the results would be hilariously disastrous if thousands of people get to downvote news stories on a regular basis.
For those who are emotionally invested in defending Amazon on this, could you speak a little bit to what your horse is in this race?

I have stock in Amazon, but also caution about law enforcement (and a desire for technology to increase accountability of government to citizens rather than vice-versa). For me, the fear of going even one tiny step closer to China outweighs everything else.

For those who are arguing on behalf of Amazon, what's your emotional calculus here?
>Replacing mass transit with vehicles for hire is just making surface congestion awful, when options like expanding and enforcing bus-only lanes, bike lanes and more bike-share are not getting the attention they deserve.

Department of Transportation thankfully is expanding bikeshare services to areas currently not covered by Citibike: https://twitter.com/NYC_DOT/status/1017803095491973125
I'm 34 and my parents suggested I get a degree just to get one. The problem is that the degree doesn't do anything for you if you aren't making the right moves while you're there, or know where you're going before you start. So now I have a diploma saying I spent 4 years studying history before I went back to school to train at a polytechnic to get a job.
Oh, cool. It's the same in Greek:

πορτοκάλι = Portokali = Orange

Πορτογαλία = Portogalia = Portugal
It might have been my school but I found the degree poorly taught. You could get a fairly easy B+/A- by just parroting the teachers opinion on the topic at hand. STEM classes had some teachers like that, but most of the work there had objectively wrong and right answers.

My friends from other schools all had the same experience for the most part with only a handful of exceptions for particularly good teachers, who also all happened to be employed at other jobs and working as an adjunct professor to teach single courses on their topics.

The humanities to me seem like they are of lower quality because professors have no incentive or desire to actually teach, but as much of the humanities has no right or wrong answer then the professor can bullshit as much as they want. I don't think that the teachers are any worse than STEM teachers. If STEM courses were as subjective I'm sure we'd see the same problems
When I've done this before, I just had an "install-hooks" script. What's the need for auto-install?
What was the difference between Flash, Shockwave, and Shockwave Flash (I think the last one was a thing!)?
There's more to it than laziness:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_effect
...Chematica’s database is currently posted on a password protected website on the dark web. During his talk at HOPE this year, Laufer implored the audience to help with cracking the password and releasing the data into the world.

They're talking about an encrypted file, right? If Merck just had this posted on "the dark web", constantly hammering them with bad passwords would probably clue them in. Incidentally, which did Merck value more, the database or the opportunity to keep it away from this group?
Unfortunately, I know of a startup that did exactly this and made out like a bandit.

An acquaintance of mine started some Java/Web startup when the web and Java were just taking off (1998? 1999?). He made a lot of noise. Then he hired a top B-school alumnus to specifically get his company bought out, and promised him a large chunk (30%? I don't remember) of the company if it went for more than $X million. Well, lo and behold, the B-school guy found a sucker and the company sold for close to $50M. This guy retired right away, and now cruises around as an "angel investor".
Me too. I noticed something yesterday on the train - which made me sad. The carriage had over 100 people; yet 95% had their heads down and looking at their phone.

Most people didn't lookup throughout the whole 20 minute train ride.

For social media making everyone connected, it sure has made everyone else more isolated with each other.
> China may very well become the largest economy in the world, and there is no way that Chinese, as a multi-toned, symbolic language, will ever become the Lingua franca, as it is near impossible for most adults to learn, in contrast to English

Ok for multi-tonal, but what is "symbolic" about Chinese?

On the other hand, I have known lots of Spanish and Chinese people who are utterly incapable of saying just a single English sentence which is somewhat comprehensible.
Curious. How do you quantify expressiveness? English does not seem that expressive to me. English, German and Esperanto are way too related also to be making a comparison (which was kind of the criticism against Esperanto).

Could you give a couple of examples?

Also, I have to disagree with the statement that it is the language of great literature. I counter argue those would be French, German, Greek, Latin, Literary Chinese etc, depending on the period. I am not saying there is no great work in the English language, however your statement implies something different (the majority of great work in a period or style utilized that language).
Pilots also were put through boot camp (which has a heavy emphasis on physical strength building). Being a pilot was in demand for its prestige (first with the ladies!) and extra pay, so the Air Corps had their pick of the finest men. Retaining flying status meant passing regular physicals, too.
Show HN: A tool to balance US political news
I don't disagree but at the same time it's one setting away to make them all private forever. It could be much worse.
What exactly is obviously hostile about our universities? Is it the safe spaces? Is it the lower standards applied to minorities and women to make it easier to get in? Is it all of the scholarships open only to minorities and women?

Universities are quite obviously the most inclusive and least hostile place in the world for minorities and women.
How many tweets were generated when Twitter was about two years in? Early growth curves on social networks are exponential, there's plenty of time for Mastodon or an as-yet-to-be-created network to eclipse Twitter as it starts to decline.

EDIT: According to https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2011/numbers.html it took about three years and two months for Twitter to hit a billion tweets. That's well within what Mastodon could hit with "exponential growth", though I'm guessing Mastodon will fall a bit short of that rate.
> Indeed, Laufer and his collaborators can’t stop pissing off powerful people because Four Thieves is living proof that effective medicines can be developed on a budget outside of institutional channels.

Synthesized. Not developed. Synthesizing medicines is easy. Developing them is extremely difficult.
Adjuncts aren’t employees.
That's true, and an interesting observation. It does look like they're going to show scores, based on the screenshot in the article. One must wonder if their actual intention is to improve the quality of comments or to improve "engagement" by creating an addicting means of detracting from viewpoints a person doesn't like.
Sed ubi tum id faciens illo pretio habites?
That might have worked before Netflix and Amazon Prime and other online movie services. The light movie goers are all online now. Only the heavy duty die-hards are still going to theaters to see first-run films. I haven't gone to a theater movie in over three years.
1986! Is that correct?