skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes but also screw off the deliberate ignoring of the difference in risk and culpability.

The expectation that big traffic is by default responsible when it crushes small stuff is completely opposite of every other case where different classes of traffic mix (unless the accident is an obvious edge case).

If a semi backs into the guy spotting it the question is why the spotter was there. If heavy equipment hits a service truck the question is why the service truck was in a place to get hit. If a tank hits a humvee the humvee driver is the first person to get yelled at. Even drunk recreational boaters are expected to steer clear of ships.

I'm not saying the bigger class of traffic should be in the right by default but the smaller class of traffic is almost without exception (i.e. I can't think of any exception) the class of traffic that has better visibility as to what's going on in a given situation and can more easily yield.

>Its always the pedestrian that dies

Physics doesn't know right and wrong.

>its always the driver with the mechanical advantage to put their vehicle where it needs to be quickly.

Yes and no. A car can go faster and swerve out of a lane faster. A pedestrian can stop much faster and signal its intentions to others much more obviously (hard to convey body language from within a car and pedestrians can't count on people to use blinkers)

Edit: I'm really interested in why this is down-voted. There's nothing that should be controversial in this comment.
I really like your boredom thesis. I'd always heard something along the lines of

"Whereas an accomplished jazz musician knows the rules, a master knows when to break them."

Which doesn't capture artistic intention, motivation like your notion of boredom, and the implied seeking of novelty, until that too gets boring.
Parisian bistros aren't dying, they're just changing. Nowadays the bistros that Parisians actually frequent look more like a restaurant in Brooklyn or Portland, serving modern food for a decent price. The 'iconic' bistro is just a tourist trap serving shit food to unsuspecting tourists.
Yes, most people don't even know what color temperature is, because they don't change light bulbs - someone else does it.
GitHub might go and delete all the forks in this case, but that's not what happens in general. Normally on GitHub, if a public repo is deleted or made private, all of the forks survive [1].

I'm not trying to nitpick or be a jerk; I just wanted to point this out because I think that forking in general on GitHub is less useless than you imply.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-...
> The Danish government steals Jewellery of immigrants, and has that practice as a policy

Not exactly any immigrant. Only those that apply for asylum and need the state to provide them with accommodation and living expenses. Further, if they do not consent to the confiscation, the police must refer it to a court, and the court may decide to return the valuables. Also, when/if the asylum application is successful and they become self-sufficient, any remains of the confiscated valuables are returned.
If tariffs were simply a matter of "whether or not we hurt our own consumers", there would be no debate about them anywhere; nobody would have any particular motivation to impose them, whereas in the real world it's clear there's some motivation that causes at least some imposition of tariffs to be nearly universal. Without implying any particular position is right, that's beyond an oversimplification that leaves you completely unable to look out into the world and even propose a theory that explains the current behavior of all the players, let alone validate one as correct.
I'm taking a measure theoretic probability course this fall, and while I've had great success with using Anki for my biology (i.e. memorization-heavy) courses, I've struggled with using Anki effectively for math. Would you mind sharing your deck as an example?

I like the unit test analogy - agree 100%.
It doesn't happen: https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-...

If you fork a public repo and the original is deleted, your fork survives.
Ethics and the Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence
But it takes more than a simple mistake to be able to bring a suit against a doctor, doesn't it? If they misdiagnose, but reasonably, or if complications occur but the doctor was following reasonable medical methods, then they aren't liable, no?

If the police get a call that someone is being robbed, then pick someone up that matches the description that was jogging along a block away, the person may turn out to just be someone somewhat similar that was jogging. Imposing a penalty on the officers, department, prosecutors, etc for failing to convict this innocent person doesn't seem like something that would particularly improve the course of justice.

Certainly it would be an unfortunate situation, but I'm not sure it should be something actionable without showing the arrest itself was intended to harass them, rather than being a case of reasonable mistaken identity.
Trying to make the SO culture better is like trying to remove the salt from the sea. Sure, you can do it for parts, but give up on the notion that you'll be able to do it for everything.
Thinking about it, this also shows up in the divide between my two main cameras - a Nikon DSLR, which offers me total control and an experience very similar to the film environment I learned in, and an iPhone, which offers me almost no control at all. I use and love both.
The US is not a serious country. During decades they spent millions trying to convince smaller countries to open up their economies, because this was supposedly good. Now that they're starting to slip back in the competition against other countries (particularly China), they do a sudden 180 degree change and introduce tariffs. Only the uninformed can take this seriously.
The WaPo has a great writeup on this case, relevant quotes below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24...

"""

The appeals court upheld a federal district judge’s ruling that the disks made by Eric Lundgren to restore Microsoft operating systems had a value of $25 apiece, even though they could be downloaded free and could be used only on computers with a valid Microsoft license. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit initially granted Lundgren an emergency stay of his prison sentence, shortly before he was to surrender, but then affirmed his original 15-month sentence and $50,000 fine without hearing oral argument in a ruling issued April 11....

Glenn Weadock, a former expert witness for the government in its antitrust case against Microsoft, was asked, “In your opinion, without a code, either product key or COA [Certificate of Authenticity], what is the value of these reinstallation disks?”

“Zero or near zero,” Weadock said. Why would anybody pay for one? Lundgren’s lawyer asked. “There is a convenience factor associated with them,” Weadock said.

Still, [U.S. District Judge] Hurley decided Lundgren’s 28,000 restore disks had a value of $700,000, and that dollar amount qualified Lundgren for a 15-month term and a $50,000 fine. The judge said he disregarded Weadock’s testimony. “I don’t think anybody in that courtroom understood what a restore disk was,” Lundgren said.

A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit deferred to Hurley in his judgment that Weadock was not credible and that “while experts on both sides may have identified differences in functionality in the discs, [Hurley] did not clearly err in finding them substantially equivalent.” The ruling was written by Judges William H. Pryor Jr., Beverly B. Martin and R. Lanier Anderson.

"""
>Academic achievement is not the main criteria for admissions - and at least in an american system it shouldn't be.

Instead it should be the color of your skin?

That they will underperform is not unsubstantiated in cases like black law students.
Generally, I write everything in plain-text, and then as a final processing step, bring it into Word and format it. I hit on this process when I was in college, since SVN, which I was using for version control at the time, is such shit with doc files. It doesn't help that it is absolutely miserable to try to add footnotes to a paper as you are writing it in Word, and at the time, and perhaps still, futzing with them was a good way to make Word crash and lose a few unsaved paragraphs.
AT&T Acquires Full Ownership of Otter Media
What comes after the border? The app helping migrants survive the last mile
So there's a nice pool of ticket revenue that, maybe, a majority of citizens want to see enforced. Anyone have an idea why it's not enforced?
#ElonMusk is listening https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trillionaire-ups-bid-tesla-te...
We dropped Snap because it moved from being that nice platform to share tidbits of your life with your friends to a platform made to push ads in your face.

The "Snapchat" we have today is an entire different app experience to the one we all adopted into our lives. If you build a new app and then skin it to make it pass like something else, users are going to notice and move on.

It doesn't help that they keep moving features around. First your friends' stories were on the left swipe screen. Then they moved them among the ads to the right. Then then moved them back left... and now they are back on the right screen with the ads. To be honest, I haven't watched any of my friends' story in age because why bother learning where they are every few months?
How about it is his money, and he gets to decide what he can do with, including burning it.
Animatplot: A python package for animating plots build on matplotlib
Magic Leap One Hands-On Impressions Round-Up
In some ways i envy the governments that block facebook. The threat of blocking is the only thing that changes facebook's behavior, normally by causing them to implement censorship. But western democracies cannot block facebook, and so lack real power. Facebook may scream about burdens and taxes, but those arent a problem if you have customers. Saudi Arabia controls access to customers and so is more important than any western legislature.
I have a hard time imagining how societies would not collapse with a sudden drastic population reduction. We would probably lose a lots of skills. Our financial systems would not survive. Unfortunately, our civilization is addicted growth.

I am not saying you are wrong. Population reduction would definitely help but I don't see a simple solution like that working. It is much more drastic than a 1 child policy.

Assuming you have ways to enforce a global 1 child policy, it would only divide the population by 2 every generation, but it seems more humane. (But won't really help growth or financial prospects)

Anyway at some point, we will get the population reduction, voluntarily or not.
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For women on Twitch, appearing single has become a minefield
Huh, I'd never known the Australian use as a synonym for jakes/outhouse!
Yes, that's a major problem as well since it's an exponential issue.
Is China full of computers running vulnerable unpatched Windows? At such a large scale a future (or current) vulnerability could have a huge effect
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Hey HackerNews, I'm a co-founder at Wrkflows. Thanks for checking out our project! We would love to hear any feedback you might have. We have a ton of stuff in the works, like additional integrations and features, but we would love to hear what you want in a product like this.
I like to believe StackOverflow has a financial incentive to solve this issue with their jobs site. It's my impression that there's a high barrier to being accepted as part of the community for new users, who I would expect to be on average younger developers more interested in finding a new job. These are users who I imagine SO would like to be users of their revenue-generating jobs platform.

For the last 6 months, my company used both Indeed and SO for recruiting. I much prefer SO and expected the quality of candidates would blow away Indeed. And generally there was less chaff on SO, but there were also less applicants in total and in the end we hired about equally off both platforms. Indeed proved much cheaper.

The connection the SO Q&A site and the SO jobs site occurred to me after I created a new profile for the SO Jobs (technically, Talent) platform and then posted a couple questions as a new user, an exercise I've practiced before. And as before, even though I am an experienced user who knows how to write a quality question, my questions were immediately downvoted almost reflexively by other users. It was enough to almost turn me off the project.

I tried to explain this to our SO sales rep and he said that they were aware of the problem and trying to address it. I suppose this code is what he was referring to. My contract recently expired and my company decided not to renew at this time.
Bistros in touristic places in Paris are definitively expensive and are not used by low pay worker for their daily meal. They obviously target tourists and adjust their prices accordingly. I live in the very touristic neighborhood of Montmartre and the bistros here are about as expensive as the nice restaurants we have in the quartier.

If you go in the suburbs or less exposed locations you can find something closer to the bistro culture described in TFA, with meals for about ~12 euros not being rare.

I agree with you though, in my generation when we want to eat "fast and cheap" we don't think of bistros, instead we go to fast foods like McDonald's and kebab places or Asian restaurants which are usually pretty cheap. The problem with bistros is that they are somewhat in between: not cheap enough to compete with fast food outlets and (usually) not fancy enough to compete with actual restaurants.
I think there is problematic behavior on all sides. However, the problematic behavior of a driver results in a death due to the ton of steel they're driving at 30 mph. While pedestrians do bear responsibility for their own lives, they aren't going to kill a driver if they make a mistake. Pedestrians should be prioritized above cars, and bicycles above cars as well, if we want safe communities and a cleaner atmosphere. This does mean drivers will have to wait and move more slowly, but frankly driving is already too cheap. That's why everyone drives everywhere. We have to do more to discourage driving and encourage safer, non-polluting transport. If not, increased vehicle miles travelled, like uber/lyft and future self driving taxis, will only worsen the already car-clogged infrastructure.
Well, with doc updates I think you'll probably find the process much smoother, and it's a good way of getting trust among the "club".
I am strongly against affirmative action and similar techniques since they are almost never applied universal based on anything measurable, but rather political.

For example we had here in Sweden for a short time a program which gave bonus points for university student applications if the student would end being a minority in their class based on gender. The problem was that rather then seeing more women entering male dominated fields, it was more men who applied for seats in female dominated fields and thus ended up gaining the benefit of this program. It was then challenged by feminist groups as being discriminative which they won which then resulted in the program being scraped. A major issue is that on average the higher education here in Sweden in female dominated so any positive discrimination that is intended to countering inherent bias would primarily benefit men, unless those actions are applied explicitly to the minority of programs which is male dominated such as abstract math, IT, engineering and a few more. As such modern affirmative actions programs are much more selective in where it get applied.

Same issue applies to using affirmative action to counter gender segregation in the work sector. Both men and women have the same employment rate here in Sweden, and about 90% of men and women work in a profession which is gender segregated. Neither gender is more likely or less likely to be a minority or majority, which means that affirmative action in the hiring process would apply equally to both men and women. The only way to break the symmetry is to only apply affirmative action in places which the intended group is the minority and thus get the benefit, such as two current political initiative to get more women into sport management and management boards. By limit to only gender segregation in those areas they can be sure that only women will benefit from the initiative and political this seems to be a major success.

If we use data sets and machine learning to counter bias then it would likely work but it would also benefit both men and women. Political this is not acceptable. People claim that positive discrimination is to be used to countering inherent bias but the way it is actually used is all about political power and who can benefit from it.
> If the question is price, then this is really more of a system targeting the poor than one that is against any specific minority group.

Well, if the majority of poor people are blacks (and Latinos), then it certainly is a racist policy to have vastly different sentencing for the drugs for poor and rich people.
Thanks, it was a three letter acronym of the worst kind!
You can deadlock with futures as well. Except that with futures you do not get a (two actually) nice call stack pointing to the deadlocked resource.
Maybe you want to give Lyx[0] a try.

[0]: https://www.lyx.org/
There's plenty of demand for hydrogen as hydrogen. And one of the things the Germans are doing is mixing hydrogen into the natural gas supply. That's pretty cheap to do compared to having to spend energy on chemical alchemy to turn the hydrogen into something else. Another option is to turn it into natural gas, plenty of existing infrastructure for handling that as well. So, ammonia is interesting but by no means a slam dunk.

And whether it makes sense to ship it internationally is an open question given the differing economics of green hydrogen vs sticking a hole in the ground and having fossil fuels come out. Here's what I said in the other thread:

"The comparative advantage nations have over each other in energy in a post-fossil fuel world will be much reduced. That is, Saudi Arabia has a huge advantage over Japan in terms of cheap fossil fuel energy, so Japan imports a lot from them. Though Saudi Arabia likely has an advantage over Japan in renewable resources, its not as dramatic as their fossil fuel advantage, so Japan would invest in their own energy resources and import less of them.

Because of this there will likely be much less international energy traded in general."
If you read between the lines in that statement, they classify Spotify as "publicly traded equity" as though it were some random stock rather than "a music streaming service--a new class of company that will be essential to music distribution in the future and therefore a wise investment for us to hold indefinitely". They say "our view of Spotify's future" rather than "what we intend to do to Spotify". They say "We ... expect Spotify ... to play a major role" instead of "We intend to undermine Spotify among its competitors so that it cannot become the dominant player in their market and therefore lay claim on some of the revenue streams that we feel should go to us exclusively". I hope they shoot themselves in the foot with a diarrhea-dipped bullet, and then die from the infection.

Old-school music publishing is full of assholes. It has been for a century.

The major publishing groups are preparing to stab Spotify in the back. Or the gut. Wherever. They don't care. They just want a bigger piece of everyone else's pie.

My first guess is that they read the financial statements as shareholders, figured out exactly how much they could charge for their catalogs without killing Spotify, and then pulled out, because their stock wouldn't be worth anything once they were taking all the money out on the operating expenses end rather than the dividend end.

Every public statement they make is a misrepresentation, especially the ones that say they aren't misrepresentations. Spotify needs to go direct to the musicians, and get as many self-cover and faithful cover recordings as possible, as quickly as possible. They might lose the major performing artists, but if they can sub in a cover band or fresh recording under different copyright that sounds almost as good as the original, I certainly won't care, and I'm guessing a lot of other people feel the same. I like Weezer's "Africa" better than Toto's, and Cake's "War Pigs" better than Black Sabbath's. And there are a variety of "Ring of Fire" covers that I prefer to Johnny Cash. The publishers only control their recordings. If you can license the music and lyrics from their copyright holders, you can get new recordings that cut the previous publishers out entirely.
No explanation on _how_ a bad iOS update leaked source code? Can't imagine Apple is too happy to be blamed for this with no details.
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Just a heads up, you can google Flashcard decks for flying exams. I've seen them out there and you can import into Anki.

My question: I have hundreds text files that are solely highlights I want to remember. I’ve made my own cards (for other things) for years and know that’s a best practice, but for this I want to automate the process more. Anyone have a suggestion to format long texts into many cards as quickly as possible? Script, Keyboard macro, or just general method?
You could try Mezzano [1].

[1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/releases/tag/demo4
I wouldn't say "get bored of them", so much as sublimate them so you no longer think consciously about them. And you learn that it's not "following the rules of composition will make great photos", so much as "most great photos follow the rules of composition".

Composition is also about tension/resolution, much like music. You can increase tension, but that doesn't mean you're actually breaking rules.
> Well, for me, having a company as big as Google providing a solution and commiting to fix the problem a few days after the guy reported the issue on his blog, is quite a good response.

If that's a "quite a good response," your expectations are way too low.

> after the guy reported the issue on his blog

He had no other option except to "report" it that way, and it was a shot in the dark. Google isn't monitoring all the blogs of the world for when people have issues. He's outrageously lucky.

> but we're not talking about the startup with 10 employees and 300 customers.

Yeah, we're not. Google really ought to have fully-staffed support call centers by now, complete with front-line people who can unlock accounts and escalate to engineers when there's a major issue.

The fact that Google doesn't have anything even comparable to that it why their support is atrocious.
I agree the people answering the questions and moderators could stand to be a little more kind.

Can we talk about the elephant in the room though - the tsunami of low effort questions from 1 rep users who are clearly students looking for help on their homework?

I didn't use StackOverflow until I was a working professional - while I was in school I hung out in the labs and talked to TAs or my professor if I was stuck. Now it seems like SO has become the default TA service for everyone foreign and domestic. It's exhausting to see question after question of people essentially asking for hand holding/TA service.

I stopped answering questions for that reason because I felt like I was only helping one person at a time instead of doing the community a service.
I think they story that they need a 'massive infusion of cash' is simply false. I have no idea why anybody would believe that. It is not in accordance with their own guidance or what we know from their production numbers and cashflow numbers.