skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the above, I thought I need to add some clarification and also some more evidence - since you stated I didn't provide any to back up my arguments.

Above I mentioned I don't consider factory farm animals part of the ecoystem. Technically they are of course, as they produce CO2 etc, but what I meant was about your statement around diverse ecosystem - which factory farms don't contribute towards, but quite the opposite - it destroys ecosystems.

Did you know animals can develop mential illness? Repeptive and odd behaviour by animals is frequently observed in factory farms.

As stated before, pigs are highly intelligent creatures[0], moreso than domesticated pets and in their natural environment they are clean and do not poop near where they sleep and eat. Being deprived of natural light, natural socialisation, in overcrowded filthy conditions covered in their own excrements and constantly being fearful of pain - this highly stressful environment means they are at risk of mental illness[1].

Now having been presented with all the information by recognized experts and organisations - do you really think factory farms[2] are a beautiful thing? How can we justify this daily cruelty towards millions of animals to continue?

I will end this conversation with the following quote I found inspirational - from the late Aaron Swartz:

"Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think."

[0]Smart Pigs - BBC Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mza1EQ6aLdg

[1]Mential illness in animals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150909-many-animals-can-b...
https://www.mspca.org/animal_protection/farm-animal-welfare-... (section on psychological effects)

[2] Again, I'm not talking about farms where you know the farmer personally - where farmers usually only have a couple of hundred animals or less and where farmers truly care about animals and try to give them a good life - where animals can roam around freely.
A sort of a filter, getting rid of the viewers who are only interested in the currently popular visual gimmicks instead of the actual content.
This topic is plenty debatable.

Many people I meet who are excellent at their jobs are lousy teachers. They tend to have instinctive grasp of things which doesn't transition well in teaching.

But people who are good but not great at their jobs tend to be the best teachers. One of the reason is that these guys tend to have detailed notes and learned through experience.
Most people don’t have the good fortune to be in a financial position to keep trying.
One important thing we tend to forget is that Apple and Google provide all the tooling for iOS and Android for free. Developing the core OS, core programs and development tools has required probably billions of dollars of investment.

As a programmer distributing on these platforms you get all of the above for free in addition to billions of existing users. That's the reason I think 30% is justified.
Material will eventually be decaying in the environment at the same rate it is produced, in steady state. This is independent of the halflife.

What a long halflife does is increase the time until that steady state is reached. If we operate a nuclear economy for a million years then a hell of a lot of that long lived isotope will have accumulated.
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, cofounder of Basecamp.

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/
I guess working with x86 at the microarchitecture level requires a certain amount of humour.
During my graduate career about 1 year in the main project wasn't working right and it wasn't clear how we'd move forward. 6 months after that I did actually fix it, but I had notionally 1.5-2.5 years to do all the rest of the project where we implemented some new science.

3.5 years later I left with a Masters degree, then left hard sciences entirely and now on self-training make a lot more money in IT.

I really should've left at 1 year and started looking for Junior sysadmin positions then.

Of course I suppose had I done that I probably wouldn't have developed the relationship I did with my now wife, but objectively the experience career-wise was a colossal waste of time and money, but which I lacked the life/career experience (or people able to give relevant advice) to correctly assess.
"Stable" as in "doesn't crash in production" and "stable" as in "doesn't change backwards-incompatibly" are two almost entirely unrelated uses of the word. Most folks looking for a language prioritize the latter. There's no point in not having runtime ezceptions if your code stops compiling.

I understand that removal of native modules was required for maintaining (some interpretation of) the promise of being crash-proof, and that it needs to be done before 1.0. My point is exactly that the language isn't at 1.0 yet.

But more than that, my point is about the approach the developers take to the language, not about any specific decision. I'd still have the same comment about an Elm which lacked native modules from day 1, or an Elm where they figured out how to keep native modulea. Not running into breaking changes by luck is different from intentionally prioritizing stability and other people's use cases. It doesn't matter how many people are deploying Elm in production today—it's still a pre-1.0 language and maybe they shouldn't be deploying Elm in production.
It first looked like after the last mass wipe-out 1998 corals adapted or new resilient variants took over:

http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/reefs_at_risk_3-1.jpg

But can they keep up with the change?
Feels like he doesn't give the businesses enough time to gain popularity. Some of them were clearly not bad ideas, like the ad management one.
My guess is there won't be separate Mac mini and Mac Pro lines but rather something that covers both use cases.
I agree. However, I don't see any other way how to prevent players doing this except democracy - a system where every person has (prescriptively) the same amount of power.

However, many people reject the idea of economic democracy, despite studies showing that e.g. worker cooperatives often have higher productivity and despite the fact that we accept democratic governance as a way to operate the government.
I doubt it will happen but there’s no technical reason we couldn’t reduce atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrial levels if it was a high enough priority. Terra preta sequesters carbon for centuries and we know how to manufacture it, it’s just soil enriched with powdered charcoal. Turn cellulose into charcoal, spread it on soil, repeat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
Conversely divorce-rates tend to spike once the youngest child graduates high-school (certainly did for my year group). There is a fair bit of "staying together for the kids" which happens it seems.
Don't worry, man. I'm not reading 'deep into it'. It's a simple matter of interpretation of open core, where you represent stance of open core being features taken out and monetised, where other represent stance it's added value on top of core functionality. And the wording seems to mix both in your representation, namely what constitutes core features and what's added value. A thought experiment could clear all that out - what would it change in rationale if Redis Labs was not associated with you in any way?
$27,000 / 270sqft is $100 per sqft for “new construction” which is really low and 270sqft is really tiny, bit too tiny to have guests stay over. I agree $400,000 is too much but there are plenty of sub $100,000 properties in the Midwest suburbs (I’ve looked). And no, you shouldn’t be allowed to just buy a 400sqft patch of land to build a shed for yourself in the suburbs :)
The death of cheatcodes
Exactly. It is a poor investment option. So less investments are made, so less students attend, tuition plummets, community colleges spring back to life, people focus on degrees that offer pay, kids exit with no unforgivable debt, on and on.

That is bad?
Maybe I'm a good teacher because I'm a mediocre developer?

I mean, people are bad-to-mediocre when they begin to learn something per definition, so when I teach them, I teach them from their perspective? :D
Not to mention that the kids more often than not had spent nearly their entire lives up to that point working to the bone to be the absolute best students they can be, only to face literal and blatant racial discrimination during the college application process in the name of "affirmative action". And now there are growing calls to do the same thing as they enter the workforce, all in the name of "diversity".

Don't get me wrong, we definitely (as a society) ought to be giving underprivileged demographics as many opportunities to no longer be underprivileged, and in most cases I'm all in favor of diversity programs and affirmative action. Shafting one of those disadvantaged groups because they sacrificed everything else to level the playing field for themselves is, however, a major - if not outright fatal - bug in that system.

Americans discriminating against Asian Americans is not a new thing, of course. California's history in particular is deeply rooted in giving Chinese and Japanese Americans - including even natural-born citizens - the shortest possible end of the stick.
The Quorum Programming Language
First, I'm not sure what makes you think you can just insult me. I'd recommend you tone it down.

Second, most of what I see here is very similar to my experience:

* I love Elm
* I take its pros and cons
* The day i don't find what I want there I ll just move out of it.
* I do my best to participate in the community as well
* Bonus: I also got into Scala and stepped out

The only thing I was trying to convey is :
* The creator of the language is very opiniated (that is fine)
* The way of communicating is not ideal (that is shame, it doesn't have to BE this way).
* I hope someone will not really get annoyed by it to a point where the community will get separated / torn. Because it would most likely lead to a lot of negativity.

Not sure what brings you to call me a pedulant child. I don't remember saying I was oppressed. . .
A JVM language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFrE6cgVNY

Evidence-Oriented Programming" by Andreas Stefik 2015
The tale of a hogger
I like how this tutorial walks you through setting up a babel config with node. Too often I see tutorials that just assume you're transpiling your node server with all the fancy stage 2 features like decorators.

However, as with most node tutorials, I end up bored when it comes to persistence layers. Like why do we need to set up Postgres for the millionth time? Why do we need to connect the ORM to the database and explain to it how the models are associated? Maybe I'm just spoiled by Rails, but a lot of this stuff is fairly universal and should probably be automated.
OK, my bad. The expressed antithesis of Popper's open society was dictatorship, not communism. There is little doubt that Popper saw communism (and even marxism) as expressions of that antithesis (i.e. by necessity leading to dictatorship), based on his own hard-earned experiences (and by no means questioned by Marxist-Leninists). But agree, capitalism is by convention the counterpart to communism in that habitually dichotomous concept of possible economic models, but does not guarantee freedom from dictatorship as you correctly point out.
Should one read business books?
If someone is interested in founding a startup, do you think that reading business books is time well spent? By business books I mean the ones included in Joe Spolsky's MBA list. Or should one just focus on technical books?
Except free speech they hate that
For a language aimed at beginners its advocates really make it difficult to recommend getting involved with it

Your response typifies the unpleasant atmosphere I've witnessed around Elm which is a shame as it's author and intentions seem so good.
Didi Suspends Carpooling Service in China After 2nd Passenger Is Killed
Maybe just apply for jobs instead of quitting first? I never recommend anyone quit their job without having a backup in place. There are multiple reasons for this in my opinion, even if you have enough in savings to last you 5-years. The feedback I get is, well I can't focus on the job search while working.

1) If you have a job the HR person deems you as more attractive as someone wants you. Similar to a relationship, when you are dating, all the other girls want you.

2) If you have a job, you can throw around a funny number, ask for more lieu time, vacation time, and basically control your interview process.

3) If you have a job while applying to a new one your resume doesn't show employment gaps which you have to explain in the future.
Run Chaos Experiments Without Risking Your Job
The animation led to me leaving the site without taking the time to look at the actual content.
I don't know anything about CLU. ML compilers are a mixed bag. OCaml (which is a different dialect, of course), has an acceptably fast compiler, but it's not near-instant like Go. Ada compilers are famous for being slow, at least historically. C# is, again, acceptably quick to compile, but not as quick as Go. I don't know about D. I've heard good things about Delphi's compile times, but no-one uses it now.
To a refrigerator dying young
Graduated near the bottom of his class and achieved far more than most.
>like "hospital", at least until you consider not all hospitals are equal and the state of the art ones tend to be big...

I'm willing to bet this and possibly some of the other amenity correlations are driven either by a few outliers, some uncontrolled confounding variables, or by measurement error.

E.g. if one of the poorer nations has a strange policy or linguistic quirk around the definition of hospital, that could be driving up the total number of locations marked as hospital and thus introducing some hidden bias.

In terms of confounding variables, I'm just taking a guess in the dark, but hospitals per capita is probably a strong proxy measure of how rural a country is. The more rural the population, the more hospitals are required to serve the same number of people, because hospitals need to be close for emergency situations.

Also, there's probably a selection bias. Hospitals are likely one of the first things to get put on OSM for a given area. Because there aren't many of them and they tend to be one of the most important items people are looking for on a map. So poorer countries, with fewer OSM users, are more likely to have hospitals marked relative to the other amenities.

Meaning, you could have a negative relationship between all amenities and GDP/GNI/HDI, but only hospitals and other items consistently marked across all countries is being measured well enough to demonstrate this. Even though naively one might assume more amenities/person is better, it's possible for many amenities that centralization/consolidation actually correlates with better economic performance. Obviously that's probably not true of park benches, but it might be for schools, hospitals, and other public infrastructure.
Aren't US student loans ultimately owned by the federal government and thus impossible to default on?
Requirements, infrastructure components, platform systems and promises from external vendors that "it'll totally be ready by the time you launch".

This is all things I've seen in the last month (yeah I'm not joining any more greenfield projects within organizations - if you think you're going to rebuild it from scratch and fix all the problems, you have no idea what went wrong in the first place).
Try to start a democratic company (or run a thought experiment about doing so) and you will probably find the reasons why democracy works better as a way to manage a society than a single company.
I was going to say the same thing. Success takes perseverence.
If you were to ignore the man in the plane, all the content is presented very clearly and directly.
Are there any studies on the contribution of Monsanto/Bayer pesticides on coral death?
In germany, severance is uncommon, even if the company lays you off. You get your three month notice, and after that, no further payment is made. Things may differ if the situation is slightly complicated, for example the company would prefer you gone earlier, they may offer you a payment lower than the wage for the notice period and you’re gone earlier or if they might not be allowed to terminate your employment for legal reasons to avoid lengthy lawsuits. Sometimes severance payments are negotiated in mass layoffs in unionized companies.

My point was: severance differs substantially from a notice period. If you’re laid off with severance, you can go and get a different job the next day. If you’re laid off with a notice period you cannot. You must show up and work the next day. If you don’t, you’ll be terminated without notice. A common thing that people do is that they call in sick after either being served or handing in their notice - same thing happens. Immediate termination.
I am not very knowledge about nuclear material qualification, I can just tell you what I have heard.

The material they developed for the MSR was called Hastelloy N and showed a lot of promise.

Sadly, because its primary benefit was working with salts, it was not further developed and the use it saw does not qualify it for use in a modern nuclear reactor.

Therefore you have to do a complete re-qualification of the material under advanced neutron flux. Nuclear regulations are so incredibly strict that doing that alone would probably blow most development timelines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment...
>>> If you don’t show up against the employers will, that’s cause for immediate termination with no severance. Severance payments are still uncommon.

That's not true. An employee cannot be immediately terminated for not showing up to work ONCE. Doesn't matter if it's in the notice period or not.

If it's something that your employer does, ask you to show up on the next day while you are on garden leave, then immediately terminate you, it's serious ground to bring them to court.
> then you'd have to elevate it to get it out.

> It would turn into beer

I'm confused - are you suggesting reasons you should use a big hole in the ground or reasons you shouldn't use a big hole in the ground?
Indeed. The instruction latency tables in particular [1] are great as a quick reference when considering the cost of each instruction.

[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
That's not true where I am. HR decide pay scales based on market pay levels in our sector.
Not so unreasonable it is. Out of most ridiculous get rich quick schemes, running a stall with with one or two killer dishes is the least ridiculous.

I remember either around 2010 or 2011, CCTV ran footage about a famous teenage entrepreneur that was making 6 digits from less than 10 food carts in Shenzhen around Laojie station, when the passage in between first and third line was still above ground.

I myself tried their noodles once when I was transiting through China on my way to or from Singapore. Those were very generic Taiwanese style noodles: shanks, sinew, innards, with tomatoes and a lot of spices. Just what a labourer would want after a long day. I remember, there was like 10 metres long lineup. The price was 18 CNY and 25 for extra large serving, that was a lot back then.

The story of totally mind boggling HEEKCAA tea chain is very similar as I know. The collective that became the company I work in now once pitched them to manufacture their kitchen appliances.

I think nobody can tell what will become the next instant hit of street food. Those things are almost like fashion trends. But I suggest anybody taking on that market to still try going the "single dish restaurant chain" approach. Once you get you fame, you can diversify, but going the other way around is not the best idea money-wise.
> I mean, technically it’s just XML, but the two techs expect your XML elements to be build a certain way and break when they aren’t. So in order to make the two techs talk with each other through SOAP, we had to write a custom library to translate the .Net xml before we send it. And that’s just one in a long line of similar stories.

Something similar happens me with Java. Our product have some legacy ancient code that serialize/deserialize XML to beans using a library (JOX) that works with pure reflection (pre Java annotations).

I try to replace it for something more modern like Jackson or JAXB, but I hit a wall when I found that the XML that reads/writes these library are very different from what Jackson or JAXB expect to find. So, or we translate all XMLs to the new format or I write some translator to transform the old XMLs to something more standard.
I feel like you could just pay higher salaries with the same effect (and maybe less of the downsides of incentive structuring). But I agree on the premise, the revolving door exists because of wildly different compensation levels for the same job class / qualifications.

This has bugged me for a while. America is obsessive with one component of cost, but total cost of ownership suffers all the time because of it.
I think you're vastly overestimating how many people use a VPN. Dynamic IP is zero problem, your ISP knows who's on what IP at what time (logs of this kept for x months required by law in many countries).

This case is for movies rather than music but ISPs are already ending up having to go to supreme court to fight , I hope more ISPs are prepared to do so https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180508/06040539799/danis...
But... aren't they? It's one share one vote, not one employee one vote, but I think that still qualifies as democratic. Then, there are elected board members (the representatives) who hire the CEO (the prime minister?), etc.
Warning heeded :)

I think the fundamental question here is why art requires a "human" element to actually be art, and what that "human" element actually is.

My opinion is that humans aren't really as special as we want to think we are, and that fundamentally there's no real difference between how humans create "art" and how machines create "art"; in the end, we're both drawing on our inputs, applying some subjective evaluation (possibly based on other inputs), and producing a corresponding output. How that "subjective evaluation" step happens might seem different enough to warrant different classifications, but I'm not really convinced it actually is.
it's celebrate the right for this in English? it sounds to me like you would be happy he has funeral, there must be better word than "celebrate", isn't?
That might not be the best strategy if you’re only compensated for wins. I could see a lot of downsides though — only going after slam dunk cases, hyper-focus on biggest potential payout cases, etc.
> Nuclear plants should never fail by way of nuclear explosion. If this is a possibility it is a bad reactor design.

Fast reactors have always had this potential problem, since they require a much higher density of high enrichment material. A larger fast reactor might have a ton of plutonium in it; in an accident where fuel is melting and moving around unpredictably it's hard to prove that a prompt supercritical mass of Pu won't assemble somewhere. Edward Teller famously warned about this in 1967.

This is one advantage of MSRs as fast reactors: the fuel is already dispersed in salt, so such rearrangement is less plausible.
I use Groovy with Spock to write unit tests. Wonderful way to write tests.