skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard of a "victim blaming" obsession of modern American culture, despite having grown up in it. Could you point me to some articles that elaborate?
Lesson to learn: when you are working so hard on something like this, make your own story and design every single time, don't copy somebody's ideas even if it is for free. Team up with similar people if you lack in some part of required imagination.
LOL - oh man... I can relate!

At a previous gig we had a similar situation. It was so bad my coworkers and I would joke that we needed one of those "break in case of emergency" boxes with the glass front and a hammer hanging adjacent. Inside the box: a can of lighter fluid and a match. The purpose: when the crazy got to be too much you just light own hair on fire and then go run around in traffic.

What you just described would definitely be a break the glass kinda situation :-)
he has generated an veritable everest of writing and some people want to focus on a few of the rocks.
> - Your 2% on top of Stripe's fees is off the charts IMO.

I'd be fine with that if there wasn't any non-free JavaScript involved. (But there is.)
The article itself links to a description of the proposed changes: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/09/music-moderni...

It sounds like SiriusXM is a big loser here; I had no idea that pre-1975 music could be played royalty-free. Guess that helps explain all the oldies stations.
Yes, well, Trollope was quite good at being a postal official, though he got off to a slow start.
That's worrying, it shouldn't be.

- Ethics are things the overwhelming majority of humans agree on.

- Politics are not.

Edit for 'edent' below due to rate limit:

Were you replying to someone else? My comment mentioned the majority of people agree on ethics. Racial, gender, sexual preference and religious discrimination isn't considered OK in most western countries.

Additionally, you're derailing the discussion by talking about discrimination. The entire reason this thread was started was because there's concern that that the CoC doesn't merely ensure ethics, but (as mentioned in the examples in this thread) has been used to harass people for what most humans would consider ethical behavior.
Most 2017 and newer Toyota and Lexus vehicles have Verizon 4G cellular embedded inside. It doesn’t have a monthly fee. The Corolla and the Tacoma are one of the only ones at the moment that don’t include a DCM and don’t have embedded cellular. They just piggyback off your phone’s cellular connection.
That's surprisingly economical, much more than I expected. I suppose "no tracking" search engines like DDG have a similar approach.
`npm install the-entire-universe`
Classic gold rush pattern: the people who outfit the miners do better overall than the vast majority of people who do the mining.

(Generalizing here, but seems similar to California in 1849, Yukon in 1898, and several others)
Your customers speak a different language than most of mine. The requests are more like "I need the green buttons to be yellow now!" It's easy to find bg-green on buttons and just find/replace with bg-yellow.

Also, using Tailwind/functional CSS for items that are repeated over and over on your site like buttons, you can easily extract them to a component. Switching from bg-green to bg-yellow would be as simple as opening your SASS/LESS file for components or button components and replacing it in that one spot.
Do you have something you can cite regarding this? If I write my own novel that happens to look exactly like Stephen King's "It", I can't just start publishing it.
Charity makes sense in a capitalistic world, because some people get the "choice" of being poor in it.
That's not so much a crack in the foundation as it is a patch of dirt next to the foundation.

To get an idea of what happens to old physics when new physics is discovered, realize that Newton's laws are still correct, and can be derived from QM. That's what you get when you do a good job of actually checking the truth with experiments. All theories have implicit tolerances embedded within the known precision of the experiments used to confirm them, and with these tolerances you can say "Newton's laws are right" without denying other, finer details. Similarly, scientists 1000 years from now will agree with everything we presently know about the Standard Model, because all of our beliefs are tempered by how closely we know our experiments are looking.

>Quantum entanglement

I should add that entanglement isn't "shaky" at all, it was predicted from the start and has been observed in countless experiments to date.
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An aspect of this that is seldom remembered is that Semmelweiss was a HUGE jerk, which didn't help adoption. Instead of telling or showing other doctors how things could be better, he called them barbarian murderers for not washing their hands. It was a decade before he'd even have a civil conversation about it, or publish for peer review.

There's a lesson in that...sometimes being right isn't enough on it's own.
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Tailwind takes care of this. You just need to define your spacings, colors, typography, and a few other details like borders and shadows, and all the classes you'll need are all there. You can use PurgeCSS to trim down the final CSS size to just the classes you use.
We are 10 years into an expanding economy into one of the longest expansions ever. Interest rates are near all time lows and despite this the US it’s starting to spend more on interest than the military. Commercial real estate loans amortize over 30 years but need to be refinanced every 5-10 years so if rates go up.... Is it a good idea for SF to accommodate the tech bubble? There have been other tech bubbles and many country level and regional single industry bubbles in the past. Why is this bubble different? Not changing zoning and reducing the risk of SF turning into a sea of unfinished projects seems like the rational thing to do.
Having done this a few times, integrating a payment processor you're unfamiliar with to a site takes a few hours when they don't provide a library and you're doing it for the first time. I might have misunderstood what you're offering, but to me it sounded like you were basically providing that as a hosted service.

Stripe's API is reputably simple, and Stripe provides ready-made libraries to make your job even simpler. I can't imagine for a moment that using the ready-made library Stripe provides on Github takes more than an hour or two. So you're basically talking about a $10-50 job depending on how generous you feel when hiring an online code monkey or an adolescent down the street to do it for you.

Free + 2% might work for some non-technical user who wants to experiment with selling a product right now without investing a penny. It won't the moment the idea takes off. You'll immediately look for something with a monthly recurring fee.

The reason breaks down to psychology. When you sell a lot of stuff online, you only see the monthly recurring charge once. The transaction fees, by contrast, will be all over your statement. Sooner rather than later, you look at each and every single one, thinking: "Sigh, so much money being spent on this... Why am I paying for this again? Can't I use something else?"

As an anecdote to illustrate the point further: where I live, banks charge a tax on transactions, and what essentially amounts to a tax on paying that tax to boot. It's tiny - under .1%. But cash transactions are, as you'd expect, commonplace - including for things like buying houses.

At any rate, what I'm trying to get at here is that unless you're delivering something on top that is valuable enough to retain your users, you'll only be attracting users who are looking for a temporary solution to experiment with an idea. I'd expect them to churn the moment they see enough transactions that your extra fee associated with each one will prompt survey cheaper alternatives.

One such value, by the way, is having most if not all of the things you want to use in one place, or good APIs and integrations to be able to use the 3rd party tools you want. This matters a lot too in practice.

Maintaining and integrating several different poorly written self-hosted apps to run the cart, billing, delivery, affiliates, accounting, a few types of analytics, etc. is grueling. Integrating multiple hosted tools to do the same is also grueling - but less so, and it doesn't involve much maintenance. Being able to use new apps and services Zapier-or Segment-style is, by contrast, not grueling and extremely valuable.

Anyway, good luck with your project!
There is only the ocean along the way though, I don't think it would be possible to drop resupply fuel that way.

Aerial refueling though I guess could work, although I suspect that no suitable tanker airplane is to be found within range anyway most of the time (and no suitable helicopter either) as the military base on Réunion is not a major air force base and there is no other country than France with decent forces in the area. Australia has tankers but they're on the wrong side of their country, nowhere near Perth.

I think we're getting beyond very, very expensive here and into the territory of things no country would do outside of extraordinary circumstances, the kind of circumstances in which the country operating the base would not matter anyway as most others would cooperate in any way they could.
"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved, is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view."—Nikola Tesla
There is huge room for medicine to be improved, but actually the reason for that is there is a lot of resistance to changing things in major ways despite all the things that could be done. A lot of software companies know that their key to staying on top is to improve things fast enough that a group of founders in a co-working space won't put them out of business. Hospitals don't have this pressure at all; they just have to keep providing the acceptable services that they always have, and people will still go there. I've been pressured into unnecessary procedures and even given (multiple!) sales pitches for surgeries that I haven't needed or wanted, because the hospital makes huge amounts of money from it, and consumers aren't savvy enough to know when their doctor is just trying to pad his profitability figures.

Plus, when you write software that disrupts an industry, your employees are still software developers who work and function like software developers. If you want to change healthcare, you need to change how the doctors operate.
I don't know if Pinker is right or wrong but I have to imagine that parenting is part of what he's calling "environment."
I question the professional experience of those suggesting that continuing to be an asshole is the preferable situation here ("but at least he's HONEST"). That would simply not fly at my company.

It is absolutely possible to be kind when giving honest and constructive feedback and criticism. Empathy is a skill this industry needs to develop.
The idea of faking it until you make it is exactly what Linus needs. Most of the point of communication is for the other person, especially giving feedback on patches. We all need to vent but we shouldn't vent at the people below us in an organization. Venting is for a counselor, and maybe a close peer? And it's ok if he's frustrated with people, he just shouldn't take it out on them.

Maybe he could find someone to get his own frustrations out to, while only sharing the productive, practical code related aspects with his developers.
Ditto, I ended up helping feed the dog because Newsblur replaced the missing void that Google Reader left behind. It's probably one of my favorite daily apps.
Being political isn't a problem. Free Software is political.

mjg59 put this far better than I could:

> A reminder that free software is fundamentally about breaking down barriers preventing people from participating in a social endeavour that grants them more control over their computers, and anyone who argues against that process is not helping the cause of free software

> Some of those barriers are technical (DRM, proprietary software, undocumented hardware) and some are social (unwelcoming communities, abusive maintainers). You don't get to focus on one category and deny the other.

> Alleged free software advocates who defend abusive individuals aren't helping the cause of free software by doing so. Push back.

> "If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution" - the GNU manifesto by Richard Stallman, 1985.

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1042709376442687490
But wait, what exactly is so hard about doing something like

// _profile.scss
.profile-card {
@extend .m-5;
// several more lines of extending
@extend border-gray-light;
}

and just get the best of both worlds? That variant also has the advantage of letting us JS folk use element classes for useful stuff, and makes changing all instances of "profile-card" simultaneously a lot simpler.
Just in case of ...? I do not usually think of surgeons having the mentality of 'I was in the neighborhood... so.... yeah, why not!'.
Does anyone else find it weird how so many people can think Linus is utterly brilliant and thoughtful, can agree with him on almost everything he's done and said up to this point, but fall back on the belief that he's been conspired against and corrupted when he says things like:

> "...I may have my reservations about excessive political correctness, but honestly, I absolutely do not want to be seen as being in the same camp as the low-life scum on the internet that think it's OK to be a white nationalist Nazi, and have some truly nasty misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic behaviour. And those people were complaining about too much political correctness too, and in the process just making my public stance look bad.

> "And don't get me wrong, please - I'm not making excuses for some of my own rather strong language. But I do claim that it never ever was any of that kind of nastiness. I got upset with bad code, and people who made excuses for it, and used some pretty strong language in the process. Not good behaviour, but not the racist/etc claptrap some people spout.

> "So in the end, my 'I really don't want to be too PC' stance simply became untenable. Partly because you definitely can find some emails from me that were simply completely unacceptable, and I need to fix that going forward. But to a large degree also because I don't want to be associated with a lot of the people who complain about excessive political correctness."

I dunno, maybe if he was being brilliant and thoughtful for all those years, he's still... being brilliant and thoughtful now?
A community of programmers isn't the same as a community of average Joes. Engineers care about facts not so much about sentiment. That is why you can be harsh and still get the message through. Trying doing that in the general public though won't work. If you notice politicians always talk to the public like they're imbeciles. Short, easy to remember messages without a lot of technicalities. Quite the opposite of the way we communicate.
>Then use facebook.com@yourdomain.tld and your email address is no longer a cross site unique identifier.

unless sites smarten up and realize facebook@johndoe.com is the same person as pizzaplace@johndoe.com, especially when johndoe.com isn't a "common" email domain like hotmail.com
I couldn't say for sure, but I'd bet that it's because they priced the Xbox One at $500 against the PS4's $400 and between the two options a lot of people would just buy the cheaper one (especuially Santa). Dropping the included Kinekt was a way to get the cost competitive.
> Or are the antibiotics for dealing with an actual ruptured appendix

If your appendix ruptures, it is life threatening and has to come out.

Most appendix removals happen before the appendix ruptures. The conclusion of the study is that high doses of antibiotics is an effective way to prevent the appendix from rupturing without surgery.
The fact that he has been leading this for so long shows that he is a great communicator. You can't do this without.

Communication skills doesn't necessarily mean to be smooth and agreeable. It's one facet of it but not everything. On the other hand some people may think his style works because he is abrasive and emulate that (like some people didnand still do with Jobs).

In the end as a leader you need to have a vision where things should go and be able to communicate that. You need to give people freedom to do what they need to do but also sometimes clearly say "no" and risk to alientate some people.
I wonder if you'll change your view on this as you age.

I'm 40. I've been through 2 divorces and 3 full-on professional careers (academics, music, and programming). I have a 17-year-old son.

Although I can probably think out the evolution of my "software", it's really hard to think of my current releases as having a whole lot of backwards compatibility with that 0.0.1 version. If I had to give it a number, I'd say I'm somewhere around release 6.4.3.

:D

Personally (and this is just my conclusions, not one I expect other folks to come to), my views and strategies for working with the world are so removed from 25-year-old me that I have little problem saying that I am almost not the same person.

Certainly, my "software" has so many revisions to essential functionality that it's hardly recognizable as the same collection of code: there is very little overlap between how I reasoned about things when I was 25 and now, and I feel like that's not just a matter of "data" aggregation. My conclusions is that the software isn't, in fact, the same.

I feel like it's more that I've fundamentally revised the software on a number of levels to the point where there are so many essential differences the identity isn't even consistent.
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Typically studies do not report negative but lack of null hypothesis rejection (means "we do not know if it does anything"). What we also need is effect sizes (risk reduction, number needed to treat). When a study significantly shows tiny effect size, it is much more damning.
As far as I can tell Linus's feedback is almost always constructive in that it generally points out precisely why he thinks something should or shouldn't that way. The problem is that he sometimes splices personal attacks and uses an overly aggressive tone which doesn't really help anything.

I can somewhat justify using a very corrosive tone if you're not in a place of power and you want to be sure that you're not ignored (I'm not a fan of it but pragmatically it sometimes gets the job done). However it's clearly not the case here, he has the power to reject any contribution he doesn't fancy. And his developer clout is huge enough that he'd still be heard if he criticized third party projects he doesn't maintain.

From a purely pragmatic point of view I don't see what his corrosive tone gets him. Actually I can easily see what it cost him, some devs have resigned from their maintainer position in the Linux kernel and probably many more who gave up contributing at all because they were worried they were going to be shot in flight.
in contrast to government-owns-the-means-of-production socialist systems, where nobody gets the choice to not be poor.
Have you personally, in real life, encountered many people who were "outraged" by you using he/she?
But he is clearly telling everyone he isn't nice.
I believe they used Wifi BSSID tracking for that, GPS would be too battery heavy. If you're connected to the same Wifi networks it can reasonably assume you're in the same vicinity.
Wow, the claim of the headline does not follow from what the article explains at all. OK, people craft a narrative that fits their self-conception and use memories selectively to that end, some of which are not even real. How does "the 'real you' is a myth" follow from that at all?
I should've specified US.
Canada's use of AI in immigration system has profound human rights implications
Fun fact: If they cut you open to remove your appendix and find out that it isn't inflamed or infected
then they still remove it since the scar left after surgery is universally known that you already had an appendectomy
and so doctors, on seeing the scar, will rule out anything to do with the appendix as a possible cause for your
harrowing abdominal pain.

So to eliminate this possible confusion surgeons - all around the world - always follow this unwritten rule.
> RSS feeds are perfectly suitable for stuff like blogs, podcasts, webcomics, etc.pp. - not for platforms where a new item pops up every few seconds.

I definitely agree; a noisy channel is bad for RSS.

> So RSS is indeed not required to keep track of new submissions.

Disagree hard here. I have a twitter account, but while it's not a waterhose, I would 100% miss new comic post announcements - assuming that an author's twitter account only announced new comics, and didn't just tweet other things.

Comics are the perfect use case for an RSS feed: they've mostly got a stable and slow publishing schedule, and not time-sensitive. I can ignore that folder in my reader for weeks, and then go back and catch up.

Doing that manually by clicking bookmarks seems like insanity to me, now.
IMO, the thing that he doesn't seem to understand is the difference between criticizing the implementation and criticizing the person. Pointing out flaws in the code is not the same as calling a person stupid. If he could just learn to explain why the code is bad most of his people problems would disappear.

Not all, since some people take criticism of their code poorly, but if you aren't committed to the highest quality code possible then you probably shouldn't be working on something like kernel development. There are some ways to reduce problems with those kinds of people though. Asking probing questions to get the person to think through the problems on their own to fix them for example. Or having a standards document that all kernel code is expected to conform to so you can just point out parts that don't conform to the standard.
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Honest != a*hole. Politeness and respect != lie.
Do you ever fire people who are nice and really trying?
"not a people person"

Some people are are task oriented and some people are relationship oriented. I think he cares more about the project than making people happy.