skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refusing to address the issue is the catch phrase of the far rights view about immigration. It is a poor argument for hate speech regardless if it target someone based on gender or race.

And no, status quo is not served by active addressing the issue rather than mud slinging. It is a well established fact that immigrants has a higher rate of crime and sexual assault. To take Swedish numbers, a Muslim immigrant is 1000% more likely to commit rape than a christian born Sweden. Refusing to debase the discussing by focusing on race and religious demographics does not mean Sweden ignore rape, nor that it is pretending that the problem does not exist (which the far right constantly accuse the government of). Instead the government create policy that address segregation, low income and other factors that plays into crime regardless of skin color or religious faith. A far cry from refusing to address the issue and serving the status quo.

We know how to take the high road in regard to racism, and as a bonus it actually work. Feminist critique when used as an excuse for hate speech does neither. "Toxic masculinity" is misandry, plain and simple, and by continuing with such language all we get is more hate rather than effective policies that address the problems at hand.

That is the disagreement I have with you.
He said tastes okay.
Yes, that would be the point of regulation.
Rules and technicalities are extremely important to the EU. The EU exists by virtue of a set of treaties between the member countries. Legally binding documents that require the EU to adhere to said rules and technicalities.
It’s obvious: act young.

Die your hair and adopt the “lingo” of the cool dudes.

Like double barrel your boss with your fingers and wink and say “I like your style” no matter what he says.

Or if you agree with a colleague you say “fo shizzle” to gain their respect.

Refuse to program in anything old. All code has to be Haskell or whatever and throw in a neural network. If you can do that in a container you’re home free.
Under the hood of the world computer
An unsolicited email is not going to get noticed in the hundreds of spam emails I get on a weekly basis (currently 189 since February 3).
And Go and Rust stealing their thunder in terms of mind share.
I would like to point out that "Diversity Quoats" should be out right ILLEGAL and they are DISCRIMINATION

You are removing hiring staff on:-

* Equal Opportunity

* Merit

* Qualification

* Skill

* Experience

Replacing that with hiring a person because they are

* a certain gender

* a certain ethic group

* a certain sexuality
This is partly a side effect of tech becoming so big, it's segmenting into products vs services. For example, Tinder isn't directly selling software to anyone, it's selling a dating service that runs exclusively on software. You could say the same about Facebook, what software is it selling directly to consumers?

None. It's selling a social network service to its users and an ad network service to its clients, built entirely on software.
If people are better off not falling for scams, why do they ever fall for them?
Because that’s literally the opposite of how the world works? There are Chinese restaurants all over the place. Does that mean they’re wildly profitable? There are a lot of payday lending places because there is a lot of demand for them. And because there are so many, competition drives rates down to the efficient amount.

There’s lots of places where I’m not going to trust economic theory reflects reality. But this is an example of microeconomics out of a textbook.
Why do you believe that suncreen causes cancer?
Amazon Workers Are Denouncing Unions by Using Suspiciously Similar Tweets
Lack of transit funding no longer rings true. The area just funded $50 billion in one of the most ambitious public transit expansion projects in the country, with heavy expansion of the train network. This is after an expansion still completing to grow its rail network. (Granted, it should have happened earlier, but this criticism seems less valid now than 20 years ago.)

And SPD stopped enforcing marijuana laws well before the state legalized it. It was classified as "the lowest possible enforcement priority". And then, last year, Seattle vacated all misdemeanor marijuana charges from prior to legalization.

Seattle, overall, seems reasonably well-managed. I think City Council gets up to antics now and then - they nearly lost $12 million in federal funds because of some political grandstanding in December - but the staff who actually run the city seem to do a good job.

Sometimes the level of effort to communicate and involve citizens slows down needed progress, such as the upzoning efforts designed to increase density, but they would get criticized for not doing that too.
I don't get how you go from my comment to that. I literally talk to people all day long, every day, about what we should be doing in Clojure. The idea that this is "Rich's gift" and we're not taking input from others is just wrong.

http://insideclojure.org now has weekly journals detailing everything we're doing in Clojure dev if you're interested.
"title:Clojure"/United Kingdom at Indeed.co.uk produces 4 Clojure jobs. Go figure.
It occurs to me (in all seriousness) that dog food fits that bill pretty well. Presumably we could easily make human versions. I think that there is more to it than that. Food that is not particularly good for you often tastes better and isn't any more expensive. It's that competition that makes it difficult. We can make pretty healthy dog food because we control what they eat -- they don't get to choose.
Always ask why and why not to do X. Talk in terms of value add and intrinsic costs. Don't pitch building a lawnmower if you just want to trim a tiny grass stem.

The key here is simplicity. You want a system that 1) does what you want it to do 2) is simple and 3) easy to maintain. These points may mean different things to people within different domains, but for me, having fewer dependencies mean less points of failure, easier to understand/document and less prone to failures imo.

Hah, I had to deal with a code review comment recently where someone pitched creating a whole new C++ container to track just a minor exception case. Doing it this way is gonna cost a lot of engineering time plus added risk of a regression, on top of insignificant value add to the existing implementation. Realistically speaking, we could've just limp on that edge case if statement check that's well documented to describe what its intent was, and if more hairy edge cases come up down the road, we can throw up our hands and circle back to implementing THAT "more ideal" solution. (I doubt we'll even get there. I have questions for Product if we have such hairy requirements before I touch code tbh).
So when are they going to change traffic colors lights? I have missed a few. Especially troubling in large cities at night since they blend in with all the other lights.

Funny anecdote. At the DMV years ago to take my colorblindness test. Guy in front of me looks at test colors and says "red, green, red, blue." I promptly stepped up when it was my turn and said "red, green, red, blue." I passed.
A lot of us are on the treadmill of consuming expiring information. Not Buffett. He filled his mental filing cabinet with information that had a long half-life.

I remember being in grad school, encountering fellow students who would say, "I want to learn X-Windows, so I can get a job doing that." Not such a huge market for that now. This is why you want to have a working knowledge about the whole stack. You won't necessarily build a compiler or write a low level library in your job, but if you actually needed something like that, you'd know enough to shop around for the right one or hire someone to build it for you.

I all you're learning is how to jockey around one opinionated framework, or just barely learning how to glue libraries together, you're not learning information with a long shelf life.
But you're using huge amounts more energy, I think that would rest on my conscience a little more.
Google itself tried to validate the idea but ended up shutting it down in 2015. Google Helpouts used Google Hangouts to connect people with experts. If someone could make it a two-way street, and use credits instead of cash, it could become a time bank, which is what I'd really like to see proliferate.
In the huge HN thread here¹, yeutterg mentioned² their Bedtime Bulb:

> “I am on a mission to make lighting healthy. That's why I made Bedtime Bulb: https://bedtimebulb.com/ It has the lowest flicker I've ever seen in a bulb form factor—even less than those claiming to be "flicker-free."”

In addition to that, a few other database sites that test for flicker were mentioned here³.

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¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644590

² — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18650624

³ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646409
IDK, maybe the "we" goes beyond Instacart

to me, as a customer, the vendor-partners (e.g. Costco, BevMo, Ralphs, Whole Foods, CVS, Petco, etc) also seem a bit dirty. i mean, one can ask the question whether they were totally ignorant of Instacart's payment and tip related practices.
> Isn't it pretty much proven that IQ is mostly determined by genetics

The evidence currently seems to suggest that just barely more than half of variation in IQ is genetic.

> and that races like the Ashkenazi Jews are extremely above average

No. Askhenazi Jews specifically (not some group of “races” of which they are an example) are signficantly above average (that is, the tested samples are above average of other samples in a way which is extremely improbable if the real population average of the group isn't actually higher, too), but not extremely higher.

> Tell me - what is racist about this scientific fact: Black people are stronger and run faster (indubitably due to slavery / selective breeding.) Jews are smarter (most nobel prizes.)

Those two claims are not a fact, they are two separate racial stereotypes, one of which is offered with a parenthetical explanation for a potential set of causes, the other with a parenthetical apparently about an putative effect for which the offered stereotype is conjectured as a cause, and both ignore social reasons why the groups involved might be overrepresented in the highly visible top-tier performers in given categories without the group itself having a general advantage, much less a genetic one.
I've spoken extensively here on HN about my experience growing up dirt poor; such as having to go through schooling with teeth quite literally rotting and broken down to the gumlines without being able to afford fixing them. So you arent exactly making a strong case for me here.

But to make an actual argument here instead of solely an appeal to my history: I know exactly how companies will behave when untethered from regulations. A great example is that banks would deliberately delay checks my parents would receive so that they could collect overdraft fees.

I don't have much sympathy for payday lenders given one of the regulations in the article was to prevent payday lenders constantly trying to withdraw money from accounts in order to collect on fees. And the regulations would've prevented payday lenders from deliberately giving poor people incredibly large loans that they could never pay back and be effectively stuck in debt with due to high fees. Acting like these regulations would've somehow stopped lenders is wrong at best and fearmongering at worst.
Constructing straw men and tearing them down might make you feel superior, but I hope you come to realize that it does absolutely nothing to convince anyone who doesn’t already share your viewpoint.
Well banning them certainly would have led to many families being worse off in the short term (lost income) and coal prices increasing (reduced labor pool). The analysis needs to be compared against alternative policies that would have discouraged it through market pressure (e.g. free school for children with a free meal) rather than an outright ban.

Don’t ban the undesirable thing, figure out why people are doing the undesirable thing in the first place and address that.

Btw the children example is bad because there is an entirely separate argument about the child not being old enough to make decisions that completely muddies the point.
They can’t contribute to PACs either. PACs just pool individual contributions. They can give to SuperPACs, but SuperPACs can’t contribute to candidates.
It doesn't have to be going the exact same speed, a multiple would do the trick too. It can also be dangerous if it's close to the same rate since it can then look like it's going slower even if not stopped.
Bonus points, look for any opportunity to opt out at all. I get the feeling "sane defaults" are not the norm in terms of service.
There is another reason to switch from milk. For men over the age of 45, there is correlation between the natural (or added) hormones excreted into the milk and prostate growth causing an increase in urination difficulty. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Prostate-Milk-Problem.html
>Can you please point out where anyone has ever legitimately argued that?

How about where I entered the thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19100636

>chain emails claiming to document someone buying [luxury food] on food stamps.

--

>I think we're all aware social programs are abused. I also think we're better off with them, even being abused, than without.

And I think it's unrealistic to model the abuse as one-off, contained events instead of "pockets of underclass that grows up not knowing anything different".
I think /lang may be out of date from the home page. Here's what's on the index:

> Is Volt open-source?
> Not at the moment. Due to several reasons, right now the development model is similar to that of Sublime Text. The app is going to be open-sourced in 2021, so you don't have to worry about it being abandoned.

Edit: Just in case people miss the responses, my apologies, this quote may be referring to Volt the app, not the language (V).
Don't joke, COBOL is insanely profitable and a stable career path.

Every large institution has an old COBOL mainframe running some mission-critical software that they can't upgrade away from.
This is some jive advice
How to Be Good: Derek Parfit in the New Yorker 2011
The number appears to come from a report titled "Survey of non-bank financial institutions: Final report prepared for U.S. Department of the
Treasury", authored by an outfit called Dove Consulting, back around 2000 or thereabouts. See also p. 10 of http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.195... [pdf]
San Francisco's thousands of public surveillance cameras
The people that can’t afford it?
You could let people pass the username/password in as part of the email tag, like:

guerillaemail+myusername-mypassword@gmail.com

As others have clarified, only for complete throwaway accounts obviously. I tested '-' and '!' and those characters appear acceptable as the delimiter. ':' gives a very strange error on send when using gmail.com. Also imagine you'd lose some letter casing along the way.

Really just a fun and terrible idea!
I like the minimalistic approach though I'd recommend to align horizontally the content for higher viewports, e.g. `body { max-width: 1140px; margin: 0 auto }`
> how to stay passionate after so many years of 'basically the same things over and over': I don't have a good answer to that.

I don't know if my answer is good, but here it is...

If I find myself in a position where I'm actually bored and doing the same things over and over, then I move on to a new challenge, be it with my current employer or not. The most important thing for me in a job is that it's interesting to me. If it becomes boring, then it's time for a new job that is interesting -- partly for my own emotional health and partly because that's a strong sign that I've learned all I can learn from my current position.

And there's always a new job that is interesting!
just schedule the cron job:
-rm -rf /
Bourbon is just a just a name. Champagne is just a region. But whiskeys and wines have to fit narrow qualifications to be Champagne sparkling wine, or Bourbon whiskey. You can, of course, call any software you want open source regardless if it fits the OSI definition, just like you can call any sparkling wine you want Champagne. It doesn't mean you'd be correct in doing so.
Payday lending companies get shut down a lot (because they often break the law until try can no longer get away with it). The owners will shut them down, and quicky reopen them as a new company, shedding their legal problems in the process. Wells Fargo doesn't want to shut down and reopen every few years, so they won't give payday loans directly.
I use a desk lamp so It's really close to me and I get both the light and heat and I swap the bulb out for an LED during summer.
From the top of my head: beans. Canned fish (mackerel, sardines). Oats. Nuts/nut butters (ok, these are not that cheap).
While I appreciate the engineering effort that goes into this, it would seem like a waste of energy.

There are other languages which compile to C. There are languages with good C interop – some of these are just as small. There are languages with good safety mechanisms, some of which don't even use a garbage collector. Not sure why none of the existing languages would fit the bill.
Confirmed. Have dimmable at work and home and they flicker like crazy.
With peanut butter, honey and other things, it's surprisingly tasty
This study was peer reviewed, and neither the researchers nor the reviewers are drooling morons as you seem to imply. From the article:

"Based on prior research, we included a rich set of commonly observed predictors of well-being as control variables (see Dolan et al., 2008 for a review of this literature). These include socio-demographic variables such as age, household income, gender, relationship status, number of children and education. Such controls are important as it is possible that fruit and vegetable consumption would co-vary with, for example, income – someone becoming richer and as a result enjoying higher well-being scores and changing their food related behaviours. We also controlled for the presence of long-standing health conditions as well as health and lifestyle related behaviours such as walking frequency and smoking behaviour – again potential confounders that could bias any estimates of the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and well-being."

While I do think a lot of research in the social sciences is of questionable value, there's no need to shoot from the hip just for the snarky HN comment.
Yes, but open source was already used before the OSI came about. I don't think anyone knows exactly who coined it and when. OSI is trademarked, and they are in their rights to defend that trademark, but that obviously does not extend to "open source." This statement is an attempted protectionist power grab to assert control over the term and prevent competing initiatives from using it.
What makes you think dog food is healthy?
Anyone have an idea for how to block this on your iphone? Perhaps content filtering glassboxdigital.com? Not sure if that would stop however it is that they're transmitting back to their servers.
Will do. For weeks, every single payment notification was spam-filtered. Then a conversation with support@stripe.com was spam-filtered. I can't recall for certain, but I think the conversation was about the spam-filtering of the payment notifications.
I guess that qualifies as having a life-changing influence on you.

I took the time to read it from the Hebrew/Greek about 25 years ago - have not stepped foot in a church since.
So are banks, credit card companies, etc. Their dream is always the customer making minimum payments and maybe some late payments for fees.

Look at the dump that is Wells Fargo and the their precious behavior with deposit/withdrawal ordering in daily reconciliation to screw people into overdraft fees.

Drawing the line at payday lenders seems super arbitrary.
> That says it all.

Does it? Competition and survivorship have long been accepted as the premise of capitalism. What I find more disturbing is that we've been told competition will be to the benefit of the consumer, and this focus on network effects means that companies are looking for a way to stay on top WITHOUT the virtue of providing the best benefit.

This leads to Comcast-like situations, with customers that hate their provider but want the product and have no real options. Or Facebook, where people can join get disgusted and join an alternative...that can't provide the desired service because the desired service requires that everyone else be there.
I'm all for simplifying the tax structure but one kind of income should not be privileged over another.
The article says this.

> The difficulty is in knowing whether fruit and veg is actually the cause of their improved mental health. Researchers took account of factors such as people's age, income levels, marital and employment status and general health, and compared the same people's results over time. This approach helped to make the results more reliable. But we can't be sure that the results don't show, for example, that people eat more fruit and veg when they feel more cheerful, rather than the other way around.
Definitions don't belong to committees.

"open source" isn't a trademarked or otherwise protected phrase, it does not belong to the OSI, it is not synonymous with (has an)"open source initiative Approved License".

Coining a term or being among the first to use it does not mean that term belongs to you.

There are many people that disagree with the OSI about what "open source" means, and that is what it takes for a definition.

There is a certain irony in the OSI talking about open source like they own it.
> the typical case isn't "hey, I rewarded myself for showing restraint in spending my benefits while I work myself out of poverty" (which I completely support) but "stars above, it wasn't enough, again, woe is me, I need more indefinitely and why change if they'll cut my benefits ones I have gainful employment?".

Source?
Fruits and veggies are among the cheapest items in any grocery store in the United States. And we provide food stamps to poor people for this very reason.
Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting
that's funny. a market with almost inelastic demand is high risk for a business. right.

on demand food delivery is risky and price-sensitive? what are you talking about. there is always an almost inelastic guaranteed demand for food delivery, irrelevant of economic factors. unemployed white trash get pizza delivered. there is zero price sensitivity, because compared to the food the price is low, and the laziness is high. If someone wants food delivered, making the delivery fee double, will not make them go get food or cook. it will just make them find the lowest delivery fee and order there.

you are literally saying the opposite of what is obviously true.
Or the rotating / reciprocating object may appear to be rotating / reciprocating slowly in the opposite direction.

Even after 20 years in the metal fabrication industry that scenario still spooks me.
I think the high operational requirements expose a culture/procedural/values problem of the shipboard Navy overall, it's just particular visible in 7th fleet because of the unsustainability of the workload.
> 100% overlapping with what I'm trying to do with Zig.

I don't see any mention of meta-programming for V, which seems to be a big emphasis for Zig? This seems like a massive feature that at least I'd care about. I haven't personally had the opportunity to try Zig, but I'm routing for you, so I hope you keep going with the project.