skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are more humane. So much more then in any conflict before this. Looks at Dresden in WW2 or the carpet bombing of N. Vietnam. We have become too humane if you ask me. A Roman citizen could walk the length of the world untouched because the penalty was that the Romans would kill everyone as a reprisal. The job of the military is to kill people and break things. The job of the military is to end a conflict as quick as possible with the least amount of death of their own people. We forgot this in Korea and Vietnam. We forgot the first rule. I lost friends because we could not call in heavy support (Afghanistan). The Korean War would have ended with far less dead civilians if they let MacAuthur fight without tying his hands - A Chinese plane, takes off from China, kills UN troops, American plane gives chase, Chinese plane crosses an imaginary line and has to be let go, to land unbothered only to kill again the next day. 2.5M civilian dead, 2M soldiers because a weapon was consider to be to lethal. Bayonet, Bullet, Bomb or Nuke on a military target, they all kill. One just ends it faster.
>Immunization though, is a matter of public health, and my patience for precious fools on a mission is precisely 0 when it could hurt people I care about.

Aren't the people you care about vaccinated?
> If Cuarón's experience was always defined by a very simple interface (that of the "sirvienta" or "mucama"), then it's understandable that his version of her is a muted - one could say desaturated - version of the real person

That's just rationalizing away the fact that the film's subject was poorly handled by the film's director. Someone else - and I'm not suggesting that has to be someone whose experiences more closely map to Cleo's - could have told this story better, or at least in a way that would have felt less out of touch.

The film was pretty beautiful but dramatically, a miss.
The only thing that Apple is doing is getting out of Collin County, Texas--by closing Plano and Frisco locations. If you look here: http://www.txed.uscourts.gov/?q=court-locator you'll see that Collin County is in Eastern District of Texas.

So technically speaking, moving out of Plano and Frisco and moving to Dallas County will solve their patent troll issue.
A long long time ago some organisms “polluted” the athmosphere with oxygen. It wasn’t a natural event in your opinion?
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I hadn't thought of how frustrating it could be to not recognize your instance after each patch installation. This line, in particular, made me pause while reading: `I'm losing my grasp on what's going on on my own server.`

I created an issue to document your feedback, and I'll follow up with the product team to share your concerns. I really, really appreciate your candor, and I hope your comment sparks serious conversation and helps guide the new Memory team.

Issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/58100
I understand. I was thinking of Apple and stone fruit orchards where commercially fruit is grown in a standard way and would require exact clones etc.
While living in Brazil, I found an interesting version of this: Brazil's law allow (or at least used to) people to retire very early, because retirement is based on years of contribution and a lot of people start working at the age of 14 or 16. So you have a lot of people who choose to retire early (as early as 49) and are receiving a decent "aposentaduria" (retirement). Some families choose to take up work as part-time help for others.

I used to have a maid come in for about 4 hours once a week. She'd do all of our laundry, clean the house, wash whatever dishes were dirty, etc. She had a number of customers like us, plus one that'd pay her a set amount per month to come every day for a couple hours a day and clean/cook dinner. She was making about R$2,000 a month plus her retirement. It was a pretty decent amount, when a good salary for people my age was around R$3,000.
Is it possible to make a distinction between things that are designed, with intelligence, and things that have obtained their form through haphazard forces or the actions of organisms following their genetically pre-programmed behaviour? Even if "nature" vs "artificial" are not the right words for it?
Vaccines aren't 100% effective. Google herd immunity.
This article appears to be anti-button.

Personally, I think the craze of removing buttons has gone too far in recent years. What comes to mind are the iphone or tesla model 3.

I think having buttons for critical or common functions is actually a great idea. I'm talking about well-designed buttons, differentiated by texture, shape, size and location, not rows and columns of undifferentiated buttons.

That said, buttons aren't the only solution. A knob is probably the best way to quickly and accurately change volume in a moving vehicle.
I'm not sure what you want for evidence here: those two topics are common themes across a range of medical failures, across a range of areas, when you look at say, reports on why vaccination or mental health education programs fail.

That:

1. People don't trust doctors, partly due to how doctors act.

2. Doctors don't do a good job sharing medical knowledge.

I'm open to bets by anyone who wants to bet that either doctors are widely trusted by their patients or that they do a good job sharing medical knowledge, and am open to hearing ways to scientifically measure either.

But if you're not willing to bet against those two claims, then you probably agree with my conclusion -- that those two real problems are causing upset that's being (irrationally) channeled into things like anti-vaxxer movements.

Edit:

I can't find great quantified surveys, but this is a concern doctors have too --

https://www.physiciansweekly.com/doctors-losing-publics-trus...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2014/12/19/why-dont-a...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/Trust_Be...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-rost/dont-trust-your...

http://mhealthwatch.com/more-than-half-of-all-americans-dont...
Alright, I take back my comment after looking at the Startup School site a bit more. It seems to offer somewhat more than the basic course I assumed. Looked interesting enough that I joined the waitlist!
The published reaction rate for vaccines is not 0, but we also have qualitative, hard studies that show the incredible benefits of eradicating preventable diseases via vaccine. Being afraid of vaccines and choosing not to vaccinate is choosing to put infants under the vaccination age, immunocompromised people, those allergic to vaccines, all in danger of diseases with often horrific consequences.

The measles is a disease preventable by vaccination which causes hearing damage in one in 10 children, which is much higher than the rate of complications from the measles vaccine.

Horror and anguish is perhaps one of the most reasonable responses to anti vaccination movement getting any sort of momentum.
I just turned 24, I’ve been a software developer since I was 18-19,and it’s so interesting to go back in time and see what was going on in the HN universe on specific days in the past, way before I even got interested in tech (I was in 6th or 7th grade when HN started). I really wish I would’ve discovered my passion for tech earlier.
Certain lines of thinking kick in on the "second one." Sometimes the "second one" reflects a heightened degree of intent/planning. If you see one person dancing, it's just one person dancing, but if a 2nd person is dancing the exact same way, it must be a planned performance. One plane crashes into a building, it's an accident; 2nd plane crashes, it's no accident. And so on.

Hang on, I'm gettin' there.

Other times the "second one" makes it occur to you to extrapolate all the way to the end. Your friend eats one of your doughnuts - "Enjoy." She eats a 2nd one, "Hey don't eat them all!" This is more like that. When one big tech company's employees say no to a military contract, it's like "The military will go somewhere else." But when the second one does it, then it occurs to me to ask, could it ever happen that everybody would refuse? Could the Pentagon ever run out of competent tech people before they ran out of people refusing? I don't think it's likely, but still it's interesting to imagine. Far from leading to world peace I suppose it would just mean that those projects were still done, but incompetently. Dunno how I feel about that. War sucks, but waging it competently is better than e.g. blowing up your buddy by accident.
Just use a password generator to generate a space-separated phrase.
> We could stand on the side-lines booing their latest monetization strategy, but I'd still considered them to be invincible monsters.

I think that's been falling apart for a while now due to fan backlash. Activision has never been very popular, now Blizzard fans have finally gotten the message that they are one and the same, reacting in overblown ways to mobile announcements.

EA struggles from the same reputation issue as Activision. The latest Battlefield was met with quite some hostility and afaik hasn't been doing very well commercially, while the last Mass Effect received luke-warm reception killing the franchise for good.

If it wasn't for that very smart PR move of keeping Apex Legends under wraps, until release, EA would also be in quite some trouble now. Particularly with Anthem underwhelming people everywhere, confirming the notion that whatever made Bioware special, is by now long gone.

Doesn't look that much better at Bethesda with their Fallout 76, after years of taking the fan-goodwill for granted, they've now managed to really piss people off.

Take2 and Ubisoft have mostly managed to pull through unscathed so far, but imho overall this is the result of indie development and publishing having gotten as strong as they are now. Nowadays consumers can choose from a wide selection of very high-quality games, often sold below the usual full-retail price and they've become very aware of it.

If the established big players want to keep their dominance they need to change their course heavily, show actual goodwill instead of constant willingness to exploit every commercial angle available.
I wrote a browser extension a while ago that adds more of these lesser known HN pages to the nav. I like having a way to get to all of them individually from the top of every page.

https://github.com/skibz/hnlists
It's always important to remind that economic blocs aren't about free markets but exactly the opposite: they are about restricting free trade.

Considering this, Brexit is positive because it's going to free GB from the whips of EU. The major risk here is GB isolating itself even more by not opening up their market. For what's worth, I believe this is not going to be the case (maybe wishful thinking) too much. Another sad thing is that there is a high chance that the EU won't tolerate free trade with GB.

For those who wants a mid ground or believe that the best thing is for the trade agreement to continue my message is that free trade is always unilateral. Not coerced. EU is about coercing people from making business with inside entities and closing the market for the rest of the world. This is bad.

We should fight for our liberty to trade with whoever we want instead of attacking Brexit or its Brexit apologists.
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You can't have small ones due to the market-distorting effects of the CAFE standard for fuel economy. Small pickups are worse than little compact sedans, but would get lumped in with them and mess up the manufacturer's average fuel economy. Large pickups are in a different category, so they don't count.

So people thinking about stuff like "Human induced climate change" are actually at fault here, causing more giant trucks to be in use. It would be good to lay off on the regulations; stuff always goes wrong.
> Aren't the people you care about vaccinated?

It is not that easy. Some people cannot be vaccinated, for example measles vaccination isn't licensed for babies younger than 6 months AFAIK. So they will still be at risk from others who could have gotten vaccinated but didn't.
Or they could just refuse to provide the contracted service or provide bad product.

The blockchain can't fulfill the agreement.

All the blockchain does is memorialize the agreement -- which is what a contract does.
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I suspect the "too much emotion" is a misguided attempt to spin a negative into a positive. I think it's more accurate to say that autistic people have "more emotion than they can manage" -- trouble managing (or lack of instinct for how to manage) their emotions to express them in socially acceptable ways, so they either feel overwhelemed because they don't know how to express emotions effectively, leading to either "yelling silently" (which creates a feeling of isolation from people they want to connect with) or outburst that scare people away (leading to real isolation), or both.
I think you'd be surprised at how not strong their opinions are when you treat them like humans instead of shaming them like child abusers.

It sounds like there's a lot of hurt and anger around this subject.

Hopefully cooler heads can prevail at some point as I think our health is more important than name calling or putting people we haven't met in big negative buckets.
Serious question: what do people expect will come up from all these lawsuits? AFAIK Facebook has been sued over and over again since almost the beginning. None of these suits are criminal in nature so noone will go to jail. Even with billion dollar penalty these are penuts and usually gets the stock up now that investors know this specific case is closed. So really whats the purpose of all of this? Its like hitting Moon with millions of asteroids and whether craterred or not, it keeps spinning.
The SSO domain is idmsa.apple.com. appleid.apple.com is specifically the site for managing your AppleID (e.g. changing your name, password, trusted phone number, etc).
Children who can't be vaccinated for legitimate health reasons can get exemptions.
Your highschool physics education was way better than mine.
Truer words cannot be said
Leaving the political opinions aside (especially since I don't vote in the USA), I believe that USA has one strong/clean/independent Justice system. There is transparency. I don't believe that in many other modern/western countries there is so much attention to the top judges.

I understand that people don't like either "Barack", or "Donald", and others before them, especially calling them by their first name as if they are friends or cousins. But just for fun, let's see if anyone from Belgium, UK, Greece, Spain, etc can name 5 top judges. I, for one, cannot :)

Sidenote: I'm not a US citizen, nor live in the USA.
No, but you do live with other people. As part of that, we all sign the social contract when we're born which stipulates how we can and cannot behave around other people.

As part of that, people that disregard vaccination are putting the lives of those around them in very real danger. Which is exactly why people believe anti-vaxxers are a problem, and why there's an increasing push to deny them the public sphere.
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There are still some filters on what they will allow over their lines but as a carrier of communication they have been regulated by the government to allow everyone's data across (mostly). There is the option to buy a domain and host your opinions yourself, google and youtube are not preventing that from being an option (and google will even index your site and help people find it)... So theoretically this isn't an issue.

In actuality I think society has reached a point where the ability to post something to facebook or youtube is actually a specific form of expression that should be protected as a public institution. That said, spreading dangerous misinformation is not wholly protected by free speech, if you are a weatherman and advise (with malintent) commuters fleeing an incoming storm to take a highway that is known to be dangerous then your speech is not protected, the government may silence your speech and you will likely face legal repercussions for doing so.

I think freedom of speech is very important and I do acknowledge that this issue is littered with slippery slopes but, not all speech is free and there are some forms of speech that should be controlled. The problem of how to do that as a society while not impeding free speech is extremely hard and unsolved, the best current solution might be to assume all speech is free until a court rules otherwise but that is not an ideal solution.
If your business is in letting the cars swerve onto your driveway then you will be liable. Don’t compare normal and regular human behavior on a platform to a meteor hitting the guests.
More than 10, less than 20. The article says as much.
They mostly make plastic toys, I guess the brunt of their workforce is made up of low-paid foreign manufacturing?
"Those who are reluctant to feed their own army shall feed a foreign army."
I thought you could file in that district if you just proved there was a customer there who bought something, even online.
Billion dollar companies come and go like dust in the wind, especially in something as fickle and quickly evolving as the internet. I’d estimate roughly 0% chance your grandkids will have heard of either of these companies.
Indentured Servitude?
I'm not debating the safety of vaccines, but I am debating the technique of horror and anguish.

When had that worked in history? I only know of it creating more conflict and more deeply entrenched positions.

Until you can understand and empathize with who you're talking to, trying to convince them off anything is going to do more harm than good.
It's a logical assumption for anyone to make, absent evidence to the contrary. The writer is avoiding stating the cause and effect as fact since she doesn't have proof, but the information provided is relevant.
Wow, yes I ran into this issue the other day. Had to use my phone to access. I assumed it was the network and moved on.

Can’t believe it was due to running Ubuntu. WTF!
Vaccinations are not 100% effective, and some people cannot be vaccinated.
Fiorina's compensation was arranged by a board that everyone acknowledged was hopelessly dysfunctional (see Mark Hurd and the spy scandal).

There's this claim that CEO compensation doesn't correlate well performance. I could see your Carly Fiorina and raise you Steve Jobs or Jack Welch or any other number of anecdotes. What's the real statistical correlation in the S&P 500?
Makes sense. Elon's scared of AI and Twitter still can't keep a lid on fake accounts. Manipulation of online dialog is still a real threat. It's weird though, how someone who's ultimately fearful of AI sponsors an initiative to advance and make available that exact technology? Anyway, too bad I can't use this to get out of work emails.
It is a trust based system. How long do you think a bank or any business can operate if it routinely defrauds its peers or customers.

Goodwill is an asset that companies care about.
Any more details (that you're willing to share) on this? You mentioned they're only the "Head of HR", but you say you were a core product dev (senior by the timeline you give). Did you accept underpay because you were early? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around an 8-month "Head of HR" making out significantly better than a (first 20?) Sr Product dev (not questioning your story though).
Free speech is not a black and white issue, there are forms of expression that are limited in the US and I think as a society we agree with those limits. Calling for the assassination of a public figure or hiring a hit man are both obviously bad speech and should not be free.
Comment you are responding to also said "or stifle". There's no need to wait until someone is 100% silenced to disagree with the lack of neutrality. Maybe neutrality isn't important to you, but it's ok that it's important to others.
You're paying a third of what someone on the US federal minimum wage would make during that time (7.25 x 40hr/week x 20 weeks).

Edit: oh, I thought it was 2000 total, not per month.

Never mind then, though I do think this is would ideally be a government program.
The whole 10x, 100x engineer thing is a bust. If a company hires a bunch of squabs who don’t know jack, a reasonably talented engineer comes on board and might legit be 10x, or more. The problem is we have no legit baseline to build factors on, and we already know most company’s hiring practices are awful.
The question is: With prices returning to sanity, is it a better bang for your buck to get a 1660 or 2060. Seems like a $100 difference. But the 2060 seems like still an amazing value today.
Funny, I went looking for that quote and the word ‘defunct’ seems to have been removed. Maybe TheReg reads HN.
Like line numbering in BASIC. Leaves room to insert.
So it's basically a bunch of startups within a company. Well, then I'd definitely switch to Kanban and have as little process as possible, just like Agile Manifesto says: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
The only lesson I wish new UX designers would learn about buttons is to make them actually look like buttons. Don't make me wonder if a flat borderless vague icon is actually a button or not.
I am pro-vaccination, but forcing anyone to anything to their body is in some ways worse than restricting their speech.
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You said the work is "self-paced", does that mean there are no instructors and no set times I have to be "in class"?
Maybe now he can get into his target high school.
Sounds Marxist to my ears.
I'm sure there's a great movie to be made about Cleo's life, from her perspective and showing us more of the underbelly of Mexican society at the time. My - admittedly half-assed argument - is that Cuarón might have not had that movie in mind, and analyzing the film as "Cuarón screwed up by not making the film I wanted to see" misses that point.

I wish I had seen way more about the ship that comes and picks up the baby and her mother at the end of Children of Men... but the movie wasn't about them.
Are new features still implemented in Arc?
Scary, that is almost the exact code I came up with.

The funny thing is balanced parens can be recognized with with a state machine it is just ugly.

state_data = {
'0p':{
'(':'1p',
')':'fail',
'END':'pass',
'OTHER':'0p',
},
'1p':{
'(':'2p',
')':'1p',
'END': 'fail',
'OTHER':'1p',
},
'2p':{
'(':'3p',
')':'2p',
'END': 'fail',
'OTHER':'2p',
}

...
}

Just make sure the state machine has as many states as you need paren levels.

I admit the moment that the math vernacular appears my brain seems to shut down, however after reading the proof that balanced parens cannot be described several times. It seems to depend on a couple things.

1 The string is allowed to be infinite the state machine not.

2 "But state(B, start, p) is the same state as state(B, start, q)!" why? the strings are defined to be different I see no reason they would be in the same state.

EDIT added analysis of article proof.
1. Demonetization absolutely is a form of censorship, you are making it more difficult to express yourself and limiting that expression to people who can afford to go to the lengths required, that means that some speech is becoming limited.

2. Google is a private company and has no obligation to support free speech on their platform.

But! Society is shifting to view recorded video as an expression of speech, and view facebook as a forum of ideas. These companies likely should be shifted to fall under carrier laws as they are a method for communication.