skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Europe, it also enabled rearrangement of tenancies for better use of land, and for some the chance to switch to being a free tenant in place of mere serf. Suddenly there was a chance to make money from what might be profitable to sell at market rather than what the lord required them to grow. Growing what they chose on land for coin, in place of being required to give x sacks of wheat, or y sheep every year, may have been the first real opportunity to make in excess of subsistence.

Failing that, run away to another region to work for higher rates as a labourer and hope your liege lord doesn't find you.

Little wonder that there were new laws trying to stop mere serfs profiting from this.
Google and Chromium are extremely similar. Very very minor differences.
yawn more redirection and shifting. He stepped out of his own area of expertise to push an agenda of misogyny. He acted unethically and must face the consequences that entails
Rights as they are actually implemented either by the UN or the US (the right to a fair trial is often brought up here) don't figure themselves to be only negative rights, Brison finds that UDHR reads "all human beings are born free an equal in dignity an rights", and Germany has explicit restrictions on freedom of speech. The issue here is not about granting "freedom to"s, but rather investigating why the negative liberty is even there. I've never been too convinced by the negative vs positive liberty dichotomy since you can express the same rights in either framework. "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech.." can be phrased as "Everyone [whom this constitution applies to] has the right to freedom of speech".

The only way the US manages to function (in contrast to Germany or Canada for instance) is by codifying similar rules outside of the constitution. For instance, restrictions on child porn, assault letters, threats, copyright etc.

I mentioned Rae Langton in my last comment; she claims to have found a way to challenge liberals on their own ground - pornography literally silences women by convincing people that their cries of resistance are actually encouragement. If speech is to be anything more than sounds and scrawls, it relies on meaning being reliably communicated. If women cannot convey their meaning in society at large then there are grounds to say women are being silenced. Suddenly there is a weighing act between the free speech of pornographers and the free speech of women. Caroline West defends this rather well[0].

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00455091.2003.10...
I'll give the OP an idea for a project, based on a problem I have in the lab: Pulling Pipette tips.

Any mol-bio lab has seen one of these guys around: https://www.sutter.com/MICROPIPETTE/p-97.html

Anyone that has had to pull tips knows how much it sucks. It takes dozens of glasses to finally get all the parameters working well, and that takes an hour minimum. After all that, you then get to start the experiments. And then a storm comes through and messes with the pressure and humidity and all the parameters are wrong again.

So, if the OP could program a calculator-thingy that takes in current conditions, some parameters specific to your lab and your puller, what you want the resistance and tip angle to be, and then spits out a set of numbers to program the puller, that would be SO USEFUL! I'm not saying that I want the exact numbers, but I'd like a pretty good range of them.
And website visitors may have gotten website content that wouldn't have existed otherwise.

We wouldn't have as much web content as we do today if it weren't for web advertising. (Just another form of payment).
If these licenses weren't already well known I might hear "MIT License" and recognize MIT as a well established and prestigious institution and assume the license therefore has some legitimacy. I might also guess that as an academic institution the license won't be focused on protecting commercial interests as much as sharing knowledge, though I couldn't be certain about that. Similarly for the other established institutions. "General Public License" is quite general, but I could guess it's intended for general purpose use rather than a specific project and that it is public rather than private or commercial.

But these licenses are already well known so the fact that their names are not terrible explicit is less relevant today. A new license hoping to gain adoption should try and do better but "Blue Oak" is clearly worse. It is also not an institution that seems likely to establish a reputation for things beyond the license, unlike MIT, Mozilla or the EU.
"Ancient Alien Theorists Believe ... "
> Who is paying for the cost of the car up front? That is the person who is carrying the capex and credit risk of this operation.

Banks, ostensibly. That's what banks do, buy credit risk.

Or Tesla might just take the risk themselves, they continue to be in a reasonable position to raise cash. That's not typical for them though, they've traditionally relied on banks for consumer financing.

This is speculation now, but I get the vibe from Elon that he is interested in a revenue share in the ridesharing world, but that he doesn't think Tesla should be own its own fleet. That puts them into a much more airy fairy financial model, and I think Elon likes the economics of selling cars. Tesla is already a hard enough sell on Wall Street as it is, without a big fleet of cars depreciating on the books.
And that open source Explorer is a pretty nice starter app for anyone needing a virtual globe!

https://worldwind.earth/
They still do it in the US also, but you'll pay about 4x more for your milk. You can often find milk on sale for $1.99/gallon (it's a "loss leader" for supermarkets) while a half gallon in a returnable glass bottle will be $3.50 or $4.00 not including the bottle deposit.
> A) Of course we can never tell whether animals feel anything such as emotion,

I could think in some exceptions to this rule, but lets ignore the "never" and assume that this is true for now.

> B) but at this level, so you can't of other humans.

False. Even if I can't communicate with a slug, I can communicate fairly well with other humans, feel empathy and understand their feelings.

> C) In other words, the interpretation of emotions as authenthic rich mental states is just as valid for animals as it is for humans.

Causal phallacy. A is true, so B is true [in fact is false], so C is equally valid for A and B.

In fact neither A (of course we can't interpretate emotions of animals), nor B (we can't interpretate emotions in humans) justify C (therefore the interpretation of emotions is valid in both animals and humans).
Horrible article, and this isn't even a direct link to it.
I wonder why that is. I know theres a list of DoD approved software licenses and guidance on using open source software but didnt know there was a list of languages allowed.
So that's why so many companies say they use Python? So their competitors become stupidly slow?
From the website I linked: "Christopher Donison (1998) has commented on the relatively small proportion of female piano competition winners at a senior level, given that they generally greatly outnumber male students in universities."
maybe another way of framing it is that not all startups are software businesses, maybe they provide some other service that just happens to depend upon some software, and perhaps a bunch of other things
Buying bolivar means you think it's super low and is a good buy.
This is SCVNGR's version of that, in playing card format.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/

I vaguely recall seeing that Zynga did something similar. Some of the mechanics revolve around the addictive and aspects of these type of games.
It is not needed for displaying the notification but specifically targeting users. You would usually call an FCM function to get a token, which can be used to specifically target that user and is stored in the database. To send a notification to your customised target audience based on user-generated events, it becomes essential to use web-service that does it for you.

For example- Let's say you wish to send a notification to user A when user B sends him a message. In this scenario, you can call another FCM fn, using the token user A had generated. Of course you can use the web dashboard to send the notifications, but in this case, you would not be able to send event-based notification reliability and in real-time. Other services also work in a similar manner.
There's also a 3rd kind of deadline and they're the worst kind. It's the "our sales team have already told the customer it will be ready by then so you need to tell me how you're going to achieve that" deadline.

I can deal with hard technical deadlines and project milestones - the former is a fact of life and the latter is often required to help focus larger projects. What I emphatically dislike is sales guys making business decisions before checking with the engineering teams to determine how much effort is required to deliver a project.
Following the rabbit hole.
Interesting. In general this seems good, but sometimes I really do want my final submission not to be squished, e.g., because it consists of several distinct stages and is easier to understand that way.
Hmm, I didn't see anything about security while skimming the docs?
Warmer water supports less oxygen and life, so less stuff to see through. Not sure if that's the case here, but waters in the tropics are much more clear, but support much less life vs a kelp forest off CA.
I wish I had more time to write about this, because it's an important topic to me, but I think this actually has shifted over time. I believe it's not a smart phone / social media thing per se, it's a modernity thing, and that if you go back into premodern times, you'll find it was significantly different, and that loneliness was pretty rare.

The part I don't have time to write here is why I think that's true, but I'll say in a too-brief summary: the same tools that allow us to organize ourselves en masse into nations and industries, also necessarily create divisions and isolation that just didn't exist in most of human pre-history, which involved close-knit family and tribal units existing and interacting together and doing meaningful work together throughout their entire lives.
>But interest really spiked when Marvel unveiled the official Captain Marvel web site -- which was done in a deliriously retro 1990s style
https://www.marvel.com/captainmarvel/

The site loads Javascript from and performs XHRs to http://annihil.us/, and it doesn't load anything but a white screen without those XHRs.

Visually styled like the 90s web, maybe, but worse tech. :P
Loot Boxes in Japan: Legal Analysis and Kompu Gacha Explained
So it doesn't count if it's assistance for the wealthy? Seems like an odd distinction.
"Offence is taken and not given".

They are obviously jokes to illustrate a point. The fact that you call them offensive instead of attacking the criticism itself is fuelling the push back against you and it is continuously mounting.

I have seen people's careers and spoken to countless others because people took offence over basically nothing or flat out lined to ruin someone.

Men now are actively just avoiding women at work whenever possible if they are smart. Precisely because of this offence culture.

In the UK we have people going to prison for being "offensive" this can be anything from jokes in poor taste to legitimate political speech.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/02/27/chelsea-russell-and...
Leak video evidence. This is only going to keep getting worse unless we make examples out of them.
What's the difference between clang-format and clang-tidy? Do they have different configuration options? I'm only using clang-format so far.
Unconscious brain activity predicts decisions 11 seconds before action
Google patent shows possible controller design for its game streaming service
I think it would be dishonest if the agreement was that the software should be built in Java - but to me, this reads more like an operational concern. The client felt comfortable with a software package they can deploy on the JVM... but that doesn't necessarily mean they cared whether it was written in Java. If I were hiring a dev for a Java project, I'd explicitly hire a Java developer, not just someone who promised a product which would run on the JVM.
> The guy is a physicist, he is way more qualified than any sociologist to deal with statistics.

I laughed at this for a solid minute. Statistics is something that theoretical particle physicists frequently and flagrantly ignore, to the point where experimentalists have to be super careful in how we present our results.
Thanks for clarifying. This could be a good solution for a non Google play type phone, or just someone who doesnt want t rely on Google servers. It would just mean in the latter case there would always be 2 open connections listening for messages...
Trade unionism springs to mind. If the hierarchy is broken, you've got to organise against it. Yes you can quit and join somewhere else, but if the behaviour is actually spreading then eventually you're going to run out of good employers to work for.

The only other thing is the company pushing an anti-bullying drive from the very top level with a shakeup of the management structure to break up any structures which keep the behaviour in place, but that's unlikely if the company believes that management bullying is either a non-issue or actively condones it (perhaps because they believe that the bullying behaviour keeps workers in line).
Guitar is definitely similar. Look at most world famous guitarists & you'll see big hands. John Mayer, Jimmy hendrix, Steve Ray Vaughn, etc
What cost isn't eventually pushed to the consumer?

You pay more upfront, you pay more for disposal, you pay more in tax so the government can handle it, or you pay with a degrading environment in which to live.

Forcing producers to account for the full life cycle internalizes that particular externality and makes it an area they can compete in.
I had no idea what "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" were before clicking the link, but was pleasantly surprised to find that they are the work of Italo Calvino. Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler is an absolutely incredible book.
Google's style guide has been beaten in to me to get "C++ readability" at Google. Makes working on LLVM tough some times. .clang-format is a must for any project IMO.
Probably more to do with the runtime environment.
Being upset and wanting him punished is a fine and valid view. But maybe you should've actually known anything about the situation being discussed before saying patently false and irrelevant things (about this particular situation).
Industries and other activities (chess comes to mind).

I personally think it is more likely than not to explain the discrepancy. That being said, I'm not necessarily in favor of a blindly meritocratic society for reasons I don't have the time to develop today.
When I want to archive a site, don't I want the content, not just the headers? How do I save the content?
Ask HN: What documentary had an impact on you?
My college friend told me about his terrible experience working in Amazon AWS. This was not a developer position and he has degrees from major universities and solid prior experiences. The experience was so degrading he quit after a few months and took some time off to recoup. He is now much happier working somewhere out of tech industry.
A brief history of Software engineering [pdf]
Sending a text message uses the GET verb? Yuck.
> There is too much crank science in the world to evaluate it all in good faith

Absolutely. And thus sadly a solid field needs a certain (ideally low) amount of gatekeeping.

But there are also academic fields which are very far from solid, in which the same license to ignore "cranks" is employed, not to save some mathematicians time, but to build a wall around an ideology.

I don't really think there's an easy way to tell the difference "from 10_000ft", the two situations look identical in that there are journals, those who publish can get jobs, and later edit these journals... and without reading any of the work, there's no way to tell if it's basically solid or basically nonsense.
Yup, I don't blame the client at all for rejecting a Delphi contractor.

Where I live it would be easier to just start the project from scratch than to try to find someone proficient in Delphi to maintain it
Lambda does re-use the JVM instances where it can to alleviate that.
TwilioQuest is a fun intro: https://www.twilio.com/quest
So saying that men are discriminated against is a misogynistic view?
I came up with my own set of questions that hopefully show how a person can deal with human complexity at work (the bulk of our issues), rather than memorizing algorithms.
Some people don't like it - but it works for me:
https://www.5whys.com/articles/a-realistic-hackerrank-develo...
There are levels. You can't just say well all same prices are regressive, so dismiss any attempts to prevent exacerbating it. Also, it's foolish to say income is the only place it can be fixed. Reducing poor public spending, subsidizing preferences, acknowledging taxing as punishment isn't always the best solution (even if it works), encouraging public awareness, etc etc are all there.
Free Solo

Mainly because of Alex Honnold's perspective on why he does what he does and his singular laser-like focus. 10/10.
Amazon is eroding brick and mortar mom and pop stores, but it isn't doing that because it's a monopoly (it has 5% of retail sales), it's doing it because people prefer shopping online compared with physical stores. If you broke up Amazon into 5 competing e-commerce sites, strip malls across America would still be closing, and you'd just have 5 Bezos billionaires instead of 1.

And it will do nothing to help the millions of American retail workers who are going to be out of a job, nor the logistics workers who are going to be automated out of jobs.

This is populist demagoguery and scapegoating and not looking at real solutions, like strengthening the social safety net by increasing taxes on these businesses. At least Medical for All, Free College, or UBI have tangible, immediate benefits to people suffering.

Or writing laws on Data Privacy can directly address that issue.

But simply busting up companies? It won't address the underlying economic disruption happening, and if anything, it is likely to simply increase the amount of entities tracking you and risk of hacks.
The brain may need sleep to repair DNA 'potholes'
I think the implication is either that

1) The people running the filter are saying that in bad faith, they have actually trained it to catch "Bad Ideas" instead of autogenerated text

2) Training a GAN to mimic your political opponents and spamming sites so the bad political opinions themselves become heuristics of spam
While I agree with what you and others are saying, I just want to point out on the generous interpretation, there’s a good chance the people at YC aren’t aware of this. Possible (but less likely) that the companies founders aren’t aware of this also. There’s a lot of naive tech industry people who dive into financial markets thinking they’re like other areas that are waiting for a startup to ‘disrupt’ them - they’re not.
In our close beta 65% of the traders made profit. Usually people stop loss making strategies within a week or two.
spaceX marketing shills at work. I've been hearing this fake news about russia having sinister motives to not mentiom them the entire week!

first, the reason is economic competition. pretty obvious, nothing deeper as implied. secondly, Lockheed and Boeing and others have put much better ships in nasa service and never got any mention either.
The obvious answer is to levy hefty fine for dumping so that expected loss is higher than collection bag fee. Source: I live in collection bag fee jurisdiction.
Two party audio recording laws need to be repealed. Especially in the #metoo era. People need to be able to document abusive or illegal behavior without breaking the law.
Hint: if a worker perceives it as bullying, it probably is. It’s the responsibility of those in charge not to behave that way. The fact that people exhibit variance is part of the job of being a good manager.

Bottom line: if you’re being described as an abusive boss, you’re bad at your job. And you don’t get to take credit for the amazing work that may be being done below you by people who are professionals despite your behaviour.
I get why that's "yuck" but if I'd hedge a bet...it's probably done because it's easier to make a GET than it is a POST or PUT request and the length of a text message will never exceed the query string uri length limits.

Not saying I disagree, but i don't know it changes a whole lot in this case.
I've wondered about this as well, I guess in land-constrained locations this could be advantageous, but AFAIK they are not energy-positive on their output.
Identity by Any Other Name
Point being it is obvious there are different regions having issues in the EU.

The car rental places dont want you to take their nice cars to countries that have a higher rate of car theft.

Pretending all of the EU is equal is silly.
Landfills are actually pretty cheap, which I think is part of the problem. If I take debris directly to my local transfer station (Portland, OR) they charge a mere $30/ton.
I thank you for your sympathy. But in a way, I'm glad I was able to experience this. I wouldn't have gained the perspective of this had I not experienced it for myself. I know many here on HN certainly haven't.

I've lived involuntarily homeless for a time. I've been on food stamps. I've been injured and fired on a job. I've had dozens of crummy bad jobs; no benefits, don't care if youre sick, dangerous. You're a "piece" of work, and treated as such. You're a less-than-nothing, because you are who you are.

And then there's IT work. I've finally been able to claw up in the IT world as a systems admin. And the treatment I 'suffer' (laugh) are things like good insurance, PTO, actual honest to goodness sick days - and I'm actually believed, free coffee/espresso/lacrois, snack plates during lunch. And we have at least 2 catered lunches a month. Recently, my employer also sent me to DerbyCon. $1200 right there. Covered.

IT is radically different compared to what most employees go through. We are treated with respect and dignity, and compensated fairly with our salary and perks. Those who serve us when we go into bookstores, supermarkets, restaurants, and more are kept at the basic maintenance level of living - and that is if everything goes right. It usually doesn't. Cars break down; bodies break down; emergencies occur; accidental pregnancies happen; life happens.

Yes, I am a socialist, and also see automation as a solution. And also, unlike the propaganda, there's enough resources that we all can live decently compensated and respected lives. We're not quite there with 100% automation, and still need human labor for a bit... But there's no reason (other than greed) for barely-but-not-quite maintenance wages.
Dirty Money
Hoop Dreams
Let’s be frank, quite often not only do HR know, they’ve been actively protecting these people for years.
This is great. I was just lamenting the lack of a nice tool like this, and I’m looking forward to seeing this develop.
How the US government created a fake university to snare immigrant students
Yet it is all of the EU we are discussing. Either each country is treated differently or it isnt.

No flip flopping