skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is misleading at best. The FAA was instructed to let the industry to regulate itself more, a typical republican/libertarian belief. Boeing being allowed to self regulated created this mess.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2019/03/18/did-tru...

>Still, the US DOT mandated that the FAA begin the process of review to reduce regulations. The FAA assigned this task to ARAC, effectively putting the question of what rules to cut and which to eliminate before creating new ones in the hands of a body that includes representatives from manufacturers and airlines.
> Walmart is one of the wonders of the modern world, built from scratch in a hyper-competitive environment, scaled from nothing to the largest company in the US by revenue and by headcount, all resulting from a singular vision of saving everyday people money with everyday low prices. It is the most successful social welfare system ever implemented, saving billions and billions of dollars for everyday Americans without costing taxpayers a dime. It is a testament to the power of compounding interest, to the power of a focused plan executed violently for decades.

I find it hard to take the article seriously when it omits that WalMart is built significantly on top of our social welfare system and is possibly one of the biggest welfare queens in the world.
It's not just governments. I contracted at Nike for a project that had a boatload the developers. I was on the UI team and there were 6 of us building a UI the size of which I had built (almost) alone at the previous place I worked. This isn't the developers fault, it was all because businesses are so risk-averse that they must throw a boatload of money at something because failure looks really bad. Yet they fail all the time anyways.

The only reason some businesses don't spend so much on resources is because they simply can't - they don't have the money to do so, which forces them to be streamlined and 'efficient'.
The problem with this law is that there are children (like the child with leukemia mentioned in the article) who are unvaccinated for good medical reasons. Hopefully this law recognizes that and does not penalize children who are unvaccinated for reasons beyond their (or their parents') control.
> if only we could make this happen here in the US

Good point. Also essential to ban adults from various public areas who are not up to date on all their boosters.
This thread had a very good OP. I don't buy that this is at all useful though. It would be trivial in a modern computer to get much more precision than this. I feel like his arguments about conversion from analog to binary would have merit, if the scale that modern computers operated at wasn't so severe. Yeah conversion from analog to binary can be lossy, but the losses become smaller as you use more memory. And these days we have access to a lot of memory.

What's interesting is that our modern computational platforms have capabilities that far exceed most of our use cases. And this is a good demonstration of why.
Sure, XMPP has problems, but ZERO of them comes from using XML. Thinking that using JSON will help solve the real problems any federated protocol would face is very naive and will lead to more than a few unpleasant discoveries down the road.
does it still not work?
> For those living on a hunter-gatherer diet, overbites in the jaws and teeth in youth were often replaced in adulthood by what are called edge-to-edge bites, where front teeth sit atop one another. But with a softer diet, overbites may persist into adulthood.

This post from the other day goes into that aspect in more depth:

> Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017) (sapiens.org):

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19415973

After reading it, I was thinking if I have kids I'd try to feed them a tougher diet so they wouldn't have so many teeth and bite issues. Now, after reading this NYTimes article, I'm not so sure. The necessity of the cultural adaptation to these bite issues seem to be far more important than avoiding the negative anatomical changes that enabled them.
urllib and urllib2 are in the stdlib of Python2, and neither of them has a very friendly interface. They have been consolidated to just urllib in Python3.

urllib3 is a 3rd-party library that powers requests. It tries to offer a more powerful set of features behind a better interface.
I've often seen developers invent elaborate JIRA workflows and pre-checkin validation workflows that slow development to a glacial pace.

Also, JIRA / other ticketing workflows can take on a life of their own - at some point, many developers seem to realize that it's easier to describe defects and potential fixes, spend time categorizing, prioritizing, assigning tickets for doing things than it is to ever actually do them.
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In NYC, in financial services anyway, you are expected to work around 60 hours per week plus whatever more is needed. You are expected to house your wife in Connecticut and have your parents live with you to help your wife care for any children. The big draw for that is you can typically expect high end salary and bonus around 50% of salary or more - however only if you are present on the date distributed. It’s a very common practice to lay off in November or December, so employers can get the most work out of you without paying bonus or letting you cost through the holidays when things are slow and IT departments are in change freeze.

Since leaving financial services I’ve worked in social media where things are much more family friendly, hours are closer to 40, but salary is about a third less and bonus is closer to 25%.
They aren't "supposed to be more budget oriented models." There is nothing to suggest that, and it's frustrating that Apple is treating them as such - as are some commentators such as yourself.

Step back and think for a moment. How absurd is it that, suddenly, bigger = better? Not just for technical reasons but for marketing reasons? I think it demonstrates just how far gone Apple is.

There's a Steve Jobs quote in the Walter Isaacson biography to the effect of Tim Cook not being a product guy. Truest thing I've ever read.
Good to know, this is useful info, especially with respect to working with every recruiter and sticking to LinkedIn. Thanks.
London: 37.5-40 hours a week.
If they're running their own irc server they can run their own thelounge, or quassel server on the same machine, and everyone can connect via that, problem 1 solved.

Problem 2 is easy file sharing

Problem 3 is more features, ie IRC v3
The solution is to bite the bullet and build the rails. They didn't build highways to already existing suburbs in the valley or where wildfires have been roasting for 100s of years; those things popped up because the land was empty and the highway made building possible. If you build the rails and zone the area by the rail for density, a developer looking to drop a 15 story apartment is going to want to put it by the rail. Even better if you nix the rule about having to build parking if they build close enough to the rail. You can't do anything without the rail being built first.
Great insight! To add to this: To counteract, one needs to implement some kind of synchronization device, which has bring plenty of other problems. It would be exiting if nature would choose a more snychronized approach if it had the choice.
> This is just complete BS, drug tests are mostly required for mid-to-high paying jobs, not your typical low income job.

You may have been out of the low income market for too long. The landscape has changed. The vast majority of minimum-wage jobs come with drug testing requirements in my area. In the meantime, over my entire professional software development career, I have only been asked to take a drug test twice (and declined once -- the job was nowhere near good enough to put up with that kind of nonsense).
I suspect the reason for this unfortunate naming has something to do with the fact that strings are encoded in UTF16 in JavaScript. Having said that I completely agree with you.
George Carlin used to criticize people living in flood planes back in the day, catastrophic flooding is such a regular occurrence it made its way into his stand-up routine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUUbItrDjKw
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Money and respect.

And, those places hire a lot of people. If you want a job, and Billy's Web Front Ends has an opening, and the FAANGs have 1000 each, it may be more efficient to try the FAANGs.
> hopefully you're judged by your output

Why do people say this like it's impossible (or even difficult) for your employer to demand output that realistically would take 50 (or 60, or 70...) hours a week? Unless you are literally God, they absolutely can, and if they are abusive, they absolutely will. Whether you get judged in output or in ass-hours has zero bearing whatsoever on their ability to be abusive!
I'd guess half a percent? Can't imagine it being much higher?
As a kid watching Arthur and Dragon Tales, they would have ads for 7-eleven afterwards, due to them being a sponsor.

I didn't really realize it as a kid, but it's kind of weird that an ostensibly public project was promoting a place that sells the least healthy food on the market.
First we need to make sure everyone has reasonable access to the medical care that would provide those boosters.
So, roughly the cost of one or two good engineers? Not having backups is penny wise and pound foolish.
I'm trying to get at the underlying expectations - "get your work done" can mean a lot of things. At a prior job, it meant that you wrote a TODO list at the start of the week, which was approved by the boss. If you finished in 10 hours, you were done!

But if it's left vaguely defined, "'til the work gets done" can mean weekend hackathons in a we-work-hard culture, no?
> Why? Because you don't like the way it feels as an experience?

Yes. Exactly.

Imagine if you took the menu of the French Laundry and served it in a McDonalds. The exact same food. Would you still pay $300 a plate?
Those people are exempt, the law was drafted for their benefit among other considerations.

The current government would probably like to get some anti-vax votes and makes noises for them, but fortunately it's too scared to blamed if some kind of epidemic happens to actually reverse the policy.
As I mentioned the last time this was posted, the article title is clickbait. The actual ban only applies to children under six. That is to say, hardly any of them. Parents of older children will be fined.

"Children up to the age of six years will be excluded from nursery and kindergarten without proof of vaccination under the new rules.

Those aged between six and 16 cannot be banned from attending school, but their parents face fines if they do not complete the mandatory course of immunisations."
The dot over the "i" doesn't count?
> I'm not sure how you are judging "activity"

OK, "324 Kuketz-Blog (kuketzblog@rooms.dismail.de)" seems like most popular jabber channel, right?

Here's the #freenode top in this moment:

#linux 2000

#python 1950

#archlinux 1860

And it's ONLY first 3 top channels.

So, the facts matters.
> if only we could make this happen here in the US!

Hmm, isn't it already required in US? When I sent my son to first grade this year they asked us to verify that we have all the necessary vaccines, without it they would not allow us to register.
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Because land lease and related cost are significantly lower in India. Not due to labor costs.
Urllib2 introduced breaking changes with urllib so a new lib was added to preserve the functionality of the old one. Urllib3 also has breaking changes but it purposely doesn't live in the standard so it can be changed more readily.
I doubt anyone will force a kid that risks losing his life because of vaccination, to vaccinate. Let's not spread FUD
I reached this conclusion embarrassingly recently, after a few attempts at increasing productivity rapidly that were not well-received by coworkers.

Having thought about it more, it makes sense. Businesses are generally not paying developers by the hour, so why would they care about productivity when they can just pressure people to work extra hours, pretend it's a one-off crunch, make vague promises of future remuneration, or bring onboard inexpensive junior developers to work through their low-productivity processes?
And Brainfuck and Whitespace are technically programming languages. That doesn't mean it's useful to learn them.
> Specific to AWS it would be even better of the service allowed for the customer to host the CMK in their own account so they can choose to import key material if they like.

Looks like it does, based on https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/control-access-to-your-data...

"With Slack EKM, you can use KMS in your own AWS account to create a Customer Master Key (CMK) that always stays under your control. Then, using key policies, you grant Slack access to use your CMK to generate and decrypt data keys."
Does this content differ from what is already available on the PBS app with the paid "Passport subscription"?
Not true.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
Quote:

The discrepancy over this number is magnified by another element in the System Safety Analysis: The limit of the system’s authority to move the tail applies each time MCAS is triggered. And it can be triggered multiple times, as it was on the Lion Air flight.

One current FAA safety engineer said that every time the pilots on the Lion Air flight reset the switches on their control columns to pull the nose back up, MCAS would have kicked in again and “allowed new increments of 2.5 degrees.”

“So once they pushed a couple of times, they were at full stop,” meaning at the full extent of the tail swivel, he said.

Peter Lemme, a former Boeing flight controls engineer who is now an avionics and satellite-communications consultant, said that because MCAS reset each time it was used, “it effectively has unlimited authority.”
Why do you believe employees are worried about the actions of Slack instead of the actions of their own employer? This change allows companies to spy on employees.
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Good arguments but using DOM Api in JavaScript needs many more lines than JSON parsing and access. jQuery made HTML access bearable for a simple reason: DOM sucks :)

Average Joe Dev does not reach the impedance mismatch you mention correctly.
This takes me back to High School. My senior year (2002), the school decided to add a "computer programming" course (c++). Despite having a "computer science" department (a lab that taught pc repair skills), the course ended up under the Languages department, taught by the Latin teacher.

To be fair, the reasoning for this was that the Latin teacher was the only faculty member to hold a computer science degree (he also held number of other seemingly unrelated degrees, iirc).
Cool stuff. I’m fascinated by programming languages and their histories, and it’s great to have a visualization. It’d be extra sweet to have more detailed diagrams that elaborated some of the relationships (e.g. something like noting the Rust connection to Haskell relates to its adoption of a similar typing philosophy or whatever—providing some annotations on the nature of influence would be great). This could get very messy very quickly in a single graphviz graph, however, so you might have to make separate graphs for the ancestral inheritance of each concept, e.g. a graph the represents the mutual influences languages have had on each other in terms of their approaches to type systems, another for their influence on control structures/primitives, and so forth.
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I would be interested to know if any Italians (or otherwise knowledgable people) are here who can comment on this anecdote:

I once stayed with some Italians near Pisa, who were home schooling their children. They said that corrupt and ignorant politicians have added unnecessary vaccines to the list of requirements, due to lobbying/collusion with pharma companies and as a way to influence elections. As a result, some parents decided to home school their children, so in turn the government said that any home schooled children who don't have these vaccines cannot take the official exams.

Edit: these were not my "friends"! Very nice folks but this one triggered my BS detector. I never looked into it, and this story reminded me.
> You are mandated to take a vacation of at least 2 weeks every year

All at once? I feel like this could be a nice fringe benefit.

Many employers will balk at a vacation this long...
Wait, is Amazon the US government now? Should I send my tax money to Amazon instead? This is not cool, we should not have to pay Amazon money to watch our publicly funded television.

I don't buy that PBS doesn't "have the money" to make programs freely available. Running radio antennas back in the day costed money. At the very least, PBS could seed torrents, or upload to YouTube. I understand that neither of these methods are exactly free from any cost, but at least give us the choice.
Well the thing is that there are other countries and other countries may be disproportionately affected by climate change, for example: "Around the Mediterranean, freshwater availability will drop by almost twice as much at 2 degrees as at 1.5 — 17 percent versus 9 percent," or "But even getting up to 2 degrees, 'tropical regions like West Africa, South-East Asia, as well as Central and northern South America are projected to face substantial local yield reductions, particularly for wheat and maize.'

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/19/1690840...

So, yeah, you might have more productive fisheries, but the cost is the death of millions of humans. There's also no true indication we will keep climate change within that 1.5 to 3.5c window, so it's unknowable what the true cost would be.
Unfortunately the actual page's title is simply `SPOILER', so I did my best given the HN guidelines on titles. The mod-updated title also seems fair to me.
Reddit has been banned on and off in Jio and Jio owned Hathway.
IIRC, many school districts have allowed conscientious objection to vaccination requirements.
I see it more as several stages of life, some easier than others:

baby/toddler growing up in a multilingual environment = fairly easy

baby/toddler growing up in a monolingual environment = difficult

Young child -> teenager (e.g. I actually began learning french in primary school) = slow and difficult

Late teens -> young adult = the best time after baby/toddler

+40 = more difficult but not impossible
Unrelated but "Fight or Flight" is actually a great pun for pilots that I never thought of before.
seems like an ad for coocoor

actual CVE entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9740
Python 3 urllib and other stdlib protocol modules also use `splitlines` which splits on various unicode "newlines". Could that also be exploitable somehow? https://discuss.python.org/t/changing-str-splitlines-to-matc...
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What does it mean when people say they work 40 hours a week? does it mean they are focused for 40 hours, or that they spend 40 hours at their workplace (including chatting with colleagues, eating, browsing the web or moving across the building...).
"Scientific authority"? Science isn't a religion, it isn't politics. Why talk of it in that manner?

There shouldn't be an appeal to "scientific authority" but rather to empirical replicable testing and theories.

Also, the basis of science is the humble admission that what we believe to be true today is only true until further testing disproves it. It's the basis of scientific theory that it is true ( not forever ) but only until future tests may show it to be false. And this is why modern science has continually progressed since there isn't an "authority" to prevent new discoveries and thoughts and ideas. It's why the current "lamarckian" epigenetic studies can happen which goes against the "darwinist orthodoxy" of biology the past 150 years.

The problem with science today is the same problem with news, media, religion, schools, etc. Politics. Somehow politics has pushed its way into every facet of our life and politics tends to ruin everything it touches.
> what else is there apart from Shuttle and X15?

Buran, X-37 .
I deliberately chose the restaurant comparisons I did to avoid this bogus response. It's not my contention that you're unfamiliar with fine dining. I'm saying something different, and if you reread my comment, I think you may find it.

A good clue that your response is out of line is that you started it with "LOL". I do that too, all the time (more often, the single-word sentence "What."), and have learned to notice it as a tell that I'm writing something I'm not going to be happy having said later. The edits I make when that happens always improve my writing.
That's why high speed trains are displacing short plane flights in, for instance, Japan.

(IIRC the trains often go closer to your real destination as well. Planes get pushed to the less influential suburbs due to noise problems)
modular does support custom dns (at no extra charge) - eg webchat.kde.org is hosted on it.

there are a bunch of public servers you can sign up on rather than matrix.org - see https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.php.

our hope is to turn off matrix.org sooner or later (or at least disable signups) to prevent these misconceptions.
No, I haven't noticed that at all.
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That's great. I love open sourcing things, so in a perfect world I'd never have a private repo. (for a side project that is)

Unfortunately, I have third party assets that I cannot release under an open source license, that I would like to use for my side projects, and I would like them to be versioned alongside the code. That's not an uncommon situation for people who enjoy writing games on the side, for example.
Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?
Due to privacy and time management concerns, I have decided to take the jump and get rid of my smart phone. Unsurprisingly, there are very few of resources online about which dumb phones are the best. Those of you who use a non-smart phones, which model is it and how do you like it?
>The reason children seem to learn quicker is because they're exposed to the language every hour of the day. They have no choice.

They also have an environment of understanding adults willing to explain their mistakes and teach how to say what they want.

If you’re already an adult, this is hard to find. People will either switch to your language, ignore you, or find some common language (even ad hoc hand signs) to communicate.
My question is different: How do the team members who will not join the acquirer get compensated?
That's a fascinating read.

Analog computing may make a comeback:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/not-your-father...
How is urbanization financially untenable? IIRC, it’s been shown that suburbia generally isn’t paying its way when it comes to infrastructure, which is optimistically built with debt, and then isn’t self-sustaining from property taxes of just those served. Because there’s a lot more infrastructure to maintain per person to have people so spread out, and the values aren’t correspondingly higher.
Not even sure you can home school children in Italy. I don't think so, schooling is mandatory up to a certain age. Anyway, I've never heard of anyone doing it.