skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, capitalism is about people having the freedom to make their own decisions on how they conduct their life, and the "invisible hand" that the system tends to push the economy in a positive direction.

Is that why the rich and the poor are becoming ever more separate? The disappearance of the middle class is a positive direction? The economy may be moving in a positive direction, but it is divorced from the people who compose it.

> Another would be how if you have at least two firms, all other things being equal, the worker will choose to go the the one with more favorable work conditions.

That's assuming both of those firms exist - what incentive is there for the one firm owner to make better conditions? He could possibly recruit better people, but if the two groups stay exactly equal then the pool of workers remain, and it can then be very small things to get those better workers. They won't get their pick of the best, but it may make more financial sense for there to be worse conditions and slightly worse workers. Many jobs don't need the greatest workers, they just need workers.
“Who Owns Huawei?” Perhaps the Chinese Government
Socialist workers built the key infrastructure that eventually gets turned over to privateers for profit. That's not capitalism.
Typical cursive is a form of connected writing originally designed for pens and quills with flexible nibs. Letters like ℓ have loops because when writing with these tools the downstroke is thicker than the upstroke. The result is a recognizable lowercase L with a thin stroke on the side. It's easy to read even if you've never had to before.

This form of writing was dated as soon as the ballpoint pen was invented, which was in the 19th century. Writing it with a pencil makes even less sense. By tradition we have clung to this terrible writing style instead of introducing something more sensible and modern like italic cursive, which is connected but without loops.
The new org creating a practical successor to sea-steading and 'charter cities'
These results at least aren't wildly successful. The kids came in really below average, and now are still below average but by less after a single year, which is promising but not like unreasonable.
Yes! All the Zarfhome stuff, like Hadean Lands or Dreamhold.

Deathless: City's Thirst and Choice of the Deathless, both set in Max Gladstone's lawyers-are-wizards-are-lawyers "Craft" series.
My friend made a twine game (no longer online, lost to time, darn) that I absolutely loved. It used the hyperlink interface as a way to dive deeper into ideas. And to meander and reflect.. eventually to navel gaze..

Text parsing is probably still a clumsy interface if the goal is to write natural language commands, but if the designer goes with the grain of the interface there is plenty of opportunity for compelling work
Not used it yet but: https://botman.io
So what do you do with types like Calacanis in the better world you might envision?
Kinda like how you wondered what the government does with tax money, Im just wondering how each kickstarter dollar is allocated.

Its odd you feel attacked when accountability is asked of you.
Do you have any link to such pages?
Bond salesman.
I understand what you are saying here ;)
Couldn’t one argue that Russia is just setting rules for its internal market?
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Sample applications are rarely difficult to make. I built a bot as an experiment for my team (https://m.me/PigeonCorps) and we've run into a lot of issues that fall outside of intent classification and response. The most complex issues related to non-trivial chatbots (or atypical chatbots) in my experience have been:

- session management
- horizontal scaling
- dealing with platform changes
- dealing with platform downtime/bugs
- hierarchical data presentation
- matching intents within hierarchical/nested flows

I agree, however, that most chatbots we see are not incredibly complicated, however, I think the typical points that are emphasized in these types of articles (intent classification) are not the hard parts.
Gaining access is different from having access though. The mechanism you're describing would require that the bad actor reset the user's password, which would at least set off some alarm bells. That's very different from being able to eavesdrop invisibly.
Frotz is available on the AppStore. It's an interpreter for these types of games. The base install includes several games and you can download more from within the app through the link to the IFDB.
I'm sure it happened several times, and the buyers are now screwed.
Not teaching cursive makes the cursive that people write less legible. Also, teaching cursive teaches you how to read it.
Really Sorry, but PHP is so old school
I have never seen a more incompetent redesign in my life, especially for a "unicorn". That new redesign completely falls apart on Chrome on my mobile (a OnePlus 5T). Comment threads get squished together so much that by the 5th comment in a thread, all words are basically vertically arranged.

If I switch to "desktop site" on Chrome, any text I enter gets automatically erased after hitting a certain number of characters.

I sometimes can't believe the amount of incompetence that is allowed to thrive at successful companies.
That isn't capitalism. Capitalism says nothing about how many hours to work or freedom. Capitalism is an amoral system. Neither inherently good or bad. It's about power and who gets to wield it. In monarchic systems, the monarch has the power. In capitalist societies, the ones who control capital ( bankers and now primarily central bankers ) control power.

Your example of "financial incentive to not overwork employees" is historically and economically inaccurate. Capitalistic societies overworked their employees because it is in the amoral interest of capital to extract the most value from a resource. It's okay in capitalist society to overwork employees ( even to death ), employee children ( child coal miners ) and even drug millions of people ( chinese opium wars ) in order to accumulate capital.

Your other example workers getting the choice of the best opportunities between two firms is also false. It makes "capitalistic" sense for the two firms to collude to keep wages, benefits, etc down. We had a big story about it yesterday.

"How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19666545

The point of capitalism is capital rules over the masses and that the goal of society is to accumulate the most capital. Whether it be by destroying the lives of millions or uplifting the lives of millions or whether it be by destroying the environment or protecting the environment is moot.
After having agreed, and right towards the end of the publication process, the editors refused those originally agreed conditions.

From my reading of the article, I don't think this is accurate. The original agreement was between an independent writer and the photographer. The editors had never agreed to publish her name. While I strongly disagree with their editorial policy, I don't think it's fair to consider them bound by an agreement made by a third party without their consent.
How are the poor growing poorer? From what I've read they're wealth is increasing: https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/vietnams-average-wages...
The MATLAB toolbox "Simscape Multibody" (formerly SimMechanics) does exactly what you're asking. It comes free with student editions of MATLAB, but for home use you need to buy Simulink & Simscape Mechanics.

An alternative that does not support animation as easily as Simscape, but will generate 2D/3D plots, is OpenModelica.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/simmechanics.html

https://openmodelica.org/
“We’re on the way to pinning this down,” ok, but that can be said about anything we haven't pinned down yet
Tax changes triggered a strong, negative impact here in CT., USA as it capped deductions from State Income Tax and Mortgage ( which covers my home office ). I hope lowering the corporate tax rate produces GDP growth, but that will take time to assess.
What makes it so fast? Apart from skipping gitignored files and binaries.

Parallelism? Some Rust-specific features?
Some people think sexism is only bad when Christians do it. Other religions have their reasons, of course!
Linking has to go both ways, it makes sense for the hub to vouch for it. Otherwise you have the same situation as the CAs without CTs: ie A can vouch for me, but I can't really vouch for this vouching, so another malicious B can vouch for a fake me.
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The telemetry is opt-in...

It is not "opt-in". The popup tells you to change those settings and if you don't do anything, it is on. Just by unchecking the box in settings
does not turn off all telemetry.

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Calling studies "malware" is just disingenuous.

I guess you don't remember the "Mr.Robot" incident[1] that we were not suppose to know about and many
did not consent? Pushing an update with "Studies" enabled by default and then pushing this malicious software is not consent!

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I don't see what MITI has anything to do with the rest.

Mozilla* is not in a position to be calling out other companies when they themselves are guilty of doing the exact same
things.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/16/firefox-mr-robot-extensi...
Source on this? You'd think that if it worked, all the ads you see would be in ugly fonts, seeing how well adtech optimizes.
But northern California has its own share of historic churches that could use the timber
Well if you have two sensors you never know which one is right.
> The discussion helped me realise that Given-When-Then is as much of a hindrance in some contexts as it is a help in other contexts.

I like when authors express a strong viewpoint but then also include descriptions of circumstances where their viewpoint may not be applicable. This seems to be alluded in the above quote, but are there specific contexts where Given-When-Then _is_ helpful and the appropriate mechanism to document requirements?
While I would also prefer this, I also wonder if a 5-hour/7 day week would lead to more productivity and a better work-life balance. This would definitely require more strict work hours and would necessitate more remote work to reduce time spent commuting, etc.
And it has no student loans.
Portability might also bring along with it easier reproducible builds? Right now I believe if you use wheels, you basically have to trust that the distributed binary matches the source code. I saw a case where a package was taken over by a new maintainer who released wheels for an existing source release, and everyone basically shrugged and said, eh, this is probably fine, because there was no easy way to check. It sounds much easier to build an automated system that could check if wasmer-based packages are faithfully compiled from source, because there's only one compile target.

Sandboxing also sounds valuable, as mentioned by a sibling. I'm thinking of projects like imagemagick that run all kinds of untrusted input through all kinds of processing. It would be nice if there was a simple default way to write data processing libraries the way djb would write them.[1]

[1] https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
Zuck literally is becoming a charicature. What a joke.

Except that world democracy is at stake.

Can we regulate these goons yet or what?
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More generally, is there any thing that can be done for companies in this situation or is growth outside the cash cow impossible? Can they spin off the new project into a subsidiary to lessen the effects of the mothership's risk and ROI demands?
G/W/T is great at capturing the context/action/outcome of a test scenario in English. It isn’t great for all cases though. Furthermore Gherkin could be updated to allow more flexibility.

Having structured format for tests/requirements, in English (et. al.), can be incredibly helpful. I would love to see some innovation around helping programmers and non-programmers reach a shared understanding of what the system should do and the cases we will use to verify it.

I don’t think unstructured conversation, unstructured English, or Excel tables are the solution. This is still an unsolved problem in our industry.
I was really pissed off because I had forgotten what the movie even was. Luckily a reference to it popped up in my RSS feeds. I'm pretty sure it was https://www.hailsatanfilm.com/ this. Now it seems that Magnolia Pictures has picked it up and put it in theaters, but when I first heard of it there was no scheduled release.
Ask HN: How do you think about dependency management?
Dear engineers and architects,

how much do you value having certain (micro-)services under your teams' direct control/influence over having other teams maintain those services in a central manner?

Also how does this reflect the changes in the industry regarding microservices (and data-locality) and conways law?

As a developer (or engineer if you want) I always strive to have _less_ dependencies and easier access to the systems _I_ (or my team) has to maintain in a production state.

How do you think about this kind of dependencies?

Kind regards,
Steviee
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Agree. But most of the functional chatbots we see on websites are using intent classification only.

In my view, this is mainly because we haven't yet reached the stage where we can create intelligent chatbots. So we make do with rule-based. Sort of Chat based IVR services.

We might be able to do better in the future that's the plan.
you pay nothing for the vast majority of your web resources you use every day.

More relevant ads = more money = better free services for you.

Would you rather you be forced to watch C.O.P.D medication pre roll ads and ads for meselthelioma ?
touching ? those are fast moving vehicles that can be a few meters to many meters from each other, and possibly have some other vehicle in between
He passed away last year, glad to see the legacy of his work.
No, maybe #220, if they're on the list at all. An nth-order effect.
According to one of the first paragraphs of the article

> The company has not been accused of breaking the law.

So there doesn’t seem to be any reason Zuckerberg would be going to prison.
It's a crazy crowded space for one thing.
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US and Canada use the "Palmer Method", which is much more stylized than "joined up".

There are a lot of loops and odd shapes to keep then quill nib straight. Most people realize that it's a complete waste of time when using a ball point pen.
Creating an Interactive Data App Using Plotly’s Dash
Have you looked at PHP7? It’s quite an improvement over the old PHP
Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
Airbus A220: Widebody comfort in a small jet
I wonder if it's not that districts are mismanaging their resources but that when you try to provide education to students who live in poor communities you must confront all the pervasive effects of that poverty. And the cost of doing so approaches the cost of any functional social safety net. From that standpoint, of course it's much more expensive per pupil to provide a quality education to impoverished students. It may cost 2X or 3X as much to give these kids the same education their privileged counterparts are getting.
Did you read the article? They show the image that was matched of the professor compared to the training image, they are completely different perspectives.
There are two problems with decentralized / federated p2p approach.

(1) Everyone pays for the infrastructure. That is, you pay for storing and serving the videos in a p2p video service. You pay for crawling and forwarding the search results to users of a p2p search engine. It may be unnoticeable if you run a beefy desktop / server on a 100 Mbit connection from a major metropolis. It becomes worse on your laptop or mobile on a metered connection, or on a rural DSL.

(2) The speed and reliability of a distributed system depends on all its nodes. SREs running a bunch of servers at many nines is one thing. You and me running goodwill p2p nodes is another. To achieve comparable reliability, many more nodes would be needed. Also, with enough nodes, p75 latency may be okay, but p99 is going to be poor. Compare to torrents, where last month's content may arrive in seconds, and obscure content from 5 years ago may take days.

The sad thing is that most people are not ready to shell out the amount which marketing companies pay for the ads they see. Even less are they ready to make their experience slower and requiring more technical chops.

For the few that care, there's PeerTube, ipfs, distributed search, etc.

If Mozilla only tries to pursue goals that have a chance of global success, I'm fine with that. Let them keep Firefox and Rust in a good shape; more than enough for me.
Google's AI experts try to automate themselves
> If you wrote down an objective standard to measure an adventure or text game by

There is such a standard, devised by Andrew Plotkin (edit: in 1996). Quite a few games have been rated on it.

http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Cruelty_scale
Can we please stop with the hyperbole ?

Facebook absolutely deserves to be regulated but right now nothing they or Zuckerberg has done is remotely illegal.
I don't know about the others, but Kopernik was hardly a "fundamental" priest. He organized the defense of Prussian towns who sided with Poland against a Teutonic Knights army who had the permission of the pope to "baptize" these "pagan" lands.

Polish/Prussian side (which Kopernik supported, even including participation in the defence of the besieged city) argued that pagans had the right to live and defend their land, and that faith alone is not a sufficient justification to conquer foreign countries.

And it's not even sure if Kopernik was a priest at all. He was a canon at Frombork Cathedral, but at the time you didn't have to be a full-blown priest, he could have just been a deacon or even a subdeacon (and that's the currently favoured theory).
There was no dispute about Google’s right to use the telephone poles. It was about an ordinance the city passed that allowed Google’s contractors to relocate AT&T’s equipment, instead of giving AT&T a chance to do the relocation itself. (The same contractors responsible for tearing up Louisville streets: http://wdrb.images.worldnow.com/images/17611056_G.jpeg) Also, the lawsuit was resolved just four months after Google selected Louisville as a Fiber City, two months before Google started nano-trenching, and 18 months before Google gave up after having covered just a few neighborhoods.
Because Democrats control the House and have subpoena power.
That same linked page by Edward Tufte (of data visualization fame) has a proposed revised slide that would have more adequately conveyed the risk
Can we avert an electrical meltdown?
I meant that the comparison to the email is not adaquate because the number of common email domains had been steadily decreasing (and I hate it).
Where is the example of "society commonly accepting the Jewish practice?" Not hn society, as you can see in the thread. Not Jewish society, as you can see in the article.

In any case, this is not a Jewish practice. The practice in this article is specific to certain hasidic sects, within the haredi minority... And very few outside of the haredi minority are accepting of sexism within the community. It's a big point of conflict.
Precisely. I thought they were too difficult. They are not if the use case is viable and you can solve it programmatically. The Hard thing is to guide the flow of the user and really designing the flow.
I can't agree more. I'm still to see a testing tool that can be used for specification and used by end users. Today everything is developer centric. Maybe there's no escape to this. The solution is really to make your developers understand the business.
So it certainly is not a waste of everyone's time, and it does add to the language but only in the sense that it is, can be, and should be, considered a form of art. And last time I checked beauty is not a waste of time (well not always). I learned italics instead of cursive in the 1980s; I was in the first year they dropped cursive. I lamented not learning cursive when I saw my mom's handwriting...but I also lament not learning art when I was young when I see people effortlessly sketch out a dog or some thing like that. Yet my lament is not enough to invest the time to learn those skills; I would rather learn some other thing; but I am not everybody and I know some people that certainly love cursive and have learned different variations of cursive and some have gone into calligraphy. So I think it should be some form of an elective, just like art class. Perhaps that is the proper place.
People go length before considering Capitalism may have failed as a framework for organizing society.
https://qz.com/1417818/hard-to-read-fonts-can-help-boost-you...

Here's a font designed to leverage the effect for improving recall
Javascript will be the most long lasting language
> Is it just because Arnold Robbins is a woman?

Arnold and his family would be surprised to hear that.

https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/459
Not yet. Maybe I will take a look.
I live it one of these cities. In California. Beautiful landscape. Fields and mountains and ocean. My car is always covered in filth from the air. As is my balcony. I often stand atop a mountain and look out over the thick, visible layer of smog that tops the city - a city that has made vast progress in the last 4 decades. That progress has gotten us from nearly inhabitable to simply disgusting and unhealthy. Where are these solutions, exactly?
You're doing the Lord's work for those of us who are currently at work and therefore cannot type out long-form comments.
And this conversation is happening in a two hour stand up meeting with a dozen people including upper managers.
I mean, even if you believe that all gender (and minority in general) issues have been solved in the sciences, as of [pick arbitrary date between 1980 and 2019], and there is no longer any dismissal, harassment, or discouragement of women pursuing a career in the sciences, I think we as a society can handle another forty, fifty years of rubbing every "see? Women can too do science as well as the menfolk" achievement in the metaphorical face of the centuries of dismissing women as by-and-large sub-intelligent creatures not temperamentally suited to any serious intellectual work.

Even if it is completely unnecessary nowadays, because women are no longer dismissed, individually or collectively, as not contributing to science, because women are no longer harassed, sexually or misogynistically, when they try to pursue a career in science, I still think it's fair to let people glory for awhile longer in achieving what people once thought they wouldn't, even if most of the disbelievers are centuries dead and hardly any of them are still alive and posting on the internet.
Absolute shocker.
>Calling this "raw ignorance" is a non-explanation.

I called blaming cooking skills an act of raw ignorance. And I'll stand by that, even if people here feel the need to downvote me for it. There are thousands of meals that can be made with bare minimum skill, if you can cut a vegetable or put something in a pan.

Knowing what meals to make is admittedly harder, which is why I said so in my comment. But saying "I don't know how to cook" is not a valid excuse.