skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a great idea, so:

- How do you feel about the minimal training of seafarers and the existing directives to that end?

- Also, the use of vehicles hired without drivers for the carriage of goods by road?

- Amending the regulations contracts for sales of goods?

- Postal services directive?

- Sustainable urban mobility?

- and, of course, cableway installations, how about those?

"Well", you might say, "If you're going to pull facetious examples out of thin air..."

But I'm not; you can find the pdfs here:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124949/LUCY_ANDERSON/m...

It's just a list of an MEP picked at random where she was shadow rapporteur.

Are you really going to read through those documents to make an informed decision about all these topics?

Democracy and its politics isn't just about the fun, high-profile stuff you find interesting.

Personally I'm pretty happy I can pay someone to read and write all that stuff for me, and then make a decision based on a broader alignment that I share with them.
People are waking up to the importance of privacy. If FB had competing social networks, consumer choice would matter. As it is, we have false choices like FB vs. IG.
Sure they can. Accepting Bitcoin for payments is illegal where I live. It is enforced by fines and jail time, just like all other laws.
Is that really true about Asia considering that google was secretly working on a conformist search engine for Asia? Again, I think this is complicated.
Don't forget game development, especially users of the Unity game engine, where their "aggressive" GC has often been the bane of projects such as Kerbal Space Program. I have been struggling lately with my own Unity GC issues, where it's running the GC every frame, subsequently dropping my FPS from the 90 I need for VR down to 50 every few frames. Even the new experimental GC they have implemented seems to have no effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847437
If you're familiar with GraphViz (I'm not familiar with MermaidJS, but the syntax of the graphs themselves look kinda-sorta the same) then you should be able to convert a text DOT file to SVG using GraphViz then edit the SVG in LibreOffice.

I wouldn't want to do a ton of edits in LibreOffice because the generated SVG isn't the cleanest. I think it should do the job if your focus is on defining nodes and edges of a graph and don't want a specific layout at the end.
I do extracurricular lessons with schools - teaching engineering through fun experiments and the like. I'm not very deep into the teaching sphere as such, but I think close enough to make some anecdotal observations. Frankly, I have seen some pretty disgusting practices from teachers I've worked with. Not to say that is the majority, but it only takes a handful of poor teachers to muddy the water. Three theories as to why that is happens:

Firstly, many teachers subconsciously have a tendency to see their classes as a group entity, not as a selection of individuals. As such, when a couple of kids behave badly in class they abstract that feeling of "getting attacked" to the whole group, and lash out defensively against everyone in said group. The amount of times I've seen a teacher unfairly punish a kid because a different one has irritated them over the course of the lesson is astonishing.

Secondly, from my experience it seems that the type of people that go into the profession (thinking more pre/middle school ages, not high school/university) often have a propensity towards narcissism. I don't know why, but this is just what I've observed. They have little power outside of the classroom, had little power growing up, and were never really especially gifted academically; but now they've been given power over large group of kids with little to no means to respond. I see a lot of teachers projecting the problems they have/had at home or with the school bureaucracy onto their classes, and use them as a metaphorical punching bag for their internal struggles.

Thirdly, teaching work at lower ages has sunk from a middle class job to a middle-lower class job. The stagnant wages has meant that a lot of talent has been put off teaching where we need it the most, and with that has gone some of the better educated. Some of the children I work with are honestly better at some subjects than their teachers are (thank Khan Academy, YouTube educators, et al for that!) and some teachers do not appreciate it. Just last month I saw a teacher shoot down a child for correcting him, even though he was not only right, but polite about it. I was sure to let the administration know what I thought of this behaviour...

Note; please don't take this commentary as me condemning teachers. The overwhelmingly vast majority of them are incredible people that in my eyes are poorly compensated for the service they do - but like I said earlier, it only takes a couple of bad eggs to put some kids off of education for life, and that dissolution translates to the class rooms of teachers who are truly amazing at what they do, which ruins their experience with teaching too.
Small Claims court is pretty much a joke. You go, the defendant doesn't show, you get a default judgement. You think "great, now they'll pay up" but no, they never do and nothing happens. If it's a small biz, they just change names and keep on screwing people over.
I agree with you for US customers (and probably most of Western Europe), but situation in many countries in the rest of the world is different. Those consumers may not all be SOL in case of such fraud, but the recovery, if available, is much more involved than a single call / web action it takes in the US. My 2c.
"how 80% of food products in US supermarkets have added sugar."

The other 20% have added artificial sweeteners that taste awful. (edited to note I hate the taste and idea of products that are heavily marketed as "no added sugar" that are dosed with megatons of suralose or similar)

You pretty much HAVE to go homemade paleo style food. Luckily that kind of food can be delicious and easy to make and cheap... A big salad with a modest side of meat, a stir fry made with a bag of frozen veggies and chopped meat, classic meat and veggies, meat and spices in a slow cooker, etc.
I'd be ok with calling Zuckerberg a good person if anything he has ever done has indicated he's honest or open to serious change. But he's not. The pattern is pretty clear.

Ever since the Beacon fiasco he's been saying that privacy is important and that he's going to take it seriously and make changes, while every action he and those around him take moves blatantly in the opposite direction.

He's been lying every time. Year after year, over and over again, just lying straight to our face. It's not innocent, it's not naive, he's not dumb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon
I’m not sure but most iPhone users i know have Applecare so this is only an issue for those who thinks the price is too high
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Facebook won't have much of an impact on the 2020 election imo.

Users are already Leaving.

I don't see why we can't let FAANG grow big and fail like every other company.
> but you can't very well outlaw the concept of beef in a bun

Well you can. Lots of things have been successfully restricted in the past, in lots of places. It doesn't have to give rise to the mob, illegal smuggling or iniquitous burger dens that so often is the American experience of outlawing things.

Or you can just tax it until lettuce becomes appealing.
https://privacy.com/
> and some don't have a credit card

If your customers are from Europe, it's not some, but most customers that don't have a credit card. Credit cards are uncommon here (probably hard to imagine if you are from USA).

Online payments are a fragmented mess in Europe. Most countries have their own preferred online payment method (like iDEAL or bancontact), Paypal is basically the only reliable method that works everywhere.
> Freezing funds only seems to happen with terrorism related closures

Try add the word Bet next time in the transfer's detail...
As a consumer, I like PayPal because it allows me to shut off a payment stream when I want to.

A prime example was when I subscribed to NYTimes, and a few months later wanted to cancel. The only way to cancel was to make a phone call, navigate a phone tree, and wait for an agent. That was absurd, not only because I'm international and find it less convenient to call a US number... but particularly because I signed up and created the subscription online. NYT knew what they were doing by making it difficult for people to cancel.

With PayPal in between, I was able to easily just terminate the agreement. NYT could no longer suck money out of my card.
> I doubt any chinese citizen is upset at the crackdown.

Many Chinese were 'upset' at the 1989 crackdown...

You cannot generalise feelings regarding (violent) political events.
Dotty (Scala 3) recently added support for forwarding to a contained object via an 'export' keyword.

class A {
def foo(): String = ...
def bar(): String = ...
def baz(): String = ...
}

class B {
private val a: A = new A()
def foo(): String = ...

// Export a's methods as b's, except for foo, and rename baz as qux
export a.{foo => _, baz => qux, _}
}

val b = new B()
b.foo() // b's implementation
b.bar() // a's
b.qux() // a's baz
Add a "time" variable to the equation and then come back some _time_ later. Then we can compare how many have used it in 2009, 2019, and 2029.
I didn't, but that wasn't up to me, I just did the technical implementation for them.
We manage projects using only GitHub
But as a "bank" there must be some requirement to provide a human interface for resolving these cases.
In the case of Paypal it's not exactly a lack of customer service, as you can call or email and you will get a response, but a specific policy to not disclose the reason you are banned.
Same here. I find it easy to use.
I think google is guilty of a lot of things in Asia, but it’s not like windows in China is like windows in Denmark either.

I haven’t heard about google products being used to organise genocides though, but Facebook has.
Comments like these are the reason why the HN community becomes a bubble more and more. New users just don't want to deal with this kind of hostility.
Obligatory IANAE (I am not an economist.)

I do not believe an UBI on the level of an livable income will increase labor participation.
The linked study suggests that an increase of income for low income households will lead to a higher overall demand and therefore to an increased economic activity and a larger labor force. However I would predict an increase in labor costs in particular for the minimum wage sector. (People who aren't so concerned about feeding themselves won't take odd jobs so easily.) Companies will restructure towards less labor intensive processes and overall labor participation will decrease.

That said I believe the UBI has to come at some point:

I believe the economy of the 21th century can be described between three groups of people.

- Directors: (CEOs, Managers, Investors ...) those who own or at least direct the "means of production" which are largely automated.

- Digital Creatives: (Scientists, (Open Source) Programmers, Journalists, Digital Artists ...) those who "create" information and whose end product can easily and essentially without cost be copied and distributed.

- Service personel: (Servers, maids, nurses, butlers ...) Those who essentially "sell" human interaction. Their jobs largely could be automated, but humans value human interaction too much.

Firstly barring strong policies against it people without education (and some with education) will be marginalized and pressured into more and more precarious service jobs and this will lead to social unrest. UBI is an effective (but maybe not efficient) means against this effect and thereby stabilizing society in the long term.

Secondly I am convinced, that any market economy resembling the current one values the work of digital creatives very inefficiently.
Currently there is (to varying degrees in the subfields) an attention or fame economy where the work is often not valued by skill, but by luck and self presentation. Additionally sufficient success to live from their work is often to uncertain, to engage in the attempt. This is especially deplorable since such work has often strong compositional or cross inspirational effects. The UBI would allow digital creatives to publish their work freely without the need to rely on monetarization. This would in my eyes be the driving factor for entrepreneurial growth due to an UBI but it is a long term effect and very hard to measure.
That's an interesting take on the ol' Ponzi scheme. Take in money, then ban people for violating terms of service. Pay out only the very few who would be truly a problem.
My son (8 y.o.) went through that phase, but he realised that Roblox isn't nearly as good of a game, and he went back to Minecraft.
Those two are perfectly compatible actually - although doing both is harder and thus economically more expensive.

Not trusting user input is about security. Verify that everything is something which they /should/ be able to do. Think say for a game's bank account. They should never be able to directly change that value without valid transactions to and from.

If they can lose money by writing a check to null that is bad. If they can /gain/ money by writing a negative check to null that is /really/ bad. Also really bad is being allowed to just take money from banks of others without a validated transaction.

Configurability lets them do anything that is in their rights. If they can access their bank balance and set it as part of their signature that is allowed along with say setting their crosshair to display the target HP which they already know. If they can create a custom texture of their bank balance repeated ad nauseam that is fine. So long as they are capable of that stuff already.
Depends where you are, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country...
While you're at it, do the same for GOOG, AMZN and MSFT to avoid unbalancing the market and strengthening other tech behemoths. They could easily step in FB role.
Facebook’s shadow profile of me does not even begin to hold a candle to Google’s shadow profile of me.

And Google has been monetizing that profile for a lot longer than Facebook has.
This article appears regularly, like oak pollen.
The Swiss system is still pretty far from no parties, no president/pm, no cabinet ministers.
What was the original message? Seems like very useful feedback :)
Thanks. It's been a nice a discussion. I don't often get to engage in this sort of discourse, so it's been a fun thread.
Which country?
Nobody can _stop_ you from accepting cryptocurrency.
Secret U.S. Missile Aims to Kill Only Terrorists, Not Nearby Civilians
There's no need to go hungry while doing keto. Once you realize this it becomes a lot easier. Just eat when you have cravings (but stick to low-carb things), that's it!
You can usually precisely control garbage collection by turning it off or forcing it to run. The cognitive load to handle memory manually is not insignificant. If you control memory manually, you eventually end up designing some kind of mechanism like ref counting or something else to handle memory cleanup automatically. And there's significant reasoning that ref counting might not be the most desired solution for all use cases. Best is a combination of the ability to handle memory manually, with some more automated garbage collection when there's a need to write stuff that doesn't necessarily have to be the absolute fastest. Kitchen sink languages like C++ tend to have both and don't force the developer in either direction. Best would be to #define out 'new' and make manual memory handling explicit.
> Hiring more staff always slows progress in the short term. It has a habit of making late projects later.

Brooks law applies to late projects, not new ones. If you have good estimates you can determine if you need resources early on.

All a lot does depend on the size of the project. If it's something that will take 12 months or longer than extra hires definitely wouldn't have that affect. Depending on the hire and the work required, you can shorten than time frame significantly too.

However I do agree that hiring isn't a silver bullet. This is why I suggested "hiring" as one of many outcomes that can be considered rather than the preferred outcome in all situations.

> I understand you’re desire for an FTE to be a meaningful measure, but imperially that’s not true. As I said several times effort estimates can be used, but after deciding to add staff progress slows down for a while. So, using effort estimates you would reduce progress over the next 3 months before expecting a longer term increase in rate of accomplishment.

This is where another piece in the jigsaw comes into play - an employee might not be 1 FTE. They might be part time, might have leave booked, might have commitments on other teams (effectively part time from your perspective) or might be a new hire so need upskilling time. Those are just a few common examples - I'm sure you can think of others.

This is why I keep reiterating my point about calculating your figures based on work required from FTEs. By talking about new hires as you are, you're again thinking about "teams" rather than "work required". When you look at work required then you can use your team as a variable in the calculation and instantly estimations become easier.

I'm undoubtedly explaining the process poorly but I do strongly recommend you read some books or articles online about managing projects and teams using (for example) agile methodology - even if you've already worked in places that employ scrum (again, for example). You could potentially really improve how you estimate work which in turn will improve how you manage your team. From personal experience, I've been a manager for a number of years and have found my skills really improved as I've adopted those lessons too.
I integrated PayPal now for 12 years. No problems whatsoever so far. Just as another anecdotal data point.
As a long-time web developer, when I clicked on IE6 and I saw its screenshot I felt queasy for a brief moment. Not joking.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864880.
Connections were much slower back then. Sometimes you'd go a few seconds or more without anything happening on the screen. The loading animation was nice so you knew your browser wasn't frozen.
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Why do we call it "frozen"? It sounds more like "stolen" to me.
Anecdotal, but I've had 20 (!) friends leave Vancouver over the past 5 years. 18 of them had young families and sought situations where they weren't grinding themselves into dust to make it work in a city/province that didn't appear to want them. 2 sought better professional opportunities in Toronto.
Bitcoin is a broken cryptocurrency. It's not argument against cryptocurrencies in large, only against Bitcoin specifically.

For example Bitcoin Cash has a next block fee of $0.0014. [1]

[1]: https://bitcoinfees.cash/
mosh?
Definitely a problem with modded minecraft. One weird solution to the problem is due to some design decisions its pragmatically single core because there's a primary loop that does 99% of the work, freeing up plenty of cores to do side issues and garbage collection.
Unstable income: indie development woes
Inneficient and cruel is as a result of the implementation. The technology itself is perfectly fine.
Wow. Version 1 was August of 1995. I discovered the Internet in September.
It is easier than you think. First, raw and/or dried meat has been in human diets longer than recorded history, so you have to count those. Also, many carnivores won't eat rotten meat. Next, look at the digestive tracks of pure carnivores and pure herbivores. One is crazy short and the other crazy long. Humans? Right in the middle. Vitamin B12 - absolutely zero natural non-animal sources and B12 anemia can be lethal. Fruit is good, vegetables probably better. Meat in moderation is probably very healthy.
You're doing nothing to convince me that my conclusion is incorrect. Yes, Germany still has reactors, which they will turn off, exacerbating the problem.

Nuclear waste storage is a solved problem, just not the "indefinitely" part. That part can be put off for a long time.

By contrast, if you want to replace coal/nuclear with renewable energy, you need to solve the storage/distribution problem first.
Avoiding Sugar intake is not just about weight loss though. It’s also about controlling immediate glucose spikes. Which of course could be correlated with weight
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Except that’s not what’s happened in the anecdote above, at all.

Facebook provides services that people want to use, like Login, or that provides real value better than the competitors (Marketplace).

Complaining that you “have” to use Marketplace because things sell faster on it is totally bizarre.
Personal anecdote: I often will prefer PP as a consumer out of laziness. Its quick and easy and most sites support it, but if PP isn't an option, then I'll happily use a different method.
The thing is, when the laws of a country aren't firmly grounded by rational thought and backed by relevant evidence, things become illegal simply by decree.

With that in mind, it's very possible that simply using the app to search for sexual partners is the illegal activity. The app matches individuals in way that might not happen in ways foreseeable by the economic planners, and that could prevent a harmonious society planned by government officials.
> Humans too can get whatever they need from plant sources.

Maybe. But to suggest that we could all get along fine by just eating grass all day is ridiculous.
People aren't mad because Facebook runs a social network or presents users with a newsfeed or provides a messaging service or stores users photos. Lots of companies do those things without complaint. People are mad at Facebook because the company constantly lies about privacy issues, makes one agreement with its users about their privacy and then does something else, and just generally treats the privacy of its users with complete contempt.
Never trusted these folks are that guy lost his 1 letter twitter handle.
Your assumption doesn't account for the fact that the most common devices are Samsung Galaxy phones which aren't the cheapest on the market.

High end Galaxy phones are not the most common on the market and not even the most common phones that Samsung sells.

How could they be if the average selling price of a Samsung phone is $227? (https://www.androidauthority.com/price-gap-samsung-apple-sma...)
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Keto is great but be aware of increased cholesterol readings at least in certain 🧬.

All of my Indian friends report that their cholesterol LDL was very high while they were doing keto.
Right, if someone says alright, put your money in this box. But then they take the box and close it and say no, you can't open it, Sorry. What does that sound more like? Frozen, or stolen?
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