skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clarification: It technically didn't need to be unanimous because it had 12 people. Civil juries in California have to be unanimous if they're smaller than a certain size. Civil juries in some other states do have to be unanimous.
"It's cheaper to just die." Interesting argument at least.
This was a civil case, so yes the jury does:

>After three days of deliberations, the jurors awarded the Pilliods $1 billion each in punitive damages. The jury also awarded Alva Pilliod over $47,000 in past economic damages, $8 million in noneconomic damages and $10 million for future damages.

>Jurors handed Alberta Pilliod over $201,000 in past economic damages, $8 million in noneconomic damages and $26 million for future damages.

…

>… Three jurors disagreed with the $1 billion award for each of the Pilliods, including Olsen. “I thought it was too high,” he said.

https://www.courthousenews.com/jury-awards-couple-1-billion-...

>It appears to be more specifically about damages calculations.

https://twitter.com/MariaDinzeo/status/1127981744127266817
Well that's easy. Python doesn't compile anything. The old adage, 'the secret to writing fast code is writing code that does less' is true.
Still miles away from mass adoption. VR/AR is at the stage of the Apple Newton and I don't think we're at the iPhone stage yet (in relative terms).
The Boeing whistleblower in the recent 60 Minutes Australia exposé said that's exactly why it was designed. Not only was a new type rating unacceptable, engineers were not permitted to make any design changes which would require simulator training.
The balance of power is so unbelievably skewed that "the science" simply cannot be trusted.

I don't think this is an argument you want to be making, as it would legitimize most forms of quackery.
I'm not sure how well-known it was. Bayer and Mansanto agreed to merge in 2016. The first large jury award in a case claiming RoundUp caused cancer was in August 2018.

It's worth noting that RoundUp has been sold and marketed for close to fifty years at this point. It is extremely well understood, extremely well studied, extremely common, but we're only recently seeing a number of successful lawsuits claiming glyphosate is a carcinogen.
Short explanation: the music industry has discovered that capturing the teenage market pays dividends and teenagers are emotional.

Unrelated anecdote with a different explanation:

I had a fascinating conversation with my parents recently. They are both children of the 60s and grew up in San Francisco. We often share music just to talk about it. I was playing some heavier (dubsteppy-metal) music to them, and wanted to dig into why they didn't like it.

The reason that I like heavy music (especially at shows) is because it is very rare that I get to cut my rage loose, and let it flow. Mosh pits are the only place I can think of where this is an acceptable form of self expression. This feeling is sometimes a good gateway to making me feel like I can win (aka, be alright) when I'm feeling down.

I asked them if what I just described, and the feelings that the music engendered made intuitive emotional sense to them. Regardless of whether they agree that it's positive or negative, does that emotional drive resonate with them. And the answer was, shockingly to me, "No".

Through our conversation, we settled on a convenient narrative (with absolutely no research or sources to back it).

In the 60s and 70s, the rebellion was not against the machine, it was for betterment. They saw the moon landings, and went to concerts in Golden Gate Park that sang about love and freedom for all, and they said that there was a feeling that anything was possible. You just had to do it. And there were lots of problems, but we made progress, it just took doing.

While there is likely some rose-tinted-ness about this recollection, I found it interesting that this was not the way I grew up seeing the world. I grew up with the narrative that everything was wrong, everyone was wrong, and so fuck everything - tear it down.

A short list:

Rage Against the Machine

Eminem

System of a Down

Our convenient narrative was that when our leaders act in bad faith, the result is generations of damage (i.e. the Vietnam war), and that this is reflected in culture. Interestingly, this polarizes both ways politically. So you get a feedback loop of culture becoming more extreme to differentiate itself while serving a polarizing society.

Aside: I'm so happy to see charts with error bars!
On 20 August 2010 the accusations was reported.

On 21 August 2010 the case was looked at by a prosecutor.

On 25 August 2010 the case was dismissed, a decision which the lawyer representing the women objected and requested a review.

On 30 August, Assange was questioned by the Stockholm police.

On 1 September, the case was reopened.

On 27 September, Assange left the country. Assange's London lawyer Mark Stephens said that Assange had asked to be interviewed by prosecutors before leaving Sweden but was told he could leave the country without being interviewed. Swedish prosecutors said that on the day Assange left Sweden they had informed Assange's Swedish lawyer Björn Hurtig that an arrest warrant would be issued for Assange. Assange is arrested in his absence.
The 409A valuation was $70B or whatever, but they were selling the equity as though it was already worth 70% more than the paper value. (Hence the distinction between their "internal valuation" and the 409A). It was super sketchy. Basically trying to argue that the offer they were giving me was already worth a ton more than it was.
Why would they follow the party line? They literally don't answer to anyone except their own conscience. In addition, they can remain in power for decades, during which time a party's policies can change drastically...
>>What are your weak areas/blind spots?

I do trees, hash tables fairly well. When it comes to arrays, I usually do well when brute force takes O(N) but optimal solution is O(logN). I do badly when brute force is O(N2) but optimal is O(N). Even in interview, I know I should look for O(N) solution, I do get the general solution right but I fail to get the specifics wrong. For example, most O(N2) solutions include two for loops. You tend to redo a lot of work if you run two loops. But figuring out a subset of indices which do not need to be computed, one must come up with a O(N) solution. This somehow, I fail, consistently.

Graphs are a hit or miss. I do dynamic programming well most of the times.

>>What kind of programming do you do?

I work on a major mail provider's middleware team. I write Java web services code in a distributed environment. My service talks to storage system, notification system etc. Most of the work involves designing and implementing algos for rate limiting, for fetching and caching data from storage system etc. Work also involves scaling to involve increased load etc.Day to day work is all Java. Write REST API code +unit tests + integration tests and then deploy. Worked on compiler frontends before(C/C++).

>>Where are you located?
SF Bay area. But I am looking coach from anywhere in the world! Email in Profile.
That completely eliminates the judiciary branch as an effective check against the other two.

It's unfortunate but having a stalemate is the best course to eliminate rash changes to government when there is a lot of divisiveness.
This screams moral panic to me. We're seeing proportionally more kids getting bullied about Fortnite because Fortnite is proportionally (very) more popular than other stuff that's visible to adults.

Fortnite lets you pay some real money for a cosmetic upgrade to your character. That's it. There's not even random loot boxes or anything that actually affects your chance to win. Video games have done this for ages.

The only difference is that Fortnite is currently very very popular with quite a young demographic, and that demographic also consists of emotionally immature kids who bully each other over everything.
This bullying is going on regardless, Fortnite being so popular just makes bullying about it more visible/obvious.
Because Monsanto made much more than $2B producing this chemical. Monsanto made much more than $2B producing GMO seeds that depend on this chemical for their value. Monsanto made much more than $2B crushing farmers who didn't want to buy Monsanto product.

Monsanto made billions and billions and billions. They destroyed hundreds of farmers. They lied and cheated and obstructed when challenged. Then they sold their company to cash in on even more money.

You might say that Monsanto has existed in a world on the other side of Alice's looking glass. Bayer rewarded all of that with huge M&A money. This decision reaches into that world beyond the looking glass to bring the chickens home to roost.
This assumes that you have $100,000 to treat it. The vast majority of people couldn't come up with that kind of money or talk an institution into lending it to them.

If you do have the money you can get your own supplementary health insurance that goes above and beyond. (This is common in Canada, not sure about England though.)
I wonder how much of this is due to match making, squads, and the social aspect of the game.

In many other games, if you win a few rounds (or do well at all), you're quickly pitted against semi-professional players and lose horribly. Semi-professional and professional players simply do not care about their costumes or outfits, and often choose the skin that offers the most visual clarity or blends in the most. You specifically _do not_ want to standout in a -competitive- shooter game.

But, in Fortnight, because only 1 player wins, and because of the chaotic and random nature of the game, and because of the social aspect (playing with a group of friends), I wonder if most kids ever experience a user 10x or 20x or 200x their skill level. It's very likely most players never really improve their skill levels over time.

Watching professional StarCraft or Counter-Strike, graphics and details are turned down to the lowest setting, skins and such are not used, etc etc. If you were never aware of the "ladder of skill" in front of you, or your place on it, it seems more reasonable to focus on cosmetics.

What really interests me is that a few years ago games started actively removing "leaderboards" and "ranking positions" UI pieces - specifically to make new players and poorly skilled players feel more comfortable and happy. There is absolutely a balance here. Recently my 7 year old nephew said a game (RayMan) was boring because "we always win", and I had a great conversation with him about difficultly in life - things that are always easy and always fun are dangerous. Games with intense difficulty are rewarding and memorable - it's about the accomplishment, not the reward. This applies to video games, drugs, relationships, food, and just about everything else in life.

I absolutely am glad his mother doesn't allow FortNight, but allows me to play Chess, Rocket League, and StarCraft with him.
I imagine the problem is that the other jurors would probably listen to the expert juror and trust and believe them more than they should. In effect, you end up with a one-person jury. Whatever the expert juror's opinion is, the rest will follow and endorse.
You're mixing AR and VR into the same bucket when the use cases are fairly different. ThinkReality is a competitor to HoloLens and Magic Leap, both of which (and this, too) are still in the dev kit / proof of concept phase. VR systems work just fine and are technically mass market ready, they just cost too much and the market for people who want to strap a heavy thing onto their face for long periods of time is smaller than a lot people expected.

Headset VR like this is indeed being evaluated mostly for non-consumer applications right now, including manual labor guidance (think mechanics and surgeons), team collaboration, and 3D design, but the price and capabilities are at least a generation away from being appealing to most companies.
Expert testimony just mean two opposing claims paid for by the respective sides. The jury is in no position to determine which claim is more correct.
You touched on it briefly but I'd like to highlight regular expressions in day to day editing and log delving. It's a massive time saver in my experience at least.

Coworkers often come to me to help them write a quick regex for something, or to have me double check their work.

If you need a playground to get comfortable, https://regex101.com/ is a great resource. Dump some examples you'd like to match and some you don't in the bottom section, and try to write a regex that matches in the top. It will dynamically match as you type, and the right side shows a token by token breakdown of what your regex does.
No, the IARC classified radio waves as possibly carcinogenic, not probably.

Furthermore, they said the evidence was "limited" for glioma caused by cell phone use (and thus the associated frequencies) and inadequate to draw conclusions for other types of cancers and other exposures.

It was a very measured statement that's been misrepresented.

https://www.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E.pdf
Polygon is free but I just got bullied into getting tracked by their advertising partners :(
Lol judges interpret the law written in English as is. It's not whether it makes you feel good or not.

I'm sure plenty of people who voted Hitler thought they were in the right side of history until they suddenly weren't. That's the unfortunate part of politics, you have to build a system around not trusting people.
> The billion-dollar punitive damages verdict, moreover, is not crazy considering that the point of punitive damages is to deter similar conduct in the future. [..] here on HN [..] were saying about how much Facebook should be fined [..] were likewise in the billions of dollars.

Billions of dollars, yes. In cases of government vs company. Or a class action. But I don't think HN or anyone reasonable was ever in favor of billion dollar judgments in matters that ten thousands of also effected claimants trying to get the same.
I think Oculus Quest could be the iPhone of VR. Keep in mind that the iPhone gen 1 didn’t sell well at all compared to just about any other iPhone generation.
I tried to address this in my comment. The "at a glance" info works in a ideal environment where all items are accurately and uniformly classified across the database, which is far from a given. Those databases are meant to serve the goals of supply chain and finance people, and they won't agree to a change in their product coding processes so that customer receipts can now generate a bubble chart.
Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook (2015)
How much more do you think Uber can charge before a different competitor appears?

My bet is on 0. The market seems more restricted on number of players (drivers can't juggle many applications at the same time) than on price, and if Lyft goes away, another competitor will immediately appear.
You can watch the simulation in this video by 60 Minutes Australia:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=QytfYyHmxtc
You've missed out something in between "games" and "useful".

The arts.

There's still a lot of interest (at least from where I'm standing) in VR etc as a creative medium. There's some really remarkable work being created.
Honestly, why wouldn't you. We're in a call out culture period of time. If you're running a business it makes sense to research the people most likely to become a problem for you in the future.

Not personal, just business.
You need to build a network of people who will support you. The only way I know to do that if you don't already have one is by doing outstanding work. You need to squeeze some time out and do something great. It is harder to find that time if you're taking care of a family, but a lot of people do it. Elon Musk is a good example.
I think the 2010-2013 peak is interesting - pop music was more upbeat than it had been since 9/11.
Though it's been posted here before, this study is probably more timely now than ever.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone covers 2,600km². It's irregularly shaped so it's unlikely you can predict which area will actually be irradiated, so a nuclear power plant in fact endangers an even larger area. Good luck finding a place in Europe, let alone Japan, that is far enough from population centers.

Also consider that NPPs need cooling water so they are often located near rivers. As are population centers.
What does this do to the company's financial future? If there are thousands more of these lawsuits coming and the legal precedent has been set, and this one verdict took 40% of Bayer's cash position away, how can they survive the next 12 months? Are they bankrupt already if even 10% of these lawsuits go through with the same verdict? https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BAYRY/balance-sheet#figure_t... Even if the verdict is slashed to 1/10th $100mil and they win 90% of their lawsuits, they will still lose 1,000. That's 1k X $100mil = $100bil in losses. Even cutting this by 50% they are still out of business.
> the VB executables themselves were tiny (in P-Code form, which was the default, they were also much more compact than machine code)

Now that you mention and I think about it, as VB was compiled to the p-code and depended on the big common runtime which executed it, it can be seen as one Windows-specific spiritual precursor of... Java.
This is how much the tax cut from last year cost. We can go ahead and undo that and call it equal
I don't have an example sorry.
Yes. Here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=QytfYyHmxtc
2. is a bad idea because this will remove your negotiation leverage and they will end up low-balling you.
It isn't perfect. The IO performance is currently poor and it doesn't play well with Windows Defender (wastes a lot of CPU). Also, since your IDE would live in Windows, you can sometimes have issues with Windows and Linux both interacting with the same files.
This is basic lobbying work. They used publicly available data (like Twitter posts or news articles) to annotate an excel file of public figures with mentions such as "Potentially an ally" or "Detractor".
Groxx replies hits the point. I might work with a small number of platforms, but the "super-simple" qualifier is the point. The point at which you need dictionaries (associative arrays) in your install script, not to mention settings management beyond a make include is the point at which you've outgrown make.
I'm not sure there is much of a distinction in practice between asking "how will history see this" and trying to do what's right? You don't get a magic ball to find out what will actually be popular. It's just a way of putting yourself in a state of mind to take a more long-term view of things.
At least 2L, often more. Plus about 5 cups coffee.
All: yes it's a provocative title and the topic has been overcooked over the years, but on HN what matters is the article. This article is interesting and perfectly on topic for HN. Most of us have never heard of Emilia Bassano. There's a great Borges quote. And so on.

Comments are welcome if your curiosity is engaged. But if you're triggered, and want to vent, that's not curiosity. Let it go and move to something you do feel curious about.

Accounts that flag too many on-topic articles like this one eventually get their flagging privileges removed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: by the way, here's another article arguing against the current one, which also gratifies intellectual curiosity: https://spectator.us/shakespeare-woman-atlantic/.
When I went from amateur Python programmer to Google Cloud developer support, I remember being completely blown away by technology and design patterns I've never heard of that goes into modern web/enterprise architecture. I had to learn it all the hard way, but these days there are great free (or mostly free) courses you can take to learn this stuff.

For Google, check out the study guides for their certifications, specifically Cloud Architect (basic overview), Cloud Developer, and Data Engineer.

https://cloud.google.com/certification/

Be sure to follow along with the recommended Coursera and Qwiklabs tutorials and do the exercises. You'll learn about all kinds of neat stuff, like scalable application design, container technology, monitoring+metrics, various types of database technologies, data pipelines (including Pub Sub messaging), SRE best practices, networking+security, and machine learning.

I currently work on AWS, and don't find it a good starting point for diving in to these things quickly, but most companies use it so it wouldn't hurt to learn I guess. I still recommend GCP over AWS to start with, as their technology is far more interesting and focused, and quicker/easier to work with.
>Have you seen something even remotely comparable to the case being discussed here?

The tobacco cases come to mind.
That seems to be the recipe of most retail businesses, especially grocery stores: treat the customer as a cow to be milked

It's one reason I do as much as I can to buy from owner-operated small businesses.
One minute ago I discovered that HN comment threads are collapsible by tapping/clicking the "[-]" on the right side of a comment header. I think that could fall under the class of non-obvious tools (maybe not for a hobbyist, but as a long time HN reader I'm shocked I never noticed it before)
Both of them got non Hodgkin lymphoma.. clearly they were exposed to something..
I like to think so but it rarely feels that way.
Right, which is why I'm saying that means there's been a failure scenario that existed even prior to MCAS. This is how they have demo'd the problem in some flight simulators for this. The electric trim can without MCAS erroneously drive the trim into this situation before being cut out. This is why the cutout switches were put in place decades ago. If this happens in some situations it could leaving the plane in a position where the trim couldn't be manually adjusted due to forces. We now know this situation also exists. Is it so rare, or resolvable in other ways, so it shouldn't be addressed? Or does there also need to be a fix for the manual trim by adjusting the gear/pulley ratio such that the pilot could overcome these forces?
what? who will end up low-balling him?
The punitive damage awards will be reduced to no more than about 10X the compensatory damage awards, so the math shouldn't be done using the actual verdict size.
Just my 2.5 cents for myself.

Happiness is not a good thing. It is the other side of the same coin that brings me sadness and pain. What I'm looking for is peace.

Being in peace is the ultimate form of being -- the only form of being.

If I'm not in peace it means I'm chasing something else. When I stop looking for anything (including peace itself) then I am... I am.
Why not both?

Something Steam has been doing is breaking down why a particular game is recommended (reviews, popularity friends, interests, other metrics,..) why not expose this data to users for news?

We build these systems to filter out the noise for us, but that doesn't mean we should be beholden to a black-box deciding what content we should see. The filter should be ours to tweak and knowing how it works is a first step to that.
"Fiat currency."
Seems it goes up during bad times and then down during good times. Makes kind of sense. Pop music often tries to be counterculture.
The law of two feet: If you're in the wrong place, go somewhere else.
actually, why think that ADHD is a disease in the first place? the causal/neurobiological basis for ADHD is unclear, and it is possible that such behavior is statistically normal given the environment. whenever someone claims that he has adhd, i strongly suspect medicalization / overdiagnosis