skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far fewer people did. Dead children were routine, as were deaths in childhood. The Black Death killed half the population of Europe; the PTSD must have been horrific for the survivors.

Trying to remove childhood sources of traumatic stress is like trying to ensure your child reaches adulthood with all their teeth and no broken bones. It won't affect their survival but it will improve their life.
Chances are inspiration is overvalued today. Remember when Elon Musk was going to put a plant on Mars with an ICBM? Instead he managed to leverage the fact that the US has a space industry. He has pretty much argued this himself in that he used to think that "if there is a will, there is a way", but later realized that it was "if there is a way, there is a will".
I have never understood the impulse of supposedly pro-labor people to expand the responsibility of employers towards their workers. Government is intended as the expression of our collective will, and as such is the conduit of our collective responsibility, including providing people with a resource floor to live with dignity.

Most people figure out as children that responsibility and power are intimately tied together, but apparently that concept escapes some people even into adulthood...
Because you can make an reasonable argument that prohibiting such arrangements would not cause much harm. Personally, I think that people should be free to enter into any employment agreement that they want to. Anytime you implement a minimum wage that’s higher than the market value of somebody’s labor, you’re restricting their ability to find employment.

Of course there’s the risk that if there was no minimum wage, that large portions of the working class would only be able to gain very low wages. I don’t think that’s very realistic though. People won’t enter into an employment arrangement that doesn’t benefit them, and will tend to seek out the best opportunities available to them.

But in any case, I don’t think a minimum wage in general is entirely unreasonable, but it can become so when it starts to have a significant effect on access to minimum wage jobs.
> However, a million here, a billion there, pretty soon, we're talking about real money.

While that may be true, the million won't have contributed to the problem in that case. :p

> At the risk of being cliche, if we did not have the loss of the $4 million per year (of just this one specific thing), what else could that money have been used for instead?

We could have raised the annual salary of active duty personnel by almost three (3) dollars a year each.
The more I work with the Pi, the more convicted I become that it was mostly created to offload a very flawed chip...

It "works" because a lot of people spent tons of hours to patch it in software
I’m fortunate to use UpCloud provider with regional/dedicated technical support being responsive within minutes, and resolve issues is quite speedy.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. Please don't feed the trolls.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I doubt that inflation offsets the cost of the compound interest paid.
Microsoft definitely would have, but they have so many enterprise customers for those products that it’s not really a choice; they always plan for LTS.

I was thinking more along the lines of e.g. Sony. There are tons of consumer devices that no longer get updates after they’ve been withdrawn from the market.
> In Denmark and Germany public transportation is not always that good, they rely heavily on bikes

Are you really implying that in these countries many people use bikes because the public transport is not good enough ? In Spain nobody (?) uses bikes because the public transport is perfect ? Do you have sources for both or is this just your very subjective opinion ?
Get real Sudafed from behind the counter.
I don't think that's the end goal: "In the final part of the book, compilation of LISP-N, compilation to stand-alone binaries, and compilation to native machine code are outlined."
The Adafruit PyGamer, a New Maker-Friendly Handheld Console
I mean, it's not like individual automobiles are the only way to get around...
Or even simpler: Wow, 50% per person. And you have hundreds of people. So basically a guarantee.
Is there any particular reason (beyond lazy, motivated reasoning) that you think that these drivers represent an appreciable fraction of the Uber workforce? "Some drivers are unhappy" seems roughly as useful a data point as "every Uber driver I've talked to seems happy", which would be rightfully dismissed as unrepresentative by anyone with a modicum of intellectual honesty.
Posting like this will get you banned here. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not advocating killing of anyone, all I'm saying that getting rid of Malaria is not worth it if the damage done to the nature outweigh the humanitarian gains. I believe that environmental degradation is the number one enemy of our specie's survival, nothing else comes even close. Any form activity to improve people's lives that isn't environmentally sustainable is frankly speaking waste of time, someone will eventually suffer the consequences of such actions in the future. Possibility of driving entire species extinct to protect humans definitely doesn't sound sustainable to me.

Perhaps "because their lives will be miserable" argument was indeed dumb though. I wouldn't support environmentally unsustainable actions in any highly developed nation either, no matter how many lives it could save on short-term. Long-term we have no hope if environmental factors aren't taken seriously. As far as most African countries goes, reducing birth rate through any humane means possible should be the primary goal, together with building economic growth on renewables rather than fossil fuels.

I would imagine that developing environmentally sustainable
ways to fight malaria shouldn't be so hard if Western countries actually bothered to properly fund such research. Too bad our priorities are elsewhere, like developing more effective weapons. That's the attitude which actually creates genocide, not the idea of long-term sustainable development which I tried to promote with my comment but clearly failed.
> Slaves also had next to no protection.

One should not base their notion of slavery on popular culture like Game of Thrones or Gladiator but on reading historic books. Or Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome

> Although in general freed slaves could become citizens, with the right to vote if they were male

> Roman slaves could hold property which, despite the fact that it belonged to their masters, they were allowed to use as if it were their own.

> Claudius announced that if a slave was abandoned by his master, he became free. Nero granted slaves the right to complain against their masters in a court. And under Antoninus Pius, a master who killed a slave without just cause could be tried for homicide.[65] Legal protection of slaves continued to grow as the empire expanded. It became common throughout the mid to late 2nd century AD to allow slaves to complain of cruel or unfair treatment by their owners.

Also some slave had been administering largest empires on Earth (China, Roman Empire) or establishing empires of their own with control over lifes of milions of free people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk

> Particularly in Egypt, but also in the Levant, Mesopotamia, and India, mamluks held political and military power. In some cases, they attained the rank of sultan, while in others they held regional power as emirs or beys. Most notably, mamluk factions seized the sultanate centered on Egypt and Syria, and controlled it as the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517).

So back to the subject. Slavery and serfdom had been complex institutions spanning thousands of years and multiple cultures and historical circumstances.

And yes. I am personally convinced that bringing poor people and immigrants with limited citizenship rights into perpetuating economic relation where they cannot make economic progress and mostly accumulate debt and obligations with limited social benefits is modern version of serfdom.
Story from the perspective of the soldiers is more interesting and not overly simplistic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/world/asia/tiananmen-squa...
Google key competitive edge is illegal eavesdropping on third party websites. Thus it is engaged in racketeering and cartel activity. If you replace restaurants with tech, pasta, sausages, sauce with apps, store, api you have Google as Gambino family of big tech.
Slightly off topic, but has anyone seen a drop in traffic even with the same rankings? Too many of the keywords I used to rank for now have featured snippets. These snippets basically mean that any result after #2 get little to no traffic

It used to be that beyond page 1 was a waste, but I reckon now if you're not #1 or the featured snippet, you don't really stand to gain much in terms of traffic
I do from time to time. Depends on the authors ability to make it clear in the first paragraphs that the post is worth reading.

In case you're worried about having lost the ability to read longer texts: Find one of those book that you can't put down. A physical book, away from the screens. I used to read a lot as a kid, then stopped. I'm glad I picked it up again. But do start with something easy to read.
Show HN: Learn Kubernetes from these tutorials, courses and books
Shorter adult height is a death sentence for a man in the modern times. So yes.
At least admit that your initial statement was unclear at best, and intentionally misleading at worst. You made it sound like Googlers, in their capacity as employees, were working for a political campaign.

>And Google is incorporated in California, which has strict laws that employees are allowed to develop what they like when they're not on the clock using company resources.

Not really. Try to develop a search engine in your spare time and see what happens.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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

Edit: bad call. Detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067782 and marked off-topic.
> much better data collection on how people use video games and internet services [...] people optimize for overall time used instead of the quality of the experience

That's it. There is a lot of data about people's habits, and that enables companies to tune digital products right into people's gratification systems. It's a psychological hack. Even when you're aware of it, it's hard to resist video games / facebook / twitter / hackernews cravings.

But these addiction issues are being talked about more, and people are becoming more aware and starting to self-control, so I don't think a catastrophic mind-control scenario will happen soon (except in dictatorships like China, but that's another story).
German labour law and culture are utterly unlike the US. Under NLRB regulations the kind of long term, relatively collegial, give and take contract negotiation that is mundane in Germany is illegal. Volkswagen and other German car companies would like to have the same system in the US as in Germany. They don’t because it’s illegal.
http://archive.is/FsDgN
Hah! I'm too young to remember it, but it was frankly funny and well played.

I'm not sure I understand the final joke about America. Did they lose territory after the collapse of the Soviet Union or is it just a joke like "ah, this is so good it might as well be America"?
Happy to see this discussed on HN.

Please, please read this to get a better understanding for yourself: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
Germany essentially leveraging the poor countries in the EU to subsidize their economy may also have something to do with their low unemployment rate.
Did you read the article or even the headline? The ADL literally says it's a trolling gesture, not a white supremacist sign.

You can argue that this type of trolling is bad because helps normalize white supremacy, but that doesn't mean their motivation is actual white supremacy.
I'm sure you didn't intend it this way, but this comment crosses into personal attack, which breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067793 and marked it off-topic.
The theory is that agriculture let populations better survive bad years by grain stockpiling so they could outcompete the hunter gatheres.

In general, nothing says that better average quality of life necessarily makes you out-compete other populations.
98%+ of us have no authority to speak on what microcode is doing on 98%+ of chips out there.

Please do not speak generally and authoritively.
I'd like to see that town with 199999 residents.
Companies adjust production all the time based on orders and forecasts of future orders because they do not want to sit on unsold phones.

What this means is that Huawei expects lower demand for their phones, not that they ran out of parts.
> Whatever comes out of these modern transformations might as well leave the city centers economically deserted, or at least less attractive to their current citizen.

All experience with cities that reduced or banned car traffic point in the other direction. Madrid for example reports a 9.5% increase in local business https://copenhagenize.eu/news-archive/2019/3/14/the-benefits...

If you’ve ever been to the Netherlands you’d also see that their city centers are far from deserted wastelands. Quite to the contrary, actually, at least the ones that I’ve been to.

> But they also should understand that cities do come with downsides and there is no guarantee that you can have the cake and eat it.

Living in the suburbs comes with downsides, too. There’s for example no inalienable right to drive your car in the city.
Of course it is regaining. Cities predate the car by thousands of years. Oslo itself is almost 1000 years old. The city center was built when pedestrians and the occasional horse-drawn carriage was the typical mode of transport.

Plus you're completely ignoring public transport for some reason.
A video is closer to the event than a textual retelling, but is still only a proxy. The choice of camera positioning can significantly change the viewer's perception of the event, and the narrative formed.
isn't a native English speaker, or speaks in different dialect doesn't mean that they are any less capable

It's not just about being less capable... Being less understandable can trump capability.
OK, will not go there. I love cars and driving. It is commuting that creates congestion problems.
This would be difficult to write as a law and very difficult to enforce, though I like the idea of the burden of proof being on the operator.

In India we have a national DND (Do Not Disturb) registry that anyone can signup for and choose whether to receive marketing communications or not, and what categories therein. The regulator has made the operators enforce the reporting mechanism along with penalties (monetary and otherwise) on the marketers for violations. But still, there are cases where a marketer may claim that the person receiving the call/SMS opted for it and signed up or had some transactional relationship with the company.
Ask HN: What are some of the best logging architecture?
Hello,

I want to see how other companies built cost-effective logging infrastructures.

ELK is the most famous stack these days but I want to see some alternatives or the way you go beyond ELK stack.
You must be from USA. In Europe we had all the large cities before cars. And curtailing car usage doesn't lock out individual travel. You still have public transport, bicicles and such.

My urge to live in a city comes from the fact that I could get everything I need to live, by going out of my apatment for 30 minutes and walking to few nearby shops. No car needed. And I can get to various interesting entertainment venues by hopping on a bus for a 15 minutes.
I lived in Spain, Denmark and Germany. Let’s take Munich Germany as that’s where I live now. While bikes are definitely a cultural thing here, many people definitely prefer them because the public transport doesn’t get you easily to all places and can be very unreliable during work days (especially the sbahn trains). You also have situations where biking gets you door to door in 30 mins and public transport in 1 hour (to do 8km). Of course after a couple of years of work people buy cars anyways here, I think a lot of that is due to the not so good public transport. Of course Munich public transport is light years better than Naples where I am from, but unfortunately it’s still not good enough to replace bikes or cars in many situations.
Nice but I think I found you a little bug. Some of the figures are displayed with numbers in the corners. It looks like it's the number of the pips on the preceding or following card.

Frex, my last draw of three cards was: Ace of space, King of hearts, 8 of diamonds, but the king had an 8 instead of a K in the corners.

Edit: Aw. HN markup removes suit symbols :(

Further edit: It looks like some of your cards are drawn with one image superimposed on another. So actually the figures that have the numbers in the corner are a figure with another card that is not a figure on top.

Should be a quick fix :P

Last edit I promise: It looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/I9CJqGG
I’ve been using an aftermarket magnetic connector on my usb-c laptop for several months now. It consists of a low-profile adapter that just lives in one of the usb-c ports, and a bulkier conversion socket that plugs onto the end of my existing cable. So far, it’s been great! It has a weaker hold than my old MagSafe adapters, which is sometimes great and sometimes a hassle.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07GPHSLX4
Silicon Valley, America’s De-Facto Censor
Thinking in terms of 'I' is part of the problem.
Well, yes — I’d call that a ‘fundamental limitation to the architecture of the human brain that prevents "fast math"’.
Product differentiation using specialist architectures will be no problem for 10 -15 years. After that; software.
Unfortunately working in a small town might not be an option for everyone in the current job market. Due to that any action that makes private motoring more difficult should only happen with equal investment on public transport connections from outside the city. Nobody should be forced to live in a large city simply because all the jobs are there.
in the greater scheme of things, probably almost all elements of Places \cross Times lack the conditions to support life . But right here has been amazingly, unusually good for quite a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_Earth#/m...
A decent screen reader will look at the final rendered Dom and obviously cull items off-screen, the same colour as the background, or 1px high.

If it doesn't, its a bug in the screen reader.
democracy doesn't mean that the majority do what they want. they can't violate the rights of minorities. even from ancient Greece from the first democracies these issues were taken into account.
Yeah, that's basically what their NOC told me, although they didn't really have much of an explanation into why they were nullrouting /24 subnets when Digitalocean typically allocates single addresses.
If your DO (or other cloud provider) credentials are compromised, it's usually a matter of seconds before someone fires up the largest possible number of instances to start crypto mining.
Please don't break the site guidelines regardless of how misinformed another comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh damn, I’ll fix that ASAP
Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067036
The latest version of humanity isn't producing as many brains as it should.
A few thousands people generating no pollution won't even start to scratch the issue. It needs massive follow up to have an effect.
> Could be that there is a kind of developmental switch. If life is tough as a child, it makes sense to speed up development to improve odds of survival.

Sounds reasonable. In crowded waters fish start to mature at a much younger age.

Source: studied farming and a non trivial part of the curriculum was related to taking care of fishing and hunting resources.
>It is range that is the problem.

I'm surprised... urban bus speeds in the US are below 15 mph, see below, so even a 180 mile range should give over 12 hrs operation.

Electric buses are very efficient on hills and in stop-start conditions, btw.

http://cityobservatory.org/urban-buses-are-slowing-down/
Oh, just the deck without picked cards? I could add ”Collect” button next to ”Shuffle”.

It’s easy to do, but I’m on mobile now – will do today.
I think the other comments have done it justice, but I'd just like to add that there's a lot of other means of transport than cars. America seems to lack public transport modes, but these provide access to cities without the huge footprint (space-wise and energy-wise) of cars.
The optical illusion that confuses the Net: vehicles disappear into thin air
Ongoing since last election 4 years ago which gave the Green Party and the left control over the city for the first time in 2 decades. Just visited Oslo the first time in years last week, and the city was so much more enjoyable with less cars on the streets. New election this autumn, fingers crossed.
And anyway, if the database schema changes, unless for some reason the turnover is very fast, you can still manually offer views for clients that require the legacy schema.
You don't need a car in Oslo though. Provided you weren't planning on going there by car. In fact bringing a car to Oslo is mostly just bringing yourself more trouble. It's not a big city so you can get to almost "anywhere" in Oslo by foot. Or you can take the bus or the tram or the subway, depending on where you are going. Whereas with a car you will struggle to find parking and there are multiple one-way streets in the very center. And also there are toll stations if you go across the boundary between the outer parts of the city and the rest of the world outside of it.

That being said, I don't know you so of course I don't known how important cars and driving is to you. But in general I would recommend not bringing a car to Oslo unless you have a good reason to bring it. Even if you have a lot of luggage you should have no significant problem transporting it on the train from the airport outside of Oslo on the train and then bring it to the hotel or wherever you are staying by jumping on to a bus for example.
> Having worked in GameDev, one of the most flooring things I have faced is people asking me for me to introduce said addictive inducing systems and mechanisms.... They want the enjoyment, they want to be "addicted", they want a game "so good" that they can't put it down.

This is what I'm talking about though. Back when games were bought on a disk or cartridge and didn't feature any sort of micro-transactions there was no point in making a game addictive. It didn't matter if players played the game for 2 hours or 200 hours. All that mattered is that the game was good so that people enjoyed it, became popular, and sold well. In some sense, getting players addicted to any one game might actually be undesirable as it would reduce willingness to pay for subsequent games.

Nowadays, so many games are trying to be "lifestyle games" that are meant to be continuously consumed instead of played through once or twice.