skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The belief the physical pain is the only kind of pain worth caring about is very misguided and causes a lot of harm in the world. It's think kind of belief that causes mental health issues to become stigmatized so people avoid seeking treatment or discussing it. This leads to breakdowns or suicide.

Just because muscles are not aching and bones are not broken and skin is intact does not mean a person is not suffering or in anguish emotionally or mentally. And especially in higher education and high-pressure tech jobs, the constant drive to succeed can cause significant mental health strains.

I don't know if you were intending to belittle mental health as less important than physical health, but I'd like to point out that there are hardships in this world that don't involve callouses or sunburns.
To each his own? Reddit bores me fairly quickly except for a select view subreddits that are focused on videos. But that’s really just YouTube then. Is it even the reddit home page that is addictive to you?

It might just be my cynicism but not believing most of the self posted stories that populate the front page, or, while I love dogs in real life, not caring for another dog photo, or, a post trying to pull at your heart strings. I don’t get the modern appeal of reddit. It’s of course a hugely popular site.

The comments for big stories are usually filled with tepid jokes or repeating some part of the post or some meme. Or there’s a good chance a reddit post is just plain wrong or the comments are by and large uninformed.

Most of my friends also by and large aren’t into reddit. But I recognize it’s a top 5 most popular site and so likely is addicting to a ton of people.

On the other hand, while I waste too much time on H, I’ve never made any social connection here. This is the only social site where I spend substantial time and have no social connections at the end of it.
But... Why don't you just use the <noscript> tag?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no...
Gell-Mann sounds like a very smart but also eccentric friend of mine, who I'm almost certain is on the spectrum. He has a similar view towards cleanliness and exhibits many of the same traits, such as Murray's interaction with the limo driver. Gell-Man seems to fit this profile.

Although I hate when people try to armchair psychoanalyze public figures they've never met so I'll stop there.
> Plus, you can always choose to just not use Google.

A customer can, a company cannot. Similarly to how a customer can choose another ISP, but Google cannot choose to just not to business with ISPs: if a business cannot be connected to their customers, that business cannot live.
That's what the site uses:

<noscript>This text is in a &lt;noscript&gt; tag and should display if JS is disabled.</noscript>
> Unless I'm missing the part where each sensor became more accurate individually regardless of realtime networking or after-the-fact analysis?

Yes I think you are missing that. My understanding is that multiple individual radar systems were all upgraded, in some cases using more solid state components over mechanical and with higher accuracy and then all networked together. And additionally the FLIR imagery is an independent system/observation.

Supposedly there are actually many documented incidents, and in particular 2 separated by almost 10 years, with remarkably similar observations of UAP characteristics.

Either this is a big hoax or there are UAPs of whatever origin and it is an issue.
At the end of the day, he was going to be sent to the US.

That is exactly what the "conspiracy theorist" predicted, and exactly what happened.

If you thought otherwise, then you were wrong. Full stop.
I'm actually curious how Google is still tracking you with that entirely Google-less stack? (note: I don't work for Google)
Twitter Apologizes After Rubio Calls Company 'Censor' for China
I don‘t think states have ever been compelled by antitrust suits to change regulations; there is no state-level version of the WTO where one can sue about this.

Remaking federal regulation to preempt states is laborious and fraught with difficulty; see Obamacare.
I think commenting about the linked page being completely broken without js enabled is relevant (especially if the page could be just as good without it).

I don't think it merits much conversation want time, but remembering accessibility is good.

Similarly, accessibility features for the (color)blind should be mentioned if they are bothering someone.
Yet more people die from falling in their bathrooms every day than each year from shootings. #bathroomcarpetnow

Don't base your politics on a rounding error.
AdSense for one.
This is dubious, but definitely not ridiculous. Buddhism was certainly known in parts of the Greco-Roman world, but there are significant differences between Buddhism and Stoicism, and there's no evidence of any direct intellectual connection.

(Edit: one difference between the two is the Buddhist doctrine of "nonself", which contrasts with the Stoic view of the self as a part of universal Reason and a member of the kosmopolis.)
Oddly, the original and ffmpeg versions play fine on firefox (win 7, 64b, version 67.0), but the krisp version doesn't respond when clicked. I don't understand why not, as all samples are links to .wav files. It works on chrome.
i think they deserve some points for responding immediately, patching and explaining transparently. not enough points for me to buy one were i to get security cameras but credit where it's due.
I am surprised that I haven’t seen anyone make the connection to “normal accidents” [1] yet, but feel it is quite relevant in this case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
Naming things and communicating changes are all core parts of the Systems Engineering process.

Failing to clearly communicate precisely how big this change was, and not making it extremely clear to all stakeholders what was happening and doing analyses of how these failure modes have changed, is really awful.
This definitely happens in IT departments of large orgs. Centralization happens under the guise of efficiency / role specialization. That works for a while until clients at the edge can no longer get the service they used to get when their IT was a direct report in their org chart, and a decentralization effort ensues.

It also seems to be a function of the exec level change over. The new C level wants to make their mark by doing things differently from the last person.
I initially made this site to test an extension, I wanted to test for two things:

- Javascript does not run.
- noscript tags are swapped with divs.

Just because a noscript tag's content is visible, does not mean that javascript is disabled.
Blockchain can't fix bad data entry.
As were the Obama administration’s early ties to many technology companies. Obama explicitly attempted to bring on “technocrats” into his cabinet as a way to try to modernism the effectiveness of government and leverage the internet. In contrast to many other administrations who lag behind technology, at least Obama was attempting to keep pace with it. I don’t view this as a bad thing.
I didn't know they sell floating licenses, that is interesting. I think the fact that this is available for large clients shows that the default is giving up a lot of freedom though, and that there is demand for more.

With regards to the perpetual license, this is rooted in a promise from the company that they will continue to license it "perpetually", not that it is impossible for them to shut down your software. What happens if their licensing servers go down, or they decide that you as a user are so egregiously in breach of their contract that they cannot continue their perpetual license? This can be due to arbitrary restrictions, such as a local government passing laws which do not allow them to continue their license. Consider if an old version of the Unity engine is in violation of GDPR, for example. They would not be legally able to continue perpetual licensing for their product, and they would be forced to shut you down. That is not ownership, and do not let anyone fool you into thinking it is.
The SEC was given a complete explanation of Bernie Madoff's scam back in the 1990's.
Javascript being enabled/disabled has nothing at all to do with accessibility. A site can be JS-heavy and fully accessible.

(Most aren't. But it's because they're developing it poorly, not because they're using JS.)
And narcotics and antidepressants to handle chronic pain and PTSD. Having spent the last month on the West Coast I have started to think these might have a real dampening effect on violence potential.
Minor, but instead of:

status.setAttribute('style', 'display:none');

I would suggest just writing:

status.style.display = "none";

(and similarly for the other DOM modifications; see [0] for a discussion of setAttribute vs property syntax)

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3919291/when-to-use-seta...
I understand the idea, but how does salary play into this? A founder providing all the money, paying a market salary is supposed to also give his first employee 16% of the company after 3 months?

Also, timing matters. Getting the company off the ground is much more risky and much more demanding than joining when it's smooth sailing.
He's still at it https://www.reddit.com/user/dickfromaccounting
And that makes two of us...
No, and no. Remove responsibility for code quality and you remove the incentive for building high quality code in the first place. It can (occasionally) work to have an antagonistic testing team (see development of the Space Shuttle software) but only in very specific situations, and there the development team was trying to not let any bugs slip through to testing in the first place.
This is nice.

In other languages, I would settle for a switch-statement like Go's, which by default breaks instead of falls through. The common switch-statement seems like a prank: If you omit the break, the compiler throws no error, like when you forget a closing brace. Instead the program silently does the opposite of what you meant.

I am less afraid of forgetting one, more of one day accidentally deleting one. Every once in a while in Vim I order my keystrokes wrong and a random line disappears. Usually it catches my eye, but it is unnerving. The risk is eternal.

You would want to leave the switch-statement as is, for backward compatibility, and come up with a new key word to set off the improved version, like Perl did with "given."

With all of the ongoing improvements to JavaScript, I'm surprised this has not been addressed. And in general with most languages I am surprised that their flow control is so stunted.
I will look into this book. With the recent threads on HN commenting on whether Data Science is over-hyped, I think this knowledge would help in adding value.Thanks.
Even if they don't need treatment, it's useful to know why your child is screaming/complaining.
As a former Systems Engineer who worked on avionics, I would tend to agree; a major change to a system should have at least triggered the integration-level engineers (called the Platform team at my former job) to think hard about potential broad impacts.

It should have resulted in that team actively seeking buy-in, and clear communication that all subsystems comprehended precisely what was changing.

It likely should have triggered some kind of additional scrutiny from the safety organization.

That it didn’t is heartbreaking. It seems like either some common practices were not followed or were rushed.

I can’t see Boeing keeping their CMMI certification level after this news breaks. Certainly some major steps were skipped in the Systems Engineering process.
> The core of the "bad investment" argument is that the money doesn't necessarily all get spent either way.

Yes but that is part of the problem with the argument: it basically assumes perfectly rational actors who never cheat contributing to their index fund so they can go do/buy whatever. It’s a lot harder to just not pay your mortgage one month.
Any particular resources that you would recommend for Optimisation techniques? Thanks.
The site uses 2 methods: <noscript>, and javascript to hide an element and display a different one. This way you can tell if the methods disagree.
The most obvious are Google Payments (from the merchant side), Google Analytics, Google Ads (doubleclick). Then there's street view cars collecting photos and wifi data, Google registry services siphoning up domain metadata, and of course any information someone else enters about you- if they save their contacts to google and it includes you, you're suddenly part of their graph.

Then there's the direct cell phone tracking-

> Investigators who spoke with The New York Times said they had not sent geofence warrants to companies other than Google, and Apple said it did not have the ability to perform those searches. Google would not provide details on Sensorvault, but Aaron Edens, an intelligence analyst with the sheriff’s office in San Mateo County, Calif., who has examined data from hundreds of phones, said most Android devices and some iPhones he had seen had this data available from Google.
And yet we have the interstate commerce clause, giving the fed a direct line to meddle freely in any matter whatsoever.
No, it should be the developer's job to make content accessible in the most efficient way and to the widest audience. JS can be, but often it really shouldn't be used and there is a simpler solution. Some sites really do need to be JS webapps, but most of them don't. Your users may not care whether you use JS or not, but they do care when your site is slow because you chose to "appify" it unnecessarily and make it require downloading and running JS to show the same content that could've been directly served as a static HTML page.
Through your friends and family that interact with you and who aren't so careful with their data.

Through browser fingerprinting that is shared via channels which are undetectable and unlockable via browser scripts.

Through hundreds of many tiny mistakes you make every day and unknowingly let down your guard.

_Oops, damn, I forgot I disabled uBlock when accessing that important page for work._

You cannot opt out.
This is some of the most uninformed content on this site I've read today, and that's saying something.

Have you ever talked to any trans people in your entire life? I'm sure some people alter their biological sex because of social expectations, but most people that medically transition do so because they don't like what they have right now. They'd do it on a desert island too.
By dividing accountability between two parties, you end up removing accountability all together.

Bug happens in production. Dev team blames testing team for not catching it. Testing team blames dev team for creating it. Nobody wins.
New breast cancer drug found to boost survival rates by 30%
Your points may be valid but your post makes it seem like you’re mostly just upset your submissions didn’t get any recognition.

I don’t think HN is a bastion of meritocracy or being amazing either FYI.
> If you look at adtech there’s really only Google and Facebook so it’d call this very close to a monopoly.

Please look up the definition of monopoly before throwing the word. Earlier part of your own sentence refutes the claim that google has a monopoly in ad. Further numbers: https://adage.com/article/digital/duopoly-loses-share-ad-spe...
This is what I get when viewed in Lynx which certainly has JS disabled.

Picture of a browser window.

Javascript is disabled in your browser.

Javascript is enabled in your browser.

This text is in a <noscript> tag and should display if JS is disabled.

https://imgur.com/a/RihgnoD
I think the tactic would work, but I don't think Google would want to use it. IMO they'd burn through a lot of recruiting/culture credit pretty quickly if they became too friendly with the Trump administration. Say what you will about Google, they still have a reputation for hiring some of the best engineers. I think a lot of that is off the back that many do not view them as an "evil" company. Becoming very close with the Trump administration would be good way of doing that. I don't think Google really wants to give up their reputation, even if the cost is a monopoly investigation.

Being too buddy-buddy with conservatives has resulted in pushback for Facebook[0] and Uber[1] (Apple[2] too, but a little less so).

Personally I believe that Google, Amazon, and Facebook( a little bit less so) should all be broken up. When you look at Google and Amazon they have their fingers in every pie, it's mind boggling.

I am more left than right, and I am very skeptical of what the Trump administration would do about this. It feels like, with Facebook especially, conservatives are not exactly mad that the companies are big. They are mad that the companies are big and not entirely right-wing mouth pieces. There's a lot of anger about "biased" Google results[3] and "censorship" from Facebook[4].

If you look at the business landscape in US, most very large businesses are culturally conservative. Most tech companies prefer to project a younger, liberal image partially for recruiting reasons. I don't think the Trump administration would be interested in pursuing this if Google looked and acted a bit more like Procter and Gamble.

This seems like a winning position for Trump and a losing position for Google no matter how it shakes out.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/technology/facebook-kavan...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/technology/uber-ceo-travi...

[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/8/18256467/ti...

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-sear...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/09/facebook-...
Monads – Part 4 – Common Monads – Maybe, List, Future, IO, Reader, State
I am surprised to read that houses in Japan are "inexpensive". They are very expensive, as is everything in Japan. Also I think there might be differences because the climate is relatively warm, the houses don't have central heating, which reduces the costs.

The prices in London are high probably because there are lot of rich people, lot of immigrants and therefore high demand for housing.
For some it might take more than 5 seconds though https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/not-even-scientists-can...
In my company we had exactly that problem. We first switched the sprints (2 Sprints only features, 1 sprint only bugs for the whole team), but that was unsuccessful, because the whole team were to many people to deal with bugs and bugs took too long to fix.

Usually we do pair programming in feature sprints, but this also did not work out really well for bugs all the time, since most of the time bugs are minor things to fix and should be reviewed and tested by another person.

Then, we tried to split the team into 2/8 or 3/7, while 2 or 3 people are responsible for bugs and the rest for features. That seems to work pretty well so far and is flexible enough, especially, when 3 people work in the bug team - so difficult bugs still can be fixed in a pair, if it is necessary.

BUT: The developers of the feature team and bug team switch in every sprint and the bug team works together with the feature team and is in the same office, the stand up is free for all team members to join in every direction.
Thanks, that is much cleaner. I'll spend some time tomorrow cleaning up the code.
Fair enough. I felt I was trying to pull the conversation back out of the ideological by re-humanizing and making relevant the actual victims.
>They are inescapable

This seems like a great simplistic unit of measurement for classifying what antitrust action is supposed to target.

When it's extremely difficult, if not practically impossible to escape a private company from extracting/exploiting profit from unwilling persons at scale. When you basically can't opt out.
Cigarettes are insanely deadly. Wouldn’t we have seen some hint of digital issues resembling the awfulness or cigarettes by now? Even in smaller scope?
This blows my mind. Sure Google is has what essentially amounts to a monopoly on search. But hasn’t this been true since, what? 2005?

I feel like this is an action by the DOJ to throw heat off of the recently ignored ruling by Mueller.

“A sitting president cannot be charged with a felony”.

Oh. We should distract the masses with a big (fucking obvious) course of action.

Honestly I’m just a little disappointed in the machinations.
That sounds completely crazy to me. Any complicated system is going to have subtle bugs that require deep understanding of the system to identify and fix. A team that just fixes bugs will not have the same deep understanding of the system and at best will take significantly longer to find and fix the bugs than the team that created the system. At worst they'll never figure it out and create churn without solving the problem.

A separate testing team makes sense, but I wouldn't expect them to fix the bugs.
This is an advertisement. Do you know why people dislike them? Have you researched it?
I am no expert; I only read a lot. But, my understanding is that early Christianity was a reaction away from Judaism. And, that the Old Testament was only added as part of the canon later. In contrast to Judaism, Christianity was must more similar to Buddhism with it’s hippy love message. But, yes, I’m sure that’s very controversial.
There are definitely different versions of software, each with unique identifiers, such as typical version numbers. There’s also the idea of “flight test ready” software, which is able to go onto a flight, vs software that is only to be used in a lab that is not truly flying in the air and controlling the plane.
To me, reddit is truly Usenet 2.0, and in retrospect it's somewhat amazing Google groups didn't capitalize on the head start they should have had when they "inherited" Usenet and let it stagnate. My Windows phone is still viable primarily because reddit .compact still works in Edge (it'll be a sad day if/when? they remove .compact).

Perhaps I need help? :)
If the founder is smart they're using OPM anyways.
I was away for a few days so I didn't respond to your comment immediately.

Yes, AGW has become a political football. The fact that Al Gore is a democrat and popularized the issue has probably hurt the issue more than anything. But politics is beside the point. What does the science say? The peer-reviewed stuff where they publish there data and methodology?

You say you don't deny that climate change is happening, yet everything you point to are talking points of deniers. Climate gate was a non-scandal. Yes, data collection is a messy and expensive business, and a lot of reconciling of various data sets has to be done. Yes, one of the people doing that work found a "trick" to figure out how the unannotated data set could be interpreted to explain why the paper which was associated with that data set arrived at the conclusion it did. That doesn't mean they were tricking the public.

Then you go off on a tangent about scientists and gender issues, which makes me think that you are really trying to address some wider point than that of climate change denial.

You conclude with the same FUD that the smoking lobby used -- sure there are lots of studies that seem to indicate that smoking causes cancer, but you know there are some studies (paid for by the tobacco industry) that show it isn't a problem, so geez, it seems like we don't know enough yet to do anything about it.

I thoroughly reject that stance. Businesses of all kinds have to make decisions based on incomplete and even contradictory data every day; we put people in jail for life or even kill them based on evidence which is not 100.00000% proven. Why, when it comes to climate change, are some people holding out for a mathematical proof or something? Why shouldn't we proceed based on the best available information? Why should the claims of climatologists, with thousands of man-years of research and published data be insufficient, yet a nay-sayer can say without any proof that addressing climate change would be disastrous to the economy?