skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We have long made the distinction.....”

Rape, murder, and infanticide are all natural human behaviors by this definition, and they’ve become less common as we’ve become more divorced from nature. Also natural: having about half of your children die what are now preventable deaths. Life in nature is complete shit.

And I was assuming here a basically utilitarian definition of the good, because of your concern with suffering. Of course it’s debatable.
Polyform Project (https://polyformproject.org/) just announced draft terms for a suite of standardized, noncommercial, source-available licenses, like Creative Commons' CC-BY-NC-*, but for software. The draft includes a "Small Business" exception that gives companies below certain headcount and revenue figures a free pass.
The discovery only touches the ABO group system. While the ABO group system is the most important one, there are over 36 blood group systems. The Rh blood group system is important, too: If a Rh(D) negative person gets Rh(D) positive blood for the first time, it works but they can develop antibodies for it and if they get such blood a second time, they can get major issues.

In fact, there are more people (and thus potential donors) with type O blood than there are people with Rh negative blood.

Conversion of type A and B to type O blood is a key step, but it alone doesn't enable creation of fully universal donor blood (yet).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_blood_group_systems
As a counterpoint to this, a few years back I was freelancing for a fairly well known startup. My first day on site their lawyer gave me a contract with a clause saying something to the effect of if the company found my work unsatisfactory I would redo it free of charge. I brought this up to the lawyer and he immediately agreed he wouldn't sign something similar (also that he was surprised that I actually read the contract since it was otherwise fairly standard). He struck it out and we both initialed.

No issues came up but I've since felt vindicated in doing a close reading of anything more important than an EULA.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nutritionfacts-org/

>And btw you linked an article with the following conclusion

Yes. The point is that even plenty of vegans, who agree with his premise, know he openly lies to promote veganism.

https://www.thatnerdysciencegirl.com/2015/11/13/the-case-aga...
there's the opposite problem as well:

"We don't want our brand to be damaged by showing our bad code to the public"
> If you spent a billion dollars and a decade on a project, you will consider the data you collected to be a trade secret and would protect it with everything you can, because you have to now take this drug to market and make up the billion you spent making this drug.

You would also be heavily incentivized to make sure the numbers show that your drug is effective, with very limited side effects..
You would be able to afford helping more if you charge money, now you're your boss, you charge based on what you believe and know you need to survive and based on periods where you aren't consulting.
> hypocrisy was at the bottom

That surprises me given the furore around the likes of Michael Gove admitting to taking drugs[1].

Seems like a politician can lie, steal and manipulate without much complaint, but hypocrisy is a major sin.

(Although it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between genuine public outrage and the newspapers whipping it up.)

[1]:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/08/michael-gov...
The CYA thing to do here is to create a paper trail of you asking your boss and HR what procedure you need to follow to determine if something is essential. They likely won't respond at all or in writing, send a follow-up in writing noting their lack of response.
Show HN: Dataset of Linus Torvalds' rants sorted by hate
Er, I meant pre-beta not pre-alpha. It's still in development. Sounds like the core API is pretty much settled and not expected to change (much).

Building a platform is not like building an app. And a platform that changes significant parts of internet infrastructure is different from just building any platform. I worked on Firefox for 13 years... the internet is a harsh and fickle thing.

That said, people are using IPFS with millions of users today.

I very much agree about the rhetoric. The homepage is polished, and speaks to a bunch of features that are possible to varying extents in varying environments, but not easy to demonstrate. Bandwidth savings is a good example of this.
Boeing 737 Max Grounding Ripples Through Supply Chain
It's called "being made an example of"
Startups Swarm to Build Bee-Based Businesses
Well, that's exactly what every CDN does: if you're a CDN you don't need to inject anything - people give away all their users' browsing histories by making them download files from your servers... the analytics are just your log files.
Luke 19:26 repeats the line but within the context of money. It certainly isn't an "endorsement of the 1 percent", but more a statement of truth observed in virtually every human domain.
> You saw that in each transition:

No, those transitions started (and became sure things) long before there was any commitment from "A-list" developers to support them. Getting commitment was an orthogonal task, and itself took significant technical and relationship work from both Apple and the developers. (Note: I was in developer relations for a few of these transitions.)

> Whether there are a lot of Indy developers on the Mac doesn’t matter.

Indie developers matter, not least of which because they're typically the first to adopt new Apple-only technologies.
Not to mention cost, and the opportunity costs that emerge from it.
https://www.supportmearah.in/2019/06/website-content-safe-ha...
> working on this project, will myself or my team be exposed to new skills and technology?

How much weight would you say you give this piece of criteria in the overall decision?
No, the trust is not gone, and the opinions of an uneducated fringe groups such as the anti-vaxers do not represent the majority in any way. The only reason they get any coverage is because of the perverse click-bait atmosphere of news. Its the tabloidization of news.
Where I work this is a thing. We are required to report to the government how many hours we work and I think by law are entitled to overtime. Instead it gets reported as 40 his each week when that is obviously not true.

I'm ok with my compensation, and have no real complaints, except the lying to authorities pay.

This is in a FAANG company, but a European subsidiary.
Are you sure it wasn't intentional?
Frosted: Free Posix OS for tiny embedded devices
I don't think you can generalize editors so easily, either. They don't all operate on the same principles. Some exact more authority over tone than others. I don't know the Guardian's editors, so I can't speak to them.

I also can't speak to Fox News or American politics in that kind of detail.

Anyway this is going off of the main context of the thread, which was my original complaint. So if there's another one that comes up on this subject I think it would be more suitable to explore it there.
I didn't literally say you said never, "never say never" is a common phrase.

And yes, the CPU was customized:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/853/2

At the very least, half of the cache is disabled. They cherry-picked a feature from the Pentium III lineup that they wanted to keep while lowering the cache to Celeron levels. It's a deliberate modification to reduce cost while maintaining desired performance.

It's not detectably customized beyond that but it's not like it's a SKU you can buy off the shelf, either.
Efficient Exploration via State Marginal Matching
Yes-ish? That is, I'd be very surprised if anyone ever said "I know the page is down, but sign like it isn't anyway", at least in writing.

The general pattern for this sort of thing is that a different person from the one who got the complaint comes by and reminds you you haven't signed the form, and HR is breathing down their neck now. And if you explain about the error, they might reasonably say "well, if it's the same form as the one you did read, then who cares?" After all, it's not their form, they're not asking you to lie - just pointing out the same sensible thing you did in the first place. In the most extreme case, a bunch of people would ask this, none of them would ever push back up the chain, and if you refused strenuously enough you might get fired for "failing to sign the sexual harassment form" (or more likely, for no stated reason). Nobody's going to ask for a lie, they just ignore the problem and keep repeating the initial request. That doesn't necessarily make it legal, given that the complaint was raised, but it makes proving the misbehavior enormously difficult.

I don't remember who said this first, but the miracle of bureaucracy is that it can create causeless effects. A bunch of people make a bunch of reasonable, innocent-looking decisions, and somehow they all add up to "lie or get fired" without anyone ever having to say it.
Blog posts and HN posts have an equal lack of authority. Authority does not matter though, facts do. You can look up the levels of oxalates, phytates, PUFAs, etc from whatever source you like and confirm reality. You don't need an "authority" to tell you what to think.
The problem seems to be not too much pacifism. Quite the contrary. Both sides, every party is able and willing to escalate. Both in domestic and in geopolitics.

This of course leads to a lot of inefficient posturing and back-and-forth, and the preservation of the gridlock.
Experts are incentivised to be dishonest like everyone else. It's the appeal to authority rather than facts that fuels distrust in agencies.
One is reminded of the legal fight over the public posting of Georgia's penal code.
folklore.org is another good source. It is a collection of stories written by the team that created the original Mac (Most stuff written by Andy Hertzfeld)
You were never going to be convinced otherwise by a rational argument. You've literally dismissed the credibility of the American government and the entire field of medicine in a single comment.
How else do we describe the misunderstandings of the uneducated.

Can you blame a high school grad for seeing 1 vaccine death and not understanding those are extremely low probability vs death due to disease?

I think everyone should know Math, but if they cannot, they should defer to professionals.
This is excellent. I appreciate that you've made Firefox a first-class citizen and even added instructions for Opera users. Very nice!
This is what the decentraleyes browser plugin is for.

https://decentraleyes.org/
It's not just writing.

Being around a group of highly-skilled peers sets the bar. It exposed your shortcomings and gives you a resource to remedy them.
I didn't say they were friends!
This exact thing happened to me when I was a student. In '94 when myself and 6 other first-year students moved into a house, one of the first things we did was get a TV sorted out between us. Renting TV's was still a thing then and doing so was quite viable for a bunch of students who didn't have the disposable cash to just go and buy a TV.
"Paul" put his name on the rental agreement. of course we needed the license too so that day we got that sorted too. "George" (there was a John too, and I was sorely disappointed to find there wasn't a Ringo!) arranged it and her name went on the license. a few weeks went by and sure enough we got a visit from the "Detector Van" because Radio Rentals told the licensing authority that we had taken delivery of a TV and of course that didn't match their records of a license holder... never mind that the address was covered and it was a shared house. (not individual apartments)
A similar thing happened a couple of years later when I moved in with a bunch of guys who just didn't bother with a license and I was in when a guy with a clipboard of address that didn't have licenses just went door to door checking if there was a TV in use. he had a "detector van" but it was just the output of a database select.
For a while the licensing agency even had ads to the effect that "detection" is just the output of a database.
Alos youtube is full of people their their harrassment by licencing officials because they don't have a license
What's better... being in China knowing that everything you do is being watched, or living elsewhere and just suspecting that everything you do is being watched by some three letter agency?

> (Tencent declined to comment for this article)

More likely: (I didn't dare to request comment from Tencent or my social credit score would have plummeted).
Coffee isn't a replacement for water. You would still drink water (I hope).
Well yes, it will probably shut down just like the official python package repo will shut down if it’s sponsors can’t meet the budget. Nothing is guaranteed to last forever.
Norwegian 737 MAX denied entry into Germany, lands in France
I'd see them as a cause of traffic accidents/injuries by distraction.

Just as being drunk in public is already a finable offence I think, as is causing disagreements on the public space.
Facebook's Legal Outlook in the EU Is Looking Increasingly Shaky
How do you pronounce the name of the command line tool “xargs”?
Isn't the iMac a better option then the Mac Pro? It certainly is from a performance per buck option, but perhaps just in general?
How to Build Your Audience (Free Tip)
Tear gas was definitely used in '14, see this image from the Umbrella Movement protests:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests#/media...

Multiple sources also mention rubber bullets being used in '14 as well:

https://www.google.com/search?q=umbrella+revolution+rubber+b...
Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a site just like SciHub but only for ISO (and other) standards?
Veritasium video: "Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_OEsf-1qgY
HTML parsing is not that hard compared to CSS/layout/fonts (or even figuring out layout), a competitive JavaScript engine, and the myriad of APIs and site compatibility problems OP talked about.

My HTML parser uses SGML which is more generic as it takes the HTML grammar (a DTD) as parameter and computes state machine tables etc. dynamically based on it, thus a bit harder, but still very much doable.
Local long time residents would set themselves on fire before allowing that to happen. Some residents still championing for a return of the orchards.
Well, the first example looks like it includes a version:

import {Component, render} from 'https://cdn.pika.dev/preact/v8';
Coffee helps me with fasting. It turns what is a semi uncomfortable experience to an easy thing.
Trip J on the Beach, 2019
I imagine that would be a notification that slowly drops down, then clips off and falls below the bottom of the screen
"if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water"

From 'The Little Prince' referring to the merchant who sold pills to quench thirst.
These fall into the white lies bucket. Largely inconsequential, rarely checked on, and when things do go south deniable to a degree large enough for the person to not lose their job.
Where there's a way there's a will.

So say US has interest on country X, can you 100% guarantee that none of the following data could be used to target some individuals of said country:
- Facebook social graph
- WhatsApp conversations
- Skype voice and video chats
- Google location history
- visa credit card transactions

IMHO it's just a matter of how big is the interest.
Maybe it wouldn't happen to use this data for personal reasons but it would be very strange to imagine an army leader citing foreigners personal data protection when the country is at war.
I don't understand how you got "endorsement of the 1 percent" from "general principal".

Think of it another way. Imagine two people with Tom Brady's talent: one ends with mansions in Southern California and multiple superbowl titles, the other ends up unemployed in Arkansas.
Do you really send two or more emails for every piece of red tape that you go through? The overhead here is ridiculous, all for CYA from lawsuits that won't affect 99% of workers.
If you can use nextCloud at all, as a substitute for Google Drive, then Drive isn't the product you wanted in the first place.

The strength of Google Drive is in the collaborative document editing. Not the "drive" aspect of it.

Today anyway. It didn't start out like that.

As a sort of global filesystem, it fails miserably IMHO and always did. Even if it were available on Linux, I wouldn't use it for that purpose.
Good Leader, Bad Leader
This is false. I’m a Hong Kong citizen. I support the government. Most people that support the government just don’t bother to demonstrate.
No reason the delivery couldn't also be delivered in a reusable container, to your own cup
It is nothing remotely like the bad old days. I'm assuming you never had to support IE6.
More importantly, the slider on it doesn't control time but rather doneness. It gages the reflectivity of the surface to determine how brown the item has become, meaning my frozen Eggo and my refrigerated sliced bread both come out how I want them without having to play with the dial each time.

But my, does it feel more fragile than my old Chinesium toaster!
> I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design or style of Hacker News. It's sacrosanct.

I wish you would do something about the voting buttons and the expand/collapse buttons. They're way too tiny and way too close to other elements in the default scheme used by HN. This is a big deficiency I see with the default HN interface, which makes it less usable as well as less accessible.

Edit: I also see a 3/28 counter and a spinning icon on the top left of the page that doesn't change regardless of which post I'm browsing. Sometimes it disappears if I navigate to another post or page, but it looks like it starts with 0/28 for every post. [This is on Brave right now; no issues with connectivity or connection speed; dropdown menu from the username works.]
Thanks for your feedback! This is actually more feedback & more meaningful than what I get from my FAANG manager. I'll use this to better form my arguments going forward, thanks friend.

> you presuppose what they do 'decimate' their bodies. Maybe they do but it's a bit short on facts innit. And related, does taking copious amounts of alcohol (which I agree does damage bodies) count, what with alcohol being legal and socially acceptable?

It's pretty hard to get Hepatitis C, AIDS, pulmonary infections, or collapsed veins from a few mixed drinks or beers...
Uber Stock Had Disappointing Q1 Earnings: So Why Did the Price Go Up?
He has a point. Lately, our federal agencies have really ruined the trust people had in them for so long. Just look at the FAA for instance, not doing their job with Boeing's 737MAX and proving themselves to just be in Boeing's pocket. No one can really trust the FAA any more, and we have to look for European and even Chinese (!) regulators for proper regulation and approving new aircraft before we can trust that they're safe for the flying public to use.

Why is the FDA different? What makes it immune to the sheer corruption that has infected the FAA and other US federal agencies?

And where are foreign drug-regulation agencies anyway? The US isn't the world's gatekeeper to medicine.
Checksumming is necessary, but not sufficient, for proper data integrity. But if you don't have it, you can't do anything else.

So why does it seem you are agruing against checksums?
I have to deal with OSHA and other local regulatory agencies on a regular basis. Having to deal with a bunch of unimaginative (or simply stupid) people who force you to conform to poorly written regulatory requirements is just soul sucking.
This is something I've always been confused about- what's the difference between an "expat" and an "economic immigrant"? Is it just the origin country or color of skin?
You're pooping little pieces of plastic
Amazon sued over Alexa child recordings in US
It seems it's you that has changed the topic of our conversation. I said that having children is not a selfish act. Now you say it's not population growth, but lifestyle that is the issue. Great, but that has nothing to do with having children.

The first world is going to be in an actual crisis (not a theoretical future one) if we don't increase the reproduction rate. Look at what is happening in Japan with massive labor shortages, too many elderly to take care of, broken economy...

> The central challenge for the future of people and the planet is how to raise more of us out of poverty—the slum dwellers in Delhi, the subsistence farmers in Rwanda—while reducing the impact each of us has on the planet.

The central challenge to every individual is to survive and reproduce. People know this at a very intrinsic level. Before you can worry about people halfway across the world, you need to be able to eat, put a roof over your head, have children (if you want them -- most do) and support them.

Humanity is not a centrally planned, intelligently designed organism. It's emergent behavior from individuals following their genetic will to participate in evolution.
In order to write the story they went to former USC employees and solicited, among other things, patient confidential information.

What you have written is libel, and I suggest you remove your comment, since the LA Times has stated exactly how they conducted the investigation.

Ryan, Hamilton and a third colleague, Paul Pringle, kept knocking on doors, and over a period of months, they persuaded more than 20 current and former USC employees and a handful of former patients to talk on an anonymous basis. The story they told was jaw-dropping.

Unlike similar stories about sexual abuse, our investigation did not have the benefit of police records, court filings or other public documents because none existed. It was based almost exclusively on interviews.

The LA Times journalists did not look at patient records for the first story; they based the reporting solely on interviews with patients and with staff. They found these patients by basically just cold-calling people that might have been victims until they found some. Given the hundreds of women the doctor molested, this was actually not that hard to do (though in most cases this would have been like finding a needle in a haystack).

After the story broke, hundreds of women contacted the LA Times and provided permission for the LA Times to access their records as part of the investigation because they didn't trust USC to investigate properly without external pressure.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-times-pulitzer-geo...
Why isn't anyone worried about TikTok?

Yes, WeChat is largely contained to China, but TikTok/ByteDance is global and a top 10 app in the U.S. It would be naive to think that there isn't a backdoor to that app. And it's video.

There's also precedence for this e.g. the U.S. forcing Grindr's Chinese owner to sell.
If something reminds me of Hyperlinks, then it is this guy with his 20k interlinked paper cards.

https://takesmartnotes.com/uncategorized-en/2017/03/welcome-...

https://zettelkasten.de/posts/luhmann-folgezettel-truth/
I’m not sure why you’re downvoted. There’s immense financial and human capital in HK (due to low taxes and access to APAC), both relatively mobile. Europe absorbed millions of poor and unskilled Syrians. Half a million knowledge and highly skilled service workers from HK would be possible, even desirable for many countries.
Yep! Chuggers love me for some reason :/ https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/chugger
Has anyone every decided to just get terminated as a result of not signing something? How does that go when applying for your next job and you say you were terminated because you refused to sign something that wasn't true or was not in your favor?
zargs?