skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think having the rules decided upon and enforced by the people (not some centralized institution that's disconnected from the social fabric) would help a lot.

And how exactly are "the people" going to decide upon and enforce the rules? Just gathering all the people together to talk until they come to consensus is hardly scalable to the size of a small town, let alone a country or continent. Hence representative democracy, institutions, governments, police forces, court systems.... all that stuff. It may be far from perfect, but it's not clear anyone has come up with a better mechanism.
> It will be very difficult, expensive, and painful for chipmakers to untangle China from their supply chains.

Wat?

None of the major foundries is based in the PRC (no, SMIC is not major). GloFo and UMC have satellite fabs there running older nodes only for PRC-end-user products.

I think you've mixed up "semiconductor manufacturing" with "electronics manufacturing".
In your utopian vision corporate executives actually face jail time for violating the law, that if anything seems a more difficult thing to accomplish today.
> avoiding a certain French big-state mindset that could have seen eurobureaucracy really run riot on national laws

Germany is not really onboard with that either, but I agree a more extreme counter-weight would have been helpful.
There weren't large numbers of attackers back then. The article is talking about the Neolithic-Era so approx 3500 BC. I would say that it would be relatively easy to defend against 5x the amount of people if you could pick them off as they swam across the water. You literally could be throwing spears or rocks at them as they tried to swim.
Lemme guess: Whatcom County?
The job of the Federal Reserve, is "to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going." - William Martin, head of the Fed in the 1960s.
I don't know, but I really feel like we should be talking about this.
Migrant cries and famines tend to cause war.
It seems like a curl joke to raise a child in this world of plenty only to destroy it before their adulthood.
One of my Seattle coworkers was one of the specific people who I was thinking of when writing the above comment, actually.

I think it's less common now due to stuff like pictures of Marina Bay Sands going viral over the past several years, as well as movies like Crazy Rich Asians "educating" people that Singapore is a modern city. But around ~2010, not so much.
Billion-dollar fines can't stop Google and Facebook. That's peanuts for them
I don't have a good answer to that question, I'm not sure anyone does. But if society collapses, much of that knowledge goes with it. Our society is incredibly complex and fragile, with a very high degree of specialization. That makes us vulnerable to these kinds of issues.

While the "dark ages" were hardly dark and ignorant, the collapse of the Roman empire meant advanced road building and concrete were lost for 1500 years. So there is some historical precedent here.
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0. https://www.bytemark.co.uk/prices/#cloud-prices

1. https://www.pair.com/solutions/shared/ (FreeBSD-based)

2. https://www.linode.com/pricing

3. https://aws.amazon.com/free (Free Tier is awesome, for a little while)

Others I would evaluate:

4. https://www.digitalocean.com

5. https://www.orangewebsite.com (Iceland-based)

6. https://www.bahnhof.net (Sweden-based)

7. https://tranquillity.se (Sweden-based, green-powered and straightforward billing)

8. https://advania.com (Sweden-, Iceland-, Norway- and Finland-based)
You sir, are a liar:

https://www.blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-i...

That is by Google's VP of Search, Ben Gomes. That's your boss, supposedly. So, Human evaluators flag content in general ("low quality"); and particularly, remove or down-rate content which Google determines to be "fake news", as Gomes puts it.

and some of the results:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html

Consortium News, Global Research, Counterpunch, Truthdig, Russia Today, Truepublica, World Socialist Website and others - censored. Not entirely, but to a great extent.
Because that is counter productive to increasing productivity.

Having team members focused on getting themselves ranked higher than their teammates, means incentivizing them to not help each other or do something they might not get credit for, even if it's in the best interest of the product or the team.
The precautionary principle suggests limiting time until it’s proven that there’s no impact on young, developing brains
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New scams have been sending fake letters claiming to be from the irs.
Wow this person is projecting their ignorance of the decades of academic HCI studies and industry best practices, including UX design and research methodologies for bringing the user into the design process (to understand their needs) and uncovering user insights from testing designs early on in the design process. Would love to see some concrete examples of redesigns that support the author's argument because I can provide plenty that prove the opposite which simplified user flows and introduced better conceptual models/interaction design patterns that were vetted through user testing.

Maybe they've only worked with smaller teams or visual/graphic designers. Any large organization with a competent UX team can easily dismiss a majority of their claims by exposing them to the UX design process.

"Every change that you make to the product after I have bought it makes it more likely that I will leave your product and find something else that does X instead, because the cost to me to learn how to something different in your product is now not much different than the cost to learn how to do something in a different product."

Product redesigns should optimize and make product features more efficient/simple to use for the core audience (user personas [1]) and support their experience in achieving their end goals (journey mapping [2]).

(Downvoters- would love to hear your perspective)

1. https://www.nngroup.com/videos/personas/

2. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/customer-journey-mapping/
Yes you can. Git doesn't require GitHub to work. Anything from setting up your own git servers, to committing to repos on shared drives, to sending patches through email, you can do without GitHub.

This is not even about relying on a single third party service for anything critical to your business, this is just laziness to learn the tools you use.
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Wouldn't be the first time someone about to leave the company exfiltrated a bunch of proprietary information they wouldn't have access to after they left. :-)
Well, you can downvote also simply to disagree. But would be good to state why you do.

Also, "downvoting comments" could be in turn discussed and up/downvoted.
SOCKS and other forward proxies can allow IPv4-only clients to hit IPv6.
Guess what. Programmeurs hate change directer by others too. Otherwise we’d all be working in the “perfect” language, and all this legacy wouldnt be be here. It’s simply an egoistic/arrogant point of view of “the designer”, which can be a programmer, pm, visual designer, ceo, anyone really, who thinks he’s better and smarter than the rest, and thinks he holds the perfect solution.
Sometimes this turns out right. Often it doesnt
> "There's this myth that treating cancer is expensive," ... "And that's because the data is almost all from high-income countries..."

> Much of the savings, the authors report, comes from the low cost of labor, which for the entire cancer center amounted to less than the average annual salary for one oncologist in the United States.

It's interesting because I too have been guilty of seeing a price in dollars and not adjusting for the fact that amount may have vastly different spending power even within the United States (and thus, less needed for the same services where there is greater spending power).
Works normally for me, no need to exit full screen. I would say the more frustrating thing is that once you change the volume, the Touch Bar takes a while to turn off so you are left with the distraction when watching video.
I'm seriously tempted, but at the same time, I remember that it would generate MORE heat outside to cool my bedroom. And the surge in electricity would be probably supplied from burning gas or coal. I feel conflicted.
Fucking Alex Jones was right.

He’s starting to look like the Richard Stallman of Transhumanism.
Not getting how that's possible at all. An ice age would be far more devastating to the human race than a warming period. Crop yields are up:

1) https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornyl...
2) https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/riceyl...

Ok, so food looks safe and secure. Um, lets see, what are the other basic needs? Shelter? Water? We've had the rainiest year in 125 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/05/08/united-sta...

So uhh...water looks good. We also happen to find ourselves on a planet that's covered in 70% water...so there's always that as a back up supply...

Hmm...maybe our 21st century sensibilities require energy as a basic necessity. We've got tons of resources for energy (more than ever in history).

Hmm. I'm really not seeing a reason to panic.

EDIT: Sea level is rising at 3.3 mm a year: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/

Look, I do think some coastal communities may need to engineer some solutions to prevent damage, or some cities may need to "retract" inland...but it's not like ocean levels have ever been static. http://www.kwaad.net/SeaLevel-MiddleAges-LittleIceAge.html
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin is really a great read -- much of the short book focuses on the weird process of experimenting and refining as he developed a new style of comedy (at the time).
I think cryptoassets, in particular ones sharing a standard software interface on a Turing Complete platform, like ERC721 tokens, are a fundamental innovation in financial technology that will see massive growth in adoption in coming years.
>Knowingly? Against presidential campaigns?

How many times does one have to repeat before its clear to you Trump campaign wasn't spied on?

Carter Page left the Trump Campaign by the time there was a FISA warrant against him.

The Trump campaign was not spied on.
how am I supposed to make a living if I can't charge rent?
> It leaves the engineering team beholden to bad decisions made in other facets of the company (sales, marketing, upper management).

I mean, you're screwed anyways if those people can't do their jobs. No sales means no revenue means engineers taking a pay cut or getting laid off.

So the sales and marketing and product management responsible for your project, need to be on the same product team as the engineers, and have their compensation tied to the product's success.

If the engineers see themselves as the natural enemies of sales and marketing, the product is probably already doomed.
This is literally Chinese government propaganda. People are paid to post nonsense like that. The "western media won't tell you this" start is a dead give away.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20521875
It's not about "people". Google censors because of pressures from the US state (and other states they operate in) and commercial interests, particularly advertisers I would assume.
Alternatively, you can sell a covered collar that protects your downside enough to know that you'll have the cash on hand come tax time. This limits your upside somewhat, but usually less than selling the stock outright. Mark Cuban famously used this strategy to protect his Broadcast.com payout under lock-out.

https://www.acceleratedfi.com/real-world-options-example-how...

(Check the details of your contracts with an attorney and financial advisor; I've heard that some lock-outs now explicitly forbid trading in derivatives of the stock to prevent doing what Cuban did. With financial engineering being as advanced as it is, though, it's always possible to create a "synthetic" derivative that is nearly guaranteed to have the same value as a particular options strategy without mentioning the particular asset involved.)
With melting Himalayan glaciers, I am a bit worried on how Pakistan, India and China will deal with water rarefaction.
They didn't license the technology under reasonable terms, for the most part is what killed them. Even up against CD/DVD, most would rather have a zip100 or zip250 disc that was more reusable. IIRC, there was some licensing for disc mfg, but there were price/licensing restrictions in place.

If they'd licensed disks at say $1, and the drives at $10, and let other companies build compatible products, it would have lived a lot longer and they may have even influenced the transition to USB thumb drives.

I worked in 2nd level phone support at one time, but had no insight into anything the company did. Aside: the Jazz drive was effectively a detachable internal drive, where the disks came out. A damaged drive could damage the disks, and damaged disks could damage the drive. When an RMA happened, I'd usually do both.

In the end they had some really good engineering, and a lot of missed opportunities.
Whoa, that's a thing now? How prevalent is it?
The Future of Mass/Public Transit (2016)
Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time
Because ctrl is important for terminal users, but Mac keyboards have it only in a very awkward almost unreachable place - so remapping caps lock to ctrl is a very common fix (which is supported natively in the settings app, too).
There are plenty of urban areas that haven't seen drastic increases in home prices.
There were a variety of widths, it was one axis of the study. But I don’t remember the details, it is certainly possible you’re talking about something we didn’t test. Personally, at first I couldn’t even see the differences they were discussing.

Having studied graphics and signal processing for a few years in graduate school before that job, I thought I would be good at seeing the differences, and I was a bit shocked how good they were at it, and how not that good I was. :)

Truncating the Gaussian too closely though, and it’s not exactly a Gaussian anymore, you lose the best antialiasing properties. I can totally see how it will be sharper and more comparable to other popular filters. (Normalized & truncated at 1.1 radius is just slightly outside the 1 std dev line, right?)

Gaussian is my personal choice for large format prints of images with extreme aliasing problems.
> what does the Dalai Lama and Uighur oppression have to do with this

The snark likely comes from the fact that Xinjiang is consistently portrayed in Western media as a nightmarish, dystopian, Orwellian hellhole suffering under the iron fisted oppression of the Communist Party. They ignore the very real benefits that have been afforded to millions of poverty-stricken people in Xinjiang via progressive government policies, while tunnel visioning solely on human rights abuses.
Human's might not have a full understanding but there's an entire branch of science (pharmacology) dedicated to studying these things. We know that Alcohol has a detrimental effect on your coordination just like we know Psilocybin has a detrimental effect on your perception of reality. Frankly, I think it's far less strange for someone to show up to work high than tripping.
The tone is honestly understandable. It pains me to bring up this cliched point, but is the US media not constantly telling us that China is hostile, China is plotting? As someone with a foot in both worlds, US coverage of China is _at least_ equally warped. It's funny; to my parents and relatives in China I'm perceived as having a US bias, but everywhere else I get characterized as being too Chinese.

It's hard for me to emphasize enough how little typical Westerners understand about Asia. It goes both ways but I think they're doing a better job of it - at least in my opinion, China appreciates US culture much more than the US appreciates Chinese culture.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Can I post a job ad?

> Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

> A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.
Americans work longer hours and save less than most other developed nations. Plus they don’t have extensive social safety nets. If you’re struggling to get by it’s hard to be curious about the world. Also the country is ginormous.
It's great actually. I've used it for years as my text editor / terminal font.

Compare it to your font of choice in this handy app:

https://app.programmingfonts.org/#fantasque-sans
"myth that treating cancer is expensive"

They use Burkitt's lymphoma as the example. The treatment is intense, but short duration chemo, and no radiation, or surgery...and less radiology, cat scans, pet scans, etc. That cuts out a lot of costs.

I'd be interested in what breast cancer, esophageal cancer, etc, cost in the same region. Those require longer and more rounds of chemo, radiation, surgery, etc.
FWIW, I actually use the 'chalkboard' (apple's version of comic-sans) in my nvAlt (note-taking) app. Makes the feel a bit.

On a different note, it'd be interesting to pair this with a friendlier color scheme: https://twitter.com/lovemecomputer_/status/10903670151419985...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=soft-aes...
The wording is a bit slippery. I believe that one could get into big trouble for truly not knowing they were not in compliance, but the fact that is says "who believe," to me, means, "as far as I am aware, this is true." There are a lot of undeclared assumptions in that statement, and all of those are at the cost of the person signing that statement.

Alternatively, we see politicians walking back false statements or changing stance daily because the thing they said previously was what they believed based on the facts present at the time -- and they are never held to account.
Time will tell.

Honestly, I don't care much, because I'll be dead.

But I do expect considerable lulz, before I die.
That sounds more like a case of your managers not wanting to stick their necks out by doing something weird, even if it would benefit both you and the company. Happens all the time.
Besides being a broad generalization, your point #2 applies to basically anybody on the internet who has their views challenged, to be honest. Doesn't need to be a paid troll or nationalist at all.
This combined worldwide graphic is far more striking: http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/files/2019/06/all_countrie...

From: http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2019/showyourstripes/
Chinese farm productivity is shite, and the government knows it.

It is true that the state throws absolutely colossal amount of resources on geoengineering and agriculture, yet to little effect.

China is nowhere near Holland or other advanced agriculture player in calories production per unit of labour.

Out of close to a 100 officials I went by through my career, I only managed to befriend two. From those two, I barely know in the most generalised terms of what is happening in top tiers.

Agriculture meetings are alleged to be the non-stop shit show, an every day crisis, and a way to demotion for the prime majority of cadres put on the agri committees, as most of them fail at the task.

Provincial level party executives all send their deputies instead of themselves to them as they fear demotion and penalties if they say something silly at those meetings.

Chinese bureaucracy does not deserve much credit there. Were that much of money be given to just anybody moderately competent, China would've long beaten even Holland on that.
I honestly don't know I am not a network guy. I am using IPv4 it seems on my site.
I'm 10-15 minutes outside of Raleigh. I have a 22-35 minute commute (depending on time of day and traffic). I bought a house for something like 300-350% of a junior dev's annual salary in 2013, and from what I can tell, could do the same today (both house prices and junior salaries have increased).

(Note: I am in Garner, which is a less affluent town, but hardly a bad place to live).
Sometimes it's not a myth. We can _cure_ a few kinds of leukemia with T-cell therapies. There is no way we know of to do so cheaply.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/the-promise-an...

Perhaps the most immediate implication of the blurring of lines between procedure and drug is the conundrum of price. A single dose of Kymriah for pediatric ALL is priced at $475,000; for Yescarta, a CD19 T-cell therapy designed for certain types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, that number is $373,000. These prices rival those of some of the most expensive procedures in American medicine. (A kidney transplant can be priced at $415,000, a lung transplant at about $860,000.) And these price tags don’t include the delivery of post-therapy care to CAR-T patients, who typically suffer complications from the infusion. Subsequent hospital stays and supportive care can drive the total costs to a million dollars or more.

...

Drug pricing is, of course, at the center of a familiar and inevitably acrimonious debate. The pharmaceutical industry defends high prices as a means to recoup the costs of drug discovery and development. Consumers, insurers, and governments argue that the prices charged for drugs are out of control, and bear no relationship to their real costs. But with cellular therapies the problem isn’t merely profiteering—it is that, unlike conventional drugs, cell therapies are inherently expensive to produce. The estimated cost to manufacture a typical CAR-T infusion is close to six figures. In short, even if CAR-T therapy were offered with no margin of profit, it would still rank with some of the most expensive procedures in medicine. Extracting cells from an individual patient, purifying them, genetically modifying them, and expanding their numbers into the millions will never be akin to churning out amoxicillin in a factory.
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Wonder how this could change with modern technology and controls.
Of course Americans aren't in general interested in fish farms. Most Chinese are equally unlikely to know anything about their country's aquaculture development (not to mention sustainable ones). I don't believe the sarcasm is literally aimed at people's ignorance, but more at prevailing general notions (and closed-mindedness) about anything China related. The writer has a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge and still lives in Cambridge. He is entitled to his opinion of what he thinks as biases in the Western media. To me the "biases" much more reflect what the media think that their readers would like to read and believe than a conspiracy to "mislead" their readers.
OK, but if you substitute "product's long term financial success" for "product's financial success", I think the point still stands.

Could add in factors for customer retention and customer satisfaction, for example.

Everyone on the team should share responsibility for figuring out what will make the customer's happy with the product and how to deliver on those things.
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