skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in the US, but in parts of europe de-escalation is an important part of their 4+ year education
How high is child mortality? 4.1% as of 2016[1]. Even using your low number (2.2) that you didn't cite, 2.2 * (1 - 0.041) = 2.109, still above replacement. Please at least try to look up the statistics and form your opinion based on them, rather than forming your opinion and making up claims about the statistics based on your opinion.

Why don't I just make this really simple for you: India's population will grow by 1.10% annually from 2015-2020 according to UN estimates from 2017.[1] If that's not recent enough for you, India is projected to grow 1.08% in 2019.[2] So however you want to argue this, India's population is growing. As I said and cited before, its absolute (not proportional) growth is greater than any other country in the world.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-populat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
> Thumb-drives should have replaced them years ago. Perhaps there are copyright-related reasons holding it back?

IIRC, thumb drives are far more unreliable and unstable than discs.
Try to find about EU's INSTEX, financial vehicle to bypass US sanctions, in mainstream US media.
You know what would be EVEN more effective at fighting climate change than not having children? Committing suicide.

But people don't want to listen to the harsh truths. They would rather consume their way out of the problem with electric cars, education for third world countries, reforestation, solar power and other false hopes.
That's a straw man to suggest anyone is arguing for divulging all passwords or pins. Likewise no one is arguing twitter should facilitate access to PHI, etc. There's a clear and obvious difference between political statements and passwords and its bad faith to argue otherwise.

The difference between WSJ and Twitter is that the WSJ has competitors (NYT, Politico, even Fox News and crazies like Infowars) whereas Twitter does not. We live in a world (unfortunately) where the President of the United States and his administration heavily relies on Twitter - it's no longer someones backyard social group. For Twitter to play the censor is no longer acceptable, although we still expect twitter to keep its users safe from harassment and mobs.

So yes, it's unacceptable for Twitter to play the censor or ban people from public service announcements or policy statements by their elected officials. If Twitter is going to facilitate administration statements and my local government agencies letting me know critical information, they are no longer an entirely private platform.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22I%20love%20China%F0%9F%87%A8...

Here you go. Not suspicious at all!

Edit: another gem full of bot accounts: https://twitter.com/search?q=%20what%20a%20shame%20for%20Hon...
> Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of ‘fit’ and so much more

This sounds more like a description of (the sad reality of) American society than it does an anomaly unique to one company.

When a company reaches Google-size, I imagine the challenges of insulating the company culture from the negative parts of broader society would become quite difficult.

That's not to say that Google bears no responsibility for this. And it definitely tarnishes the overwhelmingly positive hollywood / silicon valley stereotype of Life As A Googler.
Not surprising that this is the case in tiny homogeneous affluent countries, but not in large, diverse ones. Sure.
Dark Mode looks amazing. So clean.

I'm looking forward to exploring the integration with Jupyter.
Apple model of use makes you something like renter of their hardware/software.
> Right off the top of my head the 513 NPA (Ohio-ish) has a 988 NXX so there's a thousand potential phone numbers that have to change.

They can just require 10 digit dialing for that area code. It's already been required on may others.

> Some people program some PBX dialplans such that pretty much any stream including the regex 911 goes to 911 (dial 9 for outside line and 911, dial 911 without a leading 9, etc) and they're going to try that with 988 with predictable results (try to call your buddy who used to be extension 9889 and you're mysteriously connected to a hotline).

That would break so many things if they did that today. Numbers can contain "911" within them and have nothing to do with 911. If they've made it this long with a broken dial plan, adding another broken match for 988 won't change much as they're already used to not being able to dial thousands upon thousands of numbers.

> The international phone dialing country code for Bangladesh is 880, that country code will have to change because some fraction of PBX programmers and users are going to F it up (as usual) and route all "9 for outside line 880 for Bangladesh then 123456 for the lnum" calls to the hotline.

Generally you have to dial an international call prefix before the country code, so this is a non issue. Without it, the phone system won't know if you're trying to reach country code 44 for the UK, or area code 440, 441, 442, 443, or 445 in the US.
>It has gotten so bad that some police forces will not do welfare checks any longer because they are tired of the bad press that follows when they kill yet another suicidal person.

Maybe I have low expectations but stopping doing something because they're killing too many people unnecessarily seems like a big and uncommon step in the right direction for most law enforcement agencies. Usually they just deny, deny, deny.
I get why people like figurines, but I don't understand how much love funkopop specifically gets. Their model quality is just so poor. No detail. No character expression. No differentiation between characters. They feel like just the absolute lowest effort throwaways. There are so many great toy modelers out there, and yet somehow the cheapest least effort one is the one that people know about because it's the one that, for some terrible reason, gets brand licensing deals.

edit: Just to add more...I mean...someone else linked this figure https://media.entertainmentearth.com/assets/images/e9792a6af...
Every single funkopop figure looks exactly like that with only slightly more than a palette and hair swap. Compare that to the same series models from Banpresto: http://www.banpresto.jp/prize/0008.html
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No demographic is known to be "hostile dicks" to another demographic. There are individuals of every demographic that cover the "dick spectrum" on any particular issue. Issuing blanket statements about everyone of a particular demographic is racist/sexist/ageist....
Yes very responsive.

I've pointed out a number of errors in their FAQs, some technical and some spelling and grammar related.

They have always acknowledged the issue.

3 months later, the issues still remain. Oh well.
Looks good. I will use it for my new project. Thanks for the work.
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> Contract law typically consists of an offer, acceptance, and some thing of value traded by each side. Restatement (Second) of Contracts, § 17(1).

"some thing of value" - usually termed "consideration".

What is the "consideration" that Apple receives?

If Apple grants no license, the other party cannot do anything with the software, including those uses that would remain forbidden under the license. In granting a license, Apple allows some uses, but retains some limitations. Thus, Apple has only granted rights to the other party, and has received nothing in return that Apple did not have before.
I'd suggest you fully read the text and enforcement you are quoting.

The FTC has a clear standard: Would the average person know that an endorsement was done for money.

Amazon's relationship... with is with it's sellers... is literally the topic of this whole post. I'm really not sure why you are bringing this up (amazon sometimes choosing it's own), other than to subtly defend something clear by muddling the waters.

To be clear: if I asked the average person whether an 'amazon preferred' product was a paid endorsement by the brand owner to amazon in the form of cash and revenue sharing... I'm sure they would say: "No, we didn't know that as being obvious'. That's the standard mommy bloggers are held to.

The thing is, Amazon will present the flimsy argument you brought up with a team of lawyers. The mommy blogger will just take the fine.

If you haven't dealt with the FTC, and seen the dirty sausage machine up close, I'd suggest you look into it before continuing on defending them.
Should Twitter also prohibit US residents from posting disparaging tweets about Vladimir Putin during the next Russian election season?
Not disputing the sentiment, but if you're referring to Michael Moore's book, the full title is "Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!" - ie, he's not being racist or sexist but rather saying that's a very simplistic excuse.
Apropos of nothing, I actually find myself using DuckDuckGo and Firefox a lot more lately, over Chrome and gSearch. I also want to get to hosting my own email, and move off of Gmail. Not going to lie though, I really like the Gmail interface and would appreciate any good replacements.
A lot of software can feel like a bait and switch. To keep compatibility you have to use windows, but the quality goes up and down. Bundled IE, windows ME, then XP which people loved, then Vista, then windows 7 which people loved again, then windows 10. There isn't nearly as much freedom of choice when it is an all or nothing game and things are changing underneath you. Windows 10 reverts your settings after doing forced updates. It forces Cortana to be on and Microsoft has been found to have employees listening in on voice commands. This doesn't apply to bill gates any more, but it does illustrate why people end up using software they hate.
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Daily activity assist devices dodge a bunch of those "extensive certification delays".
This might be a bit off topic, but what are your options for putting images or "image like" drawings in the terminal now days?

This seems to just use blank spaces with terminal background color codes to draw things, which means your smallest "pixel" is the size of a terminal line.

Are there ways of getting higher definition in a terminal with fairly widespread support and keeping full color?

The hacker part of me is thinking with some combination of finding Unicode characters that "fit" an outline combined with color quantization (since every "character" has to be one color at most) might be able to cut the size in half...
(Though they do care what it means in Greek, since that's where they took the name from. It also happens to be spelled the same as "color" in kana.)
> I love autodesk...

I sure don't. Buying up the competition and killing it off (see Softimage). I would migrate from a proprietary package to Blender just to make sure Autodesk can't get its paws on it and wreck havoc to my pipeline once again.
There is a great new book describing ethical and moral stances and how one goes from moral absolutism to decency called “A Decent Life” by Todd May.

Also, corporations allow you to avoid personal financial liability but not personal responsibility.... society and community still holds people accountable for social violations. People are also still accountable for criminal activity.
"Mommy Bloggers Choice product is clearly labeled "Mommy Bloggers Choice', not customers choice or anything else.

It's not their fault that you ascribe weird motives instead of the obvious."

See? It works both ways. The FTC doesn't allow this argument from Mommy blogger; it isn't applied evenly. I'll remind you that one of the higher ideals of the US is the rule of law.

BTW, I'm not ascribing anything, this is about FTC standards. If you don't know what fines the FTC puts out, I'd kindly suggest you research before further 'theory commenting'.
I don’t know about Idris, but the basic idea would be transform the file’s type from (a|b)* into (a* b)* a* where b is a newline and a is any non newline. Then your answer simply counts the first star of the transformed type (change that star to a counter exponent as you are forming the type).
911 doesn’t have the resources or training to deal with suicidal people. The purpose of 911 is to get first responders to your physical location. The purpose of suicide hotlines is to get help on the phone.
The "journalist" has no official record of him[1]. He also held a travel visa to Hong Kong and failed to show press pass on the scene[2].

It is wrong to do this to anyone and the protestor organized an apology session in HK airport the next day.[3]

[1]: (if you read chinese) http://cablenews.i-cable.com/ci/videopage/news/554875/%E5%8D...
[2]: https://www.facebook.com/HKJA.official/posts/101572528984603...
[3]: https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/order-returns-hong...
Actually, there is: if you get in a collision with a large vehicle in a really tiny one, you're going to die. So you need a larger vehicle that can make a crash survivable. Basically, it's an arms race.
I would consider the above link NSFW.
I'm inclined to agree with Lewis over Pegg here. There is no reality where all adults set aside all "trivial" things to focus entirely on social issues, injustices, etc. That's just not how the world works. People can do multiple things. I can collect funkopops and care about social issues. I can build/collect Lego sets and care about injustices. The beauty of adulthood is the freedom to choose what you want to do (well, mostly).

If you put those "childish" things ahead of more important things, yeah that's a problem. But collecting something that brings you joy isn't inherently dangerous.
This is a great novel just as a sci-fi book.

But if you read it through the lens of 1960s communist-era Poland, it adds a layer of poignant political and philosophical commentary.

TLDR: under post-WW2 communism there was a huge emphasis on the superiority of socialism, and a narrative of evolution and conflict that will inevitably bring the advancement of society and the victory of communism - and that this struggle was a necessary crucible to forge this victory (e.g. dialectical materialism [0], etc).

But The Invincible throws a different light on it. Yes, you can have evolution, you can have wars, but all this doesn't have to lead to anything better. It can just produce a swarm of automatons that do their thing thoughtlessly, just following simple rules that have been programmed into them, and reflexively harming anything that gets in their way.

And the only way for a human being to survive in those conditions is to shield their thoughts, and pretend to just go with the flow, in order to avoid being targeted by the swarm.

This is a striking metaphor of life under communism, and what it takes for a human being to survive in it - the kind of a metaphor of which Lem was a master.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Currents_of_Marxism#Summa...
The EU has standardised the 116 prefix for helpline services - 116 000 for missing children, 116 111 for child helplines and 116 123 for emotional support/suicide prevention.

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/content/eu-rul...
I'm from Guangdong. I find it refreshing to see a comment such as yours, that states that you want to look beyond stereotypes and into deeper truths (including historical backgrounds). Like you, I'm also baffled why so few people are uninterested in going beyond stereotypes, and I would also like to know more about the whole thing.

Not sure whether I personally have any insights to give you, but I've found that Quora has many posters that provide information about China's POV, i.e. POVs that are different from what you will typically find on HN. I cannot vouch for how accurate those posts are, but I've found that many of such posts seem to contain quite some detail. Also feel free to contact me for discussions.
Hence diverge, aka not terminates.

You've even stated this yourself:

> But now I claim that their composition `foo bar` never crashes (on `head`)

It does, because foo does.
1. This is a very unusual structure in the first place. The company do issue new common stock at funding rounds specifically for stock options but they don't make employees wait for it.
2. This is a common practice for venture-backed companies so people might expect that. Lawyers might say nobody lied to them – but Silicon Valley is not about lawyers.
The real solution is to allow me create a portfolio of work, which would be a total of about 100 hours and then let me use that _everywhere_. I have easily spent 5k hours getting the degree, the 100 hours over the ears it took to do that isn't a big deal. We could even have some sort of offical stamp that "this guy can code".

Doing 10 hours of work to apply for every random "we make another business PHP/crud website" company is not worth it.

Your company isn't Google, don't interview like it is. I am not going to write custom code for you, but I am willing to flash my credentials.
Here is an interesting video essay of the business of Funko Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ513v8Pquw and looking the numbers, their future is very uncertain to say the least.
For practical examples to examine scalability of prices, consider cooling vests, a vest you wear that circulates cooler water to keep you comfy.

Weekend warrior products run around $200. I am toying with the idea of buying this or making my own to take hikes in hot weather. Strictly hobby/fun use.

"CoolShirt(tm)" products for operating room surgeons to wear under lead vests or whatever are probably more reliable, easier to autoclave, likely more durable, but cost $1500. I don't know why surgeon's need lead vests. Alien autopsies I guess.

I can't find the price for cooling machines for surgical patients but I imagine the liability insurance would triple the cost of the surgeon's clothing, maybe $4500 for a medical product? OF course most of the time patients would have an ice towel thrown on them not a wearable vest, but whatever.
It's not a binary switch. The government frequently regulates entities and restricts them, especially large monopolistic ones - "Hey Spectrum, you can't impose bandwidth caps because you swallowed all the competition". There's no reason the Government can't allow Twitter to still operate as a private, for profit platform (Capitalism) and restrict their limiting or banning of accounts (recognizing that they're used widely for disseminating official policy positions and governmental information among other things and there's no competition).

What the Government can't do is tell Twitter what statements it is or is not allowed to publish (authoritarianism).
hsxkpasswd[0] can do it with a little configuration[1].

[0]: https://github.com/bbusschots/hsxkpasswd

[1]: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/09/06/using-the-hsxkpass...
> When your demographic is known to be hostile dicks

Pause on what you just wrote. Substituting "your demographic" with an explicit call out of a race or gender would be openly racist/sexist, would it not?
They'd probably get a LOT of misdials. Especially on phone systems (like mine) where you dial 9 to get out, and 888 is a common toll-free prefix. So if I'm dialing on a phone that's not on my phone system, I'll accidentally get the suicide hotline.
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Really? I didn't see that mentioned.
Thanks for the link.

However I fail to understand two of the three points made:

1) Ok, fine

2) I cannot visualize how VR can help in "diversity training"

3) I am failing to see how/why Google should be involved in the issue, I mean, what about the mental health of all the other people (part of "overrepresented" and "fairlyrepresented" besides "underrepresented" groups) working for google and all the ones not working for Google?

They are all exposed to the same news.

And is it actually the news causing this influence on mental health (as opposed to the way the news are reported or - sadly - to the terrible things that happen in the world)?
Most of the code here is for scraping images from a 3rd party and converting them into colored blank spaces to display in the terminal.

The actual code used to pick a random Pokemon and display it is only a few dozen lines.
Its reality, discussions won't work, and China is scared of another Tiananmen. Or, at least, take one policeman for everyone detained, and publicly swap them.
Fastmail is great. I switched to using my own domain and their service a couple months ago and couldn't be happier
The reasons for the protests are well-covered elsewhere, they are full of nuance that I can't get right, and my assumption is that people who read through this post and are interested will be able to find lots of background on the protests through a simple google search.

I would normally have added reading links, but things are moving fast here and also I am on an unfamiliar travel laptop where it's kind of a chore to edit and write.
>They for the most part, want to do their job with minimum of drama

I think this here is the point where the author would disagree. Google employees and the staff at many larger tech companies produces their fair share of drama on virtually any political topic, and that's what makes this more off-putting.

I'm not black but I come from a fairly poor background, and in the tech field obviously that is rather the exception than the norm and I've noticed a similar thing when it comes to class issues.

You have people who start political mailing lists on gender pronouns and technicalities that nobody on the street has ever thought about, but then that same person talks about homeless people in front of the office with a sort of callousness and elitism that is pretty breathtaking.

If we were just talking about your random corporate culture where everybody just sips their coffee and comments on nothing then in a way that'd make these things much less noticeable. But when you have workforces that are hyper-vigilant and politically correct show disregard on topics that touch a really wide population, like the African American community in the US in this case, that makes for a stark contrast.
Tires are a far more significant pollution source than brakes.
Yes. His co-workers reaction to the protest and the fact that he heard other racist stuff during his time there.
That's a stretch, especially since it didn't happen in some isolated corner. They beat him up in front of a mass group of legitimate protesters who did not stop them. Even if the provocateurs are the ones who initiated the "legitimate" protesters are complicit too and probably joined in.
I was in full support of the HK protesters, but not I'm worried they are turning into a dangerous mob.
So we transition to EV's and we change power to non-fossil fuels. It's not hard it just costs money and requires some sacrifice. I'm on 100% renewable now. If I wasn't already, I'd happily pay twice what I pay now to ensure I was at least on non-fossil if not on renewable.
Evolution is where this stuff came from.

Microprocessors, for example, are not a result of creation science.

Civilizations that invented computers and electronics used to be more successful than other civilizations at reproducing and everything else. Used to.
In my experience, they are able to connect you with people who should be able to resolve your problem. Sort of like sending you directly to an operator. I was able to solve a problem with my YouTube Premium/Google Music subscription using it in about 20 minutes. My problem was I have an account from beta Google Music that has been grandfathered for years and I lost YouTube ad free when they recently restricted it. They forwarded me to someone at YouTube who actually was able to resolve it.