skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author did, when she wrote that it is a myth that capitalism did not reduced human toll. Using number of days spent working per year in a pre-industrial society and comparing it with a modern work week is incredibly naive. The increase in human "toll" caused by this increase in work is drastically offset by the benefits that this work produces: all the amenities we take for granted living in a post-industrial society.
Standard of living rose by some measures on moving to the cities; however, the dependence on an employer was much greater than the old dependence on your lord.
Most of the others commenting here have seem to have small children, so of course their feedback is going to highlight all the ways in which their lives have changed.

To offer a counter-point, my daughter is 18 and off to college (literally dropping her off this saturday), and my son is 15. With each moment that passes from the time they are born, things get easier ... sleep? improves. complete and utter dependency? they learn to wipe their own bum. So, all the things that _seem_ really bad that people are reporting here are, ultimately, rather temporary.

That's not to say there aren't new challenges that come once they get older, and some challenges aren't experienced by everyone (I feel incredibly lucky and blessed that I haven't had any behavioral issues with my kids). So ... yeah ... they're not little parasites forever, just keep that in mind :P
It's really about getting sugar the most efficiently and rapidly into your body without upsetting the stomach. Anecdotally it feels like I really do get energy boosts.

Honey could work just as well I recon the difference is around digesting it.
Huh, that's odd. Anecdotally, in the midwest US anyway, I've seen that VISA and MasterCard are nearly universally accepted. Anywhere that takes one takes the other (with some unique exceptions like Costco). Discover is the next most accepted, followed by AMEX.
What I don't get is that if this is true how come it was not captured before?

When doing any labelization testing here in France we had to go through an independent body using standardized test. Apple has criticized the Tribune saying that their tests were practically bollocks.

From MacRumors article on the subject:

> While tests can be conducted from up to 25mm away, The Chicago Tribune used the distance that manufacturers choose for their own tests. In Apple's case, that's 5mm. A second test was also done at 2mm to simulate the way most people carry their phones.

What is this? How come manufacturer can choose the distance at which they measure the radiation?
>In order for the experimentation to lead to higher levels of enlightenment an intelligent agent must be able to take past knowledge and hypothesis yet unobserved outcomes.

hypothesis => hypothesise
Although this is seemingly only my own belief, I get the sense that the difference between how those things are handled even between the USA and in general how that relationship exists in Europe, is the strong emphasis of separation of powers that was constituted in the US's fundamental governing premise.

In Europe, generally speaking the government is largely dominated by the legislative today (whereas it was dominated by the aristocracy prior to WWI, generally). In the USA, the Constitution explicitly separates the Legislative of making the rules/laws; and the Executive, the enactment of the rules/laws ... the rule making and the acting body of the government. That is a notable difference from Europe where the lines are not drawn as clearly and the military, the body generally charged with security the health of the society, is subsumed and subjugated to the legislative, not at all on equal corollary to the government bureaucracy the way that it stands in the USA, where the military is not a body under the legislative the way it generally is in Europe, but rather an equal part to the Executive, acting body.

It's quite a nice balance actually in terms of preventing military control, while also not suppressing the self-preservation requirements of a healthy society the way that has been done in Europe, largely intentionally. It's a larger topic in and of itself, but the artificial suppression of both military and social self-preservation in Europe was very much the reason that the USA (mostly) has been serving as a kind of paternalistic helicopter parent over Europe, because the transatlantic aristocracy has intentionally and artificially suppressed Europe's health, immune system, and therefore basic human self-preservation instincts.

It's a great tragedy actually, and may one day be recognized as the great atrocity it is, a kind of national Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, which will only result in Europe suffering the invariable grave consequences from such actions, be it total vanquishment, conquest, and occupation of their societies by foreigners in a kind of civilizational implosion we only know from the history books, or some other erratic outcome from a backlash against actions that have very much predictable equal and opposite reactions.
I agree with you generally about the hubris of people, even highly educated, re: the ability to forecast the future. And even accepting the predictions of various reports, etc. it's not completely clear that the world will be as bad as most are saying. We're richer than ever, all forecasts seem to point to a better world where even under the threat of climate change we'd be better off to cope with it than in any other timeline or point in history.
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It was used on the Gameboy Color to colorize the grayshaded Gameboy games.

You can choose what palette to use by pressing a combination of buttons on most start screens.
See this example of Super Mario Land: http://i.imgur.com/HupBY.png
Didn't they try that approach with DNT?

As long as there is no enforcement and zero punishment for these sites that continues to track, this isn't a compromise at all.

Google is biased in this situation because a large chunk of their revenue is based on these ads.
Now I'm curious if they should do this for women's voices getting lower. It sounds like it to me that they are. Lady gaga and Lana Del Rey come to mind for recent examples.
>If that hypothesis is true, then they can use that hypothesis to explain the existent phenomena

Why would that be the case? It is true that supply/demand largely explains what happens in the job market. It is also true that there are are socio/political/cultural forces at play. For example, supply and demand is not a good explanation for why you can't come into most work environments in your undergarments.
It is something to be ashamed of for employees to leave their employers? Where? I've worked in a few places in the US and I never sensed any "shame" when an employee left. I have sensed that employers feel shame when laying people off though.

I think the modern wage labor relation is very different than medieval serfdom, on both sides. Marx does a good job of explaining this Kaptial Vol. I. What is the same is the basic exploitation that underlies that relationship.

I agree 100% with the rest of what you say though, there are too many people taking BS jobs too seriously.
> A proper art team is expensive, and he doesn't want to pay for it.

Can't. The word you're looking for here is can't. The unit economics of making the sorts of games that JV makes completely preclude it. It would be way easier to spend the money he doesn't make to get better art talent. This is true. It is also not very meaningful.

And it's not that there is minimal sense of direction just for funsies--it's that you don't have that luxury when we're talking about the rates he's working at. I spent a decent amount of money, in the ballpark of what JV probably spends on third-party work for a game, trying to get freelancers--reasonably priced or, in reality, not so--to work towards a cohesive art style. That I did not ship that game (which is still in a 75%-ish complete state in my graveyard, it's my fuck-you-money project) is largely due to the difficulty of getting art to a standard I felt comfortable with.

JV ships because that standard is lower than I was able to stomach.

His games also happen to be really good, too.
I love my Earthrunners! I almost wear these everyday except if it's raining or too cold outside.
Anyone can search for "awesome [lang]" when they want such a thing.
Barefoot squatting is safe and easy compared to barefoot running. Running imposes stresses of 3x body weight, which is a lot more than most people can squat. As a person who got a runner's fracture using barefoot-style footwear, I still use them for weightlifting because the added control is important there and the forces are actually less.
I agree that that is the crux of the matter, but I'm not sure that the two sides are irreconcilable.

Google and site owners want to do targeted ads. I'm not sure that users hate targeted ads specifically. I, for one, am not a site owner myself, but I'm sympathetic enough to their need for revenue that I'm OK with targeted ads.

I hate stuff like auto-play video (and am thrilled that Firefox has well and truly conquered that issue) and I'm pissed that many companies sell or leak my data but I'm not looking to reject targeted ads outright.
The couple times I've been laid off, the severance was dependent on signing over new legal requirements like new non solicits for who they didn't lay off.
Funny thing, I didn't even notice. In fact, being heavily reliant on Git and Github, I encountered maybe one or two issues a year when I couldn't push to Github because it was unavailable. In those cases, the progress can still be made locally, my workflow was barely affected. Of course, the deployment was impossible, but the downtime was never significant enough to worry or do anything about.
(I'm not a Finn) I struggle to think what could possibly benefit from someone spending 16 hours devoted to something. Maybe something on the creative side of things like writing a book/novel?? But even then, I would guess that it would get the creative juices moving even more if you actually step away from the computer/typewriter/notebook for a time! What the heck in a business/enterprise environment benefits from anyone being there 16 hours in a day? Seems more and more like a hamster running inside a wheel to me. ;-)
What's your Maps replacement? I tried getting off it but got too frustrated with the alternatives I tried (maps.me, something using OSM).
I'd missed that! Visiting Epstein's properties, especially his island, makes one radioactive.
You need to be passionate about it. If you are on the fence, in my opinion, go child free.

It's better for the environment (the mountain of plastic and CO2 that having kids causes is astounding) and there are plenty of people in the world that are passionate about having kids.
"Privacy Sandbox" ...Okay, sounds good.

"ensure that ads continue to be relevant for users" ...Oh, that's what this is about.
> older features of typescript [...] protobufjs generated typescript

FWIW I have a used-in-production project that generates idiomatic TypeScript types for protobuf:

https://github.com/stephenh/ts-proto

As a disclaimer, it assumes you use Twirp for any RPC impls, merely b/c that is what we used, and so it needs a config flag to turn that off + also eventual support for canonical GRPC-style RPC.

And also the docs/install/setup all need polished, but feel free to file issues / PRs if you try it.
I did race operations for the Leadville Trail 100 for a decade, including when the Tarahumara first raced.

The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best trail running shoes. The Tarahumara didn't perform well, although that could also be because of other gear issues and that they were not sure that the aid stations were for them.
The second year, they stopped by the local landfill for old car tires, and made sandals from them. They set records that year. It was a bit of an embarrassment to the title sponsor...
Please don't post outage or "is down" stories or comments to HN.
From a developer view, you now don't have to give away your usage data just because you give away your software for free. You have more leverage to ask companies and commercial entities to pay for your software, while letting individuals use it for free.

From a user point of view, you have a way to contribute to the developers that give you free stuff without having to do anything additional. Because the developer gets anonymized usage statistics, this will ultimately mean higher quality software for the users.
Just wanted to mention that the site does not show anything at all with 1st-party JavaScript or 3rd-party JavaScript (stripe) disabled. It would be nice if there was some plain-old HTML ;).
Are you US-based? Because severence packages are absolutely an exception, rather than the norm. Most of the US has "at-will" employment, which states that employers can terminate employees at will, for any reason, without warning. And companies take advantage of this all the time.

The other thing is that you seem to be speaking as a developer. Everyone knows that our industry treats employees better than average. You really need to look at the broader landscape though.
Well of course but that doesn't make the critique wrong to make nor dismiss it as irrelevant. Different perspectives are worthwhile to voice.
Agree. Ever have to stand waist deep in cow shit? I have. One of the things that encouraged me to go back to college. After the farm job I twisted wrenches for a living. Six day fifty hour weeks were the norm, the pay was meh, and I had over $8K of my own money invested in tools at the end.

Yes, this career has been awesome. Awesome, and fun. Non-stop learning the entire time.
I hope to see a trend towards "you can host a Git repository yourself, why do you depend on GitHub?".
Does this apply to other borders? Do the resources of Canada or Iraq belong to "all of us"? Or just internal US resources?
In firefox, if I put something in the search box, press enter, it will search. If I press enter a second time (taking no other action) it will display json.
It's not a technological problem, it's a political problem. We could have automated things like solar energy production in the early 80s but the powers that be said no. We could have done similar things with mass transit, or organic farming, or wireless telecommunications, but that top 10% with all the money kept saying no. So here we are decades later still paying for the long term costs of technical debt in our economy.

The fallacy is looking at the sticker price of homes without considering the externalities. Planning and zoning put homes too far away from workplaces. Houses are still built of wood 2x4s instead of recycled materials. Heck, we still build homes mostly by hand. Not to mention that land prices are hyper inflated due to the age old power imbalance between land owners and plebeians.

We're basically living in the 1999 economy from the Matrix movies 20 years later. I think it's either going to take a mainstream movement towards some of the democratic socialism ideas from Europe or organizing on a mass scale to solve these problems. Unfortunately politicians and the elite will do everything in their power to stop real progress like that, until (like with solar) it becomes cheap enough that it can be rolled out without government incentives.
This reminds me of "Hemingway Mode" in Ghost and Draft.in: https://ghost.org/blog/hemingway-mode/

Hemingway was apparently famous for his philosophy of write first, edit later. A friend of mine calls this "downdraft, updraft." I've found the practice of simply downdrafting as quickly as possible can be EXTREMELY productive. You then have a lot of raw material to work with and cut during the updraft phase.
TIL = Today I Learned... Had to Google that...
> (and pixel art packs are each too small and feel too distinct to be able to mix).

Hard to disagree with that. I have a few from Humble bundles and can't even use them in prototypes. They're just a grab bag of junk.
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There aren’t good solutions yet. That’s a cold hard fact.
Reducing emission isn’t going to help and it’s not a start. It’s a losers battle. We need carbon sequestering tech, fusion, and new tech to solve this.
Do you have a source for the claim related to imprisonment/execution in your first paragraph?

It's true that denominations that practice infant baptism usually don't allow adults who were baptized as infants to be re-baptized, because they consider the person to be already baptized, so there's no need.

But even in cases where denominations try diligently to avoid the case where they're conferring baptism on someone who may have already been baptized (as in the case of the Catholic church and conditional baptism), there are no penalties for baptizing someone who was already baptized. It's just sort of a pointless thing, unless you reject the idea that infant baptism is legitimate, in which case why belong to a denomination that practices infant baptism?

Maybe there were penalties in the past that I'm not aware of, so I'd love to learn more about the executions.
That looks like the type of thing I am looking for. I'll have a read through it.
This breach could have been avoided by simply having security audits of the service
and customer data and using a secure hash algorithm (Bcrypt) for the user data. There isn't an excuse for this to happen, especially in 2019. If you have an account with MoviePass, the following details about this breach should concern you:

> None of the records in the database were encrypted.

What could possibly go wrong here? /s

>..We found records with enough information to make fraudulent card purchases.

So a MoviePass account also has unencrypted account data (Name, email, address, card no., etc) to make it possible to perform fraudulent card purchases?

Magnificent. /s

> The security researcher said he found the exposed database using his company-built web mapping tools, which peeks into non-password protected databases that are connected to the internet

So there was no password protecting these accounts in the first place anyway? Who's idea was that?

> “MoviePass takes this incident seriously and is dedicated to protecting our customers’ information.

Here we go again.
If people want fewer ads and tracking then more content will be paywalled. This is bad for a few reasons. For one, people who can't afford to pay their way thru paywalls go get their news from Facebook or sources backed by people like the Kochs or Breitbart.

Awesome, we killed advertising and fixed privacy but now what have we gained? A walled-garden on the truth?
I structured the deals all the same-- with the best price I could get each round, and 1x non-participating liquidity preference.

edit: Actually, the last round of my first company was 1.5x non-participating, so a little worse-- it was the best we could do. Didn't matter because it didn't get triggered.

My first couple companies won. My last company lost. Good luck ever getting capital without that liquidity preference-- it doesn't get done.

My employees got nothing for equity; I lost money overall even when you count my salary. Investors got paid back a portion of what they invested, but lost money too. Everyone lost. Investors and founders were negative, employees were 0 on equity but received their salary/bonus comp.

I would have been a hell of a lot better off personally without the liquidity preference, but is that fair? If the company ends up producing less money than was invested in it, it seems to make sense that the investors should get the money.
Yeah, they do that so you can't claim unemployment like you could have if they fired you.
My friend and I have been working on a code editor plugin that let you create and read interactive coding tutorials/walkthroughs in your IDE.

We believe the way we share programming knowledge on the Internet is hugely ignored. But it's a real problem that developers face every day. How many times have you seen a snippet of code that could solve your problem but the API was now deprecated, or just simple things like code highlighting and being able to see a bigger code context.

Walkthroughs created with our plugin are actually full projects combined with text so it gives you a lot of benefits. That way you can execute the code and at the same time be able to read the "story" behind the code.

We support only VSCode for now. We are really interested in what people on HN think about this. Please, feel free to ask any questions.
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The user couldn't be expected to use FTP, a command line interface, a file system, or any other technologies beyond the browser because doing so would severely limit its accessibility. User interactions had to be limited to filling out web forms and clicking on things.

The financial and time burden of using the tool to both set up and maintain a homestead needed to be minimized as much as possible.

If we eliminate these barriers, we will end up with the type of user that is prevalent on Facebook, Twitter et al thus pointless. Something that comes without effort will not be appreciated at its true value.

I think there has to be a reasonable barrier of entry as to keep these kind of people who are not really interested in bringing anything of value, as they have proven time and time again. The barrier of entry, in all fairness is low even as described above so as the word goes, how low you can go?
For each Undertale, how many games do you think there are out there that look good that will never break even?

There are two sides to this: Can you make better games for cheap? Sure you can, many people have. But the second question is: How large a proportion of those who try that would be able to keep churning out profitable games for 25 years?

Or even produce a single profitable game?

There's nothing mediocre about managing to pump out profitable games for 25 years - very, very few people manage to do that successfully. His games may well be mediocre, or at least look mediocre, but in terms of success he's doing far better than most just by still being there.
That's impossible to do. A feature like that would be fairly simple to implement, and would make sense, so it can't be done by Google. Google products always have to have some kind of glaring missing feature.

An example I found not long ago is with Google Photos. If you create an album, you can offer to share that album with other people, through their Google account, their phone number, their email, etc. If they accept the invitation, it notifies you and their little circle darkens. If not, it stays light, and still stays in your list of people you've shared with. There's no way to actually remove these unused invites, and these people just stick around as "ghosts" forever. The only way to clean this mess up, according to Google, is to turn off all sharing of your album, and then re-share with everyone you want to share it with, so they all have to re-accept the share invitation (and you have to manually enter in every email address, phone number, etc. again). There's no way to just remove one of these "ghosts", even though you'd think this is a very basic admin task. There's forums where people have complained about this for years, and there is a Google person on there who just complains about people using the forum for complaining like this instead of filing an "official" feature request (which as we all know never goes anywhere), even though this Google person could very well do this herself instead of complaining about all the complaints.
I am trying to remember the error that I got. I think it was complaining that the variable being passed to a function may be a null rather than the type that was specified.