skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case in point, some paternalistic jerk (that's you), without knowing anything about the situation (my ankle was facing the wrong direction, I couldn't walk for a month, the pain was worse than bones I've broken no question) is going to present some totally subjective opinion regarding the morality of a treatment option as a some kind of medical opinion and claim that it's validity outweighs that of my own experience of my own pain.

Exactly the reason I solve these issues for myself and don't rely solely on the medical system, because I'd run the risk of being reliant on some paternalistic schmuck like you at a time when I need a better option.

If you find that "a little but concerning" and think that I should have to deal with terrible pain because the way I'd prefer to be treated hurts your sensibilities, you can respectfully go fuck yourself.
This and also poor zoning laws and NIMBYism allow for (and encourage) constant sprawl which also drives city prices up more because some people don't want to commute two hours each way.
Perhaps one way to read it is that none of the PR firms that HK approached wanted them as a client in the current situation.

That's pretty interesting if it were the case.
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> The amazing thing about WeWork is that the offices are fun. The one I know in SF is an OK place to hang out in the evening.

I've worked in a few WeWorks in NYC and I can emphatically say that is not the case in any of them. I don't doubt what you're saying, but that you're overestimating WeWork's product consistency. Most of my WeWork experiences have been more or less as soulless as a Regus office, only with "Hustle Hard" and "Always crunching" LED signs on the walls (I don't think those are the actual phrases but the real ones are so vacuous that I can't even remember them). On the plus side, their free coffee is excellent.

(even all this aside, if your office space is so fun that people don't want to leave it then I'm afraid your employees probably aren't all that productive. It is not a good thing to optimize for and if WeWork did they'd be turning off potential customers that live outside the SV bubble)
TLDR;
If you share the many dirty secrets of your employer, and then write a tell-all book about them. Your employer will sue you for breach of NDA.

This is especially true if your employer is The USA(NSA/CIA) and your last name is Snowden.

The briefing is largely about how the US wants to stop Snowden from collecting proceeds from the book, and how he has violated his NDA by not letting them preview a pre-published draft.
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/money/careers/2018/...

Police are on the list... at #14.

Occupations more dangerous than being a police officer in the USA:

Logging.

Fishing.

Aircraft pilots and engineers.

Roofers.

Garbage and recycling.

Iron and steel workers.

Commercial truck drivers.

Farmers/ranchers.

Supervisors in construction and extraction.

Agricultural workers.

Grounds maintenance.

Supervisors of mechanics, installers and repairers.

Construction labor.

And then police.

Police aren't quick to fire because of their fear for their own safety. Police are quick to fire because they've been trained that way. Culture tells them that they are heroes, and then gives them guns.
Whether or not it's deserved doesn't change that it's still more people than the existing population who votes no wanted. Playing devil's advocate for a moment, the companies that built those office parks knew what the housing situation and politics were like before they were built and they agreed to the terms. They could've chosen a different location if they wanted to.
Sometime people do need to spend money on PR to announce the fact that they can do a good job, because doing a good job is not always self evident.

But you're right in that it feels slimey when governments hire out PR to dress up problems instead of solving problems.
I see what you're saying - when mainstream outlets consistently hide swaths of current events, statistics, and long-form analysis from their front pages or even the back pages out of fear of giving airtime to "Republican talking points" the result is that independents and liberals who ignorant of that information are susceptible to the spin of the first person who presents it - whether that person is a moderate or an extremist.
Except the monetary costs of natural resources are generally not reflecting the actual damage done.
And the population is aging fast

How is it that Chinese people age faster than Western people? Is it the health care system? Nutrition? Lack of access to preventative medicine?
The victim list is a good idea, but it wouldn't have prevented this shooting - the victim in this case was simply the hapless individual living at the former address of the intended target (who gave that address to the swatter).

The victim list did recently prevent the attempted swatting of Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo: https://www.newsweek.com/author-so-you-want-talk-about-race-...
Publishing timely facts makes you a journalist. Publishing older facts makes you a historian. There are no legal qualifications for asserting freedom of the press; everyone can do it.

Anyone that has not entered into a contractual agreement with the US to protect classified materials can publish classified materials. It's just that the professional journalists, already established with the large news organizations, are the only ones with the visibility and reputation to not get jailed, vanished, or discredited afterwards.

If you think the US won't break its own laws to protect its dirty secrets, you haven't seen enough leaks of its dirty secrets.
Of the 10 years of "free" credit monitoring, the first 4 years is from Experian but the remainder is from Equifax.
It'd be crazy to hold everything to the standard that the courts hold stuff to.
> I'm saying that for a lot of open source software, virtually 100% of the beneficiaries are corporations

What open source projects specifically?

> So, a large portion of open source contributions do nothing other than provide free highly skilled labour to Coca Cola, Walmart, and McDonald's.

In my opinion, any open source development is valued WAY MORE than closed source development, as it can be shared and verified by others. If you have a project that's benefiting multi billion dollar companies, then you've created something useful that can be shared with small companies and individuals too.

Also at the end of the day it's the developers choice, they can stop maintaining it, but the point is; sharing code is better for everybody
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Code is means to an end, not a goal in itself. A "bad practice" is relative to the purpose and the constraints.

Fowler writes for enterprises which have large, long-lived systems.
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While there are people who think all cops are bad (ACAB group), most people are upset that most departments are using military gear simple because they can. A hostage doesn’t require a SWAT team most of the time.
I would be amazingly disappointed if

1. WeWork got away with this no matter how stupid those landlords were

2. Landlords actually signed out leases with no collateral considerations.

Though, to be honest, assuming WeWork doesn't actually stiff them on time the space was in active use and a bit of a margin... then I'm less disappointed, since the land lords will have lost very little actual value.
If you are in a position to release every 4 weeks, then it doesn't matter. Release faster. A slower release schedule doesn't mean you have more testing time. It means you tend to release more in one feature. Further, because it takes longer to release, you run into a few problems.

1) People rush to get things into release because if they miss the release, they are waiting longer to get it out. If the release is every 4 weeks, a missed release is not as big a deal.

2) Long release cycles means things done early in the release get forgotten, so when it's finally released, they tend to be off people's minds.

3) Larger releases become harder to update and deploy. Larger file sizes, a lot more changes all at once.

As someone who has done both (long and short release schedules) I can't imagine going back to long release schedules. It has a lot more complexity and is a lot more error prone than a shorter release schedule. Not only do you get the practice, but people are more inclined to wait until next release to get it right.
How do you feel personally about doing unpaid labor?

How much of this is due to gender differences in orderliness and cleanliness? I know plenty of guys who don't care that much about living in a dirty environment. On the other hand, their partners vacuum every day, mop the floor, and sterilize every surface. Perhaps it's out of fear that their kids will get sick, but then you look at the growing rates of allergy and auto immune diseases and you have to question the wisdom of a sterilized home.

Calling this type of unnecessary housework "unpaid household labour" is doing everyone a disservice. You might as well call a man's tinkering with an old hotrod in the garage "unpaid auto mechanic labour."
I totally acknowledge that many in the medical field would agree.

I never agreed to make them the arbiters of what I can and cannot put in my own body.
IANAL, this seems to be heavily jurisdiction-dependent. For example, I know that it is unlikely that this would be considered age discrimination in Ontario Canada, whereas, it's likely to be considered so in California.
Would be an interesting slack integration to enable setting SLAs. Say a message prefaced with (question) starts a timer and then you can track an SLA against that.

I would actually love that for open channels.
Wtf? Non even remotely the same argument.
Firefox probably had bad memories of when they "released when it's ready" during the FF3 -> FF4 days where a couple of features held back everything. With fix released cycles, they have more of a motivator to cut off things that aren't ready yet so that the things that are can go out.
I don't have US cultural background and it looks insane to me, about level of witch hunts or lynch mobs. Like one accusation of peadophilia is enough to ruin a life, and lives of others that dare to voice opinions counter to that. Same thing with rape. It doesn't matter if it happened or not. Court of law? Nah, why? Clearly if they are accused then they are guilty.
That does not make it less illegal.

It just makes it a perfect candidate for jury nullification!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
The latter. They invest heavily in FF&E and the landlord gets to keep the improvements no matter what
Assuming they’re willing to work for the pay you’re offering, I can’t think of any reason other than age discrimination NOT to want that additional experience.
Hi three years ago I dropped out of college in order to build my own destiny, after unsuccessfully applying multiple times to YC I feel I'm missing a strong team.

My current users absolutely love my product (just came back from a week of user interviews at their office), my company is default alive for the foreseeable future but I'm running solo.

I feel overwhelmed. I have a couple of customers waiting to start using our product because I don't know if I will be able to provide the great customer support my current customers have.

I want to find people to join me but it is pretty hard when my country startup ecosystem is still immature.

I changed my product until user loved it and now I feel stuck.
Thanks! I like that section on how batch size affects convergence. I wonder how parameter size limits would similarly affect which Stages could be reached. I would not be surprised if you could hit those stages with 100x or fewer params.
Stallman's accomplishments and legacy aren't what they are "in spite of" his personality. They're a direct consequence of it.

You're happy to benefit from the freedoms he fought for, the free GNU, built by GCC, and GPL licensed software that runs on your computer, your car, your phone, and your TV, and all the platforms you use on the internet (including this one). But you won't accept any Brilliant Jerks! I'm sure you'll put your money where your mouth is, and boycott all of these.

And while you're at it, why don't you list your numerous noteworthy accomplishments in life, and pinky-swear that you've never said anything in public that you regretted.
The article isn't talking about good-will volunteer service, and I'm certain you already know that, please don't try to twist words and be intentionally misleading.

I'm struggling to understand what point you're making now. Nobody from here up the thread said everything revolves around money except for you, it's still a straw man argument.

> drawing a conclusion about gender inequality that doesn't equate to happiness is equally meaningless

First, there is no objective measure for happiness, so you're suggesting something that's impossible.

Second, I disagree that failing to boil down to happiness is meaningless, as do many world economists and social researchers. Economic measures absolutely do correlate with happiness at the poor end of the economic spectrum. https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/IWP_2016_23.pdf

More broadly, oppression of women is a global fact of history. It's better now in the U.S. and Europe, and I'm glad it's improving, but I really don't get this argument you're attempting to make that it somehow doesn't exist, or that women are just seeking power and money. It's making your comments seem rather ignorant of history. Gender inequality is well documented, well known and widely agreed to exist, especially in Africa, China, the Middle East, etc.
1) Nobody can own a gun until they complete 40 hours of training in usage, safe handling, safe storage, tactics and law, and demonstrate proficiency in each area to an impartial test proctor.

2) Each weapon purchased must include a certificate of insurance that will reimburse $10,000,000 to any innocent individual harmed by that weapon.

3) No restrictions on cosmetic appearance of weapons, as long as personal firearms are incapable of firing more than 10 rounds in 20 seconds.
Semantic versioning is useful for libraries. Let useful for consumer apps. 2019-10 says more than 76.0.0
The new dream is to have more storage lockers than your neighbor. My brother has 2...

I wish I were kidding. Where I live in Colorado, there are acres of self storage, indoor with A/C and outdoor, everywhere these days, with more being built.
Easily fixed: declare those days company holidays (it's a Friday anyways, when productivity tends to drop about 33%)
I’d say ego is less than 10%, and the quiet, achieving minority are not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts or love for the community, they are doing it because it’s a love of their craft.

Once you see something that you have built, running at thousands of operations a second for years, once it’s running smoothly and all the bugs and edge cases have been smoothed out. Watching the machine dance, visualising the data structures in your mind - and algorithms running on them. Thinking about state changes, loops and execution, and watching it all running in a beautiful symphony of logic : there’s really no other feeling of joy and appreciation of beauty. I love being a programmer, and I suspect the majority of open source contributors are like this.

The snide comments and unhelpful github messages are the minority in my experience, especially with more mature products (kernel development, sys ops tools etc)
"When someone claims they 'didn't see anything suspicious' re: Epstein, just remember he had girls around him at all times. They are lying."

https://mobile.twitter.com/RadioVcs/status/11714435848069939...
Minecraft started as a community-focused beta w weird, low pricing.
I have multiple pairs of headphones, I have some over the ear ones at work, I have a couple buds that don't cut out as much outside noise in my car for when I'm shopping, I have some in ears at home I use when mowing my lawn. I plug my phone into some speakers at home sometimes. I don't want to have to keep track of a dongle for each of these.
Downtown is booming:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/business/revitalization-p...

- https://urbanize.la/post/la-urbanized-sparks-downtown-la%E2%...
Will age as well as the under-construction.gif and others from the early days of the web
How is software unique in this? Tons of museums around the world are visited by the kids of people who make 100k a year even though the average worker there is an unpaid intern. Do you read any news? Listen to NPR podcasts? I think NPR does pay interns, but they don't pay them millions of listeners * 50min a week of listener time * $60 an hour of average listener earnings.

What about science? If you ever benefitted from a genetic screening for any disease, your doctor made anywhere between $100 and $400 an hour, and the graduate student who discovered the function of that gene $10 an hour if you're accounting for his tuition credit. Who tells these students to stop spending 60 hours a week at the lab and start using their skills doing something people will pay for, like develop a no-palm-oil no-aspartame but-still-addictive Mars bar for 25c unit cost?

People will accept less money in exchange for doing something meaningful, like sitting in their basement painting stuff rich people will speculate on for millions of dollars after their death, or campaigning for a rich lawyer who already makes 200k and will get a good bonus post-election because he has the right party colors.

If you could literally sell meaning to people for less friction than those alternatives they'd eat it up. And they'd spend their time making money to spend it on your meaning-making money-sucking machine.

Because that's all money is for: be exchanged for things that make your life not suck. And this exchange tends to bear transaction costs.
This kind of ego satisfaction is not a necessarily bad force, and is responsible for many of the advancements in world history. Why did guys like Newton or Salk publish their work instead of profit from it in secret? Because there is more to life than money. Because there is the satisfaction of knowing tour work has changed the world. Because they wanted their names to ring out in the annals of history, be carved into the tops of marble columns, etc.
Ask HN: Real-Time transcription and translation for conferences
My organization puts together KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the largest open-source developer conferences. We want to offer real-time transcription (also known as open captioning) for the hearing impaired and those who speak English as a second language. And, we'd also like to offer real-time, on screen translation for the events we'll be holding in Seoul, Shanghai, São Paolo, and elsewhere.

Can anyone offer suggestions for the state-of-the-art around transcription and translation? There seem to be a number of small vendors with questionable back-ends and then Amazon, Google, and Microsoft with powerful APIs but no front-end integration to capture onsite audio and send back the transcription and translation feeds.

Has anyone seen a vendor that has good onsite integration and lets you tap into the most capable APIs?
I appreciate the idea (and I've personally administered a dose of /r/eyebleach on lesser occasions), but institutionalizing that sounds to me like something out of a dystopian future story, not a decent solution.

Maybe a better solution starts with reducing the scale of the problem, and includes measures like not tolerating so many fake accounts, being willing to lose real users permanently when you ban them, and cultivating better culture.

And at least pay the moderators better for their trauma, rather than exploit people who have no better options. New-grad programmers get six figures, to entice them to work for a 'social media' company they know is a bit sketchy, but some of the people who bear some of the darkest side of the business get paid peanuts.

Alternatively, one could change the business and infrastructure models, to distributed and interoperating common carriers (away from trying to snoop on, and manipulate, things people say, hear, and think). ISPs and protocols and programs, like we briefly had. But that requires no one becoming a billionaire by grabbing power over people.
Thank you. Sharing files and URLs is going to work just fine.

What about communicating? I tend to avoid typing on my phone, and I heavily rely on the pattern of receiving SMS or iMessage messages on the phone and replying later when I get to my laptop or answering inbound calls on my laptop. These two would be the toughest to lose.

Basically, I loathe interacting with the phone if I have a laptop in front of me. An Android will probably constantly want my attention to answer texts and calls.
A major thesis in the article is gender inequality in Africa, as opposed to "Western societies".
Many of these companies required you to agree to an absurd NDA which is extremely one sided... all for the benefit of attending a meeting they invited you to.

Getting your picture taken would be a much better deal.
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> What open source projects specifically?

I have not contributed to any of these projects but for instance: Spark, Flink, Druid, Akka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, Java Spring, Hibernate, etc etc.
What exactly has China done to "assimilate" Hong Kong? How is Hong Kong less diverse now? I've lived through the transition and I certainly haven't seen any sign of that.
Taxes are more about having the right training/mindset when approaching a potentially complex set of instructions. It's more about how daunting it feels. Same way I've talked myself out of putting in the work to think long and hard about some proof I had to complete for homework ages ago: "I don't know how much work I'll have to do and how many sub-problems I'll encounter and that stresses me out".

100% agree about probability and stats, that stuff is not intuitive nor easy to pick up outside of school.
It's important to ensure that the parasitic cryptominer that will sooner or later get bundled with it remains evergreen.
That is a problem I had on an unrelated project with image based PDFs. With this one I wanted to avoid that, if you check the output, it is text 100% selectable (and even some interactive elements). So hopefully it avoids that problem.

Surely not as easy to parse as something done explicitly for that, but hopefully good enough.

Such good insights in your post! thanks for sharing your past experience.
The mass of the neutron star is _not_ the same as the entire star before it. The neutron star is (mostly) core material from its parent star, the rest of the matter was likely flung out upon that stars death. Gravity is not the only thing at play, strong nuclear forces between atoms prevent the star from collapsing under its own gravity, as well as the angular momentum of the stars spin. The neutron star is one giant atomic nuclei in the sense that all of its atoms are incredibly densely packed together. Imagine a styrofoam ball that you put under immense pressure from all angles (say by putting it deep under water). The air/free space in the styrofoam is squeezed out, and this in a sense is the same thing that happens to the plasma inside the parent star's core as it collapses. All of the atoms are squeezed together, and a balancing act is created whereby the incredible density of the core is trying to pull the matter inwards (into a black hole), while the strong nuclear force/momentum are pushing back to prevent the star from collapsing further.
The entire AP Stats course needs 0 calculus (at least it did in 2007/8)