skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From 2021, firms will have to make appliances longer-lasting, and they will have to supply spare parts for machines for up to 10 years.

10 years is not long enough - big appliances can easily live much longer.

Appliance manufacturers should make it a _core_ business to provide repair services, not think of it as "environmental regulations".
This is a fact, isn't it? Try to think by yourself. The comment you're quoting from also contained 10 lines of arguments that you are ignoring, and instead you picked up that that line as if it was blasphemy. QED.
Let's say the place had no toilets, so they build some and you go in and it's just stand up men's urinals.

So you politely point out this won't work for you, they're breaking the law and frankly, making you feel very excluded, and they're like:

"Meh, women. We'll get around to it. But yeah we'll put some signs up in the meantime. You can use the ones in the building down the street. Thanks for pointing that out..."

It's not just about the design competence or legal compliance, it's the principle.
> Imagine the world where that person that didn't do the thing in tech because of an "awkward/offensive interaction" with Stallman did that thing.

It really seems like they are inflicting it on themselves though. Stallman is not a gatekeeper.
Your posts discriminate against everyone who can't read English. Unreasonable discrimination is the problem.

EDIT: granted, writing posts in English isn't arbitrary, but neither is installing small booths, there are good space-utilization benefits to it; it's unreasonable, because those benefits don't trump accessibility to people in wheelchairs.
>It’s absolutely incredible that things got this far in science, or at least the soft sciences.

In 1996, a physics professor submitted a nonsense paper saying that reality doesn't exist and gravity is a social construct. The reviewers didn't understand the paper, but published it anyway since it had all the right political buzzwords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
Love it! Polish diacritics are amazing :D
The shortcoming is that governments are not nimble enough to revise regulations as often as needed. Laws may need years to formulate, but regulations/quantified guidelines should be updated more regularly.

>Current regulations are seen to be outdated, with more than 55% of washing machines sold in the EU ranked A+++ on the label.
True, it's easy being cynical at everything and treating everything with irony and contempt (which would be most your latter example)

I think the satirical shows do a better job of being more subtle and not just being cynical at everything
That shows OK on iOS (6 lines of text, vs 2.5 lines on desktop Safari), without even having to double-tap.
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Rust: Fighting the Async Fragmentation
It may sound like it but I can assure you that it's not. Humans are social animals and when you have to spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week in a setting with little to no peer interaction, it'll start to wear on you.

The first month is awesome. Complete freedom & autonomy, then the depression starts kicking in.
You pretend like you made an argument that due to peoples behaviour, the regulation will be counterproductive. That is not what you argued or wrote in the post I replied to.

If that is what you meant to write then your argument was indeed _very_ poorly constructed. It's certainly more flimsy than many replies you received.
I see a lot of misinformation and disturbing amount of bigoted content posted as humor, presumably to sort of normalize that bigotry by slipping it into various online communities as humor.
I’m on a 5/15/40/40 vesting schedule. I think it’s fine because it ends up being the same TC but more cash heavy. Tech stocks have been stagnant my tenure so I don’t mind that much.
Not my point, and an electric motor isn't going to do much without a battery.
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Former Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking user emails in search for porn
Describing the ENA as a university is misleading [0]: its does no research and does grant degrees [1]. All "students" are civil servant in training that have been hired through the civil service examinations and will go on to their jobs. They spend more than half of their "studies" working already to learn on the job. It's like saying Parris Island is a university.

[0] In my opinion, this characterization as university stenghtens (a bit) its critics. After all, how come one small university has an almost monopoly on high ranking civil servants and then on top politicians? It should not be the case. But if you see it as a civil servant training program it is obvious how it comes to be - it's like wondering why so many US Army officers come form West Point - well, that's because West Point is there to produce US Army officers.

[1] Well it does in partnership with universities, but not for its main civil servant training program
I believe the fact that you might fall asleep when you simply lie on a bed at work indicates that there are some timing issues in your daily lifecycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k448JqQyj8

yes, he is much smarter than he looks.
My opinion isn't really scientific, but I think this has primarily to do with the demographic pyramid in Italy and most of Southern Europe, not much with economic development. Kosovo is a clear example that economic development isn't important for IT development and adoption, it's how much youth you have.
The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in row
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/08/humpback-wha...

I don't think empathy is uniquely human. That would be very unusual for a trait to have emerged fully formed for only one species in all animal kingdom--I think most things are on a gradient.
Yes, Italians abroad can all sure confirm, but add:

* Social security/pension: if you work on IT in Italy, and have any degree but an Engineer one, you must pay 26% (and is planned to rise to 33%!) of your income to a pension public fund called "Gestione Separata": add to this your income tax and see how you say goodbye more then 50% of your money.

That pension fund is a total robbery since it is well known not to be sustainable, so just a miserable pension will come just from that fund. Even the director of the national pension institute (to which the fund belongs) once stated in the press: "I don't even understand why all subscribers to the fund 'Gestione Separata' are not protesting on the street!" (btw: subscribers are millions!).

Even more:

* the fund does not give you anything if you are sick: are you sick? you have to work and pay your pension (no concession!): yes, seriously!

* until 2 years ago that fund did not even give a woman any contribution at all for maternity (!)

Angry with their embarrassing political scenery, many Italians give up and, as they have been doing for centuries, go abroad: "voting with their own feet"

sources:

* https://www.informazionefiscale.it/gestione-separata-INPS-al...

* https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=ZrI_6jPOiWEC&pg=PA431&l...
I wouldn’t say never, but it’ll take some time before millennials and below have enough political power to change our society.

I think we’re going to see radical changes once that happen though, as we’re generations that haven’t seen the benefits of capitalist freedom, but instead have lived in constant worry of pretty much everything from finding a job and keeping it, an ever increasing retirement age even though some companies don’t hire people older than 35, a destroyed environment, impossible home prices and so on.

Maybe I’m just living in a bubble, but I know no one my age or below who aren’t looking for change because the general consensus is that our current system is broken.
Jem szkło, nie szkodzi mi.
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i'd say welcome to twitter. the trashcan of our times.
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This is just silly. The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model. It would be like searching for info about (UK supreme court president) Lady Hale by Googling “barmaid”.

Try instead searching for “Boris Johnson technology lessons”, or indeed “Boris Johnson thigh”. Has his team SEO’d that yet?
Try it yourself, it’s pretty cool like an instant ebook.

Metamorphosis:
https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODUyMTE0ODA2MzA3...

The Raven:
https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTYyMTk5MTcwMTYz...

Alice In Wonderland:
https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTQ0MTEwMzE5MTg4...

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I find the top comment quite cynical, it’s literally the same as reading text on an ebook or even paperback. IMO once you get engrossed in a story the medium falls away. It’s cool that people are experimenting with a platform in a way maybe not originally intended, but that’s the beauty of it. No one can really foresee all the things you can do with a new platform/technology.
> they are productive when working in a different environment

As someone from the balkans... it's not the enviroment that makes people productive (it can make them unproductive though), but the productive people choose to change their enviroment to one, where they can be more productive. And this is true for both plumbers and engineers. Just take a successfull good worker (and a bad one if you want), and put them into a shitty low-paying government job, where it takes three weeks to order a replacement computers mouse... shitty workers stay there ("i'm waiting for a mouse, can't work now, but i'm still getting paid") and good ones try to find a better oportunity elsewhere (and for shitty locations, that means far away, in a different country).
250k free views is a lot? How are you looking to make money so you can sustain such traffic?

There's something about "Earn JOINT tokens" — I suppose that's related to how you'll make money. It'd be interesting to hear in a bit more detail?

Maybe that's also something people who visit the website, would want to be explained in a bit more details? Maybe a "How it works" section — but focused on how you and the blog owners make money together? (the current "how it works" section is a bit unclear to me personally, too abstract)

A bit website feedback: I'd make the text in the "Platform Features" section larger & thereby easier to read.

Can I ask how did you come up with the idea to create JointComments? And your long term plans? :- )
Best wishes anyway
Ask HN: How to improve product intuition skills?
Recently I had an interview for a Data Science position. My candidacy was declined due to lack of product intuition skills. What are the ways to improve it?
They did go after the argument. The argument was an appeal to authority, and they dismissed the authority with evidence.

When the statement is as outlandish as "30% of people don't understand humor", the burden of proof lies squarely with the person making the claim.
Project Deadcode – What happened to that code
Over the years we have written lots of code which were, for a period of time, in production but either got completely replaced or shutdown.

I would like to track & analyze such incidents where the code is either lost forever or waiting for the plug to be pulled on the version control server.

I have not yet prepared any format to collect this data from the developer community, but depending on the traction I receive here, will spend time to ready the format and put out useful analysis on the same.

Please comment about your experience in conservative estimate.
Play this in the right place in a British or Irish seaside village and about 5 people will immediately jump up and run out the door!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYfOxeBV7M
I think GP's point is that "I'm full" isn't a particularly literal description, so it's not obvious that just translating literally word for word will net you an acceptable description in another language - doing so can go badly wrong, as described in the top level comment.
"company's chapter"

Chapter?

But my point is, what is lying? If a kettle is designed to last 10 years, it's reasonable to expect that 100% won't last that long, so what percentage should we reasonably allow to break in that time, 10%? 20%? 50%?. If the manufacturer was found to be lying, do I with my still working kettle get compensated?

And your answer raises other concerns, who is this consumer advocacy group that's going to lead this? Is it reasonable to assume some proportion of people are going to direct their complaints there? This to me doesn't seem like an easy thing to police at all.
Can you explain what would be impossible? Ungars call or Matloubis bluff? Novice poker player here, trying to understand.
Try flipping it around. If I presented an product to you and were able to convince you that it was of significantly better quality (more durable, fewer bad surprises etc) than other products in the same category, would you be most surprised to learn that it was also more expensive or that it was less expensive than these other products?

While it might be true that a higher price doesn't necessarily entail higher quality, it seems to me that higher quality almost always entails a higher price.
Cool.. let's enforce it.
That’s mostly a reductio ad absurdism, but even Plato didn’t believe that people had the potential to be ethical objectivists, and he certainly wasn’t a postmodernist.

Acting as an authority on which instances of political speech are true and which are false may be easier in some cases than others, but there’s no clear place to draw that line, and there’s no way to avoid imposing your own opinions on others.
Prominent scientists warn UN Secretary-General Guterres
This also reminds me of this company [1] wavve, which I first noticed on Indie Hackers. They basically convert podcasts to videos for social media and generate huge (Stripe-verified) profits from providing the service.

This just shows the enormity of the Instagram user-base. A tiny fraction of niche users on Instagram can add up to a massive market...

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/product/wavve
This is what I meant by standardization but I used a wrong term. I completely agree with you. At the basis, there will always need to be plain text, which should result in a wide variety of viewers and editors becoming available. In order for interactive visualizations to succeed among software devs, they can't be a SaaS, they need to become a part of the plumbing.
The same Ayn Rand who was living off social security? Oh the irony...
Flutter internals: How does Flutter work, internally?
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113344
> 5% is occurs when I am searching for the answer to some obscure bug

I think these are a majority of my searches, hence I had to switch back to google as DDG was almost never finding me any relevant result.
There was a thread "How to tell an over-confident student they still have a lot to learn?" https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/17833/49.

If a student is smart some problems may seem to them like "I see you know that 2 + 3 is 5, but what's the reasoning?". So indeed, making problems more complex is the only way to go.

And the "reasoning" part is difficult. We never know if something is a true reasoning, something tangentially relevant, or rather something we were trained to say. It works (or: doesn't work for machine learning in a similar way, vide:

"Speaking as a psychologist, I’m flabbergasted by claims that the decisions of algorithms are opaque while the decisions of people are transparent. I’ve spent half my life at it and I still have limited success understanding human decisions. - Jean-François Bonnefon", as quoted in https://p.migdal.pl/2019/07/15/human-machine-learning-motiva....
"Pleine" is most usually used for pregnancy in animals "la vache est pleine".

The correct French sentence would be "Je n'ai plus faim" (I'm not hungry anymore)
This (the amount of taxes, and shitty predictions for the failure of this system) is true for most european countries (although you get more and better stuff in some countries). When the system collapses in one country, the others will go down fast, and we'll have a huge problem then.
a) Every programming language is a "very productive language" that "works great". Nobody ever thought to themselves "let's make a programming language that's hard to use and wastes time". (And even if they did, they would have never convinced other people to use it.)

b) No. Large distributed systems is not something you stumble onto, it's a result of many years of organic growth.
RMS should sue the publications for defamation and loss of income. Hopefully someone can help him with this if needed.
Because empirically, it doesn't work. The front page of google for [Boris Johnson bus] has stories about:

- The failure of a busmaker

- The brexit bus advert

- The suspicion that his 'model bus' answer was this ploy.
Until you pull a pad through on a $20k multilayer board. Been there.

Give me straight, well designed and BGA-less SMD any day. Also Metcal user here.
Isn't the most likely case that his advisers told him to do this?
"The public voted for something specific and 3 years down the road it has not happened or been scheduled properly. That should be the bigger democratic scandal"

The public did not vote for something specific - they voted for something very vague and ill defined, the little information they were provided was incorrect (e.g. "an extra £350m a week for the NHS"), nobody had anything even approaching a plan, the whole thing was a shambolic amateur affair, and that's one of the reasons it has taken so long and cost so much to get nowhere. The only vaguely professional part was the manipulation of the small majority via social media (Cambridge Analytica etc.) That is the bigger democratic scandal - the fact that we can no longer have nice things like democracy thanks to the abuse of technology by arrogant thugs from expensive schools, which is the original point of the parent.
I'm not an expert in this area, though I do have a strong interest in more abstract child cognitive development not related to locomotion (Elizabeth Spelke and related work in particular).

So I'm going by what is generally well known and accepted about visually impaired development (the time line and stages). Here are a couple of references below which might be helpful. Infant development is a pretty noisy process though which makes definitive statements difficult.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/dmcn.12860
[1] https://www.tsbvi.edu/curriculum-a-publications/1053-early-d...
Good point. If you are going to try to stick it out in that environment, focus less on the tech and more on the politics. If your geek instincts rebel at the P-word, think of it as Defense Against the Dark Arts.
> including energy, are too cheap

EU is probably the whole top 20 in electricity prices, so not sure what you're about
So if you miss a story, you miss a page. :)))

This is actually... kinda useless.
Offtopic: This article contains four pictures that contribute nothing to the content and weigh around 10MB. The first one takes up a whole screen of space. Why do people do this?
Intro to Graph Data Structures
I don't think these ideas come from Boris himself, more likely some PR firm either he or the Conservative party have hired
Do you think it is acceptable to put someone with mental illness in a Powerposition?

Do you think someone with a mental illness should've president of the USA? Wait...
What the heck are you talking about, that sounds perfect. Work colleges suck.
Turkey has now the biggest brain drainage ever in its history [0]. Most of them prefer western countries.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/europe/turkey-emigr...
I don't 'pretend' anything...
Could a strange new memory chip unlock mysteries of AI?
The Collapse of FairWin's $125M Ponzi Scheme
> Salaries and status of software engineers are low, you'd want to switch to management asap

I wish we'd stop with these memes about how perfect Germany's work culture is.

Unless you work in a tech bubble or as a costly contractor, that statement is true for most of Europe, including Germany.

In my time working in wealthy southern Germany's top engineering companies, most of my colleagues were immigrants, usually from poorer countries while the managers were German without exception.

German culture values management (even poor quality one) way more as developers and engineers are seen as a plentiful resource that can easily be replaced, imported or outsourced if needed.

On a stint working for one of the TOP 3 German car makers I witnessed how they had to fire 3 sub par project managers before they could find a competent one, even thoug all the previous ones had impressive resumes.

In Germany you're not allowed to write negative things about the employee in a reference letter so all incompetent managers who had the luck to work at prestigious companies jump ship easily for big money to other prestigious organization once the shit hits the fan and no one's the wiser.
Vibration is key in current VR experience, IMO. Having spent many hours on Beat Saber over the past few weeks, I can say that the only reason my brain recognizes that I hit something with the blade is the little controller buzz that activates at the right moment.

As for adapting yourself to the game, I keep having to focus on preventing myself from using my wrists too much when playing. Given that my goal is calorie burn, I do my best to use my whole arm (as if wielding a real blade). I've noticed that I do create "impact resistance" myself too.
This is all completely backwards.

The dangerous fission products have half lives of around 30 years. If we consider them useless (they aren't), we can easily bury them. People will be able to read warning signs in 300 years, and rock formations stable for a few hundred years are easy to find. Or drop glass logs to the ocean floor; glass doesn't dissolve in a mere 300 years.

What causes long term problems are the transuranics. These have half lives of a few thousand years, and produce heat. Over the long time scale, the rock won't conduct away enough of that heat, so the repository heats up, corrosion is accelerated, solubility enhanced, etc. But they don't belong into the the trash. Transuranics can be separated and burned in a reactor.

After that, only weak beta emitters remain. I-129 is so weak, it probably wouldn't even cause problems if we used it to fortify table salt. (What to do about Tc-99 is a topic for another rant.)

So why don't we recycle the waste? Because politicians, not engineers, decided that if some nations recycle, terrorists will use the extracted Pu to make an atomic bomb or something. It's illogical, but for the sake of argument: No, they won't. Reactor grade plutonium contains ~40% of Pu-240, which makes it useless for bombs. But while Pu-239 has a half life of 24000 years, that of Pu-240 is only 6500 years. If we left the Pu in the ground for, say, 15000 years, half of it will decay. But what remains is actually weapons grade, and no longer protected by the highly radioactive fission products. What if somebody dug that up and made a bomb from it?

And now I'm looking at an article that lists ways to tell future generations how to find the plutonium mine.