skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agreed. time to talk to a lawyer. also maybe the sperm bank, as it’s not trivial at most of them to discover who the donor is to that degree. certainly makes me raise an eyebrow that the timing was so perfect too.

i have a further thought - i am a legal owner of an “intimate partner” storage account where my partner’s sperm is stored for only my use as their spouse. even with the very very low FDA testing/paperwork bar for this type of account, there’s a paper trail that can be followed and a chain of custody for every single vial ever used. they’ll have even more documentation if the friend’s sperm was ever for sale.
Or the fact that a lot of larger steampunk-related conventions are in the fall.
Thanks for your reply. I admit I oversimplified the distinction in this article for the sake of conciseness.

There is certainly a sizable overlap between coaching and certain types of therapy. Perhaps a bigger distinction I failed to mention is the underlying assumptions:

In therapy, therapist and client traditionally form an expert-subject relationship. The assumption is that the client is somehow “damaged,” lower functioning, or in crisis, and the the goal is to “fix” the problem.

In coaching, coach and client form a comutual or cocreative partnership. The assumption is that the client is naturally creative, resourceful and whole, and the goal is to empower the client to take action towards their goals.

(Based on perceptions across professionals in both [1]. I’m sure not all therapists and coaches fall cleanly into these buckets.)

I don’t mean to claim that coaching is superior to therapy; each provides its own value for different situations. Anyone experiencing depression or other mental health issues should certainly consult a licensed therapist.

I do believe, however, that coaching is an underrated option for many seeking support on personal growth. I recognize there are plenty of coaches that practice woo out there, but there are also plenty of skilled, trained coaches who make a big difference in people’s lives. And I aim to make it easier to find those coaches through Uplevel (https://uplevel.coach).

I’d be curious if you have any evidence to show that coaching is strictly less effective than therapy.

Thanks for calling out the reductive statement!

[1] https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/cpb-1061-4087-53-...
I'm disappointed that this is the top rated comment.

"than need to rely on payday loans, car title loans, or have no access to emergency money at all"

You'll get no argument from anyone but the purveyors of such predatory products.

But it's a false dichotomy argument along the lines of "you have to overlook all of the evil things Uber does because they're the only option for people going to poor neighborhoods."

The reality is that both of these things are true - credit cards are the best option for emergencies, AND that consumers (not just the poor ones) are encouraged to outspend their means, often finding themselves falling into catastrophic debt spirals.

I didn't bother reading the article, so I can't say whether or not its guilty of virtue signalling. But if it does in fact explain how they "Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers", it's eminently reasonable to overlook any virtue signalling.
People feeling a quick reward by a dopamine hit of clicking the downvote certainly isn't based on someone's political leanings, who they like or dislike, and certainly is due to laziness - regardless of whatever labels you give yourself.

Likewise, Trump's behaviour is in a completely different league than what any other politician in the US has presented - regardless if self-labeling as Democratic or Republican; albeit it is becoming more and more clear who is a disgrace to humanity.

Warren I'm not sure of, with Sanders I agree - at least with the Federal Jobs Guarantee is the wrong solution because it kills the power and efficiency that capitalism allows in a free market, fluid system - that efficiency which requires hierarchy of expertise to lead and teach, and that require making micro and macro decisions quickly for every decision possible; a bureaucratic government agency simply can't incentivize people, leaders, to reward them for what they deserve for who they are and what they know they are leading towards. I agree with your sentiment that "big government knows best for you" is badly implemented in most cases - and why I believe POTUS candidate Andrew Yang (yang2020.com) will win: his Freedom Dividend (UBI, Universal Basic Income) of giving every adult American $1,000 / month is taking the decision making away from the government and giving it to each individual to decide for themselves; the small, simple role of the government here then is simply collecting the VAT tax and distributing the $.

I don't worry about downvotes - however the mechanism generally infuriates me though as it's horrible for learning opportunities, self-development, communication/language and community development. A huge thank you to you for taking the time to respond, even though someone (not me) downvoted you - someone lazy or inarticulate - under developed, unchecked thoughts through critical thinking process nor peer review perhaps fear of ridicule or finding it would be a "waste of time" - so they simply "contribute" by a quick click of the downvote.

P.S. I had to wait initially 1 hour before I last tried replying - as I apparently some mechanism triggered - presumably by the small number of downvotes all of my comments were getting - to say I was "posting too frequently." And it's been 3+ hours now that I try again. If this doesn't work then I've been blocked from commenting - for how long then I wonder, and why.
That's a disingenuous comparison.

How long did they wait before publishing? We don't know, it doesn't matter. Simply stating that they didn't respond had the desired effect, and - as you rightly pointed out - does nothing to diffuse the story. The implication of the story being that not only are Google potentially taking advantage of vulnerable people to further their unspoken, morally grey agenda, but it may also have a racially questionable angle.

Alternately, they wanted to train their facial recognition dataset with certain characteristics on the cheap.

That in itself is interesting, but probably wouldn't get as many clicks. It's bottom drawer "I leave you, dear reader, to draw your own conclusions" stuff.
That list of "peculiarities" is pretty disappointing. The lack of a discovery endpoint is sad; it isn't that difficult to provide and it greatly reduces the obscurity of configuring RPs.
Funny. Iirc, the ejb1 query language was like “from xxx”. Not entirely sure though
In Swedish, it's also the same word ("hyra") but the meaning is conveyed by adding "ut" ("out"). So the tenant hyr what the landlord hyr ut.
One thing I never hear people discuss, is the best way to combat terrorism.

So, let's agree that reeducation camps are terrible and inhumane, what is a good solution?
Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors
To be logical to beginners. So that autocomplete can help you (which it cannot if it doesn't know what tables you are querying).
It might not be useful now but in terms of future proofing a system it might become more of a deciding factor. The ability to make use of drives, graphics cards, network interfaces, or anything that can connect via PCIe for a few years to come might be beneficial.
Probably not the kind of famous you're looking for, but there was this article [1] about an author who cut Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life who of course would have to use Linux because no Microsoft or Apple allowed.

1: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...
I'm going to ignore your last line, only because my top priority podcasts are all very short (5 minute) news briefs.

SANS Internet Stormcast

Linux Headlines

NPR News Now
It might be more precise to call it hyperbole than sarcasm. But either is pretty reasonable. Both are rhetorical devices that hinge on creating an effect by intentionally using a word differently than its normal, plain meaning.

Incidentally, I think one reason people get irritated by this is that some people prefer communication to be direct, unambiguous, and straightforward without relying on a lot of subtlety, context, guessing, or interpretation. I'd bet that programmers and other technically-minded people lean this direction more. So when people complain that this sort of thing is a violation of the rules, I think on some level they know that's not true, so I'm inclined to interpret it more like a plea or protest to avoid this style of indirect communication.
Telegram, threema, wire swiss, matrix, signal and many more.
I always liked select first as it was "what do I want" then "given these rules".

For some reason that made sense to me.
Companies don't care as much about the degree as your projects.
I would like to do this for my next project, but unfortunately appearance matters to clients. It is far easier to make something that looks "modern" using something like Electron than it is any of the open source Smalltalk systems.

The Pharo team are doing excellent work to try to change this. In particular, Spec2 promises to deliver multiple backends including GTK. I think that can really change things for Smalltalk users. But for now it's just not there. I wish appearances didn't matter. But they do.
I'm really glad I turned on flaged/show dead to see what falls below the fold.

Some of the comments are non-constructive, but in some threads, you see things that are viable arguments that are just controversial. People are afraid to make well reasoned points for controversial topics because they could get called out. Professors are now afraid of their students. There almost seems to be a point system or status for being able to get a "bad person" to leave their position.
I do not like the Mongo query language. But Spring's "ORM" made mongo decent to work with. And RoboMongo is a pretty usable client. I also like how quick it is to start working without an explicit schema and how db/table/fields are automatically created when referenced.
Scriptio Continua
Reasonable to think that a soft drink provider would ask FB to not use end-to-end encryption?

But I agree that AG should be expanded.
Like Factorio!

(If you haven't heard of that, then I implore you, for the love of God, don't look it up and try it out and get addicted, whatever you do! And if you do, then don't blame me for getting you hooked. Oh dammit, now I made myself want to play it again!)
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What about Chinese Communist Party, which has no problem performing "insidious foreign intervention" at scale in Hong Kong?

What about the people who say they want support? Do their needs matter? N

ational govements are convenient fictions, not natural laws. We are all kin on this planet Earth.

Imagine if the US civil war was never fought, because it was up to the slaves to "speak for themselves" (by which you mean fight by themselves) about their slavery.

Imagine if the US never joined WW II, because it was up to the Holocause victims to "speak for themselves".
The question is what the rate of single young people living on their own is doing. That's why the decline in marriage rate is a confounder.
What value would they enter at what prompt in order to activate the Apple Accounts process? For example, "openid.apple.com" or "some_email_address@openid.apple.com" or ...?
I agree it's ambiguous. I found the original quote in the referenced Wired article and it is indeed a quote,

>Later on I ask Nadella the same question, and he zooms out even further. “The operating system is no longer the most important layer for us,” he says. “What is most important for us is the app model and the experience. How people are going to write apps for Duo and Neo will have a lot more to do with each other than just writing a Windows app or an Android app, because it’s going to be about the Microsoft graph.”

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surface-duo-neo-phone/
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I don't agree with you being downvoted here...take another issue that is disproportionately effecting the young: Student Loans.

Every year more than 1M people default on their student loans, ruining their credit and essentially their lives.

Currently this is a voting block of 8M people and it will continue to grow by 1M every year. There is one candidate who has promised to forgive all student loans, and yet the person won't garner anywhere close to 8M votes.

There is a coordinated effort to indebt young people with loans they will spend the next 40-50 years of their life paying. Their degrees won't even pay for themselves as evidence by the fact these young people who historically could at least move out and begin their lives are no longer able to afford to do so...and when these issues are mentioned people are silenced (or downvoted into the grey so their comments can't be read).

There is more to this than young people don't vote, especially where they have every reason.
Actually you can do even more, because Qt considers Widgets done and all new APIs are mostly focused on QML/QtQuick.
Ask HN: How do you protect your wood floor from your rolling chair
I telecommute from home, and my house has wood floors. Gorgeous soft pine, to be exact.

The problem is a standard desk chair will kill these floors.

I used to use an office-store standard sheet of thick plastic to protect my floor, but it's too small. I'm constantly rolling off of it.

Now I'm trying some foam rubber floor times I picked up at home depot, but the chair slowly flattens them, which makes the one that I sit on ever so slowly too big to fit.

Anyone use any kind of large floor protector? What works well?
The absolute construction costs for a high-rise are a lot higher than for a low-rise 4 story apartment building. If I can't fill a high-rise in your city, why would I build it? I'm better off building the low-rise and selling-through.

Besides - SFH's predate most restrictive zoning laws (which really caught on in the 70's). SFH's, at the edges of the city, aren't going anywhere.
This reminds me of the now-complete podcast series "Our Fair City" and the HartLife Insurance tower.
An elegant explanation of the tensor product
The greatest success of Bitcoin is that no one has yet succeeded in turning it into a rent-seeking platform.
I think the argument is not merely that it's cheaper, but that the agreement amounts to an unfair sale of future tax revenues (presumably to win support for the current president, who is on his way to losing the runoffs and being replaced in two months). That is, not only are the tax concessions a bad deal for Argentina, but the people who get stuck with that bad deal aren't even the ones making it.

That's not the case if you come buy some empanadas and ice cream and have your cellphone stolen (the standard Argentine vacation).
http://archive.is/yeqkN
TL;DR ->

www.example.net/2019/10/03/article.html

'decays' much more gracefully than

www.example.net/articles/author/published/some-article-title-that-might-be-changed#section-2?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article&uid=7LiH5GsQD9sGFVqzZRewzr8uUBd8q3ETmCXjif6RZQBmn2S96KDpYjtHSV&detect-adblocker=true&js=full

Okay, so I added on some URL parameters to uglify the latter more, but it gets the same point across, hopefully.
To Uruguay, then!
That’s being over dramatic. DNA tests are only one component in building a case against someone.
Millions read it only because of the backlash, but what about all the people who didn't speak up because of the fear of getting abused by angry mobs and fired? You can't pretend a censorship attempt isn't one just because it backfired and failed.
Can you offer a real-world example of when this would be the case for a product where logging in is required?
i think it's tied to skeuomorphism, i.e. giving advanced technology a more tactile sense. the author's neglect of this concept makes these concepts harder to parse, since it what tied the previous and current design eras.
You make a good point about staying objective. I shouldn't state it as fact, and it is different from the embassy murder. I tend to give credit to the falsifiable claims surrounding their involvement when no one with an interest in debunking them has debunked them, but that's a kind of heuristic approach to determining the truth which is flawed.
I was asked to implement "passive data analytics", so our iOS app could soak up data on age, gender, etc. I put in my notice the following Friday.

That was almost a month ago. Currently struggling with the realities of unemployment and depression. Not sure where things will go from here. I haven't discovered any kind of support system for software developers who left their jobs because of their personal morals.
I think you can find the answer on Blind, it an interesting website!
Oh how I wish some frameworks would be half as capable as Windows Forms and the third party vendors eco-system.

To talk about outdated frameworks, first provide tooling at the same feature level.
I was always amazed at how few people used the library at university. Lots of people used it as a study space, but hardly any actually took out books unless it was an urgent loan for something.

Given how expensive textbooks are, it's well worth taking a bunch out and deciding if you actually want to buy any of them. Especially books outside your field (eg as a physicist I would take out CS books).
It was an idea for a community-designed video game on the Something Awful forums. This is a much better summary: https://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Zybourne_Clock.html

References to Zybourne Clock made it into some pretty high-profile places thanks to former goons becoming adults and working their way into various industries: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Johnny
100%. There is no convenience that would ever convince me to have an always on listening device in my home.

PRISM was proof that governments pressure tech companies to become sources.

How to build a program to retain power:

1) Make new tech that is very convenient but has potential to become surveillance vector.
-> e.g, Phone with voice recordings, fingerprint Face ID, location data, network of friends. Smart TV, smart watch, smart locks, Alexa, etc.
2) Support consumer adoption.
3) Keep public attention on the evils of foreign states and domestic terrorism.
4) Convert devices into active surveillance sources citing home security, public safety and the classic “what do you have to hide?”.
5) Do so as fast as possible without creating a revolt.
6) Have such pervasive surveillance that it becomes increasingly difficult to discuss, assemble and revolt.
7) Continue to introduce more controls, reduce freedoms, increase work week, taxes.
Under Kanban the way that is protected is by enforcing "don't start something new until your current task is finished."

Obviously life is messy and it doesn't always work out that way, but it tends to be closer to reasonable if you break the size of the tasks down enough. I can reasonably anticipate what I will be doing on a given day. Possibly even the next couple days. I have a good idea what I'll be doing in a week, but any number of things could happen before then.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the changes I'm talking about are "course correction" type changes. I.e. "We have projects X, Y, Z ongoing. Z has suddenly become more important, so we're going to bump it's priority." This is vastly different from a business that is managed incompetently where one day we are trying to sell milkshakes and the next we're in the tuxedo business.

It reminds me of a comment I heard regarding earthquake safe buildings: "They are scarier because everything moves more. But since they move more, they don't fall over"
A minor thing, but adding the non-image version is a really nice touch!

Great article, thanks.
i guess for me it's just easier to buy an rx bar on the way to the gym. i also do not like consuming protein in liquid form
I see your point, but FROM-first SQL would provide better support for
autocomplete. Right now in e.g. psql when you write "SELECT " and press
<Tab>, it can't help you with the columns. But if you could write "FROM
users SELECT " and then press <Tab>, then the DB client could tell that
you probably want a column of the "users" table.
FTA: "RPL is based on Parsing Expression Grammars, which are more powerful than regex, obviating the need for “recursive regex” or “regex grammars”, both of which are ad hoc extensions and are not commonly supported in regex libraries."
Author doesn't mention it, but the demise of skeuomorphism and slow death of late 00's hipsterism (in the sense of fetishizing historical aesthetics in a modern context) goes hand-in-hand with the disappearance of steampunk.
One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. See Hong Kong, the rebel alliance, or almost every national revolution in any country ever. China doesn't have a terrorist problem.
Pretty good article that mentions a lot of the theories and variables behind the increase in pedestrian deaths.

As a biker, the culture towards pedestrians and cyclists has seemed to have been getting dramatically more hostile. I’m in a share the road state where roads that don’t have dedicated bike lanes means that cyclists have the right to the entire lane. Even while riding at the speed limit of 25 mph, drivers yell at me and try to run me off the road by coming inches to my tire. It’s wild. Not to mention seeing vehicles try to hurriedly take a right turn before the pedestrians who have a walk signal can take their second step across the street.
Most of the core team work for companies that offer PostgreSQL consulting services.
To me Steampunk was an artistic movement and as such it is not dead. Sure there where some pretty cool things that actually worked well that came out of it, but it always seemed like that was the secondary purpose to the art.

I believe some people got so wound up in it that they basically became steampunk LARP'ers, but for the most part it was an art period and one that really for some reason catches my fancy. Maybe it's art for tinkerers or something like that, but as a child I really liked the wounder of 1000 Leagues and novels like that, and some steampunk pieces evoke that youthful wonderlust in me.

It's an art form that encompasses a lot of skills that I personally enjoy doing as a hobby. e.g Welding, Metal Crafting, Pneumatic, Hydraulics, Mechanics. Funny enough even though there was a time that I pursued artistic endeavors and was a pretty avid sketch artist and fairly good CG 3D artist. I have never endeavored to design a steampunk piece. Just too busy for art now days.

The question is, who will arise as the Picasso or Dali of the Stempunk period? I would love to know their name and pick up a few pieces now.
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Sorry, no. Just React-Native on mobile/web.