skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd wait for Hitler to finish presenting and then get a rope and hang him until dead. How we deal with extremes can be revelatory but often just muddies the water. For example here it introduces multiple novel elements that aren't present in the original example. The need for justice, personal threat, emotional involvement that nearly always destroys any hope of rational argument.

More importantly in America it can't be a moral crime to vote for the wrong side else we can't continue as a republic. Our country requires the ability to have regularly scheduled revolutions without being torn asunder.
Hypothesis: they don't do that mass titling because of costs

Suggestion: use blockchain solutions to let settlers make claims publically without possible government meddling (like bribes), then work out the "claims conflict" the old, expansive way or through some international arbitraging.

Bonus: this could externalize the costs to NGO and charities, unlock large amounts of capital, while getting a new and better land registry started. Existing titles could later be converted to the new system. After that, people could trade their property with fewer paperwork - improving the capital markets.
I ran across some code once for descrambling data that had been incorrectly processed like that, which I found common in legal documents. It's an interesting problem, because strictly speaking, it's lossy, but you can use probabilities to figure out something plausible. You can decode/encode one thing as another, or you can decode/encode multiple times...
I'm currently reading the book "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" by Neal Stephenson. Speaking in general terms to avoid too many spoilers, there's a scene where it's strongly implied one character is responsible for the death of another. Both end up having their brains scanned and uploaded to a simulated afterlife. (The other dying of natural causes soon after.) Not addressed (at least, not yet) in the book, but something I couldn't help wondering, is how or should this crime be punished? Perhaps the killer shouldn't have been allowed to be uploaded, but that had already occurred.
For one, science doesn't really bode well for "free will". Free will presupposes a soul or some way for non-determinism to enter into the world.

Second, this "free will" choice is either random (so could go either way), or determined on some previous shaping of your character. In other words on a morality (didn't have to happen through specifical moral education, e.g. church lessons, could just be through example by your parent behavior etc. But it's still a morality).
Yes, but I know too much about saving face, and I don't like how it's growing in the west.

About costs for being wrong, last time I quoted a RFC about a topic I know well and said to someone that their information was outdated, I ended up downvoted as usual - even more in the reply, while providing a link to the RFC and even apologizing for insisting that the right information should be spread because how important it is - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430096

In the end, I decided to stop caring. Now I stick to being factual. If I hurt someone sentiments and do not allow them to save face, so be it. Let the objective truth decide, social consequences (like karma) be damned.
How to Handle Toxic People with Confidence
This is really terrifying. Imagine what governments and elites could do across generations if they can popularize belief & debate over entrenched hoax articles that shape debate over geopolitics.
No one has been able to specify any evidence. I'm tracking any dead ends I run into when asking for evidence under the hash tag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/LinuxFoundationKangarooCourt
> it definitely doesn't require you to be extraordinary

Yes, it does.

Being in the top 1% is extraordinary. It’s a tautology, it’s not really arguable.
I think you jumbled up the two paragraphs. Nowhere did I suggest that poor audio quality was because Android has to support more hardware.
Interactive Table of WebAssembly Opcodes
Maybe this person fell for a conman and in fact still DOES belong in our society. More than 49% of the country is stupid but 49% isn't literally hitler.
"I'm more interested in what the underlying cause is of the inability for the cheerleaders to accomplish anything beyond attracting attention. If this problem is real, at some point you're going to have to figure out how to get people to take action. "

The problem isn't with the "cheerleaders" as you put it.

It is with groups and parties with interests aligned with oil and carbon producers that are degrading all efforts.

Why is it the "cheerleaders" fault, rather than the largest entities fighting against it, the hordes of people online "just asking questions" (but really question begging, hand-wriging, and engaging in long but useless discussions about whether or not to trust authorities), people who actively spread disinformation, and people who repeat the same defeated anti-AGW talking points everywhere they go?

I find it baffling you think the failure is here, and not with Trump, the GOP, Dems backed by oil/coal/heavy industry, etc. The issue isn't the science (as you suggest), the issue isn't with the technology or economics (though to some degree it is).

For that matter, the entire world has committed to CO2 reduction. So it seems clear that the effort of "cheerleaders" is turning to action. Subsidies are going to solar, wind, etc. Car companies producing electric vehicles are getting subsidies. We have had cap-and-trade on the worst GHG in the 90s and it worked. We banned freon in the atmosphere from creating a large hole in the Antarctic.

I don't see the issue you insist on.
I think a large part of this involves personal insecurities. I remember saying truthful things in very shitty ways during my younger years. But I also had a lot to prove, having just started out in life as an adult.

Somehow as I grew older (starting in my mid-30s I suppose), I became more and more aware of how I was affecting other people with my choice of words, and I had less and less reasons to "defeat" people in conversation. When victory is no longer the objective in a discussion, you tend relax, and can choose your words more carefully.
I've suggested this to an insurance company. Unfortunately keeping a list of dangerous drivers (or dangerous license plates) is a bit illegal re: GDPR and using it for pricing mandatory traffic insurance is also not doable. Pricing is only allowed to use factors that can be demonstrated to correlate with the risk the company sees in actual claims.

But one can dream :) A good thought technology for reducing anger towards reckless drivers is to assume the crazy BMW driver just had a bad case of diarrhea and needed to get to a bathroom very fast.
>We did but it is a concept not a physical thing

Which is neither here, nor there.

For one, concepts are also physical things (e.g. the correspond to chemical changes and neuron synapses in the brains on those knowing about them).

Second, even if abstract, concepts still affect the physical world by influencing actions.

Besides, nobody argued morality is a physical thing.

>It's also relative from person to person and from a culture to another. It is not a truth.

Physical things are also perceived differently rom person to person and from a culture to another. A dish might be great for one, but disgusting for another, for example.

Something being relative is opposed to it being absolute, not opposed to it being true.

E.g. if I say I love X, that is relative and personal. But my love can be true.
It’s not actually complicated or a contradiction. Both of you are members of the upper class.
Unfortunately, while technically true we usually just call behavior like this "collections".
> Call their bluff.

What do you think they’re bluffing about?
>The moment your monolithic frontend and backend need to start doing asynchronous work, you'll want to build a "microservice" to pull from a queue.

That’s a multi process architecture. We’ve done that for ages. Multiple processes doing what the do and communication is via TCP or named pipes.
I would prefer the Honda way. Local autonomous teams of engineers led by engineers. Even the ceo has to be an engineer - and famously could field strip and repair the motor from his small engine division in front of vip’s and press when it failed during a plant opening grand ceremony.
So my best guess with my limited knowledge about GDS:

- You were on the same booking with an infant with the same name

- You were the primary passenger

- Due to overbooking people get bumped

- They usually start with comfort seats (both in your name) or an accidental double booking

- Because your son, probably underage at that time, was bumped the primary passenger was bumped too
What Is a Billionaire?
Meetup has gone from a place where you could actually find people who shared your interests and to develop long-term friendships, to a place where lonely singles try to find love or a one-night stand, or you can go to "profesional tech meetups" where companies try to hire you under the guise of sharing interesting tech experiences.
We do in fact hire in EU, any EU timezone works.
For income it is about $720,000[1]

For wealth it is $10,000,000[2]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...

[2] https://dqydj.com/net-worth-brackets-wealth-brackets-one-per...
I wasnt trying to make some generalized comment about society. I was relaying my own personal situation as it's an example how how some (very few, likely) people can have a large disparity between gross and net income with little ethical choice in the matter.
Let the other person save face. Nothing diminishes the dignity of a man quite like an insult to his pride. If we don't condemn our employees in front of others and allow them to save face, they will be motivated to do better in the future and confident that they can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...
That was the secret to Steve Jobs success.
This is a really interesting read. The majority of the postdocs I work with are Chinese, and for the most part we get along great. The lab I work in currently gets a ton of funding from the Chinese national government. I've never broached topics I think they'd find divisive. I'm not sure where the line between sensitivity and apathy lies.
The Gospel According to Yoda
Things that come to mind offhand:

- First initial and last name are used for some things, such as usernames.

- First name and last initial are used for some things, such as public displays where you don't want to have the full name

- Last name is used to sort lists

- Names are entered differently due to error or constraints in different places, so you want a way to search the parts that stay the same. Sure, you can imagine everybody just had a string field, but it can't happen all at once. And on a global scale, there are definitely people who will enter their name differently anyway.
Hmmm... yeah so it does tend to depend a lot on what's going on. I'll try my best to answer though at a very high level.

For the best speedups, refactoring crappy code isn't going to cut it. It WILL still result in some nice performance boosts, and it's a good way to code in general. But when performance is absolutely essential, you're probably going to have to completely redesign from the ground up.

Mostly it seems like it just comes down to focusing on the parts that are going to take the vast majority of time and then just thinking very, very deeply about the problem you need to solve in that chunk. (Including asking if you're solving the right problem!) and what each and every function call or operation does, and trying to be as smart as you possibly can. Some fairly subtle things here working with intrinsic libraries can sometimes do some really stupid things behind the scenes that are hard to spot. Be careful to avoid any extra steps that are unnecessary, where data might get copied in memory unnecessarily or things like that.

Most of the time for the real speedups, I was writing my own libraries in Fortran that were custom tailored to the problem I was trying to solve. This is important because you might find some weird data validation being done or something that isn't relevant to your pipeline, but is included for generality.

There's certainly no magic bullet, but the most important is thinking hard about your problem, make sure you're solving the right one and the next most important thing is probably custom tailoring the libraries if you have time. ...assuming it's a problem that isn't so well solved. Sometimes that can be a waste of time of course, because your use case isn't so unusual.
Put them together. In the “Hole”. Problem solved :)
> replication crisis in the social sciences

There is no replication crisis, just tons of crap studies with bogus results.

Replication is not the problem, but bogus results cannot be replicated.
> the internet is going to wipe out apostrophes from people’s actual names

Also seeing that with accentuated uppercase letters in French, even in nouns, because it's hard to type them on Windows.

People still use accents in lowercase of course, but think that it's incorrect to use accents for uppercase letters, even when handwriting.
> Because they want to hold people exclusively on their platform for
> upgrade & services revenue.

Yes, so would any vendor, if there's more money to be made by keeping people in your sphere. I mean, there's a reason that movie theaters and restaurants don't let you bring food from the outside. They want to be the exclusive provider of food and beverages in order to increase their revenue, so they can charge you $5 for a Diet Coke that might cost you $2 at the corner store.

But for Apple, it's a calculus: does Apple make more money at Thing X by keeping it open, or by keeping it closed and potentially reducing their customer pool? Where there's more money to be made in openness, in a way that aligns with Apple's other priorities, they'll be open. If there's more money to be made in keeping it closed, they'll keep it closed.

For example, I'm so glad you mentioned services revenue. Apple TV, at least the software portion, is now shipped _from_the_factory_ on smart TVs made by Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, and a handful of other vendors, as well as Roku and Amazon Fire TV. Apple Music has an Android app on the Google Play store that is kept up to date and integrates nicely into the Android OS, and actually holds a 3.7/5 rating (surprising considering how many Android fans review-bombed it in the early days simply for being an Apple app).

If Apple really wanted to "hold people exclusively" to their platform, none of those things would be available outside Apple products. There's more money to be made on services outside Apple hardware than there is in keeping those things exclusive to it.

> The more difficult it is either to use devices on various platforms, or
> to migrate away from Apple entirely, the better for Apple.

The better for any vendor if it's harder to migrate from that vendor to a competitor. That's what smart competitors DO, is make it difficult to leave. Your argument is that Apple should make it painless to switch away from Apple--so let me ask you, what _benefit_ does it incur to Apple to make it easier to switch away from Apple products or services?

If your entire argument is that Apple should do whatever it takes to make customers lives easier, then my response is, that's not a bad perspective to have, but it's unrealistic unless all aspects of the industry adopt the same attitude. If Apple makes it easy to leave, and the Googles, Amazons, and Microsofts of the world continue to make it easy to capture customers and difficult for them to leave, then there's zero benefit to Apple for being the pioneer in this new world order.
Making Debian packages is a colossal pain in the ass, or at least it's poorly documented. I've tried to learn it twice and abandoned it for more user-friendly solutions to the problem.

Some people may say I'm stupid for not figuring it out, but the standard for usability of software has improved a lot since these systems were invented. The UX needs a serious overall.
Indeed, and they are even worse than that, because Streams in Java can even be parallel streams and be processed by a thread pool. So it’s not enough to know that it’s a Stream, you have to know what kind of Stream, and if it’s a parallel Stream, what threadpool is it using? How big is it? What else uses it? What’s the CPU and memory overhead of the pool? What happens when a worker thread throws an exception? Etc. These are all hidden by the abstraction but are usually things we always care about as consumers of the abstraction.
I would rather expect them to continue the divide and rule tactics which has worked pretty well so far.

You don't have to form any alliances if you control both sides and you have the media and the lumpenproletariat to your disposal. In the worst case scenario, the working class will engage in an ethnic guerrilla warfare (thus making the state even weaker and easier to corrupt) rather that a revolution against the elites.
> Somehow as I grew older (starting in my mid-30s I suppose), I became more and more aware of how I was affecting other people with my choice of words, and I had less and less reasons to "defeat" people in conversation. When victory is no longer the objective in a discussion, you tend relax, and can choose your words more carefully.

Without trying to invalidate what it is you're saying: Would it be false to say that, you have also realized that how you say things will have consequences on your personal reputation and may be subconsciously taking them into consideration as well?
How to pass “Null” (a real surname) to a SOAP web service?
Of course there's degrees of novelty. How could there not be?
http://genesis.re/book/ ️ specific tweet about nuclear ️ https://twitter.com/marsxrobertson/status/116783708668846899...

•••••

Germany phasing out nuclear and opening new coal.

Business as usual.
>It's amazing what some people choose to get offended by.

So like an author for NYT getting caught up by what a French museum has on display?

>Or at worst the inherent xenophobia of dismissing foreigners opinions because they weren't born in the same country of the thing they are critiquing

I didn't know not MYOB was "xenophobia".

Let me see you criticize black or Native American culture now, and calling them "xenophobic" if they don't take lightly to your suggestions. Or is that accusation confined to the French?
It says that the issue was 2 persons on a flight with the same name. The system can’t handle it.
> Is it really Bezos' manners that hurt her feelings? I would imagine that that realization hits hard and does damage on it's own.

How do you get people to stop self destruct? In the end you give up and just become cold.

I have sick relatives who dug their own graves. Not my responsability.
The key there is what type of force. Glass is very strong against compression, but not strong against tension.
Excuse me? I'm not sure if you're serious. Given you're the CTO at attentive, i'd expect a better attempt at a substantive argument while commenting on a public thread on HN.

The bill of rights, which is a part of the constitution clearly declares that rights are God given and any rights enshrined in that document does not take away from that.

I'd urge you to read the guidelines for HN :https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , specifically:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Safari's impact on battery life is amazing, and the main reason it's also my daily driver. I work a lot off of battery, and while Firefox recently got a lot better, it's still hard to trade a few hours of work time. and yes, even on my five years old air, I can get five hours of work in using safari, only three with Firefox.
I'm not sure I'd call China far left, autocratic certainly but they have embraced capitalism.
What about politics as the art of compromises? What you are describing will lead eventually to a civil war. But maybe you forgot the sarcasm tag.
Yes, some of these speedlimits seem arbitrary, making very little sense. There is a curve outside my village where you can do 60; in the summer people miss the curve multiple times per week (luckily that results in them just driving of the road on a flat bit of land; not into a crevice). Far far less sharp curves where you could drive 60 easily, you are allowed 20-40 suddenly... Same for some high quality, wide roads where you can do 50-60 while outside the town limit; 80-100 would be fine there. The gossip (and I have no clue if there is any truth to it!) about those limits is that all places where a serious accident happened at some time in the past, no matter what caused the accident, had the limit slashed and it's not going back up.
"So with agile we are better now because we can remove stupid rules in next iteration and not leave it hanging there for decades."

Nice try. Fixing bugs and changing bad logic in timely manner were done ages ago when nobody knew that Agile term.
Don't get me started about 'middle initial'. I have two, but good luck with that.
NYC's FDR Drive is built on Blitz rubble that was shipped back as ballast in the liberty ships...

https://jalopnik.com/how-the-ruins-of-europe-built-a-major-r...
I have a suffix as well (II), but I stopped using it years ago. I have one old credit card that has my full name including suffix on it that I have to remember to include the suffix with, but that's about it.
Not OP but 100% no for me. The difference here really is motivational difference of empathy vs selfishness. I think if you've learned the latter there's still much to be gained, even if the actions in this specific case are the same.
But they need that Google cash to pay for the social political decadence of the few, and the occasional productive development resource.
> significantly more effort

Which often takes time. And limits engagement. The maintainers of pacman have a limited amount of energy they're willing to spend on free support- I'm happy for then to save effort wherever they can.

I wont argue that if you can be kind while sacrificing absolutely nothing else- absolutely be kind.

But anybody who has ever played a competitive sport or even team lifted a couch knows that sometimes barking an order is the best way of doing things- and you just have to have somewhat thick skin.

To live in a world where the perfect message always exists would be great. We dont live in that world.
I think you might be underestimating how much the market has changed.

The group of people who used to complain about bundling, is largely not the same as the people who are now complaining about unbundling.

What happening is basically reverse price anchoring. Most young people have never paid for cable, and their idea how much this service is worth is based on the price of Netflix.

I'm one of them. I'm already not sure if I get enough out of my Netflix subscription, paying for 2+ subscriptions would be unthinkable for me right now. I couldn't care less that people used to pay $160+ so even with 5-6 subscriptions I would still be better off than cable. It just doesn't match my idea of how much this content is worth.

I think it will take the industry a long time to significantly raise how much people think these services are worth. I can't see it getting it back to a similar price point as it was in the past.
My last name causes lots of problems in China. Is there a space after the Mc or not? They’ve decided there must be because my passport has one, woe is me if I leave it out (I’ve been in banking hell a few times because of this). Also, your given name is your first name + middle name.