skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reaction to "no" can be multiple:

* OP is in the wrong and employer can't afford to pursue further. OP loses a lot of reputation as word spreads.

* OP is in the wrong and employer can't afford to pursue now. Five years down the line, when Oracle acquires employer, OP is sued for five years of damages.

* OP is in the right, but employer's lawyer crafts a very intimidating and compelling legal letter. OP backs down, having blown the relationship with the lawyer, loses rights, and is fired two months later.

It's helpful to be able to say "no" with conviction if one is right, or not press an issue if one is wrong.
New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
While we're nit-picking, this also doesn't account for a lot of problems which are inevitable on a 1,000 year scale, such as the lifetime of the computer's parts, dealing with power outages, staffing for the long-term upkeep of the system, etc.
Maybe among soccer fans, but the term “football” is rarely used in au and nz to mean soccer.
There's an explicit exemption for state security in GDPR (and indeed ECHR Article 8)
From my PoV, this needs some attention, so I'm going to make stuff up so people click
This is a great idea and also is nearly impossible to implement. There is no way to tell how wealthy someone is and even then how much of that wealth is liquid.
> Everyday I look forward to get home from work

I have met people like that who do not even have children!
The thing I miss most from pre-kid days was occasionally having time and energy simultaneously. Now it's one or the other.
I get that, but 'unsanctioned overtime' sounds as if the company was robbed of something. Since they never paid for that 'overtime', how did it need to be sanctioned?

Going that route, maybe the company could pay for the work done on the project.
Ask HN: How do you choose what to work on?
I read a sentence just before our first son was born that I’m glad I heard. “One day, your parents put you down and never picked you up again”. Every time my son woke me up in the night I would cherish every exhausted second of holding him.
The discouragement is "demerits on your license"[1] which go toward revoking it. Hence why you don't see rich people speeding around all the time even though the they can afford to pay the fines - they don't want to lose their license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_(driving)
# cat /tmp/test.R
x <- 1:10
y <- 1:20
plot(x, y)

# R --quiet
> source("/tmp/test.R")
Error in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) :
'x' and 'y' lengths differ
> traceback()
8: stop("'x' and 'y' lengths differ")
7: xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log)
6: plot.default(x, y)
5: plot(x, y) at test.R#3
4: eval(ei, envir)
3: eval(ei, envir)
2: withVisible(eval(ei, envir))
1: source("/tmp/test.R")

If you mean the lines in the packages you used, I think you'll see the lines if you build them with keep.source=TRUE
Here wasn’t really developed by Nokia; it existed as Navteq before Nokia bought it in the 00’s and was headquartered in Chicago. At some point at least they were a fairly big player in in-car navigation systems.
Fairly sure a human would "magically" figure it out with the 11 days of gameplay footage the AI got ;)
I remember using some Connectix gadget on a IIcx to make it able to address 32 bits. I spent some time in macsbug figuring out how it worked. It was really interesting. It essentially patched the memory manager early in the boot process then forced it to reinitialize itself.

I'm pretty sure Apple licensed that for some version of System 7 (maybe 7.5.something?) so that they could assume all post-boot 32-bit macs were 32-bit clean.
It's not "lawyering up" but understanding the options available to you, your rights in the situation, and the potential consequences of all of it. You never even have to tell anyone that you spoke to an attorney.
> I’m suggesting that their participation should be non-zero.

If you look at this in a vacuum, I can see how that'd be attractive. But consider that this will obviously cost them -- and whatever other companies do the same -- money. Now, would you rather all those companies independently pursuing different ways of helping on a particular issue piecemeal, or that the government extract the money that would've been spent pursuing a more cohesive and coherent effort?

> Do you think private companies can “contribute” to the solutions alongside the government and the public, by being open to hiring non traditional workers, by having support programs that help people keep their jobs?

That's not the part I was responding to. When Slack accepts felons or Google uses renewable energy for data centers, that's being a good corporate citizen in the act of conducting their regular business. I think that's fine and good.

But what I quoted, was someone suggesting that Slack assist with things completely outside the scope of their business, like housing. Slack has nothing to do with housing, so the principle underlying that comment must be, "Slack should help these people (and maybe the community at large) in general, even in ways that have nothing to do with their business".

> Large and small companies get local zoning laws changed all the time.

Just look at the bay area as an example. Basically every company would LOVE to massively upzone everywhere for both office space and housing (because this benefits them), these companies are rich as hell, and yet they're woefully impotent at getting these things changed. The broader culture, especially for the politically connected, is against them, and they can do very little about that. Trying to swing their weight around would just result in a huge backlash, as many are already skeptical of how powerful they are.

> If Slack was lobbying for zoning regulations near it’s business, it’s entirely likely they can, in fact, get them changed.

I'm sorry, but this betrays ignorance of bay area politics. Even Google struggles to get changes, and they're ridiculously massive. Slack might be able to get changes if they were moving to a less popular city for tech that's more desperate for jobs, but if they stay in SF, they have very little influence. SF is lousy with high paying tech jobs, most people there don't really fear any particular company moving away, and thus the companies have little leverage relative to how rich they are.
Interesting Story. Nice of the journalist to forewarn the suspect so any proof can be destroyed.

Suspect on linkedin I see.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fry-366693b2/
I was very happy to be a Dad. Up til around age 8 I was 100% focus on family / work. Side projects, consulting, friends, video games tanked.

It's gotten a bit better. (My daughter just turned 10) It's more like 95%. And each year I get a sliver more back. I think that in a few years more it should shift even more dramatically.
It's not that hard to (legally) collude on something like this, especially with an effectively-two-participant field, the way Uber and Lyft are in many markets. It's one of the basic solutions to the iterated prisoner's dilemma (though it's by no means guaranteed).
Was It a Facebook Election?
Being good at managing uncertain outcomes is not luck though, although the difference between that and luck is nuanced and this often gets lost in discussion.
It's sometimes okay to get legal advice from a forum, but in this context, someone needs to review:

1) The employment agreement
2) Understand the degree to which the specific project overlaps with the employer's business
3) Etc.

That takes a conversation you don't want to have online.

But yes, I definitely to seek legal advice from forums, Nolo books, and similar. Self-serve law is not a bad idea in most cases, despite advice to the contrary. Just not in THIS case.
Wow, I don't think I had ever realised that connection; you're absolutely right. I guess if you don't live with an extended family, then more flexible work hours, or even 50% work (which is common in Europe I hear) makes a huge difference. Ha, more parental leave will make for less boring parents in addition to everything else :)
Good parents don't have to worry if they left the world a better place
"DOJ" is also confusing: this is not referring the US Department of Justice but the German Ministry of Justice (Bundesjustizministerin/BMJV)
“Your Face Is Big Data”, the Danger of Facial Recognition
How Much of the Decade Do You Remember?
The effect you write about in the last paragraph is academically studied and found to be true:https://siepr.stanford.edu/research/publications/recession-g...
That's a valid view.

Sadly many women with this view are discriminated against.
This comment is like if someone said they watched their parents burned alive in a house fire and it changed the person for life, and someone else replied "yeah, but think about the other side, my brother is a firefighter and he works so hard..." Sure, let's minimize the first thing and talk about something different.
The way we learn about the five senses in elementary school bugs me. It is presented as this absolute fact and has become completely culturally embedded.

Some may argue proprioception is provided by touch, but by the same light smell and taste are inextricably linked.

We can also sense heat and humidity to some extent, we have some of the mechanisms needed to sense magnetic fields, but no compelling evidence (to my understanding) exists that demonstrates that we can.

It's just one of those things thats much fuzzier than we think

Many things that we are taught in elementary school have this property
The fee is only one aspect of the ticket. The other aspect is demerits on your license which go toward revoking it. Dangerous driving is discouraged by the threat of getting your license revoked, not by getting a fine. Speeding tickets do affect everyone equally, by applying the same number of demerits toward revocation of the license. Hence why rich people don't drive like maniacs even though they can "afford" to from a purely monetary standpoint.
CSS-Tricks also has a more practical guide which has been essential for me: https://css-tricks.com/flex-grow-is-weird/
(1) Few good lawyers in this space give free initial consults.

(2) Contingency isn't all too helpful unless you definitely go for litigation. OP definitely shouldn't go for litigation here.
Sounds like the R/L problems they had and solved with Montezuma's Revenge.
Wasn't that the whole idea of publishers attempting to ban book imports? Amazon or their suppliers do price discrimination regionally on many products I'm sure.
We already have things like segregated, female-only rail cars in Japan. So I'd argue we're slowly going back to that world. Somehow, we'll also develop new "non-predatory", "consent-respecting" sexual scripts that will most likely look a heck of a lot like the old-fashioned rules of public etiquette and courtesy.
Sicilian Homes Went Up for Auction Starting at €1
I see what you did there. Is it related to Americans' love affair with the car? snort snort
Not necessarily, cheap rides are the only competitive advantage both of them have.

More and more companies without the massive VC support Uber and Lyft have will pop up fragmenting the market.
The bit about voting for taller people seems misplaced. There seems to be a strong suggestion of causality, but all there's evidence for is statistical connection.

> There’s not much doubt that some voters were influenced by the disparity in height... But serious statistical analysis concludes that taller presidential candidates are more likely to win the election, more likely to win re-election, and more likely — unlike Donald Trump — to win the popular vote.

Seems like a stretch. One of those things where predictive analytics would dump out "height diff" as a useful factor in naively predicting who the winner will be, but the real cause is something deeper.
You're right :-). They were both addressed in the series (part 3).

> [~27:24] Narrator: Bill and his team finally believed they had developed the ideal energy source. A reactor that was clean, efficient, and most importantly, safe.

> [cuts to conference room TV playing Fukushima news coverage] ...

> [~28:22] N: Public opinion, already skittish, turned against nuclear.

> [cuts to the two walking around outside]

> N: When you have a massive setback, how do you deal with that?

> ... [some cut to old DOJ drama] ...

> [~32:07] TV anchor: The US nuclear industry is bracing for a backlash

> [background switches to Fukushima footage]

Later:

> [~41:49] N: In 2015, President Xi came to Seattle and had a private meeting with Bill.

> Some guy: Then we see real movement.

> ...

> [~42:39] TV: A tariff tit-for-tat, teetering on a trade war ...

> [~42:50] TV: Investment restrictions on China with respect to high technology.

> [43:09] Guy working on the reactor: China and the United States had to negotiate this very complicated contract. Well, each government had a right to cancel it, and our government did. So, by canceling that contract that gives us the legal right to do nuclear things in China, we can't do it anymore.

> [43:35] [cuts to another guy] N: What was his reaction when you showed it to him?

> Guy: I think he just said, "oh shit."

> [cuts away to more DOJ stuff]
This just feeds the blackmarkets for any industry. When people get wise they turn to the black market.
This is me now. I’m working on https://losthobbies.com because I think it’s a real problem for people. It’s hard to get back to your hobbies and interests when life gets in the way.
> But one thing not mentioned in this article is why an 11 year old would be on the internet at all.

Because she wants to expeirience and learn society where it happens.

Internet is main space for human interaction. Asking why 11 year old would be on the internet is like asking why would she be in the mall or on the street or anywhere really except home, school and inside of family car.

She should be on the internet and she should be expeiriencing it because that's the only way she can learn to tolerate it and find her way around it. She won't learn it at school or from parents that barely have any clue what's internet outside of their email accounts.

When children access internet you need to keep an eye and explain parts of it you yourself do understand. Same as with TV or people in the streets. You can't ban things till children become adults because you are stealing from them opportunity to learn when learning is easiest for them.

If they have your support internet won't break them.
This is a bit too long for the title. If it was shortened no-one would understand it. And "Ministry of justice" in Germany equals "DOJ" in the U.S, which almost anyone understands.
> Willingness to pay more also tells you a lot about the person's need and if the person is willing to pay more it is a signal that the person needs to more. Servicing those needs first is often beneficial for the whole society.

However, in this case, Uber and Lyft are not actually using willingness to pay. They are using ability to pay. To make the system more efficient, as you suggested, they would do best to implement a bidding system so that customers could directly opt to pay more (directly indicating their level of need).

The algorithms in the article would unfairly prioritize wealthier drivers over poorer ones, if used to maximize margins, regardless of the level of need of either party. Wealth (ability to pay) is not an indicator of how badly you need to be somewhere else. Willingness to pay is. Their system is flawed.

The differential pricing you've described might be beneficial to society, but the differential pricing discussed in the article is most certainly not.
An emulator of something is a pretty good idea I think.
Yes, if you determine that creating your objects requires passing in state or using some logic that you don't want to put in the constructor, then using a factory or factory function makes sense. However that has nothing to do with creating a dynamic number of enemies.

Object pooling is a good point actually.
I have a 9, 6, 3.5 and one on the way. My schedule for the most part has been 8-10 hrs on the day job, coming home for dinner and night rituals about 2-3 hours. On most week days I go upstairs when the kids have gone to bed and work another 1-3 hours on a range of things: Sometimes its finishing off stuff at work, most times it's own projects and learning. Thankfully wife uses this time sometimes to catch up on sewing projects, school grading so we're able to sit together. It's not ideal as we actually want to spend the time together but we do our best to just leave work alone and be with each other sometimes. We also try to prioritize when something needs to be done talked about/discussed. Another thing is we agreed I can use most week nights to work on my side project I am trying to bootstrap. We agreed it's a sacrifice we're willing to make for the time being. I think you have to be willing to experiment try and see what works for your relationship and family. I admit I'm not the best for getting 6-8 hours a night of sleep but average about 6hrs. I always remind myself to enjoy my family because I can now. Life is such that we can never tell what's coming around the corner. I don't want to regret anything looking back so I do my best to tell my wife and kids how much I love them. Kiss my kids often and try to pursue the dream in my heart about the side project. It's a lot and seems like a tall order but in the grand scheme of things it's a number of key decisions and choices each day.
I can assure you the companies mentioned in the article are spending a lot more on this program than they would just hiring a new college graduate.
A bit of survivorship bias going on with what Paul has written. He gives the example of having kids when I believe he was already financially secure and in a different place in his life than many people are when they have kids. That is not to say that the children are not wonderful (big YMMV there) but that he could (most likely) afford to sit back and 'smell the roses' with his kids. And enjoy the experience and be 'mr relaxed and happy parent' let's say.

Compare that to perhaps how it was for him (or for me) growing up. Parents under a great deal of financial pressure. (In my case immigrant parents one who came here with nothing one who grew up here with nothing). Work long hours (for both themselves and the kids) and when they get home from work not a bed of roses. Not having the luxury of having a Harvard degree either (as Paul has) (I have a good degree but the reason is my parents busted their asses so that I could get into a good school).

No such thing by the way as a blanket 'kids are a blessing' don't let anyone paint it that way. Sorry to rain on the parade. Plenty of people's lives don't revolve around the joy of children (whether they have children or not (I do)) and that's ok. I have kids but don't particularly enjoy doing any 'kids' things just not my thing. Nothing wrong with that. Once again it just seems like a box that some people want to put you in based on their own happiness and experience in life (or at least that is the way it seems).

You know you read it all the time. 'The best day of my life was when my child was born'. 'I want to spend more time with my family'. 'So you can spend more time with your family'. 'I love coaching my kids sports teams'. Picture of fun on Facebook. And so on.
I had this experience with nephews (I have 6 now, I think) and the kids conversations, taken at face value of their content, are just super boring. Repetitive, often make no sense, and really simplistic. It's like a football fan who doesn't even know much about football but keeps telling you about how his team is going big this year and playoff odds he read off 538. People with kids give kids a large leeway to be boring because they are used to doing this for their own kids, or as PG mentions because now they suddenly like all the kids, I dunno. People without kids just treat the conversation like it should be treated... except with a super boring acquaintance it's socially acceptable to get distracted by someone else in the room and then avoid them forever, whereas with kids it isn't, so you have to wing something to make them go away while seeming nice.
Ask HN: Anyone else tired of doing email templates only for them to go to spam?
Why do you say you think it's software?
Until the early 2010s we ran our own tiny data center (six to eight racks in two separate locations). When we re-evaluated whether to have the racks hosted somewhere else, it worked out way cheaper to run the machines ourselves. But when we included the costs of the sporadic stuff, cloud providers became cheaper.

The sporadic stuff adds up. This is the "other stuff" one needs to do to keep the machines running. It includes the time it took someone to swap a failing drive, or the loss of productivity when the system went down (because of faulty air conditioning maintenance procedure), or the costs of procuring hardware, or dealing with the network provider, and so on. This stuff adds up. We ran a tight ship. Every minute someone spent dealing with the racks of computers was a minute they did not spend creating a product for our customers.

The only thing we had some difficulty with was intermediate reliability storage, at the level of non-raided spinning disks. But that was then, when the offerings where thinner.
Mourning the end of the video game rental era
This reminds me of victoR. VictoR is a cyber security-oriented scripting language which runs on Windows OS. It’s quite powerful and very fast. I have a free copy of it here: https://bit.ly/35mtZZj if anyone wants to test it. Might take a while to run depending on your version. Cheers!
I think it's Two Minute Papers disclosing that they've chosen to put a paid sponsor at the end of their video. [1]

[1] https://wersm.com/youtube-creators-includes-paid-promotion-d...
Thanks. Changed it!
Yep. It's just a pain, especially since this is a custom config so the turnaround time will likely be a couple weeks. But that's what I ended up doing.
Dendoncker scoring his only goal of the season so far right as that became beneficial for Carlsen was something no one could have predicted, for example, but it benefit Carlsen marvelously.

Unlike chess, games with humans aren't fixed: there's luck inherent to them.
I'm from Romania and a taxi/Uber ride is somewhere between $2 and $5, which is pretty cheap compared with other countries.

I used to ride with Uber and Bolt a lot, however they've been raising pricing during rush hour and I'm not stupid enough to not notice the bill at the end of the ride and these costs add up.

So several months back I stopped taking car rides altogether. I walk a lot, I don't mind walking 3 Km on foot. I ride my bike to and from work, which is actually more efficient than driving a car in this city. And now in winter due to weather I also use public transportation. I also have a driver's license and own my own car.

I'm not worrying about prices set dynamically. People can notice the bill and Uber is not competing just with Lift or taxis, it's competing with walking on foot, with public transport, with owning your own car and if their prices aren't reasonable, they won't survive.
Surprised the dup-detector didn't pick it up.

Ahh! The original submission had a query parameter in the URL: "?r=1"
If I remember correctly, Yahoo Open Source their current and next generation Search Engine Vespa [1], why wasn't that used, and instead starting from scratch?

[1] https://vespa.ai
If the mind were found to be uncomputable, I think you'd find vastly more physicists would take that as evidence the universe is uncomputable than that the mind is nonphysical.
Dissecting Linux Kernel Code
Proprioception is talked about in yoga as an awareness of body position and muscle tension state state, so its an internal sense and not necessarily the same as touching external objects. You can observe your muscles tension changes to balance without touching or seeing for example.