skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your basis for the assertion that medical care and housing are not human rights, when you just implied you should be able to kill someone who breaks into your home?

What precisely is the line here? You have the right to defend a home if you have one, but you don't have a right to have it?

Is food a human right, but not housing or medical care? Do you also believe food is not a human right?

If food is a human right (i'm going to assume favorably that you agree with me that it is), what distinguishes food - essential for survival - from medical care, which is also frequently essential for survival in modern culture?

Is it okay to deprive children of - for example - necessary vaccines and allow them to catch, spread and die from preventable diseases, because some children may survive? Near-starvation may also kill some children but not all, so is that OK?

Alternately, if you believe neither food or medicine or housing are human rights - okay? - what makes free speech a human right when those aren't, specifically? How can you exercise your free speech, exactly, if someone takes away your food as punishment for speech they dislike or if they confiscate your home along with the property you use to communicate?

Your definition of human right here is confusing and circular. Almost anything can be worth killing for depending on who you ask, otherwise you wouldn't have people getting murdered by thieves or scorned lovers. What makes it worth killing for or dying for? What makes it justified or not justified?

Obviously there are ways to establish a logical framework here but your post makes it hard to understand what framework you're operating on.
Can you explain how any individual was harmed?
It rings very true to me, but I think there is much, much more.

How do you consistently say no without appearing oppositional?
It might seem entirely unrelated, but I have started rising before the sun so I can catch the sunrise and subsequently reap the "brightest slice of the day" and it has increased my general productivity
Iunno, SUV drivers seem to like big vehicles more than performance.

I’m with you on pickups though, gotta have a Duallie V8 just in case you install a 5th wheel one day.
> Installing a web server from a package manager and configuring it in a repeatable way is not simple and boring. A single person startup doesn't have the bandwidth to do that.

Indeed, which is why there were no web startups before about 2010.
Yes, I did. Good pickup, you’re very perspicacious :-)
Oh dear. Fixed. Thanks!
It's certainly not a good thing. Is it comparatively better than other risky activities associated with young adults, such as binge drinking? I think yes.
> why aren't we already calling the city München if that is what the Germans are doing?

You mean, what the Deutsche are doing :) Why stop at the city level?
Obese in this case seems to mean your city isn't built like Manhattan or Tokyo. Cars are fat.
Very early adopter here (and little later even snapped a developer job there). Very sad to see, but if you were an insider I think it was clear for at least 5 years now, that this business was not going to last.

The sharing economy to me, looks more like a sustainability-simulation of its business models, driven by yield-seeking funds and millenial-pockets which, freed of the burden to buy property, are open to add hefty premiums to their every day expenditures (e.g. "checkout that new roastery run by that reknown barista").

Yet these businesses failiures become eminent once you realize that they aren't even viable in cities with less than 2M people.

Daimler/BMW is just facing up to this reality. If car2go were VC funded, we would see more money being thrown at this bottomless pit.
In what way is that harmful to them?
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Or just try a not-so-random one:

kill(1, 9);
Does a snapshot mean that you're doing native DO snapshots? The throughput for these is terrible (1-4gb/min) and also had performance implications in our past tests.
If you come across, and have to deal with a Sickles day to day - maybe as a boss or colleague or employee or in social circles - what would you do? Does anyone have any good strategies?
I thought you got a lot for that 20% though:

Don't have to walk to wherever car is parked

Don't have to drive

Don't have to park car

Don't have to walk from parking spot to actual destination
I don't think that article provides any reason to discredit her, or the average differences in the size and density of different brain regions, which is what I was referring to.

In fact, that article presumes that Dr. Brizendine's footnotes provide any source for that particular statement you're concerned about, when in fact it doesn't. Her book is clear in her footnotes to which of her statements they apply, and none are cited to that.
Thank you for all the replies, I have learned a lot. It seems like there are dozens of issues that need to be fixed in tandem. Meanwhile, I will stay as healthy as I can because that seems like the best plan for the moment
> Maybe there's no cost to a page sitting on Wikipedia describing, like, some guy's special attack from Naruto.

There is a cost, but it's measured in hours of maintenance labor not bytes of storage.

If Wikipedia wants to maintain a semblance of accuracy [1] in the face of declining participation, it needs to concentrate its labor resources rather than spread them out.

[1] which IMHO is vital given its unwise prestige as arbiter or truth
This is true, but I'm asking for the opposite: the flag that asks the key to always enable auth. Would you happen to know it? I haven't been able to find it in the demos I tried.
How is this considered minimal? When I think of minimal, I think of something like dwm (https://dwm.suckless.org/) or awesome-wm (https://awesomewm.org/).
I can't speak for America directly but I hear it's trending too: here in the old western world (EU), we gladly install cameras and microphones in our homes, down to the bedroom, all by ourselves.

To think that 50 years from now, people who grew with such a permanent record on them — an ever-lens to watch and re-watch their every move, to frame the world anew most likely — will not be willing to accept current levels of Chinese State surveillance, is either naively cute or idealistic delusion. IMHO.

Another way of saying this, looking backward: you gotta admit this crazy idea of lighting fires inside ships and inviting lightning itself in our homes were ridiculous ideas (before), dangerous behavior (during), totally obvious (retrospectively). It's called a paradigm change.

I feel the level of exposure we have to tracking/recording sensors (cams, mics, gps, etc) is bound to provoke such a shift. Probably in the name of efficiency (for the good part), in fear of some terror (for the bad), I just hope we'll be top-notch on security and privacy (lest it gets ugly before it gets better).
I think I'd read this more like:

1. We don't know what mobility technologies to invest in (electric cars, scooters, electric bikes, who knows what else)

2. Increased hassle building out in US cities in general (you can look at comments around Google Fiber as well).

3. Lack of any investment from civic actors on developing support for bikes / scooters / electric / etc.

Basically, there are a lot of imaginable futures for urban mobility and there are no real signals in the US market about where things are going to end up. Uber / Lyft / the scooter folks / Tesla are all pushing their things but there's no real direction or leader and as a result cities are largely staying out (even failing to build obvious projects like bike infrastructure and public transit to urban cores).
Businesses don't exist to save money. They exist to deliver value.

Your goal in a startup shouldn't be all about saving money like some cheapskate penny pincher. Penny wise, pound foolish.

Worrying about $100/mo in heroku bills instead of $10/mo "bobs budget webhost" bills is a waste of time. If your startup cannot afford $100/mo or even $1000/mo in infrastructure costs you probably should exist. Especially given smartly spent infrastructure costs (eg: using heroku) let you deliver value far faster than cobbling together infrastructure yourself.

Penny wise, pound foolish.
I wonder if the illustration clip comes from this contraption by SmarterEveryDay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbdbVhzcM4
I am French. This "start with no" attitude has been an issue when I started working with other cultures. First, when I worked in London, and even more so when I started working in California. At the first California-based company I worked at, there was an implicit bias towards what I'd describe as an "everything is awesome"-attitude (which was a huge departure from the French way to start conversations).

I would start conversations the "French way" to debate certain aspects of how/why things are done, but it backfired because I did it in a clumsy way, without considering the cultural gap and how people were expected to communicate at this company.

Today, I easily switch between American and French styles, but it took me a while to understand what my California-based coworkers meant when they said "it's more important to be kind than to be right"!

Curious to hear if this happens to other expats too.
I think the value it adds is subjective. In my opinion, it is a fact that further describes the individual. In fairness, it may not be the most relevant point.

We have to appreciate that his place of birth it is a fact, whether one thinks it preloads preconceptions or not.

Edit:
"whether you think" -> "whether one thinks"
They didn't charge the customers that did that? From what I remember, they were seemed pretty clear in agreements that you would be charged if you violated anything.
Definitely. Having said that very few countries have an advanced financial system. Probably a handful of cities globally, and even then some like Singapore or HK werent a thing 100 years ago.

But about that whole Germany thing, they did kinda, sorta, really screwed the pooch on that one by starting 2 world wars. Maybe they kinda, sorta, you know...had it coming.
play.google.com/books can't be used from Firefox at all last time I checked.
I love the discussion about all this. For a bit of context, I kept the article focused on the technical because that is the primary audience of my website. There is a criticism that I focused too much on the technical side in the article. That's entirely possible.

My choice to focus on the technical is because my lessons basically boiled down to:

1. Don't focus on the technical (#1 YAGNI, #2 Ignore software upgrades, and #3 use the tools you know)

2. Deliver something valuable to the customers as fast as possible.

In other words, I tried to say "don't focus on the technical side."

I admit in the article that the technical focus of the article itself was emblematic of why the project failed.

> Up to this point, I’ve written about the technical failings of the project. This is an emblematic example of why the project failed. I didn’t help my customers and was too focused on the technology.

Perhaps I was too subtle on that point.

Thanks for all the feedback. I've enjoyed reading the discussion.
That statement is equally true for fancy "smart" systems.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32815036036.html

sleep tight.
This has become quite the meme lately as a pop-neurology fact, but its... clearly untrue the ways people try to apply it. It creates a sort of fatalism about being able to improve or change your mind that in no way reflects whats actually possible.
Hmm, how does NetHack generate mazes in Gehennom? This is making me want to look.
The US Government doesn't need persistent surveillance. Facebook, Amazon and Google have already built the surveillance network for them, for free:

One of Amazon’s most significant business contracts, which has largely been kept hidden from the public since it was finalized in October 2013, was a $600 million deal for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a private computing cloud for the 17 American intelligence agencies known collectively as the “intelligence community” (IC).

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/13/amzn-j13.html

Companies would be given new authority to monitor their users -- on their own systems as well as those of any other entity -- and then, in order to get immunity from virtually all existing surveillance laws, they would be encouraged to share vaguely defined “cyber threat indicators” with the government. This could be anything from email content, to passwords, IP addresses, or personal information associated with an account. The language of the bill is written to encourage companies to share liberally and include as many personal details as possible.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/249521-ci...

Documents released alongside security journalist Glenn Greenwald’s new book, “No Place To Hide,” reveal the NSA and FBI partnership, in which the two agencies developed techniques for exploiting Facebook chats, capturing private photos, collecting IP addresses, and gathering private profile data.

According to the slides below, the agencies’ goal for such collection was to capture “a very rich source of information on targets,” including “personal details, ‘pattern of life,’ connections to associates, [and] media.”

https://venturebeat.com/2014/05/15/how-the-nsa-fbi-made-face...
But at least you know ... it is not dangerous if you know you are in danger kind.
I would honestly love to take a job that was 100% focused on interviewing and hiring technical people. I have been through so many bad interviews (on both sides of the desk) that I think it really should be a dedicated position staffed by people who actually understand the major defects in the industry.
> But because they believe it's risk free they aren't exactly telling teens not to use it.

Citation, please. My personal experience as a teenager two and a half decades ago and as someone responsible for the care of teens and pre-teens now is quite the opposite of this. The teens/kids I observe are being told very stridently not to use it, in the same terms and even by some of the same organizations (D.A.R.E.) that we were in the '90s.

While there might be a (strong, IMO) argument that teens are disregarding real, serious risks because they find out some of the bogeymen presented by D.A.R.E and similar are overblown and assume all of us are over-articulating risks, I don't think kids are being told any less to "just say no." As if that helped in the first place.
I had the absolute pleasure of attending a week of all-day sessions with Michael Kerrisk and on 2 or 3 or those days he covered only container related primitives. His materials were great and he was an excellent teacher.
> We spend 17.4% of GDP on healthcare. The OECD average is 9.5%, and we don't have better outcomes to show for it.

The problem is we do have "allowing drug companies to keep researching new drugs" to show for it. We're subsidizing the rest of the world because they impose price controls on patented medications. We could do the same thing, but then where does the money to do the R&D come from?

People like to point out that they spend more on advertising than research, but the advertising generates more revenue than it costs or they wouldn't do it, which means without the advertising they would have less money for research.

It should come from other countries who have been free riding with price controls, but how do you get them to do that? The status quo is giving them a trillion dollar a year subsidy.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applicationservice...
> or you’re just being lazy

LOL. Good developers are the most lazy people on the planet. Laziness is a virtue, not a sin!

If my developer told me our company could outsource all our sysadmin tasks to some third party I'd be a fool to not listen. If I was a developer and my boss called me lazy for trying to help the company move faster (which is far more important for a startup than saving a few bucks) because boss-person is a penny pincher, I'd reconsider my choice of employer.

A startup focused on pinching pennies is doomed from the start.
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Ok, thanks! I will consider adding teams.
Depends on what you mean by "Fully Working"

I have a UniFi AP for WiFi, and a EdgeRouterX for route/switch. Of course the EdgeRouterX does not have the Fancy UniFi Management Portal but...

That was alot less than $800, I think I maybe have $125 in the hardware
Sure. I'm also not sure that the fact that Wikipedia's rules often fall through the cracks is entirely a bad thing. You end up with some unverified information. You also end up with maybe somewhat unreliable information that would never have been verifiable. Even if I can't fully endorse this sort of informal breaking of the rules, I'm not really opposed to it either.
Yeah, age I can understand. People usually list their college degree along with the date of graduation, so you can usually make a good guess about their age.

But, I have no idea how you gather gender or marital status from a resume.
Having more infrastructure than you currently need is a good thing (since the inverse is clearly bad).

Comparing this to 'obesity' is an overtly political choice.
It's actually somewhat amazing how isolated you can get from the average person if you stick to settings & persuits associated with "intellectuals". I recall ended up in a friend group of 8 people once that included 3 geniuses.

Sometimes you really have to take a step back and realise that you're not as normal as you feel. You can spend your time on hackernews feeling very insecure and then apply 5% of what people talk about here and then the average person will treat you like you invented fire.
If we think in terms of a race -- an IQ of 100 puts you at the 50th percentile -- so half of the contestants are faster than you, and the other half are slower.

A loss of 6-8 points puts you at about at about the 35th percentile -- meaning 65 percent of the people in the race will be running more faster than you. Or (back in real life terms) be that much more likely to get admitted to college, get a decent job / spouse, and so on.

That is, to the extent that definitions of IQ are valid and can be measured accurately, and so on. But given the amount of research that has gone into this -- and we know a lot more now that we did a few decades ago -- it seems the risks (of heavy cannabis use) are potentially quite serious.

(BTW, as to how one gets from "6-8 points" to "35th or 40th percentile": it has to do with how the IQ scale is defined. By the traditional scale approximately two-thirds of the population scores are between IQ 85 and IQ 115. Meaning (on a scale from 1 to 100) 15 points of IQ equals a difference of about 33 percent. So 6-8 points is about half that, or very roughly 15 percent).
Soo.. the response to OP's post regarding the burden of maintaining systems built with JS frameworks is.. yet another unknown JS framework that will cease to exist in 3 months from now on?
We’ve known how terrible North American city planning is since A Pattern Language (70s) and Life and Death of Great American Cities (60s).

How do we turn it into concrete, short term action?

What’s the 2019 equivalent of smashing curbs for wheelchair access? (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/)
Isn't this article about stuff that happened in 2015 though?

It seems like the investment followed from using FF, not the otherway around.
I agree that organizing is a workplace activity. But if that’s the case, why should companies be allowed to prohibited it on corporate IT? What other job-related activities are outright banned on company-provided equipment?

It's a workplace activity; but it's not a business activity. By definition, companies are allowed to make rules about employee conduct and, in most cases except workplace safety/conditions, restrict activities that are not business-related when employees are working.

Imagine a company has a policy that says "company mobile phones can only be used for business purposes". So if you're making a sales call or rescheduling a meeting, that's fine - it's a business purpose.

On the other hand, chatting with colleagues about plans for the weekend would not be permitted; nor would calling overseas relatives and so on.

The NLRB has always held that if a company had such a policy on telephone usage then it was also acceptable to restrict the use of that company mobile phone for union organizing purposes. That is because the policy is non-discriminatory.

If the policy said, on the other hand, "company mobile phones should be used primarily for business purposes but reasonable personal use is permitted, but you cannot use the phone for labor organization purposes", then that policy would not be acceptable because it's discriminatory.

The question is whether policies are discriminatory in treating labor organization less generously than other non-business usage.

The case in 2014 created a special case for email, where even if the employer didn't permit non-business use of email, then they still had to permit use for labor organizing. The recent decision simply undoes that special case and puts email back on the same footing as (e.g.) company telephones.

Given Google seems to have a vastly permissive policy on the use of company IT, it seems very unlikely they'd ever be able to restrict use of that same company IT for labor organization purposes; and there is nothing in this ruling that suggests otherwise.
Yes, thanks :) I thought the TLs name was Tom.
> "Mid-aughts" refers to the first decade of a century.
> https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/1300361

In case anyone else is unfamiliar with this term.
The religious events in India at the time of Buddha were much more complex and nuanced than most of those who concentrate on Buddha alone are aware, for example, there was also Charvaka school, apparently even less willing to accept any direct influence of gods on humans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charvaka

"Charvaka holds direct perception, empiricism, and conditional inference as proper sources of knowledge, embraces philosophical skepticism and rejects ritualism, and supernaturalism."

Also Jainism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism

even today with "four to five million followers worldwide."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira

"Mahavira and Gautama Buddha are generally accepted as contemporaries (circa 5th century BCE)."

"Beyond the times of the Mahāvīra and the Buddha, the two ascetic sramana (seeker) religions competed for followers as well as the merchant trade networks that sustained them.[128][414] Their mutual interaction, along with those of Hindu traditions, have been significant."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_Jainism

"Jainism and Buddhism share many features, terminology and ethical principles, but emphasize them differently.[2] Both are śramaṇa ascetic traditions that believe it is possible to attain liberation from the cycle of rebirths and deaths (samsara) through spiritual and ethical disciplines.[3] They differ in some core doctrines such as those on asceticism, Middle Way versus Anekantavada, and self versus no-self (jiva, atta, anatta)."
>I'm pretty sure I can prove that

For infinite sets of arbitrarily large cardinality?
It is easy to prove for finite sets (just count) but much harder for infinite ones. For example, which has more subsets, the integers or the positive integers? How about the integers and the reals?

If you answered "the integers" to the first question, you aren't thinking about this right, as the integers and the positive integers have the same number of elements to start with. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
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