skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The meaning of prostitution has change in the public discussed to be the same as rape, regardless of consent.

As a Swede, I say that that is an exageration. But it is true that very few, if any, public figure dare to speak up for legalizing prostitution. On the other hand, it's not a crime that the police prioritize, and last time I heard, no one have been more than fined for paying a sex-worker.
Balanced thing would have been to add a config parameter to enable disable this stuff. Can't imagine a lawsuit from something that is user customizable. Some want Easter eggs and others don't.

Of course if your easter eggs slow performance via bug then insta-disable.
I started using Google Keep until I was up to around 200 project ideas. I then moved it all to Trello, fleshed out each idea, prioritised, and labelled every idea. Ever since I've just been adding ideas directly to the Trello board via the app.
Henry Chinaski was getting laid a lot after writing his first book.
The linked article starts by presenting Saturnalia as a murderous celebration of human sacrifices, for which there is no evidence at all, so it makes me doubt the historical accuracy of the whole piece.
As someone who vehemently despises a colleague named cody, I'm remarkably offended you'd dare to associate the wonderful surprise of an unexpected event with such a devious and foul colleague of mine.
The "divergent versions" you refer to are really not so divergent as to exclude the discovery of a fundamental Buddhism. The Chinese collections and the Theravadin are remarkably similar and this despite being worlds apart in language of composition.
And it kinda seems to be blowing up. They removed a shitton of comments, closed several related issues and now new bugs are being made because of this. I can only hope there is massive resitence against this.
I didn't grow up there during that time, but moved there in the late 70's. There were indeed many smoggy days. But surprisingly it got much better after about 10 years. I assume it was a result of stricter regulations. These days the air quality in the LA area is generally pretty good, with historical PM2.5 data showing "green" most of the time http://aqicn.org/city/los-angeles/
Best practice advice used to be "dont leave your commit message empty" and now it seems headed in a direction of some kind of storytelling guide. Up next: the role of character development in your commit messages
This issue is so over the top that South Park could make a gag out of it
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Tell your friend to not buy drugs from the street in Amsterdam. Those drugs may not be what you think they are.
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And sunlight.
Show, don't tell!
There's an option to disable the WYSIWYG editor now :)

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work as good as before: text like `Object`s (no space between the ending ` and next text) doesn't work anymore, and according to Slack's support this is 'working as intended'.
Oh very much so. For different stated reasons, but "government" (sometimes wearing the mask of religion) has always wanted to control behavior, and as a subset, morality.
Yeah, that's arguably the most reasonable solution. Although off by default would make me sad. Would have to be the other way.
Typescript's inherent problem may well be that it's rules are too lax, it allows you to circumvent them conveniently. This keeps poisoning the code base piece by piece, leaving you with a false sense of trust.

Maybe it's because of the compatibility with Javascript but it does kill Typescript's type soundness.

Edit: rephrasing
Not really. Here's what an 70's/80's PC and OS had to do to print a single character in response to user input (simpified):

Poll the keyboard matrix for a key press.
Convert the key press coordinate to ASCII.
Read the location of the cursor.
Write one byte to RAM.
Results will be visible next screen refresh.

A modern PC and OS would do something more like this:

The keyboard's microcontroller will poll the keyboard matrix for a key press.
Convert the key press location to a event code.
Signal to the host USB controller that you have data to send.
Wait for the host to accept.
Transfer the data to the USB host.
Have the USB controller validate that the data was correctly received.
Begin DMA from the USB controller to a RAM buffer.
Wait the RAM to be ready.
Transfer the data to RAM.
Raise an interrupt to the CPU.
Wait for the CPU to receive the interrupt.
Task switch to the interrupt handler.
Decode the USB packet.
Pass it to the USB keyboard driver.
Convert the USB keyboard event to an OS event.
Determine what processes get to see the key press event.
Add the event to the process's event queue.
Task switch to the process.
Read the new event.
Filter the key press through all the libraries wrapping the OS's native event system.
Read the location of the cursor.
Ask the toolkit library to draw a character.
Tell the windowing system to draw a character.
Figure out what font glyph corresponds to that character.
See if it's been cached, rasterize glyph if it's not.
Draw the character to the window texture.
Signal to the compositor that a region of the screen needs to be redrawn.
Create a GPU command list.
Have GPU execute command list.
Page flip.
Results will be visible next screen refresh.

I could drag this out longer and go into more detail, but I don't really feel like it.

I'm sure people who actually work on implementing these things can find inaccuracies with this, but it should give an idea how much more work and handshaking between components is being done now than in the 70's/80's. Switching to gaming hardware isn't enough to get down to ye olde latencies.
It's not just the people, some topics leads to that. E.g you can get far with just a few git commands, but one day, you will encounter a situation that is like a brick wall because you have no idea what's going on inside.

Today, most JS devs don't know how "this" works, most python devs never used pdb, most git users picture a branch like a diverging chain of commits and not a moving label, etc.

Again it's not the people's fault: they are required to be productive very quickly. There is competitive pressure. So they aim for what's good enough to make things that looks right. Can you blame them ?

Few jobs pay devs to update their skill on company time, and not everyone will spend an hour a day learning new things instead of playing with the kids, doing exercice or going out with friends.
Good point. I too only saw the point after being burnt by a large JS application.
I don't think it is representative of the public's view. See my other comment.

I think the problem with many feminists in Sweden are that they are a rather theoretical kind, centered around gender studies at the universities. And they think that they know better than the poor uneducated women who sell sex what they want and need themselves.
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Is the complainant related to Titania McGrath in any way? I think we should be told.

https://youtu.be/yEGv6CT7kz4
Got one. Used it for a few years. It was amazing (though not without its quirks of course).
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It can show up a non intrusive notification to inform you about turning it on/leaving it on vs turning it off just like the data collection notification popups.
But Typescript is not a "typed language", rather a "language with types". Because of having to maintain JS compatibility it lacks the inherent type safety that other similar languages like Dart provide.
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> Considering that the Qwerty keyboard was deliberately designed to be slow

Hasn't that origin story been debunked?

e.g. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-...
My favourite ever easter egg story

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...
Because absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, abstracts expressing no position can not be included in the 97% number. Finding many abstracts that fall into this category is expected and does not detract from the 97% finding, because there are so many aspects of climate science that you can study that have no direct bearing on the question of whether anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real or not.

You phrase it as ...

> Within the subset of these abstracts that expressed an opinion on AGW, 97.2% endorsed AGW

... which is a misleading way of framing this, because opinion does not play a role in this. Expressing an opinion in a scientific abstract would be highly frowned upon. The question is whether the abstract contains information relevant to the question of whether AGW is happening or not. These are the only abstracts that you want to consider when the question is whether the science agrees or disagrees with AGW.

Your point that going from "97% of abstracts" to "97% of scientists" is not strictly correct is fine (and this is not done in the Cook et al. paper), but this simplification in the media is not worrying to me at all, since you'd expect those to be very highly correlated.

> might you willingly concede that there very much is a propaganda war going on in parallel to the actual science?

Well, based on this comments section that seems rather self-evident. The scientists, however, are not fighting a propaganda war. That's a political or media phenomenon. Everything written in this comments section so far for me has reinforced the picture that this "war" is very one sided, since the anti-science arguments either just disappear or boil down to inconsequential pedantry as soon as you shine some light on them.
First - every country legislates morality in a variety of ways, and making/keeping prostitution illegal is not merely a religious issue.

The majority of people oppose decriminalisation [1] even in fairly progressive Ontario, Canada, 6 in 10 oppose it [2]

Second - it's a very reasonable course of action to make an activity which is deemed harmful - actually illegal.

"Smoking is bad" -> "Let's make it widely available" is generally not the first order course of action.

Ergo - your assumptions about 'moralising and not caring' is starting to inch into anti-religious bigotry territory.

Now - obviously this is a nuanced issue - and it's possible more permissive laws might lessen harm, but this is by no means obvious.

We saw this with vaping: once something becomes socially normative, behaviours can grow rapidly. There is a black market for almost everything, legal or not.

A large, wide open, legalised & regulated sex trade may simply provide more customers for nefarious sex-traders who can take all the profit & provide underage girls (which will surely remain illegal).

The cigarette industry provides good parallel example, although it's surely not perfect. [3]

In short - increased taxes (i.e. supply curve shift) and overall changes in social norms away from smoking have not caused an increase in illicit consumption - just the opposite. Illicit consumption is down. This might imply that creating more barriers to the sex trade (law), and also reducing demand (social norms), would likely have the overall effect of reducing black market for sex-slavery.

Of course, it's not nearly a perfect analogy, and it's a complicated subject and of course there are individuals and groups who are probably more concerned about morality than justice, but it's still not fair to castigate a policy as being one way or the other.

Personally, I don't see how normalising the sex trade and providing vast online services decreases frequency of transactions, but I'm open minded about the right way to do this. Though I personally think it should be 'decriminalised' (not illegal, but sex workers not allowed to go to 'job fairs' at high school!), I would put the wellbeing of those being trafficked ahead of any of that.

[1] https://prostitution.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID...

[2] https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-polls/LAWC-and-CATW-Prostit...

[3] https://tobaccoatlas.org/topic/illicit-trade/
> The Santa Hat on vscode insiders and pushing of religion is very offensive to me

Well, If it is "offensive" to you, find the settings button and turn it off. To find everything that you see "offensive" and to demand everyone to cater to your needs sounds like a sense of entitlement if not very draconian.

I had high hopes for Microsoft to resist this nonsense and close politically correct issues like this, but once again, they capitulated to the minority.

> I've also deleted the discussion that does not belong into our issue tracker.

Well done! /s Now the whole context of parts the discussion has now been lost.
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Bayesian priors, I reckon.
Yeah, I'm still not convinced if this guy is for real. But that's besides the point - them caving in to this insane demand on the spot is incredible. What's next - a word filter so I can't type "sjw" in VSCode? Seriously rethinking my decision to switch to this. This screams instability.
60% of the user base didn't know it existed. 25% could have liked it, 14% could have been indifferent. But this one guy is "offended" because Christmas (the celebration of the birth of a Jew named Jesus of Nazareth) "killed the Jews" and poof, it's gone.

Tyranny of the minority.
Offensive? Poor man has to live with his self-oppressing name.
Daily reminder how his people were oppressed by evil outsiders.

He deserves nobel peace prize.
I remember seeing the 60 Minutes interview with Stoll and his girlfriend when his book came out.

Pretty crazy duo. I liked it.
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I would not buy drugs on the street in Amsterdam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Amsterdam_drug_deaths
I second the motion to remove the GP for offensive language associations.
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Because pinpointing the solution to complex problems to one, easily defined root cause has, in the past, always proven to be bullshit.

Silver bullets, just like with code, do not exist for real life problems.
No criminal charges anywhere in sight.
> Ergonomic design actually speaks against number pads, since it means you have to extend you arm further to reach the mouse

I don’t have this problem with my Kinesis Advantage, since the numpad is embedded in the main keyboard (using a mode shift/switch to access, which I have mapped to a foot pedal)
Has happened to me in London a few times as well.
In modern Ember it is possible and even recommended to use normal functions :)
In Ember Octane with Native Classes and Decorators it is possible to use normal functions and if they need to have access to the this context of the class then they are decorated with the @action decorator.
That's an implication a lot of people will do a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid because it means you can't just ignore the misadventures of various societies throughout history by saying "we're smarter now" or something like that.
As far as drugs go, legal and illegal, MDMA is fairly safe, unless abused. But I think that's irrelevant when it comes to legalizing or decriminalizing.

It doesn't really matter how bad it is for you since, at the moment, nothing is stopping you from buying and swallowing as much as you can. The ones who will do harm with it when legalized are the same ones who do it now. The legality of it does not do anything to stop harm from being done.
Labview code is something you usually don't write. It's common enough in research when working with hardware.

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

addendum: It also allows you to create visual spaghetti code with the data pipes, which is much closer to real spaghetti than the text-based version.
Why am I directed to github and not an onion article?
If the target was just "Windows 3.1", he should have built a 32-bit app using the Win32s API [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s]

It's also probably possible to use a current compiler, maybe clang or gcc, to compile such code (officially only up to VC++ 4.2 is supported), although it might require some hacks.
For some arbitrary definition of better.
Seems they closed it within 12 minutes...
And water. Especially when on MDMA.
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Once again jews ruin everything.
It is near-universally accepted that a perfectly competitive free market is an optimal means of distributing resources.

That statement makes some assumptions: all the parties involved have symmetrical information, equal bargaining power, and are free to choose not to participate in the market.

At the point where I am experiencing a health emergency, the resources I can devote to shopping around are limited, as is the time available to choose.

Also, as I am not a health professional, my ability to compare providers by the one parameter that actually matters - the likelihood of a positive outcome - is severely limited. Meanwhile, the providers will be trying their hardest to get me to choose them, and thus bombarding me with irrelevant but comprehensible and good-sounding metrics.

Finally, when the alternative is life changing injury or death, I am not really free to walk away entirely from taking a deal.

(I'll not even start on the perverse incentives involved in preventative medicine vs emergencies).

So the free market fails me here, at the time I most need it, in several ways:

* an inequality of bargaining power exists

* information asymmetry exists

* I am forced by circumstance to participate

Without outside intervention, in such situations, we expect the costs charged to me to rise to match or exceed my ability to pay; and this is, in fact, what we actually observe when we look at the US healthcare system.

In general, free markets are great; however, for some situations, like healthcare, the assumptions that make markets work in general are not true, and to the extent they are not true, some outside force needs to step in to restore balance. In countries where the government chooses to do so, largely regardless of the precise means, healthcare systems are more efficient and are more accessible to the population.
I think we're past the point where it's easy to limit the scope of a message to a specific group, and any message that concerns personal life is just doomed to be an issue in some way.

Nassim Taleb seems to be about companies giving in to the most extreme groups, but I think there will be less and less clear cut cases where a decision can emcompass all groups. For instance for his take on Halal food, some people do choose to not eat Halal. They might be arguably more intolerant that any other group, but not in relevant numbers for any food company to care about them.

I don't think we're going far from the traditional marketing approach of defining a market and playing the trade-off games around each segment's inclinations. Religion and culture just got added to the mix.
I'm going to waste an inordinate amount of time today finding things I find offensive in VScode and ticketing them for removal.
I remember walking around and climbing on the stones when I was young. Can't get near them now.

My best memory was seeing the engravings made by soldiers following victory at a Civi War battle from the mid-17th century.
I’m not a huge fan of Christmas. I say ‘happy holidays’ to try and be more inclusive. I’m atheist and use it as a time to spend time with family and friends.

I’m 100% with you.

Santa is not a religious figure any more, if ever. Is Thor a religious figure?

This guy is a troll or just a ridiculous person.
If I were to start a new project right now would be

React

- preact
- redux for caching requests and serializing in ssr
- express as webserver
- styled-system for ui

Go for api

- postgres
- redis
I'm a bit disappointed that the code doesn't appear to use Whitesmith style...
Absolutely, I'm not rooting for either framework to be honest just pointing out that the comparison is somewhat unfair.
While I agree with some points made here in comments, I wonder what would be the reaction of people calling this "pathetic" if they added a crescent moon for muslim holidays?
I'm enjoying the fun people seem to be having in the github issues. My favorite:

> "Light themes" section comes before "Dark themes" in settings dropdown which is very offensive to me (87345)

edit: Also how is this only on page 3 with 100+ points in less than an hour?
I really found this too funny at the time so sharing again. Story about VS Code easter egg reminded me.

Unexpected consequences of a bit of fun... you have to laugh.
Any idea if Doubango has IMS/RCS libraries that could be used for implementing a Linux frontend?
But you didn't need arrow functions at the time because createClass autobind this and you used methods. Now with extends and hooks, it would be a pain.

Besides, it's alright to learn es6 and 7 with react if you have time, but if your company pays a $10k react training in a 3 days session, you better have the pre-requisites right.

And at the very least, don't pretend to be "an expert" in 2019 if you don't know es6. Every tutorials for beginers include them now. Every docs of every libs use them.

You don't have to be an expert. It's legitimate. I don't advertise myself as a JS expert despite being pretty good at it.

But it looks better on the resume, and once you are hired on that assumption, you can't go back. Next time the company asks, you say expert again.
HF is also used to wash cars by people wearing no protection, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779585/

E.g. "As a case example, one worker (case 1) splashed his left leg while transferring a cleaning solution of HF and sulfuric acid between containers. He did not irrigate the area and continued to work for approximately 1.5 hours with soaked pants and shoe until he developed an uncomfortable burning sensation" ...
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I'm curious to know why you think separations don't really make sense any more. Care to elaborate?

Personally I prefer anything that is restrictive, I would take the price of less flexibility for the ability to stop people doing stupid things.
The justification linked in the issue is very weak.

The only issue I can see a level hypersensitivity that would find fault with any tradition, including the one (potentially) being offended.
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The thing is, I don't particularly want things that I use every day to "surprise" me with whimsy. I want them to be boring and reliable.
Time to go to MacPorts
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Ask HN: Is the Antler Startup Program Any Good?
Website: https://www.antler.co/

They're marketing themselves as a zero-to-seed program for startups: In the first 2 months, they give you a stipend so that you can work full time on figuring out an idea to go for. Then, if they like it, they give you seed funding, in exchange for 10% of equity.

It seems pretty good on paper, but I couldn't find any reviews about it online.

Is anyone already in the program? How are you finding it so far?
I stay away from angular (I don't do react either, prefer vue as long as I have a choice) mainly because of major time I invested in angular 1 and then they completely ditched it and kept the same name.
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Asking them about their actual experience is a fantastic question. Sounds like you got a good picture of their prior experience doing so.

Asking them to self rate themselves is useless however, as their answer showed.
Have a look at nuitka for compiling your script to a binary.
I like how the conservative BBC, writing from a country whose murder rate is double that of the Netherlands, is trying to hype up violence Amsterdam because they don't like drugs. What a bunch of shit.
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