skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To answer Adorno's quote: that's fine, do literature then. Do not present it as philosophy. Some people explain machine learning using haikus, that's a fine exercise, but not a good engineering practice.

The Capital does not need to be deciphered. I read it, it is not the easiest or the clearest text ever but it is understandable. It talks clearly about economics and politics. It introduces some concepts that I think were new at the time: class warfare and capital concentration. I failed to discern such essential concepts in Debord's book, whereas many of his fans seem to believe that he introduces new dynamics that are as important as class warfare with his book.

> The endless quest for definitions laid out clear as day is fruitless, and not a mark of good philosophy.

Indeed, academic philosophy wants obscurity as it is a good tool to hide the indigence of its thought. All the other fields of applicable knowledge understand the need to define words clearly. Why would philosophy be an exception?

It has become a field of literature: it prefers style over substance.

Yes, Marx is a bit hard to follow because he does not lay down well his definitions. I do consider it a fault, but a 19th century text gets a pass if it expresses interesting ideas. Marx also mixes economic and political ideas, often mixes factual and moral statements. I wish philosophers who built upon his ideas elaborated the substances while correcting the style.

After all, no one learns newtonian physics by reading Newton's books anymore. We have better notations and clearer styles now. The ideas are what matters and Newton is still rightly revered because of them. Why is philosophy so enamored with reading the old text instead of extracting the good ideas in it and putting it in a better, more formal framework?

> after all, philosophers study Debord, not Lady Gaga's meat dress

It is a shame, I suspect the latter offers more interesting philosophical and cultural statements than the first one.

> A great many works have been inspired and built on top of Debord's larger project, and Society of the Spectacle in particular.

Would you have just a single example that is relevant outside the field of academic philosophy?
But only $25 million
>gun rights derive from the Constitution

Many people conveniently leave out the "well regulated militia" part of the second amendment.
The point they were making was using this cablewifi, tv will be able to send data back without requiring your WiFi password.
On the other hand, shouldn’t the Center for Disease Control spend its time and focus on things that could reasonably be argued fall under the heading of “disease control”? By all means, gun violence research should be conducted by, say, the Department of Justice.

Like many policies in the US at this stage, the goal appears not to be good governance but simply “pwning the other side”.
I don't know man, I didn't do it.
I'd like some of these raxor thin margins! They are up in every category with the exception of a small drop in utilization for both the 3rd quarter and YoY, with essentially no more employees and better fuel efficiency:

"Our 2019 third quarter financial results reflect net earnings of $119.4 million and diluted earnings per share of $1.02, representing our second most profitable third quarter and our overall third best quarterly performance in our 23-year history."

Also according to their own report their fleet numbers 180 airplanes.

FInally:

"We continue to adjust our flight schedule through the end of 2019 as a result of the ongoing closure of Canadian airspace forthe Boeing MAX series aircraft impacting our fleet. Our contingency planning and proactive schedule adjustments enable us to reduce last minute flight cancellations and unexpected travel disruptions, however, certain routes have been temporarily suspended as a result of aircraft inventory shortages."

Wanna bet they suspended certain routes that were not very profitable like interior, non-hub routes?

https://www.westjet.com/assets/wj-web/documents/en/investorM...
I'd recommend an alteration that that would serve a few benefits. You should have the person getting the haircut sit on something like a massage chair where they can put their face into that circular hole.

This would (a) keep their face in a designated predefined place and position and serve as a reference point for the haircut, (b) allow you to embed a sensor into the face rest so you know when they pick their face up and can pause the robot, and (c) you can provide a monitor to display shows they can watch during the haircut, or ads (not that I necessarily approve of this).
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I'm having trouble seeing what any of that has to do with determinism.
> Vagrants are aren't "the most vulnerable people in society'. They're criminals.

That's a pretty loaded statement presented without evidence.
>> Bombardier leads a Canadian aerospace resurgence.

Do we have enough tax dollars to finance such an event
I'm confused as to what you're arguing here.

I'm not advocating that individuals be held responsible for credit card fraud. I think the current setup is probably the best - the folks with the most ability to smooth out the losses (the banks) have most of the liability.

I'm simply objecting to the "The general populace has no reason to care" statement up-thread. That we're not directly liable for the fraud doesn't mean we're not getting screwed financially by it.
Banning research funding is a decidedly more political act. One that people don’t have the opportunity to cut through.

Also as an aside your point about existing data not correlating with homicide rates is particularly non compelling because it doesn’t normalize for firearm kind (handguns are more likely to be used in homicides than other forms of firearm) nor victim type (firearm ownership is massively correlated with domestic murders) statistical collection bias (the Las Vegas mass shooting was not included in national homicide statistics) or the massive scale difference of the US vs the rest of the world (we have a lot more murders of all type).

But here is the thing bad data is _easier_ to manipulate. Every good actor should be cheering expanded research into this issue because it gives all of us a better framework to reason from.
A nitpick: Xi is his last name, but Chinese names are generally transliterated in the Chinese order of LAST FIRST ("Xi Jinping"). If you do a verbatim Google search for "Jinping Xi" you'll get around 500 results.

If a Chinese person adopts an English name, they'll put it first, however. Eg "Jake Ma".
My impression based on car loans that I have had is that they usually have an interest rate significantly below a random bank. That's presumably not magic; it's just that they are subsidizing the loans in lieu of a discount. So if you pay cash, you should realize there is a hidden cost to factor in.
"Nobody does anything until it’s too late. We put the stoplight at the intersection after the kid is killed." (Michael Crichton, Prey)

The issues associated with an acidified ocean are well known. The issues associated with an excess of carbon in the atmosphere are well known. The cost of coping with most of these issues has been compared to the cost of working to prevent or reduce their effect with respect to lives, quality of life, and dollars.

I don't claim to be a climatologist, an economist, or a policy expert, but I can read a wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_of_recent_climate_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming_on_h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
Sleep fragmentation and cognitive impairment in adult Alzheimer’s
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Lol, you mean basically Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria? #gunviolence
You keep stating things that aren't true.

Salaried employees negotiate and get benefits and isn't tied to "hours worked".

There are lots of jobs now listing flexible hours as a benefit.
The breaking point is already there now that companies like Apple have a leasing plan to obscure the total cost from consumers.
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/mendel/mendel3....
>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national public health institute of the United States. The CDC is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and internationally.

Gun violence is definitely a public health issue.
For backwards compatibility reasons, the capitalization rules can't be changed for existing characters. So normalizing by naive case-folding now requires at least three steps:

"ẞ".to_lower() → "ß"
"ß".to_upper() → "SS"
"SS".to_lower() → "ss"

(there's a standard for how to compare strings case-insensitively that doesn't involve repeated case-folding, but it's much more complex)
This article really makes me want to learn lisp. Is there a risk that lisp’s extensibility creates lots of very specific dialects of lisp that can be difficult to share / understand?
Here's something you need to know. There is a widely-held belief that psychotherapy is either helpful or useless. Actually, studies have shown it can also be quite harmful. In particular, some therapists help most of the patients, some therapists have little effect on most of them, and some are outright harmful most. I have spent time observing group therapists, and that fits what I saw. I have also asked experienced therapists to think about the various therapists in their community and how good or bad they are, and they came to a similar conclusion.

Also I used to teach listening skills, which everyone agrees are basic to being a good therapist. I did several workshops with therapists at mental health clinics, and it was quite shocking how many of them were awful listeners.

That means if you find yourself with a destructive therapist, you need to leave as fast as possible. And how do you tell? I would say the best sign is if you feel comfortable talking to the therapist and feel like they value you as a person, or feel yourself tighten up around them.
Yea pretty much. This video starts off with a nice demo of the concept.

https://youtu.be/sFrVdoOhu1Q
Quote from this website [1]

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“Gun violence is America’s most preventable disease. I say that because it’s almost entirely preventable and the numbers of people affected are so high.”

Judy Schaechter, MD, MBA
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

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[1] https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/disease-gun-violence
Cranks to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, super determined with you...

Even the comments on the blog post seem exceedingly cranky. I can imagine it's very hard to work in such an area, with such a noisy peanut gallery.
Maybe you don't understand what a prefatory clause is?
But it's a good talking point.
They also are experts in the study of epidemics broadly which many people have noted mass shootings look like.

Similarly gun violence encompasses suicide and domestic abuse which clearly fall into the expertise of the NiH
I don't know what a good yardstick would be, but CPI is definitely not it.

US CPI weights the entire Medical Products & Services category at 8.68% vs its actual weighting of 18.1% as a fraction of GDP.

The average price of a new vehicle hasn't materially changed in 22 years in the CPI due to hedonic adjustments, whereas the actual sticker price is 55% higher.
Meaning what? The SCOTUS has ruled several times that the individual right to bear arms is separate from the "militia" statement and both are covered in the 2A.
I can attest that the FBI has in fact been tracking these guys for more than a decade, and some of them were indicted previously. What I can't understand is why it took so long for this latest, more broad action, and why there is such a huge time gap between the victims referenced in the indictments. There are victims listed from 2010 and 2011 and then some this year (2019), but hardly any in between.

That said, the FBI is not in the pre-crime business (with few exceptions), so they're not really set up to warn businesses like I did for so many years.
Indeed, I thought the original title was baity. Thank you.
Meditations for the Masses: Review of “How to Think Like a Roman Emperor” in WSJ
That’s actually a huge number given the clout and lack of nuance of the gun lobby.
Another way I've seen statistics misused when advocating for gun control is bringing up the high number of "mass shootings" any time an event makes the news. The majority of "mass shootings" are gang violence, but gun control advocates will bring it up when there is a school/mall/etc. shooting to play on people's fears and make them believe that almost every day there is someone killing a bunch of kids in a school. I'm not trying to imply that gang shootings are acceptable, but it's misleading to lump them in with school shootings to push the "think about the children" angle.
Ask HN: How do you keep your notes organized?
I am a serial note taker that is continually logging thoughts, ideas, links, todos and stuff. No matter what tool I use things eventually spiral out of control and become unusable, and deletion ensues. Is there a trick to keeping things more organized and useful long-term?
The DMCA is the issue, not Content ID. There’s no presumption of innocence if accused of a copyright infringement and it costs nothing to make an accusation. On the other hand, a service provider has to accept the accusation or they can leave the content untouched but then open themselves up to secondary liability. All the while the accused has to certify under penalty of perjury that their content is not infringing (there’s no equivalent for the accuser).

Content ID is a bandaid on the tumor of IP law. Yell at your government not Google for this.
The US military didn't have to buy those hat-in-hand.
you mean downloadable web wrappers?
Please don't pollute the HN UI with garbage
Put it this way - on the other hand, there are many sensitive questions that can be inflected by an underlying need to gain approval, avoid disapproval, or their own compliance to appear "good" to the interviewer at the moment.

If it's a political topic, where someone can get lost in the herd so to speak, they can be partisan/intellectualize as a way to mask themselves as an individual. It's cheap and easy. Are we learning about them, or seeing their environment has them scared straight?

I guess with the parental question, there's a motivation to not be candid on that either though. What if the person feels they'd be selfish complaining about their parents or be ridiculed for expressing themselves? If it's a sensitive question, that involves vulnerability of not having feelings validated. If you're hurt by something, and someone scorns you for simply for stating discomfort, that's a pretty difficult situation!

Hm - what would be a valuable question to gather insight on someone, that's open ended, but not invasive? Would there be a way to phrase it so there wouldn't be pressure to give a "good" answer / portray an ideal self-image?
Right, you can also do it that way. I should have said "all these things can happen in a single process in an interleaved manner".
They added MCAS because the larger engines increase the propensity of the aircraft to pitch up at high angles of attack. This is against FAA rules and renders the aircraft uncertifiable. Their solution was to add MCAS which is designed to change the aircraft's stall characteristics "in software" so that it can be certified without major design changes.

If they want to remove MCAS then they need to enlarge the undercarriage to give the aircraft more ground clearance, so that the engines can be placed further back. Such a major change to the aircraft's design would mean the 737 MAX could not share a type rating with the other 737s or at least would require significant differences training (not an iPad lesson)
Pardon my ignorance here but are they not overthinking this a bit? For political or other high profile accounts,when inaccurate facts are stated:

- List the facts at dispute and let them know you were nkt able to independently verify the claims and require a response including at least two independent sources backing their statement.

- Of course they'll reply with bogus (independent ) sources but the point is this allows a warning like "<platform name> found incorrect statements made on thid AD. The advertiser had responded stating their reasons and sources backing their claims. Click <here> to view the contested facts, why we found them inaccurate and the advertisers response."

It's not a generic warning saying the ad is a lie. The advertisers can only complain so much about impartiality since at the end of the day not only was their ad allowed but the users are left deciding who is correct, the platform or the advertiser? If they are a legitimate opposing political party they can also use their special account to contest facts made by their opposition and a similar warning can be shown on the opposition's ad stating how an opposing party contested specific statements and what the platform's fact finders think and why. And of course charge them extra for having special accounts.
Well, Julia's technical computing community - arguably the subset that matters here - was much larger than Swift's. The more significant justification IMO, is

> and because we were more familiar with its internal implementation details - which allowed us to implement a prototype much faster.

In any case, both Julia and Swift seem to be making good progress here and I wish them both the best.
Nim does this as well. Almost any block statement (including creating a new scope with `block`) can be put on the right hand side of an assignment. Whatever value is returned from the block is the result of the expression. All lisp inspired, of course, but with a Pythonic syntax.
>Not to mention every law should first be measured on whether it is at all practical to meaningfully enforce. I guarantee there has been 100x more companies who've paid the ransom and didn't release a press release like this one did.

Let's say you're the in C-suite of a hospital that's held for $1M ransom, and you want to pay. How are you going to send the funds without someone in finance/accounting finding out? Maybe you try to convince them to keep quiet? Such a transaction will almost surely generate a suspicious activity report from the bank. Are you going to try structuring the transaction? How are you going to hide that $1M defect in your quarterly/annual reports? Are you just going to hope it doesn't get noticed by the IRS or the accountants auditing your report? The whole thing is going to unravel because of how many people you need to be "in" on the criminal conspiracy, and the amount of noise it generates. If you're caught, the amount of papertrail you left behind (from literally every step of paying the ransom) would make it very easy to prosecute.

You could try laundering your activities to a third party firm that does "ransomware recovery" (ie. they take your money and pay the ransom for you), but I'd imagine that if paying ransoms were illegal, the activities of those companies would be closely scrutinized.
> they're going to end up seeing a lot less revenue off that model then they had planned

Per unit. Lifetime revenues could likely be higher given the heft of Airbus’ marketing machine.

Agree, however, that it compounds Boeing’s image as a distracted company.
I don't think Lisp is ugly or anything, but part of me wonders if, in languages with syntax, the lack of expressivity is a feature rather than a bug. Partially because wrong things look wrong, if the syntax is intelligently designed. The setx example he gave seemed perfect in that respect, while it's superficially pretty neat, the maintainer in me started to think about what it would be like to debug that, or all the horrible ways it could act slightly different than you'd expect. I kind of like that assignment in the languages I use is really boring for the most part. I dont think that setf example is a footgun per se, but, I would have to look at it more closely than in another language like python.
Just... don't try to validate it like that. Check if you can send an e-mail to it, if you can then it's fine. I see way too many devs thinking they can validate e-mails with regex and then I can't use my own name in my e-mail.
After 5 years on iOS/Android I wanted to build a cross platform desktop app. I came up with an idea (make thermal label printers a joy to use) and started hacking a proof of concept using https://github.com/electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react....

It’s been an incredible learning process, super laborious and an absolute joy to see people buying my app and emailing with questions and ideas.

I’ve had to learn React, modern JS development, semantic UI, redux, native node modules, maintaining a cross platform build system, publishing on app stores, selling direct and building my own license system using react/express/graphql/jwt not to mention auth, and other APIs, deployment to Heroku... the list goes on and on.

Check out my app at https://label.live
From the privacy policy https://www.got-it.com/privacy-policy

"If you tell us where you are (e.g., by allowing your mobile device to send us your location), we may store and use that information to provide you with location-based information and advertising. If you want to deactivate this feature, you can either reinstall the App(s) or deactivate Bluetooth on your mobile device."

Do you plan to advertise to users based on location? Is this an important part of your monetization plan?
This is a horse that has been beaten to death. It’s well established what militia means.

Unorganized militia – composing the Reserve Militia: every able-bodied man of at least 17 and under 45 years of age, not a member of the National Guard or Naval Militia.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_States)
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Mainstream isn't fighting against right to repair, mainstream doesn't know the conversation even exists.
If you give everyone houses, it relieves pressure from the housing system which causes rents to go down. Therefore, every landlord opposes actually solving homelessness. Since we have government by the rich and landed, we get their position encoded in policy.

The degree to which reality diverges from this prescription is the degree to which the politicians fear either a) a declining bushiness environment or b) riots
The u.s. government has a history of departments performing work that would not seem to logically fit with their stated intention or primary focus. I don't think that alone implies a misuse of authority. For example, the secret service is in charge of protecting government officials but is also tasked with investigating forgery.
Yes I have, and yes it would be lower. There's even a conversion formula companies use.

Basically take the extra social security tax they have to pay, and subtract that from salary (adjust a bit since the lower salary also lowers the tax).

If they cover health insurance then subtract that as well.

> This simply isn't true.

It's lovely hearing that something I've actually experienced is not true.

I switched from contractor with flexible hours, to employee full time (with the same company), and my take home was lower as an employee, but then again I got health insurance.

If I had to do it again I would have stayed a contractor: I made more money, and I could shop around for better health insurance.

The company might have said no and/or given me fewer hours, so I guess that's a negotiation I would have done.

Of course in California the choice would be taken away from me.
I'd say more like 50 if even that close.