skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The facts of this article seem to be in dispute:

Flexibits (Fantastical’s developer) went out of its way to let anyone who owned Fantastical 2 keep the features they already had access to when upgrading to Fantastical 3. If you owned Fantastical 2 you can use Fantastical 3 free of charge and keep the features you already had.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/04/fantastical-3-a...

IANAL, but I’m curious whether Flexbits might have a case against Product Hunt over this.
Not all explanations are causal. The explanation literature in the philosophy of science goes pretty far back, but here are some of the highlights:

The Deductive Nomological Model (Hempel and Oppenheim, 1948) tries to explain a phenomenon using a deductive argument where the premises include particular facts and a general lawlike statement (like a law of nature) and the conclusion is the thing to be explained.[1]

The Statistical Relevance Model (Wesley Salmon) attempts to fix some shortcomings in the DN model that allowed explanations using particular facts and general laws that were not at all relevant to the phenomenon being explained. The idea is that you can explain why X hasn't become pregnant by saying that X has taken birth control, and people who take birth control do not become pregnant, and that would fit the DN model, but this explanation is not statistically relevant if X is male.[2]

Unificationist accounts (Philip Kitcher) seek to unify scientific explanations under a common umbrella as was done with, e.g. electromagnetism. If it is possible to have a unified theory of something, each element becomes more explainable based on its position within that unified theory [3]

pragmatic and psychological accounts tend to fit more closely with the kinds of rationalizations that we've seen as some explanations of AI. They can be fictional, but they don't have to be [4]

IMO we don't currently have an adequate account of explanation within the philosophy of science that works for deep neural networks. This is what my dissertation research focuses on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive-nomological_model

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation/#S...

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation/#U...

[4] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation/#P...
In Czechia, there is similar approach to paid parental leave, but it is up to 36 months.

I think that this is much better to left it to parents to decide how to split that based on their personal preferences, than to force equal split in all cases.
I spent a summer there. Even playing solo free for all it was so much fun being the top scorer in a zone, having that little trophy next to your ship, and having people hunt you or get blasted. The ships vary, but there's a fast fighter that can one shot kill most things if you are a very good shot, and zoom by other ships on after burners with a little spin, dodging the return fire. That ship can also put a bullet through the openings in walls and bases and sometimes take out a defender. Even spending an entire summer at it, I wasn't the best shot by a long shot.

That's just my experience as well. There are many other types of ships like bombers with big explosive, slow shots with blast effect, and other ships that can have other players attach to them as turrets. If your team in the arena can escort a bomber safely to a base with some fighters, you can often nuke the enemy right through the walls and capture the flag there. Meanwhile if you are just piloting a fighter it's a big win to take out one of the turret ships. Then there's other ships like ones that can cloak and fire sneak attacks, etc..
Remembering conclusions from studies done in the past, the fathers in Finland that takes up on the offer and use similar amount of parental leave are going to suffer more in terms of decreased wages and loss of career progress compare to mothers.

People who do not conform to gender expected behavior usually get punished by society, even if politically the same society want the opposite to happen. Giving people the choice to break conformity is still a positive move, and in the long term culture might change enough that taking parental leave (and sick days) won't have a negative effect on both career and wages.
Not as funny as a bag of homo.
> In fact, if CoreOS Container Linux disappeared tomorrow, it would have very little impact on the Flatcar Container Linux project.

Well we will learn how true this is very shortly.
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate this ;)

All of your counter points have merit, I think it boils down to preference at this point, but what I can tell you that after doing Elm for a while getting back to the JavaScript ecosystem is a nightmare and Mint is my way out of that (for SPAs).

> I don't think that's necessarily true. They would have to learn all the same concepts which exist within Mint. (And if not all the same concepts exist within Mint, then it's not up to par.) What's different is the syntax, and the semantics of how these concepts glue together within Mint. This generally means it's actually harder to learn a new all-on-one language than it is to learn React + TypeScript + styled-components for someone who already knows JS.

I'm not entirely convinced that that is the case, TypeScript can be it's own language in itself. Not really a problem now but a few years back people struggled to even learn new versions of JavaScript in itself, let alone a the libraries with their different paradigms.

Also to get where Mint is you would probably need to learn: TypeScript, React, styled-components, Jest, prettier, Webpack, Redux (or one of the alternatives), Babel and that's just from the top of my head.

> Then how are the dependencies getting updated when there's a new version? If I use a currency library in my Mint app, how can I update it, and test it locally to make sure the updated library still works with my app? At some point we have to deal with dependencies and updating them...?

There will be dependencies sure and you will take care of them as usual, what I am saying is that with Mint you will only need a few.

The application I've been developing (https://www.base-api.io/) and the front-end is in Mint and it has 0 dependencies (other than the standard library which is built in).
Thanks. I skimmed over the docs but didn't find that mentioned anywhere.

Why not use something faster and smaller than React though like Preact or Inferno?
This is very condescending. I’m gonna assume the partner nursed the other times she was with the child, like at night. While we can be overly pedantic about the fact that during the day, the baby was bottle fed with breast milk, people have enough stress around breastfeeding as it is; am i doing it right? Does it still count if I pump during the day? Etc etc.
UK to bring home remaining Brits from Wuhan as death toll rises
>You are always able to get into Janson or the other big one.

Not always. The one time I tried on the morning of the first day it was full.
haha what false positives? :P
That's actually really good to know. I used to own a wacom (pronunciation war: It's Whack-om haha) about 10 years ago for drawing - I don't think I would buy one now until they walk this one back (and push it off the cliff to die).
Yann was not making a statement about deep nets' ability (or lack thereof) to fly a plane in a way that matches expert design.

He's making the point that the ML field's obsession with causal inference (and causal discovery) is overrated, precisely because our gold standards of interpretable, safety-critical systems (airplane flight) are based on Navier Stokes/CFD. Planes were made to fly based on empirical validation of these models, long before we gained a more detailed understanding of how causality (the equations and models themselves are time reversible, implying that they contain imperfect knowledge of causality)
No, THIS comment was flamebait:

Another Indian-born tech CEO? It's incredible. IBM joins Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nokia, and Harman in this regard. Also, MasterCard and PepsiCo (until 2018). I wonder how much it's a cultural thing.

That's basically racist.

It's clear that this entire thread was commented on due to the race of the CEO.

In that context, my comment is richly deserved on this thread.

If you don't like it, ban me. Yes I read n-gate.com, I know what the prevailing ethos and fake virtue signalling of this site's readership is.

I'm sure the unsubstantive flamebait posts you mostly refer to are my economic ones, again which contradict the Ayn Rand "entrepeneurs are god and can do no wrong" of this site.

Just don't be a coward and shadowban me.
The erosion of wages has many causes, not just women having more equal opportunity in the workforce. I’d argue wages have been much more affected by the accumulation of wealth into the top of the food chain.

And that aside, what’s the alternative? Relegate women to work only as teachers and secretaries because some of them want to be stay at home moms?
> The problem in contemporary culture is that we are not even allowed to have this conversation

So what type of conversation are you having right now? We have word in swedish for using that type of "arguing", it is "offerkofta". I dont think it is a good word for it in english, but starting a discussion in an open forum saying something and then stating you are not "ALLOWED" to discuss what you are discussing is just a way of victimizing oneself and make it more or less impossible for other people to argue against. If I argue against you can always call me politically correct or stating that I just dont see behind the propaganda. "Offerkofta" by the way is literally "putting on the victim cardigan".
> Is Google Analytics evil too? What about Twitter feeds?

Yes. Both bad.
Ask HN: Microservices and K8s Not in the Cloud?
Hi HN,

Our products are running in Kubernetes, but we have to target institutions that are very conservative and for various complance reasons tun their own small datacenters and don't have k8s knowledge or private clouds.

Is anyone else in this boat? Do you deploy k8s for your clients to run your software or do you use some turn-key variant of it?
Web Hacking with Burp Suite - Penetration Testing Web Sites
Sounds like a great business opportunity especially if we can lobby politicians to require "surveillance-free" services be used.
Love this project. Super pragmatic (use an existing solver) and small scope (no template functions).
The universities are trying to make it the faculty's job to enforce political will.
It takes decades and hundreds of millions of dollars in order to build a statistical argument that explains likely effects, side-effects and risks of prescribing that drug to the population at large.

It takes that long and costs that much because there is no safe way to do this with human physiology other than to carefully, slowly and expensively try it and measure the consequences.

We can take any AI system and model its behaviour with statistical certainty much more cheaply and quickly, and be more confident in its future behaviour.

Remember, AI and ML are fancy words for some form of a regression to a mean more often than not. If we run hundreds of millions of tests of such a system in simulation for a very wide range of contexts/inputs (which is cheap to do), we can have a much higher degree of confidence in a short space of time around behaviour of that system than we will for any drug test, even if we still don't fully understand the causality.
`entrypoint` directory is critical feature
Is this not how targeted ads are expected to work?
I won't disagree with you when you say they are horrible but there is also a difference between lets say the user interface of something you rarely use and something that is your job. I've never worked in SAP myself but I've seen others do things very quickly in that ugly user interface just because they have learned how to jump around quickly and what fields to fill in.

It might still be bad but for them it works pretty well after they have learned it. As a counter they think my writing commands in a shell as an incredibly bad interface while I think it is very efficient because I've learned it.
Her 401(k) should definitely be liable, in that her investment in a company that arguably shouldn't be allowed to exist is lost.

She should not be personally liable as she had no direct part in the decision to make opioids that kill people.
Yes, I also used Occam-2 in the nineties, and no, the referenced Wikipedia article is not new.
This is so true it's painful.

I feel bad for these people. I really do. The writing has been on the wall for decades that coal is a bad horse to back, and poverty is keeping their options limited.

This is another example of why we need a better social safety net. Let's retrain those people with skills that will better suit them and their families. There is no reason that they should suffer with this dead-end life/career/poverty.
Senior DevOps; Boston, MA
In that fictitious scenario, would they have checked with Adobe if they wouldn't mind their users spied up on. What if this information is indirectly used for trading on ADBE stock? Would that be considered OK ?
I’m getting the warning for the BBC on this video: https://youtu.be/dRggIb5Je_w

And I just checked, the CBC gives a similar warning as well.
not even the person I was responding to treated that as a personal attack.

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edit:

ugh, you two are sad. THAT was a personal attack. Asking someone to stop gaslighting is as personal an attack as asking someone to use a preferred pronoun.

Imagine not spinning up a tangent on whether or not asking for someone to stop gaslighting is a personal attack or not.
Developer suing Apple for stealing idea calls on others to join the fight
I don't think the fact that it hasn't happened yet is a good enough argument.

>The incentives are aligned for both the company to refuse and the campaign to never ask because both would black ball them forever from politics...

Oh no... it shouldn't be voluntary, it should be required. If a company is providing services to a campaign, that same company should not have any role on the election side.
The "Wacom Desktop Center" app mostly just sits there looking for updates and bugging you to enable tracking anyway; the Mac version has a menu setting that theoretically stops it from ever running, and thus bugging you to sign up to share your analytics. I just turned it off (since I just noticed it for the first time) but don't feel like rebooting to check if it actually works. (Though I did just run the little script I keep around to restart the driver, which normally brings up the WDC, and it did not show up this time. Huzzah!)

No idea about Windows, I never use that.
So, in a twist of irony, now you now effectively have to sign that you are a member of the Communist Party.
Mothers breastfeed when they can and can pump milk for the times when they can't. Baby still gets the nutritional benefits of breast milk and bonding time with each parent.

Your argument is the same as saying I didn't eat a nourishing home-cooked meal because I heated up last night's leftovers for lunch today. It's still way better than fast food.
That doesn't really create the desired level of deterrence though. It's often the case that very large corporations don't have major shareholders, they're majority-owned by widely-held funds, i.e. teachers' retirement accounts.

The underlying problem is essentially inherent to diversified investment strategies -- nobody owns enough of anything to actually care about that corporation in particular, so then shareholders can't act as a check on corporate behavior because none of them are paying attention.
The FBI still hasn't raided Epstein's New Mexico ranch. Probably a lot of potentially fruitful leads are not being pursued.
> We need a corporate death penalty: when a corporation has been convicted of murder out other acts, the corporation should be dissolved, the assets sold off, and the proceeds distributed to the victims families.

That's what is supposed to happen through the legal process, but isn't currently as you pointed out.

We don't need new processes, we just need to use the ones we have as they should be.
me too, but only after solving 20 captchas - classic clownflare :)
The alternative is to not show ads.

Yes, Google Analytics has many of the same problems. The alternative to that is to analyze the server logs or to simply not track your users' behaviour in detail.
I agree, but it's so very interesting that when a similar sort of loyalty oath was used even when I was in grad school 25 years ago to enforce loyalty to the state government at Penn State University (as a condition for receiving my poverty-level grad student stipend), it was A-OK with the same sort of people complaining about this right now when it's focused on a more progressive ideology.

But I agree it's absolutely absurd no matter who's pushing these. And all it amounts to is ideological theatre on both sides of the fence. And I don't think that theatre is going to close during my lifetime.
I know I'm good at something when:

The intro tutorials are boring and no longer cover anything new.

It gets harder to find more advanced tutorials and challenges.

I can quickly compose questions to find the fixes for the problems I have.

I run into intermediate tutorials and quickly notice things they're doing wrong.
You probably wouldn't want to invest into something unknown if you then were liable for damages caused by it. Which is, I think, the point of the article.
Are there any merits to removing 25% of a film, other than higher sales?
I don't really see how it would be better. The corporations that I've heard described as evil most often don't seem to be affected at all, at first thought at least. Some because they're profitable, others were at risk around 2008-2010, but were kept from bankruptcy (with or without shareholder liability) because of systemic risk.

Could you explain what problem this would solve?
Still seems a decent company. Nice that you take the time to properly deal with technical problems instead of just doing the whole 'plough forward even though you're just ploughing air' thing that happens just about everywhere.
Instagram Brings in More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales
Hi! First off, congratulations on developing and launching a product. You've done what 0.01% of developers think about but never accomplish. No criticism can take that away!

As for my points:
1. thanks!

2 & 3: Reactive frameworks on an SPA are all about messaging between components. If I do an update on a dropdown, it is reactively stored in the component dataspace, but without a bus, my only choice for alerting other components is for the main component to watch that variable, keep a list of current components, and then iteratively broadcast: e.g. I must invent a message queue. How does Mint address address this problem?

4. was explained perfectly by a peer comment.
Iowa Caucus chaos likely to set back mobile voting
Wow that takes me back. Some incredibly thrilling gaming moments with large numbers of people that climaxed after sometimes literal hours of back and forth.

I was in one of the better clans at the time and the sheer skill of some of those players was astounding.
I’m really struggling to understand the point of this article (except that it appears to hit one of the wsj’s hot buttons). He objects to his employer’s position on something based on free speech issues; he speaks out about it and some people agree with him and some don’t; and his employer supports his efforts to speak out against their own policy. Sounds like that’s how the system is supposed to work.

The fact is his employer is a corporation and it doesn’t want to reject swaths of prospective customers or employees. That all sounds pretty sensible to me. It also seems quite different from the anti-communist loyalty oaths of the 50s which he cites as precedent. In fact it’s rather the opposite, though he doesn’t object in those grounds (which I think would be a legitimate tack to take, despite my sympathy for these diversity programs)
> Limited liability is almost always irrelevant to megacorps, because they're large enough that any given liability doesn't actually bankrupt them.

And that's what needs to change, not the concept of limited liability itself.
> I think that no discussion/policy about parental leave is complete without some kind of incentive for people to have kids

The simplest way to incentive more kids is to make housing cheap. The biggest downside to most people considering children is the cost of family formation. And by far the biggest component of that is the cost of housing.

Western governments are doing quite the opposite of promoting kids. They're actively pursuing policies that constrict the supply of housing. These favor older post-childrearing homeowners at the expense of young potential families. Abolish zoning and land-use restrictions in metros like San Francisco and New York, and watch fertility rates boom as property prices collapse.
If you're anything like me, your exposure to the marketing has come almost exclusively through live-reads on Podcasts. I can see wanting to avoid price talk for this format of ads because the listener may be listening months or years after the episode was recorded and may be frustrated if they hear one price mentioned on the podcast, but another when the go to the site.
There are other alternatives such as Workday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workday,_Inc.

Never used it but it does not have to be SAP/Oracle at that size. Could still be the best solution though, I'm no expert.
The lobbyist then gets to choose an expert which represents the lobbyists worldview. This is what he is getting paid to do.
I don't really watch that much youtube but now that my son watches some cartoons on it I've subscribed to premium so he doesn't see any ads. I think it's ok to pay for youtube as it arguably provides a useful service. I also know that I'm in a privileged position to be able to pay for youtube premium, so my comment is not about whether ads are inherently bad or not, just that you can watch youtube without ads if you pay for it.
That's why windmills are so carcinogenic. ;(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_syndrome
Well, there must be also a given number of "middle class" people, that are not top notch programmers, nor "entry level" or "retail".

If we take these as valid data:

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/occupationalem...

And set an arbitrary threshold at 45 US$/hour, the amount of people exceeding that are 31.1%, if we set it at 50 US$/hour they are 19.4%.

If we draw another line, those that get less than 25 US$/hour are 42.1% and those that get more than 25 but less than 45 are 26.6%.

So, even if we assume that 40% of people commutes for long distances (and BTW technically are not SF residents), since only between 20% and 30% of San Francisco workers can actually afford it, it still leaves us with 30%-40% of people that must be in a really tight spot.
>Now, if there ever was a life-critical physical phenomenon, it is lift production by an airliner wing.

I nominate this as the worst analogy of the year.

Airplanes are rigorously tested under the same conditions they will operate in. AI by definition is tested under conditions that are different from the environment it will operate in, because that's the whole point of AI - we want algorithms that adapt themselves to novel information.
Pretty hard core to invent a whole local government for test purposes..
The key issue with paid leave is...paid by whom?

If its not paid by the parents, who is paying for it? It often is a mix of co-workers, consumers, and taxpayers.

What society is and can be changed is one thing, what you do by making that society ilegal is another one.
US per capita production is 1/10th that of Norway. I would gladly take 1/10th the paid leave given in the article (164 days), which GP failed to notice was for oil-less Finland anyway.