skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an anecdote about this. I worked at Disney for some time and a coworker was an avid 2nd amendment person. They left their firearm in their car as is legal for any employer with a very short list of exceptions. I think munitions development is one of the exceptions, and Disney qualifies because of their massive fireworks shows. I'm very foggy on these details as it's been many years since. Anyways, he was chatting it up with a security person and it came out in convo that he had his firearm in his car. He was immediately fired and removed from the property. He tried to fight it in court.

Now this individual was remarkably stupid just as a general person, regardless of this event. I don't have any interest in debating the merits of what happened to him one way or the other.

However, it was interesting that the Disney lawyer explicitly informed his lawyer that their strategy would be to just bleed him dry into bankruptcy by getting continuances and stuff forever into the future, which would force him to keep paying his lawyer to show up and do stuff, but would never move the case forward.
An app is not the answer to this. Contact tracing is not necessary as a solution to this. Indeed it is nearly worthless.

People here who make proverbial hammers are liable to want to hit nails, without considering if it is necessary. Especially considering the lockdown and that you can't get tested.
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Is it possible that supply chains are really under stress? I would love for an expert to weigh in if only to put my fears to rest, but it seems likely to me that supply chains can't just pivot from routing goods to loads of nonessential businesses to retail. I don't imagine supply chains are designed for such anomalous times. For example, think about the food that was previously routed to restaurants, but now must be routed and sold to grocers. If the supply chain can't pivot quickly, that food goes to waste and whoever invested in that food is out a lot of money--probably a ruinous amount. If those businesses have to fold, that sucks for them, but how many of those businesses can fold before it becomes a major problem--buyers can't get the goods they need to sell and sellers can't get their goods to buyers. That seems like it could be a compounding problem with major impact?
Memoization is getting me too. I end up memoizing everything, which is more verbose than I'd like. Perhaps we're missing some obvious pattern?
None of the problems listed is inherent in HTML + touch of JS. Especially since most browsers these days will remember what you typed anyway unless specifically instructed otherwise. Complaining about the back button behavior in SPA world seems...misplaced? If anything, its behavior is even worse.
Software development doesn't exist in a vacuum. The author talks about these design principles as if they are supposed to satisfy the software team's personal values, when in reality it needs to be more about the organization's goals and values. Take this statement:

>Usability is more important than profitability.

For a bootstrapped company in danger of running out of money, it's ridiculous to prioritize perfecting UX over making sales. For an open source team, profitability isn't part of the equation at all but user experience might be a top priority. My point is, these aren't just matters of personal taste, the "design principles" have to mesh with the rest of the organization.
Most of the oil traders are neither producers nor consumers (airlines, gas-powered electric utilities, etc). A few of these traders have experience in taking possession. Whoever doesn't have experience in that will just pay premium (that is, negative prices) to rid of their contracts.

June 2020 futures have been trading since 2018. Small oil producers, unlike Saudi and Russia, hedge their oil by selling calls or buying puts or a combination of them.

Where does this end? Just transfer that negative premium to oil producers to NOT send the oil. However, this won't happen, as negative prices tend to happen on the last two days of the front month. Unless we see negative for July futures right now (in April), oil producers just follow their contracts.
Very long onboarding, impedance mismatches everywhere, tons of unneeded glue logic. Lots of consternation. It worked in the sense that it wasn’t a failure like a significant number of software projects. It could have worked significantly better if the people involved didn’t feel they needed to show off.

And my model for A dictator is Linus Thorvald, Guiro van Rossum, Andreas Rumpf; if you can’t appreciate the management model and abilities that a benevolent dictator brings, we will just have to agree to disagree.
This is a good one, "Anatomy of a pirate":

http://textfiles.com/piracy/anatomy.txt
> In a time of a pandemic and global depression, I guess you really should just expect the worst from people

I'm glad that a stranger being snarky to you online is the worst thing you've experienced in the current situation.
The PSP also had IR but was never used, as far as I know.
Employer-provided healthcare is a result of tax policy, so it is tough to blame that on insurance companies.

The average person understands much more about healthcare products than they do about transportation products. Your car is made up of >20k components, and extremely intricately designed. Understanding the factors that go into a reliable car requires a fairly advanced understanding of thermodynamics, metallurgy, fracture mechanics, electronics, software engineering, statistics, and manufacturing. Most healthcare is comparatively primitive.

If you're worried about the quality of procedures (as I am), it's a doctor/hospital issue, not an insurance issue. Doctors have very effectively avoided oversight, and they often cause huge problems for their patients. The leading cause of death in hospitals in medical error.
As a vegetarian I agree, it's easy to be healthy on a majority plant based diet (for most people). The first couple weeks are the hardest as you get over the addiction to meat, but it's really not that big of a deal.

They're right about supply chains falling apart though. If everyone were to switch over to mainly plant based a lot of crop land would likely need to be moved from grain to feed animals to plants to feed humans. Who knows what that would take.
Lennart should not receive death threats.
> As far as I know most locations have rules on what a sign can look like and what it can do. I don't think it would be legal to have a sign with a powerful strobe lamp, one that shoots lasers in people's eyes to attract their attention or one that blasts loud music

Most ad groups have regulations on what ads can and cannot do.

> With online ads they can be purchased either completely anonymously (maybe even with a stolen credit card) or by a shell company somewhere on the other side of the world where you would have no recourse.

Check the thread you're in. It's about an ad network addressing this specific problem.
"Why would they risk people not adopting the app due to privacy concerns"

Because they could require people to use it, the may have to anyhow. Also - most people are not at all concerned that the NHS can track them during a pandemic after all Google and FB track them all day.

If it's opt-in, masses of people will be too lazy, won't care, will forget, will have 'good intentions' but won't use it, will let their battery die, forget their phone.

At least with a 'face mask' policy, it becomes apparently clear that someone is 'not wearing a mask if they are supposed to'.

With contact tracing ... there's no way to flag people.

Without extended contact tracing and 'almost everyone on board' it's simply too dangerous for people to be out and about.

People are going to have to use it to go outside, it's as simple as that.
At least it's not arbitration.
> to reply to its account

No, they don’t say that. They use ambiguous wording which could easily be construed to include any post they can see.
If meat gets more expensive, people buy more vegetables instead. If people buy more vegetables, vegetables get more expensive. Plenty of people in America already go hungry. In a crisis with increased unemployement and decreased food production, more people will go hungry. It's not a famine (in the US), but it's a serious problem. How many studies have suggested that just giving kids breakfast would be the number one thing to improve school performance?
Food production is already an essential business. Tyson's plant got shut down because they weren't adequately protecting their workers (see https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/tyson-waterloo-iowa-plant-...) We're a long way from "100%" chance of starving to death.
Source from where? It's easy to apply your mental model of a supermarket to the supply chain... oh, chicken isn't available? We'll just go get some beef.

That's not how it works at global scale. If chicken isn't available, there isn't necessarily anything else to pick up the slack. There certainly won't be if other supply chains break too because we neglect them all, one-by-one, thinking something else can just pick up the slack.

Food is a necessity. It's arguably the only necessity being truly threatened by our reaction. It means that, if necessary, the "adjustment" that should be made is that people may be pressed into work by government force if necessary to keep it flowing. Anybody who is necessary, not just "plant workers". (Most likely starting with the National Guard and the military, if necessary.)

Food supply chain breakdowns are not an inconvenience. They are an existential threat, and csense is completely correct; it is 100% a greater existential threat than the pandemic, if it gets going. In fact, the pandemic isn't even an existential threat on the same scale; the absolute worst case possibilities anyone ever posited for the coronavirus are still childs play next to civilization-scale food shortage.

Now, I do not personally have a good bead on how big this threat is right now. There's a world of difference between Farmer Bob had to dump a few thousand gallons of milk and saw a chance to turn it into a photo op and/or blame some other problem he had on the coronavirus, and entire months' worth of production going down the drain across the industry. I do not have a good bead on whether this is a drummed-up talking point or a legit crisis. However, it is important that we find out for real, because if there is a real problem here, it can rapidly dwarf the coronavirus itself.
They added a wallet feature that was compatible with an existing crypto coin, there was no offering.
> Vaccines that fail safety do not get manufactured. Vaccines with documented adverse affects do not get manufactured

All good in theory, except you only find rare side effects like autoimmune disorders during postmarket studies.

So again, "no plan survives contact with the enemy"

This is the reason why old drugs are generally safer than new drugs: they have been "tested" on millions of patients.
Maybe this is just a lazy use of language by whoever runs that account, but we are talking about TOS and legal disclaimers so I think the specificity of language matters. Disney said "By sharing your message with us..." They didn't say "By replying to us...". Every public Tweet is technically "shared with Disney" so my interpretation is they think this applies to every use of that hashtag.
But don’t we need people doing the research to solve the problems that need to be solved but in the right way. Take covid contact tracing as an example. If Apple and Google didn’t step in and preempt with their own tech, we may have had a problem with privacy eroding tech being forced through.
Forgive my ignorance, but is it possible to create two competing apps? I know this is not at all ideal (kind of defeats the purpose), but I believe people could be steered to the better choice over a little bit of time.

Is the NHSX planning to try and force Google / Apple to change their plan and build the app the way that they want or are they proposing that they will develop a different app?
“National” brand is Panasonic. At least this is true for rice cookers.
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Important point many are missing: Folktales were not originally for children. They were told among adults after children had gone to sleep. But when folklorists (like the Grimm brothers) started collecting and publishing folk tales, it became a trend to publish sanitized edition for children.

Read something like the Arabian Nights tales in an uncensored version - these were clearly not intended for children anymore than 50 Shades of Grey are for children. The children's editions are heavily sanitized.

I suspect their change into children literature was because of cultural changes - educated 19th century adults couldn't take folktales serious anymore (except as anthropological studies) and found them childish. The same way that 19th century popular literature like Dumas and Verne became children's books in the 20th century.

Walt Disney is often criticized in this context, but both Snow White and Cinderella are actually pretty faithful to the source material. Cinderella is just based on the Charles Perrault version of the story, not the Grimm version which contain a lot more maiming.
I also noticed that the lectures are on YouTube[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...
> Three percent chance coronavirus will kill us. One hundred percent chance not having any food will kill us.

This is beyond hyperbolic. Coronavirus is actually happening. Not having any food isn't, and we're not anywhere close to that point yet, either. If anything, the big food problem right now is that it's piling up in warehouses because we can no longer rely so much on restaurants to buy it up and then throw half of it into the trash anymore.

It sucks for Tyson that they can't make their products without bringing humans into too close a contact with each other. But I'm pretty sure that the lines that processes beans and rice doesn't need quite so much direct human involvement, so, as long as the virus doesn't learn how to infect inanimate objects, I'm pretty sure we'll be able to keep eating.
"Ring around the rosy" is about the plague.

"12 days of Christmas" and other tales and sings have hidden Christian symbolism due to persecution.
If I keep my phone in a RF blocking bag and remove it only when needed I will have some semblance of privacy. I don't care about push notifications.
Good luck trying to a attack an HTML only browser under a Z80 machine, for example.
Tyson chicken is garbage anyway. My meat suppliers have expressed that things are tough right now, but far from "breaking". I wouldn't be too upset if Tyson foods died.
If Disney explicitly told this guy's lawyer that was their plan, his lawyer would be game to let them drag it out because he'll get all his attorney's fees back at the end on Disney's dime. You have to legitimately believe you can succeed in court, you cannot just file stuff to slow the process.

Now maybe they just implied that or something, but I very much doubt the story happened exactly as described.
> In the long term, change wins

Yes, but how long is long term?

jQuery hasn't radically changed its methodology in almost 15 years.
We ship compliant by default. Customers have the ability to make themselves non-compliant.
We went to look at a rescue Chihuahua which I was not enthused by (they are difficult to read, which I think leads to their reputation of being erratic, moody).

This dog was a wreck. Profoundly terrified of men. Most chihuahuas bark when they're afraid, this one just sat, quaking, watching me the whole time.

I self-identify as an animal magnet so this became a matter of principle to me. It was obvious fifteen minutes in that this dog wasn't coming home with us, but the rescue person was invested in getting this dog exposed to more people so we just chatted while I sat on the floor cross legged, keeping my voice level, all of my gestures slow and exaggerated, and not making eye contact with the dog.

It took 90 minutes for that dog to interact with me, and he just came over and plopped down next to me, leaning against my thigh. After that, we were cool. I only hope that meant the next people didn't take an hour and a half to get that far.
I didn't take that as an emotional appeal. If it was that, I would think they'd use a more charged expression ("die needlessly") instead of an industry euphemism ("depopulated").
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Yeah, well anyone reading this message legally agrees to send me $20 in the mail.
> It was a fun little giveaway experiment funded by someone else, in the spirit of the company's focus on cryptography.

It was not "someone else". Keybase is directly funded by Stellar (source: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar) and the crypto offering was just a PR/marketing move to increase adoption for crypto of Stellar not something "in the spirit of the company's focus on cryptography".
Supply chains are in real trouble, especially in the medium-term. Inventories higher up the chain are in trouble, with production of critical supplies coming to a stop due to lack of demand by manufacturers who are either facing lack of production capacity or demand. Capital equipment purchases and upgrades seem to have stopped; this is not sustainable, and will lead to problems.

I am not talking about groceries here; huge numbers of industries are intertwined. plastics, electronics, transportation, steel manufacturing, etc.
can we get one written in Ada too?
> It really doesn't take that much corporate self awareness

I think you underestimate how well anyone in management actually understands this. One job had me constantly pushing back on three or more paragraphs of legal text in the damndest of places. In one case, the legal text was larger than the form itself to say "we need your email to contact you with changes related to your account".

Every time I contacted our company lawyer directly for clarification, he was always fine with the short summaries I wrote.

I was the only person in the entire process that stopped to ask if any of this was really necessary. I guess that's why I was the developer handling all most of our legal compliance. Everyone else either didn't care or had given up.
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I don't really mind Systemd as a replacement for init, it's just that other unrelated systems are now requiring it explicitly that probably shouldn't (e.g. Gnome) and also Systemd is creating more and more sub projects that replace even more standard Unix functionality. Let's see:

1. Systemd-network is a whole replacement for Network Manager, which itself was bloated compared to old ifcfg files and other simple tools that manage just single aspects of the network (dhcp, wifi, etc.)

2. Systemd-resolved - replaces everything that deals with DNS. This really bothered me when it was discovered that it was ignoring certain standard configurations such that users using VPNs / encrypted DNS were leaking DNS lookups. That could get someone tossed in prison or worse in countries like Iran or China.

* Systemd-logind - replaces various tools used for logging in to both X and the console. Seems like it's a mixed bag, though I know there was a lot of complaints because it broke standard behavior with tools like nohup.

* Systemd-boot - replaces Grub and other similar tools. I hate Grub, so this doesn't really bother me.

* Systemd-locale, hostname, timedate - these replace traditional tools dealing with the obvious features their names describe. This isn't a big deal to me as it's just replacing one simple tool with another, though I'm sure the dependencies will end up requiring a lot more unrelated systemd libs, which the original tools were completely stand -alone.

Seems like more and more are coming out every year - encrypting and exporting home directories, partition managers, Cron, etc.

Even if the replacements libs are better than the originals, it seems the developers purposefully make sure that the more of these projects your distro depends on, the more you're locked into all the other Systemd projects.

This will be the end of BSDs and any other Linux distros that don't want to use any Systemd, or even a few of the smaller tools, because everything will eventually require the DBus and Systemd / Journald main libs.

I'm not a Linux expert at this level, but it certainly reminds me of a few notorious Java libraries - you import a single library to use just a few methods, and all of the sudden your app has grown by 100MB of other dependencies that have no relation to your requirements, and it breaks everything because it adds all sorts of Servlet libraries that override and break things everywhere else. Usually the only way to keep things clean is to NOT use these libs or pull out just the source for the things you want.

Interestingly, the libraries that have caused me the most trouble over the years were created by Redhat - you end up with all sorts of JBoss specific modules that, for no apparent good reason, override your logging, validation, web, etc. libs with their own versions.
I thought it to be a pun on no secateurs :)
In the early days of systemd it broke systems on the regular, and instead of humility, Lennart Poettering and his homies tended to react with ego and arrogance.
When has the general public responded better to accuracy over emotions? We've been told for years and in ever greater detail that environment is dying and we won't do anything about it, but we see a video of a turtle suffering because it has a plastic straw stuck in its nose and it's a major legislative issue.
Is there a way to see diff output side-by-side? I personally find that much easier to parse through with a widescreen monitor.
They always have someone approving them.

A college near me always posts pictures tagged with #builtbyBYU and I always post the dude standing in his bathroom mirror saying "Hi welcome to Chili's" with that tag but it never makes it onto the jumbotron...
time to order some cornish cross chicks
It's not only possible, but highly likely. Still doesn't make it OK or not worthy of ridicule though. Internal company processes have no impact on how the public (and judicial system) will react to them.
I've tried AdWords for a couple of projects and have had very similar experiences. It has always been a total waste of money for me and I'm having a hard time believing that it's actual people, i.e. potential customers clicking on these things. The behavior of the people coming from AdWords is always completely different from those coming through other sources, as if they just clicked on it by accident or as if they're just bots.
Also you can't really try to protect JavaScript developers from understanding this. It's a fundamental part of the language.
> The best strategy is to lower your bids to win fewer auctions if you want to spend less.

IIRC, some of its major channels do it when the campaign's going to exceed its budget. Or you can simply use a maximize clicks/conversions bidding strategy.
define care and monitoring.

- care, like taking the drugs they have been prescribed and regularly take at home? Any family member can do that.

- monitoring that the saturation does not fall too low... so that patients can be intubated with a 90% risk of death? I'd rather opt out of that one.

To be clear, I'm talking about de-medicalizing covid: no ICU, no hospital. Just O2 nasal canula at home.

It seems unimaginable, but a large number of in the world deal with no hospital healthcare.
> I’d guess that this is a cost-cutting move, as it’s much cheaper to offer push notifications from their app than it is to send out SMS.

I'd have to second this guess. SMS is much more expensive than push notifications.
The problem is, today's applications are not HTML forms with "a tiny bit of JavaScript enhancement."

Today's apps are immense JS programs - tens if not hundreds of thousands of lines.

Good luck scaling that without modern tooling.