skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably easier to think about how rare it'd be to survive a shotgun blast to the head. Maybe one a million chance? It's happened before. So perhaps 999,999 micromorts.
No one. The statistics decide. Roughly speaking, the USA is a corporatocracy. With the powerful lobbying and incentives the corporations have on how the government functions, these organizations and the people who control them have the most power to influence the country. The answer to the question "when has power been appropriately dispersed" is ultimately simple--Look at the makeup of the executive leadership at the most powerful companies. When it consistently matches the demographic makeup of the country as a whole, then it will have largely been demonstrated that there is a certain level of equality.
I can see some blame for the counterfeit dies for the press, but the pill press itself is a legitimate tool.
I was going to downvote your post in contemptuous anger, but your ideas for the penal system reform have completely captured my attention.

I'm only part-joking, too. Can we get to a better society by punishing transgressions with an obligation to read and summarize opposing views? There's a thought...

It seems a bit too close to the Communist indoctrination methods (read Marx, write essay, repeat for several years), but maybe a botched implementation should not completely discourage us from finding a working one.
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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Reflexive, generic comments are much more boring to read than they are to write, and they take threads in uninteresting directions. With a submission like this, if you don't find something to engage with in the article, please find something else to read that you do find interesting.
Either SoftBank is some brilliant money laundering scheme or them investing in something is sure sign it would fail.

I haven't heard of any good investment they have made.
> Their app store is on their devices.

Their users devices.
In 2020, free speech is being attacked by the president literally trying to block the publication of a book because he doesn't like the content. People who are upset about website moderation policies or unruly college kids are probably not acting in good faith given the circumstances.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-judge-...
So who are the gatekeepers of what speech is allowed and what speech is not? Must we all now conform to some proclaimed philosophy and not be allowed to even discuss alternatives?
I like the comparison. Both types of people chase the most important problem.

Having met people from both groups, the other word I hear a lot is impact. That's a qualitative metric to define success.
Just my two cents, but I think you're taking a good approach with #3.

Reasoning:

In addition to the task-state problem you mention, it's nice to treat written feature requests as near-immutable. Updates to them after they're written -- especially when initiated outside the development team -- can lead to the classic complaint around "ever-shifting requirements". So that's another reason to avoid #1.

Subtasks (approach #2) is a bit better, but again it involves changing an object/document that may have previously been considered relatively stable.

Perhaps you had estimates and sprint scopes attached to the parent task -- if so, adding/modifying subtasks could invalidate (or at least confuse) those.

Under these considerations, #3 therefore wins as a kind of 'append-only log' of tasks.

If you can, and if your organizational culture supports it, you could ask QA to indicate whether they feel that the issues they raise reflect problems in the original requirements, or implementation problems.

That way you may be able to align product managers with precise requirements authorship, and developers with quality implementation by identifying and improving the areas where bugs are being raised.

Of course, QA intensity and output could vary as well, so it's not foolproof. And as with any theoretical work process, it often falls apart due to practical considerations like staffing changes, project/company direction shifts, and so forth. So you shouldn't cling to it at the detriment of the team's health and progress.

But the long and short of it is that #3 seems like a good approach to me :)
The syntax of m4 is unwieldy, a "standard library" would be also needed to make it useful for smaller tasks. How often do you define loops yourself?

Sadly this holds to an unexpected degree for Mustache.

[1] - looks like a DOM AST + Javascript to me, quite unlike template
How to get your article Curated by Publications on Medium?
Why is anyone downvoting this--can one not express a personal experience? It you disagree, comment.
Also though I should point out that wherever you get your news from you should probably do a bit of deeper reading. In other words use the news to hear about things and if something sounds amazing look into it even when it confirms your opinion. This sounds obvious but many people just listen to headlines and don't dig deeper.
> The Supreme Court ruled that consumers had standing to sue for antitrust violations...

Thank you for acknowledging the exact point that I just made?

> It has nothing to do with your bizarre argument ...

I didn't say that it was because of my argument. My demographic argument was simply a point of interest. And actually, you can disregard it and still know that Apple is the largest single manufacturer of smartphones in the US and they’ll soon surpass the 50% mark based on their trajectory and the new $399 iPhone. Samsung is a distant second.

How bizarre is that??

> I'm done with this conversation. You clearly have an axe to grind against Apple...

Pffft. Okay. Why shouldn't I have an axe to grind? And while we're at it - you're clearly apologizing for Apple where they deserve none. Defending a company that is basically the fucking China of tech with their Great Wall of bullshit isn't a real good look. You're going to be on the wrong side of history when this bears out.

But please, do stop arguing because nothing you say will make what Apple is doing right. Even if the law were on their side, which it's not, we'd have reason enough here to make new laws that target these essential devices with new regulations. So, change your attitude, get on the correct side and stop defending your favorite corporation.
Because that decision is a win-win-win politically. It avoids the high cost of additional government/police. It panders to the fares of some of the population on hate speech/kids. It also shows that government is in control.
>Greenhouses cool down rapidly after sunset though

This simply isn't true and depends on a number of factors. greenhouses can fairly easily maintain 2-30 degrees above the outside temperature. furthermore, the temperature drop described in the article was 1-2 degrees below average.
She's had a history of questionable and inflammatory communications. She was sued for libel and lost [1] after accusing someone of damaging a memorial. And she cost the Daily Mail a pretty sum [2] after accusing a family of being extremists.

[1] https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/131000-katie-hopkins-rea...

[2] https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-online-pays-out-substant...
What are the details? Are people wearing masks in the office?
That's a total mischaracterization of people who believe in free speech.

I don't think people should say bigoted things. But more importantly, I don't think people should think bigoted things.

If you shame and ostracize people into not saying bigoted things, but you don't solve the thinking bigoted things problem, then all you've done is hide the problem, and you're suddenly surprised when a bigot gets elected to the White House or a bigoted police officer murders someone and gets away with it (again). Censored bigots don't magically stop being bigots--they just go form their own communities.

The way you get people to stop thinking bigoted things is not by silencing it, it's by explaining to people why they're wrong. Even if you don't change the mind of the bigot you're talking to, you might change the mind of someone else who is listening to or reading what you say.

I'm not campaigning for people's right to be cruel and impolite. I'm campaigning for conversation that brings the truth to light and improves our collective thinking.

And to be clear, I'm also not saying that free speech means you should have no consequences in any context. If you say something racist at work you should absolutely be fired. I'm saying that we need places where people can say racist things so that those racist things can be confronted with the truth.
You don't _have_ to go to Yankee Stadium.

Well over 95% of all web traffic consumes either Google Search, Google Chrome, Google Ads or uses an Android. You almost cannot avoid Google and still use the internet.

Similarly, Facebook controls over 80% of Social Media traffic and you will find it difficult to meaningfully use your identity online to communicate.

The FAANGs aren't the destination, they're the roadways to get to virtually all online content. They literally are the utility.

Your argument is more like if Yankee Stadium got to choose who was allowed to get off the 6 train at their stop, and I think everyone would agree that would be bonkers.
I find it sad that after people have learned to read, they think they are 100% literate, or that looking up words from dictionary is considered a bad thing. Demanding that everything should be written in basic reading level is celebrating low literacy and ignorance.

I'm not an economist or social scientist but I understood what Veblenian means from Veblen goods and conspicuous consumption seemed familiar so I looked it up.
Yes and look at which comment actually gets downvoted. Yours. Looks to me it's more taboo to be in favor of trying to slow the spread and acceptable to be selfish instead.
Well that is neat, albeit an unfortunate name (1-char off from BTRFS). Wonder what performance is like - does it try to preemptively download? Cache? I would expect it to take a while to run `cp ~/mnt_btfs/big_file ~/Downloads/`, but how about `find ~/mnt_btfs`? If it's performant, it could be really nifty:)
What I mean is that static typing makes interface boundaries (modules, function parameters and return types, data structures) explicit, and those boundaries are enforced automatically. Those boundaries become a contract, where a provided interface and its call sites must agree on in order to be run. This is like a million little unit tests you get almost for free (obviously you have to write the types, but they're usually declarative and very expressive).

But it also serves as documentation of how any part of your program's state is structured at any point. To the degree a type system is sound, and to the degree your types are appropriately detailed, you can be assured the documentation is correct and up to date as long as the program compiles. This allows you to eliminate the question of "what does this data look like?" when you're reading code, and focus more on things like whether the logic is implemented correctly.

Since you mention it, I'll add that Python does have (optional, gradual) static typing, and a lot of work has gone into the type system in recent versions. It's worth spending a little time adding some static types in a project and seeing some of these benefits. When I last worked in Python, you had to run `mypy` to actually fail on static type errors, I don't know if this is still the case. But you could also use an IDE (like PyCharm, surely there are others) which will at least surface static type errors while you work.
> A good justification of free speech needs to start with realistic assumptions about how speech is used.

This must be accompanied by a realistic assumption of how power is used. Wielding of political power (particularly tyrannical power) is nearly always accompanied by suppression of speech that expresses dissent.

Demagoguery may pollute a search for the truth, but nothing cements misinformation like a climate where people are prevented from saying true things.
In Zig, let 'catch' define named error handlers
It seems to me that a big part of the difference in some fields at least is a desire to build relatively solo vs in a group. In the social sciences/humanities researchers don't have to deal with any other people very often; in the lab sciences there's a very small organization to work with. And 2/3 of the things all academics hate the most are the things that involve having to work closely with others and bureaucratic organizations (faculty meetings/service and grant writing. The third, incidentally, is grading.)

I get the sense that the work of almost all founders involves having to get stuff from other people lots more pervasively, from funding to hiring to organization building.

(Different attitudes to risk might also be a part of the difference.)
"Alternatives": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins#Views_and_contro...
As a South African growing up in a rural area, I always saw Into the Wild as an example of how Alaskans—or other people who don't die in the woods—with common sense are thrown under the bus in favour of general Americans with more gripping stories that unfortunately revolves around a couple of stupid decisions.

It's a great story to make a movie about, but isn't the daily life of an Alaskan a great story too? It appears that it isn't seen as a cautionary tale at all, but an instruction on how to "go back to nature".
Makes me sad and happy to see that, cause of changing a tragic story but also good to protect people. It's a 9 hour hike from Healy and the bus location is on Google maps.
Apple has always treated their consumers with kid gloves. As a user, I would like the choice to purchase via Apple and via the developer directly. There are apps and people I trust and there are those I do not. Apple subscriptions would still be valuable for developers that haven’t established trust yet.

If an app has a poor subscription system, I just wouldn’t subscribe. That would eventually push them towards Apple or towards a better system.

As consumers we are hurt because we don’t get the experience of any subscription services that are better than Apples because the decision is made for us.
While this isn't entirely comparable (just run compute on Azure and install your services). I'm pretty sure this is a reason Steam completely gave up on their remote app for iOS.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Reflexive, generic comments are much more boring to read than they are to write, and they take threads in uninteresting directions. With a submission like this, if you don't find something to engage with in the article, there are lots of other things to read on HN's front page.
Armory (YC W17) Docs Get a Face Lift
Actually no. I'm not so fragile that I cannot bear to hear criticism or even abuse. Our younger generation has seemed to have invented some sort of new "right to not be offended." This is far more dangerous than "hate speech." I'm also quite prepared to defend myself, my family, and my property if necessary.
Plural you? :-D

In any case - cool, if you are not advocating one side’s position as absolute and unquestionable truth, then the sources I’ve provided give the plural you pretty good idea how it looks like from the other side, as well as views in between. All is well then.
A very valuable insight, thank you.
That reminds me how people wanted Wikipedia move to blockchain:

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1226868636020805632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22296659
We have a social-communist government, I don't know what you'd expect from them.
This is a weak set of arguments, no offense. I am a PC ads was almost 13 years ago. Antennagate? Samsung Galaxy Note 7? Apple also messed up their whole keyboard fiasco, but they did replace my macbook pro chassis free of cost outside of warranty. So did Samsung with their battery fiasco. Jailbreaking is done by literally impossible to see slice of the consumer base. Apple is not going to give up their T2 security and enclave and all the privacy aspects to open up their software to public hacking. This would go against the FBI case with Apple, remember?
There is a feature of OBS called OBS-VirtalCam that presents your "program output" as a webcam on your system which you could select as your webcam input on Zoom... or Skype or Teams or anything else.

https://davidwalsh.name/obs-webcam
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They lead nowhere new or interesting.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Plenty of past explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'd like to just point out that I stated sexual orientation was not a protected class less than 24 hours before SCOTUS made their ruling. It's funny how suddenly things can change.
I'd buy SpaceX stock, if Elon would allow.
During my days at Microsoft I had "worked with"^ with 4 out of 6 co-authors of this paper. It's a weird feeling like I suddenly got back there.

^ not a whole a lot, admittedly
>It doesn't actually matter what Trump thinks or says [...]

Yes it does. The president went on TV and blabbered about things he knows nothing about and turned HQ into a political issue.

His inability to shut up and listen to public health experts, his need to stroke his ego and insert himself into every situation, makes the president the fons et origo, the problem in the first place.

Remember when "the buck" stopped with the president? When the president was a respectable, thoughtful person? When the president wouldn't do something as foolish and irresponsible as telling Americans to try a drug he heard about on cable news?

He could have done one thing to improve America's response to Covid-19: shut up and listen to experts. But there's something innate in this president, his comically obvious case of narcissistic personality disorder, that doesn't let him do that.
Thanks! Great question. Our coaches are trained to help members develop habits (using a framework similar to Atomic Habits or The Power of Habit) -- to successfully create or replace a habit, you need a trigger, the routine (in our case, the workout or eating well), and a reward. At first, the coach's SMS prompts serve as the trigger, but over time we help members establish their own triggers in their environment (post it notes around the house, associating a workout with finishing a specific meal). Similarly, the coach is at first the reward (insight on your meals, shoutouts in your support group) but members learn to embrace other intrinsic rewards like the great feeling of accomplishment you have at the end of a well balanced day.
Again, I am not talking about 10 years ago, I'm talking about 10 hours ago or 10 days ago. I realize time is a continuum and that's why it gets wonky, but surely people can respond to something someone has said now, with their words and freedom to associate, and not try to conflate that with judging slave traders by today's standards.

I mean, I'm still wildly against statues of slave traders, but to me they're different topics entirely.
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Its a valid criticism though... many many people say things like 'believe science' while themselves having a very thin grasp on fundamental scientific principles and knowledge. Not that DiHydrogen Monoxide is critical knowledge, but just that scientific literacy is shockingly lower than scientific evangelism
You are wrong. Most people that support true free speech don't believe that all ideas are equally good. That's false. They believe that all people should be allowed to express their ideas, regardless of how great or how disgusting they may be.

The reason is that if you try to stop people from speaking freely, eventually over time the tables will turn against you, meaning you won't be able to speak freely.

We need the laws that protect our most vile haters to speak freely, so that in the future if they gain control somehow, those same laws will protect us. If you start carving out exceptions because "those people are obviously wrong", well when the tables turn, like they always do, they will use those same ideas against you.

The other benefit from this is that when people are allowed to speak freely, you can see what they are actually thinking, instead of having their ideas get stifled and brought underground. This is exactly what happened with Trump and how he got voted, and why all the polls were wrong about Trump and Brexit. People who held different ideas were driven underground, and they spoke at the voting booths. That's dangerous.
Wait, isn't this the fake crosspoint lady?

Isn't there a meme about her aging faster due to all the hate she carries?
I'd rather say they have complete market dominance. People don't buy phones based on which apps are available for them. And since no alternative stores are available for Apple devices, you have no choice but to pay the Apple tax.
Yeah a musuem more accessible that explains in detail every rescue attempt resulting from it would be a nice set up, especially when combined with a ranger station or similar public wilderness awareness teaching effort. Let the full scope be told about his life and motivations but also that his fate was totally preventable.

It would dramatically change the concept but a home town located musuem would have a full circle effect to it and his life.
They mean the Xbox store, right? Gonna let steam be an alternative way to distribute games on my Xbox?
Keep the Open Technology Fund Open
In the summer of 2009, at the beginning of my first massive expedition from Alaska to Argentina, I hiked into the bus and spent a night in what turned out to be the most intense and peaceful place I've ever spent time. Reading the exhilarating stories in the guest book was like nothing I've ever experienced, and I was awe-struck that one person can inspire so many with his big smile and simple approach to life.

Over the years I've spent hundreds of hours thinking about Chris, his conscious choice to live the life he wanted and the freedom that brought him. He is one of my biggest inspirations, and I like to think we would have been friends.

Every time the sound track from the movie comes on I get tingles down my spine, and I can't help but sing along. It's easily the most-listened to music of my life, and in a strange way it's the sound track to my life.

I have mixed emotions about the removal of the bus - on one hand I understand the need to stop people visiting who require rescue, while on the other I'm sad I never made a return trip. I had always planned a solo winter trip, and somehow while living only ten hours away for four years I never made the effort.

Yet another reason to always go for it, right now.

Although the bus is no longer there, I'm sure I'll make a trek to the spot anyway, and I'm sure Chris will continue to inspire me throughout my life.

"Happiness is only real when shared" - Chris McCandless

Here's my account of my hike into the bus in 2009 http://theroadchoseme.com/the-magic-bus
I so agree. I miss good old fashion text based content. Simple, readable, and fast. There was a reason that the default links blue and underlined. Visited links were purple. You could scan an site and quickly determine where you had been before.
This is a mission where I’d like to see a continuous stream of missions instead of One Big Mission. Let’s bring the assembly line to space exploration.
> Marxist theories of ancient history and the origins of high civilisation are virtually indisputed

This is not true.