skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who like having kids usually plan well ahead, because they care about the kids' future life.

But some people can't help but have kids, because contraception is either not uniformly applied / accessible, or due to religion prohibiting contraception.

I bet that the lower is one's socioeconomic status, the harder it is to control childbirth, just because it's expensive. So even if having (one more) child would make life obviously hard(er) for the parent(s) and the child alike, there can just be not enough money to prevent it.
> Unethical part is having oems ship all their devices with proprietary apis and software that is black box.

This is nonsense. Microsoft doesn't ship most hardware running Windows, and there was never a time any of it was locked to Windows.

I installed Linux on dozens of Windows machines starting in the 90s.

By your logic, all software is unethical if it's closed-source. Apple, Samsung, and every phone manufacturer actually do put effort into locking down their hardware, so you must think they're all far more evil than MS.
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The ability to not be punished for speaking out as a worker is precisely one of the worker rights that he is seeking to protect.
A few years later he revisited this theme as fiction:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
I have a non-name-brand pair. Audio quality is only acceptable for podcasts or audiobooks. They're excellent for in-house use (where you'd like to have your attention be readily available by others). Unfortunately they are worse than other options outside; their lack of passive noise-blocking makes them easily overwhelmed by environmental noises.

If you need high situational awareness outdoors, the best option I've found is simple: using a single wireless earbud. This is not really acceptable for music, unfortunately, but is a good compromise solution for spoken word content.
Yeah, I got that, my point is more that it takes away a potential recurring revenue stream for the sake of maybe a slight boost in software sales right now (I doubt there are a massive number of people who would suddenly purchase a whole bunch of virtual console games right now if it was announced they'd transfer over to all future Nintendo consoles)
I follow people on Twitter because they post on Twitter. If they'd post somewhere else, I'd probably follow them there (within some limits). That doesn't mean I post updates about my stuff there - if others want to follow my updates, they can go where those are.
The slight sliver of hope in NYTimes is that today they wrote a story that is somewhat backtracking from full force support of the protestors: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/protests-divisions-blm...

Quoting NYTimes:

> hurled an open pocketknife at the officers guarding the courthouse; they have used power tools, crowbars and bolt cutters to yank down a fence

Yep, this is going on definitely. And now we have some level of coverage.

Edit: removed the link to that twitter account, I checked the messages he is posting, totally insane. "Unknown liquid" hurled at cops, it's just water. Then the guy is talking about how masks are harmful to lungs. I am sorry.
private forums would continue to outshine all of them
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Isn't this just a matter of perspective. You are being debited by the third party, meaning they are requesting money. The bank credits your account with money when they put something in your account.
Not really a fair comparison since they outsource fab
Capitalism is just an algorithm. It's only an ideology if you make it one. It's just a system of allocation and ownership that has clear tendencies and side-effects, well understood for many decades.

The experiment has shown that, as the system evolves, it doesn't have a stable state. One needs to bolt on additional controls to try to keep it in a stable state, or else one gets concentration of wealth and power. All the symptoms of that are pretty obvious with endless spilled ink. I really don't think this stuff should be controversial to people who are normally thinking about the behavior of complex systems.
It's guaranteed to have a different effect, neutron capture will manifest in different isotopes with different products.
So Rust, Python, Julia etc are no more productive, safe, or easy to use than programming was in 1959?
I'm not arguing that current machine learning technologies are not useful. I'm just arguing that progress is based on increasing some metric, usually depending on a trade-off of computation. This can even make ML-techniques applicable to some new fields, but it's not what is holding back autonomous driving, the often touted parade example which also brings in a lot of employment for machine learning.

This article clearly sits on the peak of inflated expectations in the hype cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
As Jack Dorsey said [1] in an interview a while ago:

"I also don’t feel good about how Twitter tends to incentivize outrage, fast takes, short term thinking, echo chambers, and fragmented conversation and consideration."

I see Twitter as an almost pure outrage machine. I generally avoid it but when I do visit it and the Tweet I'm reading is about a topic that has two or more sides, most of the replies shown in response are the just the most vicious and aggressive attacks by the other side. Just punch lines or insults.

[1] https://twitter.com/jack/status/1095457906848231424
Yeah it's kind of crazy what HP was able to accomplish, the reason keysight hasn't updated a lot is because they didn't really have to. The DAQs are incremental improvements from what I've seen, the aforementioned 3458A still competes with new instruments, and I honestly enjoyed the 54601A scopes I used in school more than the new Tek ones I have at work.
I suggest taking a look at American news for the past couple of months - the protests, the rising unemployment, continuing political polarization. I believe that is what the author was referring to. It is a US-centric take, but one that can be forgiven given that it is a blog post about an American developer dealing with American companies and American journalists.
Having a unpredictable button which may significantly increase risk to an aircraft and others is not risk management no matter how dire or remote it’s predicted usage would be. First thing any knowledgeable malicious actor would do is pull the breakers associated with the system or simply disable it. This button would have a way to disable it assuming accidental or malicious activation right?
Interestingly, it looks like Fraunhofer (much to its later regret) released the first real-time MP3 player (didn't have to be decompressed first) in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinPlay3 ... the only option until Nullsoft's 'WinAmp' came out in 1997.
Exactly, and if you can continue to play all your old games on your new system, you're probably less inclined to buy a lot of new games - probably buy one or two (otherwise why bother getting a new system?), but if you couldn't play your old games on it, you may initially buy a few more new games to justify the system purchase etc.
So, effectively, women are just too stupid to have abortions or to sell their babies for a good price directly after giving birth?

I might have misunderstood you, but what you said sounds like women actually had a choice. The only choices they have are those frowned upon by a large part of society.
That comment pretty much universally applies to every piece he’s written.
> Consider the war on terror. They say that every time the United States bombs Pakistan or Afghanistan or somewhere, all we’re doing is radicalizing the young people there and making more terrorists.

And it’s true. Reminds me of the onion caption for a picture of a bomb “capable of creating 1,500 new terrorists in single blast.”

Going on 20 years of forever war, why is there such strong bipartisan support for keeping Americans embroiled in the Middle East? Are we going to allow Trump to co-opt the anti-war position that’s traditionally been a tent pole for the progressive left?

This politicians keep us turned on each other with petty, polarizing subjects while they keep doing what they’ve always done. I’m baffled. I hate it.
> [...] a "references" section -- either at the end of the chapter or the book or the overall article.

So footnotes retain the numbering system (1, 2, 3, etc.) throughout the chapter text, but how would you mark sentences for whom a reference is available?
Please do not forget events such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Sev..., they were arrested solely because they happened to be Irish and nearby an IRA attack.

> At their trial the judge told the defendants, "If hanging were still an option you would have been executed."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Conlon

Considering the amount of cases in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Overturned_conviction... I would not put too much trust in the UK legal system.
HN/bookface only. Reddit once used to be good for real reviews/opinions. But now it's full of shills/manipulation bots who do not disclose themselves. The conversation and comments do not feel organic either and highly manipulated on international/news/geopolitical/political/sensitive things. It's like someone wants to force us to change our views.
Thank you for proving my point.
The regulator has no intention to read your medical records, nor did it ask for them. Facebook misuses the court for sly PR tricks to evoke anti government sympathies and get people on their side.
Just as you did. Don't forget, Facebook is the bane for privacy, not the EU.
It seems like they are also an excellent candidate. Some are fleet vehicles, which means you can plan charging into schedules and routes, and they probably have maintenance contracts.

The potential issue I see is batteries not being sufficient for heavier duty trucks / loads -- the range could be impractical. Also, I have no idea what the power draw for a garbage truck compactor is, but it can't be small.
I've heard that "the Chinese FANG" is willing to pay similar money to real FAANG for talent. Can anyone confirm/deny?
If 4/5 Americans cannot stay afloat 1 month on their own then yes, it is a big problem. If someone gets into an accident, or has a medical issue, or suddenly loses their job, it puts them into the same position.

I think we should arrive for a society where it's citizens can earn enough on their own to at least have a small safety net.
Thanks dang. I will cease to use this throwaway account and therefore no longer speak about China truthfully due to safety concerns.
or MariaDB. or is oracle also going after MariaDB users, since they own a good amount of its code?
Woah don't cut yourself on that edge there mister.
Isn't the current iMDB score just an average of everyones scores combined?

How do you propose a scoring system would work where movies are scored according to your preference in movies?
It’s not 1962. It’s not that simplistic. But talk to literally any mother in literally any white collar job. “I’m expecting” or even “we’re thinking of having kids” results in fewer projects, getting turned down for promotions, and if you’re in a technical role, you’re pushed into management ASAP. I get that I’m a stranger on the internet, but you gotta trust me on this. This isn’t random/sometimes — this is CONSTANT. And it’s not even all malicious! It just comes from a place of, I would say, well-intended ignorance.
> The company is working hard on Diversity & Inclusion

As a foreigner, I am trying to understand this statement.

You've got a bag with 100 marbles. 50 blue, 40 red, 10 white. HR needs to pick 15 marbles. Does the HR try to pick all marbles equally? So 50% of whites, 10% of blues, 12.5% of reds is chosen. Doesn't seem fair to blues and reds.
To put this in perspective, the linked data shows that 43% of all renters are at risk of eviction, which is 17M households. The 11M number is just in the next four months.
This reminds me of the saying "If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem." There has to be an opportunity for collective action here.
That's what I'm doing. The only thing I'm noticing in the dev community is the rise of many weird account of "self made developers" that tweet stupid things like "how to add 2 + 1 in JS" that are gaining a lot of followers in a short amount of time.

Looks like there's a network of these guys, doing RTs and talking with their group in order to gain followers.

Most of them sell courses and ebooks.
Poor people not having kids is not just an ethically cruel way to structure your society, but here is absolutely no evidence that the children of poor people are any less talented than those or richer people. The hallmark of a functioning democratic society is its ability to provide for equal opportunities to most of its populace, regardless of their parents background. The US scaled back Public Spending immensely during and after Raegan and it’s effects are being acutely felt in American society today.
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Facebook is doing a bit more than showing ads. They are tracking people over the web, deciding the information stream for many, collecting a huge amount of data, helping to spread fake news, and helped to get someone stupid elected as the leader of the world biggest power.
What is Digital Asset Management and why is it gaining in popularity?
Wow, I lovvvee this. I just checked my three casios, and one does say made in japan on it, so that suggests fake - but everything else seems legit (logo printing, display evenness, hidden button functions, beep-tone), so it's either a better fake than in that video, or some of them are in fact made in japan.
> women are just too stupid to have abortions or to sell their babies for a good price directly after giving birth?

...what? Not sure what this has to do with stupidity.

> but what you said sounds like women actually had a choice

They do. They can use protection, abort, or simply stay without a wage during the time of pregnancy.

Or... they could accept the maternity leave as a gift if their employer decides to provide it.
G Suite says Enterprise but doesn't actually do it.

For years, you had to turn of 2fa enforcement for the whole org, or do janky hacks with special groups and policy exceptions for groups to onboard new employees because they hadn't gotten around to a first time login flow that had a mandatory 2fa enrollment; instead they'd just prompt for the 2fa code you couldn't have setup.

There's no way to merge two separate G Suite accounts, in case your company merges with another company. You're just supposed to setup new users in the new org and close the old org account. Even more fun to be had if you want to keep the same usernames (I can't imagine the collosal pain it would be if you also wanted google handling the email during that transititon).

Oh yeah: there's no way to stop people from trying to setup consumer google accounts on your corporate domain. Most of those are spammers or idiots that won't get confirmed, but some of them are employees doing things wrong, and can confirm them, but then you have things like two accounts with the same name that are different because one is a g suite (but you can't register the domain for two different organizations, because three accounts with the same name would be too much)
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Remington has been on the rocks for awhile. Low quality, high prices, and outdated technology. Today's buyer wants a lightened AR-15 with holographic sights, not grandpa's double-barrel shotgun.

I suspect you're being downvoted from the "less gun companies is a good thing" comment.

You would be surprised how popular shooting has become in the US, especially, over the last decade or so, and how diverse the gun community has become.

Not to mention how many new brands there are.

Twenty years ago, you'd walk into a gun shop, and it'd be... well, let's be kind and say "massively sketchy", with a lot of graying beards and a not-insignificant inventory of items with confederate branding.

Nowadays, that's not really the case in most places (which is good!). My favorite range has an espresso bar, and reminds me more of an early-stage WeWork than a gun range.

The median age has trended sharply downwards, and although this data isn't tracked, I strongly suspect that there are a lot of first-time gun owners as well.

Anecdotally, I'm sort of the "liberal gun guy" amongst my circle of friends, and people that I never thought would want to purchase a firearm have been reaching out to me for advice. Which usually starts with "don't buy a gun unless you plan to train with it"

Concerns over civil unrest have significantly factored into this, but there's also things like 3Gun[1][2] (think Ninja Warrior plus firearms) and cowboy action[3] (the same, but with old-timey firearms), which are massively popular.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPPIhfD5DF0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBcQSLgl20
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPMH5RnTqBg
It's definitely touchy, but I think even in abstract it's a bit misleading to say in isolation that the average American doesn't own a gun. There are areas of the country where guns are rare, but there are also many areas where they're very normalized and most households have one.
> What if poor people just stopped having kids?

With all respect: That is one of the most disgusting, social-darwinist takes I have ever read on HN. The freedom of reproduction is seen as a basic human right across many jurisdictions - the positive freedom (i.e. the freedom to have a child) definitely, the negative freedom (i.e. the freedom to prevent reproduction by contraception or abortion) unfortunately mostly in the secular Western world.

Telling poor people that they should not have children is something we saw the last time in action in the Nazi dictatorship in Germany in the Western world (and in the Communist world in China until a few years ago). This is a genie that should never ever be let back out of the bottle.
Most people aren’t thinking about the behavior of complex systems and to those this presents a good perspective. Anti Government propaganda is pretty widespread today and one of the ways to counter it is by espousing the benefits of the principles which a healthy, functioning Government provides to society.
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In this case, the email is already flagged as spam in Gmail, but the calendar invite still gets added.

To me it seems pretty clear what the behaviour should be. If flagged as spam, do not add to calendar.
I mean, it's not hard to remember. They're liability-like. It's just their uses in practice that're confusing.

BTW, nonprofits have Net Assets accounts instead of Equity accounts.
> Just remember that a “debit card” reflects the banks POV
I did no research, so hold no strong opinion. I’m in favor of lasers whenever possible. :)
Technically the fired whistleblowers were cushy whitecollar office workers.

Yes, i know i just said "worker" but that's not really what we all imagine when we think about Amazon workers that need more protections.
There's a lot wrong with fixing consistencies.
30% of American adults own a gun and 43% live in a gun household [1] and only about 40% of Americans bother to vote in presidential elections. Gun owners are more political than non-owners [2] so it's not unlikely that half of all voters or more are gun owners or live in gun households. That's a significant political force.

Vegans, in contrast, make up around 0.4-3% of Americans depending on the poll [3].

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own...

[2] https://today.ku.edu/2018/08/21/gun-owners-are-more-active-p...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country
Isn't that the "hard part"? I wonder why they're having so much trouble compared to tsmc.
Antonić’s microcomputer contained only 4K bytes of program memory—a veritable drop-in-the-bucket compared to any laptop today.

Standard laptop RAM = 8GB? So 2,000,000 “drops” of 4KB.

Standard bucket = 12l? So 120,000 100µL drops.

So considerably smaller than a drop in a bucket.
I also have a few expensive watches and the F-91W is my go to watch where I don't care about breaking it. It has been through bike crashes, slapped on the sides of water slides and all kinds of abuse. Its just a great product for some use cases.
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If you like this you will also like beancount[1] and fava [2]. The author of beancount initially started using ledger-cli and than to have a better adherence to accounting developed beancount in Python. Beancount has similar file format as ledger-cli with few modifications and can attach documents and metadata to entries. Also web interface fava provides a beautiful interface to it.

[1] https://github.com/beancount/beancount

[2] https://github.com/beancount/fava
I'd probably use numbering for the references, and use the array of symbols* available for footnotes -- given that most pages shouldn't have more than a handful of footnotes, and you can restart your symbol order on each page. That's more difficult on longer-form web content, admittedly.

* See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_(typography)#Numbering_an... for a sampling. These can be doubled if necessary -- so , ††, etc.
Awesome. Thanks for the wiki link, will check that out.
> A rape that obviously happened? Shove it in people’s face and they’ll admit it’s an outrage, just as they’ll admit factory farming is an outrage. But they’re not going to talk about it much. There are a zillion outrages every day, you’re going to need more than that to draw people out of their shells.

I sometimes recall how the civil rights movement got together and amplified the story of Rosa Parks over Claudette Colvin. The optics were much better with Parks:

> "They said they didn't want to use a pregnant teenager because it would be controversial and the people would talk about the pregnancy more than the boycott," Colvin says.

That I think turned out to be a good move. In the absence of this guiding force I think Colvin would end up debated and talked about more.
Correct, but at least there is "brake to vacate" the runway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_to_Vacate
The real-life goal is closer to "HR picks 7 blue, 6 red, 2 white instead of 10 blue, 5 red, 0 white".
This same technique is being used by the peaceful protesters in Portland, who have blinded half a dozen police officers in the last few days while peacefully burning down federal buildings.
The corporate tax rate was lowered from 35% to 21% by the Trump administration to make it in line with the EU. (Though some EU nations have a corporate tax rates as low as 9-15%)

Do companies have any excuse now regarding using taxation as an excuse to move manufacturing outside the US ?
Switzerland? Aiui (on 2nd hand knowledge) salary for a SWE ranges from 80k usd to 250k usd
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I was inspired to replicate your hack for myself. It was a fun afternoon, and that watch keeps going (though I had to carve away plastic to get the band on). Thanks!
I mean, trying and failing isn't the same as doing nothing. But regardless, necessity is the mother of invention, so I'm sure they'll figure something out. They have 20b of cash (1/4 of AMD's total market cap) and their profits are damn good.

Make no mistake, Intel is very much aware this is a do or die situation, and I expect them to deploy all the resources at their disposal to fight both AMD and ARM. They don't have much debt and can borrow heavily and at great rates if necessary.
There will likely be no RCT (randomized controlled trials) for infection patterns. As it‘s unethical to expose patients to a likely infection (the control arm without masks) with a potentially deadly virus.