skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In America, indicating you are disabled is like painting a target on your back. This is why this article exists in the first place - it highlights the fact that Americans (and other undeveloped nations) basically follow nature. If someone is unfit to survive in their environment, then they will eventually end up being absorbed back into nature. The fallacy that I can't live with, is that some people try to pretend that there is a safety net.

I've got a 2 year old who is deaf / blind and has serious cognitive issues. Since me and my wife both do well in the game of capitalism - we are entitled to none of whatever "safety net" exists.

If you can survive without showing your disability, that's what works best in America. There are horror stories of people losing entire careers and there way of life - because they told their superior about the burdens of raising disabled children. Its better to hide these truths, everyone will have a better chance of survival.
An IP address retrieved from the Apache logs by the same sysadmins who put unhashed credentials online in a place where they could be indexed by Google?
That's because you confuse it with mere scientist.

acknowledged: recognized as being good or important.
"he's an acknowledged expert in the field"
Interesting - I'm not familiar with the anatomy involved in spider's sense of orientation, but I suppose it makes sense that they would have a fallback if this system wasn't working properly (ie they have the spider equivalent of vertigo). Alternatively, when swinging around making webs perhaps gravity isn't the most reliable means of determining orientation.
>> If there's a fundamental flaw in their model that allowed horrible things to persist despite their efforts, they can't just throw up their hands and continue with the excuse that "they tried." That's a situation where the right thing to do is shut the whole thing down.

> Cash also has the fundamental “flaw” of allowing criminal activity to be funded. Should the government stop printing cash?

Your comparisons are apples and oranges to this PornHub situation. It's not a rebuttal to mechanically list other things that might have some associated negative tradeoffs. You have weigh both the severity of the problem, the benefits, and the alternatives.

> PH doesn’t seem to be throw their hands up, either. They deploy algorithms similar to other social media / video websites to detect illegal content.

PornHub has taken a "laissez faire with cleanup" model for their porn uploads, which frankly invites abuse that's difficult to clean up (as the Kristof outlined). That might work for a site like Facebook, which bans porn outright, so it doesn't have to worry so much about the distinction between underage and of-age porn, since it's all forbidden. PornHub's a porn site, however, so their moderation already starts at a disadvantage. A preclearance model (with identity verification), while more expensive, doesn't have the abuse potential of laissez faire; and given the severity of abuse here, is for more appropriate.
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I honestly have to assume you've never used ANC headphones on a plane if you're making this claim. As someone who does own the HD280PRO and several ANC headphones, there's no comparison at all for environments with a repetitive droning noise like an airplane.
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Then the Cluster Former-United Kingdom, Cluster FUK, would make for a more comprehensive, all-encompassing acronym!

I really hope the UK stays together. Brexit or no Brexit, the UK remains a strategic member of Europe the continent, a key trade partner and a positive influence for Europeans, positive even as a competitor -- a baseline of some sorts. This whole breakup ordeal will end up creating fragile trade agreements and increase diplomatic carpet pulling that could trigger public resentment and fuel extremist politicians in the continent.

The possibility of an integrated Ireland and Scotland as new members of the EU could also tip the English towards a very aggressive reset of their political and strategic roadmap, even worse than post-Brexit. I have no idea where to though... The US/Americas? Asia-Pacific? The Singapore of the Atlantic?
Counterpoint: My iPhone that was out of warranty and had the screen cracked after taking it in for third-party battery replacement. The official battery replacement was more than the resale value of the phone. Unlike a phone, high-end headphones are not inherently disposable. They can last many decades of regular use. This is a disposable product in a product category that is not usually disposable.
This is very true. Unfortunately such places are almost all very expensive these days. So if you’re not already into late retirement age (and you moved there 40 years ago when it was affordable), then it’s not economically feasible for most people to get in now.
I haven't been able to scan the interior (transmission tunnel in this case).

But that would be the general idea. Scan interior - 3d model parts to fit in that scanned world - 3d print/CNC cut those parts to fit.
all he said was it makes the stock market look bad when some people double their money in a day.

has nothing to do with whether Airbnb was screwed over by wall street.

no one can predict the public market appetite in this environment. Airbnb was arguably richly valued at $50B as is and is richly valued at $100B. Setting your price too high and then crashing your stock is worse for the company due to tax implications and overall investor sentiment.
Haha, idiots.

The sole reason they agreed on that nonsense is because that's how they can increase spending ("we had to borrow to meet stricter regulations").

Green lobby must be laughing they asses off. Your debt is their profit.
> For these people, the Confederate flag is a symbol of resistance to an oppressive nation state, and flying it is no more "racist" than it would be for someone to fly the flag of Tibet.

> And obviously, some other people associate the Confederate flag with institutional slavery.

As someone who considers themselves squarely in the first group, but who is cognizant of others’ views and therefore choose alternate symbols, I feel compelled to point out that there is significant overlap. They are far from a “union set” (a pun!) but there are actual racists who use that flag.

I’m just happy that the actual first flag of the Confederacy is largely unmarred in popular culture, along with the Bonnie Blue
Thanks for this! Just ordered it as a perfect christmas gift for my dad.
Oh c'mon.

If there were a law that banned cross shaped objects, and then someone said "well, we aren't banning a religious symbol! All things in a cross shape are banned" this would obviously be a dishonest argument.

We don't have to play games here, or be dishonest about what the purpose of the ban was.

> was triggered by the rise of radical islam

Ok, so then you agree that it was literally created to target certain religion practices... That is what people are saying. That is a target law, meant to attack a certain religious group, specifically that of "fundamentalist islam".

That is what everyone is saying.
What annoys me the most is the fact that it moves your screen.

I don’t understand why Apple didn’t just put a sensor like FaceID in the Macs and went for motion tracking for hand gestures or just turned the entire trackpad which is already capacitive into a touch screen like interface.

Touches are easily emulated with mouse clicks the rest of the gestures are also simple enough for a trackpad.

Heck from my limited experience with the M1 it seems that swipes work like they should in normal apps but not so much in iOS apps which left me scratching my head as to why.
"Oh cool, I'll use spot instances, never gonna need reliability for this little side proj."

"Oh cool, I'll only scale to 1 server, never gonna see high load for this little side proj."

"Oh cool, I'll deploy only to US West 1, outages are never going to matter for this little side proj."

There are a million ways to be out of money as a company. Why should this be any different? Why is the singular particular instance one where it is simply intolerable to accept that users can screw things up?

There are lots of things that are "shit experiences" that are consumers fault.

There is an easy solution. Give consumers the option and let them deal with the consequences. There are enough valid reasons to want hard caps on spending that it's crazy to not make it available because "Someone MIGHT accidentally set the limit too low which will cause them an outage in production that MIGHT mean they lose money"
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What would all those managers we hired at high salaries do then?
Yeah I agree, it is funny hearing younger people claim that all of their friends are their best friends and as they get older their relationships dwindle. I suspect that it is crucial for young people to have more relationships in order to socialize them during early development. Once you hit your 40's having too many relationships becomes a burden.
Some people have spare cash that they would like to use on higher quality entertainment. You can (or could) find streaming sites that streamed most tv shows at no cost, provided that you could navigate seedy places on the internet and didn't mind the quality too much.

Yet people still pay for Netflix.
The post-Covid remote utopia so many seem to be excited about is going to be hard for a lot of workers. Work, lunch, happy hour, bowling, league sports. Now they all have is Slack.
They would only be terrible if they are not properly updated for a laptop experience. The Overcast podcast player is a good example of an iOS app that works great as a Mac app too.
That's a bit off topic, but I'll bite.

First, a lot of the comments show some confusion.

"Free". We are not free to do evil, only good, though we can be permissive of certain evil acts committed by others because its punishment would lead to still greater ills.

Speech can also be good or evil. To make slanderous claims is evil because it not only perverts the faculty of speech, but maligns someone innocent of the accusation which brings others into errors about that person and also harms that person. calls for violence are evil. Those who claim free speech means saying whatever you want whenever you want aren't very rigorous and often fall back on some kind of incoherent and insidious skepticism (a la "says who") or relativism. Or they don't really mean it and are reacting to abuses of censorship.

And that's the other side of the coin. Theory is one thing, but out of a concern about the abuse of censorship by tyrants and those in power, we may wish to tolerate evil speech to some degree. So the question now becomes: what are the acceptable limits of the permissiveness in the current conditions?

There is a correct answer, but in practice, that is going to be determined by various political forces acting for various reasons.

While tradition used to have a greater say in determining prohibitions on speech and "expression" for the sake of the common good (seen in blasphemy and pornography laws), today the revolutionary left has taken control and has been busily imposing speech codes that prevent "undesirable" discussion in opposition to the revolutionary ideology, often in the name of "the people". Meaning, we're no longer talking about banning swastikas and other pernicious symbols. We're talking about the silencing of even rationally defended views that don't agree with the revolutionary ideology while giving virtual free reign to toxic leftist polemic because it falls in lockstep with the ideology.

All of this is to say that this move by Twitch is not really that interesting. There are far more dangerous developments in play. And to your point, I do expect even more pressure to be put on religious faiths to conform the revolutionary ideology. Take the Roman Catholic Church, for example. Catholicism was always hated and feared in the United States. And indeed, it had been neutered in various ways to conform to liberal ideological expectations over the course of the 20th century. However, given the proliferation of various novel and exotic sexual identity protected groups, I fully expect the RCC to experience a new period of persecution in the US under the guise of protecting these groups from the supposed persecution by the Church. Either that, or the bishops will continue down the path of going full Protestant and step in line with the demands of the state (and subsequently crumble into even greater irrelevance and apostasy). Probably both and in either case this is a success for revolutionary social engineers. A similar fate awaits others.
I don't think this is the de-facto standard, probably moreso Microfocus, or perhaps NetCobol.
I've had better experiences with VRBO than AirBnB
Market cap now exceeds top 5 US hotel chains combined. How much can it grow from here?
You disputed actual metrics around the world with your own anecdote. The only possibility is that you don't travel or are a liar. That's just reality, not an insult.

The sign of a lack of proper arguments is when you have to spin a fiction to contrive a position, which every post you've offered up to this discussion has been. The moment someone pulls the "only the US cares" (or, in your case, only HN cares apparently), it betrays that they're not arguing in good faith, hoping that everyone just nods and goes along with nonsense.
Thanks! That's awesome! Haven't tried it on a M1 Macbook yet, but I bet it'd be fast.
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Cost for now is because the tech is new. Long term manufacturing cost benefits mRNA, because essentially you use the same "hardware" for each vaccine just different "software". They can comparatively much more easily produce something like RSV vaccines or anything else with the same core assembly line.
It isn't immediately obvious that FP requires GC. Sure, the languages we have right now make use of GC, but it is far from certain that there is no way for a subset of FP features to exist in a language without GC.
I responded. I must be on ghost mode.
Also you're unlikely to see the owner, they certainly won't be inside with you, you can leave any time, you're likely to be with others, and they can't change your location.

Contrast that with an intoxicated young woman climbing alone into a stranger's car where he has a lot of control - including being able to lock the doors or take her to a remote/unfamiliar location. Even with all the checks and measures in place, assaults are not uncommon; I'm not familiar with any AirBnB type assaults (far more frequently, it's the guests victimising the owner via property damage).
> COBOL jobs are not particularly well-paying, and there are young people learning it, and no, they don't get awesome paychecks.

Yup. All the articles on the shortage of COBOL programmers is actually companies whining that they can't find cheap labor. If they paid well, they'd have their pick of young and old.
Not necessarily. I personally think it closed way too high yesterday . If I’m right, then they’ll avoid headlines of “Airbnb closed today at 30% below their IPO price” by setting a more long term reasonable price. No idea how much the “narrative” really matters in the public stock market, but people sure talk about it like it does. It might matter for employee satisfaction too?
Airbnb is not a tech company, it’s a hospitality company.

From what I’ve heard the tech is mediocre at best there. Doesn’t matter though, the brand is what people pay for and what drives hype.
25% of AirBnB staff was cut in 2020. Many may still be unemployed. For those who are struggling, please accept my deepest condolences at this time.
Ok, that is a good counter example, but what about the example I gave in my original post? These very expensive headphones I bought (AirPods 1) only two years ago are now basically worthless.
>Fortunately, I know a trick that makes my feed better behaved in all of these ways.

I use a trick as well. I use the "Stop Showing Me This" option in the FB newsfeed. It took a couple days, but now I get zero political content.
Politics in a two-party system is always divided by party lines, but that does not make it necessarily partisan.

You can say that it's the Democrats who want censorship, but the other side of the coin is that Republicans want to freely spread a false narrative.
I’m not sure that you’re very well informed - your opinion is that theories of trump Russia collusion were baseless? Is that what you believe the Mueller report said?
As a repair shop owner, I can shed some light on this. The iPhone X battery is relatively simple to replace as a third party. The only negative is that the phone won’t be as water-resistant as before; though we do replace seals, it won’t be sealed like the factory did. (I just had one of our stores replace the battery on my iPhone XS with an extended capacity battery, which was well worth the tradeoffs since my phone lasts an additional 3 hours now.) So your iPhone that just needs a new battery will sell for a lot.

AirPods batteries, on the other hand, are completely unreplaceable, and believe me when I say we’d love to repair them. They’re small and Apple has filled the cavity around them with glue, meaning even if we had a replacement battery they’d be impossible to replace without damaging the AirPod itself. This is extremely upsetting to me, as someone who invests in and runs third-party repair shops at least in part for environmental reasons. Apple needs to do better on their smaller devices, AirPods included.
Partly Facebook is a problem because of their top-down profit-driven manipulation. But partly it seems inherent to any recommendation algorithm that gives weight to content you're more likely to share, reply to, etc. The stuff that outrages you is more likely to propagate.

So what would be a recommendation algorithm that does not have this effect? What would it measure and optimize?
Oddly, for a camera, I prefer some weight. Not so much I will get fatigued, but it is easier to hold steady if it is not feather weight. And having it balance away from the lens is nice.

Overall, agreed, though.
So....if you buy something, you automatically lose the right to complain about the way it works? Do you apply that rule to the other areas of your life?

Maybe a different example - until very recently, if you bought a BMW, you could only get Apple CarPlay as a subscription, you couldn't just pay upfront to have it. Which is not how this works literally anywhere else, every other brand has it as a one-time unlock and then you have it for life.

Surely, every person buying a brand new BMW knew this, it's clearly advertised. So....should they not have complained about this? After all, they knew what they were buying. But, people have been complaining, and BMW has finally changed it recently. Good riddance I say.

But back to the iphone dillema. The problem with your argument is that this is traditionally not how markets work. If company X wants to sell something to John Smith(let's say an app for their iphone), but cannot without going through some kind of licence holder(Apple in this case) - it's totally a valid question to ask if Apple is stifling competition here or not. In my opinion - they are. Maybe the company X is making a completely legitimate web browser, that John Smith wants to buy and pay money for - but Apple will say nope, you can't buy that, because that would compete with our own product. That's anticompetitive behaviour, and traditionally it does eventually get stopped in court. Like I said in my example several posts ago - volkswagen cannot do anything to stop the company X from selling brake pads to John Smith, yes they fit a car that Volkswagen made but Volkswagen doesn't get to say whether John Smith is allowed to purchase and fit those parts or not. Courts all over the world have decided, many times, that corporations shouldn't have that power. Why do smartphone manufacturers get to keep that power now then? That will change in my opinion, and they will be forced to open up.
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> The way I handle it now is by asking someone who leaves a car, who doesn't look disabled, if they need some help

I'm curious as to why you feel the need to say anything at all, considering you are not an authority figure. It seems like you're possibly inviting trouble by not minding your own business. At the very least, you're unnecessarily shaming people, which is not admirable.
I’ve stayed in Airbnbs many times (zero since March) and have not even once met my host in person.
> 60-100 staff? Sorry but that's very naïve. Think about how many core services this takes:

I agree, but the engineering department could be handled with less than 50 people. Most of the work they do is linked to operation stuff and not engineering
Very relieved when it wasn't...it's been a long week.
I suspect very few here know what you’re saying, and that they banned the “Southern Cross”, not the “Stars and Bars”.
there is a 7 day exercise window currently in effect in which 15% of pre-tax awarded shares can be sold. early employees are able to sell, today through thursday. things look alright from here. there is another window for 25% after Q1 subject to performance. im not expecting a massive movement on the actual lockup expiration in may
> I currently have a pulled neck as a result of too many hours sitting at my desk.

I've found doing face pulls at the gym significantly helped build up all the supporting back/neck musculature that I was beating up sitting at a desk all day. Rows also were pretty helpful for my lower back.
F90 isn't bad, try F77. F90 and on you had more options with the layout of your program so that it was actually sensible. And you can use recursion without having to check if your compiler supports it. And reentrant functions.

But the built-in types are collection types are anemic, it's similar to C in that regard. It's a relatively low-level language compared to other high-level languages. But if I were doing math/simulation stuffs, I would definitely consider using it again.

Just, please, no more embedded programs written in Fortran. That was a bad idea (unless it's doing complex math like for the radar system).
I definitely remember those days. Both our kids are in university now and the part of the chart that spoke to me was seeing that steep drop off when the kids reach a certain age. It was a big change when the kids started high school and all of their sports and activities were based around the school instead of parent volunteers.

It is fine now, and it is great to hear what the kids are learning in physics and math, and even cooler when they ask the old man for advice on a programming assignment. I would really love to have a couple of hours back though when we were all doing Lego robotics together. I miss those days.
We can go with the movie age of 30. Which is a little less harsh.

Mostly I just meant living in a mall. Maybe you'd just lose your lease when you hit 30?
Many brokerages allow you to short the actual underlying, without resorting to options.
TFA:

“ Early on, state agencies refused to release information about the number of coronavirus hospitalizations and cases in long-term care facilities, and only provided it after news organizations threatened litigation. Florida still does not provide a comprehensive list of outbreaks at businesses and other public places.”
I just checked sweden's sentence lengths. The penalty for rape is 4-10 years and murder is often 10+ years.

Atleast that part of your claims is wrong.
It's pretty flourishing though if you look at the graphs.
But they wouldn't care about Gecko-based browsers any less than they do now. They would simply not care about Webkit-based browsers. If anything, the developers who can now use a Gecko-based mobile browser who couldn't before would now care to test it. Meanwhile, Mozilla's job will be easier, only having to target mobile compatibility with one rendering engine.