skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, no, you can't force "respectful".

Yes, you are right.

> it's not the kind of comment we want on HN

I agree, but if the goal is for the OP to understand this and change, I feel like the downvote acts more like a way for the downvoter to feel better than to teach the OP what was wrong with the comment.

> isn't really going to raise the level of discourse much (...) it tells the original poster more than a bare downvote does, but not much more

I see what you mean, and I agree, but at the same time I think that the difference between 'nothing' and giving some feedback is in my opinion what makes the difference between making downvoting about retaliation vs. teaching and correcting behavior.
> I don't think the second wrong of circumventing publisher paywalls makes that right.

What's wrong with "circumventing" paywalls?

17 U.S.C. § 107

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies … for purposes such as … scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
They're displacing a lot of regular car sales, but it's not clear to me how the manufacturing and operation of a Tesla is a net positive for the environment. You could also just walk or take public transit and you'd be doing arguably more.
They're just internet points, they don't mean anything.
I can't find any evidence of that being true. In this article[1] for example, all the examples either have the comma before the "aber" or none at all. I can't find any example anywhere where a comma after the "aber" would be correct nor can I think of one myself.

I also wouldn't say that German has "otherwise the same grammar as English". (Or in wrong German: "Ich auch würde nicht sagen dass Deutsch hat ansonsten das gleich Grammatik wie Englisch" - even if we're just talking about comma rules, the German version should have a comma before the "that/dass").

[1]: http://www.neue-rechtschreibung.net/2012/04/30/kommasetzung-...
Imagine you’re sitting in a circle of friends. Arguing about something. You propose an argument and the rest of your friends just shake their heads and indicate with thumbs down. No words are uttered, no response, it’s just silence.

It feels oppressive to be downvoted without explanation about reasonable, well articulated points. I’m not talking about rude, disrespectful comments. Just because you disagree, you shouldn’t just walk away with “Take that! Downvotes for you! I’m out”.

It’s rude. It’s disrespectful. It’s very un-HN.

There are many disadvantages and zero upsides to “Downvote as a disagreement”. It is a signal to others who are now primed with the gray text. It affects people’s thinking. It invalidates arguments before others have had a chance to think about it. It’s downright dangerous.

Downvotes are totally OK for rude comments.
> Seconded. Haven’t seen this anywhere.

The military has it, and (news to me) it appears common in accountancy and management consulting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out
Thanks for the reply. As unsolicited feedback, Atlassian should rip off the bandaid and pick one of the code bases and have that be the go-forward platform for both cloud and on-prem. Bitbucket's two biggest competitors have largely the same code base for cloud and on-prem. The market expects feature parity between cloud and on-prem products and to not have to re-write to a different API when moving from on-prem to cloud or vice versa.
It seems that you are becoming upset enough about this conversation that you are losing the ability to either consider the limits of your own knowledge or understand my comments well enough to respond to them. I'm sorry I upset you; that wasn't my intention.
Current status: my job, yes, it's specifically about preventing badness. The company, generally yes, although there are some definite areas of concern.

This is something I've thought about on a regular basis; usually before I take a job, and again if the project changes. I have a couple of thoughts about this:

1. Finding software jobs right now if you have experience is like shooting fish in a barrel. If you have any question in your head that requires serious examination to tease apart whether it crosses the line into immorality, save yourself the time and energy and exercise the option to go elsewhere.

2. There are some projects that absolutely fall into the "will not work on" bucket for me. Weapons, payday loans, etc, anything that causes or benefits from human suffering, etc.

2. If you have the energy, I think joining an organization which has unethical fundamentals and trying to redirect it is a worthy goal, as long as you don't lie to yourself about how effective you're being, which I suspect will generally be "not at all".

3. I try to keep my buckets for "ethical" and "not ethical" reasonably clean. At some level, you can argue that any organization not primarily focused on fixing the issues with our societies is part of the problem, which pretty much limits you to non-profits and (in some parts of the world) government/healthcare organizations. That's fine if you're inclined that way, but making money selling products/services to consenting adults should not be seen as evil; I find this kind of perfectionist/puritanical thinking muddies the waters substantially.

4. I focus a lot on the people that I'm working with. I think that most projects that don't obviously fall in the "evil" bucket can be run ethically or unethically. In my experience, it's not that hard to pick out people who are fundamentally grifters, and if I see them in places of power in the organization/company, I'm looking at the door.

5. I did a lot of research before taking my current job to see what the complaints are about the company. It's a bit annoying because a lot of the CSR ratings are behind paywalls, but the information is out there.
I am not very clear on your arguments. Would help if you could explain more.

>> Code being used to do things is not an expression like poetry.

Agreed. When "being used to do things" is not an expression. Writing code is to be differentiated from it being used. It's the writing part which can involve creative expression, and where copyright applies.

>> Much in the same way actual language cannot be copyrighted outside of doing a performance

Whether natural or programming languages are themselves copyrightable or not is unsettled by law as yet. AFAIK, there are no precedants either way. So for now at least, we can assume that language cannot be copyrighted.

>> you cannot, for instance, copyright a pickup line at a bar ...

Short phrases are not copyrightable. How short is short is an open question (i.e., no fixed rule is available, other than vaguely saying how likely are two people to come up with the same thing independently).

>> ... and prevent others from using it, though you may prevent them from publishing it.

Copyright usually comes into action when the subject matter is fixed into a tangible medium. So merely someone using a pickup line at a bar may not grant copyrights or prevent someone else from using it.

>> But pointing again to the fact that it doesn't really matter, because if we fixate on form being relevant, we can train machines to copy intent while distorting form. The complaint of copilot copying code verbatim is a red herring to the problem at hand.

I see your point, which is hinting that code has something that's beyond pure form and patentable ideas. This is what I would like to brainstorm on and understand. What exactly is this, how could this be codified into a law.

And how do we still distinguish code from prose/poetry in both respects involved, i.e., creative expression of form, and the functional aspect.
According to [1] Air conditioners use about 6% of all the electricity produced in the United States.

I guess that's less than I had imagined. And apparently it's not just because northern houses don't have AC, since apparently [2] 87% of houses do.

Edit: Then again a lot of energy is used by industry, so maybe 6% used by residential air conditioning is a lot.
[3] suggest 17% of residential energy is AC.

[1]: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/home-cooling-systems/air-...
[2]: https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/reports/2009/air...
[3]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...
Being employed to one of those companies is like working for the mafia without the risk of being killed (at least not directly) part. Expect no loyalty,fairness,open-communication, or just any basic decency from them.
If it requires a comment to downvote, then it should be the same to upvote.
Would love to see this code if you don't mind sharing.

Mostly interested on how you even create a simulation like this.
If someone is going to target medics I’m pretty sure their morals are gone to the point where they don’t care if it’s Red Cross or not.
US-tech companies, and comparable countries.
There is also a UI/UX problem on mobile, the buttons can easily be fat fingered. There'd be a nice externality to this extra step.
Have you considered that memorization is a good thing?

I memorized a lot of information, but I still search just as often on google and stackoverflow whenever I needed to check something.

It also help that I don't try to memorize a bunch of a crap before an exam.
I agree, but the problem with this case was that simulations led to complacency about not thinking they needed integration tests. That's much rarely in the hardware domain. It's not really meant to be a critique of simulations but rather how we use them.
These are all echoes of General Electric's / Jack Welch's stack-ranking 'innovation' which still gets lauded by MBA types but has been a disaster everywhere it was implemeneted.
> why would they be trying to actively get rid of people?

It's the same idea behind stack ranking: get good recruits, while getting rid of the under-performers who either slip-through, or whose performance deteriorated while on the job.

Amazon would like to think they are keeping the good people onboard and throwing out the deadwood.
Of Red Cross buildings/vehicles/personnel being bombed? Lots of them. Here are the first three I found on Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolo_hospital_airstrike

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/us-admits-bombing-red-cross-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523489/
There are plenty of non-Red Cross alternative symbols that can be used to more generically indicate 'healing'. The Red Cross and Red Crescent specifically are meant to be used by members of that organization, who are internationally recognized as being neutral parties in wartime.
Yes, I would absolutely state that there are dozens, perhaps hundreds or thousands, of brilliant innovations, technologies and engineering feats that make it possible for a 757 to exist, and fly so safely, routinely and inexpensively that the general public takes it entirely for granted.
Earthly team member here. Yes, we're working on native windows support as we speak. This has been highly requested.
I don't think games are very good about doing an accurate representation there. They mostly seem to slap a red cross on anything "healing" related, like not-non-combatant military medics (Starcraft medics and medivacs come to mind, which the game specifically expects you to fire at).
Great to see earthly alive and kicking. Was in touch with Vlad nearly a year ago, and my main blocker to using it was longevity of the project in quite a saturated space. Perhaps it’s time to take a closer look :) It looks great!
https://idownvotedbecau.se/
Love Hoplark. Expensive tho.
At the very least it should be consistent. If Microsoft can sue me for something trivial that probably shouldn't be illegal but is, then I can sue them for something trivial that probably shouldn't be illegal but is.
For 500k? Yeah I’d do it even for a year, working on the most dullard shit then have 3 years off.
I'm not a clojure dev but I don't think that's true, I think you can do react-native with clojurescript
> This allows precisely those patents which one would expect provide value, and not the rest.

That's only true if we assume you have a handy oracle available to determine what actually would happen if the invention were neither published nor productized by the original applicant or their licensee. Otherwise the patent office is merely speculating without any evidence on which to base their decision. Once the invention is out in the wild there is no objective way to determine whether it "would have been" independently invented or productized by someone else, so you can't even get feedback (15+ years delayed) on how accurate your speculation has been.
To clarify, I wasn't talking about them tracking you, I was talking about the SDKs used proxying connections unbeknownst to you using your mobile (or wifi?) data, which the SDK provider sells as a business.
While I completely for the ideals and efforts of the Red Cross organization, I felt their statement in the article is rather ironic:

"The red cross is a powerful symbol of neutrality, impartiality, humanity and hope. Please help us protect it!"

They have redefined the cross, which to Christians, is the symbol of God's love for us, and the hope of healing and salvation, and therefore the driver for the origination of the organization itself - to be the hands and feet of Christ.

They have stripped it of its original meaning (for laudable purposes btw), and now are concerned when others do the same...
Air conditioning removes heat and moisture from indoor air, which has a big impact on your breathing comfort. This is very different to the cool suits racing drivers and others wear, who also have cooled breathing air piped into their helmets.
Maybe the case is that "bad" culture (i.e. culture that is bad for employees but good for employers) can "work" (i.e. make the company money) for a little while. And that's all the time that it needs to work for, if you have short-term goals like creating a virtual monopoly. Then you can relax and reform you image afterwards, which is fine with you because you already have everyone's business anyway, and they're not going to go elsewhere.
Living through a heat dome was terrifying… seeing birds pant and plants die a couple days after the extreme heat.

I hope this spurs everyone to take climate change more seriously but I won’t hold my breath.
> I believe that in the real world, you rarely work alone, and

Real world work is nothing like group work. In real world, you can carve part of project on yourself and be judged on that. You can complain about co workers doing nothing. The teamleader deals with interpersonal or productivity issues.

And ultimately, you can leave team or find new job if above dont happen.

> group work allow to have more fun project than what you can do in a 1-2h exam.

Or someone else from the group do the fun parts and will try to offload only boring parts on others.

School group work is less fun then individual, unless you are lucky to work with really good matching people. It has none of the processes and structures that mediates political issues in real work.
Good luck. It will be epic battle.

Big Tech is willing to spend tens of millions to fight this. They are already running subtle PR campaign against Lina Khan.
It takes off the pressure to make popular content. Quality content can be unpopular, niche, wonderful content. Popular content needs to be tolerable by as many people as possible, which means taking fewer risks on high-quality slightly controversial or intellectual or unfamiliar material.
>I pretty much always go with a straight answer like I need to pay the rent

I always find this reasoning confusing. As a reasonably competent engineer, I've always felt like I have many employment options open to me. Yes I need to pay rent, but I always have an honest answer to the question that goes well beyond that. If I only cared about paying my rent, I would go work for a FANNG and triple my salary. I don't, because there are genuinely much more interesting reasons to work for a particular organization than money.
That's basically what the Hoppy Refresher is -- a hop-flavored seltzer. :) I actually really like it, though.
If we want to identify a subset of the population who are privileged enough to make unconstrained choices we must look at billionaires and where they choose to live.

Favoring 2nd gen over 1st gen is not a viable position. It easily falls apart.
Good point.

Tags also aids discovery.
Also beats the point of having a cell phone.
Deep Learning in Spiking Neural Networks (2019)
>Where do you get this confidence that there's no confusion with the green cross?

The continents of Europe, Africa, Australia... I've also seen it used in China but I'm not as familiar with Asia because I haven't lived there.

I'm sorry, but if your only example is the US then you're likely to be wrong about a lot of things.
Ok, so as I iterate over the data and generate an fibonacci code, i:

- compute the ema for each code

- store the ema by mapping that code to a given ema value at the step during iteration

- encode that code to the file based on the algo here [0]

How much more efficient at compression would this be by actually getting the probabilities first rather than updating it on the fly (one full iteration over the non fibonacci codes to compute the exact probability, then again for actually passing it thru the range coder)? Or is this something that i'll just have to play around with?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_encoding#Example
What will be the penalty for not being vaccinated? My children and I are vaccinated, but I think coercion is likely to increase unfounded fears about covid vaccines.
I've added "My" to the title to make clear that it's the author's (your!) perspective. I hope that's ok.
You have a very principled position, one that I don't necessarily disagree with[1]. However, information is, in fact, power, and the power disparity in the currently legal model, between those with access to a well-funded research library and those without, is very great. And like most power disparities, it is self-sustaining; it will not change without an equally powerful force changing it.

[1] Two provisos: the costs of professional publishing a journal is per-issue; perhaps, per-paper. Not per-copy. A pay-to-publish model would put incentives in the right place, but is fraught with a whole stack of conflicts of interest. Which is being actively exploited. So, ... yeah.

Second, the consumer-pays model actively hurts researchers themselves, who would like to see their research disseminated as widely as possible. "If I do research funded by UK tax money and publish it, should that paper be freely available to Americans too, or only to UK tax payers?" Want to bet what researchers' answer to that question would be?

Fortunately for me, I was a computer scientist. In that field, researchers (almost?) universally make their papers freely available, often in complete disregard of their publishing venue's rules (with no consequences). So, to medicine and physics and what-not, I can only say phtththp.
Was the Industrial Revolution the Industrial Revolution?
Yeah, and if you believe police officers, nurses, and other first responders are public servants--as I do--then you should see the pay ranges of Red Cross "employees." They are definitely public servants (nearly unpaid compared to other first responders). Easily the best organization I have ever known or worked for.
People do in fact generally (but not always) respect the neutrality of the Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations, including in current conflicts between the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan, where they've had access to prisoners from both sides and run landmine injury rehabilitation centers.
To my current knowledge, this possible "mandatory vaccine" policy has not been mentioned on local French TV or media. I think it would just reenforce the antivaccine people in their convictions that prevents them from getting vaccinated in the first place.

Another option that was explained in public media is to enforce the "vaccination pass" for meeting in public spaces, like in cinema and restaurants, where you can currently go without any certificate. The idea is that people will want to get vaccinated to go to the restaurant and see movies. Maybe people will just simply not go there anymore (they got used to it) and invite their (unvaccinated) friends at their places instead.

From my siblings, I distinguish two kinds of people that did not get their first shot:

(1) Did not took the time to reserve a slot and get vaccinated because <reasons>, but wants to be vaccinated at some point; and
(2) Actively does not want to be vaccinated because <reasons>.

For (1) the summer vacations may be a reason that people are delaying their first shot, they will probably deal with it after summer. The mandatory vaccination pass for accessing public spaces may force them to act upon earlier.

For (2) I am not sure mandatory vaccines will get public approval at all. Yellow vests almost blocked the country for a tax increase on gas. I feel like the same kind of people will get pretty upset about vaccine enforcement, and will be creative in protests somehow.
We're talking about video games causing this, retard. One of your examples was an apparent mistake. One was done before video games. And one was done by Israelis.
For consistency it should also be "it mean's the world to us". Grind all my gears at once.
Safermoon.net is aiming to put an end to the rug-pull nonsense with a launchpad to easily create tokens that are genuinely secure.

I don't know if there are other projects like it but something should definitely done to avoid regulation that could mess up cryptocurrency altogether.
Other Big-N companies have comparable pay with way less stress.
What would the other type of competitor be?

Those sports you mention like figuring skating and gymnastics already have execution scores 'style' if you will built in.

Personally, I have the opposite opinion. I prefer sports that are more quantified on difficulty alone (and the obvious 1st to finish). Looking at execution is one thing, like taking a step is clearly not as skilled as sticking it no debate there. But judging how pretty something is just doesn't seem fair to me nor personally as interesting as throwing hard skills.

Gymnastics in particular grinds me in that they have a lot of silly rules AND they actively decrement leading edge hard skills point value!
Right, but they could make that point without invoking the deaths, so presumably they're engaging in some kind of persuasion about why it's important to respect their trademark.
As someone who just had a kid, I can definitely say the healthcare system and daycare are HUGE expenses that would make it financially tough to have another one.

We've paid ~$10k in medical expenses up until now, and daycare is ~$2k a month (context; Long Island, NY).

The medical expenses PILE UP. Obviously the birth they filled up my wife's deductible, but then (and I should have predicted this) they started filling up our newborn's!

Our 3 month old then had a cold so we took him to the doctor who checked for RSV and covid with one swab. We got a bill for $1600.

And daycare? You need a VERY flexible job to handle a kid in daycare. LO gets his normal vaccines and springs a fever? He needs to stay home for 2 days. Daycare also took a long memorial day weekend AND the last day of June was off too for "between semesters".

Having a kid in daycare is a part-time job with unexpected hours that you pay a ton to have.

Thank God I work at a wonderful company that is SUPER understanding because I don't know what we'd do if it didn't.