skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? ”Frontend” is what the customer sees first and bad UI is guaranteed to turn away customers in a competitive market.
> Did things really change that much about how people perceive privacy since 2013 that now no one cares?

My guess is that is a mixture of glassholes from back then are willing to try again and younger people who would have been glassholes back then never got a chance and so are trying again. The societal expectations probably haven't changed, although the loudness of the different voices in society may have. I almost expect more pushback now, given the increased awareness of privacy invasion and the greater trust Google enjoie(s/d) vs Facebook
Blaming America for Germany’s draconian speech laws isn’t right at all. It’s been almost 80 years.
A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing nothing (2015)
GCC pauses.
I believe we’re at the beginning of the pour
> offences that aren’t even crimes in many countries

Like what? Drugs are becoming decriminalized the world over, but this is an extremely recent phenomenon.
> The relationship between the police and the public in the states also seems dangerously adversarial and does not inspire me with confidence.

This is greatly exaggerated. Not that the bad things you see in the news don’t happen. Just that most interactions with the police aren’t in fact any more adversarial than in other countries.

I am not white, and I have been stopped by police multiple times in the US, Europe, and Asia, as well as selected for additional screening in airports in the US, London, and the Netherlands.

Whether the police were adversarial or not was not a function of whether they were in the US. Indeed the one time the police actually behaved in a threatening way was in the UK.
> more free than me

How are we meant to make sense of your comment, if you don't state which country your from/in?

I see this often, commenters presuming we know which country they are in.
The title and article are wrong. They raided his ex's apartment (a household with 2 small kids; he was still registered as living there but had moved out) even after the offender presented himself to police and admitted sending that Tweet.
> but those considerations are often excuses offered to justify the torture to external critics. In many cases, people are tortured purely in order to terrorize others into compliance, or because the torturers are sadists who get off on it.

Sure, but in that case you're fucked regardless, so there's not much point worrying about it.
Because as an American you put the border at physical violence but think verbal violence doesn't matter. You see that as freedom. I see it as a lack of culture. Far more than an ocean separates these two continents.

Note that it is entirely play pretend anyway. I know for a fact that I can actually say and do far more here than the American society would tolerate in the USA.
Is your concern over the lack of "or frequent testing" in the headline? Or is it that Biden is not doing something, OSHA will be? I think both are pedantic.
> "It's like when the medieval Catholic Church refused to print a bible in anything but Latin so that they'd remain the sole authority on its content."

The debate is about using language as a gatekeeping mechanism. The analogy is spot on...

> "shame on those who maintain this status quo."

A person shows up eager to learn, expresses gratitude, feels scorned at all of the language-based gatekeeping that goes into this topic. You don't think it's fair to feel frustrated with the people doing the gatekeeping? (I don't think _you_ will, but only because I think you're one of the gatekeepers the original poster is (fairly) shaming).
Indeed... and if one is not convinced, a simple walk along the beaches of Normandy will make it very clear.
Can you not tell the difference between physical violence and words?
JIT supply chains have always been extraordinarily fragile.

We saw a small version of this global situation with Katrina when supply chains emptied out in the South. Typically there is only 3 days worth of inventory in most grocery stores of either perishable or non-perishable just because of consumption rates out-the-door by consumers. This was hidden when everything upstream "simply worked".

The problem is that each node, by JIT norms, tries to keep ZERO inventory or close to it. So the standard model is that as inventories drop in retail, which is why scanners were introduced replacing stuck-on price tags that were the norm in my youth, and hit a defied threshold, an order is placed electronically to the supplier for that item (or items). Then if there is any inventory, it gets shipped but again the ideal is ZERO INVENTORY, so that order from downstream triggers an order to upstream. All the while there is "in-transit inventory" that will arrive first.

The inventory systems used are statistically/probabilistic so they "predict" futures based on past consumption and trigger orders. It's not unlike a PID controller but not that sophisticated. The UNIVERSAL PROBLEM with all such systems (and that includes option risk/pricing including all derivatives) is that the assumption made is that the statistics are CENTRAL and thus returning to a mean, and that implicitly REQUIRES that each element/transaction/etc. MUST BE INDEPENDENT OF ALL OTHERS - otherwise the assumption of centrality is not mathematically valid. And we happen to know that things like markets are not independent in this way - that's the implication of Mandelbrot finding that markets are fractal - the directly implies long tails and non-independence.

So if anything creates a situation of major cross-correlation by something like: market consolidation, market juicing with QE and then with a cherry on top of a universally affecting pandemic that suddenly makes everything codependent with one variable: the pandemic and its cause world-wide, then all bets are off for inventory models and risk modeling like Black-Scholes. Monopolies also create the same type of universal cross-correlation/co-dependency that breaks every type of statistical/probabilistic model previously used.

I've been expecting this to happen eventually. Sadly I've never come up with much of a defense against it or the political/totalitarianism likely to follow it. At least no a universal solution everyone could use.
Ah, yes, I don't know why I was conflating criminal prosecution with civil litigation around police misconduct. Prosecutors could charge and convict them in many cases but you're right, they won't.
Who says I'm blaming anyone? All I'm saying is that apparently some major people in the US saw it proposed and thought nothing of it.
I was a fan of yang, but then he started harping on "illegal food vendors" in NYC, and I realized he's another tech-bro ghoul.

I'd like my political donation back, yang, if you're reading.
Context and the multiple roles of a person, is why people get upset over this.

I agree with you. As a CEO, estranging any significant section of the market is not a good career move!

But amongst their friends, family, [insert other social circle here] their comments may not be a big deal.

As a non-public persona, I say expletives at work(as an employee) that I wouldn't want my child hearing(as a father). I can get away with it because the two worlds don't collide.

But once you have a public persona - like being a CEO - your worlds are merged into one. You don't get to have a "personal opinion" because your public persona cuts across all boundaries and your comments will be judged in the context of a public majority opinion.

Having a "public" persona is no joke. Take it seriously and expect that non-majority opinions will get public blowback so there better be a good reason for them!
You're joking, right? How many counties and cities in America have "Fayette", if not "Lafayette" in their names? That's our guy here. I was absolutely aware of him via my history classes at least as far back as high school no more than 20 years ago. But perhaps they stopped teaching actual history and relevant characters since then.
> I wasn’t even using them for video or picture taking, which I wanted to explain but he had no patience for.

I would have also asked you to take them off. For one, normalizing wearing them even if not recording is a step towards normalizing them at all. For another, I don't really trust you when you say they're not recording. I remember having to alter my paths through crowds to avoid glassholes back then, and I don't want to go back.

Why would you even want to wear it in a bar?

> Maybe attitudes have changed but I can’t imagine it going much better.

I hope attitudes haven't changed. I hope people still ostracize beaming pictures of everyone around them into the cloud without consent.
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This edge is more soft than cutting.
It’s not much of a ‘culture’ if politeness has to be enforced by the government.

For what it’s worth, having lived in both places Americans are less likely to insult you than the British, but more likely to take it seriously.
I feel like there's enough Lafayette cities and counties in the US to counter the notion that he isn't well known.
It is well for Epic for this dispute to remain live in the eyes of the public, because a legislative solution in their favor is possibly more likely than a judicial one. On the other hand, Apple doesn't want the world to see how the sky fails to fall in when their iron grip is slightly loosened.
How do you reach that conclusion?
I'm wondering if enforcement of this law is consistent. Somehow, I'm pretty doubtful, but I'd like some confirmation of how it works over there.
The bad news is, Google will find a way to accidentally delete all of those discussion comments. The good news is, no one really used it.
Thanks, I'm really interested in Ruby's internals. If you have any other resource I'd be happy to check them.
MTurk is a laughable source of input and a lot of academics rely on it for their papers
Does it make a difference when there's only 2 parties and neither of them are really any different from each other?
Very much not this in the frontend development world! By the way I had this same thought (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17080251)

As long as newbie frontend engineers out of coding bootcamp continue dominating the hiring market this will never change. It's factory mentality.
Someone Dead Ruined My Life Again. (CGP Grey)
Because the line of physical violence is pretty clear cut. The line at which someone gets offended is not and can vary drastically depending on the person, religion, current events, etc. Laws need clear definitions.
Second time you've mentioned this mysterious "2-man team weapon" that can make hostile amphibious landings "nary [sic] impossible" or "painful."

Care to share a link? All I can think of is https://pacificrim.fandom.com/wiki/Jaeger XD
>As long as it’s limited to reasonable fines

This will only result in those not living paycheck to paycheck being willing to speak out.
> I sure am glad to live in a country where freedoms are explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree.

I can only assume you're referring to the US's Constitution.

Rights that are apparently guaranteed by the US Constitution are routinely ignored by all levels of US Government.

You may get your day in court, you may even have the court rule in your favour. That does not mean you're made whole, or that the government will back down and stop doing things that infringe upon your rights.
Only counting new immigrants over a very short recent period.
> Even the former US Vice President Dick Cheney nearly faced consequences

But everyone else called him a "pimmel" with no consequences at all.
Interesting story. A week ago, driving my car, I was exiting I-95 for a rest stop when the car in front of me and the truck in front of it started slowing down, then stop fully. We were stopped for a minute for no reason, so I relied on my trusty AWD to maneuver off the road and around the stopped truck. As I pulled up to it, I lowered my window, and asked the driver if he was OK. Driver said to me that his air system got damaged on the road, and he couldn't drive for more than a few hundred feet before stopping again. I'm not exactly sure how all of that works, but there was nothing I could do, so I moved on. After reading this, I wonder if that driver and his employer are facing the same challenge.
If Taiwan isn’t trying to project its military force (and it isn’t) instead of a carrier-killer corvette, why not use land based hypersonic missiles as defense against invading forces? Get some sats put up and get ready.
I Find this definition of freedom mind boggling. By that logic, brave new world describes a free society.
My impression of Yang—and I liked the guy—was that mainstream Democrats were never really his primary audience anyway. His Twitter account seemed to be a raucous mix of Bernie bros, socialists with trollish leanings, memesters, and other oddballs whose politics—and dedication—appeared somewhat amorphous.

I don’t think the party screwed him at all. I think most Dems weren’t really in his camp anyway and the ones who were either gravitated towards Bernie or didn’t ultimately vote at all.
I like doing client-side logic, e.g. calculators, stuff like that. I think that falls in the middle of UX/no-UX.
China is not Iraq. It's insane to compare the two.

Europe was okay with the first invasion of Iraq because they frankly had very little to lose and a lot to gain.

Meanwhile suiciding the EU economy by cutting off Chinese exports would hurt the EU a lot more than it would hurt China and certainly much more than the invasion of Kuwait.

In any case I'd recommend reading what Chinese generals write on the subject. For the exact same reason as you cited they don't want to invade Taiwan unless "necessary" until the balance of trade shifts far more into the Chinese side.

Yet when confronted on the possibility of doing it now they make a very solid point. China is the only country in the world that produces everything it needs for daily operations, without a single exception, in one way or another.

That is to say, in the Chinese calculus, the EU and US cutting themselves off of Chinese trade would hurt the former more in the short term and medium term than it would hurt China, and their arguments for it are compelling.

Beyond that, the truth is that there is a lot more to the economy than the EU and the US. China would still trade with Russia, Africa, South East Asia, almost definitely South Korea, and most of Central and South Asia.

The real thing that is at issue in Chinese military planning is not a voluntary embargo, it's a blockade by the US. But even the ability for the US to execute such a maneuver is already questionable and dwindles every year, and it would assuredly royally piss of the entirety of the world and definitely kill millions outside of China from economic dysfunction.
Those essentially local attempts at occupation and state building are completely different to a potential hypothetical symmetrical war with China that implicates the whole global order.
Ever use Facebook? WhatsApp? Discord? Telephones? Docker? Amazon EC2? Bought something in a Walmart store or on their websites? etc. etc. Some of their core, critical parts are written in functional programming languages.

Just because you don't see FP out in the wild being conspicuous, doesn't mean it's not there ;-)
The Ryukyus are mostly adjacent to Taiwan, it’s also where most of America’s Japan based military bases are. So in terms of air power brought to bare, China has a huge hill to climb with enemies right next door. The main reason that China has pushed for dominance of the entire South China Sea is simply so that they aren’t easily hemmed in from the rest of the world.

A war between the USA and China would ultimately do no one good, even Chinese wolf warriors should realize that.
Tradeoffs Between Edge vs. Cloud
> This phrase is the cheeky line to (somewhat) formally define the monad

It's actually a satirical joke[1] that people started taking way too seriously. Honestly, imho people should never use this line when explaining monads. It's like saying 'C is a purely functional programming language!' because Conal Elliott, around the same time, wrote[2] a parodic blog post making fun of purely functional programming zealots.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210824072932/https://james-iry...

[2] http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...
Proof-of-work based captcha which is lightweight, self-hosted and GPLv3 licensed
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I too don't consider myself knowledgeable enough, even though I've tried to learn as much about how both covid and the vaccines work as possible. And I was wiped out for a full 36 hours (all the nasty flu symptoms except respiratory: cytokine storm!) and the worst reaction I know of first-degree was someone with the same who had to take a full week off.

But ultimately it all boils down to trading-off risks.

So many of the anti-vaccine arguments only look at absolute risk, instead of the risk compared to getting covid itself, or even just everyday risks that we shrug off. (At one point in the AZ discussion, I worked out that the risk of a blood clot was around the same as getting killed on your commute... every week).

I'm sure this is what the doctors do as well. Unless they're immunologists etc, it's quite easy as a layman (at least if you're on HN) to bring yourself up to the level of understanding of your average general practitioner, so there's probably the exact same conversations happening. I browse the published medical studies, same as they do.
> A person shows up eager to learn, expresses gratitude, feels scorned at all of the language-based gatekeeping that goes into this topic.

They expressed gratitude for those who told them easy falsehoods and scorn for those who told them harder truths, characterizing such honesty as "gatekeeping". That's not the action of someone eager to learn, it's someone who's eager to avoid learning, like those politicians who, rather than put in the effort to understand the economic implications of their policy, go shopping around economists until they find one who gives them the answer they want.
Which is at the mercy of interpretation from the court; we must always be vigilant and be ready to agitate against this becoming common, as your constitution doesn’t actually guarantee anything: humans are still the ones who run and decide things. The constitution isn’t the silicon American society runs on, it’s more firmware, to use a shitty analogy.
Wow, come on guys, the French helped us out early in our history, and we appreciate it and learn about it in school. At least give us a nod.
Organizing for openness: models for developer involvement in hybrid OSS projects
Agree, it's a slog for the fist couple dozen episodes as Mike gets into his groove but it's really great and I look forward to listening again once he wraps up Revolutions.
Well, and local laws. Making sure people get their breaks has been part of the supervisor/manager role for every food service job I've had, but I'm in California where breaks are mandated by the government.
1 and 2 are easy.

The rest are regional and don't help much from everything I've seen about the topic.

I want glass, paper, and cardboard packaging to make a comeback. We shouldn't be using space age high performance single use materials for making sure the SD card is contained in 100x the mass of plastic it is itself made of.

It's insulting, honestly, that they feel it's worth spending their money to make me throw away trash that didn't need to exist.

Where I am you can technically recycle 1, 2, 4, and 5 but 4 (grocery bags) sucks and 5 is nearly prohibitively expensive. So really you can recycle 1 and 2 and feel good about pretending that the 4 and 5 will be recycled. Meanwhile no one teaches the places that do takeout that they can just use different containers that cost the same or less but are recyclable. And no one teaches them that getting "compostable plastic" is trash here and almost everywhere.
In Sparta slaves were hunted as a rite of passage
Alright, but you were praising the article for conveying the meaning of the words, when those meanings are useless without some sort of interesting application.

I believe people find monads difficult to grok not because the definition is hard to remember, but because the situation in which it is useful to distinguish the type class is abstract and frankly not super useful in most cases.

Funny thing about zoos of new terminology, back when I was an undergrad I found the type classes to be a confusing subject. Then one day I realized that type and class are basically synonyms so you might as well call them type types or class classes, which totally cemented the idea for some reason. My brain had been getting stuck on this random terminology and this just unclogged it.
I could have written at greater length but I don't believe I'm breaking the other guidelines. Schopenhauer isn't a fellow commenter, he's a historical figure and one of his most notable qualities was being incredibly abrasive, spiteful, and cantankerous, which informed a fair portion of his writing. There are many sources for this but I'll submit his essay "On Noise" as an example [1]. In it, he spends half a dozen paragraphs to reach the same conclusion as The Grinch in his eponymous Christmas special, for the same reasons. You may think the essay is satirical - it's not. It's representative. Discussing Schopenhauer without a clear view of his nature as an asshole is as lacking an analysis as reading Bukowski without the same.

[1] https://genius.com/Arthur-schopenhauer-on-noise-annotated
Indeed, there are more than twenty American cities and towns named for the man, and scores more of townships, places, squares, parks, and streets. There are five streets named Lafayette in New York City alone. The Wikipedia article of American places named for Lafayette doesn't even mention some others that I happen to know like Lafayette Park in San Francisco.
For some reason the title was altered to say something bizarre. The Twitter user did not raid the politician’s house.
More than you would think. Many health habits, both good and bad, spread socially. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/07/obesity-is-co...
Not saying your anecdote isn't true, but the data in the US, speaks a pretty clear language.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/young-black-adults-less-...
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/press-re...
https://www.statista.com/chart/21872/map-of-police-violence-...
Maybe I'm just fanatical about how I organise my drying rack ;-)

The fact that it's at counter-height helps. I find that chore pretty straightforward.
There was some tut tutting about the VP technically being a senator since the VP casts tie-breaking senate votes. But I don’t think it went anywhere serious. Anyways, it later turned out the VP is allowed to shoot people without consequences too, so it seems VPs are given a certain amount of immunity. Point is, there are rules on political speech, but it doesn’t have to quell political debate.
Today the relevant section of that OSHA FAQ reads:

> DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers' vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904's recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination at least through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.

https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#vaccine
Insulting someone has an actual definition. It is not about being offended.
Apple fires Ashley Gjøvik, senior employee who alleged sexism at work
I remember using a 6809 emulator that ran on the 6809, similar to this project which includes a 6502 emulator running on a 6502. Never saw anything as cool in the emulator category until VMWare was released 20 years later.