skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me think about those individuals who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons. Are the people who get angry from this story, the same people who are favorable to mandates and passports?

The front line nurses who were heroes a year ago, are now hated... until they become homeless, and we'll feel sorry for them again.
Outside of housing, healthcare, daycare, education and transportation the two income household of today consumes less then a single income household in the 1970’s. The spending is different, with households today spending less on things like china or formal clothes but net it all out and it is less.

Housing is larger but also older and mostly driven by proximity to good schools. It is hard to consider the other expenses discretionary.

This was the conclusion a Elizabeth Warrens research summarized in The Two Income Trap.
This github links to a twitter thread about rationale for the change which mentions a sexist joke that was in the ruby mailing lists but doesn't link to it. I feel like I've read entire news articles about kinds of events like these where no one will actually show what was said. We're just supposed to agree it was really bad sight unseen. Here's my guess at the joke at the core of this for anyone wondering: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

Edit: Appears it was copied in the git thread, as mentioned below.
As a mod, it is helpful to have rules to point to when disciplining someone to prevent it from seeming arbitrary.
3 decades here with 2 decades in tech management. I gave up trying to be as good as my best developer a decade ago. My job is to facilitate great developers to write great code and engineer solid systems so no one above me shits on my head.

Also…to be just technically smart enough on our platforms not to be bullshitted.
Yup came to comment the same hah
Ask HN: Hacker News page width broken on mobile
The hacker news homepage is flowing off the screen on mobile today. Anyone else seeing this? The previous style sheet was practically perfect, hoping it isn’t a permanent change.
Isn't that a conglomerate in a nutshell? "Our random incompetency averages with our random competency, such that we're able to avoid bankruptcy and remain a going concern longer than smaller, less diversified companies."
They make supply chain validation problematic and introduce room for fraud. Not saying market making is bad, just in this case loosing supply chain validation may be worse.
FORTH was a valid alternative to BASIC on the 8-bit machines (it could easily have better code density than naïve raw asm) and some commercial software used it.
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You claimed that the vaccines were "unleashed untested". This claim was shown to be false: they are very much tested, albeit not as rigorously as in normal times - but these aren't normal times, and such possibility is precisely why the emergency protocols were already in place.
i used to live in a place where brown bears would cruise down the street and get within 10 feet of you regularly and had no idea they slimmed down so much over the winter. (maybe the human presence was the reason why?)

nature is so cool!
Or maybe they are price sensitive but the goods are just worth more to them.
> A car battery should be swappable in a day or two

Nio currently swaps out their car batteries in about 3 minutes, much like you'd get an oil change at Jiffy Lube or something. It's completely automated except someone pulls the car in/out of the bay for you. I imagine that human step will be relatively short lived.

> they have to be heavily shielded in case of an accident.

Yes, it's just a simple matter of purposefully designing it to be removed easily.

This is cued up to where he gets to the battery swap station: https://youtu.be/hTsrDpsYHrw?t=358
Yeah, but you only get the list of Spartan defeats, especially before Leuctra by counting battles that have Spartan commanders but not actually any Spartan troops. Mind you, that is a real deficiency of the Spartan system that they frequently have to fight battles with allied troops and not their own because they don't have logistical capacity, have too few hoplites, or are unwilling to have the helots unsupervised for too long, but that's slightly different from what people are saying when they mean the Spartan hoplites were generally pretty good at smashing other Greek Cities' hoplites.
So harassment of non-protected classes is ok? What pre-adolescent nonsense is this? How about "Behave in a professional manner or get kicked off the mailing list."
This feels like the joke that keeps giving.

Why don’t they just come up with something simpler?

instead of showing wattage and 3.1 that really doesn’t mean much to most people, why not just usb for video files, for photo files etc.

Or USB Low Power, High Power etc.
Seems to have suddenly jumped for me in the last 10 minutes, yeah.
Yes- this is the wave we're riding at Amplitude! The revenue center in companies is changing from sales and marketing to the product organization. That's where all your customers are going and the pandemic is just accelerating this trend. As a result, we're seeing the Chief Product Officer becoming the most important role in the enterprise. We're in the very early stages of this trend and I'm excited about the long term potential.

Our SVP Product Justin is a member of the collective as well!
hey James, so you were right that it doesn't (yet) do conflict-resolution out of the box. if you want you could check out the other comment with a detailed response from a Holo team member: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28700602
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21071962-mistic-v-ha... says he didn't have an interpreter to communicate with his attorney while he was in jail
> Why should public transport cost anything at all? I mean, what's the point?

Because by subsidizing public transport, you are discouraging people from options that save the resources used by transportation even more: for example partial home-office, riding to work by bike, or moving closer to work || working closer to home.
This is a very slanted and misleading title. The title of the commit is "Remove abuse enabling language" and it appears to do just that.
> I don’t really understand the benefits, would you mind explaining them to me ?

Want to run a public service with end-to-end connectivity? Go to your RIR to request an IPv4 block and be put on a waiting list.

Or break out your cheque book and be prepared to cough up $35+/IP for the privilege:

* https://auctions.ipv4.global

* https://ipv4marketgroup.com/ipv4-pricing/

* https://ipv4connect.com/marketplace

Or get an IPv6 address block right away for $0.
Doesn’t need to be, the company has more money than the individual, so the threat remains tangible to many.
I hope dang fixes it lol. The horizontal scrolling is very annoying.
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I've read a lot of API documentation but I've never done iOS development. Does anyone have an explanation of the purpose of this variable?

This seems like such a distant yet specific relationship type. Does iOS really have a field for this kind of relationship in Contacts?
You must never have been fired from a draining and toxic role that without the toxic part, you loved and wanted to make a career of only to get shit on and then fired and then threatened and shit on some more. Lucky.

It easily took me two years to stop letting scar tissue and impostor syndrome from affecting my professional and personal life, and I was very aware of it and working on it.
You're clearly getting swayed by the emotive nature of this specific episode.

Are you saying you were not aware of police brutality before? Can you say that knowing about this specific episode is as useful to you as reading documentation or learning how to garden?

You'll have to forgive me if this sounds too utilitarian, but unless you're directly involved in this incident or policy making that affects future instances, then for all intents and purposes, there's no informational value in transmitting this story to you since you're not going to do anything about it anyways. In that sense, it is just vapid consumption, hence entertainment.

To be clear, I'm not criticizing the news reporter. They're doing what they believe is a service to others, and I respect that. What I'm talking about is how you as an entity with limited attention span could alternatively think about news.
Same, only the main pages though. Clicking into comments is normal. Anyone email Dan?
What's with the recurring comments about corporations and businesses?

> Some people may have views that when expressed, may be harmful to the interest of particular groups of people like big corporations. This has to be taken into account.

> universally accepted corporate values

> That's California Core Corporate Policies in work

> For instance, members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class.

> Members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class because they financially contribute to the cause

Given the success of the pull requests, I can only assume that this is not a sockpuppet mocking the rules in question. Is it some kind of multi-layered joke?
But aren’t Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google themselves heavily reliant on things like Unix/Linux? I can imagine a world where all their services exist only as clunky Microsoft offerings that have no rivals except maybe on niche competitor platforms like Mac (pre-OS X)
Why not an enum? Is it an API stability thing?

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Enumerations...

Looks like someone beat me to this (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352473, the reply to it perhaps gets to the reason why. Something about Objective C's enums being different.

See here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13480621
What I think is odd is that "protected classes" language is a highly us-legal-system-centric concept.
As an open-source contributor and professional developer, it tells me which projects to avoid entirely. Keep your state sponsored politics out of my hobby and profession.
There was a saying before 2008: "How do you start an AI based FOREX trading fund? You pretend to be the russian prodigy developing the algo, while I do the insider trading".
It seems the intention is more about setting a higher bar for harassment against protected classes, rather than setting a lower bar for harassment otherwise
"not human level. Something with the motion planning and survival capabilities of a squirrel"

I think you're underestimating how smart a squirrel is.
How about not telling offensive jokes, not making offensive assumptions, or just not being offensive. Its a programming language mailing list, what exactly is it about a sexist joke that you think belongs there?
I was trying to actually look for the sexist joke, couldn't find it anywhere.
“What am I to do” ?

- Be considerate that people around you may have different abilities

- Support movements that aim to make society less violent and police less aggressive

I don’t see any mystery here.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, it's not ideal today, particularly for companies in your situation. The problem is we're applying the same GTM motion across everything. It works very well for the enterprise but to your point a heavy sales approach doesn't make sense for SMB. We're going to be making some changes here to improve it in 2022 and break out how we organize our SMB business from the other parts.

Can you send me a note at spenser@amplitude.com with your thoughts on what you'd like to see? Thanks!
Everything these children worry about is frivolous.
Haha same! Thought it was a CSS change or something.
Sometimes "best practice" is not because we need to worship a standard, but we need to have a standard. If everyone does everything in a different manner, you wind up with a tower of babel and support becomes impossible.

I'm of the mindset where an organization needs to agree to specific principles that everyone adheres. Not dogmatically but pragmatically.

Having that shared "best practice" makes is easier to support other people code/system, allows people to get up to speed faster and as a bonus, allows you to make a blog post on Medium where you can call yourself a thought leader.
"So what are these rituals for?"

"Some are purely ritual, but some are there so that we can guard this dimension from horrors that live within!"

"Uh, I guess we should at least do the latter?"

"Oh? You can tell the difference? That's great!"

-- Girl Genius
Is protected class an American concept?
It might be slanted in the sense that they're picking out a single thing that was removed, but I don't see how it's misleading. They are indeed removing that line.
"Protected class" means stuff like race, sex or veteran status. So if you harass a random conference-goer at a Ruby-focused event, that cannot be addressed under the CoC because you haven't evidenced harassment towards a protected class as a whole (e.g. all veterans)? How does that even make sense?
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These updates have a very nebulous definition of harassment. According to the new CoC, almost anything can be considered harassment. As far as the "intent and impact" of the intentions, assuming that someone acts in bad faith is a good way to turn a misunderstanding into actual hatred. Such a result should be considered worse than having to deal with a few bad apples who try to take advantage.
Pulumi lets me create custom providers, leverage providers for other clouds/ products, and build code-based abstractions. I see no reason why I'd stop using it.
I'm as straight as an arrow, but is there anything more joyful than seeing humans who have found their community? I mean - look at all those smiling, happy people! That's cool - good for them and looks like they support some meaningful charities in the process. Thanks for sharing.
Tesla is currently in beta everywhere, not just SF. Tesla is taking the path of improving the technology with driver monitoring, rather than focusing on getting a single city to label them as 'L4'
It seems like it does inform. That's not necessarily the same as it being actionable information, but I do think background information is useful.

But I think there's another way to think about this story: consider the opposite of this article. Maybe "WATCH: Police officer saves deaf man seconds before train hits his car," or more abstractly "Fire department saves six kittens from blaze," or whatever other good news. What's the purpose of that news? I think most of us are happier to read it, but it is no more actionable - it is the same sort of background information. (Or, perhaps, it is in the same category as "entertainment" - things you consume for the sake of enjoying the consumption - but that seems like a poor place for the news to be, so let's hope that isn't it.)

The purpose of informing you that the police is made of brave selfless officers and the fire department is made of brave kitten-rescuers is to influence you when you decide whether your city should increase sales taxes to pay its officers well and get the fire department longer ladders. To be abundantly clear, I'm not alleging a conspiracy here - I'm claiming this is a legitimate thing for them to do, and the thing society wants the press doing. In a well-functioning democratic society, the press reports on what's going on so that we can make informed votes. The information is actionable, though not immediately.

So, conversely, the purpose of informing you that the police is made of trigger-happy dunces who get mad when a deaf person can't hear them, or that the fire department is being courted by some startup that tied fire extinguishers to drones and wants to charge them millions of dollars, or whatever, is also to inform you when your city wants to increase sales taxes for them.

There are many other things you can do, besides voting, if you're asking "What am I to do." You can write to your elected officials. You can show up at local government meetings. You can campaign for or give money to political candidates that seem likely to be effective. You can volunteer with or give money to community organizations tackling specific problems (e.g., if you see a lot of stories about how the government is failing to provide social service X because of bureaucracy, I'm sure there's a local volunteer organization that would love your time or money).

What happened when, for example, word got out that America was wasting its time in Vietnam? What was the purpose of them media showing Americans at home what was going on? The people who had been opposing the war as immoral or doomed were, of course, angry and cynical; the people who changed their mind couldn't individually do anything about either a war half the world away or the orders of the US military. But once enough people changed their minds, expressed in part (but by no means entirely) by who they voted for, the US started to withdraw.
Because people keep saying and doing crappy things, and then when they are called out for it, they claim its just a joke.
> you don't see very many successful truely free markets

It's been very successful everywhere it's been tried.
I used pgsanity at the CLI for a while when I unfortunately had coding and testing split between two machines. Can be used with any editor. https://github.com/markdrago/pgsanity
Is it that we dont have resources for this or is it because nobody cares?
This just seems to be establishing proper boundaries?

I don't know what specifically motivated this PR, but I assume something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning .
leftist policies are offensive. what are we going to do about that?
Throughout history, men have bonded by expressing humor, angst, and emotions regarding sex. It may be an outrage by the moral fashion of today. But, you would have a hard time making the case that this behavior is unusual by incumbent standards of collaboration.
I just noticed this, it happened after I changed my top bar color, so I thought maybe I broke it for me.
It makes it easier to fight trolls who hide behind bad faith arguments.
Any other models you'd recommend that are more sane?
In .cz, we have gasoline taxed heavily, with the rationale that it pays for roads. Additionally, highways have toll (for all cars) and major roads have tolls for heavy cars (as they damage more). And a tax is paid for every car used for business purposes (company car, contractors etc.).

All of this combined indeed almost covers the expenses of building and maintaining roads. Unfortunately, it does not cover any negative externalities, such as the environmental ones.
Seems related to this post and HN not line breaking individual words without spaces: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28712667
Generally I'm opposed to rules changes as a solution to moderation problems unless the rules genuinely do not provide for a way to discipline people who misbehave. But to some extent, they're necessary. Would we prefer if enforcement of rules was capricious and random? Better to have a shared understanding of behavioral expectations before engaging in shared labor.

Still doesn't remove the need for good moderators though.
>It's the eternal "who watches the watchers" problem.

Odd. Plenty of other countries manage watching their watchers just fine...

>Some people propose having a very local, municipal for small towns, or even smaller for large towns, mercenary force with license to use lethal force that answers to direct democracy of the area they are assigned to and nobody else.

... and they don't even need local murder squads answering only to populist rage to do it.
Cameras. The police were wearing cameras.

https://www.clearcreekcourant.com/stories/body-cam-footage-s...?
This is marketing and wishful thinking, most times when SSD dies critical system nand gets corrupted. Intel was boasting about safe read only failover, and then when it turned out their shit drives just die like the rest they invented "we shutdown read access to protect our clients" :---)

https://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experi...

"After a reboot, the SSD disappeared completely from the Intel software. It was still detected by the storage driver, but only as an inaccessible, 0GB SATA device.

According to Intel, this end-of-life behavior generally matches what’s supposed to happen. The write errors suggest the 335 Series had entered read-only mode. When the power is cycled in this state, a sort of self-destruct mechanism is triggered, rendering the drive unresponsive. "
Been meaning to do a blog drilling down the Linux levels:

Level 0 There are other x86 OSes?

Level 1 GNOME sure does look pretty (Ubuntu)

Level 2 What... is this for, anyway? (Mint)

Level 3 Oh, it's for privacy and independence (Android, AOSP, non free kernels)

Level 4 OK, then, let's build it ourselves (LFS)

Level 4.5 You can't (hardware blobs)

Level 5 Er that was a lot of work (Gentoo)

Level 6 Wait WTF is systemd (Arch)

Level 7 Bleh, pacman doesn't have a gui (Manjaro)

Level 8 Wait, Ubuntu is based on what? (Release schedules, Arch vs Debian)

Level 9 WTF is a userland? OSX is based on what? (Alpine) (MIT. BSD. GNU. RMS. FSF. LLVM.)
https://archive.is/mjwQ6

Remember George Floyd? The ME ruled his death a homicide, and police officers' restraint of his body and compression of his neck were the primary causes[1]. Yet across many new stories the top mention was heart disease and drug use, and even SARS-CoV-2[2][3][4]. So even when the ME gets it right, social forces are quick to excuse cops.

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/medical-examiner-who-ru...

2. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/us/derek-chauvin-trial-george...

3. https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...

4. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/new-c...
I guess that's part of the Dilbert principle: organizations grow until they outgrow the organizational capabilities of their managers.
It's not about the law, it's about what's enforced.

Where I live you theoretically need to permit the typical stuff but the official unofficial policy is that they don't expect anyone who isn't a professional to pull permits.
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Sentiment analysis will tell you people have positive feelings about cute animals and negative feelings about friends getting cancer. An extremely difficult problem to put everything people care about into the equation.
Pulling from Sourcehut broke earlier today, through no fault of their own. Upgrading the ca-certificates package downloaded and installed but didn't properly configure the new root cert so a number of sites were broken for me all of a sudden today.
(Is it still the case that if you break words in CSS you get even more mad at CSS? I haven't tried in a while)
And another project skews into the digital manifestation of an HOA [1]. May the next generation put an end to this madness.

[1] Home Owners Association, for those outside the U.S. and unfamiliar with the term.