skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not always so black and white.

I (40s male 5'8") was always normal weight although these days I'd be called thin but in the 1970s and 1980s I was typical for my age and gender.

Within the last 5 years I started to gain weight even though I wasn't eating more I just thought it was age. I track what I eat it's a habit of going to the gym for 20+ years. Even though I slacked off the gym for about five years I was active in the summer.

To make a long story short it was my thyroid failing. I'm not the typical person who has thyroid problems it's usually middle-aged women. That alone is probably why it took so long to spot the problem.

Now on 0.075mg of Synthroid my weight is slowly falling, and yes this still is without any changes to my daily diet.

I feel like I have been reborn and all kinds of weird things have stopped; foggy brain, dry skin, weight gain, dozens of other small things.
You are implying that there was not 'a major effort' to 'fix it' yet.

And you are also implying that 'a major effort to fix it' would make us expect something new.

Both things are wrong. The US has been military active in middle east since almost 40 years (longer with the CIA). The US has major military bases all over the place, has invaded, bombed and fought wars with many countries, has supported one group or another in a civil conflict in all of them.

All of this was basically done because of the Carter Doctrine, the ME is a vital strategic area and its stability is very important to keep the oil flowing. How does this not qualify as a major effort?

What of all of this suggest to you that the US, or even a bigger international community could 'fix it' with a 'major effort'?
Same boat. I've dragged group conversations on to Signal, but events are a tough nut to crack. Something like meetup/eventbrite seems way too heavy for birthday drinks at a bar, and puts a sign-up/ToS/data burden on people who are interested in attending.

With most people on gmail and Google not being much better, IMAP/ActiveSync CalDAV invitations with all the invitees' names and email addresses aren't too satisfying either.

It's feature bloat, but I really hope an E2E event/calendar protocol makes it in to something like Signal or Riot/Matrix. Ideally it would consistently maintain state (e.g. changing place and time), update your calendar, and provide a place for invitees to chat.
We asked you to stop posting like this, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll post civilly and substantively in the future.
'Fake News' is not an 'alternative'. It's literally fake.

'Pope endorses Trump' - fake.

'Trump molested three children from Texas' - fake.

'Americans invade Canada' - fake.

There's a problem with 'actual fake news' not just 'biased news'.

CNN - despite it's bias - is still mostly a decent news site.

Go to CNN.com, Fox.com, MSNBC.com - and look at ALL of the links. It's mostly just boring, factual news.
I think to many people on HN, houses might have no value. It's practically impossible to build any in California, since the existing residents do all they can to ban any new ones.

Maybe use office buildings or food delivery startups for your examples.
Well, if we're going to simplistically blame just one thing and blame the premise of jobs, why not blame the premise that everyone has a right to propagate, or do so as many times as they want? Obviously it's less provocative to say fuck work than fuck children; or jobs are the problem than too many humans are the problem. But if there aren't enough jobs to go around, part of that is because there are so many people.
When you have tics, you often can hold them in. But it is tortuous to do so, especially for extended periods of time. So it is voluntary to tic. We do it because to not do it feels even worse than the negative attention and embarrassment we receive from doing it.

Now consider how your comment parallels many of those the article's author goes into detail about. Telling someone that they need to explain it differently transfers the responsibility of being considerate on the Tourette's sufferer.
"It was always supposed to be the American eagle spreading its freedom to the world who gratefully welcomed it with praise, they weren't actually supposed to influence the US back!
"

They can 'influence' back as long as it's reasonable.

Articles like: 'Hillary and Trump have secret sexual encounter' is not 'news' and not any kind of positive influence.
I've been in that position, shaking in my bed not able to sleep for days. Then I was prescribed many different medications. I ended up doing seroquel and now I'm trying to tamper off it. However in my situation I still have no idea what caused my anxiety. I'm unemployed and don't need to work, and everything seems alright on the surface to me.
I don't know about this particular route, but that is still common for trains in Thailand.
Agreed.

Why stop there though? How come some people hoard and/or inherit millions or billions?

Has one Bill Gates really done the work of 40,000 people worth a million each?
> If you remember, the reddit CEO only edited the usernames, that too, I am sure it was a prank.

He edited the mention of a username in a comment and completely changed the meaning of the comment by changing the target.

I'm sure he thought it was a prank, but that shows extremely poor judgement of the CEO of a company that calls itself "the front page of the internet". Just imagine how unacceptable it would be for the Facebook CEO to edit someone's status, or Twitter to edit tweets.
How it was like to intern at a startup in San Francisco
Debian putting everything on the /usr
You just described Australia's work for the dole program.

There's no spots for talented people to work on shit like the failed $30 million IBM census disaster.

But smoking pot and filling in holes with low lives? You betcha! You better earn your welfare and enjoy it or you'll be reported!
Support has been a mixed bag in my experience. 95% of the time they can quickly resolve problems. The other 5% are 20+ email threads where support is accurate but not helpful, and it takes over two weeks to reach a resolution.

That said, #stripe on Freenode has been very helpful.
I know you're joking but that's exactly the avenue some homeless take. Steal from a liquor store or so and you have free housing and food for 6 months. Maybe even some liquor.

I know several cities where prosecutors are essentially refusing to convict homeless people because of this.
Mars is still less habitable than the Earth would be post nuclear war.
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It's not like these corporations ever had any leverage for the Chinese heads of state to listen to them anyway.. If you want people to act against their own self interest you need leverage..

This is just wild speculation but perhaps Facebook market penetration into china reperesents the first step in achieving this leverage.
No those viewpoints can be traced back to old school liberalism where power comes from the individual, and individual citizens delegate a revocable portion of that power to form a government to do things on their behalf. And in this case it's competition law (anti-trust), and consumer protection.

If you want to argue Liberalism as an ideology has a component of statism attached, fine, but so does Conservatism. From Conservatism we got the 1st and 2nd constituions, and Liberalism became the more dominant of the two ideologies since the 14th amendment (and I'd say right now we might be looking at a regression but a. that's biased, and b. it's unproven, that part will take a while).
> But even "social credit" cannot prevent the paid workers to look down on the moochers on basic.

That I believe is going to be a very divisive subject. Wasn't the 80's the years of the "welfare queen boogeyman" (or I guess "boogeywoman..."). It started around Reagan's times where they tried to paint welfare recipients as opportunists, lazy, downright criminal and how they were responsible for all possible waste and other evils.

That will stratify the society into those who work and those who don't. I believe people will always have this competitive streak and will want things to be "fair". If they see someone not working and getting by and they are the ones working, they might antagonize them.

> or should that be like "Achievements" in video games? And how do you avoid turning that into the Black Mirror episode "15 millions Merits".

Ah interesting. Heh, it would be like karma here on HN or Reddit. Can't do much with it, but get access to more places perhaps. Can't buy food with it, but can influence the public discourse with it (can upvote, downvote more...).

Yeah I like this idea (but I'd also have to watch Black Mirror).
> well, it's optional...

no, it is not. payment is not optional, you are abusing the developer's trust.

he is not apple, he is not google. he is a developer, like you and me, and he needs to make a living out of his work, too.

there is nothing wrong about paying for software.
Are you serious? Knowledge workers have it easy. It's hard to get here, but once we're here it's a great gig. We're paid well, we're in demand, and there's a robust freelancing sector to our industries, be it software, legal, medical, engineering, or whatever.

That link describes a call center worker as a knowledge worker. That's absolute nonsense. You could, in theory, argue that a call center worker is about managing some sort of knowledge, but in truth they deal with less knowledge than a subsistence farmer, who has to know a hell of a lot about agronomy.

Classifying call center drones (of which I was once one) as 'knowledge workers', and then using them to discuss how hard knowledge workers have it, is beyond disingenuous.
According to Christian tradition.

Scholars think otherwise.
The whole "computers can do anything" theme in the original post and the comments is borderline retarded and describing a mythical state always one or two decades in the future.

Teaching a computer to do anything is fucking HARD. And most of the time the problems are just unsolvable.

Sure you see cool demos like one that can cook for you. That shit is awesome. So uhhh... where are they? They're demos and proofs of concept, so expensive, require maintenance and programmers (gasp!). Don't except to see real ones mass produced and taking over for a good 30-40-50 years.

We can do a lot with computers and automation but IMHO every article that starts with, "If you don't agree then you're an idiot" is immediately sitting on a faulty foundation.
Does anyone know how the legal mechanics would work?

Can they pass the draft law that overturns the earlier laws?

I assume that the state legislature will have a say. Is there any indication they're amenable to it?

How does the American style thing where they reintroduce unpopular bills with subtle modifications continually until the public loses focus work in Deustchland?
> is to make the taxes the same everywhere,

Yes, try remove the arbitrage opportunity. That should help. Usually one would say competition is good, so different states with different tax laws is good. However, in many cases it is the workers and small communities that end up suffering as result.
Less than 8kbps in most voice. It pales in comparison to the quantity of bandwidth consumed each day on video.
I changed /etc/resolv.conf to use 8.8.8.8, The test shows my ISPs name servers which would indicate they are using a transparent proxy however "dig +trace google.com" does not show these same ISP servers anywhere. I wish this page had more info on it, are these ISP's transparent proxy's rewriting the TCP headers?
Back in the Blackberry days, only one friend had an Android. He still got invited. Now everyone is on iPhones except for him. Still invited.
Huh. I wonder what the start time is on the language I'm using for CGI work. (I'm using CHICKEN, which is a compiled Scheme R5RS implementation with numerous extensions).
It got caught by a software filter, but we've marked the account so it won't happen again.
They put 2005 instead, close enough.
I thought prison food isn't free. Over in America the inmates have to either pay for it or work to pay for it.
How much fracking liquid could we pump in there and remain profitable?
http://streetsleuth.com/#tab1

Street sleuth is a good aggregator of news, but it lacks any comment system or community.

There's not really anything equivalent to HN as far as I am concerned.
In 2014 I was earning ~$60,000 in my developer's salary.

Then I used new (other vendor's) enterprise software developer's platform to build a solution at my spare time.

I published an online instructional on "how to" do "good things" with other enterprise software vendor's offering.

"Other enterprise vendor" found my online instructional and hired me for $164,500 for a management position.

No bullshit coding interviews, no crap.
Today I have the best job in the best part of the city with the best manager I ever had. Seriously.

Just sharing my experience with some hints along the way.
GROSS CHallENGE
Let me guess, you also think that putting a global warming denier as the head of EPA is also not a "dramatic change"?
The original comment suggests a few things.
Sublime with vim mode.
You can take the quotation marks off of the word "sanitizing" in your comment :D
If you believe that anyone, including business, is always seeking the lowest cost, then you've never worked in a company that blows its money on useless shit - starting with executives and ending with subcontracting at ridiculously expensive rates just so that there's no employee cost on the books.
> Electricity is very inexpensive at night, because of all the spare generator capacity...

What do you think will happen (to the the electricity charges at night) if every one does that?
We were hosted at Exodus in the Herndon Virginia area around this same timeframe. The staff gave us a small tour and showed us a cage about the size of a double-wide trailer. Inside were two Sun Enterprise 10000 servers and a whole wall of drive arrays. Plus networking gear, tape drives, etc. Easily $7-8 million worth of stuff.

They said it was from a search engine we probably had heard of. Our guess was it was Altavista.

We didn't own our Compaq servers - we leased them from Exodus, like a lot of firms. And when the bubble popped, all those startups stopped paying for all that expensive equipment (which was now used and worth much less), and Exodus was on the hook as the owner of it all. Killed them.

Edit: Found this image from someone who picked one up for a song to add to their collection. From a prized million-dollar enterprise-class server, to being hauled around in the back of a pickup truck.

http://imgur.com/a/lXvOk
The train doesn't have a bathroom. I've picked up the train at the market (it's the last stop) and took a ride into the country side.
No point fixing the roof if you don't own it. And nobody will be able to buy a house.
>Why don't rich countries like the US, Switzerland or Japan not print money to cover their spending?

The two words that are most likely to cause a old-fashioned Hacker News libertarian-slash-armchair-economist freakout: "print money."
I think it would be interesting if it is divorced from money and they'd be (ideally) impossibly to buy it with money.

Maybe social credit could be used to run for office. Or it can be used to weight votes -- those with more social credit can cast 5 votes in elections.

Think of a high ranking CEO and how maybe some airlines would invite them to fly for free just to get free advertising. Or might get invited to White House dinners and such. Maybe nurses, firefighters or teachers who achieved higher social credits would be treated the same way.
This is reminding me of the last few years I used ebay. At first it was great, and by the end I was constantly worried about quality.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, I think this point of view is valid.
> The same dead code elimination that applies to C's inbuilts, isn't yet applied against Rust's.

That is false. LLVM uses the exact same dead code elimination in Rust as it does in C. In fact, Rust's tends to be better, as larger modules mean fewer exported global symbols.

If you read the blog post I linked, then you'll see that most of the size is libbacktrace and libjemalloc. You can omit both. If you were to write a C app that used libbacktrace and libjemalloc, then you'd have the same "bloat"; they are not dead code. The problem is not that C has some magic optimization that Rust doesn't have.

You can't just ignore the fact that Rust produced a demo that was size competitive. You can't just handwave it away as "abusing a language". You can't successfully argue that you can't produce small binaries in Rust, because we have empirical proof of it right there.

Rust was a fine language in which to write that demo. For the same reasons, Rust would be a fantastic language in which to write a libcurl replacement.
>especially down the curve, maintenance costs for electric cars will be substantially less and lifetimes...

There was a time when the maintenance cost of cars (traditional) were little. Things changed because now things are made to fail after sometime aka planned obsolescence.

Do you think electric car companies will be different?
I packaged it as Chrome extension:

https://github.com/crackleware/slack-webspeech/commit/afae06...

Featuring TTS (optional).
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if you look on the net 5000 ways to do it...none work for me anyway...should be that hard geez just ads thank you
The css might be compiled scss. Using classes whenever possible is also a valid strategy.
This is the bit that hits close to home to me:

> they must demonstrate commitment above and beyond their contracted work hours, and express constant satisfaction and happiness about their work

My wife and I are both software engineers and that is a nearly constant source of stress for us. In our experience, people in our field frown upon people who treat software engineering as just their job. Two things I recall from my experience that illustrate this:

- I had a team lead who once said, "I don't want people in this team working like this is a 9-5 job"

- Something I heard from someone in a team that worked close to ours: "the candidate was solid in problem solving and coding ability, but we didn't hire them because they didn't show passion"

This sort of bullshit is pervasive in our field and IMO is what the quote above is referring to.
The article lost me in the second paragraph, with "there is not enough work to go around". Seriously? There are so many things that need to be done. We need better energy sources. We need better health care. We need better infrastructure. I could go on and on.

There is a huge amount of work to be done. More than enough for everybody.
Well, now that we've identified the problem, what can we do about it? Right now, large swathes of the internet are ruled by bullying stupids. What's more, that old saw about how you shouldn't argue with an idiot, because passerby just see two idiots? -- that's definitely in operation as well.
Ultimately, the research into waterproofing electronics no doubt began as some NASA or DOD project, as practically everything like that does.
Yep, I paid. Back in 2011 it was only $60.
I don't think we're saying anything different, really.

> Mental health issues are not emotions. They may interplay to a degree

Bit of an understatement in many cases, eh? "Interplay to a degree?" No, when it comes to anxiety, the emotion we call "anxiety" is just by definition the primary symptom.

Yeah, they "interplay to a degree" just like 3rd degree burns and having your skin slough off "interplay to a degree."

Nonetheless, your point is correct and vital.

Mental health issues can absolutely not be dismissed. There are deep seated physical and/or behavorial reasons for these problems.

They are every bit as real as breaking one's arm or one's spine, and mental health issues are in some ways much tougher to handle because they are "invisible." At least when you have a broken leg, nobody asks you to run a marathon.
I think what the author touches on, is the same reason Game of Thrones is so popular.

In game of thrones every faction does exceedingly stupid and brilliant actions. There are no protagonists (besides maybe the mother of dragons - who burns people alive), who are ever clearly going to be good people or even win. It makes you always sit on the edge of your seat and makes the whole story much more entertaining
Fwiw, i know what you mean about the typical "HN Comments", but i do think you're being a bit harsh on him/her.

I think their comment/concern is valid, and a meaningful point of discussion. It's not overly critical, and there is no tone. Likewise, yours feels (to me) to have far more of a tone, seemingly directed at (but not soley caused by) ZeroFries.

Anyway, i can tell you're frustrated at "HN Comments".. so, i just ask that you try to be constructive in these types of replies, or you only contribute to the problem.
Indeed. Just to anchor this with current state-of-the-art numbers, I took a look at the CSV data file linked to by the page referenced in my above comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13040765

The quoted horizontal standard errors of the daily position measurements are ~1.5mm. The vertical standard errors are ~5-7mm. (Not as bad as a factor of 10, but certainly worse than 2x.)

The vertical position measurement responds well to averaging of daily errors to beat down the RF propagation effects that cause them.
With the effect that it will just screw amazon further. Because of this problem I've started buying products directly from the brand stores or walmart/costco/target.
I completely stopped buying from ebay years ago because of similar problems.
Unclear.Someone mentioned to try to sell domain names that don't resolve but the "buy this domain name" for domains that don't resolve is real bottom of the barrel type tactics. I would be really surprised if there is much money in this and it's just horrible and unprofessional.
When I extend a loan to a friend, I do it because I value the relationship with that friend more than the timely receipt of payment. This is a selfish action on my part, is it not?
Please don't post baseless accusations of shillage. If you don't start posting civilly and substantively we'll have to ban the account again.
Interesting you choose 60s and 50s as comparison points, as many statistics suggest wage increases have been almost nonexistent since the 70s.
To your point. 51% of the American workforce makes less that 30 thousand dollars a year. That number is trending upward rapidly.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/goodbye-middle-class-...
> I'm rather glad Japan ignored comparative advantage.

They did? How so?
Probably fine for some things, since it is compiled, and, as I understand it is pretty fast. I don't know a lot about the internals of chicken, but since it's a Scheme wouldn't it need some kind of VM for macros and memory management and such? That'd impose some kind of startup overhead that C wouldn't have. But, then again, Perl can start fast enough for some things (though most Perl web app developers use some sort of app server, because they rely on a bunch of libraries that would increase startup time remarkably if it had to happen for every request).

Do you write command line apps with CHICKEN? Are they super fast to start, like instant (comparable to something written in C or small Perl scripts)? If so, then CGI could probably be fast enough for some use cases. If you can perceive the startup time, then no, it'd be kinda sucky when used with CGI.