skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

I went to the US last summer and found most people in awe when I told them I was there for the whole month, and it was not even my first vacation that year.

The misunderstanding here, is that some believe 100k$ equals better life no matter what. In France the fact that most people have a decent life makes mine better as well.

Also, I'd like to point out that universal, guaranteed, un-gameable health insurance is VERY different from any insurance you could ever buy from a company.

I never even thought about the fact that something could go wrong to me and I would not have access to the best possible care for any reason whatsoever until I found out about Americans and I remember thinking that was really savage. Then I realized my luck.

To me, the problem is not in the concept, it's about tax evasion.
HN mods have a really strong propensity for editing titles they consider either misleading or clickbaity. I guess this is supposed to be the latter. IMO they can be... overeager about it.
Well in the article is a photo of Ted so I think they assumed no description was needed.
Yes - that's the one. I've set it for the traditional dark background and green text (as I have for terminal, sublime, etc.). Does wonders for the eyes.
"It is often difficult for researchers to gain access to the quantity, quality, and type of cannabis product necessary to address specific research questions on the health effects of cannabis use"

Being unable to research the effects of specific strains and how cannabis is administered beyond oral or combustible methods limits our understanding of the true net effect in reality. Different methods for vaporizing and strains with low THC - high CBD would likely show very little evidence for negative effects on the user. However, consistent tobacco rolled cannabis cigars for a recreational user may show loads of evidence for negative effects on health. Like eating unhealthy vs eating healthy. Not all food is created equal, just like cannabis and its methods of use.
conjecture that fits a narrative nicely:

Colombus never really intended to go to India. He suspected all along that there were other continents to the West, but that he was unable to "pitch" the case for that to his investors (the Spanish monarchs). In order to fund his expedition he had to convince his investors that they would get good return on their investment, and the easiest way to do that was to sell it as a trade route expedition to India, which was already well known to be lucrative with desirable import goods like tea, pepper, and silk.

Colombus knew he wasn't going on a suicide mission. He would have never agreed to that, being a (mostly) rational man motivated by fame and fortune as much as anything else. He was just very savvy at _navigating_ the political and economic climate of his era. You wanna get that seed round funding? You gotta tell the investors what they want to hear.
And as a consequence employers in France are reluctant as hell to employ people in permanent positions (indeterminate length contracts), because employment is basically marriage.

(I have a fairly biased view, half my colleagues are people who have left France partly because they preferred the freer job market here.)

Here in Canada in certain professions there are additional requirements. As a licensed engineer you cannot just leave at any time; you cannot put your projects in jeopardy. (Software devs / "engineers" are not generally licensed engineers.)

It's a decent system, for a lot of jobs 3 months is too much.
I created and run World of Solitaire. I'm not upset at Google at all. I am where I am today thanks to Google :)
> 'Facts' don't have an independent objective existence,
> unfortunately. 'Things that occurred' ( the literal
> etymology of 'facts' ) always require some form
> of interpretation in order to bring them into our
> domain of comprehension, and that's where the
> fuzziness enters.

That etymology is exactly how I understand facts, too. But I think many people don't use the term in that way.

For example, "It's 3:56 pm in the UK" is a fact in my mind.

(It won't be the case in a minute of course.)

The way I see it: facts are like memoized predicates. They are statements of truth within a particular context. Often they need to be re-executed to be kept fresh.
I tried a bunch of the various mods but they seemed pretty sophomoric and patchy... wasn't worth it for me but i guess yymv
>compare gas cars over decades. There were tons of improvements that allow much better fuel efficiency.

Electric motors are old technology. Most of the improvements in electric motors have already been achieved, just like the internal combustion engine.

Most of the things that original poster pointed to are improvements brought from gasoline cars (only the heat pump for heat is somewhat unique - gas engines have plenty of waste heat so they don't need that)
"Your income" doesn't even make sense outside of the context of the government and tax system it was created in. Starting from the assumption of the converse is a fundamental error that derails many potentially useful/interesting discussions in the area before they get off the ground.

jonathanstrange is right: Property rights are a complex issue, attempts to align them with "basic human rights" have limited success, and invariably muddy the waters.
Maybe underground coal mining. But that has little relationship to mining precious metals. I suggest you take a look at how open pit ore mines are operated to understand how silly your suggestion is of issues with black lung.
I know this article is Australia-centric, but most US schools, to my knowledge, have multi-track educational programs (gifted students can take more advanced courses, take Honors/IB/AP, etc. etc.) which have separate curricula and teachers. In this respect, they're already in a separate program: having them go to a separate school entirely just hurts socialization between groups of students, which is more important for a child's development.

Overall, this seems like an unhelpful place to invest compared to more fundamental educational issues (and, pragmatically, I can see many areas where this goes awry, ie many aptitude tests for kids being biased for socioeconomic reaosns).
Nice in theory, doesn't work in practice. At least growing up where I did, a lot of the "slow" kids weren't slow. They just didn't give a fuck and would disrupt the class. No one needs to "learn" to deal with that bullshit. I don't have to deal with disruptive assholes in the real world.
Apache Beam Your Way to Greater Data Agility
Indeed. So much of it comes down to behaving in a natural manner. It gets jumbled up because we've constructed artificial institutions on top of human society that don't comport with our natural behaviors.

Everyone understands these things fundamentally, but they pretend like they don't because we've set up a farcical structure and told them to play along or lose their well-being.

It's obvious that everyone wants a leader who has been in substantially similar shoes and done an acceptable job. That's the only way to have the credibility to boss someone around. That HBR pretends this instinctive truth is a revelation is typical of the haughtiness that makes people hate the bourgeoisie.

Humans are evolved to stay in fixed family units that expand only by marriage and child birth and contract only by death. The permanence afforded there allows humans to cooperate while also behaving naturally. The survival benefits of remaining in the tribe easily surpass emotional/personal benefits that could be had by fracturing off. There is no credible fear that expressing your feelings or otherwise behaving naturally will get you fired from your tribe.

It turns out people are quite fickle, and that if circumstances don't compel them to work together, lots of things get broken quickly. The modern corporation is a poor stand-in for the tribe.
Yeah, that part doesn't sound so great :/
Most of the "technocrats" at least the American versions of it come from "Soft" Sciences.
e.g: Elizabeth Warren, Samantha Powers.

I welcome technocrats from hard-sciences and engineering.
>> "before my time there were English Grammar schools which were done away with"

I'm not 100% sure but I believe these were similar to Northern Irish grammar schools where at the end of primary school you took an exam to determine if you could go to the grammar school or if you would go to the standard high school. I went through this system. Recently they have been slowly removing it and personally I go back and forth on whether that is a good idea. The biggest issue is that the amount of pressure placed on 10/11 year olds to pass that exam and get into a grammar school, not to mention the 18 months or so of preparation is very high. Too high arguably. It also fails children who don't do well with standardised exams. I know people who failed that exam but were lucky enough to still get into a grammar school and who did very well.

A better system may be having one school with optional advanced classes (we even had this for GCSE Maths/Advanced Maths in out grammar school). That way people can take advanced courses in the areas they naturally excel at rather than hindering their entire education by denying them the higher quality teaching at a grammar school.
Flat cells are great if you're trying to build a flat product, where z space is much more critical than x and y. However, flat cells have an unfavorable effect on specific capacity (both weight and volume) since you need two flat sheets to package the display top and bottom, sandwiching a relatively thin active cell, instead of a single cylindrical package wrapped around a larger volume.
You should stay. Then when the launch has a problem, the company has one more developer to scapegoat, and they'll be oblivious to your loyalty as they humiliate you and your team in the next executive review.
Because it would ruin their nice trend lines.
it can. You also have to keep in mind that the shorter delay counts for both sides, so they can fire you faster as well
I agree with your comment. The new title seems to be taken from the article itself though (as opposed to just made up by someone).

"Using these three measures of supervisor competence, we found that employees are far happier when they are led by people with deep expertise in the core activity of the business."
I'm more humble than they are!
Right now I am 36. I had a team- and tech-lead position for the first time in my carreer back when I was 28. All other programmers loved me (except 2 slackers who hated being asked for statuses, even if it was twice a month). QA was much better than before, frontenders were happy to receive clear directions and tasks while having some freedom in choosing designs. The devs from other teams loved interacting with me, I almost always had something interesting to share on how I do things, people were learning from me.

Things were swell. It was an extremely positive environment.

But I got demoted 7 or so months later simply because the other managers hated me. I didn't talk about charts showing increased amount of tickets per sprint resolved, about increased productivity, about how to make people more efficient via some BS measures that never really work (except maybe in a Chinese factory or in a pyramid-scheme marketing organization?). I knew how to make my people efficient and I was doing it. On the managerial meetings I was bored to tears and eventually I just told everybody in the room (including the CEO) -- "People. Why are we here on this meeting? I only see this as an excuse for everybody to congratulate themselves on how awesome you are. Speaking of which (at this point I pointed at 2 other managers) the only thing you ever managed to do was impede me by imposing waiting in inter-team communication for weeks while your devs are telling me they are idle and have nothing to do -- and you're also criticising my managerial techniques no matter the fact that in this 150+ people organization my team is the only one not behind schedule". Or something like that.

Needless to say, I got demoted -- and left the place -- shortly after.

Thinking of it 8 years later, I'd absolutely do the same but I'd use even more brutal language.

Management needs less BS. It doesn't deserve its current breed of slackers who licked bottoms most of their conscious lives to get to such a position and then they figured they'll unofficially retire at 40 while officially leeching salaries into their 60s (read: show up at the job but practially do nothing).

As any human system, inertia and credentialism are a huge problem. This has to change.
But your body came from natural resources initially. If you do not have a legitimate right to appropriate natural resources and make exclusive use of what you transform said resources into, it follows that you cannot have a right to your own body.

I have no problem charging private entities rent for the appropriation of natural resources. What I have a problem with is demanding a share of the private property that they fashion out of those natural resources. From a public standpoint, it should make no difference if someone appropriates a ton of iron ore and places it in their living room as a collector's item, or if they use it to create a supercomputer. They should pay the same fee to the public in both cases, since it is the natural resource usage that should be charged, (and that the public has a legitimate right to charge a fee for), and not their private actions upon that material. But current tax laws, and Proudhon's argument which the parent comment cites, delegitimizes the value that one adds in the process of creating the latter.
Lets not forget- every lousy software architect needs a demolition crew to clean up behind him. ;)
The point about "Inadequate data modelling facilities" is why I wrote Maps: https://github.com/pcattori/maps . Specifically, the "Named Maps" variants provide the same interface as `namedtuple` but for different levels of immutability/mutability.

Feedback/suggestions welcome!
My general rule of thumb is, unless your work environment is really causing a big negative impact on your life, time your exit so it doesn't screw someone else's life up even more.

That said, the end of a project during or after a production launch isn't necessarily a bad time for this. I left my last job the exact same way. Unless you were the only person on your team with any experience of knowledge of core components (which means it wasn't a well structured team anyway), it can work out fine.

In my case, I had done 100% of the payment/billing system (but 1/2 others knew about all the requirements from the planning stages), and probably 75% of the devops + automation (fully automated infrastructure provisioning and updates). It worked out fine.
What does it say, that I'm occasionally petty when people waste my time? I certainly can't argue with that.
I don't think hacknat disagrees with you, and I certainly don't.

What I read is that what we call "property rights" is a fairly new idea, and we shouldn't treat it as "natural" or as a fundamental law of the universe as some do.

For the record, I'm in full agreement that excessive restriction on property and capital has costs. Creating and maintaining the idea of "private property" has costs too.
Look at it from the standpoint that you're no longer to support this company's bad habit(s) and less like you're abandoning the team.

I left a similar situation 12 years ago and it was the best decision I ever made and no one blamed me for leaving. A year later the company laid off all the developers - and it wasn't even a startup, they just decided to stop building software because it wasn't their core competency.
> the world cannot support 7 billion people in a hunter and gatherer lifestyle.

Not to nitpick, but if all of our species reverted to hunter-gather, it would quickly reduce the population to a level that could be sustained. Agriculture allows humans to have far more children then they could support otherwise, for better and worse.

I also disagree that we would 'all starve', for similar reasons.

> we don't have enough farmland to grow enough food for 7 billion without modern farming techniques

This is also probably not true. We do not go down that road because without modern farming techniques, we would need a far larger percentage of the population engaged directly in food production. This actually has many advantages over modern farming but it's a hard sell.
> the instant defense of something that wasn't even attacked

I just said how collective ownership fails and how capitalism is a better solution. Is there something I said that I shouldn't have?

> There's no point in discussing the details with you, because you aren't interested in learning anything.

I am. Go critique my points. Maybe show me some empirical examples to rebuke me. Send me research articles. Or write your own explanation of how collective ownership would be managed.

> When called on your drama, you pretend to be purely rational.

What drama? I was just a little bored and decided to poke a low hanging fruit (collective ownership).

> If you can't even admit your reaction or look at your own post honestly, why would I ever engage with the details of what you claim your point to be?

I'm pretty sure I wasn't angry or anything. Uncharitably, I was thinking "haha, commies are stupid", but I don't think I let that affect my comment.

To me, it seems like you're the more angry one. Perhaps it is just an effect of you being text on a screen as opposed to a person I can see and talk to.
The first big disruption of civilization will be fuelled on facebook. Look at what happened in the middle east and is happening else where. Starts out slow and happy and descends into violence and chaos which in large part will be started by police themselves.
former GF has a father whose life-long schizophrenia was triggered after heavy drinking during draft military service. no other substance involved. messed up for rest of his life.

if you have it in you, anything can trigger it. legal drugs, illegal drugs, stress & hardships of life and work, serious accidents, failed relationships and so on.
This article frames the question rhetorically. Of course we should not disadvantage gifted children by depriving them of tailored learning strategies etc. Why on earth would we even consider it?

But it's not so easy to define what this means in practice, particularly in the UK where the debate over selective schooling is bound up with issues related to class and wealth.
>I put a "i am the greates babysiter meme" in PR and that was considered very disrespectful

Sounds like it was disrespectful too.
How does Phi's MCDRAM compare to GDDR5 (wrt throughput)?
It sounds like reproduction has basically stopped in the wild, and extinction is a foregone conclusion without human intervention. It's an interesting grey area.
I think you may be an outlier - people mostly just rate 5 stars and then don't follow through. It's contextual for us to a degree. Our (free) app in effect gives people money and at the end of that transaction if they've not yet rated we ask them to rate. None-the-less it's a terribly small inApp-AppStore rating conversion.
Unbelievably fast! Interesting blog tbh.
Energy Is Not Conserved (2010)
Broken link... :)
I can relate. I did not go to an Ivy League (though, maybe I should have at least applied). I grew up poor and outside of town. No school activities, ever. I could barely get rides to AP exams and SATs. I had a kid at 15. I would steal food from the cafeteria and sell it cheaper to other students so I could afford to eat that night. I believed my only way out of poverty was a college degree. I worked my ass off over the summers to help float me through the year and kept a 4.2 GPA in high school. Got full ride scholarship to a local university. Got married. Got an apartment. Wife worked as a waitress, I scored a job as a student graphic designer working with the university's lead graphic designer in the media department.

University for me: no activities. Ever. No traveling. Go to class. Go to work. Go home. Ace tests (mostly). Rinse, repeat for 4 years. I did not hang out with university classmates once. I could not afford to (I could hang out with childhood friends because "going out" was not in our shared vocabulary). The times spent on projects and small talk let me know how much of an outsider I was.

I managed to finally get a beat up truck (could only be pop-started, electronics only worked in a hard left hand turn, and more awesomeness) by my second year, as opposed to the new Lexuses and BMWs that many of my classmates drove.

I did miss out on something that I wish I would have been told more explicitly: university is not just about an education, it is about networking. I got zero networking done. I got the degree and got out. Because of my lack of networking, I believe my career was slower to build.

Fast forward a bit. I'm doing fantastic. My oldest kid is now starting college (we have two others), I'm still with her mom, I make over 6 figures, and I have a job I throughly enjoy (I look forward to Mondays). My degree was important for me and I think was a large part of helping me get out of poverty. I never felt that I was a part of the university I attended. I enjoy my life story and it helps me appreciate the life I lead.
Go is a language that is a bit tedious to write, no doubt about that, but it's very easy to read. I spend a lot of my time reading other people's code and I really appreciate that.

The fact that Scala as a language allows something like SBT to not only be created, but accepted, means I don't want anything to do with it.

I've suffered long from the Ruby ecosystem's mentality of "look at what I can do!" of self-serving pointless DSL's and frameworks and solemnly swore to myself to stay away from cute languages that encourage bored devs to get "creative".

It's about trade-offs, I guess. Go definitely appeals to a lot of people, and not all of us are unaware of the amazing "progress" that has been made in the 80's and 90's. Awesome progress that brought us Java, SOAP, C++, Javascript-on-the-server, and a slew of other tech some of us want to stay far, far away from.
How I succeed in delivering every project on time
> Catching up with Facebook friends has never been this easy or straight forward before.

It already is easy and straightforward, you can do it right on Facebook itself!
> I've been interviewed by clearly hostile engineers... is a superb data point in an interview.

I agree, having someone be clearly hostile to you during an interview (which is often the first impression of what the culture at a particular company is like) is a great data point for the decision on whether to continue with the process of interviewing there.
They have their own mobile ui https://github.com/ElemeFE/mint-ui
18650 is mass manufactured: there are machines and robots to get consistent quality. You can get batteries in pretty much any size you want - but they will be made by hand and have the expected quality variations from hand made products.
It depends on seniority and sometimes the length of employment.

As "Junior Developer" in Britain my notice period was one month, it increased to three months when I was promoted, and has stayed at three months in successive jobs.

If my employer wants to make me redundant, they legally must give one week's notice per year employed. However, my contracts have increased that to one month (Junior) and three months (after). It's their decision whether they make me come in to work or not.

(Also, paid holiday still accumulates, so 3 months probably gives another 3-4 days holiday.)

The only exception is gross misconduct, e.g. assaulting another employee, or stealing from the business. Employees can be dismissed immediately in this case, with zero notice.

http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4096