skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget that despite the improvement to the lives of the poorest people in the world, the gap between the richest and the poorest has never been greater.

The wealth in the world exists for everyone to have a decent life.

But as long as the middle class thinks the poor is their enemy, we will stagnate.

I am deeply pessimistic about the next 10-50 years. Historically, situations like this led to revolutions, and recalibrations. But when the problem is "I can't afford the newest iPhone", not "I can't afford a loaf of bread", people are not inspired to really demand change. I think everyone is too satiated and complacent, which is why Brexit and Trump happen and the US/UK will get worse before things get better.
>> Your cat and/or dog is probably too fat

Slightly above 50% of US pet dogs and cats are overweight.
>Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world

Actually, no. From the WHO 2017 data it's #26 with a rate not that much higher than the US (15.4 vs 12.6 /100k/yr).
Israelis log out of hi-tech jobs for a life offline
Is there many leadership positions that do not benefit greatly from some specialisation (or technical skill set)?
Safari has built in Reader View in on Mac or iOS
These are all things that can be done with (a) rich editor(s) with access to the ast - see things like Colorforth and most Smalltalks. The latter is of course the canonical example, where representing an array of numbers as a spreadsheet-like widget becomes natural and integrated.

I also think most of these points fall into the "code is data" idea - and where text manipulation (reformatting, pretty printing) is somehow seen as free/easy - as opposed to working with an ast.

My point is that s-expressions might be more simplistic, but not really that much simpler, than having access to the ast.

The fact that you have to choose between not being able to represent text (ascii) and a variable length encoding, also makes s-expressions less appealing today, than it once was.
The alternative should be to make more classes elective and provide less rigorous versions.

There's really no point teaching most kids anything beyond the basics of most subjects.

Spend more of our resources on motivating subjects & topics, rather than just telling kids to learn things.

If the kids aren't interested in learning what you're teaching, it doesn't matter what you're teaching anyway, you're just creating stress on everyone for no reason.

Maybe I'm extrapolating too much from my own experiences, but I lost nothing when I dropped physics because my teacher was an asshat, nor from sticking with chemistry because my teacher was a non-asshat.
Most if not all of the discriminatory events in the film happened, just not in the same order or to exactly the same people. The major scenes that were made up whole-cloth were the ones with white people being anti-racist.

You're twisting Johnson's words to say she didn't feel it; she was able to use a "whites-only" bathroom and didn't experience as much direct personal animus from her co-workers. That doesn't mean she didn't feel it, only that it didn't take certain forms.

But twisting that is also to miss the entire point of highlighting this moment in history: She was great, but not singular - she succeeded in large part because she had a tremendously lucky break others were denied. Much like a poor person winning the lottery doesn't create upward economic mobility, a black women getting a good job doesn't end racism.

(I already wrote about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482955 and I suspect there is some concerted effort to parrot talking points against the film as I've seen similar bizarre comments on many sites.)
Honestly, you need both. Here's a comment on code review I wrote year ago or so that seems relevant:

Code reviews shouldn't dwell on style issues that can be handled by linting. To the extent that you can automate some of the review process, and prevent sloppy commits from being merged in by having them fail CI, you'll eliminate part of the problem. Another thing that helps is reducing the semantic distance between what a commit message says a commit does, and what it actually does. This is pretty easy to enforce relative to more subjective aspects of coding. The last thing that can make a big difference is not getting hung up on wanting to rewrite a commit as you would have written it, but focusing on improving understanding and clarity for whoever will inherit the code next. If there are serious issues with the architecture and patterns the code is using, CR can be too late in the process to address them effectively (depends on the scale involved). I'd try to collaborate with other engineers earlier in the process to help set them on the right path [1].

As for unit tests, make sure to isolate the unit (generally a class or function), and test its interface. Tests that are coupled to the implementation aren't as useful. Investing in writing unit tests now will increase your velocity in the long run. You'll be able to take on more technical debt in the short term with better terms, so to speak, since you'll have a robust test suite to refactor against. Obviously, this doesn't mean you should write bad code, but this will give you the option of considering performance and reusability tradeoffs if you need to hustle a feature out the door.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257835
If you're an electrician, yes.

In casual conversation it can mean close to mains voltage or higher.

That article itself quotes a bunch of wildly different standards.
Your comment got me thinking about some form of volunteer force of medics. Imagine if every 20th car that drove by had a government issued medical bag in the trunk and a driver guaranteed to have recent first aid and emergency training. And in return the driver gets some sort of tax break, or an HOV lane free pass, or whatever the appropriate incentive is. Surely some country has tried this out.
Why does HN care so much about Jeff Immelt being Uber CEO?
I don't understand this - could someone explain? What am I missing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870495 (48 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14871625
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15054876
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15056196 (132 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111234
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111281
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111285
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111299
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111363
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111449
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111571

I'm happy to believe that it's important to people, but I don't understand why, and would welcome an explanation.
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I consume 100% of the shots you don't take.
I will certainly start calling it that informally.
So, on average, they're in better shape than their owners.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
What makes a hire a good hire? Is a good hire one who sucks off management, or one who does the right thing even if it provokes management ire?
It works because people actually do care about kids. The hard part is figuring out what will help them.
13 people participated in two nights of sleep. I didn't see anything about a control group, or any control for the day preceding the night of sleep.

I tend to agree with this study, because of my personal experience with sound and its affect on my sleep, but I don't think this is anything but a reason to do a more in-depth study.
You are right! I'm sorry, I misread your sentence and missed the 'than' that changes the meaning! My bad.
Probably the ones that arent getting premium pet food
Reader view defaults to low contrast text, but it's possible to set your own text colors with custom userContent.css:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15080363
That would make sense. I missed the year. Perfectly valid source, I was just amused by it's quality.
I've been in a number of major natural disasters at this point. Fukushima, Ike, Colorado's 2013 floods. I've also been in two shooting incidents (where fortunately only the shooter was hurt). My point is, I've been lucky so far because none of these posed a major problem for me. I made it out with manageable inconvenience.

However, I can only get lucky like that so many times.

So now I keep the following at home:

* 5 gallons drinking water

* Canned food for a week

* First aid kit

* Matches, lighter, Sterno cans

* Solar USB charger

* Many flashlights with spare batteries, plus a battery-powered lantern

* Hand-crank radio

* Solid liquor collection ;)

* Equipment to make a fresh cup of coffee with no electricity (Sterno, hand-crank coffee grinder, French press)

* A big bucket for, well, sanitation

I've also got my camping supplies, which includes a Coleman stove and a few small propane canisters. Having been in a few floods I will also never live in a ground-floor apartment. I also keep all this stuff boxed up in plastic crates, so if I needed to evacuate I could load up my car with all this gear in about 20 minutes and be on my way. My goal is to be able to survive a week trapped in my apartment with no utilities, or living out of my car for the same amount of time.

I bike to work and in my pannier I keep a Leatherman multitool, pocket knife, latex gloves (mostly for fixing my bike chain, but also useful in other emergencies), 3M N99 mask, flashlight, poncho, a garbage bag and a small thing of duct tape. In most of the kinds of disasters that hit Colorado, I would be able to get home, either walking or by bike. I only live about three miles from work.
The vertical doors on Tesla SUVs. Doors are actually one of the most complicated parts of a car to manufacture and make reliable, and those doors are widely credited with why the shipments were late. In addition to people complaining about their reliability and their absurdly high cost, they provide no real benefit. Supposedly you can park in tighter spaces and get out, however the front doors still open like regular car doors. So assuming the driver also wants to get out, it's pretty fucking useless.
Unless you've started a multi-million dollar company... I don't think you're in any place to call KimDotCom "fraud" or "idiot"
We've got discrimination down to a science
Damn, that is some devious stuff in there. Clogging toilets with sponges is a new level of hostile creativity.
"A major technical hurdle to be overcome is the instability of the orbit, which is at a saddle point."

Tether from the lunar surface, through the Lagrange point.
Fortunately, this problem was solved ages ago by central routing registries. I register my prefixes and have a single object that upstreams and peers can use to build their filters for BGP sessions with me. Why can't Google do the same? ("But they're soooo big" is not an acceptable answer.)
Yes, may the day come when anti GMO humans with super technology fight against super intelligent laser-shooting immortal space dolphins in a never ending war across the galaxy.
I've found audio books where the narrator has a repetitious rhythm that doesn't vary too much to also be as good as music or white noise, for the same reason.
>I'm tired of these articles that seek to define ways to be happy

I don't think it's seeking to define anything, just saying that people are sometimes happiest focusing on what they are in to. One reason you see these articles in the US is that people there have been pioneering the scientific study of happiness, or "positive psychology" as it's often put, which only really kicked off in 1998 or so as a proper science. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology)

I'm kind of a fan, partly because I think it could lead to a better way of governing/society. Rather than shouting yay left wing vs yay right wing, you could try to maximise happiness which could become more an engineering project than a shouting thing.
Hesperian Health Guides (Where There Is No Doctor/Where There Is No Dentist)
BGP associates IP networks (prefixes) to ASNs (numeric addresses representing collections of networks) and establishes the paths between ASNs.

You can think of an ASN as representing a (routinely changing) bundle of different IP prefixes. A large ISP will have several ASNs. A very big company that manages its own multihomed connectivity might have one. Most companies on the Internet do not have one; their ISP handles it for them. The fact that virtually no ISP will peer with you† explains why you can't easily subscribe to two ISPs and multihome through both of them.

BGP basically accomplishes two things:

1. It establishes which network operators have claims on which specific IP networks.

2. It establishes which network operators (via their ASNs) are connected to which other network operators, so that a participating router can figure out where to send traffic to an arbitrary IP address.

† for random message board values of "you"
So I'm just wondering if your measurement of success/leader is based on innovation, profitability, or popularity?

Because you seem to be picking the whatever that suit your argument, while we usually consider any one of them to be an achievement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/wiki/physics/light_frame...

(Δs)2 = 0

It is wrong to then equate this to some sort of proper time Δτ, find that

Δτ = 0

for a photon, and thus conclude that photons always "experience" zero proper time. No. Remember that Δτ is defined as the
time difference between two events as measured by an observer (i.e., an inertial frame) that actually travels between the events. Photons
have no reference frames! So the definition of Δτ doesn't apply to null paths.
These same algorithms run in our brains with far more flawed edge cases than big data. Not that I am defending blind use of "algorithms," but that word is a boogeyman at best.
A modern take on anthropometry and craniometry. Because we know the recent history of those.
Same here...I've done a month at a time traveling (in February I went to Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia), but most of the time I'm in my hometown of Los Angeles, CA. The limiting factor is my wife's job and my daughter's school.
It depends on appellation. Some regions and sub regions have rules that gives them hard time producing cheap wines: things like irrigation will increase your yields, some places have limits on maximum yields or ban of mechanical harvest.

All of those rules make sense in producing better wines, but it make it hard to compete on price.
Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation edition (2015)
The GBC is a significantly more powerful machine than an NES, with some caveats around graphical rendering.

The NES is a MOS 6502, the GBC has a weird chip by Sharp that hybridizes a Zilog Z80 and an Intel 8080 clocked about double in Game Boy mode and quadruple in GBC mode. The GBC also has sixteen times more RAM, eight times more VRAM, supports bigger carts (up to a megabit), and twice the palettized colors on screen, albeit with marginally fewer sprites.

Huge difference in hardware--the primary reason the GBC is looked at as being "NES-like" is because of the lateness of its release and the comparative jump to the GBA, which is a recognizably modern ARM environment.
UC Berkeley chancellor’s message on free speech
Download and install GNS3, set up a few virtual routers, configure them to exchange NLRI via BGP and play with it all you want to. You're not going to find anyone who will let you establish a BGP session with them to exchange "real" routes -- there's simply too much risk involved for no valid purpose (and with no benefit to them).
I just installed this one on Chromium. Works well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easyreader/boamfhe...
> Funny that these things are mostly referred to as 'emulator bugs'. It would be more accurate to call them bugs in the game.

You are missing the point of an emulator: to correctly emulate hardware. Off-label use of the hardware was standard in that era of game development. Failure to support it is an emulator bug.

> it seems best to develop for an emulator with unreliable properties

Those emulators generally did not exist during the commercial lifespan of the system, at least not in any real quantity, and mean giving up on the advantages of the actual behavior of the hardware. Correctness is not as important as performance and fluidity in a console game.
There's no way this software is not inherently biased on very basic measures--a lisp caused by a disability probably wouldn't pass muster, nor would a southern accent. But the real tragedy here is that it equates the way someone presents themselves--not the content of their words or the strength of their skills--with job performance. It exacerbates the worst vices of HR and hiring practices and performance reviews. It's an algorithm for superficiality.

This company should remove this product from the market immediately. How this passed off as a good idea all the way through the product development cycle is beyond me.
> They are bullies and they should be recognized as such.

100% agree. I've had to previously block both of these users you mentioned for harassment over Twitter.

It got to the point where one of them started taking out of context screenshots of my Twitter stream and attempting to rally other SJW twitter users to send harassing messages to me.

I did my own research weeks ago and found that Rod didn't do anything wrong. If anyone finds evidence to the contrary, please let me know.
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Nah pet weight is all quantity and table scraps. Limit scraps and measure well and your pet will be the correct weight. So much easier than my diet. Wish someone measured my portions.
Because Uber is a hot topic company. A giant "startup" with a lot of controversy surrounding it. Will they right the ship? will it collapse?

I personally think an Uber collapse would have larger ramifications in the startup/VC world. I believe society / media is looking for a scapegoat for all that is wrong with the current "bubble." Like Pets.com 20 years ago, people are chomping at the bit to put blame on someone to epitomize all that is wrong with startups, out of control investing, breaking rules/laws, etc.

And as members / interested parties in this society/network, we care about it.

Edit: spelling
This is somewhat common during brain surgery. If the patient plays a wonky note (or stops playing altogether) it might be because the surgeon cut or poked the wrong spot.

See another example from a month ago [1] where a musician had dystonia, so playing guitar was actually a tight feedback loop for the surgeon to see if his fingers were becoming less cramped by the procedure.

[1] http://globalnews.ca/news/3614414/video-shows-indian-musicia...
From the other side once you share your data, you lose control over it. Your identity might be stolen / sold / used for something illegal by whoever has the access to it. Nobody is gonna solve this problem.

Moreover in a lot of countries nobody will protect you once prosecutor has enough "clues" to put you in jail for something you didn't commit. Just look at the prosecution process of mr Bogatov for hosting Tor exit node [1]. It's already happening.

Or imagine the possibilities for government to track down the opposition. Well in some countries government already puts in jail opposition based on internet activities.

So even in case anonymity might make people to be a bit overly aggressive online, that's the price I'm happy to pay for my own safety and freedom. Otherwise I would prefer to stay passive network participant or even be offline.

[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-regarding-dmitry-...
The story today is the pulling-out-at-the-last-minute, which implies something has gone unexpected (as has been the case with Uber lately).
Ask HN: Utility Analysis of Owning a Smartphone
I went to my network provider's store today to upgrade from a Galaxy S3 to an S7 Edge because they were having a sale. I ultimately rejected upgrading because it would have bumped up my fees by $970 over 30 months. The marginal utility I would have gained from the upgrade did not seem worth the fee bump. What are your thoughts on the utility you get out of your phone plan, and do you know of any analyses that have been done exploring this topic?

Background:
My S3, purchased three years ago, was a penny promotion purchase, but the store workers entered the information wrong into my plan, so I now have a 15% discount every single month, not just for the first couple, like the deal was supposed to be. This is one line in a family plan. The family plan as a whole costs way more than that. I understand that this is a special case because of the erroneous discount each month, but it opened my eyes to how much more some people must be paying for their plans, which made me want to find some sort of analysis about the utility people actually get out of their phones vs the price they pay for that service.

I think my plan now is to run my S3 dead then purchase an unlocked phone off eBay.
Maybe I sounded like a grumpy old man in that post, but what you say matches what I think because the things you mention should receive equal attention.

And that includes wrapping paper!
That's an interesting theory, but globalism is not the problem. The problem is that wealthy people aren't taxed as much as poor people. What the world needs is wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor. Check out the writings of Thomas Piketty, who has studied these issues at great length.
I'm sure most pets wouldn't be able to survive on their own, so its pretty obvious that we are putting an inflated strain on the food chain by providing meals for them.

I wonder if there are a lot more carnivores than would otherwise naturally exist (with pets included), or if there is a similar number of carnivores but less diversity (e.g. an ecosystem that would have housed other carnivores is now hosting pigs and cows).

I never would have thought I would see "pets" as environmental argument but its a no brainer.
I take care of people's dogs for extra income. There are two primary reasons that my clients' dogs are overweight. The first group don't monitor their dog's weight or how much it eats. "Just keep some food in the bowl so he doesn't get hungry." The second group derive pleasure from feeding their dog, provide expensive meals for it and, in their enthusiasm, end up overfeeding.
If plastics is the only concern, why not use glass? Make sure to store it in a place where no sunlight can shine on it.
I accepted a lower salary (than another offer, but more than what I make right now) at a company whose product I'm excited about, they had a team of more experienced people than my current company and I moved from frontend to a fullstack position. Of course, only time would tell if this was a good decision.
The Curry-Howard correspondence in connection with Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems only gets me to "For some types, there is no program of that type, but also no way to show that there is no such program."

What does that have to do with fractals or the physical universe?
It'd be cool to have example input and output code somewhere.
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It's not really the same, but there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Hatzalah
And compiles are really, really fast. (It's an OCaml thing, I gather.)
Fellow senior buy side guy. Used to work at a top search agency and am now client side.

This is the correct answer. At that scale focus groups, surveys, econometric modeling, etc. are what determine success. The harder part is for mid size advertisers who don't have the budget to move the needle to make those things viable, but still need to be branding heavy.

Beyond that, digital is way more trackable and often more efficient as a result, even on the branding side.