skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand all of that. But still, majority of my friends complain how news are bad and facebook is bad and tv is bad and they spend large amount of their time consuming it.

I was doing that too, but as soon as I realized that it was bad for me, I stopped. And yes, it was not 100% easy, they do provide dopamine fix or some other fake/empty entertainment for the brain that you need to fill with something else. But it is doable.
Part of it's charm, I think. He's out there, all by himself, doing these things with nothing more than department store cargo shorts, a webcam, and his own two hands and what he built with it.

The repetition is a reflection of what primitive life had to really be like.
> magically increased

there was a technical reason for the performance improvement; netflix started peering with Comcast:
http://www.businessinsider.com/paid-peering-explained-2014-2

but let's consider the world where the pipes stayed the same size; suddenly the lawyers say you have to stop shaping Netflix traffic (shaping means randomly dropping TCP traffic in order to signal to both ends that congestion exists in the network and they should slow down sending). Lack of shaping means congestion and slowness for all content traversing the same pipe, not just the heaviest users. So people watching Netflix get a slightly better quality and less buffering, but it takes 10 seconds to load any website traversing that pipe.
Thanks for engaging in good faith. The internet could use more of that.
So your idea is "nobody cares about you?" :)

Also mandatory signing doesn't improve web experience for anyone. It's a security feature. Security is always inconvenient, almost by definition. So your point is invalid.

I don't mind change, I like new Firefox features, what I dislike is imposition of stupid lockdowns, and pointless control. One valid point, I might concede, is that there are innocent third parties affected if someone clueless confirms installation of some malevolent extension. So restricting it is somewhat justified.

Anyway, it's all still a sham. Anyone can still disable mandatory signing with a simple 10 line script patching omni.ja in any Firefox. So it's still no security against people who can be persuaded to enbale something in about:config, or run firefox with a command switch, or add some file to /etc/firefox/, or run a simple 10 line script "to make firfox compatible with our great extension".
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>Just look at the attacks on Politifact, Factcheck.org, etc... for people who don't think objective truth is a factor in "Fake news".

More likely explanation: people mistake personal bias for "common sense" or some kind of factual information, and then attack what they assume is "fake news" based on these faulty starting points.
> Once you account for hours worked, time spent in the workforce, and debt accumulated to achieve their income, a doctor will only have a 10-20% boost in lifetime earnings compared to a UPS driver.

Do you have any reference to back that up? Not doubting it. Just curious.
I read once that doctor salaries account for 30% of the cost of healthcare. Its significant.
>Its not any harder than labeling things for tax purposes.

And how many countries are companies able to skirt through financial engineering?

Yeah, people can create all the rules they want, but I'm more interested in how people plan on enforcing it… because from where I sit, that's where countries are lacking (esp with politicians accepting some kind of bribes/kickbacks/revolving door/election financing/lobbying doors in them all), and it isn't getting any better…

Even when the hardware for brain scans get cheaper and more open, the raw data it self in the hands of the average WeChat/Facebook/Line, user is useless unless one understands how to process it into something useable…

Companies that can attract talent will increasingly start making all the data that they collect public by default… side stepping the pain of data breeches when you keep costs down by making it public by default… how they process it, that's a different story… maybe those companies will get their useds pissed off enough to actually think about their choices of using their platforms and not use them… though, that last part seems increasingly unlikely.
> If you know how to read audit statements, Friedman bent over backwards to make sure they're not culpable for fraud (whereas normally their function is to rubber-stamp for authenticity).

Can you expand on this?
It is not a deadly disease if he follows the standard course of treatment. I'm not comparing HIV to not eating vegetables. I'm comparing his refusal to take antiretroviral drugs to not wanting to eat his vegetables.

Do we have to throw all knowledge out the window and say anything someone with a harsh life does is smart? What about having HIV makes it a good idea to eschew effective treatment for 2 years and then inject untested bullshit?
1) Physician salaries have been decreasing relative to inflation for the last 30 years. Decrease it further, and opportunity cost will drive smart talented people away from healthcare.

2) Physician education and training are fundamentally different from nursing education. Not just in duration, but also in mindset. Doctors think through medical problems through a physician mindset, and nurses think through nursing problems through a nursing mindset. Simply letting nurses make medical decisions without the proper frame of thinking has been proven to have higher rates of complications and misdiagnosis and physician consultations.

3) The main driver of healthcare costs is not physician salary. More attention needs to be paid to equipment, capital infrastructure, nursing staff, administrators.
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Lets get some of that cheap foreign government subsidies and allow foreign doctors into the US. What a win!
How so you feel about the 30k people who die each year the tech is delayed? Or do you really think the litigation system (where currently car manufactures almost are never liable) is properly tuned to minimize the time until that is achieved?
I'm generally pretty conservative, and I support net neutrality.

I believe much of the opposition to it on my side of the aisle is based on the flawed assumption that any policy instituted during the Obama administration was a bad policy.

My preference would be that Congress passed legislation making net neutrality the law of the land, but in the absence of that, Title 2 classification with FCC forbearance is better than nothing.
Roughly what does that bonus work out to be in dollar terms?
Can someone help explain to me the appeal of static site generators? Functionally it's still a dynamically generated site, just that cache population/invalidation has turned into a user-controlled manual step.

Is this because of people wanting to host on static-asset only servers (GitHub Pages, S3 Website, etc) or is there some other benefit above simply using any standard blogging software? If it's a question of speed, that's what caching does.
Twitter is a business, and they get to choose what sort of business they want to be.

If they want to be totally hands off, they can do that. But if they want to set a tone for how people use their service, they can do that too.

Reddit is a platform for discourse too, and they've decided to evict certain communities from their platform because they don't match Reddit's goals and values. HN is a platform for discourse and there is a reputation system that controls how people interact with it. Facebook is another platform where users can decide who they interact with, and how.
Yes, but remember that we are the good guys ..... Seriously I agree with you on the censorship in disguise.
> Right, but this is more similar to an assignment operator.

Only if you don't zoom out. If you do, this is alloc/init/fill which in C++ or Rust would use a regular copy and RVO.
I am diabetic and I'd rather be neither.
There have already been a variety of attempts by these corps to undermine net neutrality even while it's been illegal. They lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago. The telecom giants are as consumer-hostile as it gets

https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...
Probably not wrong: I've started seeing crypto investment posts from friends who are musicians, teachers, and baristas.

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2014/02/10/top-anecd...
> I think a lot of people would have a problem if half of all fatalities are due to system glitches even if the net result is fewer deaths and I don't think that's entirely unreasonable.

Why is it not unreasonable?
2. 53 should read as 2^53 here (HN markup eaten star characters)
Is it fair to compare the US to Europe?

US has an extremely different driving culture than Europe. ~13500miles/year for the US; ~8000miles/year for Europe. ~800 cars per 1000 people in the US; ~550-600 per 1000 in Europe.

Also, a larger number of people in the US simply couldn't live life without a car. I'm sitting in my hometown, a mere hour drive away from the largest city in the US, and I'd have to walk 45min to the nearest food. Work would be a 10 mile bike ride each way. This is New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the US.

The seatbelt thing is just us being dumb though.
> Do you have a link to this undeniable data?

For a summary, sure [1]. There have been loads of studies on various metrics, but none have actually been any better than simple lines of code, despite the fact that it has such a large variance as a metric.

> Removing duplication means creating dependencies. If we create the right dependencies, i.e. the ones that enforce important invariants, that's a good thing. But that is a big if.

While enforcing invariants would certainly be good, I'm not convinced that's the only reason DRY reduces bugs. Common functions get manual reviews every time the code that calls them also get reviewed and/or refactored, whether due to new features or bugfixes.

DRY increases exposure of more commonly used paths through your program.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544018/
> ...and, in fact, that's also what you'd get if you taught everyone how to program Python in high school instead of Excel.

I disagree. Python leaves a readable instruction set, while Excel buries the logic in an opaque two dimensional grid of cells (plus or minus atrocious VBA). I think this gives a better ladder for people to improve their skills to the point of not producing unmaintainable garbage.
Agreed, If I paid for this service, I would expect them to do that sort of due diligence. Otherwise what am I paying for?
Thanks, I just edited it.
Duplicating my comment from the other discussion of this article:

> In Java, 70% of duplicates were due to code generation. For C++ is was 18%, for Python 85%, for JavaScript 70%.

C++ is the real outlier there. That could be because C++ code is much harder to generate, but I don't buy that it's that much harder than Java. Or it could be because C++ templates aren't considered "code generation". Or it could be because C++ doesn't get used for projects with that much boilerplate code. Or...
Meh, these threats exist in the real world as well. You can't silence everybody who might possibly be a threat at some point.

Those who actually make the threats should be dealt with, but last time I checked it's "innocent until proven guilty" not "guilty until proven liberal".
I have equity but its garbage. I know I'm being severely underpaid but after college graduation I was desperate to take the first available job offer (the salary was actually 85k at the time). What's a reasonable salary to ask for in my next job?
The idea is that general Excel files do not run macros. They need to be saved with a special extension and you need to manually approve macros, with warnings if the file is in a location where other users can write to the file.

I have no idea how watertight this is though, it’s Microsoft quality (and some of the most ancient code they have) so I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
Thankfully, it is not up to the individuals to gauge what the value of other peoples labor is.

Any decision that strays from what people want to pay is going to be either more expensive than it should, or lead to supply shortage. In this case, both are happening.
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It sounds like you aren't a fan of how Google and Facebook operate from that comment; I don't think allowing _more_ companies to act like that is a very good remedy to that problem
A bit offtopic, but 8% interest rate on a loan you can't default on sounds bonkers. I'd rather expect something like 0.5 percentage points over the current interbank offered rate.
>If they want to be totally hands off, they can do that. If they want to be totally hands off, they can do that. But if they want to set a tone for how people use their service, they can do that too.

Yes, they can. I'm just going to repost my canned response now:

>The government supports free speech because it's important and a Good Thing. Just because private companies aren't required to do the same doesn't make it any less important and a Good Thing.
Based on what? What deaths is the lack of regulation preventing? How would they be more dangerous if they were regulated?
Doesn’t excel allow using any data source for the data? So you can e.g populate a table from a web service/database etc?

The thing with excel is that it’s repl-like and lets you sketch up a solution. If users could build more data driven apps (I don’t doubt it’s possible but it should be easy) like those Access popularized then you could start off using sketch data and finish with using a “single source of truth”.
Works better than expected - nice! Wasn't sure what to do at the icons screen. Maybe "close" should be "see logo ideas".
Yes, it’s called the datasheet view.
Worker co-ops in and of themselves aren't a novel idea. Universally replacing the stock corporation (thus doing away with the mechanism of equity financing) in favor of worker co-ops is an idea that seems to be largely absent from our public debate. There are definitely people exploring it, The Next System Project [1], Democracy Collaborative [2], and Foundation for a New Economics [3] have all toyed with it to varying degrees.

But I don't know that I've really seen anyone make a strong case for it (in a way digestible to the layment). Richard Wolff wrote about it in Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism but not in a way that was very digestible for the average reader. Gar Alperovitz has also written about it in What Now Must We Do? and America Beyond Capitalism, but in both cases he wasn't specifically making the argument for universally replacing the Stock Corporation with Worker Cooperatives, but more generally increasing the prevalence of cooperatives (worker, member, and multi-stakeholder) and decreasing the power of capital.

I'd really like to write a book, digestible by the average American, making the case for the universal replacement of the stock corporation with the worker cooperative and speculating about what impacts that might have on society (using evidence to support the speculation as much as possible).

[1] https://thenextsystem.org/
[2] https://democracycollaborative.org/
[3] http://neweconomics.org/
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The original article doesn't mention anything like "an automatic ban based on political affiliation". The de-verification of white supremacists argument hinges around both verification as endorsement, and the possibility that some political beliefs (white supremacy) are in themselves a threat of violence.
I read this as "The secret lives of urban cows" and was genuinely confused for the first several paragraphs until I looked at the title again.
I agree with your point. I never understood why making >150K starting at the age of 32 with a debt of about ~300K is an insurmountable burden. I have a close friend who fits the above profile. She actually makes about ~200K/year (after tax and everything, she nets about 100K); her work hours are nothing unusual--~9-10hours. With this rate, she can comfortably pay off her debt in ~10 years top.
I don't think this is true. If you google for toyota and misra (a C coding standard for safety-critical systems) you can find many reports on an audit that was performed on their code and the _many thousands_ of violations that were found.
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Oh my. That's not how it works. Thats not how any of it works.

There are less people getting health services than there would be if it weren't a constraint field. Also, the total amount of money paid to doctors would be much higher if more doctors would join: it just would be a lower average.

The doctor community makes less money by contraining supply the same way a bagel shop makes less money if it doesnt satisfy its demand. This is absolutely basic microeconomics.
Please make sure they understand if they mandate any encryption 'backdoors', these breaches will happen much more often.
The article fails to mention the debt-load that doctors acquire through their lengthy schooling. I agree that it seems ludicrous to pay (some) doctors the outrageous salaries that they are paid, but most professions don’t require a couple thousand dollars of post-college debt to practice. That may be fine for a specialist surgeon pulling in 600k annually, but it’s quite different for academic primary care docs making more like 120k$ in major metropolitan areas.

Disclosure: doctor
> There are plenty of reasons to eschew short term profitability for long term profitability and prevent flooding the market.

That's not what we're talking about.

What people are proposing here is literally that hospitals are eschewing short-term profit in order to increase the expenses they have to pay in the long-term (physician salaries).
I tried it for "Pied Piper," and ended up with a few B&W pictures of pipes, and a propellor plane that might be a Piper Cub. Seems amateur.
One reason why Excel should never be used for anything real is because it lacks type safety. For example if you have to sum a columns of numbers and one of them was mistakenly input as text, rather than throwing an error, it will just ignore that entry. There are lots of other problems related to type safety as well.
anyone knows if this functionality is at play when you don't have GAPPS installed?
I saw a presentation about KNIME but was unfamiliar with many of the processes that it allows one to string together to build a workflow, so the notion of building a workflow myself seemed very daunting. Do you think it would allow one to build workflows for basic stuff and gradually grow in their confidence with it?

The presentation mentioned that the company is/was working on reporting add-ons, I think.
Would you please un-kill this comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15753759
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I don't even understand how this became a bi-partisan issue. Everyone I know, republican and democrat, are for NN. The only people that are against NN are convinced it was introduced by Obama in order to "socialize the internet"
I would say "A fool and his money are soon parted. We are here to help." is a valid business model...
That's a false equivalence -- Not all Republicans want to end Net Neutrality.

However it is super duper lame that a ton of politicians blindly follow party lines. Sigh.
> just

It's not as easy as you make it sound. Americans still want cars.
I agree that purpose-specific tools aren't the answer, unless the question was, "can I have a straight jacket?"

Flip side, my feeling is that, if an analysis was worth doing, it's probably worth doing right. And to do it right, it should probably be done in a way that one can show their work. I like where the R community in particular has gone in dropping the barrier to reproducible analysis to roughly the same place as Excel.
I don't understand the reasoning that because one opts for expensive training that incurs debt then a high salary is necessary. What other forms of debt behave that way, where the more you take on the more compensated you should be?

I did a physics PhD, which took roughly 8 years of graduate training. My stipend was ~$12k per year for 80 hour weeks, and from that I still had to pay student fees. It's possible to graduate debt free in that situation (I did not), but does that imply that my working salary should be less? Or, because I did take on debt, I should get paid more?
My side project does this by serverizing Excel sheets. Take a look at my profile for links.
Not sure what rail services are like where you live, but in the UK it's about 50/50 whether it is faster to travel between major cities by car or by train. Trains can go faster but this is often counterbalanced by needing to slow down to come to a stop, etc. There will always be places that can't be reached with public transport and even in cities like Paris renowned for their public transport it is often necessary to change several times as part of a journey.

Many light rail services e.g. BART and the London Underground are completely crazy at rush hour and there are many obstacles to increasing frequency. A big challenge of self driving trains is ensuring they are able to stop in time if an obstacle is present, and this relies on fairly similar technology to that of driverless cars. Self driving cars would reduce traffic because they would reduce accidents and allow cars to sort themselves into slots automatically rather than waiting at traffic lights.

You have a good point about rush hour traffic being increased by cars driving outside the city to park, although cars could park more efficiently in city centres if multi-storey car parks didn't need to allocate space for humans.
Non-privacy apologists who make such comments are from a newer internet generation and they have not yet experienced valid reasons why this type of behaviour is an issue.

There is very much a reality of smartphones existing for over a decade before this type of data collection was done. It is in no way required or critical. If it was beneficial, it still should be a setting that can be turned off.

This isn't applicable just to service companies like Google who value user information, even when purchasing from a product company such as Apple has laptops phoning home at an incredibly unreasonable rate compared to MacOS 1-2 versions prior.

It's like having to run a firewall on your own devices to protect yourself from the manufacturer. Can we imagine if our routers do this, or did?
You're demonstrating that hospitals do not consider residency programs to be worth funding, but you aren't helping us understand why, which is the far more interesting question.
Because you’re preventing 30k deaths that would have happened but causing 8k that wouldn’t... it seems fair for people to be mad about that 8k.

Maybe we shouldn’t have rushed into things until that number was way smaller.

‘Diverless cars cause 30% of road fatalities’ is not a good headline.
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What can be done to mitigate the risk of handoffs? This seems like something we can use technology to solve.