skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To reinforce the point made by 'katrielalex - we drink purified water not because it's a fad, but because we know - and this is where medicine is not wrong - that things in dirty water cause illness and death. To outweigh that, our medicine would have to miss some serious health risks of filtered water - big enough that we would surely notice them by now.

In general, I feel that a lot of sympathy for those "natural" things stem from not bothering to put a numeric value on actual risks and benefits involved. Getting a 0.01% risk of cancer from an "unnatural" habit beats the hell out of getting 10% risk of death from a disease that this habit prevents.

Another point is that these days, we pollute the environment much more than in the past; "raw water" of today is often full of industrial waste products, so in a way our own civilization forces us to filter it.
Could you package it as a bookmarklet?
AMD stock price was higher in July and October. It increased a tiny bit and does not constitute “soaring”.
I'd only suggest voluntarily, but I think that solving the housing problem and the question of colonization in one fell swoop seems like a nice solution.
I wonder if there's a market for a company that analyzes the mineral makeup of different cities'/regions' tap water, and sells an on-faucet water softener/filter that can be configured with different "mineral pods" to match the water taste of your preferred region.

New Yorker living in Texas? Don't worry, you can still get that great NY Watershed taste coming right from your tap!
The passivity of most of those mediums make them different. TVs, Walls, taxis, etc. are not personally targeting you based on intimate private information about you.

The internet and smartphones are, but even those are not snooping in on your conversations (or so we believe, hence the hue and cry about Facebook listening in). Alexa is different in that it’s listening to all your conversations, including presumably extremely private ones.
Isn't the point of an IPO generally to raise funds? In this case, it's just allowing people to sell their shares to the public, right? From the company standpoint, this is almost certainly a negative: additional oversight & reporting to do, no funds raised. I guess a positive is that shareholders can cash out, but as an investor, isn't that a giant red flag?

I guess as an investor, I don't see why I'd buy Spotify shares from an existing shareholder -- my "investment" is not going to the company, it's a bit like buying shares on the market of a mature company, except Spotify isn't that -- it's a money-hole with a highly questionable future. Is there any reason for someone to buy existing shares to expect things to turn around? They aren't getting a capital infusion, it's business as usual except with the additional burden of being a public company.
For an illustration see the Great Oxygen Catastrophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
It's Spring Water! believe it or not people around the world with access to Spring Water have been drinking for years.

Canada has an incredible density of springs. What's stupid is how it's turning into a fad. haha My dad get a kick out of this.
> Breaking major bones, especially in times before modern medicine, was without a doubt a life-threatening event. And considering the prevalence of fractures today, with our largely sedentary lives, it must have happened fairly often

They're not that prevalent, and they may not have been more prevalent in the past, sedentary life likely contributes to some form of osteoporosis by providing less continuous stress and it adds "extreme" sports as discrete high-risk events.

And of course just because it's life threatening does not mean it's going to be weeded out, selection is an important part of evolution.
Please, MoneyGram will fold because they are often caught assisting money launderers and fraudsters in addition to their exploitative fee structure.
I believe that it technically is not. The program has no efforts to reduce the number of carriers of the recessive gene. The impact on the 'genetic stock' of the population is minor, if any, and is not the goal of the program. The goal is to change the effect of certain genes, not to remove those genes from the population.
> it's naive and a bit sexist

It's not a bit sexist, and it's not naive. This is MRA/redpill propaganda. Bad methodology isn't accidental when it gets you the "women are alpha-riding sluts" result you hoped for.
You can just set "always show virtual keyboard" in accessibility options (at least in in android 8.0+).
Node by Numbers 2017 – NodeSource
Popular Chinese WeChat App to Become Official ID of China
Then the fix is a kext manager where you can remove kexts. Sure it's just language but broken is a tad strong, even though I tend to agree with you.
Reverse-engineering the iPhone X home-indicator
I think it's pretty common to have lawsuits against companies while they are filing for IPO's.

Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba are some popular examples you might want to read about.
Outside of tech--I'd like to create a travel-related business to help people travel more often on a budget, or a high-quality coffee box subscription where I send out hand-selected coffee every few weeks (likely from small shops, local roasters, etc.), or start my own micro-brewery.
I think that's spot on. They are holding the stock price for ransom.
Nothing new under the sun ...

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Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce. The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. At present people in search of pleasure naturally tend to congregate in large herds and to make a noise; in future their natural tendency will be to seek solitude and quiet.

- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow
Likely very similar to the postgres benchmarks. Fundamentally a RDBMS needs to sync each transaction commit to the log file on disk and that sync is always a syscall. If your DB is doing thousands tx/sec to low latency flash and you rely on that low latency, you're going to get hit.
It’s a massive failure of the tech industry that the vast majority of the world doesn’t even realize this, and therefore places very little, if any, price premium on the “does not snoop on you” feature.
I've been burned enough by bad installers that I go to ninite for any software like that.
"cane sugar" is cane sugar, because sugar can come from a few sources, including cane and beet. Most of the white sugar you know is either from cane or beet and it's generally glucose. Another sugar, fructose, is fruit sugar, or grape sugar, which is dextrose - they are all "sugar".

Indicating the (near) exact type of sugar is not a bad idea.
I was vegan for a while (McDougall), so I'm aware of the evidence for this. But I don't know if I buy it. I don't remember seeing any studies that focused on people who had high-fat + low sugar diets. Most of them compared typical western diets with (undeniably) healthy vegan diets. The typical western diet is indeed high fat, but is also crazy high in refined sugars.
Yes, it's large, but it's also only practically visible when you can see all of the wages for all companies. Pay gaps between individuals in the same company - regardless of gender - can be much larger than 10%, since your wage (in the US) depends more on your wage at your last job than your actual skill level.
Spotify reportedly files to go public
In Iowa, the City of Waukee was bribed $100m by Apple to abate $170m in property taxes. Think about that. You pay a $1000 bribe to the city and they nerf $1700 of your property tax; screwing the local school district/county/state.

Massive brazen tax fraud.

Apple even bragged about the $100m bribe in their press release calling it an "endowment fund".

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apples-next-us-data-c...
And every now and then, on my old macBook USB stops working and I need to unplug everything (MIDI interfaces, audio, disk drives). Annoying as hell when you open Cubase and it can't see any of your setup.

On the other hand I never had any serious issue with my XPS running Ubuntu, or my desktop PCs (running Linux exclusively since 2003). So YMMV, and the plural of anecdote isn't statistics. On my book, Linux works largely better and more predictably than MacOS by a large margin.
Without a doubt, It seems like everyone is playing catchup, I'm still shocked how far behind the German car manufacturers are. I recently switched from a BMW M5 to a model S. It's been a great switch for me. Slightly lacking in build quality but made up for in that 0-60 excitement!
The full glass jug is $60; refills are $15. That's expensive, but probably in line with what people are willing to pay for smaller plastic bottles of water.
I disagree. Money stops buying you happiness below $80k/year, or at least gives a very poor ROI. Knowing this, why would any sensible person choose a system which gives a much smaller chance of reaching this level?

It's a very American way of thinking, in which we fixate on being incredibly wealthy, instead of just moderately wealthy. Why else do Powerball sales skyrocket when the jackpot is hundreds of millions, instead of just millions? Statistically, your chances of winning were much better when it were in the mere millions, and now you have a much smaller chance, though to be very elite instead of just elite.
Ah that makes sense. Thanks!
I'm glad I didn't upgrade.

Why is it so hard for Apple to get System Integrity Protection right? Linux/BSD were hardened years ago with SELinux/AppArmor/MAC etc.
I'll start with some obvious ones:

how much money did you make?

What was revenue and what was cost?

How many units did you sell?

How did anyone ever hear about the product?
No, how about many people act together voluntarily in a distributed system of social support that is resilient to attack by small numbers of powerful people?
Anecdotal but I have had an echo dot for only about 2 weeks and already it has "woken" when nobody was talking to it. It's very disconcerting, as you don't realize that it's listening as it parses some conversation that was never meant for it and then suddenly interjects with some non-sequitur.

Once was when an actual person was speaking and another time was when the TV show 'The Sopranos' was playing in the room. In the latter case, I rewound the show several times and it triggered on the same phrase multiple times (and the character was not saying anything that sounded like Alexa, at least to me)
Absolutely. In my experience it's the non-technical (or pseudo-technical) internal recruiter who's the most common issue.
The boring company includes the idea of ~140MPH electric sleds that carry cars. This is part of their goal for 1/10th the price. It may or may not be implemented long term, but it is a novel concept and they are actually digging right now to gain expertise.

I would call it similar to Space X before they started landing the rockets. Just making digging cheaper much like making rockets cheaper is a basis for a profitable company. A long term goal of 1/10th the price really would be game changing.

PS: Picture even a one way toll road that goes 20 miles under I-66 into DC they could easily charge 10$/ trip an get 100,000+ riders each way per day. So, the real question is how much that tunnel costs. At 20 billion $ that's 20 billion * 6% ~= 1.2 billion per year vs 2 * 10 * 100,000 * 5 * 48 = 480 million so not a win. But, at 1/10th the price or 2 billion that's ~120 million per year break-even vs 480 million and highly profitable. How many places could a 5 mile segment be able to charge say 3 dollars and have 100,000 people per workday?
Not fiction for me[0]. This was pretty much us. We could go where ever. And yeah, my folks parenting style was a bit... loose. But I was never one to get into trouble really, so there was some trust built up there.

[0] Except the alien thing.
Does it matter why they sold it to me if I don't use it that way?
Another thing that happened in that time was the infighting between the media production branches and the electronics branch.
Yeah I should have quoted that to begin with. It's interesting that all the training is really part of the product too.
Wrong. Many Americans, including myself, think of personal responsibility first. Actions may have consequences, period.

I exercise regularly, eat healthy, keep the amount of sugar/glucose I consume to a minimum, keep alcohol and drug use in check and I don't smoke. Those are MY life choices. Nobody forced me to do any of the above. I choose to live this way because I want to remain healthy and hopefully life a long, healthy life.

So why do I ask the question of "Why should I pay for your health care"?

If an individual smokes regularly, eats McDonalds weekly or more, does not exercise or even attempt too, does not get adequate sleep, is morbidly obese for a large portion of their life (due to their decisions above), and regularly partakes in a large amount of alcohol and drug use, it is almost CERTAIN that their cost of health care, especially later in life, will be magnitudes higher. Those are decisions THEY made. Not me, not the government, themselves.

So no, I will not pay for your healthcare when you make the decision to live a life like that. Take responsibility on yourself. Want to ignore your body? Fine, but don't make me pay for it.

Unfortunately, a larger percent of our population is obese, which is one of the largest causes of other complications that end up costing our healthcare system a considerable amount. If we could focus that money into solving health issues that are not the cause of an individuals' actions, we would have cancer solved by now. But no, we spend it on the guy who is 55 and weighs 450 lbs because he ate fast food every fucking day for the last 25 years. No. Just No.
The only water available to me is well water and I do prefer to fill up several Aquatainers at a local spring, but it's just water to me.

There are seasons where the springs around me appear to "flunk" the drinking standards compared to treated, but not to a level where there's levels of ecoli, giardia, etc. Check for standing water around the site, research tests or get it tested yourself, spring water is fine, but obviously I wouldn't recommend anyone who's elderly or vulnerable to disease to drink from any random "spring."

It's quite puzzling to see the rich paying out the ass for something those without municipal water, and the poor, have ritualized and get for free. I'm sure there's public access and tested springs only a quick drive from San Jose, so it is amusing.
> industry destroying water supplies or poisoning us with various poorly-understood chemicals

iodine? chloride? Which one of those is not well understood? :)
Yup. And I don't for a second buy that this "raw water" isn't in reality some industrial-grade tap water or sourced from whatever lake they could get access to cheaply.
This is a flaw in HN, he made legitimate and witty comment and has been punished for that. Now, I can't prevent people from downvoting, but it really prevents lively discussion.

Maybe limit number of downvotes people can cast. I feel that this behavior is restricting normal discussion.
p.s. this seems like a bad time to hit the front page of HN since Amazon says you only have 11 left in stock!
> all such calls would be free of human interpretation

This is a straw man argument. Simply revealing on what basis the decision was made and letting the community voice approval or disapproval would go a very long way.

Consider a title change decision. Most of the time, title changes are minor and reasonable, but once in a while they effectively hide what is interesting about the story from readers. Readers should simply be able to vote on whether or not the title change was helpful, so that mods can learn from those votes how to effectively moderate the forum.

Similarly, it would make sense to reveal any strategies that are used to improve HN such as deducting points from stories, etc, and to make it obvious when this has been done to a story, so that the community can express approval or disapproval of the decision.

I think the main fallacy that the moderation approach embodies is the idea that by simply not discussing politics HN is avoiding becoming political. That is not the case at all. By suppressing or avoiding important political issues, HN is making a very vocal political statement that those issues should be ignored.

Instead, why not bless certain HN users to write comments on highly political articles that will be pinned to the top of the page to give voice to reasoned and discussion-shaping views. This would break the cycle of highly politicized retorts and rejoinders that is what HN should actually be trying to avoid. The key here is to grant more trust to the community, not less. There are a lot of people on HN whose views I deeply respect, and when there is an important issue going on I want to know what they think about it.

Human editorial is fine, but banning/throttling/suppressing users and views is a sinister way to express editorial views. You can frame it as being about manners, but it's rarely actually about manners.

Edit: My account seems to have been throttled for 30+ minutes. Thanks for the mature response.
The abstract makes it sound not highly technical. You may be fine with just linear algebra and calculus 1.

Edit- quote from the introduction:
“The technical material includes logic, probability theory, game theory, and optimization.[...]the goal has been to gather the most important elements from each discipline and weave them together into a balanced and accurate introduction to this broad field. The intended reader is a graduate student or an advanced undergraduate, prototypically, but not necessarily, in computer science”
> You said different with zero qualifications.

That's right. The "difference" you pointed out is not a difference of the people themselves, it's a difference in classification in a completely separate system from the people.
The hospital bureaucracy is out of control in the US. See http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literatu...

As for the cause, start with https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/sunday-review/doctors-sal...
It depends on how they handle user compensation. Going by the FDIV precedent, they should typically replace all defective products for free, and they will be in the clear.

What I meant was that the presence of the bug itself is not a valid cause, for example you can't claim that due to the error you lost 1 trillion dollars via a software hack - even if it's true. If Intel can prove they acted ethically when disclosing the bug and that they replaced / compensated users up to the value of the CPU, they are in the clear.
> Once there's a number of reproducible, peer reviewed, studies then maybe it's time to have this discussion.

That's a chicken-and-egg problem. Who is going to start doing peer-reviewed studies until someone doubts the status quo?
Just buy a gross revenue share. They can't block that easily.
There's a mechanistic reason why it's a bad choice. Government is by necessity a hierarchical system, by its very nature its process of allocating resources requires a concentration of wealth and power. From first principles, there's no way around it. Any system that enforces 'good feels' top-down is unstable and has a half-life; systems of social support will eventually be redirected to benefit the wealthy. For example, if we go to single payer healthcare, it eventually will become a vector for lining the pockets of phamaceutical companies.
So basically it's just smmry.com but feeds it from youtube captions
Perhaps everyone was chasing the wrong goal. Just about all "new" technologies start off being expensive. This is true of the telephone, cellphone, car ... In time when manufacturing processes catch up they become available to the masses. I presume the first devices are expensive to cover the R&D costs.
Node module deep-dive: module
Yep these are some obvious numbers I might even should have just shared off the bat!

After Amazon fees, Shipping, etc I will Net about $37k in profit

Revenue will for the first run be just about $60k and Cost was ~$11k out of pocket + Amazon fees, ads etc.

So far only a couple thousand have been produced (More on the way soon!) and most of it started as word of mouth then sort of ballooned! I still don't have any reviews even yet but hope they're coming soon!
Making movies, books, comics, or any other form of story telling.
UI design principles 2018: The new rules
In the US I believe any cash you hold (incl. prepaid credit cards) can be seized by the state if they even suspect it was gained through illicit means. Getting the money back would require you to prove that you gained it legitimately. This is not considered to breach due process since it is not a person being incarcerated, but rather money being incarcerated, and due process does not apply to money. This is referred to as civil forfeiture.
>I'm not sure how the Prisoner's Dilemma applies here? I agree that consumers should be educated and have the ability to make informed decisions; in many ways, this is what makes a market more "fair": make sure that consumers have access to information, and let them make the best decisions they can.

But that's the point of the prisoner's dilemma. Individuals who are educated, can make informed decisions, have access to information about the results of their decision will always make a decision that isn't the best decision they can make. What the prisoner's dilemma reveals is that the only way to beat the game is through a coordination mechanism. Nothing else will ever help.

>This is something I think we disagree on: I don't see this as a handicap at all.

Hmm so in the prisoner's dilemma you don't see the prisoners without coordination as handicapped? To me it's obvious. Prisoners with coordination realize the best overall outcome, prisoner's without coordination are never able to realize that outcome. Seems straightforwardly handicapped to me.

>To me, this is a case where the so-called "invisible hand of the market" is the way to go: ensure that consumers have access to the information they need, and let consumers make the best decisions for themselves.

I'm providing you with examples where the invisible hand doesn't work the way we like to pretend. The hand is guided towards overall societal benefit by individually selfish actions. What I'm talking about are cases where individually selfish actions lead the invisible hand to overall societal detriment. And that in those instances we need government as a way to coordinate together so that we may reposition the invisible hand where we desire.

>Leaving things to the market leaves things in a more fluid state, in my opinion.

Fluid isn't necessarily good however. We will persist 'fluidly' with Echo with ads until we get the government to act and then we will exist 'statically' with Echo without ads. I suppose I'm fine with that static-ness.

>Some of the early 20th century government involvements led to humanitarian crises (the Communist revolutions in China and Russia);

You're being a bit funny with 'government involvement' here. Maybe there should be some corollary to Godwin's Law where the first one to compare a government program to Mao loses. Anyhow, I'm not talking about seizing the means of production, I'm talking about regulating existing markets.

>that's not to say that governments necessarily lead to the worst situations, just that sometimes markets are better at things than government involvement.

There's also plenty of instances where government involvement is better than markets. That's the case I'm making - essentially that we need government regulation as a way of reigning back the invisible hand when it goes awry aka smart homes that secretly advertise to you.