skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once needed to replace an expired health insurance card but since I don't live in the same country where my health insurance is registered, I called the company to inquire about whether it's possible to have the card shipped to another country. Of course it is! Just enter your address into a form in their Easy And Convenient Online System. Turns out, their system wouldn't process the request unless it validated the address. It seems the company paid for a version of the database which contained house-level details from my home country but other countries only had cities listed. That meant I could enter the city and then I could use a dropdown to pick one of the zero streets the system knew about. Suffice to say, I didn't get my health insurance card.
Perfect. thank you.
haha. great irony: the medium.com site showed me a page with a google captcha. I clicked it, and it asked me to identify cars or something. so I just hit the back button, left this comment and realised I did not have to read such a click baity titled article.

I guess captcha before showing an ad-ridden site is 70% of the reason I don't read bad articles. thanks medium-google-cloudflare.
It works if you append the plus code with a comma followed by the country name.
That article misses the gravest one in my opinion: toy water gun vs actual gun https://emojipedia.org/pistol/
How Employees Are Making Businesses Vulnerable from Within
Assault and battery in the delivery room (ethics, autonomy, and consent)
>What seems fair is to ban arbitrary "top-N" quotas. If you can get a job that pays you a living wage (such that you don't have to draw from subsidies), then you can stay without hassle.

Ok. I just know that this won't happen anytime soon. My top-N solution feels like something the current administration would not be too reluctant to implement. It also address the concern that foreign labor pressure downs salaries for US citizens.
I agree that delivery at a drop point can be useful to sidestep the post office random delivery time.
The starships of the future won’t look anything like Star Trek’s Enterprise
The article pointed out that two "liberal" bloggers / journalists retreated to "liberal" tribe disgust, when confronted with a "liberal" that expressed an actual positive values of the alt right. I saw it more as an article about tribalism; in tribalism, cheerleading and re-framing / spin are very important, and it was more this -- not "non-factual" per se -- that this article was discussing.

Though, Steve Pinker as far as I know really isn't a "liberal", so this article is somewhat guilty of the same tribalism. I'm not familiar with Ben Norton, but casual Googlings makes me wonder what exactly makes him "lefty". And, to be honest, tribalism-oriented cheerleading and spin are not something new to social media.

Whether the dominant social media forms exasperates this tribalism though is a good question to me (one this article doesn't really answer). Part of the reason I dislike Facebook and Twitter is that it seems like the form is not designed with nuance and depth in mind. It's all quick status updates or tweets, likes, follows, quick dopamine hits.

10 years ago, there was a strong long-form social media circle (blogs). These were not entirely free from dramas or tribalism, granted, but the format seemed to allow for more slices of political viewpoints than just two. At the very least, in the blogosphere, there wasn't the pure monetary incentives to create "clickbait". Which these days in Facebook / Twitter land, not only includes the usual celebrity fluff and bait miracle-cures and shock stories etc., but tribal oriented junk too ranging from "news" with a tribal framework, to outright falsehoods.
Even in the US I typically just address a letter these days (when I send one) with name and zip code. I’ve been doing this for decades.
People say “dejeuner” to mean breakfast a lot. But everyone knows that it is also not correct (we always this kind of people that will correct people on that)
> The advice was not encouraging. Since I’d already been given the treatment available in my borough, and my weight was only just within the ‘anorexic range’ (below a body mass index of 17), I was told I’d be better off registering with a university GP with access to better mental health services.

Anorexia is not about a person's weight, but about their disordered thoughts of food and eating.

When someone is doing the right thing and seeking early intervention for those disordered thoughts we should be providing them with a package of care to treat them. We know early intervention is life saving, and is more effective and cheaper than later intervention.

By forcing someone to wait until their BMI drops we're saying "come back when you're thinner" -- and that's a lethal thing to say to someone with an eating disorder.

Anorexia is one of the most fatal mental illnesses.
Modern boilers are coils of thin copper tube that heat up quite fast.
Yes, but the city and street are typically provided for clarity / redundancy.

Some fancy webpages fill them in automatically.
One thing I am curious about is what really would happen if we had no minimum wage. Anchoring bias is a pretty well known phenomenon. If you have a "cheap" item priced at $10, an "economic" item priced at $15 and an "expensive" item at $20 and they are functionally the same. People will choose the middle item.

I wonder if something similar is happening with wages. Because of the minimum wage, a business owner can hire someone to the minimum wage, or something slightly above, without too much thought other than knowing they can afford it generally. So the minimum may be artificially "sticking" wages lower than what they may otherwise be. Of course this is all conjecture and I have no kind of proof for this.

Also, while minimum wage laws are almost universally praised, they (along with a lot of things in the US) have a pretty sad history. https://mises.org/blog/racist-history-minimum-wage-laws
Going by memory here, since most of the search results about the topic are very... polarized.

The genesis of the problem, as with so many problems, is that two people were in a short term sexual relationship. The issue with that is the woman made video games, and the man reviewed video games. His review of her video game "Depression Quest" was glowing - a sentiment most people who played the game didn't feel was warranted. The relationship was uncovered, accusations started flying, and a mob was formed on both sides. Those mobs proceeded to do what mobs do - attack each other.

The biggest impact I saw was that people in the industry were not allowed to be neutral, so they just didn't comment. Why interact with the crowd when you're just going to be pilloried in a highly visible fashion by one side or the other?
I grew up in England and it was similar.
Growing up Dinner was the hot meal using taken in the middle of the day either at school (dinner ladies), or at work (I imagined hot meals servers in factories or canteens).
And tea (teatime!) was cold/lighter possibly taken with tea, essentially late afternoon tea, followed by supper later in the evening.
Pretty sure it’s still like this in many places.

At some point dinner transitioned to lunch and teatime to dinner for us.
IMO, still much better than the stress of driving in rush hour traffic 2x a day to go to an office where everyone is looking over your shoulder all the time and won't hesitate to interrupt you, or the guy right next to you, or anyone in the room, for a quick, disruptive chat that everyone can hear.
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Talks are being live streamed atm
Sorry if I paraphrase or if I sound confused. But... I would rather take it the other way for the discussion. :)

I would rather say that we name the effect it has on us (this looks "white" to me / I like this food), that we associate by simplification with the causal origin (it _is_ white / it is good).

So when I say "the flag is white", I mean what I see, and communicate it in a way that invites someone's perception language to adjust to mine "yes, it is white".
That is, two people adjust their own perception of the same causal property by the mean of their common language: we call white what we see as white.

Although that could sound obvious, it introduces the possibility that the causal origin may behave, or be perceived, actually differently by two persons. And in this case, we face a potential misunderstanding between these two.

Or am I mistaken?

(edited for clarification/readability)
surf is based on the whole Webkit. It's only lacking a thin veneer compared to Firefox et all.
React Native vs. Native. How to Choose the Best Platform for a Mobile App?
That becomes the real question if websites accept plus-codes as valid shipping addresses.

How will you know whether or not a mail-system in a remote location will even know what a plus code is, and then, be equipped with that technology on an individual carrier basis?

Are these just pie-in-the-sky proposals or are people using them now?
That's not just in America, part of Europe can qualify too.

Except that they might have addresses.
> But as stated by others (about Ireland in their example), even companies that had their hq there asked for zip code at a time there was not any.

Post codes are not generally used in Ireland. The launch was not really successful and even An Post (the government-run postal service) doesn't use them.

Irish counties are fun, as the traditional 26 counties (in the Republic) don't align with the thirty-something administrative counties that now exist.
I disagree that my reaction was exactly what the parent commenter was speaking about. If I said "you must be racist or pro-slavery if you even want to consider talking about this" then it would have been. But literally the first thing I said was that I understand the point, and that his heart was in the right place. The example works against his point - because it's so obviously a bad idea, isn't really worth defending and just confuses things further.
This is an accurate summary, but I also feel that a TL;DR is quite contrary to the spirit of the article!
More colleges than ever have test-optional admissions policies
And we would have got away with it if it wasnt for you pesky kids......
I think most of them are aware that some of their statements are incorrect when interpreted in strict logical sense. But thing is, absolute majority of statements in natural language are either strictly incorrect or internally inconsistent.

Both groups are pretty sure that the core of their beliefs is valid. Maybe fact A is false and fact B is overblown but sum(A, B, C) is still a vector in the direction of their faith. So debunking their statements won't lead anywhere.

You are much better off agreeing to disagree and trying to discuss a middle ground. But that's not what happens in modern society.
Greed, incompetence, greed, a culture inured to fraud if at all possible, and greed. With a liberal dose of "even if we have to pay up it'll never make a dent in the revenue stream, so who gives a rat-f*?"
5 of the biggest planned renewable energy projects in the world
I bet that the people priced out of a job totally love getting $0/hour vs the evil wage they were receiving before.
If you feel that somebody "fucked up" a product, don't use that product. It's really that simple, and it can be applied to every aspect of your life, not just games.
Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?
> To summarize, the main problem for me is to feel like a text processing machine, receiving mails, Jira tickets and chat messages as input and writing code as output, without the human interactions needed to make it more meaningful. I do not like becoming a kind of a remote developer black box.

This sounds fantastic, where can I get such a gig? There's really nothing better than being given a more-or-less defined task, and being free to just go get shit done, without interruptions, or waffling, or hemming and hawing about whether it should be done this way or that way, by people who have no understanding of the technical realities.

Thank god it's a work-from-home Friday. I predict I will get far more accomplished in four hours today than I did in the 40+ I was in the office Monday-Thursday.
I'd say no-brainer.
Eggplant, peach, eggplant, peach, eggplant, peach, sideways rain!!!

A great way to discuss plans between you and yours Friday or Tuesday after work plans without words. It’s fun and 5 o’clock can’t come fast enough!!!
This triggers a more general hot button for me. Computers should be there to help,people, not the other way around.

The rigidity of street addresses is relatively new (within living memory)and was designed to accommodate a technological gap (paper maps, basically, and emergency services).

It’s more humane to let people specify things like addresses the way they want (my grandmother refused to kowtow to the imposition of numerical street addresses and continued to use her house name until the day she died).

This is like the Spanish Academy changing the alphabetic sorting rules in the 1990s because crufty PCs had trouble with ch and ll — and then shortly thereafter they became fast enough!
Is it fair to call them "young angry white males", when a fair number of the women and/or journalists are young and white too?

In any case, the case of Anita Sarkesian seems a bit different. And I dont see a great deal many female developers involved; Zoe Quinn appears to be involved more than simply being a female developer.
XFCE / Xubuntu Windows 95 Total Conversion
This is my favourite channel on youtube, it focuses a lot on information theory and cryptography.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtOfTheProblem
We need more references of successful commercial products being done without code for people to start noticing it. That's a great example of such a case.
Well, as a user of your software, let me adjust the balance by one thank-you: thank you for sway.
You may need a bit more than that, the shorter codes are only unique within ~100km.
Discussion about metaethics can go to infinity, you might not agree with what I find virtuous and we can discuss infinitely of why the things we will be talking about are important.

I'm pretty sure virtue ethics is as practical as you can get and still stay in the realm of philosophy.

Virtue ethics is there to give you guidance of which questions to pose and how to act when coming up with the answers.

There's no need to delve on the metaethics of a particular case.
And if you're an American in Japan speaking to a Japanese who speaks English they say Chinese alphabet (a literal translation) rather than Kanji (based on my 6 trips there)
I have a friend who's a US citizen who was living in Venezuela for a while, and he got married to a Venezuelan gal there about 5 years ago. They'd been working on moving back to/to the US for most of that 5 years and finally got here about 2-3 months ago. I believe that both the US and Venezuelan governments gave them a bit of run-around, but it did all work out eventually.
plus.codes seems like an interesting idea, as far as I can tell it's only encoding gps coordinates in a more human-readable format (does your gps use degrees, minutes and seconds; degrees and decimal minutes; decimal degrees or something more exotic like UTM coordinates?). Unfortunately as far as I can tell only google maps supports it. I tried putting it on two common mapping apps: tomtom mydrive and here maps and neither would accept it, I'm 100% sure my car will also look at me funny if I ever tried to use it.

Lack of adoption effectively functions as vendor lock-in :(
In Ireland we only recently got postcodes. The reason was not because the postal service or delivery companies needed them - in fact An Post (national postal service) explicitly said they did not.

Instead it's because:

a) enough online shops assume you have one
b) advertising mail providers needed it

Frankly if physical spammers need it, then that's an argument against having it to me, and it's sad that online shops forced this by just assuming we had them :(
Oh, I thought it was something depending upon getting a certain rep and I hadn't hit it yet. Thanks.
My experience is that the left is less guilty of being counter-factual than they are of censorship. But that's really two sides of the same coin. The contents of the James Damore memo comes to mind. Twitter verified status has become a political weapon to punish people who don't toe the party line. Youtube de-listing, demonetization, and banning.
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> The only time I'd even hesitate to trade my precious time for my integrity is if I actually had something to hide

I honestly can't tell if you are trolling, I missed the irony, or you are really as dense as a badly trained racist border office (which thankfully is not all of them)
> It's faster and more flexible

I can see where you are getting confused. It is actually just faster. Again, there is nothing you can do is wasm that you can't already do it javascript.

> The deployed code is unreviewed, unaccounted, unsigned and executed automatically. I consider unsafe in the computing sense. So, I consider code execution on the web unacceptable.

All of these things apply to javascript.

> On top of that I consider JavaScript a bad language. I'm worried by how much it's pushed as a teaching language.

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything in this thread. It is pretty clear that you have biases and frustrations that have nothing to do with technical merits.
Yeah this happens all the time in Western NY. I remember growing up hating getting Canadian quarters because they wouldn't work in U.S. vending machines.
Technically provinces exist in Portugal. All 11 of them. But they are ignored in the mail.
> the offer of a strategy to minimise the upset caused.

Ah yes, the "upset caused". Also known as "a complete lack of empathy for or insight into the situation by the person offering the advice, usually due to not really thinking about the problem at all".

At least, that's the only way I can imagine someone thinking to themselves "oh, this kid is being beaten up, his stuff is being destroyed or taken from him. The best strategy is clearly to be less upset about all that"

EDIT: But I guess you were talking about on-line trolling. Again, that advice shows a complete lack of understanding about the creative process. We are a social species, and a large part of why people do any kind of creative activity at all is wanting to share what you made.

Telling people to not give a shit about the response to your work is missing the point of why people do it to begin with.
> about whether it should be done this way or that way, by people who have no understanding of the technical realities.

This will most likely still happen, just over Jira, chat, and code review comments, making it more painful (as the bandwidth is lower) than in real life.
Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile
This isn't really a matter of computers helping or not helping people. The issue is with the delivery service. They need some reliable way to find the right destination.
OK but "Why was the Confederacy pro-slavery?" or "How did the Nazis justify their actions?" are different questions than "give 3 ‘good’ reasons for slavery and 3 bad reasons" which was the example given.

I'm not sure the answers to these questions are as stimulating as people think though. I suspect the real reason behind the question given in the example was that the teacher was oversimplifying the language of the question for his/her students to the point where all nuance was lost ... which suggests they're maybe not ready for it.
We made it illegal to sell something for what it's worth. What's the worst that can happen?
Even if you have a BIOS password and everything locked down and the attacker can actually lock you out or quickly give themselves a backdoor. The problem is that there are a million ways in, they're open by default and it is really hard to keep track of everything you have to lock down, and the manufacturers keep adding new ones while you're not looking.

The right way for the manufacturers to set this up is

* Everything locked down by default

* One master password for complete control

* Using the master password you can delegate control for users, technicians, applications etc.

* If you forget the master password you can reset it using a switch or something you cannot access without opening up the machine which you cannot do while it is physically locked

But in reality there's all these management 'solutions' that have to be on by default and then there are the anti theft solutions, the secure boot restrictions, the 'trusted' platform, the list goes on. And then for the master password there's of course a backdoor password the helpdesk people can get if you can convince them the laptop is yours and you just forgot the password.
No, because they don't have access to all the software in the world.
Considering humans the most competitive species is also something that could be called into question. We certainly think we're special, but we're probably falling into Dunning-Kruger territory.

I think the only obvious route is to treat other living things the way we would like to be treated - after all, we have a common ancestry and a case could be made that we're just one big multicellular organism
Huge pet peeve is "crypto" being used to speak of cryptocurrency exclusively instead of the more general cryptography (or even referring to something hidden, i.e. cryptozoology).

Yes, yes, descriptive vs prescriptive, but I think it's dumb to destroy a perfectly good prefix just due to the fact that cryptocurrency is currently at the peak of the hype cycle.
It's also "restoran" in pretty much every Slavic language AFAIK.
that's what they want you to belive. and it saddens me that they are achieving their goals.

as an immigrant, I have always opted out of the scanner with undocumented effectiveness and undocumented health effects with no consequences other than a pat down.
Those are much easier to ignore though.
I agree, but I think there is a solution that can help us all ask for and fight for proper discourse.

Alt-right and social-justice warriors both have a hard time rejecting objections from people with the right identities. If we created tools that helped crowdsource finding issues in their action and then identifying persons in the crowd with the right identities to highlight those we would be on the right path.

If the crowd in addition to this approach advertisers on the platforms they use to further their message, then we would also reduce their capability to scream loudly.

No leaders, no celebrities, no talking heads.
Is OnePlus selling clipboard content to alibaba? – Answer: No
In context, sure. To be fair, the article's title used the phrase in context. Once you name something, you invite that name to be used both in and out of context, which will lead to confusion. That was my general point, although I made it more concrete than I should've by saying "no one would know what the hell....."
I hit this hard the other day. There's a TV show I really like called the Runaways. On Hulu, where I watch that show, they seem to constantly run this one commercial cheerleading how great it is that the show is so diverse. I commented on social media that the commercial felt like it was trying to lecture me and has ultimately detracted from my viewing experience. It didn't matter that in the context of this conversation I was talking about how this particular show, which happens to be very diverse, is one of my favorites, the fact that I rebuffed the SJW cheerleading instantly turned me into a Nazi.
The slightly snooty Daily Telegraph style guide:

"Christmas lunch is what most of our readers would eat, not Christmas dinner. Use the latter only if referring specifically to an evening meal."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/about-us/style-book/143530...