skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is not really about "class passing." It is about "upper class passing." The fact that it uses the term class passing solely to mean you went up in status and need to fit in there is part of the problem. In this framing, lower classes are negated as legitimate social classes.

My maternal grandmother's maiden name begins with von. She came from a low level German noble family. They sold the title when the family fell on hard times.

I was homeless for about a year before I recognized how upper class my mother's expectations were. I didn't think we were upper class. My mother worked as a maid. My father had been a soldier and failed to establish a second career after he left the army. I also didn't think we had money. We weren't millionaires, but when they bought a house when I was 3, my dad had 3/4 of the cost of the house in the bank. They put down such a large down payment that their mortgage payment was about 40 percent of what the neighbors were paying.

I sometimes met people on the street with upper class manners. These were bitter people, failing to adapt to current reality.

I grew up learning to power dress. Being homeless taught me something I had not ever been able to figure out before: how to stop intimidating people and stop trying to win the damn pecking order game, a game I loathe but couldn't stop playing. I learned to wear t shirts with cartoons on them and to see that as a good thing, not something I should be ashamed of or embarrassed by or apologize for.

I learned to be approachable, a skill I never had before. That enormous confidence and ego this article talks about? It is obnoxious behavior that sticks out like a sore thumb in a group of not rich folks. It intimidates ordinary people.

It signals you have power they lack. You feel untouchable. You are confident that even if you fuck up, everything will work out okay.

Ordinary people don't feel that way. When it is clear you do, they know they are dealing with an asshole who will not hesitate to fuck up their life, whether due to obliviousness or casual malice.

Learning to class pass runs both ways. The fact that we don't talk or think like it does tells you how much contempt we fundamentally have for the little people.
I also prefer Duncan and Pierson to Carlin, but I have come to accept that I am in the minority. I have not actually listened to the last few Hardcore History episodes because I can't handle Carlin's "quote voice"
You also have to factor in familiarity, ie does it make sense for a dentist to pick up a new tool with slightly better outcomes if they’re going to make more mistakes while they learn on it?
Yup. This is my day-to-day life. Yes, huge industrial firms might have a ton of data... but it might be spread out over 5000 hard drives from 1995-present. It's extremely hard for an outside AI/ML startup to target that type of space, because they just don't have the data. Or the knowledge that lives in the head of a 30+-year-engineer who knows everything about every piece of equipment that has ever been used on a manufacturing floor.
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We are currently searching for a lot of software developers in the area of in-vehicle infotainment software, including but not only Linux Kernel and device driver developers, base platform developers, and application developers.

Most of us develop in C/C++ with standard tools like Gitlab and Jenkins. As far as I can judge we offer above-average salary, good work-life-balance and a quite comfortable environment.

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I have these conversations all the time. Lately mostly about microservices.
That's amazing, I was really curious about exactly this. I remember reading an article in Wired many years ago (maybe around 1998?) that suggested that researchers had developed a bacteria that would kill the bacteria that create lactic acid and would convert the sugar to something else not harmful to our teeth. The article suggested that tooth decay would be a thing of the past by now. I was just wondering about what ever happened to that.

Do the tablets work? Seems like they'd be a bigger deal.
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F1 seems less customer-centric entering 2018. With the implementation of the ugly-as-sin "Halo" system: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/133617/how-the-halo-will-c...

And removing of the grid girls, F1 doesn't seem interested in maintaining the pizzazz of the sport.
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An important distinction has to be made between law abiding and regulation.

Law against murder is: if you do it, you will be jailed.

Regulation against murder is: you cant have anything that harms another human being, and we need to check you up regularly to make sure you haven't killed anyone.

Regulation is not abiding for the law. Thats what lawsuits are about. Regulation is about preventing law to be broken with preventive measures.

> Don't you think it would be foolish to expect every generation to have to rediscover, through trial and error, the benefits of society and government?

I wish we had that, but we can't, we have to live entire generations with laws designed by previous ones. Isn't the drug war on the US a prime example of that? If you put it up for a vote, the majority would vote to make it legal or not prosecute it.

But this is not a topic about the mere existence of government, its about an ecosystem that was born and fueled about how the government and the banks crap on people, and trying to make it better with banks and government is going the other way.
Strange, my dentist doesn't show up there but I recognize the Cerec brand from his machine...
Yeah, the the post I replied to claimed there were restrictions on private clinics specifically, but the public clinics/hospitals have to follow the same rules.

Also: are there any places that charge for births???? That sounds ridiculous and insane to me.
We tweet the scores of our games automatically from our backend. There's no profit in it, but our members appreciate it based on follows and retweets. That's real people following and retweeting. I actually comb through and remove obviously fake accounts from following us.

I think this is a legitimate use of a bot. We even mention the host club because they want us to.

What's funny is that the account got squelched 3 times before we got a human at twitter to officially prevent us from getting flagged. So they do definitely have some measures in place to prevent spam accounts. I suspect it's become non-trivial to identify all the bad actors.
The burger thing depends on context. I know some law firm partners who regularly get burgers at Peter Luger (popular steakhouse) with each other, but would never get a burger at a dinner with clients.
Doctors can also be made completely obsolete by being healthy.
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Yeah, that's what I mean. If your parents were already middle class, you aren't strictly broke earning that in the same sense as you parents were on welfare and you never stepped foot on a college campus.
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Why does Signal scare you? All of their code is open source[1] and has had multiple public audits[2].

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp

[2]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf
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Time waste alert!

I spoke to you at length and then your cofounder at length. Then it turns out that you don't actually have any immediate need to fill the role but you "might" have a need in the next 30 to 90 days. I pretty much gathered that you basically subcontract.
A rare instance of fascinating writing in the “long-form” genre. I would expect a long-form article on this topic to begin with an intriguing paragraph, then, immediately upon mentioning the name of explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, diverge into a dozen paragraphs describing in the floweriest language Bouvet’s grandmother’s lifelong love of daffodils.
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That product is Absolutely Amazing!!!

That alone makes me want to work there. However, moving back to Brooklyn is not in the cards.
I highly recommend checking out the book 'White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America' from your local library! A fantastic read about the historical realities of class in America. It reads quite academically, so I think some here would enjoy that style.
Whispering to a friend about what does everything mean is pretty timid.
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Your "following the first stage" made me think of the Zuma launch footage and I forgot this was about GovSat-1. Nice there are so many going on that it is easy to mix them up.
My impression has always been that it probably feels right at home for people with mathematical backgrounds, and mildly line-noisy for people coming from traditional programming backgrounds.

Stuff like this:

fn map<T, U, F>(vector: &[T], function: F) -> Vec<U>
where F: for<'a> Fn(&'a T) -> U {
...

It's not too hard to read once you're in the ecosystem, but there's a lot of non-alphanumerics in there, and you know each one of them is super important to getting the thing working.
Meltdown/Spectre:a dramatic global case of the “Unintended Consequences” pattern
How interesting. I just tried this, and you're right!

I don't think it's a huge deal though. I have had my false tooth for nearly 5 years and never found out it looks different under UV until now.
I have issues with js as a language but those are not security issues. My security-related issues are with the nodejs package infrastructure.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3214624/security/malicious... The sprawling dependencies alongside potential security/breaking issues are huge. It is a large and vulnerable attack surface.
I think there is a breaking point, but considering that most people who watch TV (at least here in America) seem to be okay with watching 20% advertisements....I think there is a lot of headroom in the amount of ads on podcasts.
>The question that needs to be asked is this... were Intel subject to the same products liability laws as auto manufacturers or drug makers, would it make Meldown, Spectre and the ME vulnerabilities less likely?

This is such an important question -- and why we cant rely on gov sections like the FCC (ajit pai) to resolve these issues -- These are questions that will be critical to the evolution to the digital humanity which we shall be forever-more.

So we need to evolve to a next level meta thought to humanities destiny.... we are too focused only now by petty thinking.

Need to solve this problem.
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my favorite literature on the subject is Ernest Becker The Denial of Death. A great book. This article is (not that I ever had expectations from the newyorker.com but even for their low standards) total pish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death
The overall quality of the taxi service _will_ go down with the price cuts. There isn't any way around this.

It was obvious already when Uber was testing their service in Helsinki without adhering to any of the legal requirements.

But it's not just Uber - many other taxi companies operate in Finland already with comparable smartphone apps etc. And they also manage to do it without breaking the law ...
If Facebook didn't have the power to affect the decisions of their users they wouldn't have a business.

The advertisements are just what they sell. As the platform owners, they can do a lot more in terms of information curation.
Intel valued speed optimizations that are inherently insecure.
Zulip | https://zulipchat.com/ | REMOTE or in person | Frontend Engineer | Full-time | SF

Zulip is the leading open source alternative to Slack. Our users love Zulip because of our unique UX with threaded conversations; compared to Slack or its clones, they find discussions in Zulip more productive.

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The problem is that it could be a slippery slope with no transparency, oversight, or recourse.

First, it's creepy that a company I paid money to for a game is actively scraping the internet trying to associate my Blizzard-Activision account/identity with other online identities. What if they get it wrong?

Second, there's nothing preventing them from taking action based on subjective aspects. What if the employee reviewing my "behavior" is racist and bans me because they figure out I'm black? Or because I posted a political video they didn't agree with and deemed "toxic"? What happens if a Blizzard employee decides to dox someone as a form of punishment?

There's no way they have enough properly trained and ethical support people to have any real checks and balances to prevent abuse.

Sure, initially I would hope (for their sake) that they're only considering in-game or game-related posts/content, but once these tools exist it's only a matter of time before they are abused, or they see how far they can push things until there's a financial backlash.
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There's at least a couple mechanisms. The most obvious is heredity—certain alleles of a particular gene that normally controls growth, or expresses some surface protein, mutate, leaving descendants with a greater risk of cancer. BRCA4, for example, has some variations that all but guarantee breast cancer. Mutation can happen in both somatic (body) cells and in germ-line cells; when it happens in the latter, the mutation can be passed on to offspring.

Oncoviruses are another transmission vector. HPV, or human papillomavirus, is a virus that causes warts (of all kinds) in humans, and also causes several kinds of cancer, including cervical and esophageal cancers.

A third way would be a pretty rare thing in humans, but is thought to be behind some of the canine cancers you mentioned: direct transplantation of cells. The tasmanian devil is on the edge of extinction thanks to a facial cancer they get from each other through this mechanism.
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I am a seed investor, a former academic in the area of biotech, an experienced biotech entrepreneur, and I won't touch biotech with the proverbial 10 foot pole.

The reason why is my fellow investors don't have a clue and so back all the wrong companies. If you try and pick the good ones the end result is they run out of money while the ones that hype garbage to the moon suck up all the cash. I should say this is an Australian perspective and I do realise that in other markets things might be different.