skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a '3' here: Science and evidence-based thinking are (relatively) orthogonal to the emergence of social chaos and conflict.

If I'm not mistaken this is implied in Marxist thinking, so it is an idea that is 'out there' (in the sense of being available). I think the idea there is that our rational thinking largely serves as justification rather than being something very powerful on its own.

The way I see it is that (at least much of) rational thought is the latest stage in 'elaboration' of lower-level mental/emotional processes. In which case, our rational thinking on subjects which impact real circumstances in which we're invested will be constrained and influenced by our goals, values, and something like coefficients for strength of influence of various emotions etc.
There are many suburban areas where walking is difficult/dangerous (little to no cross walks, multi-lane roads, high traffic speeds, inattentive drivers, etc.), biking is often possible but many don't feel comfortable or safe and in other places the weather can pose a challenge many month of the year. Buses are slow, expensive and inconvenient as well across many American cities. These options need to get better for more people to use them, however, sadly without more people using them they won't likely fund their improvement.
Yes, they will. Do you have a proposal for how to simultaneously provide for efficient progress and smooth transitions? I mostly see people either lamenting the suffering that big changes often cause, or brushing it aside as inevitable. It'd be interesting to see ideas for how we could have disruptive developments without so much disruption.
I don’t understand. You didn’t do any alternative testing? Why not?

Whenever I test a new channel I start by making variations to test different factors, so that I can learn what works and what doesn’t. I feel like a lot of people run ads but don’t quite get the concept of running a campaign.

My suggestion would be to try that next time... while you didn’t make money the real question your left with is what could you change to actually make money?

Loved be writeup! Thank you.
0% has become common (think Lufthanasa, Air India or Singapore Airlines)

Tip for the pro: Change your airline. I can recommend Aeroflot and Turkish Airlines.
Yeah, I feel like a powerful enough IDE could probably make Haskell usable. Something that made the types obvious, and also the nesting of subexpressions. Despite trying for 3 years, I never felt like I could even reliably parse Haskell code in my head (too many fixity rules, not enough parens) let alone infer the types of things.
For those in the industry, the continued consolidation and increasing power of hospital systems seems a given, despite the problems that entails. It is refreshing to see this perspective voiced

As I said in another thread, hospitals are the largest component of US healthcare cost. They make money by increasing the number of hospital visits, especially for surgeries. Even non profits have been consolidating and seeking profit, and the largest non profit systems have dramatically increased their incomes over the last few decades

Hospitals are devouring outpatient clinics to get their patient volume into the hospital system. These practices are loss leaders for the hospital profit centers in many cases

Sadly, many hospital systems fight improvements in care that decrease inpatient admissions by making people healthier, because fewer admissions means less hospital revenue.

Having hospitals in charge of US healthcare is like having the fox in charge of the henhouse
Interestingly, what you ended up pointing out is that SV (and, really, the world in general) is most friendly towards people who are born successful. Which is something I think we all implicitly already understand.

College admissions, and especially elite colleges, are careful to admit only those people who have already demonstrated successful qualities. Jobs, Woz, Gates and Zuckerberg were accepted into these schools because they were already successful people. Their later success in business is a result of the same successful qualities that their respective schools saw in them to originally admit them as students.

So, it is unsurprising they were eligible to be students at these elite schools given their successes, but the eliteness of the school ends up being inconsequential. It was who they are that allowed them to succeed in both gaining access to these elite schools and finding success in business. Successful people are successful.
I often buy flights ahead 6 months.

You know one great disadvantage? Emails!
"Hey customer, your flight schedule has changed, please confirm!"
And like macOS, iOS, and Android. Not sure about ChromeOS, but I'm guessing that's a yes.
which phone was it?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or name-calling to HN, regardless of how much you dislike someone or something.
"""Burdonova’s self-described “professional level” of English proficiency undoubtedly came in handy during her work at the troll factory. She reportedly had an outstanding command of English and gave English lessons to other IRA employees."""

From her post about national reserve parks:

"there's slight but noticeable difference"

I'm not a native speaker but shouldn't it be "a slight but noticeable difference"? Dropping the "a" seems very Russian, maybe a native speaker could comment since I know 0 Russian. But I've noticed the dropping of "a" with some Russians that speak English, similar to Spanish speakers using "on" in strange places a lot. I have no idea why these catch my eye (or ear usually). Since I often catch myself using German grammar constructs 1 to 1 in English I think one can probably re engineer the origin of someone who speaks English as a foreign language over a large enough sample of text (even if there's no accent). Well enough rambling but I thought it might at least be a bit noteworthy when we're talking about IRA etc.
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He’s at the origin of RSS, put the base of podcasting, host one of the first blogging platform...

But yeah, what does he knows...
The title of the post is a pun: Watergate's "Deep Throat" was a man named Mark Felt, who was the Associate Director of the FBI. He felt jilted over his lack of promotion to the Directorship, and responded by leaking to Woodward and Bernstein. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/11/watergate-leak-mark-...
Your comment is a bit greyed out, meaning you are getting downvotes. However you are right. Climate change means migration of disease vectors such as ticks and mosquitos into places they didn't survive before. One only has to look at Zika virus and the Aedes mosquito as an example.
That’d be pretty nifty! Having a program that could show the arguments would be very useful.

On a related note, do you know if it’d be possible to store non-exec data in a dwarf binary and parse/load it with the rust libraries? Seems it’d be easier than doing the same in C.

P.S. Great article!
To some degree there will be cases like that, but that is not really what happens on a macro level though. In aggregate, there tends to be no statistical correlation between the minimum wage level and employment levels. Companies try to be efficient, so they try not to have any more or less people than they need (based mostly on demand). The desire to pay as few people to do as much work as possible always exists. Higher minimum wages may put some extra emphasis on this, but it's likely that the extra demand from consumers having more income balances this out.
Cinderella phones, I call them.
Which isn't a very good way to get new customers to buy your tickets to begin with.
>"Researchers, bless their curious little hearts, have tried to implant embryos all over the bodies of mice. The single most difficult place for them to grow was – the endometrium."

Whoa...
Fascinating. Reminded me of the The Selfish Gene, especially the part discussing the opposing objectives of the mother and offspring.
>But this has not been the case except for the last 7ish years,

Useful health insurance existed before the ACA.
https is only as secure as who's holding your root signing keys (govt agencies). If you want security layer it ontop of https with pub/priv key crypto. https is just the new hoop, jump through it and move on, but lets not pretend https stops anyone important.
Three other old links that randomly popped into this comment box:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/technology/23google.html (2006)

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-debuts-kindle-e-book-reader...
(2007)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory (279 BC)
American poverty sounds so different from Chinese poverty.

I grew up during the tail years of communism and everybody was dirt poor. The interesting thing is, nobody was financially stressed, starvation and homelessness was not a thing. I ended up developing an abundance mentality and terrible money management skills.

Looking even further back, my parents experienced the height of policy stupidity and barely survived the great famine which killed millions. It scarred them for life, but also pushed them to make more money and live frugally even after achieving financial security.
> That's boilerplate for positions that can't legally require a degree. They'll still ask and filter on CS questions.

I don't have a degree, I haven't had a job that didn't either straight require a college degree or require a college degree "or equivalent experience" - I've been mostly employed for 20 years now; I'm sure there were a lot of places where my resume went in the bin because there was no 'education' section, but there are plenty of places where it did not.

Sure, sure, they ask CS questions, but... I can handle most of the CS questions even though I have approximately an 8th grade math education, according to khan academy (I recently took the GRE; 95th percentile verbal, 45th percentile quantitative, so I guess that's '8th grade for people who are good at math') - I'm not saying I'm good at the CS stuff, but I can code up a reasonable linked list, and can code up a bubble sort and a quicksort and tell you when to use which.

Point being, you can learn the CS stuff without college without too much sweat. CS, as tested in interviews, is way easier, say, than a community college calculus class.
Could be made an optional feature in setup.py.
Yeah, but imagine someone who regularly visits the country, or is from there originally that wants nostalgic candy and certainly does not want to associate themselves with weeb/otaku culture.

Or someone who is a weeb but feels guilt, hides their power level and wants to indulge their inner weebness but the messaging/branding here is a step too far.

Or a proud degenerate wizard who is turned off by the quality of the animation and voice acting (perhaps it sets off his "ugh dubs" trigger despite context and logic).

I think a slideshow of actual examples of products with a quality normal adult human voiceover explaining the value prop, or a video of a normal adult human unboxing a shipment, or edited clips of several normal adult humans emoting the experience ("What are these" "I can't read what this says here... oh they're gummy haha ... mmm grape") would go a long way.
Cultivate a team spirit? You tell me.
This was a great rundown of what happened

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...

And unfortunately, it did not go well.
"But is it actually an outlier or is that just what you have heard because every women I have talked to has been harrassed on the street. Women just don't talk about it with men because they usually ensue even more harassment saying it happens"

AKA: #metoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement

- My girlfriend's response after showing her this thread
I wouldn't say KC is doing all that well. It's fairly pretty, of course, but opportunity-wise there was basically . . . Sprint.
> [no] ventilation (because they're electric)

This seems... iffy. For one thing, my computers run on electricity, and they need ventilation. For another, I think it makes sense to have it be possible for humans to enter the car storage.

On a similar note, it's a much worse idea to have your car constantly drive through the parking lot than to park it in the parking lot.
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You're describing our justice system in general. When anyone of low income is even accused of a crime or is fined an even small amount of money, it snowballs into a much larger issue because of their inability to pay, take off work, find childcare, etc. It seems like our justice system is designed to be fair only to stable, healthy, and wealthy people. For example I got a speeding ticket in VA which ended up being a reckless driving charge, an actual CRIME in VA. Because I was able to hire a lawyer, I got it reduced to simple speeding. The woman before me without a lawyer, doing tbe same exact speed as me, got convicted of the reckless driving charge because she dared to waive her right to an attorney snd roll the dice. Well she lost, but this made me feel disgusted.
Kind of surprising they didn't mention Waze Carpool at all, since it is operating in a similar space and could help cut down on congestion. Since it doesn't pay as much as Uber/Lyft, it's likely to only encourage true carpooling—where people who were already planning similar trips end up riding together. Uber and Lyft are different because even if you have multiple riders going in the same direction, there's always a driver who goes to pick them up, idles while waiting for riders, etc.

Related note: what would happen if Ubers/Lyfts/taxies couldn't use HOV lanes unless they had multiple passengers? It's always struck me as odd that a taxi can go HOV with one passenger, since the whole point of HOV is to encourage carpooling.
What is the thing about hospitals that distinguishes them from other facilities?

Is it just that they have beds and everything else is a clinic?

Why is having beds such a big factor? Is it just that they are a large fixed cost which makes it hard to turn a profit?

I don't particularly like hospitals, but the healthcare system in the US is hugely fragmented and piecing together all the providers you need is a pain in the ass, why are hospitals unable to capitalize on their broad experience and expertise to help?
EDIT: Parent post was blaming Linus personally for sundry perceived issues with the greater Linux/Unix ecosystem. I've left my original reply below.

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Linus had no part in any of those. Most of them existed long before Linux was a twinkle in his eye.

Heck, some (two-letter commands) even existed before Linus was a twinkle in his parents' eyes [1] [2] [3].

(The exception being git, which is objectively one of the best DVCSes which exists. There is a reason it is so widely used.)

[1] http://swenson.org/multics_wiki/index.php?title=Linux-to-Mul...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics#Project_history

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Early_years
Not seeing the comment you're referring to. But my point is that a broader cultural phenomenon is occurring where successful folks are demonized and individual accomplishments are considered more a function of one's 'privilege' than hard work.
Why do you assume someone can HAVE savings?

I live in a Texas city. Rent here for a 2 bedroom apartment is over $1K a month. If you're a single mother of 2, you can expect $500 a month for EBT if you make $9 an hour. So after you get through paying your taxes, social security, medicare, etc... you're stuck with pocket change (that still has to go to electricity, gas for the car / maintenance) and use EBT to pay for your food.

Please spare the empathy bit. When you're working odd shifts, you KNOW the kids will eat the pizza rolls, so you buy the damned pizza rolls.

But let's say single mom gets a $4 raise. Guess what happens? EBT evaporates. Completely. Not only that, but she starts getting charged $160+ a month for the daycare that she sends her kids to so that she can work those odd hours. $3 more bucks? Her daycare subsidy evaporates. She's making $16 an hour, but now she can't afford to pay her bills.

Yeah, please lecture us again on why they can't save money.
I get over quota error.
>If you're not admitted to one of the best schools you're arguably better off going it alone these days.

Just a note to people making this decision now. I did pretty well without a degree, but my dad and my stepdad both worked in this industry.

This is true of most of the people I know who work in the field without a degree. If you don't already have good industry contacts? breaking in without a degree can be difficult.

On the other hand, there's no harm in trying to get a job, and if you can't, calling it a gap year and heading to college... I'm just sayin' - especially if you don't have family contacts to smooth the way, I wouldn't poo-poo the idea of college. I personally want to go to college now (for other reasons) and I'm kind of pissed at younger me for not taking high school seriously, meaning I've got to spend two years in a community college first, if I want to get into an exclusive school.
Google is funding FuchsiaOS, the source is copyfree and there are Wayland calls in the tree.
Is it smaller? I don't think that's the case.
What do you mean? It went very well. We still have Google Books after all.
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This is an extremely philosophical dilemma.. thanks for pointing it out to me.
> How does any ideological utopia work without excluding anyone?

https://www.amazon.com/Polystate-Thought-Experiment-Distribu...
I've never had a phone that I've felt confident using without a case, bezel-less or otherwise. I personally like bezel-less phones because I get more screen space for a phone that's just as durable (in a case).
I feel like I always see this when it comes to breaking into mobile apps. Most mobile apps are stupid simple and they simply don't require large teams.

My advice is to pick a niche other than the one everyone and their mom is doing.

Basic mobile apps are simply not a niche.
> It's replete with jobs (dubbed mid-tech) that don't require the self-teaching in the first place.

I worked in a job that seems to match the description of computer network architect in high school. It certainly required a fair amount of self-teaching (in my case; I suppose one could replace that with college or on-the-job instruction). Knowledge provided by a source of some kind was necessary. One is typically not born knowing how to do that type of work.

Does a job that does not require teaching (self or otherwise) even exist? I have family in the manufacturing business that I occasionally help out with when they are short-staffed as a favor. From the outside the job looks about as menial as it gets, but actually stepping in and helping leaves me appreciating what those people are capable of doing with the knowledge they have. There is no way, with my limited knowledge and ability in that industry, I'd be hired to work for them if they weren't desperate.

I farm on the side and that is the most intense ramp-up of knowledge requirements I have ever experienced. That experience has been like learning CS and software engineering, forgetting everything you learned, and repeating several more times. And still feeling like you don't know what you are doing. I've been farming for 10 years now and I still feel like a newbie. After 10 years of software development, while I recognized that there is still more to learn, I at least felt pretty confident in having progressed in my knowledge and abilities to a more advanced level. I don't know that anyone who claims farming requires a degree.

If degree here simply means requires an education of some kind, not specifically a degree from an accredited institution, then I'm not sure that there is a job out there that doesn't match that description in SV, the mid-west, or anywhere else. The only explanation here seems to be the expectations of employers, who trend towards setting more arbitrary expectations as the competition for the work increases. If you only have one applicant, you simply can't be choosy about who you hire.
Sending "thoughts and prayers" is a lot easier than actually doing anything.
> A party which aggressively blocks and filters anything critical of the government, the installation of key-loggers, face recognition cams, firewalls, and a huge system of monitoring social media

I'm sure you're aware of this, but I'd like to point out that U.S. (and many of its allies) has all those things as well, apart from the aggressive filtering.

At least China is up front about it.
You misunderstand what CAs are. Or, indeed, what their certificates imply.

CAs don't provide permission, they vouch for an identity.

Saying that CAs give you permission to communicate is like saying notaries give you permission to sign a contract. You can assert your identity without verification as long as the other party in the relationship is fine with the increased risk of fraud.

Similarly, you can use HTTPS without a signed certificate (precisely as you can use HTTP without HTTPS) as long as you and the other party is happy with the risk that Verizon could be "sanitizing" your speech or injecting your real-world identity into all your HTTP requests without your knowledge.

But both the site operator and visitor stand to lose from someone tampering your traffic. And increasingly, it's the users that are getting burned in this relationship.
> This is not a battle you are going to win.

When cities are gridlocked by expensive, polluting cars, nobody wins.

> I'm happy for other people to take mass transit and leave more road space for me.

That kind of thinking is why we don’t have reliable public transit.

> Mass transit is not a good solution, it's a poor solution...

Nobody tell Europe, or Japan.

I don’t know how to communicate the idea that perhaps every single person having their own 2,000-pound personal transportation machine doesn’t scale well. I mean, never mind that we could reduce climate change, road deaths, congestion, and the requirement to own a car. How is having one bus take 20 people somewhere worse than making those people buy a car, making them drive separately, then making them find parking? Public transit is one of those things that, like public healthcare or public education, involves giving up a bit of perceived individuality to benefit the greater good. But if you’ve already got yours and are convinced that’s the way to go, I can’t help you. See you at the voting booth.