skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have talked to a few people recently who migrated from SA to perth Australia.

Considered one of them was telling me stories about white farmers being killed over the last few years and him not feeling safe anymore in the country (hence why he moved to Australia).

I'm not saying apartheid was perfect, just or a morale state. What I would say though is I think it's far too early to say post apartheid was a complete success and didn't end up going down a similar route as zimbabwe.
A programmer with 20 years of experience would be making $250k - $350k in Seattle.
Your right to be loud stops at my ears.

I wish soundproofing standards for buildings were much higher.

Apartment listings only ever focus on just one of the major senses, vision. They make sure the photos look good with prop furniture and just the right lighting. But the experience of actually living in a place involves all of the senses.

I would love to see an apartment listing saying "60dBA soundproofing", "99.9% odor isolation", etc. All of the senses matter.
No. I mean people who are African from Africa and Hispanics as colloquially defined. Should Indian engineers get precedence over them?
Too see someone flagging this comment, simply for confronting the gratuitous gay-bashing above is sad.
This article might also help too: "Life in Yorkton before Medicare came along" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1269399/
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This is one of the more important comments here, imo. Open hardware != free software. As someone who's been in the unfortunate position of having to work with locked down chips on many occasions, just simply having access to proper documentation is awesome. It can take a lot of work and dedication to interface with open hardware, but we all benefit when the fruits of that labor are shared. This is a struggle we should all be willing to undertake.
I only remember having seen merit-based discussion about Electron.

Electron is good for developers because it saves them time and they can use their HTML and JS skills instead of having to learn another language.

Electron is bad for users because the resulting applications are way too memory and CPU hungry.

Both of those are merits. The question then becomes, is Electron worth it? Some say yes. Personally I don’t use any Electron software, but if I found an app made in Electron to which there was no non-electron alternative, or none that was as good in terms of utility or function or user-friendliness, I might have used it. First someone will have to make Electron apps run on FreeBSD though, which last time I checked they didn’t unfortunately but whatever.

Edit: Seems that some people are quite close to getting Electron to build and run on FreeBSD. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/3797 Question is, will it be maintained in the future?
Right. That's arguably the prudent take on "party hearty". There's always the tension between "do fun stuff now when you can enjoy it most" and "save for later when you'll have more free time and less likely income".
King's Quest IV was good (it was the first one I played), but I think I prefer King's Quest VI. Things started to go downhill after that. However, the new King's Quest which got released on Steam is actually pretty good!
>Meanwhile I have paid millions in taxes in US.

If you had not been here, it's easy to argue a US citizen would have been doing that instead of you.

>People who are in the lowest part of the value chain, will always find a loophole - there is too much money at stake and they don't have any other choice!

>Accomplished people will move out or stop coming!

The people who work with the regulations are bottom of the value chain, but you should receive special treatment because you're just so special and accomplished? Very insulting attitude you have.

>Good bye US!

Can't say I'm sad to hear you're leaving. Maybe you can tell us why you couldn't have just made your millions back in your home country?
No, it is way more interesting than that. With entangled particles together with a public unencrypted classical communication channel you can create a protocol to exchange information securely. That protocol does not rely on any computational complexity assumptions, rather only on the assumption that the laws of quantum mechanics are correct. There are some caveats, but it is still an amazing construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB84
Well, considering what Apple, Google, Intel, and other major tech firms did in colluding to not compete in hiring, this affected wages in the entire tech industry. So, one could make the argument that yes, working in tech is paying lower than what it's actually worth.

Are we being paid low? No.

Are we being paid lower than what we should be paid? I could see that argument being made.
(2017)

> What’s a floating signifier? It’s a symbol that has an imprecise meaning. And that broad vagueness is its strength. A floating signifier is “amorphous enough for many different kinds of people to connect with and see their values and hopes within,” meaning that it rallies people who ordinarily wouldn’t rally together.

I thought that the author did a good job of using this concept to explain the Occupy movement, and how opinions on it seemed to be distributed bimodally.
Again, improper use of an idea for justification of other ideas does not invalidate the original idea. I'm not siding with those cases, which, pending details, all seem like improper ways of dealing with intolerance.
Yeah. I lived in a city that's close to 20 percent Muslim for a while and ate at a few halal-only takeaways, but even there they were very much in the minority. (There was a fairly good place that not only served only 100% halal food, but also closed during the day during Ramadan, but that's because it was a non-chain outlet owned and run by observant Muslims.) Similarly, at least one of the major chains of budget supermarkets around here has loose peanuts and other nuts and just puts a warning in the window expecting anyone with a nut allergy to shop elsewhere. Most of the disabled people I know would probably have more than a few sharp things to say about his argument that they'd automatically be accommodated everywhere too.
Is there anyway to display something in Linux without any color management? Can you access the buffer that gets read directly to the monitor?

I've wanted to know whether two colors I'm displaying actually get distinguished by the monitor or if the LIST maps then to the same output value.
High energy physics isn't the only physics. It's not even the only physics that uses the shiniest toys of theoretical physics.
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> The best and brightest of India are nowadays working at startups in India itself

This is difficult to prove without more data. Anecdotally, my Indian friends who moved outperform those who don’t. The red tape in India is formidable.
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Part of this can be solved by having better care managers associated with each patient (primary care doctors), who can share relevant information with different parties. Works mainly for chronic care. In the case of acute cases, information needs to be readily accessible in a format that is interpretable by doctors when they go through the process of assessing differential diagnoses. That information is not captured well right now, hence the ask for patient's history with each new physician. Personal health records with smart annotation of key pieces of information can play a part in solving this problem, but are only part of the answer. One of the most dangerous periods in the emergency room is the transition of one care team shift to another. It takes forever, and often leads to key information loss.
We can start by treating this as an important problem and tasking ourselves with looking for and finding alternatives and putting political/financial pressure on these institutions to consider them.

Just asking "but what are the alternatives" isn't productive in itself, and doesn't really carry the conversation forward. It more likely shuts it down as a hopeless problem. We can do better. It's not hopeless and we're not powerless as a collective.

I'm sure there are alternatives but we're not looking for them very well. We could start there. I'm doing my part by bringing this up in conversation whenever it's relevant and getting to know my state representative and state senator. I also make noise towards the hospital's admins in the meanwhile.

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Also, the article discusses possible alternatives. Here are a couple of paragraphs from it:

"This begins with our own training. Certainly doctors must understand disease, but medical education is overly skewed toward the biomedical sciences and minutiae about esoteric and rare disease processes. Doctors also need time to engage with the humanities, because they are the gateway to the human experience."

"To restore balance between the art and the science of medicine, we should curtail initial coursework in topics like genetics, developmental biology and biochemistry, making room for training in communication, interpersonal dynamics and leadership."
Ask HN: Good Asciidoc editor for OS X?
I'm working on a book, and the publisher suggested formatting it in AsciiDoc.

I'm using Asciidoc-VSCode [0], which has nice live preview but some features don't have correct previews, and I'm missing an outline view, spellcheck, etc.

What Asciidoc editor does HN recommend?

[0] https://github.com/joaompinto/asciidoctor-vscode
In 1941, the Communists were our allies against Fascism.
Then move to the middle of the desert. Or is the camel bleeping infringing on you?
“Love wins” is not a slogan of the gay right movement. A quick search turned up a bunch of Christian literature. So stop making up arguments.

Mike Pence wants to allow parents to send their children to “conversion therapy”, and your example of hurtful actions is not meeting with him?

I’m happy to meet with him any time that he’s free, but I can’t guarantee that he’ll enjoy it.

And, to quote a recent comment of yours, “Is this relevant to the linked article at all or are you just finding any excuse available to push your politics?”
Tech companies like Google, Apple, etc. have a well known history in working together to suppress wages. You might be making a lot, but that doesn't mean you couldn't be making more.
Actually I did suggest something to stop it; return a 501 for any email that contains an application/amp+html part (even if it has other MIME parts). Doing this means the sender will have to change their behaviour not the receiver.
I had forgotten this was a Sierra game! Another great one. Reminds me of this awesome game box: https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/15693/139356...
Let's be careful about nostalgia for the "good old days" of medical practice. Keep in mind that standardizing medical care process has done more to get physicians to WASH THEIR HANDS than all kinds of exhortations about relationships, partnerships, and healing. And washing hands has, since Semmelweis's discoveries 150 years ago, been known as the easiest way to promote healing that medical people don't do.

Why do the overnight shift of nurses take vital signs every four hours? So they catch rapid unexpected changes in patient conditions more quickly. Put more crudely, so they don't accidentally leave a corpse in a bed for the next shift. Having to write, or type, the patient's blood pressure into a log is a way to help the overnight nursing shift remember to pay detailed attention to each patient, at least for a few moments. If their instructions were "stop at each door and listen for the patient breathing" those nurses might well miss important changes.

Hospital care these days is not only about the towering figure of the heroic superhuman doctor, Harvard Medical School lore to the contrary notwithstanding. It's about all the folks who look after patients, from the community primary care doctor to the RN, to the chaplain, to the "hospitalist" physician, to the person who cleans up, to the person who maintains all the electronic gear. The challenge is getting all these people to cooperate with the patient and for the patient's benefit.

The superhuman healer approach to medicine demands superhuman people to be doctors. They aren't, any more than the rest of us are. They have to sleep, and to eat, and to see many patients. So, a good hospital needs to be organized like a good company: where each person's skills and passion complement the others, and gets an extraordinary result from a collection of ordinary people. The buzzword for that is "synergy." Good discipline--good and predictable process--is part of synergy.

And, at the end of all that excellent care on our behalf, each and every one of us will become a corpse. A nineteen-year-old with a broken leg can be cured. A 90-year-old with cancer and pneumonia, not so much. It doesn't matter how towering a figure the doctor is, or how kind the nurse is.

A radical move in medicine would be to come to terms with death as a natural part of life rather than as a failure of the system.
Have been thinking about it, honestly.

I came to this country for about 13 years. I know I dont have a right to live here. But after paying college fees, taxes, various visa fees, etc, I feel some entitlement. I have lived here longer than any other country in my life. Definitely consider is a home, but it is clear most people dont want us here.

Ah well, thats life.
I beg to differ. You're right for the standard model. But there are other fields where this is not true. A few spring to mind:

- Solid state physics. There are entire fields which are not understood theoretically such as high temperature superconductivity

- Astronomy: dark matter and dark energy. There is no widely accepted theoretical model for both. Both where not predicted by any theory, either.
Sure, but he is a politician, and so we are holding him to those stated standards.

Why shouldn't we judge a politican as a politician?
This was the desired behavior. Its not that they reviewed existing info to check for changes, its that they knew nothing. Like the last 30 minutes of questions and chart didn't exist. On the side of the patient, this does not inspire confidence. It projects a sense of confusion and disorganization.
HTTP/2 servers can preload (if they choose).
You lock it in one central repository. There is typically a blessed repository somewhere, at least in every single project I have seen.

I know of no one and no project that uses the bare git in a truly distributed sense that isn’t just one central repo with multiple users, or in rare cases a hierarchy of repos such as the Linux kernel.

This is also why the github/lab style services are so popular - it’s what people need. But I don’t think that’s a reason to keep this feature away from git itself. I don’t think many want to have to use github just to get this one feature, and as I said, for any repo hosting binary content (common) and using one or more central blessed repos (nearly universal) - it’s very hard to live without.
Pretty much (there's a bit of Windows at the smaller places) all the big VFX studios (ILM, SPI, Weta, Framestore, MPC, DNeg) are running Linux for almost everything involving content creation, using apps like Maya, Nuke (for compositing), Katana, Houdini, etc.

There are exceptions - some apps (ZBrush) don't run on Linux, so there are Windows machines around, but in general >= 95% of machines the artists and developers use are Linux at the big places.

And most of those apps use OpenColorIO as a framework for handling colourspaces.
> At the same time, many if not most students contribute to the challenges by being almost totally uninterested in labor market signals or genuine learning;

Number one reason to attend college? It is an opportunity to move out without having to support yourself.
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I like capturing this topic by making a distinction between nouns vs adjectives.

E.g. if someone is, say, "I am Polish" (or: "capitalist", "feminist", "Catholic", "socialist", "atheist", "gay" etc) and treats it an adjective describing their beliefs, tastes, etc it is up to an exploration and discussions (when evolution is accepted and does no harm to one's self-esteem). If someone else uses it to declare their identity, it makes it easy to make an entrenched view, with "us vs them", and in which change endangers one position (or, well, identity).
I don't think the wild west will be any friendlier to small inventors than the current techno-dystopia. At least at the moment companies are required to toss a coin at prior art occasionally.
That's actually the logical conclusion of "no tolerance for intolerance". Actual intolerance will re-emerge while using that as a slogan.

I honestly don't see any other conclusion while divisive identity politics is the culture. Every election and debate is just subtext for making sure your people are in power to protect your people.
Just in case anyone is reading this comment and they think that "conversion therapy" isn't equivalent to torturing individuals I suggest the following op-ed from the NYT about a man who suffered through the process:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/gay-conversion-th...
Well, I do live in China and I don't see anyone feeling any fear about this... Seriously, you can easily turn off keychain if you don't trust a cloud service to store all your passwords. And if i decide to use such a service, I'd certainly trust a local company much more than Apple or anything of US origin.
I personally agree with both of you. The german situation was bleak but I think it would be a misreading of history to think it was that hitler went after the jews simply because the germans were poor.

It seems pretty obvious that they were targeted partly because of their wealth and power across european society. To imagine the jews not being persecuted if they had little money or power is possible, but would require major rewrites of hitler rhetoric and their reasons for going after the jews over other races in particular.
So I digged into the code (engrafo repository) and was quite surprised that -- contrary to the suggestive title -- the method inherits all the problems LaTeXML already has. This is the fact that (for instance compared to the TeXLive distribution), tons of widespread sty files miss a LaTeXML integration and thus the conversion fails for a wide range of papers. Converting a TeX document to XML with LaTeXML really requires a lot of debugging and ideally starting from a plain LaTeX paper/book and compiling with pdflatex and latexml at the same time, making sure nothing breaks.
Trust me man, you haven't seen the ugly side of many liberal "pro immigration" folks. At least the guy you are responding to is being honest.
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Well, I like the idea of end-to-end encryption, combined with storage/archiving on equipment under my own control.

Email seems fine, if it's your own server and you can keep it secure. Including, secure from some legal argument that they can knock on your door or the data center's and just have a look at whatever they want.

There was a fellow in the UK who used assymmetric keys to encrypt all his inbound email, holding it on the server in encrypted form where the paired key was not on the server but rather available only to his email client.

Then, you have the problem of security in transit. That email doesn't offer, inherently. And most of your correspondents won't use PGP/GPG nor SMIME.

I just had another friend start using WhatsApp. Is it really secure? I don't know. At least, she'll use it.

WhatsApp offers to archive your correspondence to Google Drive. I haven't turned that on.

I've tried brining up Signal with a few friends, but they won't give it the time of day. (Unlike the Washington, DC crowd, who now appear to be flocking to it in minor degree.)

The tool I might use is for SMS/MMS. It used to also offer to archive WhatsApp conversations, but that's been discontinued.

Umm...

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.zegoggles.smssync/

It's also on Play.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles....

So yeah, this isn't any "big security context". Just my personal stuff. But the default is to put the messages into Gmail. On the one hand, actually convenient. On the other... just, no.

I have a bootlooped Nexus 5x with a bunch of SMS/MMS I never backed up. Including, I now realize, from a friendship that's ended. I'd kind of like to have some of those. So, I'd like to be pro-active with regard to the next phone that's going to crap out on me.

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P.S. In short, I think I basically agree with you. Decentralized, and under one's own control.

It's just that:

Email doesn't secure the transport, and many people won't secure their messages before transport.

If it's not your own email server, under your control including perhaps physical, law in the U.S. with respect to email designates older messages as quasi-abandoned and "up for grabs".

And I forgot to mention the many posts/comments I've been reading here, about how more and more difficult it's becoming to run your own email server, not just in terms of securing it but also because more and more email providers are shit-canning any emails that don't appear to be blessed by their counterparts.

Anyway, I'm not promoting the idea that I have some particularly good answer. Rather, just food for thought.
It's silly, shouldn't be considered the correct viewpoint, but a great soundbite and a nice principle from a very intelligent man. Waters down life.

Interolance gets vetted out with prosperity but it's not necessarily the requirement to achieving it as history has shown.

I'm not sure how to respond to the bit claiming that societies are destroyed by intolerance - did Popper own any history books? Is China doomed to fail today?

I wasn't expecting any up votes, but please tolerate my viewpoints!
Harley will probably fail with an EV. If Honda bring out an electric version of the Vision or the PCX, they'll sell boatloads of them.

Electric scooters are near-ubiquitous in South-East Asia, particularly China. 30-50 miles of range is plenty for a little urban runabout. You don't need a lot of power to replace a 50cc or 125cc engine, so the battery is small enough to carry up to your apartment and it can charge reasonably quickly from a normal 13A outlet. Electric scooters are often replacing absolutely filthy two-stroke scooters, so they have a disproportionately positive impact on local air quality.

Electric scooters have the potential to be the new Honda Cub - simple, economical transport for the masses.
I don't really understand is this concern about having to "relearn" everything when doctors change shifts, because that's not how it works. Maybe that's how patients perceive it, but generally before each shift ends, in order to be relieved of your shift, you have to sign your patients out. This is basically an hour long phone call with the next doctor, where you tell them everything that happened for all their patients.
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And overlapped with ammonia for quite some time.
Ah understood. You were looking at the national level with countries like China and Russia "party[ing] hearty" by not significantly curbing C02 emissions. Those individuals who benefit directly from oil and coal (as they do in the US) will extract gains and use it to pad offshore bank accounts. Meanwhile the rest of us should take a prudent life and be prepared for shocks ahead (like land and cost of living soaring in climate-friendly cities). On a more personal level, ideally savers find ways to extract more late-life enjoyment out of their deferred-enjoyment lifestyles.