skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But they're being replaced by possibly the best example there is of a language evolving over time due to power dynamics.

Why does the power dynamic of the language speakers (and therefore their linguistic dominance) provide a counterbalance to the loss of culture? That is, why do you specifically value one over the other, and in what sense is this comical?
What's the story behind everyone learning basic Danish still? Are there actual use cases for it?
Police shootings decline when the federal government gets involved
“Although it should have been obvious that the Babylon Bee piece was just a spoof....”

They didn’t take it seriously. They fact-checked it on the basis that someone else might take it seriously.
AWS has an easy nudge available to get people to begin using us-east-2 over us-east-1: introduce new features, new EC2 instance types, etc in us-east-2 first.
Here's my feeling on luck: You have some control over your own luck, ie. you can make your own luck.

The key is to maximize your own opportunities for luck. For example, when I heard about the very first startup school, I didn't really have the money to go to Boston. But I found a really cheap flight at a terrible time, found a floor to sleep on in Boston, and went.

And in doing that, I met Steve and Alexis and ended up working at Reddit, which made a huge difference in my life. At that point the luck that I can't control kicked in (them wanting to hire me).

But I only met them because I made it a point to find them and meet them and say hello, and it would have never happened if I hadn't figured out a way to get there in the first place and made sure to meet them.

Things like this happen all the time. I look for opportunities were I can "increase my potential for lucky things". Sometimes that means going out of my comfort zone, or asking for something that may be a bit unexpected or there is a good chance someone will say no.
Race-blindness was never the left-wing position, unless your definition of left wing is maybe the feel-good commentary of prominent elected moderate Democrats, who had to appeal to the majority rural white populists. I don't think many or any prominent minority civil rights leaders led on any sort of color blindness platform.

In fact, the 70's and 80's were all about embracing blackness.

If i were prickly, i'd be making insinuations about you personally.
FIDO discussed this on their site. It's optional so corporate firewalls that perform MITM can continue to work with U2F.
The price is checked server side. You have to pass the price somehow to the client in order to display it. This is no different than any other ecommerce site, except that you can see it in a GET param.

I can "change the price" of anything on Amazon with dev tools, but that won't help me when I go to buy it. I appreciate the concern because amazingly this has been a real vulnerability on sites before (recently on a crypto exchange I think).
Getting rid of platform immunity would result in massive censorship and decreased freedoms for the individual USERS of that service.

These platforms would just ban everything that is slightly controversial, on the off chance that they could be sued for it.

It is not about the rights of the companies that I care about. What I don't want is for this kind of massive censorship to happen to the users of these sites.

Immunity allows users to remain free and mostly unregulated. It is what makes the internet useful.

And I care about this issue, even though it would be "legal" for these companies to ban everything controversial, so please don't say "The 1st amendment protects you from the government, not private companiezzz!!"
Exactly this. You could host cheaper with a really low tier VPS, but as soon as you get posted to hacker news, game over. If traffic increases to such a degree that this architecture is no longer the best choice, we can move off without constantly fighting to keep our tiny server(s) alive.
This, on the market for high-end artworks, is one of the most interesting papers I have read: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/canice.prendergast/research/...

tl;dr: Art markets are unusual or unique in several ways, including thin demand (few buyers are interested in a given artwork, and their reserve prices will be very different), contempt for "flippers" (including shunning by galleries), and refusal to reduce prices, which would cause an artist's personal bubble to pop.
Consumer cost is basically the sum of all of the underlying costs, and all of the underlying vendors' profits.

In the short term, if the cost of payment processing goes up or down, the merchant covers the change with its profits; however, prices can move. If I'm a merchant and my costs went up, I'm going to try to increase my prices to cover my costs and my profit target; if my costs go down, I may lower my prices to try to attract more customers, or because my competitors lowered theirs -- especially given all the merchants are paying similar fees, a big drop in processing fees would likely be reflected in consumer costs.
Still ignoring the underlying point that the emails were irrecoverably destroyed and summarizing with 'Claims Hillary Clinton "had her emails — 33,000 emails — acid washed ... a very expensive process' and a reductive "FALSE" rubber stamp.

The vast majority of people won't read past the summary (or NBC's tweet). They will see the FALSE rating, and take from that that no emails were destroyed, which the wrong conclusion.
My first time at the Louvre, I was enjoying a relatively quiet stroll through the less crowded galleries after enjoying a thoroughly european vacation for about a week. It was only when I happened into a very busy gallery with a quickly moving throng of people. My reverie was shattered when I heard over my shoulder in a thick southern US drawl "Man, lets just go see the Mona Lisa and get the f* outta here." It was really the least impactful portion of our visit because of the throngs of people.
I mostly agree with you.

From 12-step programs, “Accept the things you cannot change. Change the things you can”. To my mind this means, accept the external circumstances you find yourself in - especially other people (since most can’t really exert sufficient force to change other people, at least not in a positive way), and work on changing your own reactions to the world. (This is a view that aligns with Stoic philosophy btw)

I guess for me the biggest questions are:

1. What is “success”? As a Stoic, success for me should be “contentment”, which is far more likely to be achievable than perhaps other definitions of success.

2. Does free will actually exist? If it doesn’t, and our brains are deterministic, then even our reactions are not in our control.

I’m trying to focus on 1, and not sweat about 2.
Stock markets are the worst way to allocate capital... except for all the others that have been tried.
An X-ray is really a cheap procedere compared to other imaging techniques.
In germany a doctor gets around 20$-30$ for an X-ray.

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> But I also believe that anyone else with my circumstances would have nearly identical results.

Then there was no need for you to make any effort. After all, success just dropped on your head.

You say you were "lucky" to be "conditioned to work hard"? I find such statements astonishing. Anyone can work hard, or not. It's a choice. Nobody is "victimized" by laziness. Jeez. How far will people go with excuses?

By the way, people who find themselves in a terrible situation, like war came and the food supply is gone, seem to discover in themselves a fine capability for hard work.
The vast majority of all criminal court cases end up in plea deals. That was never the norm prior to Prohibition, and, later, the drug war. Judges used to dislike plea deals. Now they need them in order to keep load down.

Plea deals are extremely coercive. It's all too easy for an innocent defendant with marginal resources to take a plea deal because the alternative is worse. Yes, plea deals are a cup half-empty/full thing, but all too often they are coercive rather than a good deal for a guilty defendant.

Lastly, whatever happened to "better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be imprisoned"?? We absolutely should consider innocent people convictions as a metric that counts for ten times that of guilty people who got less (or no) time than they should have. Do you not agree?
Good old "civility". The excuse that tyrants, dictators, liberals, conservatives and social media tycoons use to justify censorship.

Surprised the other excuse ( "won't you please think of the children" ) wasn't used.

Can't wait for the next wave of censorship. ISPs banning twitter, news and pornography to increase "health and civility".

The promise of open and free internet is quickly turning into a nightmare of censored social media.

Is anyone else concerned that twitter and social media are now openly stating that they will manipulate content/people to fit their agenda?

If it was china doing this, HN and the media would be attacking it from every angle possible. Strangely, the same type of behavior in the US is supported by these same people.
Somewhere, I assume, some atmospheric physics grad students are very happy.
Suppose you have an identical twin (not separated form you at birth: same environment, same opportunities) who does much better than you due to some external events. Like being at the right place at the right time without you.

The difference in success between you and that identical twin could be attributed to what we might call "situational luck".

All else (those things that give you initial equal footing, making you better or less off than other members of society) would be "inherited luck" or "background/baseline luck".

I think this article is more about this "situational luck" whereby someone does much better than someone else, even though neither is from a disadvantaged background relative to the other (both have similar "baseline luck").
That's Mastodon. Or Usenet, if you want to be even better.
This is really helpful, thanks. Not sure why I didn't think of it.
Putting energy into cultural preservation of languages (learned at birth in the case of the article), is a different proposition than asking someone to learn them from scratch later in life. The question boils down to what is worth saving and investing in, and why we place value on those things.
Did luck force you to reply, as well?
PhD study hyper-specializes people...

I'm not sure about that. By way of anecdata, there are several PhDs at my workplace, myself included. The PhDs are the most likely to be doing multi-disciplinary work, and to quickly move into new areas.

At least by tradition, the doctoral education was supposed to be about "learning how to learn," and though the research topic was specialized, you had to pick up a lot of breadth in order to make it work. In my case, though I studied some arcane properties of atoms, in order to conduct my project, I had to learn electronics, programming, and a variety of other things.

Now, another thing about the PhD education is that no two PhDs are alike, which makes it hard to talk about having a PhD as a sort of symbol -- of what? Take two PhDs in nearly the same area, and they will have remarkably different sets of knowledge and approaches to problems. A PhD project is a series of disasters, not a smooth trajectory towards mastery of a narrow field.

And as you move up the academic ladder, you are given more freedom to forge your own education, including an education that makes you more employable, or less so. Perhaps how you get yourself through your PhD amplifies the small things that make you unique as a person and problem solver.

(Note that there's some hidden advice here. If the degree itself won't make you desirable, you have to make yourself desirable by what you add to your abilities).
Yeah, I wrote the InfluxDB module to xDrip. Be sure to check the Nightscout version from github. The best tool for my personal diabetes care.
They’re a super exploited group, often new immigrants too.

Many times they “rent” the car, paying a daily fee for the seat, and then get to collect all the income for the day. Many times it means working 7-8 hours before making any returns of their own. It’s your typical “work for yourself” type scam, when really you’re an employee with no acknowledged rights.

I have no love of uber or the taxi industry, i guess i just don’t see one as better than the other, and it’s hard to say either is worse. I suspect it is the way it is because consumers don’t want to pay what it would take to really give the drivers minimum wage. I dare say this is an indication that it’s a realistic primary target for early AI automation.
I am not great with grammar, however I think its always supposed to be capitalized. that being said, i dont read too much into it in a hn post. Its sort of random for me, depends how tired my fingers are to leave the home keys
Video games could give you a reaction time and coordination that could turn out to be life-saving.
This brings back memories, the days when geocities, and software like frontpage and dreamweaver were a thing.

Most personal websites were exactly like this, word art, silly animated GIFs, "under construction" images, the author being optimistic about updating the site.

Soemtimes you'd come across someone who'd made a site that more focussed around a special interest and they updated it often, a personal endevour that probably never got that many views, but my god sometimes you'd come across some gems.
And next turtle: your genetics are the encoded experiences of your ancestors...
The political/philosophical diversity of awardees will illuminate just how genuine this effort is.

Interestingly, these social media companies which are engaging in censorship are now being reminded that if they decide to censor by politics, they may be held liable for everything posted to their platform.
> Are they denied bonuses that they are contractually obligated due to their compensation package?

No. The usual explanation given (in large corporate company's IT Departments) is that IT is a 'Cost Center' and not a 'Revenue Generating' center. Forget the fact that it's the software and services that these 'Cost Centers' build and maintain, which is helping Bob in sales close his sale.

Source: Me. Worked at 5 different Enterprise IT companies. Got the same response from every Manager. What's even more obscene is the Managers in IT get bonuses, but not the Engineers who are doing the actual work.
On the one hand I am hopeful because it is a decent sentiment about a real problem and because Twitter is the only possible entity in a position to fix it. On the other, the format of the message suggests how daunting the task is.

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Twitter does not make it easy to know when to STFU.
Tangentially related: if this article isn't written about you or your friends, a great place to find really nice art for relatively cheap is at a student art sale for your local art school. Money typically goes to the students directly to help them pay their tuition.

Some of them even have "VIP" opening nights, which end up being just kind of a nice date night. $125 gets you food, booze, and first crack at the art, most of which will be in the $100-$1000 range. An example, in Minneapolis: https://mcad.edu/about-mcad/events/art-sale

There will be a lot of stuff you'll probably not like, but there's some absolute gems. Bought a lacquered painting of Ai Weiwei for $300 that I wouldn't sell for $3000.
Ah I hadnt realized, thought OP meant it was in the book. I agree with your assessment then
I love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gurus figured out the "best practices" and all sites started looking the same. It really was a wild new frontier. I'm not saying the Web was objectively better back then, but it sure was fun.
You're kind of ignoring all the reasons someone might be unlucky enough to be stuck in a certain place.
People lost their shit over him IRL?
I'm not sure that they can. There's luck in that you don't hurt your back doing a trade, or get electrocuted, or you don't show up to work one day to find the doors closed because of something the boss did. There's luck in that someone doesn't invent something that makes your field or your customer base obsolete; wal-mart and online shopping seemed to have destroyed malls and mid-tier retailers, with ripple effects to many businesses.

There's luck in that the government doesn't decide to cut down; I had a lot of engineers apply for retail jobs when I was a kid because the local plant was shut down, and they would have had to leave the state to get jobs in their field.

Luck I feel is the external environment acting in a way that remains favorable to your plans and ideas. It can happen at every tier of life, and the only way to counter it is to have enough individual resources acquired to respond to the change.
They'll also probably listen to Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Adele, watch Top Gear, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Bake Off, read Harry Potter. The US might be dominant, but it's the English language that's the global hegemon.
Makes me think of Terry Davis and Bobby Fischer. Mental illness can make it hard to be compassionate, but it is still illness.
Ehhhhhh.

There's like two things that I want from Twitter as someone who buys internet clicks:

Lower prices. More cost effectiveness. Those two things are two things that Twitter has never offered.
Because i’ve Been fascinated with “free will” and having quite the difficulty to find an example of it, consider adding these to the list when considering “choice” and “free will” in the context of any given action: all your experiences, memories, traumatic experiences up to date; the circumstances around you at this moment; the language your mind uses to converse with itself; your habits and preferences; your thoughts at the moment; your physical condition, including blood sugar, sleep, sexual drive etc.; your current desires; the values he culture you live in projects into you; your current multilayered emotional state.

Does anyone believe that they are in full control of all of these? Any of these? Any control?

Now, where’s this independent entity taking actions on its own? I’m still seeking this mythical beast.
I wonder if rent-seeking and other forms of non-productive passive income aren't at the root of it all. We're generating wealth and value and "growing" the economy, but how real is that growth when a) nothing is actually being produced (i.e., there's no product with inherent value), and b) wages don't increase anyways.

All this wealth is being generated, but it's going disproportionately (historically speaking) to the wealthy. Well, the problem with that is that the wealthy have an extremely low marginal propensity to consume, so, all they do is invest. That means that both more wealth is available to build businesses and less wealth is available to purchase the resulting products. So, it's easier than ever to create a business because investment dollars are cheaper than ever, but it's harder than ever to make it profitable because nobody's buying. That should depress costs, but the race against inflation has got to catch up eventually. You can keep making it cheaper and cheaper to run a business, but if wages don't increase and cost of living continues to increase just due to inflation, then it doesn't matter how cheap your goods are. There's no middle class left with the money to purchase luxury goods. Then what?

Edit:

> Austrian economics doesn't claim that short-term inefficiencies do not exist in markets, but rather that they are less harmful than attempts to fix them.

This seems -- at least partially -- bogus on it's face. Sure, you can definitely regulate a market into collapse (see the Soviet Union) but deregulation can just as easily create supermonopolies which are equally unjust and ineffective. The point of the market isn't to generate wealth, it's to distribute resources efficiently so that the nation as a whole (or state, or world, or whatever collective noun you want to use for human civilization) gets their required products. Generating wealth is a complete side effect of the market as far as the benefits to society are concerned.
In the US, there's the long-standing SOS program:[0]

> The unit of the DEA that distributes the information [from NSA] is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security. It was created in 1994 to combat Latin American drug cartels and has grown from several dozen employees to several hundred.

> "Remember that the utilization of SOD cannot be revealed or discussed in any investigative function," a document presented to agents reads. The document specifically directs agents to omit the SOD’s involvement from investigative reports, affidavits, discussions with prosecutors and courtroom testimony. Agents are instructed to then use "normal investigative techniques to recreate the information provided by SOD."

Which is aka "parallel construction".

Also, there's a great history of SOD online at the DEA Museum.[1]

0) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130...

1) https://www.deamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/042215-...
How switching our domain structure unlocked international growth
Learning syntax is not really that difficult.

On the other hand, a new language (ideally) teaches you a new way to think about problems. If you have a concrete problem to focus on, that part becomes much easier and intuitive.
hah! GWT (Google Web Toolkit) had this in an old world. BTW, why did GWT fall like the cliffs at Niagara?
It seems like Vulkan is being pushed really hard lately. Is it possible it might become THE cross-platform graphics interface and we start seeing truly platform agnostic games?
I can sort of see how social networking sites evolved from these kind of websites where people just wanted to share part of their personal lives. Thanks for sharing.
> Your experiences is all there is, of course you're a slave to them

That's a fine excuse for being a loser. When you get tired of that, however, you can always choose better.
There is still hope: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Presumably it's a throughput & latency optimization. Doc only has to see you once if they already have the x-ray, instead of ordering an x-ray and then seeing you again. We speculatively do things in computers all the time in the name of speed & efficiency.

If it cost nothing and the radiation carried no risk, nobody would have any problem with it. As it is, the cost is modest and the risk is low, so presumably healthcare waved their hands and said "close enough".

(That said I still decline pre-appointment x-rays when I do not believe they are appropriate)