skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What can we do to make not going to a top school less disadvantageous?

Begin promoting and honoring good MOOC programs.
The highway organization and hydrology of NYC Metro and Berlin/Tokyo/Beijing are very different.
Lots of shaky assumptions and economic misconceptions in this book. Every decade there is always a utopian or a group of idealists who claim that we have the means to meet everyones needs and that capitalism and its economic laws are no longer capable of providing the goods and services that we demand. But these ideas are always incoherent and boil down to arbitrary assumptions about human nature.

Let us, for the sake of the argument ignore the fact that capitalism, voluntary exchange, and the free market is the _only_ system that is capable of rationally allocating resources in a society and instead assume that we have somehow surpassed the need for capital-based economics. What do the central planners like the author of the book have in mind to "replace" capitalism? The proposed solutions always boil down to some form of common ownership of the means of production. Private ownership is considered obsolete and common ownership of resources with a rational distribution system where everyone receives what they need. In the past people proposed that this rational distribution system would be controlled by a committee of experts, and today the same people say that a highly intelligent computer system would marshal the resources. Human needs can be objectively determined, and damn those who demand more than what they are entitled to from the rational distribution system.

Sounds familiar? That is because it is. Socialism _always_ fails because a central authority cannot, objectively, plan an economy better than the collective decisions by acting men in the free market. Hayek wrote about this in his essay _The Use of Knowledge in Society_ [1] This is the same fallacy that caused the collapse of every single planned economy in the past and will in the future. Without prices there is no economic calculation, and the best pricing system is one that is based on private property. Frankly, after skimming the book, I find that his entire argument boils down to the fact that he believes that certain things should be worth more and others should be worth less, and damn the market for telling me why they cost the way they do. There is a reason space travel costs as much as it does, but luckily for us we have a system that allows for entrepreneurship where innovative individuals and corporations who are able to arbitrage between the cost of factor inputs and the prices of their output get rewarded with a handsome profit. Since it is in their interest to maximise their spread they always tend to discover ways cut costs while still delivering the product that their customers demand (just look at Elon Musk and his space venture).

While I agree with the author that enabling people to widely access information will speed up the process of entrepreneurship, time is unfortunately an element in entrepreneurial discovery and there is no coming around that.

[1] http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html
Wow how could Marx have gotten it so wrong? Capital can be used to purchase goods consumed by the self (as is the case with almost everybody). Or to collect as collateral against risk. Or to invest. Or, really, all the real reasons we use it.
> You can cook a meal of almost any kind in 30 minutes or less.

So the recipe magically chooses itself?

So the food magically appears in your fridge?

So the dishes magically wash themselves afterwards?

So the left-over ingredients magically use themselves up?

I really hate when people downplay the time cost involved in food preparation by focussing on only one step of the procedure.
Wouldn't the system know what time someone got picked up and dropped off by gps?
Biometrics are terrible, especially if they ever become compromised. You can change a pin code or a password much more easily than you can change your eyeball or fingerprint.
In the US, they're still a pretty standard way for individuals to pay each other or to settle accounts with service people. I don't write a lot but it's how I would square up with someone for a weekend trip or pay for my housekeeper or furnace servicing. I also "write" checks through my online banking but don't do those by hand.
It'll be real-time with the New Payments Platform (NPP) being brought in this year.

BPay is only for bills and stuff - I'm sure my power company don't care that much that if I pay my bill on Friday night it doesn't clear until 9am on Monday morning... (it still counts as the bill being paid on Friday). It usually clears next day on business days anyway.

Also, the bank's balance sheets don't get a "boost" from holding payments. Deposits and other customer funds are strictly a liability to the bank (they owe them back to you), and they don't automatically get interest on them. So they don't have as much incentive as say a company does to pay invoices late to collect more interest.
A bespoke solution (learns by your 'up votes') for any area of the ArXiv has been developed by Anton Lukyanenko:
http://arxivist.com/
Doesn't Dunbar's explanation preclude a lot of those people?

> Dunbar explained it informally as "the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar"
When I started at my company it was a warehouse of under 200 people. As the years went by, and we added more and more staff, things seemed more chaotic. The common consensus amongst the people who worked there for many years (before my time) was that the boss was more personal and warm. Now she sits in a closed office in such a way that discourages anyone from approaching her. The organization seemed to get more chaotic and unwieldy. Because we didn’t really organize in teams it was kind of a free for all.
He's probably referring to Marx's Historical determinism. Marx claimed that there were stages of the development of labour and capital that would inevitably happen based on the forces that govern both. For most people, I would say, even those who study Marx, these ideas have been dismissed, or proven wrong by the failure of the 'working class' to seize the means of production in most countries where such attempts took place.

However, his predictions are only a part of a very rich body of work that still provides productive economic analysis.
It sounds like they want to have their cake and eat it too.
I.e. they want the advantages of of a 1099 contractor (not paying health insurance, etc) AND the advantages of having a 9-5 employee.

If you don't mind losing the contract, I'd discuss their options. Something along these lines:

"I don't think our expectations are lined up. I expected this to be a 1099 consultant position but you are treating it like it's a W2 position. Before the IRS gets all up in our business, how should be we fix this? Do you want to treat me as true independent consultant per IRS rules, have the subcontractor hire me on as a W2 employee and bill me out like we're doing now, or shake hands and go our separate ways?"

In reality, this is why companies go through contracting agencies. The agencies don't (really) offer true employee benefits but the client companies still get the advantages of a 1099 employee (easy to "let go" at the end of the contract).
I have used FreeCAD 0.16 a lot to design and then manufacture simple objects (extruded svg shapes, essentially), and it has worked fine.

It's the only program that I know of, capable of importing OpenSCAD files.

The interface is a little awkward and the icons quite obscure, but other than that it's really good!
Here's an 2D outline bookmarklet I picked up and modified slightly along the way, slightly out of date though;

javascript:(function(){var t=['div','header','nav','main','section','footer','table','th','td','tr','form','fieldset','label','img','address','blockquote','h1','h2','h3','h4','h5','h6','p','pre','dd','dl','dt','ol','ul','li'];var c=['blue','blue','blue','blue','blue','blue','teal','teal','teal','teal','orange','orange','orange','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','red','green','green','green','green','green','green','yellow'];for (var i in t){var l=document.getElementsByTagName(t[i]);var j=0,e;while(e=l.item(j++)){e.style.outline='solid '+c[i]+' 1px';}}})();
That's incredibly affordable. These guys are impressive. I especially like that they're software centric and they're interested in plugging into as many devices as possible.
Not sure about Plex and Kodi but Emby has a feature to automatically grab subtitles. It can search for the specific release (likely synchronised) or be more liberal with the added risk of getting a subtitle which doesn't sync. I think it uses Opensubtitles, and has no support for a different backend.

VLC uses Opensubtitles as well, but requires manual interaction. It can search for hash or name.

Both require an account (no API I think).

Subliminal you can run in a Docker environment (Emby as well, I suppose same with Plex and Kodi) to continuously grab subtitles for new releases.

Ideally, you want multiple providers for this. For example, Subscene and Addic7ed. AFAIK this isn't possible with any of the software I mentioned.

What I don't understand (actually, I think I do understand: it is because maintainers of subtitle platforms want to profit via ads) is why there's no incremental databases with subtitles (like we used to have with serials for software, forgot the name) so you can just select it offline. The amount of data is very little because its all text. With some compression and a database to search, it shouldn't cost a lot of resources. You can have a base, and then have incremental updates over that, with rebasing every once in a while. Kinda like HVSC (High Voltage Sid Collection).
>>So its not up to you to enter a restaurant prepared to pay for the meal?

I have paid for the meal. At the end of my visit I was given a receipt and paid the indicated price - what else do you want? If the server is disappointed they didn't get a tip, then I think I know who is entitled in this relationship, and I have a very strong suspicion it's not me.

>> in fact nobody else but you can do anything about it

I pay my employees a good wage - so why can't the restaurant owner do the same? It's not up to me to make sure that a waiter is satisfied with their job - it's their employers problem, just like I have to take care of my own employees.
Thanks for your thoughtful response. This thread is getting a little old, but I'm going to read this later, and might respond - however I wanted to thank you, in case I forget and move on - cheers!
The touchbar still fails even for folks who don’t memorize function keys.

If you are not memorizing the keys, then you will need to look down at the touchbar to figure out where to tap to do what you want to do.

If you need to be looking anyways, why is it better to look at the top of the keyboard, instead of the screen where your eyes are normally located?

Replicating a touchbar style strip on the screen is a much better option than anything on the touchbar.
Single computer controls more than 4x the value of all currency in the world
> adapt SolveSpace's assembly functionality for FreeCAD

This project has name - FreeCAD Assembly3[0], and test builds already available too[1], so soon it could be merged in main FreeCAD branch. Read details on this project wiki[2] ;-)

[0] https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=19111

[1] https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases

[2] https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/wiki/Build-...
Hashimoto's is awful, but it can also be treated with an oral form of the thyroid hormones to restore appropriate levels (levothyroxine as the original poster mentioned earlier). I believe this is completely effective (I don't know if the underlying condition still causes an uncomfortable/visible goiter).

It's generally not fatal when treated. I'm sure you know that bacteria don't have to do traditional reproduction to exchange genetic material so they can pass along traits like antibiotic resistance very rapidly. It can also spread between different species of bacteria (see plasmids, bacterial conjugation/transformation).

So this is why I'm against using antibiotics for non-life saving applications, generally. You have widely drug resistant staph (eg, MRSA), e. coli, chlamydia, tuberculosis (XDR TB), et al. causing massive problems in healthcare systems across the world and killing quite a few people.

I am not sure if you know this, but given the absence of the selection pressure, bacterial populations can lose drug resistance. It has higher ongoing metabolic requirements to have that trait, and is a evolutionary disadvantage. Also, I don't know if you appreciate the difficulty to find new antibiotics (particularly wide-spectrum and low side-effects/toxicity). I would encourage you to research that topic carefully because it's a subject with a lot of poor information written about it.

Finally, I will underscore that I took my own advice, and found multiple papers hosted by the NIH about emergence of drug resistance in patients using very low dose doxy (not in Hashimoto's, but rosacea, where its non-antibiotic properties are also useful, though I'm not sure it's the same mechanism). So I was wrong, it seems. I learned something new in the process of researching my response.
> Dunbar noted that the groups fell into three categories—small, medium and large [..] with respective size ranges of 30–50, 100–200 and 500–2500 members each.

I think it would make more sense go with the smaller category, and perhaps use a number around 49. Keep it odd to avoid a tie.

L3 represents 117 thousand,
L4 represents 5.7 million,
L5 represents 282 million,
L6 represents 13.8 billion

At current population of 7 billion:
144 million L1 representatives.
2.9 million L2 representatives.
60 thousand L3 representatives.
1,225 L4 representatives.
24 L5 representatives
Irradiation does have issues of it's own, like making things taste funky [0]

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03091...
It does depend. I forgot to sign a check for my car registration last year and it got returned to me.
Android is extremely broken and is designed to leak information like a sieve. Not surprising given the incentives of Google.

Don't expect goodwill or good behavior when the fundamental incentives are surveillance and hoovering user data. The multi billion dollar ad economy is based on this.

A system designed with user privacy would be designed to lock down hard on contacts, sms, location, and other personally identifying information access. But the android permission system for instance is so involved it's not surprising lay people are not able to understand the implications, read between the lines of actual motivations and take proper actions.

Facebook does not need your location, contact or sms information. Neither does Google. Yet Google insists on creepily telling you your location on every Google search. This itself is sinister and attempts to normalize stalking behavior.

Uber and others don't strictly need location access, you can type it in, and if required it should be used for the convenience it offers - you are paying for the service - without the possibility of Uber and others collecting historical location and ride information to build invasive files on their users.
PhD in which subject? In Math you can survive without too much money, in Chemistry you need a lot of money to buy fancy compounds, ...

Also, in some areas it's easy to collaborate at long distance. Can you try to do some work with your friends?

[And also sometimes the positions in other countries are too time consuming. Enjoy your family. :)]
All this does is dump the ingredients in a pot and mix them by spinning the pot. It's a hell of a long way off from making such advanced recipes as sandwiches or burritos. And at $7.50 it's rather expensive by fast food standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc8D-CnDMiE
Are you referring to the UK? I could have re-phrased my comment. What I meant to say is that while I think it would hypothetically be interesting to live and work in the UK for a short period of time, perhaps if my options are very limited, given the circumstances I'd not go all in on that as a priority. I spent a very short time in England and Scotland in 2016, had a great time, and had some interesting political discussions ;)
How would you rate your experience?

Three buttons.

Acceptable

Exceptional. Why?

Below average. Why?
Creating with a Design System in Sketch: Part Four [Tutorial]
How much funding is adequate? If you want to "adequately" fund schools, you have to first define how much adequate is, and go from there. And that is the step where many disagree.
Don’t Do for Money What Others Do for Love
As a guy who uses Feedly every day, I am glad to pay for it, and I hope to keep RSS in some state of life support for as long as I can.

I still don't quite understand the fascination with video content: It's completely synchronous; a 10 minute video takes up 10 min of my time, with limited ability to consume more efficiently. Textual information puts the control back in my hands, with the ability to aggregate content and quickly consume. RSS has been the best way to do so while avoiding the dross that every social network has devolved into.
You generally still need a PIN for payments over $100 though.

But in general you can't actually sign anymore, you have to either use PayWave or chip and pin.
Justice Department Probes Colleges’ Early-Decision Admission Practices
If so, why permit any arbitrary target for this 'joke' tool?

Instead have it resolve all links to a page that says 'don't click on shortened URLs'.

You get your joke and curious recipients get a lesson.

I'm sure this was fun to program but beyond that I don't think it should be disseminated.
I rarely use chip and pin any more. Contactless is everywhere. The UK is the most advanced in this regard, though.
50% genetic + 50% "unshared environment" is the rule of thumb for any complex trait, I assume that's what GP had in mind.

Unshared env is a polite way of saying noise; approximately 0% "shared env" i.e. parenting, education, etc. (There are many caveats, obviously.)

You could do worse than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Estimates as a place to start.
> why hasn't anyone forked/cloned it's UI and feature-set?

There are clients that kind of did, but one of the cool things about Google Reader that a lot of people miss is the social feed. You could share articles you found interesting and your shares would show up on the feeds of anyone who followed you as just another RSS source. It's just an extra folder of articles from your GChat friends that you can read at your leisure.

And it's people selecting articles from their normal reading rotation, so it was refreshingly clear of clickbait. People usually shared stuff because they thought their friends would find it interesting rather than distributing content designed to "go viral."

Once the ecosystem fragmented nobody has the critical mass to replicate the social features. It was nicer than what Twitter or Facebook do because it wasn't in your face.
Google and Facebook also have personal information about users which a self-hosted / privacy respecting solution inherently doesn't, such as gender, age, "likes", etc. I haven't used these analytics platforms myself, so I don't know how much of such data they reveal to customers.
wtliteralf
You don't have to tip in the US either. Just don't expect the servers to be very nice on return visits.
Click on the Github icon on bottom of the page and find out ;)
Based on the facts of how this problem has played out, I think it is an empirical fact that the major processor and operating system producers were blindsided by this issue, even though there were some people, such as Philip Guenther from OpenBSD, saying there is probably an exploit here. There seems to be a certain amount of after-the-fact analysis to the claim that no-one should have been surprised by this, and even that was, in fact, the case, the broader concern simply becomes one of why the situation was allowed to develop.

In retrospect, we can say that people were making decisions that favored convenience over security, but were they aware at the time what specific compromises they were making? Either way, there is an important issue here that does not go away by saying they should or could have known.
Ask an Estonian the same question and they'll answer with "it's OK", "meh" or they'll just shrug. Which means the same - everything is going fine and they're happy :)
Have you considered the possibility that you yourself don't understand what capital is, and are confusing it with money? Or no, disregard that, obviously Marx is the one with the major misapprehension here.
Google is finding ways to make money from Alphabet's DeepMind A.I. technology
I've found the text reviews more useful.

If the reviews all say "Place was a bit messy but the price was right and the location was great" versus "too bad this beautiful home is so far from the train station," you'll know whether or not the place is right for you.

And people generally won't downvote for a negative they knew going in.
> The interface is a little awkward and the icons quite obscure, but other than that it's really good!

One of the many improvements in this version was a complete overhaul of all the workbenches' icons to be aligned to the Tango Desktop Project [1], thanks to Alexander Gryson [2]. I think it helped a lot with the visual consistency, so big kudos to him.

1. http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project

2. https://agryson.net/
There is actually a book co-authored by Robin Dunbar [1] that examines the implications of social media etc. It was published a few years ago as the results of the decade long Lucy Project. I highly recommend the book if you're interested in the intersection of these issues.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22331913-thinking-big
Show HN: Turn Touch wooden smart home remote now shipping
shrug It's the web. Any link can redirect you to any other link.
Ars technica does something nice: for a very low fee (European perspective) you get the full articles in your RSS.

Plus they remove tracking and ads on the web page.

Should be win/win since we all hate tracking, ads and never click on them anyway and still actually want to reward sources we read, right?
Which static site generators are you considering?
Unveiling Project North Star
That is two different things.

Paying by card is very common in some countries (Northern Europe, France), paying by credit card is common in some (UK, Ireland), paying by cash is common in others (Germany).

It's not possible to generalize all of Europe for any of these, except to say that all EU/EEA countries have modern systems.

(For example, there are restaurants in Sweden that don't take cash, and restaurants in Germany that don't take any cards, restaurants in Denmark that charge an extra 2% if you use a credit card rather than a debit card, and restaurants in Britain that happily accept the 5% it costs them to accept AmEx.)
Because the worldbank.org GDP per capita data start at 1990 :D. At it was still about $15 per day. I don't know if the poverty threshold was different back then.

[https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD]
> IMHO giving people more reasons not to run their code on and trust some server located remotely is a good thing.

This seems like an odd thing to say. There are plenty of very good reasons to not run your own hardware.... lower cost, uptime, ability to scale with demand all comes to mind.

Cloud providers will figure out how to mitigate threats like this...
No ads, and also no data tracking for targeted ads.
IMO it's distinguishing mistakes from pure negligence.

A developer who's able to easily run scripts in production without any checks in place is different than a developer who knowingly sidesteps existing processes in order to perform a task faster or easier.

The punishment for one versus the other should be very different.