skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here on HN we spend a lot of time talking about business and engineering. In both cases, a successful person's career could be described as a series of judgments that were better (more astute) than the rest's. There are many areas where nobody's opinion can be distinguished from anybody else's except by counting the number of people that believe each one. One uncontroversial example would be art criticism. However, there are other areas where there are right answers to chase down.

Inside of the areas where external, natural forces are available to distinguish between sides of debates, no bias is necessary to form friendships or alliances. If you find yourself on the wrong side you can switch, and it won't be "disloyal" or "traitorous" because you'd be doing it to align yourself with something that isn't artificial. (For example, knowing the correct laws of physics instead of the wrong ones.)
That's so painful to read. I wouldn't know any of those people because they live half a world away, however I know many examples nearby.

Just one excerpt:

"Elliana, who turns eight months old today, is here for a checkup at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She’s a patient at a special clinic that treats babies for neonatal abstinence syndrome, which occurs when babies are born to mothers addicted to heroin.

The infants can suffer tremors, sleeplessness, seizures and other withdrawal symptoms.

Elliana gurgles and wobbles a bit when Uebel sits her on the examining table. As she checks out the baby, Uebel quizzes Gaffney on Elliana’s progress.

“Is she holding things?”

“She takes stuff and then drops it out of her chair,” Gaffney says. “She looks at it, then she looks at me and laughs.”

“Good,” Uebel says.

The clinic’s goal is to monitor the babies, but also to support the mothers. Many, like Gaffney, used heroin and other opiates for years.

Gaffney, 28, quit cold turkey after learning she was pregnant. She’s living now with the baby at First Step Home, a treatment center in Walnut Hills. They plan to move into an apartment together soon.

After years of addiction, Gaffney’s goals are modest. She wants to raise her child in a normal home. She wants a normal life.

Uebel finishes the examination. “She looks real, real good,” she says.

Gaffney is relieved. She scoops Elliana into her arms and takes her appointment card for her next visit to the clinic in December.

“See you then,” she says.

(Ten days later, Gaffney is dead from a heroin overdose.)"
Apple Plans to Replace Intel Chips in Macs with Its Custom Designed CPUs
I remember reading an article a while ago about this being done in high-rise hotels. Could not find my original sources, but a quick google found this article: http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/hydro-power-turning-toil...
Verne Troyer, best known as Mini-Me in “Austin Powers,” has died
I guess that then the solution is obvious.
Looks like they finally got it right. Hah? The last line of the article...
"Board games are evolving as well, standing on the shoulders of the great games and iterating on them."
Going back to my original comment, I think it's clear that if the TAs felt like you do, then there would be a clear bias towards anti-unionism at Harvard, and we would have to distrust their ability to be impartial.

As regards your followup, you are only looking at 1/2 of the picture.

Yes, there are restrictions on what an employer can do, eg, prohibitions against firing a worker for unionizing.

On the other hand, since the Taft-Hartley Act, unions are prohibited from "jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns." (Quoting Wikipedia.)

The idea is to remove so-called "unfair labor practices" from both the employer and the union. So you can't just point to the restrictions on employers and stop there.

Your statement "Unions would be immediately fired if they were operating in a free market." is contrary to the historical evidence.

We know that unions exist in a free market and with no laws to support them because history gives clear examples. It wasn't until Commonwealth v. Hunt in 1842 that unions in the US were determined to be legal in the first place. Previously people who tried to use their collective bargaining power were sometimes prosecuted for criminal conspiracy.

Under your free market hypothesis, how did these early unions exist without laws to back them up?

It's because collective bargaining can be effective even without legal enforcement. Quoting from the Wikipedia page on Commonwealth v. Hunt: '"Wait, Horne’s master, testified that "he did not feel at liberty to employ any but society men," because he "would not wish to lose five or six good workmen for the sake of one."' No law force him to accept the union.

Your last line is "It is due to these laws that union members get above market wages."

That's neither here nor there. We are far from a free market, in regards to employment, and we don't know what the free market rate would be if both employers and unions were unconstrained in what they could do.

Moreover, people in unions may accept lower rates than those not in a union. Some people would rather have the stability of a long-term job that is not affected by one's ability to kiss up to the boss, and accept the trade-off of having a lower salary for that stability.

We also know that companies engage in collusion to lower salaries. See the settlement a few years ago where Apple, Google and several other Silicon Valley companies allegedly "illegally conspired to prevent their workers from getting better job offers." (Quoting https://phys.org/news/2015-09-415m-settlement-apple-google-w... )

If you really believe in a free market, then it seems you think that group of employers should be able to work together collectively to lower employee wages, yes? If employers can act collectively, then why shouldn't employees act collectively?
> but as isolated but connected processes.

How are they connected ?
That only works if you have more than one choice available.
Nice addition to my already decently long list of why Coinbase isn't worth dealing with. Thanks.
I think when most people talk about empathy as a good attribute, what they really mean is the capacity for empathy.
Why is telegram suddenly so popular? AFAIK it doesn’t provide proper decentralised cryptography and yet everyone in the crypto coin community is up in arms about it.
> First, the Pali canon didn't begin to be put to paper until 100-200 years after the buddha, so like Jesus, there aren't clear first-hand records.

Yes and there are people who suspect that the “Buddha” wasn’t one person, but representative of teachings passed down from a bunch of gurus over the years.

Also, it was the fourth Buddhist council where stuff was written down. That was like 300 years after parinirvana. True to human nature, 70 years after parinirvana the Sangha had already split (second Buddhist council).

And even if there were
firsthand records, even if we knew the “actual message”, I’m not sure that really adds much credibility in my mind.

You have an interesting story. Based on you using “skillfull” for “kusala” I assume you’ve read Thanissaro’s translations. Where did you ordain?
Should be the same I agree. Not only that, under docker you could also have them behind a loadbalancer and just upgrade one at a time with no down time.
Regarding the "smearing" concept, how does that square with the formation of neutron stars and white dwarfs? Those objects are incredibly dense because they're composed mostly (?) of nuceei or neutrons, respectively.
I'd call it the Touch UI, the others could be Windowed and Mobile.
I want to believe so I'm the worst to judge. Has anyone poked at the study yet?
I don't think the idea of connecting people at mass is bad, large communities can and have worked out fine.

What I think is the issue is that how Facebook and similar sites do things is flawed. Why? Because unlike real life:

1. You only have one profile on said sites (in most cases), and that means people can easily connect your different interests together.

2. Groups who can't tolerate each other's existence are forced in a situation where they've got to interact on a regular basis, or where interactions are made fairly common.

3. And everything you do is public record forever.

Those in turn are the issues that are causing all this social instability. Why? Well, think of it like this.

For the former, people always present a different 'face' based on the group they're with and the situation they're in. Their family knows one side of them, their love interests know another site, their friends know another, their colleagues yet another and various authorities know different ones entirely.

But social media services remove this. They give people one profile for everything, and expose groups who didn't want/need/have to know about some aspect of an individual to things they weren't really meant to know about. In the old days, an 'offensive' joke might reach 5 people who'd groan a bit and then forget about it. Now it reaches half the internet, leads to jobs being lost and causes flare ups between friends and families.

They also force people together who can't be 'openly' tolerant of each other, and makes their existence hard to ignore for their enemies, Yes, lots of people in real life have 'abhorrent' views, but said views don't travel beyond people that agree with said views. Social media sites push said views in everyone's faces.

What Facebook and co have caused isn't necessarily polarisation or what not. They haven't made views 'more' extreme.

They've revealed the tensions underneath human society that were previously able to be ignored because people could get along and work together in ignorant bliss. They've made every 'bad' and 'offensive' viewpoint held by some group or another visible to those outside the groups they're intended for.

Connecting people isn't the problem. Making visible things that shouldn't be visible to everyone and making every group and viewpoint too visible is.
I've been thinking about striking out on my own, having both run a contract software business and worked for a startup recently.

I'm inclined to think that the best way to find fit is to make sure people are willing to _overpay_ you for services. For instance, I have a great deal of expertise when it comes to graphics, and I could probably insist on being overpaid in this realm.

If I could automate what I am overpaid for at scale I might have a business.
Does freedom of speech extend to newspapers? Newspapers are corporations.
Metro's branding was a failure of imagination and a failure to properly capture and convey intent. There are many other options out there:

| "Touch UI" | "Mobile UI" | "Everywhere UI" | "Fisher-Price UI" |

... or my personal favorite...

| "Mega-Bloks" |
I lived this world almost everyday I was incarcerated in Florida State Prison, and the dynamic certainly was interesting.

What I noticed happened is each group first starts picking up on the speech patterns and mannerisms of the other and begins to emulate them. Without a doubt, this is a very important step for two-way communication to develop.

It does take a significant amount of effort to keep things from deteriorating though, and just if just one person in the group decides against integrating, things can become unstable quite quickly.
It's impossible to eliminate bias. Even if it's not political bias some people just naturally agree more with one side of an issue or are more interested in certain subjects. But that doesn't mean that bias is irrelevant.

In my opinion, having followed WikiLeaks over the years, I think it's safe to say that they have an anti-western intelligence/military bias. That doesn't mean that what they publish is untrue. It just means that I'm skeptical about their motives and sources when they release something and I make it a point to try and find a good counter-balance to their take on the issue. Because they probably only presented a tiny portion of the truth that fit their agenda.
That's great. The headline alone made me wonder why anyone would bother to do this, but on reading the resin.io site, there really are lots of compelling reasons for the approach.

Btw, also a big fan of Etcher!
I've never worked at a place where I've been allowed to say no, I think scrum working the way in which you describe is more the exception than the rule.
I really like the tips themselves. Though, I must admit I do get a chuckle out of taking productivity tips from someone notorious for working 80 hours a week. Not that my accomplishments hold a candle to his. It's just funny in some part of my brain.
Quality of life matters in most of these marginal cases. If they are going to give you the Konno procedure (scrape extra tissue out of a thickened ventricle), there's tons of things that can go wrong OTHER than death. Death is assured, either way, for everyone.
The beneficiaries of any WWIII would be whatever plants and animals survive the nuclear holocaust, as well as rock and stick vendors.
>> if we offer compensation, how do we account for the fact that people of lower socio-economic status will be more likely to take that compensation for the same risk?

>Why is that a problem?

You don't understand why this is a problem because, I'd wager, you're not in this situation yourself.

It's absolutely perverse that, instead of striving for a more egalitarian society, we would effectively force the most vulnerable among to sell themselves to scientific experiments to survive (incidentally, the premise of "Every sperm is sacred", comedy song from Monty Python).
I've stopped saying “I'm fine, thanks” when people ask how I am
maybe bigger durability in rain seasons each year plus in earthquakes
Here are the types of marijuana best for stress and anxiety, according to users
Having worked at companies with a 6+ hour long retrospective, planning meeting that was almost entirely useless - I would love the idea.

However, at my current job we frequently have little meetings here and there post-standup for clarification, discussions, analysis, of issues, etc. Frequently they do not apply, but I do not find myself willing to leave despite explicitly being told I do not have to be there.

It's hard to walk out of a meeting, when you know how it looks, because your manager is the one to handle everything from vacation requests to promotions. Building up "social credit" greases the wheels later on when you are the one who needs something. Unless your manager is a proponent of the policy, you're fighting the tide.
There’s actually a gene associated with this very thing.
"standard of living" is not defined only by having a smartphone and a microwave.

There are many critical aspects that were very often better for the average 1400s peasant than a 1900s industrial worker or even many people as today:

- sense of community: super tight-knit for many 1400s farmers

- ...of belonging to a place

- ...of purpose

- job safety!

- food safety
kubernetes: SO MUCH COMPLEXITY.

If you have a giant app spread across multiple microservices, it definitely could make sense.

For an app I worked on, that was basically divided into two classes of instances: front end rails, and back end api in python/pylons, it was an utter waste of time and energy. Just go with EBS plus a nice base ami and build something useful with all the time you would have wasted on k8s.
I think pretty much every industry and field quickly develops it's own stock of acronyms, nicknames, jargon etc. This can feel alienating to "outsiders", which is why people don't like it, but I think its pretty necessary (and inevitable). If you're working with a set of concepts, processes, software everyday, developing a shorthand way of talking (and thinking) about them is a big timesaver both in terms of communication and mental effort.
> wow, what a stellar compression ratio

It's pretty good when compared to uncompressed RGB of the same size, which would be 48M.
We have lots of distributed databases with merging/syncing abilities. You can also append-only and disable delets. No blockchain necessary.

I don't get your use-case regarding data collection people, what exactly will a blockchain prevent them from doing? Are they all entering the same piece of data to then pick the version they all input the most?
I doubt we could detect the lensing of these black holes so close to the galaxies they orbit. I think we would, perhaps, eventually see something falling into one.

edit: someone pointed out the gas in the galactic halo is not dense enough to form accretion disks around PHBs, so, no. We wouldn't see anything glowing.
Coinbase has blocked WikiLeaks shop
The problem with your belief is that you are assuming that it's easy to define sexism, racism, homophobia. The reality is that what a lot of people think are ex one of those three just aren't. Very few people are any of those things in any meaningful way.

In fact I would claim that your belief is exactly part of the problem in that you confuse empathy with some ethical/moral idea and end up thinking that you have the right interpretation and can judge whether someone is racist, sexist etc.
Korbit will launch LTC trading
It uses strips of QR codes to position itself on the workpiece. It's an absolute measurement not a relative one, so there's no drift.
IAC AutoUnit ICO rating: 70 out of 100 points
I'm someone who actually needs to type on my laptop. Including when I'm not at a "height/posture-optimized workspace".

I hear and see so much attention focused on the trackpad.

Well, along with these newer trackpads came very large palm rests. And the front edges of those -- often no longer even beveled -- reach far enough to press against my wrists. Especially when I need to work at "random table/desk".

Makes the darned thing unusable, for me.

P.S. I should add that a couple of decades working on crappy corporate furniture didn't help. My wrists no longer want to put up with such irritants.
Easily solvable. Have a person whos jobs it is to rank how likely a person is to live. He gets paid based on how accurate he is.

Doctors would then be ranked as an offset from this previous mortality prediction.
Money. Bad tech and broken ideas have never stopped businesses before and some have become rather successful. Using blockchain hype along with access to unregulated ICO markets just makes it easier.
Just for an order of magnitude, even if it’s not the same usage:

- One nuclear core: 700MW
- Or 50.000 of those microhydraulic turbines.
The readings were however taken from the hair that was washed before testing, indicating ingestion while alive.
> But I really need a blockchain db for the permanence.

Do you really? What exactly is so permanent and who holds all the copies?
That's literally the reason I subscribe to a newspaper in my country. Even though I hardly read an article they write, I want to make sure they still exists the day someone need to break out a watergate-like story.
This is blogspam of Musk’s email from the original source: https://electrek.co/2018/04/17/tesla-model-3-production-goal...
I guess the reason that this is possible in a field like journalism is because it's no theory-light in comparison to a theory-heavy discipline like CS. The extreme of theory-lightness would be something like swimming where Michael Phelps can break a world record at 15.
The problem is that most newspaper are mostly total crap and a good article once in a while.

There would need to be some sort of model where you pay regularly to keep a whole team of people employed.
In the sense of introducing far far more ambiguity and making the law incomprehensible, yes.
Maybe it's a good metric for hospitals. There are other pressures discouraging hospitals from rejecting patients altogether, or such is my impression, anyway.
Wind is random, the hydroelectric generator could act as battery, drawing current to compensate the lack of wind.
No, it's not clear at all, and wasn't clear to virtually anyone who agreed to it.
It's not really that similar -- Amazon and similar sites have an audience that is mostly not interested in religious books.

BGG has an audience that is mostly interested in board games.
CEO is often an 80 hour per week job during critical phases. Acting as CEO of two companies in only 80 hours per week is pretty impressive.
I feel like you have cause and effect backwards. Being in the meeting is not what gives you social credit, having social credit is what causes people to want to keep you in the meetings. There are generally three main types of problems: social, political, and technical. Once you're known as a person who solves those three, you won't be able to escape the meetings.
12% of Brits now follow a meat-free diet
Interestingly it is very difficult to figure out what the story she reported on is about given all the hoopla around a Latina winning the Pulitzer.
I think he was speaking more from the Individual Contributor level here.
Flamethrowers should do it: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/boring-company-flame-throw...
Thanks for sharing, powerful stuff. Reminded me of the film "Waking Life" a little.
Yes, antimatter has mass just like normal matter and therefore can contribute to a black hole like normal matter does.
> Does the helper who whipes Einstein’s blackboard during the break deserve partial credit for what he put on it?

If the helper knows what to wipe off and what to leave up for when Einstein comes back, then I'd say yes. That's a more fitting analogy in this case.
I'm no fan of Coinbase so don't mistaken me for a shill but I've also heard of countless cases of the opposite case (e.g. order gets declined and the coin drops drastically post order, resulting in a "gain" for the person whose order got declined).

It seems reasonable that these are genuine mistakes. It seems ludicrous for Coinbase to implement order cancellation so that they can do some risk-free hedging when something like that is ripe for some serious whistleblowing.
Yes. But it wouldn't be an "anti black hole" or an "antimatter black hole", just a "black hole" like any other.

But as far as we know there are no "anti stars" out there that could collapse and form a black hole. We haven't observed any at least (don't ask me how we could tell an antimatter star from a regular one - but we could tell if one met a regular one).
I've done it a few times w/ geolocation data. Makes it easier to see changes in developing countries but other things are much harder to see. A mix of visualizations is probably the best approach depending on the target audience/ use case:

2014: https://imgur.com/aQUHzgu

2016: https://imgur.com/p43QH6v
There's a cult of "vortex power" enthusiasts. It's as much bunk as TimeCube, but less obviously disordered.
The shitty US health/dental insurance system make it hard, but I still would be surprised if most people don't have a choice of more then one doctor...