skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps poverty, access to healthcare, or education is a bigger factor? Do you have evidence race is the "real problem"?

In Washington state, the counties with the worst mortality are 95% white, with 5% native (Grays Harbor and Okanagan)

(poverty, education, race are of course very correlated)
They could be legally obliged not to link to certain pages, depending on your geography.

They also could have harder time linking to news sources.

They may have some advantages by not being bound by US legislation, though, but I can't easily name any such advantage.
I’ve gotten to the point where I accept it as my bosses loss that I’m unable to work as effectively as I otherwise could, if I’m in a situation like that and can’t get out and I’m clear with them about it. If they give me flak for being unproductive in an unproductive environment then I leave, as I count that as a hostile environment (in the same vein as not being given the tools or information I need to do my work). Luckily for me, I’ve had reasonable bosses in my last few jobs and have had the option to work from home (although time in the office has still been in an open plan space).
One thought is that we can value a wide range of social and environmental qualities using quantitative monetary models. It's imperfect, but our system doesn't even go as far as explicitly attempting to do that on a systematic basis.

There are a lot of people doing work in this area under all sorts of different terms, but trying to tie in those missing qualities. Terms that might yield interesting reading are: loop economy, circular economy, doughnut economics, sustainable economics (though that seems to be slowly fading as a term..)

https://evonomics.com/ is not a bad place to read to at least start getting some introductions to some of the people trying to push a rebuilding of our basic economic suppositions.
I agree with you but this I am not sure it is the right example. In this case, the position of the zergs would be indirectly a component. You would have arrays of struct Zergs, each would only have a ref (or an index) to an arrays of positions. this array would be updated efficiently.
> Either you choose a somewhat open platform, or you choose privacy. One would have thought/hoped that they were tightly coupled.

I think this comes down to two things:

If we define "polish" as: consistency+predictable UX+aesthetics

1. openness involves interoperability, and polish is more expensive to achieve when interoperability is a requirement

2. the primary market for polish tends to value exclusivity, which—while not entirely contradictory to openness—tends towards non-openness

The combination of these two means that when you focus on polish you end up with a product line that is likely to be non-open.

The fact that the primary market for polish also tends to be economically comfortable also conveniently leads to margins that allow for privacy, but I think this is just a happy accident.

It's my belief that if we want a private + open platform we need to:

- Accept very large sacrifices* in polish because doing both is only economically viable when catering to a market that doesn't want/need openness

- Choose a different economic model where resources are available to do both simultaneously.

* Also worth noting that sacrificing quality and/or UX can lead to less privacy given that privacy depends on security and security depends on both quality, and also on UX to prevent social attacks.
Think it’s still wrong in the table?
If you like 80% of your chosen career and wish to improve 20%, does it not make sense to speak out about the 20%?

Else, how would we ever improve working conditions anywhere? I don't think that is going to happen externally.
We live in the suburbs. Our kids play with other kids at the local park all the time. But you're insane if you can't see the huge advantage to being able to just let the kids out into the backyard.
There's a lot of security research going on. Stuff like that can and is found without source code access. And the fewer number of iPhone models benefits Apple here, simply because there's less to cover (compared to the number of Android devices).
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by
Marshall Goldsmith

I wish I had read that in my late 20's instead of in my mid-30s. If you are a successful technical person who has been or wants to be promoted to a supervisory or management position, it's a must read.
Ghost 2.0 uses Mobiledoc format now. But you could get Markdown + Images out of this with a little hacking and passing the output to https://github.com/yuloh/mobiledoc-markdown-renderer
THIS.

I don't know if there is a name for this kind of user-hostile behavior, but I wish more people paid attention to it.
My example is a bit contrived, but it's a well-studied phenomenon that natural disasters tend to cause a net boost to GDP because of all the extra work needed to repair/rebuild/replace stuff.

We can write this kind of thing off as a statistical quirk, but if we actually attempt to increase GDP via policy changes, then there are definitely some perverse incentives that arise.
Didn't the license prevent forks?
Are there any examples of economic metrics that factor in the cost of environmental externalities?

For example, what is the economic value of our coasts and how do you account for their destruction, by sea level rise, when calculating the cost of manufacturing and the value of any resulting economic activity.
I can't tell from a quick perusal: does it do its own crawling and manage its own index? Or is it more like DDG, just using Bing, Yandex, etc?
"don't use cookies"

if you go in local storage there's a suspicious h_user with a numeric id

sure it's not technically a cookie, but still..
I could never read a book while walking, at the very most I'll listen to music, but I also wouldn't do that while biking.

Personal limits of multitasking, I guess :-)
Coincidentally, some of those same people who would say they don't primarily consider degrees will outright ask about education background when talking to a candidate.

The conversation will go generally positive. A month later of no contact/ghosting, and a form letter rejection pops out, with either the position being closed or "Unfortunately, we have decided to pursue other candidates whose background appears to match our needs more closely."

And that will be that.
Maybe onto something here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-bhutan-gross-national-happin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/asia/bhutan-gross-n...
They are the people who own the country. They are the people who are invited to the Bilderberg meetings. They are those who fund think tanks. They are the people whose kids are guaranteed a seat in an Ivy league school, regardless of merit. They are also VERY unlikely to face jail time when they are accused of a crime; which is rare.

No, they are not a single entity. No they aren't perfectly coordinated. No, they aren't a single group conspiring in a smokey room.

But they are a social group. They go to the same schools, live in the same ZIP codes and vacation in similar places. They marry overwhelming among themselves. There are a few thousand families in the US with that level of power. New families reach these power levels and other families fall off, it isn't a fixed thing.

But you'll know who they are because you and I aren't invited to their clubs.
I know with Android that companies like Verizon install a "super cookie" that cannot be removed without rooting the device. Does anyone know if this is the case with iOS as well?
Or fucked because you were born to poor uneducated parents in the right spot...
There’s an increasing social pressure since the 1980s to supervise children at all times because of “stranger danger”. Parents have had the cops called on them for letting their kids play in the yard.

Nothing structural has changed about letting kids roam, but the social side has.
You only do it once. Then you do everything to this tool that it, too, will need; adjust as necessary. When you do your own config, you know what's going on and how to fix and adjust. And it's one less tool you need to learn and maintain.
Firefox Focus with GeckoView
the entire concept of "economic externalities" is like a horrible hackish patch that reveals how broken the system being patched really is

even the very name economists gave it is a huge red flag that reveals how little of a shit they themselves give about stuff like pollution; "externality". may as well call it "that side bullshit you may give a shit about if you're soft"
Would be nice if a teacher's family gets free education.
This article points out that there is a large portion of the labor force who has given up looking for work. This may be anecdotal, but I can't think of a single person that I know that is unemployed and not looking for a job/further education/caregiving. I know people who are underemployed or are the proverbial life long student. Am I just in my own little bubble? What do these people do with their days?
A Harvard Study Finds a Better Way to Design Bike Lanes
This could be useful to make building search engines simpler.

But the hard problem in a search engine is not crawling and indexing, it's ranking and filtering.
(GDP growth) - (population growth) is what results in individual quality of life improvements. A 1% population growth rate makes a huge difference to that 2% growth number.

US was under 2/3 the population in 1970 on top of that stuff like cellphones, cars, etc really have significantly improved. But that stuff generally uses less power to do the same things.
For selling the book, or for the book itself?
Inequality started to get bad around 1980 or so.

That's when my generation ("boomers", we're called, or maybe the "worst generation" to compare us to the WWII "greatest generation") decided that taxation was theft and younger people should suck it up and pay through the nose for their own college and housing.

We've been successful. We've grabbed all the cookies. Some of those cookies could have gone for education, for infrastructure, and other things. Some of them could have gone into urban development to make sure the growing population had decent living quarters. Some of them could have gone into paying for sensible oversight of pharma, finance, and other vital business.

But no. Those cookies are mine, MINE I tell you! And you can't have any. And by the way, no new apartment buildings in MY neighborhood. We're too special to have any riffraff who can't afford to pay most of a megabuck for a place to live.

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I'd assume that in most cases where this comes up, you're not exactly in a position to not use those strings, e.g. because they're defined in an input format you're processing.
Unfortunately this is probably due to your steam handle's text's primary usage online is some sort of pornography. DDG is giving you the actual results, whereas Google has instead figured out that you ARE the steam handle and therefore tailors the results to you.

What you should be concerned about is that other people searching that handle, even in Google (with the nanny settings off), might be getting porn.

I haven't switched off Google yet for a variety of reasons, but I occasionally use DDG to have a better idea of what the "real" search results are for a term.
Proper biking infrastructure would reduce this risk in all weather.
Also you don't need special tires. As the name implies, all-weather tires work just fine. And I can make it through quite a lot more snow in my car than on my bike (the converse is that it's a lot easier to unstick a bike than a car!). Also the risk of commuting in the winter is a lot greater for cyclists than motorists (i.e., if a car loses control and hits you).
I got that, I think it's important to support competitors in this space even if they don't have an edge (yet?). At the very least they get some feedback and data to improve their core. Maybe one of them will find new revenue models that aren't prone to abuse or corruption. Honestly I think Google only got worse in the last few years for me, e.g. certain search operators getting ignored or not working as they used to, image search completely broken and screwed by pinterest & co. I'm now forced to use several search engines to limit the context I used to get for free.
Gas pipes don’t have very large diameters. That being said, they could be used to route fibre optic cables through without digging.
Just do yourself a favor and think long and hard about whether or not that's going to sustain you for the remainder of your 70-80 years on this planet.
Are you referring to "A Modern Method for Guitar" by William Leavitt volumes 1-3?
No matter how you slice the numbers (SF, Oakland, San Jose, all of them combined, etc), the homelessness numbers for the bay area are terrible and way beyond London.
Qwant is based in France, so I suspect the issue is their servers' location. For me it loads just as fast as Google & DDG.

I have a old schoolmate working there who's always been genuinely interested in protecting other people's privacy. To me that tagline is just sleazy marketing.
Windows isn't a mobile platform. They tried 2.5 times and have given up. In mobile it's iOS and Android, and neither Apple nor Google recognize C# as a first-class language. If you can write a compiler that emits code that LLVM can compile to ARM binary with Xcode or package your MSIL with a micro .NET VM on Android, then more power to you but Apple and Google aren't going to help you if you get stuck.
How far do you take this, though? If you call 'w.Header().Add("Set-Cooike", "my=cookie")' you're not going to get your cookie either. Header.Add could check the key and say "hey, that's not in the HTTP standard, did you mean Set-Cookie?" but that would be annoying when you want to extend the standard. But OK, you can only extend the standard by prefixing the header with X-, so allow that. But what if you want to set X-Frame-Options and misspell it as "X-Farme-Options"? That one is kind of standard, though, so I guess that could be checked. But what if you want to set options on a Farme?

The point is, there is only so much validation of free-form text you can do. Ultimately your tests need to ensure that the headers you set do the right thing. And in the case of cookies, you are adding no appreciable overhead to automated tests by using httptest.Server and an actual client that understands cookies, so you'll find the bug pretty easily.

I agree that it would be nice to validate the cookie object and get some error message instead of an empty string. But it's not an error that you are ever going to take action on at runtime. Nobody writes:

cookie := GenerateInvalidCookie()
if _, err := cookie.Serialize(); err != nil {
log.Printf("ok, I guess we'll use a valid cookie")
cookie = GenerateValidCookie()
if _, err = cookie.Serialize(); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("you can't say I didn't try")
}
}
w.SetCookie(cookie)

So at some point, you have to ask what you're going to do about it. In the end, whether or not a cookie is valid depends on the user agent that is receiving the cookie. Test it against that.
Definitely agree with the premise here. GDP is up, employment is up, stock market is up. But inequality is growing by day, market consolidation is becoming more and more of a problem, and most Americans are not invested in the stock market, let alone have an extra 1,000 to open up a mutual fund.

Our economic statistics are way too broad and just don't account for the inequality in today's economy.
Dunno, if you have a life outside work, the remote work is absolutely amazing. If you are glued 12-16h to a computer, then it is likely horrible. By remote work you already saved 1-4h of commuting, you don't have to be in an office with people you don't like, you can work in comfortable clothes, can take packages you ordered right at home instead of picking them up from post office, you can be productive even when your office is going through virus epidemics etc. Often you can set cool working hours like 6am-2pm and do whatever you like afterwards... If your income is sufficient, you can even travel the world, working one month from one cool place, the next month from another one, and surprisingly getting a huge productivity boost just from changing the scenery (if your job is in any way creative).
Actually, IIRC from my history classes, guns were called the 'great equalizer' because all of a sudden a child could kill a full grown swordsmen with the same easy as a highly trained warrior.
Nvidia details internal AI training infrastructure for autonomous vehicles
My sons all had trouble finding jobs at 16. Fewer workplaces will hire at that age. Even fast food and other basic labor hires fewer teens these days.
This tool looks amazing and I will certainly be using it!

One request would be to allow custom tunings. All of the tunings I use are not listed, and transposing as I go makes it a little harder to use.
Fossilised sabre-toothed tiger prints found in Argentina
There is a lot of research into this, especially among the Europeans. Broadly this falls under "standard of living vs. quality of life".

GDP only measures standard of living. Various economists have proposed scales that are more weighted towards quality of life.

The problem is when money is your only hammer, the only nails are things that can be measured in money.

Impact investors are also starting to look into "ESG investing" -- making their investments not on profits alone, but incorporating standardized Environmental, Social, and Governance metrics as well.
My Pixel that crashes randomly whenever I'm below 15% battery makes me wish that Google would have made the same choice (I'm certainly making some assumptions).
Ask HN: Anonymous Peer support programs for employees facing mental health
Would you be okay to talk to other people facing mental health struggles in your company considering anonymity and confidential? OR people working in the same position within a different company(example google sw engineer connecting with fb sw engineer?)
I think that is not always true and stepping back could be a benefit sometimes. There were moments when I had to get back to my code and I realized that it could be done in a better/more simple way. Distractions force me to write code in a way such that I can switch back to it very easily.

But a twist is that I really hate it when I am being distracted. :)
Its an anecdotal article, the author doesn't have to apply their experiences to all domains.

For a broader/scientific article on open space related distractions https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/18/open-offi...
Well, what does multiplying two values of currency mean at all?
Phew, I was worried they were somehow killing http://www.fabfile.org/.
>Discouraged workers are a subset of persons marginally attached to the labor force. The marginally attached are those persons not in the labor force who want and are available for work, and who have looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months, but were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. Among the marginally attached, discouraged workers were not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs were available for them or there were none for which they would qualify.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#discouraged
It's just a different notation same as 1234 is shorthand for

1*10^4 + 2*10^3 + ...
I had a similar experience. I had serious gut issues and Kaiser poked my belly, then said "It's a virus. It will clear up". Even after I told them this had been going on for a month. I had to research this myself and it took me almost a month to gain expertise on the gut.
Some people can't drive due to medical conditions or because they're too young or too old. Should we stop building roads?
Mostly marketing/copywriting types and designers. Some programmers, although that seems to be rarer - could have something to do with what personalities are drawn to these professions.
Japanese dekotora trucks will never be the same – Isuzu putting AI into trucks
And you can use await in the context of an outer async function, which is a huge advantage in reducing code complexity.
Exploring the First Microprocessor Video Games
That's why it's great if these thugs come with an [ON|OFF] switch. Let everyone decide what they use but start with secure as default.
The problem we're seeing in the US West is that wood has an increasing tendency to burn up. For this to work at least where I live we need to reforest using species that grow fast and are also relatively fire-resistant.

It seems people have been thinking of the fire-resistant part for a while: http://blog.davey.com/2017/08/fireproof-landscapes-with-fire....
FWIW, what works for you as a childless person is not super relevant to what works, in general. In the long term, earth will be filled mostly with people who have children.
Ah, yes. I’m away and just using my phone at the moment making it tricky to read. Fixed now. Thanks again!
For one thing, it makes the title a bit deceptive. If the variance in lifespan is actually caused by something other than location, then where you live doesn’t actually affect your lifespan.
I hear you. I am frustrated with distractions more than the next person. I am the person who has received on performance reviews, on multiple occasions, this exact phrase on more than one occasion: "becomes noticeably upset when distracted"

I don't know if this is necessarily "dealing with it" root cause wise, but the stoic approach is what is helping me. I cant' change other people. I can't make other people have consideration for my me or others. I can only control what I can control: how I react, and what I can do to limit the distractions and noise.

Most of that building frustration comes usually comes from myself telling myself things with the word "should" in it, like "it shouldn't be so hard to focus at work", "they should know that distracting an engineer is basically like lighting money on fire", "they should be more considerate", or "I shouldn't have to wear earplugs and headphones to be able to concentrate" etc etc. I dropped all the "shoulds" and just focus on what I can do.

It's not a solution, but it's helping me at least get a little more work done.

I find quotes of the stoics of old especially helpful, especially Marcus Aurelius,

"Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been." -- in my case "choose not to be distracted, and you won't be"
I get what you’re saying but just from a legal and complexity point of view, you’re unlikely to find radical change in suburbia.

It’s just like the issues with rail — because you have so many landowners, the capital costs of transforming a single family block or subdivision to higher density is really expensive or requires eminent domain, which would be politically difficult.

You can have scenarios (especially now that it’s ok to walk away from mortgages) where prices drop. Single family isn’t going away.
> Swift

How you think is possible to use swift on android? The only almost decent way is https://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/default.aspx and is not enough:

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/8zb9y1/state_of_swif...
Also, drivers aren’t even paying their way for roads. The percentage of roads paid for by gas taxes is at 50% and falling. Those of us who commute sans car are chipping in thousands of dollars per year to subsidize road commuters.