skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And so it's turtles, all the way down?

I think a good education is more about the student than the university. The reason for the strong correlation to the contrary is because good universities get to hand pick from those overachievers whom would achieve with or without said university. And that character development happens long before one's applying to universities.

That said a top university, its resources, and atmosphere of being surrounded by other top students, certainly helps foster even more success - but I expect if you take the average merit admitted MIT student and transplanted them into Party State U after 4 years you'd still find an extremely 'well educated' individual. By contrast, transplant your average Party State U student into MIT and you'd find a dropout.
> Still though (and correct me if I'm wrong), but if you get sick tomorrow with some ailment for which treatment is complex (and therefore expensive) AND you don't have insurance - your options are to find the money or go bankrupt? That's nuts in 2018 in a wealthy democracy.

Treating complex conditions (like cancer) is exactly where the US excels, compared to other countries. Yes, it's expensive, but the alternative is, well, dying.

Since the grandparent mentioned the UK specifically, I'll point out that the US has dramatically higher survival rates for treatable forms of cancer than the UK does. For prostate cancer - generally one of the most treatable forms of cancer, if treated properly - people in the US have over a 90% chance of survival[0]. The UK, on the other hand, has absolutely abysmal surival rates - second-worst of all OECD countries, and a mortality-to-incidence ratio that's almost twice what you see in the US.

Yes, the US could do a better job at making that top-of-the-line care accessible to more people, but even then, the baseline care for complex treatments specifically is actually much higher than what the UK provides.

[0] That's over the entire population, so it's including people who are uninsured and can't afford the most expensive treatments.
In SF, I see people double parking everywhere, Uber or not - and I mean _parked_, not idling. My kid's school literally spent 20 minutes last parents night begging people not to do that in front of the school (and it's _still_ a problem).

Going westbound on Golden Gate st around Fillmore is one of the weirdest thing I've ever seen. You can see entire lines of double parked cars with no drivers inside (sometimes on both sides of the road!)

Then you also have the way-too-small MUNI bus stops where the bus has to double park (e.g. along Fulton), the delivery vans and the random dudes waiting for a parking spot to hopefully free up somewhere in the block.

Even without considering Ubers, driving in SF is already a shitshow...
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100% agree. In NYC the serious congestion pricing proposals that I'm aware of have a big part of the revenue going to subway/transit improvements.
>...make healthcare and education free-or-nearly-so...

Free for who?
I think this is also why tablet sales have slowed down in recent years -- once you get to about 2013/2014, the benefits gained from buying a new tablet basically leveled off for most users, when the average use case is email, web browsing, watching video, and maybe some light gaming. The same thing happened with cheap laptops in the early 2010s.
Additionally: Due to this, Rust will encourage you to gravitate towards pattern like immutable collections, or other 'functional-esque' coding styles. As a result, you usually end up writing code that's far more inherently reliable at runtime than something like a mutable doubly linked list. Just learning to code in 'idiomatic Rust' has made me a better coder overall, IMO, as has learning to write in pure functional languages.

I think most people definitely underestimate the amount of caution / design care required to implement even something as simple as a linked list with zero bugs, memory leaks, potential infinite loops in member functions, etc.

The Rust compiler prevents entire classes of bugs at compile time, and just requires that you to write an 'unsafe' block if you really want to go ahead with this sort of code without the compiler complaining. This emphasizes that you really do have to be careful and think through the logic and memory ownership semantics of the code you just wrote. People used to GC'ed languages will find this annoying to have to worry about at all, but that is inherently the price you must pay to eliminate GC pauses/overhead.

I'm not saying you should never use data structures that Rust makes hard to write, but that going into Rust thinking it's just going to be 're-skinned C++', or 'as easy as a GC language' is going to be a recipe for disappointment. If you allow yourself to learn a new way of thinking about low/systems-level coding, you may be pleasantly surprised. But if you're too "set in your ways" (whether it be of C/C++ or JS/Python/etc.), you're not going to see Rust's benefits.

Rust is a deeply different language than C/C++. I think people forget this, primarily because Rust is so powerful and efficient (with no inherent language overhead, allowing it to be used even in embedded environments and other systems programming tasks).
If they decide to go through with the change, I hope different languages and program agree on the new term.

I personally believe that lack of clarity is the only reason these kinds of changes should be made.

I assumed that master/slave terminology came from the idea of copying from a master record vinyl, am I missing something?

I just wonder if this will set a precedent of controversy about the most innocuous things, just to make sure it's politically correct.
To make matters worse, Google Image Search removed the feature that let you follow a link directly to the image itself.
because the idea is inherently revolting
Yeah but what if I want, at some later date, to prove that I am indeed the original author of the said text instead of an imposter ?
Worst case for social security is that no funding changes are made and payouts stabilize to around 70% of what was promised. Very bad for a lot of people but far from the disaster that is many state's pension systems.

Medicare on the other hand...
This is the sort of really impressively shallow and baseless analysis that makes Hacker News so enjoyable to read.

These two blog posts have really nothing to do with one another, are describing unrelated problems with unrelated things, sharing only the fact that they both have to do with the Rust language and both describe something as difficult (but meaning pretty different things by the word) and you draw a conclusion that "Rust is not a language to 'get things done.'"

I don't know how to prove that Rust is "a language to 'get things done'" - this seems like an almost meaningless qualifier - but many people (including me) are getting things done using Rust every day.
> My thinking is, if you are smart enough to master Rust, and you do need tight control of memory that GC overhead is not worth it, you are probably smart enough to write safer C++.

Easy for you to say as a C++ developer! As someone who came to Rust as a JavaScript/PHP/Python developer, I greatly appreciate Rust checking all my work. I'm plenty smart enough to work out the problems that the compiler picks up (once I have an error message I can google for explanations and solutions), I just don't/didn't have the experience to know that my naive code was going to cause problems.
Are you referencing to the "we're better than you?" - then I have to disagree, strongly. Most people I meet can differentiate between personal preference and objective superiority. None of the people I know well enough to say would argue that the country they live in is "the best" or "number one". They like it there, but have their eyes open enough to see that other nations solve some problems better,and that there is no absolute "best country".
Yeah, but when I think "supersonic jet", I think of the extremely vivid image of a the flaming Concorde crash[1] - it was the cover of every major paper. I think lots of people who remember that era still do, and it'll make me extremely unlikely to ever step into a Boom (the name doesn't help either), even though I do want them to succeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590#/media/...
> For example in a market where nobody is willing (or able) to buy your home, your net worth can be ... well, worthless

No, because if it's true that nobody is willing to buy your home, your home isn't worth the $300,000 you're claiming it is.

There's no single metric that works for all situations, but net worth is the best way to compare financial health between people and across a population in a meaningful way.
Is it legal for a doctor to refuse treatments that may cost you your life? I understand that an insurance company may refuse to insure you due to preexisting conditions (or at least they were able to at some point), but I think insurance is different from showing up at a hospital in the midst of a life or death situation.
Who incidentally usually pay taxes because they also own cars.
But not on customer networks. So what's the problem? Crappy wireless networks are not worth it. Mobile works, corporate can configure it.

I think this has gone full circle now...
I assume you intend "mean" instead of "average".

Mean, median, and mode are all averages and a lot of statistics actually refer to median when they say "average".
> car races, bike races, but also human races

That's what using a human language does to you. Other species do not have such issues, as they do not muck up their thought process with words.
As others mention here, I would say we shouldn't overdo the praise.

I can't really comment on the financial/entrepeneur side of Pinterest, but on the user side:

* It's a walled garden, closed source, force signup, the UX is bad even if aren't a user (dominating Google Image Search taking you too pictures you can't click), it has lot's of dark patterns

* It heavily suggests signing up with Facebook or Google, making all the critic on privacy of those platforms also theirs

* It has all the features for the mob-mentality, abuse and so on (Like system, sharing, popularity based rankings)

There aren't as many of these problems visible because of the content(no sensitive fotos, banking information or much politics) but that's not because of their great buiseness model but the theme of the platform...
But he can retire. He owns a house. Nothing poofed away. He owns it, and is not getting evicted. He can continue to live in that same house that he has lived in for 20 years.
@justin - congrats! How do the fees compare vs a traditional law firm? I love the price-predictability part, but can you shed a bit more light?
Proud of you buddy. Now time to get back to work.
I think a lot of younger folks want to turn it into a 4+ year fun/party camp with minimal training and lots of networking.
Yes we will survive the next crisis but we will have to switch to a green crypto based currency. The Zero interest rate policy has made for ownership accounting errors. We will also need to consume less and make use of more recycled goods.

There is a leverage issue where young people are in debt, has less house ownership compared to older people who own lots of the assets houses, stocks and derivatives.
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Sum...
https://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/170808150752-char...

There is an accounting error in the current market system of tragedy of the commons where pollutions of common assets the polluter does not pay.
How I got my first 10 customers for my side-project and what I’ve learned
> Baggage isn't. Leg-room isn't. Food isn't.

Which, interestingly enough, is at least in part an API problem.

Was at a talk by some people from IATA and ThoughtWorks a while back, and apparently the standard ticketing APIs that at least all the third party booking agencies use simply don't have room for innovative features.

So for example, I think it was Air New Zealand that had a product where you could buy the middle seat to keep it empty. But that wasn't something that could be represented in the APIs, so you could only book it on their own website.
> But inflation also implies economic growth

Inflation does not imply growth in real GDP, no.

> which generally raises the value of equity holdings. The impact of inflation is dependent upon asset allocation.

Ceteris paribus, inflation hurts debtholders (who, incidentally, tend to be wealthy), and it helps debtors (who, incidentally, tend to be poorer).
agree, but Justin is already credible enough, no?
For me that's going to depend greatly on how cheap it was. I just flew WowAir to Europe for a ridiculously low price and thought for the price I got the trip was straight up luxurious.
I think the point was to discourage it.
You wouldn't be charged, but you'd suffer consequences. You'd peobablt miss your flight because your opinion is considered dangerous and needs to be investigated, and maybe you even end up on one of many no-fly lists.
It is decidedly not a language to get things done. I say this as someone who put himself in the unfortunate position of challenging BurntSushi (author of ripgrep) to a coding duel, bragging that I could get LuaJIT to match his XSV performance (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv)

It took hours to figure out how to implement this in rust: https://github.com/sctb/lumen/blob/master/bin/lumen

If you want to see an "expert" programmer's attempt at making sense of the language, here you go: https://gist.github.com/shawwn/4d7a89188cac72f3e591f47c84d3c...

Now that it's done though, I see why people fall in love with Rust. It's really satisfying seeing Lumen's startup time drop from 200ms to 100ms.

But yes, like -- dude, at one point I just wanted to write a for loop like this, to grab some environment vars:

let mut lumen_host = "luajit";
let mut lua_path = "";
let mut node_path = "";

for (name, value) in env::vars() {
if name == "LUMEN_HOST" {
lumen_host = &value;
} else if name == "LUA_PATH" {
lua_path = &value;
} else if name == "NODE_PATH" {
node_path = &value;
}
}
println!("{} {} {} {}", bin, lumen_host, lua_path, node_path);

Good luck with that! I'm sure there's a way to coax Rust into please-allow-me-to-just-compile-this, but the borrow checker is a cruel taskmaster. Whatever the syntax is, that's not it, and spending literally an hour trying to figure out how to store an environment variable into a separate variable doesn't feel very productive.

That said, Cargo is amazing. It's truly a wonderful, delightful piece of software. Cargo crates plus a dynamic language seems like a recipe for success.
Because nobody in the west has figured out a good way of preparing them yet.

Lobster (essentially a giant cockroach that lives in the water) was once considered revolting too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster#As_food

It's because nobody had figured out how to prepare it yet.
Should you play to your comparative advantage when choosing your career?
This is messed up right here.
Not at all! I currently work for a 150 person company that installs solar panels.

There are 5 of us here who work as inside reps. The company buys lists of leads or generates its own, and we make about 100 calls per day basically just asking to sit down and present them a quote.

The electricty rates are so high here in NY that it often is cheaper to convert the whole house to financed solar panels than it is to use grid electricity.

I used to work tech sales that were b2b and more complex. The pay was bad and the culture was torture.

In this job, though I took a pay cut, I actually feel like I belong here and the customers are generally more receptive of my phone calls.

I make $36,000 base salary, with $50 per appointment set I make nearly $50,000 a year working 36 hours 11am to 7pm. Casual dress code, health benefits, beer and food, etc.
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Thou shalt not kill!

I hope that Python community will show some respect to the religious programmers and follows by removing all statements regarding the use of the word "kill" as well /s
>> And the proper way to argue with such a person is to write the fourth-power rule on a large sheet of paper, roll it up into a small, tight cone, and stab them in the eye with it.

What a nice reasonable start to a discussion.

>> Road wear is proportional to axle weight to the fourth power. Gas tax is proportional to total weight to the first power.

Great, I didnt argue for a gas tax. You are arguing about road capacity which my original point about 49%-61% more rides out there is in line with. and which is what the much-maligned medallion system aimed to work on (it has its own issues but thats due to not raising the limit with population/demand vs the idea being wrong).
I don't want to ride public transport as a man either. I don't need someone who is mentally ill babble at me.
This is how American left loses elections.

I was really thinking that your crazies on the right simply make up that "intellectual left that looks down on them", but boyyy, HN discussions have convinced me that the US left is quite rotten too (I assume people here are actually friendlier and more likely to try to convince the other side than general population).

It's a shame, this stupid polarization.
Most of the issues described in the article on closures are identical to C++, or have direct C++ equivalents (it even helpfully points them out!).
As far as legroom is concerned, Frontier makes it a feature you can decide on. But, you probably don't want to fly Frontier; they're not very good.
Zoom has to have focus which rules out using PTT while presenting or multitasking while meeting.
> It's only "less" if your wages also inflate. But your food and housing prices increase on the leading edge of inflation, and wages lag. And often they never catch up.

Except that's not true. If you're a debtor, the effects of inflation decreasing your debt in real dollars is orders of magnitude more consequential than the increase in your expenses, and that's even assuming your wages don't increase (which is generally not true either).
I understand that a paper may be published by error. But just removing it without explaining the move to the readers is a shameful lack of respect towards them. If I was on the editorial board of this journal I would resign immediately.

It doesn't matter how silly the paper is, the problem is that they are treating their readers as idiots.
We joke a lot about that after I was hired as a middle aged coder...

during interview

Boss: "so do you think you can fit in this culture?"

Me: "You mean, do I wear skinny jeans and drink kale smoothies? Probably not, but if you want your work done, does culture fit matter when you have a mile long back log?"

Boss: "good point, so... How does your schedule look for next week?"

it was all history from there.
I don't think anarchists have really thought through their position or have noticed particular ironies within it.

At its core, it's basically everyone doing themselves. I do my thing, you do your thing, it's all good. Until the thing I want to do interferes with your thing. And yes, we could come to some agreement. But there is going to be a certain segment of asshole that will just decide: Me strong, you weak, and just override you.

And that's what you really get, a rule of the weak by the strong. Unless, of course, we gather enough of us to overwhelm the asshole. But what if, in our group, we have conflicts? Well, we have some rules. Yeah, not everyone will get exactly what they want all the time, but a tiny bit of compromise is still better than having the asshole take your stuff for the fifth time this week.

But that's a winning strategy. And don't think the assholes won't notice. Then they get groups. So the groups escalate further and further. And as you bring in more and more people, there are more and more rules. Eventually, what you will have done is simply to have recreated modern governmental structures. We are living in the endgame of anarchy.

So, I don't think it's so much that "people like to be ruled", as much as "people would rather there be a set of standards people are expected to follow". Someone needs to enforce the social contract.

I don't think anarchism is evil, just naive.
Master slave comes from slavery. Generally the master doles out work for the slaves to do.

Specifically, even if the phrase is based on an earlier technology, what is that technology's terminology based on? There is no other answer but actually slavery at the end.
Intel. Microsoft. Apple. The PC Manufacturers.

The sustainable, profitable tech industry existed then, it just wasn't Internet-related (mostly).

We all have the "optical illusion" that things started once we were around to perceive them. They usually go further back than that.
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If they are organized they are not Anarchists, right? That's the point.
Curious: how do you get around prohibition for non-lawyers to own law firms ?

https://biglawbusiness.com/the-debate-over-non-lawyer-firm-o...
Because we don't want to. We don't we eat less meat? (not a vegan, just don't particular care for the "tons of meat every day" lifestyle that takes tons of resources).
It doesn't cause it to rise in price relative to others in the same index.
It’s really anything that doesn’t match the team’s (or individual interviewer’s) notion of what a good developer looks like. So it could be how you dress, how you talk, even if you are white and male and not over some age threshold.

And I suspect much of that is not conscious, which of course makes it difficult to talk about and address.
>Utopia is a state of unhindered, continual learning at your own chosen pace

Isn't that just your reformulation of the same sort of traditional definition of Utopia? You value relaxed/continual learning which in some way is missing your life, so therefore that is your Utopia. :)
From the article:

1- the European ice age eliminated almost all of the edible insects in the continent, meaning it's never been a good idea there
2- they live in and on rot and decay, and are otherwise unsanitary

We like meat from animals because it can be butchered without too much contamination. We dislike non-meaty textures- heck, I won't eat chicken feet not only because of the texture, but because what do you think chickens walk around all day in?

Sure, there's limited exceptions- pork cracklins and tripe, though most westerners also refuse to eat those as well.

The comparison to crustaceans is unfair, since most people don't eat the shells of lobsters or crabs, only the fleshy bits. Ultimately, barring some seafood and small game, we're conditioned to not eat the entire animal at once, only the parts that appeal to us. Meat on its own, guts and other soft bits in sausage, bones for broth. Eating insects invariably means that what you eat looks like what it is- an animal.

The article goes on to sing the praises of eating insects- good protein, environmentally friendly, cheap, so on and so forth. That sounds nice, but it doesn't change the appeal of eating an animal whole, or thinking about that same animal living its entire life among a pile of rotten food and poop.
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It's a language extension, not standard C.
I do not want to hide anything, my only reason to use notebooks is to put all the computations inside them.
I haven't read the article, but one reason may be the unappetizing portrail. The photographs in this article are bleak and chaotic, in sharp contrast to the colorful and organized way food is depicted nowadays.

Unrelated, I've encountered energy bars with an insect: Standard energy bars, but extra expensive and with minuscule amounts of insect. Selling cheap eco-friendly insects as an expensive "cool" gimmick is a cruel sort of irony.
No, I am saying that that same demand impacts everyone in the index equally. That's the point of an index fund.