skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "That water is like our atmosphere. That food coloring is like CO2. And that flashlight is like our sun."

What an idiot. If this is supposed to be a model for the greenhouse effect, it needs to end with "And that flashlight is like our earth." The water is also completely red already (blue light doesn't pass at all).

> It's not difficult to convincingly and simply explain the evidence for man-made climate change.

Try it. Please. Use all the food coloring you need, but try to get it right, at least approximately.

> The reason why climate scientists fail to convince TV viewers about climate change

is that they try to convince them of catastrophic climate change. You don't get that from simple models. The fish tank with food dye (more properly called radiation balance) gives you a fraction of a degree warming over the next century, which is by no means a disaster. If you want to turn it into a disaster, the fish tank model is insufficient, even if you aren't an illiterate chemistry teacher.
Yes, absolutely. It's a very mature and productive framework with a vibrant community built up around it. It integrates with webpack so you can have whatever frontend you like. There's plenty of work. Performance and scalability are big focuses for the future Ruby and Rails, respectively, which covers most people's gripes.

It never hurts to know a few tools, but at the end of the day if you need to crank out a webserver Rails is top notch.
To purchase the ticket you agree to the contract of carriage, which explicitly disallows hidden-city ticketing in section 6, subsection J, paragraph 1. See here:
https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/contract-of-carriage.ht...

So when you agree to use the ticket to travel all the way to the final destination, I think that qualifies as a "representation... of intent to use every portion of the good".
It's for the late Paul Allen RIP.
Should've known, sorry all.
At the same time, sometimes the informed are wrong because of fundamentally flawed assumptions. Most of science at one point thought the world was flat. More recently, the mainstream experts have been wrong on:

- the superiority of American mass motorization

- the environment

- the drug epidemic

- the economic sustainability of a housing-investment-centered economy

So on and so forth. Democracy is great because it allows some level of correction if elites are horribly misguided, even if it can be too late. But you don't see misguided policies rapidly killing millions of domestic innocents because of a lack of feedback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign And we certainly have not come up with workable alternatives that work better.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has died.
> Why defend it?

Because "unwelcome sexual advances" is a spectrum from acceptable to unacceptable.

The acceptable part of that spectrum is very small (being a guy awkwardly asks a girl for sex, she says no, and that is the end if it) and the unacceptable part is very large (fondling, using pressure from corporate power, etc).

However, despite the fact it is small, the acceptable part of that spectrum is important to protect because there are a lot of men who are not very socially adept, but want to have sexual relation with women and don't know many outside the workplace. They should be able to seek out relationships in their comfort zone without risk of formal censure. I assume there are a lot of women in a similar position.

In this particular instance "unwanted sexual overtures or sexual badgering" is probably more of the badgering end that we don't want, but the language here is important - there needs to be /some/ tolerance of unwanted sexual overtures that do not lead to badgering. Being awkward, being wrong and misunderstanding a situation isn't a punishable offense. Being persistent, using threats or getting physical is.

And so I'd like to see a little more clarity on what the low-end standard being used here is. It is important to the conversation. In a minor way.
Oh, come now. Someone might buy them first.
New H-1B Lawsuit: USCIS Lacks Authority to Limit Visa Duration
If you consider the difference between your two examples, the French man and the black man, I think you may see how one would be more put off than the other by the uncomfortable compliment. Specifically, within the United States (and other countries as well) the black man has been historically disenfrachised and therefore any comment/compliment that they do not belong there will not be well received.

The 'too xyz to be here' comment is typically made by people that aren't in a position to judge, possibly for a number of reasons.
> doctors do not want tools that are clunky

And yet every EMR system I've ever seen is comically bad. Why the medical providers haven't revolted over being forced to use those things is beyond me.
>How does buying something indicate your intent, wants, or wishes?

Because when you buy a united ticket you agree to a contract of carriage that specifically says you will use the ticket in its entirety.
I don’t use email because it’s a time suck for me. I spend most my time building things and the time I have left I want to spend with people I love, not answering emails. Most emails I’d get would be about people wanting something from me (like doing partnerships) but I’m not interested. I’m content with my current state working solo. My revenue is OK, users OK too, so why would I need to answer emails?
They mentioned a variety of apps, but w/o discussion of iOS 12 “Screen Time” (best if enabled for All Devices).

That data can be jarring enough to motivate habit change.
There's a large banner of him there now.
you can change the font, but when I tried that, the text still looked very different from the same font at the same text size in, e.g., Terminal.app.
That's silly. None of those things were in working (fighting) condition. You can be a war historian and think that private ownership of war implements is a bad idea.
The article was published 1 hour 46 minutes after the failed launch, not "less than an hour", and as reported the crew's survival was confirmed 20 minutes after the incident:

> After about 20 minutes of uncertainty, Russian officials confirmed the crew were OK, and had landed about 20km east of Dzhezkazgan, a city in central Kazakhstan. As rescue crews arrived, Hague and Ovchinin were reported in "good condition" and found out of the capsule.

This information was included in the first draft of the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20181011104529/https://arstechni...

The launch took place at 8:40 UTC. The article's timestamp indicates it was published at 10:26 UTC (3:26 AM PDT). That lines up with the cached copy above from 10:45 UTC, and a snapshot of Ars Technica's homepage at 10:05 UTC in which the Soyuz story had not yet appeared (with the next snapshot at 11:02 UTC showing the article, as expected): https://web.archive.org/web/20181011100529/https://arstechni...

The fact that the headline says the crew made an "emergency landing" and not a "crash" should have been a tip-off.
Because retail sucks & their core competencies have nothing to do with dealing with customers.
Whenever I see sad news like this, that a great person dies too early, it reminds me that life is too precious and I am lucky to have more time to do something meaningful. Take care of your body and do something that really matters. RIP
To be fair, for every egregious abuser there are usually quite a few people helping cover it up.
Wouldn't The College for Artificial Intelligence run itself?
...helped him 9 years ago. But cancer came back.
Similar thing happened to my father. He was flossing and his gums wouldn’t stop bleeding. Long story short he went to the hospital and was intubated due to breathing difficulties.

His cancer had been in remission, but unfortunately it evolved into a much more aggressive form of plasma cell leukemia. He passed away within that week.
The purpose of y-combinator is not to make tons of money, neither should that be the default purpose of a company. "Business ethics" is a thing.
The data is cross referenced with other cost of living and quality of life sites and rankings and is about 85% similar, either higher or lower but not much.

Lifestyles vary so your own experience can be subjective.

What data points specifically did you disagree with? I’m happy to confirm the data points and show sources.
I'm not sure what you're valuing by reposting versions of this comment in multiple places in this thread, but it seems like you think he should have given more money to science.

Speaking as someone who works in a nonprofit trying to get high end research done, funding is complicated--the equation is absolutely not More Money == More Progress. There are very tricky trade offs, perverse incentives, and huge talent bottlenecks, among other challenges. A lot of places I work closely around would turn down additional funding if it was offered, given other bottlenecks, the counterfactual use of that money, and the perverse incentives.

I didn't know Paul Allen at all, but if he's like other billionaires, he had teams of really smart people actively figuring out the actually correct amount of money to put in the actually correct places, to actually make a difference.

They might have been wrong in their analysis, but I'm confident that in no world did Paul ever say to himself, "Well, there is this slam dunk cause I could give to that would help a lot of people and more science forward, but instead I'll have a yacht with a music studio."
Not surprising, in long tail situations a small percentage end up having a huge effect on overall statistics.
"Plausible deniability", Trump, King Salman, and all their high level operatives still fussing about the details on how to ultimately spin the story into a rather unfortunate innocent interrogation which caused the American journalist's death.

Likely it will all be spun out the journalist died of a heart attack, on his own behalf . . . weak heart.
Unfortunately, they cannot explain the messy details, what happened to the body.
In what country? The US is still mostly per per procedure. There are codes for procedures and for diagnoses and they both get factored into the bill.
I applaud YC's blog post. However, they should probably go into more detail (or link) about how this is possible:

> encrypted in a way that not even the Callisto team can view.

> If multiple founders name the same perpetrator, they will be referred to an attorney who can then decrypt the founder’s contact info and reach out to provide them with free advice on...

What's stopping the Callisto team pretend to be an attorney? Attorneys can decrypt the founder's contact info.
The ministry of truth funded by a global oligarch who is famous for breaking the Bank of England. Wake up people!
It’s incredibly challenging. Imagine trying to collect 250-500 data points for 1000-2000 cities. And doing it consistently.

I use data sets to seed with and then crowdsourced edits by site users to add to the data.
Seriously you'd think on a board ostensibly obsessed with CAC and ARPU metrics, it would be immediately obvious why a specialty player wouldn't want to compete with Schwab and Fidelity.
Yes, I think it's weird. Both because you notice it and because it is happening. I feel your frustrations with this hyper-connected life because this certainly feels like an addiction. I've worked through deleting social media. I've deleted apps off my phone. I've moved my phone outside of my bedroom. All of it seems to help a small amount, but not enough to keep me from moving to something else. Throwing up my hands and leaving seems to be a good solution as well, but not the whole world or my job, just the digital world, as much as I reasonably can. I miss having the ability to focus and remember, and I feel as if the only way I can accomplish my goals is to regain those skills.
MockPass – a mock Singapore SingPass/CorpPass server for testing in development
Government, military, and corporations. Exactly the people I want pushing critical data (or my data) over insecure channels. /s

Besides, we all know there will be plenty of organizations that issue convoluted instructions that are the equivalent of "reset your clock to before the cert expiration".

As someone who had to deal with fallout from Equifax, I'm all in favor of smarter, yes smarter, parties acting in the collective security benefit of us all. As you point out, some will drag their feet otherwise.
> A few years back people might have started saying that AR was in danger of being obsoleted by "modern" databases, but SQL (and particularly Postgres) has come roaring back, and AR remains one of the best (arguably the best) SQL ORM.

To me, that gives me pause about the viability of ORM as an approach more than it vouches for Rails. ActiveRecord has so many limitations and footguns that using it as a serious production framework is...well, doable, if you're willing to do a lot of the work that ActiveRecord claims to save you from.
> Yet I can't imagine why an entire 'college' of AI is needed

There was a point in time where this statement would sound true when describing computer science as a degree. People quite reasonably thought that CS should just stay under the math department. Yet look where we are today.

Who's knows how much bigger the field will become in a couple decades.
> But that doesn’t mean there is no difference between “discriminating against asians” and “giving a boost to disadvantaged minorities.”

The only possible difference is adding white people (or some other separate group) to the "discriminating against" set. And the combination of that precedent and intersectional politics makes even those equivalent as soon as you start adding more non-asian subgroups to the set of disadvantaged minorities.

For example, the white population at Harvard is overly culturally homogeneous. It would legitimately be a significant benefit to their cultural diversity to get some more rednecks in there, using some suitably more specific definition with regard to income, hometown urbanization level, etc.

So if you want to discriminate against a specific group, easy -- just enumerate a bunch of underrepresented groups that don't include them and give them each a bonus. Any given applicant outside of the target victim group is likely to be in one of them.

> So basically the bottom 10% of asians get exluded.

That's just because you're using convenient numbers. If the merit-based numbers would have been 60% asian (e.g. because Asia has a couple billion people who would all like to go to Harvard), you do have to exclude half of them to get them down to 30%.
That's negotiation, nothing unethical about trying to get your worth.
I use multiple data sets for safety and crime statistics. The safety scores are medians based on that data + crowdsourced edits by users.
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It warrants physical infrastructure, which for many companies this is a non starter. Cloud IP addresses tend to have pretty terrible reputations with email clients.
Ask HN: How much side income do you generate and from what?
Would the volume be much higher than the numbers that are reported by surveys like this one, in which women are asked about it explicitly? If so, why?

Of all the respondents, 20% report sexual harassment of some sort. That’s a very high number. There is no reason to doubt its veracity.

But if 50%+ of all men were like that, you’d expect this number to be way higher.
You are missing the fact they are taking about privacy.
> We need to hold members of the legislature and judiciary to the same standard as the citizenry.

From what I read, only the judiciary can enforce the code of conduct on themselves here.
Nor do I think the question is whether "rapists should be prosecuted".
ETrade actually had an in-house proprietary trading unit that was making so much money that they sold it off because the regulators were asking questions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-23/e-trade-s...
Comparing Performance of GP2 SSD vs. NVMe SSD Instance Store Volumes in EC2
The ballot box is a scam. An illusion of control to keep us complacent.

In reality, they have the guns and jails, write the laws, and can change their mind as they see fit as to what the laws even mean.

Playing in a rigged game.
I'm not sure we're clear on what's happening. The transactions we're talking about are only transactions due to a consumer-protective structure Vanguard adopted. Fidelity also provides IT services to its funds (for instance), and won't provide IT services to anyone else in the market, but because it owns the funds, there's no taxable transaction occurring.

If Vanguard's tax filings are actually non-compliant, we should change the laws immediately.

There's a Matt Levine piece on this somewhere, it's worth finding and reading.
Male victims of sexual harassment are generally thought to be under-reported and under-studied due to the same biases which influnced the article. It would not have been very difficult to push this survey out to the general YC population.

>I'm sure there's an absolute plethora of studies that have already established the hugely disproportionate amount of sexual harassment that is by men against women.

Male victims significantly under-report sexual misconduct, have access to fewer support resources, and receive help less frequently.

- Breiding, M.J., Chen J., & Black, M.C. (2014). Intimate Partner Violence in the United States — 2010. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

23.4% of women and 10.5% of men report they were raped and 6.6% of women and 10.5% of men report they were victims of attempted rape.

- Fiebert, Martin S. (2000). "References Examining Men as Victims of Women's Sexual Coercion". Sexuality and Culture. 4 (3): 81–88. doi:10.1007/s12119-000-1023-7

46% of men who reported some form of sexual victimization were victimized by women.

- Weiss, K. G. (2008). "Male Sexual Victimization: Examining Men's Experiences of Rape and Sexual Assault". Men and Masculinities. 12 (3): 275–298. doi:10.1177/1097184X08322632

I apologise for throwing the book at you, but you threw a book that doesn't exist at the parent comment and your attitude is disrespectful to people who are genuinely victimized by sexual misconduct.
Amazon Will ‘Continue to Support’ Defense Department, Jeff Bezos Says
I love that every time the monkey[0] distracts me today, the top link is about distraction. Reminds me to get back to work.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...
1. I didn't attack an entire group. I never said "everyone" or "no one". I said "a lot of".

2. I did make an assumption about you being emotionally charged due to:

- "your dutiful patrons of Reason and Logic (TM) "

- "You try to illicit a veneer of servitude towards reason and logic"

- "you can't help but be disingenuous about the subject you're discussing"

You also brought in a number of points lacking citation that I could not find any evidence of occurring at the protest I was saying I saw footage of. I googled and found the source footage, the whole talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdYpMS8s28

I did not see any dogs, or anyone screaming about Micheal Brown or any of the other key points you mentioned. The whole talk is recorded including the kids trying to break the windows.

Maybe I was wrong in assuming you where emotionally charged, and maybe you just have a naturally hostile-seeming way of expressing yourself including calling names and quoting and claiming without citation. If so I apologize for suggesting it was emotionally charged.

3. It literally spells out those three things in the amendment. Could you read through the amendment and explain how it does not describe what I said above?

4. I don't care if my post is flagged. I went through the due process of actually watching the clip to see if anything you claimed happened occurred which I did not. I believe you should be capable of doing the same. Don't try to witch hunt or bring on a tribal mob just to win an argument. Win it with your facts and logical process you claim to have but haven't yet expressed.
Ask HN: Personality traits of a founder?
How can I know if I have a personality fit for a founder?

I don't mean cliches like "perseverance" and "patience". But what specific traits are required to be a founder in the US (excluding things like being born rich and preexisting social connections)?
Yes.

You buy air filters (ie HEPA) and an air quality (ie PM) detection device.

Even skipping intelligence, it's important to stop cancer.

Start googling.

Normally you're talking about reducing PM10 and PM2.5

If you're talking fixing damage once done to the body, currently there's no known way.
I'm starting to feel like this is the common trend when you bring up arguments of potentially how disastrous our effects on the environment have been.

Bugs? They come and go in cycles. Climate? Again, cycles. I suppose next we'll see claims that the rising ocean is just the cycle of the ocean and it'll fall back down any day now.
the power asymmetry makes this a non-starter, not even romantic overtures are okay (which are the overtures that typical mortals usually make)
They really are comically bad (Cerner, Epic, Meditech, all of them), but they are effective data silos which is a step up from having that data silo'ed in filing cabinets.

People outside healthcare really don't understand the sheer amount of time your physician spends trawling through the medical record in the regular course of doing his or her job. You can think of the patient chart as a shared "My Documents" folder on your computer. In modern multi-disciplinary care, you have many different parties taking care of the same patient and working in shifts. In order to get up to speed with what's happening for a particular patient, you need to open up each of the recent files in "My Documents" for that patient and review it. Lab results, progress notes, schedules, etc. Then repeat a couple dozen times for all the other patients you're caring for that day. Endless clicking. Constantly flipping between windows. Burn out.

That's not too much of an exaggeration of what the real EMR experience is like today.
... Yes? Kennedy got them to fund NASA at a level that's never been seen since: https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/s3fs-public/BudgetD...
People have been saying this about ORMs since the original Rails Blog Demo introduced ActiveRecord, but I don't think we even have to engage with the argument, because no industry trend has made ORMs less relevant; instead, the sort-of collapse of the NoSQL trend has, if anything, made them more relevant. If AR was useful 5 years ago, it's useful now.

If you're going to try to tell me that there's a countervailing trend of people meticulously writing their own SQL statements and record serialization logic, I'm going to say no, I haven't seen anything like that in our client base, or in blog posts, or anywhere else.

Incidentally, lest I come off as a Rails partisan: I don't use it anymore; the last thing I built with Rails (Microcorruption) was in 2013. But I sort of do miss ActiveRecord sometimes.
I think it's setting a very dangerous precedent. A lot of startups may be overvalued because of these massive investments
This is a really bad example, specifically wrt Paul Allen. Many of those arguing against him dislike the idea of having two classes of folks, the elite that can own weapons, and plain folks. Japan is the definition of this system...
Ask HN: What's your all-time favorite HN post?
Find a successful startup that didn’t have naysayers. Merit is measured by the founder getting customers and proving the model. Not what “experts” say.
Here is a highly specific definition of "expressive power" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC_dimension

To me the statement doesn't seem that unreasonable