skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see two problems with this: old people are fragile and training dogs is expensive.

I got a dog while my mother was in a nursing home. Additionally, my wife used to work in an assisted living facility. We would bring the dog to visit both of these, and everyone loved the visit... Except for me. It was nerve wracking. I had to keep her on a very short leash, and pay attention every second she was with an elder. In a heartbeat she can jump up or lean into someone and take them to the ground. Seniors falling is a big deal, broken bones or worse often happens.

And training a dog to be a service dog costs well into the 5 figures. I've heard $40k for a fully trained service dog, it takes around a year to do. An elder can probably be safe with something less, but I'd guess we're probably still talking $10k.

My in-laws got a dog 18 months ago and they are taking her through some of the service dog training and other training. My father in law has been out in the hospital once by the dog, and has fallen numerous times while walking her (sudden pulls or just getting mixed up in his feet).
When did America invade Iraq post 2007?
>if we can become less dependant on oil / natural gas we'll have more money for mass transportation

how do you figure that?
> average member
"Last to run out" makes it sound like oil will be increasingly valuable as time goes on. What if you leave yours in the ground, and eventually it is worth almost nothing, because the world has moved on?
Is your disagreement with characterizing the air compression as "violent", or do you have a different understanding of what causes the heating during re-entry?
Taxing is half the story. The other half is returning this tax revenue back to the economy by offsetting other taxes. Where it breaks down is when progressives push to spend this tax revenue on their pet projects.
I don't know about any university, but at Caltech it was consistent that everything used was derived from first principles. There wasn't any "trust me, use this rule".
This is a huge reason why I now have a 100% Apple device stack. The older I get, the less time I want to spend researching what to buy (phones, laptops etc.). Apple gives me enough choice, but not too much. Also, when whatever I have gets obsolete, it’s almost (looking at you MBP team :P) guaranteed there will a good upgrade available.
If internet forums were meant for only the groundbreaking, they would be barren places, no?
tl;dr - Progress (the company that sponsors Nativescript) doesn't the market/advertising dollars compared to Facebook/React, and Google/Flutter or MS/Xamarin.

Well I think the biggest difference is purchasing power of the companies behind those other solutions in terms of marketing. Flutter has gotten this the most right, so far -- they make very published developer resources, and market aggressively, they have things like the Flutter Development Show[0], and little 30 second clips introducing parts of the platform[1] . It's a good thing (they're innovating in the documentation/dev experience space), but taken cynically it's just a marketing ploy.

I hate to say it, but lately people have been applying the same advertising and marketing logic they use on consumers on developers rather than necessarily making the best product they can and letting word spread organically. It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem -- you usually can only build the best product with help from others, which means getting in front of them, but usually you want to make a good thing so you can justify getting in front of the developers in the first place... So people put out shitty tools, then just iterate after the community shows up and finds out there are lots of rough edges (see: mongo, react, dart, etc).

The last I'll say on the subject is that "developer evangelists" are basically paid marketers/advertisers.

Nativescript also has this thing where it was popular years ago, but has recently seen a surge in popularity -- you have projects like nativescript-exit[2] (which provides a cross platform way to exit the app from JS) that have code from 2 years ago. This is actually a really great point for nativescript, because solidly written plugins like nativescript-exit really are solid -- I very recently used it in a project and it just worked. The integration points available in Nativescript have a very high potential (not to say other platforms don't).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIK0r_D-zWcm...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9C5KMJKluE

[2]: https://github.com/dvabuzyarov/nativescript-exit
Get rid of npm and node
> This is what the article says, in regards to water

Yes, and it doesn't even ask they question why the workers don't trust the quality of local drinking water. Which, as I said, is not a problem caused by climate change.

> The way I read the above statement, is that the workers don't trust the local water (i.e. well water or streams, it's not clear), so they bring their own hydration, but unfortunately they are bringing soft drinks instead of bottled water.

Which is, again, not a problem caused by climate change.

> I would presume workers drinking soft drinks in these areas is nothing new.

Neither is the kidney disease problem. It's been going on for at least 20 years, according to the article (which says that one of the doctors interviewed started in 1998 and saw the problem then). It's gotten worse over time because more people are working under these conditions, because the population has grown and more food is needed.
It's not privilege, privilege makes it easier, but it's certainly not impossible without it - unless you count things like intelligence and personality to be privilege.

That said, a certain subset of the population doesn't have the wherewithal, drive or ability to do it - and for an even smaller, the best in life they can hope for is to
perform some sort of manual labor.

We mustn't forget about the self selection bias of being smart - we tend to only socialize and know other smart people - meaning, don't fall into the fallacy of assuming you're the median.
Did it get us to the most powerful nation-state in history, with the ability to exert global control, if not militarily, or economically, but from the bully pulpit?
This is super interesting response.

Because today's research on code plagiarism is huge (this mean years spent in code re-engineering by really clever people), and I could argue you could use just one employee to develop a profile crawler and validation workflow, isn't so? I am saying you could automate the browsing and just discard Adam if he's below your threshold.

Thank you for your reply.
Will your children be dead as well?
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Airplane parts are a whole 'nother world. I imagine that rocket parts take that to the nth level, which is one reason that working on rockets is the ultimate for an engineer. A real engineer would pay to work on an F1 engine design <g>.
>> The north is a lot more spicy stuff. The south is more about sauces and freshness.

> Citation needed, please.

Not really true; here is an anti-citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_cuisine
I feel there's a bit of a strange tension in this argument. Why can't you have both?

While I was in classes it wasn't job focused, or at least not directly. I often hear people complain, for example about how they never use anything they learned in college for their programming jobs. I find this impossible to believe. The process of building a binary search tree or proving the pumping lemma are all exercises. Just like anything else being good at things takes practice, college is (or should be) as good of an environment for this as we can create.

If you're looking for a solution to the feeling that college doesn't do a good enough job preparing you for the working world, I'd like to at least mention how much of a fan of coop programs I am, and how they can be integrated into the higher education process.

People telling you directly that college shouldn't be about job training are feeling a bit nostalgic and idealistic, while holding on to a hint of truth.

So I say again, what's stopping the underprivileged student, paying for college with loans and scholarships, from broadening their mind, while getting the skills to pay the bills?
Right. So why do you decide and not the expert decide? So the expert can be smart enough to come with a solution but cannot "decide".

My point here is that once you become the manager, you should constrain yourself to the functionality (input/output spec), but you cannot decide on technical issues if you are not keeping up with the technology.
Are you working with a professor on other things? They are probably interested in seeing what you have. As a grad student you're definitely in a position to reach out to someone relevant and ask them what they think about your work.

If you're not planning to spend more time on it, and are just looking to share your interesting preliminary results, then a whitepaper might be the way to go. But if you have the time and believe your design has potential then it may likely be worth pursuing. Who knows, maybe some of us will be reading about it a year or two from now.
Because everyone isn't as smart as you are, and with the elimination of many jobs at the bottom of the economy we no longer have a good way to ensure the pie of wealth us equitably divided.
Python among the least energy efficient languages
Your rights are inalienable. This means that you cannot transfer them, even voluntarily. They remain your rights. Slave contracts are worthless for this reason.
You're truly missing out of one of life's greatest pleasures. Carts and carts of delight, oh what a sight!
North is generally colder in climate to the more tropical and warmer South, Northern Chinese traditionally eat grains and wheat-based foods like baozi and jiaozi (dumplings) while Southern Chinese will eat rice and rice-flour based foods like rice noodles. Northern China was occasionally under the influence of nomadic powers which shaped its culture. Southern culture is shaped by the gradual immigration of Han Chinese peoples from the North and assimilation of the native peoples into Han Chinese. Roughly before 1000 AD, Northern China was more economically powerful and the South was generally a hinterland while roughly after 1000 AD Southern China was more economically powerful (for example, see Guangdong/Canton region). Non-Han tribal minorities in the North tend to be descended off nomadic horse tribes while in the South they are usually descended off river and mountain-based tribes.

As of Modern China, the North tends to be politically powerful as it is dominated by Beijing while the South tends to be economically powerful, dominated by Shanghai, Guangdong/Canton, Shenzhen, etc.

For more info, click here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_and_southern_China

To some degree, similar to the North-South Indian cultural divide if you want to look that up too.
It’s narrow minded to generalize that massive groups of people think “basically” the same way... I can honestly say that when I went to college, there were definitely people who had a multitude of ideas and opinions—there was no groupthink or even a super majority consensus of opinion. Maybe you went to the wrong school and have a narrow social circle if all the people you know think the same way.
No matter how badly we screw up the Earth it will still be much more hospitable than any other place in the Solar System.
If we tax “carbon,” are you going to lower my income taxes? I’ll support a carbon tax when you support eliminating capital gains and income taxes. Unless cutting taxes and spending is a part of this carbon tax plan, I will never support it. I already give over 50% of my money to governments, I’m not about to support even more.
I've run a side project for about 8 years ( https://farmshares.info ) with varying levels of effort and commitment (and income).

I think it's key to realize:

* you have to be really into solving the problem

* you probably aren't going to make much money from it

* a side project is a great way to experiment with different tech
I agree 100%, but to many executives it’s simple dollars and cents.
I know people like him, their perceived racism is as much fear from a lack of familiarity as it is anything - a broadly diverse society is important - it's specifically important for Americanism to flourish.
> After Dark is a privacy-focused hypermedia authoring system designed to amplify the world's most influential voices.

The tagline is really buzzwordy ... I have no idea what that means.
lots of grammatical errors in this comment... but this one was the worst:

"lacks almost none of the advances" -> "lacks almost all the advances" (I was talking about the typing stuff...)

Apologies for the repeating of several points... This comment is pretty badly written and I can't edit it now.
it would be nice if you lay your case in under a more positive attitude. You just checked only two pages so far. I am not the author btw.
"If you lived during the 80s, you'll recall predictions of the Amazon being cut down and the ozone layer being depleted by now. Also peak oil was supposed to have happened, along with several other resources becoming rare."

Isn't it amazing how all the past predictions of environmental doom have been wrong?
a combination of its premise (to reimplement all of the UI)

This, in particular, even with Google-level attention and resources, seems like a design dead end, at least for third party apps.
Consider subscribing to Netflix's DVD service.[1]

It has a way, way better selection than Netflix's streaming service. Netflix doesn't seem to want to advertise it, as last time I checked there were no links to it from the main netflix.com site, but it still exists.

It's certainly not as convenient as streaming on demand, but when all you can stream is garbage, it's well worth getting the DVD service where you actually have a great selection of some really great movies.

[1] - https://dvd.netflix.com
The problem I see with FizzBuzz is if you knew the problem, it would be super easy to remember. Otherwise, with the time pressure, anyone could fail just as Federer could fail a simple shot. You need a whole game to prove he's Federer, you follow me?
Here's the same place, just zoomed out a little: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9889724,-78.7814974,128506m/...

Pretty much everything that's light green on that map is forest that was cleared for farmland. By 1872, the eastern states had cleared 52% of their forests, mostly for agriculture. Habitat destruction is an underappreciated problem, but let's keep things in perspective. Those dirt access roads are narrow strips of forest, and they'll be quickly overgrown once they're abandoned.
Actually Apple used to be like all the rest before Steve Jobs came back. First thing he did was discontinue a lot of products, even entire categories like the Newton.

I think everyone should go to three categories: 13 inch laptops in good, better and best. Have a comparison chart that clearly shows the differences. Do not make you hunt to see the differences.

Then if you're making special models for say WalMart or Best Buy affix a letter code and then don't make it available through normal navigation. If I search for it on their site by entering the model number I can find it. Might even say something like 'as seen in Best Buy'.

Now this would result in fewer individual models and the absolute sales yield might drop temporarily. But by concentrating on customer satisfaction over time people would recommend them higher and their sales would increase.

One last thing - every single manufacturer in the checkout should have an option that says for $50 extra we won't load all the garbage you have to delete when you first start using the machine.
Oil has much greater economic value when used as a feedstock for non-fuel purposes. It is almost certainly a better idea to let any reserves you possibly can stay in the ground for as long as possible, and let everyone else sell theirs for cheap first.
I have Netflix and I hate its discovery mechanism so much that when I went to this site, I mistakenly read the site's name as FUCKNETFLIX and chuckled.

I had no idea Netflix had so many decent selection of movies.
So, Backblaze wins. Simple.
Meh, if the districts truly believe that, they can call Amazons bluff and retract their concessions.

My belief is that the concessions Virginia (not DC) gave are pretty paltry, which is why everyone is focused on the NYC situation.
It's an unpopular view and you'll be downvoted to no end for it, but the truth is none of these human activities would be a global crisis if they weren't being scaled to the billions.

It doesn't mean we should stop reproducing, but on a global scale we need to start actually managing the population size like any other global resource and large-scale high-impact activity.

Unfortunately there's already so many people in developing nations that it seems too late to prevent some serious suffering in the next century. India alone has in the ballpark of 300 million people aspiring just to get electricity, nevermind the consequences of their population pursuing other western luxuries like automobiles, even if they're EVs, or frequent frivolous air travel.

The first world nations have operated under the flawed assumption that they can consume with impunity because they're first, they're the winners. The problem with this notion is the rest of the world is going to repeat it all. The first world nations have but set an example, and capitalism will be sure to sell everything necessary for the rest to recreate it all for themselves.

It's really too bad we didn't run out of fossil fuels before reaching this point and these outcomes wouldn't be possible, it's all going to be pulled out of the ground and burned.
Not at all. That creates an effective subsidy on non-domestic production. Carbon tax on my factory in California? I’ll move it to Nairobi. Add a tariff? Then other countries retaliate and domestic companies can no longer sell their goods abroad. Domestic consumers would pay higher prices and the economy grinds to a halt due to reduced production from reduced international trade.
If one of the cities had refused to offer incentives, even if the article's premise is correct I think Amazon would have gone with the other only.
Why is this being downvoted? It’s factually accurate.
I don't care about ratings -- IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, or random film critic -- it doesn't matter. They're all useless to me (often worse than useless, as so many people have such different tastes from me).

The only people who's opinions I care about are friends and family who I know well and who's tastes I share, or who at least know my tastes and can recommend to me something they think I might like.

Apart from that, what I do to find more films to watch is try to see what other films directors and writers I like have made, or do web searches for combinations of films that I like to see what similar films turn up or to occasionally find people with similar tastes to my own and then pick through their favorite movie lists.
I do agree. If you cannot end your life, then you have to accept living under whatever terrible conditions that other peoples grudging charity will give you as you refuse to work or participate in society.
Hmm... Javascript pervasively uses monads, in the form of promises and the await/async keywords, but it is a strict language.
I’m quite comfortable with list comprehensions, I’ve been writing them for decades. I like them because they are concise, efficient, more clearly tell the compiler/interpreter their intent.

That said, they are almost always harder to understand than an equivalent for loop with an if statement. A list comprehension by its very nature groups a number of actions into a single expression, it’s harder to break up the parts.

Even an experienced developer who sees them all the time and can understand one in a second, would probably take a half second to understand the equivalent for/if statements.
I worked on their UI when they were also offering hiring services via staff.com.

Majority of freelance marketplaces use the same creepy tracking software for gigs paid by the hour.
Unfortunately ANSI (US layout) keyboards make this much more difficult.
The first sentence of the link may be enlightening. Instead of puzzling over it, why not just clicm the link and take a peek?

> This document is intended for knowledgeable users of C (or any other language using a C-like grammar, like Perl or Java) who would like to know more about, or make the transition to, C++
Paranoid folk crazy glue their RAM, and embed in alumina-filled epoxy (which conducts heat well).
I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan. But no it isn't a soup. It's a bunch of small little bites and they generally bring them around on carts and you tell them what you want and then pay for what you eat. Usually the items are steamed and the carts have hot water at the bottom to keep the steam going as they cart it around.
I used to live in shared apartment where plenty of people were coming and going. Imagine a backpackers, but people lived there for long stretches of time.

All the uni students who came for their OEs definitely worked jobs, some out of their comfort zones. Most were in hospo, some doing construction, and the rest fruit picking as you said.

If they weren't doing that, they had joined those programmes where you work on a farm in exchange for free board and food. Some were on couch-surfing programmes which weren't too dissimilar.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18516584
> The Economist makes more effort than most to offer non-partisan, fact-based and insightful analysis

The Economist is basically the Gell-Mann effect in written form. They are also definitely partisan when it suits them (they were formed to argue against the Corn Laws!)
Being the best doesn’t mean you win. Dropbox has the best marketing, brand, and consumer trust, as a result it’s clear it’s the winner.
In the US, once you leave the East Coast, you're on freight rails which are bumpy and annoying.

Yeah. In a few spots, it's OK, but the majority of it is pretty bad. I take a lot of long-distance Amtrak trips, and sleeping can be hard if you haven't done it in a while and you're not used to it.

I was surprised to find that the Shinkansen in Japan is a pretty rough and unstable run, too.

Americans on the internet like to imagine Japan and its technology as perfect in every way, but the HSR between Tokyo and Kyoto can be almost sea-sickness worthy.

I don't think this is because of bad rails so much it is that the infrastructure is so heavily used, and aging, since Japan was a pioneer in this arena.
Honest question: do you think residential / small scale commercial solar is the future? As an outsider it seems like utility companies are best placed to deploy solar at large scale in the right locations, bypassing customer acquisition costs.

Here in California, PG&E offers the "solar choice" program where I pay extra to have 100% of my electricity generated from solar. This cost $6.50 of my $82 electric bill last month. (Yes I know electricity is fungible.)
What Caused the Apollo 13 Accident?
There's no guarantee that it will specialize down to machine integers. I don't need arbitrary precision; I need fast, fixed precision. If the proposals guaranteed specialization I'd be much happier but I don't think they do.

But it's way better than the status quo.
No, dude, you're wrong. 15 an hour doesn't get you a skilled and experienced freelancer / contractor anywhere in the world. Good quality costs. Everywhere. It is cheaper than in the States, but not that much. If you're looking to hire someone good, expect to pay like 40 an hour, at least.
The tax should be used for undoing the destruction caused to the environment.
One species of Mammoth existed until about 2.4k years ago[0].

0. https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/arti...