skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only a tautology if "creating work" is all about delegating part of my own work, and there's limited amounts of interesting, engaging work to go around.

However, if I am in a managerial position, my own work can be quite different from my reports'. What this article is saying is that, if my work as a manager is boring and not very engaging, I'll give my engineers boring, unengaging work too, irrespectively of how interesting their work could be.
A ton more people do high level programming, than low level programming. You guys build the tools and many more people use them.
No, the last season should be up later this year. I could cancel now, save a few bucks, re-subscribe when GOT actually does come back, then cancel again. But, I'm lazy.
I will end with a story from a book I read a few years ago.

Talk is cheap.

Rather than end on a touch-and-feely note, I'd much prefer that he get back to the core question:

Instead of merely stating that he is a "fan" of things like Basic Income and (truly) universal education (not to mention at least having a hope of dealing in some reasonable way with climate change) --

The question to ask is: which progressive taxation measures, specifically, is he willing to publicly endorse as a means (almost certainly the only viable means) of attaining these goals?

Hard numbers, please. If it isn't AOC's particular step function -- "75 percent on all income above 10 million" -- then which progressive taxation schemes would he be in favor of -- and be willing to publicly and state as much?

The question of whether we "allow" billionaires or not is, to some extent, a semantic dodge. What matters is that, at the end of the day, in order to achieve any of these goals -- we pretty much have to "soak the rich" (in addition to ending corporate tax evasion and related measures). It follows from Occam's Razor and any level-headed assessment of all the ethical and economic factors involved.

The only questions are when (to which we already know the answer: as soon as humanly possible) and how exactly.

So again, it all comes down to hard numbers: Which progressive taxations is he willing to support? And what's the best way to get them implemented in time to avert further carnage and social disintegration -- that is, as soon as humanly possible?

(AOC = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
It might be your breathing. Stand up, breathe deep and get a bit of oxygenated blood flowing to your brain. Go up and down a few flights of stairs if you can.

I find if I focus for an hour or so my breathing gets shallow and it was pushing my blood pressure up, and giving me brain fog. A quick bit if exercise (chores work for me because I work from home) fixes it up
I should have added that, more importantly, she also had the key technical "eureka" moment; her contribution was not only to do the writing.
What makes it tough for me to leave Facebook is that there are lots of small businesses related to my hobbies who I follow and others I learn of on Facebook. Facebook has replaced the need for a website for a small business because they can get "enough" traction. Besides, I also like the funny cat videos, too! :D
I should have said "works very nicely for me, including on file names with spaces"
It is not immoral for the ant to let the grasshopper starve.

We don’t have equality of risks or equality of labor. We don’t have equality of abilities. The world is not equal. Life is not fair.

What is immoral is two wolves and a lamb voting what’s for dinner. This entire situation is an angry mob of participation trophy winners who want to change the rules of the game.
I’m not anti-military by any means, but I’d be more than happy to cut the JSF project (and replace it with something else, so not 100% net savings).

The problem as I see it is the same outcome but different mechanisms as you describe. Those who benefit from a project are very willing to spend time, energy, thought, and money to preserve the status quo, while those who are opposed have a very diffuse opposition to most of the specific programs.
A message in this case probably doesn't mean a Tweet. A message if probably just a message on the bus/in the queue and any action on Twitter probably produces one. Like, retweet, tweet, follow, sign up, everything.
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It's not strange. These organisations have always existed to push mass media. It doesn't matter to them whether it's false information or not, but they are scared of not being able to control the information.
Huh? Now TV is a "standalone subscription offering".
The battery is hot swappable? Meaning the laptop stays powered on while you change the battery out? That is cool.
Perhaps it's time to stop building colliders bigger and bigger, start building the ultimate big one (like around the whole planet) and concentrate on doing math and other kinds of experiments until it's finished.
Yup, for Europe I'd actually be curious which countries don't consider the first floor the one above the ground floor, since they're probably the minority.
The Norwegian police solved the transparency problem by tweeting the newsworthy stuff they do.

Before they encrypted things even the SSNs of people not convicted of anything was transmitted for all to hear and the emergency radio channels were streamed online.

It might suck for the curious but I think privacy of the population should trump government transparency in this case.
I've installed small amounts of RAM into machines and have them speed up more than an order of magnitude. The speedup was because it stopped swapping. Modern computers have other similar bottlenecks that can show massive improvements for what seem like small changes.
Tooling, that means? I haven't had an opportunity to work on a big/very-big JS project yet. But from experience based on working on small-medium size JS project, I guess console.log() and refresh is just enough.

After thinking about it, I guess readability is a huge part of it, there are lots, lots of JS packages. And it makes sense for them to be readable, so they could be easily updated by new contributors to remain valid.

Personally, I have really hard time contributing to gems, because of so much metaprogramming in them, I don't feel like spending a week to understand what is connected with what and if my changes can break it.
Isn't quicksort a type of tree sort? (having just googled both, but not finding said statement)
I find it fascinating that the prevalent comment on this are variations of "that can't be right, we still don't understand [things, such as dark energy, etc]." It demonstrates one of the most pernicious biases in science.

Particle accelerators have been the mainstay and principle tool for particle physics, and have produced amazing results. Further, there are obvious questions in fundamental physics that the Standard Model revealed by these experiments does not answer. But, it does not follow these further questions can be answered via accelerators that us humans can construct. The universe has made no promise to us that its mysteries are accessible, least of all through some particular method. We had a particular reason to believe the LHC would reveal new physics (the Higgs boson prediction) and we have no such reason for the proposed future accelerator; our evaluation should change as a result.

My guess would be that astrophysics is a better route to understanding the mysteries of fundamental physics; astronomers can measure distant phenomena with surprising accuracy already, and objects such as black holes are one of the few cases where exotic phenomena are currently widely expected to occur. Perhaps the money is better spent on a truly gigantic space telescope?
That's irrelevant. The point isn't the cleaning service, it's teaching kids that they can _do_ something. The next step up from that is "hey you did that well, how about trying to paint the shuttle." Scaled encouragement over time.

Contrast that with "sit down, shut up, and look forward" and yeah, you're going to have a lot of idiots running around that aren't worth much economically.
The website in the OP made me think of 'Mr Waturi' in the film 'Joe vs The Volcano' :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AYUB3tQs80

(Can be good film to watch after a shit day at the office...)
he said in the article that he doesn't think higher taxes are the solution - that the government itself needs to be improved if additional programs are to be introduced.
Paved with good intentions
I think most of us taking up this fight are perfectly fine with people fighting for status and visibility if there aren't children dying of curable diseases and homeless people dying in the streets.
The autoplay previews don't bother me. But, the recommendation engine and navigation/search could use some tweaks. I also hate that the "My List" row seems to move around a bit (though the AppleTV app does have a menu on the left now). I also hate that it removes series from "My List" after I've watched the last (current) episode, when there's a new season in the works, so have to go an re-find the series and add it again.
So you're saying we should build a big collider and make Mexico pay for it?
As a layman, from your statement, what do we have now? [meaning if we don't have enough theoretical physicists]. Is it that we have enough theoretical scientist, but the predictions are not testable? Or not enough talent?
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Dull, tedious, repetitive work is also typically work that is subject to high error rates due to priming effects, normalization of non-errors / errors, and other psychological factors. A good example is TSA’s effectiveness at finding guns
Only insofar as numpy relies on BLAS and LAPACK for certain functionality, and most (all?) implementations are written in Fortran. The actual numpy source code contains no Fortran; you don't need a Fortran compiler to build numpy. Scipy does contain Fortran, though.
The great thing about inequality is, that it's only a problem if you're the jealous sort.
If going by the noise emitted by your average consumer drone, and scaling it up, I think the opposite is probably true - it would be crazy loud.
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Indeed, these workloads are bursty. They also tend to involve running lots of different processing frameworks over the same data, which makes the value proposition for separating compute and storage stronger.
It should not be held to such high standards, young padawan. Rather, embrace the new unfolding technologies and revel in them.

It is a flying something, but that does not sound cool. Cars _are_ cool, so we call it flying car.

I'm personally working on a concept called the driving airplane. It cannot fly, but it will drive.
I think a little context here is in order: from a 10000-foot high level, the particles that can be seen depend on the amount of energy present in the system, which is why we spend billions of dollars accelerating basic particles (protons in the case of the LHC) to high energies and literally SMASH them together, so we can see what flies out.

We see four distinct, different forces in the universe: strong and weak nuclear forces, electromagnetism, and gravity. Our Standard Model predicts that these forces become more unified at higher energy levels:

1. Electromagnetism merges with weak nuclear force at 246 GeV

2. Electroweak force merges with strong nuclear force at around ~10^16 GeV ('grand unification')

3. Finally, quantum mechanics predicts these forces become unified, which is to say indistinguishable, at the Planck energy, around 10^19 GeV.

As we get closer to predicted unification energies, we see different mixes of particles, and the Higgs boson is in fact the particle responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, with a mass of around 126 GeV.

The problem is that the LHC produces collisions of around 10^4 GeV, so from our current energy scale up to the next unification, with the strong force, we're off by a factor of 10^12.

Back of the envelope estimate is that a supercollider that can reach grand unification energies with our current technology would be around the size of the solar system.

Hence the article: particle smashing is a brute-force approach to investigating new physics, but now there is an extremely wide gulf between what we have discovered, and what we think lies next, hence we need to be more clever than using brute force.
The problem with 2008/2009...

It was a bit more complicated than that.

Also, subprime and poorly documented loans (mortgages in the case of the financial crisis) with teaser rates that eventually reset to a rate unaffordable to the borrower can absolutely be predatory when coupled with brokerages incentivizing brokers to sign up financially illiterate folks for loans they will eventually not be able to afford knowing the brokerage will move the risk off their books within days or weeks.
> how Putin won every election fair and square

Maybe there was some tampering here and there but I got the impression when I lived there that most people thought he was good and supported him.
> 2. Gravitational Waves

You probably mean Narendra Modi Waves[1] :-)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46778879
It's now in testing, too.
No, not mostly.

If you're not in a city large enough to support street dealers, and aren't connected to the local illicit scene wherever you are, you're not just going to be able to go out and get heroin or fentanyl or whatever. That is not how these things work.
Georgia (Europe) or (Asia) or (Eurasia) would be too hard indeed.
I can see that this might be because watchlists often times contain "ambitious" things we want to watch. When they still had DVDs my watchlist was full of stuff like the 3hr Andrey Rublev movie that I always wanted to watch, but only in the future, not now.
> I’ve witnessed fights, muggings, people defecating themselves, drug use, and open harassment while riding.

+1

don't forget very loud music playing out of someone's boombox (no doubt for the benefit of all other riders)

another joyful aspect of some of LA's public transport lines is you never know what you're sitting on: some guy who's just pissed himself may have been the previous occupant of your seat, or someone was walking on it or propping their feet on it. OTOH, I've been quite impressed with the cleanliness and comfort of one of the Commuter Express bus lines.
Congestion is an unsolvable problem. If there's congestion it just means that those people have a higher tolerance (or less alternatives) for sitting in traffic (or standing on a clusterfuck of a subway platform) than whatever your threshold is for deciding what is and isn't "congestion".

Consjestion isn't just about cars. You can generalize it to all forms of transit (MTA anyone?).

You can't "solve" congestion. At best you can add additional capacity (of the same type or a different type) in order to reduce the amount of time when congestion is at its worst. Instead of "rush hour" being from 3-7 increased capacity (of any type, people will naturally load balance by choosing the least worst option for their situation) could potentially make it only from 4-6 by allowing the same number of trips to happen in less time.

If you add capacity (of any type) and congestion is unchanged that is still a win because it means more trips are being taken which is an indication of more stuff getting done, more commerce, higher quality of life).
I think there are plenty of ways that privacy could be regained... layer 1 settlements, use of an anonymous protocol like MimbleWimble, etc. It wouldn't necessarily need to be Bitcoin as it's implemented today.

But I agree... that experiment would be quite fascinating. It might not even be that big of a change... most people would probably continue to entrust a bank with their funds, and banks could potentially continue to operate a fractional reserve system.
Some other commenters have pointed out that The Hill selectively quoted Ocasio-Cortez in the tweet mentioned in the article, but I want to engage the selective quote ("Economic system that allows billionaires is 'immoral'") on its own, and argue that it stands on its own. I think that we've lost some perspective on how obscenely much money a billion dollars really is, and it's worth thinking about the implications of this gigantic number.

Money is something we give people in exchange for labor. Is it possible to imagine any amount of labor that would be fairly compensated with a billion dollars? If a restaurant worker makes $25,000 in a year, what kind of work could one person possibly do to deserve 40,000 years' worth of restaurant wages? For that matter, we can even compare those numbers to the earnings of a software developer. If you make a salary of $150,000, it would take you 166 lifetimes (6,666 years / 40 working years in a lifetime) to make a billion dollars.

I know that capitalism offers ample justification for why someone might accumulate that much money (risk! market efficiencies!) but none of those add up to a moral case for me.
David Graeber argues that government is already made in the image of corporations.

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22245334-the-utopia-of-r...

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My core, motivating principle is helping people help themselves, help those who can't.

My second motivator is fairness, whatever that looks like.

If I was King, I'd:

Invert our current welfare state, from top-down paternalistic to bottom-up empowerment. UBI, more or less.

Switch our healthcare from fee-for-service to wellness and prevention. Incentivizing keeping people healthy over profiteering the treatment of disease. aka Capitation Model

Change education from grades and scores to achievement, experience, and competency. Think merit badges from Girl & Boy Scouts.

Fully extend property rights over the commons, creating efficient marketplaces for water, air, land, etc.

Require all accounting to include all externalities.

Break the duopoly by changing our voting systems to approval voting (executives, issues) and proportional representation (assemblies) as appropriate.
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That's probably the mildest case I've seen. When it happened to me the guy was about half the distance and it lit up the whole cockpit.
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FWIW, I would edit or remove my original comment to remove spoilers but HN no longer allows me to edit that comment.

Also, there was a study that showed spoilers actually increase readers' enjoyment (except for mystery books):

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/spoiler-alert-sp...
Like an oil diffuser? I think I've read to use distilled water to avoid that problem
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I mean yes, you could just call them dollars. That was just to differentiate them from cash for the purposes of this discussion.
[pdf] Named data networking (2010)
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Sure. But, your 6 month old will soon grow out of that, be a toddler, and not much later a kid, preteen, etc. You aren't doomed to 18-22 years of sedentary life simply because there's a small human in your household. For most of that span of time, you will have to make time for exercise, but it's possible with planning.
It’s true that the current income tax has shortcomings due to the mobility of capital owners. I think it would promote competition to focus more on wealth taxes on immobile assets (on e.g. land, patents, spectrum, and ownership of networks) as an alternative to some income taxation. See e.g. Glen Weyl’s book Radical Markets on this topic (https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Markets-Uprooting-Capitalism-... https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2818494)
I got my app into the top 10 rank for my search terms
Sailplanes carry 2 people and can be launched almost without any noise at all using an electric winch (common in Europe).

If you wanted to use this for commuting, just add a front electric sustainer to it. By the time the sustainer turns on, the aircraft is already pretty high altitude.

It'd be just as quiet as a land vehicle due to the greater distance away from the hearer.

but yeah, helicopters are likely to be fairly loud.
training and on boarding are the two biggest challenges that influence the consideration of who we hire.
We're the team that put this paper together, happy to answer any questions!
> ELSEVIER IS SIMPLY ANTI SCIENCE.

+1. I worked in publicly-funded research labs for 15 years and there is no single organization I despise as much as Elsevier - only Springer-NPG comes close. If the company went bankrupt tomorrow it would be a great day for science.
I misunderstood and it turns out I agree. Something like tech school or apprenticeship is how that type of training happened historically. Mike Rowe has a foundation pushing a similar idea that may be along the lines of what you are talking about.

https://www.mikeroweworks.org/about/#sweat-pledge
People won't use a service if they don't know it exists as an alternative.

Show advertisements demonstrating how long it takes to get from A to B and when the service is available to accomplish that.
Correct, "(Also, for what it’s worth - I meant to say hookworm*)":

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087884746129108993
What's the budget towards fusion energy research? Given the political difficulties in funding fundamental research, would that be a better sideshow for making a positive difference in the world if we had to prioritize one or the other?
Easily explained in two points.

1. Convenience at cost to everything else. Easier is generally preferred over simplicity. If the short term gains destroy long term maintenance/credibility they will solve for that bridge when they come to it at extra expense.

2. Invented Here syndrome. Many JavaScript developers would prefer to never write original code (any original code) except for as a worst case scenario. They would even be willing to bet their jobs on this.
Two falsehoods do not make a truth.
Yes, please share these mythical high quality, free video streaming services. I know of 1 free service. Pluto.tv But I wouldn't consider it a streaming platform in so much as a TV copy cat.
The shadow of the Moon itself causes the new-phase.

The only eclipse possible during the new-phase of the Moon is a solar eclipse. Lunar eclipses only happen during the full-phase.
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Well written comment. As someone close to the NHS and UK school system, Fred's type of mentality has hit these hard and contributed to Brexit.
Both are constantly bringing in "change" type consultants. If only we can cut employees/use this software package/run it more like a business/get better leaders/have more digital strategies. No Fred, they just need money. They need money to pay doctors, they need money to fund beds, the need to pay teachers.
Government doesn't run like business. A hospital can't just go bust, a council can't just shut up shop, this isn't how it should work either.
His solution is roughly saying "well I like the status quo and if you come up with anything I'll take a look but will probably shoot it down". Sorry Fred, you're on "the let them eat cake" side whether you recognize it or not. Roll on March 29th.
Without the ability for a single man to acquire that much capital we wouldn't have Tesla or SpaceX.

Labor doesn't always have value. If I spend 8 hours digging a hole nobody wants there is no value in it despite strenuous effort involved.

But if someone with the talent, ability, resources and balls to earn a billion and then risk it on a new company to cure cancer, or solve similarly worldwide problems does so they deserve it.

I'd argue that musk and bill Gates are far more effective with their money to improve humanity as a whole than if 90% of it were distributed to the destitute. SpaceX has also proven to be far more flexible, efficient, and agile than NASA in recent memory.