skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the irresistible urge to stick our fingers into the wallsockets of the universe

That is a lovely turn of phrase!
You wrote: "Forcing producers to provide 5(?)-years updates will make prices rise"...

I don't think so: it will oblige makers to standardize processes and software across phones... i.e. very basic specific drivers, then same OS and libs on all phones (with just different themes).

Then the Android security updates can be uploaded directly from Google at no cost. Just like for computers, and phones are computers with very few different features (input device, GSM chip).

My HP or Dell computer is not more expensive when Microsoft or Debian is pushing security updates.

In the end, unifying processes and software brings costs down.
Not only 1933, they've been stealing money ever since through a monetary policy of constant inflation. Deliberate inflation is theft of a small percentage of the money of all savers.
And lose them when you close the stupid window.
At least Safari understand that pinned tabs should be present on EVERY windows at all time.
Chrome is so stupid.
>Last June, for instance, I wrote about a Fitbit lawyer’s all-too-candid admission that no rational litigant would pay a $750 filing fee to arbitrate a claim over a product that costs $162

Sometimes it's not about the money - sometimes it's about sending a message.
"I gotta get this damn book done"?
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Well, there are lots of very high achievers (great engineers at top companies, people with important contributions, industry legends, even people like Alan Kay occasionally) on HN, so there's that...
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It's also a core principle of Stoicism.
API version in use should be negotiated. If a 34.x response needs a value that didn't exist in 33.x, I have to map it to something that 33.x clients understand. If I can't do that, they won't be able to either, and we aren't communicating.
Google pays enough technical women enough they are probably already getting that. This is more like the 27 year old associate property manager gets to stay on the path to promotion, or the $15/h hairdresser not having to have a near zero income for the 3 years her two kids are young.
I would bet that the shadow/light patterns on Roosevelt Avenue & 94th Street, Queens cause significant visual distractions to drivers and pedestrians.
Yeah, I didn't realize I had to pay extra for a phone that would receive security patches. Oops.
Regulation isn't censorship. The FCC has been regulating broadcast news for decades in the US. The bullet points in the article are so far from "censorship" that anyone jumping to that claim is hard to take seriously.

Also "child of communism" is a combination appeal to emotion with an appeal to authority thrown in for good measure. It's an attempt to paper over a breathless strawman argument - so, triple threat, I guess.
You wouldn't but the sad fact is that there are many cargo culters and trigger happy advisors who would think exactly that.
Give employees no legal recourse in actual courts, then make sure their sole remaining option doesn't get paid and doesn't start proceedings.

Let's say forced arbitration is acceptable (IMO, it's not). Why not make Uber provide a guarantee that arbitration must begin no later than 60 days after the claim is filed? Or would that be another example of the socialist regulations that are ruining free enterprise in America?
When writing a large document, I prefer to use a file format that has a way to import the contents of other files. When writing a long document in LaTeX, I would have separate files for different sections, plus a main file that had the overall layout and imported each section in the right place.

This approach allows you to easily insert/remove/rearrange sections and doesn't require having a giant file open in your editor. It also makes viewing the compiled version easier, as you don't have to compile the entire document to see what the part you're working on looks like.
Not a complete failure story, but I joined a FANG company as an entry level engineer. In about three and a half years, I’ve gone through two promotions. My most recent team where I got promoted to senior engineer is demoralizing to me and gives me anxiety even thinking about work.

I’m feeling a mixture of burnout and just a general disinterest in my teams domain area. My current team has also grown in ways I didn’t expect when I joined.

My coworkers don’t seem the most motivated. I spend less time coding or building anything and more time sending status reports and pointless meetings. I worked on very impactful things early in my roles at this company. I question the value of things my team is doing now.

My direct manager is very passive. There’s literally no feedback or much engagement from him. His job is to make sure sally doesn’t stab sue kind of thing.

Ironically, the culture is very cut throat. Longer term, I’m realizing I will have to quit and find a job elsewhere. It’s a bit demoralizing after earning two promotions and putting in as much as I have. My husband and I were planning on getting pregnant by next year and purchasing our first home. If I leave my job, we have a sizeable nest egg but both plans will be up in the air. I haven’t said anything to my husband yet.

I still have a job, but I’m questioning what was all this for.
> Honestly, cryptocurrencies are useless.

It's always strange when people are overly specific.

Is it private money that will never find any use anymore, or is it just that they can never be digital?

The first is not an unreasonable opinion to have, given modern history and the relative success of fiscal policy (at least in the latter half of the 20th century), the second I find harder to justify.

> Would you rather trust a human legal system

The real world is far from that clear cut. Users of other private currencies, such as eGold, might be tempted to disagree. Hacks (in any and every sense) of those systems were even more devastating.

If you only ever consider every currency an alternative to the dollar, and limit yourself to that use case, you might as well ask yourself why any other currency exist at all.
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> Introducing censorship won't help fix these issues

Regulation does not equate censorship. There are other things that can be done. What do you think about this one "The report also said social media companies should agree to "code of conduct" to govern their commercial agreements with publishers."?

It looks like a good idea that the tech giants should be held accountable for how they run their advertisement business that affects the behaviour of all the population.

"Should these companies be allowed to run what accounts as psychological experiments on big portions of the population without any supervision?" is a valid question. It is not censorship. What do you think about it?
Formal deviation from that posture would immediately provoke war from China.

Otherwise, it looks like pretty clear picture. The population identifies as (Taiwanese && not Chinese) at ~70-95%. The Sunflower movement, the election of the DPP and formation of the New Power Party, the Tsai administration's unprecedented defiance towards China.. all point the same direction, not to mention recent calls for independence-oriented referendums.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jnylander/2015/02/14/strong-sup...
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/616083178/born-independent-ta...
https://international.thenewslens.com/article/113537
This is great!

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any bulletins later than March 2018 (irrespective of whether one joins the group or not).
> Regarding credit cards, very few Visa and Mastercard are credit, especially in Europe.

I am sure the same is true in India too - most are debit cards. The monopoly, the high fees they charged and the profit ending up in a foreign country was the reason that the indian government launched their own payment and card system. Visa and Mastercard were forced to lower their fees to remain competitive. (And now they are complaining and lobbying the US government to pressurise India to ease their new laws regarding data storage in India).
You also need to be a person worth fighting for. It goes both ways.
apologies, this does depend on ticket type:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/46590...

I've updated my comment above with more information.
And in the long run we re all dead
Competitive pay for teachers is a must, regardless of how we choose to approach the critical thinking aspect of things. You also don’t need to educate everyone, just a sufficient majority. As for the lag time, yeah of course it would take time, it took time to but the system in the first place. I would argue that whatever problems were facing by that time, a solid education and grounding in critical thinking skills would help. By contrast a pig-ignorant electorate that can be led by any group of random voices is always problematic.
How about using a terminal web browser like w3m or elinks? Of course, they're no firefox or chrome, but you might be surprised by the amount of features they have. They both have tabs, you can scroll with your mousewheel, and click on links with your mouse, they have context menus, etc. w3m can display images in the terminal as well, and they can be turned off if you prefer it that way.
What was interesting to me is the search ID, https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=157-857-0B2 for example. Each change results in a new search ID. If you toggle the same option on and off, the search ID is different every time. I originally thought it was a way to reference a unique combination of the facets but it seems to create a new search session for each query.
>Does an IQ test like the one Mensa requires has any relevance or correlation with performance in real life career or society?

Well, someone put it this way: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
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Equality of outcome collective punishment/self-confidence destroying identity politic advancement and self-righteous, vindictive chip-shouldering fall under the category of: "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

I still ponder the logic, intentionality or unintended consequences for why, when I was a kid, I was forced bused 90 minutes (3 hours a day both ways) to a gang-infested, "magnet" school in the height of the CIA-affiliate-backed crack epidemic and gang war when there was a perfectly good school one block away from where I lived. Maybe it was a consequence of vacillating public policy fashionablism that arbitrarily and capriciously rewrote and reworked systems that were both sabotaged and ignorantly reorganized. I previously attended a private school that explicitly didn't go along with the public school's abandonment of practices and techniques that were proven to work. Public schools implemented sweeping changes with little or no scientific evidence for their effectiveness nor risk management.
I have no interest in retiring. I like working, and I would miss it if I stopped. And I’m not a believer of the traditional deferred life plan. I prefer doing it now rather than in 10 years.
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At the minimum, the arbitrator should be licensed and certified by the court. Further, the plaintiff should be able to sue the arbitrator if they failed to act in good faith (i.e., if the arbitrator was sleeping during the deposition, or clearly rendered a decision not supported by the evidence).
I think it depends on what you're working on.

When it comes to creating a course, there really is no way to reuse those files in a way that makes sense. A course on Docker and Flask have nothing in common for example.

Also, a course's writing isn't the only aspect. There's video too. Each video is its own individual unit of output.

Once a course is delivered on video, you really can't go back and start adding in new lessons to the middle because your previously recorded videos depend on things being in the old order. When you record lesson 103 and it expects code to exist in folder 103/ in a git repo, you can't just add a new lesson after 57 because now 103 becomes 104 and it throws everything off.

So in my case, once I complete the course, its TOC is set in stone. Those numbers won't change, but I want the flexibility to change them as I actively make the course which is when they change a lot.
"Somehow we'll deliver the WorldWideWeb.app directly to the machine…if only we could work out how to network the machine…"

Huh? Have these kids been so caught up in GNU/Linux that they've forgotten about ifconfig and route commands? Configuring the network and mounting an NFS share should be the very easiest part of their work.
Trees are scalable in that you can keep planting them at low cost, but no where near effective enough at sequestering carbon. Even if you cover all agricultural land in the world with trees, you won't sequester enough carbon to prevent climate change.
Generally it is based on the relative costs of a non-injury vs other injury types. So the weight is equal to cost of fatality divided by cost of non-injury. Keep in mind that these values vary from region to region. We use the 1, 3, 8 grouping because the State uses it and by being consistent we can compare different areas more easily.
Interesting point: the 737 was originally designed to take off from gravel runways.
That isn't a limitation of SPA or browser based apps though. For that matter, even having an option to open an app multiple times is often a limitation of desktop apps. That doesn't make them somehow deficient as a platform.
Do they actually care about extra curriculars though? Cannot remember of a single case in Oxford CS admissions where that was a factor, let alone a deciding factor. Usually those with loads of extra curriculars were not as good as those for whom maths/CS was their true passion. They would look like they had received better admissions interview coaching perhaps, but it was our job to see through that and it was not that difficult to do so.
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Isn't that the modern hiring system that everyone hates on? Do leetcode -> get prestigious job -> quit after 18 months -> do more leetcode -> make more money.
You're a genius. All reddit has to do is violate the FTC Act on a massive scale.
> There already is an incredibly accurate predictor of recessions: the 10 year vs 2 year yield ratio.

This is not quite true. 2s10s curve inversion is commonly discussed, but 3m UST bill vs 10y UST note has far greater predictive power [0] -- and this indicator does not exist for all large economies. BoJ and ECB factor in curve inversions already, which diminishes their predictive power.

Additionally, some have argued that the US tax policy changes have diminished the signal from the curve (companies repatriating cash tend to hold it in short dated tenors, making the curve steeper than it would otherwise be). Finally, there's argument over whether yield curve inversions are causative or indicative of recession in the US.

[0] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
> We in the West have this completely-made-up assumption that "they" can't develop like "we" did, with absolutely no grounding in fact.

Some people do, that's true. It also seems to be true that some people have an assumption, not at all completely grounded in fact, that "all" people can and will develop "like we did". Two problems I see with this belief are that it is inherently speculative (a prediction of the future), and it assumes that other cultures Necessarily* _want_ to develop like we have. Personally, I believe there are significant imperfections in Western culture, the way we've developed and the way we operate today, I'd be extremely surprised if all cultures view our way as the best way to organize societies. You can see evidence of this all over the place, but Westerners have a habit of classifying dissenting opinions as "just wrong" and dismissing/ignoring them.
Not exactly.

"In his recent book Hive Mind economist Garett Jones argues that the direct effect of IQ on personal income is modest, and that most of the benefits of higher IQ flow from various spillover effects that make societies more productive, boosting everyone’s income. This, he says, explains the “IQ paradox” whereby IQ differences appear to explain a lot more of the economic differences between nations than within them." (...) “Fans of g would do well to look at the labor lit: 1 IQ point predicts just 0.5% to 1.2% higher wages.” He has also said that, in terms of standardized effect sizes, IQ accounts for only about 10% of variance in personal income (a correlation of ~0.32).

At some very crude levels (at the extremes) it fares better (e.g. someone below 90 would not do very well) but in general is nowhere near representative.

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
It’s not isolated to Westerners, we simply started a little earlier so are further along.
The article mentions the difficulty of scaling reforestation and afforestation. It is currently a fairly manual (and physically brutal) task which usually involves (energy intensive) greenhouses/nurseries.

That said, there are some groups that are working on addressing scaling reforestation right now (and we are hiring engineers).

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/26/that-night-a-forest-flew-d...

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/08/drones-seeds-fires-how-...

It’s also worth mentioning that rangeland vegetation can have a critical role to play. It doesn’t seems as obvious/flashy, but they tend to have an enormous root structure and can prevent state changes (e.g., desertification).
Are you seriously considering banning someone when pointing out the obvious? This is clear censorship and not in the spirit of this forum to ban someone when they point out known transgressions or very clearly known problems.

China's IP theft isn't some conspiracy theory: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-deploys-new-tactics-to-curb...

To say that China steals is not a fallacy or an exaggeration in the slightest.
Yes, I just did!
I'm conflicted about this. I think forced arbitration is a terrible predatory practice. But I also think there are lots of frivolous class action lawsuits. All the claims cited here were from a single class action lawsuit that was thrown out.

I'm all for Uber drivers making more money but they filed a class action lawsuit asking for a different compensation structure than what was offered. They knew the deal when they signed up and it seems like a sketchy attorney took on their case for a big pay day and when that was thrown out they're now taking this next step. If I sign an agreement with an employer about my compensation, I don't have a realistic expectation that I'd be able to sue them when they continue to do what they told me they'd do and I'm no longer happy with it (my recourse is to walk away and work somewhere that better matches what I'm looking for).

Frivolous lawsuits drive up the cost for customers almost everywhere. It's a big reason why medical costs are so high. People see a big organization that has some cash and they think they can file a suit as a way to quick riches.
One of the biggest changes that came out of the Colgan crash is the so-called "1500 hour rule." Before Colgan, only the captain needed to have an airline transport pilot (ATP) certificate, the highest level of pilot certification. First officers (copilots) could fly with a commercial pilot certificate, a lower grade of license. Now, both pilots are required to hold ATP certificates.

ATP applicants need to have 1500 hours of flight experience—hence "1500 hour rule"—though there are exceptions if you've attended specific approved aeronautical schools or have military experience. Commercial applicants need only 250 hours. (Here too there are exceptions for certain training programs.) The standards on the flight tests are tighter for ATPs and the written exams are worlds apart.

As an instructor I can tell you the difference between a 250-hour pilot and a 1500-hour pilot can be enormous. Not always—some pilots have 1500 hours, and others have the same hour, 1500 times in a row—but there can be a huge difference.

This rule has been controversial though, not least of all because both pilots in the Colgan crash already had more than 1500 hours. And the FAA made so many changes after Colgan that it's been hard to tell which of those changes actually made the difference, and which, if any, were simply no-ops. Critics of the rule have especially focused on how many flight tests the Colgan captain failed, and how the response by the pilots to an aerodynamic stall was completely backwards. Aerodynamic stalls are something you learn in your first ten hours of training as a private pilot and drill constantly throughout your career, so to get that wrong at the air carrier level speaks to an incredible failure in training and evaluation.
>Isn't that the modern hiring system that everyone hates on?

If you're working for someone else, yes. But those making the most money are not working for others.
Because having children is rather important to the continuation of society, and (while largely wonderful) a massive financial investment by the parents.
I know there are guys who can watch porn normally and carry on with their lives afterwards. I'm not one of those people. I have been seriously addicted to pornography to the point that maybe once or twice a week I get an uncontrollable urge to pmo, even in a public restroom, and it's causing havoc on my state of mind. Emotional numbness, fatigue, distractedness, objectifying every woman I see on the street, are just a few. It's like that feeling of smoking marijuana where you're ok with doing and being nothing without the longlasting high. I've read a lot about what porn can do to your brain and I hope putting this guide out there can help the few that have gone the same way.
> It sounds like your beaf is not with the web but the current state of many websites.

Those websites were enabled by various changes in what the web supported. As an example, think of how the web would be without AJAX. That'd be enough to kill most webapps.
Many thanks, that's great info which I could not have found.
For Fitbit, it's about the money. They reduce their costs with this strategy, and they don't care about your message.
Doesn't elastic search require a decent size server just to run with no data? Curious about the costs of running elastic search for a small number of documents compared to the low cost of running django. For example the frontend could be static and hosted on S3 for pennies while elastic search seems to recommend at least 8 GB of ram which would be $40/mo on some lost cost VPS providers. Pretty big price difference for a smaller site with a small record set that wants a fast search experience.
The approach really makes little sense to me to be honest. Latex or any competent Text processing tool should take care of most of these needs.

As far as I know the tech the OP uses is used almost nowhere where people work with large bodies of text, meaning the editing and typesetting industry.
> Cue all the people saying how they couldn't live without their 32 threads

I can live without 24 threads, but I love not having my computer become unusable because I'm encoding video or doing some other CPU-heavy task. having more than 4 threads has opened a whole new world of thinking of how to parallelize common tasks - not ever having to wait for your computer feels like a super-power. Paradoxically, this has freed me up to use an ARM chromebook for day-to-day usage - when I need firepower, I remote into the TR workstation (smartplug + boot on power BIOS + dynamic DNS)

I'll never stop feeling a little exhilaration from typing "make -j 22"