skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that she's a known racist will already stop her from becoming president. That's probably why she's so carefree about making ridiculous, destructive proposals like this. She doesn't care about the presidency; she just wants a platform to spew her vitriol.
They've already found debris matching MH370 washed up in the Indian ocean. Several of the debris are almost certainly from MH370. This is consistent with the theory that MH370 crashed in the Indian ocean. Shouldn't this immediately disprove the northern path theory? How does SIA68 fit into this?
By getting the flu vaccine, you're protecting those who are too young, too sick or too old to get the vaccine or for whom the vaccine isn't very efficacious.

That it might save you a couple of days of misery is a nice bonus, but not the primary reason to get the shot.
As usual, the problem is who gets to decide "the best interests of the USA" in practice.
I totally agree. I lived in New Orleans for 3 years and NYC for 8. NYC summers are horrible and I was 10x more uncomfortable. One: down south has more expectation of everywhere having air conditioning. NYC doesn't. Two: the cement everywhere makes everything so much hotter and uncomfortable when the weather gets over 85 degrees in NYC. Three: when you live in NYC for awhile you get immune to the piss smell. Except when its hot and it has rained. Then the smell is as strong as the first day you moved to NYC.

I loved living in Manhattan. Especially Harlem. But summers there were horrible when it got really hot out.
My thoughts are to stick with electric motors powering props/rotors over jet engines.

But they still produce a fair bit of noise, however much less than jet turbines.

My guess is that drone rotor prop design can incorporate noise reduction potential(including shrouds), but they will also have to be balanced against lift/thrust performance and additional weight offsetting payload/range.

I can easily imagine a future where residential drone delivery raises considerable concerns over not just safety, but noise, perhaps with associated minimum flight altitude floors to reduce ground signature.

But that will have an impact on drone payload/range as well.

Possibly an analog debate to electric scooters, lower congestion but higher personal injury rate.
Art is compression. The denser the data, the more meaningful/beautiful/elegant.

"Meaningless but aesthetically pleasing" is just decor.
But unlike time travel or flux capacitors aliens do have a real life counter part, us. We know life exists, it's not a stretch to imagine there is more of it.
People like this author are the people who give economists a bad name. What arrogant writing and totally one dimensional thinking.
> Personally I'm waiting for Elon's planned city where he will MVP all his social and organizational concepts before blasting off for mars.

This is more what I'm thinking of. Most planned cities I'm aware of are more like planned suburbs. I'd be more interested a Manhattan without cars.
I think the US Government shares the sentiment: in most cases you cannot pay Uncle Sam in cash. Checks, money orders, credit cards - anything, but cash.

You still can pay your taxes in cash, but they do everything they can to discourage you from it.
I don't know. I've been writing software for over 24 years. I'm not that ancient but learning c as a youngster helps pad the numbers.

There's an awful lot of cyclical patterns in development, and an awful lot of convergence. HTML5 canvas for example is an awful lot like writing custom 2d graphics back in the day. Docker, Vagrant, etc. are neat but there was chroot, zones, vmware images, cygwin etc. before. A lot of hot new language features as well are just existing patterns from the functional discipline being tacked onto imperative languages and vice versa.

The fact that the constraints and reasons for adding generics to java or lambdas to c/c++ are different from the constraints and reasons for adding templating to c/c++ and lambdas to lisp doesnt mean that you can't go in if you understand one well and identify the pit falls or gotchas of newer implementations.

Is it really meaningful to go all in on learning how feature x from 2000 repurposed to solve solution y is all that fundamentally different? WebSockets are great, so was long polling and comet architecture, restful is great, so was SOAP, and their non web based COM messaging or just cross application communication ancestors.

There are a lot of pitfalls and unique characteristics to knew technologies but there is a lot more of new spins on old ideas, common underlying concepts and reinventing of the wheel.
Painting this as an unintended consequence of open source is really interesting. The rise of free open source alternatives to proprietary products has encouraged companies to provide products free, but these companies aren't going to be motivated to provide these products without some avenue for profit.
Or is it more akin to a biopsy? Not harmless, but very unlikely to be more harmful than a scratch.
Great question, and it’s a common question we get a lot. Bit.ly allows you to shorten links in marketing campaigns, and is meant for public use. GoLinks is used to make links memorable and conversational and is private, so it can only be used within your company.
Now the interesting question is - what's the churn rate for those same programmers? Be it into seat-warming work like management, fluff work like "sales engineering", or exiting the software world completely?
In absolutely no way should the government do any of those things. The government should instead pass laws that reflect how the people want corporations to behave, and until they do so, not punish or harm corporations for playing by the rules.

The government running an entire industry, even the threat of such a thing, is a great way to completely destroy innovation in that industry. Why would I invest in research if it's a real possibility the government can come in and take everything from me for nothing?

What you're suggesting doesn't create a free market, it creates a dead market.
The unstated major premise there is that Lyft would be comfortably profitable if not for money spent on expanding their business.

I haven't looked at the balance sheet, but it seems like, if their path to profitability were anywhere close to being as easy as that, then you wouldn't have Horan saying that there is, "nothing in the document that suggests how that could be fixed."
Dual-class share setups are typically prohibited by most ETFs. That's why companies that do want to have more than one share class will trade them under different tickers ($GOOG vs $GOOGL).

Edit: Prohibited was the wrong word, looked down upon was probably better.
> Second, he never addresses any other value than the unemployment rate as a number (for example, I can easily imagine an "apologist" being uninterested in his bet if they think he might be right about the numbers, but they value the regulation for other reasons). In never addressing their views, he dismisses them as unworthy.

Dr. Caplan reached out to the other economists and they didn't respond (which could have included proposing a different bet with different values). He is very judgy about public intellectuals that don't bet on their claims. I wouldn't call that dismissive because said intellectuals impose massive costs on society if they're wrong. It's not enough to hide behind unquantifiable hopes.

> I know nothing of the people or personalities involved...but this does not give me a good impression of the author. First, he never refers to anyone with a contrary opinion in any way other than "apologist".

Apologist is a bit of a brash word, but it's a possible conclusion if a public intellectual is unwilling to put their ideas to tests and revise if necessary.
I read a lot into the fact that the half released auto biography ends where the IBM PC is released. His family saying they censored it because it doesn’t reflect his true self.

FWIW I’ve researched this time period extensively and I think Gary was much kinder than Bill and a great guy. But I don’t think it’s accurate to say he wasn’t ambitious. And certainly inaccurate to say that he was content having had a good run and not winning.
The companies and facebook groups that sprang up were an interesting experiment. Also your comment leaves out that they came back.

Why the city can't figure out public transport is still pretty baffling though.
> To what end? "illegally undermine competition?"

It doesn't have to be illegal to undermine competition. Luxottica owns a vertical of 80% of the brands, the factories, the retail stores, AND the largest insurance company concerning eyeglasses in America. It isn't illegal, but the rents they are extracting from our society by keeping prices artificially high sure as hell SHOULD be.
Economy of scale. For instance, Netflix has CDN boxes all over the planet, colocated by the ISPs. ISPs have to colocate them for free, because with net neutrality, they have to either accept the massive network traffic over their peering connections, or accept the box. Any smaller provider would need to pay for the privilege of colocation in an ISP's datacenter, and they'd also have to supply all of those boxes, that a company on Netflix's scale can easily afford.

Without net neutrality, ISPs would be free to charge big players like Google and Netflix more money, and that would leave a lot more room for smaller players to get involved. Getting "the same terms" as Google and Netflix is not always, inherently, a good thing.
Even if they ever turn a profit (which is unlikely if they continue down the 'we're a self driving car company!' road), that doesn't make them a good investment.

There are plenty of actually profitable companies that return decent dividends. There's no proof that profitability will result in an increase in share price.

If they're not profitable today, I don't think they'll ever be profitable. It's a signal from the marketplace that 'on demand ride services' business segment is over saturated for market demand. They are not meeting an unfulfilled niche in the market, they are losing money to trying to become a dominant player.

Unless the landscape drastically changes and people no longer actually have their own cars (which is their near-term pipe dream), they're going to lose a bunch of other people's money.
I had a somewhat similar experience in Williamsburg, New York last summer.

There’s a Sweetgreen chain restaurant in the neighborhood. Being in there always fires off a bit of liberal white guilt, as there are few African Americans in the neighborhood (a Brooklyn outlier), but nearly everyone employed there is. It's the most visible marker of segregation here.

Three black women were ahead of me in line. They have their lunches made to order, get to the register, and are told they cannot pay with cash. None of these three adult women had a credit card or debit card with them.

I immediately offered to accept their cash and put their lunches on my card with my own order. Two of the women were very grateful, the third vacillated between visible embarrassment that some white guy had to come in and rescue her, and anger at the restaurant.

Make no mistake about it: cash-only policies hurt lower income and minority people. Even after this experience I was still sort of on the fence about it, but having mentally reviewed this episode and spelled it out here, I don't think I can continue in good conscience to shop at establishments like this anymore.
The funny thing is that is actually a decent if risky strategy - they have more room to grow as they develop. Essentially diminishing returns run backwards".
Any attempt to scale is going to have to come up with serious barriers to hold back the tsunami of lonely and undesirable males. I don't believe it's actually possible.
The end user would get a choice by buying a specific phone, though, no? The Android device market, at least, isn't heavily monopolized, and there are many options, including devices that are explicitly advertised as open and cruft-free.
Why does it assume that?

It assumes that when _you_ make up a scale, the people that deserve to be at the top of it tend to be there. There's no reason for it to imply there's one universal scale of good people versus bad people.

For instance, if you want to understand why some people make more money than others (a trait that _is_ well-ordered, and can be put into a list), then somebody who believes in meritocracy would say that the people who make the most money earned it. If you want to understand why different people hold different positions in a company, then the meritocrist would say that between all the people who wanted each position, the person who was best for it tends to be the one that gets it.

Each of those scales may be more or less sympathetic to an explanation by way of meritocracy. But anyone who wants to make that argument doesn't have to construct an a priori global list of goodness for all people to give you an answer.
Why software? Seems like a pretty dumb and fragile platform for a quasi-immortal being.
Lately my phone will die at 30% charge. I've ordered a new battery but last week it went out while I was looking for a Lyft. I normally don't use taxis but it was cold and I was tired.

Luckily I was near a train station and it was still early enough the buses were running, so I knew which transfers to make and which bus to get on without needing a map.

Still I thought about how only a decade ago, I could be on this same street and hold up my hand and flag down a Taxi. Today if I really wanted a taxi, they're pretty much only in the city. I'd have to hunt around for a payphone and would need change too.

If I didn't know my public transport routes back home or if it was late enough the trains stopped running, I'd be kinda SOL. I realize Taxis not just driving around saves on fuel consumption, but have we lost something by simply not being able to hail a cab without a charged phone or laptop with a Wi-Fi point?

I wonder if Uber or Lyft will start putting out kiosks people can use to flag down rides when their phones or out.
>They have benefit for a very very limited part of very weak population, and even for children and old people, the flu rarely dangerous, and when it is, not more than the 1000 other stuff that could hurt them.

Perhaps it's because they remember how the H1N1 flu pandemic of 1918 killed 50 to 100 million people...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
No, I wasn't hired "because of my degree"; there wouldn't be any college-educated Starbucks baristas if that were the case. What I said was that without my degree, I would not have been hired, as I wouldn't even have passed the initial ATS screen. I think we can both agree that is a state of affairs that needs to change.
> That's just being deliberately obtuse.

What? That's rather insulting to assume; I'm being absolutely serious.

> I don't believe I've ever in my life heard "apologist" used in a non-pejorative sense.

That's genuinely interesting. I've always heard it used in a respectful sense. We must run in different circles. (I've always heard it used of Christian apologetics.)
>I'm saying Donald Trump shrugged his shoulders in part because Khashoggi wrote for the Washington Post.

Or maybe he shrugged his shoulders because a foreign intelligence agent got killed by a foreign intelligence agency in a foreign country? Surely Trump, with U.S. and allied intelligence at his disposal, must have been made aware of Khashoggi's true nature.

Indeed, the German press was reporting that Khashoggi was an intelligence agent right away. It took the Post several weeks to finally admit as much, and still they've continued to spend millions of dollars (for example, on Super Bowl ads) to pretend Kashoggi was a real journalist.

Whatever you think of Trump, the Post deserves a great deal of contempt.
I worked for a few years at a company whose exclusive product line was office-oriented telepresence robots, so I probably have a different perspective than most people here. The model in the article is from a company that was medical-oriented. Sort of a competitor to us, but they got the robot certified as a medical device and sold it at a medical-grade price point whereas we did not go for certification and sold it at an enterprise price point to more office-oriented customers.

We had a store in downtown Palo Alto that was a novelty for people visiting. A lot of people were weirded out by the robots at first. Usually they understood a lot better once they drove one around and could understand what they "saw".

Most of our customers were regular remote workers and they loved them because they felt like people respected them more than just being a disembodied voice on a speakerphone. Interactions were much more natural and you could use body language to a certain extent. We had several remote workers ourselves and I felt like I could communicate almost as well as if they were there, and found myself giving the robots 'personal space' like I would a person.

So I personally wouldn't be offended as long as I felt like the doctor was doing everything they could. In fact I'd much rather deal directly with the doctor so I could pick up on if they had misunderstood something about the case history, rather than to play a game of telephone with a human proxy instead and potentially be left wondering what exactly the doctor had said.

So I don't know why the doctor wasn't there that day, but I do understand that he has his own life and other patients to get to. If he's sick, or his kids were sick, or something else came up, I understand that just because he's a doctor who makes life or death decisions doesn't free him from the responsibility of the rest of his life. He may be dealing with a dozen other delicate cases that can't easily be handed off, and it just so happens that mine is the one he can't solve. Pulling another doctor in means that doctor is interrupting that other doctor. He does the triage and sends the nurse in with the robot instead.

I suspect Kaiser will revise their policy based on the publicity this has gotten. But while it might show more empathy to have someone else deliver the news in-person, I'm not convinced that it will overall result in better patient outcomes.

(I'm also assuming that since it was Fremont, CA, it's not like the robot was the only way to have a relevant specialist there. If it was a second- or third-world country, by all means send in the robot with a pulmonary oncologist to tell me there's no hope rather than having a GP try to make the call).
> European countries, by contrast, have mostly not changed their definitions of unemployment since, and have a relatively sane definition of what it means to be employed. This is not to say it's perfect -- far from it. But at least they're not counting 1h/week Uber drivers as employed.

To quote directly from an official EU website [0] (which I presume is how employment statistics is defined within the EU):

> Employment (persons in employment):

> Employed persons comprise persons aged 15 years and more who were in one of the following categories:

> (a) persons who during the reference week worked for at least one hour for pay or profit or family gain.

> (b) persons who were not at work during the reference week but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent.

---

From reading how the US government defines employment/unemployment/labor force participation [1], the definitions appear to be materially the same (employed means working for at least one hour in the EU and for at least 1 second in the US or being temporarily absent, unemployed means not being considered employed and having actively looked for work in the last 4 weeks, and not being in the labor force means not being employed and not being unemployed).

[0]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
According to yog and aayurved, the recommendation is to limit(not avoid) fibre-based, protein-based and fat-based food. Too much fibre and protein is bad for the digestion system and too much fat is bad for the body. Two tablespoon of Ghee(i.e. pure butter) everyday is recommended and is enough for the body. Also, the recommendation is to wake up at 4:00 am, mediate and/or exercise, drink a glass of warm(not cold) water before lunch, have lunch before 7:00 am, stomach should be max 2/3 filled after lunch, eat fruits and dry fruits the rest of the day whenever you feel hungry, drink warm water whenever you feel thirsty, have lite dinner before 5:00 pm, and sleep at 8:00 pm before doing some meditation.

That is the recommendation for a calm, refreshing and healthy life.
What a joke. To claim that for example using Chrome is “inescapable” is pure hyperbole. You’re worried about Google tracking your credit card purchases but not worried about credit card companies tracking that? Because I assure you they do. And ISP monopolies do follow you when you move: across huge swathes of the US you have one or maybe two options for internet access.
Any idea how the STI rates differ or not among these group vs the general population?
The article includes the full statement from KP's PR department. No where do they try to claim that the specialist's physical location, or other logistical consideration, was the reason for the use of telemedicine.

Furthermore, the family themselves said they didn't realize what was going on until afterwards. Which strongly suggests the doctor, for whatever reason, decided at no point to tell them, "I'm a specialist at Kaiser's radiological department in Boston...", if that were actually the case.
GP used an example of lobbying against the government entering what had heretofore been a private market. Pushing back on that is not "monopolistic" by any sense of the term. If you have examples of Comcast lobbying to prevent private competition, I'd like to hear them. The biggest impediment to private competition actually comes from the public interest sector, which insists on build-out requirements that make it very difficult to start competing ISPs, on the theory that it's better for nobody to have competing choices than to only have wealthier areas have competing choices.
Go to a doctor. A simple blood test for vitamin deficiency takes a few minutes. If you are deficient, you'll receive a prescription for a high dose to help combat the deficiency immediately, and a plan to take the correct maintenance dose over time. If not, you will know there is another root cause behind your symptoms.

This isn't something you should self-medicate. It's tremendously simple for a doctor to confirm your hypothesis.
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It's worth noting that the economist John Quiggin didn't propose an adjustment for this in the bet.
Saying I am lucky downplays my hardwork which I put through the university. I hope are you aware of my investment or commitment to studies which got me here
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But that’s also a problem with a lot of physicians, from my experience they provide vague answers and hint around. For one of my recent family members, I pulled her social worker aside and said this is a binary yes or no, Should we call hospice? And even then after much handwringing, the physician blurted it out to my family member despite having health care PoA

In a perfect scenario as it is on television a scholarly physician sits on the bedside, pats the patient’s knee and looks them in the eye and says, “we’ve done all we could”.

I worked in health care for decades, while not in a care role, I went through and managed some of the training programs to improve bedside manner/customer service. I had to document each physician as they spoke with my family member. Because of two of the three experiences they were eager to turn over the bed instead of providing compassionate care