skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commented on something related in another thread, but it was either Bierce or Shaw who said something along the lines of, "all professions are a conspiracy against the layman."

This is distinct from trades and arts, where there is a simple scale of competence.

The reason most jobs demand a university degree today is because of the professionalization of management and HR means that the people making hiring decisions have a direct interest in preserving and increasing the value of their own positions and credentials.

For example, have fun getting P&L responsibility or significant direct reports without a degree, let alone getting a work visa. The reason for this is not because of competence, it is because of a tribal identity that the schools inculcate.

The thing about "uneducated," people is that because they have to trade on their skills and performance, and not credentials, over a certain intelligence you can't trust them to sustain cognitive dissonance (or to lie) on behalf of the team, because they will defect if they perceive risk to their competence-based identity.

When you hear someone say an uneducated person "doesn't get it," they are not referring to competence, they are referring to recognition of a power dynamic that means success and group survival is about relationships and the perceptions that drive them, and not about the material quality of the work.

This may sound nihilistic and cynical, but recognizing non-technical education credentials as more of a tribal membership or a kind of managerial officer training than a signifier of skill clarifies the dynamics of companies and organizations, and could save a lot of stress wondering if people are evil or insane.

They aren't necessarily evil or insane, they are indexed on perceptions and relationships that are not decided only by skill and competence.

Few will articulate it this way, but there is no incentive for people with an education to criticize it, and without one the perspectives and tools to do so are rare.
There's loads of places you could do this and not even have to do it "from scratch". But the network problem is immense.

You're gonna build stuff that doesn't make sense for a small city with money you don't have and pray that it becomes a big city.

China has housing shortages and also gobs of vacant planned cities because no one wants to live in an empty city.

Cities with great transportation, layout, etc. are not pre-planned; they are hundreds of years old.
Ah, the classic "why is this email a meeting"?

Subject: You're dying.
Message: 2-3 weeks. Cancer. Please see attached invoice.
First Detection of the Pre-Biotic Molecule Glycolonitrile in Space
My story was ~10 years ago. The publisher asked to install a specific printer driver (as Word's rendering depends on printer settings) and using a specific Word template (defining margins, formatting, ...) and final result would be printing to .prn files.

If you look at many contemporary books typesetting is not an important topic for many.
Speaking as somewhere who first moved to Austin in the 90's, you are so right. While they have worked on it, the growth in population happens faster than the growth in public transport. I take the bus whenever possible (I'm a contract developer, so I have 1-3 different workplaces during a typical year), it is often the case that I have to do at least part of the commute by car.
This is a (perhaps short-term) failure of first principles reasoning. Elon's known to favor thinking about things from first principles, and there's no theoretical reason that vision can't work. However, technical limitations might take a while to overcome.
I think that these patterns will become more common in areas where economic opportunity for all involved parties equalizes. We are seeing social problems arise from this today, but hopefully those movements (incel, for example) begin to falter as the benefits from such a setup are realized.

The idea that there are benefits to this are based on my personal point of view: I am married, I have two children, one adopted. While my marriage works, from my perspective, as a financial and management arrangement. However, it has failed in a variety of other areas that something like this would solve.

Physical intimacy is an important aspect of human life, and finding reasonable access to it during our contemporary societal power shifts is going to be an ongoing problem. I expect to see more articles like this as people try to figure it out.
Assuming no other doctors were available (hence the robot) the alternative would be to not the patient. Which is worse?
Yes, by "golden age" I'm referring to the fact that "business class" has transitioned from angled lie-flat big economy seats to a mini first class.
Just FYI: "Mr. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute". Many people find the agenda that AEI pushes to be loathsome, and I'm not surprised that Mr. Brooks finds himself the object of contempt on a not-infrequent basis.
Man, my very first C program was a file called a.out

RIP :/
I think this article deserves visibility on HN because it's such a vivid example of technology without ethics. The technology is incredible. It can reduce costs and improve access to specialists. These tools should be a part of our medical system.

But this man and his family are flesh and blood people. And the doctor too. They have feelings. They have mental health and spiritual health needs. In the rush to deploy the technology, the human dimension was ignored.

So this might have been just another fleck of clickbait if it weren't for the fact that it's another example of a deep problem we technologists have. When we create the tool, we are also responsible for its ethical use and the impact, positive or negative, it has on the world. Don't dissociate from the impact of your work. Own it.
You get 75% of the letters every time, in order. It's pretty trivial to merge these together after a few examples. Every time you ask for a set of characters, the set of possible outcomes shrinks, and 1820 isn't exactly a large set of possibilities to start with (for your 16-character example).

Given that most people do not use random passwords (and are even less likely to in with a scheme like this), guessing the missing characters is likely trivial for most passwords.

Also the scheme you're describing is very clearly not the one in use here given that they asked for only 4 characters.
A lot of people seem to hung up on the idea that art has to be good. Art can be completely deplorably awful, it doesn't have to be good to be art.
I don't really understand why you'd expect CPU time to be more valuable. If anything you'd expect it to be cheaper, given how the majority of CPU time goes unused for anything useful.

Many decades and untold billions in R&D went into modern computers. I wouldn't expect them to be anything but extremely cost-effective, and they are.
What about closing Tax loopholes, such that Apple and Amazon pay their fair share and Netflix does not pay zero tax ?
I bought my house for 130k 15 years ago. It is probably worth about double that now. People who can afford a 100k house used to be able to get a home in Austin, even 10 years ago, and in a few pockets of the city even 5 years ago.

What SF considers affordable, is way overpriced.
I am Executive Platinum on American. I fly business class a lot, and have been able to get first class upgrades pretty easily. The first class product is very similar to business class - just slightly "fancier" food. I actually prefer the business class seat on AA's long haul flights (way more storage space for ipad, headphones, etc. - at the cost of a slightly narrower seat).

The trick to getting most upgrades from business to first is to request the upgrade as soon as you book the biz class flight. You're not likely to get it if you try to do it at the airport.
How does one (without access to exotic financial instruments) even do that?
This is too weird to go mainstream as is, but perhaps some aspect of it could be Starbucksed for the mainstream.
So many floppies...

The following disk sets are available:

A The base system. Enough to get up and running and have elvis and
comm programs available. Based around the 1.0.9 Linux kernel,
and the new filesystem standard (FSSTND).

These disks are known to fit on 1.2M disks, although the rest of
Slackware won't. If you have only a 1.2M floppy, you can still
install the base system, download other disks you want and
install them from your hard drive.

AP Various applications and add ons, such as the manual pages,
groff, ispell (GNU and international versions), term, joe, jove,
ghostscript, sc, bc, and the quota patches.

D Program development. GCC/G++/Objective C 2.5.8, make (GNU and
BSD), byacc and GNU bison, flex, the 4.5.26 C libraries, gdb,
kernel source for 1.0.9, SVGAlib, ncurses, clisp, f2c, p2c, m4,
perl, rcs.

E GNU Emacs 19.25.

F A collection of FAQs and other documentation.

I Info pages for GNU software. Documentation for various programs
readable by info or Emacs.

N Networking. TCP/IP, UUCP, mailx, dip, deliver, elm, pine, smail,
cnews, nn, tin, trn.

OOP
Object Oriented Programming. GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1, and the
Smalltalk Interface to X (STIX).

Q Alpha kernel source and images (currently contains Linux
1.1.18).

TCL
Tcl, Tk, TclX, blt, itcl.

Y Games. The BSD games collection, and Tetris for terminals.

X The base XFree86 2.1.1 system, with libXpm, fvwm 1.20, and xlock
added.

XAP
X applications: X11 ghostscript, libgr13, seyon, workman,
xfilemanager, xv 3.01, GNU chess and xboard, xfm 1.2, ghostview,
and various X games.

XD X11 program development. X11 libraries, server linkkit, PEX
support.

XV Xview 3.2 release 5. XView libraries, and the Open Look virtual
and non-virtual window managers.

IV Interviews libraries, include files, and the doc and idraw apps.
These run unreasonably slow on my machine, but they might still
be worth looking at.

OI ParcPlace's Object Builder 2.0 and Object Interface Library 4.0,
generously made available for Linux developers according to the
terms in the "copying" notice found in these directories. Note
that these only work with libc-4.4.4, but a new version may be
released once gcc 2.5.9 is available.

T The TeX and LaTeX2e text formatting systems.
Apple is highly compartmentalized.

I had a friend working on iPod frameworks and he was free to talk with me about new iPod developments because he only learned about them the same was I would: by watching the public announcements on YouTube.

A bunch of old Cygnus colleagues work at Apple. One of them, working on the debugger, said he was shocked when macOS-on-intel came out because he hadn't heard about it. That team had had to make their own fork of the toolchain (and presumably the OS!) to fix their own bugs, until it was publicly released. He said he thought a few weird bug reports about things like stack frame assumptions that came in from random external addresses (about the generic gdb) were probably, in retrospect, from the Marklar team, but that he would never know.

I'm convinced one of the strengths of the Valley is the de facto permeability of NDAs, and I actually consider Apple's level of secrecy a weakness. Though they seem pretty satisfied with their approach :-).
Sure, in some areas the lack of ISP competition is particularly acute. But on the flip side, lack of competition in tech is a nationwide problem. I’ve got gigabit through both Verizon and Comcast at my house. It’s much easier for me to switch between the two than for me to switch off gmail (which has years of my emails), or to switch off Facebook (which all my aunts and uncles use).

As to cellular—it’s a viable alternative for lots of people. Many people don’t need more than 10-20 hours of high quality video per month. 20% of people are already smartphone-only users, and that figure is growing. At the same time, those data caps are growing. Verizon’s 5G service has no data cap. Even if there is a soft cap of a few hundred GB, that’ll be a viable wired replacement for most people.

The trend in tech, by contrast, is the opposite. We’re not on the precipice of increased competition in search or mobile OSs. Indeed, with Microsoft throwing in the towel on Windows Mobile, there is less competition in that space than ever.
Most hospitals are running on woefully outdated and/or inadequate technology. I've had a few different friends in healthcare IT and every story has been a nightmare. I'm not sure why it's this way.
Is the Pope catholic?
I tend to agree with you, but CPUs only use a percent or two of our energy and idle CPUs still use power. It seems to me that there are lower hanging fruit that we should pluck first.
Smart people who put in months of studying don't have a 5% chance of making it into a large company after those few months.

Google might have a 5% hire rate but it's not 5% of qualified and heavily prepared people. And you can just multiply your chances by applying to more companies.

With skill and determination you will make it.

With skill and determination, starting a startup you're just buying a ticket to potentially making it.

As you said, it only makes sense if your alternative doesn't offer you enough money to live comfortably and save as well, or you are, well, atypically non-risk-averse.
Yeah, it's certainly bigger than just that idea; it was just the first thing that came to mind as something older than Rust.
dominating the market and holding a monopoly are not the same thing. Amazon has a dominant position in many markets, but are not a monopoly on any market unless you re-define the market to be amazon's portion of it.

Does amazon have a retail monopoly? absolutely not. An online retail monopoly? still no. An online book selling monopoly? okay, now we're getting closer but still not a monopoly. A kindle books monopoly? yeah, by definition.
To simplify it you can compare SEO to a movie in the cinema.

If you’re going to the cinema and one of your friends recommend you for a high-quality movie, you are more likely to watch it right?

The movie has to be compelling enough so that you will like it.

If you like it, you might tell others.

Search engines work in the same way.

If the content is high quality, and other people link to your site, it’s more likely that Google will rank you higher.

A backlink is an important factor in the Google ranking algorithm.
Show HN: Unity 3D WebView for Android and iOS
As opposed to pretending to pay attention knowing attention would wander without engagement?
3 weeks vacation is the norm here.

Average rent is $2100. Average house price $750,000.
If it was me: The doctors tells literally ANY OTHER human there first, and THAT human tells me. Robodoc can be in the room, I don't care, but robodoc does not tell me I am about to die, I would be livid.
Yes, in that model, they want 'other grocery makers to exist'

But Amazon is going to open a regular grocery store chain soon, so it won't be just Whole Foods.

What Amazon 'wants' is to make money. If they can control all of the food distribution in the US, they will make not only all the profits from that market - they'll make a 'monopolizers surplus' from having the power to charge higher prices in the long run.

That cash-cow is much bigger than the partial cash-cow of owning only an intermediary layer.
For the most part you're correct. With Cathray Pacific long haul, PE is a domestic first class seat and service.
"A little-known partnership between IBM and Apple to try to make a new OS (Pink) that would finally beat DOS:

"IBM has 33,000 programmers on its payroll but is so far from leading the software business (and knows it) that it is betting the company on the work of 100 Apple programmers wearing T-shirts in Mountain View, California."

Quote from a co-worker who spent a lot of time at Taligent: "They don't realize mice can have more than one button."

(I worked for the IBM Taligent Project Office in Austin. We were an AIX (mostly) and OS/2 (to an extent) shop.)

(Advice: Don't work for IBM.)
My first move would be to eliminate the ability to write off tickets/boxes. I can't count the number of people I know that have corporate tickets that are 90% for personal use, but written off because they take the occasional client to a game/show.
Is luck evenly distributed? If so, then at least on one level of abstraction, is not the world fair? If it is not evenly distributed, then by what mechanism is luck parceled out to individuals?

Bill Gates may be lucky in that he had little choice over the circumstances in which he was born into, but did not his parents make decisions that led to a better outcome? His luck could be said to be the merit of his ancestors.
We shouldn't expect them to be better, but we live in authoritarian society.
I cycle through about 5 different meals, with almost no meat consumption, and whole grains and slow carbs like whole wheat bread and quinoa. Buying the same things every time makes shopping easy. For most of the last decade, I've also been on an OMAD/intermittent fasting routine. It's helped me become extremely well fat adapted, kept my weight under control, and kept my teeth in very good condition.

Fair warning, it did reduce my BMR noticeably. On days when I'm not active, 1400 kcal is maintenance for me. This, and extreme fat adaption, has advantages for me as a long distance hiker since I can carry less food. But if you like to eat, long term OMAD might be a bad idea.
There are a million other things which should also be done.

Saying "What about these other things?" isn't particularly constructive to the discussion of this proposal.

There's nothing in it which precludes changes to the tax structure as a separate proposal.
It was merely a point intended to express similarities between your scenario and what's happening in the modern world. I could see a scenario like the one you described playing out where if after a string of bad choices in this optimization problem, people leave the "deciding" up to a machine. And if that proves successful over a certain amount of people, society might start putting the power of relationships in the hands of machines and algorithms.
>Splitting territorial monopolies into smaller territorial monopolies is unlikely to help.

It seemed have helped in the Ma Bell[0] days[1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
VS Code on Your Server – Coder – Medium
yeah if you enjoy the trip taking 7x longer sure
A warehouse for people who learn Python crawlers
Upcoming Global Positioning System Week Number Rollover Event [pdf]
>it's completely decoupled from the VIN or any other identifiers that could ID you

Anonymized data isn't really anonymous

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170803/14480037916/once-...

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2185458/microsoft-resea...

https://www.wired.com/2007/12/why-anonymous-data-sometimes-i...

https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.p...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90278465/sorry-your-data-can-sti...
Stars closer to the core move faster, so it's more like a whirlpool than a rotating disk.
> A quick price scan through realtor.com for Austin TX listings, shows that you can buy housing in Austin for $500k-$700k that would cost more like $3m-$5m in SF.

That's worthless info without also understanding operating cost (taxes) and earning power.

According to https://smartasset.com/taxes/texas-property-tax-calculator it's roughly 2% in travis county, vs 1% in CA.

Earning power appears to be about half in Austin compared to SFBA.

So you can afford 1/4 the house, in terms of dollars. $3mm -> $750k. To the extent that your operating cost includes mortgage service, the Austin number would go up. Let's just call it 2x, so $1.5mm. Not bad.

WAIT! We are neglecting income tax. 0% vs 13.1%. But because TX doesn't have the stupid prop 13, let's just call this a wash. per TFA: "The median home price in Austin jumped 40 percent over the last five years".
I’m pretty sure it’s because people assume after the antitrust case in the 90s that Microsoft is compliant now.
If there was only economy, the prices would be much much higher. First/business class and coach need each other: each is subsidizing the other through price discrimination.
More or less any visa to any country, no?
Is this comment really helpful to the conversation?
It's worth noting that a reasonable software engineering salary in Austin allows you to live in a lot of walkable areas, and along main bus corridors. That said, it seems like most people make their choice of housing without taking any of that into account and then decide to complain about their lack of transit options afterwards.
Am I reading that Wikipedia link right, that the default name of compiled executables is a.out because they originally were emitted in that format?
Comment on the USPTO guidelines restoring software patents
I don't know where you come from and what your background is, but where I live, contact to the (average) people is not that bad. It turns out that my inner emotional state has the most impact on my ability on interacting with people. If I'm in a good mood, I can be charming, curious and cheerful. If I'm irritated... not so much. So I suggest to first keep yourself in a good mood. In my case, sleep is my most important mood factor. Second, you can try a bunch of tricks like smiling, genuinely listening, asking curious questions. Humor and irony can help to ease the conversation, sarcasm to round somebody. I think your basic idea to make it for both as pleasant as possible, is on the right track. It just needs a little training in both introspective and empathy. Also, instead to indulge yourself in avoidance behavior, try to open up and confront yourself with people. It won't get better without practice.
It's just an ad hominem attack. I don't agree with you, so you're a "phobe". Technology isn't really the issue here.
I’d expect first class only for security concerns.
>If we were in a space station with thin walls and some folks want to set up a shooting range for their own enjoyment we'd stop them by all means.

No, we wouldn't, nor should we. The reason is democracy: if the people in that space station have a democratic government, and more than half of them vote for leaders who promise them they can keep their shooting range, no matter how dangerous, well then everyone else just has to live with it.

Hopefully, it's obvious here that democracy only really works when the citizens are smart enough to use it well. The problem is that, in many cases, they just aren't, which is what we're seeing now.
So is there a seatbelt or harness to attach the rider to machine as they FLY?
So I can pay several thousand more for business class, or I can arrive a day early and pay <1k for an additional night + expenses.

The math here is simple.
>But no, because Comcast has -bribed- donated to way more congresspeople than Google...

Lobbying is tracked and google spent over 33% more than Comcast - in your own words - bribing members of Congress.

The bulk of Google’s lobbying expenditure was for immigration, tax reform and antitrust. I’d say Google’s far better “at playing the game” after all no one is randomly sticking up for Comcast.
"Some people would prefer the option, for example, where rewards aren't random but evenly distributed."

Some would also prefer the option of having it rain $100 bills every morning...however wildly unrealistic that might be.
1st world problem

I used to live in Romania where hospitals are full of deadly bacteria, doctors are corrupt, nurses are corrupt. There's a shortage of equipment, vaccines, cancer treatment, important medicine, you name it. There is no place in the country to treat a seriously burned man, they all die. Obviously, lifespan here is shorter than in the US by about 4-5 years.
Reminded of this article, today:

http://marketurbanism.com/2017/01/27/the-disconnect-between-...