skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...so your 30 second idea to ruin the keyboard by making it impossible to play a melody that crosses middle C with one hand is better than simply making each key a little more narrow?

This reeks of the silicon valley stereotype of "I don't know why you're doing it this way, let me come in with zero experience and tell you how to do it better, with technology™. In this case, it's really clear that you are not a piano player, and have not attempted to learn in any serious way.

In the case of the 7/8 piano, there have been case studies, physiological research, actual testing of different sizes of keyboards, etc.
I think this is only worth doing if you plan to stay and you are willing to make an effort to get the person fired. If you have already moved on it smacks of taking revenge and can have career downsides.
That's not the argument in full. Carbon cost of production includes the cost of wastage. If the cost in carbon to produce what is wasted is > than the savings elsewhere, it is a loss.

It is not so much a complicated equation as it is an involved one, and we risk simplifying the equation and getting it very wrong.
Ask your manager to send you to this: http://coleadership.com
Another great guide in a similar vein:

https://www.dataschool.io/python-quick-reference/
This is wonderful, it really warms my heart to see people contribute voluntarily.

That being said, it appears a large portion are people that were uninsured and then came upon a major medical emergency. Why do people take their health for granted? Even those that are insured, look at the obesity and smoking rates, two significant factors in unexpected early death.
Doze mode nukes network connections that are not FCM.
I like to write short stories in my free time.

One that I’ve been working on over the last year is one where the concept of “crowdfunded healthcare” evolves into a dystopian game show where people go on TV and share their sob story on why they need money. Then the viewers at home get to choose who gets the show’s prize money each season through a bracket style voting system that crowns a champion at the end.

I had to stop working on it as it got really, really dark the more I wrote.

On that note, I find it supremely fucked up that people have to turn to crowdfunding to get their unexpected healthcare costs covered by benevolent internet citizens.
Why do you assume the uninsured take their health for granted?
All carmakers disclose the fuel economy of their vehicles. How much you'll actually pay for fuel depends greatly on not just the fuel economy of the vehicle, but how much you drive, how aggressively you drive, and the price of fuel in your area and at the particular time. I don't see how you could distill all that down to a single number that means anything.
Here's a good article from the Harvard Business Review: "To Sound Like a Leader, Think About What You Say, and How and When You Say It." Recommended for anyone in or aspiring to be in a leadership role
https://hbr.org/2017/10/to-sound-like-a-leader-think-about-w...
It's obvious the CEO cares greatly about this issue. But not quite enough to reduce the percentage that GoFundMe rakes in with every donation.
2/5ths of Europe at the time were Orthodox and Greek based.

Some parts even non-Christian.
There are more repos on the parent account. They may be in one of those.
Without taking a position on the strength of the arguments in the Damore memo, if most of your news diet comes from the anti-Damore side of the debate, you're more likely to see only the less reasonable people on the pro-Damore side, for the same reason that people on the anti-SJW side mostly encounter the most inflammatory arguments on the pro-SJW side.
I like the point of self examination, and not assuming you know others intentions, but I really dislike this sort of phrase reassignment. The one that really bothers me, is when people say "I feel like..." followed by something that is not a feeling. Changing the wording only works when everyone is on board with the reason for doing so.
Every gas station and convenience store I go into has a glass jar with somebody's family picture and a handwritten note pleading for money to help them afford a life saving operation. Most times it's that f*cker, cancer.
Most people involved in health care, like insurance companies, health care providers, drug companies, doctors and gofundme want more money to be spent on healthcare. That's because it goes eventually into their pockets. The U.S spends double, as a percentage of GDP, on healthcare (16%) as any other country which is good evidence that the solution to healthcare problems being to spend more money is very popular.

The solution has hit negative marginal returns though and the only way out is a more fundamental change to health care, possibly in the form of price controls on drugs or the 150% of Medicare reimbursment maximum price on all procedures. This sort of predictability of costs will obsolete a whole layer of insurance price game players at the hospital and insurance companies that add to health care costs.
Frankly, glass isn't worth recycling either. It's heavy, making it expensive to haul around, and the energy savings vs. using new silica is minimal at best, even without taking the extensive processing required to make it clean enough to use again in to account. Locally, crushed glass is used as landfill cover, which is a good use for it. But there is far more glass than there is a market for it.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/dec/26/spokanes-recycl... just as an example.

Aluminum is absolutely worth it, due to the crazy-high energy requirements of otherwise separating it from oxygen during ore processing. And we do a very good job of lead recycling- something like 99%+ of lead from lead-acid batteries is recovered, which (IMO) shows that things like core charges work great.

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/battery-council-inter...

In general, though, consumer-level recycling isn't the good that people think it is. What is needed is inexpensive trash collection and sanitation infrastructure. Make it too expensive, and people just illegally dump, which causes huge problems.

This isn't as exciting for most people to talk about compared to recycling, but that doesn't make it not true. The reason that 9o% of the plastics in the world's oceans come from a few rivers in asia isn't because of plastics per se, for example- it's because the cities along these rivers have zero waste management beyond 'throw it in the river and call it a day'. Collecting and burying plastics in a managed landfill is a perhaps-surprising solid ecological choice. Plastics make for strong and light packaging, and there's a real carbon cost in hauling things around. And the carbon in the plastic in a landfill somewhere isn't going anywhere.

Final note: doing a proper accounting of what actually is the best method of dealing with a waste stream is really, really hard, and I don't blame anyone for making what turn out to be incorrect assumptions, even when trying to do the right thing based on the current best evidence. All we can do is learn from it and try again.
Less than half of Americans make more than $30/year.

Walmart is the nations largest private employer.

The average American can not afford a surprise $400 expense.

The average American has over $4k in credit card debt.

Yet, despite all of this, the average credit rating for an American is at an all time high.

Basically, don’t think people take their health for granted but the majority of Americans likely can not afford healthcare coverage if it’s not provided by their employer.
Exorbitant cost of health care in America is the problem, not GFM's fees. Lowering the fees would be treating the symptom, not the problem.
Jesus, this blew my mind. Not because the concept is outlandish, but because it wouldn't surprise me at all if it actually existed, and I think it would be immensely popular.
U.S. calls 'OneCoin' pyramid scheme, charges leaders
Bengio at Tsinghua University on Maturing Deep Learning and BabyAI
In America health care is supposed to be as expensive as possible. People demand the system spare no expense on their care.

I have some notes to write about "the predicaments of old people". Both my grandfathers lived an extra few years thanks to the pacemakers Medicare paid for. But they just suffered for those final years.

A lot of old people's problems are related to excess alcohol consumption. IMHO, there would be much more funds available to spend on the gaps experienced by younger people, if doctors assumed their elderly patients are drinking heavily and treated them for that instead of blowing the programs' budgets on treating the down-stream effects of heavy alcohol consumption [edit2].

I have some friends who lived in Canada for a while. They said the Canadian system doesn't go all-out to keep people alive who are going to die anyways...

A few years ago I stopped by to see one of the passengers whom I'd given a free ride to a few years before. She told me she was pregnant. "But I thought you were becoming a man?" She wasn't a he yet, and she'd gotten with a cis-male... They'd called it off before too long, but that's how she'd gotten knocked up. She also said it had a heart defect (she was maybe 4 months along?). This was caused by the hormones she'd been taking to transition.

I was pretty sure the baby wouldn't survive long, but didn't say anything... I followed them on teh Facebook. ... Scheduled c-section, a half dozen heart surgeries, after maybe four or six months the infant died anyways.

I think other countries' health systems are more careful about how they allocate their health resources [0].

[0] How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cuba-heal...

[edit1: minor edits]
[edit2: changed this from quip about keeping people alive for an extra month or two]
How much longer until GoFundMe becomes America's leading healthcare provider?
> In which Universe is a bullying boss help a company?

It is interesting that this question is not studied in a more systematic way. There are situations where having a 'thug' manager is the most effective approach to getting good outcomes. For instance, the same personality that is hard on reports can be very effective in standing up to customers. Viewed from the perspective of the company as a whole, this might be a reasonable economic trade-off, which explains why such a management style would be tolerated.

(Confession: I am a consensus-style manager. The only time I've been fired on a project was a case where my manager judged he needed somebody to crack heads to get the project done. It was painful personally but I think he made the correct decision.)
I spent a few years in Belize and sadly this is the de facto public health insurance program there. Everyone who gets cancer or has a major accident has local fundraisers to get help from the community.
Maybe you like some of your co-workers, or maybe you just want to leave a better situation for the next person. Some folks just don't like entropy.

Frankly, I don't think it would do any good at all anyway. HR will just ignore it, and some damn fool might decide to call you a troublemaker later on. HR does love its status quo.
Get a new job, unfortunately.

I worked at a place where the CTO churned the entire staff twice in two years.

He was a pathetic asshole, came from a wealthy background and waltzed into the executive class. He got hired and fired me so he could hire his friends. ( Which was honestly a good call, they needed a senior angular developer and I was a DevOps / Back-end engineer making it work. ) But what he said when he fired me has stuck with me ever since: "We have a different definition of what quality is. You no longer work here."

I have excelled at most of the jobs I have held. This dude's rudeness absolutely blew my mind.

He still works there. I'm sure he is doing well. The executive class never pay for their mistakes, only us lowly workers.
This is the first time I've heard of Lobst.rs. Looks like a HN clone more targeted towards programming. Thanks!
Yes! It was supposed to be over the top satire with a comical tone, but then it just ended up depressing me because it started to feel far too realistic...
I've never understood that problem, whenever I'm looking for a Windows setting my process is always the same.

Hit windows key, start typing until the name of the setting I'm looking for pops up, arrow keys and enter.
Unfortunately I think you make a good point. I vividly remember how during my most recent Japan visit I'd feel frequently embarrassed for other westerners who were either unwilling out unable to talk quietly in public and especially on trains. It almost physically hurt. Meanwhile I know Asians who've lived on the US since many years and still haven't figured out that it's bad behavior her to make loud chewing noises while eating. Maybe the majority of people just aren't interested in learning alternative ways to live.

It's honestly really hard for me to wrap my head around this, since hardly anything is more interesting to me than learning about other cultures, their different norms etc. It not only opens your eyes to how some things could be better but you also gain a fresh perspective on your own culture and yourself.
Given that the amount of communication grows exponentially with the number of people working on the project maybe you could rent out 5 of the engineers and make the project go faster :)
Many more people who have never heard of the ITU will certainly be familiar with the H series ("audiovisual and multimedia systems"), of which the video codec H.264 is well known.
Modern History: A Funny Thing About Medieval Hoods
nicely explained, thanks!
This bugged me too last year. So I built a hosting service for Borg backups that can have append-only access keys.

So the client machine can't change old backups. Ever. In addition you can lock your settings down with 2FA.

https://www.borgbase.com/
Sounds like a black mirror episode? Maybe submit it?
> I am quite sure it is no coincidence that the Renaissance appeared 1-2 generations after the black death,

The opposite - Black Death had delayed the Renaissance for circa 2-3 generations. It was already happening and then the plague came and the Renaisance have played out later in different times and with different people and ideas.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances
> …and then they’ll go on to explain something that one might easily mistake for a rule, or a request, or the enforcement of a social norm, but which is actually (as far as I can tell) just a statement about the version of the world they carry around inside their head.

The way I understand it, not qualifying these sorts of statements with "in my culture..." is exactly how the cultures in question - as sets of common assumptions that are taken to be universal rules or as natural and invisible as breathable air - get forged to begin with. The moment someone says X is a rule and nobody is raises any eyebrows at the statement, it becomes functionally true (for the speaker and their listeners).

Relinquishing the claim to universality by framing them as personal hangups is probably good diplomacy and helps you to get along with coworkers and other relations from various backgrounds, but could it also amount to surrendering the possibility of ever building a shared culture with them?
Not sure how relevant this is to the question but a leader to me is someone who has your back. Someone who is not afraid to throw himself for you. Someone who helps you grow beyond your abilities. Someone who lowers himself and elevate others.

I wouldn’t consider anyone without these qualities as a leader, no matter their pedigrees.
Florida man jailed for refusing to disclose smartphone passcode
I will be down-voted to hell, but I have worked in health insurance company.
Large insurance companies have doctors and layers that basically sit down and make decisions about how much they will pay (if ever) for treatment.
Your scenario has real life basis.
> Why do people take their health for granted?

This is a very myopic view, one that I guess makes you lucky to have. Health insurance is expensive. On the individual market, premiums have more than doubled between 2011 and 2018[1]. Employer-provided health insurance costs have followed a similar trend, with employee contributions increasing at a rate that outpaces employee compensation by a long shot[2].

Not only are health costs increasing at rates that far exceed compensation rates, cost of living expenses are increasing far faster than compensation rates. Average hourly compensation rates have been nearly stagnant since the 1970s[3].

[1] https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/9...

[2] https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/0...

[3] https://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130305161550-char...
I do see a reason: even if the boss may be abusive, not giving sufficient notice would flag you down with HR so they may not ever hire you again. Maybe not so important for smaller firms, but if this is a place she would like to work again, might make things a little more hairy.
Dragon 2/ Crew Dragon originally was going to support propulsive landing, but nixed due to future architectural plans (making some of Dragon a bit of engineering dead-end versus Starship/ BFR) and complexities in certifying for NASA use.

The Soyuz fires retro-rockets just before landing in Kazakhstan to lessen the impact. Even with that, the landing is still pretty rough. Land landings are sometimes described as akin to a car crash - water landings are softer. I'm sure there's probably a contingency capability of being able to support a land landing for Crew Dragon in case of aborts.

Interesting history note: there was an actually a concern during some of the early Apollo flights (I'm specifically thinking of Apollo 7) of land landings during an abort. Apollo 7 used a Block II version of the Command Module, however the crew couches were still the Block I variant. There was evidence showing the couches wouldn't perform well during a land landing. The concern was that if the LES was used, winds could force the capsule to a land landing. The resolution was that wind speed was a factor in a GO decision for launch.

It's interesting to note that Starliner is planned to perform land landings (using airbags). Land landings for capsules have been worked on since the 60s with the Gemini initially having plans for a Rogallo wing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogallo_wing#/media/File:Gemin...). There were even plans for re-use of the Gemini capsule! Water landings quickly ended that discussion, since salt water is pretty terrible and corrosive.
A couple years ago my friend and his wife had a head-on collision at highway speed when some drunk asshole crossed the center line.

The helicopter ride to the hospital was $80,000 per person.

They have awesome insurance (plus supplemental) that doesn't cover a dime of that.

Countless surgeries later and that $160K is a tiny fraction of the total.
If Watsi open sourced their platform (Rails on Heroku if memory serves me), I’d bolt it together with medical tourism (travel arrangement through bulk purchasing and scheduling with foreign providers) to get these Americans treated in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and India for a fraction of the price. It’d be a shim to save lives and reduce suffering until the US implements universal healthcare.

Healthcare is my hill to die on due to life experience.
Are you sure there aren't any TV shows that fit that dystopian game show description already? It seems like a no brainer winner for TV stations -- it's a glorified lottery mixed with lots of emotions, and bonus revenue if users vote by SMS. Surely some producer did that somewhere.
San Jose State University releases footage of fatal officer-involved shooting
A Brief History of U.S. City Planning
I used to work for AWS. The API framework that powers most if not all of AWS API's is called "Coral" and is Java based.
you must be very naive or your ideology blinds you, even solidly middle class people can fall on hard times when dealing with serious disease in the US.

The only reason for not realizing that is stupidity, voluntary or otherwise.
If we assume this is correct what does it mean for the company and it’s employees? They are going public which means there will be pressure to make a profit. How does it bode for their recruitment and in general well being of the company?

Also I cannot imagine Uber to be in any different situation.
The comparable event to Black Death in Europe was religious wars with population loss up to 60% in Germany and Czech. We do not need plague.

https://www.deviantart.com/arminius1871/art/Population-loss-...
I think that's because of some rumours saying that they are barbarous/unreasonable.

And if you combine that with the rule of "Play safe", you get a bunch of externally-acquired stereotypers.

The thing make it even worse is that, in China, you don't meet normal Tibetans and Uyghurs every day. Many Han people get their first impression of Tibetans/Uyghurs from the those fake ones who trying to sell scam medicine and food.

The government did almost nothing to those fakers. What they could do? Confiscate them could result some distorted news and even more rumours. And if the administration got unlucky and confiscated the real deal, then that will be really really bad for them.

BTW, the company can be sued for such discrimination. But it's FoxConn, the Sweatshop of IT industry, maybe it just simply too unworthy to do so.
Reminds me of this comic from a few weeks ago: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/speciation
I don't think any of the mainstream blocking plug-ins claim to just be ad blockers. E.g. The first line on the uBlock origin Readme:

> uBlock Origin is NOT an "ad blocker": it is a wide-spectrum blocker -- which happens to be able to function as a mere "ad blocker". The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites

Any third party scripts tend to fall under "trackers" (stuff like typekit, disqus often gets blocked by default as well), something that just burns your CPU in the background without approval could be classified as malware.
Those cars were nowhere near ready to be on the roads. And given how fast the program spun up there’s no way the drivers were properly trained and vetted.
I personally had several run-ins with the Uber cars in San Francisco before they got their California registrations revoked. I worked on 3rd in soma and saw them out as I would walk to lunch. They didn’t even try to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks during right turn on red (when pedestrians clearly have right of way). I had more than one near miss. I shouted at the driver and he grabbed the wheel in panic. He went around the block to try again and the car did exactly the same thing. It was like they were blind to anything smaller than a car. Uber knew it too, because the failure to yield was reported to Uber in person at their garage on 3rd and Harrison. Uber (and anyone who behaves like that) has no business running a self-driving program. If they start the program back up I guarantee they will continue to kill pedestrians. If you see one coming get away quick. I speak from personal experience and I’m not joking even a little bit.