skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the price you offer for your time influences the perception of the value of time for everyone around you.

Its why minimum wage exists at all. Without it, the most desperate depress wages to the absolute edge of starvation and destitution. It is not, and has never been, and never will be an answer to poverty, but it is a promise by the government that your time can never be valued at less than an absolute floor they set.

Because nature and reality are cruel. For many people, in many circumstances, their time is practically worthless. Minimum wage has a carrying effect on the economic baseline - by having minimum wage workers, there exists industry to meet their extraordinarily limited means. Its the old Ford adage that he need pay his workers enough to afford his cars lest he have no market to sell to.

This matters to state level actors the same way opiates in the US matter. If isolated, rare, instances of irrationality reign and someone ends up dead from a drug overdose that is a manageable risk for the freedom granted in return. But when millions are addicted, tens of thousands are dead, and whole communities are collapsing from it the individual choices that led people to drug addiction are a consequence to the whole of society.

It doesn't even need be in that large a scale. If your brother is a drunk he will by nature he less productive and stable in his life, more prone to disease and illness, and often fall upon his family for support because he cannot support himself due to his own choices. You can then of course choose to not help him, but for those that do their now deflated resources from supporting their drunk brother depress their participation in markets they would have had more voice in. It takes only one bad apple to ruin a family, a bushel to destroy a community, and an orchard can ravage whole counties.

Its why anyone contemplating suicide is told its a selfish way out. Because you make the choice, but everyone else gets to deal with the consequences. Almost nothing you do is wholly restricted to yourself alone - everything has consequences, and society at all is built on a foundation of trading personal liberty for freedom from others liberties.
> All of his commits on Redux are documentation changes

ahem

https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/1000/commits/c9d...

https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/1065

https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/issues/1177

https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/commits/connect-subsc...
Architects and engineers seem to go to work everyday knowing that if they are criminally negligent they could face prison.
Thank you, yes we really are but it’s cool to do. We should achieve up to 30mins endurance with exiting engines and if we move to a turbofan than 2-3 x that is possible
How do other fields where the workers are liable for damages like this work? What do architects who sign off on buildings do for example?

I don't believe they all ask for incredible amounts of compensation
Dunno about that. I have a Dell XPS 9350 - to get a stable wifi connection under Linux I had to pull the Broadcom wifi card out and replace it with a much nicer Intel one (good luck doing that on the 2018/9 model - it's soldered in).

For a couple of years, the internal NVMe drive wasn't supported unless you changed from "RAID" to AHCI mode - unknown performance and power effects. It looks like that's changed recently.
> Yeah, how dare we insist that people be paid a living wage! And health insurance is only for employees, not employees-in-everything-but-name!

You're doing no such thing. You're actually preaching that people with less opportunities than you should be left with even less options because your paternalist view of them makes you feel you're entitled to tell others how they can and cannot do to earn a living.
>Defensive driving states if you can't see if there is something that might cross into the road around that blind corner then you need to reduce speed to the point you can safely edge around the corner and see what is oncoming. If that makes for a crappy drive then fix the roads, cut the trees down, make roads straighter and pedestrians more visible.

Yes if self driving cars did this they would be fine but I doubt they will be built like this because people probably don't want their car to slam on the brakes every time someone is walking towards the edge of the street or slowing to a crawl every time they get to a corner. Virtually no drivers slow down to a safe speed when going around a corner its just 99.9% of the time there is nothing around the corner.

The uber car that killed that person was driving far above its ability. From what I read about it, these self driving cars are unable to tell if something in the distance is in the way or not at high speed so they assume that any stopped object in the distance must be not in the way because slamming on the brakes every time there is a tree on the side of the road is not ideal.
I have more than that in my spam folder
Would you please stop posting trollish comments? It's not what this site is for, and if you keep doing it we will ban you.

People criticize Airbnb here all the time. Anyone can eyeball https://hn.algolia.com/?query=airbnb&sort=byDate&dateRange=a... to see that it's not an issue.

In case anyone cares, liking has nothing to do with this. I dislike many perfectly fine-for-HN comments, and like many of the ones we moderate. For example, I like internet rants, at least the well-crafted ones. They lessen the monotony of reading crud all day. But it doesn't mean we won't ban you for it.

Despite the complete conviction of every troll in the neighborhood, the rules here are relatively objective.
As someone with a degree in Nutritional Science who has since left the field for actual science (Biochemistry), I couldn't agree more. It was reasons like this that I left.

The field was corrupted early on by the sugar lobby and it took an immense amount of effort to simply make it ok to admit saturated fats weren't bad for you again. Some 50 years of research negated by a deal that went down with a very small subset of people.

The Academy of Nutritionists and Dietetics is a complete and total waste of human effort. I've never encountered a more useless amalgamation of self-serving pretend professionals in one organization. Everything they do is to protect their organization and reduce entry. To even become a dietitian, after graduating from a didactic pathway you must do a 1-2 year paid internship. And by paid, I mean it costs you $20,000-$40,0000, you work 40+ hours a week, including unsupervised work, which makes the legality dubious, and in exchange you sometimes (but no always) get to take a few credits of useless grad level classes that won't get you any further to a master's degree. And then when you finally get certified, after an $80,000 degree and $40,000 internship, you get to start a job that pays about $55,000/year peak, assuming you aren't some world renowned specialist.

The people involved are just the worst. All play professionals who obsess over trivial details like professional attire and pointless faux psychology, like learning and motivational theory. They treat everyone like stupid children and design the absolute worst literature and outreach, catering to the lowest possible denominator with patronizing and condescending advice and horrible rap songs designed to get children to eat vegetables. Meanwhile this has left a vacuum of knowledge for anyone with two brain cells to rub together, and so any reasonably intelligent adult instead gets sucked in by even worse pseudo-science blogs, a phenomenon that was created and enabled by the Academy.

The kicker for me was when I took a community nutrition class that the majority of my classmates revealed that they believed in "health at every size" and that a registered dietitians primary function is respectful communication, (read: participating in the delusions of patients) not communicating important information and truths that could impact the patients health.

That's not even getting into the absolute sham that is most nutrition research and how much of it is funded by organizations who have a predetermined outcome and just need to find a way to fit the facts to what they want. Nutrition research is absolutely rampant with activist organizations trying to coopt the field to further their related agendas.
Airbnb disrupts travel by offering hotel rooms :)
That’s fine, worthy cause.
The obvious solution here is to then share your apartment and go live in your nicer house.
What definition would you use for “perfected” emergency braking—“As-good” as the median driver?
I run a small team. I have to be able to stay 1 page ahead of every type of developer so I can properly check their work. I get about 5 hours every night. I am usually fine but catch up a bit on the weekends and get the normal 8
When I was younger, I had a motorcycle accident. I survived but barely and required close to two years of rehabilitation.

You won't survive an accident in this thing.
That's a good idea. I just emailed them.
> then the only real issue is the noise pollution

I live on Moffett Field next to the 101 -- the vehicles from the 101 are far more annoying than the airplanes. Just listen to traffic noise pretty much in any urban or suburban environment. The Caltrain sounds like -- well, a freight train. My point is that if we cared about noise pollution, we'd be paying more attention to the everyday noise all around us and developing technology such as a hypothetical road surface that absorbs sound or finding ways to make the loud train horns unnecessary. The noise from trains and roads is far more obnoxious than any airplane sounds.
Word is horrible, but then word-processors are generally a horrible paradigm for anything significant. (They can handle basic things, but they're such a hostile environment for creating text, I don't understand how so many novelists work in them.)
Possibly, and that's what I assumed at first, but I don't really see how: after sending the response the socket waits for more data in the form of another request from the user agent (I've tried with and without a poll / socket timeout).

Firefox does this perfectly. Chrome sends a FIN ACK in response to the response from the server, and it closes the connection its side, triggering the next recv() within the server to return 0 (or poll() to fail, depending on how I do it). But then it opens another connection after that with another request which could have been within the previous connection.

I also can't see Chrome doing it on non HTTPS websites in general when monitoring through wireguard, which is why I don't believe it's an issue with my server's implementation: I haven't actually observed Chrome utilise it at all on several computers on both Linux and Mac OS.
Seriously. I often feel I went into the wrong line of work. I'm so exhausted.
A million times yes. I'm just waiting for the next idiotic thing to put on the internet? Light switch? OK, fine. Light bulb? Uhh...... Microwave? Huh?! Fridge? Wtf. How about iot Rice cooker! Bread maker! Shower faucet! (toc apply that zuck up all your data)
In the 50s, Alan Turing was convicted for being gay. Much later, in 2013, the UK government issued a posthumous pardon [0]. I'm pretty sure nobody in the 2013 government was in the government in 1950, but AFAIK this was widely seen as a good thing, an admission that what the institution that is the UK government, although not the same people, had made a mistake.

I think this applies in exactly the same way to the wrongs of corporations. Out of decency, if not out of being consistent with the idea of treating them as legal persons.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315
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AOC's tweet about Uber was posted a year ago. Before the study was retracted.
and a self destruct button - just because
This company is different. Their jetpack is way more portable than martin’s and Ive seen several videos of successful flights. I think making a motorbike won’t be that hard for them.
Any sufficiently advanced text management system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode.
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I haven't seen that high, but some companies pay the government per diem rate, which depends on the city. Some cities are $200/day for food alone.
Visa or paypal isn't suddenly everyone's employer just because they process payments, and at least in some jurisdictions drivers can and do subcontract. In fact, there are licensed car rental companies that also provide services through Uber.
I went to get a coffee at a random shop in SOHO. When I took out a $20, they said they didn't take cash. I left immediately.
> You're saying that there is discrimination of some kind down the line, but the person you're responding to is pointing out that, even if that discrimination does in fact exist, women are still over-represented in university education, including at engineering focused schools. How is that not strong evidence against your position?

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/releases/...

So that's a few years old - there's a bunch of statistics there. Do those statistics mean that women get hired more than men? No. They mean the rate of women hires in STEM is increasing over time. They also mean that specific to computer science they have more recently decreased. So should we assume that affirmative action policies and general pressure on society over the last 40 years has had zero contribution towards the increase in women hires? Or should we assume that there is no possibility that the more recent decrease in women in computer science could partially be a result of workplace culture or limited advancement due to bias? Considering there is no evidence that women are less capable or interested in STEM or computer science, I can't think of any rational reason we should jump towards the conclusion that "women just don't do it well or like it". Bias existed before, it exists now, it is likely decreasing (though all we can say for certain is that over time the effect of bias has decreased - it may continue to exist at it's earlier levels while the effect is being mitigated by actions such as diversity hiring).
Some did. I worked in a lab for the woman whose papers were instrumental in getting the anti-egg recommendation reversed. There was a lot more money on the other side, unfortunately.
Then those people should amend HOA rules or move to some other place where they can sign a contract of no AirBnB. If the AirBnB hosts causes an actual loss make him pay for it.

At any rate the armchair philosophers should not advice others on what should be allowed or not.
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There's no maids, room service, or any of the usual hotel amenities.
> This mentality of “I want everything you have but I don’t want to actually put the time and effort in to get it” is very frustrating.

How do you know that these people haven't already put time and effort into trying to get an "actual job"? It would seem to me that the free market does not serve everyone with equal economic opportunity and that the world economy is more nuanced than what your average libertarian would like you to believe.
Yes, you're right. In hindsight, I wish I could delete that first sentence -- there are obvious counter-examples (ray tracing / movie rendering, search engines, memoization, dynamic programming).
One thing that especially irked me about Liu was how contingent so many plot points were on specifics, and how little attention was paid to that.

E.g. If there were no FTL travel, deterrence would look very different. Especially if the average time for a civilization to become multi-planetary < the average distance to the nearest annihilation capable civilization
The safety system has to be integral with initial design and it is. Before these are used in urban environments the machine must be able to set itself down safely regardless of the failure. That is possible.
It ruined people's lives and destroyed a stable field of work.

Telephone operators and travel agents used to have stable careers.

This wasn't a technological innovation

If the technology is so insignificant, why didn't taxi companies develop ride-hailing apps? Either it's actually complex, or they decided they had no need to improve service because of their oligopoly.
OMG Diana credit Score went from 595 to 648 it went up 53 Points
This is amazing!! It's changing people LIVES! Foreclosures, student loans, etc removed!!!
well, they still have to account for the local sales tax at the register, so why not at the price gun?
Sharing economy has existed well before technology and will outlast Uber and others. When you ask friends to drop you at airport that is sharing. When your aunt babyseats for you that is sharing economy. Potluck is sharing economy.

Economic efficiency through sharing is a great thing for society, it is just that it is hard to get it right at scale but nevertheless we are trying and we will test success sooner or later in some areas.
Just because she was the victim and passed away doesn't mean she wasn't ay fault. Where have people been getting this wrong information?
> If you want to prevent destructive wildfires, you need to do forest management to reduce the fuel that builds up. The taxi industry was a forest full of dry, dead wood ready to burn.

Wrong. If you want to prevent destructive wildfires, you have to let the forest burn regularly, preferably in a controlled manner. If you just do forest management to reduce the amount of fuel that builds up, all you accomplish is setting up the stage for a massive, all consuming fire that, once started, burns up everything. Example: California.
Disconcerting.
Minor correction: the area was actually very well lit with street lights. The Uber dashcam video was just poor quality so it gave the impression it was really dark.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
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You're right - thank you for adding this
Telephone operators and travel agents used to have stable careers.

So you are for the indiscriminate ruining of lives because of technological innovation? Why can't any of these innovators work with encumbents to ensure happiness for all and not just enriching themselves?
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> "Other people should not be doing this, and should not be doing that, ..." is one bridge too far.

Wait til you hear about criminal law!
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Systems do not preclude controlled flight into terrain. They simply purport to. These are different things. And before you say "in that case it's not controlled" well yes it is.
> This absolutely is suggesting that the disparity in computing graduates could be due to bias in admissions. This is explicit, I'm not sure how any reasonable person can attempt to deny this.

Suggesting a thing as a possible factor and explicitly stating a thing is a factor are two different actions. I also suggested 3 or 4 other things that may be factors. And I left out 1,000 things that may be factors. It seems like a reasonable person would understand this concept - that statistics at one level are not evidence of an argument, in either direction. The questions I posed were rhetorical representations of the endless path you initial argument goes down: 38% of hires were women but only 20% of graduates were women. That doesn't mean anything on it's face.

> The onus is on you to prove that bias exists.

Numerous studies have shown that bias exists. This is not generally argued by anyone but the most ardently privileged. I mean, you do agree that bias did exist, right? Like, slavery, women disenfranchised. Those things happened and bias was the cause, right? So if it did exist, when exactly did it cease to exist? And the onus is on you to provide the widely accepted evidence that bias has ceased to exist.

> There is plenty of evidence to suggest that this is the case:

No, there is literally zero evidence. Your interpretation of various cultures and evidence that men are not genetically identical to women is not evidence that men have a genetic aptitude/predilection towards STEM.
Email privately and get noted for life. This is really annoying when some one complains publicly and they ask your to email in private. Why don't you go through the old emails and provide a solution.
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That's not an externality. And honestly, your chosen example is rather unpleasant.

An externality is something like "cigarettes produce smoke that contains a lot of carcinogens, and therefore cigarette smoking can contribute to the poor health of people who are nearby even if they do not choose to smoke themselves."
That’s up to neighborhood associations and their contractual arrangements.
It was cool to witness this thread!
Rich, thank you for taking time to comment. It is somewhat generic (others: feel free to offer more specific insights), however, it is totally understandable. I very much appreciate your interest. Will continue our conversation via e-mail.
And people will also abuse drugs if decriminalized; it doesn't mean prohibition of even such inherently dangerous activities is making things better
I love this idea. I've always wanted a way to play Quidditch, and short of someone building a Quidditch court into an orbiting space station, couldn't think of how you would do it. This is the answer!
I can fault him for many things (and I have) but secret passageways and rooms (batcave:-) brings out the kid in me. I'll give him a pass on this.

https://www.boredpanda.com/secret-rooms-hidden-doors/

Here's a company I just turned up that focuses on this sort of thing:

https://hiddenpassageway.com/gallery/
I'm not the author of this article, but as someone who still considers himself on the n00b side of Software Engineering, I resonate with this piece. Some choice quotes:

> When people answer your questions, take note of how they figure out the answer themselves!

> Take this time to identify painful developing points or unreadable code, and craft some tech debt projects from this!

> Your growth will be very natural.
Please explain how this will save lives.
On business trips I prefer hotels for 1 night. 3 nights or more is always an apartment (Airbnb or Booking.com which is often easier to book with).
I hate eating outside alone and prefer cooking some food while enjoying JRE, Netflix or a call with friends and family.
2 nights is a mix.

Family trips are always in apartments. It's just nicer than Hotels.

Also, I find hotels pretty sad in general but that's maybe because I worked in some:)

Edit: typo
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