skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its true people are not equal in thwir ambition, raw intellivence (people can be intelligent in many waya even not know math but be a creative genius and do well as say a self taught film artist. I kmow some) but its not true the inequality is calibrated by each layer of socioeconomic demographic. Some really smart people Will percolate up through layers of poverty or whatever socioeconomic status by being curious hard working dedicated and iterating on a non self deatructive attitude towards themaelves and the people and communities that will support their growth. In the same vein people born into the top can be lazy entitled not very smart and shuffled into good colleges by helicopter parents managing connections at admissions offices and babystepping and forcing their kids into having the resumes other people garner on their own accord without any authoritarian guidance.

Therefore I think it is important to make sure that we minimise bias and othwr barriers as much as possible to help people who are naturlaly more ambitious experience less unnecessary setbacks. Because trust me as someone who spent the first half of their childhood on welfare there are plenty of barriers people will naturally face for the rest of their life without even considering financial barriers or others.

A lack of social support and being born into self deatructive habits and thught processes can take a lifetime to reverse and if someone can do that when noone else is around to support them has already in my mind shown an extraordinary level of mental strength ambition and dedication, and ultimately theres not a single college degree or career that can be saved if someone doeant have atleast a healthy dose of these things.

This article seems to address equality as if it exists by socioeconomic layer but we should consider it by trait.

An easy way to do this is to track movement. Most famous economists Will tell you what they care about in wealth inequality isnt that there are poor and rich people. They seem to accept there will always be a bell curve (the extremeities of this curve and taxes for each bracket I understand are go for debate and im not saying they shouldnt be) but actually in their data analytics what they are teasing out is movement.

They dont care/see an issue with someone beung poor what they care about is that economics allow for someone to be able to move from poor to rich and vise versa that rich people arent entrenched without any economic accountability to be moved around in the system, and it is particularly that, the fact that the upper echelon has the ability to exponentiate their wealth and that having a basic education in finance and education is mostly closed source and for the elite is what we should be worried about.
I was also asked about my Zodiac sign. I was shocked. A credit reporting company using that is just appalling.
> Since Silicon Valley leans left so heavily

I really believe it doesn't. No serious concentration of wealth ever does. Yes, personal attitudes in SV are often liberal, but the economic outlook most common in the place is akin to Andrew Carnegie with a git repo. It's this economic outlook where her proposal targets.
> Economists traditionally analyze market concentration in terms of market share, not the mere existence of choice.

Actually, many economists - and perhaps most of them - argue that what's fundamental to monopolization concerns is the presence of undue barriers to entry that make the market non-contestable. "Market share" and "choice" are not helpful on their own, because a big market share could be entirely due to the incumbent pursuing efficiency and the consumer's best interests, so as to keep themselves ahead of any possible competitors. But this is a benign dynamic that will be quickly corrected should the incumbent fall behind, as competitors would quickly enter the market.
It's an unfortunate side effect of the current system. Either no one should be able to influence legislation, or you're going to be negatively impacted by choosing not to.

That said, I'm in favor of the former. Citizens United has been a pox on representatives representing their constituents, which has made lobbying all the more effective and easy.
You can, and indeed should, do both. In fact, simultaneously reducing demand and increasing supply is what will hurt these regimes the most.
OCR technology is obviously some unknown black magic for the high-profile government officials and their aides. Doesn't really surprise me though...
> He was interviewed by a younger engineer who told him, “I’m always surprised when older programmers keep up on technology.”

As someone relatively old, I've been in a lot of developer interviews. I also noticed that older programmers tend to not be as up to date in newer technologies or ways of doing things.

I don't think it's strictly limited to technology. How many 50-year old do you know who listen to trap music? Or approve of the way teens dress these days?

It's just the classic "older people tend to be more conservative" fact. At some point most people get stuck in the things the were doing/liking when they were younger. The hate new music, they dismiss newer technologies (to open a rats nest: Electron anyone?)

I'm sure I'll get comments like "I'm 18 and I hate trap music and Electron". That's not the point, I'm talking about distributions not individual cases.
Well, it's a great way to inflate the stock price. Much better than saying "We'll be just another car company, when self-driving arrives".
There's a difference between anti-college and anti-intellectual discussion.
>The empathic domain is actually "all things", and should include "all positions and considerations".

That's what "oughta". It's not what it is, though, (or, if you prefer, what it usually is), and that's what the author talks about.
* Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-rea...)

* The Relationship Between Empathy and Reading Fiction: Separate Roles for Cognitive and Affective Components (https://jeps.efpsa.org/articles/10.5334/jeps.ca/print/)

* How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559433/)

* Can fiction stories make us more empathetic? (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811151632.h...)

* Exploring the link between reading fictionand empathy: Ruling out individual differencesand examining outcomes (https://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202009_reading%20fict...)

But see

* Reading Literature Won’t Give You Superpowers: Psychologists have failed to replicate a famous study suggesting that short fiction improves readers’ abilities to read the emotional states of others. (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/should-p...)
French tech talent visa (eu blue card) - 1 month for the visa itself. Then 3 months processing for the residency (applied dec got the card in mar).
Emerging IoT Technology: Future Scope and Challenges in 2019
> You can blame everything on individuals: "they're lazy", "they're dumb", "they didn't work as hard as I did", "they could save themselves", that's very easy to do, and reassuring in a way. But that's also a very bleak view on our social organization.

I think the lazy people are those who think they should attempt to fix social ills by levying regressive taxes, rather than doing the actual work of convincing and helping people to do better.

> Or you can admit that we're all infinitely small parts of a gigantic machinery, that we're all mutually responsible for the system we live in, and that some of the issues raised here are direct consequences of "the state" and its policies.

But you are not responsible for, nor entitled to, deciding what people do to themselves in private. When a lone free man hurts himself, no injustice is carried out in the act.

> Just like some people are born in good conditions, probably a majority of hn readers are, a lot of people are not. You don't have to care, you don't have to help them, but at least don't criticize people trying to better society.

You can try to better society all you want, but do it without worsening the part of society where people drink responsibly but live on a budget. Minimum pricing punishes all people who buy alcohol for the perceived benefit of those who are presumed to be prone to abusing it, that is why it is unjust. If you just want to better society, work with your local chapter of alcoholics anonymous. If you're just going to sign off on the minimum pricing laws and feel morally righteous about it (because you have no skin in the game), then surely you are the one who is failing morally; the compulsion to "do something, anything!" about each perceived societal ill does not make you a good person.

> Even if you don't care about people and just think in numbers, getting these people out of misery/addiction is a net positive for society on purely a monetary perspective.

I think the whole thing is an exercise in not caring about people and just thinking in numbers. It is not your right to go around imposing your vision of the moral duties one owes to oneself.

The moral wrong of imposing a regressive tax on your personal pet peeves is long lasting, and indicates a lack of commitment to principle. Society does not benefit, on the whole, from standing in favour of an endless stream of petty tyrannies.

Your compulsion to control other people's alcohol consumption by fiat is purely selfish, no matter what you tell yourself, and no matter what word games you choose to impugn the character of those who don't agree.
First class boarding first is absolutely the wrong way to speed up boarding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
he's a traitor
Maybe the real research was the friends...
Which makes it an easy first book for a beginner.
Literature is more complex than that supposedly comic sketch. People is expressing all kind of really complex feelings since a lot of time with written language so that wouldn't need to be a problem. Is not a fair comparison.

Some people would prefer a theater of acting sad, holding your hand and pretending to be an old friend in a strange environment, other would prefer to receive the hit at their home and cry in private. Each people is different.
In the earlier days the executables were all a.out format. There was a transition year where all the ELF binaries were slowly being converted over to ELF format in the Linux distributions. There was a similar transition when unicode became standard.
Still 8 weeks in hospital, airlift and therapy is gonna bite. A lot. I feel bad for the child--a victim of his (you know what) parents--but the parents deserve to suffer a bit, financially too.
Do you know why they think they're unsuitable?
It was clearly a punishment for acting like a petulant child.
Not true. We can see that there is no meritocracy. It's not true. No lack of nuance involved, he who has eyes to see let him see. There is nothing people are more blind to than their own advantages.
I agree with you except for a few points. There are concrete and asphalt (I suppose you mean what we call tar roads in India) in villages in India. 50-100 years ago there might not have been, but modernization (of some things) has happened, and we have that now - some. Also glass at least, if not nails, can occur at a non-trivial level, due to littering. I see it a fair amount.
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Well, considering we evolved from amino acids based on all kinds of risk/reward filters of evolution, that's probably what's underneath.
What? Ordering the person to turn over the information in a useful format is a way more sensible plan than OCRing it from text.
The problem if non-tech people can't afford to do here, who is going to do the jobs that make the city a pleasant place to live. Unless we want to go back to making our own coffee it is something we need to think about.
Incredibly, peaches aren't in the state's top exports (source: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/state/data/g...) and aren't event mentioned in the state's agricultural section on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)#Agricultu....

How the heck did they come to be associated with peaches?
This is another article that reeks of unsubstantiated, anti-tech sentiment.

"culture and fun has been sucked out of the city since the second tech boom ... when the artists [left] the sex parties would dry up ... Burning Man morphed [to] a multi-million dollar, helicopter valeted, elite event ... sex and intimacy parties altered by the world of tech and money ... You can smell hubris on the streets ... toxic and sometimes dangerous events that revert back to a very unprogressive and misogynistic dynamic, in which entrepreneurial tech 2.0 entitlement and hubris is leveraged to excuse treating women, usually lower on the career ladder, as little more than sex toys."

It's suffocating.

Yes, the events happen. They are almost always sincere, good-hearted, intimate, and problem-free. People in SF are experimenting to see if this is the vitamin that makes people happier in a culture that is hyper-connected, but scrutinized and isolating.

This writer takes these intimate events, and publishes an article about how they are "kinky" and "sexual." Author Andrew Chamings should write 1,500 words about he's the problem.
Many things have changed my mind. Most recently it's been the move towards thinking in terms of data processing. Solving problems by transforming data structures.

The gateway drug was transforming json with lodash/underscore/ramda. Clojure cinched it.
> This is basic court stuff

No, it is not "standard procedure" for a country to have secret accusations against someone, for almost a decade, and to lie about it, and pretend like they don't, for all this time.

This has been what has happened all along. The whole reason Assange is in the Embassy is because he says the US has secret accusations against him and extradition orders. The government said otherwise. Anti WikiLeaks people said otherwise. They said it was a crazy conspiracy theory.

These people were wrong. These people were lying. And everyone got tricked, and those of us who did actually believe that the US had secret accusations against Assange, were right. We were proven correct, and it took almost a decade for this to come to light.

And now, of all times, when the people who lied, pretended, or got tricked into not believing that the US had secret accusations against Assange just got 100% proven wrong, well now the narrative is "oh, it is perfectly normal to have secret accusations against someone for a decade! Nothing to see here!"

No it not normal. The government makes public accusations against people all the time. They have arrest warrants, they have most wanted lists, they give their opinion on the law and who broke them all the time.

This is normal, and it is a healthy part of the justice system to make their accusations public.
Well they also have billions of miles of data from people who have actually drove their car hands free, feet free. No one even has close to this data.
> In many ways college degree is showing for others that you can delay gratification enough to graduate.

I disagree. A degree shows that the individual is capable of following structure, rules, and traditions.
Indeed.

What I'm probably most excited about is Gwynne Shotwell's (President and COO of SpaceX, very level-headed, DEFINITELY not someone who indulges in 'Elon time') prediction and confidence that Starship will start transporting passengers point to point within 10 years: https://www.inverse.com/article/44830-spacex-s-shotwell-on-b...

That's...nuts. And amazing.
> You are fortunate to be in one of the few areas where there is true ISP competition. For most of the country there is none.

That's not true, and I'm not sure where people get that idea. Slightly over half the country has two or more wired choices at 25 mbps, and that's as of a few years ago.

And if you're saying that texting my aunt in Bangladesh is a viable alternative to sharing pictures of my kids on Facebook, then it makes no sense to discount satellite, DSL, and cellular as viable alternatives to Comcast. (And indeed they are for many people--just over half the households in Comcast's footprint actually subscribe to its service.)
I completely agree that data loss is a huge issue. Cloud storage usually comes with pretty high redundancy, but if you're using a service you don't know much about, it's definitely safer to keep your own copy of the file.

A use case I had was that my Mac was running out of hard disk space and I didn't want to carry around an external hard drive or get a new Mac, just for more disk space. I tried cleaning out as much unused applications and files as I could, but there still remained large and old files that I wanted to preserve to keep a record of them.

Moving it to cloud storage for archival gets me the long-term storage and by deleting the local copies of it, I was able to get back a good chunk of space on my Mac. Not everyone may have this use case, but it was one I came across where deleting the local copy made sense.
At least where I live, Tetanus is one of many "required" immunizations if you are going to school or participating in some sort of childcare system. If you home-school, you are not technically required to vaccinate.

I remember getting boosters and if I'm not mistaken for adults the recommendation is every 10 years, though I could be wrong.

I got a booster before going on a mission trip to a 3rd-world country, though Tetanus was one of the _many_ vaccinations we got.
I've seen people write Java or C# like I would write plain C. Those first two are insanely high level with large standard libraries.
Yes, I wear vibrams when it is uncomfortably cold on the ground, or when going to the library.
> NYC area traffic is bad but you have walkability, the subway, commuter rail systems, express bus lanes, etc.

Like anywhere, depends where you live. Downtown Austin is incredibly walkable, and the bus system is great. Scooters have completely taken over here as well.

> In my one visit to Austin it seemed like rush hour consisted of everyone cramming on to a couple highways and sitting. Are there good ways to avoid that?

It depends when you visited, since there was a fair amount of highway construction going on within the last 3-4 years on Mopac. Most of it's done now and I think the traffic has really gotten better since then.

Unlike NYC or LA, if you don't drive between 8-9:30am, you'll avoid pretty much the majority of rush hour.
Diligent Engine release v2.4.b is out with lots of API improvements and more
Because dying tends to be a process, certainly if I was about to drop dead I might not care, but generally I would want to know about any pain treatment, changes in my meds, explain the process of dying to me. I would want to hear it from a specialist.
MySQL's "security model" used to be that it only bound to 127.0.0.1, but beyond that there was no passwords. I may be recalling incorrectly, but root did have access via `%` on most systems I used.

I'm not sure if the reason MySQL was open with no password is MySQL's fault or the various distribution packagers, they have a lot of say in how its ultimately configured, but it wasn't a good look.
> OTOH, my laptop has more in common with a VAX running Unix than it has with a Commodore PET.

This was my thought upon reading the "Big computers and little computers are completely different beasts" quote, and it's also something I've been thinking about lately. Personal computers definitely represented a distinct development track from the multi-user/multitasking industrial/academic computing systems of the time. However, as PCs became more capable and merged key innovations from the higher-end computing branch (e.g. virtual memory, protected execution environments, and the operating systems that can leverage such features), we seem to have arrived at the same point -- a phone in my pocket that's more like a VAX 11/750 available in 1981 than an IBM PC from the same year. The "microcomputer" development track that included the Commodore PET and 8086-based PC systems was greatly useful for jumpstarting the PC industry, but was ultimately set aside.

So maybe it's not so much that small computers are completely different beasts than large computers, as their initial development required a unique approach to fit the constraints of that particular era.

As someone who has personally installed UNIX on a VAX 11/750, I do appreciate the attention to human factors that the microcomputer era has contributed to computing. :)
That looks like Ally Bank. --BUT, it isn't, per the reply below. It's Discover, though Ally asked me the same zodiac question in what looked like the same font.--

They won't open a joint savings account for my wife and I because my wife doesn't have a phone bill in her own name "for verification." (We've been on the same Southwestern Bell/Cingular/AT&T, recently T-Mobile, family plan for the past, oh, fifteen years, and it's under solely my name because of employer discounts.)

When I mentioned this to the rep, she told both of us--we were all on speakerphone--that my wife could send in a copy of her driver license. Except Washington doesn't require us to get new licenses when moving and the address on both of our licenses is both the same...and four years out of date.

I get the need for ID verification but funny how we never run into this problem when my wife wants to borrow money in her own name. No one has ever cared about her license or a phone bill when she's taken out credit cards.
That's incorrect. Emirates operates some aircraft with a two-class configuration.
The article talks about morals, which by themselves are based on values and beliefs, therefore not defensible ethically and logically.

Meritocracy is not ethically defensible under argumentative logic -- Hans Herman Hoppe has provided the framework for that.
> When visiting a site you have the choice to visit or not. Site owners have the choice of what to put up and how to host it.

Not really — my option is basically "indirectly support AWS" or "forego large swaths of the Internet." Site owners have to choose between directly supporting AWS, indirectly supporting AWS via intermediary services that use it, or giving up the economies of scale that AWS's dominance allows.

> That's like asking the government to break up the react framework because more sites are using it and you have no jquery option.

This is not analogous. AWS is a company. React is an open source project.
Noted. Sorry Dang.
The problem isn't the tech giants but how we are seen as cash cows of information and not as people.
I’m reminded of the NYT piece How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead by Naomi Rosenberg, an ER doctor in Philadelphia. Highly recommend reading it for insight into the relationship between doctors, death, and patients.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tel...
I feel like such things have been around kind of everywhere but just low-key.
I'm from postsoviet space and I used to frequent on forums/social medias where there were also lots of people from role playing subculture (not sexual, just real life RPGs, Tolkien fandom and stuff) and from time to time I read about people organizing gatherings/picnics with the theme of hugging, snuggling etc.

There are also more socially acceptable activities which, basically, come down to the same thing - getting super close with other people physically but without sex: partner dancing, massage, some group games, activities in religious/spiritual groups.

Whatever works for some people.
What kind of key is that long?
In fact, the party is even doing affirmative action, by providing work and education camps specifically for ethnic minorities, to help them integrate!
I mean we've actually tried this. If you take a group of incredibly skilled business people and tax them heavily you don't get some dystopia, you get Switzerland.

And what important/useful companies, tech or otherwise, got their start in Switzerland?