skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taking away tips will mean a net reduction in wages. Your "fair wage" will almost always be less than I would have made in tips, even at a cheap buffet-type joint.

What evidence is there that this is true? The truth of it seems to depend entirely on what the hypothetical minimum wage for those workers is set at.
The idea that a certain programming language could be proven to be more productive than another is laughable. There are so many factors involved in that, I can pretty much guarantee you it will never be studied to an acceptable level of rigor.

The author presents some flimsy "study" about coding string processing algorithms with a straight face, and basically loses all credibility. What about lifetime productivity of a codebase? Speed of refactoring, onboarding, testing etc..

Why don't you just be honest and say you don't care Python is slow because you like using it?

Performance doesn't matter? Of course it does. On the frontend, bad performance has been proven by many eCommerce companies to lead to lost business. On backend data pipelines, bad performance kills your flexibility. The longer it takes you to process N, the less times you can do it. The more times you can do it, the more times you can get it wrong.

Also who says that time-to-market is everything? Tech history has shown that product quality/brand marketing win out in the long term. There are tons of forgotten shitty products that were first. Being first is over-rated.
Well, I started taking LaTeX notes in-class specifically because I couldn't refer back to handwritten notes later; my handwriting is atrocious at the best of times and when taking quick notes it was just unreadable. However, I did have to keep a notebook for diagrams as well, and my typed notes always needed cleanup afterwards. My eventual process was to type up a first draft before class while reading the material, supplement them with lecture material, then finish them after class. This won't work for everyone, but after I started doing this I would actually use my notes, whereas before I wouldn't, since I could actually read the darn things. Plus, I can type ~2.5 times faster than I can write.
> That seems to be a good idea for people in unfree countries like iran.

Cloudflare is better in quite technical aspect, ping to their DNS - 10-12ms vs 25-30 for Google (Europe).
Regardless of the correctness of that, does it matter? If people begin to adopt crypto as a currency, what can be done about it?
I used to do this too, but I took pics of the figures or drew on paper them instead. The only times you don't feel like the silliest student in the room when live texing is when you have one of those professors that edits each equation in place for 5 mins and quickly instead of rewriting the equations in edited form.

There are some lectures where every week something truly unique happens that is not available in any one book in the whole world, AND you have to know it well for your area or bc of a hard test.

But in all other cases, where the information can be found in some textbook or it is some well studied subject, my opinion is it's not worth it. Texing can turn into an escape from actually learning the stuff
I know what you mean, and agree with you ;) The inflationary use of the term "markup" just bothers me, when it denotes a very specific thing that's been in use since before computers existed.
Fortunately, that should suggest that it's OK in the other carriages.
I have no comment on whether taking that train journey is worth it or not.

All I want to say is that the UI developers for the Amtrak booking site should be shot. That site is one of the ugliest, confusing layout-infected, poorly designed sites I have ever seen for a travel booking page. (aside from 3rd world countries which have an excuse)

Just try putting in dates, selecting a fare, and report back. If there were any need for a standards body for amateur UI designers doing something on the cheap without experience, this would be a cry for it.
I disagree.

I often take Amtrak from NYC to Chicago (and back) and just love it. The trip is about 24 hours each way. Train riders are generally friendly. Someone always has a couple of guitars, so it's fun to play and sing along. The bar car is typically friendly and the food car is generally pretty good eats.

Also, some of the stopovers in small midwest towns are a few hours long so you can get out, stretch your legs, and find a nice quaint diner or something to change things up. I've had nothing by great times on the train. Of course YMMV.
We hope you'll buy other services from us.
> Luckily, the field of statistics gives us ways to reason about whether or not to believe an observed effect.

What you mean is correlation, right? Effect would imply causation.
Any books, blogs or courses you recommend to learn about search?
It's also a business obligation, in my opinion, because 1) an increasing percentage of the population has some form of disability, and 2) not accommodating them has a bottom-line business impact.

There's a moral, legal, and business obligation to serve your product in an inclusive manner. We're working to get select developers IAAP (International Association of Accessibility Professionals) certified on my team.

On the legal front, see also Gomez v. GNC: https://www.levelaccess.com/federal-court-decision-gomez-v-g...
I totally agree. One reason I haven't moved yet is I haven't found something I would consider using that isn't proprietary.
Has nobody recognized that not a single biologist, chemist, neurosurgeon, hormone specialist, neo-natal specialist, or just general medical doctor participated or helped produce this study?

Here are the authors:

Aline Bütikofer - Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, 5045 Bergen, Norway
David N. Figlio - School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
Krzysztof Karbownik - Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
Christopher W. Kuzawa - Department of Economics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
Kjell G. Salvanes - Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

So we have, two economists, one anthropologist, and two people who specialize in "social policy."

They did not work with these twins, they did not do their own medical research and assessment. They literally "[used] data on all births in Norway (n = 728,842, including 13,800 twins) between 1967 and 1978 to show that females exposed in utero to a male co-twin have a decreased probability of..."

This is not meaningful research.

This is playing with statistics and cherry picking existing scientific literature to produce a headline that propels an agenda.

This is propaganda of the highest order.
They get you to sign up, give your credit card, use their nameservers, and then if you get any serious traffic, they will conveniently be there to offer extra features with a paid plan. In my opinion, this is exceptional marketing.
Capitol Corridor also has a quiet car but all it means is you are assured of having to inform some bozo of that fact because the fraction of riders on their first train ride ever is very high.
Isn't price manipulation the purpose of Bitcoin? The market is so small that you can actually corner it with very little effort, and since it's Bitcoin there's no one to enforce the rules.
I think JSON is almost always better than YAML, except for very simple cases.
The Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program, and Federal Energy Technology R&D [pdf]
https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/... page 34
When I was on exchange in Japan my underage friends from joined me multiple times for bars and not a single time was their ID's checked. I've only had my ID checked during some special event like Halloween in very central areas in Tokyo.

In stores they will not even check ID's or ask your age verbally but you just tap a button that says you are old enough to buy alchohol.
Amtrak has for a few years offered an annual Writers Residency Program. There may be some truth to your quip.

https://www.arts.gov/audio/writing-rails-amtrak-residency-wr...
I once took the train from the Detroit area (BMM -- Birmingham) to San Francisco, roughly... 9.5 years ago. I went alone, had a sleeper cabin to myself, and loved it. I really want to do it again, this time maybe stopping off places on the way. What I particularly enjoyed was the route west seemed timed to pass through the Rockies and Sierra Nevada during daylight. Basically, I went to sleep around Omaha, woke in Colorado. Sleep near Salt Lake City, woke in Reno. Then departed in the Oakland area the next afternoon, took BART to Caltrain and on to my friend's place in Palo Alto. Made for a really nifty trip.

They aren't organized (I just dumped them), and Gallery2 is showing its age, but if you'd like to see a bunch of photos from on-board the train, here you go: https://nuxx.net/gallery/v/travel/sf_via_amtrak_nov_2009/all...
Congratulations, you have good job mobility. And it biases you towards the privilege that you have, but most other people do not. The vast majority of people do not have that ability to be selective. In a few months, I must travel for work. Should I quit? You would say yes, I suppose. I don't have the luxury, either financially or as a matter of practicality: any other I might take would similarly require such travel on occasion. Maybe I could find another field to work in? Ah, but I live extremely close to my work place, less then 3km. Most other jobs, even within my field, would require I commute daily between 40-50km each way. So, maybe I avoid occasional air travel, but I still produce a larger carbon foot print. Train travel to other locations around me? Doesn't exist, there aren't the rails. Take a bus? Similarly, the routes don't work out: I might have to take 6 buses for 3 hours to get some place 40-50km away.

This is just the work side of things. What about family? A loved one is sick, or dies. Should I not travel to be with them, to help, to grieve with my family? Should I ask for a teleconference into the funeral?
honest,sincere question:

i don't understand why people do this - build these frameworks. it's hundreds of independent labor hours and forgoes the key value prop of python (or whatever language they're reimplementing the wheel in): the existing ecosystem. i would never use this over flask or django because the community around each of those frameworks. that includes plugins, docs, blog posts, SO posts, etc. further more i'm not going to trust that one shop will exist forever and maintain this framework to the same extent that django is maintained. so in effect by adopting this framework i take on the maintenance responsibility. but why would i ever do that? it's not interesting work (very little groundbreaking research left in the http server space i think), it's thankless, and it's just completely unnecessary - every time i submit a PR i'll be looking enviously at django foundation's latest release.

so why would anyone write something like this and why would anyone ever adopt? if you're going for speed without ecosystem then just use Go or Java or C# to begin with. is it just NIH syndrome?
The green movement does not have that kind of political power, and in any case is split on nuclear. What has stopped nuclear is almost entirely economics.
Robots Improve Stem Education
The cost for handling nuclear waste is likewise ignored. Even worse, forget the cost, just knowing what to do with the waste isn’t absolved problem. A solution isn’t a solution until we know how to deal with this last step.

Temporarily storing the waste onsite forever isn’t a solution.

Fusion is a pipe dream, an absolute fantasy. Yes, we should still research it, but it’s still a fantasy. We can’t even sustain a positive energy fusion reaction let alone deploy it as an energy source.
Did someone post this in hopes of starting a dynamic >> static language flame war?
According to the first paragraph in the article, it costs $1,089.
> An HTML file with no CSS and no JavaScript is accessible by default.

This is not true. What about color contrast? What about alt text for images? These problems (and many others) can occur in plain html pages.
Power. Soon CF will be completely pervasive. CDN? Certs? DNS? Registrar? The are playing the long game for the win.
How much is $13k to you, as a percentage of your net worth?

If you believe in blockchain and want to make an extremely risky, but potentially high payoff, bet, I'd personally just split the 13k across BTC and ETH. Those can also go to zero, or grow another 10x+, but you are at least exposed to the entire industry, rather than a single startup. The investment would also be far more liquid, and you could sell at anytime. Even the most successful crypto startup (Coinbase) hasn't done as well as an investment in BTC.

Don't get trapped into overvaluing the options because you already own them. If you had never worked at the company, and they called you today asking to buy 2.3% for $13k, would you do it over buying BTC?
It's perfectly reasonable to use both fiat and cryptocurrencies.

If you don't agree with the federal reserve policy or a politician's short-sightedness, you have an alternative.
One drawback to using Cloudflare Registrar that wasn't obvious to me at first is that you have to use Cloudflare's nameservers. Not that I blame them for it, but it'd be nice if the marketing page made this detail more obvious.

I've chosen to pay an extra $0.50 or so per domain to Porkbun for the option of using other nameservers.
AFAIK all licensees are fiduciaries and in any event the broker is responsible for the agent.
Is anyone actively using Teams?
We're in a fairly large organisation on Office365 and apparently no-one is really using it.
We can build your bullet train as soon as California finishes theirs.
Not only that but the common spelling is "reinforces", which doesn't need a diaeresis at all. It's like function_seven went very far out of the way to show that they know what a diaeresis is...
There's a detailed classificaiton in NZ: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/...

Military-style semi-automatic (MSSA) firearms

Are firearms that require an endorsement on your firearms
licence (E endorsement) and are subject to special
security conditions. Only an E endorsed person may have
or use a MSSA and it is an offence for anyone without this
endorsement to fire one, even under supervision. Only
persons 18 years of age or older can have an endorsement
for one of these firearms. A permit to procure the MSSA
must be obtained from an Arms Officer before taking
possession of it. MSSAs require greater storage security than
for standard sporting firearms.

A MSSA is a self-loading rifle or shotgun with one or more
of the following features:

• Folding or telescopic butt

• Magazine that holds, or is detachable and has the appearance of holding more than 15 cartridges for .22 rimfire

• Magazine that holds more than 7 cartridges, or is detachable and has the appearance of holding more than 10 cartridges for other than a .22 rimfire

• Bayonet lug

• Pistol grip as defined by regulation

• Flash suppresser

You need a permit from the Police to obtain one of these
firearms.
Why do you suggest fields other than anthropology or economics should be the qualification for analyzing population-level economic effects?

Are you aware that the vast majority of scientific research is done by PhDs, not MDs? And that both are doctorates?

> ... propels an agenda. This is propaganda of the highest order.

What's the agenda? And did that agenda apply to the 2011 paper calling for more research in this area - "Evaluating the twin testosterone transfer hypothesis: a review of the empirical evidence"[1]?

Was that agenda behind this 2012 Japanese study[2] which examined the ratio of middle finger to pinky finger in twins? It's the same hormone transfer hypothesis being examined. What propaganda could there possibly be about the lengths of one's fingers?

Was that agenda present in 1993? [3]

Does that agenda include propoganda about females becoming better at 3d-spatial mental manipulation tasks? [4] If so, why?

Is propaganda about mouse behaviors part of that agenda? [5] If not, why not? Still that same hormone transfer hypothesis being discussed.

Perhaps this 1988 paper on intrauterine position of gerbil fetuses [6] and resulting variance in hormonal exposure from siblings was the birth of this propaganda agenda?

Or is it more sinister than that, and this agenda extends all the way back to 1959 [7], causing these doctors to 'play with statistics' instead of doing what they said - applying testosterone in-utero and watching for behavioral changes? And then I suppose Dr Phoenix would do more 'playing' in 1967 [8] instead of actually measuring testosterone uptake rates of the various tissues he avoided actually manipulating eight years prior...

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21893061

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22270254

3: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8240211

4: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21094200

5: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212613/

6: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3387473

7: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14432658

8: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6020216
"Economy class, also called scum class, steerage, standard class or cattle class, is the lowest travel class of seating in air travel, rail travel, and sometimes ferry or maritime travel."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_class
"Cattle class" is a kinda faux-pejorative term for economy/coach/whatever the cheapest cabin is in some mode of transport.
I like to think that people are being vaccinated against another crypto craze by the fraud and loss stories. Few got rich, most lost money on it. Like all good schemes.
>But maybe eg subreddits were already too fragmenting for this to effectively happen.

I think that's very much the case, if you look at some of the subreddits that are sympathetic to the NZ situation, there's no opposition within those subreddits, any hint of an opposing view results in a ban in those subs.
Well in the US the people responsible for the brazen robocalling can simply hire lobbyists to convince congress it is bad to limit robocalls. So our entire system is a bit broken at the moment when we have a terrible congress and a president who appoints questionable leaders (see the guy who he put in charge of the FCC ending Net Neutrality)
His competitor will provide separate quotes and win.
> and damages the environment for decades if not more

Though apparently radiation is not as bad for the flora and fauna as people are:

“Wildlife is thriving around Chernobyl since the people left”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28281-wildlife-is-thr...
The petition is here. Looks like it just crossed 1,000,000. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
Nah, heat reduces PV effectiveness. Ideally you want a sunny cold day.
Spotify states their case against Apple
Isn't semi-auto basically every gun except revolvers and bolt-action rifles? I thought "semi-auto" just meant you could pull the trigger, get a bullet, and then pull the trigger again for another bullet (as opposed to full auto where you keep getting bullets until you let go of the trigger or run out of bullets).
I think they understand that if you give customers no option they will be forced to comply with their wishes and act as a monthly revenue stream.

However they also misunderstand people's reluctance to put all your eggs in a large basket out of your control that disappears in a puff of smoke if you stop paying for it plus their ability to want to avoid paying a monthly fee.

At some point it'll backfire.
Business cycles are the effect of under/overinvestments.

With Bitcoin it's much harder to get a loan with near-0 interest rates, as money can't be printed out of thin air. The banks would have a real risk of not getting back their investment when they would be lending, so they would be forced to be much more conservative. The power would shift to angel investors, who use their own money to invest in / lend to businesses.
The page is really confusing, can we register our domain with them or only transfer an existing domain?
Thank you.

I learned about this working on election integrity.

After spending years learning the laws, rules, regulations, principles, policy, tech stack... it really just came down to who's getting paid.

I don't know how to mitigate this. More eyeballs?

Regulation isn't sufficient and susceptible to capture.

Sunshine laws aren't sufficient. FOIA is a step forward, but you're always two steps behind (don't even know what questions to ask).

Whistleblowers are routinely stomped, so less likely to speak up over time.

Few can afford to do investigative journalism any more.

So I was big fan of Obama's data.gov initiative. Publish all (non-sensitive) data by default. Calendars (hearings), procurement process, contracts, appropriations.

Wishful thinking?
I once was headed to MacWorld at the Moscone Centre on business with my partner. We flew from Toronto to Chicago, where we took the California Zephyr to Oakland.

After MacWorld we did a little sightseeing, then took the Coast Starlight to Portland, where we changed to the Empire Builder back to Chicago.

Except what actually happened was that an avalanche in the Cascades held us up until a work train called "Snowball" showed up to clear the tracks. It had a massive snowblower, a plow, a flat car, a crane car, and a couple of coaches full of workers and equipment.

We then missed our connection, so they loaded us on double-decker buses that raced to catch up with the Empire Builder. It was very memorable.
When PACER - at the time a BAE product - and CM/ECF in particular was forced on us (us being attorneys practicing in my district) it was touted as a cost savings measure...for the clerks office, by offloading the work to attorneys, staff, and ultimately the clients. It has continued to serve that purpose.

The Politico piece is not exaggerating. The search functionality charges by the page ($.15/pg, 1 pg min) and there's no way to limit the number of pages it'll spit out ahead of time other than with restrictive terms. Lexis's search engine in 1991 (when I could last afford it!) was leaps and bounds ahead of PACER's.

All of these costs are borne by users, be they the litigants (once they've exhausted their "one free look") or the public. It's shameful.
In the short term, a large user base until they're ready to raise the price.
However, 17,410,742 voted to leave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_U...
Save your Internet – Call for a pan-European day of protests on 23 March
No. According to the original author, the purpose of bitcoin is to provide an electronic payment system that does not require trusted third parties. See the introduction section of https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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The anatomy of information in software systems
> I think we read different articles.

Not sure. I clicked this link https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/technology/military-contr... which one did you click?

> Some random noob, one of 72, works for 7 weeks, and magically has such a major impact that it's still felt 9 months later?

9 months is not a lot of time in government land. Before the request for proposal is sent out, often, a pick is already made informally. In fact the best time to lobby is exactly that time to ensure the bid is written to one company's specifications (even though it is illegal). And surprise, the company is the company this person used to work for, and also surprise, surprise advocating its use to other companies. After he quits, then promptly goes back to the same company.

This is not unusual and pretty sure Oracle would be doing the same thing, it just they missed the boat, so now are happy to "expose the corruption".
There are exceptions or there could hypothetically be exceptions one day?

I agree with the latter

If the former, please provide examples. I am all ears