skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the word ‘shaman’ is being thrown around pretty lightly in this thread with some implicit derision. This is curious to me.
I know someone who is incontinent because of ketamine, and yet still chooses to do it. Not exactly the least addictive drug out there.
> Over time ... with free software updates the gap will narrow as well.

Yeah, this guy's drinking the Koolaid. I've tried a road trip in a Tesla exactly once. I drive gas on road trips now.
Kind of like Deep Dream, but for text?
I don't blame student debt wholly for this, the second factor is that public sector jobs are somewhere between 1/2 to 2/3 of a private sector salary. There is also general hostility to match private sector salary with public funds (for many reasons) and the math just doesn't line up. This forgiveness program makes sense for some of the silliness of government funding and budget allocation but it doesn't make common sense. It also makes sense if salary is lower that you get some benefit for the fact you can't pay down loans aggressively to minimize the impact of interest.

I would also indicate that I feel like it's disingenuous to compare forgiveness programs of bachelors education compared to specialists like lawyers and PhD types where even state schools put you in the 80k+ club.
It’s 5 requirements man. Are you seriously trying to say that: (1) working for the government (2) full time (3) with loans taken out under a Direct loan from the government (4) and making payments on an income based repayment plan for your loans (5) for 120 months is that hard?

I meet 4 of these 5 requirements by accident.
That's why I included ubi in essentials. The thing this solves is tax avoidance evasion.
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Then you come along and want to interpret that reply to actually mean 'Everything permitted on HN is compulsory'. That is, at a polite minimum, pointedly silly.

No, that is, at a polite minimum, your mistaken interpretation. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with what I actually said.
> To estimate the optimal intake for each dietary factor, we first calculated the level of intake associated with the lowest risk of mortality from each disease endpoint based on the studies included in the metaanalyses of the dietary relative risks. Then, we calculated the optimal level of intake as the weighted mean of these numbers using the global proportion of deaths from each disease as the weight.

That methodology sounds like it would only be valid if each type of harm functioned entirely independently and was only affected by a single intake factor?

The words "carbohydrate" and "calorie" appear nowhere in the study. Did they allow the effects of caloric malnutrition to skew the calculations of optimal intake levels?

If consuming more carbohydrates is helpful compared to being malnourished, that does nothing to show that there's a minimum level of fruit and grains that are necessary for health.

If adding more fat intake to a high carbohydrate diet is harmful, that doesn't necessarily mean fat is universally unhealthy.

This just seems like a report of correlations that are biased by the distribution of diets that are being commonly consumed.
I hear 1BR underground bunkers are going for above asking price in Mountain View.
It's odd that so many people are unable to envision a society where these things are possible. Small minded thinking from an intelligent group.
Business class is absolutely worth paying for. It’s certainly not for the luxurious appeal of it, but if you’re going to splurge on one thing, air travel is not a bad one to pick.

I travel between the US, Europe, and Asia a couple times a year to visit close ones. I can pay $800 for a lengthy multi leg journey in a very cramped seat (I am quite tall), which will result in me being utterly miserable for 24-48 hours at the very least.

Or I can pay a few times that (usually 3-5x), and take a single leg trip on a plane that will take less than 12 hours, all in utter comfort. I can lie down with a pillow and a blanket!

Now, as a student I had no choice but to save up for months to afford the cheapest, most inconvenient tickets. But now I am at a stage of my life where I can afford business class a couple times a year, and it is a no brainer. I can’t think of any other service where paying more changes the quality of the service this drastically. A $30 meal can feed you just as well as a $150 one. A $20k car will get you to work as safely and efficiently as a $100k one. But a $800 SF-Tokyo will make you hate everything for a day or two, while a $4000 SF-Tokyo will be something you actually look forward to. You typically get to skip through security, get treated better by the staff, get to board faster, you don’t have to worry about where to put your bag, etc. So many quality of life improvements.

(Standard disclaimer that I realize how privileged I am to be in the position that I am in - but I don’t think it’s too out of the norm on HN)
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Yes, yes this weekend is a perfect time to pull my copy of City Of Darkness off the shelf.
How do you solve tax avoidance/evasion? Inflation rather than tax solves that. Of course there would need to be an agreed cap on inflation that is tied to productivity.
They are dangerous drugs with serious side effects like cardiac damage. There’s a book called Blitzed that talks about the mass abuse of amphetamines in WW2 Germany.
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Being hard to understand is not a virtue, and maybe it's overthinking to claim that someone saying "The great majority of men have no right to existence" somehow means something other than what that sentence quite plainly implies.

So far, I haven't seen a clear exposition of what Nietzschd meant by these phrases, if not the obvious thing. The guy quite clearly had an obsession with concepts of "great men".

People have thought that some people are more fundamentally valuable than others in some moral is-ought sense for most of existence, there's nothing new or enigmatic about it and most reasonable people are done with it.
I dabble in small doses for the therapeutic benefits. I don’t think of them as party drugs at all. They help me think through hard problems in life.
That all startup employees work 80 hour weeks for 50% below market salary is not something I think is true at all. I would like to see a source on that start-up employees (not founders) work significantly longer hours than other tech workers in the area. While I understand your mental math I also think it's a weird way to think about things, because it is very clear going in that working extra hours is not going to give you any extra stake in the company, so any employee who chooses to do so are obviously doing it for other reasons.

Finally, $2M (which is for 10 employees in your example, not 1) would be considered a small round today.
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I’m is the solution in every other developed country. Stop encouraging schools to increase tuition.
im shocked. shocked.

the company i work for is 100% ethical, never even once have i whiffed a sense of even the most brief impropriety.

at least thats what they told me to say if i didnt want to be fired, blacklisted, and have my career destroyed.
I’ve been on ride-alongs. I also didn’t say cops were afraid of gay people. I said Bay Area cops are afraid of appearing homophobic.
Is it just me getting older, or are these new thinner economy seats much harder/stiffer than the old ones?
Maybe if you take 1g regularly but if you’re doing it a few times a month in small doses that is highly unlikely
“Slipped” implies unintentional. A better headline is corporate America is getting away with more.
That book contains so many outright falsehoods and misrepresentations that it belongs in a garbage bin. Even the guardian [1] thrashed it not to mention titans like John Gray [2].

It doesn't surprise me to learn that Pinker also manages to misrepresent and malign Nietzsche.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/14/enlightenment-...

[2] https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlight...
Few years. Left now. I sold a portion through a tender offer but the company has not IPO’d.
What? How does what you're saying contradict my point at all, or make me "not right" in the case of not-all-rich employees? You're just explaining the reason that investors choose equity and employees choose salary, which has nothing to do with my point.

Employees get cash flow heavy comp over equity, which is better during the company's existence and worse during its liquidation. Investors get equity heavy comp packages, which is worse during the company's existence (no cash flow) and better during its existence.

My complaint about the GP comment was that looking at one half of a tradeoff is obviously going to make it look better, just like saying that I'm ripping off Amazon at the time of delivery because I don't pay anything at that moment, while ignoring the fact that I paid them earlier. Your comment is a complete non sequitur
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Here's the sample code I pass around for doing that. It's a minimal example using SDL. AFAICT, it's pretty much the fastest way to get graphics from the CPU RAM to the screen.

https://gist.github.com/CoryBloyd/6725bb78323bb1157ff8d4175d...
A realistic way too make a Mars habitat [video]
Is there a good way to measure this?

I can't remember a time when I didn't read some article ... just like this one.

This seems like a very easy sentiment to sell / belive at anytime.
Samsung warns profit to fall 60%
You'll like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiIoE8ArACs
A general rule of thumb is that any item intended for aviation use gets an extra zero added to the price. Sometimes two zeroes.
The problems listed in this article have a lot more to do with American Airlines than with the 737 MAX. The seats and bathrooms are probably standard features that will be identical on all airlines, but legroom is entirely up to the airline ordering the plane. American chose to configure their planes that way. Same for the TVs.

As a 6'1" somewhat overweight guy, legroom is single most annoying anti-feature on most flights. I used to regularly score exit rows, because they wouldn't sell them in advance, or even let you select them, but now they're considered premium seats that cost up to 50% extra.

American is an awful airline. Their main east coast hub is MIA, which is a gigantic airport with a poor layout and insufficient inter- and intra-terminal transportation options. They always have long layovers. I was stranded overnight in Houston once due to them cancelling a flight, and the only compensation was a $12 meal voucher, which barely covered a soda and stale donut at the shitty motel they stuck us in. They refused to honor my miles from another airline that is part of their mileage sharing program (because they cancelled the arrangement soon after I flew). Their customer service is terrible. Poor meals, if any. Outrageous baggage fees.

Anyway, my point is that the 737 MAX shouldn't be blamed for how American chose to arrange the seats. American chooses to suck at every opportunity.
Can someone explain why Beijing is so expensive as far as rents go? I’m surprised given how sprawling it is.
“In Beijing alone, roughly 10,000 bunkers were promptly constructed...Now when night falls, more than a million people—mostly migrant workers and students from rural areas—vanish from Beijing’s bustling streets into the underground universe, little known to the world above...Local laws require a minimal living space of 4 square meters (43 square feet) per tenant, which, in many cases, go ignored.”

Something about this story doesn’t add up — many bunkers are less than 43 sq ft per tenant, but somehow the average number of people living in a bunker is ~100 (1,000,000 people / 10,000 bunkers)??
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There are so many segments of customers for video that it is truly hard to fathom why someone thinks they have one answer.

For me, a large part of the appeal of Netflix/Amazon for video is that I don't have any physical media. I'm barely good at taking care of disks. My kids? It isn't really fair to get upset if they destroy them. Yes, everyone thinks they remember how well they took care of their parents crap. No. You didn't actually do so. (Statistically, I'm sure there are folks that did. But by and large you don't exist in the statistical sense.)

Now, this primarily just means that you need the major shows my kids want to watch. Nowadays, that is Octonauts and Pokemon. The How to Train a Dragon series is also getting a lot of play. Luckily, all available for streaming easily enough. Zero effort on my part, too. Just a relatively small bill. Especially compared to the cable I don't pay anymore.
We had 8 years of Republicans curbing back regulatory oversight, increasing regulatory capture. The sitting President won on "draining the swamp" and proceeded to hire lobbyists to his staff because "they know how the system works" and yet there's been only further deregulation and destruction of government entities. If Americans want it to stop they will stop voting for people who literally base their party platform on destroying government oversight. There was literally an article yesterday about how when the IRS went after the wealthy for tax evasion, their budget was cut by Congress. The solution to this is a political one. Vote in people who believe differently if you want different outcomes. Otherwise quit complaining, you've got the government the people voted for.
The root commenter may have started this flamewar with a simplistic and inflammatory comment, but you exacerbated it with an equally simplistic and inflammatory comment introducing gender politics in a way that has only a tenuous link to the original topic.

> There is a metric fton (an SI unit) of research on a wide range of socially beneficial change that happens simply from giving power to women.

Nobody who is the kind of contributor that HN welcomes would take serious issue with this.

That doesn't make your original comment a relevant or constructive contribution to the discussion, which is about poverty in general.

Discussions about just how equality can be achieved across gender and other axes, and how that can lead to benefits to society, are important and worthy discussions.

But they're not simple - if they were, these problems would have been solved long ago.
I think you’re an outlier even for HN. Not many people would pay $3200 extra for a 9 hour flight but I see your point.

I travel extensively and always in Business class which usually gets upgraded to first class. But, even though I am hyper aware of the benefits, I personally cannot afford business class unless my company is covering it.

For $3200, I can stay at a 5 star hotel in Tokyo for a week. However, if I can afford Business class - I would get it.

My point wasn’t so much about Business class per se, it was venting out what people say about Business class as “absolute luxury”.
You certainly can't say air travel is more dangerous than it used to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety
That that is the particular legal basis for copyright does not preclude copyright having a moral element as well. I think people would widely agree that it is only fair for the creator of a work to have some exclusive claim to its use for some amount of time. My original comment did get some upvotes, for whatever that’s worth.
Not meant to be an attack and possibly I am missing something but if I paid to take a course at a university and the person teaching it was only ever a step ahead of me at any time... I'd have never taken the course.

This style of teaching (I feel) gives the illusion of confidence that the student is on the right track although its barely more than blind leading the blind.

Possibly an unpopular opinion but I have been tricked by folks like this in the working world and academia...I feel it is the source of much of my frustration with CS as a profession.
The argument is not that the drugs have no side effects or that there are not serious side effects. It is that black market drugs come with all of those side effects plus many more negative effects due to the lack of quality control and unreliable supply chains.
Yes, actually it's illegal to differentiate the price based on destination country, a SEPA transfer is a SEPA transfer. But as .de uses the euro as its currency, all in-country transfers are SEPA transfer, which I suppose isn't the case for Złoty transfers within Poland, thus allowing for differentiated prices?
That would be my assumption, too, although it'd be interesting to try to find data to confirm that. Books (picking the field I know the most about) could still sell really well and really quickly back in the "old days"; reviews often came out in advance of the book, bookstores could take pre-orders, and so on. I don't have any real data about how the "old way" balances out against the "new way."
I think there are two things that would actually satisfy me at this point.

Audited by an independent (E.G. EU's) agency, with open records...

EITHER: A review of the actual paper trails and sources of the news story and build logs.

OR: A randomized sample of like 5-10% of the planes from the suspect time range looking at the suspect parts in question.
> i don’t think we’ve made any staggering advances in knowledge since 1960, when lemaitre died, for instance.

We've got Twitter and Reddit, and if those don't encapsulate staggering advances in human knowledge, I don't know what would.
> Math is not testable with the scientific method, but it is obviously compatible with science.

That's either false or a category error.

If you mean that it is not testable whether a given mathematical structure models some aspect of observable reality, then that is obviously nonsense.

If you mean that axioms are not testable, that's simply a category error because axioms are not claims about reality.

> Like "multiverse" perhaps?

Yes?
What I've noticed is rather it's culture. Cherry trees blossom all over the world as do other trees. Almonds, Plums, Jacarandas, lots of others. Nothing special about cherry trees except they got lucky that one culture decided to celebrate them and others didn't

almonds: https://www.google.com/search?q=almond+tree+blossoms&tbm=isc...

plums: https://www.google.com/search?q=plum+tree+blossoms&tbm=isch

jacaranda: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacaranda+tree+blossoms&tbm=...
Any disk older than 2003 or so was measured in MiB, even though it was labeled as MB. The point of a 1.45MiB file was that it would not fit on a "1.44MB" floppy.

RAM is still labeled in 2^30 byte sizes instead of 10^9, because address lines are more important than hard drive manufacturers gaming their specs.
Can you not make this a political party issue?
Oh certainly, but that is kind of my point. The $/KWh seems way too low if that is installed cost. But the levelized cost of energy at the end actually seems pretty reasonable.

That means I don't understand where the $/KWh of installed capacity comes from.
> Miracles are not the root of why I consider Christianity to be rational.

That's not how this works. If you make the claim that some system of beliefs is rational, you have taken on the burden of proof that central claims of that system of beliefs are rational.

> They're a possibility; a side-effect, not a proof.

No, they are a central claim of the system of beliefs that you claimed to be rational.

> I'm simply leaving the possibility of their being more than nature open and finding that opening filled. That's part of why I find it rational.

Could you define what you mean by "rational"?

As for that middle paragraph of yours ... I'm sorry, but that mostly suggests that you haven't even tried to understand the counter-arguments. It's a pile of well-known fallacies that really shouldn't be that hard to figure out if you cared. Those arguments have been used and refuted for ages.
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> What’s happened since 2015, by contrast?

Intel monopolized the market by breaking laws (paid billions in fines). The lack of progress is the consequence.

The progress only slowed down for x86. For the rest of chips it has not: GPUs, mobile SoCs, they all becoming significantly faster with each generation.

Fortunately, with AMD Ryzen the stagnation is ending. Core count in mainstream chips already doubled, after stagnating for decade.
I recognize your username and you’re a precise writer. You’d likely be quite a good developer.

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Don’t worry if Rails is the right choice. You might love it or hate it, but regardless, you’ll learn things like writing tests and using version control.

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> I think it's rational to acknowledge there are things science can explain and things it cannot.

Yes.

> E.g. science cannot prove nor disprove the existence of God nor the afterlife.

That depends on the specfific god claim.

> Faith is a basic and universal part of life. Why? Because we cannot know (with absolute certainty) the future.

That's a false equivocation. "faith" has two different meanings. One is roughly a synonym of "trust". That is what you are talking about here. The other is the religious meaning, namely a justification for accepting as true a claim despite complete lack of any supporting evidence whatsoever or in the face of contradicting evidence.

> When you get into an airplane, do you know for certain you'll get to your destination safely? No. You weigh the odds and choose whether you want to take that risk. Taking a risk is going by faith. We have to take risks in life because again, we don't know the future.

That's a continuation of the false equivocation and completely irrelevant to the concept of religious faith.

> So it is with getting married, accepting a job or even sitting on a chair.

And more false equivocation still.

> When a Christian believes in God, they are taking a risk that they may be wrong and God doesn't exist.

... or that they may be wrong and Allah or Vishnu or Zeus or who knows which god actually exists.

> When an atheist does not believe in God, they are taking the opposite risk, that God does exist.

How is that a risk?

Also, you have given exactly no reason why it is rational to accept those doctrines of the Catholic belief system as true that I cited.
Me thinks this is allowing for some crap that old corporates used to try. That is to say, older companies weren't exactly saints.

If anything, we are starting to show that we do hold corporations to a high standard. Hell, have we ever held cigarette companies truly to task for all of the crazy additives they did simply to make things more addictive?

Now, there is some irony that some industries that came into being with intense regulations are showing the value of those regulations as they lose them. But that is a different story than corporate America slipping in standards. Quite the contrary, that is a fairly predictable story that regulations can serve a purpose.