skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many cases California and New York voters count much less than in smaller, more rural states. The senators from Wyoming represent about 300,000 people each. The senators in California represent nearly 19,000,000 each. And the The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 capped the number in the House of Representatives. In this case, each California House member represents three times as many people as the House members in Wyoming. That's also one reason in recent presidential elections the electoral college which is based on the number of Senators and House of Representatives (plus 3 from DC) have won the race but lost the popular vote.
> Of course, private companies reserve the right to refuse business and services to whomever they want. In a healthy society this is no problem.

Did you notice that you just said that civil rights laws prohibiting racial and sexual discrimination are wrong and that the US is an unhealthy society because of them? Perhaps you do believe that, which is fine, but if you don't, then be careful making bold statements with a scope wider than what you're really thinking of. It sounds grand and important to make a general declaration of what's right and wrong, but the reason it sounds grand and important is because it carries so much meaning. If you don't really mean all of it, then it's more honest to stick to the specific concept you do want to say.
Normally, I don't think much of the name of a product. Descriptive, flowerly, pie-in-the-sky, complete bs, etc.

This one is genius.
What brand are you wearing?
Off topic, but I believe this thread was posted a few days ago but has reappeared as new (currently says 4 hours ago) after a delay. OP originally posted it two days ago, visible from their submissions page. I noticed this happen a few days ago as well.
Yes.

This is a standard form of emissions measurement called “wheel to wheel” measurement. It includes the cost of making the raw material, transport, manufacturing, and fuel production.

But the trick is that the frame of an EV really isn’t all that different than the frame of an ICE vehicle from an emissions standpoint. So all that you really need to measure is the difference in drivetrain production and operation.
No no, that wouldn't be generous. Remember, they all have good intentions.

This might not sound honest, but it's how I'm expected to talk

Loving the downvotes. I've literally been reprimanded for pointing out a pattern of sexist behavior -- 'cause apparently, counting to three before bringing it up to management is SO unfair
Here's a great video about Payless https://youtu.be/GJ35lCrOYC0
Ask HN: Do You Play an Instrument?
For how long? Do you practice often?
When one side is in power, they point to the metrics that make things seem great, and when out of power, they do the reverse.

Republicans in 2017 suddenly talked about how great stock returns / GDP / unemployment were doing when they spent 8 years saying they didn't reflect the true economy and the jobless rate was abominable. Now democrats are focusing on median income growth / GINI index / student loan default rates etc after saying everything was great for years. Statistics are just used as tools to accomplish policy goals and win arguments.
This "cult like" division of people and ideas is rife throughout reddit. Subreddits where reasonable objections get downvoted out of sight and preaching to the choir gets upvoted to the top reinforcing those beliefs.

It ruins the whole point of reddit. The mods are very biased on some subreddits that aren't even based on extreme ideas and they have so many unnecessary rules they can lock any thread they want for any reason just because they don't like it.

Reddit has become a cesspool for discourse. There are a couple of good subreddits but that's because they are based on discussion (e.g /r/casualconversation)not the subject of discussion.

Many subreddit don't want reasonable discourse. They want a safe space full of "yes men" that fall in line with and reinforce their beliefs.
In my experience the majority (all the ones I've owned at least) of consumer grade routers have DHCP.
> Grains were first domesticated about 10,000 years ago, during the "Holocene climatic optimum", when temperatures were significantly higher than "pre-industrial" times.

Your "significantly higher" 10,000 years ago is already less than what the global warming already produced, and even less less then what the global warming will produce in the future even if all countries do what they promised to do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum#/med...

Global temperature is now already higher than at any time in the Holocene and thus the entire history of human civilization. The paper:

"Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years" defines "present" temperature not as what we measure today, but as an average of the last 10000 (10k, 10 thousand) years, and the temperatures were higher than that average only 100000 (100k hundred thousand) years ago, but only one degree. But compared to the last 10k years average, today we're already close to one degree above it.

And if one adds up all the national pledges made in Paris to curb emissions, they would put the world on track to warm around 3 degrees Celsius or more (i.e. 2 degrees above the average of even 100k years ago). That will be more than what happened in the last 2 million years, if you look at the Figure 3.
I think that's going to be a gradual process, but it will likely happen. IMO Python will either have to move to including a JIT with the standard interpreter, or it will be replaced.
Anarchist hacker collective Noisebridge may be pushed out of Mission District
Authoritarian regimes will drape themselves in whatever flag serves their interest, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, there's no saying it's indistinguishable from its alternatives.
Damn! I’m pretty much wearing my shoes 4-5 times a week for 2-4 hours a day, and I still go through a pair in about a year... what are you wearing?
In what climate? Having lived in UK, Germany and the US East Coast with rain and snow, it would not have worked for me and bikes that are used a lot by people who are not careful.
Running a stop sign or traffic light should not be a death sentence.

Plus, there have been many times when I've been on the receiving end of dangerous "punishment passes" from drivers who believe I'm doing something illegal when I'm not. I've had people pass me aggressively because they think I'm going too slow, when the speed limit is 15 mph and I'm going 17-18 mph. I've have people pass me while yelling to get in the bike lane when there was no bike lane and I was in the sharrow lane on an official city bike route. Etc. Just because you believe someone is breaking the law does not give you the right to kill or otherwise harm them, particularly if you're wrong about the law.

Edit: I believe I misread you about the paramedic. I read it as the paramedic would give rough rides to all cyclists (and most of the time it's not the cyclist's fault that they were in a crash), but you meant they gave rough rides to only cyclists who ran red lights or stop signs. That's still bad and sadistic as far as I'm concerned.
Quick Design Guidelines for Radiated Emissions Compliance
Thanks for adding your views, this is useful. On the AAMC site, there's also a piece called "GME Funding and Its Role in Addressing the Physician Shortage" that talks about the point you rightly make about pushing for more residency slots. It's here: https://news.aamc.org/for-the-media/article/gme-funding-doct....

On the residency point, it adds:

"As part of the multi-pronged approach to alleviating the doctor shortage we also need additional federal support to produce about 3,750 more doctors a year by lifting the cap on federally funded residency training positions. Teaching hospitals are operating 10,000 residency positions without Medicare support, but cuts to Medicare and other clinical reimbursements jeopardize the ability of teaching hospitals to cross-subsidize with clinical revenue these positions.

The AAMC strongly supports bipartisan GME legislation introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (H.R. 1763, S. 348), which takes an important step towards alleviating the physician shortage by gradually providing 15,000 Medicare-supported GME residency positions over a five-year period. However, legislation alone will not relieve the doctor shortage.

In addition, the AAMC supports non-GME incentives and programs, including Conrad 30, the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), and Title VII/VIII, which are used to recruit a diverse workforce and encourage physicians to practice in shortage specialties and underserved communities."
> ...should not be said by non-black people

I disagree...people of all ethnicities can say any word they like whenever they want...there might be social consequences, but there isn't anything inherently wrong with saying a word
I apologize for not using the proper title. I was unaware.
The rule is mostly (varies by state) that if there are two lanes, or one lane and an improved shoulder (i.e., wide enough for a vehicle), then at your earliest convenience you must yield the left lane (or the only lane) to passers.

It's very, very simple.

BTW, in Texas it is now legal to pass on the right because of all those who fail to yield the passing lane. Passing on the right isn't very good, but it's what you get when people decide that the left lane is for themselves.
That is a separate issue and far more local.

For LA they were going wannabe terrorists about gentrification back in the the late 90s with the Yuppie Eradication Project - it seems nobody was sympathetic to them and who can blame them? I think most would rather have the most obnoxious yuppie stereotype than those idiot self-righteous vandals.

Gentrification seems to be a noisy minority issue - I hear far most people who would want gentrification.

Which I suppose points to another cultural divide. To suburbanites and even other major cities they look like huge spoiled brats - conplaining about things other areas would kill for, and already offer more for far less. I am aware of differing situations and needs but it seems that someone isn't being reasonable.
Of course, in heavy traffic this goes out the window.
I saw an online editor
My professor for my senior operating systems class who was a CMU PhD grad, gave us these assignments (with the permission of CMU). They were some of the most important learning experiences in my undergraduate career.
Traffic laws can easily be enforced mechanically in a far more dispassionate way than the effect lottery-system-slanted-by-privilege that we have today.
I'd go with Chargebee and then merchant accounts can be hot swapped
Who ? Why ?
As someone who has generated 99% of the code- not counting StackOverflow- for a project, it honestly is a double-edged sword- I can't rely on anyone else to fix anything, but when I break things the impact is rather minimal.
What are Wasserman and Hastie?
Great to hear the positive response! FWIW, initially on HN I felt pretty frustrated with what I called ‘drive-by downvotes’ with no explanation, and also just generally upset when I’d get downvoted. That’s partly because it didn’t happen that often, so it felt more serious when it did. And sometimes it feels unfair, for sure, especially when I don’t know why and it doesn’t seem warranted to me. But over the years, I’ve become more okay with the vagueness and uncertainty that comes with it. The votes are communicating something, so I try to assume I did something wrong and just maybe don’t get what it is yet. But you never know other people’s interpretations of your words, or their moods or mental states either, so sometimes I just have to let it roll off. It’s fascinating to see something I write get misinterpreted after I thought I was really clear. And I don’t see this happen that often, but because votes are used to rank the comments, sometimes people are just moving the interesting discussions up and the less interesting ones down, so there might even be nothing at all disagreeable with a comment, it’s just that there are other really good discussions nearby. Believe it or not, I actually don’t ever downvote because it bothered me to get them myself, I just ignore threads I don’t want to read and upvote threads that are interesting. I usually upvote people who reply to me as thanks for taking the time to read & reply to me, especially when they disagree with me, so that’s an example of using votes for something other than liking or agreeing or ranking. Anyway, HN does have some pretty thoughtful discussion even with the occasional downvotes, so just seek out the good stuff!
> Everyone has a multi-megabit home connection now. Hosting a simple static site is easy and works well.

Hardly. 2 megabytes/s download, around 120 kilobytes/s upload - my upload speed barely even reaches one megabit.

And it's from a dynamic IP, and connectivity drops off randomly once a month.

Could I host a static site on my own computer, with a little fiddling? Sure. Even a dynamic one. And it would be slow as molasses, and it would probably get denial'o'service-d if getting ten visitors at the same time.
I'm pretty sure this is what the Nazis said about the Jews?
I don't care what you think of whoever is trying to pas you, so long as you let them pass. That's the law. Let law enforcement worry about who is violating it; you follow the law.
If emoji are images, then Chinese characters are images. Each emoji has a meaning on its own, and can have different meanings in context. There are combinations of emojis (emoji "sentences" if you will) representing complex concepts.
I'm guessing the OP doesn't use their shoes for much more than walking around indoors. On the other hand when I skateboarded to work I'd go through a pair of shoes about every 3 months (that's what happens when your brake is your shoe). It was still cheaper than gas and faster than public transit though.
How does this service distinguish itself from any of the other image placeholder services out there?
800K polling places is a lot. In huge Russia, we have only about 90 000 of them. Indonesia has twice the population, but it is still a lot.
The Status of AGI and OpenCog
Don’t hire a consulting firm to do development work because they will just hire it out to a shitty firm in India and charge an exorbitant premium
> Affordable housing - a limited supply of apartments taken off the market and given off in a lottery to a lucky few who get to pay less than market rate for rent

No, affordable housing for a given income level is defined by a cost formula. Achieving affordable housing for lower income levels is frequently done by the means you describe, because you literally cannot build it in quantity if it is distributed by normal market means because what is new will be desirable, and therefore both expensive and snapped up by the well-off, for that reason alone.
Blender dev team endorsing a new mouse
>But everybody has good intentions. God forbid I forget that

On one hand I get the idea of trying to assume positive intent because wrongly assuming negative intent can make a situation much worse, but I still hate the idea.

First, it gives negative intent the ability to hide and pretend to be positive intent. Not many people will do this, but the ones who do can use it to great effect and cause significant damage they won't be held accountable for.

Second, it contradicts our standard actions elsewhere. If a stranger asks a kid if they need a ride, do we tell the kid to assume positive intent? No, we inform them to assume negative intent. We measure the situation of either option on a case by case basis and only then determine what is safe to assume (and in the example I give, it is more prudent to assume negative intent).

Third, it has an implicit idea that positive intent is good enough. That isn't always the case. Sometimes it is, but especially when it comes to leaders in an organization, specifically those with power and compensation to match being a leader, the demand is higher than just trying to be positive. We need people who have the knowledge and experience to do more than just having positive intent.

When you higher a security expert, do you hire someone who will try to achieve security and count that as good enough, or is the demand for their to be realized results and failing to achieve those results lead to negative consequences unless there is adequate explanation.

When someone is parenting a child, is trying good be a good parent enough, or do we demand a certain level of competence in parenting and remove children from those who fail to reach a certain level?

Fourth, there is a double standard in application. Every time someone tells me to assume positive intent, they were assuming I didn't already have the positive intent in doing so. And dare you point it out, you will be seen as assuming negative intent about their assuming negative intent. This alone isn't really a major issue, but it generally represents a larger double standard on application of such rules.
The demise and rebirth of the ethical engineer
Right. My point was that the OP implied a correlation between censorship and the rise of politics bring censored, my answer was that there isn't really any correlation, there are plenty of examples that go both ways.
> Why is land going to be valuable?

People need to live somewhere.

The reason that cities exist is because people like to be around (certain) other people.

Since teleportation isn't a thing, people need to live within a certain distance of each other in order to have an in person relationship.

This isn't just about work, even in a "post scarcity" society, people will still want to interact with other people, face to face.

Therefore land will always be valuable.
Generally different platform builds are handled by different developers - the codebase has to be modularized to be ported from Windows, to, say, Linux, to start, same with the UI.

If you're already porting to Linux, you're already dealing with a UNIX executable, which makes it at least slightly easier to port to MacOS.

There are also virtualization services available where you can rent dev time, and decent and upgradeable Macs are not that expensive second hand.

I dev on MacOS all the time, and have the same issue with Windows. These days I try to write everything as a PWA to start so I especially don't have to deal with extreme UI/UX pains.
In integrating to highly male fields, straddling the mindfuck of "when am I being too excluded due to my gender" vs. "when am I being too included due to my gender" must be salient too. On top of the normal traumas like impostor syndrome, adding that valence of paranoia and political intrigue to your work life can't be healthy.
Atleast here in Sweden (Stockholm, big city) schools are usually used on evenings (languages courses for adults, such things) and on weekends.
What is your privacy policy? Do you store any information about the users?
I never thought about that part of it. As a programmer you can't really take away my means of making a living via liquidation of assets. But farmers and I imagine many other professions, this is a very different scenario.

I have to think that they wouldn't want to remove someone's ability to pay their debts. But I also imagine that when you get to bankruptcy, it isn't about that anymore.
I think Billy Joel might have just felt a disturbance in the force...
Of course it wouldn't have. None of them died from counting votes.
Joel Spolsky talks a little about this:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/04/painless-functiona...
Looks succinct and minimalistly practical. Is it totally open-source in the sense that I can replicate the 1mb.site on my own server using 3-4 the repos published on Github?
> Sarah Taber had a recent twitter thread

I followed your link. She describes the problem as "predatory communities eating themselves alive". That sounds far from objective and painfully lacking in empathy.
The point is that drivers speeding is responsible for 10k+ deaths a year, and it is largely accepted by society. But cyclists running stop signs or red lights is responsible for a negligible amount, and most people would say this is a much bigger problem than speeding
One of the reasons I really like Challenger Launch Decision is because it does a very good job of avoiding the hindsight bias as much as possible, by getting the readers to understand the perspective and the cultural norm of the organizations and participants, and tracing the decision making process itself and influences on those, instead of technical decisions themselves that were / might have been wrong in hindsight.

In hindsight, we can see mistakes in terms of specific design and technical decisions. But I don't think those are the biggest lessons from the disaster. We will continue making such mistakes, since technical misjudgement itself will always happen. I think Challenger Launch Decision's main point, that the organizational structure and culture have large impact on individual decision making is the lasting lesson. The book's closing sentence is excellent:

"The lingering uncertainty in the social control of risky technology is how to control the institutional forces that generate competition and scarcity and the powerful leaders who, in response, establish goals and allocate resources, using and abusing high-risk technical systems".
> oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends...

The thought behind this statement has been used historically to do some pretty bad stuff that resulted in a lot of pain and suffering...be careful that you don't build up a power structure that "works" now when you and people who think like you are in power but can be used to utterly rob the people of their freedom and liberty...its very sad to see this happening again
> The hours suck, the risk is high and the pay is low. If there wasn't such a strong emotional bond we'd pay a lot more for our food just to get people to do it.

Are you sure about that? Median farm household income is way higher than normal median household income [1] and farmers get a huge amount of subsidies at the state and federal level.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-sector-inc...
We get hired because we're undeniably brilliant. But then we aren't actually welcome in the social fabric, which is more than 80% male. I've been on a few hiring panels and contrary to a sibling comment's implication, the hiring process is quite biased. Though progressive, the company doesn't have anything resembling diversity-aware hiring practices. "The best candidate gets the job" is the rule, but when "cultural fit" is a significant consideration in a heavily male dominated department, we continue to hire many more men than women.
Yeah, because at a certain level it's not monopolizing knowledge, it's just not letting people without ability act as though their lack of ability is inconsequential and their agendas matter. In surgery they don't have lack of ability or agendas.
No it wasn’t. Almost no one paid that amount. And this isn’t about Whatsapp before FB. It is about before Whatsapp existing at all.
Show HN: Convert walkthroughs to working programs
Sftp would be incredible
...so it's threatening because it's better haha.
I bought an Intel Realsense last year (2 generations ago) and this is much more powerful, esp. in localization . If you buy this, expect it to be obsolete in about 6 months
Pointing out that people are making mistakes is not a way to win them over. The facts are not really relevant when trying to win someone over.

> predatory capitalist system

They don't like hearing this, either. The concept of hard work getting them ahead is one of the few things blue collar workers hold on to. (It is also not necessarily true as you state.)