skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its ridiculous. Scroll through the feed, click a link, then go back in the browser. You will be scrolled to the same position on the feed of course, like any good and friendly web browser would do for you, but the feed will be in a completely different order and you have no idea if you should be scrolling UP or DOWN to return to the content.

Axing the chronological feed wasn't about making the platform better, it was about making it more difficult and time consuming to use, and they lost me as a regular user in the process.
Perhaps because I'm unfamiliar with npm, I don't really understand what it's for. What exactly is "package install determinism"?
You can literally learn all the required skills for $0 (Youtube, online lectures, personal projects).. and a few years of your life.
What map data does Uber use?
I think they're making heavy use of Google Maps' API for the front end but what about the routing - do they roll their own or use Mapbox/Google?
I'm not making fun of you, I'm just guessing that the value you get from my service is worth more than the concerns you have about your privacy. Come join me. I promise I won't hurt you so much. You'll enjoy it.
What Was the Bauhaus?
The author is struggling with the fact that humans are overwhelmingly a mimicry bunch.

Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with it, it's the only way there can be billions of people. The automation & cloning process when it comes to personality, choices, behavior, likes, dislikes, etc. saves an incredible amount of time at scale.

30 minutes spent reading comments on Reddit or Imgur for example reveals that almost everybody is copying everybody else on there. You see witty lines, factoids, memes, repeated ad nauseam for years. The moment someone comes up with something new, it's immediately copied for hopeful points (attention and validation of existence; I think those things lacking is a serious and common issue for most people, which is why it works so well as a system in communities).

Imagine if everyone on Reddit, to post something, had to be original. 99%+ of the site instantly disappears. The effort or type of brain required to come up with new, very entertaining memes for example. Humanity wouldn't get anything else done if that much originality was required of all things, it's a division of labor applied to social everything.

There's nothing to be alarmed about. In my opinion most people have nothing interesting or original to contribute (by default I think it would have to be that way), so they copy everything from the more interesting tiny minority and it gets passed down the chain in a cascade of mimic. Most of humanity is a lifestyle and behavior clone top to bottom. Humanity is a tribe of organized copying, passing down what works from one person to the next to save time.

It takes either a particularly outstanding character/personality/thinking abnormality, or a large amount of effort, to do something original when the composition comparison is a billion other people.
FWIW I hate steamed and boiled vegetables of all kinds, but love meat.

You might be onto something with spices, though. The cuisines which have more palatable (subjectively, of course) veggie dishes tend to be the ones that are more creative with spices, now that I think about it.
Because all those people had enough built-up privilege to not have to suffer dire consequences. That's not an option for most folks...
Would taking down patlive really change anything other than shifting the physical call center to India?
> We already have a public healthcare system, it is called medicare. We can expand medicare

No we can't. Medicare pays below cost of care, and hospitals make it up from private payers. You can't just switch everyone to Medicare, you would have to reduce expenses somehow (which means firing people).
Let's be honest: most people do eat meat because of the taste. And the industry is going to go after the largest crowd first.
Erik we would be interested. How can we connect?
Okay, so 100% renewable grid.

A rapid transition would be hellishly expensive, but new installations can certainly be looking at heat pumps.

I wonder if there is a way to structure penalties/incentives so that home builders and landlords end up installing systems with lower lifetime costs (and lower environmental impact), rather than whatever is cheapest upfront.
Honestly, people adapt, and they are still social creatures like they ve always been. On the contrary, i find the fact that most people's social life ends after they leave the office to be deeply troubling.
You can't use this poll to support the private system. Only 51% of the respondents who have a private insurance are satisfied with the personal healthcare costs. Versus 70% for people who are under Medicare or Medicaid. If anything, this is an argument for Medicare for all.
I'm not super familiar with the numbers, but I believe the "billions to develop" number is a development number, if a little juiced. I think they take the total amount of R&D spend and divide it by the number of drug launches for a given period of time. So it's a good idea of how much money you have to spend to get a new launch, but it is higher than the cost of a single project, the majority of which are terminated before launch (many well before clinical trials).

After you spend a couple billion per launch to make a new drug, then you spend another couple billion on marketing. Again, I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that's the position of pharma.
Our Suicidal Elites
Hi, Rob from Prometheus here! Most of the skepticism about CO2 removal from the air is focused on "carbon sequestration and storage" or CSS, which is mitigation of emissions from fossil fuel by putting CO2 into the ground, for example. Turning CO2 from the air into useful products like fuels and building materials is much more capable of scaling because these products have value independently from regulations or carbon taxes/credits. If you can be the low cost producer of a commodity like gasoline or polyethylene, it's possible to grow zero or negative carbon capture very quickly to very large scale. If all transportation fuels, heating fuels, and plastics were from atmospheric CO2 capture, this would be more than 10 GT of CO2 a year, which is hugely significant.
> don't ever do this, it was a terrible idea

I have billions of files. What do?
Drawing any kind of conclusion about a county's drinking habits based on purely anecdotal experience seems like a futile exercise. Also, I'm no expert, but I skimmed a few studies a couple of months ago, and they all suggested higher alcohol prices reduced consumption. Admittedly, I'm not sure if the studies covered what impact pricing has on individual consumption / binge drinking.
Facebook appears as an advertiser - sometimes even with video - in Duolingo for iOS.
Why is a Google Board Member announcing stuff on Twitter?

Is Google wasting all their resources creating dozens of incompatible chat apps, but no blogging platform?
> It's not like my insurance paid $900, they just had a pre-arranged deal with the testing company to have a huge discount, which makes me think the actual cost of the blood test is nowhere near $950. If I didn't have insurance I still would've had to pay the whole $950 out of my pocket.

How on earth is this type of pricing legal?
Coinbase grew from zero to an $8B valuation in just over 6 years. If that isn't "very successful", what is? ;)
I fully assume there are more hacks we don’t hear about that ones we do. Not only because of cover ups but it can’t be that hard to cover your tracks if you know what you are doing.
Oh man, that's what Joyent's Manta could do a while ago. This is nice to have now via AWS
You're free to make your own choices. Schmidt (and Google) make no such promise. Use ProtonMail and DDG if you care so much, others will use Google, life moves on. No one is coercing anyone else.
You can be interested in the prices, but you won't find anyone interested in telling you the prices. You will also be met with complete incredulity when you ask about prices. (If you're asking about prices for a procedure or treatment related to your child you will also be shamed for "putting a price" on your child's health.)
It's all about establishing trust. These faceless entities will never make a public display of their egregious misuse of private information, so citizens will continue to hand over information that they wouldn't dream of personally giving to a stranger.
Great article. Best of luck to them.

Anybody knows about efforts to lower trial phases costs down ? (without lowering quality of course). Any out of the box idea ?
I don't think inaction causing extinction is certain. All extinction scenarios involve unproven positive feedback loops like the clathrate gun hypothesis. It seems to me quite likely that billions of humans will survive in the remaining habitable regions, even if the fight for those regions turns into World War 3. Really it's not much worse than the Cold War-era nuclear war scenarios.
Note that article is three years old and carbon emissions increased significantly over that time instead of going down as in the middle graphic. (It didn't even stay constant as in the first graphic, which would push the deadline to go to zero emissions to 2021.) So in reality we probably have to go to net zero by 2020.
Rappi (YC W16) Raises $1B from SoftBank Vision Fund
>> Rainer Valley

Nope. I live square in the middle of it, can't get double digit mbps download speeds from them.
Facebook used to be polished, believe it or not. The newsfeed was once just that, a feed for new items posted by your friends on their walls, ordered chronologically so you can get through it quickly and efficiently. People used to never share links they found on the web, why would you be that spammy asshole after all? That was the thinking then, at least. Then third party pages appeared and began posting into your newsfeed, then it became possible to share these posts with your other friends, then the feed quickly lost any utility it might have had as it became flooded with third party content and advertisement grouped in no particular order at all.

The next thing to go was notifications. I don't care if my uncle liked my aunts posts, yet I get the notification! They even had the nerve to have a notification setting to turn this off that did absolutely nothing at all. Completely broken, but probably a feature and not a bug.
Well let's see....someone reports a car as stolen but...

- they have no evidence they ever had a car

- bank records do not show evidence of any purchases of a car or insurance

- registration records do not support the person had a car registered to them

The yes the police will probably start investigating them for fraud as they do many of thousands of times are year, and they may well seek forensic computer evidence.
Facebook redesigns app, rolls out dating service to 14 more countries
Blood has a metallic aftertaste... did they overdo hemoglobin, maybe?
> is passed on to the consumers and the companys do not pay any of this

This is semantic. The money a company has to pay tax on profit comes from consumers. If that tax goes up, so will consumer prices (depending on price elasticity obviously).

All taxes are eventually passed on to the consumers.
Just to clarify, because we all saw the chat thing. They don't need another blogging platform. Just a modern update to Blogger will do.
The true cost of resources to host a small forum are so low they're negligible. It's an obvious fact. Facebook doesn't pay $5/month for every discussion group they run. If they did, they would go bankrupt in an instant. Instead, they're making money.

>I think web hosts that specialize in forum servers already integrate obtaining a domain from their own platform and even using a subdomain from one of their own, so I don't see what else they could do.

So you're telling me that there are no ease of use improvements possible when it comes to hosting trivial content like forums. And yet you also admit that Facebook allows people to host trivial content much easier than doing it "on their own". This position makes absolutely no sense.
That would break Medicare, because it pays under costs for procedures, and hospitals make it up from private parties.

I'm in favor of what you suggest, but it will come with increases in Medicare costs.
If the goal is to build a learning plan, I find LearnAwesome's approach far simpler & better: No UGC except collecting links to existing resources on the Web, a simple markdown file and connections to other topics for discovery: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome
Personal DNA tests expose relatives' genetic data, third party interests
I'm going to say 2 things here that are going to be unpopular for the HN Community, but they need to be said.

First, Non-Competes and Binding Arbitration are legal abhorrations that need to be avoided at all costs. Management is saying "You can't leave and the law doesn't exist here". Google's management, of all people, used these to sexually harass and assault their employee's. The only time signing one is advised is if you have a lawyer, that you trust and are paying, representing your interests, involved to ensure you get paid and there's no weasel words or wiggle room for game-playing. Ask them if the contract is negotiable and if you can go over it with your legal counsel; if the answer is no, you just confirmed you are walking into a company full of psychopaths that would sooner kill you and harvest your organs for a buck than treat you reasonably. There is literally no fine line or middle ground here; when these contracts are rolled out either they are negotiated in good faith or they are not.

Second, a lot of people walk into those contracts on good faith, only to find the nightmare later on. Summarizing the situatuion; the Soap Box is done and over with, the Ballot Box is already empty, and the option for a Jury Box was taken away from you, which leaves only the Ammo Box.

Prudent people will realize the only way out is to bankrupt the business and ownership through making a big mistake or error; They can't pay the arbiters if they are bankrupt and the contract terminates once they are liquidated. And remember, 90% of the reason those companes run like dogsh!t is because the staff there either have lost interest in their lives or are trying to take the place down to get out.

And if that isn't an option , There's a reason we've got a 2nd amendment in this country and nobody did this in the 50's-80's after WW2 (Ex-Soldiers have zero patience for this crap). Remember we're a jury trial country, mob rule reigns supreme, and you get to pleade your case.
Remember when government funded science told us of the dangers of cannabis? They went as far as suffocating research animals with smoke.

Yet today CBD oil is marketed as a cure all.
I'll remember Eric Schmidt for sabotaging XMPP progress by saying something along the lines of "no one wants to support IM federation, so we should follow suit" and killing off Google Talk (which caused me to lose most of my IM contacts at that time).
The VA may be poorly run but it is not poorly funded. For FY2020, their budget will be $220 billion. See https://www.va.gov/budget/products.asp
It suggests that you find low hanging fruit, don't do anything that will make waves, and only really think about the short term. That doesn't sound like you're operating in good faith.
Sounded more like sarcasm to me, but I could be wrong.
You'd be better off redirecting a portion of the funding that supports their work to people with actual expertise in the fields you mentioned. Particularly when it comes to solving social problems, many of which we have answers for that aren't implemented because their expense is politically untenable.
My Nexus 5X stopped working due to the infamous Bootloop
Taiwan looks for Japanese support for CPTPP bid: president
Thanks! I’ve added this to the pipeline of ideas on our roadmap [0].

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19yH2V5K4nzWgEXaZhkzD1egz...
"There are now 1.90$ credited to both me and Bob, where before there was only 1$ credited to me. The 90 extra cents are now part of the money supply. They appeared out of thin air." I think you are confusing money supply and record keeping. The only spendable money is what bank actually has so if you and Bob where the only customers of that bank and bank loaned 90c of your 1 dollar to Bob the only money you could spend would be 10c. The only bank that creates money out of thin air is FED.
Apple does not depend in any way on sales from China. Apple would continue to grow and prosper without any sales whatsoever in China, just at a slower rate/smaller scale.

People who constantly expect Apple’s rate of growth to continue at historic levels or even increase likely believe that Apple depends on sales in China to achieve this, and they are probably right. But nowhere in Apple being Apple is it mandated that they must continue their existing rate of growth. Indeed, as this quarter shows, that is impossible.
> But they don’t always. Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Richard Branson did not grow up rich.

Richard Branson was the son of a barrister....a career, in the UK, not known to be short of money. He was also sent to public school from an early age. I'll leave it at that.

Sergey Brin...well

"His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.[5][8][9]" Hardly a blue collar career.

Lattry Page...again:

From the first para of his "early life" in wikipedia you can clearly see he had a fairly good advantage over the rest of us in his family life.

None of these folks may have been "rich" but they weren't poor either, and they had some fairly good connections to get them started in business life.
>there are a significant number of people who just can't. So once you bring in the doctor costs start rising up.

I'm assuming that the patient cannot read the results. i.e., They go to the hospital. Doctor asks for the tests. Patient gets the test results from their lab of choice and go back to the doctor with the results. This is a fairly common model, at least elsewhere in the world. Labs and hospitals are separate entities, and the first visit to the doctor is just a consultation with nominal costs. Doctor's costs don't kick until the test results are back.
Or, it demonstrates a lack of foresight by NASA to take advantage of an opportunity to sell a bunch of stamps over the following decades at wildly inflated prices.

There must be at least a handful of items that don't weight a lot per 1000 units that could have gone to the moon and back. I'm thinking pretty much any paper document or certificate, cash notes.
'Only on 7 Mile': Detroit's urban cowboy turns heads on horseback
The "state says" excuse? That's free to you?

There was absolutely nothing wrong with his parents. The state in that case forbid them from accepting help and decided to (frankly) murder the person.
If you have anything of value, I absolutely guarantee you that there are hackers in your network right now.

One thing that frustrates me more than anything else is people assuming that their corporate network is safe. Your firewall and your vpc or whatever is a speed bump at best. You have to assume that you have an attacker on the desk right next to you, because you will eventually.
well why do you buy currency and pay a commission?
> As a 52 year old Scottish person who's doing ok('ish), and typically in a Scottish fashion has no problem being forthright

You could have been more forthright, is that to be interpreted as “As a working class Scot with the tall poppy lie down attitude we’re known for I think the author has a big head and should be dragged down unto the bucket with the rest of us crabs” or “As an upper class Scot I find this talking about how to be successful vulgar, one is supposed to be successful without talking about it unduly.”?

> I guess my point is, sure it's nice to reflect on your <30 life, but no-one normal in their late teens and into their 20's needs to apply any of this bollocks.

The point of 80,000 Hours is to help people become abnormally effective at solving big, important, neglected problems so if you want to be normal they have nothing to say to you.

> Go enjoy your 20's, you never get them back again, they were the best years of my life and I did very little tech. ...

This is all fine advice if you have no interest in making a big difference in the world. That’s not what 80,000 Hours is about and it’s not who they’re writing for though they do advise people to do work they’ll enjoy and be happy doing because they’re more likely to stick with it.
We use zero carbon solar and wind electricity. As long as the electricity source is zero carbon and low cost, it makes economic and practical sense to make zero carbon fuel.
> "Reverse engineer the paths of famous people"

would have been better written as successful people, or people in positions you want to be in.

I find reverse engineering how people got to where they are quite useful, and with linkedin its free. I wanted a certain position in 5 years, so I went to linkedin and looked at people who were there now, and I found all of them had at least a masters degree. I got extremely motivated, studied day and night for years and got there.

oddly enough, it really did take me exactly 5 years. I thought I would have been able to get their sooner with some optimization, but I am very happy with the results.

I disagree strongly with "Avoid spending time to earn money". when we are young, that is exactly the most crucial time to be investing our money and spending less. had I contributed 18k~ to my retirement instead of putting in up to the match rate, I don't think my standard of living would have dropped substantially but I could retire 10 years sooner.
When I scrolled down I saw some of the the base Foss projects get named in a list.

Librem Mail – Standard SMTP/IMAP/POP MTA, with OpenPGP

Librem Tunnel – OpenVPN

Librem Chat – Matrix, XMPP (coming soon)

Librem Social – ActivityPub

Edit: formatting
One of the things that I really love about the tech industry is the way so many companies have adopted a dual-track seniority system, where you can advance as an individual contributor or as a manager.

I'm not familiar with the history, but it almost sounds like Bismarck was a brilliant individual contributor to diplomacy. Maybe what he needed was to work with an executive who would know how to systematize what Bismarck did - and building an organization to systematize what one brilliant person can do is a skill in itself!

But of course this perspective seems way more obvious now, more than a hundred years later, than it would have at the time. And even if you knew that this was what Germany needed, it would have taken a very, very well-run foreign ministry to pull it off.
In short it just means it installs the exact same packages every time. If you write `apt install something` without an explicit version you may get a newer version depending on how recently you've updated your package manager.

Our build server got burned by this because we wrote the line `apt update` within a Docker image. We did this at the time to get the most recent version of a package. Ideally we should have locked the version there, but we weren't really thinking of it until half a year later all our builds started failing. The package inadvertently updated and had breaking changes in it. With apt-lock you don't need to manually specify, you can just install once and then every reinstall will be the same (such as in a Docker image, or a new member joins your team and you're setting up their machine).
Accelerate digital health innovations for health equity at the UCSF SOLVE Summit
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_cover
they are "decorated, stamped and canceled commemorative envelopes"

Essentially they are envelopes with stamps and a marking over the stamps that prevents the envelope and stamps to be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancellation_(mail)