skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, dramatically so. Cancer now has a 70% survival rate. HIV is not a death sentence. You can get a heart valve installed without cutting apart your rib cage.

That stuff doesn't come free. It would be kind of neat to offer the option of a 1950s level of care, only modernizing things if cost would be reduced by newer technology. Lots of people survived the 1950s just fine. Even just going back to 1995 would be a huge difference, avoiding all currently active patents.
Ask HN: Overview of Climate Change Science?
Could you recommend a good recent book which provides a relatively detailed overview of climate change science?
Well it is suppose to be the current value of all future earnings. But the stock market isn’t usually rational.

But like the old saying goes:

“The stock market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent.”

There was nothing on the radar between 2000-2007 that even hinted at Microsoft remaining dominant.
Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
Toyota used to produce ~440k cars out of that plant. Tesla does ~360k. I'm not sure that "fisher price playset" vs disneyland is the analogy that I'd use for that difference.
Me too. (Indeed, some would say that about me!)

But without a comparison to the base rate of "off their rockers when it comes to alt medicine" in the general population, that 'many' doesn't mean much. And alternative medicine is very very popular across many populations!
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What rational decision making process results in believing that people with darker skin are sub-human?
Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills
Very true, but in the context of an LVT, it shows a possible downside: if it's high enough, you're taxing away the majority of the site value, and so these people don't even have the silver lining of a big increase in home value to cushion them when they move.
I’d put it even further than “just” attempting to undo the damages of stress.

The local community, where you’d buy your meat from your local butcher that had been in your neighborhood for 15 years, vegetables from the farmers’ market where the produce is all from within a 50 miles radius, where you go to church/temple/etc with the same faces every week, where the teachers and doctors that took care of you now take care of your children, etc, is pretty much dead.

What has replaced it? Amazon Prime, precarious contractor jobs, cheap replaceable crap brought in by cargo ship, startups claiming that they are just like “a family”. Of course this leaves a gap in people’s need for a sense of place and community. Of course it’s the perfect opportunity for charlatans who know how to tap into exactly that.
It would surprise me if Google didn't have those accounts linked anyway, thus undermining your policy.

A Google employee once called me on my personal cell phone when I was a few minutes late to a business meeting. I still don't see how that could've happened unless they'd linked my work (g-suite) account with my personal (gmail) account, and then allowed their employees to access personal data in a totally inappropriate fashion.

Maybe there's some other explanation, but I can't fathom what it would have been.
Why not? Bearing in mind that telepathy is a highly recurrent feature of UFO reports, it seems they already have that capacity (probably not via a gadget either), and it's a case of "if you have a hammer..."
Wooden windmills, water mills, and heating with fire are not significant sources of energy.
The desire for a sense of control is part of it.

I think, however, that it is fundamentally about a need to have rituals and routines in one's life.

For some people, this involves making coffee in the morning.

For others, it involves a jog around the block.

For a select few, it involves ice baths and near-infrared saunas and lemon water mixed with Himalayan salt.
Until a bug disables them, Yes. Raise your hand if you know of someone who writes bug free code.
so, Louis Farrakhan is "Far-Left" then?!?
What exactly is your point?

You do understand that they have made it tougher to buy 35k$ model 3 only because they can't make profit off it?

According to Tesla they have the cheapest batteries, the best AI chips, the most automated factories, the most advanced self driving technology, have a driverless taxi coming soon etc. But after all these advantages they don't sell these technologies individually. They only sell cars with shitty interior and paint, panel, and quality problems at luxury prices. And even though they have a fanatic fanbase, and a lot of positive PR, they still make a loss on luxury priced shitty cars.
In my religious studies classes there was a point made about separating "high religion" and "low religion." High religion refers to the abstract, philosophical components of a religion: like the belief in a benevolent creator who became man. Low religion refers to the rituals and superstitions of the religion: like going to Church every Sunday, taking communion, etc. All religions consist of a both pieces, and it often makes sense to consider them separately. European pagan superstitions persisted for centuries after the population had converted to Christianity, for example. I think you could argue what you're describing are examples of the creation or transfer of low religion into atheism and agnosticism.
yeah, but does it have magical trace minerals?
>> no access to a consistent, strategically placed network of well-maintained chargers spanning the continent.

Isn't that called "Chargepoint"?
Thank you for the feedback. Yo right about not being able to change the profile picture, that action is currently not working, working on it.
I do not. Window’s built-in stuff and plain macOS are very good these days. I’m not very convinced that third party anti-virus software provides much additional value. Would love to hear an expert’s thoughts on this subject!
This is a cheap hit piece and part of the ongoing NYTs campaign against social media. I am saying this as someone who hates Twitter and thinks Dosey is either a mega-hypocrite or a victim of his own brainwashing. (Talking about his views on human communication here. I utterly don't care what kinds of saunas he uses.)

And "manfluencer"? Really, this is New York Times now? Rhetorical question. Of course it is.
I did read it, it just wasn’t clear to me if it really was just an accident.
TypeScript came about in 2011, while Ballmer was CEO.
What's the over/under on how long before this feature 'accidentally' breaks? I'd bet even money on it 'malfunctioning' in less than 1 year.

Just like so many of the privacy features put out by FANG companies, which mysteriously undo themselves upon update roll outs. Funny how I've never seen those roll outs cause the privacy features to automatically turn on, only off.

Still better than nothing, I appreciate the option, but I can't help but being VERY skeptical about this.
Show HN: Launching tomorrow on PH. Last minute thoughts?
Desired Role: Lead Solutions Engineer, Lead Sales Engineer

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I am seeking a solutions engineer position. My industry experience is mainly focused on manufacturing and Industrial IoT, but I have kept in touch with many technology trends in the startup world. I have been involved with open source technologies since the 1990’s.

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This reminds me of Aaron Swartz‘s case.
They are compensated according to locale. Our Google sheet of offer anecdata contains a few entries for Stripe, some remote and some SF. I’ve seen a salary difference of 30%. I don’t know the people who entered them personally so I can’t speak to how well they performed during the interview, so take that with a grain of salt.
As someone working on making these health & wellness strategies and protocols more data-driven and evidence based through more structured experiments (see https://mementolabs.io), I'm very much pro on pushing for more people trying these "fringe" strategies in a more informed manner, so take my following thoughts with a grain of salt:

- Many of our current, preexisting beliefs about food and nutrition are proving to be extremely flawed and contrived, having essentially been pushed by big-food to drive more consumption of sugar and carbs in our meals as opposed to actually being research-based (just look at the USDA Food pyramid, that puts carbs, almost all simple, as a staple). The emerging research around restricted eating, fasting, and autophagy (research that won a Nobel Prize in 2016) is extremely promising albeit still developing.

- There's real value to proper self-experimentation for helping you discover and build better individual habits and determining what uniquely works for improving your health and wellness, as well as challenge your thinking on your existing beliefs, particularly around nutrition & dieting that tend to be ingrained in you during development. [See gwern's self experiments for some interesting ones](https://gwern.net).

- IMO, the core issue at the root of this rise of the "cult-like influencer" is a lack of accessible academic research (i.e the average person will opt to read blogs over a long, hugely technical research paper) which creates more and more noise and proliferation of misinformation and conflicting health advice.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried to keep track of hires resulting from HN?
I think it'd be really interesting to see what kind of data exists for hires that have resulted from HN hiring threads or otherwise. Maybe an anonymous survey or something could capture this?
Not in my experience, no. I own two electric cars (a gen 1 Leaf with DC fast charge and a gen 1 Volt).
Something I've noticed is a lot of companies use user onboarding and educational messages as a crutch for confusing UX and product experiences.

Many companies also have a one-size-fits-all approach to onboarding, where they send the same messages to all users, regardless of their in-product actions. Instead, it's better to trigger relevant messages if the user has taken a specific action and hasn't taken the next step to achieve Y result.

You can always send onboarding sequence to users who haven't taken any actions at all.

It should also be noted that for some established companies, a lot of their onboarding isn't necessarily to educate you but to force you to take certain actions that their testing has shown will make you active. For example, Pinterest forces you to follow certain topics when you sign up.
Thank you so much psawaya!
Many forms of aid come with a different sort of price.

When people attach stigma to public assistance for political purposes, this is what happens. People with a demonstrable, provable need for charity refuse it. Whenever someone prattles on television about people on the dole being lazy, someone who is emphatically not lazy refuses a handout that might have allowed their child to get a dental checkup.

It may not occur to them that the person on the television is so far removed from the realities of poverty that they don't even know how false their words are when they say them. And so poor people, who actually do want to work, are constantly looking for jobs, turning over ever possible lead, and yet still unable to meet living expenses. And then, rather than giving up, they try even harder.

You can examine case after case, and find, time after time, that there is nothing there that anyone could point to and say "Aha, solve this one problem, and this person would not be poor!" You can find a lot of instances where the family was teetering on the knife-edge of solvency, and then just one unexpected event, completely beyond their control, sent them tumbling into an abyss. For a disturbingly large fraction, that is a medical expense--and occurs even if they had medical insurance. For a still-significant fraction, it is a major employer closing down local operations and moving the work elsewhere.

That's not a situation that one can blame on the poor. It comes from a systemic disrespect for the least-valued humans in the community--a disrespect that is compounded by a myth that they alone are responsible for all their hardships.

It is not pride to believe that a poor man should be treated at least as well as a rich dog. And it is not charity if it requires that the recipient throw away their sense of self-worth. There are a lot of things your family could have done for money--prostitution, smuggling contraband, stealing, fraud, etc.--and that sense of self-worth also kept them from doing those things. To discard that "pride", and do anything to survive, means to literally do anything to survive. If your moral foundation is to have things because you earned them lawfully, and you then shift to taking things because you really need them, that does not necessarily stop at things given voluntarily, or in keeping to the law.
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thanks for replying, I have a GitHub repo that extensively shows my work. however, I do not have a website separately. I feel peer pressure cuz everyone is building a portfolio website. so was curious to know
No, it’s perspective because he’s replying to the comment, “Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society.”
You can buy a model 3 today for $35k US, and the car is better than what was promised. The sedan that Tesla released in 2012 has more range than any electric car produced by any competitor since then.

You are right that people overstate their accomplishments, but excessively downplaying them is actually the worse behavior.
But the whole point of trusting is that you get to skip verifying. What's the difference between trusting and not trusting if you still have to put in the work of verification anyway?
These companies you're offering 'better cost efficiency to' are already likely earning 100x+ off of your average software engineer. There is absolutely zero benefit to coming to negotiations devaluing your own experience and skills, because that means companies will lowball you even further.

You're not the arbiter of cost efficiency. The company looking to hire you is. When you presume you're worth less than what you actually are, you're opening yourself up to abuse.

What you're describing is in essence the various entertainment industries which take advantage of fresh grads, forcing them into long overtime and for less pay.
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability.
Where do you live? There's 1 or 2 in every driveway around here (South Bay)
chew each bite 45 times

Also known as Fletcherizing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher
Blue-collar and asinine in the same sentence. Well done, sir.
>This is exactly why signals are process-global instead of thread-local.

Signals can be sent either to a process or to a specific thread under linux. Signals sent to the process are handled by an arbitrary thread. There's a bunch of gotchas and whatnot past that.

Mixing signals and threads is pretty much trash.
So you take the idea of on-boarding in it’s most horrible manifestation and use it as a argument against the fundamental idea of introducing users to new concepts within the software they are using?
I dunno about this. Many medical professionals encourage heart and high blood pressure patient to drastically limit salt intake because salt causes you to retain water.

What does this mixture of himalayan salt and lemon do that causes the diuretic effect?
This was discussed last year when the working paper was published:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16972249
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So that's what we're building. Technology that watches technology, helps make sense of the all-too-common mess of sprawling internal data flow, and a consumer facing plug-n-play user-experience to close the loop.

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Sourcegraph CEO here. Congrats to the Kite team! As a desktop Linux user (Ubuntu and ChromeOS), I am excited to see this.

How are you managing the maintenance of multiple editor extensions? Do you use some kind of architecture where there is a common background process with most of the logic and a simple adapter per-editor? How many people on your team are actually writing code against editor extension APIs?
Maybe not "perfect." I don't think Gwyneth Paltrow is a fascist sympathizer. At the very least, she hasn't been as spectacularly complicit in providing a safe harbor for white supremacists as Dorsey.
I'm no ecologist, but as far as I was aware the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is actually quite vibrant due to lack of human interference, while oil spills have extreme consequences for local wildlife.
In which way? In the way that Aaron Swartz accidentally broke into a closed area and extracted copyrighted material and then apologized for being so clumsy?
The Chargepoint network is woefully inadequate (both locations and charge speed, anything capable of less than 120kw-150kw might as well be a 120V outlet) compared to Tesla's Supercharger network. Electrify America's network is still in its infancy (and you can't charge a Tesla on it yet until CCS adapters are available).

I travel cross country in the US frequently on the Supercharger network (Model S), without any range anxiety or fear of getting to an inoperable station late at night with little battery range left. Many hotels also have destination chargers, so I can charge overnight at the hotel while I sleep and leave with a full charge. I could not do this with any other EV.
A wall is less expensive to maintain than putting more people there.

Increasing the pool of unskilled labor is good for some parts of the economy. It's great for me because I'm wealthy. It's bad for the American poor because it depresses their wages and aids in fighting against unions.
And how do you do that? E.g. how do you verify that Google deletes your data when you tell it to?
The Bolt is a cute, small car. I don't think the Tesla Model 3 is trying to be a "cute small car", per se. I know several people with Volts and Bolts and the owners love those cars.
I'd say the title is slightly misleading, as they have filed to merge, pending regulatory approval.
You might find this study interesting[1]. The paper sensationalizes it a bit IMO by classifying people as "bullshitters" when it seems to me more like "overconfidence" in their knowledge. Quality of the study/headline aside, I do wonder if there's a selection bias for knowledge overconfidence in engineering as parent comment suggests. I would imagine people who make good engineers are the type who aren't intimidated by "knowledge gaps" and they assume (rightly or wrongly) that they'll be able to figure out a solution even where they have little or no expertise.

[1] [PDF] http://ftp.iza.org/dp12282.pdf
Well, HSBC used to handle Mexican cartel money and Blackrock was investigated for a massive tax fraud scheme so I would be surprised if an article about this would elicit any kind of shock or surprise from anyone.
My fault, I should have checked the date of the article. I do wonder why this month old post from this amateurish looking car blog is currently the second highest post on HN.
Why? We have an entire solar system out there to explore!
Facebook has to fix this problem
> Chernobyl was a Soviet reactor that was designed to make nuclear weapons.

Source?
Didn't downvote, but Android has had dynamic permissions (since v6?) whose repeated notifications you can suppress, so I'm confused if the comment is still valid.
Mobile. I've heard tall tales of integrating with Windows-based POS's!

In contrast, thankful for the excellent Square API.

We have Eventbrite + Ticketfly live right now, Square upcoming, and have Toast and Shopify high on our lists.
How is verifying everything because you don't trust people not to make a mistake operationally different from verifying everything because you suspect bad faith? To the supposed trusted party, the result is the same: you not taking them at their word and instead checking whatever they do. Even if you're being honest about only verifying to avoid mistakes, you can never prove it.

This definition of "trust but verify" would be better reduced to "verify", since it essentially claims that trust is, if not impossible, not practically applicable in any situation.
The integrated tool tips for function signatures have been a real time saver for me. Glad to see that Linux support is now available!
That's part of how this all works, if you wield influence it's not necessarily by way of telling people exactly what they should do, rather you convey your vision and others work to make it happen.

And I think that this can yield very effective teams, but it can also result in cult like herd behavior. Two sides of one coin?
Hi everybody!

Just hoping to get some last minuted feedback from the community before launching this new direction of my platform on PH tomorrow.

What are your thoughts?

All the best,

Valentijn
Github does it themselves: https://github.blog/2018-10-17-behind-the-scenes-of-github-t...
Well said. I think you're right on the mark with many companies trying to pitch the "remote is a perk" thing and then paying less.
There have been thousands of instances of people unintentionally uploading their private keys to github. It seems at least plausible that this developer just didn't know the implications of what he was doing.
I think cryotherapy generally provides temperatures well below those found in nature. Whether or not that actually does something beneficial is another question, but it's different than a cold shower.

I would like to try it sometime just to see how it feels.
Only activists would probably go to the trouble of hiring these kinds of people. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Billions is in anyway representive of the industry.

From personal experience, hedge funds are a lot more boring and a lot less cloak-and-dagger than the general public thinks.
> Nuclear reactors are dangerous.

Doesn't Korea have coal? Shows up as over a quarter of your generation. Have you been to a region that uses coal for energy generation and seen what it does to the land? Mining it causes heavy metal pollution of water that kills people, the fish pick up mercury and lead, and people consume the fish. Shouldn't you be more concerned about coal plants in China contaminating your waters?

EDIT: Korea study on mercury sources: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S1309104215302713
TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat
I did almost the exact same thing (follow Norvig's Lisp tutorial, but in Rust) at one point, though I didn't get as far: https://github.com/eamonnmr/atmoslisp
Presuming that an equal percentage of engineers in Silicon Valley follow this bullshit to the percentage of Hollywood that follows Gwenyth's bullshit.