skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think with less regulation suddenly trucker will be more careless ? The burden that the trucker will pay if they involve in an accident still going to be high, if its not already high and assuming they too do not like to die.
DRM? It's simple, enforcing DRM means more money to JD.

Even those with a room-temperature IQ know that!
This might be the same article:

https://theworldnews.net/us-news/ethiopian-max-crash-simulat...

The original link seems dead.

edit: nope, my link is no good either.
Silly me. Yes, totally mistook title 25 for 5, while it was buzzing in my head. Once again, I'm reminded why we have lawyers, and why google is not a proper legal search engine. Yet, the point that most of official offences are not a matter of title 18 (criminal code) stands

I give you +1 for a good, substantiated argument

But still, US has very lax stance on official responsibility, and very fundamentally on the idea of whether a failure to perform duty in office or required specific performances pass as an offence for an official.

> Making poor job performance a crime, for someone with no mens rea, is inherently totalitarian and abusive.

Does US has a stance on failure in official duty being mens rea defensible? A number of Western democratic state don't think so. I'm not meaning for something like an ordinary clerk failing to show at work being a case of it, but for government officers with highest levels of responsibility — positions onto which people certainly don't get by simple promotion.
> Please note I am not trolling or trying to be skeptical

You may not be trolling but you are being skeptical. Specifically, the way you worded your question ("unbiased observatory") makes it sound like the scientists who put it there did so not for scientific reasons, but for some... agenda?

Personally, since I'm not an expert on environmental sciences, I have no trouble believing the observatory is there for perfectly sound scientific reasons.
>You're going to be between jobs at some point in your life, and you don't want a potential huge bill to wipe you out financially. Even if it is just for a short period, it ought to worry you that you aren't covered.

Anyone who loses health insurance coverage due to losing their job has the option to buy COBRA within 60 days of losing their health insurance. If they do buy COBRA, it is retroactive to the day they lost their health insurance. So you really do not need to be worried about being wiped out (unless the cost of COBRA would wipe you out) as long as you get a different job within 2 months.
You mean like Foucault's book on the subject?
> In my very ignorant world view Kalman filters make some prediction from some input.

The word "filter" indicates that it turns one sequence (usually a time series of measurements) into another sequence (an estimate for underlying states). You can think of it as denoising the sequence of measurement by using knowledge about how the underlying system behaves. For example, if our GPS measurement says we suddenly jumped 100 meters compared to a second ago, we can weigh this against our prior knowledge that a car (the underlying system) is not likely to make such a sudden position change.

The Kalman filter weights the incoming measurement against what our model would predict. Both the prediction and the measurement are probabilistic and they are weighted according to the uncertainties of them. The more certain source of information is weighted higher.

> For example, I want to predict a time series let's say the number of visitors of a site. I know some characteristics of the series (periodic, seasonal), but how should I go about it?

That's not what the Kalman filter is for as you are not trying to denoise some sequence of noisy measurements.
There is a huge amount of age discrimination. If you are over 40 especially in most STEM fields, you may accounting especially. Most of the 'auditors' at the Big 4 look like they are just out of school (college).
For a full time middle class white collar job that provides health insurance,Employers want people under 40, white and have no gaps in employment.
Found a forum thread about it from some aviation enthusiasts [1]. Some choice excerpts they made:

‘A simulator session flown by a U.S.-based Boeing 737 MAX crew that mimicked a key portion of the Flight 302 accident sequence suggests that the crew faced a near-impossible task of getting their 737 MAX back under control, and underscores the importance of pilots understanding severe runaway trim recovery procedures.’

‘What the U.S. crew found -. Keeping the aircraft level required significant aft-column pressure by the captain, and aerodynamic forces prevented the first officer from moving the trim wheel a full turn. They resorted to a little-known procedure to regain control.’ (YoYo Roller Coaster)

The excessive descent rates during the first two steps meant the crew got as low as 2,000 ft. during the recovery.

...

‘The simulator session underscored the importance of reacting quickly to uncommanded stabilizer movements and avoiding a severe out-of-trim condition, one of the pilots involved said. “I donʼt think the situation would be survivable at 350 kt. and below 5,000 ft,” this pilot noted.’

“This is the sort of simulator experience airline crews need to gain an understanding of how runaway trim can make the aircraft very difficult to control, and how important it is to rehearse use of manual trim inputs,”

[1] https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/621478-ethiopian-max-cra...
The thing about employer-funded healthcare after WWII is that for a few decades, that health care was restricted to the Blue Cross/Blueso Shield monopoly [1], which functioned as a semi-socialized monopolies in the sense that network members would take anyone and prices were somewhat controlled.
This situation gradually broke down in the 1970s and 80s as other insurance companies entered the health care field and offered insurance to only the healthiest individuals. Eventually, Blue Cross' nonprofit status was revoked and insurance became a free-for-all (where those with existing conditions were effectively thrown under the bus).

People don't realize that a lot of American industry in 1960s and 70s was "regulated monopolies" (Health care, airlines, trucking, telephone, etc). These provide a lot of the benefits that social democracy provides in Europe but was less obviously "socialized".

And similarly, the huge sea change that happened with Reagan breaking regulated industries wasn't and isn't noticed as the huge change that it was (and it is still reverberating through this society).

The thing is, health care is "natural monopoly", it's a situation where competition is meaningless at the point when a person shows up bleed at the emergency room. The process of "opening health care for competition" from the 1970s onward grew a hundred poisonous rent-seeks in every part of supply chain, from medical equipment operators to hospitals to insurance companies. Blaming just insurance companies is a bit misguided after all this. Certainly they play a part but the basic structure of private health care just naturally goes this way unless it either seriously regulated or nationalized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_Associa...
I think working longer hours with less distractions for less pay is more of a reason.
I think it is partly because NYT and WP cover much larger ground and produce many more stories than Fox News. So a large number of visits to Fox News itself for stories belonging to small set of topics doesn't help Fox News with Google search results. Also, maybe reputation matters. Due to many reasons (and this is the elephant in the room I guess), Fox tends to be less objective than WP and NYT. Fox News also had to redact many fabricated stories in the past.
Is the company biased towards their interest or towards the customer's?

If Google was simply a provider of information then the answer would be that those are one and the same. But they obviously are not. One conflict that already provides an irreconcilable conflict of interest is the fact that they are primarily an advertising company - and the world's largest one at that. There are countless other issues that could also be brought up to emphasize conflicts of interest, but that's not really necessary. That their primary business is selling advertisements creates too large of a conflict of interest to ever expect "customized" search results to be anything but manipulative.
When i find a receipt the first thing I often wish to know is when it is dated, so if it's old I can just dump it. It can be really frustrating as it can be anywhere on tiny piece of paper.
There should be a receipts standard that all should have to comply with so everything is always in same place.
In many cases and locations they are illegal conditions.

It however is [maybe] [some] company practice to push the boundaries as far as they can be pushed, as a cultural motive. Often pressure from the top down, not with explicit instruction, but implicit general direction that X needs to be done to meet Y requirement. "Shit rolls downhill" as the saying goes. Then it just happens that Joe on the end of the line doesn't get to take a washroom break for 8 hours, every day—and if Joe were to ask about it, Joe would be fired, and Joe [like most] can't afford to be fired.

I've seen it in other industries. It's not unique to Amazon. Amazon's notoriety comes from its size and ubiquity in North American life.
Which is what we need, because medium to large businesses are cutting head count and offshoring.
The author of this article and the Columbia Journalism Review should be ashamed of themselves. The article uses another study which as the article itself states didn't measure bias in news outlets but instead the self-reported political leanings of those who prefer the news outlets to classify news outlets as left or right leaning.

Google may indeed mostly provide links to a few select major news outlets but the article is trying to go beyond this by suggesting a left or right slant to the outlets chosen and therefore to Google using data which doesn't support this.
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They do, even Bernie says it.

http://fortune.com/2017/08/21/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-al...
This.

Especially - freedom to pick any doctor as they are all in-network.

Family had experience with California PCIP insurance (bridge for pre-existing condition after ACA was voted in, but before it took effect). The PCIP was amazing - PPO-like benefits, using MediCare network (close to 100% doctors take it) and quality services. Of course, unfortunately, the ACA/exchange provided policies are nowhere close to how good PCIP was.

If we could get the PCIP-like option, it would truly change lives for the better.
Another advantage is there that the frequent claim that amazon abuses its employees will finally be put to rest as there will be mostly machines doing the work. No workplace abuse is a big win.
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14740032

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626128
Who are Amazon's most likely competitors?
I agree that Uber is a reprehensible company and I would cheer if they went out of business.

Here's a reasonably comprehensive list of their wrongdoing up to 2017. I don't think every item here actually qualifies (for instance, I don't think that Uber can be held responsible for crimes committed by drivers) but it does include most of the more egregious stuff that Uber has engaged in.

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-company-scandals-and-co...
Actually, it would waste something: electricity. Thermal printers use power to heat the paper up, which makes it turn black. A receipt with more black printing on it takes more power to print.

Not all receipt printers are thermal, however: a lot are thermal-transfer, that uses heat to transfer ink from a film to the paper. That stuff looks much better, and lasts much longer than the crappy thermal-printed receipts.
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I'm not sure how health insurance is different than any other benefit a job offers when analyzing market efficiency.

It's not hard to put a dollar amount on the value of employer provided health insurance, and then use that when calculating your total compensation at one job versus another. Functionally I don't see how it's any different than your employer paying you the amount you would need to buy insurance.

Could you expand on what makes health insurance special in this regard?
A few decades ago, a new programming environment exploded: the web. Looking for a ridiculously useful tech stack? Look no further: HTML, HTTP architecture, SQL backend... a guide written at the time:

http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

Paul Graham also wrote about why the web was such a deal, IIRC in the Beating the Averages essay. In particular: you can use whatever tools you want and avoid deploying to client machines.
Something else I don't quite understand is why plans have drastically higher rates between tiny private-company and ACA bought. Lost my job at a small company, only three people with insurance, and wanted to purchase the same silver-level insurance through the ACA. I could've, for over 3x the total payment for the private plan. Even the lowest-level catastrophic was still $100 more than the total cost of the silver plan.

Then there was the dental. Same plan, same dental insurer... but hey guess who gets a 6-month waiting period on that filing?
Love some of the bracing analogies employed by this analysis:

* employer-based insurance being a 'Whole Foods'-like product best for the rich that's nonetheless been encouraged by the government, while the 'Wal Mart'-like alternative has been encumbered to the point of disappearing.

* how would we raise our $3.5T health costs if they were war reparations required of the US from a foreign conqueror?
Registration wall and the ol' HN Hug of Death, not a good combination.
I think there point is that you might not be able to verify the identity of the person you're paying. Like you might intend to pay someone but the nfc sticker has been overridden.
They are, but there are still some startups that use options. At least the liquidation is easier with the RSUs, but it doesn't prevent the fall off post IPO as people wait (rightfully so) to see quarterly results employee cashouts before taking a stake in whatever the narrative is.

Switching to RSUs was a good decision, particularly after so many Google employees were borked with underwater options around 2008 that took until about 2009 to correct.
No matter how reusable they are, a decay time of thousands of years vs weeks overpowers the other benefits, IMO.
I think we’re probably a century away from actually finishing an O’Neill Cylinder. Bezos was taking a strikingly long-term view—-he was discussing the transition from a Kardashev I to Kardashev II civilization. We haven’t even reached Kardashev I yet.
Sorry but can you clarify; are you saying there does not exist a moral argument for changing our healthcare systems unless it also benefits capital?

Or are you saying your observations of this country's value system leads you to believe that only economic arguments would be effective?
Piggybacking on this (as I do it too) how robust is this method?
This is true. A lot of inventory in big box retail isn't owned by the retailer, but the distributer/manufacturer. More and more big box retailers are moving into the business of leasing out floor space, and ditching buying and selling inventory.

The difference is that big box retailers won't force you to only make purchases with their credit cards or other vertical integration limitations.
The meaning of monopoly here is that JD has a monopoly on the repair of JD tractors. That is, there cannot be competitors if they require you to use official repair places. It doesn't mean that JD repair centers have a monopoly on the repair of all tractors, or that JD has a monopoly on the market for tractors themselves. It's not meant to imply that it would legally be considered a monopoly.
Can't they still track you by IP address? (assuming you have a unique address)
Can it write to NFC? That's the golden goose for me. I have to use an android phone to write to NFC so my iPhone can read them and do things.
is there a website or something to know how many shares does all major companies, appl, googl, amzn offer to the public market? thanks!
UBI encourages the disinterested to leave the workforce, instead of taking a job they hate because they must have a job, and doing as little as possible, resisting change, lowering coworker's morale, and being a drag.

It frees companies to only hire people who are interested in what the company is doing and enthusiastic about it.

It frees people to do constructive, contributing things they might want to do, but which wouldn't pay enough, or which they wouldn't be able to do full time but can do part time.
> This was despite her donating a kidney saving an insurance company money.

Did she donate the kidney to someone covered by the same company?
Makes sense to me. You got to have a job else it is too risky not having health-insurance. This means you are willing to accept a lower salary.

But this affects everyone except the rich. Therefore government should step in and insure everyone even those without work.

Government should support people taking reasonable business risks such as starting their own business.
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The argument has been made countless times, the press just doesn't seem to want to talk about it.
This is known as IR35 in the UK and is currently being implemented in the public sector. Will be enforced in the private sector too shortly, especially if companies like Amazon try to pull of things like this.
> and underscores the importance of pilots understanding severe runaway trim recovery procedures.

So we're back to blaming the pilots?
I generally agree that there is no substitute for experience running in production and more data is better - or at least should be, if you can figure out how to take advantage of it.

The thing is, when it comes to weird events, historical data can't be relied on either. The next weird thing may never have happened before.

Predicting the future is hard no matter what you do. Gathering more data and learning more efficiently from what you have are both important. Training on artificial challenges can also be useful.
Even if technically you're correct, in the best possible scenario it'll take time to get that money back. In the worst case scenario you get involved in a tax dispute that can drag on for however long they can afford to. Meanwhile you don't have a job.

I was fired from my "contracting" job, and the state eventually ruled that I was technically an employee. But I had to wait the longest 6 weeks of my life to find that out, and what if they had not? Or what if they ruled against me, and I had to appeal it? What if my former employer retaliated in other ways? I would have been even more screwed than I was.
>Having sex without birth control with someone who didn't consent to that specific activity is legally rape in both the UK and Sweden.

I don't think it is that clear in Sweden at least. Especially not if you just say birth control, i.e. what if I woman says she is on the pill and we have sex and it turns out she lied? I don't think she would get a rape charge.

I think it is also likely that someone in Sweden would get charged with a lesser crime than rape if it turns out they just removed the condom during sex. Having sex with someone that is sleeping and has not consented would be rape though.

EDIT: After having verified some more it he was not accused of rape for the condom thing. The rape charge is having sex with a sleeping person without a condom as it can be reasonably argued that she would not have consented to sex.
Nvidia's Linux support is bad, not the other way around.
I saw the headline and thought the article would be about leveraged investors. I’ve never seen the term used for investors who are just down from where they got in.
Yes fresh faced 20 somethings that all look, act the same who have this weird problem almost sick obsession with (EQ). Being a nice person who is a hard worker no longer good enough in today's New economy. I am over 40,unemployable because I needed to take some time off. Self studying front and back end development, having an accounting degree means nothing because I am an introvert and act nervous etc.. So don't interview well
Getting resources from the moon seems out-of-date these days because the moon is far away in terms of energy even if it is close in distance.

Being close in time is still a factor for manned missions when starting out. If something goes very wrong, rescue is only a few days away.
> Socialized medicine is freedom until the government is the only provider of medicine and doesn't want to serve you for some reason, such as a shortage. Medicine is scarce, like food, and we've learned that it's dangerous to have the government be the sole provider of food (see: breadlines and starvation in various Communist nations like Venezuela today).

This is obviously total and utter nonsense. Look at every other western country. Nobody is banning you (or your employer) from buying additional private health insurance. It's simply providing a basic level of service in this arena, just like roads, army, police, fire, health and safety, etc, etc, etc.

Comparing government provided healthcare to Venezuela is a straw man.
You've missed the point. Perhaps, I've expressed it poorly. People see what they want to see.
Personally I believe the real abomination isn't the opacity and poor repairability but that the law is enforcing this absurdity in the intersts of only vested interests.

Now the prior two are clearly not good things in themselves but if our resources weren't being spent enforcing a cartel against our interests it would allow for natrual counters at least to bad practices from reverse engineering and design tweaks. If it is worth more to consumers for a third party to buy up stock, tweak it to remove the bullcrap (say lobotomizing smart TVs) and reselling it that isn't an infringement upon anyone's rights although it points out how the original manufacturer isn't acting in the interests of the customer.
Keep in mind that employees whose RSUs settled on IPO day are taxed at the IPO price, not the price when the lockup period ends.
I'm guess I mean I'm interested in recent U.S. data, maybe compared to recent data from countries with universal healthcare.
Tech loves to declare the death of liberal arts, but they could be key to tech
> If you are looking to liquidate the company, then yes, the goal is to get cash when you can.

Not liquidate the company, raise money to fund user growth or tech development.

> But if you are looking to create a growth story to attract employees, partners, future investment, you may want people to think there is an upside to the stock.

In that case what matters is what happens over the next year, not what happens over the next week. If they fell to $20 this week and then stayed there for a month before gradually starting to go back up, all the better for future employees and investors who get to buy in at the lower price.
I've always wondered how viable this was as a corporate strategy: why risk the entire company on one business when you could own several that may or may not succeed, each running (relatively) autonomously, etc...

Your comment highlights one potential downside, ie. people not trusting the company because it looks confused on the outside.