skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make underground tunnels on Mars. Excavation should be easier than building structures in space. Safer too.
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This is very true
The climate change story is half true
Flux [0] in the UK are currently trying to irradiate the paper receipt. It's integrated with Monzo bank too. IIRC there's an API to do whatever you like with the data. I imagine Monzo will start doing cool data visitations to help your spending habits.

[0] https://www.tryflux.com/
If you are only looking create value __only__ for early investors, then extracting all there is at IPO makes sense. But if you are looking to create value for employees who have given their blood, sweat and tears, it would be helpful to leave some money on the table to generate more demand and signal market confidence.

In the case of $UBER, from reading the axios piece, they seems to have extracted all there is from private market and the demand from public market appears to be even lesser.
Maybe their website has more users than their cable network has ratings.
If they weren't dumb, either there'd have to be great care taken to make sure dumb != harder, or I'm not sure how people would win. There are better players than me, but I'm not terrible, and especially since Elbereth got nerfed (then thankfully only semi-nerfed), I'd bet I'm getting out of the early game an average of only 1 in 5 times (and ascending only half of those).
Foreign import knock off tractors will take care of this problem and then U.S. manufacturers will be crying unfair "foreign competition" and then they will get bailed out, time and time again until they can no longer compete even with the bail out.
A cdl allows one to drive either 50 tons of truck or a bus full of people.

Do tell me, the current negatives of the regulation regime, and the benefits of the new one? Also don’t forget to provide a realistic analysis of future safety failures and ways in which the old regulations would have prevented that, and why the new ones don’t and why that’s ok.
My bad, I accidentally unpublished it with my butter fingers.
Compared to what? Nationalized insurance? Nationalized insurance plus inclusion of private clinics?

I would argue the lack of transparency in the marketplace and the inability for anyone to make an informed choice of hospitals or what it will cost them (the linked article seems to indicate the consumer has a choice to go to a "nice" hospital or a "not so nice" hospital, but most times we don't have the choice when we need care - it's close to our home. The times we do have the choice (sometimes for birth, cancer treatment, etc) is where you see hospitals investing heavily to get high margin services from consumers.

Does Employer-provided care make medical care unfair? One could argue that employer-provided care with the tax incentive might lead to better resources for an employed person electing that care, but any time money is involved you will likely get better care. EDIT: More succinctly - There will always be some inequality / unfairness in care because there will always be inequality of wealth. I'm not sure explicitly here that employer-provided is the problem or that any subsidized care will create this kind of inequality.

I'm not sure you can argue effectively that granting the same medical care to all as a matter of law will fly because people will always find a way to get better care if they can afford it. Does employer-provided do this at a larger scale? Maybe?

The best way to ensure fairness and efficiency is to get the data out there and available, and make healthcare more like a market instead of a black box.
They forgot to include the cost of the plane's downtime.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/05/bill-sardi/a-cancer-cure...

Dr Cristina Sanchez PhD cannabis and cancer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnVisZVZfHc)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thc+cancer

http://www.alternative-cancer-care.com/

https://www.cancertutor.com/vitaminc/

Cannabinoids Induce Apoptosis of Pancreatic Tumor Cells via Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress–Related Genes (http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/66/13/6748)

High Dose Vitamin C Kills Cancer Cells (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0uR6q4bTY)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109134014.h...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6115501/
Who's politicized the rape charges other than Assange himself continuously calling them a government conspiracy against him?

The Swedish government doesn't discuss them (which is what's allowed Assange's version of events to get so popular). The US hasn't mentioned it. The UK gave him a fair trial based on them.
>Presumably, that’s a license to do whatever we want with it without consequence.

Thank you for making this outrageous assumption explicit. It drives me crazy when people leave it as an unstated assumption.
So, you'd be okay with your phone company inserting bleeps when you curse and stopping people from being able to call you when you curse too much?
Because television viewership != online readership.

New flash: people aren't getting their news from TV as much as they used to. CNN's audience being mostly online would be a reflection of that.
Please be clear on your definitions.

Rape is sex with a person who does not consent. Period. What Assange is accused of is rape. Anyone who thinks otherwise should get a reality check and realize that there is no shade of grey here. Her body, her rules. Have sex without her consent, and that is rape.

Having sex without birth control with someone who didn't consent to that specific activity is legally rape in both the UK and Sweden. This is based on conditional consent, do something outside of the conditions under which consent existed, and you no longer have consent. More and more jurisdictions are recognizing this. Furthermore sex with someone who cannot consent due to being unconscious or sleeping is rape in a broader set of jurisdictions. (I do think that California goes too far by saying that you cannot consent in advance to being woken that way, but that is a different story. In this case there was no indication of consent given in advance for what he is accused of.)

So Assange is not being charged with some minor crime. He is being charged with rape.

Whether the charges would be pursued if he were someone else, well, that gets into selective enforcement. But this is at worst selective enforcement of a very reasonable law.
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How does one determine the "normal" levels of distraction/laziness from clinically diagnosable ones? Surely this is a spectrum. How does one determine the threshold? Is this just stats/distribution based? Does it vary from population to population? How much of this is nature vs nurture? Are there physical/neuro-structural/procedural differences in the brain? How do we know the so called medication isn't just treating the symptoms as opposed to solving the problem, if not causing more/other problems (kind of like anti-depressants)? How much do we actually know about all of this?

I don't know any details about ADD/ADHD, but I can relate to a lot of these symptoms. I never once thought I had ADHD, but it would make sense that something like this is a spectrum rather than a binary property.
I agree with the general idea. In your experience, when has Amazon acted negatively towards the welfare of the consumer?

The point I was talking about has to do with the internal labor publicity at Amazon which rarely affects the consumer.
First off, this is a personal question so you don’t have to answer it, but I encourage you to think it over. How are you doing mentally/emotionally? I don’t know you so can’t make many guesses as to your writing style, but you sound really seriously down on yourself.

I bring that up because career transitions aren’t uncommon, but you need some confidence to make it happen in an interview. There is a huge difference between “I failed” and “I am better suited to something else.”

If you’re in the middle of it and feel like shit, it’s hard to see your gifts. But from an outsider’s point of view, being likeable enough that others will gladly help you is a major strength. Add in some above average technical skills and you’d be fucking dangerous in all kinds of roles. You’re even a good writer - it’s a tough subject but you conveyed emotion and a strong voice.

Best of luck and be safe.
Many farmers in the Midwest are actually millionaires that own large swathes of land. Yes, they work very hard, but they also like to complain a lot despite the fact that many of them are better off than many non-farmers in the Midwest.
Systemantics/The Systems Bible, by John Gall, for a lighthearted, whimsical introduction through real-world examples across a range of industries. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, by Gerald Weinberg, for a more rigorous/structured introduction.

I've heard good things about Donella Meadows, but I haven't read anything of hers yet.
The argument discussed was literally Apple trying to argue that you aren't their customer for the purpose of legal liability while you pay them money to install apps from their store on a device they configured to only be able to buy from their store.

This decision makes clear that legal weasels lost.

Understanding next steps requires constructing the argument correctly. One could ask why should Apple be forced to open "their" phone for example. This too would be weasel words because nobody on earth is asking Apple to open the phones in their pockets.

A more reasonable person might ask that Apple allow owners to control THEIR OWN PHONES.

You ask erroneously if BMW should have to stock ford Trucks. This isn't remotely analogous. This is asking if BMW owners ought to have to go to a BMW gas station, seek repairs only at BMW owned service stations. Listen to BWM approved music on BMW approved stereos.

Fundamentally using control of a users device after sale to maximize future revenue is inappropriate and the only remedy is to give users full control.
Blaming the “companies” and “lobbyists” is such a cop-out. The companies are just giving people what they want.

It is the purpose of advertising and propaganda to tell people how to want. It's misleading at best to say "people want new cars" without considering the decades of advertising selling the dream of new cars as a form of success and high social status, as an aspirational desire, as a reward for hard work, as a kind of personal freedom and ability to go anywhere on your terms, and then sell that as desirable, etc. There's a reason Hollywood SciFi films have Audi cars as product placement, and it isn't because "people want to see a future with up-market German cars" and Hollywood is responding to that demand.
> But it is an expression of human arrogance to think that climate change can be fought just by following this here recipe

The causes of anthropogenic climate change are extremely well documented and easily measureable, and "reduce the amount of carbon put into the air and recapture carbon already in the air if possible" isn't very complicated, just expensive.
Somebody might be misrepresenting something here, yes. I especially like the way you managed to exactly explain the subjectivist viewpoint here while being completely fair to the objectivists.
"A moon base" meaning what in this context? I'm guessing it means a NASA research based designed to host no more than a dozen astronauts at a time. That number is basically meaningless when it comes to colonization. We simply don't have the technology to establish an independent colony on the moon. We might be able to do it on Mars, but it will cost trillions of dollars.
Pretty sure they meant "one day a boycott."
>I can't help thinking that ADHD is one of those mental disorders that merely reflects some increased demands of society rather than a genuine mental disorder

There's physiological differences in the brain though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...
Sorry I don’t accept this as a legitimate reference.
There still should be repercussions for weaponizing HR to make someone's life miserable when your only evidence is "accusing his column ... of making them ‘unsafe’" or feeling “shaken up” after a conversation with a colleague.

Somewhere on an emotional level, I feel like there should be. However, if that's the extent of it, and HR decides nothing is needed, then there isn't anything really there. However, if there's civil conspiracy and defamation involved, the repercussions can take the form of lawsuits. My read on Vic Migogna and the #KickVic debacle (which includes already falsified faked accusations on social media) is that it's a weaponized use of HR to get rid of a rival whose politics others disapproved of.
We're talking about grain combines that are 50 feet wide and cost half a million dollars new, that are GPS-guided, and that have multiple advanced control systems that optimize rotor speeds, tractor speed, blade height, and dozens of other settings multiple times per second.

If you're a grain farmer in the Midwest then you own several or dozens of these machines, they're financed, and you hedge your financing against future commodity prices.

It's a business that lends itself to massive economies of scale. A hard-working pure-hearted American farmer with a tractor from 1990 and a little bit of grit is going to be real hard-pressed to compete. Not really a matter of sucking it up and slumming it, unfortunately.
And in a few years we'll get to see why unions came to existence, yay.
Hooray for forgetting about history.
>The companies that have sprung up to build parts for these ancient tractors is absolutely fascinating. Outside of perhaps some of the larger cast pieces, you can replace almost everything with new parts.

There is a literal workforce dedicated to fixing or fabricating these old parts.

Find your nearest custom machine shop. One-job shops. They exist to build or fix a million things one time, instead of production machining where they build one thing a million times.

These people are mad-geniuses at reverse-engineering and figuring out how to make things based on burnt-out or broken pieces.

Source; My father is a master machinist at one of these shops. He has worked on everything from re-building hydraulic cylinders for local guys to one-off parts for prototype cars that we can't discuss the name of to rebuilding structural supports on a bridge.
Learn to use a profiler for your programming language. It will tell you what’s worth optimizing in your programs. I.e. if your program spends only 10% of the time talking to others than that may be the maximum you can optimize by choosing a fancy communication pattern.
Why not make the underground habitats on Earth? If you're going to live underground in a fully self-contained ecosystem why bother traveling to a distant planet?
Haha. There is a lot of this happening in data science as well for software engineers and with exactly similar kind of results. I hate mentoring tons of new people who just learned to throw tensorflow at pandas dataframes.
I agree that what we are seeing is not really a monopoly. The issue is better defined as "industry realities prevent effective use of voting with their wallets".

> There's a simple solution for farmers that don't want the costs (and benefits presumably) of these restrictive deals: don't buy a tractor that has these restrictive terms of service.

...and lose compatibility with a large number of add on equipment and related software. Much like the AAA games industry moving towards micro-transactions, your ability to avoid suppliers that require that is limited and you are the one that ends up losing out.

How do we solve these issues? No idea. But expecting farmers (in this case) to take the hit themselves in the hopes that enough of their peers do the same to create a big enough financial incentive for vendors to change their ways is unlikely to succeed.
My first thought was that the leap from "this app is useful to students" to "prevent school shootings" is huge and this just sounds naive and exaggerated. Then I noticed that the word "shooting" is nowhere in the app descriptions but you decided to include it in your post for some reason.
I thought "unicorn" referred to anything >$1 billion. Slack IPO is rumored to come soon, their last valuation was >$7 billion.
Author of the referenced article here.

The article includes a working polyfill that includes old IE support, so I’m not sure what you’re complaining about.

Also, saying “jsvu is the justification for the polyfill” doesn’t make much sense. jsvu is just how I happen to test in various standalone JavaScript engines. There are other, non-jsvu ways of getting such binaries, e.g. compiling one yourself, and there are JS engine binaries that jsvu doesn’t provide (Rhino, Ringo, Nashorn). jsvu usage does not correspond to anything you seem to be talking about, and comparing its download count with IE10 usage is one of the more extreme apples-to-oranges comparison I’ve seen. ️
Given Amazon want to automate humans out of their logistics process here, why would they do anything with humans on the moon?
> but isn't technology making a difference already?

not really. If you look up emissions charts, they just keep going up.
Amazon once again being a corporate tool and trying to squeeze everyone else involved: this time their employees and the USPS.
Look at Foucault's book "Birth of the Clinic" to see why the wealthy need less wealthy people to get health care to drive the volume that makes possible the services that the wealthy can afford.

For instance, if you were a billionaire maybe $1,000,000 for a coronary artery bypass operation would seem like a good deal.

Doing those operations in volume lowers the cost but it also makes it possible for doctors to get experience that makes the operations safe and effective. Studies have shown that the main factor for survival in CABG surgery is how many operations are done a year by the doctor and the clinic.

Similarly, you have to treat thousands of people to prove a drug is safe and effective. You just couldn't have advanced treatments for the ultra-rich without these treatments being developed and tested on a large volume of less wealthy people.
There is a difference between employment-based insurance and employer-based insurance. One is guaranteed by being employed the other is tied to a given company.
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Learn English.
The article includes a working polyfill that includes old IE support.
I can't speak for the team, but I'm guessing that it's considered more severe of an issue because it affects backwards compatibility.
>they are too fragile to serve as humanity’s “back-up”. As theme parks or transit vessels, sure. But not as our back-up.

I think this is correct. In fact, where we live now, on a (big) planet, should be our "backup" in that you can have subterranean arcologies that protect you while your habitats are blasted by gamma ray bursts, supernovae, or what have you.
(I stress big because I think we need Earth's gravity; I don't think you could lead a healthy life on Mars or much less the Moon.)

But what makes planets terrible for being your "main space" is that the climates and biology are harder to control (climate change, zoonotic pandemics, volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.), resources are harder to get (they're buried deep while a wealth of exposed ore exists in the inner Asteroid Belt and a wealth of exposed ice exists in the outer Kuiper Belt), and as someone else here said the space is ironically much smaller than what you could have in a space habitat by surface area or open volume. The gravity's free -- you don't have to spin like you would on a habitat, but you pay for that by the fact that it's very hard to leave. You need to use half your fuel just to reach parking orbit, and it's untenable to build a space elevator. (A space fountain[0] might be doable, but it's still an ordeal.) It only becomes tenable when the gravity's much lower, but then we'll probably run into physiological problems.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
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They can come for me all they want, my tractors don't have advanced control systems and won't for the foreseeable future
I think now we are getting somewhere with the discussion. I like your points.

What you described is a real problem and I believe that’s the problem we have to solve.

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure that situations like the one you described where free speech is negated are already addressed on the law. So spammers would be treated by it.

In that case, platforms would work to identify the sources and work with the justice department to prevent specific actors from performing crimes such as spamming and DDOSing.

This would be fine, in my opinion, because now everybody would be working against known criminals with specific and objective criteria as to why they should be “deplatformed”.

However, what Google is doing today is removing or de-prioritizing content that diverge from its opinion without any recourse for the person affected because they are not treated as publishers and THAT is not okay.
First of all, GDP is a bad measure for "value created". It's more of a measure for "money spent" and that generally includes a lot of long-term and debt, especially in the US.

Secondly, you can't actually redistribute GDP. You could (in theory) take 100% of the profits of all businesses, that would add up to about 12% of GDP:

https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2018/8/30/saupload_B...

Notice the drop around 2008? That's what happens when a lot of debt can't be serviced anymore.

Lastly, "society as a whole" doesn't contribute to anyone's success. Just because you are a member of society doesn't automatically imply you have done anything for anyone. If I was offered a UBI on an Amazon's worker's salary, I would just retire, or at least drastically reduce my workload. A lot of my money goes towards my retirement anyway, so why bother?

This is entirely different from a "subsistence UBI", which I do support in principle.
If they did have something like that in the contract, it would make the contractors employees, with tax and benefit implications.
> Probably the most unexpected alignment of the current term!

Not so! There are many decisions by Kavanaugh that "liberals" (it's weird to me that they're called than in the U.S.) will have trouble predicting the opinions of conservatives [0].

“Who was best able to pretend to be the other?

The results were clear and consistent. Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they were pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate, especially those who described themselves as "very liberal." The biggest errors in the whole study came when liberals answered the care and fairness questions while pretending to be conservatives. When faced with statements such as "one of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" or "justice is the most important requirement for a society," liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.”

And they're probably even worse at this now than they were in 2012, if the inanity of the mainstream moral caricatures is anything to go by.

[0]: https://reason.com/2012/04/10/born-this-way
Ok, I've taken a crack at it.
This. I'm amazed that no one the liberal side of single payer has made this argument: single payer would help create more small businesses.
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