skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, sorry. I didn't mean to imply that VCs, on the whole, don't have a more nuanced decision process. I meant that I dislike when ethically questionable decisions are protected by the 'ends justify the means' argument. In this case, where maximizing profit is the only end that gets any weight.

It's similarly strange to me when I hear people like Jim Cramer advocate investing in tobacco companies even if you find their business practices abhorrent because the point of the investment 'game' is to maximize profit. In his case, his solution was to take those profits and donate to a cancer charity. It just seems like a strange set of psychological hoops to jump through to avoid cognitive dissonance. It comes across that excelling at the 'game' is ultimately what's valued more than the ethics of the business decision. Again, maybe naive or poorly placed, but it seems the most moral choice is to make sure all the decisions align with your values, not creating strange workarounds so you can have your cake and eat it too.
If you look at society now compared to society a few hundred years ago, or perhaps society in an authoritarian/communist country, then it's pretty clear that the effects of a capitalist society (at least in a democractic system) have been on the positive side. After all, we've got better products and services available now than ever before, better tech than ever before and a decent number of ways to go from dirt poor to millionaire as well.

Is it perfect? Hell no. Is it good for everyone? Unfortunately not.

But pretty much everything you depend on comes from a business of some type or another.
Are we talking about any crimes, or just crimes that would also be illegal in the US?

If we are just talking any crime, planting spying equipment in the UN building is illegal. The building is not international water where no law applies. Diplomatic immunity make it hard to prosecute, but it is still a crime.

If we are only talking about crime that is also a crime in the US then Employees of DynCorp, a US government contractor funded by U.S. tax dollars in Afghanistan paid for the services of underage "dancing boys". Child prostitution is a crime in the US. To the degree that US diplomats was aware of the situation and did not act they are complicit in the crime by continuing providing the funds for it.

There are multiple companies like Boeing, MasterCard, Visa, Monsanto where US diplomats and US politicians gave directly support during international deals. It is unclear how much government employees can go in and directly support a company, especially those that also donate a lot of money to political campaigns.
Actually I do.
systemd is too complicated for my needs, maybe it is usefull in some complicated system setups but for me (and probably others) it is too big, too complex and completely unneeded.

What was the problem with sysvinit that they tried to fix? I don't see any.
This movement of galaxies was shocking when it was discovered ... in the 1920s.
If it is negative on a larger scale, it brings you negative consequences as well as benefits, and these consequences will influence demand. There is nothing magical about externalities; they are part of the market. Long-term consequences are routinely measured, priced and evaluated by markets.
Would those problems have been solvable if the general attitude was an optimistic view of "don't worry, someone will solve it"?

Humans tend not to solve difficult problems unless they are a crisis. Convincing them a problem is actually a crisis is usually the first step in solving it.
Note that the Wikipedia article writes:

"The CMB is faint cosmic background radiation filling all space."

"From the CMB data it is seen that the earth appears to be moving at 368±2 km/s relative to the reference frame of the CMB"

Bantering calling that "some ´ether´ background radiation" is not that far fetched.

It would be interesting to find out how the physicist distinguish CMB from noise in their equipment.
Point taken, but then why go through all the trouble to evolve two eyes? Just in case one gets poked or something?
A sharper line between critical and non-critical software would help. Only some software needs to work well.
Ignoring that a Makefile makes more sense than a yaml file anyway (what the is a “standard yaml file”?), “you don’t have to use tabs” really shows how ridiculous things have gotten.

I can’t believe someone spent $35 on a domain for this much less however many man hours went into it.
How often do you get interrupted at work?
>>What is more, the various presentations work for different people

This is such an excellent point, and something that really gives YT an advantage. For instance, AvE certainly has some excellent information in his videos, but I personally have found the presentation style (all the channel-specific jargon & toilet humor) increasingly off-putting; while a channel like this old tony still manages humorous content without sacrificing approachablility & technical accuracy.

For another example, there have been multiple people upthread reccomending channels like Abom & OxToolco. I really enjoyed Tom Lipton's (OxTool) book "Metalworking: Sink or Swim"; I just have trouble with the typical length of the videos so I rarely watch them. None of these channels can draw a large enough audience for television, but there's enough space online for these smaller, distinct presentation styles.
Third world countries have been improving economically at a rapid pace. Look up "the elephant curve" for more info.
Ok, and why is that a problem?

Yes, people will merge ahead of you, and it will slightly slow down your journey.

That's fine, and falls under the definition of safe driving.

Let them merge ahead of you.
Wait about a week, guessing this won't work if it builds up any significant traction.

I want the ability to delete everything after some period of time. Every message I send, every message I receive, I want it all to work like conversation -- not contracts.

I don't want someone digging up an email from the past where I said something stupid in a moment of anger, or frustration. If all tech worked like Snap Chat, or Signal, I'd be really happy.

I have no trust that Facebook actually deletes anything. Guessing anyone who tries to delete things actually flags the user and then their team of Zucks go in and look at the juicy content you were trying to delete... seems like 5 years from now, Facebook will charge for the "not have anything dumb you said in your 20s show up in public search" feature. Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
With a grain of salt:

> ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

> Rafael Amado

> Rafael Amado is president of research and development at Adaptimmune.
When you go to the shop and buy a book, do they ask for PII instead of money? It doesn't seem necessary, just the particular way that people have chosen to do things to hide their taking of payment.
If the number of people that can afford to put down 20% has shrank significantly over time, won't the pool that can put 3-5% inevitably shrink as well? Will we return to 0-down homes? Where are down payments terminally headed?
I absolutely agree. My wording was ambiguous. The "just like the US" didn't apply to the change of government, but over a much longer timescale.

This is absolutely something that has been almost consistent amongst US leaders going back as far as I can remember.

Human rights and due process seem to be a stick with which to (selectively) beat other nations. They don't apply to the US or its cronies.
You can put up shelves in the middle of an open space. I've done that before to divide a finished basement room into "office" and "bedroom" sections. I'm a big fan of double-sided shelves like the Ikea Expedit/Kallax lines, but anything will do.

Open space gives you the option of dividing it up as you like. A fixed wall makes the decision for you.
In my experience the economy (roughly 80%) and social ties (roughly 20%) seem to be the biggest factors. I work for a large tech company so a majority of the millennial I know are comparatively well off, but even among these folks there is constant pressure to rid themselves of massive student loans, many of my immigrant millennial friends feel trapped due to their visa status.

On the other hand, social ties among some millennial seems weaker than past generations -- a lot of us don't go to church, and spend way more time on social media than hanging out "in real life". For most people the negatives of social media vastly outweigh the positive.
> Define high performance polymers as Nylon is also counted as such.

By high-performance polymers, I mean polymers suitable for structural parts and the replacement of metals like aluminum.

> The most exotic thing I got to print with was PEI which also didn’t had issues with layers.

I'd be really interested to hear about your experience with PEI. From the manufacturers and users I've spoken with, printed Ultem (PEI) has diminished strength along the z-axis because of its amorphous morphology. Do you know what brand of filament you used? Did you post-cure or perform any pre-print steps? How did you test isotropy?

Happy to take this to PM if you prefer.
> it seems climate change is well on its way to being solved

This is laughable untrue.

EMISSIONS may have peaked (I'm not certain that's the case long-term), there's still plenty of carbon in the atmosphere and continuing to be added. The effects of carbon emissions will continue to compound on themselves[0]. We are still well on our way to >2 degree global warming where island nations will be eaten up by the sea, we will struggle to produce food for the population. Much of earth will become unlivable[1].

The effects of carbon emissions on global climate are not linear. They're exponential. Once the changes start they are impossible to stop.

If you think we've got climate change figured out, I really encourage you to read into the subject a little more. It's incredibly serious. We have already started seeing the effects. It's not too late to do something about it, but sitting back and assuming someone else has it figured out it fantastically irresponsible right now.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/earthworms-soil-c...
[1] - http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-...
I do remember those, and iirc it almost sank the company. In fact I think that it absolutely impacted Twitter negatively, because the way they got through it was with massive investment in engineering funded by venture capital. So now Twitter is overcapitalized and beholden to be a size that makes that investment worthwhile, and can't make lean decisions that would be better for the world while also being sustainable for itself.

Let's ask ourselves, as either stakeholders or users of Twitter or participants in the culture borne of Twitter's poorly-designed success: are we happy with Twitter's arc?

I would rather have a Basecamp level of success that was well-designed and sustainable. And you don't get there by putting out a pile of shit and hoping for a runaway hit and then scrambling to raise billions so you can backfill everything you neglected to think about in the first place. The only ones who want that are VCs and the hyper-ambitious entrepreneurs who would rather have a billion dollars than make the world a better place.
Why 3? Just call it HTTP-as-defined-by-Google. It worked for HTML!
I'm not suggesting letting yourself get cheated. I'm suggesting not pushing so hard that the person you're dealing with feels cheated, either. You shouldn't feel guilty about making a good deal, and neither should the person you're dealing with.
> I would guess this author does not cook.

I believe you are correct:

Nothing is more maddening than trying to read or watch television in the tall-ceilinged living room with someone banging pots and pans or using the food processor 10 feet away in the open kitchen.

I was scratching my head while reading the article because my wife and I are looking to do the opposite and tear down the wall between the kitchen and the dining room. I happen to be the cook and for the same reasons as the GP, I enjoy being able to talk and converse while I'm cooking. I'm not interested in so-called "chef kitchens" to impress people, however I've put a lot of thought into optimizing the space I have. Small is good when there's only 1 cook. But that's a separate issue from the socializing aspect while cooking.
Cooking has always been a social thing to me - chopping vegetables for 20 minutes is a lot nicer when you have someone to talk to.
Yes. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-http-20
It looks like you're posting in the wrong thread.
Blink is still controlled by Google. Microsoft doesn't control anything.

They obviously don't control Google's Blink. They could fork it, but in that case they'd have to maintain a browser engine again. If Microsoft could/wanted to do that, they could have just stayed with the old IE Edge.
Exploitation of labour is one of the basic concepts in capitalism. It is a social relationship based on an asymmetry in a power relationship between workers and their employers. Therefor it is independent of the fact if you love or hate your job.
The argument about losing the popular vote is flawed. Gaining the majority’s support does not decide the result of the election, and hence the candidates’ campains just don’t hold it as a goal. It is not impossible that, if the rules were changed, Trump (for example) would still win, as his campain would now aim at gaining majority.
I suggest you to take a look at the page source on browser and you'll find out.
> I'm wondering if they're using integrated Keychain support?

ah sorry can't answer that, the first thing I did was checking out 1password. I mostly replace 1password as the password manager for my browsers.
The rule of thumb is that people congregate where the food is. Since the food is usually made in the kitchen, that becomes the default location.
> The usefulness of most interfaces is that they abstract something real.

When I think someone is overenthusiastic about virtual reality applications (especially stuff involving "collaboration") I like to contrast it with an insanely-successful tool with broad adoption: E-mail.

Who wants to take their message, drop it into a virtual envelope, affix a virtually-licked stamp and virtually-walk to the local virtual-post-office?

Heck no, we just click the big "Send" button! We didn't model the cruft in 3D, we removed it, because it wasn't truly necessary to the job.
You can’t ignore the noise because we don’t know it’s noise. I know I’m failing to get that idea across, but I honestly don’t know how to articulate it better than I have been. I can tell you’re honestly trying to understand, and I feel the blame is likely on me as a communicator.

Possibly what I’ve failed to communicate is this:

MRI, CXR, etc are not images of the body. It’s not like getting a photograph of a liver and saying, at least we know this is or isn’t going on in the liver. They’re indirect measures of certain attributes of the body, such as tissue density, which we use - coupled with their medical information, and the mechanisms of likely diseases - to infer what’s happening. That’s why reading radiology is a medical specialty, and not something anyone with an anatomy background can do. (There’s a radiologist currently browsing the thread - he’s very welcome to correct me if I’m wrong about what radiology “is”.)

Because of this, every such finding has to be interpreted in a context, and studies tell us how.

Completely out of context findings aren’t a big problem if they’re completely unambiguous: hey, that bone is in two pieces and it should be in one.

What about the finding that isn’t, though? This is equivalent to not having any information on a test’s false positive / false negative rate, only now it’s open-ended to “every condition that could look like that thing” because the defining characteristic of an incidental finding is that it’s -incidental-. It’s not related to any symptoms. So what do I do with “every disease or non-disease process that could potentially look like a spot on the lung, without any accompanying symptoms of that disease”?

What I believe is the responsible answer is: “if I think the pre-test probability isn’t borderline zero, AND the post-test probability would change my course of treatment or diagnosis, order the test. If the pre-test probability is so low that any positive test result would be very likely to be a false positive and thus force me to act in a manner harmful to the patient, don’t order it - it shouldn’t be allowed to change the course of treatment. If the pre-test probability is already so high that any negative result is likely a false negative, don’t order it - it shouldn’t be allowed to change the course of treatment. Only order tests whose results should impact the course of diagnostics or treatment.” What do I do with findings that haven’t been studied in a given context, so I have no clue what their impact on the post-test probability of a diagnosis is? I don’t know. But “test just in case” isn’t the zero-risk option. There aren’t any zero consequence options.

Not every test is an RCT because grant funding agencies don’t provide the budget, plus or minus, many RCTs we’d like to do are unethical (if you have good reason to believe one course of therapy is superior to another, you don’t have the clinical uncertainty to ethically allow randomizing people into an inferior therapy), plus or minus many sub-populations are just too uncommon to build an RCT on without a gigantic budget that facilitates long collection periods across multiple institutions.
SpaceX Is Building a 'Starship' Rocket Prototype in Florida, Too – Space
The box office thing is a game, and the game isn’t fun when Gone With The Wind will never be defeated.
Which was such a shame, since the guys definitely had great technical skills & I really wanted to like the show but couldn't get past the screaming. I'm not really into choppers, but am into antique bikes (currently mounting a sidecar on a 73 HD), so it should have been right up my alley.
Thanks. Is there such a good SAT solver you would recommend to try out?
> FreeBSD developers are actually looking at something like systemd themselves

If this claim were true it still is beside the point of my comment, that systemd itself has a "Linux only, and we don't care" approach, and dbus for the moment is not that.

> GNOME itself does exist on the BSDs

Yes the ports tree is a wonderful place for those things to sit for those who are interested and for a larger portion to not bother installing them. I don't know how many patches they applied to get it working or what the cost and effect of those patches may be over time.
After knowing Google have been tracking few hundreds millions people's precise locations for the last 10+ years, I went thru the exercise of deleting all the activities history from Map, Youtube and Search and disable all activities tracking.

For the first few hours, I see new default youtube suggestions. After a few days, I see a lot of old search/view videos pop back to the youtube home page. YT still seems "suggested" videos for me to watch base on the past viewing info.
> for example many UNIX-(like) kernels were/are monolithic, despite micro kernels with message passing akin to GNU Hurd embody the UNIX philosophy much better than the original UNIX kernel did(!)

Sure. The UNIX Philosophy applies more to userland, I think, than the kernel.

Edit: I'll add with regard to the kernel, the internal structure of the kernel still has fairly well-defined subsystems that interact in clear, mostly consistent ways. So while from an execution standpoint it is monolithic, the philosophy is still something that is taken to heart to some extent.

> Also, how do you define doing "one thing" exactly? I can see it for `ls` or `cat`, but for anything more complicated than that...not so sure. Is Vi following the UNIX philosophy? If you say; yes, it's 'just an editor', despite 'an editor' being composed of several components, then I can say that systemd is just 'a service manager'. It's a semantics game that does not make sense in today's world.

I think dismissing it as a semantics game is taking it pretty far. It's clearly not a black and white rule, but more a guiding philosophy. When it works, it's beautiful and elegant.

The ability to pipe basic UNIX utilities and programs together is something that has always left me a little awestruck. The flexibility and simplicity there is almost profound. SysVinit was far from perfect, but you could at least trace the execution flow from basically start to finish and, if you understood basic *NIX utilities, have a good idea of exactly what was happening.

> The Unix philosophy has its uses for sure, but it's far from an universal truth in today's world.

Again, it's a philosophy, not a universal truth. A guiding light, if you will.

With systemd, that light is pretty dim, if it's on at all.
They can't be maintained or improved. People will be forced to accept a lower standard of life as they are switched to less environmentally impacting methods, and will be punitively taxed to cover for the things that it's simply impossible to remove.

We won't see everyone tooling around in their autonomous electric cars. the rich will have Tesla's, and everyone else will probably split the massive cost of an ICE car four ways instead of owning one, or walk everywhere.That's assuming we didn't kill half the jobs off in the USA because now a Burger King Value Meal costs $20, due to cigarette-style sin taxes.

You can systems level think all you like, the problem is when it gets expressed into concrete things. I think people would have to admit that it would be a pretty big qol step down for people...it's just that their solutions dovetail neatly with the way they live their lives already.
I had an interview experience not too long after I finished college. I don't remember the specifics, but it was for an entry level administrative assistant role. I had plenty of experience in retail, customer service, event planning and working at the front desk of my college - so totally relevant stuff.

The interviewer asked me why I was so confident. And why I had the nerve to want to dig into the terms of the job (salary, growth opportunities and the like - I was a late stage candidate).

Full disclosure - I can't think of a time where I have been perceived as arrogant at all. I am generally well-liked and personable.

The interviewer seemed to have some sort of implicit bias - I think she really didn't think that black people should be confident in a professional environment. I can't imagine that she would have taken similar offense to a white guy asking those sorts of questions.
Since it's in their interests to have a browser installed on Windows by default, if Google did something wrong, they will definitely fork Blink. What alternative do they have?
Who supplies the capital for worker co-ops? That's the problem, as I see it. Yeah, workers lose out on the surplus in typical company. However, workers aren't risking their own capital. If the company goes bankrupt, the worker only loses their job, not their investment (unless they took equity as part of a compensation package).
If an app has the permission to spoof signatures (which must be specified in its manifest - I.e. it's not a permission that's grantable with `pm` ) it can spoof itself as being any other app, if my understanding is correct. This opens the door to sketchy apps pretending to be system apps, then man-in-the-middling your data, potentially leaking sensitive info, etc.

Generally the signatures are there as a tamper-proofing mechanism. Some builds (e.g. official-ish LineageOS for MicroG ROMs) have a hardcoded notification that's shown for the signature spoof permission so it can't happen in the background, though.

The possibility of widening the attack surface just triggers security paranoia in those of us ditching Big G for privacy reasons - that's why there's controversy over it at all.