skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've all won considerable lotteries just in being alive. One out of 100 million sperm, avoiding perinatal death, a nurturing family, household, community, country, "choosing the right parents", a locally advantageous ethnic or tribal status, well-functioning social institutions (especially healthcare, education, general safety, law and justice, sanitation and infrastructure, environmental protections, clean water, safe food0, an encouraging relative, neighbour, teacher, mentor, or boss (vs. the opposite), a healthy or growing economy, personal talent, temperament, or skill, happening to get interested in a hot topic or subject, access to labour markets, access to entrepreneurial markets, suportive labour, professional, or entrepreneurial institutions, a social safety net, physical appearance, mental health.

These and many other factors have a high element of luck. Absence of any one can prove a tremendous (though not necessarily unsurmountable) handicap.

But, and this is key: dashed expectations, even where born of a lottery, can become huge personal and societal problems. The stages and processes of grief: denial, bargaining, anger, depression, acceptence, are born from a dramatic shear in expectations.[1] (Differences across social groups, as in racism, are a related phenomenon, though different in that it is distenctions among- rather than within-groups but over time, that are involved.) Writ large over society such disapointments can be exceedingly potent forces, particularly politically.

Discover your own lottery card(s) overpromised and underdelivered, you'll likely feel similarly.

The exectations set up through cultural mythos can prove to have a tremendous downside debt of ther own; "rugged individualsm", "self-sufficiency", "meritocracy", "American dream", "technological progress", "free markets", "manifest destiny", "self-made (wo)man", etc. All of these have fascinating, if not widely known, ideological foundations. And historical literature on each often shown sharp, if buried, contemporary criticism.

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Notes:

1. Kübler-Ross's initial research is notable. The precipitating event wasn't loss of a loved one, but notification of the subject's own imminent mortality. A dramatic shift in worldview.
Non PayWalled Version [1] - Linked from Qualcomm's Web Site [2]

[1] http://webreprints.djreprints.com/4598300876999.html

[2] https://www.qualcomm.com/ftc
Seriously. Ten times that number die in traffic accidents in the US daily.

If that's your level of risk sensitivity, don't get in a car.
Seriously. Wrigleyville is a real slum what with the brown line cutting right through it, right? https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9485827,-87.6531626,3a,75y,2... (brown line runs right behind those houses).
I think this guy is Gen X, not Boomer.
If you're learning these topics for purposes of career advancement, probably there is not much reason to go much beyond the fundamentals that you might study for a FAANG-type interview. If you know that much, you can probably recognize a situation where you're missing something and go look for it.

Even that is probably overkill for a lot of people, practically speaking.

On the other hand, if you're learning for fun, you should study the thing you're most excited about because you will do the most interesting things with knowledge and skills that you're passionate about.

Ultimately, in my personal experience, the latter course has also led to career advancement.
I think most high schoolers don't even know what the BLS is, much less having the forward thinking ability to really think thigs out post high school.
> Why didn't they? I do not know, and none of the accounts I've read addressed this.

I've wondered the same thing. My assumption is that the MCAS disables the input of the trim switches used by the pilots when it's active. We know that MCAS resets itself after certain conditions and 'forgets' what it did previously to override it's intended maximum authority. It's also be stated that the MCAS is 'reset' when the pilot uses the trim switches, but I would think that this would have been abundantly apparent as well: press switch, nose stops going down, unless they just did not notice the trim being activated in the first place (which based on other people's accounts, that would be hard to miss due to a giant wheel).

> Your assessment about pilots not being ordered to their deaths is incorrect. My father served as a navigator on B-17s in WW2. He was ordered to fly 30 missions. At the time, the 30 mission survival rate was 20%, as bad as any beach assault.

Fair enough, that does sound pretty brutal. My point was more about the reflexive training to overcome fear to function. It might be impossible to think critically in such a moment for most people, thus the goal is to put people on 'autopilot' when they encounter a specific scenario.

But, WW2 was USAAF, USAF didn't exist yet, so no way for me to get that context ;)
Is YouTube not a video-streaming company inside of Google?
Currently Safari complains that uBO will slow down your browser. But it still lets you load it.
A majority of websites doesn't use the EME DRM. It's Netflix and some other streaming portals. Any Chrome fork would work with almost all web sites beyond those few.

And with the new edge, there even will be a Chrome fork that supports EME DRM as well, and most likely it will support higher resolutions than Chrome itself as it's using OS built in DRM mechanisms that the studios love.

DRM is not the source of Google's control over Chrome. They use a different mechanism: manpower. They have an insane amount of developers working on Chrome, constantly changing it. Any smaller project forking Chrome and changing some major part won't be able to keep up with the changes unless they upstream. And ultimately, Google employees have control over what gets upstreamed and which contribution gets rejected.
From the US point of view, that's a perfectly reasonable position to take. (See also my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975483)
Ugh. Now I'm going to have to switch my passel of family members, neighbors, and friends who rely on me for tech support over to Firefox.

Not that Firefox isn't going the same way eventually. Firefox crippled the ability for real customization with Firefox 57 and it's only gotten worse since then.
Given his support for The Long Now and Blue Origin it doesn't surprise me much.

http://longnow.org/
What OS? I use this all the time, I don't think I have ever had a problem.

I do use nightly though. I have like 100 tabs open, and I would know if I was missing any of them. I need them all. ALL OF THEM.
You could argue the sun kills far more people (through skin cancer - UV light is a strong mutagen after all) than any nuclear power plant in the history of the world combined.
Yes, the Typescript compiler is slow.

I tend to notice all compilers as feeling "too slow". I think the cause is that we all have wayyyy too much code. Not that we write, but when we use a library, that uses 10 libraries, that each use 10 libraries. Now you have a million lines of code, and all you wanted to do was print hello world. The compiler doesn't know until it's read all of that that you aren't using any of it. The solution is to depend on libraries more carefully.

As the go team says, a little copying is better than a little dependency. This is a motto that the npm community has NOT taken to heart. The cost is slow build times. (To be fair, the go community has not taken this to heart either.)
By default, Lynx prompts to deny/accept cookies for every domain.
Of course it does. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you seem to be dismissing time as a security factor, when it is, in fact, the only security factor that counts.

We don't (can't) rely on an encrypted volume being perfectly secure. We rely on it taking an infeasibly long time to crack.

We don't (can't) rely on a weapons vault to be perfectly secure. We rely on it taking enough time to breach that authorities will show up.

And companies don't (can't) rely on their data being perfectly secure. They rely on it taking an infeasibly long time to collect.

Technology like this is useful. I will likely end up using it. But technology like CSLI is useful too, especially when integrated into E911 and the like. And yet, when sensitive "information is detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled," it poses other risks.
"valuable degree" is the key part there.

My dad worked in a factory the majority of his life. We were instructed early and often to go to college and not ruin your body doing manual labor.
YouTube doesn't require Widevine DRM.
You should try reporting a bug. Session Restore always works for me, and I'm on Nightly!
You Accomplished Something Great. So Now What?
This is tangentially related:

I've had a pet theory for a while (which may not be original, idk) that a possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox Great Filter is literally the existence of huge amounts of Fossil Fuels. It took millions of years of dead biological life on our planet to build up the supplies we have, and the big ol' meteor that hit us some 60 million years ago helped not only kill off a bunch of that life to create oil but set the stage for actual intelligent life. Without lots of oil, we wouldn't have hit the industrial age, we couldn't manufacture renewable energy sources, we couldn't make plastic, we couldn't make rocket fuel, electricity wouldn't be as widespread, basically everything would be different.

If oil were substantially less common, its feasible that we'd still live in a 1800s-esque society with some form of civilization development, but would be have radio? Certainly not space travel.

Point being: M-class planets might be pretty common in the universe, maybe cellular and even multicellular life is less common, maybe intelligent/sentient live is even less common, maybe civilization is even less common. And we've only really "existed" for a few tens of thousand years in the grand scheme of billions of years, those years littered with possible extinction-like events both man-made and natural. Combine all of those probabilities together, with the reality that we may have just "missed" another species on the timeline of the universe, and it seems more likely than not that we're alone in this galaxy.

Which is actually pretty awesome if you think about it. The whole playground is our's; let's go take it.
Yes but as far as I understand it doesn't actually use the native API. The Content Blocker API has benefits from a performance and privacy perspective.
I get paid for working a job. I don't want any ads on my screen.
Because we can black box test the “risk assessment” that whoever sells to police departments. We can’t black box test bureaucracies.
Does Google get false positives (incorrectly detecting a mistake and “fixing” it?) or false negatives (failing to detect a mistake you make) more often? Is it possible that cognitive biases prevent you from giving Google credit when it fixes your mistakes? Is it possible Google has done extensive studies to find the preferred trade-off? Is it possible that your preferences are different than the average person because you’re an engineer?
The Dollar Underpins American Power. Rivals Are Building Workarounds
While hosting her email on Google apps. https://securitytrails.com/domain/Elizabethwarren.com/dns
That is rich!!! There are far too many companies selling my private information without my consent. As long as companies can sell user information, it is only fair for users to block access to such information.
Windows 10 Pro offers more options for controlling things like updates and telemetry than Windows 10 Home, but it still doesn't meet the minimal acceptable standard, which is that the user can decline to install any update they don't want and can turn off all telemetry.
I don't think capitalism is perfect (though I think it could be significantly better with less regulation), I just think it's better than any other system that has been proposed.

That aside, what has that to do with my original comment?
The fact you visited the link would let them know that company x has an current employee named y.

Whilst that information might not be sensitive it could be used at a later date to extract sensitive company information.
I use Brave and have never bought any cryptocurrency, nor do I intend to.

I think it will be a net positive if every targeted ad company stops using that model, so Brave shutting this down is a huge plus for me.

Note, I used a similar setup in chrome and Firefox that some might find gross as well as it removed the ability for websites to monetize me using ads or data from surveillance.
So... it is either centralized or everyone can track your content and device.
Whenever I see someone who brags about their 5.0 star rating this comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/1098/

Don’t worry about your 5.0, a 4.9 is honestly more impressive. Ask you next driver to give you a 1* to help you with that.
May we assume your girlfriend is a more attractive individual to the average driver then you are?
I love Brendan, but if Google's browser domination concerns you, use Firefox or Safari. Using Chromium browsers leaves Google firmly in control.
I don't know, but you may enjoy this neat paper on such matters:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00299
YES! Instead of dumping how much money into this not-even-a-mile marking bullshit, how about finishing the damn monorail. Fucking taxi lobbies. I want to take a train from/to the airport!
I'd die for this being a part of the Azure Vision API, sadly it isn't.
Automation isn't all or nothing. It's a progression. That's what I was trying to say. Automation began with the assembly line, interchangeable (uniform) parts, and specifications.
Safari has essentially the same content blocking model that Chrome wants to adopt.

> Apps tell Safari in advance what kinds of content to block. Because Safari doesn't have to consult with the app during loading, and because Xcode compiles Content Blockers into bytecode, this model runs efficiently. Additionally, Content Blockers have no knowledge of users' history or the websites they visit.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
> In many second or third tier metro areas in the US, Lyft and Uber have completely destroyed the local taxi industry

In my city, taxis have responded to the presence of Uber and Lyft by matching what they do, and taxi companies are thriving.

Aside from the stupid "rating" system and the price of the trip, there is nothing Uber or Lyft offers that isn't matched by real taxi services here.
I thought so too, until I read this New Yorker article [1].

It’s about a site in the Hell Creek formation that seems to show, in incredible detail, what happened in the first hour after the Chicxulub strike a couple thousand miles away.

It reset my ideas about Earth’s habitability after the impact.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-di...

(AFAIK, not paywalled unless you’ve used up your monthly quota of free NY articles)
I think i see what you are doing here while others are missing the point. If there is an open source ui, there is an open source api as well. My do-something-usefull-for-users app isn't going to launch a full exchange - but what I would implement is the api library allowing a user to exchange utility and $$ tokens from one to another while staying in my app.

ergo, the user benefit here is that the user only needs a Coinbase or like account to transfer dollars to tokens, and then the user can obtain other tokens within any particular app. The user doesn't need to sign up to yet-another-exchange-with-my-personal-data-and-who-are-these-people-anyway-and-do-they-have-the-tokens-i-use-etc,etc. Now the user can readily take tokens not in use on one platform and transfer them to a token of another platform, all without leaving the platform specific application. That's a big win for the ecosystem.

I can see why you built the slick ui to demo your product, i think it's the right move because i can use it without a single line of code. I think the next challenge you will have is getting developers to adopt an underlying api client library. If I understand what you are doing correctly, perhaps build that client library in js to be used in react and a demo app that has reduced exchange funcationality for quickly swapping two tokens. it should look as simple as the interface for sending tokens to someone now.

If I guessed all that right, the company i work for may be willing to be an early adaptor. Let me know. We certainly aren't going to build yet-another-exchange, but i think empowering a transfer of btc/eth/eos/xrp -> myLittleUtilityToken within app would be very powerful.
That's a pretty good amount to be making. Should easily pay for the time spent maintaining the project.
> Do you think the world would be better now if the British had just worked on improving Britain rather than settling in America?

I suspect quite a few Native Americans do...
Don't ruin my hard earned "funny message that would make people stop and think"-badge by presenting simple alternatives! ;-)
Okay so is Chromium safe? Can I switch to that?
And if those features happen to never be implemented?

I really think it is a bad practice to force adoption of a new API that can't fulfill the same functions as the previous one.

Nobody would be here talking about this if they just made the new API without breaking add blocking (useful add blocking), and then forced people to move.

Even more so given that it looks really bad when your main goal is to serve people ads.
Students can also access "real time group classes taught largely by very experienced K12 teachers" by... going to school.
That's quite odd, I have to say FF restore has always been rock solid for me, use it everyday.
Nightly FireFox on the latest beta MacOS.
Trades, medicine and engineering are the only viable careers for tough or smart people? Now we have moved beyond "humanities are a waste of time" to having no need for finance, accounting, marketing, legal, economics or architecture.
Yes, trades are settled onchain.

Too expensive for who? 0x protocol allows you trade digital assets with anyone in the world, trustlessly, through the internet, for $0.10-$0.25 per trade. While this isn't perfect for all use cases, it is an incredibly powerful capability.

Scaling is indeed a limitation for decentralized networks. You can learn more about our scaling R&D efforts here: https://blog.0xproject.com/0x-roadmap-2019-part-2-scalabilit...
Season 3 of The Wire is based around this premise.
Can you describe what limits you run into?
> many people don't bother trying to figure this information out.

I don't doubt it, but don't understand it, either. Not much google-fu is required to type in [starting salaries for college majors]. When I was in college (before the internet) my fellow students were quite interested in what the salaries were for various majors.
"Meanwhile everyone agrees Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the "developed" states and I don't think it's fair to characterize them as Christian."

This is just a nitpick as I agree with your overall point, but South Korea isn't agreed by everyone to be a developed country. In fact, they are right on the cusp as evidenced by the fact that some investment funds consider them developing and some consider them developed.

I almost think there should be a classification for the US, Japan, and the UK, and another for "everyone else". If you look at the number of medium to smallish companies that have access to public stock markets, there is a huge difference between those three countries and everywhere else. Something is fundamentally different about their economies. And I've never read where someone declares this a mystery worthy of investigation and tries to explain it.
You politely say swipe your badge. If they refuse you walk over and get physical security. No need to physically challenge anyone.
> mild discretionary spending

If the claim is that those living below the poverty line are going hungry (i.e., "there's no way to penny pinch when you're at the bottom", then claiming $70 (which can buy a lot of groceries) is 'mild discretionary spending' is incredibly disingenuous.
Hm, I had session restore fail maybe every 3 years or so.

For more features, I'd recommend looking at either the Container feature, that might be able to help, or otherwise third-party extensions - maybe another commenter has a recommendation, since there's a giant number of tab management extensions, and it's hard to tell which ones do what perfectly.
Yes, that particular joke did surface after we discovered the problem. (:
When I got outed for doing that, I got a thank you card.

I made my own signs for wayfinding (Main Building ——>, and “Floor 7” when the stairwell was missing it).

Some are still up a few years later.
> Einstein was inspired because as a patent clerk he worked across from the railway station and was very aware of time, time standards, physical trains.

[citation needed] I guess he was more inspired by the Michelson experiment and the Lorentz transformations.

> We'd give up our earth centric imaginations of time, gravity, and many other things.

Gravity works exactly like here (But you can jump higher). Time works exactly like here too (The length of the day and the year are different, it will be a problem to choose a good calendar, but it's already a mess here. Anyway, it's not a scientific or technological problem, people just don't want to change the calendar they are use to.)

Perhaps they will find a few new interesting cases for climate science an geology???
For what it's worth, I've had a great experience with firefox for the past year (since quantum convinced me to give it another chance). All though, it recently basically factory-reset itself. Signed out of sync, extensions gone, custom settings gone. Any one else have this happen?

It's also got a weird memory leak, which I think is related to the pdf viewer. Never really checked in detail or tried to measure.
I can't replicate it so I can't report it. :( It works like 95% of the time, but that 5% is just really irritating.
That wasn't my take-away after reading this. The article shows that animals are in fact being affected by the radiation. Is that not expected? It'd only been 33 years at the time this article was written - a handful of generations - and evolution takes time. Life on this planet hasn't really evolved to deal with high levels of background radiation for the most part. That said, it appears they are in fact evolving:

> "Some birds make use of melanin for coloration, but they also make use of the precursor to melanin as an antioxidant, which may provide some measure of defence against the ionizing radiation," said Mousseau.

> In a study, he found that those birds that seemed to show less genetic damage ended up being a bit lighter coloured.

> "It looks like there's a tradeoff in the use of this antioxidant between colouration and defence against oxidative stress or ionizing radiation."

Or, alternatively, to paraphrase, while the animals there haven't yet evolved a complete defense to the ionizing radiation, some species are expressing traits correlated to their ability to withstand it. This gives them a survival advantage, so over time, it stands to reason they will compensate.

> "But it's clear that there's more going on than just the acute exposure effects."

I must have missed the part where the author threw up their hands and yelled "looks like the animals are f'd."

I'm not saying this is good or bad, just that changes to the environment are very much in nature's wheelhouse. Humans, especially individual humans, are the fragile ones. Life has shown itself incredibly resilient, and some increases in background radiation aren't about to stop it. After all, tardigrades are able to survive constant irradiation hundreds of times the lethal dose for humans while frozen solid in space.
If someone follows you in, simply call security and report it. No confrontation needed.