skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently live/work in the Bay Area, but am a Canadian ex-pat. Over the past year, I've had a series of health-related issues which have me chomping at the bit to either move back to Canada or another country which has a sane healthcare system. The issue with the states isn't just that you might go bankrupt over medical bills, I've found that there's also a huge disparity in quality of care. Back in Canada, you'd get the right care for your issue, cost be damned; however, in the states, the quality of care might also depend on who you have access to, per your insurance, which is royally fucked up. Its implicitly correlating the value of human life with earnings - better job? Better insurance.

There's more to life than base pay, stocks, and toys you can buy, and the Bay Area has proven to be one big trap and a lie, so over the next year or two, I'll be planning my escape to another country, be it back home, Australia, or somewhere in Europe.
I stopped writing Basic about 5 years ago. I started with Commodore Basic in the late eighties, wrote some tools for personal use, but my first income apps were in COBOL (really) and FoxPro. I had to write Basic again in ~ 2000 for work, a bit of VB but mostly VBA in Access and Excel and I completely gave up when I found better ways to do it. Today we have a single VB app at work that I plan to have it rewritten, but mostly because we have not enough people to support and modify it when needed.
While Basic was a good tool in my childhood, it is hard these days to find good software engineers willing to use it, tools good enough to use and people willing to pay for apps written in Basic.
Other than LaGuardia sucking all around, this complaint is completely invalid. You can take multiple subway lines directly to JFK from Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. I do it myself all the time. You can take the E from Manhattan directly to the AirTran in under an hour. You can get there from Queens and Brooklyn even faster. NJ Transit trains (which you can get from midtown Manhattan) go directly to a Newark Airport monorail.

Mass transit in NYC has problems, but it's one of the most connected places on earth.
Exactly. If that number were arbitrarily changed to 60% and did include Social Security, well, there goes the news article.
I’m not sure how what you say makes the parent’s post untrue.

I don't know the details of insulin and fat storage, but at the end of the day if you are at a calorie deficit, you will lose weight—that’s physics. Your body can’t magic fat out of nowhere.

Your point appears to be that some things are easier to cut out of your diet than others… which was very much part of what the parent said—they point out that calorie tracking is the best way to work out what foods are the ones that work best for you.

The point is not that all calories are equal from the perspective of sating hunger, but that they are equal in terms of energy input. Knowing that raw number for everything is the best way to understand what is providing you good “bang for your buck”.

None of this contradicts what you say, to be clear—it supports it, which is why I find it odd your post starts with “this isn’t true”.
Very unusual in the United States outside of Director/Executive level roles. While there’s a “tradition” of giving two weeks notice before leaving it is almost never required. Leaving without notice might get you placed on a no-rehire list and have your former colleagues think you are a jerk, but beyond that no repercussions.
The real bottom line here: As long as you can make it back to HK then you are above the law in Macau/mainland China/Taiwan.

That should be mentioned more often.
Depends what you are preparing for. If you think automation is going to happen but that capitalism will survive, then index funds seems line a good idea. If you think capitalism will be supplanted, it depends on what you think will replace it. If we're looking at a Mad Max style dystopia, then sure, it won't help to have lots of shares. But presumably you'd see signs of that before we get there and be able to start converting your money into harder currency.

If we're looking at a benign-ish revolution with redistribution it won't matter much.

Personally I think the most realistic medium term risk scenario to protect against is that capitalism will hang in there, but that jobs become more scarce. An outright economic collapse or major social upheaval is likely to take more time. If you start seeing job scarcity hitting, then sure, start converting some of those index funds just in case things accelerate in the wrong direction.
Yup. Magic integers are bad for readability. So are "magic phrases", like public static void.

I think the readability of Pd is horrible, but the question was whether it was human readable at all.
Twenty More Years of Bootstrapping [pdf]
You were presumably responding to "America is the most rich and powerful country in the world", since that is the only relevant portion of the comment you replied to where interjecting a comment about GDP would make any sense at all.

The US, as a nation, has the highest GDP, and therefore is the wealthiest nation in the world. The individual wealth of Americans is lower than some other countries (but not many), but that is hardly relevant in a discussion about the wealthiest country. If OC had said "Americans are the richest people in the world", you would be right. But OC did not, and being deliberately obtuse does not change that.
> It must work differently in the UK where either the cops and prosecutors are less aggressively trying to convict you no matter your innocence or guilt. Or not speaking to the cops is held against you far more.

Cops and prosecutors are definitely just as aggressive in the UK. The difference is that UK case law, unlike the US, allows the refusal to speak with the police to be construed as evidence in itself, whereas the US does not.
Agreed. For anything complicated, I’ll always download the pdf. I don’t really find it burdensome pan and zoom a pdf, even on mobile. It seems to work a lot better than publishers attempts at producing web versions of papers, which I find generally useless.
If you're interested in other people's thoughts, you might want to try driving for Uber for a while.
I've lived in both tiny apartments and suburban homes and I can tell you the former is much more desirable. This can be evidenced by the ridiculous housing prices in American cities. Suburban __homes__ are nice but they are surrounded by nothing but other suburban homes. In many cases it's not even possible to leave without a car because the only thing connecting the suburbs to the rest of the world are motorways. After a while living in these conditions take a toll, especially for the stay at home mothers the article describes.
It seems pretty good. Twitter has some talks on this where they claim signifiant performance improvements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtgKmzgIh4c.

I've heard that the Twitter JVM team has a road show where they've talked to some other large Scala users about the performance improvements. Initially, people are highly skeptical of the claims, but after trying Graal on their internal workloads, they generally see similar results.

Here's a paper which has some explanations for why you might expect Graal to improve Scala performance: http://aleksandar-prokopec.com/resources/docs/graal-collecti...
> There's zero evidence that "creating jobs is slower."

Opportunity for innovation in the market is far less than opportunity for innovation (ie automation) in business processes.

Given a hypothetical business equilibrium (business growth has stabilized or slowed to a small linear function) I have 2 employees. 1 employee writes a program to automate the other employee's job. Now I have 1 employees.

In order for me to have another employee, I have to have a new product and/or process or a whole new business.

I have personally automated people out of a job.
Like, they got fired and never replaced.
Maybe 5 in my career.
Hong Kong's government is historically not oppressive to its people. It's generally considered to be one of the most libertarian places on Earth. If they were to get violent against their oppressors, they'd be getting violent against mainland China. (They don't want to get violent against mainland China).
You simply must not be trying. Between first class on international flights and hotel lounges I meet c suite, founders and investors to the tune of 3-4 per trip. I have an easier time networking in a hotel bar in London than anywhere in the sf bay. I’ve even met my direct competitor projects accidentally and shared a drink and a laugh purely by coincidence.
At Youtube you can at least upload your video. Try uploading your video on TV. TV is much more easier to control and censor.
Pretty amazing natural image stabilization. That the external world is interpreted to be a motionless. Even with all of these tiny micro-movements.
As I understand it, NTPsec, a hostile fork of ntpd, is not a well-regarded project. Look at the "project accomplishments" page and see what they don't claim to have accomplished: the elimination, prior to publication, of any vulnerabilities in a msinstream/default ntpd configuration. They reorganized a bunch of code, swapped strcpy's (and strncpy's) with strlcpy, moved the project out of Bitkeeper (something that has nothing to do with security but is the first listed achievement on the site), and generally removed stuff nobody enables in ntpd.

Before it lost funding, Raymond was openly discussing rewriting the whole thing in Go, which sort of gives the lie to the idea that the project was operating in good faith.
Military is generally how most people qualify the power of a nation (what we're discussing).

I've never heard anyone try to measure "power" as "how many people can pay their hospital bills", but nice non sequitur. And that is me being generous with what you said. Literally every American can go to a hospital (of which there are very many) whenever they want. The debt they will incur from such a visit is where the controversy lies. But back to measuring "power" with medical coverage: do you seriously consider Singapore to be more powerful than China? Because per capita, Singaporeans get better medical care than Chinese.

Sounds like you want to measure "individual prosperity" or something, but I'm afraid that isn't what was said. This sub-thread is about whether the US as a nation is the wealthiest (check) and the most powerful (check).
So what metrics are there for biodiversity? Which metric should the media adopt?
Violent protests brings out the tanks and people start dying literally in the streets. Unless you are talking about actual revolution, violent protest accomplishes nothing and results in losing the moral high ground which is critical if one is to have international support. Violent protest in Hong Kong would result in Beijing sending in soldiers to suppress the rebellion under the guise of “public safety.” You get martial law and its justified (using their calculus) as protecting people from harm from the violent protesters. Violent protest in China would result in thousands dead and Beijing accelerating the 2047 expiration of the two systems, one country agreement. Bad idea.
After weight training I am always hungry like crazy. But try to stick to healthier snacks so it won't counter your weight loss as much :)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12678461-amped

This is a great romp, good for your next flight or downtime.

The premise is what happens to society when augmented people start to matter.
> As long as you can make it back to HK then you are above the law in Macau/mainland China/Taiwan

Not sure what’s going on with this account’s posting history. That said, this allegation is false.

Taiwan supports the protesters [1]. Taiwan and Hong Kong, both lawful jurisdictions, are free to enter into extradition agreements with each other. This extradition bill was a ham-fisted attempt by Beijing to subjugate Hong Kong. Ironically, in failing, it has shown Xi’s limited power [2].

[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-expresses...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/world/asia/hong-kong-xi-j...
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I guess part of what I'm saying is that we have a seriously dangerous anti-natalist culture. When young people get married, people will frown upon it.
Couldn’t you say the same about any pair of counties without an extradition treaty? If an American flees to Russia, he’s “above the law” in America, for example.

What makes HK so special that they must have an extradition treaty with China?
It’s a bit sad feeling like this level of participation would never happen in the US. I’m not sure what the reason is, but likely a mix of being a highly individualistic society, apathy, distraction.
My 16gb 3.2 GHz MacBook Pro is on fire reproducing this. 50 years ago they went to the moon and back with far less resources.
"first past the post essentially guarantees a maximum of two viable political parties"

aka Duverger's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

TLDR: Plurality form of elections results in two parties, because each side tries to form the smallest winning coalition.

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It's great that the structural flaws of FPTP are becoming more widely known. Increases the likelihood of useful course corrections.
Not for many of the channels which have been banned for wrongthink.
Raymond didn't write gpsd, did he? He took it over as the "maintainer". But as 'geofft observed awhile ago, if you actually git-log the project, you'll see that most of the substantive changes to gpsd aren't Raymond's.

Is it possible that what Raymond really has is a (waning) talent for getting his name attached to other people's work?
Violent protests in this case directly play into the hands of CCP and gets you PLA with HK Police uniforms on the streets.

Also any change that comes through "gun" rarely turns into ballot friendly. Once armed the erst while "freedom" fighters will start fighting for their clan/class/tribe/interests.
The only benefit I can think of is increased security now or over time. Most people developing compiler-based mitigations work on LLVM. Especially the practical ones. HardenedBSD is an example of a project making use of them. SVA is an example of one that might be applied to Linux:

https://github.com/jtcriswell/SVA
I recently read about an interesting experiment on conscientious objectors during the war. They were fed a very restricted diet (in terms of calories) and observed. As it went on they became obsessed with food, they would take recipe books from the library and even collect cooking implements. I guess it's not that surprising from an evolutionary perspective.
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Really cool, thanks for sharing!
Andy Bell? Lacks CSS knowledge? That's a bit over the top.
> this level of participation would never happen in the US

It probably would. We just don’t have an issue that imminently and clearly threatens the wellbeing of 2/7ths of the population, and for which a simple solution (e.g. withdrawing a bill) presents itself.

When American cities get pissed off and form a consensus, they certainly turn out.
List of standard methods of this kind https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html
Maybe its not a social norm, because state provided pensions broke that norm. If people knew that they can't live alone in old age they would be more interested in having more children, staying on good terms with them and living in the same house.
If journalists are going to jail in Australia its because they have broken the law. At least you can vote for politicians with a different approach.

Channels (conservative ones) are banned and disappeared on Youtube for holding the wrong opinions, in violation of no laws, and there is no recourse.
> basically an argument the police shouldn't exist.

Many reasonable people do indeed take the position that the recent development of a paramilitary force, professionally tasked with keeping domestic peace, has been a bad way to achieve law and order.

So sure, I'll make an argument that today's police - and the private companies who enable them to perform end-arounds on quintessential rights - are contrary to the western common-law tradition and that society will be better when we end this short experiment and move on to a different approach.
Interesting. It's still unclear whether Strauss was assuming Jevon's Paradox would not strike, or whether he was expecting / hoping for our ability to move beyond energy (or at least electricity) scarcity.
So if Beijing is just going to send military force if they perceive something that will truly threaten change in HK, but they did not send anything, what does that tell you about the probable outcome of these non-violent protests?

I think the protestors are fighting the good fight, but I'm not holding my breath that anything will actually come about because 2 million people stood in the street.
Swedish criminal law implement something that could be considered a partial application of that idea, but instead of outlawing interrogation, any admission of guilt is only to be considered as part of evidence in a case.

Thus when the courts do their work correctly, it's almost impossible to be convicted on your admissions alone, especially for more serious crimes.

There are however instances where this has still happened, indicating that maybe confeso of guilt should not be admissible as evidence at all, though material evidence found through interrogation probably should.
Since you seem to know more about this than I do: could one deduce what was used from the audio recordings that I'm sure lots of people have made? I imagine some combination of rate of fire and pauses between bursts and other factors could tell if it was "real" full-auto fire.
Florida man held on $1m bond for social media threats against minorities
What I wrote is not an allegation. It is a fact as there is currently no extradition from HK to Macau/mainland China/Taiwan.

The whole bill was brought forward because of a HK resident accused of murdering his girlfriend in Taiwan and who fled back to HK. You can say that this was a pretext to bring the bill forward but it still highlights a real issue.

The Taiwanese government is being cynical here.

It's also difficult to see how this bill would "subjugate" HK if passed.

I do agree that the HK courts would need to be very thorough in considering extradition requests from the mainland and that their independence should be preserved.

> Ironically, in failing, it has shown Xi’s limited power

Or perhaps people are assuming that "one country, two systems" is a sham when it actually isn't.
> And from that perspective, it's totally normal for errors or syntax to be weird looking for a long time.

This isn't normal. This is just using a tool that sucks. Those who consider this normal are just masochists.

Rust, elm, etc. have great error messages. That took a lot of time and effort to achieve. The fact that it is impossible to implement a C++ compiler that produces good error message is just proof about how broken the language is. The fact that some people find this normal is just Stockholm syndrom at work.
I wouldn't be so confident about that.
People have been told they just need to eat less for the last forty years yet obesity is at record levels. There is clearly more going on.
> The US has been the laughing stock of the world for decades and the only ones who haven't noticed are the americans.

Right, it's not like the world has benefited at all from modern innovations from the US. Like the Internet or the US' contributions to medical science and technology or humanitarian efforts. And why they're not using Google, iPhones or Android devices, watching American movies, etc.

Also please explain why so many have bothered to immigrate to the US in a bid to improve their lives? You think they moved to the laughing stock when they were already in a better situation? Your claim is insulting to American immigrants.

It's also worth noting that over half of unicorn startups and Fortune 500 have immigrant founders. The system is working better than most and has helped the entire world in concrete ways. Does it have flaws? Absolutely. Huge flaws. But let's aim to improve it, not throw the baby out with the bath water.
2/7th is huge. The Bolsheviks had a tiny, tiny percentage of the population and they took over Russia. Also 2/7 participation doesn’t mean 2/7th support. A lot of people might support the movement but are unwilling for various reasons to take to the streets. 2/7 is historic and huge.
I lost 100lbs about 10 years ago (from 320 - 220) but after years of vigilance its hard not to find the lifestyle exhausting.

This is due mainly to the fact that this type of lifestyle is not compatible with American culture. Going against the grain is easy early on when the results are fresh, but 10 years in its a slog. I want to eat like everyone else but my experiments doing so even once a week can result in gain.

Food is everywhere here and people often take your choice to not indulge personally. What's worse is having a previous image of "an eater" means people double down on wanting you to "have more / try some". It's a society of pushers.

It is a massive change and unless you've gone full narcissist (insta, fb, celebrity) all you have supporting your "choice" is you.
> these are all government guaranteed, even if the issuing firm goes bankrupt. That probably adds another 5-10k/yr per person on avg.

I didn't realize the government guaranteed pensions, so I did some research. [0] indicates that companies can optionally participate in PBGC, which guarantees at least a portion of a worker's pension.

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/is-my-pension-safe-2388790
> What makes HK so special that they must have an extradition treaty with China?

Apart from being a Chinese territory?
They've made it. The Chief Executive apologized and the government has suspended the fugitive law amendment. That's really a RARE concession in these years because the Chinese government typically doesn't compromise at all under pressure.
See also "The Revolution Will Not Be Supervised" from CS294-158...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX11C5Vfo9U
The famous experiment is the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experimen...

https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/information/anorexia/the-...
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NYT, WaPo, and the rest are just aliases for particular groups of people. It all starts with those people, at an individual level. What sort of person is going into “journalism” these days, and why? Would you? Do you know anyone who would? Why or why not? Would you turn down a job at Google to become a “journalist”, any “journalist”? Would you recommend that course of action to a bright teen?
Yep that's cuz we practice Evidence Based Medicine. If it works, it works, we don't care for the mechanism. Mechanism of action is only ever a hypothesis anyways.

But as a 2nd point, we don't always do things by evidence either. Obstetrics is an example of an entire field where there is not much evidence, and people practice what was passed down to them. The reason is because often you cannot do an RCT in an ethical way with Obs.

Additionally, often times when we prescribe a medication/treatment, there is a really significant chance it won't do anything for you. The number needed to treat before one person experiences a benefit could be quite high, like 10 or 15. We still do it if the benefit outweigh the risk.

TLDR: We don't care how it works just that it works. Some fields like obstetrics have little evidence for many things. And just cuz there is evidence, doesn't mean it'll help most of the ppl who get it.