skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I just upgraded to the iPhone XR.

Super shiny, glossy and smooth. And ridiculously slippery.

It can fall out of my grip when held with one hand. It can literally slide of a level surface (I have to be careful where I put it when charging). It’s amazing how many annoying things this decision to make it look shiny over functional has caused.

My “sharp” iPhone SE had none of these problems.
This. Goods are real, once they get it, they gotta do something with it. As soon as the donation model becomes money only, they can start filling their pockets wider while also buying less and lesser quality goods for those in need. Yikes.
The poster claimed Hillary Clinton was unique, meaning the only person that applied to. For me, she was not. Since she's not unique, then her being unique can't be used as evidence.

Claiming that she's unusual, since you expect it to work for her based on stories written about her is a different claim.
Are you from the US ?

My 2ç:

I noticed that there is a strong tradition there to favour charity over social welfare and one of the recurring argument is about how the receiver should feel grateful toward the giver because it somehow attaches a moral debt to the help which the receiver wouldn't feel the burden if the government was the proxy (through taxes) for helping those in need.

I am a European and my first thoughts are always "What a nasty way to help others, adding moral debt to being helped, to put conditions on what should be an act of voluntary uninterested generosity (as opposed to an obligatory act through an inhumane government). That must have something to do with the protestantism cultural background in the US but I can't put my finger on it.".

Likewise, in Europe, I also hear a lot of "I don't give money to beggars but if they want to eat then I can buy something". I disagree because to me it's part of a larger dehumanization process: who are we to tell people what they should spend their money on ? If the guy wants to drink it or buy a night in a cheap hotel or buy a blanket or food or whatever... it's still up to him. I don't have the `right` to control what his priorities should be.

Personally I don't give money to beggars. I did some volunteering and I regularly donate money to some very specific charities I support because:

1. they are going to do a much better job than I and

2. in the city, once you get tagged as a coin giver then words get around pretty fast. It got so bad at one point that I couldn't walk some streets without having two people coming up to me and

3. my government (which has some decent support for homelessness) don't support those specific charities with its welfare system so...

Edit: format and light rewording.

I believe this has to do with everyone's specific set of values. I am not saying Americans are bad people and manipulative moralistic individuals (and I just found some arguments that support the idea that the american charity style helps poor people better than the euro style).
https://fox8.com/2018/11/21/but-can-you-actually-microwave-a...

But yeah, I get your point! I do know someone whose charity gives away turkeys every year for thanksgiving dinner successfully (along with ingredients for the rest of a thanksgiving dinner) but it’s planned in advance and families come knowing what they are going to get.
> I would have to disagree. I think for-profit prisons, money-is-speech, on-your-own healthcare are three examples of extreme individualism and anti-social-ism that it seems the Republicans are proud of.

I'm guessing your frame of reference is left-of-center; mine is somewhat right. There is no "one true anchor" for who is where, so the best thing I can think to do is use the general center of American politics when we discuss America. I'd take many positions you'd generally disagree with, but others would call them sensible. Other opinions of mine are not generally regarded as sensible by most, and that's fine too.

> The NRA is fringe... it has been hijacked... by the Russians

The NRA operates with the approval of many Americans. I wouldn't call it's positions fringe, though the organization certainly has its failings. At some point, the Russians supported the election of a president; it's hard to call a figure such as that fringe. I'm not sure an endorsement by the Russians should damn and organization or person; the same thing is now happening to Tulsi Gabbard (non-interventionist policy is amenable to the Russians).

> This may be true, I honestly did not have time to read the whole article. I don't disagree that the left has a bunch of issues and idiotic positions, hyper-sensitivity and a general vicious lack of tolerance for momentary lapses in judgement being the main ones in my opinion.

Fair enough. The important part is the box-plot graph mid-way through the article, which shows a huge leftward lurch in the past few years. I would have linked directly, but the page overlays text on an image so it can't be linked.
One of the best books I’ve ever read on this subject is “Tree Crops”, Smith, 1929. Soil erosion is his main focus and he quotes FDR who says that a nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

The subtitle of the book, A Permanent Agriculture, inspired Permaculture — a niche but growing group of farmers who look towards perennial crops with their deep root systems, and less fickle needs for inputs and maintenance. Because these plants are permanent, tilling is all but eliminated.

The green revolution with its world-changing chemicals born out of the world wars led to a boom in yields, and has fed the world for the past century. But with our changing climate, and the obvious destructiveness of industrial farming (runoff, land use change and deforestation, emissions from tilling, emissions from chemical production and transportation), it’s pretty clear we need a new model.

If you look at my post history, I recently linked to The Carbon Farming Solution — it’s fascinating and phenomenally well sourced. There’s an active push to develop perennials to replace many of our staple crops. This is, er, fertile ground for research.
They are already planning to gut the OPT (Optional Practical Training) program which will all but ensure that students that do their Masters or Ph.D here will not be able to take their time to find a job. They'll need their H1-B visa available by the time they graduate or go back home.
Author here. I scraped 8 years of data on Who is Hiring? threads. The data is available through the article and on GitHub. Spoiler alert: people want to hire full time software engineers in San Francisco. Happy to answer any questions.
There is no barrier of entry to indexing the web. It is antiethical to force Google to make its index public through regulation. Google has its problems and we should attack them but not like this. It is not a monopoly. It is just the largest player by attending public wishes.

Let other indexes such as DuckDuckGo win through the market.
My most important lesson in working with clients as a programmer, is that asking them how they want their program to work is like asking a native speaker to tell you the rules of grammar in their language. They have often lived with the rules of how their business process works for so long, it is intuitive, and no longer available to their conscious understanding, if it ever was.

Show them a scenario, though ("X, Y, and Z happen, so the program does A and B") and they can usually immediately tell you if that's the wrong or right thing for the program to do.

I have the impression that programmers, as a group, are mostly not great at understanding this, and it is a source of frustration for many of us when we program exactly what they told us to, and then it's "wrong". It is wrong. Like a linguist talking to a native speaker of another language, you often have to ask them about scenarios and piece together the actual business rules yourself.

The worst part is when the customer _thinks_ they know the rules, and then don't (consciously), and you have to help them through that cognitive dissonance of realizing that the business rules they "know" aren't actually the same as the ones they know.
Giving to make the world a better place? Read about effective altruism [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
> No, the author covers this pretty well:

Partially, I am also saying that the food we donate is what makes it special. Part of it is donating a mass of Ragu sauce, as the author says, but part of it is that the person who donates all that Ragu sauce probably really likes ragu sauce and wants to share that joy with others.

And in reference to winter food drives, the holiday season is all about sharing joy. Be it sharing one's favorite dishes at thanksgiving, or giving the perfect gift. American society values putting thought and effort into ones gifts, and canned food allows people to do that.

For some people it likely is about feeling good over sheer quantity (and local news reports do show off the mounds of donated cans!) but I do think another part of it is wanting to do something more personal.
This is really smart move that helps Epic more than you might think.

UE4's own tools (which are based around creating environments from existing models, placing actors, and realtime rendering) are WORLDS ahead of common Autodesk modelling tools eg 3DS Max and Maya (which Epic itself uses). UE4 is easy to pick up, but then you have to learn Maya and it becomes a grind.

There needs to be something as powerful as Maya with a better UX to stop modelling being a blocker for new UE4 users. Being Free As in Beer and Free as in Freedom help too.
Yup! So stoked on the work they are doing. Epic has been funding some awesome projects / people. I am really stoked on what they are doing. I can only imagine if other companies with Epic levels of cash were doing the same thing. I love it, and support all the stuff they are doing. Tim Sweeney is a good guy. Looking forward to see what else they come up with
Nice post. Please host on your own domain though. I feel that offers better longevity of urls.
Cost of false positive is retest and observe, this seems like a very low cost. Also, stop consuming sugar.
This has been discussed in the past on Hacker News. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8419734
>re:Europe and Internet: Bavaria has pretty terrible service outside of towns.

True that. Last year I went on a trip through and there were times the internet was proper bad GPRS (edge), still enough for map navigation. However, I cant recall areas w/o any service at all. GPRS is enough for bank card services.

As someone mentioned - if you use a NA based phone, you might lack a full support in Europe for LTE
This is just as true with Indian students. Most people don't know how hard, how expensive, and how long it takes for someone to become a naturalized citizen. Combined with hostile rhetoric towards immigrants - and staying away from politics as much as possible, this is a big factor and not always precisely targeted to "illegal" immigration, the US is just not as attractive for knowledge workers as it was 5-10 years ago.
This is not normal, and you shouldn't be giving any organization where that happens. The board pays the executive. The executive should never write their own check.
Not all inequity is social and legal. A lot of inequity arises from inequity of output. An engineer for La Marzocco can make improvements to an expresso machine that improves the productivity/quality output of every barista using a La Marzocco machine such that they can pour a better latte and get more tips. Since there are hundreds of thousands of baristas that benefit from the changes of that engineer (or team of engineers), it is reasonable for there to be extreme inequity between baristas and the engineer that improved the productivity of many many baristas.

I honestly don't see why people are so uncomfortable with inequity. A worthwhile thought experiment is to imagine a world with perfect equity across everyone in society. Once you consider the consequences of perfect equity, especially second and third order effects, it gets pretty dystopian pretty fast.

For example, most of those with the most talent to offer to improve the lives of everyone else cease to pursue vocations where they provide the most value to the world. Instead they pursue vocations they enjoy or find easy if they pursue a vocation at all. If there is perfect equity, why work. The pace of improvements in quality of life across all society would slow to a crawl, if not stop or possibly even reverse.

Seeing as all humans, regardless of where you are in society today, are all basically on a hedonic treadmill and are most content when they see improvements in their circumstances over the course of their life, perfect equity would be a disaster. The only exception to this would be maybe someone who has reached a Daoist/Buddhist level of contentment in all aspects of how they experience and interact with the world.

To be clear, I'm not arguing that extreme inequity is good either.

Instead what I'm saying is that inequity can be benign or even beneficial and that the ideal outcome for the most people is achieved when the power law distribution of inequity isn't extreme. e.g. a distribution of -10/x is preferable to a distribution of -1/(10x). The more smoothly sloped the power law distribution of inequity (less extreme tails), the more room there is for individuals to experience gradual improvements in one's circumstances and the more clearly does a individual experience a positive relationship between effort and reward. Experiencing an improvement in one's condition and have stewardship over that improvement both contribute to being content wherever you are on that distribution.
> I don't understand your objection.

The objection is obvious and very easy to understand; it tries to compare apples with oranges, and here you are trying to argue that they are both fruit.
Tangentially related, I highly recommend the Steven Levy book Artificial Life. It's pretty dated now, but it's still a fantastic read. I couldn't put it down.
Hey nothing wrong with a tool that works.
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I was not warned, and was a little put off when we started receiving endless "notices" that listed the exact loan balance at closing.
No want wants to live in that kind of environment?

In the US, Trump says mean things about certain types of immigrants.

In China, you can be jailed with no due process for speaking out about human rights abuses. Also, better hope you're not in a religious minority. Don't say anything bad about the government, because they're watching you!
Your criticism is at least as apt as mine.

OTOH, if someone's going to do a drive-by comment in a discussion where they lean heavily on the authority of a management position at a high-profile company, and then proceed to speak as if they don't understand how the area they interact with intersects with security and haven't thoughtfully engaged with the comment they're responding to, then I'm not really sure it's out of line to suggest that whatever authority they've been given has been questionably allocated.
That's not the only reason he provides for not donating cans:

* Cans have to be sorted and warehoused, which costs money.

* Can donations are effectively randomized, which makes it harder to fit them into a coherent meal plan.

It's really hard to see how cans could ever be better than cash.
Awesome. Blender is on the cusp of releasing a major UI overhaul (2.8) that will make it more accessible to newcomers (left-click is now the default!). I'm excited to see it getting some major support from the gaming industry as well as the film industry.
Maybe not all programmers, and maybe not all tasks...

But when I compare programming to RPGs, I feel the same way. In both of them, I spend a lot of effort supporting the really fun parts with work. I enjoy both, and I keep doing both. But RPGs have a ton of grind that I generally don't like except that it enables me to get to the fun stuff.

Most of my hobbies are like this. There are things I have to do in prep for the fun stuff, or after the fun stuff to finish the project. And I do them to get back to the fun again.
If kids taste things more strongly than adults, why do kids like Sunny Delight? It's far too strongly... whatever-flavor-it-is (mostly sugar) to the adult palate, but kids have no problem with it.
You can actually vet a charity unlike a panhandler.

You might even be able to volunteer for them yourself for a few weekends and gain trust in them before setting up a scheduled cash donation, if you really want to verify it.
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> This page says the age of majority was actually 21 for both genders until 1970

For heterosexual sex. It wasn't until the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 that male homosexual sex was legal at all:

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

And even then, it was only in your own home, England and Wales, and groups of two. The law wasn't brought into full equivalence with the law for heterosexual sex until 2001:

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

2001! Fucking 2001! What is wrong with this country?
Have you thought of building it on top of pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/
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This might be more clearly worded as: don't buy canned goods just to donate. Give money instead.

On the other hand, if you're cleaning out your kitchen, it's nice to have something useful to do with food that's still good, rather than throwing it out. Better to have avoided buying it in the first place, but purchasing mistakes happen.
Which gets someone thrown in jail or a lot of fines these days. Not that it doesn't happen, but it's a lot harder to hide now than 20+ years ago.
An organization may have an easier time finding people than you do. Needy people are informed about organizations and seek them out, they don't have to rely on having to know you.
Not to mention while they're studying aboard, they contribute to the local economy (goods & services). For masters and PhD candidates, they may also contribute significantly to projects led by professors; advancing a certain field
I pick through boxes of potatoes/carrots, throwing out the bad ones and bagging up the good ones, then throwing those bag into another box. I do things like this for 2 hours on the weekend at a local charity called harvesters.org. At the end I've worked up a sweat, but it's quite relaxing and I always meet friendly people there to chat with.
There are many who know and understand that decision, and still move back, so they must (at least some) be factoring things like this into the decision to move back. Perhaps they feel that they can make a difference or perhaps some other reason, but the numbers in the article show that they are going back.
Just me or is the biggest company that likely has the highest % of their revenue generated illegally AirBnB? By "illegal" I mean the listing does not conform to local, state, and/or federal law for rental/vacation home rentals.

I've never heard of a situation where busted million-dollar rings of illegal AirBnBs ever resulted in the company being forced to refund fees.
If it was just salary, they'd stay here. What's new is the general anti-Chinese climate, where they're suspected of working for Chinese interests, with people reviewing your research and trying to find anything hinting that you might have send files or blueprints to China. I'd also move back if I worked in such conditions. Plus you'd have family and friends back home.
According to the CDC [0], the five-year net survival rate for localized pancreatic cancer is 37.4%. That's really low for an early-staged diagnosis. By comparison, early-staged colorectal cancer has an 89.9% net survival rate, despite the late-staged rate being 14.2%.

Granted, a small proportion of these cancers are caught an early stage. But I wouldn't say most people diagnosed would live five years longer if they'd caught it early. And that's ignoring lead-time bias [1].

[0] https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/pancreas.html

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_time_bias
> How is this at all fair to those of us who had to work so hard and wait so long to get in?

How is it unfair?
As a kid who grew up in a family that needed foodstamps and foodbank runs I guarantee you what you get at a food bank is a hundred times better than what you parents are going to have to invent with frozen peas mayonnaise and bread.

Also keeping the donations as food ensures the donations go directly to helping your community. Non profit ceos make 100s of thousands of dollars a year. That money comes from cash donations. People don't want to line a ceos pockets they want to help their neighbor.

Most of the foodbanks we went to were churches and local groups. They weren't interested in managing accounts for foodbank replenishment they just did drives when the needed more. It's immediately easier.

When you give a physical thing it has purpose. It's not 5 dollars going who knows where. You know someone somewhere got a can of creamed corn. Most of these people donating I would say aren't going to go out and buy a bunch of stuff. But they will look in their pantry and see if there is anything they are not using.

Depending on the source they bought it from, that money also goes directly back to the community.

So there are a lot of benefits to donating food. If you want to donate money fine. But I'd wager if the only choice was donating money less people would donate.
>Am I obligated to just not use a smartphone?

I've met people who would argue "yes." Not sure that I agree with them, though.
Our framework (and the CLI interface) is pretty similar to be honest, except it’s in JS. We also spent quite a bit of time focusing on performance.

The main difference is that we provide an all-in-one web platform for teams to develop, test and schedule their SQL pipelines. With one web interface and in 5 min, you can write a query, test it, add it to a schedule, push the changes to GitHub (or submit a PR) and monitor your jobs.

We make it easy to enforce software engineering best practices like version control and isolated deployments. For example, our version control works similarly to Looker. Analysts can work simultaneously from different branches while not having to use different tools nor use the command line.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. -- Mark Twain

(Also, I don't know where my 3am mental math went wrong, but $5/day is not $180/mo.)
> Tim Sweeney is a good guy

Not knocking the donation per se but it's a bit easier to be a good guy when you're sitting on the world's biggest pile of kid's pocket money.

Several friends have stories along the lines of their children taking not spending any money on their summer holidays because they want to save it for Fortnite hats or whatever. It's carefully designed smack for kids and there has to be a certain amount of moral push-back on that.
As you can clearly see for yourself, Microsoft is not as interested in acquiring market share for Bing. Not as much as to outbid Google's contracts with Firefox and Apple to be the default. Bing is clearly a second thought for Microsoft even tho it's big. That's probably because they wouldn't get the same bang for their buck anyway. They have far less advertisers on board. Anyway, according to Microsoft, they own 33% of the US market. That is quite the market share. Especially once you consider it has mostly been acquired thru sneaky toolbar installations and IE.
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