skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's even about the money anymore, since nobody seems to take issue with massive deficit spending in the US.

A lot of Americans see it as a threat to their sense of individualism, and that is why they fight it. To them, any government program which makes our lives easier will cause people to be lazy and dependent. If we want universal healthcare, we need to address that message.
I generally support universal healthcare in America despite the massive downsides of having the government administer it.

But I think the debate about values and principles is way more complicated than you are acknowledging. A lot of it boils down to terminal subjective value systems.

Do you value “freedom from” financial ruin more highly than “freedom to” spend your money however you see fit (e.g. low taxes)?

There’s no easy high level argument for why someone should normatively prefer “freedom from” over “freedom to” ways of thinking.

You won’t get anywhere just decrying the “freedom to” crowd and dismissing their sincerely held values and beliefs.
If you had a TV show in which the winner had their severe illness treated, it would fit right on with Black Mirror. But we're really not that far away.
Ask HN: How do instructions on opening the Soyuz capsule survive reentry?
I saw a Soyuz reentry vehicle today at the cosmonaut museum in Zhytomyr. At the bottom of the capsule there're instructions in both Russian and English for opening it. That makes sense since the thing could land far beyond the designated landing zone. What I don't get is how the text could survive reentry since it's printed where the heat shield is.

Here's a picture: https://ibb.co/RgfZfPR
Don't forget randomness is just a hypothesis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20670176
Can you cite the source? The data often uses differing definitions so you'll might be comparing apples to oranges.
I ran a large at the time Informix implementation in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Raw disk vs file system (Solaris UFS) performance was 35% faster on our transaction systems.
Maybe a bunch of SSL cert exchanges through some very low bandwidth connections? ;)

Still, it's more likely a figure used for exaggeration, for effect.
What logic could that person possibly be following? It's just mind boggling.

In any case, that's why I want to see local planning just abolished. These people are so clueless or self-serving (not sure which, don't care) that I don't see any reasoning with them or even talking to them. Just fire them all and abolish their offices.
Two-Tier CA/PKI Server with Hashicorp Vault
I recall a homeless guy in SF laying in front of the Alameda ferry terminal. He had pooped and was smearing it over the door, ground, and was rolling in it.

The other passengers and myself were just watching. I remember watching everyone’s faces and us deciding what to do. This was fairly normal for all of us. The coast guard came off the incoming ferry and basically joined us. It wasn’t their job, eventually we got some security and even they were like... “ugh, I don’t know if it’s safe to move him”.

Eventually all of us just routed around the homeless man via the other doors (usually for getting off the ferry). No one taking care of the problem, to my knowledge.

Can’t really blame anyone for not wanting to move a man covered in feces. But I agree this is a crisis and I honestly don’t know who they will get willing to solve that problem.
https://www.jumpstart.me; basically tinder but for jobs.
I factually know that’s not the case as multiple times I’ve sent cvs to positions I’m a perfect fit for and never heard a thing. I’m quite confident reading resumes is old school habit of apatosaurusish generation.
Huh? With dating, don’t you want to display your personality vibrantly so that you can more effectively filter for those who want to be with someone like you?
> Doesn't that just feel terrible?

The depth of the work I've been doing at work has been steadily decreasing. I feel less like a software engineer and more like a manager of SaaS. It's still much more technical than work your average office worker can do but the pendulum of power seems to be swinging back towards employers at the moment.

I don't know if it will ever swing back. I worry that the days of software engineers being able to build up expertise and have that expertise be a vehicle to social advancement are already over. Coders now need to be businessmen to get ahead just like everyone else.
It's not quite that simple. The West Coast has seen a huge influx of homeless people (ex. [1] - 12% YoY increase in LA) while the nation overall has seen a drop [2]. If your homeless population is steady or falling it's easier to build enough services for them than if thousands more arrive every year. Also, I agree that more shelters and services need to be built, but it would be nice if the Federal government pitched in since it's pretty obvious we're just absorbing the homeless problems from other states.

[1] https://la.curbed.com/2019/6/4/18652755/2019-homeless-count-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
Windows really isn't as bad as its reputation when it comes to security. It goes for windows as it goes for any other OS: Don't install crap you cannot trust. Don't run everything as root (UAC). Think before you give anything elevated rights.

I have seen my share of ridiculous security flaws in ALL OS'. Anyone remember when you could login on any mySQL server by simply trying enough times? That wasn't windows specific! (back in 2012!)
I remember being so absorbed by Dues Ex that after a long play session that, IRL, I walked up an ATM and for a few moments tried to find the “hack” button.

It is also the first game I remember that forced me to make consequential more choices through regular play. I was very proud to make it to the end without killing a soul,
This is a good interpretation of the event as I understand it.

Culturally, it would be a good move to grant all employees before x date a token number of units so they felt validated. $1k worth of units to a few dozen employees is a rounding errors worth of dilution but would pay many intangible dividends to the culture.

I do think, ultimately, the bulk of incentive equity should go to those most likely to make significant contributions.
I’m not an expert in the subject, just pointing out that you can die or lose your toes sleeping outside in the North, which changes things a bit.
That's the whole point of the American system. You can say anything you like, and people confuse that with having actual freedoms. What we're really able to do is just scream into the void as the paper I linked in the parent comment clearly shows.

Trump is precisely what the oligarchy wanted, his biggest achievement in the office was to drastically cut taxes on the rich and gut regulation and oversight over business. Trump helps the oligarchy and you have to be brain dead not to see that.
Exactly!

Hiring is a two-way negotiation, and while I'm sure the grandparent doesn't see it that way, assertive declarations like "I don't want CVs to be unique, I judge people based on merit." are a workplace smell that some people don't want in exactly the same way that photos in a CV are.

It makes the boss sound like someone who values conformance and hates diversity. Maybe unfairly, but impressions are everything at this stage of a relationship.

To wit: if you really want to hire good people "based on merit", you need to stop being so judgy about the oddballs.
Why are batteries not scalable?
It’s fun to restart the process though. We’re currently in a race to the top for “artful resumes as a means of being noticed”, which means if you submit a “pure content, straight to the point” resume, it will actually be noticed more
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If this trend continues, perhaps we don't need the storage breakthrough that we've been assuming we'd need.

There are a quite a few industrial processes which have energy as their primary cost. Aluminum is one example.

If a region needs 10GW average, one could build a wind installation with 10GW average output and a lot of storage to match supply and load.

Or one could build a 100GW installation, a little bit of storage and an aluminum smelter. During normal operation the smelter gets 90GW and the region gets 10GW. During peak operation the smelter gets a lot more than 90GW. During a trough the region gets 10GW and the smelter gets nothing. You'd still need storage or a peaker to handle periods when there is absolutely no wind or low wind and high demand, but those needs would be much less.

I don't know if aluminum can operate with such fluctuating power, but there are processes that can. At worst, bitcoin.
> I would only open Slack a few times a day. Like checking email.

Why not just use email for it then? Why pay for Slack and use it as something that you can have for free?

In most organizations that I know Slack is not used like email at all, but instead like a never-ending conference call. And just like in conference-calls and meetings, you can avoid them, but if you never take part in them the rest will unavoidably perceive that as a lack of initiative and interest on your side. Even more importantly, you might miss some important information. And yes, that sense of pressure and urgency is totally self-inflicted, but that's how office politics work in real world and some tools are just amplifying it.

So it's not about Slack, it's about using Slack in your environment, as flowed as it is...
Maybe you just didn't send the right signals?
Property taxes are capped at 1%, and assessment appreciation is tied to inflation. Lowering taxes isn't the answer here.

Now if you want to talk about impact fees you might be on to something...
It's more than half dogs. People in SF just don't care. Also, it wasn't such a good idea to give shelter animals to the permanent homeless. Now not only can they not get into a shelter, but now something else is dropping turds on the street and not being picked up.
How do you prove to another party that the data was random, or that you didn't just keep sampling until you got a desired result?
Giving up on Julia (2016)
It makes sense that resumes are becoming better designed: we have been told for years now that recruiters only spend seconds looking at a resume, and many people now have the tools to create a well designed resume. The irony here is that employers are declining candidates on the basis of overdesigning their resume, given that they are ostensibly advocating the position that only the content is important.
Yeah. The person writing that resume doesn’t want to work for you, and you’d not hire them. The system works.
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Absolutely not. Slavish adherence to phonetics means you need to standardize a dialect for your orthography, include extraneous changes (like shifts in vowels caused by adjacent words) and isn't done by any writing system I know of.
A lot hinges on what would actually happen to WeWork during a recession. I think there's some possibility that when a recession hits, many companies may find WeWork (and coworking generally) more attractive as they downsize. I'm also curious about whether WeWork has leverage to renegotiate leases, since commercial real estate (which is already not doing well) will weaken in a recession.
No, you want to entice. The more you say, the more content you’re providing that will lead to a dismissal.
this was a great read thanks!
“We ate them all.”

Pretty terse answer, really.
Outside of programming, skilled trades, and other more solitary jobs, “merit” isn’t that important. You start to look for things first like, “is this person going to get along with everyone o r be a problem,” and “am I going to enjoy interacting with them?” This is true for both high paying creative jobs and minimum wage work.

These days I’d rather hire someone slightly less qualified that’s easy to work with than someone who looks perfect on paper and is going to cause me all sorts of problems. Especially when you run a business and are responsible for HR issues.

I can’t even remember the last time I really read a CV. What someone’s done in the past is only relevant in certain instances.
My only problem with Jack is that Firefox (and Chrome too, afaik) absolutely insists on using Pulse, so you have to make both play nice if you want to use Youtube while working on music (which is actually pretty common). This can be a bit of a pain (funny things happen after suspend/resume). Still it's so useful for music/sound production, I put up with it :-)
You can make videos on a computer that you can get for a few hundred dollars. That means you could make 20-30 videos for the same amount of money your equipment cost. That is a prohibitive scenario.

I create content for YouTube and if I had to pay $10 per video then I would never make another YouTube video again. It doesn't matter that there are thousands of people (and tends of thousands+ sometimes), because I simply couldn't afford to spend time and effort to make a video and then spend extra money to share it.

You could make the argument that perhaps society is better off if I don't create content, but there are at least some people that claim they enjoy it.
You are making the common mistake of confusing actual dating with using a dating website.

The goal of the dating website is to get a date. You do that by finding someone who seems interesting and who does not have any red flags. Why put out more information than is needed and give more for people to find something wrong with you?
I think the source of this is professional "career adviser" types.

When applying for jobs out of school, I was told:

1. I needed to "tell stories" about myself (doesn't matter if they're true)

2. I needed to boast in my resume about my "accomplishments" using buzzwords

3. I needed to have some kind of catchy elevator pitch describing myself

4. I needed at least one "playful" descriptor (e.g. "semicolon enthusiast" or something like that)

5. Lying on your resume is expected and totally fine

6. I needed to apply for ~10 positions a week

All of these things made me deeply uncomfortable. I don't think self-description is possible. We reveal ourselves through our actions and nothing matters less than "how you view yourself". When people attempt to describe themselves they tend to list things that they want other people to believe about them but have no correspondence in reality.

I disregarded all of this advice and worked really hard on my projects. I didn't do any "coding interview prep" and during my interviews I admitted when I didn't know something and explained what I thought I knew about it. This worked well for me; I didn't have any trouble finding a job.
Pieces like this can be read in two ways: as an individual success, or as a societal failure. Making a walker for some poor disabled person can be seen as an individual success because a person in need was helped, and there were others generous enough to make that happen. But it can be seen as a society failure because most likely, they aren't the only one in that position, and the others that never receive help go unmentioned and unconsidered.

In focusing on the individual perspective, you could argue that articles like this subtly promote a certain set of views/assumptions - "people get what they deserve", "those that work hard get ahead", "individual charity is better than gov programs", "this is just the way things are".

The societal failure perspective is at odds with these and would like to see things approached from a different set of view/assumptions - "unequal opportunity from birth results in people not getting what they deserve", "success in life is mostly luck", "societal problems should be solved for everyone that has them", "we can make things better".

Reddit actually has a perfect reflection of this - stories that appear on r/UpliftingNews will sometimes also appear on r/ABoringDystopia, with the different perspectives becoming apparent in the discussions.
Well, maybe.

Sometimes compatibility isn't really based on shared interests or other things that, well, make sense. Sometimes people work out that you can't really rationalize.

It also depends on what type of dating you're interested in - it's way less important for casual dating and hookups. With that you're more likely to filter yourself out than increase the chances of success.

For more serious dating for someone that cares about their partner having shared interests, etc., then yes, being filtered out is a feature and not a bug.
Give me an A/B to test that and I’m in.
California's also exporting their homeless problems.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
Is this a serious thread? Do many HN users buy drugs and escorts illegally?
People who are interested in a more readable APL should have a look at Nial:

https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

It is a fairly standard APL which inherently uses english-like notation instead of symbols.
If it can be done in a privacy preserving way, I'm all for Goldman profiting from it and making the market more efficient at the same time. Goldman has done much worse things than this.
So, other cultures have zero value in the grand scheme of things?

On that note, I'd even say having a personality or individual preferences has zero value too. We run into so many problems as a global society with different ideas of how things should be. If we all were forced to believe in a single political philosophy, that'd make the world a better place.
I've been working on a similar idea of learning a latent vector representation of chess positions and moves. I'm not sure whether to be happy or disappointed that this paper is much more simplistic than what I've been trying to do.

They call it "machine learning", but they're just doing PCA and nonnegative matrix factorization, neither of which falls into the class of methods that most people think about when you say "machine learning." Their proposed prediction method will often (perhaps usually) predict illegal moves--it might propose moving a piece that isn't even on the board, for example. Understandably they don't show any examples of actually applying it.
It is the dumbest idea to use a solar road when there are roofs; like bus shelters. train stations or even sound walls that can be converted. Cars would literally rip these roads apart due to dirt and grind.

Even EENblog made several videos about this in the last few weeks. Just have a look:

* https://www.eevblog.com/2019/08/07/eevblog-1233-the-demise-o...

* https://www.eevblog.com/2019/08/07/eevblog-1234-more-epic-so...

* https://www.eevblog.com/2019/08/18/eevblog-1236-german-solar...
And how exactly is YouTube harming people? The topic at hand is about some people not having access to monetization on YouTube and your proposed solution is to shut down YouTube altogether?
I feel like a lot of cities in America are suffering from applying national politics to their local elections. Electing a Republican or conservative/centrist Democrat every now and then wouldn't be a bad thing, Democrats do not have a monopoly on solving local issues in a compassionate yet effective manner, in fact I'd claim that the increasing ease with which the Democrat candidate wins elections in major American cities contributes to the lack of urgency and a sense of complacency with the status quo. It limits the range of possible solutions to a local minima. I expect the problems to get worse before they get better.
This is just anecdotal data but...

I've found East coast/southern police to be way more inclined to the use of force, even excessive force, when dealing with the homeless.

Personally, I 'feel' this difference. On the East coast, when a homeless man approaches me, I feel they fear a negative reaction. There are also way more police. The situation is the opposite on the West coast.

Now, I'm not saying this is what SHOULD be. I really am against police brutality. But I always like to pay attention to unspoken rules, they help me adapt.
Hello straw man. Not one person ever called Home Depot employees "bad people". Not one person ever said the media "created these bad situations".

But why is it normal that a 2 year old can't walk and nothing can be done to help him EXCEPT by Home Depot employees?

Why isn't part of the story mentioning how there's no affordable or free program to help 2-year-olds walk?
Actually itd be smarter to force everyone to learn a long dead obscure language. That way everyone starts from scratch rather than a group having a leg up.
Is your country of origin held up as having a particular high standard of nationalised healthcare?
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I agree for the most part and also turn off all my notifications except for @‘s.

The only thing I wish existed was an option for the sender to tag a directed message as low priority, sort of like an @-lite. It would show up in my queue of things I need to respond to but not interrupt when I’m focused on something else.

It’s similar to how email functions, but we’ve mostly migrated away from using email internally and bringing that back feels like a step backwards in notification management.

Our current hack is to deprioritize all Slack messages, including direct messages and @‘s, while adding in text messages for urgent responses. Not ideal, but better than a culture of everyone feeling compelled to respond to every message within a few minutes.
Which means there are more hospitals needed, more doctors and more nurses.
So it may even create more jobs.
Do you feel it is useful for you to go to an office at all?

If you're not going to bother getting to know your colleagues (to make communication more efficient) than what's the added value of going to an office at all?

Am I making wrong assumptions about the use of going to an office?
Bentley, "Programming Pearls"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52084.Programming_Pearls
Soon it will be squid ‘n’ chips.

The traditional British fish supper could be replaced by the likes of squid as the waters around the UK's shores grow warmer, say government scientists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38265395
lol, I talk to people regardless of what they put in their resume. To me, a resume is more a “please call me” than an expectation that what’s in the resume precisely fits. I don’t expect folks to tailor resume to fit each time they apply to some position. Also, I’ve noticed people (including me) are really bad at writing good resume. Why lose someone who might otherwise be stellar because of their poor resume-writing skills?
One which users were obviously willing to pay if they switched to Apple because of privacy concerns, and do would be willing to pay again if that need was met elsewhere.
But you're not arguing against the point made in the article but something else. So...
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NYC is getting worse. We have something like 60,000 beds available, but those are filled beyond capacity every night. The actual homeless population is certain to be higher than reported.

We're starting to see semi-permanent encampments, human feces on the sidewalks and used needles in the gutters. (haven't seen discarded needles since the mid 90s). Storefronts are vacant all over. Anywhere there's a sidewalk shed -- and there are plenty -- there will be people sleeping (and defecating) under it. The cops are completely demoralized and our useless mayor is campaigning for president with 0.08% support.

People are openly wishing for a long, cold winter to keep the sidewalks clean.
The first matrix was a good movie but this quote is not a good one.

All the mammals (and other animals) multiply as much as they can, only not having enough to eat, or another species eating them can stop that. In most cases populations fluctuate around some equilibrium, but that's caused by dying off in other cases, not by some instinctive virtue.

Humans multiply because they can increase the amount of available resource with technology, not by moving to new area.