skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like keyboard shortcuts don't work here? I tried the new Thunderbird, but it looks like you (still) need an extension to change keyboard shortcuts and none of them work with v68 even if you don't mind third party extensions.
This is the strongest argument that can be made for universal programs when it comes to designing progressive public policy. Rich people have the time and resources to aggresively take advantage of any system that tries to implement means testing or scaled benefits. The winning play is to design programs where benefits are given completely independently of time, money, access or power, even if it means some people who do not need it will get some assistance.
My understanding is that fabricated results are so common that less than half of papers can be replicated. Nobody wants to go after the cheaters because it would embarrass the institution and the university would loose grant money.
or even better if you consider the Product value of what those engineers _could_ be producing instead.
They could have not bought a 1.2M home...
Water, coffee, tea is good - mulberry leaf tea is even better.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4281624/
or for perjury
Ah, so the solution is to understand the internal culture of every company you do business with?

Our definition of 'easy really' might be very different. In fact, whenever someone talks about complex topics and starts off with 'easy really' I cringe. There's a certain perspective people have to have to use such language, and that perspective is very far from my general understanding that 'reality is complex'.
On public right of ways acquired through eminent domain with requirements that they also serve the public as passenger transport.

We don't expect the rights on toll roads to revert back to the tolling company at the end of the tolling period and become a private road reserved only for cargo trucks, we expect them to continue to serve all traffic, for cheap as free once the tolls are "paid off". (Though Indiana and some other states are certainly working hard to create such privatized disasters this century, because no one remembers these states made the same exact mistakes with their rails.)
This must be today's daily "here's how rich people are ruining X" article that has become so predictably regular on HN.
It’s not that the “system is too damn expensive”, they think they need to go to a prestigious more expensive school whether or not the ROI on going to a less expensive school is worth it.

On top of that, while middle class families see college more of a way to help getting a better job, wealthier families actually believe their kids are going to college to be “better citizens of the world” and to “gain new experiences”.
Tobacco is a great analogy. Yes, I believe smoking drastically increases the risk of cancer (1). I'm not arguing the evidence of climate change or co2 is inconclusive. I think it's very conclusive: global warming is happening and it's man made.

What I am arguing is that climate change is not good or bad. It just is.

I think we need better tools to understand climate change, and hopefully control it. However, I think "fighting climate change" is a partisan approach, and not scientific at all. For example, assume we are able to figure out how to reverse global warming, and in effect cool the planet. How cool should we go? By your statement "when you put more energy into a system, it becomes more volatile", we should keep going lower, and perhaps make it cooler than it was 100 years ago, which might be deadly for people living in colder northern climates or mountain towns. So any action on climate will have winners and losers. And "fighting climate change" means fighting the people who just happen to live in a different geographic region.

What I'm saying is the issue is complex, the numbers are massively bigger than even the type of data Google handles, and we need much better tools to tackle this set of very complicated problems.

(1) I also believe in the future we may learn that smoking is very healthy for a small fraction of people.
> since we have many fewer banks

Australia has fewer still, with the big 5 almost entirely dominant, yet we have instant bank transfers through Osko, have had almost universal contactless in store payments for years, etc. I suspect it's more about government corruption. Governments are captured, each for its own historical reasons, by different industries. Australia by mining industries, the US by medical & finance, local governments almost everywhere by property development.
I think the adolescents might be on to something with that. I tend to do a good job of keeping my unpopular opinions between me and close friends, but I can't say I'm thrilled with the dependency on nepotism that's creeping into my life.

Perhaps being edgy is the best way to force oneself into self reliance, and self reliance being the best way to hold ground against corruption... maybe the edgelessness of "adults" is just a sign of forfeit within a corrupt system.
I read an article (in the 90s) that stated it was a slow news day. It was his sixth time making more or less the same speech.
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> why would animals in wild suffer more than in captivity?

Not necessarily more in every case but they do suffer in many different ways. Nonhuman animals in the wild are routinely exposed to: starvation, dehydration, disease, injuries, predation, parasitism and extreme weather conditions:

> The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.

– Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

> It's not about taking suffering away. Animals born in the wild live their life naturally.

A "natural" life does not necessarily mean a good one.

> Animals created by us in farms are raised for one thing, for human consumption. If an animal wants to run away in wild and do it's thing, it has that choice.

The choice to do what? The vast majority of nonhuman animals receive no help with their suffering. There are exceptions of course like when we help by rescuing trapped animals, vaccinating and healing injured and sick animals, caring for orphaned animals etc. But the general rule is a very short life (most nonhuman animals in the wild don't live to adulthood) with far more suffering experienced than happiness.

> Basically if we have slightest amount of empathy for our pets and are willing to apply that to other animals, eating meat doesn't look enticing

No disagreement here, but the same empathy should be given to nonhuman animals suffering in the wild and we should help to reduce their suffering as much as practically possible. Widespread interventions aren't practical now due to a lack of knowledge and resources but our future descendants may well be in a better position to make an effective difference.

Further reading:

* https://foundational-research.org/the-importance-of-wild-ani...

* https://www.animal-ethics.org/wild-animal-suffering-section/...

* http://www.olemartinmoen.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEthicsofW...
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The goal is to collapse your comment and prevent other people from seeing it, not to change your opinion.
Surely their income from their parents is taxable at normal income tax level then?
Historically Americans have been wary of handing out their bank account information because that's all the information needed for a bad actor to issue an ACH debit and pull money from your account. The NACHA guidelines have very strict rules around this and the payment protections are rather strong but it's still a pain to deal with as a consumer. RTP itself is non-reversible so when someone sends you an RTP payment it clears instantly and can never be pulled back as it can with Check and ACH payments.
Apple stuff is just so clearly beyond anything the competition provides with regards to software, though. I don’t really buy them for the hardware, I buy them because I don’t like Windows or Android, and I don’t want to futz with Linux. Android is still too inconsistent design-wise.
Really I don't recall Elon doing any of the really shady shit that Maxwell did.
Not 100% is recycled and some of the leftovers will be dangerous for thousands of years.

It is 2019 and neither the U.S., the U.K., France nor Switzerland have started to dispose (= bury) their waste.
Maybe they should also stop doing business with the American government? ;-)
"Charge infinity for college" is the best way I've heard this put. If there is no pressure on a school to control costs then nothing will control costs.
60.8 was released on July 9th 2019.

They skipped 61-67 and released 68.0 today.

60.9 is out in a few days. 68.1 will be the upgrade to the 68.x branch.
There's no undefined behavior, though. The code provided is well formed: it passes NULL to a function that checks for it, and the NULL check is being removed erroneously because GCC thinks it's not necessary. Here's an explanation of the bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822378
>At least the Rust subreddit figured out that there's this other language which fulfills the same requirements of being a higher level C, except unlike Rust it has a massive ecosystem, mind share and vendor support - including from Intel. It does have worse PR, but this is mostly because Rust is unbeatable here.

Which language are you talking about? C++?
That's certainly not true.

For those of you downvoting me, my parents home is currently valued at 1.134m and at the time of purchasing my Dad made less than 250k a year. It absolutely is possible to purchase a house worth 1.2m making 250k a year. Maybe not a great financial decision, but certainly possible.

It's pretty incredible that a statement such as "They could have not bought a 1.2M home..." is upvoted, despite being obviously false as there absolutely are people that make 250kish and purchase homes worth over a million (such as my parents) but I get downvoted for stating that that statement was false, even though it is accurate. The upvotes/downvotes on this site are just as toxic as reddit; people use them as an agree/disagree button regardless of factuality or relevancy, and don't even comment to provide a counter point
Wow...insert foot in mouth. It is pretty unbelievable that today leaders of immense influence i.e. Elon Musk, others referenced in the article aren't more careful with what they might put out in a Tweet. Truly amazing.
There are three control rooms mentioned, it seems - the current 'Arch' control room and the original control rooms for units 3 and 4. Article says that even the unit 4 control room was once decontaminated and stripped of equipment. The unit 3 one is the one that was used for years after.
They don't even have to be cut off or estranged.

I've known people who had rich 300k+ parents that were the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" kind of people who were able to pay for private college with a high school job back in the day. They feel that they were teaching their kid a valuable lesson.

They didn't get any help for college and were disqualified from all financial aid.
To some extent, Universities are inviting this kind of gaming.

Stanford 2019-20 undergraduate tuition

Pay in full: "The total charges for full-tuition-paying families will be $69,962, which includes $16,433 for room and board and $672 for a mandatory health fee."

Four years is just under $280K.

Free: "Under Stanford’s program, parents with annual incomes below $125,000 and assets typical of that income level pay no tuition. Parents with an income at or less than $65,000 and typical assets pay no tuition or room and board."

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/12/04/stanford-expands-financ...
Well, they had the choice of not buying a home that was four to five times the median while having a household income that was also four times the median.
Not the OP but for some reason this privacy-first messaging comes across as much more genuine from Apple than it does from Facebook or Google.

Probably due to the comparatively small number of privacy incidents, coupled with the business models of those companies compared to Apple.

Apple may not be perfect but at least it feels like they are trying.
I buy Apple products in spite of Cook and Ive. I am mostly ambivalent about Cook, though I don't think he's nearly as strong a leader as Jobs was. And I really dislike Ive. If he disavowed his designs as coming from an intern, I'd feel relieved.
I suspect it is the type of situation where 99% are a complete waste of resources.

But that 1% that turn out to be important are very important.

And you can't tell before that time which will be which.
Can’t upvote this enough. This is exactly the reason most people choose not to report unless they find themselves in a position where the could not plausibly deny knowledge. I’m sure it happens in every industry that those that report get punished and there is no reward for it.
In some parts of the country where you could earning 250,000+, the crappiest homes start at 800k.
You should take a closer look at Elon Musk (starting with some of the sketchy shenanigans at Solar City).
I have immutability with Ubuntu.

https://godarch.com/

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes
That's not an option for people who live in parts of California, New York, Seattle etc where median home prices are over 1M USD.

Surely you don't want to penalize those people who arr grossing a lot but netting very little.
This is great! Would have definitely help me out when I moved to the US.

People don't realize the fees banks charge for currency conversion is not the entire story. My bank offered me 'no-fee' CAD to USD transfers but were giving me a 5% worse exchange rate than competitors. Be careful out there!
As long as they end up in jail for the rest of their life, it's OK by me.
Surprised to see you hang around here! Your TED talk with the ukulele + chords was also an eye-opening introduction to this idea.

Also check out this guy who documents his progress playing table tennis everyday for a year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y21uwFUgkE. I'm nowhere near his level but I can tell he got pretty good.
Endangered species. Blood diamonds. Child labor. Sex slaves. Chemical weapons. Just some of the "other items" off the top of my mind that people profit from and which are helped by money laundering.
It doesn’t if you choose to go to a cheaper school...
My parents made me pay for school, but because they're still my parents I have the 'bad' (high percentage) student loans, and of course paid full tuition.

I think this is just a symptom of a broken system. And it's not only rich families that do this, unless we consider all middle class couples rich now. I personally know of a family where one of the spouses' suggested it, though the other ended up being so offended it eventually lead to a real divorce.
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I doubt they have more time and energy, but they do have more resources to engage advisors and experts to act on their behalf.
I didn't go to school after HS, however at the time of my graduation, my parents had a large amount of dependants, was suffering the wrath or two mortgage payments and another monthly rent payment.

Flash forward a few years later, he no longer has the mortgages, many of those dependants are now adults out on there own and he makes pretty good money. I wish I would have gone before, because from the calculations I've done, being under 24, I won't get hardly any aid, and school is now a financially impossibility (or financial suicide).
More importantly you're giving them the authorization.

Everyone already has the basic ability to pull funds from arbitrary checking accounts. heh.
Can it use postman collections?
That's way less of an exciting headline, though. The company is the only way to realize the value of a brand, and if the company is still doing fine today, it considerably weakens the lessons here: it's apparently not even that bad in the worst case scenario.
Sure, but common sense comes in to play when the one you bought is valued at $1, and everywhere else is $1000. And if everyone knew and didn't care, then why blow it up as if it was some big secret?
Obligatory Dan Bernstein presentation: https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf

(note: portrait slides!)
Yikes. Hope its not connected to the internet..
Why has the use of the term exploded? Why should 'good old' dishes suddenly be labeled?
My parents decided to have an abortion because they were not financially ready to have children. I probably wouldn't exist if they hadn't. Does that mean their abortion had more right to live than I?

My parents lived for years with the guilt that had been instilled in them by their religious upbringing. It was one of the hardest decisions they ever had to make so they could give their future offspring the best life possible.

Research has shown that abortion laws lead to lower crime rates, lower poverty and a higher educated populous. My sisters and I are living proof of that.
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The 4th amendment grants access if a court signs a warrant. The unique challenge of encrypted communications is that there is no way to access encrypted data without a person giving up their key.
many folks bought a $250k home that's now valued at 1.2 mil. They couldn't afford the home they live in how if they were buying.
If you schedule the transfer via the bank that is receiving the funds, they will usually eat the cost and not pass it onto you as the consumer. Smaller banks [which are most] will submit ACH files up to larger banks [like Wells Fargo or Bank of America] that will actually run the ACH requests through the network. The smaller bank itself is usually being charged either per file fee or some data transmission rate by the bigger bank. I think there are less than 20 banks in the US that can actually run ACH directly but it's been a while since I had to know any of this and it evolves over time.
I feel like the endgame here is that everyone will just ship Electron apps. Then the web goes completely dark.
I wish I am a compiler engineer...
Honestly I think it is the best desktop manager on the linux space, but moving/resizing windows is still very painful compared to windows.

I binded the windows key and arrows to move windows, but it is still nowhere near as powerful as window movement on windows 7, 8, or 10.
Some previous threads:

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5639013

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043667

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675759

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419526

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859336
If that home is in somewhere like SF, Los Angeles, or NY it could be a pretty small home.

My house is a 3 bedroom, 1500sq/ft, not super fancy.... and is $1,000,000
Price, value and practical utility are not really correlated.

A Rolex and a Timex will both tell you the time. An iPhone and a $129 Android will do mostly similar things. A Toyota Camry and a Porsche will both get you to work.

But practical utility and value aren't necessarily the most important thing.

Apple intuitively understood this, at a time when other computer companies didn't. Lots of people look at a Macbook and see an overpriced computer that costs a few hundred dollars more than a similarly equipped PC, albeit in a pretty case. But that's the point - lots of people want their computer to look good!

Apple products are relatively cheap to produce - and they make an enormous margin on their hardware. But it doesn't feel cheap. The boxes are substantial. The finishings are high quality. The user experience is taken care of. Other PC makers might have been much cheaper, but you notice that to do so, they've cut corners in places.

I don't think the lesson here is in what he said, but rather that he made his customers feel like idiots. Only a fool would believe that a ring for £1 has the level of quality and craftsmanship that you'd get with a £100 ring, but you don't want to feel like a dumbass for buying it. You don't go to McDonalds with expectations of buying a Michelin Star meal. You go there for something warm & tasty, that comes out quickly.
This has been going on for a looong time.
Or whomever has hacked the source control / build environment to replace the "5 magic HSM public keys" with one or more of their own public keys -- See Juniper Incident with Dual-EC DRBG (https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/376.pdf)

This story should be repeated whenever anyone brings up 'solutions' involved with key escrow. Bruce warned us in 2006 this was a backdoor, ten years later, we find that not only was it implemented by Juniper, the backdoor was backdoored by unknown (and potentially malicious) actors. Really, this should be the last word on why this key escrow and general cryptographic backdoors are a terrible terrible idea.
I wish this future for mozilla but I expect them to make that decision when it will be too late for them.
same thing, the point is that money buys time and energy.
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To the site designer:

Please do not abuse radio buttons to pretend to be radio buttons in one place (only one selection allowed in a group) and checkboxes (multiple selections allowed in a group) in another place right below. Your assessment page [1] needs better UX on this.

It would also be good to state that the courses are all free in the content area visible in the viewport when the page loads. There's a "Sign up for free" button way below, but seeing that there's no "Pricing" link anywhere, I wasn't sure if all the courses are free or if courses in the future would become paid. Clarity on this would also help.

[1]: https://kubernetes.academy/assessment
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Did they? They could have bought it 30 years ago when it was $200,000.
When bus rides take 1 hour each way, you can be sure wealthier people have more time and energy
From what I've heard, California does well with schooling, especially for lower income families. An internet acquaintance of mine mentioned something about paying $46 a credit hour at a community college near him. Conversely, the per credit hour cost of a community college near me is over 5x that!
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https://youtu.be/qP07oyFTRXc?t=345

Here's an excerpt from a video about double speak and it brings up statins.

It actually infuriates me that doctors try to bully people into medications that don't actually provide them a net benefit because the doctors themselves have been duped.
You're playing some kind of game where me and others have to repeatedly explain things to you in detail, only for you to come up with yet another technicality to trip us up and waste our time.

A significant amount of people view games like Candy Crush as crapware and those so-called icons as ads. There are articles from multiple reputable publications discussing how to turn off start menu ads.
Some Microsoft-developed Windows 10 apps also have ads and yes there's guidelines available on how to get rid of them.

It seems that many MS customers have spoken, and they think MS's approach to ads sucks. And we will continue to complain about that, even if those ads don't match your strange definition of what an as is or should be.
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that constantly vomiting BS into twitter will erode its value as a source of material information.

Anybody that makes a giant investment decision based on a Musk tweet now is certifiable.