skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strikes me as one of those things where the polled results vary drastically depending on how the question is asked.

The border situation (between whatever countries) is affected by globalization and communication, including the creation of the internet. When people realize how much better they can have it elsewhere (which is much easier to realize than it used to be), it creates more demand to move. But this results in a spike of demand that will normalize over time.

And this is because other effects of globalization have already started to normalize the differences between countries. For instance, it's not as cheap to offshore as it used to be, and that trend will continue. Human rights are increasing in other countries at a faster rate than they used to, just from the greater visibility of the rights people enjoy in other countries.

If we're all lucky, most of the normalization will be that other less advanced countries will improve, rather than other countries degrading - like hopefully we can all "grow" enough fast enough that it'll lift those boats, rather than sink the boats in the more societally/technologically advanced countries.

And that fear that "them getting ahead" might mean that "we will fall behind" is basically what drives the demand to "protect" our borders, even while generally people are in favor of everyone having a better life.

So I think it's totally possible for a majority of the country to be in favor of more open borders over time, while also being against entirely opening all our borders tomorrow.
Wow.

20,000 granted asylum to the US in 2016.

70,000 granted asylum to Sweden in 2016.
You really aren't making the point you think you are. We are talking about a drug discovered (Poland) more than 100 years ago, isolated (Japan) more than 100 years ago, synthesized (England, Germany) more than 100 years ago. Then wrapped in a device basically developed by the US army in the 1970s. So how does letting an mostly uninvolved private US company set prices arbitrarily lead to more of this sort of development? For completeness, I'll note Merck did real work in improving the delivery mechanism (after a couple of recalls), but the heavy lifting was as above. Merck is of course German, not US, but it went through one or two US companies before landing there, if I recall correctly, and then Mylan acquired marketing rights in the US. Without new development, Mylan ran the price up about 6x over the 2009-2016 years (to a margin of about 95%) , which is what caused all the pricing fuss.

More generally, while I know what you are getting at you have to be careful with this sort of statement "this is the only way to do the drug development" is a pharma industry talking point but it is largely bullshit (although not entirely, the model run in the US does make it quite expensive and that can't be fully supported the way it is on, say, generics pricing).

It is true that the US is more productive in this space per capita than most places (but not as much as many think) , but it is really difficult to determine if this is primarily due to fundamental capacity, or due to financial incentives...
Sure - but Apple doesn’t control Google’s business model any more than I do.

I dislike Google’s business model but I use google search amongst others because they have a monopoly.

If a competitor arose that Apple’s customers were happy with, I’m sure they’d prefer to choose a different company.
It's not the buildings that are a problem, it's the people running them. That's either the owners for private prisons or the prison guard union for public prisons. If you say "private prisons are bad for <these reasons>" but there's just as many problems (and mostly the same) with public prisons, then focusing your hate on private prisons isn't working on the real problem. The legislature sets the standards for both and could actually fix the situation, they have both the responsibility and the power to do so.
Do you mean U+1F604? (HN won't render emoji) https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-open-mouth-and-smil...

:-) has nearly none of the issues that the emojis have, as it is static, displays nearly the same on all devices, and is not corporate-controlled.
No we cite the entire OECD except America each of which rank higher in healthcare quality by WHO standards and cost at most half as much. It’s like a poor student saying “just because I’m the bottom of my class doesn’t make me dumb” — in a way, no but in a much more relevant and important way, definitely. It shows relative to your peers you suck at the task at hand.

It comes down to this debate because the pro market people offer zero solutions other than staying the course and the course is straight down. Offer something better.
I mean, C's attack surface is like that of activated charcoal. I'm not sure that C's small standard library gives it a smaller attack surface, specifically because it means programmers who have better things to do are forced to reinvent the wheel, poorly [1]. But mostly, because C's lack of guardrails means it takes active effort on even trivial operations to be safe.

I've been working with it for nearly two decades, and every year I think more that C programs should be confined to a well-guarded quarantined area with hazard trefoils and a "beware of the leopard" sign.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

edit: people reimplementing their "safe" string library isn't something to brag about, but be ashamed of our entire industry for.
It's frustrating that most reform and change is happening at the state level. It just means a completely fractured political environment where some states are progressive around data and prisons, whereas others are regressive. As a company, how do you even enforce things like privacy standards at a state level instead of national? Seems like a terribly complicated and inefficient system.
Except it is using Gollum, which isn't all that great. I think the only positive is tab integration. I prefer the GitHub or GitLab Pages approach.
Countries should not remain the same. Stealing all this land from California to Texas from Mexico was absolutely not about leaving the country the same. Expelling the Latinos from there was certainly not about conservation of the then current state of affairs, it was a social adventure.

Moreover the US actually had more or less open borders for a long time, calling into some kind of date at which its society should be preserved at is a little bit arbitrary.
What happens when the tax liens outweigh the value of the property?
When I was at Oia, for sunset as well, there was someone who almost fell off one of the main spots people go as he was taking a selfie with a selfie stick, a girl who peed off the edge (with her friends laughing her on), etc.

Even on Santorini, which is tiny, I was able to find nice places that weren't completely crowded.
1. Use discriminated union types: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types.... - TypeScript these days sticks with the runtime semantics of JavaScript, and discriminated unions are a very natural way to express algebraic data types in JS.

2. Use https://github.com/YousefED/typescript-json-schema to generate a JSON schema, then use a json schema validator to do runtime validation. That's how https://github.com/Polymer/tachometer handles config file parsing and it works very well.
Submitted many times, but only https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10077471 had comments, only two.
You're mistaken about borders being some kind of fact of human nature, and you're mistaken about different countries having some kind of fundamental "different cultures".

Nation states are an invention of the last few hundred years. Before that, kingdoms had borders between the lands they controlled militarily, and while they would certainly stop an invading army, they didn't have the administrative capacity or desire to stop small scale migration of individuals.

Historically, the culture and language of people living on the Baltic in what is now Germany would certainly differ greatly from the language and culture of people living on the Mediterranean in what is now France. But there was not some magic dividing line between those 2 points, between "the French" and "the Germans". People living around what is now the border of France and Germany would have had a very similar culture and spoken a very similar language.

In the last few hundred years, with the help of such technologies as the telegraph, the railroad, and the radio, nation-building rulers enforced speaking of the Parisian dialect in what is now France, and the Bavarian dialect in what is now Germany. They also created a lot of propaganda and myths about their "national culture" and invented far-fetched stories about the greatness of their national ancestors. In Germany's case, this went way too far and had disastrous results. The French national myths were much more benign, mostly centering around arrogance about cheese.
Bit Tripper: Generative Typography Using a GAN
If I'm allowed to ask "What should we do about the Jewish Question" in a manner that appears civil, it's still not a civil discussion, regardless of the tone. If someone responds "don't you dare ask the Jewish Question," they aren't at fault for the lack of civility; the premise of the question was deeply uncivil.

Contextually, if someone on HN is asking "what should we do about the prisoners?" about people detained by ICE, the premise of the comment is uncivil. They are not prisoners, they have committed no crime (even by the standards of US law), and they are being held in deeply inhumane conditions. By any reasonable moral standard, the question is not "what should we do about the prisoners", but "how should we free people who are inhumanely detained." Allowing such an uncivil premise while banning emotional responses only reinforces the view that these people have committed some crime, and that they somehow 'deserve' the abhorrent treatment.

Furthermore, "concentration camp" has never meant "death camp", as many people seem to assume. I don't understand how it is incendiary to state they are concentration camps, when they largely meet the standards of a concentration camp.

I don't expect my posts to help these people, but I also refuse to remain silent about their inhumane treatment. If you still think this is inappropriate, I accept my ban, but I ask that you consider banning posts with such uncivil premises as well, even if they are written in an inoffensive tone.
Absolutely, this is something I've been saying for ages.

People from upper middle and upper-class families know what it takes to land a prestigious job at the banks / law firms / consulting firms / etc. Chances are they themselves work at such firms, or that family members / friends do.

Kids naturally want to do what their parents or other mentors do, so they get exposure to those professions early on, just by association.

The parents will start investing early on, and depending on where you live, it can start already at pre-school age. Sounds ridiculous, but that's how it is in some circles.

So by the time they're 13, they know how important grades are, along with the correct extracurricular activities. Everything is laid out for the kids to succeed and maximize their chance at top schools - which in turn feeds them into the professional world.

I'm from a very rural place myself, where like 5% of my HS class went college or university - and it could go years between students that went to prestigious schools, and even less that joined the ranks of investment banks, HF, PE, management consulting firms, biglaw or boutiques, etc.

By luck I got in touch with a good mentor that had worked in high-finance for years, and had the same type of background as me. His advice was for me to play the "country boy from nowhere, trying to make it big in the city" image, because it was so removed from the homogeneous mass you'd see in the financial district.

Firms love to prop up people like that for PR and hiring.

"Look at us, our hiring is so diverse and inclusive - here's our analyst form a third-world country, here's our minority, here's our first gen college grad! ...But never mind that 80% of our hires share the same socio-economic background..."

When I got accepted into a top school which feeds students into finance and consulting, I immediately noticed that the majority of kids came from the same wealthy areas. Had to forego a ton of off-campus student activities, because I couldn't cough up hundreds to thousands of bucks for skiing trips at luxury resorts, sailing events, etc.
I find it interesting the most of the rhetoric could have been lifted from a XIII century religious tract.
Yeah if you were seeing ads for Cover then you’re already likely in someone’s “high propensity to buy insurance” list that ad bidding platforms use to target. Insurance companies usually deploy digital marketing capital fairly efficiently and hunt for people who are in the market for insurance. So once you clicked Cover’s ad then likely the ad platform tagged you and you ended up in target lists.

There’s a few other ways, like soft pulls against your credit report that usually flag you as interested in insurance. Some companies make it their business to know when your insurance expires. There’s lots of data brokers out there mixing data in a pretty invasive way that will get you into lists.
So, the problem would be better if our monkey brains were not wired to pursue, and to envy social monkey-status-seeking?

The USSR tried to build the New Soviet Man for only what, 70 years...
Isn't my proposal giving prisoners more choice? Right now they have no choice which prison they are sent to. Are you worried that some private prisons might engage in sleazy marketing, convince convicts to choose them, and then treat them like crap? That can easily be fixed by letting prisoners switch after a certain period of time. Heck, the law could be that anyone in a private prison can at any time choose to serve the rest of their sentence in a state prison. That would ensure a baseline of care.

Also, I think the point about lobbying proves too much. If lobbying is so much cheaper and more reliable than innovation, why don't all companies lobby instead of innovating? Apple has billions of dollars sitting around. Why don't they lobby to make the iPhone the sole phone used by federal employees? Heck, why don't they lobby to get rid of the new import tariffs affecting their products? I don't think companies leave $20 bills on the sidewalk, so lobbying must not be as effective as people like to believe.

I agree that lobbying is bad, but my objection to it is that the government is allowed to pass laws that coerce people in such ways, not that some companies take advantage of that power. Basically: hate the game, not the player.
this commit[0] might be what's referenced, and this[1] looks to be the test that Google runs (not sure if this is ran in CI, or only done anecdotally for when performance tests[2] show issues).

0: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/208f274e4bcb5174...

1: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/aut...

2: https://chromeperf.appspot.com/
Well that’s kind of my point. Tradies usually get paid during their apprenticeship so start life out properly.

Were you talking about hose who left at 16 and went straight into a trade? Still no need to pay through the nose to have a good life and be a solid citizen.
the large majority of small vehicles on the road there are now electric.

Maybe in some parts of China like Shenzhen that are mandating it, but gas powered cars are still outselling electric cars 25 to 1 in China, so it will be a long time before electric cars make up a majority.
They key difference is that health care clients want their services.

But while the exact rationale doesn't hold, there are inherent problems on competition and freedom of choice on health care that kinda break capitalism. There is also the rationale that one does want minimum health care coverage in a society, and a market is not able to provide that.
The epipen has been around since the 70s. Your telling me it cost so much to develop that they still need to charge 600$ each? that's ridiculous.

There's a reason it costs less in canada and the UK and it has nothing to do with R&D costs.
> Why Americans continue to willingly subject themselves to these torturous systems

They've been told socialized medicine is evil communist plot to steal their hard earned money. Many Americans have not been outside of the states and have no concept of what life in other countries might be like. There's a good percentage of Americans that are completely ignorant of how the rest of the world does things, and also dismiss this as inferior. They've been told their entire life that the US is the greatest country, so, why would we do it any other way?
> Dogmas are a disease… We should use the right tool for the problem.

It's bizarre to me how rare this stance is.

I understand disagreement over what exactly the "right tool" is, because these things are complex. But people who believe there is only one right tool for every job -- big government, small government, free markets, more regulation, whatever -- strike me as intellectually lazy.
I don’t think I was disagreeing with you...
I'm curious about where in Oslo you're talking about (I just lived there for 2 years).
For the lazy:

Pfaff is convinced that aggressive prosecution is the biggest cause of over-incarceration. His argument here is compelling. He notes that while incarceration rates began to climb in the 1980s as a response to rising crime, those trend lines continued through the Nineties, even though crime was steadily falling. Why did that happen? Examining all the relevant variables (crime reports, arrests, charges filed, and convictions), Pfaff found himself looking squarely at the prosecutor’s office. As less crime was reported, arrests dropped proportionately, and among those who were charged with a crime, conviction rates held steady. But prisons continued to fill, because prosecutors were filing felony charges against ever-growing percentages of their dwindling arrestees.

From https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2017/02/20/john-pfaf...
Every nation collects dirt on every other nation if they have the manpower and funds to do it. You can be sure there are British and French spies in the USA as well as the obvious Russian and Chinese ones. and Vice Versa as well of course.
That's a pretty interesting transition. Got a link to your story?
In order to help ensure that data gets filled out and we don't wind up with strays, we stopped allowing the null value for a version, so you can no longer indicate "unknown" as support level for a feature in BCD's data store. If you don't know the values, you can submit a patch but someone will have to add the missing data before it can be accepted, as it will fail the automated testing without data for every browser supported by the JSON.
What is this?

Here's an explanation of S-1 forms:

SEC Form S-1 is the initial registration form for new securities required by the SEC for public companies that are based in the U.S. Any security that meets the criteria must have an S-1 filing before shares can be listed on a national exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange.

More: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sec-form-s-1.asp
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I feel like we're overthinking this. Why not just present the court with renderings that would have been used in all devices in question?
No, that's how a free market is supposed to work but no one's ever seen a free market in the wild.
Menstruation apps are sending personal data – when last had sex – to Facebook
This letter is darkly hilarious, in a way I can't believe is intentional. In it, the president of MIT, who has previously disavowed knowledge of the university's acceptance of gifts from the accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, describes the progress report from a law firm contracted to determine who in the administration might have had knowledge of these gifts:

"First, the Goodwin Procter team has found a copy of a standard acknowledgment letter thanking Jeffrey Epstein for a gift to Seth Lloyd – as far as we know now, the first gift received at MIT after Epstein’s conviction. I apparently signed this letter on August 16, 2012, about six weeks into my presidency. Although I do not recall it, it does bear my signature."

Just a standard letter thanking a convicted sex offender, but now that you mention it, yes, it does seem to bear my signature. Moving on...

"Information shared with us last night also indicates that Epstein gifts were discussed at at least one of MIT’s regular senior team meetings, and I was present."

Yes, I suppose there was also a meeting (or possibly more than one) where the appropriateness of accepting gifts from that same sex offender were discussed, and now that you mention it, I suppose I was in attendance at at least one of them. But who's counting!

The tone of the letter reminds me of the recent McSweeney's article that was discussed here, in the form of a letter from management cheerfully explaining why they will be moving from an open office plan to "a towering panopticon": https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-open-plan-office-fai...

Although I also get echoes of that wonderful Donald Barthelme story about getting together to hang an old friend: "Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby for a long time, because of the way that he had been behaving. And now he'd gone too far, so we decided to hang him. Colby argued that just because he had gone too far (he did not deny that he had gone too far) did not mean that he should be subjected to hanging. Going too far, he said, was something everybody did sometimes. We didn't pay much attention to this argument. We asked him what sort of music he would like played at the hanging."

http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/gone.too.far
(linking to the copyrighted story on an MIT site, because why not)

Bring the popcorn, the MIT-Epstein story looks like it's just getting started!
Up to three now: https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1172260257613123608?...
To the MIT community, as I seriously fucked up here, but completely forgot about doing so until pointed out by external counsel, I hereby tender my resignation as president of MIT.
I use the Hoth theme in Slack and through it was pretty cute that they change the name of that theme to Dagobah in dark mode.
> the border of France and Germany, for example, is very real and those countries have different cultures.

You'd be hard-pressed to identify a more artificial border in Europe than that one (maybe the former Yugoslavia). Curious if you've ever been to Alsace-Lorraine, and if so why you think the culture there is distinctly French versus their German neighbors.
I thought this was a really good point, but it doesn't seem like the sort of prank that she'd make.

So I printed out "01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01110010 01101011". It took slightly longer than I recalled, but she read it again pretty much right away (and also responded asking if this was news to anyone).

I think this just goes into the totally useless superpowers category.
Any who builds a new language and doesn’t make pattern matching a big part of the language is seriously missing out.

It’s easily the #1 thing I miss syntax-wise after using Elixir/Erlang for any period of time.

Patterns fit perfectly with the typed and functional approach, especially with Maybe monads which are used everywhere in some apps.
Hopefully Norway thinks about other countries as highly as they think of Norway.

— sincerely, an Aussie who lived in Norway for 2 years, and protested against Statoil ('Equinor') trying to get oil off the southern coast of Australia.
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