skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly have no idea what point you're trying to make here :(

> your vote has always larger weight in society than your union membership.

Yes, but the next step in your logical deduction is flawed because union membership does not necessarily dilute the power of your vote to signal other preferences (at least in countries with secret ballots and no proxy voting).

You're comparing these two things as if there's some sort of trade-off or mutual exclusivity. There isn't, especially in countries where politics is dominated by two parties such as the USA.

Here's how those mechanics tend to play out in the USA. A union voter leverages their union membership to make kings in the primaries. Then, after winnowing the field to a list of candidates who exclusively support their union's major priorities, union members are free to use their vote to exercise preference on other issues. That's not hypothetical -- it's exactly what happens in most US states with strong public sector LEO unions.

> But membership in these associations doesn't "add up" to more power

But this is obviously false when broadened to include all associations.

Politics in literally every modern democracy is dominated by associations called political parties. That's not an accident, and it's not like that status quo happened without opposition. A lot of politicians in the history of democracy have attempted to limit the role of associations in democratic processes, and they mostly failed.

I don't really understand the argument you're making. Maybe your logical deductions are bulletproof, but in that case, there must be something wrong with your premises. Because hundreds of years of extraordinarily compelling empirical evidence contradict your final conclusion.

Large associations of voters really do have more power than the sum of their votes. Maybe not "theoretically", but certainly "actually" and "empirically".
Education is important but it doesn't have to be formal degree-oriented offered through what is effectively a cartel.

Education can and does come in a variety of ways. Expecting it to look exactly the same and work exactly the same for basically everyone doesn't make sense.

I'd love to see more of an emphasis around lifelong learning instead of demanding 18yo make lifetime decisions with near-zero life experience.
>I saw him run over forty several times, and it was not unusual for him to put a string together of twenty or thirty

They are almost certainly talking about 14:1 continuous which was far and away the most popular pocket billiards game in the 1930s,40s, and 50s.

40 is pretty good but great players regularly run over 100 and John Schmidt just ran 600+
There should also be more representation from far-left organizations.

See this article on how Google traffic to far-left sites dramatically dropped in 2017, due to Google deciding to promote "authoritative" content ahead of "alternative viewpoints":
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html

"Authoritative content" seems correlated with center-left in the US context, though the US center-left may be considered centrist or even center-right in some other countries.
I'm about to read up on Ron Kenet's book on Information Quality. I am truly curious how he addresses the history of the dimension discovery.

It seems to be that as we learn more about what it means to think less objectively-- our ability to see and understand more dimensionality to information quality expand.

Deterministic thinking is fine as a methodology for understanding aspects of object X, as long as it is does not resolve as absolute. This is why the practice of history is imperative, but a also slippery slope.
This is brilliant. I’d just love to see what this would look like.
EU aside, there must be brands brands that are distributed in Norway but not Sweden.
TL;DR: Shopify commits to spending at least $5 million USD annually to fight for our environment.

See also: https://www.shopify.com/about/environment
I know several underwater welders, and several more folks in training programs to become one. They are not daredevils. They tend to be very methodical, very careful professionals who are above average at evaluating risk. Daredevils are not tolerated, because daredevils either screw up (lots of money lost), get killed (lots of paperwork) or get someone else killed (bad).

They do seem to make a lot of money.
Americans drive around twice that much. The latest number I could find was 13,476 miles per year for the US.
Curious how it works on modern art like https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80103 (a solid blue painting)
well we're all sitting around here talking about WeWork and not the other million co-working spaces... so in way their plan worked.
It may be a crazy valuation but it's legitimate, someone paid money at that valuation.

House prices in X are crazy, but people will pay that, so that is a valuation.

Yes eventually the buyers and sellers will have to balance out, starting from a price someone has actually paid seems entirely reasonable though.

The IPO underwriters started off mentioning a $65bn valuation, most probably based on the $47bn previously paid.
Sorry, I mixed up my units, I meant "average of ~0.7kw per hour, for 6 hours, for a total of 4.2kwh per sunlight-day". That should get you 16 miles in climates like mine, or up to 20 miles in clearer/warmer weather.

That seems like a very realistic/feasible figure. (Lightyear One's claims their prototype car can pull almost 2kw per hour (7.5 miles of charge per hour), which at 6 hours, earns you 12kWh per sunlight-day)
That is a questionable interpretation. It means the 98% one lets twice as much air in, but it doesn't block twice as much wind because the amount of ambient wind remains constant.

To be more explicit, if there are 100 units of wind and one blocks 98 units, the other blocks 99 units. So one lets twice as much air in than the other, but I wouldn't consider that saying that one was 'twice as effective'. The relative improvement is (99-98)/98 ~ 1%.
Hey -- do you have an example? (I work on Search.)
Skilled trades are still a good idea in the UK. I estimated that experienced self employed electricians could probably pull in $80-120k per year excluding office costs at 80% utilisation.

It's not huge money, but once you start factoring in that tax is much better for the self employed, costs of living, commute time etc it does look like a good deal. Even if you discount the estimate by 1/3 it still compares very favourably to most white collar careers.
Yes. Mountains are as hard to find there as the Yeti.
If, even just once or twice a week, you park it somewhere where you can plug it in, the power you get from that will be far more than any panels on the roof. You can take the money you saved from not putting panels on the car, and put much larger panels on some roof or in a parking lot somewhere, where they will be always generating electricity.

This only really makes sense if you never have access to charging, and if that is the case an electric car is probably not a great fit for your lifestyle anyways.
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They don't buy them, I believe they lease them
https://genius.com/Willie-nelson-im-my-own-grandpa-lyrics
Very similar to Stripe. E.g. "Buying $1M of sequestered carbon annually at any price".

Background: https://news.shopify.com/we-need-to-talk-about-carbon
I tried to make a simple observation rather than an argument. Sorry it didn't come across that way.

There are many different forms of taxes. Income is the one we tend to look at. There are other methods to pay taxes. Most income taxes is paid by the wealthy but I'm not sure about the super wealthy. They end up with other forms of taxes such as what Zuckerberg was reported as paying several years ago (billions in more than one year).

There's a difference between looking at the overall tax picture and a small segment of it. In many cases the details of the high level and breakdowns are not easily available for people to read.
Yes, please -- or at least paste a few examples here (I work on Search.)
I, too, would pay upfront annually for something smaller than 500 GB.

$15/yr for 50?
> 10 B$

> low
I'm no fan of for profit boot camps, but also, we need to compare them to the alternative of 1/2 year CS or "data science" masters degrees from accredited universities:

- Cost: $$$ (50-100K or more)
- No job guarantee or any incentive for the school to help
- Lots of out of date material
- Faculty could care less (there to do research, teaching is a secondary job)
- Little career support (over worked job offices with 1-2 staff for 100s)
- Few connections in major tech hubs (typically)

I would claim these programs are more predatory than these accelerators. And that's saying something!

The fact is, if you want to transition to tech after doing a non-technical undergraduate degree, it is going to be hard and there's really no shortcuts. But who has money to do a second undergraduate degree?
The easiest way to slow traffic is to make the road narrower. If the sidewalk "bulged" into the road near the crossing it would probably help a lot.
If you have something important to say, don't say it in a paywalled publication
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Greta Thunberg has done her science homework
Yeah, it's not clear to me. Do the limitations of the Free tier still apply to open-source projects?

It may help to just add a third box up top for Open Source or something. I didn't think that there would be a totally different tier listed below in the FAQs.
My point is running desktop linux apps. My point is that it is NOT "optionally" but officially and encouraged.

Also your notion of chromebooks is about a decade out of date.
Solitary confinement is torture.
They didn't lose a paying reader.
The media blackout on Julian Assange's imprisonment

https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/t...
If this change is executed well, it will be a relief for original content creators such as myself. I am involved in researching and writing original content, and in recent years our articles keep getting buried by low-effort regurgitators who slightly rewrite our work, then rank above us because their version is newer. I've even bellyached about this on HN before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19766276

So, here's hoping Google succeeds in setting thing slightly straighter.
Thanks for that link. I wasn’t familiar with EDGAR enough to know you can sort by latest fillings. Really helpful.
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The way you make money as a welder is the same as every other trade

a) Be willing to do it in conditions nobody else wants to.

b) own a business and employ other people who do it.
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That's curious, you don't get the large info card (on the right, if on desktop/laptop)? That has a direct link to Wikipedia.
> Is this compatible out of the box with (most) modern web apps? Because that's the real value of Electron.

No it's not. It uses its own JS-like scripting language, and custom CSS 3 support.

A couple of months ago the author suggested on Reddit he might start working on an Electron alternative that used Node + Sciter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a8vkzm/scitern...
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I don't see any medical journal report, however there seem to be many people discussing the same online; just a quick search led to this Reddit thread that describes what I saw on my friends (i.e. damaged skin peeling off with healthy one underneath):

https://old.reddit.com/r/eczema/comments/6cci0h/infrared_sau...

I believe the "cold shower" mentioned later is necessary for any effect; my friends usually spend 1-2 minutes immersed in cold water after a heat cycle (arguably both improved blood circulation and immunity boost).
There exits and now there’s a new word “Techlash”
Do you maybe have some recommendations about good books on the topic?

(english or german)
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Just to give an anecdote - rsync.net has been in this business for a long time. From their own site:

> rsync.net began providing cloud storage for offsite backups in the fall of 2001, for our original corporate parent, JohnCompanies.

> In 2006, we became a stand-alone firm dedicated only to offsite backup. We provide this simple product and nothing else.

I set up rsync.net with a previous employer a decade ago and I am quite certain that all of the automation set up at that time is probably still functioning flawlessly.

Never had a single issue, it Just Worked from day one and provided us with off-site backups using trivial technology that took me scant minutes to set up.

It may not have the glitz of Amazon S3 and such, but the raw simplicity of the product + the stellar track record of the provider is very compelling.
I object to the labeling of Associates Degree programs as 'shitty'. In my experience, AS programs are just far more practicality oriented than academic BSs.

You want to learn how the math behind Dijkstra's algorithm works, get a BS. You want to learn how to build a network, get an AS.
For what it is worth, I'm pretty sure that Amazon is already doing this at their Amazon Fresh drive-up stores. When you drive up, a sign lights up to say that your order is coming soon. The experience degrades a little bit if you arrive in a car they've never seen before -- a human stops by your window with a tablet to check you in.
a lot of consumer goods have negative ROI and are still very successful products. people don't just buy things because they'll make/save money
>Why not just let people work, have a life, and contribute to society, rather than demanding they remain poor for the grave sin of having medical issues.

Because the US is a capitalist society which has an almost pathological revulsion for socialism and welfare in any form, where poverty is simply the result of you being too lazy to bootstrap yourself into wealth, and where healthcare isn't a right, but a privilege.
They meant <10TB, and were commenting on the fact that the range started with 0 when actually it starts at 500.
That's the problem with people, which I have noticed in my circle, they want to spend time self-learning skills but that skill doesn't guarantee income. Self-learning interviewing can increase your income significantly and people don't quantify it that way. Just a simple phone interview can instill confidence in your own abilities and increase your pay, or reduce stress by being able to figure out if a company will be a good/bad fit for you. If you interview enough you can figure out little nuances such as a micromanaging manager, a team that works late on Friday's and so on from a 5-minute conversation.
There's a liquidity issue as well. The shareholders could get zeroed out because the debt could call in before the leases and freeholds can be sold. There is good reason to think this is what will happen :

- transaction times for large property transactions are on the scale of months for prime property in good times

- wework has distorted the market with private capital potentially misallocated given the value reduction since softbank invested

- in many places that wework has invested there is significant growth in commercial property inventory; for example London. This is because the property boom in China has changed the cost of building large office buildings (builders have worked out how to throw up a 50 floor tower fast and cheap) and consequently many old 10 floor plots are now becoming 50 floor plots

If wework comes under pressure their assets may not only be over valued, they may find that it takes too long to find any buyers at all. In which case the assets belong to the banks.

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Most of them are rented not owned by weworks. WeWorks is in the business of subleasing.
Do you call wikileaks a journalistic enterprise? What journalism are they performing?

Letting people upload troves of information, and just dumping them to the public without going through and vetting them, isn't journalism in my book. He's a journalist in the same sense that a data breach dumped on pastebin is a news article.
Why is it written in French? Even if your English level is low, a poorly worded and incorrect English summary is better than one written in a foreign language. Also Google translate gives OK results.
I wouldn't really call these nitpicks. No offense to the author, but this is one of the worst articles I've read in a while...

> The previous part of this essay introduced a framework pioneered by known physicist Dr. Michio Kaku to evaluate consciousness in four different levels.
In Dr. Kaku’s theory, Level 0 consciousness describes organisms such as plants that evaluate their reality based on a handful of parameters such as temperature. Reptiles and insects exhibit Level 1 consciousness as they create models of the world using new parameters including space. Level 2 consciousness involves creating models of the world based on emotions and the relationship to other species. Mammals are the main group associated with Level 2 consciousness. Finally, we have humans that can be classified at Level 3 consciousness based on models of the world that involve simulations of the future.

This entire excerpt could be removed and the article would only be improved. He's just restating the past couple paragraphs! I spent far too long reading before the author made his points and ultimately I just decided to give up half way through
The fact that some things are getting better doesn't change that others are simultaneously bad, or that things could maybe be more better if resource allocation wasn't so drastically unbalanced.

I seem to have severely underestimated the ability of HN readers to see basic economic data that's both well known and easy to look up like the rate at which the wealth of different demographics is changing as uncontroversial, which is...well, it's a thing.
Could you explain what you mean by "selling pretty well"?

It seems they shipped a few prototypes…
Paywalled. Smooth.
Pierre Lagrange: ‘What I’ve done is disruption with respect'
can you explain what "scoring with carom" means? I googled for 10 minutes and didn't fully understand it.
Fair enough, my mistake. I wouldn't say that fundamentally changes their business model though.
Wow, much cheaper than it used to be. I left them as a customer some years back purely based on price, but now I'd consider moving back. Other than being undercut by AWS (now also GCP) they were great.
I work at a company that does heavy manufacturing. They're begging for welders. They only accept something like 30% of applicants, I hear drugs is a big problem with applicants. They thing is that you don't even need to know how to weld, they'll train you. They put you through their training program and eventually you'll be welding for them. And the type of welding they do isn't small scale thing but really heavy duty thick sheets of steel. And here's the kicker, their pay is terrible. Which is why they're constantly begging for more people to train.They totally know that they're basically the guys that train all the welders in the area. People come in to learn the ropes then about 2 years later or so they get a job down the street making a lot more. I'm not a business guy but I guess it works for the company because they've been going for a very long time and still growing. I guess it's cheaper for them to constantly be training than it is to retain their welders.
A better solution would probably be to revoke driving privileges of anyone caught speeding in these areas. Make it very public that this is what will happen. Then do it. I'm sick of irresponsible drivers. If you speed on the railway you could go to prison and never be a driver again. Similar for pilots.
So forced summer camp, vegan diets, nepotism and all the other weird stuff they put their employees through is just them being ahead of the times?
I guess I was referring to the quote that was posted, which certainly seemed to lump WeWork in with tech IPO's.
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> They haven't been able to dominate their market (office space) in the same way that Google owns search or Airbnb owns home rentals.

I disagree. First of all, WeWork's market isn't really 'office space', it's short-term, flexible, furnished office space, and in the sense of "market domination" I think WeWork is very similar to AirBnB in that regard. That is, while they both have strong competitors who predate them (e.g. Expedia/VRBO and Booking.com both have huge short-term rental businesses), they both certainly lead in the "mindshare" of their particular markets.

The main difference is just that the economics of AirBnB's model (they neither own nor lease any real estate for rent) is much more profitable than WeWork's.
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I’m a little grossed out, but also impressed.
As far as I can tell, he's mixing units (or scales?). Here's my version.

At 95% certainty, you have 95 people saying "yes" and 5 people saying "no."
At 99% certainty, you have 99 people saying "yes" and 1 person saying "no."

While that is 5x improvement in uncertainity, it's also only 4 more people, a 4.21% improvement in overall "yes" count.

I can't see how comparing an N in 20 number to an N in 100 number makes sense. IANAS.
What do SSH x.509 certs do that DNSSEC doesn't? Sure, I'll bite:

* They put authentication to your SSH servers entirely under your own control, without escrowing keys to the operators of the TLDs.

* They're deployable independently, without enrolling all of the rest of your infrastructure into DNSSEC and all its unreliability and complexity.

* They integrate with IDPs, so that users can get short-duration authenticators based on MFA logins, without storing long-lived secrets on their machines.

SSH X.509 certificates have nothing to do with the web PKI, other than that they use the same encoding. Engineering orgs that use SSH CAs run their own CAs. That's the point.

Happy to have helped!
I would ask the documentation fairy to decompose the code in a way that obviates the need for external documentation.
You can get health insurance without being employed! Or check out the “healthcare cost-sharing” groups like Sedera - it’s great for freelancers.
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Could you share an example blog created with it, preferably one with some standard features like embedded email signup forms and social media sharing?

The first thing I wondered on the site was, "Can I embed HTML snippets into it?"
Today. The policy decisions we are talking about were made decades ago, when nuclear was an established (although young) industry, are renewables were decades away from being viable.

The damage is done. Building nuclear now won't fix it. But with the benifit of hindsight (and the benifit of arguing for the counterfactual), but strangling nuclear power decades ago was a regulatory mistake with literally disasterous consequences.
they're not profitable and never will be
> I don't think I've ever heard anybody say "the velocity of light." I wonder where that came from.

Most likely, it’s a form of linguistic hypercorrection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection
> Taxation is theft.

Companies can't even have a decent financial system without government.

Not to mention that society can't function without systems to organise on a large scale. We've long passed the era of small settlements, when millions of people come together they need to be supported in many ways otherwise chaos ensues.
I think this is a pretty good discussion: https://youtu.be/piHkfmeU7Wo Christof Koch: Consciousness | MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast