skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”No, this is a terrible (but surprisingly common) argument. ”

Well I don’t know it’s a terrible argument. You confirmed that there is a cost floor. This does create a perverse incentive. Whether it is or any consequence is another matter.

If the perverse incentive is pushing insurance companies to have their costs go up depends entirely on the market conditions, I.e what are typical profit margins w/out ACA and what are the cost of market entry. there could be an equilibrium where insurance companies want their costs to go up.

There is another equilibrium where the allowed profits are far above and therefore ACA limits are meaningless.

Now, you can argue that we’re in the competitive operating regime. Fine. But give me numbers And citations, not adjectives!
> If you lose revenue because google shows a few sentences of the introduction your content is not worth it to readers

Arguably the very fact that Google finds it worth to display content on the search result proves the contents value. Why show it if it’s worthless ?

I agree on the pricing of subscription, but it doesn’t justify Google acting as a middleman.
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Everyone expected that.
One reasonable principle is that laws ought to reduce harm.

That is a bit glib, but so is your bald assertion that states ought to be concerned only with principle. It is neither part of our legal tradition nor even a plausible interpretation of the foundational ideas of most currently constituted governments.

I see where you are coming from, but I don't know that, as humans currently understand things, your argument really has traction on reality.
The ISS doesn't have a heat budget anywhere close to that of a reactor core, you'd need to carry a much larger radiator construction, just for this job. Extra cores cost way less weight.
The directive works just fine. From the perspective of the EU commission it's perfectly fine not to scrap any content of other creators and not to make it available for free. It merely states that if you scrap content from other companies, then you have to pay for the content.

The purpose of this regulation is to protect the companies and journalists who actually assemble and write the news against a predatory business model.
> "By pure rational thought many young men have accepted to treat women like equal human beeings"

You make it sound as though men have never considered women as equal human beings until some recent enlightenment. I find this world view to be absolutely apalling, and arrogant. You're denying a history where the vast, vast majority of relationships between men and women (eg. marriages) were cooperative, reciprocal, and built upon a foundation of mutual respect.

> "The thing we aim for as a society here is defintly worth it (I could experience for myself how amazing a relationship of equals between man and woman can be)"

A relationship of equals betwen a man and a woman is not some novel new concept we should aspire to, it is completely normal and has been for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
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I am not a mind reader dang. Just trying to offer some perspective in a way that is received rather than TL;DRed.

When people are under you, or depend on you for a recommendation or a grade, you could come into work one day and say, "From this day forward, I am Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise.", and this would be met with a chorus of "Aye aye, captain!"

After the power relationship is dissolved, then the mileage may vary.
Good list. I’ve just met some boot camp grads at their graduation demo day sort of thing, and I think a lot of this would apply to them.

They all called themselves full-stack, but the author is right, this is spreading themselves far too thinly given the amount of knowledge and experience they actually have. Instead pitching themselves as “frontend focused with some backend Node experience” would be far more convincing to me when hiring.

One thing that bothered me was that they all called themselves a “Junior Software Engineer”. Technically this is sort of wrong, as none have been employed and so don’t yet have a title. For practical purposes I understand wanting to have a title to pitch yourself as, but I don’t think anyone is a Junior after 3 months of training. After 3 years at university, or 1-3 years in industry (depending on candidate and environment), I can see Junior being an appropriate level. I wonder if “apprentice” is a better level for them to call themselves.

Maybe boot camps should be encouraging that title, and maybe even helping companies develop progression plans. I’m skeptical about hiring a boot camp grad straight out of a program because of how long it may take them to become productive. If the program provided a sort of roadmap, with further skills development, I can imagine being more interested as there might be less uncertainty. That’s not to say we couldn’t develop this roadmap ourselves with the candidate, but the boot camp providing it may help pitch candidates to employers.
Their test setup isn't realistic at all and looks more like a way to make the article sound interesting. Several big errors:

- They are testing a handheld radio that receives a single SDR signal. In reality a plane has two separate radios (different antenna locations) receiving a signal from a powerful antenna array at the end of the runway, that you try to squeeze your SDR signal in between. So the real attack is far different from their test setup, because you're going to have several conflicting signals instead of only one that they calculate in the test.

- If you overpower the real signal, which needs a really strong transmitter, the monitoring equipment at the airport will easily detect it. That alerts the tower and they will not allow a plane to use the approach. This monitoring is even in place in simple en-route navigation beacons (VORs)

- They claim to be able to make a plane land short of the runway, but every ILS approach has an altitude check by the pilots that's independent of the ILS signal. It works by checking the altitude based on air pressure (not spoofable) at a specific location (based on a system separate from ILS, usually DME or GPS) to the altitude at which the ILS puts the plane. If the two don't match, the pilots will break-off the approach. That check is not a nice to have, if you skip it at a flight-test (every 6 months) you would fail.

- Their calculation needs to know where the plane really is. That's easy to pull from the API of X-Plane (the hobby computer game they use as their simulator) but you don't know in the real world, unless you can see the plane. If you can see the plane, the pilots can see the runway and they're not going to be flying a CAT II or CAT III approach.

They also claim that no system exists to counteract this, but aircraft GPS systems all have mandatory error checking. If you fake a GPS signal, the receiver will compare it to the other signals and either ignore the fake signal (just like it will ignore a faulty satellite) or if not possible to calculate a correct position refuse to fly the approach.

Another alternative already available for years is MLS (microwave landing system), that has a digital signal to tell the plane its position relative to the runway. You cannot fake that without making it obvious to the receiver that you have two conflicting signals and again refusing to fly the approach.

A DoS attack on airplane landing systems is absolutely possible by jamming either ILS, MLS or GPS signals. But making an airliner land next to the runway is really not as easy as this article makes it sound.
He’s dark skinned. Not really blue. His depiction as blue skinned is more symbolic
> Edit: I just noticed that Stephenson gives GPS fixes to absurd precision (10 microarcminutes, or about 1.6 cm—on the ocean with a civilian GPS receiver in 1996, before GPS Selective Availability was turned off).

It would seem GPS Selective Availability has been disabled since 2000 [0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Globa...
I... Wouldn't quite jump to that.
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> - Why were you selected for the team and who selected you? - What were the biggest challenges the team faced? - How did you measure you were doing the right thing and you did good work?

So much opportunity for confabulation here. It is ENTIRELY possible to have the brain come up with faux-rationalisations and half-truths. We're literally wired for it. You'll end up biasing towards people who can accurately discern what you're optimising for and mould their words to suit.
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Safari tried to freeze their user agent a while back, but if I remember correctly they backpedalled on their decision almost immediately.
I'm not Polish but I've spent a fair bit of time in Warsaw and I'd say the majority of people there are fine with it too - I mean, they complain but I wouldn't say they're actively opposed either. I do genuinely wonder if it might be a generational thing - I've noticed some of the older population aren't quite as happy.
No, not even close. Just like in Spain, where they passed a law forbidding publishers to allow google to show snippets for free.
Those impressions are not from the search site but come into play once people click on a link. Google has an incentive to have people click on links. Including news sites. Especially news sites that come with tons of ads.

Let's say I blog about topics a lot of other people blog about. Let's say there was a Google Blogs. I would want Google to post a relevant snippet of my blog post to help me stand out from all the other links. And Google would happily comply, because this makes those who bought ads that now get displayed on my blog happy, and Google can charge them more money.

I'd say I would have to have a very twisted and self absorbed mindset to believe that Google is stealing from me for posting a relevant excerpt from my blog. But maybe that's just me.
Some companies are perfectly happy to take dumb money. It’s still money.
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This is great.
And by following VCs they gave VC backed start-ups a nice alternative to cash out in case IPOs don't look promising enough. I could imagine some VCs are considering that already.
> Executive pay is high because of the risk that your values will not line up with the board's values at some point in the near future and hence you'll be summarily fired

Lots of people live with that risk every day and get paid peanuts.
In my opinion, this is a great book on stoicism: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/1522...
What likely happens is that since the country variable is basically random, you will get a model where the country has negligible effect on the prediction.
If that was their purpose, then they failed miserably. At least they'll find that out soon enough, as page views to those news sites are almost certainly going to plummet. And when they do it will be even more clear that Googles "predatory business model" was helping get these journalists and companies views.
The pins are there actually, just not on the cartridge side.

The little expansion slot under the NES has these and other pins. Some of the pins are electrical shorts with pins on the cartridge side.

So to play Japanese games with full audio all you’d need is an expansion cartridge selectively shorting the pins on that expansion port.
They didn't achieve the goals.

> “The negotiations were difficult, but what counts in the end is that we have a fair and balanced result that is fit for a digital Europe,” said European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip. “The freedoms and rights enjoyed by internet users today will be enhanced, our creators will be better remunerated for their work, and the internet economy will have clearer rules for operating and thriving.” The bill is expected to be formally approved by mid-April, after which European Union governments will have two years to include it in their national laws.

Take the claims one by one:

> The freedoms and rights enjoyed by internet users today will be enhanced

I'm not sure what freedom or right was enhanced. Maybe the rights of publishers not to have their content seen by users? But certainly the freedom and right of a news consumer in France was harmed as they have less access to news in a convenient fashion.

> our creators will be better remunerated for their work

This clearly didn't happen. Maybe people will click more, but Google is said to have performed experiments and found that not showing the text leads to a 45% decline in traffic to the website. Yes, they are likely bias and it might be a ruse, but considering how much internet giants focus on providing the least amount of friction and latency to users, I believe the sentiment is correct.

> and the internet economy will have clearer rules for operating and thriving

This is an odd claim because some smaller internet companies got exemptions and there was some horse trading with gas. Doesn't seem any clearer to assert publisher rights based on a case by case basis

> The deal was made possible after France and Germany proposed a compromise last week, giving smaller internet companies some exemptions from the rules. The compromise coincided with a separate deal in which France agreed to support Germany on a natural-gas pipeline with Russia, according to officials in Brussels and Berlin.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-union-agrees-to-new-co...
This is one of the projects that go a step too far for me in terms of minimalism. No bookmarks, what? No, we don't need complicated bookmarking with tagging etc., but what's wrong about having a text file with one URL per line, like qutebrowser does?

And without JavaScript this browser has even fewer features than suckless' surf, the browser that doesn't even come with an address bar. To be quite honest I would love to be able to surf the web without JS, but nowadays the amount of websites still working with that restriction just isn't enough.
> We still want something that's bad for us, so alcohol is the exception for historical reasons, but for (probably misguided) utilitarian reasons, we don't allow all sorts of drugs.

Our reasons for prohibition of certain drugs over others are far from utilitarian. If anything, they're anti-utilitarian. Compare the motivations for the 18th and for the 21st amendment.
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Interesting. This probably exists already in one form or another, but it could also be good opportunity for a major startup. "Netflix for news" - premium access to the best articles from the best newspapers and news agencies, with sophisticated A.I. powered recommendation system, custom content subscriptions, instant access wherever you are.
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>Showing vulnerability is a way to develop rapport and connection with other people.

Also a way for people to attack you. A vulnerability is always a weakness, it's the definition of vulnerability.
You are talking about faking a vulnerability, a social technique so old that is in Sun Tsu's "The Art of War".
Hang on, the issue you have with copyright claims is made far worse by EU law..
My family is from Israel, we recently visited Athens. We have excellent tap water in Israel, and we only drink water at home. No soft drinks and very little juices.

The tap was in Athens was, for us, extremely good tasting. We found ourselves constantly drinking the water, it was actually a treat to drink. We found it far better than either our own tap water, or the bottled water (Ein Gedi) that we bring with us when camping.
Wag could actually deliver value by charging for finding competent and vetted dog-walkers, so customers would be paying for all the background checks, etc. Instead, they're just a shitty rent-seeking gig economy startup.
I really like the maps this generates. For me, plausibility is really important when creating any fictional map, because it's possible to create a map that looks beautiful but depicts a place that doesn't really make sense even with fantasy elements incorporated.

The color scheme of the political map is highly distinctive but feels cohesive. There's a decent phonetic/orthographic consistency in the naming within a state. The religions layer doesn't feel particularly integrated with the political one, for instance I found a theocracy without an organized religion.

The geography is also pretty good. Rivers are one of the telltale signs of poor fantasy map building, but this makes pretty believable rivers, though I did find a case of an inland sea draining into itself. It's good the mountains form ranges, but it would be interesting to have some more evidence of volcanism. I found one map with a huge area filled with mountains in an unrealistic way but I had a fun time imagining how it may have gotten that way in a fantasy world.

I really like that it has some climate generation and I'd love to see more, things like prevailing winds, winter/summer variation, and more of a Köppen climate classification[0] than the biomes currently listed, but I know this is a fantasy map generator and those require parameterizing more the nature of the planet being mapped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Köppen_climate_classification
12th or 13th century chivalrous poetry from South of France was still full of feelings and what have you, and a little earlier the Arthur-related stories were not void of feelings either. I personally blame the “Protestant ethic”, for lack of a better name, which started culturally imposing itself starting with the mid-1600s in England and present-day Netherlands (in the early 1600s a guy like Shakespeare was still not afraid to share his feelings in his Sonnets).
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This condescending comment ("whatever negative things happen to you", "more complicated than that, dear") ignores at decades of research in sociology, critical theory and political philosophy - which, at the very least, say that concerns about the effects of gender in the structure of society cannot be so easily dismissed.

>but rather with one single factor-- some ethereal 00.00001% group of conspiratorial, ostensibly straight white old men

This is not what "patriarchy" or "the patriarchy" refers to in any academic text. What you're saying is more akin to an anti-male conspiracy theory. The claim is not that there is a group of conspiratorial men in charge, or even men with bad intentions. You can read the most rudimentary details of the theory at Wikipedia[0] or at the highly regarded Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[1].

I'm not a strict adherent to the theory myself, but I think it's worth pointing out when a claim as to what the word means and what the theorists say is obviously wrong.

(Side note: it's curious how my comment, in line with current research and citing respected sources, is downvoted by people who don't bother to engage with the arguments themselves.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-power/
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This blog is amazing as well:

https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/

The latest entry is about the mentioned map generator by the way. Make sure to check earlier ones!
There's robots.txt to prevent that and Google will respect that.
It’s really just a simple supply and demand curve. A certain number of people have a demand for particular publications at a price of $0, and a significantly smaller groups of people have a demand for those publications at any price greater than $0.

> The public needs to be educated enough to differentiate good journalism from bad journalism, so that they reward the good journalism and not reward the bad.

This just sounds mightily smug to me. People like things that you don’t think they should like, but if only they were as educated as you are, they would share your correct tastes and world view?
The paper has nothing to do with their sex but rather about their resistance to arsenic.

Nematodes often exhibit hermaphroditism, which isn’t exactly a third sex since hermaphrodites have both male and female gonads they still have binary sexual reproduction just with themselves and when reproducing with a male or a female sexually they would act as a female or a male respectively during reproduction.

As far as sexual reproduction goes this isn’t 3 sexes that require each other to reproduce or 3 distinct sexes that can reproduce with each other individually.
Thanks for the advice, I'll use another phrasing from now on.

I don't want to convince skeptics. I want people who are aware of the situation to take actions themselves, and ask for actions from others, be it their representatives, local politicians, family, local associations, etc.
> But that's literally what a vulnerability is: a weakness.

There is a concerted effort at social engineering so powerful that now the very word meanings are challenged. Vulnerability is always, unequivocally a weakness. It's the very definition of the word.

Redefining vulnerability as strength is exactly 1984's Doublespeak.
Content creators get click throughs. And while I’m not sure if this is specific to me in the UK, news.google.co.uk has no ads.

Google News presents an aggregated view of online news. Because of Google’s reach, news.google gets a lot of page views and results in a lot of click-throughs to the actual publisher. Facebook is a similar source of traffic although that’s driven by social sharing. In both cases, publishers benefit a lot assuming they can monetise those page views.

I’m not a big fan of Google but Google News isn’t the “bad guy” here.
It's a meme right now that men, as a group, need to be more in touch with their emotions or should express their emotions better, or some variation of the fact. Basically the comparison is drawn to women with the subtext that women are doing it right and men should follow. Has anyone actually asked if that is in fact true? For example, the "strong silent type" (i.e. stoicism) is a an archetype across cultures and maybe for some (or most) men that is the better path forward for their mental well-being.
I've heard this called orthorexia instead of anorexia. I hope you're doing better :)
>Absence of evidence is no evidence of absence.

No shit. But at this point it’s pretty safe to not waste money building anti-aircraft guns to shoot down flying reindeer.
That's why alcohol is an exception.
Good point, yet I'd love to seem a bit more vegetation planted.

I'm only worried about how to make it proper (so not to disrupt the current ecosystem nor create too many cobra effects)
There is no question that executives do important stuff in the company. I've observed on several occasions their decisions that almost failed the company and the ones that succeeded and almost decimated much more experienced and rich competitors. The questions is - should they be payed x50 to x500 of the median yearly wage of the regular and senior staff in their own company? Their work may be x50 more important (debatable but possible) but it is definitely not x50 times harder, it is not even x10 times harder, it is at most x2-x3 times harder and slightly different. Question number 2 is - should they have almost complete financial and reputational immunity for their "bad" actions and decisions? (unlike regular staff)
Less clicks. Much less. It's exactly what happened in Germany. They "won" and then saw their Google click-through rate plummet, which was a significant % of their click-throughs.
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