skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI I'm pretty sure the vision fund dumped its entire stake in nvidia. Maybe they'll sell arm next.
It's a good question. The very concept of social contract theory doesn't really jibe with a purely voluntarist ethic. If somehow, every single member of a polity wants to secede, it's hard to find anything wrong with that; while if 50%+1 want to, that seems unjust to the remaining ~49%.

There are historical instances of peaceful, voluntary disassociation of democratic states; the "Velvet Divorce" between the Slovakia and the Czech Republic comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia

But suffice to say, it's an open question what threshold of popular support justifies something on the order of California seceding the union. Voluntary association (and disassociation) is merely an ideal to strive for, and we will always fall short of that ideal in the real world.
>There's the Mythopoetic men's movement for one.

Funny enough, that movement coined the term "toxic masculinity."
Trump also promoted the idea that Ted Cruz was born in Cuba.

Perhaps President Trump attacks all his political opponents equally - as strongly as possible?
Cell phone plans are the most annoying one for this; I remember at one point the advertised price for the plan I was on was $118 ($99 per line, plus $19 per additional line, I had 2 lines). The amount I actually payed was a bit over $165. The big 3 providers had different amounts of tacked-on fees and at one point I called up one of them to ask what my actual bill on a particular plan would be 3 times and got 3 different answers. This made it essentially impossible to price compare plans.
I live in central NJ. I buy bottled water because we notification about the local "city water" having some issue or another. I'd use tap water if it was safe.
Building a non-prod Angular project produces a 7 MB js file, so the 2 MB limit definitely needs to be raised. I think it would make sense to have a higher limit for certain file types, like js and html.

I am very interested in this feature, but the limit is a bit concerning right now.
My opinion was formed after reading more like that and realizing that it's a lot of circular reasoning: cursory observation of reality, assigning labels and, when labels doesn't fit reality, blaming reality instead of their own ability to use labels.
No! Plane tests must use bad pilots. They must use tired pilots. They must use pilots under stress.
Majority of Americans Don't Trust Mass Media, Why Does Google?
> which is that no one can give a bright-line rule[2] to distinguish between the "real" science and pseudo-science

"if you can't repeat and predict, stop calling it science" seems like a nice bright line.

Peer-review obviously isn't enough, I'd like to see peer-replicated studies become a thing.
Oh wow. My local news (CityTV Toronto, disclaimer—have done some work for them before) covers hyper local stuff like street closures, transit closures, major construction, other incidents and success stories as well as overs a range of national and global topics. It’s not bad that way at all.

Sadly a lot of smaller town local papers across Canada have been bought up by National Post much like Sinclair Media did with small TV stations in the USA. Some independents still persist but the numbers grow fewer...
I agree, useful site but the pop under windows are just annoying. They would put me off using the site again and I do think the site has value, just need to back off the spamming
And get paid far more than the average worker - Onasander
Good. Free market doesn't work when refusing to pay for the product costs you in health or even life.
My mom developed blue skin in reaction to a medication she was taking.

The doctor was so interested in her body's response he brought her in front of this university medical class. Apparently it's quite rare. It went away a week or so later.

(cant remember the name of the medication but it was certainly not a listed side effect).
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The point about strategy vs culture reminds me of an article on here yesterday about how cephalopods have neural subsystems for controlling each limb separately, and they obviously have attention and intent - but it's still impossible to say if they have 'consciousness' such as wee know it. Similarly, it can be hard to tell if companies are run by intent from a central place or it's mostly the enduring culture in the subdivisions that produce the actual results.
That reminds me of the so-called "active member discounts" on UK pensions. They're exploitative fees imposed on savers who have gone several months without paying in. The government banned them in some cases, but in other cases they're still legal.

"From 6 April 2016, 'active member discounts' are banned. This means you are not allowed to charge the pots of non-contributing members more than you would have if they were active members contributing to the scheme. Employers are still permitted to pay charges on behalf of active members so long as the total charge level imposed is the same for contributing and non-contributing members. ...The ban applies to non-contributing members where at least one contribution for them has been made to your scheme on or after 6 April 2016. The contribution needs to have been made while they worked for the employer who is using the scheme to comply with their automatic enrolment duties."
https://www.tpr.gov.uk/en/trustees/managing-dc-benefits/5-va...
All the game paks (aka cartridges) were manufactured by Nintendo. By selling a licensed game, they were already locked in.
Distilled water, particularly if heated, is dangerous to drink, according to some chemists I know.

The concept is that the ultra-pure water leaches potentially harmful ions from its surroundings, for example chromium from stainless steel fixtures. Better to drink some harmless sodium and chlorine ions.
Reminds me of something about a true crime case on TV.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-drawn-to-murder/2/

>But the plan went still further: at one point, police duped a newspaper reporter into writing a phony story saying an arrest was imminent. They even left a copy of Tim's mother's obituary on the windshield of a friend's truck.

>"That's torture," says Tim's former attorney, Erik Fischer. "They're trying to get this poor kid to relive his mother's death. They're trying to make him snap! It's a psychological experiment to try to make him snap!"
I think I've heard of that program.

"‘...Gordon’s great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the facts. The program’s task, which it was able to accomplish with consummate ease, was simply to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion.

‘And I have to say that it worked brilliantly. Gordon was able to buy himself a Porsche almost immediately despite being completely broke and a hopeless driver. Even his bank manager was unable to find fault with his reasoning. Even when Gordon wrote it off three weeks later.’"
Most likely it would be a very simple core without power throttling or control at all and will be used as a disposable booster and jettisoned once the acceleration phase is complete.

Another core can then be used for deceleration and disposed off as well before entering earth orbit where for the final orbital insertion a much smaller chemical rocket can be used.

Alternatively you don’t get back to earth at all but rather back to the moon where you could jettison the core even on the surface during final approach without giving much thought to radiation.

Then use moon to earth transit via chemical rockets.
That isn't how it works out. Normally the executive gets far less than his workers get. Remember, there are many workers.

When I divide the pay of Boeing's CEO by the number of Boeing workers, I get just $100 per year. I am confident that the typical worker earns far more than that. The CEO pay is insignificant. He could sacrifice his entire pay to give raises for the workers, and they wouldn't gain even 1%.

Clearly, that CEO's work is not considered "1000 times more valuable than the work those workers do".
While there is truth in the existence of that competition, it is also a fundamental mistake to believe this market is basically a meritocracy.

C-suite execs have something common with politicians that way. To wit, some of them get to the top by being very good at the things they do and having generally respected talent... but another path is to be good at campaigning.
Thanks for bringing up the non-techie example. Another bummer with the user generating keys, you can't validate a passphrase was used (or that a good one was used) when you just get a public key.
Think about other products that exist in the wild. Have you ever looked at something on a shelf, or in someone's hand, come to an understanding of what it is and what it does and then thought, "That's stupid. I don't need that. There are better options!" The thing is the person using it loves it , and it's solving a very specific problem for them, a problem you don't have.

It's the same thing here: you don't respect the product so you don't understand who would use it, so you don't buy it. That's fair enough.

But the MacPro is designed for a niche audience who are happy with the hardware, implementation, support, and so on. The things they're doing with this product are not things you're doing, so you don't understand their pain points.
Just give it a few years: drone-based dog walking.
>This is a joke right?

That's a really insulting way to answer a question.
When you have $1M to invest you have a ton of options. When you have $100B to invest, your options are more limited.
To your point, that same stigma about LGBT guys being weak, feminine, and emotional is one of the many factors that stops a lot of people from coming out too.
Of course, we can just as easily blame the FAA. If it's so hard to establish a differential training program then maybe the re-certification program the FAA requires (to certify a pilot to fly a slightly different aircraft) is too onerous. It's easy for the government to require too much work and seize up innovation, and I think we see that at work here. If the re-certification program wasn't so onerous, we could have seen Boeing put in some new warning conditions, or a better control layout that more clearly indicates the presence and activation of the MCAS, train pilots on that, and have a better, safer, airplane.
>Why would I want to try to resolve my issues within this gendered framework? Am I really primarily male? That seems like a forced choice to me.

It is a forced choice. The model of gender as a binary state rather than a spectrum is an obsolete and harmful social construct.
> When you have the responsibility of 1000's of people's livelihood, their paychecks rest on your hands - you don't think that's worth a heck of a lot more than an average worker?

No, this is absurd. Their paychecks don't simply rest only in the hands of the executive, but in the hands of the worker as well. I'll concede it's a more valuable position, but not 1000x or 100x or even 10x worth the value of the avg. line worker.

Taking it further, frankly most of the executives I've worked with aren't responsible at all. They're generally sociopaths as well!

The Gervais Principle holds.
That's bonkers.
Mineral Waters à La Carte
In Bali, Thailand and many other places in SE Asia, you can get water that comes from local treatment plants (it usually looks like this[1]) instead of "brand" bottled water (like these ones[2]), the former is almost always bottled locally (at the nearest water treatment plant, they are ubiquitous in SE Asia even in regional areas, sometimes they are subsidised by governments), as a result the water tends to stay in the bottle for a much shorter time whereas "brand" water is not sourced locally and it travels long distances after being bottled. In addition the employees of the local water treatment plant will often come and take back empty bottles to use them again, so in those cases you have nearly 100% recycling and very little plastic waste.

I don't have any evidence that [1] contains less microplastics than [2] unfortunately, but I think it could be the case.

(I have lived in Indonesia for about one year and part of my family is from Thailand).

[1] http://www.nomad4ever.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/bottle_...

[2] https://www.bali.com/media/image/865/plastic-bottles-waste.j...
And even less when the seller refuses to disclose ahead of time what you will be charged.
Ah, ok, similar to the service charge concept that's common around Seattle in lieu of tips.

I haven't been to the Bay in over a year, wasn't sure if something's changed since.
even statisticians call social science - psychology especially - a pseudo science
Tesla Labor Practices and Musk Tweet Broke the Law, Judge Rules
I tend to have the opposite reaction. All the accoutrements of interspersed personal narrative and details about rando other people she met along the way feel gratingly boring and indiosyncratic to me. It’s like it has to conform to some very narrow “edgy” journalism standard that immature college kids writing screenplays in Starbucks would find compelling.

I once described my ideal way to hear about news or human interest stories like this: take that old robotic voice from ~1997 era Mac computers and just have it read off a list of declarative sentences.

To form a useful opinion about sex worker laws, that’s what I need. Facts totally divorced from human empathy, especially idiosyncratic empathy for individual sex workers that invites me to indulge all sorts of cognitive biases, availability heuristics, invented narratives.

You need to approach this kind of important topic in the Scroogiest, wet-blanketiest possible way.
Are you saying that there should be different standards of acceptable behavior for boys versus girls. Or are you saying if the schools paid more attention to how boys normally behave, they would accept a more broad definition of “acceptable behavior” for all children?
Health Benefits of Avocado for Women
I thought the justification for their high salary was to manage dangerous situations as a single entity though? If the execs of DoorDash earn millions of dollars a year and leaked 4 million users data, that's on them.

And yet, they continue earning a salary in one year some will never make in their whole life. And continue to get away with these things.

So i think you're underestimating how many golden parachutes get handed out.
What I don't understand is why governments don't just flat-out legislate about this. They actually have made steps in some narrow areas (like airline ticket pricing). But not in most areas.

Probably my least favorite is event ticketing, just because it's so shameless. And it isn't even a monopoly anymore. For example, my local concert venue recently advertised tickets to a concert at $35 each. After all the ticket fees and service fees and other mandatory unavoidable charges, two tickets ended up costing $100. The service provided for that extra $30, which was to a third-party ticketing company but not one of the giant ones, was, as far as I can tell, to print off a piece of cardboard and leave it at will call.

It boggles the mind.
Yeah, it's annoying, but it, at most wastes a few minutes of your time, when comparison shopping.

Compare it to getting off an airplane, arriving at the car rental kiosk to pick up your reservation, and discovering that your options consist of shelling out $100 in bullshit fees, in order to actually get your car - the car that you've placed a non-refundable reservation for.

(And even if you throw a fit, and get a refund, your only option is to go across the street, and eat a $150 markup on a same-day car rental, instead.)
Not the first place I think of when planning a vacation. Would be nice to visit Saudi Aramco.
Firefighting risk is a general environmental risk - fighting a fire puts you in an area with fire byproducts. (not to mention the PPE firefighters usually wear) Vaping cuts out the environment part & introduces the combustion byproducts directly to your lungs.
Scientists bear a public responsibility. Studies like these are used to justify public policy, opinion pieces, etc. If a civil engineer makes a mistake that impacts the public (say a malfunctioning building structure) that could have been prevented were it not for lack of controls, he or she would be investigated, and potentially be basically blacklisted in their field. If a doctor made a negligent mistake because he was unaware of how to use a tool and a patient injured, he would be held accountable.

In this case, social science analyses are used to answer questions of major public importance. Governments are constantly trying to reduce suicide rates, and make their populaces happier. Papers making claims that religion makes children selfish and unhappy are used to make public policy. In this case, if this paper were used as justification for legislation, we now know that the policies it would tend to suggest would be bad for the population. Someone, somewhere probably ought to be hold accountable in the same way as any other professional. I do hope that journals take appropriate precautions with this researcher in the future, and that the peer reviewers assigned to this case are duly sanctioned. This is a complete failure as professionals.

There are situations in which scientists can and do get things wrong through no fault of their own. For example, during the highly publicized EM drive tests a while back, an initial NASA report indicated that thrust was observed after careful evaluation. This is fine... they reported what they saw. However, after some additional engineering and measurement tuning and stronger sensors, the thrust was attributed to another source, so the claims were retracted. This is science. At every step the scientists demonstrated competence and professionalism. Nowhere did anyone say 'oops we forgot to use the sensor the right way that's why it didn't work, and in the meantime our paper was used to engineer other solutions'. There is a fundamental difference between being wrong and misrepresenting what you saw, whether through mistake or ignorance.
Haven’t tried those tabs for many years but I recall them tasting terrible. Good for emergencies perhaps.

Filtration systems are available but cost several thousand dollars and require core replacements every two years for around $300-400.

On the other hand, a gallon of potable water from one of the few springs in Bali costs around $3.
Why would you ask that and expect an answer? Was the person who orginally wrote the application in the room?

Did you think to ask why they were using windows instead of macs? Or why leather seats?

What were you hoping to get out of your question? Did you want to show the interviewer how hype you were? Were you hoping that you could educate them why using a javascript would be better? This was at an interview correct (not over beers with friends)? Curious how did your next interview go? Have you found work in the field? Are you working with a js framework.
You could just select all applicants whose name is Max or Maxine, to get statistically average pilots.
Proposing a new unknown entities to explain a problem that we're not sure even exists does indeed disregard it.
See also:

* Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16793888

* Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18248471

* Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672514

* Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245133

I think people around the world have been ingesting microplastic for 30 years or longer, yet there's no reported case of any direct toxic effects. So I guess microplastic doesn't have immediately effects on health, but I won't be surprised if future studies find longterm effects, such as increasing the risk of cancer, damage to the circulatory system or the brain.

Overall, I think we must take actions immediately for solutions, but I won't particularly worry about this problem and I'll continue buying bottled water. It's not unlike the air pollution in the 20th century, one has to live with it.

Nevertheless, "microplastic is going to kill all of us" surely is going to be the trope of the next decade.
Digiconomist is not an authoritative source. There are a number of issues with their work and what they consider to be peer review, you can Google for more about it.

The Cambridge bitcoin electricity consumption index is probably a more superior and realistic model.

https://www.cbeci.org/

Yes it uses electricity, (what doesn't these days), but it is often renewable and excess power that would otherwise not be used e.g Hydro in China.

So it's not as bad as it seems, doesn't mean it can't be improved, but electricity consumption is not the issue digiconomist makes it out to be.
The evolutionary psychology idea is that women are attracted to men who show leader-like traits. That means appearing to have high self confidence, not expressing doubt but seeming certain, seeming generally happy and energetic.

In terms of leadership, who do people follow? The guy who's got good ideas but is not quite sure of himself, or the guy who tells you it's going to be insanely great?
Compensation is usually defined more by risk/reward tradeoffs than by the amount of effort you put in.

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 over something you had little control over, with your career being effectively over. It's not out-of-line with other careers that have similar risk/reward tradeoffs, like being a startup founder, pop star, hedge fund manager, venture capitalist, bestselling author, or lottery winner.

I was thinking about the Gervais Principle [1] while reading this, in particular this formulation:

"Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves."

This rather absurd strategy actually makes a lot of sense given the risk/reward tradeoffs of being an executive. Doing nothing under conditions of extreme risk & uncertainty, but doing it in a way that looks good to your superiors, is exactly the skillset that one needs to be a successful executive. And people who can do this without getting fired have passed the first test already. So this selection process is effectively an extended job interview.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Lost me at calling the Sprint/T-Mobile merger "illegal" ... I mean, I was pretty interested in the content up until that point. WeWork itself lost me at "no meat" will be reimbursed or paid for.

The WeWork CEO is in my opinion a charlatan douchebag, but the author just feels like a twice burnt socialist by the time you get halfway through, and I stopped reading.
>The less understandable part is that it's charging $50 for 180 impressions such as https://twitter.com/RichLeighPR/status/1037066048485371905 while Facebook sells those directly for a few dollars per 1000, i.e. 100x markup.

Facebook does not allow you to build a custom audience of 1 person. I believe it has to be a minimum size of 100 or thereabout. Which means when Spinner says your target will get 180 impressions, they have to throw in 99 random non-targets into the targeted audience in order to get the placement. Thus they really aren't marking it up as much as you think.