skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> crash the country out of the European Union because no one was willing to work with Theresa May.

The possible was agree Theresa May's deal untouched, drop some UK "red line issues", remain in the EU, or no deal Brexit (crash out). That's it.

Except many didn't think that good enough, or it wasn't in Britain's interests (no kidding) and we've spent 2 years trying to tolerate them all indulging in this political act of national self-harm. Our international status is "laughing stock". Surprisingly, the impossible has not yet become possible!

EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, published a single slide in 2017 that summarises the whole mess well. CGP Grey has a video on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agZ0xISi40E
You are changing the goalposts. Please stop.

The comment did not ask me to cite statistics claiming that the world is perfect. It merely asked for citations to statistics indicating the world is making progress

I responded by offering solid data naming several metrics indicating that many outcomes that people find desirable (less poverty, less hunger, etc) are indeed closer to being achieved today than before.

By definition, if something is getting better, it was not perfect (which is what you are asking for), so nowhere in my claim did I say or imply anything about the world being 'good'.

On a separate note: We shouldn't use ill-defined terms like 'good'. There's no objective definition of what a 'good' world would look like. For example, many philosophers have argued the world is indeed good, despite the existence of all kinds of pestulences, plagues, and natural disasters. The key in understanding them would be understanding in what sense they use the word 'good'.
Hindsight is always 20/20. At the time, and even on paper, 32X did not sound like that bad of an idea. The 32X even sold well initially. I wanted one at launch, and bought one a few years ago (it truly is terrible). At launch it was a relatively cheap entry into 3D gaming. Keep in mind the only alternatives were multi thousand dollar PCs and the $800 3DO, not adjusted for inflation.

But the announcement of the Saturn soon after killed the 32X.

And programming for two VDPs was incredibly difficult. Especially considering games were still being written in assembly even at that point in the industry.

Plus the economics didn't make sense. It is cheaper to manufacture a single console instead of a base system and add-on separately. You end up confusing the consumer, and limiting market reach because your add-on market is a subset of your base unit's market size.

And the games were bad for the most part. Really bad. I have played the majority of home consoles. Even the likes of the 3DO, Jaguar, Virtual Boy, Sega CD, etc. The 32X is easily one of the worst consoles, ever, period.
It sounds like you're saying this is a high priority issue. Why do you feel that way?
Research update: Improving the question-asking experience
"Ear, Nose, Throat" is a clinical medicine specialty in the US. Don't know about the rest of the world.

But yeah: every interface between inside and outside of the human body is a great place to look for microbiome etiology.
cheaper to buy smart plugs. https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Monitoring-Required-Warranty...
The paywall is not what irks me. It's all the crap they post that either invokes super inflammatory commentary here on HN (like, men being emotional, men being anxious, men being xyz) or the really NERF-level stuff that lacks any substance and really just makes you think of Captain Obvious™
If there's a lot of calcium old pipes will have nice protection layer, no?
Would it? Maybe. Should anyone care? No. The stock market has incredibly little to do with the wellbeing of average people. Both gains and crashes have almost no effect on wages: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2017/08/24/what-does-th...
Chaos Engineering for People Systems – Dave Rensin (Google)
I think you are missing the point of years of space debris being added will eventually cause Kessler syndrome to be a lot more accessible from short space travel
The purpose of a true zoo is not to entertain. That is a by-product that helps fund the main mission - animal conservation and preservation. A zoo such as the Smithsonian National Zoo exists to save species, as they describe here: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation

Ensuring species survival has never been more important due to the increasing impact of climate change on the world. Zoos are a part of that, controlling climate change is the other (bigger) part.
for those interested in 'one-person' MMO projects, check out Xenimus.

It's a long-running MMO (from around the Ultima Online era of games) that is developed and ran by a single person.

The amount of effort involved in such an ordeal is mind-boggling, personally.
You're describing Ycombinator.
I have not heard of inactive account fees on accounts with a significant amount held in them. Typically, they charge you for keeping too little in there, sometimes regardless of activity.

Edit:

I did a little research. Bank of America has no dormant account fee that I can find. SunTrust does[1]... but only for Florida accounts, for some unknown reason. This may be a jurisdictional thing.

[1] https://www.suntrust.com/content/dam/suntrust/us/en/personal... (page 6)
Most multinational corporations are democracies, though. They are governed by boards of directors elected by their members (shareholders).
World's Largest Privately-Owned Giant Sequoia Grove Is for Sale
Apparently the journal published the original paper in 2015, published someone else's correction in 2016, and only published a retraction of the original paper just last month.
That's a different product than a can of corn, which you can sometimes find a coupon for.
From foone itself:

> they don't have the endless editing I get into with blog posts

I don't know if this is true or not, however Twitter is one of the only platforms that doesn't have an edit button. So it makes sense that Twitter may helps remove from people with ADHD the sentiment of "oh, maybe there is something that I can still improve from this post" before publishing it.
I would think this is much more power inefficient than time sharing.
It would probably be similar to one of those sound "clean" rooms. After a while you can hear the fluids in your ear and you will feel quite uneasy.
I'm not an anti-natalist or anything of the sort, but it would appear to me that if anything, the evolutionary challenge facing humans is that we have had too many babies. Across the globe we've consistently created more humans than our ecosystem can reliably support, or that we can manage to support with our technology.

This has resulted in climate change and ecological destruction.

A future earth with the highest carrying capacity for life might look like the entire globe as rich in life as the Amazon rain forest, with humans benefiting from the enormous diversity. Our ecological niche would be in the microbiome, where the human species eliminates diseases, causes maximally high survival rates in other species, and uses this surplus for our energy supply, along with genetic engineering species to suit our needs.

FWIW, I think many are concerned about conservation already, which I think is the key to our long-term survival as a species.
I've got a pet peeve for articles that focus on events as if they were isolated in time, one of a kind, or unprecedented.

No mention of similar mens groups that occurred 30 to 50+ years ago? There's the Mythopoetic men's movement for one.
Once I was buying a house, and my bank would write a cashier's check for free, but charged $50 for a wire transfer.

So I walked a $300K check from my bank two blocks to my escrow company to save the $50. The check must have been more expensive for everyone to handle (even at the bank, they had to wait for a manager to operate the special "check typewriter" - not everyone was allowed to operate it), but for whatever reason, it was "free".
A clinically applicable approach to continuous prediction of acute kidney injury
Well then, I'll create a journal which constantly publishes garbage and instantly retracts 99% of it. By your logic, the remaining 1% should be ultra, iron-clad trustworthy! :)
Many of those questions are iffy, a potential minefield or uninteresting, but this one (#3) is key and we use it a lot:

"Tell me about a time you solved a problem at work. What was the issue, and how did you approach it?"

What I like about it is that it isn't a trick question. Also, knowing beforehand you're going to be asked this won't help you to bullshit your way through -- either you did stuff and can answer questions about it or you don't. This question lets the interviewee discuss something they did and that they feel comfortable talking about, how they approached it, what their problem-solving approach was, etc. It also lets the interviewer ask follow-up questions about whatever sounds interesting to discuss in more detail.
Dave explains that companies are a system of human microservices. D

ave suggested four experiments to run in a company, to test the company’s resiliency. The experiments were to simulate an employee being unexpectedly out of the office, to simulate latency in communications, to simulate people getting information that may be inaccurate, and to simulate an existential emergency for the company.

These ideas were a lot of fun, and it was interesting to see the kinds of experiments we perform on computing systems applied to people.

“Companies are distributed systems. Most of the complexity comes from the humans, not the machines.” - Dave Rensin

Dave even encouraged the idea of giving out unreliable and incorrect information to people on your team... " "constructively devious" : )
NERF-level?
> and basically treat all chemicals as safe unless proven otherwise.

Shouldn't that be always the case? 'Chemicals' permutations are countless. You and I are a bag of "chemicals", and most of them, even if naturally occurring, are harmful depending on dosage.
as someone who also appreciates the subtle arts of haggling, you might enjoy the book Getting to Yes. It's more about negotiation than haggling but very interesting and practically useful.
He Quit Credit Suisse. Then He Caught the Bank’s Spy
Oh agree, about the demonising aspect - but if you've ever lived above a crackhouse, you would appreciate the finer aspects of how it has an impact. Let alone the ways addicts procure money and drugs. Then apathetic support for addicts, many avenues of guilt. But then all addicts are victims is a mentality that plays out, one in which I've seen abused by some addicts. But then, generalisation of a whole group has never really pans well in society.

But the real issue as you touch upon is the underlying issues, the drivers for going into addiction and such drugs, that's where support is needed and more so, cheaper for prevention than support later on. Yet both area's are seriously lacking and the whole mentality of fighting the fires instead of fighting the sources keeps playout out.
Zume Pizza isn't just about making pizzas.

It's about being able to build autonomous restaurants. Combine that with autonomous deliveries and you have the potential for food to be delivered to people without any people involved.

Given we have an ageing population which may involve lots of people unable to leave the house this could be a trillion dollar market.
Do confirm there's actually software to do this before you Jailbreak (unless you plan to code it yourself). I'm not personally aware of anything.
> Universal healthcare requires high buy-in and very different systems from what we have now.

States can regulate all of them. They are under no requirement to follow federal policy. In fact, they can even erect pretty substantial border controls (like California does) and send armies to protect their borders, if they really want to (yes this has actually been done outside the civil war).

For example, California recently 'threatened' to start universal health care. I'm unsure why the news framed it this way given that it has always been california's right to provide free health care to its citizens, and no one can really legally stop it. Perhaps California cannot raise enough money to do so, but that is an issue of feasibility, not legality. It's not like the feds would magically be able to raise money that California couldn't.

> Drinking age is tied to necessary federal highway funding, so states aren't going to lower the age.

Um sure, but states are not required to take federal funding for highways. That's like saying 'Aunt Irma requires me to send her a Thank You note whenever I ask for her knit sweaters', while neglecting to mention that you actually do want the knit sweaters because they keep you warm and cozy.
Fun fact, an inflation calculator says that in 1992, a 50 dollar video game cartridge would be equivalent to $92 today. DLC and terribly unethical video game publishers aside, for the non-piracy crowd, we live in a golden age of affordable video games at $20 to $35 each.

If you can be content with buying xbox one and ps4 games on ebay a little while after they're released, you're unlikely to ever pay more than $20 for a game.
I'd rather not be classified as insane, thanks.

If you read the OP article, the research suggests religion has positive effects on children. Your response to the corrected findings?
Does Japan still give people cash in envelopes? Or are they electronic now?
I would have put that under "gameplay" (see "teleportation" vs "regular FPS" movement types), but I guess it's a bit of both...
No. Without overcomplicating things, Saudi are the dumbest money out there. They have no idea at all. Even the ones that have worked at IBanks, have no real understanding of basic finance (and likely only got the job so the bank could try to bribe members of their family). To get an investment, you just need to bribe the right people...that is how they invest (I used to know two very junior royal family members, they were unquestionably two of the stupidest people I have ever met...they failed school, ended up a prestigious uni, paid people to do their work, and then ended up in banking...somehow).

I wouldn't try to analyse it. A smart Japanese guy took them for a ride, he took a cut, and then handed it to some software developers in Silicon Valley who saved some and then spent the rest. That is it. No value created. No investments. Just redistribution away from stupid people.

Btw, this happened in the 1970s too. When the oil price spiked, the Saudis didn't know what to do with their cash so they just deposited it in US banks. The US banks didn't know what to do either so they started lending to South America. They knew what to do: politicians either stole it or handed it out as bribes to their supporters. The result was Citibank and a few other banks going insolvent in the early 80s, and a massive debt crisis in LatAm from 1980-1993(ish).

...the Saudis also gave a bit to Britain, who had their own debt crisis (also because of cash handouts to political supporters) and devalued a good chunk of their money away.

They will lose money always.
Conclusion of the new analysis:

In sum, Decety et al. [1] have amassed a large and valuable dataset, but our reanalyses provide different interpretations of the authors’ initial conclusions. Most of the associations they observed with religious affiliation appear to be artifacts of between-country differences, driven primarily by low levels of generosity in Turkey and South Africa. However, children from highly religious households do appear slightly less generous than those from moderately religious ones.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
Narrative fitting and surprise bias are largely orthogonal biases. Both are at work in this case. In the western press it is trendy to paint religion in a negative light, which is the narrative the paper reinforces. Imagine a bogus paper painting in an unfavorable light one of the western virtuous identities: not white, not religious, not male, not hetero. For example, "The Negative Association between Atheism and Children’s Altruism across the World". Or "The Negative Association between Homosexual Parents and Children’s Altruism across the World". Such papers will never be covered by over 80 media outlets without questioning, in spite of being surprising with respect of the narrative.
> The distiller is cheap but the power is not. Its like running a microwave 24/7 to make enough water for two people. I want to try making a solar one.

Or one powered by solar panels? :)
So actually, if you just view source in Chrome or Firefox, you can often read the articles.
An interesting usage example for very black materials (which are required to be effective also at grazing incidence angles) is flocking the insides of amateur telescopes. Not that it's always necessary, but can help in some poor designs where the light beam might reflect off some optical tube elements etc. (which results in a decreased overall contrast).

One of the popular choices these days are adhesive sheets of black velour. Another option is thick dark paint mixed with sawdust.
There's a point and a joke. It seems like you didn't get the joke and missed the point.

The point being made is that the bottom is falling out of the bullshit market, and it's about damn time. It's made with humor and snark, which is the point of the graph.
Absolutely 100% this. Been saying the same for a long time.
The problem I see is labeling something with an assumption whether it’s becausenitnmakes good news or due to bias. If it’s unknown I am not ok with calling it plastic. I would think that the more appropriate term would be “non-water based substance”. Ultimately what we are talking about is contaminants? Or could this be heavy mineral deposits in the water? Do they know? Is this natural or being classified as a real contaminant?
Heh, must be a cultural difference. The V sign they're talking about here is most common in East Asia I guess, though I see it often enough in the US. It's not a vulgar thing, and the usual position is with the palm facing the camera.

The same thing was often used as the "peace sign" in the mid/late 1900s, though these days it's not as mainstream as it used to be.

Its roots go back farther than that, and I think your interpretation (with the palm facing one's body) is older than the more modern interpretation.
the few times I've sold things on craigslist or whatever (I'm usually a buyer) as soon as the person has accepted my offer I'm instantly concerned that I way underpriced it and want to reneg lol.
> Well I know for doctors and stuff they say you can refuse to give it

You can refuse to give it to anyone who doesn't need it for tax purposes. Which is almost everyone. But, this is the stupid part, they can refuse to do business with you on that basis.
At the Golden Gate Bridge there's no lane for manual payment so you pretty much have to have to travel north. Make your way back via Fresno and San Jose, going clockwise around the bay.

I wonder what the traffic imbalance is.
Well, sure, but my concern is specifically about concepts that translate poorly (and for which, therefore, speaking multiple languages is interesting...)
I agree - it's impossible to know what you are truly needing without having a pretty rich inner emotional landscape with a lot of nuance.

For instance -

Feelings: https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/feelings-inventory

Needs: https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory

--

Yet the needs exist, are often projected onto others (partners, co-workers, kids, whole countries, etc) and then action is taken to try to get /them/ to meet needs that one doesn't even know they have. At best, this tends to be frustrating, at worst...well we can all look up the stats on violence perpetuated by people raised as men in the West versus people not raised as men.
I guess “super inflammatory” is code for “stuff I don’t agree with”.
Any architecture that needs two different identifiers for the same thing is very likely in need of some revision.
Bitcoin is a quantum computer (2015)
The interviewer never told me. I never asked.
I see, so, pushing to the extremes here and I wholly acnkowledge I'm doing so- what do you do when A is in a position with B where B informs A that B does not care if A is offended, but also if A stops engaging, B proclaims that A isn't listening to them and therefore it's A's fault?
For some reason having a car that can appear 2 dimensional at times doesn't seem like the best plan to me, unless you have great insurance.
The developers can propose changes but they can't force anyone to adopt them. Moreover, the software itself is open source so if they try to push anything too unpopular a new group of developers can take over who better represent the community's interests.
Hm, wouldn't we see skull changes ?
Also helps when you need to burn some very large ants.
Can also be read as smart with poor social skills.
At its best, business provides a utility for exchange thats worth more than the sum of its parts, by specializing and scaling. At its worst, business grows large and powerful enough to control all access to that utility, and becomes an abuser of that power.

This is the same for government. The worst is when both work purely for power together - the pharmaceutical industry being one, the military industrial complex being another. I frequently see people who advocate for smaller government be fine with absolutely abusive industry, thinking that with less government (IE regulation) the industry will fix itself. I don't think this is the case, since you're not really addressing the power disparity. The same can be true with industry - making industry smaller (anti-trust) won't fix the government.
Evolution of Beatboxing inside a real time MRI
It looks at mean queue time, not worst case time.
Your comment comes closer to being substantive, which is often the case with the reactions people post to our requests not to post unsubstantive comments.

Even so, while I understand your perception and like most people I intuitively feel like it must be true in many cases, I'm missing any sense of what specifically makes it true in this case, other than that "dog-walking" sounds trivial. A line of the form "Wag is an idea that could be well executed in about 2 million" feels to me like it's in the orbit of "I could implement that in a weekend"—the sort of thing people say when they're not personally close to the problem, because everything seems smaller at a distance.

Similarly with what you say about "bozos" and "well-paid fools"—ok, such humans exist, maybe including some of the humans who see others as bozos and fools—but do you know something specific about the individuals here? If you think you do, do you really know it, or might this be hearsay based on very little information? Usually what comments like this do is repeat generic reactions about a common topic, which is actually the opposite of a substantive HN discussion.
Have you tried a water filter?
Do in-line water filters you get at home centers filter those sized particles out, or are they too small?
You can't opt out of your relatives using a DNA service, and your 2nd cousin using the service is sufficient to make you findable by traces of DNA tracked to a place you've never been. This isn't about privacy, it's about civil liberties, and protection from overreach by the state.
Don't eat the bait. This will devolve into yet another pointless discussion.