skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be at least two cookies, one called T and the other Y, on yahoo.com, the content of these looks like a long query string, "z=something&a=something&etc". Use T in -ct and Y in -cy, like -ct "z=something&etc" -cy "v=something&etc"

Sorry this is so tricky.
> Regarding guns, I've had many productive discussions with people who own guns and staunchly support the 2nd Amendment. (My personal view is that 2A should be repealed, and we should have strict licensing and training requirements around gun ownership.) I don't know that I've changed anyone's mind, but I do feel like I understand some people better, and vice versa. With a few people I just hit an impasse; then I agree to disagree, and get on with my day.

> And regardless, there's plenty of room for common ground there, too. Most of the gun owners I know think it's ridiculous how easy it is to get hold of a gun, and support more restrictions and requirements. Some even agree with me that "assault style" weapons should be restricted to gun ranges (or banned entirely) and not sold to the general public. And I've fired guns at ranges before and totally get how fun it can be. I'm generally skeptical of self-defense arguments, and think defense-from-government-tyranny arguments are laughable, but there's still plenty of common ground and productive discussion to be had.

To me, this looks like you're so far to the gun control side of things that you're having conversations with milder gun control advocates and then thinking they're second amendment supporters. Have you ever had such a conversation with a true, "machine guns and artillery should be unregulated"-tier 2nd Amendment advocate? Or any 2nd Amendment advocate that doesn't support increasing gun control?
Care to elaborate on that? Looks like there was a bill to fulfill it, but it stalled after the house passed it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Your_Health_Plan_Act_of_2...
OP here: AMA
I meant director as a general title in corporations, not google specifically.
Medicare for All. Help try to get Bernie elected, as he’s the only candidate who actually backs the policy. Warren has back-pedaled now that she’s secured the top position as the moderate alternative.

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/elizabeth-warren-campaign-med...
> What bothers civil libertarians, myself included, is censorship of specific points of view, even when these points of view are expressed in a calm and civil manner.

Is this actually occurring? I haven't seen anyone get deplatformed because the company disagrees with the message, but rather because they violated ToS with regard to how they were communicating their message.
> Payroll is not handled by accounting software

In many countries it is. Never understood what makes payroll so complex in the US that justifies another layer.
Pixel XL (3 year old) was just updated to Android 10 (full update, not just security update). I don't think 9 year old iPhones are still getting full updates.

AFAIK, all old update issues on Nexus were due to lack of driver support from Qualcomm[0]. Some of those have been mitigated in recent Android versions.

0 - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/why-isnt-your-old-ph...
Wow that's the sort of comment that usually gets removed. An unnecessary slur on an entire group of people with no supporting argument. Being disagreeable for the sake of being disagreeable. I'm disappointed.
This is also correlated with the rise of a new and powerful religion, informally called progressism.

If you don't think it's a religion, try to speak publicly against it, and observe the kind of protest it's going to evoke. Most of it will not be a calm rational discussion, or even a light-hearted dismissal. For many, you would appear attacking the holy.

The experiment above is dangerous; I'd suggest studying preivous experimental data first.
It’d be crazy to rely on something like this. I think you’d want the analogue to be much more robust if you’re gonna rely on it keeping your child alive...
It could be, but it won't. The article mentions mainstream "smart speakers", none of which does it, and whose producers have every incentive to not do it.
Jezz. _that_ is bad. How is that even possible? I mean it makes sense if you trained it with your finger with the faulty protector, but adding a faulty protector makes it work?

Surely the sensor must be able to tell the difference (even if it's currently doing it incorrectly)
Never pay a ransom: it just encourages the bad guys to try harder. Soon they will figure out how to corrupt your backups as well (if there is anyway to do that - now we are in an arms race). Better to write off the loss now and ensure the bad guys don't continue to think of new attacks.

There is one exception: if the ransom is paid in such a way that the FBI (or equivalent) can track where the money goes and thus arrest the criminals.
The intolerance of Christian groups for non-Christian is a part too. I think it has to do with the myth of being persecuted that hasn't been true since Constantine.
>This is why, if you look where all the really rich rulers decide to go for surgery or other complicated care, it is the US.

If that were true, why would a US Senator go to Canada for surgery then?

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/...
Good! I come from a family that is split between A) secular/atheist people and B) deeply religious people from the South. Group A has done well, all have happy families, and are overall good people. Group B are, to put it nicely, uneducated bigots who blame a lifetime of bad decisions on everyone besides themselves, oh, and they are also some of the most hateful people you will ever meet. The only people in group B who turned out okay were the ones who rejected religion or turned out gay (and newsflash, they were exiled by their so loving families).
I think tackling hospital / physician costs is even harder than drug pricing. Hospitals are major employers in almost every county. For a politician to break up hospital monopolies, they would be fighting against the one of the biggest employers in their constituency.

The American Hospital Association (the biggest hospital industry lobbying group) spends about as much as Phrma (the big pharma lobbying group) according to open secrets [0][1]. But the hospital industry has much more "soft power" because they are such a huge employer.

One solution is for payers to own more of their own providers, although that is challenging to implement and can lead to its own issues and bad incentives. I think one effective angle is to help more physicians stay independent -- there is probably a way to do this without legislation and i think some companies are working on this.

But i think one thing people can do is spread awareness of this issue -- you dont see it talked about in the media that much bc no group has an incentive to do so

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lobby.php?id=D000000116

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=d00000050...
Well, quite possibly! What is the set of things you can't handle on the website, but are comfortable doing over the phone?
IT Directors? Many of Baltimores mayors, councilpersons, police chiefs, police officers and detectives, public works heads, etc have been scandalous, crooked, incompetent, etc in recent years. Its the norm, not the exception. Its a crooked town.
To pre-empt a lot of comments in this thread:

The decline of religiosity is a global trend, strongly correlated with economic development. The US has historically been an outlier and remains unusually religious. The relevant question isn't really why religion is declining in the US, but why it hasn't declined sooner.

Claims that the decline in religiosity are related to increases in crime or social problems are not strongly supported by the evidence; there is not a consistent relationship between religiosity and criminality or wellbeing.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/142727/religiosity-highest-worl...

https://web.archive.org/web/20131021065544/http://www.wingia...

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00247.x
RoboForm adds Duck Duck Go for privacy minded searching
The theory of the Big Bang (or at least the variants with an infinite universe) includes infinite energy as part of the initial singularity.
Virtual Accounts. I have a desktop app that can generate new numbers on demand
I used to manage a set of tape backup robots (huge square tapes, I want to say 25 glorious GB a piece, and some Sony DAT devices @50-75GB a piece) that backed up sister data centers over a few DS-3s back in the early 2000s. The hardware/servers involved were around a 3/4 million.

I only provide that context because I've been as far away from that experience as I can possibly put myself and I can only hope it's gotten a lot better.

Prior to me and during the time that I managed backups, the statement "if you don't have backups at all, you don't have backups" was true for the entire backup set probably about once a week[0]. Those miserable robotic devices would crush tapes, the drives would eat tapes or otherwise fail, the backup servers would be over-whelmed (despite being nearly the largest hosts we had), the software would crash (Backup Exec), the server would just be ... skipped? And the tapes had a lifetime that was 1/10th what was advertised (and 1/2 what we had planned on[1]).

Our process included a monthly restore test of a few critical pieces of infrastructure and a rotating list of other hosts. I think the one time that we passed might have been worthy of opening a bottle of wine. Most of the time we could get enough data back that the restore wouldn't result in more than a rounding-error financial loss, but for the most part our server team spent a lot of time praying.

That system gave me nightmares for years after I left that position.

[0] It was so bad that our initial plan was to backup DC A using DC B and vice versa, but we opted to backup both from both data-centers (one of our requirements was off-site backups).

[1] I think I read the headline to an article a month ago about why "tape is still king" in backups. I couldn't bring myself to click-in. I assume things have gotten better, but if they're still selling this product the way they did back then, I'd want real-world numbers on MTBF and the like.
I think the key part is that the bulbs come on automatically, not necessarily the ramping up of brightness.

I don't really care about brightness ramping, I just have my bedroom Hue bulbs come on at max brightness at 6500K at 5:00 every morning, switch to 2700K at noon, and 2000K (and dimmer) at 20:00.
I believe Andrew Yang also supports this to some extent IIRC.
A great sorrow I think. Not for Christianity per se but all that comes with it.

What is most essentially "home" in the world is the set of rituals you make for yourself and others, things that allow you to dwell more poetically in place. Traditional rituals, like those found in religions, enhance our sense of belonging in the world, or if the world is a rough and scary place, at least within a society. I think we do not have the words for all the good parts of religion and ritual, and because they are not easily articulated, they are easily dismissed as irrational or nonexistent.

People instead will attack any religion, or any set of rituals that are not easily explained with a dollar value, gleefully as things that need to die, in service of a more rational world, by which they only mean a world more easily explainable to them. Since they cannot easily explain what's lost, they assume it must be nothing. I think this is a mistake due to a lack of attention.

People do not think about this, for that matter I fear people hardly think of our sense of dwelling and belonging at all. Culturally, the idea of "belonging" anywhere has been entirely subsumed by "wandering"[note]. This makes for a more consumer-friendly world, but a much less nice one to live in day to day. I fear that until we have the easy words to properly describe what it is we have lost, people will simply continue to cheer its loss, perhaps pausing once in a while to wonder aloud why they feel somewhat lost.

[note] ask people about their aspirational hobbies, they are amost always quick to point to "travel", and "experiences". Weirdly a lot of the "experiences" wording people use comes from a study commissioned by LivingSocial ("millennials prefer experiences over things", as if that's the dichotomy) to hawk the selling of experiences. The pseudostudy seems to be outliving the failed company.
Legislation we need: "smart" devices need to come packaged with labels for people to put on their door warning guests that there is audio recording equipment inside and no expectation of privacy can be provided.
There are still some things you can do to mitigate the damage caused by surveillance capitalism, or in some events, logs being kept against your best interest. One of the major ones is installing an adblocker like uBlock origin, and the other major one is compartmented browsing. Compartmented browsing is becoming more popular due to various addons like Facebook Container (Which I use daily) and silos your facebook session away from other sites you may be visiting. On top of these addons, you can use apps like Jumbo[0] that delete old Facebook posts to mitigate against potential employers scouring your profile looking for red flags to not hiring you. Of course that depends on your threat model.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jumbo-privacy/id1454039975
Because the only thing left to do is contemplate your existence. Ever tried that for an extended amount of time?
I wonder if there's much preventing such tech from being reapplied for, say, furtively monitoring keystrokes or other forms of questionable eavesdropping, in a kind of acoustic Van Eck phreaking sort of way.
I wonder what the effect would be on people if you take away all the fancy animations, lights and sounds when opening a loot box (take away the imaginary box too) and replaced it with click "open", get "name of item" (no picture). It'd be less entertaining than rolling a pair of dice and would draw attention to what's really happening, flipping a bit with extra steps.
1. Which community does? The Christian community? If so, do you have an intuition over the proportion of HN people who were raised in Abrahamic faiths? Do you presume that the voices which monitor the conversation aren't personally experienced?

2. Or the academic community formed by the Abrahamic faiths? Did you reserve some expectation that secular scholars in academia are about to pop in?

3. And if people cannot discuss these matters, are they to receive the truth from a better source? Which source should we receive it from?

4. If most discussions never reaches into data-driven conversation, does that put them all in the same bin for you? Aspirational speech, perhaps?
To take your point further, gangs also provide community, in a very negative way to the rest of society.

So do volunteer organizations and other secular institutions and groups like book clubs, fitness groups, tabletop game players, Pokemon Go players, etc.

Back to my own speculation, I'd surmise that a lot of people who go to church may go for the community or personal connections, and may not even believe in the dogma. Many times I've been to church enough times to have listened to frequent sermons about maintaining faith, and those sermons always puzzle me - why do these churchgoers have such difficulty maintaining faith to the point where the preacher has to bring it up regularly?
Is it not also because the government contracting system is FUBAR? I.e. only certain kinds of companies can contract on the big projects, you need certain clearances for certain kinds of works, and the pay gap between public and private sector SWE & security?

Also aren't their some pretty tough mandates like x% of companies must be minority owned etc. I imagine it allows those companies to charge extortionist rates because they hit the relevant quotas and nobody else does.
Why is there no mention of the initial cost to lay down fiber? I expect that would be quite significant compared to wireless links and I am not even thinking of the costs that might be associated with maintenance of the fibers once it is laid down and operational.
A proof of concept? Yes. A viable business? probably.

A revolutionary, industry disrupting, potential billion-dollar concept? Something worth injecting VC money into? I don't think so.
This guy makes excellent math visualization videos -- some of the best I've ever seen.
Bill proposals rarely count as on topic for HN. Most proposed bills never go anywhere.
If we are indulging in causation and correlation mixup, have you noticed that some of the most ruthless public service cutting politicians and outsourcing CEOs are devout church going folks ? You have cut social services and mental support services , branded those who need such services as freeloaders and you are blaming secularism.
> The engineers, designers, and PMs shouldn't have an outsized voice in society because they have a specialized useful skillset and ended up on a successful product.

isn't that true for all voice in the soicety though.
I absolutely agree. America really needs some mandatory citizen participation program. Force everyone to work 5 hours a month towards some project while increasing social cohesion.
They are not really working. They are now enjoying their hobbies which now includes making more money.

Make no mistake. People work to survive or maintain a standard of living or raise their kids. Many rich people are not doing this. Most of them are doing what they enjoy with extreme intensity. This is NOT work in the same sense that most people "work."
> Hot take: no it isn't.

Odd. I did some Haskell in prodution (hardware control and Unix daemons) and it was delightful.

> It is extremely hard to learn, has an extremely confusing + needlessly complicated syntax and I question the payoff immensely.

It is unfamiliar if you have only worked in the C family of languages. The syntax is quite similar to the rest of the ML family, which dates back to 1973. It's basically as old as C. I had the good fortunate of learning Standard ML around the same time as C, SQL, and Perl. Standard ML and SQL were by far the most straightforward to learn.

> If I stood up in a corporate business boardroom meeting for tech analysis on a new project and said "I want to write it in Haskell", I'd get laughed + kicked out.

Yes, you would, because why are you talking about programming languages in a boardroom? If you mean a more technical review committee, I wouldn't be so sure of that.
It seems like the article totally misses the obvious explanation, which is that these people became wealthy by doing things that they enjoy and are passionate about, which just happen to also pay them money. Maybe the people during the dot-com boom whose plan was to make $2M then retire to Napa Valley did exactly that, and by definition, never became billionaires.
There are probably billionaires who don't enjoy their work, but I suspect they aren't common.
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The attack is inexpensive enough that even if 0.001% pay it's probably still worth doing.

Even if you criminalize paying you'll still have a tiny portion that do.
For a good overview of what power and speed you can have by "putting a web development platform entirely inside an RDBMS", check out this video called "Twitter-like App in 20 minutes with Oracle APEX"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bosMSghczUo
It should be very obvious once you think about it that breaking code into more files, and procedures into subprocedures, is pushing complexity around rather than simplifying ... and it’s pushing the complexity from somewhere visible, into an invisible structure that the viewer has to then reconstruct in his mind. I think in a great many cases it’s not a good idea.
Catholicism as an organization has a lot of skeletons in the closet. I'm surprised it's not declining faster.
There should be another word for it.

"Work", for most people, is a thing you have to do until you die or retire.

"Work", for rich people, is a hobby that you can quit whenever you want without suffering dire consequences.

Same word but totally different meanings based on your net worth.
A complaint I've heard from my remote coworkers is: "Yeah, I like to have lunch with ya'll when I'm there. But when you're remote, like, the whole day is just sitting staring at a computer. The last thing I'm interested in is having my lunch/eating time be more of that". Have you considered doing something along the lines of real walks "together", using headphones?
Most people that have worked as developers/programmers/etc. that don't have a lot of exposure to or training in fp find it painfully hard to learn. This could be one of those cases.
Wouldn't that help the bottom lines of hospital conglomerates even more?
Because sitting around doing nothing all day is boring. Most people that are rich are most likely very competitive and need that competition to feel happy and fulfilled.
As a moderator, is there a reason you're dinging the person making the second blow, but not the first?
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/bi1dub/wsb_...
I wouldn’t trust online, voluntary, self-reported salary “data” even a little. No more than any other form of e-bragging. Everyone who posts online makes $350k, drives a Ferrari, and has a supermodel romantic partner.

Netflix is known to pay at the top of market, so the highest few compensations there being >$350k make at least a little sense.
I agree "politicalness" is a spectrum. I just disagree that it's possible to be anywhere close to zero if you are running a company.

The current American notion of "nonpolitical" is based on a post-WWII period where there was a broad consensus on a bunch of issues, and I think that consensus was in large part driven by the moral clarity provided by the war. But that started to decline circa 1980: https://xkcd.com/1127/large/

It was still propped up for a while by common interests between southern Democrats and non-northeastern Republicans. A big common interest being an opposition to civil rights. But most of the blue dog Democrats are now Republicans and liberal Republicans are basically extinct, so that middle ground has basically vanished.

For you "common sense" is doing a ton of work here, as is "widely considered". But as far as I can tell, it's tautological. You want your priors (or those of dominant groups) to be considered nonpolitical, while those of others to be political.

> claiming that any act that has any impact on anyone is political

What is politics if not people regulating the impacts we have on one another? Of societies deciding whose pain and whose gain is most important?
Interesting, what are they getting at here:

> As braille is read with your hands, it is impossible to read and play at the same time, unless you are a pianist.

Pianists play with their hands. Are they suggesting you can read with one while playing with the other? (Possible for some pieces, but also possible for some other instruments too). Am I missing some technique they're implying here?
Just taking a guess...besides integration with the power company, an internet connection can be useful for plenty of things. Weather forecasts and aggregating local user behavior to improve predictions of how to adjust settings more accurately over time. Talk to your mobile device to know when you're getting near home to pop out of an eco mode. A heartbeat to the cloud so it can notify you when the power is out. Lots of possibilities you wouldn't get with a local-only mode.
I like the layout of this site, what is being used to present the documentation on this site? Or is it a fully custom built site?