skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is evil when it's unreasonably expensive. The fact just a small number of people would use it in their sane mind even though there is capacity to serve much more people at no additional expense for the provider (nor for the environment) suggests there is no reason to keep prices this high.
http://archive.is/Y2eij
> I don't get why Sparta seems to be so fetishized, particularly by people who are not pleasant to be around.

It's because they saw a movie that depicted the Spartans as super ripped badasses who kicked ass all the time.

Seriously, there's not much more to it than that.
Maybe some over-zealous shortcut handler that's preventing keystroke events from bubbling up? It's interesting that shift-b produces "B" but just b with caps-lock doesn't produce any characters.
Consciousness :trollface:
You can use Spring without all that magic. I, personally, hate Spring Boot and would never use it, exactly because of all that magic. But Spring itself is perfectly fine and I can control every single bit of it with explicit configurations.
Puigdemont took selfies with each requirement that the supreme court sent to him, like a thug. They had multiple warnings that they were steering out of the law and it wasn't until they approved some clearly unconstitutional laws in the parliament that justice acted.
Probably a poorly implemented test for accidental caps lock. Shift key means you really wanted a capital.
Impressive to write for 35 without needing to capitalize any of "qwertasdfgzxcvb"... ;)
This is one of the most infuriating parts about the road layout where I live now.

Everything is built as small residential cul-de-sacs without any access except the entry from the main street. I can look at my neighbor's house 100ft away but there's no way to get there, even as a pedestrian, except walking out on the busy main street (with no sidewalks), walking half a mile down the road, and then walking half a mile back up their residential street.

It's like they actively try to discourage any mode of transportation except driving.
In those times, the ability to project power (in a modern military sense) was virtually non-existent.

Aircraft hadn't been invented yet.

Naval transport was subject to the vagaries of the wind and slow.

Land transport was a matter of multi-year campaigns, supplied at great cost.

So effectively, most conflicts were the business of the belligerent and defender, and no one else.

In that world, absent coordinated international response, it's unsurprising military might took on a much more existential value!
The law of diminishing marginal utility refers to homogenous goods. The marginal utility of the dollar only has meaning in the context of a particular good or service. Whether someone earns $20,000/year or $200,000/year says nothing about the marginal utility of dollars with respect to a particular good or service. The diminishing marginal utility of dollars is the same with respect to a gallon of milk for example, whether one has $20,000 or $200,000.

I’d also like to point out that “utility” is subjective. There are serious methodological shortcomings with quantifying the subjective satisfaction of various goods and services, particularly heterogenous goods like housing.
I think the enlightening thing is that higher costs have been driven by government funded programs. I have to pay taxes for Medicare directly and there is a hidden tax in the form of higher healthcare costs in the private market.
Isn't that saying Boeing is going to launch their capsule uncrewed, just like SpaceX did back in March?
Except for the language itself: Python 2.x vs 3.x are still battling choices after 10 years :)
I wouldn't say that biking 1.2km PER DAY is "hardly bike at all". What's the average per day for US?
Only if made by victors, no?
>Wake up people, you americans especially are living in worse conditions than people under Stalin lived. Thats not a joke or har har, hard reality.

Stalin committed literal genocide of millions of people. That simply does not happen in the USA today and conflating the two weakens any point you may have had.
Why would you say something like that? Gas levels are monitored using gas sensors and an R-Pi custom monitoring station. There's no camera. I pointed this out. Reasonable expectations of privacy prohibit cameras in the bathroom. I contend though they don't prohibit diagnostic fecal cameras. Up cameras bad, down cameras not only good, but excellent and helpful. Safety gas sensors and logging are not illegal under any interpretation of privacy laws. I have every right to monitor dangerous gas levels, humidity and temperature in every room of my house without obtaining consent or notifying any visitor. The people here that have in the past claimed I am a criminal for doing monitoring have yet to make their legal case or as I have asked them to, to file a criminal complaint against me and my system. This is because they are armchair lawyers who have no case and little understanding of the law. They just like to badger innocent people who are not committing any crimes on the internet because that's what these sorts of armchair lawyers and busybodies do.
Chucked over an email.

Not sure if this is specifically relevant, but just in case, I have a (minor) commit in BusyBox which is licensed under GPLv2.

I'd love to have Tesla send me my source. ;)
True. Typhoeus is awesome as well.
I'm not saying it should be a jobs program. I was pointing out that the impact would be far greater than doctors.

I think the point that you are missing in the article is that for any company offering medical services, Medicare/aid is subsidized by other revenue. That is, from the companies perspective, it is offered at a loss. If that subsidization goes away, the company can no longer afford to offer that service. The economic impact of such an event would be massive, and a serious proposal requires far more detail than hand-waving.
Sinister yet pathetic: how the UK was primed for nuclear war
Honestly, Glenn Greenwald would probably be where I’d turn to. I’d trust him as a journalist, for sure. There aren’t a ton of them who’ve publicly demonstrated how they handle something of this importance (Woodward and Bernstein are the only other two I can come up with off the top of my head).
That's a lot of FUD spewing.
Also there are interesting things that can probably be studied from that, like is that healthier or better for the environment than living in packed urban areas?

Maybe if you're worried about CO2 emissions having those CO2 eating beings in your backyard could be a better option.

Probably not easy to quantify.
Russia (well, Putin) wants to be Europe, not just profit from or own it.
Cue the Kessler syndrome comment ...
Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study
Supporting the current industry is not the goal. The current industry is failing too many people.

Proposing too many details before a candidate is even elected would be foolish. Any particular detail can be distracting from the overall goal.
The 835kph RC Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring
The title completely misses the point of the article
I wonder if using Crispr would create a new class of pathogen that are tailored to a small set of population (or even to one individual). That would make research on that impossible and so cure also impossible. We can use Crispr only if we have studied and understood how the pathogen impacts our DNA. But over time, if the pathogen and individual DNAs divert far apart then no single research can be used as a generic cure. That would really suck and make cure a feature for the rich. Hope someone tells me I dead wrong.
It's sad that mixed use is banned in so many places in the states. And, that so many people think living in an apartment is for poor people.
Not only that, the "Common" in Common Lisp is a reference to a standardization of several existing dialects, so a lot of Lisp code from the 1960s and the 1970s will run without any modifications.
Not just the homeowners, the banks / current mortgage holders.

Real estate is a backstop on equity.

Leveraged real estate is (as with homeowners) a tremendous risk to financing firms.

They will (and have) fought tooth and nail to resist any depreciation of assets.

This is one of the resistances to technological innovations that Bernhard J. Stern wrote of in 1937. The commonality with the other examples he gives is striking.

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

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As the author points out, Access fills an interesting niche where Excel isn't quite enough, but a SQL database and all the stuff that goes along with it is way too much. On top of that, it's completely local so you don't have to pay for licenses or worry about data policies. That niche is big enough to sustain Access pretty much indefinitely.

I think the lesson here is that business users more often than not want something that 1) just works, 2) they can actually understand, and 3) doesn't require learning and setting up a bunch of other stuff to maintain or upgrade. It's easy to forget how big of a step up it is from Excel to a SQL-based application (or similar other business needs elsewhere) and how big of a barrier that is.
I mean, the whole statement is not correct. Sure JPL manufactured some things but it also acts just like NASA, managing the Mars projects. Most of the spacecraft I would say were manufactured in partnership with other industry aerospace companies.
Boeing is doing BOE-OFT, or their uncrewed flight test. SpaceX has already done this. (It was the flight with the earth plushie.)

Currently, SpaceX needs to do an in-flight abort, and Boeing needs to do an uncrewed test flight before they can fly crew. Which will be first to the ISS with crew is still up in the air.
In the git context, fork doesn’t really mean anything.
That’s just a github thing.
We had horses and wagons before bicycles. I'm sure that's more car-like than bike-like.
How do I delete this account ? Or can you do that ?
I live in the northeastern United States. I have literally never seen a drone (consumer or otherwise) anywhere other than a Best Buy (or similar electronics retailer) still in its packaging.
How many times do people need to be hit over the head with conspiracy "theories" to realize that many of them are startlingly close to reality?

The inability of most people to read between the lines baffles me. It's not that hard, especially for an adult with even the barest understanding of the concepts of nuance and subtlety.
Even in relatively dense areas already (NYC), there are tons of restrictions which make it very difficult to build even more densely.
Ugh, yucky. Surprising lack of quality control on Apple's part - surely they should have tested typing into a text field at some point during the testing; don't most programs register a shortcut key or two?

But there are also some UI fails on Twitter's side here too - like clearing the password field after clicking Show Password and typing more, and preventing arrow key navigation within the field.
Virgin Galactic Begins Trading on NYSE
Plus the motivations of those implicated, if you're Prince Andrew, a Saudi Royal, or a Soviet Bloc oligarch you're just going to sit there and accept consequences?
Yup I love it too, it's my daily driver but I just read this article and this guy really changed my mind : https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
> An average of 1.5 miles per person per day sounds huge.

I thought that it sounded really small, but my point of comparison is my own personal bicycling habit -- my daily bicycle commute is about 10 miles round trip. Yes, I'm an American.
The company that sent out the bad batch of liquid is interesting. Alternative Ingredients, Inc., who's website is down at the moment, is also otherwise known as Mother Murphy's , who brands themselves as a food flavoring company. The president of the company is David Murphy who's linkedIn tells the whole story. Basically Mother Murphy's has been around for a while in the Winston/Salem area, doing flavoring for cigarette companies. I guess that shouldn't be surprising.
> actual scientists

and

> I am a working scientist, which means I have neither the time to keep up nor the audience.

For those that don't know about Sabine, who is criticized in the parent, you can read about her at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder

Short summary... she is a research fellow, theoretical physicist, and of course has a PhD in physics.

I fully expect scientists to disagree with each other. I even enjoy reading about their disagreements. But, to take shots at qualifications (even if in a passive aggressive manner) is rude. The tone of the parent attempts to dismiss her by making us feel she isn't a read scientist while in fact she's talking about her profession.
Founder of SoftBank-backed car leasing startup resigns after layoffs
I don't think rooftop solar can supply enough energy to heat a home and charge a car (things that currently require fossil fuels.) We're talking tens of kilowatts.
You could at least link a few of your rebuttals so people can check your claims.
The title is incredibly bad at anchoring this, selling the dutch as biking less frequently than other cultures rather than comparing average biking distance to average biking distance.
The inability to make long-term investments is a major reason I don't intend to stay in academia after my PhD. Government and corporate labs don't seem better in my view either.

At present my plan is the following: Keep the amount of time spent making money to the minimum needed to support myself. Then I can invest my own time and money into research. I could make money from research via grants/contracts like normal academics, but that's not necessary in this scheme. I'm thinking about starting several SaaS businesses.
That doesn't seem like the root cause to me. It sounds like they have events set up for the UI prior to login which doesn't really make sense. The regression in Catalina may have exposed it but the regression is not the cause of this, as far as I can tell.
Somewhat tangential, is anyone using .NET core on linux for serious production use that can comment on how easy it is to get working? Does Linux feel like a second class platform?
I waited tables for minimum wage plus tips prior to moving on to other things. I considered it a zero skill job. Literally no experience necessary, they'll hire anyone.

There are plenty of zero-skill jobs (or maybe we should say zero-value-skill), and they're going to pay zero-skill job wages. You're free to pretend that's not the case, reality proves otherwise.
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More like a company town paying in scrip. Dollars trade just fine outside the borders of the US, for non-US goods and services. Or at least trade readily for other things that do, in the worst case.
Do you think handwriting or typing makes a difference ?
"In the foundations of physics, we have not seen progress since the mid 1970s when the standard model of particle physics was completed."

This seems to discount the explosion of work in the foundations of theoretical physics. Most notably the many variations of String Theory. Just because the work has not yet produced experiments that can validate them do not mean they are not progress. It's some of the most exciting foundational work that's come for decades.
> Your meme website isn’t as random as you think it is and will compress much faster.

That's very funny
The point of cul de sacs is to discourage people who do not live there from passing through. They are there to discourage all driving except your driving.
Don’t forget about those “no left turn” intersections where you can suddenly turn into a pedestrian.
"AT&T, as you might remember, promised increased capital spending and thousands of new jobs in exchange for a corporate tax cut and claimed that the now-repealed federal net neutrality rules harmed broadband-network investment."

It's almost like for large corporations taxes and jobs/capital investment are mostly unrelated...
That's a very fair point.

The problem is that Google is not just Google the search engine, or Google the email provider, or Google the video service, or Google the website analytics engine, or Google the online office suite, or Google the ads syndicate.

Because Google is all of those things, it has accumulated too much market power, to the extent that they are market distorting. Bing and DDG (which is not an independent engine, but collates results) are irrelevant to a company's Internet presence. There is no such thing as SEO for Bing. Whereas Google can make-or-break you.

When Google the ad syndicate and Google the search engine collude (as it were) to place your competitor's ads ahead of your organic search result, a top result even, and to distinguish such ad results as ads only technically, by the narrowest of definitions, this compels you to advertise with Google the ad syndicate. Just as an example.

This behavior is harmful to the market (not to mention to users, but that's a different subject) and it is a given that Google the monopoly^Wsingle entity will continue to make such moves, whack-a-mole style so it's futile to squash any individual behavior even if you could. Ergo the reasonable solution is to break them up.
Here you go:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-pa...
Fantastic mondegreen ("knit pick", like picking at stitching with knitting needles, as opposed to "nit pick", which is picking off lice eggs to prevent future annoyance)
Not everyone wants to live in a dense city.

But not everyone wants to live in a sprawling suburb, but we've engineered financial and educational systems and property rights norms that make it difficult for even those who wish to live in a dense city to choose to do so.
Only if you don't enjoy clever titles.
> I've told people that this can be true in the US as well

It's certainly true where I live. My daily commute is ~10 minutes faster on a bike compared to driving, even ignoring time needed to park.
Which would be why the CIA under Johnson came up with the idea. Keep all the undesirable thought together and let it eat itself getting stranger and less palatable all the way.
Frankly who gives a s--t?

More seriously: it is a serious idea. Easy to spot first signs of a diarrhea outbreak on a cruise ship, refugee camp, etc.
> For example, detecting gravity waves does move the needle on any of these metrics

It will surely do. Those achievements are not possible without staggering advances in technology that can be later applied in different fields.

The same technology that we first developed for those expensive colliders is now used in MRI and others diagnosis tools that we have for granted today.
I live in LA. I'm not sure if it's just my changing age, but my perception is that, due to traffic and parking, people now do much more business locally than they did in the 1990s. This implies more biking, walking and alternative transportation.

By locally, I mean "within Silver Lake" or "within Echo Park" -- shopping, groceries, and especially casual dining. My belief is that pockets of density are slowly emerging.
This article was first posted on https://dev.to/justaashir/bulma-the-most-underrated-framewor...
>don't most programs register a shortcut key or two?

Yes which is exactly why I think it's likely he's being disingenuous about the root cause of this. Shortcut keys typically need modifier keys and, even in the instance where they don't, there has to be some check from the app to determine whether an input field or the main window has focus.

To be clear, I'm not saying it's 100% certain that this isn't an Apple issue but, based on Twitter's track record with their apps, this likely is on Twitter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21401656
You can usually teach the browser URLS by typing the start of the long bulky address and pasting the rest and pressing enter, then repeating that a few times. If you always do it by going to the homepage and navigating, that's what the browser learns.
Juul Knowingly Sold Tainted Nicotine Pods, Former Executive Says
I didn't get the impression they found out he was armed until later. But the article's not especially clear on that point, among others.
Speaking of nitpicking, it's nitpicking - literally speaking, removing the eggs of the lice you've probably already removed from someone's hair. It's a fussy activity (of necessity), takes forever, and would probably seem quite an annoying thing to someone (likely a child) who thinks you've already solved their pressing problem and should maybe leave them alone now.
On another note, thanks for a level headed discussion
To anyone who's interested in this topic, I strongly recommend this talk from Rich Hickey about "giving something to somebody that they can use and making a commitment": Spec-ulation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk)
I was astounded when I mapped out a transit ride from a suburb of Amsterdam to the city center - and discovered it was 15 minutes long. I'm not a fan of compact European living (washing machine in the kitchen?!), but that's a hard advantage to ignore.
At the very least, releasing their source would make available any bug fixes or enhancements they've made so that other users can choose to incorporate or learn from those changes.

Yes, this is a case of tivoization in that you can't load modified bins onto your car, but arguably you don't want people to be doing that to their cars anyways.
When I am in SF often I can walk faster than I can drive.
"Police decide what's reasonable" seems to be so at least implicitly. And I assume part of their argument was precisely that this was reasonable.
So, I was one of the people who read a lot about purported state surveillance before Snowden, and was still "shocked" by what he revealed. It's simple really: while Slashdot commenters et al had been murmuring about Echelon and the NSA for years already, there was no evidence, and therefore no way to sort out the fantasy from the reality.

The shocking part was (a) that the reality turned out to be even more pervasive than the fantasy in some respects; (b) that the details had remained a secret for so long (which is a surprising counterpoint to the whole "governments aren't good at keeping secrets" thing); (c) that it was leaked at all given the first two points; and (d) that any backlash against it all was so milquetoast.

All of this shifted some pretty fundamental stuff in my worldview and the way I regard conspiracy theories. I'm still skeptical of them, by default, but now only because I think that's a necessary blockade against insanity, not because widespread government secret-keeping is implausible.
I agree that short term providers will likely take in less money with a "Medicare for all" solution, but I think the problem presented by this blog post is overstated/misrepresented:
1) The "Over 65" demographic visits the hospital more than other demographics so comparing raw number of people is an apples to oranges comparison (65+ somewhere between 3-10x more likely to utilize an inpatient stay, https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb235-Inpati...)
2) Roughly half of all administrative costs in US hospitals are associated with billing. Administrative costs are lower in single payer systems because hospitals don't need to bargain and coordinate billing with multiple parties. Doctors will still be needed by hospitals, but hospital workers/sales people/VPs who bargain with insurance companies will be less necessary. This is a significant percentage of hospital expenditures [https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2...] Administrative staff seem much more likely to see paycuts or staffing cuts rather than necessary staff like doctors/nurse.
Or simply bold blue text.
Concert Promoters Turn Away from Facial Recognition Tech
Ehhh, sample size and base rate issues make me question "very well supported by statistics," but it's certainly an argument to the contrary.