skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. ~$600/yr for a not-great data plan. Call it $200/yr for the cheapest phone that won't make you want to toss it off a bridge or crush it underfoot, if you keep it three years. $800/yr as kinda the minimum to have a phone with the capabilities and usability to actually do anything with it without going into frugal-enough-it's-A-Thing-for-you territory, yeah, I could see $2k/yr not being that far off for a lot of people. Throw in $200/yr of IAP or subscriptions, a better data plan with a more realistic cap for heavy use, replacing your phone every two years instead of three and getting top-end models rather than older or mid-range ones.

Yeah, $2k/yr's probably not an uncommon amount of cellphone-related spending in the US, I bet.
I do both, and I'm also not sure what your tangent has to do with me.
I've never had a bad experience with him and he seems to have time for anyone who needs his help.
Scott replies to this objection in the comments:

> Trump has told us openly, over and over, that he’d do the same if he could (e.g., jail his political opponents). It’s only our system of checks and balances, or what’s left of it, that’s prevented him.
Exactly - and I would add another 2:

* What are the confidence intervals around the answers to the above? I.e., what are the probabilities of the ranges of answers to the above.

* Assuming that such probabilistic models have been running, unchanged, for at least a decade - how have these probabilities held up, where it is possible to measure the actual outcomes?
In the UK the idea of buying a home to me seems like basically anchoring ones' self to a lifetime of having to maintain a highly paid career (assuming it's even possible in the first place).

I look at a 300K+ apartment and think - buying that for the average person would mean they could pretty much never take a break from the 40-hour a week grind for the next 15 years or more.

In a world in which we've pretty much bent nature to our will, buying a home should not be this colossal struggle in developed countries.

It seems like such an enormous drag on all activity - not just economic - "everyone" is running around pretending that they're in poverty and we can't solve any of the problems because the landlord sucked all of the money away.
It requires a language with dependent types, like Idris.
Java did a shitty job of checked exceptions. C++ did worse.
I would experiment with such devices but placement of the electrodes is hard to deduce.

How do the studies ensure consistent placement across participants?
I'm not comparing the two, I'm comparing the roll out of the services.
Seriously? Of all the possible external factors (which, by the way, have all been shown to be relatively insignificant) you pick the one that’s seven to eight orders of magnitude slower than the change we’re seeing right now?
Almost certainly impossible. It's not a matter of newer technology, it's just that DNA doesn't work that way. You'd have to have some kind of weapon targeted to a specific person's entire genome (based on a sample of it) to not end up with an insane amount of collateral damage.

Human DNA is almost identical in every human that lives, and genes are present in everyone that are not active. You'd try to target a given group of people with e.g. brown skin and short stature and you'd end up killing your neighbors plus some other random people half a world away.

DNA isn't computer code, it's a random stew.
I wish there was a way to convey woo woo woo via emoji. Maybe some sort of Homer/Zoidberg gif?
In fairness, it's a good sign that they're catching such potential glitches in the simulator.
So don't have kids until you're fifty. Good plan!
Tyler Perry acknowledges he does not make movies for everyone but for and audience the movie industry typically ignored in the past.

I am not a fan either...
>It is very hard to measure the reduced life expectancy due to radiation..

Not at all true, as there us a ton of research that all point to low levels of radiation having minimal risk. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

The hysterics that surround nuclear accidents (like what happened in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster) were simply an overreaction.
Yes, if the world had infinite resources and manpower, attempting all solutions simultaneously would be the preferred method for dealing with climate change.

But dollars and the attention that produces them are finite. In that light, nuclear has to compete on its merits with the alternatives.
A lot of it starts with how you frame the discussion. If you start from an instinctive sense of what's "fair", then you get the current state of affairs: escalating wealth disparity (where else is this more visible than on the streets of SF, where millionaires trip over the homeless?), an America in 2019 that has no sane health policy in sight, and guys like Paul Ryan gleefully crowing about reining in "entitlements" in order to feed an agenda of tax cuts. All of it starts from the kind of mindset demonstrated in the parent post.

If, instead of starting from a vague sense of what feels fair, you instead see wealth as a measure of one's responsibility to a society and look at the actual effects of these various redistributive policies, you get a very different picture. It's often pointed out (including in TFA) that some of the most prosperous, productive periods of American history had extremely high tax rates, but it's amazing when you actually look at the raw numbers for yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...

It's baffling to me that faced with this, people continue to push this idea that the key to economic stimulation is tax cuts at the top end.
There is certainly only one math (if you subscribe to this idea -- it is also the truth) but many ways of doing it. Given doing math (at least at the research level) requires a staggering variety in
thought and being able to make connections through training
(some might call this intuition), trying to understand the sensitivity of ways of thinking about abstractions, to neurochemistry, is definitely a nontrivial question.
Now whether or not one is interested in answering this question, it is definitely complex enough to investigate.
This is median age. I have just listed my house and the two most serious parties are empty nesters looking to downsize. Either couple would bring up the median in the "all buyers" category.

Also home ownership makes it harder for people to move, which was a core element of mid-century economic growth in the US. So this isn't an inherently bad thing.
I will say this until it changes, but it is because 1) devs care only about developer productivity and 2) shareholders are the new customer. Nobody is focusing on the real customer.
>I don't suddenly get sick from pollution from coal power.

Lung cancer isn't a "sudden sickness"?

Hundreds of thousands of people a year are estimated to die from air pollution. Nuclear has killed far fewer over its entire existence, and it would be almost none without the criminal Chernobyl reactor design.

People are terrible at understanding risk, but very good at being influenced by propaganda. Anti-nuclear propaganda has been very effective.

I'm encouraged by the innovation around Gen 4 modular reactors. I think they'll end up being successful, pervasive, and cheap. ThorCon in particular looks strong.
https://terrapower.com
https://terrapower.com/updates/netflix-documentary-on-terrap...

Terrapower is one of Bill Gate’s active developments. There are immense amounts of depleted uranium that the gov thinks is waste sitting in fields. Terrapower can build nuclear reactors that can run and power the entirety of the US for 100 years. You’re right that most nuclear reactors haven’t made significant improvements which is why they’ve made considerable technological advancements for example no human operators (use AI like google to run their entire facilities) and liquid metal instead of water and disaster proof. Watch this documentary for more insight!
Doesn’t QT belong on your list? Or am I missing something?
Qantas finds structural cracks in three of its Boeing 737 NG jets
You can’t just dismantle Jim Crow 2.0 like that.

A bunch of laws designed to keep non-whites in second class jobs, housing, and away from ballot boxes would suddenly be neutered.

Seriously though, this should happen.

We should also change the laws around sex crimes so public urination doesn’t put you on a list next to Jared and teens sending nude pics of themselves aren’t child pornographers.
Not who you are replying to, but I believe the issue is version-control unfriendliness. At worst, they'll input everything to the DB directly, at best you'll have migrations, where you'll have to track down what the current piece of code is from a set of files.
The people that bemoan SQL are like the people that bemoan staff notation. Every [music|data] student thinks they can do better when they first learn it instead of embracing the though that's gone into it over many years.
>go direct

That's not really a thing in modern airliners. The computer is still heavily involved even when hand-flying the plane.
I feel like the "if they don't know what happened it's ok" perspective is a bit of a low bar ethically.
Corruption Is Contagious
Detection of prion infectivity in blood by enrichment w peptoid-conjugated beads
That's a very rose tinted glasses view of home buying. Buying a home can be a very good idea, but it could also not be. So you got a better job and want to move, you better hope you can sell, it's no where near a guarantee that you can sell. You should never plan on being able to sell in a couple month period. Houses around where I grew up are taking multiple years to sell with prices the exact same as they were in the 90's.

Renting out a home can be very lucrative for some people, but also a lot of work. Boiler breaks on Christmas? You have to fix that and quick. All issues go through you, if you get a management company then there goes your profits.

Nothing in live just goes up forever, that's wishful thinking. While you may lock in a fixed mortgage payment, you have maintenance and house expenses. Houses get expensive fast. Anything that breaks, needs replacing, or you decide to fill because of lifestyle creep can cost a lot of money. Your weekends can quickly go from doing activities for yourself or your career to doing house work consistently.

Owning a home can be a really great idea and even a good investment, but that's no where near guaranteed and each person should look into there own situation.
Absolutely. They just won't be able to demand service in English.
Sure, I agree the system is broken, but I am not sure if that will ever change, even if you attempt to organize some type of violent revolution.

As a result, you can only make the rational choices offered to you by the system, despite the system being deeply irrational.

That's why my gf and I rent a small place with the best roommates we can find, we don't have plans for kids, and we paid off student loans as quickly as possible and continue trying to increase our earning potential in tech
Looka lays off staff as failed rebrand from Logojoy cut revenue in half
If you're saying humans are responsible for 100% of climate change, it is "absolutely unreservedly" a no.

We don't know how fast the Earth is warming and we don't know how much of that warming is anthropogenic. The best "thermometers" we have are the UAH and RSS data sets, and they disagree by nearly 50% and historical data is constantly adjusted.

The only science actually settled is: the Earth is warming, disconcertingly fast, and humans are a large part of the process. Anything else even slightly more in depth is definitely not settled.
> I mean Steve Jobs didn't care about anything but the profits when launching the iPhone

I have many, many, many criticisms of Steve Jobs as a human being, and as a leader, but I have literally never before read anyone claiming “he didn’t care about anything but profits”.

If by this you mean Steve Jobs killed a bunch of unprofitable products, and generally Apple as a company on his watch didn’t sell anything without a sizable markup above the marginal cost of production, I would trivially agree.

But your formulation basically reduces a complicated contentious figure down to an absurdly inaccurate caricature. He clearly cared very deeply about a lot of different things.
How is .epub (basically a plaintext html document) ephemeral?
There are many people who still have student loans when they hit maternal ages which increase the risk of numerous problems for the offspring, like Autism Spectrum Disorder, Downs, or just miscarrying.
Goodbye Client Side JavaScript, Hello C#’s Blazor (Øredev 2019)
Except, this not a move in any direction. Leaving people living in the streets have been profitable so we left people living in the streets, now is more profitable to provide housing, if tomorrow is no longer profitable to leave them on the streets again, we will do so, because we maintained the same posture of just chasing profit.

And despite what GP might think, I welcome this as a nice way to ease people suffering, and I don't think "all corporations are evil". I just believe that people having a roof should not be tied to profit, and I disagree with the ideology pushed to our throats about how corporations chasing profit is good for everyone.
I was around 18 at the time of the Snowden leaks. I became extremely privacy-conscious and ended up closing myself off to the world as a result. I stopped participating on social media and I think it stunted some of my growth. What I mean by this is social media has really changed my life in a positive way. I've met a lot of great people and it's helped me grow my career and business substantially. I'm glad I got over that privacy phase since it did nothing but turn me into a ghost. Nowadays, I could care less. I write a lot and I'm pretty open about my life. Once you put yourself out there, you have to surrender some of that privacy and that's just how it is.
> We have to consume less; and that takes much bigger changes in the way we live our lives and look at the world.

Asking an expanding population to "consume less" is a nonstarter.

This is a human problem that doesn't have a human solution. It has to be a tech one.

Edit- This comment is not meant to be pro or anti-nuclear.
"When large masses of humans seem to start thinking the same, without really thinking"

So, the thousands of scientists the world over who have studied this extensively and produced some of the largest bodies of research for a field on a specific topic aren't really thinking? And when they communicate that to the public, the public should what, doubt literally everything this relatively unempowered group has to say while oil companies spend far more money and influence keeping this argument alive to ensure nothing is done?

What degree of confidence are you looking for, and is the IPCC not good enough for you? Why do you feel like all the people you disagree with "aren't thinking"?
Right, so what is plotted is the deviation from the mean reading in the time range given? Thanks for the links, those are insightful.
I disagree.

Managers don't build the technology. Engineers do.

And EVERYONE in the org is responsible - so everyone may be in a state of mental disbelief or denial.

After recognizing the negative ethical implications of either the work itself / the manner you're being asked to work in, or the technology you're being asked to build, and then - still being professional - after communicating your objections and seeing a failure by management to sufficiently acknowledge the complaints, the next step I'd recommend is to quit. You can get another job - even if it's a "work visa" scenario, get a recruiter and another job.

The company can be free to go on and do it's unethical thing on its own.
These guys are trolling the NYT, right? It reminds me of an article a few years ago about the socks of "Silicon Valley" which was clearly a troll from someone in SF (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley...)
One of the figure captions says they are storing 75.6 GB on one of these sheets. But I couldn't find any data on how long it takes to read and write, other than it's slow. Does it take minutes, hours, days, weeks?

And I guess at least the reading can be somewhat parallelized to speed up?
"If you care about performance you need to look at the query plan." Always I would say, once your data gets above toy size.
Ways to Produce Data into Apache Kafka via Secure Data Portal
Yeah, it's a static T-shirt, all these systems are just one network update away from a fix. We need dynamic clothing like the SmartShroud from "The Light of Other Days".
That's because a large portion of homeless people have drug addiction and/or have mental disease. Just giving them a place to stay doesn't cure the root problem.
There is not much substance to go by. Yet, with recent events/drama her resignation feels suspicious to put it mildly.

I suppose everyone expected the CFO to drop, instead.
Adobe Lowers AR Creation Barriers
Since CO2 emissions increased dramatically around the 1700s, that 80+- of carbon dating becomes feasible, no?
Anecdotal, but I prefer paper because I’m a software engineer. At the end of a day of eye strain, the last thing I want to do is stare at an eye strain inducing screen to read. With so much of day-to-day work force shifting to screen focused jobs I find it not surprising at all. This combined with the fact that I don’t want to support big conglomerates for book sales which makes buying paperback that much easier.
> I'm really getting punched down by the 20% down payment standard. I know PMI is a thing, but it's a fee that I'd like to avoid paying in addition to interest. Assuming 20% is enough to avoid PMI, even if I snag a 600k condo I need 120k down to not have a PMI.

Ask lenders about what's informally known as a "piggy-back loan". You can put 10% down, then get a second lien withdrawing that 10% and putting it towards the 20% number. That can avoid PMI, but be aware that the second lien will have worse terms, often with a floating rate, than the first so it's definitely in your interest to pay that off really fast. These were abused during the housing boom but they're not intrinsically bad. It may be preferable to paying PMI depending on how quickly you can pay off the second lien and how disciplined you are with money.
Does HE work behind CGNAT?
I agree that the perception of risk is because of the indirect effects you mention.

There's a strong similarity between climate science and low-dose radiation science. Both have huge well-coordinated UN and WHO-organized teams of experts who have reached consensus (IPCC for climate, UNSCEAR for radiation). Both have passionate counter-advocates saying that the UN experts are in cahoots and lying (Breitbart for climate, Greenpeace for radiation). You appear to be referring to the Greenpeace side of the story (which is also who the recent Chernobyl HBO series listened to, unfortunately).

Let me direct you to the UNSCEAR side of the story: https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html

Today, we understand that low-dose radiation causes very little negative health effects over the long term. It's not the boogeyman we're lead to believe by the opponents of nuclear power. Including all the long-term deaths caused by Chernobyl, nuclear has still saved over 2 million lives simply by displacing air pollution deaths. Nuclear is definitively a life-saver.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197?source=cen
Can We Use Google Maps to Judge Countries?
If it was engineered to be compatible with no-go-arounds safely, then absolutely I would. I've done it.
It's ineffective in other areas like social networks because all new market entrants are swiftly taken over by incumbents without any resistance by regulators.

You act as if it isn’t the goal of every startup that takes VC funding to get acquired. Yeah going public is the other route, but statistically it hardly ever happens. Look no further than YC. Only two YC backed companies have ever gone public.

VCs wouldn’t invest in companies if they thought their only exit strategy was navigating via the very unlikely road of going public. If it were harder to sell a company to a larger tech company, most of these investments would never happen.

The definition of monopoly is important in some respects but not for the question of whether or not we can reap the benefits of markets or suffer the consequences of dysfunctional markets. It doesn't take a clearcut monopoly to render a market dysfunctional.

Facebook came in and took on MySpace with a better product - not government regulation.

I'm not sure which people in power you are talking about

The government. Everyone likes government power as long as their side is in charge.
Wait, you can't put an app on the app store when your xcode version is not the absolute latest? Why do iOS devs put up with th... oh, right, Apple.
Courts have made stripping a person of rights harder. Typically, I'm not inclined toward slippery slope arguments. But this is a case where erring on the side of caution seems warranted.
Looks like Gitlab has censored her spreading the message of her resignation as well, nice.
> I am utterly baffled by these old solar and wind advocates who suddenly NOW are becoming big advocates of nuclear power

Possibly relevant that this fellow just took a new job as President & Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Nuclear Association.
San Francisco homeless tax helps spur departure of another high-profile company
It's not clear to me where we net out on nuclear.

On the one hand, you get much higher energy density. Earth has 2-3 billion people coming online with higher standards of living, greater needs for (desalinated) fresh water, etc. Do we have enough space for large-scale wind and solar to address this? And do we truly understand the local effects of wind farms, like less surface wind?

Against nuclear, when we see statistics like "nuclear has fewer deaths" I sense that there's a snow job taking place. How do you measure the public health effects of radiation? Do these really account for that?

When there's an accident, clean up costs are socialized but when things are going well, profits are private. Maybe that's worth it for carbon-free energy, but if the costs of a single accident annihilate the entire economic value of the industry, I scratch my head.

The silver bullet would be if there were truly economically viable and safe reactor designs. How scalable are the former, and how confident we can be of the latter?
Gitlab decided to not hire people living in China/Russia because of all risks linked to the Chinese/Russian government.

Isn't censoring one of their employee to not enflame the situation would be what China/Russia would do with their citizen for the same reason? kind of an ironic situation.
Nitpick: Title should read "America's Largest Private Health Insurer." America's largest health insurer is the government, via Medicare, Medicaid, and similar programs.

I'm interested in seeing how this corporate-funded/corporate-managed program compares to the many housing assistance programs that are funded by public funds or private donations.

I'm sure there are plenty of businesses out there that already help fund such programs indirectly by donating to charities that run affordable-housing programs.

But it will be interesting to see what happens when the businesses are running the programs directly, cutting out the nonprofits as a middleman.

My somewhat pessimistic take is that any efficiencies that might be gained by applying more rigorous business methods will be offset by lack of domain knowledge and for-profit perspective -- seeing a homeless person as a problem to be solved rather than a person to be served.

That said, I'm all for large corporations trying their best to address homelessness and housing insecurity, even if they do so imperfectly.
Blending complex systems made my latency 10x higher