skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know it's a cold, impersonal take, but when life sucks, having a child is going to make it worse and most likely just lead to a new generation of suffering.

This is very much a class thing. Well-educated middle class and higher simply can't comprehend why a single mother or even married couple would even think about having children when they can't provide the basics, let alone a solid education in good schools that aren't feeders for prison.

The folks who make that decision do so because they see it as a part of life and don't see any change in their circumstances for the foreseeable future. No light at the end of the tunnel, so just get on with living.
The Argument Against Python in Introductory CS
Presumably, anything better than what we have today would be... better.
Already solved, no worries needed. https://www.duesenfeld.com/index.html
The French thought about the bin problem and replaced them all with transparent plastic bags mounted on frames to support them and hold them open. The best of both worlds.
That's good right? Increased productivity, she'll still get a job somewhere on the higher wage. Win win win.
A case of “eXtreme Dogfooding”.
I wouldnt say it's awful, couple of neat things that one can use - noone forces anything on anyone.
You're right French have everything dubbed in french, also English teachers are very bad, which doesn't help, I would say that most French kind of understand basic written English, but when spoken, it is so different than anything they heard that they are not able to translate sounds to the written words they might know.

French has a lot of words which are close or exactly the same as English, but doesn't sound the same or mean completely different things, which doesn't help. (example: 'argument' in English as in 'having an argument' and 'argument' in French as in 'ton argument ne mène nulle part' don't mean the same at all, other words can mean the same such as 'agile' but sounds like two different words when pronounced in French vs English)

And then you have pride (the wrong kind) coupled with the fear of sounding ridiculous, which is why 99% of French you hear speaking English has a very strong accent, they're not trying.
This is very very important. Many people in these comments are arguing that there are choices that she could make to help her situation. That's true. But some kinds of conditions (lack of sleep, lack of time to yourself/to think, physical fatigue, fear of reprisal from most people--employers and colleagues--in your life) make choice itself into a limited resource. Could you technically decide to move/work out/fix whatever? Sure. Are you likely make that choice, be able to make that choice, or want to make that choice if your day-to-day is as depleting as what is described? No. Barring a few outliers, the ability to choose is suppressed for people in bad situations like this.
I believe the idea that a person making $400-500 a month can "add money to a 401k and then take it out again" is not only unreasonable, but completely out of touch with reality.

It reminds me of when one of the more well-off kids at college is shocked to find out that his/her colleagues are taking out student loans, and suggests "why don't you just ask your parents to pay for it?"
A priori not anymore so than otherwise downranking slow sites. The missing piece here is how using amp is beneficial to Google or harmful to consumers/other search engines to make it anticompetative.
I'm on the fence, having done embedded work, I understand the importance of hard-/soft-realtime distinctions.

Our technical terms to some extent do need to be gate-kept against having their meanings watered down, but I've seen so many "realtime" browser projects, that I'm afraid we have to accept it has entered into the common vernacular like "serverless" has, in spite of the inaccuracies.
The people who do ok with these jobs are people with tight nit families who live 12 people to an apartment and share all expenses. For some reason, that kind of living arrangement never works in America. Zoning can cause that to be a problem, but there are other reasons it doesn't work.

I was reading a blog by an American who took a job at a hair cutter in China and 12 people lived in 3 rooms in bunk beds in the back of the store and they never fought. He commented that this living situation would never work in America.
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My guess would be that the rail line would need entirely new right of way which would radically increase the variability of the cost and may result in it being down right impossible. (Speaking as someone who closely watched the drama around getting new right away along I5 for high voltage transmission) While the highway expansion probably already has the land they need for most of the project.
You’re right, but I have met a lot of successful immigrants who did have a good experience. I’m sure experiences vary dramatically
In the old days middle class kids all had real service/manual jobs as teenagers & college students. Its scary that now the new generation has to read about what it is like.
those statements sound like incredible cherrypicking

does 1.11% sound a lot an is it statistically significant?

cut page in half from what to what? from 30 to 15 seconds? or from 2 to 1?

improving one second like how? from 12 to 11 or from 2 to 1? and is 2% really substantial?
This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about
$200/year).

Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?
Back in my genetics class in Uni, unitended mutations from gene editing struck me as a concern almost immediately. and its scary to think about. these unknown mutations could be benign, harmful, or even helpful, but if they entered the population through procreation... i mean i had an anxiety that the whole human genome could be damaged at a fundamental level.

the complexity of the biological machinery that occurs during gene transcription and replication and translation is maddening. yes, its sort of like a zipper in some ways, but remember that the geometry of a zipper is 2 dimensional, teeth and grooves. DNA is "zipped" by a protein that will fit with the geometry of hundreds or thousands of nucleotide pairs, and even that is a really basic way of putting it. and that natural system of transcription, translation, and protein synthesis at the core of DNA still makes mistakes.

You think index mismatch by 1 in an array can be a bit tricky, imagine how with DNA you have a long array, sort of, with millions of discrete parts that have start and end segments sort like how memory is managed in ram. CRISPR is in some ways, like trying to write perfect memory safe code in a non mem-managed language. crude metaphor but it was how i thought about it during university learning about both compsci and genetics.
You are right. I think the killing of Jamal Khashoggi also played a role in keeping foreign investors at bay.
Having separate URLs for the same target document is antithetical to the Web. See also TBL's essay, "Cool URIs don't change": https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
>While the team targeted the right gene, they [created] novel edits whose effects are not clear.

Welp. If it's not the right gene, you can bet it's probably just going to cause cancer or something.
I'm curious, why are do used Leafs have such low resale value?
I think these kind of tools are more about provisioning a "normal" cluster from an "admin" cluster. That way the power flows downhill, as it were.
I work in the news industry and have literally never published anything to the public without a CDN. It's basic, easy, and cheap. AMP is a scam.
I wonder how much your comment applies outside of SF?

I live in Cambridge MA, walking distance to the biotech capital of the world, and I can't relate to any of your listed downsides of city living except the astronomical rent.
Probably the part of this book is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190718151714/https://docs.goog...

The 3rd or 4th result by Google search.
This isn't how it works at all:

> All countries tax income earned by multinational corporations within their borders. The United States also imposes a minimum tax on the income US-based multinationals earn in low-tax foreign countries, with a credit for 80 percent of foreign income taxes they’ve paid. Most other countries exempt most foreign-source income of their multinationals.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-curre...
A company I worked with looked into this model. The problem is that most cars are not in garages near PV during the day, they're in parking lots at work or in shopping/errand locations. They return to garages and plug in just before sunset, so the load on the grid from EVs actually goes up right as the input from PV is going down.

The model does work great with powerwall-type devices, though.
The Vancouver, WA thing is especially ridiculous given the whole Columbia River Crossing fiasco, where the Washington legislature wasted a ton of money by shutting it all down out of fear that Vancouver might have to pay to operate a single rail stop on their side of the river.
Facebook is definitely not try to get Trump out of office.
I agree with your sentiment that their gadgets are mostly glorified surveillance apparatus. However, that's not a valid reason to bar them from promoting those products. It doesn't really have a bearing on the scenario I described.
I Want No School
id want more school i want to hack the brigthfish
Ask HN: Will cancer in humans ever be considered a non-fatal condition?
I just read this article on the possibility of humans ever finding a cure for cancer (not sure how old the article is) and the outlook seems pretty bleak to say the least: https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/cancer/facts/will-we-ever-cure-cancer.htm

If curing cancer is itself impossible because it is so deeply rooted in the fundamental processes of cells, how far are we from making cancer, regardless of the type, a non-fatal condition?
> So the "fast" part, besides using their CDN, actually comes from limiting what you can do on almost every other part of the site

That is a good thing.
Isn't teaching or mentoring others a requirement for a PhD? It has traditionally been seen as a route into university employment at the lecturer/researcher/professor level. It is a lot more than just the next qualification up from a bachelors or masters degree.
But you concede that some jobs would be automated if the labor prices were higher, and yet you think that's fine? Do you acknowledge a trade-off whereby fewer workers can get higher wages OR more workers can get some wages and prefer the former?

For argument's sake, let's assume that no jobs can be automated. The cost to the franchise owner to operate goes up, and in response they raise prices -- but at some prices they're going to really start losing business, so they also have to lower costs elsewhere or simply get lower profits. How does it all shake out? The fact is that it has to be paid by someone, and it'll likely mean fewer McDonalds are opened because it'll just be harder to make them profitable.

Maybe you're OK with that trade-off, but it IS a tradeoff that will happen, and it means fewer jobs.

Your analysis presumes that the business owners can and will absorb anything without reacting, as if more value can be extracted but there won't be a new equilibrium. I assume that the franchise owners aren't making the kinds of profits where that is true, I assume they're mostly bumping along on fairly low margins.
If we’re including the other consulting firms, it’s not just that. These companies effectively also function as a contracting platform ie a “AWS” for on demand employees instead of servers
This calls for a P2P model of consultancy then: Company A acts provides neutral consultancy to Company B (in a unrelated field) and Company B or C provides neutral consultancy to Company A.
have you heard of synthetic adderall from China?
$12,000 of benefits does not equal to $12,000 of UBI. UBI doesn't limit you on what you want to buy. UBI doesn't require paperwork or lengthy approval process. UBI doesn't go away as you make more money.
Get to know when is your 10.000th day birthday
That's road degradation though not tire wear...
The article doesn't explain what the unintended mutations might be..?
I think the context is supposed to be "web application for interacting in real-time [as opposed to more-significantly-delayed time]" versus "real-time computing" in spite of the term "real-time application"
> If BMW sells a car in the US

Aren't there import tariffs and sales tax in US?
Worth noting that Seattle, Portland and Vancouver all have made significant investments in public transit, so once you're in the city, you also can do pretty well without a car.
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None of the pre-ordered (after the campaign) devices shipped yet, those are early batches sent to early backers who were given a choice to either get them now, or wait for mass produced version.
I almost did a spit take there. America's short history includes genocide, enslavement, de facto disenfranchisement, economic discrimination, and/or dramatically unequal jurisprudence levied against basically all non-Europeans.

You could say that this is somehow improved since the civil rights movement, and you'd be right, but its legacy as a de-facto patriarchal ethnostate looms large to this day and if this is the beacon of inclusion and harmony that the rest of the world aspires to that's a sorry situation indeed. The US line of "all men are created equal" should have come with a footnote explaining that "some are more equal than others."
Then you (or the market in general) don't use their service, and they'll be forced to change their minds, and have their "independent contractor cleaning partners" sign contracts to agree to surveillance to get any gig at all...

Fuck the grim Amazon future, with cloud feudalism spreading to real life and Jeff Bezos is Emperor..
They state you cannot sell your product anywhere for cheaper than Amazon.
Everybody seems to be latching on to the McDonald's part of her story, the author included. But it's the hospital part I find mortifying. McDonald's is pinching pennies left and right, it's their key to success. The hospital is not. How much would you guess they're charging per day for the average patient to stay there? I bet it's enough money to cover full-time employment and benefits for their food service workers.
The Model 3 weighs hundreds of lb more than its equivalent in an ICE car, not 3x as much. These numbers are still improving as well.
Not if you're an exempt employee!
Thank you US government consumer subsidy!
At least from Rust’s end, it is unclear if do notation is even possible, which is why we have pursued two special cases rather than it directly.
Not if the position is overtime exempt.
It pretty much does run GNOME, just with its one component (GNOME Shell) replaced by phoc and phosh.
Wow reading some of these comments makes me sad. Some of you have no idea how sad and hopeless situations can be. Before working as a dev I worked in fast food for 5 year, full time and while going to college. I worked with some people who were so trapped, I feel guilty at times.
it would be really really hard to figure that out at this point, most likely. again, like the article says, they cant investigate the embryo too fully without "destroying it". Same sorta goes for a kid. But if the unintended mutations manifest in a bad expression, you might be able to start researching in situ in labs with cell cultures with and without the gene present / expressing.
Are consultants’ fees generally accounted for as capital expenditure? Seems more operational to me.
> I am using elitist in a good way, although there’s certainly elitist attitudes on here.

Wait, that last time you said elitist, did you also mean it as a good thing?
for some more context: https://austinhgilkeson.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/the-real-re....

Also the OP is from 2014.
To say this is a minor-league Jordan Peterson misses some of the horror. He's also a nofap, "intelligent" design, wrath-of-God, purveyor that would be just a bible belt moral panic victim but he's got footnotes. To keep it short, let's jump right to the related posts:

Here's the intelligent design bit: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/idscience

And here is the fire and brimstone: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/canaandestruction

The site is also heavy on the saccharine representational art. Retrograde pseudo-culture/nostalgia.
Telekinesis, rapid regeneration, blue hair
Everyone replying answered this, I'd just like to point out that the answer to 'could you elaborate a bit more' is to read the parent article.

Another excerpt:

> In 2013, the GSA Inspector General traced a similar situation with different contractors. Managers at GSA overruled line contracting officers to raise prices taxpayer pay for contractors Carahsoft, Deloitte and Oracle. Government managers at GSA micro-managed and harassed their subordinates and damaged the careers of contracting officers trying to negotiate fair prices for the taxpayer.
McDonald's...paying for a taxi? Yeah, maybe in Germany. I'm aghast that anyone could think that would happen in America. I'm at the bottom of the bottom at an IT organization and I don't even get a compensated bus pass. Nor would I expect one.
Of course. Wilhelm Reich and The Marquis de Sade said the same thing.

They just disagree with the author on ends.
It seems like a dead certainty that gene editing creates unintended mutations, since to do otherwise would require the technique to be 100% controllable and verifiable, and it is neither. So the only question is whether those unintended mutations are harmful or not, either to the immediate generation or subsequent ones. Because there is so much uncertainty around that question, these kinds of experiments are ethically, and in many cases, legally, prohibited.
Orleans: Cross-platform framework for building distributed apps in .NET
> Because a citizen walking on the sidewalk doesn't consent to being captured with cameras everywhere they go.

In the US they do. They're in public. It's photographers rights.
Just because we most associate the "company town" era most with (relatively) small towns (and that wasn't always true, both Detroit and Chicago, as two wildly different examples, have been accused of being company towns in different ways and at different times), doesn't mean it isn't an applicable comparison even to "superstar metros".

The "Google bus" issue in SF certainly didn't make SF a company town, but it did raise the specter of how willing a large enough company can be to routing around a city's infrastructure rather than work with it, stratifying public transit services in complicated ways that caused a lot of real grief for non-Google employees, just as non-employees in many a company town would have had mobility issues.
I think the video shows how they are frequently misused. I wouldn't be surprised if the conclusions in the bloomberg article are also incorrect.
Amtrak is wildly unreliably because of how much it shares rails with freight trains, which is the real problem with it more than just travel time.
The part I don't understand is what's keeping competitors like the Boston Consulting Group from listing similar services on the GSA schedule at a better rate.

The article talks about the IG finding evidence that the GSA improperly approved cost increases for McKinsey. This makes sense in regards to perverse incentives but I didn't see anything about the GSA shutting out less costly competitors from the schedule of approved contractors. Since the GSA generally doesn't award contracts, I would expect to see some evidence that McKinsey was unduly favored in the schedule listing for stronger evidence of corruption.
There is no bigger lie than hard work = prosperity. It is literally the exact opposite. Think of the hardest shittiest jobs and they are almost always the least paying. The richer you get the less hard work is, until you're able to reach the pinnacle of doing absolutely nothing but managing your money and taking advantage of discounted cap gains taxes. I grew up rich with every opportunity and never had one of these jobs, but it's clear as day.

To get more money you have to pry it from people's hands. You have to have something they can't resist not paying you for. That's it.

The suffering of low minimum wage is supposed to "encourage" people to move up the value chain, as the conservative doctrine goes, but it just doesn't work when all your time and energy is spent surviving.
This a largely an accounting problem. Most consumers pay by kWh, with no separation between generation and transmission cost components. If more people generated their own power, they’d have to seperate out the generation and transmission costs.
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—- not personal blog per se but collection of all personal interviews. Excuse the clickbaitish title, it is not a pitch of any kind.
they offer replacements as amp-ads. i dont know how they work
You didn't miss much - the game's rubbish.
These collections propose a handful of alternatives:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#ana...

https://nomoregoogle.com/
Regarding your first objection, I can't prove it. I have nothing but my own perception, but it certainly seems to me that today we are "post truth" in a way that we weren't in the 1980s. (I was in high school in the 1970s, so maybe I wasn't in the best place to judge that decade.)

Now, it easily could be that, being more mature now, I find it easier to see the irrationality of peoples' positions today. That's quite possible. But it seems to me that the world - or at least the public discourse - is much less rational today than it was 30 years ago.
This is really wrong. Cars have been recalled as recently as this year due to fire risk when not running.

Not only that, but they are actually no more energetic than gasoline. This is an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdaFk3w6rUY

Gasoline actually has a higher risk of becoming "explosive", though as you pointed out that is not the most common outcome.
It’s the government: They’ll just move everyone over to the new Department of UBI, with an Administrator of UBI, a Deputy Administrator of UBI, an Assistant To The Deputy Administrator, a team of consultants, inspectors, auditors, inspectors of the auditors, auditors of the inspectors of the auditors, and so on. Nobody will actually lose their job.
Surely to cultivate positive memories it would help to be living a `good' life?
Perhaps you need to consider how much/well you sleep.
https://www.thesenior.com.au/story/6313192/poor-memory-it-mi...
They can, although they support end-to-end encryption as well.
How do the tax credits work? As in, you get the money back on your tax refund? This woman makes about $500 a month. And those plans are typically $8000+ deductible, basically shit plans. In most states, people qualify for Medicaid when they make less than $1,200 a month. Which is completely free care.
I also feel like iOS should have such a mode, but I also imagine that if it existed there would be a million pages saying, "Hey kids, want to install this cracked game? It's easy, first get your dad's iPhone and turn off system integrity protection…" It already happens with enterprise certs.
The average high in Durham is around 30C (86F) in the middle of summer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham,_North_Carolina#Climate). Without a shower, she would be a stinking mess at work.