skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your response - glad to know I'm not alone.

To address your last point, I meant "more of an outlier" in the mathematical sense: if for a given trait that's beneficial to, eg, startup success (like dominance or risk-taking), the distribution is overlapping bell curves with similar SDs but a higher mean for men, then I am by definition less likely to have a high level of that trait. Obviously a simplified model, but the article seems to say it's a valid one.

Part of me says you're right and I shouldn't engage - the other part wants to gather more data to reason about this properly, but worries I'll see stuff that I'll wish I hadn't.
I used to run this, long ago, but I've not been able to get it running more recently. 8-(
Wow. Have you ever wondered that may be inequality should be a problem worth solving instead of finding yet another way of isolating yourself from the problem?
Who has it now is a good question, but so too is 'who had it first'.

And if you also consider the upgrade treadmill, and where the average Java developer is relative to say ten years ago, it may turn out that at any given point in time, the Kotlin version you'd be able to deploy may have a number of features the most recent Java version you could deploy does not have.

(to say nothing of companies where 'the version' is decided by committee or fiat and thus having a more obscure language sometimes gets you less scrutiny).
> People do not have a right to sleep wherever they want, whenever they want.

Indeed, and this court ruling doesn't say that. The limitations of the circuit court ruling are described in the article, which I'm sure you've read. Second paragraph.
One would think that if it were so easy, nobody would bother with magnets:

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

"If ITER becomes operational, it will become the largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment in use with a plasma volume of 840 cubic meters,[15] surpassing the Joint European Torus by almost a factor of 10."

I fail to find any hint to a reasonable estimation of viability of General Fusion's concept.

Edit: and I mean a written estimation, not that they will now, with the received money, according to their own words, just "formally launch the program" (note they promise just to formally launch the program, nothing more) "to design, construct, and subsequently operate its Fusion Demonstration Plant." Heh.
It's not really fair to bring Cerner into this. The security vulnerabilities that enable these malware attacks are unlikely to be in Cerner applications. Instead it's usually an OS or email problem.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I'm really curious about the TypeScript hate. Besides some odd type mapping here and there, I've really enjoyed using it over plain old JS.
> Sometimes it is the only way to get things back running. I understand its the organization's fault for not having backups. It would destroy some businesses, hospitals, schools if they weren't able to pay the ransom.

That doesn't change the game theory dynamics that I pointed out above.
“It’s also a sign”

This. It is never the case that this one terrible idea was the sole outlier from an otherwise brilliant and empathetic leadership team.
Not for me! I played 5 or so games and every time it would spit me into a loop, or started attaching the same string to every response.
Chromecasts may be the best low-key (and low-cast) gadget out there. Which probably means Google will kill it :-/

Just use my tablet, phone, or laptop to put content up on the TV. It makes for a pretty nice digital picture frame too.
Depends a lot on how long it takes to get the planes recertified. At this point, they have taken some serious reputational damage, but every day they’re falling further behind schedule. If it takes too long, airlines might start cancelling their orders and buying Airbus instead.

And of course, if they fail to get the MAX flying again, it’ll be ruinously expensive. Massive write-offs, lost revenue, endless lawsuits. Probably not enough to end them outright, but it’ll be some tough times.
> Ban the aircraft. Criminally charge everyone involved in suppressing it's serious issues and forcing it through approval.

That's going a bit too far. Banning MCAS and requiring pilots to undergo MAX-specific training and certification seems more reasonable (and less wasteful) response to the issues.

I would support criminal charges against the chief decision-makers that led Boeing into this mess, going all the way up to the top. Examples need to be made to reset the priorities of corporate decision-makers.
> Automakers, for example, can now expect to see bigger profits from the loans they make on selling cars than from selling the actual cars

I've heard of that. Then I heard dealers will give you a hard time if you want to buy a car right out, some will even run your credit without your permission. I don't have the money to go buy a new car right now, but it's pretty sad that saving up and paying for things is so discouraged now. Then dealerships in general people don't like or even lie to people, I guess one told someone they were required to fill out a credit application by law even if it doesn't get processed... So if your credit union or your own bank got you financing, then want to try to undercut that. Then heard some dealership someone was looking at new cars thinking of trading their car in, but changed their mind but the dealer kept their keys a little longer trying to keep them there. Seems like walking into a dealership is getting into a hostage situation.

People are just putting everything on credit, a car they probably shouldn't of bought and sits parked most of the time, people refinance their mortgages over and over again so they'll probably never end up paying off their house. It's insane how much debt is pushed... and also seems easier to get into student debt than getting loans to start a small business.

Seems like the priorities are all off anymore and they want everyone to be in debt. Then people with poor credit might end up paying double or more the value of the car, someone I knew bought a used car and was going to end up paying 4x the value of it... and then in some parts of the country if you don't have a car, you don't have a job unless you live in one of the big cities with public transport. Some areas don't even have sidewalks either, and some people have attitudes against cyclists too since they paid more for their car or SUV so they feel more entitled to the road. I guess whoever has the best car is some sort of contest, but I can see why it draws people in. Someone I know has got a new car every few years, now regrets doing that since so much money they could of had saved up now.
There's another word for being "charitable" with other people's property, and that word is "theft".
Shirer has a shorter book called The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler that was concise and clear. I look forward to reading this longer iteration on the same topic too.
Unless it's Android, if they can't access the latest features of Java they more than likely can't access the latest features of Kotlin either.
It wasn’t the state legislators who put that on the ballot, but anti-tax activist Tim Eyman. We’ve been down this route before with property taxes and even car tabs. Note that a previous county-wide initiative approved the car tabs in the first place (in those counties only), they were then repealed by this state-wide one. Amazing how the vote can swing when sampling grows beyond King and parts of Snohomish and pierce county.
Did anyone else find this article hard to follow? First, the definition of amae was poor. It seemed mostly a collection of examples. Second, the author made broad claims, like that amae was reflected in the #metoo movement, without substantiating or explaining them.
That's what I believed when I was younger. However, after watching unions in action, they seem to make things even worse, especially for younger workers. I don't think the answer to outsized corporate power is to try and balance it with outsized union power.

What I'd like to see is simply more decentralization of power, something like the "trust busting" under Teddy Roosevelt. When any organization gets past a certain scale it seems to lose touch with basic values and decency. You see this with countries too. Small states like Singapore or Denmark don't often start needless wars or meddle in the affairs of others, the way superstates like the U.S., Russia or China do.
Context: https://www.historylink.org/File/1287
"Gore Vidal, who’s had his dick sucked more than a few times and been taken to task for it, has written far more persuasively that the novel as an art-form has become a cultural irrelevance, but you don’t hear him whingeing about ‘artistic invalidation’."

It's not too often that I see words like 'tentacular' and 'bathos' in the same article as phrases about metaphorical dick-sucking (see above).

More seriously, I've been getting more into literature and literary critique recently, and am a bit surprised about how personally affronted he seems by the book - is this sort of reaction common in literary criticism?
Which island is it?
There's significant thought that by helping people get to where they want (by not requiring a car, by not needing insurance to get somewhere, reducing traffic strategically) that transportation in many ways helps pay for itself.

Much like how main streets with sidewalks get random foot traffic but mini-malls promote driving to a store, picking up and leaving. (this very much extends to uber eats and delivery canabalizing even mini malls)
they will rename the plane, almost certainly
You are correct, this has been implemented before Origin Groups have been released and they might be a viable alternative, but we haven’t tested them yet.

Source: I work at Contentful.
The EPA has always had laws about environmental controls (whether people care about them is a different issue, however...), so it's not something any new laws should really need to cover.
They’ve already taken steps to rename it to drop the MAX moniker: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-...

I highly doubt the average consumer will think twice about flying on a Boeing 737-8200, presuming they can avoid more scandals.
If the transit system sucks compared to the alternatives, free fares are meaningless. When I lived in Phoenix, I could drive to work in 20-30 minutes. The same trip by bus took 90 minutes if I made a successful connection midway. If I missed that connection, which I did once, it became a 2 hour trip home.

I only made the trip by bus two days, when the city was literally out of gas in 2003. The city could have paid me to take the bus and I still would have driven. I have to think the same would be true for pretty much everyone there who wasn't already stuck taking the bus.
This is not always practical. Either you lay your HDMI cable across the living room, or you have to find a spot for your laptop near the television (not always possible), and then you have to get up and walk to the laptop to change anything.
Around 1999, HP had a project called Dynamo where they implemented a JIT PA-RISC virtual machine on actual PA-RISC hardware. In some cases, they got better performance than native because the JIT would recognize hot paths at run time. I only bring it up to show that it's not 100% certain VMs can't win over conventional native. When I compile with GCC or CLang, I don't think my executable is tracing the hot paths and rewriting itself as it runs.

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-78.html
Could you try over VPN?
Laravel, Vue, Tailwind, MySQL, OpenAPI, JSON:API.
Google Cloud Storage has multi-region storage classes. Does S3 not have an equivalent of this?
You don't pay taxes on your vehicle if you don't drive it. All vehicle related taxes I'm aware of are usage taxes, not wealth taxes.

Real estate taxes are a thing, yeah, but only at the state level and below. A better statement would be: there is no federal wealth tax, and taxes on non-real property are unheard of, but that's a mouthful.
Array LED backlighting can be had for under $500. I purchased a 55" 4k Vizio for under $500 3 years ago which I promptly returned when the included remote did not let me adjust the TV's settings, they expected me to download an app.

My only criteria for the replacement TV is that it have better picture quality than the 10yo Samsung it is replacing.
All commercial circuit boards are designed with computer aided design tools. An unfortunate consequence of these tools are monocultural, emergent styling decisions that stem from the tooling's schema. John Maeda has half a dozen books on this - he suggests one must design ones own tools if you don't want to look like everyone else and compete with the same strengths and weaknesses as everyone else. For obvious reasons, most people don't.

The default way of designing circuits is in 2D planar view. It's uncommon to think about circuits in 3D and uncommon to think about the material science of these things.

What makes Got-It special is not just that the broke the conventions of the traditional EE design patterns but that they broke them in so many different places. Where most people would use a readily available Bluetooth Chip, it sounds like they sourced the core to half-a-chip (Bluetooth MCU chips are often a combination of Arm processor, memory, radio, power management, and communication cores - it's not common to just take a few of these things - they're sold as a package but all those parts take power and this thing has a very tight power budget). They wrote their own Bluetooth stack (this alone is a multi-year project). That stack they wrote took into account weird specification...divergences...that the Bluetooth SIG says one should do but Apple/Android don't. The circuit they designed only works with the manufacturing process they had to develop for this chip - designs are usually done on rectangular boards, not tape. Most people don't make their own passive components they source them. Most people don't think about their circuit in 4D (that is 3D+movement as it bends in use). Most people don't think about making their own manufacturing equipment to serve a SaaS like business goal. I'm not even getting into the battery part which is bananas. The list goes on, as Brian enumerated above, but the combination of so many of these things represents a radical departure from 'business as usual' and the start of
a new design movement as has happened when people transitioned from using drafting tables to computers decades ago.

It's not so much that they broke walls, as they broke walls that people didn't even realize were there AND that they broke so many of them.

Again, well done!
Is this good or bad for my house-buying efforts?
JS Console Logs: Putting Up the Christmas “Decorators".
Twitch Sued for £2.1bn over Premier League by Russian Firm
CA is a huge place. Yes, across a gigantic state housing starts aren't great.

But within 7 miles of me in any direction, more than 100,000 new units have come online in the past 2 years, and more than another 100,000 are expected to come online in the next 2. Across LA, there are a few hundred thousand more units in the pipeline, some of which would already be built and occupied if not for NIMBYs in single-family houses opposing the construction.

And quite frankly, even if we could build at the speed of historic norms, there simply isn't the available land. You'd end up with housing tracts hundreds of miles from their associated job centers.
Isn't it 4 hydrogens? And one of the cool things that happens is 2 of those protons turn into neutrons + positrons.
I have made it a goal to read all of Cal Newport's books. This is a step in curbing my internet addiction and taking back as much attention span as I can.
The impact of staff clicking suspicious emails can be almost entirely eliminated by severely restricting user permissions. Only a special set of administrator accounts should be allowed to execute untrusted binaries. Regular users can only run trusted whitelisted applications.
It's fascinating to me that even august publications like the Wall Street Journal continue to use 'unemployment rate' as any kind of reliable metric, and says stuff like 'the unemployment rate is at a 50 year low now'. Unemployment just measures those who are actively looking for full-time employment but are unable to find it (and yes there is a separate underemployment metric, which seems a little more accurate).

The reason we have 'slack' in the labor market is because the adult prime-age participation rate in the economy was quite low for a long time after 2008, and even now is only getting back to early 2000s numbers. This just seems like a much better metric to understand the health of the labor market & perceived slack. Disability has exploded over the last 20-30 years, and someone collecting a disability check- especially if they are simply milking the system- doesn't show up as 'unemployed' because they're not actively looking for work. It's actually pretty concerning for the US how low the adult participation rate has fallen. There's pretty good evidence that this decade of low interest rates has started to slowly bring in people off the sidelines who weren't looking for work, had given up, were in the informal sector and weren't counted, etc. That's a massively good thing for society.

I don't think you can understand labor market slack or the point at which wages will start to rise until you ditch the somewhat gimmicky 'unemployment rate' and start looking at adult participation in the economy period
Because someone is going to make policy decisions. On what basis would you have them do so? Economics, which (as you say) fails many times in making predictions? A good guess? Gut feel? Wishful thinking?

For all its flaws, economics is actually better than the alternatives.
Only in the C, C++, Java, ... universe.

Worked with a few case smashers in the 80s. Smashing Unicode is hard, I guess. I don’t really have much of a preference for or against case sensitivity, though I do hate fuglyCaps
Unpopular opinions, CLVII: Sturgeon's law applies to macros. Squared.
Pretty cool article and highlights the problem of Smart TVs well. I don't think I'll ever get a smart TV but I'm privileged in this because my husband is fine with watching movies on a PC monitor and we don't plan to have kids so it's not like we'll have someone in the house clamoring for Disney+ on a separate big screen. Most households cave eventually because, admittedly, it's sweet to get a huge screen with excellent picture quality for just a few hundred.

My one gripe with the article itself is the introduction: "I’ve noticed something exciting but sort of crazy". Claiming that TV prices dropping fast is 'crazy' seems a bit funny. Prices drop for a lot of stuff though, I suppose, some technology does stay in the same relative range. But it's probably only until it reaches a certain quality point past which there's not much to entice customers into high-end purchases.
I don't recommend having only one such person if you have depression or anxiety. Things can go poorly should things ever go sour with a small number (~1) of trusted friends.

And of course a network of friends while helpful is not a 1-for-1 substitute for say, a therapist.
Francis Su, “Mathematics for Human Flourishing”
This was what I intended to write. Sorry, the HN input box isn't my usual IDE :)
> dozens of crashes

That's wrong by an order of magnitude. 737 series had a total of 478 incidents, 213 of which is resulted in hull loss [1].

[1] https://aviation-safety.net/database/types/Boeing-737-series...
I always had the wrong assumption with General Fusion being privately funded, it was partly owned and invested by General Electric.

Turns out they dont have anything in common apart from the name.
Adheres to Tethics.
Why, were talking about a fatal error in one small system on a huge and complex aircraft which is 90% the same as the previous iteration of this aircraft.

We can fix these things.

We should not be approaching engineering problems with emotional reactions to crashes. The airline industry is so incredibly safe because each crash is analyzed, the problems identified and solved. If two crashes mean we should scrap it, does that mean we just stop flying because every major aircraft type has had serious incidents.

No, we fix the problems and keep flying. You don't get better at something by giving up the first time you make a mistake.
Also, those relatively small investments of $100M will add up to a lot over time. At some point people are going to get a bit sour on the idea of acting like an angle investor with tax dollars.
No layoffs according to CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/boeing-will-suspend-737-max-...
> lawsuits that are surely incoming are going to pile-drive this company into the ground

Legally, everyone is indemnified up the wazoo.

Strategically, airlines are in a worse position if Boeing goes under. Not only do they lose the planes on order. They also lose their service and replacement-parts provider. The survivors would, in the medium-term, face an Airbus monopoly and, in the long-term, a Chinese-European duopoly.

As emotionally-satisfying as it may be to see Boeing go under for its arrogance, it's neither helpful nor likely. (A well-managed break-up, on the other hand...)
>The lawsuits that are surely incoming are going to pile-drive this company into the ground

I'm sure the lawsuits are coming, but we're talking about Boeing here. "pile drive them into the ground" might be a bit of an overstatement. Worst-case scenario, they have to be bailed out by the government.
> Businesses only become profitable in a almost completely artificial human made financial landscape.

Baloney. Some may; many good ones are profitable anyway.
Don’t write programs in shell script, unless you love an endless supply of bugs, half of which cannot be solved.
My code contains a bug, the code driver733 wrote is what I intended to write (usually I use predefined variables for orElse, conditionally taking the method call threw me of guard).
sure. but creators have an incentive to run nodes for the network. renting a vps to run ipfs or a webtorrent relay is cheap and also facilitates worldwide distribution

and ISPs might adapt to increased demand, fixing their stingy upload rates
This book featured adversarial inputs to the human neural network long before deep learning was cool.
> and that larger players would correspondingly re-enter the market, hungry to pick up first-in-class antibiotic programs.

Does this mean their business model is basically always going to be getting acquired by one of the big pharma firms?
There is, but I'd rather the courts go with the most obvious interpretation of the law, then start from a premise of what should be done (as they see it), and then try to stretch the law to fit. Courts are not for making policy, and when they're appropriated for that purpose, it quickly spirals out of control.

If the problem is with the laws and the executive policies - and it really is - then let's fix those.
FedEx has various levels of service depending on what is being paid for... everything from outsourcing their final-mile delivery to white-glove courier service, and more.

You can expect wildly different experiences shipping SmartPost vs Custom Critical.

I've had them call me on my cellphone and offer to come to me at my office when I wasn't at home for a particularly high-dollar package. This wasn't a FedEx ground shipment though.

Although I'm not sure why you can't pick up your packages at a FedEx location though. I've always been able to do that. Maybe for SmartPost you can't, but that logistically makes sense, as they might not be in possession of the package by the time it gets to your locality.