skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. Yes as in, if you'd like them to be merged into a new one, then you'll have to resolve a conflict. But no as in, you both appended different data, so you both have new files from the original one, as you're dealing with immutable data.
Even if they thought it was an US military aircraft, wouldn't they first try to make radio contact? Iran and USA are not officially at war, why would they open fire "at first sight" ?
I feel the wealth inequality issue needs to be addressed. My only problem with the wealth tax is that it takes money from the wealthy and feeds it to the government. I am having a hard time connecting how that improves the situation of the lower and middle classes.
It's a lot of paragraphs that can be summed as "War is expensive and suppliers can earn a lot of money", but he doesn't really discuss the strategic or ethical value of war until the very end with this blurb:

> Well, eighteen years after, the world has less of democracy than it had then. Besides, what business is it of ours whether Russia or Germany or England or France or Italy or Austria live under democracies or monarchies? Whether they are Fascists or Communists? Our problem is to preserve our own democracy. And very little, if anything, has been accomplished to assure us that the World War was really the war to end all wars.

Which is a very dismissive viewpoint that America can simply wash its hands of everything outside its borders. Surely anyone who knew about the Holocaust saw our involvement in WWII as a moral imperative and more broadly John Donne put it very well that "No man is an island". Certainly a lot of wars have been fought on dubious grounds, but it's an overly cynical point of view to try to give such a pat answer to such a huge question.

I'd also argue that there's a huge fallacy in his premise. Yes, war is profitable for many industries. I think it's inarguable that peace is vastly more profitable for even more industries. Friendly international relations, stable supply lines and prosperous consumers are far more valuable than anything else.
Yes, read up on computer fraud, scams, ponzi and pyramid schemes.
My strong objection to this is actually the precedent it sets for non-Chinese governments, not for the Chinese people. Today, it’s China, tomorrow it’s a different government watchdog in every country.

And before you ask, there were large technical and ethical differences in my opinion with the censorship of nazi results in germnny vs the censorship that China demands- for one thing, the Chinese government needed real-time control and could have been involved in the process of putting the results together. That kind of product compromise isn’t anything I want to work on personally. I’m not going to work on something that lies in real time to people about the quality of the air they are breathing, using the google brand, for example.
Also: how much of that opinion is an actually informed one, versus an opinion shaped by censorship itself?
Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively.

Opiates, benzos, and alcohol all affect technical driving skills in a negative way.

I’m not opening the THC and driving can of worms.
Curl is free man.
I think this is a pretty twisted definition of lotus-eating - in the Odyssey lotus-eating isn't never equated to toiling endlessly on the open sea reaching for a thing that might not be attainable, it's giving up a will to move, eat and simply bask in idle hedonistic pleasure.

So the modern day lotus eater isn't a 9-5 worker, those are the folks on the ships struggling to help fulfill this one dude's hope while being beaten, tempted and killed - and being entirely ignored in the epilogue as if they never even existed... The modern lotus eater is those that sink into depression and drug abuse, able to survive in society but just eeking by while trying to escape reality - And it is certainly good to avoid falling into it.
Yeah, it's weird how everyone is talking like it's a multi-thousand dollar investment. Even TFA, it closes with:

> "Mass adoption remains impeded by the hardware required to run it, in my opinion. Take videogames - you need a very powerful PC, a good amount of space, sensors set up around it, and of course the VR helmet itself.

> "The cost runs to thousands and for most it is completely impractical not to mention too expensive.

I appreciate the space concern (I live with others in a condo), but the cost is 1/5th or 1/10th of what they suggest, and they are completely ignoring inside-out tracking with obviates the need for a dedicated room with a sensor setup.
Is it more entitled to mindlessly indulge in your good fortune and sink into the luxuries that birth have afforded you, or to remain restless and shun easy luxuries as a trap? You could argue that people who are born into situations of privilege have a responsibility to reject an easy life and leverage their security to take the risks that others cannot afford too.
As another poster said: stimulants. Ephedrine is one of the easiest to acquire that has reasonable potency, but I caution that a) there are negative consequences to stimulant abuse and b) you do become resistant (and eventually dependent). I have tried it for protracted periods of time but it was ultimately unsuccessful at lowering the difficulty.
that's a good question. I've tried to pick up what I can from online communities like Spice, r/sysadmin, Linxu & CentOS forums, but the most important thing I've done is actually work on some of the Tier-0 systems (in Europe) where everything tends to be done really well, and then try to imitate that (with shoestring budget of course).
The US is not experiencing a die-off. The net population growth in the US is still positive. More births and deaths. Combined that with a net positive immigration, the US is not susceptible to falling population levels like those of in Japan and Russia
Microsoft does not know nearly as much about people as Google does. Microsoft does not have the insane Orwellian mission to "organize the world's information".
Alternative title: Majority of Americans are not rich, and therefore see no downside to taking from those who are

I do think the inequality gap is becoming more of a problem, but simply asking the population if they want someone else to pay more is going to have the obvious result.
The video is from Sep 15, 2019 and still more useful than their website? Anyone have a transcript to link?
Same goes the other way, the idea of getting superb freedom and empowerment by running your own company is equally self-delusional. There's cons and pros to both, and they depend on many variables, especially the age and a particular moment in one's life.
But trust the person who's writing a medium post just as they're about to run for senate and need to boost their name id?
As someone with OSA - and a busted TMJ, so no mandibular advancement for me -, let me tell you: CPAP sucks.

Sure, you die slower, you snore a hell of a lot less, and you feel more rested and energized. That's all (truly, no snark) great.

But it sucks. Spontaneous sleepovers become impossible. Travel becomes a chore. Sleeping with bedfellows now comes with a noisy attachment. You have to rent or buy a relatively expensive machine. You have to get annual checkups, and you have to give up a fair amount of privacy to prove you are complying with the therapy... Not that much fun.
This. That’s exactly what it is.
Ksonnet re-borned?
Full disclosure: both my parents are alcoholics.

Ive always been suspicious that alcohol in the United States is basically a thinly veiled means to privatize social interaction. I spent 16 years drinking regularly and certainly the dangers werent explained in LMFAO's song "shots" when i was young, or by James Bond's seven martini car chases. The industry is large enough to require more oversight in my opinion, but states dependent on alcohol and tobacco taxes theres very little incentive to wash the grease off that hand.

the WHO and NHS both strongly advise against consumption of any alcohol in 2020, but for my parents I guess it was more like cigarettes. No one knows/there are health benefits/its harmless are all excuses im sure they heard along with the reinforced masculinity tropes.

Alcohol turned my parents into miserable wretches. My mother now suffers from Wernekes encephalitis. at age 62 now shes suffered more than a dozen seizures and a fractured hip. When she was admitted to hospital she could not be given painkillers, as she had consumed eleven cans of beer before arriving. she spent 2 weeks in a nursing home and suffering from withdrawal symptoms was so insufferably aggressive and abusive they threatened to discharge her after a week. She cursed every member of the family with scathing vitriol and merciless fervor. Not as though it would matter, as she refused any and all physical therapy until she could go home and have beer again. she still drinks around 3-4 cans a day, and hobbles about in a walker.

my fathers developed chronic gastritis and cant handle so much as a warm cup of tea. He has had a section of intestine removed as chronic alcohol related inflammation had destroyed it. He seems completely blind to what alcohol has done to him.
They should have just trained an overfit model on the private training dataset.
Coffee suppresses my appetite pretty well. When I do intermittent fasting, I allow myself to drink as much coffee as I want and I have no trouble making it to dinner before hunger becomes distracting.

You might have to drink a _lot_ of coffee though because there's a lot of hours between morning and dinner. I have a coffee maker that brews right into an vacuum carafe (which keeps it hot up until dinner time) and I also have a yeti mug that keeps a single cup of coffee warm for ~1-2 hours, which helps me nurse fewer cups throughout the day.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We've already had to ask you this, and you've been doing it a lot.

Also, while I have you, please stop using HN for ideological battle—you've been doing a lot of that as well, and it destroys what this site is for (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), regardless of which ideology you favor or disfavor.

Also, can you please not systematically delete comments? Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been posted in the first place. Deleting more than half of what you post is not an intended use of the threads.
A universal pattern I call the “Important Thing.”
I don't really care about wealth inequality, but from a revenue perspective a wealth tax seems fantastic _if_ can be enacted and enforced.

Bill Gates came out in favor of a limited wealth tax as well - I think a mild cost to citizenship for the uber-wealthy is a great idea. Feels like political malpractice to not attempt it.

Sidebar:

> Kathy Herron, 56, a Republican who lives in Santa Rosa, California, said her support for Trump - a self-proclaimed billionaire - stems from his hardline policies on illegal immigration. In her view, the president would do well to support higher taxes on rich Americans. “We’re taxed from one end to the other, and it just seems the rich don’t pay their share,” she said.

Welfare chauvinism is an underrated political force in America. The next re-alignment will most likely be along these lines.
That depends on where you draw the line. If gnome is not gtk/glib, and if kde is not qt, then it is apples to an orange. If they are, then your comparison is correct.

I mean, making chrome is not a big issue if you’ve got yourself webkit/blink/presto/etc. it is a regular program, pretty stupid one, if you think its ui out of box.
It's worth noting that the income tax also started out as a tax on the very rich.

Once established, taxes have a way of finding their way from the rich, to the middle-class, and then even to the working poor.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14239

A few notes:

- It's comparing absolute, not per-capita, numbers. The US drinking age population is up >20% since 1999, so that accounts for some of this rise.

- The paper spends a lot of time discussing the fact that alcohol isn't reported completely in death certificates.

- Alcohol-related drug overdoes are broken out separately from alcohol overdoses, and this is up 580% (!) from 1999
There is a poem by Julian Tuwim, "To a simple man" (pl. "Do prostego człowieka"), 1929.

There are a few translations, but I like the most one by Marcel Weyland (https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=en&id=36782, see also ones into German and Italian).

More on Tuwim in general: https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/features/the-20th-centur....
Yes, it works with chromecast.
The whole thing sounds just so ridiculous that I kind wonder if we're getting the true story here. Isn't it at least possible that something has gotten distorted along the way?
> I think the answer is obvious.

ahem...

> People subscribe to overly simplistic thinking

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
> Nuclear, hydro, and geothermal are great for baseline load, but adjust very slowly to changing load requirements.

Hydro adjusts very fast, it's literally just letting more water through. Nuclear is slower, but since its fuel costs are so low, you can typically just run it at full power all the time. Of course, with this approach you'll be overproducing, but with efficient spot market for electricity, you'll have businesses taking advantage of this cheap energy during overproduction to generate the necessary load.
Shout out to postwoman, https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman which is a FOSS clone. No sync-ing yet but it's on my to do to add in basic collection sync support.
A bigger question is who did it flow back to and how can we track that? Certainly we have contractor operations that are US based, but it is not always clear if what they are doing aligns with American interests. Giving them more money may actually be increasing corruption.
> Dude is a politician: “Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine.”

To be more specific, he left Google and is now trying to run for senate, during the election cycle that is about to start. Which makes this Medium post boosting his name id very timely.
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Sure, lots of drugs impair your driving, but alcohol seems to be the one that people drive after using most frequently. This could be just selection bias though given that alcohol is the most widely used hard drug and easiest to measure/detect on the side of the road. It would be interesting to see a "drug" vs "drives after using drug" analysis!
Yes, you can cast to the phone or to a chromecast (which still needs the phone).

However, the stream is delayed quite a bit so we do this with the TV muted -- otherwise the experience in VR is annoying (especially with music games like Beat Saber).

You could perhaps work around that by using some good isolating head phones, but then it would be impossible to have a conversation between the folks on the couch and the person in VR. (in which case, why are you streaming to the TV then?).
By accumulating “and” requirements, you are lowering the probability of success
Just because they ship spyware doesn't mean they want other people spying on their customers or setting up botnets...

Alternately, who knows whether they found this exploit a while back and only went public once they discovered someone else was using it?
In this case though, most of the increases were among women.
This radiolab podcast goes into detail of men deciding to do nothing on both sides in WWI, but it got complicated really fast:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/10401...
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If you're self-motivated enough, just learn on your own.

If you're not self-motivated enough, dip your toe into a community college or cheap programming course.

With programming, you can develop your personal network online (Reddit, Slack, irc, StackOverflow, etc) and odds are you'll meet a ton of people there that live in or near Seattle. It's a handy way to meet locals without having to drive back and forth across the Seattle metro area all of the time.
When spurning the luxuries of your birth are you giving them to others? Or are you just spending all those advantages toward a combination of being miserable in your hair shirt while striving for the ultimate entitlement, earning a place in future memory?
> Software should be expensive.

Why? Shouldn't the price of software be determined by the equilibrium of supply and demand? Or are you suggesting there's far more demand than supply?
Agree, love qbec so much ;)
Torque wasn't ever a top characteristic that made Mazdas fun.

The last RX8 had 33 fewer lb-ft of torque than this EV, and the current Miata has 44 fewer.

Mazdas have never been straight-line fast, but they have great handling dynamics.
It helps if the money can be used to decrease tax on the lower classes or supply basic needs, like medical insurance.
If 99% of people vote to impose a tax paid only by 1%, that violates the spirit of "no taxation without representation". That would be universally recognized if, for example, the right-handed voted to raise taxes on the left-handed.

Related article: "Millionaires support a wealth tax — as long as they aren’t getting taxed: CNBC survey" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/23/millionaires-support-a-wealt... . It found that the majority of millionaires supported a wealth tax that kicks in at $50 million, but not at $10 million -- because they fear it would hit them, now or in the future.

Using the tax code to pull people down is morally wrong.
I think the words are not meant to be a comprehensive list of rules for exactly when war is justified. He's giving a broad overview of when he thinks it's justified. Of course one can get bogged down into particulars and wonder where Butler would stand but I think the misses the overall point he is making. Namely, that war is rarely the answer. When it is necessary then fight it but try not to make it a racket.
Police brutality against French journalists: a worrying situation
So which is better, to abandon ship at the first sign of trouble, or to attempt to correct things?

From what I can tell, he continually attempted to steer Google away from business in China, even after things started going downhill. To my mind, that takes quite a bit of bravery.
Hey gang.

I've been an HN member for a long time, fairly prominent Bay Area tech executive, rich in the sense of both bank accounts and family.

Alcohol brought me to my knees in my late 20s / early 30s.

It started out as the typical "social lubricant" to help a natural introvert be better at connecting with people and was wonderful at that - I was the life of the party.

Over a decade it leaked into a "requirement" for just about anything and eventually drinking heavily 3 / 4 nights a week.

Eventually I sought paid help from therapists, coaches, natural remedies, medication, recovery specialists. Nothing worked. Eventually a therapist told me "you're screwed the only thing left to try is AA".

I was highly skeptical, an agnostic, still am more or less, but AA saved my life on account of the comradery i found in the rooms of SV meetings. People with the same story and same struggles who worked the steps and recovered.

One of the AA rules is attraction not promotion, this isn't promotion only my own simple testimonial. Statistics say that it doesn't work for a lot of people but knowing the general skeptical nature of HN and the crowd I want anybody struggling or who was in my situation to know that for this one skeptical / tech / entrepreneurial brain it was a lifesaver after trying basically everything else.

Now sober ~9 years and counting and wouldn't have it any other way.

I am happy to answer questions about the program if anybody is struggling, can give an anon email too if preferred.

edit: temp gmail account ohohuhunkjnuihuh@gmail.com
I'm not surprised by this. When one gains weight, it is distributed pretty much everywhere. I gained 25 lbs from a sedentary lifestyle that many of us on this site have from our jobs. I lost it, and snoring/acid reflux went away completely.

If you go pick up a 25 lb ham hock or something like that you will notice the volume it takes up. Fat is even less dense so it takes up even more volume. Sure, it does deposit in some places more than others like the waist line, but even things like my ski boots fit me different. They were previously too tight for several seasons so it wasn't just that they broke in. So all that fat is being deposited all over, and some of that is in your tongue, and I'm sure in your soft palate.

I notice a lot of talk about fat shaming here and how telling people just to diet isn't going to solve the problem. This is all true, but is irrelevant really to the conclusion here. Losing weight is a good way to reverse things like sleep apnea and acid reflux along with many other problems. So if one can do it, it is the best way to do it. Not all people with sleep apnea will be cured by losing weight but it goes a long way for many.
Yeah, that's why I'd prefer for the Rust Foundation to be as lean as possible, explicitly excluding raising donations for the whole project and paying developers from its scope. Funding development could then be done by other entities, not related to the foundation.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/blog-post-towards-a-rust-f...
Cliche? Cheese?

“The true payments,” haha.
I find it much more usable as well.
If you're in good health, your watch may actually be doing a good job measuring your heart rate. When you go cycling, it just takes that long for your heart rate to increase significantly enough to trigger the watch's activity detection software.

The way I see it, the problem isn't a question of accuracy so much as the watch trying to guess activities it has no business guessing. The watch should focus on things that it's good at: gathering a reasonably accurate consumer grade heart rate and maybe showing notifications or the time if it has a display. Leave activity detection to something with more situational understanding.
It's still the same from what I understand from my Googler friends.
Writing FastAPI code as I procrastinate right now!
Weight affects so much more though. It's not just sleep apnea, but heart disease and diabetes as well. Any type of surgery risk is greatly increased by obesity.

Look at history. Even for people working desk jobs, Americans were much less obese than they are today. It's a systemic problem. Go into any gas station and try to grab a snack without sugar. It's difficult to impossible. We have more sugar and starch in our food today. I agree it's not necessarily a personal problem. It's a problem with the entire food industry and access to cheap sugar.

It's starting to affect people in other western countries too and we are missing a lot of education about the dangers of starch and sugar.
amen is all I have to say to that. Don't hesitate or worry what your significant other will think, just get one.

Best part: You can sleep with a cover over your face and still breathe fresh air.
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Yeah, it is a total mystery how adequately funding social welfare programs could somehow help the poor.