skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exact the conclusion of the article.

The author opens with a description of (in)equality in very different contexts, in order to put a thesis in front of us: it's not possible to devise and apply an absolute definition of equality based on first principles, because the meaning or significance of equality is rooted in the complexity of our human condition.

How we approach equality is always context dependent.

Your argument to split the inheritance equally is just as valid as splitting inequally as far as the Universe and the rest of humanity is concerned. Whereas from the point of view of the parents, favoring one strategy over the other is based on moral principle as well as opportunity costs. The relationship between children and children/parents being a factor of varying importance.

As far as states are concerned, preserving social mobility isn't the end goal; it's a way station. The main goal of a state is to ensure the survival of a collective. No more, no less. Let's not forget that a 'state' only exists as a social construct. Equality and inequality alike are a function of how the vast number of interests - needs and wants - of individuals either align or collide with each other.

When you look at both families and states, you will see that similar dynamics and behaviors are at play. Individuals will always make a cost/benefit calculation in order to find out the extent to which a given strategy will yield value; either by contributing to the group and/or choose their own personal gain over the group. The main difference is the context, and so different variables will be used to calculate trade offs.

As far as social mobility is concerned, your parents will have very different motivators to fund your high-ed schooling as opposed to what a state is willing to facilitate.

The latter will only invest in individuals to the extent that doing so ensures the benefit of the collective, but there's little incentive to go beyond that. The idea that the state "should take care of its citizens" has always been and will always be at odds with the individual interests of those same citizens.

Hence why the dilapitated state of an education or healthcare system isn't a pressing problem until it becomes a problem for too many individuals and it threatens the survival of the collective as a whole.

The main concern of the state is not to pursue an ideal amount of equality amongst its citizens, but an optimum amount to ensure its continued existence. Whereas your parents will always hope that an ideal situation can be attained for the sake of their own children... which is very much a personal interest indeed.
Sounds like a FUD magnet but I agree there would be major upside. Edit: To clarify, publishing individual patient outcomes publicly could pretty easily be spun as a privacy risk to trial participants and/or have a chilling effect on enrollment.

I’m personally invested in seeing something like this happen but if not approached defensively it could be vulnerable to getting shot down and made an example of.
How hard can it be to move our developer account to our new not-for-profit?
Open plan kitchen / diners are common in the UK. It comes down to preference. Some prefer a separate kitchen and dining room and other prefer a combined space.
Reference for the cell phone in jail thing:

https://www.deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2020/01/11/black-ma...
That relies on the faulty assumption that you will learn just as much in 9 months as in four years. If that were true, saving time would be great. It isn't.
Another reason why everyone wants a house is so that they can have a freehold.

People are understandably frightened of situations like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/eo9qim/l...
> Marx makes no mention of equality of outcomes

This is an absurdly revisionist view, that can be falsified simply by reading his work. The only way to dismantle class structure is to institute equality of outcomes.

His view of equality of outcomes is perhaps the most extreme view of equality possible. His view was to abolish private property all together. Something he passionately and repeatedly promoted.

> In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

> But if selling and buying disappears, free selling and buying disappears also. This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other “brave words” of our bourgeois about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.

> You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population

> In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

The nice sounding quotes about dismantling class structure don’t stand up to even passing scrutiny. These ideas are not compatible with a free society, and by presenting them in that way, you are concealing the oppressive nature of the system they are promoting.
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> Currently, my simplest definition is "any self-aware organism capable of predicting the future to some degree."

Frogs and certainly embryos are not self-aware.

> I think we are rapidly getting to the point where we will be able to sustain ourselves effectively with non-animal foods in a way that will be more nutritious, more sustainable, and more environmentally friendly.

Nothing more nutritious than animal foods. This is basic science and evolutionary truth. The only other alternative to fit your description is the environmentally ruinous vegan diet which is terrible for humans.

> I want humankind to prosper longterm and I think our most immediate challenge to that is our violence towards each other and towards our environment;

I want humankind to prosper as well. Look how virtuous, caring and good we both are. Aren't we great? The immediate danger is the messianic lunacy being spread by traditional media and social media.

> If the majority of us adopted a view that intelligent life at all levels should be protected

Sadly, I don't think you could convince those militant and violent vegans set on destroying as much intelligent plant life as possible. But maybe you, caring as you are, can single-handedly stop them.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-in...

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170109-plants-can-see-hear-...

If intelligent life must be protected then I guess we have to take dogs and cats from their owners since these animals require meat to be healthy ( for cats to live since they are obligate carnivores ). I don't know how you sleep at night knowing that trillions of animals are being killed and eaten by other animals every day.

Also, the most environmentally friendly diet is the hunter-gatherer diet, which you in your immense wisdom probably reject in support of mass agriculture - the worst thing for the environment.
I imagine that if the hole isn't that wide then it would be harder to displace air, meaning that you should fall slower.
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Amazing, in almost every case where the logo was 'refreshed' it got worse.
I've done all kinds of jobs. I'd take a 14 hour physical labor job over a 8 hour mental labor job anytime. Mental labor is painful... in the form that stalling the main thread of something is.

But that's data entry. Development is much less mental labor, and I'd agree with the 4-5 hours/day assessment.

Most people can't actually do this, which is why a lot of people hate math. Math class is dealing with intense focus on a poorly documented thing. Development has little to do with it, but it's the same soft skill.
The downside of trades is that most people are there only for the money. From this you can derive the rest.
To everyone reading this topic: I would love to work on a project like this. Really, doesn't matter if it is this one, or Google SideWalk, or Microsoft secret project. IF any of you are working on this already, I'd love to chat!
But this is an allocation function, where the amount of data to be allocated is specified in bytes. That must surely use size_t. Imagine the case where 128 bit systems become popular and you want to use this function to allocate 2^70 bytes of memory. Using uint64_t here would be invalid in that case.
Part of it is a mindset thing. I was raised in the UK and had this mental idea that flats are somehow bad quality or for lower classes. If you visit basically any other European city you can find good quality and affordable flats (usually they call them apartments though).
What is your solution go back to a barter system?
Excellent advice. I would also suggest reading the book "Your money or your life" by Vicki Robbin about achieving financial independence as early as possible.
Immigrants have most of the same constitutional rights as citizens in the US. I’m particular, the 4th and 5th amendments still apply.

Chances are that if they were going to arrest you after refusing to talk or allow them to search, they were going to arrest you anyway.
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Isn't the timing of this a bit of a coincidence with the announcement of the new SHA1 collision exploit?
Probably related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956
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National laws, not so much that I know of.

But if you read through The London Plan [1] policy 7.6 says: "Buildings and structures should [...] not cause unacceptable harm to the amenity of surrounding land and buildings, particularly residential buildings, in relation to privacy, overshadowing, wind and microclimate. This is particularly important for tall buildings"

So if you're filling in a gap in a Victorian terrace, planning officers will be checking whether you're going to be able to see into your neighbours' gardens more than existing buildings can, or cast shadows onto other homes.

Meanwhile, policy 7.7 calls for "tall and large" buildings to "generally be limited to sites in the Central Activity Zone, opportunity areas, areas of intensification or town centres that have good access to public transport" and to "only be considered in areas whose character would not be affected adversely by the scale, mass or bulk of a tall or large building"

And as some sources describe a tall building as "1½ times or more the height of their context" [2] tall building rules are easily activated in a two-storey area.

Of course, it's not completely restrictive - if an existing Victorian terrace has two-storey buildings with lofts, I've seen people get permission for a building with a basement, three above-ground stories and a flat roof - and if it's a house rather than a block of flats, that's a lot of stairs already.

[1] https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/the_london_pla...
[2] https://planningconsult.rbkc.gov.uk/gf2.ti/f/276546/18804485...
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Gas-fired central heating became affordable and was much nicer.
On the other hand recently I restored my iPhone as new. The default settings may give users prompts to disable tracking but Siri is now a big tracker itself. Siri now learns from apps how you use them by default. While this may not be advertising and data may be on your device or with a trusted company like Apple, the idea of privacy should be that by default everything is opt in only. Who’s to say Apple is tailoring your iPhone behaviour ‘to your needs’ when in reality they are just trying to make you invest more into their ecosystem by learning from you ? That might sound like that’s helpful and might make the experience better but the main idea of tracking is still the same.
People don't want flats because of leasehold.
In the EU, we're getting DSP2 [0] which requires banks to publish usable APIs to: get account information, and initiate money transfers. That's huge, though only at a baby stage for the moment.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_15_...
The directive is 2008/63/EG.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32...
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Moves like these seem obvious in retrospect, but when you consider the conditions at the time (no internet, horrible business climate), this woman’s vision and execution is mind blowing.

Really shows how truly valuable ideas can succeed no matter what state the world around them is in.
No, I didn't mean things in that sort of "nothing you can do about the sad truth" way. Instead, I consider this actionable advice.

- Spend time hanging out with other guys talking about shared hobbies

- When you like your results, make sure people can see your enthusiasm

- Help people look good in front of their peers and they will buy

- As a contractor, do what the customer wants, not what you like best

- Before you spend the time to build something, research that your intended customer can and will buy it

- Don't worry if people complain about your stuff. They always do, even if they get rich by using your tools.

BTW, googling for Blackpill sure yields odd results:

"What Is The Black Pill? A Closer Look Inside The New Red Pill"

followed by 2 huge advertisements:

"10x your attractiveness to women - Click Here"
"Accidental discovery reveals the exact body type women want - Click Here"

followed by a full-width picture of 10 naked models barely covered with what looks like a furry blanket.
When driving a car, I tend to optimise (my wife would say overoptimise) for everyone's efficiency, and I am sure a lot of that can be applied to bus driving — for instance, many of them will stop too close to a red traffic light, so cars in adjacent lanes can't see them when they are only on the that side of the street.
I have seen that too. Some even got promoted to break in some hardened structures in companies.

It can have appeal to some. And there is the fact that the standard 100% professional corporate culture is extremely unappealing and in contrast to such behavior.
In the UK the kitchen was a larger, family space until after WW1, when they started building more apartments in London. The art deco 1920s/30s vision of the kitchen was that is was secondary to the other functions of the house and that family & social areas should be distinct from the messy kitchen. Over the next few decades that spread to houses, whose owners wanted to appear cultured and have a dining room, forcing the kitchen into a smaller space.

The 1960s especially saw a lot of terraced houses put a small kitchen out back so they could knock through the 2 rooms downstairs and remove the old ceilings and fireplaces. In the 2000s those properties that didn't modernise in the 60s now fetch the higher prices.
I don't know how medicine is practiced in other countries, but finding a doctor that shares your philosophy about treatment and sticking to them seems like a problem best solved at a local level.

In my country, you are assigned a GP, but can switch with a specific administrative form. There are several well-known(via word of mouth) GPs in my town that have people deliberately switching to them due to the way they practice medicine - less short-term treatment, conservative prescription of medicine(especially antibiotics and painkillers), focus on lifestyle/diet changes and regular check-ups to catch serious ailments early. The GPs will also recommend particular specialists who have a similar philosophy.

Mind you, this kind of treatment is far from controversial. I've talked to some of these doctors and a common problem they have is justifying their costs - e.g. a patient comes over, they listen to the symptoms and examine them and prescribe...toughing it out and maybe changing your diet a bit. People feel like they're not getting their money's worth("I already know that!"). There's also plenty of people who are looking for a quick fix - e.g. I'm under so much stress at work now, I just need a pill, I'll fix my life later.

There's also plenty of people who think they can follow a strict regime and make lifestyle changes, but just can't, and it ends up being a resentful relationship with the doctor(the doctor feels like the extra time they put in is wasted, the patient may rationalize the failures as the treatment just being ineffective, etc).

All of this points to me that this is something best decided on an individual basis, when the doctor and patient have a good relationship.
That's just it, they are not paying the price. The "free market" goes out the window when the government decides that the continued existence of your company is important to "national security", and abdicates their regulatory responsibility because you're special. Were Airbus allowed to effectively self-certify their planes in the US? I rather suspect not.

I don't know how you can look at this whole situation and think "yup, free market working as planned. Everything fine and normal!"

Besides, the reason we have regulations is because there are limits to the free market if we want to live in a sane society. Markets only find optimal solutions if everybody has perfect information, but in reality nobody has perfect information. You're free to choose between brands of honey, but it's expected that the government will ensure that no honey contains plutonium because 1) a consumer can't easily tell if it does and 2) it's assumed that everyone would avoid radioactive honey if they knew about it. Similarly, airlines are free to choose between aircraft, but it's assumed that none of them want an aircraft that will spontaneously and uncontrollably dive into the ground; it's the government's job to ensure that nobody sells such a plane.
The floor plan shows a knock through, that's quite non-typical, non-original.
How do you suppose these disaffected men will get the capital to afford land, supplies, tools, and everything else needed to survive in the countryside?
UK law respects property rights of the neighbours including e.g. right to light.

This is explicitly not socialism.
the lack of bird divination could partly explain why modern agriculture is so devastating to the environment, specifically the soil.
perhaps over time we will wipe ourselves out and only bird augury using farming communities will survive the test of time
Are you trying to use a business account or something? Otherwise I have no clue.
Turns out the common charger is not a connector but QI wireless charging.
>the tools of rationality

the article clearly explains that they mainly consist of making up rational and plausible sounding reasons, a disease especially virulent in modern western society
Absolutely no surprise..

> The report, “Out of Control: How Consumers Are Exploited by the Online Advertising Industry,”

While it seems a bit hyperbolic, its really not.

Out of interest, are there any restrictions/regulations on which parties can actually purchase that information ?

I could see hate groups taking aim. Then who is at fault ?
The next article in this series gives a great example of desireable flats: How Berlin’s Once-Reviled ‘Rental Barracks’ Became Coveted Urban Housing https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/01/berlin-architecture-h...

The key point seems to be that although these flats were originally undesirable social housing, their spacious, unspecific layouts + somewhat reduced density from WW2 bombing allowed the transformation to the opposite: Expensive gentrified housing in very high demand.
Your point 2 is very important and what so often gets missed. What is statistically significant may not be clinically significant; throw enough patients at something, especially a surrogate outcome, and you can get p<0.05. The hype hungry media then pick that up based on a press release as a wonderous new treatment for disease X.

The reality is most things are incremental improvements, but few diseases are truely curable. Most cancer drugs we have extend survival (by impressive amounts), or in other conditions manage symptoms. Fundamentally however you will probably still die of the cancer, and will still have the condition, just with an extended course. This is huge, and almost magic... but it isn't the miracle cures people want to share on social media.
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Regarding the "ejector seat savings account", do I receive something like unemployment benefits when I quit my in the United States? If yes, does it matter whether I quit or was fired?
Sorry if that question sounds naive, but from what I read here on HN I'm often not quite sure how the system works in the US.
I work for a popular european competitor of Plaid, Tink (https://tink.com). We don't do screen scraping, but use the banks' own APIs. These days we also ride on the european bank directive "PSD2" which gives us the right to aggregate financial data from financial providers such as banks. That means we aren't breaking an Terms of Services with banks!

...and yes, we support 2FA. ;)
Wonderful. Thank you for putting it so nicely.
I used to have a job in the back warehouse of a white goods store. I was moving around fridges all day long. It was a really good job.
The best part was I couldn't take any fridges home with me in the evenings. I'd get home and my fridge would be already where it's meant to be. Also no one wanted me to do a fridge moving side project in the evenings.
I am not a medical expert or even remotely tied to that field but don't livers regrow to some extent? If this process could be extended even further wouldn't that mean we could regrow complete livers from partial donations pretty soon, making the whole "waiting for a donor" gamble obsolete?
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I don't understand how certain laws exist yet without the obvious steps to ensure it is followed - no oversight for companies like this? I'm pretty sure the companies taxes will be checked every year.
Oceans warming at the rate as if 5 Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second
I couldn't find a working link to the actual Area 1 report; https://cdn.area1security.com/reports/Area-1-Security-Phishi... seems to now be 'access denied'.

One aspect of being attacked like this is that it will call into question the provenance of any 'smoking guns' later discovered in the company's emails etc.
I love the heat-mass feeling, many old houses are reliant upon this, and when unheated the chimneys can get wet, smell damp, and wick moisture from below.

Knocking through on an L shaped terrace, to the kitchen, gives a little more room, but I for one hate the smell of cooking food escaping from the confines of a kitchen. The mass also wicks sound.
same for me, Jason was incredible early in my career.
It takes me 37ms to load hackernews a 20ms start time is embarrassing what is it even doing?
instead of capping wealth, traditional societies had jubilees where after a certain number of years all debt is reset to zero
Ejector seat account (or financial freedom as some call it), might not be the solution. Flow is still everyone's main source of happiness.

There's the "dark horse" path that few follow: https://lsi.gse.harvard.edu/dark-horse
Well, yes, of course it is. If someone graduated from Oxford or Harvard then the reputation will follow them for the rest of their lives. It’s bizarre really but it’s also so normal that no one ever stops to question it. Same with some companies, e.g Google, they are 100,000 people now, very far from an elite, but work there even for a few months and you will be an ex-Googler for the rest of your life.
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The Top 10 books include 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

No, the top ten books checked out in the history of the NYC Public Library include those two titles.

Fixing one's reading comprehension (or intellectual honesty) isn't that hard, either.