skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't be the opposite? Supply-constrained, limited housing. Everyone is suddenly twice as rich competing for the same fixed number of units. Price has to go up.
state as republic is absolutely the most important idea and institution that should exist in a world where there are no longer isolated communities.
Tensors and Neural Networks in Haskell
I don't think you should downplay the scope of "not publicly insured" services in Canada, especially after the last couple decades of aggressive privatization of once-insured services.

It varies from province to province in its specifics, but the majority of working-age Canadians have private insurance through their employer. This is expected to cover everything from physiotherapy to psychotherapy to prescription medications.

People without such insurance have a limited patchwork of public programs and usually either have to pay themselves or go without.

Case in point: A friend injured his back, and while the surgery and doctor's consultations were covered, everything else including medication and physiotherapy was not. He ended up spending tens of thousands out of pocket to be able to stand again.

The private health insurance market in Canada is closer to a truly free market and isn't regulated like in the USA, and that means the insurers happily and routinely deny coverage for pre-existing or self-inflicted conditions (as the insurance contract may define them).

Another case in point: A friend of mine is HIV+, and was denied group coverage through his employer. He pays thousands of dollars out of pocket for antivirals every year.

When the public insurer doesn't cover you, it's an absolute wild west of unregulated private insurance coverage and usually boils down to pay or suffer and die.
Of course a seller of a $250 tool would argue buy vs build.

How about an option C, shop around? Profitwell for example has reasonable SaaS metrics and it cost $0. Seems like the best of both worlds, no code for me to write and $250 in my pocket.
In a world seeking a path to justice we’d see men’s propensity for violence trend towards the level of women’s, rather than women’s trajectory rising toward that of men. The latter is not the equality justice should seek.
Living in a rural or suburban area doesn’t mean you have a car. There are plenty of poor people who don’t own one or have limited access and must share. At the Indian reserve by where I grew up almost no one had a car, they had to walk and bus into town 2hrs each way to get what they needed. I have met others with similar situations, single mothers who lost the car when their husband left, or families where the breadwinner works a second job and the rest of the family needs to make do without a car.
The operations described by your OP aren’t large scale fish farms.
> By the time I got to Stanford as a graduate student in 1979, I was openly gay. Not many people were at the time. When I started teaching at the university, I found that many gay people wanted to talk to me but almost always in private. They would tell me that they couldn’t afford to be as open as I was.

> I’m once again having private conversations behind closed doors in my office with closeted individuals […] They are deeply concerned about the university’s direction, but they are also afraid of jeopardizing their current or future job prospects. They also worry about losing friendships and professional relationships.

It's not enough to successfully design and run a CS curriculum. You also have to be a card carrying member of the pitchfork club.
With all due respect to the author, I followed the r7rs standardization closely, and disagree with his bottom lines.

1. On the number argument: Even the author acknoweldges that R6RS is twice as large. Regardless of the fact that the standard library is the other half, the fact is that the standard library is a requirement for R6RS. Because of the controversies about it (the condition system, record system, hash table library), the R7RS standard was purposely split into 2 parts, the R7RS-small and the R7RS-large. The R7RS-large standardization is an ongoing project.

2. On the condition system: The fact is that horse already left the barn. Most major implementations already had their own condition hierarchies. The only way to reconcile their existing conditions would be to have a translation layer which would be inefficent. Conforming to R6RS condition system would mean throwing out most of the code that people who use those implementations depend on. R7RS focused on providing a basic error system with a purely procedural interface, which combined with cond-expand and the library system, can allow people to write portable code. So the idea that the standard committee doesn't believe "Safety is not a desirable language feature" is unwarrented.

3. On Optional is better argument: Sure you can have an R6RS with restrictions, but then it isn't R6RS, it is a R6RS-like scheme. Using feature identifiers is at least a better way to create portable code. If you have a library that requires unicode, you can specify that in the code.

4. On syntax-case, one of the costs of having it is a more complicated library system, with import and export levels. Read it yourself, http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs-Z-H-10.html#node_se... . R7RS-small decided to be more conservative in this area.

Overall, I think that the way that R7RS standardization has worked to evolve the standard was the right approach. They focused on the most important needs for scheme ( The library system, a basic record system, basic error handling) while avoiding adding features that were overly controversial.
There’s elections in every State every 1-2 years for a variety of positions from city assemblies to county board of supervisors to the lower and upper house of each State that has both, executive offices, different special district bodies, Judges in some cases for better or worse, and again, depending on the State, various city, county and/or State ballot propositions before we even get to the 1 Representative, 2 Senators and 1 President you can cast votes for as well.

That’s just the ballots you cast. There are countless ways to politically involve yourself in any issue you care to make the time for. We’re not powerless citizens, but our power is diluted, intentionally so, because that’s what democracy does. You wield as much power as you are willing and able to accumulate up until the point where the power you wield competes with people with interests counter to yours.

Yes, it was a simplistic outline of the power of the state vs. the power of a corporation, but it is an accurate one. Corporations are agents of the people they serve, a means of aggregating means and power to more effectively wield it in the interests of the people they are serving. The power they can wield is immense, but it is still ultimately subordinate to the power of a state.
> The only downside of later optimization is that in commercial environment they often don't let you clean up.

Exactly (speaking for custom industrial automation projects). The follow up next requirements for a project might be in 5 or 7 years or never. You would be cleaning up a 80% dead project. In these environments, it's not uncommon to no longer have a dev environment because the system is a singular testbench that costs upwards of 2 million and only exists in 2 factories, so all bugfixes must be extremely conservative and any refactoring is stricly forbidden because there's no way to locally test for regressions.
World Happiness Report
And serve as the local authority there for at least awhile.

It might follow something like this pattern, sans prior residents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
On the one hand, good for them and it would be nice if you elucidated whatever you know about how they pulled this off.

On the other hand, it's basically dismissive of a very real problem here. I read a lot about homelessness. I've seen far too many people indicate they are homeless in part because they have cancer and it's ruining them financially.

America is hardly some utopia where we take wonderful care of all our people, regardless of ability to pay.
Buying an SUV is sometimes due to network effects.

If you are in a sedan, it isn't high enough to allow you to see traffic through the windshields of the SUV ahead of you, it's not much different than being behind an 18-wheeler.

So as a defensive maneuver, you also buy an SUV...
Buying from Amazon? You’re likely getting fakes. Genuine SanDisk memory cards are top notch.

Sure every brand will have lemons, but if you’re seeing consistently bad “SanDisk” cards.. you are pretty certainly not getting genuine product. Find a reputable supplier (which is absolutely not Amazon)
And I've avoided accidents by looking through the rear window of the car ahead of me.
In Quebec at least everything is free before 18, after 65, and for those whose financial situation is dire, including vision, drugs etc...
> if it was machine generated, did it take creativity?... but did the output that is being copyrighted?

In the US, this question has been settled since at least the 1990s (e.g., in the context of videogames). The output of algorithms is, in general, copyrightable, although there are some rather common-sense exceptions.

The question isn't whether you can copyright the output of an algorithm. The more salient question, in my mind, is whether the output of ML algorithms belongs to the owner's algorithm or to the owner of the training set.
Straw man. What is 'employment'?
Frankly, the justification doesn't matter here: A change of that scope should be discussed and agreed on with teammates before you even put up a patch, not committed while the primary developer is out of town.
True but tradespeople !== trash man or inkjet-printer factory worker (similar to example from an above post).
I’m constantly amazed by comments like this one posted by highly technical people who manage to become unable to view a simple website by making the endeavor vastly over-complicated.

Meanwhile, Grandma can read the article just fine when she double clicks on the blue e.
Searches should be private. We make sure they are
From the research I've seen, that's not a significant factor. People aren't dying in their compact cars sitting at intersections. Sure, sometimes it happens -- and sometimes a semi or train hits you and even an SUV won't help.

According to the IIHS, for example, the little 2-door Honda Civic has about the same fatality rate as the safest large SUVs.

People in small cars aren't "taking a big risk". About as many people in America die of influenza as car crashes, so if you're driving an SUV but haven't gotten a free flu shot, I don't believe you're doing it out of some calculated risk assessment.
Why not use FreeBSD jails? Is it because your starting point is some pre-prepared docker format container?
I think implementing new features isn't the same as maintence. Maintennce is to make something that isn't working work.
Walmart, Amazon and Target are doing fine and still pay low wages. I don't understand your point or choice of companies to list.
From a profit standpoint, the health industry (providers, not payers) have every incentive to delay care for chronic conditions until they can't get away with not doing it. Once a patient is sick enough, more resources and justification tends to be thrown against the insurers to pressure them to pay up, no matter the cost. One might recall Michael Moore's infamous protests for a dramatic example of this.
Some things I like about FreeBSD in particular:

- high quality docs, especially for development. In my experience manpages are to a higher standard than Linux, especially for syscalls and the like
- `make install` - you can build userland, including libc, and the kernel in a couple of commands and then reboot into your new system (or fire up a VM). this is extremely hard to do on most Linux distributions.
- a smaller community where it's perhaps a bit easier to meet people and contribute. I remember going to the AUUGN conferences and the *BSD folks there were always friendly

All of that said, while I did use FreeBSD as my desktop OS at various times in the late 90s and 2000s, I haven't for years. Although I am now curious to see if I can fire it up on a Pi or something like that :)
And doom us to low wage low productivity feudalism. No thanks.
Historically the unemployment rate has just been one indicator of how the economy is doing. All else being equal[1], economy A with 5% unemployment should be doing better than economy B with 10% unemployment, at least from a job seeker's standpoint.

The danger of being purely quantitatively driven by these historically useful metrics is that there is an absolute focus on keeping the numbers at the right level or moving in the right direction while simultaneously doing things that undercut the value of those metrics. In the previous century, falling unemployment numbers used to indicate that factory workers were returning to work at their old wage and benefits or better that new jobs were being created. However, today it often means that the factory worker who lost their job is now an Uber driver for a fraction of the pay. You used to see stories like 'factory X is bringing back Y thousand good paying jobs as it (re)opens a production line' now the story is 'unemployment is below 4%... shut up and like it'

[1] If all else isn't equal, whether comparing economy A to economy B or a previous version of itself, you are right it isn't a meaningful metric at all.
Religious, especially Puritan, values still echoing down through the decades. Organizations reinforcing the idea that words about body parts are inherently offensive are even worse.

I remember getting sent home for using the word "Penis". My parents both went to the school for a parent-teacher interview. That principal had brought the teacher in and were serious about my need for detention etc. The whole thing ended in farce as my father laughed in the principal's face then angrily demanded no consequence for me.

I doubt today's generation of teachers would tolerate this. Probably react to being humiliated like this by calling it harassment or similar nonsense. But I also think my father if he was part of this generation would have twittered the whole incident instead and let the twitterverse do it for him.
That's still roughly tied for lowest ever.
> The idea that companies or citizens are more powerful than governments is fanciful in the extreme.

I’m certain King George would have agreed with you in 1775.

The people in the USA specifically are better armed and outnumber the US military many times over. This was by design.

You could make an argument about nukes or tanks or drones - but you know what has to stand on street corners to enforce curfews, stop assembly, or protect supply chains? Soldiers.

The US government as an entity is weaker than the people it sees over - for now. Many people are intent to change that.
What is misinformation is saying that climate change started those fires. The temperature rising one fraction of a degree doesn’t cause combustion. And these sorts for fires have happened since before Australia was Australia.

Arsonists, however, have been arrested for starting the fires. Blaming climate change for every single thing is no different than those that attribute everything to “god’s will” — and equally neurotic and cult-like.
Humans like to talk, so if we don't have anything to say about one topic, we'll change it to what we do have something to say about. All we need is a path of associations from A to B. The way to get there is first to switch to a generic superset of the topic (Paris Syndrome -> Paris), i.e. go to Central Station, and from there hop on a train to something you have opinions/feelings about (Paris -> Dirty streets in Paris). In this case the path was also plausible because the OP references tourism. But at least the comments here are talking from personal experience, rather than going into generic ideology, which is worse (and did flare up in a spot or two).

Hopping to more generic subjects makes threads less interesting, because the larger a topic is, the fewer unpredictable things there are to say about it. Even if one comment manages to say something unpredictable, the replies quickly revert to predictable things. The most-commonly-repeated arguments have accrued so much mass that no discussion can resist their pull. Therefore, one rule that has developed on HN over the years is to resist generic tangents: they are antithetical to curiosity. Curiosity likes to look around and see something new and specific; generic tangents are powered by emotional energy that wants to talk about something old and familiar.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Edit: This is a medium-is-the-message thing. A large, flat, open forum like HN can't discuss generic topics well, because of the mass effect I mentioned above. For such discussions to be interesting requires longer (for depth) and more individual (to stay on track) genres. An essay at least, if not a book.
Beauty sure has a low standard these days.
There's no reason people should have to suffer "busy work" while they're looking for some place to be truly productive, just to assuage the grievances of Puritan work ethic folk.

"Any job" doesn't help people find stable work as well as training and a safety net do. SOME jobs provide this, but forcing people into jobs that don't is counterproductive. This is a common misunderstanding people have.
Would a washing machine count as a robot?
I think that if you sell IoT hardware you should be legally required to support it or refund active users. That way companies will support it long enough to minimize the refund costs.
A few thoughts:

1. OP isn't as bad a designer as he thinks. The goal isn't a beautiful page so much as "no trust destroying indicators" like weird fonts, bad formatting etc. Good Job!

2. OP could probably double their sales by offering the first chapter for free with email signup on the landing page and then offering a time-limited discount as part of an email sequence.

3. We (in the dev space) have a weird view of these sorts of things as we make relatively so much in salary. But $400/mo is a decent car payment, another way to thinking about this is that OP wrote himself a free car.

4. OP could have taken all this knowledge applied it in his job, etc. but by making this very public and consumable objective proof of his knowledge he's put a solid milestone in his career path. I've friends that have done similar and then picked up six figure consulting gigs, lucrative job offers, etc.

All around, I just want to say nicely done and that I would love to see more developers do similar.
Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
What if the job has terrible safety conditions and a high injury rate. Is it still good? I’m not arguing that it doesn’t provide some value if it staves off financial ruin, but, the world is composed of more than only “good” and “bad”. If it wasn’t things would be so simple that sites like HN would not exist.
Huh.

I'm over 70, with ~severe arthritis, and I still love my Civic. Getting in and out requires some leverage on the wheel and seat. But driving is as comfortable as relaxing in a recliner.
If you like your job that's a very useful benefit.

If you don't like your job and you don't think it's actually worthwhile it serves as a reminder that you're wasting your potential, and that can be incredibly detrimental.
While the sources you mention are all good, I don't think any of them actually have much to say about what the link is about, which is bayesian deep learning.
Yes. Many types of extremely valuable work in our society is not valued by the market and so is not compensated.

Caring for the elderly, caring for children, my elderly neighbour who sometimes picks up trash on the street, etc.

There are all kinds of crucial work our society desperately needs done, but which are often not even conceptualized as work because there's no wage attached to it.
I think you're confusing Fowler and Uncle Bob.
In general in Canada, any care you receive at a hospital or doctor's office is free to you. However, drugs you purchase at your local pharmacy are at your own expense. The provinces all have plans to cover drugs in certain situations (for children, for the elderly, for diabetics, etc.) but they do not provide complete coverage. Employers typically offer prescription drug insurance to employees.

Some people with chronic conditions that fall through the various provincial drug plans are spending fair chunks of money on prescription drugs that may be necessary for them to have a good life.
For those of us familiar with science, and not social science can you explain why we can't conclude anything from data without further experimentation? Or is this a claim about the scientific method as opposed to say how art is criticized.
The article is saying unemployment is very low so your point doesn't stand. The minimum wage isn't hurting employment. What's hurting people are the low wages.
See the trump difference? There is NONE:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
Little incremental wins. That’s what keeps me going. But sometimes you gotta take a break and re-evaluate. Don’t work all the time. It’s okay to chill and relax.
Geo Carncross: How to Program Computers (kOS) (2014)
Today, in the AMERICAN system, female children have EVEN MORE extra value than that attributed to male children in classical Asian society.
There is also a thing where station wagons are less and less practical. If you compare a mid 90s Volvo 940 to the latest Volvo V90, the reduction in interior space, exterior visibility and in practicality is huge. Seems to be mostly caused by the trifecta of safer cars (thicker doors etc), better aerodynamics and more styling/design taking up space and making windows smaller.
But there are many different ways cognition can be effected, white matter isn't the only brain matter. Also this study wasn't specifically about lead.
Funny, you're not wrong (in two ways ;)

The older I get, the more I start identifying with the "you know, a dog would probably be a lot simpler than all of this shit" crowd. However, I try not to lower my standards of life as I mature.

Expect nothing, but demand the best, yada yada.
First project in Rust – 6502 emulator
Not necessarily. It can also actually increase adoption because it fixes friction: there might always be a few tools or docker containers or whatnot which are not ported to BSD, and this provides an answer to that.

Microsoft has the “embrace, extend, extinguish” mantra for a similar reason.
I know that programmers are humans but I think paying too much attention to people's feeling is what is dragging the IT industry down, if you have self esteem issues go see a shrink
> You dont need a job to have access to health care in the US. All you need is the ability to pay for the services you use.

About 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 for an unexpected expense, and most wouldn't even be able to borrow any money.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/heres-why-so-many-americans-...
Conservative perspectives often involve some sort of built-in need to proselytize, because they view life as a triumph of ego over intrinsic human weakness. There's an idea that all people need to hear the message of personal responsibility.

Sadly data is weaker than any bias of perspectives, and people find it impossible to think causally without some larger brittle philosophical framework.
> 2. OP could probably double their sales by offering the first chapter for free

Maybe! IDK.

What are the percentage of people that would make the the first chapter in and fail to convert - vs the people that would have bought then likewise never finished?