skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way I can think of where it wouldn't benefit Australia is if the investors of the mining companies are not from Australia or don't invest it in Australia.

Invest meaning purchase Australian Goods and services, and invest in Australian enterprises. Well.. Labour hire aside, there aren't many heavy machinery manufacturers onshore, and there are cost issues in sourcing construction materials fabricated onshore. The least-cost tender tends to favour Chinese and Indian sourced goods and materials, even if made with Australian steel they don't always come from domestic sources. The shareholdings are a mixture of Australian and International and there is a huge upside in shareholder benefit which includes pension funds and state investment funds, no denying that.

Another thing to note is that quite often the way companies legal avoid taxes is by investing that money instead of taking out profits. That's still beneficial for Australia. The world doesn't only revolve around how much people pay income taxes.

Yes, but they also seek tax holidays for sunk costs, and then seek co-funding for investment costs, so they avoid the cost of actually having to build the ports and railway lines, but get a tax holiday on the investment made: the state government has to pick up the difference. Investments are valuable for australia in the longer term, but have to be offset against longer term downside costs, like remediation of the minesite which has historically been avoided, or damage to the water table, or the groundwater, or the effect on local property prices which disadvantages local residents not engaged in mining, or the downside effect on tourism from damage to the environment..

Nothing is simple. if I over-state the evaporation of the $45B, then the positives of the $45B have been equally if not more so overstated. Much of the money is fictive, never actively enters the economy, and instead "enhances shareholder value" at the expense of actual, incurred real-world costs in the state.

Mines make money: they also incur costs. Who bears the costs is not the same as who makes the money.
Look at the Straits Communiques to understand the KMT position. The DPP which won the election is far more likely to declare independence and ignore the history entirely.
I had DoorDash, using my account, deliver to my friend's place once. He now gets mail spam in my name at his house.
Also: why is the service fee separate from the delivery fee? Why do hotels charge an invisible “resort fee”? Why do airlines and utilities have so many extra fees you don’t find out about until later?

These are all dark patterns that try to hide the actual cost.

If doordash was upfront, saying “your total extra charge from doordash for delivering this to you is $25” instead of “$3.99 delivery; $12.57 service charge; $10 tip for driver” you might be more likely to realize how damn expensive the service is and pick up your own food.
if you have a small fund the 2% barely keeps the light on

I see some articles congratulating people who’ve raise $5M funds. If the fee is 2% you only have $100K to pay yourself and run the business. Not exactly rolling in dough.
Nah, vim controls are best left to extensions like Pentadactyl or Vimium. No need to have every site on the web implementing their own version.
Fun with Charts: A Decade of Apple Growth
Do you think browsing in the terminal would be a hassle for people?

No. the basics of the site make this close to zero cost and proof-by-example is the alternate textual views of the site which just work (tm)

I am trying not to be a google fanboi, but the ubiquitous consistency of keyboard accelerators in gmail, photos, docs, &c by google is one of the reasons I enjoy using their tools. They "get" keyboard warriors, in the browser.
This is an incredibly open market. If someone doesn't like DoorDash's payments, they can literally just install the Uber or Seamless or one of many other delivery apps and deliver that way. Since DoorDash is the market leader and does the most deliveries (according to the article), that leads me to believe most delivery folks would rather deliver with them, and not trust random articles like this.
Deadlifts don't need to be heavy. In fact, if it is muscle weakness in the posterior chain that is causing back pain, more reps at lighter weight is a better way to develop them.
Every Place Is the Same Now
It makes it a lot worse. You can fit a load of people on a subway train versus a model s or x
Π-type skillsets can deliver uniquely valuable insights – in any field
> [why would I] benefit from switching to Factor?

Here's how it usually goes:

It works like this: You try Factor. You stick with its weirdness through one or two small projects. Somewhere in there your brain starts to accept the new way of doing things. Shortly after, you discover there are things you like and things you don't. You refine your opinion as you use the language more.

After a week or so, you will want to use an abstraction from Factor in a project for your day job. Maybe you implement it. You have confidence it will work because you've already seen it in Factor. But maybe you don't implement it for whatever reason. Even then, you have an advantage over your coworkers because you already have mental tools in place to help you reason about the problem.
I think every downvote should have a reason given, and show who did it.
Because more than anything DoorDash is a financial engineering play. Delivery-everything is a solved problem. Enlarging margins, however, is an ever-changing landscape.
The other problem with places that allow this is that if you're not bringing in enough tips, you effectively get one hour's worth of min wage followed by termination in practice.
I do this. I have a really difficult time turning my mind off in silence. If it’s dark and quiet, my mind is working.

Listening to old TV shows like TNG helps distract me enough to fall asleep.
What about unintentional passcode attempts such as a phone in a pocket getting butt-dialled?
I'd love to read an article on how Frisbees are the biggest threat to observing the universe :D
How would they decide that some computation was "needless"? If it was the best they could do at the time I'd argue it wasn't needless. If they were intentionally wasting CPU/energy for no reason it would be a different story.
> also re: Yoga ... there's lots of Yoga practices that combine strength with flexibility... Yoga tends to pop up as something that has been proven to be beneficial for back pain while pretty much everything else is as good as placebo (including surgical intervention).

Pilates is strength-focused yoga. It saved me from needing back surgery. Please if anyone out there is suffering from chronic back pain please look into Pilates.
It isn’t even a subway system. It is a single lane road for cars.
That doesn't make any sense. It's a choice for restaurants to sign up and they have like 10 services to choose from. If it's not good for the restaurants they'll just stop using it. Any marginal delivery is pure profit for a restaurant.
I also think mental math matters, but I think that people who end up using simple math a lot will simply pick up the ability to do mental math as necessary.
That and building the stations. Tunneling is almost the “quick” part. Certainly almost never in the critical path.
Yes, exactly. He effectively mangled the stories of Aragon, Faramir, and Denethor, apparently to be more "cinematic". Good is very hard to portray without being cloying or simpleminded, but geeze, he could have tried.

The weirdest part is Gollum; everyone seemed to like the portrayal in Fellowship, but then Jackson threw it out the window.
I question logic in the article about stairs being narrow because there was a crane. There is a good case it is the opposite way around - that a crane. There was a tax on the width of the house, so having wide stairways was certain to increase the cost or reduce the useful space. My guess is that this led to narrow stairs, which required the crane in order to bring in things like lumber, beds and other furniture. And then windows that would accommodate those items.
> The computer was a great equalizer to me

It was an even greater equalizer to me, as a legally blind person. I can see enough to handwrite, but it's laborious. When I was in the third grade, my mother convinced my teachers to let me do as much of my homework as possible on my family's home computer. And sometimes I could do in-class assignments on a computer as well, either in the regular classroom or in the special room for the blind students. I wish we had had ubiquitous laptops back then (late 80s and into the 90s).
Can't say I'm surprised -- having people in food delivery (read: waitstaff) work for virtually nothing and hoping to make it up in tips is entirely consistent with the American restaurant experience. Although at least restaurants are theoretically supposed to guarantee minimum wage, and don't exploit the car maintenance and depreciation of their workers.
I'd love to be able to buy something that was exactly like VTI but scrubbed clean of oil, coal, gas, and other sources of environmental damage.

There are some specialized ETFs like KRMA, but I don't know anything that has environmental criteria that also follows the total market or some large cap index.
The Magician's Nephew is the best one! You do need to read it after at least the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe though, or it's a bit of a spoiler.
I looked at it, was confused, then downloaded the duckduckgo search for Firefox.
This is exactly why we have labor laws, especially minimum wage laws. This company wouldn't exist if we had properly written laws that protected all workers, but they hide behind the excuse that people working for them are contractors blah blah... yeah we get it and it's time to close such idiotic loopholes. Contractor or not, at these rates, no one is independent. That's frankly ludicrous unless someone invented a way to clone people and make them into slaves. And the people working these sub minimum wage jobs to make a living deserve better. They deserve the minimum wage like everyone else, although I'm sure plenty of people here will argue that they deserve to starve and die of treatable diseases so they can make billionaires ever so slightly richer.
Ah yes “superior in every way”. Was wondering when the myopic zealots would come out.
That doesn't seem right to me. They have to get through chemistry and physics. They have to memorize a giant decision tree that they employee when evaluating people, questions to ask. They have to adjust that over time, then they get a speciality and they learn new things.

There's a difference in skill set that is developed over time, but doctors have to be able to have mental models of how bodies work, how things work in the body, "just like us".
Are you saying I can't make a random chip using Intel's fabs?
My eldest is in first grade and so far I'm not a fan of the Common Core math.

I could make a cynical conspiracy argument that much of it is designed around promotion of the type of technology presented in the article. "Carry the one" is the simplest thing to explain with a pencil and a blank piece of paper. All the additional Common Core techniques seem to require some kind of visual representation, either via the games sold to the schools and onward to the parents, or via the overpriced blocks promoted to teach these techniques. Yeah you could draw it all out, but geesh you end up doing 90% drawing and 10% teaching. Whether it ends up helping students is moot; it helps put money into a lot of lobbyists' pocketbooks.

In fact, now that I think about it, I find myself probably believing it.

Even when I'm trying to be positive about it, I find it a bit backwards. I think giving beginning students a dozen ways to reason about the answer only adds to the confusion. IMO the better teaching method is give them one way to get the answer. Once they've mastered that, then start looking at additional ways to reason about it.
> The JVM is just weird because it has some type reification, but not all the way.

I don't know if it's "weird" given that there are only two examples, and they're different from one another. It's not like there's a norm here.

> I would argue that every ClassCastException is a violation of type safety in Java the language even if it's reasonable at the JVM level but whatever that's just definitions diving.

But you can't get a CCE in Java without explicit casts (or a compiler bug), just as in C#.

> Basically what you're saying is that you don't really see examples of reified types with unsafe runtime casts?

I'm not sure what you're asking.
There is an entire theory that describes the strong interactions inside the proton.
Please take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics and experimental evidence for QCD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics#Experim...

Furthermore particle accelerators have been smashing protons for a long time to probe what's happening inside. The standard model of particle physics is validated by evidence and experiments. I don't think it is fair to say that we don't know what is happening inside a proton. There are many questions in physics still left unanswered but I don't think anyone would classify this as such.
That article is a useful summary but a tad sensationalist and should be read with a critical eye. Many of the debacles would be portrayed as successes by a different person with a different perspective.
For example, Google for Education (#10) is extraordinarily popular and useful - hardly a debacle. The CSforAll movement (#6) has made a substantial and growing difference in the number and diversity of software engineers. Gamergate (#5) was clearly a clusterf, and it is many things, AND a stretch to relate it to ed-tech.
On the other hand, the internet pretty much taught me English. Sure, we had English classes in school, but the internet gave me an immense amount of practical experience. Most of my peers, particularly those who didn't use the internet, finished school with significantly worse English than I did. Spell-checking has been pretty useful, but probably not vital.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with mortgage-backed securities (they exist today!). In fact, there’s a lot right with them - they allow specialization by firms within the mortgage process and participation by investors with various risk profiles. It’s applying the Unix mindset of specialized composable functions to mortgages.

The 2008 crisis happened because MBSs became a bubble - investors stopped performing diligence (and risk models were crappy), so securitizers started packaging up crap, underwriting standards dropped, etc.
The design of this site is site is so good. I love the layout and how easy it is to discover content.
USV's Climate Thesis
The USB interface isn't perfect. Committees for setting standards should exist, but they should not be the only driving factor for change.
A major negative consequence for restaurant workers as a result of food delivery apps is that they are busier than ever because they are now fulfilling orders all day from these apps in addition to orders from people that walk in.

I went to Popeyes last week and there’s just a stream of receipts from online orders constantly printing, and they have to fulfill all those while dealing with everyone that comes in. And of course they aren’t getting paid any more to do maybe 3-4x the work they did before these apps got popular.

In that world being paid per job seems better than making the same to do much more work.
Texas Instruments, Micron, OnSemi, Amkor, Microchip...there's lots of options US based for ICs!
I don't know if this is how it works or not, but it is worth noting that searching for text in images is a much easier problem than transcribing images, and if you do the latter as "step 1" you destroy your ability to do the former: if you search for some piece of text you want to find all images that maybe if you squint a bit could be that piece of text, which allows you to deal with cases where your recognition is forced to make a bad guess that does the moral equivalent of rebracketing symbols that is difficult to work around in a later text-only search pass. If you can at all avoid it, always avoid transforming your input information until you know your query, lest you destroy information (this is what always made Microsoft Journal so epic for me, though I should be clear that I haven't used it in 15 years so for all I know they forgot this).
The brain is not programmable?
If you like tunnels, there will be 200km of tunnels built by 21 boring machines at the same time between 2020 and 2030 around Paris : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express
I forgot Seybold was a thing.
I'm not saying it can't be inspiring. I'm sure youtube videos about mathematics have inspired quite a few young people to pursue mathematics! They can foster an interest, inspire people to learn, etc. But that doesn't make them educational.
But it's just a subway tunnel, which have been built in cities since the 19th century. Is it really so much harder to do such "megaprojects" in the 21st century, with the vastly better equipment now available?
Calm down. You're smart, we get it. You've misquoted my comment twice, please stop.
Reasons Not to Study Life Science
I'm confused...we already have a lot!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
You know why I don't believe in Astrology???

Because I am a Sagittarius....
That would depend on the risks and the side effects, but assuming there was some magic bullet that would restore the atmosphere to a stable state and allow the burning of unlimited fossil fuels- yes, in a heartbeat.
I understand your concern, but I also consider it telling when a side chooses to not cover the event that is arguably in their domain of coverage. Maybe the news aggregator that I'm envisioning could also record these absences with something like "Source X: did not cover"?
Apple had engineers on the design team, but it's definitely not their invention. Even an Apple-focused publication agrees with that: https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/14/apple-invent-usb-type-c/
that's awesome to hear. For what it's worth, I found all of your guys' work simply incredible, and have used it several times both for personal and professional projects with overwhelmingly fantastic results and a far better experience than anything I was ever able to accomplish natively. The "complaint" about problems really stems from the fact that the bulk of the experience is so fantastic that things like this which are still a bit rough around the edges end up really standing out.
I am glad to see emacs mentioned. One of the cool things about it is that you can have completion your way. For example I made a package for when you are running shells in emacs it will send a tab character and then intercept the output. Then it displays it in an emacs pop up. Completely bypasses the issue of bash adding new prompts with every tab.

https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/emacs-native-shell-comple...
I half think that the entirety of Common Core Math is designed by lobbyists promoting the type of technology presented in the article. "Carry the one" is the simplest thing to explain with a pencil and a blank piece of paper. All the new Common Core techniques seem to require some kind of visual representation, either via the games sold to the schools and onward to the parents, or via the overpriced blocks sold to teach these techniques. Yeah as a parent I could draw it all out, but then you end up doing 90% drawing and 10% teaching; it's pretty impractical. So I could see cynically that whether it ends up helping students is moot; it helps put money into a lot of lobbyists' pocketbooks and that's all that matters.

NB Even when I'm trying to be positive about it, I find it a bit backwards. I think giving beginning students a dozen ways to reason about the answer only adds to the confusion. IMO the better teaching method is give them one rote mechanical way to get the answer and explain that as best you can. Once they've mastered that, then start looking at additional ways to reason about it (if necessary).
None of them are advanced these days comparing to TSMC, other than Intel.
What's the point when China will just copy it and do it cheaper.
Unverifiable working theory (I didn't live through the 80s myself):

I think computer systems were always terrible (I think our brains were only ever able to properly/completely grok the old 8- and 16-bit microcomputers and early game consoles), but because early networks and computer systems were built almost entirely on a combination of naivete and lack of awareness on the part of the large corporations, the sysadmins of the day got free reign to do whatever they wanted however they wanted it, pretty much by default.

With no "here, please build this highly technical thing.... with management's help" boring into your back making you question your own every move, and a status quo (read: world market) that simply didn't understand what was possible and how quickly it could be accomplished, the technical scene of the 80s and 90s was largely owned by the sysadmins, free to run everything at whatever pace they liked. You can imagine that genuine motivation and interest in maintaining mastery of the craft flourished in such an environment. So of course people knew what they were doing.

Lines of respect were drawn. (And script kiddies learned where the "real" sysadmins were and stayed away - lest they be out-pwned.)

Today, everything runs far too quickly to get the remotest handle on which way is up, let alone a competent understanding of all the interactions between everything. At the same time, a lot of early default assumptions (eg, "UNIX is a universally good design, and C is the best universal programming language") are being thoroughly trounced because of scalability issues nobody would have dreamed of in 1994, and security issues that a bygone era was honestly too complacent to take seriously.

Incidentally, the vitriolic reaction to the introduction of systemd IMO makes for a good example of why conservatism is bad: when push came to shove, those same sysadmins that had free reign to go as fast - or as slow - as they wanted, had grown so complacent and non-proactive, they were unable to coherently a) band together and b) argue (showing the "workings-out", not just the solution) against a cause none believed in. Instead there was vitriol, death threats and a peanut gallery louder than a fireworks display. TL;DR, that era did not age well.

(Note that I do not give the example above as a point of "oooo, they're utterly incompetent and incapable of anything" or "80s = bad". Black-and-white-ness is not implied by there being only one datapoint.)
Megaprojects do come in near budget in many places. Not in the US for a number of reasons elucidated in this NYMag piece[0] by Josh Barro, whose takes I usually find surprisingly persuasive.

[0] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/new-york-infrastructu...
And yet in software, the people in high-stakes domains who really care about quality (like the Lockheed shuttle group) don't use pair programming. Has any team using pair programming ever had a defect rate as low as 1 bug per half million lines of code? Or even within an order of magnitude of that?

For real quality, you need detailed specifications before code is written, an independent verification team, and root cause analysis on every bug. Otherwise, you're still down at CMM level 1 or 2 ("chaos, and slightly better than chaos").

Pair programming is putting a second pair of eyes on chaos to try to emulate an actual process. It's the Hyper-Threading of development processes. We're too cheap to implement what we all know we really need, so here's something that's better than nothing, for a small fraction of the cost, because it repurposes what we have on hand.
I like that. I feel similarly towards apple products. The consistency of these google products &/or the seamless-ness of apple products means that I can focus on what's important to me.

Good tools feel like good tools. Had to re-read,"ubiquitous consistency," nice. Thanks for the value added.