skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chrome is not part of the OS.

Legally irrelevant. If that was relevant, Microsoft wouldn't be attacked for bundling IE.

> It's not only possible but easy...

Please tell us how, then. Preferably in a way unlike the whole GDPR cookie policy fiasco.

> I prefer solutions that have a chance of working

Where you can impose your wishes on other's product choices? This is not a company usurping its monopoly, it's a niche product tweak.
> Could we add "in the US" to the medical news that may not be that relevant in other countries?

The incentives are misaligned in many other countries, including Germany and the UK. This article focuses on examples in the US, but as noted elsewhere in these comments, there are plenty of articles that show examples of similar perverse treatment incentives in other countries.
> All my dev machines are underpowered

I believe this is a great choice. Most of our code will live in the cloud, and will be billed by the second.
If you can feel if something goes slow, you can fix it before you're billed for it ;-)

Fast hardware can mask performance problems. I still remember a bug I had in a Turbo Pascal code when I switched from my 286 to a Pentium: my loop counter had an extra '0' and it run unnoticed on the pentium for hours because it was too fast...
Two assertions:

One. Men can have kids up to high age, yes, but after 35, quality declines and the probability that their children will have face disorders and disabilities increases.

Two. Having children to leave a happy life isn't an obligation. It's an option. Most parents love their kids to bits, but will also grudgingly admit that the drudgery of parenthood is probably the most grueling thing you can do with life. And let's not discount the fact that it's literally playing lottery: disabled kids happen too, and you have to be willing to accept that. If you don't have kids yet, think very hard about why you would want to become a parent; and please be extremely critical towards your own romantic notions.
Exactly how I feel about web dev. Then, even when you can convince a client that all those layers are useless, a sleazy competitor salesman can convince him otherwise...
Interesting; it almost seems obvious now. Sidebar: This BBC mobile site experience is freaking refreshing!
Potential Sale of .Org
You are talking again in technical terms. Legally this is all irrelevant.
For people to debate, understand and live with each other I would rather teach them philosophy than mathematics.
>Utilitarianism isn't about doing pointless actions in the remote hope of the victim giving up anything useful or true.

Utilitarianism is about the perception of value. If torturing someone makes a population feel better, then at scale it is a net positive.
That sounds interesting. Do you have a recommendation for some reading materials on those Science Wars?
Similar to Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure [0]. You see it everywhere and it usually happens when we try to quantify a quality (like "competence"...)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
That was a good read. I found this part:

> First of all the perceptual system cuts down this abundance or you couldn't survive." Religion, science, politics and philosophy represent our attempts to compress reality still further.

Very interesting to think about in the context of artificial intelligence.
Wayland is just a vastly simpler architecture compared to Xorg, enabling lower redraw latency and tighter control of the display hardware on modern hardware (as in: systems where the GPU rather than the CPU computes the actual colors of pixels).

Those concerns are more important for graphical desktop environments, not so much for terminal multiplexers [1]. Therefore most existing Wayland compositors are focused on conventional desktop users. People with a "I just need a bunch of terminal windows" mindset will look at these and complain about bloat, but it's not really bloat to be able to play games without screen tearing (an issue that I always had with Xorg and that's just gone with Wayland). And it's not bloat to be able to play audio in Firefox either (Firefox afair only supports PulseAudio).

[1] Referencing the old 90s joke that Xorg is just a graphical terminal multiplexer, since the average Unix user mostly just uses it to have multiple terminal emulator windows open at the same time.
or just use a BSD which has this all built in.
I like to think that Maslov's Hierachy of Needs has a deeper meaning than just describing that you shouldn't buy an iPhone before you have food in the fridge or whatever.

The sort of emotions and problems being felt at the higher levels of the hierachy are just as important to the psyche as the emotions and problems being felt at the lower levels of the hierachy.

Even if it is "first world problems", not being fulfilled in the right way can be very distressing.
Good idea, that way you can feel like you do a part of good (helping people) while pushing simple software.

Maybe if we can get enough traction, it could be the new trend ;)
Yeah, brain fart. I was thinking 98.
I now expect a few features from anything that aims at replacing my init and service manager. Beyond booting the system, I want to manage daemons:

* ease of use: I don't want to deal with background/foreground processes, storing PID in files and hacks like the old start-stop-daemon.sh.

* reliable services: if it stops, restart it automatically. But stop hammering if it fails repeatedly.

* sandboxing: this service must have no access to the network nor to /home, etc.

This "lightweight replacement" does not have this small subset of features, so it's more an alternative init than a replacement of systemd.
You see the same thing in grad school.
It's the preference of the people referenced by Person B.

Person A the word _never_, the definition of absolutism.

You're literally making my point, a preference towards not using debugger not a limitation, an absolutist approach of never having used one professionally could be.

It's not like I said "OMG go use one right now or your career will fail" either before you latch onto that too. I said even those guys with a preference away from them, have used them professionally

Didn't think I'd be spelling out 1st grade reading comprehension on HN but here we are.

Why this sudden increase who think turning off their critical thinking skills to go "gotcha" because you didn't write out your comment like a thesis is something positive?
A JavaScript lexer in Python, and the saga behind it (2011)
> It's a small percentage of people in jail who are non-violent marijuana drug offenders.

I couldn't find anything about this on the link you provided. Any other sources?

this [1] doesn't differentiate between violent and non-violent

[1] http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics
Because some of those changes violate human rights?
Still better than getting cancer, getting expensive treatment, still dying, and leaving your family bankrupt.

The US even had a popular TV show about someone who got cancer and started making and selling meth to be able to afford treatment. Fantasy, sure, but nobody outside the US would even consider that a remotely plausible premise.
The problem with schools in the US is and has always been segregation. The problem is that local versus federal control of schools allows local politicians to bow to the deranged, racist fears of upper class parents, as opposed to policies, like integrative bussing, that actually improved outcomes.
To tack on, they also have a very annoying penchant for changing my boot order on major updates. I dual boot Windows and Linux and default to Linux. Every major update, it defaults to Windows first.
Pro plus is pretty much every business and university. It’s not like you buy pro plus for the amazing Bing integrations.
Having seen this argument come up many times on HN, I've come to the conclusion that the line between "document" and "application" on the web is more emotional than technical.

Although the definition in the article would seem to be that "documents" are static, non-interactive (excluding even forms and possibly any kind of server-side rendering), non-scriptable HTML pages which simulate paper documents as much as possible, with perhaps the sole exception of allowing hypertext, and "applications" are everything else.

If so, that seems far more restrictive than even the web in its infancy, at least at the point where most people became aware of it.
Say, limited to white male property owners?
That's neat. How does it handle more than 4 junctions? The Magic Roundabout was devised as a means to efficiently handle the junction of 5 or more roads.
> Another one is the ability for someone to change privacy level of a post from private to public. So that risky like that you thought was a safe one among friends could then be opened for everyone to see.

This seems like a difficult problem in general and reminds me of this episode of Hidden Brain (https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/758281834/you-cant-hit-unsend...). Where sharing shocking/"inappropriate" memes in a private WhatsApp led to everybody involved losing their spots in university.
> the UK spends less taxpayers money per person on healthcare than the US and we have free medicine

Well, sort of. Some treatments are free. Some other treatments are not covered at all by the NHS, which counterintuitively makes those conditions more expensive to treat in the UK than they would be in the US.

> longer life expectancy

Life expectancy is a horrible way to compare healthcare systems, because there are far too many confounding variables to draw any meaningful conclusions. In reality, factors such as genetics, economic history, and demographics will overpower any effects that healthcare delivery could possibly provide.

> and better health outcomes

Not quite. The UK scores better on some healthcare outcomes, but it scores dramatically worse on others. For cancer treatment, in fact, it's one of the worst in Europe, and far behind the US. (This has been demonstrated by a series of studies that have been replicated multiple times over the past 20 years, the most recent being published only one year ago).
The US’s healthcare is hardly an example of private businesses going awry. The US’s healthcare is by far the most heavily regulated in the country with a near majority of spending by the various governments. We have the worst of both worlds, some kind of Frankenstein’s monster of regulatory capture, government incompetence, and age old corruption. 20% of Medicare billing has been fraudulent for decades and now the government can’t fix it because so many parts of the industry rely on straight up theft.

So yes the US health care system needs a push to be more socialized or less regulated, but it’s not some prime example of a free market gone awry.
Hi@vprasanth.com, thank you!
The UI Development Mentoring Program
When a Man Took a Joke in a Pepsi Ad Seriously, Chaos Ensued
I mean isn't that essentially the deal you get when you're renting any property? Just because I've lived in my apartment for 20 years doesn't stop them from raising the rents when my lease renews once the area starts blowing up.

Look, I'm all for saving .org, I hope them the best, but it's not the end of the world for most websites where people are funneled there from search. There's probably a lot of internal IT stuff that would be annoying to migrate but that's nothing a split-horizon DNS can't put off.
While proper and equitable funding of schools is an issue, unfortunately, it seems the peer group and home life of a student make a very big impact on their probability of success, and if we allow a people to freely move around, society seems to sort itself by socioeconomic status and as the income/wealth gap gets wider, there is no amount of funding that can make up for the effects of not having a wealthy, knowledgeable, and motivated peer group.
I'm guessing we're supposed to believe the conspiracy theory being shilled in the media for some zany political reasons. Nobody sent me the memo as to what these zany political reasons are either; maybe I should buy a TV. This "report" is obvious bullshit -I mean, conclusions may be true, but if the report is all they have ... I hope it's a weak attempt at parallel construction.
He links to an awesome article: "A BNF PARSER IN FORTH" by Brad Rodriguez that "...first appeared in ACM SigFORTH Newsletter vol. 2 no. 2"
https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/bnfparse.htm

Imagine getting your Forth firmware loaded with this in it, you can already do e.g. OMeta-style grammars because it's still Forth, so you can send your device a language description preamble and then just talk to it in whatever language you like, all in one stream.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta )
For me, it's down to timezones. On a remote job advert I said I'd consider developers in Europe due to timezone overlap and an American developer e-mailed in saying, "but what if you just naturally get up really early". I hired him, it works just fine.
Do most people expose their pi-hole to the internet? I didn't think that was a common thing to do.
I see your point and I have not made it clear in my post;

I actually follow these values in all other parts of my life; I cut back on my possessions (lots of sales and gifts), take exclusively public transport, eat vegan and (mostly) local, always favour low-tech, package free buys and responsible companies, etc.

My job is the complete opposite, which I want to fix.
neither is Kant or Marx, both studied in high school where I live, but STEM students usually know nothing about it.
Censorship shackles China's battle against Wuhan virus
Redesign (2019)
> I'd love to markup my processor and graphics card benchmark results (the ordered result list), but there is nothing in the schema that would allow me to do that :/

You're probably one of the most qualified persons in the world to say how such a markup has to look. Propose something at public-vocabs@w3.org or ask for it on https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues?

(But of course once you do, Google - and others - could parse your data and deprive you of site visitors because they can answer queries natively)
This is not about all or nothing. This is about being dishonest in my opinion. It's like a doctor who recommends you to stop smoking because it's bad, but smokes on its own.
From tfa:

> In 2010, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program concluded that the roundabout reduces injurious crashes by three quarters
Does a user who installs Chrome provide consent for Google to be their default search engine?
Forcing integration, which would mean forcing people to live in certain places and not be able to send their kids to private schools) is less likely to succeed than efforts to structurally reduce income/wealth gap (aka wealth transfer from rich to poor).
There's one of these on the junction of the A3 at New Malden. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/A3,+New+Malden,+UK/@51.3...
The US however is not a good example of public education. School fees are quite high. Private companies push student loans eagerly. Funding to schools is highly depended on neighbourhoods.

To see that publicly education can work very well. Look at Finland e.g. But there are also many asian countries showing good results with public education.

Based on my experience as a foreigner in the US, the US school system strikes me as something operating far more like private enterprise. Schools compete for students while there are no strong national standards and so you get insane grade inflation. I was shocked when I studied in the US how high grades where. Anything to please the "customers" I mean the students I guess.
Fully agreed - and the necessity for the client here can't be overstated: was doing some research into nearby apartment buildings and searching the exact name of the building I was looking for returned an ad with their neighboring competitor as the top result, above the site of the building I was looking for.
How does population growth affect my note? My amortization schedule is fixed and I know exactly how much I will pay to close it out, unless I choose to change that in some way.
It really comes down to how doctors are compensated.

I know Canada used to be fee-for-service. The more the doctor does, the more they get paid.

They certainly had an incentive to “do more”.
You don't have to imagine. You can do a real cultural economic comparison to other countries:
Italy, Greece, Russia, Spain (and others) are countries that index more on your proposed value system: socialization, family, quality of life over hard work.

China, Japan and the US index very highly on the productivity side of the spectrum, China probably significantly more than the US.

Some of those QOL-indexing countries also have high unemployment rates and relatively lower GDP per capita.

Unemployment + GDP are probably the wrong things to optimize for. Personally I believe Unemployment is overloaded as our optimization function for economic health, where median wage increase is more representative of livability.

One question I have (and genuinely can't guess at): if you are unemployed in Greece, on average, what exactly is your quality of life?

All that said, there are countries that strike a healthier balance with strong economies: Germany, Canada, UK.

Zooming way out, my take on productivity generally is: human pressure to push our productivity is inevitable because we still need to solve some very hard, expensive problems:
(1) Our history of industrialization has led to
unsustainable environmental impact. This may require 10-100x the engineering focus & coordination we've ever had before.
(2) Disease still has significant impact.
(3) We still need human labor to harvest and transform resources (agriculture, metals)
(4) We still need human labor to generate more "life necessities" supply: electricity, housing, water / plumbing.

One could argue that for (3) & (4) we can be more like Germany and we'll still do great. Also one could argue that if we increased taxes / shifted government spend to subsidize housing development (vs. home ownership) we might also be fine.

Edits: grammar
> Many new drugs are developed in European countries. This is not something that's unique to the US. Americans just pay more for the same drugs.

About 50% of all R&D worldwide happens in the US. The US's global share has shrunk a bit, but only because China and India have grown rapidly, not because Europe has ramped up (it hasn't).

Some new drugs are developed in European countries, or by European pharmaceutical companies - that's true. But European pharmaceutical companies all make a disproportionate amount of their revenue off of sales in the US market. So Europeans quite literally benefit the most from the fact that Americans pay more for the same drugs.
While this doesn't invalidate your point entirely, I have never met a person who want the police run as if they fear being replaced by a different agency.

Everyone I have ever meant who want police reform, at their core, want accountability and a lesser reliance of lethal weapons as a primary tool.

There are other topics depending on where you come from, e.g. racial diversity, but I've yet to meet someone who wants the police to act like a private force.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundabouts English link
Can you explain the mechanism? All I see is an excuse to show more ads. I can't name a single way that being digitally tracked improves my "productivity" or "quality of life".
"Are petitions any useful? Did they ever have any significant impact?"

They can be effective, depending on the balance between interests and the risk of PR backlash when the involved parties ignore them. Any decision is usually taken after careful planning of worst case scenarios like millions of people refusing to buy X product/brand for example or marching with signs against that product/brand, including of course viral campaigns or the big media covering the issue which is the worst they can think of. It's all about the money: if a petition whether directly or not results in a lot less money for the subject the petition was created against, then it has been effective.

In this case however I think the message should be a lot more clear. By reading the headlines it seems someone is attempting to buy some "dot.com" site or a fictional "(space).com" domain, which sends a completely wrong message.
This is likely the case where a more effective tabloid-like headline would work better.
Jerry (YC s17) is hiring software developers in Toronto and SF
They already tried[0], but the dedicated store page got removed (now devs. can allow people to download games via their discord server/guild).

0: https://blog.discordapp.com/the-discord-store-beta-9a35596fd...
How to Solve 5 Common Career Challenges for Developers
Ah, good old Dr Knock[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_(play)
Holy hell.. Can you imagine the complexity of such a legislation?
My question then would be, why do you need to use especially Google Analytics for that? Stats like "visitors per country" are a core feature of all major analytics suites. I set up analytics for many site on my job and I never experienced a use case where GA offered that specific feature no other software had.
Every time someone writes about the health advantages of chocolate, it remind me of "I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss" http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-hel... (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714985 (205 points | June 14, 2015 | 60 comments))
My Canadian province has been on a big roundabout building spree. Nothing fancy just one lane or two lane types. I like them but many people fear them for some reason I suspect because they don't understand them. Some people actually go the wrong way when entering (against traffic). Some people will cross from an outside lane over the inner lane nearly crashing into cars.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. -- Goodhart's Law
Once you get rid of the inefficient fossil fuel conversion step the answer becomes obvious.

Just think about how inefficient this chain of events is: sun -> plant -> coal -> coal plant -> electricity.

The answer renewables offer is: sun -> electricity, wind -> electricity.

Massive gains in efficiency can be had simply by switching to renewables. The way primary energy is counted is very favorable for fossil fuels. For renewables the secondary energy they produce is counted as primary energy but for fossil fuels the primary energy in the fuel itself is counted. This makes fossil fuels dominate the primary energy pie charts [0] even when the reality is completely different. The real primary energy share of renewables could be twice as high but we don't know, because of the way energy is counted.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...