skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it never did. Journalism has always included simply gathering and publishing fairly superficial news. It doesn't take any investigation to let people know about decisions made at a recent school board meeting, or that the local fair is coming up and Little Tommy will enter his pig in the 'best pet' competition, and it only takes a small amount of investigation to learn that the school board decision was heavily driven by the supervisor's experience in his previous district - but that doesn't make it unimportant, and the reliable recording of basic local facts is incredibly important to those 'deep investigative' journalists.
Bur who else rewards you with sweet referral dollars? Or pennies, anyway.
I agree with your overall sentiment, but want to expand on a few points.

Housing: It seems this is largely a policy issue rather than an economic one. Restrictive zoning and a misaligned incentive structure come to mind. Places like SF are the face of the housing shortage, but it’s a problem of supply and demand. To make affordable housing, you need a lot more housing. First, you have to satisfy the needs of all of the wealthy buyers, and this isn’t even clearly achieved. Even with subsidies, there isn’t a financial interest for developers to sell affordable housing. We need to build a ton of housing to meet demand. Policy is the inhibitor here.

Food: Food deserts exist entirely because of sprawl. The suburbanization of America means lowered density in certain Urban cores. (The Midwest and south especially) Lower density, particularly among lower income residents makes traditional grocery stores unviable. To sell produce you need sufficient traffic or else your stock will go bad. To make things worse, low income residents have less access to transportation. Thus, lower traffic. It’s not profitable to run a grocery store in the middle of urban sprawl, especially given the lack of access to transportation. Transportation is a matter of policy, again.

Healthcare: The problems here are directly correlated with housing and food, but extend to education. There is significant over—utilization of emergency services for non-critical medical services. I believe some universal access to healthcare should exist, but not if we don’t first address the inefficiencies that exist due to a lack of health education. Education is again, largely the fault of policy.

It’s not lost on me that wealth increases access to all of these things, but I don’t think we can blame venture capital and founders. These are deeply societal issues, given poor policy decisions in our history. They aren’t attractive investments because you cannot change them in a matter of a couple of years.

A higher tax on the wealthy would incentivize focusing on these issues, but it would also slow the pace of economic growth. It’s a matter of compromise.
Maybe related to "Belyayev's Fox Experiment": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22143748
> Any test that leads to unnecessary treatment is unsafe.

The AMA argues against letting patients run their own lab tests too, and fortunately lost. While it is possible that people could make mistakes using their own data, but this is rare and certainly the data being available is a net positive for people.

Using your definition, wouldn’t it be more dangerous to only make the information available to rich people and prevent the information being available affordable? $100 for webmd is much cheaper than the tens of thousands it would cost to consult with specialists, counselors, and gps.

We need to look for ways to lower healthcare costs, not scare people about hypothetical dangers that just happen to be solved by very expensive tests and consults.
A very similar claim appeared in a BBC article 2 months ago, and it seemed bogus. After a brief bit of online research, it seems even more bogus to me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617547

Please, anyone who wishes to make this claim: give me the name of some Nobel laureate who is also a performing "actor, dancer, [or] magician". Even one.
The problem with the Stanford Prison Experiment was that the guards were secretly coached by the researchers to get the effect their hypothesis predicted, not that "the effect was too strong": https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
This is as good a place as any to ask. How do you do concurrency in video games, and how does concurrent code map onto parallel execution?
I’ve seen a couple in New Orleans but I don’t know if I would vouch for their quality
Many of the innovations in DB research are for people with very large and very analytic workloads. That is not most users on HN, who often rely heavily on point updates and queries.
See also "Wolf Pups That Play Fetch" at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22155843
I always figured that the “playing fetch” behavior was just the dog (or wolf, I suppose) figuring out that it gets to chase the thing again if it brings it back to the thrower. If you teach a dog to play fetch, it has no problem instinctively chasing the thing. It’s the bringing it back that has to be trained. But once the dog gives it back, it suddenly learns that it gets to chase the thing again, which is fun and rewarding. Eventually you might be minding your own business but as soon as the dog finds the ball, it will bring it to you. The dog plays fetch because you’re going to throw the ball, not because you already did throw it.
As of 2014 it existed.
At some point Microsoft had an Android emulator for Windows based on AOSP which was way faster and nicer than the SDK one. I suppose it still exists but don’t know how up to date the available images are.
In the US, federal student loans are also not dischargeable through bankruptcy.
I’m ashamed to admit that not all of my visitors have iPhones.
I think that's kind of the point: analyze the context, make an impartial decision.
The thing that would've saved me the most time and frustration in the long run for all mobile development (well, all dev period, but mobile especially as they tend to be moving targets):

Ignore the framework. Write your app how you want to write it, then attach it to the framework as needed. Don't restrict yourself to what the framework supplies or how it thinks about things.

It'll dramatically decrease craziness in your core logic in the long run. Framework versions and bugs can lead to strange lifecycle callbacks, weird interactions between the N flavors of how to build UI components, etc, and if your core logic is chopped up to deal with all of this it can become very hard to make important changes. Such as updating to a newer version of the framework so your app isn't removed from the stores.

It'll pretty much always be more up-front code and work, but you'll be left with a far clearer system in the end.
The buffet we go to most often is Sweet Tomatoes. Not all vegetarian, but most dishes are. In fact, the only way to get much in the way of meat there is to go fishing in the chicken noodle soup tureen.
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As a paid speaker who goes to a lot of conferences, I always eat way less than if I’m out at a social gathering.

Partly it’s the professionalism - even in these mixer situations, I’m at work and with a client that’s paying a (comparatively) lot of money for me, and demonstrating my ability to down eight plates then back up for dessert isn’t great brand positioning.

There’s also the volume of food at conferences. If I don’t skip a few meals and eat smaller portions at the others, I could end up having a days worth of calories for all 3 meals, plus snacks, for up to a full week including travel.
It seems like bot(s) that is/are attempting to prevent other users from getting the ability to downvote/500 points. Flaw with hn and disincentive to post here.
The irony: we kill large scary predators, but inevitably medium sized predators replace them. People and cattle are not terrorized but our Shih Tzus and kitty cats are.
I don't mean anything different. Right now the C specification is nearly 700 pages long. In the meanwhile you can easily define a dependent type system within two pages.
That's awesome! There's no one way to do this so if it's working for you, then keep doing what you're doing. Are you running a B2C startup by any chance?
> Observations of biodiversity loss are, for me, sufficient to move beyond the debating and towards the changing phase.

There's a lot wrong here.

(a) Over the past two centuries, we've been doing hundreds of crazy new things we've never done before. Correlation =/= causation: you can't just assume biodiversity loss is mostly caused by atmospheric carbon (btw: it's not)

(b) You're painting me as a caricature that has no link to reality. I'm not "waiting for science to lock" and spending my time "debating" instead of taking action, I've been working on clean energy development&commercialization for almost my entire career, and it is my primary long term focus in life.

That being said, I think there's very good reason for other people to spend time debating these issues instead of just rallying for radical political fixes to CO2 emissions. Like I've been trying to explain, the science is not at all settled on the subtleties of what we should do long term.

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> Also greatly concerning, but elements of the same whole which needs to be addressed. I think we’re on the same page here - ... effects which cannot be foreseen.

I completely agree with you here - you're absolutely right.

You also bring up very good points about why increased CO2 is nasty - these are accurate and CO2 is fundamentally a toxic gas so of course I'm also leaning towards the "the ideal level is probably below today's level" side - but I don't know yet. With so many different factors to consider, we can't just look at any one thing like human cognition and ignore the other pros / cons.

> That’s assuming we’re talking about humankind and society as the thing we’re really seeking to save here.

I don't think we need to "save" humankind or society (or the planet) - all three of those things are extremely resilient. Some portion of humans will survive just about anything with maybe the exception of a nasty gamma ray blast.

My concern is that GHG emissions will probably cause countless millions of avoidable deaths, negatively affect billions of human lives and cost us trillions of dollars long term in addition to ruining the natural environment and biodiversity.

This is, however, a slow process compared to a human lifetime. It's a really slow, big problem that will do a lot of damage if we don't focus on solving it before it becomes even worse.

> We could also talk about biodiversity

I'm very unsure whether GHG emissions are a leading cause of biodiversity loss in recent years. We do so much other bullshit (global shipping alone basically destroyed the natural barriers between ecosystems) and have already plunged nature into a mass extinction before the industrial revolution even began iirc

There's a lot of things humans do that cause extinctions. We should probably be addressing all of them.
Apple also paid Xerox for the use of those patents.
systemd makes it the most easy. all you need is systemctl switch-root ROOT. on other inits, you usually need to replace /sbin/init, then use some non-portable (sysvinit is not the only competitor) method of telling init to re-exec itself. sometimes that method doesn't even stop the running services, so you need to either manually stop them, or kill them.
The iPhone was a once in a lifetime thing. The phone market was already a 1 billion device a year market when the iPhone was introduced. Now it’s 5 billion.

The Apple Watch is much more impressive technically than the iPad. Once you had the iPhone, the iPad was easy. It also was just a big iPhone and didn’t come into its own until 2015.

The Apple Watch is also generating more revenue than the iPod did at its peak.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797330613/myth-busted-turns-o... (Myth Busted: Turns Out Bankruptcy Can Wipe Out Student Loan Debt After All)

> Just this month, a federal judge in New York discharged more than $220,000 in student loans for a borrower. In her ruling, Chief Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia Morris criticized the fact that even many lawyers "believe it impossible to discharge student loans." She added, "This Court will not participate in perpetuating these myths."

Ruling: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6660178/Rosenberg...
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Presumably it is a mistake.
Interestingly, there actually is such a concept as negative temperature. It applies to systems that have a maximum allowable energy as well as a minimum one. Such systems must be isolated from the outside world, and set up carefully, but it is possible to actually get negative temperatures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
I can't seem to figure out the incentives behind [2], the idea that during door-to-door canvassing only gay people can be effective at changing non-gay people's minds about same-sex marriage seems like an odd narrative for someone to want to push.

Other than encouraging employment of gay individuals by political campaigns/canvassers or maybe a general superiority complex, by stating that only gay people are capable of changing people's minds on the subject.

I have noticed a general pattern on Twitter, from people who push this sort of social science stuff, that they believe only people who are in the in-group (ie, race, gender, class, etc) are allowed to have opinions or engage in research about the group itself. Which always seemed anti-intellectual and borderline dangerous, as it actively discourages the wider population not only from doing useful research but also helping overcome ignorance in their day-to-day conversations, writing books, political projects, etc and generally engaging in issues.

It just makes everyone even more scared, careful, and closed off to the subject(s). Which is the opposite incentive structure for 'producing a cascade of opinion change' (as the study claims).

This just seems to be a punitive approach to change/progress, where oppressed groups, or people representing the groups, are just in it to collect an endless amount of things to shame other people for "not getting it", which ties back into the superiority thing. Assuming the actual goal is ending oppression, this is taking a totally backwards approach by providing ever more ways to minimize and degrade the opinions and personhood of other groups. And when this (self-)destructive strategy is challenged it's met with a bunch of hand-wavy stuff about privilege to justify everything.

Meanwhile the average person on the outside is just trying to live there life and aren't heavily invested. This punitive approach, particularly via social media, would seem to me to make them more likely to just avoid, ignore, or even resent such talk of change.
My 9-year old desktop on Windows 10 boots in <15 seconds.

SSDs do make a huge difference.

But I'm unsure which class of hardware were you talking about.
Robert Sapolsky is a genius. His work relating psycho-social phenomena to physiology is profound.

Other thinkers in the realm (albeit different expertise) are Gabor Mate and Stephen Porges.

I think there’s a natural inclination for any species to become hierarchical, but it’s a problem when those at the bottom of the hierarchy do not have their basic need of safety met.
im sorry, what's your point?
The point is logically disconnected from the question of whether the business plan at age 19 was to sell fake blood tests.
The question is based on a false premise. What the Second Law of Thermodynamics states is that the entropy of an isolated system is never decreasing. Is the Universe an isolated system (meaning it cannot exchange matter or energy with its environment across its boundary)? We don't know anything about the boundaries of the Universe, or if it has any at all, therefore the 2nd law doesn't apply. QED.
According to the book Bad Blood about the Theranos debacle (great book), Holmes had Cooley LLP on to deals with the book's author (John Carreyrou) as well as whistleblowers. I guess they had decided to stick around up until now.
Maybe in the USA. I doubt that will be true in Japan and other places that value the social aspect of eating out often.
I'm not convinced by this trend either. Everyone who's gotten delivery has had food that doesn't travel and feels like they paid more for a worse quality product.

I hope that eat at restaurants will have a renaissance. It's nice to eat out, be in a different space than your home, etc...
Don’t worry. I do not have the power to implement a seven percent federal property tax with no exceptions. More importantly, I would NOT implement it even if I had that power. There would be way too much chaos and suffering in the short term even with my very limited conscience.
Thai food and drinks like coffee can be a bit cheaper for sure. Most dishes can be bought on the local markets or in local "restaurants" for 40 Baht or so. Smaller coffeeshops also offer drinks for around 40 Baht. I believe in bigger cities prices might be 50% higher or so.

Clothes and such can be had very cheap as well (maybe 200 Baht for jeans), but no brands of course.

For reference: 1 USD is around 30 Baht right now.
A variation of that philosophy led to the end of a limited salad deal in China, supposedly patrons would stack their plates to an absurd height to get around the one plate limit.
https://kotaku.com/how-chinese-ingenuity-destroyed-salad-bar...
They are sandboxed. That’s the point.

But if you want to share files, you can now with the Files app.
It's really not that hard to autorotate, you do it at hour 8 in training.

The problem with helicopters is that people fly them close to the ground and other obstacles. CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) is a leading cause of crashes, as is flying VFR rated in IMC due to poor weather understanding and processes. Mechanical failures are max 25% of accidents, and 75% of those are due to engine failure alone, and hence autorotation is an option -- if you are high enough and have planned your route well.

You can autorotate at fairly low altitude, but it depends on your forward airspeed, rotor inertia, etc, which is situation and model specific.

http://www.copters.com/pilot/hvcurve.html
On iOS:

• Interface builder(especially Storyboards) is inferior to using UIKit straight from code

• Coordinator pattern, which lets you split logic and view controllers. https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/71/how-to-use-the-...
Google maps pans so much smoother on my iPhone SE than on a lot of the flagship Android phones from the past few years.

I think most recently I compared it with a pixel 2. It was dropping so many frames compared to the iOS version which is really pathetic for a google app running on a google os running on a google phone.
Subverting FDA regulations is the difference.
I use a password manager app on IOS and MacOS. It stores the pw file in a Dropbox folder and is synced between the devices. If never had to manually open files or copy file between them. I might be able to use iClouds shared files, too, but I started using Dropbox for the syncing years ago and am not ready to switch that,yet.
Sorry the FC adapters are original SGI gear, you would have to hunt for it.
That damned notch is why I still have an iPhone 8 in clutch
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This feels great until your program reaches some complexity threshold and you start hitting core limitation of the shell execution model. Then you have to use high-numbered file descriptors, named temporary files, PIPESTATUS, etc... - and your neat programming model becomes ugly and full of hacks.

Sometimes shell is really the best even for complex stuff - for the example in initrd or during machine provisioning - but in most cases, having any sort of non-trivial flow control in shell is a bad idea.
I've never been a Seventh-day Adventist, but I've spent a significant amount of time around Seventh-day Adventists and attended their potlatches. For the sake of avoiding confusion for other readers I'll throw out that while vegetarianism and veganism seemed way more prevalent in that church than in the general population, neither is a universal practice within SDA. I have no idea what the numbers are, just that meat was an option at the potlatches I attended (as were many vegan and vegetarian dishes).
> Even one.

From Feynman's 1964 Messenger Lecture (later transcribed into The Character of Physical Law):

> "On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics. I believe that is probably because we respect the arts more than the sciences."

Feynman was also an amateur artist, and he claims to have sold some of his drawings to a Pasadena strip club in Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!. I too am skeptical of the claim that Nobel laureates are 22-times more likely to be engaged in an artistic hobby, but it is also not unheard of them to have nonacademic pursuits.
I wish I had realised that Android app development ecosystem (the dev tools, API, documentation, gradle, dependency management etc) is a shit show and is going to remain a shit show and I should have moved to backend early in my career. Now companies are very reluctant about it.
BIOS I/O calls are extremely slow. EFI boot-time services are significantly faster.
12.4.1!
I never said it's necessary.

But there are certain risks from supporting the old versions. Take a look at this table[1]. In the TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 columns not a single cipher is listed as secure. Some can be secure with mitigations, but I'm not familiar with the difficulty of those mitigations, and whether the mitigations would have to be serverside or clientside. If clientside, then by blocking old versions, they might actually be closing vulnerabilities.

Supporting more stuff means more surface area for new attacks. Also the older stuff was designed with less knowledge of current attack strategies, so there might be a higher likelihood of vulnerabilities being found there.

Just because new browsers disable old TLS versions doesn't mean everyone is safe. As you've already pointed out, some people use old browsers, so to protect those people there might need to be serverside changes.

> Blocking poor people is the only thing that is accomplished by this policy employed by Wikipedia.

That seems like an exaggeration. One thing they accomplished was PCI-DSS compliance. I don't value that, but some people probably do.

> It's very sad that everyone's celebrating all these actions

I'm not celebrating their actions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Ciphe...
It does seem similar, but it's an original film, not a documentary.
That's a good rule! Apple sign-in was not offered to me.
What a fun surprise to find that this website is Lisa's writings. I was lucky enough to attend Recurse Center while they were a facilitator there. Working with Lisa was a real joy and I learned a ton from her and James (the other facilitator). I can't recommend Recurse Center enough, if you're looking for a unique way to grow as a developer, hacker, computer scientist, or whatever label you prefer, it's an environment that really can't be beat.
Most Android devs I worked with just used a physical phone to test on and avoided the emulator altogether.
Isn't there a name for the idea that every visionary and every fraudster is basically the same person?

There has to be a parallel universe where Holmes got more money pumped into her company, got regulators to ignore her company despite causing deaths, got away with incredibly shady marketing, purchased bankrupt companies owned by family members against her fiduciary duty, and then - through sheer hype and money spent - managed to produce a viable product or at least advance the technology enough to be a net contribution to humanity.

In this universe, that person is Musk instead of Holmes, but they are fundamentally the same archetype and the same story.