skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the opportunity cost of studying the humanities as opposed to science or engineering? This a question for the individual. As a boy I fell in love with Orwell which led me to strongly appreciate literature.

Now a little older I realize what is actually meant by "knowledge is power." Knowledge is a lever. When you're young there's absolutely nothing you can do of any consequence because you live inside someone else's bounds. In a modern economy it's not enough to produce a bushel of corn a day to feed one person. To operate in the economy as anything more than a consumer requires levers in the form of skills, experience, education, and knowledge. Otherwise, you live off the fat of our capitalistic system as some unimportant facilitator, or entirely as a consumer.

Knowledge in the sciences and engineering effectively makes the individual more than what he's worth in just labor. You can effectively leverage our modern day infrastructure of virtually infinite water, electricity, materials, connectivity, and information to do more than what a person in the past could only accomplish with their hands and feet.

What is worthwhile in the humanities preferable to understanding the power of technology and being able to create objective value in society?
> less likely to question you because they don't want to be seen applying a bias

Many people aren't immediately conscious of their biases. This isn't the same situation, but I thought this article about being a black CEO was illuminating. I've seen the similar bias-exposing mistakes happen to women.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/for-black-ceos-in-sil...

They're easy mistakes to make (I made an similar mistake by assuming a young woman was a nurse and not a doctor), but the most important bit is to learn and be aware.
Except they’re polarising as hell. Expect someone to chime in and state how they are a complete waste of time and energy.
I’m a big fan of agadmator - he makes incredible content and definitely never anything harmful

YouTube cops gone mad
There's no Adolf Hitler university. There was a time when lots of us people, especially Jews, would but buy a Volkswagen. Today nobody cares. People are not going to UConn over Yale because of the name
>I thought education was believed to a be universal right.

It is. Getting an education at a top tier college? Not so much. There's always university of phoenix.
Trump's trade war was an attempt to pressure China to reduce the trade deficit and help him in the 2020 election. It had absolutely nothing to do with human rights. If anything, Trump admires dictators who violate the human rights of their citizens.

There absolutely nothing logical about supporting a policy that superficially looks like a policy you support but has entirely different goals.
Yep. And I also was able to see first hand some of the issues my kid frequently told me about when they were doing in-person classes at school, like how much classroom time was wasted due to behaviors by the same kids day after day. It makes a strong impression when you see for yourself the same kids every day unprepared and being disruptive. In addition, I also noticed what a drag the weak students were on the rest of the class. I ended up withdrawing my kid from the school.
This should be marked with [2016]. Personally, I've switched to ASCIIDoc (after looking at reStructured Text) because Markdown has too many variants and they don't consistently extend the markup the same way (a document that looks good in visual code fails to render in Github and vice-versa).
What Happened to Python3.9.0b2?
Crowded Brooklyn bridge and other areas during during Floyd protests: lots of mask usage, no uptick in cases. It could just be that outdoors in sunlight is relatively safe though and that had a bigger effect than the masks. Or just even though it looked like huge packed crowds it was still tiny relative to NYC population.
> That depends on what you mean by "because of".

A direct response to the global covid pandemic

> The pandemic is one factor that lead to the lockdown, but by itself it wasn't a sufficient condition; it was a free choice by politicians.

Do you think there was another reason for the lockdown besides slowing down infections?
Making HEY while the cloud shines
Private Jet with US tourists rejected at Italy’s borders
Inflation is faster in some urban centers though, so fixed interest rates are disproportionately bad for those urban dwellers. While that interest rate might grow your larger starting pile of money faster than it grows someone’s money in rural Nebraska, the gains are eroded more quickly so they don’t translate to purchasing power.

In those cities, your money has to grow fast or the loss of purchasing power is huge.

So I wouldn’t say nationwide interest rates are definitely an advantage for people with bigger starting piles of money in urban areas. It’s complicated.
This could work both ways. Workers have more options for employment meaning they can jump to a higher paying job without having to uproot their life.
Maybe it's confirmation bias but it seems that it's getting more and more common to see upvoted posts with the top reply something along the lines of "I don't know this was downvoted ..." followed by a restatement of the OP's comment in a slightly different wording.
Similar to "redlining" and other forms of discrimination. Expunged records can't be used to deny opportunity.
This seems reasonable if the final product also contains something else, like air, or the water is less efficiently packed inside the quinoa. It's easy to pack water less efficiently then it will normally be as a liquid. Freezing it into ice causes it to expand and have a lower density as well.
Are producers obligated to only sell at cost-plus, or are they permitted to sell based on value to the buyer?

Do I cost an airline more money to transport me out on a Monday and back on a Friday than the converse? (I suspect not, but not staying Saturday night makes the former ticket more expensive on many carriers.) Does SSO really cost as much to provide as the “enterprise pricing” tier suggests?

Those higher priced business flights or enterprise tier purchases help subsidize the lower cost options, making it possible to sell a base version and a deluxe and get enough revenue to make the economics attractive.

I remember years ago shopping for a Jeep Wrangler. There was a ~$175 option for a larger gas tank (22 vs 18 gallons or so). If you bought the option, you got the same physical tank and a shorter pipe from the filler into the top of the tank (so more fuel would go in before the pump clicked off). To the buyer of the Jeep, that option was worth something. I’m OK with Jeep offering it. (I wouldn’t buy it, since you could easily install the “larger tank” with a hacksaw, but I’m sure many did.)
Black Americans have never been fully independent from racially-based socioeconomic discrimination in the United States. You've also conveniently ignored GP's additional condition: racial discrimination.

The Prison Industrial Complex and the War on Drugs systematically dismantled the nuclear black family across the United States - this is not a new take. Take it from Lee Atwater, Reagan strategist and co-architect of the Southern Strategy:

>Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N-----, n-----, n-----". By 1968 you can't say "n-----*"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N-----, n-----". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner.

A black man around Nathan's age would have been born in the middle of the Clinton-era when the government was going "tough on crime." They would have been born in the wake of the Central Park Five case, for perspective, and grown up in the shadow of Superpredator Theory. This before even unpacking the financial and social disenfranchisement of the Jim Crow era and the systematic and brutal dissolution of black wealth ala the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Indeed. The tactics and intolerance for different opinions is pretty similar on both ends of the political spectrum.

I think the US would make a huge leap forward if different political opinions we're viewed with "I disagree with you" versus "your beliefs mean youre a bad person".
Took me 30 minutes to convince someone of fingerprint temperature meter fraud that tricked my dad into 100 buck subscription.

Apple prides into protecting customers, but when such issue appears you can’t do anything in the usual case deflection UI.
For most types of rice, you'll always use a ratio of 1 cup rice to 2 cups water. When the water is gone the rice is done. Some rice like arborio for risotto take even more.
It was inconceivable to me even one year ago that American citizens could be beaten in public for supporting the president.

This is not rational in any explanation.
Who's talking about human rights? I was talking about economics of trade, which is what this article is about.

> Trump's trade war was an attempt to pressure China to reduce the trade deficit and help him in the 2020 election.

Yes, I support this view, although I don't support his re-election.

> If anything, Trump admires dictators who violate the human rights of their citizens.

Agreed, this was absolutely reprehensible and don't forget Russia.

I honestly have no energy to debate anymore. And this is not something I want to get into right now, the point was about being tolerant to other's views and try to understand why they think that way.
Perfect, dropping a line there as well
How about an outdoor 24/7 disco in your quiet neighborhood?
When the US finally became a superpower, there were still Jim Crow laws and minorities were second class citizens that could be killed for looking at someone the wrong way.

It took decades for the US to change and for Civil Rights to truly take hold.

It’s entirely possible the China we know today will be completely different once it’s a superpower.
I did it last summer for running. I have an Apple Watch series 4. It's pretty restrictive -- you must use Apple Music, and you can only play Apple Music playlists -- i.e., you can't just search for music and play that. It was nice running without a phone, but I have a Flip Belt this year and it doesn't bother me.
Ask HN: With most people working from home, what is your daily schedule now?
No, I am not going to give you a reference. If you have been paying attention to the story, you have seen a hundred stories about the various nations and their policies.

I think you are playing dumb.

Also I explained your description of the policies in California was a gross misrepresentation. Will you agree you got it wrong?

And let me ask you yet again, what policies are you for? That's why this whole argument matters.
I think it's also an effect of the way most Twitter users interact with the feed. I've used Tweetbot for years, and other clients that only show the timeline in order before that, and I'm pretty religious about clearing out people who only post annoying/only political/negative content on their feeds.

I've found it to be a great place for feedback on my own work and also for finding new things, but I also instinctively filter out about 90% of what I see even in my own curated listing that I browse.

Every once in a while I get to Twitter.com and see how the algorithmic feed lays things out, and the experience would be a disaster, like with Facebook.
>This is also a great of example of how really smart people with deep knowledge in one domain can totally fail real-world skills.

This is a common sentiment, but what I think isn't so common is to observe that the "real world" is a euphemism for domains where people do not share and preserve accurate information in an easily digestible fashion. It's not really more "real", it's defined in my opinion by being more hostile to copying as mis/disinformation protects social roles.

My opinion is foremost in my mind from spending a lot of time practicing cooking rice, browning meat, and working on my car since "social distancing" has been a thing.
> Do you want to live in a world where the CCP is the dominant superpower?

No!

But if we belive that US companies can effectively change China and try to use that we are already on the losing end.
> In-place instruction of both explicit and tacit knowledge, remains the most effective method attained.

Citation needed. I view today's colleges (including the university I attended) as little more than a racketeering scam. "It'd be a shame if you didn't pay us $200K and didn't get a degree, no employer would take you seriously".

Most of the stuff I use on a daily basis I did not learn in the college, and there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the 6 years I've spent to get my masters degree would be better spent advancing my career, if I could have that choice. In my field, however, you can't have a career if you don't have a degree, even if you learned little to nothing of relevance getting that degree. It's basically a racketeering scam where you pay "protection money" to get a degree, without which you can't be considered by an employer. As a hiring manager, I've lost count how many times I interviewed fresh grads who know very little and have little to no usable skills. Whoever makes through and manages to acquire actual skills does so in spite of, not thanks to, the best efforts of their professors.
Having a chat bot and a good website work hand in hand. Sometimes users don't immediately find the page they are looking for, or simply prefer to ask the bot and then be directed to the right place, rather than investigating for themselves.
You read the article and thought it was about botnets? Or you didn't bother reading the article and thought the article was about botnets?
The shenanigans Google been doing to the url bar is super hostile.

Trying to copy the domain of a url without the protocol just infuriates me.
Fastly Edge Compute Explained
Many universities are certainly going to have problems but it's hard to see an event that causes problems for a single semester (or maybe two) being an extinction event.
Trivially, you can also just cook some rice on the stove, verify that rice is not spherical, and also verify that it gets significantly bigger. (Like 3x bigger per dry rice unit of volume, and you don't (usually) cook water:rice 2:1 for most rices)
Problem-Solving Strategies by Arthur Engel. It's more than a textbook and not easily absorbed. The book + the internet is a powerful combination for not just learning cool math skills but building mental models/ problem framing lenses that will benefit them later in life
Tools for Efficient MLOps (Machine Learning DevOps)
i dont think Hancock states he is saying the truth, he just offers an explanation of his own to some unaswered questions.
> I had someone call me gross and “where was your outrage when a Black man was killed by a cop? I didn’t see you post anything then”

Sounds rude. Does not sound like a huge tragedy? You wanted to post some random news article and get some +1s, and then somebody had to ruin your day? Now you "have to make a risk analysis"? Is that a complicated way of saying you have to think before you post?

Just in case you're of the opinion that the PC left is all-powerful, maybe check out how people were treated who dared to say that the untouchable Kobe Bryant should just maybe be remembered for some really nasty sexual assault -- they got pilloried left right and center how DARE you criticize Kobe! Or, observe how the Biden scandal has been handled. Plenty of non-PC stuff getting over, every day.
Creative Ways to Fly Through the Air Without an Airplane [video]
Noam Chomsky on Covid and Economy
The Articles of Unity – A Patriotic Plan to Save Our Republic
Maths tutor here. At that age I was very inspired by Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh. It's not a technical book but gave me my first idea of what mathematicians actually do and how the process works. This book motivated me to major in maths.

Anything by Ian Stewart would also be good, 'Letters to a Young Mathematician' springs to mind.

Given that you use the word 'maths' with an s I'm guessing you're not American. If you're British like me, I would recommend avoiding American books for high schoolers because they will assume quite different prerequisites.
Yeah setting a passphrase kills the online password manager.

I have long since switched to using 1Password for everything, but it was seeing passwords.google.com for the first time that freaked me out enough to switch to a passphrase.
I don’t really think Google’s plan is that weird. And it would be amazing for decentralized networks, archiving, and offline web apps. Google can’t just serve nyt.com — they can serve a specific bundle of resources published and signed by nyt.com verified by your browser to be authentic and unmodified.
Currently, it's not easy. I'm a bit of a phone/tiny computer geek, so I read a lot. When I was younger, where a product was made was something everyone wanted to know. China was seen as junk, and rightly so. Now, nobody cares, so it's rarely advertised.

I'd love for us to hold companies to the standards they hold us to. Say something unpopular, and you'll get fired, or have advertising pulled away. By the same companies using sweatshops in countries that abuse people.

Consider this example: Nike pulled it's Redskins gear, because it's possibly offensive to Native Americans. Yet Nike exploits the system to have that gear made by women and children, by force or necessity, in countries that are truly horrible to their people.
Personally I have had many good experiences with chatbots, although they don't replace talking to a real human about complex issues.

Effective chatbots tend to triage requests and point users to further information, rather than fully solving the issue on their own.
https://www.epi.org/blog/housing-discrimination-underpins-th...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining...

There's a couple articles there's plenty more out there, just Google "racial wealth gap". IMO it is also just common sense, wealth is passed down from generation to generation and black Americans have never been given the opportunity to build much wealth until very recently (but are still held back by the judicial system). There's been very little/no wealth to pass down. This is compunded by the fact that the education system in the US is tied to property value.

> statistically significant difference in ascending the "social ladder" between poor, uneducated whites and poor, uneducated blacks.

I honestly haven't done much reading on that. Here's a study I found quicky though: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353

I believe the best way to end racism is to address wealth inequality. This could help both poor black kids and poor white kids.
It does seem that truly quality design has fallen on hard times in the consumer market.

For example, I'm looking for a kettle with temperature control. All I want is a kettle with a dial on it, that I can turn to set the appropriate temperature. Maybe a button to control whether or not my kettle will maintain that temperature once it has been reached.

No lights, no Star Trek control panel, just a kettle with a dial and a switch.

Has been impossible to find.

Appliances without needless lights are also very hard to come by. The modern aesthetic seems to lie somewhere between "70's sci-fi spaceship" and "plastic Christmas tree"

Doubly so for WiFi routers. Ugh.
But we literally do. Do a cursory google search. Hell even Pence wears one.
Thanks just sent.
I initially found this curious too - of course the quinoa increases in volume, why am I reading a blog on this?

But if the quinoa absorbed all the water you'd get 3 cups total, not 4, so where is the extra volume coming from? (In this case the theory is gaps of air).
Fortunately, Twitter lists remain chronological and can be connected to Flipboard to create a print-like newspaper navigation experience.
They were made entirely of electrical and electronic parts, didn't need firmware , and almost always could be repaired.
> But he says he's amazed that in a game designed to be played by children it would even be possible to spend thousands of pounds across a thousand transactions over the course of just a few weeks.

These games are designed around this. The dark patterns are intentional.

> "We encourage parents to review their payment settings on third-party services, such as Google Play, as they typically have an option to require a password for each purchase made and/or to prevent any information from being saved in browser settings that could allow them to be reused."

Then you blame the parents for being scammed.
It’s not the app stores fault, but I think the App Store could start throwing up notifications if you go from spending 0 to 500 in a small period of time.

That is crazy how the girl managed to spend THAT much in a period of a month.
>They already have a solid enough foundation to become US Tech independent.

Highly skeptical of this. All of the manufacturing infrastructure that actually makes the chips in these fabs everyone is so excited about is still made ... in the United States and Germany. China can't do this today, but they may be able to do it in the future. The opportunity for the West to cut them off is closing very fast, however. Cut them off now, before it's too late.
My dad was sharing music on 10 inch tape reels long before the walkman, and the walkman itself was far from the first cassette player.
One of my favorites. That man is a national treasure.
Being completely against AMP for obvious reasons, I'm personally not against signed exchanges itself, this feature could spawn a whole new class of decentralised and harder to censor web hosting, that sounds like a great addition.
If you are looking for an integrated solution with many other features than only chat to build your support/sales/marketing pipeline take a look at https://github.com/chaskiq/chaskiq

And agree with you, being on development of a chat solution over the last two years I've realize that the AI sucks big time for chatbots no matter how hard we try they will never have the human touch. that's why I have avoided the NLP integration as much as I can. This lack of human touch is the reality of any chatbot that does NLP, sentiments analisis, etc.. they simply fail. I have tried xatkit and I could not establish a proper dialog either.

In that sense I've implemented in chaskiq some sort of path selector / decisional steps that you can compose for further routing assignment to human agents, and that works very well.
Hm. There's room for a new good browser to pick up the beans and run with it now…
How does it hold up almost 10 years later? The internet has changed a lot in that time. I recently became interested in reading this, but I was wondering if I'd be missing out on anything more recent.