skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s an odd take, I think you are looking at it wrong. IMO, this is the hacker news community getting embarrassed. After all this is a community of entrepreneurs, where everyone has an app and many multiple, on the App Store and so we must have known how it works. No one is redeeming Apple here, if anything I am thinking how easy it is to fall into this groupthink hole and not even bother to check because “we” have to rail against someone because of perceived/alleged wrong doing against the whole community.
I do! It makes it difficult to see what's going to happen when I invoke operations on lines. And it encourages my colleagues to create long lines that would play better with diff tools like git diff if broken out.
It's hard to find a rational excuse for not doing it.

Aside from we haven't figured out how to actually pass a carbon tax despite, what, twenty years of trying. I used to be enamoured with the idea, but now I'm growing to believe it's a distraction and a waste of time & effort that just isn't going to happen in any meaningful timeframe.

There are other ways to skin this cat, and the ones we stand a prayer of implementing are the ones we need to focus on.
Yes, I got that; I was suggesting you can just ask the author for their address or other means of payment, but in addition made a suggestion of authors publishing Bitcoin address (in reality many would likely prefer fiat currency though).
A big problem is that an apparent new contributor may not actually be either new, or even a person. Only then can you determine that they're not somebody you've previously assigned a negative reputation value to.

(mind you, this is not at all sufficient; a major problem of the present day is people tweeting abuse from positions of power under their real names)
I've been downvoted several times for asking simple questions. No shouting or accusations needed. It's enough that you are seen as political, and your post will be downvoted. Sadly this is turning HN into a stigmatizing and self-censoring echo chamber. I'm glad that HN has posted this retraction, though.
The "butterfly effect" is only possible in some classic systems. For example imagine that you put a drop of ink in a glass of water (with some sugar). If a butterfly drinks some water, it will not change the final equilibrium state where the ink is evenly distributed.
StackExchange is a like a highly moderated subreddit mixed with a Wiki. Mods ensure the posts are of minimum quality, require sources for novel claims, and remove disinformation. An SE community also tends to strongly embrace the general rules for SE, which keeps it from being overrun with "reposts" and "clickbait".
> is continuing to put forward the preservation of life worth it given the extreme decline in quality of life that we see past the age of 70?

The breakthrough here is in a diagnostic test for Alzheimer's. You are making a generalization based on the assumption that this information will ultimately extend life rather than improve the quality of life. For jurisdictions that allow medical assistance with dying, this information can plausibly result in the opposite effect.
The last time I made hot coffee for myself, I microwaved one cup of water, then used a pour over.

But again, I normally Cold Brew. That's room temperature for 24 hours, which is less bitter than hot brewing.

In this cold Brew case, I don't use any energy heating the water. I guess I use fridge space but I don't think additional items in the fridge contributes to energy usage...

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I got coworkers who prefer a french press. I don't think they microwave much more than one cup of water.
As for 1, I view it as a mutualistic relationship. Those who don't depend on UBI to live, depend on those who do to spend.
I downvoted you to build up your tolerance :)

(But let's say officially it was for this tiny grain of snark: "Let's see if I get downvoted here too, as I wrote this on the go without checking all my facts.")

I feel the same way as you - not about strangers on HN, but rather about people whom I will interact with who might see what I write, which is why I don't use this handle anywhere else. But downvotes? Who cares if you get downvoted? It's bad in that your thought is disappearing, but emotionally and intellectually it's useful information: What you said rubbed the HN audience wrong at a high ratio. You can either get upset and fall into the trap of blaming "them" because they have bad politics or are snowflakes or whatever, or you can allow that information to simply make the world clearer for you and use the chance to try to re-read what you wrote from an outside perspective.
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Anecdotally, almost every Haskell job posting I've ever seen is for a bank or some kind of cryptocurrency thing. I've never done a real analysis and I don't have any numbers to back that up, that's just what it feels like as someone who passively watches the Haskell job market.
Capitalism is not the issue here. Copyright Regulations are market shifting regulations that means normal market feedbacks do not exist given we as a society through our laws grant a monopoly to the creator in ways not seen in other markets

This artificial scarcity is what causes the appearance that "capitalism fails" for knowledge systems when in reality it government regulations that are the source of the failure.

The continued extension of copyright over the years has increased this failure and created a huge whole in public domain.

Copyright law is now an enemy of knowledge expatiation which is contrary to its stated goal
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Ex-Google engineer Levandowski asks judge not to send him to prison
Looks super cool!
It would be nice to be able to deploy a starter application alongside the architecture as a demo for good practices.
> If police unions aren't "unions," why are some of them part of the AFL-CIO, the largest collection of unions in the nation?

Doctorow is calling for AFL-CIO to eject police unions. Police unions do not show solidarity with other unions, except when it benefits them. It's fine to call them a union, but it's high time for other unions to sever ties because solidarity is a two-way street.
Its a good question, and one that seem to be unspoken.

I'm guessing, the charitable version could be that the implementation on a major processor vendor works out to be just the right amount of security because the page fault handler wasn't optimized as heavily as the syscall interface. So, this might provide better security on a "slower" path, which turns out to actually be faster once the faster path is fully secured?
Facebook destroyed Myspace's business model overnight.
Does anyone know why the Chinese probe which seems a lighter payload needs a heavy lift Long March 5 rocket, while Perseverance only requires a medium lift rocket? Is it because of some different approaches in the orbit taken to Mars?

Also how does the UAE probe's approach/trajectory to Mars.
Servers are usually running LTS Linux versions and I had to Google how to quit vim a few times because I forget. Same with closing a frozen SSH, I kinda know the shortcut but I am always wrong a bit so I eventually remember it or Google it again. Things I do not use often are just wiped from my memory.
"Levandowski also argues that he can perform community service by speaking out about the harms that come from unethical business practices."
I'm not sure I'd like to spend six hundred points dealing with a single idiot; I'd have to develop a better battery of cut-and-paste denouncements instead. I'm not sure this would improve the overall signal-to-noise ratio.
My main worry is housing. If we don't increase significantly the availability of housing, prices will just increase. Similarly with college education and health care that have had significant price increases in the last 30 years.
It presupposes that the quarterly trend will continue at the same rate. In finance, annualizing is a good way to try and extrapolate from the current trend, but in this unprecedented pandemic, the current trend is extraordinarily volatile.
Teachers aren’t against measuring progress they’re against tests that have been shown to not help the children but instead detract from learning useful things and instead encourage memorization. I recall wasting entire quarters in school learning “meta” subjects about the FCAT. Utterly useless. And biased towards minorities

No nurses are unionizing for lack of oversight asking to “make hospitals great again”. Asking for a better nurse to patient ratio really isn’t comparable to asking to rollback reforms and oversights. Complete apples to oranges comparison there
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Had they taken partner library inventory from confirmed closed libraries and allowed that number of books to be lent, then sure.

Instead they allowed unlimited borrowing. They fundamentally broke the "controlled" part.
The point of using primordial black hole is that it can be very small (in the range of centimiters for its Schwarzshild radius). You can then calculate safe distance from the black hole where the gravitation and gradient generates acceptable forces for your structure. This is of course much more than the centimiters given but still very small compared to astronomical distances you would need to encircle entire Sun.

Another point of using black hole is that you decide its output (by deciding how much matter falls in) which greatly helps building dyson sphere. You can't modify Sun output.
I don't have hard analytical data here but on highly partisan tech issues (Microsoft, Open Source and Licensing, Language strengths and weaknesses, etc) I've noticed there is often a significant swing in the direction of the voting over time with the first voters (who are presumably quickly refreshing the HN new page and responding immediately to everything) being the most hyper-tech-partisan, anti-Microsoft, pro-GPL, anti-TypeScript downvoters (but not commenters) pounding well-intentioned comments quickly into the gray, followed later in the day by the more mainstream HN voters and commenters who appear to be much less dogmatically anti-Microsoft, etc., and who commonly flip those initially grayed out comments back into positive territory and frequently well up into the comment rankings.
> one or more of [Granting Agencies|Journals|Universities] has to be completely torn down and built back up

right, and unless the new institutions are in a financial vacuum, they will remain built on and affected by broader systems, resulting in conflict of interest.
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Warning: light hyperbole in this first paragraph: We don't really know because anything that could challenge it sadly get summarily downvoted without an explanation.

I believe in it but it is sad to see that we are so scared of it that we cannot even bother to explain why something is wrong and instead have to opt for

- name calling

- appeal to authority

- strawmen

every time.

Again: I don't work for big oil. I don't fly and haven't for years. I reduce, reuse and recycle and do all the right things.

But there are still a number of questions I have that I cannot get answers for because if I ask them before anyone who knows has a chance to answer someone will summarily downvote and/or flag it and say I am a JAQ-ing shill. (JAQ = Just Asking Questions is a known bad tactic, but it is incredibly frustrating to be accused of that when I just want to know the answer.)
Indeed. I kinda wish they would go the rest of the way and implement the standard keyboard commands that every other editor in the world (apart from vi/emacs) uses though.

Ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+x, ctrl+a, shift+arrow/home/end/pgup/pgdn/etc. etc to select text. It would completely eliminate the learning curve to edit text on linux, which seems like it could only be a good thing.
I made a test in GatsbyJS that determines your most prominent Jungian archetypes
Security Innovation has quite a few pentesters who specialize in AWS. In fact, one of their clients _is_ AWS! Despite the generic-sounding name, the pentesters there are bona fide hackers.
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May I ask you how you are going to declare them in shipment notification? Will it be "Flipper Zero" or "Hacker multitool", for example.

I'm worried to order one myself due to possible questions from authorities.
Yup. This will make it to n-gate alright.
FTA : "To reverse this trend of stagnating growth, we must put more capital in the hands of lower income consumers, who will then spend it on things they desire and increase GDP."

Why on earth should be reversing the trend ? Why not just accept zero-growth and organize the society accordingly ?
oh cool, thats helpful. But is it terraform based? What is spat out when ejected?
Very few calculators support complex functions in a nice way in my experience.

If you want to do complex number arithmetic then a simple Casio scientific calculator is fine. For graphing you basically have to be on Wolfram alpha or similar.
I cannot see the original comment, but reading your comment, I cannot help solving the equation and determining he works for Jerry Yang.
> So pie in the sky theorizing is better than looking at the data where this has failed/is failing.

I have no need to theorise. The data doesn’t demonstrate what you claim it does, as your own link makes clear.

This seems to be a subject matter that makes you angry, so I’ll let it rest. I take no pleasure in enraging anyone.
"but gorsuch!"
How are you getting 65%? https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates
Hey, thanks for sharing. I wrote this because I had to unpack a .tar.gz on an older Windows Server build host and there was no native way of doing it (as far as I could tell). Googling pointed to powershell scripts that installed 7z and used that, but I wanted something more lightweight and portable.

I'm guessing this is a very niche need, but was surprised nobody else created something like it (again, as far as I could tell), so I just went ahead and did it.
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I would ask for 5x my rate easily in this case where I don’t want the work
There are very few people in the United States who manage their personal finances well but stay poor their whole lives.
3. Charity - let's say we actually give every person enough money for food, housing, and utilities. Some people will mess up. They could spend it all on an addiction or just make a bad investment. Even with UBI they could still end up hungry or homeless. Will we help them? Or will we say "you had your UBI, the rest is on you". This changes the morals of how we treat people in the worst times.

Sadly, this will be important for selling UBI to moderates and conservatives. We have to be prepared for UBI to set us back in a big way when it comes to behaving compassionately towards people who can't solve their own problems. I still see it as a positive idea overall, though. Two steps forward, one step back.
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I am making a general argument. Things that are somehow unexpected tend to get more attention that those which are granted.

The article says:

"While just 10% of the press releases Wetts found featured anti-climate action messaging..."

Which means that 90% of the press releases contain pro climate action statements. Seems only natural that people tend to be more curious towards information that is less expected. According to the numbers given (90% vs 10%, 7% vs 14%) about 80% of all the information the public is exposed to is pro climate action.
Every now and again I wonder whether something like "reddit enhancement suite" would be useful for HN. It probably already exists. The ability to tag usernames with your personal opinion of them and reminders of their place in the community.
This is awesome, congrats to the whole team!
The key word here is "good health". If you start shifting from "living as long as possible" to "living with the most dignity up until the end", you end up questioning euthanasia, but also how people live post work-life: typically, how people are going to live decently through their last stage post 60s, can they enter a stage where they are relieved from the stress, pain, etc. You can't just say "well let them die earlier" if you don't provide some form of hope of relief for their last years.

Today I'd argue that the growing lifespan is used as an argument to make people work longer, which means in worse physical conditions. The "Work until your death" motto (the curse of people living in poverty) is not great for a healthy and attractive society. Questioning it ends up in a heated political/societal/philosophical discussion pretty quickly. And we're definitely not heading in the healthy direction: not because we don't want to shift the medical institution, but because we need a more profound society change. From a purely economical PoV, it's great that people die before around the beginning retirement, from a societal PoV it's a disaster.
The poor training and lack of accountability mentioned in the thread seem to be a common causes.
Is your instance publicly accessible? I have a similar use case and would love to see an example with similar data.
> A pure dividend, all monies repaid to everyone.

You mean... UBI?
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Generally rural areas with low population density have found it a lot easier to control the spread of the virus. Helsinki would be the 29th largest city in the US, and Finland would be the 28th most populous state in the US, so it's not really comparable. Interconnectedness matters too, Finland is geographically pretty remote. It might be closer to compare Finland to say Alaska or one of the Canadian states.
At least in MD ballots just need to be postmarked by Election Day to be counted. What states require ballots to arrive by Election Day? That seems like a much less transparent policy unless there are guarantees on delivery time...
I don't really get this - is the bends the only reason for doing this? If so, why not mix some other inert gas than Nitrogen that doesn't have the problem?

Cool base though :)
That sounds fascinating. Can you talk a bit more about your work? What are the principal challenges in getting people to share their data?
I disagree.

I would accept this argument if the news was about the President actually moving to delay the election and having a reasonable chance of success, or anything where discussion would actually improve the news.

This news is tremendous flame bait, and there's nothing that can be discussed in HN that wouldn't appear in major newspapers. If you want to discuss it with other people, Reddit is probably a better place.
Humans should live 500 years. Death is a disease. Aging is a disease.

We're not close to fixing this, and barring some tectonic shift in our capabilities, probably won't see substantial change within our lifetimes. But to take the stance that death and aging are acceptable seems so medieval to me.
> My favorite one was the K-Cup machine.

At work we had a KCup machine but when I brought in some K cups I bought they wouldn't work. It was a branded K cup but not for the newer machine. I figured out i could take the foil lid of an approved K cup and stick it on the unauthorized K cup.

The "template" foil was left by the machine on a paperclip for anyone to use.
So wrongthink destroyed our public institutions, rather than corruption that went completely unpunished? I doubt that very much.
"Justifies"? "Fake news"?

No, but not having a clear policy makes it very easy for inaccurate gossip about your policy to circulate.
It doesn’t look like Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves.

Did anybody actually believe that?
Please explain how in your opinion Facebook has good intentions.
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Thanks!

We've created an application that you could use to test the architecture: https://github.com/getrevolv/revolv-docker-architecture-test

We also have written many blog posts that explain how to deploy the most famous frameworks:

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Yeah, I think they even mentioned that in the article. I guess Canada wanted to capitalize on the attention on the issue and make some hay for themselves.
It would seem there are gaping holes here - No mention of size of government. No mention of government creating the very distortion of big companies mentioned (competition is stifled by regulation). No mention of what UBI will do to pricing in the longer term (Cantillon effect).
Yeah Deutsche Post was first I think.
Apple have to pay some amount (let's arbitrarily say 1%) for processing the payments, so in this example they would lose $100.
It's not that our culture still doesn't grasp its bounds but that capital's bounds are in fact ungraspable -- in its infinite flexibility, any attempt to grasp and contain it will result in a new way for it to exploit and expand. It can wield regulations as weapons, eat revolutions, and yes, break any system for lending in the digital age.
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> When organizations take a stand against actions to combat climate change, they get more news coverage than their pro-climate action peers

Could it be that news organizations are doing this as a way of publicly shaming? In which case the discrepancy makes perfect sense.
Joe Rogan is very light listening though. I doubt people actually sit in their armchair listening intently for 3 hours without doing anything else. People also love to binge watch TV - does that mean there’s no attention span issues?
I'm assuming you're talking about the general recipe search bar in the top nav? If so, I can't replicate that issue. Which OS/browser versions are you using?
I'm with you. Eventually people would probably create something like banks from their pooled M0 created by fiat. But unlike the current system everyone would be aware it was their money and not some intrinsic value of the banks' so there'd be significantly less nepotism, corruption, etc. Just the initial sheer distributed nature of it would significantly help.

Those extra productive ideas and businesses generally aren't. It's just that money begets money and then people confuse being wealthy with positive traits enabled by having money, like productivity.
Was the title of this post changed? I can't really understand why this comment is at the top, since "it didn't" and "contracted by 9.5%" seems to refer to some specific complaint about the thesis of the article.

It's typical for us in the HN crowd to have a superficial knowledge of a domain and get lost in quibbling about the minutae of how the data is represented, but the thesis of this article is the record decline, and focusing on the use of the annualized metric feels like a tangent.
Why is it that some people survive to 90+ without significant mental deterioration? My grandfather is 94 and reads the news, does crosswords and sudoku, and plays poker and bridge, at a level comparable to when he was 60. His knees have deteriorated so he stopped jogging 20 years ago, but he still walks and swims.

It's worth pursuing longevity science if we can help more people age this way.
> Here in Europe, and as an avid reader of the news and various reporting, I can assure you that climate change activism is as mainstream as it can be

I'm from Germany, and certainly the situation is different from the US. However I'd argue in large parts we just have a different flavor of climate denial. I.e. "yeah climate change is happening, but [something unrelated that changes nothing about climate change]... let's not do too much".

I mean no european country is on a trajectory of acting on climate change with the speed needed to fulfil even the goals that every country already agreed to.
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