skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm skeptical of this person's ability to "know" what they don't want to read. E.g., they are recommended Shoe Dog and a King novel, which they claim they don't want to read. However, if other people have read similar books and rated them similarly to this person and have read Shoe Dog and that King novel and rated those well, then this person may like those books. It seems they are assuming they won't like them, but not for particularly strong reasons. One of my favorite authors is Haruki Murakami and I would have rated Colorless Tsukuru a 2 or 3. If that were the only Murakami novel I had read and I made the same assumptions this person made, I would have missed out on some of my favorite books.
The Queen of Trees - A Documentary (2014)
The landlords have used this kind of rhetoric for years, but now it's bad because landlords have gotten entitled to a market on the up and up.
If anything, I'd expect offices more built around sometimes meeting and collaborating--not butts in seats all day. I can imagine hot-desking plus a lot of enclaves and meeting rooms.
On the contrary, he's making sure that Boies isn't going to weasel meaning into his responses. Demanding that questions be more precisely-worded than they are.
Yes, but some middle manager gets to claim his paycheck due to having more meetings in the office now.
I don't create about recommendations as much. I get those from other sources and already have enough of a backlist to last a life time.

Goodreads for me is for storing my history and ratings. Same with IMDB for movies. Both sites are terrible (and owned by Amazon), but I don't see much value in clones that don't do anything completely new.
Look at the numbers: 857 bicycle deaths[1] vs 4985 bikers[2]. You can look at the unit sales to see how those translate to percentages - but I hope it's easy to agree that there are more cyclists, in fact.

Your theory that motorcycle max speed saves lives is simply unsupported by any data; if you can't see it, it's just cognitive dissonance - you've made up your mind that you like loud speedy bikes and are just looking for justifications.

(don't get me wrong - I fully understand that a slow motorcycle is no fun. But it _is_ a dangerous vehicle - own that, don't use loud noises and other means that inconvenience people around in order to feel slightly safer, that's just inconsiderate. )

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/bicycle-safety

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/motorcycle-safety
> Social connections. There are many people I was friendly with but only at the office. Now I only interact with people on my own team or in closely related teams when we are working on some project that overlaps. My 'work world' has shrunk dramatically.

I echo this sentiment. As a junior engineer in a large office, being able to keep track of other projects, who is working on what, what's coming up in a different business area, etc., has been very important for career development. Working from home, I've been "siloed" into my own team to a much larger extent.
I'm curious how much of this is lay people evaluating plausibility vs. politics. I only know the mandatory minimum of social science I was required to take in college but if you understand that gender and lgbtq+ matters are de facto immune to real criticism then you can pretty easily guess which hypothesis are likely to be right/wrong by whether or not them being correct would validate a negative interpretation of any of those groups. Basically anything that harshes the vibe is a no go in American social science unless you can use it to criticize white people or cis people, if you know that then you can predict most big stuff since everything else is just rhetorical frameworks masquerading as science.
https://vividmaps.com/carbon-dioxide-emissions-european-coun...

Maybe it's just quibbling, but anyway, per-capita Germany is among the worst but not the worst.
Except in Africa. It is pretty important to everyone to increase the median wealth of people in Africa.
my understanding is that they are not using elixir at all, but that is secondhand knowledge.
The real world?
What I am about to say is not supposed to be insulting or personal, just some observartions on relative culture. I spent a while reading the author's stories from the road, and what I found most interesting was the disdain the author expressed for "unenlightened" midwesterners, who are "intellectually torpid". This is a very interesting project, but maybe from their point of view, the author is wasting his capabilities on frivolous, selfish, and unsustainable persuits. I was also intrigued by the author's idea that only his, liberated view of public sexuality was correct. Reading between the lines, I also would be uncomfortable in a public setting if a nearby couple were being "openly sexual", and I don't think that's because I need some liberation.

It does give some interesting insight into the development of Bay Area culture and thought. Oddly enough, the modern Progressive views on liberated sexuality have come full circle, with now almost contractually-described processes.
Oh, a lot of good stuff in this release! I'm especially excited to be able to pass a map to Logger and have it print `key1=value1 key2=value2`.

I thought Jose had said earlier that Elixir was basically "done" a version or two ago, which I was impressed by; how often is software ever finished? But it looks like we're still getting some juicy functionality nuggets.
The receptive field on a cell phone camera is absolutely miniscule, and lenses are designed to widen the camera's field of view such that they can effectively capture nearby objects.

Combine that with camera software being designed to enhance conventional images, and low-light performance on CMOS sensors being abysmal, and photos of anything at any reasonable distance are necessarily degraded to such a point that you may well have been better off not taking the photograph in the first place.

Trying to decent take photo of a low-flying aircraft is tricky enough for your average user, who has to hold their camera steady while tracking a moving object and wrestling with autofocus looking for anything that might be a face. I don't think the camera ubiquity argument holds much water with respect to the UFO phenomena, outside of the most preposterous annecdotes.
To fix the fire this is probably the best solution because the risk of unintended side effects is very low. I would just hope it is then followed by a proper fix.
It was ridiculously hard to get 4 to work, is this a limitation of the algorithm or just something with the implementation?
That only stops fraud if everyone knows how to and takes the time to do it. What about the tens of thousands of dead people still registered to vote[0]? How do they request a new envelope?

Do you have any answers for my 3 sourced statements other than naked assertions?

[0] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/more-than-20-000-dea...
In either case, definitely read The Shockwave Rider by Brunner.
Apparently signing up was enough to get the download link (which I wasn't expecting), I'll try it later, and let you know.

Thanks.
I'm pretty sure iron/steel recycling makes sense too, since that can be easily separated from the waste stream magnetically.

Glass, I don't think makes sense, except for downcycling to aggregate.
If one digs deeper, one sees that of the 25 university heads, 11 (44%) are Jewish (2% of the US). Meaning of the 25, only 12 (48%) are non-Jewish white (58% of the US) (NYT counted 13, but Jahanian is Iranian, which surely qualifies as a minority).

For the supreme court, 3 (33%) are Jewish, and 4 (44%) non-Jewish white.

Of the major news organization heads, 4 (27%) are Jewish, and 53% non-Jewish white.

Of the top TV and Hollywood heads, 7 (28%) are Jewish, and 60% non-Jewish white.

So it turns out, looking at only non-Jewish whites, they're more often than not under-represented.
I'm confused. What you describe is really just another form of popularity contest, no? Unless you have a set of reviewers that you value over others. One might call them the critical reviewers. (No, I'm not trying to be subtle)

So, what books did you find? Why not make a post on your method?
These smaller businesses are still the dominant model. VC in total is a vanishingly minuscule portion of the financial sector, and really only works because that is the case.

Bigger companies get more press as they employ more people and (more significantly) more people tend to be their customers. Wal Mart is in the press more than Lockheed because Lockheed has few customers. But the Mittlestand (as the Germans call it) is a big part of the US economy.
I'm always surprised that people chose to chastise and berate someone for trying to find facts and truth. The article talks about how trying to simply find out how many people jumped from the towers is met with disgust and condemnation, both in-person and online - with webpages dedicated to baiting people searching for it on google, and offering an offensive statement telling those people to get lost and that they should be ashamed of themselves for looking.

I don't know, maybe something in my brain doesn't work quite right, but I never understood it - knowledge is knowledge. When we search for something, the desire to find the answer should never be shamed, even if the answer is shameful in itself.
I really enjoyed the video. I guess I could have read about CRISPR and CAS9 but the video was more engaging.
I've seen several municipalities try to reduce how much they recycle. And everytime it was brought back by popular demand.

The issue is that the green movement has focused on recycling, and lots of people think it's morally good to recycle despite all the science saying aluminum is the only clear win.
How do I know if it errored or not? The default value is ambiguous. It either means that it's the correct result or that the function errored. Sure, the program might not crash right then and it will compile, but it's guaranteed to lead to confusion for both users and programmers who have to debug it.
The main value would be keeping it out of the landfill, in my opinion. At least glass melts back down pretty clean, I just think given how easy it is to use either existing glass or fresh sand interchangeably it's worth a little extra to keep the pre-used glass out of the landfill.
Another way to look at it is: which big companies are politically popular to go after?

A big reason companies like Comcast largely stay under the radar is that they donate to many legislators in both parties in Congress, and they have money to mount challenges to legislators that don’t toe the line. Comcast maintains stability of their influence. Going after Comcast wouldn’t likely yield much while risking political capital.

Google OTOH has created a lot of enemies in both parties. There’s political momentum to knock them down a peg by the progressive left and the far right, albeit for different reasons. When you start to see that kind of consensus forming, the likelihood of action taken against them increases.

> The government has a lot of power, and often for good reason, but that power can only be respected when it is wielded dispassionately, not to settle personal scores.

This statement fundamentally ignores the reality of politics, particularly in our current era. To suggest that government is capable of acting dispassionately is to ignore the long and deep personal conflicts that have existed throughout history. It ignores the reality that money and influence, both of which are deployed to deeply personal ends on both sides of the political spectrum. Political power can not be wielded dispassionately because political power can not be attained dispassionately.
a, b, c seems more intuitive
Pretty sure there will be elaborate arguments about free speech and doxing on this thread so let’s look at the facts:

* Qanaon is currently classified as a potential domestic terrorist threat to the country by the FBI. Free speech does not protect you from criminal activity.

* this wasn’t simply someone trying to talk freely about what he believed, it seems like this person was making thousands of dollars from this site. He created a fucking pattern account to get “donations”. Wow.

The generous way to view this is as a low level scam, but the FBI would probably disagree. I suspect this is why this person shut down the site, he doesn’t want to be the target of scrutiny or media attention.
I think you are right. Being recommended a book I've never heard about by some author I'v never heard of by some computer system, I'm probably gonna dismiss it. However, if I've seen it in a bookstore, read about it in a paper, heard a friend talk about it etc. then I might act on the recommendation.

Basically being exposed to something enough times. First time and a cursory look, most things don't look to exciting. This goes for everything. Movies, restaurants, gadgets..
How close do you think it comes to static types?

Somewhere between 20-30% of the way there. In practice (especially with vscode/elixir-ls plugin) in my experience it does fulfill the 80/20 rule, it catches enough errors that the runtime recovers from the remaining ones (type errors do not cause the vm to panic; just your running "green thread will die and get restarted") with no real customer facing issues.

If you need static types because your team has scaled then it's likely inadequate, but I don't have experience with that.
> Ideally

You missed a key word in the parent post.

_Ideally_ people wouldn't be forced into multiple hour long commutes either, but that has been the reality for many before this year.
I think that will require a large number of new technologies to make such burning environmentally sustainable and cost competitive with other energy producing technologies. I don’t have enough science, engineering, or economic knowledge to even take a wild guess at the feasibility of such technology.

Maybe that would be a better challenge for Mr. Musk and various other privateers and governments than running away to Mars to escape the mess we’re making of our own planet.
I don't know why, I just find it rather easy to identify astroturf campaigns run by spammers, SEO outfits, and Microsoft. Maybe it is just my age but the answer of the question "is Microsoft sincerely trying to save the Web?" is "LOL obviously not."

When I read what seem to me to be rational and legitimate criticism of Google, it tends to come from a disinterested source like a law school or philosophers of ethics, or economists. But these also tend to be even-handed, recognizing that it might be globally optimal to have a single search provider, while criticizing Google for things where it is vulnerable to criticism, such as the fact that it both operates the major ads marketplace and owns the largest participant in that market.
Just ask [name that will get you banned].
I can’t even with this comment.

Not everyone has the resources to make a working place anywhere viable. You seem to have the resources to make a hotel in Budapest or whatever work. Talking so causally about international travel already puts you beyond most Americans’ income.

So yeah it is very, very easy for folks with a job like yours, and with the resources you’re afforded, to work anywhere. The issue isn’t proximity to resources, but the ability to complete work.
Why senior engineers get nothing done
If I'm grokking correctly, the poster is asserting that there are ISP shenanigans going on due to the fact that measurements aren't coming in in a binary nature. Either you support QNAME minimization, or you don't. If you support it, but someone else in the recursive resolution chain doesn't, that would explain <100% measurements, since they pass on more info than they should be, and in theory there may be temporary reentrant loops due to poorly managed BGP, which results in unminimized DNS queries being visible to the measurer somehow.

The poster seems to think Century Link is involved in a fundamental way. Which admittedly, given their track record with hosing large swathes of the Internet these last couple years may not be unreasonable.

At least that was what I got out of it.
Trash can act as an energy store, to produce power during times when solar and wind production are low. If the plastics were ultimately produced from non-fossil carbon (as paper/cardboard are), what's the problem with this?
I want to be specific but I would get fired if they saw. but we read EVERY post about us. we are being ambitious and big changes are coming.

biggest challenge is there is too much to do and we have so few staff.
Is the recommendation engine bad on average or bad for you?
They are currently giving away about $5 billion a year.
One thing I'd add about the UX is that the search bar is buried below the fold on the homepage of the desktop version. Everywhere else, even on mobile, it's at the very top. It makes it a little more difficult to just jump to their site and start searching.
A large number of small checks is common in seed rounds. A piece of unsolicited advice: put the checks into escrow with your lawyer and set a minimum raise threshold. It will make it easier to attract capital if investors know you’re only committing them to a successful raise.
Yeah they kind of lost me with this line: "For more than six minutes, Gates is unable to concede even the most basic of facts."

Is that the goal he's shooting for? To concede as many facts as possible to a hostile interrogator as quickly as possible?
not enough.
I agree with all this, just want to add that there have been cultural and structural changes in US society as well that make comparisons to 1960s NASA or Bell Labs ahistorical.
If you like these, try my fortune descendant at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
I was so disappointed with that documentary. 3 hours, with\ bill, and no real questions about the antitrust stuff, or about Microsoft stance on Linux and open source, His relationship with Apple and Steve jobs, His relationship with Paul Allen and Steve Balmer, the birth of X-Box, the war against Lotus123, and Word Perfect, the original deal with IBM, and the failed tablets, WinFS, Microsoft Bob, and loads of other things that would be interesting to get his take on.
The disassociation of how you make your living and where you live will have interesting long-term social consequences.

Until recently, most people have had to live where they made their living. Farmers lived on farms. Workers lived near mines, mills, factories and offices in which they worked. Even rich people lived in the cities where their businesses and investments were located, at least until the late 1800s when rail commuting to nearby suburbs allowed them to live in more pleasant surroundings. Even so, the wealthy continued to identify with their cities, participated in civic life, indulged in philanthropy, and were reasonably concerned about their city's quality of life.

In the 1960s, jet travel became cheap and frequent for the wealthy. The really rich became detached from the cities and moved to enclaves of wealth in Newport, Carmel, Palm Springs, Palm Beach, etc. from which they could reach cities occasionally, but from which they could safely ignore urban problems. The urban cores declined, in part, because the wealthy no longer cared.

Information technology enables a whole new slice of the population to detach where they live from where they make their living. Their political and social interests will shift to where they live, and they will abandon where they make their living.
re: 3, it is completely acceptable to require a plan before joining a zoom meeting. If you put something on my calendar without telling me, it gets declined.

I've been told "You have no instinct of self preservation at this job" but being stuck in meetings and not being able to get things done is not what I was hired to do. Tuesdays and Mondays I concede to meeting hell because those are regular team meetings but your little attempt at showing the marketing department is still doing work by scheduling meetings is not that fun :(
> The blame is always shifted to the consumers, the logic being that consumers would make more sustainable decisions if they really cared about it

There is something funny in this common corporatist argument trying to get rid of responsibility by saying that "we just produce and sell what our customers demand". Namely, for some reason any proposal that would somehow increase the requirements for the corporations to disclose what, exactly, they are selling and how, exactly, that is produced, is vehemently opposed by the very same corporations.

To me, either you give full an unbiased disclosure about your products so that the customers can make their minds properly, or the ethics of your supply chain is your problem, not your customers. You just can't cherrypick here.

(sorry, no sources, just anecdotal impressions from public discussions during last decades.)
AFAIK you don't need to add @specs everywhere to get useful warnings from Dialyzer (or Dialyxir) as it does some type inference and also the standard library is already annotated, but I only played with it one time so don't quote me on that.
Ask HN: Glassdoor for Medical Bills?
I had an idea earlier after receiving an unreasonable medical bill.

As most here probably know, medical bills in the U.S. - in addition to being high - are almost never advertised, often erroneous, often inflated via agreements with insurers, and can often be talked down as soon as the recipient points out issues with them.

What if there were a website where people could report their invoices from different providers, tagging them by state, by insurance provider, by insurance plan, itemizing the charges for each piece of care, and including both the base charge and the amount covered by insurance, and then the site could a) aggregate this data to help people understand how their costs compare to others for similar treatments, and b) raise general awareness of the prices. If prices won't be transparent up-front, we can make them transparent after the fact for the next person. Beyond just helping individuals, if this got big enough it could conceivably push down prices as providers are forced to compete.

A journalist at Vox did something similar (for a one-off investigation) at one point: https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/16936638/er-bills-emergency-room-hospital-fees-health-care-costs

But of course what I'm talking about would be an ongoing, ever-growing, self-reported dataset.

Does this exist? Could it exist? Anybody want to collaborate on it?
I don't know about where you live, but in California, we have a "bottle deposit" on both glass bottles and aluminum cans (~$0.10 per item), which gets returned to you if you bring it to a recycling center. The only people I see actually bothering to sort and return these are very low income people and homeless people that go through public trash cans.
Or keep it local:
(TZ=GMT0; t=1600000000; while :; do s=$(date +%s); echo $(expr "$s" - "$t") $(date -Iseconds -d @"$s") $(date -Iseconds -d @"$t"); sleep 1; done)
Also true for Utrecht in the Netherlands. They have just finished restoring the moat that goes around the inner city where the fortifications were. For several decades part of the moat was converted to a motorway. https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2020/09/09/cycling-around...
You can't compare headcount across time periods without taking into account productivity growth. This is an apples-and-oranges comparison.
Looking into it, as far as I can tell it's not meant to be taken seriously. Q is an elaborate practical joke created by "The Hacker Known as 4chan" in order to troll the media into losing their minds. So far it seems to be working.
> Even with a separate computer, getting it shut away and Slack gone is easier said than done. Now everyone knows you're probably around somewhere and will read their e-mail or see their Slack message, even early in the morning or later in the afternoon.

But... why? Just don't look at work messages outside of work hours. Is that so hard?
If it was only the UK...