skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's overstating it a bit. The first liquid fueled rocket for example, was created entirely privately by Robert Goddard. And regarding SV, the Route 128 area received even more government investment. The book Regional Advantage delves into this.
>> Knowing 70 million people would happily drive me to a concentration camp

Ohh please, you do realize the calling 70 million people nazi's is one of the reasons they reject the democrat party right? and it is delusional to believe.

There is wide range of policies the people in the "evil red states" reject from the democrat platform that has nothing to do with race, sex, or sexual orientation no matter how much the identity politics people want to make people believe these are the only reasons they reject democrat polices

how about you take the some time to step out of your bubble and learn about some of the actual reasons people reject democrats, as a start take a stroll over to Reason Foundation... Read a Few things, start with https://reason.com/2020/11/06/socialism-2020-trump-biden-reb...
I don't get "not that hard" part. With REST I have a finite set of queries to optimise. With GraphQL I have unlimited set of queries. How I supposed to optimise for what I don't know?

One good example - 'users' and 'comments' tables with natural relationship. 'Comments' grow to unreasonable size and split into different tables, fresh comments stay in 'comments', old comments moved to another database with cheaper storage. With REST it is easy, I get a query like 'get user's A comments from X till Y'. I have to deal with two dates and based on that figure out how to fetch data.

With GraphQL I can get query like this but also something like this 'get user's A comments from user.signup_date.year till user.signup_date.year + 1'. I suppose I would have to deal with query AST to figure out if it queries archive dates or not. This sounds like 100x more complicated compared to REST.
There was only one candidate progressives preferred. Before Super Tuesday, all other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. THAT's how it happened.

Bernie maintained a slight chance up until the outbreak of covid where he suspended his campaign specifically out of concern for spreading the disease.
> you're off by a factor of a million in deaths.

Well, it that's true it means that wars started by US have only caused less than fifty deaths...

Given that the war in Afghanistan alone caused between 500.0000 and 800.000 deaths (depending on the source), the factor is more probably around 2 to 1

> Over 111,000 Afghans, including civilians, soldiers and militants, are estimated to have been killed in the conflict. The Cost of War project estimated that the number who have died through indirect causes related to the war may be as high as 360,000 additional people based on a ratio of indirect to direct deaths in contemporary conflicts. These numbers do not include those who have died in Pakistan
I don't see how that can be the case when nearly 50 percent of the country still supported Trump despite Biden running on a centrism and reconciliation platform. If this matchup wasn't enough to get Republicans to cross the aisle then I'm not sure I believe that anything is.
Alright, my statement was too broad. Let me be more precise: "Ortholinearity is an important ergonomic feature that any keyboard that claims to be both "ultimate" and "ergonomic" absolutely must have."

> I have seen no research suggesting that staggering is as important as wrist angle/position - or even statistically relevant for that matter

That's because there's been very little, if any, research done in this area at all, so we'll have to rely on other things - namely, the combination of (1) the culturally well-known "Emacs pinkie" that results exclusively from lateral finger movement and (2) the facts that (a) RSI is much more likely to result from weak muscle motions and (b) lateral finger movements are weak muscle motions relative to medial finger movements. Together, these show that ortholinearity is better than staggered rows - so unless you have a scientific paper or higher-priority first-principles arguments that contradict this, then you're obligated to accept this conclusion.

> Perfection is the enemy of good.

This has nothing to do with "perfection". Ortholinearity is an extremely easy and extremely cheap keyboard design choice. There's absolutely no extra hardware you have to add to your design - all you do is move the keys around a tiny bit. It's strictly superior to staggered rows, and there's absolutely no reason to choose staggered rows unless you're concerned with scaring consumers away from the design.

> A $40 staggered split layout like the Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 that's affordable to most users will do far more benefit than a $300 mechanical ortholinear device that most people will never have.

Please leave your utilitarian value ethics out of this - this has nothing to do with "the most good" and everything to do with "whether the keyboard design is ergonomic or not".

Finally, as stated above, ortholinearity is extremely inexpensive to add to a design, and could just as easily be grafted onto a cheap $40 keyboard as to an expensive build like this one. Pretending that the choice of ortholinearity vs. staggered rows has anything to do with cost is crazy.
> I'm not sure if you're aware, but the senate is the reason the electoral college isn't democratic.

That’s one of the reasons, but not the only one. Another problem is that electors are allocated to the winner of the state popular vote no matter how close it is.

> Without the senate the electoral college is just a popular vote.

Even if you didn’t count Senators for the purposes of electoral votes, you could still end up with one candidate winning the popular vote and another winning the electoral vote.
I think any plan that neglects ratcheting down high-stakes issues to more local levels is fighting against strong headwinds.

In other words, we can avoid winner-take-all dysfunction by allowing more diversity in governance. If we make every issue national, it makes it too important who runs the national government.

Within reason, we should find ways to let California be California and Alabama be Alabama. Alabama and California shouldn't have to struggle against one another as much as they do.
Probably. But unfortunately Apple computers are moving away from being computing devices.
It seems the "windows of acceptable opinions" have gotten narrower (acceptable in a given social clique); I think the reason is that our social medias are so open - we talk not directly to a few people we trust, but our outbursts are visible to a wide circle or even public. This leads to self-censorship.
I am not so sure that they like the freedom to do that but they see no other way to provide for themselves and their families. Such realities make it rather difficult to prioritize what is better in the long term over the more immediate need to eat.
Well, when I look at mainstream media saying for 3 years that Trump "is a Russian agent", that Trump is conspiracy theorist saying that Obama admin spied on his campaign - I by being a "critical thinker" compare it to IG report and comments in Senate hearings and make a decision of how adjust my trust ratings for sources. At some point rating of some sources is going to be too low to even consider them, and some will be Ok-ish. That's how I will know what "conspiracy theories" to consider. They might end up not being "conspiracy theories" altogether (like conspiracy theory that Iraq does not have WMD).

Hope it helps.
How do you know? I've done it before.
Adding any barrier is bad enough.

It needs to be easier to vote, not harder.
>extra tax on any big company that pays its highest-paid employee over 100 times more than its median worker

Small nit, but the law evokes measuring against the median wage not the average.

Besides that, from the wording of the article it seems like they have a different goal than your argument. Your post reads as if they should be optimizing for the number of employees rather than more pay equity.
Sure. I'll help as my company does cold email as a service.

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So I am not sure what you are suggesting here for the USA...that other countries should help us by inserting infiltrators or something like that?
Ask HN: Instead of picking a party, why can’t we vote on issues
Why do we need political parties? Many issues are partisan and many more bi partisan.

Instead of pitting 2 or more parties against each other, why can’t select the issues we want to be implemented and politicians with no party affiliations to implement them?

This way we can have elections maybe even once a year for issues rather than for parties and we can track issues. Spokesperson can be a rotating head of state.

Isn’t it a better way to govern ourselves?
> If that doesn't ring a bell, then please ignore this and go about your life a few million poorer.

This line is distasteful and detracts from the rest of what you wrote.
Definitely worth it. Two reasons: first, you can use it using your muscle memory (think vim), and second: it's fast. Many people nowadays are used to this (usually) slight lag in whatever you do via the web interfaces, but using something that reacts immediately is much nicer, at least to me.
That sounds good, what's the magazine app?
This is a better question than it may seem. Research suggesting lack of muscle may matter more than presence of fat for insulin resistance, among other things:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8748147

As noted by others, BMI isn't strictly synonymous with fat. The military tape tests body builders who can't meet weight to prove they aren't actually fat. When my husband was a military recruiter, every year some civilian organization told them they were "overweight." They all had to pass PT tests and meet weight to remain in the military. Muscle weighs more than fat.
No you did not skim too fast, it is judt another example of low quality cargo cult science. It looks like science, may smell like it but definitely not science. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
I'll sometimes self-identify as a centrist in that I notice two increasingly radicalized extremes that spend most of there energy screaming at each other. You might think I'm doing that to "gain a social edge" but the truth is I just don't like screaming.
I think it's not controversial that employer provided health insurance is a silly mechanism. But animosity prevents significant progress away from the status quo.
> No audiophile will ever use bluetooth

That's because audiophiles are more about the equipment and less about the actual music.
Reminds me of an old Soviet joke. The government made vodka more expensive, so son walks up to his alcoholic dad and says, "Gorbachev made vodka more expensive, dad, so you'll now drink less!" To which dad responds, "No, son, you'll just eat less".

The CEOs that don't move out of SF will just reallocate some employee promo budget to executive comp budget to make up the difference. It's a populist measure that at best will do nothing, and at worst will reduce the SF tax base.
> Most countries do not have an equivalent for apps/games and so it is ultimately left to Apple to regulate.

We literally have ESRB that's a whole lot less arbitrary than Apple's review system.
A source that they never made an important decision?

Haha, its hard to prove a negative. Can you link a single decision they did make?

Surely with such a strong opinion there are examples
http://gbdeclaration.org
What do you mean by centrist? America doesn’t really have a left-wing political group, certainly not in any mainstream way. Obama referred to himself as a Reagan Republican and Biden is even more right-leaning. Even figures like AOC and Bernie Sanders are extremely anodyne, not at all “left wing” just barely more liberal than American centrists.

The “centrist” view in America is extremely far to the right, which then allows factions like Trump’s to be far right to deeply fascist, racist extremes (this is not hyperbole, Trump is dangerously fascist) and yet still act like he’s just “on the right” because “centrist” positions in the US are themselves so deeply far right already.

The US really urgently needs more mainstream far left politicians, instead of nearly-Republican examples like Harris, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg, etc. AOC & Sanders are the closest, but by no means do they represent views that are anywhere near being a healthy “far left” ideology to help draw a compromise from the far right and towards a healthier centrist position.

“Centrist” in the US would at least be on the fence of letting individual own assault rifles, withdrawing federal funds for abortion, reducing the EPA and decommitting from international agreements on climate change, granting large tax breaks to corporations, eliminating social welfare programs for oppressed classes of people (in ways that overtly hurt the poor, minorities and women), and creating a legal chasm blocking any road to universal medical care, all while buying into jingoistic ideas about America being the best and dehumanizing other groups like immigrants and foreigners.

That’s the centrist position in the US. When anything further left is even suggested, the socialism boogeyman is drummed up and huge populations of people will vote against it for no other reason than “socialism bad.”

Any sense of acting like there’s a benign Republican core of ideas around states’ rights or lower taxes to be discussed in good faith is just gobsmackingly wrong about the US. That is just simply a falsehood.

What passes for middle of the road, “good faith” centrist discussion is deeply far right already, and “both-sides-ism” where “liberals claiming all Trump voters are racist” is disingenuously used to act like it’s “the same as” the behavior of the American far right is both completely wrong and contributing to the problem.
I'm pretty sure everything small and portable uses switching amplifiers, in fact pretty much all modern consumer electronics use class-D from your phone to your TV unless you specifically seek out separates from an audio shop. This is because class-D amps are extremely convenient, they are small, cheap, power efficient and they require little consideration for cooling - audio quality is an area of debate, there are certainly lots of very poor quality class-D amps our there with absurdly high THDs, but there are probably lots of good ones too.

AB would be more likely than A, but I can't imagine finding them even in a large flat screen TV since they are inherently less efficient and require larger power transformers which make them fairly heavy and bulky. You only really find non switching amps these days when people want to sacrifice some of that convenience for some nicer sound.
> the death of things like RSS feeds

This is really sad[1]. RSS feeds are amazing. Thankfully they are not completely gone!

[1] Actually, the whole state of the Internet is sad.
I remote into gaming machines on my phone. What is the difference between a game and an app with respect to personal liberties?
you can't abolish half of a thing. abolishing half of slavery still leaves you with slavery. you're confused about some basic terms here.

and if you're using a broad enough notion of divisiveness, then anything is divisive, including tan suits and dijon mustard. so divisiveness as you're using the term is not a property of the relation between the constituency and the political object (policy/slogan/etc.), but it's instead a tool that social engineers can use to create antagonism between populations.

for example, abortion appears to be an extremely divisive issue because of the way the issue has been socially engineered, but if you look at the data, a large majority of americans agree on the vast majority of abortion cases. it's the edge cases and disagreements on the rationale for/against abortion that are used to create the appareance of divisiveness.
The Macintosh Scientific Computing Environment
>If Bernie was chosen as the candidate, Trump would have won a second term. The bet panned out.

Big citation needed. I live in Ohio which went red, you do live in a Democratic bubble but it is different than what you imagine it is.
I'm pretty sure destructuring is still slow as hell. Like if you want to clone an array, arr.slice(0) is 3x faster than [...arr]
I don’t have a good answer, but I do have an idea. The next time you face this situation, instead of jumping to give information that you would need to know in order for you to believe what you are saying, ask the other person instead: “What would need to be true in order for you to believe X?”

While I’ve often found that people can’t handle this question and just disengage, if you do get an answer, then you can actually try to say what they need to hear. They may move the goalposts after getting an answer, but it’s better than wasting time throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
It seems to me that the left is the side supporting freedom right now. I don't think someone is free if they don't have the material resources to make their own decisions. That's to say nothing of minority rights and ending the war on drugs.
What regulations are those? Netflix has Minecraft Story Mode now https://www.netflix.com/title/80227995 . What regulations are being applied, and how are those incompatible with video games?

Also aren't movie rating systems like the MPA self-regulated? Not required by law. There's already equivalent systems for video games with PEGI and ESRB.
This is clearly the democrats biggest problem. Biden just lost Florida largely because Trump falsely called him a socialist. Democrats are absolute losers when it comes to successfully getting people to understand their message.
The thing is, any reasonable, evidence based discussion is going to end up concluding that the 90% of GOP talking points are lies, so right leaning people would claim the show is left biased.
Thanks. The reviews that we do over Google Meet with the author go so much faster, so doing them synchronously is a great idea.

We are quite geographically distributed, but maybe it makes sense to have review hour after standup.
seems like dry humor :)
Iraq war was initiated by Republicans, despite world-wide protests and lack of evidence of WMDs.
Your argument is that majority consensus overrides individual freedoms and that is preposterous.
Got caught smoking a joint in a park with friends. All of us white. They told us to throw out the material and move on. I wonder if the same scenario would occur if we were brown?
Can you expand on why it’s dumb of me to dismiss Pizzagate?
"It's downright impressive to me that one of (if not the most) educated cities in the nation is ignorant of the fact this will likely do much more harm than good in the long run."

Never underestimate the ability of emotional responses to trump rationality across all demographic groups.
Ah the forefathers. Thanks for the good system.
Well Biden didn't do well in FL either did he?
Your statement is de-latched from facts. What are you smoking.. seriously?

Who is following in the footsteps of strong-man totalitarian practices? Trump. You can not name any democrat that would fit this description.

Who uses propaganda incessantly. Trump. 25,000 provably false statement in 4 years. Fox news, owned by a Trump ally , maintained a stead stream of provably false pro-Trump right-wing propaganda. Does any democrat or other politician in US history is have such a record? None.

Who is trying on undermining government and shove an agenda down our throats. Trump and the Republicans, who despite have little popular support for many of their policies (by independent polling) use gerrymandering to twist the vote, actively obstruct the government from governing, jamb right-wing extremist justices into court positions. Do democrats ever do this? Almost never.

I grew up in the New York area, like other new yorker's who voted 90% for Biden, we all know something you don't. We've seen his ridiculous antics for decades. He has been a perpetual lier, tax-evader, serial failed business man, narcissistic self-promoter, and con-man. Heck he's been a democrat... but I guess that was back when he needed all those abortions for his mistresses.

In the end, he like much of his elections team, will be put in jail for his crimes. But because he knows he's done a lot of illegal shit, he will first pardon himself... just watch.
While it’s certainly true that America is not the most free country in the world, it’s still inside the top 50. What freedoms are you trying to exercise but are being stifled?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
> Its sad that people don't understand economics.

FIW, Quite a few economists have looked into this, and there is at best no, and at worst an inverse, correlation between value creation and CEO pay. Some of the highest-paid CEOs in America head slow-growth or even unprofitable companies.
Can you explain a bit more on what you are alluding to? This new law is not related to employee count (i.e. the size of the firm). It takes into account the median salary at the firm AND how much the CEO makes. I'm trying to understand what you are trying to argue here.
> Could you give an example? To me this sounds logically impossible - one has to understand the scientific principles before you can innovate on them.

Steam engine --> thermodynamics
Its not at all because there is one more target...
Also Playstation remote play. There's a specific allowance for personal, local-network remote viewing.
Is the legal system really so inflexible that it can’t prohibit this using general statements? Do you really need a 10 page long comma separated list of every possible situation?
Unfortunately, this hits companies from the wrong direction. Even if it incentives good behavior (which is debatable), the good behavior it incentivizes is to lower one person's enormous compensation so that it's slightly less enormous but still quite large.

What the law should promote is upward pressure on the lowest earners' compensation rather than downward pressure on the top earners' compensation. Minimum wage hike, for example. Much greater potential to improve the lives of the lowest-paid workers; businesses often threaten to compensate via layoffs but usually don't follow through, at least not enough to completely offset the change.
I assume the traditional cross border payments will stick around until better systems using new instant payment primitives are built. I would not anticipate these user experiences to get worse, only better.
The only way that I could see that working is if we allowed states to impose tariffs embargoes and on each other. There would need to be some way for states to protect themselves from other states' negative externalities or a race to the bottom.
Twitter doesn't point out what's true. They point out what's under dispute.
It's important to realize that Linux offers a-la-carte container features which evolved over time. Some of the features include chroot, process groups, user/group permissions, cgroups, network multiplexing (e.g. inetd, nat), namespaces (network, mount, pid, user, etc.) and unshare/setns, union file systems like unionfs/aufs/overlayfs, etc.. There are a lot of ways you can implement container orchestration systems on Linux.

And as noted, OpenVZ and Linux Vserver were earlier container subsystems for Linux.