skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your feedback, and I generally try to be level headed in these matters, but I simply think that it's a losing battle.

Playing the victim is a competitive sport online, suffice to see the outrage caused by "literally whos" who post some silly extreme take on some social network. It then gets posted and reposted everywhere to rile the troups.

My point is, if a nobody like myself calling a bunch of people "losers" online is enough to motive some of these people to change their behaviours, IMO they were just looking for an excuse to do so. In truth in my experience they're not arguing that in good faith, they're just cherry picking in order to "both-sides" the issue.

I think it's a waste of energy to try to build bridges with these types of people, they're not interesting in honest debate, they just espouse the form of a civil debate in order to bog you down. So I just explicitly reject them without engaging, if you're the type of person who likes to spread disinformation like the one discussed in TFA then you're a loser in my book and I move on with my life.

Note that I'm not singling any particular faction here, while I do think that the right wing is definitely employing these tactics at a much greater scale, the left is definitely not above them either. It's standard internet discussion tactics, unfortunately.

I cherish HN because it's one of the only relatively mainstream online forums I know of where these types of discussions don't turn completely one-sided. It's far from perfect but places like reddit, facebook, twitter or 4chan are effectively lost to civil discourse as far as I'm concerned.
(Just to be clear, I don't think it's "terrible advice," just not the most relevant for beginners.)

I definitely recognize what you're talking about, but my sense is that there are two core problems of poor writing, neither of which is helped at all by this advice:

1. Having something to say at all. This is the art of it, not the craft. If you have something resonant to communicate and you do it with living words, audiences suddenly become quite forgiving of sloppy craftsmanship. I won't dunk on any books in particular, but we can all think of books that are both wildly popular and objectively terrible.

I think the right advice to overcome this issue is "live a life. Keep your eyes open. Like really go for it, man." Maybe after the first, breathless draft is complete then say to this author: good, now try cutting half the words but keeping everything you intended.

2. Bad craftsmanship. Poorly constructed scenes, paragraphs, sentences.

I think the right advice here is "write. write. write. read. write more." The aphorism goes something like "everyone has a million terrible words inside them, and they must write them all out before any of the good ones emerge."

Claim: in the normal course of events, if an intelligent and earnest person is an avid writer and reader and student of the world, their million words will become progressively better until they are finally good. I believe my quantity over quality focus for students is borne out by the research across domains.

"Nobody likes exposition dumps or purple prose, brutally cut everything" not only isn't central to the goal of generating a bunch of words, but it may actually discourage people from producing the volume of work I think they'll need to become good. I say write purple, write a 200,000 word infodump. No one likes infodumps until some genius comes along with the first pure infodump novel that sells 5mm copies while everyone else complains, and then that's the publishing game for the next 10 years.

Just whatever you do, write.
The light should be a big dollar sign: $
Do you judge the 'goodness' of a country or a continent by the amounts paid for settlements? Why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/astrazene...

Was a pretty good overview of the issues
Your sites are better at being tools ordinary human beings can use to their own benefit. They are (probably) terrible at generating money via ad revenue and tricking people into buying subscriptions that are then nearly impossible to cancel.

Making a site to share info and have fun is easy. Nearly anyone can do it. Making a site to actively exploit people in the most intense way possible while still being legal(ish) takes highly-trained experts.
I’ve been much happier using KaTeX over MathJax. Indeed KaTeX can actually be rendered server-side. This prevents an ugly flash of unstyled content on math-heavy pages.
So is the opportunity cost 6 days of outage or maybe 0.2 days since most of the traffic was just delayed rather than Re-routed?

Also I am not a lawyer, but if I were one, I would wonder if there have been previous outages like this and how has that cost been recovered? And how many times has the canal delayed the ships anyways and not paid them?

Also would the canal pay from this money the ships that were delayed as they were also an affected party.

The game can be played from multiple sides.
Subdividing in total doesn't work for me. Unless it is something I already know how to do. Identifying the next thing works ok.
I think you've got that completely backwards. 2000 is about the time that the "long tail" exploded, where Youtube and Spotify made non-top 40 music a lot easier to find. In consequence there is a lot more really good music available today than there was pre-internet and it's a lot easier to find. It's not on the radio, but that's always been the case.
I believe you can with Enterprise plan, override the Host header that is.
“The lived experiences ...” is what sanctimonious rich liberals say to sound profound when they don’t have anything intelligent to say.
I don't remember that argument in the article. It talked about race, not what assets imply.
“Cogito ergo sum” can be also translated as I am thinking therefore I am. In which case “I am thinking therefore I am not” is not contradictory at all.
Judging from UK data, it seems like the Pfizer vaccine does not have this particular side effect:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56616119

"The MHRA said it had received 22 reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) - where a blood clot forms in the brain - and eight reports of "other thrombosis events with low platelets [the cells involved in clotting]" following use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, out of a total of 18.1 million doses given up to and including 24 March

(...)

Meanwhile, the MHRA said there had been no reports of blood clots following use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

As of 21 March, an estimated 10.8 million first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab had been administered in the UK, the regulator said."
Considering alternative vaccinations exist I’m not sure why this comment makes sense. One can imagine an end to the pandemic that does not involve vaccinating people under 55 with AZ.
He may be desperately trying to shoehorn frequentist statistics, which require actual samples over repeated experiments. If you take the frequentist view, then you kinda have to collect all the possible results of your bet from all the parallel universes of outcomes. Which requires interaction with those universes, and does not make any sense unless maybe you wave your hands a lot about the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (and dammit, even if we believe in that, the parallel universes do not interact!)

If you're a reasonable person instead, you recognise that probabilities instead describe a state of partial information (that is, probability is in the mind), and the "ensemble average" really comes from a probability distribution we can compute with bog standard probabilistic counterfactual reasoning, not by actually hopping universes.

My, the abstract didn't prepare me for this.
I think, yeah "Yawn" from a tech perspective. But for average people, the idea that these folks are hooked up and streaming from their homes, with minimal visible hardware is new. It feels more sci-fi than someone in a research center with a ton of wires on their head.
I mean, NASA is an American government agency paid for with American tax dollars...
> The estimates on the risk of death from these clots range from 1 in 100.000 to 1 in 1 million.

Cite? That's absolutely not consistent with the 7-fatality (yes, seven) value listed above.
It appears to be an app for a phone? I have no throttling problem on the phone in case that wasn't clear, but I don't care to look at the small screen and want to use my desktop.
It's not spreading less. Besides I never said a measure has to eradicate child porn for it to be acceptable.

Compare it to having acne. It's not recommended to pop the abscesses because it does nothing to treat the underlying issue and a week later you have them again. What you need to do is treat the underlying condition. Attacking hosters for hosting child porn is the same thing as popping acne ascesses. Sure you have taken down a few servers. But next week they will be back. It's just not effective. What you need to do is find the people that are making and spreading child porn.
I assume they mean modernism, the prevailing artistic style of the first half of the 20th century.
Websites are largely a visual medium so when you use the word beautiful most people are going to assume you're describing the visual aspects of the sites the tool generates, not the tool itself. And I get that beauty is subjective, but when you give terseness and arbitrary lack of features such as unnumbered lists as reasons for why it's beautiful, it's a little strange.
I'm not saying it will come to it, but the worst case for global warming is not some jungle planet, it is earth turning into a planet like venus, which would probably sterilize earth if it happens faster than evolutionary timescales that are needed for nature to adapt as you suggest.

The argument about us not being able to save ourselves is really a falacy, akin to whataboutism. It's the same as saying we shouldn't fly to the moon as long as there is famine on earth, or not try to cure cancer as long as we don't have a cure for the common cold.
I’d be curious to hear the full quote and context on the 600 number. It sounds like that is talking about operational taxis, while the 82k number is all vehicles. It seems like that >90% of waymo’s vehicles would not be on the roads but in testing/design/etc. the articles point still stands, but I don’t think the number comparison seems totally fair.
A celebration of a pre-Islamic civilization like that must be very, very offensive to the local Salafists.

(Let them gnash their teeth and let us hope they won't be able to generate an Egyptian equivalent of Khomeini. The last Persian Shah liked to celebrate ancient pre-Islamic history of Persia as well, culminating with the great international party in the ruins of Persepolis.)
This coming at the heels of Matt Gaetz suggesting that Miami with in abundant clean resources can become a crypto mining Mecca. What endless flow of energy you ask? Nuclear... (can’t find the link all that comes up is the sex trafficking charge)
The Cairo Museum was not built intelligently or well and was falling apart even a century ago. Much priceless material culture was destroyed in basement flooding in the years before the Nile was dammed. John D. Rockefeller Jr. even offered to replace it in the 1920s, redirecting his funds to Jerusalem after politics and the control he demanded torpedoed the project. The mummies should have been moved to a more appropriate location long ago. I don't begrudge the Egyptian state a little bit of pomp and glitter as they do what they should have done long ago.
This is an accurate description of limited liability. It does not blanketly shield corporations from liability, only shareholders (and there are exceptions to this as well).

In fact, in Florida--as well as many other jurisdictions in the US--there is a special category of torts that cover liability for ultrahazarous activities and apply strict liability. There are cases that have specifically dealt with the impoundment of large quantities of water.

Bunyak v. Clyde J. Yancey & Sons Dairy, Inc., 438 So.2d 891 (Fla. App. 2 Dist. 1983).
Cities Service Co. v. State, 312 So.2d 799 (Fla. App. 2 Dist. 1975).[1]

Note the facts the latter case, Cities, dealt with:

>The appellant, Cities Service Company (Cities Service), operates a phosphate rock mine in Polk County. On December 3, 1971, a dam break occurred in one of Cities Service's settling ponds. As a result, approximately one billion gallons of phosphate slimes contained therein escaped into Whidden Creek and thence into the Peace River, thereby killing countless numbers of fish and inflicting other damage.

>Appellee, The State of Florida (State), filed suit against Cities Service seeking injunctive relief as well as compensatory and punitive damages arising out of the dam break.

It is absolutely true that the way that corporations have escaped liability for these activities is to "socialize losses" as an OP has aptly stated. In this situation, the prior owner went bankrupt and handed this major liablity to the state to maintain for years and when it breaks, the state (possibly federal) taxpayers and the environment will bear the loss.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1849457/cities-service...
Issue 34 is now closed. My thanks to the patience of people there who have clarified and improved the visibility of licensing.
I don't know either, but there's a strong anti-vax vibe in this thread. For reasons that are somewhat unclear to me, France has one of the highest anti-vax sentiment rates in the developed world, so that can have something to do with it. https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Covid-anti-vax-s...

My retort is, for those who don't like vaccines, if you don't want a vaccine what IS the solution to the problem of covid?
The upthread poster wasn't "on the fence". I read that comment as vaccine denialism, not indecision. And misinformation needs to be called out as such, not coddled.
It has to do with your comment that the city would "deny development license if the proposed building will cast an overly large shadow over a playground." That's clearly not the case, here: they expedited development, rather than denying it.

I said there's room for skepticism because we don't know that it's not psychosomatic. But: she gathered environmental data, and reports completed prior to her moving there had already concluded that "VOCs were above residential limits and, in some cases, even above vapor intrusion risk levels." The developer had made plans for advanced vapor mitigation. One of the reasons the area was a Superfund site in the first place was due to VOCs. In other words, there are a number of external reasons to think this is plausible.
The turboencabulator was the most complicated device never invented
There is something very apt in your first line: A lot of sites suffer from too many cooks in the kitchen.

If every department proves its worth by claiming space on the front page, customer experience will be the last concern. That's before someone notices how giving content away is not a monetization strategy. Then add the siren song of 'only one more script' for marketing data,even if nobody has a clue about what to do with that data.
Well, OTOH, the fact that tens of millions of people have now been connected through firewall-free/disabled IPv6 for years, yet the (somewhat expected) disaster of widespread hacking/compromises clearly didn't happen... which could mean that this is not that critical of a security feature as could be expected ?
Exactly. But I am using the measure of quality that I think is relevant. We call a chef good when we like the food, not when he finds a way to enrich a fast food chain.
Cost per Action Marketing in 2021
Thanks for sharing your personal story, and sorry for your loss. It's hard to imagine what it is to lose someone you love so early in life.

I am, however, glad that the end was the way you wanted it. From your comments, it's clear that it could have been much worse.

One nitpick: I am not sure what "the green paper on the wall said so" really means. Not a native English speaker.
The justification for why they don't need an auto industry CEO makes sense. But do co-CEOs make any more sense? I never get a good vibe from that arrangement.
It certainly feels like false equivalence to suggest "you win some and lose some" when comparing free speech and political rights to gender representation in some fields.

But I'll take your word for it, perhaps there are american women who would trade their right to vote and speak freely in exchange for more of their gender at work with them
Silicon Valley Foundation, WEF Announce Global Initiative for Vaccine Passports
That's a software thing. In the real world, "post mortems" exist to assign blame.

(The only exception I can think of is that in US aviation, workers can file a NASA form immediately after an unintentional mistake to avoid enforcement actions.)
ploughed+plodded=plogged

Is there anything else to do than to make the most of it?
There is a specific Chief Mate license (according to STCW) but indeed commonly the Chief Mate holds a Master license, it’s just not required for minimum safe manning. (If it was, than the Manning regulations wouldn’t be met anymore when the captain is incapacitated)

At least here in Germany it only take ~3 years of sea service to progress from officer of the watch to master - but no one will entrust you with a major cargo or passenger vessel with that little experience.
<0% ! It's obviously collapsed (khurbn, assimilation, Zionism ).

That said, for those who are part of the secular yiddish 'revival' it doesn't matter if there isn't a huge speaker base. Its still an interesting and exciting environment to be part of, and a real counterpoint to the nationalist, orthodox and assimilationist alternative ways of being a Jew today.
I dont think the requirement for road access or the US-style zoning or the only way to stop low wealth apartment towers popping up next door to shiny condos being to raise taxes on the poor or the impossibility of centrally planning a housing development without using a cheat/mod was down to computational limitations, especially not by SimCity 4 in 2003. It was a game based on a US vision of what a city is and how (un)involved its planners are, and ideology certainly shaped city planning in the US, if not Will Wright.
I agree.

Your comment made me think of Natalie Woods' last movie: "Brainstorm."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)
That seems like a terribly inefficient way of achieving exclusivity, if that’s the goal. If the neighborhood is indeed more desirable, wouldn’t the higher value of the houses themselves (which would also result in higher prop taxes anyway) serve the same function? In fact, the artificially high property tax must have a depressive effect on the house values in that neighborhood. I can’t think of why relatively well off people would voluntarily move into such a neighborhood. If anything, the high tax rate sounds punitive toward those who live there.
> Indeed, there are fewer commercially successful artists

Source?

I reckon every decade had a handful of artists dominate the charts, so it wasn’t unheard of at all to see multiple chart toppers by the same artists at any given time. In fact, given the gatekeepers of popular music largely were concentrated around radio DJs and the “industry machine” of record labels, I’d hypothesize there’s a larger on average number of unique artists in the top 100 since the 2000s than before.
The insurance company paid out the fines; they went bankrupt because they couldn't possibly continue to operate without massive hikes to their insurance (if they even could get more).

If they move on and start something again that is potentially dangerous, it is on the new insurance company to do some diligence in rating the risk of bad behavior.
No, the mind can have a significant effect on the body. For example this webmd article on placebo cites studies where what the participant was told about a pill (stimulant vs sleep aid) effected heart rate, blood pressure and reaction time in opposite directions. https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/what-is-the-placebo-ef...
Great article and I think there should be more discussion around the usage of anti-depression medication.

Imagine you have a bullet in your arm. It's causing a lot of pain. Using anti-depressants is like putting a Band-Aid over the bullet wound. It might stop the bleeding temporarily, but it doesn't address the root of the issue. To actually solve the problem, you need to remove the bullet. Anti-depressant drugs will never address the root of the problem.

The author brought up an example of a woman with a husband who is having an affair. A woman with an unfaithful husband has a situation she must deal with immediately, and this is an obvious source of depression. But if she goes to her pharmacist and prescribes herself a bunch of anti-depressant pills instead of confronting her husband, that's not helping her solve her problems.

I feel the same way about ADHD. I don't think ADHD is a problem at all. It is a "problem" in today's world because the work that we do in today world, which revolves around sitting at a desk for 8-10 hours a day, is unnatural. Being easily distracted by your surroundings is likely an evolutionary advantage if you're trying to survive in the wilderness, which is what our pre-historic ancestors did most of their lives. To help people cope with their unnatural environment, we got Adderall and caffeine.

Perhaps the root of the problem in this case, is capitalism. I still think capitalism is the best system but, it motivates businessmen to create solutions that people think they want, but not what they actually need. Pharma companies have billions of dollars at stake in creating a magic pill to "cure" depression, but instead, the drugs they make only help people procrastinate on their problems and hurt them in the long run.
I just checked. You're right. So maybe it isn't React but something else Facebook is doing.
You seem to be making the (rather common) mistake of confusing European organisations with EU institutions. CEN is not a part of the EU. It was founded to establish standards among European countries long before the EU even existed, and it has members outside the EU as well. The EU does indeed recognize it, as does the UK (and did long before the EU even existed), but the EU didn't create it and doesn't control it.
For the uninitiated https://www.taxfairnessproject.org/

But honestly if you're happy living in California ignorance is bliss on this one
Woo, this one was a little unpopular, huh? But only just a little. I think a lot of people realize that I mean "no one will hire you", not "it will be illegal to hire you".
I've had good support from airgradient

(https://www.airgradient.com/blog/2020/08/25/the-airgradient-...)

The linked DIY instructions give you a basic board with PM 2.5 particles, temp, humidity, and CO2. It is built on a Wemos D1 mini.

The founder (Achim) is very helpful.

If you wanted to use these plans to get started (including the software to power the Wemos), then buy whatever additional sensors you might like to add, it should be fairly simple.
I’m surprised she didn’t try to escape from her apartment like you did. She mentions sleeping outside on an occasion, but that’s about it. I think I would have paid some money to go to a hotel, stay with a friend, grab an AirBnB someplace just to figure out if my symptoms went away. The things she was experiencing sounded just horrible.
Absolutely. We do not normally discuss Egypt here in CZ, but this video is spreading virally across the social networks.

The post-Covid summer is inching closer and there is a lot of pent-up demand for tourism and discovery of new places. I bet some people are not going to forget this show.
"But they are “really” rich and can easily access that wealth. They’d just prefer not to."

Banks have lending limits. You're assuming the $2mm house isn't leveraged to begin with.
Thank you for the apology, it does the entire community here good when people take responsibility for all their comments, not just the popular ones.
Thank you, I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/