skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine Google cancelling you. Like by permanently banning your every account for no reason without chance to appeal. Or better cancelling your whole company by banning Ads, Google Play or GCP account. Everything is gone in one second, poof and no one can help you unless you somehow get to HN or reddit frontpage.
Maybe computer ‘will’, but not humans. We have had thousands of years to try to come up with a definition of life and free will, and we haven’t even managed that :)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-life-its-vast-diversi...
Superluminal NTP
Consider the fact that QuakeC had a native vector datatype back in the day, despite the fact that all rendering and physics was done in native C code.
If you're 30-40 married with kids, you don't have the time to do leetcode for 6 months to pass the interviews..
Top level comment said it was cheaper to TREAT cancer earlier. You’re both providing examples of diagnosing cancer earlier.
This is a great example of why I figured Google Maps for navigation. I don't use Maps to express my environmental values, I use it to get from A to B the fastest way. If they default to something else, they are actively getting in the way of why I would use their product. I have no interest in activist software.
I went through this. Needed to see a vascular specialist at Stanford while I was still stuck with Kaiser's HMO. $1000 for ~15 minutes.
This is just so stupid, there's no other way to describe it.
>hate group behaviors and nonsensical smalltalk around lunch time.

honestly im not sure how you can do well as a manager without some tolerance for that kind of thing
Dan Luu has a great blog post on discontinuities and public policy: http://danluu.com/discontinuities/

I found it very interesting!
In a previous career I was a Nuclear Reactor Operator for the US Navy.

The acronym/story we were told regarding SCRAM was “Super Critical Reactor Axe Man”; as in the guy who would cut the rope to drop the control devices into the fission pile if they detected its reactivity going TOO super critical.

Interestingly this usage doesn’t seem well known outside of those circles. It is/was, however, directly printed in rather old publications I used (60s perhaps?).
Yeah, I need to add some flexibility there! I'll add a more permissive height-range, and a simple crop-on-upload feature as well.
Rights aren't made up is a founding principle of America, every immigrant who naturalizes has to agree and uphold this principle of rights being natural.
Afaik, American parties are much more about winning elections than ideology. It is not certain that supporting Medicare for All would have increased Joe Biden's chances of winning. Especially since their strategy was to get Republican and right-leaning voters to switch parties. Also, Biden handily defeated Bernie Sanders in the primaries so it is not certain that more progressive policies would have benefited the Democrats in the general election.
In Australia, they're known for very well built fridges and aircon units.
The BOR ends up constantly in the courts. Do we want our medical system to be created by the courts?
Pretty soon they'll be routing cars through their political foes' homes.
I am an immigrant from a socialist, ex-communist country in the Balkans, where socialized medicine is the norm, as is having really good doctors. The few times I’ve had to go to the doctor there, either to be seen myself or to help my grandmother, was an awful experience. I’ve had to spend 2 weeks going from office to office until I could finally get an appointment (just an appointment!) for my almost-blind grandmother, for a simple cataract procedure.

The procedure was scheduled ONE YEAR from the time of appointment, which meant she was blind in one eye for a whole year.

That’s the absurdity of a socialized system.

Everyone already knows the absurdities of this system here so I’ll skip that part of my rant.

This issue is so polarizing, it occurred to me - why don’t we have a medicare-type system (call it m4a) for those who want it, and not for those who don’t? It’s about a 50-50 split anyway.

The catch is, if you don’t pay tax for m4a, you can’t use it.

This way, those who are concerned about “paying for others and receiving inferior service” don’t have to, and those who can’t or don’t want to deal with a privatized system are free to use it.
I sure hope so, this has to be a joke!
Just tell Marketing to emphasize the “Now with Benzene” angle.
the pain of having to leave your house to go in to work, the thing that pretty much every adult in the world does? such suffering
Liberals are scared, leftists are not. It's leftist activist who are pushing and approving these changes. Old school liberals, like the ones mentioned and outlined in this post's article, are quickly finding themselves to be politically homeless.

>If anything, the article tends to support the case that they're not indoctrinated.

This is where you're wrong:

"This new climate is slowly being institutionalized, and is affecting what can be said in the classroom, even as a basis for discussion. During the 2014–15 school year, for instance, the deans and department chairs at the 10 University of California system schools were presented by administrators at faculty leader-training sessions with examples of microaggressions."

It's been institutionalized. We now have primary school administrators making claims as outlandish as "acronyms are white supremacy": https://abc7news.com/sfusd-renaming-schools-board-meeting-sa...

These are the children becoming undergraduates.

Those undergraduate students with pronouns in their Twitter profiles having a well-considered opinion on free speech? Press X to DOUBT.
You have so many replies and they're all so low quality. (EDIT: This was probably hasty of me, there are a number of good replies now. I had quoted some bad ones here, but that seems like it simply prolongs their effective life. I've removed those quotes.)

On the other hand, perhaps you'd get better replies if you started with a better question. Nobody is "against health care for all". Nobody would "vote against the idea that everyone is healthy".

A better question is: Should the US federal government (continue to) ensure that some level of health care is provided for all, and what level is that?

"None" is an extremist answer; would you abolish the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which requires most hospitals to treat any person in mortal need who shows up?

"All" is the other extreme, although it's unclear whether it's an "extremist" answer if there are real countries that have implemented federally guaranteed "best-effort all health care for all". Which I don't know enough to answer. Do those places exist?

Anyway, I think that's a better starting point for the conversation.
> does that mean there are lots of people sitting around doing nothing, or working on nothing urgent, so that they can immediately turn around a code review?

No, it means there is a cultural expectation / etiquette that you prioritize keeping your teammates unblocked by reviewing their code quickly, even if it means putting aside your own coding to do so.
And you save a lot of money on treating malignant cancer if the patient dies before you get to treat it.
Is it really a conspiracy theory that all they'd have to do is tweak the weights in dijkstra's algorithm based on who pays them?

Alleging that they're actually doing that is one thing, but simply recognizing that they can do it and have a potential incentive is another and I think that is clear.
It should.

The original is always compressed into a new file, and the metadata is thrown away. I read about what happened to some other websites, and want to ensure users have maximum privacy!
I don't think that majority of people are opposed to the idea that people who need healthcare should not get if they can't afford it. It's more that there are different ways of achieving that and there are different degrees of service you can deliver that satisfies that requirement. That's where people disagree I would think, and it creates a deadlock of sorts.
> The reason they rarely get to see stage 4 cancer in Australia is because their health care system would rather treat it when it’s at stage 1, and patients are able to seek that treatment without fear of bankruptcy; but in the US, public health care isn’t generally available until you’re 65, leading to a huge spike in “I couldn’t afford to see a doctor sooner” stage 4 cancers.

That explanation fits what people probably expect, but it's not borne out by the data. The US actually has a higher 5-year survival rate for most common treatable cancers than Australia (e.g. breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer).

This has been confirmed by multiple multi-year studies that analyze cancer survival rates across countries (e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395269/)
Seems like a creative way of saying that after a decade+ they've finally decided to listen to everyone who's been saying they don't wanna take three left turns in rush hour traffic to save an average of 15sec on a 2hr trip.
The greatest enemy is the self.

Self-victory is not possible, but self-defeat is :(

Painful, is the existence we live...
Sure, I totally agree about nuance and the "needing to architect it that way" meaning there. But once you have it architected that way, you then gain the ability to mostly ignore single failures, and only look for "deeper issues" if failures persist.

Even at not-very-high scale, AWS instances _do_ "just randomly fail", at least for all practical interpretations. I don't run anything like FAANG scale, only hundreds of instances rather than thousands or millions, and I see at least a few "random failures" a year (not including spot instances terminating, which I see in clumps every month or so).

I (almost) never try to repair broken a EC2 instance. Wherever I can, they'll be running totally stateless, and I just provision new ones and kill off old ones. I probably won't even bother investigating if it's a rare and singular problem on a known-reliable platform. If one instance wedges and gets replaced, I'll just have a note to investigate if it happens again any time soon. If we get a second failure, we'll go looking in logs and maybe keep and investigate the EBS volume.

For platforms running new-ish code, procedures are different. If we see dead instances after deployments we obviously investigate the new code/config there. But a fair chunk of clients where I am only get 6 or 12 (or even 24) month backend update cycles, if I've got dozens of instances running the same code for months on end and _one_ dies, we just bury it and replace it, and keep a closer eye on the rest of the "herd" for a week or two.
Do you believe humans are causing climate change? If so, how do you envision it should be addressed that doesn't involve us changing our habits?
Exactly. This is why I phrase observations from my own point of view and avoid implying a broad category like Republican/liberal/etc when I criticize some opinion that has a significant presence in my visible universe.
The quoted paragraph clearly states that the lower-emissions route will only be given by default when there are multiple routes with a similar ETA. So it will never tell you to take a route that takes longer just to reduce your emissions, without also telling you about the shorter route with higher emissions.

Since you have seemingly already abandoned google maps due to their activism before reading this story, what were the other reasons that made you quit?
Honestly, having dislike buttons always seemed _extremely_ user-hostile to me. You can get a lot of the same signals a "dislike" gives by just looking at the likes-to-views ratio, without introducing a method of negative feedback on what is often a largely creative endeavor that people put a lot of work into.

Comments on YouTube are bad enough. If you want to tell a video creator their work sucks, comments still work fine.
>How many exercises could you make around looking the network tab on a browser?

I was not suggesting to do an exercise. If the goal of your exercise is to show that the web is built off text being passed back and forth it can easily be shown by just looking at the network tab. From a web development perspective the exact details of how HTTP packets are encoded are not that important. For the same reason a deep knowledge of TCP is not really important.
Thanks for your source.
Let me assess how much of his conclusions and the conclusions in the news reporting are affected, assuming the Grayzone article is correct.

I just take a random article from CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/21/asia/xinjiang-china-respo...

One paragraph is affected: “there were almost 1,000 new IUD implants per 100,000 people in Xinjiang in 2018, or 80% of China's total for that year”. The rest of the CNN article seems correct and unrelated to Zenz’s work.

This CNN article also says “Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year […]”

There is still no satisfactory explanation for such a sudden drop in birth rate, other than a forcible suppression of birth since 2017. And there are other sources that corroborate the birth suppression claim, such as this teacher [0] and numerous detainees [1][2][3][4][5].

Also, not every claim related to Zenz is in dispute. Consider this claim from a random APN News article: https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

> “Budget documents obtained by Zenz show that […] While sterilization rates plunged in the rest of the country, they surged seven-fold in Xinjiang from 2016 to 2018, to more than 60,000 procedures”

This claim is not refuted by the Grayzone article.

Zenz may have made “local mistakes”, but not global ones that severely impact the major conclusions of his works or in news reporting.

Further, so far I have only seen one website (Grayzone) criticizing Zenz’s work, but not peer-reviewed papers or criticism from the larger research community.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/muslim-minorit...
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071
[3] https://www.dw.com/en/china-uighur-women-reportedly-steriliz...
[4] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Xinjiang-What-China-shows-w...
[5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/abortions-...
When your system would rather make money from your treatment of stage 4 cancer than benefit from a healthy and cured stage 1 cancer survivor.

I’m happy my taxes go towards helping people get out of stage 1 than seeing people live their final days in stage 4.
To be fair, it sounds like the success of this program is strongly rooted in the knowledge, wisdom and judgement of the individual running it.

As a homeschooling parent, I de facto ran a private school under California law for some years. I think we listed my husband as the Administrator and me as the teacher, but I did almost everything. He played a really minor role.

A student can do a lot with a modicum of the right guidance. That "right guidance" can be hard to come by. Many adults aren't really equipped to supply that piece.

Edit: By success, I mean the stuff on this page: http://www2.cruzio.com/~beachhi/students.html
If you need the extra 5 minutes, it seems possible to turn the feature off or ignore it. It seems pretty dumb to me too, but at least it will bring some awareness to climate change, right?
Typically they are tested at very low/no power levels when the reactor is first started after any kind of significant overhaul. We are talking staying subcritical, retracting your control elements a tiny bit in banks, and dropping them until every section is tested.
Switched to a Dvorak keyboard layout, although I did so before it got chronic (meaning pain without typing), on an ergonometric keyboard. Also started using the mouse with the left hand, despite having (a fairly strong) right-hand affinity.
People are afraid of government 'death panels' while completely ignoring the fact that such panels definitely exist now, but they are opaque. Try arguing with the insurance company when they've decided to deny your coverage.
This is good though. A double or triple 180 gram vinyl is better than one album squeezed on a single disc.
The dislike score is a relic of the past. A dislike is a measure of how bad google did at showing you content you expected.

Type in show boat videos and they show you a love boat video so you hit dislike. There was never anything wrong with the loveboat video, it was just shown to someone looking for something else.
A pet peeve of mine is that google maps doesn't show most transit routes on the map. There is a transit layer you can enable, but it only shows metro and light rail, not buses, brt, trams, ferries, etc.
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Nice.
Maybe there is a piece of info missing but this comment had my bullshit detector going off big time. There are plenty of stage IV cancers in Australia. There is no screening for lung cancer so 80% in Australia are stage IV. Even with screening 20% of colon cancer in Australia is stage IV.[1]

Plus California has more people than all of Australia and the worst cancer patients try to go to Stanford, so if expect huge numbers (more than all of Australia even if rates were similar).

[1]https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cancer/cancer-data-in-austra...
very real
To be clear I'm not saying I think it's a bad idea to have universal health coverage because it's politically contentious. In fact I'm not saying it's a bad idea at all; I think it's a good idea. I just think framing it as a "right" is bad. In my opinion, doing so diminishes things that are actual (and hard-fought) rights, such as non-discrimination and freedom of speech, religion, etc.

> If you're in a remote area, your access to treatment may be of a different quality/difficulty to obtain but everyone in your area will have the same difficulty.

It might be almost or entirely nonexistent (e.g. you live in an extremely remote area, you've hiked on foot into uninhabited terrain, you might have a rare difficult-to-treat disease that would require so many specialists as to deprive others of care, etc.). If there are situations where one might not realistically be able to get health care, why would we frame health care as a "right"? In my opinion it's a fantasy and diminishes the meaning of the word. That's why I was trying to more narrowly pin it down to "non-discrimination of access to health care" in my comment.
Look at the downvotes of this channel. Just pick any video since Jan. It's around 4:1 dislikes to likes. You can bet this is why they're doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos
There are plenty of people that would support an imagined Medicare for All with the same cost that the UK's NHS has and the same level of care of the best US insurance plans, minus the bureaucracy and struggle to get treatment approved. Unfortunately, whilst this sells well to voters, any actual concrete implementation runs up against the fact that you can't actually have both - the NHS gets those low, low costs by not offering expensive treatments at all and having long waiting lists for most other things. Also, any major changes to US healthcare run into the issue that it involves a lot of well-paid jobs, and so a lot of the promises made by politicians along the lines of Medicare for All would involve making a lot of voters much less well-off by cutting their pay. That's not popular either.
This analysis omits an important detail which I wrote about in a different thread a week or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26541860
I have no issue with this. The bigger issue I have with Google Maps is that it makes zero effort to avoid dangerous routes. If two routes for a ~45 min drive are within 30 seconds of another, why would I want to risk death by taking the one with an extremely dangerous left turn through oncoming traffic? It makes zero sense.
Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin?
Boycott campaigns work, so don't know why it couldn't be applied here. Most folks don't care about album artwork though for this to ever be a thing, and I agree.

I used to buy cds and vinyl all the time bc of the packaging. If spotify totally did away with cover art I'd be annoyed, but enough to stop subscribing? Nah.
For nuclear power your third paragraph isn’t anywhere in the same universe.

SCRAM drills are held regularly, but under no circumstances is any intentional level of risk in critical safety systems accepted on the plants I worked on.
I'd like to believe this actually true, but I don't think so. Otherwise we would be able to have actually healthy debate about it. I think the reality is there is a very vocal group that wants state run healthcare and the other side thinks things are fine the way they are. If there's another way to do it, let's hear about it.
My comment doesn't discuss survival rates at all. Perhaps there has been a misunderstanding? I said that, for Australia's health care system, treating cancer at Stage 1 is cheaper than treating it at Stage 4. Could you talk more about how you went from treatment costs to survival rates?

EDIT: I didn't state that clearly enough in my original comment. I'll leave it unedited and let this reply serve as clarification.
Cable television subscribers originally payed to get rid of ads. Then the channels realized they could get you to pay and watch ads. You will be monetized in every way possible.
What’s in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan?
Probably the opposite. Lowest carbon footprint will basically be fewest extraneous stops. Continuing at speed for 30sec takes basically no fuel than stopping and starting. So Google should mostly be routing people back onto the highways and boulevards that they generally eschew in favor of complex routes through side streets that save minimal time for the complexity added.
> This issue is so polarizing, it occurred to me - why don’t we have a medicare-type system (call it m4a) for those who want it, and not for those who don’t? It’s about a 50-50 split anyway.

I've been thinking about this a lot myself lately too. It seems like there is critical mass for the people who want universal healthcare, so why can't we make it happen? It doesn't seem that unreasonable to set up a dual system where people who want their taxes to pay for healthcare can get it, and the rest can make their way with the private insurance companies. Win/win.

The difficulty would probably be in keeping the tax pools separate. And deciding at what point someone paying into the single payer system gained permanent eligibility even when unemployed. Things like that.
I'm realizing you are using "have readability" in a specialized way I may not be following. Can you say more what you mean by "whether you have readability" and "readability is a process...". Readability is a process (not an adjective)? That only some teams have? Can you say more?
Do cyclists have drastically different diets than car-drivers? In my experience there is more overlap between cyclists and vegetarians than carnivores.
Quit eating factory beef.
> they are actively getting in the way of why I would use their product

No they aren't. They're being completely transparent about this and giving you the option to keep the old behavior with a one-time settings change. So what's the problem exactly?