skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you say "Use an awful lot less data" - is that still an issue most of the time? That's depressing.

I don't see a particular point in pulling down a few hundred megabytes that contains radically less actual useful content than a megabyte or two of compressed text and images. HN is particularly nice on that front, as the pages are tiny and gzip down to a rounding error (this reply page is a whopping 15kb of transfer). They don't load half a Windows 95 worth of tracking Javascript either.

Up until fairly recently, I had two rural WISP connections that mostly didn't meet rated speeds during the day, were borderline unusable during the evening (that Netflix can stream video tolerably on a lossy 1-2Mbit connection is quite impressive, the few times we tried it), and despite that have been working remotely full time on those connections.

I'd signed up for the Starlink beta some months back, and we have that as our secondary connection now (it's still exceedingly erratic - I'll go from 5Mbit to 150Mbit and back over the course of a minute and then it'll break my connections as there's no satellite overhead - but this is the point of a beta, and it's better than the 5/1 that mostly delivered about 3/0.5). I like it, but the power consumption on the dish is quite obscene. It idles a hair under 100W, and consumes 2.2kWh/day, per my measurements. I hope that improves over time.

It's not that I can't transfer a lot of data, it's just that I prefer not to when I can avoid it. And, there are, often enough, times when it simply won't work. Not a big deal, we live out here willingly, but, yes, it's still a thing. I keep a cheap cell plan too, because I just don't need to be streaming content on my phone.
How long until Verizon acquires them?
With 8 not allowed, because it's become the new bad rating.
It's interesting how my remark on CCP was quite appreciated with upvotes before it was swarmed with downvotes by people like you who impetuously jumped the conclusion shark too quickly.

Perchance there is an empirical relationship when a population grows to a sufficiently large n that sneakiness would be rightfully ignored as a function of implicitness, which is perhaps the trajectory in which hn-as-a-community is embracing a more reddit-ish sentiment. Hmm I guess it's a feature and not a bug?
I make courses on Udemy [0].

[0] https://www.udemy.com/user/lachlan-miller-4/
Just look at any random crypto forum. You can see an endless number of threads about people who made millions and stopped working and they are proud about that. Just think about Bitcoin. If you bought Bitcoin in 2013 and held onto them you would be rich today. If you spent them on pizza you would hate yourself.
Cultural inheritance...
Pair programming really is the best code review!
Yes if it weren’t for those pesky Democrats, we’d have had Republican universal healthcare by now.
The problem is that everyone (in the team) needs to be in the office the exact same two days. That’s difficult to synchronize, some people may want to be at the office on Fridays, while other may prefer Mondays or Wednesdays or...
It's not that it doesn't need to be bad, but a lot of people don't trust the federal (or their state) gov to do it well
Edit: I missed the part where this was a list of excuses that had been heard. I was too hasty to reply. Disregard the following.

1) I'd just like to say the DMV in Oregon is an incredible experience. It certainly doesn't have to bad. I've experienced it in Georgia, which was awful. But health care now is a massive problem. I've had to change health care providers six times in the last two years because of it being tied to employment.

2) Because it's actually cheaper to have single payer. It's huge leverage in negotiation. It will catch things quicker in more people, which means better outcomes and less dire (and expensive) treatments.

3) In Germany you can get supplemental medical insurance on top of your national Healthcare which can get you better care. Additionally there are still private practices.

4,5,6) Compared to the rest of the world the US does indeed pay dramatically inflated prices, which has a depressive effecton the finances of the less wealthy. If you're saying you'd rather people (like those waiting for Medicare to get diagnosed) suffer so you can be richer, well... at least you are honest.
It doesn't seem like the physical building has much to do with the operations of the school. I don't think students physically attend.
Or don't care
I’m not sure about clothing, but there are significant government programs to provide food and housing to people with low income.
It’s fine to be less productive.
Is it still a competitive advantage if nobody wants X11 anymore, though?
> More people are in favor of universal healthcare than against it.

In the US, you can get an answer in either direction depending on how you phrase the question. When you bring in the fact that this will cost money, people tend to flip. Most people in the US already have healthcare through the government or through their employer, so they don't actually really care enough for anyone to pull this off politically.

> Therefore, we should change the system

I agree, the current system is sub-optimal.

> given the success of universal healthcare schemes throughout the developed world

What success? Most countries with "universal healthcare" A) are poor relative to their demographic-imputed economic capacity B) have low-quality care compared to market-based healthcare systems, and even compared to the worst-of-both-worlds American healthcare system often have horrendous metrics on quality of doctors, procedure wait times, etc.
I figured this out the first time I tried instrumenting my code for latency/exception handling/etc purposes (self hosted!) .. and got terabytes of error logs consisting of terribly written shitty browser plugins or malware toolbars spraying rubbish into the console.
Oddly at the place I was with we saw literally the exact same metrics but inverse: productivity increase by mid-30%. Everyone hated the office so that makes sense.

My philosophy on it is that management is key. If butts-in-seats gives management the illusion of productivity then they will likely find out they are dead wrong. You can practically objectively measure productivity with remote work. Collaboration is more challenging and therefore surfaces many efficiencies you can make in your process.
But this isn't a full explanation, is it? There are schemes such as Medicare for All that a large majority of Americans accept, yet they aren't implemented.

And even amongst the republican party almost the majority support Medicare for All, yet democrats don't support it, why?
> On the contrary, inflation forces you to buy products and invest in things you don't necessarily need, in order to escape the intentional destruction of your wealth. In a world where we are trying to avoid mindless consumption, inflation encourages that.

Or you can just put your money onto a bank account that nets interest. The fact that interest rates are down is actually the sort of result of deflation. The reserve currency status puts immense deflationary pressure onto the USD. The government is forced to go into debt to cancel this pressure. If it did not do so employment would plummet.
A form of social-signal bimetallism. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of likes!
543,379 base pairs = 1,086,758 bits = 135,845 bytes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_001708325.2/
If you were to sample 100 TLA+ specifications, you would find 100 descriptions of software systems using mathematical formulas. Physicists don't use different mathematical notation when they write an ODE for a spring or electrical current. Also, I don't understand what notation would be appropriate. Functions in Haskell are much more similar to functions in Java than they are to either operators or functions in TLA+. You could use Java or Haskell notation, but what you'd be using it for would still behave differently from either one, which would only be more confusing. Even when it comes to simple things like conjunction and disjunction, over the past 50 years, programming languages have used at least three different popular representations, while over the last 100 years, mathematics have used one. Why is picking one of the three superior for writing mathematics in TLA+ than picking the one?

Also, you should know that specification languages based on programming languages were the norm before TLA+. TLA+ intentionally broke away from that to offer something different, because Lamport believed it is simpler. I agree, but if you don't, you can use the specification languages that preceded TLA+, like Isabelle and Coq. So you're going to the one language that tried to make things easier by changing things up and asking, why did you change things up? Despite all that, after a three-day workshop, programmers use TLA+ to specify large and complex software systems, something that those who learn the programming-language-based specification languages do not, so perhaps Lamport was right.
It’s a 10 year contract, up to $21.9B. The consensus forecast for 2021 revenue by MSFT is 164B, 2.19B is 1.25% of that.
> I don't think students physically attend.

If you read the description, that is clearly the case.
Thanks! Should have checked, my bad. Buying a few thousand doesn’t seem that newsworthy, Amazon just committed to buying 100,000 EV delivery vehicles...
That’s a good question. I think the brits have these numbers. But keep in mind: the US is spending way more per GDP than any other country including the ones with universal health care. So you get less coverage for way more money. And life expectancy isn’t better either. Basically the current US system is way overpriced for the results it delivers.
If only there was some lower bound on age that we could extend Medicare eligibility to and avoid this problem!
Safety is a matter of degree, not an absolute. Unsafe Rust isn't safe. Not to mention, safe Zig isn't unsafe. And, if you want a lot of memory safety -- more than Rust in some ways -- you can use something like Javascript.
"According to a spokesman, over the past five years, PBS has aired 58 hours of programming from Burns and 74 hours of projects by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an African American scholar, director, executive producer and host of programs like The Black Church and Finding Your Roots."

So the data doesn't back up the narrative in the letter and it seems to leave out Lynn Novick which has co-produced/co-directed the majority of Burn's films.

All of American Experience's episodes in season 33's so far (the current season) have been about Black Americans or women.

The majority of Independent Len's episodes in season 22 (the current season) have been about BIPOC's or women.

All of American Masters episodes in season 35 (the current season) so far have been about Black and White women.

If anything the data indicates that PBS is an exemplar of the kind of commitment to diversity of points of view the letters authors are advocating for.
> Government-run healthcare is not socially optimal.

This needs justification, especially since socialized medicine works better in so many other countries.
“It’s important to note that at one point Vorhies leaked documents to the right-wing group Project Veritas, then became a committed anti-vaxxer (vaccine) and promoter of QAnon. Last year he laid out a plan to promote “Plandemic,” a pair of 2020 conspiracy theory videos produced by Mikki Willis that Wikipedia claims promote misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.” - the source is far from even dubious.

Or, as YouTube stated, they removed fraudulent votes which is highly likely on a White House video.
I did, which is why I think that.
That already happend, in 2019. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...
> I cannot comprehend why anyone would be against health care for all? It seems like such a silly thing to vote against the idea that everyone is healthy.

There is a large number of people who are actively opposed to the "wrong" people receiving anything, even if it means cutting off their own nose.
Good list of objections I've heard. The people who say #1 will never get on board. The DMV is a state-level agency, and people have plenty of good (maybe not great) experiences with government agencies like Medicare, USPS or SSA. That's more of a talking point for opposition parties who oppose central government altogether.

#2 isn't a serious objection, because the math is pretty clear that almost everyone winds up spending less.

#4-6 are intractable and come down to the population having the will to overcome objections from capital and doctors. I do think that doctors and nurses are gettable if we bring down the costs of malpractice insurance and education so that overall take home doesn't suffer.

In my experience trying to sell the idea, the biggest impediment to real progress is #3, though I am certain I have a local bias. That's the issue that keeps the knowledge working class separate from the labor-working class. I haven't come up with a good answer other than accommodating them by allowing first-class treatment for those with money and second-class treatment for everyone else. Not the most altruistic answer, but probably the most achievable. No one with premium healthcare now is going to risk it, and that's an important political block.
I figure the serial number could be enough if it was linked to a credit card purchase. However, it might only link to a lot number that a store purchased.
It's important to note that a lot of why people think the federal government isn't good at doing things is because ideologues (from both parties) make it less efficient and more painful for no practical reason. That is sometimes called "starving the beast", or "means testing".
> I really don't recall Leslie Jones receiving as much backlash as certain outlets purported.

> Today in awful news, Leslie Jones’s personal website has been taken down after being targeted by a vicious hack. Hackers infiltrated the site with what appeared to be naked photos of the comedian, as well as images of her passport and driver’s license, private photos of her with various celebrities, and a photo of dead gorilla (and meme that refuses to die) Harambe. ... Last month, the comedian’s Twitter account was inundated with racist and sexist hate speech associated with her role in Paul Feig’s inexplicably controversial all-female Ghostbusters reboot, and Twitter pledged to reform their harassment policies in response.

https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/a-timeline-of-leslie-joness-h...

You can find screenshots of the trolls' tweets here: https://splinternews.com/how-a-racist-sexist-hate-mob-forced...

"Ok I have been called Apes, sent pics of their asses, even got a pic with semen on my face. I'm trying to figure out what human means. I'm out"

https://www.popbuzz.com/life/news/leslie-jones-racist-tweets...
Sorry about that, something’s wrong with the code. Thanks for sharing!
A big part of it, for a lot of older people, is they will not go to the doctor, for various reasons. Religion, fear, stubbornness, ignorance...

Even if they have Medicare.

Try to get your old cranky uncle to go for yearly physical, much less a prostate exam. Some people refuse to take their heart medication, or insulin, etc.

My father in law had a mild stroke and refused to go back for his checkups after.

It’s tough to reason with them. Plenty of them can put off going in until they’re either forced to by relatives, or have an emergency. And a lot of times it’s too late by then.
I explicitly said these are not my statements but rather arguments I’ve heard (sometimes vehemently) from people opposed.
WH disabling comments on its videos is not against free speech. It's not about allowing you to shout about your issues wherever you want with everyone having to see it. Disabling comments on official communication is a good move whether it's gov or private company announcements.

They won't have to deal with some top upvoted comment with: incorrect summary, incorrect restatement of something, abuse at the account or others, etc. For official announcement there's thousands of places to discuss them on the internet and literally no upside to allowing that in the same visible space as the announcement itself.

(see for example https://youtu.be/lzTUQLbzYJA and try to find any comment which provides any valuable information and isn't just heckling, totally off topic, or just abusive - I found just 1 out of ~140 - why would anyone want that on an official announcement?)
Yea, just like regular screen windows, but with a finer mesh. Makes sense to me.
Working remote is a skill. Like other work-related skills, it takes effort and attention to develop it. It's likely most people haven't made that effort in the last year, since the situation was seen to be temporary.

I've worked full remote for almost a decade now. It was hard at first, until I realized there were solutions to the problems I encountered and it would take conscious effort on my part to get it done.

It's definitely possible for remote developers to achieve at least as much productivity as in person devs. But it's also understandable if people/companies don't want to make that effort.
In Brazil, a poor 3rd world country, we diagnose that on public healthcare without problems, at any age. I guess money is not the problem, just deciding how to allocate it.

For those who have insurance, yearly complete checkups are a thing for any adult, and the most basic insurances you get at work you would only pay the first $20 out of pocket for a doctor appointment and a few basic tests.

But if you don't have private insurance, you would still get appointments and tests if you have any symptoms, and the doctors are probably going to order a few tests if you didn't do a checkup for more than a year.

BTW: in my 15 years as diabetic there, I think I only bought insulin out of pocket 2 or 3 times - because I traveled and either forgot one (it's 2 insulins) or it went bad. Also, most of the time didn't pay for the test strips either. All paid by government. Saves them A LOT of money if diabetics don't get more sick and are able to work. In the times I had to buy, a pen cost like, $10 for the cheap, $30 for the expensive one?
In that case, I wonder how "random" the drawing was for one of those seats.

I read the Terms and Conditions, and it seemed on the up-and-up.
> 1. I don’t want my healthcare to be provided by the same people who brought me a lifetime of experiences at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

The public option still doesn't create that situation because its health insurance. They still aren't going to be healthcare providers.

> 2. Healthcare is expensive. I’m already paying for healthcare for my family; why would I want to pay for healthcare for others as well?

You already are through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Hospital System. In the articles example, you have people waiting until 65 to get more expensive surgical intervention that is less likely to preserve their life due to the wait.

> 3. Good healthcare is expensive and I can afford and buy the best health insurance. I don’t want the best to be unavailable to me and my family because we’re all on a “just OK” government system.

Under a public option system, you'd still be able to buy private insurance. No one is banning this.

I think its misguided because the quality of insurance doesn't guarantee the quality of doctor and frankly, unless you are a specialist in their field, its unlikely you'll be able to accurately gauge the quality of care you receive. I've known plenty of people in the profession of manufacturing dental implants/equipment who thought they could judge the quality of their dentists and failed miserably to the point of needing to switch dentists due to poor workmanship.

> 4. I’m a medical professional and think that I will make less money under a government-provided system of care.

Alright, how do you feel about lowering the federal tax rate for me personally? Not everyone else, just me.

Seems a bit unreasonable when phrased that way doesn't it?
I don’t think that would be awesome at all. Could you imagine a committee trying do decide what clothes are acceptable. All sorts of “buy American” clauses thrown in. Each Congressional district would have to have its own factory to produce one part of the outfit.

How about we have the Gov set up a negative income tax so that if you can afford clothes, you can go buy some. Or if you don’t need new clothes, you can spend that money somewhere else.

Healthcare isn’t driven by want or choice. Government committees can look at data to figure out how to distribute resources. And we don’t want more healthcare like we want more clothes.
There's a third side and it's the one that's been winning: use regulatory capture to increase health industry profits. This is the side that brought you the ACA and individual mandate. The only reason the mandate existed was to protect insurance company profits. If you look at the cost of healthcare, it's skyrocketed post-ACA.

While I'm a proponent of socialized medicine and M4A, without a doubt even the free market would be better than what we have.
So it'll only show walking directions?
I would expect the plan is to do it all.

Logistics guy wearing a set checking in the latest supply run or flight, looking at a crate brings up the manifest of contents.

Mechanic looking over an engine, overlay brings up blownup diagrams, teardown instructions.

Squad leader can pipe in drone overflight feeds, target air strikes and support fires, etc.
> They may get a great deal from Boeing for all we know, but placing a large order during this terrible time for the airlines is a bet on the future of MAX as well as the industry recovery.

Is this supposed to mean anything? To me it reads like an airline managed to get a massive discount on inventory that a struggling aircraft manufacturer hasn't been able to move for about a year due to their repeated problems with safety and accountability, which led the whole world to drop their orders.
Sounds just like the kind of book I wanna read. Unfortunately I wasn't able to pay for it due to "merchant configuration".

I imagine there are no region restrictions, right? I've already contacted support though.
Users should just comment "dislike" (or some form of it) from here on out.

Or maybe people can rate videos on a 3rd party service.
The important paragraph that most people probably care about:

Soon, Google Maps will default to the route with the lowest carbon footprint when it has approximately the same ETA as the fastest route. In cases where the eco-friendly route could significantly increase your ETA, we’ll let you compare the relative CO2 impact between routes so you can choose. Always want the fastest route? That’s OK too — simply adjust your preferences in Settings.
I really wonder what the eventual end state is of many problems in the US that really seem so glaringly apparent (i.e. the US healthcare system is the most expensive in the world with some of the worst outcomes compared to other 1st world countries) but also politically unfixable.
Google greenwashing what is clearly a demonstration of its power to redirect flows of people at a whim. I wonder what other purposes such redirections could be used for?
Having worked with a client on this to dabble in the sustainability space, quantifying to them the economic cost savings and potential PR boost. Worked with their facilities, marketing, purchasing, and HR teams. Identify and prioritize changes possible that provide the largest impact (can employees work from home avoiding a commute? can a renewable power purchase agreement be negotiated? what does the supply chain look like and is there any leverage to encourage suppliers to use renewables and sustainable practices?).

I recommend "Small Actions, Big Difference: Leveraging Corporate Sustainability to Drive Business and Societal Value" [1] on the topic to get started.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Small-Actions-Big-Difference-Bhatta...