skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend most software engineers to avoid inventing a new configuration or other DSL and the parser/lexer for it. This can easily lead to hard-to-debug program and long-term technical debt. Always research for existing and well-tested solutions first (even JSON!).

Even if you don't invent your language, you can avoid writing a low-level parser/lexer by using a higher-level format, like context-free grammar (see Lark https://github.com/lark-parser/lark). Define and maintain a grammar is much easier.
I cannot disagree harder. The primary cause of the entire world’s stagnation is the endless money printing by the world’s central banks, and the lack of currency competition as more countries join currency unions (the EU).

The closer you are to the money printer, the more money you get. This is the cause of inequality - we have so much fresh money printed with nowhere productive to go, so it goes to inflate the value of housing, education, medicine, and any good that is widely desirable yet scarce. The rich get richer, the poor poorer.
I take your point, but I think you're unreasonably optimistic. It's worth a try, but $22 billion?

On the other hand, maybe you're right. We're both British. What do we care if the US government spunks all this money up the wall? The only downside is if they sell it to the MOD before it's working.
Who do you think are paying for your bad health related decisions now?

Do you pay for 100% of your current costs out of pocket and will do so for your whole life?
> Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021. I couldn't care less what the album art looks like when listening to music on Spotify or YouTube.

Do you listen to full albums or just mixes/random?

I see it much less important for the latter but significant for the former. For a lot of the albums I listen the cover art complements the music/message of the album. I really like it and it enhances my music listening experience.
i doubt it-- from what i've seen they're often levered up fairly aggressively (though i'm sure this is usually paired with having more senior claims on the mortgages in their portfolio)
Damned right. At the beginning of the pandemic, people were arguing that you shouldn't drive because you might risk an accident and use a hospital bed that could be used for a COVID patient. This is a degree of behavioural policing that I am not willing to accept.
I've been there, but with a small time hosting provider and they kept my servers shutdown for 20 days. When I paid it took a while but everything was up and running quick enough. I'm still with them to this day. Hope it works out and that DO is cool enough to have some of your work left. I did have off site backups as well but they were not accesible to me at that time, having your host being able to solve these things is sucha stress relief.
For now, but if they keep treating users like shit, it creates a bigger and bigger opportunity for competition to pop in. You might be thinking it's super hard for someone like you or I to create a YouTube competitor. That's probably true, but what about Amazon or Netflix? Can you imagine if Netflix had a YouTube-like platform where, if you're a subscriber, you get no ads?
For non-US folks who need a translation here -

In the US, we have a nationwide public healthcare system called “Medicare”. You generally only qualify for Medicare once you’re 65 except in special circumstances. Many of our citizens can’t afford to be diagnosed with cancer at an earlier age, as it will increase their non-Medicare private insurance premiums^, result in denied coverage for unrelated issues, and potentially send them into bankruptcy if treated. So they wait until they turn 65, and only then bring in pre-existing conditions for diagnosis and treatment, confident that they can no longer be bankrupted by doing so.

^ Insurance premiums average $300-$700 USD per month per person nationwide, when not available through full-time employment or (65+) Medicare. ~75.000.000 US citizens age 18-64 are employed full-time, which compels their employers to subsidize their monthly health insurance costs; the remaining ~127.000.000 citizens are not employed full-time and thus do not qualify for mandatory employer-provided insurance.

EDIT - Military veterans, poor people, and so on often have access to additional free public health systems other than Medicare, offered either nationwide or by member states of our union or by non-governmental organizations; degree of subsidy and quality of coverage varies wildly among them.

# The above estimates were constructed using napkin math and the below links.

“Average Monthly Benchmark Plan Premiums for a 27-Year-Old in Plan Year 2020 in Healthcare.gov States” https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-does-health-insurance-...

"Population estimates": https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US

"The U.S. labor force": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_force_in_the_United_Stat...
Were I in such a position I would set something like google maps up to steer other people away from the route I want to take. Less traffic baby!
> The main problem as EV manufacturers look to shave weight the batteries are going to become more integrated into the car's structure

For those looking for a source, here's Elon Musk saying exactly that to Sandy Munro.

https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=1335
Congrats. Maybe you can write a blog post about it.
+1. I was surprised by myself when deciding between competing offers recently. Even after enduring a year of isolation, and beginning my search with the express goal of joining a team on-site, I chose the fully remote position. I found the on-site guys tended to be old-school (not meant as a compliment). Also, in such turbulent and uncertain times, I realized that mobility is a major benefit. If my city turns even more Mad Max this summer (the jobs aren't coming back, people are pissed...), it will be a relief to be able to "bug out" with zero ceremony.
To be clear, they aren't removing the button, or a way for users to register their dislike or track that they already disliked a video (I assume), just the count of how many other people disliked it. As a matter of engagement, I'm not sure how much that statistic brings to the table. I agree it might make filtering out crap content somewhat harder, but I'm not sure how good it ever was for that. It might be that the vast majority of the time it indicated anything to the viewer it indicated that some campaign was underway, which generally is counterproductive as a viewer.

Personally, I upvote if I liked something, and I don't indicate anything if I didn't find it all that interesting or useful. Rarely if ever have I disliked something that youtube has recommended to me. The few times I have it's probably been because of some outside source noting it because it's objectionable. How useful of a signal is that to youtube or the creator? In that case it indicates what people that don't care about their content and aren't likely to watch any more of it think. That seems a poor source of feedback (and if we're talking about hat being useful to indicate to them that they shouldn't have done whatever they did, that's obviously served already by many other mechanisms, including comments).
One viewpoint I like.

Extroverts gain energy from social interactions. Introverts lose energy.
The inverse for time alone.

I’m introverted.

But can be quite social, and even enjoy it. However I absolutely have to have down time after to recharge from it.
The environment argument isnt plausible when you add in proof of stake Cryptos the use thousands or millions of times less electricity than Cryptos like Bitcoin or Ethereum. People really do not know basic fundamental info on crypt I currencies and they make horrible arguments like these, spreading their ignorance.
> Is it meant cynically to describe the situation where the performer is just packaging for someone else's talant?

Without comment on the state of pop music, you don't actually mean to suggest that performance isn't a talent of it's own? How are you going to and sell that idea to Yo-Yo Ma?
Until you have an accident and require lots of carbon intensive medical treatment, and your ebike is trashed. Disclaimer: I ride and love ebikes.
What do you guys think about subscription models for healthcare?

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/12/fee-for-service-is-a-ter...
Here are the course notes from an AT&T Compiler Construction Course by "Aho, Sethi, et. al."

https://archive.org/details/CompilerConstructionCourse_Dec83
This is a misleading "experiment". Why were only White House channel videos looked at? If you wanted to show that there was targeted dislike manipulation, you would also need to do this analysis on other popular videos, preferably right-leaning political ones. This could simply be an algorithm that detects bot behavior which gets applied broadly, in which case they are not changing any "real" signal.

It's certainly possible that Youtube is acting in a political manner and is preferentially deleting real dislikes, but this post hardly proves that.
They could also just call it "uses less gas"
Light pollution from satellites 'poses threat' to astronomy
I and more recently my wife have been getting walking directions for short trips by default. It's a nice idea but 100% of the time this has been useless - eg I am running errands and I'm not going to leave the car at store #3 just because I could walk from it too store #4

I can see this be very useful in a foreign city where you're trying to get around and don't know the options.
It seems foolish to rush things as cases are once again back on the rise, which means deaths will likely be rising in about 2 weeks. And why are cases on the rise? Because people are, once again, pretending we are getting back to normal and going back to their old germ transmission daily life. How many times do we need to go through this Grand Opening / Grand Closing cycle before we learn?
Totally agree. I notice I find comment sections of sites that allow downvotes (e.g. HN, Reddit) much easier to navigate and filter than sites like Facebook and Twitter that only allow upvotes. Only allowing upvoting gives you similar dynamics to partisan primaries in the US - the most polarizing content filters to the top instead of sinking to the bottom.
Wow The Haven Premier Mattress is 50% off
You're just re-emphasizing that you disagree with the demand preference of people buying GPUs, that they should have used those GPUs for gaming instead of mining cryptocurrency.

> The problem arises when manufacturers are unable to increase supply to meet demand. Sometimes it makes sense to attack frivolous demand if that demand involves the hoarding of scarce resources.

That's not how it works, at least not in a functioning western economy. The more GPUs they sell, the more capital they will have to ramp up production. This is precisely the reason why market economies don't suffer from long-term structural supply shortages that plague command economies.
What do you guys think about subscription models for hospitals?

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/12/fee-for-service-is-a-ter...
Wow he must be quite the farter.
> I don't quite think the criticism amazon is receiving for their PR response is really valid. The initial criticism may very well be, but what are they supposed to do?

For starters?

Not lie, or manipulate their employees to actively undermine their best interests.

Is it too much to ask?
Your objection appears to me to be without merit. You are essentially engaged in the fallacy of the slippery slope. There are quite a few countries that provide universal health care without oppressing people by policing their bad health care decisions.

You wish to deny universal health care access in the United States because there is a potential that society will enact laws to prevent you from making bad health-related decisions. It's quite hard for me to grasp how this is a legitimate concern of yours. Besides, your bad health-related decisions already cost others money.
Mobility work on all my joints (look up bodyweight warm up drills), and hanging off a pull up bar helped fix my RSI and shoulder impingement issues.
Many people actually get big returns from tulipmania and such too!
Honestly though, what about any of Google's behavior in the past several years should make us give them the benefit of the doubt?
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. I agree that the best gifts emphasize connection with the individual and it's difficult to replicate that insight through an app. Perhaps using this as a tool to simply "jog the memory" is its most effective use case.

I was inspired by Spotify's "Discovered Weekly" algorithm which recommends songs based on other users with similar music tastes. It's uncanny how effective the Spotify algorithm is at suggesting new songs that I like. My hypothesis is that this can be harnessed and applied to gift recommendations, but right now it's only that, a hypothesis, and indeed all the gift recommendations are currently hardcoded.

Thanks for the feedback!
How are you not?
Mostly propaganda; there's been a lot of scaremongering about long waitlists and "death panels" in countries with universal healthcare.

And then on the political side it's just straight up corruption
3D rotation is maths. How many 3D game objects don't rotate anything in gameplay?
Yeah because walking is accident-free and cars are so much cheaper and carbon-friendlier to repair than bicycles.
> downvoting of "preferred" YouTube content has gotten so severe that the company wishes to prevent the communication of exactly how much disapproval there really is for the "official narrative"

This is exact reason. Go to you tube home page and every day there is bar of "official sources" news on coronavirus (clips from news stations). Here are first four for this day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USE5USAodiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4kqSV1p3T8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmOL9ek7Tys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DpzcMZPTqA

Noticing here, each and every has more dislike than like.
Are subscription models the future of healthcare?
I'm not sure how having great tasting hand sanitizer would make it any less shocking when someone squirts it in their eyes? Since you're not supposed to be drinking it at all, I don't see the benefit in flavoring it.
the like / dislike concept on videos encourage manipulate public opinion I believe, as it creates a false consciousness on whether the video is good or bad based on the number of likes received
How could votes not be a signal? That would only be true if everyone used a stochastic generator to choose up or down.
That was the first thing I thought of, if anyone is interested the test is episode 23 and 24 of the anime [1].

[1] https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/The_First_Exam!!
> Or do people's opinions count less if they are organized?

Of course not, but the metric ceases to have meaning, so something important is lost.

Voting results being meaningful depends on a random sample of people who come across content, so that voters are approximately a random subset of viewers.

If voters organize, then they are no longer a random or representative subset, so the metric ceases to be representative of viewers as a whole, and becomes biased.
That’s a lot of RAM for a 486! My first Pentium came with only 24mb :(
Yeah python and c++ readability there is full on bs. No two readability reviewers agree on things, nitpicking was ridiculous and very superficial ime and most of those issues can be solved with some light linting/static analysis. Then you watch all those l6s+ shipping obviously terribly styled code bc noone dares to say shit... fwiw Go had much better process for this but i got mine when the readibility list was like a hundred folks so not sure about now
The real reason why anyone I know wants cryptocurrencies is to escape inflation and control. The US financial system will collapse, it's not a matter of if but when. You can choose hyperinflation, government seizing assets, government declaring bankruptcy, or cryptocurrency.
Decades of hunting detects footprint of cosmic ray superaccelerators
This seems to be related to some of the discussion on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646541

When incentives are created in a specific way, the underlying data and what it tells you can be significantly altered. Cool to see people questioning the reasoning behind this data rather than accepting it at face value!
I got a couple 8oz bottles of Purell near the beginning of the pandemic, then it completely disappeared from shelves and it's only been recently that I've seen it stocked again
This seems reductive. Government issued fiat is backed by militaries and the country's own resources--however indirectly. They can be used to pay taxes if nothing else.

Crypto currency is backed only by collective euphoria. Not unlike 17th century tulips.
Might be sensible not to directly out people in the future, they could change usernames for privacy reasons. Think of it like deadnaming someone.
The fact that it is an immense and heterogeneous organization with many different decision-makers at all levels with varying priorities and intentions. Essentializing Google as a singular agent obscures this perspective and gives no credence to those who are trying to push it in better directions from the inside.
> On the other hand, if income >> costs, that's a totally different story ...

I'm looking at excess capital used for funding loans, business, etc. So I'm more focused on this case. I take you point that inflation eats up ~2% of cash savings yearly, and that it's a bigger deal the less wealthy you are.

> it is a very diplomatic way of avoiding touching the core of the income inequality issue.

I'd say that deflation is much worse for income inequality, since sitting on cash becomes profitable, so the people who can afford to do it the longest win out.

I don't think either inflation or deflation will solve income inequality. I think that's controlled by taxation of capital gains vs. income. Specifically, the lower capital gains tax, and the ability to sit on unrealized capital gains without paying taxes on them in the mean time.

> For example, if a TV model A costs $200 and model B costs $2000, it is not just because they "represent [different] goods produced", but because model B is much more expensive to produce and/or it has much more added value [real and/or perceived] than model A.

I think where we're diverging is:

- You're comparing two different goods produced at the same time.
- I'm comparing two identical goods produced at different times.

So if you make a baguette in 1921 and sell it for 5$, and then try and buy a baguette in 2021, it should cost 5$, despite the fact that the amount of energy/work it takes to produce a baguette in 2021 is much lower than in 1921. The money represents the value of the end good, not the work that went into producing it. And so if the good becomes cheaper to produce over time, you'd want to inflate the cost of it to keep it level.
“Alfred Vaino Aho” this a the first time I looked it up in full (with the middle name) it seems like a Finnish or maybe Estonian name. I am wondering if he has Finnish or Estonian heritage.
So I'm sure you smoke, though most insurance policies charge through the roof if you do? And do you drive as fast as you want since hey, don't police my behavior?

Our society polices behavior all the time. And we accept that as part of a smoothly functioning society that tries to be fair and equitable.
The point is that preventative screenings and procedures are being underutilized because health insurance plans discourage their use. That we can measure the effect of these policies should galvanize government regulators to rethink their incentive structures that lead to this travesty. If you read the article, 3 of the 4 cancers that had the largest disparities (Colon, Breast, and Prostate cancers) all have preventative screenings, and two of them have minimally-invasive preventative procedures if discovered early enough. It is incredibly sad to see that when the prognosis is very positive if found early[1][2][3]. I personally feel that these screenings should be covered for every health plan, even when people have had cancer in the past. My mother was charged 20 times the normal copay for a procedure because as a breast cancer survivor, her insurance re-classified yearly screening from preventative medicine to an elective procedure.

1: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/detection-...
2: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/understanding-a-...
3: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostate-cancer/detection-diag...
I am curious how much $$$ Steve Kirsch has invested in corporations that manufacture this drug:

https://www.pharmacompass.com/manufacturers-suppliers-export...

I have not found any statement by him that absolutely denies his investment in such.
Single payer can be cheaper. It doesn’t actually mean it will.
Want to have some fun? Look into WebRTC https://webrtcforthecurious.com
Aren’t they already with TPUs?
was the manufacturing of the e-bike considered?
Does this factor in battery manufacturing / vehicle body manufacturing / varying gas efficiencies / etc.?

The question is borne of the understanding that electric vehicles merely frontload your carbon footprint, rather than eliminating it.
yep, can second the needing to fiddle a bit-- i've had some pretty annoying color issues as well, where i fix white balance, etc. in OBS, but the output in Hangouts/etc. looks terrible, like it's ignoring the filtering i'm doing, or there's a pixel format issue or something
Historically, countries that have outlawed speech have outlawed “talking about being gay” far more often than “harassing gay people”. I suspect it’s a unique form of madness that assumes that if you open the door to outlawing speech in America, then future Trumps and Pences and Bushes of the world will refrain from such a thing out of the kindness of their hearts.
Stocks are usually shares of a company with assets. Assets that can be sold off to pay back shareholders when things go sideways.
What a madlad! Really appreciate the in-depth knowledge he developed to make this.
> 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.

For everything from waspkeeping to bookbinding, there's nothing else that can come close to the same semantic bandwidth as video does.

I've spent far more than half an hour reading blog posts on bookbinding, and still had to work out almost all the details for myself in terms of how to actually do it - not that I haven't found useful information in those posts! One linked here not long ago clued me in to a couple of tools I'd never yet heard of, and that in particular has been incredibly useful - because of it, I'm a lot closer to producing perfect-bound books indistinguishable in quality from those made professionally. But half an hour spent watching Adventures in Bookbinding - actively watching, skimming and reviewing where necessary, not just passively staring - has served me better in terms of the sheer mechanical doing of making books than all the blogs I've read put together. IT is one thing - I'm a software engineer, I get what you're saying - but when it comes to work you do with your hands, there really is no substitute for the chance to watch over the shoulder of someone who's mastered the skill.

(I don't actually keep wasps, although I've given it serious thought - the problem is that you really need to habituate them to your presence starting with the foundress's emergence from diapause, and I don't have any way to know where polistid foundresses spend their winters. But I'd never even imagined doing it before I found videos made by people who do it, and have done it for years. There's something of worth in that, too.)