skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's just the marketing bullshit they peddle to the masses. Uber didn't accidentally become the rolling ethical and legal disaster it's been for the past 7+ years. Illegal activity was literally their business model from the very first moment they introduced UberX.
Doing something clearly outside of empiricism then saying “why doesn’t empiricism cover this” is complete nonsense. What is the ontological explanation for your hypothesis that the sun will turn into cake? Misunderstanding the scientific method is not an issue with the scientific method.
And the plasma TV. I have a backup Panasonic plasma sitting in storage for when my current one goes out.
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> The profession existed before the scientific method so there is a tendency to value authority over science.

Anecdotally, my pediatrician has an inverted "trust pyramid" in some of their examination rooms. At the bottom—least trust—is "expert opinion."

> Even today Physicians still think the body is Art, or a combination of Art and Science.

I'm not sure why you would think these two things are opposed?

Science most broadly speaking means knowledge, and the scientific method is a means (but certainly not the only means) of acquiring knowledge. But what you do with it is art/craft. Separating the two seems unnecessarily dualistic.
They probably won't deliver but I will. Here's a top hit "The Productivity–Pay Gap" [0], what I was talking about, from the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-worker, left-leaning think tank [1].

The top google hit for the "myth" is "Debunking a Myth in 1 Chart: Wage & Productivity Growth" [2] from the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank affiliated with a conservative, Republican advocacy group [3]. Basically it claims the original report compared data that aren't comparable. There's also "Why the gap between worker pay and productivity might be a myth" [4] from the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank [5].

I didn't read them closely but part of the methodology in the AEI article used salary and benefits instead of just salary to draw a compensation line closer to productivity. Given that health care is such a huge part of the cost of those benefits, maybe the claim should be that company shareholders are sharing the wealth with workers but that health care costs are so out of control it's eating up all the workers' gains.

EPI response to criticisms, "Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker’s Pay" [6].

[0] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Policy_Institute
[2] https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/debunking-a-myth...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Action_Network
[4] https://www.aei.org/economics/political-economy/the-decline-...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
[6] https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...
Your sympathy for them being cautious begs the question of whether the vaccine, with its uncertainty, is worth using. The cost of waiting to use it is significant - people will die from COVID.

It's not enough to say you're being cautious. You have to explain why you think it is better to be cautious about administering the vaccine with its attendant risks or to pay the QALYs incurred by the delay when people who would have received this vaccine don't.
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Trump was in power some months ago. Brexit is in force. "World has mostly shifted left" is perception from listening to the loud minority of online woke cult.
Nationalist legislations are being implemented all across Europe to appease the right-wing voters.
Hell... They put Biden as democrat candidate to appease the right-wing voters :D
The pro-communist argument really is founded on two points:

a) it's impossible for everyone to be a (successful) businessman: somebody has to be an employee and do the actual work, y'know?

b) to be "actually rich" -- which is not just "being on the level of personally comfortable standard of living", it's more of "having certain level of personal influence" -- you have to own a share in a commercial enterprise and get the dividends from it; rare exceptions like a prominent lawyer or a genius surgeon notwithstanding.

These two are mostly empirical observations, and you can frame it very differently depending on your liking; the "exploitation of the worker class" is only one such frame, there are many other.
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I doubt the correct communication strategy is obvious. Rumors about people dying from a vaccine can be worse than a pause.

A legitimate reason for the pause is to assess whether the people impacted have anything else in common. There are alternative vaccines that can be used if a commonality is identified.

As far as hesitancy, the idiot media already does a story for every vaccinated person that gets sick, this isn't going to tip huge swaths of people in either direction.
Not a doctor, but from what I've heard from immunologists, vaccines in general are incredibly unlikely to have long-term side effects on the scales that you think about. When an immunologist talks about "long-term side effects" of a vaccination, they're usually considering time ranges on the order of 6-8 weeks. Meanwhile, the 10000s of patients from the big Phase 3 trials have been vaccinated for 6-9 months, so the usual scale of long-term side effects has long been registered.

That's not to say that it's completely out of the question that there will be long-long-term side effects. But if anything is going to cause long-term issues, my money is on the virus, not any vaccine.
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SELinux can do this--think of it as a second layer of security that is checked after the normal DAC checks (e.g., process uid vs file permissions) succeed.
It may be ridiculous, but it seems necessary if you're managing populations of people:

Build a dam, which if it broke would kill hundreds-of-thousands, or let millions die for lack of water? Oh, we'll just over-engineer it, now we can't afford to buy food to keep the people alive long enough to need the dam; or the lead engineering firm embezzles the money and installs dodgy iron.

We can't wait around for long term studies, whatever point we decide to start vaccines - where they can still be effective for the current population - it's always possible we should have waited a bit longer.
Ah yes, that is true! This site is based on AZ, but you're right it might be a different story with J+J. I wonder if as well, they'll get better at spotting the blood clots and treating which could also be happening - but that's just conjecture / hopeful thinking at this point.
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It is not just "rich" people.

In the UK there was a trend for Baby Boomers to buy up one or two (or more) properties and rent them out as a "nice little side income" etc in addition to their pensions at a time when savings interest rates were low, so there was no point saving (since returns were awful) and property loans were cheap. You even got a tax break on the loan interest!

These people are not mega-rich - just middle-class anybodies. I don't blame them - why leave large sums of money from your pension in the bank where you'll earn 0.05-0.5% interest a year, when you can spend it to buy a property that you can rent out for 5% yeild and benefit from property value increases if/when you need to sell.

The laws have changed a bit now to make it less attractive (no more tax breaks on loan interest, and more tax on "additional" properties you buy beyond your own personal home), and there is anecdotal evidence that "amateur" landlords are exiting the market in droves. Even so it has stoked the market considerably over a good decade or more, and so prices for even very modest "starter" properties (think 1 bed flats, small houses etc) are relatively unobtainable for the average person on the street or first-time buyer.
I had this same discussion yesterday with someone about the risk and how it compares with other daily activities.

Most people (myself included) have a hard time judging risk for this type of stuff.

And it is extraordinary times in that the vaccines were developed in record time and are out in the wild in record time. Which I still find amazing. I would still take the shot though.
> Venezuela's leaders are financed by drugs today, like Cuba and Bolivia.

Do you have a source for this? All the reports I have seen point the opposite, modern current Bolivian Venezuelan govs have seen a dramatic fall on drug trade, there was even an apalling graph from US senate where it showed that the bulk of drug trade left LATAM through Colombia and the Pacific Coast vs Venezuela, but still US gov PR line has been insistent on tarnishing the global reputations of said countries because they oppose US hegemony in the region
1 in 200 is a low estimate of the average. If you are above 75 with significant comorbities it will more like 1 in 10 :/

Surprisingly, even the elderly and sick people often do not understand the risks.
If one’s taxes only went to pay for this small subset of items, I think your argument would be stronger. A 40% marginal tax rate is not earmarked for these essential services, as evidenced by our decaying infrastructure despite the US government bringing in $3.5 trillion in tax receipts in 2019.

The political left has been pretty clear that the aim isn’t solely a focus on essential (and shared) resources, but on increasing the social safety net (either through UBI, single payer, or other mechanisms).

Separate conversation if those are good policies or not, but the argument isn’t that the rich don’t want to pay for police. That’s an incredible straw man.
For a 8-9 year old OpenGl is too much. I started with z80 too and was making crappy games but it was fun.
All these simplistic game making frameworks are a great resource for young people and the simplicity is welcome even at more advanced levels. Sometimes you just want to be at high level and concentrate on the whats of the game not the hows.
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And then address the problem on the demand side through regulation and treatment programs etc. rather than prohibition.

Why do that at the end? Start by treating drug addicts as patients to be treated instead of criminals to be punished, set up comprehensive evidence-based well-funded programs to do so. First decrease the demand, then the supply will settle itself.
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>> Banks don't fabricate a need for houses

In many developed countries like Australia, there are many people who own 10+ houses which they bought using debt and rent out. These people are monopolizing ownership of real estate and forcing people who don't have preferential access to credit to rent from them instead of buying.

The injustice of the scheme comes from the fact that not everyone has equal access to credit from banks. It's an unjust qualitative social process which some people are locked out of.
The title is inexact at best, intentionally misleading at worst.

Some countries are sampled more than others:
1. UK - 2 cities
2. France - 2 cities
3. Germany - 2 cities
4. Italy - 2 cities
5. Spain - 2 cities
6. Poland - 2 cities
7. Belgium - 2 cities
8. Hungary - 1 cities

Other European countries(either from EU, or outside) are not mentioned. EU has 27 member countries, Europe has 50 countries according to Wikipedia has 50 countries.
In the US, sales tax rates vary by state, county and even city. Some states have no sales tax. It would be impossible to advertise a price for a product when it would be so many different numbers depending on where you are. For example, if a big grocery store chain wants to advertise the price of a 6-pack of Coke, do they list 20 different prices or do they eat the difference in taxes and make the end price the same?
I thought that's what this was.
Older people with extraordinary abilities have, in traditional bureaucratic companies, learned that bullshitting and playing politics is the easiest way to succeed. When they internalize this way of working, there is no going back; it makes them lazy and cynical.

Somehow, it requires a certain amount of naivety to _actually_ try to solve a hard problem instead of pretending to do something and then write a 100 page bullshit report (or mostly copy an old report) on it.
According to Wikipedia, the name Place de Bitche was moved to another square in Paris.
Is that still considered "working", or already "battling"
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This is how to explain bitcoin to kids, and adults. Based on 3rd world context but good for everyone
True - I'm in my late 40s in London and accepted some time ago I will never own a home. If UK renters had the same protections as they do in eg Germany it wouldn't be such a precarious existence.
> It's less a tutorial or analysis and more a thinly veiled attempt to ease concerns about wealth inequality.

Given in Graham's essay he comes out and discusses the Gini coefficient, it doesn't seem like a "thinly veiled" anything. The point of the essay is to discuss how much inequality itself matters (as opposed to, say poverty, lack of access to health care, or other things other people are raising as legitimate concerns).

> What he fails to mention is that concerns about wealth inequality aren't concerned with how wealth was generated but rather the growing wealth gap that has accelerated in recent decades.

My take away from Graham's article is that, all else being equal, we should care about how wealth was generated, and the gap itself is less important.

> Tech has made startups both cheaper and easier but only for a small percentage of people.

This is probably true, but again I think it misses the point that Graham is making: Creating a new company is overall simpler today than it was in the 1970's and 1980's, and so the "small percentage of people" who can start companies now is larger than it was 40 years ago.

> Paul paints a rosy picture but doesn't mention that incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s.

For a more thorough and balanced analysis of what this author refers to, see Russ Roberts's series on these questions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZf05zFBLXIKLD3blbnn... . There are several factors that make these long-term trend analyses hard: changing family compositions, changing quality of goods, and challenges with price indexes.
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Don't touch crypto“currencies” for they are pyramid schemes rife with fraud, scams, and the prices are artificially inflated with other imaginary tokens. The only thing it does is increase the wealth inequality even more.
I always feel like these academic approaches miss the point of why technical dept is just a thing that happens. Sure, there is the bit where business and development don’t speak the same language, which is outlined well in this article. But I think you have to zoom out beyond the size of the single project, if you want to know why technical dept piles up, almost regardless of what you do.

Development, maintenance and operations are three fundamentally different and often opposing forces that no management is ever going to tackle right.

As a result you’ll have developers who build programs and then move on to build other things. You’ll have operations that’ll have enough know how to operate and error-handle but not enough to re-develop when the real world changes. By then, the developers have either moved on, are too busy or have forgotten enough of the project that no one is actually available to change the system to match the new reality. If by some happenstance, you actually do have someone who can redesign and reimplement the system, they will be given too little time to do a proper job, because developer resources are expensive. When the real world has changed enough times, you’ll have technical depth.

The only projects that can avoid it, are those big enough, to have their development team never leave and management willing enough to let the developers spend 1/5 of their time on maintaining the system.

That’s not to say that you should do nothing. Often it’s proven itself valuable, for us at least, to design systems with the full intention of throwing them away 5-10 years down the line. By not applying any sort of best-practices that are meant to make the systems easier to readjust during their life times, building them takes maybe 40% of the time, and if they are simple enough, you’ll never have an issue with them. Then 5-10 years later. You build their replacement. Which by theoretical means, would be a terrible business case after 15-30 years, but ask yourself how many smaller systems your enterprise organisation has, that are 15 years old. Out of the 300+ (and I say + because we don’t have the full picture) systems we operate, less than ten of them are that old, and every one of those systems is large enough to have full time developers working on them, often with a 9/10 focus on maintaining them, and only 1/10 on building stuff like more modern APIs for them.
It seems like money laundering laws make honest people more honest, and the already dishonest, more so.
Depends on the country, but mostly no, and thank fucking $deity. Credit score systems are an abomination that go against privacy and are used to entrap people into debt and keep not knowledgeable people poor. I find it ridiculous when Americans speak about the Chinese social score system - judging people on debt management and spend is marginally better than on communist-aligning speech. Especially when it's done by for-profit companies that have zero incentive to get anything right.

In most EU countries when you want to take out a loan, the bank takes a look at your current status ( employment, expenses, family, etc.) and debt history stored by the central bank ( which is basically you had a loan of 10k for 5 years, don't own anything anymore) and judge based on that if you're credit worthy or not.
Seems humans are programmed to seek the bad in all things, overlooking how good they have it.
They have corruption, which is kind of violence.
Logo is great in whichever form. And great for kids as well, the concepts are very easy to grasp at a young age
I'm probably not smarter, but based on what happen with AZ I don't think it will rise. AZ clot cases rised after people became more aware of the issue so it was reported more often as the vaccine side effect
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Rich people can charge rent on any number of houses, outbidding people in the edge of being able to afford owning a home
Haha! This was not my intention! I deliberately tried to find things that you could not worry about. I'd already seen a lot of comparisons like 'don't worry about a 1/1,000,000 blood clot, you have a 1/100 chance of getting a brain tumour in your lifetime' and thought that would freak you out more.

(It's true though by the way, go enjoy the sun while you still can...)
The announcement says "All of the software in the OpenSearch project is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2)."

You are suggesting this is not correct?
In my current province, it's regulated that after the first year's lease is up, it defaults on an ongoing basis to a month-to-month agreement, whereby only a month's notice is required and that's it, unless you explicitly agree to another term lease. That's what I'm on now. Our deposit is the regulated max of half a month's rent.
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But politicians can (and should in my opinion) make car ownership less attractive.
I don’t think the parent comment meant to downplay the virus. I read it more like “we had to make great sacrifices to contain a 1 in 200 death problem but now we’re turning our noses at a cure that has a 1 in 1M serious side effect rate”.
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Or your friend should use a software that does all the PGP mumbo-jumbo for you such as Deltachat
While this is fair, you forget that real-estate is an investment opportunity. Between flipping houses becoming cool and rental properties being a good investment, if you have an extra couple hundred thousand you can make a strong investment right now. So yes, if this is an investment strategy and you have enough capital, they can just buy up all the houses.
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Now they promote North Stream 2 on HN ... but it's easy to spot them.
Where do I read more about looms?
This is why one Bill Gates backed project has me really freaked out!

What could go wrong? This is like the plot of the Matrix...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/amp35938287/bill-ga...
Terrific for teaching gamedev to K-12!

But I can't believe you missed the opportunity to implement (Activision) Kaboom ;)

https://archive.org/details/a8b_Kaboom_1983_Activision_US_k_...
I guess you may be confused by the missing "from". It should be "driving from London to Liverpool", whereas the present phrasing suggests we move a city with millions of inhabitants.
> Drugs are the world’s largest market

Seems extremely unlikely. According to a EU report [1], estimated market for illegal drugs in Europe is 20-30 billion EUR per year. That's not that much, compared to say market for fossil fuels.

[1] https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/3096/...
I'd strongly suggest looking at https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git

It's a newer Git implementation but it has loads of features and it's easier to read than most. An excellent project.
No, tax won't help. The reason is because the population grew and the amount of land available stayed the same. (Google London population growth charts).
Yes, new analysis of those deadly issues with AstraZeneca shows it's autoimmunity:

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief/vaccine-induced...
Incidentally, I recently taught Bresemham's and the accumulation of error technique in general to my mother, so she could make more complex knitting patterns all while just counting in her head.
It hasn't been established yet.
Or stocks would be expected to issue dividends proportional to the wealth tax.
As economist Russ Roberts often points out in these inequality discussions, the quintiles that are used to show growth only in the upper class does not refer to the same people over time. When you follow people over time, they generally move up into higher quintiles thus "getting richer."

https://russroberts.medium.com/do-the-rich-capture-all-the-g...

He also talks about "what happened in 1972" is more about demographic shifts due to divorce, single parent homes, and children leaving home sooner:

https://cafehayek.com/2013/11/inequality-in-two-graphs.html
There are a few details with that:

Does the sticker have to show all taxes or just the sales tax/GST/VAT? I know that pretty much every country in the world has an alcohol tax that is applied to things like wine. So should the sticker also include that?

In the USA they have a particular hatred of making tax easier to pay. There's a political affiliation whose goal is to make filing a tax return harder and more complicated to do so that people will complain more about it and hate the process. So that has created the tax return filing industry and associated lobby groups. So having sales tax need to be applied on top fits within this world view.

But yes I completely agree that the sticker price should include what you actually end up paying for that item. I also like it in some countries where there's a unit or weight cost with the item, so you can more easily compare different branded products. Though they usually make this number comically small on the price tag to make it harder to compare.
Regret, if it is expressed, can also help others avoid making similar mistakes. A form of altruism?
I'm courious who do you consider a good alternative from those who were poisoned, jailed or neutralized in some different way?