skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if the insurance company doesn't want to be liable for it it would require a certified and/or bonded tech. In the US cars don't even require this to be stringent.
You don't need any schooling to become ASC Certified mechanic, just take a test, no limiting factors for how often you need to recertify, or if you fail it so many times you need to school/train. At least in Canada you need to go to school, and then be a journeyman for a number of years before you can actually be a mechanic.

To really fix it we need a non-profit group to be in charge of the certification, preferably one who can be held accountable for failure due to their certification. My removing the incentive for profit we make it so the Medical industry won't try to control it, the insurance industry to mitigate their requirements, and government from trying to have political agendas pushed.

I have more that I would love to put in here but my employer has opinions that might differ from mine, and can be directly involved with some things that the law can impact.
Maybe leave the standard glowing 5-star review, plus a picture of the headphones with the card visible.
Maybe I should go back and read up on it more, but I thought Bell was the poster child for the breakup of a monopoly creating a multi-headed hydra problem.

Also, wasn't Microsoft a huge waste of taxpayer time and money? AFAIK, Gates got away with his monopolistic practices and has since been recasting himself as a societal boon.

Despite any possible gains society could gain by breaking them up, it seems like a herculean task compared to simply having our elected representatives legislate away business practices that are a public harm. (and yes, this would require our representatives to actually represent the people, but so does monopoly breakup)
Big Tech should be locating large employment centers in strategic locations around the country. And by strategic I don’t mean where the talent, resources, or customers are located but rather where influential Congresspeople, Senators, and Governors are located.

I thought this was one of the problems of a Soviet style command economy. They would locate production not where it was more efficient and made economic sense, but where it was politically more beneficial.

If these companies start doing this they could lose to more efficient competition. Hope they aren't that stupid.
>I'd much rather issues like these were debated democratically than some tech company deciding one day that they need to view my private messages to "protect the children".

I agree with your general point except most people in the tech community are not willing to even have these debates. It is often treated as an issue with a single right answer and that encryption can never be compromised.

Removing ourselves from the debate is only going to end up with the decision being made without our input.
> Smartass answer: No, because spreadsheets in programs like Excel are Turing-complete

There is a difference in expressivity between programming languages despite the fact that they may both be Turing-complete. Just look at how languages add more language features over time...
At the same time, I see people leave home in their teens or 20s and work a series of crappy minimum wage jobs and never get a decent one with benefits, because they're busy surviving or don't see a better option.

An ideal situation requires pressure to succeed, while also providing resources and guidance to be successful.
That's not the point though. The argument that you can't access you home's equity without selling is complete nonsense.
A study of unprepared people being locked at home without childcare or schooling, without time to setup an office and in companies in dissarray is about as representative of home working as people falling overboard the titanic are representatice of health benefits of swimming.

Similarly if a group of tourists gets lost in the jungle we don't call that a study of prehistoric tribal life.
Let's say someone wants to replace a lightswitch. Google/Youtube will show you how to do that safely in a matter of minutes.

People pay because they're afraid of at least one of (a) their ability to be sure they're getting the right instructions, or (b) their ability to execute. In the electrician example, (b) could be substantial if you don't understand electricity. "Electricity can kill you" is basically the home-maintenance version of "the internet is confusing" that would prevent someone from wanting to find this Google form themselves.

In the "reputation manager" example, (a) is going to come into play more, I bet. A good "reputation manager" probably isn't going to just fill out one form on google, I imagine there's a lot you could do to cover Bing, wikipedia, and various other sites and services. I don't know where employees go to get background checks, for instance, but maybe I need to have that covered, too. So now the problem still parallels working with an electrician - how do you know if you found a good one? Lots of handyman/contractor horror stories and scams out there too!
In case you hadn't heard, some people think this is what the Wizard of Oz is all about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_T...
Which is interesting considering there is no 16” M1 model. Maybe this hints at bigger models with M1 chips coming. Fingers crossed because I’m personally tired of 13” and not going to pay for intel mac now.
If you extend it wide enough, one should ban natural numbers because some of them in binary form are identical to child pornography video files.
The common law universe.
Huh? The google example is about content being available in public, essentially the equivalent of someone posting dirty / embarrassing pictures in a public square and needing there to be a way to take them down. That sounds pretty reasonable.

The encryption example is about being able to intercept private communication (never mind outlawing math) because someone could use that private communication for something illegal.

The two examples have nothing to do with each other IMO.
I deal with a lot of 18-19 year olds as my primary job is teaching first year engineering students.

I will tell you it is a LOT more complicated than this. This type of single point simplification and pronouncement about 'coddling' is decidedly unhelpful.

For starters, if you grow up in two working parent household, both parents can easily come home completely exhausted and unable to provide the extended engagement necessary to help a child develop. Add in the social pressures of school where EVERYONE has an iphone and games where it is socially isolating not to do these things - which carries its own set of risks. Add in a public education system that doesn't focus on development and instead focuses on learning material. Add in an economy designed to optimize extraction of capital from individuals through psychological programming and ads and more stuff to buy.

None of this has to have a single source of blame, much of its realistically structural and cultural. It isn't one bad actor or one failed thing...it is a large number of individuals, groups, and organizations individually performing Goodhart's law and the result is some get cast aside.
Fair enough, strictly speaking their legislated objective only includes "stable prices" as one of their goals, but their publicly stated policy target of 2% is regarded as consistent with that legislated objective. The Bank of England's legislated objective is "price stability" alone complete with statutory responsibilities to justify all its actions in relation to that, which is also considered to be consistent with a 2% target.
The second one is part of the anti-trans campaign.
It may be that the structure of the act that created the FCC pre-empts, although I'm interested in hearing the justification for why "more stringent regulation" at the State level is okay for environmental regulations, but not for telecom when there is not a contraindicated Constitutional issue at work here.

Unless the Telco lobby is going for an inter-state commerce argument in order to shoe in more power at the Federal level as usual.
To add more data points for your point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_room_case

Everyone, please DO NOT underestimate people's malicious will to abuse weak minority groups having un-moderated platforms as their primary tool. Due to lack of Telegram's basic moderation, those victims had been severely abused to the unrecoverable level, more than two years. This could've been at least mitigated if they simply closed the room based on user reporting, which they refused to do so.
That's not always an option.
Sure, in a way that's just a historical accident, they could have used some other word, I'm not really talking about that. I'm more about skin colour discussions in general, as if that was the important thing for anyone.

I feel it's kind of a straw-man, very few biologically oriented "anti-black" racists look at albinos differently. They dislike them just as much, the literal "skin color" is not relevant.
Web Animations in 2021; okikio/animate the animejs-esque library using WAAPI
yeah, I wish that first reaction didn't happen at all repeatedly

nice that you don't experience or do that
maybe, but I try to avoid (or at least subordinate) phasing that implies a dualist distinction between the real and the mental. even the 'merest' of mental models is also part of reality, right?

such contextualization does indeed impair portability...
The global economic system needs better design to survive
I highly doubt that video games are solely to blame.

I was quite addicted to video games until my early 20s, but I eventually understood that gaming falls down the priority list as you take on more responsibilities in life. My friends were the same.
Tesla takes aim at upstarts with 390-mile range, 200 MPH Model S Plaid
Create a monopoly tax that incentivises large companies to "right size". E.g., if the company is larger than X and has captured a market (like google with search) then tax all revenue above a threshold percentage of the market. For example, the market is $100B and the company makes $90B revenue, then tax away everything above $40B in revenue. This may take away the incentive of a large company to take too much market share and may encourage them to enable competitors. The parameters (company_size, marketshare_percentage, tax rate, etc.) may be adjusted to maximize performance
Good points, and in response I would say that not everything needs to happen directly on chain. Just as an example there can be some company that develops an interface between the blockchain and the user that audits their code, insures themselves in the case of software bugs, and provides users with the ability to eject their assets from the platform. Maybe there are regulations that protect consumers against these problems. Crypto/blockchain UX is not even in the "command line" phase yet, we're still writing punch cards and feeding them into computers in my opinion :)
To answer your serious question, n=26 is more than sufficient depending on effect size and sampling method.

Think about it, if you have 26 people randomly sampled and you give half a pill and the other half a placebo and the first half dies moments after ingestion, how confident are you that the pill is poisonous?

If the effect size is small, you may fail to detect it with a small population. If the sampling is biased, then you’re going to have a problem even if you have a massive population studied.
This is maybe a ridiculous question, but why is that so much better? If someone is able to live cheaply, why is it better for them to work in some menial, low-wage job versus being supported by a relative? I think something you have to consider is that if you have low social standing and are poorly educated, your options in life are not necessarily super appealing.
I guess it still makes sense for higher abstraction levels though, right? Like a filesystem or other shared access to a storage resource. So these asynchronous APIs aren’t writing as directly to storage, they’re placing something in the queue and notifying when that batch is committed.

> Append-only log structures are what NVMe/flash devices live for.

I would think this is also good for filesystems like ZFS, APFS, and BTRFS, yes? I had an inkling but never really looked into it. Aren’t these filesystems somewhat similar to append-only logs of changes, which serialize operations as a single writer?
If you find it exhausting you're probably not an extrovert (extrovert/introvert is just about how much energy social stuff takes you, it has nothing to do with how much you socialize, how good you are at it, or how much you like it)
Similarly a lot of stuff that falls under the STEM umbrella is completely useless. I have spent months and years of my life working on difficult math problems a bunch of which will probably never have any real-world application.
Congrats on getting a job as a mathematical physicist! Among my cohort (which includes a few maths/physics double degrees) that makes you something of a unicorn.

If you take a moment to revisit my post, you'll notice I never mentioned difficulty. I'm well aware that some non-STEM degrees are incredibly complex and I make no claim to any ability in those areas for myself.

I also never made any value judgement about courses being "greater" or "lesser". That's a subjective call and ymmv.

I absolutely don't discount all non-STEM degrees as being 'useless' and there's plenty of insight and wisdom to be had from people with a deep understanding of history, or comparative culture, or any number of fields.

And yet I still feel it's a grave disservice to tell the average high school student that they should go to university for the sake of it, even if that means specializing in glazing techniques in 14th century French pottery or whatever other navel-gazing pursuit, while your insane U.S. tuition fees are extracted from them.
I'm pretty good with electrical diagrams and such, and I know exactly what one needs to do to stay about as safe as one can. I've fished (ethernet) wires before. I still hire electricians, because it's the only practical way to buy electrician's insurance for a project.

I know a retired electrician. He hires electricians for anything nontrivial, for the insurance.

That said your broader point has a lot of merit. I hire plumbers for anything more complicated than snaking a drain, and it's because of their specialty knowledge.
Its going to be significantly more realistic to retrofit existing roads and highways with machine-readable signage and traffic lights (for example, why do cars have to read traffic lights with cameras, why can't the lights broadcast the status locally?)

Then we can run autonomous vehicles (private and corporate) over the same infrastructure.
Safeway, Kroger, and Costco's market caps are all under the 600b limit. Even Walmart is under this.

What makes Amazon different is Amazon controls 38% of all online retail sales in the United States[1]. No company comes close to their dominance in the market.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-13/emarketer...
I don’t know this dude, and if you know he’s just scamming the system I’ll take your word for it, but when I’ve experienced serious physical pain I’ve found video games much more helpful than OTC painkillers.
What Is Critical Race Theory?
> fake achievement

Nothing exposes that more than writing video games yourself, as well as having a job testing them.

10 print "Walter is Great!"
20 goto 10

There ya go. That's all video games are.

The fake courtesy of software irks me, too.
Did they grow up with their biological father?
Sort of. Some police departments publish them, some don't. Some publish them only day of, then remove them. Some only show them if you do the right kind of search (last/first/ maybe + birth). The predatory mugshot sites scrape these variations and publish them in a "forever" way, with lots of SEO tricks. Then basically shake you down for payment to remove them.
Not a psychologist, but I would guess that playing games at all times is more a symptom than a cause. A symptom of depression? A coping mechanism for chronic anxiety? A happy well adjusted person does not try so hard to escape reality or responsibilities.

Demeaning them by calling them man-children is not going to help them in the slightest.
> Personally, I see people obsessed with gender identity as being wrong, anti-truth, anti science, disingenuous, etc.

Well, yes, that's the basis of the anti-trans campaign: obsession. It ends up taking over people and causing them to become mono maniac posters on the subject, sometimes to the detriment of their careers. It's worse than scientology.

People not caring about gender identity would in many cases be a huge improvement.
Well yeah, it's nice to be independently wealthy and spend your life studying whatever takes your fancy, and if you can afford to do so then good on you.
That would also fix the incentive problem dating sites have to make sure you only find low quality matches so you will stay on the platform.
Also money generally doesn't correlate with happiness past a certain very basic point.
In American culture money and materialism is dominant. Labor, quality of life, and time are devalued. People complain that a plumber “didn’t do anything” and then billed $170. Or an ER physician didn’t do anything yet they still got a $$$$ bill. Expertise, attention, and simply showing up to get the job done doesn’t seem to have fundamental value in common culture. But if they received a prescription, or an MRI was used, or some parts were installed there’s more appreciation.
Because Web Forms is tied to .Net 4.x and previous and I thought Microsoft said support for .Net 4.x ended with the support of Windows 10.
Sitting on a couch for the next 40 years is also not going to do wonders for his back.
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Ditto. I met my wife on OkCupid. She said I was the only guy that messaged her with multiple, complete sentences.
Unless the monopoly is granted/enforced by the government this has literally never happened.
That sounds like a more powerful variation of Excel's Goal Seek function. The latter however uses an iterative approximation approach. Given the non-exact nature of floating point, it would be interesting to see if numeric approximation can be combined with a Prolog-like resolution algorithm.
I have tried different tactics with no success, but fortunately I haven't had sleep paralysis in a long time.
The Source of Water
I appreciate the frustration, and why this got shared, but realistically...this is the current observation and gives so little data about how we got here that I worry about the comments attributing blame to your post.

Two distant family members of mine fit this description fairly well...One was raised in an unstable, low income household, with mentally ill parents, is on the autism spectrum, and both parents worked multiple jobs that included overnight shifts. There was no ability, energy, or understanding to seek assistance and intervention early enough to make a difference. The other family member comes from effectively the complete opposite end of each one of those variables.
Huh? What does iOS have permissions and access control for?
What are the things that motivates them, and what do they themselves want to do in life?

I ask this because much of the undertone in the article and in this thread is about the failure of meeting the gender role expectations that are put on young men. Do they have a job and a car? Have they studied hard so they can get a good job in order to support a wife and kid?

Culture in the last several decades have hammered down on the negative aspects of stereotyping. A person who is 35 has gone through a life time of TV, movie and politics that on repeat has talked about the negative of gender roles for women, while the expectations on men has remained fairly unchanged. I do not find it strange at all if an increasing portion of men under this culture has rejected the role put on them.

Which goes back to the original question I started with. What motivates them and what do they want to do with their life? If we want to avoid the slow motion tragedy, maybe the way forward is to help them answer those question in the absent of imposed gender roles.
Thanks! Yeah, I've been thinking about that, especially because of the profoundly unrewarding nature of that conversation. A number of my previous HN comments are in Dercuano, Derctuo, and Dernocua, though those mostly consist of things other than HN comments, and some of the HN comments they contain are pretty embarrassing.

Generally I feel like the HN comments section is pretty aggressive and conformist, and there's a lot of people trolling. The social dynamic rewards rapid reaction, trolling, and conforming to the popular opinion (and especially cheering for it and denouncing those who disagree with it), and punishes the kind of careful investigation and thoughtful conversation that I value. I think it brings out the worst in me.

http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano

http://canonical.org/~kragen/derctuo

http://canonical.org/~kragen/dernocua.git
> No it’s not.

From the man himself: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/t-magazine/george-rr-mart...

> And it would be an unfair and silly comparison anyway.

Your personal opinions on the allegory don’t affect the author’s intent.
What Xbox overlay and what weather widget? Running 21H1 and never seen any of those.
They should be able to find a nice 1br in Seattle for 20-25k/yr. Even in the most expensive neighborhoods it shouldn’t be more than 30k. Your numbers are higher than I’d expect
The policies we're writing at the moment at calling it "work from anywhere". We don't really care when you want to do your work, as long as you do it. We have some people that would like to take a year abroad while still working for us. As long as they have an internet connection and can meet their team goals, go for it :-)
Well I don't have a permanent job, I'm an adjunct, and not based in the US so maybe I experience a slightly different job market to your cohort.

I was mainly focusing on the line "targeting those who could not complete STEM degrees", which seems to heavily imply that the non-stem options are a lesser choice for those for whom stem is too difficult.
or most likely meet other marginalized people from society who are their first endearing support system

not so different than runaway teenagers, or ex-Mormons that escape Utah
> not everybody [...] has the desire to sit in front of a computer writing code their whole lives

Sure, I also have the "desire" to play video games and do nothing all day, I just realize that it's not going to end well for me...
I'm not his doctor, and I don't know either.

But is that one thing going to stop him from ever working/living a productive life?
Facemash VC Edition
I've never wanted to completely hand over authentication to a third-party.

Instead what I'd think I'd like is just the risk assessment to be be performed by a third-party when I'm handling authentication (i.e. a third-party that has a broader view of what's happening across multiple services over time). I just send the pieces of information that I'm willing to share as an API call and they make the best risk assessment they can.

Then I can take that risk assessment result and make a final decision if authentication succeeds or not.
Everyone "can handle" arbitrarily much busywork. Whether the lights are on or anything is happening intellectually is another story. I would like to see every American teenager have that experience, but my experience was that in high school, the very top of the class caught glimmers of it occasionally.

I think when you send "everyone" to college, it's going to be no different for them than high school was for "everyone" (and for the smart kids in their less-special subjects): chug through the tedium with as little of your brain as possible, while away the hours and the months until you get to something you actually care about. That's a reasonable way to warehouse teenagers while their parents are at work, but 18-22 year olds could plausibly be doing something else.