skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of curious, What lifestyle are people entitled to ?

What effort are they responsible for putting forth to better their life ?

Who is responsible for ensuring they have a good life ?
U.S. and E.U. Agree to Suspend 17-Year Feud over Aircraft Subsidies
It always amazes me when I go to the vet with my dog, I get an itemized bill for medical services immediately. That really exposes the BS of figuring out prices once they’ve sent it to insurance, months go by, and then finally you get a final bill. It doesn’t have to be that way.
I wish movies would respect their audience. They tend to dumb things down. It would be fun to see someone really go after it, and let the public catch up. Here's what I think when I see this:

Interesting to see the edges of a black hole. Nothing gets more powerful than that. Why build bigger and bigger colliders if you can get accurate data with something on a cosmic scale.

Interesting to see what particles of spacetime do there. A string is a particle with one dimension. Why is it constricted like that. And what applications exist in manipulating that constricted degree of freedom.

If we are imaging black holes, and manipulating instruments in the plasma of stars, and there's no consequences, at what point is everything out there a refraction pattern controlled by our actions. A star or a galaxy leaves our ability to view it. We still know about it through black hole imaging. No way nature could do that. We manipulate that distant celestial object to rely on our ability to image a black hole, and then suddenly stop. What happens?
So should we nationalize the farms to keep the dirty capitalists off of our food supply?
I was interested and also searched, here are the results:

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+n...

https://community.home-assistant.io/search?q=nixos

I sampled a few of the closed issues and it cemented my decision to not use Home-Assistant for my Zigbee setup at home because of the recent behavior of frenck and other Home-Assistant top tier persons.
> people who are intrinsically motivated

People who are intrinsically motivated are going to do their thing regardless of the boundary conditions. There's no way to give someone intrinsic motivation and there's no way to take it away from them. You would have had to physically handicap Michelangelo to prevent him from sculpting or Maradona from kicking balls and so on.

Incentives definitely aren't everything, but they do work, and when you talk about systemic problems you have to think statistically.

> You might just be hiring lawyers to bully a competitor instead of fostering sustainable progress. Or if your market is unregulated you can decide to use more severe methods.

I'm talking about competition, not laissez-faire. If you're saying that competitive markets have to be fostered and don't just magically happen, then we are just vehemently agreeing.
I have never encountered a situation with forced reboots every 10 minutes. Do you have any very special hardware that might cause this?
> If the Boston cops would stand up and say they don't support that Kentucky cop, it would make every other cop in America pause

It was a cop who told me about citizen review boards, my rights as a citizen, and how to legally fight cops.

In particular: it was an African American cop who was very explicit about the abuses of cops in various municipalities. It was my local school department that worked with the police department to host this "community cop" discussion with school-children. Etc. etc.

Its not quite as black-and-white as you're making it sound. If a cop does X-abuse, then you go to Y. You have a right to know their badge number (at least in my municipality. And in practice, a cop has the badge and the force and can probably refuse. Still, if they fail to present their badge and there's a recording of it, you might be able to get them. Don't talk to cops unnecessarily, talk to them with a lawyer, etc. etc.)

These discussion points are commonly pointed out by cops who are trying to do the right thing.
A $150 Android would work just as well in that case.
I asked my doctor if blind people who never had sight suffered from adhd and she replied she didn't know and was unaware of any studies .. I feel adhd is brought on by the screens 30 frames a sec flashing the eyes has to do something to our attention span. J/S
Handwriting nears end of line as US schools stop teaching it
> we can rely on human decency in open source without policing people with formal documents

I don't think that's true at all—neither on sexual subjects, nor on non-sexual subjects. Witness: the left pad debacle, Minecraft Forge, whatever is going on with Freenode, etc.
Indeed, gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces are all emergent consequences of Love, but that would have confused modern scientistic audience so I don't blame them for glossing over that.
I bought it as well and returned it. It is just too small for reading PDFs comfortably.
> most IP generated by grad students is not worth much

I have heard this a lot. My counterargument is that if that is the case, why do they want the IP anyway? Of course they can say that the IP is half created by the professor, but on the other hand, isn't that what I am paying for the university?

> where you see the commercial possibility from the beginning and aim to do that to start your company

And yes, if you personally plan to have any stake in the IP you have to think this beforehand: you must have a stake in the private company that funds your studies. Otherwise (and in the best case, i.e. 50% split) the IP will just be split between the university and your funder. So, you have to start a company in order to ever own any IP personally. I was told that LLCs for PhDs are somewhat common nowadays by the university IP people.

Generally, I think making a billion or a million dollars on my PhD project are extraordinarily slim, but it is not like these constraints exactly help either. The way I see it, is that I already take a financial toll in opportunity costs by doing a PhD. It is borderline charity when you also give the black-swan option to the university to own all proceeds if it ever becomes of significant impact, which I thought be the whole point of science.

The whole DD process has been quite frustrating to me, as you can see, but it also makes me wonder how does the current system even produce anything worth of significance given the lacklustre incentives. Finally, FWIW, yes the topic is computer science: the IP restrictions do not concern any other subject.
> the only public response from Apple is the radar importer bot, and then everything goes quiet

That's been my experience as well.

When reporting a bug to Chromium you get an answer in hours.

When reporting a bug to WebKit it's mostly crickets.
This is the "broken window fallacy" on steroids. There is no net benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
He didn't haggle over the price of the procedure.

He only asked how much it's going to be and was charged with over double what he was quoted.
Someone is ought to bring Europe up. Yeah, you’d get it for free in Belgium or Germany. The wait times though… could anything from couple weeks to half a year.
Frankly no, it doesn’t re-flow them so the text will often be too small. Quite a massive oversight and no one really talks about it.
Is the millionaire's kid successful if he does literally nothing in his whole life, lives off his mommy or daddy's money, and still lives better than the plumber's kid?
Someone should make a browser plugin that puts you into a seperate random cohort with every click. It could be called "Floc off"
I routed out a couple thousand heisenbugs in an old system I was working on. Turned out the web based platform had no cache invalidation / cache-busting feature enabled, so any time an update would be published, the browsers didn't always get the changes.

The icing on the cake was that it was our app that was bad, and the 'fix' they implemented was a completely broken work-around.

It was SOP to instruct the clients to turn off browser caching. So the app was slow as well. Inevitably the Client's on-site IT would install a new desktop and forget to turn off browser caching. So you'd get these weird states were errors would occur randomly and depend entirely on if someone had changed or hadn't set that setting.

Years of cruft and chaotic deployment workflow meant there were easily 10,000 different places where the cache busting would need to be implemented. I figured out a way to fix this using nginx as a caching layer, and using features of a brand name Web Toolkit which we had already partly implemented without caching. Even had a test harness set up and way to catch bugs during a transitionary stage.

Shame there wasn't any specific tickets on this exact fix because otherwise I would still be working there. Sure, I was assigned a bunch of the random error ones and found out what was causing them, but apparently being assigned a ticket and fixing the problem isn't part of my job?!

The head of the web dev team (and my manager) quit shortly after I was hired. I now understand why.

Fixing bugs is impossible sometimes.
America's problems are numerous and have been discussed elsewhere at length. Suffice to say that sometime between 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, America has not been keeping up with other economies in terms of what makes a first world country worth living in. Biden may change that, or he may not. In any case, America has a lot of catching up to do if they want to overtake Europe (and some other places) in anything besides profit.
It's more interesting to do the same thing with MacOS X vs Windows because Windows has unfortunately been held back because an overly vocal minority is against progress.

MacOS is still the most advanced desktop environment for computing but I'm no longer convinced it will even be an option 10 years from now so I just want Microsoft to focus on replicating the best parts and throwing out the Windows cruft.

Saying this as someone who returned to Windows after a 10+ year hiatus because I needed powerful GPUs for my work.
Incompetence isn't quite how I'd describe this.
Because you might be taking work-related notes on your device that you don't want to be stolen as industrial spying.
How long does someone have to be on stimulant medication before you consider them qualified to comment on its effectiveness?
Lethality is not the only metric of interest for any disease, including COVID. There have been reported long term health effects, which matter to people who contract the disease.

Further, if the best you can find for source data is a conservative interest group, you should ask yourself if you are looking for truth, or pushing an agenda.
do not get a boox. First they do not publish their kernel source violating GPL, second the device constantly phones home to China and third the color display is really clunky: low contrast, washed out colors and very low DPI (around 160).

Wait a few generations until color eink tech is fleshed out.
Software can be considered as art from many perspectives IMHO. Some of these perspectives are UI, UX and internal architecture. Smaller parts like API design or implementation of a specific feature can be art in itself though.

In my book, elegance and high quality design is important, however it's expensive. A good architecture needs a lot of work to build and even more work to keep it clean, because software tends to outgrow its design during iterations as it gets more features. This is the prime cause of software rot.

An elegant architecture is easy to program and extend until you outgrow it. An elegant UI is a beauty to look at. An elegant UX has minimal mental load. OTOH, making all three happen at the same time is a very hard task. My experience is on systems side and high performance code. So I focus on architecture and UX. I try to make very performant and complicated applications very easy to use, almost making them too easy to use.

This removes burden from user, it removes friction. The user accomplishes something complicated without much effort, yet the results are precise, accurate and most importantly correct. This is what I consider art. OTOH, I make sure that all custom controls are available to the user if the user needs.

In all cases, developer and user gets joy from developing/using the application. It feels nice rather than a burden. It feels smooth, like an enjoyable road trip where you both enjoy the road and driving at the same time.
Over 99% of all animals killed are killed on factory farms, so pointing out a handle of farms that are NOT factory farms doesn't really do much. If less than 1% of the animals we are talking about are covered by the farms your talking about, its a pretty meaningless statistic.

Also, you clearly didn't watch the film because it doesn't discuss American farms, it clearly focuses on Australian farms. Here is a link to the same practices being done in Britain: https://www.landofhopeandglory.org/

These practices are industry standard across the world, though. Peter Singer writes about this in "Animal Liberation". Let me know if you don't want to or cannot pay for a copy of the book and I'll buy it for you. He discusses at _length_ how these standards exists worldwide.

Besides, even those small farms are deeply unethical. They kill animals a mere fraction into their lifespans, and do so in horrific ways, often inhumanely. Killing an animal that does not want to die, if it doesnt need to, is always wrong.

The onus is now on you to educate yourself. I'm done with this conversation. I've pointed you to many places where you can learn about the problem, both in this thread and others in this comment section. If you choose not to, then you choose to remain ignorant to what is happening around the world, every day.

Here is the most comprehensive list of vegan resources and studies that I know of: https://www.vegancheatsheet.org

I suggest you dig into some of those studies and try tearing them apart. Watch some of those films and find reasons why they are bullshit. Then message me (email is in my profile), and tell me how wrong I am. But only after you've really made an effort to understand the issues. Remember, I was a carnist for almost the first 30 years of my life, so I know how you feel. I'm asking you to challenge yourself and really see the issue from the other side.
Fake identity is is not hard to create online. You’re right! That is the problem. Fake identity is orders of magnitude harder to create in meatspace. You don't solve that problem by saying “welp I guess we just have to deal with spam to realize pseudo-security via anonymity”. I don't disagree about privacy, even. I think you’d find we agree about not sending information you don't need. Where we talking past each other is on the topic of anonymity vs privacy. I want strong identity and privacy and tools and laws that protect my identity and privacy online as well as offline. Tools that let me manage who has access to my private information and for what use cases. Tools that alert me when that information is accessed or shared. Tools to allow me to verify the information provided by others is genuine. This has nothing to do with anonymity.
“It's a new genesis for a new era. Thank you for using freenode, and Hello World, from the future. freenode is IRC. freenode is FOSS.”

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength?
> Designing the code around the database

This is great advice

> Almost all columns should be NOT NULL

Can you give your reasons for this? I never really understood the point of null tbh
Many drugs impact multiple biochemical systems. It doesn't matter whether it was previously classified as an antiviral drug or not.

In principle any drug can potentially be used to treat any disease. The real questions are: is there a plausible mechanism of action, and is it safe and effective in clinical trials?

Diet and exercise are known to impact COVID-19. We can focus on multiple different treatments simultaneously.
In Britain you'd go to A&E with your kidney stone and just get the required treatment without haggling over prices.
Wait arent you willing to put your health on the hands of the people who brought us Theranos, pets.com, and a DRM-laden juice-squeezer?

"Unfortunately this transfusion cannot be given to you because there is a mismatch between its version and the versions approved in your database record. Please contact a representative or call our support line"
You have to be in some serious denial or have complete lack of perspective to think having the means to bring a babysitter on your holidays is "solidly middle class"
I'm weary of suggesting that to those I provide tech support for anymore.

For me, on my current PC, typing up to "Visu" leads to "Visual Studio 2019", but adding one more character to "Visua" leads to "Visual Studio Code", which is what I wanted in the first place most of the time. No clue what the heuristics here are, but it's not predictable to me.

More troubling: "Che" leads to Microsoft's "Check for Updates", which is pretty much what I always want, but "Chec" leads to Java's "Check for Updates", which I kinda never want.

I can no longer predict to someone I'm guiding over the phone what typing something into the start menu will do. Even for me, I'll be typing something, and finish off a few keystrokes by muscles memory before hitting enter only to have it decide I really meant something else before I notice. And I suspect whatever heuristic uses the misfire as further ammunition to get things even more wrong in the future.
> far above even surgeons or lawyers or engineers, who work very hard and are just as smart as the ultra-rich

I've been seeing this assumption float around quite a bit around HN. Where is this coming from? Where is this belief that "ultra-rich" or "having interest in money" implies intelligence?

Not saying one way or the other. Just genuinely curious.
They could build a completely new OS and keep the compatibility with a compatibility layer like Wine.

Somehow I doubt the New Microsoft will do it right though. They don't strike me as the kind of people who give a shit about compatibility and user experience the way Old Microsoft did.
Airbnb provides more ratings, a standardized format for listings which makes it easier to review and compare them, and an easier online booking process that does a great job at handling currency conversion and different payment options.
Its one of those cases where data becomes dangerous when there's enough of it.

Google knows practically every SSID location in the developed world. Now your Android phone browsing and mapping every SSID it sees as you move about is a reliable "Location mapping" of the user even though they may have no GPS or have it disabled.

You can map a person's movement through cities/towns just based on the SSIDs their device(s) saw as they moved about.
I'm always super intrigued by the reMarkable 2, but I think it's because it paints an image of the type of person I think it'd be cool to be, someone who can just write down notes and draw stuff with a really cool, slim device. Someone who carries around moleskines and uses them, instead of just buying so many of them in different shapes and leaving them in a drawer packed to the brim with notebooks.

The problem keeps coming back to the fact that I'm absolutely not the type of person who wants to carry that thing around everywhere and who likes or is good at hand writing or drawing. I realize I won't base all my life and processes around this one device that is also supposedly hard to get info off of easily into things like OneNote. If I was somewhere without a computer, then I wouldn't be carrying this big tablet on me. I've bought enough tablets and laptops with writable screens and MS surfaces over the years to know that I still never drew or took notes with the pen, but I still keep buying them hoping I will.

The thing is still so cool and I want it, but maybe I'll wait for version 3 or 4 and extra disposable income that will go to waste on it!
>Many services like Uber or InstaCart or even McDonalds or Amazon Warehouse or Walmart or Retail Sales or call center, you can work hard but there is no where to progress to. Your rewards are capped.

Having worked at Walmart/Retail/Call center/Franchised food service earlier on in my life and I would have to say "there is no where to progress to" is not exactly true.

Excluding food service where I worked directly for the owner, management team, at least at the store/region level, all came through the ranks. Don't get me wrong it's likely very competitive and not trivial to become a store/regional manager, and presumably some hard work/luck were needed in all cases. However, that's no different from any other careers.
You have no definition of "strong" here other than "one who takes from others, and no definition of "weak" as "one who is taken from". That's a tautology.

> Nature is completely filled with hierarchies, where those that are stronger and more fit take resources from those are who are weaker and less fit.

The sort of understanding of "evolution" and "fitness" might do well in the circles you move in. It doesn't have much to do with reality. The "heirarchies" you insist fill nature are as much a projection of 19th century naturalists' understanding of their own societies as they are a description of actual power dynamics among other creatures.

There are huge numbers of examples of both intra-species and inter-species dynamics that do not play out in the simplistic way you're describing. Sure, there are also examples that do, but it's inaccurate to suggest them as the dominant form.

Co-evolution, overlapping resource extraction, and of course the tension between the health of a group and the health of the individuals within it are just three basic ways that complicate your strong-takes/weak-taken description.
I'm not sure why you expect news to target people who aren't even in their coverage's audience.
How meta that an HN discussion about conspiracy theories devolves into propagation and defense of conspiracy theories.
It seems like giving out RPi's seem like the perfect reward. It's tangible and it helps keep environments separate versus a Windows or Mac laptop. Kids can take risks on the RPi by breaking things which is a good learning technique.
Only I am responsible for actions I undertake. This goes for everybody else, too.

Heinlein said it better:

>“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame…as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world…aware that effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.”

This has not made me notably happy or successful or anything; but I know who to blame when I get upset about that.