skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I decided to study electrical engineering instead of computer science because I was dead certain there was no money to every be made writing software.... in the 1980s!

I chose the wrong school because they accepted me, and my high school counselor thought I had zero chance. I couldn't afford it, and dropped out. I would have gone much farther studying computer science at Purdue Calumet, and could have had it all paid for.

Once I had the Windows NT 3.51 server drive mapped as D:, and got confused thinking it was a local drive. Had to drive 25 miles and rebuild things in the middle of the night, sweating bullets. We were a small ISP with 200 customers, I was the tech staff.

My next to last big mistake was staying at a system administrator job far longer than I should have.... they really didn't need someone full time, and it zapped my drive to get things done.

Then I took a job making gears... the pay and commute sucked, but I liked doing it. 5 years away from technology, then Covid hit, I got sick... and I've been tired ever since.
> or do you mean the cell provider themselves can’t pinpoint you?

This, but with the caveat that I view the telecom cartel as an extension of government and not as separate entities that cooperate only when needed. Joseph Nacchio can tell you how it will go down if any of them tried to stand up for the rights of individuals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...

Our current technologies are already very good at this. Forgive me for committing an Internet Sin to make my point, but here’s my actual real-world “coarse” location derived from LTE, shown via SignalReborn (no relation to the chat app) on my jailbroken iPhone. The blue dot is my GPS location for comparison, the green line is my active LTE base station, and the red dots are all the base stations in my device’s cache: https://i.imgur.com/cDLnuQk.png

As you can see, a lot of location info can be derived from just one LTE tower plus the signal/noise info of my device. Triangulate three LTE towers and it’s easy to see what building I’m in. 5G is not only technically more capable in this regard, but everyone will have it in every device. 5G on my laptop will be able to tell which side of the bed I’m sitting on. 5G on my watch will be able to tell if I wore taller shoes today. Anyone trying to hide will just invite more scrutiny.

I’m not trying to stop the future from occurring, but I hope we can all be aware of what we’re giving in exchange for all this nice connectivity.
> But an actual randomized control trial of Ivermectin in March

Please see this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27566123
We are also much busier these days. Asking someone to spend time watching 2001 is asking for a lot.
It was a good day.
That sounds kind of like how every new developer that takes over someone else’s work thinks that the previous coders did subpar work and it would have been done right if they had done it.
> democractic if there exists a widespread, blind trust in the government?

yes it is. Whether the trust is blind or based on reason, as long as the choice had been with the people's vote, it is democratic.

For some reason, some people assume that democracy will somehow produce the best outcome for them. Democracy doesn't automagically produce good outcomes. Democracy requires that each voter to be rational and informed, and requires the voting system to not exhibit bias (which the USA certainly does - first-past-the-post sucks). And even then, those two requirements only produce an outcome which is representative of the will of the people, rather than a good outcome for all (such as good equality, wealth distribution, etc).
The 10 month thing gets brought up in these discussions, but I'm looking at annual comp numbers, so the fact that it's 10 months makes the deal more attractive, not less.
Its the governments of the two states that are making the claims in the news articles.

I think it is safe to suppose they or the associated medical authorities have observed a big enough benefit before making that claim.

But no, no concrete numbers, as I think there was not much of tracking the number of patients who were given the drug. May be it is because such numbers are not much of a value in terms of research data due to lack of controls.
The countries do have quite a lot of 'say' in it.

S. Korea, Japan and Germany are not vassal states.

Neither is Egypt, Israel or Saudi Arabia.

It's different in every case, and there's a lot of factors, but mostly it's for mutual benefit.

The Japanese and German elite are very happy to have the Americans there because it serves as a buffer.

It's probably more complicated in Egypt, but the military is one of the only civic institutions with integrity, the citizens actually know that, and that it's because they are backed/supported by the US. Even on the 'Arab Street' they have an instinct for what that balance means even if it's obviously more difficult for some.

But if Egypt really wanted the US to leave they could make them leave. Same in most places.
In Australia the only elections regarding school are for the parent representatives on school council, which is local to an individual school, and sets some amount of strategic direction, but overall, doesn't do a lot. Curriculum & testing decisions are made by politicians and bureaucrats at the state or federal level. We also don't elect judges, DAs, etc. We just elect politicians; they are ultimately responsible for making sure their respective public servants are doing the will of the people. You could argue the US system is more democratic, and yet most such systems in the US seem to be broken (from an outside perspective), while here they are not (there are certainly problems mind you).

Any perspective how these things work in countries that have a well-regarded, high performing education system, like Finland (apart from having well-trained, highly regarded, and highly trained teachers with a large degree of autonomy)?
Because in the US climate change is denied by approx. 35% of the general population and around 69% of the self identified republicans... so to that audience any mention of climate change is an offense to their identity...
and as we know from behavioral economics, people will ignore or downright reject any evidence that doesn't support their preconceived notions.
People with $10M are more likely to be entrepreneurs. So, society should attempt to increase the number of people with $10M. Currently it taxes wage slaves heavily, including those on a trajectory to have $10M and become entrepreneurs. Yet, when a billionaire dies, why should their heirs receive their billions? With 100% estate taxes over $10M, the tax burdens can be transferred from the hard working member of society, to the idle rich heirs.

The extreme estate taxes would result in a more equal society, while incentivizing those more likely to drive it forward.

Yes, this will never work……
He has actually done a remarkable amount of voice acting: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000607/filmotype/actor?ref_=m_nmf...

I loved the 80s movie "Flight of the Navigator" where he played Max, the alien ship robot, remarkably well. You could tell it was him because Max's laugh was Peewee's laugh: https://youtu.be/fjv7k54YTa0
Is it jaywalking when you're not stepping in front of a car?

When I hear the word, I tend to think of people who take for granted that a car will stop for them and probably even conspicuously turn away from it.

I don't think of it as meaning "crossing the street where there is no marked crosswalk" absent traffic, or "crossing the street at an intersection" even if there is no marking and someone who wants to make a turn.
> Workers who switch from non-teaching jobs to teaching jobs receive a wage increase of roughly 9 percent. Teachers who change to non-teaching jobs, on the other hand, see their wages decrease by roughly 3 percent. This is the opposite of what one would expect if teachers were underpaid.

Its exactly what I'd expect if tecahers were underpaid but most switches from other jobs into teaching were from jobs taken as a student pre-qualification for entry-level teaching jobs and most switches out were post-retirement-from teaching “have something productive to do” jobs.
Who is the audience for these suggestions? Every country has their own unique profile and path for the next few decades, and the high emitters have far different paths to decarbonization than the low-emitting countries, which will simultaneously industrialize as they adopt the lifestyles of the global north, but with modern low-carbon technology.

If we are talking about the really big emitter, namely the US, then cutting meat is one of the far later actions we need to take. Meat is a tiny fraction of the US's emissions, dwarfed by far harder tech and economic transitions. And dropping meat is a quick action, takes almost no tech/economic, and could be effected in a year or so. Same goes for nearly all high per-capita energy countries, which is the vast majority of the HN audience.

But the real hard change for the US is transportation. It's the biggest source, and it's tied intimately to the (bad) design of our built environment, which necessitates tons of driving and treats non-drivers as oddities and excludes them from access to most of society. The easiest way to lower transportation emissions, switching current vehicles to batteries or to fuels derived from renewable energy, requires an industrial buildout of absolutely massive scale and that needs to happen with such speed that we are not on track by any means. Massive EV deployment is necessary, but insufficient to meet the speed with which we must transition, due to the speed limits of scaling production capacity. And batteries are going to be in demand from the electrical grid, and hydrogen will be hugely in demand for fertilizer (ammonia) and other industrial applications (actually I have little hope of hydrogen being a transport solution at all.)

If we are going to be talking about highly off-putting lifestyle changes to an audience like HN, we should be focusing on massively reducing the need for gasoline based transit. Meaning dense urban infill, tooooooons of infill building in Silicon Vallet, and complete bans of new builds far from jobs and groceries, where most building is happening right now. And there must also be massive building of trains and deployment of EV buses.

Talking about meat has almost no impact for the HN audience except to turn them off from taking any action, because even if people cut down on meat (and I have), it's not nearly as big a deal as switching to a heat pump water heater from natural gas or living closer to work, children's schools, grocery stores, and other daily necessities.

If we are talking about rain forests being cut for farming, sure, that's something that should be addressed, but as a US citizen I have to do so much more locally before I get to tell other countries how to cut their emissions.
> second magical assignment operator

"magical assignment operator" - I love it. 8)
Yes, and look how well Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states did under the Soviets!

I don't think you're making the point you think you're making.
As someone who lost their Mother while she was in here 50's to alcohol, I just want to say thank you for showing some compassion. I would do anything to have my Mother with me still here, today.
Grounding – Safety Fundamentals (2013) [video]
Are you bad at keeping in touch with people?
What is an acceptable duration for someone to stay at your outfit?
The top 6 articles on this site are "$X thinks $Y stock is worth $Z". It looks incredibly boring. Sorry.
I think pirating is like cheating in relationships. The society should discourage it, but to criminalize it is much worse than just to let it happen. Yes, the solution is possibly not stable or consistent, yet adhering to either side of consistent moral principles is arguably worse.

Many people do both, sometimes in a weird, selective way. I know I do, I pirate a lot, yet if I really care about something (or it's harder to obtain, which is kind of equalizing authors' profits), I will buy it.
I'm a fan of HN-style information minimalism. How are you parsing the sources and ranking the display, out of interest? Are you using NewsAPI or grabbing RSS feeds directly or something like that?

Good luck. It looks good.

[Edit just saw it's stocknewsapi]
Thanks for the list, I see I didn't really miss anything.

BTW, lots of HPC are (again) going for AMD. Hopefully I don't end up getting subpoenaed twice this round! It was a little painful last time.
Drawing with Texture Instancing
This is part of the explanation but it's clearly not the whole explanation. The other part is why Windows has gone through half a dozen different UI toolkits while macOS is recognizably the same with some re-skins since 2001. There's no backwards compatibility to be broken if you get the UI right the first time, and there's no excuse for introducing a whole new UI model with every release. It makes the whole OS feel like a gigantic pile of technical debt, and gives the appearance that engineering simply moves on and greenfields a new UI system when the old one becomes unmaintainable.
Cool idea.
Funnily enough, I wasn’t able to recreate my commute. With all the parameters, my commute isn’t available… maybe I walk to fast
You are making a false equivalence—not all languages are equally busted. Any sanely designed modern language does not allow this to happen. Accidentally parsing a string you didn’t mean to parse is a fault of C’s outdated API design, a design flaw that keeps tripping people up again and again.
> It's ultimately better to be in this position as a thoughtful person aware of the consequences of your work, since they would just replace you with someone less conscionable otherwise.

If you do the same work, what does it matter?
heritage really isn't going to be a good source on this kind of thing fwiw
This follow up was published in September, 2020: https://ankane.org/more-ml-gems
The harm done to your psyche when you work on something you know makes the world worse is… hard to recover from.
> And at the same time, deporting all illegal immigrants (to free up housing)

These people are responding to demand for cheap labor and trying to better themselves. The real way to address this is severe criminal punishments for their employers.
He was absolutely my Mr. Rogers.

I could care less about him masturbating in an adult movie theater.
Partisans can't stop themselves from being partisans and make every climate thread about partisanship. There's little to no actual discussion about climate science. It's just another excuse to engage in showy partisanship. So the thread gets flagged and likely sets off some of HN's auto-flagging triggers due to commenting patterns common to threads that get out of control.
Yes. One of the first thing I do when I set up a new Mac for myself is to move the bottom dock to the right side. Then the vertical space feels much more comfortable. This is applicable for both 15 inch and 13 inch macbook pros.
what was the reason for China to get nukes ? Because at one time, they wanted to take over TW and got threated by nukes by the USA. Now both countries have nukes and large armies. With China having geographic advantage.
So yeah, US would likely not come to the defence of TW.
It's a fantasy to think the US would defend TW because they're both democracies. US can easily change it's position and say it's an internal matter when shit hits the fan.
Yes you are right, I did not add the correct scope to that line, I should clarify:

> I think one would be more likely to be shot to death in the street in the US than Russia … by a police officer or other government employee.
Well I think that’s an absurd and extreme example, so the reductio ad absurdum is self-limiting, since serial killers are, hopefully, not the common case.

How about this analogy instead, being more in the realm of the applicable and commonplace: I broke up with many girlfriends, and had many short- and medium-term partners, before meeting my wife of over a decade now, who continues to knock my socks off to this day.

In practice, past performance is not a guide to future outcomes. How many times have we heard this caveat applied, in far more predictable markets than hiring and/or dating? Past performance of employment candidates is a subjective and observational assessment; relying upon it (especially in a negative framing) is to invite not only ones own biases to take center stage, but also those of others; see earlier point re. reinforcement of structural discrimination.

At most, someone’s past successes qualify them for my interview shortlist, but there are many other green flags besides, and I’ll save my type 2 errors for the back half of the hiring funnel, after assessing someone’s potential.
I read it as "Business Table of Contents" personally.
What are your favorite 2000s-Style Websites?
You know, those hand-coded, with sweet GIFs and loaded with information.

Miss those...
> School choice effectively allows increased wages for good teachers and yes there's competition so you'll have lower end schools as well.

How does school choice allow for increased teacher wages? Presumably they get the same per-student funding.

When the school gets more applicants than places, how does it decide who to let in?

> You can also audit the schools and shutdown poorly run ones, etc.

Shutting down schools is highly disruptive for students currently attending that school. Seems preferable to intervene and improve failing schools before it gets to the point of shutting them down.

I'm not convinced school choice improves results for students overall. The easiest way for a school to improve its results are by attracting parents who are highly invested in their child's education. Those whose parents don't have the knowledge to work the system or the time to transport their children across town for school every day are less likely to apply.
Yes, I wish webapps didn't put unnecessary keyboard shortcuts (or disable them by default)
Counterpoint: I consistently leave jobs too early when I could have instead stuck around and made larger impacts during restructurings or just sat around and done nothing and gotten paid. Would I be better programmer? Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But would I have gotten paid and had a more intact career? Certainly.
Texas Power Companies Are Remotely Raising Temps on Residents' Smart Thermostats
> An angry customer was breathing down my neck, making idiotic suggestions. I was rattled. He wanted me to try swapping out some component.

I dunno; I agree you should always remember that you might be wrong, but under those conditions I wouldn't make that change unless they signed something saying that we did it on their say-so over my objections. Way too many red flags.
I strongly suspect that a popular news resource focusing on stocks is liable to be overrun with bots or ‘sponsored content’, either with or without moderators’ blessing/compensation. It’s the niche where information asymmetry and financial gain are so awkwardly close.
This logic isn't remotely sound. It's a ridiculous false dichotomy. There's a third option: It's a normal state that hasn't built walls around it like some kind of medieval walled cities. Do you think every state that isn't completely walled off (there are basically none besides the Vatican) is "failed"?
Frankly speaking you really shouldn't be hiring anyone with the expectation that they'll be in their role more than a year or two. Ideally, you're working with them to move into a position with more responsibility and then you need to backfill their position anyway. What does it matter if their next role is with you or somewhere else?

It's a lot to ask for every company to have a role available for every employee when they're ready for more responsibility, and expecting them to just hang around waiting for their chance is pretty naive, I think.
Apple has to build higher walls around [their/our] garden because Facebook won't stop creeping over and spying on everyone.
Even the most tyranical regimes can not blatantly declare the ruler god-emperor like Egyptian Pharoes, that just wouldn't fly - they keep up the appearences one way or the other.

Soviet Union still felt the need to hold elections and have laws, China officials were removed using charges of corruption, etc.
Right, but which people? The biggest determinant of whether people can live close to their jobs in Cupertino is not the people that work there, but the tiny minority of Cupertino residents that live in Cupertino and have the time to follow the intricacies of zoning; namely the wealthy and retired, the people who typically have a lot of wealth tied up in their Cupertino real estate and benefit hugely by keeping new housing out, both economically and in their aesthetic preferences.

Our system for determining who gets to have short commutes and who are damned to long, high carbon commutes, is inherently undemocratic and can not be fixed as is. We need state level regulation to overpower the greed of local entrenched interests.
Sure, but think of the shareholder value they created!
Brings back memories of the time I spent - hours, days, week-on-week - with my Amiga and OctaMED [0].

I may get this - I have tried and tried to get into the usual DAW workflow but each time I gave up - could not get used to them as the Tracker workflow is so ingrained into my mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OctaMED
If you have that to add, I am pretty sure you don't have any formal experience with aviation.

Even the nuts and bolts that go on aircraft can cost >$100. The problems are not all bureaucratic, and I get HN's hate of bureaucracy but for life-and-death matters - I'd rather default to caution than move fast and break necks attitude of SV/Tech.

Just to give you an example, lookup the swissair in-flight entertainment fire incident. Tacking couple of screens and media server onto an existing plane should be fine right? turns out not really and 215 people paid the price of that decision with their lives.

Privacy aside, being watched does affect decision making.

If you think recording people at their jobs will make things safer, why not apply it for the least safe mode of transportation first - why doesn't the gov/NHTSA mandate a video and data recorder in your car and the police and insurance can take a look at it next time you crash to decide who/what caused it.
Also, Cappadocia in Turkey: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia
Ask and it shall be given to you.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52088167

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/who-investigator-adm...
I would say big money was made from asteroids by Atari faster than we will see in the future.
California's Air Resource Board tracks this:

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-data

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-descriptions-sources

The full inventory is quite detailed, and it takes a bit of data mingling to dive deeper, but it can be done.
Same lesson different phrasing —

A CTO was in my country and wanted to see our prototype. We had meetings booked the whole day, and the CTO ran very late... could have easily waited, but decided to go to the next meeting.

Instead in 3 months we flew to the CTOs home base, and the demo fell over... it was fine in our home country, just screwy in the other.

lesson: be with the decision makers as early as you can
Some quick searching showed there are about 10,000 gas station attendant jobs in NJ.

So we could take 5,000 of them and have them dig holes all day. And the other 5,000 could fill in the holes on the following days. That's about as productive.

Or, if we're viewing it purely as a jobs program, find meaningful work, even if it was just patrolling the town they would have pumped gas in & instead picking up any and every piece of litter and garbage they see, documenting potholes they see in the road or loose branches around power lines for the town's DPW to deal with proactively.