skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it’s ADHD or something but my ability to process the article was completely destroyed when I got to the middle of it and it switched to this numbered list. I struggled so hard to try to understand what was being conveyed by the numbered list instead of the previous paragraph format and didn’t get it, that I couldn’t process the content anymore. Can someone throw me a bone and explain what I am missing?
For a paywall-free & ad-free take on this, E4 of the Thinking Nutrition podcast[1] has a well-sourced scientific breakdown of the health benefits of coffee.

[1] https://www.thinkingnutrition.com.au/podcast/
McAfee is sort of given slack because he was bat shit crazy and kind of hilarious while also being a bit of a tech pioneer with a debatable legacy. Im personally not giving him slack, I'm just saying thats why...above him being rich at one point in his life. Also when you have a personal presence in general (through social media) people feel they know you and you are humanized more than some news headline or mug shot.
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I think this discussion of inequality misses a major point: even of a meritocracy is able to be "perfectly fair" when it comes to identifying merit (e.g. ignoring connections or inherited wealth), it still leads to pretty broken societies if there is so much inequality that only the very best of the very best can succeed.

As an example, take the NBA. The NBA does feel like it is about as perfect as it gets when it comes to being a real meritocracy. It doesn't matter so much who your connections or parents are, if you can't win on the court, you're out.

But what happens if the whole economy was like the NBA, where the very best of the very best made millions, and everyone else is left to make minimum wage selling concessions. Well, if you're a scrawny 5'4” dude, you know your options are hopeless, no matter how hard you work, and you just may think "Fuck it all, burn the whole system down, I'm screwed in any case."

I don't believe the whole economy is like the NBA, but it's gotten much closer to those dynamics over the past thirty years with the huge concentration of wealth, much of this due to technology being able to reduce the number of "winner" slots be increasing the size of markets.
Social welfare as in funds for safety nets and public spending, like free healthcare, education, and improved disability, unemployment, and welfare benefits. US chose to spend trillions militarily that otherwise generally could've been allocated to those types of public spending within the US as well.

Refugees that Europe deals with is mostly Syrian and Afghani. The US supplied weapons and support to Syrian rebels and weapons to anti-communist mujahideen.
Now, hindsight is 20/20, but Assad was literally using chemical weapons on Syrian citizens. The Taliban was wantonly wreaking destruction across Afghanistan causing the refugee displacement. These are complex issues when it comes to human rights abuses and geopolitics. My point is that the US paid a price in attempting to be world police, regardless of the outcome. It wasn't economically beneficial as the grandparent comment stated.
This was already starting when I was in university a couple years ago, more accurately people are hearing about it now.
trehalose? not certain.
Or they were, but they had to do more with less. Given how companies love to "cut costs," the dedicated training people who had the time and expertise to think about how the task "should" have been done may have been canned. However, the need still exists, so the task fell on some overworked person with other responsibilities to juggle, who barely has enough time to get a quick an dirty job done with Youtube.

I believe management consultants call that "efficiency."
For 2), something I didn’t realize till recently is that you can “twist” them towards your face to tighten the grip. Perhaps try that?
Like this? If you’re willing to DIY, it’s possible

https://youtu.be/ZxdhG1OhVng
Asking if a commenter is joking goes kind of goes against the HN Guidelines regardless if you wanted to come off as insensitive or not:
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
Unfortunately a new study (not yet peer reviewed) has just come out where they compared the brains of people before and after having covid, and they found "significant losses of grey matter surrounding the olfactory and gustatory system in those that had been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus." So there may actually be neurons involved in smell/taste loss, which isn't great news for the likelihood of these sensations coming back 100%. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210618/Alarming-COVID-st...
Depends on how you define "consumer", but hybrid drones can fly a long time: https://www.quaternium.com/ .
> Your example with public vs private schools has less to do with diminishing public schools and everything to do with their maximizing their own children's education.

Yes, that is exactly how it happens. I agree there is not a specific intent to destroy the middle class. There is an intent by the wealthy to keep their taxes going to only those schools and services that would benefit their children — the rest of the community can just fuck off and get rich if they want good education too.

It's like that in all ways. Not specifically antagonistic toward the working class, just selfish.

Another example: they give money to politicians that will pass legislation that will favor them and theirs. Again, the rest of us can get rich and buy our own politicians if we don't like it.

Human nature? Maybe. And no doubt the working class can behave selfishly as well. But the working class and poor don't have the financial means to bend policy toward their selfishness, only the wealthy can do that.
With all that hydro power, I am surprised they do not have a huge aluminium smelting industry!
I get that in order to answer the question you need data and that often comes from surveys, but I wonder how honest the answers are.

It certainly seems like many of us have worked with people that seem to bring very little value and have roles that if eliminated would have zero long-term impact to the company or society besides saving money...to me, that is a BS job. There are others such as lobbyists that make a big deal of a difference to the company being represented, but have a very negative impact on society (could also be viewed as BS). Personally, I think all of social media also falls into that category despite the fact that you have brilliant people working at those companies making good money for their employer. At the end of the day, they're actively hurting society and just trying to get people to click on ads. If that isn't BS, what is?

So the hard part about this subject (that comes up here time and time again) is that the phenomenon is fairly vague and conceptual and people use different metrics and definitions as to what qualifies.
Thank you for sharing a treasure I somehow missed until today. Would enjoy this style applied to other safety videos!
Don't role your own aggregate statistics when the thing you try to derive by mashing together things created for different purposes is measured or estimated by people.

I don't role my own encryption for public use either.
I hardly understand this comment. Statisticians have been publishing and arguing about models for 100 years now. No one required code to verify authenticity of research. I suppose it is the sorry state of machine learning research that the methodology is so poor that a person cannot verify the research from the paper.
> That doesn’t work because Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc would move to side loading or a freedom store.

I wouldn’t worry about Facebook and Google. Ad vendors will want their wares on as many platforms as possible.

It’s the rent-seekers who want to milk their IP for every last cent that are most likely to go down the ‘freedom store route’. Disney. Sony. And basically every large game company.
Realise that people can be super nice to you and cruel/evil to somebody else. The serial killer living next door might be a great neighbour. That doesn’t change the facts of what he/she is.
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Can you ask for a manual export of some sort? I realize that's annoying, but it seems like it would at least help you out.
> An unsuccessful person who lacks intelligence or conscientiousness but was born into affluence in the US is more likely to remain higher on the socioeconomic ladder than a successful person who has both intelligence and conscientiousness but was born poor.

Are you using the same scales here? If the affluent person was 1% you should take a top 1% person in terms of intelligence or grit. If the affluent person was top 25% in intelligence then the other person should be in a top 25% income family. (top 25% intelligence isn't even 110 IQ, so not high at all)

It isn't fair to take a bottom 10% person with top 2% intelligence and compare that to a top 0.1% in terms of wealth and top 25% in terms of intelligence, but that is the kind of argument people usually makes.
This is truly awful, and honestly shouldn't surprise anyone given the modern cloud approach to software.

I've been thinking a lot lately about ownership. If I have a book, I can interact with it the way the publisher expects (I can read it). But being a physical object, I can also do lots of other things with my book. I can burn it. I can give it to a friend. I can sell it. I can draw in it. I can rip it up and use it as wallpaper. I can get the author to sign the front cover and donate it.

Software used to work this way too. If I have a Word document, I can interact with it the way Word expects - open it, edit it, save it and so on. And I can also do things microsoft doesn't expect. I can put it on my website. I can email it. I can back it up. I can delete it. I can reverse engineer the file format and edit it using other programs. I can archive it for 30 years, and know it will still work when I open it using the version of microsoft Word which created it. And so on.

But the new software model with smartphone apps and data in the cloud takes all this away. You can only do with your data what the publisher expects. If Notion doesn't have a working export API, tough luck. If GMail is missing an API for searching by regular expression, tough luck. If Adobe shuts down their activation servers, or a startup fails, or Google kills a product, tough luck. You've lost all your data. There is no backdoor. There are no other ways, by default, for you to have any agency over your own data that a product manager hasn't approved of. Amazon can delete books that they've already sold you. And they have. You can't sell a game you bought on steam. Or get it signed by the author. Or reverse engineer the raw database entries which store a google doc.

And this sucks. Its disempowering. I love the security on my phone, and the operational simplicity of not needing to manage my own backups. But this? I hate this. I hate that there's a good chance Notion will aquihired by a big tech company and shut down. I'm not ok with my own creations being at the whim of market forces like this.

I reject the idea that word and google docs are the only options. Git + Github is the model I want, where the cloud is a convenience but everything is stored locally as well. We need to start fighting for that.
I don’t see where you asked them to manually generate you a link.
Exactly, I tried that over and over and was ignored.

> I'm again explaining the same thing - If the feature isn't working, this is a critical function that they should at least try to generate manually as per my request.
Most likely a violation if they are not providing data export functionality to EU customers https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/
Well this makes the "should I start using Notion" question easy. 3 months of captive data and stonewalling from support -- wouldn't touch it with ___ foot pole.
No one is arguing against the validity of measurements of homicide rates.

At question is 1) the validity of using murder rate to predict to frequencies of other victim-having crimes and 2) the validity of ignoring between-group variation when drawing conclusions about the relative frequency of crime between different groups.
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Report them to your state's Attorney General. Have a lawyer send them a letter reminding them that you paid for a service that wasn't provided and that it's costing your business money.
Having a US passport entitles citizens to a lot of benefits globally, those benefits have to be paid for. It would seem odd that you can benefit from the US growing up, and once you make it, you can move to the Cayman Islands and not pay for the benefits you have received
Actually democracy is a form of meritocracy where the merit is to get the most votes. Main problem with meritocracy: who defines the merit.
coffee is cringe
It doesn't follow that the rate would need to be "alarming" previously. Imagine 1% of teenagers are trans and 5% of suicides of teenager are trans. It wouldn't matter what the suicide rate would be and it would still have an impact on the total trans rate among 40 year olds.
What does that have to do with opinions?
Nixon wanted to build nukes because nuke construction projects are almost ideal conduits for graft. When a nuke plant construction project goes 400% over budget and 3x over schedule, do we get 400% more nuke plant? No, but every penny goes into somebody's pocket. The ratepayers invariably end up paying through the nose.

This is part of why small-scale factory-built nukes never found a foothold in the US. There just isn't the scope for wholly-legal corruption to generate the institutional support that big nukes got.
Most people have parents with a couch you can crash on.
A threat of legal action will probably go a long way. I might be wrong, but I think it is actually illegal to withhold people's data upon request, especially if you claim to offer the feature. Also false advertising.

I can see how they would try to skirt around it though, they'd probably say that it is a temporary glitch but the functionality is available. That way it wouldn't be them withholding your data or false advertising per se, but rather a temporary incapacitation.

Another option would be to find other Notion customers who have the same issue or who can reproduce the same issue. That is, find other customers who you can ask to try to download their own data as well. If the issue is not isolated to you, then you can take class action against them and they would either have to take the feature down or issue a customer wide notice of of service/feature downtime. Either of these can be deemed a violation of the SLA on their part and give you a legal path for recourse.

In the mean time, you should probably reply to that email telling them to do it manually. Tell them that it is the feature you even got the subscription for. So if they said at the time of contract it is doable, then they ought to be able to do it manually if not via the feature.

Their backlog is none of your concern, they took your money and should deliver otherwise refund you.

Hope that helps.
Property of life detected from altitude in first
Are you people still with status "on waiting". I'm looking forward to this.
I don't know what kind of proof or sources would satisfy you; I concur with the earlier poster that claims that this kind of thing should be considered a 'water is wet' statement, but if I thought that police conducted their affairs 'by the book', i'd have some questions and misgivings about the disproportionately large sums of money that come out of city coffers to pay for settling police misconduct cases[0].

or i'd check out Justice Robert's thoughts on fourth amendment violations with regards to violent police actions[1].

Apparently getting shot can be considered a seizure; plenty of people every day shot in the midst of unwarranted and illegal police actions, by police officers who often fail to convince the courts that their actions could ever be considered reasonable.

I'm not going to bother linking data about 'Police Brutality United States 2020' or 'Police Misconduct United States 2020' -- the datasets are numerous , feel free to google those phrases. I feel as if I were to link one you'd just judge whichever I chose

For every law enforcement officer, who you may anecdotally know personally, that does things 'The Right Way', there is an un-told number of LEOs that fail to share the same altruistic and noble priorities that your friends might.

[0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-misconduct-costs...

[1]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/woman-shot-by-poli...
Well, not at the point where you say "she" instead of "he". The fact that you can come up with a ridiculous example doesn't mean the actual request is ridiculous.
Takeaway: circular polarization of reflected light indicates life, can be detected from altitude and people are working on a sensitive sensor to find it on other planets
$100k is £71k, you’d pay £21k in taxes on that which is 30%
Website review: I thought it was a blog or some kind of list of tutorials, not a product, so I clicked away. Then I reread the title and clicked back. I guess it's a product. I clicked your logo and it went back to facet.space so I concluded that it was a weird website for a product. I glanced through the product page and couldn't really figure out what it was. Finally I clicked the logo from the product page, which is on a different domain, facet.ai and it took me to what I guess is the home page for the product. Very confusing! Would recommend folding whatever facet.space is into facet.ai.
I'm not commenting on whether these programs are a good idea or not. But I wanted to point out one thing about these programs I find funny is while the candidates races may be diverse their educational background is usually quite similar. A program at my work is very similar, and the majority of students went to the top ten CS schools.
Well, it's all relative. Assuming all corporations are equally amoral (or close enough), defense means war profiteering, whereas (traditional) media is a blight on our society that has largely abandoned any pretense of social function and actively holds us back by playing on our collective fears.

On the other hand, pharma as a concept certainly needs to exist to save lives. As a Canadian, pharma is not so bad here, but I believe their existence as a for-profit* entity is contrary to the purpose of universal healthcare, which I think is a common enough sentiment. American pharma, however, actively profits from the inequality inherent to the (rather evil) lack of universal healthcare system. Any positives for society seem strictly incidental, as exemplified by the price of insulin.
Disobeying unjust laws is not cheating.
> That's a strange way to talk about carpet bombing and chemical weapons.

It's widely accepted that the US made seriously grave mistakes.

> Besides, the US lost

I was attempting to phrase it as the US supporting values or institutions that would eventually lead to democracy, not that US support means it will win.

> I don't think the Vietnamese democratic government thanks you for it.

They don't obviously and we ended up with the worst of all outcomes. It would've been better for the Vietnamese people if there was never any civil war, even better if the US hadn't supported the South. But, best of all for the Vietnamese people would've been if the South had won. One look at the GDP difference between Vietnam and Korea would create some serious introspection on that scenario. To save you some time, it's $47,000 to $12,000 PPP.
Seems to be updating as I type for me
Does the Google Play Store require a privacy disclosure that Zuckerberg called a threat to Facebook?
Here is an Intelligence Squared podcast episode with an author (an editor at The Economist) who wrote a book defending the meritocratic system.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-meritocracy-myth-ad...

Like everything in life this is a very nuanced subject and you should think very carefully before making the knee-jerk reaction to try and eliminate rewards for people who work hard.
TFA that all these comments are commenting on. Didn't you read it?
Look up LEGO Worlds. It’s almost a great building game. Fun with kids.
there's a lesson in here somewhere....
That would be the end of females in the Olympics. Male High School Athletes beat Female Olympians in most events:

https://boysvswomen.com
We would only need to rewrite the bad history books, which are, to be fair to you, an awful lot of them. :)
From a technical perspective, why can't they manually create an export? How many man hours are needed to do this?

Or, does this mean their backend development breaks their export code, so heavy rewrite the export code is required to make export work again?
At the end of the day if you have 1 position and 4 applicants, the only way you can opt out of a meritocracy is selecting randomly.

It turns out meritocracy is like reason. You can't criticize reason without appealing to reason just like you can't criticize meritocracy without appealing to meritocracy. Notice how everyone who criticizes meritocracy is criticizing a specific meritocracy based on its unfairness (this essay certainly is). So why do they all use the universal form when they're talking about a particular one?

Also, something I don't understand here is the idea that meritocracy is bad because people don't have equal opportunities. It isn't good that people don't have equal opportunities but it doesn't really have anything to do with meritocracy. If John gets straight As, and aces his SATs, and comes up with a novel theorum by age 25 because he has good parents and Jim doesn't because his parents suck, sure that's unfair, but what does it have to do with meritocracy? Is our meritocracy supposed to punish John for having good parents and reward Jim for having bad ones? Is that somehow more fair than rewarding John because of his demonstrated ability?
Much like you posted your story on HN, make a twitter/linkedIn post and let it go viral. More viral it goes, more chances that the features will be requested by others and more chances of it getting due love by the engineering team. I am not a fan of social shaming, but sometimes that is the last resort and that's what you are doing.
These ability also differ (or can be influenced) by culture so ... I wouldn't make any universalist claims based on human perception.
It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004) [pdf]
I mean...yes, many people do exactly that.
No one was talking about accidents.
No.

Equality focuses on normalizing the distribution of resources, while equity distributes resources to normalize the outcome.

Equality, given a group of people, would aim to put them on a level playing ground by allocating the same level of resources to each. Equity however, would allocate resources to try and achieve similar outcomes across the people. People performing worse would thus get more resources in equity, but would receive the same amount.

The two are thus mutually incompatible. To a certain extent, some games can be played with the definition, such as what to include under the "level playing field". An example here would be the inclusion of natural talent and propensity for work that is generally considered innate. Should this be
I recently closed a bank account (due to Simple being acquired and the debacle of BBVA and now PNC) and it was quite difficult. I just wanted a "you send me a check with my remaining balance and we're done," and instead they told me I needed to withdraw my cash to zero (with limits that would have taken months), and only then could I close my account.

Eventually, I was told a workaround where I could "Bill Pay" my own credit card for an unlimited amount and then close the account. But it's not like banks are strictly easy in comparison.
Watch 'The Fall' mini-series for a good example