skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in Sweden we use them a lot. Most of the time they work really well and it's not like they are useless just because it gets really cold. They still help a lot even if the traditional heater element might need to kick in for short periods. It's usually not until 20 below freezing that they don't add much, but those temperatures are not a daily occurrence for most of us.
Occupy certainly brought wealth inequality to more of a forefront of the conversation, but I wouldn't say it began the culture war. I'm old enough to remember the early 90s and the start of the permanent campaign and professional outrage of media. But the culture war has been going on since at least the mid 50s with desegregation.

Even in 1954, comedians were complaining about not being able to make a joke anymore.[0]

[0] https://www.truthorfiction.com/june-1954-jack-albertson-lame...
I don’t understand
They probably have computers on the outgoing checkpoint too. Maybe walk across Rio Grande or something. Or just go to Florida and swim for a really long time.
FTA:

"“So much in our field is not reproducible, so it’s a huge advantage to understand when data streams might not be reliable,” Schrag says."

I am just a lowly engineer, but this alarms me. Why is anything that has not been reproduced considered valid science by anyone? Why aren't our standards higher?

If you can't reproduce an experimental result, it is useless information is it not? At least an experiment that can be reproduced yet fails to prove a hypothesis can teach you something. An experiment that cannot be reproduced yields no useful information. In fact, it can even mislead!

I just don't understand the motivations at play. These are obviously intelligent people who know that you can't fake reality, so why do they publish fraudulent papers? Just for short-term gain? Do they become blinded by belief in their hypothesis?
That’s extrapolating just from current capabilities. I think there’s chance we will figure real reasoning in AI in next 10 years given interest/investment in field.
The key insight missed by this paper (and people from the marketing field in general) is that cases like that are extremely rare compared to easy to predict cases. They don't matter right now at all for most products, from the perspective of marketing ROI.

Also ML can predict that, BTW. Facebook knows you are connected to your parents. If the pillow seller tells Facebook that your parents bought the pillow, then Facebook knows and may choose to show you an ad for that pillow.
Should we treat all behaviors that are associated with a significantly increased mortality rate the same way, or should we pick and choose depending on the political and social context at the time, like we do with seatbelts?
I agree.

Correcting the many incentive problems in modern American science would need a hypothetical body with significant funding leverage over journals & scientists to exert executive action. Sadly there is no such centralized funding body, so the problem must be unsolvable.
It doesn't though. We accept unsafe intersection in America that could be made a lot safer. I've also lived in 6 different car dependent places in my life, and all of them are amenable to biking, its just a scary proposition with the current infrastructure.

I think a lot of the deaths are put in the realm of "personal responsibility" - we don't pursue safer options, even for cars, because it's always someone's fault something bad happened, rather than intrinsic to the design of the road.

We create roads where people would feel safe going 65mph down them, then slap a 35-45mph speed limit on it, and call it a day.
Litecoin was the third cryptocurrency to be added, and it was the most obvious choice to be next, seeing as how it had the next highest market cap after Bitcoin and Ethereum. Before Ethereum was a thing, Litecoin spent a lot of time as the #2 cryptocurrency. It was the original "altcoin". There was already massive demand to add Litecoin, which is probably a key reason that they hired Charlie in the first place.
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I have a simpler explanation: people collectively are quite willing to let thousands of people they don't know when the alternative is any form of even mild inconvenience to themselves.

Sensible gun regulations like red flag laws for those with mental issues or convictions for domestic violence or even just background checks? Well that might make it slightly more difficult to buy a gun so that's a "no".

More than a million Americans died of Covid, at a peak of over 3,000 a day. For reference, that's basically a 9/11 every day. Mask mandates to reduce transmission rate? Getting vaccinated to hopefully reach herd immunity? Nope.

American corporations routinely outsource activity to other countries that frequently use effective if not actual slave labor or otherwise horrible working conditions? Nope, we're OK with that too.

How easily we trade convenience for the lives of people we don't know says a lot about human nature.
You left Europe because of consumer protection laws? To solve a problem that is actually global and, if it really bothers you, can be solved with a browser plugins that clicks yes?

Rather odd choice, but everyone has their priority I suppose.
You should take a breath and chill with the Jingo.

> are all countries willing to adopt German fiscal discipline?

Most of them have already, you just don't read about it. If anything, German authorities have been excellent at gaming the EU framework, siphoning state aids to this or that industry with all the possible loopholes they could find, while everyone else had to renounce (or even denounce) the practice.

> Are all countries ok with levelling out retirement age?

The pension age in Germany is 65 years ("and 10 months", in my best Lester Freamon accent). In profligate Italy? 67. So yeah, let's have that.

> Social benefits?

Honestly, you don't want to trade benefits with the army of temp workers that Italian "reforms" have generated. They get hardly any paid holiday or sickness, can be fired with no recourse year by year, and so on. German workers get trade union representation at board level, something that simply does not exist in Italy even in the most enlightened companies. They get loads of paid holidays and so on.

> Now they are an economic powerhouse. With 0 natural resources

Ah yes, the Ruhr never existed. From wikipedia: "The Ruhr was at the centre of the German economic miracle Wirtschaftswunder of the 1950s and 1960s, as very rapid economic growth (9% a year) created a heavy demand for coal and steel." All that coal must have been a dream.

Italy had an economic boom in the postwar age too. After all, they were fellow victims of Allied carpet-bombing of industrial infrastructure, and fellow enjoyers of the Marshall Plan. The main difference is that Italy made a few bad choices in the '80s (and possibly another one in the late '90s, when they accepted an Euro/Lira rate too low).

In any case, this attitude is not constructive. It's good that the German political classes, at least, have finally realized that the hipocrisy of privately benefiting from a sclerotic status quo while publicly denouncing it, could not go on forever. Let's build the United States of Europe, everyone doing their bit so we can fulfil the federal dream and be done with these petty rivalries from 200 years ago.
Are you arguing that drivers don't have any control over their level of risk on the road? Sure they can't eliminate 100% of risk, but not speeding and not driving drunk absolutely influences a driver's likelihood of being in an accident.
My "never again" story was around a decade ago. Thoughtworks had me interview with roughly a dozen people over half a dozen or more interviews, lasting ~20 hours (if you include the proctored Wunderlic test they administered to me on premises). At the end of that lengthy process, they said they would have loved to bring me on but "didn't have any open positions that fit my set of skills". You know, that set of skills I listed next to my work experience on my 2-page resume.

I no longer submit applications to any job until I've spoken to someone who works there to ask hard questions of them before I interview. I also no longer consider any job that lacks clear articulation of the platonic ideal of a candidate.
Because if you don't kill yourself, insurance will care footing the bill to send you to the hospital. Maybe insurances shouldn't cover people without seatbelts and have the ambulance let them be injured at the scene.
That bit me the other day. Had an emergency and needed to grab a ride, and uber listed a few cars with ~10-15min wait. 2hrs later nothing.
Believe it or not, cleaning dead bodies off the road everyday has a cost.
The increase in astroturfing is what I see as the biggest change to HN over time that makes it more like reddit. As HN becomes larger it becomes a larger target for corporate interests. You don't see too many companies successfully promoting crappy products on HN, but I notice lots of articles that are negative towards corporations get flagged and/or swarmed with positive comments. I think this is just something that happens as you grow larger. And as you grow larger you have more people with a wider spectrum of opinions, and while you'd hope the discussions would be civil the mods seem quicker to shutdown topics they believe will lead to flame wars.

That said, it's easy to be critical and hard to be constructive. I still come to HN regularly so there's obviously something to it. I'm not pretending to have the magic bullet to these problems (some of which I believe are fundamental/intractable).

EDIT: I find it ironic this post has fallen off the first page of HN before I finished this comment, despite having many comments and being something I find interesting.
It's super smart to turn a project disaster into free advertising for your website! I hope your gambit pays off.
During which conversation a fairly large number of HN commenters thought that crypto insider trading wasn't illegal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012837
Famously, "What is our one demand?"
This is a manifestation of how we’ve sleepwalked a situation where Google probably should have fallen foul of antitrust legislation but haven’t.

They have a pretty tight control over video hosting, video monetisation and video discovery, making it impossible for an incumbent to enter into one of those markets without challenging Google in all three.
>> it seems based on a lie cited over 2000 times in further papers.

Since papers tend to get published only if they have positive results, what does it mean for thousands of publications all citing a fraudulent paper? This seems really strange. If the first 1000 failed to produce results and were partially based on that original paper it should cast significant doubt on it, but again failures are rarely published.

What does this mean then?
I had a similiar experience. After what felt like a long journey, and then receiving an offer that was less than my then base pay, I refuse to talk to companies that won't give me a pay range.
The most powerful results in science are continually reproduced by being built upon to uncover further new knowledge. I'm no expert in the toxic oligomer hypothesis or Aβ hypothesis, but it appears that these paths have led to very little new knowledge.
Spec is from this page, right?

https://tinypilotkvm.com/product/tinypilot-voyager2

What is confusing? Quick Google shows similar specs for Pi fans at 18 decibels.

Are you saying that’s to loud? RPM must be a typo? Something else?
It depends on the fob. I didn't get it to read mine.

That said, there was a post on Reddit of a EMT driver who used theirs to clone dozens of remotes that the ambulances need to open the gate to bring in a patient.
> This seems like terrible advice for most people though.

But why?

Maybe reducing number of companies you apply to lets you focus much more on getting prepared and this leads to you standing out from other candidates?

Remember, you don't need a thousand jobs, you just need one. One that suits you.

If I am interviewer and I see a candidate that looks like he/she is prepared, did their research and genuinely care and want to work for the company I work for, don't you think this is huge advantage when comparing to other candidates, all else being equal?

And it is rare that all else is being equal. People who are genuinely prepared typically tend to do a lot of other things right.
I had two friends that were killed in a car crash inside city limits. One guy was turning left, and the other guy going 90 miles an hour in a 40 mile zone. Happened around midnight. Hit them perpendicular, and killed two friends and critically injured driver who survived and is recovering.

Have become much more sensitive about car crashes and speeding as a result obviously. Forces you to re-assess your life.

Realistic solution - Install speeding cameras everywhere, and most intersections. And levy heavy fines if a person is speeding 20 miles above speed limit, possibly even revoking driver's license in that case.
Right: public transport puts you in media res, exposing you to the other people around you. That's overwhelmingly average folks trying to go between work, home, and errands, but it's also the occasional disturbed person.

I will not deny that you'll find all kinds of antisocial behavior on public transit. What I'll say is this: that it's fundamentally a civic issue and not a public transit issue, and that even with all that behavior we still see nowhere near the amount of death and disfigurement that people experience on America's roads on a daily basis.

To make it pithy: we incorrectly prioritize the feeling of environmental safety over statistical safety. The reality is that the inebriated homeless guy on the subway is much less likely to harm you or take your life than the inebriated driver in the next lane.
That's my experience as well. There isn't a nicer one than DRF / Starlette, but for a specific use case, you can get away with a custom one no problem.
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I have a slight dilemma, I am a CS graduate with no experience in real software development jobs. I can't get a job for two main reasons:

1) There are NO local jobs (I live in a shitty developing country).
2) Can't relocate to a different country due to financial issues. Aka, I don't have that much money.

What I am trying to do is get internships or preferably a remote junior position with only my CS degree.

Is this possible? Could you guide me?
I'm not even sure there's enough consideration on the other side of the contract at the pre-interview stage, for the NDA to be valid. Definitely a strange practice at any rate.
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A client paid me $7,500 for a site in 2011, approved the final version, but never got around to giving me the hosting information. It never went live. The screenshots were fine portfolio pieces and I spent their money, but I’m still annoyed by that.
I definitely feel safer on public transit. I live in an upper class neighborhood and I'm not sure if there's much more dangerous in this world than an entitled, distracted, moderately wealthy person driving an SUV that has places to go.

I leave the actual wealthy out of this because they just pay someone else to drive.
it was too late for him.
Most cities here require low or ultra low emission burners, which burn at high temperature, so often the temperature is kept low.

And you are absolutely correct about venting heat. I have not to my knowledge seen a home here with an externally ducted air source. So the room is heated, and heat (warm air) is sucked out of the rest of the house.

Wood is cheap here, and so people often believe it is more efficient jot counting the inefficiencies of wood.
The same issues exist. The next dodgy scientist on the hamster wheel looking to get a name for themselves will claim reproducibility and then publish a follow up in the spirit of publish or perish. You could further entrench the issue with this approach, unfortunately.
I am somewhat surprised by how poorly the production cost tracks bitcoin's price on the upswing. Obviously there's friction and delay in spinning up new mining rigs, but I guess I would've expected that delay to be less severe - even if you were spinning up less efficient chips, it'd still be profitable if the hash rate and price were far apart.

Maybe this was exacerbated by the covid chip shortage, and we might expect closer tracking in the future?
Aside from the fact your own death is always going to impose a cost on society, I'd assume having a seatbelt on as a driver significantly increases your ability to maintain at least some control of a vehicle in a collision, reducing your chance of injuring others (both in and outside said vehicle).
First I must say, in the city I'll park my car at the outskirts and take public transit so I admit it's situational. I don't like driving with so many unpredictable pedestrians running around, you could end up in prison because someone had a few too many drinks and fell into the road.

But in your example I'd have a good chance to prevent a collision. I'd already have my foot on the brake due to the crosswalk there. I will have brought my speed down that I will be able to stop should someone suddenly appear within it. A kid could pop out from between those two cars on the right chasing a ball, so you need to have a stopping distance of perhaps 2 - 3 feet maximum, depending what vehicle of mine I am driving that's probably 20 - 25 mph maximum. 25 mph is the speed limit there so I probably wouldn't even get tailgaters at that speed, but I don't care if I do. That intersection is a good place for a rolling stop, where you bring the car down to perhaps 5mph before you proceed, mostly because of the sidewalks on both sides and the risk of kids running around or riding bikes. That's a residential street, there should be no need to move quickly down it.

In addition to all that my car has a top of line collision avoidance system, side curtain airbags, a high crash rating, etc. I always wear my seatbelt and keep my kid strapped in with a age appropriate booster seat.

I'm not saying I'm perfect but being careful can reduce your personal risk considerably.
Off topic but do you just love wine and pleasant social spaces, or is there something about the whole wine bar experience in particular that makes it special, especially compared to other kinds of bars and cafes?
Are you saying that you legally can't leave a hospital until somebody else promises to take care of you? That sounds a little unsettling. What do they do if somebody just walks out?
Sometimes I wonder if the long interview process isn't a psychological game. Maybe they think they can leverage sunk cost fallacy against you just so they can low-ball you. Yeah, the pay might not be great, but if you walk away now, you'll have wasted 9 weeks of effort! You can't give up now. You're invested. ;-)
> We can certainly point to the meteoric rise of Figma as being a key factor, but that alone is too simple.

I think it's just simple enough.

Going from a Sketch + InVision + Zeplin workflow to a Figma workflow was a revelation. Figma replaces those 3 products, and does a better job of all of them, plus it adds a lot of new things (multiplayer alone would sell most teams on it, but you could name 10 other killer features).

For a lot of designers, the first time they tried Figma, they didn't ever want to go back.

At that point, it didn't matter what InVision did in response, they never stood a chance.
"YouGov released an online poll" -- stopped reading right there
This goes straight to the article’s point that we tend to care about things that don’t actually matter as much when they seem worse. The hypothetical bus driver suicide seems bad if he takes out other people with him, it’s easy to imagine being a passenger with no control and meeting a terrifying doom. Let’s just nevermind that it almost never happens, and forget that suicide car drivers is a much, much more likely occurrence in the real world. And bad drivers accidentally taking out people near them happens way more often than anything to do with suicides. You’re far less likely to be killed on a bus than in a car, hands down. Wanting to drive a car instead simply highlights our flawed emotional thinking.
Hertz hired a new CIO in 2015, and you can't just come in and keep the ship running in the same direction. You need new, big, flashy changes! Not just $32M, actually over $400M in changes, to prove the CIO knows what he's doing. Compare the article with the CIO's self provided description of his 3 years at Hertz(from his Linkedin):

> I was hired by Hertz to integrate and optimize technology infrastructure following the acquisition of Dollar/Thrifty car brands into Hertz Global Holdings. Reported to the CEO and led a team of 1,200 professionals in eCommerce delivery, customer digital experience, digital business processes and communications, information security, IT operations and delivery, and new digital ventures. Consolidated car rental systems, transitioning from legacy mainframe to the Cloud and rebuilding the fleet reservation and accounting system to streamline all aspects of the customer lifecycle. Aligned digital initiatives (IoT, AI, CRM, Big Data, Mobile) into the strategic business planning process.

> My Achievements Include:

> § Drove technology integration of the multi-billion dollar acquisition of Dollar/Thrifty car brands. Transitioned Mainframe/Cobol to Cloud/Microservices to support the new technology infrastructure utilizing an agile development cycle.

> § Reduced technology spend by 20% and enhanced customer service and product offerings through a complete system project redesign (CRM, Fleet, Rental, Reservation, Data Warehouse).

> § Improved marketing and revenue segmentation by optimizing technology to more effectively align brand/service offerings to Corporate vs. Leisure consumers.

> § Realized a 35% increase in website visits and 12% growth in conversion rates by spearheading redesign and modernization of the e-commerce platform utilizing microservices technology and AWS Cloud environment.
We need a good examination on when and how so many people got tricked into thinking cynicism is the same thing as critical thinking. The conservatives dismantled your public education, not the liberals and progressives and social democrats. The conservatives are also organizing on discords and 4chans to upvote shitty Both Sides Fallacies on social media, such as yours.

Feel free to provide voting records that show your theory. You will quickly move goalposts and start more clearing citing conspiracy theories, because Both Sides Are Nowhere Near The Fucking Same.