jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Don't governments always write themselves an exemption from following laws for everyone else? I imagine they are exempt by law from things that would land others in court or jail.
I think it is more complicated than that. There are political factors at play. It is not as if every American has a direct voice in the budget. It is less than 50% of what is was but at the same time it is a 0.9% drop so I think we should be careful what conclusions we draw here.
This is quite relevant because the probability of combining these specific words together is very low.
Fair enough. I had taken that to mean they were assuming a given to then prove the negative.
A lot of these posts have been appearing on the front page. I post something like this when I see them - SSRIs (Lexapro for me) saved my life. Absolute night and day difference. Until you experience true anxiety and depression for years, you can’t possibly understand what a game changer this medication is for those it works for. Don’t let articles spook you - if you are suffering get help.
It's been pretty camp for a long time though. As a European living in the US I got a good laugh when my American friends watched the Will Ferrell movie "Eurovision". Especially when I got to explain to them that it wasn't even all that exaggerated and some of the characters were actually real-life former contestants.
My initial impression is that there are big problems with meeting these requirements.

For (1), I don't think there's any good way to reduce the property of being an "actual human" to data that can be verified algorithmically.

For (3), if by this you mean that such a record exists in a US government database, I'm not even sure that can be done even without requirement (4).
Why not use something like lmdb instead of writing raw files? It's a performant k/v store and memory mapped. It beats file access syscalls most of the time.
Agreed. The article doesn't seem to have a strong case to make, and so has to cut corners on its evidence to make it seem right. A beautiful example is

> The silicon sultans are some of the few businesspeople who can compete with the robber barons in terms of ownership. Today most firms are widely held by large numbers of shareholders: the largest individual shareholder in Exxon, is Rex Tillerson, the company’s chief executive. He owns 0.05% of the stock. Together Sergey Brin and Larry Page and Eric Schmidt control two-thirds of the voting stock in Google. Mark Zuckerberg owns 20% of Facebook shares but almost all of its “class B” shares, which have ten times the voting power of ordinary shares.

So it makes a point about ownership, then compares Exxon's CEO's low _ownership_ with Facebook and Google founders' high _voting rights_. Not the same thing. For comparison, Schmidt has 2% of Google at the moment. And let's not forget Standard Oil started in 1870. How much stock shall we expect Google's CEO in 120 years to have?

> Today Google and Apple between them provide 90% of smartphone operating systems

These are two large companies competing heavily, investing billions of dollars for something that they give away free (Google esp, though apple makes its money on hardware so I would claim it doesnt charge for the OS).

To say that this is an "unparalleled concentration of power" is ridiculous. Specifically, it is a lesser concentration of power than Standard Oil, which was the comparison the article was trying to draw. If you take a group of competitors and put them in a single group and declare them to be the same, then of course you're going to mistake it for a monopoly. But that doesn't make it one.

I really expected better from the economist.
>If you use Fi, messages mimics imessages (in that you can use it online)

To be fair that is available for all US carriers at this time. I've had RCS working on Mint(T-mobile) and now Visible(Verizon) for years.
> which many of history's great minds have reasoned about and scrutinized

This is an appeal to authority. "It's good cuz these people said so"
That is very very wrong. Thai law doesn't allow you to work on a tourist visa, even if you are working for someone outside of Thailand, it is very unambiguous on this point and they have been cracking down on co-working spaces accordingly. Almost all countries are like this actually.
Shit happens, why are you still there?
Is mask wearing, temporary social distancing, and vaccination asking too much from the individual to sustain the weakest and most vulnerable in society?
I actually posted on a somewhat related topic here:

- https://managingml.substack.com/p/ml-model-training-is-an-et...

As an ML manager one of the things that I dislike about the Databricks model is the reliance on notebooks and bespoke interactive cluster workflows.

ML workloads are stuck in the stone age because there’s no common pattern to plug them into existing ETL frameworks, but really that is what they are.

Model training is an ETL that just happens to need unique domain tools to visualize how it’s succeeding / track observability metrics. But apart from that, you really need to automate model training and experimentation.

It is a total antipattern to ever use notebooks, or even non-notebook code developed interactively. Rather you should be submitting tasks to a task queue that maps your ML exploratory workload or training workload to a scheduled compute resource, runs it with observability baked in, and treats outputs like schema’d outputs of more traditional ETLs.

Instead of that, Databricks is much more of an early 2000s MATLAB model. Make it addictive and easy for unpragmatic researchers detached from real production use cases, then figure employers will have to adopt it since all the expensive-to-hire researchers can only be productive with it.

Long term I think it’s a very bad gamble. Just consider how much open source Python tools have eaten MATLAB’s lunch in the past 10 years.
> Both of those points you're quoting parts of sound totally arguable

Her _whole_ article is how you can't lump people into a group and then she does it in her conclusion. How is that not contradictory? Do a search on twitter for 'TERF', count up how many tweets are from woman/men and then tell me it's legitimate to generalize to white, straight men.
The transition from slave ownership to slavery as a service is truly one of the most disruptive innovations of the last 200 years.
To build on that, most scientists* are also terrible at statistics.

Perhaps more controversially, I also don't think statistics in general is a particularly rigorous or well-founded field. Where there is any analysis at all in the field - that is, very rarely - it provides guarantees only with hefty assumptions and in the limit. I'm fine with that from a theoretical perspective, but practitioners of all stripes seem to assume that with real world phenomena, the data either satisfy the assumptions or, more defensibly, don't violate the assumptions by enough to invalidate the results.

I don't know about others, but I see real-world datasets all the time that wildly invalidate the assumptions of common regression analysis, to take just one example.

To reign this little rant back into a well-formed comment, perhaps my summary is "everything and everyone is wrong, almost all the time, and I'm not quite sure how to fix that."

* In my personal experience.
Sometimes it is people with too much money wanting to see someone in person to argue with them or help them validate their views. See this excerpt from the Ezra Klein show (note that PG is not an official, there is zero point in bribing him):

---

What do you think of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies as a broad category?

PAUL KRUGMAN: It’s a solution in search of a problem. I’ve done this. I’ve made quite a lot of money on Bitcoin.

EZRA KLEIN: No kidding.

PAUL KRUGMAN: Not by investing in it, which I would never do. But by being the designated enemy at Bitcoin conferences and getting paid speaking fees.

[LAUGHTER]

---
I haven't done any research on this particular system/device myself. I skimmed this article and just finished the Twitter thread about the other product designed to count people.

Beyond the boogeymen watching the feed threat, this device itself can easily be taken over given the relaxed/non-existent security mentioned (everyone getting admin). This can in turn lead to all kinds of shenanigans ...
There's an old movie called They Live, starring wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper.

It was supposed to be satire on consumer culture. Looking at it again, it's could be called forward time shifted documentary.

Now that you've become "Red Pilled" as wrong thinker, you'll search out for more truths.

Especially how the establishment elite class pushes propaganda and pits the lower classes against each other.

When lower classes are fighting each other about racism, etc. then they don't have time to fight against oligarchy. How the establishment elite keeps getting richer every second.
I think he was thinking something to indicate that the current thing you were doing is using the network: an alternative wait cursor would be a nice touch.
Criticism of an earlier claim for a depression blood test:

http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2014/09/25/critique-claim...
Here is a summary of HtWFaIP that I stumbled upon the other day: http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.htm...
I think the correct approach is a mix. I firmly believe that one of the things that makes good programmers good is developing the correct habits. Once something has been ingrained as a habit you don't even think about it any more and just do it.

I'd take a book like Scott Meyer's new Effective Modern C++ book (which I recommend) and focus on applying one item every week. At the start of the week read through the item. Every time you write code for that week make an effort to see if that item applies to what you're doing. Maybe read the item again midweek or towards the end of the week to see if the practical experience changes your view on what he wrote. The book contains 42 items so if you go through it like this you'd be done in less than a year.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't read the whole book at once. However, if you just read it through once and put it on the shelf I don't think you'll get the same benefit that you would get from spending time focusing on individual areas.
Neutrino being faster than light when both in the water doesn't mean anything regarding c as a barrier.
There are a lot of things that should probably be fixed in the immigration system/laws, but starting out by labeling one side "anti-immigration" is probably not the best place to start.

If you have something to say that is worthwhile, there is no need to apply labels to people who may think differently.
This. I was offered a job at a top-10 US tech company, which would have been a massive pay and career boost, and turned it down largely because the US seems so screwed up (politics and healthcare being prime examples).

(They then offered me pretty much the same job, but working in their European office, so win/win :D )
http://www.nominet.org.uk/uk-domain-names/about-domain-names...

In the UK whois privacy is only for non-trading individuals (i.e. for personal Web sites) and always has been I think.
I don't get the hype about Swift. There are at least 4 features in Swift I can think of that are just plain clunky:

1. Backslashed opening parens for string templating
2. Parameter labels and the use of _ when ignored
3. Splitting method names across opening parens eg. `move (to ....`
4. Verbose NSString Objective-C hangover in regular expressions
Theta is the angle, r is the radius.

Thus PMs are good at figuring out in what direction to concentrate their effort, and then the engineers make progress in that direction. That's how I interpreted it at least.
Yeah, if your team is made up of people from USA, France, Russia, India, China and Korea then you have plenty of diversity even if none of them are black. I'd argue that they are more diverse than a team comprised of people grown up in USA with latino, black, white and asian exteriors.
For U2F I don't believe that's the case for most devices.

Yubikey outlines their method here[1]. They generate a different keypair for each website public key and have the server store an encrypted and authenticated copy of the private key using a single on-device key. So baring breaking the underlying primitives the server will only have a site-specific public key and a site-specific encrypted blob.

[1]: https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Key_gener...
I couldn’t find a clear definition of “public performance”. Everything I found related to a bar playing a song or a cover artist playing a song for money.
I suffer from IBS as well and out of all the things that flares up my IBS, stress is a prominent one. Reading research papers, its been seen that gut biome changes based on stress - look up gut-brain connection, theres been a few books written about it as well.

Its a fairly new thing - from about 15 years back. Nowadays one of the treatments that a gastroenterologist could recommend if they have exhausted everything else is low dose anti-depressant.

Key is to identify what is causing stress and treat that
This is interesting. I was never diagnosed with anything (too poor to go to the doctor at the time, even with insurance), but I came to the conclusion that I had a similar issue: bad (or overgrown) bacteria housed snugly in biofilm. As mentioned here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119265), someone suggested taking digestive enzymes on an empty stomach would help to break down the biofilm and allow healthier bacteria a chance to eatablish themselves.

Two different self-treatments aimed at what seem to be similar issues with anecdotal success. Hm. I really, really do hope that all aspects of our experiences get studied more thoroughly in the future.

Thanks for sharing.
Then tell Instagram how offensive you find them.
It can be done if the people have good equipement and REALLY know what they are doing.

The trouble is that the venue hire the cheapest people to fit the system and have no clue how to run it. Since nobody knows how the good the system is before they do the show you have to trust the venue - when you find out it's crap it's too late - so there's no incentive to do a good job.
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-custome...

http://steveblank.com/category/customer-development/

http://venturehacks.com/articles/customer-development

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976470705

http://www.amazon.com/New-Business-Road-Test-entrepreneurs/d...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5E38frHo1U

etc.
I scored identically, and my experience mirrors yours; it's amazing what a decade can do, and social skills can be learned like any other, which I suspect affected the score quite significantly.

Yet, while my confidence in social situations has improved as a result, they still wear me down very quickly. And, teaching myself to recognize when I'm being paralyzed by social anxiety doesn't make pushing through it any easier, it just speeds the process up a bit.

We humans are odd animals.
Why wouldn't you just use POST? Being "RESTful" is even more ridiculous than validating strict XHTML, since, apparently, it causes you to build an unnecessary patch for your webserver. Just because a feature exists doesn't mean you are bound to use it (PUT, DELETE). The distinctions are nonsense.
It's not "my" cheerleading list; it's distilled contents of the two official responses. If you disagree with them, you disagree with the article.

I believe Poulsen more than I believe Greenwald, but that's neither here nor there. Unless you think I've misrepresented the article, leave me out of it.
I always avoided Starbucks due to the two hour limit. Not that I often exceed it, but just on principle. Also it was always a hassle to have to use a gift card to get the free access.

I can see myself visiting Starbucks from now on.
Clearly I was not talking about Research at academic institutions. I'm sure your research is valuable.
While I agree with all your points it's still the shittiest implementation that I have seen. I have been using Telegram Web, and it works delightfully without having to connect my phone to the web. Line has it's own desktop program since at least a year.

I have no idea why they decided to go this route, none whatsoever. It looks more like a hack than an official solution. I've been following Whatsapp since 2010, and to me it always has looked like a bad company. They haven't really taken care of the security of their platform until they have reached 500 million users. The more I read about Whatsapp, the more I think that they just got lucky.
If you mean the California law, I think the big difference is that under AB5, workers can only be independent contractors if the work they do is "outside the usual course of a company's business".

There's no way driving for Uber can ever meet that criteria. Fiverr, on the other hand, often meets that definition.

The US federal rules are more subjective, but more generally about "control". Not as stark a difference as the AB5 example, but it does feel like Fiverr workers have more control over things like "picking their tools", "exactly how to do the work", etc.
I have similar feelings and thoughts about remote work, I've been working remote in some capacity for over a decade, but I'm careful to ensure that remote doesn't turn into isolated. I've seen that happen before, both to myself and to others, and it's a dangerous place to be in a team environment.
Yeah, up until you need some extra functionality and you fall into the Inner-Platform effect (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect). Promises are a well-established and battle-tested standard, I'd be very weary of someone reimplementing them for no reason.
This was a great read. I think the true value of money is one of HN's biggest bubbles: the average person on here (but not all of us!) jumped right from their undergraduate career to making a six-figure salary in a city with lavish public amenities (by American standards). It's very easy to forget that the average American salary is less than half of that, and even that hides the number of people living well below the poverty line.
Hotz has a lot of great ideas (and some not-so-great ideas). This can't be a serious one and I'm sure he's just trolling as per usual.
This has very much been the case for me when trying out V.
It advertises some great features that just barely works in the right circumstances.
I think this article starts to touch on a topic area I don't hear much about but am extremely frustrated by: how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude. In the "When They Know They've Got You" section, they mention the real challenges of not being able to obtain a lawyer if things truly aren't fair. The average worker can't afford anything without taking on debt. Insurance is a scam in a lot of cases but if a worker is sick it will only hurt the worker not the company a lot of the time. To make matters much worse, the corporations lobby the government and fund all candidates and have seemingly captured the government so no changes are being made. Healthcare, extremely high rent, and things like property tax where failure to pay sends you to prison are used as the means of coercion. If the United States continues on the current political course, nothing will ever change.
The fact that objective data exists and there is a logical chain of reasoning showing causation is the distinction.
If you like very flexible work, low pay, and generally low stress, get yourself wired into the bureaucracy at a big public university.
All my past comments on HN defending Signal against Telegram now look laughable.
I imagine signal+mob will have an honest foundation-style grant system which will give tons of money to groups that did not get included in the first crypto wave.
Looks like we agree in principle.

Other industries/areas have firmly established standards. Our industry needs those too, badly. Not just for style, but overall for design and architecture.

Maybe it's because software development is so easily accessible that we don't have them yet. To become a surgeon, you need to go to med school for an eternity. To become a construction engineer you need training and government certification. Both areas move slowly, compared to programming. In our industry, a language that's older than 10 years is called "mature" and the hipsters leave it for a younger one. And the next 16-year old can jump right in. That's not bad, it keeps our industry exciting, but it does not allow us to establish rules everybody agrees to, applies and defends.
They are profiling like crazy. I'm pretty sure they have at least an estimated income attached to almost every single of us. Also, they do have credit card numbers for those who buy ads.

But it may have just been a generic statement.
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LUMESCA are always hiring smart people in all fields and welcome speculative applications. Right now we have openings in Finance, Procurement, and ERP/data for instance. Since I am often asked, we can't do internships for fully remote, but we can for a hybrid remote.
If you had bought 8 years ago and sold after the first double or triple, you'd have the same confirmation bias problem as if you'd never bought at all.

Most people would find reasons why they were right to sell and forgo all the 10x's after they sold. They'd be on HN talking about speculation, tulips, buying drugs on the internet, terrorist financing, and wasteful energy usage.

I'm not immune from this. I bought Tesla and Netflix early, and sold after the first triple. Then I spent a lot of time finding fault with Tesla and Netflix as they continued to rise without limit while I watched from the sidelines.

I was wrong about Tesla and Netflix. I made tremendous errors in judgment by selling far too soon.

At least for me, it's much easier to pretend I've been right all along and the entire market is wrong, than to admit my own judgment and decisions were faulty.
That is how it is supposed to work, yes, but those numbers are questionable - I'd be curious to see if that data actually can be shown to pan out, esp as certain vehicles have systemic issues which cause them to not last as long as the claimed lifetime.
> a-political

there is no such thing
It's just a handy reference for energy usage, and I assume this figure is more readily available due to the car being battery powered. It's a bit harder to work out for an ICE-powered car, as you'd have to calculate the energy required to move the car based on aerodynamics and weight. I have no interest in TSLA stock, nor do I think Tesla is anything like the sustainable future of transportation. I mostly picked Telsa because it's Hacker News.

As you insist though, it's about the energy required to cycle 100,000 miles.
The problem is that it is not your data you're sharing.
Pizza delivery has worked in big cities and the suburbs.

Yes I acknowledge that density is on your side, but the pizza business has been able to make things work even in low density localities.
Maybe I'm just super dense (I tend to overthink things :)), but I didn't understand the point of the story. Practical survival skills are important?