jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm curious why you don't think that a basic income would accepted politically? If it were provided to everyone without regard to their other sources of income it would differ from other approaches like welfare. I realize that the money has to come from somewhere, so perhaps a transition to a consumption tax rather than income tax would work. Of course the basic income would need to be significant enough to offset the increased cost of consumption for basic needs.
> As we've reported before, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that until the late 17th Century people did not sleep in one long uninterrupted stretch, but in two segments, separated by a period of one or two hours in which they prayed, read, chatted, had sex, smoked, went to the toilet or even visited neighbours.

> That may be more natural than the current tendency to sleep - or try to - in one stretch.

Just because people did it up until very recently doesn't necessarily say anything about whether it is healthy or not. Up until very recently we didn't have electricity, which meant that we were more limited when it comes to what we could do at certain hours of the day-night cycle.

The fact that people did it up until very recently says that people were able to survive reasonably well with that lifestyle, as a species. But "healthy" is more than that: you can live an unhealthy lifestyle, reproduce, maybe even help raise your grandchildren, and die at 60 of cancer or some heart-related disease.

The other side of the coin is that: just because we can, doesn't mean that we should! Just because we can stay up until 3 am and read books or stuff on the Web, doesn't mean that it is good for us. Maybe some restraint might be in order.
Also his YouTube videos are highly worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+stonebr...
SV should have some startup to create autonomous tool to clean up the poop on the street, which could solve this practical issue
I am in the middle of an interview process with a company in SF right now. I like the company and the job but I'm not sure about SF. I had already been thinking about the well-known poop problems before I saw this post.

This will be a factor in my decision to take the job or not.
More than that, Prop 13 incentivizes cities to have commercial real estate instead of residential. Thereby forcing housing to be ever farther from workplaces.
In all your examples, the complexity is hidden in the underlying technology, which I think makes them less than ideal. Sewing with a sewing machine is usually both less complex and simpler than sewing by hand. If you count the complexity of the hardware and the operating system and compiler, nothing in development is simple.

For me the dichotomy is better is better illustrated by: I need to create a new class that, with a few exceptions, does exactly what an existing class already does.

The easy way is to copy the existing class and make the small necessary changes in the copy. The simple way would be to refactor and put all the differences in delegates.
>The people delegate, through the constitution, certain "powers" to the government.

Did the people vote to delegate those rights? Were the people ever asked?
How do any of these HTTP verbs interact with HTML? When you have a pure HTML site (no JavaScript) how do you use these HTTP verbs when all you have is <a> links?

For example, how do you have an up-vote link? What verb is that supposed to be? And links are all GET aren't they? Up-vote isn't idempotent. How do you make a correct up-vote link?

How do we have this disconnect between HTTP verbs and HTML? How did it work before AJAX?

(I'm not a web developer.)
I read the article, then I clicked on the link concerning the lawsuit. Then my jaw dropped as this notice (in 24pt font) is thrown in my face:

"Your activity looks suspicious to us. Please prove that you're human."

I call double irony.
Thank goodness CAPTCHA triggers can't put me in jail (yet)...
I'm curious how many people will be regular subscribers to all of these services or just sign up for a month to watch a new show and then freeze the account.

When Game of Thrones premieres I'll be getting an HBO Now account for a month, and then will freeze/cancel it until another new HBO show starts that I want to watch. I do the same with Netflix for House of Cards and a couple other shows. Unfortunately Amazon makes this difficult because you pay an annual subscription to Prime.

By doing it this way I might bounce around between services and only spend $10-20 for content streaming in any given month.
Developing on mobile Safari/ui+wkwebview feels very much like developing on the IE of olde. It's hard not to perceive malice in the form of wanton disregard towards open web technology when observing how many stupefying bugs exist in parallel to the immense profitability of the app store.
> patients treating patients (p2p medicine)

The startup that immediately came to mind here is CrowdMed: http://readwrite.com/2013/05/08/crowdmed-wants-to-crowdsourc... . Crowdsourced diagnoses are a regulatory and liability minefield, but the upside to patients is huge and (in my opinion) worth the risk - instead of an impersonal WebMD, you get individual attention by experts to specific cases, with oversight from other community experts in the form of powerful downvotes.

N.B. CrowdMed's spend-reputation-to-answer "prediction market" methodology (in contrast to the free-to-answer StackOverflow/Quora model), described a bit in the article, might be of interest to other HN'ers. I would expect it to drive away potential contributors, but in the case of CrowdMed, it seems that the potential contributors with other incentives to contribute are also the higher-quality contributors (namely people who want to do good with their answers and are confident in their expertise) so it tends to weed out only the bad actors. It's a dynamic that's worth considering for anyone starting a Q&A site of any kind.
Because of basic human fallibility. Have you ever met someone at work who claims to know the answer to a question, or claims to know how to fix something, when they didn't? People or organizations will make claims like that for a variety of petty reasons.
The article claims he can trigger the reboot from the device, although that wasn't implemented in the proof of concept.
1. Realize it's impossibly unlikely for two people to build the same thing, even if they were sitting next to each other sharing their plans. The only competition is with yourself.

2. As a consequence: stop sprinting. Stop trying to release something inferior by a certain date out of fear of competition. There is no time pressure.

3. As a plan: work on what only you could do best.

Expect nothing. Expectation is a prison.
He offered to answer technical questions, so let me step in on this one: it's a recommendation engine. E.g., it can do things like Amazon's "you may also like" feature.

Try this:

http://docs.seldon.io/index.html
I've been working on a GIS application using google maps as a tie-in. I'm in the process of monetizing the product now.

http://www.geojingle.com
If personalized ads are really so beneficial to their customers, Facebook should have no problem convincing them to allow the tracking they need and opt-in.
Did you read the article? It was about global warming, not US warming.
A good (in my opinion) trend in physics in the past decade or two has been the rise of "blind" analyses[1]. Basically, the entire analysis is predetermined, before looking at the data. Once all the details are nailed down and everyone agrees with the approach, the blinds are taken off. There's no room for "p-hacking".

This has some disadvantages, though. It requires a good understanding of the experiment so that you can figure out what an analysis will actually tell you. It's difficult to do a blind analysis on a brand new apparatus, since there can always be unanticipated problems with the data. As an example, one dark matter experiment invited a reporter to their unblinding. At first, it looked like they'd detected dark matter, but then they had to throw out most of the events because they were due to unanticipated noise in one of the photomultiplier tubes[2].

[1] http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C030908/papers/TUIT001.pd... is a quick review.

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/science/space/14dark.html
Half a month is still a good thing to get, and purchase credit is easier to spend than having infinite months of Prime.
Blood sugar spike and crash.
True, though you could dial in from a phone (even a landline), unless you were being asked to not only attend but also share your screen.
Wouldn't that be the way to generate infinite lists?
Rock Band is really nothing like playing the actual instruments though. Wonder how the guitar and bass players would fare in Rocksmith, however.
If they are estimates, it's not at all unreasonable to see the number go down or up.

But in any case, the CFR estimates are also changing as a function of learning more about how to treat, and hospital capacity relative to caseload.

I was replying about the "let it rip through the population" scenario, without slowing it down, which basically means don't treat the majority of severe cases in hospital (because the hospitals would be totally overwhelmed in that scenario). The CFR would be higher.
A technique I use is to use the thing I'm avoiding to make progress on the 2nd thing I'm avoiding.

It's strange, but if I'm overscheduled and REALLY don't want to work on my taxes, somehow I have a lot of energy to clean up the garage.

I've also found that if I work on something and finish it, the next day I bumble around when getting started. But if I stop right at some obvious place in the middle, the next day I immediately jump in and finish it, then use the momentum for the next thing.
I am very confused at the shockingly low cases in India, and the Indochina region.

Either it really is the climate or we’re talking zero testing and a fiasco that’s gonna engulf that region soon.
True. But if they can "personalize" the price they show me when I buy books, why they can't personalize the web site and tell me these services are not available in my country?
Disclosure: I own Bitcoins

While Bitcoin came out of our "own" community, and a lot of technologically inclined people are enthusiastic over it and it's features, I wonder if Bitcoin got planet-wide adoption, would it be a bigger boon to the man in the street or the big fat rich cats? It makes hiding money a lot easier (akin to the Swiss bank account but with less trouble transferring) and makes it a lot easier for money to "disappear" and be impossible to take back.

These things strike me as things the man in the street wouldn't care so much for (the government tracks his income so he can't whisk Bitcoins away, and working black is, well, like working black for dollar bills, not that different).
> We had 4 reorgs a year and a lot of chaos because they were constantly spinning up random teams for BS initiatives -- many of whome were nothing more than a press release.

To me, who served 15 years of corporate coding dronery for a Fortune 100 company, that sounds totally awesome.

In all that time I served on three teams.
Will the file autoplay and loop according to the same rules everywhere I view it after I right-click and save it? Because that is what people liked about animated gifs. It's like you're telling people to drive a car instead of riding a bike. They have some crossover in functionality but they're not the same thing.
Is this solving a new problem? You could buy things for status before NFTs, and simply having them was proof of ownership. An entry on the blockchain associated with a hash is hardly as "cool" (if we want to talk about social constructs) as showing a picture with the thing you own. Hell, you can pay money without NFTs to put almost anything you could want in the blockchain.

With NFTs, the "thing" the NFT shows ownership isn't the piece that's supposed to be valuable, since that's readily duplicated, it's the NFT (and what it represents) itself.

"The social component" requires people to ask agree that NFTs are the right system of value, and that requires maintaining the illusion that the token itself is a valuable thing to own. So yes, if this formalized way of showing that you've spent money is widely accepted by a community as a status symbol, sure, go for it. But there's a lot of people even here in the comments who think that's awfully silly, especially when you can buy actual physical things that show your status to people who don't care about what entries exist on the blockchain somewhere.
Just in case anyone is still on this thread, I have my answer. According to ERC-721, NFTs are just a way to have many owners and their tokens within a single contract.

The advantage of which is.... I guess centralization.
... and quietly avoids mentioning that a lot of the problem came from Burton, or that his proposals were found detrimental to the program.

He also was staunch supporter of replicating Volksjäger concept, which was fortunately laughed out of the room (even dumbest Soviet design at the time wasn't that dumb)
I remember when this happened. I think it was just a sprite of a jewel like a ruby or sapphire as of that was it.

I don’t know if anyone actually bought it. I think the description stated that it really didn’t do anything but was just for bragging rights.
How does this work via csgo skins? Genuinely curios how it works.
The average active manager who mostly uses stocks in the S&P 500 matches the S&P 500, before fees, almost by definition. Given that the vast majority of passive investment is approximately tracking the S&P 500, active managers -- the complement of the passive set -- must also have the same average. The only way active managers could average something substantially different is if passive investments underperformed or overperformed, neither of which are the case.
> but would would also balk at paying the "true" cost of some things if the data being sold subsidy was removed

If they would, demand for the product would go down, and the company would have to adjust itself. It isn't and all or nothing.

>You get what you pay for.

This implies that one can pay extra to preserve privacy.

Edit: please keep parent comment alive. This is a discussion we should have.
AFAIK, this is a first: "The company said it is “respecting the law” with its suspension".

Previously, they always said to continue their ways, going so far as promising to pay fines drivers get (sorry, can't find a link for that, but http://ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.nl/2014/12/the-untolerab... is an example of what they think laws mean)

They basically are trying to force law changes. There is nothing wrong with that. However, the changes they try to force go against the social structure of much of Europe. "The MP’s there should recognize that Uber is working according to one of the pillars of the Dutch taxi law: more market-like circumstances, better quality and lower prices". Their spokesman forgets about the "protect the weak" pillar of society. In a sense, this is a clash between hard capitalism and the social welfare state (a clash of civilizations, if you want)

Also, I find that he change they are trying to affect does not warrant the harsh approach Uber takes.

For that reason alone, I hope that changes, if they come at all, do not come soon.
From my experience, at most that can go wrong is the update fails or similar non-fatal issue may arise. I haven't been using Arch for very long (not more than a year), but I never had any issues that would break the system. As you already mentioned, they post the the necessary info on the website and even now after the pacman database format upgrade when pacman fails it specifically tells you to run a command to fix this.
Oh and don't forget the massive wiki, that one's a killer.

Plus I really like this whole rolling release philosophy with up-to-date packages :)
What makes you think it is not safe in the long term? For a long time, even the academia has misattributed the harmful effects of tobacco smoking to nicotine only.

There are no studies that find pure nicotine harmful in the long term.
I am teaching my thirteen-year-old nephew programming. We use Python to nail the basics of variables, conditions, loops, branching, functions, classes, etc. And Unity and C# to make games and learn some physics, vector math and matrices.

The length of our sessions is two hours. The beginning of a session always starts with a recap of the previous. Asking some questions to make sure he has the correct understanding.

He always types in everything. I never touch the keyboard/mouse.
> Evolution needs viruses, in the same way the universe needs entropy.

The question is do we need the blind god of evolution.
Same, haven't gotten a cold since I started taking vit D supplements; or when I did get anything close to cold symptoms it was very mild and didn't last more than a day or two. I had done the blood test for vit D and I was very deficient -- like many people.

It's worth noting that it may well be the only vitamin where deficiency is common in developed countries and where supplementation has plausible benefits. In fact the only thing missing to positively say that supplementation is beneficial is that while deficiency is known for certain to be associated with major issues, and that supplementation has recently been shown to be beneficial in some cases, it's not been demonstrated that supplementing in the general case translates into better outcomes. However, since it's certainly not been demonstrated that it doesn't, it seems quite a bit more plausible than it does than otherwise.

The question is, what are the risks of supplementation? For almost everyone, and at doses that are not completely insane to begin with, the risks seem to be close to zero. But there may be some genetic factors that make a small minority susceptible to overdose.
You're right about censorship. However most Iranians have a VPN installed on their phone and rarely gets trouble for doing so and speak freely but anonymously. Iran gov is actually a democratie quite more liberal than most western people think. Yes, there is censorship, unfair courts cases, corruption, and repression. Still we can see this in most of the countries, often in harden terms. Should we speak about Assange ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Iran
Jim is a tour de force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA
The original source that said he was disappeared is even thinner on evidence. What can be asserted with little evidence can be dismissed with little evidence.

In any case, there's no alternative to anonymous sources, and no one actually seems to have an issue with them until it contradicts their personal narrative, from what I've seen be upvoted and downvoted on this website.
Thanks for this comment, made me realize people actually look at it, so I finally created my portfolio there. Would love if you could look at it again and provide any feedback
> One concern with logic programming is cost of computation,

Right, but the client executes the contract, keeping a trace of what needs to be computed by the verifier. The verifier doesn't actually execute the full contract, just verifies that the trace was faithfully executed. If we have

let R = (A() || B() || C() || D()) && ! E();
R().

If A is costly, but true 99% of the time, but this transaction is one of the 0.001% of the cases where D() is true, the contract verification trace says to execute D(), and the verifier never checks A, B, or C. See my nearby comment for a worked out example of a compact trace representation for a deeper disjunction decision tree.

Effectively, because declarative languages don't dictate order, the client is free to re-order the contract execution order to be optimal for this particular execution, without altering semantics. Declarative semantics, are by definition, independent of execution order. This makes efficient compilation and execution more difficult, but makes verification faster (if the verifier is provided with an execution trace).

Now, you could potentially do similar optimizations with Solidity contracts, with a suitably modified EVM definition, but if the execution order is up to the runtime/compiler instead of dictated by the source code, then you've by definition changed the language to be declarative.
I think hierarchies are one of the most common ways to organize data and most systems in this world are organized hierarchically. Governments, socioeconomic systems, taxonomies, literature, organized religion, and nature, are all often organized hierarchically. Humans seem to think in hierarchies better than in many other systems of organization. Sure, search is great, but even sites like Newegg and Amazon prominently display hierarchies to organize data, and I appreciate it. I don't think hierarchal file systems are dead at all. I think they are a very good way of organizing most file system data, and that search can be of utility even in a hierarchal file system.
I'm with you, I've read that article (and some more of a similar flavour) and I can't believe anyone would recommend starting a business in Russia.
Hardware, and other expenses such as conference trips, is indeed a very small expense compared to salaries. It's a cheap way of showing employees that you care.

Just as a recent example, it took an email to my manager and 10 minutes later a keyboard for $150 was approved. Say it lasts for 5 years - the feeling of appreciation by easily getting what I need approved and bought is worth so much more, compared to what $150 spread out over 5 years of salary would buy them (disregarding that the raise would also cost a more considering taxes and such).
Google Maps on Android does exactly that, it's great. especially in the summer time, makes it easy to find ways around construction.
>But, asking a bunch of overly aggressive questions will earn a candidate a "might not play well with others" footnote on my evaluation. The questions in the article are great. Getting confrontational when you're supposed to be making a good impression is a bit of a warning flag.

Can you give examples of these kinds of questions that you've been asked in the past? I'm imagining a question like "You think you can kick my ass in arm-wrestling?" to be one but I'm sure you have different thoughts on it :)
A non-compete is reasonable but it should also have a reasonable term... e.g. while employed, and perhaps for a period of 2 years after leaving.

That said, overly restrictive non-competes tend to be unenforceable, but I agree you don't want the hassle of a legal fight even if you ultimately prevail.
In California a2z (subsidiary of AMZN) is hiring: http://www.a2z.com/jobs/
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14120784 and marked it off-topic.
Per the linked article:

> The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

> To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
What exactly is bombshell about replacing G with C? If anything it was bombshell when it happened for GPUs originally planned to be made in house, it cascading to CPUs in the same time frame would almost be expected.
In the first paragraph I was responding to the poster, the second paragraph is really just directed at political and political culture people in general. It was meant to be a metaphorical 'you'. I'll try to find better ways to phrase it so my point isn't lost in the future. That said, I've seen that video. While it's significant it doesn't mean much until federal authorities investigate it. What various people on here and abroad used it to do was to craft narratives favorable to their own stances.
Exactly. If they actually cared about censorship, they would promote Mastodon and host their own instance.

But Parler is about maintaining the echo chamber, not free speech.