skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sickening thing this election, and elections prior, was the use of fake news by the Democrats and by the Republicans, in a media industry that gets paid by political campaigns to mass-influence audiences with pre-strategized series of stories.

The entire information industry is sick. It's extremely efficient at serving it's customers. It's customers are a maelstrom/cacaphony of interests trying to make broad base emotional and misrepresentative appeals to purposefully uninformed audiences.

The information industry does NOT provide a paid service to customers seeking to understand the world. The information industry provides a paid service to industries and parties seeking to influence the world.

Trying to run a partisan political line, blaming one political party (who spend incredibly SMALL amounts compared to the other strategically politicizing news) is looking perpendicular to the problem, and falling prey to its continuance.

Fake news? The Iraq War justifications. The Jessica Lynch stories. The fake army letters sent by Bush Administration PR firms. The echo chamber from the Obama Administration on the Iran Deal that they've BRAGGED about. The horribly inaccurate coverage of the Syria proxy war. The whitewashing of politically sensitive topics, like the genocide by our allies in Bahrain. Conspiracy theories about Putin and hogwash misinformation like "Putin and Trump are best friends." US coverage of the Chinese economy ("Will China fall?!") while they were slated, instead, to be welcomed into the Special Economic Basket at the IMF. The fake news coverage about the Snowden Documents.

It's just... so frustrating to see people promulgate on HN one-sided, politicized and irresponsible finger-pointing, as though propaganda and mass-media disinformation were a partisan issue.
> When reading such things, I don't understand why people hate on UBI.

There is a litany of reasons why. Mostly on the "I agree in principal but..." basis. Here are three.

1. The Big Bang.

A change as drastic as UBI should be introduced gradually. Fucking up on this scale would have enormous repercussions. For instance: one could gradually lower the age of retirement until everyone is retired (or you could lower taxes, or discount healthcare... you get the idea).

If these are untenable propositions, then UBI definitely is.

2. Poison In The Well.

If the government is the arbiter of UBI funds, then it gains a type of power it currently does not possess. If there exists criteria for taking UBI away from an individual or group, then the government has the ability to 'tone police' (like China's social credit system) in a way which has more in common with authoritarian dictatorships than a Western style state. Having the autonomy of providing your own food, shelter and other resources enables you to have political independence even if everybody doesn't like you. Not so under UBI. Your economic state is hitched such that only the wealthy now have the right to political opinions. Moral panics should not be able to affect funding.

The left and right shall tear UBI apart like a rag doll and it could even become the fulcrum through which a civil war begins. If people feel a threat to their source of food exists you'd have an Arab Spring situation.

3. The Parasite Traveller.

There is a contradiction between UBI and having open borders. You must have very close to closed borders to citizens of poorer countries or UBI states which are less wealthy.

You have to choose between values. There is no state on this planet capable of UBI for all.
Yeah, I lost it once for about.. a year? Maybe more? It just came back one day.
Not many comments about privacy. This is how I see it: You are identified when you enter the shop and amazon knows exactly the products you buy.

If you have the choice to buy or not to buy at the shop, that's fine, it is your decision. But let's imagine that in the not so far future, all shops in your neighborhood are like this. No way to go shopping whithout given exact trace of you, your location, the stuff you buy, the time you buy, the amount of food etc.

We all know that too much data is not good for us (yes, I am looking at you, my government).

While I like the idea of not standing in a line and wait, I really wish that these shops offer a prepaid anonymous card for those who don't want to be totally tracked.
The last thing the US needs is another way to pay people even less.
> retooling of customer behavior

One or more hits to the wallet would be strong negative reinforcement.
We could, as you say, analyze and figure out whether or not any given market "innovation" is good or bad, but the big problem is - we can't meaningfully act on such information. Coordination is superhard[0], and in the meantime we all make individual choices based on momentary value differentials - choices which the market will happily aggregate and amplify, whether we like it or not.

You're spot-on in splitting the problem into two in your other comment.

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[0] - especially if you frown at one of its most powerful form in a large society - government regulations.
that's just one branch you listed. Obviously, KPCB isn't relocating permanently to Beijing or Shanghai.

Clearly, KPCB's millionaire VC's aren't buying a high rise penthouse above Beijing's cloud of pollution, and neither are China's rich, and neither are their offsprings attending Beijing university but prestigous US institutions.
Netflix keeps bandwidth usage low by encoding with VP9 and H.264/AVC codecs
This. The article presents a false dichotomy that the apprentice stays or it's not worth teaching them.

Most apprenticeships allow the apprentice to do lower tier work and work their way up which still allows for the apprentice to produce value. Combine this with a lower pay and there's no loss to the company if done right.

It works like that in the tech industry all the time starting at desktop support or even office clerk and working their way up.

The problem is...no one is willing to be a mentor or train anymore for whatever reason.
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Yes, and we shouldn't forget why workloads have been reduced before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

It's not a 'natural' evolution, but organized fight from labour.

The same with the general conditions of work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_and_Collieries_Act_1842

So, in my opinion, reducing the workweek or, an alternative that I think is more practical, stop working younger it's against powerful interests and can't be done without a fight.
Open source planning tool for the energy turnaround
This is welcome and refreshing.
There was/is an old scam where the store puts up a tag with a false low price and the UPC barcode scanner reports a different (higher of course) price and much like long distance cramming hope the customer doesn't notice.

If the store is falsely accused its simple to hold the receipt up against the paper label.

There are digital price labels but they're unidirectional protocol so every time a product comes off sale the store risks substantial trouble if the digital update protocol is merely 99.9% successful.

You'd need a successful bidirectional verifiable digital price tag system. It could be as simple as sweeping a very high resolution camera up and down the aisles.
amazon go skydive - just hop on the plane!

amazon go swim - just dive right in!

amazon go kennels - just drop and drive!

amazon go restoration hardware - good luck!

amazon go lite - just grab and checkout and go!

amazon go guns - just grab and go!

i assume they will eventually open this up to other retailers / service providers?
The threads which dang moderates are a good chronicle of political discussions gone bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang
> As an aside, the sheer volume of stars makes a strong argument that even if the odds are vanishingly small, there ought to still be a mind-numbing of habitable planets.

In a Universe that's extremely large, or potentially infinite, the main question is not the number of habitable planets. It's the density, or the mean distance between neighbors - in space as well as in time.
https://medium.com/end-homelessness/fighting-poverty-with-co...
So the Cato Institute wants to re-introduce slavery, or at least indentured servitude. Amusingly, the German approach is unacceptable because it involves unions.

The author is Gail Heriot, an academic lawyer who is also on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, appointed by Congress. Strange.
"They don't go to the grocery store for social interaction..."

False. Sometime I go to the grocery store for social interaction. You know, to get out. I generally go to a particular wine shop cause I like chatting with the guy at the counter. The idea that we do all this "stuff" ("processes") to get "stuff" done, and then separately we go somewhere for the express and sole purpose of socializing, is just clearly wrong. It's all mixed in. We're social creatures. We socialize while at the barber shop. We socialize at the grocery store. We socialize at work. At church. At football or soccer games. If we attempt to "refactor" out the "process" to make it more efficient, fine. But, don't pretend like whatever we replace that effort with we're not going to be socializing while we do that new thing.

It's frankly really sad that we have all these people that used to be persons we knew and visited with at the checkout counter, now they're in some warehouse being super efficient having no time to visit with coworkers while they work, meanwhile, we pretend that stuff magically shows up at grocery stores and we can walk in and walk out and magic and future wow.
So where is the Cross Point technology[1] already?

[1] https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-and-micron-pr...
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Politics was definitely a problem right after the election, but it seems to have calmed down a lot and nakedly political stories don't seem to make it to the front page anymore.

I would hope this purge would not include stories related to privacy legislation, as I think the topic is very relevant to the community.
I disagree but those are the rules.
He's the president of ycombinator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
As an experiment, I love the idea!

Personally, I've found it hard to escape US politics on many of the sites I frequent. The comments/discussion often end up relating the topic to the last US election in some manner - and an unproductive conversation follows.

Just my experience, but again - love the idea of running an experiment here.
Tribalism is so toxic. I'm all for this. But for flagging purposes what's the boundary between a political/non-political story?

EDIT: @dang in another comment: Let me clarify. The main concern here is pure politics: the conflicts around party, ideology, nation, race, and religion that get people hot and turn into flamewars on the internet. We're not so concerned about stories on other things that happen to have political aspects—like, say, software patents.
There are many potential reasons that an item could be put back in the improper spot on a shelf that does not induce a loss for the store nor is malicious by the shopper. Things very often get put back into the same shelf but a different position.

But what about this: What is to stop someone from pulling items out of other people carts?
Far more interesting is to post your favorite SNL political clips. We need a levity injection attack around here.
I'd argue that most breaking changes are not about fixing problems. They are about API consistency and taste, like Babel 6 mentioned above.

If problem is a bug that people might rely upon, I don't mind fixing it. If problem is fundamental design-wise, however, the right way is to create a new library.

There are a lot of designs that never break anything (or at least try hard not to): Linux, macOS, Erlang, Java, Clojure, x86 instruction set, life on earth, and they all improve over time. And they obviously didn't get everything right the first time.
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One question that interests/concerns me is making judgement calls about what is/is not a political story.

Some links will be cut and dry, some will not. Some comments will be immediately identified as political, some will just be politics adjacent.

For instance, on a story about self driving cars, will it be appropriate to talk about UBI? On a story about cryptography, will it be acceptable to talk about how it applies to political dissidents?

Still, I have always found HN moderation to be reasonable, and I expect this to be the same. This is also something I think is desperately needed, we could all use a cooling off period, and it'll be nice not to be bombarded with US politics from yet another angle.

Hoping for the best, thanks dang + crew!
it's interesting that there are seemingly so many different kinds of jobs in the field that happen to involve python.

is the level of proficiency / familiarity with maya the same as an artist position? (i.e. how crucial is it that you are very familiar with all of it's functionality, not just the APIs)

how does the pay compare to a python job at an internet company?

how common is it to have someone move from a role like assistant technical director (or something more senior) to R&D programmer type position?
This isn't really anything 'new' http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-ame...

But it's been weaponized by state intelligence agencies, apparently, in a way that we haven't seen since the early days of the cold war.
Agreed to this. Here in Europe(slavic side), people rarely chit chat with cashiers(i live in big city). Most of people are head in on theyr own stuff.

I think this is a good inovation!
It's just one lousy week. Is this a critical week politically speaking?
An acceptable compromise. I've read some of the reports done on various projects and found PVS-Studio interesting.

As an individual developer, I'd been interested in the product, but hadn't convinced myself to invest in the time to install/learn a new tool that I didn't know the price of.

This, though, is something I can easily place in my source, get the usage, and if it seems usable, contact you for the price and make a decision then.
What's funny is that Zillow's real business is selling advertising to realtors. The idea that they are out to get realtors is ridiculous.
im curious why you're so angry at bitcoin.
it's just open source software, that is VOLUNTARY.

it clearly challenges your beliefs/ideologies to a point that you spent the time to comment and try to frame bitcoin in a negative light.

Is it bitcoin (the software) scamming people? or is it humans?

and most importantly, what are your reasons for wanting bitcoin to fail?
I wonder if any of this has anything to do with Peter Thiel? The guy will most likely be judged harshly by history for aligning himself ideologically with Trump (i.e. stoking the flames of racism, sexism, etc.). He already is by current HN members. Just thinking out loud.
This is bad. I can't really support this because it requires a smartphone. And it literally looks like you must have the Amazon Go app to enter the store. No.
Why I don't like the term “AI”
Im not assuming bad faith, just said I was skeptical. YC is a business and they are very interested in making money. Since the CEO of YC was very outspoken against one political candidate and now there is a week long ban I was just curious. Ive always seem YC as very open to intelligent honest discussion, so a ban like this seemed odd to me. That's why I asked the question, I probably could have phrased it better.
And another partner is a member of the presidential transition team...
Hallelujah.

My 2 cents: unless it's directly related to tech (net neutrality, SOPA, surveillance, security, etc), it shouldn't be on here.
Everything you said matches my experiences - the complexity has to be watched closely, but otherwise it's a huge boon.
Thank you, I'll happily flag down politics on HN.

Politics has caused me to start using new software so I can filter Twitter, change my subreddits, and aggressively unfollow people on Facebook (even family at this point).

And still I can't avoid it... though perhaps for the best, since social media by-and-large is just a distraction from real work and real life. I'm far better off coding, reading books, and playing go than reading garbage political news nd opinions from shrill internet denizens.
Many prominent open source projects are supported and often initiated by corporations. I imagine Google pays the core Angular team quite well.
For what it's worth, some customers DO put unwanted items back where they found them. I'm guessing you wouldn't necessarily notice those cases so you might perceive a higher proportion of those bad actor customers than there are in reality.
httprouter is unforgiving with routes. IIRC, having both of these routes are not allowed

/users/:id
/users/create

Seems like a common use case.
I work at a healthcare company, where our primary language had been Ruby. All of our new development, except 1 off scripts, is in Elixir.
The article claims that SMR drives -- Shingled Magnetic Recording -- is slower than normal HDDs.

The truth is different. Unless you're unlucky enough to have a drive without a flash write buffer, SMR drives manage similar read rates to normal disks while having vastly higher write rates. For a while, that is; once the write buffer is full, it'll drop through the floor.

SMR is bad for RAID, and it's bad for very high throughput writes, but a well-made disk may actually be faster than the traditional kind for normal users while having higher capacity. See Samsung's archive disks for a nice example.

You may now ask yourself what's the point, when flash is even faster. Anyone with enough data that it won't fit on flash should probably use RAID of some kind.

And there's something to that... But they won't, and you know it, so they might as well have the capacity.
And if someone starts chatting to the cashier, you can literary hear the people behind in line getting annoyed.
You might not need that $15K coding bootcamp
Countly started as a hobby like 4 years ago and it was open source (still is, most parts). Now it tracks more than 11K Android apps according to Mobbo.com, which makes Countly #7 the most used mobile analytics platform. Team is still small (<15), bootstrapped and added a lot more features on top till then. Roughly 1900 stars pn Github. Not bad ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969254
Secure ROM extraction on iPhone 6S
I haven't used it personally but I have heard the same issues come up with LabView visual programming for laboratory automation and instrument control.
I thought this was already every week on HN. There are very few politics related articles. Pushing the point is a bit much IMO.
Actually, if you look at the link for "Adam's Law of Slow-Moving Disasters", it states: The idea is that society always avoids global disasters that are slow-moving because we rise to the challenge even when it seems impossible.

In other words, he believes (w.r.t individuals not solving the large problem) its safe to ignore large problems because "we have an unbroken track record of avoiding doom".
Anecdotally, I've noticed that Zestimates are biased by location.

According to Zillow, 90% of the houses in one region were overpriced and selling like hotcakes. And 90% of houses in another region were underpriced but staying on the market.

I think most of the value is not an absolute measure, but as a relative one. I can compare Zestimates to each other in the same city with fair accuracy.
Isn't that the point though? These kinds of games don't actually catch professionals. They catch normal people and normal people making foolish choices or mistakes.
The comment you're replying to doesn't say that etcd is insecure; just that access to etcd is equivalent in power to Kubernetes API access.

It's hard to have a productive discussion in such a confrontational tone, especially when you don't really have all the facts. If you have questions about how to secure Kubernetes communication with etcd, feel free to ask!
You're going to back up your claim with anecdotal evidence? The overwhelming majority of people do not go to the grocery store as a social exercise. People view it as a chore. They want to get in and out as soon as possible.
I welcome this experiment. There are so many other places for discussion and news about politics, but less so about startups and technology-hacker-related stories.
Endurance of consumer SSDs may be derated for marketing reasons, but there are also physical differences that give enterprise SSDs higher endurance. A consumer 240 GB SSD has 256 GB of flash, while an enterprise 240 GB SSD may have 512 GB of flash. More flash allows more writes and the effect is nonlinear because FTLs are more efficient with more free space.
They typically try to re-review or amend their reivews when things get released/updated.

The problem with waiting is: at what point do you stop waiting? Particularly when the vast majority of the time these release dates are pure speculation. If Google releases theirs next month, then word leaks that Amazon has one releasing shortly, should they then wait for that, too? And on and on ad infinitum? I'm sure that at any given moment in time there is _some_ company that is working on a competing product. I'd argue they are absolutely doing the right thing by reviewing what is available regardless of what is on the horizon, otherwise they'd be giving preference to whoever they are waiting on (Google in this case).
Most wifi hardware supports being both AP and client at the same time. This way, I've extended my wifi signal for just 20 bucks
(Bought a netgear ex2700 and flashed openwrt. I made it join my existing wifi and create an AP with a distinct SSID on the same interface and channel)
In the hot west coast markets, Zestimates are usually fairly accurate but often end up low compared to closing due to bidding wars and mania.
First edition of Isaac Newton's Principia set to fetch $1m at auction
It's definitely not going to be one to one job replacement, not even close.

Software can be write once, run everywhere. You could replace thousands of cashiers with software written by a team of 10 software engineers.

Maintenance of hardware/software could be taken care of by a few people running to multiple stores throughout the day. Example would be Starbucks in San Francisco. There is a Starbucks nearly every block in the inner-city. You could just have two guys walk from store to store to perform checks/maintenance.

So yes, I see big possibility of thousands of service workers being out a of a job due to automation. Which is why a lot of people are saying we need to seriously consider something like universal basic income for the near future ..
Feast/famine cycle--it goes all the way back to DRAM in semiconductors (it's why Intel got out of DRAM).

Demand for memory spikes (new application, got cheap enough, etc.)

All the companies begin constructing new fab lines simultaneously (because, if you are more than a few months late when a new technology comes online, your competitors get all the nice, fat initial profit margins while you get the nasty bulk profit margins).

Fab lines take a while to build, but demand is still increasing. Prices spike.

Fab lines come online. Supply skyrockets. Prices crash.

Now that capacity has increased dramatically and prices are low, people start finding new uses for the cheap memory.

Demand slowly builds. Prices recover slowly.

Suddenly, somebody finds a new application for memory. Demand spikes.

Lather, rinse, repeat.
And yet one can still find it hilarious, as I do, without condoning it or recommending that others do it as well.
I hate to see anyone's job get replaced but that sounds like my idea of Hell. I purposely wear headphones in stores because I don't want any employees talking to me. If I saw a cashier standing and talking to someone while I was waiting I would be pissed. If it was a regular occurance I would stop going to that store if at all possible.

This probably says a lot more about me than it does Amazon Go...