skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes the cliche practice of making a loose blanket counter claim based on false assumptions to suggest that any critical view of China is inherently flawed due to the bias of being American.

Ah yes, the knee-jerk reaction to simple factual statements that reveal the biases of the commenter, through how they imagine the other comment was motivated. No, sorry, but the statement is factual. Both the US and China have laws that are selectively enforced.

I wonder if you even live in North America, the difference is night and day.

No one said anything about relative severity. That part is entirely in your own head. If you disagree, please provide a quote. Also ask yourself, why do you imagine such motivations, and react so strongly? I think that would be most instructive.

I was born in and have lived in the US all my life. I have an Ivy league education and lots of life experience at all levels of the socioeconomic ladder. I think I have a good sense of this society's biases. (From both the political left and the right.)

The rule of law is interpreted as it is. Context should never be used as an excuse to say that the law doesn't work.

In the US, context is used to abrogate principles as fundamental as "innocent until proven guilty." That's simply fact. I never said the US was just as bad at protecting intellectual property. I merely stated that both the US and China bend the rule of law based on context. I didn't specify the contexts. You imagined contexts that you could get incensed about, apparently.
In my experience a clear understanding of how the applications work and how are used by artists is very important, so being able to complete simple tasks with them-independently of the quality of the results-is pretty important.

Pay should be comparable.

Companies are generally pretty supportive of their employees moving between positions internally. Demand for new developers and workload heavily affect the timing of internal moves.
Nosir, I often consider elitism part of the noise. It's just a particularly filterable part of the usual array of noise sources, though. And I recognize this is a subjective statement; YMMV.
Overall, I think this is a good idea, but it probably needs to be made more precise for it to work. What is a political topic, exactly? Are IETF politics off-topic this week? What about advice for NSA employees trying to pull a Snowden?
>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.

Am I to read that as "No Stories or Comments about Trump"? Maybe that wasn't the intention, but the specific hot buttons seem curiously chosen.
A friend of mine saved $15K on a house because the appraisal came in low.

If the bank won't write a loan for the agreed price, the original contract is void, since it's contingent on loan approval. If the seller's heart is set on moving, he might well lower the price.
Following the discovery of this post, I did a little digging into this guy. I listened to a whole 2 and a half lecture by him. He doesn't mean a literal omnipotent quasi mythical unprovable creature. He even says something like "a clever thirteen year old boy would know that that's rubbish."

By god, he means a system of ranking values. His argument is that religion is a kind of emergent, distributed evolutionary policy learning strategy that supervenes (if you will) from biological origins. In that sense, heaven is that which delays gratification for greater selection benefit, and hell is that eternal possibility of worsening one's situation. It's an interesting concept.
I was commenting less "consumer v enterprise" and more "consumer vs consumer that pretends they are enterprise".

Enterprise servers are mostly sas interfaces. These are sata, which is mostly home and soho plus a few startups running on a shoe string (afaik)
If a person's only social interaction that is providing meaningful wellbeing is talking with the clerk at the grocery store, then I'd say the person in question is in need of serious help that the clerk cannot provide. They need to find social groups.
Personally, I hate standing in line and avoid many businesses because of the slow line-ups. I'd rather be on my way so I can go to my family and friends where the bottle of wine I just picked up is to be consumed. Convenience is not the anathema of society. Not making time for each other may be. Forcing it on each other is a weak "solution".
These are Enterprise class drives.

In SSDs, the big difference between Enterprise and Consumer is endurance. Flash memory wears out over time and the firmware manages the wear and maps out bad sectors over time. Eventually, too much wears out and the drive can no longer be written to, or is too slow to usably write to. The endurance spec tells you how much data you can expect to write before the drive must be replaced.

Micron sells both consumer and enterprise drives. The consumer 1100 SSDs max out at 400TB endurance which is fantastic for a consumer drive. These enterprise 5100 drives max out at 17.6PB endurance -- that's 44X better!

If you have an application which writes a lot of data, you should be evaluating whether or not you need something like this.
> Regexes are the problem, because they're simply the wrong tool for the job.

for what job? Extracting route variables from paths ?they are the right tool for the job, only in the Go community they are deemed "wrong tool for the job". Your statement embodies everything that is wrong with the Go community. Instead of finding a solution to a problem you guys spend your time shifting the blame on "bad practices".
I used to work for one the largest competitors of Walmart in Europe.

In France and many European countries to open a supermarket you need approval from a local and national administration. They check if your supermarket will endanger local commerce or existing big box retailers.

This is one of the reasons why Costco has delayed it's opening in Paris suburbs. All major european retailers fought (openly or covertly) against the permit and won several times.

Fear of the "big American Wolf" aside, it is a well known fact that letting a big box store or a retail park open near a busy city center will cause damages to the city center: some mom and pop shops will move onto the retail park, national clothing chains will do the same.
Once almost everything a consumer needs has left for a nearby retail park, the city center economy collapses. Once the city center starts to collapse, it drives even more consumers to the retail park in a cascading effect.

I'm on mobile atm so I can only offer anecdotal evidence but I know several economic studies have been made on that subject.

A side effect of this regulated model is the prevalence of drive through supermarkets in France. All chains have opened an enormous amount of these. The reason is quite simple: the regulation is enforced for surfaces larger than 400 square metres. Drives have at most 10 square metres open to the public so were free to set shop anywhere. It took a few years to close that loophole...and the meantime carrefour, auchan, le clerc, casino, cora all opened dozens to hundreds of locations.
Reflections and learnings as I turn 30
Setting Russia aside for a second, the UK has a malnutrition rate that's 4-5x lower than the US as well. Why is this? I suspect this is related to the high rates of obesity in the US, and that this site is including all deaths caused by obesity related problems?
This is an extraordinarily insightful comment about online discussions. Might I suggest adding a summary of it to the HN guidelines, or perhaps even create a "philosophy of HN" page that contains these sorts of principles that ought to guide HN discussion. I'm seeing this after the political-detox-week thread, and I think it provides crucial context: political discussion online creates a "picture of a monster" that one imagines can inflict real harm to the self and to loved ones.
I think it's a great idea. Will this be posted publicly somewhere so people who did not see this post will know not to submit political stories?
> Software is fundamentally broken. It's limited, never quite works the way we want it to, but it can't be changed, can't be combined and can't be trusted.

In general, this level of hyperbole puts me off. Besides anything else, this sentence is outright false, since much software can be changed, combined, and trusted. I know it's a manifesto, but still, this kind of rhetoric is unlikely to persuade people who don't already agree with you.

The issues you are discussing in this manifesto are not new, and many people have attempted to create tools to tackle those things before. Perhaps try to clarify why you think those tools fall short, in order to persuade people that zells is useful.
Not really a side project but we're scrappy and it's basically out of someone's garage. We're building applied AI hardware and software, personal AI companions and an interface for autonomous intelligent agents in an AGENT-SERVICE-INTERFACE model.

Asteria page: https://getasteria.com/

Baqqer page: https://baqqer.com/projects/asteria
I agree with you, it's pleasant to go to the local market. You don't mind waiting on a line for 5 minutes, but do you mind paying more for the same product?

With automation, supermarket costs will reduce, otherwise there would be no reason to automate.

This also happens with books, buying online is not so pleasant as go to a store, but people do, for different reasons.
There are different forums for politics though... I think the point Dang is making is that this place isn't primarily (even tangentially) a place for politics.
Its nice to see HN preparing for Trump
Something like that would have(and has) very strong resistance from doctors,which have a lot of influence on the healthcare system, turning them(to some extent) from highly respected, smart professionals with a lot of autonomy and responsibility, to cogs in a big machine .

Also such system is quite complex in many dimensions, so the natural risk minimization strategy would be to introduce it in stages: a system that warns about drug interactions here, monitors drug dosage there, reminds you to order extra tests, etc .And of course everything needs to be clinically tested to be accepted by docs(even though it isn't stricly necessary, it's just a second opinion, reminders, not the final word) . It makes for a very slow process.

And they they all face very big adoption barriers , in some cases upto 96% of their recommendations are skipped. Some of this is due to usability , but a lot due social/political factors.

Now after seeing this, what company in it's right mind will invest in developing a full diagnostical system ?

Actually , i know of one who did, http://www.isabelhealthcare.com , but at least according to the founding story , it began because the founder nearly lost his daughter to a hospital misdiagnosis, so he wasn't really driven by money.

And as far as i know(haven't followed them in a long time), they only achieved small scale sucsess.

The other company now entering this is IBM , but that's a bit of a unique case: IBM may be in big trouble so they take a huge bet, and the field they choose - cancer , is such that patients have much more power than usual , a patient has time, and can demand a diagnosis by Watson , heck it's even a cloud service, you just need to send blood and pay.
If anything, Hacker News should be more political, and it ought to get its political act together. People here are always talking about moral issues, implications of technology on the working class, climate issues, accessibility, etc.

Well, talking about those issues is just moral posturing without <power>, and politics is the negotiation of power.

These are all political issues. If you care about your fellow person, you already have the seeds of a <political> motivation. You want to change the way the world works -- but that takes power, power like the AMA or AARP has.

People who duck their heads in the sand and scorn politics and power as something dirty are counterproductive to this highly disorganized technical community with almost zero union potential.
I've seen a similar theory published before: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/86/2013047....
I feel the complete opposite. I always avoid cashiers I recognize. I hate that unnecessary relationship. I want to buy stuff without another human being involved.
Given that ycombinator does specifically involve themselves in issues of policy such as universal basic income and others, I find this move to be at odds with what ycombinator actually is.

Once some ideas are too 'dangerous' or too contentions to be discussed, there is little hope of ever moving forward in solving the very real problems we have in this world.

Characterizing values as fragile things which cannot withstand the rigors of robust debate is also a troubling viewpoint.

edit: typo.
Is there anywhere to read what they wrote?
It is trivial to make a phishing login where the login page that looks exactly like the legitimate login page. Of course under such conditions training will fail. The rules of the game are such that no amount of training is going users not make mistakes here.

Consider instead that passwords are only entered into some special and distinct OS controlled textbox* that webpages are prevented from mimicking (or even a physical device). This is a far easier training target (only enter passwords into boxes that look like X).

* The software behind this textbox ensures that the site knows the password before asking the user for the password.
I agree. I do some shopping online but by default stick to brick and mortar. I like keeping excuses to be out in the real world interacting with people, as the need to do so is vanishing.

Though appealing to Amazon, of all companies, about humanity where workers are involved is sadly, comically unfitting.
Tech is just as political as actual politics, so this explanation that political discussion "causes harm" / "war" / "emotion over reason" strikes me as incredibly facile. And frankly the notion that software engineers need to segregate our political lives from our professional lives is unbelievably self-serving to certain interests and frankly a big problem with the culture today.
But will we...give them actual welfare, training, some transition? Or are we going to bring in the automation and let nature take its course?
I understand and sympathize with what you've said here. I also know that empirically this is not the case on HN, at least not under the current environment (e.g., community, guidelines, moderation, current events and political situation). Ignoring that puts what HN is and strives to be at risk.

I've also been actively working on engaging constructively in difficult, contentious conversation. HN is one forum. If politics is on area that's generally avoided here for the benefit of quality discussion on other topics, there are other forums where one can. And perhaps after a detox week (or two?), constructive political might work on HN. I certainly hope so, but am also aware of how difficult that can be in person, and even more so online.
I think this is a great point.

I assume putting the "flag" button one click away is to prevent people using it as a down vote when arguing, but it definitely means that I never flag comments, only stories. And comments are the place where "politicalness" really has the damaging effects.

I wonder if there might be either an opt-in to keep it zero clicks away, or maybe over a certain amount of karma it is visible, or some other compromise so that proper comment flagging is more widespread.
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That's only kind of true. They park it in other places besides China: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-m...
The attrition is going to be high anyhow, tons of stuff gets damaged during shipping, handling and stocking, tons more is never sold.

Most large stores take out nearly everything off the shelves at night even if it's still within it's "use before" date which on it's own is utterly nonsensical to begin with as most items don't expire for days, if not weeks, months and even years from the "use/best before" date.

People drop stuff, people mishandle goods, how many people squeeze a vegetable or a fruit to check if it's ripe damaging it? how many apples get a mushy spot because they banged around in the crate?

You are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel of inventory attrition when you are talking about perishable misplaced items, compared to everything else they are a rounding error.

There is a lot of loss baked into every supply chain, unless you are going to change it in it's entirety really don't bother with the end, the loss at the point of sale is minimal compared to everything else.
I have my own theory about how life and entropy interrelate. I think total entropy in the universe starts at zero and will end at zero. This is because 'order' must be considered 'negative entropy'. As the universe evolves over time patterns in molecules and behaviors of molecules begin to occur. Starting with particles, atoms, molecules, compounds, planets, solar systems, galaxies, etc. Physics doesn't drive just randomness, but it also drives order.

So you ask what is the ultimate MOST NEGATIVE entropy that exists? Life. Specifically brains. Life forms are the most ordered things in the universe (non-random/order). Brains are massively large negative entropy locations in the universe. If you total up all positive entropy and negative entropy the balance out to zero. The reason is because the laws of physics don't change and DO create patterns.

You can even study this "Zero Entropy" law in Conway's Game of Life. As the randomness increases over time to does the 'order', and i argue that the roughly cancel out. It's a kind of 'information conservation' at work here. If no new information is added into a system, it cannot gain or lose entropy, because all the random events are creating 'patterns' and by definition a pattern is an non-randomness and therefore negative entropy.
I have an idea - if it's in reference to a topic of CNN, NYT, WSJ, and WaPo's politics sections then it shouldn't be on HN.
Since you're posting anecdotal evidence, let me post my own:

> We socialize at the grocery store.

I never go to the grocery store for socializing. When I was still in England, I constantly ordered online. Now it's a chore and I miss england.

> We socialize while at the barber shop.

I shave my head to avoid having to go to the barber shop.

> We socialize at work.

I work remotely to avoid having to deal with that.

> At church.

Not religious. Probably because I'd have to go to church if I were.

> At football or soccer games.

I play tennis just so I don't have to deal with a team.

I can't wait for this technology to make its way here. The grocery lines on saturdays are insane. Also maybe that means the shops will be open longer hours and I can go in the middle of the night so I can avoid meeting people even more.
dang, doing things like this is turning HN more into reddit with heavy-handing modding, than just letting the community dictate for itself what it wants to see. The community has existed and guided itself a lot longer than the time you've been around, I think you should trust us.
I think that the costs of giving back control to the mainstream media drastically exceed the benefits of stopping some misinformation. I'd prefer the whole truth mixed with lies to a partial truth that is also mixed with lies (what we had before when the mainstream media controlled everything).
in b4 stdlib is better than this framework.
Not all of us view political topics as nausea inducing.

I don't think politics have overtaken the site or even become a significant part of it, so I wonder why politics-averse individuals cant just avoid political threads?
Advertising is amazing to behold. You slap together some low quality ad unit, dial in your target audience on Facebook, throw a couple hundred K into the coffers... and then watch the machine crank out LPVs and conversions.

The upfront effort needed to steer consumer behavior is shockingly minimal.
One suggestion on using Steam link, is to connect the streaming machine, and Steam link via ethernet, and not WIFI.

From my personal experience (and research online), wifi can be iffy, and ethernet ensures a much smoother experience overall.
I think this is a good idea. I realize that, you know, freedom of speech and all, but this is called HACKER NEWS.

I would personally like it best if the political news just lessened overall, rather than stopping entirely for a week, but what can you do. Can't just tell people "actually, the political thermometer is at 25°C, gotta let it cool down to 21°C."
What hot buttons did I miss? I can think of gender. I'll add that one.

Edit: class, too.

Perhaps I should make explicit what seems obvious (to me) and say no, this doesn't have to do specifically with Trump. This whole year has been a political game-changer—think of Brexit before it. Perhaps our societies are becoming increasingly polarized, I don't know, but lots of things are going on in the outside world and Trump is just one of them, though of course a major one.

I wonder if developments on other online forums might be characterizing how this one seems to some users, but the truth is pretty mundane: I don't know about those other online forums because I don't have time to look at them. What we're talking about here is purely HN-grown.
I'd have a lot more confidence in the unbiased nature of a request like this if it was suggested prior to the outcome of the election. It's not like things were less contentious then.

Say if this were announced the day before the election, regardless of the outcome, with a hold period of say a month.
They are required by law or by long-standing policy in a government-run body (which is practically the same thing). Laws DO change to keep up with the times, but they do so rather slowly. In 50 to 100 years, if there is continuous clear evidence that home assessments are highly unreliable and not particularly profitable to anyone, then you should expect them to be eliminated.
Hey ap22213. Never got your email. Just following up to see if you've resolved your issues with GCP, if not feel free to contact me at bookman@google.com

Have a great day.
> Because he got handcuffed.

He actually asked them to handcuff him and then take his picture because he said it would look cool. Look at the picture, the police officers are smiling in the background. He played them.
Better than Testacular:

https://testing.googleblog.com/2012/11/testacular-spectacula...

https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/issues/376
You're exactly right, and that's why I've been advocating redrawing the state boundaries for years now. There was a project decades ago called "The 38 States" (google it) where a college class came up with a new map of the US with more optimized state borders, with the goal of having more equal populations in each state, not having metro areas cross state borders, and grouping like regional cultures together, and also reducing the total number of states to reduce overhead.

I think a big project to redraw all the borders would be painful, but would create big gains before too long. I don't know that they need to be redrawn every couple of decades though; perhaps a few little tweaks here and there would be called for though. But the borders we have a completely at odds with where they should be for administrative efficiency.
I think it's more complicated than grades, IQ, or test scores. I know plenty of people that had mediocre or terrible grades, but had many successes in life.

How do you define success? ability to support yourself? Retire at 40? support children?

It also has to do with: drug/alcohol addiction/consumption, personal choices and life decisions (If you have children before you are married/can support them, you will most likely), and if you actually graduate from high school (grades reflect this, but you are pretty much destined to low-paying wages/jobs with no high school diploma in the US).