skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say they would be willing to pay an increased tax of 5% on their income to help homeless people.

You're saying - "instead just give 5,000 dollars to a homeless person, done!"

I think the absurdity of the suggestion is apparent but just in case - there's the obvious issues of

1. Assuming OP is a software engineer with no knowledge of "the homeless plight" or the best economic mechanisms to drag someone out of homelessness, there's no way they could give the money away in a way that actually defeats the problem withouts significant research effort.

2. Donating to charity is a possibility, but is not as effective as "everyone paying 5% extra tax," which leads me to...

3. Rather than paying an extra 5% tax, the OP's most effective course of action would be to lobby the government and his/her local population to make efforts to pass legislation that enables the government to levy a tax on everyone, and then use that money to solve the homelessness problem.

So, just like the OP said, economies of scale, effectiveness.

I am mildly upset that everyone is somewhat attacking someone for wanting the right thing to happen but not just making it happen on their own. How absurd!
More licensure with requirements for using the license might be good for a gig economy, but likely only if we have some way of vetting licenses for general usefulness, so they aren't just ways to limit a market and protect the existing license holders and not the public.[1]

If we had rules about what a license should promote (such as public safety, accountability, etc) and what it should try to prevent (rent seeking, protectionism) and metrics by which to measure this (even if an impartial panel), we could possible greatly increase the number of licenses we require while also lowering the bar of entry for many existing licensed businesses.

I understand this would be a tricky path to take. It's layering bureaucracy, which is often problematic. But I'm not sure we necessarily want random unaccountable people driving around throwing packages at us, nor doctors practicing without experience, and I don't think having to pay $1000 and take a one week course for licensure to deliver packages for Amazon is useful either.

1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/04/14/524007928/episo...
Have you heard of public libraries? Or friends with phones?

In olden times, we had one phone number for our family. And before phones we had mail. There's are all kinds of ways to communicate, albeit slower than carrying a cellphone.
Regarding Counter Culture Labs. It looks like they post update videos periodically, but do they have something on the market yet? What does their insulin cost per IU?
More than that, it would look weird because restoring the color to a photo in a way that looks plausibly photorealistic is really hard. If you make something more stylized, the viewer doesn’t have as much reference to compare and realize that there’s something wrong.

To the grandparent: people have been trying to colorize black and white photos since the 1840s; complaining isn’t going to stop them now, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring_of_photographs
Solid point! I agree that it's super important to know your system well enough to know what your key metrics/kpis are without us. We are no substitute for that. One of the key places we try to fit in is after you may already know something is going on (ex, your kpis are being affected) and you want to drill down deeper to understand what's going on at a more detailed level. With a deep enough understanding of your system, you may have some ideas about where to look for more info, but there can sometimes be so many places to look that it's hard to know where to start. That's where we come in. One of the articles that really influences how I personally think about this stuff is here, it's a great read if you have the time: https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/monitoring-in-the-time-of-... . In the words of the article, we fit in between the overview and debugging part of the monitoring pyramid.
I've been wondering lately if there is room for the notion of a conservative anarchist, who questions hierarchy but dismantles carefully and incrementally.

Sure! Those are the collaborationists, and are the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

I'm only half-joking, see what happened to the Mensheviks in 1917-1921.
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And to answer the question, it seems like class was self-ranked based on the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status[1] rather than having two groups drawn from two classes. "Low" and "High" look like they're just the two groups above and below the median of the study.

[1]: http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/research/psychosocial/subjective....
> CloudBoost runs on MongoDB and Redis. You're responsible for managing the uptime, replication, sharding, backups of your data in each of these databases.

Yeah, no thanks. I'd much rather use Firebase/Algolia because a large part of their value proposition is that you don't have to worry about the hard things like replication, sharding, and backups.
"Should be generally avoided" in favour of what?

Each well-known pattern has its own applicability and use cases, which have been analyzed and described very well. I wonder, what makes you think, that all of it should be dismissed?
As johnwacho said, that doesn't indicate actual involvement.
Exactly. Nobody complains about the transaction capacity of gold. Bitcoin is a store of value - especially useful if our financial system sours again.
Most people who are desperate and too poor to afford medications are also too poor to afford the tools and supplies necessary to make their own medications. I don't think this will solve the problem of drug affordability.
How far do you think is the next local maximum from the current C one? I'm asking in terms of power of displacement of the status quo. Do you think it involves Lisp in one way or another?
It depends on the scope of the patent. But to some extent, kind of. See, e.g., the patent for an adalimumab (Humira) formulation https://patents.google.com/patent/US9085619B2/en. The patent discloses materials and methods for creating a formulation of the drug.

The real issue is probably that there are so many moving parts, especially when you get to the more complex drugs (e.g. antibodies). You would have to go through a million patents to find all the information required to create the actual molecule and also get it in a state to put into your body.

And even with all the information, it is unlikely anyone is sufficiently resourced (whether it's money, tools, or know-how) to actually make something viable.
A few of those are from me after I installed mptcp, so the counter seems to be working.
Keep in mind - total spent on the 2016 election according to CBS was $6.8 Billion [1].

In that context, how could $100,000 of FB ads (0.001%) possibly be relevant?

Speculating that it might possibly be relevant if we hypothetically were to discover it was 100x bigger than we currently know, to me that defeats the whole argument.

"Big if true!" is the rallying cry of the whole Russiagate fiasco. "Big if Bigger!" is just the next contortion.

[1] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-2016s-price-tag-6-8-bi...
Enbrel? They just received another patent extension, too.

This is what government granted monopolies look like.
> neat, contained, solutions.

Contained solutions can be only designed for contained problems. Sure if you define a limited set of requirements you can finish your project and will have a limited software that is only useful in that very limited context.

"change" might be unnecessary but it is certainly not illusionary.
I've seen many times cyclists driving on poorly lit one-lane roads without dedicated bike lane, wearing black or dark clothes. It's positively scary, especially when they turn out of the side street right in front of you. I personally try to stay as far away as possible from them.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-yo...

Favorite quote: "Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to."

Other favorite quote: "human nature is such that they cannot be trusted to do so when given power over others. Give someone such power, they will almost invariably abuse it in some way or another."
Totally agree with you here. All of this is automated these days.
The not so generally accepted answer for Bitcoin's low TPS is to use something called the lighting network.

It's a way to lock up funds so you can tx with low fees and quick confirmations because you aren't hitting the main chain until you want to withdraw your funds.

It's performing a wire transfer to venmo, once you do it you don't have to pay to move it around in venmo, except with the lighting network there is no counter party risk. If venmo gets hacked you don't lose your funds, they can't try and steal them, they can't prevent you from withdrawing.

The technical details are, a bit hairy though.
That's exactly what's happening here [1]. John Sculley stays in the press in the same way. In fact he got another hit just today [2].

[1] https://www.techinasia.com/talk/steve-wozniak-walking-billbo...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-best-recruiter-app...
Big surprise, the ghost train guy would have used a ghost train..
>So of those 400k political bots, 1600 were identified as talking about fringe topics.

Read it again. Of those 400k bots, 1600 were identified talking about the US elections, anti-Macron sentiment, and extremist far-right topics. All three topics. That could be one person/group reusing bots.

Additionally, hundreds of millions of real users talking politics is unlikely. Twitter has 300 milliom active users per month, 9-15% of them bots, the US election had 120 million voters. Hundreds of millions would be nearly everyone.
I don't think people understand just how quickly the liver, kidneys, hormone levels, your whole body can be destroyed in the blink of an eye by bad drugs. I would say, I've seen more than a few HN contributors have a less than cautious attitude toward recreational drugs. Drugs, period, without proper knowledge and guidance can do irreparable harm to internal organs and should be treated with proper respect.
Ok, that's interesting. I wonder what is the common thread among those three. Could it be benevolent founders who don't hand the reins over to investment partners?
Dashboards are largely dangerous. They promote a "Star Trek Bridge" theater - a play where one actor looks at a screen, becomes concerned, and takes action. Often this action will include a report to a senior officer.

Business leaders often enjoy seeing their engineers act out this scene. It's gratifying to see someone take expected action, and gratifying to simply look at your direct reports to see if they're working.

But this theater play requires engineers to be idly starting at dashboards first, so they are in the right place to see an issue and take action. This leads to bored engineers, complacency, and delays issue resolution. It's also inefficient to pay people to be bored.

Instead of having a dashboard display a subset of metrics, have alerting configured on these. Pager duty notifies the same if you're in another app, another castle, another room, or another state - you can pay people to do other things instead of staring at a dashboard all day.

A big TV full of metrics is a prop that your actors and engineers will ignore.
I informed several people about that contract and they all responded negatively. To sign off on that was an epic fail.

Talk about bad optics, regardless of how deeply embedded Equifax is with the government that was just a bad decision. Obviously they got enough pressure that they were forced to suspend it, but the whole thing should have been squashed and never hit the press.
> With NLP and ML any company can know who wrote what review if they wanted to

And the motivation to dedicate resources to this is...? You already fired the person, what does it matter if you find out who they are?
I have web servers in production running in CCL

WANT!!!

Please write an article about it and post a link to it here.
I love Zeronet project. the only problem I have is, within my corporate network I can't run my node.

I also have a hard problem understanding how to use ZeroMe from different devices... I use the same masterseed (maintaining my ID) but my ZeroMe profile does not seem to move between my devices. I find the hub concept difficult to understand...
If you take actions which a reasonable person would expect to cause harm to others, there is a legal dimension there ranging from civil liability, to the extreme of 2nd degree murder via “depraved indifference” statutes.
Given that a number of countries/US states have euthanasia laws on the books, it is definitely an actionable diagnosis at this point.
People who do such research are a waste of money in my opinion and must be fired. Do something useful. What is the use of this? Rich people go grab pussies, some get rid of poverty. They are mean, they are nice.. they are across the spectrum
> traffic penalties fines are regressive in the sense they are fixed

They actually did examine almost exactly that, although none of the studies involved actual laws or punishments outside social repercussions. They measured how likely someone was to cut people off while driving. Most of the other scenarios involved sharing rewards.
That made me think about the reviews in app stores these days. There will be a valid complaint and rating, followed by a response from the company that might be something like, "this has been addressed in the next version. we're sorry you had a bad experience." Something like that turns a 1 star rating into a positive signal to me.

Maybe Glassdoor reviews need the opportunity for a company representative to say, "this is valid criticism and we are addressing it."
Bitcoin is the access point to just about every other cryptocurrency. So if you want to buy most cryptocurrencies the path of least resistance (for most people) is to buy bitcoin and then buy something else.

That of course doesn't say why someone would want to buy any cruptocurrency, but if you primary concern is the low TPS on Bitcoin and Ethereum then there's plenty of other options.
Serious question: do you consider all the patterns in the gang of four to be terrible or are there a few you'd recommend to be more useful? As a relatively young Java developer I'd love to know what patterns have stood the test of time.
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If, i am the last person on earth. I can still find my truth, by experiencing it myself. it's not 1 and 2. it's 1 or 2.
>As you can see, we have tried to strike a balance.

...I can't see that.
It's a shame that his 1981 plane crash robbed both Steve and the world of the full use of one of the greatest engineering minds that has ever lived.

A lot of people who know him personally - and I know of them personally, so it's second-hand corroboration to be clear - say he was never anywhere close to the same after the accident.
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I left both good and bad reviews for bad employers but I do think negative reviews are usually more reliable since employees who hate a company are more likely to be bothered to write a review.
I haven't tried ProseMirror, but I've can second the endorsement for Quill. For the past three months, I've been working on a large-scale integration of Quill (with lots of customizations) into a commercial word-processor (https://shaxpir.com) and it has been a lovely experience.

A lot of the underlying ideas are similar between Quill and ProseMirror, so I'm curious to hear a knowledgable comparison of the two. But the excellent Quill documentation, as well as the responsiveness of the primary developer to github issues and stackoverflow questions, made it an easy choice for me.
This is an insanely difficult project. If you want to replace any part from the logic board, your best bet is to replace everything.

Changing any one thing (SoC, connector, etc) isn't possible because you'd have to be really good as OS hacking to add support for it, especially when it is closed sourced.
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You don't. You compare wealth/class to mean-ness. Arbitrarily defining a cutoff would affect the results from the onset.
You could just write your own `read` that supports indentation instead of brackets. It would be pretty annoying, though.
Intersections include more than just those with traffic lights.
TBH, you need to put a cookie warning only if you use cookies for stuff like tracking and advertising. Logins and general site functionality are extempt from that.

Basically, cookie warning on site means the site tracks you.
I don't believe the burden of proof shifts based on what you personally think or what you suppose most people think.

In fact the burden of proof ought to lie with those who suppose we commit egregious acts of immorality in the name of a nebulous greater good to prove that this is morally acceptable and that said greater good actually exists.

Back on the topic of if torture works. Nobody is arguing that you can't coerce someone into giving true testimony if you know you have a bad party and you can verify what he tells you immediately but in such cases you almost wouldn't have to anyway.

The problem is the world is rarely cut and dry and we are all much much safer if the powers that be aren't allowed to pull out our fingernails.

Terrorism kills less people than bathtubs and far less than cars imagining that we ought to eliminate basic protections to keep a relative handful from dying is insane.
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Your comments contain a lot of red flags for me. Appreciating diversity is not the same as implementing a diverse team. Many dysfunctional organizations hide behind hiring practices of color blind meritocracy.
Some strains of Daoist thought could be construed as a conservative anarchism, although such conservatism would be completely at odds with conservatism these days.
You're right -- the cats themselves are pretty durable (other than my ancient 18 year old Cat A). For me, the instructions are less for the cats themselves, as it is preventing the mess they will make at times.

- Refill all four water containers
- Give them large, heavy dishes full of water because Cat A likes to Knock Shit Over to see if there's water in there. (My hardwood floor has a damaged section because of this: OK if cleaned up fast, not OK if left over the weekend in hot weather.)
- Mix in treats so that cat A eats all of her food
- Cats B and C like to eat Cat A's food, so feed her in a separate room, then open the door 5 minutes later.
The generalized case is both obviously the case, and not an examined axiom in contemporary politics: corporations operating without a value function that incorporates the public good and the commons, are not your friend.

Well, unless 'you' are one of the very few (statistically speaking) benefiting.

It's neither impossible nor unreasonable to constrain organizational behavior to incorporate collective goals.

It's just politically toxic in an America where self interest has been cultivated to be the ultimate moral litmus test.

That economic theories predicated on the aggregated consequence of self interest providing for collective benefit have been utterly disproven has not affected the received ideology.

Who would want to question the belief that acting in their own benefit is not morally unimpeachable?

QED the lionized cowboy culture at Über, to name an egregious example among a bottomless pool of them.
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Game theory bases that we are all self-interested and that also adds a level of safety in some scenarios. For instance you don't want to tank your team, you want YOUR team to win so you do more because of that self-interest. Cooperation can be part of self-interest in that aspect. Even self interest has a level of moral norms and respect for civil rights because you want that same level of protection.

What happens to niceness? It gets chewed up and eaten. I am a very cooperative person but through my life I have realized niceness/loyalty come at a cost but are hard not to do. If you aren't self-interested in yourself, noone will be.
I just got an image in my head of a GOOG vs. AMZN animated rainbows and ponies battle.
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I agree. I have seen these kind of complaints a lot and I just don't get it. "Now some random person knows where I live." ... Uh, well, they know where -someone- lives, but they don't know you. I can't see how this is a problem unless your house is some kind of camoflauged hidden lair.

Houses are easy enough to find. You don't need to get a job as a delivery person to find where houses are. The fact that they delivered a package to your house doesn't make you any more of a target than anyone else. Maybe if you were having gold bricks delivered and they were clearly marked "expensive gold bricks" on the package.
Assuming its worked because its used is circular reasoning that could be used to justify ANYTHING. Its also amazingly pretending our government is remotely competent.
Not saying "retaliation" makes any sense, but do you not think the CIA, NSA, DIA, et al do their own share of "mischief"?
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>A decade ago, while he was volunteering with aid workers in El Salvador, Laufer said a nurse at a remote health outpost told him she’d run out of antibiotics and birth control pills — cheap, generic medicines that even her suppliers couldn’t immediately replenish. “This is ridiculous. They should be able to build their own simple lab” to make the pills, he recalled thinking at the time.

This is pure crazy. If these drug were generic (versus patented), the problem of getting them to El Salvador is not a price problem, it's a supply chain/infrastructure/corruption and theft/political (in the case of birth control in a very Catholic country) problem. Some of these drugs are highly complex and building, supplying, and feedstocking chemicals for a lab to make them is even harder than finding the money for a $5/pop or less prescription
Below is the first google hit I get for “Saudi Arabia Politics”. They fund terrorism, attack allies, export Wahhabism, oppress, torture and kill political dissent, exclude women from everything and that’s just just scratching the surface. Why do you think Saudi Arabia is stable?
Condemning them and pulling them into line doesn’t mean they become a failed state. Even just stopping exporting billions of dollars of arms to them would be a start.

www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2017/06/24/with-new-crown-prince-saudi-arabia-doubles-down-on-political-repression-and-regional-aggression/amp/
Recreational drugs are one thing, synthesizing compounds yourself is another. The risk profiles are completely different.
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The 12 year old in a sweatshop in Bangladesh might be supporting a family and may otherwise have to resort to a lower income, starvation, or death without the opportunity Walmart offers.
The purpose of buying ad space is to expose your product to people as an impression or as an action. If I tell you I can sell you a service that will show your ads to 10 people and you agree to give me money for that statement, but 5 of those people are running 2 accounts each, that's misleading and, dare I say, fraudulent.
There's also a much more conservative and narrowly scoped effort to help late stager cancer patients make their own therapeutic peptide vaccines: http://alunglife.com/goal-cure-cancer-method/