skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that was the point of the article. If we take a look at the structure of the Valley, and point the finger at Venture Capitalists, then what we really need to ask is why Venture Capitalists brand themselves as revolutionary do-gooders when the movers of capital in the finance industry don't. It's become an almost Orwellian caricature.

> So, if you want to point fingers asking why aren't tough problems solved you should start by asking yourself why is it that those are so much more capital-intensive to solve in the first place. And more importantly, what could be done to make them more attractive to private capital.

I think this is a convenient way of oversimplifying the issue. The issue at its most fundamental is why VC does not invest as frequently in issues that help the middle-class. The explanation could have a variety of reasons, from corrupt VCs, to a broken incentive system (our implementation of capitalism), all the way to artificial bureaucratic inflation (inefficient/corrupt government).

There's no need to worship at the altar of capitalism until we strangle ourselves in our zealotry.
I'm so happy. I'll keep writing. :)
Again, I feel like we're talking past each other. The way I interpreted OP was him saying he didn't want the UBI payment if there was UBI implemented. If UBI is implemented you don't just get to opt out as that gets rid one of the major benefits of the system which is low administrative costs. The OP may not have meant his statement the way I interpreted it, but my interpretation of it definitely separated the taking from the giving
That is partly why I had rather just develop my own for black and white. For color the process looks painful enough that I'd rather send it to a lab though
So do you disagree with the use of heroin-assisted treatment[1] or supervised injection sites[2]? Have you considered that many of the problems associated with addiction actually stem from the efforts of people like you to make it harder for users to get the drugs they need, problems like exorbitant prices and potentially lethal adulterants?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised_injection_site
At least in the US, the rich tend to be the biggest beneficiaries of government hand-outs, to an even greater degree than people on the dole. It's just not as visible, so not as easy for the public to vilify. Not sure if it's similar in the UK, but I suspect it might be so--the UK seems like US-lite when it comes to governance.
You might be able to make that argument about Manhattan, but LA, SF, DC and suburban NY have lots of under-developed land.
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Given the current zoning laws, LVT would disincentivize as the most profitable options, as you've pointed out, are extremely tall buildings with similarly high construction costs.

At least now you could buy a large lot and put, say a laundry building, there. With LVT, assuming minimum lot sizes remains a thing, simply disincentivizes small scale developments which is exactly what a undeveloped small city needs.

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TLDR: large scale development isn't going to happen in a small city, therefore the cost to even develop at all is now increased with LVT as there are minimum lot size requirements per zoning (for things like side walks and parking)
iOS projects with Fastlane automatically looks for vulnerabilities with the gems installed.
I'm also a bit confused about the edit bringing disabled people into it. But FWIW I clicked the "vouch" button. I think that is what it's for (correct me if I'm wrong), I don't like seeing perfectly reasonable and constructive comments marked [dead], because no one can reply and often it sticks around for a bit and I've seen people write super constructive comments for months, unaware they've been shadow/hell-banned because of one ill-thought comment they made a while back.

Otherwise I think the mod-team is doing a GREAT job (seriously kudos).

But this is one of those warts on HN that I think is just sad. People spending effort contributing to the site, for weeks, but almost nobody reading it (except those with showdead enabled, what's the percentage on that btw?). If they're dicks that deserve to be banned, at least let them know. The occasions when its better to not let them know (aka hellbanning) are so extremely rare, only for extremely persistent trolls re-registering on new IPs, it should be done and decided manually by more than one person on the mod-team. Definitely not automatic thing after getting too many downvotes, that should just trigger a manual review.
Okay, so all you've said is "Go is, interestingly, also Turing Complete". That is interesting and worth-posting-about information. In an attempt to illustrate the futility of the Mtg example with a Go example, you have in fact merely illustrated that in addition to Mtg, Go is ALSO interesting to look at.

Mtg can be shown to be Turing Complete in one (of quite a few, actually) subset of rules. That's cool, and unexpected to many, and worth reading about.

And that's true for any other example of things not usually associated with programming.

(Turing completeness is an algorithmic property, not a "thing" property, so a pencil and some paper, or a bunch rocks, are certainly not Turing complete: you need procedural rules as well, something Mtg has no shortage of)
Clicked through the link to the security apps on the Github Marketplace and had a look at Snyk.io's pricing: 119$ through Github, 99$ if you get it straight from Snyk.io.

And looking deeper into Github Marketplace pricing, I can see that Github takes a 25% cut (https://developer.github.com/apps/adding-integrations/managi...).

What is the benefit of getting anything via the Github marketplace that can be subscribed to outside of the marketplace ? What justifies that 25% cut appart from having a listing of apps ?
The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs
Other countries have sane campaign finance and campaign advertising laws. I think it is outside of their scope in posting this idea to try and make up their own internal ones and enforce them (and enforcement would inevitably colored by their own political bias).
> Renewable Energy from Engineered Microbes

This has been one of those things that's 5 years away for decades. Great if you can make it happen.

> Social Network for Children

Club Penguin was quite successful for a while.
Because that leads to bad feels; did you counter X because you know I have Y in my hand now? I always try to explicitly pass priority after spells even in causal settings when I mean to.
Not too smart, hopefully (7-min video, AI Slaughterbots)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
It does make you think, but the nature of current opiates from China and sold to the west makes it possible for a single rogue lab to be supplying the entire USA.

One Kg of Fentanyl is 20 MILLION strong doses (50mcg). One Kg of carfentanil is 50 million lethal doses (at the 20ug ld50 espoused by the RCMP)

So in a country of 1.5Billion people it only takes one bad actor to fuck over a significant part of the world.
The absolutely incorrect thing to do is to lie to the public by using your credibility as a scientist to knowingly make up your own incorrect story about the hypothetical effects.

You wonder why so many people don't trust "scientists" when you can see they are clearly lying to push a social cause?
Deploying kafka dependent scala microservices with docker
I'm not sure how you made the jump from race-blind admission to need-blind...

I agree that more would need to be done than just saying "anyone can apply" but I don't think that the University should be doing most of the work, I think that we should work in the communities that need help to improve education so that more people are encouraged to apply and those that apply are more qualified.

>you don't just pick the "top" people based on quantitative measures.

Please be careful how you say this, some people will hear "We should pick PoC over more qualified white people." This gives the alt-right the opportunity to fan flames that should die.
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones!" ~Albert Einstein
And our commuter rail is a stream of helpful text alerts:

"Train 425 Dpt. Union Station (7:10) delayed 5 minutes."

"Train 425 Dpt. Union Station (7:10) delayed 20 minutes."

"Train 425 Dpt. Union Station (7:10) delayed 45 minutes."

"Train 425 Dpt. Union Station (7:10) delayed 90 minutes."

"Train 425 Dpt. Union Station (7:10) canceled due to equipment problems."

And, of course, the text message saying the 7:10 is delayed by 5 minutes comes in at 7:20.
Second closest Earth like exoplanet found 11 light years away at Ross128
Known a few people retired in Seattle, and now their home is worth a million bucks, and gets tax'ed accordingly.

This was the problem california had, paid off homes property tax became the same as renting an apartment, driving elderly out, and thus laws had to be passed to protect them.

There was a new stop light put in near my work, it cost 750k. For a stop light, the city waited years due to the cost. More expensive since it was on a main road, and part of the cost was flagers and lane reduction.

Costs are too expensive, even maintain streets in some areas due to low income homes and less property taxes, and the cure has been roundabouts instead of stop lights (or over passes on urban highways.

Its crazy. Don't even get me started on waste of an impact studies for homes but doesn't include roads.

And saw another report Vancover homes will be around 2.1 million average by 2030. Crazy.
Your approach flies in the face of the "scratch your own itch" piece of advice and I think it's time to move that advice to the trash can.

There are lots of non-technical domains that could benefit from the application of technology and if we only going around fixing problems we run into, we are going to miss out on some great ideas.

Might I suggest that rather than thinking about this as "I want to build a company that ___" and then trying to fill in the blank, it would be better to think about what inefficiencies exist in the world that could be improved or eliminated by the creation of a fresh solution. This is really what startups are doing. Without a core inefficiency, there is no need to build a startup.
> legalizing opium is an odd choice

Only if the bill wasn't "inspired" by some group that wants to sell opium. For such a group, trying to piggyback opium on the current wave of marihuana legalization would be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

But it still would not make much sense because existing opiate sellers, both legal and illegal, seem to be on the winning side of existing regulation.
^STEM ?

EDIT: ah, now I see (A)rt
Is startup limited to technology or business? The most urgent needs of the world are political or social. Generally, promoting logical reasoning and emotional control.
> Low-Friction Lending Library
I've thought about this one on and off for many years. I still think it's a great idea, but whenever I get to the liability part (both damage to person using a lended drill or hey you broke my drill) I get discouraged and stop thinking about it.
>It's probably naive [...] not least to prevent prison from turning into a "crime school".

I am very confident the type of people working in SV could make a huge impact, if only running prisons was like software development.

But the goal of US prison is not to solve difficult problems. It is simply to benefit the US prison-police-state-complex.

The other problem is it would be like when designing, your functions, or people, don't do what they're supposed to do and have a mind of their own. For example, an HBO documentary on death row inmate Troy Kell noted he was being punished for heroin overdose[1]. Thing is, he is in solitary. How does a guy in solitary become a heroin addict? Well, like the article mentioned, the drugs come in through the guards. Sometimes this, and things like Abu Ghraib, the Stanford Prison Experiment and regular police killings make me wonder if the authorities here are any better than the guys inside.

1 - https://youtu.be/UEl7zsOE2Sk
Yes, that is what I want. Here is a question that I posted on stack overflow, which talks about replacing ERB with Vue.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43084499/replacing-rails...

If this interests you, I would love to work. :)
- Create a new class of business licence that is valid for entire country for sales outside of a brick and mortar store - online/phone/carrier pigeon.

- Have sellers collect tax as if they had nexus in every state in US - it's horrible with thousands of different rates, but at least it's a solved problem. Removes Amazon advantage of shipping across state lines to avoid sales tax.

- Have sellers file a single tax return with a per-state breakdown.
Agreed, without the ability to exert pressure, getting people to pay by asking is not meaningful. Otherwise, it's solved with a script that repeatedly emails escalating copy.

I can only hope one day, horse heads will be available via Amazon Prime drone delivery, accessible through an API.
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I’ve always felt there are two different kinds of Unix/Linux: sysadmin vs user. While Linux distros have been getting better and easier for many years, installing and maintaining Linux on my own machine still requires sysadmin Linux knowledge to this day.

I personally believe this is why Macs have been so popular since OSX, it’s really the only machine out there that comes with Unix but doesn’t require any sysadmin knowledge to use productively.

As soon as Linux truly reaches that same point where users can install and maintain it without needing sysadmin Linux, I think it could take over Mac’s position. And I wish it would, OSX seems to stuck in old version limbo.
A small undeveloped city has less valuable land so the LVT would have negligible effect until it develops more.
With Star Wars Battlefront II, Disney and EA May Have a Gambling Problem
Indeed. And the Dell XPS 13 is not a cheap computer. I will think twice before buying a Dell.
> I really hope people don't think webassembly is the fault for this

Nah, I think it's pretty clear GP meant "when you insist on writing interpreters/compilers in C++" not that C++ was compiled into wasm.
And yet somehow it's more expensive and slower than flying (incl. getting to the airport and going through security).
It could be they were burned by a previous employer and are a bit jaded now. If you're fair and open in your dealings with them and share in the success of the company (not that you're not doing these things already) their attitude may change. A lot of "good CEO training" involves learning how to get the most output with the least input when it comes to employees. I think they assume people don't know what they're doing, but it just leads to an adversarial environment.
Sparc machines were not as good at number crunching as Power so Sun wasn't as well-represented in the list as IBM, and Solaris wasn't as heavily used as AIX.
> In the United States about 17 million (7%) of adults and 0.7 million (2.8%) of those age 12 to 17 years of age are affected.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism)

That looks like a health crisis for me. Of course with a regulating a drug that was illegal before you have more far-reaching possibilities of regulation.
Ocopea – Cloud Native Application Copies for Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry
Fines if they don’t file the required data, which they don’t have to file if they purchase from a marketplace that properly collects sales tax.
Good question. Sorry to hear that's the case.
Twitter brings in traffic. FB is worse than snail mail for what you want. Probably because it focuses on internal traffic.
There's no reasonable interpretation of a 50%-ish survival rate that can be described as 'quite survivable'. Toxicologists say LD50, for instance, not QS50.
I too would love to try Phoenix/Elixir. How is your experience using it?
Back in 2005 I visited the US for the first time, in San Diego for work with some colleagues. Being European we decided to take the bus from where we stayed to wherever we needed to go, as you do. Yes, we knew that the US was extremely car-centric, but after looking online and finding a public bus with an appealing route quite close to where we stayed (Mission Beach, quite nice!) we assumed we were just lucky.

That was an eye-opening experience. Firstly the realization that the schedules didn't really mean anything there (the bus showing up 30 minutes later than advertised), secondly the entirely insane experience on the bus itself - ranging from the behavior of the driver to that of the other passengers.

After that we immediately grabbed a taxi to a car rental place.
Over years I've heard a lot of complaints on tar being hard to use, but in real-life I really ever had to use only these two commands: zip and unzip. It's actually quite easy to remember: zip, and unzip.
My BART train this morning was stuck in the transbay tube for about 40 minutes this morning because a train in front of ours had someone get stuck in the door. Our conductor spent those 40 minutes of us sitting in a hot train bitching at us for someone else getting stuck in the doors. There's literally just zero professionalism/pride in your work from so many people nowadays.
I do, but I have to confess I'm not all that much seeing the degree of applicability that would seem commensurate with such a trenchant response.
I don't buy into this big-R, little-r racism but "well if they'd just work harder, or get a better job," and "they" refers to black people, that's racism.

> Racism is very much a matter of intent.

No. Unconscious bias, which by definition does not include intent, can still be a form of racism.

I do agree that sometimes other forms of bias or prejudice is taken for racism. Many times it's a class issue; many richer people want to avoid poor people but if people of color are far more likely to be poor, they're more likely to be avoided.
Actually there is - there is a very nice library called pocket sphinx that does offline speech recognition.

However it's not quite so easy to use - there's a python package that interfaces with it but you would need to know how to grab your own audio sample from the mic and pass it to the library.

I actually managed to get a sample app running using it but I found that the error rate was around 50% and I needed to repeat myself quite a few times.
Comments on arXiv papers
A little too much liberal hogwash for my taste - e.g trying to explain as much as possible with skin-color identity politics. But glad others liked the article.
Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year for 2017 Is  Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang
Yeah, I went straight to the static solutions for simplicity of discussion. From the outside, though, is it even in principle possible to tell whether a BH is a stellar-collapse Bh or if it's an eternal Schwarschild vacuum BH? Now we're outside of my realm of expertise. Do I recall properly from my GR class that once stellar collapse begins the outer shell reaches the singularity in a finite time? In that case, I think it does come down to philosophy (if you're staying within GR) or some theory that resolves the singularity to say whether the BH is "made of matter" or not.

> I'll assume you favour keeping unitarity in any solution to the AMPS firewalls problem, and would happily ditch the apparent validity of the EFT outside the horizon.

You're damn right. Unitarity, unitarity, unitarity:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01473
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03055
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04948
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04951
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01932
Vue is more flexible primarily via its single-file components and the ability to easily leverage existing HTML/Pug/CSS/SCSS/etc, making it an easier target to migrate to.

I've personally preferred React+Redux+Typescript for new personal projects, but when facing a task of modernizing e.g. Angular apps, Vue is much more attractive.
Intel fights to build communication chips into your next phone
Perhaps GitHub is taking a cut from the purchase when purchased through their marketplace (20% is reasonably close to other marketplaces). Some services may be building that into the price.
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Now that Cockroach supports the "PostgreSQL Wire Protocol", how does it compare to CitusDB for scaling a relational data model in a distributed environment?

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/architecture/sql-l...
This is true, but without a sufficiently high floor for a LVT it's meaningless as property tax already covers things. Also, I would imagine a LVT to be decided by the state and not the city or town. If that's the case you wouldn't expect drastically different LVTs for a given region.

Regardless, you need not a small undeveloped city, just take an abandoned part of any city. The same thing applies.
When a scientist speaks to the public, they represent (in much of the public's mind, anyway) all scientists in the field, and (arguably, to some extent) science and scientists in general. If they say anything wrong, then that harms the reputation of all of the above. From the perspective of a fellow scientist in the field, the speaker must (a) have made mistakes in his analysis, (b) have taken an approach to his analysis that was sloppy enough to allow such mistakes, and (c) have announced results despite having done an analysis that they should have known was sloppy. In other words, it demonstrates not just incompetence but negligence and a disregard for the truth. These are hateful qualities in a scientist.

This is assuming the case of a scientist who confidently makes incorrect assertions. If they qualify what they're saying—"So far this is what the research says, but it's preliminary, there are a few other tests I'd like to see"—then that's a lot more defensible even if they're wrong. (There is a legendary tendency for reporters to remove all the qualifiers, but at least that's not the scientist's fault.) If they state everything confidently, more confidently than the evidence justifies, but they happen to be right on all their assertions so far, then that may be mildly irritating. If they're intellectually cautious and they're right, and if there are scientists that complain about these people, then that does sound like jealousy.
API Integrations Should Be Open Source
Yes. What a horrible idea. I re-read the paragraph to see if by "Social Network" they meant something else, or it was tongue-in-cheek, but no, it seems they meant exactly that: "Facebook for preschoolers, with parental supervision".

That should never be built... and yet, somehow, we just know it will.
Then there is the Wilmington, DE, bus system, where the posted schedule is completely made up. You just go and stand at a stop for 20-40 minutes until a bus comes. (It may or may not, sometimes the drivers decide to just clock out their shift early.)
WASM memory is a set of memory specific to a module (and they only allow one memory instance right now). It can be imported/exported to other modules, but there is no sandbox escape (in theory). For the web backend, it's just backed by a UInt8Array IIRC. It's all userland. If anything escapes the WASM interpreter/compiler, it is the fault of the interpreter/compiler (as is the case here) and not the fault of the WASM bytecode itself which has no escape mechanism. Think of a WASM VM just like a JS VM. Even though it may appear low level just because it can JIT better/cleaner, it operates in the same arena as JIT'd JS (at least for the web target).