skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair question.

1) I dislike the fact that the Reddit aggregator mixes together all the content from the different subreddits. I like having them segregated, with equal "airtime", on a single screen

2) I dislike the fact that I have to manually visit Reddit everyday, in order to "not miss out". If I didn't visit the site yesterday, then I have to make up for it today by sorting by week, instead of day, which will then show me lots of duplicate content which I've already seen. There's no easy way to just get the top content from day-X

3) This is more subtle: Suppose you visit Reddit everyday at noon, during your lunch break, sort by top:day, and then never visit it again for the rest of the day. This means that you will never see any posts which were posted in the couple hours before noon, because they haven't had sufficient time to rack up the votes. You can miss out on a significant amount of content this way
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Perhaps but at that point the US (or whoever) can counter with their own rules/laws. Might lead to manufacturing balkanization but I'd prefer the US not the one to step over the line first in the same way I'd prefer the US not be the first to use nukes (although I guess that's a bit hyperbolic).
You're seeing this as a technical issue when it is in fact a legal one. In Canada the telecommunications legislation states the principle well:

(2) No Canadian carrier shall, in relation to the provision of a telecommunications service or the charging of a rate for it, unjustly discriminate or give an undue or unreasonable preference toward any person, including itself, or subject any person to an undue or unreasonable disadvantage.

You can still manage networks and employ CDN. But you can't arbitrarily block content.
Migrating too early before a business flow is properly understood could lead to that reduced cost but also a product that doesn't quite fit the actual needs.
This shouldn't be downvoted. We don't need to make up things about people to attack terrible policy and unethical behavior.
Could you explain how the FCC has superiority here? Doesn’t the constitution allow states to set local laws for things that aren’t expressly dictated in the constitution? Please forgive my limited legal knowledge.
I wish he had explored this concept more:

> The concept of Net Neutrality is bound in the idea that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are common carriers like the phone company. Phone companies like to claim they have no knowledge of — and therefore no responsibility for — the words that are carried over their phone lines. They serve Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Russian Embassy alike — just as long as both pay their phone bills. Tony Soprano and Tony Stark are the same in phone company eyes. And this is true of the Internet, too, at least for the next month or so, because the FCC under President Obama declared Internet Service to be a common carrier. That’s about to change, and with it the requirement that all Internet bits be treated equally. People who are willing to pay more will soon get measurably quicker Internet service. And big bandwidth users like Amazon and Netflix will have to pay more to avoid having their signals slowed down.

If the ISPs suddenly become not common carriers, do they then become responsible for all the content? If that is the case, then we can make non-net neutrality really expensive for them.
We primarily use private phabricator and gitolite instances for internal stuff, but we also have OSS things in regular public GH repos. We do have a few private GH repos, but AFAIK, you're not supposed to version control internal stuff on GH, and there's no real reason to use a private GH repo, except for legal review prior to open sourcing.

I don't have any context on why someone would have put production secrets in a GH repo. If it had happened in my team, I would definitely have sounded the alarm at code review.
Is it different from other giant IT services firms?
I agree, this seems like a poorly done clone of logojoy. It's still good to have competition though.
He doesn't have a reference because it's nonsensical.

Say it takes you 15 extra years to get into the workforce over a UPS driver, that you're saddled with $400k of debt and that UPS driver is the highest compensated driver in history at $100k.

$350k over 30 years is $10,500,000 - $400k = $10.1MM

$100k over 45 years is $4.5MM

Your net earnings is >200%
Regulations are not the answer, for the very reason that they will flip-flop with political appointees, and it amounts to people begging for what they rightly should demand.
I'm taking should to mean "why it should be that way", not "why it currently is under current laws/regs".

Generally laws concerning infrastructure are made on the basis of public policy outcome concerns. Having cable-style menus of internet access has negative public policy outcomes, and no good public policy outcomes. The open internet as it stands delivers economic benefits and provides opportunities for more equitable information and service access.

The internet has become critical for education, research, finance, and also for a whole host of frivolous things that we don't want to regulate away. It's become where we expect innovative products to emerge from and the non-existent barriers to entry are why that is so. It's also become an equalizer for access to information. Sure, the majority of the country doesn't take advantage of that, but enough of us have and the country has received real economic benefit from that access. The fall of net neutrality will end up preserving the access to the frivolous things (FB, Netflix, Twitter, Gaming) while restricting access to the parts of the web that have strong societal good associated with it (all the varied large and small services and sources of information that don't exist for click farming and ad pushing).

Allowing Facebook only packages would pretty much trap the poor and tech illiterate into an information ghetto. Right now they're simply voluntarily staying in said information ghetto, but there are no monetary or technological hurdles to them leaving. How is a poor student with the FaceFlix only internet package going to do research for their history paper? There aren't many posts on Facebook walls that would make for useful sources. But they can just use the library because we've decided no one needs the internet! Surely this won't result in a further bifurcation of education in this country.

I don't think that many on HN currently would be negatively impacted by a FaceFlix option being available, many of us have to have full internet access for work or would personally shell out for it anyways. The thing that would impact our community directly is that there would certainly be those who will never find their passion or affinity for technology because they'll grow up with a FaceFlix plan and never stumble upon that thing that piques their curiosity. They won't become our future classmates or coworkers or conference speakers, they won't make interesting new technology, and we'll all be poorer for it.
> When you're an established entrenched player like Google or Facebook, paying ISPs for distribution is a small price to pay for a moat that makes it extremely difficult for new companies to come in and disrupt you.

See Netflix and VZ PNIs saga a few years ago for proof.

> Netflix is still interested in net neutrality because they are not as dominant and because they will face competition from ISPs who are also content providers now. Comcast owns NBC Universal.

No, Netflix is not interested in NN - see it paying for VZ transit to just VZ, i.e. buying access.

Long time ago, in a galaxy far away there was a CTO ran company that fought for NN well before it was fashionable. The company's name was AboveNet and CTO's name was Dave Rand. The company carried a large percentage of the Internet traffic at the time and he would still play hardball with the likes of Sprint, DT, UUNET/MCI worldcom etc.

From that point on not a single company that claimed or currently claims to be supporter of NN has not even tried to put its money where its mouth is.

[Edit: after the downvotes ] Really? Google is your friend.

http://time.com/2838570/verizon-netflix-feud-streaming-speed...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netfl...

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-agrees-to-pay-v...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140718/06533327927/level...

[Another edit: since some people would point that they called it peering ] Paying transit rates to access only routes originated by the AS group of VZ is not peering - it is transit.
Rules in place by the ACGME are laughable, no one respects duty hours and a certain residency program I may or may not have participated in told us to lie about our duty hours so not to get the program in trouble. From my experience the worst offenders tend to be older attendings who do not respect duty hours and will round on your post-call day at noon meaning you have been at the hospital for 30+ hours before you can give sign out.
Agreed. But a different way of working the same trick is to have an alternate run time that can execute .xls[x|m] as a headless server process.
> Many people pay off their student loans last, as they're usually very low interest. You could have a student debt into your 40s but not because you can't pay it off - rather because it's cheaper than your mortgage.

As explained below, no, the debt load that doctors hold is not very low interest. It's in the line of 8-10%. For contrast, I have credit cards that have APRs within striking distance of those rates, and that's consumer debt.

You seem to be thinking of undergraduate student loan debt, which is heavily subsidized.
If I were a betting man, I would absolutely bet that he works in the telecom industry after his stint at the FCC. He might not work as a lobbyist, but there are a lot more jobs than that open for a person with his knowledge and contacts.
Never underestimate what a government can do. If they want, they can make bitcoin as popular to hold as child p//n on your PC. Go ahead then
Will the future athlete be digital?
More like we need to limit the influence that money and lobbyists can have on elected officials. Changing seats in Congress will just put new people in place who will more than likely do the same thing.
Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture
Do you have any way you'd recommend of getting multiple users working together with code notebooks? I've messed around with Jupyter, but that's about it.
My wife is applying for family medicine residency right now.

There are 20 slots for the entire Bay Area. 6 at UCSF, 6 at Kaiser San Jose, and 8 at Stanford.

Family medicine isn't neurosurgery or radiology but the artificial limitations on residencies still lead to hyper competition, long hours, and an insane "match day". When graduating med school it doesn't look that much harder to push a bit more for a specialty and get paid twice as much.

And now we have too many specialists in the United States. It seems like we could solve this pretty easily by simply increasing the number of residency slots for GPs.
I'll believe it when they stop having stories like this every few months. They had over a year to report the breach, and they paid hush money instead. Typical Uber
Net Neutrality Was a Terrible Strategy
This fits my own experience exactly!

I personally am sometimes able to push through boring long tasks that I don't care about simply by using some form of timer or pomodoro. I just set a goal to have accomplished before the deadline of the timer. rinse/repeat
Read it again, they aren't being serious. Just illustrating different ways humans are dangerous drivers.
Thanks for the detailed response!

It seems to me that all of that (both the fully loaded costs of an employee, and the complexity of medical billing) applies equally to any other doctor, with a single exception. The exception is the portion of the attendings' costs that can be "charged" to each resident.

Is it that the additional cost in attendings' time, along with the reduced ability to earn larger sums for complex unsupervised procedures, outweighs the lower salary?
# — sure, allow it. If you ask for all the comments that mention a hashtag, you're requesting a drink from the firehose, and you should get it.

@ — maybe allow it, but only for users who mutually follow one another.
There are Mental Health Nurse Practitioners, who can and do prescribe psych meds.

I agree that letting psychologists prescribe meds is problematic due to lack of medical training, even though clinical psychologists have a PhDs or PsyD.
You can do basically anything I/O within an Excel macro (VBA script):

You can talk to a database: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18313899/vba-new-databas...

Interact with the filesystem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11528694/read-parse-text...

Open arbitrary sockets, with some caveats: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/125921/mswinsock-winsock...

And more!
This was what originally led me to do some research on the topic. I really thought the podcast was well done.
I think you start with a a commercial product, which doesn't exist right now.
The New York AG just needs to have a judge issue bench warrants for the head of the FCC and its general counsel. That is normally what happens when you refuse to provide evidence for a criminal case.
Exacty, all these points were valid in XX century real life/TV/newspapers, but in XXI all these practices just moved into the Internet. And they will move into any new popular medium of the future -- endlessly.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein
In Fossil the good use case is supported by using private branches: when you merge a private branch into a public branch, only the merge commit is pushed, the private branch remains private.
Codecrypt: A GnuPG-like program using only quantum-computer-resistant algorithms
Wow whats with the instant downvotes? Come on guys get off the high horses and have a little tolerance for banter. This project will most likely trap you in some sort of legal issues. I just summed it
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole
deductible != credit

A 100k expenses does not translate to 100k of tax savings.
> I feel that we as developers often underestimate the collective influence we have as technology experts. We are the creators of tech; our culture is essentially tech culture. Do Google and Facebook have the power they have because we give them that power? If so, what do we get in return?

They have the power precisely because they have the capital. If all of the rich people who don't need to work banded together to work on open source and federated technologies that would be great. But the rest of us need to work and can't challenge our employers politics in any meaningful way.
I have it on my Amazon wishlist. It's going for close to $500 right now.
I definitely agree with you, but have to add that my (amateur's) take is that this paper has actually contributed a lot. Not only have they shown marked improvements in detection accuracy, but also come up with a trainable model/framework for object detection/classification using only LIDAR point clouds (i.e. without the addition of additional sensor data such as RGB overlays). Not relying on a second (or 3rd, or nth) sensor or hand-crafted features is very impactful to the field.
I think the idea was "A language that is otherwise identical to Java but eliminates the need to write trivial getters and setters." This obviously reduces line count, but probably does not equivalently reduce bug count, as the removed lines are very unlikely to contain bugs.
"The dynamic spreadsheet is a good example of such a tissuelike superobject. It is a simulation kit, and it provides a remarkable degree of direct leverage. Spreadsheets at their best combine the genres established in the 1970s (objects, windows, what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing and goal-seeking retrieval) into a “better old thing” that is likely to be one of the “almost new things” for the mainstream designs of the next few years.

"A spreadsheet is an aggregate of concurrently active objects, usually organized into a rectangular array of cells similar to the paper spreadsheet used by an accountant. […] A spreadsheet is a simulated pocket universe that continuously maintains its fabric; it is a kit for a surprising range of applications.”

– Alan Kay, “Computer Software”, Scientific American (1984). pp. 56–57. PDF: https://frameworker.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/alan-kay-com...

Republished as “Computer Software” (1984). pp. 6–7. PDF: http://home.cc.gatech.edu/guzdial/uploads/130/Alan%20Kay%20-...
One of the problems is that people hear "DRY" and they don't hear "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system", which is the actual idea. They don't even share any words. The actual idea is really cool and demands correct abstractions, DRY is about making things not look the same.
Instead of self-driving cars maybe crashing from being hacked in some possible future we'll get kernel panics leading to crashes in all possible futures because we'll trigger car crashes on every false positive, because crashing in the face of the unknown is a seemingly acceptable solution to a security risk. Even if the software is running self-driving cars and crashing may mean crashing. In practice, false positives are way more common than exploits and in many user cases they'd rather have 1 computer exploit than 1000 or 10,000 crashes.
>Kayla Davis, who runs financial planning at ABM Industries, relied on Excel to pull data from a motley of disparate accounting systems

"Motley of disparate accounting systems" is your problem, not Excel. Heavy Excel use/misuse by end analysts is a symptom of poor data practices, not a cause. If Excel is being used to compile and distribute complicated/big/important reports, it's extremely likely they lack better and more coherent tools and data sources.
> In an ideal world, what you want is more like copy-on-write. Share the code until one of the clients of that code needs a change that the others do not, then copy it.

Good point. The problem with that is, of course, that you may not be aware of others existing.

> There is no silver bullet...

+1
>Nope, none of the stuff you mentioned falls under COGS.

Ok, then please define what you mean by COGs.

>This is the classic "we'll lose money per customer, but make it up in volume" argument.

You misunderstand the argument. Since I wasn't clear, these two articles highlight the main points:

https://www.kff.org/report-section/a-primer-on-medicare-how-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/medicare-pri...

Also with respect to these and the efficiency argument, please see:

https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/hospitals-medic...
> If this magicbox call was in the middle of dozens of statements it might take you a while to figure out why some variably seems to magically change its value.

Not really. Since the call explicitly names var you could easily narrow it down to that by going through all the places in the code where var is mentioned. If all the other expressions concerning var are non-destructive, you have your smoking gun: it must be magicbox. If var is mutated all over the place in that code then you have to work out whether it is magicbox or something else.
Part of the need for the higher pay is to accommodate the highest student debt in the world, and the highest risk of malpractice debt in the world.
Yes, but they'll be blocked.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-asks-the...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16691344/fcc-preempt-blo...
Alan Kay's “Computer Software” (1984) [pdf]
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I get clowned sometimes for using emacs but this is a great example of why using a "long in the tooth" editor can be an advantage.
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TIL, thanks for letting me know
Depends how cynical you are. He could technically lobby 'other parts' of the government according to this article but it does not specify, only reiterates you can't lobby your former agency for 5 years.

Serving 5 years in a government position when you could be an exec at a Telecom company is a gigantic opportunity cost so the point here is that he's not getting paid off, unless fraudulently, which can't be completely ruled out.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-lobbying-ban-we...
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I think this is mostly a regional problem. In some parts of the world, you'd be arrested for using your phone while driving -- and quite right too!

This danger can be largely (unfortunately not totally) mitigated just by passing laws to prohibit dangerous driving, and enforcing them sensibly. It also helps if people agree that the rules are sensible and self-police them -- as happens in many countries with seat belts, for example.

I agree that self-driving cars should improve safety, but the idea that they're the only way to improve safety is just wrong.
I've seen this also. The amount of hoops and jumps people go through in order to abstract something can be ridiculous, ending in code only the author can understand. Bad for business!
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Oh that's definitely but I'd say pc-ing boring tasks feels sadder in a way, which adds to the negativity. It's true that way often I'd be ready to jump for adventure, but maybe because I have no real expectation for success nor responsibility to do so.
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I’m for 100% enfranchisement. No taxation without representation.

I mention the opioid addicts specifically because their poster child Rush Limbaugh is a hard core fruit cake. I believe, but cannot yet prove, that pickling the brain turns people “conservative”, by which I mean absolutist and authoritarian.
> Training doctors is fucking hard. What I've seen is none of that really matters because hospitals can't even get enough qualified staff to support more residency positions.

Yes, and I don't mean to discount the challenges in finding and compensating enough physicians properly for even agreeing to do this in the first place!

Put another way, what I was saying before is that, even if the costs were linear, hospitals couldn't pay for it (without external funding). But as you point out, the costs aren't linear, which makes it even harder.

Or put yet another way, we can't easily increase the number of residents we train to practice medicine, because we don't have enough people trained to practice medicine in order to train them.

This isn't unique to medicine; we have the same problem with law too[0]. Heck, I even know startups that have complained that they don't have the bandwidth they need to hire and train more people.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758207
Someone should probably tell the Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler about monopolies, he could use some education