skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how absurdly twisted and misrepresented the Damore memo itself has been in the media (calling it anti-diversity when it was pro-diversity, posting it but silently removing links to sources, stating that it says women are bad at engineering when it actually said they're statistically less likely to be interested in engineering, and many many other lies), everything reported in these sources should be taken with a grain of salt.

It's perfectly likely that these stories are just not true, or are at least a highly interpreted version of what happened. Only primary sources are trustworthy; show me the chat logs and emails.
>At 500 cars, I wonder if the sales even pay for the project

500 cars * $1million each = $500 million in revenue. From previous disclosures I would estimate R&D costs for this car are $50-80 million, production costs
~$200 million, and a large chunk for sales and marketing. They also have to provide owners with high quality post-sale services such as event invitations, free track days, complementary services, etc.

But after those expenses they are easily making $150 million profit on this. Hypercar sales are a cash cow if you can convince rich people to buy your cars.

The 'halo effect' you mention is also quite true, as these hypercars increase brand value and get the slightly-less rich people to buy their lower end models.
I see. I misinterpreted your previous comment. Cheers.
The 5 dysfunctions of a team
>and there's zero assurance things will turn out well.

c'est la vie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Their explanation is here: https://thetrichordist.com/2018/01/08/the-slippery-slope-of-...
I'm not sure I'd apply the term 'involuntary childlessness' to people who chose to not have children and later regret that decision.

I married my wife at 22, and we started not preventing at 23. Two years, three early miscarriages, three later miscarriages, and one stillbirth (our most recent pregnancy) later, we don't have any living children. Doctors still can't explain why our unborn son died. In the last ultrasound before he died, he was kicking, swimming around, with a great heartbeat, normal morphology, and a healthy placenta. The next morning, my wife woke up with a bad feeling, and we learned his heart had just stopped. Nothing turned up on the autopsy -- everything normal. Just sudden cardiac arrest.

My uncle had a son die of leukemia at age 7 or 8 (before I was born). They were lucky to have another daughter, but we have a few older friends who had one or two children that ended up losing them to freak circumstances or disease, and were then unable to have another.

These are actual stories of involuntary childlessness, not people who made a choice to wait until it was too late.

And before people pipe up with adoption: (1) we had decided to adopt before we married, but were too young at the time; (2) we started the adoption process as soon as we reached the age threshold; (3) adoption takes a long time and is expensive (but we are more than willing to wait and pay the legal fees); (4) because of our age, we can only adopt younger children; (5) there are not many young children available for adoption because there are more parents willing to adopt than children needing homes, which is a good thing; (6) we would love to adopt an older child as soon as the state would let us. But none of this takes away from the fact that we would like the doctors to figure out the miscarriages and stillbirth -- we want all our children to have a good set siblings and the healthiest start possible.
This is so cool. Major props to such a great implementation and unique idea!
Another natural language programming language (in Finnish):
https://github.com/fergusq/tampio

It's technically somewhat amusing as it runs a morphological parser in order to deal with the Finnish word inflection system, which is then utilized as an integral part of the language grammar. As a consequence, since this allows relaxing constraints e.g. on word order, the resulting code does actually read like natural language.
> Subscription _could_ be a good metric if we were arguing that Internet service is unacceptably expensive in specific regions and thus prices out the lower middle classes or working classes, but that's clearly not the focus of Vox's investigations.

Affordability is actually the main point of 538's second article: "Lots Of People In Cities Still Can’t Afford Broadband" ( https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lots-of-people-in-citie... )

However, that article is centered around the data for Washington D.C. and their retraction specifically talks about the data for D.C being incorrect.
In many ways parents are subsidizing the childless.

My tax bill sure indicates otherwise.

I decided at an early age not to have kids - at 12-13 I figured out that I was not suitable to be a father - one, I wanted the chain of crappy childhoods to stop with me, and two I have various conditions that I believe are largely genetic - I didn't want to pass those on.
A fair criticism. I did not intend to imply that musicians were in any way less valuable than instrument makers, recording studios, distributors, et al. My statement would better have been expressed as "guitarists wouldn't make guitar music if nobody made guitars."

The flip side of the coin, of course, is that you can self-distribute music without a distributor. People have done it. As a web developer, I could build web pages that do things and distribute them via hard drives if ISPs did not exist, or I could start my own ISP. Musicians have it even easier, as they can just self-distribute on the internet --
but, whether by choice or by representative proxy, musicians have chosen to allow their product to be distributed by Spotify. They're of course free to haggle over the terms of that arrangement, and there are likely valid criticisms of Spotify, or the agents who negotiated their terms on behalf of the musicians... the only point I intended, despite whatever inartful phrasing I may have used, is that "Spotify doesn't make anything" is not a valid criticism of Spotify.
As far as whether or not Spotify is good to musicians, or takes too big of a cut, or distributes revenue fairly, I don't know. It's certainly possible that there's a better payment structure that would be better for musicians that results in no difference to the consumer.

But as a long-time paying user of Spotify I disagree with the premise of the article: Spotify is the product, the music is not.

For a fixed amount of money each month I can just play almost any song, whenever I want, regardless of whether I even know I want to, with zero friction. I don't have to decide whether or not a song is worth the money, I don't have to decide exactly which songs I will play, I can have shared playlists with friends where we can listen to music from our various overlapping tastes.

The extensive collection of music is a key aspect of the platform, but short of a massive dropoff in what's available, if an album isn't on Spotify the most likely outcome isn't that I'll go somewhere else to listen to the album, it's that I'll just listen to something else on Spotify.
That's the impact of burning millions of years of solar energy, stored as fossil fuels, in the span of two hundred years, not of capitalism. Capitalism in a society without cheap access to energy wouldn't have given you any of these things.

And whether or not capitalism's dependency on fossil fuels can be broken before AGW cooks us is still an open question. If the worst case scenario holds true, will you also credit capitalism for it?
>If I let someone have physical access to any computer I own I fully expect to be compromised.

What about if you're sleeping?
Anonymity isn't an issue for some of these things.

For example, when you're interacting in a customer service context on, say, steam, you are not anonymous. Valve can change its TOU to make it so that you forfeit all claims to redress if you use abuse during a customer service interaction, and can further scale that up to include additional consequences (banning you from participation in certain ways or from certain benefits).

Additionally, "in band" consequences don't have to compromise anonymity. On twitter or facebook, for example, you can have abuse reports that are verified result in different levels of account restriction. You can make it so that the account's posts are no longer visible in other people's timelines as replies, for example (e.g. they are only visible to people who specifically follow that user or when specific posts are linked to directly). You can restrict accounts in other ways and even block access to accounts for short periods of time. Or you can ban people forever. All of these techniques have been used for years and years to prevent abusive behavior, the only reason they haven't been used effectively against this particular sort of abuse is because of apathy on the part of most platform owners, but that can change easily.
I am usually not one who favors government regulation of journalistic outlets, however I do have a proposal.

Media outlets should be required to publish a correction of a story at least as visible and for at least as long as the initial incorrect version.

This would prevent a site from first claiming something and then burying the correction somewhere where nobody finds it.
Couldn't agree more. The biggest difference between therapy and your regular doctor is that you get an hour with your therapist - so if you have specific problems or goals, you can get a lot of time with them to chew on those issues. Whether you find a solution or not, you leave therapy feeling like you've made progress, which is vital for emotional health.
I believe the proper way to upgrade schema is to

1) don't change existing schema (don't alter columns)

2) introduce new schema, side by side (add new columns, all nulls, without defaults)

3) update code to read new schema first, if nothing found, read old schema,

4) create triggers that a write in new or old schema updates the other

5) have a separate process to sequentially migrate data from old schema to new schema

6) once all records are migrated to new schema, start slowly removing code that reads old schema

7) once nothing reads old schema, delete it

Handling schema changes is a tricky process that is spread across multiple different steps, where each step can be rolled back.
The Damore memo was anti-diversity, under the stated guise of being pro-diversity. It was a criticism of Google's policies to fight social biases and promote diversity in hiring, using cherry-picked and misrepresented evidence. (e: Yes, I've read it several times for those who question it)

Like most news cycles though, the media from all sides of the spectrum were able to find something in it to get people outraged, drive clicks, gain eyeballs, etc.
How is that either childish or pedantic. It just took you 7 lines to describe your interpretation of the definition of product in this case.

I think it's a reasonable point to discuss. The author's example was good: when at Starbucks, people are ordering a coffee, not a starbucks.

To me, this was an interesting point, not pedantic, because it's not true for all businesses. Unlike Starbucks, when I was a kid, McDonalds wasn't just french fries and a milkshake, the playstructures and happy meal toys made it seem like more than a place for food.

That distinction seems quite relevant to a discussion about how much 'value' Spotify (company) is adding when they take media created by artists and put it on their computers for users/listeners to download/love.
Point in case regarding archers connected to spirituality and high socia sanding: That picture of an archer in combination with a sun from Assuria [1] was probably not showing just any old hunter, but a deified leader.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashur_(god)

> Having found no reference to any generals, I think this whole subthread is pointless.

I wouldn't be so quick to disregard the comment mentioning "generals". It might still be one folkloric reading.

> So the whole name just means "constellation of the three".

This could be a reduction.

> Actually, 宿 means "constellation" in this context

Maybe 参宿 was the first term using this, originally with a different poetic interpretation, reinterpreted to mean constellation.

Also, concerning houses, the sign is derived from a symbol that clearly looks like a house, but also like an up arrow. The stylized version simply looks like a roof. The sky is often metaphorically called a roof. Incidentally, I sill suspect a relation between sky, from (s)kew-, and ceiling, from kel-. If you compare this with the Egyptian hieroglyph for sky [1], there's a roof in there , too, with a bit of imagination.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pt#Egyptian
Pretty happy with the DOGE bubble since I've traded out a couple thousand already for other coins... thumbs up But, yeah, I'd wager that eventually the bubble will burst and there will be few remaining cryptocurrencies that hold their value, IMO.
Not trying to knock you. I think it's a fun idea, and I think you've got a decent shot at making some good money. But isn't this just costing the av rage user way more in electricity than just buying a pizza?
Wait -- you edit your college-aged child's essays??
Panda (http://usepanda.com) is pretty good for the fields of design, development, and entrepreneurship. It pulls from many different sites, including Hacker News.
I really like the use of music in these videos (or at least the main one presented on the channel's homepage). There's something about simple atmospheric 'textural' music behind people talking about stuff that gives me enjoyment.
> Why would people not invest (or spend for that matter)?

People will still invest, but risk tolerance goes way down and ROI expectations go way up.

Concretely, your business plan has to compete with "I can get an x% return by putting my money under my pillow", and x becomes very large in a highly deflationary economy. Place yourself in the shoes of a person seeking investment in a productive business, and the problems with a deflationary economy become obvious. Being good isn't enough. You have to be better than "sit on my ass and get rich doing nothing".

In other words, the primary concern in a deflationary economy is discouraging value-producing economic activity.

Also, all of this is wrt deflation in general. Notice that a fiat currency can easily be deflationary. The deflationary nature of gold standards is a major component of the criticism of gold standards, but there are also other reasons that people oppose gold standards.

> Same can also be said about spending. As a contemporary example why would anyone buy a computer today when they know that in the near future they can get a better model for less? The whole computer industry thrives in a price deflationary sector of the economy.

People still buy computers because having a computer today helps capture value that you can't capture by having a better computer tomorrow. For consumers, entertainment tonight. For businesses, automating processes today.

> Whenever someone is trying to push one economic theory over another the key question you need to ask is cui bono.

That's not quite fair. There are people motivated by truth and there are also people motivated by ideology.
Selection bias? ;-)
Sounds cool!

Mildly related: I found "Nand To Tetris: The Elements of Computing Systems" to be an amazing, bottom-up, hands-on approach for learning about the fundamental layers of computer architecture, from hardware to assembly to OSs.
There's also just somewhat of a path-dependent reality. If you want to offer an all-you-can-eat music streaming service you pretty much have to offer the best/most menu you can under the constraint of a $10ish subscription fee.

It's what the widespread expectation is and any artist that wants a particularly special deal will just be dropped. Even big stars probably don't have much leverage individually given that their fans can and will either buy their music or acquire it from other sources anyway.
It might be worth exploring the reason why the "taboo" on this subject has recently been breached. Could it be that how we define life and our expectations of it have shifted? In a world where the goal in life is personal enjoyment, of which ease is a precondition, childbearing is more commonly regrettable.

Perhaps there never was a taboo, just a different conception of what a human life should aim for.
The same is happening in Shanghai and has been happening for a while. The old dialect of Shanghainese is quickly disappearing and only recently did the government think to preserve it.
They're using an unusual transliteration. "ay" can sound like "eye" in English but it's atypical to use that in transliterations now-a-days.
thanks! Still a lot of refinement left to do (this was initially released as a proof of concept). But I'm happy to see people from all over enjoying the gimmick : )
Good to hear it's very big now! I was there for 2014 New York and 2015 London and they were both excellent, although back then it was only 100-150 people or so. Kind of regret not going to this one.
Interesting. In Puerto Rico, comida meant food and almuerzo meant lunch.
> This was the year people started to connect the dots about how Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, made his initial fortune. At 23, he was the CEO of uTorrent, a pirate platform that became BitTorrent (arguably the largest rights-infringing platform in the world). He and their developers then used identical rights-infringing software in order to build his new golden goose: Spotify.

Holy hell that's a lot of bad history. Bittorrent existed far before uTorrent was a thing. What are the dots that people connected? A quick glance at his Wikipedia article?
I think that real journalism can happen under profit seeking organizations, because people find value in real journalism. However, real journalists don't do original research, they compile insights from experts. Journalists have a tendency to get it wrong when they try to add original insight in an article. Just about every person who is an expert in a field has a story about when their field made it into the news cycle and the journalists butchered some important concept.

I'm a statistician, and we always work with investigators that are experts in their field- unless we are researching statistical methods, then we act as our own experts. The statisticians handle the data analysis and make sure that the investigators don't make silly data mistakes. The investigators handle the reasoning and mechanisms behind the research. When they work together they can collect good data that they are familiar with and know how to interpret correctly. When they work separately they are prone to mistakes.

Fivethirtyeight (and also the ASU researchers) fell into this trap. They were not involved in the data collection, so they don't really know what each variable means, and just took someone's word for it who, (back to the economic motives) has an incentive to sell their dataset and not to tell the researchers to go look elsewhere.

I'll admit I was too harsh in comparing fivethirtyeight to an article about Trump's tweet, 538 is typically decent investigative journalism. However, I maintain that it isn't on the level of peer-reviewed academic research. Articles on 538 don't go through peer review. They aren't submitted and languish for months with revisions and answering follow up questions. I'm not saying that this mistake would have been caught by a referee, but in the peer-review process a referee could have caught it by asking questions about the analysis process and if it's valid to use a variable named "X" was being used as a proxy for a variable named "broadband access."
You’re welcome.

My current ISP doesn’t provide me a public IP address, so I’m sharing the IP with other clients of that ISP.
A month ago I also noticed captchas on google and cloudflare. Because half of the internets use cloudflare that was kinda noticeable.

I’ve searched a bit, found the cause (and a bunch of black list checks resources). I’ve e-mailed my ISP describing the issue and linking to that check page, they did something and the problem went away.

If you’re the sole user of your IP address, check the detection details. Some of these honeypots/black lists even tell you what exact malware they think is likely to cause the trouble. Then scan/update your computers (all of them that are using that IP address), and wait a bit. AFAIK, if the spam stops coming from that IP, their entries expire after a while, probably days or weeks.
What about second breakfast and elevenses?
Aren't post boxes on the ground floor with names and flat/unit numbers?
I'm getting married to my long term partner in a week, and that's the biggest things that's weighing on our minds. We both want to have children, but we live in a big city, just bought a house, and our economic situation is quite dreary.

We'd like one of us to be able to stay home with the kid, but we just can't. Where I live a programmer isn't the best paid position, and both of our jobs are important to our financial success. It'll probably be a matter of getting back to the workforce as soon as possible, and that's really disheartening when you want to give the little one as much of a chance as you can.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6p02fijxrd7c6m/20180108%20Damore%...
There's probably room for semantic interpretation here.

> an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale

The Spotify service is a product that is manufactured, and its purpose is to distribute music. Depending on how you parse that definition, I can see arguments that either of us is correct.

Moreover, I see a distinction between product (that they make) and product (that they distribute). I don't disagree that (as the article assets) "Starbucks is coffee", but, to be fair, Starbucks actually does make the coffee that they then also sell and distribute.

That said, I think the author's central point is that Spotify adds no value to the ecosystem, which I think is very much wrong. That isn't to say that they couldn't be replaced, but I can't think of anyone who can't be, in any industry, vertical, what have you.
The day I found a glitch in “The Matrix” and questioned Reality
Silly in the sense that it's considered an unforgivable offense relative to how mild it actually is (in the realm of "ways you can screw up your life and others"). It's the staunchness that makes it silly.

If my sister cheated on her husband, I wouldn't stop talking to her forever or kick her out of the family (to the extent that I have that power). I'd be disappointed and it would affect our dynamic, sure, but it's not even close to a shunning offense.

Thinking on it, there's actually relatively few things she could do to warrant that kind of treatment.
So conflicted on this. The technology looks really promising. But I really worry about the NECESSARY human interactions that are being replaced by technology. On the one hand, it's technology that's going to help people learn valuable skills. On the other, it's going to eliminate necessary human interaction that's unlikely to be replaced by anything =(
"I don't mean to offend but what is the difference to you that the child is genetically yours? why not adopt?"

This might be an unpopular answer, but it makes all the difference in the world. I want my family line to continue; I want my parents and grandparents to see physical features and behavior quirks in their (great-)grandchild that I haven't even noticed.

It's a primal urge and I can't explain it rationally except to say that I'm human and no exception to what we are hard-wired for.
Ars Technica hosted a copy of the complaint, this might contain what you're looking for:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180...
I got the full code off the query string.

Southeast corner of the Texas state capitol building:
862477F6+M4X
Pedantisn stops when you realise your life's work is being sold at a massive profit and you're getting crumbs to survive on, or not.