skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Also interesting is a look at games themselves, especially those that show a long trajectory from beginner to experienced player with significantly different interaction patterns between the two groups.

It would seem that practically no programmer's tool has ever received the attention to interface detail that is common in the best games.
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Unless you are asserting that estate taxes are 100% for everyone and no one is allowed any hint of nepotism or gifting, you are wrong. How do the 1% stay the 1% across generations?
About 60 million Americans receive some federal assistance.

A slightly larger number get healthcare from Medicaid.

The assistance is not a large amount per month, but it is there.
I agree. I know a number of H1B who would like to start their own companies, but obviously can't because of the visa requirements.

The system is almost designed intentionally to allow the abuse of workers.
I readily critize our grotesque engorged bureaucracy, but getting food stamps isn't difficult, as exibited by the 40+ million people who take advantage of them, and by personal anecdotal evidence.
I like this idea. I feel like many states already have hotlines you can call to get matched with a carpool (I'm fairly certain NY does at least), and so to me this seems like the natural progression of things. Plus, the fact that the driver would get a small amount of money would create incentive to sign up, but not create a new market like Uber/Lyft did. I'm interested to see what comes of this.
You’re definitely not wrong, but if you simply can’t operate a system to store everything for some reason, sampling is a lot better than just doing an aggregation on one dimension and throwing everything else away.

For anyone reading this who is interest in a practical application with sampled operational data, check out Facebook Scuba.

https://research.fb.com/publications/scuba-diving-into-data-...
> one of the most important things that the law is easily accessible to all people

As rayiner points out [1], court filings are not case law. Decisions, the only component of a court's output that can properly be considered law, are generally freely and publicly available.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16230803
This is the story I was reminded of too.

Not mentioned in that link though is that the doctors who examined him believed his resistance to cold came from him eating a traditional diet that included seal meat in his youth, and that his body fat had accumulated a not inconsiderable amount of seal blubber.
I would second that Data Structures are the most important. But another key intertwined principle is the concept of abstraction. Sometimes it can become hazy which class should own which, which class should store which DataStructures, or how related classes should reference the DataStructures instead of copying.
I know that Somalia as an example of a successful country and not an unsuccessful one has become popular among a certain subset of libertarians. (Probably not any large subset, just particularly vocal advocates like the Mises Institute.) But I have always found this odd, because classical libertarians tend to insist on the rights of the individual, and law in Somalia is based on the primacy of clans and extended families where the individual doesn’t count for much.
We've all seen the articles about Republican controlled cities putting homeless people on buses for Berkeley and other destinations in CA. wahsd is clueless.
Hartz IV? That is more than 4$/day
I suspect the voting machines are rigged.
For anyone just seeing this, its assets were purchased and are planned to be open-sourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182566
Or maybe if you ruin your street vendor reputation, you just move two blocks over, repaint your cart, and start over?
> you don’t know what dimensions are important in advance

But again this is a huge red flag. I've seen so many data science projects that started with "well, let's just get started with collecting everything and we will figure out what is important later on" and then spent so much time on infrastructure that no useful insights were ever produced.
This cannot be emphasized enough.

Accessing PACER from a courthouse is free. Accessing PACER for a case you are involved in is free. Getting judicial opinions from PACER is free. If you convince a judge that the cost of PACER is a burden to you, it is free. And finally, PACER doesn't actually charge you anything until you owe them more than $15 in a 3-month period - it is not cumulative: if your balance is less than $15, it goes to 0.
But will it actually get used? I like the idea but I am not sure if I would actually WANT a stranger in my car when the time actually comes.
Thanks for the article. Seems like a good appeoach to combine the strenghts of both graph & Hadoop. Wonder which other, in addtion to the described ones, use cases could be suitable here.

Anyone an idea?
Or taking Hanlon's razor, Americian cops have been institutionalised to use force, almost as if they're operating in a country with more guns than citizens (unlike anywhere in Europe, or the world for that matter).
People start with extremely unequal circumstances. Social mobility is low and those born with wealth will keep it and those born without are unlikely to ever attain it. This platonic ideal where everyone starts on equal footing and some people are just better than others at accumulating wealth is absurd.
Utah simply housed their homeless and it was cheaper because homeless people were no longer using emergency services for basic healthcare among other things[1]/

1. https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
I suspect they're just sick of people responding to "government is the problem, not the solution!" with "okay, well how is Somalia doing, then?"
That's very true, but at the same time, with the right auditors who really understand this stuff, you have a fair amount of latitude.
I have not found this to be true in my own professional life. While we do not want to diminish the contributions of the individual coders, designers, marketers, etc. in the process of bringing a product to life. It's VERY hard, with all of those human opinions and ideas in the mix, to focus on a product vision and see it come to life.

Someone won't like the design, someone will see the code complexity and use that as a litmus test that things are horribly awry and resourcing needs to be rethought, etc.

The "visionaries" are celebrated precisely because they faced down the machine, and helped pull it to the destination they wanted it to go in... and their idea works. They were right... and succeeded on a rare level of effectiveness. People are still generally very happy with their iPhones a decade later. It's mind boggling to me... is THIS design actually that timeless? Wow. I wouldn't have bet on that.

Them being right isn't a common thing, either. For every Steve Jobs there are a million talented people who managed to focus the process and their idea just wasn't that hot.
I welcome an absolute definition of poverty. We talk about the richest and poorest quintiles much more often, which is worse than a moving target. There will always be a lowest quintile. The cynic in me thinks this is a job protection program for those working in poverty reduction.

I wish we had more science here. The linked research points to the 1995 welfare reforms as causing a change. The way to prove effectiveness is with a well run trial - one that changes in federal policy make impossible.

Economic growth (or stagnation) is also crucial here to lower poverty rates. But all of macroeconomics suffers from the same basic measurement problem. Restated: what anti poverty program did hundreds of millions of Indian and Chinese families since 1995 participate in?
If you are a good experienced programmer, try Microsoft China.
This sounds like a real case of the client knows everything better, and only hired you so they could let you know they are better at your job.

If only we could get those years of wasted development back.
That legislation is in place. It just requires some leg work on the patient end (you have a right to ask for your entire medical record with a covered entity).

Sharing by default will never be a standard because it represents too many risks for data falling into the wrong hands.
Move over product manager, introducing the Behavioral Product Manager
The evolution of the PM. How behavioral science will (and is) changing the role and how product development happens.
> I really hope that a third party will start to grow.

Third parties don’t thrive in countries with first-past-the-post voting and without a tradition of coalition-making. In order for the USA to reach a point where it could have more than a two-party system, it would have to completely remake its governmental structure, and “very interesting” is an appropriate euphemism for what things would be like if it ever came to that.
That's fine. I still think that if openness is a good thing then the legal system should be one of the first places. Everything should go into a central and open database.
'In the long run we're all dead' - John Maynard Keynes
Yes. Not that I’m aware of.

One of my ex bosses came to china without a degree and they wouldn’t issue him the work permit. He had to beg the university he attended but barely didn’t graduate from to issue him a degree with his work experience used for the remaining credits.
See also: Backronym (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym).

I don't recall the specific context, but I recall learning about the phrase when a tech company had a fairly inappropriate internal acronym for something that ended up appearing in a published chart, and needed to come up with an appropriate explanation for the acronym that differed from what was originally meant.
> It may be the only country in the world that has shown that they “don’t need central government” and was functioning fine.

For certain definitions of "functioning fine", yeah sure I'll buy that.
This has been the promise of Waze and their competitors since they very first went into business. I'll be fascinated to see if it works out. While on paper it's a no-brainer (cheaper for everyone involved, and potentially faster when using carpool lanes), the less tangible aspects of it (what if you hate the person who's car your stuck in for an hour? Will people sacrifice control over their timings, especially on the way home? etc. etc.) won't really be fully understood until this is actually being used properly by a lot of people.
I suppose what you're both saying speaks to the real issue - we lump all dinosaurs into one single 'should look a bit like this' image.

It's a silly thing to do of course, humans don't much look like dolphins or rats for instance but we're all mammals.

On the face of it that above statement seems a silly thing to say too, but it speaks to the way we tend to just apply 'dinosaur' to an incredibly diverse range of species that lived in multiple different environment right across the planet and across hundreds of millions of years.

I think there's probably room to start to acknowledging that 'dinosaur' no longer really can mean 'terrible lizard' and accept that it must speak to the diversity of the species within the category.
It's remarkably true and something I relate to. Some of the smallest but most satisfying experiences I have are hauling heavy rocks up a riverbank to build a fire pit and chopping firewood after walking miles to find the right spot to camp. It was menial and tiring but damn was it satisfying and did it make me feel good to have done it.
The Master Place.
Riak the database survives Basho the company. All assets (IP) were bought by bet365 (A large Basho customer) and made open source. Development continues.

/former Basho employee.
I'm in the East Bay (near SF). I befriended a guy living on the street more than a year ago. He was a machinist in the midwest and was laid off. Because the winters are too brutal there, he came to CA.

He didn't have valid ID and without an address it was difficult for him to get ID, without which the places he could possibly live were inaccessible.

Last fall he finally found a group home, but it was temporary, and he's back on the street again.

The system, as it's designed, is complex and requires mental resources that people living on the street just don't have.
Depends on how you look at it :)
I don't know where you live but in my country (France), carpooling is very popular. Waze being a very popular application here, it's very probable that they manage to take on BlaBlaCar which basicly has a monopoly when it comes to carpooling here.
OK, but is that bad?

It might be bad for the specific organization pushing their new solutions, but for the software industry as a whole, it seems like the good side of "throw spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks". Many ideas will fail, but the good ones will stick around. So I'd say by all means, let people feel free to innovate. And those of us who consume the innovations just need to remember the mantra of "leading edge, not bleeding edge."
It would be nice if the world were so simple.

I run PlainSite, which indexes about 10 million dockets and is mentioned in the OP's post. I have experience in this field.

PACER is of value not only to litigants, but also to journalists, academics, employers, and average citizens who are interested in any given topic, individual or company.

Litigants who need PACER access but can't afford it are almost never given free access. When you file on CM/ECF, the e-filing side of PACER, you are given one free bite at the apple for documents in your own case. Legal research involving other cases is not free. Second attempts to view documents in your own case are not free. In forma pauperis status does not make your access free. PACER waivers are not granted to anyone but select academics, and then, rarely.

Many opinions are not properly tagged as opinions since it is each individual judge's responsibility to handle the tagging. PACER charges for them anyway, even though they are supposed to be free. This applies to tens or hundreds of thousands of documents on the system. See https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3034399 and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3026779.

It is rayiner's opinion that it's not unreasonable for the government to charge an access fee per page for PACER, but it is the law (the E-Government Act of 2002) that doing so is inappropriate and illegal. Recently, the authors of that Act, Darrell Issa and Joe Lieberman, filed an amicus brief explaining their position on that matter yet again in the ongoing litigation. See https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=246610557....

The marginal cost to the government of filing a new suit is substantial; hence the filing fee. The marginal cost of providing one more PDF to the public is zero. That's an important difference.
As luck would have it, immigration to Somalia is both inexpensive and free from bureaucratic oversight, so I would encourage anyone who is inspired by this article to go with godspeed.
I understand where they're coming from. Pay, of course, is a function of supply and demand. Nothing more, nothing less. The greater the demand, relative to the supply, the higher the price. We're constantly told that developers in high demand and that companies cannot find anyone to hire, to the point that the government has even pushed 'learn to code' programs to try and bring more people into this 'future industry', so price should be rising rapidly to close that gap... but it's not happening for the most part.

So we have this disparity where the market is not reflecting what the media (et. al.) are reporting. I can see how that is leading to much confusion for those in the industry.

In 2014, the median income for software developer, applications was $103,054.85[1] (in 2017 dollars). Today, the median income for software developer, applications is $102,212.06[2] (again, in 2017 dollars). Developer incomes are on the decline.

It appears that we're reached equilibrium. If the industry was honest and said "go away, the industry is full" people would have less belief that they're worth more, but that's not the message we continue to hear.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/2014/may/oes151132.htm

[2] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
Medicaid covers around 80 million people, at roughly $7,000 a year per recipient, which is double what the UK spends per patient.

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/distribution-of...
They've always looked like large reptiles to me, what are the main features that implies modern birds instead?
Holy mother of god, man. Get a grip.
I have to say that a sentiment similar to this is why we built Timescale as a Postgres extension and not started a new database from scratch. We didn't want a new shiny thing just for kicks but rather a product focused on solving a particular problem.
Those benefits are all pretty severely restricted. They are difficult to apply for (it takes knowledge, time, and work), often they are time limited, or require some sort of proof of your situation that would be difficult to produce. In many states they are now making it so that you have to prove you either have or are actively seeking work of some kind.

Work is difficult to find or even to seek if you're homeless. It's a bit of a catch-22.
The alternative was to make Tim Hortons a US company, that would have sucked.
That's a quirk of English. There's no such thing as "being" dead.

"You" are not dead. It's not an active state, it's not something that happens to you, or an experience you have.

/Death/ as a transition happens to you, as a momentary thing, then you cease to be.

"They died" is OK. "They are dead" implies a continuing presence and continuing experience which isn't precise.

Dead is not the default state, because it's not a state of you, because there's no you for it to be a state of.
This is one of the things I like about HN however. There are plenty of smart people all over the world (Eastern Europe included!). It is great to be capable of having civilized discussions with different viewpoints. If you open yourself to it, it is easy to learn something new from someone with an entirely different worldview and life context than you.
Let's send Peter Thiel there. I'm sure he'd love it.
It'll 100% get used in DC to get around the $30 tolls on 66. They already have "sluglines" where people pick up strangers so they can drive on the hov lane.
While true, I feel like that is just how carpooling mechanics work. When there is a way for you to be randomly paired with strangers for a commute to and from work, you always run the risk of not liking someone. I'm more interested if there would be any penalty for the driver leaving without you because you took too long or something. With something that is so easy to sign up for, one would assume that feedback and accountability would also be easier to handle than previously
By which measure are we determining success?
> functioning fine

Here is the US Overseas Security Advisory Council report on Somalia for 2017: https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=218...

> Pervasive and violent crime is an extension of the general state of insecurity in Somalia. Serious, brutal, and often fatal crimes are common. Kidnapping and robbery are particular problems in Mogadishu, other areas in the south, and in Galmuduug and Puntland.
"You shouldn't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive." - Van Wilder
> If the user is already careless enough to connect untrusted devices and/or opening random email attachments, then I have no trust in said user to heed any of the following warnings, as he/she already had to ignore previous best practice warnings to get there in the first place.

Don't blame the user, when we as computer scientists are too stupid to build secure systems. I expect from an computer system / software that I don't get infected if I plug in a USB stick or open a PDF file. The software devs of operatings systems and applications as well as hardware vendors are to blame. That's it.
I suppose it does, but what I mean it's will be a loophole with refunds.
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I think it depends on where you are and how used to using bureaucracy you are. I know people who really struggled to wend their way through the bureaucracy that protects food stamps in order to get them.
FYI: You can publish Chrome extensions on addons.mozilla.org as well. They usually work without any changes.
Germany, at least, has: several million people, just counting those of Turkish descent.
Nokia scale? I'll stick with one of these... https://www.coffee-scale.com
What being a Google Summer of Code mentor taught me?
Abundance of choice makes things harder for sure.

But overall it's so much easier these days. Even if you're spoiled for choice, you can get the tools and documentation for free. Back then it was either the BASIC interpreter that shipped with your computer (QBASIC for me) or the assembler (debug.com) or paying big bucks to buy a compiler. I was lucky that my dad could obtain a PASCAL and a C compiler through his work.

These days you might have too much choice but back then for a kid like me, the choice was what was available in the local library. So not much choice at all.
Bugfix release, containing (amongst others) mitigations for meltdown/spectre.
The reason why I would not consider Google to legitimately compete with Uber/Lyft at scale in this arena is because it's not part of their nature to staff customer support at the level required to run operationally-intensive businesses.

The rate in which something goes wrong in the real world (esp where money in exchanged) is much higher than in a pure software world, and Google is going to try to take the FAQ/chatbot/no phone approach to service when it's going to need to staff entire buildings with agents if it doesn't want to completely piss off a nascent user base.
This is true, but on the other hand, anyone who has ever been involved in litigation knows that it takes about one day to exceed 150 pages ($15) worth of documents in legal research.
I find this frustrating as well. Occasionally a good back and forth does develop and then just... dies. No way to actually reach out to anyone just pray they keep checking the 'threads' link until that thread gets too far down.
> When an up-vote is given, a random member gets the point.

Eh, what? How is the pool of admissible members chosen? Surely you don't mean "any member gets a point"?

> Seeing your comment or submission on the front page is a reward on itself

Comments don't show up on the front page, and you don't get points when your submissions are upvoted.
Writing pure functions really helps with maintainability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function

You will always have side effects but you can try to isolate the bits that are impure and write the rest of your software in a purely functional manner.
When going for smallest size, it'd be interesting to see your comparison using command lines switches for best compression (makes a big difference, both in terms of time and size).

Was bzip2 slightly, or considerably slower than zst?
No, hot
I'm looking for the specs of the message format used, but couldn't find it. Is it gonna be like email message format? html perhaps?
Not really. A mistake theorist is obviously going to attribute it to a mistake. But the end result is the same: the other guy is going to treat you as an enemy, work against you, and generally defect against you in prisoner dilemmas.

From a conflict theorist's point of view, this is similar to the issue of People who vote "against their own interests" because they were brainwashed by the Elite. The perception and framing of it is different, but the issue is the same.
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