skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. There are lots of great reasons to justify it. Higher wages offset the cost of living (which can't be caused by the rising wages, right?) and has the side effect of locking out anyone who can't or won't work for a tech company, driving them from the homes they can no longer afford, ensuring that the next person who moves in there will be just like me.

Personally I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Because anywhere else there are other kinds of people, doing other kinds of things and living other kinds of lives. Can't have that, it would bring down my paycheck. Gotta have that network effect, and of course by network effect, I mean people who are just like me.
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I believe its just newsfeed.facebook.com, not the main timeline.
Musicians need all the coverage they can get and we can probably only expect this from big name artists like Jack White.
This is almost universal at live theater. (Some exceptions but not many.) Which is mostly a good thing. Although on Broadway, I've seen ushers get IMO overly aggressive just because someone snaps a shot at the end of a performance or whatever.
I posted my resume on Indeed and it was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made.

I get a phone call at least once every hour or two from an Indian recruiter with an American name who is trying to pitch me a 24 month contract-to-hire role working with technology that isn't mentioned on my resume or website.

I have to use call blocking apps just to maintain my sanity.
I've had professors that I absolutely confirmed did not know the subject they were teaching. I had a web application development class during college where I had to dispute my exam grades every time because the professor would mark things wrong that were not wrong, and I'd have to go show him the code running.

Except for the final, I think he gave up trying to fight it and just gave me a 100 on that one, because I know I missed one of the CSS questions.

We never actually built a webapp in that class, either. Luckily for me, I'd been doing it for years already (older student, this time around), but I feel bad for the other students who were new to it.
Just throw your hands in the air...

...and hold your phone up there so the person behind you can't see me with their actual eyes!

People who record phone video at concerts are the worst. If you want to re-live your experience later, a lot of promoters now do a professional recording from the floor and on stage with multiple cameras, and they sell download authorization keys at the merchandise booths. Buy one of those. If you can't enjoy the thing you're at right now, please don't ruin it for the people around you.
> that nobody ever looks at

While I agree with your comment I do watch a lot of these. In electronic music "IDs" are a big thing and it's a big culture around identifying new tracks DJs play, which you mostly get from these kind of clips.
Look at their example.

Theory: "One example in which triangulation has helped is in establishing that smoking during pregnancy results in babies with lower birth weights"

Lines of evidence:

1) "women who smoke are more likely to have babies who weigh less"

2) "if a woman’s partner smokes during her pregnancy, many of the same confounders apply as in maternal smoking, but the association with lower birth weight is much weaker"

3) "Birth weight can also be analysed according to levels of cigarette taxation across US states, which reduces the effects of confounders."

4) "the birth weights of siblings whose mother smoked during one pregnancy but not another."

5) "In cohorts grouped according to whether or not people carry a genetic variant associated with greater cigarette consumption in those who smoke, mothers who smoke and carry the variant tended to have babies who weighed less; non-smokers with the same variant did not."

Conclusion: "Taken together, these studies make it clear that maternal smoking affects birth weight directly"

This looks exactly like what I described as "counting heads". There is no synthesis of this evidence, just a disconnected list of things (and who knows whether contrary evidence has been left out or never checked).
I went to a show a couple years ago that politely asked you to put your phones away and said they would put a video up from one of the shows on the tour. Unfortunately the video never happened, as far as I can tell. It's a nice idea.

Funnily enough, the only reason I went to that show was having watched their previous acoustic tour on YouTube. The quality obviously blows a phone recording out of the water, I wish more concerts did this.

Above and Beyond Acoustic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNUTlKqSO-I

If anyone finds an Acoustic II concert video around, let me know.

EDIT: well timed, just looked again and I guess it's more of a documentary with showings starting next week: http://www.aboveandbeyond.nu/acousticfilm/

Bit of a slow turnaround from a show in May 2016.
Some relatively new music enthusiasts see this as a stupid idea. Personally I think is part of the experience to "disconnect" yourself from the rutine of your daily activities.
The reason I wouldn't is Google's obsession with building US-only businesses (Example: Project Fi). Uber is worldwide and is a huge timesaver whenever I travel within Europe.

(Edit: Had to reword my example since people just love taking stuff out of context.)
I think it's actually a throwback to the old days of conglomerates.
Maybe there should be a special account that has a yearly contribution limit like an IRA that all your gambling, speculation, risky investments need to be bought from.
Telling yourself that you're right in spite of overwhelming evidence is kind of the worst thing one can do when feeling tired of being wrong, though.
And what is going to stop your "private police force" from simply taking control and kicking your out (or executing you)? A contract?

Edit: I would expect leadership in those circumstances to simply fall to the most effective leader in that kind of context (which I suspect would be someone from a military background) rather than someone who used to have a big bank balance. Give that a few generations and you'll end up with hereditary clan leadership and eventually "royalty" - all royal lines can usually be traced so some "stupendous badass".
I think we're going in a circle here because of a Russell-type problem. If you want to change the meta-rules to prevent the powerful using conflict to benefit themselves then great. The problem is that the rules are set within the system itself, therefore by the same elites. The conflict position works precisely because of this. You might even say this was anticipated by Plato's two-tier system of government.
I feel like this post is more of a self justification on why he wants to work for Grab. A company which started itself as a copy of Uber, I don't know what Innovation they do made him pick them. Like UberEats and UberEverything(will be out soon I guess) will be doing exactly the same.

Also, Uber was out of China more because of the biased policies in China,not because they were not competitive enough. Their exit was also profitable, so to say they were defeated doesn't make sense.
> when even rich white woman need a movement, and they do

They don't, they just need to learn a highly valued skill like everybody else.
Deployment of smart contracts to the blockchain (DE)
might cut into the state(s) looto funds but oh well.
You just described the pure software world solution.

What happens when the commuter I pick up vomits in my car? Or steals something from my car? What happens if I get picked up by a person who changes their mind about where they're going? Or decide to take an unplanned detour to go to the store, or back home to grab the laptop they forgot, or to score some heroin?

What happens when the driver gropes me? Or I grope the driver?

You absolutely need actual support, it's not going to be minimal-to-zero. Both the driver and the passenger need to be able to pick up a phone number and speak to a real human being who can resolve some sort of issue.
Transactional support? I was under the impression that timeseries data is considered immutable.
You can certainly avoid building your whole society to perpetuate and amplify inequalities between people. The U.S. constitution was a good step forward but let's not stop challenging inequality where we see it.
The article recognizes that several time series databases already exist. They also say, "we aren't trying to compete against kdb+." They explain how they can handle time series data better than NoSQL databases that aren't time series focused.

But what are they doing better than the existing time series databases? Surely they must have some advantage or they wouldn't have raised 16.1 million dollars.
The Yondr demo is quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2A38Nxz8sc

It's simple (thick cloth pouch with a powerful magnet lock), allows you to remain in physical custody of your device (which wasn't clear from the article) and creates a forcing function for people who need to use their phone to simply exit the venue and get it unlocked at a kiosk.
Relentless change is most likely the motivator for these innovations. However, I don't think it is needless innovation or innovation for the same of innovation. Personal opinion that there isn't much innovation in what this article covers, but still it is happening elsewhere.

Changes in telemetry production (IoT and others) have fundamentally changed the requirements... millions (and often billions) of data points points per-second are now happening. This is being driven by RSM and IoT. RSM is alluded to in my ACM Queue article: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3178371
There is a big difference between just saying deep poverty and then qualifying what leads to this deep poverty.

Just saying poverty is the cop out here trying to qualify what drives this problem offers at least a way to look at the problem that doesn't end in tax the rich as that will not solve the deep poverty problem.
> If what you mean is that two babies have the same amount of money in their bank accounts, then that's what you should say.

But wealth isn't an amount in a bank account? Given the earlier context of this thread, I felt my comment should have been clear enough, but granted textual communication can be difficult (especially for emotional topics where many have their response composed well in advance) and clearly I failed. I tried to clarify it on several other occasions before you commented, so any errors in conveying my original message should have been resolved before you posted yours, no?

> Wealth is more than money

Money being only a tool of measurement, I think that is a given. But that is like saying that the weather is more than temperature. Sure, but what are we supposed to take from that?
In a dark venue the light could easily bother you from someone texting, but the main issue is people who hold their phones up in front of your face to record the event.
You're comparing apples and oranges there. There is nothing preventing you from filming or using your electronic devices (outside FAA regulations, and they're pretty clear when and when you cannot use the electronics, heck they don't even take your device away from you or deface it)

As much as I don't like the TSA, they're a lot better than venue security. Going on your anaology, if something happened in an airport past security, the airport isn't blocking your ability to call for help.

Bringing it back: What benefit is removing people's abilities to use phones and smart watches going to give you? (Yes, they remove both of those including fitbits)
> Should we not decide that cross-origin window.opener is now deprecated, show big fat warnings on the developer console when it's used, and remove it in a year or two?

That does nothing for deployed sites that aren't actively developed? Browser devs have decided those sites are worth not breaking.
> Behind closed doors, big pharma scientists complain about the quality of academic work

Same in Deep Learning research - 99% of papers today is just an obfuscated description of their "alchemy". Even from famous universities and companies.
I'm going to plump for interfaces and composition. At least if you're building at any sort of scale.
What an unpleasant individual
Venture capitalist says Coinbase did over $1 billion in net revenue for 2017
The problem with this is that many people have that thing out every other song, recording video, and blinding me.
What does a car manufacturer do with a quantum computer?
The reason tether boomed lately, is that the crypto market has boomed.

The reason tether has added plenty of $100m USDT while the price is going down, is that people have been selling lately.

People are selling on different exchanges that supports USDT and have no crypto/USD pairs. This creates massive demand for USDT as lots of people are selling. This means that there is an actor who is buying all these cryptos with USDT.

If USDT was fake, and given the size of the crypto market we should see a significant premium on the price on USDT exchanges. However, the inverse is happening. Prices are in Sync. Prices on USDT exchanges are almost always lower, although it is less than 1%.

So whether USDT has 1:1 backing in real dollars or are using other assets: These assets are very well backed. The price has dumped 20-30% in a single day lately and USDT has yet to diverge. The price has dumped over 50% from the top and the price has yet to diverge.

Based on that, you should forecast a massive rally in the coming weeks/months. People who panic sold are very unlikely to withdraw the USDT (both because of the restrictions and because they probably wants to buy lower). I could see bitcoin price going to 40-60k very soon.

PS: This is not financial advice. Trade at your own risk.
OMG this is what the sharing economy is about, way to go Waze! I can't wait to try this!
Being transactional is orthogonal to being immutable. For example, if you want to ensure that a given set of writes is applied atomically, you would issue them in a transaction.
One finding by the people doing Eve is that common users don't get lexical scopes. If I give something a name, why can't I access it everywhere using that name? Scopes are an
artifact of how programming languages have evolved as an abstraction over the runtime stack; that complexity is unnecessary.

(Note that this is orthogonal to namespaces - i.e. ways to handle naming conflicts- nor encapsulation -providing a single entry point for changing a variable. Lexical scope was not created to solve either of that).
Just stumbled on this the other day from wanting to build this very similar idea (e.g. BlaBlaCar in Europe) not just for commuting [to or from work] but general travel- ride to the grocery store, movies, etc. I decided to see if RideWith.com resolved to anything and boom... ended up on Waze Carpool
AWS employee on the container services team here.

We are definitely building out a hosted Kubernetes solution with EKS, but its important to realize that Kubernetes is just one part of the container services ecosystem at AWS, living alongside ECS.

Just like we have multiple database solutions (DynamoDB, MySQL/Postgres in RDS, Aurora, Redshift, etc) we also have multiple orchestrators (EKS managed Kubernetes and ECS).

ECS is like DynamoDB: it is the AWS native solution to the problem. Built to be incredibly scalable, and built for AWS patterns and best practices that we know will scale for our customers.

EKS is like RDS: its the AWS managed hosting for the open source software, designed to solve some of your scaling and configuration problems, and it gives you more flexibility, but that flexibility also gives you the power to do things that may not scale as well.

In ECS you may not be able to do everything you can do with Kubernetes (just like DynamoDB limits what you can do compared to the capabilities of SQL), but just like DynamoDB can scale far past SQL because of its limits, ECS is more scalable than Kubernetes because of its limits.

You can run a much larger cluster in ECS than you can in Kubernetes. We would actually still recommend to our largest customers to use ECS instead of EKS if they have any significant scale. The thing to realize is that ECS is a multi tenant control plane: it already keeps track of every single container on every host in every cluster from every ECS customer per region, and that scale is tremendous, far larger than anything Kubernetes can do. For reference at re:Invent we shared that we have millions of EC2 instances under ECS management each month, organized into more than 100,000 customer clusters, and we launch hundreds of millions of containers every week.

With ECS we can add a new customer with >2k instances into the multi tenant control plane with ease. On the other hand configuring and managing Kubernetes to handle this is a fun challenge. (https://blog.openai.com/scaling-kubernetes-to-2500-nodes/) For a lot of orgs on AWS they would rather have the boring, simple power of ECS.

Anyway I hope this provides some perspective on it. We are excited about Kubernetes and excited to offer EKS, but ECS is still our recommendation for the largest customers.
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How about one made by Rich Hickey — https://www.datomic.com/
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I'm going to post this as a reply with the poster elided, since they deleted it and I think it's important:

>> Heart disease kills more people than lung cancer, but there's nothing wrong with raising money to research lung cancer.

> The difference is that face of diversity initiatives are zero sum.

No, they are not. Hiring someone from a disadvantaged group does not mean that you have to fire someone from a privileged group. That is what a zero-sum scenario would require.

Diversity initiatives level the playing field by increasing opportunities for one group relative to another. That doesn't necessarily mean that the disadvantaged group has more opportunities than the privileged group -- it only means that they have more than they did before.
Waze's routes are a little more aggressive. Which, if you spend a lot of time in a car, can add up.
"Alexa, who won best actor last year?"

"Alexa, how old was Ronald Reagan when he became President?"

It seems to know about movies and people.

I hear that Google Home is a lot smarter. I'll get one when it goes on sale again.

Siri is the assistant with the problem. It can't answer those questions:

"Hey Siri, who won best actor last year?"

"Hey Siri, how old was Ronald Reagan when he became President?"
Looks just like BlaBlaCar. Nice.
Translation for SI users:

150 lbs ≈ 70 kg

8 ft ≈ 2.4 m

500 lbs ≈ 230 kg

2 ft ≈ 60 cm
For now. This is a kind of cultural shift that happens when companies grow. It doesn't happen overnight, nor does anyone actually want it to happen. But in practice it seems to nearly inevitably creep in. I'd love to read more about reasons why, and what can be done about it.
Is anything like this available currently in Boston?
If you're texting someone in a dark room you're annoying everyone around you
> The problem with that is they'll find work for themselves to do, good idea or not, part of a coherent strategy or not.

Isn't that exactly how Gmail came to be?
This isn't an abstract issue of diverse ways of living. The smartphone zombie specifically is a real thing that's observable in society all day every day.
I think his statement "If they can’t give me that energy back? Maybe I’m wasting my time." is thoughtful. Jack is old enough to have gone to and performed shows in his youth where cells phone were rare if there were any. He performs not only for the music but for the energy of the crowd. A crowd that's now placed a screen between themselves and the performer taking away that energy or removing that sense of connection. Even in a large venue!

He's the artist, it's his gig, if you can't respect the reasonable wishes of the person who you paid to go see what are you doing there?
Previous attempts at this sort of service in Canada:

Blancride https://blancride.com/
Kangaride https://www.kangaride.com/

Blancride in particular had a slick app. Unfortunately, I tried it a few times and never had a good. People flaked at the last minute, wanted me (the driver) to wait a long time, etc.
Of course individuals have different abilities. You're missing the point.

The claim is societal. We (as humans) started out with nothing. Over thousands of years, we built religions, governments, businesses, laws, science, and everything else, which ultimately resulted in a lot of us having a lot better quality of life. But our default state (as humans) is to have nothing. That some people are still in poverty shouldn't be seen like a disease to be treated--it should be seen as a condition all humans effectively default to. They just haven't benefited from all the systems and processes we've built that the rest of us have, and we should figure out how to get them to (or modify our systems so they do).

Again: This is in no way claiming each person starts on a level playing field.
I had to create an account, begrudgingly, to follow. This is just silly when I have a perfectly good feed reader that works for everyone else I care to follow.
And it would have to get rid of money in politics.
Looks nice.

Maybe some kind of GUI would be better, as a way to ease typing commands.

Something like Pythonista or Lisping on iOS.
That's bash
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I wonder why we should expect practical quantum computing to be here any sooner than practical nuclear fusion?
I would be much more interest in finding people to work on small indie projects together than a startup that was hastily planned at the last minute.
This is not Yegge's first criticism on Google known to public.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3138826
People use their phones to have human experiences and connect to others that aren’t physically present.

While I can understand certain environments should curb cell use (Where lights and flashes are distracting to performers and the audience), or the desire to maintain mystery or quality by controlling bootlegs... a rock concert has distractions-a-plenty, between flying beer cups, weed smoke, people gabbing loudly about their recent gossip, crowd surfers... a phone is really not a big deal.

Curbing phone use might be nostalgic (why not also hand out cigarette lighters for the ballads?) but doesn’t make the experience any more human.
Aside from my mother, who died 18 years ago, I know no-one else who uses billion meaning 10^12 (long scale, as you point out). I grew up, and still live, in the UK.

I'd be very interested to know if anyone here uses long scale, or knows anyone who does. Is it still in common usage anywhere?
Perhaps the difference is that Wifi, Fi, and the store in general are all product you pay for, whereas maps is not?
The comparison serves no purpose other than to suggest that the impoverished American should be grateful he's not a "beggar in Dehli." It's not some clinical fact devoid of context.
Unrelated to the content but scrolling on that page is basically unusable. Janky/sluggish/awful.

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