skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US has a ton of problems. We have an opioid problem. We have a corruption problem. We have foreign terrorism problem. We have domestic terrorism problems. We have outside influence problem. We have a schooling problem. We have mental health treatment problem. We have hospital problems. We have a budget problem. We have an aging population problem. We have an immigration policy problem (Too much? Too little? Depends on who you ask). We have election problems, we have voter problems. We have consensus problems. We have polarization problems.

The list goes on and on and on for virtually forever. My point is: we work on ALL the problems, simultaneously, as much as possible. There should be no one suggesting that we only try to solve one or two of these at a time.

We will fail to fix some problems, but we will succeed in fixing other problems. And it will only happen because people will throw their hardest try at fixing all of the problems.

We are ahead in many respects: the population in general knows the wide variety of problems that this country has. So we're able to talk about it. So we're at least at step 1. It'd be nice if we could come to consensus faster, but politics has always been a painfully slow game (Civil Rights took over a decade of demonstrations for example to fix a single issue). This country has always been a bit slow on the uptake, but at least public awareness is generally good.
I think every FastMail proponent is single, as they are always touting how you get the same thing as running your own email server for $5/mo. But for people with a family it is rather expensive for email.
Thank you, yeah, that sounds right; it's more like design than like art.

Also, in pg's essay Great Hackers he says that no-one knows who the best programmers are; you have to work with them to know just how good they are.

http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
Especially nice when the updates break your computer, as it happened for a lot of people with the Spectre mitigations.

I dread the Internet of Things.
Being punished for being against whatever is socially trendy is aptly described as "wrongthink" regardless of what is "wrong" it's "the wrong thinking". In the 1920s, dating across racial lines was "wrongthink" and in the modern day that's flipped - along with many other progressive values. I subscribe absolutely no value to what this "wrongthink" is but merely used the term to describe being against social norms. I don't care what those social norms are and I do not care if I agree with them or not.

It isn't okay to punish someone on societies' whim for the same reason vigilante justice should be frowned upon and the same reason it isn't OK to punch a nazi in the face [0].

If we wake up tomorrow in a world where being racist is perfectly acceptable - should you be fired for not being racist? I'm not asking you to consider that a realistic possibility - I'm asking you to consider if it is okay.

There are better ways of tackling racism/sexism than taking away peoples' livelihoods (which is likely going to have an effect on making them hold their positions more extremely than it is to have them change their opinions).

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jppmn4/we-asked-an-ethici...
Now you know why Google is so interested in self-driving cars. Driving time is one of the few untapped reservoirs of attention remaining. If the car can do the driving for you, your eyeballs are now free to have ads blasted into them.
> How much will it take to convince the average HN reader that sexism actually is everywhere?

When you use the word "sexism", notice how it was not necessary to say "against women". This little example highlights the strong societal view that there exists sexism against women far more than any against men to require that clarification.

The reasons I find it necessary to highlight this fact is: from the perspective of someone trying to intentionally provoke offence in others, this view is an obvious candidate for exploitation when the target is a women.

I'm talking about trolls of course, but it seems to be so hard to get that point across here... there is a clear bias in the offensive messages, but if they are all trolls (and they certainly look that way), then surely the bias reflects the simple fact that sexism against women is a reaction provoking topic, rather than "wow we have a sexism problem look at all these legitimate sincere comments", I mean isn't the later exactly what the trolls wanted.
> The strength of a democracy should be that its citizens can stand in the battleground of ideas unscathed

Unfortunately this is as obsolete as medieval ideas of chivalry and trial by combat in the age of nuclear weapons and poison gas.

In a two-party democracy, there might be some stable equilibrium where the parties agree not to wreck civic trust and institutions because they have to live there. This won't survive a third party coming in and releasing the informational equivalent of toxic gas, because they don't care if it makes peaceful democratic government impossible.
It's certainly not obvious. Can you support that with anything?
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is accurate. You may fare better by adding sources— but it's been in the news for some time, and specifically confirmed by France's IC IIRC.

France: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/05/french-electio...

Germany: https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/the-impact-of-russian-...

Netherlands: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2017/06/06/rus...
Sure. Consumers like this and Steam likes this, because they get a cut of everything on their platform. But game makers are maybe not so interested in having their industry collapse into a monpsony situation, where their choices are 1) give Valve whatever Valve wants and accept whatever Valve gives them in return, or 2) don't make games.

Free markets don't promise perfect efficiency in each case. They promise to be reasonably efficient on average. They also don't promise perfect happiness for just one side of the market; they're a means of reaching a compromise between all participants.
> your editor pane is a text editor non the less

And the editor pane with paredit somehow becomes a magical structural editing machine?

Paredit knows exactly zero things about your code. The only thing it can do is match brackets/parentheses and move code between them. That's it.

In an actual code editing tool that actually understands code structure and semantics, I can:

- select and move semantically and structurally valid blocks of code

- extract parts of code into a separate variable

- extract parts of code into a separate function

- extract parts of code into a separate module

- safely rename variables and functions across multiple files

- simplify/split/extract/generify code

- ... many more ...
> I eagerly await the investigation into Israeli interference of the last 10 US presidential elections

From ¶ 1 of the indictment [1]: "U.S. law...bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General."

It's not illegal for foreign entities to lobby our government. It's illegal to do it dishonestly, e.g. by "posing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas" (¶ 3) or using "without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons to open accounts at PayPal" (¶ 90).

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380463-Internet-Res... via Axios [a]

[a] https://www.axios.com/mueller-indicts-13-russian-nationals-f...
It's not clear whether voter data was altered. But the possibility of that happening remains a grave threat to the integrity of our elections that to my knowledge hasn't been adequately addressed.
Not just kids. All of us.
Having small mutations is irrelevant; it could be dozens of large effects or thousands of small effects, it doesn't matter, you get a normal distribution anyway. The question is how much variance there is and how much of it you can predict.

Or let me put it this way: how much do siblings (ie embryos) vary in height? It's by quite a bit, often several inches. Most of this is due to genetics. And this PGS is able to predict half of the genetic contribution. So...

(If you're curious, my best estimate is that embryo selection could boost height by about an inch on average.)

> filtering embryos for the right genetic background would also be incredibly expensive and probably impossible

It would cost about $2000 for the biopsies and SNP arrays of the usual ~5 embryos, and can be done either now or in the next few years and could have been done years ago if any real effort was put into it.
The US Supreme Court ruled that fake news is not illegal under the 1st Amendment, United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709 (2012).

Muller is attempting to turn the US into a totalitarian state where you can be prosecuted for saying something that is not truthful in the public sphere. When Thomas Jefferson ran against Adams they threw all kind of fake news like calling the other a hermaphrodite.

When the government gets to decide what is true/false, that is the definition of totalitarianism.
Yeah, the biggest problem with these types of algorithms is that they show that the application developers don't trust the user to know what they want and trust the user to fix their own problems.

It's one thing for an application to provide sensible defaults. It's another thing entirely if it just second guesses the user.
Older men golf or (if not quite as old) play basketball. :) Physical games have much more immediate stamina limits, for starters, in terms of time-spent comparisons. Thinking more about golf, that one has more of an economic limiter than basketball or video games. Perhaps there's a dangerous sweet spot that games are hitting - cheap enough that you don't have to work a ton, attractive enough that you don't want to. Which would result in a different discussion of if that's good or bad.

Either way, you still have a primarily-male competitive activity being a huge thing for older demographics, which is interesting. The "is it upbringing or nature" question around sports participation by gender is an old one, my hunch is that video games is just the modern version.

The 30-to-40 generation is in the middle; gaming for a while was a much more in-person thing pre-universal-internet-access. So that probably resulted in different habits as life more and more interrupted the ability to throw LAN parties together.
If Uber "is not part of the equilibrium" then that would suggest it wasn't sustainable.
Did you know that functional cookies are exempt from the cookie law?
slight OT, but visiting Europe for vacation I found black squirrel to be most beautiful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_squirrel
Um, maybe everyone doesn't want to use that software?
"Thousands" is less than "tens of thousands" or any larger number, which to me says <=$9,999. And the millions applies to the whole operation, not the ads.

I was commenting on the perceived strangeness of a sub-10K monthly advertising budget given the much larger amounts of money in play from legitimate interests, nothing further.
Given what you say, one wonders why foreign governments who had pledged tens-of-millions of dollars have now pulled their donations. Why would Clinton's failure to become President affect the requirement for charitable distribution?

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/05/politics/clinton-foundati...

"The FBI and federal prosecutors are looking into whether donors to the foundation were improperly promised policy favors or special access to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state in exchange for donations to the charity's coffers, as well as whether tax-exempt funds were misused".
The "so?" is in the indictment.

To quote the opening paragraph: US law bans foreign nationals from making certain expenditures or financial disbursements for the purpose of influencing federal elections. US law also bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General. And US law requires certain foreign nationals seeking entry to the United States to obtain a visa by providing truthful and accurate information to the government.

Legally, Russians can have an opinion about American politics. But they can't pay for ads and rallies and other political oriented activity.

Obviously there's realpolitik regarding these type of laws, and obviously the US has been the most perfect actor in the past either. In the real world, everyone does a little propaganda, as you say. But in the real world as well, sometimes the propaganda is "pushed too far" for a government's liking. It is pretty clear that Russia's propaganda "pushed too far" for the US government's liking. So, the US government has responded.

All in a day of geopolitics, I suppose. But calling it "oh, Russians dare to have an opinion!" is glossing it over. Most countries don't like it when foreign nationals mess a bit with their political internals. It seems like some of the comments here are bordering on "how dare the US intelligence agencies have an opinion on the Russian interference!", which seems naive to me.
Me too, well, I was expecting them to be even more sexually explicit than usual...
Now that several of y'all have fleshed this out, this definitely makes sense. Skinned companies being shilled out as gambling fronts for dubious cryptocurrency schemes... what a sad way for "Atari" and "Kodak" to end.
It’s a trend, but I don’t think people realize how scary this is. Do we really want a global system of interlocking jurisdictions and reciprocal treaties such that we’re all subject to the most restrictive and oppressive laws in the world? It’s not OK when it’s privacy, because next it may be free speech, or indecency, etc. Do we want a world where we have free speech, unless we say something online against Putin, and then the US is happy to extradite us? Seems fanciful, but I don’t see how it’s fundamentally different than what GDPR tries to assert.
Sorry for being off topic here, but I just wanted to express my admiration for such a great use of a Terry Pratchett quote. Vimes is my favorite Discworld character and I'm delighted to see his wisdom used so well in a discussion.
The world doesn't have to have gotten worse. It can simply not optimize for it. I doubt whoever tracks "young male labor engagement" is taken as seriously in their sphere as some game company's engagement czar. And it's for reasons that should be very familiar to HN users: in games, they're the customer, in the rest of the world, they're the product.
I would stress the "meaningful" part. I assume that every country in EU gives out CC0 (or so) licensed data for at least geocoding that have the same EU-wide high-level hierarchical format. Problem is that this hierarchy does not map well to OSM tags (which is one instance of problems caused by using tags instead of layers) and often also does not map well to local users' expectations (ie. converting the object names to/from handwritten address is non-trivial problem). Also sometimes the government provided data tends to be stale.
OK. So if I'm following, we're supposed to disbelieve the intelligence community, the security researchers, leaders from both political parties, the Dutch government, and basically every reputable news outlet in the world. But the rogue prepper lady, she's got the goods, because she's outside the "establishment bubble".

Look, I'm no fan of the CIA, I share the frustration with not being able to see the classified evidence first-hand, and I'm all for skepticism when it comes to source bias and motivation. But when your argument boils down to literally everyone of significance is lying except for Donald Trump, that's no longer something that can be described as "skepticism".
On one side you have people who believe that predatory pricing is an issue and likely also that government regulation is needed to prevent it. On another you have people who believe that markets are so efficient that predatory pricing cannot happen. What do you think I'm missing here? Can you be any more specific than just vaguely saying I'm missing some nuance?
Make the video please, I’d love to get your take.
I'd venture a guess it has less to do with the characteristics that result from horse ownership than it does history and class structure.
Pfffft. While you’re hunting down drivers to patch together your little desktop kit, I’m playing AAA games that you can’t even get. I’m using first-rate software that you can’t get. And my OS is actually supported by a commercial entity, unlike yours.
Open source wealth management platform
Ah! Duh on me then, I'd not even considered the targeting possibilities. That makes a lot more sense and would make even a limited budget go a lot further. Adwords at least will let you go as granular city-by-city, and I'd guess Facebook will do the same.
Either everyone contributes and cares or no one does? I can't deal with hyperbole.

Everyone has a job to do, and I'm sure that some sort of a bug tracker is attainable for everyone by now, it's not a company DNA thing, you allocate enough resources to something then you can adequately support it.
I think it wise to not automatically conflate laziness or the lack of desire to compete with non-males with unemployment or underemployment.
> I should be able to define a simple relational schema in 30 seconds and start using it with effectively zero constraints around data access patterns, transaction volume, and data scale, and with no design decisions needing to be made around these bits of incidental complexity

Oh, this also is something that need a better way!

RDBMS are too coupled. I remember to ask if I can ditch the SQL parsing of sqlite and call directly the storage (so I can put my own query engine on top) and that was like if I'm nuts!.

I think is possible to build a RDBMS that is semi-plugable. To make things as swap parts of the engine on "user land". If someone for example wanna create a new kind of index is must be as easy as write:

fun CoolIndex.get(key) -> Value

and plug it into the engine just fine. I think do something like flask/django-esque framework where is possible to have custom fields, validations, middlewares, etc on top of a core storage layer and a default implementation.

So, instead of go with redis or something else I could build my "redis-like" api INSIDE the engine and get the advantages of locality, integrity, etc.

ie: See a RDBMS as an API Backend.

This could be model (instead of MVC in common web frameworks) as CQRS or something similar.
This isn't about an APT hacking a server. This is about speech which does not rise to the level of a crime under the 1st Amendment. If we are to take your argument for what it is saying, the 1st Amendment does not apply to say Mexicans living in the U.S.
It's frequently a licensing issue and then also a resources issue.

There's relatively generalized tools for diffing data against OSM and outputting a change file, but lots of data is released using ambiguous or slightly incompatible licensing.

One example is http://blog.improve-osm.org/en/2018/01/new-features-and-enha...
Is It ‘Natural’? Consumers, and Lawyers, Want to Know
Chuckled at this part of the indictment [1]:

"Defendants and their co-conspirtors thereafter destroyed evidence for the purpose of impeding the investigation. On or about September 13, 2017, KAVERZINA wrote in an email to a family member: 'We had a slight crisis here at work: the FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with colleagues.' KAVERZINA further wrote, "I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people."

Guess they skimped on opsec training?

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380463-Internet-Res... via Axios [a], page 24

[a] https://www.axios.com/mueller-indicts-13-russian-nationals-f...
I've gone with a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway.

It's not too fancy (but getting fancier as updates are delivered) and does the job well. I wasn't satisfied with the VPN options, so I port-forward to an internal host and set up static routes as required.
How will Barca be a good team this year with Dembele?
Display flexibility: I can pick a rendering that works best for what I want (e.g. optimized for high contrast or print, prioritizing/de-prioritizing specific types of paths, or public transport). If you consider derived maps, there is even more choice, e.g. I can get a topographic map based on it.

Usefulness while on foot. In well-mapped areas, OpenStreetMap has every little footpath between buildings, through parks and forests, ..., with information if it is publicly accessible or not. Google Maps is missing tons of them.

Offline functionality. (Google could change this, but I somehow don't see them allowing to download entire countries at once)
Falling Transit Ridership: CA and Southern California [pdf]
Also to add onto this,

- they stole US citizens identities

- incited protests and staged rallies intended to sow discord
Aren't you just saying that free plus convenient beat out convenient?
I did know that. They are merging to an extent but Waze today is still better.
You got downvoted, but yeah - I do think that's part of the plan. To sow confusion and distrust. An article on NPR talked about how russian bots were playing both sides of the gun control question in the last few days. If the goal is just to destabilize US politics, then consistency is no virtue.
Actually, easiest step: completely ignore this, just like I would any random law from some international bureaucracy that has no jurisdiction over me.
i realize the entire speech is a troll, but it successfully made me very angry. i'm not a physicist, and have no interest in physics, yet I do need mathematics.

so it's always been irritating to me how much introductory or "applied" texts bias themselves towards physics and engineering. like how a lot of multivariate calculus/introductory real analysis texts pretty much limit themselves exclusively to three dimensions and teach notation to match.

it even plagues more advanced books; i'm struggling through Villani's text on optimal transport and nearly every example is from physics even though the theory was developed for economics and has extremely broad applications across many disciplines. half of the "motivating examples" i can't even make sense of what they're talking about.

as much as I struggle with the hyper-abstract bourbaki-style stuff, at least I have a hope of understanding it without needing to dip into an irrelevant discipline where i have no background or historical context.
I do. But right now Waze still offers the better experience between the two apps.