skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love it if someone tackled the auctions market better. Ebay continues to focus more on being a marketplace, and promoting buy it nows. A real auction house should extend the time limit as long as people are putting in bids.
> did the slums exist before the highways and freeways that divide them from the wealthy whites?

You mean Oakland and Vallejo? Yeah that stuff has been there before the start of SV. See MC Hammer and Too Short for references to past gang activity in Oakland.
Tinder has changed everything here. Top grossing app last year. Real genius is not the swipe interface it’s the double opt-in that solves a lot of the signal v noise problem on old time dating sites like okcupid, match, etc.
Fix news? it was enough to keep writing stories about how the president met with someone and they each said conventional things written in advance by their staffs

Yeah, we now recognize that as propaganda. Maybe the web is finally helping people wake up to the fact that news was never really working.
When is the ICO?

No, I'm not kidding. Look at Telegram. Who would've thought an open source project would ever get close to a billion dollars in funding?

I don't want Signal to wither away or forever remain a niche chat application because of lack of funding, especially if Moxie one day decides he wants to pursue some other dreams of his and doesn't have time to deal with Signal anymore.
Silicon Valley has invented the jitney/marshrutka, just a little bit over a century after everyone else did. Well...congratulations?
Claiming that last week's school shooting was a false flag operation isn't a conservative stance; it is a lunatic stance. I know conservatives, and I even have conservative positions on a number of topics. I don't know a single serious conservative who thinks it is acceptable to slander recently murdered children.
There are a ton of people researching cancer and fighting for cures, and doing so solely because they have lost loved ones or are passionate about the science

But that is not enough. Cancer is quite a formidable foe. one researcher in a lab can only do so much.
as you say, science is collaborative. but getting medicines approved requires more than just government or philanthropic funding. it requires collaboaration with for-profit entities: venture funding, and big pharma r&d budgets. that money requires profitability. and in business, speed matters. competition can be very healthy in regards to pushing researchers to the next level

oncology is one of the most funded areas of research not just because it impacts a lot of people. it is also one of the most profitable. fda incentives reduce the cost of drug development, and drug developers can charge high prices because they are creating a lot of clinical value. this is perhaps a cynical viewpoint, but if you look at the leading causes of death in the US, and the diseases with the most VC / pharma funding, only cancer is in both groups

as further evidence of the importance of profits in funding decisions: cancer consistently ranks in the top two disease areas in terms of VC and pharma investment. it receives about double the next fields (infectious disease) in terms of pharma investment, VC investment and FDA approvals

however, cancer funding is in third place in terms of NIH funding, with roughly 1/3 the funding of neuro / neuropsych disease and less funding than infectious disease. cancer is well funded largely because of profit motives, and profit-driven groups are the ones that get cancer drugs out of the lab and to patients. not ideal, but thats the status quo

http://newbio.tech/blog/vc_basics_1.html
Honestly, I like the anonymity. The random celebrity like patio11 is nice as they usually drop knowledge bombs,but otherwise, I feel like we're all the same, working on our projects. If anything, HN makes me feel like anyone can do anything because that's what startups are about.

When this anonymity slightly fades, the idea of a meritocracy fades with it. I know I could make more money working on the west coast. I know the work I'm doing isn't sexy. But my project is fucking interesting and on HN that's all that matters.
It is buzz-word central for sure. However, there is a nugget of truth in there: China is currently winning handily in the quantum teleportation race. They have been setting all kinds of records for teleporting photons to satellites. Quantum encryption is different from general purpose quantum computing. It relies on teleporting photons to communicate and it is unhackable—if someone tries to eavesdrop on a quantum encrypted communication, then the people communicating can immediately tell that this has happened. So on this one China really does seem to be ahead and the applications are not so fantastical.
What/who are you arguing against?
Yeah, it was a tough call tbh. The thing is that most other apps slide into dating territory because that's where the money is. And it ends up ruining the experience for everyone who's not there to find a mate. Wrote up a longer post on the reasoning here [1]. It's definitely in the roadmap, we're just two guys working on this, so it'll take a bit of time to manage that transition carefully.

[1] https://www.we3app.com/why-tribes-same-gender/
The History of .NET – NDC London 2018
The problem you're having is not with education itself. But with education AFFORDABILITY.

Music and Archaeology would be incredible majors if the students didn't have to go into debt.

Education, university, and all of the social connections, experiences and knowledge gained are wonderful for a kid in their early 20s and really makes for a well rounded person and betters society by making people good educated citizens.

However the affordability is an issue. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What’s so special about this post? There are tons of ML tutorials online! Why was it upvoted to front page?
What does it mean to use the probability density function of the gaussian distribution as a "probability"?

the probability of any x value in a continuous range is infinitely small. Is it really using the probability of a value "as extreme or more" as x?
The following is just my opinion: Marx certainly used logic to reach his conclusions about the sunset of capitalism in advanced societies, and the dawn of a communal society in which abundant resources remove incentive for competition. He was very explicit about this being a "natural" progression, far removed from the ideological regimes past-and-present which impose the system by force.

My problem with Marx isn't the conclusions he draws, it's more about the factors which he excludes that lead him to those very conclusions. That's another way of saying that it's not his answers that I have a problem with (like I said, he's being logical), it's a matter of the question itself being fundamentally flawed.

My interpretation is that he did not fully account for the nature of humankind: the will to power; the drive to improve your position in life; the need to nurture and manifest one's unique abilities in this world, which leads to massive satisfaction (and a nice dopamine hit!).

I think that those properties exist within us all, to a degree, and can lead us towards doing good and bad, depending on how they are integrated into our personality and value-systems. One employee might earn a well-deserved promotion after toiling hard for his boss and colleagues, and enjoy the swell of pride in his work and himself. Another may scheme and politick his way to the same promotion, feeling a similar sense of satisfaction that could be described as the "ugly twin" of the other aforementioned employee.

The question I ask myself is this: which of the two hypothetical persons mentioned above does a centrally-planned communist system facilitate and reward, in a society without massive abundance of resources? The first employee's innovation and superior work, his "ability", would have no effect on his "need", so there is no justification for rewarding him, and his family, monetarily under the value system. The second person would have more options to improve their station, wether by artificially increasing their perceived "need", or climbing the power-structure of a government which has exclusive control over distribution. In fact, I believe the system itself would force the former to behave like the latter out of sheer necessity, or risk perishing.
#13: "One route would be to start with test prep services, for which there's already demand, and then expand into teaching kids more than just how to score high on tests."

This is what we're trying :-)

Especially the paragraph:
Twitter bot purge prompts backlash
> 1. College costs have been outstripping inflation for decades.

At least for public universities, the rise in costs can be largely attributed to the collapse of state support:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...
I have no idea. The patch is less than a dozen lines. It sat from June 2011 to March 2014 with no action. There was a claim it couldn't go into 2.7 because it was an API change (even though it was backwards compatible), but that doesn't explain why it didn't go into 3.3.

Some minor feedback (that didn't seem to be a blocker in the first place) was addressed in March 2014 and there it's sat.

A new patch then came in in April 2016 which has been completely ignored.

I guess my answer is: "there seems to be a lot of friction getting a patch into Python and without a strong advocate, patches sometimes die." I will note that the issue has been classified as an enhancement, not a bug, so maybe that has something to do with it.

It still seems like a huge waste of time though.
Artificial intelligence and national security
So go start a site that guarantees free expression of "science-backed" arguments. Again: see what it becomes. Your right to science-backed arguments will be unimpeded.
I believe this is correct.

I'm not sure how IPFS addresses this, but one method is to have an oracle that reports DMCA takedowns. Nodes can achieve takedown compliance by subscribing to the blacklist.

Obviously there are lots of technical challenges. Just a few:

- Who gets to add entries to the blacklist?
- How do infringement victims know that's the right person to contact?
- How do you avoid creating a central point of failure? (at minimum nodes need ability to choose their blacklist provider)
- Since it's all content-addressed, how do you handle near duplicates? e.g. same movie encoded in different formats (basically have to punt on this one unless you implement some kind of contentID, which is a whole other problem)

Anyway, you need to have some figleaf policy so people have a clear way to opt-in to compliance.

I would be completely skeptical of this approach except that it appears to work for adblockers. Extensions like uBlock Origin let users choose from a several third-party blacklists, with sensible defaults. Of course, there are fewer ad servers than pirate movie copies...
We should stop spending so much money on defense as a world, and more on health, beneficial applications of scientific progress, and improving global well-being... Arms races are stupid and a waste of human talent.

/rant
It all comes down to how you propose going about achieving that.

As long as people have bank accounts and can accumulate wealth, there will be a small percentage of people with savings and large percentage of people without. You can take money from people who have and give it to people who don’t, and we do quite a lot of that already.

As long as there are private schools which you can pay to send your children, and tutors your can hire to help them learn, and housekeepers you can hire to have more time to spend working or with family.... then those people who got high paying jobs and worked hard and saved money will be able to give their children a significant advantage in the world, in theory leading to higher functioning, higher achieving offspring.

When you consider that the top 1% of taxpayers pay more than the bottom 90% combined, I think that’s far from this “knives out” picture you are painting. The top 1% very literally have their wallets out to pay it forward.
This is 100% correct. My wife got a notification from the IRS that someone else has been using her identity. Therefore, get this, IRS had issued both of them two separate secure PIN numbers which they have to use to file their taxes. IRS is refusing to deal with the fact that one of the "tax payers" is committing both identify theft and tax fraud. It is pretty funny, actually. This has been going on for 8 years by now.
I'm atrocious at time scoping. I view the time to get to a place to be the time on a vehicle in the best case, for instance. I ignore elevators, parking, traffic/transit delays, all of it. In particular the almost inevitable time spent searching for all my things to get out the door.

Getting ready in the morning is a particular challenge because it varies tremendously. Some days I might fuss around with my outfit and makeup for an hour, other days I can get out the door in 15 minutes.

It's not just the time I "feel like" spending, it's time looking for things, time getting distracted... and time just badly planned (I think I am so early, when I'm not, because I plan these things badly).
Fair, but still, it does not "casts doubt on the whole rest of the post".
Neither a unipolar world or a multipolar world is inherently more or less peaceful. Peace comes when you get used to living in a certain world and accept your position. Conflict happens in transitions to such acceptance.
Yes, it is, but Filecoin is not live (yet).
Yeah. Going to be replacing that soon. Thought it would be a good way to kill two birds with one stone: have an explainer video that was also worthy of press coverage. And it kinda worked, but it made some important people distance themselves because of the politics. Thanks for the note.
No, they just won't care.

I was on a non-software forum last week where a dev was gathering pain-point information because he intended to produce software for that niche. The main feedback I remember was "just let me buy it. No f'ing subscriptions."
In an internet full of advice that's provided by people with no experience, I find it very difficult to trust a source of information.

Since you seem to know about this, perhaps you can suggest where to learn about building and utilizing email lists to build niche businesses. TIA.
And in their case, makes it harder to remember their website address.
I meant their own people. People under their rule.
> Less correlation between between your parent's wealth and your wealth is mobility

That's absolutely true, if we're talking about individual mobility, but I was commenting on the idea of intergenerational mobility as mentioned in the parent and also in other places in this thread.

If your parent's economic position is irrelevant to your own, then every generation effectively 'resets' and there is not intergenerational mobility, which I took to mean as the gradual economic mobility of a family over multiple generations.

> A society where your parent's economic position grants a large advantage on you and your potential is inherently less mobile

While there is very likely a correlation here, most economists agree that economics in society is not a zero-sum game and thus one person's advantage as a result of their parents won't necessitate another's disadvantage to an equal degree. It's not a direct correlation; and that's before we factor in the increased motivation to innovate for your children's futures that come with an economic inheritance system, so on and so forth.
No, but they will have unscheduled and unannounced visits to the mines to ensure that the workers there are not children. Unless the mining company somehow has a mole working inside the company, it'll be hard to react that quickly to a surprise visit. That's what they do with their other suppliers that they have direct connections to. They're attempting the same with Foxconn and, supposedly, it's improved the conditions for those workers significantly.
There’s a difference between early adopter types who you might already know and the wider market. “Launching” means making your thing available to the second group, not the first—but the first group is the group you should be trying to please first.

If you think like a customer, then the launch and the first-time-customers-use-the-product are the same thing. But if you’ve got your PM hat on, the launch is the END of a long process of learning, building, shipping, validating with a smaller group that’s representative of the wider market.
Defending Taiwan (and Japan) is one area where the US would do exceptionally well in any war. They have no rival on the sea (which is why they are continuously able to conduct their 'freedom of navigation' exercises right on Chinas door step).

Conversely, any land war in North Korea I feel would end disastrously for them - as it arguably did the first time around.
Ummm Purescript compiles to JS and shares the same runtimes. Both languages have support from popular text editors, and their libraries are compatible and rely on shared access to the common JS ecosystem. In what way is it an apples-to-oranges comparison?
The problem is, workspaces are all trending to cater to you.
FYI those articles are super old, one is from 2009.

The landscape's changed quite a bit in the last few years.
please enlighten us on how music is less relevant than it was in 2008
Darwin’s Polar Bear
Could you elaborate more details on your country, what the US has done, and how China and Russia have been more helpful?
it is a rabbit hole built by r/c diggers and r/c automated commercial trucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds334IrIRL8
Not really. We do completely different things, so I think we're in the clear. The USPTO gave us the trademark protection, too. :)
I do not disagree with your sentiment. Yet most of America has closer cultural ties to Europe than the America's. Also the economies of Europe are much more robust and well run compared to those in Central and South America.
That was hundreds of years ago when the world was a very different place. In a post WWII, post UN world, the standards for behavior for nation states are very, very different.

The point I'm trying to make is the world has largely moved beyond that, but China still thinks it's ok to steal territory from it's neighbors.

If the situation were reversed and Chinese vessels were patrolling in international waters in the Caribbean to dissuade the US from taking territory from it's neighbors there, I'd be cheering them on.

That's not to say the USA doesn't do their fair share of despicable or hypocritical things, but by and large they have been a much better steward of power than China. I think the world will come to miss those days of American leadership in this century.
The US is currently trying to start WWIII with Russia, the damage for this is yet to play out.

The US installed a CIA backed dictator in Panama. When he stopped playing ball the US decided to use Panama as a cheap testing ground for their new weapons. Panamanians are mainly thankful for the canal and the fact they're not Columbian.

Panama is great because it's a drug money laundering tax haven that's protected from serious international retribution by a ruling jewish elite. Which is why I live in Panama.
>What are metal button covers? I can't picture it

Basically once upon a time "luxury" buttons were either of precious materials (like solid, real gold) or sporting a precious stone or an enameled surface/design and those owning dresses with these buttons could afford to have them removed (and later re-sawn) when washing the dress was needed, as there was the possibility that they became damaged.

Using more common metals (like brass or similar) poses another possible risks during washing, the fabric could result stained by some reaction of the soap/chemicals involved with the metal.

Metal button covers are thin covers that you can put over a normal (usually plastic) button to give them a particular "look", and they can simply be removed when washing is needed.

An example:

https://img.etsystatic.com/il/94fdb4/756126385/il_570xN.7561...
this is some serious amateur-hour stuff on the part of the registrar. another example of why not to use random ccTLD top level domains. nobody remember when the .ly registry randomly canceled things they didn't like? when .cx canceled things they found objectionable?

see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12813065

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/io_hijacking_in_tra...

At least if you use .ca, .de, .us or .com/.net (or similar) you can have reasonable confidence that the root zone won't fail entirely.

If something goes catastrophically wrong and kills your business that is run by a .CA domain, CIRA knows that businesses in Canada have access to legal recourses... Do you have the same with a .ly domain?
I honestly don't see what's "duct-tape" about suggesting that, being our organization, we'd get to decide how it's shaped.
This is very weird Haskell. The fizz buzz example concatenating strings where an alternative would fit and the pointful point free example for instance.
look at VHDL or Verilog programming for FPGAs. Its effectively exactly what you're talking about.
I understand part of the scalability concern being about the physical network capabilities ("Today's networking ecosystem evolved for the client-server model, what kind of problems could this create for switching to peer-to-peer model...") as opposed to the scalability of the IPFS protocol and node implementations.
This touches on something I've been thinking about but don't have a word to look into further; maybe someone can help me out.

I would think that the productivity of a worker (as defined here) would put an upper bound on wages, but not that wages would necessarily rise to that. That would depend on supply and demand of labor.

The concept I've been toying with is this: suppose there are 100 software jobs and 90 software developers. In that regime, the wages will rise to the value created by the software developers, since there will be a bidding war among the companies that need them, and they'll be willing to pay up to what the developer is worth to them. On the other hand, suppose there are 100 software jobs and 110 software developers. Now the wages will fall to the minimum amount the developers will take, based on cost of living or switching careers or whatever, since companies will now offer as little as they can get away with.

IOW, I think that there are two discontinuous "wage regimes" depending on if there are more workers than jobs, or more jobs than workers. Is there a term or concept for this that I can read about more?
Poor animals don't fare as well in nature either. Monkeys who have a fig tree will do better than the monkeys who are forced to scavenge. They will defend their tree, because they recognize the value of the resource. They will likely defend it successfully, because they are well fed.

Wealth is a positive feedback loop. There's really no controversy in that either. "The rich get richer"
The Chicago School of Economics.
Must You Obey Government?
You need to have a base to operate air power from. I.E. Aircraft carriers. China at full speed will take 20 years to rival the projection of power of the current US Military. What is the motive of having the economist writer miss key facts that underpin the argument?
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