skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally love R and think it is superior to Python for about 90% of data science related tasks.
In the near future I will be in a project that generates sensor data in PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB and/or InfluxDB which I'd like to open to the public.

Any recommendation on how to make time series data available via Dat or IPFS is highly appreciated.

There will be base data of different systems and experiment data from experiments running in those environments. So far I have no concrete idea on how to segmentize and make available the data in a sensible way.
I think that the only reliable way to verify that a user is a real person would be to coordinate this work with government. Kazakhstan allows for each citizen to get a signed digital certificate to use it for government websites, but it's possible to use it everywhere, it's a plain X.509 RSA certificate signed by a special certificate authority. I'm aware that there are many countries doing exactly the same thing. So many people already have certificates to verify their identity and they have an incentive to keep those certificates secure. It should be possible to build an analog of "realpeople.io" using those certificates (or directly use certificates for authentication).
Yeah. I feel pretty lonely here... :'(
Antitrust enforcement, which enjoyed broad support on both the right and left in the early decades of the 20th century, prevented firms with greater market power from acquiring or driving out of business smaller manufacturers, retailers, service providers, and banks. This was designed to ensure a relatively broad distribution of economic activity outside of big urban centers and preserve a direct connection with, and responsiveness to, the members of the communities served by those local factories and firms.
A key difference now compared to the early days of XML and RSS is there weren't great libraries out there to handle the processing, both output and input. Many people were rolling their own. That definitely wasn't great. It was similar to using JavaScript prior to the widespread adoption of JQuery. However, that's not the case anymore. I think there are possibly a lot of benefits to recommend jsonfeed over RSS (or, a better solution, in my opinion, Atom), but you can build yourself a bit of a straw man by ascribing the problems of early XML usage with the situation today.
Quite stable, in my experience. The main "problem" is that local communities are necessarily less active than the entire world. Facebook/Twitter actively work to make sure your feed is chock full of amazing things every time you log in. Your local community Diaspora* feels quiet even if the people you want to interact with are reasonably active.

Setting expectations is key.
Wow, that seems very loud indeed.
Hole punching is ineadequate for routers with address-dependent NAT mappings or with DS-Lite/CGNAT. With UPnP-IGD or NAT-PCP/PMP the CPE can forward the port mappings to the AFTR/CGN.
I'm not quite sure about English, but in Dutch, for single lego pieces we use the equivalent of "lego piece", or just "piece" when the context is clear, which pluralizes normally. If you say "I'm going to play with lego", the word "lego" is used in a more general, abstract sense, which has no plural at all.
The reason for that is a rapid increase of orders as shown in their last report [0], as well as only 15" laptops are not shipped in full.

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/librem-laptop-orders-now-shipping-with...
The web reduces the cost of information transfer to pretty much zero so anyone can publish, with no gatekeepers (of old).

Scale matters. Information inequality was inevitable.

Free trade led to growing concentrations of economic power and rising economic inequality. We also have information inequality to go with it, and because information transfer is much lower cost than trade, information inequality will be much higher and power more concentrated (social media stocks should thus be valued higher than companies which make real things)

Not sure the article understands that inequality is inherent in the structure of the web.

If you wanted to reduce inequaliy there are two options:
1. redistribution
2. raising the 'transaction' costs

In economics we know what those look like:

1. progressive taxation and a welfare state
2. legislation to raise environmental standards, increase minimum wages, etc.

What's the equivalent of a social welfare state and higher minimum wage when it comes to information?

Another way of looking at this is in terms of externalities: free social media generates both positive (connecting with old friends) and negative externalities (fake news, election mischief, etc).

One way of internalising both would be for Facbook to charge users. That is never going to happen. Carbon credits and the like make polluters internalise the costs that society would otherwise incur. So, what kind of legislation (and it will have to be legislation) would get social media companies to be pay for the negative externalities?
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Because there aren't avatars and signatures. Those are essential to recognize users and also find out what they're about (signatures with links to other sites helped everyone). Also even a little personalization will be an incentive to invest a little more time in the community.
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If you ever hang out with some actual alcoholics, you'll see how ludicrous that statement looks fairly quickly.

Many of them report regularly consuming over 30 drinks a day. There is a huge spectrum.

I've been mulling this study over since it hit the news a few days ago, and I haven't dug into the actual paper enough yet, but I'm wondering if they adequately controlled for under-reporting. A lot of people who say "one drink a day" really mean "3 or more drinks a day" and are either too ashamed or too self-deluded to be able to admit it-- whereas I suspect most people who say "less than one drink a day" are being more accurate because they can actually remember multiple 24-hour periods when they didn't drink (unlike a drinker who has or is developing a problem).

Source: Have alcoholic tendencies myself, recently brought it down to 4-6 drinks a day but getting it lower is proving very difficult.
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The way you're addressing this site is confusing, you're talking as if your username isn't "realpeopleio" - are you affiliated with the site or just registered under a confusing username?

I apologise for asking this rather than any actual followup questions but it's got me proper distracted
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I have not heard of the exploratory tools. I look forward to checking them out, thanks for the heads up.
Costco's lack of "in this aisle" placards at the ends of the aisles is where I think they step over the line from "efficiency" to "deliberate confusion".
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I personally see the biggest problem with FB (and others) is their continuing focus of making their platform as addictive as possible. While I agree that people will likely always be addicted to something, we've gone after the tobacco industry already and are starting to hold the food industry more responsible. For gambling, every advertisement comes with a warning and free resources about how to stop that MUST be funded by the people making the money. I think that is the thing that we should be making these social platforms fund, resources to help break the chase of the constant need for dopamine via likes.
A spreadsheet doesn't offer you a linear story that you can read. It's a strange amalgamation of computation and program.
There is nothing wrong with Facebook. Its a legitimate use of the web.

We just need to tweak the advertising model to disable micro targeting by both advertisers and platforms. Google is a far worse offender here. This will kill the incentives for surveillance and stalking at source.
Bloody useless for ~90% of the current web though.
What I miss in the article is tax. Yes, "Much as we may complain about Facebook, selecting relevant content from an ocean of random sites is an important service". Same with google, they do a terrific job with providing YouTube and the Search infrastructure.

But YouTube, Facebook, Google destroy (a.o.) the 'normal media' as they oligopolize advertising. They hinder progress/competition as they cross-subside their ventures with ad-money.

The simplest solution imho would be to tax advertising strongly. This could be done independently by countries. E.g. every single advert in Germany would bear a tax of 30 - 70 %. This gives a country the power (and money) to steer in directions which benefit the country as a whole, i.e. support traditional media, public broadcaster, culture.

Concentrated advertising money is dangerous. It should be regulated. The same approach is being done with e.g. cigarettes and gas. Tax is here to contain an unwanted action (smoking) or to build infrastructure (roads). Couldn't the same approach be taken for the internet?
Because "The person you hire into your business to be the crazy mad scientist in the corner who helps with decision making, business development, analysis, and occasionally reporting" is to long for most standard business cards and even most respectable email signatures.
Sounds a bit like Gopher. Which didn't really catch on.
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If you sell right when it vests there's a negligible capital gain (or loss). The value of the RSUs are taxed at regular income when they vest. Any difference between that value and the value when you sell them is a capital gain (or loss) and that is what's subject to capital gain taxes. i.e. if you sell once they vest the capital gain/loss is essentially zero (because the stock hasn't had time to move much)

e.g. if your RSUs are valued at $1000 when they vest and you sell it a few minutes later and the value is now $1005 you'll pay regular income taxes on $1000 and have a $5 capital gain (i.e. when you file your taxes the cost basis for the holding are $1000, not $0)
Neither Bear, Lehman nor Goldman 'make' loans. They created CDOs,CDSs,MBSs and sold them to other credited investors.
I opened your second link. The first issue is the classic floating point numbers have rounding errors problem, which as far as I know, every system suffers from. That isn't just an excel problem.
Agreed 1000%. Everyone wants unlimited high quality content that is also free but no ads and conditional privacy and "true" information and ... and ... and ...
It wouldn't be hard to find a dozen different software packages called Cosmos. It's a fairly obvious name that basically cannot be claimed exclusively. It's at least also a web hosting management interface, and something that "provides an API for the orderly, harmonious, and complete management of DC/OS service packages".
It seemed to me that the OP was making a distinctly different suggestion: the real challenge is offering a better UX.

Emerging distributed tech won't fix a UX problem just because it happens to be technologically sophisticated (he calls out TOR, but I think he is making a general comment here).

Instead, he asks, why not spend some effort giving older tech like RSS a better UX?

I'm inclined to agree, but on the other hand it seems like the marketplace of ideas speaks for itself and we should be keeping our eyes on the future.
VS Code even includes native code (ripgrep written in Rust), so I'm not sure if it should count.

And in my experience Microsoft Office is still used more than Google Docs for non professional users, but YMMV.

Hangouts is also way behind natives apps like WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram in market share.
The context of that quote had nothing to do with what this article is about.
I definitely count myself as one of those gamers who hasn't moved off 7 yet for my gaming and music production. On a machine like that, windows is just a layer between the game and the hardware and the less other stuff, the better. 8 and 10 have little value add for someone who just wants program compatibility-7 was plenty stable.
Klar/Focus is a completely different thing from normal Firefox, it's a Webview wrapper with very limited feature set (no tabs, no sync, no bookmarks, no extensions, etc).
I'd like to see more variable brake lights to go with this:

i.e. a strip of light across the rear of the vehicle, that progressively lights up according to how hard the vehicle is braking (or anticipates braking, if it's autonomous).

Some cars have a flash-brake-lights-under-heavy-braking, but I think it would help traffic flow if you can more easily distinguish a touch of the brakes from a press of the brakes.
Yes I am affiliated. I'm arguing why we built RealPeople.io and RealPerson.io to solve the problems listed in the article. I don't think I've tried to hide that.
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Yeah, fine - that's a simplification. They bought third parties' loan books and securitised them. But it was that flow of money that encouraged the bad lending practices. If you know you can make a crappy loan and sell it on to Goldman for a profit, you'll make the loan.
I had the good? fortune of programming in A+ (a derivative of APL) at Morgan Stanley in the mid 90s. Not sure if it is used there anymore. For someone coming from a background in object-oriented languages like C++ and Java (only just introduced in 1995,) A+ was utterly alien and incredibly powerful. A single line could accomplish stuff that would take 50-100 lines of C++. But that single line looked like Egyptian hieroglyphics! To even read or write code in A+ required a special font addition to XEmacs to work as the glyphs would not render in any other font. I never fully understood the art of programming in A+ in the year or so I had to work on the product that was written it it, but I was amazed at the things the experts in my team could achieve with it.
How about assembling a complete kit car, like K1 Attack?
Ask HN: Spotify session take over?
Today I have such situation:

1. Listening to Spotify on the desktop in the app

2. Suddenly my music stops, and I see it's streamed on some different device - unknown for me.

A guy sitting next to me in the office has the same thing with his Spotify account. We are both family accounts owners. We both change passwords and logged out all devices. It didn't occur again yet.

Does anyone have a similar situation?

Btw. the worst thing in this whole situation is that person was listening to really not my kind of music :-)
That's really great, but I did that protocol strictly for 3 years straight and it never worked for me. (I continued it because it had a good effect on my sinuses, but not my lymphocytic colitis).
Which works great, until ISPs start offering subsidized plans for Facebook, Gmail, Spotify, Twitter, and expensive plans for everything else. When that happens, there is very little economic incentive to have smaller websites, smaller e-commerce websites end up being part of Amazon, and Google starts providing more and more of its own content.
agreed. The incentives of the business model need to align with the goals of protecting privacy and keeping fake accounts to a minimum.
I ran a distributed team for the better part of three years. I think all of this advice is right on the mark.

The one thing I would say is that everyone worked the clients hours, for the most part, with at least a 4 hour overlap. That meant that I would often find myself checking and answering chat messages around the clock because a single question could easily lead to a 24 hour delay. I would do my best to clear whatever roadblocks came up as soon as they did to avoid this. I also think we all became better at thinking through the work we had scheduled since it meant we would identify the issues upfront when possible.

The last bit about having fun was the most rewarding for me. I made a few good friends and we spent a lot of time laughing over Skype as we faced down the pressures of software delivery.
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ServiceNow doesn’t have a dividend, your other examples do. They are different types of investment, growth vs. value.
I think most websites can be generated statically. But yes, it does mean a lot of the existing patterns used on the current web needs to be redesigned for it. Again, this is all very new so there's a lot that needs to be worked out.

I can give an example of non-static data (though what is static vs dynamic can be a grey area):

SPAs work great with Beaker/Dat since users can download the app and use it offline. The data can be any Dat archive. So for a social network, each user can have their own Dat archives of images and posts. The root site can hold an index of each user and download individual files from their Dat and display them using client-side routing. In this scenario, each user has their own database as a Dat which is indexed by a parent Dat website.

Demo, a Twitter clone: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/fritter

Also, at the end of the day, they are still websites. So you can still use a central HTTP server to:

- Serve your data directly

- Provide an API to edit your Dat archive instead of distributing it into multiple user-owned archives.

It also means you don't need to migrate a website to a completely different paradigm in one big bang.
The little guy spreading ideas is not as easy as it was, though. If the search engines don't index your site, if Youtube removes the informative videos you made, if FB and Instagram are filtering you out, who is going to see it?

No, the Web has been weaponized by a collusion between corporations and government in order to press as hard as they can for censorship and thought control. Because at the end of the day, if people realized they didn't need big government or big corporations, where would that leave all these billionaires with their revolving doors in and out of publicly appointed power roles?

I honestly get depressed when I think about the dream of open government and more widespread knowledge that was supposed to come about with all this technology working for the little guy. Well, some of it came true, but as soon as it became a threat to the orthodoxy, they found a way to shut it down. And now the baseline model for all these companies is China. Google would be happy to censor Americans in the same way they censor content for the Chinese Communists. One policy for the whole world, and it's not a policy of freedom and openness, but one of oppression, as usual.
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Because then it wouldn't be "you get $0", but "you pay $9".
Bought a house in 2007 in Colorado Springs and had to move out of state in 2012 for work - the crash meant I was underwater on my mortgage, but not by much.

So, I decided to hire a property manager (Lesson 1: Never be a landlord if you're not going to be present to manage the property yourself - PMs take their 10% cut of the rent and do absolutely nothing in return) to rent the place out and sell in a few years after the market had recovered - which didn't happen in Colorado Springs until recently.

Last summer I gave my tenant her 60 day notice, found a listing agent, and my wife flew out to Colorado Springs to help prep the house for sale...

Turns out the tenant had totally trashed the place. In fact, she had been operating a rabbit breeding operation in the house (there were rabbit cages stacked floor-to-ceiling in some places, and a large outdoor hutch had been constructed in the back yard). Carpets ruined, feces smeared on walls, and a general unholy smell throughout the entire house. Hell, large amounts of rabbit bedding and feces had been dumped into the crawlspace.

This is the tenant I had cut a lot of slack to over the years with late payments, etc (Lesson 2: Never cut a tenant any slack - if you do they'll walk all over you).

What should have easily been a $40k profit (had the house sold at market rate) turned into a $5k loss (at least I didn't end up owing any capital gain tax, pfft). I will burn a house to the ground before I become a landlord ever again.

Also, Zillow keeps sending me updates on the property value (which magically keeps going up), despite my attempts to make it stop (I don't want to know, really) :(
Also wanted to link up this interesting podcast with Thomas Graziani, founder and CEO of WalktheChat:

https://technode.com/2018/04/16/china-tech-talk-42-pinduoduo...

Smart discussion of Pinduoduo. The fastest growing app (social commerce with viral incentives) in the history of the Chinese internet.
As someone who actually has audio content posted on SoundCloud, this line gives me pause for thought:

> We will create a Python script which will allow us to download even those songs which are not enabled for downloading.

What is the possible reason for making this achievable? For his next trick, will he post how to download any app from the Apple App Store for free too?

Do programmers only consider their own code sacrosanct, but anyone else's creative output free game?

Note: I make most of my content on SC downloadable anyway because I don't make money from my music, but the principle is still the same - I want the right to control whether my creative output can or cannot be downloaded.
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> Not to the same degree, Linux still has some blobs to run on modern computers but nowhere near as much as Android.

Uhh, come again? Android driver blobs are for the Linux kernel that Android uses, and OEMs don't bother mainlining their drivers so Linux is no better than Android, by definition.

> The Gapps used to be open-source at the beginning

This is flat-out wrong. GApps were never part of AOSP- or open-source.AOSP included alternative open source apps that offered similar functionality (like a mail client)

> AOSP isn't struggling, it's just there's no open-source movement.

Lots of projects are based off AOSP- it's not obvious because they have names like CyanogenMod, LineageOS or Copperhead. There is in fact, a vibrant open-source movement.
Yes there is something fundamentally limiting with GUIs that I struggle with trying to express in a comperhensive way to people.

You see with almost any task. I see it when working with IDEs e.g. You got complex project management and there is always something you need to do which the designers of the IDE never had in mind.

However GUIs make a lot of things easier to do, so I think the ultimate solution is always something that allows you to mix and match GUI and programming/plain text solutions.

I think the problem today is that we make these GUI behemoth tools, when it would have been better with a collection of much smaller tools with more dedicated usage.
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yeah, wholeheartedly agreed.

and it is also sometimes the peoples fault when they forget civility and humility in discussions and behave like a$$holes.

othertimes sane and healthy online communities fail to defend themselves against those and against more sneaky trolls.

on top of that communication manners seem to degrade more and more with social media usage. I am often appauled by the tight lipped one line responses to contact messages on $craigslist-like-service. a friendly message asking about the availability of an item on sale is met with "yes it is still available.". no "hello", no end greeting, nothing along the lines of "if you'd like to buy, give me a call at $number".
> A few bank employees told me, candidly, to skip a payment or two and feign distress to draw the bank to the negotiating table. I tried that once. Almost immediately, I was inundated with threatening calls.

He was actually advised by the bank's own employees that he could renegotiate the payments. This wouldn't have been defaulting on the debt, just paying it at a rate he could afford.

Literally billions of dollars from the federal government was given to banks to help people who were struggling to pay their mortgage. Because he wasn't prepared to go through this process he lost out.
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Also the concept of voting and strictly time-based decaying.