skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Really? Oh my.

You're laughing at me while promoting Marxism..

Anyway, mainstream economics (which does not include Marxism) has increasingly become accepting to leftist ideas over the last few decades, which is part of a larger trend in academia, and in the Humanities and Social Sciences in particular, of moving increasingly to the left.

>>As the joke goes, the only people who follow the rational behavior model are economists and sociopaths.

People do follow rational behaviour models that incorporate iteration and bounded rationality.

>>Could you tell me how to distinguish the rent-seeking behavior of unions from the profit-seeking behavior of unions?

You can read up on rent-seeking on Wikipedia.

As far as I can see, all union profit-seeking activity is rent-seeking.

>>Perhaps the start of the National Labor Relations Act might be interesting. It's from 1935, and is all about the economic effects of unions and employment:

The NLRA takes the approach of appeasement toward violent strikers, in the form of legal codes that effectively rob employers of their private property by way of rules that usurp their control over it.

I think it's reasonable to assume that absent the rent-seeking activity of unions in manipulating public opinion, the polity would enforce free market rules in governing labor practices.
Yep, high speed can definitely ruin a wheel(!):

https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/969654857895301120
I notice this a lot in RFCs within my company. Teams will put out architectures for new systems that contain massive amounts of acronyms and jargon for the system they're building and/or replacing it's insanely frustrating. It doesn't help when the last system was named something completely arbitrary and is being replaced by a new system with an equally arbitrary new code name. ("Flywheel has served us well for years but due to limitations on the XCGA middleware we believe Project Kegerator is the future...")
Let me guess, your heritage is Indian or Pakistani?
Correction: No. Aurora is single node. No horizontal scaling.
Econtalk had a good interview this month on this general phenomenon discussing the book "The Tyranny of Metrics"

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/04/jerry_muller_on.htm...
In the US, at the moment, only the owner of the phone is legally treated as having a privacy interest in it, and that interest ends at at the moment of death. You can argue for this to change -- and there are reasonable arguments to make for change! -- but right now it's perfectly legal for police to search a dead person's phone without a warrant.
sympathy is when you share the feelings of another; empathy is when you understand the feelings of another but do not necessarily share them.

source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sympathy-empat...
The State's right to do whatever they want to a corpse certainly ends once they no longer have possession of the corpse.

More importantly, what the police did here was execute a search upon the funeral home. That their purpose was to temporarily seize a corpse shouldn't be any different than if they were looking for documents.
Yeah I think if you are a downhill skater (I'm not) then maybe you it's not a problem, but seriously if you are not a good skater I really would not recommend going any faster than you can run on one of those things (or even a regular skateboard for that matter), pads or no pads. Source: skating parks for over 30 years (and still suck).
You are missing something, but it's not your fault. I'm referring to information outside the article.

Natalie Caula Hauff, one of the journalists cited, says on her LI page that she works in PR.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-caula-hauff-243b3a10/

I would qualify any job that "raises awareness" about something as a PR job, as in the case of the reporter who now raises awareness about the Shoah. Reasonable people can disagree about how to define PR. If you're dealing with external communications, how to raise awareness with the public, that is often PR, even if you work in-house rather than for an agency.

In the case of Ryan Kelly, the photographer, he did not exit to PR. Newsweek says he got a digital marketing job in a Brewery. Which for a photographer probably makes more sense.

http://www.newsweek.com/pulitzer-prize-ryan-kelly-charlottes...
Isn't the error rate and the disagreement rate in the latter so high that any attempt to quantify it would end up in flame-wars and bicycle sheds?

That is, do you have any point other than to express a sort of personal cynicism?

To get back to the topic, do you believe there is less growth in "real rigorous knowledge about the world" being done now than 100 years ago when the Nobel Prize was established? Because I would disagree with that assessment.
Really great video and lots to learn here. I think this may be the third time I've seen it, and I'm still getting more out of it.

The biggest thing that hits me this go round is that staying alive is key. PG may have said, you burned $500k and have nothing to show for it, but if they had quit then, they would never have made it through the Great Startup Filter(tm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter. The lack of great businesses (90% failure rate) reveals that the hardest part of building a company is starting a company.

In earlier times when there was more low hanging fruit, the hardest part of starting a company was scaling it. You had to have government backing (e.g. East India Company) or sit in an important part of the supply chain (e.g. Standard Oil) or cover really high capital expenditure (e.g. FedEx). Now that it's easier than ever to start a company, the good ideas are mostly already picked, so finding one is harder.

In economics, this called the explore/exploit or multi-armed bandit problem. What is so interesting to me on this viewing is that Peter Reinhardt's unrelenting enthusiasm and self delusion were a feature, not a bug. There is no way they would have stayed in the game long enough to find product market fit without that. Even though the kernel of the idea existed early on, they needed to taste true desperation to humble themselves enough to do the simplest, stupidest thing that customers wanted.
The exponential increase of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Heh. Yes, but also because you can only fail forward, literally.
This is very similar to what happens to Daoism. You have this rich esoteric tradition, a monastic and religious tradition, and people in the west labeling it a philosophy. Since I practice esoteric Daoist meditation I'm interested in other traditions. I've heard cool things about Tibetan Buddhist practices, but as the article said, it's really difficult to find the esoteric stuff in English.
Off-topic: Are you still a practicing monk? What brought you to HN?
That's true. Aircraft rarely run at full throttle even at takeoff. In fact twin-engined aircraft like the 777 can apparently still take off even if they experience an engine shutdown right before liftoff. Everything after that requires less power. Among other things you burn fuel which reduces the aircraft weight.
Here's another good quote, this one from A.J. Liebling:

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

We're definitely living that. One of the great lessons of 2016 for me was how much power is held by those who set the editorial policy of the most-read websites. The people who own the press...
There are alternate front-ends that use HN's backend you can use. Such as:

https://vue-hn.now.sh/item/16893581
One possibility to stop a global eradication of rats is to isolate a population of unaffected individuals in advance, so that when the global eradication is over, they can be reintroduced.
$2B lawsuit claims Apple Watch idea was stolen
The phone would belong to those who inherit his estate. What if the corrupt cops use the information found in the phone to steal all or part of that man's estate? The US cops are already known to steal from the living.
OpenCL isn't dead, if you write your code from scratch you can use it just fine and match CUDA performance. In my experience, OpenCL has two basic issues.

The first is the ecosystem. Nvidia went to great lengths to provide well optimized libraries built on top of CUDA that supply things people care about - deep learning stuff, dense as well as sparse linear algebra, etc. There's nothing meaningfully competitive on the OpenCL side of things.

The second is user friendliness of the API and the implementations. OpenCL is basically analogous to OpenGL in terms of design, it's a verbose annoying C API with huge amounts of trivial boilerplate. By contrast, CUDA supports most of the C++ convenience features relevant in this problem space, has decent tools, IDE and debugger integration, etc.

Neither of these issues is necessary a dealbreaker if you're willing to invest the effort, but choosing OpenCL over CUDA requires prioritizing portability over user friendliness, available libraries and tooling. As a consequence, not many people choose OpenCL and the dominance of CUDA continues to grow. Unfortunately, I don't see that changing in the near future.
Oh man. When I had my DIY E-skateboard, it was great fun to play around with that thing. Great vehicle for me to go to school and back.

Problem is I kept having electrical noise issues that caused my wireless to cut out. I never figured out how to reproduce it in the lab because it only seemed to happen under certain circumstances (possibly correlated to extremely heavy load, but not always). It caused some dangerous moments...

My build used a VESC X (from enertion skateboards, but seems like it was discontinued). The VESC is a nice open source high current motor controller, except the FETs they use are in a pretty dumb package, and the VESC X used an aluminum enclosure that acted as a heatsink for the DirectFETs they used.

I also used 2x 4S batteries[1] used for scale cars, because they had an integral plastic box that stopped it from getting pelted by rocks and such (good thing I got it, because I originally mounted it using Velcro and it fucking dropped during a ride and the battery slid for like 100 feet; probably would have exploded without the plastic box).

[1] https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-5000mah-4s1p-14-8v-20c-h...
This is a genuine question: is Tesla not a company that has already "scaled"? I don't know their employment numbers but in terms of product that is both used and known by the general population, they seem big enough to have already have these points tested in a scaled environment.
I also take issue with the term “agile” in general. I did not observe it to be any more “agile” than the good ol’ “pile of GitHub issues” method.
Given she lives in Detroit and her house is worth <$40k USD, I’d say this is a desperate lawsuit of someome whom had an “idea” but failed to execute, but still thinks they deserve money for doing nothing.

https://www.trulia.com/p/mi/detroit/15745-winthrop-st-detroi...
It's not that bad if they're keeping the originals. Scanning in 4k HD in 1998 would not only have produced files too large to be processed and stored practically by computers of that time, but there was no scanning equipment capable of that. Also gives them a nice justification for their budget year after year.
I agree with you, but in the end, I think that pitting an imagined austere but socially developed society against our actual supposedly-profligate but socially underdeveloped society misses reality to repeat a myth: the myth of decadence. This myth lets people pretend society is too productive and too good at meeting needs, leaving nothing but petty status disputes, covering up the reality of a society that's running dramatically below peak efficiency precisely because it doggedly dedicates so much of its resource base to status disputes.
Not as such, no, but the rendering of HTML from that markup is <code> nested in <pre>. The user agent is supposed to render it as the pre-formatted text it claims to be, complete with line breaks and returns as entered. It is meant for code, not for blockquotes.
The corpse was hardly desecrated. It's finger was used in an attempt to figure out why drug dealing killed it. I would posit replacing it's fluids with embalming solution to be more intrusive.
Heavy bureaucracy also drives away creative highly talented individuals and also creates pockets for non-productive employees to thrive, so it's questionable whether the positives outweighs the negatives. Depends on the level of fault tolerance that a corporation must achieve for their goals.
>>The destruction of social welfare, public education and organised labour has created what might be called the 50 Cent economy

Social welfare and education spending by government, at the taxpayer's expense, is at historically record high levels both in real per capita terms, and as a percentage of gross domestic product.
There was no mention of corruption, just some ham-fisted investigation.

That is an interesting point about the phone belonging to the estate though. It wasn't mentioned in the article.
Why is this an ethical problem? Why should society place a higher value on someone's life than that someone places on their own?
I don't know if belt cellphone carriers are "hipster". They actually used to be quite common in the early days of cellphones because they were a bit too large to fit into pockets. Plus engineers used to carry their sliderules on their belts and that has to be the exact opposite of hipsterdom.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
That's what square hole drill bits are for.
A blockchain is a trust model not a distributed database.

If you don’t need the trust model part of the blockchain you do not need a blockchain.
Back when Discovery Channel actually had more than just silly "reality" shows, they aired a program called "the Wing will Fly" about exactly this. Someone has put an old VHS copy on youtube[1]. If you are interested in this article, you'll enjoy it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkhziQF0AiI
The best board game is obviously High Frontier, so clearly this one will turn out to be a fad.
Finding an “idea” is a mistake that most startups make. Ideas alone are worthless. The phrase you’re looking for is “finding a need”, preferably the kind you can address and charge a lot of money for solving. This is the hard part that most startups fail spectacularly at.
That redirected walking video was weird... The guy walked what looked like about 10 feet forwards in VR and went what looked like twice as far in the enormous room that was at least 4x too small to get him to walk in a circle to continue the straight line...
I think it probably comes across that way because the term hasn't found strong footing yet.
The full claim is "there are quantum fields", which is a different mathematical object from fields (or particles). To some it sounds unsatisfactory, to others it sounds profound, and yet others are happy to just shut up and use the model to do calculation that just work.
Thanks for the recommendation. Would be an interesting read, despite the misfires around "real friends".

Conjugate what-now? I actually love delving into ghe details and processes of my friends' jobs. Then again I've never really been one for small talk.
A lot of these old film and paper records of nuclear tests are literally rotting away. This is a problem for researchers in the area (who do stuff like designing optimal strategies for first responders to a nuclear attack), because it's the only data we have and it's very unlikely there will ever be any more atmospheric nuclear tests. There's been a big scramble in the last few years to digitize and preserve this data, as well as to declassify as much of it as possible for researchers to use.

https://str.llnl.gov/october-2017/spriggs
Citation? I find it a strange concept.

In general there is an argument against which is - it's better suited to medical professionals. Which is far from "because heroin addicts deserve to die"

At best a we don't care argument.
Re: Sources: Opium and its derivatives certainly are the most demonized substances, in the most drug-ophobic time in history. There was a very extended study done by Britain in India. It was quite extensive, and their TLDR: No worse than alcohol

RE: Tolerance: The tolerance is very much dose-related. So if someone took large doses for just a week, they would suffer more withdrawal than someone who took small doses daily for a year. The breaks are something I found to be useful to 'feel' my current tolerance. Here's how it kind of goes; I'll have a 24-36 hour break, weekly, and if my tolerance isn't too high, the feeling will be a pleasant one. The feeling of my own body will be heightened, and I'll even have one good nap. I usually take this day to do hard physical activities, or do the menial tasks I dont like. It is also a good time to do psychedelics, like hash, since the body sensations are increased. If, on the other hand, my tolerance was too high, I'll have some mental/psychological discomfort and diareha. I won't try to avoid it, as I see this as a necessary part of life, and what I am doing,effectively, is condensing all my misery in a single day. In this case, I'll know that I need to brind my dose back down. The benefits are ability to sleep, as I suffered from chronic insomnia for my entire adult life prior to using it. This single benefit has an endless river of secondary benefits. The other great benefit happens at 'peak' effects - the mind becomes extremely clear and realist, so those are my most productive times. Combined with a good fermented Yunnanese tea, and the thinking capacities are just off the charts. It also took care of some social anger issues I have - being frustrated with most of the world commiting species-wide suicide; now I can think about my own ambitions instead.

That all being said, opium is extremely powerful, and it will harm anyone without enough self-control, or who is ignorant of its power- It happened to me at the beginning, and I suffered a very bad week of withdrawals when I ran out once. But the experience was also beneficial in a sense; it thaught me a very good lesson about the impossibility of achieving eternal pleasure, which cured me totally of the hope that one day I might find nirvana - it's a joke. Enjoy your misery; it is part of your lot. The end of your misery is the end of you.
A year ago i've launched a directory where anyone can share their DIY eboard :)
http://esk8builds.com
Let’s celebrate the corporate manufacturing of consent, in all forms. is what it says. )’:
It's not corruption; well not individual corruption. It's legal seizure. Police can seize all kinda stuff, even if you didn't do anything illegal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

The drug war has turned this country upside down.
How many average workers are willing to push back when the CEO tells them to do something?

How many CEOs will respond well when an employee does push back against their directions?

There are good reasons that most companies don’t operate this way.
Not sure if you are joking but unfailing people is no requirement of scrum. Scrum requires the people participating in the process to at least have some fundamental grasp of the process though. If the actors can't be bothered to learn this, then of course it won't work.

If you don't know what values scrum brings over for example traditional waterfall, then the scrum handbook is a good place to start to learn.
I disagree, we respect the dead because it makes living with memories of the dead person's life easier, and we don't want those memories tarnished.

It's also nice to think we'll be remembered fondly in turn when we die, but it won't matter - we'll be dead!
It was quite easy to figure out what the story she worked on what about, as approximately a third of the linked article is devoted to explaining that story and how she contributed to it.

Is there any gender/race stuff here? The linked story doesn't bring her race up at all, and only mentions her gender to the extent that it uses pronouns. I went and did a quick google news search, and didn't see any discussion of it in those terms, though I'll certainly admit I might have missed it.

For that matter, in this comments section, you're the only one who brought either of those things up. What's up with that?
I would need a full body armor to ride that at full speed...
Re: autism: Well, regardless, the person is now fuctionning quite 'normally' - nobody would know that this person in question was autistic. And it was psisocybin that did it.

Re: LSD: I'm not backing off my claim. Almost everyone living in this society is insane. So in that sense LSD is 'dangerous' to almost everyone today.
There are some community written garbage collectors out there that are good but none mainlined yet.

I do agree that docker's pros are worth the cons. Anyone who has every migrated a large application that they didn't have good documentation on the installation or configuration process (especially ones which you have written and forgot about) knows how valuable good, self-contained, packaging is.
If that work is non-development work like writing emails or getting in hangouts or Slack conversations or whatever then you’re right it doesn’t get tracked in SCRUM tickets/issues/stories (typically.) but that’s fine. Because it should be reflected in your velocity automatically by the reduced development work you can accomplish.

If it does result in development work; like your pull request results in revisions. You have choices about how to account for that. If you feel you have confidence about how much extra work that will add based on the issue you’re working on, you can account for that when pointing it. (Much like you’d account for writing tests or going through code review process within a team.)

If you have no handle on how much work it takes for whatever reason (contributing to multiple projects with wildly different expectations) then you can make new issues for each set of revisions. This will give you clear history that you can reference afterwards and learn from.

In any case; it’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools. SCRUM can work for all these situations if you want it to. If you have a defeatist attitude or if you prefer to blame systems and tools for your problems instead of finding solutions, you can do that too.

Let me be clear; I’m not saying SCRUM is for everyone or the best system or any of that. I’m just saying these specific claimed problems don’t hold water with me.
wow, i like these!
It is very bad for your health, and doesn't have much benefits. Opium is- again- a very good replacement. But the problem with opium as compared to coffee is that it doesnt have this 'uncomfortable dose' limit which basically stops people from taking extravagant doses of coffee. So a lot of people will just keep taking more and more, which ends up being harmful. Nothing is free in this world. But coffee is really bad for your health. If anything, switch to fermented black tea- much less harmful.
Sure, but I would trust the police to handle their data with the same respect and circumspection that they handle all private data they must routinely encounter.
I wasn't saying, "but Iraq" to discredit every subsequent conclusion. You will be hard pressed to find that in my comment. I mentioned that to help temper the people who are apparently engaging in confirmation bias, accepting statements without evidence when it seems to align with their beliefs.
The legal minimum in most of the US is 0 days, right?
Exactly. Just in order to maintain order at scale, the organization will need to stabilize. Stabilization necessarily involves many if not most of the things he warns against, because the mindset has to shift to cover many more details and potential friction points. Otherwise you get an organization that will never stabilize, and the little details that pile up will kill it. Hopefully Musk's own non-stabilizer blind spots don't become his company's.
DOJ threatens criminal prosecution for anti-poaching agreements