skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is a toy economic model

No, it's the pigeonhole principle. There is no level of economic sophistication that can sidestep the basic problem of an insufficient number of homes in the area.
Since I don't quite get the point you're making here, I think I should specify that I was playing the role of someone who wants to start up a website on the side but isn't an expert on computers, networking, software development, or international privacy law.

I know plenty of people with a get rich quick scheme to sell widgets, but who don't know the difference between WordPress and Microsoft Word.

Expecting them to know that starting a website with a plug and play webserver could collect sensitive information on their behalf is pushing it a bit. Expecting them to know they have to comply with a law passed by a governing body they've never come within 1k miles of...
That sounds like the classic example of a decorative feature that someone thought, "oh that sounds easy, add it to someone's sprint." But of course turns out to be mind numbingly complex.
Apt day for discussing Yoda condition :)
websites (email+news) and pdfs, I'd pay $50/mth to have realistic t2s for these things alone. As someone who struggles greatly with the written word, the productivity gains are massive.
I'm not arguing about anything, I'm just stating facts
Well 1 coin. If you are lucky. Unspendable.
How do they manage to not have the reciprocating mass (the piston) throw off a space vehicle's trajectory? IIRC the Space Shuttle used magnetic tape because a hard drive would have acted as a gyroscope.
Why is it shameful? It sounded moral to me.
Everyone else as in people who are in charge of hiring, don't misunderstand but many startup people are from privileged backgrounds who only hire people from the same alumnus as themselves.
They are still spendable. Or sellable to private party.
"God Damn Protection Racket"
They need to communicate before seeing the boxes. You assume the can decide on a strict ordering before looking at the boxes. If they say box one is the highest box closest to the door their might be two boxes that satisfy that criteria. As a math problem it's assumed that such problems don't occur, as a riddle things are not so clear.

On the other hand, if they could communicate after getting a reasonable definition of the room and know they would not be moved then sure strict ordering is easy. But, nothing says they are given that.

Further, they need to pick random numbers without the warden deducing the scheme, but let's assume the can use a public key crypto to get around the need for privacy.
I think a big part is the emotions surrounding the combined feeling of thinking you're smarter than the rest while being stuck at a lower station in life. Unfairness compounded by the one thinking they're smarter so it's even more unfair. 'I'm smarter than this guy, why is he rich'

It's very easy to fall into this mindset and I think a lot of people identified.
> But you don't get impostor syndrome on PG internals itself do you?

I do.

> If you do, could you expand on the parts of PG internals that you know the best (I assume that's what you've written/hacked on the most), and the parts that you feel you don't know enough to be an authorative source on?

I've hacked, and in some of the cases authored, on many parts of postgres (I'm a committer in the project), including physical and logical replication, durability, locking, executor, JIT compilation, good chunks of the planner, ... There's a few parts of postgres that I don't know as well (SSI, some of the PLs, gin/gist/spgist), but even there I know a good bit.

But that doesn't really matter. Even on code that I personally wrote and committed I get impostor syndrome like feelings. I've learned mechanisms to cope and continue regardless. But I consciously have to do it.

I don't think you should disregard the fact that other people get impostor syndrome quite so blithely.
Wondering how he can blame this crunch time for all of these ailments. Maybe he ignored everything but why does his foot hurt and go out? Back related?
Lol. I get the vibe you want to be mad at them at this point.
This article felt more like an ad for his game, than it did a warning about "crunch."
Never fear, the ocean will take it all away again in 20 years.
The article you linked is showing data for red meat + poultry, so it doesn’t support the statement that red meat consumption is on the rise.
>Different groups are trying to optimise for different things.

While this is true, there is an objective truth about the directionality and magnitude of the cause-and-effect relationships involved, and contradictory statements about these relationships (some of which are necessarily false) dominate the discourse.
My counterpoint to the frequent "electron is worse than Hitler and aids combined": what's the alternative? Especially when it comes to commercial software where certain open source licenses are a non-starter and there just aren't a lot of resources for writing desktop apps.
> They only get about 20% of their funding from the government:

Your source implies less than 17% in 2009 and declining since; 50% of NPR funding was from member stations, who in turn get 6% of their funding directly from federal, state, or local government, 10% from the CPB which is mostly federally funded, and 14% from universities (which have varying shares of government funding), and 2% of NPR funding was from competitive government grants that it wins. And since 2009, your source notes several expansions of non-government revenue initiatives for NPR.
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Tesla might raise to accelerate the Semi production line or the Model Y line, but I can’t fathom that’d happen this year.

If we’re talking about Model 3, there’s also no way they’ll have unforeseen expenses in Q3/4. It takes way more than 6 months to plan a billion dollar expenditure, so it seems exceedingly unlikely Tesla’s expenditure model is wrong.

So that leaves their revenue model as the only wildcard. If they dramatically fail to increase production... say they plateau at 3k per week... that’s like $50k * 3k * 35 weeks = $5 billion in Model 3 revenue.

Plus they have a couple billion in the bank?

I just don’t see how this is a bankruptcy year for them.
Creating meaningful API mocks
I'm not sure what you're getting at. It's the underlying protocols that are open and decentralized here (RSS/Atom). An app doesn't have to be FOSS to participate in that ecosystem, and the nature of the protocols as they stand ensure Antennapod, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or what have you are all on equal footing with regard to accessing content. Compare to the DRM-encumbered, monolithic-platform-dominated state of other media like movies/TV.
Pocket Casts never tracked anything. Why is it now okay to start tracking me? Does NPR do something better than anything other large organization?
It's quite common for people to idealize something foreign they don't understand, whether a romanticized tribal life or some mythical Shangri-La in the East.

And on egalitarian: http://www.cslewis.com/c-s-lewis-and-kurt-vonnegut-on-egalit...
Engineering talent is in such high demand, the only reason anyone would work a death march is masochism. I mean, we get paid 5x the average US salary. We make enough to retire in our thirties. Working stupid hours in this environment is a choice.
You removed the words "of the genuine horrors that exist even today". Those make it clear that I think the use of "slavery" is wrong here not because it slanders Jeff Bezos or American enterprise or whatever, but because it conflates (a) a bad job--accepted on the open market, by people in a country with a safety net that while imperfect almost never lets people starve to death--with (b) taking people with force or deception, making them work, and keeping them even if they want to leave, under threat of physical violence.

Do you think we should use the same word for both of these concepts? Is there a word that you use to mean (b) that doesn't include (a)? How do you think that guy on the Thai fishing boat would feel, if he saw the Amazon warehouse and was told it was "slavery"?
The news I dread to hear: "Tesla files for chapter 11".... It almost makes wail.

I wish I had enough money to give Tesla a runway, free of Wall Street scrutiny for a year. But that's not in the spirit of capitalism I guess.
You are treating this as a math problem not a puzzle. Is there anything written in the description that says they can all agree to an ordering that they can then apply their function to. Aka if they say box 1 maps to box 37 they need to agree what box 1 is and what box 2 is ...
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Might just be a weird coincidence, but at 2:14 PM today I got an e-mail from Twitter with the subject "Security alert: new or unusual Twitter login". I hadn't heard anything about the Twitter bug at that point (was it even public at 2:14?) but I changed my password as a response to that e-mail.

Now I'm wondering if I need to change it again... does anyone know what time the bug was patched?
If you're disavowing the "more luxury condos make the city more expensive" crowd, there aren't a lot of people left to be called "serious" on the anti-growth side of the house.
“Should” is a bad word. If you are basing a conclusion off of a “should,” you are skating on thin ice.
In America, we have Sadily made living without a home, steady job a crime for all practical purposes.

Everything is against some law.
Guard: Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? Arthur: Not at all! They could be carried.
Musk is providing accurate information about the company: what they’re spending, what they’re doing, what their plans are.

What he’s not providing is accurate predictions of how long things will take. And he’s not obligated to do.

If investors want to make predictions, that’s their job. The company is only responsible for reporting what it did and what it will do.
> Tesla might raise to accelerate the Semi production line or the Model Y line, but I can’t fathom that’d happen this year.

Even with release of the Model Y pushed out to 2020, if they need money and they aren't raising it this year, it probably means more delays.
One things that needs to be considered though is how does lower rental prices affect those that are currently renting in dense living situations (3/4 roommates)?

If we assume prices are lowered maybe John decides room with Matthew only instead of with Matthew, Ashley and Jaheim.
Pah, back button doesn't work.
But a lot of super heroes are just regular folks who gain their special abilities (super powers). Granted after being bitten by a radioactive spider (or something of that nature).
I think you are exactly right. NPR pushed NPR One in order to track users. It failed miserably. So now the plan is to join with other big networks and buy a successful podcast app to then try again. It will likely degrade Pocket Casts and I am disappointed with this news.
Considering that rent in major metropolises such as... Madison, Wisconsin is at the same level as Tokyo (and teachers are definitely being paid less), it's definitely a huge problem.

Almost all major American cities are having the bottom fall out in slow motion, and it ends up having repercussions everywhere. The absurdity of someone having to have 2 jobs to survive being a _real thing people say to people struggling in cities_ is the most American response to a problem.

It's obviously not just "rezone all the things", but the fact that people care so much about real estate, and that there are so many people who have vested interests in making it hard for poor people to be able to live at least somewhat close to their jobs is awful.

I want to believe it's a hard problem (because we haven't fixed it yet). But at this point I have seen soooooo many places outside the US that have almost no problem with this issue that I now have a hard time thinking it's anything other than rich white people wanting what they want.
I was not clear in my wording. They need to enter the room and know box one is this and thus I should treat that as box 22. But again without seeing the boxes they need a system to unambiguously order the boxes. That's not strictly a math problem as they are not say given exact x,y,z locations or precise measuring tools etc.
AntennaPod looks nice, but I do use the Web version of Pocket Casts a lot. It wouldn't be too hard to switch back to gPodder and Rhythmbox, but I love that state syncs between the Android app and web player. It will be hard to let Pocket Casts go (if it does become a spy).

Source for AntennaPod: https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod
It’s too bad electron won’t run in display postscript environments.
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Yes, that was his inspiration for the Johnson Family.

Another was Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe.[0]

0) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7779
> with infractions being $10 million minimum

Stop talking nonsense. It is up to $10 million or 2% of revenue.

https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/

And so for most websites the fine would be significantly smaller than what lawyers typically earn to litigate.

Hence your entire "no win no fee" premise falls completely apart.
Log review is an awesome idea. Do you mind divulging your workplace?
I wonder how much it would cost to get custom keycaps made today with double-shot top and front legends.
you could use cloudflare IP geolocation to block EU countries based on the Cf-Ipcountry header they provide. Though just by checking their IP I think you may need to comply with gdpr
The notion is valid but users clearly don't want to be tracked. NPR One lost and they still continue to push it and will likely convert Pocket Casts. I find the news discouraging at best.
Sheetfu-Google apps scripts ORM to manipulate spreadsheets as database tables
I don't have a lot of actual information on this, but the buzz in my privacy professional listservs is that EU courts have been VERY expansive about what constitutes "damage" in related legal spheres, and that those of us coming from a US legal background should not rely on our instincts about what kinds of damage could actually create a cause of action worth suing over.
Ubuntu phone is not dead, it's now developed by ubports http://ubuntu-touch.io/
> There's a real risk of getting sued / getting cease and desist letters from predatory law firms who aim to collect fees for small mistakes in your privacy policy

No there isn't.

When the GPDR fines are 2% of revenue there isn't the incentive for lawyers to go after businesses earning less than a million a year in revenue.
What I want from a PDF viewer is dark mode (white on black). I know on MacOS you can do invert colours, but that inverts the images too.
Also I want to be able to view portrait PDFs in landscape mode with the text in 2 columns.
> But chance ‘built’ the machine that built the machine that…

Or perhaps this consists of (slight) evidence that favourable conditions for the evolution of intelligence are more common than we currently suspect.
Kind of like how people want to look like Rambo too. They don't care about the moral consequences of their hero's villainous actions- they just want muscles and guns.
Playing football in bird's eye view with VR glasses
I do like chopsticks. Especially for kimchi, I can eat and ungodly amount of that very quickly. And I use it for other foods as well. Never quite got used to eating rice with chopsticks though, end up getting frustrated and switch to a fork after some time.
So you would launch a side project that generates no revenue (at first) on the whims of a potential fine from a court in a country you don't reside in?
Curious why this was a corporate donation instead of a personal donation?
This is one of my big stressors right now.

A Product asks the dev manager how soon something can get done, so he urgently messages me asking for an eta. At a similar time, a product person messages me asking for the same thing.

And this is after the work is planned, pointed, and ready to work.

Worst of all, at the same time my product team is asking an eta, they're working with the marketing team to change the story!
This looks nice and clean compared to some of the other tools in this vein that I've used.

That said, I've fairly recently decided that Jupyter notebooks are a better mousetrap than GUI-based tools for this kind of thing. Python's a pretty ergonomic language for this kind of thing, and having a full programming language to work with makes some testing scenarios more convenient.

Plus, you can get some nice spinoffs out of the deal. Once you get everything how you like it, you might be only an nbconvert away from having a decent suite of automated acceptance tests. Or sprinkle some markdown cells in between your tests, and now you've got executable, hackable documentation for your API. Check that into GitHub, and you've also got reasonably pretty documentation with detailed code samples that's easy to view in the repository browser.
I agree in theory but what else can be made better about podcasts? Is it worth the trade off for everyone's data? These are questions I believe were asked and answered with NPR One. Also, anonymized data is still data and that derived information can be very powerful.
Some of us don't want to install things. Installing things like that is another layer of surface attack: you should trust the developers, code has no bugs/weakness, etc. Plus it's a single point of failure, once your manager is compromised, all services is compromised also!

It's adding few bits of strength to the current password that you already have. It's not making it weaker to some patterns guesser.
>"#1 is not true for bazaar-style (ie. rather few inertia) open-source projects, say the Linux kernel. "

Can you elaborate on what you mean here? Is this reference to "the cathedral and the bazar?" What is meant by "rather few inertia"? Thanks.
What about vagabonds?
Yep, as a native in the bay area born and raised, I'm fortunate to have landed into tech. Although it's sad to see friends leave due to the tech in which they blame me and others for rising prices.
I have already done this for the past 5 years on a rather strict ketogenic diet eating a fair share of red meat. It's been nothing short of amazing for my health. I'm not saying it's the only way to be healthy, far from it. We are very adaptable. But for me at least, it does not seem to be detrimental in the least.
Self-driving cars’ shortcomings revealed in DMV reports
Engineers are retiring in their 30s? I can honestly say that I have never met a person that did this. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. What's the secret?

e: engineers, not people in general.
Critical thinking in software development and the word ‘should’
How about a bakery that refuses to bake or sell a wedding cake to a gay couple -- will you tell the rejected customers to go find a bakery supportive of their message?
Another meeting problem is not delegating or assigning decisions. So you have a meeting where everybody shares their opinion, but in the end, nobody knows which opinion was solidified on and who is implementing it.
> There are only models and predictions, and some models lead to better predictions than other models.

"Better prediction" requires evaluating a truth claim, so this viewpoint would seem to contradict the rejection of truth.
Design is easy... keep it simple... place stuff where it always is.. use modern fonts(one for headers text and other for paragraphs).. proper spacing ... .. color contrasting colors and one color that is opposite of all others used to highlight x. Also find another designers work you love and use it as a template/for inspiration.

I love designing and especially in code. I don’t understand what’s the point of wireframe designers yet I have been rejected by numerous interviews/jobs for being a design coder vs. a wireframe Designer.
The side projects I'm considering are straight SaaS plays. The business model is not "let's acquire a bunch of users and sell their data." In fact, if I sold user data I'd be out of business quickly because my customers would revolt.

Why should I be punished by GDPR?

Every conversation on HN seems to think that people are out selling user data in nefarious ways just to make a buck. Some of us don't do that - and we're pissed that we have to be punished as a result...
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I was going to mention that. But I gather that yeggs were a distinct group from (or maybe subgroup of) hoboes. They didn't abide by at least one of the rules:

> 2. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.

I gather that it was a steal-from-the-rich thing. Banks were OK targets. And jewelry shops. But not hard-working folk.

It's never made sense to me, honestly.
It still produces a fair bit of alpha, so avoid particulate ingestion.
>Data

The most recent public data from the american association of poison control centers is 2016. For toxicity events alone they don't break out analgesics into sub-groups, but for fatalities acetaminophen is in fifth place with 5.39% (there's also acetominophen combinations but those really don't count - they're all opioid combinations, and really represent an entirely different phenomenon). Aspirin is in 16th place, with 1.91% of fatalities. For scale, opioids are 8.3%, and anticonvulsants are 1.76%. Most of these are multi-substance exposures. For instances where there was only a single substance exposure, acetaminophen was about 12% and aspirin 3% (opioids 6.4%, anticonvulsants 0.51%). Ibuprofen, with 81k case mentions (vs. acetominophen's 58k and aspirin's 17k), didn't make the top-25 killer list.

I didn't dig up the AAPC article mentioned in wikipedia, as it's about two decades old now, but the AAPC annual report I'm looking at right now shows most (~13k/17.5k) sole aspirin exposures were in the <12 crowd. It's not a big demographic for suicide.

As to my statement that we have better drugs, the Oxford Pain Group has released the Oxford League Table for relative comparisons between NSAIDs, based on a meta-analysis of comparative trials. With a standardized measure of "50% of pain relief over 4-6 hours" as a successful treatment, the league table ranks NSAIDs by the number of patients you need to treat to achieve said outcome for one patient. Aspirin 1200s (.3 of your max recommended daily dose) are in 16th place, with an NNT of 2.4. Acetaminophen 1000s (1/4 of your daily max dose) are in 34th place with 3.8. Ibuprofen 800 (1/4 of your daily max dose), drug of choice for every doc I know, are in second place with an NNT of 1.6.

>Paracetomol wikipedia tox

I didn't say aspirin was the single biggest killer. I said we had other drugs "as or more effective with less frequent adverse effects, and the same price to market," and that "it was one of the leading causes," not the single biggest cause. I don't think the wikipedia page really contradicts that?

> but adding a statement with pejorative labelling like this feels somewhat like you are simply trying to poison the well.

I disagree. If someone links to a peer-reviewed article in a respected journal and the response is "that author is a shill," you're coming down on the side of ad hominem. But when someone links to an NRA website and says "you should read more here about gun safety here," ... it's entirely appropriate to point out the source of that information. Lobbyists, propagandist "think tanks," and other highly partisan groups that build a business model on trotting out talking points for their respective parties absolutely deserve being identified on sight as such.
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I believe that another method to bypass the paywall is to copy the link and post it on facebook and then click it again, preferably in incognito mode.
>will always be limited by a fixed quantity of land

Apartments exist in 3D space. A 2X height limit increase is as good as a 2X increase in available land.
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