skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gone are the interesting askreddit threads or useful world news commentary, replaced with content designed to keep you browsing and staying on the site longer.

I'd totally forgotten how that era felt. Thanks for reminding me!
I feel like this will be addressed when it happens. But its not an issue until its an issue.
This post on Bird's unit economics is pretty good. https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/how-to-understand-the-fina...
we have not reached peak scooter yet. and that’s a good thing. i say bring them all on, they have really solved a good balance of personal but light transportation
All somebody needs to find your location is a list of SSIDs and MAC addresses within range of you.
While it is true that you can mislead by omission, every ommission of information is not an attempt to be dishonest.

Sometimes you just don't want people to know one way or the other. That is the scenario I described.

Many in this thread say that not answering is dishonesty, and ascribe my not answering the question to intending to lead my wife's grandmother to believe that I liked her food.

As I believe I pointed out earlier, my intention would not be to lead her to believe that I thought it was either good or bad -- I was not going to reveal the answer at all.

Leaving someone in the dark with no intention of pushing them to incorrect assumptions is not dishonesty.

Also, people can make incorrect assumptions about what is meant by what is said, even when the speaker has no intention of them making those assumptions.

It is the intention of the speaker that makes omission of information honest or dishonest.
My scenario in 2036 may not even be a brilliant virus designer, but just one person with Python scripting skills and a bit too much access to the government control system.

After the LocationSmart vulnerability, that seems very plausible. (If you haven't seen it: https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/locationsmart/)
So mathematicians should be reviewing papers in the Journal of Diabetes? I think that the Journal of Diabetes should just stay in its lane.
When I got serious about learning Vim and was doing vimtutor I rigged up a piece of cardboard over the numeric keypad, the PgUp, etc keys and the arrow keys so when I tried to use them I couldn't.

It took my brain a while to stop reaching for them but eventually it worked. To this day I naturally shy away from them although I've overcome that somewhat when it comes to using the numeric keypad.

It's kinda of similar to the Right Menu key in Windows. I hit Shift-F10 for so long I never got used to this new key and used it.
> This is missing my pet step: doing the literature review.

One of the earliest, most important, and most useful lessons I learned from a senior grad student: "a day in the library can be worth a week at the bench."
it's called "the internet"...
I guess their Privacy Policy checks out https://whiteboardfree.com/privacy
That is a blankety false statement mate. It's not used on nearly every patent, it's VERY rarely used for anesthesia. Very rarely.
I don't know if this is a sentiment others share, but I feel like at some point from 2003-2015 (thinking in terms of 4chan's history) the Internet went from having people who said really crazy shit just being weird people from the Internet to people who said really crazy shit distinctly being far-right and far-left people. Or, they were labeled as such, when in the past, they wouldn't have been.
Sorry if this is due to my own ignorance, but what's the pronunciation of this? Is it plural "~"?
People implemented some pretty crazy disk read/write routines on top of this for copy protection... I find it super interesting. https://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/08/27/apple-ii-copy-prote...
Making Radio Chips for Hell
My gut sense is that this has something to do with visualizing the sieve of Eratosthenes, and nothing more than that. But I'd be happy to hear otherwise.
UK left European Union.
In my experience working as a data scientist in the health tech field for the past decade (as an "epidemiologist" and "health informaticist" before "data scientist" was a title), I've found folks who just pick up data science from an engineering background often have a simplistic view of working with data generated from human subjects.

My training heavily stressed bias and confounding, study design, problem specification, validation, and interpretation of results. I've seen a lot of software engineers dabbling in machine learning jump to training a deep learning model for a problem where regex would suffice. I've also seen multiple people build models that reflect the data collection instead of the biologic/medical process, and present it without even realizing how wrong their results are. The problems in these cases is often their "objective" measures of performance (e.g., precision, recall, accuracy, AUC, whatever) look pretty good, but they don't see that it's because the model AND data are both heavily influenced by this larger problem. For example, is an increase in complexity of a particular disease due to people actually being sicker or because some payer changed a reimbursement program so now billing departments are using higher acuity diagnosis codes for their patients?

That said, the best engineer I've ever met didn't have a college education. I know a bunch of awesome data scientists who have taken pretty circuitous journeys to their current career. So, "PhD required" seems like it'll lead to a lot of false negatives. So, acknowledging that, my main point is that doing data science in a meaningful and ethical way—particularly when it involves human subjects—requires a lot more thought than just being able to implement some machine learning algorithm.
Yep - we are not claiming to be mathematicians, we're pattern hunters... this is an open invitation to others with more expertise to chime in and help figure this out... it's possible it is a minor discovery or even not a discovery... or it could be useful or even very useful. We don't know. Please help us explore it!
I really wanted to try out your service couple of weeks ago, but turns out you are only in US. Any plans of opening it for Europe?
Welp let me be your first counterexample. I work downtown and I LOVE the dockless scooters. I usually walk or take Muni, but I've found myself using these pretty frequently to go all or part of the way. I've also found them super fun to use with friends, when going to get lunch at a place that's a little farther away than walking distance etc.

I'm not sure why bikes never appealed to me, I like biking but it feels less casual. I just feel like I can grab a scooter and go.

I disagree about the public nuisance as well, of all the things that challenge San Francisco I think electric scooters on the streets are the least of our worries. The public safety concern I agree with you to an extent about, but I see people biking without helmets and boosted boarding without helmets regularly as well. Riding on sidewalks is annoying, police just need to start issuing more tickets.
The Future Is Knit: Why the Ancient Art of Knitting Is High-Tech Again
> Line-item veto sounds interesting, but extremely dangerous. Some bills meanings and intent could be completely reversed by vetoing a single provision in e.g. definitions section.

Line-item veto, both where currently used in states (for the most part, Wisconsin seems to be a radical exception) and when it was (unconstitutionally) adopted at the federal level, does not allow that.

It allows separate veto of individual appropriations of money within a bill that included one or more appropriations. It doesn't allow separate veto of arbitrary provisions of law.

This can still drastically alter the intent of a bill, but not it in the way you suggest.
I don't think the question is whether or not the absolute total number of them in all first world countries is "huge" (which I doubt), but, rather, if they're common.

Would a small, rural hospital have even one? If they do and it breaks, could they rent a replacement (even off-site) while awaiting repairs? For that matter, could even a small research lab do so in a large city?

I'd expect those answers to be "yes" for equipment we consider to be common in industries like restaurants and construction.
I say that's LFS' fault. Why do you even need a custom server? It should just be able to use any ol' file server or S3-API compatible service, and do everything on the client side.

I find git-annex a much better solution, it's a shame everyone went with LFS.
Agreed.

Bitkeeper itself is open-source these days available via the Apache 2.0 License, but it is too little, too late:

http://www.bitkeeper.org/
False-negatives are only a small problem for employers because they don't experience them.
Funny, reading this I am wearing earplugs and the dominant sounds are my heartbeat, the vibrato of muscle tension, and the incredibly high-pitched sound of what might be neurons firing, a bit like a TV displaying a blank picture.
Postman API Network Exploration: SummarizeBot
I think the idea is that when you seed a community, it will attract a particular type of person. If you're seeding it in the same exact way Reddit did, sans-ads, that doesn't actually say you're changing anything, other than the marketing model. It says absolutely nothing about the people you're trying to attract.

HN distinctly attracts tech people, and Voat explicitly attracted Reddit outcasts.
Google Chrome to tell you which websites can be dangerous
Woah! What was the problem? Maybe then we can say if he was right or not.
Watch the video, he wasn't trying to find silence, he was trying to find the sounds of (just) nature. I imagine going deaf would be quite traumatic for someone who spent their life recording sound.
Huh? Isn't that just the same page?
> UK left European Union.

No, it didn't.

It is in the process of doing so, but it hasn't left yet.
I make a point of actively curating my subscriptions–it's easy to get lulled into thinking the whole site is garbage when it's really just a few noisy subreddits. As any subreddit with a clear topic grows large, there needs to be strict moderation or it will devolve into crowd-pleasing gifs/memes/jokes, upvoted by people who aren't engaged in the original topic, in which case I'll unsubscribe.
A lot of it already is. I'm kind of amazed at the number of young people listening back to that time period.
I can’t help reading your first paragraph as what someone might say when a boyfriend is abusing his girlfriend: “He could’ve been nicer, but notice the girl didn’t leave.”

There might be reasons why he acted like an asshole, but he still acted like an asshole, in my opinion.
Both "stay" and "exit" sides were covered pretty well.

But if Brussel's bureaucracy behaved more reasonably, UK would not run away from European Union.
Tenno, Payment system and payment network for cryptocurrency
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Pumping gas is common but not casual. Fires do happen and people are injured. One day someone will cause a fire and claim they were distracted by this screen. That will end the practice.
> if you ever design a protocol or file format to communicate between machines always remember to add a version field or some other way to allow for updates and revisions later without breaking everything

Also, somehow make sure no servers, clients, or third-party middleboxes break when the version field is incremented. The TLS protocol designers had to give up on the version field; it's now going to forever be stuck at "TLS 1.2", since too much would break otherwise.
US Gov Launches Fake ICO Site to Warn Investors
I agree in theory but loss aversion: https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/mini-encyclopedia-of-be/... indicates that most people won't want to convert one car parking spot into 10 bike parking spots or 20 scooter parking spots until after people have realized how convenient and fast alternatives are.

That, combined with status-quo bias and city bureaucracy, is a major problem. In the meantime, vast numbers of large dockless vehicles continue to be a problem in the U.S.: https://slate.com/business/2018/04/astounding-photos-capture...
One reason to read old philosophy is that it is way more approachable. Most of the time, the approachability is an inverse function of the date the philosophical material appeared (understandable given our knowledge and thoughts have grown to be more complex throughout history). If you want to get into philosophy, reading a platonic dialogue (except Timaios and those with the Eleian) or one of the simpler texts of Aristotle (like Poetica) is way more easier than say reading Schophenauer, which is in turn easier than Wittgenstein, which in turn is probably easier than reading Derrida. Also, building up on examples of older pieces of philosophy, you have more tools for approaching the new stuff, because, surprise, it's built on not only the concepts, but examples and myths from and references to the old stuff.

And the best thing reading philosophy teaches to the non-academician is how to think with structure and method, avoiding dogma and bias, and embracing scepticism. Reading the dialogues has changed my life entirely because of that.
I thought the article was well written, rational, and measured, and with the right leaning toward not capturing data to avoid worrying about the GDPR.

That said, I would've liked to see a bit more healthy skepticism about the ability of any sort of government or organization to avoid mis-using laws with a wide breadth when it suits them, especially if things slide toward tech-protectionism.
I wonder if there's a pattern to how many primes per cells-with-primes.
business skills?
https://www.udemy.com/business-bootcamp/

That is the easy of easiest parts... You need a 3-month bootcamp on Luck Creation and Peddling™

Get an idea that sustains itself to build a business rather than building yourself another job, that is Luck Factor.
Oh hey, funny seeing Valeant in there. I'm actually a bit disappointed to see them only once, with more references to the usual Big Names (Novartis, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline...).

For some insight into the business of pharma, may I humbly recommend Derek Lowe's amazing blog In The Pipeline. For example, here's the most recent article of his about Valeant I could find, from last year:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/04/03/bil...

I first discovered his blog through his series "Things I won't work with", with some hilarious descriptions of very very dangerous chemicals:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...
>so this means that people can't create very "extreme" little sub-groups (on either side) that treat each other like enemies

On the other hand, reddit's ability to have user-defined sub-groups has given rise to good communities. To come at this from a personal perspective (though I believe it to be true from many other perspectives), there are a whole bunch of communities on reddit centered around various facets of being transgender. I think in a lot of ways, this kind of community has replaced the old siloed bulletin boards we used to have ten, fifteen years ago, and there's both advantages and disadvantages to that - but either way, I think the point I'm trying to make is that user-defined sub-groups can be a legitimately useful feature that benefits people's lives in a meaningful manner.

What reddit might get wrong is making it _easy_. Have you considered a system like stackexchange use, where setting up a new site is a big deal that requires use cases to be drawn up, example content, users who pledge to partake and maintain the site in accordance with the network's standards, and so on?
The original parent examples were side projects that make no money. So while it seems reasonable to expect this of companies, GDPR also applies to nonprofits, charities, things you create just for your friends, some random thing you put on the internet when you're 15 years old and have no clue about GDPR, etc.
This is fascinating to me. I know when buying replacement car parts, the first place I always used to look was the junkyard, but I figured this was a very thoroughly exploited field. (I used to, in my more shoestring and duct tape phase, build my server racks out of secondhand parts too, but I rapidly learned the power costs/lack of computational/hardware modernity bit me in the ass, so there's also my question of what sort of salvage doesn't fall prey to this?) My gut feel was broadly that it's cheaper to buy something new on digikey than to spend the man-hours cutting/heatgunning the part out of some junk.

Clearly I'm wrong, so take this comment as a "I'd love to learn more if you're willing/able to talk about it"
This link doesn't work for you?

https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/how_the_chinese_...

It's the "article" link on the page, and it works for me right now.
Eventually you have to join the club to not get a split personality?!
I think the really key aspect is that we can recognize when someone is using tags improperly like that. Downvotes are generic, you can't really say that someone used one "wrong".

So we can look at systems like the "meta-moderation" that Slashdot had, where you can ask other (trusted) users whether they think someone else is abusing their tools. If they are, you can start trusting their tags less, or eventually even take away their ability to use them. And if they also have to build up to being able to use tags in the first place, that makes it way more difficult to keep abusing something since they can't just create a new account to immediately circumvent any punishment.
Human farm needs to keep on churning.
> The people of Pixar forced Jobs

Jobs had a controlling interest in Pixar. Nobody forced him. Pixar would have gone bankrupt without Jobs. Apple would have gone bankrupt without Jobs. Apple would never have existed and we'd have never heard of Woz without Jobs.

Nobody is that lucky. It's like winning the lottery 3 times. Once is luck. 3 times means there's a guiding finger on the roulette wheel.
Business models of the companies with over $240k ARR:

- outsourcing to humans

- asset acquirement leverage

- education

- outsourcing to ai

- event organizing

- adding a missing feature to a platform

- internet marketing saas

- copied a website and added a missing feature

- micro feedback as a service

Copying a website and adding a feature is great for someone who spends their time becoming a better software craftsperson.

Micro feedback as a service is a fascinating market I had never considered. Exceptional creativity there. Could be applied generally to many domains. PullRequest is doing code review as a service which is a great example of applying it to another specific domain.

Edit: formatting.
Is it just me or the Big O algebra at the end doesn't seem right?
I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
Reddit no longer has default subreddits. New accounts show /r/popular and have no subscriptions.

/r/popular is /r/all but with some more controversial/niche subreddits filtered out.
Well... the Bambi film came out in 1942. You can buy the Signature Edition DVD+BR for $30, but you can also buy a 2 disc special edition for $7.49, the Anniversary Edition for $15.96, and a Blu-Ray for $14.27. We haven't reached the used market, where eBay can get you a copy for $5, most of which will go to shipping it to you.
Is there are particular reasoning or meaning to each dot being 6 numbers? Is there any significant changes if you pick other numbers per dot, following the same pattern?

Based on the linked explanation here:
https://beta.observablehq.com/@montyxcantsin/unwinding-the-u...
Cost per thousand people. It is an advertising metric.
No, I definitely value my time. I actually (and maybe strangely) have appreciated the opportunity to review my data processes, privacy policies and security. I think my business is better for it. Also, getting compliant is mostly a one-time effort with little maintenance, whereas paying $1000+ every year for a EU representation service that will in reality probably do absolutely nothing is very irritating to me.

That said, your point is still fair. I sometimes spend my time less-than-optimally because it feels "free."
We're trying to do that too with IRC for a community of people interested by programming (http://dailyprog.org/chat).
Does Parkinson's Begin in the Gut?
Isn't your statement itself an absolutist statement? (I.e., that trying to discredit relativism "means" something, as a matter of fact?) If you're being ironic here, well played.
I partly agree with you but a less charitable interpretation is that we had a bipolar hegemony that prevented full-scale wars. Many regions experienced significant violence, often caused or abetted by Western powers that turned out to be less committed to democracy and human rights when they got in the way of power politics. (Edit - or other powers that barely bothered paying lip service to human rights)

Again, I broadly agree with you and would definitely prefer to see a continuation of the past 60 years over whatever’s on the horizon, but let’s not get too rose tinted about Weatern benevolence.
Yep. Which is why we don’t.

We do a mock technical meeting with multiple members of our tech team and the candidate presenting options, talking through pros and cons, etc. Much of the interview is about assessing communication rather than technical skills.

The interview is basically a standard tech meeting that we hold regularly in the team to discuss designs of new projects.
Ha no. I can't watch videos, I read really fast and find videos painfully slow.
Indeed. Say what you want about the bar for contribution, but those sites rarely disappoint me when I visit.
No, you can't. That's a malapropism that's become common as a result of non-technical people appropriating a technical term. Just because a lot of people say it, doesn't make it right.
The Toronto Declaration: Protecting Rights to Non-Discrimination in AI
> Plus, it's plenty useful to have memorable named for laws, rather having to remember bill/session numbers (or, worse, the weird practice in California and some other places where laws, even when they actually have friendly names, are frequently referred to by bill numbers without session numbers, even long after adoption, when such identifiers are decidedly non-unique.)

That's very easy to fix by adding the year and jurisdiction where appropriate. For example, in my opinion, Prop 8 does not need any qualifier but should there be any ambiguity we could call it the 2008 California Prop 8. I don't think the value is there in banning names though. For example, the CFAA* would be just as horrible with any other name.

*While we are at it, please support a complete repeal of the CFAA. https://www.eff.org/helpout
And yet I still think that. What's up? I'm broken. Good to know.
I would love to see a federated platform for reddit-like use. Sort of like what Mastodon is to Twitter. Of course I'll admit that it would be probably orders of magnitude more difficult to create, but federation would be a major differentiating factor. Personally I think federation is the only sound architecture for internet systems.
"Add filters keeping out children"

What are some methods for doing this? (aside from asking for birthdate, which is far from fool proof)
Thank you for this. I couldn’t agree with you more. I see the exact same kind of risk aversion hiring with data scientists that I’ve seen in the past with engineers hiring other people without a specific engineering background because of the assumption that those people don’t have the right mindset or skills. My entire point is that this kind of hiring process weeds out potentially great candidates based on the false assumption that not having a PhD or some other hard to get qualification somehow makes you unqualified. I think this is the result of this “field” being relatively young in industry and it will change as it gets demystified over the next few years.