skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throwing money at unworkable ideas makes the world worse, because it employs people that could be working on good ideas instead. For example, Theranos was a tragedy not because investors lost money (it's part of the deal) but because hundreds of smart scientists and engineers spent years working on something that went nowhere. All that talent directed elsewhere could have built something great.
Is it maybe finally time to get a real business model?

As with any regulation, there are issues which need to be sorted out. But one thing is crystal clear to me: this helps making people aware of what is happening to their data and their lifes. There is no excuse for not being able to come up with a viable business model without productizing users and making them subject to social and political manipulation.

I wonder why no one writes about how products could use GDPR and other regulations to their advantage instead of whining about the demise of the ad industry.
Most users of reddit do not have accounts. Those users have already been using the redesign for some time.
Where it gets difficult to answer the very real internal almost contemplative question of 'am I solving a hard problem?' is when one looks at the history of fluffy rhetoric used by companies solving seemingly easy problems, making it impossible to convince them or their supporters they aren't solving something hard. For example, a website with photo sharing and a forum like feature called a newsfeed claims to be connecting everyone. Can't fault them for having audacious goals, I guess, but then it makes it harder to know how to approach one's own hard problems. What's the MVP for a product that attacks world hunger, cancer, or energy scarcity, for example?
What happens when my trash, or even something I purchased that later became trash because of someone else, finds its way outside of normal disposal routes through no fault of my own?
Correct, I am assuming that regulation drives up cost which may or may not be true. Let's assume that is wrong...

And I agree, taken in isolation you are right. There is no guarantee that opening up the markets will lower prices. In fact, as you say, the opposite might happen.

But, I am also assuming that opening free trade between markets (not merging into one giant market as you say) will produce competition. Not just with insurers but also with pharmaceutical companies and safety agencies.

On the safety front if there was some reciprocity between safety agencies that the pharma company doesn't have to have their drug approved in every country that they want to sell in.

Now, you will say there is no guarantee big pharma will pass along that savings but...

- These savings should allow new entrants into the market by lowering the barrier of entry

- It allows multiple drugs that treat the same illness (but are not patent infringing) to compete. As opposed to currently it can be years (if ever) for a foreign drug to enter the US marker.

Edit: To summarize. The pharma and insurance companies can charge what they want because they are a monopoly. You are assuming the monopoly will continue when trade is opened. I am more optimistic if it can be executed well as opposed to just blind deregulation.
Surely it should be possible to run something like Reddit at a profit? Run it with like 50 people. And not necessarily in SF. I think that's doable if you're happy with where the site is, product-wise.

Just googled quickly and found a figure of 250 employees from last year.
These are really excellent points I hadn’t considered.

On the other hand, let’s run the experiment the other way. We currently have significant numbers of people working with no hope of financial stability in their future. Will taxing them to fill the coffers of the rich improve their situation? Given the current situation of increasing wealth inequality seemingly exacerbating existing problems, I can’t imagine that this is a promising approach.

Since UBI is essentially the most generalized form of a benefits program, I really have to hope that it works. If it doesn’t, that seems damning to other benefits programs which are inefficiently (and IMO ineffectively, due to perverse incentives) means-tested. If it doesn’t, and if anti-UBI is virtually axiomatically a bad idea, then I’m not sure what’s left.
There are compostable plastic cups made of PLA, such as https://greenpaperproducts.com/biodegradable-cold-cups.aspx. They work fine so long as you're not holding anything hot in them (I've seen them melt when someone tried to serve tea in one).
I'm more concerned that the elected mayor, who has an obvious vested interest in the project being a success, wants to target "those most likely to make good decisions" - how is that universal?

The whole pretext of these plans is that there is no qualifying conditions or criteria for participation. If you only give money to a group filtered for a target outcome it's (a) just another social assistance program and (b) not an experiment
The problem here is that we don't have choices. Usually it's "accept our data mining or don't use our service". And since a lot of tech companies operate walled garden monopolies these days, that is not, in actuality, a choice.

If someone was pushing a law that required all companies implementing data mining/tracking to have a paid version that could not exceed the value they gain from that tracking, I'd be fine with that. I assume it'd be pennies in most cases considering your Facebook account is really only worth like $12 a year to Facebook.
It seems to me that delaying self-driving cars for any appreciable amount of time will lead to more deaths/injuries, not fewer.
That crosses into personal attack, and you can't post like that here. I work with Sam, so normally would intervene less in such a case—but you can't post like that here about anybody. Some rules need enforcing across the board and this is one of the main ones, so please don't do it again.

Edit: it looks like we've warned you repeatedly about making personal attacks in the past. That is the sort of thing we ban accounts for doing repeatedly, so please don't.
https://www.bountysource.com/teams/ibm/bounties
Is the HIPAA[1]'s privacy rule compelled speech? Do you believe corporations have a right to unlimited surveillance derived from their right to free speech?

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...

"The Privacy Rule gives individuals the right to request a covered entity to correct any inaccurate PHI."

"The Privacy Rule requires covered entities to notify individuals of uses of their PHI. Covered entities must also keep track of disclosures of PHI and document privacy policies and procedures."
I'm not a lobbying group and I find the law to be abhorrent. Did you expect all opposition to roll over and disappear?
>Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects

Almost as if toxicity of a person is an integral part of their nature and politically correct spaces are detrimental to the discourse.
Agree that the thread is a microcosm of the debate, but ironically, I'm not trying to say anything like "this won't replace my doctor".

That kind of hyperventilating stuff is easy to brush off. The problem with deep-learning hype is that comments like "my classifier gets a ROC/AUC score of 0.8 with barely any work!" are presented as meaningful. The difference between a 0.8 AUC and a usable medical technology means that most of the work is ahead of you.
Nice idea, but who can we trust with all that data?
Ask HN: Who is running a profitable job board?
Is it worth pursuing as a side project? Do you need thousands of visitors a day to make it work?
I think the continual drama mostly bothers non reddit users and reporters
Well, at the moment I'm giving away free lifetime accounts just for some helpful feedback or social media sharing =)
Right; if you run the Craigslist model.

Reddit has been more interventionist with content, which means they need more people to manage the community. I would guess they have all the developers they need...
A better metaphor for technology
Reddit is quickly becoming a tool for the majority on the site to suppress minority on the site's opinions. Until a viable solution is created to promote diversity of thought it will always suffer from this problem. Reddit is just as bad of an echo chamber as facebook. Please everyone who read stuff posted on reddit, engage in critical thinking after each article you read.
What is the best setup for coding .NET core on Mac? Rider? Asking because you seem to know what you’re talking about.
Is that a great example? If you gave Mattel the choice between absorbing a regulatory framework and just having extra money would they really have chosen the former?

You can pay for safety explicitly with regulation or implicitly with poisoned children. Regulation hits small businesses harder; rather than concluding that regulation sucks, maybe we should try something else like providing some publicly-funded office to provide compliance help to small businesses.
It looks like an ongoing trends in that market. People started caring about people they interface with so your local (but a global) discount shop needs to jump as high as they can to cater to the compassion weak point. Bad PR is effective and this is how you fight it.

IMHO it's a step in the right direction. Corpos are soulless and people vote with money. Take your $ somewhere else and they'll try to meet the bar.

Amazon's tough love is also well-known at least from what I've read so having an upper hand over them may sway the lazy but compassionate crowd to take a ride to Walmart, not amazon.com.
The buyer pays the exact same price as matched to the seller, plus some tiny fees for the exchange and clearing.
I don't really get this. If the surplus is efficiently captured (which markets are incredibly good at doing), how do these people come up with the cash to move?
Excepting a single month in 2000, the US unemployment rate is at its lowest since the late 60s and the economy is booming like crazy. Walmart requires more employees than any other company, and is simultaneously also seen as, and probably is, one of the worst possible companies to work for. They're going to suffer major retention issues and end up scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of employee quality.

I don't think it has anything to do with image. Just basic market dynamics. They need more, better, and more reliable employees. So they're offering a better value. That, or one of the Waltons has decided to get in on this sweet presidenting business and they're tossing a few bones out for 2020.
You are invited to bring forward concrete proposals for changes to the C standard in the relevant committee.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

Since UB allows the compiler to do anything in those situations, we can reduce the amount of UB without breaking existing “legal” code. By actually defining more behavior.

If a proposal is reasonable needs to be discussed in the standardization committee. All other discussions are a nice hobby. But eventually moot.
Don't forget the accountancy-created problems, like the various exotic means used to avoid taxation.

It had always seemed odd to me that a company providing advice about essentially laundering money at scale also is the arbiter of truth for accounting principles!
This is essentially the inflation argument and we have a lot of indicators that a UBI doesn't lead to significant inflation.

But it brings up the point that a UBI will not solve all of our problems. An extra $2000 a month doesn't help you if you don't have medical insurance and get a $500k bill from a terminal disease, for instance.

What a UBI does is removes a lot of bureaucracy around welfare for recurring costs (rent, clothes, food, gas, etc) and it addresses the scaling problem we're having with inequality. It's an imperfect solution, of course, but I haven't heard many other viable (by capitalist standards) options.
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The article doesn't mention the percentage of colonscopies among 50-year-olds that find something bad. If say it was 30%, that sounds like a great reason to start sooner. 5 - 10% maybe not so much.
If a project is too toxic, there's nothing stopping you from forking it and making your own version. Just look at Cinnamon and MATE.

Can't do that with commercial software.
> I'm open to this, it sucks to have to throw so much crap away after ordering take-away, but I haven't seen a container yet that would be suitable for e.g. 80 degree centigrade soups, stews etc. What are the alternatives that are cheap enough for disposable take-away use?

Maybe a deposit system? The fancy milk I like to buy comes in glass bottles with a $2 deposit. That's enough that I hold on to them and take them back to the grocery store. A similar practice could be used for take-out/delivery restaurants.
Judge dismisses Kaspersky lawsuits, U.S. government ban will stand
I remember hearing of some Power cloud offerings, but unfortunately I can't find any these days.

I find old-press releases going to broken web-pages: https://www.ovh.com/world/news/cp1606.world_exclusive_ovhcom...

But that's not really helpful. Hmm, I guess Power8 / Power9 cloud systems seem to have disappeared. IBM really needs to work on getting cloud-instances ready for tinkering.

> Raptor does have a sub-$2000 machine on pre-order: https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL1BC1/intro.html

With RAM and storage, it will be $3000+.

With "price/performance" parts, like the $1300 18-core CPU (something that would make the entire purchase worth it IMO), you'd be above $4k+.
As an immigrant with no family to rely on in the US, I always give credit to Reddit for helping me learn so many things from buying old/used car, applying to grad school, to looking for an apartment. Just like you said, its diverse user base means it has almost all the information one needs. I hope it never changes (although with the recent re-design, I'm afraid it might have unintended repercussions...)
this looks pretty cool, i'll give it a shot for a week to help me hit my personal writing goals outside of my professional work.

i'd enjoy it if there were different aesthetic theme presets. the blue one is nice,but for late night writing I'd prefer something that was a deep hue of maroon. black and green or black and white terminal style would be great also.

font control would be nice, too.

you should also add a link to the main menu from the "profile" page, it's hard to navigate back as it is now.

PS: i sent you an email requesting the lifetime membership.
The problem - and thats the reason the GDPRs try to improve the world will fail - is that if you as a company to say: "if you don't consent you cannot use this great service all your friends are using.

The people will consent even if they don't like it so you need to remove this force factor.

Its like here in germany its prohibited that you let an employee work for more than 8hrs straight. In special cases you may extend this to 10hrs but only with good reasons. Everything above is just plain illegal, even if the employee states he did it voluntarily. The company is still liable then.
Or maybe people have realised this business model is dangerous and damaging and we are better off going to alternatives?

Companies can simply start charging for services rather than selling data in the EU, if it's really that bad.

Personally, as a British person, I fear companies doing bad things far more than I fear the government overstepping with regulation. People have been making these same claims about regulation destroying industries for some time, and it never actually happens.

Instead, most of the time they actually end up being good.
I am talking about my old account :)

Which was banned a year ago. Good try!
I believe that is false. 16 Gigabit (2 Gigabyte) is a 8-bit-per-byte explination
“Toxic racial politics from the right wing...”

I agree that racial politics is toxic, but racial politics is just one subset of identity politics. The left has “sown the wind” and they’re going to “reap the whirlwind.”

May $diety help us all.
The jury is still out on the effects of GDPR and claiming Google as the only opposition here is incorrect and is a tired scare tactic, the "developer alliance" isn't 'big tech lobbying' and this piece of legislative madness includes this gem:

"The bill also requires companies to offer people the same communications services whether or not they agree to have their data collected."

So consent isn't enough anymore.
Very few developed countries pay "living wages" for the bottom tier of employees. That is true in eg: Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, Portugal, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, Greece, Israel.

They all subsidize low paid labor with social welfare benefits. Which is exactly what the US does as well. The US now has a more generous welfare state than Canada.

You can just about count the number of nations requiring a proper living wage on one hand out of 195.
> Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free.

Reddit is none of those now. It's not anonymous ( they track your identity and feed it to the government ). You may be "anonymous" to fellow users, but not anonymous to authorities. It isn't information dense. It's propaganda dense. Almost all the content there now is government, media, ngo, etc propaganda. As for ads, check out the videos, movies, music, etc subs when a particular movie, album, etc comes out. The frontpage will be littered with ad-like submissions ( aka ads ).

Reddit is 80% government, politics and news propaganda and 20% ads ( movies, music, etc ). I think you are confusing the reddit of 2011 with today's reddit.

> It’s been Reddit’s dilemma since the beginning: you can’t monetize a toxic user base that has total freedom.

Actually reddit could and did monetize "toxic content". How do you think reddit has been around for nearly 13 years? And once again, you are confusing reddit of 2011 to reddit of 2018. Today, reddit isn't any more "toxic" than twitter, youtube, facebook, etc. Reddit is heavily censored. Besides, on social media, you don't monetize content, you monetize eyeballs/clicks/data points.

> I’m still skeptical of Reddit’s ability to turn a profit.

Do you really think reddit is unprofitable? Let me guess, you think that youtube is not profitable right? You think these companies have been around for more than a decade because they are not "profitable"?

Their "hollywood" style accounting may make it seem like they are not profitable, but these companies are incredibly profitable. It's why youtube has a valuation over $100 billion and reddit's valuation is in the billions.

> But as a community platform it’s the best out there IMO.

Have to disagree with you there. Any garden variety forum is better than reddit. Also, reddit stopped being a community a long time ago.

I've stopped using it because it's all political nonsense or advertisements.
"accept our data mining or don't use our service"

The internet is and has historically been based on fundamentally voluntary actions, quite literally an extension of speech.

Before this law, it was easier to create competitors. What do you consider a "walled garden monopoly"?
Look up Henry George and the Single Tax: the tax on economic rents. Land ownership, intellectual property, and so on are taxed.

This was pitched as an alternative to income taxes, which deincentivie labor and reduce income and thus the ability for people to be self-reliant instead of dependent on charity or government programs, and sales taxes, which fall disproportionately on poorer people who have to spend a larger share of their income on basic needs. Even Milton Friedman, no friend of taxes, thought if George’s Single Tax proposal as “the least worst tax,” because it would (theoretically) have the least depressing effect on economic growth.

Theoretically, your landlord could not raise rents to avoid their tax burden, as the increase in rent would directly correlate with their tax burden.

George also suggested that Single Tax revenues could provide for a UBI, although the size and scope of government was much smaller in 1880.

Speaking as a junior white-collar worker whose only significant capital is held in a retirement account, the idea of a tax on economic rents (and an assumed cut in my income/payroll/sales taxes) is very appealing, far more than a paltry UBI check each month.
Brian Eno on genius and “scenius”
I’m surprised that so many people are missing this. Google and Facebook may come off better than most tech companies, but surely the real winners must be whoever was not relying on your personal data to begin with? E.g. tv, radio, and print.
Exactly.

The cost of indirect jumps isn't implied by position independent (PIE/PIC) code alone, but by PIE/PIC combined with jumps across separately loadable segments. For jumps _within_ a segment you can just use a direct relative call which is the fastest type of call and doesn't require any load-time fixup ever.

Of course then there is also the consideration of symbol interposition: if you want to support that even _within_ a statically linked thing (usually something other than the main executable), then you need a GOT-like thing, but not necessarily a PLT-like thing.
> I'd offer a much simpler explanation. The buzz around Bitcoin reached a critical mass where people at home with no knowledge of cryptocurrencies or blockchain technology suddenly got caught up in a bubble. As the interest increased so did the price so it became a feedback loop.

Yes. Those bubbles happen regularly in the Bitcoin world. Maybe the futures had some impact, but even without futures a bubble will eventually end in a crash.

December was crazy. I had several non-tech friends ask me how to buy Bitcoins. I strongly recommended against buying, but at least one of them still used a leveraged trade on some sketchy platform to buy. Needless to say that it didn't take long until the volatility wiped out 100% of his investment. I'm against regulation but seeing first hand how financially illiterate people behave I'm not opposed to a minimum level of regulation - e.g., why do retail investors need access to leveraged trading?
This has not been my experience.

I live (barely) inside the city limits of a town of 13,000 people, in a county of 37,000. My wife and I both have vehicles and we use both of them probably 80% of days - and I work remotely to boot.
To reinforce your point that is also how Microsoft decided to go on Azure Sphere.

https://www.mediatek.com/products/azureSphere/mt3620
I want more - I like the mix of pretty accurate and "random" results
> Personally I like having choices.

And that's exactly the point of GDPR. To give consumers a choice.
> Reddit works because it’s anonymous

Are you sure there? Anonymity doesn't really exist anymore on the internet for the average person. Reddit has the illusion of anonymity which gives its users a false sense of privacy so they can act the way they truly are (parallels to Westworld if you watch the show).

It would be incredibly easy for Reddit to de-anonymize its user base, the same way Facebook was trying to do with medical metadata, and sell that info (at least for the US users, given GDPR in EU now)
That's fair. The seed industry itself has been really tough, and that's exacerbated since much of the growth since then has been in China. YC certainly has had a hand in a few of the companies that have done well, but it doesn't look good. I think people are mostly interested in hearing advice from very successful entrepreneurs and investors.