skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's completely revisionist history. No one was going around thinking, "I wish I could drive people around for extra money." No one. You literally just made that up. If you wanted to drive people around for money you became a taxi driver or got a passenger carrier permit and became a private limo driver. Back in 2008 no one was thinking about how great it would be to drive random strangers around for minimum wage while assuming massive amounts of personal liability and destroying their car in the process.

Uber started as a way to fill the downtime that professional drivers had between clients and jobs. They said, "Hey, there is a workforce with 50% of it
s hours idle. I bet we can turn the into cash." It was a brilliant idea. Airbnb started with a similar proposition. It was a derivative of couch surfing—find some excess supply and monetize it. People are doing this for free, I bet we can do it better and make a few bucks. And then in morphed into the abomination we have today.

It wasn't until Lyft and the competitive market saw what was happening and people thought, "What if we just ignore safety regulations and licensing by declaring that we are in a new industry? There's money to be made there." That's what the gig economy ended up being. It wasn't intentional. It was a way to avoid COSTS by ignoring safety, training, benefits, licensing, insurance, zoning and minimum wage laws. And that's where 90% of the value comes from. If these companies had to play by the same rules as everyone else they wouldn't exist because there wouldn't be enough money to be made.
Can anyone comment on why this is the case? It seems ridiculous on it's face.
> Is their web browser open source? No.

Their Edge browser engine is proprietary but is built to work with open standards - no more pushing their own proprietary standards like ActiveX.

> Is Word, Excel, or Powerpoint open source? No
> Do they even push for open standards of those products? No.

The default file format for recent Office versions is based on Office Open XML which is a published standard that anyone can interoperate with. Also, Office apps can save to the OpenDocument format too. Yes, there is a lot of proprietary stuff inside of Office, but they also have 20+ years of backwards compatibility to deal with.

> Is Windows open source? No.

Are there any examples of a company taking something as large as Windows OS and converting the whole thing from closed to open source? It's not like they can just flip a switch and let the whole world see the source code?

> Is the C# compiler open source? No.

Look at what they are doing in the .Net Core space for an indication of where this is going...

> But to say they have embraced open source is patently false.

I disagree with this and most who have followed Microsoft's actions over the last few years would also disagree with you. They have embraced open source way more than could be expected of any other company with a huge portfolio of closed source software.
>hyper-libertarians

Pacifist, anarchist, libertarian call it whatever you will; at the end of the day you are supporting a system where peaceful people will either be imprisoned or have their property stolen if you don't do what men with guns tell you to do.
Dunno why you were downvoted, I heard this one multiple times during my classes and always had a good laugh :-)
Lots of people in the Bay Area make less than that. If they left, there would be many difficulties.
I'm pretty sure there is absolutely an objective definition of what is and is not a war crime.
One of the first points from the article:

"Don’t try to cheer him up or offer advice

... it could backfire by reinforcing his sense that you just don’t get it, said Megan Devine, a psychotherapist and the author of “It’s O.K. That You’re Not O.K.”

“Your job as a support person is not to cheer people up. It’s to acknowledge that it sucks right now, and their pain exists,” she said."

My parents also read a bunch of books on depression and tried to teach me about it to help me.

It was the last thing I wanted to do. I didn't have any energy to learn anything, I was having enough trouble trying to hold myself together as much as possible every day. Whenever someone tries to help someone who's depressed, I guess they don't get it because most of the time, the depressed person is probably barely keeping it together, and asking them for anything more is not going to work.
You can have your own opinion, but you've got to build it on some foundation.

stop acting like "war crime" is some universal objective term that we can all agree to. It isn't.

Ummm. Yes it is well defined. And what you're complaining about isn't in that definition.

On July 1, 2002, the International Criminal Court, a treaty-based court located in The Hague, came into being for the prosecution of war crimes committed on or after that date. ...

War crimes are defined in the statute that established the International Criminal Court, which includes: [followed by a list that formats poorly here, so I'll just leave the link] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#International_Crimin...
do we know that he
my mate opened a back account in 2010 because he ordered Burton catalogue and he got a letter with the address.
After Snowden E2E encryption turned from an implementation detail into a feature. see whatsapp et al.
That headline is the worst, dumbest advice I've read about CDNs to date.
Depression can be effectively treated. It is not the same as terminal illnesses that are often covered by right to die laws.
I don't think your examples paint the picture you intended here, instead it comes across as entitled and lacking in empathy.

> "...he thinks he deserves $20."

Who said anything about deserving? You said as much that you'd drive yourself when it came to a $20 ride; you wouldn't drive yourself if it was $10. This more or less suggests the only reason Uber provides value to you is because it charges less than what you'd charge if you were providing it, because you think you deserve $20. In that instance it's not unfair to say that you get value out of Uber undercutting the competition.

> "Those that think they should earn more can quit..."

I suppose they just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps too? Not many of us can enjoy the privilege of quitting our jobs because we know we're worth more than we're getting. I have that privilege and I use it often, like many of us do in tech. For as long as we value low prices at all costs, there will always be someone who is forced into taking on this kind of job because they don't have the luxury of choice that we do. They can't quit because it's either the $10 you want to give them, so you can save $10 for yourself, or nothing.

It's been clear enough for a long time that those who enjoy the services from others won't really advocate for them, and neither will their employers, so unions and regulations are there to sort that out.
If I may- I think the first graph would look better as a histogram, with a smooth polynomial on top. It's hard to see the long-tailed shape in a scatter plot.
See if you can ask your family doctor if you can get a male psychologist then? Mine was quite lenient, at least, and talked me through the options, wanted my opinion, etc.
Agree, his school book was fine. His stuff on the recession is terrible simplified populist Post-Keynsian wash.
I strongly disagree.

It's easy to list a lot of books and papers (and drown newcomers in them), without pointing to actual step=by-step starting points. Sure, doing superficial problems is only the first step (and it's foolish to think that it is the last step). Yet, you can read all books in the world, but unless you are able to prove theorems, or write code, you know less than someone who wrote a small script to predict names.

Additionally, it's weird that they recommend NLTK (no, please not), SpaCy (cool and very useful, but high-level), but not Gensim, PyTorch (or at least: Keras). As a side note, PyTorch has readable implementations of classical ML techniques, such as word2vec (vide https://adoni.github.io/2017/11/08/word2vec-pytorch/).

There are some good recommendations linked there (I really like "Speech and Language Processing" by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/, and recommended myself in http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html).
Mr. Rogers Testifies Before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
Same. Also, every one of my stays since ~2013 has required customer service interventions, or otherwise had an incident that screwed me somehow.

I’m at the point where I simply will not use AirBnB for travel in an area I don’t already know well. It’s too risky.
This is the American attitude toward people and things we find distasteful. We seek to wash our hands of them, not fix or rehabilitate. We throw criminals in jail and forget about them, we hand off the mentally "ill" to clinicians and forget about them. The last thing we would do is help them ourselves, or see what in our society might be so damaging. Every person for themselves, autonomy and independence is the American way. Fundamentally we seek to reaffirm Puritanical attitudes of being born good or bad, and by emphasizing how "different" we are, how "specialists" must handle "those people" and not just friends who can listen, we create distance and make ourselves feel better. The opposite would be to humanize them, but that makes us extremely uncomfortable.
For most people (not highly sought after programmers), its an erosion of what paltry remnant of their workers rights remains.

Last time wealth inequality peaked, the robber barons had strike breakers and whatnot.
This time (with wealth inequality continuing to soar to historically unprecedented heights) they have the 'gig economy'.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy is scientifically proven to work. Basically any CBT book on amazon on the subject, look for best sellers, read reviews - $3.99 plus $1.99 shipping is your cost. Another book, The Power of Now I personally recommend. Everything else you need is in the KJV.
That is still not ranting. Linus seems more angry at himself than the person who made the mistake.

Granted, there are some jabs at the user who made the mistake:

> Why did Laxman do that insane merge? Why did it get

> pulled back?

>

> You actually have to work at making shit like this, so I wonder what

> workflow you guys had to make that bad merge.

If you wanna put more spin on this apparently this merge came from Nvidia.
> So if you do take this route, don’t forget to be human and post normally sometimes.

Great point. As an inveterate HN addict, this isn't an issue for me, but it's important to strike a balance.

It's like asking friends for favors. It's totally fine, but if it's the only reason you ever get in touch, it will start to get old.
Floating the possiblity that it was an auto erotica choking accident.. Maybe he hung himself for plessure but he passed out accidentally. Not judging him anyway.
God, they are worse than unhelpful. In Australia, if you call Lifeline from a mobile, even if you don’t disclose who you are they are will still call the police on you. This happened to me, and I specifically called to talk myself down to a third party who I believed would listen, and I would not have to deal with the consequences of not dealing with uncaring and ill-equiped authorities who will take you to a psych facility (read: uncaring ED) at best, or shoot or maim you at worst.

No such luck.

When the media adds the number for Lifeline it’s just lazy and backside covering. Hell, for a long time the media were so badly informed aboutvsuicide they wouldn’t even report on it.

So yeah, suicide hotlines are not only ineffective, they can be positive detrimental to your health.
Do you mean bearish? If not, your comment confuses me.
> I am not sure how the safety of vehicles with assistive tech is relevant. I am not at all disagreeing on that aspect. You were saying that fact that vehicles with assistive tech are safer is reflected in tesla's marketing and PR. I am still not sure how that could be the case. How does it justify calling a half baked self driving tech as autopilot and selling them to unsuspecting people?

I brought up driver assistance technology as a way to continue discussing safety statistics. If you recall, I claimed autopilot was safer and you ruled this out on the basis of not enough information. Now you are saying that you don't feel the broader class is relevant to the discussion. So we return to the point where there is not enough information to make statistical claim about safety. As a consequence of returning to this point, your own claim about the system being half baked is without merit. Its a claim about the performance of the system which you have claimed we can not characterize with the currently available statistics.

> We are interested in their motivation because we are thinking long term.

The thing I'm ultimately arguing against is the idea that Tesla is as you put it blatantly evil. Blatant means to be open and unashamed, completely lacking in subtlety and very obvious. The things Tesla is doing with regard to the environment are blatantly good. They say they are doing it because of care for the environment and their actions reflect that. If we think long-term, their actions are part of what allows the long term to exist in the first place. They are not just lacking in shame for that, they are proud of it. Brag about it. Exult in it. It is blatant that they care about the environment.

In your post you're saying that you speculate that their motivations might not be what they have claimed. This contradicts the idea of blatant evil. Blatant evil is obvious, lacking in shame, lacking in subtlety. The hiding of something is the definition of subtlety. The need to hide is reflective of a shame.
Europe spearheaded the Libyan intervention. The U.S. came along for the ride, not because of some strongly held policy objective. The roles are usually reversed, but by 2011 Obama was already deeply skeptical of intervention. European powers have always had a keen interest in Libya, particularly Italy and France, and the U.K. was still pissed about Lockerbie. The U.S. wouldn't have gotten involved otherwise, no matter how much Hillary pressed.

That doesn't excuse the U.S., but we shouldn't equivocate culpability.
> It’s hard to upgrade out of other guests near you slamming the door in the morning as they leave though

That's funny, that's exactly the issue I had with AirBnB "guests" in my building. Also, them bumping their wheely suitcases down the stairs at 5am for the cheap flight home.
My old college neighbor did the same thing, drunk at a 3rd friends wedding. He's in a wheelchair now. One more thing a parent has to stress.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42713108

There has been a huge setback in US espionage in China...
That Nobel Peace Prize for Obama was just so wrong. It was a Norwegian (Not Swedish) small celebrity/exposure hungry group of elderly people who abused the power of the brand for their personal gain.

(Liberal-minded americans downvoting this: please think twice. Not everything that seems to go against your instincts is downvote-worthy if you don't know the details. In this case the details matter.)
Amongst other things, worth noting how informed his approach was.

At a time when a lot of pedagogy, and professionalism regarding same, seems to be under assault.
I’m sorry for your loss. The same thing happened in my family. It gets better with time.
might as well just watch over google maps. It's not the same thing sadly.
>meant to help people who are annoyed

So to summarize you: rights are not inalienable but dependent on if people get annoyed.

Do you see how philosophically weak that position is? Should Muslims be deported because the US government finds them annoying and people 'never chose to live next door to them'? Rights must be grounded in something other than 'popular opinion'.

I'd rather live in a world where I simply have to buy/rent in an HOA which everyone signs a contract stating that we will abide by XYZ rules rather than one where we have to rely on the threat of murderous government.

Government's proposition to you is: Let me kill whomever I want and I'll make your life marginally better. I find it ethically unconscionable to benefit so marginally at the expense of someone else's life.
This isn't exactly new, Unimation was already selling a bunch of robots to the auto industry in the 1960s.
I agree. To me, out of the 'big 4', they are the coolest currently.
Ahhhh looks like it's a mobile only feature. As far as I can see, there's no way to get out working on desktop, so I guess I'll remove the feature on devices that don't support it. Surprisingly WhatsApp actually does work on desktop though.

So thanks for the heads-up samblr
Google Keep is alright
If the ordinances don't account for the scenario, they could (and probably should) be updated to indicate that repeat offenses at a rental could lead to a fine to the owner, so that they have a compelling interest to ensure their neighbors have a good experience
Maybe, but it works really well for most applications, and its available on almost every language you can use.
One obvious benefit is that the owner or lessor of the place being sublet on Airbnb is often a party to contracts with their community that forbid short-term rentals; for instance, the owners of condominiums have a responsibility shared with all the other owners of condominiums not to compromise everyone's quiet enjoyment expectations by turning their place into a hostel.
This seems a bizarrely simplistic (or incomplete) statement.

It needs at least an adjective in front of "agony". I don't expect you're suggesting euthanizing someone with acute appendicitis or a severe cluster headache.
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> "Amwrican interests" is a euphemism for "revenue and potential revenue of America's rich and powerful."

I have news for you. In geopolitics, “interests” has always meant primarily economic interests, and economic interests have always been of greatest relevance to the rich. Take the great powers on the eve of World War 1, as an example. Britain had “interests” in Egypt. Russia had “interests” in Turkey. The United States has “interests” in Panama. Millions of people died for these “interests” in WWI. What is meant by “interests” here is business interests. Specifically, Britain seized Egypt in order to control the Suez canal, which was important because it connects the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and British merchants exported goods to Asia through the canal. All of Russia’s exports had to go through the Turkish straights (controlled by the Ottomans at the time), which connect the Black and Mediterranean Seas. The United States was interested in Panama of course because the Panama Canal was a major conduit of maritime trade between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Such “strategic interests” are the reason behind every war ever fought, it may not be right but it’s nothing unique to the US.
Citations needed.

I know some intelligence people. This isn't what they tell me. They tell me that western governments are obsessed with following the law and limiting what their cyber operations touch. It's born out by what I understand from non-classified sources. For example, I read through the source code of Stuxnet when it first came out. There was a ton of guards put in to limit the potential damage it made.

That Canada spies on the USA more than Russia is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard. Read the Snowden leaks and listen to natsec podcasts. The Russians are in a ton of the US infrastructure and the CIA is freaking out about it to the point where they consider cyber to be a bigger existential threat than a nuclear armed DPRK.
This got me curious, so I looked a few things up on pubmed. Here's some articles that piqued my interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086443
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24163237
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22320194
I think it could be done, but you would need to have a lot of pieces come together the right way.

For instance: having a partnership with a University and/or several employers that want to setup a new campus, a large enough number of people willing to move, adequate funding to buy several square miles of wilderness and install some initial roads and infrastructure, a favorable local government that's on-board with the plan and doesn't want to throw up administrative roadblocks, a neighboring pre-existing community that can help bootstrap the infrastructure that doesn't mind another town moving in next door, and someone willing to run the whole thing as a non-profit rather than a money-making endeavor.

The upside if it attains critical mass is that the profit on the sale of buildable lots could finance a lot of the necessary infrastructure.
Were you searching for things like "powershell -filter"? That would exclude every result containing "filter" [1]

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
Obviously they don't, or the braking update would never have needed to happen in the first place.

Highways are not, nor should they ever be if at all possible, proving grounds.
I would love to know more about the Product Manager position in the San Jose office. What would be the best way to reach you? Feel free to ping me at edgar86m [at] gmail [dot] com.
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Updates should fix problems not create new ones. The tried and true method for silicon valley bug fixing is to ship it to the users and let them report any issues. This is wholly insufficient for car software. Car software should seldom have bugs in the first place, but OTA updates should never bar never introduce new bugs to replace the old.
Offloading all of the costs and risks on to your unorganized "independent contractors" is the whole point of the gig economy from the business side. You can't disrupt things if you behave responsibly.
I agree that in general that is the right approach.

However, some people suffer with chronic depression for their entire lives. What makes me uncomfortable is that no exceptions are ever allowed. Every sufferer must continue to stay alive indefinitely no matter how much pain they are in.

I understand why this idea will forever be taboo, but it still bothers me.
I continue to think that, by default, a company should be a Public Benefit Corporation [1] and have to explicitly choose not to be, indicating the kind of company they want to be.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-benefit_corporation
You seem to want to argue with me for some reason, but truth isn't the point of an opinion piece. It never has been and never will be. Opinion pieces were invented as a platform for opinion, not truth, not fact. As I stated earlier, that's why opinion pieces are separated from the news section of a newspaper.

If the article was about truth or facts, it wouldn't be called an opinion piece. I don't know how else to convey that to you other than saying opinion isn't truth. It may be your personal "truth" ( your values, your ideas, your feelings ), but that isn't necessarily universal.

> strive for finding truth (e.g., Scott Alexander, Megan McArdle)

You can't be serious. But thankfully, we live in a free country where we are all entitled to our own opinions.
I've used this framework and it's incredibly well done and stable for a < v1.0 framework. The luxury of 1 codebase to export to multiple platforms + vuejs won me over. I've since launched 2 production apps for work (a third on the way) and a personal side project mobile app for Android/iOS. The documentation is second only to that of Vue.js itself and the community on discord is very helpful and newby friendly.
I use Edison (a DoE supercomputer), and getting through the queue there is kind of a nightmare.
Overcoming transistor minaturization limits due to ‘quantum tunneling’
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For what it's worth, the book is excellent, and very in-depth. You're correct that this is just a glorified advertisement for the book, though.