skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the authenticity of your anecdote, I was very clear to state

> I think you dramatically underestimate the power of people to empathize, which requires great intelligence and (yes) is vulnerable to manipulation.

Second, when I say I trust these reporters it's because I don't have access to more authoritative information or analyses, but I still maintain a reasonable skepticism.

That is, I defer to those presumed to be experts while acknowledging that the scientific value of the claims of said experts are in debate.

I believe the people who report meaningful communication with Koko themselves believe they are having meaningful communication. I acknowledge that the scientific understandings of communication, understanding, and cognition cannot easily be brought to bear.

Basically, I try to keep a nuanced view especially because, from what I understand, ethnological reports are considered to be important in the fields of primatology and anthropology.

EDIT: remove extraneous pronoun
They always want to equate disappearing startups with lack of labor supply. That just seems completely ridiculous. Lack of labor in startups is a result/effect, not a cause. Labor, as a general rule of thumb, always follows the money. If Startups were more successful, they'd get more investment and more labor. If you doubt this, just remember what happened when facebook opened up it's app store. Just like that, overnight, thousands of developers and start ups appeared out of no-where. As soon as people smell the money, they'll leave their cushy jobs at google or anywhere else in a heartbeat. It all comes down to opportunity.

I mean, just look at the ycombinator and other investor's acceptance rates. They're that low because there's only so many opportunities. When there's too many people chasing too few opportunities, this is the result.

The real reasons why start ups are far fewer, is much more complicated: an it has to do with fewer opportunities. Some opportunities are limited legally, some due to market barriers and some are just due to what's currently possible.

The solution is to look at all those barriers and see what govt can do to reduce or get rid of the barriers. Look at the industries in most dire need of innovation: transportation, housing, and health insurance (where need is measured by $ opportunity) ~ and all the downstream industries that support these - like manufacturing, raw materials, etc. How many start ups are addressing these needs, and why is it so low?
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The information that is valuable to me is...

Does a project have:

- passing unit tests with reasonable coverage

- reported issues, including closed issues

- peer review process and continuous integration

- a large number of unique contributors

- proper versioning

- compliant and compatible licensing
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man alive, an irresponsible approach to shutting down a SaaS like this is exactly why infrastructure startups face an uphill battle getting folks to adopt them.
Basketball? Yeah, I'm all for chasing and achieving goals...dreams in this case. But China ain't going nowhere in Basketball any time in my lifetime..or two lifetimes at that.
Depends on if you want your code to go fast right now or if hypothetically going faster maybe sometime in the future perhaps is good enough for you.

There's a good argument for both situations depending on context.
There really ought to be more discussion of zoning than this:

The remaining 80,000 new units of affordable housing would start to materialize with De Blasio rezoning fifteen neighborhoods for higher-density habitation. The Bloomberg Administration had taken another approach, rezoning more than a third of the city but more often “downzoning” neighborhoods to limit housing capacity and preserve their “character.” Unsurprisingly, the downzoned neighborhoods tended to be whiter and more well-off than those that were upzoned, but ultimately a net of 15,000 buildings and 170,000 housing units were added during Bloomberg’s three terms. This approach, as well, did absolutely nothing to contain rents.

If we want housing to be more affordable, we should just build more of it: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/californi...

And complaining about empty condos is silly. Housing services are a huge, underappreciated export opportunity: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/19/exporting_hou....

We have the technology to build more housing units on a given plan. We just have to make doing so legal. The very things that make NYC so desirable are (mostly) illegal today: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/19/exporting_hou....

Many cities suffer similarly: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut...
No, but you can use an extension/native helper and talk to it from the web app using network calls.
I'm not American. The firm is BAE. I believe the UK government negotiates and BAE end up with the money.
If Firefox does not offer the reader mode button/icon for a page, you can still use it using this:

about:reader?url=<insert url here>
> And https://github.com/zserge/webview doesn't seem to offer a lot of cross platform functionality

Not to drag this too far off topic—but outside of the API differences between webviews— what do you mean?

I imagine it could be used to serve something like Slack's web app for example which [I imagine] would have been built to bend to each of those browsers' functionality to begin with.
This reminds me if Eric Schmidt left Google because of this debacle: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-...
> The NYC of the past that he describes was dirty, filthy, and downright dangerous

The author does address this, and states he doesn't long for this part of the past:

"Those of us who have been in New York for any amount of time are immediately suspected of nostalgia if we dare to compare our shiny city of today unfavorably, in any way, with what came before. So let me make one thing perfectly clear, as that old New Yorker Dick Nixon used to say, and list right now all the things I hated about the New York of the Seventies: crime, dirt, days-old garbage left on the street, cockroaches, the Bronx burning, homelessness, discarded hypodermic needles on my building’s stoop, discarded crack vials [...]"
The problem with ESPN is three-fold.

First, ESPN is expensive. I read in a trade magazine not too long ago that it's the most expensive cable channel for providers to carry.

Second, it is very hard for television providers to carry ESPN without also carrying a massive bundle of other marginally-popular ESPN channels that few people want. This is because some cable channels base their advertising rates on the number of subscribers, not the number of people watching a program. Though sometimes it's a combination.

Third, (and this is really the suck) if a television provider provides local TV channels that are owned by a company that also owns cable channels (Disney, Kabletown, Cox, etc...) then usually they aren't allowed to carry the local OTA channel without also carrying a bunch of cable channels the provider doesn't want.

For example, if a local cable company wants to carry KTRK for its subscribers in Houston, Disney requires it to also take ESPN and DisneyXd and a bunch of other unrelated channels, which the local cable company has to then pass the price of on to its subscribers.

AT&T not providing sports or local channels with its new plan keeps the price way way down.
Totally disagree with you, and agree with Taleb: To write a piece like this and be worthwhile one must put their money where their mouth is. The disclosure is all that's required.

I don't trust any writing on stocks/markets where a person does not have a position. This person is an investor or trader, unlike the forecasters/prophets/charlatans on day-time stock shows. You don't have to believe this author, but you at least know they are taking their own thesis seriously and stand behind it if they are wrong.

It would be nice if SA put them at the top of the article though.
As an author of enforce.py, I just want to say that working on and with type hints exhausted me. The inner implementation is so full of corner cases. And the indifferent at best attitude of python subreddit wasn't very helpful either (imho). I still don't know if anyone besides project's awesome contributors ever used it.

To be honest, the biggest issue of python type hinting (from my point of view) is that it is an abstraction of a totally different typing system underneath. Type hints do not represent actual types at all. They are just for convenience sake.

What started as a proof-of-concept for me, soon became a huge monster with special handlers for almost every single case. It is so messy now, that hardly anyone besides me can do any maintenance. I have been considering a rewrite (using ast modifications to avoid huge number of potential corner cases and performance issues) for more than a year now, but such endeavour is too big for me to undertake. It would be a fresh start after all.

End of rant :)
There is economic gain for those collecting it. Of course, how much you can squeeze people and businesses is an everlasting question.
Does this also work in reverse? I.e. take supplements/drugs until the test is negative, and then be (temporarily) autism-free?
If they accept credit cards online, their credit card solution ought to include tax management feature.

Usually, small shops can ignore stuff like this until they get a bill from an authority, or get big enough for it to matter. As long as they save money for estimated tax liability (approximately equal to their local tax rate), they are fine.
Well they'd earn the same as they're earning now :D
This is not surprising. At least one study [1] showed 85% of people's brains are PCR-positive for at least HHV-6. It is also important to keep in mind that herpesviruses have evolved with us (and many other species) and in some ways are considered part of our normal flora. They may also play an important role in the proper development of our immune system.

The data in this paper is suggestive (and complicated!!), but there is no convincing mechanism for the virus having anything to do with the development of Alzheimers. The real virology here will be very hard.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11285567
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I think it's more of a guiding principle rather than a steadfast rule. Like I would think "releasing code to production" is a one-way door. Even though it can be undone, it can have pretty bad consequences and breaks existing protocols. On the other hand "researching a new topic" cannot be technically undone, but it is a two-way door because there is not any harm if it goes wrong and you're working in the best interest of your team.
There’s zero national economic gain from _any_ variation in law from state to state, but either you’re in favour of state’s rights or you’re not.
Might as well just use electron at that point since it's easier on the developer side.
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States want to collect taxes. Now that they have a consistent policy position, you may see interstate agreements to harmonize collection.

There is already a precedent with DMV data sharing agreements, and some states will collect sales taxes for others as well.
"can people not be genuinely interested in Palantir?"

Nobody said that immoral things can't be interesting.
If anyone is curious, this was Sony's official response:

> We’re always open to hearing what the PlayStation community is interested in to enhance their gaming experience. Fortnite is already a huge hit with PS4 fans, offering a true free-to-play experience so gamers can jump in and play online. With 79 million PS4s sold around the world and more than 80 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network, we’ve built a huge community of gamers who can play together on Fortnite and all online titles. We also offer Fortnite cross-play support with PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices, expanding the opportunity for Fortnite fans on PS4 to play with even more gamers on other platforms.[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44477524
I assure you everyone wants to get laid. Whether that is the ONLY reason is a different story.
> Languages do not need a 1 to 1 relationship between the storage medium of a value and the interface it exposes to a programmer.

Sure, but that doesn't excuse the well-documented 'sufficiently-smart-compiler fallacy'.

The performance improvements that can be had by the escape-analysis/object-inlining family of JIT compiler optimisations, are considerable, but even today, production JVMs don't do a very good job. It's not an easy problem to solve well.

> I suspect the reason Java did it was to not surprise C++ programmers. Solely dictated by marketing, not by technical reasons.

I sincerely doubt it. You're wrong to dismiss the performance question.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366886
No, I think that'd be a bridge too far, regardless of the pay. I might've done something like network administration or some kind of weapon system development; a friend of mine built a UI for something on the F35, and that would've been (relatively) fine. Biometrics and detention stuff specifically is abominable.
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yeah, this is probably why it compares so favorably with YouTube TV which I'm using for my first month for $40. I did the trial just to play with it; accidentally let it run over by a day but I'll keep it for FS1 during the world cup.
There seems to be a ton of debate on lumping and splitting various disorders in the DSM. If I remember correctly academics like to split, practicing clinicians like to lump. There is so much overlap in many conditions that psychologists and psychiatrists that actually deal directly with patients question the need to split every small permutation of symptoms into a distinct disorder. I'm not saying the DSM-5 is absolutely free of issues as I'm sure DSM-6,7,8,20 will be an improvement.
I did get a TS/SCI later, but I've long since let it lapse, and I'm back in the private sector.
It can also lead to paranoia and distrust, trauma has many negative effects. It’s not just bootstraps the whole way down ;)
Unfortunately, the author mixes the sometimes related but otherwise distinct concepts of company housing, remote work, flexible work, freelancing, expats/working migrants, and digital nomadism. Therefore it doesn't really say much of substance about any of them.
> In decades past, researchers could come up with ideas and use them on patients who had no other options, and often saved lives that way. The field advanced quickly. Now progress has slowed and clinical practice lags well behind the state of the art in research, largely due to FDA restrictions.

And Steve Jobs might be alive if he listened to actual science.

In decades past, there wasn't anything effective for cancer. Now there is, and the bar should be much higher.

We are winning the war against some cancers. It's just that we've picked off the easy stuff, and now we're left with the hard stuff.
Wow, this is really handy!
Yes. It’s a knife that is very dangerous to pick up. That’s why an item from long ago can linger. (I have no non-public information in this case)
But is it worth it to have less volume and more authenticity?
Think of it from the perspective of the business selling goods. Then the quote makes more sense.
Have you looked at the price and performance for AMD's threadripper and epyc series? I agree that we're nearing the end of shrinking process nodes, but their architecture is incredibly innovative
I don't disagree; a better middle ground might be cost plus some reasonable percentage for unapproved treatments.
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I think it depends on the state. At least in MI, you only have to pay the difference [1] [2]:

> Use Tax on the Difference

> If you paid at least 6 percent to another state on your purchase, you do not owe use tax to Michigan. If you paid less than 6 percent, you owe the difference.

> NOTE: The full 6 percent use tax is also owed on purchases made in a foreign country.

[1]: https://www.taxslayer.com/support/1153/michigan-use-tax

[2]: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/taxes/MI_1040_Instruction...
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The obvious solution here is that TN will not include online stores in the sales tax holiday.
We use DirectTV Now app on our Apple TV over a Comcast connection. I really like it. The only problem we have is Comcast imposes a data cap of 1TB. With 3 TVs going in the house, kids watching Netflix, and my wife and I watching a separate shows we occasionally hit this limit then get charged an extra $10 per 50GB. Seems ridiculous.
The dictionary is holding you back my friend :)
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Do you have any performance data that supports these claims? Does Pony support distributed memory parallelism?

Here are some recent Chapel performance results:

shared memory: https://twitter.com/ChapelLanguage/status/100266735892881408...

distributed memory: https://twitter.com/ChapelLanguage/status/100258998583959552...
He’d get fried today. This article shows exactly why companies have fraternization rules. It is not to protect the employees. It is to protect the executives from extortion, and as such, the rules should punish the subordinates just as much as the managers.
I’ve seen these relationships cause major problems. Bob had a relationship with Alice, and now couldn’t fire her because it would look like quid pro quo (not getting into details here). Alice was the worst manager I have ever worked for, and many of her direct reports were quitting without notice (including me).

Even though what happened between Alice and Bob was consensual, it made it impossible for Bob to do his job. Alice and Bob were both fired.

You can’t effectively distinguish between a “good relationship” and a “bad relationship” so a blanket rule makes the most sense. The issue is not necessarily about whether the relationship itself is ethical, but how it appears to observers and if it affects the organization.
Most of the gig would've been on-site at the same Army base where I was already working. Time spent overseas would've been at an astronomical rate, albeit one I don't specifically recall.
But the sample is US-based. 25 years ago you might get by with a small student loan to complete your education. Nowadays the debt load is pretty much off the charts [1].

IMHO a better study would be to check out what's happening in continental Europe, where higher education is either free or nearly so for all practical intents. As a local, I'd put forward that youngsters are as entrepreneurial as they were a generation ago, if not more.

At any rate, I would expect the real issue in the US has more to do with the skyrocketing education costs (and later, mortgage costs) than it does with lack of desire or drive to create a business.

[1]: https://411w15.econ.lsa.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04...
"popular ballot initiative supported by most California voters"

Considering it didn't pass Supreme Court muster, guess what? Those voters were obviously wrong and stupid, and should probably have their right to vote stripped forever.
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I mean, who's to say the humans you communicate with daily are actually conscious? They just appear that way because they look and talk like you, and you believe yourself to be conscious. If a neutral third party observer saw Helen Keller communicating to one of her "handlers" -- Someone with the specialized training to do such communication at all -- They might very well think the handlers are inferring special meaning, because Helen Keller looks like a retarded person that can't originate meaningful thoughts.

This obviously has implications upon our treatment of people with disabilities, people of different races/cultures etc.
People with Alzheimer's seem to have more things in their brain that shouldn't be there than normal. Past findings include types of immune cells that shouldn't be there, various yeast, other types of virus etc. It's not clear if all those are there due to the blood-brain barrier loosing structural integrity, or those cause Alzheimer's in the first place.
"Disorder" is not value judgement. It is more about whether you can describe common symptoms and eventually steps to help (if possible).

The things you mention have derogative terms in culture. And focusing on sport instead of academic is not nearly at level of symptoms described here.

Frabkly, the discussion whether x is meaningful diagnoses makes sense only if you bother to read actual diagnosis - and surrounding text to see whether there are similar diagnoses nearby.
Also they vary by time - taxes can be added/removed/changed on any particular item.
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> Food is already exempt from sales tax.

From some sales taxes. That is far from universal.
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interesting to read that in the (perhaps) mecca of high rises and high density housing, they are also complaining of unaffordable housing.
That's why AMD innovated on a new CPU design, because what we've been using doesn't cut it anymore. Look at their CCX architecture and infinity fabric
How exactly do you think scientists investigate which areas of animal (and human) brains are responsible for which functional area ?

With humans it comes from papers describing the treatment of "brain trauma". Within animals, where the majority of research is done, depending on the animal, they just nail them to a board, or nail a board or a wire into their skull, cut out half the brain, insert some sensors, and record data in the few hours that the pain does not totally immobilise the animals, usually while making the animal perform some trick, like navigating a maze, or looking at prey, or ...
As market shows it's not about what you can do but what is the easiest and fastest way to make a product.

I've created Electron application also, not because it's the best solution on the market but because it was fast and easy way to get my app to the users.

If I had time and resources I would probably just use Qt or created native app for each platform.
...and yet, culture-wise, Manhattan is still basically selling and living on "the dream" created by the cultural output of the 70s and 80s. There is no real artistic or cultural activity in Lower Manhattan anymore - it's simply too expensive for normal people to live there.

Edit: Added (Lower) Manhattan (which was the epicenter of most NYC culture 60s-80s).
I’m in the same boat, advertising with big data and generative deep learning. Harmful garbage if you ask me. I have no savings but I’m quitting as soon as I get an offer. I don’t care if I get fired, I’d rather be homeless.
$100K can be quite a low number, if it's revenue not profit.

Consider selling 100x$1000 computers at $50 profit per each, vs 1000x$100 jewelry at $50 profit per each.
People shouldn't be charged to serve as guinea pigs. On the contrary, they should be paid.

Here is a problem: if a pharma company can simply make money from someone's desperation, they have a reduced incentive to actually make the drug work.

The situation is reduced to a simple scam: the business model of selling some desperate people the promise of a cure which is just snake oil.

We always have to consider the effect of how the flow of money in a situation creates incentives that have unintended consequences.
But even worse for the user than a web browser already is.

Can we, instead of combining the worst of native apps, web apps and containerizaton, maybe work towards removing SOME of the terrible aspects for users? If developer comfort is the highest priority you might as well skip making the interface look nice/useable.

Electron really is an extension of Chrome and it'd be damn nice if it could be shipped as one.
It's not. They'll provide this input.