skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a working theory that the fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals include the following:

(1) While both groups would like an accurate understanding of human nature, conservatives tend to be pessimistic and liberals tend to be optimistic.

(2) While both groups would like to be compassionate and charitable, they're riled by different problems: Conservatives especially hate the idea of freeloading / abuse of charity, but liberals especially hate the idea of anyone not receiving the charity.

It sounds like Filloux would consider himself a conservative, and the VCs liberals, according to my theory.
> It's not necessarily that "getting a good deal" is the reason that people shop at Amazon. Personally I think their customer service is pretty top-notch compared to most anywhere else and I know I'll be in good hands 99% of the time if I have any problems with a product.

Personally, I've had pretty good product return experiences with Amazon's brick and mortar competitors recently. They know they're competing with Amazon, and they're trying to adjust accordingly.

My main point was that Amazon and the rest of the retail landscape has changed, and if you formed your view that heavily favors Amazon 10+ years ago, it's probably outdated and should be recalibrated.

I shopped almost exclusively on Amazon for a long time. I've been pulling back from it and have been finding that my old, harsh judgements of its competitors are no longer true. They've gone a long way towards catching up, and Amazon has been resting on its laurels or even regressing in the areas I care about.

> That's worth any minuscule price-disadvantage compared to competitors to me.

It's wrong to assume the price-disadvantage is minuscule, especially when you're dealing with marketplace sellers.
Gates does have an ~8 year lead
If only the EU gave these companies a 2-year headstart to become compliant. Oh wait.
I see I am getting DDOSed now.. haha
> The problem is that the 2018 World Cup is not a repeatable event. Neither are most open-market trades...

The 2018 World Cup is not a repeatable event, Elon Musk buying $10M of Tesla shares is not a repeatable event, and Donald Trump winning the 2016 presidential election is not a repeatable event. Therefore, to meaningfully discuss any of these in the context of probabilities and confidence intervals, we must assume that we generalize them to any soccer game, a stock purchase, or an election, and can do this meaningfully by adjusting our priors. It does make the mathematics a lot less pure.
I regularly see new IP addresses added by GitHub via ssh messages like yours.
Check out https://status.github.com/messages for status
It will come as soon as the company exhausts demand for the higher-ASP variants. In what world does it make business sense for a production-constrained company to prioritize its least expensive products?
Bluetooth is named after a medieval king who had a blue tooth
Emissions vs people is a good metric if you think that every person should get an emissions budget. If pollution externalities are inevitable, it's most just to require that a Nepali and an American have the same emissions budget. Why does an American get to pollute way more?
I just saw a Nissan article on here a few days ago. It was about how they cheated their emissions tests.
When gov.uk first started to replace the previous online presence, they were like first-level tech support: brilliant if your question is in the FAQ, useless otherwise. A lot of detailed information on aspects of running a charitable organisation, which I presume weren't accessed every day, simply disappeared. For a while, the web archive of the old site was my lifeline.

My feeling is that gov.uk has got a lot better since, but it's low-information-density by design. This is absolutely the right thing to do for a lot of their users in a lot of cases, and doubly so when targeting users who might not speak good English for whatever reason. But I still feel that information meant for professionals could be presented in a more useful way.

On the web design side, they definitely deserve 5 out of 5. Good general design, sensible spacing, not requiring a huge javascript framework just to display some text - there's so much right with this site.
That assumes all your navy does is fight pitched ship-to-ship naval battles. Historically, countries also needed ships for important functions such as reconnaissance, communication, blockades, harassment of enemy shipping, protection of friendly shipping, coastal raids, coastal security, transport of troops and supplies, and control of smuggling. In fact, the only reason you even care about winning big pitched naval battles is to control the seas so your navy could execute those functions better than the other navy! So you definitely need all those small and medium-sized ships, and in the case of a big battle, you wouldn't automatically send them away. You'd bring them to the fight as long as you believed their impact would outweigh the risk and trouble of bringing them.

Source: I read a couple of Horatio Hornblower novels a decade ago.
Maybe your mom would, I'm sure she's a lovely woman.

But I know from hard experience that a lot of people wouldn't. My ex lost her job at some point and was looking for a year for a new one. She became terribly depressed, just staying in bed and crying all day. I'd talk her out of it, she'd be OK for a while, and then get depressed again because she felt "useless" and "like a loser".

I encouraged her, again and again, to go out and get a basic job even if it was menial, like waiting tables, or to volunteer for something, or to learn new skills, so at least she'd have something to do. But she refused to even look for jobs that weren't fancy middle class office jobs, volunteering was out of the question and her attempts at learning new skills were half-hearted at best.

Jobs aren't just a source of money. They're a source of validation, every day. Take away the job and people don't magically become perfect citizens who spend all their time doing generic good. They can become lethargic and depressed. As, in fact, the article articulates w.r.t. the French system.
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The purpose is to solidify the claim of territory, the enforcement will be military because China won't back down on this, and the law court path has been rejected. Open seas is the current active, western fleet response. If the Chinese miltary get the upper hand in the political conversation they WILL use this to argue for budget, to get more aircraft carriers, and more sea-active weapons. But that is future spend and is not on the current budget horizon is it?

So yes, there is a war war not jaw jaw aspect to building the islands, but the budgetary impact? low. Until they fund bulding the aircraft carriers, and stealth UAVs.
I don't understand how the rearview mirrors can be up to 5X difference in price and have the same features(eg: auto dimming). Also BMW and Chevy are likely sharing the rearview mirror with other models so the price difference even makes less sense to me.
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Amazon's share price was mid 900s in Sept 2017...1800+ today. When you own a lot of that stock...
You may like hugo and markdown for journaling.

Personally I settled running wordpress in a lxc container in my roofspace. The little hp dual-core box runs wordpress, gitlab and a plex media server.

I think sometimes lightweight and simple becomes a pain.
> What koolaid have they drunk?

The Cargo Cult Kool-Aid?
Anybody know any good APIs or projects that help you get the article content for a given url? There is of course Mercury API, but are there any alternatives?
> Here's a chart showing cumulative CO2 emissions 1900-2002

Such a chart is going to have a glaring omission, and it's the very rapid rise in China's CO2 emissions relative to the rest of the world. I've tried in the past to find much more up-to-date numbers on this, and failed. But it should be clear to anybody that, if you factor in total emissions since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, China is definitely in the top 10 and maybe the top 3.

Arguing that China should get a "by" on emissions runs into the problem that China is now the biggest problem on emissions. In total emissions, China overtook the US as largest around 2005 or so, and now produces twice as much as the second place slot. On a per-capita basis, China is worse than the EU, although not quite as bad as the rich EU countries or the US. And it's not like China doesn't have the ability to produce green energy--the largest solar manufacturers are all Chinese.

One facet of history is that, on an international scale, countries came to displace their predecessors not by emulating their technology but by being at the forefront of newer, better technologies. There really should be no excuse for, nor a need to excuse, inaction.
Literally no data producing phenomenon is a repeatable event, outside of controlled experiments.
I use instapaper solely for its 'highlight' feature. Strange that other read-it-later apps don't provide it (at least in their free versions).
But he can borrow against his stock holdings at very low rates I am sure, so its effectively as good as cash.
It should put up a blue screen of death.
or in the case of american football fans, watch 3 hours and 4 minutes of ads and commentary around 11 minutes of plays.
The answer is yes. If they have the text of their video, they can upload it and Youtube will try to match it to the underlying speech.

Youtube can do some automated transcription but it can be buggy.

For funsies, I recently did the transcription of a video for a creator I enjoy. There was a blog post based on the video but it wasn't a 1:1 match so it had to be tweaked by hand. It was time consuming.
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Playing a game is already an effortless activity that is hard to believe people are even unwilling to do that. I can maybe understand if you couldn't afford it or didn't want to afford it, but there are countless recordings of any video game on youtube without commentary.
I feel that America is in the midst of a new gilded age; instead of Standard Oil, we have Amazon.

Like the late 1920s, we saw losses in purchasing power of the average American, the collection of wealth among the top 1%, and disruption of our civic spaces as a result. I think the thing that many Americans aren't aware of was just how violent that time in US history was[1].

The US economy isn't just about how comfortable the average US citizen is, it is also a measure of how much cushion there is in our society between us being frustrated looking at a job board and being angry and armed in the streets. The teachers strikes in Oklahoma, Florida, and W. Virginia are showing the rise of Unions (much like in the gilded age as well). Protest and civic engagement must be our response, we should take signs like the wealth of Bezos as a cautionary tale, rather than something to simply marvel at.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Matewan

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Alabama_coal_strike

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Also, Amazon's retail teams rely on CCC because it's more accurate than their own tools.
The anti-Musk campaign is a clear and obvious example of astroturf. The likely culprits are Jim Chanos and other large scale shorts.

This isn't a totally baseless allegation. Shorting potentially vulnerable companies and then launching massive smear campaigns against them is a well known underhanded Wall St. tactic. Chanos has a documented history of doing this.

Musk is a hype-monger but he also has a history of actually delivering stuff. See: SpaceX reusable rockets, Dragon spacecraft, earlier generation Tesla automobiles. He is quite far from a con artist.
for perspective - CalPERs has a projected shortfall of over $1 Trillion, meanwhile the entire federal debt of Canada is less than $700 billion.

unlike Canada, the state of California cannot simply print its own currency to address the issue
> What I don’t get about articles like this is how they just go on and on about how bad of an idea UBI is but don’t propose any kind of a solution.

You're falling for the politician's fallacy. You see a problem, you see a proposed solution, and not hearing any other solutions, you've determined that this solution will fix the problem.

Recognizing that a solution is bad is worthwhile in and of itself. If he's right and we accept that UBI is the wrong solution to the problem then we can stop funneling time and effort into trying to implement that solution and instead look for a solution that may work. Just because he doesn't have that solution doesn't mean we shouldn't listen to his reasons why UBI won't work.

It's like if two non-mechanics were trying to fix an engine and one proposes to slap the engine with his dick until it works again. Just because the other guy doesn't know how to fix the problem doesn't mean he's wrong when he says that slapping the engine with a dick isn't going to fix the problem.
How did you know that the code still worked after you refactored it?

At the very least, the tests are a list of things the code should do.
How much of those assets could a Putin or the House of Saud liquidate before risking a coup? If we're playing speculator, shouldn't we consider risk of "devaluation" for both?
Is this what you mean - a bookmarklet that gets rid of all the clutter?

https://readable.io/
AMZN was $1,010 on 2017-Jul-17. Right now it's $1,813. That's a ~80% increase, so it's extremely plausible that his net worth went up by 50% (in fact, I'm surprised it didn't go up by more).
Yep. It's not surprising people fail to apply the same standards for privacy to things they are dependent on but it is sad. And it's not just smartphones but any cell phone. They're all tracking ankle bracelets.

But more back on topic, buying everything from one store, as amazon's 'Prime' and business practices are focused on, represents a fairly large privacy risk and centralized liability in and of itself. Better to just buy from wherever has the best price/etc.
I hear you, your criticisms are valid but you've identified the wrong cause. It's not the tooling, or languages themselves, rather the web platform.

With the web platform everything is sat on top of shifting sand ... i.e. changing browsers, standards and devices. Almost nothing in the tech world has changed so fast over the last 15 years than the software and devices web platform code is expected to run on. I'd say that given that churn, the quality of modern web languages and tooling is remarkable.

Writing backends vs frontends is a totally different thing. Backends tend to run in stable environments, and mainly you concern yourself with data in and data out. That's not to say its easy, there can certainly be be plenty of "essential complexity", and infrastructure and scaling is a whole additional set of concerns. Frontend by contrast is a much more fuzzy issue, clients need to run across many unstable environments and require skills very far from traditional programming - sensitivity to design, UX and animation for example. If you're good at backend, it doesn't mean you're going to enjoy frontend too. And if you don't enjoy frontend it doesn't mean all the frontend tech is "bad".
No, I think it's a reasonable comparison. Yes, phasing out benefits creates an incentive not to work.

But even many UBI proposals have some phase out, if only because the taxpayer paying money to a millionaire feels fundamentally wrong on so many levels.

And the bigger problem is more basic. The idea of UBI is that freed from the need to work, people will form utopian societies full of volunteering and self improvement and art projects etc. But France and realistically most welfare systems show that isn't true. People don't engage in self-improvement en-masse. They sit around watching TV or scrolling through Instagram all day, feeling useless and depressed.
Yea I love games and used to play a lot, but they have become a huge time commitment. It’s usually one or more of:

1. Games that simply require grinding to unlock game progression (XP, time-based gates, etc.)

2. Games with numerous hour-long quests that need to be done serially in order to progress

3. Games that disproportionately reward outlier-level skill, requiring a huge practice time commitment (multiplayer shooters)

4. Games that reward deep knowledge of rules and formulas, requiring extensive study and sometimes Excel modeling (Eve Online comes to mind, but also the Civilization series and some sandbox games)

These days if you want something fun you can play for 15-30 minutes and still get good at on that schedule, you’re limited to the bland “Casual Gaming” genre.
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That is an interesting way to compare wealth between time periods but I'm not sure it's the most valid method.
First, batteries are the critical path for EVs. That is, cost, adoption, range, power, etc all a function of the quality of the battery.

Second but Tesla seems to have the best battery by far. Unfortunately we can't know this for sure, because businesses like Munro & Associates charge millions of dollars for this info, but what they and others do reveal points to that. There's no reason to believe that any other manufacturer can make a better EV. Nissan, for example, can charge you less, but also give you less battery.

Unfortunately for everyone involved, batteries as a whole are still expensive, so it'll take time for the industry to spin up and for used models to become available. My personal guess is that in ~5years, Tesla will be able sell you a $25k car with 400km range.

In the meantime, you could look into used Leafs, Volts or i3s, or just wait. For ~4km you also don't need a charging station for those, just a cable.
> The current three way split is funded by some billionaire guy.

True.

> It’s actually not a bad idea.

It's a phenomenally bad idea.

> The rural interior has way different needs than the coastal areas.

To the extent that's true, it just proves that the proposed three-way split is a bad idea, since it includes:

(1) a south-to-central coastal state (“California”; basically LA plus less populated coastal regions), and

(2) a Bay Area and further north coastal + northern half of the inland regions state (“Northern California”, loosely Bay Area + Sacramento + rural regions), and

(3) a far southern coast and southern half of the inland regions state (“Southern California”; San Diego + inland rural regions).
If he was $100 and went to $150 his net worth went up 50% surely? 100% is doubling....
You can get a low-mileage used Leaf under $10k today.
I can imagine this Nanix OS as the OS for a hypervisor. The less code on the hypervisor level, the less code that can be compromised.

Is this an accurate view, or am I missing something?
“I did rather have a kid without a finger than a resourseless kid” - Jeff Bezos.
What $35k model?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/07/tesla-drops-35000-price...

I’ll believe it’s a thing when it starts to ship, until then it’s PR for a car that’s much less affordable.

Edit: the mass downvoting of any comment critical of Tesla/Musk, and flagging of any negative article is getting really old. It’s especially galling when people float conspiracy theories about an anti-Musk bent as a justification for this.
Yes, I do in fact think that blatant racism is "wrongthink" and has no place in civilized discourse. I definitely think it is a more serious issue than using curse words or expressing negative sentiments.

Also, if you think that that 4chan stunt was "anodyne" then it seems you have very little concept of how language or speech acts work, and are unqualified to weigh in on a discussion of them.
I was going to set up a VirtualBox virtual network disconnected from the Internet to do this - perhaps only allowing HTTPS to a Debian/Ubuntu mirror if I need to install packages. You could do something similar for your Kubernetes cluster.

I was also considering a cheap, pay-by-the hour VPS that I could just destroy after the stream.
I'm at the point now where I've realized that nothing is ever the solution all the time. It's a little frustrating.

I used to use the rule of thumb that JPEG was for images, and PNG for charts, and things with text.

But these days I go through each image I get from the art department and optimize it myself in Photoshop, cycling through a series of presets.

To my surprise, depending on the image, sometimes an 8-bit PNG will end up smaller than a JPEG, and provide better visual quality.

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That's not always the case, another anecdotal counter-point. I led the "independent" spin off of Jungle Disk from Rackspace 2.5 years ago now[1] and we're actively investing (more than 3x the R&D spend), growing our services, and making acquisitions of our own[2].

[1] https://therivardreport.com/jungle-disk-finds-a-home-in-down...
[2] https://www.xconomy.com/texas/2017/12/05/jungle-disk-buys-ca... / https://www.startupssanantonio.com/jungle-disk-announces-acq...
Thanks for the replies and the detailed sources, it's interesting to read!

> Point being, they aren't clairvoyant oracles.

Yeah, my argument was weak in that regard. They aren't anywhere close to perfect or accurate, I'll admit.

> you seem to be claiming some form of what economists call "omitted variable bias"

Yes! Is that what it's called?

> please point to a concrete example of a team in a critical game receiving a disproportionate number of calls

Corruption doesn't have to be that explicit. Maybe key players or coaches are paid to perform poorly? It doesn't always come down to the ref. But I admit I have no examples.
What timezone are you in, what is your native language, and what is your culture? In that order.

In my experience those are the biggest factors.

I find it hard to work with India because they are about 12 hours different from me, thus we are never in the office at the same time unless someone makes an effort to come in when they are normally sleeping. Working with Germany is almost as bad, we only get a couple hours in the early morning (our time) when we can catch them in the office.

When you share a native language communication is easier. (though be careful every once in a while some expression takes a different meaning in different countries). One of the best ways to get around this is set an office language and only hire people who know it (this might mean making all your people learn a different language)

I haven't worked with Argentina, and only minimally with Spain (meaning I might be wrong), but my understanding of both countries is their culture doesn't really understand time. In the US if someone says 9am they mean 9am and 9:05 will make them mad. In Spain/Argentina 9am might stretch as late as 10:30am and nobody cares. When the two cultures meet there is friction because of this. There are many other variations of problems where culture will cause two people to think the other is an idiot. It is worth learning something about the other culture.

Beyond that, my experience is you will find good and bad people in every country. Even if you could state that one is better than the other, you can find enough great people in the others as to not make a difference - if you are willing to search hard enough.

What I have found most helpful is airplanes. Every few months someone flying to visit the people on the other team is very helpful. When face to face you realize the other person is smart, not an idiot who can barely program (it is surprising how often this is assumed). Also when working next to the other person you see things they are doing that they are doing "because nothing else works" when there is a better way (or sometimes you know your tools team needs to fix something for the remote team).