skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>or car makers making blatantly unsafe vehicles in crashes (and claiming otherwise).

That's not an externality. That's just a bad quality product, and in the case of the safety performance not meeting the car maker's advertised claims, it's fraud.

>>But you seem to focus on the general elevation of a whole set of meta-concerns about regulation.

I think regulations are largely a consequence of what you term "meta-concerns", but which are actually the objective of the major forces that are pushing for them. If you look at the push for Airbnb regulations for example, you see a lot of rhetoric about affordable housing, but you see the groups funding the PR campaign are hotel industry groups.

This same pattern can be seen across various industries: incumbents using astroturfing and other PR tactics to convince the public that there is a public interest in creating new regulatory restrictions.

I believe another driver of regulations is basic ignorance about how a complex economy evolves to address inefficiencies. This blind spot leads to people assuming that problems need to be addressed with cookie-cutter rules that are politically imposed.
@olivercameron

Hi Oliver,

Udacity SDC alum here. Are there plans in the pipeline to open a subdivision on the East coast? I am super interested applying my education in new career opportunities but self driving car related jobs are tough to find near NYC.
Using Rust and WebAssembly to animate 30k colored LED lights
As an aside - I've always heard "to give a wide berth" used in the same sense as "keep at arms' length" or even "wouldn't touch with a barge pole". I'm curious as to whether it's also commonly used in this sense?

Interestingly, the way I'd phrase this case is to "give them more leeway" which is a closely related nautical term but seems to be used the opposite.

Edit: Thinking about it, I guess to "give them more leeway" is to give them more room to maneuver, while "give a wide berth" is to give yourself more room.
This is from 2017 and it's also very incorrect. The author says Target's April 2017 policy was bad for their stock. Let's look in hindsight.

In March 2017 TGT was at 53.12. In April 55.85. In early June 56.90. It took a hit late June at 50.76, but by September was already at 59.96.

As of close today it is at 78.46 and they didn't reverse their bathroom policy.

Here are some funny quotes from the referenced post...

"I’m not anticipating an extreme drop in the share price, but I’m definitely not seeing any catalyst on the horizon for the share price to surpass its current trading range"

and "So, though it took a while to materialize, if you followed Crista’s advice to sell TGT stock late last year, it’s looking like a good decision now. TGT stock is headed in the wrong direction, and may still have greater depths to plumb. Good call by Crista!"

If you would've sold on Crista's advice to sell, you would've missed out 59.41 to 78.46 in less than a year!
I really appreciate your videos.. I'm an early early beginner, regardless though the videos and how you construct them is really entertaining and informative.
Keep it up. <3
Anything a sous chef invents becomes the creation of the chef they are working under.
This is a really unique point of view. I think conversations would be improved with this mentality.

It might be a bit hard to swallow, though. Who's to say that a streamer is less qualified to analyze character writing in MMOs? After all, the writer is usually not the one impacted by the game. Streamers are.

I know nothing about this situation, though. </hedge> I'm just saying that it would personally feel difficult to adopt this mindset if I felt like I were qualified to express a dissenting opinion.
The push to plant more trees in California
Buy a crate of used cold war surplus pistols or assault rifles and use them as disposable. For a cartel or state actor that's trivial, no need to bother with flimsy plastics.
True. In relative terms though, I'm in a much better place now than I was.

That said, I probably could stand to cut down even further. What I have been slowly trying to do is move to not consuming any caffeine after about 5:00pm or so, to avoid having it affect my sleep. I read something here on HN that mentioned that even people who can fall asleep after consuming caffeine late, may not experience the the quality of sleep they need due to the caffeine effect. So cutting out Coke Zero after work will help with that, and reduce the total caffeine quantity a bit.
In Watts' Echopraxia the powersat Icarus does that, exploiting the temperature differential between the hot and dark sides.
Religion is a system of itself, with the same failures, and has caused great mental harm to many people.
That distinction is unnecessary.
Nice reference to Karel Čapek's "R.U.R." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.).
It's the next logical step to me.
We have the Link, Internet, and Transport layers pretty well sorted.
The Application layer is the next in line and it seems likely the web is going to win.
A good thing about the web winning(and possibly part of the reason it's winning)is it has a lot of the next(and possibly final) layer already standardized.
I'm not sure what you'd call it, let's say the Semantic Layer, all our human shit. (HTML, XML, and all the data formats, etc).
It's a global load balancer.
Unfortunately not just yet, but we are open to remote work for the right folks. Ping me! oliver@voyage.auto
Going further back, the moon was considered to be a planet, in orbit around the Earth, just as all planets were thought to be.
Maybe if they're VC-backed…

Vimeo has pretty much always had a shockingly* high price for their slightly-better plans, since they insist on covering their costs from subscriptions from the get-go. I'd be pretty confident they wouldn't bait-and-switch to grab some more cash (not the least since they're not the dominant video hosting provider). They compete on service and stability.

[*: in comparison to the other popular video hosting sites]
We are based in Palo Alto, CA. We are also open to remote work for the right person! Please refer to oliver@voyage.auto.
If it’s that easy to fool a trained professional, imagine the rest of the people out there. I sometimes which never have learned about this stuff. It’s difficult to watch so many people clicking on fake pages or potentially dangerous links because they can’t (or care to) differentiate between ads and google results. Maybe I’m wrong but I think it should be regulated.
The commenter in question has been here 15 days and has left 4 comments. Other than the gendered term "lord" that is part of the username, I see no indication of gender. I would be curious how you determined it.

I am unaware of an exception in the official HN guidelines that allow for all caps for "internet speak." Perhaps you could advise me where you found that?

Perhaps you could also clarify what on earth the comment even meant. I am failing to comprehend if it is mocking homeless individuals or mocking toxic attitudes towards them or doing something else entirely.

Thank you.
To elaborate why a CT scanner is really really important in this case - there are two general kinds of strokes. Ischemic strokes are caused by a blood clot occluding an artery, preventing blood from reaching part of the brain. On the other hand, hemorrhagic strokes are caused by bleeding within the brain. We can use thrombolytic drugs (e.g. TPA) to break up a clot in an ischemic stroke. However, impairing clotting in a hemorrhagic stroke just makes it bleed faster.
"My hope is that python will serve as a "gateway drug" to other languages like ruby, ML, C/C++, SQL"

Your inclusion of SQL in that list really shows you have no idea what you're talking about.
I couldn't agree more. I don't know how to explain it exactly, but I had the opposite experience. Learning basics of functional programming in Python improved my OOP in Java over time.

I think it's probably more like this: learning a second, contrasting topic really helps explore the motivations that drive their respective goals.

OOP and Functional are broad classes of contrasting design patterns and philosophies but share the common idea: be principled about state.
Does anyone know of a good alternative to Google Places Autocomplete API? Our app makes 25k requests per day. They had a free 150k limit per day, but now it seems like we are going from $0 to $1,800 per month, and this is not a core feature of our app. I wouldn't mind paying a couple hundred dollars for it, but this price is almost what we pay for our whole infrastructure. The worst part is that we didn't get any notice and I learned about this increase here on HN.
> Cooking meth if you have a valid driver's license is actually legal, I am a lawyer this is legal advice

Saying things like that could get you disbarred.
I bought the Domain (namecheap)
Weird. :)
Yeah, "instead of later" would have been better constructed as "instead of waiting".
Not classy, I definitely agree. But it should be foreseable to anyone with a modicum of business sense
I know 1st world companies with millions of dollars in revenue who quickly switched away from Google Maps, at some expense, to alternate map providers after Google hiked up its prices for Premium customers a few years ago.

There where so many "why should we pay/develop X, Google does it for free" conversations at one of my previous employers who competes in the mapping space with Google.
Glad to see she's doing alright.

I played the brain tumour game a few years back. Healing can really take the wind out of your sails so I'm glad to see she still seems to have a lot of energy.
Passing your personal opinions as facts doesn't make for an honest discussion. The query to back up your claims with some sort of sources is very reasonable.
I'm just reading "What is Real?" by Adam Becker (a history of QM published this year) and boy do the Copenhagenists look foolish. Even Bohr comes off as a saintly buffoon.

With experimental confirmation that the universe is non-local and "spooky action at a distance" is real, the pilot wave theory "wins" and there's no measurement problem.

(It isn't journalists though, it's the physicists themselves that muddied the waters by permitting herd mentality to overwhelm science. Also, von Neumann got a proof wrong! Folks can be forgiven for not suspecting that. But once it was noticed then the "orthodoxy" should have paid attention.)
> empirically verifiable

I'd love to see the data.

> software ... built by people ... off the street

Programming is such a rapidly growing field that I think the majority of software will be written by programmers with less than 1 year experience. For a time, anyway. Maybe in 20 or 30 years the growth will slow.
Since the sun is too hot to visit during the day, we'll go at night when it's turned off.
The wording was a bit confusing, but I think the GP meant that Google _thinks_ they have no competition so can get away with sudden price gouging.
Check out Ada.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find the MapBox version to look better and have comparable detail to Google (in these examples anyway), and at ~10x cheaper price, seems a no brainer.
Hardware for training deep learning models is about to get significantly faster
I'm less concerned with encapsulation, but the explicitness is a godsend the larger your codebase or team.

Python keeps code much smaller but above a certain size I wish I could "promote" parts of my code to Java.

Partial typing in Python just isn't close to feeling the same.
Concatenative just means that concatenating two programs yields a new program and that is the major method of program construction. Most Forth dialects also support variables, gotos and procedures; but it's all in a concatenative way.
Why not host you own OSM data for Poland and Germany? Just reduce the detail level and unneeded layers and deliver vector tiles. This way you are the master of your own destiny and bear (most) of the true cost of your service without any middlemen to charge usurious tolls. Then just make an annual token donation to OSM for their data services and you are done.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders: John Lilly of Greylock Partners (2013) [video]
Cancer, the constellation?

Or cancer, the disease?
Another way to hedge, but without obviously doing so, is to rephrase the statement as a question.

For (a super basic) example, instead of going with:

Now, I might be wrong... but you should probabably do foo, then bar. That would avoid baz completely.

Rephrased as a simple question:

Would it be better to do foo, then bar? That seems like it would avoid baz completely.

Perhaps give that a try? :)
Some common helpers are nice though, not sure that constitutes a framework but it definitely saves time not having to rewrite response compression and logging.
Some people have good taste for technologies and others do not.
Probably exactly what happened. Wasn't trying to make a negative stab at Amazon besides the fact their two day Prime deliveries have not been reliable for me recently (and it used to be very reliable). This is just one experience among others. Never had an issue for years...and then all of a sudden a number of mistimed deliveries or incorrect deliveries all around the same time.
There's a set of docs on Fuchsia that you can read about if you'd like (https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/the-book/)

There's some discussion of it already on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16813796

Some advantages of the Fuchsia architecture over Linux for Android:

* Capability based system; applications only get access to objects, including files, directories, other processes, etc via capabilities, so they can only affect those objects they have been given access to directly. This is much better for security and isolation of applications.

* Userspace drivers with a stable ABI, or with the possibility of versioned ABIs. This could allow them to ship updates to the underlying system without waiting for vendors, reducing fragmentation.
i hear you. on pypi the name is uncontested so, at least in the python eco-system, there is only one quilt. that said, for future revisions we'll try for a unique name because it can indeed be confusing, e.g. in the apt-get case.
For the interested, the unannounced game referenced in the article, "RTS3", is in fact Age of Mythology, released in 2002.
The obvious usage of privacy is so you don't expose an API you don't want to maintain. It's also occasionally used to maintain some invariants; for instance, you can have a public method that wraps around some protected interface that does input checking/clean up. Having the compiler enforcing privacy, in this case, guarantees that whatever actual method you dynamically dispatches to has the "right" input (accidentally calling the interface directly won't compile).
I have a 10 minute rule. If I’m in line or get hassled for a return, I get chargeback. With Americans express, you can do it online from your phone with no hassle at all.

Most retail purchases can be returned via the credit card no problem.
Harvard has one that's available as a MOOC.

https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-sof...

IMO, it was an imperfect class for a number of reasons but the idea is a good one.
Sure, but it's a lot harder to take a normal gun through a metal detector.
At the moment all sheets in my program literally are objects, though the converse isn't true -- not all objects can be viewed as sheets.

That might change in the future -- I think that being able to nest data arbitrarily is pretty important, and so is being able to visually explore that nested data. Maybe that means having "sheets in sheets in sheets".

My program having a list of top-level sheets is slightly unsatisfying. I guess there could instead be a single top-level object/sheet to contain them, bringing everything "into the data model". I don't know if that extra bit of purity would actually make anyone's life better, though.

I am quite hesitant to let anything "float in free space". I think the grid serves as a useful, lightweight structuring tool, like lines on a piece of paper. It provides a little constraint that rarely gets in your way, and often stops you from getting in your own way. Maybe the user should have the option of placing things in continuous space, but I don't think it's a good default. A good demo could convince me otherwise, though ;-).
Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?
There is no possible level of exaggeration which could ever be enough.
I think the comment you replied to was saying that StreetView will soon be commodotized, so they need to make the money back now.
Mega corps... As opposed to all those little boutique outfits making almond milk?
Speaking just as a hobbyist glassblower (I'm not talking about pipes, but rather furnace glass, of the type Chihuly works with):

It is important to point out that glassblowing is a team-focused effort from the very beginning. Although it is possible to work solo, it makes everything many times harder, and on top of that, makes many standard moves impossible to perform. Even the simplest transfer of a cup form to a punty is best done with at least one assistant, and for wraps and handles, having someone able to take a dip and prep the pull while you work on the main piece is a practical necessity. The Corning Museum of Glass has excellent videos of master gaffers at work that show just what a team effort any form is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oahrrN8ZHwE

Great fun to watch if you're even slightly interested in glassblowing.
Crossing the border without a visa is a crime. You do not understand US law.
I Lost 20 KG with Intermittent Fasting and Strength Training
It does sound a lot like it, but I don't know if there's some other element you have to do to make it engaging in predatory pricing, or if there's just been no will to prosecute them yet. The FTC seems like it's been relatively lax on antitrust recently, so I could believe it's just the latter. Or maybe it's just the remnants of the free pass that governments gave the early internet, and we'll start seeing more.
But they acquired Jibe, which they now offer as a service to telecom companies, so with Android Messages, they're invested in RCS.
If they were concerned about abuse from free tiers, there's much better ways to handle it than this. It's Google we're talking about.

Also, it's a lame excuse because this affects paid users such as yourself who have nothing to do with the abuse.

In Google's defense, a hobby project wouldn't need 750k requests a month. At that point it's more than a hobby. But, the 28k limit is low.
Where I come from we obey the laws of thermodynamics, which implies setting our priors appropriately.

fyi he was mocking people who look down on people in poverty, in the style of the "lol meme". There was nothing particularly wrong with his comment.
given that the sun is a flat disk cant they just fly along the thin edge?
Realistically, how effective would a 3D printed firearm be? I was under the impression that PLA/ABS plastics are simply not that strong of a material.
It’s worth noting that using the fat arrow syntax for class functions make them exponentially harder to unit test because they do not exist on the Prototype of the component, but are instead only initialized when the class is initialized.

If you are trying to unit test a function that calls another function in the same class you cannot mock the second one it if it is a fat arrow.
I understand if it's hard to calculate the median. But what's the minimum increase?

Some of the companies you mention try hard to make the initial offer compelling/fair (e.g. slightly above max of {current compensation, competing offer, target compensation for level}), so I'd assume that sometimes they simply won't budge beyond that, as they feel that they've taken into account all relevant info before making the offer.
How are they going to get bullets in gun-controlled places?
If you'd like to go further along that path, and I'd really recommend trying to learn a lisp. How to Design Programs[0] is good gentle introduction if you're new to the ideas of lisp or functional programming, and SICP[1][2] is the old classic.

[0] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html

[1] http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PLE18841CAB...
The place I'm working at right now doesn't calculate work hours by the week, but by the month. So you have a lot of freedom in moving your hours around. You could do 4x10h and take a day off each week, work on weekends and take another day off instead and so on.

I would be much happier if I could do 4x8h and have a 3-day weekend, but 4x10h works for now as well.
They have already been selected specifically. This is different from the average worker who came out of a stack of resumes that needed to be whittled down fast.
I’m not sure it’s just an opinion, there is a plethora of research showing the effects of exercise on depression.

There are certainly people that are clinically depressed that are also physically active (some friends of mine are in that group). OP states as much.

But I agree with OP, if we’re not going to talk about the low hanging fruit of exercise, diet, and sleep, we’re not going to get anywhere with combating depression.

Edit: here’s just one of many studies (there are literally hundreds of them) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC474733/
> using a Hilbert Curve for sharding doesn't seem like the best approach. You can partition by anything you like, it doesn't have to be arbitrary points along your index. Using 1-dimension to shard 2D data isn't optimal.

If you want to shard by proximity (items close in space are likely to be in the same shard, then the transform to 1d is the way to go, why wouldn't it be? What is your definition of "optimal"?

Sharding by proximity or by something else depends on the relative frequency of queries by location or something else. If you shard by location, then a query to one location goes (ususally) to one shard. That should scale better. Otherwise, each location-based query goes to each shard.
Thanks for sharing that, I had no idea. You just improved my day.
Where I come from we obey the laws of thermodynamics, which implies setting our priors appropriately.

I have no idea what you mean by this.

he was mocking people who look down on people in poverty, in the style of the "lol meme".

Thank you.
How do you switch it to English?
Have you ever asked a mental health professional if your original statement, quantified and all, is a smart thing to say?
I worked at a CompUSA in college. Rebate rage was an incredible phenomena... I had a knife pulled on me once because of it in a return situation.

There was one crazy Packard Bell/AOL/Viewsonic rebate combo that was like $600. It had specific instructions that many people screwed up, and they were left with unreturnable (no bar code) crap gear. One guy got arrested for chaining himself to the bollards in front of the door in protest.

The amount of fraud these guys ran into was incredible too. We’d get raided by bus loads of Chinese people who would engage every employee while another crew cleaned out things like video cards and other small items. It was like a Viking raid. People would buy computers, print fake UPC/serial number stickers for rebates, strip the memory/disk and return them.