skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you've read (and I've also seen though not studied in any depth) is that a statistical category of person called "Uber driver" may lose money. But the statistical category of "Uber driver" is not the same as a "person who drivers for Uber".

Consider the argument: "can an Uber driver save for retirement?" If we define Uber driver as: "works for uber exclusively for 40 hours per week". Our answer to the question might be yes or it might be no. Ultimately what matters is the number of people who fall into that category every day for the rest of their lives.

If we find no people fit that category or that the people who do fit that category don't fit it for very long then we can safely say the answer to the question is irrelevant.

After all, "can unpaid interns save for retirement?" is a meaningless question. It doesn't matter. Statistical categories don't retire. And people who work as unpaid interns do not remain so for very long.

A person who drivers for Uber may just need quick, supplemental cash. Cash that may be exclusively funneled into a person's retirement account.

If we compel Uber to provide a "living wage" or a retirement package, we may find that those who need quick cash go without it. And people who would have saved for retirement are now not able to.
Thank you very much! I decided to place my DSL tools (they contain a tiny amount of code, but I've used them successfully in a number of compiler projects) on github and just started looking for some illustrative examples. And your solution for Halt Problem (never heard about this problem before -- I mean this reddit challenge, of course, not Rice's theorem) appeared just in a right time. Thank you! :)

As a side note. It would be interesting to investigate power of a Prolog-like language which has terms, term variables, pattern matching (maybe even without full unification) and only local backtracking. Plus an ability to make user-defined execution strategies (tree traversals etc) in the form of combinators. I already use most of these constucts in dsl_match module and I got my inspiration mostly from Stratego/XT. Still it would be good to see similiar general-purpose language and compare its expressiveness with Prolog.
I guess I stand corrected. But the practicality, as others note, still seems limited.
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Ineffectiveness of Wellness Programs and Importance of Randomized Trials
You cannot thank the government without thanking the people that pay the government.
You generally get some kind of cue that the window is about to open, but the window is only 10ms wide.
A typical conspiracy is that aliens are visiting earth and the government has known about this and is engaged in a 5 decade long coverup. And another typical conspiracy is the earth is flat and NASA is in on the coverup so nothing they say or their contractors say can be trusted, nor any of the tens of thousands of aerospace engineers hired by various governments and telecom businesses.

Info Wars is not at all typical. Last week's delusional paranoid conspiracy from Info Wars was that Obama has been banging 10 dudes a day at taxpayer expense. Typical conspiracies for Info Wars and the POTUS, perhaps. But not typical among all conspiracists. These are well beyond fully crazy.

More interesting to me is the number of people who believe this stuff and apologize for it. Fox News has multi-million dollar salaried entertainers who defend Alex Jones.
It's only for issuers to check not clients
Hmm, it's the top result in my start menu just by typing the letter "d".
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I realize that to get to where you want to be, you need to be more disciplined. One of the ways is to setup Goals and try and achieve them. What are some of the best books/blogs/resources/apps/tools to do this ?
Rainway is not cloud gaming, it utilizes your computer hardware and is one of the most played games on the platform. None of our users have reported issues, and we've been tracking it for weeks.
Why do we need such high density slow storage anyway? Would that lead to more energy-efficient systems, even if just due to space reduction? I mean, for regular data (video, music, images, text), we already have better resolutions than we can perceive (and going much further would be just mainly wasteful, and bottlenecks seem to be processing that data), and big services that host this kind of content, like youtube and others, well... can't be expected, on a long term, to not forget most of its content. So besides a few research applications... genuinely, is there any really important application that we have big trouble handling right now? I mean, the world storage requirements won't keep increasing forever, no?
I’m talking about actions, not beliefs. Believe that Sandy Hook was a hoax all you want, I don’t care. But when you cross the line into harassing and threatening the parents of the victims, it’s no longer a mere political belief.
Exactly my thoughts. There is nothing exciting at all in this update. Just the usual 'more battery saving by doing less', and as you said, for some reason, every update keeps on making my phone slower and more battery consuming, if anything.
If you're going to die, might as well die on your terms
Ok but that's a bad thing, right?

Unchecked corporate power to control public discourse was considered bad not long ago, wasn't it?

Maybe I'm still stuck at the anti net neutrality mindset we had a while ago and can't flip fast enough to now suddenly trust ISPs and platform providers to regulate my news diet.
Completely untrained people can trace a drawing with a good degree of accuracy, yet fail completely to draw even simple forms with any degree of verisimilitude.

Teachers like Betty Edwards and Bert Dodson have proven that pretty much anyone can learn to draw to a high standard in a remarkably short space of time once they understand the visual principles of effective drawing. Mastering draftsmanship requires a lifetime of practice, but competence can be achieved in a matter of days with the right instruction.
Meta-answer, but indiehackers has a great podcast series with smaller-scale, bootstrapped businesses.

The takeaways reflect much of the comments here. #1 is probably sell before you build. Various refinements are:

- Do consulting, and build a product once you see a pattern.

- Do the service manually, and automate away the biggest bottleneck, one at a time.

- Do a landing page with signups, do content marketing while building the stuff, so you have audience by the time you launch.

- Do get on phone with prospective customers, don't just mail.

It is very very hard not to violate these, since of course our product is the best.

Also, it's easy to spend more time reading about than actually doing.
In Atlanta At&T, Google and Comcast all offer fiber. I don't believe we have Verizon here.

Also, just because one company offers a faster connection than another does not make it a monopoly. Whatever company that sells the fastest production car does not automatically have a monopoly on supplying automobiles. Choosing an ISP is more complex than simply finding the fastest speed. Price and customer service come to mind immediately as very important. And if all the ISPs offer speeds that are above your needs, speed might not even be a major factor in your decision.
"everyone should get medical care" suggests a system where one party (the taxpayers) are automatically covering a bill for medical service, while the other party (healthcare system) has every incentive to milk the system via over-testing, over-prescribing, over-scheduling routine visits and just plain old raising prices.

The soldier analogy doesn't quite apply, as it doesn't require complex skills and providers of the service are not in short supply. A potential candidate can surely hold out for a starting salary that's 10x the average, but others eyeing his position will likely be content with the average.

An anesthesiologist, on the other hand, or an MRI lab, might be the only game in town, and if they say the prices are going up by 10% next year, the prices are going up. One is welcome to drive to the next town over, but with taxpayers covering the expense, why bother?

What cost constraints exist in "everyone should get medical care" system to prevent healthcare providers from consuming 100% of GDP?
I hope that the permissions are better to understand and control than the current ones. Right now they seem to be designed to give the appearance of giving users control but the implementation is pretty bad and user unfriendly.
How virtual reality is reshaping recruitment
"Pollution and climate change are killing millions. For anyone in the glorious future looking back, I hope they will not be amused at how disturbing that is to us, but instead think, "yeah that was really terrible, thank goodness we got through it"."

How emotional are you about the deaths of Roman soldiers in their fight against Carthage?

If you claim anything other than almost total emotional detachment, let me pre-emptively say that I straight up don't believe you, and think you're just saying it for dialectic purposes for the narrow purposes of winning points in this particular discussion, but that in all likelihood it will over a decade before this topic even crosses your mind again, barring perhaps memories of this conversation. Nobody cares. Nobody has the emotional capacity to care that much, because there's too much history, and too much tragedy in it.

No, future humans aren't going to be wringing their hands about whatever horrors we may have suffered. There's a certain amount of evidence that WWII has already passed beyond the cultural event horizon where almost anybody has any deeply felt emotional reaction to reading about it, despite the fact its vets still live among us.

(Also, this is very much exactly the sort of "but jerf!" I was talking about.)

(Also, HN fancies itself rather smart but I gotta say, having discussed this sort of thing now twice in the past couple of days, it does not seem to be populated by people who have any ability to pull themselves out of modern fashions, even hypothetically, even for the duration of a single message. The prospect that people of the future aren't going to look back on us as the Enlightened Ones who had all the answers seems to be something not very many people here can even begin to think. Well... I'll be sure to bring that up with the future when I meet it.)
Very useful, thanks!

The TLDR on these hate speech definitions:

YouTube: promotes violence against or incites hatred against protected groups

Apple: content including hate themes

Facebook: violent speech, dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority, or calls for exclusion/segregation of people of protected classes

So it seems like YouTube's definition is the narrowest. Facebook's definition is much broader because it includes "statements of inferiority", and Apple's definition is vague.
People loved it when Apple did it which gave everyone else the okay to go ahead and do it themselves. It allows phone manafacturers to advertise higher screen to body ratios and is really just a step in the progression towards bezelless phones. There's definitely a loud group of people who strongly dislike it but I think most people are okay with it
I can still dodge those by disabling Location Services and using something else than Google app-wise.
It is not clear how opt-out this will be. Even if it can be disabled today it might become pushed harder as time goes.
People are fired for racism all the time. You don’t disagree with that, do you?
Nothing to do with control over public discourse or corporate power. Just moderators banning idiots.
I absolutely believe that male doctors (in America, anyway, the only place I have experience) may be less receptive to hearing patients' symptoms and issues, but:
"...about 11.9 percent of the time overall—but the research team found women with heart attacks will die about 12.4 percent of the time if their cases are handled by male doctors"
My first thought on reading that was, 0.5 percent is not a huge number, and is the kind of "difference" that could easily fail to replicate.
Look around you. Do you see an overwhelming crowd of people delighted to pay low tax?
Live by the sword, die by the sword. The mayor blames guns, I blame African American culture with it's gang and violence-glorifying music industry.
Not clear whether the slight death-rate difference while in ER carries over to the 5-year survival rate, which favors men over women by a large factor.
Sounds similar to the kerfuffle over statues of and things named after people who owned slaves at a time when owning slaves was accepted by a large fraction of the population as fine.

I wonder how many of the people getting upset over those statues and names, and how many of the people who they suggest should be subjects of replacement statues or supply replacement names, do/did things that are accepted as fine now but will be considered terrible 150 years from now?

For instance, maybe the animal rights people win and a future Earth is all vegetarian or vegan, and then the statues we put up of MLK to replace statues of people like Robert E Lee come down, because MLK ate meat.

Decisions about who gets a statue or gets things named after them should be based on the things they did that were extraordinary in their time and that have relevance to our time (either because those extraordinary things have effects in our time, or because we want to inspire people to do similar extraordinary things). The ordinary things they did in their time should not be relevant, regardless of what we now think of those ordinary things.
I’ve heard that early versions of the Dropbox client allowed engineers to remotely open a Python shell on users’ computers, for debugging purposes.
Is there a riot going on in the city? TFA has literally no details except that the mayor has blamed the shootings on guns(?).
> By not upholding these values, Apple is stating that they disagree with free speech

No they are emphatically not, because Jone's screeds are not intended to be free speech as cherished by society.

They are acknowledging that society's norms can be weaponized against itself by those bent on power and destruction, and that tolerance of intolerance is incompatible with continued existence of the norms of free speech and tolerance. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Rainway is not cloud gaming, you utilize your computer, and it is entirely P2P. We don't have servers that host games, you use your own.
> if a significant number of tech people chose to gather in a low-COL Midwest city

Honestly, the cost of living would probably go up...
If I remember correctly, developers had to do it manually themselves before. It was considered a best practice
The problem is always wherever the other party supports your payment methods. You can literally pay by holding a smart watch over a supporting terminal. the same with online shops and Google wallet, Amazon pay or whatever

There are so many options at this point that I never get why anyone makes this about crypto currency. Most of these options are older and more widespread than Bitcoin as well.
You need to install the Rainway server on your computer.
Yeah. The reality is that latency on the order of 50ms doesn't matter in games like Overwatch or Paladins until the very highest levels. Even Top 500 players suffer 80ms RTT to the server and they're still better than the other 30 million players. The game smooths over the latency by agreeing with your client when the state has diverged too much. Console players play fine at 30fps, even though "the pros" (often sponsored by manufacturers of gaming hardware) say that you will lose unless you get a 240fps and the PC to run that.

I personally think it's all pseudoscience. You can absolutely see that 60fps looks like a slideshow, but if you showed a game at 250fps and just used interpolation that didn't understand the game state, I bet the pros wouldn't even notice. For some reason, the monitor manufacturers aren't running those tests, though, so I can only speculate ;)

How this ties back into game streaming... yes, you will be supplying input based on the game state two frames ago. You'll be fine.
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That sounds like a great way to create a toxic culture. A company is made up of human beings after all. God forbid a company has a social event among team mates that doesn't revolve around a performance metric.

In my opinion when the performance metrics are down is when you need the team building the most.
Silver bullets are only needed for shooting werewolves. :)
"Today's 9.9% have convinced themselves they don't have any privileges."

Have they? If anything, the primary arguments against the concept of privilege haven't been the denial of privilege in general, but rather the hyper-fixation on "white" or "male" privilege, and acknowledging how loosely and irresponsibly those are used to explain away all sorts of complexity in differing outcomes.

In fact, many of the advocates for serious restructuring of wealth redistribution mechanisms seem to be coming out of the higher echelons of society. Even many free-market-advocate-types are fully onboard with concepts akin to UBI as technology reshapes people's capabilities to meaningfully contribute to the market.
I bet it would be hard going trough all of these and drawing a bike afterwards.
Chicago has socially conservative populace and lower probability of meeting rich people ? hmmmmm
An image says x series is for gamers. Are modern games that CPU intensive? Don't most major game engines depend almost entirely upon the GPU?
We recently just raised our seed round: https://blog.rainway.io/we-just-raised-our-seed-round-982fb0...
Can you elaborate a little bit more on this, what do you optimize, what statistics do you use, etc
> We also use statistical models for ad optimization

Thanks!
This is really fascinating (and troubling) statistics, but I can imagine what the explanations can be? Some of the possible explanations suggested in the article does not seem to correspond to the result. For example, if female doctors are better in general, then it should also affect the survival rate of male patients. If current medical research favors male patients, then it should affect the survival rate regardless of the gender of the doctor. If you are better at treating your own gender, then it should also affect women doctors treating men.
Many libraries have study rooms where you should be able to take phone calls without disturbing anyone.
Sorry, I meant to say 10 frames (for 30 fps). Fixed.
Is it possible to run the host/server software on an EC2 instance with gobs of RAM and a GPU?
Information Civics: Deconstructing Power Structures of Social Computing Networks
I suspect you're being downvoted for the blutness of your jab, but I understand the sentiment :)

I've moved once and I'm preparing at some point to do it again. But sadly not everyone can afford that, and that's the same people who stay awake at night worrying about their healthcare costs.
Will browsers actually refuse a 'valid' cert if my DNS record indicates a different CA than the one presented?
Does this need to be decentralized? Decentralized does not necessary mean fair. How a decentralized platform could sove the problems OP mentioned; paying taxes (by using a decentralized platform, really??) and profitable for economics?

It is too naive to think decentralization simply can solve any social problems.
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The description feels like a recipe for disaster.
Personally, I think my mind has better things to do then mechanistic micromanaging of OS level resources. Some people will be upset that ML is obsoleting these sorts of repetitive tasks, but not most people.
0.5% difference seems a little questionable to draw conclusions. Agreed.
That's good to hear! If it doesn't use any third party servers, then it might be good to even advertise it as an alternative to people who foermerly used the banned services.
Oh yeah, Barnes and Noble!
Yes a lunatic, which begs the question what are we doing so wrong, that we need to censor something like this.
The death star got force fields.
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Querying Trees in R
It's important to note that the first stage (which is about 70% of the rocket) is the part that is being reused. The top of the rocket (the second stage, the fairings, and the payload) are not reused (At least not yet. They are working on recovering fairings and there are rumors of second stage reuse).

When the stages separate, the first stage is going about 1.5 - 2.5 km/s. Then the second stage takes the payload the rest of the way to orbital speeds of 7+ km/s, and the first stage returns to earth.

So the first stage is going fast (several thousand miles per hour) but not as fast as things that re-enter from orbit. It still does need heat shielding, but not as much as the space shuttle or a capsule.
If you bank in Europe, look up PSD2 :-)