skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> holy fuck the language that they use in their call-to-arms manifesto is irritating to me

I still can't believe they wrote "gentrifies food waste" with a straight face
> So if I get a radio license and then broadcast an illegal ad, it's the FCC's fault.

How is Facebook the FCC and not the broadcaster in this metaphor?
there needs to be a dmca for ads.
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Since the plural of anecdote is "data" all I can say is that my 15" hasn't crashed at all in the 10 days I've had it.
Nitpicking over the definition of "balance" and "harmony". The general concept remains the same.

I have found when senior management frowns at the start of any phrase beginning with "work life..." what they are actually objecting to is the concept that employees have priorities other than those of the company [1].

The really cynical version of this is that leaders like Bezos object to employees who realize that their goals in life will be satisfied not in the workplace but outside of it, and this will not make Bezos any more insanely wealthy.

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[1] I experienced one manager who stated plainly "The CEO hates the phrase work life balance" because it gets in the way of his lack of planning. This same manager burned out within a year, and spend the next six months on the couch no longer interested in the corporate or startup rat race.
I would love to send a chocolate dick to a company I previously worked for.
Would wind gusts impart enough force to affect barrels / blocks of concrete?
Your metaphor is broken: It's more like if you own a radio station, and play user-contributed ads, you are liable for the illegal ads.

It's not a very good metaphor, because no radio station simply publishes user-contributed content.
> now I get to travel to work without buying a $60k vehicle.

Why on earth do you need a $60k vehicle? That’s exorbitant if you’re just trying to “get to work”. 60k is a luxury joy ride, not a commuter beater.
Generally it's pretty close, though.
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No, if you get a radio license and so something illegal with it, that's your fault, and the FCC is the authority that can punish you for it.

In this case, just like Facebook.

Your responsibility, handed to you with the license, is to not do illegal things, even if people want to pay you money to do it. It's especially bad if you build an automated system that has options for people to do illegal things, since you are in charge of that. The FCC may or may not go after the people who bought the illegal-thing-service from you, but they will definitely go after you.

And the correct solution is to not have the options open in the first place. "Would you like to place an ad? Is it for real estate or housing in any way? OK, the following advertising options are open to you, but others have been turned off in order to comply with the law."
When I look at the grad school system, I am really confused. I really, really wanted to go to grad school at a top 10 history program, where I also did an undergrad honors' thesis. I was prepared to accept $18,000 a year as a living wage, and I was excited to be an adjunct for $35,000 a year with crazy hours and no health benefits in a small college town.

Now I am paid usually $45,000 - $60,000 per year to talk on a phone to people who need help filling out a web form in order to buy something. It's a bit absurd. I don't mind this work and it is good money. It keeps me and my girlfriend fed and sheltered.

Why is the university system so negligent and abusive towards those who invent new ideas and teach new inventors?
That doesn't make any sense as a reason to distrust at all. They /have/ to go to the FDA to get it approved if they plan on being legitimate medicine. That would be like saying that you can't trust drug testing labs to report honestly because they depend on the patients for blood and urine samples.
Anyone who's ever even looked for a roommate on Craigslist has seen all this information, too. I'm actually kind of flabbergasted that Craigslist handles it correctly and Facebook does not, just given how much more competent Facebook seems based on contrasting the look of the two sites.
I get the feeling that regardless of how much more growth Mastodon gets, it's going to be around and in active use for a long time to come, if only because it's provided a space that is meaningfully different to Twitter.

Will it be the biggest social phenomenon? Probably not. But it already has the critical mass to keep funding its continued development, and lot of interesting voices, if you know where to look.
> It all depends on your goals, I agree... but for many, it may be come across as a luxury.

As I've already stated,

>> The sad irony, by the way, is that your perceived downsides are rare and GPA hacking backfires

Choosing to learn employable skills is important, but there's no upside to viewing education as "simply a method of acquiring the credentials necessary to get hired".

You seem to have missed the fundamental point of my last two posts: your view of how to approach education is self-defeating even if you view education purely as a way of increasing lifetime earnings!
Sorry, i don't live in the US. Just did a rough conversion to make it easier to read. Either way I do not have 5-30 thousand to spend. I also live in a place with really bad public transport.
The geotargeting polygon was literally RED!?!

I can believe that being an oversight, but holy Shit those optics... yikes
Yeah, imagine passing by a field with about a hundred of those while they're dropping the blocks.
Digging holes and filling them in again may be yet another way to go.
Does anyone see the downside that a little bug gets introduced, the concrete chips, the barrel dents, a cyber attack takes place, and suddenly your 120 meter tall stack of 35 ton blocks becomes a Jenga tower raining death into the Swiss countryside?
Saddens me that there are not many mechanical hardware companies from any YC year/season and this year is no exception.
Yes, for conversion to/from time_t, formatting, and parsing. That's my point; you use the integral type whenever you don't care whether it was a Thursday because the integral type isn't going to waste your time.

What else are you going to do in C? But even most real world implementations of C have all sorts of structs and typedefs that you shouldn’t make any assumptions about and you should treat as an opaque type.

Who are you to say I won't do math on account ids?

Is that really what you are going to argue? That in a real world use case you’re going to be doing math on an accountId?

What ORM? What database? If I'm using an ORM and a database, high-performance time operations are likely out of the question.

So you’re going to pass a raw key/value record set around your code and program like it was 2006? So now you’re going back to mapping your sql resultset to an object that makes sense anyway. Going right back to my point that you’re going to have a mapping between your raw results -> domain model -> view model (where the view model is serialized for external use) and back again anyway.
No. The point of non-discrimination is not to protect certain classes, but to protect everyone. The list to check against has to grow over time to reflect current usage.

"colanders", "pirates", "meatballs": the Pastafarians are just as much a protected class as Catholics, Jains and Druze.
I don't get it. Why are mechanical turk outcomes being founded upon political ideology as a concrete, objective data point?

There's something in this process of deriving authenticity that seems... flimsy?

I mean, substitute "Skeletor" and "Hordak" as stand-ins for "KKK" and "Nazi Party", and "Eternia" for "America".

When you make a video game out of clicking questionnaire responses, and seal it in an inconsequential vacuum, why would anyone expect conclusive results that "Skeletor" and "Hordak" should be regarded objectively as detestable? There's no real consequence to saying "blah", "yay" or "boo" and I don't think I'd expect success if I were to try and ground my hypothesis on simple, obtuse good/bad/indifferent political opinions, to prove whether response data is "authentic" or not.

This feels like a weaker conclusion that gauging lie detector readings.

You can safely ground response data on facts like:

The sky is blue.

Wood comes from plants.

Stars exist in outer space.

But, you can't really demand predictable results to bind on opinions.

Is Mr. Rogers nice?

Are leather jackets good?

Do old cars go fast?

Whether evil people started answering, or ambivalent people started shrugging at the questions doesn't provide a conclusive assessment of whether a system is producing useful data. I feel like this is a garbage-in-garbage-out scenario, no?
Given the choice, I'd rather we play God a little more with weird foods and a little less with the futures of billions of people who will be driven from their homes of much worse by climate change.
Very similar to https://contained.af/, which has been much longer running and has not yet been pwned.
Does your Google News change based on whether you’re conservative or liberal?
> Which is a good thing, because it saves time both to renters and landlords.

When it comes to protected classes, it's not 'saving time' because a landlord acting legally is equally likely to rent to either group.
Honestly I feel like we shouldn't be down voting opposing opinions. Those should be the ones rising to the top, because that's the best way to cross reference, and get a different perspective.

I think the only things that should sink to the bottom are distasteful or rude comments.
How do we bypass the WSJ paywall again?
dennisgorelik is correct, and you are wrong, as to a specific scenario which I would still consider to be a "housing transaction". It is 100% legal to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or any other characteristic at all when choosing a roommate (a special form of renting out your property). It is 100% illegal to place advertisements indicating that you will reject roommates based on race, sex, or other protected characteristic. So in that case, the law is very specifically about the contents of the advertisement, not about the behavior of discriminating against certain renters.
For those outside the US who may be wondering why this is so significant:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
My 2012 Mac Pro (cheese grater) can’t run Mojave since the GPU doesn’t support Metal.

There are aftermarket GPUs available, but it’s becoming an ongoing chore to keep the machine running the latest macOS features (needed new wifi card to support handoff and watch unlock etc).

New wifi, SSD, usb3 etc are relatively cheap. The new GPU is getting more expensive and is now actually blocking keeping up to date with major OS releases.

There is no other Mac I currently want to buy (desktop, my own display). MacMini is too underspecced, MacProvis about to be updated and aside from GPU isn’t really any better than my current MacPro - feels end of life and outdated from day 1, a non-starter for me.

So I’ll probably get a new GPU and hope that buys me another couple of years.
You invoked an off-topic political rant in a discussion about San Francisco. Just what does the GOP have to do with SF politics ?
Do you use it with React Native?
The problem is that there's a catch-22. Mastodon is actively trying to get more users when more users will inevitably mean a worse community.
macOS 10.12 Sierra killed support for Macs with CPUs that didn't support SSE4.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Sierra#System_requiremen...
They aren't worried about the wind's effect on the stacked blocks, just the ones suspended. If a century storm comes, just shut it all down for a day, everything is stable.
I don't get it. Why are mechanical turk outcomes being founded upon political ideology as a concrete, objective data point?

There's something in this process of deriving authenticity that seems... flimsy?

I mean, substitute "Skeletor" and "Hordak" as stand-ins for "KKK" and "Nazi Party", and "Eternia" for "America".

When you make a video game out of clicking questionnaire responses, and seal it in an inconsequential vacuum, why would anyone expect conclusive results that "Skeletor" and "Hordak" should be regarded objectively as detestable? There's no real consequence to saying "blah", "yay" or "boo" and I don't think I'd expect success if I were to try and ground my hypothesis on simple, obtuse good/bad/indifferent political opinions, to prove whether response data is "authentic" or not.

This feels like a weaker conclusion than gauging lie detector readings.

You can safely ground response data on facts like:

The sky is blue.

Wood comes from plants.

Stars exist in outer space.

But, you can't really demand predictable results to bind on opinions.

Is Mr. Rogers nice?

Are leather jackets good?

Do old cars go fast?

Whether evil people started answering, or ambivalent people started shrugging at the questions doesn't provide a conclusive assessment of whether a system is producing useful data. I feel like this is a garbage-in-garbage-out scenario, no?
Wow this is very cool. Can you share how much you're making?
Link to the original paper: http://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/SmartDrivingCars/PDFs/Zoep...

Link to the PDF of the revision comment: http://ceepr.mit.edu/files/papers/2018-005%20Authors%20State...

> Using Method 1, and following Hall’s advice not to adjust income, Median profit rises to $8.55/hour from the $3.37 initially reported. For 54% of drivers, profit per hour is less than 2016 minimum wage in their state. 8% of drivers lose money.

> Using Method 2, median profit rises to $10/hour. For 41% of drivers, profit per hour is less than 2016 minimum wage in their state. 4% of drivers lose money.

I find it odd that the median is reported so prominently. I'd be far more interested in the mean (though I realize that could be misleading if not weighted by total hours and/or income).

It's also unclear if the minimum wage threshold was naive and equated dollars per hour in profit with the hourly wage number or accounted for things like employer-paid payroll taxes and mandatory insurance (e.g. unemployment, workers comp).
*chinas nationalism drive

I wish China had a patriotism drive.
Compulsory link to save google a search:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in_amplifier
> Thus, you will cover five stairs in one short-long-long cycle. In addition, you should always start the first cycle on the same foot. Suppose you start on the left foot, then after two cycles you are back on the left foot, having covered ten stairs. While you are walking the stairs in this way, it is clear where you are in the cycle. By the end of the staircase, you will know the number of stairs modulo ten

Yet another example why decimal is not an ideal base for counting.
Even coding my fun projects becomes a hassle and annoying when the precise vision I have is not easily and quickly built with the available tools.

These days I get an infinite amount of pleasure from chopping onions, carefully cooking them until they caramelize, salting/spicing them ever so slightly, and watching the smiles on my friends faces. It's a definite and immediate payoff, and a visceral one at that :)
>"Why is the university system so negligent and abusive towards those who invent new ideas and teach new inventors?"

Have you considered the possibility that academia is paying researchers/etc what they are worth on average? Its just that the majority of people being paid are generating near zero, or negative, value to society.
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A recruiter who I worked with in the past called me. This is why I tell recruiters who will listen to maintain relationships and not approach each match-hire as a one-and-done proposition. I can't count the times that a recruiter ghosts me after I turn them down.
It’s slightly different with roommates. You can’t discriminate in advertising when it comes to roommate but you can discriminate when it comes to housing according to one ruling.

https://www.sharinghousing.com/what-the-fair-housing-act-mea...

Craigslist says something different.

https://www.craigslist.org/about/FHA#roommates

Under federal Fair Housing law, the prohibition on discriminatory advertisements applies to all situations except the following:

Shared Housing Exemption -- If you are advertising a shared housing unit, in which tenants will be sharing a bathroom, kitchen, or other common area, you may express a preference based upon sex only.

Private Club and Religious Exemptions -- A religious community or private club whose membership is not restricted based upon race, color, or national origin may restrict tenancy only to its members in a property that it owns, and may advertise to that effect.

Housing for Older Persons Exemption -- As discussed below, certain complexes for elderly persons are exempt from prohibitions on familial status discrimination, including the prohibitions on discriminatory advertising.
I think the rationale is that it should be centered with the spacebar or something like that. To me it just looks ugly.
From TFA:

>After the EFF uncovered further fraudulent removals by Topple Track and TorrentFreak covered the story, Google reportedly terminated its trusted partnership with the company. But still, as of this writing, my blog post remains unlisted on Google Search. Incredibly, not even when a company is exposed for issuing abusive takedowns are the websites they’ve previously ordered removed reinstated. Each individual author must actively put up a fight to restore the findability of their free speech. (Update: The page seems to be back in the Google index now.)

>(Update: The page seems to be back in the Google index now.)

So, no, not "FALSE ALARM", but you, ironically, did in fact just cry wolf, and you in fact insinuated this as a "Red Herring", this, combined with your strangely inappropriate use of hashtags and your suspiciously monotonous submission & comment history makes me suspect that you have an undisclosed agenda.

Are you Per Strömbäck, or in any other way associated with netopia.eu?

If (n)either [doesn't really matter, after all], please stop making false claims, it seems rather ironic.
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I bought my 2017 MBP last November and accumulated a whopping 7 loose keycaps that would come off with my fingers as I typed. It was so unusable that I had to use my 2013 Air to get work done.

I returned to the States 2 weeks ago and took my MBP into an Apple store. The one nice thing I can say was that I was able to book an appointment online, drop my MBP off at the store, and 2 days later my repaired laptop arrived at my front door. That experience was at least more pleasant than I expected.

The high resale value of macbooks doesn’t do you any good when you realize you should keep your previous laptop around because your new one will likely break.

I will definitely be using an external keyboard when possible from now on. Sheesh.
Cuban here (and actually living in Cuba, if that's even important or relevant.) This whole thing was puzzling for me from the get go, as I never thought our government could do something like this. If they wanted to freeze back relations, it would be simpler to just say "F* off!" (and believe me, they can dream up a thousand somewhat-plausible explanations for that decision.)

It doesn't make sense from an Intelligence o Intelligence Gathering point of view. They have cheaper and better ways (like... actual people?), so I don't think that this wasn't some kind of (Cuban) intelligence equipment malfunction. Plus, from the reports it seems that the presumed attacks were taking place on diplomatic personnel residences and hotel rooms. In that environment the attackers do not have much control: what if there's an asset there? what if there's a child?

But what really makes me to think that this was not a Cuban operation or attack, is that Canadian personnel were also reported to be affected. That's a big huge no-no.

Since this whole thing was interesting for me, I have asked several people on their opinions. People from all walks of life and political leanings. Most of them just told me that they did not think it was Cuban behind the attacks, if there were attacks at all. The more cautious just waved off with "We need more information." Not one person, no matter where they stand, thinks we actually did this.

(Sorry for my English.)
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It goes both ways. The media will blow up any tiny issue, and Apple and Mac fanboys will dismiss even major issues.
It doesn't. The question still stands.
I really liked this article, and I thought it really embodied a "hacker" ethos, in doing something originally for personal enjoyment, then realizing it had potential and growing it into a business.

I also really liked this paragraph from a business perspective:

Lastly, this product is viral in nature. People think it’s funny to post about sending a chocolate penis to someone in the mail. Because most people are not sending it to themselves, we always include an offer code and a way to get to our site in every order. It is a literally a direct marketing campaign paid for by our customers.
Actually in China the tradition is that the groom gives money to the family of the bride
It's actually in Mastodon's best interest not to attract users since users will rip apart their kind, loving, and neat little community limb from limb.
You have a chance vs you have none. Gone through monopoly like power such as Microsoft, AOL, compu serve, Yahoo, the flower one (forget its name now), Google ... do they do Facebook ...

The key is you can choose. You can start or not using it like young one quit Facebook.

But can you not use wechat, ... etc in china. No.

You are really controlled by a country which close off its world.

Being in Hong Kong we face the pressure everyday. Strange you have comment here cf USA controlled vs china controlled.

Really?

1984 is a hard novel. Suggest to Read animal farm. You know those pigs. And not need to due with them face to face.
Huh, ok. Never noticed the Don't be snarky. line.

My bad, I was assuming this was reasonably civil just snarky. But, I guess that’s not ok.
North Face is leaving the Bay Area. Climbing costs are a factor
Pens and pencils are a favourite topic of mine. Since the article is mostly about cheap mass market ballpoints, I'll take the liberty to mention some of my favourites too.

* Uni-Ball Jetstream: Just about perfect as far as I'm concerned. Comfortable, ubiquitous and works every time. Stylish, yet unassuming.

* Ballograf Epoca: Very common in the Nordics. My favourite specimen has a light metal barrel (aluminium, I assume) with what seems like a rosewood grip and button. Most ones are plainer with plastic barrels in retro colours. A design classic with refills easily available in craft and hardware stores.

* Parker Insignia: A slightly fancier one, though not really a true luxury pen. I inherited a couple of these from my grandma who always had a good eye for stationery. One is a half of a matching set with a mechanical pencil, in aluminium and brass. The other is branded paraphernalia for a facility maintenance company she was doing printing work for.

* UNIX Ballpoint: The only one of these I don't have on my desk at the moment. Nothing really notable about this one but hey, it's made by Unix. How could I not like a Unix pen?
Having an even number of opposing cranes might save tad of energy by hoisting the hooks and cable up by counterweight than by motor, but speed seems a more likely reason.
You put a lot of trust into twitter dying, but don't seem to concede that inertia is a gigantic part of what holds twitter above water. Users are already too well established on twitter to leave even in the worst of times (see: facebook incidents), meaning I'm quite doubtful it will die in our entire lifetime let alone soon. Social networks haven't been around long enough to be able to tell whether dying is actually even possible for them.