skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going too far.

The Internet absolutely should be classified as a public utility, but the services on it should never be considered as such.

Telephones are a public utility, but a conference room service is not. This is by design, because the conference room service isn't integral to having a telephone system, but having a telephone system is integral to having a conference room service.

Likewise, the Internet is integral to accessing all of the sites that you visit, but all of the sites that you visit are not integral to the existence and continued functioning of the Internet.

You're suggesting that once a privately owned website grows large enough, that the private entity controlling should lose control of the service they created. I am curious where you would draw the line. If Facebook and Twitter are Public Utilities, what about Reddit? What about that web forum you're running in AWS that just hit 10,000 active users? What about a popular personal blog with server-side comments?

Classifying individual websites as public utilities was never the mission of net neutrality to begin with, and could actually be harmful. If such rules were to exist, all of the content-based censorship arguments against Facebook and Twitter for removing hate-speech from their platforms would be validated, because as public utilities these websites would have no right to moderate their own platforms anymore without government oversight.

Furthermore, it would give our government control over social networks, as they are now a highly-regulated public utility.

And how messy would it be for a website like Facebook to many any major change to their platform once such a rule took effect? By classifying it as a Public Utility, any feature Facebook added would be unable to be removed without a plausible argument that users were being robbed of utility. This would kill innovation, because why would any website implement a feature when doing so could result in immediate lawsuits, and the removal of such a feature once launched would be virtually impossible without legal consequences?
Often the difference between 0$ and 1$ is vastly more than 1$ and 2$. Companies are happy to setup a non compete for free, but if they need to spend real money then that get's rid of the vast majority of cases.
more like memeristor
It's my private project of trying to build an interesting browser plug-in using aws services. I want to keep the costs super low since I need it running all the time but will only use a handful of computers running my plugins while developing.

I do it partly to learn about aws features, partly because I would like if this plug-in existed myself and it doesn't :)
I also think paying for the time is the only way it can be fair, in particular for more experienced candidates who will resent the time wasted as opposed to junior candidates who could see it as being given an opportunity.
Even with net neutrality, they were allowed to do so. In fact, they were mandated to provide an even footing for all websites.
> maybe someone will read this and take heed for the future

He is young and learned his lesson. That's a lesson worth $19,000. It keeps you from doing what the Korean mother who lost her life savings, plus some, referenced further in the article did.
That kind of argument is used to justify a lack of action towards progress though. Similar arguments were made by many about slavery at the time:

"It would be nice to abolish slavery but our current economic system isn't even remotely close to being anything like this. It would take generations of change..."

So we should prefer generations more people be subjected to these horrors than take a risk and make an effort to do better?
The limit is somewhere near M2 of planet Earth. Thats quite a high number! something like $10M USD/coin. Would be nice.
I recently did a homework assignment as the first step in an application process, and I didn't find it inappropriate or untoward at all. It's certainly not abusive, I don't understand why the author used this term. It got me through to the second step, a video conference interview with a couple developers and a chance to go over my code, explain my reasoning, answer some challenge questions, etc, in other words, tech screening. I didn't end up getting the position, but at no point did I feel my time was being wasted or that I was being disrespected.
Both extremes are bad. Yes the interview process is broken but no I won't spend a lot of time if I'm not paid. If it's just a small assignment then that's fine.
I'm from Argentina. Our government was the monster at that time.
It's a low-current arc. The circuit is completed by the capacitance between the helicopter and the ground.

Assuming a spherical helicopter 1M in radius, the capacitance to ground is

>>> 4 * pi * 8.8e-12
1.1058406140636071e-10

The current, at 220 kV and 60 Hz can be calculated

>>> 60 * 2 * pi * 220e3 * 1.1058406140636071e-10
0.009171625977844317

or 9 milliamps. Enough to feel a good tingle. The power in the arc is

>>> 220e3 * 0.009171625977844317
2017.7577151257497

or 2 kilowatts, so you can see the arc in daylight.
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It's not even so much about the contract or the payment. Doing work for a competitor period may well be a violation of an employment contract. Now, sure. Probably no one will find out and you're not really doing work on the side for a competitor. But, personally, I'd be very hesitant to do something that explicitly violates at least the letter of my employment contract even if I were pretty sure I wouldn't be caught.

By contrast, it's no one's business what I'm doing on my day off. And interviewing with other companies is almost certainly not a violation of my contract.
Federalism is about the states, not the population within those sovereign states. The US government is a federal system, population of specific states has little relevance. It seems like a nit-pick, but a misunderstanding federalism leads to assertions that the population actually matters when it comes to federal rules. The EU works similarly — otherwise why have a “rotating” presidency rather than simply having France and Germany pick the president by virtue of larger populations? Would Poland Lithuania find a population-based Presidency fair? Of course not, but Lithuania has an equal right to representation as a nation as would France — to think otherwise would be to destroy the EU (or the United States.)
Farmers under the CAP aren’t just paid “to not farm” but also paid to perform conservation work, and fields that aren’t being used to grow crops can be used as pasture for livestock (to my understanding, please correct me if I’m wrong) and it’s also integrated into crop rotation (where you need a fallow-field for a couple of years anyway) - so I mean the concept of “being paid not to farm” is a misrepresentation.
They could do public offerings, but that comes with a lot of legal and regulatory requirements and expenses, accounting rules, disclosure rules, etc. etc. Not all of those things are necessarily bad; ostensibly they are there to protect public investors, but they do sometimes discourage companies from going public that might otherwise want to do so.

But sure, maybe Uber and SpaceX aren't the best examples. Not sure if I'd even necessarily invest in either of them myself, but I thought they made for relatable examples. For a more real-world case, I'd love to be able to invest some money with the solar funds run by Wunder Capital, and that seems a lot safer than crypto, but that's off-limits to people like me as well.
LYAH is praised cause its cutesy and feels accessible but I'm willing to bet the majority of people recommending LYAH either just saw it and thought it looked good or never got that far. The only book that ever made sense to me was Haskell Programming from First Principles (http://haskellbook.com/). It really holds your hand through a lot of stuff and has a bunch of exercises.
If net neutrality is exclusively a regulatory power grab by Google and the like at the expense of traditional ISPs, then it's true Alex Jones has nothing to do with it. However, if one acknowledges some kind of moral principle that content shouldn't be discriminated against based on the source, then one has to show why that should apply to traditional ISPs and not to the newer Internet companies that run all the same infrastructure the traditional ISPs do.
Then what even is the definition of "Facebook" if the entire business model can collapse and you still consider it to exist just because they have some money left somewhere and can continue being a business?
"It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep."
> 90k in savings isn't going to cut it in their retirement

$90k at 45 years old isn't great, but it isn't destitution.
How do you get the robots onto the line, and how far can they travel? They might not be capable of handling a sudden problem in a remote area. Although I really don't know, as I just learned of their existence from your comment!
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Assuming it is an AC line, it is inductance
I got a rejection email first, then an acceptance email to the advisor track - what does this mean for me? Am I a part of the proper course or am I just accepted because of the mistake?
gVisor can use KVM for isolation instead of ptrace, and I would guess that Google is using it.
I would be curious to hear your perspective on the impact of loneliness and isolation that the article touches on.
Should have a warning for epileptic people on there... That seems pretty seizure enduing to me.

cool stuff though.
In Silicon Valley, I've only seen offices for all employees at Microsoft's Mountain View campus.
I remember hearing as a high schooler that The Italian Mob acquired great loyalty through only hiring people whose family they knew or had met before. Maybe a dumb metaphor, but the painpoints, lonely nights, long hours and competing offers you're gonna face with your Engineer #1 are going to require some deeply rooted trust.

We're lucky enough to live in a time where our skills are in great demand and compensation can be matched without blinking an eye - my advice to business minds hiring their first engineers is to get to know them, build trust and find the ones who are committed to building cool shit with you for the long haul. Don't just make it about comp and perks.

> As I said at the start, hiring your first engineer is incredibly hard unless you’re lucky enough to have a friend you can convince to join
Tesla is wasting a lot of time and money fixing each car individually rather than actually addressing the problem in their assembly line. They actually do shut down their lines for at least a week each quarter--they've simply failed to make all the necessary fixes when they do, meaning that the even their shutdowns are a waste of time and money.
Because companies exist to create revenue and grow. Revenue means dividend and R&D investment, hence, people spend more to buy those shares because company values are higher. For Cryptocurrencies, you just expect someone else will pay more than you do, but there is no obvious reason why it should be that way forever.
I think it's also about that things grow. It's easy to set up one thing anywhere but then you may want more things connected to that thing. All of a sudden you want to focus on your app and not infrastructure problems.

AWS is expensive but for a company it's very cheap for the problems they avoid completely.
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It may not be "hard labor" but isn't this what getting sentenced to community service is, in effect? Involuntary labor as a punishment for a crime.
Probably you hear about them because they are so notable, like the Dutch family that became world news when they went all-in [0], but there will be many who are over-invested.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/this-family-bet-it-all-on-bi...
Homework assignments are fun and interesting to do, so long as I don't already have a job or I've golfed my day job down to a few hours a week. But if I have a non-trivial day job the intrusion into my personal life quickly becomes unmanageable. I declined to continue three opportunities because the homework was ridiculous in various ways.

If your organization assigns me homework, I'm going to look very carefully at it to ascertain whether the filtering function it serves is meat-grinder'y or not. If it feels like a meat grinder, you won't even get an answer from me as to why I didn't complete it. There just won't be any further contact.
>It was hell on earth trying to sort it out, and the sale almost fell through because of it. The real kicker was that our lawyer basically told me he wished I hadn't noticed it because the sale would have just gone through and nobody would have cared... but since I did, we were legally obligated to fix it.

Perhaps this is why 'nobody noticed'?
Both the article and https://www.titanvest.com/performance/ cite performance relative to S&P 500. If you expand out disclosures it says "Figures cited for 2017 and since 2004 represent backtested performance of a hypothetical account using Titan’s investment process, not an actual amount." It's trivial to overfit a backtest to get whatever results you want. For a startup whose objective is to "enable you to become a better investor" they might want to start by explaining why you shouldn't take their performance page seriously.
If a non-incarcerated person finds it necessary to work in order to pay for their food and housing, are they being forced to work against their will?
American Express (AXP) Is Officially Using Ripple’s XCurrent
For those that don't know, you can get around jwz's referrer redirection by opening the link incongnito.
My Startup is failing – What should I do?
Here's a full example using a custom element

https://ellie-app.com/37h3TdyF3w5a1
I remember when they launched with a $5/month hosting plan, then when they raised it to $10. Just looked at the pricing page and the minimum is now $36/month (or $29/month billed yearly). That's some serious sticker shock.

Is it that much better than say, Squarespace?
The problem is that it's not one particular problem with the assembly of the car--it's many problems that all need manual fixing. ("Manual task" in Teslaspeak refers to any task performed by a human on the line, not to any particular task.)
Electric cars are generally simpler than their ICE counterparts. There are way less total working pieces in an electric vehicle than a ICE one.

Also, a huge part of the manufacturing process doesn't even deal with the real guts of the car, it is making sure that the seats are installed, or there aren't panel gaps, or that the paint has been applied properly. All of those are exactly the same for Tesla as they would be for any other automaker.
If you decrease the amount provided by welfare less than the increase in earnings through wages, you slowly decrease the support. So if you made $100 in welfare, then you earn $100, you now get say $75 of welfare, for $175 total income. This continues until welfare reaches $0. This is very standard economic thinking.
Each year I do 2 dry fasts of ~7 days each, in addition to one or two water fasts of ~25 days each time. It's a great experience, and best gift you can give to your body.
> Thanks for this response. The score on my comment above is oscillating around '0' - I wonder how many votes it's actually gotten.

There is a habit where people require you to vilify or express a clearer polarizing opinion about a topic before they determine if you are an acceptable person to listen to, or not.

Its more like a disclaimer they look for.

If you don't do it, or "forget" to mention how much you don't agree with something, then people will discard everything you have to say.

I don't like the habit. Downvotes are effectively censorship, which I would be somewhat okay with if it came from the company itself (hackernews), because then people could disagree with how the company operates, but currently the downvote censorship comes from a mixture of the communities and administrators
Hey awesome! I’ve found myself deeply interested in social impact work so I’m going to follow this one!
Based on my experiences using this as a reference while taking a class on functional programming, I think that while many of the explanations and examples are helpful, the ordering is a bit weird. For example, pushing off the explanation of higher-order functions for so long seems questionable, since they're a fundamental feature of the language.
I don't see a clear value proposition here.

As others have mentioned, ~95% of people should only invest in index funds. They are wasting their money if they actively manage it or put it into a managed fund.

The value add of a hedge fund is its sophisticated research. Hedge funds have analysts who are looking at satellite images showing the number of cars in parking lots to determine whether sales at Best Buy are up this year, PhDs creating ML models that incorporate behavioral finance, that sort of thing.

It seems like Titan operates in a space directly between these two business models - higher fees without the sophisticated research. Its return over the past year is promising, but you can't really evaluate the performance over such a short time frame. I'm very skeptical, but hoping to be proved wrong.
"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement"
That's... pretty much the only reason you need. No heat == cold. If you were asking why the poles are always aligned such that they don't point at the sun,
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-planets-in-our-solar-syste...
No matter what interview process you use to filter out candidates, people will be upset. I actually don't mind doing white board interviews because I find that the pressure is less than peak pressure at an actual job and I don't have to deal with minor API issues.

But I like the idea of homework because you don't need to find an excuse to take a day off from work, especially if you are interviewing at multiple companies.
Unfortunately cost would have been a factor. High voltage, low current is going to lose less in transmission so it’s hard to justify a less dangerous option if it means paying way more to make up for wasted energy.
Flowdock was better than slack, just couldn't compete.
My understanding is that it's caused from the rotorblades moving through the air.

Apparently there are other factors as well. This StackExchange answer can address it better than I can:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9357/can-rotorc...
Also, running that many shifts is a lot of overtime paid.
Not strictly true, Ghost has a lot of built-in features for SEO. In particular: Detailed schema.org microformats and structured data, automatic canonical tags, automated + user override-able custom meta data, automatic XML sitemaps, SEO friendly routes, RPC pings, automatic Google AMP support, and quite a few other things.

We do all of these things in core, rather than leaving it up to the theme, so that everyone gets consistently good SEO rather than being left up to the mercy of whatever the theme developer remembered to implement
Just out of curiosity, how does it make you feel knowing your gains were at the expense of not very fortunate or rich people losing out around the world - unprotected because of the newness of the “investment” type - by investment laws. I made a modest return on a bitcoin investment, felt shit about it, and donated all the return to charity.
What is “useful”? Are humans useful?
You misunderstand. I'm not saying you can't try and change things, that's exactly what I am saying. You can't demand everything has to perfect right now, you need to actually start the change somewhere.

>"It would be nice to abolish slavery but our current economic system isn't even remotely close to being anything like this. It would take generations of change..."

This is more like you saying we need to have equal rights for everyone in 1800 before you start working on abolishing slavery in the first place.
While we're talking about slavery, it might be important to mention that the constitution specifically allows slavery in this context:

> "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
- 13th amendment
> I have a problem with creating an economic incentive to keep people in prison

You're going to be in for a real surprise when you learn why they get paid a $1/hr to do life-threatening work (that they're banned from afterwords), and where the rest of the money goes. Do you think corrections departments who sell these services charge $1/hr? Do you think them buying an overpriced toothbrush at over $20 and being price gouged by a prison actually saves the ever-deified "taxpayers" any money? Or that prisons don't pocket that and want more of it?

Of course, historically, some slaves got paid by their masters, too. Unsurprisingly, it was a very popular argument (by slave owners and apologists) against their freedom (from being enslaved) because at least they got something (besides being a slave) instead of nothing (from the slave owners who got everything) and hey -- we're all making a buck, so that's their fair share.

It's almost like.... slavery -- of all forms -- is really economically effective and has really, really good margins, and can make lots of money. Super weird. Can't imagine why people got rid of it.
I'm not sure the person profiled supports the underlying thesis of the article. He was 82 and struggling with numerous health problems, suicide may have been a quasi-rational choice?
It's an AC line, so when the helicopter retracts it will get a static charge instead of fluctuating in sync with the line, giving an immediate potential difference.

I have no source for this, just amateur reasoning.
It doesn't, it's the other way around. Price sets a floor on hash rate.
I find it interesting how many startups try to remove all bias from the hiring process, make interviews as objective and metric based as possible, but in the end, personal connections (friendships even) are still most important for your first hires.
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> Then why do people say "invest in the stock market for the long run by buying an index fund?"

Because the American economy has historically grown. Buying an index of Austrian stocks on the eve of WWI would have been about as effective as buying cryptocurrencies.
Well said, and I agree completely about this story.

There's still an aspect of this with which I'm unsatisfied, however. What's the character of leadership who would address misuse of the feature by devising weights intended to devalue the opinions of large swaths of their engaged user base? Significant numbers of people are expressing a sentiment through their alleged abuse of the feature, and instead of trying to channel that constructively, the company is devising ways to ignore it.