skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been thinking a lot about the fundamental flaws in economic metrics — there is just absolutely something missing in the current concept of actuarial efficiency — which is I think the only kind of efficiency that economists are equipped to talk about.

There is 0 value given to the experience of visiting a natural space or to forests which take thousands of years to grow which quite literally could not be reconstructed for any amount of money (for example) ... we need something more at a philosophical level from economics than we are getting. I’ve been pondering a two dimensional monetary system — dollar amount representing how much you want something and another number for representing how much it costs the world for you to have it ... the one dimensional notion of value claims to merge these things but it clearly does not — investment which produces growth by satisfying ever more wants _should_ hit a point of diminishing return far sooner than our current metrics are able to represent ... if we had a 2d monetary system where pricing models were segregated, actuarial efficiency could be arranged to mean something entirely more meaningful than the current optimization paradigms can ever hope for ...
Some things to keep in mind:

- Once upon a time, we all rallied around Google and it's "Don't be evil" mantra and Google seemed privacy-focused. Then that went away.

- Apple marketing is currently hyping privacy, but they still collect a staggering amount of telemetry from devices. They still hold a lot of our data that is not encrypted at rest. Some day, their touted stance on privacy will change.
Apple could market their pro-privacy stance more aggressively, or at all. As it is, they could change it at any time. For example, if market conditions are changing, selling access to Apple's valuable user base should be extremely tempting for compensation. If OTOH they emphasize their privacy stance with all their marketing prowess, this certainly will make mainstream consumers consider "privacy" a value in itself.
There are gloves with electric heaters that you can charge via micro usb.
Sorry, iOS is a closed source OS and nobody can verify what's exactly happening under the hood, this article is shallow and unverifiable. I disagree that Apple's product is privacy without being able to verify that there isn't some code that's processing my personal info. Nobody here can prove or disprove it without access to the source code.
Fair points. My commute is 20 minutes (long enough for one NPR podcast and a Dunkin Dounts coffee on the way), and I only go into the office a few days each month. My employer even installed an EV charger for me!
"Privacy is worth a price premium" is "about privacy issues", isn't it?
Because they aren't having kids...

Not because there's a problem with the homes or the locations.

It's because somehow, an entire generation has grown up with the idea that the one biologically necessary act to further the survival of the species...is not a good idea.

Maybe it's marketing, maybe it's the message, maybe it's the intensity of school causing people to believe that workaholism is necessary, maybe it's pride that working for somebody else is more important to people than raising a family and maybe it's student loan debt making the idea of the costs of raising kids difficult to bear, maybe it's culture that has changed the relationships between potential parents enough to make them incompatible.

Whatever it is, something serious has happened to cause that many people to go against biology.
In 2025: Google decides to focus only on Search, Maps, and Mail; shuts down or divests all 243 other "side projects".
In 2030: app developers band together and refuse all new technology.

In 3030: we're still using Firebase 2030 edition.
America has plenty of homegrown fake news factories and troll farms. They've been haunting AM radio since before the web.
There's also these things called "clothes" humans have been using to protect themselves from the elements for quite a while. Humans walked across Siberia with little more than animal skins. I think most can handle a 30 minute bike ride when it's a bit chilly.
How does that make it meaningless? Yes, certain segments of the population are even more underserved than others, but that’s just more evidence for the fact that we’re doing a crap job of keeping people healthy.
I'm a little amused that their forecast visualization seems to repeatedly show substantial ride demand in the middle of the bay. Kayakers getting tired and hailing a ride?
From my reading of right wing media, it seems like terrorism and immigration are much larger contributors to the rise of nationalism.
Copperhead is a great idea! Biggest issues I had with it when I was looking at it was, lack of recent up to date hardware. The Pixel was a great phone but it's getting to be a pretty old phone, the pixel 3 will be out soon. Second and much bigger issue is the lack of apps because SO many Android apps require the google play services and if you enable that you lose the vast majority of the privacy benefits you gain from Copperhead and fdroid. If you don't use apps or just a few that support fdroid, then Copperhead might be a great choice.
I'm glad you find them useful! If anybody's curious, you can find them at https://mindstamp.io/yc-sus.

SuperAnimo looks sweet. Care to share more about what you're doing technically to create the videos?
My favorite tweet of all times
It hasn’t stopped a lot of us up here in Minneapolis. Other than - possibly - a balaclava, I don’t dress significantly different for winter biking than I do for general winter weather. The effort warms me up quickly.
Another interesting datapoint is medicaid enrollment. It's WAY up. If you look at it over the last 18 years:

2000:
Enrolled: 31,743,700 |
% of country: 11%

2010:
Enrolled: 50,314,600 |
% of country: 16%

2018:
Enrolled: 73,355,220 |
% of country: 22%

Although there was an expansion in Medicaid in 2009, these numbers are still showing there are more people who can't afford the basics.
There's this thing, I don't know if it has a name, but it's certainly a post-scarcity idea:

The people who spend the most capital (money/time/talent) measuring/sciencing a thing will always be the people who can profit from that thing the most, and they will measure/science it in the capacity that provides the highest returns.

Lots of other people will measure/science the thing, but they either will have their own agenda or do the measury/sciency part less good.
Approximating Functions with Python and an Orthonormal Basis
Deleting the movies the don't have the rights to distribute anymore? How could they legally do that?
You don't want to work for scum like Uber, aim higher, like a collections agency.
With 5G on the Horizon, Startups See Potential in Small Data Hubs
Correct me if I'm wrong but was the purpose of Inbox to test and experiment new features/functionality to be added to Gmail? It did not seem this was meant to be a long term solution.
Pretty one-sided article. Sure, working from home is lonely if you need social interaction and don't automatically get it from work. If you have a family, active social life, or simply don't need social interaction to be happy, it's not a problem.

But what if you work in a company that's: tiny, not very social, or you just don't feel a sense of connection to anyone? My current workplace hits all 3 of these, and I feel lonelier when I'm in the office than the couple times I've gotten to spend a full week working remotely. I think the real issue is to investigate whether you have a healthy social life, or whether you're lonely and using workplace socialization as a crutch or replacement for real personal bonds and activities
I can't provide what I'm not asked for.

1, 2: I didn't cite explanations for these because I explained them directly.

3: https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/alpine-key...

4: I don't know the particular steps ncopa et al take to safeguard their private keys, but that doesn't mean that my concerns are technical bullshit.

5: You're looking for alpine-devel, a public mailing list.

I'm not going to entertain further discussion with you if you aren't going to be civil. Ask questions and I will ask them. Acuse me of bad faith and call my concerns bullshit and I won't.
Nanome was originally built on Unity. I can't speak to the experience with Steam from a dev perspective, but we did upload our original product to early access almost 3 years ago. The software has an entirely new codebase today. Submissions to other stores like Oculus were much more strenuous and heavily audited.
Ha. I strongly disagree, for many reasons. The main one being that they have such terrible software devs (sorry but lately every Apple release was a fiasco) that they couldn't possibly have a "safe" and "private" environment, not intentionally obviously, but they keep showing their lack of concern and involvement time after time.
You work for an e-rag.
What I think people like the author who are arguing about inequality are missing is that inequality is not the fundamental issue or put another way I think that tackling it is the wrong goal to have. For instance, if we are all rich, it doesn't matter if some even richer people can have flying cars and homes in the sky. In fact, I would prefer this scenario to a perfectly equal situation in which everyone lives in the same abject poverty or almost as bad, we have a crawling rate of innovation and don't get around to making market ready medical devices, human-AI biosembiotic interfaces, etc. for another century or so.

Our goal should be to increase wealth in general and ensure that the median wealth per capita increases or steadily increases for various segments of the population. Ideally, you would have faster median expansions in lower income segments of the population but in my mind, even if the top %1 had an increased wealth per annum of say 0.05% and the lowest had a lesser increase of 0.02%, I would still prefer that (assuming we've controlled for PPP, inflation, etc) than a system where the poorest increased at 2% a year, the richest dropped -2% and our overall economic productivity declined or stayed roughly the same year after year.

Overall, though I agree with the author in that too much emphasis (in the news at least), is put on GDP. Its still a useful indicator of productivity in an economy and from an investment perspective, but there are as he rightly mentions many qualitative properties left out of this one measurement. Which is kind of always the case is it not? Every time we measure something it measures a specific thing which we decide to interpret in a particular way, its funny how often we generalize that act to areas for which the original measurement was never designed.
If you're OK with textual code generation, you can also use something like re2c:

http://re2c.org/

And then you get the power of regexes too. re2c will match an arbitrary set of regexes (including constant strings) by walking through the string byte-by-byte, a single time.

A trie is basically a special case of a DFA.
Massive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977631
Apple was added to PRISM in 2012 and we have no reason to believe the programs they have been required to cooperate in have been dismantled, if anything we should assume they have been strengthened.
What are we going to do with all those dormant pipes? Could some clever startup use them to route physical packets of stuff? :)
Tuche!
This isn't really a fair statement to make. Sure some people will have struggles with using a bike all winter and it may not be possible for them, but it doesn't invalidate the ideas or arguments as a whole. To assume all people for the idea are just biased and privileged based on cherry picked negative situations is just not fair. If you can't cycle then you can't cycle. Just because a few can't do something doesnt mean that this idea as a whole is invalid.
Why can't you let your kids roam in a suburb?
Sure, lots of 'devops' people come from the ops side, probably more than strictly developers.

I'm not a fan of the 'devops' term, generally.
I live in Minnesota which is a cold weather state. We get lots of snow and winters last a long time. I’m not from Minnesota but have lived here for 18 years. I have never changed tires on my car. I will never bike in the winter time. Too many chances to slip in winter while biking. Pockets of ice, areas that aren’t cleared well, etc.
Nope. It's about a price premium being worth it when that price is connected to an Apple product.
Jesus, these comments are so depressing to read. This post is saying a very basic, normal thing about what can happen when you travel around a lot.
After months in the sometimes-not-so-happy dev cave, comments like this mean the world to me.

Thanks so much, Davedx!
"If you believe Greg is a bad guy, don't let Greg make signed commits to your system."

That's exactly my point.
On the contrary… I'll actually stay home if I want to stay focused on one task! You have to find out what sticks with you.
Carbon frames have significant drawbacks compared to metal frames, especially for everyday bikes.

Sure, the weight reduction matters when you're racing, but carbon frames don't stand up very well to the bumps and scrapes of a bike commute. If you crash a metal frame, it may bend a bit, and if it's unsafe to ride, it's generally immediately obvious. A carbon frame can look perfectly fine, but suddenly snap at an inopportune moment.

For commuting and everyday riding, you want something slightly heavier and beefier. Most bikes these days are aluminum, and some people still swear by lugged steel frames for their durability.
Bike commuting growth has stopped/reversed in most places in the US in the last couple of years: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/09/14/bike-commuting-growth...

My worry is that there actually aren't enough people to use the bike infra to justify continued/increasing costs--or at least makes it easy to argue against. For example, there is a bike path next to a new light rail line in West LA (expo line for the curious). I used it to commute for ~1 year and the traffic I observed on it was very minimal considering the cost it must have taken to put in and maintain (lights at night too).

Yeah there are a couple bike hotspots like Portland and Minneapolis (maybe DC?) but outside that, the demand is minimal unfortunately.
I'm finding as I get older I'm tolerating distractions less and less, or rather as the distractions come, I find them even more frustrating as the years go on.

I know how well I can work when I have one thing to concentrate on for a period of time, and how badly I can work when there are eight different concurrent projects with questions coming in through slack throughout the day.

It is quite a challenge to try to flow through. I meditate and this helps to create some mental space but that doesn't (for me) mitigate the distractions that much.
This is amazing, thank you!

I've been playing guitar for a while now and am now beginning to understand the importance of theory, but I'm kind of at a loss on how to go about learning and applying it. Does anyone have a book/mooc that they'd recommend with lots of exercises and accompanying songs?

I've gone through a few sources but most of them relate everything to a piano. I understand the underlying theory is mostly the same but I feel like I would internalize it better seeing it on a fretboard.
there's a video in the Info menu
Can you give some examples? Things being broken in life is usually one or more of:

- lack of time to implement (this would be great but we have three people on a team, and five features to deliver...)

- lack of people who care enough and have the resources to fix it (this would be great, but manager has other priorities that are more important at the moment)

- conscious choice as expression of philosophy or style (like flat UI)

- conscious technical trade off (like on-device photo analysis)

What are some of the things you think are wrong and would be easy to solve? Openradar links would be useful too :)
This isn't about the kind of discrimination being allowed. This is about which groups we apply protections to. Do you also think I'm mistaken that a law defining marriage as the union between two people of the same race is incompatible with a law forbidding racial discrimination in marriage rights?
You're forgetting the "Dutch mountains", Amsterdam can be an extremely windy city. Yet it doesn't really seem to bother people.
Anything new on that front that you have heard? I remember the meltdown but haven't heard anything since. Looks like the business guy is just continuing to sell what they had and then no updates ever. Once people get sick of that, maybe the company just goes away?
Great point, we're implementing haptic feedback in newer builds. I never really thought of how meaningful it could be for describing forcefields. interesting...
> but they still collect a staggering amount of telemetry from devices. They still hold a lot of our data that is not encrypted at rest.

Here's one data point which says otherwise [0].

> As insightful as it was, Apple's treasure trove of my personal data is a drop in the ocean to what social networks or search giants have on me

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-r...
Yea, I'm thinking of ditching my sim card or living mostly in airplane mode with wifi. I don't want to be part of a system where even the cell phone carriers are selling my real time location.
TypeScript Try/catch/finally and Custom Error Best Practices
I would use the free storefront theme along with one of the child themes from https://woocommerce.com/product-category/themes/storefront-c... . Using the base Storefront theme also is good.
FWIW, it's incredibly patronizing to dismiss the political concerns of half the population by essentially saying that they're rubes who have been duped by the Russians.
Inferring user gender with deep learning at a women-only social platform
Hey Brett, consider this a suggestion to completely ignore the pricing feedback above. Sure, you could price it based on your server costs, but that's a terrible way to run a business.

Looks to me like you're pricing based on value and to deter support zombies, so stick with it! Don't worry about anonymous commenters on HN telling you your pricing is too high.
> Native American Reservations with very specific issues around unemployment, alcoholism, etc.

Native Americans typically receive their healthcare from the IHS, which is known for being an absolute disaster. It's not surprising (or news) that life expectancy is much lower for a population which receives its healthcare exclusively through a system which has a track record of neglecting its patients or using them as test subjects without their consent.
> They had hundreds quiet of ways to kill Sergey

Sure they did but that clearly wasn't the goal or, at least, not the only goal. Anyone who thinks that this was somehow an incompetent operation doesn't know what they're talking about. The GRU are just doing what Mossad has been doing for years. And they appear to be doing a pretty good job of it.

> how did they know that it was specific to Russia?

Not specific to Russia, specific to a lab in Russia. As they can't publish the actual analysis, I'm going to make an educated guess that they look at trace elements in the poison. Every lab will have a signature. I have no idea whether it was from the poison itself, the solvent or something else. What was clear though is that the UK lab couldn't trace it but the Swiss could.

> convert it to evil in eyes of all

Nah. This is small potatoes compared to the invasion of Crimea.
The default was 12, then later 24 IIRC. I believe the highest you could set was 30, though maybe that's changed in recent years.

I work for a company that does both SVG+JS and Flash media, still. The web-tech media is smoother (because 60fps), but the Flash media has a much higher complexity ceiling — which is why we haven't 100% switched to the web yet (and because our clients still prefer and pay for the Flash stuff, sigh)
This country has $21 trillion in debt.

With this current administration (Trumpy and previous administrations before him) have been ignoring this swamp-filled problem. So much so that in August, the current administration added $214 billion to the deficit.

We are on our way to adding $1 trillion a year to this country's deficit. $1 trillion is an insane number: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

We are now over a 105.4% Debt-to-GDP ratio. If you as a citizen make $1 and spends $2, you're officially bankrupt! The U.S. government can measure all it wants, but we cannot continue to ignore the current situation. The reason Trump got elected in the first place was that his constituents thought he would be the man to address the "swamp." But nope.
Best product ≠ most popular product
What about using Tor browser? I think it's more important than the points listed in the article
fantastic, i'll go check it out
Yep. Me, too. I love working remotely, and will hopefully never have to commute ever again. If I need a break, I step outside and garden, walk around the neighborhood, play with my son, etc. If I need social stimulation, I head into a coworking space or coffee shop, or just hop on Zoom with a coworker.

I do miss pranks and foosball, though. But those aren't a big enough upside to justify all of the downsides of going in to an office.
I am not that much into conspiracy but I think economic anger and pain is being redirected against "others" by powerful people. Trump is a good example for this. Same in silicon valley. Instead of going against income inequality people talk about diversity, LGBT and other things that don't threaten the power and income of the owning class.
Peter Kiewit – The Story of Warren Buffett’s Mentor
My point was not to state the truth but to show the possibility. Unlike prime numbers, the historical pattern is that our model of reality has changed fundamentally several times.

An easy, however unlikely, example of what could change it again is to find out we are in a simulation.
Statistically, it is much safer to let your kids roam today than it was 30 years ago. Violent crimes are down quite a lot across the board.
In terms of privacy, Apple seems so far ahead of the industry it's practically shocking. I paid the invoice from Namecheap for a domain renewal last night and when downloading the receipt, I noticed a network call to Facebook[dot]com. Turns out it was hitting some telemetry API and logging my order ID, session token, transaction ID, and other stuff like my screen resolution and who knows what else. Like... what?
I'd have to disagree with all of those points. The background transitions first, then the foreground content transitions afterwards; they're not all moving at once. The foreground content then remains stable once the transition finishes. Perhaps some opacity could be applied to the foreground content to discourage users from trying to read while it transitions.

And it makes sense to have the history change with each slide state. Describing it as a 'state' upholds that point. The back button even works with it, which is my main gripe when single-page apps don't 'pollute' the browser's history.
Trump’s economy is doing fantastically well—better find a different way to evaluate it!
So, so excited for this. I would love nothing more than to be able to create Model and ViewModel code a domain specific cross platform SDK, and have a View implementation on a platform by platform basis for android, iOS, and web. Possible? I sure hope so!
Because interviews are not testing your knowledge, but rather your ability to successfully prepare for and execute a set of tasks within a broadly defined scope of requirements. And all else being equal, a candidate who reads CtcI before an interview will be better prepared for success than one who does not.

It’s the same thing with consulting/banking interviews, standardized testing, and generally many gatekeeping mechanisms. It’s a test of preparation and the ability to set yourself up for successful execution.