skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bike sharing schemes were widely predicted to fail in Australia due to their compulsory helmet laws for cyclists. The argument was that few people would want to put on a shared helmet, and that preparation involved in having to bring a helmet would deter casual use -- which is the whole point of such schemes.
A metal back will compromise radio reception.
Now that's an excellent way to put it.

It's so much more cost-effective than slavery. Slaves have to be fed, clothed, and housed. Gig workers don't.

Not only that, gig workers have freedom and opportunity. Not much of it, but they can fantasize about escaping their trap. There's a whole ideological system telling them it's all their fault. Capitalism, Christianity, and Judaism all line up on this.

Rebellion is very difficult. The debt system doesn't oppress. It's merely indifferent to your suffering. It simply ignores you until you die.
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Really curious about the downvotes (which I don't care about the votes, just what it means).

Do they mean "Breitbart is much much less credible than all other news outlets (except maybe Infowars) so they deserve this!"

Or do they mean, "Yes, but leftism is the correct point of view, they told me so in college, so they deserve this block!"

Or do they mean "We've been trying really hard to resurrect major media as a legitimate source for believable propaganda and don't like your insinuation there!"

Or something else I haven't thought of?

Because from where I sit, Breitbart, the grand total of 3 times I visited it seemed a bit extreme and one sided, but in reporting not any further from what one might consider "accurate" than many biased mainstream news outlets (comments section excluded, that was indeed a circus).

Did I miss something?

Not really a person of strong political persuasions but big tech shoving brave new world down everyone's throats isn't really my thing either. Plus I doubt it will work. I guess I prefer the dumb pipes model but once people are involved that goes out the window? Any way to tone that down?
In addition to the Do Not Track/DNT header, we’ll soon need a Do Not GDPR Me, Do Not Cookie-Warn Me, and No I Won’t Subscribe to Your Newsletter.

I’d love the European Commission to make it forbidden to show popups on a website, to complete the irony.
I prefer Ayn Rand's take on it:

Without abstract ideas you would not be able to deal with concrete, particular, real-life problems. You would be in the position of a newborn infant, to whom every object is a unique, unprecedented phenomenon. The difference between his mental state and yours lies in the number of conceptual integrations your mind has performed.
You have no choice about the necessity to integrate your observations, your experiences, your knowledge into abstract ideas, i.e., into principles.

Your only choice, is whether your principles are true or false, rational or irrational, consistent or contradictory. The only way to know which they are is to integrate your principles.

What integrates them? Philosophy. A philosophic system is an integrated view of existence. As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by- your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: selfdoubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown.
And I'm guessing you've had more time to think about this than I have.

Not necessarily - I just like to muse about big-picture problems with society from time to time. Contrasting median and mean income (a flawed measure for various reasons) was just the first idea I had when I was trying to sanity-check the common-sense idea that because it's easier to get money if you already have money, social polarization is likely to grow.

As far as the US is concerned, campaign finance reform often gets mentioned as the most immediate step to improve upon the current situation.

As to the big-picture problems, frankly, I'm not sure humanity as a species is enlightened enough to overcome self-interest and inertia to ever fix the systemic problems present in the current way we organize society. Hope for benevolent robot overlords, I guess ;)
On the previous Platform Team I worked in, we called these Tech Docs and used a template for anything moderate-sized or required new software/service selection or was judged to be complex.

In every case, we had one person responsible to putting together the doc, but the team or a subset of the team participated in brainstorming, whiteboarding, and submitting additional input prior to the first draft. The draft was shared and commented/ammended with a target finalize date by which time it had been signed off by identified key people as well as others who reviewed it.
Loads of people today who lived under Soviet rule want to return to soviets rule. Capitalism destroyed Eastern Europe. It's horrible over there right now.
>In this nasty capitalism you can at least have hope, in soviet union there was no hope.

Any evidence to back either of these claims up?
I don't think it is the same. The US has always been open to outside investment. But we have things happening right now where a large number of major motion pictures coming out are from Chinese owned companies (like Legendary). Notice how the hero is China in so many films now.

Chinese citizens are buying up media properties and tech stock at a dizzying pace. Meanwhile, American owned media companies are heavily restricted in what movies can be shown in China and what content those movies can have. There are also restrictions of foreign ownership of Chinese companies.

The Trump administration is wasting time taxing trinkets imported from China, when what they should be doing is matching the restrictive laws that China is using to increase their soft power in the US and world.
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Or politically caused famine
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Good demonstration of the Magnus effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtP_bh2lMXc
There's another one of these near Aspen, Colorado. The Mt. Elbert Pumped-Storage Powerplant. If you're ever nearby, they give tours.
LMAO you have no idea what you are talking about. It's funny how you just accept Western propaganda as truth.
I've found the opposite--the academic sources cited on many Wikipedia pages (in math and adjacent areas) are seldom comprehensive and often insufficient for the topic. Literature reviews in decent papers, on the other hand, usually clue me in to entire swaths of the literature that I was previously unaware of.
Which variant map did you play? I have seen a few world maps but hard to see the potential balance issues without playing a few rounds…
Camry numbers are wrong, my colleague just got a Camry SE MSRP $25.5k for $19.5k, the base model is even cheaper and has better seating than Model 3.

They pumped Camry rookie numbers up to make Model 3 look good in that racket /s.

I am waiting for $35k M3 myself, but Camry or Accord is still much better financial decision for lot of people compared to M3 LR.
How isn't it making any gains? Anyone who has retirement savings invested properly (in stocks, not under a mattress or in a bank) is making use of these gains.
Yes. We are looking into better ways to roll but it's hard on Android because of course-grained permissions; also you can't have a high-power importer put the imported stuff in a place the main app can use, as far as I know. Apps are not allowed by store rules to "interfere" with one another. :-/
No capitalism has not brought millions out of poverty. Here is why: https://youtu.be/A6VqV1T4uYs

edit: Ok downvote me if you want, it doesn't change the truth that your data is built off of lies. I though HN prides ourselves on not falling for stupid manipulations of data, like the very charts you are pointing to.
"What do you mean by economic efficiency? It seems like the model of a lot of gig jobs encourages the employer to waste the worker's time."

But the employers aren't paying for that time.
It's the main usage of VPN (as well as region locked mmos) for those who are not doing it for security.
> You compare a hypothetical dam disaster

No, I’m not.
Same for me with monopoly. Monopoly doesn't have backstabbing that much, but certainly has alliances and some people already don't take too well to other people cooperating without them.
American culture has high support for other people avoiding government largesse. Nobody wants to give up their own subsidies, on the right or the left.
To add on, Racket in particular has some very slick syntax for writing these kinds of things:

(define-syntax-rule
(let ([id expr] ...) body ...)
((λ (id ...) body ...) expr ...))
> About books, that's the problem, they're all biased in one way or another.

This is no excuse for not becoming more educated on the subject if you are ignorant. Every source is full of bias. That's why reading more than one book on the same subject is a worthwhile endeavor, because even a supposedly objective history is full of some editorializing of the events. The trick is to recognize when the author is editorializing and when they are presenting the events as they happened, and to take the editorializing as the author's point of view and the events as factual unless proven otherwise.

Disagreeing with someone's opinion about something does not require you to disagree with their presentation of the facts.
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The challenge with energy storage is the tradeoff between cost and efficiency. On the one end you have batteries that are hella efficient but expensive, and then you have a spectrum going Hydrogen -> Pumped Energy -> Compressed Air (cheapest and least efficient)

The question is whether we can build enough wind or solar power that doesn't just meet our needs when it's outputting well, but overshoots them by like 500% so we can use cheap and inefficient energy storage.
I meant in the industry (as I believe the original comment intended), not one large enterprise migrating.
It’s not even an alternative to crawling. It’s just a way to exploit the result of crawling. You have to crawl first.

Very misleading title.
how did this make it onto HN? for some privacy bashing?

srsly, why is this interesting in the slightest?
Compressed air is cheaper and has less geographic needs but it's even less efficient.
Amazon doesn’t have a foot in social networks yet. It could complete their home offer, between Alexa and Prime, what better termination of a supply chain than an entire platform for product placement.
While this is correct and worthy of discussion, technically it doesn't really have anything to do with what the OP is asking. The way Hola/Luminati works is not a good template for understanding the VPN cottage industry more generally.
> I rarely come across engineers who even know what XML

bullshit
Oh, you mean the government aided weight loss program.
There also just aren't that many people above the Arctic circle. 90/10 rule applies here.
Your experience is similar to mine. I'm a marketing consultant so I get to work with a lot of different teams. People that either over-rely on Founder vision AND people that overly rely on data tend to not do well. It's why I've stopped saying data-driven and now say data informed. The best teams have a solid vision, but let the data guide the specific implementation of said vision. You need a healthy mix of both.
Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# (2016)
To be fair, you can to use XPath in HTML as well
When I’ve been depressed, here’s what worked for me.

1) long walks in nature
2) eat well
3) sleep (If necessary get a prescription for trazodone, they’re cheap $7.50 for 90 pills)
4) antidepressant meds
Or you can become a homeless, unemployment person and have 365 days of vacation per year. Imagine that.... Err, sorry in Soviet Union you were not allowed to do that, these commies had to ruin the last bastion of human freedom! No worries, in the USA they still have it. I heard plenty of families take up on the opportunity.
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Furthermore, even if it is implementation details, maybe the implementations we have had so far are the best that humanity can do.

I would argue that the True Scotsman's communism is actually worse than the flawed implementations. It is complete garbage.

The fact that there could exist a privileged class within communist societies, a class that had better access to higher grade goods, education and everything else, was actually an improvement.

It gave people something to strive for: get in with the right people, to get the kids better schooling, and so on.

People need that; nobody who is capable of hustling wants to be equal to a sloth who rest on his laurels.
Sure. My system disk was Windows only, but I go to pretty extreme lengths to avoid reinstalling Windows. So after my latest system upgrade I had a UEFI system running off a MBR disk and some bad partitioning. This was a source for much amusement...Window Setup would fail without explaining why, mbr2gpt would fail without explaining why, the BCD tools behaved badly, the Windows 10 recovery environment wouldn't work, etc.

Gradually, with much trial and error, I managed to work through each problem, until I wound up with a mostly correct GPT disk and a fully functioning system. It's now successfully applied several updates correctly, where previously it would get to 99%, fail, then roll back, only to try again the next day. As a side effect, I now know more about Windows 10 booting, the BCD, and GPT than I ever wanted to.

The only "problem" I have now is an unused old boot partition that I'm frankly terrified to try to remove, since it'll renumber all of the partitions and cause some problems. I'm relatively sure I know how to fix it, but it's too risky to contemplate right now.
We have some of those too but they are usually junior managers who have a single level team (and likely haven’t had to fire or lay someone off). Org leaders usually have more perspective than to call it a family.
That definitively depends on the role you’re in. I often find my most productive hours are those when others are not pinging my by Slack, email, Skype, phone. I absolutely must have overlap time with others to keep things moving forward, but I find reducing overlap time is actually better.
Yes. Go read The Gulag Archipelago. The ignorance of those comparing Stalinist USSR to modern capitalism is astounding.
It's not pure, unbridled capitalism, though.
I believe the parent was thinking of our using antibiotics for things like increasing growth rates in livestock, hand soap marketing, and viral infections; but maybe your incredibly uncharitable interpretation is correct ...
> you can get data from many different places without having to run crawlers

Is it really the case ? Can you really avoid crawling before doing that ? Article is unclear
Plan to spend most of your time dealing with captchas and anti-scraping technology
Most people I know would say CrowdStrike should be on that list.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/
China has the capability to build the hardware, but is that really the future? Apple is one of the only American companies that is still doing well with hardware. Most tech hardware always becomes commoditized and unprofitable.

Is there really much hand wringing going on about China building their own stuff? They've been copy catting for decades.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite magazine clippings / layouts?
Hello,

I'm thinking about creating a side project for reading articles on tabs I have open, but have not gotten around to reading yet. I like the idea of creating a newspaper style layout where the intro to the article is in the front. If you want to read more, you click through and can go to the next page. I also like the idea of having it divided by categories. Maybe that can be customized? I'm essentially brainstorming here, but what do you guys think?

Main Ask: Please share your favorite articles or layouts from a paper or online magazine. And say what they do well, or what could be improved upon :)
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You point about about the plight of the poor in any country including the US should be taken seriously. You comparison with Stalinist USSR is completely insane. Go read The Gulag Archipelago. Please.
Sure, those specific cases are justified. A lot of others aren't. I guess in the context of blood-letting it wasn't clear I meant they would look unkindly on our policy as a whole, rather than on using them at all.
I pretty much agree with this. When I can get away with it performance-wise (and I almost always can for personal projects), this is a big part of why I love using Perl 6.

I recently rolled my own (verg tiny and specific) build/deployment system for a project. Initial prototyping was a breeze, but once I had things more or less nailed down, I started adding types and, for example, was able to leverage the type system to make sure it can only be deployed listening on IP addresses in the private range. The next step is to rig up some sort of Zerotier integration to ensure I only make it available on my private networks.
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Honestly, this drives me nuts. Retail used to be a middle-class job... And now we're employing more people to work longer hours but less money per hour, so in the end the same amount of wages are paid but it's less livable for the individual employee. And for what? So we can get groceries at 10pm on a Sunday.

The same amount of product is getting sold for the same amount of wages, it's just the wages are smeared across more hours.
Well, in industry.. you know that clojure and haskell folks have more in common than different. A lot of the same folks move back and forth and care about the same things, just different ways to get there. I think the community size of clojure and haskell are sized very similarly and are also highly correlated. Any language graph you see that has both clojure and haskell, they always appear very close to each other.

Lest you forget, both fight against Java:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Industry is not doing a 'mass migration' to clojure, haskell, or any other language not in the top 5.

So the OP was wrong to claim a 'mass migration' in the first place
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But you can still be asked for it, and you can still be required to appear in court over it
Not in my experience, no. There are some that do, such as the ones running chemical processes that can't be stopped and restarted. The ones that are basically assembly lines putting parts together can stop on weekends.
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Faraday Future CEO accused of trying to break investor deal after spending $800M
Preface:I'm my opinion all groups in politics currently are capable and engaging in propaganda. What I have seen lately here appears to come from one group

Hacker news appears to have recently entered the targets of the same sort of posters who pioneered the propaganda techniques used in r/t_d during the election. I keep seeing throwaway accounts bring up altright talking points that are barely related to the topic at hand if related at all. Here we have someone equating getting people to vote with liberal partisanship. The other day I had someone tell me the Republican party was the party of tolerance because white men let other people vote and then a continuing stream of wild claims[1].

People espouseing their viewpoint from any given side isn't the problem here, when they give evidence and backed up reasons. This group appears to just be pushing statements they want to be true with no evidence and trying to pull a Gish gallop[2] frequently to derail the conversation into their topics. Luckily the community culture here seems to catch this sort of behavior and kill it quickly

You'll have to set your account to see dead as the comment was flagged to death

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148520

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Elites think they’re being philanthropic. But they could do so much more
I’m not sure Oppenheimer/Einstein/Feynman would have been referred to at the time as “the factory” nor would I imagine anyone consider their work needing to be highly efficient nor would I imagine anyone would dream the appropriate management style to be to eek out all the efficiency in what they were building.

I don’t disagree with your thoughts on charismatic leadership but the response seems misplaced or slightly off topic.

I think factory management and motive is slightly different than dictatorial/power leadership.
They do. It's called a Long Pickup Fee or a Long Pickup Premium and it depends on time as well.
Well the most interesting part is that the preferences of workers are reflected in salaries in a free market economy. So its usually more expensive to have night shifts and more expensive to have workers work on the weekends because these are less desirable working times.
Thank you for mentioning it. Just removed it. Do you know of any good, non-expensive (VPN?) alternatives? I was using it to access Netflix in other languages for language learning purposes.
I suspect that the LA Times, like various other online publications, has simply made the decision that they have approximately zero economic benefit from having EU readers. They're an essentially local newspaper.

Therefore, it's not worth any staff or contractor time to figure out what GDPR compliance would mean. Maybe they're GDPR compliant today. Maybe not.

But it's pretty understandable why they might choose to simply geo-block the EU to send a clear signal that they're not marketing to the EU. They can't keep EU residents out of their site but this approach would seem to be a pretty good low-effort approach.
As a college student who’s only social media comes through Snapchat, I’m glad that they will be making changes. The redesign doesn’t make much sense and just made things more confusing if anything. I have 12+ friends in a group which we use to coordinate hanging out and to generally chat about things we find interesting. I haven’t used the stories functionality in over a year. I really think the move to focusing on chat is the way to go, even though there’s a lot of competition there.

I started on Facebook at 12 years old when it first became popular, I’ve gone through many platforms but dropped them all and I’ve been using only Snapchat for over 4 years now and it seems to have the perfect level of privacy. It also doesn’t feed as much into the whole “look at how awesome my life is compared to yours” trap of facebookish platforms, at least the way my friends use it.
Didn't realize, thanks for the clarity
It seems prudent to invest in some low-tech solutions, just in case resource-intensive high-tech solutions fail us in the long run.
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Consulting is not a "gig economy" type job