skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what kind of conferences you attend, but I've never attended one where people got black-out drunk, nor have I attended any with my partner.

On the other hand, I have attended conferences where we were specifically warned by the organizers about pick-pockets and not to go into certain parts of the (rather large, South American) city.

So yeah, if we substitute "rape" for "wallet theft", people are in fact "suffering" through arguments that people throw a fit over when it comes to rape.

(Two caveats, since that kind of thing is necessary with topics that are prone to cause people to go ballistic:

1. I do think there are good reasons for why people throw fits over victim blaming etc. when it comes to rape, but especially since you brought up the comparison, I also think it's good to remember that people are perfectly fine with victim blaming when it comes to wallet theft. There should be a possibility for nuance here.

2. I get what you're trying to say about "crimes of opportunity", but that doesn't mean you can transfer statistics about incident rates of domestic abuse to incidence rates of rape at conferences. After all, both the whole setting and the relationships between participants are totally different. And it should be possible to question the connection without being made a target for the kind of accusation you're making.)
As sad as this makes me being a person that has a powerful gaming PC and would want the best VR experience, maybe for now it's more important to make VR more mainstream, and profitable so it does not die out all together.
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft are all West Coast tech companies that are in the top 10 largest public companies in the world by market cap. Media should really replace Netflix with Microsoft and come up with a new acronym.
I agree, the least we should hope for is an informational warning with details of what data is being collected, like the agreements we click to sign with social networking sites that most people don't bother to read....
Yes, but if they are just affordable, but crappy, VR will die again.
Statelessness
Be not addicted to wine.
Be not a great eater.
Be not drowsy.
Be not lazy.
Be not a grumbler.

Guess I can't use SQLite anymore…
I agree... Also, thing is, Category Theory is so abstract that no amount of tutoring may be enough for a person to feel really at home with it. As with other abstract branches of mathematics, the only way to really understand the value and the meaning of what the theory is all about is through months and months of hard personal mental effort and training.
I agree with you on the rate of change, and the scale is only becoming bigger, and worse with student loan costs. Imagine 10-15 years down the line when a generation of workers needs to invest in some other skill set, and are still paying off their original loans? If we want to continue to advance as a nation/civilization we need to build in a social/economic way for people to afford potentially multiple major learning opportunities that can happen at multiple stages of life, without having to commit to massive life/lifestyle on the line risks.

It can't be this program that gets hauled out into the light occasionally, constrained by industry, geography, time, and whatever else gets thrown into the mix to constrain the program cost - it ends up costing us all more (in money and social instability) to not address the problem.
Well, if the Oculus Quest is good, it's more to the Rift like the smartphone was to the desktop computer.
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The biggest weakness of WASM IMO is that it doesn't have its own standard library. It relies on the HTML DOM. This is an awkward, overcomplicated API that tends to differ between browsers, and worst of all, changes all the time. Because of this, WASM will likely remain a second-class citizen in the browser. It will also keep suffering of the problem of code constantly breaking when the DOM changes.
It's more complicated than that, I think. Roughly, it's an inability to choose what to concentrate on? An executive dysfunction thing.

Though it will vary per-person, as well, so that might not go for everyone.
There's a lot more to marketing than getting on the front page of HN.

OP, I suggest you read Traction by Gabriel Weinberg, and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, and consider if you've successfully identified who your customers are, and a valid channel for reaching them. Further ask if you've correctly identified a problem that those customers will pay to have solved, and whether or not your product actually solves that problem. How do you do that? Talk to customers. All of this stuff is in the Steve Blank book.

Also consider reading The Mom Test[1] by Rob Fitzpatrick.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+mom+test&inde...
Funny username by the way. :)

Let me just be really honest and say: I envy you. I am working hard to become as good in sales.
But is the juice worth the squeeze?

A single employee for 10,000 acres is nothing. (I'm assuming that the three owners would stay on with or without robots.) That person's salary is a rounding error compared to land, seeds, fertilizer, water, equipment, etc.

I think the benefit of automation for commodity crops (rice, wheat, etc.) is almost nil. Labor isn't driving the cost for these crops. However, automation for labor intensive crops (like berries or certain fruits) is a huge opportunity.
Fear hell and pray lots because you suck but God is cool.
The same copyright law can be used to enforce the terms of the GPL.

And if you don't like a code of conduct, you can equally just stop participating in a community. Unlike rejecting a license, you can even reject a code of conduct and continue to use the software produced by that community.
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What's next - Feng Shui financing. Making sure all the corporate buildings of the companies you invest in point in the proper orientation?
I agree - that's why it's just as important to maintain the culture of western democracy, government driven by an idea and not by people. If we lose that then the laws won't protect us either.

A relevant description I heard that I liked was that democracy is a boulder at the top of a hill that was pushed there by the deaths of millions, ready to roll down at any time. It takes work to keep things in that state and to protect it.
Every time I see ads in a new place, I think of this quote.

> Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"

> Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
"What if the code was indeed garbage, and it cost a lot of time (super precious asset) and brain power (a precious asset) to evaluate and reject?"

Then do so. If you cannot articulate why it's bad, and suggest ways to improve it, then you do not have any business reviewing the code. Review is just as important as writing the code itself, and if you are unable to give that task the attention it deserves, then delegate it to someone who can.
I can even excuse being personally disinterested in Cannabis, but you would have to be pretty entrenched in misinformation to hate cannabis itself. What societal harm is there?

The biggest complaint I ever hear that isn't based on a non-truth is "it smells bad".
https://github.com/CommonWA/cwa-spec
Like Rust?
You will blind people
If you told me 5 years ago that incels would commit repeated massacres and Pepe would have a controversial page on Hillary Clinton's campaign site, I would never have believed you. Of all the words of tongue and pen...
> People should be able to use their own judgement to spot nonsense, without algorithms telling them what to think. If they can't, the first questions should be "why?" and "why now?", not "how do I make an app to fix it?".

Sort of.

People should also be able to use their own judgement to spot scams.

And yet there are spam filters. Both to detect garbage, and also to hide garbage.

Obviously, the email client that classifies my bank loan documents as "spam" is not going to be popular.
> I just hope we don't end up like California and keep hundreds in fines for smoking in public, open containers in cars, having more than 30 grams, etc.

I don't see why we should treat marijuana more leniently than we treat alcohol. Drinking in public is already illegal in most places.

> What's the point of legalization if a police officer can still stop you and search to make sure you have under 30 grams?

Police officer cannot stop and search you without a probable cause.

> I like Larry Sharpe's viewpoint here - Marijuana should be regulated like onions.

Maybe, but let's regulate marijuana like alcohol first, and then, when we regulate alcohol like onions, we can move on to do the same with marijuana.
I don't use it nor if it were legal tomorrow, I highly doubt that would change (I don't drink either, for that matter).

That being said, with one of the major knocks (or at least scapegoats) against it being crime, if they'd look historically at prohibition how organized crime benefited from the prohibition of alcohol and ending the prohibition was a sizable blow to crime, I don't see why they'd be so against it.

Dunno. Taxing it would be good. Regulating it should be okay. I really don't see the cons of legalizing it when you have alcohol legalized (which I'm not advocating for it not to be).
If the religious details won't be enforced, there's no reason for them to be in the CoC. This CoC exists in its current form solely because Richard Hipp is very religious.
This NASA publication shows the plans in much more detail.

Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA, SP-413
https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Conte...

The space shuttle was only the first step in a very ambitious program that culminated with a spinning cylindrical space community housing 10,000 people and growing its own food.

There are detailed discussions about construction (using moon rocks), shielding, what plants and animals to use for farming, etc. etc.
I'd be completely ok with intent based advertising - I search for $X you show ads that are related to $X. And I'm ok with measuring what percentage of those who click the ad that converts as well. However, that's not where we are today. The appetite for marketing and advertisement has grown to such a level that companies like Facebook want to know every aspect of your life so they can satisfy that appetite. Clearly a) there's a demand from companies big and small and b) it's working. Companies can still be ethical about it - like why should Facebook track every URL I visit (via the Like button)? Or, why not provide an option to opt-out of targeted ads - I don't like them and I do have friends who like them. I get it but provide an option to opt out.

The general retort I hear is what do you have to hide? Like the only thing that people want to hide are the bad and evil stuff.
is that including the richest folks in the average or not?

my understanding is that other than the top 10% or so, average income is not keeping up with inflation
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There are plenty of things to be concerned about but that fight has been lost. Here I will quote a scientist. Personally I have plenty of friends and my brother as examples what over use of pot can do to ruin lives.

> Now, as a scientist, I’m unimpressed with many of the widely used arguments for the legalization of marijuana.

1) “It’s natural!” So is arsenic.

2)“It’s beneficial!” The best-documented medicinal effects of marijuana are achieved without the chemical compound that gets users high.

3) “It’s not addictive!” This is false, because the brain adapts to marijuana as it does to all abused drugs, and these neural adjustments lead to tolerance, dependence and craving — the hallmarks of addiction.

Conclusion:
Still, I’m not against legalization. I simply object to the astounding lack of skepticism about pot in our current debate. Whether or not to legalize weed is the wrong question. The right one is: How will growing use of delta-9-THC affect individuals and communities?

Though the evidence is far from complete, wishful thinking and widespread enthusiasm are no substitutes for careful consideration. Instead of rushing to enact new laws that are as nonsensical as the ones they replace, let’s sort out the costs and benefits, using current scientific knowledge, while supporting the research needed to clarify the neural and social consequences of frequent use of THC. Perhaps then we’ll avoid practices that inure future generations to what’s really important.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...
I wonder if we'll look back at the Bloomberg "chip implant" story as fake news, and if that's the case, can you imagine the police breaking into their offices with a warrant because of it?

Fraud is one thing, but hiring some e-celeb to pitch your product isn't something we need jack-booted thugs kicking in doors for. We don't even have an objective definition of "fake news", and you'll never convince me the State should be the one defining or enforcing that.
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"We are likely to see an increased bifurcation of the world into two camps - 'pro-China' and 'pro-US'",
says Blaine Curcio, founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting

Why do some people view it as a with-us-or-against-us problem? Combining beidou with GPS gives a better accuracy. Some competition and collaboration in the GPS field can benefit us as a whole.
At this point it seems like we've lost the "war" against intrusive data collection. Between my google searches, credit score, bank transactions & location data, you could build a really accurate model of my life, probably yours too.

The only respite we have is that all this data is discrete and spread among different actors, but we've already seen that the massive data collectors are just getting bigger and bigger, every new product is an avenue to collect another data set.
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To add to this, the benefits of “diversity” are vastly overstated and unproven. I believe that the benefits could plausibly exist in certain narrow cases, mainly things like UX design, marketing, etc. I don’t believe these benefits generally exist in any meaningful way for things like low level code or backend services.

I very much want to weed out bad experiences from turning otherwise interested contributors away, and strongly support that. But when it crosses a line to superficial tokenism, we all lose, including those who are underrepresented.
If you are talking about the Linux kernel. Then yes, a kernel relicense is absolutely required.
Absurd that people are being driven to actually wear tinfoil hats on this skeever-hole of a planet.
IMO Netflix got on that list because of its reputation for giving good cash-based compensation in ranges that, though they probably also exist at Microsoft, does not come as easily to the rank and file SWE at Microsoft.
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Good one. Also, like "repleat". As in, refactor your code - online :)
"CV Dazzle" is a style of hair / makeup that is designed to prevent facial recognition. https://cvdazzle.com
That is flat out not true. Someone constantly attacking your character to others is going to have an effect. Those other people may be influenced by what that person says, and that will affect how they perceive you, which will in turn affect your involvement in the project.
Not sure where we disagree: Bad documentation is bad. Yes. But what is specific about inline comments per se?
It could have been sincere yet wrong on her part, and an urgent targeted smear by others.
most of the article wasn't about what the click bait tittle made you think.

they are collecting aggregate data to help radio companies fine tune what songs to play.
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For B2B (what I do), I think you should raise your prices if you average $100/yr per-customer. Then ads will be a lot more feasible. :)
Why are people saying "it makes more sense to make it affordable first"? When has an advanced new tech ever proliferated from the bottom-up? New tech is always unaffordable, and becomes affordable as it matures. Advancements trickle down. I fear that this move towards cheap low-barrier VR will make it unattractive for users.
I don't know if that's true or not, that it has never worked. When the amount budgeted to a program is not increased to cover the increased cost achieve what it's meant to achieve (e.g. pay for the medical coverage of the poor and disabled), that is effectively a cut.

And Mitch McConnell is talking about making cuts to the big three social insurance programs to address deficits [0]. This comes after he championed and passed major reductions in tax revenue last year, to the benefit primarily of corporations and the very wealthy.

[0] https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mcconnell-calls-for-cutting...
No disagreement there, but the correlation is apparently causing an increase in car insurance costs, regardless of causation.
Can't wait for the next YC Demo Day darling: the first truly random gravel dispenser.
To be honest it didn't really take more than a few seconds to get the relevant information. So time really isn't the limiting factor here..
I hope you'll be able to find one. Finding a decent TV that isn't "smart" is pretty difficult.
I wouldn't have minded if he had anything Original to say about Trump either. It's just the same regurgitation
Rings a bell. Ceausescu, Romania's president a.k.a. dictator, planned to do the same and was murdered as well.
who says its not good? worked for apple for many years.
Yes, you should read it that way, even though your latter description is what makes the most sense.
An interesting art project, but I don't know many people who can make an ongoing commitment to doing makeup that resembles a World War 1 battleship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
I had a quick look at the protocol but couldn't see anything on handling that case

Regardless of the protocol - it's not unreasonable to return a 422 or 403 by default for that (malformed) request when first seen - as it would indicate that something sketchy may be going on - which can be whitelisted later
Keep your features close and your problems closer.
indirectly implied via the reference to the poster's attitude.
Running RPCEmu, I was surprised how real the nostalgia for old operating systems can feel!

( and I still haven't gotten Digital Symphony to work on any kind of modern machine. :-/ )
So what you're saying is that money from a paid service going to Mozilla's pocket could be a new potential revenue stream? I can't believe nobody noticed that.
alternatively, it means that all those other institutions are actually loss making when one factors in their pension obligations
Why would it lose stability and fall apart? Saudi Arabia is about as stable as bad places come, which is what makes it is so terrible. This is exactly the sort of country you should pressure to reform. Otherwise might as well just come out and say that it was all just an excuse to freely meddle with countries we don't like.
Without an internet connection they are all dumb
Maybe it would go better if you just took my words at face value instead of trying to find some way to misinterpret them.
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At 25 I quit my job and created my dream job instead
Q: Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov from Moscow won a car in a lottery?

A: In principle yes, but:
it wasn't Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov but Aleksander Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov;
he is not from Moscow but from Odessa;
it was not a car but a bicycle;
he didn't win it, but it was stolen from him.
I'm so excited for the team at Repl.it! A million users in the last month is phenomenal, and evidence of a great product. Congratulations!

Ps. I love your /jobs.
1. Drinking in public in California is a $100 fine, smoking marijuana in public is $250.

2. Probable cause - "our drug dog is trained to detect over 30 grams of Marijuana.", "I smelled marijuana and suspected an open container, asked to see the open container to verify it was legal, open container held over 30 grams."

3.You're right about alcohol... fun fact - it's still federally illegal to distill spirits.
Magic Wand anyone? Probably not, but that different woods emit different glows when illuminated by an ultraviolet light source says that there might be something here with respect to material science, structure, and wavelength... It would be an interesting experiment to see what near-light EM wavelengths woods would be invisible at, and compare this among the different woods available, and see if there are any patterns there...
This highlights the power of combining multiple low-accuracy filters, and the privacy implications of more-complete personal information even if no single piece of information would be identifying. Alternatively, it suggests buying dramatic heels for privacy purposes.
Wrong - Keynes believed the exact opposite. Perhaps his most famous opinion is that the gold standard was "a barbarous relic".
Nerva sounds very interesting. Hmm, I wonder if spacex would have use for a Nerva LEO to anywhere tug.... So launch a geosynchronous payload with a minimal upper stage to get to LEO, get a tug to dock with the payload and boost it to wherever.... Every so often an f9 or FH would put up a fuel tanker into orbit to refuel the tug... Are there any other options to nuclear propulsion for the tug? Solar? Lasers?
Three in Three could support legalizing marijuana and it wouldn’t make it any more likely to be be legalized.

Our legislatures are old enough to have written Reefer Madness.
Hyperion released a new version of AmigaOS just a couple of weeks ago http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php/where-to-buy/dir...
Paying someone more cash and paying someone with a lien on future taxpayer funds for their annuities during retirement is the same thing, except the prior actually gets accounted for. The reason that your scenario can even come to pass is because of the obfuscation of operating costs caused by inaccurate accounting.

If "cheap money" floods into a city and causes salaries to go up and competition to increase, then in the next budget, the city will find that it will have to raise taxes. This will make the city less desirable for the "cheap money", hence reducing it. The reason you even see floods of money is because of arbitrage opportunities, and those are reduced when you have quicker price discovery.
I did not say Republican. Nor did I mean Republican.
Don't give Musk any ideas
New research: When consuming culture, elites send signals
Yes, within context of the article, and the ambiguous language of the poster, I'm questioning an example in which politics in context of the article applies to the experiences of the claim in question. The claim in question then refers to an example which does not apply to the context of the article. I remain fairly confused.
> gait detection

not to be confused with galt detection, which tracks people who've read Atlas Shrugged and took its economic/political philosophy a little too seriously.
How could we write a law to ban this without putting undue restrictions on legitimate technology? We could just have them stop.
That is a very good point
By "San Francisco Democrat"? I mean the values held by the average Democrat-voting San Franciscan.
Was just going to mention that. They could have put jarvis
Apple used to be as good as anyone at this. You could take the keyboard off a PowerBook (to upgrade the RAM) just by sliding a couple tabs: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/PowerBook+G4+Titanium+DVI+Keybo...
As an adult, it's too late for you. But for your kids it's not too late to start. I saw infrared LED baseball caps at the local kids clothing store.
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