skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ultimately unclear to the that the London property market is linked to reality in a meaningful way so I think it's really hard to make predictions.

The availability of credit is a big factor, and the 'step changes' in quality, etcetera.

In the residential market I think it's quite easy to find Apartment B that is easily twice as good as Apartment A, but it doesn't cost twice as much because of the arbitrary steps introduced by lending criteria (e.g. if most buyers have approximately X income then there's a massive glut of apartments in the 4X-5X range).

Renting is even more acute than that.

But yes, I'm pretty tired of all of this 'end of the world' style posturing. In some ways I suppose it means we're all so comfortable now that we're able to spend time waffling on about abstractions like this.
There seems to be a lot of concern trolling over democracy and Western freedoms which soberly urge us to not be so concerned with democracy and Western freedoms and instead accept new, deeper forms of censorship and greater collaboration between state, corporate and intelligence actors regarding the free flow of information in our society.

Stamos' piece in the Washington Post and statements elsewhere are vague, weird and poorly thought-out assertions which demand we accept Russiagate and WikiLeaks source attribution positions favoured by US intel agencies in full, and then only obsess over a very narrow set of concerns.

Analytically-minded technologists are still asking what magical GRU-election-swinging manipulations were just out of the grasp of the multi-billion dollar domestic presidential campaign industry, and why for instance the revelation of corruption within the DNC was the damaging issue, rather than the corruption itself. Stamos says major media 'rewarded the hackers' by reporting truth, and in The Verge's lazy retelling they transmute even this truth into 'misinformation'. It's low quality discussion and debate all around.

If an establishment paper broke the DNC corruption story first and naturally refused to disclose sources, or received them anonymously and so was unable to disclose them, what then?

Is Stamos and the 'Fake News Defense' movement saying we need to end all anonymously-sourced journalism? All investigative journalism? Any journalism which is damaging to key political, corporate and intelligence individuals and entities within the US? Because surely there's a risk that type of journalism may have been aided in some as-yet-unknown way by hostile foreign actors.

How could you definitively prove it was not?

Why not go even deeper into the 'fake news / foreign agents' madness:

Imagine the GRU want the US polity to over-react and implement a draconian press censorship reality 'immune from foreign influence'. In this scenario an even-more-untouchable political / corporate / intelligence class arises and - immune from scandals, consequence and the disinfecting power of transparency - is allowed to ossify in a cesspool of increased corruption and incompetence - weakening the state from the center.

Perhaps we can just go full-circle to this as a public establishment conspiracy theory and have Stamos and intel agencies agreeing that free speech as an inviolable principle is the best defence against whatever bogeyman is in fashion.
62,000 lifetime hours! That is insane!! That is about 3 hours average every single day for 60 years!
Shuddering is an involuntary convulsion that typically occurs when something is unconscionable or otherwise triggers a physionomic reaction that cannot be helped [meaning, it happens autonomously, of its own accord, based on the immediately preceding data]. You can't really shudder someone, it doesn't make any sense as a transitive verb, and yet the idiomatic usage in English has landed on "I shudder to X" where X is a thinking-pondering-considering verb such as "I shudder to think." or "I shudder at the prospect of his presidency" it's usually used to denote a non-positive feeling with the topic matter and when people actually shudder in real life, we do so with a sound exclamation under our breath such as "euuu" as your shoulders, arms, and potentially more gently vibrates or wiggles to indicate the effect being felt and received.

Human bodies shudder, and we typically denote body with "I" but it is a distinction between thinking self and bodily self, this shudder idea, because we typically don't use things such as "I was shuddering all night x" that's just weird and would make someone think you experienced a seizing episode. Not sure how this made it into English. In unrelated matters of similar linguistic domain, the Japanese have an expression "made my stomach stand" which is an expression to indicate "anger arose" ... not sure how that came to be either!
Discipline?

Less glib edit :) I should probably give you a tip. Say to yourself, “I am a meditator.” Now, imagine someone asking you “oh, when did you last meditate?” What kind of meditator are you? Are you one that can answer “I meditated today” or “I meditated yesterday and I’ll do it again today”? Or, will you answer, “I meditated last week” or “it’s been a slow month for meditation”?

If you can’t say “I’m a meditator” and mean it, then you should just stop thinking of yourself as one who meditates. You don’t practice meditation in any real sense. That’s the rules of discipline. You are what you do and you aren’t what you don’t
There was no recovery process to speak of in a traditional sense. Since this is a chronic condition, I’ve just simply gotten used to the aches and pains over the years. I really didn’t start to feel any different until a few weeks ago, when I realized I had forgotten to take my pain and arthritis mediciation, but I wasn’t having any pain that day. I went off it and I haven’t had to go back on it. My joints all feel noticeably better, there’s basically no pain anymore when I walk. I’d have some days like this before but nothing this long sustained before.

It’s too early to tell but my doctors think that with a sustained factor level, my body isn’t under as much stress from the bleeding all the time and can focus on repairing the damage caused from a lifetime of near constant bleeding.
Well I guess I stand corrected.

Just like the supreme court can't cover every case that exists, the media can't cover every story that exists.

I guess they both have to pick the most powerful stories/case to cover that sets precedent and can be applied to other similar stories/cases going forward.

Which is what happened with Kashoggi.
Yes and no. Remember, good programmers always work with good entrepreneurs. If you have money, you'll find a programmer. If you don't have any funding, why programmer should bother working with you? Show who you are by raising some funds for MVP. Most programmers will be happy if you raised only $10K for their MVP, because often they work on their own MVPs without any funding (and not interested in other folks who can't provide any resources like cash, engineering time, etc).

If you "but I need MVP first so I'll be able to talk to investors", drop me a line roman.pushkin@gmail.com, I have MVP.
yeah this occurred to me too, but i just decided to assume the article was correct to illustrate my greater point. the punchline of the article is to suggest that the club actually increases the local risk of theft anyway.
I’m in your shoes now. I’m a UX designer trying to launch my app. The dev I hired is okay but he is not top notch. He frequently misses things that I have to catch. It is tiring but I put up with it because the alternative is much more expensive. My advice would be to triple your budget from whatever you have in mind. Developers are not robots, they can’t estimate down to the dollar like a designer could (not that you’d want that). In all of my experience of working with devs, projects tend to run well over timeline and well over budget. So if you have say a 5k budget for your app, best assume it’ll cost 15k and take 3 times longer to complete.

Another note: as a designer I have found developers to severely lack attention to detail. I get it. I’ve done dev work myself and know what it’s like to look at code and the difficulty of switching your mind to making sure every is per spec. I have worked around top notch developers and have yet to come across one with the attention to detail to never miss anything. You better be on your feet all the time and double and triple checking yourself. The product will likely never be delivered in the form you hope for.

Last thing: spell the shit out of every task. Organize in pivotal or what have you. Having an idea of how something should look or function will not always carry over to the person you describe it to. It’ll be clear as day in your mind and they will only have a slight clue as to what you imagine. Spell it out to the letter - function by function, detail by detail, item by item. I know this sounds harsh but if you don’t do this you’ll lose a lot of money fast without a finished product. The only devs who are reading this now and thinking this is fken ridiculous are the devs who are much more experienced and are likely at the top of their game - not a freelancer type you can ever afford for an MVP. I dream of working with a dev like that but like I said I have yet to come across one. Maybe they all work at google amazon Facebook, who knows?

So, expect delays, expect going well over your budget and be prepared to hand hold throughout the whole project.
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Damn I thought Uncle Jesse (from Full House) finally had a coherent thought on the matter
If you pay consultants or freelancers you're going to get exactly what you ask for, and you're definitely not going to be getting anything better than that. Your mvp will likely be a pure standalone piece of software that you can never build upon and any changes that you want made will get very expensive very quickly. If you have a technical product and it's doing something more complicated than shuffling data around it's probably not in your best interests to outsource your development.

External developers are going to be incentivized to build exactly what you tell them to build then charge you fees for maintenance and modifications. Building a quality product is not going to be a focus because that's not the way they get rewarded. These are, of course, not impossible problems to overcome, but you have your work cut out for you to mitigate these structural issues.

In my opinion, product oriented startups needs someone to build it and someone to sell it. Startups that don't have both bases covered are exceedingly unlikely to succeed. You're likely to successfully build an MVP, sell it, and make minor modifications only to hit a wall about 6-12 months after your initial release. Past that point your product won't be able to keep pace with your sales. This is manageable but without someone technical to drive that transition you'll probably mess it up.

Best of luck.
Jack Tramiel truly was a business genius whose legacy is unfortunately being written out from history. Only the winners write history in their narrative but Jack is the forgotten hero who was ruthless with competitors.

"Business is war"

RIP Jack.
It's NYTimes, not WaPo.
And it's not a single author, there are 5 bylines

Jonathan Ansfield and Keith Bradsher contributed reporting from Beijing. Claire Fu and Iris Zhao contributed research from Beijing, and Carolyn Zhang from Shanghai.
Yes, because that's exactly what it is. They are ideas. And you disagree with them.

It's very simple - anyone can assert anything, thus each individual must take it upon themselves to be skeptical of the assertion, or blindly agree with it.

The real problem you're getting at here is that many people are dumb, and may be made to believe anything.

If these people became skeptical or were simply deleted from reality, such bots would have no value.
If you're interested in correctness, cleaner and safer, Rust is a better choice. Go's lack of generics really hurts it when it comes to simplicity and cleanliness, and so far as correctness goes, the Go compiler isn't anywhere near as strict as Rusts one (nor is it as strict as gcc or most other compilers, for that matter, as a conscious choice of favouring speed over correctness)
> the current cure is worse than the disease

This comment is the text version of that cartoon where the dog sits in the room where everything is on fire thinking "this is fine."
The trouble with genetic algorithms is that they are hardly worth it. It's just one of metaheuristics [1], and despite being "biology-inspired" and good-sounding, it does perform worse than simpler alternatives like tabu search [2] or, even better, LAHC [3]. One of the reasons for that is that for local search the speed of neighborhood exploration is paramount, so theoretical advantages of GA get swamped by slower neighborhood iteration. In addition, LAHC or global annealing are way simpler to implement, they are literally just a few lines of code.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaheuristic

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_search

[3]: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41019-2_...
Don't give up your right to unbiased information!
Don't channel your understanding through one source!
You've gotta fight, for your right, to party!
To be faire, fusion plants lag on because either they are designed by people without enough resources, or by complex red-tape inducing collaboration.

ITER hoped to be done in 10 years starting in 2006, but they could only start in 2010 because every country wanted it to be built somewhere different.

Then, poor cooperation from Domestic Agencies caused frequent changes that were merged without hierarchical validation, causing the need for a full-time team whose only job was to detect inconsistencies post-hoc. Therefore, the planned completion in 2020 was pushed to 2025.

As a result, certain countries like the US made themselves begged to keep their promised investment.

See this analysis: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bo...

I don't see how those reasons would apply to memristor, though: development is controlled by a single company, and that company has resources.
If you don't find something to argue with in this book, you haven't thought about it enough.

There's a dividing line, though, between books that are full of Wrong (and so you should ignore them) and books which are full of Considered Opinion (and are worth arguing over); this one falls firmly into the latter category for me.
This works both ways. Sensationalist reporting shifts the Overton window in the same direction, whether or not the story is actually true. So you may end up with a situation, where a misrepresented party starts embracing bad behaviour faster than they otherwise would, simply because "if everyone already thinks we're the monsters, one extra bad act ain't gonna make a difference".
Could you please explain HOW it has given you a new appreciation? Please share VALUE :)
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As I recall, it varied. There were certainly relatively cheap Z80 and other machines like the Commodore 64. But I don't remember systems like the Apple III, Epson's machines, etc. being vastly different in price given the same floppy-only configuration.
Dark night of the soul? How long had you been meditating? Was it with a teacher?
Could I get a list of every product you've worked on or influenced? I want to know what I need to avoid at all costs.
Wow.

So they steal bullet trains etc and we stole steam tech etc. I guess it just indicates that it's foolish for a nation to pay for technology if it's poor.

I wonder are there any examples of poor nations in history that actually paid market prices for technology, and became super powers? (Or at least maybe regional powers?)
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Interesting, a few friends and I attempted to launch a startup a few years back looking to improve meditation and focus using neurofeedback: http://synaptitude.me/

Even went so far as to launch a Kickstarter [1]. We had quite a bit of interest, but we didn't feel we had enough sign ups or people interested to take a risk (all of us having been offered jobs and having student debt).

The trouble, is most of these studies have too low of an N number and/or the equipment has trouble at the higher frequencies. That's actually part of why we were launching the startup. We had a way to do error correction for those frequencies and by providing value via applications, we could open a secondary market to do experiments with a larger N number.

IMO until something like this exists, I take most studies worth a grain of salt.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/synaptitude/thinksuite-...
If it is now controlled by you then that is a great first step.

Thank you for taking this serious.
Very few use amazon in China. Amazon clearly have a hard time to scale there
That's pretty normal in north Philadelphia.
Disagree, make better platforms. People will exercise their ability to choose once choices exist.
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When you are busy, take at least minimal time to journal. It feels creative and will give you a chance to capture the creative ideas you will surely forget. That way you have a list of interesting things when you have free time.
I meant to say that the author works for Washington Post
> the embedded carbon cost of each additional vehicle is roughly equal to 10-12 years of driving that vehicle

This is not really true, though you can adopt certain extreme assumptions that would support such a claim.

Using statistically average assumptions (12 tonnes of embedded carbon/"average" car, 180 g CO2/km, 14,000 km/year) results in DIRECT CO2 emissions from burning the fuel alone to be roughly equal to 5 years of use.

But to get a like for like comparison, you should add the embedded emissions in producing the fuel, car service and maintenance, accidents, infrastructure costs etc... under such considerations the embedded carbon cost of the vehicle will roughly equal to 2-3 years of use.

FWIW.
From my understanding, the original turd that began soliciting donations for uBlock was made an offer to sell the Github repo to the turds behind AdBlock. And what you're seeing here is a clear demonstration of that group's very poor understanding of the law.
>For Stamos to suggest more people need to think for themselves, that more need to question authority more, sounds naive, at best. That is the last thing the powers that be will allow. They're fine with misinformation, they just want to sure it's their's and no one elses.

Exactly. The powers want censorship, the powers want to narrow the overton window and create a society that can't think for itself. It is not beneficial for them to have a society that actually knows what's going on.
Why is Mojeek different?
Censorship is bad. Free exchange of information is good. Unless we're talking about IP, then suddenly the opposite is true.

Really, when you get under all the BS from people who've been propagandized against China, they believe America should win and China should lose. Of course China isn't going to agree to this, and they're big enough that they don't have to. Might makes right, until China becomes the mightiest global economic power.
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Left university and joined a startup, switched jobs to a different company, that company was acquired by Apple, worked there for about 12 or so years, now retired, but work on an App.
I think every proposal I've read in this thread is incorrect.

I think the platform shapes the debate. A crowd with megaphones will never be as good at decision-making as a jury. The websites we use are the platform (even if it's the same people in the crowd as the jury).

The "megaphone platforms" (twitter/facebook) are very invigorating in the short-term but will inevitably drive people away. The next step is for a platform to be built that promotes and rewards the systematic advancement of filtering ideas (downvoting/upvoting being the most basic form of this).

To a large extent, HN is superior to twitter because of this. Wikipedia is also a shining example of platform. This attention toward facebook is unwarranted, the platform will kill itself in 7 years.

The important thing is building a new platform that incentivizes productive contribution rather than self-promotion or controversiality.
So any positive things said about China from a Chinese American should be discounted?
I think this is my favorite trend in programming languages. It seemed controversial when Go shipped with a canonical auto-formatter, but now I consider it table stakes.
Why would you need anything "next gen" for that?

Just log use of powershell then have your good old SIEM system alert when it's used by a group outside of the IT dept.
Can't recall - too long ago!
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Not every academic system allows to freely drop classes, to drop a class without an economic penalty, or to drop a class without falling behind in your studies.
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The United Stares is a constitutional republic and a representative democracy. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and a representative democracy. Democracy is not the opposite of a republic. Monarchy is.
Older than that, even.

It goes back at least to typewriter days. The women in the typing pools of large companies would make these and post them on the pin boards.

Imagine the kind of abstract thinking it took to do ASCII art with no delete key!
Interesting. One of the reason I am learning Rust is that I don't want to do C/C++ for a long time.
Exactly. You need process knowledge in addition to IP in order to make innovation and manufacturing happen. And China is really good at cultivating process knowledge, something the US is slowly ceding to them.
Does everything have to be a code for something else? Half of this problem comes from people seeing "dog whistles" everywhere.

There should be a rule for discussion: take what people say at face value, or don't participate. Nothing good comes from "reading between the lines", it's just an exercise in projecting your own issues on other people.
I have had some experience researching charities. Just because you listed two doesn't mean they are good or spend their money ethically. (most do not)

The fact that you think they are good implies that either you researched them and have proof, or you have blind faith in them.

If you researched them, can you provide your sources? If you have not, why do you think they are ethical with their spending practices?
What about the much more dangerous domestic misinformation/disinformation campaigns? The ones that make you go buy a 12 pack of Coke you don't need that's going to effect your health. What about things like COINTELPRO? What about the beauty product ad telling me I'm ugly and need mascara?

We should make Manufacturing Consent and The People's History of The United States mandatory reading for high school students, but that would probably change too many minds against our own system as kids would know how things really work, and how history really happened instead of the wishy-washy 'everything wasn't that bad!' crap they teach in grade school.
'ego death' can be really scary at first. There is an entire article in wikipedia about it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death ) and how to integrate such experiences.
Is Alexa's speech protected?
Is Intersection part of Google?
Seems some core AI tech is also stolen: ResNet. It should have been invented by non-Chinese.
It's funny, honestly I was reflecting the other day on how I hadn't seen the word 'glib' for ages, and then along you come with a great example of a glib comment :-)