skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine for do not call is very high also.

But those fine/regulation doesn't seem to stop the telemarketers.

Any idea on why that's the case?

The gov agency is not enforce it?
The lawyers can't do class action and make $ from filing those cases? Can they file any cases against AT&T or other phone companies?
The spammers are outside the US?
I think your "I'm not that kind of geek" comment came off as condescending. It also makes you sound like you're not really interested in understanding the other side's argument.
digitaltrees has it right - those unexpected connections, it turns out, not only form great new business relationships, but are a great source of revenue for local businesses. Trivially, you can think about a group of coworkers walking on a sidewalk and unexpectedly bumping into a cafe or boutique, making a "serendipitous" purchase they weren't otherwise planning to while on their way to a lunch meet. You don't go to a mall for that lunch meet.

Take a look at any place in America that has higher than its surrounding average real estate price, even in less heard of towns like downtown Hunstville, Alabama or Ogden, Utah - what is true about the most consistently profitable, lucrative pieces of real estate? They're home to mixed use development [1] (One case study of this effect - [2]).

It turns out, all those "new" (assumed good bc of their newness) models of urban development, with single use office OR home OR shopping zoning, with square miles on miles of tract housing, with islands of empty parking lots (for that one day a year that they're full) between huge hulking shopping centers, necessitating car use for even the smallest of toilet paper purchases... well, those ideas ran contrary to the organic structure of towns and villages for all of human history.

And while those ideas were so new and fashionable, yes, places like New York suffered. But eventually the novelty wore out. The ticky-tacky houses started looking all the same (that is, depressing - but that's my opinion).

New York didn't die in the '80s and certainly won't because of some subway hiccups. Dense urban models work. For all of human history they worked, in 1950s America, for a brief moment, some people thought they no longer did - but it looks like they still work, and will always work. And tunnels are a great way to keep that valuable mixed use real-estate - for commuters and city dwellers alike.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-use_development

2 - https://www.property24.com/articles/mixed-use-developments-b...
Spammers outside the US + it's way too easy to spoof numbers now. Major legislation is needed to fix this, and it is technically fixable.
'naivety' would probably be better. 'over optimistic'.
What could we do about it if we did find we were going to get hit directly with it?
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Context. I’m talking about GP.
blocking porn isn’t something that people really want to pay for imo.

Sell it to libraries, or any other place that has publicly-available computers.

(My local library has a regular wifi network, and a second one that doesn't filter NSFW content.)
Aren't managed accounts orthogonal to liability? e.g. if I wanted to invest my money in a managed account, I could still set up (my own) LLC to limit liability (and that could be better even for e.g. tax reasons).
Yeah I'm sure nobody's ever going to care about bitcoin again you're right.
Cities like NYC are overcrowded and dysfunctional, but our financial system allows dysfunctional and failing systems to continue to operate up until the point to which they physically collapse and start either entering prolonged periods of obvious mechanical non-function and/or killing people in embarrassing numbers.

Without all the bailouts, the MTA would have failed decades ago and would have had to have been restructured. Because NYC's political priorities have been to conserve past structures and agreements at the expense of the present and the future, you will see performance go down and down to the point to which 1950s performance will look like 1950s science fiction.

I don't think I would expect anything to change until a major accident kills a large number of people in one day. You should expect the people in charge of the system as it exists today to keep getting millions of dollars as service continues to degrade. But the MTA knows this, so they stop the trains constantly when there is any chance of a collision, so you get the slow motion choke for money that you have had for decades.

There's a great option if you are not happy with New York City and its governance: leave! NYC is a machine for fleecing young people who want to move there with heads full of movies and TV and rich foreign potentates with more money than sense. It's not a great place to live if you want to have a comfortable middle class lifestyle. It might have been that 30+ years ago, but not anymore.
> Candidates see our stack as boring and bland

I would say that there are probably a lot of developers who would be very happy to work on a non-buzzword stack, but the problem is that as a developer, it's extremely hard to know if your tech stack is the result of directed efforts to keep it simple, or if it's the haphazard result of some guy setting it up ten years ago when these technologies were hot.
The NYC MTA has a lot of workers who do enormous amount of overtime, which explains the high pay. Add that a good percentage of employees will be relatively specialized trades.

A cursory search shows a train driver making $31/hr, which doesn't seem excessive.

I am also wary of the tactic of showing MTA workers as over-paid compared to a notoriously underpaid profession (e.g. teachers, who in this case held barely above inflation).
Yes, but what is described is many-to-many relationships with a typically greater than 1:1 female:male ratio, which is not polyandry which is a system many-to-one female-to-male relationships.
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What features? (I use vscode and feel curious :- ))
ride sharing services are the new bogeyman and politicians and others are simply relying on the old mechanism of, say it enough times and people will believe its true.

they love to tout huge mileage numbers because it sounds impressive but when compared to the whole of what is driven its one percent or less. better yet a large amount of ride sharing is off peak.

the reason of course is money, the subsidies to mass transit systems are in the tens of billions which in turn allow for existing systems to not have to be competitive or even maintain their lines because they know they can grab more cash. if anything beyond the hundreds of billions in deferred maintenance many light rail systems have there is nearly similar in pension liabilities.
> I've been building a home Kubernetes cluster to check out the new hotness

I tried to do this for the same reason, but all of the writeups seem to stop at "getting a cluster running", but that's not enough to actually run apps since you need a load balancer / ingress, dns, and probably a number of other things (ultimately I was overwhelmed by the number of things I needed but didn't completely understand). I haven't had any luck finding a soup-to-nuts writeup, so if you have any recommendations, I'd love to hear them.
Im an Australian so native English speaker, in NYC for a few days and can not figure out the god damn subway to save my life.
There could also be 3 pennies of friction in getting the money into or out of Tether.
Congrats! Can you maybe say a bit about how you trained it?
The problem with education/science/welfare by charity is that it doesn't scale as well and isn't as stable as societal contracts.

A developed country can be recognised by the fact that the society doesn't rely on the goodwill of the rich.
As far as I understand it, there is no such thing as simultaneous events that don't occupy identical locations. There is no "now" that is shared and can be discussed meaningfully. Simultaneity can only exist within a spaciotemporal frame of reference. E.g. events that appear simultaneous on Earth will usually not appear simultaneous on Mars.

This may seem silly, but this is how reality works and as humans adjust to opperating in multiple spaciotemporal frames of reference, our language will have to adapt
Exactly. My 3.5 year old could have noticed this (looks at my computer while I'm typing, and loves it somehow) and if they pointed it out I would have said "You're right! Let's fix it. Here you press that key. Great, we fixed it for us, but what about grandma? Should we fix it for her too?"

This would then lead to a kernel patch and they would feel incredibly happy about for as long as they remembered it (little kids love to help in any way).
There is another thing Neistat likes to portray in his video that I think makes him even more popular: The illusion of amateur.

His videos seems like they can be shot by anyone. But try skateboarding in the middle of a busy New York street with cars going in both directions while holding a heavy tripod camera on one hand, a remote on the other, and talking to the camera and saying hi to fans on the street, and finishing that narrative you started two miles ago all at the same time.
My girlfriend got a scammy auto loan offer, containing such gems as:

- we require you to pay off any outstanding auto loan. we can help finance this

- even if we don't, we require first lien on your existing auto vehicle (which must be less than 7 years old, less than 50,000 miles)

So if you default, they can take both your cars...
I personally don't mind the perception that I fundamentally care about freedom of computer users to be in control. It's called a principle and without it, you'd never see any progress.

Thanks.
Does distribution of military power really lead to public benefit?

Concentration in the wrong hands is the problem.

distribution of small arms to local gangs, paramilitary mercenaries

The local gangs and paramilitaries in those situations represent local concentrations of power, not disbursement. Local warlords rule because they are armed in particular. If they didn't have an advantage over the general populace, they wouldn't be ruling it.

Distribution of media power also seems like a mixed bag, especially if media consumers have poor media literacy.

There were periods of time in the US when there were tons of hyper partisan local newspapers. History itself is a mixed bag. However, things often work out, if you give power to the public.
The actual issue with New York subways is:

* planned work every weekend and most late weeknights which reroutes half the trains and is described in terms guaranteed to confuse visitors. A complete map of the changed routes would help massively; instead, you get a long list of textual descriptions such as "Brooklyn-bound F trains are running express on the E track between Court Sq and W 4th St and local on the D track to Stillwell Av" which scares and confuses tourists who barely understand downtown Manhattan geography, much less how it relates to the rest of the city.

* occasional unreliability at any time of the day, typically either due to signal failures in century-old analog wiring, or because of paramedics or cops shutting down an entire station to take care of a rowdy or injured passenger.

Locals have learned to adapt. They know what the cryptic planned work descriptions mean and in which situations next station alerts are lying. They have learned to understand the static-y conductor announcements on a loud train. They know that on some lines, if you must to be at your destination on time, you ought to leave 30 minutes early just in case this ride is the 1/20 when something happens.

Visitors don't know such things, and I can empathize with their apprehension.
I'm guessing the pension plan and healthcare inflate the total compensation figure quite a lot.

Basically these guys aren't getting their future screwed so they're an outlier. Same problem the Post Office has. When you aren't allowed to skimp on the perks and pass the buck to the government of the future you don't look very competitive.
According to the GEIR website, it only requires founders to spend 8 hours per week on university duties. One day a week does not sound to bad.
Direct action these days just means walking around with signs.

No one can be bothered to learn what the term means so it’s just become a buzzword.
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I once saw a postmortem where a server process mysteriously tried to delete whole data (fortunately no actual data was lost). After much confusion, the conclusion was that a cosmic ray flipped a single bit in a register, making it point to 8 bytes past the correct address in C++ virtual function table. As a result, instead of calling UpdateRow(), the process executed DeleteTable().

Of course cosmic rays don't exactly leave a trace, so we will never know.
I second this. I don’t use Metro often, but my wife commutes by Metro almost every day. There was a period of a couple of years where she’d pretty routinely get home an hour or two late because of some huge fuckup with the trains, but recently it’s been very smooth.

I think this is connected to the constant weekend problems you mentioned. The trouble before was that they weren’t maintaining the system properly because they didn’t want to cause disruptions. They finally realized that maintenance isn’t actually optional and started doing what it takes to get it done. The system doesn’t have enough capacity to have sections out of service for maintenance without major disruptions, but at least now they happen at a time of their choosing.
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This is a completely minor point here... but "fallacy" means that there's something wrong with the argument, if you have a disagreement about facts or assumptions then the word "fallacy" doesn't really apply (you can just say "wrong" instead).
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A good example of this is the DC Metro. It was in a complete maintenance crisis a few years ago and has been playing an extremely expensive game of catchup to avoid killing any more passengers. Service quality and price have suffered while they try to rush all of the deferred maintenance.

The DC Metro also has the same problem of being a jobs program for inner city residents, so efficiency upgrades are fought tooth and nail by the union.
Most grad-level Deep Learning classes have a week or so devoted to "Approximate Bayes" methods. And it's conceivable future updates to all popular probabilistic programming languages will include "programmable" rather than "fixed-function" inference methods.

"Inference Metaprogramming" paper

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/pldi18.pdf

Latest state-of-the-art research will be presented at upcoming NeuroIPS conference

Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference

http://approximateinference.org/accepted/

I think the most fascinating aspect is that Friston and his team are working within the field of Computational and Algorithmic Psychiatry. I mean this pre-print is really interesting: using video game play to diagnose disorder.

Active Inference in OpenAI Gym: A Paradigm for Computational Investigations Into Psychiatric Illness

https://www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-9022(...
> It was wrong in the sense that epicycles are an entirely imaginary math artefact, and reality works on different principles.

How do you distinguish "an entirely imaginary math artifact" from the "principles" that "reality works on"?

(Hint: planetary orbits are not ellipses once you take GR effects into account.)
> Talking to an astronaut on Mars

All these ambiguities disappear if you choose a reference frame. From our reference frame, the explosion hasn’t happened. From the stars’, it might have. The issue is popular imagination, and thus common language, deals with reference frames sloppily.
This is wrong in many ways.

* Unionized workers make very good money in New York.

* Unions are a primary political driver behind those expensive contracts.

* There's more to unions than conductors. Construction and maintenance, for example.

* The unions routinely put up strong opposition to any meaningful expense or quality control. They also strongly oppose any modernization attempts that might threaten their jobs. They've opposed electronic signaling and control for decades. The worse the subways are, the better it is for them.

* Unions are politically untouchable. No matter what the consequences for the public, people are willing to leap to the defense of the noble workingman. Actually, the noble workingman who needs a "living wage" is riding the subways, not maintaining them. The poor and desperate are found among the five million people who ride the subway every day. Transportation is a public good. It shouldn't be beholden to a small group of highly paid laborers.
David E. Shaw. Note that before he returned to his scientific passions he had to make a fortune, because creating new things at the cutting edge is a lot more expensive now than at the end of the 19th century.
This isn't quite the same in that the people in question actually repaid far more than they owed. The "loans" were structured in such a way that they don't seem to end in practice, and that when you give in you have to give up your entire financial life.
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In that I agree, only because it is a copyleft license.
There's no money without people. Money needs people's confidence to work as an exchange vehicle or value store. Jasonwen's theory seems correct if the facts are looked at as a collapse in confidence. If this is true, we shpuld also see capital flight to other cryptocurrencies.
i like being able to sleep at night knowing my infrastructure will self heal in almost all cases.
Docker-compose is a pretty straightforward infrastructure-as-code tool for casual servers and local-dev. Basically you have a YAML description of your server that you can commit and comment on and pin Docker image versions to and etc. This includes persistence (volumes), networking, dependency management (bringing up the services in the right order), health checking, configuration, environment management, as well as managing the actual services. The only critical thing it's missing is a secrets management solution.
That could go to another change: the procurement process, so that smaller companies can compete.
This interview contains some of the more interesting observations I've heard on this much-discussed topic. e.g. his analogy between online tribes and teenage gangs.
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Legal child pornography wouldn't mean legal child rape though, or even being able to legally purchase it. Could be something like what France does with prostitution, where only soliciting is criminalized, e.g. purchasing and production remain criminal, but not mere possession, which technically harms no one, even if it triggers strong disgust.

In fairness, the only point of this would be a more purist implementation of freedom of speech, but well, the status quo is rather pointless too.
Don't forget carrying a smoothie too :)

But yes, that's a great point. And I think adds to my thesis too. A lot of us expect that creating videos of his quality would take a team of 3+ people holding cameras, planning production, etc. But he casually does it all himself. That surprises us. Breaks our expectations. Of course, it's taken many years and broken bones of his to get to this level of professionalism. But I never said breaking expectations was easy :)
Price fluctuations are normal for markets. No one expects the exchange rate between food and oil to be constant, why expect it to be constant between a money and food?

If you need down-side risk insurance, by a put option. When letting a government have a monopoly of the risk management of a money, you are essentially buying a collar (long stock + long put + short call) trade which is expensive for people who don't need that exposure.
The MTA's union has kept unneeded workers employed. One of the main issues is having two people per train employed when almost every other transit system in the world uses only one person per train.

On top of this, but actively lobbying against having driverless trains and other cost-saving technologies leaves NYC with the most expensive and antiquated system in the world
Here is the official eligibility. Does make sense to set the bar high initially and loose it slowly afterwards.

Eligibility

-You graduated from a US university or participated in a US acceleration/incubation program, entrepreneurial boot-camp, etc.;

-Your company is underway in terms of incorporation, financing and corporate governance;

-Your company has been accepted as a member of the VDC; and

-You possess the necessary skill, experience and talent to qualify for an H-1B visa.
The argument you are making assumes two things that strike me as highly implausible:

(1) That enough people would use their new free time to innovate instead of just watching TV or playing World of Warcraft or something like that.

(2) That enough people would still choose to do the unpleasant but necessary tasks that provide the resources needed for everyone to eat, have housing, etc. Not to mention all the other stuff people seem to want.
That's a shame. It would indeed be nice if it could inline them, and do the same with views, and maybe even do more aggressive join elimination.

Right now I have some scary looking ad-hoc string interpolating dynamic SQL from another dev that I'd like to rework, but a few strategies to get rid of the need for anything dynamic involves dozens of rather expensive joins, most of which will never be used on any given query, so it looks like I have to embrace dynamically generated SQL and get really good at it.
When I was back in DC a few months ago the system seemed to be about 30% closed, some short-term closures and some multi-week closures. I realize the closures are due to the accidents and deaths and are necessary for safety. I haven't heard the words "reliable" and "Metro" in the same sentence for many years.
the 80/20 rule probably applies. 80% of their customers watch 20% of their channels. the other 80% of channels are simply there to grab some small demographic that's only important to advertisers. so they rob everyone of quality to maximize revenue. it's disgusting, and there's not much i can do about it due to local duopoly. my best bet is to move to higher quality streaming services.

i looked into Sling TV recently and their lineup has really improved. does anyone have experience with it, quality-wise?
Considering the lack of support with firmware and other things I would say the relationship is negative on both ends. I find it a positive thing that they openly decide to prefer FLOSS for the fact that it can open up to better end user experiences given interest even if most of it has been mainly for developers.

As for non-free I find it awkward since most of the time one would have to bend over backwards to support it (e.g NixOS with steam) or adopt external package management systems (Snap, etc) which only add complexity. It also reduces trust as we can't verify builds are in fact not tampered with and so on. If we avoid snap, nix, and guix for packaging then we must rely on upstream updating to ensure it won't break upon the next upgrade where we could have just compiled otherwise. This is inconvenient.

So, in my view I find it positive that there is a push for companies to open source when supporting GNU/Linux as it creates a much better experience for package maintainers, users, and the company involved while increasing the general reach of FLOSS software to other platforms (BSD, Plan9, ..).
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