skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a concert/event ticket selling platform that sells tickets for far too much. It pretended it was selling tickets for sold-out events, but often it was nowhere near sold out.

It took me a while to realize the entire thing was just a scam and that the only reason we were getting traffic was due to advertising shenanigans.

At the time, it was one of the best sites out there on account of having the most correct (or rather, least incorrect) events. Lots of websites contained many errors, such as listing "London, UK" instead of "London, Canada". Mixing up "Ryan Adams" and "Bryan Adams" was also a common one. We corrected a lot of that. I did "big data" kind of stuff before it was cool (no machine learning though, just old-fashioned rule-based logic).
I read somewhere that people who invented ships also invented shipwrecks. You work (design, sell, market, manage & ship) on something hoping that a lot of people use your baby and sometimes when it takes off you end up knowing that its used for terrible stuff as well. If i created Whatsapp, i would presumably be having a hard time digesting the fact that its now being used in countries like India to spread fake news. I am not someone who has been in this position yet(fortunately), i would presume there would be a sense of guilt and anger whenever this happens. But the question/ thing to ponder on is does the medium(products you created) have the problem or the messenger(folks who use them) ?
So Ethernet is protected by CRC which is quite good, but it is stripped at both ends and I would not trust the routing chips at all. Some core routers used low reliability FPGAs for example..
The oncolytic virus ColoAd1 is hardly a 'natural cancer fighter' — it was very much engineered.
Also, there seems to be a 'war' going on between the two forks. [1]

1. https://blog.cotten.io/bitcoin-coin-fork-satoshi-vision-losi...
Why did you quit jobs?
A bit dated, but this was the intent behind HBO's The Larry Sanders Show.
I haven't used the command, but from what I understand, it is like a shell with less-like interface that you can pipe to, and work on a copy of the output stream.
Yes, a few of my gigs were, probably not evil but certainly low in value for actual humans. But we all have to eat, and circumstances sometimes send you off looking for whatever job or client you can get right now.
I think the point is that while you can find your pet example of an over-budget project, other people can find examples of projects that didn't have those problems.

Rushing to post "but what about the Second Avenue Subway" in any thread on this topic is not useful, since you've provided no evidence that it's representative enough to generalize to all infrastructure projects in all cities of all states of the US.
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Thanks, I didn't kow about Einstein and quantum physics. I'll have to read a bit about that, it sounds interesing.

My original comment is grounded in an assumption that predictive power is not enough to identify a theory as correct, and neither is simplicity. There's nothing to stop any number of theories to have the same predictive power and the same kind of complexity. Sometimes, it's just very difficult to choose one, above the others.

Did I come across as confusing predictive power with complexity?

EDIT: it's interesting you bring Occam's razor up. It's part of what I'm studying, in the context of identifying relevant information in (machine) learning. There are mathematical results (in the framework of PAC-learning) that say that, basically, the more complex your training data, the more likely you are to overfit to irrelevant details. At that point, you have a model that explains observations perfectly well, but is useless to explain unseen observations (the really unseen ones- not those pretending to be unseen for the puprose of cross-validation).

...iiish. The result is that large hypothesis spaces tend to produce higher error. But, the size of the hypothesis space in statistical machine learning depends on the complexity of the data, as in the number of features. Anyway, I'm fudging it some. I'm still reading up on that stuff.
> are, generally speaking, sweltering rattly deathtraps

How many people die on them every year?

Are they really deathtraps? Or are they just old train cars?
Anyone who can understand what OpenCV actually is from their front page is doing better than me.
Received the same email. I am wondering if this is related to my shopping, or the AWS servers I am using.
You can raise wages just as effectively by increasing the demand for low-skilled labour as by increasing demand for high-skilled labour. The direction that the upward pressure on wages is coming from changes, but it's there nonetheless.

If the locality is fortunate enough to have home-sharing, the profits from tourism accommodations also flow to local pockets, creating potentially thousands of high income micro-hoteliers.

Moreover, not all tourism spending directly contributes to what are traditionally considered "tourism jobs". For example it contributes to more revenues for restaurants, retail businesses, etc.

As for Hawaii, I think a much better explanation for its poverty levels is the migration of people from other parts of the US to enjoy Hawaii's homeless-friendly climate.
> Surely some blame lies elsewhere as well.

I saw a picture of Paradise after it burned. It was remarkable, the houses were completely gone but the trees were still standing all around. There's something wrong with how we build and maintain our structures in fire prone areas.
I'm extremely skeptical of any "just use platform/service/tool X" type of suggestion, largely because I've been doing this long enough to know that "just" needs to be in scare quotes and that often the claimed benefits don't materialize.

Django does need a place to store the tickets, and GitHub's tracker... is not great. I'd honestly want to look at adding OAuth or other easier signup/account management to Trac before I'd look at moving to GitHub issues.
My understanding is that these had not been observed before Galileo, or at least not observed by many and not long before Galileo's time. In that case, they weren't so much incorrectly predicted, as not observed.
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Received the same text, and sent about same time (8:10 PST) as others. Does seem like an error with the strange wording.
About a year ago I worked on a system that helped a political party in my country to keep track of their "associates" in order to get some advantage in the election. They lost, but after I finally saw what the whole deal was I quitted at that company.
That's fine but it needs to be more appealing than private ownership if it's going to succeed.

ATM I'm quite happy to pay more to have a nice personal form of transport.

Public transport is slow, dirty and inconvenient. Uber and taxis are only ever so slightly less so. Car sharing cars are not as nice to drive as the one I own.

It would be awesome if there was a good alternative, but having my data mined or being subjected to ads in my own vehicle will never happen while I'm paying.
I'm not missing the point at all because it's highly unlikely that home food prep adequately cooks food. It's a well known fact more people take on risk of eating undercooked meat and shellfish by choice. And this is part of my original point. You're conflating things that aren't true because of a failure to understand the root cause.

Maybe this can help you educate yourself: http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/nutrition-food-sa...

Ecoli doesn't "grow" on food as you claim. I think you're missing substantial understanding of the subject matter. And your source? Far taken out of context. Try recent findings from historical data compilation by the CDC in 2018:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/ss/ss6710a1.htm

So, your statistic is wrong as of latest compilation of CDC data.

"Amongst 1,281 outbreaks in which the food reported could be classified into a single food category, fish were the most commonly implicated category (222 outbreaks [17%]), followed by dairy (136 [11%]) and chicken (123 [10%]). The food categories responsible for the most outbreak-associated illnesses were chicken (3,114 illnesses [12%]), pork (2,670 [10%]), and seeded vegetables (2,572 [10%]). Multistate outbreaks comprised only 3% of all outbreaks reported but accounted for 11% of illnesses, 34% of hospitalizations, and 54% of deaths."

Again - what you cited is not true.

And a quick overview of common contaminants linked to foods - you'll find meats most prevalent and cross contamination by meats to other foods as the highest risk:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/food-poisonin...
Ask HN: Instead of deleting Facebook why not just sabotage them instead?
In light of Cambridge Analytica and all the constant Facebook fuckups many alpha geeks are talking about deleting their Facebook.

However I'm very very cynical that this would even have an effect.

Once we're no longer using their platform there will be no more dissent there and the rest of the users will just continue on as if nothing happened.

Additionally, we would only impact a VERY small percentage of Facebook.

Because of the fact that Facebook is so viral and controls so much of the market - they're not going away anytime soon.

What if we did this.

What if we sabotaged them - legally of course.

I think their achilles heel is data - and specifically their monopoly of that data.

They have a walled garden.

They charge companies for access to this walled garden because they have petabytes of user data that Google, Apple, etc don't have.

... and what is important here is that this data is PUBLIC.

So what if people were to start running a browser extension that exported their data into the public web. Into a shared queue that anyone from Google to Apple, etc could access.

The bad guys ALREADY have this data... and I'm only talking about PUBLIC user data - not private data.

So if someone posts something public on Facebook this extension would then break the walled garden and post it on the Internet.

It would have an massive amplification effect. The small percentage of us that would run the extension would now be able to export 100x more content because we're not just exporting OUR content but THEIR public content too.

Facebook would no longer have a monopoly on this data...
The point is that this particular concept of metric units is taught really well (repeatedly on many practical examples and then evwn theoretical ones) and so virtually everyone knows and uses it. It's deeply ingrained in cooking books, recipes, etc.

Of course I don't remember a lot of things from the 4th grade. This one stands out.
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Although I am in favor or breaking up, maybe not Apple, but the others ASAP, that is not going to happen unless there is a Snowden copycat at work inside Google / Facebook.

Look at the Google Transparency Project. Google basically runs the US government (or at least used to under Obama). https://www.googletransparencyproject.org

Without having a "new Snowden" giving the average citizens the shock of a lifetime by displaying how much info those spy companies have on us all nothing is going to change.

When Rockefeller was around in the 1930 there was no, or only little, lobbying but since it is now legal for anyone to buy US politicians little will change.

Lets hope the Snowden of Google / Facebook start his/her upload to wiki leaks soon.
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I had not known about this- makes things so much easier to maintian
I guess Clinton Sucked
Why do aerospace companies have a fascination with fusion reactors? I worked at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics in the mid 1980s. One of their projects at the time was a fusion reactor based on the "ELMO Bumpy Torus" of the 1970s.

Fusion reactors seem a bit out of LockMart's wheelhouse, if you take my meaning.
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We need semis. We all rely on trucks for everything we buy. We don't need cars. There is always an alternative to cars, not so for trucks.
Hmmmm i was seriously asking in a nice way as I don't live in California.

I've only been there for vacations, competing on a reality tv show and an unpleasant meeting with Google re: buying one of my apps.
I received the exact same message, so I initiated a chat with Amazon to ask if the email did indeed come from them and he said it did. He said it was only the email address and no other information and assured me my account was safe and secure. I was unable to find out to whom my email was disclosed.
Gotta click to the about page.

> OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer vision applications and to accelerate the use of machine perception in the commercial products.
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Using a throwaway for obv. reasons. I'm employee lower thirties in a company that recently went public with a similar valuation. Unlike gp, I am still with this company, and really like it there.

Ignoring taxes, vested comes in at about 1 mill. I'll pay about half that in taxes. I have a few hundred k in unvested from subsequent awards.

I've hit the start up lotto, but I will not likely pocket 7 figures from equity for a long while, assuming continual equity awards. Well, if the stock does really well, I could pocket 1M, but it needs to go up quite a bit. Honestly, I would likely have made more over these many years in aggregate at a FAANG. But I've enjoyed myself and still look forward to work every day.

I'm blessed and lucky. But the startup lotto is not as good as you might think. Never count equity in a start up. Go for the salary.
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Eliminating all the internet bots would be the mundane real life first step of the Butlerian Jihad of the Dune universe. In the stories, they eliminate all machine computers in order to prevent AIs destroying society, and go back to human computers.

The idea that AIs (broadly defined to include simple bots) are net more trouble than they are worth has been kicked around in literature forever. It’s fun to live in the age where we get to wrestle with it in practice.
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It's not anti-FB if the company's nefarious actions are confirmed.
Why would it dictate that? Choosier consumers with more options require you to step up your game to compete. The point of the death spiral is that ridership is down due to reliability issues, which will get worse due to less fare revenue, driving ridership down further.
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What does bare metal mean here, not virtualized?

It's hard to tell sometimes, what's one man's 'bare metal' is another man's abstraction layer.
> I hope Autodesk has learned lessons from its prior acquisitions and can integrate them effectively.

They haven't.
Why would someone in Oregon (where there is abundant water) or Louisiana purchase wildfire (specific) insurance?

Home insurance includes wildfires, but let's limit ourselves to wildfire-specific insurance, which was the issue at hand.
It's irrelevant anyway: the argument is specifically about the conditions required for "...an Earth‐like planet to produce an intelligent civilization of a type that would be visible to us with our current observation technology".

Intelligent clouds of dark matter just don't bear on the argument, whether they exist or not.
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Please keep doing that. I'm still hesitant to contribute to tech@ with code and have yet to find a fixable issue in the man pages/FAQ in my own usage. But I do appreciate that the details are oh so right very often.
I’ve designed many e-commerce stores and helped improve conversions for a ton of companies most of which sell stuff. I regret being a cog in a system that propels consumerism but food has to be put on the table.
If no homes were destroyed and people didn't die, there is nobody at fault?
> We find that landlords actively respond to the imposition of rent control by converting their properties to condos and TICs or by redeveloping the building in such as a way as to exempt it from the regulations. In sum, we find that impacted landlords reduced the supply the available rental housing by 15%. Consistent with this evidence, we find that there was a 20% decline in the number of renters living in impacted buildings, relative to 1990-1994 levels, and a 30% decline in the number of renters living in units protected by rent control.

> These results highlight that forcing landlords to provided insurance against rent increases leads to large losses to tenants

—The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco[1]

The study largely fins that, in addition to rent control causing the available supply to decrease, and tenant mobility/freedom to decrease, it largely harms new renters, and results in a wealth transfer to existing renters.

It does not solve the problem, and it does not on the whole benefit society.

[1]: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24181.pdf
Users flagged it. That's common. Also common is to see it rise again as the tug-of-war between upvotes and flags plays out, or occasionally as moderators turn off flags.
I got one of these. It's authentic based on headers. I run my own mailservers.

I use a different mail address for my AWS stuff, so this is purely for my main Amazon consumer shopping account.
I usually listen to them but anyways (I had to, sorry!!) - I really enjoyed Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. It's a very cynical take on the startup culture, which usually isn't something I'm into, but the author really did a good job at keeping it fun (he was one of the valleywag people) and has enough experience from the inside that there's actually plenty of subtle insights.
Wow, Django must be used by many of the biggest companies around. Instagram comes to mind...

Its so retarded to me that companies don't have a model for paying the open source projects they built their whole infrastructure on :(
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even if you're not working for ticketmaster, i hope everyone who does work at ticketmaster has trouble sleeping at night. you provide nothing to no one.
Economics has come to explain and attack the particular problem of homelessness amongst rich areas in the late 1800's, with Henry George's Poverty and Progress.

The economic field definitely has a simple recipe to attack the root cause of this issues, but its one that, in my opinion, is politically unfeasible, as it goes mostly against the middle class, and retired people as well as the rich.

The solution is called LVT, land value tax, and its popular since adam smith, to modern day left-leaning econs like stiglitz, or right-leaning like Milton friedman.
Is there a scandal here though?

He was part of a non-profit advocacy group that advocated for a specific cause. Some people contributed to that. Seems he ran around doing radio interviews, not making profits.

In a free society, I don't see anything wrong with that.

I'm not even sure if non-profits should be obliged to publicize their donors if the donors don't want to be identified.

Of course, if the work is specifically political, it should be transparent. Also, given that he's going to take a government position, we want to know who he's been taking from ...

While it does maybe look a little suspicious at face value there's no there there.

If a bunch of people want to run around advocating some kind of principle and raise money for themselves to do that then so be it, they can do that.
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Reminder that if you're getting your lettuce from a local farm at the farmers market, you probably don't have to worry about this. This outbreak is from some industrial romaine lettuce growing and processing operation.

(Yes, it's possible for local produce to be contaminated with E. coli as well. I have no idea if it's more or less likely on average. But it shouldn't be involved in this outbreak, so go ahead and make your salad.)
Received the same message at 9:14 MTN. Contacted Amazon support and they stated that it was sent by Amazon by default and there is nothing to worry about.
> also somewhat expensive

Ha, what? My old commute on the Singapore MRT - 5 stations - cost me the grand sum of SGD$1.07 (USD0.78). Even to the airport is only a couple of bucks.

Tokyo isn't quite as cheap but it's still very affordable.
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Subsidized car travel is a convenience for ordinary citizens; subsidized truck travel is an advantage conferred on businesses that move a lot of stuff by truck, making their goods unfairly cheap compared to more local alternatives, or alternatives moved by more efficient means like rail and sea.

Buying less stuff > spending tens of extra hours per week getting from place to place.
What would you imagine the various reasons for users flagging it would be? Genuinely curious.
The massive purple face which was probably intended to obscure her skin color, you mean?
A fair and valid point, and to Django's credit, they actually do have Github OAuth as the signin procedure for Trac! Unfortunately, it's still a new interface for people to learn and be afraid of - and most importantly, it's a place where activity can be hidden from people who are just browsing the codebase, so the project looks less active than it actually is!

Bots that mirror content/comments between the various platforms might be an interesting interim step that could minimize those scare quotes, and achieve many of the benefits in a minimally invasive way.
you were in no way asking in a nice way. You were incredibly condescending in a post about a natural disaster striking the area. Don't be disingenuous.
If it's any consolation I got headhunted by PlanGrid earlier this year. I knew of them in a professional context and was ready to sign on the dotted line after the recruiter's opening salvo. Turns out the hiring manager and recruiter were completely disorganized and seemed more interested in playing games than actually hiring. PlanGrid basically snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Reading this news blurb resulted in a bit of mixed emotions for me. Earlier this year, prior to my run-in with PlanGrid, I walked away from a decent chunk of unvested stock options in a rather well known publicly traded company. I suppose they deserve each other.