skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a big part of it, which true some people get burned and lose money. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't do it. In fact, I'd argue it's slightly healthy to have a little bit of skin in the game to understand how these things work. If you're into numbers, it's nothing more than a game or say fantasy football and you can cheer for your favorite players (companies).

Robinhood presents a nice way of making it easy to get into the stock market with a pretty interface and without going through a cumbersome broker and paying fees for things you don't understand. Do seek professional help if you are looking for 401k and retirement guidance.

If anything, RH is sophisticated gambling.
I'm 44, and either I'm just getting old enough to notice things I never noticed when I was younger, or there's something very concerning brewing - it seems to me like a small but growing subsegment of western society is working as hard as they can to escalate civilization to an actual violent conflict. And, based on my understanding of history, the biggest losers in that conflict will be the ones pushing the hardest for it right now.
Godbolt has many more features than this. It can show you mappings from your code to the outputted asm, it can show help text on what instructions mean, you can compare multiple compilers against the same source file easily...
Need I remind you of the genocide in Myanmar organised to a large degree on social media, or the threat to political dissidents all over the world when authorities or malicious actors can get their hands on leaked, private data of individuals?

Are you seriously suggesting that information in this day and age does not have the power to directly cause harm, including lethal harm, to people?
These people have an option to not use Facebook.
wheg = wheeled leg

whegged = wheeled legged
"We've noticed that you use Google Search. So we've customized your search to include more Google Products"
Yep, that is the question/doubt.

I personally believe that the polygraph is a senseless test, still when it is used to screen a "large" number of people more or less in the same field (LEO, federal agences, army or similar), it should give a similar number of positives and negatives.

If it is used only to verify if applicants are prone to "cracking under theatrical pressure", the result means that applicants for CBP are much more susceptible to that than most applicants to other police/security or similar jobs.
You couldn't engineer one such social system, you'd have to arrange for multiple social systems, all with their own rules. Communities where people are nice to each other tend to be a.) small, so that you can't just find someone else to piss off b.) have lots of repeated interactions, so you're invested in maintaining good relations and c.) have freedom of exit, so when someone's values don't mesh with the community they leave rather than get perpetually shamed by the other community members.

Many parts of the Internet actually do meet these conditions, but they tend to be small niche hobby sites that are either overlooked or private, not the massive media/FB/Reddit/4chan/Twitterverse where shame storms propagate.

Failing that, the best alternative is sharp boundaries between you and the public sphere of discourse. This is how cities work - you have dense groups of people with diverse opinions and many casual interactions, but most people learn to mind their own business, so it really functions as a group of small interlocking communities rather than one mass of people. It's also how to stay mentally healthy on the Internet - when everybody hates you, unplug.
I don't think that's the same thing. It does point to a basic intellectual failing of the modern right, though... conflating being judged with being censored.

Nobody's taking away your right to free speech. We just reserve the right to think you're an asshole for saying it.
DeVos to cancel $150M in student loan debt
> I think that fees a) keep out the "riffraff" and b) brokerages know that it's a zero-sum game to compete on them.

There are also costs per position per investor. Some services that brokerages have are based on position counts. An investor with 10 shares in 1 stock is cheaper to maintain than an investor with 1 share in 10 stocks.

(One example is prospectuses. If you buy a fund, you're entitled to the prospectus to be delivered within a certain amount of time post trade. If you just by 1, 2, 3, then 4 shares of the same fund, you only get one file/document delivered to you.)
It depends. Companies raise money to scale operations. Without the IPO and earlier venture capitalists, Yahoo! wouldn't even exist.
Perhaps we should install the equivalent of dashcams into airplanes ...
I love the idea of app servers tunneling out (we have an OSS project that does similar: https://github.com/superfly/wormhole). I really hope we get to where that's the default.
2 year old seed round company with <10 employees. I don't imagine they have a whole lot of customers, and hopefully no customers that rely solely on them.
Why do you think that self-hosting is safer?
I agree. And its not like im here to bash conservatives, its just looking at all these super tech companies like google and apple, its hard to imagine Tim Cook seriously considering locating his business in a state where his ER surgeon could refuse service to him because he is gay. most of our effort to get into the fast lane of "silicon valley" has been a thinly-veiled attempt at doing something, anything, to reduce crime, Fentanyl overdose, and systemic unemployment thats plagued our region since 2008.

The people who are pushing silicon valley just want the money. They dont understand that its more than money and training.
That's definitely an issue, but I would like to add that many of us feel the US govt too engages in lying through data.

The biggest one in my mind is the unemployment rate. Even though Labor publishes nuanced statistics and revises them for accuracy, Trump and the media focus solely on the lowest tier of unemployment rate, which is the one below 4%.

To be included in this rate, you must currently be receiving unemployment benefits from the state. Additionally, you must not be working part time at all, such as someone who drives uber for a few hours a week, or someone who picks up minimum wage shifts as a cashier or waiter. Lastly, you must submit weekly reports (through an imho easy to use online portal) of where you applied for jobs. You also cannot be in university, or living abroad (except Canada).

These hurdles are enough to remove literal millions of people from the official unemployment stat vis a vis the workforce participation stat. And yet, the incessant focus on Unemployment Rate probably won't stop.
thank you for inspiring the search that finally found it. I can't wait to get done with work today and go build some bots!
You gotta be kidding me. How such conversation would go, and what would you expect to get out of it?
Medium is infinitely better without JavaScript enabled. Get an extension for your browser that lets you block per domain.
China defines IP theft the same as EU and USA (more or less.)
> In 1750, Calcutta had a population of 120,000

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kolkata
Aliens are using drones now?! /s
AKA the "we don't negotiate with terrorists" strategy of dealing with social outrage mobs
Biologists turn eavesdropping viruses into bacterial assassins
I was talking to UChicago prof who did his undergrad at UIUC, and he said a lot of money was spent to bootstrap the tech economy in Champaign-Urbana but even back then at the height of the dotcom boom, it didn't make sense to him because most people just did not want to live in the middle of cornfields.

Rural colleges (even good ones) that are too far away from a city or a metropolitan area rarely have strong diversified economies because talent just doesn't want to live there. If they did, these places wouldn't remain small.

Ann Arbor does reasonably well, but it is close to Detroit (which despite most people's mental images of blight, has a very large suburban population that isn't too different from that of other cities in America). Pittsburgh does reasonably well because it is itself a city.

Off the top of my head I can think of many small college towns with good tech programs that have not managed to develop a strong diversified/tech economy:

* Ithaca, NY

* Providence, RI

* West Lafayette, IN

* Charlottesville, VA

Madison WI does ok for some reason (it's a really idyllic place to live as a student), but even then outside of Epic and a few large employers, it's not really a talent magnet.

Historically, the very concept of a university in medieval times arose due to urbanization. Outside of a few exceptions like Oxford/Cambridge, situating universities in rural settings is actually not the default idea. Thomas Jefferson famously despised city life and placed UVa in rural Charlottesville, and other colleges in America followed suit. But most European universities are usually located in cities or towns, and instead of sprawling bucolic campuses, they are spread out all over a city.
Sorry I didn't mean to create anxiousness. Don't freak out.

But basically everything we've found in rigorous study suggests that to master something you need a mentor/coach. It's not that you can't' figure the stuff out on your own. It's that you will save tremendous amounts of time by not doing so.

So one of the big weaknesses of going to work for as startup, especially as a newish dev, is that the mentorship opportunities are frequently lacking (startups have a hard time paying what mentors are worth). But this just means that you have to account for that in other ways:

- make sure your next job is geared around the mentorship opportunities

- go out of your way to develop mentorship relationships outside of work.

There are lots of very good benefits to working at startups. Just be aware of the trade off and make sure you are accounting for it in your career plan. Careers are long, no reason you have to optimize for each thing at each job.
Pretty much: https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/764180167656955904?lang=...
I get that fusion can theoretically transform vast quantities of stuff into useful energy. Can anyone comment on how scalable it would be if proven viable? Can it be built on a large scale profitably? Can it be built to serve remote locations off major grids? Can we ship it in reasonably sized space ships and use it to build bases elsewhere? Can we write off low energy costs to just churn on some sort of climate saving terraformer?
Something a bit more complicated than a dashcam, something that record all the sensors data and all the inputs as they are applied... maybe also the cockpit conversations....
(using a different account because I've apparently posted too much for HN)

From the article:

> "Swartz’s lead defense attorney, Elliot Peters, said today that both he and Swartz rejected the plea deal offered by the office of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, and instead were pushing for a trial where federal prosecutors would have been forced to publicly justify their pursuit of Swartz."

There are multiple interviews where Elliot Peters makes the same claim.

https://www.keker.com/news/news-items/Elliot-Peters-Discusse...

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/17/nation/la-na-nn-aaro...

I really have no idea what you're complaining about, or what you expect. Do you need a recorded video of Elliot Peters saying these things about the plea, and then displaying his drivers license and stating his social security number? The way the reporting was done in my original link is completely standard.
Why shouldnt we? If you are proven in court of law you knew about certain bugs or you underspend on engineering while your public outreach grew expenantially, how come you shouldnt be liable?

Anywhere else its a plain case of malpractice whether its law or medicine, etc.
Would be nice to be able to get my carve somewhat close to Knapton's at some point in my existence.
You have an option not to use a ton of industries that are still heavily fined and regulated for their misbehavior. That logic doesn't matter in this context.
who are you to police this ? ( i found out below ). seriously you are way off track here.

okay... looked. you seem to be someone who wants to and is entrusted with policing HN.

So I will say, that i did not intend as a snark at all, more light hearted banter.

if you check my posting history you will find a track record of formatting my posts similar to this.

i did not have a stick-it-to-the-english pamphlet lying around that i cut n pasted. its all stuff that ive actually come across.

and it did add to the article as far as i can tell
> Their search index was great back in the 90s simply because it was so localized to a specific interest, location, theme, etc. Wayfinding was a hell of a lot nicer back then, but didn't scale in the face of Google.

To be fair, it didn't even scale in the face of DMOZ (née GnuHoo), which was similarly structured and human curated, but Wikipedia to Yahoo’s Britannica.
I dunno. I actually don't think it's all that expensive of a sport if you can invest in your equipment and keep it long term. Sure, you'll spend a few grand one season for a setup that will last you three or four seasons. The season pass will set you back another $600 per year roughly.

I've had my current setup for five seasons. Same board. Same boots. Same jacket, helmet, pants, etc. If I do a back of the envelope calculation, my sport probably costs me $1,000 per year on average.

There really is such a thing as competence, work ethic, and patience. These traits tend to lead to success in other areas of life, including the accumulation of wealth and advancement in one's career. Not everything can, or should, be explained by privilege. Great people really do earn their greatness.
Well, that's just looking at what happened and not the capabilities.

They could have paid talent and they had a ton of traffic. You can basically build whatever from there.
That's a century years after they arrived -- read the link!
About a decade ago I've been thinking about how to design a good discussion platform, and the ideas I came up with have a lot of similarities with what you posted. I think that encouraging long-form communication where quickness of replies is not an inherent advantage and where there are costs to posting (as opposed to not posting) would be great for improving communication quality.

I also think that visual design cues matter much more than people think. Simply having large text fields to type in and clean design where large posts are readable really changes the tone of dicussions. I've seen this on many websites.

Another, newer, idea I have is that there should be some cost to finding/reading new content. It's probably not what you imagined right now. Here is an example. Let's say you have a popular YouTube video when someone plays Overwatch. Instead of the garbled toxic mess we have right now, comments could be split into different tabs/topic. There could be one tab where people discuss the strategy of the player, while in another tab people could discuss balance of the game as a whole. The "cost" of reading comments would be reading the titles of all tabs and clicking on one. It's not much, but I am 99% sure it would do miracles for decreasing toxicity.

People behave much better when they feel they are interacting in a social "space" with a defined (if open) group of other people. Information overflow destroys this feeling in an instant, no matter what other social features you add.
>To add to that: India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6% in 1700, almost equal to Europe's share of 23.3% at that time, to as low as 3.8% in 1952.[1]

Industrialization happened in this time period. India did not industrialize as rapidly or to the same extent as Europe and the US.

Share of world income is a zero sum game. Some of that decline is made up for by increased income elsewhere. The absolute income in India certainly did not decrease from 1700 to 1952.

These numbers would be more useful with a comparison to China, Russia and Japan over the same time period (all of which industrialized later than Europe and the US).
"the American copyright statutes did not allow for copyright protection of foreign works for fully one century. As a result, American publishers and producers freely pirated foreign literature, art, and drama....It was not until 1891 that the Chace Act granted copyright protection to selected foreign residents."

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/an-economic-history-of-copyright...

They started allowing non-citizens to get U.S. patents earlier:

"Americans could not obtain patents for imported discoveries, but the earliest statutes of 1793, 1800 and 1832, restricted patent property to citizens or to residents who declared that they intended to become citizens. As such, while an American could not appropriate patent rights to a foreign invention, he could freely use the idea without any need to bear licensing or similar costs that would otherwise have been due if the inventor had been able to obtain a patent in this country. In 1836, the stipulations on citizenship or residency were removed, but were replaced with discriminatory patent fees: foreigners could obtain a patent in the U.S. for a fee of three hundred dollars, or five hundred if they were British. After 1861 patent rights (with the exception of caveats) were available to all applicants on the same basis without regard to nationality."

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/an-economic-history-of-patent-in...
Look -- I'm as skeptical of the Chinese miracle as anyone.

But serious question: if the data was really as fake as everyone says, wouldn't the official and unofficial exchange rate of the Yuan be a lot larger?

If the Chinese are basically pretending the economy has grown 500% and it's only grown 100%, wouldn't the value of the Yuan prove it?
>"But it's exactly the model you're proposing when you suggest that private citizens might donate to the government if they really want public infrastructure to get funded! The ones who don't donate are paying $0/share, and the ones who do are paying $100/share, and they all get equal use of the infrastructure."

Why do people donate nearly a billion dollars per year to American Heart Association (https://www.forbes.com/companies/american-heart-association/...) even though I won't, but I could still get the same benefit for free? Because my benefit is irrelevant to their decision...

The only time it makes sense to care about someone else benefiting for free is if it means you are benefiting less for the same price. This concern about free riders is irrational.

>"And if someone is offering them for $0/share, wouldn't you consider that when deciding whether or not to pay $100?"

I'd take the free shares and then go ahead with the purchase for $100/share as well. Edit: Actually, best thing to do is take the free shares, then dump them on the market. Then use the original funds to buy more shares at a lower price.

>"How are you going to pitch investors to pay to upgrade a water treatment plant, when they'll reap exactly the same gains from it as their neighbours who didn't contribute a dime?"

Explain the benefits of the plant, telling them to see if they can get any of the neighbors to contribute too so it will be cheaper for them (nb: the price per person becomes more favorable, not the benefits). And anyway, you can always charge people for the water later so this example is not even very good...
A run down of the various options, from a pro-tokamak perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
You've made a bit of a logical leap in the way you've interpreted my post.

So, because I think Google shouldn't use a technology that they themselves marked as deprecated, leaving it only supported in their own browser using their own technology that only they implemented, it shouldn't exist in any way shape or form — despite the fact that wasm is already supported in Chrome and other web browsers?

Obviously, they should have just waited until they'd finished porting to wasm. The world would have survived without the NaCl version of a tool they never had before; bloods wouldn't run down the streets if we'd have had to wait a little bit longer for the only version of the tool that should have released.

> It's like saying because an app using the Mac touch bar is Mac only is a terrible thing

It's really not. The touch bar doesn't purport to be a standards-compliant technology available for every platform to access in an equitable way; apart from the fact it's only on Macs, nothing about it was ever advertised as being explicitly designed for cross-platform use.

The analogy to Chrome, a browser that is advertised as standards-compliant and even advancing standards, to the extent that it already includes wasm support, utterly falls apart.

> It's how platforms work

Chrome is not a platform, and I find myself shocked when anybody thinks so. It's as though the lessons of the past (IE, ActiveX, plugin lock-in) remain unlearnt; a new generation of people who don't know how good they've had it for so long.

Chrome is __not__ a platform; it is merely the window through which we consume the real platform: the open web.

When Google tries to push Chrome as a platform, we need to all push back. We've had one browser as a platform, and it was not good, it was unhealthy for developers as well as advancements in web technologies, and I and anybody who still has to support IE5 and IE6 do not want to see that again.
Ability to communicate or downvote could be rate-limited, perhaps by the character, to encourage conciseness and quality of thought.
> "your backend servers 'dial-out' and connect to the edge load balancers"

I believe Cloudflare offers this as an option: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-tunnel/
It's not as crazy as it sounds. PG wrote an essay about this once [1], and many East Asian cultures have much weaker conceptions of personal identities (separate from a family or larger society) than American and Western European culture does.

The challenge is that this is not an evolutionarily-stable-strategy from a game theoretic perception. When a person from a culture with a weak conception of personal identity meets a person from a culture with a strong conception of personal identity, the former tends to subordinate their desires to the latter, because that's what it means to have a weak conception of identity. As a result, the sphere of public discourse gets dominated by all those individuals with strong identities, even if the majority of people on earth do not have one. (Growing up half-Asian, this was a major source of angst for me, and still something I struggle with.)

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
> no one should be using bond funds as a checking/savings account replacement

Literally all money market accounts are bond funds under the hood, actually.
> There's only four things we [Americans] do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), and high speed pizza delivery

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Rethinking how we interview in Microsoft’s Developer Division
For anyone in Utah currently trying to deal with this issue, you might be able to workaround with pihole:

https://pi-hole.net/

or perhaps a local resolver?
I'm also pretty sure no state managed to successfully pass and keep a "bathroom law", especially after the enormous outrage against North Carolina.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18682627
Sounds like she was using a neti-pot. I thought most of the neti-pot products made it pretty clear that you're supposed to use previously boiled or distilled bottled water. Maybe they need to make it more clear that the consequences of using tap water can be pretty dangerous.
How it is targeting geeks in particular?
The pedantry doesn't help the customer. Your correction reminds me of the bureaucracy in the movie Brazil.

Reasons may be justified internally but a shitty experience for customers is still a shitty experience.