skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the author of this piece appears on a panel to defend a book by an author who had published another book called, Liberal Fascism [0]. This piece is supposed to make me feel sorry for her?

Well I don't fully understand the entire context of this person's story but I do know something about being publicly shamed. When I was a kid in high school I had to suffer being called a fgot every day. By every one. I had been hospitalized in an altercation and had been involved in several more. My car had been vandalized on more than one occasion. People would openly point, yell the word, and laugh until the whole crowd had joined in. It was an exercise in torture.

No side eye on the train. No wondering what people were shaming me for. The police couldn't do anything about it.

I used to think public shaming was a bad practice given my poor experience with it. When I heard the first stories of people using social media to shame serial offenders of the social norms of public life I thought... who are these people to judge and decide? What if that person had a reason? Do we really want to lower ourselves to this vigilante justice?

However this is 2018. This world has books like, Liberal Fascism. It has platforms for people with radical opinions to gain an audience from the comfort of their living room. Instead of limiting the spread of anti-LGBTQ sentiments it has fostered them and allowed them to spread. Instead of reducing racially-charged crimes and hate speech, social media and the Internet has enabled it. On a whole new level.

I think you should count yourself lucky that the people hurt by your conservative views have made you feel ashamed. You felt the discomfort of someone who doesn't fit in. Welcome to the club. How will you change now?

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Pol...
> It has actually created somewhat of a culture of upper class people moving there.

Depends on the Vermonters you ask. I take it you weren't canvassing a trailer park.

A lot of people will give you some wise ass answer that people from MA and NY made their money in NYC or Boston and once they had a family to raise or when they were ready to retire they realized had to move to a state that hadn't been turned to crap by the people in NYC or Boston.

Considering the political difference between NY/MA and (a good chunk of) people in rural areas of VT (or any other state in northern New England) you can see why they might say something like this.
Imagine if it had said “written communication” and CenturyLink had chosen to block your driveway with a sign or toss a note pasted onto brick through your window. Would you be as quick to say it was the fault of the law rather than how they chose to interpret it?

Laws are not source code and they assume some level of good faith interpretation because most real-world activities are complicated and change over time. If “email” was written into the law then we'd get some equally silly complaint about how they're using a system favored by old people while younger users want SMS, Twitter, Facebook, etc. notifications or that an important notice was spam-filtered. Stating “electronic communications” leaves those options open so time doesn't need to be spent revising the law later.
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Copyright infringement is unquestionably not theft, this is 100% settled law, it is not ambiguous.
Ah yes, because Samuel Slater smuggled cotton spinner trade secrets out of England in 1789, China is justified committing IP theft today.

Sound logic
For anyone that wants to read the study.

(https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Licensure_Report_W...)

I glanced through it and was not impressed.Why would they not show me what are the pros and cons of licensing besides just the cost. Would you not want someone to be able to verify that they have the skills to do what they say they offer. ( I understand that depending on the occupation this may be up for debate, due to verification issues and people gaming the tests, but I bet it becomes paramount where the occupation is related a matter of life or death like a doctor/surgeon.

I am sure there are things where getting a license is ridiculous, but for other areas where it is absolutely necessary.

What I found interesting is that, those with licenses make more money?

It seems if I wanted to lobby an organization to suppress wages, it be at a place such as the " Institute for Justice."
My guess is: they're investing in 6-month T-Bills, they're expecting rates to rise over the next 6 months to 1 year, they're covering the remainder out of pocket, and by doing this they're capturing the lion's share of their target market before their competitors do.

In addition, I'm guessing their AUM are low relative to their popularity. Lots of millennials may be very vocal about Robinhood, but may not have the quietly massive asset balance that boomers have, tucked away in Schwab, Fidelity, or Vanguard. This could be a land grab for AUM to support future VC rounds, an acquisition, or an IPO.
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I have been using Robinhood for years, but I don't disagree at all with this statement.
I have always been a little bit suspicious of their approaches.

For me the strangest thing about their business is their zero-fee approach. Yes you can make money by getting interest from uninvested funds + premium subscriptions + trade arbitrage, but if it's such a good business why aren't the incumbents taking similar approaches?

Contrarians would say that incumbents are just to engrained in their past approaches to actually adopt modern strategies, but I had that extremely hard to believe, especially when one of the incumbents, E-Trade, was the pioneer of online trading.

Also, unlike other industries, financial firms are savage. They're not scared to make risky bets and spin-off new businesses and strategies. Their industry is naturally risky, so they have the experience and tenure to make risky bets, without souring stakeholders.

I always give Robinhood the benefit of the doubt, because in my day to day I personally can say that it works great. They definitely nailed the Customer Experience. However that doesn't mean that they have an actual viable long-term business, so I prefer to stay reasonably cautious... Time will tell.
- Advanced sorting plus pagination comes to mind. How would you do that without pulling unnecessary rows?
- GROUP_CONCAT or STUFF in SQL Server already decreases the number of rows. His example has one row returned instead of 3.
- Aggregating in SQL would also reduce number of rows returned instead of pulling all the aggregated rows to code and doing it there
- I would guess RDBMS implementations are in something faster than the ORM is implemented in and their code is more optimized - that would be speculation.

Also, his examples are like the tip of the iceberg. There are all kinds of things like windowing functions and common table expressions that have so much power to get exactly as much data as you need right at the RDBMS without having to carry that baggage anywhere else.
New home sales include warranty which is the modern equivalent of the parent’s story. While buying used if you can prove that the seller knew of a mold problem and didn’t disclose it then you have a legal case.
It doesn't matter. You can't blame anybody for not being Steel like Shkreli. The aggressions of the justice system were wildly disproportionate and unjustified, and the aggressors are responsible for the consequences of their duress.
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What kinds of IP did the US steal in its first century? Interested from a historical perspective
And I'm establishing that the precedent cited doesn't exist, not in modern times anyway. If the argument is that home sellers are punished if they don't protect the buyer and so data sellers should be punished if they don't protect the data, that doesn't really hold up because home sellers aren't typically punished.
Unfortunately they are the only option for fiber in the part of Minneapolis where I live. It's slightly better than Comcast.
Not really in the true spirit of turtle (if it doesn't "go forward" I don't count it!), but I had to make this one based on the MAD computer program discussed here yesterday.

https://turtletoy.net/turtle/ba15abdde7
While I do not disagree with your points, I would argue that it is more likely that this is a prime candidate for Hanlon's razor.

The attribute substitution heuristic makes ts easy to treat Microsoft as this single homogenous entity, but given its size and the diverse number of groups working on things, this diverse set of toggles of how to disable all the crappy ways in which they collect data is likely just a result of these multiple groups finding their own toggle a place in the settings panel.

Should they, as a company who has made loud noises claiming to care about user privacy (data centers in Ireland) be a lot better about disclosing everything they collect, _how_ they collect it, and ALL the ways to disable said collection mechanism(s)? Absolutely. But to assume that they do not do this because malice? Nah, incompetence due to low actual business priority of caring about end user privacy seems more likely.
As you say it looks for profit. Not yield but profit. Which means that it can be profitable to always have mass culture of the most profitable crop even if having pluriculture with different less profitable crops would yield more. This is how you get entire regions or countries dedicated to a single crop that happens to be expensive and profitable, to the detriment of soil and general output.
>They've successfully gotten a number of these stupid licenses struck down.

Can you share which ones?
> limited to what you can convince the compiler/assembler to do on your behalf

C++ is a not a language where i would have a lot of confidence in that limitation!
Fascinated with the concept, I subscribed to the New Criterion a year ago. I'm not right-wing by any measurement, and I didn't even know the mag was oriented that way, but the idea of a magazine with no ads, no glossy pictures, no 6th-grade reading level? Based around art and commentary? I had to try it.

I like it a lot. It challenges me to be a more intelligent art consumer. It's not pumping stuff. It just wants to challenge me. I'm glad I tried it.
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The difference really becomes apparent when your database isn't an app specific data store, but a business data warehouse that is used in many places. You could build a full API layer and force people to go through that for everything, then have another thing to maintain, or you can implement it at the data level.

Each method has pros and cons, it depends on the capabilities of your database, your requirements in terms of security, and the degree of cross connection between data stores. For internal business tools I like to do stuff at the database layer, but it would be the wrong choice for a high volume, simple, public API.
It means people view each other as being part of the same tribe, or network. People (and many other animals) don't mind helping people in their "closer" networks, but the further away you get in the network, the less you care about someone else. Perhaps it is because there is an assumption that there is less reciprocation the further out you go in the network.
"...The pressure of agglomeration is high in the tech industry, and that concentrates jobs in big cities."

Well, this statement isn't true because otherwise there would be no outsource to India, etc.

Taxing outsourcing and incentivizing the very firms that outsource to India and other places back to these underdeveloped areas could make a substantial difference.

Besides, for customer service roles, you would have people with better communications skills who are easier to understand by and large.

It is totally wrong to blame "hi tech" of firms such as Amazon and Google, and better to look at all of these outsourced service jobs.

The question the reader should have is why the economists and the writers of the article didn't address the repatriation of service jobs back to the US.
> If they fail to catalog GamerGate and the online shaming of Zoe Quinn as an example of the problem

One word: /v/

So yes, the online shaming of Zoe Quinn is a crystal-clear example of the problem we're dealing with here! And this fact alone (though a seldom-acknowledged fact) actually explains much of how a lot of the "censorship" that fed the GG controversy originally came about.
SQL is a real programming language (even though, many people seems to not think so). I use SQLite, although there are other SQL implementations (with different features) too.

It is true many thing can be done well with SQL, whether you call from other programs or use standalone.

Whether it will be faster or not to use SQL probably depends on what SQL implementation is in use, whether the indexing is set up properly, and what programming language you are calling it from.

Also, much things can be done with a shorter code in SQL if you are doing such things as sorting the result set.
Is this just whataboutery, or can you please explain how your argument is supposed to work?
They purchased Level(3) who already previously owned Global Crossing, Savvis Video and Genuity, among other acquisitions.

The Level(3) name was much more memorable in the carrier/enterprise/ISP field and it feels like they are starting from scratch on brand recognition, because as you said, lots of people haven't heard of Centurylink before.

Edit: And as noted by the thread "CenturyLink is totally shady.", Centurylink's retail consumer reputation is quite tarnished (as are most large consumer ISP companies) and mixing that reputation with Level(3) was a bad decision, IMO.
I'm going to plug Calculus: Single Variable from the University of Pennsylvania on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus).

This was the best Calculus course I've taken online.
Plenty of other factors too. No nightlife. Limited restaurant options. Schools that offer only the basics and may be failing. No public transit. Shitty and expensive Internet. No local job hopping opportunities. Limited extracurricular activities for the kids. Lots of anti-intellectual peer groups in the schools.

You pay a lot for that cheap house in the end.
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> The conventional auto industry is full of ICE heads and hates EVs

That doesn't correspond with the practical realities. Here are some battery electrics that will be released across the next two years, some of which are already available:

https://www.myev.com/research/interesting-finds/hottest-new-...

Look at what a company like Hyundai is doing. Hyundai produces hydrogen fuel cell cars:

https://www.hyundai.de/Modelle/NEXO.html

Hyundai (with Kia) produces EV versions of the Hyundai Kona and the Kia Niro, two battery electrics with good range at a more affordable price than the luxury EVs:

https://www.hyundai.co.uk/new-cars/kona-electric

https://www.kia.com/uk/new-cars/all-new-e-niro/

Hyundai also has plans for on-car solar:

https://electrek.co/2018/10/31/hyundai-kia-solar-roof-electr...

I don't think any of this adds up to them hating EVs. Hyundai is ahead of most companies on the road to the practical, affordable EV.
That's great. It's like the "chicken wyngz" you can buy at the grocery store that are probably chicken but can't legally be called wings.
Yes, an obvious almost tautological suggestion, which often does not apply, and can actually increase the danger of situations even while technically reducing your chances of a ticket.

I regularly drive on highways with relatively dense traffic all going 10-20mph above the speed limit; in these conditions, it is objectively MORE dangerous to attempt to go the speed limit. I've seen the whole pack drive right by a state cop at 80+, and he'll do nothing because just to turn on his lightshow will likely cause a major wreck.

Outside of residential/school/congested areas with non-vehicular traffic & obstacles, it is NOT any numerical speed that causes issues, but the differential in speeds. Going too much faster -or too much slower- than surrounding traffic is what will cause accident situations (obviously, up to the limits of conditions, car preparation, driver skill & attention, etc.)

The Autobahns are regulated as an excellent example of this. In rural areas very high speeds are permitted, and lane discipline is rigorously enforced. You'll get busted way harder for driving slow in the left lane than for driving 300kph. And, in the more congested zones, the speed limits come down. And the safety records exceed those of the 65MPH US highways.

Speed does not kill, but rather driver ignorance does. A safe fast driver is better than an unsafe slow driver any day. And most US drivers are never taught even the basics of how to actually drive. I know otherwise very intelligent people who balked at taking their teens to driver safety & skills classes taught by SCCA and others (which objectively reduce accident rates) because they thought that teaching these skills (car control, balance, braking & turning at the limits, etc.) would give them wrong ideas...
We used to have a simple system for this--duelling.

Having all of these people on Twitter and cable news draw on each other at high-noon...
HN lacks some features that allow (and focus) conversations in a single medium.

At the very least, we could take notes from this interface for social interaction: things like 1) lack of notifications, for anything, 2) lack of PMs, 3) lack of any sort of 'personalized' stream of information. We have to pick and choose what we consume, rather than being spoon fed.

Coming from the other side: what allows these storms to form? I think part of the root cause is the ease of sharing information. It is very easy to re-blog/tweet/share on many platforms. In some cases (like Twitter or Facebook) a person doesn't even have to interact with the stuff they're passing on. The act is nearly passive.

I think my thesis is this: things are better here (in part) because it is more difficult to interact with content and people.

A partial solution could then be: add friction to things you don't want to see (or disallow them outright, like HN). Alternatively, make the stuff you want to see very easy.
> While systems can amplify or dampen certain behaviors, they cannot, without brutal authoritarianism, enforce behavior.

"Social" media managed to amplify detrimental behaviours by unquantifiable factors. The idea being that maybe you can also built it in a way that doesn't happen or perhaps even in a way that amplifies positive behaviours and dampens detrimental behaviours? Neither is the case currently; with social media being a marked negative influence across the board (except for shareholders).
the same "eye for an eye" goes for "if you have nothing to hide" - well then, you first
They're into some major metros. While it's theoretically nice to have competition for Comcast, it'd be nice if that competition weren't at least as shady...
Three months ago, a military jet fighter Saab JAS 39 Gripen crashed here in Sweden after a mid air collision with a flock of large birds.

The Swedish military has five to ten of such incidents per year, through almost all ends with the pilot doing an successful emergency landing. The crash sparked discussion that a bird warning system should be in place in order to prevent accidents in the future.
Even after Yahoo missed the chance to buy Google, they missed other significant chances to control Google. Yahoo bought Overture (previously goto.net) which had the patents on internet advertising. I recall Google paying $300M to Yahoo for a license to the patents. I think this may have been under the helm of Terry Semel. My thinking back then was that Yahoo severely underpriced that patent.
Just curious. What do you do with your 400GB of TS data on Timescale? As in how do you query it? Are they only metrics or do you have textual data in there as well?
Please do not take HN threads into ideological and national flamewar. The tell-tale signs of this being a bad comment for HN are: (a) the snark, and (b) the list of talking points. Combined with the flammatory topic, it amounts to vandalism, so please don't.
If you like this project, you may be interested in a similar project that I did a while back using using the turtle interpretation of grammars to represent connections between LEGO bricks:

https://github.com/jncraton/connectiongrammar

The "API" is admittedly quite poor currently, as I just quickly hacked this together on top of NLTK, but I was able to put together some fun results.
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"And there are plenty competent people with integrity."

But there are also plenty of people who lack integrity and, if it is permitted and gets them what they want, will fling arbitrarily nasty false accusations at people. There is no one with so much integrity that false accusations can't be made of them. You're pushing a rope.
You are probably right. I would be curious to see a review from a lawyer on the AUP that users agree to. Some things can not be waived in certain jurisdictions. Otherwise people may have given permission and ownership of some of their data to FB to do with as they please.
I would think that having multiple universities within the city disqualifies it from being called a 'small town'.
>Putting them in larger cities for jobs they aren't qualified and wouldn't be hired for probably isn't the solution.

<tinfoil>

If your goal is to make rural people (historically a very hard group for governments to control, everywhere, not just in the US) more dependent on and controllable by the state then it works great.

</tinfoil>

(Yes, I know I'm just stirring the pot by saying this)
That's only because you store primitives in memory in jupyter; I find I write terrible code in Jupyter precisely because of that.
> Unfortunately right now the only places picking them up are conservative researchers.

The document here was obtained by Property of People, who don't appear to be conservative researchers[1].

[1] https://propertyofthepeople.org/about-us/