skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d be very curious to read a citation for that assertion.

> Economic growth depends on a complex web of law, culture and resources

If anything the opposite is true. Larger regions create economies of scale in these areas. A company can amortize the cost of complying with California laws over a much larger market than Iowa law. A product targeted at California cultural trends has a much larger market than one targeted to Iowan cultural trends. Historically, the size of the US internal market has been a huge benefit compared to smaller European countries.
> Tell me one reason that we at the consumer level should care whether Apple or Netflix win this one?

A 30% fee generally translates into 30% higher prices for all customers.

You see this with credit cards: because there's a ~3% fee and merchants are generally not allowed to have a credit card surcharge, prices as a whole rise ~3%. If you pay cash you might get a questionably-permissible discount from some places. Others don't take cards. If you're not using a 2% cash back card or equivalent, you're losing 2% of your spending, in effect. That matters to consumers at least as much as a 2% sales tax increase would matter.

30% is huge. When two elephants fight, of course they're not paying attention to the mice—but the mice certainly care about knowing where the elephants are likely to step.
bad management.

on FAANGs, the teams are usually huge, 100+ people doing what a nimbler company does with 3 or less, to the point the employees don't even see that, because the product is now broken into several pieces to give the illusion of complexity. middle managers then break it down further that engineers start being know as the "person that writes the java files in that one directory" and nothing else. This creates constant fear of becoming irrelevant. All while you see 2~10% pay raises while hearing about undergrads making the same you make now with "new tech du jour". This creates even more pressure.

And because this cycle (stagnate, fear, learn, relief) repeats often, engineers start to associate learning a new tech with happiness, just because it offsets the psychological fear for awhile.
Many countries (Uk anyway) can get 6 days transit without a visa if you head to a 3rd country. I flew to Beijing on short notice a couple of months ago, got a flight Glasgow-London-Beijing (5 days) - seoul - London

There are limitations (no leaving city of arrival), but it’s a useful last minute thing. You could do a tourist visit to Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and back home without a visa.

For VPN, speedify worked well.

I did pay cash in one place (near the diplomatic sector of Beijing), but got such a funny look I didn’t try again. Hotel took Amex.
The concern I have is that these vital non-profits (one might say critical infrastructure, depending on the org) have to go hat in hand to the community each and every year for their operating funds, whereas if they had an endowment or some other investment account backing them, they'd be able to survive in perpetuity.

At a 4% withdrawal rate, Let's Encrypt would need $100 million invested to not need to ask for funds in the future (assuming they don't drastically increase their operating expenses).

Governance and oversight is mandatory though; Wikipedia has net assets almost near $113 million [1] and requires less than 600 servers to operate (plus colo costs, connectivity, technical staff, etc). On the other end of the spectrum, OpenStreetMap costs $118k a year to operate [2].

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

[2] https://twitter.com/floledermann/status/1057254329290235907
> personal e-mail accounts

That's a bit surprising. A lot of the things you're saying (shouting, using personal email for work, rage emails) should only happen once per person maximum. When it happens, a calm conversation with a manager should explain that this behavior is detrimental to the success of the company. If it keeps happening, people need to go. Set the standard to separate the bad apples from the batch and then remove the bad apples.

> thinly veiled criticism and passive-aggressive remarks

Unfortunately, this is the life sometimes. It should be discouraged. But, these are probably symptoms of work related problems (lack of expertise, lack of clear responsibilities, managers who escalate rather than de-escalate situations) rather than pure conduct problems. Solving them requires patience and working the problem.
The main reason I find app stores useful is that they are a third party data aggregator. You can see ratings, downloads, reviews and other statistics very easily. That does help me as someone deciding what apps I should download.

That said, Netflix is a company I've grown to trust. I have no reason to look at Netflix's app statistics in the app store. I have no incentive to make personal transactions with Netflix through a third party app store. I simply go to their website, enter my card information, and enjoy their service without thinking about it ever again.
Last time I had a discussion about this my put was that licensing is an archaic way of doing things.

In short the idea is we trust the PE's signature that everything is copacetic. In more modern fields like automotive, aerospace and software engineering that idea is laughable. Everything is about process, audit and testing.
UBI is an attempt to save capitalism from itself. That's why you see 1%ers like Elon musk advocate for it.
You are saying this is fraud?
If you like "intimacy with hardware" you can drop down one level below machine code and design a processor on an FPGA with Verilog. Or, to go even deeper, design a custom circuit with SPICE.

C might be the optimal point on the abstraction ladder as far as the trade off between (exposed) complexity and control.
A friend of mine practiced law as a public defender before leaving the profession and becoming an inner-city pizza delivery man.
A lot of small issues that added up to an overall negative experience. The web UI redesign a few years ago that made it the same as the UI in Android, smart TVs, etc, but also slower and more difficult to use. Autoplaying something if you hover over it for more than a second (a cancerous UX design that has spread beyond Netflix now). UI inconsistencies like the "resume watching" row. 50% of the time it would be at the top where you would expect it, 25% of the time it would show up if you scrolled far enough, and 25% of the time it would never show up at all. I never understood that one, it was bizarre and unexpected behavior. Removing a lot of quality content and not replacing it equally high quality content. The overall decline in quality of Netflix's original series.

There wasn't any one thing that made me decide to cancel, one day I realized I hadn't used it in several months and the UI made it a pain to use when I did, so I canceled.
Ask HN: What are your New Year's resolutions?
I'm thinking about making some physical ones (getting more flexible, improving fitness) as well as some social ones (focus on building a better relationship / dating life). What are some others?
The purpose of this tool is to identify the minimal amount of CSS needed to render a page, for users who have enabled.

It helps by reducing the file size and the browser overhead parsing / rendering the CSS.
Or, in the OPs scenario, you could just carry $50 in your wallet?
An update on Python's governance
Would love to hear what kind of things you already automated on your farm :)
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How do you pay for a new phone?
Looking at the actual facts, there appear to be little justification for this violence, especially since it affects the human safety drivers the most and they are definitely not any kind of aggressor here.

Some recent quotes from the USA Today article covering the Waymo self-driving car hailing service:

“"But mostly it just makes me feel safe. One time, the Waymo (vehicle) paused before turning, and I wondered why. Then a car ran the red light and crashed into the median. It saw that car way before I did."”

“But the fact remains that after millions of miles of city driving, another 7 billion miles of virtual testing and countless more tests undertaken at a private faux-city facility in California, Waymo vehicles have yet to cause a major accident. When fender-benders do happen, often it's because human drivers bump into the robot cars.”

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/10/10/waymo-self-d...

The real issue is that we need more miles driven to really be certain that this safety record will hold. Thwarting this testing will probably endanger more people because the tech will become mainstream whether anyone likes it or not. It would be a lot better if the tech is over-tested than under-tested.
> Ahh the good ol artist commenting on capitalism.

> Reminds me how I got hate for getting my wife a new non stick cooking pan for christmas, and some college hipster commented it was sexist.

Reads to me like the OP believes that "artist commenting on capitalism" is a bit of a trope, and / or the commentary is typically facile and doesn't hold up to reality (as analogous to the case of "a cooking pan for christmas is sexist" versus "wife asks for a cooking pan for christmas").
Do you really believe the ratings and reviews are useful?

Most of the reviews I've seen are obvious shills, or else useless "works ok" reviews with a 5 star rating
The indicators used to appraise the quality of something have a big part to do with the overall successful application of Vimes theory.

Consider a merchant has 2 classes of boots: TypeA that cost $100 and last 5 years, and TypeB that costs $60 and lasts 2 years. Both boots are made by the same merchant, and TypeA has better materials than TypeB, which is primarily why it lasts longer, not necessarily due to the merchant’s craftsmanship ability. In such case, if someone could afford the TypeA boots, we can make sense of Vimes theory because it comes out to be cheaper over the life of the item due to better quality of materials, since quality of craftsmanship is basically the same.

Of course, this is pretty idealized. There’s many other factors that influence quality and how it’s perceived.

OP could have paid a premium to a longstanding brand traditionally known for quality that has cut corners over time and now uses cheaper practices.

I think there’s a lot of cases similar to OP now, where people pay a premium for a TypeA item expecting better quality construction and durability for the price, yet end up getting something not that different than a TypeB item.

Marketing also has a lot to do with this. It’s particularly frustrating when buying from a brand that used to make good stuff, and now sells stuff way worse under the same name (I’m looking at you Pyrex). I also hear a bunch of watch fans calling out the formerly high-end watch brands for cheapening their construction quality while still keeping the price high because buyers pay for the label not the actual quantitatively measured useful quality of the item. Once brands get to that level, they know they can basically put out mass manufactured expensive garbage and people will still buy it because they associate the brand with former traditional quality construction (much like many fashion brands of today that are made in similar overseas factories with similar textile suppliers).
London like most major cities already has an airport. However, expanding airports means addicting a runway ~1.2km from existing runways which causes more noise issues as people are now effectively 1.2 km closer to the airport.

So, sure expanding existing airports is an option to consider, but doing so has a real and measurable negative impact on property values.

PS: I am not trying to promote a new airport further from London just saying such a thing is an option for London and most other major cities.
Interlock breathalyzers have a host of problems that make indiscriminate application problematic. Additionally, judicial remedies can only be applied after someone has already been caught drunk driving. So even if we applied them to all prosecuted drunk drivers, it is not a complete prophylactic.
This is a pretty incomplete metaphor. If the rich person bought the cheap boots, they could invest the remainder of their capital in the market at say, a 7% annual return, over the long period they're not actually saving money by buying the more expensive stuff, most of the time.
"Imagine being elderly and not personally competent to understand ideas like the relative risk of equity or bond portfolios, and your children are equally as incompetent and can’t really help you, and the local options for financial planners are also equally as incompetent.
"

And how do you find a someone financially competent? Even a lot of the superstars blow up eventually. I think it's just a gamble.

There is a ton of cargoculting going on in financial advice. In the end nobody knows how to do it right long-term.
How could a broad generalization about the future, couched in terms whose definitions are controversial, be uncontroversial?
It's because it is an air-cooled engine.
>She directed the state to remove the definition of "engineer,'' from its state law and administrative rules, and simply restrict who can consider themselves a “professional engineer,” or a “registered professional engineer.”

I think that distinction is important. Here in NZ engineer could mean a trained engineer with a 4 year degree or it could mean a fabricator / fitter turner trained via an apprenticeship.

You also have people like my self. I hold an engineering degree but I have not pursued membership in my nation engineering body. So I'm not a “registered professional engineer” as there is no local support for this in the software field I went into. I'd never call my self a registered engineer but I may consider using the term to describe my qualifications.
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This is acurate. Sadly so.

I have had three daughters who exhibit what was stated above about super hugs, clenching teeth with saying "i just looove you soooo much" and shaking....

I was aware of this as a positive thing forever. And its lovely as encouraging them to be emotionally engaged with the world is important part of existing.

I threatened to disown my parents when they were deciding to put my younger brother on ritalin when he was a child because they were being told he was hyper, adhd, etc. i told them they needed to stand up to bullshit medicating of him just because teachers said whatever... (no need to go into details, but the schools and teachers in the late 80s were victims of pharma snake oil bullshit, which is why i havent taken even as much as an aspirin or advil in 20 years)...

Children need to thrive, engage, be encouraged to explore all aspects of life, but we have architected our entire society to supress the natural human condition.

But ironically, as a cyberpunk nerd of the 80s i somehow thought that smart drugs and neurotropic enhancement agents were going to be the future hotness. Where is my damn eye implant?
Survivor benefits cap out at 75% of the worker's benefits. That itself caps out to $2675. So a spouse with kids would get at most $2006/month. Not horrible, but a parent with two kids would just be over the poverty level. And realistically, most people at that age would have small accrued benefits.
Difference between a lawyer and a realtor is a lawyer has to get a law degree and pass the bar exam and then really doesn't owe anyone shit.

Realtor's are a cross between a MLM and a guild.
The problem is that plenty of people flat out don't believe a behavior exists when it clearly does, just because they themselves don't experience it or behave that way. It happens so incredibly often - like people who think it's normal to have to sneeze when they go out under the sun and others who then need incontrovertible proof that this happens. I'm not sure what to call it. A lack of empathy or imagination? Lack of respect for different experiential points of view?
> the description you’ve given above, which is a really nice summary, would be so utterly bonkers advanced-sounding and deeply complicated to average workers

But this description was very technical, another way to approach it is: keep in mind that there is no 100% safe way to save money, if you are looking to set money aside for retirement you may just put it a "retirement fund" based on the year you plan to retire (or a bit earlier to be conservative).

For example the "Vanguard Target Retirement 2010 Fund" lost 21% in 2008: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/performan... (but gained 19% in 2009 and 11% in 2010).

Edit: I agree that access to the information is a big problem for the common people. This is a valid general concern outside of just planning retirement though.
If you think drunk drivers are bad, sober drivers kill more than twice as many people! The actual number to beat is something like 37,000 annually[0]. And I suspect your "millions" factor has an extra zero or two when you account for (a) miles driven (self-driving cars are probably more highly utilized) and (b) driving conditions (city is more interesting for training data than highway, whereas probably more person-driving is done on highways).

[0]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/us-dot-announces-2017-r...
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How do you zoom through a cul-de-sac?
Many of those posts are shills doing viral marketing for 23andMe. Check out /r/HailCorporate for more details.
You can name things like

(\id. ...) (\x. x)

This names the identity function id. You can make this slightly prettier like

(\let. ...) (\def body. body def)

Which lets you do

let (\x. x) \id. ...

Booleans are also functions

let (\t f. t) \true.
let (\t f. f) \false.
let (\x. x) \then.
let (\x. x) \else.
let (\b thenLit ift elseLit iff. b ift iff) \if.

Which lets you write

if true then foo else bar

Where then and else are thrown away, without them it is basically lisp syntax. You could make this slightly fancier - translate into cps to support `else if` and require `end` at the end.

Tl;dr: with hacks
I'm a little disappointed they abandoned CoreDNS. I was really enjoying work with it.
This is downright silly. The bulk of bandwidth is associated with a select few destinations that aren't going to put their datacenters behind a consumer isp under any circumstances. But many do offer caching options that allow content to be sourced inside the ISP.
Isn't that just a bug?
If someone uses Fuchsia it will help.

I mean React-Native works with Android, Windows, iOS, WebVR, PDF, TVOS and whatnot, just because it also works with some other obscure platform it doesn't guarantee a high adoption.
> multi-perspective validation

This one caught me by surprise earlier in the year. When I was building some new infrastructure to support HTTP-01 validations in a multi-region deployment (routed using least-latency), one day I suddenly started seeing what looked like multiple validation requests hitting my EU deployment. Had me very confused for a few minutes, first thinking my logging infrastructure was suddenly very broken, or I had somehow configured my load balancers to cross regions, except the requests were coming from many different public addresses.

After some more minutes of digging and I found out about multi-perspective validation on the staging environment.

Anyway, good idea. And it seems to work from what I've seen. It seems just a surprise when it turned on while I was literally working on code/infrastructure to handle validations.
Yep, it's kinda like Github and SSL/TLS. When they went SSL only it was a bit painful, but things have largely caught up and improved overall.
I once worked in the live entertainment industry. We often had engineers sign off on stage/tower structures. When they got the math wrong things fell on heads. Our insurance demanded licensed engineers. Anyone using that term, professing, to be an engineer better be one.

This case essentially removes engineer from the list of recognized professions. That club now only belongs to the doctors and lawyers. Even hairdressers cannot call themselves such without state recognition.
"Call of the void" isn't an explanation. It's just a definition and a label for an observed behavior/thought. There's nothing to buy.
I read become a lawyer in 8 hours the howto book, am i still committing fraud?
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Not sure how the specifics of this works on amazon but when I read it initially I assumed the results were returned as images which seems to make a little bit more sense, although possibly not that much.

Although reading it again it does seem to be quite unclear...
The app store provides value to customers for recurring charges by being a MitM and offering an interface for recurring subscriptions. I can go to the recurring charges bit of the interface and see all the apps that can charge me.

I never give CC info if I can help it. Once you give out your CC info, you have to be eternally vigilant because they can charge you on their terms. And to cancel, you have to hop through whichever hoops the company demands of you, like requiring a phone call.

For example, I would never have taken up Youtube's 3-months-for-$1 trail last week if I had to insert my CC info. I was only open to the idea because it went through Apple's payment system and it's easy to see that I'll be billed in March if I don't trivially cancel the subscription from the iPhone interface.

Since the app store billing system is the reason I coughed up the money to Youtube, it certainly makes sense for Apple to get some of that money. And I could make a case that they deserve a cut for the entire lifetime of my subscription.
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What happened in June/July? It looks like they had 50% growth in those two months alone.
More akin to hate crime, really.
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No one gets 20% when retailers discount Apple iTunes gift cards 20%.
My uncle was a lawyer up until he decided he'd rather do cattle ranching. Seems like he wasn't the only one to reconsider a career in law.

I don't know why he quit being a lawyer, though. Maybe the stress?
I am not a lawyer but I would think that if the cars are moving in traffic during the criminal act I suspect that the criminals would get a higher charge (criminal endangerment?)
As someone from the US, universities having their own police forces is between authoritarian and barking mad. It seems downright at odds with both its proposed functionality and goals. The design seems like it would cynically be used to suppress student movements yet it is mostly used to softball enforcement for sake of reputations and not alienating students.

Having police for demographics seems inherently suspicious from a standpoint of liberty as it is either for undue crackdowns or undue lenience separate from official legal status. To give an absurd yet rationally based hypothetical - if it was official that it was in the interest of the state and people for college students to get more lenient drug and alcohol sentences because they want to encourage a limited degree of exploration to better innovation they wouldn't need a seperate police force because it was already codified in law.

This is distinct from when there are actual practical differences for given groups to be policed - a specialized white collar crime police force makes perfect sense as the needs are different. Similarly military police in a provost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provost_(military_police)] role are justifiable.

I'm not saying campuses should go unpoliced. I'm saying that the approach is suspect for the situation even if it is just a stupid historical artifact. Keeping an office of a police station on a sufficiently large campus but part of the normal state or city policing is fine - just because they are part of a university doesn't mean they are outside their jurisdiction. Deciding to have a security force that specifically don't have policing powers but enforce rules 'privately' is also fine.