skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if our VC investors had known at the outset that they would have a 3x return on their money in three years, they probably wouldn't have made the investment.

Of course they would have made an investment.

Any guaranteed return above bank interest rate -- is appealing for investors.

Guaranteed return of 50%/year is an amazing investment opportunity.

What you probably meant is that if investors knew that the return cannot be more than 3x, but also has high probability of failure -- then the investors probably would not make the investment.
OK, here you go: what large group of jobs has been eliminated by "AI" so far? No time limit answering, unless you die first, in which case "time's up!" My assertion, made in public and under my real name is that barring some giant breakthrough, nothing like this is going to happen any time soon. As far as I can tell, as an active worker in the field (erstwhile finance FWIIW), "AI" is a force multiplier for statisticians, and basically that's it.

Jobs have been eliminated in America because of poor industrial and trade policy. Nothing to do with "AI." I get extremely irate when people make the assertion that "oh, well, the jobs are going away soon anyway" -using this complete and utter falsehood as an excuse to continue the looting of the country.

The guy interviewed here is a real mixed bag. Some of what he says is nonsense, some of it is accurate. FIRE has basically been a vampire squid on the economy without adding much value. Most of it could be "automated" away by using a magic 8-ball; it doesn't actually provide any value. Except the politicians rice bowls depend on the status quo.
FWIW, I think yaml / ansible linters and style checkers typically require indentation.
I mean, AMI does publish basically all the gossip-filled tabloids and magazines, so to them, it is the hot new scandal of the year.
Oh god, can you imagine if you consistently got your orders fulfilled by the scam/knockoff providers? Being absurdly rich, yet everything you own is cheaply made and you have no clue why.
Obviously in countries with poorer wireless infrastructure there is more reason to use zero rating to expand coverage...
The Post, along with the Times, has been pursuing and reporting a story that David Pecker, AMI's CEO, has been working with a Saudi go-between, in part as an effort to expand their business. More importantly, Jamal Khashoggi, who we now know almost beyond a reasonable doubt† was targeted by Mohammad Bin Salman before Saudi assassins murdered him in Turkey (most probably at MBS's behest), was a Post employee.

† Reports emerged today that there's apparently audio of MBS himself ruminating over having him murdered.
Regulation is required.

Otherwise destroying 1 paparazzi or 1 tabloid will make another 5 pop up in their place.
I know it's morally wrong to exploit people like Jeff Bezos. If he were some nobody, this would not be news. As it is, he is undoubtedly one of the richest and most influential people in the world. Because of this, his very human mistakes aired out in public seems tit-for-tat. This is the sword of Damocles in action. It's a natural disincentive for too much ambition and opulence.
I agree that simple YAML can be nice as a quick and clean tool, but Ansible is an example of everything wrong with how YAML is used. Layering program flow constructs like loops, variables, templates, references etc. are exactly the sort of abuses that make YAML feel awkward.
I'm impressed he didn't censor out the text that says what the photos contain. The post would have had a similar impact either way I think. Nobody should have to be embarrassed about harm-free personal activities though.
two thoughts:
1) to echo another contributor, universities and other not-for-profits seem to be much friendlier to aging workforces - startups and even established companies are not
2) avoid going into product management; stay with coding and learn the latest frameworks; product management is brutally tough on aging workers
Serious question: What if he bought a full page ad at the market rate? Would that be unethical because he was paying himself (sort of) for that ad?
AWS? The dude literally owns one of the largest web services on the planet.
Highly anecdotal but while visiting Lithuania I had a prepaid SIM card with 200 local call minutes and 6GB of (quite fast) LTE data + unlimited Facebook (including Messenger) and Spotify for 3 Euros for 30 days, SIM card included.
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It's literally a front page article on the most influential newspaper in the country, and it will be in the physical newspaper tomorrow morning. How is that "blogspam"?

And there's a huge difference between a neutral third party reporting on something and just seeing one first-hand account of something. With your logic anyone reporting on Trump is just committing "blogspam", with his tweets being the beginning and end of the truth.
Come si dice is Italian, not Latin!
The article is about how getting his site’s articles listed by Google News is a broken process, not that Google News itself is broken.
Trump Era’s Biggest Winner Is Jeff Bezos, Presidential Nemesis
What happened to freedom of the press?
Yes, momentum. That's what drives CEOs to invest in new tech by investing billions. How does this help CEOs and their companies? Imagine X Inc invested $5B in AI, Cloud, etc, only to write off that $5B a decade later. But this $5B is a good investment since it helps keep their stock price up during the bull market where every other company is following the same trend.
What's the New York Times supposed to do for their readers? Not publish anything? De Becker, AMI and Amazon were asked for comment and declined. Besides, only a few paragraphs from the story are quotes from the blog post.
Indeed: https://twitter.com/FructoseNo/status/1087091163545231360
I'm starting to think that the web is just fundamentally not sanely salvageable at this point from a dev perspective. It really does seem to just slowly drive a lot of people insane after spending at least a decade in it.
Ahh... the new media conglomerates. Just what we all need.
Wouldn’t duck duck go be making a lot of money by now if this was the case?
They also refused a court order to remove the video:

> Yesterday the Hon. Pamela A.M. Campbell, a circuit court judge in Pinellas County, Fla., issued an order compelling Gawker to remove from the internet a video of Hulk Hogan fucking his friend's ex-wife, as well as a 1,400-word narrative of the video written by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio and 466 user-submitted comments. Here is why we are refusing to comply.

https://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hog...
I just sent the link to one of my exes. Lighten up.
Wait what? I would expect an emergency room trip in the US to be $1,000 - $10,000 particularly somewhere like S.F., especially since most emergency room visits are to the nearest hospital which could be out-of-network.
> There's no reason the public shouldn't be able to see why a site was rejected, or whether it was approved, and the reasons about why -- let alone the publisher itself. Google has a responsibility to help publishers of all sizes, but right now, it's hard to say that it's really supporting anyone outside of the giants.

Every selection process is like this, unfortunately. Whether you're applying for college or a job, telling you why you didn't get selected not very common, for a variety of reasons. This has the side effect of keeping the process opaque too, but that's how it is…
And all your EC2 instances have noisy neighbors, no matter how many times you terminate and reinstantiate. A living nightmare.
This is pretty disgusting, on the level of the "fappening". Can you imagine if the National Inquirer was blackmailing Jennifer Lawrence over her nude photos?
Gawker's insurance was going to bat for them, and would have likely reached settlement. What Thiel's team did was help Hogan's lawyers deliberately construct their suit in such a way, even scale it back if I understand correctly, that if found liable, would not have fall within Gawker's insurance policy.[0] Faced with the prospect of a huge uncovered loss, Gawker crumpled like a cheap suit. Paid to win? I doubt it. Hogan was up against a team seasoned pros, and was just lucky to have an enemy of his enemy. Much respect to Thiel for sticking to principle.

[0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/gawkers-insurer-lo...
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It's only a matter of time before they implement that feature.
Sorry, I don't buy the hype right now with AI. Sure it can help Google identify your pictures and make them prettier, but killing off jobs, I doubt it anytime soon.

To me, AI and driverless cars are hyped too much. Computer companies like to overpromise and then under deliver. When I first started in my career, CASE tools were going to kill off the programmer, fast forward 20+ years, and developers are still hanging around coding stuff.

Are jobs going to change? Sure.
Somewhat unrelated, I’ve been wondering for a while whether all pax in concert moving to the front/back of the cabin could bring a jet out of its flight envelope. There’s one or two related aviation stack exchange questions (that I’ve contributed to, IIRC), but I’ve never seen an informative authoritative account.
Partially agreed. Journalism should always be unregulated, but justice should act faster and be more reliable when journalism strays to evil.

I wish there was any way for the commoners to make public policy proposals. Imagine like a reddit for discussion of policy, but where the most upvoted things actually got looked at by people in decision-making positions.

It's very frustrating to me that I sometimes see really deep, interesting analysis of issues (and actual back-and-forth exchanges!) on reddit and never any such thing from actual politicians. Look at this thread here~ [0]
Honestly insightful and meaningful discourse that anyone can participate in. They took what sounded on the surface like a great idea and pointed out critical flaws, and suggested superior alternatives. The constructiveness of the thread astounds me.

I wish this type of thing actually connected to the government somehow, like in Ender's Game where Ender's siblings construct internet aliases and join policy conversations, slowly gaining influence and popularity through their rhetoric and insight.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aicgpz/serious_a...
You can't really compare volume dynamics across different genres in any meaningful way. There's still plenty of great music out there, don't worry.
Personal stuff is for blogs. The Washington Post is a business, a respected newspaper, an internationally renowned journalistic publication. It’s not a soapbox for Bezos...

In fact, why not bring up that he owns one of the most heavily trafficked websites on the planet. Why didn’t he publish this letter to Amazon.com front page? Equally valid question, no?
Trump’s minion trying to blackmail Bezos because of the Washington Post’s investigations into the Trump admin. Just further evidence that Trump must be impeached, and sooner rather than later.
apparently his lawyers didn't even know he was posting

it does come across as quickly written and rather genuine
You can flag them if you like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173809
Likely just switch to eBay at that point, with Fast & Free most items show up in 2 or 3 days. Newegg and a few hundred others also do Shoprunner, which is 2 day shipping if you spend enough to qualify (iirc buying a few hundred dollars a year worth of stuff). Cutting Amazon out of my life has definitely been an improvement :D
Delta Airbus A220 economy class review, inaugural flight
I will guess that as employee #2, he had more than 1 basis point.
They killed their 747 and replaced it with an A380. Always had 2-3 flights per day ORD-LHR.
That would actually be an abuse of power.
This seems to be a HN thing. Most places, a 'startup' is just someone trying to bootstrap a business into profitability so that, well, they have a profitable business. If you end up with a business that pays your wages, you win. If you end up with a business that pays your wages without you having to work full time (or at all) then you really win.

On HN, a "startup" is a moonshot backed by venture capital, and is seen as a failure if it doesn't achieve a massive valuation and take over the world. You read about businesses with "mere" million-dollar-plus revenues being shut down because they're "unsuccessful". It's insane.
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Freedom of the press does not give you a free pass to violate people's right to privacy.
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The press doesn't have the freedom to blackmail and do illegal biddings for powerful people, and destroy lives when lives aren't newsworthy.
That wouldn't be too bad. I'm over Windows. More specifically I'm over enterprise development using Windows. C# is a great language.
And the return on venture capital during those slow periods are also presumably lower (due to recessions etc)
As far as I'm concerned, a young person dying peacefully in their sleep is more tragic than an elderly person dying slowly and painfully. The math on this one seems pretty straight forward to me, but I appreciate that some people may find attitude cold or cynical. Most people probably wouldn't be willing to throw that proverbial trolley switch, but I would without hesitation.
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Agreed, and even on 12+ hour flights I never manage to even begin all the books, magazines, movies, newspapers I’ve brought (let alone finish them).
This is why I like the Canadian system of mortgages.

I have a 30 year mortgage, but every 5 years I have to "renew" it. At that time, I have to renegotiate the rate for the next 5 years. As part of this negotiation, I can just switch banks if I want. Or to a private lender. Or to anyone really.

It seems weird to me that you are beholden to an entity you've never signed any contract with.
Many are available for the US as a whole (eg. estimation of future plant hardiness zones). The climate graph generator is available for any land location globally.
Do any of the first party iOS apps (imessage, safari, podcasts, etc) collect analytics data?
Seven weeks after NSFW ban, Tumblr still bulges with porn
Freedom of the Press does not allow for breaking the law and _especially_ does not allow them to disobey a court order after their illegal activities are litigated (and, especially _especially_ does not allow them to flaunt that disobedience in the public). What Gawker did was not protected by the first amendment, nor should it be.

That being said, I also don't believe what Thiel did was ethical or just. It's a scary prospect.
Wow, I can't believe you took the time to reply to a question of mine from two years ago!

Ultimately I ended up with the same solution. The keyboard tray under the desk made a huge difference. You have to sit as if you're riding on horseback to really make that work.
Your respect is misplaced. Amazon has some of the worst business practices of any company its size. They region shop. They mix inventory. They engage in anti-competitive behaviour. They use their position as a platform to influence their competitive business objectives. They exploit OSS in a manner that is technically, maybe legal but essentially against the idea of the license. They force companies to buy out counterfeits of their own goods just to stop a mandatory reduction in their price. They do not allow you to remove a product from Amazon once it has been put up for sale by anyone that isn't you and then they have the gall to talk all high minded about investments in education while they (or their founder) pay almost nothing in tax.

Bezos can get fucked. He's worse than Thiel[0] or Andreessen.[1] Those two only committed a single capital sin each.

And I know it shouldn't mean a damn thing but I'm going to say it anyway, I've never worked with APIs or CLIs as infuriating as AWS's. They're horrible. The documentation is horrible. The service is over-priced and horrible, with unexpected caps and delays and fees that you only hit once you're starting to scale.

Fuck Amazon and fuck Bezos. He's like an Elon Musk without the class or philosophy.

[0] Thiel and his self-serving, false-but-seemingly-naive libertarianism and hypocritical support of Trump.

[1] Andreessen's support for the NSA's lies to congress about what they were doing. I don't support Snowden's actions—they were far too reckless—but I also don't support blatant lies to congress. We either have a democracy or we don't and we shouldn't be lied to. A simple "that is classified" is sufficient, and Andreessen calling Snowden a traitor because "we all know it was going on anyway" is the admission of a kleptocrat or oligarch of their privileged, beguiling position.

Edit:

Amazon is a plague. I invite the downvotes, Bezos bots or not. Nobody disagrees with what I've outlined because it's fundamentally true. Amazon is fucking trash.
Not to mention that Amazon has returned more to investors over the last 10 years than many startups and Unicorns have.
Lol. That's embarrassing.
Yes, is an exception to the rule, hence the "normally".

Convolvulaceae is a sister family to Solanaceae, and share their fondness for making some pretty evil alkaloids. Ipomoea (and other related genus) work often with lysergic acid derivatives. From LSD to vasoconstrictor or even gangrenous substances.
I love the A380 as an aerospace enthusiast, but absolutely despise it as a passenger. In my experience (with Lufthansa), the boarding process is chaotic and takes forever, the seat pitch is minimal in economy, and never have I felt more like cattle than when sharing the situation with 700 other passengers.

I'm curious how your experience as a passenger sounds so different from mine.
Updated to 12.1.4 today, started listening to an audiobook in the Audible app, paused it, went to home screen & locked phone, got in my car, plugged in USB/lightning cable, started car, audiobook automatically began playing.

I have had it default to Apple Music when doing the same thing as above but with the YouTube app. I think it has something to do with YT not allowing background audio playback unless you sub to Premium. Which reminds me how much I miss Jasmine and ProTube.
I can relate to a plague on both their houses but it is important to worry a bit about 'law of unintended consequences' effects. Bezos is going to get something ordinary mortals cannot, (redress) because of his money. So he isn't a champion for fundamental rights against press abuse, he's a champion for millionaires rights.

A real win here is for a global press industry to adopt redress measures ordinary people can use, and for stories to reflect fundamental truths, not twisted outcomes.

Jeff is still a union-busting, extractive parasite in my personal opinion. He might have made a worldwide empire which drives the economy, but he also helped wreck small-town shopping alongside costco and walmart, and their international cohort of economically efficient traders. Its lovely to be able to buy anything. Its truly sad to walk past small town life consisting of boarded up shops.
Wow, you have just described my Amazon shopping experience, except without being absurdly (or even remotely) rich.

But seriously, I actually got caught up in Amazon’s anti-fake-review dragnet and my account cannot review anymore without possibility of appeal. Being falsely accused made me irritated just enough to boycott all Amazon services.

At first it was tough, but then I realized I spend money on good quality products now, and, because I either have to wait for shipping from other suppliers or go in-person to a store, I’ve eliminated online impulse buys. It’s actually amazing how much fake or cheap stuff there is on Amazon.
I've spent a huge amount of time playing with similar stuff. The goal is to predict anything that you can make money on -- this can be obviously be price, but you can also try volatility, or predicting a probability distribution. Try relaxing constraints to find your signal: price ranges instead of exact prices, date ranges instead of exact dates. If you can output a probability, distribution, or confidence interval as well, that information can be used for position sizing (see Kelly criterion.)

If you start expanding beyond a small set of specific companies, don't forget to find data for delisted companies to avoid survivorship bias.
The Talk Show and Accidental Tech Podcast are both independent and they charge around $6000 per spot for three ad reads.
Maybe reality is a bit more nuanced than “the press can publish anything without consequences.”
> That’s total make believe.

You sound like McAdam. First, he conceitedly claimed that no one needs or will need gigabit so customers can get lost expecting it. And then he "magically" changed his tune. Which is totally the indirect effect of Google Fiber, which affected Comcast and AT&T which affected Verizon. McAdam had to swallow his conceit, shut up and deploy gigabit.

All this "no one needs" bunk falls apart very quickly even at the slightest sight of looming competition. Imagine what could have been if there was real one around.
Oh I see. Thank you for clarification. Still my thoughts are that G news pics up trending and targeted articles. Not sure is there is an easy way to test whether or not their process is "broken". What comes out on my side will be completely different on your site. Maybe those articles are plainly not interesting?..
It's broken for me in a different, far less important way. I can't get the darn "For you Recommended based on your interests" section to stop showing me stupid stories about dumb things I searched one time for 2 years ago. No matter how many times I've told it to "show me fewer stories about this" or "more stories about this" it's still news that's just total garbage. Singers, TV Shows, music, pointless crap I don't care anything about.

I search Google News all the time for stories on security, and books, and libraries, and it almost never recommends stories on things I'm actually interested in.

Kind of amazing just how bad that algorithm is. Really not a big deal, I'm just surprised at how bad Google can fail at something that seems so easy.
Medium is hosted on AWS though.
I believe you may have taken the previous post as serious rather than the joke it was.
I didn't even know there was a process. I know a local news source that does great work but isn't part of Google News, even though its constantly ranked highest for its content.

Is there a link or something?
Keep in mind the people on the other side of this, according to Bezos, are the Saudis. I’d bet on their luck over his.
You need to visit the Lufthansa 747-200 that's on display at the Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany:

http://www.rodbearden.com/Av13/Speyer/Boeing%20747-200%20D-A...
I wonder, is there a list, possibly broken down by segment, that shows the relatively privacy friendly companies in that segment? Personally I would also like to see a check or not in a few categories for each for things like "Public statements supporting privacy", "Software/service features support privacy", "Business model supports/supported by privacy" and "has resisted/advocated against privacy encroaching laws or overly broad legal orders".

That's a tall order, but it seems like the thing that could be mostly crowd-sourced to good effect (with a few moderators to ensure accuracy).