skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A utopia which purports to make everyone happy (shouldn't they all?) is one that assumes all people are the same or it endeavours to make them so.

So the contrapositive is that because people differ all societies require some people to suffer? That's a great way to justify all sorts of exploitation.

> In all of the utopias ... including Marx's Communist Manifesto

Ah, the Chicago school framing. What's primarily a positive work describing existing material conditions and relations is utopian, because it is not a kind assessment of those conditions.
No, it's not "just" othering. It's a particularly potent form of othering, because it's based on the most lurid, most instantly damaging, and most easily outrage inducing subject. It's potent and has the most potential for exploitation precisely because everyone agrees it's bad.

The problem is not having an issue with pedophilia. The problem is with bad actors exploiting the outrage amplified by the potential for paranoia surrounding the issue. Bad actors in Salem in the 1690's exploited outrage and potential for paranoia around witchcraft to take land from other people and take down rivals. Bad actors throughout history have leveled the charge of homosexuality, of having the "wrong" religion, of harboring the "wrong" politics, or of being from the "wrong" ethnic background to exploit outrage amplified by paranoia to take down rivals and to gain power through attention.

In 2019 most of those things no longer produce outrage like they did in the past, which is how things should be. Now, we are left with charges of racism and non-consensual sexual misconduct. Everyone agrees that those are bad. However, the potential for the outrage to be misused by bad actors is even greater as a result.

In 2019, the takeaway should be that great outrage should be met by great skepticism, and that important conclusions should be drawn in calmness and using evidence and logic.
My method was more intuitive than that. There's more detail on the real faces, the fake ones look slightly brushed over. If it wasn't an A/B test, I'd fall for the fakes every time, however.
> That's fine, but affording no rights to non-citizens would be highly problematic.

Which is why we have the status quo: the vast majority of rights enjoyed my U.S. citizens and residents are enjoyed by aliens, with some discretion.
I am really happy with his success. He is a classic case of blowing his own trumpet in world chasing next unicorn.

One question though. If he is enabling his users to send mass emails using Google's infrastructure. Doesn't this violates Google TOC?
The road to the EU began in 1951, a mere 6 years after ww2 ended. Integration has increased more and more since then.
Indeed. But knowing how to market to the right audience is very important.

There are so many good X (where X can be anything from a potato peeler that doesn't clog to a fantastic musician that you've never heard of or even a software service you need).

I'm definitely in the camp that sees needs and pain points and solves them, but doesn't know how to market...
In fairness to the humanities, there has been a good deal of research and knowledge via sociology for a long while.
You're right. I thought it went straight to the core representation like LFE does but I checked and see it translates everything to an Erlang AST. It's just that Erlang AST allows for representation that are not necessarily valid in Erlang (variables don't have to start with camel case, rebinding etc).
Are you really equating dishonesty and valuing family over strangers? Do you believe there's no way to value family over strangers, without cheating and being dishonest?
I'm also Central London for work, I typically get at least 30/20 in the office without VPN, and at times up to 50/30, a lot less than the 80/80 I used to get 3-4 years ago in the same spot. With WireGuard I get consistently between 0 and ~10 down. I ran some tests with the guys in WireGuard IRC which seemed to confirm that the issue is specifically EE limiting UDP whether by QoS or otherwise.
Ask HN: When working on a side project with a collaborator, do you incorporate?
I'm about to start a side project with a collaborator I haven't worked with before and we expect it to generate a small amount of revenue. I'm thinking of incorporating as an LLC once we're done building to protect us both.

In past projects that didn't involve money this didn't seem necessary. Has anyone else done this for their side projects? What about bank accounts?
Love to see examples. Am a big proponent of remote work and want to do it better
A SaaS Business utilizing the open source softwares.
The 3rd (quartering of soldiers) and 7th (jury trial for civil cases) Amendments have not been incorporated at all, as well as parts of the 5th (Grand Jury indictment) and 6th (jury from the location of the crime).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine
The natural oil in the fish is found as triglycerides and as phospholipids.

A triglyceride is an ester made from three fatty acid molecules attached to a glyerol molecule (you get esters by reacting carboxylic acids with alcohols, and glycerol is a polyol alcohol with three hydroxyl groups). A phospholipid is very similar except one of the fatty acids is replaced by some hydrophilic molecule that's attached to the glycerol via a phosphate group.

The problem from a commercial point of view is that the fatty acids are mixed, but fish oil is only sold by EPA/DHA concentration. Nobody will buy natural fish oil because the EPA/DHA levels are too low. The solution is transesterification, where the glycerols are removed and replaced with ethanol. Ethanol is an alcohol with only a single hydroxyl group, so it can only form an ester with a single fatty acid. Now that all the fatty acids are in separate molecules, you can distill off the lower boiling ethyl esters of short chain fatty acids. EPA and DHA are long chain fatty acids, so their higher boiling ethyl esters will be left behind.

Theoretically could transesterify the ethyl esters back to triglycerides again, but when you can just sell the ethyl esters as "fish oil concentrate" there's no reason to.
That is a perfect example of individual part optimization creating a suboptimal system. To optimize a system you have to think globally (all parts).

In manufacturing environments, this might mean running some pieces of equipment or processes at a slower-than-potential rate to reduce errors or variance. Accelerating that process may seem to make things go faster, but increases the amount or frequency of later rework.
Worker goals and company goals are incentive incompatible.

Economics 101.

I see no reason why a worker should ever care about company goals, unless they align with her/his own goals, or that not drinking the kool-aid is a short ticket to get fired. (Or unless they have equity - but this is very rare in the general employment market, compared to HN)
Now that I think about it, this is the reason naming things in general is so hard, including computer science.
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The pool is frozen solid for half the year. You can pee on it if you want but it just sits there in a frozen yellow puddle on top until the spring thaw. It can be pretty incriminating.

Also it tends to dribble down your snowmobile pants and onto your mukluks.
Next tonight: Why are humans animals?
No - there is NO sideloading allowed on the iPhone
I think you have to add "Joint" Parallel as a definition of two separate cores that collaborate on the same data at the same time - that requires concurrent memory/disc access. That Erlang can't provide BTW.
The landlord is supposed to proceed with eviction if a crime occurs on their property. The police will even tell the landlord that if they don't evict, they will seize the house under "nuisance laws".
I ran some tests with the guys in WireGuard IRC which seemed to confirm that the issue is specifically EE limiting UDP whether by QoS or otherwise.

I haven't contacted EE about it or tested other VPNs yet. I want to run WireGuard for various reasons so switching to OpenVPN might confirm they issue but not solve my problems (I don't run the VPN for the reasons in the OP)
Illicit? What law or statute was broken? Breaking Apple's TOS still is, afaik, not illicit or illegal. Has this changed recently? Has someone been prosecuted under the CFAA or other law for breaking a company's TOS? Last I heard, it still wasn't illicit and the issue has not been heard by the Supremes: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...

Talk about inaccurate, bad reporting...
If more than one person has thought you are a jerk, especially more than one at a single job, and you don't know why, you're probably a jerk. The classic sign of a jerk is someone who can't pinpoint why someone would think they are a jerk in the first place. Or worse, you know why but you just don't care.

As far as toxic workers go (jerks included), there are a lot of reasons they are toxic:

* They are negative all the time. They sap the enjoyment out of the room.
* They are highly critical of other's work. No one else has a problem with the work others are doing, they just nit-pick every little thing.
* They avoid hard work and only go after prestige projects. They'll try to push stuff like maintenance work onto others, and half-ass it when they have to do it.
* Anything they do wrong is met with a strong defense mechanism and a need to deflect into someone else.

I'm sure there's more, these are just off the top of my head. Contrary to belief, being 'brilliant' has absolutely nothing to do with whether someone can be toxic. I've met a few toxic people in software and out, and some were downright mediocre.
Concave mirrors to correct poor eyesight were available in Ancient Rome, if you were rich enough (there's record of Nero using one at the forum, IIRC.) Button lenses (single small lenses) for embroidery, etc, perhaps as well. Literacy existed during the dark ages, largely in monasteries. Scotland esp, plus the Babylonian Empire (Late Roman Empire) persisted. Records were more scarce, but exist. Gears go back to ancient Greece, we now know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

"Dark Ages" is something of a misnomer by now, most historians would say, I believe. This source blames Petrarch for the calumny:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/

Oman and Bury are good public domain sources on the dark ages. You can find some free books here:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13?url=search-alia...

I would usually recommend gutenberg.org, but their pickings seem to be slim, in this case.
> Please stop saying systemd was being railroaded. I have no idea what was going on in Redhat (I do not follow their mailing lists), but at least in Debian, it got on its own technical merits, and Poettering had no special influence there.

Systemd got in on its merits in Fedora as well. (It had to — no amount of railroading is going to overcome something totally dysfunctional, and Fedora was the first adopter.) As I recall, the transition was fairly smooth.
I would suggest that most SaaS businesses make heavy use of a myriad of open source software. All of the SaaS providers that I am aware of use just about everything open source when they can.

The exceptions arise when the business needs a particular service that they don't have the personnel or expertise to develop and support in-house, especially when that service is customer facing and is required to meet their service level agreements. Even then, that service may be comprised of open source and close sourced software, but commercially supported by a 3rd party.
Would love to hear from other founders here comment on raising money when you don’t need to raise. To me it seems unfair to dilute employee equity for the sake of having an extra 100M in the bank.
Supposedly Plato's Republic was meant ironically to satisfy the powermonger Thrasymachus.
Hey everyone - someone just alerted me to this post. I'm Ajay, the person interviewed in that article. Let me go through now and respond to people's comments.
I get that.

But what you're missing from my comment is that companies all think to themselves "Well cmon - $X/month isnt that much money"

But also forget about subscription fatigue, as well as the fact that a company/individual might want/need >a dozen "subscription" services to accomplish what they want. So if you're paying ~$10 to $20 per month for every thing you need....

Thats a lot.

What we should have is a subscription hub - where all these startups can place their services and with a single account - I can click the services I want access to.

Eliminate payments across thousands of little subscription startups, allow me one account, one dashboard, one resource to find all the various tools... let me see results and reviews from users etc...

All in one place.

So - who is going to apply to YC with this for 2019?
There are many ways to raise your short or even mid-term numbers that have a net negative effect on the company over the long term. For example, if you want to get monthly active users up over the course of 3-6 months to get a promotion, there are lots of ways to do it - you can do discount promotions, or even pay users to download and install and use your app. But the moment you stop doing that your numbers are going to tank, and in the long run you just cost the company money while also doing damage to how people perceive it. The massive drop in numbers after that is going to demoralize the team, as well.

I've worked on a couple different teams where leadership did short-term-focused things like this to get numbers up and then the company paid for it later (typically after the leadership had exited or been pushed out).

This is a type of superstar toxicity that can be really harmful to your company even if people aren't quitting in droves because of the toxic employee.
The ML seems to not generate backgrounds that are as realistic. That's gotten me to 12 in a row.
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This is pretty much entirely wrong.

Studios want what's "proven". It's why they will gladly feed in ML data to get shitty focus group type movies. They will then pour huge amounts of money in to try and get back even more.
I recently learned that old typewriters didn’t have a “1” key. I thought my olevetti was broken but turns out the lowercase “L” is used for the number one.

Not implying that it’s ok, but maybe those original decisions inherited some of that history, even if not relevant, since it was based on mechanical limitations, to reduce the required number of typebar arms.
This was brought up last time - but even having something like the path "./Banking/bankofamerica.com" visible on the filesystem is a disclosure of sensitive information, even if the password is encrypted at-rest. Otherwise I love the idea of *nix based philosophy for password management =)
Just spitballing, but he mentions working around gmail hanging for minutes when sending thousands of emails somewhere, so I presume he's storing the addresses on a server and looping through them in gmail in bite sized chunks.
CPAP is a machine that forces continuous air through your nose via a mask. When you have sleep apnea, you're actually not breathing, thus, wake up during the night. The CPAP machine keeps the air moving, thus, you don't wake up.

I have _mild_ sleep apnea (you go through tests for diagnosis). With a CPAP machine, I've been able to add a solid hour per night of sleep, from about 6.5 hours to 7 .5-8, with it being continuous. Ergo, I don't make the "midnight trip to pee" with it on. With it off, I snore loudly, and wake up at least 1-2 times during the night.

It's possible that Ajay here actually has worse apnea, and the "9-10" hours from before was actually spent waking up, then trying to get back to sleep. Thus, the "6 hours" is just purely continuous sleep, instead of hours of tossing and turning.

Sleep apnea tests are comfortable take home tests. You basically just wear a couple of sensors for a night. If you're not prone to apnea, don't bother with a CPAP. It's not cheap, and some people can't get used to putting the mask on.
Where to Host Videos for E-Learning?
If I want to build a platform like Udemy where instructors will be able to upload their videos. And students can buy a course and watch the videos.

What is a good and cheap service for hosting and streaming these kind of videos?
Interestingly, utopian projects tend to try and eliminate those things. Perhaps because they guarantee against arbitrary interference by the state.
All the extension does is provide a conduit between the Gmail UI and the Gmail API, really. Google's systems for detecting spammers are pretty good, so they're more likely to shut down a spamming account rather than my extension.
I understand this and I'm heartened that the Supreme Court majority continues to find that. I was getting at the distinction between what the majority ruled; that excessive fines are a breach of due process, which applies to all "persons", and the comment that Justice Thomas would have preferred to arrive at the 'same outcome' on the basis that it was a breach of the 'privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States’.

My point is that those are different outcomes, not the same; one protects me - a person in the US who is not a US citizen - and the other does not. The difference is also a furtherance of a generally authoritarian idea that non-US-citizens should have not equal protection under the law.
Politics in America are a see-saw of right/left swings... and the see-saw swings back and forth every eight years almost like clockwork, this is because of the American political system though, it's not due to the nature of humanity. America needs to take a serious swing at removing money from politics and giving more voice to third party dissenting opinions, it'll help stabilize the country over the long run and allow for a less partisan/black and white approach.

In America there are socially conservative people that believe the in the right for women's choice in abortion, and there are otherwise socially liberal people who believe in removing that right, these people are left voiceless to the benefit of the two entrenched parties and end up see-sawing back and forth between who has been the least terrible recently.
Forester is widely discredited.
> Most researchers agree that mental disorders should not have names, as it is difficult or impossible to draw discrete boundaries in this complex and poorly-understood spectrum of symptoms.

By that logic, we shouldn't name species either.
Or, rather, there is a lot escaping it. :)
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Law can't be enforced because some powers don't want that. What about money laundering that could get hidden within seemingly legit transactions for multi billon dollars companies? Wouldn't be abusive if they try to regulate the behaviour of people buying online? How do they know the way to conduct that kind of investigation? Doesn't seem realistic.
1. The payload likes to stay around 5-10% of the total vehicle weight (otherwise the tether sags to steeply). I've generated sizing models from 5 pound payloads on up to 250 pound payloads for the Air Force SBIR research.

2. I have a look up table that plots energy capture for various latitudes vs day-of-year. It accounts for azimuth angle of the sun and duration of sunlight, where the integral of the area under the curve accounts for reduced collection at sunrise and sunset. To put it in perspective, operating on the worst winter day at 55 deg latitude is 15x harder than flying at the equator.

3. That produces triangular span loading (common to helicopters) which is not nearly as optimal as an elliptical span load distribution (common to gliders). Inboard sections just add weight and drag, without generating that much lift. The tether also has drag, but it's only 6% of the total system drag.

4. Agree. Takeoff has been completely revised and the transformational component has been abandoned. Now there is only a single motor on the outboard tip, and the system spins prior to takeoff. So the control laws for the retracted state are nearly identical to the extended state, just with a different set of gain values.

5. To build upon Q3, the tethers do have a very high Cd value (circular cross section is about 1.2), but they are extremely thin (small frontal area), and because the system rotates, the average velocity is 40% of the wingtip (which makes a huge deal for the V^2 in the drag equation).

6. At the largest scale, it takes nearly 40 seconds to make a full revolution. This slow rotation really helps to reduce the overall power requirements (P=VD).
The best tell of the US bike infrastructure being a joke is that local governments have the audacity to put some paint on a 45MPH road, and call it a bike lane. No separation, no barrier, just cars whizzing by at 45+, next to a cyclist going 15. And the bike lanes sometimes suddenly disappear, making bikers dismount or merge into fast traffic. No, thanks. I'll take the sidewalk that's empty 90% of the time.

Even in rare places where signs say "bikes may use full lane", I've been near ran over by cars angrily speeding past me.
Right, I do have moderate-to-severe apnea, which is why I use the machine. But still, going from 10-11 hours/night to 5-6 and feeling great has been a big productivity booster.
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It's hard to do reproducible experiments measuring productivity, but my personal opinion is it's still relevant. I say that as someone doing mostly JavaScript and TypeScript development day by day. I often miss the clean syntax and macro facilities of Scheme. I used to use Kawa Scheme a lot, which runs on the JVM, so readily available libraries were never a problem.

Libraries, documentation and community are reasons to use non-Lisp languages for certain projects, but if you don't have some kind of Lisp in your toolbox, you're still missing out in 2019, in my opinion.
I agree with your first sentiment, absolutely. Your second, however, grossly oversimplifies the situation IMHO—and there we diverge greatly.
It's about costs though, not skills per se. Like the aggressive hens, you'd want to isolate those toxic employees or accept the lower retention rate (higher mortality). At some point the one is not worth the other.

Isolating a toxic employee can be costly (giving them a private office gives a sense of favoritism, do you give offices to the rest or alienate them?). Permitting them in general population causes good, but lower pain threshhold, employees to leave (they know they don't have to put up with it, they can get a job anywhere). You can afford to lose some, but how many is this toxic employee worth?

> Sometimes, you have problems that most normal people can’t solve on their own and the only people who can solve them happen to be brilliant but toxic.

If it's occasional, consultants on retainer. They aren't around long enough to drive (many) people away, and if you isolate them to a seemingly nice office/area people know it's temporary.
I don't run my VPN for ad-blocking (my phone is rooted), I use it for more traditional access reasons.

To copy and paste another reply I just made:

"I ran some tests with the guys in WireGuard IRC which seemed to confirm that the issue is specifically EE limiting UDP whether by QoS or otherwise."

I'll give OpenVPN a go over TCP once I have a chance to set it up and I might even consider contacting EE for info.

I would mind the fact that it limits my throughout to, at best 12Mb down, but when on WG it typically approaches 0 making my device unusable and I've already ruled out the rest of my network.
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