skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall interesting, except I wonder how they manage to make it legal since basically no jurisdiction anywhere lets anyone under age sign legal contracts. So some adult somewhere is legally responsible, and if they are remote as this suggests, that's just asking for trouble.

This doesn't seem to include insurance, liability issues, etc.

Get a teacher at any public school in the USA to sponsor you (i.e. a school club), and suddenly the Public School System will handle ALL of this insanity for you, and ran through the schools bookstore(usually).

Plus they will eat all of the costs of running it, the insurance problems, the liability issues, etc. If you are under 18 and need this stuff, it's probably easier to just find a teacher to sponsor you and let them deal with all these headaches.

I imagine other countries have similar system(s) in place through their schools. It's not like "hackers" suddenly created these problems.
I don't mind the affiliate links, but I mind dishonest or low quality churned reviews.

When TV shopping, I used the reviews from https://www.rtings.com/

They pointed me to issues and concerns with TV quality, provided me with an understanding of the trade-offs at various price points, and then directed me to a TV model that I purchased and have been incredibly satisfied with. Maybe we need a reputable internet equivalent to consumer reports. We obviously have demand, the question is how to finance it.

I think consistent, ethical, non-conflicted third party quality reviews can be a solid lifestyle business. Won't be a unicorn, but it'll keep a few people gainfully employed and make the world a bit better.
As others said, "really knowing the material" is one of the important things that can cause confusion.

Practicing is also important, but for that, I need people that are willing to listen to me struggle.

Thank you for your help.
It's so much not JavaScript that you cannot even compile JavaScript to wasm!
Agreed. It is beyond me why the admins refuse to change a couple of lines of CSS, when this is an issue that has been raised again and again by the community.
I’m not saying public will is currently “wrong,” I’m saying we shouldn’t kid ourselves about why we’re in the mess we’re in.

Most of American city-dwellers want to “have their cake and eat it too,” that is, they want to live in a major metro AND be able to easily drive and park everywhere they want to go.

Those two things (major population and easy driving) are mutually exclusive, because car oriented development doesn’t scale beyond rural / suburban size very well.

But so far I haven’t seen any public leaders or communities acknowledge that and start working on alternatives. Instead they play games like blaming Uber and Lyft and pretending that an extra tax on them will make any real difference, when in reality it’s political theater.
I think you get coordinate invariance for free if you think of a vector as an object in its own right, rather than as a tuple in a coordinate system. But then I guess it's more accurate to speak of vectors and covectors than row vectors and column vectors.
Yes, I mentioned that is already beginning to happen.

> But given CA's environmental goals, this would be counterproductive.

That is irrelevant, we are reaching a point where taxation on road miles driven vs. fueled used becomes unavoidable. What will wind up happening is that efficient and clean energy vehicles will still need to be taxed to account for usage, while less efficient vehicles will be taxed even more (to discourage use).
> Metro’s rough estimates suggest a 20-cent fee on each trip could bring in $401 million over a decade, while a $2.75 fee could raise $5.5 billion.

Hmm, $401 million / 20 cents * $2.75 = $5.51 billion.

Is there some "law" that public transportation officials never account for the fact that increased fares or taxes will reduce demand?

Maybe most people don't care, but I find it hard to take seriously anyone who doesn't believe in price elasticity of demand. Perhaps they are ignorant of economics, or perhaps they are so well off that that $2.75 isn't worth counting. Either way…
> My response to that is sentencing - and likewise appeals and nullifications - should be considered holistically according to all related convictions.

> If we're being honest about the legal zeitgeist, judges are not piling on multiple life sentences because they're trying to shore up a wall of convictions, like some kind of sentencing severability clause.

No, they are doing it for a number of reasons, including early release calculations; which is why they aren't doing it in the US federal system which doesn't have early release on parole, and does use holistic sentencing with the aggregate maximum sentence of crimes in the same proceeding as the outer limit, but sentencing usually determined by a complex holistic formula based on various factors surrounding the crimes under the federal sentencing guidelines.
"Would love to see "USB 4" ."

I'd rather go for a (possibly faster) Ethernet with a redesigned smaller connector supporting POE. Smaller devices such as mice and keyboards could talk at PHY level while smarter ones with beefier microcontrollers could employ more and more layers of the network stack so that routing/tunneling data over the network when needed would become trivial. Security wise, there would be no physical difference between an external local disk and a NAS, but software could be used to filter devices from the network. The upside is that there would be a single stack for everything: from storage to security cameras, audio systems, data acquisition gear, sensors and actuators etc. All ports would be electrically insulated, the stack is already open and wonderfully documented, the hardware is already near realtime and there are no royalties to be paid to use that.
Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money
Quickly Generate Full Articles Using OpenAI’s GPT-2
I would love to see this experiment done with the d20 from The Dice Lab. They make their d20 dice with "ideally-balanced vertex sums while retaining the opposite-side numbering convention". They explain why this makes for a bit fairer dice here. https://mathartfun.com/thedicelab.com/BalancedStdPoly.html
They really said that? Your local pizza place also uses public roads, and they get the profit.

What kind of stupid.........sigh.

The point of having public roads is that it benefits the city by increasing economic output.

Did he forget that there are PEOPLE in those Uber and Lyft cars? Those same people he is supposed to serve? Or does he think the cars are driving around for no purpose making profit the whole time?
Make a RealWorld.io implementation or it doesn't exist!

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
I use this app [1] which does exactly what your describing. Even splits up the shopping list into "produce section", "inner aisles", "frozen" so you can segment your shopping. The app has some quirks but overall it's really great.

[1]:http://www.pepperplate.com/
i believe the op meant "Statistical power"
It's a numbers game. Most people aren't going to go back and edit it. They'll leave their 5 star review and hold their hand out for FREE PRODUCT.
I just stick to a single cultural cuisine for a while and fold my leftovers somehow into tomorrows meal and try not to have too many left overs to begin with. This works pretty good with Mexican, and most cultures know something about leftover management. If I need to be entertained while dining I'll do it at a restaurant now and then.

Picking out ingredients for a random recipe is going to leave you with little surpluses here and there. It can be hard to work it all into what you cook if you vary widely in what you cook. Though I do love cooking a variety of things. It can be wasteful unless your planning is on par with a chef.
>What would be a "small-government state" that doesn't give the police as wide a berth as the "big-government states?"

NH takes civil liberties very seriously. Maine takes having high quality government very seriously. Granted both those statements are becoming less true every year as a particular southern neighbor sheds some population in a northern direction.

Police conduct that would get 30sec on the evening news and a "well shucks, that's the government, what can ya do" response in MA or NY would almost certainly result in heads rolling and many letters to the editor involving the words "tar" and "feathers" in northern New England.

It's about culture as more than it is which particular party is in charge in any given state. The people of the small government states in my experience tend to get more riled up when representatives of government do bad things and politicians respond to that.
Cuba's richer than, say, St. Kitts & Nevis? I'd like to see your source for that...

Or are you listing St. Kitts as not independent, because it's part of the Commonwealth?
socket format?
You might have reason for last water, but not for stolen car. Stolen car is not sure death nor attempted murder. Even if stolen with gun.

You just rationalized killing someone by refraiming his action as something more deadly as it is. Which is literally reason why these laws about limits of self defense exists.
Yeah, this is just fluff ignoring prior art. ML and all sorts of other fancy modeling is nothing new for power grids.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://github.com/headmelted/codebuilds/releases.
Would people here use a similar service, but the ingredients are automatically sourced from your local supermarket and delivered to your door? Almost supermarket prices with still the convenience of not deciding what to eat and buying the separately.
And USB-C 10 Gbps cables aren't much cheaper, especially if they do 100W power delivery. Both probably could be cheaper if there were more demand for them, but siren song of cheap slow cables seems to have made it impossible to scale production up.
It doesn't grant you any more access than root on the system already does.
Well? What's wrong with Consumer Reports? Sign up, pay for it, done.

Why does valuable information that takes a lot of time and expense to produce need to be free? That attitude is the root of most of what's wrong with the web today.

s/internet/web/
America’s Biggest Charities Are Funneling Anonymous Millions to Hate Groups
true. and, with a licensing fee ;)
Shameless plug: if you want to become less confused about USB-C my primer is at https://superuser.com/a/1200112/41259 and also https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/wiki/newdocks contains some helpful intro.
Man plans to live out 'golden' age at Holiday Inn instead of retirement home
Yep but in the current economy it's not a shift of wealth from Acme workers to Jake workers that's going on. It's from workers of Acme and Jake to owners of Acme and Jake.
How does this compare with https://funretro.io/ ?
Berkshire Hathaway 2018 annual letter [pdf]
> As someone who has Crohn's disease I have lost track of the times someone has said "oh, blah worked for this person" etc etc.... all anecdotes

This is the point, a sample n=1 is only valid for that one person. You can only make educated guesses on what to test on yourself, but probably you need something slightly different from everyone else.

I do not know much about your disease, but for a diet is it pretty harmless to experiment if you are not doing anything extreme and keep yourself informed on current science
Play it again and try to guess the most common erroneous spelling.
It says Thinkpad x200
In real eminent domain, the government pays you the actual value of the property, not the price that they choose to pay.
My solution to this has been to find a subreddit that's devoted to the product in question.

If there is one, then I'll check the sidebar there, read through some posts, search for a few keywords. Basically spend 15 minutes researching.

Reddit still has shills and astroturfs, but for a lot of niches they're often aggressively moderated out of the community.

To go along with your umbrella example:

Unfortunately /r/umbrellas isn't a thing, but I did find this thread[1]. Sprinkled throughout the comments are links to sites that seem to be on the up-and-up.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/a4afrg/guys_d...
Of course, if this continues long enough...

At some point the workers rebel, and bring back the guillotine. Or something worse (see Soviet Russia). This can't continue long term.

Populist politicians promising to make things better relieve some of the pressure in the short run, though.
As much as I like the Pi, I think a better solution would be to use OpenWRT on a regular router.
Efficient cars aren't the problem.

The problem is that Uber/Lyft drivers "cruise" when the demand is slack rather than park.

So, for certain areas and times (generally about a hour before when that area is about to go from slack to busy), your street becomes a never-ending stream of ridesharing cars--generally doing stupid traffic maneuvers when they finally get summoned.
Also out of curiosity, what is right about pipenv?
Which is why I included the second part of my statement, which you did not quote: we would need to use the proceeds to dramatically increase the quality and quantity of alternatives to driving so that people had a realistic choice.

I totally agree with you that people are driving mostly because they have to, not for fun. However, retrofitting car-oriented development to be viable for non-car users is exceptionally difficult.

I can’t imagine any way of accomplishing that, unless we begin by acknowledging that cars won’t scale up any farther and that we have to redirect our efforts into things that will.
> Maybe we need a reputable internet equivalent to consumer reports.

We have one. It's cr.org
I bought a Raspberry Pi Zero W recently, and while shopping for an SD card for it, I suddenly realized that a decent 64Gb card costs more than Pi itself ($10).

And then I thought about how Pi is actually a rather powerful desktop computer, by the standards of the time not so long ago. It's 1GHz CPU and 512Mb RAM - back in 2000, that would be a rather high-end PC (yes, I'm aware that CPU frequencies across architectures are apples and oranges).

If you think about it in those terms, it's insane how cheap compute has become, even relative to storage.
I mean freedom of association where each party goes their own way, versus unavoidable negative consequences aka punishment.

If I say something you don't like, then we all generally agree you can stop associating with me.

If I say something the government does not like, then we all generally agree they cannot do something to me as a consequence - as the inescapable authority means it would be a punishment.

Those are the two extremes. The middle is a grey area based on power dynamics. For example, someone says something their employer does not like. If they are let go but can simply find another job, then we can argue that employer is merely exercising free association. If they're from a more rural area and get blackballed at every employer in the area, then that effectively constitutes a restraint on speech.
It isn't exactly niche yet since it doesn't exist at this point but my speculation is that we will have AGI within that time frame.

One reason I think that is because most of the core capabilities missing from AI systems are things that animals can do. Most of the difference with humans is a matter of degree.

It's still a very challenging list of capabilities of course. The core requirements for AGI are fairly well understood at this point. No one knows exactly how to achieve all of them together but many geniuses are working on it. And the tools such as DL, RL and less mainstream approaches such as SNNs and Sparse Predictive Hierarchies are very powerful. AGI is a real field now and intersects with things like developmental robotics.

It's a long shot but there are so many great minds involved and the rewards are so large that I think making a bet for within ten years is not a bad bet. Sure we have said that before. Things are not the same as before.
Star Wars: Always
Ask HN: Is scalability experience the most important aspect for back end devs?
I have applied for Elixir backend developer jobs (in Europe) and now have several options:

One company is a startup-style spinoff fully owned by a listed company in a traditional industry. They offer generous benefits and slightly fewer working hours, but the pay is slightly less. However, they offered me a mid-level position so the pay is still decent IMO. Online reviews about the company are really positive, and the team was nice. However, my biggest concern is that, since they focus on B2B software instead of consumer-facing software, their systems don't get a lot of traffic and don't really have a lot of scalability challenges. I wonder if my future career as a backend dev would be heavily impacted if I don't accumulate enough experience in this area.

The other several options are all consumer-facing startups with huge amounts of traffic to handle. Scalability/availability is definitely a central challenge to them. However, the benefits, work-life balance and stability cannot match those offered by the first company. They also don't necessarily offer much greater monetary rewards, which seems to be usual for European startups.

I wonder if experience with high scalability/availability systems is the most important aspect for my future career development. Or, maybe if I intend to go towards a managerial/team lead type of role, experience with project management etc. will actually be more important?

It seems to me that the methodologies in some startups are not that well-developed yet, and they have a "just get things done no matter what" mentality, which might make things become a bit chaotic.

I wonder if work-life balance is really that important. Should I choose a more "difficult" job when I'm still young, even though I might have to work more? Or is this a dangerous mentality to take (especially when there's not necessarily more monetary reward)? I've heard a lot of stories about burnouts.
Spotify Reportedly Launches in India
CRISPR and its various offsprings will grow in technological sophistication and their commercial applications. By the end of the 2020s it will morph into a pressing political issue in the West in terms of its implications for Human biology. Certain East Asian countries will be the trendsetters due to lax governmental regulations and societal acceptance.
I was brought up similarly and do know how to defend myself in a pinch but... I'd only resort to it if I thought the situation was going to inevitably going to end in violence, which usually only involved intoxication, most people trying to steal something don't want any trouble either - it's only those guys who went out looking for a fight or who are intoxicated to the point of not being able to let things go that I'd consider in that category where I am legitimately fearing for my life and have no alternatives.

It's just like burglars, if you come home and your door is broken and you hear sounds inside then just move a safe distance away and call the cops, there's no need to charge in rambo style.
Wouldn't that be a 501(c)(7) not type 3?
total universal surveillance will become the norm. for kids growing up, they will know nothing else. <sigh>
It would be interesting to see a graph over median wage similar to the one in the article, but with separate lines per gender.

> very large number of women entered the full time workforce and took on higher level positions between 1970 and 2017

If we look at US numbers that actually not the case. As I wrote in an other comment, between 1940 and 1970 it doubled from around 25% to around 50%, but from 1970 to 2017 it only went up to current 55%. It actually went down from 2000 which topped at 59%.
I don't think this is a tooling problem at all.

"The tooling makes it too easy to do it wrong." Compared to shell scripts with package manager invocations?
Nobody configures a system with just packages: there are always scripts to call, chroots to create, users and groups to create, passwords to set, firewall policies to update, etc.

There are a bunch of ways to create LXC containers: shell scripts, Docker, ansible. Shell scripts preceded Docker: you can write a function to stop, create an intermediate tarball, and then proceed (so that you don't have to run e.g. debootstrap without a mirror every time you manually test your system build script; so that you can cache build steps that completed successfully).

With Docker images, the correct thing to do is to extend FROM the image you want to use, build the whole thing yourself, and then tag and store your image in a container repository. Neither should you rely upon months-old liveCD images.

"You should just build containers on busybox." So, no package management? A whole ensemble of custom builds to manually maintain (with no AppArmor or SELinux labels)? Maintainers may prefer for distros to field bug reports for their own common build configurations and known-good package sets. Please don't run as root in a container ("because it's only a container that'll get restarted someday"). Busybox is not a sufficient OS distribution.

It's not the tools, it's how people are choosing to use them. They can, could, and should try and use idempotent package management tasks within their container build scripts; but they don't and that's not Bash/Ash/POSIX's fault either.
Public will used to hold some very shocking positions in he past.
Bret should team up with Andrew Yang where he breaks down the Freedom Dividend (UBI) Bret Victor style.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tropical-forests-...
I work in the cryptocurrency space and a several legit sites and APIs are blocked in more than one list.
We are heading into very dangerous territory. While there may be some natural warming, the effects we see now are overwhelmingly anthropogenic, and thus can be mitigated by emissions controls. Your suggestion to the contrary is not at all supported scientifically.

We are probably locked in to 2-3C rise at this point, and realistically we may hit more like 4C or more eventually with politically realistic emissions scenarios.

If emissions go completely uncontrolled in the future, an ultimate warming of 10C or more, while not likely, is not out of the question. That would be completely civilization-ending, and would cause a mass extinction of scale not seen since the P-T boundary several hundred million years ago.

This is a problem we are causing. We need to take it seriously. Anyone who buys homeowner's insurance should agree with that logic.
> Hololens 2 now has a 52° diagonal FOV and a 3:2 aspect ratio - so 43° horizontally and 29° vertically. [...] but it IS more than 4x the area (525°² vs 2236°²)

It looks like the author got confused and multiplied the wrong numbers. 43 x 29 = 1247, so this is about a 2.4x increase in area.
Those are all necessary permissions since the plugin is basically building a completely new keyboard-driven chrome. It is not simply a skin that remaps a bunch of key bindings.

For example, to open a bookmark from the command line requires read access to your bookmarks in order for the plugin to present you with the list of bookmarks and eventually allow you to search or navigate it somehow. The same applies to opening something from your browsing history or resurrecting a closed tab. Tab switching requires access to the tabs. Clipboard access is for things like copying URLs or the selection in visual mode to the clipboard.

Vimium itself is open source on GitHub and you can see for yourself what it's doing with your data. The Firefox port is by one of the most active project contributors.
Popularity does not imply correctness.