skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, I love the title!

I disagree with many details, but the article does highlight the main issue, which was also mentioned by one libertarian economist few years ago, namely that SJWs and other statists promote the concept ("sharing economy") because they'd love a society in which the individual owns (next to) nothing and is unaware of the importance of private property.

In other words, it's not socialism, but it's very close.
And it's also a scam (just like socialism.)

One part I disagree with is that the author doesn't spot the issue with Lyft's trajectory although it is clearly visible in the article itself. When Lyft begun, it worked, and once they got regulated, not only that it no longer worked quite as well, but it's also tried to block others from doing what works well (i.e. unregulated car pooling.)

Which is to say statism destroys free market capitalism.
Statists and crony capitalists erect barriers to entry to prevent individuals - especially small investors, which is what car owners are - from employing capital invested in their vehicle to compete with crony capitalists.
I use a Bash Script copied from Stack Overflow:

#!/bin/bash
choose() { echo ${1:RANDOM%${#1}:1} $RANDOM; }

{
choose '!@#$%^\&'
choose '0123456789'
choose 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
choose 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
for i in $( seq 1 $(( 4 + RANDOM % 8 )) )
do
choose '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
done

} | sort -R | awk '{printf "%s",$1}'
echo ""

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26665389/random-password...
Mortgage interest deduction is no longer deductible for itemized taxes.
Um, yes, actually. Humans are capable of all of those things. The problem usually arises when they decide to do something stupid, or somebody else decides to do something stupid and it involves them.
Maybe I have a different definition of the word, but I wouldn't describe this as a moonshot. A "moonshot" is something incredibly hard to do that will have a huge impact on society if you manage it. Building a (really cool) $380k toy won't impact very many people at all.
No we haven’t to 15k ft, we’ve modelled that. We’ve flown at approx 7k ft above mean sea level in alps
The main driving principle of the sharing economy is actually the ability to give a lift from time to time without any bother. The problem is that a number of factors do prevent supply from entering the market, thus the revenue available to established players is high enough to validate working full time.
My less than 5 years experience is still waiting for the beautiful AMD open source drivers to give me back the video acceleration and OpenGL Features from fxglr.

One of these days, the laptop will just get back W10 with its DirectX 11 drivers.
Until you actually risk money, you know little about investing, no matter how many books you read. In this way, investing is much, much different than economics, or physics, where you can learn a lot from books. But thank you for the bibliography.
If I had to review criminal negligence and pick a reason I would say that a standard of reasonable care has not been established that requires a car to be configured in a way that would have prevented the accident.
Fore sure soulchild, I agree with you. Being from India, I think it's my first instinct to just try and compete on the price. I'm gonna keep what you said it mind, it also reminds me of SmugMug's story.

I'm gonna try and find your apps too from the link in your profile.
RHEL7/CentOS 7 is one of the more significant distributions out there, you can yum install version 1.12 of nginx. It wasn't until 1.13 shipped that nginx picked up any support for http/2.

On the Apache front, mod_http2 didn't ship until 2.4.17, again CentOS 7 and other RHEL7 based distributions lags behind on 2.4.6.

Sure, that doesn't mean you couldn't compile / install your own version, but for a lot of people that's just not likely to happen. Sticking with the distribution version keeps you within any support contracts, gets you security patches etc. and all the information you need to keep auditors and the like happy.
> This is the next release of our IDE for .NET Developers on the Mac.

So still not the real Visual Studio. I wish they wouldn't use practically the same name for three different products that only vaguely overlap.
This is just crazy.

What are the effects of WiFi, and all other types of waves around us?
I think software is a lot more brittle than physics. It takes a lot to go from a sturdy building to something that could collapse, whereas in software the difference could be a single line of code, or two transposed words.

Also, the software world doesn't have the benefit of millennia of accumulated best practices.

Finally, the senior engineers and architects who are licensed to sign off on things they will be held criminally liable for do get incredible amounts of compensation as compared to their more junior colleagues.
Probably not quite what you are thinking of: https://www.iqasport.com/what-is-quidditch/
>Sharing economy

Back in the day we called it sharecropping and we knew it was bad.
There’s no chance this is true. Please share the listing
Absolutely right
For heaven's sake, who the hell are you, to tell other people what to do?

I'm a voting tax-payer: thats how government of the people, by the people works. We pay the taxes so that our representatives stop this kind of "shitting in the commons" nonsense. The ubers and airbnb are avoiding paying community costs, avoiding compliance with safety laws, avoiding all kinds of things, while simultaneously exporting the profit into other peoples hands, by giving some to individuals at a cost to everyone else in the peaceful enjoyment of their own property.

Telling people what to do is what government is all about.
Time to market is also sometimes a factor; putting a soft processor onto the unused parts of an FPGA is far easier than bringing up a SoC combining CPU cores with special-purpose compute or IO.

The high-end SSD market has had a lot of FPGA-based products for years, and recently many of them are using any leftover gates to add user-accessible CPUs (or occasionally ML-focused compute resources). It turns out that there are quite a few uses for having a CPU extremely close to your massive pile of data, rather than having a relatively narrow PCIe link between the storage and the CPU. These SSD controllers are usually forced to use pretty large FPGAs in order to have a high enough pin count to manage several TB of flash, and it seems that they often have logic elements to spare.
In what way is this not two separate things uselessly duplicating the same functionality? If you can get a CRL you can get a definition update, and they both effectively do the same thing.
The problem is, in its current state, it creates monopolies which undercut the non-gig versions of those jobs, eventually blotting them out. And then the people doing them are left doing the same thing, generally for less pay, with little stability and no benefits (thank you, American health care system).

I tend to favor the perspective that the problem isn't tech but venture capitalists, and more directly the government that refuses to (or is too slow to) regulate all of this. It's the same old tricks people have been trying for 200 years of industry; anticompetitiveness, taking advantage of desperate labor, etc. The difference is that right now:

1) The markets can move (and even be created from scratch) so fast as to evade regulatory updates

2) They can dress it all up in flowery utopian language

That's a dangerous combination.
Parent evidently came from a college preparatory school. Since most high schools don’t actually prepare students for college, freshman and sometimes sophomore year are remedial education for those unfortunates. Anyone who attended a prep school is going to be bored out of their skull by that crap. As far as I can tell the solution is to allow opting out of the remedial classes, but they are a profit center so good luck. APs help a bit, but not nearly enough.
I found DevinThink at the end of last year and ended paying up for the full premium version for ocr when they had on a Christmas sale. Not sure why I never seen it before as it’s been around a very long time.

I used Evernote extensively for notes + going paperless. I was never comfortable and know better than storing private documents such as bank statements in Evernote (someone else’s computer aka cloud) but it was convenient and worked well.

I’m now slowly migrating Evernote content to Devonthink. It works extremely well, it is powerful and no subscription, it’s not cheap but as a dev I know development isn’t cheap and the price is justified for its functionality. Like you said you can get all the data you put in back out easily no lock in. Sure it’s not as shiny as newer hyped software but it works and is functional. I have some Hazel rules setup for example auto file downloaded statements.

What WebDAV server are you using? I tried NGinx but had issues as NGinx doesn’t fully support WebDAV, it was just that I already had a NGinx server running. WSGIWebDav seemed to work ok testing but not set it up properly yet on my NAS, wasn’t sure about trying Apache. My idea is to use WebDAV with all access via VPN to get same sync functionality as Evernote. WebDAV for syncing completely makes sense and was another reason I purchased it.
No, I do think it's accidental. Or at least not intended the way I read it.

It's surreal in the sense that the writer asks you accept certain developments at face value, just as it asks its characters to. If it had been a satire, then it would have perhaps been able to reach the heights of Vonnegut, Lem or Adams. But everything seems like it is meant sincerely, without irony. The wooden main characters run around like chess pieces with little or no inner life, just to fulfill the necessities of the next scene. The book lacks realism -- not in the sense of being realistic against our world, but in the sense that it's a fable, told like a children's story, yet seemingly marketed to adults. You kind of have to brace yourself a bit, as a reader, because it's told in the way an adult might speak to a slow child, which feels condescending. I don't want to be told how a character thinks or feels.

There's nothing wrong with the story, per se (although I have issues with some things, like the nanotech at the end of the book, which comes as a huge deus ex machina -- it asks the reader to accept too much in terms of technological plausibility). The story is interesting. It's just told in a completely ridiculous way.

Regarding Use of Weapons, I don't completely disagree. Unlike a lot of people, I don't think it's Banks' best work. I do think it's the superior book by far. I can forgive Banks for being playful about narrative forms even though it's a gimmick that doesn't elevate the story in any way (at least for me).
Technically you can, but the practice is called "gang rape" and is rightly frowned upon.

I am choosing to make an even more tasteless point than what you did. It's easy to be a capitalist when you are independently wealthy.
Using deep learning to “read your thoughts” – with Keras and an EEG sensor
You have tentatively restored hope in me that startups are not just get-rich-quick schemes.
That was pretty much the impression I got when going through Startup School here last autumn.

The focus was on beating the bushes to see if you could generate interest (finding "Market Fit") and using an "MVP" (minimum viable product) that didn't even have to be a working product, to basically provide an image (illustrations, videos, etc) of what it will do.

If you can generate interest then you start building a product. Pretty much the opposite of "If you build it they will come".

So, in that scenario, getting a software engineer is often akin to going to the hardware store and buying a hammer.
Handtrack.js: Hand Tracking Interactions in the Browser Using Tensorflow.js
>The people renting from him may never buy a house, given that building new ones here is becoming hardly possible due to zoning

You nailed the problem, actually. Stop giving authoritarians too much power to tell us what economic activity we can do. Stop the endless mess of subsidies which make honest business unprofitavle. Your argument supports the person you disagreed with.
But innovation!

Fail fast!

...sorry for the sarcasm but this is a message student engineers internalize in part because it is pushed by companies they want to work for but can't explain why. They don't have strong boundaries between why it might he a justifiable philosophy for Facebook but not for Boeing.
> All objects in the universe are connected to each other through gravity, no matter how distant.

I don't believe this is correct, as gravitational force/bending of spacetime moves at the speed of light.
One of the excellent things about YC is how they are completely unphased by moonshots. I don't know of any other organization that is nearly as supportive of ideas that would literally be called crazy other places.

3.5 years ago my cofounder were working on what was actually becoming an okay telecom referral business at the YC Fellowship, but my cofounder and I weren't happy. Pretty much every partner there enthusiastically told us that we should definitely consider doing our totally insane idea to try and bring modernized commercial agriculture to smallholder farmers in subsaharan Africa.

We started our moonshot and it's still growing. I think the only people who really believed in us were us and my parents and a couple YC partners, and a couple people at Accion Venture Labs. That was all we needed though.

By the way, I still think our company is a moonshot. Starting a moonshot company is stressful, it's foolish, it's a thousand mistakes to crawl out of, and by far the most rewarding professional decision I've ever made. Any moonshot worth taking will have a real shot at changing the course of human history, and I'm much happier to have a 0.5% chance of ending hunger then to have a 30% chance of a medium amount of wealth.
There are choices other than unemployment and shitty gig jobs -- stable, well-paying employment with benefits. Whether these jobs exist or not isn't because of some abstract economic theory: they have to be fought for and won through political struggle (ie unions & strikes). The gig economy disempowers workers and makes solidarity among workers more difficult, because workers may not have a single employer, and are easily replaceable.

I'm not saying we should ban these companies, I'm saying their workers should be paid much more than they currently are.
I'm wondering if anyone else responding to you clicked on your profile and knows what you do or has equivalent experience from which to comment.
There is a middle ground of recognizing serious systemic issues in both gender and race and being concerned by some of the issues around intersectionality, speech and feelings.

There is too much indignation, hysteria and manufactured outrage of the thou doth protest too much variety that only create further suspicion of not good faith engagement but dismissal based on privilege. This only entrenches extreme suspicions of ideas from places of privilege as predictable reaction to loss of status.

We have one side that are tone deaf with constant appeals to an imagined counter reality that is ahistorical and 'data-centic' that anyone with historical knowledge can immediately dismiss as wishful thinking masquerading as truth, and the other that have identified stubborn pervasive social, mental, physical structures of systemic victimization but seem unable to articulate the way forward outside the identification and demonization.

No one gives power, its always taken. The intersectionality architecture of feminism is impressive intellectual work even if you do not agree and the counter to this is very weak, simplistic and basic lacking any kind of intellectual plank, rigour or serious thinking beyond the same kind of sterile 'free markets meritocracy' narrative that is being dismantled in the economic sphere outside these movements, name calling and appeals to tradition. This has sent one group down a dangerous path of a 'glorious past' and complete regression in every facet of human thinking and enlightenment of the Bannon, Urbit variety and other advocating a 'nothing is really wrong status quo' of plain jane Peterson conservative and libertarians.

These issues should have been solved generations ago but they still persist and its time to let newer generations and newer thinking give it a go.
If that's true for newer cars then how come they turn off the engine at the stop lights to save fuel?
how do you suggest we even out the playing field after 100s of years of institutionalized racism?

institutionalized racism affects generation after generation. but somehow you want to tell those affected, "everything is fair now, move along"
I am not convinced that microservices always causes less coupling as you claim.

Sometimes the coupling just jumps into the network/API layer. (Why would it not?) This can happen unless your initial divison into services was perfect (and if you indeed have that much foresight, there would be no reason why a monolith would accrue tech debt either, there would be no temptation to add debt).

The main difference is that when you discover that the initial divison into "Responsibilities" were wrong, it is easier to change and come up with another set of "Responsibilities" in a monolith and deploy the refactored service as a unit.

You talk as if you can just initially define the Single Responsibility then things will be fine. But where I have seen real failure is in identifying those initial responsibilities and choosing the wrong way to look at the total system.

My experience is with monoliths having less coupling and I suspect that the cause is that monoliths are easier to refactor as the requirements change; refactoring the very structure of the service mesh while keeping things running is such a big task that one is more tempted to start adding hack in the API layer.

Yes, one is then violating the Single Responsibility Principle. But if an organization sits there and needs to change the requirements within some deadline -- it is not going to spend 3x the cost and time because a hack violates some principle -- and the alternative is the wrong service taking on some extra work.

If you want to retort "but then they are doing microservices wrong" then I say No True Scotsman. And one could say exactly the same about monolith tech debt too..
> but that's not the only reason FOSS > proprietary crap.

Your use of "crap" to describe proprietary software betrays your bias. It's dangerous to be emotional when we're talking about security, it's important to remain objective and data driven.

Not all proprietary software is crap and not all open source is safe. It's not that uncommon that companies whose very livelihood depends on their code being secure invest much more time and money auditing it, while open source is often a lot more lenient, because there's not real accountability nor negative effects for shipping insecure software.
I don't know what the threshold is in other countries, but Canada has a vague but useful threshold: "knew or ought to have known". A different way it's been stated in the courts is "what a reasonably prudent person ought to have known"

Looking at the fuel line question through that lens: did the leak start while you were driving and you were completely unaware? Or has it been leaking for a while and you just haven't gotten around to fixing it.

With the ammunition, how was it stored? Was it dumped in a toolbox filled with pointy screws? (A reasonably prudent person ought to know that ammunition is fired by striking the primer with a sharp object). Was it stored in the front seat of the car on the hottest day of summer? (A reasonably prudent person would expect it to get really hot in there)

Etc. Etc. The thing about negligence is that there's a lot of room for interpretation. As another example, if you've been driving a car around with self-driving features, and you've experienced it behaving erratically multiple times, and that's followed by an accident... you knew or ought to have known that it was dangerous to be on the road in that vehicle. If there was an OTA update for the autopilot last night that installed silently, and it results in a crash, then it's probably the manufacturer who's liable.
If anyone seriously want to write a program that works equally in Python and C++, use Haxe, which compiles to a few more targets as well: JavaScript, Java, C#, C (HashLink), Lua etc.

Haxe isn't a polyglot, but a compiled language though.
Using TensorFlow to detect fish species
I always thought that if anything like this ever happened, it would be a self flying machine, with minimal human input
I need an R tutor in San Francisco
Anyone available this week/weekend, or early next week to help me with a class project for a few hours? I'm struggling with creating a prediction model in R.
Curious, can you explain how the visitor pattern is like functional programming? What is it analogous to in FP?

It's not a pattern I have ever really wrapped my head around fully, but perhaps there is some structure in functional programming that if I view it through that lens it will make much more sense?
I’ve raised for and run two moonshot concepts that failed.

Now I work on an enterprise saa. Much happier with the saas, but maybe it is a life stage thing.
Is there any technical reason for charging per alias? It’s just an extra $0.00000001 database entry per, no?
My Hacker School Pairing Interview (2013)
Do you have a concrete suggestion? Or, a link to a page with a concrete suggestion?

It's easy to complain about almost anything - it tends to be a lot harder to make a proposal for its replacement.
How does Apple keep secrets so well? (2012)
The pedestrian was not crossing at a designated crossing.

There is nothing more natural in a human environment than tools. A car is a tool.
Why cant we just give everyone a social dividend and then be done with it?

We already create enough in taxation and economic deadloss in market inefficiencies to finance nearly 10k/year to every citizen.
> Neuropathy due to damaged peripheral nerves can occur when the nerve is subjected to microwaves of sufficient power density and the damage mechanism is believed to be thermal.

Holy fuck.
> for correctly using a legally purchased vehicle

The eyes of the driver in this case were on the phone, not the road. That's hardly "correctly using".
Alright, let’s say we get the ALL the safety issues squared away. And let’s also assume they strap a cold fusion reactor to this too, so you can fly it around the world without stopping...

Can you imagine how fucking LOUD one of these things would be? Regular motorcycles drive my crazy with the noise from their ICEs. Now what if they had jet ingines one them instead? That alone should be enough to get these things banned.

If this isn’t a sign of how out of touch some people in Silicon Valley has become, I don’t know what is.
"A fair market"

... does not exist.

And the market, and economy, should serve the people. Not the people the market.

"POLITICAL œconomy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign."

Again: Smith.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/smith-an-inquiry-into-the...
Before looking at the wiki I thought, huh, Grassmann numbers on HN?