skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The grey zone is the money being traded between toy makers and video makers. As soon as money is exchanged, that should logically be considered sponsorship and be subjected to advertising laws.

This strikes me as the obvious solution and really not all that gray. Kid posts video on Youtube? That's free speech. Kid posts video on Youtube and company pays them? That's now an ad, and can/should be regulated.

Throwing a wrench into all of this somewhat is Citizen's United saying money is speech... but that's a stupid ruling so let's interpret it as narrowly as possible.
Netherlands is an exception. Most of the countries in the top 10 are extremely ethnically homogenous, and it has nothing to do with income. Montenegro (#2) is one of the poorest, and Norway (#4) is one of the richest.
If you live in the US, we are living just past the golden age of credit cards rewards...I've not paid for a personal trip (flight or hotel) for maybe 6 years and travel a lot.
Wonder why security topics never get much interest on HN. It's a huge industry with a ton of VC funding going to security startups.
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Some good people got murdered, so give your money to this big corporation? I don't follow.
These are nice tactical questions but they overlook the prime strategy in any comp negotiation: demonstration of value.

Eg what demonstrable value are you, the person asking for money, bringing to the table? What problems are you solving? Why are you worth what you're asking for? What things have you accomplished, issues you headed off, etc that I might not know about. Etc.
So according to your definition Doom is a full 3d game, even though as a player I actually see 2D weapons and 2d enemies?
I really like using Go for this. The single binary with zero dependencies makes it really easy to deploy. You do not need the jvm or python environment setup. If you change something like upgrading your jvm or python or a library, aside from the path, the binary keeps working.

Maintaining things is just much simpler with a single binary.
The server has to be installed using command-line, obviously. I've mentioned about GUI clients in my post. It's worth to stress out that unofficial clients are strongly discouraged.
Check the client setup section for more details: https://securityespresso.org/tutorials/2019/03/22/vpn-server...
> The current government (...) is under a huge bribery and corruption scandal which includes kpop stars, police and prosecutors alike.

What are you talking about. The bribery/corruption scandal of the "Burning Sun" nightclub is linked to Gangnam police office, which is not exactly known for being Moon's supporters. We're talking about old boys with old corruption that dates back years. Today there was another revelation (although still unconfirmed, it seems) that the guy who started it all by beating up a nightclub patron was none other than the nephew of Choi Soon-sil, the crazy shaman friend of former president Park whose friendship basically brought down the previous government.

The other two sex scandals are even worse: they involve a high-ranking government officer of PGH government, and someone in the owner family of the ultra-conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo, respectively.

So there's no reason why Moon would want to manufacture an earthquake controversy to turn people's eyes from these sex scandals. If anything, it should be the other way.

Get your conspiracy theories straight, geez.
UBI would not defray the cost of incarceration. But even if I concede negative reactions, the bulk will definitely be positive. (thats my bet anyway).

Remember most petty criminals make less than minimum wage.
I couldn't agree more with this advice. I'm more of a dev than a consultant, but I believe this applies to many fields.

I quit my job a year ago to start doing freelance/contract work, I never directly looked for clients but just by having good relationships with my former employer, colleagues, and people I know in general, by October I had so many projects on my hand I had to work 80hrs/week for a short period of time.

Just to re-iterate in how many different ways you can get projects and even long-term clients, this is my "how I've gotten gigs" list:

* Former employer: when I quit I was 100% honest, boss trusted me and wanted to keep working with me. They are still giving me work

* Former colleague: he quit right before me, started his own small company, knew he could count on me being a reliable dev, became a long-term client

* I was looking for devs on Twago, in order to get help in case I had too many jobs on my hand. One of the applicants was a small dev agency looking for projects. They ended up giving me work, instead of the other way around.

* (most random one) A client I had a few years ago, during my first venture as entrepreneur, messaged me on Skype by mistake, thinking I was somebody else they knew. Turns out they needed a dev, became a long-term client.

* Went back home to Italy during the summer, rented a room for a few months. My landlord was working in marketing, ended up giving me a few very good clients
statistically there will always be 6%(roughly) people that are going to do bad things no matter what you do, I think it is math.
You don’t have to do anything.

The tweet began with a premise. If the premise for travel is “broadening your horizons” then the assertion is that there are far cheaper, more accessible ways to do that than hopping on a transatlantic jet and spending a week in a foreign place. There is a real conversation to be had about the impact of tourism on local ways of life and local economies (both in good ways and bad).

If the premise for travel is “because I want to”, then by all means go ahead...

It’d be helpful if people thought a bit more about what other people are saying and were more charitable about interpretations instead of finding the first reason to get mad.
There is a balance to be found in lifestylism. I wouldn't call it hyper-sensitivity. You can't be perfect, and your lifestyle isn't going to disrupt global systems that facilitate most of the worlds problems, but there is something to be said for reducing your negative impact on the world.

It feels gross to have a smart phone or computer built with conflict minerals (they all essentially are). It feels gross to have more than affordable clothes assembled in sweatshops. I'm not the one setting up these systems but it feels gross to benefit from them. Don't tell people to ignore those feelings, ignoring them is alienating.

Also, I think if you off yourself the carbon in your body will eventually be emitted? :P
It's really annoying when you twist commenters' words to suit your agenda and go straight to logical fallacies. I'll ask you to please stop doing that. No, existing manufacturers do not ship 100% flawless vehicles, but the average build quality of the ones they actually sell to customers is significantly higher than what Tesla is pushing out with Model 3. A five second Google search for "Model 3 Quality" will show you this.
Agreed. I think "Painkiller" is one of the few games that actually managed (much later) to put a healthy amount of enemies against you just like Doom did..
Love that story.

I helped found a Mathematics of Finance masters program at my university, teaching a numerical methods course before we could hire specialized staff. The students got stronger each year. My last year at it, three very strong students were trying to implement a research paper, tying together all their work to strengthen their resume. They had an impression of me as hot-shot C programmer from a computer algebra system I had written (everything is relative) and they sought my advice when their code wouldn't work.

I was in deep inner cringe, aware of their hefty tuition, how I truly didn't understand a word of what they were saying. I had to think of something to say that would get them to leave my office, apparently satisfied. Then I heard their voices catch as they apologized for introducing a fractional time step as their algorithm shifted phases.

"No! Always a bad idea! Here's another way to do that. I don't know if that's your bug, but..."

The email that evening was profusely thankful, warning me they'd be back the next day with their new bug. Launder, rinse, repeat.

While I'll probably never hang a shrink shingle in Silicon Valley, as tempting as the idea is, one can also listen to one's own voice catch. Ever notice how everything that can go wrong cooking was actually anticipated and ignored at the time? Mathematical research teaches one to listen to the faintest anomalies. It's the universe whispering truths.
I think it's more about committing to a direction/approach but being willing change directions in the face of new data or changing circumstances.

If there's no one making decisions that's obviously a problem, but if there is someone making decisions and they're unwilling to reevaluate those decisions that's also a problem.

It's not that as a leader you should have a strong opinion about something you know nothing about. Rather, you should gather data and fully commit to a decision that is supported by that data, while being willing to revisit the decision in the face of new data.
> is it immoral to have them do literally anything to defray the cost of their imprisonment?

It depends on your definition of immoral...
Your last point is a really important one to me. Empathy and understanding move in many directions, one of which is realizing that humans aren't perfect, that they get frustrated or don't act perfectly genteel all the time. And to expect that from any person is not empathetic.
I worked on a consumer robotics project which had great promise (in my biased take at least) but ultimately was canceled and scrapped due to poor management leadership in my opinion. It is expensive to bring a hardware group up and running, and I believe that there were expectations to create a class-leading product from nothing in under 5 years when it should have been at least 10 (see iRobot's Terra project timeline). It was a very exciting project and I am slowly getting over it's untimely and premature demise :(

The constant changing of requirements was a challenge but that is normal for any engineering project. I think the ultimate problem was the lack of understanding of the "Iron Triangle[1]" in project management. The company wanted it Fast Fast Fast Cheap and Good (in that order) but my team was trying to make it Good Cheap Fast (in that order). So, I think if we did it all over again we would have reprioritized from the beginning and dropped all the complicated design decisions we made, and work on those in version 2 just like any good MVP[2]!!

I think the key for a successful hardware project is strong technical leadership who understands the pitfalls and timelines of designing the mechanical, electrical, and software as well as can evaluate when and where to build vs buy across the project lifetime. With robotics in particular it is also important to understand how we can limit the environment to make things easier for the robot to operate, with things like magnetic or painted stripes on a floor, ultrawideband beacons, things like that. Making an autonomous system robust is difficult enough in a controlled environment!

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

[2] Some examples of things we could have completely dropped to save development time: Bluetooth and phone app, designing low cost custom motor drives, use standard materials instead of injection molded parts
How many hours a week do you spend in YNAB?
Shado.js – provides precise date calculations between two given dates
Mile run world record progression (Current Best Time)
I was thinking the same thing. They re-textured and enabled RTX. So it would be nice to see the new game turn RTX on / off and see whats the actual difference. Just that feature.
I would say that none of your cases covers the intent behind the dictum. You've already moved past the "ambiguous language" and right into assuming that the argument was clearly conveyed and understood, and so you must now endeavour to evaluate the plausibility of the premises, the inferences, etc.

The dictum applies prior to this step, where the premises and the argument may be phrased in a somewhat ambiguous way. When interpreting the language used to describe the premises, take the most challenging interpretation rather than the weakest/most easily attacked interpretation. When evaluation the inferences, once again take the most challenging interpretation.

For instance, a phrase may admit two interpretations, a valid or invalid inference. You should always assume your interlocutor intended the valid inference.
Yeah, right. I'd love to see the criteria for determining whether someone is actually a Nazi, white supremacist and/or troll.

What about communists? Communism killed a lot more people than the Nazis. Will communists be banned too? Antifa? Black Lives Matter? Nation of Islam?

At least you are honest about favoring censorship on the platform.
Agreed that individual action is always drowned out by society and global policy, even if global emissions are caused by summing up billions individual decisions.

Ultimately my problem is it is hypocritical to have concern for climate change while jetting around the world.

Eventually I would like to get into green and cleantech and hopefully contribute to a bigger impact on emissions than a single lifetimes worth of actions ever could.
I hear this all the time, and it just doesn't click for me. I liked Seinfeld, but Larry's character on Curb is just too much. I also love It's Always Sunny... but I just cannot enjoy Curb.
I know it's a private business and they can do what they want, but does anyone feel the open arms with which censorship is greeted, even begged for these days, is going to come back to haunt us?

First they came for the anti-vaxxers...
It was more that Voodoo than the MMX. I tried playing some MMX "accelerated" games and it was a lo-fi slideshow.

I think the MMX era was the start of Intel's tradition of hyped up graphics related press releases followed by a total lack of execution.
Rust seems like the right answer for a lot of things except writing servers. For that, Elixir with its Erlang VM seems like a better answer.
You need two things 1) an accountant and 2) customers. Lots of people get thrust into consulting because they are given a customer.

Technical skill is required but not sufficient. Even average is ok. What matters is all the stuff around the technology. Most of it being diligence, follow through, following up and being predictable and consistent. You have those and you can write your ticket.
Your fact check fails a sanity check.

> Netherlands 48% (them) vs 27.6% (source): Fact Check Failed

They picked the number of "ex-prisoners" that become prisoners again (i.e. actual reconviction), you picked the number of "adult offenders" that become prisoners for the first time. You literally just picked the lowest number in the table without comprehending it. The correct number (48.5%) was right above.

> Germany 48% (them) vs 35% (source): Fact Check Failed

35% is the average including fines (recidivism: 29%) which make up for the vast majority of sentences. For adult prison sentences the recidivism rate is 45%/39% and for youth prison sentences it is 64%/62% (without/with parole).
I'm about 90% convinced that you're correct, and about 10% terrified that you're not.
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So Much for ICOs Taking over VC
I think that you're correct using common terminology. The government takes in money as taxes, and creates money through printing:

spending = taxes + printed money
new money supply = old money supply + printed money

But, I believe that MMT is saying that taxes and spending could be logically separated by assuming that all taxes go to the shredder and all spending comes from newly printed money:

spending = printed money
new money supply = old money supply + (spending - taxes)

So it wouldn't be 'increasing spending by taxes', it would be 'reduce inflation by taxes'. The size of 'big-gov' should be measured as spending/GDP regardless of the actual tax rate. The tax rate would float depending on the current inflation target instead of on the current federal spending.
Dave Ramsey, - Every Dollar App.

Dave Ramsey is probably the biggest expert in helping people get out of debt and stay out of debt. While its a 8 step program, he requires you to sit down and budget.

Just one more accolade. He is known in circles as the best program to get people out of debt and fast.

Along with his program he offers an App called Every Dollar.

Its a must have if you know anything about budgeting personally.
The presence of junkies doesn't mean that city is open to drugs as San Francisco is. Cannabis is illegal in France, yet still suffers from the same problems. However, Cannabis is legal in the Netherlands and Amsterdam is far more hospitable.

What the GP was bringing up was the attitude towards drugs, not people using drugs in general. SF was a far more lax attitude to drugs than France, yet its afflicted by similar problems. Blaming drugs is just a convenient scapegoat so that harder problems aren't addressed.
New, open source learning path for machine learning
Dockworkers battle plan to bring driverless trucks to the Port of Los Angeles
At that point, why not just use bash?
We have automatic, good looking gradients, editable smart shapes, background effects / patterns, more editing / tweaking possibilities, and generally better design quality I think.
>another thing is the propensity for people to hold to pretty meaningless relationships just for appearance sake. I think it's contributing to the loneliness issues here -- people are nice to each other but don't seem to ever actually connect. People will say they've "known" someone for 5 years, when they at most speak once or twice every year (and often never touch on anything substantial, either).

My last gf was Japanese, and this reminds me of her a lot. She supposedly had tons of "friends", but I almost never met any of them, and most of them just seemed to be people she texted once in a while. She tried telling me once that she could maintain a really "close" relationship without ever meeting in person or talking on the phone...

And our relationship wasn't very close either; she only texted me, never called, and really didn't seem to make much effort for us to get to know each other on a really deep level. It's what finally destroyed our relationship.

Is this normal with Japanese people or was she just weird? She did seem to possibly have other issues.
Yeah, the fact that you can't just dump a pile of cloths into the machine and get neatly folded stacks out the bottom makes it far less useful IMO. Still might save _some_ time, but not nearly as much as you might expect.
Thanks for the explanation. One of the things I hear about SF is the public pooping, so assumed that was a large part of the problem.
What bothers me is how literally every story about this sees a horde of comments embracing the slippery slope fallacy. Not all slopes are slippery. It is possible draw lines and stick to them over time.
Very well written and entertaining article.

The best part is his journal called High Notes, in which he writes his deepest thoughts while being stoned.

“Make a rug with vacuum marks, so it always looks freshly vacuumed.”

The article also touches on how his obsessiveness has hurt his relationships. Including how he snapped at his children for not wanting to power-travel like he does.
Roger that. We visited Venice in October, off season. First night in the restaurant, 4 tables surrounding us... 3 were Americans and the 4th French.

As noted elsewhere, the cost of Intercontinental travel is dropping and the primary tourist destinations are overwhelmed, even in off seasons.
For being so advanced, humans still fall for the most reptilian stereotypes like this. Taken to extremes in books like "Of Mice and Men" where the short, frail guy is an untrustable genius while the tall, dumb guy has some sort of superhuman strength. I would love to know where that started because it's still a thing.
It's completely within our technology to generate jet fuel in a carbon negative way (bringing it back to neutral after burning). Actually there are multiple methods to do it. They all cost more, especially because they're in small-batch proof of concept mode. Scaled up they would likely cost just a little bit more than our current fuel costs; but I view this as a completely valid way of folding in externality costs back into alignment with the direct economic activity of air travel.

Social investment (via government or other channels) into accelerating developments like this is why people need to get political to shift how the default decisions get made.
In-process is faster.
Elixir's got |> for composition and & for currying (as well as for lambdas); I'm not sure that's the best language example for differences (given the specific things grandparent listed of things languages are missing).
Interesting things to read about (i'd need to do some research to find this research paper again, i think it was on hacker news 6 months ago or so):

most people committing murder fall in the following categories:

- they premeditated and thought they were NOT going to be caught, so prison isn't a deterrent. They thought they were smarter than forensics.

- they were in a situation and had to kill someone due to circumstances of the other crime. Such as robbing a store, the clerk pulls a gun, now you gotta shoot them before you die. This was a massive lack of foresight and thus again punishment isn't a deterrent because they don't think things though.

- they were angry and it got out of hand. No foresight, they acted on pure emotion. This may be anger issues or other reasons. There is no deterrent here, only rehabilitation.

- political / hate-based killings. These people feel they are doing society a favor, they feel RIGHT to do this killing. Deterrent doesn't help if the political climate is empowering them and making their message amplified.

Now just imagine how much crime is in similar categories as above. The same logic applies.

So basically we need to focus entirely on prison time being a rehabilitation to: make the person understand and accept what they have done. make the person feel genuine remorse. make sure the person has alternatives in life to doing what caused the problem to begin with. Most places in the world focus more on "remove the undesireables" and "punishment is future deterrent". So really we're doing literally the opposite.

US's 60% re-arrest rate is very telling.
You can edit YAML with any text editor... how do you edit protobuf files?
You make a good point, but I don't think loose = weak here. Loosely held, to me, indicates that you are willing to consider other options when presented rather than ignoring what's out there. So have a strong opinion, but be ready to listen when other options are presented. This, in my mind, does not equate to _weakness_ of opinion, just ensuring you are actually _hearing_ things.
OR just don't read the article. If WSJ wants to charge for access, and I'm not entitled to said access, then I'm just not reading the article. This is as close to voting with my wallet as I can get.

Routing around with outline.com or redirects through fb.com doens't really help the problem. Stop reading it and move onto other sources who welcome your eyeballs without direct payment. Support the indie journalists.