skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I find happiness going to work at 8 and getting off at 5 and having someone else worry about finding clients, funding,customers and getting the same amount in my check every week.

Some other people find happiness from starting a business where there is a lot of uncertainty, risk and they have to put in long hours.

Some other people find happiness of making more money and accepting the trade off of traveling during the week.

So what part of me going into an office every day getting paid doing the same thing I did as a hobby 30 years ago in my bedroom on my Apple //e and coming home to my family in my house in the burbs is dehumanizing?

If you are a software developer in almost any major city in the US, on average your income is more than 80% of the population.
Is it just me, or do a lot of these interactions and styles feel… a bit uncanny? Certainly not native (as only the framework name would suggest)
It does, but that is deceptive. Voice is determined by the pitch of the vocal tract and the spectral filtering caused by its shape: the "formant". Both can be manipulated digitally to create different voices.

I do perceive that there are abrupt transition in the voice as you move the so-called frequency slider; that could be due to abrupt changes in some parameters (like table lookup from a small table keyed to the frequency parameter or something).
Andrew Yang, the person being quoted, has been CEO of multiple companies
Is this what they meant when they told me software would eat the world?
In the case of banning plastic bags, certain areas have seen an uptick in feces in areas because the homeless were using the bags for defecation and sanitation. The ban he had an impact, detrimental to the point where a first world nation is on track to have preventable disease outbreaks. There are cost benefit analyses that should be done prior to saying that a ban is better than nothing.
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The problem has multiple parts: pay, benefits, and definition of "skills". Two years ago I did a search for software engineering jobs within 30 miles of my geographic area, which covered Boston. I had a steady stream of opportunities. After three months of disappointment, I called off the search.

I received an offer from an organization I loved: the industry, mission, people I met, everything was perfect. My interviewers halted the interview after 30 minutes, saying that they were going to start the hiring process. The salary became the stickler. The job was mine if I wanted to take a $10-15K decrease in salary. Unfortunately, I had to let it pass by. (In retrospect, I should have taken it. I would have caught up in pay within a few years. Oh well.)

Another organization seemed pretty inline with my goals and personality. The tech was interesting and I mostly aligned with it. The stickler became the vacation time. I have 4 weeks of vacation. They needed me to start again at 2 weeks. (2 weeks, seriously?) Doing so would have screwed up family life as my wife has 5 weeks. Honestly, I can trade salary sooner than I can trade vacation time.

Employers seem to have strayed into Crazy Land with the requirements for "skills". A skill, to me, isn't the knowledge of the Python ecosystem or Java ecosystem for building applications. Python vs. Java is just a knowledge of tool sets: Stanley vs. DeWitt. It's easy to learn one if you know the other. Skill is choosing the right trade-offs in design for the particular organization and industrial sector you're working in. It's knowing when transaction throughput is more important than rock-solid error handling. When extensibility is worth the extra abstractions. When readability trumps everything for a particular organization due to the skill level of the other development teams. Yet, employers have gotten to the point of not just requiring particular tools, but particular versions of them.

So, I'm not convinced the problem is a lack of available software engineers, at least not completely. Much of the problem in hiring is outrageous demands from employers.
I would certainly have died as a child... given the stuff I enjoy doing, the lack of pain would probably have manifested as a feeling of total invincibility. I'm pretty sure therefore, I'd be dead.

Though it does lead you to wonder just what the limits are of how much the body could tolerate before it breaks in the absence of pain.
and we'll get the job done better and quicker than you ;)
Once upon a time, cities offered potable water every here and there. The problem is that as these watering holes become rarer and rarer, locals sometimes push for the remaining ones to get shut down citing nuisances [0].

[0]: https://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/a-nice-une-fontaine... (French)
Awesome.
This is going to hurt advertisers. This is pretty much the only reason I’ve clicked on an ad in years. :)
One of the bigger problems I observed in the US is a defensive approach against being sued by the patient. The doctor prescribes a battery of tests even though he is more or less sure what the symptom might be. But let's play it safe and not get sued approach to everything! Healthcare professionals carry insurances in millions against being sued. The cost ultimately gets passed on to customers. Accountability is good, but not at this cost! At the other end of the spectrum accountability is much harder in a country like India hence the incentive to take risks.
I'm curious why those shadow kitchen, or maybe cloud kitchen sound better.. haven't spun up in US.

Is it regulatory? Is it restaurateurs here are less quickly at responding to changing markets? not enough cost savings?
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I don't know if this applies to BetChecker, but PredictIt is heavily handicapped by an $850 max bet.

Without the freedom for real amounts of money to come in and exploit mispriced bets, it's practically a straw poll of PredictIt users. The PredictIt user base has some obvious demographic biases that warp the odds.
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It's a market failure that they're trying to correct. Externalities aren't fixed by markets because they're external to those markets.
VP choice makes a bigger difference for an older candidate, which might be why rumors are that Biden will be choosing his running mate very early in the process.
How about Real Estate?
Once upon a time, I genuinely thought of a browser as a "user-agent", as hinted in the HTTP header; a tool I could use to reach out into the world.

I have increasingly had to abandon that idea and treat browsers as potentially hostile incursions into my computer, since browser makers seem determined to prioritize the needs of web developers by granting them access into my machine without really bothering to get my consent. Why do I have to use third-party add-ons that break browser default behaviors in order to get back to a comfortable security state? This suggests that my interests and those of the browser makers, especially Google, are not well aligned, and that really reduces the usefulness of the web for me.
Not working for me on Firefox Mobile here, adblocker disabled.
But other things like embedded Google Maps also refuse to load, probably the same issue.
> Then again, there has always been questions of piety and alignment with the greater good.

The intresting thing is there's no specific source of "piety" in the religiously/ philosophically divided West. Even if someone's moral failings get exposed, currently, every devil has an advocate.
Can confirm. Chronic pain sucks.
It's a start, but imperfect because most people with a high deductible plan will also have a health savings account (HSA). The HSA may even be required, not sure. The problem with HSAs is that although it's "your" money, it can only be spent on qualified health expenses. So there's a reduced incentive to spend carefully, because you can't use the money for anything else.
We hope so! Mozilla has been working on WASI support from Rust, and our team is working on supporting it from AssemblyScript as well: https://github.com/jedisct1/wasa.
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Or, NATO is trying to defend Eastern Europe from the encroaching Russian front.
Reading these comments makes me sad, but I am also beginning to understand the opposition to limiting carbon emissions.

Introduce an initiative that is "obviously good". I mean, none of the commenters here will be disadvantaged by single-use plastic being banned. It is obviously better for the environment. Whichever way you look at it, it is an improvement on the current state of affairs. And yet, people will moan and complain, criticize, pull out "statistics" out of thin air, say that this "does not solve the real problem", that it isn't important. And this is the enlightened HN community, the epitome of progressiveness.

This is similar to the climate change discussions. Moving away from fossil fuels is obviously better for the environment and for us. And yet, people will moan and complain, criticize, point fingers, say that it's the other guys who pollute, or say that this particular change "doesn't matter", because there are bigger polluters out there.

I am very glad the EU is making this move and I'm happy there are still some places in the world who can effect change. I wish the EU was similarly radical with respect to its beloved car industry, or with moving towards nuclear power (not away from it), but one can hope.
It's a quote.
It was booming in 2016 too.
Such as using Gutter Oil (not limited to delivery), a practice where cooking oil is retrieved/derived from random unsafe sources such as sewers, a practice thought to be common in parts of China:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04
They'll lean on whatever kind of coverage gets them the most money
If you're able to bring your re-usable bag to a store or pay extra for a new one, perhaps you can also bring your own cutlery when you eat on the go or pay extra for some wooden ones?
As very early rustacean, why using that java-esque pattern when there’s that awesome Defaults derivable trait?
I'm not sure, but you could definitely put a dollar price on cleanup, and it wouldn't be super high for something like a landline phone.
I recommend The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, as a good way to get into stats. I've taught a class using it work a number of times, and it makes a great first exposure. The equations are there, explained in a really nice way.

https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Statistics-Larry-Gonick...
Wow, I really dislike the weird scrolling/navigation behaviour on that site. Seems the opposite of "native" to me - more alien than anything.
It is actually a form of "foot in the door" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique.

If you see a high pricing on their webpage you might go away immediately. But if you make the effort to calling them, you are already committing yourself and you are more likely to accept a higher price than you would have if it was easily accessible.
When I read what you wrote here, it sounds like you are implying that I would sign something that didn't give me something in return for signing. I can assure you that is not the case :-).

I agree with you that signing things just for goodwill is unnecessary.
Interesting! I wonder this compares with other WebAssembly runtimes (Wasmer?)
I'm in Houston, the 4th largest city in America. We have tons of qualified IT workers, yet the big companies all prefer to hire the foreigners. They're cheaper. I attend tech get-togethers enough to know this. Half the guys in the meetings are under 30, degreed, talented, but the companies still hire the foreigners. Trust me, there are PLENTY of IT people here.
The following paper is excellent and not totally irrelevant:

http://home.agh.edu.pl/~turcza/sr/Splitting%20the%20Unit%20D...

The effects you're describing (blurring, numerical stability) are readily formalized in DSP jargon. It's a shame this post didn't provoke more discussion here.
Ask HN: Examples of biological data exported without benefit for source country
Do you know of any examples of biological data being taken out of a country, and used in another country where the host country could have benefited from that data, but the taking country ended up benefiting instead?

Only looking for stories about data - not physical samples. Like, if Somalian researchers came to South Africa, collected samples & did some sequencing on fynbos, then took that information back to Somalia, and made new products / patents using the data - where they were the only ones to benefit from the data, and South Africa was left wondering how they ended up being so left out. (The countries used are examples, not meant to imply anything)
Bernie/Buttigieg 2020?
They should be using something like the EFF's word lists: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-p...
I second this. I lived for a semester in shanghai and one of my Chinese friends owned a small restaurant (not a proper fancy one, but also no fast food, idk how to call it) in the shopping mall on the peoples square.

Besides the occasional customer, almost everyone ordered by app, resulting in a constant flow of delivery scooter drivers coming and going. She told me that restaurant owners lower prices on the app because app orders are more convenient to them.

This is all made possible by the low wage costs of those delivery drivers, which, as a side effect, also 'pollute' scooter lanes in shanghai (something locals complain about).

I hope this will be more widespread globally in the future, and then probably done by delivery robots
>Are they necessarily too likely to be out of touch, lacking in resiliency, being forward-looking, or any of the factors we look for in our leaders?

Possibly but at this point, any Democratic leader would be waaay more forward looking, less out of touch and more dedicated to their job than the incompetent incumbent president. So as long as Bernie brings more people to vote than Yang or Buttigieg, all these considerations aren't that important.
My 2016 one had the same issue on day one from an Apple Store.

I noticed it was especially reproducible when the machine was under load / hot. Almost like the ambient heat was melting glue inside or something. Either way, utterly ridiculous for a machine that cost about 3k.
His primary business was a test prep company he sold to Kaplan. As far as I know he did not own or work for a VC firm.
This comment doesn't make sense since Andrew Yang has no background in venture capital.
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Yet the democratic candidates that have announced seem to be chasing online mindshare at this point, moving further and further left in order to attract vocal Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders fans, with unclear results.
The target firm had a number in their name, kinda like a16z or Office365. The attacking quant knew the target was using iceberg orders which split up and randomize parts of large orders. Attacking quant took a guess at an RNG seed by guessing they used the number in the target firm's name, and then somehow fit the resulting random number stream to order chunk sizes, and was able to confirm they used that number as a seed. From then on, using that information, they would identify (I'm assuming probabilitistically) when the target firm was executing a large iceberg order, and then front run the remainder of their order.

It sounds ridiculous on its face, but the industry is known for going to extremes, and that sort of problem solving isn't unheard of in other domains (like cryptography for example). I'm way out of my depth with understanding it, and it could be complete bullshit, but it isn't outside the realm of what I've seen proven in the past, which is why I'm hoping someone someday will confirm it.
Well hey, there's a business opportunity!
(P)NaCl is dead a long long time ago
Then let me amend my statement: I was not intent on stating that those who are mentally ill are more likely to be violent, rather I'm interested in if those who do indeed commit mass murder have problems with mental health - would you disagree with that interest? Is it the act of a healthy mind to kill dozens of people? If we allow that someone who can willfully kill 48 peaceful individuals may have something unhealthy in their mind, then maybe we should look into the treatment of that specific subset of mental illness.

I'm not part of the group who says the tail wags the dog here. I don't think mental illness leads to violence, but that violent people may be more likely to have certain kinds of mental illness.
I nearly had an incident in a MIPS assembly class. There was a fairly basic data structures assignment that I had submitted only to be called into the professor's office being accused of plagiarism. The program used aggregates all submissions over the lifetime of the class and compares them.

Because of how basic the assignment was, and how rigid assembly is, there's a baseline ~40% match with all assignments, and mine just happened to hit ~50% and that was grounds for plagiarism. The match was for some submission 6 years prior.

At the time I took backups of school projects on save and could replay the history and walk through my design which was enough to convince the professor. There were at least 3 other students roped into this and were probably not as lucky.
Any chance you'd be interested in talking to me about a device I am working on and am trying to evaluate? Your knowledge of accelerator physics would probably give you good insights about problems it may have.
This appears to be the source link: https://www.crn.com/news/mobility/oracle-tells-supreme-court...

Apparently this is just Oracle's filing on why the Supreme Court should decline to hear the appeal, letting the lower court ruling stand. That lower court ruling says that APIs are copyrightable, which would be a rather radical change to what we assumed the legal landscape for software was.
And the opposite where you get drunk without drinking: Auto-brewery syndrome, also known as gut fermentation syndrome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome
It’s a portable. It’s meant to be in the environment around humans. Which means dust.

Sometimes I think Apple only intended for this laptop to be on display in a sealed box.
To get into the debates, candidates need to either raise a bunch of money across a bunch of states, or poll above 1%

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-how-were-defining...
We out to fix robocalling / spoofing.

We also ought to fix the collection of fines and include jail time for execs when fines aren’t paid.
For some reason these retro vaporware (aesthetic, not software) graphics are something Bloomberg thinks are good but are almost always just little vanity projects that provide no value and end up being distracting.

I really don't know who thought it was a good idea but I'm sure it's fun work for the artists.
The key failure of the MCAS system I have not seen discussed is that if it is overriden, and triggers again, it cranks the trim another notch. Trigger it five times, and each time it makes the plane less flyable. When Lion Air crashed, it had been triggered many times.

Making MCAS pay attention to two sensors might help a bit, but the disaster is still latent. Once it trims, it should never trim again without a full reset back to baseline. There are standards relating to this sort of thing in flight assist, about how much "authority" an automated system may assert, in total, and they were ignored, apparently because they did not treat it as part of the autopilot system.

If the standard had been observed, the bad sensor could not have had much effect on the flyability of the plane. The pilots would have needed to apply some force to keep the nose up, but would have succeeded, long enough to discover a fix or to turn around and land.
> I wonder if event companies won't just buy multiple-use plastic plates and just throw them away anyway

That would make those plastic plates single-use, wouldn't it? It raises the question of whether single-use is only about the supposed intention of the producer or also about the actual usage of the item.
The reason this would work in Beijing or for that matter anywhere in Asia is how the delivery itself works. The delivery guys use scooters or motorcycles in a densely populated area which reduces the cost of delivery. Food delivery startups are not able to scale up in markets like US where delivery guys are expected to use their own cars, pay for gas and high insurance while delivering you $10 dollar food. How are these companies supposed to make profits?
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Yes but the union also limits how much Tom Brady can get paid and where he is allowed to work.

Also once you try to enter the pros, you don’t get to decide the team you go to. It’s based on which team chooses you based on the draft order. Teams also can’t compete with each other for the best players. If a team chose Tom Brady and had the first pick, another team can’t offer him more money to come to their team.

Do you really want to use that as an example?
There is a counter argument for this as people with a lot of money will drives the results one way which can actually impact elections. Nkt that I buy this argument but something to keep in mind.
For some insight into the value of pain, and the hazards of being without it, Pain: the Gift Nobody Wants (also published as The Gift of Pain) by Paul Brand & Philip Yancey is a fascinating read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pain-Nobody-Wants-Paul-Brand/dp/006...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gift-Pain-Hurt-What-About/dp/031022...
I disagree, kids have more access to sex education than ever now and tinder is a really good tool for hookups. They just know to use a condom. I remember my dad thought that if the woman was on top and you came inside her she wouldn't get pregnant because of gravity, 9 months later I showed up. Thank you catholic school for only teaching abstinence.
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Who will be doing the interviews?
> Is there an age that is too old to be a CEO/President/Senator/leading figure?

Not really.

> Are they necessarily out of touch, lacking in resiliency, not forward-looking, or any of the factors we look for in our leaders?

No; The statistical probability may be higher with age, but we don't elect an age and get a random person of that age as a leader, so that's not important. Filtering for that is what election campaigns, executive search processes, etc., are for.
What did Google+ get right?
This is false. Plastic use has been dramatically reduced by the previous law.
Source: Assessment of measures to reduce
marine litter from single use plastics, European Comission, 2018
Gene mutation eliminates pain and enables healing without scarring
Protecting oil companies instead of the climate-vulnerable is elitist
This would be good - or Bernie/Beto for that Texas vote.
What does the job market look for in your area?

Is there any industry you want to work in that requires a certain language?

What is the end result you want?
Who is participating in the betting markets? Are these people perhaps more likely to personally like certain candidates more than others? When the market is relatively small, this question matters. I'm skeptical of the betting markets for this reason, as I think the participants skew heavily to a particular demographic.
I don't think his business really is venture capital, though. What exactly are you referring to?

At least, if you're talking about Venture for America, it's more of a YC or TechStars. It's a non-profit designed to help entrepreneurs start companies.

Prior to that, I think he was the CEO of Manhattan Prep before it getting acquired by Kaplan.
For better or worse, it's highly unlikely that the choice for running mate will be a white male.