skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are using the efficient market hypothesis in exactly the circumstance where it fails to be true.

In theory it shouldn't have mattered if you invested in Blockbuster or Netflix because if Blockbuster was doomed then their share price should reflect that already. But in the early 2000s Blockbuster still had a higher market cap, in part because someone who invested in Blockbuster in 1989 but now thinks Netflix has more promise would have to be extra sure before making the exchange since it would cause a lot of taxes to immediately come due. So then they don't, and it becomes harder for the challenger to raise capital and easier for the zombie incumbent to waste resources in its death throes, which is inefficient.
Not necessarily. Hypothetically Netflix might be paying high performers for their roles 1.8.x to do the work of 2 mediocre performers earning who would earn 1x each under a different management style.
Carrying the reusable bags that are typically sold at grocery stores or given out at events would be a pain.

I have some bags that are made of a very thin nylon fabric that fold up into a built-in pocket. They take up very little space. I just keep one or two in my regular "going out of the house" bag, so they're always handy. They're sturdy enough that filling both of them with groceries would be more bulk than I actually want to carry home from the bus, so, AFAIC, the problem is handled.

I guess losing plastic grocery bags as garbage bags might be minorly annoying if they were the only source of plastic waste in my life, but, realistically, there are so very many other single-use plastic bags that aren't covered by any of these bans: Chip bags, bread bags, produce bags, etc. My "bin liners for very small bins" needs are still well covered.

Long story short, I have a hard time believing this will actually hurt less wealthy people in urban areas all that much. It's going to be much more annoying to people who drive to the grocery store and now have to remember to keep enough bags to contain $250 worth of groceries at one time in their car.
> clone it to a sticker and send it to you via mail.

So they have a database full of addresses together with their digital keys?

What could possibly go wrong...
Small consultancy or web dev business. Your risk is the cost of a laptop and your time.
Doesn’t a key fob already achieve this?
How does that translate to the physical world? What happens if I pay someone to break into the bank and access my safety deposit box? What if they break into the branch manager's home to steal their key?
Nevertheless, you can at least hand a person (e.g. your visiting parents) your key so they can open the door without you.
An old (1943) and frightening one by Eric Frank Russell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier

Russell employed the idea that we humans are property of some more highly evolved beings that live in a realm that we cannot see.
> Intel is not in the business of making secure cryptoprocessors like the ones used in payment cards and SIMs

They have entered a rather comparable space with stuff like TPM and SGX (and are largely using it for nefarious, consumer-hostile stuff like DRM and remote code attestation, of course).
When? Before 2000.. php came after PERL. PHP wasn't a serious language was the general though. ASP was seen as that.. or Java/JSP
What I've never understood about dark matter is if it doesn't interact with the electromagnetic force, why is it found in voluminous clouds instead of collapsing into dense discs or balls? Radiation pressure doesn't affect it, it experiences no impact or friction effects, no thermal effects, so why doesn't it fall to the middle of the galaxies and stay there?
It's also to separate the methods doing computation lazily (Stream) from the one doing computation eagerly (Collection).
Otherwise a simple call like isEmpty() can trigger the whole computation like in Haskell.

As a user of the API, you have to wrap your code into a Stream to be lazy evaluated, the Stream being a computation monad, so you always know if a code is evaluated eagerly or lazily.
>Who has this power? At the moment only lawless spy agencies and politicians who control them.

And all of the people working in these institutions. We know that they are willing to blatantly abuse these surveillance systems for personal stuff and they get away with it.
I think we can increasingly say that it it almost certainly matter if some kind. I don’t think it’s a state of pure ignorance.
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I don't want to live in a world where only Juggalos are able to roam freely.
If I had to guess at what's really going on here...it's that the landlord suspects the residents of some of these units aren't the people they're supposed to be. Sometimes if someone has a rent-stabilized apartment, they might want to move somewhere else. Ordinarily this would cause the unit to lose rent control status, but if they simply let someone else (e.g. a family member) take their place without notifying the building, they can maintain that status. Just a guess, but maybe this is the underlying motivation for adding this technology.

The motivation suggested by the article doesn't really make sense to me. Why would high income individuals want this?
> It may be better to legislate for all this data to be open to all rather than trying to legislate it out of existence.

I can't imagine that it would be better for every person on the planet to have access to my face scans at my apartment than just my landlord.
Actually, this outcome is far from inevitable - it all depends on the society and the political will. The problem with loss of privacy is that it can influence the voting body, and thus political outcomes. In the arms of power-that-be, it is not difficult to imagine an outcome where this technology is used to protect the ruling party from losing their power. In other words: 1984.

I like to think that this is the reason behind EU's GDPR and other privacy initiatives. Ironically, I think people of continental EU remember better what the loss of privacy meant in WWII, much more so than the rest of the world. It is telling that England (while it certainly had lots of casualties) was not invaded, so maybe this is why they put up with all the cameras? It certainly is not a place I would want to live in, or near. It creeps me out.
> why is it might be acceptable for the landlord to try to want market rate for the apartment, but not acceptable for the tenant to want market rate for a room when a new subtenant starts?

Huh?

kaycebasques does not give any opinion on the landlord either way. Unless their comment was substantially edited, you're making a lot of assumptions about kaycebasques' views.
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Now all that reminds me we got a plastic ban as well in Belgium a year or two ago. It had been coming for some years. After a month or two of sporadic comments in the media I noticed that somehow we now still have plastic bag in stores. For 5ç or something. Some are made of recycled material or environmental friendly. But we still have plastic bag. Meanwhile I have this americana picture of brown paper bags everywhere.

So maybe in a year NY'll be back somehow to some kind of plastic bag and that'll be it.
Bare everything is our default, but you don't see society forcing people to go around naked.
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The thought of #1 research universities crowded with rich dummies just disappoints me. Imagine what research could be accomplished if the universities were populated by smart people instead.
>Seems like in the U.S. the pilots are properly trained and are capable of handling the difference in the new vs old aircraft.Other countries aren't fairing so well.

What specific difference training did U.S. pilots receive that foreign pilots did not? How are pilots in other countries improperly trained? What is the evidence either 737 MAX crash had anything to do with training? If better training can mitigate flawed design, should that absolve any portion of manufacturer liability for any discovered flawed design?

In a proper investigation, all bias must be removed, and that includes statistical likelihood of prior causes of crashes.
Then people would complain that they aren't taking down the Christchurch shooting videos and are condoning hate.
What we need is a lot more affordable housing and rent controlled apartments. Spend the money on that, not this.
Web PHP projects that want to move some stuff out of a web request? Like delayed_job

Web PHP projects that want to add some command line programs for doing maintenance tasks etc
There is nothing wrong in the Linux COW implementation. The problem is that 2MB pages are too much to duplicate for a single byte change. The 4kb page works very well to do that instead, and actually is very hard to do better in user-space with a different persistence model.

AFAIK only thing that could be improved in Linux is that when THP are enabled, it should split the 2MB page into 4kg pages and copy just that.
We find it acceptable for people to benefit from their property by default. Economists would also add that having the owner benefit encourages investment in the property.
For a few years now I have Gmail’s spam filter disabled completely on my accounts.

I’m not sure you can do that with a setting, but there is a workaround where you create a filter that excludes messages matching some random UUID, and tick the “Never send to spam” action.

So far to me the trade-off has been worth it (YMMV). Not a huge burden in terms of junk mail influx in my inbox, but one does have to be on alert for high-quality phishing when reading mail (check headers, for example).
IIRC they read Steam friends but did not do anything with the data without consent.
Premise 1: I agree, many investors have more money than sense.

Premise 2: I completely agree; in fact I think that solo side projects are coded more efficiently than commercial software.

Premise 3: I disagree. I code most of my side projects, because I have too much free time. I just don't follow through on the documentation/uploading part. This may be because of market fit, or copyright worries, or because I like coding more than writing up. Nevertheless I do still add projects to Show HN, especially when trying to apply for jobs.

Premise 4: Yes, I agree, Hacker News is a wonderful community.

I'm not a marketer, so I can't provide your market validation/research. Rather, I'm a maker like you! But I have no shortage of ideas that I'll talk about for free. For example, my most recent script (27 March) was a rewrite of VideoSubFinder that runs in 5 minutes instead of 2 hours. It's all part of my Pingtype Chinese learning project, which still hasn't taken off, but I keep building on it because it teaches me so much better than textbooks.
This is the “get rich slowly” method. It does work, but most people don’t have the discipline to do it.
Darkness is not an absolute concept either. As an example, your comment is somewhat dark to me ("it it" and "if some kind") but not pitch black :)
Considering that they’ve already killed a couple of people, that’s a given.
Sure. But playing the devil's advocate. If that's the case then society had a working solution with plastic bags.
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Getting a person's skin color right is not a high enough bar to let them into your apartment.

I don't want every white person getting into mine, and I can't imagine they would be fine with every black person getting into theirs.
There was a popular sociology paper (since debunked) that picked that $70k/yr number.

It's obvious on its face that a single number for all demographics in the country (or world?) is an absurd claim.
It's common for gaming motherboards to leave manufacturing mode on? Got any info on that, can't find anything on google about this.
And some physicians get mad at homeopaths. So what?
YMMV. I live in Finland, and I ride a bike almost every day of the year. Last winter the temperatures went below -20˚C and I still took the bike, and enjoyed it. Granted there are maybe three months a year when it takes dedication. And yes you do need a shower unless you have an electric bike.
People can’t solve a trolley problem either while driving (or at all).

If you have enough time to stop if say a kid just jumped in front of you you will stop, if you don’t you don’t have enough time to process all the information around you and gauge the most optimal outcome if you swerve you swerve but that is likely going to happen regardless of what jumps out in front of you simply because that what your instincts are telling you to do.

The best thing an autonomous vehicle can offer is a better response time so you’ll be more likely to stop or to slow down to non/less than fatal velocity.
Oh, hell no! :-)

On the other hand, there's a difference between the ilk performing their functions and the tail wagging the dog.

(I specifically picked on GS because this weird sense I have that US economic policy has been outsourced to Goldman-Sachs for several decades.)
> and my writing improved by writing final drafts first and then going back and adding errors to fake a first draft

how did that improve your writing?
Yeah, I don’t know. Most of the kids in the elite education system are alright, they didn’t build this world and generally believe in an equitable one. College campuses are pretty much the most liberal places in the United States. For every 1 rich kid buying their way in, there are 10 normal kids. It’s a big red herring to worry too much about a handful of admissions to eg USC. It’s hardly an elite institution anyway.

The big problem is the competition between the normal kids. Most people can’t relate to inequities in the funnel for normals in ways other than race and class. The fastest growing sectors of education—private, effectively segregated schools and test preparation—reflect this reality but I wouldn’t call it unfair or a fraud. Being a white parent and putting your kid into a school with no Asian kids, or being a middle income parent and putting your kid into a test prep program with no dirt poor kids—the reason these are bad is that they obscure actual outcomes based analysis of education in favor of useless retail indicators like test scores, income after graduation, racial composition and income levels that parents actually use to determine where to send their kids.

It takes an incredible amount of sophistication, on the part of parents and students, to make wise decisions in education. So much pressure to look at easily comparable but relatively meaningless things. I sympathize with the parents with no high school education who bought their daughter’s way into USC. They didn’t know any better and most of the supposed entrepreneurs/good ideas in Ed-tech reinforce the bad trends, not work against them.

Most of the programmers, product managers and businesspeople working at those companies are bought into that reductive retail system.

There is basically no one with “bad grades” working on Blockly at Google. It’ll really open your mind up and make you less cynical when you realize how ill equipped well meaning institutions are to actually address inequities in education.
How about this: Hire some Yale students to teach your kid everything they know. That way your kid gets into the social club that is perhaps the most valuable thing about attending an elite university.
There is the energy limitation as well. All the equipment needed to do self driving today requires more energy than you can sustainably draw from typical cars.

Please if you downvote at least leave a comment why you think I am wrong. This is a well known fact in the autopilot community.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/546066/googles-ai-masters...

are you willing to put money on your time estimate?
Heck, imagine something as mundane a haircut, a beard-shave, or a sunburn from a beach trip.
I think you may have missed something when talking to them.

1) Taiwan is de-facto independent and PRC has 0 direct control over them.

2) The reason why Taiwanese passports say “Republic of China” is because they are also claiming to be the real Chinese government.
When it comes to "safe" businesses, some characteristics you may want to look for are: 1) high margins 2) inefficient operations 3)low barrier to entry 4) ability to drive down costs with technology

As an example, the moving business. The current rates are north of $100/hr. They pay their workers minimum wage. They are run by non-techies who drive inefficient ops.

Remember that you can always find reasons to NOT get into any business. Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who have the persistence to tackle problems and find creative ways to solve them efficiently. And, those creative solutions often won't be apparent until you pick an industry and dive in.
Why are you sure there hasn’t been a thorough quantitative analysis? Since many laws require strong reasons, evidence of public support, periods for public comment, votes by politicians, etc., I’d probably assume it was at least somewhat vetted. Did that not happen in New York?

I would agree that the efficiency benefit to society of single use plastic bags is probably difficult to measure, perhaps because the benefit compared to reusable bags is very small, and maybe even goes away completely after there’s a public behavior change and widespread expectation that free bags aren’t available?

There are some known and large and already quantified downsides to single use plastic bags, plastic production is a health hazard for the workers and nearby communities, and consumes non-renewable resources both in production and transportation. Litter on the streets and in the oceans are causing problems. Plastic in landfills leaching into groundwater is an ongoing issue. All for the “benefit” of being able to carry something 100 feet once and then throw away? It seems so incredibly costly and wasteful in return for an immeasurable convenience... how much proof do we really need?
This is actually not that big of a deal, most of the issues with more control like this is that they are enabling enforcement of terrible rules. Those rules were previously tolerated by society at large due to lack of enforcibility, so nobody is sticking their neck out for something thats not a problem.

Now that with better enforcement, it will spark new conversation about if those rules need to be challenged. Also, not all the rules are bad, sometimes they are simply regulating one kind of behaviour (I.e. airbnb) in favor of another (long term rental).
You probably pay market rate and not hearing from you or about you makes you the ideal tenant.
Sun glasses, haircuts, hats.. 33% failure rate in real life is very plausible.

And even 2% rate would get old very fast. That is once a week...
Stackoverflow is hardly "globocorporate".
It's interesting to see that Airbnb is where the HN mindset goes; it reflects a certain degree of privilege that an entrepreneurial opportunity is the first use case surfaced.

Cramming extra family/friends into an apartment who aren't officially on the lease (e.g. the adult son who's lost a job or is on parole, or the parents who can't afford assisted living and are helping raise the grandkids) is actually far more common among low-income, rent-stabilized, and minority tenants. Stopping short-term Airbnb leases isn't particularly controversial; it's going after the medium/long-term unauthorized tenants that really has a disproportionate impact on the underprivileged.
Any tent or cardboard makeshift sleeping spot will get destroyed if reported. This isn't SF.
At least with the X200 you can run Libreboot, a fully blob-free subset of coreboot. The AMT stuff can be flashed off the chip.
Keep in mind a simple if statement in code is AI. AI has always been a (shitty) marketing term, and sales and marketing has been trying to use it to sell products for the last 50 years. You’d need to elaborate a lot more on the specific claims of the company before I’d personally be worried about sales and marketing selling snake oil with this term...
That feels like people are marking PayPal/Stripe emails as spam to make them go away in their mailboxes. At least I've seen a lot of less tech savvy people use "Mark as spam" button as "Make this go away" button and train the model into throwing these kind of emails away.
"The most successful people I know didn’t do it with entrepreneurship, but rather they got good-paying jobs, kept expenses low, and invested whatever was left in the stock market or real estate, taking advantage of compounding"

Yea, this guy doesn't get what it means to be an entrepreneur. It is not just about the money. It is an itch that has to be scratched. It is an addiction. Only real entrepreneurs feel that itch. The rest are wantrapreneurs.

Entrepreneurs create something of value. They create a product/service that solves problems. The problems can be big/small but a business cannot exist if it doesn't solve a problem. They love creating teams and putting a bunch of people together to achieve something. Big or small. Unicorn or bootstrapped. Doesn't matter. What matters is that they created something that will exist for some time and leave a legacy (hopefully). Entrepreneurship has nothing to do with just making money or compounding or playing it safer. It is in fact complete opposite. Getting rich as an entrepreneur is literally a side effect. Yes, that is one way to get rich as well but if you just want to be rich with minimal risks, there definitely are better ways.

So yes, it is overrated for those who really don't have the itch. Like I said, you can make good money doing many different things and probably with better probability. But that is not what entrepreneurship is all about. Not even close.
It forced me to pay attention and get it right the first time, rather than waiting for the errors to be marked by the teacher.
The article probably is right that the landlord might just want evidence to evict the tenants that pay a low rate. For example, the cameras might determine the exact number and the indentities of visitors and find that someone is staying for too long. Also, the landlord might be worrying that some of the tenants might secretly sublet their apartments or let their friends or relatives live there for free. And even if there is no violations, it can make tenants' life little less pleasant and motivate them to move out.

It is interesting that while Chinese government wants to be able to control its citizens' lives using surveillance, capitalists and businesses have similar wishes. They want to be the dictators at least within their property.
They're not really more challenging, they just have different challenges than photographing white people. Most cameras are set up and calibrated on white people.

Also could easily be a result of biased or limited training data.
Hmm, there’s a lot to take exception with in this comment.

“Makes sense for publicly subsidized housing (which is what rent control is, in essence).
In the US, rent control is when the government controls the amounts charged for rented housing - it’s not “publicly subsidized”.

“It’s not like the facial recognition is resulting in any privacy loss...”
Ouy, where to even start. Of course it is. Every time you’re tracked is a loss of privacy.
If you are blocking rather relying on a strong base of educated voters, then are you any different from China, or have you essentially lost and have adopted your enemy’s ideals?