skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really interesting issue you guys bumped into. I totally would have assumed that US legal codes were clearly and explicitly exempt from copyrights.

Can you talk about your plan to defend your position at all? I'm somewhat curious if the ICC has a demonstrated history of licensing their codes to US governments. When cities & states publish the codes in print and online, presumably the ICC would need to be licensing those codes in written agreements, if the ICC's position has merit. It seems like it might be a problem for their case if they can't show a history of having granted copyrights everywhere the codes have been published before.

Even though I think laws shouldn't be copyrightable, I have a small amount of sympathy for the ICC saying they did work that is now being used without any compensation. Hopefully they will update their expectations and figure out how to charge for some additional value beyond the text of the legal codes. But I'm also curious if you guys have started exploring any peaceful solutions such as revenue sharing, or paying the ICC for versions of codes, or support, or annotations, etc.?
Firefox already has tools to throttle tabs which are abusive CPU-load wise, which seems sufficient in this case.

And it's unclear such resources are being 'stolen' if it's stated in the site ToS.

Cryptocurrency mining is a lot less deleterious than ads. Mining doesn't need to track your behavior, it doesn't generate misleading native content, and it doesn't distract you from what you're trying to do.

Sign me up!

disclaimer: I was one of the founders of Tidbit, https://www.eff.org/cases/rubin-v-new-jersey-tidbit, the first(?) crypto mining ad replacer.
I am also curious about the cool-off period of white dwarf stars being measured in 'trillions of years' - given that the universe is only 13.8 billion years old, I assume we are just modeling that?
It's worth noting that Clayton has a much more thorough, mathematical response to Taleb's paper (written back in November): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tQj4ZGja6jKADJGiFj-dcQAirWo...

Since Taleb delights in make his mathematical writing as opaque as possible, it's a useful read in just to know exactly the claims that Taleb is making in his paper.
When we got pulled over, yes, we were checked for it. 15km/hr too fast was a sub-$40 USD ticket for the driver after conversion rate, pretty low compared to the $120 for 8mph over tickets I've seen in Seattle.
I seriously doubt if the concern (however poorly phrased) was in reference to the ethnicity as such.
I don't know – AWS has done fine with relatively transparent pricing. Telling folks you must spend $1,200 a year per vCPU for a software management layer seems ill conceived.
I've never heard of this happening. My parents live in BC near the AB border and buy liquor from AB weekly.
Yeah. There are good jobs in academia. Get tenure at an elite university and it's a pretty good life. (Although not as rosy as it probably seems from the outside with politics, pursuing grants, etc.) But that's a pretty tiny proportion of the positions PhDs hope to fill.
Congress Is About to Ban the Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
In scandinavian languages (including Finnish, which hints at the fact that they don't have a lot of rabbits there) it's very similar: "kanin", pronounced ka-neen. Apparently it traces via old French and German back to the Latin "cuniculus" which actually means rabbit.

Meanwhile, "hare" (or "Hase" in German) remains also in English.
Nate Silver's business' reputation (538) is predicated on making accurate predictions. He certainly has "skin in the game."

In fact, perhaps his entire livelihood.
I live here and echo this sentiment. Easiest way to tell the difference is through the green number plates.
Free Dashboard for lazy devs?Yep, we have some
Beautiful! Mapping data into raw-er perceptual forms feels like a rich area for exploration, plus you get to flex coding and design skill at the same time. Any plans for an android port?
Gregory, your margin notes look great in the mobile view. I'm using mine as "frenetic" textual additions (thanks for the great description, HN commenter!), which would be too messy to inject straight into the content without a click-to-reveal.

It's a nice reminder, however, that search engines suck up the margin notes and inject them in the text where they find them. I noticed my site is indexed in Bing/DDG with the circle-cross icon in the middle of the text. I've been placing them so they line up nicely with the paragraph they're found in, but that doesn't lend to a very mobile-friendly reading experience.

A solution where I use eg cornflowerblue underlined icons, as suggested in the sibling comment, would be a solid solution for my personal use-case.
Never heard of this question, how do you do that? Do you mean getting a random sample from an incoming stream, using only O(1) space?
Its tempting to glance at the text and see if they're expecting you/changed plans. It's urgent because you need to make an exit decision soon depending on the answer. Its pointless to pull over because that takes longer than making a mistake about the exit.

Its a drug, the potential to optimize your plans on the fly is so attractive that even folks that swear they'd never text and drive, do it the moment it has utility?
A lot of cars today have body panels that have to be replaced instead of repaired. Add in any sort of special paint color and a single panel can run $1k to make like new. Side swipe something that runs across a few panels and it can quickly add up.
That’s for the entire S&P 500 index and only applies to a 20% drop. Chinese regulations apply to individual stocks and kick in at 10%.

That’s a massive difference.

And re the Limit Up-Limit Down rule, that’s a trading halt for five minutes, not the entire day.

Again, not as much of a, but still a massive difference.
I also heard it as "IBM and the BUNCH" (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell)

'in the day' I don't ever remember seeing a GE or RCA box, but the others seemed to thrive in their niches.
In this day and age of really great machine learning I find that most people refuse to use voice services unless they are forced to do so (usually because of injury). Trying to tap out a message at 80km/h on a 5" screen is pretty fucking futile. But most distracted drivers will attempt to do it anyway.

Here's a neat trick, just say, "Hey Siri* Send a message to $firstname $lastname's $phone. Tell them I'm [on my way, 5 minutes away, picking up milk, buying pizza]"

* Or whatever platform you use. I'm an iOS user.
I think this meme needs to die. I run 3 massive electron apps on the regular, in addition to my multiple IntelliJ IDE instsances and RDBMS clients on a 16gb Macbook Pro, the latter category being the biggest resource hogs.
Try Fathom. www.fathom.io
https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32
Can you expand on this? Bayesian data analysis looks at the full posterior, and reducing that to a single number is frowned upon by most.
One time when I was walking on the sidewalk I saw a college age kid texting while driving with his windows open. I yelled something like "EYES ON THE ROAD!!!" He was startled and nearly crashed. Not recommended, but I think he learned his lesson too...
Deno,a New Way to JavaScript
Can anyone explain why browsers allow this?

Surely it's not technically hard to make "back" actually go back. Is there some downside to letting users control their own screen that I'm not aware of?
{{citation-needed}}
This is not true for everyone, but many of us have trained ourselves to check the phone when we’re bored, and to reply to messages as soon as we see them. When driving for 15 minutes, our mind can drift and it can feel like a good time to check the phone, even though it’s unsafe.
Fantastic! I’ve been running some memory-heavy jobs on my computer recently and literally had to close Slack so I could get a chunk of memory back and it have my job killed.
I think you'd optimally be able to choose between ads, mining, or paying some kind of token, maybe linked to your (Firefox/Google/etc) account so it could be mined on your desktop and used on mobile, or the tokens are just bought.

Anecdotally my phone is about 4 years old maybe and the battery still does fine browsing with JS on in Firefox mobile. That is with ublock though.
well perhaps the criminal can explain to the judge how society failed him or a rough traumatic childhood caused him to be this way. Also add in the presentation how easy it was for him to get a gun and how the cashier should have been automated. I do think cashiers will be an outdated job in a few yrs.

I believe it is fairly simplistic to just say good/bad without understanding the nuances and shades of gray in between.
How dystopian, and kids this is how the white collar indentured servitude class come to be.
Gave away a Percent for education, another for housing, another for health insurance ;)
ep9 is just WOW
At least she had the opportunity. Some people through academia their entire lives without ever getting tenure:

"The gig was ideal: It was tenure-track, it was in her field"

She actually had a tenure track position (that's pretty rare and not something to be thrown away). But she felt insulted because a few people had mistaken her for the janitor (and a few parents called the school to complain about her), so she quit.
Taleb is smart etc but he’s basically a rambling eccentric who I ignore at this point
Press and hold
passing a wad of franklins costs less than a joule
It seems like a false choice. Can I go start my own oil refinery because I don't like Exxon, Chevron, BP, or Shell?
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/sup...

>Not following at all. What do you mean?

One assumption is that given a bet, you must choose to take a side of it. If you won't bet for something at X%, you must bet against it at 1-X%.
It’s simple, fully-featured and insanely fast. Doing this with AWS requires gluing a bunch of stuff together, even with Amplify it’s still clunky and slow.
It would be really really amazing if it allowed a large number of CPU cores. Like 64 cores. That would make it interesting for ML inference workloads.
Do you think the US is more likely to care than Europe does?
She ruined Yahoo! Made stupid acquisitions like Tumblr and shit.
Small nit you may not be aware of: use 'fewer' for nouns which can be counted (collisions, fatalities), and 'less' for nouns which can't (damage).
https://www.ag.gov.au/About/Pages/Ruleoflaw.aspx

> laws are clear, predictable and accessible
> laws are publicly made and the community is able to participate in the law-making process

Then, in Australia, the answer is clear. Australia lacks the rule of law.

The laws are not accessible nor publicly made. They are privately made and difficult to access.
Car fatalities are down because the passenger compartment has become safer. Pedestrian fatalities are up because idiots are still plowing into them [0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2017/03/30/522085503/2016-saw-a-record-i...
The first seastead home is now live in international waters
> It is worth noting that 538 doesn't keep a historical record of their predictions, making it difficult to really see how they predict outcomes coming up to a conclusion. You can only see the latest/final prediction.

It's worth noting that you are completely wrong: not only do they keep such a record, they also provide a handy chart of it on the latest prediction page so you can easily see exactly how the prediction changed over time.
Looks great! What technology is it built on? Did you reverse engineer Discord's API or is there a documentation or library?
Besides the fact that this "online voting" was immediately hacked, I wasn't fond of the notion that the votes had everyone's name attached.
In the fine Graeco-Roman "Pentium" tradition, yes.
West Bank of Palestine.
Many successful companies here are outsourcing companies
Release dates have been consistently been pushed back for basically the last year. For months your program's website looked like it supported a lot of programs it didn't. Be clear and upfront about what you can do and people will trust you more.
In my experience, people in academia were motivated by power. Money can be used for prestige things (such as a football team), or for vanity spending, etc. Sometimes, equipment is bought with no real use cases, sometimes purchases are duplicated because the people using it don't get along well, etc.
I'm pretty sure Google Forms allows for you to require a Google or even a specific Google enterprise/education account and then limit that account to a one time use of the form. Don't know why they couldn't just do that.
I'm not very familiar with Discord, but I thought the same about Slack. Slack has been aggressive in the past sending C&D letters to those who threaten their walled garden. I'm not saying it'll definitely happen in this case and I wish all the best to the developers and users of Ripcord. I sympathize with their want for non-electron desktop clients. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if they received a terse and disapproving letter from Slack's legal team.
"I realized that, while I had a very deep understanding of artificial intelligence, I did not yet have some of the basics down. I knew how a database worked. I knew how an operating system worked. I knew how a compiler worked. But I hadn't taken classes on those topics, so I went back for my master's and took the rest of the AI offerings as well as a lot of programming basics. That way, I could actually go and market myself as a software engineer and say, “I've written a compiler. I've written an operating system. I've written a database. I know how they work"

I am confused. Is she talking about foundation CS courses like OS & database systems OR AI courses?
That's terrible. I find the interface absolutely awful.
The desire to buy more books than you can ever read is so universal, there's a Japanese word for it: Tsundoku
To add on to this, the only available api is the same for bots as it is for users, the only difference is that bots have less api access and are labeled as such.

It's against the terms to use the user api (although it will work until you get caught), I'm not sure if they explicitly ban 3rd party clients (they very well may) but this effectively does the same thing.
I read that message to mean clojure/core.[library] and not clojure.core. It's a criticism of the slower development pace and low visibility that libraries like match, logic, combinatorics, test.check, data.zip, rrb-vector, cache, etc. have.

The author can clarify but if that's the critique its not without at least some merit.
If you're looking at a single proposition then the probability of it being true is a single number.

To say that the probability of it being true is a range is incoherent.
I can't find it right now, but I recall there was a study that suggested the trends in total collisions followed total miles driven fairly well, and that distracted driving was not needed to explain the recent increase in collisions. (Or something like that.)

I have no idea if this study's conclusions are controversial or not. If someone could identify the study, I'd be appreciative.
> this was one of their big challenges. We made something brilliant, but hardly anyone understands why it matters.

Is this the "decentralized internet" product, or the initial Pied Piper product? SV the show is very accurate in some ways, but how did it take them until Season 2 to discover that average consumers don't give a crap about a hard-to-use, seemingly B2B-focused app that compresses their pictures?
I know that feeling! It just means you have a lot of reading and tinkering to do.

Design+publishing is inherently complicated and that complexity is conserved; you make one part of it simpler, you necessarily make another part harder. This is true of print publishing and it is true of web publishing, and they each have their own stacks. Any attempt to combine the two is going to have its own complexity. For this reason most people aren't interested in going there, so the tooling can seem very rudimentary compared with the tools that exist in either medium in isolation.

Pollen and Racket seemed arcane at first. But both are elegant, well-documented tools with extremely helpful communities. Delving into them has been probably the most rewarding experience I’ve had with anything computer-related, and that experience is still ongoing.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474280
Isn't this something which you can do with Jenkins? Pull code from Github and deploy it on S3 bucket?

I learned Jenkins creating the pipeline to AWS in less than a day.
"Predictificationism has lots of difficultants."

That prez made words too long, the next spoke them too fast; now we got one that makes them too short.
Is it that smartphones are having no impact, or that they're offset by other factors such as widespread availability of sensors?
The discord api is pretty well documented. The bot api and the user api are actually the same thing, but you're only allowed to use the bot api. You can still use the user api but if they catch you they'll ban you, so we'll see how this client pans out.
I just bought a Roku for my elderly in-laws; I was expecting the experience to be awful but instead it was very nearly everything I could hope for from an embedded device. If these changes mean they get pointed to free content first (above what the thing already did!) I'm going to have to say this is a good change.

They're going to be watching live TV on Sling for the most part. We're going to add on an AirTV so they can get PBS in the Sling interface as well. They already watch Netflix on their Vizio TV, and hopefully we can get them to turn off the TV's internet connection with the Rokus.
Self publishing is certainly a way out, working in other fields another

No dream, especially those where you're working mostly for other people, is worth your health or sanity.

I might have worked in more boring areas, and there might have been some crunch time, but nothing like I couldn't leave under threat of firing or taking me to the limit.
It would be interesting to see if painting lurid stripes on the car as a punishment would help. Or require the driver to have warning sign attached in prominent places. Make it as embarrassing as possible.
> 8. Am I correct to assume those Salaries exclude any Stock grant? Which is common in US?

The listed salaries should exclude stock options, healthcare, 401k matching, et al. It would be very unusual to have a compensation component in a survey of this sort and include those items.

> 10. Financial and banking - 8.9%, are the third in respondent's industry. I am a little surprise how many people are working in that field.

It's actively being trimmed down these days[1], however consider someone like Goldman Sachs: 36,000 employees with about $36 billion in sales. A sizable employee base for their sales; $1m in sales per employee isn't too bloated of course. Citigroup has $65b in sales, with 200,000 employees, $307k per employee. JP Morgan does $104b in sales with 256,000 employees, $406k per employee. I wouldn't be surprised if the banker to tech employee ratio increases persistently (in favor of tech workers) at financial firms for the next two decades or so.

Visa is king at being slim however. It recently became worth more ($346 billion market cap) than any bank around the world, including all the US majors. $20b in sales, $10b in profit, with just 17,000 employees (the profit to employee ratio is particularly wild). Facebook approximately matches Visa on the profit to employee ratio (slight advantage).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-09/societ...
> Maybe this was true of past elections, but their 2018 house forecast had a “how this forecast has changed” section that showed their historical predictions throughout election season.

It has not changed. They did this the whole way back when it was an independent blog before the NY Times (later ESPN then ABC News) picked them up.
Same, works very nicely, especially for memory-hogging slack, a shame the search isn't integrated
I too have this fundamental question. One person I've asked who has some insight into these figures (though it isn't his expertise) claims the difference is quality of life for students.

Colleges didn't have excellent athletic facilities (for non-athletes especially), study spaces, counselors, job guidance, tutoring services, academic mentors (the list goes on) 50-100 years ago.

A lot of colleges 50-100 years ago look like what (some) community colleges look like now. Minimal services not dedicated to their cause. The only difference is the cause is different- education vs. research.
Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't make it an untrue meme. Electron apps are notorious for bloat, that isn't a meme, it's a fact.

The only apps that consistently send my laptop fans in to a flying rage are Electron based apps.
Tumblr wasn't a bad acquisition. I would also challenge that she ruined Yahoo. Yahoo was already on a downward trajectory with an existential identity crisis. At worst, she couldn't change the direction.
I'm being very careful to not proclaim _what_ I think the punishment/learning should be. I'll concede that my 7-11 analogy makes it sound like I'd push for a harsh punishment, though that's not my intent (and indeed, is detracting from my main point, which is that _the student made a large mistake_, on par with cheating on a test or worse, and there is a large amount of blame that belongs on that student's shoulders, regardless of how poor the cybersecurity of the voting mechanism was).
Jaron Lanier’s ideas for the future of profiting from your own data
Targeted advertising is not designed to serve the viewer, it's designed to serve the advertiser.

Advertising doesn't help the advertiser unless it helps you. Showing you an ad for something you don't want, can't use, and would never buy, benefits nobody.
to be clear, is that first-hand experience from venezuela or some other survey?
> If Thea had a tenure-track job and access to proper health insurance to be appropriately diagnosed, she might still be alive, they said.

This is a bizarre take-away from this story. What about all the people who weren't fortunate enough to attend Columbia University and live a life of learning? Shouldn't they be able to get a check-up that would have caught fluid build-up in their lungs?

This story could've been written about an Uber or Lyft driver, and the take-away would have been the same: America needs a better health-insurance story for people who aren't poor, but who don't have consistent full-time work. The adjunct angle just adds an ugly layer of classism to that point. ("Oh, this person had a degree from Columbia, she shouldn't have faced the same struggles as an Uber driver.") Everyone should be able to get a regular checkup, regardless of their job. Beyond that, if the market values historians similarly to Uber drivers, well, so be it.
No, this wasn't my point. I don't lament them not making breaking changes, obviously. My point was that most of the work the core team does is on projects that they will never revisit in the future. The one exception to this is spec, which drags on. Once it's out of alpha I expect them never to touch it again.

If you believe everything in core is perfect and fully formed, and that all other needs are served by libraries that are actively maintained, that's great. Not my experience by a long shot, but I'm happy to be grumpy in a world full of happy Clojure programmers.
AWS runs a different sales model. They are much more balanced inside vs outside sales. They have inbound marketing and actively target businesses of all sizes. Inside sales is cheaper and can support smaller customers. I can tell you, AWS is not sending an experienced field rep to visit your one-man basement-built mobile app startup.
All those six figure salary assoc Dean's of nothing with phds in nebulous topics like "leadership" have to get paid somehow.
I wish I could use my IRC client: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16539857