skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you think those people will do after being fired?

> they will turn to theft and crime in order to feed themselves and their family

If they prefer this rather than learning new skills/professions - nothing can help them. "Give us the money for free or we will take your money by force to feed our families" - times of naive pirates are gone.

> (which you seem to lack)

0 empathy to communists/socialists and other people who just want to feed lazy blackmailers you described.

Young people starting their way in life (first job), old people who can't work anymore - only groups of people I'm ready to give some money to support them. I have enough empathy for them.
Ask HN: A small social media marketing company?
I am planning to launch a small social media marketing company for small startups, and customers. I will target startups in hyper local market, or campaigns by individuals.

Is it viable idea?

What do one need to know before starting?

What skills do one need to learn for successful social media marketing?
That only works if fetching the /people/123 URL is the only thing you will ever do. If you need the real 123 entity id in any other context, e.g. to display it to the user, or to make a user-accessible website link to that entity (e.g. "view this transaction in stripe dashboard"), you'll need parsing.

I also mentioned that I don't want to store redundant garbage in my logs and database, especially if I want to index the column containing that entity id.
Bu there's no penalty if this target are not met.
I remember a wave of people popping up in the late 90's when sub7 dropped, as a couple were embedding it in Scene rips and re-distributing them on efnet and dalnet warez channels. Spent a lot of time helping people remove it only for them to re-install with the next Photoshop crack.
Wrong, you owe the stock, not the purchase price.
I made a claim and supplied a reference for defense of the claim. Their claim is much closer to the true operations of government finance than the prevailing perceptions. They discuss Paul Krugman’s and Larry Summers’ criticisms in the podcast.

multiple political cycles have been dominated by demonstrably false claims and those claims have been used to refute proper understanding and progress. It’s important to refute and push back against such dismissive rhetoric.
What the fuck is “mostly having consent” for sex?
Looks like a lot of ink wasted on a visualisation which is of limited benefit to the consumer, and likely to result in lost revenue for the retailer, as people become more aware of how much they are spending on particular product categories.
Of course I was not talking about it in that sense. I meant that for about the same cost, they should be able to show the most relevant results from the best source, and not just a select few.
It looks like the impressions follow an exponential (geometric? someone will surely correct me) distribution which is what you would expect if it was based on what people click on. If it was something different where niche outlets were featured more often than their "share", that would imply manipulation and would be a cause for concern.
Consider DACA. It is not legislation It is an executive order by a prior president ordering ICE to create a system in which people who meet certain criteria are given effective amnesty. Obama had no authority to do this beyond simple prosecutorial discretion. Spending money on administering such a program without legislative approval, creating non-individualized discretion decisions, the law does not give the president this power. When the Trump administration attempted to end the program, at least two judges said no the program must continue to be operated.

There is no authority by which judges can promote executive orders to the status of law, and then proceed order that the government spend money on the program. This was precisely a situation where the judges were uncomfortable with the outcome so they legislated from the bench.
Please don't link to BuzzFeed here
Chris Lattner: Compilers and ML Accelerators – Artificial Intelligence Podcast
iOS app backs up to iCloud and Android version of the app to Google Drive and they are locked down with no other choice.
Is this true or theoretical? In many rural areas cell reception is not good.
Around here, plastic bags are banned and paper bags have a per-bag tax. The store doesn't charge for the bags, they just pass on the tax. They didn't charge before the tax/ban, either.
When inflation is "merely" bad, a dollar loses half its value in a few years.

In hyperinflation, a dollar loses half its value in a few minutes.

The former is certainly possible we decide we want to maintain low taxes and big spending after investors stop buying bonds (hard to say when that happens).

The latter would mean people have lost faith in the government's ability to carry out even its most basic functions.
The makeup and haircut applied by the filter are social constructs, though.
Sorry, that's a much better characterization of it.
Yes, kids are difficult -- not to mention kids with ADHD!
I often used to regret having kids, and still get anxious about taking care of them. And then all of a sudden I see pictures of their sweet faces, or imagine their laughter, and all is good in the world. My place is a shitty mess, because I've been doing physics/biology/machine learning/tennis instead of chores? It's okay. Let it go and just love them.

I'm separated and co-parenting and realized that I would freak out every Thursday because clearly my place is too shitty for the kids to arrive, and obviously I'm a terrible father. Once I could name the "Thursday freakout", it became a lot easier to manage and to reduce the intensity from wanting to bail on everyone to just laughing it off.

It gets easier (before it gets harder?, don't know yet.) A former colleague put it best -- the highs are higher, and the lows are lower. It's just no one really tells you how low the lows can be.
> The thought of one more trivial task in my day completely paralyzed me for weeks, but I felt increasing anxiety and the depression worsened.

Same. It's subsided to a large extent, but I spent years in that state. I'm not even angry at my brain, but just a little sad about how much time and opportunities this wasted for me.

> In my younger days, I would have ignored needs to focus on what made me feel happy at the time. Nowadays I feel too anxious when I do so.

Same. Except I do wish I got back to that "younger days" state. Literally nothing ended up badly from doing that; hell, I owe my whole programming career to it. Between doing what you want instead of what you have to vs. the other way around, the worst is really the third option: being paralyzed by an internal conflict and doing neither.
Anyone knows what's the difference with blockstack?

This seems to be the sidetree protocol: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/sidetree/blob/mast...
I would have suspected that the US and other countries had old laws that could dusted off and take over JD if it was impacting Critical infrastructure.
>Criminal charges are handled in US District Courts, and are Constitutionally guaranteed to be public.

If you think that the US DOJ hasn't spent a million man-hours to find some way to keep everything as secret as possible, you haven't been paying attention to their actions thus far. They will find some way to kangaroo-court him out of the public eye. They do it with foreign nationals all the time.
That's the reason that all companies should have in-house coding standards. There are many different legitimate variations on "clean code", so the important thing is that one variation is chosen and used consistently by all devs. Which variation is chosen is less important.
> ...better environmental choice than plastic

I think "better" is very subjective here. If we're talking the energy and water to make it, sure. But that probably pales into comparison compared to the produce you'll be putting in those bags anyway.

With all we know about plastic in the environment now, and how ineffective recycling as a strategy is, I think anything that will harmlessly biodegrade in a reasonable amount of time is a better choice than plastic.
Hip hop – Page 4 of 33 – M4APlus
I have not seen this but wanted to make people aware the NHK is available on streaming platforms and has no end to cool content, such as:

[1] Japanology Plus (a sequel to Begin Japanology?)
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/japanologyplus/

[2] Journeys in Japan:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/program/video/jo...

[3] 10 Years with Hayao Mizaki
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/program/video/10...
The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble?
I knew there were secret courts (which are already pretty horrifying in themselves), but the idea that there are secret laws is deeply repugnant to my sense of fairness. How can a system of laws be just when the people ruled by it aren't allowed to know all of it?

It seems to me that the idea of secret laws is incompatible with the very foundation of liberal democracy.
And that's what blows my mind when people write microservices in Node.
UK here - I just pay whatever they want me to pay for the bags. I can almost never remember to bring them to the shops. And if I do, I forget them in a car anyway. It used to be 0.05 GBP per bag, now 0.10GBP.

If it gets any more expensive I'll just go for the full home delivery life style. Going to shops sucks anyway and I won't miss it.
I think your logic is perfect. As long as you agree to treat Google as a publisher and not as a platform like it is currently being treated now.

Section 230 [1], which in theory was supposed to protect free speech, is actually doing the opposite and giving Google and other major media companies the power to censor free speech and decide what you can see or not.

I'm sure the gas station would be held liable if RC Cola made their customers sick and they kept selling it.

Google is not liable for anything they publish/display, but still have the power to choose what they publish/display.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

[1] - https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
Drawing a lesson from managing software development backlogs (because of course), perhaps the best of both worlds is to have a certain segment of legislators whose job is to drive the repeal bills?

The problem both legislators and developers face is one of triage. There is always a high-priority backlog, and this means trivial issues that are stupid but not severe tend to go unaddressed unless someone goes on a personal crusade.

In the abstract, I agree that sunset would be ideal, but in practice I worry it would cause even more of a triage problem than legislators already face, which I think this proposal would address.
A >60% efficiency gain is not small at scale, and part of the reason why automation is succeeding but not exactly in all the spaces we expect. Even the article covers that jobs are being lost, but not many jobs as one would intuitively believe.

Furthermore, someone who is out of work as a result of automation will also be a loss in the broader economy (as they will need services, the government loses income tax where applicable). The math I assume gets very complicated very quickly. But claiming "and from bezos' pocket, where?" is a reductionist statement that can be met with an equally reductionist "nowhere because we know rich people don't invest as much in the economy as they take".
https://twitter.com/luckygoddessn7/status/112732016537964134...
There's a bit of mixing of correlation and causation here.

Most reasonable people would consider Google to be an inferior search engine if it surfaced results from the Daily Caller, Kos or Breitbart above those of NPR, BBC and the WSJ.

Search engines therefore surface the more authoritative / linked to sources first. These smaller sites are trying to achieve through regulation a level of prominence that they can't get in the marketplace.
We used to have a surplus of plastic bags before we started making a concerted effort to use cloth bags. (I don't know what they're actually made of, but they're designed for re-use.) Now, we actually run out of plastic bags that we used to use for various things like dog-poop (when we run out of smaller bags and forget to re-order), small bin liners, and general transportation needs. (Though for the latter, we almost always get to re-use the plastic bag again afterwards.)

So my answer is: For those who aren't recycling, I'd guess that most people throw bags out. For those who are, it's going to be a smaller number, depending on how hard they try to avoid plastic bags at the market.
I guess you could say that a successfully running system quickly gets taken from granted, but that systems that fail are more salient.¹

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)
Yup, a market where Google makes editorial decisions about what ads and results they show.
The one thing that I dislike about NetHack are the monsters' AI. They are usually really dumb and just try to swarm you to your death.

Regardless, it's one of my favorite games of all time.
This is the wrong analogy.

1) "Google shows users what other users like, most of Google's current users favour a small number of major outlets"

This is only partly true, and we have no evidence of it. Google can do whatever they want their results and there are surely other factors. What are they? Why do they exist? etc.. There's room for all sorts of bias in there.

Also, I suggest it's actually not really true either: 'What people want' is BuzzFeed, HuffPo, Breitbart and TMZ. Unfortunately, that's the reality of the world. 'Most people' read that stuff. They want to know what Kim Kardashian thinks about it.

2) "But it shouldn't surprise you that most gas stations mostly stock Coke and Pepsi products."

This is a physical inventory and shelf space problem, google really doesn't have this so much: results can be tailored, represented in different ways, possibly randomized etc..

This situation is a great case for how systematic biases etc. are reinforced.
A Eurovision Song Created by AI
I'm not a farmer, but I wouldn't even buy a John Deere lawn mower for exactly this reason. The tractor I did buy is a Branson. The engine comes from the same factory that Cummins engines come from (matter of fact, some JD engines come from the Kukje factory) and everything is built with durability in mind. Yes, the dealer is 135 miles away, but since I'm not really depending on the machine to make a living, I can live with that.
Academics Should Build Their Own Computers to Advance Systems Research
The future is the largest, most accepted, universal payment system. To say that Bitcoin won't/can't evolve into this is very nearsighted
It's a collective action problem and the characteristic of collective action problems is that individual incentives aren't aligned with group incentives.

You can't go from individual decisions and then infer group desires. The inferential step isn't sound. It's like saying fishermen must want to make fish extinct because they persistently overfish in the absence of fishing quotas.

IMO human society simply isn't mature enough to deal with this problem. I don't think there will be serious action until it's an emergency for enough wealthy people - and I don't think that's the system working, I think it's swerving at the last moment. There will continue to be a lot of collateral damage before the emergency is pressing enough.
Notion's tables are ironically too complex to use but not powerful enough to provide good functionality. It would have been better if they just had a a simple table like in Word.

It's like they tried to jam airtable into their product.
Thermal paper does not use ink, nothing would be wasted even if printing 100% black.
> Why not just insist that all products be packaged in postal-compatible packaging?

Because Amazon saves significant money with fewer boxes.

Here are the savings

- Transportation Volume (no matter the vendor)

- Potential trips from warehouse to customer

- Package damage or loss

- Cost of packaging (they can charge their supply chain less OR make more margin if they can decrease this)

Even if Amazon uses their own delivery service.

Importantly, one of the major promotions they offer is delaying your 2 day guaranteed shipping until all items are ready to ship.
With GDB you can use all of the glory that is printf, inside of the termal. This means terminal control codes, that you can use to change colors on the screen for syntax highlighting.

peda is an excellent project that uses this to great success: https://github.com/longld/peda

All of that being said... it's really not very practical. (: But, it CAN be done, and it is done, I'm just glad I'm not the person doing it.
Pareto suggested this before Audit did.
How do you define “neutral” results?
Or the penalty is "cheap" aka worth it.
> women continue to have children at the same rate or higher than before

This is false. Birth rates are way down.
It does feel like most pure clickbait leads to some kind of supplement pitch...
Working with better programming languages and frameworks is great!
> ...and adhere to health-and-safety laws...

Aside from wages, it sounds like you agree with the sentiment of 'minimum working conditions', just perhaps disagree on the specifics of what that means.
Safe Schools Initiative – An app attempting to prevent school shootings
Disclaimer: Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) is a customer of my company Hatch Apps. I believe in their mission to use software to save lives so thought I'd share the story with the HN community:

As a response to many of the recent school shootings, SSI is using a mobile app to address the growing nationwide epidemic. The app is a mobile-first community of students, parents, teachers, and law enforcement to crowdsource information and resources to prevent the next school shooting.

The thesis of the app is to prevent school shootings by combining software with existing initiatives— users of the app can report violence, speak to law enforcement via chat, and connect with each other real-time in groups.

The non-profit is currently working on a pilot with schools in Orange and Seminole County in Florida, as well as Baltimore City Public Schools.

The founder is Chris De Ruyter, an active duty Army Lieutenant Colonel stationed at FT. Meade, MD. He founded the 501(c)3 after watching the news of the Parkland shooting.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this solution and how we can use software / technology to prevent school shootings

iOS App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/safe-schools-initiative/id1450985074?ls=1&mt=8

Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hatchapps.core.ssi
Opal 1.0 (Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler)
NYC had the same problems. Plus drivers who didn't speak English (or pretended not to), didn't know the city, or purposely took you on long, roundabout routes to collect a higher fare. Oh, and they were usually distracted. It was not uncommon for the driver to be talking to family/friends on the phone for the entire ride, or even watching television while driving (I reported the television driver to the Taxi & Limousine Commission, but I have no idea what the outcome was.)
I tried to be clear about that. They are not the same “specific harm in question”.
1 - Too late to stop liberals and conservatives from enjoying their echo chambers. (In fact, the entire implication of the First Amendment is that different people should enjoy their echo chambers if they choose to do so.)

2 - Claiming that google influences people to search for "FOX", or "CNN" is as ludicrous as claiming that google is influencing people into searching for "how to kill blacks", or "how to make bombs". My own suspicion is that people decide what they're going to search for long before they come to google. It's certainly not google influencing people to type in certain terms on its famously empty homepage.
I'm not sure if I support UBI or not. There are good arguments on both sides. I suspect that there are unintended consequences of it that are currently completely unknown (I don't know if they are good or bad).

If I'm to support UBI it would be a meager existence: enough that you can eat. Like socialism UBI need to account for eventually somebody needs to do something. Food needs to come from someplace, that means somebody had to work for it, and that somebody should get some reward for it.
If they went out of business, you could buy and install third party boards.

Not that I like that John Deer is the Apple of Farming, but let's not act like people can't hot wire and program electrical systems.
> Like, even a multibillion dollar corporation like google, if it wanted to arrest me, it would seek the help of a government. Governments have the police and guns and stuff.

Remember when 2K Games had that group of hackers who were creating cheats for GTA Online arrested and ruined their lives?

> I understand corporations can influence and share information with governments, but, obviously they are different. Obviously tons of people feel considerably more unconformable with their or another government knowing things than Google.

I know that, and I'm saying it's wrong, both of them are, and I find it strange that people are so ok with Google doing this stuff. Both of them are to be highly suspected, both of them do tons of unethical shit with tons of data they have no right to possess, and I just find it strange how everyone is largely ok with Google doing it, while hating China for it.

> And to be clear - I don't personally trust either of them at all.

Good. I'm not saying China's Government should be trusted, hell no, if that's how it came across I apologize. I'm saying they're both monsters that share a shocking number of characteristics.
I've been using Recurly for years. Very happy except about their current pricing. My next project will likely use Stripe Billing (which is improving).
Relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking

For me, twinking in World of Warcraft was locking my character's level and then finding the absolute best gear for that level. Due to how stat scaling is changed from expansion to expansion, you can find "breakpoints" where the stats from BiS (best-in-slot) gear for a level scale your stats significantly higher than what was supposed to be possible. An example of this was during the MoP expansion, level 80 twinks could use item level 409 gear (with level 80 being designed around ~272 level gear) and would get ludicrous stats, like 50% critical hit chances. This allowed level 80s to actually compete with level 90s, like when someone soloed a 10-man level 90 boss as a level 80: https://www.engadget.com/2013/01/09/level-80-paladin-solos-s...
If John Deere were to go out of business tomorrow, a huge swath of our world's farmers would be unable to produce anything thanks to tractors turning off and not working properly.

Ergo, you can count on JD not going out of business any time soon. "Too big to fail" and all that. JD's master plan has now come to fruition.
Adding these black bars and bubble charts makes the receipt three times longer than it needs to be. Printing millions of these a year would be a huge waste for something that hardly anyone would look at.
The side-by-side picture in this article has the "new" receipt cropped off at the bottom, showing only half of the things that were purchased on the same amount of paper. Add all of the pricing information, addresses, etc. and that full receipt would be insanely long.

Receipt paper is already an environmental nightmare. Let's not add more of it.
"Consumers favor sodas that are advertised to them frequently, too."

A) Information is not Soda, it's not an arbitrary choice

B) Soda is also a physical distribution business - Coke and Pepsi dominate physical distribution, shelf space etc. - these problems don't really exist in news, or rather, in totally different ways.

So - 1) they are different kinds of 'products' in terms of their civil relation (i.e. we don't care about gossip information), and 2) the businesses are actually different.