skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a unique characteristic of writers, or creatives for that matter. This is a well studied phenomena, especially in Urban Economics, called Agglomeration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration

The HN audience should be pretty familiar with this already considering how much we talk about startups and labor markets--proximity breeds productivity. Startups breed more startups, software jobs breed software jobs.

But it extends beyond that even. This is, in part, why similar stores cluster. The "cost" of doing business goes down when you're near other people who are doing the same business, for a variety of reasons. In writing, "cost" is feedback and gathering inspiration. Its hardly different at all.
I've used it to hire editors, but most used it for lead generation. They would agree to do a very small job for $5 to comply with fiverr's requirements but anything over that generated referrals to an offsite rate card.
Dribbble is just a giant circle jerk. It's actually uncomfortable reading through the comments on there. Someone changes a single pixel, on the 10000th iteration of an email icon, and you'd think they created the Sistine Chapel. It's worse than those Instagram travel accounts, where every other comment is about the "mood".
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https://www.modernhealthcare.com/technology/texas-cancer-cen...

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

If you think there are hidden variables, you're not well informed.
Well, yeah, private blockchains are practically useless unless they are a consortium chain, but even then the usefulness is questionable. Public blockchains are an entirely different beast, and I kind of just dismiss people now when they claim that public blockchains like Ethereum are useless because it's quite clear that they haven't done enough research.
Oh god yes. It's absurdly confusing. Not to mention "Windows 10 IoT Enterprise" versus "Windows 10 IoT" - the former is minified real x86 Windows, the latter is the CE successor and runs on the Raspberry Pi.
Telegram boss links cyber attack during HK protests to China
I've used Spark in prod. Worked great and was the highest QPS service in the company I worked at. It was pushing >5GB/hour of JS over ~50 running containers at more than ~1000QPS/container each doing a bunch of crypto (AES) & and data wrangling (JDBC). Only thing that was difficult was serving SSL but that was the Java SSL-key ecosystem's fault. Ideally SSL would come from an edge load balancer but this company had a strange requirement that there was no 80 traffic.
Why did you assume I "pretended" it's a choice? It IS a choice and it has always been. Most people just decided the trade-off of being denied employment and other opportunities is not worth preserving whatever privacy these tech giants are trying to "steal" from you. Market economies rarely cater to the few. That has always been the exception and not the norm.
>No they won't. I mean, it's conceivable that they could be using ARM chips (though Apple would need a strategy for emulating x86_64 in this case, like they did for PowerPC->i386)

Exactly. Apple has proven it can do emulation very successfully - it's already done it twice (M68K->PPC->x86)

> there's no way they're going to be running iOS

I didn't say "running iOS", I said "an iOS-derived OS".

>Catalyst is if anything evidence to the contrary, that Apple sees macOS as being very much alive and wants to encourage more apps to be developed for it.

That's the other interpretation. I don't see it personally: the central thrust of the article is that Apple is really good at gentle evolution. MacOS has seen no meaningful innovation in years. iOS, by comparison, has evolved significantly. It's been steadily gaining more features that move it towards being a laptop-capable OS (e.g. multi-tasking). It's certainly not there yet - but that's the trajectory.

To be clear, when I said "next generation macbooks" I didn't mean "next revision". It's probably several revisions away and it'll happen incrementally.

Still, of course, it's just opinion :). Thanks for sharing yours.
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It's likely there for either bacterial warfare, or degradation/metabolism of the mucus layer in the gut (or both).
Did you just quote yourself? Is this a thinly veiled attempt at promoting your own blogposts?

Either way I don't know why your opinion on cryptocurrencies is so harshly negative. Of course it is currently hyped up and of course it doesn't solve all problems as a magic cure-all. BUT there are several real world use cases and dismissing them all just because some people are trying to get rich in the ecosystem isn't warranted.
It's 2019, if your website doesn't support images in Lynx then it doesn't deserve my business!
> That’s twice as long as it took the United States to defeat the Axis powers, twice as long as the Civil War, longer than the time that elapsed between John Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the moon” speech and landing Americans on the moon."

Implying the United States defeated the axis powers on their own is a bit rich – don't you think?

Disregarding the revisionism of your comment, this seems to be a common argument in discussions like this and I wonder why? Isn't it fairly obvious that those ambitious undertakings were either due to significant political will or being forced by danger of death, whereas repairing a subway most probably carries none of that weight? So those responsible must fight tooth and nail to convince the powers that be of the necessity of the work, probably end up being underfunded anyhow, and of course all this requires the responsible (political) parties care enough in the first place.

It seems like a pretty unreasonable argument to me, but maybe I'm missing the point.
Yes, but most of the things people are talking about here are not contracts, I think, so I don't think the doctrine you're referring to would be applicable. Compare these two situations:

Situation 1. There is a single document with the title "CONTRACT" signed by both parties. It starts with a list of definitions and continues with a list of things that each party promises to do.

Situation 2. There is a whole pile of documents to be signed by just one of the parties, the word "contract" is not mentioned, and most of the sentences in the documents give information (warning, disclaimer, whatever) rather than express some kind of obligation.

Some kind of (implicit) contract may be created in situation 2, and the documents may have some bearing on it, but the documents are clearly not "the contract".

It's more like signing to receive a parcel than signing a contract.
Great question. We're now public[1] with the news that we're operating a trucking company, and by headcount a significant amount of starsky employees are truck drivers. Part of how we're approaching the trucking business is to automate as much of it as possible, including all this invoicing, bill of lading movement, automatic payments, doc signing, unloading/loading, and dispatch.

It's pretty easy for a carrier like ourselves to decide how to manage this business process, so we have carte blanche to work with our shipping partners on novel solutions. They're also interested in transparency and speed of transaction, and especially interested in being able to work with a truck that is easily traceable. There are modern shipping depots that have robotic unloading, but also a significant portion of freight is unloaded by the people manning the shipping/receiving offices of our freights' end destination.

[1] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/starsky-robotics-sees-truc...
And that OCR is also a load of shit.

I had an office emailing me their appointment data for a patient; I don't know if we had a similar email or something. I responded the first two times I received it that it was being sent in error, and to please stop, for the sake of everyone concerned.

On occasions 3 and 4 I attempted to contact the practice. Both times I was sent to the manager's voicemail, where I left messages that were never returned.

After a half-dozen of these occasions, I contacted OCR on behalf of the patient (you can file an OCR complaint on someone else's behalf), specifically referencing the fact that although the privacy violation is not significant, their repeated violation with no effort to stop is. I enclosed screen shots of the repeated emails I had sent the practice, and the repeated privacy-violating emails I'd gotten from them.

OCR said they'd get in contact with the practice and help them implement a technical solution to stop contacting me, and could I please give them my email address to blacklist, and asked if that solution was satisfactory.

I said, no, no that's not fucking satisfactory. They could have fixed the email issue a year ago; it doesn't require technical assistance from the government. While I appreciate trying to assist small practices in remedying technical defects rather than just being punitive, this was exactly the time to be punitive - when the technical defect is simple and easy to remedy ("we have the wrong contact info; update it"), and there was plenty of opportunity to remedy and they willfully continued to engage in the activity. And blacklisting my email address does absolutely nothing to protect the next patient's privacy.

A few weeks later I got a letter in the mail that basically restated what had been in the email, and that no further action would be taken.

(Before anyone says "but you got no more information than you would have had if you'd been sitting in the waiting room when the guy came for his appointment":

HIPAA has an exception that basically says "reveal the minimum you need to run a functional clinic, but yeah, obviously you need to run a functional clinic." So things like "patients in the waiting room" is exempt from HIPAA because, well, you won't be able to keep an office open if you can't keep a waiting room full. That same information emailed out to a random stranger - that is, absolutely not needed to be shared with me to provide routine care - does not share that exemption.)
"What about the US Media" is whataboutism - a deflection. Russian intelligence hacked U.S. political parties and used the illegally obtained information to influence the election for one candidate. The case is not closed as you say because the political party that benefitted from the foreign influence is blocking legislation to fix the problem.
Well, if it's cooked poorly, it's a gelatinous off-tasting mess. If it's cooked right, that is with enough salt and heat to absorb the excess moisture, it's relatively firm and quite delicious.
Makes sense. I have to say I haven't had the need to upgrade any laptop for the last few years. Probably since 2015 or something like that.
That's my approach. Want a logo for a project? Get it done by five different people instead of having one person do a few iterations. Over time of course you find people you'll go back to for specific types of work.
BO disgusts you but you don’t mind someone smoking meth or shooting heroin on the train/bus near to you? Because I’ve experienced both of these in SF, and it’s a bit unsettling.
Where Apple says something is an OS, they really mean it as a distinct user experience.

They want to make the infrastructure that applications rely on as similar as possible, including UI efforts like Catalyst and SwiftUI. But at the same time, they know that the user interface on a iPhone is fundamentally different than what is shown on a TV. They added Xbox/dualshock controller support specifically for tvOS - but wound up adding it to iPhone and iPad since they were really adding to the underlying platform.
I wonder if this is related (well, yes it is partially related to the trade war) to news reports of Chinese research mills that pump out bunk academic papers, even ones that are peer reviewed...which just turn out to be completely fake

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-...
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yeah he is so entertaining as a speaker, even in his older years - sometimes cheesy but I also have a soft spot for that
> If this was a commercial project, his income would be magnitudes higher.

Not necessarily. I would expect part of the reason it's one of the most used is because it's non-commercial.

I do agree it's not fair compensation, though.
While they can't just pass a law that outright bans it as a court would quickly strike it down, there are a lot of smaller laws they can pass to make it much worse.

Make it illegal for people to change their birth certificate. Make it so that all laws apply based on their original birth certificate, regardless of any changes having been made in other states or countries. Make it illegal to use facilities meant for the opposite gender. Expand fraud to include claiming and presenting as a gender not on their birth certificate, specifically when the other party is paying (yes, this could run into free speech issues). Legally declare it to be a mental illness (much like how federal law declares marijuana to have no medical value, actually being aligned with existing science is not required). Passing laws banning any form of transitioning involving minors. Pass laws introducing trans-panic as an affirmative defense for assault or homicide. Laws that prevent adoption by trans individuals (to the extent the state can do so).

I'm sure law makers spending months can come up with far worse laws that I could in 5 minutes.
No I didn't. I've even been very happy with my 2700x after a decade of using Intel. But this is a very recent development in the grand scheme of things, and AMD isn't really pulling ahead of Intel until Zen 2 launches next month.
I love the word "pre-patented" (i.e. not patented). Totally reminds me of pre-crime.

Nationalistic mumbo-jumbo aside, the patent discussion makes it obvious what the real motivations are: it's just another money-grab. "That publicly-funded research is supposed to benefit a small cadre of American pharma rentiers at everyone's expense, not Chinese ones!"
I'm applying in bioengineering right now, and man, what nonsense. PhD or bust, but the base pay is still $50k here, barely more than grad school.

There's one posting that comes up every week on LI [0]: Must have PhD in Biomedical Engineering, must be able to climb on roofs, must have PE or get one in three months of hire, $45k.

That's an insane wage for engineers, let alone for a PhD, let alone for a PE, let alone for a dual PhD-PE, let alone that you're looking at a minimum of four years to get from an EIT to a PE in CA per law [1], let alone that there is no PE for bioengineers at all.

I even interviewed with them on the phone. The lady just complained to me nearly the whole time about how 'millenials' are so entitled about wanting to make 'Frisco Money'[1]. She even confused a PE with an MD more than once. Like, my God, just bonkers.

Not all the jobs out there are that insane, but a fair number are close on the cash issues. One that I applied for in Foster City was offering $85k with middling health benefits. My direct boss only made $100k after I mentioned that minimum wage for a GED (or less) auto-mechanic in the city was ~$70k. And that the poverty line at the time was ~$110k. He said he drove in from Antioch, about three hours one way, each day. And that's what made it work for him.

Honestly, the employers seem to have gone crazy, it's the only thing that makes sense.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1315831956/

[1] https://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/laws/pe_act.pdf

[2] Having grown up in the Bay Area, anyone that calls it Frisco is seen as worse than a rabid dog and should be put down at once.
a citation that they don't? show me a citation that they do. it would be on the front page of nature if psychedelics could reverse the steady progress of malformed tau.

i am a big believer in psychedelics, incidentally. i've seen the evidence for their ability to help people cope with traumatic experiences, to curb addictions, and i personally enjoy them, but they don't stop this disease.
Great points here. We definitely don't have the language to discuss these problems currently. "ambient privacy" is a good start.

"I’ve lost something by the fact of being monitored." is very true, but deniers will say: "what's the something?" and we just don't have the language to explain it yet.
Public to whom? The citizens of the country funding the research, or to those of a country that steals the result?
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> VB.NET was 99% compatible with the good parts of VB6.

Without backwards compatibility with VB6, there are no good parts of VB.NET. The Visual Basic syntax isn't that great to begin with and VB.NET then added more horrible keywords like `AndAlso` and `OrElse`.

In my opinion, most of that list isn't actually too bad. But it doesn't matter, all the horrors should have been included and then deprecated, giving a smooth upgrade path. Instead all VB6 code had to stay on VB6 as it was no where near 99% compatible. You have a language with different semantics, completely new way of building the UI, and superficial but incomplete syntax similarities. Anyone who was forced to rewrite, and was smart, went to C#.
I'm glad the author here called out that being predictable via following through on "rules" isn't enough - rules need to comprehensible and reasonable in their own right to be understood. He's also got a good grasp on the importance of properly phrasing things for children to understand. His point here seemed spot on:

> Similarly, adults understand that you don't have authority over everyone around you, but with kids phrasing like "Mama can read to you when we get home" isn't as good as "I'll ask Mama if she'll read to you when we get home." Or, even better, "when we get home you can ask Mama if she'll read to you.

Reminds me of a piece I read here a while ago [1] about how Mr. Rogers would intentionally phrase things very carefully on his show in order to avoid ambiguity. He also emphasized phrasing things in a way that gave the child some insight into the reasoning and a sense of responsibility - so they could feel good about doing the right thing instead of just learning blind obedience.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers...
Rollup is worth a look, too. I'm using it now instead of webpack for all my new/small-ish/experimental js projects: https://rollupjs.org/guide/en/
This is a little weird to me. Why purge cancer research? So what if China steals a cure for certain types of cancer and starts making it? Some American company makes slightly less profit? It's not a national security issue, like making sure critical infrastructure is only open to the NSA. It wouldn't even be easy to reimport a "cancer cure" pill from china into the American market. And it's way easier to reverse engineer a drug that china produces from research stolen from the US then it is to do that research in the first place.
There are updated videos of our UI floating around the internet. This one is pretty recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HtOhbMSv5c&amp

Excuse the mood lighting, we're experimenting with eye-strain on the remote drivers.
I would totally buy it if you're able to ship to Canada. Love collecting and building with LEGO.
Just because the standard is free does not mean that any single implementation is, you are free to charge for software implementing a standard just as you would be otherwise.

A proper standard needs to be free (both as in speech and beer), otherwise it needs investment to see that a implementation meets the standard (which in itself goes against the idea of having standards) or to modify it to propose improvements.

The work of developing standards can be done by people/companies who benefit from the standard, either financially or via other ways and those people/companies have their motivations to work on it.
Bill Gates 1994: This CD can hold more information than the paper below me
Philosophically speaking, immutability is an important component in a perfect record keeping system. You don’t ever want anyone to be able to doctor a document without being able to see the prior document and who made the change.

Practically speaking, there are a number of other hurdles for implementing a perfect record keeping system, like accurately reconciling the record with reality.

What people really want is a record keeping system that’s hard to cheat. Blockchain technology makes certain types of cheating harder, but not others. So it’s not exactly what people want, but it looks like it’s a step in the right direction.
They have 7 offices so there's probably a lot of people who have jobs to communicate between offices.
US tax payers is fronting $28 billion a year for NIH research. There is a lot of IP coming out of that that belongs to them, and not the Chinese Communist Party. There is such a thing as licensing agreements.
Again, there are many successful scientific collaborations between US and China so don't be surprised that among some of these scientists there are some with bad characters tempted to share confidential information.
Mark Brown is a stellar presenter, and it's especially interesting to watch the model he uses expand and mature as he progresses through the Boss Keys series. He adapts it as he encounters challenges to his existing model in newer titles.
I stopped reading after "Alibaba does not own WeChat but rather's it's competition Alipay"...

What are you talking about??

Alipay and Alibaba are under the same AliGroup umbrella, not its competitor. 30% of Alibaba stake is actually owned by Japanese conglomerate holding company SoftBank
There's a great Polish sci-fi novel - Paradyzja (~/Paradise/) (wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradyzja) which describes ever-eavesdropped society. In the end, the society develops a metalanguage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang) to evade automatic systems which record and analyze all written and spoken communications (even at peoples' homes).

I wonder if WeChat users already developed something similar.
The scale is massively different though. When you make a page today 95% of it works on all browsers. Back in the IE6 days that wasn't even remotely true, which is why things like jQuery came into existence, not to mention the insane CSS hacks required. IE calculated padding differently to every other browser, requiring you to rewrite any code that used it. There's no equivalent to that today.

Today isn't a dreamland, but it is in no way as bad as the IE6 days.
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> Everything they do should be a public good.

It seems the main disagreement is on how to define public in this context. Should it be for the good of humanity, or the good of the United States? And, if it's the latter, how can that restriction be enforced?
That's usually how it normally works with creative agencies in the industry. You brief them and they come up with a creative work, but there's always several rounds of back-and-forth to get refine it to the point you want it at.
Trade war is one thing, but using trade war to purge an entire ethnic group is a totally different level.

Remember those Japanese in concentration camp during WWII? I thought this won't happen again. But now, with those news and comments, I need to reconsider.
There's a joke about monoids and semigroups in here somewhere but my lack of a college education is hindering me.
Whats a PIP?
wonder if this was for softening up or killing macro parasites and eggs
> Some American company makes slightly less profit?

I mean, bingo.
To put it into perspective: It's like half the price of an expensive phone.

High end phones has gotten way more expensive, but there are still consumer products.
China frankly deserves it.

They chose to steal IP from companies on a level never been seen. So of course countries and companies are wary of doing business with them. And many countries have issues with China not just the US.