skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And you must give those institutions some power to intervene sometimes against the will of those they are intervening with. And I have no illusions. Involuntary commitment to mental health care and drug treatment and community involvement are often ugly but Americans make it clear over and over that even though vagrants and homeless are generally not a problem that much affects those other than the vagrants and homeless themselves we will never collectively tolerate their presence.

It might be worth reviewing why Americans turned so harshly against involuntary commitment to mental health care institutions. It was a parade of horrors that made Abu Ghraib look like Disney World. Convincing people that we'll get it right, reliably, at massive scale this time around is something of a daunting task.
> when the Polish city Łódź had gone from a village to become one of the main industrial centers in the whole of Europe

To what degree it was his doing though? Industrial revolution was happening all over Europe, so what Tzar had to do with it? (I'm genuinely asking). I imagine that maybe he approved projects for building railroads which allowed industry to flourish, but otherwise I am out of ideas.
Because homelessness aggravates a controllable condition into an uncontrolled one. Treatment should be provided but it's not going to do much good if the patient is just going to live on the street.

You'll find the number of homeless with mental health problems corresponds with the total number of homeless which corresponds directly with housing prices. So until there is a major effort to drive those prices down, this problem will worsen, as it has for a generation now.

And of course Sinclair broadcasting is pushing to lock up the poor rather than do that.
Fun fact: Last I heard, Washington state does not consider hydro to be renewable [0]. I don't know if any other states are similar.

[0]: https://shiftwa.org/its-time-wa-considers-hydropower-as-rene...
This is the right link I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20412622
Is that the Theranos model?
I didn't downvote, but feel that it's different when the copyrighted content is hosted directly here on HN. Both in a practical sense, since it's a very long comment and kind of ruins the flow of the comments page, and in some ethical/moral sense. Just dump it on a pastebin/gist and link it if we're gonna steal it.
This exact issue was pointed out many times with automated license plate scanning came into existence. Is it really Palantir's fault for making software to aggregate the data? In my view it is our fault as citizens for allowing the government to collect such data in the first place.

Any other company with enough developers and data scientists can do what Palantir does. It's the massive amount of information their software uses that is the concern. But that data is collected by our government, and so we have legal recourse to it, either under current law or by passing new privacy laws.
Does gimp feature non-destructive multiple filtering on layers yet ? Photoshop CS2 (and you know why I mention that specific version) from more than ten years ago has it.
There is not yet a universally-used package for plotting. One recent tool is Makie.jl [1]. Many use Plots.jl [2] as an interface to PyPlot, GR [3], and other backends. I.e. you can change the backend with a single command.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl

[2] https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl

[3] https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl
Just to bring up a neat point, this doesn't guarantee that the documentation and the code are the same, as you could change code without updating documentation.

A very slick way of enforcing this that I've seen is having actual unit tests in your documentation (and of course a CI tool to enforce that tests pass). This is something that I think is extremely cool about Elixir! It forces you to think about testing, documentation (with ACTUAL examples!!), and the problem you're solving all at once. It's a very neat concept.

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-a...
Always appreciate the transparency from you and Cloudflare. :)

My main fright during this outage wasn't really the outage itself, but the fact that I couldn't log into the dashboard and simply click the orange cloud to bypass Cloudflare in the meantime. I'm assuming that this is now covered by this mitigation:

>> 6. Putting in place an emergency ability to take the Cloudflare Dashboard and API off Cloudflare's edge.

If so, and if this would have prevented the dashboard outage even during the WAF fiasco, this is a huge comfort to me. Just curious, though: how far can you really go in separating Cloudflare "the interface" from Cloudflare "the network?"

And in general, what does everyone on HN think about mission-critical companies using their own infrastructure and being their own customer? Especially when the alternative is using a competitor?
"The S&P has only returned 4.8% CAGR [1] from 2000-2018 so that was a pretty tremendous ROI for Bonilla."

Anytime I read about this contract (and it comes up every year or so, somewhere) I wonder if Bonilla sold off his interest in the contract in return for a lump payment.

That's a very common arrangement and I never hear whether or not he did that ...
In Europe, the law disagrees with you.
Given that before self-same idiots would be driving two ton death boxes, this seems like a pretty good trade off to me.
Agreed 100%. And forget even having a place to be. Just finding a place to answer the call of nature is a problem. America, where if you don't have money, it's a crime to piss anywhere but in your pants.
...what the fuck are you talking about?
Why put the class docs in a separate .rst instead of just leaving it in the class docstring? I suppose there's syntax highlighting, though that seems like an editor issue.
No

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1804
There is a TODO file
I've always thought the best thing would be to have a time-travel machine. You could spend a day with your kids as infants and enjoy it. The next day you could spend with them as teens and enjoy it. Then the third day spend with them as 11 year-olds and enjoy it.

Each of those ages are incredible and filled with irreplaceable experiences. It's easy to get jaded when you move through them so slowly.
Not much to add. Had a quick glance at the code and set it up. Nice work on the single binary install and UI!
Yes, you can illegally discriminate in hiring if you choose to. Most major companies are very careful not to do this. In every case I have had a background check done on me I have asked for the company doing the check to send a copy and in every case the report sent to me certainly appeared to be following the law (the reports explicitly mention how far back they are reviewing).
I don't agree with basing motivations on the appearance of people's names, but it's almost for surveillance by definition, no?

Are there non-surveillance use cases for identifying persons of interest across cameras?
Their primary business is unavailable to them for half the year in most of the world because of weather, and half of the day. How is this multi-billion dollar business, if they already have 700M in funding and they want another 300M?
I've never seen somebody drive a car on the sidewalk.

I see scooteridiots going 15+ MPH on the sidewalk all the time.
> I do wish Nvidia drivers were better

Get AMD. Why do people insist on getting Nvidia cards and then complain that those aren't aimed at them? Get the one that is selling to you.
> Windows 98, ME, Vista etc famously struggled with BSODs all the time.

Windows 98 and ME struggled with BSODs because they were still built on something designed as a GUI layer on top of a CP/M clone. Vista mostly fixed all that. I've been running Windows 7 for most of a decade now without a single BSOD.
I for one am currently 100% certain that I'm perfectly sane, but that's just my opinion, which, on balance, is worth about as much as the opinion of the homeless guy on Broadway who yells at passersby all day long. I'm sure he also thinks he's perfectly sane. Both such opinions are extremely subjective. In fact, I'd brand as psychotic anyone possessing enough audacity to diagnose me with mental illness. How dare they suggest that I've lost my marbles?

So, to answer your question: no, I'm not willing to take drugs, because I'm 100% certain that I'm perfectly sane.

IMHO this is what makes the mental health conversation so difficult: we don't all seem to share a consistent worldview in the best of times, let alone when one's mental faculties are impacted by illness. How can we find neutral cognitive ground where a mentally ill person can be brought up to speed with the Objectively So?

I suspect that the level of trust and compassion required to do this can only materialize in a family setting. I also find it ironic that the absence of a solid familial fabric is surely a significant contributor to mental illness to begin with.
Fear of missing out. These risky bets fit into the long-shot side of part of a balanced portfolio, and if they do make it, those who have backed them are positioned to make good money. When the appetite of VCs cools, these get dumped on the public stock markets, where the cycle repeats once more.
AFAIK Doctest actually comes from Python originally.
This is my thinking as well... however, my assumption is that the majority of R&D will need to go into operations innovation and brand new last mile mobility strategies.

Strong operations will allow bird to continue to cut costs.

(I'm hoping) There's still room to innovate on winterized, electric, single person products.
What is this comment meant to imply?
Having personally worked on the “classic” infrastructure at Oracle, it was a complete disaster. The end user experience is also what I’d imagine a cloud service would have been like circa 1995

The “new” stuff is better in comparison but that’s really just damning with faint praise.
Oh damn, I was hoping this was a new programming language.
The fact that it is not listening on an incoming network port makes it less of a server IMO. Proxies still proxy things back to another server that is listening for TCP connections, not to a client that has previously initiated a connection to the proxy.
Business is complicated, so some people earnestly believe that if they have a bit more time they can work out the bugs. In some cases, this is true. In others, it's not.

When it's not, it may seem like they are deluded or scammers. Maybe they are, but a more charitable interpretation is that business -- especially new businesses -- are like six blind men and an elephant, which means people can strongly disagree about the nature of the beast while both parties are simultaneously right about the pieces they know and understand and both are equally wrong in the aggregate.

You make a paper airplane. You toss it into the wind and see if it flies. No amount of debate (concerning what should fly) changes whether it did or did not actually fly.
Is the next step going to be bringing back motherboards with 16 or 32 ram sockets so that each processor thread can have it's own bank of RAM to play with?

I'm not sure that'd be a bad thing really, but the DRC of that many high speed signals would probably be a nightmare.
You must be new to gaming. Look what people do in Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft... Or Eve Online.
"[Four days prior to the incident] Two nodes became stalled for yet-to-be-determined reasons."

How did they not catch this? It's super surprising to me that they wouldn't have monitors for this.
Hope you are right and I'm wrong. But by some strange coincidence, most of projects for face-recognition I read about last time are authored by people from China and Russia. Hope it's just coincidence that this group of authors consist from researchers with chinese names (except their chief). World is small.
Probably not. $1.2MM doesn't buy you much baseball player.
I know it's going to become an even bigger bottleneck moving forward, but it really raises the barrier for us hobbyists.

I own a 1080ti (12GB RAM) - and I consider this "high-end" for many people who aren't actively employed for machine learning (College kids and younger especially). I know you can "use the cloud" but I would really prefer not to...
Yep, that's the exact bullet point I was writing a response on. Security and abuse are of course special little snowflakes, with configs that need to be pushed very fast, contrary to all best practices for safe deployments of globally distributed systems. An anti-abuse rule that takes three days to roll out might as well not exist.

The only way this makes sense is if they mean that there'll be a staged rollout of some sort, but it won't be the same process as for the rest of their software. I.e. for this purpose you need much faster staging just due to the problem domain, but even a 10 minute canary should provide meaningful push safety against this kind of catastrophic meltdown. And the emergency process is something you'll use once every five years.
Think bigger fool. Like art, if you are willing to have someone invest and take your risk later ... it can make sense until the music stops.
(2017), which is even more impressive.
I'm getting nauseous in more than one way just reading this.

How do people living in a place like that not look inwards and wonder at what turn they committed a colossal fuckup that got them where they are now?

Your post sounds like fiction to anyone living in civilized conditions, but I don't doubt you are telling the truth (even if you are exaggerating).
They could be lying about the 30 mile range. That was my first (cynical) thought.
(edited to consolidate my comments) Here are the reasons I can think of

1) compelling if it all works out. Invest clear-eyed and hope the founding team figures out the roadblocks. Greedy but not stupid; most successful startups start by 'doing things that don't scale.'

2) Pattern-matching / top-down portfolios. Mobile apps. Sharing economy. Subscription businesses. Electric Vehicles. Internet of Things. A lot of investors decide on themes for portfolio before they look at investments. Scooter sharing ticks a lot of boxes.

3) Adverse selection. It's a simple idea - anyone can grasp scooters as subscription. So the simplest-minded investors chose this rather than more subtle ideas.

4) as another comment suggested, investors are playing a game of musical chairs between funding rounds. Chamath Palihapitiya claims this as the reason his firm is stepping back from VC -- so he's walking the talk here https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/start-up-economy-is-a-ponzi-...
#fail

It's nice that sites out there are thinking "we should do something nice for Hacker News as a way to build buzz."

But kinda defeats the purpose when they didn't actually do what they said they did.
Same. And so struck was I by the writing and the story I scanned that I went back and read it aloud in an effort to get as much out of it as I good.

These gems are treasures.
How is their market share at all secured? It's not hard for anyone else to dump a bunch of scooters in a locale already swamped by Bird. Yes, users would have to install a different app, but my hunch is most users will use whatever scooter is closest and/or in the best repair (even if it means installing another app).
Not quite the same, but reminded me of reversible debugging: https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/news/reversible.html
Since you advertise that your tech is suitable for lead sourcing

We don't. The line you quoted above is from my LinkedIn profile where it's describing my responsibilities as founder of the company. So, of course, part of what I do is prospecting and identifying leads. All companies do that, I don't think anything we do falls into the "nefarious" range. We aren't using retargeting or buying user information from data mining companies, etc. Our prospecting basically starts and stops with Twitter and LinkedIn... Not exactly spook stuff.

And while I can respect that some people take things to such extremes that they can even find mundane things like advertising unethical; I'm pretty comfortable with my own sense of ethics and our attempt to do the right things. In either case, attempting to draw any parallel between us and Palantir is an exercise in absurdity. Notice that there's no HN top-page stories titled "Fogbeam Lab's Secret User Manual For Cops", etc. :-)
on top of giving the correct article, I would appreciate if you could unlock this (related) one too, thanks Jay! https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-incredible-rise-...?
Another thing: My understanding of the bystander effect is that it's based on the pop culture understanding of the Kitty Genovese event (see top root comment for real story), which has an additional requirement: The bystanders can't see/talk to each other, but know the others are there in their apartments. The added anonymity is supposed to decrease obligation to help, decreasing the chance anyone will help.
I can't find any indication Oliver did a Libya special?

Do you have a link? There's a short discussion of John Bolton's Libya model, where it relates to North Korea, but that's all I can find.
I'm Stripe's CTO and wrote a good deal of the RCA (with the help of others, including a lot of the engineers who responded to the incident). If you've any specific feedback on how to make this more useful, I'd love to hear it.
Yanky 72 Mishap Animation [video]
Lidar-Adv (3D printed adversarial objects)
That depends on the data point and the hypothesis. For example, the claim that the Titanic was unsinkable was pretty definitively falsified with a single data point.
It's still an stupid mistake MS made that could be once back. That's enough for me for staying away from the MS tax for life.
phpList CEO here. Listmonk looks awesome - great to see more freedom of choice for Open Source Marketers.

Not sure what SMTP setup you had with phpList, but sending 1.5m messages on a VPS should take less than a day with the right Postfix tweaks.
>CPU/MEM are being virtualized using hardware extensions at (near-)native speeds.

Is that really true for rasp level gear? Haven't tested it but my gut feel tells me the hit is sizable.

Anyway - don't let that dissuade you from the mission. Container goodies on a rasp is a grand idea...just don't think it's quite as hit free as the article suggests ;)
It's a philosophical disagreement - I don't want the government picking who can and can't invest their own money into what investments. Many developed countries, such as Switzerland, have no such laws and the world isn't crashing down for them.
I've always been a proponent of separating the monitoring from the infra. Otherwise your insight is binary: the service is either up or down. You don't have an context as to why.

Edit: Additionally, from a competitive standpoint, I don't see a problem with using a third-party platform for a monitoring service.
>> Bird scooters is a completely unviable business.

There's almost certainly a viable business. At the end of the day, it's a question of whether the unit economics will work out. These scooters cost $1K and on average, each scooter gets ridden ten times a day with an average fare of $5. It doesn't take rocket science to see a profitable solution even with maintenance costs. The problem right now is that these companies are being extremely wasteful in order to capture market share.
Let not that be an excuse for our laziness in developing renewable energy.
The network effect strikes again ...
I don't see how it was even a particularly bad contract, let alone the "worst in sports history".

Borrowing money at 8% is a pretty reasonable commercial lending rate for the time (30-year fixed mortgages were only a couple points lower).

So, they took out a $5.9MM loan from Bonilla to pay Bonilla, accrued interest for 11 years without making any payments, and then started paying it off on a 25 year amortization schedule, all at 8% interest.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wWMBl9YsLfjC3A6A_ZI6...
All you've described is costs, not why costs must necessarily be higher than revenue. Every business has costs, many businesses have seasonality, and every VC blitzscaling business operates at a loss in order to capture market share. It's the playbook.

Here's a counterpoint why it might be a viable business: it unlocks a new market. Scooters enable a new class of trips: trips between 0.5 and 2 miles. There's currently not a lot of trips happening in that distance... below that you can walk, above that you take transit, but that coffee shop 1 mile and change away is just enough of a pain in the ass that it's not worth going there. Unless there was something that made it easy to go that distance.

Scooters are a new modality of transport that opens up an entirely new class of trips. Combined with the fact that the population is broadly trending towards dense urban environments, you have a whole new market you've unlocked.

Scooters aren't about replacing Lyft rides -- no one uses a scooter for a full hour -- scooters are about servicing trips that are too short for an lyft.
Hmmm.
Like:
https://www.bestskinsever.com/laptop-skin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGWWIwio-4
Not using PDF would be a good start. Bookdown texts tend to be good for mixed code/prose sections.
> I feel that you're confusing Access & FileMaker users with users of Excel.

I know several people who use or used Access / Filemaker who were non-technical with previous experience mostly consisting of Word / light Excel use.

For example, my anthropologist parents used Access for analyzing their manually gathered census data for a small rural village.

The volunteer docents at a local museum in my hometown used Filemaker for managing the museum collection.

> whether they realize it or not, become programmers

Using the graphical tool in Access to construct queries does not require becoming a proficient programmer.

> A relational database is not a big leap from either Access or FileMaker

These are relational databases. They just have user interface affordances intended for non-technical users. Postgres does not.
Agreed. And you prove my point in a way. Our litigious (Edit: and racially preferential) culture is part of the issue.

A holistic approach is a principled one. Clear laws are principled.

For example, noise ordinances in SF say there's a violation if event or action is 10 decibels greater than the ambient.

Or, if you push someone, harass a child en route to school, shoot up on the street, defecate on the street, etc. These are clear violations.
It shouldn't - the damage dams do to our fisheries is devastating. We likely wouldn't need fish farms and genetic modified salmon if we didn't have so many dams.

It would be interesting to see what effects the New Deal had on our fish populations... https://livingnewdeal.org/new-deal-categories/infrastructure...
We don't have them in my city (thankfully), but in the cities I've visited most of the people using them were teenage joyriders who would otherwise be walking.
They don't seem to be a scheduled service operator. They look like a charter airline.

Common definition of a "commercial operation" for airlines is scheduled operation, not charters.

So... That boeing just may be the oldest flying airliner on scheduled routes.
These are people whose job duties are, in part, protecting the lives of immigrants, and they're laughing about the deaths of those same immigrants. Their specific bigotry clearly makes them unsuitable for this specific job.
Very deceptive headline. Lying to the SEC was a minor part of what he was convicted of. The major charge was securities fraud - stealing from his customers to cover up his losses.

The article says:

> Montroll allegedly defrauded his customers by failing to disclose a hack of the exchange in July 2013. The Bitfunder operator then attempted to cover it up by misappropriating their funds to hide the lost bitcoins, according to federal prosecutors.

And:

> Montroll pleaded guilty to federal charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw