skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former radio amateur I can tell you the emergency services use radio extensively for communication and no IT skills are required there. The simpler solution is more reliable. That's one of the reasons coding skills are not required where I live - those are complex and can be hard to maintain. Already mentioned below, btw:

>You may leave them in a worse situation as now they have less control, less understanding and if they need to change things and you or someone very similar to you (which is a rare combination) is no longer available, they're basically stuck.
I just loaded it to check something, and it is slow to load and scroll, but other things are not too bad. It's written in racket, right? It could be worse, I'd compare favorably it to a java swing GUI 10 years ago, and it looks native on windows. Probably better behaving than electron UIs, to beat a dead horse.
Nope, my doomsday prediction are based on almost two decades of following the issue closely and some educational background that has overlap. But I'm not a climate scientist and I recognize that. But I do think you are understating the severity of this (all models trending up and observed changes that agree with the models)
Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the telecommunications executives of America as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
That’s true in Virginia too. But in the flip side, most people live in the expensive metro areas.

The chart I posted uses the BEA’s regional price parity figures: https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/methodologies/RPP201...
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Schengen is about being able to check at your borders. Indeed the UK can still do that, despite being in Europe.

However, the UK still has to allow free movement of people. Meaning that it can not stop Europeans from living in the UK. This does not cover working though, and I believe that some European nationalities still have to apply for a work permit.

See http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/147/free-m...
Norway is doing the same thing starting next year, and I really like it, even though the content is increasingly getting predictably all-consuming right wing as each year goes by. ;)

I actually bought my very first TV (since I discovered I was able to download South Park and The Simpsons and watch it on my computer in the early 2000s) a few months ago hoping to make the cut off so I would be able to say I'd paid the old license at least once in my lifetime (the license is divided into two payments per year), but it seems like the webshop I bought it from was nice enough to not supply my address info to the licensing office in time as I haven't received any bill. Oh well.
I think they were shortening your words "It used to be the case that anyone criticizing the BBC was downvoted to oblivion" to "backlash".

Also I haven't heard about the BBC becoming less popular, do you have any evidence for this? As far as I recall, BBC 1 is still the nation's favourite channel.

It would be interesting to know how you voted in the EU referendum, as I tend to find this sort of anti-BBC-ness the greatest amongst Leave voters for no apparent logical reason.
What if your area had the same deforestation rate as the Amazon Forest?
Offhand, I feel your advice is contrary.

You suggest increasing the price because "If outcomes from using your app compare favorably to a therapist, shouldn't your pricing reflect that?", but then the next two points on brand and stigma suggest opening it up to all people who want to feel great.

I think you need to choose one. You are either a niche therapy compliment/competitor (price insensitive) or a mental wellbeing tool for a broad audience (super price sensitive).

I personally hope you keep to the lower price point. I think overall you will do more Good and reach more people. Even if you don't make a unicorn, $4/month from 5% of your market, is still $20M/month.

Also, final note, many people suffering from mental illness can not afford therapy. Even $4 would be hard, $50 is impossible.
Mind if I ask where you took the phone?

I have a Jailbroken iPhone, and I'd love to find a good non-Apple repair place for the next time I need to get my battery swapped.
In Israel you were used to be required to provide your equivalent of ssn upon purchase of a tv setm, so the gov would be able to charge you public tv fee. the fee was finally abolished couple years ago.
I mean, I hope you're leaving some distance between your RAM and the cutoff.
Tons of neat stuff gets built and then not used for a number of reasons (political, pricing, scaling, etc). It doesn't meant building it isn't worth it though.
In California, Penal Code 647(j):

(1) A person who looks through a hole or opening, into, or otherwise views, by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a periscope, telescope, binoculars, camera, motion picture camera, camcorder, or mobile phone, the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside. This subdivision does not apply to those areas of a private business used to count currency or other negotiable instruments.
Having just finished re-watching Ken Burns' Civil War for the first time in 20 years or so, like a freshman psychology student who now understands the motivations of the entire world, there is a line in the documentary, stated I believe by Shelby Foote, that stuck with me

> Before the war, it was said, "The United States are." Grammatically, it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. After the war, it was always "the United States is," as we say today without being self-conscious. That sums up what the war accomplished. It made us an "is." *

I certainly, today, think of the U.S. as a whole, not as a collection of independent states, and consider the issue of states' rights to be a generally pointless debate.

* Ignore the issues for a moment with the documentary itself and with Shelby Foote, who has stated Nathan Bedford Forrest is "one of the most attractive men who ever walked through the pages of history" -- seriously, I don't even know what to do with that. And I don't know if they did their footwork -- a textual analysis of, say, newspapers prior and subsequent to the Civil War saying "the United States are" compared to "the United States is." From what I've seen regarding issues with the documentary, I would question it, but I don't know for certain. Some things they seem to have done good scholarly work on; others, not as much.
And this is why we are famously "two nations divided by a common language" :-) Although it goes deeper than language and right down to social norms.
Nice - i've been a long time fan of https://jsoneditoronline.org/ which has some nice sort/filter functions built in.

You can also just open chrome / firefox dev tools console and assign it to a variable...

Sadly, all of these tools fall over for very large json objects
There is a good reason for that: It is an ideal location for downlinking data from satellites in polar orbit. https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/meld.-st.-32-201520...

(Edit: But the article points that out.)
The person that wrote that paragraph would really hate the comp.* and sci.* newsgroups in the early 1990s!
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I maintain a (formerly) popular Python third-party library. At one time it was in the top few hundred most-downloaded packages on PyPI. Unfortunately (thanks to work and life) I haven't actively worked it for several years now, even though it's still a dependency for a few very well-known projects.

Every time I try to get back to it and get started again, I remember all the roadblocks. These are probably not that hard to overcome, but psychologically they keep making it easier to do nothing rather than dig in:

- All the latest work is in an "next generation" branch that's been converted to Python3. I'm not sure whether I should release this as a separate "NG" package, or do a bunch of work to make it 2.x compatible again, or if I can use something like 3to2.

- There's a lot of changes on that "next generation" branch that I need to document.

- I haven't read any of my project email or mailing list traffic in years.

- The project is hosted in mercurial on Bitbucket, I want to migrate it to git on Github. I have an old attempt to transfer it on Github already, I need to figure out how to update that to the latest mercurial revision.

- I should release a new version of the "old" (released) codebase with bugfixes, but I'm not as familiar with it anymore, compared to the "next gen" code.

Has anyone else gone through this? Any advice on where to start? Should I try to find a partner to help motivate me? Even just words of encouragement might help at this point ;)
Wow, I never heard of this before. I found the following article and it was an interesting read:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/oct/30/pay-as-you-vie...
Fair enough, I don't think it's a huge deal, it just makes it very inconvenient to use any cool parts of your code commercially or in other projects. Sometimes I'll work on a project without knowing if I'll ever commercialize it, and I try to err on the side of using MIT (or Apache) libraries/code as opposed to (L)GPL.
Do you have the encoder side of this also?
I don’t expect to change your mind, but this just isn’t how things work. MS are not a front for the government. Also, you are giving the government far too much credit in terms of how they are organized to even dream that a deal like that could work. Not to mention it would be a massive scandal when it inevitably leaked. This is the same company that famously refused to backdoor bitlocker and fairly recently has been suing the US government to fight against court orders to ha d over data. I suppose you think that’s all a charade to trick the public though...
Purely my opinion:

Like many hip big startups today, one of their strongest competitive advantage is having users. Most users come because product A offers a better UX than product B.

At least I feel that most big FAANG companies are mostly UX plays. In some cases you have to get very technical and innovative to give a good UX (Google), but in other cases not (Facebook).
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Oh, bad opinions get downvoted or flagged all the time regardless of how they’re presented.

My opinion of “ad tracking is not harmful” obliterated whenever I express it.

"Yelp brings value to its users" was obliterated a few days ago.
Even better, just open the JSON file in Firefox.
We are too busy complaining about Californians stealing our jobs and houses to think much about Oregonians (and I was born in Portland so...).
”where you wouldn't really want to live anyway”

When reading the article, I wondered whether global warming might change that. It won’t (fully) flood (highest mountains are over 1 km high), and has ”has an Arctic climate, although with significantly higher temperatures than other places at the same latitude.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitsbergen)

It probably will stay on the ‘too cold for most’ side, though, and the long winter night won’t go away.
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Lots of entities do it. It's usually a feature in the software that runs the admin interface. FB should not be granted this patent. This is crazy!

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-patents-shadowbanning-183641134...
Are there "bridges" (apart from Git itself) between GitHub, Gitlab, etc? Such could help to mitigate a vendor lock-in.
So you’re saying that some social graces have a positive side effect of reducing crime? How is that not wholesome?
Link to the font: https://rsms.me/inter/

I am not one who gets worked up over typefaces so my short take is "yet another san-serif font" but the discussion about why he chose to do things in certain ways was useful for me in appreciating how this font differs from other, similar offerings.
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> This is a verbal pattern used by bigots throughout history, including those who have bashed me personally on the basis of race and sexuality. What's your p-value based on your sample size?

I haven't evaluated it scientifically. My description of the lifecycle of a startup is a result of my observations made working at such a startup. These observations are consistent with what I read around on the web.

> The ends don't justify the means. You seem to be pushing a notion, that sufficient evil justifies evil in turn.

No. I don't see disobedience as an evil that needs to be justified to be committed. I think that evaluating when things are evil has to be postponed until after evaluating the context. Without the context applying the word "evil" is nonsensical. In a particular case its context may imply that obedience will lead to your boss making more money and making it faster at the cost of harming regular people. Disobedience in form of e.g. suboptimal performance at work may delay the product, make your boss angry, your colleagues slightly irritated with your code (but still I bet there is nothing you can write in a short time which will frustrate them more than a decade-old legacy code everybody is scared to touch) with the benefit of lowering the cost to regular people. No I understand a boss would be very pleased with their employees fulfilling their every wish, but it doesn't make it the right thing to do. You may also not be in a position to risk your job. And perhaps the benefit to society gained by sabotage is abysmal and doesn't justify its cost. But it's all in the context. I would be very suspicious of any ethics system which said you should be obedient at all times, or even encouraged you to be obedient by default. Humans should have their conscience.
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Recently I've started going through the greyed/flagged comments at the bottom of every post - you would be surprised how often there are reasonable, well thought out comments downvoted or flagged because it hit a nerve with enough HN users.
A Norwegian friend told me this a few years back; how the licensing people can just go into your homes when they show up and check for the presence of TVs. Crazy.
The person that wrote that paragraph would really hate the comp.* and sci.* newsgroups of the early 1990s, compared to which HN is a bunch of young women at a tea party spending most of their time advocating fashionable social causes and worrying whether they've hurt each others feelings.
Wow, the completely untested downvotes are an incredible indictment of HN's moderation.
The proper term for what you describe is a Share taxi also know as a Jitney or a Dollar Van (because a ride costs $1). They used to be popular in underserved inner-cities (e.g. East New York) and were ran on an ad-hoc basis.

This model is far from new. It just has a nice mobile app frontend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi#Jitney
I think he's definitely correct that we're too cheap right now, but I agree that you can still make quite a company and still be dramatically cheaper than any reasonable option. There's definitely a middle ground.
Yes, I know what that xkcd is; it gets posted all the time too.

No, sorry, beating a dead horse still isn’t justified.
> Google had a I/A release cycle where every other hardware platform cycled between Intel and AMD.

Was the I/A cycle intended just to keep Intel and AMD on their toes, knowing that Google's data centers and software seamlessly supported both platforms? Was there any technical benefit, other than ensuring Google's software was portable?
Something that’s missing from this analysis, I feel like, is this:

There needs to be a passionate owner. A technical leader who understands customers and their needs, understands what’s technically possible, and has the imagination to connect those two things.

I don’t know what you call that person, but it sure helps if he’s got a c in front of his name. CTO, CPO, whatever.

This something the article kinda glosses over, but maybe shouldn’t.

(I’m not sure if this person is great for the CEO role, by the way, just because of how freaking busy the CEO tends to be. There’s too much for her to do to also fulfill this role.)
If you define "world's preeminent ML researchers" as people who publish then you are begging the question. Would you be aware of preeminent ML researchers that don't publish?

I think it is mistake to underestimate the computer science talent inside parts of the US intelligence community, some of it is exceptionally good. Most people in Silicon Valley have never met or worked with these people. I once asked a former professor from a highly regarded CS school why he quit academia to work for one of the agencies. For him it was simple: he could spend his days doing nothing but hardcore non-incremental CS research while avoiding the politics, incrementalism, and other tendencies of academia. Pure quality of life doing meaningful work in a low stress environment was more valuable to him than money or status. Many people do research solely for the challenge of solving hard problems, publishing is not important to them.

The inclusiveness and diversity of the work environment is also an overlooked attraction. The demographics don't look like your typical SV startup. Government organizations have many issues but providing equal opportunity for minorities is not one of them. Not everyone is comfortable working for tech companies.

There may be nothing to the article but don't write it off solely on the basis of presumed "second rate talent". There are research groups inside US intelligence that have world-class talent on par with the FAANG companies.
The only real advantage I saw in the article is the addition of macros
As a long time Eclipse user, Erlide has been working fine for me (1 week into learning Erlang). Autocompletion (both editor and shell) is helpful.
Buffet has a methodology that makes sense. That is a better explanation of his success than positing that it was random luck.

In general, though, if you look at mutual funds and hedge funds, I suspect that a lot of the winners and losers can best be explained by random luck. So in that sense, I agree with you.

I haven't read Fooled by Randomness yet but it's on my bookshelf ;)
>With the US, the treasury uses the fact that the US dollar is one of the reserve currencies (the euro is catching up)

No, it is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#/media/File:G...
Proof might be this twitter thread, exec could have been implied, because who else can boss the CTO around?

https://mobile.twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/807797812700...
For context, Kevin Skoglund is “an independent security consultant who conducted the research with nine others, all of them long-time security professionals and academics with expertise in election security.”

The VP is speaking in layman’s terms to bolster the image of his company.

Even though the researchers are not allowed to probe beyond the firewall, others will not be subject to these constraints.

The federal govmt needs to step in to protect these systems as a matter of national security. Require the vendor to undergo third party security audits and not allow its use unless vulnerabilities are mitigated.
We all really appreciate the work you do here.
> The issue they took, and I would take too, with that portion of the New Yorker article is that it attacks the idea of physical data as a valid, supreme source of truth.

But I doesn't say that. Throughout the paragraph the emphasis is on the recklessness.

"hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative—often masks a deeper _recklessness_"

"_Ill-advised_ citations"

"_thought_ experiments"

"logic, applied _narrowly_, is used to _justify_"

"data, but the _origins_, _veracity_, and _malleability_ of those data [...]"

And that is also in line with the conclusion that "message-board intellectualism that might once have impressed V.C. observers like Graham has developed into an intellectual style all its own" and "can find themselves immersed in conversations that resemble the output of duelling Markov bots". The critique here is essentially that people don't have scientific literacy.

That people on hacker news think they can be rational, dispassionate and authoritative but that their recklessness with citations, logic and data (and their dismissal of other arguments) suggests they can't.

That is the argument.

All of this is questioning the substance of the arguments made, not the substance of such arguments made correctly. The entire point is that they aren't made correctly. You might even read the paragraph as acknowledging that it once worked, when it impressed observers.

> Consequently, the rhetorical paraphrasing of the passage into the comment dismissing nerds seems on point.

You can argue anything you want, but the argument here was made from a basis of facts. If the commentator wants to concede that their argument isn't based on the text itself, then they and you might have a point. But instead the rest of the argument isn't very believable. Which is the logic behind my argument in the first place.

> Objectively, the humanities has a poor track record of getting pissy and taking cheap shots at science as a viable supreme source of knowledge.

Again not relevant to the facts at hand. Especially since again they aren't making those statement. Otherwise we can bring anything into the discussion, from nationality to sat scores.
> As long as they're only spot checking and not browsing through any one persons calls for no reason I don't see why it's a big deal.

Go back 50 years and apply this same logic to AT&T instead of Skype to see how far our expectations of privacy have degraded.
>...for hundreds of kilometers in any direction there are zero humans...

I think you've argued directly for the previous poster's point no?
What a typical HN reply. “I don’t believe you and I’m going to attempt to undermine your reputation by claiming you’re part of the enemy party”

Maybe it’s inline with Apple’s messaging because Apple’s messaging is inline with the customer concerns?
For the program you want regarding the tax code exists now. TurboTax, HR Block, free file etc...plug in numbers, see different totals is exactly how it works.

Of course there is still a ton ambiguity in answering the questions on the form. That has nothing to do with the format of the laws and everything to do with the inherit nature of translating reality into simple booleans and integers. If you wanted to remove all ambiguity, the form would need to be complex as reality.
"Amid scaremongering about unrestricted migration, I went to Svalbard because I wanted to see whether there were lessons we could learn from this 2,300-person community a few hundred miles south of the North Pole."

Translation: "I made up this bullshit and wrote this article so I can have the magazine pay for my adventure vacation".
Even Chrysler is doing things like this. I had a hitch installed, super simple, all of the wires etc plug in to the appropriate places, but if you want to actually use the break lights, you need to visit the dealership to flip a boolean flag somewhere, otherwise the lights just don't work.