skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you think government is wasteful just wait until you see how much administrative overhead is wasted at charities and (for-profit) companies.

Do you have any ideas around empowering small charities / non-profits to do more with less?

There are a ton of companies that offer services for free/cheap for a non-profit. Example: YouTube gives (gave?) $10k/month in donated/subsidized advertising to non-profits. Salesforce has a free service for non-profits.

Zapier/IFTTT could be used to stitch products together to automate tedious workflows. I suspect just a little bit of hand-holding for the technologically averse would go a log way.
> It’s built a set of software tools that take a first pass at marking up pictures before handing them off to a network of some 30,000 contract workers, who then perform the finishing touches.

Machine learning indeed.
The long story to this is that the Chinese dont like what Trump is doing, he is the first to stand up to their tactics. The thing is, if Trump doesn't get reelected, a democratic candidate will most likely not continue the trade war. China has every incentive to place pressure on the us stock market in the hope that it ruins Trumps chances at reelection. So they play this long waiting game, in the chance that Trump doesnt get elected.
I meant that the mob may have made demands, but the only power the mob has is that which it is given. Just like the verdict reached by those jurors, Cloudflare chose their own path.
You and me both. I had to walk out of an interview because the interviewer had become borderline rude and I could not think of anything at all professional to respond with.

Here's to future self-employment!
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Telus fibre isn't available in the majority of Canadian locales. Currently only in select communities in BC and Alberta.
> Chinese global hegemony.

Where on earth is this coming from? What does this even mean?
You gravely underestimate 14 year olds.
The Art of Problem Solving series of books is pretty much exactly what was described, is relatively affordable to an adult with disposable income, and they all come with complete solution manuals: https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/list/aops-curriculum

You could spend a year or two doing ~20 problems per day while scheduling review of definitions you've understood and problems you've solved with spaced-repetition software like Anki.

Afterwards, you'd be prepared for any undergraduate mathematics curriculum in the world.
Not specifically about Google or this article, but how many people here have seen or experienced some sort of discrimination against parents in general?

Like outwardly complaining that a man is asking for paternity leave (or insinuating job consequences if they take more than a few days)? Or more subtle approaches like deliberately scheduling unimportant meetings at obscure times to interfere with parenting and childcare schedules?
Well, I guess that's true. Nearly everyone is a currency manipulator. But also, as you yourself said, it's more of a point of political convenience right? If it serves our purposes to designate china as a manipulator, then who cares if everyone else manipulates too?

Serious question.

I mean, would it matter?
I genuinely am not sure who you're talking about, but good to know!
Just because someone uses the word 'rights' doesn't mean they're referring only to the US bill of rights understood in a Thomas Paine-esque 'Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants' manner. Actually, even Thomas Paine considered a right to welfare (including education), so even founding fathers can reasonably disagree.
As a fellow math enthusiast, I would love to grab a coffee or beer with you next time I'm in NYC and hear about this journey. Care to email me? laughinghan@gmail.com
Indeed his example is Julian the Apostate
Coming. Not “is already totally independent”
So let's poke a bee hive to have more? Let's remove a very easy to access, scrape, court order, platform that potential shooters feel comfortable posting to hours / days before hand that the FBI / Police could use to prevent such things.

Yeah great move. Clap clap.
I think market retribution would take care of their decision pretty handily. I also think the same is true for Republicans. Twitter could never survive the market retaliation if they banned the Republican Party, but they have every legal right to do so.

Also, changing the players in my scenario has nothing to do with anything, mine isn’t an opinion it is a matter of rule of law. If you don’t share that assumption with me than I have to fall silent.
HN is not a site for discussing legal matters per se, but only the ones that gratify intellectual curiosity, and only to the extent that they do. That is what we're optimizing for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why would Europe or the rest of the world go along with this?

SWIFT becomes irrelevant if this happens, not China.
I've seen that page before but I was rereading it and thinking how dumb it is to equate a symbolic integration program with, say, what a mathematician does. This is the exact same mistake being criticized w.r.t. sensorimotor skills - what you don't understand seems easy.
But doesn't the customer benefit in that scenario? They get the items they want for a lower price from a brand they trust (they're on their website for a reason). And if the customer is benefitting, isn't that the best outcome of capitalism?

In that scenerio, and captialism in general, eBay doesn't owe sellers on its marketplace the right to sell items at all. They've just been given a chance to make hay while the sun shines.
Yea, it's almost always all clutter, kind of reminds me of all the animated gifs jammed onto pages in 1994.
Should be an easy fix, easily accomplished well before 2050
The chances are not close to zero, they are much higher. The trade war with China is one of the very few topics where many Democrats support the administration. If the US caves now China will have won an enormous victory and will be able to dictate any further terms of trade with the US, which is a really bad outcome. There is very little chance that the current administration will accept a loss here on a fight they started or that Trump cares about how much every day people will be hurt by the trade war.

In fact further US economic decline plays to his advantage because he can clearly blame China and blaming foreigners is something that works with his base.
Maybe it's because the plants grow faster with the same fertilizer, and there's not much of value in the soil any more.
Not a paid product, and "heavily used" maybe not, but was the only native(ish) way to live stream a group call to YouTube. You could live stream a podcast style show w/ no extra hardware or software, just your youtube/google account. It was was birthed out of Google+ so its not altogether surprising it got killed, but I was watching a live stream just last week that was using it.
Are you referring to the printing of more money? Is that the only way countries devalue their currency?
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Reminds me some of Raymond Chen's "Stupid Git Tricks" series [0-6] of blog posts where he used a lot of git commit-tree and similar low level tools to avoid worktree changes and minimize GC churn (partly because of working in the humongous Windows git, which of course seems to have similar issues to the Mozilla ones mentioned here such as auto-rebuild tools).

It makes a bunch of sense to build nicer porcelain tools for such low level git magic when it becomes semi-routine.

(I couldn't find a good permalink for the entire series as a whole, so linked are all the individual posts.)

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190506-00/?p=10...

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190507-00/?p=10...

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190508-00/?p=10...

[3] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190509-00/?p=10...

[4] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190510-00/?p=10...

[5] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190513-00/?p=10...

[6] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190515-00/?p=10...
I think we have to just come to terms with the reality that ad-dependent journalism is inherently click-baity. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional or lying.
You do know those companies employ workers, right? And pay taxes, and buy goods and services in the US?
"Lol, this comment will be viewed as “nobody will ever need more than 640k of ram” in the future. "

No, it's nothing like that. 640k of ram is an absolutely fixed point. "Everything that can be automated" continually increases indefinitely, but the point is that it's not going to discontinuously increase. Or at least, nobody who is concerned ever states a reason that it should.
> Okay, no, Germany can't manipulate its currency as they don't have their own, they use the Euro.

But they use the Euro as an umbrella that doesn't behave like a single currency for Germany would. While implementing the Euro they put massive pressure on wages while other EU countries kept increasing wages. Germany is violating export-surplus rules of the EU, but no one seems to care.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Balance_...
AWS is really not the same as Amazon Retail. The culture, leadership and practices are really really different!
Could you get slower for less? Because that's the standout characteristic of the German market, something like 16/1 is almost universally available at about 30€ or less, but going and faster, if available, comes at a steep premium.
I live in Chicago, and I sold my tesla and my lamborghini and replaced them with subway, a boosted board and a divvy membership. I’ve never been happier. For road trips I still pull out the lil porsche, but that rarely happens any more.

With home delivery of pretty much everything I need, I rely on Wholefoods and Peapod for what I used to have my car for. 5 Years ago that wasn’t an option.
If she speaks like an adult she should be treated like one.
> It costs a library just as much to maintain and catalog a digital book as it does a physical book.

Do you have any evidence for this? Specifically e-books do not require expensive floor space and employee time restocking shelves. While the management costs are not free I would expect them to be substantially cheaper than physical books.
Huh?? Isn't setting up the structure and abusing the US position what has been happening for the past half century?

It actually seems like the recent change has been to let china get away with whatever they want with no struggle and simply accept a nice slow bleed out.
I second the Fastmail recommendation. Not only has their service been great, but they're also actively working on improving email for everyone (for example with all their work on introducing and standardizing JMAP).
> Worse, the deaths are non-random in other ways—they tend to occur at particular times! Graphed, daily patterns jump out.

I actually ran this kind of analysis on my use of Hacker News a couple of months back. It turns out that the patterns mentioned only really work if you have something that resembles a normal sleep schedule, which I clearly do not:

12 AM *********
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2 PM *************
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(Each * corresponds to 25 comments; to my knowledge the vast majority of comments were made from PST)
It's not only the average/median that's bad, it's the lower percentiles that are the most embarrassing. My parents live in a central, fairly dense neighborhood of a town of 40k people. Their only option until 2017 (!!!) was 64k dialup or very flaky 3G. It wasn't only their street that was affected, but the whole part of town, including a newly developed (but mostly empty, what a surprise) business park built from EU development grants. In my mind the reason for disasters like this is a mixture of

1. De facto monopoly of the state-owned telecom provider suffering from mind boggling not-invented here syndrome. They've been pushing their proprietary custom-built hardware and protocols for decades while the world largely moved to china-built commodity which is orders of magnitude cheaper.

2. Political resistance against declaring broadband as an essential utility. There was a parliamentary vote in 2011 to declare a right for households/businesses to get broadband connections (as is the case for electricity/sewers/telephone). It was declined with votes of the conservative/liberal coalition at the time. Nobody even talks about this anymore, other culture war topics seem more important nowadays. Whether to allow wolves to be hunted seems like a more important topic in the national debates.

3. In general there seems to be an unfortunate climate of hostility against technology that reminds me of the Luddites. Smart phones and laptops are banned in high schools, etc. People mostly focus on the dangers and downsides of technology vs the benefits.

Source: Born in Germany, I moved to California a few years ago and can see the difference.
Pretty rich coming from the US, but I digress
Wonder if people in HR go through the same empathy-draining process doctors go through. Beyond a point, people's troubles/accidents/burns/cuts become objective things to take care v/s pain that people are going through
My impression is that the Death Note would only manipulate luck to a certain degree -- ie, if the odds of even occurring are greater than 1/x, just make it happen. That would allow you to get hit by a truck crossing the street, but not allow you to win a coin flip 100 times (7.8886091e-31 odds). You'd probably have to experiment to figure out what the threshold was.

That being said... let's assume you're right. If the death note can manipulate odds to an arbitrary degree, you're thinking way too small right now. It would be much more efficient to write:

"X opens a laptop text editor, closes their eyes, and hits keys randomly. They open their eyes and discover they have accidentally written an algorithm for quickly factoring large numbers. They copy and paste this algorithm into an encrypted email to light.iskira@gmail.com, then die by jumping in front of a bus."

If X dies of a heart attack, you know your instructions didn't take and there's no algorithm for quickly factoring large numbers -- the problem was impossible. But then you can start modifying your query for, "an easy strategy for keeping cubits stable", or whatever you want to follow up with.

If I have a fast-track to get at almost any (possible) invention I can think of, I'm not going to waste my time factoring large numbers!
To be clear, there is real machine learning that makes the labeling more efficient.

You can see some videos of what this looks like in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/BW/status/1158407524216909826
Took my cameras to Berlin in the hope of making a couple of YouTube videos.

Spent a day trying to upload my first vlog & just gave up. The cable based modem was not only slow, but unstable in the heat. ️

Same video takes seconds to upload on a Singapore gigabit connection.
I don't see how that works. If the US Government has to sell bonds to borrow money to finance the deficit, and buyers start disappearing, they have to raise interest rates to make the bonds more attractive to the remaining buyers, don't they?
If anything that makes it worse.
>you don't need that much expertise to allocate funds

You need expertise to allocate funds wisely however.
There is a spectrum from the likes of Venezuela and previously Zimbabwe (who manipulated currency at will and let’s say Gold on the other hand. Manipulator depends on how far down the spectrum you operate in compared to others.
The EU is looking to build alternative currency mechanisms for Iran.

If China is cut off from any global trade structures, I can’t imagine any non US countries would go along with it.

The other reason for this is that all the US allies that could possibly have worked with the US on this are all under threats of tariffs from the US themselves.
You're exactly right wrt interviewing. I was talking in general and not in the context of an interview.

If you are interviewing someone and they solve the problem you ask, and then you don't give them some sort of guidance or constraints to meet your "correct" guidelines, then you aren't doing a good and fair interview.
> think about it this way: what if in the mind of the person making that claim, it is one of self-defense and self-preservation? is it still intolerant?

Yes.

It may be understandable, I get it, I have the same angry impulses as most human beings and it's very easy to feel antagonists should be simply disposed with. But that doesn't distinguish it from being intolerant.

Even if there's a genuine existential threat, indulging an intolerant response means you (1) you cut off the possibility for negotiation, and the remaining choices are victory or your own tribe's annihilation (2) it's not like the one source of antagonism/conflict is really just the other tribe, and once you build into individual minds and your tribe the idea and support for this kind of total solution, it's likely to get used again even if/after you "win."

I don't expect everyone, especially among populations that have been part of generational conflicts where they already feel they're facing an existential threat, to just sing kumbaya. Maybe it's an important descriptive point to say "not everyone can agree genocide should't be tolerated in valued discourse," but it's not a good normative point. We should be trying to get to the point where genocide is beyond the pale, where people can more finely articulate that many aspects of middle eastern policy at the state or tribal level are unacceptable for a humane civilization without kneecapping any chance for improvement, and in general where we can shape discourse it should be steered away from tribalism.

Or I guess we could always try to kill everybody who believes in genocide.
>Questions?

Yes, are you willing to grant or share social, political, or professional rights with everyone on this earth (except perhaps bigots)? In other words, do you think it's intolerant for a country to have any immigration system other than open borders (except that bigots don't have to be allowed in) or any exclusive political benefits for its citizens, such as the right to vote? Because if so, you've just declared the majority of people in this country to be bigots, who in your view should not be tolerated according to the second definition, i.e. you don't want to grant them equal freedoms or share social, political, or professional rights with them.
> This is a glib answer from a position of security.

I'd love to know how you figured that one out.

> “Politics” is absolutely a core part of the workplace where it starts to affect your rights

I am only slightly exaggerating when I say that all politics affects your rights.

Again, like religion, super important. But for a variety of reasons, the workplace makes a poor forum.
> China is also a huge foreign debt holder, and if presumably no longer a buyer due to decoupling, will send US interest rates skyrocketing.

Before that happens, the capital exodus demanding to liquidate their Yuan for USD would have burned through the country's USD reserves and they would be insolvent. This is quite similar to what happened in South Korea in 1997 and it took IMF intervention to stabilize the country. The PBOC could limit how much a person can sell, but this would crash their currency (e.g. Venezuela) almost instantly.

As much as people want to hate on Trump and/or the US, China is in a weaker position here. Don't get me wrong, both countries suffer, but only one of them would see its financial system collapse.
It does seem arbitrary but I think the answer might be far more mundane than conspiratorial; There is simply no legal authority to hoover up the data of and trace back to american citizens for 8chan type websites.

I don't know man, even if the NSA, FBI etc couldn't give a shit about the legal implications, Cloudflare as a public company and it's officers would have legal liability if they violated the law.

Wild conjecture I know :)
I'm still hoping for something similar where I currently live, here in Switzerland (not in the EU). Payments generally arrive the next business day but that isn't good enough for most in-person transactions.
Rivalry between neighboring countries sounds like diffuse and mild version of anti Semitism. It can easily baloon into a war, in the hands of the "right" agitators.
I wish you a great success — curated datasets and training/markup APIs for AI applications is a great idea indeed.
I've come up with much dumber business plans at 30 than many originated by 22-yr-olds.

Harshness is in order---regarding the business plan. But the age is a total red herring.
Actually China was designated currency manipulators by Clinton from 1992 to 1994
They're called soft sciences for a reason, they're more about interpretation and opinion than hard irrefutable evidence. So this is not surprising, it's probably quite a bit higher than 50% too, and in all of the soft science fields where agendas or political motives may be present; sociology, psychology, political science, some archaeology, etc
I did know. That was an "um, come again?" not a "can you repeat that?"

Your comment literally reads as "they used to tolerate refusing service to (slur)s." Not only was it totally inexplicable to use the slur in the first place, you didn't qualify it in any way. No quotes, no "people they called," nothing. You just used it. Absolutely insane.
>So the solution then, should be to socialize people in such a way that such views do get challenged.

Which is precisely the opposite of what these major corporate speech platforms are doing by creating filter bubbles and deplatforming wrong thinkers.

It's the same as sending small time/non violent criminals to prison to incubate with hardened violent criminals.

"We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."

-MLK
The max you can hope for is 21 days? That's obscenely low.
>shall not block lawful content

Incitement to specific violence and planning thereof, against specific individuals, is not lawful content.
In this case it sounds like a bad interview and that they missed a good opportunity for discussion!
Products don't grow on trees.

If the fed buys every USD bond in existence ( aka monetize the debt ) - it would lead to a good amount of inflation.
You talkin bout God?
Sorry, sloppy phrasing about an often confused topic on my part. You're quite right.