skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't shadow-ban accounts unless they're new and show evidence of spamming or trolling, or unless there's evidence that the user has been serially creating accounts to abuse HN.

That's a complete contradiction of the explanation you gave at the time. And yes, I asked what had happened when I noticed the account was shadowbanned, and your response was

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Hacker News <hn@ycombinator.com>
Aug 31, 2018, 10:43 PM
to me

Politlcal/ideological flaming; unsubstantive comments; addressing others aggressively. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17358383. That's unacceptable and bannable in its own right—and you did a lot of other things along those lines.

You can turn this around by doing the opposite: (1) become less inflammatory, not more, when posting about a divisive subject; (2) make sure your comments are thoughtful; (3) be extra respectful.

Daniel

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(I especially liked that the example comment was from three months earlier. Why didn't I immediately think that far back??@!)

Of course, despite my multiple followup questions, you never bothered to reply again. I'm sure that now you will find the motivation to give an extensive public explanation complete with links of exactly how you really meant that I was "new and spamming or trolling" or "serially creating accounts to abuse HN". It would never work to, say, reply to comments that were 'unacceptable and bannable in it's own right' to say that. Or to follow your previous public explanations of moderation policy, such as

>When we’re banning an established account, though, we post a comment saying so.
https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html
Game of Trees (Got): A Version Control System for OpenBSD
> Or how does that work? Is my browser establishing e2e to my phone and downloading all chats?

More or less. It interfaces with your phone, which has a number of caveats. You can’t use the web interface without your phone.
My bad I may have misread this thread to be about buybacks/dividends not taxation. I'm not against high taxes but with any level of taxation some companies are going to run into the problem of not having a useful way to use their money besides giving it back to investors (unless taxes are such that no company can succeed)
I believe that's what taxis are.
Lots of good advice here. Ergo keyboards (I like the kinesis advantage, and they last decades) and breaks worked for me. Dvorak is mostly useful because you have to relearn it, and might learn it without whatever broken ideas your body has about QWERTY.

Chair adjustments are huge. Get a steelcase chair—I like the leap. Have it adjusted by a pro, whose biggest advantages are being able to see what you really do as you type and knowing all the dials in advance.

And get stronger. A stronger back, shoulders, arms, grip will help you stay working in safe positions longer. Anything from tennis to deadlifts will work here.
Short blurb:

> Got uses Git repositories to store versioned data. At present, Got supports local version control operations only. Git can be used for any functionality which has not yet been implemented in Got. It will always remain possible to work with both Got and Git on the same repository.

Manual page:

* https://gameoftrees.org/got.1.html
Up until Uber exhausts cash on hand. And then you’ll be back to using taxis or public transit, no?

A competitive advantage has no value without a path to profitability.
Well, I'm glad they have made at least one major technology breakthrough. Are they planning to wake them up again in the future when complete self driving technology is more viable?
As someone who’s worked on Telegram clients for years, I can assure you that the protocol isn’t open. It’s quite opaque, and the FOSS thing is mostly a facade.
It could be worth a lot on a resume if you plan to apply for a job at intel though.
You can treat any collection or data structure that implements the sequence protocol as a lazy sequence with

(seq collection)

But you don't have to. If you choose to, you're not tied to a representation of mutable cons cells. There are good reasons to want to iterate over values in a map or a set, while still wanting the lookup characteristics of those collections, rather than a linked list.

This is hardly a controversial stance. Python, for example, supports iteration over many of its data structures and it is recommended to implement the dunder methods for iteration on any class that might reasonably be the basis of an iteration.

All clojure does is agree that iteration over a lazy sequence is a valuable concept. It implements this as an abstract protocol, rather than as a concrete implementation on linked lists.
> So maybe next time think twice before hitting "purchase" on that great eBay deal from a brand-new seller with no reviews.

At what point something is a real bargain deal and when it's scam?

Theo extremes are easy, but where we draw the line?
Uber Eats like Uber ride sharing are marketplace businesses.

In order for a new entrant to come in they need to grow both businesses and consumers at the same time. Which is hard with no competitors. But very hard with cash rich companies like Uber trying to stop you.

We saw this all play out in Australia where we initially had Foodora and Deliveroo. Then Uber joined with aggressive marketing and pricing. They pushed Foodora out and the number of businesses in Deliveroo is dropping. It is going to be a winner take all situation. At which point prices will rise and the profits will roll in.
How do you know it was preventable to begin with? I think human nature for the most part made it an inevitability of these tech companies like FB, twitter to emerge in some shape or form etc. People were hooked into it before it became a run-away optimizer of a certain set of behavioral patterns. There's a spontaneity towards certain things, this question won't have a single definitive answer. It's only best to watch the procession happen now, same thing with the rest of technology.

Attempting to curtail technology most likely also runs a risk too.

Much of the issues of the aforementioned platforms were predicted decades prior to the recent guilt, from French philosophers like Baudrillard to media scientists like McLuhan.
welcome to licensing by companies in the Business Software Aliance:

notorious for using disgruntled former employees for starting audits. (they did to my friends company a decade ago and found nothing..)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance)

lots of major companies: (apple/adobe....)

https://www.bsa.org/membership
Clears require more force than Browns?

https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/keyswitches
I always look for price/weight or price/volume or price/count stickers but many retailers and items only list the price making you do the math.

Even then, I’m aware that many items have differences in content which game the price/measurement like a lower ingredient content (less cocoa per measurement and more fillers or water content).

There is not really a great way to combat these practices if you are not some kind of professional buyer that only purchases at wholesale scales.
If you'd just banned me at the time I probably wouldn't be so angry still. The experience of discovering that you had been invisibly fucking with me, probably for months, was absolutely infuriating, and seeing you flat out deny that you pull that shit as a way to manage actual users is unacceptable.
I never understood why people didn’t like AoE:3 as much as AoE:2. With the unit bonuses (ie spears bonus against cavalry, etc), multiple attacks per unit (some units have both ranged and melee attacks with different stats that can be toggled, ie musketeers could be put in melee to deal with horses) and seriously different civs (ie up to 30% of units available might be different) it was a much more strategic play. And the interface was arguably more advanced than SC2, so it was more relaxing to play.

Is it because they picked the wrong era to set it in?
Just curious, have you tried any kind of autoimmune diet? It seems a bit strange to me that RSI never seemed to be a thing before the past few decades.
Trump's Conspiracy Theory About the Clintons and Epstein
They can be successful at it at scale because they already have a massive supply of drivers that they can allocate to rides or picking up food.

Amazon’s food delivery failed and closed last month. Caviar was sold to Doordash. Postmates is struggling.
It's not literally "out of ideas". It's that your ideas don't require all that much money to implement compared to the amount of money coming in. Ideas for improving efficiency might pay for themselves quite quickly, putting you further in the hole. A nice problem to have. Maybe shareholders should benefit?

(Side note: what does "sustainable" mean here? Usually that involves some kind of steady state, not growing indefinitely, which is always going to have limits.)
Actually an interesting short article with a title that says what it contains.

It basically says that statistically people rob banks and increase frequency while getting closer to their house. This guy used that information to lead them to San Diego.
Well then, you should exit your echo chamber more often ;)

On a serious note though, given Miller and Modigliani, I do struggle to see if there is a problem, with buyback in a general sense (as opposed to what they de facto imply, bonuses for CEOs).

Btw, I have zero vested interest in these companies: I have $4000 in a retirement account (35 years old) mostly in cash like instruments. My wife has a 401k, but God knows why and what’s in it.
> She believes that the “rich elites” have a great burden of responsibility towards the world, which she justifies with shaky zero sum logic...

"Noblesse oblige"? "With great power comes great responsibility"†? "To whom much has been given, much is expected"? The belief that the wealthy and powerful have a duty to use that power to improve the welfare of the society in which they live has been around for a long, long time. Characterizing it as "jealousy" is unfounded.

† A phrase that I today learned existed long before Stan Lee's popularization of it; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_great_power_comes_great_r...
Yep. If I disappeared, I'd tear a hole in some people's lives that I just don't want to do.
Visual reminder of how much space a car uses on the road. Then you remember parking...
The World’s Wealthiest Family Gets $4M Richer Every Hour
Shareholders want a return on their investment in the company, and eventually shareholder pressure forces a company's directors to pay a dividend or initiate a buyback of some sort. For small companies in growing markets investors might be willing to wait for either growth or an acquisition; a larger company in a mature market needs to compensate investors more immediately. Corporations ultimately serve the interests of their shareholders, so giving the money to the employees in the form of higher wages should in principle happen only when doing so advances the interests of the shareholders (e.g. to keep skilled workers in a tight labor market).

For what it's worth, companies with a long history (25+ years) of growing dividend payments tend to outperform the broader market over long periods of time.
> You can blame the players for not helping other players

Assume we did, what is the correct amount of help that the successful players should help the unsuccessful ones? Unless it's codified into the game itself (being made to pay more taxes based on wealth for example), it's unfair to expect arbitrary players to pay some undefined price to the satisfaction of another arbitrary set of players.
By that logic, people in concentration camps don't have basic human rights.

"Inalienable" means it can't be removed. That's different from whether or not someone respects the right.
Redhat still operates independently from IBM. Redhat also uses automated license enforcement instead of audits.
Article doesn't say anything new or profound, of course with some things it takes a grain of truth to build a conspiracy theory.

Things like Q-anon restructures criticisms in the lack of government transparency, cultures of elitism, and criticism against the military-intelligence complexes and creates a pro-Trump-right-wing narrative. It's a narrative that beckons it's own reality, which is not something that can simply be argued away as apparent by persisting conspiracy theories. It's deeper than a delusion, it's a fork of reality created by and generating context to a network of memeplexes.
Calloquially this is known as humility.
It didn't even address the point. It analysed what companies were doing, not what the recipients of the money were doing.
I am married and have a kid, both irrational decisions. The rational part was getting a vasectomy right after kid #1. Every irresponsible men I know have 3, 4 kids around, and are proud of it.
Richard Gere and Matteo Salvini Clash over Migrant Ship
For a taste, make sure to check out Closer, available here: http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer
I thought the current rate of references to it was normal? :P
1 - “desperately search for profitable business” - UBERs core business is a breath away from profitability. And trending quickly in the right direction. Looking at their corporate overhead and new market bets it’s clear they could cut their way to profitability today. But they are chasing a larger prize.

2 - Logistics is mind bogglingly difficult and capital intensive. Uber’s built in driver base has idle time that is an outrageously deep moat in competing in this space. Uber has 3 million drivers, say each vehicle costs $10k avg that is $30b In free capital equipment that they are starting with. Their internal traffic / route data that they collect from all 3m drivers all the time is the richest in the world. FedEx - for example - has “only” 85,000 vehicles.
When I was trying to learn 10 finger my wrists started to have pain. I immediately stopped and to this day still do my made up three finger touch typing on each hand. I'm still paranoid, my right elbow and lower arm still feel sensitive. I switched to an ergo mouse that's vertical there. It's crazy to think I could go from XK/year to 0K/year over something so "simple".

Staying strong is a good idea - I will start more core / physical fitness.
It's actually great - it diminishes the grip that the lunatics in the EU and local governments have on the population.

It doesn't matter what foreign language it is, what matters is that people use it to get information on their own, outside the confines of heavily regulated media and Internet space in their country.
Driverless cars are a very long way away.

And even longer for Uber style use cases where you need to either be able to read street signs or know the parking rules in every street around the world. Not to mention that Uber drivers rely on breaking the law eg. Stopping in non stopping areas like bus lanes. Self driving cars going to do that ?

And confused how the economics are so better for self driving cars given that they are likely to be far more expensive.
Works for me, using the Mac option+down to mean pagedown.
It piggybacks off your cell phone app, I believe. It basically mirrors what's on your app, and if the connection severs at all then the data is wiped from the browser. You do bring up a good point on how it can be an attack vector, though.
The article didn’t really consider what I think is the most likely explanation- like you said, these kind of “elites” don’t really have the kind of power or influence they once did. They aren’t just faking humility rather they are somehow accurately perceiving that in the current order power is held by some mix of corporations, special interests, big tech companies, and (left or right) populist movements, but probably not by individual rich kids with prestige and connections. I tend to think its for the worse but am probably too conservative.
Are you aware of anyone that's actually cut the grid connection?

There's a big difference between generating enough energy over a year to be net zero, and being able to instantaneously supply power from batteries and solar throughout the year.
Don't discount resting. I limit my typing to 35 WPM and I try to be as even as I possibly can in my typing. I think while I type. Even then, I type for 30 seconds and rest for 30 seconds. In my rest period I'll read what I typed and think a bit more. I find that I am actually more productive this way because I don't rush.
I am not sure why this was down-voted. Am I in error? If so, please explain how.
I enjoy setting the GPS navigation destination to somewhere in the opposite direction of where I am actually driving, and stubbornly disobeying it while listening to its growing frustration as it relentlessly tries to desperately negotiate with me to stop driving in the wrong direction and turn around.

I think it builds character, stamina, self determination, and will power, and it's healthy to practice resisting the subservient temptation of mindlessly obeying commands from computers and robots.
I'm constantly amazed at the number of upvoted, top-level comments on HN (on any topic) where the underlying premise is first, thousands of people with actual skin in this game are wrong, whereas I, a drive-by commentator, posess True Understanding. I'm not suggesting that a large number of personally invested people is proof of correctness -- but certainly it reeks of arrogance if your argument assumes without proof that an uninterested commentator is better informed than all of them. More so if your only comment, given such a grand assumption, is to reiterate basic economics.

At least you could try to explain how you think it is that so many are mistaken about something so elementary that it fits in two short paragraphs.
> 4. Interprets the battles in 3 as at best insignificant and at worst a distraction from real problems of class disparity in America. Contrasts these protests against Vietnam protests.

I tend to agree. I view the "tempest in a teapot" protests that go after some academic functionary in the same light as I view most of the animal rights protesters--deeply hypocritical.

You don't see these college students go after someone with actual power just like you don't see the animal rights advocates throw paint on Hell's Angels for wearing leather.

Protest is good--until you you might actually face consequences for your protest. Sorry, protest without consequences isn't a real protest.

If the Yale students want to protest, we have an oversupply of things that need to be protested--feel free to join us. But, these might upset people with real power, they might get arrested, they might wind up with a criminal record like the plebeians and that might upset their getting that cushy Goldman-Sachs position in a couple years.
I always look at the price per ounce instead of the total price of the item to compare.
Do you have a source for the claim that 99% of attendees of Yale don't have enough money to live off their inheritance indefinitely?
Non-rich spending stimulates the economy more than rich investing. The rich are out of ideas to invest. The non rich spending more would give the rich new ideas to better invest the money they already do.

There are more complex analyses, but the above one gets the job done.
He also spends a chapter trashing Searle, in a way that seems a little unnecessarily vindictive.

I still enjoyed it. It's not for everyone, but I found that his meanderings served to break up the seriousness of the subject in a way that made for an easy read, much easier than GEB.
Unsupervised Feature Learning in Remote Sensing
This has been my experience as well. My favorite was being "schooled" by a woman who had grown up overseas: with servants who'd wait at her feet, private prep schools, US top private college paid in full by parents, etc. Then telling me how privileged I was. Growing up lower class American definitely did not see a lot of privileges..
Huawei announces its new Harmony operating system
I seem to recall hitting the limit after posting something like two replies on one story and being confronted with “you’re posting too fast” when trying to post an unrelated comment on another story.

I think the limiter kicks in as soon as one of one’s comments get any downvotes at all (i.e. even when also being mostly upvoted), but I’m obviously not sure about this.

This is obviously very annoying, and I can’t see how it helps discussions.
> The IBM licenses are so obtuse that it can only be intentional.

This is the company who popularised "This page intentionally left blank".

Obtuseness is very much part of their toolkit.
>If you are smart (and I assume so from your comment) you will go out and fact check that

Exactly how do I fact check this? Most Google searches give two types of results: Either pro git or meh they're mostly the same. Virtually every pro git page has basic facts wrong about mercurial and are criticizing the mercurial of a decade or longer ago(0) The very few exceptions cover use cases that really do fall into the 5% category.

And I assume you meant 95% and not 5% that you wrote. If you really did mean the latter I suspect you know little of mercurial.

(0) Branches are a classic example. Although I do think git has slightly better branch handling pretty much most pages criticizing mercurial branches expose their ignorance of beaching in mercurial
Kashmir, Cut Off from the World: ‘A Living Hell’ of Anger and Fear
> In my experience when you're paying them money they're very responsive

In my experience, they're 50/50. They're also totally unreliable as a commercial partner. You don't want to outsource your logistics to Google only to learn about the service being cancelled in a press release.
> They paid $544m more to drivers to deliver food than they took in. Why?

Maybe it's just not a very profitable business to send some guy in a Prius across town to pick up a burrito, then drive back across town to deliver said burrito.

I've tried it a few times and it took an inexplicably long time to get my order, and the food arrived cold and unappetizing. Never again.
> "p" makes sense if you know that it stands for "predicate". It's not nearly as arcane as car and cdr.

We are in agreement here. It seems to me, though, that it is an easy case to make that a question mark makes sense if you know English. Surely this is a convention less dependent upon specific knowledge.

Either way, Clojure is its own language and is not beholden to the tradition of any other language. What is most important is that it chooses a convention and implements it consistently. It is not meant to be Common Lisp nor is it meant to be Scheme, nor Dylan, nor Shen, nor Femtolisp, nor any other implementation. It is meant to be Clojure and what that means is defined by Rich Hickey.

Regarding`first`, `rest`, `head`, and `tail`, I don't think the argument based on English usage is the strongest. `head` and `tail` are established in some other programming languages, almost always as operations upon a link list. Those two words in English refer to body parts on some animals, hardly an obvious analog to generic collections. `first` and `rest` are not unheard of in other programming languages and in English do have a natural connection with the idea of a collection. Again, Clojure is meant only to be what Rich Hickey designed it to be, not a faithful reproduction of any other programming language.
Another Google Workplace Discrimination – This Time, Against Pregnant Women
WH proposal would have FCC and FTC police alleged social media censorship
It's worth pointing out that in my area of Melbourne the number of places available on any of the platforms is rising, but the platform that is increasing the quickest in my area is Menulog.

Uber Eats just changed their delivery price to be based on distance, which has vastly increased the average delivery fee, and the prices on Uber Eats are inflated over every other delivery platform because of the cut they take.

And in Melbourne CBD, by far the largest number of bikes I see are delivering for Easi.

Not sure that the market is actually struggling here.
That's gonna take a while..
https://granolashotgun.com/2019/05/13/obstacle-course/