skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish stackoverflow would come up with a way to make an expert's votes count more. It already has a system for a vote's value to go from 0 (you can't) to 1. I want each of Jon Skeet's votes to be worth more (or more depending on knowledge domain like C#?). Maybe the top limit is a 4x multiplier?

I would like the same for hacker news e.g. if patio11 adds the 1000th comment in a thread, I want to see it. Perhaps even individually ranked: opt in to get a clintside ordering of a discussion that uses my own up and down votes to help re-rank the comments.

Stackoverflow is frustrating because experts get much the same influence as ignorants. I am forced to read every answer and comment to find the information gold (the ranking helps, but it doesn't help enough). Best answers almost invariably are written badly and don't cover corner cases (possibly it is because I usually have to find JavaScript answers, or because JavaScript is hard to write well).
You can easily make your videos private for the duration of the strike.

Lets be honest about the problem. If 20 million people watch me, how much did I make off Google? Depending on the market you're in this fluctuates but typically at most, maybe 50k. That's a lot of views and people watching for such chump change. Viral videos are something most creators will never experience and viral does not pay nearly as well as a specific niche. How many people watch the Super Bowl and how much is spent on ads? YouTubers with millions of views are wickedly underpaid. My children have cared more about YouTube than Hulu, Netflix and Cable combined. They will be devastated with a large scale strike. Google should be worried since they do whatever they can to screw over the content creators on the regular.
No, you don't need capital to start plantations. You just need land and labor. People were running farms and plantations thousands of years before coinage was invented.

Plantation owners are capitalists in the same vein that Romans were capitalists when they conquered neighbors and cultivated this newly annexed land. This is perhaps correct in a very abstract sense of capitalism, but it is an alternative definition that is not shared by most people and most people will say you are wrong if you try to claim that this is capitalism.
> the fact that this thread is filled with attempts (probably mostly by Googlers) to smear Veritas

I'm not and never have been affiliated with Google. These claims about Project Veritas's reliability aren't smears. PV were literally caught on tape trying to plant false stories in the Washington Post.[1] That's not a matter of interpretation. They hired a woman to pretend to be someone else and make false sexual assault allegations against a Senate candidate. Nothing associated with them has credibility.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approa...
> I would not be surprised to see Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act challenged on this notion

I would also not be surprised, but I think it would be a mistake.

If YouTube's algorithm makes them ineligible for 230 protections, then it seems like the same rules should apply to DuckDuckGo -- after all, they're using algorithms to rank sites.

Not everything is a slippery slope of course, but absent some kind of consistent line it's not clear to me that the removal of 230 wouldn't very quickly lead to a world where very little user content was allowed online at all. The definition of an algorithm will be constantly evolving, and few small companies will want to risk running afoul of the law. This is probably not what people want when they talk about neutrality -- content gatekeepers aren't neutral.

I'd give the same warning to people coming from the opposite perspective -- that YouTube shouldn't get 230 protections because it's not moderating enough. If 230 goes away, there's another way that YouTube can avoid liability, and it's to stop moderating anything at all, regardless of how foul it is. This is also probably not what people want when they talk about moderation -- Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are pretty bad about removing hate speech, but at least they're not 8chan. They at least do some moderation.

The purpose of Section 230 is to avoid punishing platforms for moderation/curation attempts, and to let companies accept user content from diverse sources without needing to pre-vet all of it. Get rid of 230, and we'll end up with a smaller selection of services that are less eager to let users upload content; and the services we're left with won't be in a hurry to moderate or curate any of the content that users do upload.
Countries that eat the most meat
Correct, but it's an extremely thin coating, and when they can gets recycled it's taken care of along with that (likely burnt up in the melting process).
Correlations change. You never know if gold might tank along with assets in the next recession. Or if yields will tank along with assets in the next recession. What if there's just hyper inflation?

No one knows what's going to happen...

You can go with Dalio's claim that as long as you have 10 hedges that are sufficiently un-correlated, your risk is incredibly low. But even that might not hold up under future unknown conditions.
FE'ers likely have interests in those areas, too; after all, you can't have a conspiracy unless you have a "they" to rail against...
I'm pretty sure 99% of flat earthers are just messing around and don't seriously believe what they're saying. At least, I choose to believe that this is the case.
It seems at least one first world country is sending recycling waste to developing countries for supposed processing
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/malaysia-flooded-with-...
https://terranostra.one

My background is ecological modelling, so my blog is a merry mix of ecology, programming, and reviews of books I read.
To flip this completely on its head, I'd be interested to see how childhood mortality rates have been affected by major events in plastics.
But TFA is not using "particles" to mean "molecules". It means "pieces of plastic below 5mm in size". Compared to molecules, these are macro-scale objects, and if you mix 10^24 of them into the oceans, that becomes a lot more noticeable than a liter of pharaoh water.
Flat-earthers, anti-vaxers, and climate change deniers are all the same person in my book. Similar arguments. Similar methods.
You could use uniplate and a small AST to play more with it, the paper has examples of transformations

the paper: https://ndmitchell.com/downloads/paper-uniform_boilerplate_a...

small tutorial: https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/uniplate/uniplate.htm
It doesn’t. The point is the arctic is far away from humans. Yet our generated plastic is falling out of the sky. The importance of this is an ongoing recognition that our plastic is everywhere... no part of the planet is free from the impact of 20th/21st century humanity, and our imprint is forever lasting.
As Argentina’s markets continue to panic, Bitcoin trades at a premium
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> Identified individuals can choose to comply and reveal their digital artifacts that are specifically identified as being part of a crime or be held in contempt of the court order.

Abuse of "contempt of court" to compel third parties not accused of any other crime to assist in an investigation is also a problem. The court can ask for the data, of course, but one ought to have the legal right to refuse; refusal to provide the requested data, on its own, should not be considered evidence of guilt or probable cause to conduct a search.
I never got contacted by FAANGs until I got on Linkedin and made my account public. Seems like it has value in exposing people to big companies that otherwise might not have you in their network.
Iso9001 being a prominent example of RL on an organizational level.
Don’t forget Qanon
Worse than incompetent, he's enormously impulsive.
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Great feedback. Moving this line by line to my TODO. Thanks again.
I think the opposite is more common: the government steps in to save a company that would otherwise be forced out of business due to the harm they caused others.

See for example tobacco and asbestos companies.

And did Enron really die if all their assets were sold to competitors and continue to operate?
Blockchain Pintrest for uploaded brains. Putting together a series A if you want in.
The fraction of the snow by weight that is plastic (ppm, or whatever), especially with a comparison to the amounts historically and to levels that are known or reasonably suspected of having bad consequences. This, for instance, is how particulate matter is quantified for assessing air quality in urban areas (one of the more harmful and less appreciated environmental damages).
We need Andrew Yang, or somebody else to pick up the UBI idea, now. There's no time to slow play this and do a bunch of studies. We have enough data, somebody just needs to do it.
OK, maybe shipping containers aren't exactly the modular cheap things we can transform into living spaces...but to imagine it creating a dystopia?
Perhaps I misread your initial comment, I posted it quite late. My apologies, I'm willing to delete my last post there for the sake of remaining civil if that helps.
Why isn’t it trading at a premium when the US market is in a free fall?
I don't think there is anything you can do when interacting with these people outside of smiling and nodding - so I'm sad to see you get downvotes.

This is actually a really big problem for me as I find it physically discomforting to listen to lies being spoken unopposed.
Zoom is also up 50% since it went public in April, and Crowdstrike is up 70%.

I don't really get the sense in comparing a bunch of companies with disparate financials and very different industries. The We Company is a real estate company trying to convince people it's a tech company. This list mixes B2C and B2B companies, SaaS platforms with monthly recurring revenue with companies with advertising-based business models. Almost none of these organizations are reasonably comparable.
> I've seen a lot of arguments that YouTube pushes people into alt-right and ethnonationalist content way too easily.

They do and then those people complain endlessly about censorship, demand legal changes, support first amendment violations via executive order, spread conspiracy theories about anti-conservative bias, and meanwhile they keep posting fucking youtube videos and trying to radicalize people.

It's stochastic terrorism and it's all over the goddamn place.
Ultimately this comes down to influencing public policy to really move the needle – something that very few individuals have a particular competency in. Policy, because it can influence far far more people than active individual choices (most of which are just easy defaults), and because it has access to a level of influence that individuals simply do not E.g. industrial and manufacturing processes – which may or may not be visible in the "marketplace" and can a priori constrain what individual choices might even exist.

And therein lies the rub: individuals by the numbers don't have competency at the policy level because that's an artifact of collaboration and organization.

Most of us don't and can't work at the scope of policy. Modern society puts interested individuals at a huge disadvantage here. E.g. it's far, far easier for even a relatively small business to support someone in part- or full- time policy related efforts. Lobbying, marketing, supporting candidates, etc. Large companies may have entire divisions dedicated to such. The "rest" of us largely have to work for those entities for a living, don't have the required expertise, don't have the luxury of spending hours a week on policy change, and/or don't even have the spare income to donate to a suitable policy organization to act in our proxy, if one even exists.

Note: I don't think the above spells gloom and doom. Instead, I think this line of thinking is part of an growing awareness, a wake-up-call: that society will need to change if humanity is to adapt and survive.
Other assets lose money in other ways :-)

Or maybe not, but the risk exists. With a negative-yielding bond at least you know what you’re getting (as long as there is no default!).
They said the same thing about mortgages, CDOs, etc.
Is Pinterest really that much different in scope, or at least less "pie in the sky", than Twitter, which regularly makes the HN front page for not just tech/design posts, but even for being down? I won't argue that Pinterest is a more "important" company than Twitter (though I'm extremely biased since I use the latter and not the former). But I'd expect to see more HN submission/discussion from its engineering blog [0], given Pinterest's success at scale.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F@Pint...
No. The guards would be covered under other rules, just not HIPAA. They would have their own confidentiality rules.

It's within the law for EMS to disclose to the prison staff "He's having a heart attack. We need to move him to a hospital to try to save his life." That would meet the minimum necessary standard to get the patient the care he needs. That disclosure is necessary to get him released from prison so he can be transported to the hospital.

However, if an EMS person was friends with one of the guards and spent a minute or two basically gossiping about the case to one of the guards as a form of socializing, that has nothing to do with getting the patient the care he needs and would be potentially a firing offense.

There shouldn't be a loophole because the guards should be covered by other rules. They just wouldn't be covered by HIPAA per se.

The fact that HIPAA doesn't apply to the guards doesn't mean the guards can do whatever they want. It just means that you would have to discipline them under a different rule or law.

(IANAL. This is not legal advice. It's just my best understanding of HIPAA having worked for an insurance company for a few years, during which time I received annual training for HIPAA.)
I think that a better predictor for a programmer skills is how they get along with the computer than with other teammates.
This is blatantly false for embedded systems developers. We spend all day with computers, key being multiple computers, all which require tons of space.
Why San Francisco? Of all the tech cities in the country, why choose the most overheated and the worst managed? Seattle is right over there.
It's fairly similar for americans too, but most people talk about pre-tax incomes vs. post tax, health insurance & 401k deductions, money in my bank account amounts.
This is totally understandable reaction to the business model. We do put our money where out mouth is but nonetheless it does beg the question of why we don't just do the investments ourselves.

One major issue is capital. But beyond that we also see a saw a market need for a product like this when trying to make home purchase decisions in personal life prior to creating Lofty. And that was the market and problem we wanted to address with this company - not just to be a big fund that buys real estate en masse and profits from it - but to help people who can't afford to make a bad home investment do so more comfortably.
The quotes around 'loud' here, is an emphasis on relativeness.

There is a flyover down the valley and sound flies off that. You only recognise silence in the event of road closure. Then momentary bliss is attained through someone elses misery.
> I guess that's a function of how relatively few HNers may be Pinterest users?

I actually use Pinterest. It's just how often does the opportunity to mention Pinterest comes up?

My pins are fashion (boots, athletic wares, etc..) and haircuts.
I think we are pretty much in agreement. It really doesn't help how much the government is willing to stretch the definitions of R&D and System Engineering either.
The decision to demonetize is Google's.

Wouldn't a free market allow everyone to be in the mix, but advertisers would make the choice?
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Human caused climate change is still debatable. That the climate changes isn’t. Causality is the controversy.
No they didn't. There are no "flat earthers" fucking anywhere. None. Anyone horsing around with the gimmick is just fucking with people.

They don't exist. There are a handful of dipshits on YouTube pretending to be flat earthers for the views. Goofing off for patreon cash, because it's almost kind of funny. That's it.

No one ever bought the flat earth bullshit, except a tiny cross section of damaged goods schizophrenics. The rest was just the internet fueling a slow news day with prank calls.

I promise you there are less than 1,000 English speaking adults that ever professed an honest belief in such a theory and meant it. That's fewer than 10 per state in the U.S. Everyone else is rolling their eyes and cracking jokes.
Most of that is in the HTML so one wouldn't even have to wait for JS execution on the page load. In fact, it's simple to download the entire page so you're not hitting up Google multiple times for each User. A few million hits over a few months and nobody will know right?
Agreed child mortality was a big factor, but so too, was vaccinations and better hygiene (via running water, electricity, food handling, etc).

Found a statistic that states 46% of all deaths in 1910 were due to infectious diseases and now that number has dropped by an order of magnitude: https://demography.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ID...

The ironic thing is, that single-use plastics play a huge role in maintaining sterile environments in hospitals and we'd be much worse off without them.
Magical indeed. From the chart in the article it looks like for the most recent half-year they were paid $1.35B in rent and spent $1.23B to operate their properties, which works out to just $120MM in operating income for the year, let's say $250MM for the year. Per the S1 they already have around $4B of debt which looks like it costs them about $80MM per year in interest. That leaves about $170MM in plausible "earnings" if you assume they didn't have any other costs (they do, massive ones, but for sake of argument). The suggested IPO valuations are about 400x that amount, or about 20x higher than the average P/E of the S&P 500.
that's it i'm canceling my account with them. Their scores are way off, they just use you as a way to sell more credit cards, and now they are giving out my info. They are worse than useless now.
The governments need to be held accountable but there also needs to be significant education of the population. I lived in Thailand for a few years and my Thai friends would literally just drop bags, wrappers, plastic bottles, etc. on the ground as soon as they were done with them without missing a beat. They rolled their eyes and giggled at me when I carried my trash around until I found a receptacle. In the town I lived in there were hundreds of little scraps of plastic in every square foot of dirt.
In the example they’re up scaling 1080p content to 4K. Am I missing something or is that not particularly impressive? Isn’t it just pixel doubling?
These companies will teach the Market a lesson, more like.
Selenium, click a video, store the suggested, verify what has been and hasn't been watched, move to the next, do the same etc... etc... Seems pretty easy to build a bot to do such a thing.
I have tried to have my account deleted a while ago but Credit Karma refused to do so.

Terrible company.
I'm part of an almost entirely remote company, where the headquarters is stationed in a coworking space. If the company offered a WeWork membership for us remote-workers, I'd occasionally like to visit the space for the atmosphere of working around other working people and the conveient coffee, booze, and views.

But as it stands WeWork is far too expensive for me to justify paying out of pocket for considering how noisy the shared areas are compared to any of the cafes down the block from my home, where I can get the same work done in a similar environment for a fraction of the daily cost.
Given that they seem baffled by wedding invitations, they don't seem like they're very proficient. There's a ocean of difference between "Where is the bathroom" and "We hold these truths to be self-evident".
I think this is very likely. The only way I can see companies like Twitter being worth as much as they are is their potential political power. A company like Twitter has a lot of influence over that, but I don't think they create such an enormous amount of value.
Yahoo proved that page views don’t really mean much. Yahoo was always one of the top ten sites but hasn’t been able to monetize its traffic for years.
Just a front and back cover and one page:

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Oh hai....would you prefer a 470ohm or 1k ohm hotdog for lunch?
Different-ish.

There's a recommendation system that I think is pretty good and people can collect other people pictures/pins in their own collections.

I don't think there is any emphasis on influencers or at least from my casual usage I don't see any. I think this is in part because people can collect other people's pins/pictures into their own collection.
Any loss above 20% will be covered by the options purchased at the inception of the contract that go up in price if the real estate market suffers a larger drop (>20%).

So we personally guarantee up to a 20% drop with our own capital and use financial instruments to hedge any drop greater than 20% so as to make you whole regardless of the size of the drop.
I will third this, I have a specific recruiter who works at an agency who I find superb. I always use her for hiring if possible. She finds solid candidates and takes the time to understand what you need, works her network, filters out what you don't like, and pitches your company properly.

Well worth the fee if you can get the right person!
He was all but done for before The Apprentice success. That allowed him to parlay his name into a few successful licensing agreements, which salvaged what would have otherwise been a complete collapse.
Most people in the scene (or at least the sub-scene I'm embedded in) that make it and listen to it don't really care what it's called. But for people trying to find more of a certain style, it certainly can be useful.
According to Matt Mullenweg, that's not true:

> One of the things that really surprised me is I thought — as probably many do — that Tumblr had kind of died under its variety of corporate parents. And then actually being able to see some of the numbers, including some the numbers post-when they changed the adult content policy. I was like, “Wow, this has still got a ton going on.”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20804894/tumblr-acquisiti...
The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic… asshole. -- George Carlin

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-import...