skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. I recall a similar passage in Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. He was part of a committee to rewrite textbooks and everyone estimated it to be part of a normal distribution instead of a power law. He lamented how even trained psychologists were bad at estimating completion times in spite of being aware of the data.

I think this holds for most human endeavors that have intellectual property as the end result - software projects, books, doctoral thesis, etc.

Two questions -
1- I would really like to understand why?
2- I have always thought lean is the answer to the above in a startup context but really curious of hear of others.
How many silicon atoms is that?
You can't rig paper.
Government regulation of businesses that happen to have websites (aka 'regulation of the net') is already reality. Pretty far from a "non-starter"
I guess what I was addressing was the claim that the rates are "unjustifiably" high given the aggressive recovery tactics:

> tools and punishments lenders use to lower the risk of default below what justifies their high rates

My point was that this assumption was unfounded, and it's a better baseline assumption that the counterfactual of aggressive recovery tactics would be even higher rates.

It seems we're in agreement that it can be entirely salutary for the government to decide to limit the actions you can take to recover debt (at the likely cost of higher rates), but it's important to be clear on the model we're using here.
Which software would that be?
I am personally in favor of simple, physically based voting systems. The kind that can still work reliably during periods of unrest and mistrust.
Literally as much as the Koch family and other, competing interests for political donations. “Enough“ is going to vary by charity or company though. I fear animal shelters literally never have enough as there are just so many homeless domesticated animals.
My point didn't hinge on what the "it" in "they did it" was.
https://medium.com/oceanize-geeks/the-active-record-and-data...
This is not sensitive data; voter registration information is public and available for purchase from the government.
I've found TS a huge win over JS.

The only reason people didn't use statically typed languages in some of the recent past was because they sucked.

Part of the reason is, it's a lot easier to play with handy ergonomic features with a dynamically typed language (especially if you don't know the right stuff). So dynamically typed languages took a lead for a while.
I wonder what has bigger impact on climate, driving a car daily or feeding Google and Adtech industry with all your data, that has to be stored and constantly processed.
Facebook’s Oomd
Is this a Neil Young joke?
I think your point agrees with mine. In the US, the path to defending an unnamed right generally involves an “enterprising lawyer” drawing a line to try to bucket it as a part of a named right. Defending the named right directly requires strictly less mental gymnastics.
To the best of my knowledge, I've never dreamed. On waking I have no memory of anything happening after falling asleep. I wonder if I experience more REM sleep than those people who do dream (or at least remember their dreams upon waking up).
Rest in peace XSS Auditor
I do. It works fine. Sometimes you don't have to split a pill, sometimes you do :)
I know that. Owning a home isn’t supposed to be a luxury. But in that part of the country, it is, and it doesn’t change the fact that rents are subject to change every time the term renews.

Unfortunately, rent control fails consistently. It doesn’t change the fact that too many people need too few homes, not to mention the margin squeeze for property owners. The Bay Area needs way more home, especially multi-family units near transportation.
I just want to say that another great tool is hsluv.org. It shows you what colors go together based on what our eyes see as the same level of hue/saturation/lightness, which is different than what it is in actuality (based on light). http://www.hsluv.org/comparison/ has a good example.
+1, and you don't have to worry about having three bookmarks placed correctly :-)
OMG, I just realized this statement from CEO Crist:

> "My goal is to continue growing Chef as a company that transcends numerous U.S. presidential administrations. And to be clear: I also find policies such as separating families and detaining children wrong and contrary to the best interests of our country,"

Is basically a paraphrase of the psychopathic CEO's statement in the movie _Sorry to Bother You_. To me, the most genius gut-punchingly funny part of the movie (which is full of genius laugh out loud and cringe-inducing parts).

"See? It's all just a big misunderstanding."

"This ain't no fucking misunderstanding, man. So, you making half-human half-horse fucking things so you can make more money?"

"Yeah, basically. I just didn't want you to think I was crazy. That I was doing this for no reason. Because this isn't irrational."

"Oh. Cool. Alright. Cool. No, I understand. I just, I just got to leave now, man. So, please get the fuck out of my way."
Learning Optimal and Near-Optimal Lexicographic Preference Lists
Some terrible, hyper-critical comments so far. A 3d-printed concrete cube with a fridge full of Soylent would be vastly more efficient for productive techies. Can't we just admit that this is an incredibly creative hybrid of old & new. The end result is breathtaking.
I was skeptical that I’d like the car. Overall, it’s well thought out.

There is one physical button I still want and that’s for the windshield wipers. The car wash triggers them (maybe a GPS fence around car washes to disable?? One which is only enabled when the local weather says it isn’t currently raining) and the non-touch free car washes will damage them if they’re operating. So, I keep the wipers on manual.

The joy of a Tesla is that my idea for “car wash geo fence to disable wipers when not raining” - could be in the next software version.
How would you prove that you were the owner of a name and address without revealing additional information about yourself?

Theoretically, there could be a system where, if the publisher of a name+address gets an anonymous request to remove that information, then they have to mail a letter with a nonce to that address, and then if they get a followup request with that nonce, then they have to comply and remove it.

In practice, a system involving third-parties such as a lawyer or government agency is more likely, I'm just proving my point that there's nothing fundamental that requires compromising anonymity.

It's also worth noting that if a client is known to their lawyer but unknown to anyone else, it's pretty widely accepted to describe that client as anonymous, even if they're not technically anonymous in the ultimate, purist sense.

If a website operator is anonymous, how are you going to contact them and require them to take down your information? [What] if they refuse?"

First of all, that's not a conflict or tradeoff between my ability to anonymously use services and my control over my data.

And the obvious solution, which is the one we have, is that to run a website, someone has to give up a little anonymity and be subject to laws. But there's no fundamental reason people can't anonymously use services and maintain control over their data.
In case, like me, the headline makes you think it's related, this is not the same as Pieter Hintjen's C4 development process, the "Collective Code Construction Contract":

https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/
Renewablea aren't carbon neutral "yet" is how I would put it.
We had an article just yesterday titled "Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies" and there is no reason to believe they are going to reach parity with fossil fuels then stop improving.

Why don't you think capitalism is going to fix climate change? If clean is cheaper, the capitalists will be using it. With gusto.

If prices reach parity, then the whole economic system will basically go into autopilot using & improving the technology, let alone the influence all the private interest groups who want research into clean tech.
Any software that provides you a link to content can implement, and also choose not to implement, AMP's edge caching (MITM) support. One might be Google's Android launcher's news app, another might be Telegram's "Instant View" feature for links, or hypothetically even a terminal app could load an AMP page.
iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer
Here in Argentina too. It even includes the equivalent of the SSN, that is public here. I guess all the political parties get one whole copy and the relevant pages are posted in the walls of the voting building, so you can check in which room you should vote (if you didn't check before in internet).
I wrote a little more about this stuff a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21011976
Are you advocating that I put a bunch of magic strings in my codebase? That would be a maintenance nightmare.

Unless you think I'm suggesting that no devs should ever write SQL at all in their career? Which isn't the case.
Instead of speaking in vague terms about "optional application-level MITM from the backend cache", it might help to illustrate the choice users have with concrete examples.

With real world examples, how can an ordinary choose to use AMP and how can an ordinary user choose not to.
Those examples and companies, IBM (the IBM 360) and Apple (the Macintosh), were picked by the parent post.

DEC was acquired by Compaq not HP. Compaq was later acquired by HP but before that happened Compaq sold the Alpha line to Intel because it would have competed with the Itanium. The Alpha was then licensed by Intel to the Chinese (according to Gustafson) and was used as the basis for the Sunway Taihu Light.

Can I help you with anything else?
I mean, mechanically... They kinda are? We don't prosecute most toddlers lawbreaking, but that's more due to mental requirements for culpability than 'it's not a crime if a toddler does it' or other such shit.

Also, back to the drunk/reckless driving analogy - I wonder what the police do when someone gets arrested doing that with their kids in the back?
> I find the converse to be true for the front end. I find most attempts to deal with the UI in anything other than objects and components (read jQuery, React Hooks), turns to spaghetti rather quickly.

What alternatives have you tried?
I'd argue that these sorts of efforts do help move things towards a better community.

The site relies quite a lot on knowledgeable people to review and edit things, and the more grunt work that entails, the more you have to really care about being a part of the site to commit to it. The types who are interested in shouldering that burden will tend to be the ones who are extra hardcore, who are also more likely going to be impatient with mistakes and newbies.
Even though parts of it were kit, it looks like they designed and built a lot of the interior themselves. I wonder if either one took off a sabbatical from work or if they did this all on weekend or after hours.

It's pretty neat and a lot of work, even if not entirely DIY. I mean, at some point you're going to buy pre-made parts. It's not like people grow their own trees, cut them down and cut their own planks. It's not a log cabin.
Is "MIT Media Lab" really the core of MIT's reputation?
The article never explains why Wittgenstein is overrated. I've read it twice. All I can gather is that Moore felt he didn't really understand W's philosophical method enough to use it, and that Russell felt that after W, he couldn't do philosophy.
Actually, "Year of Birth" appears to be one of the voter file fields too. Not quite the same as an exact birth date (esp for identity theft purposes), but useful for demographic targeting.
This is why I love Sqlalchemy. We use it as half orm, half query builder and it’s pretty great.
MIT sold off the name to a tabloid years ago.
Learn to Look Around Corners
Everyone dreams, but dream recall varies from day to day and from person to person. But there are a number of ways to improve it.

For instance, getting into the habit of introspecting your own thoughts the moment you realize you're awake -- you'll find that some of what seem like random things you're thinking about upon waking up are actually strands of whatever dream you were having in the last REM cycle before waking up, and if you practice pulling on those strands, you'll find that your recall improves over time.

There are also affirmations that can help. Literally telling yourself that you'll remember your dreams as you try and fall asleep, which implants a subconscious intent that helps create better recall.

I looked into this years ago when looking into inducing lucid dreams, and I can say from personal experience the various methods for getting more in touch with your dreams do work. It's just a question of whether you can be bothered to put in the effort and feel the reward is worth it.
I use org-mode for time tracking. I like that I can see the project I am supposed to be working on at the bottom of the screen. Helps keep me on track.
> Instead of speaking in vague terms about "application-level MITM from Google's back end"

I don't consider actual, verifiable, facts vague.

> In real world terms, how can they choose to use AMP and how can they choose not to.

They can use software that doesn't load AMP pages from Google and instead loads them from the host site. You can do this by using DuckDuckGo as a search engine which won't return URLs to Google's cache of AMP content. You can use messaging apps that will open your web browser and navigate to links rather than using the AMP version.

Edit: Here is an example. Assuming you are on a desktop browser you should be able to navigate to this url and see a page: https://preview.amp.dev/documentation/examples/e-commerce/ch...

This is a Google made example of an AMP page. It's pretty bare bones but as you can see if you open up your browser's networking tab the browser is talking to `preview.amp.dev` not to the AMP caching URLs. Your browser is fetching content directly from the site. There is nothing stopping software from doing this with an AMP page.
Ballot box stuffing? "Losing" boxes from certain districts?
A silicon atom is 0.2nm.
I'm a life long reader. Finished the majority of the classics section one might find in an american library. I find it hard to get a steady stream of quality narrative with engaging ideas, so I tend to find a good author and read everything I can find they've written. I'm also one of those can't-sleep-more-than-4-hours-a-day people, so I spend time reading books then.
If your parents are consistently using ad-blockers they're doing better than most of my family. My mother wouldn't know what a browser extension was let alone how to begin installing one. The totally computer illiterate are at least protected in that sense.
A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20669465
Oh yes you can. It's in how and what you count.
I hope this helps the lawsuit to force Georgia away from using electronic voting. Clearly their security procedures (physical and digital) are lacking.
Is this Portland Oregon or Portland Maine? I thought it was Portland Oregon, but then they mentioned the footings were 12 inches below the frost line, and there basically is no front line in Portland Oregon since the winters are too warm and rainy. But I assume there is a frost line in Portland Maine.
I used to power through books I didn't like, just to finish them in case they were redeemed somehow. Then I realized, too many books too little time. I dropped Neal Stephenson's Anathem because of this, although I have read every other one of his books and cover to cover. It just didn't click and I didn't fancy re-reading it when it did finally click.
How do they do that in the context of ORM vs sps :)?
Firearm homicides are not systematically reported--not even "lawful" ones by police--so 2700 is the absolute lower bound.
Let’s hope Mazda blazes a popular trail[0].

[0] https://thenewswheel.com/mazda-eliminates-touch-screens/
digital voting is not an issue only in Georgia... but that would be a start.
Purple finger tech has yet to be improved upon...
https://wicg.github.io/native-file-system/

Editor:
Marijn Kruisselbrink (Google)

As you may be painfully aware of by now, "web standards process" means next to nothing if Google gets to decide the standards anyway.
Nah. Because Skynet, I believe time travel is impossible, time is now or never.
We should all try to work "So let it be written, so let it be done." into meetings.
Are you seeking to disrupt the US Radium Corporation?
> What do you want them to do?

If you read to the end of the comment, it suggests dependent typing as the solution.
I meant to say "abstract" not "vague".
Your idea is never change what we are doing? Crazy.
Does browsing Airbnb in France or from France force true prices ?
My split is reference/search (ebook), entertainment/immersion (ebook) and education/assimilation (paper). Ebooks are still too undifferentiated and featureless for effective learning. For example I can often remember that a definition or philosophy is in a large green book with an illustrated cover, 3/4 of the way into the book, on the bottom of the left hand page, author's notes in the left margin, citation reference in the bottom margin, smell of the page, paper color, font, initial cap size on the paragraph. That hooks into my recall and keeps the book interesting while I memorize it. Ebook formats lose a lot of information.
in a sibling comment.

tl,dr: the first thing one does in this field is to sanitize the input.
How do you stay warm in the winter? The drafts must be intense.
Interesting. Where are you located? Maybe I can use a VPN to get the same behavior.
Same experience for me, but mine was for donating blood, not money to politics. After a few years of repeatedly saying no they finally backed off and left me alone, but I haven’t donated since. I don’t want to be hunted down like that. It’s a shame, really. If I could donate and be guaranteed to never be contacted I totally would.
What would you think if your leader said that you should be locked up if you don't show patriotism in the correct way?
Journalists working in Chinese state media to be tested on loyalty to Xi Jinping
There is reference to the posters taking a week of peace to help out. How much leave is the statutory minimum? Is just one week common?
Having spent quite a bit of time requesting voter files from the government, I can say it’s not hard to obtain this data in most states. Many times it’s just a small fee, a pinky promise that you won’t use the data for non political purposes, and a photo of your drivers license. I think they should be more worried about someone reverse engineering the closed source software of the checkin machine in this case...
Tesla's Hero Cycle Leads to Nürburgring Confrontation with Itself
This must be the experiment they ran to show quantum supremacy

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00444

"Establishing the Quantum Supremacy Frontier with
a 281 Pflop/s Simulation"

Benjamin Villalonga, Dmitry Lyakh, Sergio Boixo, Hartmut Neven, Travis S. Humble, Rupak Biswas, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Alan Ho, Salvatore Mandrà

(Submitted on 1 May 2019)
It’s the same case as Google and AirBnB. It’s too expensive to have support at that scale so they skip it.

There is always a risk to go with a big player when you’re small. They don’t give a shit about you. You barely move the metric.

When you go with a small player, the risk is they may die.

Only a few companies have been able to do support at scale. Amazon comes to mind being last focused on customer. Microsoft may be second in hand holding their enterprise customers.
Whenever the next fad takes over.
Some terrible, hyper-critical comments so far. A 3d-printed concrete cube comment with a fridge full of Soylent would be vastly more efficient for productive techies writing comments on HN. Can't we just admit that this is an incredibly creative hybrid of old & new commenting. The end result is breathtaking comments.
I think the sentence that got me was:

"Natty started to flag answers automatically once it had detected a particular answer as a non-answer with considerable accuracy."

It might be that I don't understand - does Natty flag something directly, or flag them for the moderator?

On the other hand, the Heat Detector bot sounded it was punitive too, but in a way that might strengthen the community. (interesting thought - could it flag moderators?)
Early 2020 Looks Promising for Chip Industry
A million dead every single year directly due to cars. Another million due to there pollution? Yeah, I would say so.
Both impossible if votes are submitted and counted in public without transportation of the ballot box.

And before you say this is impractical, that is exactly what they do in the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOMlxtvPeWU
What information do they have that isn't already public? That's what the parent was talking about.
This just brought a big ass smile to my face! Some of my fondest childhood memories are of my dad rolling out of the local library with a six foot tall stack of hardcovers... if I recall the library had a checked out limit of a dozen titles and he took full advantage, so I’d have to help him carry them out to the car :)
For those wanting these ideas described in a more mathematical "language" [0-1] are a good start. If you are interested in studying objects and how they compose, you are probably interested in category theory.

[0] https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_usi...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.05923.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.05923.pdf
Can you show us the messages? He’s saying that never happened.
There's a major oversight on the design. How can Maya get to the bedroom?
My guess is it is a statistical artefact. If you have a project and you pick a random time in that project then you expect to pick the midpoint.

So, if the only information we have is that the project has gone on for 2 years we expect that to be the midpoint and that the project will continue for 2 years.

In particular if the project manager has lost control of the project (eg, not scheduled in a contingency, missed requirements, etc) then there is no reason to believe that anyone knows what % of the project is done. So assume 50% because that is the Most Likely Estimate. And be surprised at how often that is the right guess in my cynical and not inconsequential experience :p.

If the project manager is in control (usually evidenced by people opining that the project will finish early) then expect the project to finish exactly on time when something unexpected goes wrong.
> ICE not directly impacted by the takedown, but developer wanted to prove a point.

So, everyone except ICE suffers from this protest?
> I hate to be That Guy, but I found the massive overuse of exclamation points to be very distracting.… [Exclamation points] should not be a default punctuation choice.

I think that's overstating it quite a bit. There's one exclamation point in the first four paragraphs. The frequency picks up a bit after that, but I'd hardly call them the default punctuation choice.
They had one of these (Sukup Safe-T-Home)[1] at my hometown county fair this year and it seemed like a very interesting take on the yurt. It's basically a grain bin that they've modified slightly to work as a shelter.

Definitely spent a few minutes fantasizing about having one of these as a cabin in the woods someplace.

[1] http://www.safethome.com/Safethome
Why not? Ad company wasting energy to run ad business. Nothing "clean" about it.
this doesn't say the exact algorithm (I haven't found it), but this stack overflow answer talks about it : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5107140/what-is-meant-by...
Or: if in neutral, then don't ever turn on the wipers.

Better than hoping you geocoded every car wash on the planet.