skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simplifying a lot, but...

VC companies themselves raise money from investors to create a fund, which is then used to invest in startups. Generally, funds are raised with a specific timeline pitch for returns to the investors - often 7-10 years. In order to return money to investors, the investments in the fund have to actually pay money back to the VC firm - the best way to do this is via IPO (although acquisition is also an option).

Due to overall market conditions, a glut of investment happened in the VC space 7-8 years ago (i.e. a bunch of funds were started), and those funds now need to get money back to the investors to prove a nice ROI, so there's a push to get the startups that were funded by the fund to exit one way or another.
You don't even need to do that for gun buybacks. People routinely make firearms with $10 of homedepot parts and turn them in.
In theory you could turn in a "Zero Percent Lower" which are about $20 or so...
You're not really saying anything here. Is your point that we shouldn't regulate weapons based on their color or the material their stocks are made out of? I obviously agree with you.

The subtext here is yet another Firearms Policy Canard, which is that anyone who thinks semi-automatic rifles should be regulated must solely be reacting to the color of the weapon, and clearly doesn't know that there are farmers that rely on them to clear out smallish animals or whatever. Sorry, I get that most people don't take any time to research these topics, but they're in fact not that complicated (these are devices that were designed to be broken down and reassembled in a jungle during monsoon rains by teenagers), and I'm not cowed.
Yup, this has been my experience growing up outside of the US.

Watching this video made me facepalm really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2NmuQW8cjE
Probably. Loss aversion may make the user more likely want to recover $2 rather than pay $2 to upgrade to tracking-free versions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
> I always found it strange if the Japanese are so honest (perception may be different than reality) then why do they need so many cameras?

Solving the long tail end has decreasing returns.

If you already have a well-behaving society, then adding a few cameras probably won't change anything at all. You need a whole lot of cameras to have any meaningful effect.
C11 added a lot of features though
There is a Canadian anti-firearms lobbying group that sprung up after a mass shooting occurred in 1989 with a Mini-14.

Roughly 10 years later, most historically interesting tactical rifles were banned or heavily restricted.

The Mini-14 remains at the lowest level of restriction, and its appearance is very likely the reason why that is. (Also ignorance; the H&K G11 rifle doesn't exist outside of perhaps 5 or so remaining prototypes, but it's on the ban list all the same.)
Yeah, and one of those industries, fracking to be precise, is responsible for most of the decrease in emissions because electric companies moved to use is instead of coal. Much more than renewable energies and much more than whatever the Paris accord was preaching for.
There was a good discussion on Reddit on how the objective of Kaggle competitions from the competition creator's perspective isn't necessarily a useful model. https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/d50lr3/d_w...
Health costs have increased a lot since the "Affordable" Care Act came into action... that must count for something.
This misses the actual mechanism, which is not as simple as you might think. CO2 at ground level is actually irrelevant. What matters is CO2 at the height in the atmosphere where an infrared photon might escape to space without further interactions with the atmosphere. Increases in CO2 matter only because with more CO2 the height where a photon might escape increases, and the air is colder at this increased height, and hence the amount of energy emitted is (temporarily) less - until the overall temperature of the earth increase so that the temperature at this increased height is back to what it was before.
Both happened, but 1/2 to 2/3 of the difference is due to actual efficiency gains.

Source: recently read The Quest, book which discusses energy in the modern world
The Azolla Event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event) was a cyclical bloom of duckweed-like ferns in the Arctic Ocean about 49 million years ago which drew down atmospheric CO2 by an order of magnitude, from 3500 ppm (responsible for the warm, verdant climate you think about when you imagine the Mesozoic era) to 650 ppm (responsible for the cold, cyclical glaciations you think about when you imagine the modern world), and in which vicinity it has remained ever since.
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Well if history is any measure the move away from capitalism will kill off a good percentage of the population. So I guess from an ecological standpoint it would be good to have a communist revolution every couple decades then quickly go back to capitalism so the people left can live nice lives.
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Me too. Which is why school is shit.
Gives them an opportunity to rewrite any testimony previously given by Lamo as well.
I think both sides here are right. there have been considerable advances in safety technology in the last 20 years, especially in avoidance systems. these improvements have unfortunately been counteracted by larger and larger vehicle sizes, which make everyone less safe on the road.

interestingly the larger vehicles represent a tragedy of the commons, where individuals feel safer in heavier SUVs but overall society is much worse off. If all SUVs were traded for sedans crash survivability would improve about 35% on average.
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Let’s be clear about what is meant by dirty stuff. Dirty stuff is the children of peasant farmers moving to cities assembling iPhones and buying things like air conditioning and a motorbike for their families.

The upside is that some of the children of peasants are putting a serious dent in world climate problems like Wang Chuanfu who is the founder of BYD.
The US has cities, I believe.
a recent paper disputes this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1554-z
explanation on Ars:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/we-can-phase-out-fos...
This appeal to authority probably won't be very effective in convincing thr root commenter about the validity of the study. None of the quotes addres the concerns about counting methods, and the experts cited are more likely to be seen as experts in biology than statistics, inference, and logic.
Oh, sure, absolutely. An Amazon driver just calls service and goes about his business. That is different from the average truck-user case.
I've always heard Stripe is a great place to work as well. Have been considering applying for one of your remote positions. Congrats and keep it up!
Can we get some love here for bdelloid rotifers, while we're on topic?

They are positively known to slurp up any DNA floating about when they reconstitute, and are found in a wider range of habitats than tardigrades, if that's possible. Different tardigrade species have different habitat preferences, but rotifers are in them all.

Interestingly, they are parthenogenic, which normally is a species death sentence, but those rotifers just keep on keepin' on.
There's also the fact that outright bans on semi-automatic rifles are an untenable proposal, because they're too legitimately useful to some subsets of civilians, so maybe "you do the best you can" and clear out the mass-market military rifles and leave the sleeper parts known and loved by the people who actually need them. (I am just noodling here and know absolutely nothing about Canadian firearms policy).

I'm not saying that's good public policy (licensure --- in the US, probably presumptively issued licensure --- is the right answer here, not bans).
Curtailment of liberty:
Why am I not allowed to take a shit on a lawn in the park? Why not think of it as a part of life?
That's awesome, this would fix one of my largest pain points as well!
Related IIHS ratings where it failed to achieve the award criteria: https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/tesla/model-s-4-door-ha... https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/Tesla/model-s-4-door-ha...

Other cars like Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius scored better.
Like the German military in WW2, the US military is over-dependent on technology.

It does not matter if your weapons have a kill ratio of 100:1 if the enemy can throw 101 of his crappier weapons at you. In WW2, both the Soviets and the US made huge numbers of 'good-enough' weapons that swamped the small numbers of super-duper technology that the Germans used.

Modern warfare is as much, if not more, dependent on a country's manufacturing capacity than its weaponry. The US does not have the manufacturing capacity in 2019 that it had in 1942. The country with the manufacturing capacity in today's world is China.
Their employees would still exist if they didn’t; they’re not cloning them somewhere. And people would still buy stuff.
>Somewhat more perplexing are the reviews. Each one appears to have been written by an Amazon Vine user, which are people Amazon invites into its exclusive program based on their reviewing history. Those customers get free products and are encouraged to write reviews about them, although they’re contractually obligated to disclose that.

Interesting, that the amazon reviewers are not disclosing they are for-profit reviewers.
No this is one of the most verified facts.
The privacy agreements of gmail, facebook and what not, serve like a poll for this: if you use the service you agree to this. Majority of people use Gmail, Facebook, etc. So this is not anecdotal. On the other hand the desire to "protect" privacy at the expense of free services is based on anecdotal data at best.
> Can't be too hard to just mount a wheel carrier in the bed

Um... yeah. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a truck.
Not that I'm aware, if you are educated enough to read a newspaper in Portuguese you can probably get the gist of the news in Spanish.
It's not mutually intelligible, but it's simpler in writing.
I don't mean to make light of this very sad situation, but I misparsed the first word in the headline as "Everyone" and pictured a Zuckerberg-themed Heavens Gate/Jonestown sort of situation. Momentarily struck me as a radically-unexpected plot twist until I caught my error.
> Often the downsides do outweigh their utility.

More like, "almost never do the down sides outweigh their utility, because they aren't designed by idiots".
Redis seems like an example of a modern 'blackboard', what do you think?
People bring up the Mini-14 because the Mini-14 Ranch (5801) is specifically, by name, exempt from "Assault Weapon Ban" laws while the Mini-14 Tactical (5846) is banned because of its ergonomic features.
If I annoy 3 of my neighbors so much that they would pay 1000 dollars per year to have me disappear, but the government allows me to exist, or he government isn’t giving me a 3000 dollar subsidy, are they?
I honestly don't see how it's doing that. The legislation doesn't even make an ad-based revenue model illegal.
I could definitely see reading a weekly highlights, just that it's too much for me every day. There's something about the writing style too that feels a bit breezy at times.
I lean more towards ignorance than malice. The average Earth person (out of all 11 billion) probably doesn't have as solid of a scientific or historical background to form an educated opinion on what affect we are having on the ecosystem in the long term.
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From that link, the law seems to be fuzzy enough that they can selectively enforce whatever they want.
> This comment makes it seem like you think that people against high powered rifles are unaware of the technology and capabilities of weapon systems.

They have passed laws that demonstrate that they don't understand these things. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, for example, only banned various cosmetic features and manufacturers simply adjusted their designs and were compliant overnight.

That legislation was put together by activists, lobbyists, researchers and politicians who were motivated to save lives. That entire effort failed to identify the functional aspects of the weapons systems they were trying to regulate.

There is a massive information asymmetry between pro-gun and anti-gun, and not just in technical matters, but the pro-gun people are also encyclopedic on the law; after all, they are looking at potential jail time if they screw up.
I mean, at one point fireplaces were a major tax source in the UK. Later on, windows.
Many games already throw brass across the screen. To the extent that mirroring weapons or using lefty versions right handed is a thing. It "looks cool."
Just wait until you have to teach them at the college level
Legislators attempting to talk about banning "Assault Weapons" come across about as intelligent and informed as those who want to ban violent video games.
Neanderthals to those who know whats going on, saints to those who are blindly stomaching hype and propaganda.

California has a notably terrible nitwit (Deleon) who has made hilarious public gaffes in his discriptions of firearm technology. Feinstein notably said -> “We have laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than 3 rounds, yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 30 round magazines”.

These are not informed people, they're partisan politicians trying to pit people against eachother.
Why isn't there a Fentanyl problem in China, Europe, Africa ?

Are you SURE China has the ability to save america from under-regulation, expensive healthcare, for profit doctors etc ?
Please show your work. I see lots of very successful regulation, and very few examples of regulation we'd be better without.
> And some of it even gets converted into fuel, which is downright dumb

Honest question, why is that dumb? Seems to be that would be the "correct" way of producing fuel, as it's zero-net-carb.
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and FOMO of "The Next Big Thing"
Costs were rising dramatically before the act. The act passed, and they continued to rise, albeit a tiny bit slower.
The issue isn't of being able to load the bitcode (which LLVM has gotten pretty good at supporting in a backwards compatible way). It's that the meaning of things might change, undefined behavior may be handled differently, and so forth.

In other words a newer optimizer running on older IR may emit broken code.
I'm not sure if you're joking, but I know people who are working on a startup to do basically this.
Well I certainly create a lot of copies of many things all the time. My computers do it automatically and effortlessly. I don't claim authorship though. And you know that other people who copy things don't claim authorship either except for the few frauds which are not the topic here.

I do find it weird to use the term "property" for things that can be copied infinitely. Right now a lot of laws are created to sustain this economy. I'm not convinced it's worth it. So please don't act like these laws are something natural! We're creating them and we have to discuss which parts are sensible.
AirBnB clearly uses low room rates and high service fees to pull you in, but there's a legitimate reason to display it like that.

The cleaning fee is fixed. So maybe you start out thinking you'll stay 5 days, but end up staying 10. If they showed "all inclusive" rates you'd have confusion in the other direction. What you thought was the cheap hotel suddenly isn't because the cleaning fee for the two is very different.

Similarly, it's important to display the local taxes separately, because some customers may be e.g. entitled to a rebate for that part (some localities e.g. only charge foreigners).
A flaw in iOS 13 can expose your contact details
I don't use Google services at all, but Google still collects data about me. That's a serious problem.
You might have a fundamental misunderstanding of their business model.

They don't need to classify an ACH as "completed" or "not completed", they only need to place a confidence interval on its completion state, which becomes easier as they process more transfers.
I have a truck that has 300k miles on the original engine and transmission but I have to change the headlight switch every 50 to 70k miles. I also have to replace the interior door handles every 100k. So, 6 door handles (right and left), 6 light switches, a fuel pump, radiator, and she's ready for a suspension. But rocking the same engine.
Indeed, it would seem that some companies are successful while others are not!
I've always wondered how good the second amendment is against tanks.
I suspect using the median net assets instead of the average would lead to vastly different results.
I appreciate the optimism and hope you are right but there is plenty of talk/hype in this space and there are not many EVs that are not compliance cars actually in production in the US.
Unfortunately, you’re correct. Post GDPR I’ve been pitched many times by EU companies trying to be my representative for GDPR, so if that is any indication we’ll see a booming industry for that in the US as well...

Funny enough, the emails sent by these companies are not GDPR compliant and they’ve given me no indication as to how they gathered my info, nor do they give me an opt out.
That's an eminently fair response. If the argument is simply that existing assault weapon bans are irrational, I concede fully that the Mini-14 is a great illustration. I remarked downthread about like, a gossamer-thin thread of rationalizing behind this kind of policymaking, but, I mean, yeah.

I just think that in general, firearms advocates are "high on their own supply" from these arguments: that the FAWB, for instance, is terrible legislation, but also, that all our discussions about firearms policy should be rooted in the definitions hammered out in the FAWB. And: no, of course not.

All I'd like to establish is that the real underlying issues are not that complicated, even if they're uncomfortable for firearms advocates, and can be grappled with by laypersons. When firearms advocates gotcha with FAWB definitions or weird counterexamples or appeals to rifle color or the fact that a belt buckle is a machine gun or whatever, that's an evasion, not a real argument, and should be called out as such.
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> And why is it that modifying such a small part of the atmosphere (0.04%) can cause such a huge problem?

There's a lot of energy going by, and greenhouse gasses grab a slice of it that is otherwise poorly grabbed.

Perhaps picture a small cabin, with a big hot stove, and a window open to bitter arctic night. Without the window, you soon bake. Without the stove, you soon freeze. You tweak the window's openness to change room temperature. Keeping or killing your house plants as you prefer. The window is a patchwork, some patches overlapping, some not. The part of the window along the ceiling matters a lot, as much heat is trying to escape there. Tweak a patch over an otherwise open hole there, and it matters.

Earth is doing a BBQ roll, hanging between white hot Sun, and black cryo space. The atmosphere fluffs out during the day, and contracts at night. Lunar day is 120-ish C. If aliens umbrellaed the Earth, then vacuum would come down to ground, the atmosphere become some meters of oxygen nitrogen snow. That's a large flow of energy going by. Atmospheric water absorbs, and emits back, a lot of heat - deserts get cold at night. Different molecules have different absorption spectra. CO2 absorbs well at some frequencies water doesn't. Including in thermal infrared, where ground is radiating heat to space.

As an aside, Stanford has a fun project for more efficient refrigeration. A material engineered to preferentially emit heat, thermal infrared, at frequencies less well absorbed by the atmosphere. The "holes". So just sitting on a roof, it's cooler than the roof, because it can better "see" space than the roof can.
> This isn't really new or interesting [...]

The list of HN posts that this comment has been applied to is almost as long as the list of successful YC startups.
Bottled water, movie theatre snacks, drinks at a club, lemonade stands, drive-in movie, open air concert, Linux CDROMs, cosplay accessories, 3D printer parts, maps, email, wifi, books, political donations, "Microsoft" phone scam, home maintenance, trees/plants, clean fill, printer ink, coffee, legal documents, happiness.

Basically anything you're willing to DIY rather than paying for convenience.
Couldn’t find any content here. Just a full page of ads.
That can work for punctures. The back-country that I go to regularly has granite rocks that can sometimes have a sharp edge. The particular tire I was changing was a 4-steel-ply contractor-grade truck tire, two weeks old, that somehow got cross-wise of a piece of split granite that put a 3 inch gash in it. Goop will not do it in that case. I am still amazed at the damage that rock did. But hey, that's life in the mountains.
> GDP will overtake

Will?
Wrong. Acceleration is driven by voltage, current dictates top speed.
Not really.

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...
Another really annoying thing about the app is that they’ve seemingly increased the number of clicks/steps to complete a simple search for a place because they’re heavily pushing “experiences.” Very irritating
Healthcare, education, real estate in desirable areas, and taxes. I can also see that I spend more on hotel room nights, restaurant meals, groceries, supplies for my businesses. I don’t know where the inflation stats are coming from, but I’m certainly spending more every year for the same quantity.
That is an entirely different and irrelevant example. The Rangers are specifically authorised to arrest people throughout Texas under state law. However they generally cannot issue a legally valid order preventing a county sheriff from arresting a suspect.
My sister's cats have multiple bells and they still murder all the time.
Fun fact, it still does, in 2019, seep out of the ground in downtown Los Angeles. Literally on the miracle mile sits the La brea Tarpits. You can see the pond with oil bubbling out of the water. If you're ever in Los Angeles, it is a very memorable thing to visit.

https://tarpits.org/
It seems like the author is saying two things. 1) The hold out method isn't robust enough and 2) There may not be much difference between the top performing models. Which, okay, there may be a point there. But that doesn't really support the thesis that competitions don't produce useful models. It's more like they don't produce models that can be deployed directly for clinical use. There's no reason the techniques used by the competitors can't contribute to something that is clinically useful.

Of course a title like, "Here's why you can't directly deploy ML competition models into a production environment" doesn't grab as many clicks.
They wouldn't want to do MIR without upstreaming the Rust frontend, which I don't see happening anytime soon.
So if I create a copy of something the copy is mine?
You can call it that, but where does the argument go? Do you propose we tax them?
Of all of the hills to die on, you picked a pretty lousy one. Excuse me for casually browsing HN between doing actual real work. I guess not all of us can do HN fulltime.
DEET is an ingredient in a cocktail that has been popular with the brainless backpackers that crowd some of the islands in Thailand. They mix it with cough syrup, kratom and coke. If you get too much of it then you apparently you die [1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-sisters-died-...