skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the same for economics. How can you really measure all of the side effects of a government policy? For ex: if the conditions in a marketplace are so bad (for ex: because of a monopoly, or gov-back entrenched businesses, or other useless barriers to entry) that no one ever even tries to start a business, so there's no one ever to complains and nothing to measure.

At most you have some increasingly out-of-date information from before the policy was implemented, when the wider market, technology, access to capital, etc has changed.

Another example is minimum wage laws, it's very difficult to measure what costs there were if the jobs simply weren't created, not simply going declining in existing businesses or measurable marketplace. Combined with the countless other factors which influence hiring and cyclical trends.

I'm not sure what the solution is here but I'm skeptical of a lot of economic research.
I've been thinking for a while that the podcasting business is ripe for disruption in terms for revenue models.

From my understanding, podcast creators have to track down and get potential sponsors to sign on (if you're lucky and already have a big audience maybe they come to you). Then you splice in the audio of their ad into your podcast.

Whereas I've thought that an easier model for everyone would be to have an ad service that automatically serves ads into your podcast. Similar to how web site advertising currently works. As a creator you simply tag locations in your podcast where you want ads to appear and the duration of the ads. You also give the ad service a set of key words it uses to serve the most relevant ads to listeners. No chasing money and negotiating payments. Just sign up to the service, tag the audio stream, and provide relevant keywords.

An argument against this way of using ads in podcasts is that you lose control over the content and quality of the ads. I think we've all seen the broad range of quality in ads seen on websites...

The other revenue model is a packaged subscription model through some kind of syndicate. It's difficult to get people to pay for a single podcast, but if you packaged up a few under a small monthly fee maybe keen podcast listeners would be more willing to pay. Could be a good way to capture people who want an ad free experience, but don't want to pay for each podcast individually.

Perhaps I'm not aware and these models have been tried already?
Writing anyone or any organisation a blank cheque is problematic. Even if they are perfection personified now, will they be in the future? Will it be run by none of the same people? Will they have an entirely different agenda to the one you agree with?

If you can't know these things with sufficient certainty, definitely pick your license. Then only change it deliberately for your own purposes with your own goals and ideals driving it.

Devils advocate: maybe gpl will never have a later version you could possibly disagree with as it's too important to too many people just like you.
Complications With Assigning Review Scores To Games
i think tech is great career starting point but you should look to ‘exit’ at some point - take skills you’ve developed and apply them to a different field.
Apple already have the largest margins in the industry. They are sitting on a 245 billion dollar cash pile. They have so much cash they literally don't know what to do with it. Meanwhile, infrastructure and public services in both our countries are failing. But I guess voters, like you, "are sick of hearing about it", which explains a lot.
Perhaps not this far.
This is your third self-submit of this item today alone.
I've had a driver in the Brisbane CBD cross multiple lanes on an empty road and swerve at me when I was crossing halfway between red lights. Some people are just jerks I guess.
This kind of bad-faith civil engagement that poses as grass roots is a bigger threat to progress than misguided opposition. At least you have a hope to convince or guide honest opposition. Groups like AIPAC are unswayable. They exist solely to enable and advance Israeli agenda w.r.t Palestine. The morality or validity of the agenda just doesn't matter. The IDF could commit its biggest crimes yet and the AIPAC lobby is unlikely to lose funding or human resources. Compare that to other groups, like the NRA for instance. The NRA is cracking at its foundation. Who wants to work for them in this climate? Who wants to take their money?
I can imagine, what is best will likely depend on preference.

But at least the defaults should be sensible.
An AI that reliably catches stuff that humans sometimes miss is still an advancement in the state of the art.

I have a friend who was living with Multiple Sclerosis for two decades until they moved to a new neighbourhood and started looking for a new specialist. The new MS specialist looked at her history for thirty seconds and said, “you do not have Multiple Sclerosis.”

It turns out that about two decades ago she got married to a chilli-lover, and it was the newly introduced chillies in her diet that were causing inflammation of basically everything inside her body. About a year after the last consumption of chillies she’s basically normal. As much as you can be after two decades of restricted mobility caused by inflamed tissues.

AI only has to be reliably better than the worst humans can be to be incredibly useful.

“Here’s this morning’s batch of radiology that has been pre-vetted by the computer. Some interesting results on case 34, and the computer needs advice on 56 and 80.”

There’s also the issue that you point out that we are training AI to find specific deviations from nominal, rather than teaching the AI to detect anything that deviates sufficiently from nominal to be of medical concern.
Oh man, I laugh with that one!
I rather live in a world where the CCP failed and a bunch of poor people suffered than a world run by the CCP where 1/2 the world is at their mercy. America can be a tyrant but I believe the CCP would be much much worse.
I find politics can also be dragged into a lot of their podcasts even when they are not political in nature. With the mixing in of the heavy liberal views it can be hard to enjoy listening to some of the content, especially as a non-american :(
I expect China to clamp down harder and harder on its population as well as deflect attention from it as the economy slides to try keep the party in power. Look for the social credit system to expand even more and also more rhetoric about it all being the fault of evil foreigners.
I'm betting Commonwealth Fusion will beat ITER to commercial energy production. Throwing stronger magnets at the problem seems like a promising way to achieve stable fusion.

https://cfs.energy/technology/
There’s a third alternative to “Is there something/anything else?” recommended in some coaching books: “What else?”
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Why does it even have to be fully autonomous at this rate?

Highway automation seems like a far easier problem to solve and tons of people and businesses spend countless hours on the highway.

Why not try to reach better-than-humans at highways with large scale deployments as step #1?
edit: I mean, hypothetically, if you were to think black people are less competent on average than white people, why would that be the case?
I highly recommend using it for public endpoints too. It's much nicer than worrying about a supported up-to-date client library in your language or using yet another variation of JSON/HTTP/REST that's unique to every API.

Some databases and queues are starting to use this now and it makes it incredibly easy to get started since we can generate our own clients and integrate at whatever level we need.
They provide you valuable work in exchange for that... Internally you are probably imagining some big corp that can pick from 100s of replaceable workers.
Which is why both the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam war ended in no time.
I'm not arguing in favor of the current Chinese regime, just that change should come somewhat more slowly than a collapse.
"but for Russia, it's a good thing."

Are you sure? Haven't the resulting sanctions damaged Russia's economic growth and increased prices for consumers?

I can see the geo-strategic value of Crimea, but for the ordinary Russian citizen, where is the positive effect?
I get mine from a small grocery store in my hometown in Lebanon. I pay around $3 for a kilo which contains usually some 8 cubes of soap.
It depends what metric you are targeting. Some people create podcasts as an avenue to promote themselves, their projects, or their business. Tim Ferriss is one of those people. Other people create podcasts as their primary way to make a living. It doesn't make sense to put your podcasts behind a paywall if you are in the first group because the primary metric you care about is total listeners. However if you are in the second group a paywall might make sense since you probably don't care much about total listeners or conversion rates. The metric you care about is money and it doesn't take more than a couple thousand listeners before you can pull in a livable wage from listener supported podcasts. Just check out some of the numbers for podcasts on Patreon [1].

[1] - https://graphtreon.com/patreon-creators/podcasts
It's not clear to me that we understand the conditions under which the earth was much hotter, or specifically what conditions resulted in cooler periods. There was a article a few days ago discussing the theory that one of the ice ages was caused by inter-planetary dust. This is an honest (and unpolitical) question: how much do we know about these past climate changes are what caused them?
I don't understand what you mean. Corporations as a legal structure are built to compete & live or die, governments are not. The point of having political power is to control it for the sake of prosperity. Having a 'death clause' in your government worker's performance would mean you've failed as a political actor to get enough control to guarantee prosperity. That's a bigger threat to the gov than having useless employees. Controlled incompetence, plausible deniability, ect are all useful political tools. Not always needed, but they are still useful tools.

If you want a 'communist corporation', just give every employee shares. You don't need unions or whatever else. You could start a company right now that does that. Some big UK firms do a performance sharing scheme with everybody in the company, even cashiers. Granted it's not much money in real terms, but it's proof how flexible the corporate legal structure can be.
Communication by writing is harder because you miss facial expressions. Because of this, a lot of it is subject to interpretation on the part of the reader. The tone can be inferred from a lengthy piece, but not so much from a small paragraph.

So, in order to avoid bias on the reader part, I preferred to explicitly tell it was not trolling.
I don’t mean to quibble and I really want to strsss this next point: I’m absolutely as lost as we all seem to be regarding how some people in our communities should be dealt with. I don’t yet know how we’ll choose to handle them. But anyway, using the term “thoughtcrime” feels incredibly disingenuous and could easily be misconstrued as intentionally inflammatory. Obviously you wouldn’t be intentionally inflammatory on HN so Im guessing you’re accidentally using the incorrect term–since most of the accounts we’ve seen are actual actions he has taken, it did not stay inside his mind, it was manifested into actual action in the real world towards other people, this just isn’t “thoughtcrime.” Even the people who were closest to him are very publicly discussing that there were a great many actual real world actions which made them feel everything from uncomfortable to intentionally avoiding him, again, even the people closest to him say these incidents were happening out in the open and happening regular enough to make them uncomfortable even when they weren’t the targets of his behavior.

Like I said, I had an immense amount of respect for him, I met him quite a few times, but I’m as lost as we all seem to be on how our communities should deal with folks like this. Either way, let’s at least try our best on HN to not accidentally inflame or accidentally mislead people.
You need to filter the URLs that are accepted to avoid security problems - had you a contact address on your profile here, or on the site I'd have disclosed this more privately.

But consider this case:

https://webtest.app/?url=file:///etc/passwd

In short you should restrict URLs to protocols of `http`, `https`, and even then you should filter based on IP. You don't want people to view http://localhost/server-status, etc.

Finally you need to make sure you avoid recursion:

https://webtest.app/?url=https://webtest.app/?url=https://st...
These are examples of civil disobedience, in which the persecuted fought back against injustice. Next difference is that the outcomes were favorable for the victims, not so much for some innocent Massachusetts colonists.
Ya, the chain isnt leaving until something that can compete with it in a combination of weight, modularity, maintenance, cost, and performance.

Carbon belt drives are an alternative, but are not shiftable without internal gears like a Rohloff hub or Pinion gearbox/bottom bracket which are expensive and heavy, and regarding the Pinion, needs a proprietary bottom bracket built into the bicycle's frame. Belt drives are more much more expensive than chains, and also require a special frame, but they last much longer, and require virtually no maintenance. They are not nearly as efficient though which is why they aren't found on track bikes. Belt drives are great for riders that enjoy just riding along and want to invest in a nice maintenance-free alternative.

When Driven reaches production I would bet that it will go the way of the belt drive. It will have incredible improvements over a chain, but will be very expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if the total cost of the crankset, driveshaft, cog, and shifters are north of $3000 or more, not including the price of the wheel or frame. Pricing out almost everyone, except for the select few that find the improvements worth it. It won't be released until it is able to be raced professionally and I definitely think it will be seen in races where seconds matter.

It won't replace the chain as we know it, but this alternative will be on certain bikes owned by people that care about its benefits.
Reminds me of those old hand crank egg beaters.
I want to imagine the world with China as a democracy only to assure the world that xenophobia is the first thing that comes to mind when people take an anti-China stance and as a reminder that Chinese culture, their arts, the land and the people are wonderful. I am against this dystopian overwhelmingly powerful and suppressive government.

I imagine if 1989 was a turning moment for Democracy in China.
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Citation for that last paragraph?

All I've seen is a shrinking coal industry leaving workers unpaid for their last month on the job[1], 25% tariffs slapped on our hardware imports [2] (causing a 30% drop in our sales) and kids being killed by Customs and Border Protection [3].

None of this is good for the USA or my fellow American

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/us/kentucky-coal-miners.h...

2 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2019/08/07/the-long-term-im...

3 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/20/migrant-chil...
I don't think a significant amount of people do that. Coming from someone with a lot of experience vaping (actually helped me quit smoking), it's somewhat difficult to find ejuices with pleasant flavors (anything that's not a stereotypical cigarette flavor like menthol) above 6mg, and around 9mg or higher, the nicotine flavor becomes quite pronounced and overpowering, and your flavor options are severely limited.
This was during the reign of Prime minister Stephen Harper. Most funding towards the environment was cut during that time and scientists in Canada silenced fairly heavily. It was when all this:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/canadian-scien...

was happening.
No. The horrific interfaces being one of the reasons :P I've suffered with various hire vehicles though.

Some are literally tablets I think (or very good imitations?) - the interfce had pull-down menus, swipe left/right app screens/desktops.
yep, this is the most convenient and seamless way to use python virtual environments.
I also use it to specify node or java version per directory.
Wait, no, that is not how racism starts.

Racism starts out of preferential treatment of some people. Most racist people have a « root event », where the other party didn’t get condemned. It may even have happened several times, with various consequences (rape, molestation, repeat racket, etc).

Then they proceeded to denounce the rape/molestation/racket to the police. The police doesn’t act because they suspect you are racist. Which has the opposite effect than desired: It doesn’t condemn the criminal, and puts the burden on the victim.

Then they seek security in their lives. Therefore, if the probability is high to experience rape, molestation, racket or crime, enough that the racist has been confronted to it in his life, then the first best approximation of judging whether someone might be a criminal is whether he’s free or in jail. That’s in well-functioning societies. In non-functioning societies where criminals are not in jail, the second approximation to protect yourself is secondary indicators, inferred from grossly racist statistics. Here racism is born.

It also explains why racist people often still have various friends of the group they are supposed to mistrust. It’s because they were able to assess their probity and trustworthiness in some opportunity. That’s why mixing people by compulsory rules works. But mixing people is a poor palliative. It doesn’t solve the underlying problem if a non-functioning society, so it doesn’t make the people less racist, despite giving the appearance that people work together.

Racism is often used with regret by those who exert it. But it is the second best approximation to seek security. Racism is the result of a non-functioning society which is caused by being more lenient on criminals of chosen category. I’m pretty sure it is possible to engineer racism by letting a made-up group get away with crimes.
Think about it in terms of the misv (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_ISV) business model instead of more mass market stuff. Your customers are paying you to install it, upgrade it, create backups, etc. They have no idea what to do with the source code and even if someone creates a setup wizard they have no idea how to setup all the other stuff they need. OSS provides a way for them to pool the development cost, customers and business avoid the bus factor and customers potentially get competition. Customers pay to have problems solved.

Of course these days this business model is being overtaken by SaaS and the bus takes out the developer and their data.
Yeah ... the heavy handed nature of a Communism and Xi’s leadership, I think, will lead to a revolution one day. But even if not there’s a growing middle class that will propel consumption ever more. Who would have thought that China would be such a large global economy say 30 years ago?
Paywall workaround : http://archive.is/ErJXw
"when you purchase GPL" .. sure.

But there's nothing to force me to provide you with the software until you've given me money. Even if I used someone else's GPL'ed software in my software, I can simply not distribute it until someone gives me $100,000.

"When you purchase access to an open-data paper"

Some provisos first. Some papers are gratis, and don't require being purchased. (Eg, author-pays papers.) Also, I think you are defining "open-data paper" that way, making your argument a bit tautological.

Those aside, I'm pointing out that the "open-data paper" movement started independently and likely co-temporally, if not earlier than, the free software movement.
>If I'm understanding right, those journals still kept it copyrighted, without copy-left provisions. It's more like the notion of open source, where the source may be viewable but isn't necessarily available for redistribution.

The publication, yes. The structure, no. You can go download the structure of any and every known and published protein from any organism in the world for free with no copyright restrictions from the PDB. And that structure will be heavily scrutinized and reviewed before it's accessible.

That said, working in structural biology, it's incredible how quickly that field attached to open source, and in particular, free software. The big players in the field (coot, Relion, PEET and IMID) are all GPL. Additionally, software like PyMOL, Chimera, Phenix etc are available for free, sometimes with source. Those are basically all the software in the structural biologist toolset, with HKL2000 perhaps being the only paid software on anyone's workstation.

I suspect there's probably multiple reasons for this phenomenon. There's not many structural biologist, and of the few that there are, many are in academia and have no money to spend on software. Additionally, the field moves so rapidly that most software is actually piecemealed toolkits from tons of labs. Also, anything algorithmic requires substantial analysis if you want to publish data acquired with it, meaning it needs to be open. Finally, 99% of structural biology is done on Linux, so there's simply a culture aspect as well.
I wonder if there could be a sort of “hard” probation zone. You get to work cranking out low priority bugs for a mmmm Chung few days, but no real interaction or maybe even like a 14 day contract. Seems like something culturally you could create, though the social implications might be quite rough.
Agreed. I include them in the list as a matter of completeness.
That's so true and I'm happy people begin to realize that.

The worst for me is the vendor lock in, directly followed by the costs.
He's not really thinking that. He is just concerned about society being to politically correct about specific things.
I.e. you could probably completely discriminate someone by height, hair color, ... but not by race specifically for some reason.
Transport is important and necessary for society to function.

If a car was developed that generated no greenhouse gases and had no negatives then gasoline cars would be outlawed very quickly.

Smoking/Vaping has no such utility.
Not sure why ctrl-a and ctrl-b are such popular prefixes, I use both a lot editing readline.
I've done that somewhat with this venture. Sure there's plenty of tech involved but it's also made me a domain expert in this (non-tech) niche (to the point of writing journal articles).

Perhaps I need to turn my career now to marketing as another commenter has suggested.
Porsche wants to take passengers on a virtual reality experience
Think about serverless as framework-as-a-service. It has a learning curve, but if you buy in, it is an amazing productivity boost.

(If Reddit’s video hosting being built and operated on a serverless stack by a single a engineer won’t convince you, I don’t know what will.)
> If you want a 'communist corporation', just give every employee shares

Co-operatives in this form aren’t communist. They compete for members, vendors and customers. They don’t have a monopoly on violence. They can be held accountable by the rule of law.

None of the above apply to communist governments. They have a monopoly on violence and the factors of production. That precludes an independent check on state power which, in turn, precludes the rule of law.
It is scary. Man's psychology is vulnerable and governments taking advantage of it can only end bad as history has taught us.
> https://webtest.app/?url=file:///etc/passwd

I find it funny that the app reports even this file loads faster with uBlock.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/23/how-secret-...
Looks like the CSS needs a bit of cleanup ;) Impressive portfolio, though. I like your stuff.