skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see how that has anything to do with forcing a private institution into serving customers it doesn’t want to.

The argument is: Imagine you and a friend have a private tutoring business. You should be able to have the freedom to pick whatever customers you want, your not a slave, your not obligated to provide a service for someone if you don't want to. Over time if there is demand for private tutoring that you and your friend aren't willing to meet, there will be others who will provide that service because there is profit in it.
Yes, these are all good arguments that should be made. Another good argument (implied by your first) is that historically it hasn't been wise to trust the police when they say that a suspect was armed.

My point though (and I hope yours) is that giving a long list of people killed by the police under the apparent header of "unarmed" is counterproductive if the people who were killed were not in fact unarmed. Misleading approaches like this (unintentional or not) turn off people who would otherwise support your cause.
In a civilisation collapse scenario, vodka is a far more valuable and liquid investment vehicle than gold or silver.
Used to be really common around the late 90s/early 2000s...
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Not to sound too critical, but isn't this just digiorno?
Let's be careful about what we mean by "rich" here. Just being in a top 1% kind of level of wealth isn't enough, you need to be able to make 7+ figure donations.
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What would this mean? You could have a rule that just implemented rule 30 for one adjacent row or column of the plane, but that would just give you stripes of 1d rule 30. Is there some obvious way of generalizing the 1d rules to 2d that I'm missing? What properties would you expect to be conserved?
Fifteen! The album "Lucky" was a revelation to me.
Ok, we've disquieted the title above.
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This is a highly speculative thesis, but I see a pattern and wonder:

Is the start-up market (perhaps subconsciously) manipulated by overvaluation?

Example:
Start Up X gets a boost from Y.
Y also has company W in their portfolio that rents office space.
Y says to X that it should rent the rooms from W.
Y is now not only an investor in W, but indirectly a customer of W.
Artificially, prices are now being driven up because of a conflict of interest. As a result, W is said to be worth many times more than similar companies.

Am I alone who sees a bubble here?

I'm just a simple software developer. Please don't take my economic unknowledge amiss.

I just want to know what the community is thinking?
I love how out of touch this puts upper management.

People taking out fucking 401K loans should make a great leader go - "why are my employees in such dire financial straits?"

I say - off with their heads. The revolution is coming.
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I think it's worth discussing things that actually lead to positive outcomes in business settings rather than looking at outliers who mostly got lucky. People I know in the "successful entrepreneurs despite never getting lucky" category generally have some combination of attributes that the whole VC industry (including wishful founders) often downplays:

- Actual domain expertise (a summer internship or talking to a few people doesn't count)

- A solid grasp on business fundamentals and managing teams effectively

- A strong network of people who serve as potential employees, partners, customers, mentors, etc. due to being outgoing and generally spending time on developing relationships

- An uncanny ability to recognize niche business problems that are underserved by existing options

- A willingness to laugh at concepts like "work-life balance", "happy marriage", and "spend more time with your kids"

- The ability to build a strong team from nothing and keep it strong by firing people who suck and rewarding people who are good

- Recognition of what you are and are not good at, and then finding good people to do the latter for you

- The ability to sell things effectively (no, if you build it they probably won't just come)

I'm sure others on HN have their own lists.
Because the first thing that would happen is that people from rural areas would be squeezed out of said university.

We've seen it happen in Wisconsin. Which is why we just have a top x% of any high school in Wisconsin gets admitted rule. There are just too many poor people in, say, Milwaukee's suburbs, or Appleton, or LaCrosse. If you have to get in based on strict merit, I would not underestimate the number of, let's call them, "poor urban/suburban whites" who would outperform people in the rural areas.

Unless, of course, this school would be only for poor rural people. In which case they wouldn't do it because they'd get sued.

If you had such a place, I think admission would have to be like the Iowa/Wisconsin system. Sort of, automatic admission if you're in the top whatever percent of a high school class anywhere in US and pass a trivial test. That way, rural people could never be crowded out.
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I wonder if it's even simpler than that. Use your door activity to guess when you will be home instead of missing deliveries. They could probably ship this functionality next week if they ignored privacy concerns.
Is it ethical to meddle?

Look at how we don't expose isolated tribes in Brazil to civilization.

If we found a struggling intelligent alien species on a planet somewhere, would we interfere? Looking at how we handle the issue even within our own species, possibly not.
Using the word assault causes people to believe a different thing happened. It says nothing about the gravity of each kind of crime except that they shouldn't be the same.

The only reason "sexual assault" covers what allegedly took place is because the expression was redefined in the first place to cover two separate things, which is exactly the problem. Stallman called not for redefining "sexual assault" as you put it, but for undoing a redefinition that puts it at odds with how those terms are conventionally used and causes unnecessary confusion.
Or ideas are worth nothing, it's execution that matters... so $0?
I think this tension is fundamental to the concept of genres across all mediums of art and entertainment.
Why is it that it's always a one-way street WRT to gun laws?

True compromise would be red-flag laws or background checks, in exchange for national CCW, or taking suppressors and short barreled rifles off the NFA list.
When I say middle of the desert, I literally mean it. If you're living on federal land in Nevada, you're doing something wrong.

I'm also talking specifically about research universities.

I think the debate about cost should be decoupled from this, but I agree -- higher ed should be something you pay for with a summer job, not a decade plus of what amounts to federally enforced indentured servitude.
This is unrelated.
It used to be the case that your phone showed up as a source if you were using the Sonos app on that phone. You could play podcasts or any files that were stored on your device. Now you can't. They added AirPlay to newer hardware but older hardware can't do it. For example my ZP100, the original Sonos player (which still is supported 15 years after it was first marketed), cannot do AirPlay.
I'm very interested in this data; if there is a torrent, I would be able to seed it if needed.
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>The actual window for migration has been more like 3-5 years.

Fair - the 2-->3 transition was indeed painful. So 3-5 years actual migration window, with advance notice of "Python3 is coming of another 7-5 years".

Whichever way you look at it - that's a decade advance notice. In a industry that moves exceptionally fast.

If you want to judge me as "dismissive arrogant attitude" for that - so be it.

>people need to question their life choices for being cautions.

The life choices phrasing was a poor choice on my part & I apologize for that. Message is unchanged though. To me waiting till support window runs out and then thinking of next step is the exact opposite of "being cautious".
> How is the AI revolution different from the industrial revolution(s)?

Just to add to what everyone else is saying, the first industrial revolution led to one tiny island conquering a 24% of the planet while simultaneously their historical enemy and immediate neighbours controlled an additional 7.7%, and then a newly unified and industrialised nation [1] managed to drag both of those two into a war that killed 16 million people and which stalemated against those two superpower empires for a few years until America joined in, so even if the AI revolution is basically equivalent to the industrial revolution, I’d still say it’s not going to be fun for quite a lot of people.

[1] I know, I’m simplifying it :)
Eh. She looks very much like she's just playing to people's fears. If this is the rationalist argument, I wonder what are the irrational arguments.

My early childhood passed in a city where meat was sold on pushcarts and where drinking tap water was an easy way to have an infection. I guess having the unnatural disease matter filled with metals injected into my muscle might have saved me from becoming a statistic.
Yes, but in this case the kid was engaging directly in violence so unless he himself was an agent provocateur, this particular shooting can’t be blamed on undercover cops.
> if you accidentally shoot a person in the dark!

Fourth rule: always identify your target.

Even despite the dark, you can attach a flashlight to your firearm that allows you to quickly identify the target before shooting at it. Most modern guns have that capability.
This argument fails when you think of Python2 and Python3 as two distinct languages coincidentally having the same brand name
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Facebook eating up Instagram and WhatsApp is one.

Also Amazon as it keeps eating up industries.

Wal-mart and its national take over resulting in the loss of multiple local retailers.

EA, Activision, Ubisoft and their all out consumption of almost every successful smaller game studio in the last couple decades.

Seems to be quite a few just off the top of my head. Take your pick, I'm sure you can Google and find even more.
I've some good luck migrating a couple of things to `pypy`, specifically "Squeaky's portable Linux binaries." [0]

"How long will PyPy support Python2? -- Since RPython is built on top of Python2 and that is extremely unlikely to change, the Python2 version of PyPy will be around “forever”, i.e. as long as PyPy itself is around." [1]

[0] https://github.com/squeaky-pl/portable-pypy#portable-pypy-di...

[1] http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-long-will-pypy-su...
Add on to that the massive tax break they get on they endowment's huge investment earnings.

Harvard is a hedge fund with a school attached. They should be taxed like one.
"You do, but self-insuring on it's own saves a big chunk"

That doesn't save money because then you don't have insurance! The part of your premium that covers unexpected events can't be saved; only the part that pays for routine care. The word that comes to mind is "optionality" although I'm not sure it is the right jargon.

People always say that insurance is too expensive because it covers routine care, and I've never understood what that is about. It costs essentially zero to transfer money from one account to another, so just because you don't gain anything by having insurance pay, you (on average) shouldn't lose anything either. There can't be any fundamental problem with them providing a payment service.
Well, to be fair, the University of California accepts more international students than Harvard, which is generally going to inflate the percentage of Asian students. Not saying this ruling isn't a detriment to Asian applicants, but probably not by as large of an amount as it would seem at first.
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Yes, if I remember correctly even Borders Books got in on the action there.
It's not disingenuous, it's just ineffective. Zuck and can believe 100% that they are doing good. Very few people are moustache twirling self-awarely evil. But if you disagree with Zuck's values, you're never going to come to a meeting of the minds.
This is from a long-running bbc tv programme - and from the looks of the uniform and the accent, I'd say that all the children interviewed here were from a private school - they even reference computers, which while existing at the time, weren't exactly common outside of large corporations - there were only about 20000 across the entire world at the time.
Out of curiosity, what are the rates like in London for a technical consultant like yourself?
I had no idea you folks existed! I've been mentioning to folks recently that "I wish there was something like the USDS for San Francisco..." but apparently never went far enough to look for you.

Do you have the ability to accept volunteers?
By the surprising number of bad doctors I would hope academic merit wasn't the only factor. A good doctor needs more and the smartest are more suited to research and curing cancer rather than seeing 100 people a day in a walkin environment with runny noses.
> Instead of building universities in the middle of nowhere, we should take that money to make higher education (whether it's trade or not) free and help fund people move to those universities.

Do we even need people to move to physical buildings? If we improve our internet infrastructure we can offer 24/7 education to everyone anywhere in the country. The idea of forcing students to move to a specific place and attend classes at a specific time every day seems somewhat dated.
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In particular, the assertion I knew from working in human genomics was that, if one were to choose two distinct populations A and B, with the greatest diversity between the populations available on the planet, then both A and B would occur in Africa.
I feel like Thiel has better things to think about than Trump 24/7. I think the most contrarian thing you could do right now is not getting drawn into the Trump media cycle.
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Some people argue there's this thing called "bullshit jobs" [0] making up a substantial part of the modern job economies.

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Gun owners accidentally shooting themselves means there's a 100% chance they were doing something that following the most basic gun safety controls that everyone knows about would make impossible. You can infer from this that those people were not responsible gun owners.

Link 1: Guy said it was unloaded. Gun safety rule #1 is treat every gun likes its loaded and clear every gun when someone hands it to you so you know personally that it is in fact unloaded.

Not doing either of those things is incredibly stupid and irresponsible.

Link 2: "The man was showing his girlfriend that loaded guns are safe when he died" - The guy was playing with a loaded gun. No legitimate gun safety demonstration would claim that a loaded gun is ever safe. That's not responsible gun handling.

Link 3: Doesn't describe the incident in detail but he pointed a loaded gun at a living thing so its gross negligence.

Link 4: Another questionable gun safety demonstration. Once again no detail but he pointed a loaded gun at a person else it would have been physically impossible for a person to get shot.

It is not standard practice to have live rounds around when you are doing a safety demonstration. They make clearly marked training rounds that have no propellant in them for the purpose of demonstrating loading and unloading a firearm. Using live rounds is not justifiable as "responsible" behavior.

Its disingenuous to use examples of people doing incredibly reckless things in order to argue that "responsible gun owners" regularly shoot themselves or others.

Gun handling is like being the only car driving on a road during the day with clear, calm weather, no animals, and no pedestrians around. It makes it so simple that all you have to do is maintain a sane speed and drive between the lines and there's no way you can get into an accident. Handling a gun is always like that unless you're on a battlefield or something. If you follow simple rules its impossible to hurt someone.
> However is it discrimination to choose the diverse candidate when presented with two candidates that are equally qualified in every other regard?

Absolutely discrimination. Unless the definition of discrimination has changed significantly that is.
It shouldn't be. Admission should be a lottery passed a base SAT score. That score should be based on analysis of how capable of Harvard's existing course load a student who receives a given score is, rather than, say, calibrating it specifically to cause the rejection of the majority of a given protected class. Suddenly, you achieve demographic near-parity.

Kid didn't get into Harvard? Donate to the school he or she did get into.
> These people that were replaced didn't just go off and die

This is exactly what's happening in every large metro area today. Larger amounts of work are being by fewer, highly paid individuals using technology. This drives up rents and fuels the homeless crisis everywhere.
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Minimum wage is around $15/hr in Seattle, $15.59 in San Francisco and $12 anywhere in the state of California or Washington.

I'm not suggesting that this machine makes sense but it is worth noting that the cost of labor varies significantly around the US.
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I got my Master's degree in Computer Science at UT Austin while working an entry-level tech job full time. My company paid my tuition, but it was only $13,000 for the 3 years it took me to finish it, so it wouldn't have broken the bank to pay that myself if I had to. In spite of having no grants, I incurred zero debt and ended up with a degree from a distinguished program where one of the faculty members received a Turing award while I was attending.

I currently work at a recognizable big tech company side-by-side with people who have degrees from Stanford, MIT, CMU, and so forth. Many of them wracked up significant student debt to go to their schools, and my career seems to have been at absolutely no disadvantage from having gone to a much cheaper school.
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Managers themselves often don't realize how much money automation could save them. Perhaps their role could be automated away ;)
Then the term precedent is overused and has lost its ability to emphasize the gravity of any situation.

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It's a natural outcome of the limited space I think.

Given loads of plain smart people and limited ability to measure the difference between them what measures can you use? Extra curricular activities seem like a decent measure simply because they take up time so all other things being equal the student who had a time consuming extra curricular activity was probably either a) better at time management, b) harder working, or c) smarter and able to complete the same work in a shorter amount of time.
That comment was meant mostly in jest as a response to avn2109's comment below. I can't comment on Skydio's future product plans, and certainly don't know anything about other manufacturers.
Good point! I didn't realize that there are two 'Civil Rights Act's from the 60's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 prohibited school and employment segregation and gave minorities voting rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968 prohibited housing discrimination and criminalized hate crimes

It appears earlier armed defense was carried out by various groups in the Black Power movement, including the Freedom Riders and Black Armed Guard led by Robert F. Williams.

The Black Panthers were ideologically inspired by Williams, but I had conflated earlier action with the later-formed group. Thanks for pointing that out!
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