skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed you didn't post this under your real name...

You are asking a company to help you do something illegal, on writing and published to the entire world in a high visibility site. Do you really thing they shouldn't reserve the right to deny help?

The DMCA bothers me a lot, because on my country I have the right to remove restrictions on anything I own, yet it's hard to find a safe forum to discuss how to do it without it being taken down for some commercial reason. But it's really undeserved entitlement to expect other people to risk themselves helping you.
I wouldn't give that much worship to Galloway it's not like he is always right or my guess even close to that (and nobody is). For example this post circa 2017 about the bubble. I can't tell you how many people have not called the bubble since the last bubble correctly. Galloway is one of them:

https://www.profgalloway.com/every-seven-years

Market was at 21,600 (very roughly) on the approx. date of that post and now is at close to 27,000. It did not go lower than 22,400 in the interim.

To wit (that post):

> There are several hard metrics for why we may be nearing full-monty bubble, including things my NYU colleagues spend a great deal of time thinking about, and understand much better. But you don't need a Nobel to see the similarities between 1999 and 2017. (Btw, NYU Stern has three active Nobel Prize winners… We. Rule. But that's another post.)

Very generally if you are predicting a collapse ala 1999 you need to be a bit more accurate than that.

I didn't do a great deal of work to find that post either, it was linked in the post you gave.

Edit: Also love his being so proud of the anointed 3 active nobel prize winners. Would like to remind everyone that until recently the game in business was making money or a great product or being loved by your customers not winning academic awards and platitudes.
'Permutation city' deserves a top spot on any list that has hard, comp and fi in the title. Although it's less about implementation details and more about theoretical CS. Here's an excerpt [1].

[1] https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/Excerpt/PermutationExce...
I get that this is your burner account to spam nonsense, but what?

I mean, if these are your complaints aren't you just arguing that title IX doesn't go far enough, which is basically a settled matter?

I don't believe there's any rule preventing women from trying out for a men's team if there isn't a women's team in that sport, and there have been several women (although, not many) who've played NCAA football.
A friend recommended this to me years ago, and i still haven't got round to reading it:

http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/
85% likely still using a keyboard to manipulate bits
I've been looking for a source, but I remember a previous air show incident where a stealth aircraft was detected and the excuse was that the active stealth system was not turned on, i.e. the aircraft would have used electronic active radar cancellation in addition to stealthy body design if it had been in actual combat.

Whether any electronic system would help against passive radar, or would in fact make things worse, is another question.
Congrats to Bloomberg on discovering Worthington's Law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6WEo9Ix_7Q
Exactly. Some of the regulations were due to corruption. But others we reasonable ways to create a situation fair to workers. Regulating the number of cabs allowed drivers to have some confident that they'd earn a reasonable wage. And the medallion system ended up being basically an investment/retirement plan for a lot of cab drivers.

Yes, the rise of the Internet meant it was time to change how we did cab dispatch. And it would have been great to see what else we could improve, including getting the cab companies to be less oligopolistic. But Uber was clearly after a monopoly [1] so Kalanick could jack rates up enough to justify the billions of investment they took. But national monopolies are way more harmful to both workers and customers than local, strongly regulated oligopolies. Uber was ultimately trying to make things worse, but with them skimming the monopoly rents.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Super-Pumped-Battle-Mike-Isaac/dp/039...
I think the state can change the bylaws of a voluntary organization, or at least make them illegal.

From the official digest of the bill at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... :

The bill also would prohibit an athletic association, conference, or other group or organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from preventing a postsecondary educational institution other than a community college from participating in intercollegiate athletics as a result of the compensation of a student athlete for the use of the student’s name, image, or likeness.

AFAICT this law would make the current NCAA bylaws illegal in California. Any California player who accepted an endorsement and was subsequently prevented from playing would be able to sue.
Or Pelotron could be the start of communal home fitness, taking the place of gym (e.g. Soul Cycle) subscription fees. Point is there is no way to know for certain.
While this is true, being so specific about something negative that someone calls them out is much more risky than the useless 1 star rating with comment "product did not work as expected". Low quality comments are almost never considered valid by those that pour over the comments.
It's open, it's just that they no longer accept public requests.
I'm prepared to believe that going deeply into student debt can have this effect. It is a very insidious form of debt that can't be discharged through standard bankruptcy.

My understanding is that it's possible to avoid this through TA or RA positions with tuition waivers, at least at reputable programs. So I think the question of debt should be considered somewhat separately (though not entirely separately, as this insidious form of debt doesn't existing the world of stupid mortgages or credit card irresponsibility, where at least you have the topic to collapse in bankruptcy and, 7+ years later, start anew. Forever debt lives in the hellacious realm of student loans, divorces, and Dickens novels).

I mastered out of my PhD program, largely partly because I got a good job outside with money and fun projects, and partly because I was struggling academically. I do occasionally "wish" (eh, not really) that I had a PhD, but that's because I work in a university (although in a technical track). I accept that research positions aren't open to MS holders in Universities (or in some industry positions), but the degree ceiling definitely extends into non-research positions that would be available to MS (or BS or no degree) holders in non-university tracks. This, however, is my own deal. If I don't like it, I need to leave, so I wouldn't expect anyone to give this complaint much force.
In this (hypothetical) case I’d assume a Gitlab acquisition would be more of a hedge against Microsoft for Google than anything else.
Others have already mentioned some good novels missing from the list, I'd add Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. I'm not a fan of the politics in the novel, but the descriptions of computer networks, cracking and computer worms are pretty impressive for something written in the 1970s.
Athletes are a tiny fraction of most schools' student body, so whatever is broken in higher education probably has nothing to do with them.

It's absurd that anyone pretends they're truly students, but it doesn't change the quality of the education for other students.
I'd say this is confusing where we've ended up with where we started.

In the beginning, the "amateur" in "amateur athletics" was taken quite seriously; college athletics was seen and treated as part of the education system.

There's been considerable erosion of this ideal, and at this point it's better to treat college athletes as minor leaguers who happen to be affiliated with colleges.
I wonder how you transfer a complex amount of cash through the banking system...
> Clothes technology is rather simple.

This feels like when somebody with no clue about development claims whatever you are working on is “simple”.

Something tells me clothes technology is far more complex than you claim.
This is Option 1. They can't litigate a state to change the law.

And given that the only choice is to remove the largest state from you organization. With that cali makes their own league and now the NCAA has a huge competition for the top talent. Why would you go to school anywhere else than Cali.
Thanks for the feedback! That's a good point about sending data directly into an endpoint that you specify. We're going to add in an API in the coming months so you can push data directly into an endpoint using webhooks (along with a bunch of other things).
I was hoping to see a conversation here.
No, it's not do this because it has negative ROI.

Who do you imagine the "us" is, in let's? It's not me and you, nor people in this forum. The banks that have negative financial incentive? The regulators who just caught this guy with the existing system as is and would never win the political battle to roll out this expensive system addressing a rare issue that already is handled? The average powerless citizen? Who will likely never be victim to this.

Calls for pie in the sky actions don't stop being pie in the sky just because they are just, reasonable, "good" for society. We live in a greedy capitalist society. At the society scale. If it's not causing so much problems it can't be ignored or if it doesn't make someone money. It doesn't happen.
You're raising a bunch of very legitimate concerns, and they speak to how deeply @#$#@%ed the DMCA is as a law.

But I still think it's legitimate for a company like SO to err on the side of taking things down. You can cast it as being toadies, you can cast it as CYA. You can also cast it as an abundance of caution. It's probably a distinction without a difference, but words are funny things like that. The lawyers who are often setting these policies are presumably thinking in terms of their professional responsibility, which is to minimize the chance that their employer gets sued. They're probably not thinking in terms of unlikely hypotheticals involving hostage scenarios, because "We thought it was OK to bend the rules because otherwise X might happen" is unlikely to hold up in court. The American courts are more like Immanuel Kant than Jeremy Bentham about these sorts of things. Nor do they give a crap about your free tablet, or whether or not Intel gives a crap about your free tablet. It's way too expensive for them to be making these decisions on a case-by-case basis.

Maybe that's not exactly how SO was thinking. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood are not lawyers, nor do I know if they consulted their lawyers. Nor am I a lawyer. But I had a dream where I played one on TV once, and that's more than a passing qualification for weighing in on legal matters around here.
It's an invented problem based on a belief that we control the planet. Yet, if we DID control the planet, we could simply fix it.

What if the planet got warmer without our input? What then?
One significant difference is that Zig has no GC, whereas Crystal and Nim both do.
People in the US also produce ~5x more emissions per capita than people in poor countries so not sure how that math works out in our favor.
> Extreme example - ghoti: Pronounced fish. The gh from tough, the o from women, the ti from nation. Works in American English. :p

http://zompist.com/spell.html

Initial 'gh' can never be pronounced 'f', final 'ti' can never be pronounced 'sh', and 'o' is only pronounced 'i' in one word.
Thanks, I totally missed it.
I would argue that, while the pursuit of new knowledge is surely admirable, not all of it can be assumed to meet the high bar of being of "great value to history and humankind".
The article you linked says eating sugar doesn't cause cancer to grow faster, but any carbs we eat is converted to glucose, so removing only sugar isn't sufficient to starve cancer cells. Also, each cancer is different. Some use other sources of energy, some use multiple sources.
You know what definitely is a valid military target? The drone operators and the facilities they work out of.

If you care about them so much, maybe you should bend your efforts to reducing their moral culpability and think about the strategic logic of the entire mission, which has now killed 10 times more Afghan civilians than died on 9/11, in a country with 1/10 the population of ours, so as to lower the probability of their being selected as a target.

How much longer is the US going to continue trying to win hearts and minds by throwing the most highly equipped military force on the planet at lightly armed peasants, while ignoring the fact that they probably feel just as pissed off about their friends, family, and selves being blown up as we do about ours, and by now have suffered far more than the original injury we are still attempting to retaliate for?

There are now kids old enough to sign up for the military who were born after 9/11 and for whom the US has always been at war with Afghanistan, and your moral gymnastics serve only to perpetuate that while foreclosing any inquiry they might conduct as citizens rather than soldiers.
> In a footnote, the anonymous editor of “The Library of Babel” imagines a book containing “an infinite number of infinitely thin leaves.”

Borges expands on this idea in the separate (very) short story The Book of Sand.
> accepting mass transit

Most places don't have public/mass transit that can get you to work on time. Most people who care about climate change are also in favor of publich transport and already vote liberaly.

> Industrial uses are usually in supply chains for goods people do not strictly need, but want for convenience.

> Electricity production is either used directly as a consumer or to support that which the consumer would like to buy.

Without CO2 & other emmision taxes how am I suppose to know which consumer products are the worse offenders? (Besides the obvious ones like meat).

> The greatest myth that has been fed to us in the climate change 'debate' is that there are large corporations out there polluting and burning fossil fuels for fun.

No one is saying that. It's just considerably more effective to put the emmision taxes & limits on the production/corporation side than the consumer side. A good portion of American's aren't going to do anything of their own accord so policy at state & federal level is much more attractive.
There should be a (1981) in the title.
Not the first guy I hear saying this. Happened to a friend too. Probably not threatened... but "told"
> Being able to say "let's open a branch in Singapore and see how it goes for 6 months" with a few clicks is quite awesome.

I'd have thought that for most businesses, the two big obstacles for doing this are a) getting skilled people to suddenly move to Singapore at your will, and b) getting the Singapore office well integrated with the rest of the company.

Compared to those two, setting up an office lease is about as hard as tying your shoelaces.
> They borrowed short, lent long and then pretended it was as sustainable business.

You've just described almost every company in the financial sector.
SMBs hire at lower frequencies, have less standard practices, and more often than not have people interviewing who are not trained or prepared to do so. Larger businesses or competitive startups also have on staff or outsource to professional recruiters.
> Industry mostly does software engineering

I would extend this thinking even further...

Most industry jobs aren't even practicing "Software Engineering". Algorithms, data structures, discrete math... that's totally outside of the day to day work for most "Software Engineers"

If you're building an app (web, mobile, desktop) it's largely plugging pieces together nowadays. You're likely using libraries that were built using "Software Engineering", but the end user practice of assembling those pieces into a functional user-friendly application is more akin to a construction worker assembling the 2x4s to build a house.
The media talked about a 'plantation mentality' by NBA owners ad nauseam with the Donald Sterling affair, but the NCAA is where the real analogy lies. South Park indeed hit this one on the head.

Additionally, the whole amateur vs professional sports thing has always been questionable grey area, with artificially created red lines.
None of the things BV has worked on -- smart tiles or putting pieces of paper under a camera/projector -- do ANYTHING AT ALL like what he's talking about here. They don't change their size, shape, weight, feel etc. in response to data. Because that would be incredibly hard. I don't think you should get points for saying "we should do this impossible thing, that would be better."

I must admit I find BV's writing to be really facile... like he'll compare a piano app on the iPad with a real piano and shit on the entire idea of the iPad... without addressing the obvious point that an iPad can be a million things other than a piano.
They will adopt 1st world birthing rates and 1st world consumption rates.
They will be able to complete in NCAA competitions, or at least they will be able to sue the NCAA in California if they are prevented from doing so. The law applies to both universities and athletic associations.
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The law also states the NCAA can't prevent students from doing so. So if the NCAA prevents them from competiting they can and will be sued.
To be fair, Diamond Age does have a solid section where one of the main characters learns all of the fundamentals of computer science, networking, and the foundations of crypto. Pretty good metaphors for absorbing the general concepts are in there.
Am sure the Wall street bankers who gave glaring $40B - 75B valuations are crying for their bonuses..
So is this just for people engaged in the rapid movement of balls, or does it apply to all athletes?

It would also be interesting to see this expanded to other scholastic competitions, like the chess club, or the debating team.

"Scotts, the official pre-moistened hinge of the Shippensburg University Philatelist Team."
identical twins do not have identical genetic code.
>no?

No.
The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919
I find it mind-boggling that of all the millions of dollars that middle-men in this industry make, the players - the whole point of the industry - were the only ones not getting paid.
Such a finding could lead to one of the most interesting orbital missions possible. Talk about close-up imagery...
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Where I work there is a big move to replace people's last names with only their initial.

Except their LinkedIn URL still displays their name. It was a good attempt, at least.
Here's a quote from the article he cited:

> Atmospheric scientist John Christy developed a global temperature record of the lower atmosphere using highly accurate satellite soundings. NASA honored him for this achievement, and he was an author for a previous edition of the U.N. report. He told a House Science Committee hearing in March 2017 that the U.N. climate models have failed badly.

> Christy compared the average model projections since 1979 to the most reliable observations — those made by satellites and weather balloons over the vast tropics. The result? In the upper levels of the lower atmosphere, the models predicted seven times as much warming as has been observed. Overprediction also occurred at all other levels. Christy recently concluded that, on average, the projected heating by the models is three times what has been observed.

You characterize that as "classical climate change denial" and "just an artifact of a hand picked timeframe." Then you link to a Wikipedia article about "Climate change denial," as if he just needs to read it to understand what an ignorant denialist he is, and then he'll agree with you.

So, according to you, is John Christy in denial?
Not quite. I'd say Theranos was fraud while WeWork is a pile of BS that finally imploded under its own weight.
I immediately ctrl+f'd "doc" and was shocked to find no matches. How exactly are "advanced users" supposed to learn the "vi-like" commands?
How+to+optimize+GMB
They don't have to litigate a state to change a law.

They can simply say "your student-athlete is ineligible to participate."

Can California create their own league?

Sure.

Will doing so decimate their schools' athletic budgets? Probably. There's not going to be much national demand for a state-only organization, and it's going to get particularly ugly when the feds discover schools colluding with rich boosters talent in order to attract them there because of Title IX.
For posterity, but also curiosity.
> It's an invented problem based on a belief that we control the planet.

Climate change is a problem whether or not it's anthropogenic (which there is massive evidence that it is).

> Yet, if we DID control the planet, we could simply fix it.

Us having the capacity to initiate a warming trend doesn't imply that we could simply stop it.

> What if the planet got warmer without our input? What then?

Then we'd have just as much interest in bringing it under control. The impacts don't change of the source is different.
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>What I don't understand is how do things get this far down the road before a good old fashioned sanity check happens?

Wall St. et al, didn't care about anything but off loading this POS onto Investors and then taking their money and running.

That's how it works. Thank goodness it rolled over and now the race to zero. Couldn't have happened to a bunch of nicer guys.
Another option: CA universities become the least desirable place for the very best high school athletes.

The objective of the very best players is not to merely pay for college, but maximize their chance to join professional teams. Those odds are maximized by access to world class facilities, equipment, trainers, coaches, medical care, and more. Winning helps too.

If some schools have less money because sponsorships are going to specific players instead of the school/league, they will be able to provide fewer top-tier resources to players. Consequently, those schools will be less attractive in the areas of essential importance to the very best players.

If the very best athletes gravitate toward non-player-sponsorship schools, it will create a self-reinforcing cycle to get other top athletes, because they want the best teams to maximize their chances of winning.
"""Their position rests on two arguments, what Stanford anthropologist Paul Ehrlich dubbed a “gene shortage” and widespread, well-documented findings of “brain plasticity.” According to the gene shortage argument, genes can’t be very important to the birth of the mind because the genome contains only about 30,000 genes, simply too few to account even for the brain’s complexity—with its billions of cells and tens of billions of connections between neurons—much less the mind’s"""

I'm sorry but if that's the best argument you can come up with if you're a Stanford Prof, you owe it to yourself to refresh yourself on the literature of how genes work and how they lead to phenotypes. It looks like he ascribes to the "exact blueprint" mental model of phenotypes, rather than the competitive/generative model that is more consistent with modern science.
There are elite women college athletes who are celebrities and could perhaps bring in more money via endorsements of whatever. There are of course a lot more famous football and basketball players who are almost all male.
California from the contractor law to this has made it habit to muscle large organization to doing the progressive and right thing. Pretty interesting to see one state change so much nationally.