skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if last week that person you were introduced to, and gave your name to(or didn't) happened to look you up and do some research. It wasn't handed to them through glasses immediately, but essentially it's the same thing. I would bet it probably has already happened to many of us and we didn't even realize.

ever have someone come up to you and say "Oh your the person who x"

just a thought on your last sentence
For any polisci folks out there, does ranked choice voting still encourage a bipartisan system, or does it theoretically encourage more parties to specialize to single-issue parties where voters essentially rank their issues on the ballot, as opposed to voting all-or-nothing for a party that supports their #1 issue but none others?
I absolutely support ranked-choice voting as an improvement to the current system.

BUT, the proposed system is specifically Instant Run-Off Voting (IRV), which does not make a centrist third-party candidate likely to win. Because it removes whoever gets the least first-place votes, the only improvement it gives is that a third-party candidate doesn't spoil an election, because your second-place vote will still count.
(E.g. Nader wouldn't have taken votes from Gore, so Gore would have won instead of Bush.) But you're still stuck with one of the polarizing two-party candidates who will win.

Contrast this to the Borda Count [2], where points are assigned by rank. In this case, suppose about half of everyone votes first-place for an extreme liberal, and the other half vote first-place for an extreme conservative. But everyone votes second-place for a moderate centrist they can live with, and third-place for the opposite-party candidate they detest. With IRV, the centrist is ignored and one of the extremists will win. But with Borda, the centrist candidate will win.

So to really get away from the poisonous political polarization of our times, ranked choice is necessary, but it needs to be Borda or similar, not IRV. Still -- it's a start, and I'm grateful for that alone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count
Think about car mechanics seeing what do next if you want to open this specific motor or electrician seeing where cables are in the wall. Or physicians seeing specific information about patients eg how fast is he is breathing, what patient temperature is etc.
COBOL.js++ with qubit edge-cloud blockchain microservices
The only resource I know of is 80000 hours: https://80000hours.org/
I volunteer with Little Brothers: Friend of the Elderly in Chicago, and this is a serious problem and getting worse as we see slow decline of social institutions. My grandparent's generation had the VFW, Lions Club, a bowling league, golfing league, their church, volunteering, etc.

I think part of it is economic: they had a much more comfortable retirement than what is possible today, so they had time for all this leisure. And part of it is technology and media, providing a distraction from loneliness.
Not if the BCI is trained on data produced by users in a natural thinking state.
I am thinking of the keyboardless typing with wrist bands as an intermediary step. I agree controlling conscious thought is difficult, but you could just key in commands with small impulses of the wrists and it would still be quite a bit more convenient than pulling out the phone
We work took more than $12 billion in funding and is now worth around $8 billion. I could create a more valuable company by taking the $12 billion in investment and putting it into a vault. Then I'd still have ~$4 billion left over for lavish parties celebrating my success.
These guys are making an apple picking robot that's pretty bad ass: https://www.abundantrobotics.com
What does "mechanical compression" mean, exactly? Googling "mechanical compression typography" turns up this article as the first result.
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A whole lot of valuable business software is essentially domain-specific or workflow-specific mail merge.
We're really excited about MJML. Creating messages that render properly on all email clients is challenging and MJML solves the problem in a very developer friendly way. You should expect MJML and the Passport editor to be integrated into Mailgun in the near future!
I'm pessimistic about governments coming together and coordinating an expensive effort to avert climate change. I also think the world is on a course to become increasingly divided and rivalrous, such that collaboration would be less likely, and nations less willing to compromise on their economic competitiveness.

I think if there is an effort made (which there will probably have to be), it'll be something cheap and dirty, like stratospheric aerosol injection.
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How would this have changed the Canadian results?
Well if you're inclined to just make stuff up to fit you narrative, then I can see why you'd have problems trusting others.
> What's an area that people think is up and coming? I'm pretty introverted!

Spend 3 to 6 months on theatre acting and you will never need asking the cold internet again for anything personal!
New sites are helping customers make sense of the DTC landscape
My concern with ranked choice voting is that it doesn't reduce the problem of splitting, it just obscures it from human view. My hunch is that data analysis methods will still be just as capable of manipulating RCV as they are FPTP. It'll just be harder to detect and reason about. Ordinal voting systems have certain game theoretical properties in common.

I'm a huge fan of non-ranked (cardinal) voting systems, as they don't force people to order their choices. Forcing people to order their choices filters out information about peoples' preferences and therefore distorts them.

My favorite voting systems are approval voting and STAR voting.
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Psychedlics will be useful but hard to monetize, but lol @ microbiome.

You realize what this is, right? High throughput sequencing + multiplexing makes it cheap as chips to start doing -omics on anything you can write a grant for. So everyone and their mother starts getting funding for doing the most boring possible experiments that are total fishing expeditions. The results: we see ... stuff! Isn't that great!? We've got correlations coming out of every conceivable orifice, must be something interesting there, right!?

It's great for writing shitty headlines, but piss-poor for doing any sort of science. Seriously, try talking to any 'microbiome' expert about microbiology. It's scary!

Here's what will happen; we'll get some minor insights into diet wrt health, a handful of treatments for some specific niche gut issues (e.g. fecal transplant), and some handwavy BS about inflammation that will only be meaningful with more work on good old-fashioned signalling from cell/mol. biology.

Of all the scam-y biotech startups (which is basically redundant), microbiome stuff is by far the worst.
I don't disagree. You're not wrong.
Taxes on equity and option grants are complex beasts [ISO/NSO/RSU, Conversions between ISOs to NSOs, Income vs. Cap Gains, AMT, 83(b) elections, Exercised vs Non-exercised, Vesting schedules, etc]. Unless you personally understand the nuances in everyone of these cases, you should 100% work with a tax professional (and if you do understand, you are probably a tax professional!).

Here is an earlier discussion on taxes on options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020063
Didn't he just fool rich private investors?

I'm not shedding a tear if Softbank throws their money away.
Does reasonable steps imply "prevent all bad actors in all cases"?

Are the users expected to store their machines in fort Knox under armed guard?

>if you are doing even the bare minimum to secure the computer, you should not be vulnerable to these kind of pranks from siblings/classmates.

This is a statement that reads to me like "implementation is left as an exercise for the reader" type proclamation of how easy it is to secure things. Followed up with a snide remark about children not being ready for the machines.

Adults are constantly getting their machines compromised so it really seems like you're just applying a greater standard to people with less experience
Public attitudes towards self-driving vehicles
I think it simply means the strokes are pretty densely packed. Kanji is very complex structure wise, bold typefaces such as this needs to utilize space carefully otherwise some strokes will become indistinguishable
About time for a new social network.
"investors billions of dollars without ever turning a dime of profit"

Too fcking bad... You do realize that this thing almost went public and as such the lost would have shifted to the shareholders who would have bought the stock while the original investors cashed out. You think those people would have had a conscience at that point. I think not. Fck all the original investors who most likely knew this company was a joke and fraud from the beginning but were hoping the IPO happened so they could walk away with more money.
Whatabout-ism is a real problem. Be aware if you find yourself engaging in bad-faith arguments or logical fallicies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
The difference is pretty big because there are a couple of conflicting things with the regulatory regime: it must be predictable (if things change rapidly, it becomes hard to comply and you'll get defacto non-compliance and shadow data storage) and it must be up to date. Policy makers usually don't specifically want punishments or changes in behaviour, they want outcomes.

In a liability environment, you attempt to describe the true cost and risk and allow the company to adapt to changing environments.

A practical real-world difference is "password rotation requirements". Most real-world security professionals knew the dangers of strict password rotation requirements for years before NIST could release information on it. And just because the process of standardization must necessarily be slow, the NIST requirements would then have to flow to other departments so they can then update their standards and so on.

Today, in most financial and healthcare companies, password rotation standards are rampant despite it being the case that NIST has advised against. This is often because the companies don't want to spend the money to alter policies but also often because in the 'no-man-is-an-island' interconnectedness of firms, policies in one can impose corresponding policies in others. So that means that your new startup will need to rotate passwords every month in order to integrate with (say) Bank of America.

Apart from all that, if you genuinely think about it, we want to do cost-benefit analyses on this. If the risk of leakage of customer data is low enough and we value it at some $x dollars per unit, then there's some $y of cost above which it isn't worth it. This intuitively makes sense since customer data, no matter how personal, isn't worth infinity. If it were, no one would collect it. No one. In fact, by giving me your phone number I would suddenly be holding an artefact of infinite value. Or by giving Amazon your shipping address. No one wants that liability and information exchange would halt despite everyone (in reality) wanting it to happen.
It's not as simple as "these jobs wouldn't have existed anyway!"

People plan their lives around their projected income, including salary/benefits/equity. With WeWork going down, people aren't just losing their current income, but their future income, and the opportunity cost from working anywhere else instead of WeWork.

The man acted borderline fraudulently to investors, and the market responded once it was in the open. He was running a pump and dump scheme while skimming off the top, and now they're paying him 1.7 billion in severance while people are being laid off with worthless options, lost salary, and a black mark on their resume.
In the online world, it seems like there are two big things happening right now:

- Neural networks / ML (eg GPT-2) Definitely nowhere near its potential for being applied to a wide variety of areas. Find a niche you like and apply there.

- Security / Privacy (eg Telegram) Rapidly growing demand pretty much everywhere. Bonus points if you can make your product great for standard users and at the same time hackable/customizable for people who want to do that. Capitalize on both legs of the pareto distribution.

That all being said, if you are ambitious and talented without an all-consuming passion for software, I highly recommend you find something you can work in hardware. Since the '70s or so most industries have been basically frozen, besides computer hardware/software. Yet in the meantime materials science and engineering design has advanced considerably, both of which form the basis for innovation in new technologies. This is why SpaceX was able to build components for 10-100x cheaper than the leading suppliers in the early 2000s.

I work at a startup in nuclear fission, particularly because this tech is at <1% of its potential right now. The same could be said for many other areas.

Here's some ideas you might find interesting, that I think could work in the next decade or so:
- Supersonic air travel
- Electric air travel
- Nano/micro-scale metallurgy and materials for industry
- Biological materials
- Gut/microbiome
- Genetic engineering
- Nuclear fission / fusion
- Carbon capture
- Cross-laminated timber (CLT) for construction
- Indoor farming / optimizing farming in general
- Synthetic meat / meat alternatives
Databricks raises $400M at a $6.2B valuation
Exposure to blue light may accelerate aging even if it doesn't reach your eyes
> where there are just a few primitives and everything else is design patterns

C++ is design-patterns heavy and symbol heavy at the same time.

The heaviest design-pattern language champ would be JavaScript 1.5 with the lack of construct (assuming people work in super-huge JS project with hundreds of developers, not a simple web-app).
Those numbers have to be off:
According to wikipedia [0]:

English 379.0 million native speakers, 1.132 billion total

French 76.8 million native speakers, 279.8 million total

It seems you might have mixed the French native speakers with a (high estimate of) the English total speakers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
Would have given Liberals a more convincing victory given that the Canada left is split into three to four parties while right just has one.
>The headline is factually correct.

Factual correctness is not a defense against being misleading. It is quite easy to make factually correct statements that are also misleading.

"$Person has never denied $HorribleAct."

"$Person has never apologized for $HorribleAct."

"$Person has never presented any evidence showing they didn't do $HorribleAct."

You can effectively mad lib these with almost any combinations and it result in a technically true statement. But put a specific case in a news headline, and it would still be considered misleading. Why? Because we know when people read those sentences in a news headline, they will assume that there is an underlying accusation with enough credibility to be denied. Such an accusation doesn't exist. Factually, such a headline never stated such an accusation exists. But we know that is how people will read it, and thus to run such a headline knowing well the way it will be read would, at least to me, qualify as being misleading.

Did that happen in this case? I don't know enough to be sure. I just want to point out that factual correctness is not, by itself, enough to disqualify a charge of a headline being misleading.
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Just because a site says something is recommended for you, doesn't mean it's actually a personalized recommendation. If a site has a recommedation box, they're going to fill it with something. They might be making that recommendation off a lot of data, or they might be making the recommedation off no data other than "people tend to click things when we label them as personalized recommendations".
Same here regarding govts coming together. I think individuals have a huge role to play. The rise of the climate hackers.
Yeah weren't people complaining about how they've been suffocating a lot of industries (like mapping, email) by offering so much for free subsidized by search ads.
I'm a dev and I have no idea what weblogs have to do with this discussion. Quick search didn't do anything to clue me in either.
Read some Esther Perel. Nothing is obvious about rebuilding Trust and Respect in relationships. Very dependent on personality types, what outcomes are possible.
What part about stolen don't you understand? People take reasonable steps to secure their cars, because it's financially painful, but it still happens!
Of the $12 billion in funding he personally took $2 billion of it.
Someone is going to cover the Sahara with solar panels and make some serious cash. Bonus points for automating the production of solar panels out of sand.
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For everyone looking for a cofounder. Pro tip: Leave your contact info in your profile, not everyone sees the thread when first posted
But, doesn't this permit a situation where a Democrat that wants to maintain the estabishment will go through the Democratic party, and someone that does not (who might identity mostly as a Democrat) can go outside and still participate in the primary?

There is still the problem with money and power corrupting the message (and the two party system wants to keep that power in place).

But, at least it provides options for alternative candidates if they are feel their integrity is worth more than party loyalty?
Actually, yes. If Exxon and all other companies operated as if those future liabilities mattered and didn't hide the full price from investors and engage lobbyists to keep that full price from being levied on them, then we wouldn't be in this pickle.
A collection of relevant links I recently collected:

1. A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20908452

2. Platform Cooperativism Consortium | A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops
https://platform.coop/

3. Stoop.cp Incubator for co-ops with a revenue sharing model and 10k grant
https://start.coop/#program

4. Savvy Cooperative
https://www.savvy.coop/

5. The Internet of Ownership – Tools for a democratic online economy
https://ioo.coop/
"Google does not read your emails for the purpose of directly targeting ads" is a wildly different and much more accurate statement than "Gmail stopped reading your emails".
following...very, very exciting.
It is annoying. I can get certified checks for free at the bank.
It's a feature of extremely cheap capital and low interest rates, not just Silicon Valley
There were a significant number of people who preferred the NDP, but voted Liberal to deny the Conservatives a seat.
Mutually Exclusive & Comprehensively Exhaustive. It's how to do bullet points according to McKinsey. They had to invent it in the 1960s because apparently by the 1960s no one at McKinsey was yet, you know, aware of the existence of centuries' worth of literature on formal logic. So they reinvented the wheel as far as that particular cultural achievement was concerened. Or the first millionth of it, to be more precise, and left it at that, because the rest of it would have no longer fit onto a single PowerPoint slide.
In terms of "What's a Promising Area to Work On", I'm excited about all of it. I've expanded my description to include the renewable economy as well as the carbon economy.
Softbank is the Long-Term Capital Management of our decade.

https://www.thebalance.com/long-term-capital-crisis-3306240
"customers" != "consumers" in American vernacular, at least not when talking about business.
Everyone agrees with that, unfortunately if an unfortunate kid leaves their computer unsecured in a school environment they risk a criminal record if a prankster searches Google with the keywords that trigger the system. In a corporate environment that just won't happen. It's madness, but "if you see something, say something". Or something.
What's "reddit" about that comment?
Thank you for reminding us. Every time I somehow forget how the corporation was set up so that money could still be made from SE deals.
Amazingly quick loads, slick project.
I'd suggest adding a required class or warning to the inputs, I was hitting the publish button a few times wondering why it didn't publish until I filled out the title as I thought the "name" field was the title field.
Is the Government currency True money?
Of course, cowards will always downvote without participation. That is the one true known.
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Great questions. I think we look with a critical eye but still make generous allowances for retirement savings vehicles.

Keep in mind, the problem isn't people with single digit millions of wealth, the problem is those with tens, hundreds of millions, and billions of dollars.
Source: https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us-news/en/articles/medi...
I had a worse experience with mailgun that almost made me lose my job. Our domain was blacklisted for sending spam. I think mailgun's server was hacked at that time because our Api Key was kept securely using the best practices. I dont want to use Sendgrid because of bloated and slow UI but I had no choice.
I've seen this happen with Perl and Ruby (both replaced with Python). Being able to replace workers is not an insignificant business risk. A small company outside of a major tech hub just can't support the development of software in nonstandard languages. I love Haskell, but I couldn't tell my boss that we should invest time in learning yet another technology to train people in just because its my favorite language.
It was in the context of writing fiction, but Stephen King (who knows a thing or two about writing) said - in his book On Writing - something like "the best way to get good at writing is to read a lot and write a lot."

I'd actually recommend reading that book, even if your interest isn't fiction (and definitely if it is). There's some good stuff in there.
Password Rotation and stagnant security practises are IMO a result of liablity environments, not regulatory environments.
And (IMO) more than borderline fraudulently to employees.

As a startup founder, shit like this poisons the environment both for investment and for hiring employees. When people make choices about where to work, stuff like Theranos and WeWork is distinctly not helpful. It gives our industry a patina of fraud.
Skin-On Interfaces Welcomes Human-Like Gestures to Control Your Smartphone
Whats the big difference with modern existing greenhouses, like the ones in The Netherlands?
A single product offering doesn't make a sustainable business. Ultimately, for it to work for these businesses, they need to prove that they can sustain the business model without capital injections.
Nice, that's cool, is that using a vacuum pump for the picking part?
I am under the impression since these devices are issued by schools that they are intended to facilitate learning, not 'school business'.
Bingo! Correct answer. Anyone can learn to 'act' ... I got into teaching to help myself be more confident infront of adults.
It turns out that groups of strangers are perfectly normal people, and there isn't anything to worry about.
I see a future where everything is encrypted with the best there is. Encryption could/should be built right into the backbone of everything.
lol @ non over sold memory. no one ever over sells memory, it's always CPU and network that gets over sold.
Maybe the people that did the work should capture some of that wealth?
Just curious if you are planning to open your solutions up to non-food solutions: E.g. commercially licensed cannabis cultivators?

Autonomous / IoT greenhouses seem to be a big "thing" up here in Northern California where many commercial cultivators are.