skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying -- that companies should be internally driven to address concerns such as yours -- but I'm starting to shift away from that thinking. We're social apes. We evolved in groups, and respond to group pressures. Responding to public shaming is perhaps a more natural state of things than what we tend to expect.

It certainly seems more effective.
Sure! Thanks for reaching out, it will be an absolute pleasure to discuss this further. I'll ping you from my work e-mail
Im interested in how this works on the dealer side. Most dealers don’t own their inventory, they’re financed through “floor planning” companies like AFC.

Dealers pay substantial fees for the short term credit required to keep these things on their lots.

It seems like bad business to pay a huge finance fee only to rent the car out and have it not be on your lot anymore.

I’m also pretty curious about the tax and registration implications here. Dealers currently enjoy very different insurance, tax, and registration modalities than consumers do. State regulatory bodies are really sensitive to fraud in this space (getting a dealers license so you don’t have to pay tax on your super car is a common structure). If you are now buying/financing vehicles for the purpose of renting them out, it seems like you’re in a different classification than an automotive dealer.

Seems to me that targeting consumers a la Turo is much smarter. Curious the rationale surrounding this model.
I think the solution to this problem is more statistics. In particular, we need a mandatory statistics course at the high school level. The problem is that people are bombarded with "studies" right now claiming to prove stuff and many of them do no such thing. If people had a better sense of what is provable and what isn't, what makes for a good study, how much you should trust the results of a single study etc, I'd hope that they'd be far more informed and effective citizens.
Why do deaths have to be the trigger to prioritize safety?

Examples: Boeing, this article, and a recent HN post [0], etc.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374525
Would love to hear some examples of experts decreasing complexity and advanced engineers increasing complexity.
> Cryptocurrencies aren't anonymous.

Monero is.

> They also don't eliminate payment processor risk

Of course they don't magically solve all problems, but that doesn't make them useless.

> I'm skeptical how many people in Venezuela saved their fortunes via Bitcoin et al

I've read some article from people who did it, but I don't think it's common.

The problem with leaving the country is, how do you take your assets with you? You cannot easily move a house, and you will get searched at the border and your gold, dollars, jewelry etc will get confiscated if found. With cryptocurrencies you can theoretically move any amount, by just memorizing 12 or 24 words, by hiding a piece of paper or by encrypting it and placing it online somewhere.
This is big time for America. If our biggest city can’t show leadership on pedestrian and bicyclist safety, we can’t expect any other city to as well.

New York is really lagging behind where it should be. Despite being by far the biggest American city, it is overrun with cars. Protected bike lanes, street improvements to make crossing the street safer, and dedicated bus lanes will improve the city for all New Yorkers. If these changes take off in New York, they will trickle down to the rest of American cities.

New York is marveled at for being such a safe big city from the standpoint of crime, but when you factor in all of the carnage caused by cars, it’s a lot less safe than you might think.

Violent crime has been falling across the country, but pedestrian and bicyclist deaths have been surging. This is a sign of some very bad policy making. Walking should be one of the safest and healthiest things a person can do.
This was surprisingly educational and incredibly approachable.
Yes, pretty much every company is this way. I often get a response, support ticket and solution via Twitter before my email/webform request is even processed.
Can you share a link? My understanding is the one I've found available pulls in transaction data. I actually don't care about transaction data at all. I explicitly just want monthly account balances (including what historic months closed at), and some of the net worth and net income summaries. Nothing I've found yet offers that.
> Beyond speculation, cryptocurrency is used for:

According to whom? The studies I've seen [1] say that a quarter of users are engaged in illegal activities and their share of all transactions is 44%. Their share is in decline as more applications are developed and userbase expands.

It should also be noted that there are many activities that are illegal, but not really harmful to anyone. For example, marijuana prohibition laws are obviously unjustified and are being overturned across the world these days.

[1] Eg https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2018/02/sex-...
Ultimately, I feel this headline ("Statistics have lost their power," in case the Guardian changes it later) buries the lede. The dispute is not really about statistics as a way of understanding the world, it is about the epistemology of it, and at its core the idea that a national aggregate is a valid proxy for well-being.

It's easy to decry:

> Presented with official estimates of how many immigrants are in the country illegally, a common response is to scoff. Far from increasing support for immigration, British Future found, pointing to its positive effect on GDP can actually make people more hostile to it.

... but the underlying belief appears to be closer to:

> If you live in one of the towns in the Welsh valleys that was once dependent on steel manufacturing or mining for jobs, politicians talking of how “the economy” is “doing well” are likely to breed additional resentment. From that standpoint, the term “GDP” fails to capture anything meaningful or credible.

The first statement makes no sense in and of itself, and it would seemingly suggest a knee-jerk reaction against the very idea of data. However, in the context provided by the second statement we see a different view: a core distrust that "average well-being" (represented by the statistic of choice) in fact represents the common good, suitably defined[1].

As a result, I feel that the article's later musings -- that we're merely collecting the wrong kind of statistics -- misses the core point. If we start reporting on underemployment, then the right circumstances might come along to discredit that indicator, and so on. The article begins to grapple with this issue in its digression into big data (and how there are no national agencies for it in the manner of the ONS), but even there the author deals with a practical problem of said data being more useful in the short term than long term than the core problem:

Ultimately, if society as a whole does not have a shared view of the 'common good', then _no quantity at all_ can measure it. The question of "is this good?" becomes fundamentally unanswerable in a democracy with an identity crisis.

[1] -- That could mean "median well-being," "well-being of people I know / in my region / like me," or "personal, individual well-being of the speaker."
I would usually flag or hide an article that seemed off topic particularly one related to what I feel is a "culture war" topic. I feel there are better places to have those kinds of discussions. It also sucks that transgender people have traditionally been and are still the target of harassment and deserve a better lot that afforded them by our society.

However, even with those caveats, I feel the article is valid.

Being the father of daughters in competitive sports I feel it would be fundamentally incorrect to allow transgender athletes who identify as women to compete in women's events. Particularly transgender athletes who have experienced male puberty prior to transitioning.
Lots of folks take joy in understanding things.

Perhaps if you toss out your bowl of cornflakes and pour it again, that funny taste will go away.
TFA seems to explicitly be about the kind of simple "give input, get output" program that you only make a SaaS to keep people from being able to continue using your software without paying you every month (or visiting your site for ad impressions, or sending you their data so you can use it to train machine learning models, or whatever). Not software that necessarily requires a server. I don't think it's in the same sort of bad syllogism category as "taxation = theft".
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Grognard wargames are one area where you are almost forced to make old school interfaces like this, because the core playerbase has a large paying contingent that continue to use 15 year old bare bones systems running obsolete OSes.
Might not be a bad time to request to have all your account data deleted from their servers before Google forces a ToS change and sells advertiser access to users' biometrics.
I'm pointing out that anonymous money flows are already effectively illegal, given the KYC/AML laws. At some point, any Funny Money system you create has to interact with the fiat system so that people can actually do stuff like pay their utility bills, and if Funny Money is triggering compliance alarm bells, and at that point, well, read the article.

Something else to point out is that just because a system is unsustainable doesn't mean it will collapse immediately.
I was wondering if they were talking about the Anker Soundcore Liberty, but those are still $75.
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Also if Tether implodes the exchanges you're using to short are also likely to implode or exit-scam (since they'll know the gig is up), and there is no recourse.
I read the article you cite and the section in question is 4.5 blocks long. And the project included drainage, street lights on the far side away from the bike lane, paving the whole road, sidewalks, etc.

The Seattle city-wide average was $2mm/mile.

Very informative article, and it is completely different from what I thought I'd read based on your summary.
Great comic! How I visualize this stuff is really simple, and so far it doesn't seem to be wrong...

Imagine 2 tennis balls floating in space, each spinning in some direction at some speed.

The quantum amplitude is the extent to which they are matched, or opposed, when you break down the inertia of each into vectors. In fact I'm pretty sure their measurements are very limited in the extent to which they can measure these things to infinite precision. (Duh)

Is this another case of obfuscation by academics? This is truly not complicated. It's even kinda fun. I think we all have a little fear of being mentally outgunned, and fear does what it's always done to creative thought. Dominated it.
I think the downvotes are because you jump to conclusions and the conclusion is "the government did it and covered it up". Sounds super kooky.

The science in the link is interesting, but note how it does not talk about why it happened that way. So it is disingenuous to say that the science says the government did it. Furthermore while these scientists believe that it was a simultaneous failure of all supporting columns there are others that think differently.

I find it fascinating that there is so much disagreement on the subject, and that how difficult is to reconstruct an event of such magnitude.
Everyone panicked about the Japanese buying up American assets, too.

It's all about 'rising tides lifting all boats' until there's a chance of someone else's boat being almost as high as ours. Then all of a sudden it's about the foreign threat, ulterior motives..
I would say it takes similar qualities to master chess and scrabble. I've been to a scrabble tournament recently and it looks very similar to chess or go kids tournaments. It all starts with memorizing an opening in chess or specific sets of words like vowel words:
https://word.tips/vowel-words/
Oh man.

I'm definitely on both sides of the fence.

After Fitbit bought Pebble, they made the ecosystem poorer. The Pebble tech team was stronger than the team that absorbed them.

Fitbit customer service is excellent, but their warranty is bad, and their build quality seems poor.

My Fitbit Ionic (about $300) stopped working one month after the 12 month warranty ran out, and they offered me a 20% discount on my next purchase. They haven't lit up the SiO2 sensor on the Ionic after (3?) years.

Google is great at a lot of things, but how invested are they in being a supplier of a niche, always connected device that collects personal data every second of the ...

Wait a second! Things might be looking up for Fitbit devices! (But maybe not the users)
A more effective way to train deep neural networks using pipeline parallelism
Haha, I actually feel exactly the opposite! I wish JS, Ruby, Python, etc. deferred to OS-specific package management. Mandatory xkcd reference, etc.
No, they don't have to involve anonymity.

For example, lets take donating to WikiLeaks as an example. Anonymity is not needed for that, since they have never been charged with any crimes.

The only thing needed was a way to get around the banking cartel, that blocked payments to them, even though WikiLeaks was not charged with any crimes.

If it was 2011, being able to donate to WikiLeaks, was something that many people needed crypto for, regardless of anonymity.
> Hot places should have narrow streets and three or four story buildings so there’s always shade somewhere on the street

If you do that in Florida, your city will now flood every afternoon in the summer monsoon season.

Florida has zoning laws that require a certain percentage of non-paved land so that the ground is able to drain rainwater fast enough. Again, this is another example of tacitly assuming the way Northern cities do it is right and that Southern cities doing it differently are because they're stupid and not because, just maybe, they understand their particular climate.

> Postwar American cities are unwalkable by design.

Yes. Another way to say it is that they are drivable by design. And in an area where driving is significantly more comfortable than walking, there is a good argument that that indeed optimizes for human needs better than transplanting Philadelphia circa 1834 to Central Florida and then wondering why the buildings keep sinking, flash floods keep washing everyone away, and the downtown corridor is dead because there's no parking and still no one wants to walk there because it's too hot even for a dozen blocks.
To Containerize or not: the litmus test
How fast do I talk?
Before you throw Google and Apple into the same bucket consider this: There is no unified job description for a Software Engineer at Apple, and it will often vary depending on which VP or even Director you report to. At Google, there is a ladder comprised of specific milestones that you must meet that is agreed upon by committee and used throughout the entire company.

At Google, you almost never know which team you will land in before you interview. At Apple, you probably know who your future manager will be before you interview.

(Source: I have worked at both companies.)
Never 100% backed. Clearly there was some money.
In the US, as well as most of Europe (this list is not complete): there are essentially zero poor. What well call poor are really lower middle class. Even the bad schools are good enough to break out of - it might not get one generation from poverty to rich, but it can get to middle class.

I wouldn't pin remaining in lower middle class (which we consider poor) on just lazy though. Some are, but I've also met poor people who are not lazy, they just don't see how their hard work isn't in the right areas to get out. There is a lack of examples, and parents often don't teach their the basics of how to get ahead (in part because they don't know). The opportunity to get out of those bad neighborhoods exists for anybody. (Note that systematic racism in previous generations is mostly gone, but the after effects are still with us)

The poor elsewhere do lack opportunities and so cannot break out. I will grant that.
Because big money talks until public deaths bring these scandals into the spotlight.
> What `ncurses` is to you, computers are for normal people.

That is a really dumb analogy, that makes a really good point. Try piping a program that uses ncurses. Ncurses is a shitty way to do a GUI on serial video terminals. It is a GUI and not a Unix command-line interface.
The fact that they have outlawed and happily tweet about confiscating e-bikes is digusting. NYC has a long ways to go.
Because there's really no reason they'd not honor it, and there is a reason to honor it.

They've only ever needed a sampling of recordings to review. They were presumably drawing that sampling from all recordings before.

Now, suppose only 10% of people opt-in, although I'm sure it will be higher than that. That's still plenty to sample from.

So there's zero reason to not honor it. On the other hand, if they were sneakily not honoring it behind the scenes and that ever were leaked (which would probably happen), that would be a huge hit to their reputation, which would be a big business risk.

So for a rational corporation trying to make money, the profitable business choice is to honor opt-outs -- it's all upside and zero downside.
As a result of a recent thread[1] on HN regarding Logo, we now have a Slack workspace[2] and Freenode IRC channel[3] for Logo fans. Please do join them even if you don't remember Logo anymore. The intention here is not to discuss Logo but to share the joy of computing that we discovered through Logo and has remained in our lives.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374341

[2]: https://bit.ly/fd100slackinvite

[3]: #fd100 at chat.freenode.net
That's not the PPP multiple -- that's the PPP exchange rate.

From the chart you stated.
Total, National currency units/US dollar, 2000 – 2018

I.e, in PPP terms 18 Rupees is one US Dollar.

In real terms, about 70 Rupees is one US dollar, given a PPP multiplier of slightly under 4 at current nominal exchange rates.
Good article. Misleading title.

As the articles goes on to point out, only that single section in the entire project will be that expensive, and that includes a lot of city upgrades that were otherwise needed and rolled into this (like new lighting, adding additional drainage, upgraded sidewalks, and new crosswalks).

To be honest the project sounds fantastic and I hope they keep at it. If they're able to roll in other upgrades at the same time, so much the better. The 12m figure is borderline clickbait (even if it is technically true).
My understanding from Plaid's somewhat confusing docs is that the Free tier gives transaction and balance data from cash accounts, but I need it from all of my asset accounts, which you seem to need to be on the $500/mo plan for. Since this is just for personal use, I can't really justify that.

All I care about is monthly account balances and month ending amounts for historic months for ALL accounts (cash, assets, debt) and then the net worth and net income monthly stats.

If I understand Plaid's pricing correctly, it's $500/mo to get what I want but I could be misunderstanding their docs. Would love to be told I'm wrong!
Owning My Step Count
Perhaps. Assumes all compilers support it, but otherwise, a testable case.
> But the difference in GC content between different genes is purely stochastic, and there’s no mechanism for changing the GC content of a given gene, except by random (!) mutation. This can happen, and it indeed improves the stability of a gene, but the same is true for all genes to the same extent, and it isn’t directed.

That seems fine. If some genes are more stable than others, and this can vary by normal random mutation, it can be selected for. I'm still failing to see why this isn't relevant to the current discussion.
Where do bike deaths happen in New York? On streets when riding straight, or in intersections?

(On both, of course, but what is the distribution?)
Can you share your thoughts on why?
Because you don't win points for prevention of hypothetical harm. See: vaccine "debate". Pro-vaccine policies saved millions of people who are alive right now, but you can't run on a pro-vaccine platform until people start dying again.
I've never had a high pressure pitch, and insurance is a good idea so you can walk away...
Yep, I agree the use case is somewhat different - I wrote as much after the link. Probably why calling this "multiplayer" sounds weird.
The dark side of tattoos and your health
Such a loss.
Props for promoting the book of another author.
Steam Is Down at Start of Halloween Sale
That is a market issue. The industry, public, and media do not believe the warnings unless there is a body count. By then it is becomes really hard to fix.
failure is a weird word, it can mean all kinds of things. I can fail to get up on time for example.

i wouldn't consider What happened to you a failure, that's just work. Wrong decisions happen all day every day in all kinds of businesses. What part of the experience would you consider the "failure"? The only thing i can think of is just lack of experience for that particular situation. I wouldn't qualify lack of experience as failure.

A failure to me is not delivering what you promised with it being in your full control to do so. But, like i said, failure can mean all kinds of things.
Speaking only for myself, before I interview someone, I definitely look at their resume and prepare a few questions about it. I also look at github accounts if they were mentioned in the resume, but I tend to downweight them for a number of reasons:

1) You can't always be 100% sure the code was actually written by the candidate.

2) One quality I'm looking for in particular is somebody who can work well with OTHER PEOPLE'S CODE, and that's even harder to evaluate. If I see a balance of original repos and forks, that might be some evidence, but again, how do I dig out what they contributed? Chasing down PRs would be more helpful, but that definitely is too much work for a job interview.

3) Having a busy github account could be a marker of particular life circumstances (to avoid waving the red flag of "privilege" around too much) — the candidate is not overly busy working a second job, raising young children, or giving 120% in his day job.

4) There are plenty of respectable reasons not to code in your spare time — you may have different hobbies etc. When hiring pathologists, we don't give preference to candidates who cut up bodies in their spare time. We should get out of the habit of doing so for programmers.

5) A busy github account can also be a warning sign of somebody who might be more invested in side projects (or possibly even bootstrapping a startup) than in their day job.
> In quantum computation, a ket is a vector in a Hilbert space

The blog implements kets as 2-dimensional complex vectors, so I don't see any problem there. A 2-dimensional space is a Hilbert space.
Seems like they redid the whole street, sidewalks, street lamps, etc for those $12 million, and bike lane was just an excuse to do all that work. But yes, everything here is much more expensive than it should be. The "city overhead" itself was just above $1M.
> The fact that they have outlawed and happily tweet about confiscating e-bikes is digusting. NYC has a long ways to go.

e-bikes have been legal in NYC for 1.5 years [0]

[0] https://mashable.com/2018/04/04/electric-bicycle-nyc-ban-end...
Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21380167
Google owner Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
Interesting comic, but yes it seems there are some dirty jokes thrown in this comic, at a deeper layer. I would like to know what they are