skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you even measure? How do you decide how effort and talent should factor in. What system should be used to enforce it?

The answer to all is you can't because it's inherently utopian. You can set a legal framework and follow and that's the best you can do. That can involve programs that are designed to help the poor or redistribute but the notion of trying to micromanage everyone into being equal or even close is absurd.
"The Jevons paradox is a mighty bastard"

Jevons paradox is something that can happen, not a claim or proof that it always happens.

And exponential growth never continues. I mean, we can all agree Moore's law and population growth, that people irrationally thought would go on forever, are reaching their limits, right?
Honestly, it's really about money.

No amount of preaching will change their minds because they simply think: I'm paying you therefore you should work for all those hours. If you work less , they feel like they are losing money, even though they get the same throughput from you.

I also think part of it about control, they want to keep a close on you, ensure you're don't have time to work on a side project or interview at a competing company .
wow... they would not even refund in full. Classy way to handle issues in your platform Airbnb.
I don't get why everyone jumped on this idea of VR where you're standing up and moving so much. I'd rather have games just like normal but with a VR headset and KB/M or controller controls.
I don't know much about NY but there is clearly loads of regulation and building codes defining these kind of things. I'm sure the definitions vary based on when things were built and to what purpose the definition is being used. New construction is going to be subject to much more scrutiny than anything else.

Here's some information on NY: https://www.hauseit.com/legal-bedroom-requirements-nyc/

> For a bedroom to be considered legal in NYC, it must satisfy the following requirements:

> Be a minimum of 80 square feet

> Have a minimum width of 8 feet in any dimension

> Have a minimum ceiling height of 8 feet

> At least one window measuring no less than twelve square feet

> There cannot be a need to pass through any other bedroom in order to access the bedroom

> Two means of egress, including a window and a door that can be opened from the inside

Though I did read in NY there is no storage requirements.
Removed! Thanks again for telling me.
So in some cases machine learning can force us to acknowledge already existing biases. Like Musicians are male is something it might learn which we may not already acknowledge. It is a bit sad that we would rely on machines to tell us what should be apparent, but if nothing else will, then it is better than nothing.
I've worked in both types of places and reasonable places in between.

In some roles you have to fight for work because different departments are fighting for org budgets. Some places are afraid to make code changes so you go to meetings while some people signoff others raise random issues with the project. Scheduling the project takes months. Then months of finding the perfect slot to release.

I also been in places that bill every 15 minutes. All client billing time was added up and should equal 8 hours. But there were never enough hours to go around. And clients would nickel and dime over hours.

With employers I'm not sure ethical matters as long as a need is met. But be ethical to yourself. Always work hard learn and grow because the industry changes.
Looks like your rep was wrong:
https://gearjunkie.com/backcountry-statement-lawsuit-boycott...

Be sure to hold that against them as you continue to take your business elsewhere. This wasn't a mistake or tone-deaf - they simply got caught.
A savings account pays below the real inflation rate here in New Zealand. The cost of housing has increased hundreds of percent over the last 20 years thanks to central bank monetary policy that artificially manipulate interest rates. A shoebox apartment is now ridiculously unaffordable. I can put money into savings that loses money after inflation, and funds a system that is fundamentally corrupt, which leaves me worse off overall than if we had a real free market without centralized manipulation of currency and interest rates.

This centralized artificial interference has caused major imbalances in the economy here. It didn't work for the Soviet Union and it's not working in the "capitalist" world either.
I think the tendency arises from two critical components, which aren't present in most religious traditions (and hence why most religious problems don't have a problem squaring evolution with religion).

The first is a belief that the way to salvation is a narrow path and that those who seek to follow it are constantly buffeted by forces that would have them fall off. The second is a strident belief in the literal, inerrant truth of religious texts. Altogether, this ends up in a worldview of "If I question anything, I question everything, which means I fall off the path to salvation. Therefore, anything that would make me question my religion is automatically wrong."
saliva would most likely kill it
It is. But I spend more time at work using a Mac. I would rather use the best app for the OS. On Linux, there isn't anything as good as Ulysses.
Through contacts I've heard stories of practices at a wide range of establishments over the past 25-30 years. Practices have almost always severely lagged advice, and though specific leading firms or organisations might have strong data hygiene policies and practices, a great many other organisations do not.

Through roughly 2000, the principle saving grace was that disk storage was so expensive, and networking so slow, that large quantities of data were unlikely to be found online except in the case of very major organisations. Most financial firms would read data from tape for analysis or marketing programmes, as an example. A major credit card network might have a couple of, say, Sun Starfire class servers onto which a comprehensive union cardholder databset might be assembled and accessed. One friend reported accessing their campus workstation to which a large national medical insurance database was being processed, from the New York Public Library over Telnet (though I believe they didn't actually log in, they did receive the prompt). E-commerce software vendors and systems stored credit card information, which was accessed. Numerous services and datasets fly around all kinds of organisations, with little protection, and were transmitted in unencrypted FTP sessions. Social networks in which NOC addresses were directly accessible from the office network (WiFi access, natch), with millions of members' data directly accessible.

There are many ways to get this wrong. Few to get it right. And most organisations lack the staff, capitalisation, or incentives to do the right thing.

Google are problably among the best. That leaves open the question of how good they are, and what their past practices have been, even in relatively recent years.

Or how they might behave should their advertising monopoly and revenues fail.
I would like the article better if there was a link to the actual legislation. As is it seems a bit like fearmongering to say it is dense and over 100 pages like that is unusual or bad for laws.
I had a shitty host retaliate against my deserved bad review by asking imaginary fees.

I had to categorically refuse to pay these, Airbnb support was absolutely not helping.

Actually I would not be totally surprised if Airbnb asked me to pay that the next time I do a reservation with them. It might be in a very long while though, this experience has ended my honeymoon with this service.
Not at FB anymore but I would assume your hypothesis isn't too far from the truth. It's also true that there are hundreds of thousands of small businesses that thrive thanks to online advertising.
Speaking from experience, the person that writes best code (in terms of both raw quality and readability) also seem to write the best docs.

Maybe teaching essays are sideways to efficient communication?
Your missing the point. There is no correct answer to the question. Some people like brownies. Some people like chips. The idea that there is one correct answer that needs to be enforced on everyone is not only silly but inherently tyrannical.

Turns out people don't need to pay people to organize votes and collect pensions for every decision in their lives. Sometimes you just need to knock on your bosses door and tell them what snacks you want. People are capable of dealing with problems without government
Could we have video tag, also it is a decent overview.
Where is Israel coming here into your argument? Just because you don't like Israel and what they are doing doesn't mean you should treat them the same as Saudi Arabia and create a narrative around them together.
This article reminds of me of this game that demonstrates how difficult it is to operate a horse:
http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html (enabling flash required)
Blind them with science.
We're "dematerializing" by externalizing our costs.

This topic has been litigated on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020682

Key quote: Finally, and speaking of stepping in to fill the void: ctrl-F - "China" - 1 match. The single mention is to refer to it as a developing country, not to acknowledge it as the present-day location of much of the USA's manufacturing.
A question I've had that I never really looked into or found an answer to:

How does calories in vs calories out work regarding the energy left in food that is not extracted (i.e. the caloric value of poop basically).

Is digestion / energy extraction pretty consistent throughout the population or do the specifics of people's digestive systems play a role in how many calories are actually available to the body?

Basically, would a constipated person's digestive tract pull more energy out of the food since it is in the intestines longer?
That's like saying, "I mean, if you're a dissident in a country with a violent government, maybe don't use any service and keep your mouth shut because your freedom isn't as important as my VC money."

Maybe SV should try to innovate more instead of reverting to "Wow, sucks to live where you do; hold my craft beer" so much these days.

The internet was supposed to set people free. It's not working.
> Errrm, except that's not the case whatsoever.

It absolutely is often the case.

You have cited one article about Pepsi's bottled water coming from a tap.

That does not make it universally true at all. Bottle water around here is frequently drawn from springs, rivers etc. It is often the cause of bitter arguments about whether the companies are paying enough for it.
It seems almost silly that we can generate more energy than we can use some, but not all of, the time.
""It sounds insulting but you need to treat humans like dumb lazy animals that require strict guidance on how to get things done.""

As a vet, this frustrates the hell out of me. We are trained to look out for one another and, especially in the case of aircraft maintenance, we are trained to police ourselves and each other.

Yes, we also had strict guidance and checklists, and we followed them (sometimes only as best as we could depending on the situation, like combat zones, lack of supplies, etc). But, paramount above all that was safety and making sure whatever we did impacted safety in a positive way.

Going into the civilian world, it frustrates the hell out of me how lazy everyone could be with things that could literally kill somebody if maintained incorrectly.

And honestly it really surprises me a little how much of this about Boeing is coming out into the lime light. I thought their standards would be higher.
Google removes targeting knobs because despite what marketers think, humans consistently underperform algorithms when it comes to targeting. Typically, the people tweaking the knobs have reverse incentives because they don't want their jobs to be automated so they love these knobs. But they are just constraints on the bidding systems that end up delivering poorer performance of the campaigns.

YMMV but for the vast majority of campaigns, the algorithm does know better.

Disclaimer: I've built bidding systems for multiple ad companies, so I'm surely biased towards "the algorithm knows better".
At $300k/year, your weekly paycheck is roughly $3300 after withholdings...I’d hardly say that all your cash is going to your landlord.
Fair enough. I think people are people and good and evil are probably normally distributed between the poor and the wealthy more or less. There are certainly bad people at both ends.

I'm familiar with what commodities brokers are and don't see anything wrong with it. I'm quite happy for the existence of modern financial markets.
Thanks Andrew!

I've added the #KnowYourself hashtag in the share messages.

Still working on the gifting functionality for credits; will let you know when it's ready.

Would also like to create a filter so you can recreate your word cloud without certain words (your weather words, for instance).

Thanks for the feedback!
I concur, I've never worked anywhere that didn't have a continuous stream of work available to work on. I think it contributes to the burnout a bit, at least until you find a way to look at it differently. Because it feels like there is never a "finished" state to the job. You could in theory always do more.
This new version 0.16.0 will support more fonts, and will be released in the middle of this month.
ERCOT (Texas electrical grid system operator) is essentially a mutual company/co-op structured as a non-profit, very similar to muni broadband.

"ERCOT is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature. Its members include consumers, cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities, transmission and distribution providers and municipally owned electric utilities." [1]

[1] http://www.ercot.com/about
1 crore (or 100 lakhs) is equivalent to 10 million. So about half a billion USD. For us Americans.

Edit: based on an currency converter of dubious value.
Well one benefit over RIs is that it also includes Fargate runtimes.
What's more annoying is we can provide that energy for virtually free, but because it doesn't make someone else profits it gets switched off.

EDIT: just to clarify: I mean I wish that solar could be socialised and made into a social commodity.

We're becoming increasing dependent on electricity as time passes, almost to the point it'll be difficult to live well without it. If that ever becomes the case, I would want to see a social effort to ensure electricity becomes available to all, just like health care and drinking water.

I also understand that there are costs involved with providing these services, but again: social commodity. That means taxes and everyone chips in to ensure we have these resources available to all so that all can benefit and live equally.
It's nuts how Intel is using it's monopoly. I don't have any other explanation why more OEM's changed to AMD for desktop and only recently Intel dropped prices.

For laptops, we'll see in the next iteration as battery is the most important aspect there and the next awaited version is coming soon.

Interesting times ^^
Another of his lecture notes on Theoretical Stats was posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468493
As a single owner (of also a monitoring SaaS) I am currently putting out a fire where my primary datacenter died. I have suffered data loss even with precautions I had in place, one server lost all filesystems which took out my git repos.

I have backups, I have clones. I've still been in partial outage for 4 days and will be fully up tomorrow when I literally drive my servers to a new DC. Surprisingly I have slept 8 hours every night and I'm not worried. I've been in contact with my customers and provided solutions to keep them alive. If they leave they're going to leave, nothing I can do. I am looking to make sure everything is built uniformly (the server that died was the last of an old build process) and invest in scaling to the cloud in a bit more efficient and orderly manner.
I don't think it is semantics.

There are policies like "You are not allowed to access user data." and there are policies like, "All access, keystrokes, and applications that have access to user data are logged and those logs are tied to employee IDs. Further the logs are audited and there must by a form 505/2 on file for every access that details the need for the access, what was done with the data, and how the data was handled. If the auditors discover an access in the logs associated with your employee ID and there is no matching 505/2 on file, you will be subject to immediate termination and may be liable in civil and criminal court. Your signature below states that you understand these restrictions, you consent to monitoring of your behavior, and will abide by the policies."

Strong audit trails, logs that cannot changed by being created in an immutable way, logged access at all terminals and entry points. Combined with a separate auditing group that reports through a different chain of command (like through to the general counsel or something) and you have a policy with teeth.
Of course inequality is inevitable. Some people are bigger/stronger/faster than others. They will naturally out-compete the others for resources. And once they have those resources, they will then use them to accumulate even more wealth, buy off politicians and institutions to siphon even more off, etc...
I really liked APL when I learned it.

I actually think it sort of aligned with the eccentric academics that used it - folks that published research papers with figures requiring the greek alphabet and math symbols.

But I can see how people would think it was a troll.

I recall it doubled-down on the crazy character set and required overstriking multiple characters to create some operators (for example box + divide to get a domino like character)

By comparison walrus is fine, and it is even friendlier with the disarming animal-themed name.
Some fungi are so insidious when you start looking into how they function. They need to land, spore and infect but keep the host plant or animal alive in order to keep feeding itself, so they very slowly kill the host before they spore and move on.
Large-Scale Pretraining for Dialogue
Las Vegas makes it illegal for the homeless to sleep on downtown streets
I will say I don't really get the point of the article, it seems to verge on being blogspam. So Apple realizes people don't respond well to legal text and try to hide it a bit?
"The human evaluation results indicate that the response generated from DialoGPT is comparable to human response quality under a single-turn conversation Turing test."

Paper here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00536
> who the CIA has concluded likely ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last year.

More crack work from the cia.
One of the best working periods of my life was when I was studying part time and working full time.

I'd take one day a week to attend lectures/practicals, go to my day job the rest of the week, and study at home nights and weekends.

I didn't have much free time, but that one day a week at university broke up the work week and made me more productive in both activities.

Now that I've had a taste of it, I want to recreate it for the rest of my working life.
19 States Still Allow Corporal Punishment in School (2014)
I happen to own a Toyota Camry and a BMW 5 series (not M5 or any other specialty model). Even for day-to-day errands, the BMW is a pleasure to drive. There is a lot of feedback and sharp responses from the steering wheel and throttle.

The Camry on the other hand is one of the least pleasing cars to drive. The suspension feels “floaty” and the steering wheel is completely dead. It also feels completely outdated and cheap and the UI is bad.
Fire escapes are definitely not "required". You rarely ever even see them out of NYC and within NYC they've been banned since 1968.
I am very happy to see the discussion about Mark Text on Hacker News. I am the author and main maintainer of Mark Text. I will seriously think about the suggestions for Mark Text which you comment here. I also welcome everyone to submit the issue and suggestion to Mark Text on GitHub https://github.com/marktext/marktext. Thank you everyone.
Is the number of digital copies you can lend out limited by only how many physical books you have "dematerialized"? For example, if I shipped 10 used copies of a book to Open Library and you recorded you destroyed them, could you lend out 10 digital copies at a time?
Agree with your point, throwing money at the problem is not a solution. higher officials should get this point.

In India public infrastructure sucks, if the government focuses just on that aspect other sectors will raise automatically.
Even if you’re making a CLI application the website still needs to work on mobile. Responsive design is the only web interface design that is relevant.
Mindfulness meditation is probably useless [0]. Other forms of meditation are obvious scams [1]. It's possible that there are some particular forms of meditation which are actually scientifically valid, but a huge portion of the field suffers from psuedoscience.

I think it's pretty likely meditation is placebo and conditioning. People like mysticism that comes from the East. Acupuncture is the same deal.

Amusing to note the "Weaknesses in historic meditation and mindfulness research" section on the link you posted.

[0] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/mindfulness-no...
[1] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/transcendental...
This is a recurring feature of american politics that the homeless are legislated out of places to sleep. It is sad, and uncomfortable. As a homeowner who deals with homeless people I get why they want them not to be there. But eventually they have to go somewhere, I just don't know where.
Does anyone know if this is still accurate today?
Basically, yes. But, for a longer answer (and an entry to a vastly longer one...)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5638129
It's kinda why I think something like an exokernel would make more sense than way OSes trying to abstract things to a certain level. We should be trying to build abstractions that can be peeled layer by layer like an onion, not a potato.
> If anything, punishments in this case should be much more lenient than normal rather than breaking out the cruel and unusual measures.

How is it cruel or unusual to subject someone to risks posed by a system they're building? The Wright brothers didn't hit up bars to find guys willing to drunkenly try and soar into the sky on an oversized kite. The vast majority of things that were ever invented involved huge risks and often injuries to the inventor. Why do people writing code get exemptions from that?

I agree with the GP: the hardcoded 1 second wait time sounds exactly like some hack I'd put in a bit of code, the key difference being, my code makes fun little applications on an iPhone work, it does not DRIVE A 3500 POUND VEHICLE IN PUBLIC.

I bet if that engineer thought it would be him in front of that things bumper, he would've put in a bit more work to figure out what was going on.
How to Make Interactable Tectonic Plates in AR – Part 2
"The experiment continued for another eight weeks. What was the effect of pulling the ads? Almost none. For every dollar eBay spent on search advertising, they lost roughly 63 cents , according to Tadelis’s calculations." - that issue isn't related to a problem with digital advertising, but to horrible financial management