skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure this has much significance, but as a consumer I usually skip online ads or tune them out mentally as they are so pervasive it’s a nuisance. T.V ads work on me to an extent if I were watching live T.V. but I try again to avoid them like the plague.

Some news sites make ads agreeable if it meshes well with the content (like NY Times and such).

The bottom line I think is that there’s too much competition for my attention and it gets exhausting unless the ads are really well thought out (original ideas) or subtle—in which case the probability of me seeing the ad is less, but the effectiveness most likely increases as its less like an ad and more like relevant content
Imagine having to sit at a desk watching a Twitch stream of someone driving a car, and if you see that they're about to crash you have to hit a button. I think the average person would do well at that task for a few hours... can you imagine doing it for 2000 hours per year if that's your full time job?
Obscene.
People on Fat Llama in the UK rent their gaming rigs

https://fatllama.com/
I don't think your comment is a good faith engagement with leftist understandings of value. This is the starting point of Marx's whole theory of capitalism (it's in the first few chapters of Capital) which is the labor theory of value.

Namely, his starting point is that labor is identified with value. Wealth is created when raw materials and the means of production are combined with labor. In the capitalist theory of value in contrast, one's legal right (inherited or otherwise) is one of the things which is identified with value.

It's not a claim that this value is something metaphysical, just a political assertion that this is what we ought to think of as "value". It's all about what you want to consider as the primary "cost" in production.

This has been refined over the years. I'm not an expert so I may not be able to respond to any and all criticisms but I will try my best.
> The only benefit I see between a uber driver and a licensed taxi driver is that the uber is exponentially easier to heil.

You mean "hail", right? Right?
Ray Dalio's recent post agrees and is complementary to your comment: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-has-gone-mad-system-bro...
im not here to engage in the debate about how much we hate online subscriptions. I'm just commenting on garbage UI trying to trick you to subscribe and pay for an article that isn't really paywalled
> Jeff Bezos improved global quality of life EXACTLY the amount he's been paid. Otherwise, why would anybody volunteer their money his way?

That's just the repetition a rather circular dogma: the market is assumed to be right (typically demonstrated by some oversimplified textbook example), so right is whatever our market does.

If you want to use Bezos's wealth to justify the value he's created, you should at least try to make an independent estimation of that value.
The choice shouldn't be between human drivers and human supervised computer drivers. Computer supervision of human drivers is viable, effective, and allows for evolutionary progress.
> What are people without cars supposed to do? Drive.

Or use public transportation.

> people who can't afford a car, the disabled, children, very old people

Public transportation or uber or in the future, self driving car.

If these does not exist or not adequate then the fix is to make it available or improve it.
I agree, I could've been clearer. I meant as a third for of authentication overall, with an additional password
YouTube's Terms of Service will be updated on 10 December, 2019
I guess it's a question of differences in taste. Anecdotal evidence: I actually like the sight of wind turbines at the horizon.
I think VCs want a good story because they've been burned too many times by companies that sound like they could be big, but then fail because:

– not enough product differentiation

– not a large enough market

– not defensible enough

Again, Taco Bell / Del Taco were both started 50+ years ago, and have nothing to do with starting a company in today's internet age.
In 1966, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, in the famous "Man the Hunter" symposium coined the term "the original affluent" society which he ascribed to the hunter-gatherer peoples. His argument largely rested on studies conducted on the !Kung people of Southern Africa which found that the !Kung only needed to work about 15-20 hours a week to meet their daily needs. When compared to the 40 hour workweeks that (some) industrial nations enjoy (and have fought to achieve), they do indeed seem affluent

However, a mistake in this analysis was quickly pointed out. That 15-20 hours figure only represented the time necessary to gather food. It ignored the time necessary to gather firewood, take care of children, prepare food, etc.

So Sahlins went back to his analysis and took those factors into account. When taking those factors into account, the !Kung (and most San peoples that have maintained their traditional foraging societies) worked 40 hours to meet all their basic needs. However, when looking at the time spent by Western peoples outside of formal work doing informal work (laundry, cooking, etc), their workweek shot up to 80 hours.

In the end, the San (and likely most foraging societies) worked half as much as us, enjoyed great health [1], and even had better food security [2] (contrary to common assumptions about foraging societies).

The questions this opens up, in my view, are:
1) If our society is so much more efficient now than societies were before civilization, why is it that we have to work so much harder to meet our basic needs?
2) If it's not the majority benefiting from this increased efficiency, who is?
3) Is our industrial society more efficient after all?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30511505
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/

edit: 15-20 hours a week not a day
Libertarian is a dirty word because more people have realized they don't want to live in a plutocracy and need a progressive taxation system to prevent further income inequality.
Reading comprehension is a prerequisite to good media literacy.
> Keep the image, it's worth 1000 words.

Rephrase that one, please. An image lies more than a 1000 words.
I received a Ph.D. in physics in 2010, throughout my training, my anecdotal experience was that of an echo chamber. I didn't fully realize it until I left academia. Although, it was slowly becoming apparent as the years passed. My experience was of a relatively small and closed group of physicists who reaffirmed each other's assumption that they were at the absolute peak of intellectual thought. Most of the professors imparted this mindset onto their graduate students and post docs. It fits pretty well with my experience that physicists would ignore the history of economic thought and believe that they could create a simple model that would accomplish what economists and philosophers have been hitherto unable to in the prior thousand years. But economics (or praxeology to be more general) is not physics. And a simple model of coin flips with random pairings and one risk limiting function isn't economics. When you have such hubris and make such simple mistakes as to assume that value is objective, it should be embarrassing.

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I will add that I still am a physicist who likes to think about things like this. One addition I would make to the model is that the poorer a person is the larger a percentage they are willing to risk. It still doesn't get around the fact that this whole model is based around the fallacy of object value but I like playing with models.
Full-Size-Plus Truck Gets More of Everything, Except Power
That's the market-based ethics enforcement. Usually this cause and effect link is too weak to be practical. Business incentives are short-term, leadership changes, companies get bought, business models change, and market transparency is low.
Fair enough -- then I'd recommend contacting the few most active users through DM/private messaging etc.

There really is no substitute for talking 1-1 to potential customers.

Good luck :)
"[op] is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm"

It's also an odd move. If you have that level of credential, then you definitely don't want to be doing that!
Let's say 2 companies raise $10 million each. One company spends $8 million on R&D and $2 million on marketing. The other company re-uses the former company's open source work and pours all $10 million into marketing.

Who will win? Who should win?
people are having trouble going AMD in cloud because their monitoring, while written for x86, is intel specific. All that virtualization software is going to take a few years to be rock solid on AMD.
I wish I knew how common it was to have a full-time job but only work for a fraction of that time.

My last software job was supposedly 40 hours/week. I'd usually come in for two hours and leave. They wouldn't be an intense two hours either. Once in a while I'd stay all day. Based on what I hear from my friends from university, this experience is not the median but it's not uncommon either.

Many managers really don't know how to manage. Morale goes down the shitter, and unless you have children it's unlikely you'll care about getting caught.
Spline weights (aka "Ducks") are for 2-D drafting.
Here's a link that shows what they look like: https://edsonmarine.com/products/boating-accessories/spline-...

And if you're curious to see what hung weights look like, check out Gaudí’s Hanging Chain Models from 1889: http://dataphys.org/list/gaudis-hanging-chain-models/
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And auditors (or other internal processes) are never gamed?
Not pay walled: (Please stop posting paywall sites)

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-saudis-recrui...
Oh, they definitely can, but I'm saying there's basically zero culture of that in the common automotive sector.
All of Norway...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway#M...
Carl's Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
There is a subreddit devoted to these kinds of topics:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromDebugging/
> Retail companies are blind to just what a shit-show their websites are

shit-show or not, when I'm buying something online I strongly prefer buying directly from the company's website over using sites like Amazon.

My purchasing pattern goes like this: I want something, I search (using DDG) the web for what companies offer what I want, then I go through the companies websites to decide on where I'm going to make my purchase.

I'm certain that I don't represent the most common sort of customer, but I'm also certain that I'm not alone. Ads are irrelevant to me (I block all scripting, so I rarely see ads), so if a business wants to increase the chances that I'll check them out, what they really need to do is SEO.
Your impression is wrong. The core rides business is very profitable.
Sorry, I was being irreverent about the tone of the earlier comment. I guess that sort of frivolity is not what HN is about so I may delete my sarcastic comment.
> Once faced with the boredom of the non-psychedelic state of mind, people get agitated.

The overwhelming majority of anecdotal stories I've read suggest the exact opposite, in that people perceive a lasting (for some time at least) sense of peace, not agitation.

Or perhaps by agitation you were referring to desire to re-experience the psychedelic experience rather than remaining content with peacefulness. I'd say this is quite common, and I can appreciate that a disciplined meditation practice is a fine idea, but I've yet to see any particularly compelling reason to believe a disciplined meditation practice is the only answer.

My guess at it is that for most (but not necessarily all) people:

(Disciplined psychedelic practice + Disciplined meditation practice) >

(Disciplined psychedelic practice + decent meditation practice) >

Disciplined meditation practice >

Disciplined psychedelic practice >

Undisciplined psychedelic or meditation practice

But this is just a guess. I feel quite certain no one actually knows the proper answer to the question, but there's certainly no shortage of people who think they do.....which is kind of at the heart of what this whole business is all about, as far as I can tell.
>convincing them Github is a reputable party

This might be one actual positive of GitHub getting bought by Microsoft: convincing people who don't know anything about software that it's a reputable party.
Worth mentioning the conflict of interest that you work for facebook's Ads Growth.
What happens when there is collusion to exclude between all these supposedly separate platforms? I seem to recall a certain Jones guy who was deplatformed by nearly all the major social networks in a single day. Any holdouts (twitter) were thereafter hounded into submission by the media. The market aint working like it should I think.
Imagine I create a fantastic new beer: a new taste that most people love. My recipe is open source.

I have put a lot of time/money perfecting the recipe/brand . I started selling it to local businesses and have been expanding slowly but steadily. I don't have big production scales yet so I can sell a bottle for $3.

Now come Big Beer Co., #1 on the beer market world wide. They take my recipe and can sell it for $1 thanks to their economies of scale. I keep making my beer better and better whiel Big Beer Co. keeps the original recipe they "forked".

I start losing customers: yes I keep improving on the recipe but it does not justify paying $3 instead of $1.
Eventually, I die and Big Beer Co. are the only one remaining selling my recipe.

Is it because they made a better product? Nope.
There's this interview on omega-tau of a couple of plasma physicists(?) working on a fusion project in the UK, and there was this funny moment where one of them said that fusion was almost definitely going to work at some point, simply because the problem was so complex.

The interviewer, a software engineer by trade, was extremely surprised, and asked him how complexity could be an advantage.

The physicist replied that it means that there's a lot of variables you can fiddle before you start coming up against real physical limits.

It sticks in the mind because you can sort of see why a scientist would think of fusion as a definite, next-few-decades thing, and at the same time, that doesn't mean it in the engineering sense of, these reactors will actually be just like a nuclear or coal plant.
The futility of recycling most plastic
What if advertisers jack up the cost of advertising to the point that competitors can't get a foot hold. Don't think of advertising in terms of ROI. Think of advertising as a form of extortion.
US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on users
Psychedelics are clearly "doors of perception" as Huxley noted. I think it's up to an individual to decide on personal course of action and need for such doors to be opened with or without external tools.
How about an entire country?

https://www.ecowatch.com/iceland-worlds-largest-clean-energy...

>Today, all of Iceland’s electric power is generated by hydropower and geothermal energy, and about 95 percent of the nation’s heating demands are warmed by geothermal means.

https://www.sciencealert.com/costa-rica-has-been-running-on-...

>Costa Rica ran on 100 percent renewable energy for 76 straight days between June and August this year, according to a new report, demonstrating that life without fossil fuels is possible - for small countries, at least.

This is the second time in two years that the Central American country has run for more than two months straight on renewables alone, and it brings the 2016 total to 150 days and counting.
I agree and I also probably am an offender.
Then it can't be deployed on public roadways!
I’d add:

Fly less

Consume less new things (from houses to disposable items)
That study shows a ~1 second delay from the incursion being visible to a human to them releasing the accelerator and a further 2.3 seconds to have the brake fully depressed, by which time they were also steering. The study also implies the average human response time was adequate to avoid the collision...

To put things into perspective, the Uber spend 4 seconds after actually detecting the incursion trying to figure out whether it needed to respond and doing nothing, then a further second of enforced pause after concluding it did need to do something until finally starting to reduce speed 0.2 seconds before impact.
https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
Great, then it won’t happen (probably I had mistaken it with something else). Everything that makes energy less expensive and/or more easily available creates lots and lots of bad externalities. It’s time we stop believing that technology and technologic advancement will take us out of this mess, it is technology that threw us under the bus in the first place.
They run Windows because their customers demand it for their VMs. You really think Microsoft spent 24 years fighting the browser wars and liked just giving up and giving control over to Google?
The theoretical or the actual ones? In theory, nothing. In practice, they’ve gotten a lot of bad press lately for ”sucks to be you”-oriented approach to reviews and complaints.

Remains to be seen if this improves things in practice
If @dang or other moderators are reading, I agree the link should go to this article ... when I posted the Dealbook link, the Airbnb news was at the top. It has since been pushed down the page.
If someone is willing to do that to you to get to the things behind the password, it wouldn't matter whether you enrolled a biometric factor. At that point it's not a tech problem anymore.
It is an amusing paradox that the same set of colleges, sharing the same set of applicants, can become more "exclusive" by the simple mechanism of having applicants submit applications to more schools.

Conversely, if each applicant simply applied to a single school (the final accepting school), it could produce the same attendance result, but with a 100% acceptance rate for every school.

This makes me think that acceptance rates are fairly meaningless.
So because a file system had issues 20 years ago when it was new.... Do you still drive a car with a carburetor and drum brakes?

ZFS is now incredibly stable and durable, with the exception of some of the early non production ZFS on Linux work that is now fixed (and was specifically billed as non prod use). It has seen me through issues that other file systems would have failed on, including drive failures, hard shutdowns, a bad RAM module, SAS card being fried by a CPU water cooler, etc. Years and terabytes just on my systems, zero issues.

In fact one of the tests that Sun did back in the day was to write huge amounts of data to a NAS and pull the power cord mid writing. Then repeated that a few thousand times. It never corrupted the file system.
We support IPv6 lookups as well.
Why hard?

On server maintain list of ips. Serve ip to the client-peer. If the connection gets spotty replace it or use direct connection to your server. All State exists on your server. Caching may be an anti-pattern depending.

What's so hard?
Mek here from Internet Archive's OpenLibrary.org. We've thought carefully about this as well.

We feel it's critical that Internet Archive and Better World Books aren't the only organizations involved in determining which books should be preserved.

In late October, we launched a new program which allows anyone in the world to take control of our Library's shelves and contribute/sponsor the books which reflect their values:
https://openlibrary.org/sponsorship

So far we've seen an influx of high quality reference books come in (everything from African antiquity to Microbial biology) that we almost certainly wouldn't have procured ourselves based solely on the data available from e.g. library holdings, wikipedia citations, etc.

Having Better World Books as a partner has been incredibly helpful because we're able to calculate sponsorship prices quite accuracy (because shipping prices are included) which was a big challenge with other APIs we previously used. Also importantly, Better World Books helps our patrons sponsor older books which are often more at risk of disappearing, which is one (of many) useful heuristics when considering preservation.
I've done a bit of IT support for old folks. People over 70 typically battle to register their fingerprints and get them working on Apple and Samsung devices.
To be clear (and this is probably my fault) when I said natural reasons I was thinking along the lines of naturally occurring economic reasons. For example, if people move to my town that will drive property prices. On an individual level there isn’t too much I can do. Maybe I vote to restrict immigration or enact anti-growth policies such as a maximum limit on children. Maybe I sell my home to a developer who turns it into a mall or a 5 story apartment building. Many reasonable courses of action here. By the way, we don’t seem to have much of a problem with prices decreasing, even if that causes a larger financial impact (if you buy a home for $300,000 and policies out of your voting control cause you to lose value, you’re just screwed with no recourse).

I don’t buy for a second though, that if your home value doubles that your lifestyle doubles. My mortgage payment and neighborhood are exactly the same. It can certainly have a positive impact, but it’s unrealized.

Largely I think people are too quick to focus on demonizing the NIMBY, without really considering the full scope. What if people in the state legislatures vote for something that increases my home value and I vote, write reps, and do anything a person has a reasonable capacity to do. Now my taxes should double or triple? And if I can’t afford it you force me out of my house, away from friends and family?

Life isn’t fair I guess? But then people can’t get upset if people go and vote themselves Prop 13 or to defund affordable housing. It’s in their self-interest. Economics is hard.

I don’t know the right answer, but as a homeowner in the Great Lakes Region, I feel more sympathy toward other home owners than some here may do.
Doesn’t make any difference, it looks the same.
You cannot revoke your fingerprint, but your fingerprint is just unlocking a private key. You can revoke that private key. So if you lose the YubiKey you can still revoke that YubiKey.

Do I understand that correct?
Not to mention, the idea that a human failsafe will be attentive enough to respond instantly is ridiculous to begin with. If the car drives itself 99% of the time, it better drive itself 100% of the time, because the human is checking out.