skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t buy for a second though, that if your home value doubles that your lifestyle doubles.

That's just true by definition of how a price works though, it's not really up to each person to agree or disagree with.

I get that you're not realizing the gains when your house goes up in value. But a property tax is not a capital gains tax, it's a wealth tax on a specific type of wealth (that happens to be very important to society and easy to track). The rules that everyone else is playing by, are that you're taxed based on the value of the property. Whether you realize the gains or not, to give you a break on it at the expense of people who happen to be newer, is not somehow inherently more fair. It's a transfer of wealth that is very regressive on average and goes directly from those with less money to those with more. And it has been a huge driver of the housing and budget problems created in California over the last 40 years.
And you can't think of any reasons outside of ethical arguments why it might be a good idea to make sure everyone has their basic needs met? Really? Have you spent very long trying to come up with one?

Here's one to get you started: When a very small number of people have everything and a great many people have nothing, not even what they need to survive, those hungry desperate masses will have nothing to lose and every incentive to take what they need by using any and all means.

Next, try to think about what might be potentially lost when large numbers of people are needlessly dying. What contributions great or modest those lives might have made if they'd been able to survive.

I'm not suggesting you should be personally responsible for providing for every person's basic needs, but it doesn't take a great amount of creativity or insight to come up with pragmatic reasons why we might be better off collectively if we work collectively to minimize the number of people around us who are struggling with the basic necessities of life and well-being.
Bill Gates isn't sure Elizabeth Warren 'has an open mind'
Yup, we have those in Texas too. I assumed they were standard; I guess TIL I learned they're not. They very much should be. Children, especially very young children, are quite unpredictable even when they should know better, and the signs are a signal from the bus driver to surrounding cars that the safety of those children (which the driver should be monitoring) is much, much more important than the impatience of the surrounding motorists. You always stop. Always.
That reminds me of the time we had a DIMM actually melt on the 22nd December http://fanf2.user.srcf.net/hermes/doc/misc/orange-fire/
> Counterargument: the safety driver is supposed to be prepared to take control at any time, should the vehicle do something unsafe.

That's impossible. This has been tested in countless studies with train drivers and pilots and it is absolutely impossible for a human to stay alert if an 'almost good enough' computer system is in the drivers seat.

By the time you're needed your situation awareness will be nil.
There are definite tradeoffs here, but one thing to consider is that dev tooling generally can't benefit from that kind of massively distributed parallelism. If you make a change to a widely-included header file, code intelligence tools suddenly have to do a huge amount of work to reevaluate their internal model of all affected translation units. This can really result in an unpleasant and laggy editing experience, even on medium-sized projects. That's the kind of thing that modules can help with; I certainly wished fervently that they were already a thing when I used to work on C++ static analysis tools years ago.
A while back while working in a game company as one of those who could resurrect the server I was the in-house DB expert, this sounds a bit stricter but close to the philosophy we took during a company-wide winter break we had, we had shifts where someone was expected to be phone/text/email immediately responsive to error notifications coming out of the server, that person would then triage and, in the event they couldn't handle the issue, be able to pull in other folks as needed according to their availability - for instance if there was an issue with a data corruption I'd likely be pulled in.

Thankfully that never happened because while we were all quite respectful about each other's time due to the jurisdiction and industry we worked in none of us were eligible for OT even during stat holidays. Were that company within a more reasonable line of business I'd demand a setup like that and feel perfectly justified - and that's pretty much why I don't work in the games industry anymore.
NYC is already stuffed with red light cameras as well as cameras that automatically give you speeding tickets.
These are not child suicides. They are teen suicides.

Child suicides aren't applicable to those older than ten.

We can expect junior high suicides to exchange with the previous problem of junior high pregnancies.

It's not that society isn't warped and destructive. The suicides are undeniably tragic, and demand attention.

It's that journalism is willfully tone deaf and sensationalizes the reality of the problem, and dances around awkward truths with manipulated choices in wording. Such as interchanging "teen" with "child" whenever convenient, to maximize the perception of an agenda.

All of this is obviously true, when you consider the difference between an 8 year old's suicide, contrasted against a 12 year-old's suicide.

The headline maximizes clickbait with implied shock value, knowing how outlandish the perception of an 8 year-old's suicide might seem, and goading the reading to search for the cut-off age brackets.

A headline, vanity sized, for the reader that seeks larger factor of outrage.
> At the same time, I remember seeing a new startup that had completely ripped off Sentry + docs and had just done a find and replace for the company name.

Did you mean Opbeat? They did use Sentry client code in their service implementation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800833) but their focus was on APM not exception management.
^^ this is exactly the right way to approach this. The answer is not obvious, not to me anyway. The $10 million marketing company will crush the original company, the product will wither without technical backing and fade into obsolescence. Long term everyone loses. How can we change the rules of the game (license?) so the end users win.

It would please my personal sense of justice if the big R&D company also won, but I am satisfied with the simpler requirement of end users not getting shafted and the product thriving.
Interesting to see this here as I've seen Invenia post on the Julia subreddit from time to time.

Can anyone from Invenia explain how they make money or what they're trying to do? I work with electricity market optimization every day (main topic listed on their blog and site) and am curious what they're trying to bring to the table. There are already lots of vendors in this area (ABB, Siemens, GE) that use the state of the art MIP/LP solvers to run the US grid (what CAISO, PJM, SPP, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, and ERCOT all do). On the retail side (think DER aggregators) I know SolarCity is trying to get into that game.

Julia is a great numerical language and it has a good solver agnostic library, but rewriting stuff in Julia won't get you much of a gain in this market. You mention machine learning which has several use cases for the grid, but I don't see a product or a mention of Invenia working with any utilities, ISOs, or vendors.

Btw: I hope I don't come across as negative (I wish you the best of luck). I do see a lot of companies do things like try to sell block chain to utilities without them even knowing what kinds of problems they have.
Induced demand for housing, a thing that costs actual money to purchase, would just be an indicator that supply hasn't reached equilibrium with demand.
Indiana Bell moved a functioning building in 1930
What do you base your views on? Reading reports on a forum? You're point seems valid enough, but I get the feeling there's a lot of nuance your comments are paving over. For one, any research I ever did on them seem to indicate they're very "anti-party" and those taking them did so for very specific self-improvement reasons.
This is exactly what worries me about PReP. Overall is seems to be making a dent in the spread of HIV, but the reality is it lulls many into a false sense of security and implicitly blesses dangerous behavior. The history of humanity is plagued by virus epidemics — HIV is not a cure-all.
>If these does not exist or not adequate then the fix is to make it available or improve it.

Well, OK, we are on the same page here.

But they surely do not exist in most of the US, and will not be available overnight. Until we have that, we should be mindful of people who have to deal with inadequacies of the infrastructure.

Uber is not a solution for most people. Call it what it is: a taxi. And you wouldn't expect someone too poor to have a car to take a taxi everywhere (same applies for children, international students, etc, etc).

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Personal anecdote: I petitioned the city of College Station, TX to construct sidewalks on Harvey Rd, where a lot of international grad students who don't have cars live. The street was missing sidewalks for a full block on both sides. I've seen a wheelchair being rolled on that road, where cars go 50mph, because there was no alternative.

The city's answer? It's in the development plan, but there's "no money" for it.

In the meantime, the Highway 6 ramp on Harvey Rd was redone two or three times. The ramp was fine, I saw no gain from that.

In my 7.5 years of living in the area, I never figured out a way to get to DPS by public transportation. I heard that there is a city bus, but I have not witnessed it. You'd think that people who need to get a license should have means of getting to the place that gives them out without having to drive, but no.

There was no way to get to most of the places without having to walk on the street where cars were driving. The sidewalk on College Main street (the main is in the name) was completed in 2016, and was an exception.

You literally couldn't walk to a movie theater, for example: the walking directions on Google Maps would take you on a highway frontage (exactly where you wouldn't want to be as a pedestrian).

So, if you have $10 for a movie ticket, but not another $20 for a taxi there and back (the idea that there could be a bus is laughable, of course there is no bus), you are SOL.

Not to mention that before Uber, even taxis were not a thing in many suburbs.

You know that people without cars are screwed, because you'd be very afraid to lose your license. It would be a disaster for your life. But it shouldn't be, because (as your driver's manual surely says) driving is a privilege that not all of us enjoy.

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PS: I say this as someone who accumulates at least 10K non-commute miles every year, and who considers 200 miles a "short" drive. I am very much pro-driving, and think that having a personal vehicle is very liberating.

But at the same time, not having a vehicle should not be a death threat. In the US today, it is.
The thing about bubbles is that nobody knows they exist. So an insider such as yourself saying, “there is no bubble,” is actually strong evidence of said bubble. Necessary but not sufficient.
> because the human is checking out.

In some cases in the most literal sense of that.
The least productive places I've worked had the longest hours - companies in Japan and Taiwan. Lots of time fuckin around on phones, and the obligatory period from 5pm - 8pm to "wait for the boss to go home" was almost entirely filled with Candy Crush. Stupid.
In most industries it takes one to two years for people interested in your product to notice you and start trying out your product. And another one to two years for them to decide incorporate your product into their future business. And another year or two to generate strong profits.

So 3-6 years.
Why a technical cofounder is much less important than you think
In NYC and LA, pedestrians have the right of way, no matter where they are in the road. The pedestrian might be cited for jaywalking, but the motorist is liable for any injury to a pedestrian.
What does "win" mean here? Survives 5 years without being bankrupt/bought? Has a high valuation? Survives 20 years?

It's no guarantee that a company with 10/2 of marketing/R&D split would be any better than the other company with 2/10 of marketing/R&D.
Services like heroku try to solve this problem.
> Disclaimer - Up until a few months ago I worked at a major (non Uber) self driving car company.

That'd be a disclosure. (When you disclose something, it's a disclosure.)
Another thing marketers in US and to a certain extent Europe fail to see is how digital has evolved in Asia and think through what it means for their own work. The same marketing giants which spend 90% of the hundreds of millions of dollars per brand per year on TV in the US spend 90% in digital in China and are increasingly shifting in other Asia markets. This reflects shifting consumer time spent on vehicle.

Now big company marketers are used to thinking of US as a homogeneous market for efficiency reasons and so TV still works in US if your target audience claims a broad demographic. However, they're beginning to learn that you'll simply not reach enough consumers if your target demographic is say young adults in the West coast if you do a TV heavy plan. US in general lags China in media landscape shift but the media behavior of the more valuable demographics are actually much closer to China than averages tell you.
Sure, it's totally legitimate under an f/oss license. Which is why many companies that are spending millions of their own money developing these systems are moving to different models where it's no longer legitimate.

If the puritans aren't willing to accept that, that's their right, and they can take their money elsewhere.

There's a tragedy of the commons element to it all. Company A invests millions of dollars developing a product out in the open for the benefit of themselves AND their users. Users are free to self host for literally $0. Then company B comes along and repackages the solution, usually behind closed doors, and reaps the $millions of benefit with only the marginal costs of operating the product.

The whole argument is very strange to me. Users - end users - have all the freedom in the world. It's only really multi billion dollar companies that are exploiting the work of others for their own personal gain that are being shut out - but the puritans seem ready to defend them anyway. In a world where Amazon (for example) control everything, users have far less freedom.
We're not talking about the general case. One thread per core might be optimal for that specific workload.
That's what conversion lift studies are for. Deliberately don't show ads to a holdout group of eligible users, and measure the difference.

e.g., https://www.facebook.com/business/help/688346554927374
Uber: Block any remediation actions, wait 1 second and hope for the best?
> This is borderline criminal negligence.

Yes, but on the border between “criminal negligence” and “depraved indifference” [0] not the border between “criminal negligence” and “innocent conduct”.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder
This is the one tic that makes it grating for me to listen to anything spoken by Noam Chomsky (interviews, discussions, monologues etc. - his written material not so much), regardless of how persuasive I may find his arguments.

Add "you can look it up" to the list, a frequent Chomskyism which sounds like a casual declaration of confidence in his sources but in effect functions as a rhetorical control device, in that it passively asserts the listener is uninformed about the data being referred to, and that Chomsky presumes not just the authority of an expert, but arrogates the prerogative to assign homework to his listeners/interlocutors as well.
I'm a little biased but I don't think Waymo is shortcutting this. If you look at the data they're looking at and how it's being processed, it's several orders of magnitude more reliable than what Uber was using. I have yet to see a sensor data video from Waymo that hasn't targetted all obstacles successfully, even if they're not categorized right. If anything, I think Waymo is, in some cases, being too conservative with its driving data (although, admittedly, I don't think I really mean that since the alternative is the loss of human life). If you've ever driven behind a Waymo vehicle, they're annoyingly strict when it comes to following posted speed limits, stopping for obstacles, and reacting/erring on the side of caution. It's an infuriating exercise in patience but I hope that it will pay off in the long term.
Huh, odd to see Blono on the internet. Peoria and Bloomington/Normal are pretty much forgotten outside of Central IL. I run a small repair shop and a software design company in Peoria. Might have to go pay a visit to the only computing celeb we have here!
That was what I thought too! I've been bitten by a similar issue where I thought I was dodging it by using a size unlimited Python Queue but the underlying buffer filled up anyhow.
My gut reaction was to keep things open source
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I don't know about painter/carpenter/landscaper, but if you want to talk about plumber, they will be paid for every minute on site, their commute and usually their advertised "minimum visit time" if the job is particularly short.

When you are informally on-call you are unable to enjoy your time to the fullest, your employer is demanding a price from you without compensating you for your time, it is an obligation of yours for yourself, your friends and family and your co-workers to demand fair compensation for this time - that's a key component of labour exchange in the free market and good unions exist to help protect those rights for junior employees who tend to have less leverage when negotiating their rights than more senior folks.
According to wikipedia your nearby is 110 meters, so slightly out of the range for most European countries. She most likely used a set of crossing paths on the area between both halves of Mill Ave so she started even further south of it.
> What did I relate if not an anecdote?

I think they key word here is "relate" (that which is "related" may often be other than what was intended to be related).

> Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy.

I can only speak for myself, but to me this implies (regardless of intent) substantial risk (it is at the least very ambiguous), as well as implies it has been ~proven that psychedelics can, at least in some cases, require subsequent usage to realize meditation benefits at all. It lacks epistemic humility.

> When not taking psychedelics and meditating one will attempt to re-create or grasp after the pleasant sensations and thoughts previously experienced, which severs one from looking into the present moment as it is.

This makes specific predictions of what people will do, with no qualifying words indicating uncertainty.

> Take a look at shroomery.org for a large group of people's attitude towards psychedelics and meditation, larger than n=39.

This seems suggestive of ~proof of the above speculative claims.

Of course, this may all seem like excessive pedantry, but I happen to think pedantry is just one of many underappreciated and underused tools in humanity's toolbox.
It's pretty certain that all kinds of power transmission or delivery mechanisms, including basic heating and cooling, as well as transport and process mechanisms, will be driven by electricity, assuming we remain on a technological path.

Or more briefly: yes ;-)
Here is a complete list of countries in mainland Europe that have not been invaded or suffered a civil war since 1900.

-Switzerland

Your list is only 25% correct.

Here is the correct list:

1) Switzerland

2) Liechtenstein

3) Portugal

4) Sweden
Plenty of non-totalitarian groups display these kinds of cognitive dissonances. This is not a unique, or even particularly noteworthy trait. It has little to no descriptive power.
Self-driving cars are far away from matching human driver skill level right now.

Well, no. Has any of the systems been tested in heavy snows on icy roads or on a road without maps?

silly mistakes

A person died.
>If people are allowed to compete for property then those that are better at competing will have more property.

We do have to keep in mind that right now nothing enhances one's ability to compete for property more than already having property.
The worst thing about AirBnB is that they make no effort to fix the problem.

When on a vacation, and we found our AirBnB had fewer beds than advertised, we complained, and then were told that the owner wanted us "out immediately." So now we're stranded in a new city. Great.

AirBnB offered to put us up anywhere cheaper than the original price we had booked. Of course, booking 2 months in advance is much cheaper than the same day, so everywhere they offered was >60 miles away. And this was an urban location, so no, we didn't have a car either.

So we gave up and stayed in a hotel. Two months later, after many rounds of negotiating over the phone, AirBnB finally reimbursed us the full amount. Being stranded in a new city sucked, and it's obvious that AirBnB's policies for fixing issues are purposefully bad, so AirBnB is now a last resort for us.

So I can recommend AirBnB as a great option if you're ok with a 10% chance of having nowhere to sleep that night!
The Earth has finite resources: finite land, finite minerals, finite water, finite energy. When people accumulate vast amounts of wealth, they place a large portion of these finite resources under their own control.

If we allow people and families to accumulate wealth indefinitely, it’s not hard to imagine a future whereby a very small elite control a vast majority of the resources. In this future, people can still create wealth by mixing their labour with raw resources... as long as they can afford to pay the rent to the rentier class.
Adam was/is a promoter extraordinaire. He promoted a utopian future ideal state to his investors and created an investment frenzy though build outs of cool, edgy office space. He created a show and the investors came in droves. He negotiated the investment rounds well and benefited from demand for his product that caused the investors to let their guard down so as to not miss out. The Fear of Missing out (FOMO) is a terribly strong force in the VC community. Adam has set himself and his family up for generations and its all likely legal.
This is one of the things I appreciate with Azure's Marketplace, at least it's easier to list/find services on Azure with pricing baked in...
> That'd be a disclosure.

It's a disclosure that is (among other things) disclaiming neutrality, so also a disclaimer.
I think it's interesting that one of the reasons Sentry gives for re-licensing their code (most/all of the major contributors work for Sentry) is also one of the reasons they gave 3 years ago on this site when asked why copycat services did not concern them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800539