skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s essentially what a Mastadon instance is. If it’s hosted at home or on someone’s cloud account - the difference is only in connectivity speed. I’m extremely hopefully, perhaps naively, that a new internet isn’t going to be based on blockchain or owning data or any foundational change - it will be based on the ability for people to host their own server-side software again. The App Stores democratized client side apps, but they forced a huge centralization into platforms.

What we need is a cloud platform that allows people to deploy code to computers on their home network, or any cloud, or any data center... one that encourages and assists with cloud native design and aims to reduce load rather than hope you architect incorrectly and happily charge for the waste.

Perhaps I’m being naive, but it feels like a tooling problem, not a social or political or economic one. Anyways, I’ve quit my job at Stripe and just finished YCS19 with the goal of closing the gap between Facebook/Mastadon, Medium/yourBlog, Minecraft.com and a docker image...

And you’re totally correct about renting home server “boxes” too - except most house holds already have plenty of compute and connectivity - it’s just that installing / managing server software is completely out of reach to most people (and some developers!). It doesn’t need to be grandmas running router software - just the family nerd able to create on the internet again - and reliable enough software you’d actually invite grandma to signup!
This seems like the kind of fact that would change over time.

The subset of people that get arrested and the means and incentives to get them to show up for trial have changed a lot over the years. Not to mention the nature of crime itself.
Yeah, literal QR codes made out of unicode box characters. That way it's just scanning a bunch of codes instead of trying to recreate them just to scan them.
> American's IMO value entertainment far more.

is there a country where this ins't true?
I’d like to know too. I’ve worn contacts since I was 12. Originally, non-disposable that I took out and cleaned every night. These were pretty good, but by the end of the year tended to get a bit ratty around the edges. It’s been too long to remember the quality of correction, but I know that contacts have always been better than glasses for me.

Then for years I wore the disposable, extended wear kind you can sleep in. Typically replaced every two to four weeks. Aside from dry eyes in the morning, these were by far the best.

They are not without risk and certainly not for everyone, but they had the highest manufacturing quality, were the most comfortable and seemed to me to provide the best correction.

For the last two years I’ve worn daily disposables. I think these are probably best for eye health since you’re not reusing one set over and over and not leaving them in for days on end, but they have the most variation between individual lenses. Sometimes I’ll get contacts that are instantly irritating. The next in the package will fit comfortably. Quality of correction varies every day too. This I just live with, as it’s not worth (to me) burning through them faster just because my distance vision isn’t as good as it could be today.

I’ve always used whatever brand my optometrist recommended (which I’m sure is whatever they’re being paid to promote). If there is some gold standard brand I should be asking for, I’d love to know.
Part of the problem I have noticed is people being brought up with the idea that a qualification is what is required to get a job when reality is usually far from the truth. It certainly might get you into the door more often that someone without but a common mindset is if I tick the qualifications boxes I will be given a job.

Tangentially related, this effects wage equality dissuasions as people get into the habit of comparing wages based on title and qualifications as opposed to value added to the company from your work. Some roles this happens to work ok for, but for lots of roles it just makes no sense, developers being a prime example.
I agree that people aren't looking for new social networks, but I do wonder about your view of disengaging from Facebook. I keep reading about it on HN but I'm not seeing it myself. I wonder if it's a US-centric view.
There's a mix of both. There are hardworking Americans - usually first- and second-generation immigrants and the older, wealthier families - that value education and hard work. And then there is the middle class, who was raised on entertainment, music, and media that romanticized apathy and disdain for education and the workplace. And there is the lower class, which has enough of its own struggles that I don't want to try to summarize their problems in just a sentence or two.

Either way, I do think that platforms like YouTube and Instagram give lots of influence to entrepreneurs - enough that Shark Tank started labeling some contestants as 'wanntrepreneurs' (wannabes) - and that the perceived value of self-driven diligence and the desire for intellect might become popular again. Actually, I think they already are starting to be popular again, especially among younger people.

> But American's have it in the their mind that the only way to gain skills is by going to a school and sitting in a classroom.

Ivory towers will come crumbling down in time.
Reminds one of the 90s and Akamai

It's a good move for netflix because

- side step net neutrality rules. If it's likely a tier one carrier will screw over your traffic, just store the important stuff with the tier two carriers...

- AWS is pricey what we way you look at it, and network costs can only go up. Amazon is a prime (!) competitor for streaming and it's a bad idea to put all
your eggs in your competitors basket

- Disney is coming over the hill. They have great content - i mean insanely great. But I bet Disney sucks rocks at hiring network SREs. They will get there eventually but if you want a huge differentiator between you and the House of Mouse, being the one without a spinning egg timer is pretty good - especially as there is no chance you can match their content.
Isn't the cumulative risk of complications from contacts similar to the risks of LASIK? Contacts increase the rate of eye infections and corneal ulcers. In some cases these issues lead to permanent damage, even blindness.
I've worn contacts for ~20 years. I've had gas-permeable 'rigid' contacts, extended-wear (acuvue2 / oasys) contacts (that I nonetheless was advised to remove every night), and recently I've switched to daily / disposable contacts.

The gas-permeable ones were from ye olden times, I don't think most people need to bother with those anymore because materials for soft lenses these days admit much more oxygen. They were also by far the least comfortable.

The extended wear ones were an amazing transition after the previous ones. Barring manufacturing irregularities in any particular contact lens, a few seconds after they're in your eye, you can genuinely forget that they're there. My issue with these was mostly psychological: removing them every night and cleaning them proved to be annoying enough that I would justify just sleeping in them for one night. The second day was much more uncomfortable (dryness mostly). Subsequent days would be miserable, but I seldom made it all the way through day two.

I finally switched to dailies and they are even thinner (read: more comfortable), and it's effortless to take them out and switch to glasses when I'm ready for bed, so I very very seldom end up sleeping in them. (Also, if one happens to fall on the ground or get torn, it's not like you're losing a week's worth of wear on it, you were going to throw it away anyway that night. Just having that peace of mind is nice.) Finally, when traveling, I don't have to pack the travel size contact lens solution and lens case, I just bring however many days' worth of lenses (they come individually packaged). It's been amazing and I recommend it.

If the thought of having something in your eye seems weird, maybe try a trial set. Optometrists (at least all the ones I've used here in the US) will give you a pair of extended wear lenses or roughly a 10-pack of dailies to try out, so that you know how they are before you commit to a year's supply. They'll also generally coach you on inserting/removing. It was awkward for the first month but now it's just a part of my routine.
when you are smart and don't have a need to prove others how smart you are - you will end up just enjoying your life in full [by playing video games]
Good effort, but...

This will not help you get product-market fit.

Product-market fit is about careful user segmentation and need/pain assessment, followed by product positioning. None of which this approach helps with.

This app is just a potpourri of feedback and a popularity contest without understanding WHO you should listen to and WHO you should ignore and WHY.

The creators of this app need to do more research on how to achieve product-market fit if that's what they're going to use as the pitch.
>How much would I have to pay you to borrow your passport to set up a seller account?

My passport would be useless, because I was banned from Amazon after dozens of frivolous complaints by a competitor, who I'm currently suing. I've discussed that elsewhere.

Having talked to many US sellers who operate multiple accounts, some of them dozens, I stand behind my claim that it's pretty easy for determined sellers to run multiple stealth accounts.

>I really don't know what to say other than that this is patently false. It really appears you do not know what you're talking about.

I've heard from plenty of people who got suspended for opening another account after suspension, without going through all the effort to cloak it. It's clear that Amazon enforces that, if they know about it. When duplicate accounts aren't suspended, it's because Amazon doesn't know, or is unable to prove it enough to justify a suspension.

Of course there's a both a false positive and false negative rate. But the claim that Amazon doesn't care about this is wrong. Just in the last year they started enforcing ID verification on all new signups, in large part to make it more difficult to open multiple accounts.
> I find the argument that "there There is no shortage if you pay enough" so entitled and arrogant. The high-tech industry is already paying salaries, that most any other professions would kill for. So what is that "magic number" when your blue-collar guy will hang up his hard-hat and switch to coding?

You do realize there's other high paying industries besides software engineering, right? It's not like your choices are learning to code or working at Arby's.

It's really not entitlement, it's simply people who believe that the labor pool has market-like characteristics. During recessions and downturns this certainly is used as a reason to do hiring freezes, cut pay, and lay people off. So if the labor pool acts like a market during a surplus, how could it be arrogant to assume it loosely follows those rules during a shortage; where wages should be pushed upward?

My own view is that there is no true technology labor shortage, just that technology companies are still in the process of figuring out how to maximize the productivity of their technology teams outside of "Make them work longer hours" Better decision making, better working environments for technology contributors, and more focus on nurturing technology manager talent could significantly increase productivity IMO.
It's important to point out that he was basically emotionally abused by researchers (apparently paid in part by the government) and never really recovered from it. Also that his manifesto (and later works, while in prison) are genuine works of philosophy by a person who really shouldn't ever be let out into society again. Kaczynski is a really interesting guy.
Simplified: positive feedback loops increase things (plus); negative feedback loops decrease things (minus). Negative feedback can be good because it can reduce bad things, whereas positive feedback can be bad because it can increase bad things. But you can also reduce bad things, or increase good things.
Human Factors in Software Engineering
Both the Republicans and Democrats support job-retraining programs, and some do already exist for a few decades now. It's not clear they have much of a track record of success, though, and they've gotten a pretty bad reputation as a result. Proposing "more job retraining" nowadays as your solution is just met by cynicism.

The Democrats did lean for a bit towards offering something stronger, but proposals like universal health insurance were voted down by the centrist/neoliberal faction in internal party politics, and didn't make it into the 2016 platform. It definitely wasn't a focus of the campaign either, which somewhat infamously chose to write off blue-collar voters and try to win by flipping moderate Republicans in affluent suburbs instead (Chuck Schumer articulated the strategy as, "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia").
How does it avoid that problem?

The lambda doesn't help me understand what that part actually does any more than calling the function "foo_helper" or "foo_partN" or something like that would do.
> One big problem with the plan, which a lot of people don't realize, is that your typical university math degree isn't that much more challenging than doing well in high school math.

That wasn't my experience. (I went to a top liberal arts college - it didn't give minors, but I took enough math courses that it would've been a minor at other schools.)

In my experience, post-calculus college-level math is qualitatively different from high-school math in focusing on proofs and abstractions over problem-solving, techniques & algorithms. I had an intuitive sense for high-school math. College math kicked my ass, because I was asked to prove everything rigorously, and the proofs just kept coming, dozens of them per homework assignment. That required a very different way of thinking than high-school math did: you needed to remember this large body of theorems and combine them in creative ways to derive new proofs, you couldn't just memorize recipes and techniques that will get you the answer.

I found that physics was more like the continuation of high-school math, except that then your courses had all this lab work and experiment design and fundamental physical principles. One of my friends (a math/physics double major) described it like this: "In physics vectors are objects that live in a vector space, while in math a vector space is a set of axioms from which the concept of a vector and rules for manipulating them naturally fall out."

Edit: hmm, just looked at the username. I know you, and I also know you're better at math than I am. I'm curious just what kind of math you did in high school and what you did in college where the college math was no harder than high school. Either your high school had some really great math courses or your college had some pretty shitty ones. Maybe it's just where we went to school.
I prefer meetings with just one clearly defined purpose that all participants agree is worth having a meeting for. Like "what are you currently working on?" (the daily stand-up), "what are we going to do this next sprint?" (the planning), "what is the best way to fix this problem we have?", "where do we want to be in 3 (or 6) months?".

As soon as there's more than one point on te agenda, the meeting is going to be a drag for half the participants.

(Of course that single purpose often still requires prep from the organiser and/or other participants.)
Well the idea is they plug the box in at home, and the box is the server that contains all their shared data (photos, etc.) and lets them control how it's shared with others. Sure, they can access it from their phone, but the phone wouldn't be the server. The whole idea is that each user has control over their own data, instead of just handing it over to some big tech company.
I completely agree. I'll be jumping on the PineTab as soon as it's available, but I'd love to get one with >= 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB storage.
I don't think it's that difficult, but I think people spend way too much time arguing about the last half of the syllabus (what we should be teaching high schoolers) and ignoring the fact that a quarter or a third of students aren't even making it past the very beginning of the syllabus. It's like, arguing whether a kid should focus on computer science or Shakespeare, when the kid can't read. And obviously, there are tons of kids who are at the point of choosing between CS and Shakespeare, but it just seems like such enormous low hanging fruit to just make sure that everyone in the world can read and do basic arithmetic.
Mostly the local oversight of the local force. The overly cozy arrangement just invites corruption.
Exactly. It's almost like a peering relationship between providers but in this instance netflix is not directly connected to the ISP so wouldn't be paying the ISP for bandwidth used by their customers accessing netflix. It definitely saves the ISP a lot of bandwidth cost
Or perhaps we have a society that does not give these people a meaningful place.
If the organ donation data is cooked, imagine the incentive to massage market moving data like GDP, industrial production, inflation....
Not sure where you heard that. Submarine duty is considered prestigious in the US Navy and most people who serve aboard a submarine wouldn't be rated for (or even interested in) pilot duty.
I just scored a monochrome laser printer at Goodwill on my lunch break for $2.50. Of course I rounded up to help the community, so it was really $3.00. Still has a toner cartridge in it. I have 10 days to return it, not 7. It doesn't have a network port on it, but I have an old ethernet-to-parallel-port adapter to put to use for that. Now the question will be, how will I justify ever buying toner for this when the toner will be much greater in cost than the printer, but that's a problem for another day.
And how is HN not social?
Why so much money?

At scale, nowhere near $12.99 / month is needed.
It's certainly becoming a more and more popular perspective with my demographic (20-something's in the UK). Most people haven't quite checked out just yet, but mainly use facebook for messenger and events, and are generally becoming:

1. Disengaged with the platform
2. Concerned about how much it knows about our lives

In the last few months, I've seen this go from something that only techies cared about to an increasingly mainstream point of view.
I enjoy some of the content I find on Instagram from interesting individuals and companies. But for me the value of Facebook is its ubiquity - nothing comes close to it for being able to contact old friends from other countries, from schools, from various social circles, etc.

And for that reason the "quietly launched" thing here kinds of defeats the point of any Facebook rival for me.
That's how the US Government defines it.

If you want a US Visa you need to tell them your HK account.
comments, users, status points determined by a community... it's not just comments.
Complaints of that sort aren't really rare, but they don't carry much weight. The issue is minor enough that few people are going to refuse to elect or reelect anyone based on it (generally speaking -- there have been instances where the problem had grown so egregious that it caused general uproar leading to some restrictions), and cities both make money from the practice and are constantly lobbied to expand it.
There are some categories of product I'm no longer willing to buy from Amazon: power cables, replacement chargers and batteries being the biggest offenders. They're such a minefield of fakery and shortcuts that are outright dangerous (e.g. UK plugs lacking fuses and with pins the wrong shape/size) that I'd rather have the extra work and expense of going to a local shop where I can inspect what I'm buying.
At this point we are diverging almost entirely from questions about whether AI is biased, and more about whether AI is cost effective.

The allegations of bias in AI are frequently about inter-grouo differences in things like job advertisement, credit ratings, parole decisions, etc. which are not explicitly political but the allegations of often political in nature.

Sure, there's not much controversial about predicting tumor growth. But are the allegations of bias in AI about models predicting tumor growth? No, they're usually about the topics I listed above.
More of the funding needs to go towards teacher salaries, in the first place. They start on $18 an hour here, you can make more in a call center with no responsibilities.

Also, we spend a lot, however it's extremely unevenly distributed making it much more likely the scenario we're discussing comes about (someone making it through school without a useful education).
That article seems to incorrectly say it's a (mandatory) subscription model: Wales' tweets say donation-based.
TikTok is a great example of people being willing to join new social media but it's a niche social media app compared to fb/twitter... and in a lot of ways fills a void that Vine left, so i agree but think it's kind of an exception right now
I have a fairly large network of friends that existed before FB really had wide adoption. The platform they were on eventually died in favor of facebook.

At this point, I'd like to preserve that network of friends independent of facebook and most of those folks feel similarly. In that sense, there is at least some demand for a social network that isn't evil.
What if we built solar farms on top of car dealership lots that doubled as a canopy? Canopy + energy. I wonder if anybody has done that yet.
Apple bans vaping apps from the App Store
I was one of these children. In hindsight, I think it damages your development in many ways to the detriment of long-term outcomes. The unfortunate environment and instability of my childhood living situation, which ultimately derailed the "child prodigy" track, may have put me in a better position to actualize my abilities despite the obvious negatives at the time. I knew a couple other kids like me that stayed on that track, none had great outcomes.

The intense focus on academic learning does very little to prepare you for being a productive human out in the real world, which is tacitly a part of the environment normal kids grow up in. That many of these kids are dropped into the real world even earlier than their age peers due to accelerated schooling just compounds this.

One the upside, one elementary school that had no idea how to teach me sat me in front of a computer and left me to my own devices. So I taught myself to program.
It's also low compared to the farmers around here which do quite well in good years

It seems unfair to look at a farmer's peak income and say that they are doing well. Of my 5 uncles that owned farms, all but one had to give up their farms because they couldn't make a living -- now they work on corporate owned farms (which includes their former land) for mid-range pay for the area (which is much lower than tech-industry pay). A few lean years can put a farmer so under water that they can't recover.

The one uncle that still runs his farm (well, he's mostly retired now, his daughter and her husband do most of the work) managed to survive because he had two strokes of luck - he sold some land to a developer for a good profit and he has some natural gas wells on his property, as part of the "rent" for the well, he gets free gas so his energy cost is nearly zero for as long as those wells keep producing.
How could you not hear from a former close friend in 30 years? Is the implication that she is dead? That’s a timespan equal to almost my whole life.