skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, great catch! I’m admittedly nowhere near an expert in this regard. I was looking at the US Discretionary spending budget, and mistakenly thought that was representative of the total budget

I was looking at the discretionary budget breakdown: https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0070_discretionary_spendi...
> non-free people (slaves) do not have freedom

Yes, that's what being a slave is.

> The tautology is

I still don't know what you're trying to say here. Do you think that all slave-holding states had a strong belief in individual liberty? Saudi Arabia is a good counter-example, not much tradition of writing tracts about the virtues of greek democracy there. No, the princelings sure jump when the big man says jump.

When people say that the Cavaliers were into individual liberty, they aren't saying the blindingly obvious fact that non-slaves generally preferred not to be enslaved.
This is a beautiful post and while it wasn't addressed to me, it struck an emotional chord in me. I don't think its intended recipient feels the same way, but that's OK. Thank you for saying this.
So? My point is that this isn't some scrappy startup that's desperate for funds.
$600? Every time I’ve ever seen anyone talk about getting lines run for rural internet, the price starts at tens of thousands even if there is a line nearby already.
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Generally speaking this remains true in government contracting as well. Back when I used to work in that sphere the government always went for the lowest bidder. This is usually billed as a way for the government to be fiscally responsible but usually the result is that they get back poor software with the contractor embedding themselves deep into the design and a huge pricetag on actually fixing the damn thing.

That among many other issues is where I realized that the way competition works in this scenario simply doesn't work when the incentive is to keep yourself and your company on the government's payroll rather than write quality software.
Well, let's suppose it's 1900, and you live in a small town somewhere in the US. You slap someone in a moment of uncontrolled anger. How long would that follow you? The rest of your life, unless you leave town. That single slap could destroy your life.

So I think that the "digital permanent record" removes the anonymity of the big city, and returns us to small town rules.
The USPS is fantastically more efficient than private mail. The entire insurance industry relies on Medicare to even begin negotiating prices. Even Amtrak, for all its faults, is far better at providing service than private trains.

In other countries, where foolish attempts to involve predatory private industry or outright hamstring government programs, state-owned enterprise is even better. Healthcare, trains, power- all drastically outcompete private industry. Not to mention the fact that in-house military hardware is years ahead of industry stuff.

There is nothing that makes governments less efficient than private industry. At every level, people are getting paid based on the job they do. People are fired if they are a waste. The only argument of perverse incentives that makes any sense is that the things governments do are not necessarily needed, not that they aren't done well.

The idea that the government doesn't operate well is a complete myth.
I see your point. But those platforms (while flawed) are operating legally, under their own volition, without direction from the United States Government.

If the USG were to order Twitter to take down X person's tweets because it hurt someone's feelers, that would be a clear violation of the first amendment.

Additionally we have a strong legal precedent of not permitting "compelled speech". Plainly put, they can't force you to label your own Facebook posts with your opponents claims as well.

I am totally on your side that these few companies are in far too much control. But they aren't the USG, or compelled to block/force-speech on their behalf.
Yeah, it's always embarrassing to read topics like this and remember that, for the most part, the people in your field are basically braindead codemonkeys.
Finally the solution to all of your PyTorch citation problems! :)
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they (basically) applied the ideas from a bot that plays poker to another game. it's interesting work, though perhaps not groundbreaking.

This idea of selfplay + counterfactual regret minimization does seem to be the superior way to solve game theoretic problems. Identifying valuable game theoretic problems remains a challenge...
I tried enterprise sales and then realized enterprise sales are really hard so I moved what I had to see how consumers reacted to it. I've had better results from just talking to programmers and I'm not really sure what to do with it.

I am very open to suggestions, appreciate you trying it out btw :)
Re. Flipping images I actually experienced it first hand. I live in continental Europe where cars are driven on the right side of the road.

A few years ago, I spent a week in southwest England, with my car. Upon arrival, driving on the left and passing on the right felt weird, but after a few minutes of practice on the highway, I was starting to get good driving sensations... then the weirdest thing happened: for a brief moment, I experienced the text on road signs and license plates as mirrored. My brain had gone overboard and flipped the whole scene :-). Then It quickly subsided and I went on to discover the fair weather of Cornwall.
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Yes, but for whatever reason, no wireless connection is as good as a wired connection today, and as far as I know, wired will still be superior to wireless for a long time.
> These open source projects certainly love the very high quality, free services Github offers them

Hopefully this argument will die soon. You don't hear anyone talking about how Google should be treated as a charity because the price of their search engine and YouTube is $0. Nor do you hear it about Facebook. Nor do you hear it about any other marketing campaigns by anyone else. That's their business model. What really bugs me when someone says this about Github is that Github added closed infrastructure on top of an open source project. Without open source projects giving them the product and then the free marketing, they sure as hell wouldn't have sold for $7.5 billion. Open source projects don't also have to be forever in the debt of Github as well, do they?

I'm not going to comment on the rest of your argument, but your opening sentence is really weak.
This is a great way to look at it. Repetitive meeting is definitely foundational to building relationships. Activities that involve some sort of accomplishment or triumph especially, like BJJ for you.

I didn't really put that together until now, but you're totally right. As a CS student, I've had group projects that involve regular meetings and a large project is developed over the course of a semester. Seeing my team mates constantly helps form bonds, but the wins and triumphs are probably the most influential.

I still remember submitting a project in the library at 2am and cheering that we were finally done. We got together for pizza and video games later that week for a more formal celebration.
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought I heard somewhere along the line that Uber actually makes money on Eats, am I mistaken?

Also as a separate point, I worked for an on-demand food startup, and I remember our founders talking about a local entrepreneur they knew who rented a single commissary, was operating white labeled brands on the delivery platforms, and was highly profitable.

Almost makes me think the delivery platforms could have a Shopify-type effect for traditional restaurateurs and it will be interesting to see the business models that unfold as a result.
Sometimes those are FF bugs (or "bugs", but FF wants to fix them anyway), and you can report them to the firefox-run https://webcompat.com through the menu.

> People expect websites to work regardless of the device or browser they are using. When a site works in one browser but not another, that is most likely a web compatibility bug that we want to know about.

I reported an inline-svg rendering bug in FF preview. It only took a minute or two, and a volunteer responding within a day that they had replicated the problem and moved it to a Github issue, which frankly amazed me.
White turmeric is great to treat any sort of inflammation on skin or internal. Completely kills off abscess.
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> The only ones trying to enforce political opinions on software development are those who claim the status quo is broken.

Well... them, and those who claim the status quo is working.

The room does not disappear when you close your eyes, and a randomly wired neural network still has bias.[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970937
I deduce from your post that you have very little experience in teaching people at the level of beginning algebra. And while one might know geometrically what a parabola is there is a lot one must know before dealing with parabolas algebraically. I suggest that these things appear easy and obvious because you already know them and that you no longer remember what is hard for people learning this stuff for the first time.

I don’t show conic sections in elementary algebra. One typically really mentions the phrase “conic section” is pre-calculus which is 3 courses after elementary algebra. Over the past few centuries the order in which concepts are introduced has been developed. It’s not perfect but one should not be so quick to discount the way things are done without knowledge/experience in presenting these ideas to beginning students.
First time I ever come across this sentiment and I can totally see your point, thank you for taking the time to write this out.
Opposition to a political opinion is a valid political opinion.

You should lose your livelihood for having this political opinion is another valid political opinion, however distasteful.

However, there’s a big problem if you’re guaranteed to lose your livelihood when a handful of vocal individuals who otherwise have no associations with you whatsoever hold the aforementioned opinion.

Let’s just hope you’re never on the receiving end of it.
For what it is worth. I've been taking this medicine for the last 2 decades. It was only recently made available in Canada and Italy. It's available in no other countries.

It's not zero sum, but there absolutely are tradeoffs and everyone championing the national healthcare model used in countries like Canada and those in Europe are being willfully blind to the collateral damage to US-developed medical innovation.

When thousands of people die because treatment doesn't even exist for them, where is that accounted for? My father has a disease that he is likely going to die from and most of the research done on that disease is done in the US and almost everything I read on this disease is published by US-based researchers.
Excellent point. I had a philosophy professor who let us know that it was neither his position nor purpose to indoctrinate us regarding the soundness of ideas. He very consistently stuck to his guns and gave every argument presented to the class the the best treatment he could, and no one ever figured out what position he took personally on any of them.

I asked if he did not consider the purely rational method he embodied a form of indoctrination itself. He smiled, and very considerately ceded the point that it might very well be the case and that if so, he was not aware of it.

All my other philosophy professors were folks who - for some reason - became angry when asked questions like that.
It's not meaningful.

a) It's not even true. I pointed to a literal policy for this administration, which has been absolutely central to the controversy.

b) Even if it were the case, your issue is with the media, not the protestors. If I find out tomorrow that there's a problem, it is not really important to me that the problem began under X or Y administration, but that it persists under the current one.

c) You claim simultaneously that the media is biased and only covering the topic now, but then somehow blame people for only learning about the issue and caring about it now. Your issue is with the media, and that's fine, but it's not relevant to this at all. If you want to put the media on blast go nuts, this topic has nothing to do with the media or this administration.
Observation: People are dangerous(powerful?) when they have nothing left to lose.
I am curious what you have to say about actuaries.
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I think that in general, if there are predictable consequences to an action I take, I have some moral responsibility for those consequences. Don't you?
Installed this on a few sites I run, its really seems like exactly what I want for simple "is anyone viewing this page" type of info. I had previously left GA and analytics all together around the time GDPR passed.

One question, does this plugin have the ability to filter out traffic from web crawlers? The sites I run are low volume, so a non-trivial amount of traffic comes from crawlers and other bots.
In one ear and out the other. Bury your head all you like.
Is this what session types are aiming to resolve?
I lived in Santa Barbara for the last 15 years. Hispanic culture definitely dominates in the area.
Those have nothing to do with Starlink.
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>Hate speech must be protected speech

Hate speech, is protected speech.

If the government has, in any manner, infringed on your Freedom of Expression, Speech, and/or Association, get in touch with your local ACLU affiliate.

https://www.aclu.org/about/affiliates?redirect=affiliates

There are people there who can help you not only with "next steps", but throughout the entire process.

But please realize, they can't help you get your twitter account back, because Twitter has rights too.
I've used a brand of herbal tea called Traditional Medicinals Throat Coat which worked great at reducing my symptoms of a soar throat and/or itchy throat (not sure on the medical name for itchy throat...)

Also, fisherman's friend.
Woah. Galloway bought $10m worth of Twitter shares and is demanding Dorsey's ouster by board!
Ohh no! Human to human connections are far too important to maintain in today's glocalized world.
I suspect it varies a lot by region,here in NW Oregon we don't really need very deepwells and we used composting toilets so our septic system was really underutilized.
What's embarrassing is the pervasive desire to insist on the moral superiority of being unaware of second-order effects.

We're more than happy to debug nearly endless stack traces, but tracing the stack of our customers' and suppliers is, somehow, a threat to the foundations of our identity as good people, purely vocational talent.

We're too steeped in the California Ideology [1].

1. https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideo...
I've heard repeatedly that California in particular does not have enough engineering staff to manage contractors for state projects. That's a result of the US's obsession with neoliberal economics which sees those people are a waste of money and an impediment to getting things done.

My dad worked for the government doing management and oversight. It takes a lot of work to evaluate and reject bad low ball bids. Even more work to create bids that you can hold contractors to and to weed out shysters.
As with most context-free statistics, this seems to be more complicated that it initially appears.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/a6e5mm/and_women_c...

> Men used it a ton more and women didn’t because they didn’t have to since men mostly did the reaching out. Basically men and women used the rating system differently.

> Also the study the data came from stated that despite the ratings, women consistently messaged both guys they ranked attractive and guys they ranked below average, while men consistently ONLY messaged the women they ranked absolutely topmost. Thus demonstrating that the messaging habits of the sexes are the reverse of the rating data.
I'll be happy when it gets there. My city has a pretty solid food truck market, and their food is usually unique and delicious. But I've also seen an increase on grubhub of generic shop names like "Flatbread" and "Fried Chicken" with addresses that don't seem to make sense.
As a concept this seems to make a lot of sense to me. A restaurant actually seems like the worst place to prepare food meant for delivery. I think of my local taco place which usually has a line of Door Dash, Postmates, and Uber Eats drivers out the door while people are trying to order.

I am curious how this article relates to Cloud Kitchens[1] the Travis Kalanick startup because I am skeptical they arrived at the same name out of coincidence.

[1] https://www.cloudkitchens.com/
He is not telling you to "be grateful for [your] suffering." You are projecting a bit here or otherwise reading into it the wrong way. He is saying that despite your ongoing issue with your eyesight (and I am sorry to hear that), you are much more than that. What would happen if you met a funny, cute, good-spirited woman that was stuck in a self-defeating thought loop and letting a health issue define her outlook and worldview? I think it would make her less fun and less attractive and would more or less be awkward. I've been struggling with depression and anxiety for 15 years and haven't dated anyone since 2015 and can't afford therapy to "fix" this stuff, but as parent suggested, a change in perspective can be extremely potent.
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There are numerous feasibility studies in regards to high speed rail system connecting the Pacific NW corridor. You can go see for yourself. Just because you build a rail network doesn’t mean people will stop driving cars. In fact, proliferation of autonomous cars eliminates any prospect of high speed rail in the US. We are talking about investing in a system that could be made obsolete in 20 years.
Source? From October 2014:

> The automaker says that by 2020, the factory will be shipping out 35GWh of cells and 50GWh of packs per year.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/panasonic-to-pour-billions-of-...
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Moovit (for example) has coverage of public transit in both of these countries. So even in that area there are alternatives for Google.
The plugin issues a tracking request using a tiny client-side JS script, so most of those bots will already be omitted (as lots will most likely not be executing JavaScript or have `navigator.doNotTrack` enabled).

That said, I believe some of the smarter ones may still be tracked right now so I will add some user agent filtering to the script to make sure they aren't!
"as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity"

In other words, if you employ people with little knowledge, the cost of getting anything done approaches infinity.
Just look at any major government IT project for proof of this theorem.
I’m glad a political candidate is talking about this. In my town and many others, there is only one cable provider and they suck
The Mozilla person who marked this wontfix summed it up pretty well, in my opinion:

> hi, the distribution folder is a way for third-parties to bundle/modify the browser - when a user is paving over a firefox installation with a setup file provided by mozilla, the assumption/signal is, that they want to receive the plain unmodified version of firefox. that's why the distribution folder is getting removed by default.
this is the documented behaviour and if you want to keep the distribution in place when using an installer from mozilla, you'd have to run it with the /RemoveDistributionDir=false parameter: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/installer/wi...

> so i assume this bug is a wontfix...
I'm not trying to use a 'gotcha'. This isn't an argument from authority, I'm trying to use my experience as a vehicle for understanding one facet of this topic.

My fundamental point is simply that failure is a matter of goals. For startup founders failure is something you are likely going to think about constantly as you ramp up to deciding to quit your job and put your idea out there, and that's a waste of time, and it's due to conflating different failures.

Once you move past that point, and start taking on more responsibilities, your goals have to shift if you're any kind of ethical person. While early employees may be willing to take on a lot of risk, and are fundamentally responsible for the choice to come on, it would be, as you said sociopathic, not to feel any kind of responsibility.

I think, given this statement, we likely agree? But then you criticized the article for being too "Feel good", which I think is a mistake. Yes it is "feel good", but maybe it's hard to understand why you need to frame things that way when you're putting yourself out there like this.
The honor system doesn't work at scale. A small percentage of the population are kleptomaniacs or desperate for their next hit and there isn't an easy way to filter them out. Even with small groups you are playing the odds.

The only thing keeping the stores in the article in business is that they stock only a relatively small amount of cheap merchandise with no secondary market. Their total liability is so low that it's cheaper than hiring staff.
>but like everyone else I’ve had my share of obvious beliefs turn out to be false.

Refreshing candor! Wish it held true that more people saw it through to discover their obvious truths didn't hold up.
OP here- we’ve been working on this offering for a while now. The data available on StackShare has always been one of the most interesting aspects of what we’re building. We’ve generally stayed away from offering an API because we weren’t sure how we wanted to offer it and exactly what we wanted to offer. I mentioned this on Product Hunt yesterday- the last thing we wanted to do was open it up as a free service and then have to shut it down once it was time to start monetizing. So we decided to do this sustainably from the start; for the beta, we’re offering the API as a paid service.
The public data you see when browsing stackshare.io is a small fraction of what you get via the new API. We’ve built our own scrapers and crawling infrastructure to figure out the backend technologies companies are using via public sources and combined that with the technology graph we had already built up to create one high quality dataset. We tell you how/where we get all the data that we serve up and we have a lot more backend technologies than most other similar APIs.

We’d love to hear your feedback!
Calling the interning of over 1 million people an attempt at unification is blatant astroturfing and is wildly and viciously wrong.
> the article said that one square meter of the membrane could power 400 homes

The article was updated to correct this number, it was actually 3 instead of 400.