skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good illustration of why it matters to be aware of what your sample sets are, especially in the case of using machine learning / automation in regards to things that have a very high likelihood of impacting human rights.

To be honest, I don't think our understanding of these systems is mature enough for us to be just throwing them out into our societal systems right now. There needs to be a lot more testing because the possibility of unethical results is pretty damn high.

That said, I still think that the concept of structural racism is a bad way to look at this problem, as it's simply one form of a common error when looking at sample sets.
It's not complicated. Wealth has been stripped from the people and is now held primarily by a few oligarchs. Much competition is fake. The bargaining power of workers is constantly undermined by monopolies and exploitation of overseas labor often working in inhumane conditions for meager pay.

It seems like we live in a post reason world. The reason for all this despair is right in front of everyone's face, but they refuse to acknowledge it: corruption. This corruption will not back down and our government has ceased to represent the people.

I hear people like you speak all the time. You are so insulated from the people of this nation it seems. You are probably in some ivory tower somewhere. You probably don't know that there are militias forming all over the nation or that the American people have a larger arsenal in terms of guns than any army in the world.

It's clear to me now that all the surveillance and reduction of freedoms pushed through after 9/11 was in preparation for the inevitable uprising the government is anticipating. Patriotic citizens may be pushed to a point where they become terrorists. Everyone wants to live in peace, but they keep pushing down on our throats. There will be a breaking point where people snap.

I pray things can be turned around politically. I don't advocate violence and hope it never comes to that.

Edit: A recent article by Chris Hedges that outlines the pilfering of the people in brief: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-great-american-shakedo...
A bug?

So how many stories don't get through. Is it that tricky to get a feed of stories and match them up with items appearing in the newsfeed?

If its not going through you go back and check to see where the story is lost. I've done this on websites I was supporting, finding that people copying and pasting from PDF seem to have picked up a number of unicode control characters that hadn't been rinsed out when stored in SQL, and caused the web API to splutter.

This was for item records clients were paying for so dropping records looks a bit naff.

Enough of me though, dare I say it News has just one job, to show news.
What Do People Die From?
> ...some people are really bothered by structural or technical problems in storytelling...and others don't seem to notice at all.

Good point. I was just thinking this while reading reviews from people who loved/hated Haruki Murakami's 1Q84. Some people focus on language/affect and others on plot/information.
It doesn't matter that a business isn't making a business decision based on altruism. What matters is that the incentives of the users are aligned with those of the business
> the program literally pays for itself (and more!) via increased income taxes from parents that would have otherwise chosen to stay at home.

Getting around 50-80k of untaxed labor value for the household is an excellent reason for any family that can manage to have one parent do the childcare job. It’s not so much an affordability issue as it is a cash flow management issue.
It's fair game, that is why competition is healthy. If other companies don't try other formulas you end up with having all tech companies be ran by ad revenue.
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Or we could just subsidize parents and let them choose how best to use the subsidy to provide for their kids.
Dull SF written in the 40s I suppose. Even super hard SF will only go on about the one crucial scientific plot point. Boring is boring in any genre.

This particular SF story could of been jazzed up with more exposition about Ann's body.
And the root cause: "I'd let my wife stay home but the returns on my labour have diminished so much in the past 50 years that she has to work too."
YMMV, but the local culture is a lot less friendly than some other places. Not that NYC is necessarily better.
The fact that things change doesn't mean that a single person can expect to change things.
Sonoff switches and plugs already cost less than $5, and they're all flashable with extremely good open source firmware. It's a great time to be a home automation hobbyist.
I can think of plenty of tasks where a 2009 frontend will potentially be exposed to workloads in the 10k-100k elements range:

* Editing objects in a 3D scene(e.g. a AAA open-world game or a CGI film)

* Plotting events in a long-running log on a graph

* Scraping and presenting data from web sources

The common thread here is that you have most of your data in application memory but not necessarily in a formal database system, and so you shoulder the full burden of managing it properly. In most cases the solution is to define a real backend and filter it there, paginate or otherwise reduce the amount that gets presented because data at that scale won't be usable by humans to begin with. But sometimes you do have a reason to explicitly want a "big list of everything," and equally as often you end up with the big list of everything just by accident. It just comes with the territory of report generation tasks.
The Lie That Helped Build Nintendo
Depending on your entrepreneurial skills, being a hairdresser can be a lot more profitable than you’d think. My wife’s hair dresser does exemplary work and has a terrific reputation in our area. She earns about $165 for an hour and a half worth of work, works ten hours a day, and is booked solid every day of the week three months out. This is in Texas, where the cost of living is not that high and I would guess she easily grossed around $200k+ last year alone. Yeah, if you just want to clock in and out at Great Clips and not be the best you can be, then it’s not a high paying profession, but for people that invest in their skills and learn how to market and build a solid client base, it’s actually crazy how much money some of them can make. I was very surprised by it.
> "For example, I would have liked to get an MBA or go to law school for fun, but those options are completely closed off. You absolutely must have a four-year degree."

an MBA curriculum is not materially different from that of a BA in business, so if you want the knowledge, just get the BA in business, which then also confers upon you the desired bachelor's degree in the process. an MBA doesn't really build up from an undergrad degree (vs. an engineering degree, for example).

the difference, of course, is that MBA-seekers will come in with work experience, have a professional network, be a little older, have a little more independence/focus, etc.
Bitter words of ex-employees.

Failed with Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...

Some people I knew bought Amazon shares after the NY Times piece came out.
Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans
That's super interesting, thanks for sharing! Would you mind posting a link or a two about the story of Doubi. I can't find much and would love to dig into this story.
Some authors do really think about how technological developments could change societies, and I love them for that.

I adore the Culture novels of Iain M. Banks, for example, while I only feel a moderately warm regard for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Both settings have roughly the same imaginary technologies: nigh-limitless energy, replicators, faster-than-light communications and transportation, teleportation, strong AI. They both started in 1987. But ST: TNG imagined a future society that was still easily recognizable in terms of social relations and behaviors. In the Culture, AIs make most of the big decisions while most people are (effectively) beloved pets of the AIs; people are also immortal, gleefully unemployed, regular users of recreational drugs, and biologically enhanced for pleasure as well as health and intelligence.

I really hope that Amazon doesn't file off the interesting parts of the Culture setting in their upcoming adaptation of Consider Phlebas. Dennis Kelly at least seems to appreciate the source material:

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/consider-phlebas-iain-m-ban...
>Separating San Jose and San Francisco obscures how much the Bay Area is dominating this data

Sort of...

Have you ever tried to commute to San Jose/Cupertino/Sunnyvale from, say, Walnut Creek, Pleasant hill, Richmond, etc..??

While they are all still in the greater SV orbit - commuting between many of the greater SV cities is a fucking nightmare.

BART, Caltrin, LightRails, Freeways, buses, etc -- are all disconnected and fucking suck.

I have turned down multiple positions in the south bay due to commuting and housing cost issues.

And if you don't think I know what I am talking about, my family is 5th generation San Franciscan, with family in Saratoga since 1959. I lived in San Jose an commuted to San Francisco from San Jose for over a decade - and lived all over.

My best commute ever was a bike+bus commute from Alameda Island to SF for almost a decade.

Worst commute was from Alameda to Sunnyvale.

The biggest problem with SV is transit first, housing second.

So to treat San Jose and San Francisco as if they were different freaking states, is to me, fair play.
you know as well as I do that zip codes are more heritable than IQ

and predict results pretty well too
IKEA instructions come very close to LEGO instructions in terms of clarity.
The Olympics are a political event, not a sport event.
Now I'm wondering if sheLL is a special thing or if you just held the shift key down by accident. Sadly you can't easily do a case sensitive search so I can't figure it out.

But either way, that seems like a good idea.
Most jobs require doing stuff, which generally requires being healthy.
Apologies for sounding flippant: this sounds like a good opportunity for someone to build tools that use wireguard as a foundation to achieve what you want.
I agree. From what I understand this is the DDG model. I don’t hate ads, sometimes they’re even helpful, but I do hate being tracked.
It’s always struck me as strange. Working for a boss that doesn’t care about you past the next review is liberating, but working for a family that loves you more than anything is oppressive.
Or 'Fields of the Nephilim', giants of prog-goth, as well as the sole exemplars?
Very neat project, congratulations on seeing it through. Note that being able to sort down to single parts is less useful than it may seem simply because of the number of passes required and that you'll likely reach your 'universal' stage a lot earlier simply because neural nets are good at classifying stuff they've never seen before as long as enough of the bits and pieces match.

How long does it run between fixes? How many kg of lego have you put through it?

Beware of lots people that will bug you to give them all your work, to this day not a week goes by that someone contacts me with a thinly veiled request to get a copy of the hard parts 'just for their personal curiosity' and then when you search for a bit on Google you'll find them associated with large parts resellers.

Highly annoying.

Best of luck with your project, curious about what you'll do next with it.
Had a guy mining Monero on his. Didn't find out until he left.

Tacky, considering the kinds of salary this field draws.
Bernie Sanders sweeping broadband plan dubs highspeed internet basic human right
Been using signal since textsecure I think (I even think there was another name before that). In all that time, one thing keeps me thinking about backing out: phone numbers. When a contact decides to uninstall signal, I lose contact. Signal still thinks that the recipient has a signal account, and hence won't deliver messages via SMS.
I am not an accountant and may be wrong, but if a US citizen exchanges $1000 USD to euro, and then euro appreciates 10%, and then they spend that euro to make a purchase, I was under the impression that that purchase is not subject to capital gains. Exchanging back to USD would be, but I thought currency classification exempted cap gains on purchases of goods and services.

Am I wrong? Have never held any significant amount of foreign currency, so have never dealt with this personally.
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> That might be a problem with your process, not with your tools.

"You're holding it wrong" is rarely a valid critique.

My process accumulates knowledge; the problem is that this knowledge is saved by bookmark managers as a set of dumb pointers. There must be a way to surface them, at a later date, in circumstances where I'm searching for the knowledge behind those pointers, rather than for the pointers themselves.

> Most browsers already do that with local bookmarks, to a degree.

The current stuff is just basic pattern matching. A real search engine would obviously work at a very different level.

I don't think it's a problem that browsers can solve alone, it's a feature that search engines should offer and currently don't (the only one I know that used to have a bookmark manager was Google, but I don't use it and I don't even know if it still has such a service). Or maybe bookmark managers should be smart enough to offer search capabilities so good that I can use them as the point of call for search (e.g. when I search among my bookmarks, as well as searching the actual pages behind those bookmarks, transparently integrate real search-engine results rather than saying "0 found").
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I think comms/broadcast degrees often are pointless. But in media, anything web/video and journalism focused was a solid career until very recently. Wages are dropping fast in that field. Social media and phones really took a chunk out of it. It feels like the collapse of newspapers all over again, especially in the TV sector.
> Men are suseptible to depression, but women especially so post-partum

Depression is actually much more prevalent in women, in general, need t just post-partum[0]. I've linked a single reference, but there really is a lot of evidence here (although I think men probably hide it more frequently than women, but that's just my unscientific opinion!).

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4478054/
You have to look at it as the companies buying ads pay more for users that are more likely to result in sales.

Exposure increases this value just by playing a numbers game; therefore, the larger the ad network, the more they can charge.

Targeting increases it more, by allowing companies to choose demographics more likely to be interested in their product, so again, they can charge more.

An interesting aside: While working as a mobile developer, I learned that many apps do not have an in-app-purchase to eliminate ads because it tanks the value of the in-app advertising. Why? Because the people most likely to drop $5 or $10 to not look at ads? They're the ones with the most expendable income, and therefore, users more likely to impulse purchase products advertised.

In other words: By allowing people willing to spend money to support the app, even if there is NO OTHER EVIDENCE they'd be interested in a product, decreases the value of your advertising.
Transmeta
This is exactly the problem. If he's in the middle of something and the reminder goes off, he silences the alarm and then forgets about it. I need a way to repeat the alarm if he hasn't taken the pills.
Native Montanan speaking here. I think the Montana equivalent to YC's "build something people want" is "build bars where people live." To do the opposite makes for a lot of slow afternoons.
Atom Land is pretty good, though there are some problems with the analogy. If you use it with the internet as a supplement and are a bit forgiving regarding bad analogies (as with PG essays), it's great.
I came across a vendor on eBay just the other day that sorted Legos into full Lego sets and sold those (sans mini-figs), with a link to the PDF instructions, and a warranty that they would send any missing parts.

I would suspect this is a nice little business selling 40% discounted complete Lego sets.
So what you are saying is that you trust Google more than a German/European company, where the laws are way more strict.

Enjoy 1 nut.

( Extreme comment fyi )
I went to an excellent college, and I don’t think public money should be spent on “the college experience.” It’s not like American college graduates are leaving well versed in the works of Aristotle. We’re talking about spending tax dollars subsidizing what is mostly drinking/sex/video games/partying, with someone occasionally picking up a shallow idea.
It's pretty disingenuous to call Austin a "flyover small town".

> Austin is the capital of Texas and the 11th largest city in the United States, and the 3rd largest state capital. The population of Austin is estimated at 964,254, which is an increase of more than 3% over the last census in 2010. [1]

Midwest cities are not viable Austin replacements. One of the many reasons for it's success is the University of Texas. It's a research university and one of the largest in the world. Add to that the fact that Austin has a pretty rich culture, temperate climate, and plenty to do; and now you have a place that people want to relocate to.

[1]: http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/austin-population...
There is a 0% chance that they weren't already planning on doing this before the article came out. You don't execute a CEO search in a week.
You are not billed by the "load balancer", you are billed by the "forwarding rule" which makes it very obvious that the infrastructure is shared and that you will have additional costs with every K8S ingress.
I actually like the idea of using Twilio instead of an alarm. A phone call is more likely to get him to act on it rather than a reminder on the phone. Thanks!
I have to agree - we are a society, not a corporation; should such decisions really be made on prospective income tax revenues?
The people who don't want rapid growth are the people who have experienced it. The people who do want growth are the ones who haven't experienced it. This seems unlikely to be a coincidence.
That's not how any of it works, as I just explained. Continue to use your adblocker or avoid sites that run ads.
Ok you could argue that’s more complex on the GBA.

I would argue otherwise; interfaces to other people’s stuff always are the most difficult parts of programming. When you do it yourself (3D projection etc.) it’s just you and reason and that’s not so bad.
Naive question: how would increase activity not strengthen the cardiovascular system?

If those muscles are still doing more work than baseline, how does it matter what is causing them to do so?
> I think many or most people certainly value “homemaking”

There is definitely a good sized segment of America that views homemaking as occupying some position below earning a salary. My wife (a homemaker) encounters this routinely among a certain set of career aspiring women.
Vista's importance in Windows history can't be overstated. It's regarded as a failure in the end but it provided a great baseline for the releases following it. Windows 10 has a much better networking stack, update mechanism, device driver model, GUI etc, all thanks to Vista.
Not everybody has the choice to go single-income--many couples need two incomes to survive at all. Also there are single-parent households that have zero choice in the matter as well.
> Yes, he says a fake address may have worked, but that may be criminal fraud.

This really hits home how different the US culture is from mine (Greek). Here's a crime that really shouldn't be a crime (being able to anonymously spend money), that has an extremely low rate of getting caught (who's going to find who you are if you use Tor or just go to Starbucks?) and is extremely unlikely to prosecute ("your honor, he used the wrong zip code on the card website!"), but people mention "this is a crime" as a deterrent. Over here people would think you were joking.

This cuts both ways, of course, and people commit more serious crimes (fraud, corruption, etc) more easily. It reinforces to me the adage that the best things about a country are also the worst things about that country.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21746753
Haha you also forget that if he could remember to do all of this then I wouldnt be posting this in the first place!
I imagine it’s not that it’s harder to target whether someone is using Safari, but that it’s harder/less effective to try targeting demographics within the group of Safari users.
You're right! Taxing the high earners is a good idea, subsidized child care is just one of the many benefits.
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So what? Top athletes make money, it's not new. Olympics athletes are a few select tens of people.

If you want a comparison, French athletes get 50k cash per medal if I remember the numbers right.

Russia really want to win and show off internationally so no wonder they pay their top athletes.
Telecoms like Verizon and ATT have their own adtech companies and were doing this, but regulations and encryption technologies have disabled most of it.

IPv6 with probabilistic modeling comes pretty close though.
Well known and documented. Just like the Putin regime, the Obama regime and W Bush regimes also killed journalists.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/apr/09/pressandpublis...
You are correct. I am critical of the practice of collecting items that have no continued use to the owner and would be better off sold or gifted to a new owner who could get more use out of it.

I will admit though that they can serve as art and part of the room decoration which is a valid usecase.
>But, in terms of pure economics, let's put it at an extreme.

>Child-care is too expensive, a woman who would otherwise go on to make breakthroughs in medical science stays at home.

This sounds like a fun game.

Child-care is subsidized. A child who would otherwise have been raised by a loving parent is raised by minimum wage daycare workers who don't care about the child.

The child consequently develops antisocial behavior disorders and shoots up a classroom full of children, one of which would otherwise have gone on to make breakthroughs in medical science.