skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s many things wrong with the US and police, but a big one is this; The cops shouldn’t be doing cost/benefit analysis; They should be prosecuting every crime they feel they can win (have enough evidence for).
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If there are only dumb people, and no dumb questions, the implication is that dumb people either ask smart questions or no questions at all. I don't believe the latter is actually the case, and the former seems contradictory. Thus I conclude that when dumb people ask questions those questions will tend towards being dumb, hence: How is babby formed?
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It isn't "a roughly drawn concept" if it's been seen on the road, driven even by Elon Musk himself. With passengers.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/cybertruck?lang=en

Have you seen a concept car from a traditional car makers on the road after its unveil?

In fact that's the difference between Tesla and other carmakers. They don't do concepts with grand future vision, design clues, etc like the others. Given their record it's likely the production versions of Roadster 2, Semi and Cybertruck will look the same as what we've seen.
Inexact Models Can Guide Decision Making in Quantitative Systems Pharmacology
>Who is down voting this? It is correct.

Simply being correct is not the only criterion for a comment being a positive contribution to the conversation. The comment also needs to relate its new information to the topic at hand.

At a guess¹, the unsupported assertion that AirBnB and Uber have been disasters is the major problem with the comment, in addition to the fact that they are not the primary subject of the conversation which makes 'randomsearch's comment feel more like a ranting non sequitur than a substantive contribution.

¹ I was not one of the downvoters
Personality and fatal diseases: Revisiting a scientific scandal
A little OT as I am not specifically talking about SO - when people ask me some technical question my expectation is that they would have done some upfront research and put some effort into it. Often I find people don't do that. I tell them nicely that I would be happy to help them but they should be prepared to answer the following -

1. Have you Googled the problem / solution? What did you find?

2. Tell me what all you have tried.

3. Tell me what do you think the next steps should be.

It's amazing how many people don't even to bother to do a cursory research before approaching someone with a technical question.
I am not passing judgement on your values.

I am just inviting you to see it is a value judgement you are making, not one someone is making for you.

What Boomers might have had in the past is not directly relevant to the quality of life you are or are not able to provide for yourself or your children, any more than a zillion other possible comparisons.

What you are expressing seems to be that you have a certain value about economic position and having kids relative to that.

This is absolutely fine. I just think it is important to recognize it is a statement of values with regard to your circumstances, and your expectations.

When the generations you mention had kids many things in the world were so catastrophically worse for those kids than anything we are likely to experience now ... it was a smoke and alcohol fueled world where muggings often involved hospitalization because someone would hit you in the skull with a roll of quarters from behind. It was a world that had every reason to believe the risk of total annihilation by war, and medical treatments were primitive by comparison to what we had now.

It’s pointless to compare to some other time in history. It’s just a personal decision about what you value.
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Great insight and I agree. I would add that you don't need to believe your child have something to contribute to involve him/her.

They are little brats and don't know shit, they get discracted by anything and so clumsy they are dangerous to themselves! I'm talking about 1 to 3 years old.

You have to involve them so they can have a chance to learn and grow. You are the most important, strongest, knowledgeable person in they little world and they want to be part in everything you do. How could one be so heartless to ignore this most basic and pure need and not involve them in everything? :) Part of parenting is dancing on that fine edge where they can excel, want more, able to fail and try again without hurting themselves too much and develop their skills and interest in a safe environment.
Echo this sentiment from another Midwesterner, ex-pat former New York State resident. I moved to Indiana and have not had the experience of incorporating a business entity, but the experience I had at the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has been one to make me question whether bureaucracies are really necessarily horrible all of the time.

Starting with the experience of moving to the state, to contrast (Upstate) Western New York vs Indiana:

My New York insurance provider determined that I was no longer residing in the state, so mailed me a letter of notice that my vehicle insurance was being cancelled. In truth this was the best thing that could have happened, because Indiana insurance is so much cheaper, and I got a deal through my new employer. I was dragging my feet on this because I did not know better about it, and knew it would be painful. So I went to get new insurance, and learned I would need to re-register my car...

Visiting the Indiana BMV was like no other auto vehicle registration experience. They were able to take care of me same day, and with no long wait – I waited up to at most 15 minutes to the desk. I was not shuffled from one desk to another, we completed the process in a single desk visit. On the other hand...

New York requires you to surrender your plates when you leave the state. If you fail to surrender in a timely fashion, you will be fined punitively. Indiana has no such requirement, they trust you to destroy the plates when you drop a registration for a vehicle. In fact, when I brought plates for my second vehicle to the BMV to surrender them, as the lease was being grounded, not only did they let me know that they actually don't do that at all, I don't need to do that, but also that I was entitled to a credit for the portion of my registration that I had not used (which is fairly substantial, as it is based on the worth of the vehicle and paid annually, like a use tax.)

The desk attendant was able to help me fill that form out before I left, and about 45 days later, two checks came in the mail. Being from New York, I found this kind of experience at a bureaucracy to be quite pleasant and seemingly impossible, (and from what I hear asking people who are born and raised here, it has only just become this way recently because of many reforms that have been applied in the past 20 years.)
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> Yes, this is just standard bureaucracy and it's Skip's fault, as people are saying.

This does not match with my experience.

Bureaucracies, like human being, vary greatly. I was able to incorporate in Colombia at the department of commerce four years ago barely speaking Spanish, in just a couple hours as the bureaucrats there were very helpful.

I've also tanked tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers and spent over a year trying to reconfigure my corporate structure in a way that seems fairly trivial to me in Canada.

The idea that all bureaucracies are inherently evil is a self-fulfilling prophecy imo.
Why not directly check the visa requirements on Google? What is the main use case?
I can't tell content from ads. Glad you have monetized, but the UX has suffered as a result.
My philosophy is that an important simple invariant shouldn't be maintained through the emergent behavior of a complex system.

If companions should be unkillable, then don't count on eliminating all sources of potential damage. Really make them unkillable. A ladder shouldn't ever take someone higher than the ladder goes so if some guy attempts to climb higher than the ladder goes, then freeze them in place or make them climb in place. Since these shouldn't trigger, crash the game if in dev mode, and if in prod mode check whether player allows telemetrics and if so phone home.

Those are the failsafe fixes.

Finally fix the root cause here by special casing that getting off a ladder during interaction is allowed.
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I meant that it was doing technologically advancing work around that time rather than that it was necessarily entrepreneurial.

I don't know if that was the case earlier, whether it involved itself with the R&D of better/faster road or railway carriages, for example.
I want to like Twine games and stories, I really do.

I always find them underwhelming, though.

I can see how these might be of interest to a very young audience, in analogy to the CYOA books of yore. But the appeal to a more mature audience, like the appeal of parser games or really video games generally, escapes me. It's always struck me as odd that these games are compared with traditional IF parser games, because parser games (which have their own problems) seem to me to be in another galaxy in terms of gameplay, scope, and complexity.

This is an example of how it's hard for me to even see the potential of the platform. Does this ever get beyond clicking on words, with branching storylines? Are there any examples of Twine games that get beyond simple hypertext storytelling?
I was the top-rated user on Server Fault from 2009 to 2014. I participated less and less in 2013, and eventually stopped nearly "cold turkey".

The tenor of the questions changed in the last couple years I participated. Early questions were more of the the "I'm having this strange thing-- here's what I've tried already"-type. These were a lot of fun to research and answer. They ended up sending me down rabbit-holes that helped in my work later on. (There were also "explain xxx concept" questions, which were tremendous fun to write for but there are only so many of those that can be asked.)

I was never one to "vote to close" because something wasn't "sysadmin-related". That's likely because I've been asked by Customers to "sysadmin" virtually anything electronic. A number of my answers ended up migrated over to "Super User" as a result. The migration of questions to other sites didn't bother me, because that wasn't killing the question out-right. The "community" closing legitimate questions, however, made me sad.

I did "vote to close" on questions more of the "Can I get some free labor" vs. "I'm having a problem, here's what I tried". The former seemed a lot more common towards the end of my participation. I never saw closing these questions as lacking in compassion. Often there were plenty of existing questions the posters could've used as reference. It was clearly easier for them to ask another question rather than research.

I hold myself to am unreasonably high standard w/ respect to researching before asking anybody a question (at least, anybody who I'm not paying for it). I tried to relax that standard when it came to answering Server Fault questions, but there was still a lower limit. It was hard for me to be "compassionate" in the face of such apparent laziness and disrespect for the donated time of others, particularly when there were so many good resources right at the poster's fingertips.
Not that odd. I'm not annoyed enough to keep a log of "I was frustrated by SO again today" just for the opportunity to win an internet argument about SO a few weeks later.
+1 for the trivia from a member of generation "Pre-Pokemon".
Wish Apple and Google would put more browser collaboration time in, for the benefit of all..constant one upmanship hurts both and millions of man hours in bugs, pollyfills, API repairs, and on and on. Webview, WKWebview teams need more rigorous standards and safety checks clearly for consistency and reliability. Progressive development benefits both. Web-apps are a critical, large and important part of the app developer ecosystem.
My wife's name is Nada. I pronounce it nA-da and siri says nah-da. If I don't use the siri pronunciation it won't find the contact. Took me a while to figure out that work around.
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Online forms have them.
I'm confused here, I read the article and it was somewhat muddy about the point trying to be made other than "machine bad!".

Racially biased could mean two things: despite not taking into account race the algorithm groups results racially at a statistically significant rate, or the algorithm is outright using race as a factor.

I assumed the former because it was not made clear in the article what was being talked about. Half the article is about things that may/may not use racial information (it's not said), and half the article is about things that do.

Are we talking about the same thing here?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0095ZMPTU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
It sounds like you've had some bad interviews - that is, that your interviewer did a poor job.

Small nitpicks should not disqualify you, small mistakes should not disqualify you. In fact small mistakes are expected and can be used as part of the interview to see if the interviewee can identify their mistakes when hinted at.

I've never been required to know a particular platform before. I HAVE been asked to do a small API project in Go prior to the interview, which is similar, but it was an excellent take home problem in scope and completeness. Something like a TodoMVP in React. Something that doesn't require mastery, they just want to see that you can do something that takes more than an hour.

It is reasonable for a company to decline to hire if they cannot afford for you to train in a new technology on the job. But this is a failing in the company and NOT a rejection of you.
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To add to this: a common problem with these projects is that, even though the requirements are vast and extremely hard to pin down, stakeholders insist on pinning them down up-front anyways because that's how it's always been done.

This is then compounded by a procurement process that sets these requirements in stone as fixed deliverables, as opposed to offering both sides the flexibility to reassess after interim sprints / milestones / etc.

Fortunately, groups like GDS [1] in the UK, CDS [2] in Canada, and 18F [3] in the US are helping shift this mindset slowly but surely. That's where you get initiatives like agile procurement [4]. Procurement aside, these groups are also at the vanguard of introducing modern tech stacks / tools, user-centered design, and agile project management to the public sector. (Yes, these things exist in government, and these groups are really passionate about making sure their adoption goes beyond mere buzzwords.)

Side note: many of these groups are continually hiring, and they've been around long enough by now - and had positive enough results - to gain some clout. If you're tired of selling eyeballs to advertisers, there's never been a better time to use your skills in service of the public good. It doesn't have to be a "lifer" thing - CDS, for instance, has a number of 2-year rotating positions.

Source: I'm an ex-fellow with Code for Canada who's continuing to work in the public sector :)

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...
[2] https://digital.canada.ca/
[3] https://18f.gsa.gov/
[4] https://www.canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/doing-bus...
> Wittgenstein's Ladder

Borrowed from Schopenhauer, who actually made a better point about the goal: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/301471-however-for-the-man-...
Twin dad here. The struggle is real! This is just my 2c, but kids are designed to take and take until there's nothing left of you. It's not their fault, but that's just how it is. You can still be an engaged parent and have wonderful experiences with them, but you (major emphasis) cannot let your health suffer.

Keeping your mental sanity is as important as not letting them wander into a busy street or play with fire, etc. You are no good to them as an empty, stressed, beat down carcass of your former self. I have all kinds of strategies that I put into play when I find myself tapped out, but n=1 and I doubt it would be useful to others, I just wanted to share that I 100% get you. Take care of yourself, just like you would your kids.
I've stayed in AirBnB's. The only way any other tenants would even know I was there was that I was taking up a parking spot. Someone would have been insane to be mad about my being there, yes.
European countries should start thinking about legislations against scams like these. Again Tesla is on the cutting edge of... scams.

Btw: here's poll on teslaclubsweden.com on who has "ordered" a CyberTruck: (the bars show different regions of Sweden)

https://teslaclubsweden.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=19171

I hesitate to call these people idiots (mostly because that's rude) .. but.. they would certainly benefit from consumer protection laws.
Well that's expected with major versions, no?
Please stop displaying the Product Hunt nag if I already clicked on the “vote” button.
You clearly don’t understand Sonos. How do you expect the user to choose a WiFi network and enter the password on a speaker with no input or output besides audio?
The option is like a search always on?
I guess the Indian system of living with your family comes to some use here. Kids are entertained and taken care of by their grandparents, cousins, etc. ever so often that parents do get a decent bit of time off.
I think it is a little bit of both. IMO, it seems to be along the lines of how big the channel is. The bigger the channel, the more room and flexibility they have to move around games because the fans are more there for their personality than the game. Lower end channels don't have that freedom. It is almost like their fans are there for them, but only playing that specific game (whether it be for their skill in the game or maybe their knowledge of it).
This has been a dilemma for a long time. I personally don't like ads at all but had to do it to sustain. That's why I'm building alternative streams of revenue so when they become big, I can remove ads altogether.
AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach
Doesn't the verdict of the trial related to the bail request have impact upon that? (legitimate question. I don't know if non-guilty parties are more/less likely to skip than guilty parties?)

That's assuming that we can agree that the justice system works impartially to begin with. I don't know of many people (including myself) that could agree with that.
Got it, will fix it soon. Thanks.
Hopefully this will change to "If you ever bought Horizon, you are going to jail."... but I guess that I am too much of an optimist here?
Cinderella Effect
> It would have been trivial to review these for required sections in advance

Absolutely. It is trivial! And the company making the submission is expected to do that. Which I think is very reasonable, considering that they know the requirements and make the actual submission in the first place.

It’s silly to want the reviewers to take on an additional burden in the process just because this one company made a dumb mistake which as you say would have been trivial for them to review and catch.
New prosthetic limbs go beyond the functional to allow people to ‘feel’ again
Solar risks are often dismissed, more probable, but still much less nasty.

Typical solar cells are made of glass/ceramics so they don't actually burn and the cleanup should actually be manageable.
If would guess the cordova sqlite plugin
Looks cool reminds me of that tool might have been called bigboard or something. Had a yellow logo got bout by a company starts with an 'm'. Anyone recall? Just a giant whiteboard to pin things, create mind maps etc
I guess they are one of the last to figure it out? Next up "Sky is blue!"
Byte was basically a holdout from the early personal computer hobbyist days and, except perhaps at the end, never really succumbed to becoming a magazine for corporate buyers and users.

It was a magazine for all the eclectic stuff someone interested in computers, especially from a hobby perspective, might like to read. So, as you say, you had low-level hardware hacking (Circuit Cellar), a lot of random PC hardware, programming, algorithms, etc.

It was always a bit of an odd mix and probably wasn't as "useful" for me as PC Magazine was at the time. But I appreciated the breadth even if some of it was pretty random. Dr. Dobbs occupied a somewhat similar space but pretty much exclusively on the software side.
This plugin has worked reliably on both Android and iOS and has a simple api:

https://github.com/TheCocoaProject/cordova-plugin-nativestor...
Gadgets of the 2010s
Agreed that these aren't as good as something like Blue Lacuna, but the intended audience is probably different.

Kids like simple CYOA type books and are a natural fit, where games like Blue Lacuna are a bit much. Likewise, some adults just want a simple a fun game with no backtracking and complex puzzles. I played one of these for a few hours on my phone once and it was indeed entertaining.
>> If it could be shown that there's low success in the software, yet it's relied on despite racial bias, then I would think few rational people could argue for its removal.

> I don't follow. If the software has been unsuccessful, that seems like a good reason to remove it. If, additionally, it has been making decisions on racial grounds, that seems like another good reason to remove it.

I mistyped there. I meant to say "few rational people could argue AGAINST its removal".

I had originally edited my sentence partially and mangled the meaning entirely.
I never thought about that. I actually think this is a great idea.
One big issue is a lot of people would be upset at the idea of their reputation getting smaller.
Maybe have a new "influence" or "helpfulness" score along with reputation that takes into account the decay you are talking about. Or maybe just have a different scoring mechanism altogether based on how knowledgeable and helpful your are to the SO community.
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A decay function on reputation might help, but I think the real issue is treating reputation as a precise indicator of user quality. But is a user with 40k rep really meaningfully better than a user with 35k rep?

An idea that I had was to hide reputation entirely from users and move to a flair system based on fuzzy metrics[1]. If the signal isn't precise, find ways to reflect that when displaying it.

[1] I imagine this as a system independent from badges, which are permanent and triggered by certain milestones/events.
All DMVs are evil. Indiana is like a flag of convenience for car registration, they are focused on their revenue generation.

A place like New York or Illinois is stuck dealing with all of the bullshit generated in New York City or Chicago. Registration and titles are impossible as a reaction to the industry the popped up in the 90s “laundering” stolen cars by swapping in salvage titles. Same deal with rings of people who’d purposefully cause accidents to defraud insurance companies for phony medical procedures.

It’s even worse with trucks, where there is a complex web of federal, state and local regulations, which scummy operators are good at exploiting.
Look at Computer Shopper. People actually paid for it even though the editorial content was lightweight at best.
In the very first page I immediately wanted to input the country where I wanted to go, not the one of which I hold the passport. Yeah, I know that you wrote the instruction bellow but I just didn't see them. Moreover the "Let's Go" button did not help.
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