skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What infuriates me about the GP post is:

unionizing is literally one of the options they have.

It's enshrined in law, has a long history, has been implemented to great benefit to scores of people worldwide -- why shouldn't that option be on the table as well for these workers?

And, frankly speaking, "go find another job" is a terrible rejoinder, if they like their job, but don't like their working conditions, let them come together in a group to change their working conditions. It's their legal right to do so, as well as a human right.
> “Why should we have to pay to use a payment system? It’s like paying to use a street,” Hockett asked at a press conference announcing the proposal.

I'm probably ambivalent about a "public" banking system, but this comment seems to ignore that we quite literally do pay for using streets in the form of taxes (indirect) and tolls (direct).
Some leaked videos has been compiled and annotated by a person on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6f6EXX-79w&feature=emb_titl... - looks like the most life-like automatically generated non-human-recorded characters I've ever seen.
Thinking of what I wrote about the guy who wanted the chocoloate and the gatorade later, I realise that there's another reason he might have asked for chocolate, and that's mental health. Sometimes, what you really need to have is what you want, because it will make you feel better. Like, emotionally "feel".

Anyway I dont' agree with you, still. There's so many things that people can do with money that isn't getting high. If I buy someone a meal from outside I can only buy something ready-made (a sandwich or a kebab etc). That's not very healthy. Maybe if enough people give them money they can find a place to stay for a while (or a good Samarithan can pay for a night's stay at a motel) or they can buy something to cook and go to a friend's place to cook it and have a proper meal.

I really don't think that the majority of homeless in my area are addicts. They mostly seem like people down on their luck. It's so easy to end up on the streets these days, especially in the bloody UK where social nets are threadabare and being torn apart constantly. Then of course once you're on the streets it is so easy to start drinking or shooting to "get by".

Like you say addiction a complex problem but I don't accept that giving money makes it worse or doesn't help those who suffer from it. If I'm wrong, I hope I find out soon.
Handshake.org is another contender that's launching soon. I wrote a blog post exploring some of the security benefits of Handshake[1] which got a lot of discussion on HN[2].

[1] https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-d...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995969
Farther up the page is a comment that rings true to me: companies who have a surplus of applicants are prone to rationally bias their hiring practice to avoid making poor hires even at the risk of rejecting strong candidates.

Just because someone with many years of experience levels lower than typical doesn’t make them a bad person or even a bad hire. But it does make them a more risky candidate to hire (more likely to be "middle of the pack"; less likely to be "undiscovered superstar"), and so some companies choose to pass.

(I’m arguing that this is rational, not that it’s right, fair, or morally sound.)
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Almost the exact same story here. I'm in my mid 30's, and the last time I cried was when I was a teenager, aside from also tearing up during some movies. Definitely not like I'm fighting it, I just don't know how.

Case in point, my father passed away rather suddenly on Christmas Eve -- just two weeks ago today. We weren't super close, but I do have fond memories of him. I haven't cried once. When I was informed of his death by my brother, who was tearing up as he told me, I literally just said "Damn..." and then drove around for a few hours aimlessly thinking. It seems like I should, like I'm SUPPOSED to cry, to the point where I feel like something's wrong with me because I haven't. Now I'm concerned that weeks or months from now I'll end up being triggered by something in an inopportune public place and just start bawling. But who knows?
One of my favorite things about the shitstorm that has been the last 4 years is the red and blue teams ripping eachother to pieces when Kaepernick kneeled, and then the NFL responded. Other sports drama has been fun as well. I suspect some people with a lot of power benefit a great deal by a binary division of the population, but sports throws a nice fat wrench into their Best Laid Plans.
I tend end to struggle with this sort of lispy syntax as I use a regular shell (rather than one in emacs) which makes balancing parens hard, and the syntax is otherwise verbose. If I’m using a query tool like this it will be interactively writing a one-liner so I want syntax that’s easy to get right (balancing parens by hand is hard), easy in the usual case (eg I think it should accept some way to use symbols to name fields in a record because typing and balancing double quotes all of the time is a waste of time) and easy to append to (I will run a query, press up, move to the end of the query, and modify. In this case I think moving to the end involves counting parens).

Perhaps I would want some implicit pipe or threading at the top level (which could be turned off with some option for scripts I guess).

Another helpful feature could be adding the magic closing paren: ] which will close all open parens to the top level. E.g. these two lines are equivalent:

(foo (bar (baz) whizz))
(foo (bar (baz) whizz]

A completely different (and less powerful) paradigm I like is one of match-format where the pattern looks a lot like what it’s trying to match. In this case most functions and fancy transformations are impossible. So you could write something like this to extract the list of countries:

j '{countries: %%}'

Or to extract each country’s name:

j '{countries: [ .*, { name: %% }, .*]}'

(Presumably you would have syntax for trying to match against each array element). (I also would make commas optional but I’m trying to make this syntax obvious).

Or to list the keys of the 0th element:

j '{countries: [ { %%: . }, .* ]}'

Or to get name and population:

j '{countries: [ .*, { name: %name, population: %pop }]}'

The output might look like:

{ "name": "Poland", "population": "38000000" }

————————

An alternative query tool which I haven’t really seen before would be one which is interactive rather than repeatedly run: you pipe your json (or whatever) into it and it spins up some kind of (curses) gui shoeing you your data with a nice interface to interactively write your query and see its results. It could finish by outputting a command line to run the query non-interactively.

The closest thing to this I know of is a small programming by example demo that came out of Microsoft research. The goal was to figure out how to extract some desired data from some big blob of json (or maybe html, I don’t remember). The user would see the json in some web gui and could click on the data they wanted and the app would try to figure out the “most obvious” query to get it. If they clicked on the country name, I think it would probably suggest a query for all the countries’ names (but maybe that would be the second option). I think it would also try to be clever about grouping, so if the user picked name and population it would hopefully figure out that they should come in pairs rather than being two independent lists that might not be the same length.
This is true of human intelligences as well. Faster than ML but doesn't really scale. HITL is a way to make it scale.
>If ICANN really wants more money, they'd increase the renewal fee for parked domains every year until it's actually put into use.

and how do you differentiate a parked domain from a non-parked domain?
My friend would also like to know
It does look like that exists: https://peername.com/browser-extension/
Using more powerful hardware as an excuse to make shitty software is incredibly flawed.
The film unions are the perfect thing to bring up because they are the most like video games. Thus both the good and bad from those unions are likely to apply. Apply the rules for a coal miners to video game workers and the union will die quickly as workers realize the rules coal miners need are not helpful for their situation. Apply the rules for the actors union to video game workers and you have a chance of success.
The problem Bosworth does not seem to have addressed is that the scales are currently tilted in favor of political misinformation. Facebook has chosen to not apply the same rules to politicians as it does to other users. Why doesn't Bosworth see a moral imperative to hold politicians to the same standard he holds everyone else?

"Dozens of Facebook employees pushed back on Mr. Bosworth’s conclusions, arguing in the comments section below his post that politicians should be held to the same standard as other Facebook users. They debated whether Facebook should ban or remove posts by politicians, including Mr. Trump, that included hate speech or forms of misinformation."

This is heartening, at least. I hope these employees prevail.
> I’m not sure I want a handful of representatives with no personal relationship to me deciding how valuable my work is

This is precisely the situation that most non-unionized workers already have, except that no one is even nominally trying to advocate for their interests.

The theory that corporations should be beholden exclusively to shareholders and not to all stakeholders took over completely, and has failed workers spectacularly (it's been great for capital, unsurprisingly). Having union representatives with bargaining ability is just a means for the most important stakeholders, workers, to exert any influence in a situation where they currently have none.
I see a fridge. Miele -> real fridge. Thermador -> also a real fridge. Difference in value not reflected in either functionality or efficiency, long term negative effect on pocketbook for non-income generating asset -> wasted money.
We better get some chargers out there. There's at most 2 chargers at places and with more EVs on the road, they will most likely always be taken.
My point is that I didn’t make a claim, I refuted GP’s by saying that either outcome is equally likely as there’s no proven link between parenthood and performance. If GP wants to claim there’s a negative causal link, the burden of proof lies with them.
There are plenty of age proxies that youtube happily lets advertisers target. Advertisers can tell youtube "Show my ad to fans of Peppa Pig".
> All the video game industry has to do is to give its workers better treatment than they would get under union stewardship. Problem solved.

Not even that. You could give employees half of what they would get under a union and you'd completely kill any motivation to unionize. The video game industry is so exploitative though that'll never happen.
> I’m ready to just start spanking him every time he cries

Go pick someone your own size. No, wait, that would not be ok either. Don't fucking hit people who are not aggressive towards you.
>If I buy a Miata or even a Camry, one trip to the Home Depot can leave me wishing I bought a big, slow-ish SUV.

For what reason?
There's not any money in it. The money is in selling trucks and SUVs, at least in the states.

I've had a truck for over 13 years. Including purchase price, maintenance and gasoline, my cost over that period has been $243 per month. That was for a brand new truck. Even if electricity is free, and I bought a similar sized truck at today's prices, there's no way I'd come out ahead in an electric. If you factor in used truck prices of similar vehicles, you're 10's of thousands ahead financially. I recently paid $4500 for a 200k mileage truck, engine should last for another 150k before needing a rebuild, and I can get an entire new engine for $3700 (not including labor). How much are electric trucks going to cost to re-power?

I've done the math even for commuter cars. It never makes sense to buy electric when I can get a 40MPG car for 10-15k new. Batteries need to quadruple in efficiency and be cost competitive, or they're never going to catch on in the US.
The way this reads, it sounds like Nubank isn't going to keep supporting these open source projects by letting their employees spend company time on them... I hope that doesn't starve elixir of resources.
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Lots of tribal folks with modern minds did not develop like this. Aboriginals in Australia come to mind.
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But $5 is the real price of the Zero. Perhaps you’re thinking of the Zero W, which is $10? Or do you mean the $5 doesn’t include the power? If that’s what you mean, it should be noted that power doesn’t come with Arduinos either, and they both can be powered via USB.

And to what unethical inventory games are you referring? That seems like a pretty serious accusation you’re making.
> Machine learning is a particular narrow result of studying the wider field of artificial intelligence.

I beg to differ, at least as far as terms go now. Neural networks lived in the "field" of machine learning along with Kernel machines and miscellaneous prediction systems circa the early 2000s. Neural network today are known as AI because ... why? Basically, the histories I've read and remember say that the only difference is now neural networks are successful enough they don't have to hide behind a more "narrow" term - or alternately, the hype train now prefers a more ambitious term. I mean, the Machine Learning reddit is one go-to place for actual researchers to discussion neural nets. Everyone now talks about these as AI because the terms have essentially merged.

> A classic definition of intelligence (Legg&Hutter) is "Intelligence measures an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments".

Machine learning mostly became AI through neural nets looking really good - but none of that involve them become more oriented to goals, is anything, less so. It was far more - high dimensional curve can actually get you a whole lot and when you do well, you can call it AI.
I live in a city that conservatives have been claiming for years will drive away all business, real estate development, and wealthy individuals with our progressive taxes and regulations.

Yet every year our economy grows and our quality of life improves.

If businesses leave, they're the type of business you wouldn't want around anyway.
Only if the firm would move abroad would there be a net loss.

Indeed, and even then: there's no net-loss for the world, just the arbitrary jurisdiction-of-reference. (And if it's not-OK to play net-destructive, negative-sum games against other localities within the same country, is it OK to play negative-sum games against other friendly countries?)

While I agree in the main, it's possible to contrive just-so scenarios where an incentive to shift economic to another locality might be net-beneficial. A struggling area might benefit more, from the same number of jobs or amount of economic activity, than a wealthier area. The wise creation of a synergistic cluster of related projects might create more follow-on benefits than a more dispersed set of activities.

But, local authorities in a bidding-war against other localities are unlikely to identify just those scenarios, and pay the efficient amount – as opposed to just trotting out these stories as self-serving rationales for self-aggrandizing favor-trading.
Given the trend I think this is only the beginning. We'll likely see increasing rent seeking behavior from ICANN administration since their power is effectively unchecked.
That's why I said lending their talents. The NSA and FBI would definitely consult on something that big.

Actually they'd do it regardless of whether it was built by the public or private sector.

I'm in the DC area – so I know exactly how bloated and utterly incompetent most defense contractors are (I worked for a couple). So I have nearly zero faith in them doing a better job.
Mobile-readable version of that quote:

> For the Elixir programming language in particular, José Valim and the Elixir Core Team will continue developing and maintaining the programming language in the same capacity as they have been doing over the last few years, independently from Plataformatec and Nubank. We are in touch with the Elixir Core Team to transfer all assets, including the existing trademarks and the Elixir website, to their control.
No, a nicer gesture would be respecting their dignity and humanizing them. It's popular to rationalize those who are worse off as being worse at making decisions, but it's not accurate, fair, or humane.
Foreign firms that write clickbait will profit.
Why is Ray Kurzweil's hypothesis particularly important to contrast other hypotheses against? What sets it apart in relevance and/or authority?
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Phones are sold this way - and people like everything "packaged up" into a black box in many cases.

My guess - the company that makes all the parts / wire runs / etc very visible has a harder time selling to mom and dad when they stop by with their kid.
I remember reading about this on reddit and how the idea that there was an explosion of thought 50kya years ago is misleading. This seems to support that idea, I wonder why it hasn't made it's way into the public consciousness yet.

The comment in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/4ehwdp/wou...
I agree, and I'm a rarity maybe, because I think it is much easier to understand and debug Elixir if you learn Erlang first. You don't have to, in order to code in Elixir, but understanding what was going on under the hood made it much easier for me to work with Elixir.
I've had this discussion before on HN, if I find an easier way to search my comment history I'll try to turn it up.

But basically, I don't think that does it - there's a difference between, say, collecting watches, reading watch blogs, browsing eBay for watches, watching videos of watchmakers etc, and screaming gleefully at the pitch/field/TV as your favorite team plays.

Someone else is saying something about mirror neurons, I wonder if that's what I'm not having in enough abundance to "miss out" on the fun I see my dad have when he watches the Packers. I'd like to participate but I feel nothing beyond interest in watching the plays play out. Whether the Packers get it done or not, eh, I don't really care, and not for lack of trying.
Eventually the state has no recourse if the company changes its mind.

Sounds like the states suck at negotiating contracts.

Why would you to give something of value, with no recourse if the other party doesn’t deliver?
Of the idea, Richard Dawkins said:

> “It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius; Nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets.”

Even if it’s totally wrong, it is an interesting thought experiment.
I forgot to mention another point that someone else mentioned (and I added to).

I live in the DC area. If you think that your average government contractor would do a much better job, you'd be shocked.
No, it doesn't. "No strong evidence" would convey the same meaning.

In the same way, "Yes it is" doesn't convey the same meaning as "Yes it is?", because just like the presence or lack of the word "strong" matters, the question mark matters.

If everyone is Humpty Dumpty, useful and accurate communication is not possible.
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This article in the times (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-martins-beach-supr...) which discusses that the Supreme Court left the previous ruling of access intact sounded like a win for the Costal commission.
Shouldn't this be removed for the misleading title ? This hints as if the fires were caused solely by arson which is not the case here.
Windows relies too much on legacy software. The built in RDP client for example fails when you remote from a high DPI machine to a windows server that doesn’t support high DPI. Microsoft’s own RDP client on Mac upscales perfectly.
> Your theory is that babies are born with political views, or what?

Actually, yes.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17380040-our-political-n...
Yes but have you seen the costs of infrastructure in the US?

Big business is bad but big government is bad too.
Similar things exist for banks in the US. For example, Zelle is a product created by a company owned by a number of US banks that is integrated into those banks' apps as well as most other banking apps (my smallish credit union uses Zelle). I tend to use Venmo still because more of my friends have it and I think most people in the US will stick with Venmo unless the barrier of entry for a new system is negligible.
Yeah, a union definitely would have meant that half a dozen friends couldn't quit their employer and go work for themselves. That's definitely how it works. Because unions are slavery.

Why are you bad-faithing your way around this entire discussion?
My guess would be climate. 100K ago, humans were in the midst of the ice age and it lasted until about 12,000 years ago, at the start of the Holocene period. The early Holocene was actually warmer than modern temperatures, and it is said that even the Sahara was fertile in this time. As the ice age ended, rain patterns shifted and vegetation flourished. It probably then became possible to remain in one area for an extended period of time without roaming around in search of game and wild food, and you could actually support a larger tribe of people. Once that began to happen, people started learning and developing local culture, language, skill development, etc. and sharing that knowledge. For the same reason we see hubs of specialized labor in modern society (like Silicon Valley, Hollywood, New York financial district, etc), the first communities to develop agriculture were able to exploit those skills to improve techniques over time, and caused places like Mesopotamia and Egypt to develop and thrive over time. It appears as though Mesopotamia developed clay tablets with written language as an early form of contractual agreement rather than as a form of communication or literature.
>I've noticed something about subreddits that focus on lifestyle design and center around advice: they all start to converge on fairly narrow groupthink.

To me, this is a novel insight, thanks :) I have been wondering what has been causing my frustration towards these kind of subreddits. But this makes it clear that the problem is a lack of actual discussion and no challenges made against the assumptions of the in-group.

I have noticed this is a broad trend on a lot of the internet; the internet has a lot of data, but most of that data is repeated a lot. If you want new and interesting information you often have to look elsewhere (e.g. books).

A particularly annoying example to me is the ausfinance subreddit which is obsessed with a housing market crash that they seem to think will definitely happen tomorrow. Anything pointing in that direction immediately gets extrapolated as the horseman of the Australian housing market apocalypse, nevermind the fact it was trending the opposite direction yesterday.
The point is OP won't know if he it at risk, and yes Imposter Syndrome exists, so it's true that we don't know whether he really is at risk or not. But having kids still raises the stakes a lot.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!