skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not sure about the liability concerns.

There shouldn't be any liability concerns related to the use of a public easement.
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Are you so sure you wouldn't act the same in his shoes? We're all human.
Could be. But it could just as well mean that gay men tend to move to cities in a way that lesbian women don't. Note also that the piece I linked goes well beyond bars.
Properties of Identifiers
Exactly. There's endless tooling out there, and you can contort software to whatever process.

Some of tools make claims that, if trivial to implement, would provide huge huge benefits. Unfortunately, there's a cost to learning a new tool, and then to implementing its use. Since you don't know the tool yet, you can only make educated guesses as to whether it will be easy or hard to learn, easy or hard to implement, make your process better or worse, help sell your product or make you more efficient, etc. You can't know for sure (unless it seems so much like something you already DO understand, and in that case, why would you use someone else's tool)? And that's only for yourself.

I'm not saying you shouldn't try new tools. To the contrary. It's just hard to know which ones are the right ones for your organization. Hence cargo-culting of tools that may or may not be a step backwards for your organization, or have all kinds of hidden-costs that are difficult or even impossible to foresee.
As a farmer, I don’t think I’ve ever met another farmer who hates modern equipment. I’m not sure where that narrative has come from. We drool over the latest tech.

I know many who choose older equipment for financial reasons, as the article suggests. Modern equipment is insanely expensive to purchase and is simply out of reach of the smaller farmer.

If older equipment was actually a hot commodity, more than newer equipment, economics tells us that older equipment would be worth more than newer equipment and that is simply not the case. Price falls consistently with age for a comparable machine. They are paying more for a 1980 model because someone else is paying even more for the 2000 model.

There are plenty of basic tractors on the market with little in the way of electronics. But building a new tractor is expensive. While they come in well below the cost of a decked out John Deere, they are still a lot more expensive than a 40 year old tractor.
That would make sense if the government had installed the beach after Khosla's purchase.
Given that I had never heard of the company until this post, I was surprised by how many companies I've heard of that they funded. From their portfolio page[1]:

Academia.edu, AppNexus, Arista Networks, DoorDash, GitLab, HackerRank, Impossible Foods, Instacart, "Just, Inc.", Scribd, Square, Stripe, Teespring, Vox Media

https://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/all-companies
In my observation of the edit patterns being used by moderators, titles are frequently edited when they contain emotionally charged words ("spoof" "trolls" "harass" in this one) to create bland, boring titles no matter what the source article is titled (not violating guidelines).
That's why you only drink one!
Mainly it helps with my wife's anxiety. We didn't get it for package theft specifically. We have had a drug addict get into our fenced-in backyard and wander around for a while, others shit in the alley, and we sometimes hear screaming matches from addicts or mentally ill people. Having the cameras helps her feel a little safer from those kinds of people.

(Whether we are materially safer is a separate question. But given that I think we are actually quite safe in general, the product is worth it to us in terms of peace of mind alone.)
When reading old novels and travel logs up to a century ago, the main difference is that people took their time. Travelling often took days or weeks, but it was okay since there was no alternative, and since enjoying the journey was sometimes a part of the process. It's amusing to read about trains that stopped for 2 hours so that passagers could go out for lunch. Trains and boats were places were you lived and met people.

Since travelling was slow, people had to adapt. From Paris, a bourgeois family could spend a day or two in the neighboring countryside, but if they wanted to visit Italy or Russia, you'd stay there for a few months. Nowadays, it's the same: from Paris, a middle class family can spend the week-end at Tunis, but they will take two weeks of holidays for Thailand. Yet our time-constrained lives have made months-long stays less frequents.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/

On Forbes he is listed to be worth ~$56B.

I think this topic is worth its own HN submission by itself.
Tractor as a service will only bite them back.

Look at how popular 40-year old tractors are :)

It's never been a better time to create a good old repairable machine.
So are wasted fumes coming from your car, without the benefits

The same can be said for barbeques

When will people stop pretending that changing one thing doesn't really change anything in life in general?

Drinking is like everything else: if you do it with moderation it is not that harmful

If you don't, you got bigger problems
They could have applied as a conditional use. It exists exactly for good ideas that aren’t quite obviously good. For uses which are good or bad for a locale depending on the specific details of the project. That’s not San Francisco, that’s pretty much every urban area in the US.
The indicator is stock market capitalization / GDP. Today's level exceeds the record set in 2000 (~150%).

You can get the graph shown in raster form in the article from the Federal Reserve:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DDDM01USA156NWDB

A point to consider: the Buffet Indicator peaks before a recession actually is recorded, then falls heading into the recession. At least going back to 1996.

Oddly, it looks like the Fed series lacks the last two years.

This article shows a series from present back to 1950:

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/01/0...

Here, it's interesting to note that the lowest level is ~30% (1954, 1983).

Discrepancies appear related to the numerator (Wilshire 5000 vs some other custom index).

It appears that the Fed data use inflation-adjusted GDP.
Their Facebook integration used to be downright deceitful. It was very easy to spam all of your friends that way. After they did that I changed my Goodreads account's name to "Chris 'Goodreads spammed all my friends'" and then I discovered that having an unusually long name breaks their design in multiple places. [1]

Besides the dark growth patterns, overall Goodreads feels like a clunky product suffering from feature bloat and poor usability. Unfortunately, because of the network effects and the Kindle integration, it's very hard for a competitor to get off the ground.

[1] screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh4rr6mvey1lbfh/Screenshot%202020-... (it's been like this for at least a year)

(Facebook's API has been locked down in the meantime and Goodreads now only has access to your FB friends that also linked Goodreads...which they use to send a friend requests to each one)
Don't ever make an assumption like that. I have never come across this group.
I was thinking more about the thought process for how to come up with the right words to begin with and for refinements to make to yield better results rather than the boolean operators although I think they are good for the young minds, too.
Its even worse in the north east. In Mass. and Maine property owners can (due to an old colonial era law) own property to the low tide line and deny access not only to the access, but to the beach itself.
Cherry picking unlikely hypothetical scenarios (this is GR, not yelp) is a bad strategy for making a binary determination of the morality of a choice.

When you ask "Was that the morally superior choice", what set of options are you considering? In my prior statement, I simply claimed that it can be argued that doing nothing is morally superior to abusing the voting system.
Tons of equipment on Alibaba

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/large-wheel-tractor-w...

Not the faintest idea if any of it is decent. However, China probably uses their own tractors. They have a huge farms also, so maybe these are serviceable...
Yeah most of the stories were from people that were lured in by huge salaries and relative "ease" to finding a job.
I should have phrased it differently, the 3x in cost primarily applies to housing while most other expenses only increase marginally. Overall costs are closer to 2x increase instead of 3
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> True, but I doubt you could find hiring data that supports a 4x higher employment rate among ISA cohorts

Sure, but the disutility of a $12,000 bill for four years when making $60,000 may be much less than five times a single $10,000 bill when making whatever you’d make if the bootcamp didn't payoff. The impact of $1 isn't equivalent across different income circumstances. You have to account for both success rate and declining marginal utility of income with greater income.
No. Bicycles were heavy, uncomfortable products for the first ~40 years of their existence. Rubber tires and pedals didn’t come to bicycles until the 1860s. By that point the US had >30k miles of extensively linking most of the northern states. The modern bicycle didn’t really come into being until the 1890s.

I’m having a hard time getting numbers for track in Europe, but the UK was the real pioneer and Germany followed quickly.
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You just put it in the nearest trash can.
Oh, this is interesting! I've been putting together a 6-Kinect rig to take a 3D scan of my body as I go on hormone treatment and an exercise routine, monitoring subtle changes over time.

Does it support Kinect v1 and changing the orientation using the built-in motors?

I also have a few projects using photogrammetry reconstruction of convention booths using 2D images. I've been interested in adding in lidar/pointcloud cameras...
When you write to a file, you generally don't write to physical storage. Instead the writes get buffered in memory and written to physical storage in batches. This substantially improves performance but creates a risk: If there is some sort of outage before the data is flushed to disk, you might lose data.

In order to address that risk, you can explicitly force data to be written to disk by calling fsync. Databases generally do this to ensure durability and only signal success after fsync succeeded and the data is safely stored.

So ClickHouse not calling fsync implies that it might lose data in case of a power outage or a similar event.
here is a testimony that motivated me to try and stop like you are : https://thinkfaster.co/2019/02/quitting-alcohol/
> Make 144,5 million Russians even more unhappy?

Do they care when they talk of making populace "eat grass?" And I think they wouldn't even mind doing that and losing for as long as they "mess up your lawn"

From tiny pieces of what gets leaked, Putin hoped for nothing less than complete victory in both Georgia and Ukraine, and in both times it demonstrated that his generals were comically incompetent, causing lots of discontent in the military. Nevertheless, I think he still came out quite happy with just scaring the West away from those two countries, and messing up any prospect for a brighter future for them.
> driving short trips would have to be more dangerous per mile than driving long trips. I think this is unlikely to be true.

I would be shocked to find that short trips were safer (per-mile) than long trips, as my intuition is that interstate highways are likely to be by far the safest type of roadway on a per-mile basis.

So I did some digging. It was surprisingly hard to find data that broke it down by roadway type, but I eventually found an article[1] that also linked to data[2].

Taking the most recent year available [2004], and converting to the typical airline standard (deaths per 10 billion miles travelled), urban interstates have a death rate of 57 deaths/10Bmi, urban collector roads 85 deaths/10Bmi, urban local roads 128 d/10Bmi, and rural local roads 315 d/10Bmi.

Airline figures for comparison are about 0.2 deaths per 10Bmi for scheduled commercial airline travel (Delta, United, Southwest, American, etc; not charter, not corporate, not general aviation), yet people are much more fearful of airplanes than automobiles on average.

[1] - http://freakonomics.com/2010/01/29/the-irony-of-road-fear/

[2] - https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/national_transporta...
If people think it is strange you are not drinking you can mitigate this in a few ways:

1) Order a club soda with ice and a lime in the same glass they are serving something like Vodka soda.

2) Tell them you have an early meeting

3) Tell them you have emails to follow up on after the event.
Ah ha! Your quoted "horror story" comment is mine, so I guess I'm obligated to check Freshpaint out. Will do :)

You mentioned that you were early Heap employees. At one point it looked like Heap was heading in this direction as well (with their own warehouse & destinations and sources, etc.) But I just checked their site out and it looks like they're back to going all-in on "capture everything ananlytics". Is that accurate?

So I suppose it would be fair to say Freshpaint:Segment :: Heap:Mixpanel (et al)?
Do you think end-users products from corporation style farms are cheaper than family farm (for equivalent quality) ?
The announcement from BA9 is still a work of art:

> Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.
If you work in the fields, and I invent tech that makes you twice as efficient, the most likely result is that half of people like you lose their jobs, and wages stay the same, if not decline due to oversupply.

Might be great for me, but it sucks balls for you. And it tends to suck balls for more people than it helps.

Edit: and that basically follows through to your kids...
I've been asking this as well, I've never gotten a satisfactory answer. Other than "you can't see infrared".

I'm concerned once these become more prevalent on all cars or whatever else we stick these on. Curious if there's any studies on if it affects our eyes in anyway.
IRC is still kicking in some communities!
Not many people would dispute that. From the article: "In 1996, Boeing took approximately 60% of the industry’s new commercial aircraft orders. Airbus, the European consortium, lingered far behind it, at 35%. McDonnell Douglas took the remaining 5%."

And falling fast. New military contracts had dried up too, with no meaningful wins coming in the foreseeable future.

Agreed, the parallels with the Douglas merger are interesting. Even including the military branch, not just DC.
Doesn't mean it's a bad idea, just hard. Same as plastics, and still worthwhile.
The previous owner of the property erected a gate along their private road, posted "no tresspassing signs", charged for access, and opened/closed the gate at their discretion (leaving it closed for months during winter). I don't have a horse in this race, but that doesn't sound like public access any more than an amusement park is public access.

Yes, it's my understanding that Khosla owns the entire compound and all of the houses. It's one property and was operated as a business by the former owners, the Deeney family.

The previous court case that (SCOTUS declined to hear) was really about whether Khosla needs to apply for a permit for his development work that changes public access to his property. SCOTUS declining to hear the case essentially means that Khosla needs to apply for the permit for these changes -- the implication is that until this happens, the case is not actually ripe for review. If he's unable to obtain the permit, then Khosla may be able to pursue his argument that the state's mandated public access is an unconstitutional "taking" of private property. (IANAL)
Facebook is a video game where you honor the groupthink for max followers and upvotes; something like the 25 followers can be emulated but if you're the only person playing the new game, its not going to be a fun game because everyone else will have higher scores due to no made up limitations.
When you review a paper, no one knows who you are except the editor of the journal. If there are any incentives at all for the reviewer, it is not to be arsed to review at all, since it takes time and you get nothing out of it.

There is some truth to the idea that some reviewers are lazy and don't bother to examine the paper as well as they should because that takes time. But when they do that, it irritates the editor, who is trying to make an informed decision on the paper, so they get bad karma for that.

If you want to be cynical and look for community politics, you should be directing your wrath at study sections / grant review panels. That is a totally different ball game and there is a fair amount of corruption there. Peer review may be imperfect and prone to some cognitive biases, but it is not generally corrupt.
One person's idea of making titles more boring is probably another person's idea of removing bias. Bland might not necessarily be bad in these cases.
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That's good to know.

The Rust community can be a bit... fanatical, lets say. I've seen so many people argue that the unsafe keyword by itself makes rust so much safer than alternatives, when really safe code can cause unsafe code to explode. So you end up writing modules to protect the unsafe code, which is what you do in any other language as well.

Which means the unsafe keyword is valuable, just not nearly as valuable as I've seen a lot of people claim.

Now the unsafe keyword combined with the sort of tooling I've mentioned? That to me is a killer combination. Unsafe isn't a silver bullet, it still requires work, but it enables tools to make that work immensely easier to deal with.
As a tech billionaire, he should know how to do a simple internet search.

https://www.google.com/search?q=california+private+beaches
> So in theory, he could make another access road further down and leave that one open?

I'm not sure about the law in the US and California, but in some jurisdictions you can't just move an easement. There was an easement running through his property from the road to a specific point on the beach. He can't just move the ending point of the easement to a different spot on the beach.
One thing I've noticed with the recommendation engine is that it doesn't recognize when its data set is too small. There are quite a few books where I look at the "Readers also enjoyed" list and can identify it as simply a list of other books I and one of my siblings read recently.

For example: https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/1836622-dandelion-cap...

It's a book that my brother and I recently re-read, and the recommendations are...four other books that I and my brother read recently. Granted, the majority are the same genre, but two aren't. They're just...books we both recently gave 4 stars.
McDonnell Douglas to blame for 737 Max crisis? I don't think so. But full marks to the PR team that thought up that retrospective self serving disinformation.
The parent commenter doesn't realize just how large of an advantage this is. There's lots of empirical evidence demonstrating that height is one of the strongest preferences women have for men. I have personally made fake dating profiles with the same pictures/bio, but different heights here in the Bay Area. The 5'6 profile did not get a single like in a week. The 6'4 profile had inbound interest from a wide variety of women, racking up more likes in an hour than my real profile gets in 2 weeks.

OKCupid's dataset also shows white men are the most desired on average.
I've personally known a number of people where exactly this thing happened -- from very low paying job to SWE. And on the hiring side of things have hired a few myself (with varying degrees of workplace success admittedly, but I think that's more on us than them, from a mentorship perspective).
That's a great chart and a simple metric (total stock value / US GDP). I like it.

I certainly can't predict a crash but I find it hard to argue anything other than we are closer to the top than the bottom of the current cycle. At some point there'll be a reversion to mean, which always overcorrects in the short term.

That could be tomorrow, a month from now, a year from now or 5 years from now. Who knows? This bull market has certainly gone on for years longer than anyone would've predicted.

And the thing is we're also in a period of wealth creation unlike anything seen since probably Standard Oil and the railroads of the 19th century. This isn't the dot-com era of pets.com and the like. Apple, Google and Facebook generate profits of a kind probably not seen in a century or more (in relative terms).

So yeah, we live in unusual times.
It does group (majority white) boomers together but I don’t think the auther conflates them with capitalists exactly. It was more so making the point that as a collective voting block, they tended to vote to their own selfish interests and had the numbers to sway policy. For example, reducing capital gains taxes which wasn’t necessary until they, as a collective, had enough vested interest in the stock of companies later in their life.
” Perhaps following the lead of other Scandinavian countries, where a six-hour workday is common.”
Not in Sweden. 40h per week here means fulltime.
It looks like this person is an asshole.
I am wondering has this always been the case of CNBC? Or the balance view is something recent?

I have only been reading / watching CNBC financial for the past few years and I was surprised at their balanced view. Since CNBC is constantly bashed ( may be based on politics or whatever reason Obama used to joke about ) I completely dismissed them for a very long time.

Somewhere along the line Bloomberg turns into more like a Buzzfeed like platform for Financial news.
Parent comment could be his mindset. You’re just stating his mindset is what he has claimed his mindset is. I see no reason to take his word for it.
Private repos aren't scanned and if we did offer the service to scan private repos we would only ever contact the repo owners and not the service providers. In the case of public repos we're in a race against time where bad actors are scraping the site and have automation created to use your tokens within seconds of a leak. Private repos scenarios are much simpler to deal with.
> They're trying to make this a story about SoftBank being bad

Don't overthink it and assume motivations with zero proof - they're reporting facts about how SoftBank is dragging their heels on some deals.

At the very least, it's informative and helpful to anyone who may deal with them in the near future.
Arguably that's exactly the problem. There's so much law applying to farming that you'd need a sizable legal department to know it all. That favors centralization.
It is a technology issue. Computers make things complex and opaque where they were once simple. When something stops turning you can look at it. Does it need grease? Is something blocking it from turning? When a microcontroller stops sending out the correct signals how could a farmer possibly do anything about that or even know what is going wrong?
Predicting realized volatility using Google Trends
I found this article[0] very informative and objective.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/review/1893-pcie-4-vs-pcie-3-ssd/