skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like a message like this is better sent by throw away email or something else that's private, than put in a public forum for all to see. What's the point exactly in putting all this ostensibly proprietary information out there, on HN? Is it benefiting anything to the conversation, aside from satisfying some people's curiosity? What's the intent here, why do you feel that this sort of post needs to be done publicly? What does it improve?
I've heard of multiple reports of bootleg soap/body wash sold by Amazon, I think it's pretty common.
The schools are very good compared to what they had in California. We live in one the top 500 school districts in the country (there are about 10,000 of them).
That... seems like a bit of a leap.
I think that https://actix.rs/ counts as an implicit "the author doesn't intend this to be seen as a toy project" in people's eyes.
The game is fun for a few reasons.

First, there are two really viable strategies for playing it which are equally fun. Bashing the bookcase will get to the multiball and hearing Gomez shout “It’s SHOWTIME!” is super satisfying.

If the multiball strat isn’t for you, then working your way through the “room” of the mansion are just as rewarding. Completing all the rooms starts a mode where every mode just plays one after the other. Super satisfying, if you can get it.

Second, the callouts, art, and design are fun and full of character. Having thing grab the ball and pull it into his box is a particularly nice touch.

Finally, the layout of the table allows for some nice “flow” where you can transition between shots nicely.
Do you consider a career to be a literally body-destroying poison for men as well or only for women?
You’re talking about a history that never really existed except for a few decades in a few western countries. Look at countries where women actually have many children. They’re not “stay at home moms.” They’re agricultural societies where men and women work alongside each other, and groups of very old or very young women in the village take care of the children.
It's not.
It's boring because people want to fix unsafe. Read

https://gist.github.com/pcr910303/d7722a26499d0e9d2f9034a06f...
Maybe a controversial comment, but is suicide really that bad?

I had my share of bad things happening in my life during my teenage years. I was contemplating suicide. I am here so obviously I didn't do it in the end, but I am grateful that I had the choice - it was my own life and suffering, it should be my choice to decide if I should end it. We seem to approach suicide from our perspective as bystanders, but never consider the perspective of the victim itself. What if, indeed, the victim is better off being dead (or whatever is out there, which will depend on your religious beliefs) rather than suffering for an unknown period of time hoping for things to get better?

In my opinion depression and suicidal thoughts are often the symptom of a deeper problem, one that therapy or medication won't actually fix, just like putting tape on the check-engine light doesn't stop your engine from still breaking down a bit later. In my case it was something that only something extremely improbable (similar to winning the lottery) could fix. It happened, and by pure chance I was able to start anew in a different country, but if it didn't then I would completely understand suicide if I still were in that situation.

I don't think people just go on social media, see a depressing picture or story and commit suicide. The problem has to be brewing for long before that, and again in my opinion it isn't something therapy or meds can fix - there is a root cause and some root causes are hard or next to impossible to fix, and unless fixed, the person might still be miserable - is a life full of misery better than a quick death? I think it should be left to the person themselves to decide that.

There are many problems with social media, privacy, spreading scams/malware, misinformation, anti-vax and dubious health claims, but this seems like a non-issue. To me it feels like the family can't accept the shit that just happened and wants a scapegoat to blame it on. Yes, there are tons of depressing and pro-suicide content online and some accounts have tens of thousands of followers and yet I don't see people committing suicide in tens of thousands.
Just don’t try to send your kids to the schools in the affordable parts of the state. Low cost of living = lower property values = low property taxes = poorly funded schools.
Up until recently Dallas / Ft. Worth and Miami where conservative. The Cubans that fled communism held Miami as a conservative metro up until about 15-20 years ago. Orlando and Tampa where the same. Orlando for different reasons but Tampa was largely due to the conservative Cubans as well.

Texas and Florida are two of the states that are experiencing meteoric growth and to imply that those moving in are not shifting the political climate to that in which they came from is to ignore the fact that both went from solidly conservative states, with conservative large metros. To toss up states where the metros became in flux. To ignore that those moving in are not voting in the same failed policies that they are fleeing ignores the fact that both states policies are in fact starting to trend towards taxation, lowering of property rights and large scale social programs. The spade is a spade.

The same happened to Denver over the past 20 or so year.

On a note related to the main topic, I live in FL in the Florida Keys, it is a paradise I spearfish on the weekends and am usually out on a boat. Prices have gone up here, but one can still purchase a home on the water for under 500k. I could barely get a decent apartment in the valley for what I paid for my 7 acres of oceanfront land and home. I mention this to make the point that I can certainly see the draw, you get so much more for your money if one sells out of a major CA metro and moves to one of the growth states.
> And if 95% of women chose not to work, the 5% who want to work will have a harder time in many respects.

Why should the preferences of the 5% override the preferences of the 95%? A widespread norm of two incomes per household makes it much harder for women to be homemakers and full time mothers (since single income households have to compete with dual income households for positional goods like housing).
A government middle man is not going to reduce income inequality. First, we need to decide whether or not inequality is necessarily a bad thing if everyone's situation is improving. Otherwise, it just comes off as covetousness. Second, we need to evaluate if mental health/drug rehabilitation facilities would solve a lot of the homelessness problem. Third, we need to reduce government restriction on building to put some downward pressure on housing costs or encourage people to establish employment or businesses in areas that are more economical.
ridiculous pay ratio is not indicative of being an awesome producer.
I don’t mean to imply that you can go outside. You can. And we do. Just that when it’s 85 at night and 85% humidity, you run your A/C all night, every night.
"Hey, lower paid employees you're fied, but now you now work for FooBar Services, and we've hired FooBar to do the work you're currently doing."

Thus lowering their ration and tax obligations.

These jealousy based taxes are insane and have to stop.
Indiana's Oldest State Worker Is Retiring at 102
If your salaries can't sustain a workforce they're still not high enough no matter what you say.
Gotham will be async-ready once this PR lands and the next release is published: https://github.com/gotham-rs/gotham/pull/370
Display it in a reverse-chronological view. This has worked just fine for a decade. The main advantage is that the user can remember the last item they saw, so when they next check the app and scroll down they know that they're caught up once they reach that post they remember.

This is also why it's been discontinued from all advertising-funded social media, because turns out you get people to stay on the app longer and see more ads if they can't tell whether they've caught up or not.
Morals don't need to be objective to be valid.
I was a teenager when Dr. King was murdered. King's numbers went down when he branched away from civil rights into other political issues.

He was early, but correct on Vietnam. I doubt anyone under 21 didn't agree with him on the war in 1967. Time would have proven him correct on much of what he was saying had he lived.
Regarding the speed, meow_hash is certainly performant, but when hashing a single file, b3sum actually seems to be faster, perhaps due to using more threads. Could meow_hash be made even faster by running more operations in parallel?

time ~/.cargo/bin/b3sum ubuntu-19.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso
0899b731b6b57d75a65273fe29d54802653b3bbe3bae6732140c487c4f0ece71 ubuntu-19.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso

real 0m0,180s
user 0m1,735s
sys 0m0,092s

time meow_example ubuntu-19.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso
meow_example 0.5/calico - basic usage example of the Meow hash
(C) Copyright 2018-2019 by Molly Rocket, Inc. (https://mollyrocket.com)
See https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash for details.

Hash of "ubuntu-19.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso":
E5CC524A-522BDE7E-ED34A277-5C7D73AF

real 0m0,766s
user 0m0,119s
sys 0m0,645s
Initiatives like this, which increase upward economic mobility, should have precisely the opposite effect. Shanty towns are populated by people who have been left behind by the economic system.
3% FMV property tax is pretty rough, but do you get a tolerable school system as part of that bargain?
> San Francisco alone had a higher budget in 2019 ($12 billion) than 13 entire states

While I agree that I definitely wonder where a lot of the money in SF goes, this "bigger than 13 states" isn't a particularly impressive statistic IMO. First, SF has a bigger population than 5 of those states. In many states depending on how they split responsibilities, per-capita budgets can be significantly higher at the municipal level than the state. Finally, SF is obviously a very expensive city, so getting things done (hiring people, works projects, acquiring land, etc.) is much more expensive than most states.
This looks lovely. Could you add LIFX support as well?
encryption regulations by people who don't understand encryption.

this is encryption export ban 2.0
If those who had lived in their house for 30 years sold their property, they will have made more in capital gains from that sale alone than the average American has made in their entire life. I'm not exactly awash in sympathy here.
This would be awesome!
Slightly click-baity title but very important issue to discuss and enact regulations over. The problem has become pervasive and "the people" need to take control back. Some quotes;

...This is now the infrastructure by which 2.7 billion people — bigger than the size of Christianity.”...“YouTube has north of 2 billion users, more than the followers of Islam...

...Tech platforms arguably have more psychological influence over two billion people’s daily thoughts and actions when considering that millions of people spend hours per day within the social world that tech has created, checking hundreds of times a day.”

Technology companies creating this dark infrastructure “manipulate our sense of identity, self-worth, relationships, beliefs, actions, attention, memory, physiology and even habit-formation processes, without proper responsibility,”...

Money quote;

...technology has basically taken all the laws of the physical world and virtualized it in a virtual world with no laws — what happens when we have no laws for an entire virtualized infrastructure?...
What is "applied nihilism"? I've not heard this term before.
Washington is quickly turning into California in terms of politics. Lots of liberals moving in and trying to take their broken views with them.

Downtown Seattle is looking like SF/Bay Area in terms of crime and lack of police enforcement due to what/whom people vote for.
That would define "meaning" only as something that can be imposed by an entity outside of yourself.

Someone can tell you your life has a lot of meaning... but what does that mean to you. It's vacuous if you don't think that yourself.

I won't say meaning is something emergent. It's something about point of view.

Or perhaps even stronger. If you don't find meaning in your life, there's none.
I absolutely hate unlimited time off. It turns it into a competition. If Jim managed to take 30 days this year and Joe only 15 effectively Jim got a free $15k to $30k bonus. There is all this pressure from both sides to use the least amount and to take the most.

All that disappears if you just give me a set number of days.
We have something different in California, apparently you don’t know about it? Hard to have a conversation when folks are unaware.
"Away from transit hubs, common [drone-disabling] solutions include the use of radio waves to jam the signal used by a pilot to control a drone, or take over control of the unit. Other methods include dispatching eagles or giant nets to pull craft out of the sky."

Wait... drone-catching eagles? Is that for real?

If so, I wonder how the eagle's trained how how its target is communicated to it. It's not like drones are an eagle's natural prey.

I'd love to see a video of an eagle catching a drone in action.
I’d hate to have the $5 plan limited to one per account. Right now I have 3 and they serve me well. Plus they are low usage.
California already taxes the company profits and the salaries of the executives.
Show HN: My Interest in iOS 1
> this was the whole reason Tom Lord originally developed the modern DVCS

Shouldn't that be Larry McVoy? BitKeeper predated GNU Arch by a couple years.
I wasn't satisfied with the essay, so I thought I'd share my understanding of Nihilism. This is coming from someone who has never read Nietzsche so take it with a grain of salt, I'm curious to know where I might be off.

First, I think we've all most commonly seen the "colloquial" form of Nihilism, which is a sort of despair over a lack of meaning in life. I'm pretty sure most people are aware that this is oversimplified, but it is partially grounded in actual Nihilism. The emphasis is put on despair, but the despair isn't the philosophy, just a product of it.

To sum up Nihilism in a sentence: reality lacks inherent meaning, and any meaning we attempt to fulfill is ultimately chosen, not given to us. Importantly, most of the sense of purpose we see as being "real" comes from our desire to continue existing, (hence Existentialism.) But, existence is a choice. You simply choose to continue to exist, or you don't. (In which case you die.) This is the main insight which makes Nihilism disturbing. Philosophically, if our existence has no purpose, then it seems that everything else we believe and value is built on a foundation of sand.
Yeah... I specifically prefaced the comment with "most people in these conversations are talking about families" and specified in tech.

Even if it's just for a few years, the amount of money you can save up by living in these high COL cities is insane (for tech workers at least)

Honestly, part of it is I don't know how long that's going to be true. If we have a sudden tech bust, I'd rather be sitting on a large amount of savings and trying to find work anywhere it pops up than on a smaller amount that won't sustain me if I have to move to a high CoL area
Ah, well in that case not only do prospective searchers not have an incentive to look for the mine but the landowner doesn't have as much incentive either.
This is completely inaccurate. Galt's Gulch is an insular community populated by people who largely support themselves. No real gov't or tax system. It's basically the stereotypical ancap paradise. SF is going towards the other end; did you even read the book?
> drone-catching eagles? Is that for real?

Yes. It's definitely for real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DEg2qZzkU
Personally, I see nihilism as part of strategic deployment like any other philosophical position.

If nothing has inherent meaning then you are the one who has power to give meaning to things. You can avoid giving meaning to mishaps, mistakes, past, nasty comments and anxiety while cherishing and making other things more meaningful (to yourself).

Nihilism opens door to countering positions such as above. By using it, one can either accept life without meaning and move on or they can counter it with different position that doesn't bind them from construction of their own structure.

off topic

> It helped me a lot, given that I'm bipolar

I am curious how do you trust yourself dealing with that.
In a similar position, I find it a bit complicated to retain trust in myself (messy part is I have trauma related to trusting others as well). The feeling of being able to do anything devolving into sleeping like a rotten piece of meat within a few months. When I noticed the pattern, I had to stop thinking anything ambitious long term.

Currently, I have a few yes/no questions that highly depend on ny emotional and psychological state. I ask myself when I am unsure whether it's a good phase or bad phase. When am I myself? Is it when I can be high or low? Or somewhere between combining both.

Obviously, I can ignore the emotions and look at things objectively but then, I would start disagreeing with lot of people including doctors and become more 'robot' like. I start thinking about incentives, motive, biases, biological coding and what not to rationalize 'something' but that 'something' ultimately depends on my emotional underlying. The argument proposed are hard to deny unless someone has an irrational absolute stance originating from a position of faith or bias they are unaware of.(I am not saying things directly, I know)

Aa for drugs (they don't really work that much for me), do you not see yourself as intoxicated though? If someone was under the effect of alcohol, would you say that someone has control or actually thinking by their own?
Comparing medical drugs to alcohol might be a bit stretched but some of what I took in the past was relatively similar in effects after a bit of research.
What if you had to take drugs forever to retain that person?
Who is judging what is ultimately good for you?
I just like the way the sky looks when I'm away from civilisation.
I imagine that's cheaper than paying for the towing fee that's the alternative?
I disagree.

I grew up and lived as an adult in central and rural California (and the Bay Area) before moving to Texas.

I thought I was pretty conservative, like many in rural California.

But coming to Texas it was shocking how liberal I was. Not in anything specific, but in the overall. Texans and California’s government and voter just don’t even think about the same kinds of things. What is perfectly reasonable in California is completely foreign in Texas and vice versa.

The big example: the taxpayer. In California I never thought about them. Who’s going to pay for this great new law or public policy? In California we never ask. In Texas, everyone knows: the taxpayer.

No conservative one in Texas is going to support a law, no matter how good, that the taxpayer isn’t going to want to pay for.
The dot-com bubble of 2001
I want the same for pianos :)
Doing the certificate isn't bad at all. It gets you informed about many things in disciplined way. But preferring the candidate during the interview based on just certificate is plain stupid.
Sister bar is da best :)
Your hypothetical old people utilize their stored equity via a loan, just like you draw from your pension. Reverse mortgages are a common way to do that. Or, you sell and downsize into a property or place that you can afford.

Real estate markets are fairly liquid, and assessors always have a process to grieve your assessment based on market or other conditions.

California is way too protective of the property owner. Carrying costs in terms of taxes are frozen in time and anyone can walk away from a mortgage. Stock options are what keep the machine going.
Actually I’m thinking it’s more like this. http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif
> outlaw anyone for trying to do anything

Are you saying that people who don’t earn few millions a year are doing nothing? Mind you, the majority of people are in this situation and contribute a lot to the society (teachers, doctors, researchers, any workers really). I’m not a leftist but I recognize the concentration of money in a few hands is probablematic, and a lot of business models to get to this point are harmful to the society at large.
You probably believe that your views about genders is coming from observations of "males in plenty of species", but have you considered that maybe your views about "plenty of species" could come from your views on genders?
Income inequality becomes an issue for the rich in cities like SF and NYC when costs of living rise faster than wages for the lower class and you end up with a rising homeless population.
'Should', but will they? Good intentions do not necessarily good policy make.
It doesn’t need to generalize, just do sophisticated interpolation.

Basing the results on a dense sampling of the input space is exactly what I was suggesting.
> > All individual rights are carved out from the default government

> Not sure this is how you meant it. If you mean to say that rights come from governments that is not quite correct, at least not in the US.

> Rights, in the US, are not GRANTED by government, they are RECOGNIZED by the US Constitution to exist OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT (upper case is for emphasis only). In other words, these rights don't require government in order to exist. We are recognized to have them and government can't do a thing about it other than to respect and protect them.

> This is a massive difference with other systems that lots of people, both inside and outside the US are not aware of.

> Take the right to bare arms as an example. In most other nations, if it exists, this is a right granted by government to the people. In the US this is a right recognized by the constitution to exist despite and outside of government.

> Here's the key difference between "grant" and "recognize": The government can't take away that which it does not own, did not and cannot grant.

> An example of a right (well, a privilege) government can take away is your driver's license. They grant it and they can take it away.

> In the case of firearms, the US government does not have the ability to confiscate weapons because that is not a right the government granted and, therefore, they don't have unilateral power to cancel that right with a simple bill. In fact, it takes a tremendously complex agreement across all States and the federal government to make any changes to the US Constitution (2/3 majority in the Senate, House and all 50 State Legislatures). Even that does not guarantee government to have the right to eliminate rights.

This argument is a prime example against the point you are trying to make. With guns, the government is constantly eroding that right by narrowing the scope of what constitutes a legally permissible gun. Wicard vs Filburn is another example of government rewriting the limits of their power without the consent of the people. Why did prohibition require an amendment but drugs are scheduled today without the necessity for constitutional amendments?

All organizations seek to expand their influence and power over time.
This is just so... weird. The obvious unintended consequence is to fire the lowest-paid workers. Outsource it to contractors, automate, whatever. Why does the ratio matter?

If you want to redistribute wealth, do it the honest way that doesn't distort markets. Take it from rich people and give it to poor people!
>All individual rights are carved out from the default government...North Korea is closest to this ideal today..

America is not even close to North Korea in relation to human rights and freedoms, and I feel no source is required as this is just hyperbole.

Edit add words.
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