skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure so-called no-kill shelters don't outsource their killing by simply refusing less adoptable animals. And if this contest were advertised as "help us decide which animals to kill first" it probably wouldn't gain traction.

This contest sounds ridiculous. It sounds like an attempt to get in on that AI gravy but do so with some sort of feel-good element. Only there is no feel good to it, and the basic premise seems outlandish.
I get the frustration but the only real "solution" to the network effect is to steal the "friend graph" from the other sites and give people an account without them asking for one.

It's not realistic. It's not a problem we can "solve". People just have to be provided with compelling enough alternatives, and enough reasons to bother leaving.

That being said Planetary isn't really another social network. It's just an iOS client for Scuttlebutt, which is an existing network, with thousands of users and an incredible community.
I think the cause and effect is intertwined. Many of the people who now plan to only stay for a few years have that attitude because they feel disenfranchised and locked out of the planning process, while at the same time being priced out of the ability to put down roots.
Adding on: training a service animal costs hundreds to thousands of dollars. It's poetically not something you do so you can bring your dog on a flight with you.
The Prison Inside Prison
Larry Wall (the Perl guy)?
ugh you still speak Latin 77? the new Latin 2018 spec is way more readable
It’s so unfortunate that houses have become more expensive but the actual value proposition hasn’t really changed. It makes more sense for lots of urbanites to rent instead of own in some cases.

Houses (and apartments) are so poorly designed. In my mind the floors should be like an hair hockey table that vacuums itself up. Appliances should be built into the house and should handle each job when something becomes dirty. The dishwasher should be smaller and wash each item as soon as it’s been used. Same for the dreaded washer & dryer... the fact that they are two different devices greatly perturbs me.

Rant over.
The Past and Future of the Worlds Oldest Trees
Proptech Startup Spacewalk Raises 8B Won in Series A Funding
I made that choice, too. Crash tests don't give the full picture. Since "downgrading" to a smaller vehicle I've found it much easier to avoid incidents completely. It seems like the right trade off for the kind of driving I do, which is mostly on urban streets.
Is there anything like self-hosted Facebook "wall?" Something that's like Wordpress in that I can post updates to it and like Facebook in that people can find my updates and comment?
For monthly things, it does have some effect.

I participated in some of them before due to the visibility.
People from your class may know you but others, not so much. In the absence of time and other signals, management would often pick someone who is highlighted to represent something.

A lot of big people at those events generally don't mind giving contact information to young kids asking for help as much.

From there, you can effectively build a nice list of people that you can leverage in future for your resume or career.

It's like free consultation you otherwise would need to buy later.
But it's anyway going to die soon if it's gonna commercialize.
There's a "canine good citizen" test:

https://www.akc.org/products-services/training-programs/cani...

It's a pretty low bar for any dog that doesn't have major behavioral issues; I'd expect any dog with a non-dumbass owner and a good home from birth to be able to pass. Even many hard-core rescues could probably pass after a few years in a stable home.

A variant of this test for airline travel would probably not be too hard to design.

One of the problems with making any particular test mandatory is that the test operator can price gouge and then genuine service dogs will become even more expensive. So, such a rule would have to be paired with price controls on the test.
Maybe whoever trained their ML models actually thought no one would call good first issues "good first issues". Kinda like you're trying to build a cat recognizer and you suddenly feed it pictures of cats wearing signs around their necks that say "CAT" in all caps. The recognizer would probably fail.
Website is down. Ironically.
The Netflix Prize was interesting, and drew a lot of attention to it, but ultimately wasn't that simply stuffed into the trash bin? Not long after that, Netflix basically abandoned both user ratings of significance, and realistic recommendations. Now it's just a nonsense engine with some sort of meaningless overlap or whatever they call it.
You should perhaps transfer your domain to another registrar who will allow the standard maximum duration of 10 years (as of now) and then renew the domain for another five years right away. Cloudflare could be an option to transfer to, though I haven’t used it.
The Thucydides Trap (2017)
I do think it would be more fun to make 500K at age 20 than at age 37 so those athletes do have that going for them.
well we were promised things wouldn’t end to a flood so I guess it seems fitting
Before reading they'd scraped public data that was likely to be the "hidden" evaluation set, I thought they might have cheated using Python introspection: inspect the caller's frame, find some variable already loaded with the expected answer, return that.

Has anyone cheated at Kaggle/similar using that approach?
With the cyclists on Hwy 1 it's hard enough driving a Civic.
I’ve been using postmarkapp for 3+ years, never had any issues. Works flawlessly
there is of course still such a thing as formal proofs and verification.

with enough attention on information theoretic security (or unconditional security), things may change
Searching for Dave Chappelle Ten Years After He Left His Own Show
if you were less risk adverse, it's possible to pull equity out of your house and have that reinvested in stocks, and continue paying the mortgage (and may be work out a way to make it tax efficient, like debt recycling). Then as long as the stock market out-performs the debt cost (which is likely), you win out ahead by quite a bit more.
HAHAHA.. I searched for "New Delhi", India
The system crashed.
Makes sense after all Delhi is as big as Singapore.
Wordpress itself. Have seen several families use it as a Facebook wall replacement with email updates if you subscribe.
Why can't you put him in a doggy hotel.

You would never be allowed to take a non-service dog to New Zealand, any (non-service dog) Animial going to NZ is put in quarantine for 1 month on arrival
This looks like just a sign-up page, which falls into the 'announcement of an announcement' category. That's off topic here.

On HN, there's no harm in waiting until a thing exists. Once it exists, we can have a nice thread about it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Great goal! I'm a big fan of social networks for social good, including empowering users, reducing spam, and improving communications.

The Planetary project uses the Scuttlebutt protocol. I've looked at the protocol a bit, and I love its strengths - such as distributed replication in offline peer to peer settings.

But I don't have a clear understanding of how Scuttlebutt will handle some typical use cases. For example, how to handle accountability, or compliance, or anti-spam training across instances, or stopping mass-spidering across instances. Social networks at scale have tremendous pressures due to attackers, harassers, spammers, etc. and it's non-trivial to stop these, even more so with Scuttlebutt because it would need new kinds of distributed tools and new kinds of user awareness.

If someone here is able to engage with these questions, and ones like them, I would be very happy to provide more info and specifics. I keep my notes in progress at https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan
> You don’t have to shutdown people you don’t like on the platform

Unfortunately it's never framed as such. It's usually of the form "this person's words/ideas are objectively bad and your platform is bad by allowing them to post at all"
I guess they realised giving user swhat they want isn't necessarily profitable for business.
Most airlines I've seen will allow you to buy a ticket for your dog so it can have its own seat to sit in. Doesn't need to be in a kennel or anything.
It's not really relevant to the overall point and I know it's fuzzy estimates anyways but there's a mixup in stocks and flows. linked Quora source says:

>L6 is staff engineer. Only about 15% of Google engineers are at this level or higher

And the post:

>People who make it to Staff engineer at Google per year: 1,875

I'm not sure about google but at Amazon there's definitely not that many people making it to principal/staff every year.
sounds like they need to better plan for the future
This needs to be more widespread. People really abuse their animals and whole emotional support concept and I remember a few years ago the hundreds of people who thought it was okay to bring their emotional support pet to New York Comic Con.

This shit has to stop.
Sounds like Amazon wants people to align with their company principles.
I don't know what to do.

The benefits of being tracked are many. It helps your productivity, quality of life, and breadth of what you can get out of it.

But what happens when the state or the corporation decides that YOU are someone they suddenly decide they don't want to be in their system?

They have far too much power, and our legislators seem incapable of doing anything about it. It's out of control, and it's also creating a gross inequality of wealth.

Is this Orwellian power bubble going to grow until an apocalyptic burst happens 20 years from now? Or can we start turning the cameras on them and truly democratising surveillance? How about a series of exposés on the exact real-time locations of powerful and famous people by using cheap legal commercial surveillance tools? What is it going to take?

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It's not just surveillance of the population, it's also 'remote control'. We can be psychologically and behaviourally controlled, like puppets, from a single source, through 'nudging'. They can control not only what we see, but now, get an increasingly comprehensive set of instant, real-time feedback data on our bodies' reactions to this centrally nudged media.
If anyone here is looking for a good overview of 'the liberal arts', I cannot more highly suggest The Harvard Classics, specifically the 15-minute a day reading guide : https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120612_1

For example: Jan 23rd's reading is on Pascal and the art of persuasion:

"Pascal, the keen-minded philosopher and mathematician, fathomed the human traits of man's nature with the same accurate measurements which made him famous in the realm of geometry. Read his searching analysis of man's conceit."

Though the year's effort is not necessarily an ethics course, per se, the sum is a fantastic grounding in ethics (among many others). When I did the full year, I could not help but look up the authors and works in more detail on wikipedia and google. Delving in further, even for just another 15 minutes a day, really helped me 'suck out marrow' from the works. Especially since the guide was compiled at the end of the gilded age and before the wars and post-modern life, comparing it's view to today's is unavoidable and fascinating.

Part of 'ethics' is mulling things over a lot, and The Harvard Classics is one of the best jumping off points for that out there.

It's free, excellently curated, time tested, and quick.
> But don't they already have your money by then? They don't care if you stop chatting within their platform since you've already paid

I suppose so, if you pay for it, most of them are free.
But that's besides the point, I just had a different experience from most people here, after 4-5 different housekeepers, I gave up and ended doing the work myself. So in that aspect, my experience has been the same as online dating.
Was this a nutshell??
Scuttlebutt is a bit different because the tools of control are in the hands of the users.

Sure, there will always be abusive jerks on any platform with an uncensored text field to type in.

BUT in scuttlebutt we not only have the power to block people, but when we block them 2 things happen:

1. the block prevents anyone downstream from us from receiving that persons content via us (remember this is distributed P2P stuff)
2. the block message is public and can be commented on.

Once a significant number of people block someone they become effectively cut off from the main body of the network. Think of it as an immune system response.

When I block someone i comment on the block message. I might say "blocked for misogyny" and this signals other people who follow me and might have that person's content via another source, that they might want to take a look and preemptively block that person to protect themselves from that type of content.

> What about moral and political issues on which we disagree?

there are a number of people who disagree on Scuttlebutt. We seem to get along, or we just block them and don't have to hear it.

Private groups are a thing on the roadmap that will enable folks to have their own topic specif stuff. So, if a bunch of republicans want to talk right wing things, they can do so without pissing off the democrats who want nothing to do with it, and without getting blocked out of the network. We're not there yet, but it's definitely in the plan.
Imagine being so selfish and incapable of doing normal human things, like sit in a chair for a few hours, that you are willing to put a whole plane full of people through a bunch of nonsense and potential danger.
Based on what assumption? Current population growth?
America’s richest paid a lower total tax rate than any other group in 2018
> 99.999999%

That would mean only 80-odd people know about IA, which seems a tad low :P
>So, you're saying that farm-raised, open-pasture, free-range, or other titles are meaningless?

Yes.

1)A knife is still shoved into their throats so they bleed out.

2)You can get all the nutrients you need in a plant-based diet.
Are you referring to this article (it was the only recent one I could find about a rabbit on a plane)? https://www.insider.com/rabbit-business-class-flight-photos-... The article explains that the rabbit was brought on to the plane in a crate, but was allowed out by the flight attendants, since the passenger had an empty seat next to them and the attendants enjoyed playing with the rabbit. That hardly sounds like "attention whores [who] treat other living creatures like they're fashion accessories, and let them run around the cabin and sit in the seats and do whatever they want". It is another example of potential abuse of the concept of an ESA, but I certainly wouldn't want to subject my pet to the conditions of the cargo hold for a trans-pacific flight.
This. Wordpress is incredibly flexible and you can do all kinds of neat stuff without having to deal with the CMS aspect of it.
Right. Don't replace systemd, compete with it. Don't remind everyone that your competitor exists.
They would have able to win and get away with it if they incorporated the knowledge of the external dataset directly into the ML model, provided they had a reasonable estimate on the fraction of overlap between the external data and the test set. A weak version of this would be to just train on the external data in addition to the provided data. A stronger version would train regularly on the provided training data and in addition overfit on a random subset of some percentage of the external data (with some small random prediction error thrown in to obfuscate), which would get equivalent results to what they did with logic.
I'm sorry but if performing better at your job doesn't improve your individual performance, you need another job!
Think about people who went there as a tourist and are suffering. ️
> I get the frustration but the only real "solution" to the network effect is to steal the "friend graph" from the other sites and give people an account without them asking for one.

If this were true, then Facebook would have never taken out MySpace. Facebook got its foot in the door by being a social network designed for a specific niche of people (college students). It tapped into what that audience wanted and wasn't getting elsewhere, and only expanded after being _the_ platform for college students.

The problem with most of the social networks today is that they want to start off as an everybody social network. I say "most" because I'm sure there are social networks out there succeeding with their target niche, but haven't yet expanded beyond that niche to a more visible entity. When they're ready, I'm sure we'll slowly hear of them more and more until they become commonplace, without having a dramatic entrance.
Yes, and that's the right thing to do in the academic research setting ("advance the state of the art"). But the public competitions with monetary rewards are not the same setting. I can imagine scenarios where the guy stole the test set from Kaggle servers (i.e. unlawful access) should disqualify him permanently. But the essence of the competition should be the focus on cracking a given problem, not about a specific technique.

One test a good of ML competition: Can it be solved by simply hiring lots of humans to make predictions without incurring significantly more costs than the prize money?
I was inspired by cht.sh and wanted to have my own notes hosted without running a python server like cheat.sh so i ended up writing a silly static site generator using consolemd and ship it to surge.sh.Let me know what you think :)

https://github.com/santrancisco/cheat/
> back in the day, Jobs hated networking because it was "just an umbilical cord back to the mothership"

I didn't realize this... but it completely fits both the person and the time.

For those that might be unaware, back in the 70's through maybe even the early 90's, there was a belief that personal computing represented a form of personal liberation from centralized control/power.

The idea was that a computer you could own and manage yourself represented freedom from the establishment (which took the for, of centralized minicomputers, mainframes, and the like). Of course, 30 years later, we now know how that all turned out, with the idea of the network being a connection back to a central mothership sounding pretty darn accurate.
People in cities have much shorter and less car driven commutes than in suburbs or rural.

Everything is near and there is public transport.

So how they would use more carbon is very hard to see.
Or, just maybe, the added customer support requirements for dealing with customers with pets in the cabin actually costs the airlines tens of millions of dollars per year, and your idealized version of the perfect pet voyage which doesn’t negatively impact any airline operation or fellow customer experience is not taking into account the total possible impact.
I have to imagine more people than that are being hired out of college every year at all of FAANG.
Your link effectively only shows that higher earners earn more than lower earners.

That is not the same as incomes increasing because of higher education. Incomes have held stagnant for a number of decades, even as more and more people attain higher and higher levels of education. If 0% of the population had a higher education or 100% of the population had higher education, your income would remain the same as it is now.

McDonalds isn't going to pay someone flipping burgers a million dollars more over the span of their burger flipping career simply because they attained a physics degree. That is not how the economy works at all. If 100% of the population had a physics degree, someone is going to be left flipping burgers. 100% of the population are not going to be working on solving string theory. The economy cannot function in that manner.

Inflationary dollars are relevant as that is how we measure stagnant incomes. An income that tracks inflation is stagnant. Incomes are stagnant. We are not talking about spending.
that's not a logo.

Those concentric rings are a depiction of network hops. It's a smaller version of a section of an infographic that I can't find at the moment.

I agree it's not obvious.

In ssb, by default, you get content from friends, and friends of friends. You don't follow the tree of connections indefinitely.
>As much as I love the free market, we're completely failing to protect consumers. I think we need the government to step in and align incentives.

>Medicine has malpractice suits. Engineers have a professional duty of care. Builders have building codes. We need an equivalent for software engineering.

The key difference is that when a doctor or engineer screws up, people die. The burden is on the people calling for regulation to show the tangible, measurable harm to peoples' health or finances resulting from these data breaches, otherwise the average person won't take them seriously.

It's also the case that doctors and engineers aren't dealing with adversarial input. If somebody blows up a bridge nobody blames the engineer, and if a patient deliberately harms themselves nobody blames the doctor. Yet web infrastructure is constantly dealing with adversaries across the world trying to breach it.
4x Hour EC2 Outage for the Entire AWS Sydney Region
https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home#/dashboard/open-issues?eventID=arn:aws:health:ap-southeast-2::event/EC2/AWS_EC2_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE/AWS_EC2_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE_RFMRO_1579740075&eventTab=details&layout=vertical

Not yet resolved, currently impacting:

RDS
WorkSpaces
ELB
Appstream2
Lambda
EastiCache
EC2
Yeah, but at 37 you're not going to be suffering brain damage in a FANG job. Sitting at a desk sure beats getting tackled for a living.
I was surprised to learn that the Four Yorkshiremen sketch actually predates Monty Python -- I guess this is why they only did renditions in their live shows. Of the original Four, only Cleese and Chapman went on to be Pythons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch
If only we had the same level of transparency in native apps. At least in Chrome, Firefox, Safari - you have dedicated large groups of engineers thinking about privacy, security and stability. Compared to native iOS/android where you get isolated groups of developers able to exploit and track with little to no visibility from end users - let alone access to source code for review by third party software engineers like we have on the web.... it's madding that apple doesn't invest more in its browser and yet pretends to care so much about privacy - of the major three browsers - apple definitely _seems_ to underinvest when it comes to web technology...
The rent is profit only after the loan is paid, minus property taxes, repairs, insurance, and management costs.

If one isn’t living in the house then it’s not a home and they aren’t a homeowner, they’re in the property management business.

My point is that obtaining a mortgage on a house is not necessarily an investment, particularly if one plans on living in it. Yet I often hear from homeowners that their home was a “good investment” despite never having realized a gain on it, and never planning on selling it.
I feel almost same way as you do. In 2020, I have secret plans to start consulting on the side. Instead of maximizing number of billable hours by suggesting custom everything in latest JS framework, I will be suggesting the simplest possible solution be it Shopify or Wix, or static sites.

Of course, my clients goals may not align with mine. I am hoping to empower small business owners like plumbers, barbers, etc and non-profits.

If owner is too busy to talk to me then probably that business is too big for me.
Ideally? In a litter box.
came here to find out how it was done....disappointed