skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to sound terrible to some but as someone who believes strongly in self-reliance, I get a little giddy when I see anti-self-reliance commentary get promoted in the media. It's the same feeling when I see advocates pushing shorter work weeks, more time off, more lax leave policies, and so on.

Why do I like these things if I disagree with them? Because it's convincing people they shouldn't have to work as hard as me! Which is making me so, so valuable to companies. My compensation is shooting up like a rocket. And I'm no workaholic either. I put in a solid 50 or so hours a week and take vacations and occasional personal days. I still ask for help when I need it. Yet, I'm becoming more and more of a rarity in the modern workforce.

This is going to get me downvoted, but I thought it was valuable to share my perspective. I suspect others are the same as me and are secretly cheering for people to buy into the notion that they aren't personally responsible for their success. We'll pick up the slack. ;)
Right, but I think it's worth adding the disclaimer because there are also folks who are shocked (SHOCKED!) that something like this could happen.

But you're right, that's the whole point of schema.org.
http://archive.md/effA9
> In the article it says 80 percent of the investments fail

No, the article claims that if 80% fail (but define failure: zero return? 1x?), the other 20% must return 30x in order for the fund as a whole to return 20%. Then it goes on to say that the average fund over 2 decades only broke even. This means that the successful 20% aren't returning the requisite 30x.

> the entire point was to find something that returns in the hundreds of percents rather than 7%.

Right, and if you don't find that something, the fund doesn't work. Funds aren't finding those somethings.

>> A chastening study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2012 found that the average venture-capital fund in the previous two decades, far from delivering its promised returns, had scarcely broken even.

The paper cited is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2053258

VC are selling to LPs the same thing that VC-funded startups are selling to their employees.

> I only worry about evil businesses getting this VC money

And not about the other point they make in the article? :

>> if your rivals are growing wildly at an early stage, and with good hookups, you’re obliged to play the game in order to keep up.

VC is forcing companies that would otherwise be viable bootstrapped businesses, to fail. Then the VC-backed companies fail as well, and everyone is the poorer for it.
Have you ever tried to 'bing' a python error you've ran into?
This is specifically bad because it's a business product meaning that trying to get work done will only get harder.
There, that should stop them.
People are calling SWAT teams to tech executives' homes
The System We’re Living in Is Crony Capitalism. Not Capitalism
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Risk compensation [0] has been studied and gets a lot of press because it tickles that combination of psychology + counter-intuitive result + play into narrative that people suck.

As far as I know, though, most modern studies show that while there is some amount of risk compensation (people engage in riskier behavior after adopting a safety apparatus), the compensation is less than the benefit of the safety measure.

With beacons in particular, a potential compounding factor is that many people may not have gone out into the wilderness at all before beacons became available. So maybe there is a net increase in beacon usage but it could be because of an even greater increase in outdoor participation.

I think it's a net good for people to spend time in the outdoors, both for them personally and because it encourages society as a whole to prioritize preserving the environment. So if that results in more people needing to be rescued, it may still be worth it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
At this point, you're either a shill or a troll or did not earn your high school GED.
> I'm not a woman, but I imagine

One of the biggest problems with male dominated communities is men imagining what women would say instead of just listening to the women in the community. I'd be interested in hearing responses to parent from actual women.
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A list of saudi investment funds and tech investments

https://qz.com/1426370/silicon-valley-is-awash-with-saudi-ar...
Brooklyn Zelenka on functional programming [audio]
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The problem with The Netherlands is that in some cities (I'm looking at you, Nijmegen) they've built massive roundabout which aren't actually roundabouts.

It looks like a roundabout, it feels like a roundabout but the priority rules are reversed so if you treat it like a roundabout it only ends badly..
I don't have the attention surplus to hunt down a "No thanks" or a tiny "X" that's been tucked away somewhere while I'm trying to read something. If I can't dismiss the modal by pressing ESC or clicking on the overlay, I've already stopped caring about the message and left.
very noticeable change in Silicon Valley culture pre-2007 and post-2008 on this topic ; it appeared that there used to be a detectable, "moral" element to FOSS contributions by stakeholders, but post-2008, pure ROI drives have changed that argument .. they stay silent, don't communicate and don't reciprocate.. Apple Inc, who always was in that direction anyway, embraced the change and stopped pretending to give back, too.
Is a "multithousand dollar machine" supposed to be expensive? Any company with even half-decent resources should be able to put hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware toward training a model.
Congress doesn't have direct enforcement ability, so they empower independent agencies in the executive to enforce statutes.

The Environmental Protection Agency can only act under statutes, which are the authority of laws passed by Congress. Congress must approve the statute and they also have the power to authorize or prohibit certain actions, which the EPA has to implement and enforce. Appropriations statutes authorize how much money the agency can spend each year to carry out the approved statutes. The Environmental Protection Agency has the power to issue regulations. A regulation is a standard or rule written by the agency to interpret the statute, apply it in situations and enforce it. Congress allows the EPA to write regulations in order to solve a problem, but the agency must include a rationale of why the regulations need to be implemented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Pr...
It's not a useful or interesting representation of Feyerabend.

The internet habit of reducing everything to its most sensational detail, and cleansing it of all context, for damning purposes, is a bad one. It's what that HN guideline is intended to cover.
The TRS-80 Model 1 was the first computers the local community college had. I was in HS and my dad was teaching the computer classes. They did earn their name Trash 80, but they were for the most part good, solid machines. I think we got them because someone else didn't want them anymore. It would interesting to find out how learning on those machines affected the students.

(I could go for a modern clone of the Model 100)

[edit: also the parallel (or serial? haven't looked in a while) port switcher so everyone could print is still in the equipment room, older than many of the current students]
"Science isn't useful because it is right, science is right because it is useful." (Unknown philosopher of science, possibly but probably not Feyerabend)

From this perspective, there's nothing "wrong" with Newtonian physics as long as you understand the domain in which it is useful (essentially: larger than molecules, smaller than planets).

Newtonian physics, QM and relativity are all just stories we tell in our attempt to understand how the universe came to be as it is, and predict how it will change (with or without our own actions). They are all "wrong" in the sense that none of them are the way the universe actually is, but they are all "right" in the sense that they provide us with immense explanatory and predictive power when used in the appropriate domain(s).
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The comparison you've made between the atrocities of WWII and the migrant crisis on the US and EU borders is completely off base. In the first case, were are speaking of extermination programs based on race and class as well as social engineering programs run by the Nazis and the Soviets. In the latter case, we're talking about keeping a flood of undocumented people from crossing into these regions. How could you even draw that comparison? It's shocking and disgusting.
A bit alarming to see the government embracing an end-to-end chat system with perfect forward secrecy, considering both the head of the FBI and the CIA have confirmed that the lack of a back door would impede the fight against ISIS.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/fbi-chief...
Which is presumably why they are never used for major through routes, so don't cause severe daily congestion. Though I would like to see far more streets, even some with appreciable traffic, converted to downrank cars.
May be if they commit such crimes where the rule of law is in effect, they might face civil action.
"They did not implement the winning solution as is"

Shortly after that contest finished Netflix removed the five star rating system, and dramatically subdued the recommendation engine. Now the vast majority of the content surfacing is universal beyond some small category filtering (e.g. You like crime dramas and horrors so here's a bunch of the most popular stuff from those categories).

Now they have a "match" rating that I have not met a single person who finds useful (it is almost at the point of farce and seems more like a randomization engine).

A lot of money and talent went into something that Netflix clearly decided just wasn't important or useful enough for them. Now they just push Don't F*ck With Cats on everyone.
Well, Crony Capitalism is Capitalism. Let's face it.
Works fine on Brave browser with Javascript off. My new go to config for pretty much all news sites where I only want to see images and text.
Take a look at the level of conversation that's being had in this thread; most of the posts read to me as good-natured curiosity at the level of "please explain to me why there is a need for this community". Some are a touch confused/defensive and think the site might be sexist in some way. And there are some openly positive and supportive posts too.

Now put yourself in the shoes of a woman in tech/entrepreneurship/makerdom. Would you rather hang out in a community where everyone fundamentally understands the challenges you face daily, or one where you have to explain the basic premise of your daily challenges when you initiate a conversation about them? (Or rather, would you prefer to hang out in both, or just the latter, since it's not really an either/or.)

Now I'm sure there is some selection bias in the posts in this thread (i.e. they don't reflect the distribution of opinions of HN viewers), but that's kind of the point; the selection bias for posting filters the other way in communities like womenmake.
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Looking to learn more about the field of information retrieval but don't know where to start. Reccomended papers/blogs/ books would be appreciated.
In Michigan, where I grew up, Detroit public schools got about 50% more funding than the public school I attended. Want to guess which schools had better outcomes?
Uploading files as a root user with Capistrano
I think first off that is hypocrisy not dishonesty and in the second place it's probably actually a regrettable and regretted addiction.
Definitely not Wickr.
The EPA implements the regulations as described by Congress.

Right now, Congress has been very fuzzy about specifics, leaving it to the Executive to fill in the details. Phrased differently, Congress has explicitly given the EPA (under the direction of the President!) a great deal of latitude, and Presidents are using that latitude in both directions.

But if Congress has set it up that way, we shouldn't be surprised that this is what happens. The correct fix is to get Congress to provide clearer specs.

I suspect that the reason they don't, is that when they're less specific, they are less vulnerable to scrutiny by any given demographic. If they just say "we did something", then maybe both the Sierra Club and the farmers will be happy. But the more specific they are, the more it's going to piss off one or more blocks of voters.

So they punt, abdicating their powers. And the result is that things can change as the wind blows. We should not be vesting so much power in the President.
Looks like actual employees of John Hopkins, all the way down to the non-union employees have the hospital as in-network.

Network Providers - The EHP Medical Plan gives you access to The Johns Hopkins Hospital[1]

[1]https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/human_resources/_docs/benefi...
You're correct that the ISPs are dragging their feet, despite it allegedly being for their benefit - but exactly the same breakage risks apply. The cost/benefit tradeoff doesn't look good to them.

I just bought a new router. https://www.asus.com/uk/Networking/DSLAC68U/ It doesn't support IP6.
This got flagged. Im a bit confused as to why it did
Ending war means exploiting human nature, not changing it. We are inherently averse to violence, danger and suffering.
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There are many communities that are effectively Men*. What percentage of e.g. HN users do you suppose are male?
Where can I get $300 for a season pass at Cypress? My friend paid like $500. Graduating soon so I could definitely manage that.
> In Seattle, people who believe they are at risk of being swatted can include their information and that of their families on a police registry. When an emergency call about a potential threat comes in, the police check to make sure the home isn’t in the registry. If it is, they call the home first to see if they can reach someone inside, and check with neighbors to see if there are any corroborating reports of shots fired or other disturbances.
Maybe if you read a little more about why he "supported" them, you'd find that even more useful?
You complain about minsinformation and then say stuff like that.

HVDC is very widely deployed for interconnectors and grid connections. And there are >20 UHV lines in China, many over 1,000 km long.

This is not pie-in-the-sky but physics. By using appropriate technology you reduce tranmsision losses and/or cost.

Also consumption and demand are already very spread out in a traditional grid. A generator can go offline and the power is sourced from another location. In fact this is essential for nuclear stations as large generators can fail rapily.

I agree that pumped hydro has limited value, and nothing is a panacea on its own. But most of the nuclear states actually have significant deployed pumped hydro capacity. It is a complementary technology. When nuclear power stations fail they can leave a big hole in generating capacity. Pumped hydro can deliver >1GW in a short amount of time and fill that hole. Otherwise you need to maintain more spinning reserve.
> And it's all in Flash!

I think they moved away from Flash, I see svg now for charts
If SA were a liberal democracy, Iran is a good example of the government voters would elect and the relationship the country would have with the US. So of course the US prefers tyranny there, just as it preferred tyranny in Iran. Once the oil runs out there, the US will suddenly return to the values it espouses.
It was called web-surfing back in the day. Sadly, we don't surf anymore.
You need to brush up on your Cryptography 101 course before arguing with people about how asymmetric encryption keys work. There is nowhere that states that only one entity can have "control" of the keys. If you don't understand that, then I can see why you're so confused about this whole situation.
This is wonderful
There are a few others in there as well: https://bgp.he.net/AS34939
we have seen in the past few days that the GOP does not want to enforce the checks and balances anymore.

There's more than enough blame to completely cover both sides of the aisle, on any number of issues.
Not feeling down. "Even worse" is a sort of trope I use in such comments (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=2&prefix=false&qu...) because I have the feeling that it reduces friction a little bit. I think you're the first user who's ever commented on it!
> knowing calculus will help you with balancing books.

How? I can see how calculus is used in quantitative finance, but double-entry bookkeeping predates the invention of calculus.
Didn't read closely, but they could be saying that macronutrient composition of diet is actually irrelevant to mortality. Rather, eating a high-quality diet (presumably lots of fresh vegetables, fruit, etc.) is actually what matters.
And a couple of the movies. Khan!!
There's no solving infrequent social problems with technology, only socio-politically. I'm sure it does happen to a few people, but it sounds extremely rare.

At least a mail-in ballot usually has a "receipt," (that serial number thing that's torn off at the top/bottom) although it does little to show or prove a vote was counted, especially with the subjectiveness of interpreting handwritten marks. The bigger problem is electronic voting has no real records making it far easier to manipulate because there's nothing permanent to recount.

I suggest that to solve the receipt issue, privacy, speed of counting and accuracy to the best degree available, it's best to:

0. Make voting day a national holiday.

1. Mail every voter a durable, physical RFID token (signed by a closely-held private key) that has an unique code that is not recorded who it is given to. If they haven't received one before voting in-person, they can receive a random token.

2. The voter is first checked to make sure they haven't yet voted by keeping a database of "has voted"... completely independent of actual votes.

3. The voter either drops-off the RFID in a container in a booth for their vote preference, or they mail it sealed in two envelopes (outer mailing info, inner vote preference).

4. Votes are counted both by weight and by RFID scanning (whole containers of votes are scanned in batch) for redundancy.

5. Voters can check online in real-time if their vote was counted by searching for the RFID code they used.

6. Recounts are a matter of mass-scanning large containers (with appropriate chain-of-custody) of votes.

7. Tokens are reused to reduce waste.
While those who are negatively affected by the reform would suffer, that money doesn't evaporate. It goes elsewhere, so it wouldn't cause a recession on a macro scale. Look into the Broken Window Fallacy in Economics in One Lesson. its a great book.
In Japanese, the orange-like fruit 橙 is "daidai" and 橙色 is "daidaiiro".
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Go to advanced options. You can generate your own list and load as a file on iPhone, you can also set forwarding and cloaking.

But I think it is more practical for your personal fine tuning of DNS behavior. For larger lists it is easier to point to a DNS servers that already has some block lists on.

Personally I point to my personal doh/dnscrypt server which is refreshing blacklists twice a day with cron job.
Actually, there's almost nobody else remotely like Feyerabend. Imre Lakatos came close, but was more interested in mathematics than science. Feyerabend was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of the 20th century, whether or not he was right about some things, or about anything at all.
> there's tremendous opportunity for a 'Space-X' style small contractor to get a serious foothold.

Sure, but the procurement process is incredibly difficult to crack into for small companies. There is tremendous amounts of red tape designed to keep other players out.

> Some of these companies need to replace 40% of their workforce in the next decade. Who would a new grad choose?

Most will go to where the money is...unless you go FAANG, it's harder to find the kind of high salaries that defense contractors can throw around in the private sector.
Growing biomass is carbon neutral, burning fuel derived from it never is.

Thus even bioethanol is not carbon neutral unless used in chemistry where it's not burnt.
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> Fun fact - there is a sentence in this post written entirely by the GPT version of Me. I wonder how easy it is to spot.

...I couldn't spot it. Anyone? Eerie...
Not for the crony class. Isn't that the point of distinguishing "crony capitalism" from "ideal capitalism"?
Startup School participant pitches reviewed by VC
Why is that alarming? The FBI and CIA requests for backdoors are alarming. Unless you're positing that these apps may have secretly complied with CIA and FBI requests?

If anything, this is a really good thing, as the utility of publicly available comms are embraced by government entities, it should somewhat guarantee that us consumers will also have access to this.
It's important to realize however that not everyone feels that way about Python3. I'm glad they fixed it and I wish they'd fixed more.
I think "I, Pencil" would blow Odell's mind.
I really tried to read this, but it was so bad I wonder if it was generated by a script. The whole thing was pointless minutiae. Surely the author was getting paid by the word.
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No he did not. But it also pulled his picture, so he must have somehow set up iCloud to broadcast those informations I would guess?
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It took me calling them out in a tweet to get myself off these calls. The only place I used my phone number was for two factor auth, which they then decided they would use to up sell me. There's also no way to opt out on their website. Very shady practice but love the product otherwise
The reason there is violet, by the way, is that the eye's red receptors weakly respond in that range, causing a perception of red to creep into the blue.
These are not carbon neutral, a vehicle emits CO2 when burning them and that is not captured even in half by the growing plants.+

And you have to fertilize them for this efficiency, and those either require non-neutral manufacturing process, or composting which releases methane (in itself a biofuel that could be used but isn't). Plants also release some methane on their own when growing.

That's not even counting loss of biodiversity or replacing carbon-negative fields, farming grasslands and forests.

You could make a biofuel carbon neutral but we're not even close. Bioethanol for example has a CO2 producing fermentation step.
Going biohydrogen and burying the plants could work. (Even methane is not clean enough to offset planting, unfortunately.)

And we do not want to go neutral but to reduce emissions.

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+) The number is 37% according to in-depth study: http://theconversation.com/biofuels-turn-out-to-be-a-climate...