skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do and there is quite a bit of research on it. Food is a major zeitgeber.
> By this rationale, society deserves the extremism it gives rise to through its treatment of individuals who were not extremist before the treatment.

It's a terrible rationale. The extremist ideology, itself, is unjustifiable regardless of the means by which it's acquired.
I'm currently developing a test automation DSL as part of a full automation service.

My partner worked for some time running on-site test automation courses. This was for organisations where the devs were average 9-5 workers without any passion for software development. Not the sort of places that would ever feature on HN.

Manual testers transitioning to automation testers within such organisations are, in most cases, fully incapable of doing so effectively.

Such testers cannot learn to code. Many could barely type with much proficiency. All were great people and great at manual testing, but coding was generally not what they were wired for.

There is a market for something easier.

It took me some time developing a plain-English DSL to realise myself that the majority of browser automation coding isn't coding.

You can abstract away the hard parts. What you're left with is not coding but configuration.

Given the right automation system you don't need to write code to define your tests, you instead need to configure the system to test as needed.

A DSL to replace current automation coding as-is is indeed an odd task.

A DSL for a minimal-grammar configuration language within an automation system can definitely work.

Will it work for everyone? No, absolutely not. Not you and not many who read HN. We're the outliers.

Will it work for boring dusty companies that we've never heard of and which can't afford to employ people who read HN? Yes, definitely.
> What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm

Ugh

One thing I hated about this story was people complaining about being controlled by a black box algorithm. This was not a black box algorithm. It was, in fact, the opposite. It was an optimization solver that found the best outcome as defined by you given the constraints as defined by you. It could not be more transparent how it worked.
Clubs are opt-in, taxes aren't.
What happens when one of these mini-cloud providers like DO, Linode, and Vultr folds?

What are the consequences as a customer?

Does all your data just evaporate into the aether?
>Not even sure you could make Blazing Saddles today either.

I keep hearing stuff like that, but why not? Why would you think it couldn't be done today?
What role do you think anonymity plays in this discussion? Communities would self police much better if some level of anonymity was removed from members; its less likely that “John Davidson” would post a racist rant than “xxTrump2020xx”. Removing some anonymity also comes with a huge slew of issues, but it would definitely resolve a lot of content problems if there was a real world link to online behavior.
It's not a U.S. thing. It's a state thing. Not every state funds its schools through real estate taxes.

Nevada, for example, is funded by sales taxes, ad valorem property taxes ("property" as in things, not houses and land), gambling taxes, federal money, estate taxes, and mining taxes.

http://ftp.ccsd.net/directory/budget-finance/pdf/Funding_K-1...
Actually we had the same problem and we are trying to create a platform called Jooseph, which is basically playlists for learning. You can follow modules curated from different resources.

We realized there are a lot of great content out there but it is hard to suspect which one is time worthy or which is reliable or relevant.

So at Jooseph you can follow curated list of resources from different channels such as medium, youtube or podcasts anything valuable. Also, any user can create his/her own list for share or just to store it.

We are at Public Beta right Now you can try free from;
https://jooseph.com
It seems to be ideology and emotional reaction to "nuclear" overriding logic.

I'm having a hard time finding alternative explanations. Otherwise why would you be so picky in a situation you see as a crisis? To reduce CO2 emissions globally we need every tool in the toolbox and nuclear is one of the best and safest[1] we have.

Maybe rebranding nuclear energy would help. Get rid of that word, replace it with something else.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Yes, which is why no matter who your provider is, you should have an off-site backup.
>if you press mouse 2 |
It's normal.
In the lower left corner of the screen is a More! button
If you want to get more points, then click on it. And more zombies will come.

>have short range |
the game must be dangerous

>Also, was it intended to run out of ammo after the 5 minutes? |
Yes. You can get points only in limit 5 minutes.

>And sometimes the zombies would bug out and go through cars and etc.

I don’t know why this bug appears.
This seems to be related to the physics of the body in Phaser 3.
Tiles are marked by me as collides, but if there are too many zombies and they begin pushing each other, then this happens.

The explanation may be this. Game with a top view. Sometimes they JUMP up and walking to me.

And thanks for solving CSS problem.
It's cool to see an open-source product analytics tool in YC!

I'm the co-founder of a company that had a similar value proposition back in 2017. We got invited to the interview at the YC office but couldn't convince people because of a number of reasons:

1. GDPR was not huge back in 2017 so the idea of creating an open-source alternative was not attractive enough.

2. We were targeting the companies that want to build their own data pipeline on cloud and the cloud providers such as AWS were claiming that their products (specifically Kinesis & Redshift) make it dead-easy to create such a data pipeline. At first, we thought that we were doing something complementary to cloud providers but soon we realized that we were competing with them. Our potential customers were trying to create such a data pipeline in AWS thinking that it will be simple and AWS actually made it easy to start in the beginning. However; data enrichments and the cost optimizations are really tricky when your data grows and our product was optimized for these workloads. AWS doesn't really need partners like us, we're saving costs from the customers but make AWS lose money in the long run because of these cost optimizations. The switching cost becomes more than just increasing the Redshift capacity by 2x as you store all the data in Redshift.

3. We're not native speakers so we probably couldn't express ourselves back then.

Time flies. We got into 500Startups Batch 21 that year but had to pivot last year since we couldn't make money to create a sustainable business.

Shameless plug: Right now, we provide the same feature-set (segmentation, funnel, retention, and SQL) for different CDPs such as Segment, Snowplow, Firebase, and in-house solutions. You can think of it Amplitude or Mixpanel but on top of your data warehouse. We generate SQL queries and run them on your data-warehouse just like a BI tool.

I would love to collaborate if you're open to partnerships since we're now complementary to each other. :) You can see how the product looks like from here: https://rakam.io/product
Seems to overlook the concept of essential vs incidental complexity. Most processes I have seen in practice have huge amounts of incidental complexity.

I prefer to think about it from a different point of view: processes always grow in complexity until reasonably intelligent people can't understand them any more. It takes incredible discipline for anything to be maintained in a "simple" state below that threshold because reasonable people will all agree that adding some more complexity at that point has a low cost compared to the value generated. For this reason, most things in the world sit at that threshold of complexity where they are just comprehensible but still annoying complex when you first encounter them.
You don't have to keep it displayed on canvas given it isn't "animated". You can use temporary canvases for the initial render then convert it to a Blob (and from a Blob to an Object URL). Most browsers at that point use the GPU's transforms to quickly convert the image data to a basic compressed JPG or PNG and then the usual browser performance mechanics of an image apply (and as a URL you can use it in regular IMG tags or CSS things like background-image). Presuming you remember to revoke the Object URLs when you are done with the hashes to avoid Blob leaks, performance is improved over the "simpler" canvas techniques that just display the rendered canvases.

If code helps, here's how it looks as a React Hook in Typescript:

https://gist.github.com/WorldMaker/a3cbe0059acd827edee568198...

(I offered the code to the react-blurhash repository in its Issues.)
>No, they have tons of business outside of China

If not for China they wouldn't be where they are and wouldn't have succeeded. Having a large core market you are the most competitive in (due to government regulations) provides a massive upside that you can then leverage in other markets.
> What is the formal definition of complexity?

In re: that question I found "Introduction to Cybernetics" by Ashby to be very stimulating. (PDF freely available from here: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html )
What's your experience with the service? I'm with Linode at the moment, primarily because DO doesn't have an Aussie region. Seems like Scaleway is much better value for money; however reviews on Reddit don't seem favourable.
I wonder - would such audit be in their interest? Perhaps it's easier for Twitter if foreign dissidents know that Twitter is not safe to use for them, and go elsewhere. Twitter then does not have a risk of politically charged situations, and can peacefully exist by serving the usual harmless inane chatter of general population.
France has done an incredible job of managing nuclear. Over 75% of their electricity comes from nuclear, and they've never had a single serious incident. What about French culture avoids the problems we've had in the US, Japan and Russia regarding nuclear plant management?
This is super interesting stuff and I've been following it for some time. I just wrote it up with a bit more context:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/how-the-mandalorian-and-il...

It's not just ILM and Disney either, this is going to be everywhere. It's complex to set up and run in some ways but the benefits are enormous for pretty much everyone involved. I doubt there will be a major TV or film production that doesn't use LED walls 5 years from now.
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Could just scan out your friends and “miss” scanning some items for a cut.

Or “overlook” their 20lb of ribs scanning as 20lb of rice.

Can’t do it entirely because of the exit checks, but the checks aren’t 100%.

Though when buying a gift card, they don’t let you pick it off the rack: you get a receipt to ask someone else.
I remember reading somewhere about programs being turned into generating functions and then asymptotic complexity follows from that. Not just asymptotic in the worst-case but also the best-case and average case.

It did not require a formal proof. It just turned code into generating functions.

It was probably work by Philippe Flajolet, also at Inria.

I think I also remember it being used for memory reads and writes in addition to comparison ops analysis.

Really great stuff.
Actually we had the same problem and we trying to create a platform called Jooseph, which is basically playlists for learning. You can follow modules curated from different resources.

Like you said there are a lot of great youtube courses out there.

So at Jooseph you can follow curated list of resources from different channels such as medium, youtube or podcasts anything valuable. Also, any user can create his/her own list for share or just to store it.

We are at Public Beta right Now you can try free from;
https://jooseph.com
In LA (and now in the Bay) you never measure car travel by miles. ;-)
Happened to me too this morning! Spooky! I had to figure out how to delete this app as it's not possible to do using normal interface:

In "About Phone" tap 7 times on the "Build Number" to enable "Developer Options"

In "Developer Options" enable "USB Debugging"

Connect your phone to your laptop with your USB cable

Install "adb" (android-tools) on your computer

In a terminal type: adb devices

Then type: adb shell

Then type: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.fmm

"FMM" is what they call "Find My Mobile"

You can remove other bloat too. Search for example for all Samsung apps using: pm list packages | grep 'samsung'

That's it. Worked fine for me. Phone still works without any issues. Hopefully I now get better battery too!
Sounds like you're thinking of creating a gold-mine business model for data....do the hard searching/digging up/processing of rare and valuable data, then sell it at a premium.

A few questions: What types of businesses would be "customers of that data"? Brainstorming all potential customers separated by industry would be a good start. Are there any "data purchasing" trends you've seen lately?
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Yeah - they just lump everything together. They even include employees selling secondary as "raised" capital and the same for debt which is inaccurate.

I'd be happy to tell them that, but I'm a little annoyed with them because they used to list everything publicly and then put a bunch of stuff behind a paywall. Doubt, that it would matter much to them regardless plus we are one of the few startups that raises both equity and debt, so I don't think it something that happens often enough for them to really change how things operate on their end.
Thanks for bug report!
Absolutely -- in fact, I think including cars in this discussion is a massive red herring because car reliability and choice have improved so much. Yes, the Caravan may be more expensive, but for sure there are much cheaper and more reliable non-Caravan options out there.
Ships can’t be hacked. Wrong
Show me the machine guns. It may be difficult to leave - mostly because of what you give up, and the disruption in your life - but nobody is going to shoot you if you try.

Socialist regimes larger than a kibbutz have always been established and maintained by force.

Our current economic system is not perfect, but the results over decades are infinitely better than other systems - particularly socialism.

https://fee.org/articles/extreme-poverty-rates-plummet-under... https://reason.com/2019/01/31/global-poverty-decline-deniali...

Contrast with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_... 10s to 100s of millions killed under socialist governments, both direct and also as a result of failures of the central planning. This includes mass killings in Castro's Cuba, USSR, and Nicaragua, whose governments were each endorsed in the 80s by Bernie Sanders. Mischaracterizing non-socialist economies like Denmark is probably a better strategy.
Inflation measurement is a hard problem. Some say it's over-estimated: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/08/inflation-and-his...

(More on quality adjustments: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/07/25/measuring... )
yeah I'm not sure about your last paragraph. when I interviewed at DO, the few business folks I spoke to were adamant on taking on AWS. I kind of scoffed but hey I'm not running DO.
Why would a company and a person ever have aligned values, unless that person owns/runs that company? Companies are ultimately tethered to the will of its stakeholders and the stakeholders only hold stake because they expect a return on investment. People value things like family, travel, friendships, romance, spirituality, pursuit of passion, personal fulfillment etc. Why would a company ever value these things?
If you designed a machine that passed out six thousand flyers per second, and only allowed certain people to distribute certain messages, you might reasonable be considered liable for the content you've approved.
They have polarized 3D screens, and with head tracking, you have it.
Why should you be allowed to muck around on my computers without authorization from me?
And Elizabeth Warren wrote it in her book, The Two Income Trap. Such a a great read! This was before I knew she was running for president, many years ago.
> I'm saying that banning addictive sugary food be a thousand times more effective w.r.t public health than banning trans fats.

I get that, but I don't think the empirical science supports a claim that sugar is more costly than trans fats from a public health perspective; and certainly not that it's 1000x worse. In any event, the effects of sugar are indirect and complex. For example, AFAIU a high sugar but low calorie diet isn't particularly bad for you. By contrast, trans fats have a simple, clear, and substantial causal relation to arteriosclerosis.

50 years of prescribing partially hydrogenated oils and low-fat foods was based on poor, incomplete, and sloppy science. Going forward maybe we should instead base public policy on sound, concrete, reproducible science and straight-forward regulations. Not everything needs to be fixed with government mandates, and usually shouldn't without clear reasons.
Just popping in to say that OVH is the cheapest option for a reason -- support/monitoring/any other features you might want are just not there like they might be on other providers.

I host a single tiny website on OVH and they restart it randomly every ~4 months without warning (seriously). It was annoying at first until I set our services to run on system boot.

Some more discussion at discourse.org that's relevant: https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-from-digital-ocean-to-o...
I think a difference of kinds and not just degrees can be established between moderating just illegal content.

But maybe not, given that there is a lot of different interpretations of what is illegal and judgment calls have to be made over that, as well as issues of jurisdiction and even issues involving laws that may be unconstitutional.
> Minor nit, but it seems like poor form to take someone who's arguing against CPI, and then to use CPI-adjusted numbers in a counter-argument.

That's fair enough. But let's use the author's preferred denomination of nominal median household income. From 1985 to 2018 this number rose 21% faster than CPI.[1] Given this it means the median cost per square foot fell by 15% over the period.

> Specifically, housing is 40% fair market rent on a three-bedroom apartment.

Thanks for linking that. That article found a 172% increase in nominal terms for its "typical example" of a 3 bedroom apartment in Raleigh, NC.

In nominal terms, median real household incomes at a national level rose by 196%[1]. Data for Raleigh specifically doesn't go back to 1985. But since 2006, Raleigh incomes have risen 0.5% faster than the national average.[2] Therefore using the author's preferred metric rental housing has actually become 8-19% more affordable.

Finally focusing on rent ignores the fact that 65% of American households are owner-occupied. Over the same period the cost of rent has risen substantially faster than the cost of ownership, not least because mortgage rates fell 12.5% to 4.5%[3]. If you take a weighted average of renters and owners, you'll find housing costs grew at substantially slower rates than simply picking a single metro's rental costs over time.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
[2] https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/north-carolina/raleigh/
[3] https://www.valuepenguin.com/mortgages/historical-mortgage-r...
Any thoughts on why markup stays so high if the industry is actually cutthroat? Competition should be driving margin way down.
Mocap systems haven't really been able to produce deliverable results without human intervention very long. I'd argue they're still not there, some filtering and cleanup of the data is usually required. A lot of VFX is still about throwing human labour at problems.

Edit: I should note I'm talking about motion capture for characters etc. Capturing the motion of a rigid object like a camera in a controlled environment is very doable.
I was thinking the same, but more so with Frontier: Elite II :-)
It seems to me that the irreducible complexity of a task is just what the user has to deal with to do it. If the application or platform could deal with that complexity for the user then it was reducible by definition.
People don't care about the GDP growth

They most certainly do when thinking about about the social programs GDP funds.
I very much doubt that early proponent of fission-powered electricity in France or anywhere else had CO₂ concerns in mind, but countries who made that choice certainly ensured a much less dramatic energetic transition circa now.

That's my problem with anti-nuclear people: the problems of nuclear waste are largely anecdotal for now, it would only become a real concern centuries down the road (and even that's debatable), while CO₂ is rising and that's an immediate, pressing concern.

So building a few nuclear reactors now to curb CO₂ emissions is definitely the way to go if we intend to keep on increasing energy levels (thus not F up the economy too much to combat climate change); whereas favoring windmill and solar too fast too soon is just bad use of our short-term budgets (both in time and money): we'd better for instance invest massively in electric infrastructure to replace all trucks (eventually all vehicules, but again, urgency and magnitude set the order).

I mean, isn't it idealistic and dangerous to say 'no' to nuclear now when our immediate concern is CO₂, greenhouse effect? I'd rather see 2100 with as little temperature increase as possible with a little bit more nuclear waste (that would be of no effect to anyone), than the opposite (because the former paints a non-catastrophic picture, whereas the latter is potentially apocalyptic for some regions and major cities of the globe).

In this specific case however (France, Fessenheim and the other), these were too old reactors and needed shutdown, it was unsafe to keep them going. The last thing we need in this world right now is France failing at nuclear safety.
I would like this as a marketplace where you could license your data to other people.
You can get OpenVZ or even KVM boxes for half the price or better. I have one running as a simple nginx webserver and OpenVPN server that I pay under $30 a year for
Is it really the world's worst though? I mean the candle can still be lit with a match after the company closes down right?
I assume you download your data.
I'm exempt and have to do a timecard because of how we bill projects internally.
AWS Lightsail has a $3.50/month option that might work for you if you want a VM. You could even consider something like nearlyfreespeech.net if you dont need full control of the tech stack.
Maybe for small stuff. But the bins are well locked up for that reason. The garbage goes out in a sealed bin accessible only within the store. Returns get palletized for 3rd party resale and then forklifted into a trailer.
I asked about that. The only thing I would have to pay is the same delivery fee again for the truck to pick up the old mattress set (reasonable, IMO), and the price difference if I chose to replace it with a more expensive set.
In UK the hokey cokey is copyright free, in US Sony owns all publishing rights
I agree about the buzzword part, but the parent did specify two FAANGs. I'd think it would be interesting to hear which two since it's obviously not Google (as the article hints that they want to move data out of the EU).

Also, the FAANG expression didn't start around scale, if that was the case netflix wouldn't have been included as early as the expression was coined. The expression was about developer compensation. That seems to have changed recently(-ish) though and now the expression is more like "unicorn" instead of just the specific companies that make up the acronym.