skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing that Europeans also recognise that giving every dumbass, desperate person or dormant psychopath a gun, is far more likely to get people killed NOW, than the chances that when the 'end-times' you imply come, all these same people are going to someone effectively unite and overthrow the regime.

It's a crackpot idea to think that 'arming citizens' helps the whole. And the fact you think it's 'arrogant' to spell out a basic truth that the rest of the world understands is dumbfounding.
The contrast between your argument and your tone is amusing.
I've just posted my first gem and I'm really proud of it. I have a feeling there are people out there who could get some value out of it as well. I'm also interested in having the code and concept critiqued.

I'm using this in production right now to design a application for a university neuroscience lab where there are a huge number of classes that all have completely different attributes but fit into groups which have consistent relationships to each other. This has allowed me to have a very cleanly implemented data model which would have been an absolute mess without this tool.

All feedback appreciated.
This is one of the better explanations I've heard about preferred stock. I'd say the counter point for the engineers at least is that frequently the opportunity cost for them is vesting stock.

That lost revenue over the vesting period is IMHO the same as directly investing cash in the company that the company itself can liquidate. I would say that when shares are used for compensation with a vesting period they should be treated equivalently to investors that are directly putting cash in.
My mother, over 90, uses the exact same arrangement which I set up in the mid 90s. Linux, mutt, emacs, fvwm customized to be very simple. Whenever hardware stops working I just need to transfer the setup to a new machine and everything remains identical.

It would've been impossible to do this with commercial software as basically nothing has a 25+ year old support life. Because everything is open source, nothing needs to change.
> In representative democracy, the will of the people is still supposed to be the most important factor in the representative's decision making.

To be clear, we agree on this.

My point was that, in a direct democracy, it's not just the public's ends that are paramount, but also the public's preferences on means.

One good example of what I'm talking about is Ancient Greece, which was a direct democracy, despite having so-called representatives. In the Ancient Greek system, people were chosen for the civic duty of governing the country like they continue to be chosen today for jury duty: they were drafted by lottery. They weren't afraid of politicians betraying the public will, because any politician that did anything the public didn't like, would be killed.

And to be clear, "anything the public didn't like" included, for example, being friendly to foreign diplomats, or accepting gifts, even if these things would have had no later bearing on their political decision-making, i.e., on their practice of their profession.

In such a context, a politician is forced to not only act toward the will of the people, but also to "perform politics" in a way that avoids upsetting their citizen-base, and so to avoid using some of the most effective political tools because the public finds them uncouth. Also, such performances often require the use of ineffective or downright counterproductive political tools, simply to satisfy the public.

A clear modern example of the effect of direct democracy is when a municipal elected official, e.g. a county sherriff, feels pressure to put a suspect behind bars for a crime there's not yet sufficient evidence they committed, simply because the public demands that someone be punished for the crime.

The entire point of representative democracy, is that the public is often irrational in ways that makes their proximate demands an ineffective way of achieving their own stated will. In this example, the public nominally wants to see justice done—but in the implementation of it, directly demands injustice. A representative is supposed to listen to the will of the public, certainly, but to ignore the direct demands; or translate the direct demands into the will they stand for.

Patients know their symptoms but not the causes. Users know when there's a bug but not the correct fix. Well, voters know when there's a problem, too; but they're not any better at figuring out what to do about it than patients or users are.

People don't have enough money to get by? Fixing that is certainly "the will of the people", and a politician that hears that complaint but doesn't do anything about it is certainly not being a representative. But the decision between fixing it via welfare, jobs programs, minimum wage, UBI, etc? That's statesmanship. And letting the public decide which of those policies is better is just abdicating the responsibility to practice the job of politics; just like a doctor just giving someone pills for whatever disease they think they have would be an abdication of responsibility for the practice of the job of medicine.
I have a WSJ subscription. I don't know of any easy way around their paywall, makes it one of the special cases for scraping because you would actually need to login.
>government has strong incentives to deny claims to control costs

Which is still less incentivization than what profit-maximizing insurance companies have.

The nice thing about the government is they are completely open and transparent with what they will pay and for what, so disputes are much less common.
Who wants to play incident response bingo?
There are excellent non-fake products from AliExpress. I have bought several trinkets but nothing over $20. They are super buyer oriented I've never had problem getting refunded for damaged goods. I buy capacative touch pens at 1/10th the cost of the exact same ones I see in Walgreens.
> And how is writing paychecks for government bureaucrats any different?

It's (supposedly) CHEAPER. That's right in the title. If you want to argue whether it's actually cheaper or not, that's another thing, but this kind of feigned ignorance is really not helping the debate.

> I would like to pay my doctor, and my hospital, and my pharmacy for my healthcare costs not some borg.

In South Korea, with its universal healthcare system, I always visited a hospital and paid them directly right there. Usually a few to a dozen bucks for common cold, inflamed ears, that kind of stuff. Here in the free world of America, I go to hospital and three weeks later a faceless insurance company sends me a ridiculous bill and I don't even understand how they arrived at such a price.
Certainly, the data is inconclusive enough that you can make strong arguments either way. My issue is with NPR making a generalization and citing a source that doesn’t really back that up.
Amazon, eBay & Co. are kind of forced to inherit this from the credit card companies in any case.
>I denied the return.

And that's your problem. If you deny a return within the return period, you're in violation of Amazon policy, and the A-Z team will rightly rule against you. The correct response is to accept the return, then deny a refund after it comes back to you because it wasn't sent back with the same accessories you sent it with.
Sudoku is only NP-complete if you generalize to arbitrary NxN boards. The standard 9x9 Sudoku gives a finite class of problem instances, so you could pre-generate a finite lookup table and get an O(1) algorithm on that class.

It sounds like I'm nitpicking, but restrictions of any NP-Complete problem to a finite class automatically reduces the strength of the problem. To the point, an SQL statement on "small enough" SAT instances will probably also be rather fast.
Concerning the fiction of Lyuben Dilov mentioned in the article which I had not heard of before, does anyone know if there are translations of his work either in English or German? Googling does not spit out much info.
I think one problem with NIT is it would likely pay out annually, when income taxes are filed. That's not very helpful if you're living paycheck to paycheck. UBI can more easily dish out money on a more frequent basis. Additionally, this was already mentioned elsewhere, but, a major argument for UBI is that not having any sort of means-testing will drastically streamline the process, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. NIT still involves means-testing.
I believe the FRED data I cited is per person, not per job.
Yes, you're right and I wasn't following that. I haven't had experience with secondary markets. I had to wait a few years for an IPO and then there's the lockup.
Thanks for your reply. Please, can you further explain why you wouldn't use Next.js or Firebase for building a product as a solopreneur? Maybe because I don't have much experience with Rails but I'm still failing to understand how it's much better in your opinion.

Also, I think Digital Ocean doesn't have a free tier. That's my other point: I can't find a reliable, fast way to try out new ideas spending literally $0 using something like Rails. That's pretty easy to do using JAMStack, though.
Wow, and here I thought writing sudoku solver in Java is a tough task.
Psychedelic Pioneer and Confidence Man
No kid yet but 2 more hours working currently would guarantee that I did absolutely nothing but work and do random household bullshit for the entire time I am awake, with zero time to decompress from work.

9 hours maybe, but 10 hours? I'm a software engineer, I can't produce quality work for 10 straight hours. Most good, solid work gets done in a 4-5 hour period. 10 hours in front of a computer isn't good for anyone.
And the really crazy and stupid thing is why are we burdening our doctors with knowing whether someone's insurance plan covers their services? Doctors ought to focus their time and talent on treating people and illnesses, not trying to calculate bills for patients.
Sounds good, I didn't know about Neat URL until now as Canonical Url Detector is what I've been using for a long time. It is slightly smaller in size, but maybe not as effective: https://github.com/irok/CanonicalUrlDetector
Amazon takes the position that this counts as "soliciting payments from buyers outside of Amazon", which is prohibited by the ToS.

See https://www.facebook.com/lalawgroup/posts/1719796444820559

My understanding is they sued the customer, Amazon stepped in to defend them, and they got a judgement against Amazon. But Amazon suspended their account in the meantime.
This is probably better well known as a "paradigm shift".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
Because in the grand-scheme of things, the countries that have banned guns don't have the problems you have.

Crazy, I know.
Exactly.

This highlights the foolishness of "net neutrality", which is really just code for "my team should regulate the internet".
It's amazing to me how different things are now in the particulars (e.g., computers are probably a million times faster, and you can get a much better and more featured database like Postgres/SQLite for free rather than pay hundreds of dollars for a commercial one) and yet how similar they are in a general sense. You still have people like Wayne out there creating software, motivated by the same kinds of reasons and with the same tastes and proclivities. You still have the same conflict between productive technologists torn between technical work and management as their company scales. And the startup grind he describes is obviously still relevant.

It's a good thing that he stuck with the database rather than quickly turning his attention to natural language processing, since that is only starting to advance in meaningful ways in the last decade now that we have the required data and compute resources-- he would have been very frustrated!
I'm really heartened that you admit to not being an expert. Often when I have raised this issue on HN in the past, my discussion partner claims that their physics or math background makes them qualified to draw policy conclusions from journal paper press releases.

As long as we're trading perspectives, I'll say that some years ago I had what I'd call a "generically skeptical" attitude. (e.g., "the consensus has been wrong before.")

I happen to know and speak regularly with a few actual climate scientists (i.e., PhD in the field, then postdoc, now publishing papers, editing journals, etc.) -- and they gently tried to tell me that I should pay more attention to the known facts than my generic skepticism. So I try to point out the NCA reports (which are very good) to interested, technically-literate, nonspecialists.

Unrelated to that, I started to interact more (professionally, i.e., joint research and publication) with Earth scientists in several domains. I learned that general physics training is not enough to predict what dominant effects turn out to be ("is Greenland gaining ice, or is the ice altitude just rising due to post-glacial rebound?"). You really need actual problem-domain experience, which is a full-time job. The Earth system is very complex.

This problem (HN commenters trusting their general physics/math competence beyond its limits) is endemic and omnipresent in HN climate threads, especially discussing press releases linked to climate-science research papers.

This is often compounded by the press release itself being designed to maximize visibility! So, now you have two problems: the press release is sensational, and the journal paper it links to is written for climate scientists.
> I think economically it may make sense to hire fresh people for less money, burn them out and then have them leave soon.

If the job is focused on smashing rocks with a hammer to make smaller rocks, that's probably true.
A letter costs a couple hundred bucks at most. A state with a good attorney general might do it for free. The statistics are in your favor that you'd get your camera or your money just by sending a friendly letter on the right letterhead.

But even then, I'd take a day trip to Florida for $2905.99. Heck, this is a great time of the year to go, and I usually don't make any money when I go there.
The rules apparently (since last year or so) are that you can interpret arbitrary code as long as the code in question not only legally but in practice meets the definition of the zeroth FSF's rule (notice that the “executables” on the FS image distributed with SeeLess are LLVM IR assembly text files, which is probably the reason why the thing is so damn huge)
With the risk of falling into a loop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386665
Easiest way to cut through the noise is to give candidates some whiteboard questions. This will invariably filter out some good candidates that aren't good at these problems, but you'll be left with a bunch that have some baseline competency.
No, linear algebra is not more useful than calculus or differential equations for any branch of engineering other than computer engineering. Computers engineering is the only discrete engineering discipline.
It was common practice once upon a time to never put either an 'O' or an 'I' in serial numbers. Back in the 60s-80s, it was also a common practice to put a slash through a zero to signify that it was truly a zero.
Baseline: 4% of people believe lizard people run govt.

A mere 3% of scientists doubt climate crisis. Given how lucrative skepticism is, I'd expect many more defectors.
I could be Ok with data caps per tier, if that actually led to lower costs for lower tiers. As it is, I pay a huge amount of money for low quality internet service.

Also, 3TB is not huge for a family, especially in the age of 4K streams.
iPhone mistakes you need to stop
How is 3TB "HUGE"? If you're using computers like a normal person, that'll be gone pretty quickly. I remember using 1-4TB a month in my youth on a connection that couldn't push 1MBps.

Given the recent emergence of high-definition video streamed to every home, it seems like three times that probably wouldn't be enough.

EDIT: Capitalization error, mbps > MBps.
A huge point of compensating employees with equity is that startups don't have cash, at least not very much of it.
Workout Systems and Novelty Map
What I'm describing can't be achieved without server-side changes. The lounge is great but from what I can see it relies on having a persistent connection from the user's desktop.

Doesn't really solve the problem.
Amazon may suspend your account for doing so. It happened in the case I linked at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22388122
The Computer History Museum has just posted the video of a four hour interview with Bert from 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZJxwzVx5BY
In no real justice system could selling backyard weed justify the seizure of sixty million dollars.
Wow, those pgbench numbers are terrible. Wonder what went wrong there. Bad ZFS config?
What made it good was free server creation that didn't require a client download. Just send people a link, and they can join your raid even if they dont have the client. Any actual quality of the provided audio link past that point doesn't matter.
Does that work for small claims?

It doesn't seem right, you could definitely abuse it to make someone's life miserable.
Starbucks employees get to apply up to 10% of their (pre-tax, I believe) income to a fund that quarterly buys stock at a discounted rate (iirc, 90% of the stock price as of start or end of the quarter, whichever is lower).

It's a nice benefit, and it'd be cool to see something similar in tech.
It makes the following claims:

* encryption of email in transit is good because it does provide some security against things like dragnets.

* attempts to bolt end-to-end encryption on email, regardless of what tools you use, are insufficient to provide any real security against the kinds of threats you generally use end-to-end encryption against.

* If you need secure messaging, use Signal

* If you need to send documents securely, use Magic Wormhole or age

EDIT: and if you don't need secure messaging, then continue to use email
Our cap is 1TB. We tend to use anywhere from 600-700GB. But we don't use 4k streaming.
they've corroborated that he owned a fishing rod which was disposed of.

even assuming the codes were stored there he could have 10 other copies of the same in other places and how would anybody know. they could be encoded in a simple way to make them unrecognisable and unusable to anybody but him.
> they aren't mutually exclusive either.

This is technically true but misleading, as it's generally assumed that "the voters" means the >99% of the electorate who are not rich enough to make individual demands of candidates in return for campaign contributions. (And "donors" mostly means corporations, which thankfully do not get to vote, although there are a few people (ie, technically voters) who are rich enough personally to bribe candidates.)
> But Amazon suspended their account in the meantime.

...which wouldn't matter in this case, because the seller isn't going to use Amazon again anyway after this experience.

Linked post says:

> Nonetheless, the court found that Amazon was at fault, and liable for the item, and ordered a judgment in favor of plaintiff against Amazon.

So basically sounds like the seller recovered their money.
They tried and seller denied the return, against Amazon policy.
pack in fedex store, film handing it over to store employee and keep filming until they scan the box in. their tracking will show them receiving box. at that point it is in their custody and you are not getting it back so you cannot re-open it.
Linear algebra has many uses beyond computers:

http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~jkhoury/app.htm

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/256682/why-study-li...
That is a much higher estimate of admin overhead than other sources, covers both payer and provider administrative expenses, and implicitly attributes all provider administrative expenses to billing/coding.

But we don't have to litigate this in the context of the Lancet article. That article derives much higher savings from pharmaceutical price reductions than from administrative savings. We know with some certainty what percentage of overall spending comes from pharmaceuticals, and it is a low number.
Another great reference is https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
That really sucks, but I don't think this applies to a lot of people.
I don't know about any other similarities, but "astroturfing" and "gaslighting" are English words that share this in common: they both have a useful meanings that seems to be primarily used correctly and in context; however they also are bandied about in non-canonical ways by a much smaller number of people with high repetition.
>... you find out that the CEO sold the company at a bargain so liquidation preference kicked in and he just took a huge retention bonus instead.

There's something potentially misaligned between the control of the founders and the final grant value on the other end. There are so many ways to distort this in the final exit deal and these are details that you probably won't learn about unless you happened to exercise stock before the exit happens. In general, the positive outcomes seem "capped" in that a founder is inclined to lock in their gains with an exit if the deal is reasonable for them.

Maybe the option shouldn't be as a share of the company but a share of everything the CEO/founder makes from there on out. :)

For really early stage, I generally assume that a founder is trying to at least 10x their net worth so any hand wavy exit estimate generally gets capped with that in mind.
Cause and effect rule all things. We are formed by genetics, experiences in childhood, all of our trauma, and whether we were born rich or poor. It’s not obvious to me that addiction or brainwashing are different in kind from all of the other influences we are exposed to.
Bribe the president: Definitely not ok. What sort of backwards ass country would allow that sort of thing?

Host fundraiser inviting a couple of your friends to all donate huge amounts to the president: What on earth is the problem? That's completely fair game and I don't see any issues at all.

It seems the US Democracy is morally bankrupt at this point.
If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's "free".
That's useful, in a way. ROS is a collection of several hundred academic software packages which share an interprocess messaging system. Installing ROS tends to cause package problems on Linux due to excessive version pinning.

So, add another level of indirection with Docker! Now ROS has its own versions of everything.
> I remember using 1-4TB a month in my youth on a connection that couldn't push 1mbps

Ya, but you didn't do that. 1TB pushed at a constant 1Mbps, would take 88 days... 4TB taking nearly an entire year.

4TB at a constant 100Mbps takes 3.5 days. It is a HUGE amount of data.

> recent emergence of high-definition video streamed to every home

Netflix claims about 3GB per hour of HD content streamed[1]. So if you were to stream 24 hours a day for an entire 30 day month, you'd barely peak over 2TB. That's 24 hours a day for 30 days straight - something nobody is doing.

A data cap of 3TB is simply not a problem for almost everybody. If you're running torrents, or hosting files, then ya - you might have issues. But then why should I pay comcast more every month to subsidize your non-normal usage?

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87
> when the company sells, the upside goes entirely to management and investors

But for early startups that's basically an unlikely outcome.
No. A good amount of reasonable/compassionate companies like mine don't care if you take 2 hours to go to the DMV during work hours. I'm very fortunate