skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who is really to blame?

This is the wrong question that Americans love to ask when they don't want to solve any problems. The right question is how can this be fixed? But as long as people focus on blame, they can ignore solutions and things get worse.

> Workers are getting left behind, sure. But some workers are making it too.

Yes, I think we're all aware that the upper class and upper middle class are doing well. That's about 10% of the population or so. Meanwhile, the other 90% are left behind. Somehow this is supposed to justify the current status?
> Trump being super wealthy is arguable on many grounds - definitionally ("super"),

There are only about 600 billionaires in the US. Trump is obscenely wealthy.
Amazon’s first employee says the company scares him
dont forget the Dijon mustard, how dare he.
Deciding what the treaty means is literally the job of the ECJ. I think (in both the sense of ”I believe it is” and “I believe it ought to be“) that that means it gets to decide which bits are or are not conscionable in much the same way and for much the same reasons that the UK courts get to decide that certain things cannot be signed away by contracts under UK law.
I've always viewed Tropic Thunder as somewhat of a successor to Blazing Saddles, but I largely agree that it couldn't be recreated today.

The time period in which these movies were made is a lot of what makes them so special. That's not to say that what we'll have next won't be special, but 1974 (and 2008) was a different time.
How exactly is it globalization's fault that we have locked people out of the most productive job markets in the country (NIMBY's + perverse incentives), and have a healthcare industry that has been completely captured by rent seekers and middlemen? These are two huge pieces of the puzzle that don't seem at all related to what you're talking about.
Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels after Feb 19, 2020
Sometimes I wonder if some KickStarter campaigns are simply money laundering efforts. Create something that no one in their right mind would want and have your mules make pledges.
If the complexity is truly irreducible, is it possible to truly hide it from the user either?
Wow, the responses to this thread are such an excellent marker for skin colour.
I don't know the Google stats, but as far as labeling black women as male, Amazon and IBM get it wrong 30% of the time. Microsoft errs in 21% of test cases. As for Google's rates, not all that long ago they were labeling black people as gorillas so... [0]

Put it another way, how impressed would your boss be if you were to say "Yo, I've nailed this. I've got a kick ass algorithm, check this out. Oh, yeah, it fucks up 30% of the time."

Bias in AI is bad, but what makes it much much worse is arrogant attitudes claiming it doesn't exist.

And you know what, that speaks to the idiocy around AI more than anything. All these debates on AGI are moot, because people are already so keen to believe they got it all figured out it doesn't even matter if the actual tech is any good at all.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/photo-algorithms-id-white-men-fi...
My guess is that a company like Linode with 100 million in revenue is using lines of credit to make large purchases of servers that will pay off over time as their revenue grows. I'm not sure what's scary about D.O. borrowing 1/3 of this year's revenue to continue growing.
i think you might be overestimating the technical knowledge of the general public.
I believe that was implied.
There is a formal theory of modes, so to speak: Hierarchical State Machines (HSMs).

A HSM has, or can have, a considerably simpler description that the equivalent FSM, because the equivalent FSM will have to duplicate all the states that are hierarchically shared in the HSM.

Some info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UML_state_machine#Hierarchical...
The problem with this opinion is that you forget what powers these platforms: Money. Section 230 allows platforms to profit off illegal and harmful content with no responsibility whatsoever.

When Facebook promotes falsehoods, they profit. When Google sells links to malware and scam sites at the top of search, they profit. And even if they get around to moderating these abuses of their platforms, they keep the profit from the harm done via their platforms.

If we want platforms to have the proper incentives to moderate content properly, they need to lose money when they fail, or at least, fail to profit when they fail. Ad money for malware campaigns and scams should be confiscated.

But right now, malicious actors on ad platforms drive up the revenue on bidding-based platforms, and no matter who wins the bid, that equals money for ad companies. They have fundamentally no incentive to police content that's making them money.
Wouldn't allowing weaponization of APIs via copyrights throw interoperability out of the window?

If this is a part of "Making America Great Again (TM)" campaign, they may be shooting them in the proverbial foot with a BFG9000 breaking down all interoperability in their own tech sector.
Isn't it obvious that the benefits of technology accrue to the people that own the technology? Look at this chart: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
> Also, from my experience for these sorts of Tech deals, the level of due diligence conducted before an exit by potential buyers can be extensive, so I doubt they'd let the security parts of a security business go bad.

Due diligence conducted by whom?

If you've worked at any corporation, you will know that most organizations treat "Security" as a "Cover your ass" org. Security teams exist firstly to prevent the company from going under due to incidents; actual protection of production systems is an afterthought. Consequently, you will have corporations touting all kinds of certifications while their production systems continue to e.g. use md5 hashes for user passwords.

I would ask that you reconsider your views. You would think the buyer in these transactions would conduct due diligence, but consider that the people who are technically competent to do a thorough due diligence are few in number. It is in everyone's interest to let the transaction go through; the security due diligence happens after the decision has been made and rarely can break a deal.
That's great to hear! I think upon fully reading the blog post it's clear that you meant the next leap forward it solving prediction, to the degree that perception has supposedly been solved. It will be interesting to see how y'all do. I for one want my self driving car yesterday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad/ipad-... (March 2011)

> After being bombarded with questions about food inflation, [The Federal Reserve's] Dudley attempted to reassure his audience by putting rising commodity prices into a broader economic context — but that only made matters worse.

> “When was the last time, sir, that you went grocery shopping?” one audience member asked.

> “Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful,” he said.”You have to look at the prices of all things.”

> This prompted guffaws and widespread murmuring from the audience, with one audience member calling the comment “tone deaf.”

> “I can’t eat an iPad,” another said.
The point is that potentially quite a few kids are about to lose one or both parents this year, much more than baseline.
The Productivity–Pay Gap
Do they run their own servers? I thought they were wrapping t other big cloud providers.
> 5/ Fair enough. But, if you're a family that needs to buy a minivan, while it's nice that the 2018 Grand Caravan ($26,300 in 2018) has many features the 1996 Grand Caravan ($17,900 in 1996) did not, you still face the problem that you need an extra $8,500 to buy one.

$17,900.00 in 1996 is $28,647.64 in 2018. Doesn't take a genius to double-check this work. It's factually untrue that the Grand Caravan went up in price when adjusted for inflation. The rest would take a while to verify (graphs have no source citations).
If you'd like to read some more (very amusing) Pompeii graffiti examples there's some more here. The original page is slightly broken now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171124060939/http://www.pompei...
There are so many ways in which school is not optimized for learning.
Make it a keypad to unlock the door and have a key inside to start the car. Rental company texts or emails you the code that will either work immediately or at a certain time in the future. This would require you to have internet or cell service at some point prior to the rental (not unreasonable). The code would be good for the entire time you have the rental in case you lock the key in the car. The car would only need internet at the beginning of the rental to get the new door code and the expiration date of the rental and could run unencumbered from then on. You could take this one step further and have the code be what starts the car too.
Godot's download size is pretty small, and there's a small demo included, along with a few other demos that are similarly pretty small files that you can download directly from the client, mostly MIT-licensed, including a first-person shooter demo, I think.

Grab some freely-licensed assets (there are a bunch of them, they're pretty easy to find with the obvious search queries, mostly CC-licensed), then the code for what you want should be pretty easy to hack up in a couple hours. GDScript, while not very elegant, is simple enough to where you should be able to learn it pretty quickly (it's aimed at non-technical people), and if you don't want to use it, you can use other languages, too.

Some of the ways it does things is a bit confusing, but if you keep docs and a search engine close-by, you'll figure it out; good luck, it's always nice to see parents who care so much!
It is the same government. Every power the current administration has at its disposal was granted or expanded at some point in the past into what it is now. The Trump administration is not a paradigm shift toward obscene federal executive power, it has been this way for a long time.

The small-government counterargument has always been "You are not going to like this new power when it's inevitably in the hands of the wrong person". That has always been ignored--the Whig theory of history ruled as enlightened new theories for social management demanded more and more centralized authority for the greater good.

Now that the chickens are home to roost and someone truly offensive to the left has been elected, they are doing the world's biggest surprised Pikachu face. But the capacity for human self-deception is infinite, as for example the very same people panicking about imminent fascist takeover are simultaneously panicking that anyone other than the government has guns. So I don't believe that any event can shock the hubris out of smart people and their tidy moral rubrics.
Show HN: Gripeless – Capture Complaints
Hey everyone,

We all see these amazing ideas being posted on Show HN but let's be real - every product has some gripes that could be improved.

The gripes could be things like broken flows, unintuitive UX behaviors, or some interactions being too slow - you name it. Everybody has their favourite products, and each of those products (awesome as they may be) have a couple of small things that could be improved to make them even better.

What's interesting, though, due to a variety of reasons we usually don't report those things at all - we might not think the complaint is solicited, we might not think that anything will be fixed after we report the thing, or even just writing and sending a semi-formal letter is too much friction for such a simple task.

This is why we've built Gripeless, an all-in-1 solution to make the process as smooth as possible for the user so that they don't have to write emails, don't have to think whether the product-owner is acting on those complaints or even requesting complaints in the first place.

Gripeless can be installed onto any website and the provided script is only 20kB gzipped. Both the script and the management dashboard are built with Elm, which turned out to be an amazing choice for making things fast.

We're specifically building a product that can capture complaints and efficient access to them, so Gripeless is not a replacement for:

- Email support software - like Zendesk or Supportbee

- Automated analytics - like Google Analytics or Mixpanel

- Error reporting software - like Sentry or Rollbar

Complaints, that's what we're all about.

There's a lot of existing science behind complaints in the service industry which this product is based on, and we've linked a bunch of it on https://usegripeless.com.

Let us know what you think.

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Create your project over at [redacted]
There are no uncharted waters. “The other side” makes equally bad decisions when it comes to tech because they believe that the government is the answer to too many of the worlds problems. Even if their intentions are good, they don’t have enough of a grasp on technology to understand the ramifications. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Some of the more forward looking liberals warned against executive orders when Obama was in the White House. They said that be careful about the precedent it was setting. Now those same people are bemoaning the current administration.

It’s always dangerous to give government more power.
All those things you could keep them for between 5 and 30 years, though.

But that's besides the point. A $200 smartphone doesn't balance out food and housing prices.

> one side of the story

Fu that sh.
Dalton mentions in another comment on this thread that posthog was originally a different idea and so I'm super interested in knowing if you guys really started building this on Jan 23rd [0] and got the backend, frontend, integrations, docs, sdks ready for not a soft-launch but a Launch HN in 4 weeks? That is nuts. Congratulations, either way.

I am glad someone is tackling this problem.

A feature request (or perhaps an architectural direction) would be if you could accommodate the backend behind graphql instead of Django+MySql, there's a potential for it go full Serverless (frontend and backend) with JAM-stack frameworks like redwood.js [1] (backed by apollo-graphql) or using Cloudflare Workers [2].

Edit: Another question I have is, is posthog at 80% feature parity with mixpanel / amplitude / heap already? If not, what do the timelines look like (asking since you're OSS, though, it is understandable if you can't reveal just yet). May be there needs to be a page on competitor-matrix on the website?

[0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/commits/master?after=9ae6...

[1] https://redwoodjs.com/

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/jamstack-at-the-edge-how-we-buil...
As a kid I remember waking up at 7 and heading to class which was starting at 8. I was half awake up until about 10 in the morning, I don't know how I was making it to school in one piece (school was within walking distance and was about 15 minutes from home). Also, in the winter at 7 it was still dark and cold I still remember the a magnetic force I had to fight away from the warm cozy bed. That was me at the time. A group of kids didn't seem to have this problem at all, so this early sleepiness phenomena is not universal. Throughout my life I was also a night owl, my most productive and creative moments took place after dark. Recently, however, something changed. I feel much more comfortable in the morning, I even enjoy the quiet hours early in the morning until things start to hustle and bustle and enjoy and am able to go to sleep earlier.

So to conclude, this is not a universal thing and this is the problem, we are all different so a one sized solution does both good and bad.
Launching a text recognition service for 1/3rd the cost of Google, Amazon
Apart from the resolution problem (Wasn't working until I zoomed in as was already mentioned), the game gets quite repetitive fast.
Also, I've discovered a bug where if you press mouse 2 you can just stop running which makes the game a lot easier since you don't run towards the enemies.

Also, was it intended to run out of ammo after the 5 minutes?

And sometimes the zombies would bug out and go through cars and etc., weapons have short range so the player can see when they disappear in mid-air (maybe that was intended) and sometimes zombies stop coming after you unless you go in their direction.

Aside from that, the game was fun to play for the 5 minutes, to kill some boredom.

Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Browser: Firefox 73.0.1

Linux Distribution: Arch Linux
Did you continue to get DDoS after moving to AWS? I figure that AWS would take similar steps if you are not using Shield or one of their other products that would help mitigation.

I'd like to know if anyone has experience there.
Talk about burying the lede. TLDR, the amount of time you have to work in order to buy some things, such as a car or some kinds of medical care, is greater now.

In 1985, if you crashed your minivan going 50 mph, you were probably dead. You probably also killed whoever you hit.

Yesterday, I was witness to an accident where a car going 50 mph t-boned a car and went through a fence. Both drivers were walking around and exchanging information after a few minutes.

Some things have gone the opposite way. A basic computer was quite expensive in 1985 and took quite some time of diligent saving to afford if at all possible. Today, you can get a basic mediocre laptop for less than a weeks wages for low income earners.

Yes, cars are just absolutely more expensive today, as is medical care. That's not some great economics argument, it's just how technology works.
How do those without bank accounts like tourists or the indigent operate in this "cashless" system?
For Firefox, I've been using the ClearURLs add-on.

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

Edit: Looks like it's available for Chrome as well.
Raising a New VC Round? It’s Time for New Slides
This could have made my formative years immeasurably better. I woke up between 5:30-6am every school day between grades 6-12. I had an incredibly hard time focusing on and starting my homework, and was often up past midnight. It was a vicious cycle of not sleeping and depression and anxiety. Typical school hours are insane for the kids who need sleep the most. Even being chronically underslept, I'd still easily stay up until 1 or 2am on weekends which I'm "too old for" (read: my circadian rhythms have changed as I reached adulthood). As a kid, I was frequently sleeping till 11am or noon on weekend days to try to make up for it. It's just not healthy -- any of it.
> It would, without a single trace of exaggeration, instantly kill almost every single internet community in existence.

Only the ones that act like publishers, curating the content they allow and disallow. The ones that behave more like the telephone or postal system would not have the liability, right?
go to bed earlier.
> In the DNS script you are putting the username and password in the URL. This means even though you are using https anyone can see the username and password you're sending.

Who is "anyone" in this context? At most, it would only be anyone that has access to logs and the Pi itself. A man-in-the-middle wouldn't see them because it's HTTPS.
The Thread Reader App does a decent job of unfurling tweet storms.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1230505649794166785.html
France shuts oldest reactors, but nuclear power still reigns
Yes and industries only make money if they get customers to give it to them. The government should step in to counter negative externalities.

For example was different phone manufacturers using different cables really enough of a negative externality for the EU to step in?
School time is optimized for adult conveinience, not child/teen learning.
I admit I could be wrong though it could be that the entire world really is full mostly of people that want everyone who disagrees with them dead in a ditch

Well I am a Democrat and I can at least confirm that it's not the entire world that feels this way.

Despite our political differences I think you and I probably have more in common than we might think. Maybe not politically but in our belief that we, and "our side", don't have all the answers, that issues can be very complicated and that solving them involves sometimes finding common ground.

I too would like to believe that the majority of people feel the same and that it's the vocal minorities you mentioned that create 99% of the drama we see playing out these days. I get discouraged sometimes but then here comes a comment like yours that brings back a little hope that I am correct in thinking that most people are normal, ordinary people that are just as perplexed as I am over all the vitriolic back and forth they see in the news and social media.
I am not an expert on American car market by any stretch, but I was interested to dig more into the claim about car prices of a certain. So I thought I will ignore that specific car brand (grand caravan) and see what data comes up in cars.com.

After few searches - to me it seems like SUVs have over taken as a preferred choice and minivans have simply lost appeal. On cars.com for 90001 postcode there are close to 20,000 options for SUVs compared to only about 700 for minivan. And there are lot of SUVs available for less than 15K, where as the grand caravan is from 20K onwards.

Essentially, I suspect market is working well in keeping cost of the cars actually getting sold low and minivans are expensive as choices are limited.

Macro economics is hard. Author will get lot of different perception if they compared long distance phone calls in 1980s compared to today for example.
What It’s Like Managing 10M Users as a Solo Developer
Coronavirus Timeline
"It was a calling, never a job."
- This is so heart-warming to read, in a world where the lust for more and more money seems to be so depressingly high at times.
> I just can't think of any examples

My first thought is specific business industry analysis data. I've often been an hour into an online deep-dive only to hit a paywall related to this. However, I'd think it would be hard to acquire the valuable aspects of this data without some kind of insider access (compared to web scraping, creative api mining, etc).

New data source needs seem to popup out of nowhere - what about building a platform that would facilitate the "collect, clean and analyze data" aspect of this for non-technical business owners?
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html { font-size: 1700%; }
}

I guess this wasn't intended
Well, we did make robocalling illegal, right? We could do the same for ad spam quite easily. IMO 99% of YouTube issues would be resolved by just not showing comments by default. I.e. you're welcome to read and write comments if you like, but you have to click a button first to show the comment section, and don't have to see them otherwise. Some sites already do this.
The distinction about how sites like YouTube and Facebook amplify content is important. But moving away from the digital version, it would seem strange to me if Barnes and Noble became liable for having a big display for a book that defamed someone. INAL so maybe they would be, but as a thought experiment I lean towards them having significantly less responsibility than the author.