skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, i made a few leaps. I will try to explain. In economics there are no free lunches. That's a pretty basic economic dogma (it might sound extreme to an outsider, but take a 101 class and it's what they will tell you). So you don't really get to have your cake and eat it too. The article's 'proposal' therefore doesn't really make sense. My reaction kind of assumes people already sort of know this, perhaps intuitively. my apologies for not explaining.
What pm Medvedev (as mentioned in the article) is proposing is, to me, the only interesting thing to talk about, a reduction of the lawful workweek to 32 hours. Even if he requires (as you propose) the salaries in existing contracts to stay the same countrywide, salaries for new positions will be affected as they can be set by the employer. As for those already employed, well the country is likely to be producing less because of less input (labor productivity being mainly a function of technological progress, ie, it doesnt change in the short term) and thus their trade balance will suffer, because more needs to be imported and less is available for expot. So in the end the rubble will get cheaper to make up for it and the employees get their salary deduction anyways. Whether that is the exact way the price will be paid is not certain, but what is certain is there are no free lunches in economics. Because of the reduction in salary, employees will have reduced spending power. Which is particularly relevant if you are without a partner and/or don't own a house yet. In that case, your best (and only) option to stay competitive might be to take two jobs and work 7 days a week to make up for it. I hope I made my argument more clear now.
Am I really going wrong in interpreting this text as saying "it's wrong to criticize impoliteness if the author happens to be right"?

>Someone was telling the author that he would achieve more if he phrased his point in a more "polite" way, just because the certainty of the writing made the critic mad. Thankfully, the author was here in the comments responding, and he didn't budge.

>That interaction was very refreshing for that very reason: The author was right, knew he was right, someone didn't like that the author knew he was right, but the author remained steadfast.
I use Discord every day. I would say that there are issues about once a week or few weeks where text messages are delayed by 10-30 seconds. Some of them don't arrive either. Using it for text communication at those times is challenging. I'm unsure what happens to voice chat at those times, but the text part is infuriating.
I hate buzzwordy articles (and chatbox popups) too, but this article is better than usual and I think the point is a good one. There are situations in which you can't win at the old game, but if you reframe what you're doing as a new game, you can turn yourself into an early defining player instead of a hapless latecomer.

We see this in technical domains too. For example, I think Clojure succeeded this way. (We can argue about how much Clojure has succeeded, but it's a Lisp—we have to grade on a curve.) I don't think any attempt at improving on Common Lisp, no matter how technically solid, could have achieved that without "naming a new game", to use the article's vocabulary. Hot newness dominates improved oldness: every element of the set of hot newness beats every element of the set of improved oldness. Elixir/Erlang is another example. I say this article is one of the rarest things, a piece of marketing literature (like Crossing the Chasm and maybe the Innovator's Dilemma) that is useful to engineers.
The biggest problem I have with health insurance is that it’s nearly impossible for either the insurance or a provider to tell me how much something other than a routine visit will cost me until after services have already been rendered. Forget the high costs, I can’t even make an informed decision half the time unless I just go by the uninsured rates.
Yes, agreed, it could be just another cost like shipping material, shipping charges etc. Seller pays and recoups it from the profit margin, just like any other expenses.
>Because if all they do is take the HTML response and send it over to some web back-end with an ajax request, that looks innocent enough to any reviewer. For example, under what grounds would a reviewer flag that ajax request as malicious and prevent the extension from being published? It's not possible for them to know what purpose that data has for the extension unless they are really doing a deep dive on each review and take the extension's purpose into account based on their opinion of what it "should" do based on its description.

I think you're giving the reviewers too little credit. There's no plausible reason why you'd need to send urls to a server to perform such a trivial transformation. Also, a search of BMO[1] shows that addons are regularly being found to breach these policies and blacklisted.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Toolkit&com... control-f for "Add-ons collecting ancillary data".
the problem is the tech industry is run by tech execs with high priced Bay Area property. They have no incentive to be pro growth as long as cities like Austin, Seattle accept their “satellite offices” with open arms.
The only criminal case I can find is the one from last May. Googling "fbi wire fraud amir golestan" doesn't turn up anything relating to wire fraud against banks, and searching courtlistener for his name only turns up civil cases and the same May case. Do you have any links? Or is this based on personal knowledge that isn't public yet?
> Because if all they do is take the HTML response and send it over to some web back-end with an ajax request, that looks innocent enough to any reviewer.

That's extremely not innocent for ANY browser extension.
Because you haven't experienced a problem in your body that is rotten deep inside but shows little to no symptoms. My friend died in Alberta. It took two weeks to even see a doctor and more to wait for antibiotic shots.

Doctors try hard to not make problem a problem because the system is fucked in a way that doctors benefit from less patients. They don't try to cure. They wrap up the symptom and makes patients think it's a small problem.

Oh yeah, there is a way to be cured without waiting in Canada. When you're on the verge of death.

I despise hypocrites praising health-not-care in Canada. It just makes me sick.
This is actually one of my biggest gripes with autopilot. It's aggressive at following reduced speed limits, even when traffic is not. I don't know the solution, since the speed limit really does drop to 25-35 mph in a couple spots in our local freeway interchange, but traffic flows through at 55-65 mph all day long, and having the car suddenly brake to 30 mph is unexpected. If there's one thing you want to be on the road, it's predictable. It's when you deviate that accidents happen.
Yeah that title is a complete lie, the article has absolutely nothing to do with iphones.

It’s also a dumb article. People are taking pictures of their dead loved ones and posting it to Facebook. This is... news?
Is AI overhyped? Researchers weigh in on technology's promise and problems
The same way you handle pci and usb devices: unless you configure a root-owned devfs bind-mount, you don't.
But isn't the short term pessimistic-view "hellscape vision" on the order of a 100 years, even though the more chaotic and painful weather events are already obvious today?

It's a human perspective problem. Those born in 2020 will not feel the climate as substantially worse in 2040, and even for those born in 1980, 20 years is a long time to adapt your expectations.
Presumption of innocence is something any defendant has in a fair trial.
This is the point. I still work in Java occasionally but I'm much more effective delivering in Clojure today - with 10 years experience, than I am in Java which I used my entire career.

Same host environment, many of the same libraries, same developer. Different language, different mindset.
Most of the development was done on my free time in a span of three months. Then I got bored and didn’t touch it for half a year and decided to polish it up a little last week and release it.
This one is more appropriate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21668637

Please don't copy/paste comments here. It lowers signal/noise ratio and isn't good for conversation.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Not all Democrats within California Democratic party sit at the exact same point on the political spectrum. Some are more neoliberal & centrist, and others are more socialist Democrat. By submitting this bill, it could signal the expectation that centrist democrats need to move further left.

Given CA is mostly a one-party state, it's more about intraparty influence over the party's platform, than it is about blaming the "other" party.
It doesn't seem that far fetched to me. When the freeway closes for a wreck, flood, etc, Google maps knows very quickly. Construction projects are planned, so it shouldn't be a stretch for that information to be available online pretty accurately.
Top Tools for Internet Privacy and Security in 2020
Private things, like DMs and user IP/location, should remain private.

Teams using Discord force their team participants to share this information with Discord to participate, who can then share it with whomever they want, with no legal recourse if they harm you as a result.

Public things, like discussion and documentation, should be open and available.

Teams using Discord have outsourced to Discord the decision of who is allowed to even read information that should be public. People who don’t ID themselves to Discord and agree to not sue them are prohibited from reading.

It fails on both counts.
It is, that's the point. Reason is, as was said upthread, a "veneer". It changes the syntax only, nothing else is different (you can convert back and forth between the syntaxes losslessly). TypeScript makes deep changes to the language by adding type safety.
This is a good point, and I either didn’t know or forgot that
Why not have a little box plugged into your router with an app for your phone or web interface on your desktop with an app store like interface where you pick out the services that you want to run instead of paying $5 a month.
So, is there a (collection of) book that would save everyone’s time? Asking for a friend.
https://xkcd.com/927

Is there room for a lightweight scriptable language that takes the place of, say, bash/zsh/korn/fish shell scripts?

Please don't say perl/python or sed/awk.
How many authors on the deep mind paper had biology phds? Are they really just gaming things in an unfair way?
Wow, this is the first time I've ever seen a VC described as "charity."
UC Berkeley vandalized their historical video lecture collection by deleting it in response to a government ADA enquiry and pressure from "progressives" on campus. Does anyone known why videos like those of Strang at MIT haven't had the same fate?
“New” explicitly states “Original packaging”. If he opened the original shrink wrap, it’s used.
The interview is from 34 years ago.
The "leech" thing is not a useful feature in Anki. I have configured it so that cards marked as leeches keep being scheduled normally instead of being suspended.

I have found in the past that

(1) with sheer persistence, I busted through leeches. For instance 催促 used to be a leech, in a deck of cards where that is the front. Now I know the word so well I can recall it in the reverse direction: for instance to talk about how it used to be a leech. :)

(2) given enough time, cards you know well will turn into leeches, simply due to occasional gaffes. The conversion of a card to leech is based on an absolute count of how many times you got it wrong, ever, regardless of how many times in between you got it right.
> It’s been over two years since Net Neutrality was repealed. [...] Have any of these things happened? Or did that turn out to mostly be fear-mongering?

The game is older than that, and iterated.

The telcos-vs-internet fight over common carriage, network neutrality, and then Net Neutrality, has been going on since the 1990's. Telcos don't want to be in a commodity business of dumb pipes - far more profitable to coerce a piece of everyone's action. Educating congress about the architectural importance of common carriage burned a lot of IETF leadership time during the transition to Internet.

One ongoing characteristic of this fight has been telcos moderating their behavior for fear of backlash strengthening the neutrality position. Another recurrent pattern has been telco overreach, followed by regretting it. Gouge too hard now, and reestablishing neutrality regulation in some next administration becomes a no brainer. Over the decades, neutrality regulation has lost more than won, but has remained an immanent threat. Slowing the re-imagining of the internet as a centralized broadcast medium.
Yeah, bare IRC is like sliced bread without butter but everyone has an oven and some butter in their kitchen, whereas Discord is a glazed donut.

Surely a donut tastes better bare. Not good for your heart as well. Now that most people don’t have a kitchen it seems like a problem to me as well.
But, stupidly, Anki's default behavior is to suspend leeches.

8 strikes and you don't have to learn it!
How to Climb Safely, by H. Dumpty
Yes, and the tax labyrinth is kept artificially complicated due to lobbying, too!
Similar thing happened to me with eBay and PayPal. I sold a Marantz CD player, well packaged, took plenty of pictures. Buyer claimed that the RCA connectors were "slightly bent" (he refused to send pictures of that - but it's a normal thing, there's some PCB flex) and that there was a scratch on a certain side that I hadn't photographed, using this to imply that I wanted to hide the scratch.

I offered him to return the item even at my expense, he refused. He threatened of negative feedback, made a claim with PayPal and got half the amount back pretty much instantly, and kept the item of course.

Since this I've decided that when I don't need something anymore I'm just better off donating it or simply trashing it. Dealing with dishonest buyers and everyone siding with them by default is just not worth the hassle.
The Ghost of a Flea
another factor is clearance. people may be unwilling or unable to obtain security clearances that General Atomics requires for all their engineers, if they're a major defense contractor.

I've dreamed about getting into fusion research myself, and concluded the best pivot would be to help with the plasma simulations at a university while obtaining a PhD.
And it always covers everything?

We have a pretty pricey insurance plan: family of 4, 36k/year. When my wife had a gall bladder attack and had to get it removed, the insurance company quickly paid the surgeon's bill, and followup doctor visits.

But the insurance company denied the anesthesiologist bill, the hospital surgery room rental bill, and the hospital recovery room bill all as "medically unnecessary", also known as: they won't be covering it.

We tried talking to the original doctor and surgeon but of course they got paid and their offices said the rest of this wasn't their concern. We weren't really sure who we should be talking to to help us show the insurance company that anesthesia is fucking necessary when someone cuts you open.

After about 8 months of stress it was all eventually resolved for a fraction of the original price. In those 8 months though everyone who wasn't getting paid were sending us notices about how we didn't pay yet and how we could set up a payment plan. We talked to hospital billing and they said they usually just drop bills insurance doesn't cover. Usually. And that we shouldn't worry since this happens all the time and that it usually isn't resolved until lawyers get involved.
> I would hope we can all agree that not having to rely on oil any more is a good enough economic incentive for everyone.

It is an economic incentive, but whether it's "good enough" depends on the costs of the transition- which are certainly dependent on how quick it needs to be.
It should be known about a thing called clawbacks. If you don't read the contract they could write something where that if at anytime you exercise they reserve the right to buy back what you exercised.

A FinTech company I worked for use to do this. To my surprise even the finance guys were in the dark are about the whole thing... nobody bothered to read the contract. The company is called Neptune Financial and basically every employee who works their is screwed in terms of equity compensation.
Doom process manager: hold my rocket launcher

Free drink holder program: yo boys, watch this. ejects CD-ROM tray

Xeyes: Am I a joke program to you?

Excel 95: Goto B95, select row 95, Help > About > ctrl-alt-shift + [tech support] (I'm an easter egg, which is a joke program in a program. They don't make me anymore. :'( And you're welcome.)

Applesoft BASIC:

10 INPUT "Press any key to continue...";A$
20 GOTO 10

^ Tech support gets a flood of calls about "no 'any' key" s/any key/<ENTER>/

Or

00 REM Which OS are we using again? ;)
10 PRINT
20 PRINT "Not ready reading drive A"
30 INPUT "Abort, Ignore, Retry, Fail?";A$
40 PRINT
50 FOR X = 1 TO 20000
60 NEXT X
70 GOTO 10

EDIT: how many people will admit to writing a phony "FORMAT.COM" command in C || Pascal || assembly that hit the drive with pointless reads to make the hard drive light appear solid and realistic delays between % updates?
It's not news, in the sense that it is some kind of timely breaking event. It is, however, an interesting change in the way people perceive death as a concept, which makes it newsworthy.

I will concede that the title should be changed for HN's guidelines.
That's okay because asset forfeiture is about denying the convicted party access to the fruits of their crimes, and not about the incredibly conflict-of-interest-riddled idea that the state should be able to plunder those assets and profit from it... riiiight??
Ask HN: How can startups running ML models reduce their compute costs?
Machine learning stuff seems generally expensive to run in production, especially at scale (how many GPU machines do you need up and running to serve 100 concurrent users without major delays?). It seems especially hard for B2C/freemium-style companies to offset those costs.

If, for example, you're a freemium web app where each user request takes 100ms of inference time, you may have trouble turning a profit. Even something as basic as a translation tool (à la Google Translate) seems tricky for a startup to run at a profit. Larger companies presumably have the flexibility to treat some of these things as loss leaders, whereas a startup with ML as its core product likely needs to be more conscious about cost.

What are some ways that you've seen companies cut down on compute costs for machine learning services?
They did not seize 60 million dollars (CAB wouldn't seize money in dollars anyway...). They seized* 6000 bitcoins. The equivalent cash value in euros or dollars is completely hypothetical.

*and technically, they seized nothing without the private keys
Why cant cheaters just use a web site and irc to do this? Having a policy of kicking cheaters as found ought to be enough.
> People (millions) are moving from the Mekong Delta to Ho Chi Minh City.

That has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with industrialization and urbanization. The same reason why japanese, koreans, chinese, etc moved to cities in decades past. Vietnam and other ASEAN nations are becoming the "New China" as industry moves from china to cheaper locations. So the same patterns apply.

> The city is crowded and polluted.

What city isn't?
I've been using Freshpaint for a few months and really enjoyed it because it's an end-to-end solution. While i's not fully "code-less", it did speed up our analytics deployment process by weeks. I'd highly recommend it to people who are semi-technical (i.e. you know how to code but would rather someone else did it for you). Also support has been tremendous and their release pipeline looks very impressive.
> Do we also allow people to seek rotten meat, ineffective medications, or not wearing seatbelts?

For the first two, we definitely do. No one says you can't let your meat rot before you eat it, and certain forms of rotten food are cultural delicacies. Most groceries have aisles full of ineffective junk medicine. Not wearing seatbelts I will grant you, although enforcement of those laws is generally very lax in my experience.

I strongly disagree with regulating them. Consumers should be given information to make a well informed decision, and then we should butt out. You don't want to wear a seat belt? It increases your risk of dying as a result of a crash by XX%. Go for it if you are willing to take that risk.

I don't feel right imposing my own personal values on someone else when their actions aren't harming others (which I know is somewhat debatable with seatbelts). Nothing makes me feel that my own values and morals are superior enough to force them on someone else.
Email address charges branded 'daylight robbery'
I wish my city, county, or state owned the actual coax cable leading to my house and ISPs had to bid against each other to service my internet.

The fact that Comcast owns that cable means there's no real competition.
Not FANG specifically, but public tech company with major Bay Area influence (we're located next door to a FANG).

I find people tend to be fairly pragmatic. Occasionally people can be dogmatic about minor things. Sometimes you have the time to do a really stellar job. Sometimes accepting some technical debt in a PR is worth it. And having that contextual conversation with your reviewer can be helpful.

If you have good tooling, e.g., auto code formatting and PR builds, the reviewer can focus on the substance of the changes, rather than more trivial things (like unnecessary spaces or new line characters in the code).

Personally, if I see a simpler way to express logic, I'll suggest it to the author. But I'm more apt to slightly-disagree-and-commit than throw up barriers, because I trust my talented, smart colleagues.

Performance is rarely discussed unless the PR's intent is to improve performance.
Adjaruli Khachapuri: Economists use this bread as a metric for cost of living
3,500-tonne goldmine found in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district
I assume you reported the phone stolen afterwards correct?
I’ve seen candid photos of people at their death bed, but it was usually done by people who were professional photographers, and often part of a photo feature essay. The phenomenon of regular people having a high quality camera at every moment in their lives, and a network to immediately disseminate such photos without a gatekeeper, is most certainly a relatively new phenomenon.

Just the other week I saw someone who had posted a candid photo of him and his dying girlfriend at the hospital on Reddit. He was ridiculed and the thread was deleted, but not before someone had screenshotted it and posted it on Twitter to mock. Seeing death in public is still an uncommon thing.
The fundamental problem here isn't how contracts work in the US — it's that in many places there is effectively zero competition for wired broadband services. If there were meaningful competition, then consumers would have somewhere to turn. It doesn't matter what the contract says if you don't have any meaningful alternatives for service.
(more to the point, this is the actual source article)
Wouldn't a default judgement show up when they try to rent something or buy something on credit? I mean if nothing else, at least their life would be a little less comfortable.
If you are already not planning to use them any more, maybe not much of a problem?
Sounds about right. Keep up the good work. Obviously I've much to learn.