skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Players of Aurora 4x will recognize those names. Fun fact, new version developed in C# will be released in March for testing.
old (2017) but good link on the mattress madness : https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...

yes, mattresses are pretty much a racket.
The real news is that Mel Brooks drives from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills during rush hour on a daily basis. I’d barely do that for my own kids! JK, but that’s super impressive. It is a brutal drive of the sort known to people from SV where absolutely no shortcuts work anymore.
Linux Community: Stop Doing This to Windows 10 and macOS Users
It really just extends the x86 status quo to the software world.
You have to get management and customer support, and that's the hard part. They have to understand the idea of the capability trap [0][1]. A lack of maintenance is inviting disaster, this is true across domains. Software is cheap, though, and usually doesn't have terrible consequences (see the notable exceptions like Therac-25 or 737 Max). Who cares if your IM client is a POS, it's not going to cost lives. And even if it is junk, we can buy a new one (MS) or build a 17th one (Google).

The way around this, and again you have to get management and customer support, is to bring maintenance activities into every iteration. Create systems that can detect issues and errors early (more comprehensive testing, new testing styles like fuzzing and property-based testings; moving critical portions to statically typed languages or adding type annotations; etc.). Make addressing those issues a priority, some portion of your time in each iteration should be spent addressing concerns or increasing the ability to detect issues. Over time, when I've seen this done, it's made making changes much faster, even for larger changes. But without this, even "trivial" changes can end up taking months, instead of days or weeks.

[0] https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_....

[1] https://www.systemdynamics.org/assets/conferences/2017/proce...
There are some that were done here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

And then quite a bit of linking to ones on Reddit.
There are some Creative Commons sites (notable arduino.cc), but mostly it's that .com is basically full, and squatters are sitting on a lot of it. So there's a burst of sites willing to take the hit of being associated with a lower-grade TLD.

Why .cc? I guess because it's familiar-ish. It's easy to hit the "c" twice, and "c" is the first letter of "com".

In this case, uxdesign.com refers to a blog that has lain fallow for a decade. It does no harm sitting there, and it may as well as long as its owner remembers to pay the trivial sum to renew it. But "uxdesign" might as well get new life in some other TLD.
A few months ago in Quebec we got a big cooperative bank "hacked" that way by an employee that got offered money by some insurance reseller.. He was able to export the data of 4.5 millions persons out and sell it to them. We recently found out that they were offering 40k$ to get it. Sure you could infiltrate them, but seems like even buying the data is quite accessible too.
Or, in other words, inflation indexes are an average, and like all averages, it's a bad idea to blindly trust it, because sub-groups of the overall data may show much different results.
People do it in ad-hoc fashion here all the time. I do wish the threading capabilities were stronger than they currently are.
The point of his index is to compare prices to wages at various points in time.

It does look like transportation takes up a similar ratio of earned income as it did before, however, if you look at PCE or CPI, cars have become _less expensive_, when in fact, they are no less expensive.
I encourage people to put everything they can on a public host, then hyperlink the heck out of their resumes. You never know who will look, but for those who are interested its very nice.

With your existing experience, It is not required to have an online presence, but is nice.

Recruiters won't likely look, hiring managers may.
A really good example of this is labeled medical imaging data.

Some key contributing factors: multiple stakeholders & consent/approval issues, legal & technical constraints on access, depending on the application labeling may only be possible using very expensive experts. Lot's of human interaction.
How has your diet changed over the years? I'd be curious to know if different foods and eating schedules might affect circadian rhythm.
No.

The Obama administration took the position that SCOTUS should not take up the case, because Google was likely to win on the argument that it had a fair use claim (making the copyright issue moot), and if it didn't, then you could consider both the "is it copyright?" and "is it fair use?" concerns simultaneously.
> Instead users moderate the content themselves.

I like putting users in control of moderation and giving communities the power to self-determine what content they see. This is one of the premises behind the fediverse. However, I think that's just option 3.

If we accept that users have a right to filter content, then users should also have the right to use automated tools to filter content. If users make a block-list, they should have the right to share that block-list with other people. By extension, they should also have the right to delegate that filtering to another entity, like a forum moderator. They should be able to pay that entity money to maintain a block list for them.

And jumping off of the Discord example, if users have the right to collectively ban people from a community, they should also have the right to automate that process, to share ban-lists, and to grant moderators the ability to ban people on their behalf.

I don't see a _fundamental_ difference between Reddit banning someone and a single subreddit moderator banning someone. It's just a question of scale.

To circle that back to the antitrust question: I regularly see comments about revoking section 230 that say, "well, this would only apply to large companies." It seems that in general, most people are fine with small communities moderating themselves and banning bad actors, even if the criteria is arbitrary. It only becomes a problem for them when Facebook does it because Facebook is big.

We could go to Facebook and say, "you're too big, so you can't moderate on behalf of your users." Or, we could go to Facebook and say, "you're too big, we're breaking you up and making smaller communities." It seems to me that the second option is a lot simpler.
Title does not seem to cover the contents (contents which, at first sight, are a bit noble for Google; I guess that's why it's so vague).
Real inflation is really calculated by the amount of currency that is created with no backing (fiat money).

The use of a basket of products to calculate something that the government calls inflation (but isn't), doesn't reflect the true lost value of money and only benefits the people who get the inflation money first. If you hold on to your money, you are being basically piled. This is no service for society, but to policymakers and to business dealing with the state.
“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?”

The JavaScript ecosystem is a good/bad example of this. Seemingly simple applications are pushing complexity to thousands of simple npm libraries.

The applications become simpler but the linking and composition of 3rd party libraries gets out of control.

At the core of it; abstractions reduce complexity, but only to a point...
> I think go promotes maintainability rather than developer productivity.

It seems to promote verbosity just for the sake of so called "simplicity". It's simple (almost dumb) at the language level, which just pushes complexity elsewhere.

This is just a statement that I find some people repeat without any substantiation whatsoever.

> you have to explicitely ignore an error if you want to

err := foo()
...
err = bar()
if err != nil { panic(err) }

The first error was unintentionally discarded. I've seen this happen in actual code bases.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/there-are-now-175-online-mat... mentions that most of the online companies outsource their design and production to one of 4 producers.
> All of this use is completely without warrants

Do you need a warrant to stake out a public place and write down everything you see? I get the impression that that's the analogous non-automated workload. (Except for the scale; to get equivalent results, you'd have to have thousands of people watching.)
The youth sports discontinuity was a problem for me when I became old enough to play little league, but was exploited by me when I should have moved on to Teener League.

I was born on the cut-off date for Little League, so I was the youngest player on the team my first year (and the youngest for my grade the other years.) Do to ambiguity in how the cut-off date wording was written, I ended up (legally) playing a fourth year when I was 13. I was never a big kid but at this point I was certainly bigger than all the 10 year-olds and more importantly had gained coordination and experience. It was my favorite year playing baseball.

(As an aside, I paid karma for it the next year ... I spent eighth grade in a city Teener League where I was once again the smallest, least experienced kid. And the city league was way more cut-throat than what I'd experienced in the suburban setting my previous four years.)
Agreed!

Whiteboarding is a skill and should be practiced prior to onsite interviews.
I had a friend tell me recently about a client using commercial real estate data for lead gen. He mentioned https://compstak.com/

Basically, identifying companies that are doing well / expanding by how big the space is they leased. This sort of data is apparently very hard to get, but gives users a competitive advantage.
Why are you citing Bayes Law here? P(X) might be some gnarly computation.
How to get the interviewer to notice you
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>His COTI (Cost-of-Thriving Index) is hand-wavy,

It's hand wavy in the sense that anything approaching an economic discussion in a twitter thread is hand wavy, but if you're looking for detail he links to it: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/reevaluating-prosperity-...

>namely, that CPI is somehow incorrect

He's telling you exactly why he thinks it's incorrect, not 'somehow.'

>means nothing to me, and (lo and behold) validates his hypothesis,

>inflation is fake news

Come on now, I think you owe a bit of generosity to the argument here.

EDIT: Look here, let's just break it down with the car example. Inflation as calculated currently is composed of two parts, let's call them the (1) monetary phenomenon and the (2) technological phenomenon.

So he says: 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

and you say: $17,900.00 in 1996 is $28,647.64 in 2018.

But you're just combining 1 and 2 again, not separating them. Dodge is selling their 2018 Grand Caravan in 2018 for $26,300. How much would Dodge be able to sell a 1996 Grand Caravan for in 2018? Certainly not $26,000, maybe more than $17,900, maybe less. But that price, how much Dodge would be able to sell a 1996 Grand Caravan for in 2018 would give us the 'monetary' component of inflation, all the rest is based on technological improvements. And his point is that since there is no way to opt out of those technological improvements - because Dodge doesn't sell 1996 Grand Caravans priced at purely monetary inflation - it's stupid to put the # in an inflation calculator and then say it costs the same because it doesn't, it's more.
I'm a customer on DO as a small business (mobile game). I wanted some linux servers that I have control over, and I wanted a managed database where someone does backups for me. I also wanted simplicity and a nice UI. I didn't even compare prices, I just thought it was a good deal and didn't look back. At first I tried Heroku but it was too much adapting our application to their way of doing things. DO is just hyper-simple for me. So, thanks DO :)
Some people say to do all the problems, while others say to do a partial number. I would say just do as many as you can. Don't set a limit to the number of exercises you do, just do enough to the point you feel content. If you feel as if the number of exercises you did is good enough, then move onto the next section. If you ever feel like going back and completing some more exercises, then that's also fine as well.
However, I do think that mathematics builds on itself. I think you need to do a certain number of exercises that allows you to be "fluent" in the particular mathematical subject. Skipping many exercises is terrible for building your skills in maths.
Check scaleway and hetzner

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/
The problem is that we might not ever get to monotonous improvement. We can probably easily get to a state where self-driving would decrease the number of traffic injuries and fatalities in total compared to human drivers.

But machines make different mistakes, mistakes that humans would never do, and that's psychologically not acceptable to most people. All the actual accidents will be "freak" accidents that a human could never cause, and that scares people a lot more than "human" accidents like a drunk driver running someone over at a pedestrian crossing.
Other machines on the market such as the Atari 800 cost $899

Not in 1985, it didn't. The 800 is a machine from 1979. In 1985 a contemporary machine would be the Atari 65XE for $120.

Yes, it's true that home computers were subject to a pricing war and margins were slim. I don't think margins are very beefy on the cheapest low-end laptops in 2020 either.
As would employment. (I can't be employed by a company if I can't sign a contract with it.)
My thoughts exactly but I didn't want to offer anything until I'd:

a) Verified that it was possible

b) Determined that there were enough people to get the "hack" done.

c) Ascertained that there would be no legal ramifications.
No, he's actually saying that the new minivan is more expensive even if adjusted for inflation, due to being a different product with more features, reliability and whatever. (You can't just opt out of those things because the available vans are what they are, and so you just have to pay more).

This is in keeping with the theme of the tweets that there are non-inflationary factors that are increasing costs above inflation, such as increased shared risk in health insurance driving up costs for the median. (You can't opt out of that new shared risk because some insurance powers that be have included that in the policy and premium calculations, and so you just have to pay more.)

Thus if those two minivan prices are actually identical if adjusted for inflation then that ... sort of does deflate the point he's making.
Yeah, this was my first thought. Technically if you go back in time and model past Cash Flow Statements, you could layer on what you think the real go forward infrastructure cost is to their CFS.

If they are consistently laying out capex, it actually could be very reasonable to just use CFS and not opex.
Not OP but I think he means market research data. I've thought about this as well. You pay some researcher some money to write a report on growth of a particular segment of an industry. Trade groups often do this and you hear stats like "Mobile usage expected to grow by X% in developing countries over the next Z years". But it is a multi-page report, probably including graphs, on some particular topic.

It matches roughly the kind of data I was talking about. It is expensive to generate since you have to pay a researcher some amount of money to write the report. The resultant report generally can be re-sold multiple times.

My problem with this kind of data is that you will be competing against AIs pretty soon which will drive the cost to generate such reports down. And the price you can charge per report will be tied to how good a report you are capable of generating. It is also a saturated market already so the real play is driving the cost of generation down, not what I want.
“Trace Context” published as W3C recommendation for distributed tracing
Tourists tend to have cards and use them.

The poor people have bank accounts, because if you're poor and getting some gov't assistance, that gets transferred to a bank account (I mean, how else? No non-financial institution or gov't agency is going to employ tellers handing over cash directly, they all use banks for that, and checks aren't used); it's general EU policy that basic financial services (bank accounts, bank transfers, electronic bill paying, card payments) should be available to everyone including the very poorest. Even a homeless, unemployed drug addict would be expected to have access to these services.
>realizing they are never going to be AWS

I mean not real AWS, but I think there is a market between, say good old VPS ( which is what DO and Linode are before everyone are "Cloud" ) and AWS. Managed solution like Database, Object Storage, Backup, Simple CDN. Which is certainly what DO AND Linode are going into.

There is another trend I spotted, good old Bare Metal is coming back. Useful for base load.
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Yeah, the place where self-driving will make the biggest impact first, is for long-haul truck driving.
Well done:

https://twitter.com/oren_cass/status/1230505794686373888

The guy identified the 4 big government backed monopolies, all with government backed debt, which all now eat a majority of income.

We've known since 1776 that the way prices come down is competition. You should know that it's illegal to open a hospital or college without government permission. It's illegal to build a building. It's so bad that in order to open a hospital in most states, any nearby hospital can protest you license application merely for being close to another hospital. Who in their right mind would give an 18 year old $100k for college? Nobody. That's why the government backs it and you can't default on it. Who backs your mortgage? The government. It goes on and on and on.

There is no mystery here AT ALL if you studied economics. The answer is very simple, allow competition.

Now to lay back and drown in the downvotes :-)
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That's what i'm experiencing on a daily basis
I once tore up a recliner sofa with a crowbar and tossed the pieces out of a third story window (I didn't get it in, and there was no way it was going out the door in its then-present configuration).
Pretty sure Linode is comparable price wise and in Europe there are cheaper options like OVH. Digital Ocean pricing becomes pretty comparable with GCP and others when you start specing up to a "production-grade" server i.e. the kind of server you actually want to run Postgres on.

Their K8s offering I think is the cheapest of all major providers but you lose out of secondary benefits like GKE's fantastic log analysis tools (I think its called stackdriver or something).

Their database offerings are in about the same range as other providers (not comparing it to Google Cloud $panner).
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Have you looked into how CPI is calculated? It's not that it's "incorrect", just that it doesn't reflect the challenges that real people face trying to afford the basic expenses of life.
I host my websites on DO. Their UI and API is really cool. Linode and Scaleway both lost my data. DO is far more reliable than Linode and scale way. It's always good to have options to choose from. I hope they succeed.

Companies like Netlify, Zeit and Heroku are also doing good but I don't see any Enterprise applications for such services.

One thing I especially like about DO is that they are not stagnant in terms of features. They continuously keep adding new features.
Forbes.com has become a blogging platform at this point.
European Commission plans about Artificial Intelligence
Transfer learning is nothing like a silver bullet. True, it has become an important work around but it's no panacea and the track record is at best mixed.

People already use it quite a lot. More importantly they misuse it a lot. I'd be less concerned with increasing the usage, and more concerned that the people using it understand the implications and trade offs.
I agree with you. Doing everything is not always the best option for many people. If you can do it, great. But sometimes it's better to just do the most important exercises that are the most mentally stimulating and interesting, rather than invest time in the less interesting ones.
FWIW, it doesn't sound insane to me that you should have "legal responsibility for any illegal content that gets posted on my forum by third parties without my prior knowledge or consent." You're the one who chose to set your forum up that way, eh? (We're not talking about hackers defacing your site, yeah?)

As much as I find the idea of "illegal content" galling (I love freedom) I'm not so idealistic that I fail to recognize that freedom of speech cannot be an absolute. ("Fire" in theaters; revealing national security secrets; doxxing; there are limits. I'm glad I'm not on the hot seat when it comes to nailing them down: I don't run open internet forums, for example.)

If you don't have a way to pass that responsibility onto the actual speakers then you must shoulder it yourself, no?

Whether or not current systems can survive that is less important to me than the establishment of formal responsibility for one's speech.
.NET-like interop relies on having a specific runtime.

WinRT is a better model. Basically a higher-level ABI.
Thinking back to when Tropic Thunder came out, I remember the scandal relating to the movie had nothing to do with RDJs character, but with the fact that they say "retarded" in it.
The data are stored in the cloud (servers) to sync if you access it from different devices.
Besides the subscription plans, Walling is offering Lifetime access for $199 billed once to give you access to all the current and future platforms and features.
Right but there were tons of used cars in 1996 too that were available at a similar discount. The tweets are incomplete in that they fail to fully explain how CPI adjusts internally for quality improvement, but if we buy that (I think it’s reasonable) then cars, new and used, would be relatively more expensive today than in 1996
Hi, yes you will have coverage map in App. I just update url for android app you can try it againg thanks for feedback on that. App Store is still not available, will be available in next couple of days, will hide until available. If you go to website, you will be able to change language, if this persists, please use this url: https://www.redfenix.network/?lang=en
Sign up e-mails are in spanish for now, will have english version for emails this next weeks, and portuguese as well depending on sign up language selected. Thanks for feedback on this also.
To create network right now you get a device from RedFenix. We are not selling worldwide just yet, only in Ecuador and Chile for the moment.
In next releases, you will be able to share any known network with password (restaurant, cafe, etc). We will encrypt password and give access only to users with app installed, passwords are never revealed.
To make money sharing you DO need a device right now. Which will be priced at less than $70, and will get rid of password sharing for good.
Also, if you have a compatible device or router you can use it and share internet. We will soon release list of compatible routers and instruction to follow to configure with RedFenix network.
Any other questions and feedback are very welcome. Thanks.