skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why this is posted. The page is literally:

- Something's broken

- We're working on it

- It's fixed
I think the machine learning problem is not data. It's not models. It's not compute.

It's annotation. That is a workforce problem. You want to automate contracts? You need attorneys. You want to automate radiology? You need radiologists. You want to automate driving? You need drivers.

This makes ML less like a SaaS business, more like a mining business. There's tons, literally tons, of data/ore for any interesting problem. That's why it's an interesting problem. There are buyers of iron, gold, and marble. There are buyers of driverless cars, physician decision support systems, and contract automation solutions. But recovering the data from the mine (digitization) and enriching it (annotation) cost money. So much that the market variation may make it lucrative at some times and not others. If you are near peak employment, the value of a model goes up, but the cost of annotators is high also.

I'm not sure how finance guys capture that problem: how do you make a profit when there's high demand on both sides at one time, and low demand on both sides at other times? I submit that when both sides are low is the time to do annotation, and the time with both sides are high is the time to sell models.

But then you need an investor who can ride out the market.
Quality of sperm decays with age. Just not in the same curve as egg reserves.
Yikes, that sounds terrible. Hopefully the US can set legislation for this kind of thing. Having people get locked out of their crypto is no good.
One interesting diy hack I read about is to put insulation or sound proofing around your dishwasher. Basically $20 in insulation can turn an old dishwasher or a $200 dishwasher into something super quiet.
> raise capital or turn away customers

If you have to borrow $100MM to provide the same basic service that you’ve been providing for 8 years, then aren’t these “customers” less customers and more recipients of free services?

Perhaps, that’s the point, no? Buy the remaining VPS market with unsustainable pricing, and then raise the price...
That second map was made by a sociopath. North faces to the right? For those less familiar with Austin, Pecan St is also 6th Street.

It's an interesting frame of mind to think about who would have been walking down the same streets I walk, over 100 years ago.
It'd be wonderful if it worked with QTVR files, especially now that QuickTime Player 7 no longer works as of Catalina.
Consider:

- Lincoln was not an Abolitionist hero as popularly lionized, but a status quo "moderate,' reluctant to rock the boat. Even though he knew it to be wrong, he did nothing in the affirmative until Secession. That's not moral courage, that's political expedience.

- 13th Amendment, Section 1 giant slavery loophole:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

- for-profit prisons

- elected district attorneys eager to make large numbers of convictions for reelection stats

- politicians at all levels (e.g., municipal, county, state and federal) $upported by the prison lobby

- mandatory minimums

- the highest incarceration rate (per-capita) on the planet except Seychelles

- and corporations eager to exploit cheap labor (most belong to ALEC)

and what do you get?

Slavery never ended, it just hides in a slightly different form, out-of-sight in the prison-industrial complex that most people never think about. And that doesn't even include the matters of discrimination and segregation like Jim Crow laws like poll taxes, red lining, property requirements and voter ID laws.

Here's just a few of the corporations that exploit prison (slave) labor:

- Allstate Insurance

- American Express

- AT&T

- Bank of America

- BP America

- ExxonMobil

- Fruit of the Loom

- GEICO

- Johnson & Johnson

- J.P. Morgan

- Mary Kay Cosmetics

- McDonalds

- Microsoft

- Procter & Gamble

- Quaker Oats

- Sara Lee

- Sprint

- Verizon

- United Airlines

- Wal-Mart

- Wendy’s

Source: http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/06/29/heres-a-list-of-corpor...
"the state-of-the-art in computer vision has moved so significantly that it’s arguably now not the primary blocker to commercial deployment of self-driving cars."

The state of the art in machine perception is still far from human level perception, regardless of how quickly progress has been made. Prediction is a function of perception, so it's also bottlenecked on perception getting better. Let's not confuse recruitment-oriented blogposts with credible scientific writing.
Excited to see an open source hardware key solution on the market to compete with yubico.

I’ve been working on my own saas app to handle authentication for any app using the web authentication framework.

hoping we start seeing more options to login using only hardware (plus pin to be extra safe) on all websites.
The costs of digitization and annotation.
ye I agree, it feels impossible to penetrate that market unless you have many billions and the actual engineering knowledge behind it.

I think DO is good for the small/average player that doesn't wanna invest time into having his team learning the AWS quirks because his business isn't in heavy need of it.

If AWS or even google ever goes after the small/average user by creating an easier to understand/navigate service for the user that doesn't need all that overhead and time investment of that bizarre learning curve just to setup a simple application, then its just gonna kill DO and other services like that out there.
Yes. Furniture is the worst. You have to buy something high end to get any sort of quality, especially couches. This will sound crazy but I have a very expensive couch that was made in the 1970s and it is perfect. I also have a 1k sectional couch from Ashley's and it is absolutely terrible. Now I could probably fix the sectional with some diy hacks to firm it up but I don't have the skill. But that super expensive heirloom just keeps going.
Right but the artifacts here will still show up on glossy surfaces.
Here is how games now fix these kinds of artifacts. https://seblagarde.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/image-based-ligh...

However the technology in the article cannot be corrected in this manner.
Basically every large city in America is struggling to build enough housing, not just the Bay Area. Furthermore, there are a vast number of jobs to be had that aren't software engineering.

I concede that globalization has changed the economic landscape, but it's effects didn't have to be nearly this negative. Had we invested in infrastructure and prioritized the building of new homes people could have adapted. Now we have homeowners capturing an extreme share of wealth for doing nothing but further exacerbating the problem.

And relying on protectionist policies to subsidize certain industries certainly isn't a plan for long term success. How would American manufacturing compete with a fully industrialized India and China?
Probably just an empirical comparison with other NAS strategies and hand crafted architectures right? The whole area of research is still ruthlessly empirical.
> all of the senior leadership team bring theirs

i think you gotta find a new gig
> Go buy a burger. Tell me it's not more expensive than it used to be.

In 1985 the standard McDonalds burger was $0.50 in nominal terms. Today it's $1.00[1]. Over the same period nominal median household incomes has grown by 173%. Therefore hamburgers have become 37% more affordable to the median household since 1985.

> You wanna know what hasn't gone up? Minimum wage

Only 2.3% of hourly workers (and essentially 0% of salaried workers) earned minimum wage in 2017. In contrast in 1979, 13.4% of workers earned minimum wage.[3]

Whether to raise or not raising minimum wages is a separate debate. And it may tell us something about the lowest income earners, like teenagers or felons. But trends in minimum wage tell us virtually nothing about "typical households", because virtually all working households earn more than minimum wage.

> Healthcare costs are driven by the existence of HMOs and their protected status under federal law.

This seems an extremely dubious assertion given that fewer than one in five private health insurance plans are HMOs.[4] And that number continues to shrink every year.

[1] https://www.insider.com/fast-food-burgers-cost-every-year-20...
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N
[3] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm
[4] https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-4/mobile/understanding_h...
"Cheap" spring mattress + foam pad + down/pillow-top layer is the best mattress purchase decision you can make. My queen set is under $300 and more comfortable than ~20 other fancy mattresses I tried, some as high as $2500. And it's "upgradable" and adjustable without needed to toss the whole thing.
A few thoughts here.

1) There are already lots of cheap memory foam mattresses that are relatively well reviewed on Amazon for example this one for $200 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00474X5DO/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_z... (not a recommendation, just looked it up).

2) The average markup isn't 2000%. You can look at Casper's COGS in their S-1. Also, the return rate is built into the cost, so that adds to it.

3) In general, a cheap mattress is going to be perceived as low quality. It's like how nobody wanted Warby Parker glasses when they were priced around $20. Then they changed the price to $99+ and they actually improved sales.
I predict that when it happens, and it will happen, it will be at least 2 years later than the 2021 date. I don't have any special knowledge but I know that Musk is over-optimistic most of the time.
There's always the opinion that solar is useless on cloudy days. It's my understanding that on a normal cloudy day they're only 25% as efficient as when sunny, and 10% when it's really cloudy. So, not great, but it's something that is being improved upon all the time.

> In some cases, clouds can actually result in better panel performance than standard sunny weather. A cloud can reflect or sometimes even magnify sunlight, which results in additional power output from your solar panels. [0]

In my country (Oz) we have two states that are into solar: SA has a tesla battery plant (built in <100 days) [1], but more as a 'surge saver', and WA which has recently mentioned it's about to reach serious trouble because solar is now getting in the way of it's existing non-renewable coal (meaning there's an over supply). WA doesn't have battery storage up and running, whereas in SA the tesla plant can ramp up demand almost instantaneously and is saving a bucket load of cash per year (because the coal plants don't need to spin up another turbine to meet demand: something which takes hours to achieve AND is costly)

> "We know that the 100 megawatt capacity of the existing Hornsdale battery has saved South Australian electricity consumers $40 million per year since its inception," he said. [1]

[0] https://news.energysage.com/solar-panels-work-night-cloudy-d...

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-19/sa-big-battery-set-to...

In short, the good thing about solar is:

- easy to set up, low cost, easy to maintain, easy to upgrade, easy to switch off if over supply ever happens.
- good for moving away from coal provided you have storage.

As other's have mentioned, the nuclear option costs billions and takes years to set up whereas battery storage of renewables is very very quick indeed to set up, and instantly produces savings.
In Hot Pursuit of 21st Century Cooling
what gets measured gets treasured
It is just plain rude to apply his previous employer's actions, who employ over 30k people, solely on him.
> you can never reach 100% renewables

Bullshit. You need storage, obviously.

> Am I missing something

Yes.
But that's the problem, we have more stuff but lower quality of life. And even if you sacrifice the stuff you can't live on 1985 wages.

I'd gladly sacrifice a smart phone and streaming TV to live in a large house with 3 kids on a single working class income like my father did, but the $200 phone and and $10 netflix wouldn't even cover a weeks rent.
Who is this loud minority that’s against young children walking alone?
I've bought my last couple mattresses on Walmart.com. Good price, free shipping, and foam felt like any other foam I've laid on. And because the price is good, I don't mind replacing them more frequently.
Sure but next try out a Porsche.
For anyone else who can't stand turning on javascript: https://nitter.net/oren_cass/status/1230505649794166785
I recently setup my Pi 4 with Pi-Hole and Wireguard for VPN. My first install and config resulted in super high load. So I redid it all on a fresh card (same brand) and it was snappy. No idea what the culprit was but I'm running Raspbian, installed with a NOOBS formatted SD card

I disabled swap memory and overclocked it to 2ghz which was super easy. Switched to a Flirc case because my prio case with a fan was really loud.

For Wireguard I followed this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/bnihyz/guide_how_to...
No, the point is that the average NSA employee was not involved in dragnet at any capacity.
> I rely on Matt Levine to explain, more clearly than I could, how brokerages make money

You rely on someone who never worked for a brokerage to teach you how brokerages worked?

> and the broker earns interest on that cash and pays you less than it earns

This has been standard practice forever. It isn't a secret. Also, with interest rates as low as they are, I don't think it is a move for the interest on the cash sitting in these accounts.

> and all the trading stuff is almost irrelevant

Irrelevant? The "trading stuff" is data. Trading commissions isn't that important, but the data is very valuable.

> I don't think this is about consolidation in the brokerage space because of zero fees.

That's right. It isn't about zero fees. It's about data. Trading/investing/customer data. Zero fees is to lure more customers and get more data. Just like Microsoft giving away their OS for "free". Just like google/facebook/etc giving away their services for "free". "Free trades" ( no fee trades ) are about getting more customers, more trades and more data.

> I think this is about investment banks getting into the retail space (see Goldman's Apple card).

It isn't about getting into retail space. Goldman isn't going open a store in malls around the country and sell t-shirts. Goldman's Apple Card is about data.

From wall street to tech to even telcoms...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375269

everybody is positioning themselves for the data goldrush. Even nations and regional blocs like the EU are doing so.

Whether data has intrinsic valuable or not, who really knows. But those with money and power have decided it has value and we are off to the races.
Was fun zooming out and comparing stars to the cubic area. If it's a sphere, we're at about 250 cubic light years per star at both 12.5 lt yr out, and at 20. It heads to around 900 ly^3 per star when you look at everything within 5000 lt yrs.

Makes sense, given that the Milky Way--while 150-200 kly wide--is only about 2000 light years thick.

Of course, we could rapidly zoom much, much farther out, like in this intergalactic redshift survey:

https://www.universetoday.com/21914/the-closest-galaxy-to-th...

Space is incomprehensibly big.
I completely agree (not related to this project, but a rant in Ruby). I used to thing metaprograming and DSLs were the best part of Ruby. Now I think it is the worst part. It makes code almost impossible to inspect, has hidden shared state everywhere, and makes things like stack traces end up saying `at line 66 in method_missing`. Or if you can locate the method, it is running it in `instance_eval` making it really hard to know what the state is when it is run. Ruby is actually a very functional language and now if I write Ruby code it is as functional as I can make it.
There is an equality narrative out there and nobody is willing to state the truth because it may paint one group as superficial and another less so.
No, a power source as insanely dangerous as nuclear is fortunately not politically viable at all here in the long term.
How many 30-40 mph roads/intersections were between your house and school?

Unfortunately this is the kind of thing that prevents many kids from walking to school in the US, even in cities, there are often few safe walking routes, incomplete sidewalks, poorly designed intersections across wide, fast moving roads.
Would creating, say, online marketplace to help people lose desired amount of money with certainty - for example, via some sort of specially crafted financial instrument - violate any applicable rules & regs? Idea for the next YC batch?
> If you depreciate an asset down from $1000 to $0 in 3 years, you’re accounting for the fact that in three years you are going to have to replace it.

but does a company have to be "honest" about such depreciations? What if the asset isn't actually losing value at the stated depreciation rate? Then at the end of the depreciation period, the company may still extract the residual value by either selling or continue using the asset. Does that somehow then count as revenue? Or did they just magically managed to tax dodge using a fake depreciation schedule?
It is perfectly respectable to most people, not the loud few commenters you find in this thread.
Greens - spinach, kale, swiss chard, beet greens, parsley, watercress, mustard, turnip, cress, dandelion

Seeds - sunflower, pumpkin, *

Seafood - Salmon, sardines, mussels

Reds - Tomato, red peppers

Insects - Crickets

Everyone can debate the merits of livestock, cereals, roots, legumes, extracted seed oils, saturated fat, cholesterol, refined sugar, top feeding fish, alliums, brassicaceae. But the other things listed above are about as universally and unequivocally considered healthy with the understanding of food we have, with regard to commonly available foods in a western diet.

* almond, peanut, walnut, pistachio, pecan, cashew, macadamia too if fodmap issues arent a concern. Same with alliums, brassicaceae, legumes.
It effectively creates "potholes" in the distribution --- anyone in that net-negative zone tries to move out of it.

The function looks like "y = x <= 48560 ? x : x - 7200" and means that, at the other end, someone who makes $55760 would end up with the same as someone who makes $48560.
Revoking Section 230 would make option 1 unviable, too, as liability for user content is waived by that particular section of the CDA.

Without Section 230, all interactive computer services are liable for content they host and serve to others, even if they choose not to moderate it.
It is true that people should not email that kind of data but then we assume good op security. Failure of op security is one of the argument of the author here against encryption. On that note I agree with him. People op security is bad, thus they should not use a third party service provider where the line between legal and illegal is the wrong attachment.

Enterprise Gmail is able to operate as a data processor, but there is a lot of fine details in order to stay within the law. It assumes that the company has agreed to the gmail processing terms and gotten permission from their own customer to process the data in such ways. Again here we hope that op security match the fine line between legal and illegal. (If we want a practical example which I know people do, imagine a administrator of a CRM sending a copy of the database to a new hosting provider. Now a copy of the database exist in the sent folder and an other copy at the email provider that the hosting company use. It is very doubtful that GDPR allows that kind of sharing of the private information. If the file get leaked in a data breach there is high probability of a successful lawsuit for mishandling of the information).

Using your own email server or tools that automatically encrypt everything does however prevent those risks.
I am sure it's a thing and if it is not, it will be.
Probably the most dramatic example would be Japan, where it's not unheard of for grade school children to take a train ride alone to school, sometimes with transfers.
I've been checking in on cryptocurrencies and blockchain things every couple of years and I tend to come away with a weird mixture of confusion and admiration each time.

Confusion because I don't understand how all of this has such an immense amount of time and capital invested in it when its actual use case for anything is extremely vague (mostly about future potential) and some that have moved away from proof of work (Stellar) seem a lot less safe?

Admiration because all of the different approaches, goals, and designs are really technically interesting (Dai using market incentives to stay pegged to one dollar, Tezos proof of stake and ability to get consensus on its own updates/formal verification, Zcash using zero knowledge proofs to keep transaction history optionally private, etc.)

I can't help shake that while the ability to hold decentralized consensus is neat, most of the current value seems to come entirely from speculation on future token price from people on reddit that have no idea what they're buying. Why do these things have any real value?

I've tried to follow the reasoning of people like Balaji S. Srinivasan from what I can find, but I have a hard time modeling a future where the current value of these things makes sense.

The value of Coinbase in all this makes sense though, if you build reliable infrastructure in a market you should make money - it doesn't matter if the underlying assets are worth anything or not.
That's an excellent suggestion, especially if you're trying to disconnect and go electronics free. Sadly a lot of people can't even read a map anymore.
Nice! Makes me think I should put a website in front of the scrolling pano bg.
> Willingness to participate in all that

Participate in what? The NSA does many different things and has many different positions. Would you hold NSA's janitors responsible as well?
Some quick examples:

https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-s...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parent...

https://people.com/parents/mom-investigated-dcfs-letting-dau...

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste...
I feel like there's room in the typing game genre for an easy mode meant to teach kids the alphabet.

Something like https://zty.pe/ or Type to Learn mashed up with Reader Rabbit.

I know there's a lot of disdain for them but I credit a lot of my early development to edutainment games. Difficult to pin down their actual effect of course.
If Jack was talking and gets interrupted by Jane, do you say, "Thanks, Jane. Jack, I was interested in what you were saying before you were interrupted. Could you continue?"?

If not, I think your practice is obnoxious.
mass extinction inevitable by 2100

This is very emotive language, which is fine, but there is no currently projected scenario where mass extinction is inevitable or even likely.

Great, but we don't have the transmission, storage or gas generation currently.

We are well on the way. In many parts of the world this is the majority energy mix already.

So we need to spend trillions to build a system that still produces enough CO2

This is untrue. It's roughly the same cost as replacing coal stations with new coal stations, which is roughly ten times cheaper than replacing them with nuclear. And it cuts energy production C02 production by about 70% which is easily enough to meet most targets to stabilise the climate.
Yep. I also heard a podcast about a woman who was born at home and never got a social security number. So to the government and to creditors she didn't exist and it was a nightmare for her to do anything financially that most people don't even think about.
How about a version controlled law lookup, can I get an Amen?!
I am fascinated by the way that so many people have the misapprehension that "love it" is completely binary.
Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash