skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I wish my file system did periodic integrity checks. I should switch to a more modern file system at some point. I'm still on ext4. Your blog post suggest btrfs, ZFS or XFS. Which one should I pick next time around?

I haven't run into much bit rot yet, at least where it mattered, but I'm guessing I'd see more of it if I went up to bigger drives. For now, my data lives on 4tb.

PhotoStructure sounds neat. Business model may be tough. I wouldn't run a proprietary solution for data management, especially from a small startup. I just wouldn't trust it. I want to know what happens to my data, and to be able to get it out. I understand the claim you'll open source in case of business failure, but there are many other paths (e.g. bought by Oracle, milked for profits, moved to incompetent management, etc).

I would totally would pay for an open solution, if there were a good business model for that, but I'm not sure what that is. I'd pay for integration (a piece of hardware arrives on my doorstep with no futzing, and with automatic security updates, etc. and your competitive edge is trust).

I'd also consider paying for a split model, where the data management used open formats and auditable, documented open source, while there were UI/UX or search functionality on top of that. That may be what you're doing; I'm not sure. I can see some open source stuff, but I'm not sure what's open and what's closed. Or better yet, where there's a cloud model. My data lives at home, but you have low-res versions of my photos which automatically sync to my phone, which can be shared, etc. securely.

Mostly, what I want is a place to reliably be able to dump my files (not just photos), have versioned backups of everything, have an automated way to move to offline storage once a quarter as you recommended, and have some way to manage !@#%^ duplicates (I have several computers, and that makes for all sorts of messes). Ideally, I'd also have some way to securely share with people
You can route old account emails to new and answer people from new account. It's quite seamless, to new people you give the new email. At least I knew few people who have done it after name change, but marriage and taking new name is less common nowadays than it used to be I guess.
I guess funding was not a big issue for the CIA...
What percentage of loans were applied for by black-owned businesses? Comparing it to population seems like a statistic that is intentionally misleading, I would guess that a lot more businesses are owned by white people than by black people (which is its own issue). I believe only around 10% of businesses are even owned by a black person, so it doesn't surprise me to see that they have a smaller piece of the PPP loan pie...
at the lowest level money can give you safety, from starvation, from homelessness. The removal of that fear from a slight increase of income would be liberating for someone in that kind of situation.

A level above that would give freedom, that's what "F-you money" is all about. Having that means no longer putting up with bad situations like an employer asking you to do something illegal, it means being able to prioritize family, and it would allow for time to pursue new skills and hobbies that could open new opportunities.

Step past that and now more money would give you the ability to do things with people. Want to take a trip with friends, now it's possible. Thoughtful gifts, done. The ability to attend a conference that allows you to make connections in your industry, there it is. This could also be the difference between community college or a famous university.

All of these things, lack of fear, increase of freedom, increase of opportunity are all things that would make people happier. I think the saying that it doesn't bring happiness always was one of the cultural lies we tell.
Also keep in mind that a lot of these agencies receive federal funding.

Even if they don't have a legal right to do oversight, they can simply say you comply with this or you don't get federal money.
> Nowadays I would much rather slog through ten times as much Java boilerplate, because later I’d expect that I could still refactor code without fearing that the whole thing would collapse around me

Sure, but if you don't reach market fast enough you'll have no reason to slog through anything, period. Can you imagine writing something like Facebook using Rust? It's an almost ludicrous proposition.

Static typing requires that you know what you're building at a relatively fine-grained level--how the pieces will fit together at the source code level, at least roughly. No amount of automated refactoring could ever match the flexibility of dynamic typing when you're just trying to bang out features, let alone explore the feature space, which almost by definition is what any novel solution is doing--exploring. That's why I love using embedded scripting, particularly Lua. You can gradually move components outside the dynamic environment as their place in the architecture becomes fixed and well understood.[1] So-called gradual typing doesn't really permit the same kind of flexibility because it's not the static typing, per se, that burdens development, but rather that static typing has the effect of forcing a more rigid hierarchy of higher-order abstractions and interface boundaries. What you want is the ability to slowly solidify the architecture from the outside to the inside, not the inside to the outside.

Microservices is another way to address the problem, at least in theory, but in practice doesn't actually directly resolve the real dilemmas. At best it just multiplies the number of environments in which you're faced with the problem, which can both help and hurt.

[1] Statically typed scripting languages seem rather pointless to me, and more a reflection of a fleeting fascination with REPL.
Who needs a panopticon when the prisoners post evidence themselves?
Let’s say 80% of websites load Google Fonts. Now Google knows 80% of your browsing history.
In other news, larger corporations are more white-owned, and had the resources to wrangle the PPP loans.

This is a case of small businesses not having the resources to acquire the loans in the first place. Mixing in race obfuscates and distracts from the real issue here. It should have been easier for small businesses and harder for larger ones to balance the scales.
Which immigrants?
Imagine if the army was unionized, and started lobbying the government for whether we should participate in wars or not. Or more worryingly, lobbied for change to rules of engagement. Add to that, the fact that everyone in the military was in the union, from the lowest level recruits to the generals. This is as opposed to other unions where management are typically excluded.
The ChowNow app doesn't handle delivery, only online ordering. If the restaurant delivers, they do it themselves. The nice thing about ChowNow is that they just charge a monthly fee to the restaurant, plus any credit card fees. More affordable for the restaurant than a 30% cut of each order.
It doesn't take that much guessing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/minority-busines...

> Racial discrimination in banking is outlawed on paper, but it continues in practice — often in subtle forms. In 2018, for instance, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a nonprofit organization that works with banks to increase the flow of private capital into poor and underserved communities, sent “mystery shoppers” to 32 different banks in Los Angeles. It found that potential borrowers with identical financial profiles were treated differently by bankers based on their race. Black and Latino borrowers were asked for more detailed financial documents and were given less information about many banks’ available products than white borrowers.
I really like this idea, and I can see where you could essentially function as a bank (make money off the deposits while paying out less than that in the EV of all winnings) as long as you are prepared to take any hit of variance (obviously not much variance in your prize structure though, especially with the big jackpot being pretty much in the realm of impossibility territory)

For those of us that enjoy variance - I wonder if you could make it so we could generate our own payout structure than could never get above what you are setting as "EV API"

Based on my back of the envelope calculations you are still running at less than 1% API, but I could be wrong (still need to run the exact numbers)

I'm not sure exactly how the legality works, and I understand that you need to make your money, but I do think it is an interesting (if not an MVP) option to allow advanced users to tinker with the amount of variance - perhaps I want to support your project in encouraging better savings but I want closer to no variance, perhaps I don't care about 1% a year but I want the chance of something more life changing...
Despite their fashionable references to Rome, I think the English Civil War was a stronger influence on their thinking - a king's attempt to establish untrammeled authority leading to a parliamentary backlash that was equally untrammeled.
And 78% of businesses were white-owned as of 2012. (same source)
I think one could argue that having downvote functionality at all is counterproductive. What exactly is gained by downvoting posts versus the undeniable censorship of dissenting views and enabling personal grievances and biases?

"I don't know why you were downvoted" seems to be HN's unofficial motto.
It's been WIP for a few years now! It's easily one of the largest changes to the stdlib of JavaScript recently, and things like these take forever to standardize.
Ok City is just down the road from Tulsa. Guess this means Liz Warren was born on a Native American reservation.
> Competent and committed legal defense for everyone defends the rule of law

I agree wholeheartedly, but in practice this often doesn't happen, for a multitude of reasons. Legal representation costs money in most countries, and most lawyers don't particularly enjoy defending guilty people (obviously they do it anyway, but it's a bit like having to fix a '90s PHP website when your passion is Python 3...). Hence my curiosity about the backstory of this particular situation going on for so long (20 years and all the way to SCOTUS is a lot of work).
You'll probably have to do the work yourself. Luckily the Treasury released the data in a convenient format:

https://sba.box.com/s/tvb0v5i57oa8gc6b5dcm9cyw7y2ms6pp
But don't worry, the police only elect the best to be the leaders of their unions.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-c...
If it only 4 hours, it might well have been "just because I could".

Google doesn't micromanage employees by the half hour like many companies...
What is the difference between those two?
Just police shootings would be fine.

I don’t understand the point about presuming innocence. These are cases where it has been determined that a police officer has shot someone. Not cases where somebody was shot whilst police were nearby and we don’t know who did it, which would be “police involved shootings”.
What percentage of businesses with paid employees are black owned? Without this bit of data, the rest doesn't have any context.
It's not ridiculous because it's the "real" total value of the goods, which is what matters more than to know if the "owner" would receive X of Y.
To your point:

https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6056224/politie-ontdekt-drugsla...

More and more Latin American criminals directly involved here as well. If anybody is still surprised about this they haven't been paying much attention the last decade or two.
arly research2 using biosensors that measure brain activity show that the brain exerts less effort when participating in a meeting using Together mode when compared to the grid view. This suggests Together mode may help with the feeling of meeting fatigue some remote workers are experiencing.
Where is this quote from, please?

To play devil's advocate, I think retort to your comment about "intellectually satisfying" methods is "yeah, but, they work". And in any case, "intellectually satisfying" doesn't have a formal definition in computer science or AI so it can't very well be a goal, as such.

My own concern is exactly what Russel & Norvig seem to say in Hofstadter's comment: by spending all our resources on clmbing the tallest trees to get to the moon, we're falling behind from our goal, of ever getting to the moon. That's even more so if the goal is to use AI to understand our own mind, rather than to beat a bunch of benchmarks.
I was updating my comment with this statistic as you were posting yours; apologies if it 'steals your thunder'.
You're correct -- it's more of a query-language-ish alternative to REST.

However, it does let one work with hierarchical data structures that map more closely to the JSONish mental model that most app developers have, rather than with pure SQL tabular data structures which have to be object-mapped.

I'd imagine most developers just want that, rather than capabilities for doing relationship/connection queries which real graph databases specialize in.
I really like these feeds, but because it uses the Algoria API, it can't expose the feed I really want, which is a feed of flagged posts that got in the top N and/or a certain number of votes.
Though sadly millilightseconds is not supported on macOS, at least, so you have to go:

3 millilightyears / 365 / 86400

Of course, round 365 to whatever average number of days you believe in :-)
Number 2 took me from using paint constantly to just using photoshop instead.
> Proximity in time and space add important context to the issue.

It really doesn't and saying otherwise doesn't add anything to the conversation (see what I did there).

Do you really believe the Russian and German empires should reclaim their "rightful" territories in Europe? Do you believe Europe should reassert its domination over Africa because it had strong political control over it in recent history? What about the British Raj? What about Hong Kong?

"Time and space" is a bullshit argument and you don't believe it yourself. How could you? "So and so" holding "such and such" lands at "this and that" time is the basis of 99% of wars throughout history.

Its a stupid way to think. Its a stupid way to govern.
Google can ward off EU antitrust probe into Fitbit deal with data pledge
I am very aware of how wholesale and retail pricing works - but that is a very different distribution channel, and customers enter supermarkets and department stores well aware of this. Restaurant pricing is based on (with maybe some outlying exceptions) a direct-to-consumer distribution model - something you seem be be having an impossible time understanding. I'm fine with delivery companies marking up the prices - as long as they are transparent about it - which they are not. it's deceitful to the customer experience, and I think you are intentionally playing dumb here.
Temporal does in fact conform to standards like ISO 8601 for serialization/parsing etc.
Rejection rate seems like it would be more useful than just percentage of overall acceptance.
Not to mention the way the opiates where marketed at doctors with claims they where less addictive.

Meaning doctors where more likely to prescribe them, that whole episode was one of multiple fuck ups at every level backed by some unscrupulous fuckers.
I wanted to like it, but ... just couldn't.
It sounds even worse to me. It seems to say 'we thought we had turned that off sometime ago, but we didn't actually take down the public site which gave access to it. In the past, we would have reviewed any request for data through the API, but since we thought we had stopped public access, we were accidentally giving data away without checking if we are actually on with people knowing these things'.
Question for someone who works in music/audio: is this actually useful as a workflow tool, or is it just a cool tech demo/toy?
Ask HN: What's Your Writing Stack?
With more time for writing, curious what people are using to capture thoughts/ideas (e.g. Notes, Roam Research, Evernote), author their work (e.g. Pages, Word, markdown editor), and publish it (e.g self-hosted blog, Medium, email newsletter).

I've been using a combination of native OS apps and academic/enterprise like software and haven't found something that really resonates with me yet for capturing ideas and authoring content. Which leaves me having to bounce between at least two applications. There seems like quite a bit of overhead to make Roam usable, and the reviews look good, so maybe it's worth a deeper dive?

As far as publishing, not quite there yet, and I'd like to keep things fully-owned. So not really looking at Substack, Medium, and the like. Not opposed to building a custom frontend on top of online docs like Google Docs or Airtable either. WordPress is still in the running too.

So HN, what's your writing stack look like?
People get used to how a company is.

If the lunchroom is like the orphanage in Oliver Twist, and you have 12 inch VGA monitors, well, that's just the way it is.

At another company, if one day you notice that the coffee in the break room is no longer organic, even if it's of good quality, and the string cheese is only restocked twice a day instead of three times, that's a bad sign. Somebody is trying to save money. That may not mean the company is in trouble but it's a sign something isn't as good as it once was.
Tape also has other overhead... like you need a reader and if you’re operating at the scale where the cost of the tape is a deciding factor, then you probably also would like to have an auto loader, rack mounted gear, etc. Not to mention the different software needed and keeping track of what is on tape (which tape?), vs disk is a lot to manage.

For many, just keeping multiple HDDs around, even if they are slightly more expensive is the simpler option.
That's a good point. I don't really have a sense for whether the legal system makes any differentiation between different sessions of Congress, or whether it's just viewed as one continuously-operating entity. Like would Congress be able to retroactively-clarify their intent if the law was very recent and the same Congress was still in session?
I suspect the more corrupt the government the population of officials and their corruption level goes hand in hand.

But beyond that I'm not sure it has much to do with society as a whole.
It was blown, if not for that they would have been happy to continue the operation. Once the criminals figured out they had been compromised the operation was effectively over, Encrochat alerted their users to destroy the devices. After that it is obvious there would be a mop-up operation.
You're arguing with a strawman. I'm just saying static typechecking is usually sufficient this day in age. Your language itself doesn't have to be static. Actually I'll go even further: It wasn't enough three years ago when language server protocol wasn't a thing.
so the leftists sold out the leftists? classic.
To be clear:

> The full list of Paycheck Protection Program recipients released by the Small Business Administration on Monday shows that of the 14 percent of businesses that chose to identify race in their loan application, Black-owned businesses received 1.9 percent of loans while White-owned businesses received 83 percent.

So the actual percentage of black-owned businesses receiving PPP loans is somewhere from 0.26% - 86.26%, depending on how you think the data is biased.
So crimes committed by Americans on reservation land are basically unchargeable now?
What we learned from building an industry coalition
I think the most useful comparison would be to judge it against expenses, since not all businesses would need the same amount of loans. The closest related statistic I could find is that all minority-owned businesses generate around 3% of revenue. The loans seem to have been given out fairly evenly as intended, but the small impact of black businesses on the economy seems like a much more significant disparity.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-01/most-of-amer...
I use pybuilder to setup Python projects. With it, you can have unit testing, linting, packaging, costumized tasks, plugin, etc.
We have a torture museum in Amsterdam that shows endless creativity for this kind of stuff. Some people are quite sick.
That's really interesting. Something basic we could do is allow users to toggle between getting a guaranteed return or more tickets. It wouldn't change the payouts, but it would change your own variance. It's not as flexible as what you describe though. Will think more on this.
Right, while not explicitly discussed in terms of Simpson's paradox, part of the article does discuss things by breaking down the numbers between AZ/FL/TX (current US hotspots) and the rest of the US.

Also, unless you are @mbeckett on Twitter, I'd recommend changing your comment to be a quote as you've repeated their content verbatim.
/s is missing.

There is this misconception that the absence of regulation is bad. But that is not true for sane appropriate rules. Absence of public rules is not a vacuum of rules but a universe where rules are made by the strongest.

Also laws do often not prescribe details but empower regulators to manage the details. There may be laws against predatory pricing. There is also case laws against predatory pricing. But markets also evolved and it us extremely costly and time consuming to prosecute monopoly cases based on principles (read up on e.g. the case against IBM way back). It is more efficient to put in place industry specific rules which then can be enforced with much simpler reasoning.
> Popular consensus believes 100% X, and absolutely 0% Y.

He already starts off with antagonism. Where is the data for this? How does he know what the popular consensus is? Why is he drawing such a sharp delineation between "popular" and their association with X and Y?

> A few iconoclasts say that X is definitely right and important, but maybe we should also think about Y sometimes.

Seems like he thinks he's an iconoclast and the people that associate with that will start to act out iconoclastically themselves and if you look at the comments you will notice that. They're modeling what Scott is outlining in the post.

> I can see why this pattern is tempting.

How clever of him to notice this pattern and point out it is tempting.

> If somebody said the US should allocate 50% of its defense budget to the usual global threats, and 50% to the threat of reptilian space invaders, then even though the plan contains the number “50-50” it would not be a “moderate” proposal.

He's making a really weird analogy. This is not what people argue about and he has created an extreme view that does not exist by comparing a position to "space invaders".

Anyway, I'm not reading further. I'm already convinced he's not making any worthwhile point here. He's using emotionally charged language to draw the reader in and make them identify with him. It's a poor tactic. It only works on people that don't notice it. And I think this is the most damning evidence against him, as a psychologist he should know this is what he's doing by making these statements. He doesn't speak / write like someone that has knowledge of human psychology. He speaks / writes like someone that uses knowledge of human psychology to confuse his audience.
I know a lot of liberal gun owning people. I have a hunch this is like environmental issues. I think many conservative want to support environmental issues but since it clashes with more government control, it get's thrown under the bus.
Legal checks are a mile-long leash, no matter how strong the cord. This is exchanging freedom for security, since a backdoor like this doesn’t require breaking glass.