skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His economics are sound, but I often find that his takes on social issues are extremely reductionist. His social views a lot of the time are just standard conservative views (and wrong IMO), I wish he wasn't being praised for that.

One example being his view on systemic racism, which he described as:

“It does remind me of the propaganda tactics of Joseph Goebbels in the age of the Nazis, in which he was supposed to have said that people will believe any lie if it’s repeated long enough and loud enough. And that’s what we’re getting.”

I just can't take this sort of person seriously in regards to social issues. I just can't do it. And he does this all the time, all of his social views are just ultra-reductionist conservatives views that are identical to the things my hardcore mask-refusing conservative relatives post on facebook.
Excellent
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The x-clint-data header is for experiments, not personalization:

Additionally, a subset of low entropy variations are included in network requests sent to Google. The combined state of these variations is non-identifying, since it is based on a 13-bit low entropy value (see above). These are transmitted using the "X-Client-Data" HTTP header, which contains a list of active variations. On Android, this header may include a limited set of external server-side experiments, which may affect the Chrome installation. This header is used to evaluate the effect on Google servers - for example, a networking change may affect YouTube video load speed or an Omnibox ranking update may result in more helpful Google Search results.

https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat...

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
The only entity who filed any suit, thus violating the ToS, was Patreon itself. Everyone opened arbitration claims.

There never was a counter-suit.

Are you a shill or just misinformed?
Why is it a subsidy if people are paying full price for their tickets?

If you're looking for subsidies, check out the way jet fuel is taxed (usually at far lower rates than regular fuel) or implement a consistent emissions scheme. Not that either is likely for a while given the ongoing carnage in the industry.
Every day you use inventions designed by abhorrent people. Get used to it.
His argument that Donald Trump would be a better choice for President than Hillary Clinton because the former would be easier to remove from office than the latter, arguing specifically that "congressional Republicans would [not] automatically spring to his defense, if he overstepped the line". Doesn't seem like a great example of keen political judgment in hindsight.
Set that aside.

Imagine instead that he has found undervalued property in an area with low-labor costs and high potential demand.

It’s exactly the type of investment opportunity banks and financiers should be looking for. It’s literally how our housing system gentrifies.

He didn’t ask the banks to buy the properties. He was seeking an LOC with a personal guarantee and the buildings as collateral.
JuliaCon 2020 – Interactive notebooks – Pluto.jl – Fons van der Plas
(Also househusbands)
Sure. And TikTok isn’t going to be used by China to send commandos into the US to kill you. China isn’t going to harm you with TikTok. US national security is not threatened by Americans using TikTok.
I was literally going to call them today to monitor my house's pre-existing ADT (DSC I think?) system out of practicality. Now, I'm not so sure.

Edit I wonder what modern solutions exist in this space for takeover of old systems. It feels like every alarm system installed is designed to extract your money for components for 3 years or so and then immediately become "discontinued." Most of the companies I see want me to buy a new system and lock into 3 years of monitoring. It wouldn't be so bad if the components weren't so damned expensive. $1k to fit out a small house, no smarthome nonsense even.
Unfortunately those cool old buildings are horrible collateral. If he fails the bank simply cannot recover its costs. And he will fail because if the buildings can even be legally rehabbed it will take years and at least a million dollars or so just to get the doors open.
Polygraph “Tests” and How to Beat Them [Hope 2020 Conference Talk]
American social media app's dominate my country. Google 99% market share. Facebook/Instagram 95% market share in social. 5eyes/PRISM (they're not gonna forgive snowden, he ruined their reputation) monitors my country (not part of the anglospehere) and I never consented.

Am I supposed to tell my government to block American apps so that I can compete with American apps or on "national security" grounds? Because this is the trend American's will see. And if Zuck is reading this, you're shooting your own foot. What do you think is gonna happen? You're pitting the government against TikTok because your company cannot compete fairly. You think you'll win like this? Your Facebook/Instagram will get banned in future by other democratic countries in future because of the precedent you're going to be setting.

Let China do it's thing. It may very well turn out that their way of governance is better. Losers stick to old ways, if it turns out it's the superior system, they'll clearly be better.

But for a system to be proven takes decades/centuries. As long as China does not force it's system, it's fine in my eyes.
No, the question is absolutely not whether ther policy was created with the intent of racism, because we don't live in a world where racism is defined as a guy in a pointy white hat who also happens to be the bank manager stringing black men up for cat-calling his daughter.

Every policy has a differential impact, that doesn't mean we chose not to address them when we see them.
even death rate can be easy to manipulate. Someone had a car accident while also tested positive for covid -> death by covid.
> somewhere between 0 and 64 bits from the implementations I've heard about ... 64 bits is way too much information

I think maybe you're confusing this some other API? Here are the trust token docs: https://github.com/WICG/trust-token-api#overview
Side gigs won't actually make any money but thanks for the work of fiction.
TIL: murder in Japan is not a life sentence
> He’s aware of other languages, as he reveals in his answer to a later question. (“I think C++ can do anything Rust can do, and I would like it to be much simpler to use.”) And towards the end, he couldn’t resist noting that longevity has its advantages. “It’s highly humorous when some of the Rust people come up and accuse me of having stolen some of their ideas without acknowledging — when some of the things I did I actually did almost 40 years ago.”

Does anyone know what these accusations were?
Given that C++ has been around for so long, It's incredulous to think that anyone from the Rust community can put forth such a claim.
I get it, it makes business sense - that’s a huge install base to push smart home products to.

At the same time, I would have a hard time naming a company that I’d trust less to integrate into my home security than Google.

Privacy, (lack of) customer service, service continuity...I know these aren’t issues that would worry most consumers but they would all be on my mind.
The pandemic hasn't hampered the health care industry
Although the overall idea of this article makes sense but there are certain fallacies that stand out.

For example, the Times article on "neo-Nazis infiltrating German institutions" might not be "free" but the same article on New York Times was free. Does this imply that Times article must be closer to truth than the one in the New York Times? This assumption seems flawed.
Basically, this was domestic violence case.
Effective Mentorship: Why the Best Leaders Don’t Create Followers
Here's a typical Sowell quote: "I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."

Why did the rich man "earn" it but not the poor man? Why is it "somebody else's" when it's the poor man's money but not when it's the rich man's money?

The answer is ideology.

"Entitlements" and minimum wages work fine and save plenty of people from poverty but Sowell wants to scrap them. Why? Ideology.

Apologetics for capitalism.
Ring ring. Seriously, who doesn't think this is because of the popularity of the Ring ecosystem?
Can anyone explain why everyone on HN seems to use footnotes even in short comments with a single link which follows the aforementioned footnote?

It's not a jab at the parent comment, I am simply interested if it's some kind of cargo cult, or I may be missing something here.
> And it has the extremely useful property of creating a market incentive to bankrupt pedophiles.

So, we treat child porn the same way we treat movie or music piracy, with the major difference being that victims doesn't have as much money as RIAA and MPAA to fight the pirates, and instead of good lawyers we get ambulance chasers, as pointed by the other poster?

You honestly believe that converting something that is currently a crime into a mere copyright violation will work better at removing the incentive for distributors of child pornography?

You're also delusional if you think distributors of child-porn operate in the daylight. Individual victims (or their proxies) don't have as much power/resources as the government to seek pedophiles just for noticing them for copyrights.

The only thing your suggestion would accomplish is making child-porn de facto legal.

> This is why fair use exists. Copyright doesn't always get that right, but now you're leveling a criticism of copyright implementation at a use case where it doesn't even apply. Pedophiles aren't distributing child pornography for the purposes of criticism.

Fair use makes your idea sound even more evil. Now an abuse victim risking losing a copyright case against a photographer using child-porn for criticism, or if someone uses it in a book for demonstration purposes.

On the other hand, your post is a tremendous idea for a dystopic novel. David Bowie made an album in 1995 about a detective deciding whether or not "Art-related Crime" is art, but you took it to an even darker corner.
As a non-American. Facebook and Twitter spam me with American politics all the time.
Carnivorous plant produces very nice smell for insects. Once insect lands on the plaint, it cannot move away and will be eaten by the plaint. Relationships are working the same way. Women will take away everything you have or earns and you will end up homeless & broken on the street.
TIL: the pineapple is native to southern Brazil near the border with Paraguay at the very state I live in for 15 years and I had no idea about that.
Amazon (Audible) charges $14.95 per month giving you one token / audiobook a month. They're the same price!
A Man Who Stole Bird Feathers (2018)
I don't know, my main question these days when interviewing someone is "how effectively can you turn money into work?". I don't care if you're having fun, I don't care if you're motivated by the company's vision, I don't care if your work is your hobby[0], I care about what kind of impact you'll have on the business.

Telling me "I will come in for 8 hours make things you want made, the way you want them, for money, and then go home" is fine by me.

[0] Some of these are bonuses or predictors of general suitability sometimes, but none is a deal-breaker.
Well why don't black landowners simply not go bankrupt and change the statistic over the years ? Why don't black landowners support each other to make it easier for them to get a fiscal injection when needed ?

> He had enough cash to buy eight buildings, all around 100 years old, in his majority black neighbourhood of Ensley, but he needed a banking loan to redevelop them. He thought it would be just a formality.

Why did he not buy 4 building instead not needing the loan ?
Something is fishy here.
I get that this is for learning purposes, but doesn't this tutorial start by making your database insecure?
>It is all about the features, not the age

Tell that to someone doing basic tasks such as reading textual articles online and sending emails via some gmail web interface
I think it's just convention, it's been like that as long as I can remember.
Have you given your TED talk already?
For what it's worth, Thomas Sowell was a Marxist up until he did a summer internship at the US Department of Labor.

Excerpt from interview where he talks about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6PDpCnMvvw
> high potential demand.

That would require growth. Birmingham is not growing.

> the buildings as collateral.

Except the buildings are not worth much of anything. I may as well offer my shoe as collateral.
I've long wanted to stay in this fabulous Pineapple folly in Scotland operated by the Landmark Trust https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/...
It's frequently not a life sentence in the US, and a "life sentence" in the US is actually not a life sentence, as people can get out on parole in under two decades (exact time varies by jurisdiction).
I also have a background in statistics, but landed a job as mostly a software engineer (though technically my title is Data Scientist... buzz words!). I've been building basically a cookiecutter framework for the base of a SaaS app (basic pricing, user auth, etc.), and brainstorming ideas.

As others have said, the ideal route is to validate the market first, and guarantee customers before effort is committed.

If you'd like to tag up, just to chat casually about the idea or just entrepreneurship in general, feel free to e-mail me (in bio).
If Rice's risk/reward assessment is correct, it seems strange to not have even one lender offer a loan that aligns with his analysis.

I have no clue about how prevalent racism is in the lending institutions that serve that geography. But I'd expect at least one of them to have looked at this carefully, in order to maximize the value of their portfolios.
Does the case for C++ in 2020 still exist? Rust and Go are much simpler to learn, can do everything that C++ can and have sane, simple and clean build systems/package managers, not to mention async/await concurrency in the former and channels in the latter.
You say banks are just doing their job. But you also admit that they're short sighted. Doesn't that suggeat that they're not fulfilling the role that we need them to fulfil in society. I don't want to live in a society where you can only take on a project like this if you are wealthy or have a wealthy backer. Do you?
Perhaps i'm being idealistic but if the cycle is that aggressive this screams for architects to start caring about buying FOSS. When you buy software it's an investment - you invest your time in integrating it into your workflow and your employees learning to use it... your investment is tied to the future of that software.

If it's FOSS (funded), no amount of money autodesk throw at it can bury it's source code, buying it would guarantee to some degree a future in the software and thus your investment. Even if autodesk bought the originating company.

But this would take a widespread cultural change in the values of architects combined with the first company willing to gamble on that business model. If a large group of architects are willing to sign a letter like this, perhaps now is the opportune moment to try and spread that value to avoid this problem in the future.
I'm honestly starting to ponder more fundamental questions here. The behavior of MS and ByteDance is not right currently.

Your idea that MS gets a stronger position is a bit orthogonal to what may be the real hold up. Insofar as your idea assumes both that ByteDance cares, and that MS wants Tik Tok, then your idea is sound.

But I'm no longer certain either is true. Is ByteDance a business? Or an out of date intelligence front that their people are simply winding down? Does MS want Tik Tok? Or has Trump decided that's the best outcome for him, and pressured MS to buy Tik Tok?

Is it time to consider the very real possibility that MS doesn't even want Tik Tok? And never really did?

Also, MS is being a little naive here as well. We are in uncharted territory, but did they think they would get away with tap dancing for a few months to pacify Trump and then coming back and saying, "Sorry we can't get it done"?
It's the clothes that start to stink, especially the synthetics. If you were naked, you wouldn't smell much. Maybe a bit of oniony armpit smell, but not the rank gym locker smell.
riscos might be a good bet for this kind of thing
Okay buddy.
Because we're programmers.

Edit: In my head what I was trying to say was obvious. In hindsight it's not.

The practice started because text interspersed with long urls is difficult to read. It's a good solution, so everyone started doing it all the time. It's done in situations like this where it isn't strictly necessary probably because most of us are programmers and don't like making exceptions to a rule for specific circumstances. That's the theory I'm going with anyway.
Patreon is on the hook for all arbitration costs, minus $250 that the aggrieved consumer must pay as a filing fee.

The risk is because Patreon's liability is open-ended. Each arbitration is a MINIMUM of $10K, and escalates from there, depending on the number and nature of claims.

If the claimants are not motivated by money, and they are not, they can push each arbitration to a full hearing and decision, rather than accept a settlement offer. Since they violated their own ToS by suing in court and doing so in a class action (two separate violations), they are in serious peril.

If they do that, Patreon could easily end up paying $100K per user.

Finally, ANY Patreon user can file a claim because of how badly they've botched the multiple revisions to the ToS since then.
Migrating big astronomy data to the cloud
Not all myths are true and most are twisted to support right wing myths. Gandhi in his early 20’s has prejudice against Africans, and his greatness lie in reinventing himself to overcome those prejudice. Indeed it’s one of the most difficult to transform oneself and that’s what he precisely did again and again.

Four aspects of Gandhi's legacy remain relevant, not just to India, but to the world.

1. First, non-violent resistance to unjust laws and/or authoritarian governments.

2. Second, the promotion of inter-faith understanding and religious tolerance.

3. Third, an economic model that does not rape or pillage nature.

4. Fourth, courtesy in public debate and transparency in one's public dealings.

If you want you can read Ramchandra Guha’s work [1], who wrote about his racist views and transformation.

Also one another anecdote:

In 1962, when British filmmaker Richard Attenborough began researching what would become his 1982 Gandhi film, he asked Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, how he should portray his late colleague. Nehru famously replied that Gandhi was "a great man, but he had his weaknesses, his moods and his failings." He begged Attenborough not to turn Gandhi into a saint. He was "much too human," Nehru said.

Martin Luther King [2] who stayed with his wife at Gandhi’s room in spite of being booked a room in hotel. He went on a path of non violent civil rights movement with inspiration from Gandhi and his ideology of non-violence.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/04/gandhi-1914-19...

[2] https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/my-...
I am seeing this as well. I raised an issue on Github.
> Counting a building with active tenants paying rent as being valued at $0 is ridiculous.

No it's not. If they live without running water, no toilet or heating with a leaky roof the tennants don't magically add value to the building.
many of my friends are activists, and i'm hesitant to disclose to them which technologies they could use. 95% chance they're going to use it for getting drugs, or avoid monitoring to organize gatherings, which, without law enforcement protection always have potential to turn violent. i just don't want to take responsibility for these actions.

then you have heavy stuff, people trafficking, bomb threats, suicide threats, organ trade, child abuse, and crypto seriously limits the options for a response. as long as we're talking about functioning democracies, it does more bad than good.
we have to inform you that due to the events of the past weeks we will discontinue the service of boon. as of 3rd of October 2020.

What "events of the past weeks" does this refer to?
In the Intent to Implement [1] I see:

Firefox: No public signals

Edge: No public signals

Safari: Public support. General support for the idea during TPAC 2019 discussion.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ says they're not sure yet: "This API depends on the Privacy Pass protocol, for which we have deferred our position statement."

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
I find that the complex syntax of Haskell is something I'll never be able to remember. There's so much implied in the syntax. Lisp is so much more readable and thinkable-inable because there's almost no syntax. No other language is as easy to think in. But I've never studied math beyond pre-calc.
In raw dollar terms this would undoubtedly >2x-3x the capital available to journalism as an industry. People who say (truthfully): "journalism needs more money" need to confront the reality that the current biz model doesn't work. Either we coerce Google news to tithe like Australia just did, or something like this sounds like a better solution than just letting journalism die.
Best Way to Sort Lego?
A modest proposal to best organise LEGO - is this the most efficient way of doing it? If not, what is?
Yeah, like they would a expect fair trial.
I'm trying to think of any company I would trust for a camera in my house and am drawing a blank. Google is pure evil for sure, but which company is better?

It it even possible to roll your own LAN solution any more? The tech giants have become so hostile to anyone who dares to try to control their own data that I never even hear it discussed any more.
Thank you for the explanation! I was really wrecking my head trying to understand it haha.
I'm also learning some algebraic geometry at the moment:

Some resources I have used are:

* video lectures by Richard Borcherds

* Lecture notes by Andreas Gathmann (https://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~gathmann/class/alggeom-200...)

* This blog: https://rigtriv.wordpress.com/ag-from-the-beginning/

* An infinite large napkin, by Evan Chen (https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf)

It also found it helpful to learn some (algebraic) number theory, to get a sense of where some of the motivation comes from (e.g. elliptic curves, modular forms). Grothendieck's work is abstract, but he was always motivated by concrete problems (e.g. Weil conjectures).
> That's why my interviews are aimed to check how does the individual think (instead of verifying her/his memorization skills). How does (s)he approach problems, split them, classify them, explore possible solutions? When does (s)he abandon the path that doesn't look promising anymore? Is (s)he able to effectively share her/his thoughts (verbally, graphically, in code)? What about focus - does (s)he navigate in terms of a given goal or roam chaotically around?

This sounds a lot like system design or leetcode-esque interview questions, which is the trend among tech companies in the US.

> The problems candidates are facing at my interviews usually have NOTHING in common with the company's domain, BUT they have a super-low entry level (e.g. they are about common problems everyone encounters every day): building up the context takes seconds (literally), so the candidate can focus on tackling the problem, not understanding its basics.

Are they system-design questions? This post could use some examples of interview questions the author has asked.
I’d love to know how he’d like for C++ to support distributed systems in broad strokes.

The first thing that comes to mind is things like gRPC or the actor model but I can’t imagine he has either of those in mind.