skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in an urbanized suburb (SFH, but 5 miles from a city core) and kids are out all the time. We have a few helicopter parents that feel the need to monitor their kids constantly, but for the most part, the parks, buses, restaurants, convenience stores, etc are all full of kids/teens. They don't even really cause trouble either. You'd think a group of teenage boys would be assholes, but nope, they just kind of mind their own business.

Once you get to the cookie-cutter subdivisions in the far suburbs, that's when the kids all disappear. Part of it might be helicopter parenting, but I think it's caused mostly by a lack of any outdoor activities. Riding your bike means going to the next subdivision over. Repeat that a half-dozen times and you get to a heavily trafficked road that can be followed for a few miles to a strip mall with a Target. Even all of the nice parks in these places are only accessible via car -- surrounded on all sized by 4-6 lane traffic going 45+MPH.
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I would be interested in hearing that argument. On the surface it appears to be an argument of creating special privileged groups who are the only ones who have freedom of speech or the ability to avoid having troops billeted in their dwellings. Maybe that would lead to more safety?

That makes me think of the society from Heinlein's Starship Troopers where you had to earn citizenship through civic duty. He certainly portrayed the non-citizens having a safe existence (during peacetime).
Exactly, this should be highlighted. The rhetoric seems intended to distract from this fact. How much money does the CDC receive each year?
If (eventually) each service needs an IPv4 address, that implies that there isn't a shortage and thus the value of addresses would be near zero.
> And in winter only a few hardcore bikers put the effort to dress up to get to the office

Fewer people ride in Winter than Summer, but it's not a hardcore thing to do. Berlin is only really cold for 2-3 weeks per year and it doesn't rain much.

Why do you think the popup lanes are nonsense?
This pandemic is a good case study for why we need a new model of governance. Consider this hypothetical system:

1. Data is collected

2. Dynamics are modeled (population health, hospital capacity, economic output, etc.)

3. Problem constraints are well posed

4. Computational resources are allocated to solve for the constraints

In my mind, this would be the rational approach to solving this problem. Steps 1, 2, and 4 should be apolitical. Only step 3 is political since many people would disagree on what should be optimized. Step 3 is what people should debate. Steps 1, 2, 4 should be transparently managed by public+private working groups of experts.

Instead, the public and political discourse around lockdown and data collection are proxies for an informal debate around whether population health or economy is more important, which is not a well-posed problem, nor is it an effective way to engineer a solution.
Have you looked into log homes? That may fit your criteria: lot of wood needed (so great carbon sink), good insulation, simple design (1 wall for support, vapor barrier, insulation , siding and inside panelling).
That is absolutely awesome and exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you for working on this and showing it here!
Looks like an engineer trying to be funny to me :) Typical for the genre?
We are in a world where there are so many options there aren't enough hours in the day to keep up with them all. Do you know why we're in this world? We are in this world because Microsoft stumbled.

They aren't just a large company that people have an old grudge against. They're very specifically the people who kept us from having the option to not consider a particular company and still have any reasonable options at all.
This isn't true. Approval for gay marriage has gone up for all generations. It's now at 45% approval among people born before 1945, up from just 17% in 2003.

https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-ga...
You say it’s the wrong optimization but your argument seems to be that there are bigger problems. I tend to agree, particularly with pernicious stuff like single-unit zoning and such, but that doesn’t mean that prefab is “wrong” overall. I don’t see it as a cost optimization, I see it as a speed and consistency optimization. Do we know if long-term maintenance costs of prefab construction are lower?
Is Ultra-Wideband the next big wireless technology, or just more hype?
> They were monsters for at least 20 years

Microsoft is a company run by people, and those people have changed (the "they" you mentioned). Gates & Balmer are now nothing more than shareholders (Gates stepped down from the board in March this year). Believe it or not, it's people that determine how a company is run and the people running Microsoft today are not the people that were running it in the 80s & 90s.

Large business units with billions in revenue take years to change direction, and we've seen that clearly happen under Nadella.
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Stealing from people to help the poor is very different from helping the poor by granting wider freedoms to the entire population. It's not hypocritical to support the latter but not the former.

Your argument basically boils down to: "Rich people refuse to slit their throats to give blood to the poor, therefore rich people aren't allowed to complain that lockdowns hurt the poor." It's intellectually dishonest and morally repugnant.
It seems you don't like solar panels?

I never said that. I'm saying that based on AOC's 100% plan, pretty much everything is off the table, meaning that the plan needs to be revised. I plan to have 30kw of solar panels in my next home and a large collection of LifePo4 batteries that also have a dependency on strip mining. I also plan to do some of my own mining (drilling, blasting) for zinc and silver.
This seems to be directionally correct. To compete with Amazon and get on the cloud train, Microsoft got into the services business with Azure. However, with Azure, it doesn't really matter what OS your customers are using because they are paying you for compute time either way. Thus, Microsoft could safely embrace Linux without sacrificing their revenue line. I'm not sure if this was Microsoft's intention initially, but it certainly seems to be how things are playing out.
> I do not. I argue that the public putting pressure on individuals who spread bad ideas to stop doing that

The whole point is that there's not a good way to determine what ideas are "bad ideas" apart from ongoing public debate.

> up to and including the employer terminating that employment relationship---is part of the healthy public immune system to bad ideas and antisocial behavior

The obvious problem is that "employers can terminate any employee at will" is that it does at least as much harm to "good ideas" as to "bad ideas". It optimizes for "popular ideas" and your ideas might not be popular, especially if you believe (as many cancel culture proponents do) that we live in an abhorrent white supremacist, rape culture. If these ideas are indeed popular, then a mechanism that allows employers to terminate employees for any reason coupled with an incentive system that encourages employers to terminate employees with unpopular ideas will naturally result in the propagation of those popular ideals.
> What’s leading you to be sure it will increase 400% in the next 24 months?

Honestly? Just a hunch. But also looking at trends on IPv4Auctions.com (now auctions.ip4.global), a few years ago blocks would go for $7/address, now they're $25/address - and as demand for IPv4 addresses won't be going away[1] and supply will only decrease (barring rare gluts of supply like AMPRnet's when a major /21 or /16 is broken down into smaller blocks to auction off).

I think $100/address would be an upper-bound though, because at that point it's likely cheaper to finally invest in IPv6 deployment, including issuing new CPE than it costs to retain IPv4.

[1] If an ISP could have deployed IPv6 by now then they would have done 5+ years ago. Any ISPs that haven't already deployed IPv6 by now (or even 5 years ago) must be facing some massive internal hurdles, such as incompetent management who see it as a massive and unnecessary technical expense when CG-NAT is good-enough for the majority of their customers - or have a hetereogenous network that would be a nightmare to bring up-to-code on any reasonable timescale). The only way these ISPs will upgrade is when the cost of operating an IPv4 network becomes unbearable - hence why I want to see IPv4 address costs skyrocket :)
Just location metadata which the hedge funds overlay with known retail locations.
Hey,

I am Emre who works and lives in Warsaw, Poland. Past weeks, I was working on Hey Gamer. I thought it'd be good to explain myself and why I started to build such a thing.

I am currently working in a gaming-related company. I get a lot of questions about working in such an environment. Most of them are coming from younger people.

I have concluded that most people think that you can work in a gaming company only if you are a game developer or designer. So I wanted to show that this is not correct. But this is only one of the many reasons I have.

As an employee and a gaming enthusiast, I am aware of "demanding" nature of gaming companies. And I believe that it shouldn't be like that. So I am trying to amplify the voice of those companies who care about their work-mates. Soon, I will start to produce content for both employers and employees about building an ethical and respectful working environment.

Lastly, I am building Hey Gamer as an Open Startup. So far I have nothing to show, but once I have some stats, everyone on the internet will be able to see what's going on inside my product. I also ditched Google Analytics for Simple Analytics, so I am trying to be as ethical as I can towards my future partners and visitors.

Please feel free to give me any feedback you can to make my product better. It's nowhere near to be a perfect product at the moment, but I dedicate all my evenings into it.
I understand to some extent varying pay based on location, since e.g. the cost of living in the bay area is easily 2x what I'm paying in Cincinnati, OH. But it can't be used as an excuse to pay talent poorly. For their part, my current employer made my pay about 10% less when I went from working in Seattle to going remote in Cincinnati, and that felt more or less OK since it worked out to a slight raise thanks to lower expenses. Had they gone with the "market rate" for an engineer here though, I would have gotten easily a 50% pay cut since there aren't any "big tech" companies around here. It's a tricky balancing act.
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Developing Linux ports is a marginal cost; you are recycling assets and code from your main platform, so that 0.59% will pay for itself. Many companies would do many unspeakable things to increase their market share by half a percent; it is still in millions.

It speaks volumes, when to cancel such a product a new owner, who happens to own one of the competing plaforms, has to do that by decree, with no regards to business results.
That never was a goal of Microsoft. Their goal is to get Microsoft apps, technology, and development toolsets embedded everywhere, and to a large extent, they have already succeeded in that. Projects like .NET Core, SQL Server on Linux, Visual Studio Code, Windows IoT, all have cross-pollinated to the Linux world and have gotten Linux, macOS, and ARM hardware users to adopt Microsoft technologies. All those investments drive usage of other Microsoft services which results in more revenue for Microsoft, which is all they ever wanted.
I have written professionally POSIX software during the late 90's during the .COM wave, using the vendor SDK and respective C compiler targeting HP-UX, Aix, Solaris, Red-Hat Linux, with in-house wrappers for NT/2000.

During high school I got introduced to UNIX via Xenix, and my first years at the university we had DG/UX on campus, while I started playing with Slackware 2.0 to avoid going into the campus fighting for a terminal after 1h bus trip.

Doing POSIX stuff was the same mess as making a Web site work properly across all major browsers.
Unfortunately the mere mention of herd immunity is a faux pas that will lead to censure.
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It once had, at least in the western united states.

And people now pay a lot of money for those prefab houses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes
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tl;dr: 10-years of data were pulled from Dallas PD.

"Records were abstracted for 516 officers. In the adjusted models, veteran LEOs who were not deployed were significantly more likely to be involved in a shooting than non-veteran officers. Veterans with a deployment history were 2.9 times more likely to be in a shooting than non-veteran officers."

Interesting food for thought. I've heard many arguments about ex-military folks training in rules of engagement making them less-likely to use a weapon in a frivolous scenario. But, maybe that's not borne out by the data.

Or there's a selection-bias thing. Either way, good point.

I think what the parent was getting at though, was that this would silo the guys with all the guns and stuff in a way that they're used only in more carefully-considered situations as opposed to giving every yahoo on the force an MRAP, a tactical vest full of 123123 mags for their AR-15, and a fuzzy mandate to enforce the 'thin blue line.'

You both make really, excellent points, honestly.
You're looking at actual APCs. OP was saying APC but police actually get the MRAP varients similar to the Lenco Bearcats that they buy. Those have no offensive weapons. Its just armor and bullet resistant glass on a heavy truck frame. Thats it.
FB has direct messaging and will refuse to send a PM to a friend if it contains a "bad" link
> let Ferrari do it's thing. Or trailer it to a certified dealership to have it reset there.

This is a very Apple-like line of thinking. It's not a valid excuse.
Wsl runs on a very barebones custom linux kernel, unless flipside is also true Qemu would be loading a full blown OS. May be that's what he meant.
Given the number of covid denial replies I've had here, its EITHER the case that people really think the majority of EXPERTS world wide are conspiring against them OR were being AstroTurfed

Either is very concerning.
It's not all of Stanford, just one group (Jay Bhattarcharya's) that published a paper that betrayed extreme ignorance of binomial confidence intervals and modeling in general and is now the subject of this article. Why anybody would listen to this group despite after that is a good question (although, since poor understanding of statistics is rampant in the Medical field, let alone among the general population, perhaps not too surprising).

(disclaimer: Stanford '09)
> …reaching herd immunity…

I'm gonna stop you right there, because it's looking less and less likely that there will be such a thing. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/06/flurry-of-coro...
Being a Microsoft empmoyee at the time Steve was CEO, i think you are grossly undermining his fundamental work to what Satya is now also capitalizing on.

I don't know Satya from the inside, so I will not say anything, other than he does not seem to have initiated a lot. I might be wrong.

You don't turn a business as Microsoft into a super attractive stock overnight. But Ballmer, Kevin Turner, and Guthrie to some extent put in a lot of effort to create what is now being run by Satya.
ebay now lets you request all of the data they have on you (unsure if that means sold or not). I've requested a ton, and you can too: https://www.sarweb.ebay.com/sar
ChromeOS and Android are successful because they hide the Linux underneath. 99% of ChromeOS and Android users will never see the console. Even when booting, they won't see scroll of kernel messages. Most of the time, the only reference to Linux they'll see is the open source section listing all the licenses.
You're all over the map with Bob Lazar & Edward Snowden here.
Webb has done amazing work on uncovering Maxwell/Epstein facts and connections ignored by the corporate media.
Your idea that 'reasonable people' ignore anything not promoted and discussed in the corporate media (Snowden for example) again proves my point.
The main thing is a cron job that scrapes a private music blog that I'm a member of and updates a playlist. Then another script that can tell when I've listened to a song on that playlist. If I favorited the song, it gets moved to another playlist (bands to further investigate). If I didn't favorite the song, it is deleted.
Is more like people miss socializing in person, but they also know they don’t want full time working from office. They more likely just want 1-2 days a week to get that fix in
Once drove a shared car into an underground garage with no reception. Cannot recommend it, had to pay the overnight parking and it took me quite some time to re-activate again.
> the claim of intent probably also needs more evidence

There is none. Microsoft won't exactly do a press release to confirm exactly that, but the timing of events is suspicious. Things like this do not just happen randomly.
What leads you to this conclusion?

I find stories about fraudulent journalists fascinating, but despite my interest in the topic I only see big stories about journalistic misconduct once a year or so, whereas scandals involving politicians, television/movie execs, and tech seem to surface at least every couple of months. Police misconduct has sparked months of protests.
This makes total sense, honestly. Jamming a signal would be indeed best done at the time of the (attempted) intrusion.
I felt the same about Linux until I started using an AMD GPU and found out the problem was actually Nvidia. My Linux desktop now runs really smoothly with no configuration needed.
I don't agree.
Facebook should stop applying these ridiculous algorithms which are promoting content to you which makes no sense at all and serve the only single business Facebook has: Advertising.
If facebook would solely serve you with content originated from your friends and maybe some random ads then all this conspiracy bullcrap stories won't have a chance at all and will remain in their small user circles.
Also besides the usual fake content (deny of holocaust, environment etc), there is also a lot in the gray area. Think of articles about health. Articles about how to get rich. Articles about a new revolutionary cleaning device. Probably all fake. But in some cases maybe not.
Its not up to Facebook to decide these matters.
Facebook should change into what it should be. A social network for friends. Not a crappy advertising agent. In the latter case it's best to forbid the entire business called Facebook.
> For a while there it seemed like people were getting more and more computer-savvy.

"People" in general were never computer savvy. It just wasn't a thing. We went from completely clueless in the 80s/90s to stumbling and frustrating in early 00s and we've pretty much leveled off at marginally capable for the past 10 years.

> That's dead now. People don't care. They buy a phone because it has a higher resolution screen and then run it in low-res because that's the default and they don't know the difference. Kids in California fail AP tests because they don't know what a file format is and try to submit HEIC images to a web form that only takes JPEG and PNG.

Why on earth should people want or need to deal with nonsense like file formats? This kind of nonsense is what professionals get paid to make clear to end-users. That is a huge part of our job. The case you are talking about is a pretty bad failure on the part of the company running the tests, not a problem with the end users.
My very first job programming was in Sacramento while I was living on the Peninsula. I would go in once a week and I have missed that schedule ever since.
That Freakonomics article is from 2007 and was only pointing out that manufacturers don't test all scenarios - not anything resembling your claim that they're just "safety theater". CDC strongly disagrees based on actual accident data (click risk reduction at the following link):

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/child_passenger_safet....
It's my data. It's clearly valuable. I want my cut. Pay me.

There are a handful of obvious, simple ways to establish and protect personal privacy:

Extend property rights to all personal data. Then "privacy" is treated like every other asset, liability and protecting it is just bookkeeping.

Ban targeted ads. Ban freemium. Effectively eliminates most (non-govt) incentives for aggregating PII.

Require translucent database techniques to encrypt all PII data at rest. (Just like proper password persistence. Store salted hash, not the original value.)

Extra credit: Federal agency for credit ratings. Hellban all the non-govt agencies.
As someone who fights with other teams about not SemVer-ing properly, this is beautiful and I'm so excited to give people grief with this.
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The people who are arguing are the people who are politicizing the normal scientific process of drawing conclusions from available evidence.
While I agree that this is a good move, I still think it's a great pity when certain topics are ruled unquestionable.

An elderly relative recently went down the youtube rabbithole and came out on informationclearinghouse. A few months later and he's now a full-blown conspiracy theorist.. I mean everything from 9/11 "truthism" to antisemitism-lite. I mean this person's entire personality changed. Lifelong relationships with friends and family have been lost because of this change. It's extremely sad to see.

In trying to debunk these theories, I tried to gather answers to the questions he raised. But every single one I posted on reddit was removed. These were real questions that I couldn't find the answers for anywhere, and I wasn't allowed to ask them.
But who says it can't be again?

It's only a few years since they replaced Steve Ballmer. Nadella won't be there forever.

I'd be more cautious too. Big companies have their own interests and it's usually not aligned with ours. I'd be less cautious with a company that has resisted going to the dark side. Microsoft definitely has been there.

As an analogy: A criminal can serve their time and be released. But will you share a house with them?
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"I don't trust either, but I'm confident my ISP would sell me out for 12¢ if given the chance."
I see everyone saying this is satire, but I don't think so. Satire takes a commonly held belief and exaggerates it to the point where problems are easily visible. How is that happening here?

I can almost see it in the "six hours" part, which I think is the weakest part of the essay, but it doesn't fit because the usual motivation for long hours and hard questions is not the negging/hazing explanation here, but because you want multiple perspectives on the candidate and because you want to establish the candidate's limits. It's useful to know the difference between "Candidate is good enough to work here" and "Candidate is insanely talented". The only way to get that is by asking questions that differentiate between good enough and insanely talented.

Other than that aspect, the essay seemed straightforward. It seems true that it would be hard to make the questions the author asks and easy to fake "Tell me about a time you took initiative" style questions.

I think the interview described here seems challenging and designed to hire quick thinking hackers, but it doesn't seem absurd or obviously wrong or terribly flawed as I would expect from a satirical piece.