skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posted it in an other thread [0] but do we really want to go back to the medallion system? Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

Also, the argument on Uber/Lyft drivers not being contractors since they can't set their own rates and decide which ride they take strikes me as weird since medallion drivers were contractors, had to charge the price set by the city and could only pick-up customers in the (arbitrary) zones covered by their medallions.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225648
Then you have to certify signing mechanism so that braking works even if cosmic ray ruined brake pedal control unit, and that is half sane and half stupid.
Social networks are specifically not publishers. They do not have editorial control over the content of their users.
> I'll turn your argument around and say that the only truly location-dependent industries are extraction based. Everything else moves where the people are.

I don't think I would call the transportation industry (as in: ports, trains, planes, and related infrastructure) "extraction based". But that is an example of something very clearly location-dependent.
> Remember, if the info platform monopolies help the democrats today, they can help the republicans tomorrow.

Facebook has had its thumb on the 'balance' scale in favor of ultra-right-wing sites for half a decade, at least.

- Zuckerberg calling a group of non-profit news sites "not real news" [1]

- Zuckerberg ordering the algorithm of the news feed to be biased toward promoting Breitbart et. al. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1317124357873860609

[2] https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1317160066047479809

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-mark-zuckerberg-learned-pol...
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The employer thing is a strawman here; the subject of the article is AWS forking and launching a product with minimal (but legal) attribution. I didn't argue -anything- about the employer case, staying on topic to AWS's behavior.
Counterpoint: a lot of successful people who do not claim the mantle of rationalism are infact rationalists.
Sorry should have been more clear. You can contact me through my website, which is in my profile.
In many places where people live in apartments/condos, and in many states (cough California), you need to have quite a bit of infrastructure to legally do many repairs for cars. Sure, you can get away with draining your oil into a pan, but in some counties and cities it is less than smiled upon.
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> A major shift in thinking and priorites has to happen globally, on many different fronts to make humans less vulnerable to this kind of disease in the long-run.

I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I don't think the current mitigations can reasonably be long-term solutions. Think about how the lockdowns have caused small businesses to close down, people to lose their jobs, etc. We count deaths caused by COVID-19, but do we count the deaths and quantify the damage caused by our mitigation strategies?
Ask HN: How is your company doing university recruiting during Covid-19?
On-campus events are pretty much impossible right now. Have you found an effective way to replace them?
There are successful objectivists, but objectitivm is very different from "lesswrong rationalism".

Moreso though, I take issue with this :

>came under the influence of objectivism before they were successful

Not only are there people in that list that were successful since before they were born, but the condition you cite is not necessary to be in that list. You can have been influenced by Rand as a teenager, grown out of it by the time you became successful, and still be in that list, and you can also be part of that list if you were influence by it after becoming successful.

Also, objectivism is objectively incorrect, and unlike rationalism is an anti-materialist ideology.
It's not that much about the UI even(which is terrible as a lot of other people here explained), but rather the disgustingly bad performance and costant issues. I use teams every day at work, it eats insane amounts of ram, it leaks memory during video conferences, it's practically unusable during a call, switching tabs from chat to teams takes anywhere from one to five seconds, push notifications simply do not work properly, so does motification badge - it also often takes seconds for teams to acknowledge that you've seen certain activity. Text input has such an insane latency that it's uncomfortable to write, often eating characters from the next message after pressing return if you start typing too quickly. And this is just a tip of the iceberg. Almost all of few hundreads of people in our org hate the app as well and we're almost purely a Microsoft shop. I liked Slack until it became incredibly bloated. But even now, it's still in another league when compared to the abysmal experience that Teams offer.
I think that is an unfair comparison. Being articulate does not does not imply any other quality than just being articulate.

Back in the day I thought Obama was amazing. He was articulate and considered in his manner of speech. Then we hearing about the drone strikes with heavy collateral damage. And then Snowden came out and told us how Obama administration had put in place all the necessary infrastructure for a surveillance state. And then he put in place Title XI and kangaroo courts at Universities to completely undermine the core tenet of our legal system "Innocent until proven guilty".

Articulate does not equal morality or justice or fairness. It certainly did not with Obama.
TMJ can cause tinnitus; specifically there is a nerve connecting your jaw to the areas near your ear. Damage to this nerve, e.g., caused by years of unmitigated clenching/grinding at night or by an injury, can cause this. A neurologist may help suggest some tests. In the case of TMJ, there's a specific CT scan that will identify damaged cartilage below the ear that is typically linked to tinnitus.
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Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong users
There are definitely cases where it seems to have worked out. My sense, like yours, is that it largely depends on how "community driven" the project is at that point. If it has many independent core developers/main contributors, or many diverse companies relying on it, it seems to work ok (for now).

That said, it feels like there is a missed opportunity in the space. Most large companies already donate money toward interests in their local communities, etc. Why isn't there an easy mechanism for tech companies to donate to sustainable funding of open-source that they all depend on? My guess is that because open-source projects are rarely set up as organizations, they can't achieve 501(c)(3). It would not only be tax advantageous for companies, but would also support business continuity and recruiting pipelines. It would also be great for open-source developers and the community.

Maybe there are efforts out there to create something like this?
Looks like the limit is 10k/day now. What did the process look like to get an increase?
I've been able to do this since I was young. For me, I can trigger it instantly. It's mostly very relaxing. Triggers a yawning response if I do it repeatedly. I think I actually learned it by forcing myself to yawn back then. Feels mind clearing too.
Yes - absolutely this.

Earlier the media market was able to make the case of "free speech" and we had no way of arguing that this cycle was true or not. At the old rate of content, the harms were less prominent and the system seemed to balance itself out (although the behavior of certain media outlets indicate that it was a problem even then.)

Markets force optimization, and for media firms the optimization force is engagement. This has been a problem from before and its the same problem now, except at a content sharing speed which the old arguments were not built for.
It definitely isn't helping, haha.

I also play piano, guitar, and compose, and I used to struggle with memorizing, but I've been reading a lot of piano practicing theory and have drastically upgraded my finger memory, mostly by using these resources:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=12590.0 (look for Bernhard's post)

http://www.pianopractice.org/

Loosely, stop using sheet music except when you're initially memorizing the piece, learn music in much smaller chunks than initially expected, and play entirely from memory whenever possible, even when you're practicing the repetition of something.

The fact that you can remember music easily in your head means that if you spend 1-3 years really banging out the hand-brain connection, you might be able to rocket your playing forward. Raw improvisation where you think of the melody before you play it will help, too, if you don't already do that.
Yes, and since social networks are only third-party content, they should not be interfering with it otherwise they are exercising editorial control and are now first-party content.
I think its likely familiarity. Licensing is legal terminology so anything new requires time to reason about. In this case I am a strong advocate for these licenses as they're written in part by Heather Meeker who has authored some of the custom licenses for Redis Labs, MongoDB, etc to protect against this cloud provider hosting issue.
Scott Alexander: "A Christian proverb says: “The Church is not a country club for saints, but a hospital for sinners”. Likewise, the rationalist community is not an ivory tower for people with no biases or strong emotional reactions, it’s a dojo for people learning to resist them."

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/12/a-response-to-apophemi...
> There are no edge cases because it's not promising utopia, it's promising freedom,

The edge cases are where millions die because of lies perpetuated unchecked. "Freedom" is the ability to say whatever you want without the government getting involved, nothing else. If a private party doesn't like what you say, tough shit get off their property. Otherwise you're impinging on their freedom to keep anyone the hell they want off their property.

Speaking of high priests, it would be pretty funny if discussion boards required declarations of faith to join and being kicked off was akin to excommunication. In such an environment, moderation is just another name for "suppression of heresy within the religion". Surely the government wouldn't dare intervene in the free practice of religion, would they?

Overall, I find it hilarious in this whole discussion that conservatives appear to be arguing for more government interference in private property rights and freedom of expression.
If you haven't read Section 230, go do so now. It's enabled the development of the modern internet as we know it, and the meat is only 3 sentences. The rest is preamble or interactions with other laws.

> (c) Protection for "Good Samaritan" blocking and screening of offensive material

> (1) Treatment of publisher or speaker

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

> (2) Civil liability

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of-

> (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

> (B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:47%20section:...
Look into internships for business analyst roles - lots of work that will leverage your CS/math background but not (usually) lead down a path of large software development.

If you have trouble finding anything, consider taking a "backdoor" into it by learning enough SQL and Tableau/Qlikview/other business intelligence tool and use reporting/analysis to break into the field.

The most important advice I can offer on top of that is to strictly restrict your search to "profit centers" in companies - try really hard not to get pulled into "cost center" projects. The main difference is that the first matters to business bottom lines (how to make more money) and the second is necessary, but not particularly appreciated.

Good luck!
> The Empire of Mali. The Kingdom of Lithuania. Macedon. Tyre. Babylon. Carthage. Samarkand. Assyria. All once mighty, all gone, perhaps a place-name remains, if that

Aside from perhaps Macedon and Carthage (indirectly via Rome) most of those don't even warrant a mention in the high school history curriculum (in the US, at least).
Ah, that's funny, because the way I read the headline, I assumed it was saying that they imploded because of lax auditing by E&Y, which should have caught their problems before they snowballed into too-large-to ignore implosion drivers.
> Remember, if the info platform monopolies help the democrats today, they can help the republicans tomorrow.

They do?
Your point [1] on the capabilities of some languages is generally discredited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
No, background radiation makes nuclear radiation a noisy and ambiguous signal.

The unambiguous result is the presence of fusion by-products, but unfortunately they're not seen here.

In particular, there should be detectable amounts of He-3, lithium, beryllium, etc, none of which seem to have been found.

All the listed elements are common cross-metal contaminants and should be present in far lower ratio than He, Li, Be et al.
Assuming that readers have even close to $200/month available for investing is incredibly tone-deaf and ignorant of contemporary economic reality.
Were you growing indoors or outdoors? We got pretty smokey here from the wildfires, like a few weeks of constant haze, itching eyes and tasting and smelling smoke. I had not filters on the intakes or anything. The freeway may not help either.
Interesting, but I would personally like to leave the government out of this (let's not introduce deeper/political conflicts of interests).

What about just standardizing the fees charged for audits and doing a fixed rotation (rotate e.g. once every 4 years) of assignments of auditing companies to clients (companies being audited)?

This way on one hand the conflict of interest by paying megabucks to auditing firms (to get a positive audit outcome) would vanish (as the fees would be fixed), on the other hand a auditing companies would lose the tendency to try to stick to a particular client (by providing positive audit outcome).
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FSO has taken a leap in the last 3 years. We've got 9 months of data with thousands of live customers being served that says otherwise.
It did work, absolutely.

Editing here as I can’t reply. I’m not debating on failure vs success in the US in this thread, you seem to be caught up in that. I’m simply completely refuting that the WHO was even close to doing well.

Here’s a decent summary of multiple mistakes and pandering to China: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/02/china-coronavirus-who-h...

The WHO themselves even said they made a “huge mistake”. So I guess you’re out there on your own in defending them.

But more than that, anyone paying attention saw they were in China’s pocket. You’re grossly misinformed.
I'm not sure where you got the impression that problems such as $300 million in fabricated sales, or $5 billion in undisclosed debt which were missed in audits is an issue with external scrutiny.

My post is specifically pointing out that the wording makes it sound like EY audited the companies and their findings are what caused the companies to implode, which is what the parent comment seemed to assume, but the article actually says that it was the fact that EY did not find problems during their audits, which were later found, causing companies to implode.
Sound like a movie script. I’ve even got a title in mind: Big Short.
I agree regarding music & culture. Detroit used to have awesome music, e.g. Motown Records in its heyday, and even when in decline, it was considered one of the birthplaces of techno.
> If you'd used Teams, you'd know why. It is hilariously bad, gratuitously slow, ludicrously weird.

I use both all day, every day. I don't find Teams to be any worse, slower, or weirder than Slack.

Teams also does a lot that Slack can't do. As one small examples, it seems amazing that I can't add tabs to a Slack channel like I can in Teams.
Whoever commissioned this sure hoped so: https://youtu.be/hjNVMUTq1Xs
GitHub's enterprise people (and GitLab) are probably happy now.
> We might have to re-do some bots,

You might not even be able to, Teams API is quite badly convoluted and limited. You simply won't be able to f.e. recreate Slackbot experience in group conversations(chats).
They're using revocation of 230 as extortion to try to abridge the freedom of the press.
"the exodus from California"

AFAIK California tends to bleed wealthy taxpayers, not population as a whole.
> There's a reason why prop 13 came about in the 70s.

Because vengeful homeowners wanted a "revolt" to punish the government for taxing them. It wasn't because of home prices, 1978 Prop 8 would have solved that, they wanted revenge. It's greed and hate right down to the roots.

https://teachingmalinche.com/2018/08/26/the-summer-that-elvi...
You can pick both, they are very different. Julia is a dynamic language looking for a compromise between interactivity and performance (from it's origin on R/Matlab), while Nim is one of the new batch of static languages that looks for the perfect balance between of easy of development and safety/speed.

For example, if you want to do something more exploratory (like some research or data analysis) that can still easily scale up to HPC you can use Julia, if you want to create something reliable with small binaries and no start-up issues or use in more resource constrained environments you can use Nim.
And on a city level, the history of San Francisco itself is filled with spectacular boom times followed by spectacular bust times. For me, a perspective shift was reading Season of the Witch by David Talbot, chronicling the boom/bust of the 1960s-1980s. Declaring the end of SF/Bay Area is a long-standing tradition, and yet the region always finds a way, in part because of the fundamentals you mentioned.
I think this comes down to the fact that removing lies and fake news hurts Republicans at this point in time.

If in the future the Democrats are the lying ones, then those lies deserve to be removed too.
Makes me want to write a crazy arcane C++ fizzbuzz answer in the style of [0]...

[0]: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-acing-the-technical-interview
So each state to have it's own version of the CDC?
I think this is exactly right. Being successful in the top 0.1% is not actually rational. Even if you're brilliant, your chance of succeeding at that level is low. A truly rational person seeks out the best risk-adjusted return, not the best absolute return. If you're a technical minded person, making 300k/year in a software job is about the best risk-adjusted return of any profession I can think of.
SV is also great for the non-compete (it's a California thing but shines especially bright in the Valley), formal mentoring with a strong presence from Stanford and incubators like YC and informal mentoring where the younger generations are inspired by what was built by the previous ones.

And the lack of stigma for failing plus having a world class city right at the door. Very few places can replicate that.
That doesn’t explain why collage tuition increases so much faster than the cost of a classical music performance which is part of the original 1960’s study. Baumol's cost disease is in effect a labor price floor, but says nothing about a sectors overall efficiency.
I have to use both heavily at work right now, one part of the company is on Slack, another on Teams, I'm involved with both. Despite its (many) issues, Slack is just so, so much nicer than Teams, the difference has an actual, substantial impact on communication. Teams feels like a disconnected and disorientating mess of ideas copied from other communication solutions in a huge hurry without understanding them fully and without even getting them to a point where they "click" and work as intended, and without thinking about how they fit into the big picture. Sole exception: Video calls are much better, when they work. The rest is a mess and makes communication a much more tedious effort than it has to be.
Platforms and publishers are no different under Section 230. Platforms are not getting anything special.
Secular Humanists > Rationalists.

The Rationalists can get into difficult corners. Rationally, the way to fix many problems is de-humanising.
Hi. Looks cool. Where can I check the source code? You say "the source code is unobfuscated and available to be inspected", but I can't find
If something ends in 'ist' or 'ism' it probably isn't rational. But then, perfect rationality is only possible if you can keep the irrational aspects of the universe out of your personal reality...
It might've just been me misinterpreting, but I thought the parent comment meant that EY would become the "Big One" after auditing the other companies and causing them to implode
My current manager is a lot like this. He has never written a line of code but is surprisingly good at scoping work and understanding how important various tasks are. I think that any manager who is smart, cares about the work, and has good discussions with their engineers can develop a solid understanding of software projects.

There's no magic to it but, sadly, that combination of qualities is a lot less common than I would like.