skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, if enough people start believing the stock market is on the edge of a crash, their actions can cause it to crash. For the stock market is a social construct: The decisions of buyers and sellers at every instant construct the market. Widespread fear can cause a crash.

Coincidentally, Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller wrote a piece about this just last week: "People Fear a Market Crash More Than They Have in Years" (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/business/people-fear-a-ma...). Quoting Shiller:

> Consider what my Crash Confidence Index[a] is telling us. That measurement of sentiment about the safety of the stock market is based on this question: “What do you think is the probability of a catastrophic stock market crash in the U.S., like that of Oct. 28, 1929, or Oct. 19, 1987, in the next six months, including the case that a crash occurred in the other countries and spreads to the U. S.?”

The index is a rolling six-month average of the percentage of monthly respondents who think that the probability of such a major crash is less than 10 percent. In August, the percentage of individual investors with that level of confidence in the market hit a record low, 13 percent. The most recent reading in September, 15 percent, was still extremely low.

[a] https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research-centers/centers-initia...
Then we should not be so meek as to do nothing. During the Cold War, nations did not sit idly by as their adversaries developed nuclear capabilities which, make no mistake about it, targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. Of course, we developed our own defensive capabilities but then, as now, we faced a type of threat which hugely favored the attacker. So we kept pace with the offensive capabilities of our adversaries. If China or Russia (the states themselves) is identified beyond doubt as the source of this attack, then our policy must be to retaliate in kind.

Mutually assured destruction for the cyber-age.

If it's organized criminal hackers we're dealing with, then we should treat them how we would treat any legitimate terroristic threat. I would want our intelligence agencies to reach out and touch them.

This may not be a popular point of view on Hacker News. I unfortunately cannot fathom an alternative solution.
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I just made my first start and invested a few thousand GBP into a vanguard index (Global Balanced Fund) 2 weeks ago. I have lost -4.61% / £466.58 already

Don't get me wrong, not making this as a statement or looking for sympathy.

I knew the risks were there, and I had planned to keep this vested for at least 5 years, so hopefully it will recoup the losses.

But yeah, may not have been the smartest decision.
There is definitely somebody out to get you.
There's a difference between a ruler and a leader.
This is really cool.

What is your motivation for making this? Refactoring? Code Indexing, if so for academic analysis, defect detection or ?

I could see this being a really nifty search interface for massive code libraries.

Are you discussing this library on another Clojure communication channel (Discord, Slack, etc) and if so, where?
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Children with SDKs? Science has definitely gone too far.
Correct. Also imagine if I, acting as this middleman, captured some data about you (say your phone number) before patching you through to Apple and used that to build a database. Are folks okay with that? I'm certainly not.
Running a .onion site over tor seems like it’d avoid this; and also still works when your ISP has you NAT’ed into a private address space - The tor server setup is pretty trivial (no harder than setting up nginx etc), the only downside (which is a pretty big downside) is that it requires extra effort from users :(
> Why would they be confused about a middle-man being present?

In some cases its because GrubHub created a website for the restaurant and they don't make it clear that it's a GrubHub site and not a site operated by the restaurant. If you call the phone number on that site, a GrubHub employee answers as if they are the restaurant.
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Our next meeting is on cookies/tracking, and the one after that is on “what is intelligence?”
It’s a chill environment- jump in anytime (or anyone else reading this post :))

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>>> For example, France during the population boom of the high middle ages overproduced knights and minor nobles from 1200-1300. The nobility increased from around 2% to 4% of the population, while the incomes of the richest nobles soared. Eventually, peasants could no longer produce enough to feed themselves and provide income for all the nobles: this was a contributing factor to the famines and wars of 1350-1400.

Wow, this literally reminds me of one of my tech employers. Eventually half the company was a VP, Director, Senior Director or something else. Often you had a reporting chain with a VP --> Sr.Director --> Director --> 1or2 workers

Naturally, the high salaries above had to be supported, so the 1 or 2 workers at the bottom had to code more, code faster, and the management layer figuratively cracked the whip harder and harder to somehow produce enough billings to support the team of 5. (note the layers above were not sales, they were all program-manager types. sales was a different group.)
Are they claiming to be the restaurant? Or just saying you can phone this number and get the advertised product, which is true?
At least you didn't cut off the second half of that sentence. The AS WELL AS there is carrying a lot of weight. As long as the restaurant is offering pickup service, Grubhub is very clear about that offering.
Has anyone ever experimented with reversing the analog loop with machine learning?

Generating the training data would be easy. Play audio files through a speaker and record the speaker with a microphone. Then you have the original and the analog recording. Train the machine to reverse the process. Now you can grab high quality audio from any source. Same could be done for video, but would require a more elaborate setup.

Kind of off topic, but I hate the idea of not being able to own any actual copies of media in the future.

Also, I've made it part of my moral code, nearly a religion of mine, to see all advertisements as a reminder I maybe should be doing something else. Since this is my rant, I'll add that to the pile.
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On my CS course, the best professors were those who could also do the practical side. Two of them had created all the tools used by the students, including a minicomputer operating system.
The problem here, though, is inconsistent enforcement. Assuming this side of the story is correct, he didn't actually violate the CoC at all, and the committee he spoke to did.

The problem here is not the CoC, it's that the organisation doesn't enforce the CoC, violates it, and punishes people who didn't violate it. They might as well not have a CoC in that case.
The same amount of time it took me to get used to wearing a mask? I imagine each experience of being around large groups and not getting sick will erode my fears.
And buy what you can used - you get the physical copy and the RIAA/MPAA gets nothing.
There's also GrubBus, DoorHub, ChowDash, PostHub, etc. Really, the possibilities are infinite.
Perhaps you should remember your own argument, or at least decide what it is, before continuing with the condescending attitude.

First it was terrorism because it's deliberate; now it's terrorism because it creates confusion, death and fear.

Here's just one example that checks all those boxes and is, of course, not terrorism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Hospital_shooting
My tip for ETFs and long term investing is to never ever look at your portfolio. It's an investment over decades, not months.
It might be helpful to have the social side, that’s why I bring it up!
I would be happy for handshakes to go away. Disease aside, some people approach them as obnoxious dominance exercises, others are creepy about them, etc.
[ Disclaimer: GH employee but speaking independently & not representing the company in this message ]

You're mixing up controversies - there was a separate "feature" Grubhub did years ago where grubhub would stand up online presence for restaurants to bring in web search traffic (branded websites, search results on grubhub.com, etc) and list a grubhub phone number instead of the real phone number so that grubhub could collect comission on the orderflow that they're raking in for the restaurants. These were partnered restaurants, so they were signing up for this and could opt out of any of these services, in theory anyways I wasn't part of this so I have no idea if it's really that easy to opt out

Separately, a practice pioneered by ubereats and doordash, "Place and Pay" is a new thing in the past 2-3 years where Grubhub will just list a bunch of restaurants without them asking for it ("non-partnered"), and when you place an order online the driver will go in and order takeout, then carry it to you. The restaurant can opt out of this, but they never asked for the service in the first place so it's kinda shitty. That's what this article is about.

Grubhub was against place and pay at first, when UberEats and Doordash began doing it (not because Grubhub is selfless but because partnered restaurants are way more profitable), but resisting place and pay turned out to be a recipe for losing market share so that's no longer the case.
I see this phenomenon is called "seismic noise" in a couple places, but that can't be right; noise is by definition irregular (occurring at uneven or varying rates or intervals).

This is actually a signal of something, we just don't know what.
How long did the pandemic of 1918 last? More than one year? We didn't do/know much in those days and it went away on its own but of course with a lot of dead people.
Original author here. Super excited to see this on HN!

That's a great breakdown. I hadn't put my finger on stakeholder or customer empathy before, but I agree they're critical skills.

> Unfortunately these three areas are soft skills and you won't know you've improved until you find yourself reciting a fact. Usually you'll think "well duh, because the customer thinks this." It'll seem obvious, but it is only because you went through the trenches to learn that fact.

Definitely. This reminds me of Siver's "Obvious to you, Amazing to others" (https://sive.rs/obvious).

I'm trying to spend the rest of the year documenting as much of this soft-knowledge as I can. A lot of the data science hype over-focuses on hard skills and misses these soft skills.
This.

Exactly what I thought when I switched from Vim to Emacs a few days ago. They are not comparable, I was mind blown when discovering Emacs. Of course the first thing I installed was Evil, but they are two entirely different beasts indeed!

Enjoy your emacs journey mate ;)
I’m not bothered by it now. The IFR for me is around 3x10-5. I live in a city in the top 10 of per-capita homicide rates in the country. Just living here is more dangerous than SARS. The risk of getting thrush from my mask also bothers me.

The mask pressure will be a lot less after the election, so I wouldn’t worry.
While I do appreciate that feature, it's also very spotty. More than once I downloaded something only to later find that it won't play when I'm offline on a plane. Also, whenever Youtube decides to ban or suspend a video, it automatically disappears from the downloads area as well. Plus, this requires a mobile device, which is not necessarily where you may want to watch these things.
If your family is all being smart and doing the right things, you may be able to have small family gatherings (easy access to fast, accurate testing would make this even safer). The problem is that this virus is very contagious, so while your age group may be fine, it's easy for you to pass it onto to someone who will not be fine.

I'm also so tired of this fake dichotomy of either live your life like there is no pandemic or hide inside. There is a huge gradient between the two with varying levels of risk.

> I’m definitely not letting the government tell me whether I can have a family party or not.

It's sad that so many people have forgotten what it means to be a good neighbor or citizen. Instead it's all about 'me', and screw everyone else.
In your book example, I am buying a book from you. A better example would be you buy search ads for the author's name, create a website with a button "Contact the author" which goes to you, and then you sell me the book.
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another example of "silicon valley disruption" operate in the gray area. not sure why Grubhub think they can just add whoever they wanted into their listing without asking. we've seem this kind of "silicon valley disruption" with AirBnB, Uber...etc. its no wonder these companies needs massive amount of money to deal with lawsuit like this or govrt.
> If the US really is producing 25,000 more lawyers per year than it can employ, that's a real problem.

Drill down on that issue, and you'll see the real problem.

Non-corporate litigants are majority pro-se now. That's new. Most corporate-individual litigation takes placed in closed-door arbitration, where precedent cannot be established (e.g. to definitively decide that caste-based discrimination violates existing racial discrimination statutes).

"Indigent" criminal defendants do not receive anything resembling effective counsel.

The problem isn't "too many lawyers". The problem is "too many lawyers for oligarchs, and a population too poor to afford lawyers when harmed by oligarchs"
You’re allowed to use a trademark to factually describe a product. If I have legitimately bought an iPhone and I’m offering to resell it to you I can use the iPhone trademark to do that.
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I didn’t leave my property (house/yard) at all for a couple months. And even then, as my puppy needed more activity, we never ventured to anywhere with a lot of people. When I had to take her in to the vet last month, in my neighborhood’s little downtown area, I just felt completely unsettled. I have no idea how people who have to be out in public places daily do it.
No. There is a special kind of self-ointed person that thinks they have the right thoughts and the right behaviour and are willing to impose that to everybody else because is for the Good. They are the worst people you can meet, because they commit their crimes tirelessly in the name of Good. They were the Pharisee, the Priests that condemned infidels in the Middle Ages, the sans-culotte in the French Revolution, the revolutionary communists in the USSR, and the nazis in Germany... and they are now the SJW. They will cancel, abuse, exile, banish and even kill those who don't agree with their worldview, because for them their worldview is more important that any human being.

Fortunately, most people care more about other human beings that about ideologies, so no, most people won't behave like that in any circumstance.
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I'd be ok with it as long as the delivery platform makes it clear that you can order food but the restaurant isn't a participant in the platform, so the experience may not be optimized.

I was recently lamenting that I haven't had some favorite items from Trader Joe's in a while, because I've been using grocery delivery during the pandemic and TJ's refuses to partner with Instacart or provide their own delivery. I then came across Dumpling, a sort-of Instacart competitor where you connect with an individual who does the shopping/delivery for you, but they aren't limited to "officially supported" stores. I have no problem with this, and neither should Trader Joe's. It's simply an individual buying food from them and dropping it off somewhere.

Overriding the restaurant's contact info is sketchy. The food may not travel well, but some restaurants refuse to do takeout (either entirely or for certain dishes). But the basic act of paying a service to pick up something on your behalf isn't problematic to me. The restaurant shouldn't care if I pick up my order, or my wife picks up my order, or GrubHub picks up my order.
This reminds me of a story I saw on Reddit once. A man worked for a payment processing firm that didn't sanitize their database inputs at all.

One day, they get a new customer called "Select". Absolutely everything stopped working.
> Yes they have to ask for permission to present themselves as an agent of the company

That's not necessarily true (yet), that's literally what this legal case is about.
> I really think this abusive behavior practiced by big companies extends beyond party lines and would have a hard time believing otherwise.

How many on-demand services aren't in the Bay Area, Chicago, or NYC?
If the United States pre-emptively attacks a foreign country with a cyber attack resulting in the loss of human life, then yes, Russia or any state would be justified in retaliating. This is equally true for any such use of any weapon of mass destruction.
I’d be comfortable doing anything I did in December 2019 today. People face wildly heterogeneous risks from this virus and should be allowed to respond accordingly. I’m young, healthy, and haven’t ever visited a nursing home (where 80% of the deaths in my state are) since 2002 when I was six years old. So my response to corona is basically “oh well”. Other people will be in different situations and should make decisions for themselves accordingly. But a one size fits all policy for a virus which varies 1000-fold in severity is nuts.
The problem will get printed away anyway... All those doom and gloom posts get boring...
People with college degrees get more arrogant and indoctrinated than educated (I graduated from a top university). Almost everything useful I know was attained outside school.
Oh of course the answer is shiny new framework of the week.
If all COVID19 related treatments and on-going care were covered under a form of universal health care in the US, I'd be willing to participate in the larger economy and pick up my daily routines again. Those who are high risk or older would need to exercise caution to limit exposure of course and universal masks would still be a good idea, but I do feel like things could largely get chugging again. At some point the isolated living just isn't viable or worth living anymore.

However the risk of financial ruin to any given individual or family from a 3 week COVID stay in the hospital, even if you survive without complications, is just too great a risk to "go back to normal". In the US such a stay likely means you end up unemployed and facing massive surprise bills from out of network "contractor" doctors, coinsurance, etc. It was already bad before, but the economy (the "real" economy) really wouldn't survive the obscene amounts of medical bill bankruptcies.
> They're saying you'll get food from restaurant X.

That's not what they're saying. They're saying that you're contacting the restaurant, which you're not.
lol, dang. Reverse psychology!
Welp/whelp means “well fuck”, but less intense.
overheard by someone who was supposed to be a developer advocate

But not a developer themselves. The industry is overrun with these “tech-adjacent” roles that add only marginal value, if any. Members of this group seem to be the driving force behind CoCs.
Thanks for pointing this out – we're working on putting a video on the landing page. If you'd like to try out Cohere before integrating, there's an option to connect an example webpage to your team after signing up!

Most of our users usually are already on a call or chat when they hop in a Cohere session, and we integrate with Intercom and Slack to make this easier. We're definitely thinking of ways to streamline this more!
Problem comes from where the domain registrar is. I’ve seen FBI take downs of sites that are over seas simply because they use a .com
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I think everyone is in agreement regarding the information misdirection stuff being unethical at best and certainly potentially fraudulent. But simply listing restaurants and offering to deliver food from them is not that.
I feel pretty comfortable now. My personal risk profile is low. Most of my limitations are due to trying to be a good member of society. That said, I Probably only feel fully comfortable once I get COVID and recover. I know reoccurrence is possible but seems edge.
I didn't find the demo very easily but here it is for others[1].

Pretty amazing demo

1- https://cohere.so/demo
I see the stock market can’t even be brought up here without someone posting this sub. Please don’t worst case scenario someone goes there and YOLOs there savings away. Besides it’s annoying enough not being able to talk stocks on reddit without it being spammed a higher quality of comment is expected here.
>Whoa there, settle down boomer.

I'm a millennial. Out of curiosity why do you open with an insult?

>There's a difference between "real" propaganda vs what you're using loaded phrases to describe.

You're no true scotsman.

> You're free to be as right wing (or left) as you wish but this is hyperbole & exaggeration, and doesn't contribute anything to the discussion. Save your outrage for your local Facebook group not here.

So you insulted me. Then just disqualified my points as exaggeration without addressing anything and then said I'm not contributing to the discussion?
Likely, but the error message indicated copyright. It seems like fair use to me but certainly not worth it to litigate.
And I’m buying the food from GrubHub who buy the food from the restaurant. Like if I buy a book from a bookshop who buy it from the publisher.
Aha cool, I couldn't find a working link on the website to the git, as I DID want to check before bringing it up.
Thanks for the shout out! We don't do very many shows any more, so these days I recommend for folks to go to this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/frnqzndys9j3vc1/P7jHgH0BQK

It's the full TechZing catalog.

From episode 1 to 300+ TechZing is a 10 year journey of friendship, tension, hacker talk and bootstrapping.

Of note, we were first to interview at least two founders who went on to build unicorns (Patrick Collison, Travis Kalanick) and many more who are now household names in the startup scene.
First of all, Sweden is not done yet, at all. Secondly, every time I look at Sweden's deaths vs cases graph , I get this odd feeling, that it cannot be possible, that their peek deaths is before the peak of the cases. I do not know if I can trust their current stats.
Absolutely! Bad reviews because of the delivery service impacts the said restaurant. This type of middleman service should be optional IMO.
To a first approximation, I can't really see why Place and Pay should be illegal. It's basically paying the neighbor kid to go pick up some dinner for you, writ large.

It "competes" with any delivery service a restaurant runs, but if the restaurant offers takeout at all, it's hard for me to see why the market should care who is doing the taking out.
Beat us to the punch :)
That really is rather fascinating.