skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, this is why Gentoo is the right way to manage an OS. /s
Doomsday prepping – Disaster planning for less crazy folk (2016)
If I had a dollar for every disaster prepper I've seen in the USA that has many thousands of rounds of ammunition, and none of the following:

a) water purification equipment with supplies/filter changes good for 6+ months of continuous use

b) a stockpile of the most common antibiotics and medical supplies (essentially what you could get spending $700 on a comprehensive first aid kit plus $300-400 of drugs that will require periodic replacement as they expire).

c) knowledge or tools and supplies related to implementing off grid photovoltaic or wind power systems, but lots of gasoline or diesel generators.

d) $400 goose down sleeping bags, 4-season camping equipment, but they do have lots of tactical clothing and accessories, plate carriers, dropleg holsters and such
If the president wants to invoke that authority (assuming you are correct about its extent), then that's his right. What is not his right is to expropriate assets under false pretenses.
I haven't been more excited for a company and their model like this before. Everything they do just seems to... make sense. I really wish them best and hope the bureaucrats won't catch up.

I'm imagining in the US they will be met with a bunch of hurdles and legal stuff due to "lasers bad"
A subset of the poor, perhaps. Aren't you generalizing too much? I think you're assuming too many behaviors from a word that simply means current lack of money. I would think that some portion of the poor if not most would be interested in long-term solutions to their problem.
I understand the point mathematically, I think I'm talking about more of how the presentation of the error term is unintuitive to me. It makes sense to me to say "the predications were right, Trump just got lucky" when he outperforms the 95th percentile error bars in a state. He just got lucky. But if he outperforms it in a bunch of states because the polls didn't account for the fact that Trump supporters don't answer pollsters, then it doesn't make sense to me to say "the predictions were right because they factored in the chance that the polls hard correlated errors." I get that you've quantified the possibility that the polls are wrong in a systematic way, but I don't think that's the kind of possibility people are thinking of when they hear "there is a 5% chance Trump could still win."
my basic metric, in general terms, is like:

( feature_complexity_points - bugs_reported ) / time_spent

time_spent and bugs_reported are collected from the JIRA.

tricky part is defining the feature_complexity_points used ( function points ? cosmic ? business complexity ? story points ? )
If he's a developer on HN, there's probably a good chance that he knows that.

Shoving the payments onto the carrier isn't always a bad thing.

For example, I don't always have $1,100 lying around doing nothing, and these days I'd rather be liquid in case of sudden job loss or other emergency. So keeping that $1,100 in my emergency fund and shoving the payments onto the carrier at 0% interest is a better idea than paying up-front for a phone.
Just a personal anecdote to consider - if my sister had stayed together for the kids, she'd likely be dead at the hands of her ex by now. There are just some abusive relationships that must be terminated, kids or not. The abuse factor is more common than you may think, as most people are ashamed of it, so don't mention it to others when splitting up.
I bet whoever handled your support request didn't have any idea what you did for the Ruby/Rails community.
No, it would not be great. It would only add to the already rampant collection of information bubbles created by the producer-follower model used by so many social networking sites. Instead of a producer-follower model I'd like to see a subject-discussant centred model where you "tune in" to a field of interest instead of a single voice. I do not follow any single author nor have I ever done so, instead I rely on search facilities to find things of interest. I use RSS feeds to "follow" publications and discussion sites - like this one - which are authored by a multitude of authors and discussants in part to avoid getting trapped in an information bubble.

Instead of an option to follow certain authors there could be an option to follow certain subjects across time, e.g. "free software mobile platforms", "process control systems based on common single-board computers", "decentralisation of internet services", etc. Posts and comments from all authors (no matter their score) can be returned on such a category in chronological order, with links back to their original appearance on the site. Categories could be created through search queries, curated by hand (similar to the way indexes like DMOZ [1] were maintained) or by using ML to track discussion trends.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
There are a ton of resources - more than you probably can consume.

As someone that had similar thoughts, I'll ask you a question that i wish i clarified with myself: why do you want to learn economics / to what end?

^this is important because it will help you narrow down exactly which areas you need to learn and the best resources (i can help you with the latter :))
Regarding "not knowing about its secrets" -- There were much earlier reports, as an example, from the Wikipedia article, there was an article in The Baltimore Sun, 1995:

"America's National Security Agency hid what may be the intelligence sting of the century. For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents."

And also in the same Baltimore Sun article a much earlier report about the company founder, Boris Hagelin (1982) is mentioned:

"Writer James Bamford added more clues in his 1982 book on NSA, "The Puzzle Palace." Discovering in Mr. Friedman's letters references to a mysterious "Boris project," Mr. Bamford concluded that Mr. Friedman had extracted from Boris Hagelin an agreement to cooperate with American eavesdroppers."
Third party developers have done significantly better than Apple themselves. The core design and reliability of MacOS seems to get more half baked with every update.
Should working from home be taxed?
When we moved into our house, we put together a little box of canned good, a sterno stove, small medical kit, etc. We rediscovered it this year, and I ended up eating a bunch of 3-year-expired canned goods :D

(We did re-stock it. Never having to use it is a good thing.)
McSema: An Executable Lifter
Yeah, we Europeans have never seen war or natural disaster so why prepare.
neither of which seem to be excluded by the word "poor".

My perception of poverty is that it's a transitional state, where people are interested in leaving it.

Depending on how poor they are, the transition may be slow, and to a rich person, they may only seem to be moving between different tiers of poverty, but that doesn't mean they aren't career-minded.

In particular, I would think that the poor vs the not-poor feel more need to delay marriage and family until they feel they can better afford it after having achieved long-term educational and career goals.
> This approach we are taking at Wifi Dabba is one small step in exploring more scalable ownership, deployment and maintainence models.

It sounds like this $2M raise is an experiment more than the end goal.
R is a but of a horror show under the hood, I agree, but if you're just an end user doing data analysis, consider:

flights.iloc[0:10, flights.columns.get_indexer(['year', 'month', 'day'])])

versus

flights %>% select("year", "month", "day") %>% head(10)

I could go on...
If i use the 5 whys on business goals it's hard for me to even come up with 25 :). It all boils down to just a handful nicely.
I found it to be believable.

Jokes aside, the point would be more compelling if the Apple apps at the top of the list all were competing against the apps being searched for, and if they included searches for apps that didn't provide functionality Apple did. The algorithm as I see it from the article is that the #1 popular app comes first. Of course Apple takes the top spot ... this is unfortunate winner-take-all promotion that in fact the entire software industry actually wants regardless of what they say or gripe about on medium (only upstarts complain, which ceases the instant they make it big).

So, then the #2-#k spots are apps by the same maker, which both serves to help the user discover other apps they mightn't have otherwise searched for (promoting use and engagement, and the app ecosystem per se), and helps persist the winner-take-all business model. By only promoting apps by the same manufacturer it maintains some odd definition of relevance.

Then after a run of same-manufacturer apps, we get back to #k-#n organic results. The user can very obviously and very easily pick out the fact that up to #k is pushing discovery, and that below there are the results they wanted. It's actually not a big deal (actively harmful) because of the irrelevance of the #2-#k results.

So, if they had bothered to include information on apps that Apple doesn't compete against (instead of producing a 1-sided story), for which there is a manufacturer who produces a very wide variety of apps, I wonder if you'd see the same type of results. #1 result being their super popular app for the search in question, #2-#k being other (unrelated to the search) apps by the same producer, then #k-#n organic results. Clearly most app makers are one- or two-trick ponies so wouldn't have search results like this. But surely there are some?

The point is, as written, it's a hit piece.
TP in consumer packaging. I was able to get 4 rolls/week from my local catering company (who quickly transitioned to delivering a mix of prepped meals and basic raw ingredients, including TP that was packaged for commercial use).

Against the ToS from their TP vendor? Who knows? But, there was TP out there, just not on shelves at the local grocer.
It seems what you consider odd enough to require a citation depends on your political orientation. Citations for the original claim:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0e3d/640709c889472858054c8f...

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/are-children-raised-with-...

https://www.apa.org/topics/single-parent

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-47057787
Too lazy to find the article but I read that Biden's campaign told all staffers to delete TikTok off their phones back in July.
This is an interesting idea and innovative approach - exciting stuff and congratulations on securing the 200k investment.

Some questions regarding the underlying technology:

You mention a "self-healing" grid. If one of these laser lines gets disrupted, say by a bird, or someone knocks over the laser receiver - how quickly does the PoP reroute traffic over a different path in the grid? Does it wait for a timeout, or is there some meta-data from the laser link to know when the interface is down?

One of the reasons you use the laser PoPs is that underground fibre is expensive. However - given that you have to pull overground fibre to every customer within the PoP - the total "length" of fibre in play will be roughly equal to the length of fibre required in a traditional underground installation. What's the advantage then? Why can't you pull all the fibre overground and bypass having laser PoPs completely?

Finally - given the massive investment in 4G and price wars in India, I would assume you are competing with mobile broadband routers. How is performance of such solutions in dense cities like Bengaluru? Is it unreliable or congested enough for people to want to pay for a dedicated fibre/laser internet connection?
It doesn't have to have any point for any individual. I think it binds people up into nice social units for societal control. By societal convention, you have to marry, just not by law (probably because you or your family historically chose a partner, and it would look quite obviously compulsory if the government mandated a date and a partner.) The government only nudges you that way with things like joint tax filing options.

The laws have gotten less strict, and the social stigma lessened, but the state tries to keep it together as well. You mentioned that a piece of paper won't keep them together, but in most US states, "fault" for a marriage breaking up still comes into play in things like deciding how a court will divide assets, etc., and historically, sometimes you couldn't even get a divorce without someone getting assigned fault.
Deeply encoded in the American myth is the idea that every individual or family is an island. That we can (and some would say, should) operate without a society around us.

If you look at the country through that lens, it explains a whole lot of our policy and culture, much of which is otherwise nonsensical.
I have a launch day iPad I use for simple things like notes and recipes and e-mail, too. Love the skeumorphism. Too bad Safari isn't usable for much more than Wikipedia anymore, though.
Neither of those are the case.

Work it through. Government spends $100. My spending is your income less tax. Your spending is my income less tax. The tax rate is 1%.

Run out the maths, and see what tax you get. As you can see it doesn't mean less tax revenue. It means it moves to a different transaction.

Then work out how it gets delayed.
I think almost everyone would feel the same way. I know I would. We should reflect on why we feel more like this than in 2010.

Persoanlly, I think it has to do with the moral realm vs the practical realm. We think of morality as a good thing, but it is more about absolutes than goodness. As we bring more things into the moral realm -- who you vote for, for example -- it shuts down reason, discourse, nuance, and understanding.

Traditionally, the moral realm is about what you do. There's not much value in society discussing murder and whether its a good thing to do or not; and there's a lot of potential harm. If murder becomes an issue of nuance, people can rationalize it too easily and you get chaos.

Now, I feel like our thoughts are becoming part of the moral realm, and that's a bad thing. There's no chance to discuss and learn together if one person thinks that the other is evil. It also means that it's easy for an otherwise good person to do horrible things because they feel that they are attacking evil.

I don't meam to say that moralization is new. It has certainly happened in the past, say with McCarthyism, or the Spanish Inquisition. But it does feel like the pendulum is swinging in the direction of everything-is-a-matter-of-good-and-evil.

And frankly, it seems like most of this moralization of thought is coming from the left. There's still some socialism-is-evil sentiment on the right, but that was pretty minor this cycle compared with the Trump-is-evil sentiment.
My favourite article on prepping is https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

Honestly, I still thought it sounded far fetched until people at the start of lockdown bought a years supply of toilet paper at a time. At which point I resolved to (responsibly) ensure we have a reasonable supply of staples at home.
> I'll be happy if generics will be never included in Go. They will definitely reduce code readability, will increase binary sizes and will increase compile times because of generics' abusers.

Well you don't have to use them and you won't have to use any of the libraries that use them. Just like C++ templates, some C++ shops forbid their use. But that's your problem, don't make everybody else suffer from what is considered a burden and a flaw in that language.

People want compile time type safety, not having to resort to runtime reflection, which Go std lib itself does . There is nothing unfathomable about that thought process. Go has a poor type system at compile time while being way too permissive at runtime.
Fire risk is about the same at the time of a crash. Random fire happening hours later basically never happens with liquid fuel whereas it's a possibility with EVs. The towing industry has all this figured out. It's not common but it's common enough that your insurer is gonna be real ticked off if you park a crashed EV inside and they have to pay out for a burned down building.
Depends on where you are and what level of prepping you're doing. Basically all of the US west coast is very plausibly in the zone that could lose power and water from an earthquake for days/weeks. Most of the south east coastal US is hammered by ever bigger hurricanes every year. We just had a record forestfire summer in the mountain west and flooding on the plains. Europe is a pretty boring (adverse weather and geological activity)-wise so it might seem overblown from there.
Fixing leaky logs: how to find a bug and ensure it never returns
> affordable job training and college education, and universal health care would benefit most Americans

In theory. In practice, job training has a poor track record [1]. College aid mostly helped middle- and high-income families [2]. Universal health care is an unknown.

A high-income New Yorker and rural Obama-Trump Alabaman will prioritise different things in a healthcare bill. The latter don't trust the former. For good reason. We have ignored them.

We then dressed up that ignorance by pretending our interests are identical. Those who checked found uncomfortable truths. A healthcare bill fighting for support in Texas can't fund abortions and transition surgery and drug rehabilitation. But without those things it is a non-starter in New York and California.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5n7j_-EhB3IC&oi=...

[2] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7756/w7756...
Moderna on track to be 2nd to report Covid-19 vaccine data later this month
Scientists train BACTERIA to build complex microscopic structures
I grew up in a geologically active region. The rule of thumb was to have enough stuff to survive 3 days, so food, potable water, medical supplies, batteries, flashlights etc. Always having at least 3 days of absolute essentials is going to hold you over for 99.9% of all problems to give time for help to find you. It should be doable in Europe too.
US spying on their "friends" Germany Austria Switzerland wow that's some news I would have not expected.

Also Washington Post.
Does anyone have courseware on non-advanced System-on-Chip design?
Kind of highlights that in this age, it's not enough to say "I'm neutral." You need to be able to say "I can guarantee that I'm neutral."

The difference is that the latter promise doesn't break when a malicious actor has access. Consider two VPNs, one of which promises never to misuse client-side IP data, while the other refuses to store that data in the first place. If both VPNs are infiltrated by a bad actor, the one that doesn't store data can guarantee slightly more privacy than the one that keeps data but promises not to use it.

Similar case: I think it's interesting to note that German usage of Tor dropped off when the Snowden revelations took place, while many other countries experienced greater uptake. Perhaps they recognized that Tor may not be as secure as it's claimed to be -- especially considering who initially funded it.

If you want an encryption product/service to be truly secure, you can't buy it on reputation alone. You have to think about where it came from and how it works.
- Right now, my wife gets the benefits of being married to somebody with a better job (insurance, I'm sure there are other things slipping my mind)

- I love her and want good things for her right now. That may change after years go by. But there's no reason to ignore how I feel now and make decisions based on how I might feel a long time away.

- Symbolism is important. It might not be tangible, but you can't deny it has effects in the world.
I'm not an expert, which Type is the uniform [0]? Don't really care either way about kids' training - if it's propaganda, I fail to see its impact.

Genghis Khan played a huge part in human history (and genetics). Curious the link has been flagged.

[0] https://www.smhric.org/images/Hos-Hel/20201015/Bairin-First-...
>- What is the differential power that companies with advanced AI hold over other smaller players like mom and pop stores or smaller retailers? Is AI sophistication the new "income inequality" since smaller companies that can't wield that power get out-competed by larger players, leading to extreme concentration in the hands of few as time goes on?

Our experience as well. We built custom, turn-key, machine learning products for large enterprise for seven years now. One of our biggest frustrations is that our clients are exclusively huge companies because these projects are costly. I've had friends running companies ask me if we could do something for them, and I was embarrassed not to be able to help them build product because they wouldn't be able to afford our services.

So what we're doing to address that is to make our machine learning paltform[0] to reduce the time and effort it takes to build machine learning products. We feel that we can pull it off and we aim for 10x reduction in "time to value". Given that our business model was that of an agency with the mythical "engineer.day" unit, dividing that by 10 could make it affordable.

Second, amortizing work that was already done into services people could use. For example, we have forecasting functionality where people could forecast time series (say for sales, capacity, etc.) with seasonality, etc.

Third, teams such as ours could benefit from not having to make the mistakes we've made over these years and start at that level instead. These lessons cost a lot to learn in term of time and money. All the lost productivity to find out which dataset was used to produce which model, and what parameters produced which metrics. All is embedded in there.

There are many other reasons and objectives to do that.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
The problem that Facebook and Twitter have to deal with now and the one you are claiming is overblown is misinformation. If the misinformation problem causes very adverse effects there are of course people who will come to see your platform as a bad thing and will either pressure or legislate you to change.

My previous example about the republican ballot shredding was one where a kid thought we would post a tweet that he was shredding ballots because he thought it would be funny. This not only caused an entire news cycle about how republicans that the entire process was unfair, but seriously called into the question the staff and security of those working on the elections. Many of them faced threats for an issue they didn’t know existed because of this tweet. Similarly if you have people showing up to pizza shops inciting violence because they believed Hillary Clinton was hiding children in the basement your platform will ultimately be seen as a conduit for this type behavior. It’s no different from yelling fire in a movie theater.

It doesn’t matter if you individually carefully select and get who you follow, you have to ensure everyone else acts accordingly - and as we can see they won’t.

You have to ask yourself if your platform was large enough to have these issues in the real world what would you do to minimize it - because if you don’t Congress will and the hammer of the state is very blunt.