skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> removing term limits allows representatives to bulk up on expertise on issues, which is actually makes them more resistant to outside influence, all things being equal.

How has that gone for Senators? Not well at all. No term limits there has engendered some seriously malicious Senators.
So many people seem to rant and rave about mechanical keyboard that I'm still willing to give them a try!

Could you recommend a model that's not too noisy and doesn't require too much force, but which also has the page up and page down keys on both sides of the up arrow?

This seems a rarity for mechanical keyboards, while it's quite standard on laptops. Since I spend most of my time on laptops, I'd like to at least match the general shape for the features I use the most- like shift-page up and shift-page down scrolling in consoles.
Thank you. I've been trying to convince people that coal power isn't bad because solar exists and is gaining production share. As long as alternatives exist, coal does nothing to the environment.
> I meet with incredibly smart people with master’s degrees and PhDs knowing so much about their field of expertise while I’m a University drop-out.

Good. That at least qualifies you to become one of the world richest persons, something that is statistically now out of reach for them ;)
I feel like a $1000 fee would be something most people would remember and complain about to friends and family...
If we’re trying to measure something (say strength), should we measure that thing as directly as we can, or should we add a bunch of adjustments to make things more “fair”? Do we want to know how strong someone is, or how surprising it is that they’re as strong as they are given their starting point?

If someone has a home gym, a personal trainer, and time to workout 2x/day, 6 days a week, how much should we penalize their results? Zero? 25%? 50%?

I think that being strong as demonstrated on tests of strength is a valid (and the most valid I’m aware of) measure of “merit” in the context of strength. I think the same is true in other fields as well, including scholastics.
> But it's true that his writing seems to drift between extremes -- some sober, well-researched and very interesting, and others almost as if a different person was writing it.

The article you linked is bizarre. He's actually arguing against himself in places. Interesting, and thanks for the link.
I remember the VHS era of renting movies. I'm fortunate enough to live in a large city that had a great, independent, rental store. Lots of selection. I suspect the selection at that rental store is better than the selection at any of these streaming services, or all of them combined.
1. It can still be made illegal, It just requires bigger changes.

2. I understand that what needs to be made illegal is some kinds of lobbying that includes financing parties, not all of it.
I was a Patreon supporter of Clean Streets and was pleased with having cleaner streets in my neighborhood. Unfortunately, these guys just closed shop. Here is the email I received on Oct 23:

> Alas, Clean Streets is closing up shop.

> You may have noticed the falloff in times and quality the past couple weeks. [Redacted name] lost his main cleaner and has not been able to adequately replace him.
Browns are recommended for typing over reds, etc. as they have the tactile 'bump' but aren't excessively noisy. Reds are supposed to be quieter along with some other less common switches.

I have a leopold with browns I bought used for $40 years ago plugged into my work laptop, and a cooler master with cherry browns and backlighting I use on my desktop that cost me a little over $100. I did get one keyboard with gateron switches because they're cheaper than cherry switches, but one of the keys was failing within months. I have stuck with cherry switches since.

I've been on the fence for a few years about buying a kinesis advantage 2. The layout does seem like it would make typing much more comfortable and ergonomic.
Carnegie Mellon... aren't they the ones that took FBI money to de-anon tor users?
That last comment is also highly reliant on what the definition of innovation is. This is grossly oversimplified:

If it's creating new value in the form of serving a particular need (such that a new product is created, for example), I think it's safe to assume most of those folks _won't_ hold PhDs.

If innovation is discovering some new fundamental truth about the way the universe works, there _may_ be folks without PhDs doing that work, but most of it _will_ come from PhDs.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call our current system dysfunctional? Clearly in such a system rights are not symmetrical.
Meh, while it actuates the noise a bit it generally doesn't make a night and day difference.

For me coding during night was a no with my older MK even with the rings I would wake people in my house when typing.
Wait until you find out about drug abuse in prisons.
The guidelines only say so about flagging, clearly to discourage low-quality comments from getting attention and obscuring more interesting discussion.

For this reason, I don't think there is any obvious parallel to vouching that you're trying to draw here. However, perhaps I am wrong. Can you point to a comment by @dang that would substantiate your opinion?
Something about this made me feel sad although I can't convey why. "Control your cow through our app".
Ask HN: Are start ups as a nonfounder just bullshit?
I have just finished up at a second start up that exited.

Each start up was different but the key parts were the same:

The start ups promised if things went well I would be looked after.
Both start ups exited.
The founders made over $10 million each.
My share was worth $0.

I took a lower than market salary.
I put in stupid long hours and did the work to get things over the line.
I quit each start up after my share was confirmed to be worthless.

Both times the new owners were really disappointed that I would leave and offered large pay rises to stay.

Each time I declined the new offer as I had no trust left and did not want to grind away to earn someone else their earn out.

Are start ups just bad for employees?
> You say that "millions" of participants should be useful, almost automatically.

I don't disagree that there are issues with self-reported data, but I do disagree with saying that a large set of self-reported data is worthless.

I also didn't say millions, I said massive. Which in the case of research like this could be the difference of 40k participants (through an app) and 100 participants (clinically). While the size of the data set isn't everything, it does matter. With 40k participants you could aggressively invalidate 30k of them and still have 100 times as many data points for statistical validity as that clinical study. The clinical study would also cost more and take much more time to implement.

> How many self-report surveys would it take to match an actual double-blinded study with double digit participants? What if the answer is "hundreds"?

I don't know, but how many more can be easily done now if technology is used like it was here?
What if doing 100s in the same amount of time is now feasible?
What if it takes far fewer than your arbitrary assumption of 100s of studies?
What if it only takes 1 study with 100x the participants?

No one here is advocating for stopping double-blinded studies. Why not both?

> If you're off by an order of magnitude somewhere in your stack of assumptions, the data could be noisy enough that you need to be sample from a population of a hundred billion.

Why would you assume that it would be off by an order of magnitude? That seems about as likely as the data being perfectly accurate (that is, very unlikely).

And why 100 billion? It seems like you're just throwing out arbitrarily large numbers here.

> Should we wait a century for all these surveys to be done before even attempting data analysis?

This study took less than a year, and because it was automated, could likely be run concurrently with others. Why would it take a century?

> surveying the same set of people over and over won't give you additional data. You need to wait for some of the survey respondents to die.

Why would they survey the same set of people for the same study? There's a lot of people in the world.

I know you've decided for some reason that it would take 100 billion people, and that 100s of studies would need to be done to compare to even one clinical study. I know that for some reason you think that would take a century instead of in parallel.

Consider for a second that if you're wrong on any of those magically large and arbitrary numbers, this might actually have some value to the world instead of dismissing it out of hand.

Again, no one is suggesting any fewer clinical, double blinded, etc. studies. Doing studies this way has some potentially very large upside, and it can be easily used in tandem with those other studies to speed up research and gain much larger data sets.

Yes it has trade-offs. We can be aware of those without throwing out the whole idea.
The only value I can see is impressing people in the digital sphere, and a lot of people have digital friends they are happy to impress. It’s like a signal you were early on crypto right now and that’s giving some people cache with people online.
This assumes that these systems have no drawbacks, which is highly optimistic.

The automatic braking seems to be the most dangerous one so far, at least on Teslas. Countless incidents of the car slamming on the brakes at highway speeds for no reason whatsover. Brake checking people at highway speeds is highly dangerous road rager action, now cars are automating behaving like this.

Things like auto lane control seem more benign, but they do suffer the same dangers as the so-called autopilots, in that they lull the driver into paying less attention which will always be more dangerous until true AI level 5 self-driving exists.
A perspective that may be interesting to you - all those successful around you are you, as well as the billions less fortunate - they are also you.

"The Egg"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
Sure but I was responding to a comment regarding Coinbase.
but it also sends the message that shooting up heroin is tolerated, even encouraged. it's like the people running the city have completely giving up on expecting any kind of standards of public decency or even upholding civilization itself. they gave up on collecting trash, they gave up on arresting thieves, they gave up building houses, they're considering whether to give up teaching calculus. nothing we can do! we'll just manage the decline into thirdworldization, be careful not to overdose while you drug yourself into a stupor.
Buckling springs - that's neat to find a modern keyboard offering that for a reasonable price!
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”

—Vonnegut
The dampers might be, but the system is still controlled by Android running on a puny OMAP processor in the 2019 Fit.

I'd paste the link to the technician's manual, but it's not public, though you can find it on less than ethical places.

A fun practice is to pull the fuse on the Android unit and try using your car. It will work, but it's... unpleasant.
I recently was in a job search (early october). I used the following platforms.

Hacker News - By far the best reply rate. I think I got an initial phone screen for about half the places I applied to.

Work at a Startup - I like that it was easy to apply to numerous startups. I also liked that you could put in a statement about why you wanted to work at a company. This also had good reply rates

LinkedIn - The first thing I do is set my LinkedIn to looking for work. You never know when a recruiter will reach out to you with a gem, yes you will have a million amazon recruiters but I think it is worth it. I also browse the positions listed on there. Ok reply rates

Indeed - The lowest reply rate but they do have the most jobs available. They have also gotten much better with remote positions in recent times

As for the job I found, I actually can't remember where I saw the opening. I think it was on here. The process was actually pretty good. The whole process from application to offer took just under one month. It consisted of an initial phone screen with their recruiter, a phone interview with the hiring manager, and two days of virtual on-sites (2-3 hours). For the technical portion of the interview, they give you the option to walk through a project you have already done or a take home assignment.
> when you track it back to a random Russian cybercrime group what can you do with that information?

It shifts the burden from the company to the authorities
If we all took the "someone else would do it someday" view, we'd never praise anyone.
> For general relativity, no - nobody else was walking down that road

Hilbert? (I don't actually know.)
IMHO the idea that source code in any place outside of crates.io should in any way be relevant for reviewing code uploaded to crates.io is deeply flawed.

Even if you make it technically work there are endless ways this could be abused in a social engineering context.

Like even if you when uploading check the code is the same, how do you check it stays the same. How do you check it's the same for any way the site is accessed (e.g. git vs. html code preview). How do you make sure there is not other social engineering in place (misleading tags etc.). You can't, reliable, in a good way.

Also don't forget, the client which uploads thinks can't be trusted. So you would need to push a full git (maybe sparse) branch to the server instead of just uploading a subset of the current checkout, that's pretty much a no-go for various reason.

Through it's not hat there are no ways to reach something similar like e.g.:

What you can do:

- sign uploaded packages

- automatically include the commit hash or other vcs history ids (but then it's in the client so they CAN be tempered with)

- all some form of "external-signing" that attaches "labels" to crates

- then you can e.g. have a GitHub service which verifies that the uploaded code matches a checked from a repository on GitHub and adds an appropriate label, similar services with all the service specific nobs could be made for various repository hosters. But this would not be a part of cargo/crates, but 3rd party services (e.g. provided by the hosters).

- Similar a company doing reviews could add a "reviewed by us" label.

- Or cargo-crev could attach a "there are reviews" label.

How this "labels" then interact with the UI and if they are even stored on crates.io is a different matter altogether.
There is no excuse for an open office.
> throwing trash on the ground

This is only part of the issue. I've been picking up trash for years while walking or hiking in the outdoors and have observed a lot of different situations and setups that are really common:

- Pocket design on clothing isn't designed to allow easy litter insertion, exactly. A lot falls out of coats, jogging pouches when people think it's secure. Open wrappers from things like candy or granola bars have this banana-peel splaying effect that can help them to practically leap out of pockets while being stuffed in.

- Animals like local corvidae can spread litter like crazy.

- Wind, especially on garbage collection day, or around outdoor events

- Some hilarious amount of litter is meant to stay there because someone really does intend to come back and get it later. From water bottles left by runners to legit trash left by well-meaning people who really will be back soon, and then feel angry and confused about how they are perceived when they find that another do-gooder picked it up

- Vehicles, from garbage trucks to other work vehicles headed from site to site...man, some of the trash vortices I've seen :D

The inexcusable people you mentioned, I guess, are easy to spot and often easy to clean up after because they'll put their trash in the bag before hucking it out the car window, so you can use their bag to hold other trash as well. Or at least it's thrown in the same general area, and amounts to a couple bottles.

If they are drunk/high you can often get their names and stuff really easy too. Starbucks cup, receipt...wallet...oops they forgot that lol. Stage a gentle community intervention if so inclined, nobody necessarily needs the police involved.

But emotionally if someone has just had it with rules and abuse of rule systems for control purposes, if they perceive that they have been unfairly treated by society, I find that those are the litter bugs people worry about. But I can also sympathize...
I actually don't see the difference. In practice, the lobbyists would probably be advocating for the same policies (ie legalization). Why does the framing of the goal statement influence the morality of the actions?
Are the people littering mostly civilians or drug addicts?
My father was a major foundation for what I do. Someone has to build these foundations. Many people don't take good enough care of their kids and many responsible people don't want kids. So it is literally world changing to be a good parent.
Cows already obey electric fences which are basically just a piece of string. (When really stressed/agitated they walk right through electric fences, apparently without much additional distress.)

This is just a wireless electric fence. Cue joke about the old lady and radio telegraphy[1]. :-)

1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=no%20cat
Good idea. It seems more expensive to compute, especially for curves and pen stroke elements. Did you have any problems along those lines?
Of course not. Innovation is just as easily stolen as derived.
They've slain AliBaba though.
Love to see this tech adapted to small rodents. Would provide new measures of learning and memory in complex environments.
rwilliams@uthsc.edu
Would allowing nature to take its course and having them die really be that bad? It is better for society for them to not exist (in a peaceful manner ie not outright jailing/ worse) or for them to exist and harass innocent bystanders? Think about it this way, if they did not exist, and you had the power to create them, would would willingly/ purposefully create them? They are taking up resource that could be better spent else where such as investing in education or infrastructure or even tax breaks for the middle class
Putting a junkie in prison will indeed stop them, for the time they are in jail. But once they get out, they will return to the life they know. And then you're back with the original problem, but you've now also spent a ton of money to imprison them.

Obviously there's nothing safe about being addicted to drugs. But there are certainly methods of drug use which have wildly varied risk levels. Same for other things - drinking alcohol, eating unhealthy foods, etc.

Portugal is the best example of how to tackle the drug problem. There are many articles, but here's one: https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...
Topre is very rock solid because of its origin is for professional inputter. I know many people use same RealForce/HHKB for 10 years (in Japan).
There is nothing automatic braking will do to help you from getting T-boned. In fact only an attentive driver can prevent that one.

Automatic braking will prevent you from rear-ending the car in front, yes. Although an attentive driver should also be doing that.
No one cares if you don't wear a mask in Utah (there are also no mask mandates for most places, hospitals might be an exception, and some workers still need to wear them I think) and you're not even allowed to sit in a coffee shop without being vaccinated in Seattle.
Contrary to popular HN opinion, management jobs outside of big tech do not actually pay that well. I’m assuming the parent poster wants to switch career tracks entirely rather than stay within his/her currently available roles.
This concept for a forum could be interesting.

I sometimes write thoughtful replies to HN submissions many hours later, after ruminating, but HN has moved on to the next new thing. (It is a "news" site after all).
I'll bet zero hot wars between the named major powers emerge before 2030. At least not directly. The most I'd be willing to allow is some sort of proxy conflict. As for cold/warm wars between the named major powers... they're already ongoing. Network/information/trade war is well underway and will not let up for some time.
I used to clean up near my front door, but it became overwhelming.

I live in a "bad" part of SF, by choice - I have a huge, cheap apartment. Until about 5 or so years ago, the homeless situation was not that bad around me. There would be periods where people with problems would be around, but generally it wasn't a big deal. I'd clean up around my and my downstairs neighbor's doors, and a bit wider if needed. Some of the folks that used to live on the street here would also help keep things clean.

Then the cops decided we are good place to funnel campers. Inevitably, dealers followed, and the street went to hell.

I won't go in to all the ins and outs, I can become very boring on this topic. Suffice to say, when you have a local small business that considers piles of garbage a competitive advantage, sweeping out my bit of sidewalk became pointless.
Jon Hopkins’s Psychedelic Journey
That's not classical economics, that's asset specific. Try pricing USD or a commodity or literally any other asset that doesn't represent financial investment in a business venture in a discounted cash flow model.
I sort of agree that won't get as many unconventional thinkers in a rigid system, but that only goes so far. You can't control the number of Einsteins you get anyway (exactly one so far), but you can get a lot out of training a ton of people to make steady, incremental progress while you hope for another once in a century genius to come around. You also need people to actually understand the theories and run experiments to validate the work of your geniuses, not to mention build things with them and even extend them. And, of course, Einstein didn't work in a vacuum either, so you can't entirely pretend the legions of lesser, hidebound physicists around didn't pave the way for him to emerge.
If you take the equivalence principle seriously GR is the simplest possible theory.

I think the most profound work in mathematical physics of Einstein’s generation was done by Emmy Noether and Einstein thought so too.

Her trail really induces modern physics as we no it.
One day in the near future: "Nationwide airplane grounding because someone unpublished the isObjectEqualTo8 package on npm and this broke air traffic control towers all over the place."
Oatly Wins
Try watching stupid people. Then you will feel terrific.
If anything these media companies should all have learned the obvious lesson from the last 10 years. The lesson that Gabe Newell put so succinctly years and years ago:

"Piracy is not a pricing issue, it's a service problem."

And yet they keep making this mistake over and over again. They have to make it convenient. Because what they're really competing against is a ~3 USD/month VPN subscription that lets me watch anything I want in HD quality.
What do you use yours for? I love my FC660C but I really wish I could store all my Karabiner mods on it. Like double shift for caps lock, or caps lock as escape when pressed alone but control as a modifier.