skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I occasionally lose my eyesight due to a neurological condition. Getting either an Uber or a Lyft while visually disabled is a bit of a crap-shoot. Half the drivers I've summoned would just give up when I asked them to honk their horn or shout so I could hear where they were parked.

"Millions" are just a minor inconvenience for either company. They'll factor it into their cost of doing business and get the next round of investors to fund it. Sadly, this kind of thing is going to go on for a while.
Nope. It wasn't evidence for a drug that was fabricated, it was a 2006 study published in Nature that convinced everyone to believe the amyloid hypothesis.
If your ML model is able to predict what consumers are going to buy, the revenue lift would be zero.

Let's say I go to the store to buy milk. The store has a perfect ML model, so they're able to predict that I'm about to do that. I walk into the store and buy the milk as planned. So how does the ML help drive revenue? The store could make my life easier by having it ready for me at the door, but I was going to buy it anyway, so the extra work just makes the store less profitable.

Maybe they know I'm driving to a different store, so they could send me an ad telling me to come to their store instead. But I'm already on my way, so I'll probably just keep going.

Revenue comes from changing consumer behavior, not predicting it. The ideal ML model would identify people who need milk, and predict that they won't buy it.
that wouldn't have given him time to pack 3 suitcases.
I was scrolling up and down the repo looking for what I assumed was the tutorial - how to build your own X-server, haha
There was no way they were going to let him leave the country, no matter when he booked the flight. booking the flight made it easier to arrest him. the meeting was set-up by the feds to arrest him there instead, but he thought that leaving the country would work, which it obv. didn't.
How do you propose that this ages old scam could be “solved”?

The “bad actors” are based overseas, largely out of reach of any realistic enforcement action. No amount of financial education will save these idiots.

Perhaps the only realistic solution would be to further restrict personal financial freedoms, which hardly seems like a good thing.
I feel the same way about radiolab pocasts. Interesting topics, unnecessarily drawn out and filled with obnoxious amounts of repetition and pointless music/audio interludes to the point where I'd often just rage quit, but so many people love it and praise the production.

There's certainly an audience out there that loves long-winded articles that meander around their topic so that you get the same amount of reading it would take for an in-depth look at a subject but still only come away with a handful of bullet points worth of useful information.
Maybe it's just where I am in my career, but I prefer to have some discussion before talking salary. I don't tend to look for $job, I look at specific jobs that look interesting to me. If it looks good I talk to them and see if they'd be willing to pay what I'd want to get to do it. I've had places go back and get approval to offer more so they could meet my requirements and I've taken jobs with lower offers because they looked more fun. If they'd posted a salary range, we probably wouldn't ever have talked in the first place. Maybe people find it hard to ask for what they want, or are worried they won't ask as much as the employer is willing to give? To me the salary range things more limiting than empowering.
It has to do with input data. Part of the game is rationalizing what is on the screen and maintaining a memory or prediction of offscreen activity. When they get direct feeds to game data, it's cheating.

The AI should be given a game screen. I think it should also need to actually use a mouse and keyboard too if im being honest.

I would be way better at games if I only need to think about what I want to do in the game and have it done rather than use some method of physical controls to do so
thank you for your kind words. I’ll share this with the team - they will really enjoy reading it

good luck building, and make sure to share the critical feedback with us too. it really helps to improve the product
Looks like the prosecution is actually over the use of coinbase's confidential information for personal profit. ... I suppose the DOJ is of the view that coinbase itself trading on this information was just fine.
Reading Joyce is like listening to Prisencolinensinainciusol. It seems like you should be understanding and comprehending it. All the bits are there. You know what the words/syllables respectively are, but you just can't quite seem to grok any meaning out of it.
>> The difficulty comes with ride share that aren't licensed and displace taxi services resulting in difficulty spreading out the cost across all taxi rides... and that the ride share drivers (and companies) don't provide sufficient coverage is compared to the requirement for licensed taxis.

Wouldnt it make sense for Uber to subsidize the ADA compliant drivers for their extra costs (or reduced yield) and then for Uber to spread that cost across their entire service?
> It appears the patient had a vaccine-derived strain of the virus, perhaps from someone who got live vaccine

Do we blame or thank vaccines?
If only we could take this further. What’s more in “control” than driving? Walking and riding a bike. That’s ultimate control.
We don't have a right to privacy in the US either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s interesting how the author decides against hiring a cheap developer, but in the end still tries to get good service for cheap (i.e. hires a company that works with larger clients, expects them to offer same kind of service to him).

Also:

> If I had insisted on milestone-based payments from the beginning, WebAgency likely would have declined the project.

Sounds like it would have been a good outcome.

Of course it’s easy to say all that in hindsight.
And why exactly are they inadequate? Can you explain this beyond just saying it is?
I think it's important to establish clear goals before reaching out to freelancers and agencies. The agenda from each one is different than yours.

I learned to get the team focus by writing a brief (commonly used for Brand Managers in big companies) to keep focus on the deliverables. That helps to avoid these type of issues.
I've seen this one yet the fact that it's the only one recommended over the years (AFAIK from the same user that works with them) means it's a very rare and scarce service.
I want to make clear that I agree completely, but I've been injured in two car crashes in my life. Once, I was a pedestrian and crossing the street in a crosswalk with a signal when an old lady drove into me and then drove off. We had made eye contact while I crossed, but for whatever reason she decided to start driving nonetheless. The other time, I was stopped at a red light and someone arguing with their partner rear ended me. Incidentally, I caused minor injuries to others in a similar crash when I was a teenager. Clearly, there was no element of control to the injured parties in any of those three stories.

It'd be really nice if we could figure out how to convey to people that they don't have any significant control over their safety when driving, so that we can finally start making rational attempts to drive down the number of motorist and pedestrian deaths.
> always been curious about the financial aspects of businesses like this

I’m increasingly finding one of my favoured modes of leisure to be a book and a wine bar. Were I to open a wine bar in retirement, decades from now, I’d be fine running it at cost, counting the company and conversation as compensation enough. Swap that to a subsistence model in a low-cost locale, and the business still holds.
It's a good thing, because yes getting injured or killed in a car accident is horrible but it's not a good thing that they don't have any training at all. If driving was something done only in industry there would be proper training and a lot more safety precautions. I think about this every time I walk down this narrow sidewalk in my town that's 4 feet from the roadway. A friend of mine was recently in the crosshairs of a straying van and he was only saved by the luck of a telephone pole intervening.
The other side of the coin is that Karma is all fake internet points and HN's system makes it pretty easy to farm enough Karma that you don't have to care what other people think for a very long time if you so choose. The cap on downvotes means that while it is possible to have a single post that generates hundreds of Karma, the most you can ever be downvoted is 4. It's almost impossible to lose significant Karma without continual trolling that would probably get you shadowbanned anyway.
I find many of the issues brought up about public transit being unsafe revolve around the people you might encounter on public transit (drug users, homeless, mental illness, etc.) and the waiting around/walking to public transit stops (muggings, thefts, etc.)

I've never had any issues myself, but have absolutely been exposed to those issues while taking transit. I've also witnessed those issues increase during/post lockdown.

I have no solutions, just pointing out a different angle on the "unsafe" issue mentioned above. I'd love to hear if anyone has any experience or ideas to reduce this perception of a lack of safety.
This guy might well have cheated but how could he be responsible for the huge mess which is the amyloid-β research (and amyloid-β lobby as told by Statnews [0])?

Sylvain Lesné, has no Wikipedia page. He seems to publish roughly a paper per year while some famous scientists publish one every month. He is not at the origin of the amyloid-β hypothesis which is more than 100 years old.

Even more there are thousand papers published about Aβ*56 and Alzheimer's disease. How could this guy responsible for this mess?

And if what he published was wrong, why this was discovered only 18 later if thousands scientists are working in the field?

My understanding is that there is a need to find a scapegoat for the amyloid-β and pointing to an obscure guy is in the interest of many big fish.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/21/alzheimers-disease-amylo...
Anti car policies need to be paired with pro sustainability and livable city policies. You can’t do just one or the other, both need to happen close to simultaneously. We need to strongly discourage car use and encourage sustainable transportation while strongly safeguarding it for those who truly need it, rather than those who just want it.

You can conduct many types of commerce, maybe most types of commerce by bike. You can’t do things like say transporting more than two sofas, or large scale building materials, but if the goal is to reduce car usage as much as possible you’d be surprised how much you can do with a good cargo bike.

With an electric bike most people could easily do a 15km commute within 40 minutes especially where provided safe cycling infrastructure. And with no need to store and transport all of these cars despite them only being used for two hours a day you can use all of that space to build more housing.

People who want to live outside of population centres and thus feel the need to own a car but need to commute into population centres can instead commute to large scale park and ride for public transit. Maybe they can also charge their cars there too, maybe even for free with ownership of a transit pass.

And the best part about strongly discouraging car ownership and usage while strongly encouraging sustainable transport is that it frees up space on the road for busses, emergency services, cyclists, pedestrians, and those who need vehicles for transporting goods or for accessibility reasons.

Finally, consider that housing prices in areas with sustainable transport options might be higher because people want to live where they can safely walk and cycle surrounded by trees and plants. Make that possible for anybody who wants it and we’ll have a cheaper house prices, healthier populations, less climate change, safer societies, and just generally a nicer time.
Other comments mention how this was a Kickstarter that took two years to come to fruition and the supply chain is listed as the culprit. No one else has mentioned that while us backers were waiting, they sent out newsletters that detailed some of the complexities they were dealing with. Getting the case right took several iterations, and when you feel it in your hand you can tell that they took time to get it right.

You're right that one could put most of the functionality together, but not in a package that you're gonna toss in your pocket for EDC.
That is so terrific you are talented enough that out of 3-4 places you want to work, one of them hires you. This seems like terrible advice for most people though.

Even if 4 out of the 4 would hire you, the chances of getting your resume looked at and a callback is very slim - and that's because it's a numbers game on both sides. Popular roles often have 10's-100's of candidates.
But can you swap the soul?
This extends in so many directions. I hear people speak this way about the homeless, the addicted, the laid-off, the sick. Cancer? Begin the list of things the person did, consumed, didn't do that could have caused it (no shortage of headlines to feed the lists). Homeless? Must have acted irresponsibly and made stupid choices. It's sort of hand in hand with the "It can't happen to me" mindset. I remember my wife telling me - during the George Floyd trial - one of her co-workers interrupted when someone referred to him as a man and said "He was a drug addict" like that should end the conversation, like that exempted him from being human, like some of her favorite celebrities weren't drug addicts.

"To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not?'" - Christopher Hitchens, from Mortality.
I'd love to see a system where where you could inject nuance into upvotes or downvotes. Say, one set of arrows for agree or disagree with the conclusions, and a separate set of arrows for whether the comment was respectfully or rudely written, and maybe even another set arrows for arguments that are cogent versus poorly thought out.

I usually make an effort to upvote comments that I thought were particularly well written even if I disagree with them. But we all have our biases, and I recognize that, as with most people, I'm likelier to upvote a comment that I agree with even if it was poorly reasoned. It would be great to be able to rate comments "+1 informative, but -1 author is being a jerk". Or "-1 I disagree, but +1 polite and respectful".

I'm not sure how well it would work in practice. Getting the UI right could be a challenge. Netflix used to let you rate content from 1-5 stars, but they later changed it to just thumbs up/thumbs down. The same pressure that led Netflix do dumb down their system might apply here.
We can start by putting the autonomous vehicles to the driver license test to see if they can just pass the lowest standard of driving, ie the quality of a novice driver. If they can't do that without instructor needing to step in then just like the novice they shouldn't be allowed on the roads without a licensed driver to oversee them.

That is the bar that autonomous vehicles need to reach. Crash rate of zero is not required, through if it is higher than the average driver then it might be worth to make the license requirements higher.
He is making so much money and forgot the reality. He received a $2,000 website at best and kept dumping money to the "agency". It is sad people are getting scammed like this and think it is normal.
It doesn't matter. Pinning means pinning every dependencies and sub dependencies.
One thing I've noticed: US-based commenters are much more negative and cynical than anyone else. I've made posts (under a previous username) when the US folks were asleep and got great, helpful replies, only to get much more negative, less nuanced comments once the US woke up.
The best way to game HN is just be "nice guy", go along with everyone and only say nice things. For example, you can create a comment to this post that HN is just great, thank dang for his hard work and watch karma pouring in. If you are contrarian, you will soon be at the bottom of the page greyed out.
I have, as well as Amethyst. Yabai is what I've settled with, and it's absolutely usable for my work flow. I probably need to fiddle with it some more, but the thing with i3 is that most of the the default set up works great for me. Trying to emulate that in something else has been a pain.

Maybe I should just learn to be more flexible!
Your details really erase control though;

To stick to the legal ones;

Tired. 40% of Americans report not getting 8 hours of sleep a night. An only partially intersecting group reports they are regularly tired during daily activities. Is a driver's self actualization of tired accurate?

Attentive; bad news, most drivers aren't attentive, hence we're still seeing deaths from texting while driving. Self actualization doesn't exist here either. Add in passengers (children, dogs, friend, partner) - deep thoughts on work, relationships - combined with doing something that is mostly mundane.

Poor Maintenance. Brakes, nails in tires, low air pressure in tires, tires not suited for climate, other cars leaving oils on the roads, poor road maintenance, unexpected or untrained weather, check engine light (25%), potholes impact tie rods and steering, worn shocks, uneven loading. Very few drivers do this or pre-drive check every drive.
New karma farming stratagem: post original content about HN

Super happy to see all the discussion in here! Will hopefully have time to reply later
I write during my lunch hour on a separate computer/physical journal while eating.

In previous jobs I would "skill up" during every free moment like lunch, afternoon slump, extra time after completing something hard that day, etc while ensuring my job duties exceeded expectations. Sometimes I would build personal projects for my work that mimicked what I was doing outside of work so I could build the skill up and provide value at the same time.

I typically look at any moonlighting rules for the company I work for and then keep those limitations in mind. Most are pretty lenient to say "don't use our resources and don't work on your stuff during our hours".
That's not the alternative strongtowns advocates for. You can have more convenient and more safe municipalities at the same time. I recommend the "stroads" essay on their site (as well as the others too). Strongtowns really provides a very compelling thesis when you consider the whole of their proposals.
> * it was a 2006 study published in Nature that convinced everyone to believe the amyloid hypothesis.*

The amyloid hypothesis is one century old.
Not the author.

Developers sometimes really just want to dump the data as a JSON. For them this means not having to write a lot of boiler plate ORM or SQL templates, and shipping trivial features quickly.

Example, user UI preferences are a good candidate for something like this. You probably don't want to add a new column just to remember the status of checkbox, when the user last logged in.

As a DBA, you probably still want to define a schema for this data, so as to not cause unexpected web app crashes. It ensures the some level of data consistency without increasing the maintenance overhead.

Obviously you wouldn't use it for business critical data, in my opinion.
FAA still relies on humans, particularly for super manual areas like takeoff and landing. And ATC is notoriously stressful, overworked and understaffed. We’d need a lot more bodies to manage all road traffic.

There is a world of difference between the reliability you need for a one off experiment, and the reliability you need for something expected to operate 24/7/365, in all weather from -40C to 40C, in a complex real world environment, and where legal liability gets involved in the case of an incident.
Careful, if you build wrong you'll get wiped out by a data hurricane.
If you look at the details in this case it appears that the actual charges are for exploiting confidential company information for his own gain and not insider trading.
I think there's a tipping point to social sites. There's a point where they become too big to moderate.
Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)
In the US it is easier to invent autonomous vehicles than take away grandma's drivers license.
People who change their gender, or exhibit traits of the opposite gender, aren’t relevant to this conversation.

Well, they can be – treatment with e.g. hormone therapy has obvious physiological impacts with subsequent influence on the effect of other medical treatments.

Nobody serious doubts that there exist sex-linked physiological characteristics; in reality, the original statement that "sexual dimorphism is real" isn't intended to share knowledge, but a subtle signal about something else.
I had similar experience, which ended up working well for me. I interviewed for a job that I wanted and after they liked me they offered me something that wasn't up to my expectation. I rejected the offer and kept my current job. Two months later they reached out to me again, saying they have another exciting project for me and whether I would like to be interviewed. I was like, I don't even want to talk to you if we aren't talking salary first, it will just waste your time and my time. So we agreed on the salary first and then I had couple of interviews before they hired me.
I think three models are viable:

* Youtube-like website where people post videos

* A hosted service on your own domain where they host the videos (like the parent was talking about)

* A self hosted version where you host the videos and pay for technical support
Try it. I assure you, almost any angle you take can be poked through.

Cars shine in large, low density zones. For good reasons. Most anti-car people are not in favor of removing cars in these zones or removing cars altogether, so arguing here is moot.

Other places, whether removing a large amount of cars is beneficial or detrimental is decided either by culture, or by reinvestment options. And then, you're still stuck only comparing rationalities, with actual numbers being far harder to judge.
It's not heavily enforced. The fine is like $5k IIRC, they don't seek out job postings and only take tips, and the first breach by a company is only a warning.
> The current composition of the senate, 50-50, and the antiquated filibuster process, mean that the senate cannot do anything without bipartisan consensus. Not sure why you are railing about democrats that are secretly republicans when that is clearly not the issue.

When Trump wanted to kill the remaining bits of Obama era banking reform, he didn't have 60 votes in the Senate, which didn't matter because the Centrist Democrats voted with him.

>The “Crapo bill,” a bank deregulation measure co-authored by Senate Banking Committee chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and several centrist Democrats, passed Congress this spring with the help of 17 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus and 33 House Democrats.

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/10/dodd-frank-deregulation-...

In the same manner, the Centrist Democrats saved the Bush era tax cuts for the rich from automatically expiring during the Obama years despite the fact that the party had control of the House, Senate, and White House at the time.

The Bush era Republicans had passed those tax cuts under Senate reconciliation rules requiring only 50 votes in the Senate which placed a time limit after which they would automatically expire with no action needed.

The Centrist Democrats voted, repeatedly, with the Republicans to make sure they wouldn't expire.

Then, of course, history repeated itself with the Trump tax cuts, which ALL the Democrats claimed to find abhorrent (yes, even Manchin), until it became possible to do something about them.

https://prospect.org/economy/the-impossible-inevitable-survi...