jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> And if your point is that being able to do those projects and ALSO "buy what you want" (e.g. nicer TV and car) will give you much greater satisfaction from your life, you are clueless about human nature. You might get a thrill from these items in the short term, but eventually you'll just want more and better ones. You'll be in the same place (psychologically) as where you started.

You make a mistake in your point. The mistake is that you assume that he wants to achieve happiness by acquiring these material possessions like that new TV, an expensive car, etc. He won't, and he knows that. What he'll achieve is pleasure. Short term pleasure, maybe, but so what? Desire for pleasure is natural, and being in a position to get all the toys you want will satisfy that, and keep satisfying it.

It won't fill any holes in your soul or give you long-term happiness, but it's not supposed to. That burning desire to live better is what drives human progress. Look around and see how comfortable our existence is today compared to a thousand years ago. Cars, electricity, phones, heating, plumbing--so much convenience. None of that is necessary to exist, but it's something that makes living our lives much more pleasant. That new TV or car isn't going to give our lives more meaning, but it will make them more interesting and satisfying.
Support and managing state are two different things.

For friends and family, the support I provide is almost never about state or ramifications of state. The most common set of questions are actually around printing (why does it print the webpage name at the bottom of the page? I don't want that. Or the computer says it's out of ink, but I just put new ink in it). Chrome just complicates this.

The next biggest set of issues is hooking up the laptop to TVs. Nobody did this a year ago, and this holiday season I've already gotten like three calls on how to do this.

Windows and MacOS have gotten sufficiently mature that a lot of the old issues just don't come up any more (or we've past that stage where there were a lot of adult complete computer neophytes... even my parents are decade old computer users now).
This is a bit like claiming that Google is investing in radical medical technology because people will watch more ads over their newly extended lifespans.
That's the hardest part, the stress and the depression of the job will surely drive me nuts in couple more years, that's the main reason I want a change as the stress, night shifts, working with patients listening to their problems all day all night is depressing and frustrating.

Thanks I've never thought of that path of working at a medical device company. Good that you mentioned it :)
> Most of us would consider the discriminatory insurance demon to be truly demonic, but, in general, scientific demons simply represent gaps in our existing knowledge, anthropomorphic accounts of the unknown or the unexplained. Given their aspirational quality—a longing toward greater understanding—these roles might at first seem better filled by angels. But, because they often represent theories that violate laws of time or space, machines that exceed human capacities, and technologies that threaten human existence, the use of demons feels appropriate; their very identity suggests the workings of a mischievous or malevolent force

This characterization of the supernatural being is irrelevant to their nature.

> Canales quotes a computer scientist at Microsoft who argued that Internet and finance companies today “are trying to become Maxwell’s demons in an information network.” His example was a health-insurance company using Big Data to sort desirable customers from undesirable customers

That’s a cute thought experiment albeit not directly the of the same kind previously discussed. This person is clearly discussing aggregated human effects, nothing hard to prove there.

> This strange being disappears entirely from the final version of “On the Origin of Species,” where only the theory of natural selection appears, absent any miraculous causes or supernatural forces.

Makes you wonder if the publication would have received the same attention had this part not being removed from the final revision.

> Still, among those who studied it more closely, Maxwell’s demon has inspired new technologies and theories in fields as diverse as chemistry, cosmology, nanotechnology, neuroscience, and cybernetics.

The article, albeit being a great summary, does little effort to acknowledge the difference between demons being merely analogies for the unknown versus being the catalyst of new ways to tame nature.
Why would I want to touch something laden with crime with a 10-foot pole?! And something so detrimental to climate? Bitcoin didn't, isn't, and is not gonna change anything - it's nothing but a speculation tool! Can we please stop inflating its bubble? Yes, there are meaningful cryptocurrencies, but Bitcoin holds no future - it's like sticking to VHS when there's Bluray or to a 3.5-inch floppy when there's MicroSD.
This isn't a new situation or unique to Bitcoin, though.

It's the exact same story for any high net worth investors with most of their net worth tied up in stocks.

If you have 10 million dollars invested, be it stocks or Bitcoin, then pulling out $10K (0.1%) here and there to top up your cash account or pay your credit card off each month isn't exactly a huge deal. Investing that last 0.1% into stocks or Bitcoin at all times doesn't make a measurable impact on your overall returns.
Out of curiosity, what niche does Linkedin fill for your day-to-day work? Personally I only have a profile so people can see I physically actually exist, outside of that I don't think I've ever used the site for anything.
Where exactly do you get the conclusion that it alloes for renouncing germ theory? What are the facts not acknowledged?

Exact proof of something simple as 2+2 is laborious and hilariously disproportionate but one can work with approximations well enough and handle the vast majority of cases in the same way friction and time dillation are often omitted from equations.
Ideally yes, they should have a fresh air intake connected to something like an HRV, but there is still value in dust/smoke/pathogen filtration even if the fresh air source for removing CO2 is a different one (i.e an open window).

They are definitely better than no air filtration at all.
What happens to stablecoins when central banks hand out digital wallets [1] to everyone alongside instant payments [2]?

[1] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/the-rise...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment#Examples_of_in...
Slightly off-topic but it seems to me that most keyboard layouts but the US seem to be completely retarded—almost bordering a conspiracy—with regard to usability when coding, using emacs and using the unix shell.

When I see someone coding with a non-us layout I smell the humble inexperience and nod with compassion. The difference between layouts can be astonishing if you only bang a lots of []{}|/\?-=+_-*()@#$'s. For some reason, computer languages are full of those.

I use the us layout all the time except when I have to write something in my native language and need the umlauts more easily. I remember the killing pain of trying to write code in it until I realized I can just turn on the US keyboard. Luckily, that was before my career...
I don't entirely disagree but, isn't all revolution research like this ? You circle around an objective, throwing random things at it with no idea how to achieve it until someone has an eureka moment and you suddenly pass it. The bigger the objective, the bigger the wall to pass, the larger the eureka needed.

If we only funded or took seriously research where the researcher actually knew the solution or had a good idea how to reach it, we wouldn't have made that kind of a tech jump in the last century, let alone in the last 50 years.
> tech companies like the ones listed above and most importantly the banks should be able to just arbitrarily shut down anyone they dislike

Yes. If you want to be served by good companies who genuinely value you as a customer because they view doing business with you as beneficial, that's the easiest way to get there.

The alternative is bad companies providing the worst possible service they legally can to customers they don't really want because the law forces them to, which makes it more difficult for good companies to compete with them for market share.

But if the bad companies arbitrarily refuse to do business with anyone they dislike, the rejected customers will go to the good companies instead, which helps them grow and improve their service.

Note that this is exactly what happened with Parler: "bad" AWS refused them, so they went to a "good" hoster instead.
I'm not so sure it's a luxury. Maybe it is if your startup is servicing a group of techies who have knowledge of what problems lay in the background but most clients don't know and don't care.

It's not that hard to keep up really. It's a question of a day or two of setup and then the hardish part of constant discipline to not take the "easy way out" and poke holes into the segregation you've set up. Mainly it takes a single team lead or CTO or whatever to be really explicit that you just don't break the steps and you'll avoid a LOT of problems. You'll still have problems, problems are inevitable, but in general you'll have mitigated them and with a proper backup and merge procedure you'll minimize downtime.
Annoyingly, they sort their sheets by first-one-added = last-on-list.

The best cheat sheet for javascript, and the #1 hit on google for "javascript cheat sheet", is the very last one on the last page of their list:

http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/javascript-cheat-shee...

In fact, none of the first page of javascript "cheat sheets" are cheat sheets in the conventional sense of the word.
Smartphones are substituting for

1. PDAs
2. Flip Video Cameras
3. MP3 Players
4. Digital Cameras
5. Handheld Video Games
6. GPS
7. PCs
8. Regular Cell Phones
9. Watches
10. Remote Controls
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-migrate2cl... <- last in a 4 part series about migrating to EC2.
I believe they had a message on their homepage during the event about being DDoSed, but yeah no after-remarks is kind of ugly in my opinion. They could at least post and hide it from the general customer.

1) http://seclists.org/nanog/2010/Nov/415
Didn't Baidu basically win China because they were the only search engine willing to play ball right from the beginning with regards to censorship? It seems that plus the fact that they were homegrown got the playing field tilted pretty heavily in their direction.
Sorry I can't buy the idea. Once you have some oracle, you have more centralization than a properly decentralized currency. And then you end up with the worst of both worlds: as expensive and slow as a cryptocurrency, and as trust-dependent/weak as a centralized system (weak in the sense that there's a single point of failure and a single entity that you must trust).

Anything that can only be done with some degree of centralization should just use a PostgreSQL database instead, no point in using a blockchain.
They’ve restored them now; I got a notice last month. Two person household with one TV and one PC and a couple phones, no torrenting or anything.
> At first sight the problem seems to be poor quality engineers/skills.

It is. The good ones get better jobs elsewhere. Those who can't start competing in the race for the bottom.

> I expect any external contractor to think critically of requirements they are given and raise flags if something is off.

That's what a professional engineer would do. Costs way more than 25$/hour.
So it becomes read only when helium leaks out?
At a high level, there are two kinds of video processing work: synthesizing/organizing and creation.

There are a number of new companies appearing in the synthesizing/organizing space, because there was an explosion in the quantity of video being produced, and the software to parse it exists (speech-to-text, object recognition, better-search, etc).

At least for companies, people intuitively want to share all the "best parts", but we found that people won't actually watch them. Instead highlighting one specific piece that visually looks engaging is a better way to capture attention, and then engage.

Our thought process here is that there is only so much organizing/synthesizing most people will do, but there is an endless about of creation someone can do.

Re: government - For what it's worth, the US Chamber of Commerce is one of our paying customers.
Funny enough I just used the Beanie Baby example in a reply to other user: it's the closest analogy I found in modern history.

Something that was designed to be scarce, for the sake of being scarce. Serves no other goal: it's not a balancing mechanism to game (overpowered cards are rare), it's not promoting something that people love and want to be a part of (like baseball cards), hell it's not even a celebration of some success with the fans, nothing that holds people emotionally attached to any of it other then those that want to hope on something to resell later - this is completely the wrong motivation.
This sounds like Google's version of Fargate?
I worked briefly for a startup that changed their name and then got an additional round of credits.
I agree. The claim the formula feeding is neglect is not supported by the science. So please don’t spread that pseudoscience opinion.
The feature does or did exist, but hidden. The early versions of GitHub Enterprise (called GitHub FI) exposed this and it can be seen in action in some places (e.g.: https://github.com/ghc; look at the "mirrored from" subtitles). I really wish GitHub would expose that feature publicly, though. The post-receive advice they give only works if you have full access to the master repo and misses out on recording the "this is a mirror" piece of metadata on the repository, which is useful for people who might try to open PRs etc
I have always felt that this issue has been overcomplicated. It seems what this really stems from is the classic ISP business model. From a pure network design standpoint, nearly every network has an uplink that is not large enough to sustain simultaneous high usage from most, or all, of its devices. Your classic endpoint data closet example would be a 48-port switch with 1Gbps access ports, and a 10-20Gbps uplink.

This problem seems much worse in the ISP world. Many years ago, ISPs could easily oversell their connection. Realistically only worrying about the small percentage of extreme users downloading high volumes of data via Usenet, BitTorrent, or other file sharing services. Life for an ISP was probably pretty great.

Now, with the sheer number of households streaming video, it seems to be apparent that ISPs are drastically overselling their connections. It does not even make logical sense to blame a single service if an ISPs upstream connection is saturated. If the ISP did not oversubscribe their connections at such ridiculous rates, this would not be an issue. Why does it matter that a single service is causing the largest portion of the traffic congestion?

Netflix recommends a 5Mbps connection to stream HD video. Most all devices today would stream at HD quality, if possible. How is it that an ISP such as Comcast doesn’t have the uplink capacity to sustain many users at a mere 5Mbps? I find it absurd that multiple ISPs are overselling their connection to the point where a speed of 1/7 of the average connection in the USA is too much of a strain. It really seems that the level of oversubscription is equivalent to having a data closet with a 48-port 100Mbps switch uplinked at 2Gbps . The whole situation just stinks of pure greed.
>Verizon is not in that condition, it's not a transit provider.

Are you sure?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#List_of_tier_1...
Thats the problem with voting-based sites. The sexy stories get play and everything else, outside of rare oddities, is marginalized. This is fine I suppose if we want to get a certain superficial benefit from this site, but if you want something deeper, often from what I imagine people think of as "boring" companies or "boring" spaces, it just won't work on a site that has this kind of voting mechanism in place.

Geeks like to think of ourselves immune from things like celebrity, hype, PR, etc, but we actually are very vulnerable to it. We play up this "man of logic" persona, but its just a self-compliment. Not too long ago we were telling each other that $FOSS_project would destroy Windows/exchange/office, or Xioami will kill Android as we know it, or $billionare will fix $unsolvable_problem, or Diaspora will destroy Facebook, or that Ouya would destroy mainstream consoles, but it turns out that "boring" often wins as MS, Google, and Sony keep making profits and maintaining marketshare. We believe these things because they are pleasing to believe. If you got your news and tech opinions from slashdot 10 years ago you'd be shocked to even see Microsoft in business. How are we different today than the usually wrong slashdot narrative of yesterday?

The larger issue is that dissenting voices are too easily marginalized. I'm pretty skeptical of the success of Tesla and Oculus for reasons I feel I present in a mostly productive way, but when I mention them its just a ticket to being downvoted, which on here and reddit just limits the visibility of the comment. Fanboy comments get upvoted to mass visibility and become the defining narrative. Those narratives become the norm and, well, here we are.
Expensive relative to what?

If you're making your own meals ($3/meal), yes, it is expensive. If you eat out then it is much more reasonable. A single eat-out costs ballpark around $6/meal, so assuming you did that twice it would break even.

I agree re. sample size. $85 in one go is hard to justify to the +1 when all you're really buying is food. $6 here or there is easy to ignore, but $85 is a weekly grocery shop in everyone's mind.

I wonder if price will come down as they expand? It might be wishful thinking to be honest, but I do suspect there are a fair few people who would happily try it if it was closer to $4/meal rather than $6/meal per now (i.e. $8/day from $12/day).

PS - I have to admit my three reasons for not trying it is: price, manufacturing problems/delays, and also I remain unconvinced that we know enough about nutrition to create this product that won't caused health defects in the medium to long term.
I'd hire someone who did a useful project over the summer rather than spent it studying coding interview tricks.
> Nothing on your phone is. It's illegal.

Wrong.

In the UK it is legal to use a phone in your car handsfree as long as the phone is in a cradle/bracket. Since, I think, last year the gov closed a loophole so you can't have the phone in your hand for any reason whilst driving.

Might vary in other countries/jurisdictions of course.
> keeping the doors locked and asking where you are going before letting you in, which is illegal)

Just out of interest: do you ever report those cabs?
Yes in the 3 minute scene there were multiple indications from the picture to indicate: Chinatown (food/texts), the girls outfit (being a dancer), and an identifying tattoo. Which would point to only a few dance clubs in the city.

It was also a connection to the artificial snake scale being found in the bath tub that happened to be rare and only created by a few possible engineers. Engineers who work on robotics. One Chinatown engineer happened to be employed by the people he was looking for, who were robots in need of an engineer...

Not a far fetched connection by Hollywood's standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0
The metadata itself would be in the blockchain. If you've got the blockchain, you have the data. You'd still need to find peers, but you've got the data for the content.
There are a lot of horrible, unthinking, authoritarian people out there who think folks need to be punished well out of proportion to their crime in order to "teach them a lesson".
Newly designed automobile engines are still tested in the same way.

While computer analysis has replaced a lot of the "run, break, repeat" iteration, new engine designs will generally spend thousands of hours on the engine dyno before and concurrently with integration (road) testing before they're shipped in a model. While computer simulation has gotten pretty good, there's no substitute for the final product, especially when it comes to tuning engine control maps to pass emissions and develop power efficiently and safely.
Since Uber is currently banned in Vegas I took a cab and the defaults were 20/30/40 which is insane. They also take a $3.00 credit card processing fee, also insane.
For that age, my best advice is stay in school and prepare for college. Take as much math, computer science, and statistics as offered by your school.
Once someone knows about it or find out about charges, sure. But see how many people get hit with accidental roaming charges even though there's a simple and obvious setting to disable it.
I have a dream that someday America will get its head out of its ass and decouple health insurance from employer benefits.

That would change the employment calculus for a ton of people.
I am a right winger. I don't live in the US but I would've voted for Trump. I have my reasons, I liked a lot of the stuff he's done and I very much disliked other things.

That said. Storming into the capitol is not something that comes out of an "extremely poor judgement". If you have any kind of respect for democracy you don't storm into one of the most important public buildings in the country. There's absolutely no excuse for that, just as you can't kill a person out of an "extremely poor judgement". It's a no-no. It goes beyond any red line you should not cross.

I truly hope everybody who got inside get to be prosecuted for insurrection.
> This is simply a lie. All wolf packs are strictly hierarchical. Meaning there is no wolf pack without a hierarchy.

Tone it down a bit. You should inform yourself. I gave you the name of the author to read, Mech, in my previous post.

Wolf packs are not hierarchical. You have the parents leading because well they are the parents taking care of their offsprings and that's it. The rest of the group has no fixed hierarchy.

> complex", "social dominance". Which is it? You say they don't have complex hierarchy and then claim complex interactions involving social dominance.

Wolves have situational and individual dependants relationship some involving dominance. For example parents tend to harass their young when they approach the age of leaving. Some youngs situationaly fight other youngs but you can't establish a ranking of individual in a wild pack. That wouldn't make much sense.

I have complex relationships with my friends. They sometimes involve dominance. Yet we don't have a hierarchy.

> Wolf packs have hierarchy like human families have hierarchy.

Human families don't have hierarchy. Young children are subordinate to their parents until they come of age, a bit like in a wolf pack actually.

I am starting to understand your confusion.