skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that for a second.

I've seen relevant ads beside search results on Google, but that doesn't really take a lot of magic to figure out that when I search for "Aeropress", I'm interested in coffee.

Ads in podcasts have been somewhat effective as well. I use Blue Apron, I like Audible, I've checked out Squarespace, I bought a Casper dog bed. AFAIK, none of the podcasts know anything about me, but they do know generally who their audience is.
While I'm usually all for bashing both sides, does it really apply in this case? The bill in question repeals rules set out by the FCC under the Obama administration. Those rules were a proactive measure that increased privacy from ISP monopoly overreach.

If this recent attack on privacy is something both sides support (as you seem to claim), why did the Obama administration set out those rules? And why did the Democrats in Congress not vote for this repeal?
Seems to be a pretty common experience. Same guide, same course, same year.

looks at username

Oh. Same university! Ha.
You can easily avoid facebook by not registering there and blocking requests to their servers from other sites. Similarly with google, though you can't use Chrome and Android in that case.
There is no easy and free way to avoid your ISP spying on you.
> So are you saying that, despite the effort, time, and money it takes for adoption, your adoptive parents didn't want you?

No. I'm pretty confident that the "not wanted" statement was made in reference to the biological parents.
This is very neat. Thank you!

> The extension is no longer supported however.

Sad. Unfortunately that's all too common...
Ask HN: What VPNs are good to use to bypass SJRes34?
Yes, ISP monopolies are still a problem w.r.t. price and quality of service. But VPNs stop the ability of ISPs to snoop on and sell your data, which -- in a perfect world with ISP competition -- market forces would prevent. So VPNs can take the place of market forces for one of the bad things that arise with ISP monopolies, namely the one that the House just enabled yesterday.
It could be the lack of a mid-range is more of a consequence of people not having any expendable income after rent, bills, health care, child care, etc., than an essential feature of capitalism. If I had a bigger budget for personal items, I would pay $60 or more for a really nice, durable, comfortable pair of jeans, as opposed to just going to Walmart and buying the same crappy pair for $19.99 every month or so. Same goes for most things I buy, like cars, furniture, food, etc. But somehow, my rent, bills, health care costs, food costs, etc. just keep getting higher while my monthly income remains roughly constant. So I keep buying trash.

Also, the ever-rising high-end of the market gets lifted up partially by easy access to credit. If fewer people had access to credit cards, maybe those high-end products would gravitate more towards the mid-range as well.
I think humans don't tend to intuit factors well.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

Nuclear has saved an immense number of preventable deaths.

Coal is the dirtiest, most dangerous form of energy production available.
I applied for Irish citizenship as a contingency
Earthquakes cause tsunamis.
If startups want to compete effectively for talent with big companies, they need to communicate more effectively about the value of their equity (and in many cases, give more).

I built a site that helps startups do this: http://www.optionvalue.io/
Same here in Berlin, I got an offer with 75k p.a. as Sr. DS.

I mean one could cite the living costs, but then one also has to compare the different taxation / social welfare models. $350k+/year sounds huge, I would actually switch to Google for that amount (ofc. knowing what a senior/lead role encompasses).
Common Problems in Hyperparameter Optimization
Does this mean the AP-1000 reactor is dead? Several of those are under construction.
That does seem very strange.
No, you're absolutely wrong. Look at the vote.

Don't bring that weak Whataboutism here.
One huge difference: There just are no inner-EU discussions and there is no EU-wide media. Everything takes place at the nation level. This is probably due to 24 different languages being spoken and most people cannot speak english well. But this will not change in the next 20 years.

Also heterogenity: A Texan surely has more in common with a New Yorker than a Portugese with a Latvian. This is not only about "values", but about consumed tv shows in the childhood, about similar experiences in school and about learned history - in short, culture.
But nobody will die. You're contrasting bad trade terms with literal wars, really apples and oranges comparison.
Sounds like he is well aware that they aren't paying market salaries:

> - We are probably priced out of the market
This blog post is a followup to a talk at MLConf NYC. Hope it helps you optimize your hyperparameters!
And the final sentences of the piece undermine the rest of it.

> Many technologists interviewed will remain in the U.K. through Brexit, citing family ties, work or a desire to stay and effect change at home. While few technologists interviewed offered optimistic outlooks of a post-Brexit British tech scene, many are determined to do what they can in its wake.
Pretty clever hack/scheme. I'd classify it as a parasitic model. I'm sure there's tons more of those left including in eBay despite their increased efforts in stopping malicious posts.
Congress’ decision to expose your data to internet providers
Israel’s ‘Flying Car’ Passenger Drone Moves Closer to Delivery Date
IEA says 6.5 million die per year from air pollution. WHO says it's 1 million deaths per year from specifically burning coal pollution. And it's roughly 1000 deaths per year from nuclear.

Air pollution deaths are "normal operation" not catastrophic event. Whereas normal operation deaths for nuclear is essentially 0, where deaths happen as a result of catastrophe. So there is something of a lizard brain mentality going on when it comes to near term risk assessment. I think the rational arguments pretty much are all economic: they're expensive and basically even a highly regulated and subsidized "free market" has said this isn't worth it and we can't make it work.
I plan on automatically switching VPS provider for my VPN on a monthly basis. So even if they get one month of data, they won't get it all.
I'm not sure how it works elsewhere (I'm in Texas), but when I voted in November, they gave me a 4-digit number to enter when I first walked up to the machine. If I told them "this receipt doesn't match the ballot I cast", I suppose they could type my 4-digit number into the computer and say "delete this ballot", feed the receipt into a shredder, and then give me a new 4-digit number to try again. They wouldn't need to see what my receipt says to do that.
These "jokes" are already getting incredibly stale and silly. I don't get it at all. A provider is not just going to let you come in, even with say a billion USD, and buy X individual's data. That's not how it would work at all, this is not just like some sort of self-checkout to get someone's data.

And even if it was remotely like that, I can guarantee you that the providers will go to lengths to make sure they didn't just lobby millions (speculating, of course) to get this through and then throw the same congress members under the bus that they lobbied to and then hand out their data to get them in trouble with the public.
Not really, I'm not from the US and I don't know the US history with unions. I'm speaking from practical experience in my country and several other countries where unions where responsible (or a cause) for the collapse of several companies and industries.
I found this article to be humorous and informative.
You're being disingenuous. You should try moving a long term research project to a different country, see how flexible it is. Some of these people are currently paid with EU funds, even.
This is awesome. Can you say how long it ran for, and about how much $ you made?
I think it's a little more complicated than people not being bothered to vote. The European Parliament has relatively little power (e.g. to propose new laws) compared to a typical national parliament. I think people see that and also see that Euroskeptic MEPs are largely ignored. In the last UK European elections, UKIP won the most seats. That didn't get reflected in any shift in policy did it?
Isn't this why rename-command exists? Just "remove" it on the server side by changing KEYS to a blank string.
You wouldn't even have to cut the work week by 8 hours. Just cut it by one work day, with the same 40 hour week. Shit, it's not that rough working ten hours officially when you're already working ten unofficially, and that extra day off for a three-day weekend is worth its weight in gold.
I think this is not an argument against nuclear power, but an argument against the very complicated reactor designs that are in widespread use. Because they start with an inherently unsafe design, they can only be made safe with many layers of protective measures.

Newer reactor designs can avoid these issues.

On a personal note, I grew up about 10-15 miles north of San Onofre, and I don't think many folks had an idea of how poorly that facility was run.
The de-dupe filter is based on how much discussion went on in past posts. But that actually doesn't affect the current case we're looking at here, as there are no duplicates of this link: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F...

Now, in a sense, there was a duplicate, but because the URL didn't match, it didn't count. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2F*.nytimes.com%2F20... The de-dupe filter would've turned new submissions of your post into votes for your post, if it had caught the duplicate.

That being said, I don't think HN is designed to pool discussion over time, preferring to archive discussion of each story. At this point, you can't even upvote older posts; they can only be added to your favorites.
Think about what valid, useful reasons people have to return to the app. E.g in a game, they might want to see the progress in their crops. In a book collecting app, it might be to find out what new books appeal to them, or to enter their review when they've finished reading a book, or when a new book by an author they've read is available, or when their friend has reviewed or added a book, etc..

Figure out how the app can trigger or remind them of these moments. Notifications are the obvious one, but you want to be careful not to train the user to tune out your app if you send too many notifs or notifs they are uninterested in. The best triggers are ones the user has asked for themselves.

For example, when they get a new book you can prompt them to set a goal to finish reading it in a week or two, or whatever is comfortable, and then ask them if they want you to check up on them (notification) when that time is up. If they set the goal, they will probably welcome it.

Additionally, you want to try and build habits that help the user improve his or her life. So if you build a habit of recording their daily reading log, and reward the user for reading every day without missing one, then they are happy because they are reading more books and they are also connecting their new reading habit with the action of opening and using your app.
Like you said, this is all theoretical. You can reach "the whole world" with the right browser. At that point, you might as well ship an Electron app.

But that's not even the point of my question. What I actually meant is: Where is the benefit for the user? I wouldn't want to use applications in-browser, unless there's some real value in that. For everything else, I strongly prefer a "native" application.
The telling bit is their use of "real religions." A No True Scotsman in the making.
For a junior dev yes, 20 k euros / year should include everything:

- 14000 euros / year payment

- 2000 euros / year insurance

- 2000 euros / year tax

For office space well the rents are around 200-300 euros / month for a small office - but he can also work from home.
I'd consider myself average at best and got job offers to two of those companies. I still work at one of them and have been promoted (so I can't be that terribly bad).

Honestly, reading cracking the coding interview and the algorithm design manual go a long way to summarizing relevant information you learn in college. Knowing how to write Python coupled with working through those books is probably enough to get hired like maybe 7/10 times. (I say 7 because a bad interviewer can sink your interview and there is nothing you can do about that).

My point being, is that the people that work at those companies are not dumb but that they are for normal people too. I wouldn't not apply just because you think everyone is somehow really smart.
I'm saying it catastrophically destroys my trust in the industry.

You're saying that you trust an industry that...

> In 2008, the San Onofre plant received multiple citations over issues such as failed emergency generators, improperly wired batteries and falsified fire safety data. In its annual review of 2011, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) identified improvements but noted that in the area of human performance, "corrective actions to date have not resulted in sustained and measurable improvement”.

There's a history of human error and negligence within the industry. That history of errors and negligence is why I am against nuclear power.
Why should we be worried? Nuclear power is a no go for civilized world. It is not insurable. It has well-developed, clean alternatives. Apart from carriers and subs, it has no good applications (it would be also be great to get back to nuclear missile cruisers and ideally even destroyers, but outside of the military, i can't see any use for it at all).
Just to put things on perspective. Most of HN people are developers, and the average salary for a developer (30K) is bigger than 70% of the population. A 50K salary is far from unusual (that under junior developer in a bank) and that better than 90% of the UK. I lived years on a 25K salary, which is better than 50% of the population and that's the kind of salary where it does not take much to put you in big trouble. Weathering the storm is a luxury for a lot of people.

So I'm not saying that it is the end of the world. But look at Spain. If you look at the raw economic numbers, Spain has barely changed from before 2007, yet everybody I know (and that's a bunch of people) has been affected negatively.

It does not take the end of the world to make big trouble for a lot of people.
I generally don't trust open-source. Too many people have access; and therefore I assume anything open-source has zero security. It's a related to the Prisoner's Dilemma - it's most advantageous to those who find exploits to use them for their own good rather than report them and reduce them.
Visualizing Back End Performance in the Chrome DevTools
It won't happen. MSRs may be a great idea on paper but solar scaling cheaply negates the need or interest in using them for small communes.

Other political factors such as the inherit stigma around nuclear and the upheaval of the defense-sector supply chain make them a harder sell.
Even if that's true, applications that try to automatically tune themselves to be able to use all available resources sound valid.
Could you clarify why this should be noteworthy? I mean this in the nicest and most respectful way possible - I'm not sure how the statement fits into the discussion.
This comment may be a bit snarky, but it's important to understand that the TL;DR for this is not: you need to learn how to debug Redis and understand a lot of internal things about it and the libraries using it. It's that you can really save yourself a ton of time and headache with a better understanding of application architecture.

Step 1) Throw everything at Redis because you don't know how to architect. Use it as a cache. Use it as a temporary data store. And use it as a persistent data store at the same time. What could go wrong, right?

Step 2) Watch it break because you're using it wrong.

Step 3) Write a blog post about everything you discovered about how you can sort of get it working while continuing to do it wrong.

Step 4) Only concede at the very end of the blog post that you were just doing it wrong™ from the beginning.

"The root causes of these errors were more a conceptional[sic] issue. The way we used Redis was not ideal for this kind of traffic and growth."

Unless I'm missing something, there's really no reason that all three use cases (caching, temporary data store, persistent data store) should all be sitting on a single Redis server so far away from the metal of the application server.

I do not want my search cache waiting on temporary data to be read and flushed from the cache. I do not want data I'd like to persist competing with search cache results. I don't want any of these things! That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works!
And yet we do that!

How fast is that CPU? You'll hear people quoting clock speed. You'll hear people quoting FPOS (floating point operations per second -- at least we USED to quote that). Both of which are single tasks.

It's not that we don't realize that the performance of a CPU varies depending on lots of things like instruction set design and (especially) memory pipelines and caching. It's just that there is not a general "does the stuff you want quickly" benchmark to measure (or rather, there ARE several such benchmarks, but each is skewed in its own way and not subtly, so that things like clock speed and FPOS are at least flawed in OBVIOUS ways). And there is some sort of very rough correlation: CPUs with greater clock speed do tend, as a general rule, to run most applications faster.

I think rating the spider's intelligence by giving them a web-making challenge was a really BRILLIANT idea, and provided a better assessment of intelligence than any other test I can imagine giving to a spider. Can you do better?
If they provide a decent free connection (at least 10/2), and support it buy collecting your data, then fine. But to force it on people who pay for a connection makes zero sense.
That's weird. I would have assumed that browsers use the same OS services to play videos as a media player.

So what is the right format for web videos nowadays?
I think the main thing is the hacking was done to effect the election and it was at least moderately successful in that goal. Regardless of everything else that alone seems worrying to me
Being against nuclear for trivial reasons like these is why we have the alternative: coal plants. Those kill an estimated 300,000 thousand people per year[1].

It's only recently that renewables have become a realistic alternative in some (but not all) cases, but for decades we've had people dropping like flies due to coal, entirely because the public is too science illiterate to understand that nuclear isn't anywhere as big of a deal by comparison.

1. https://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/...
Lots of small writes (200-1000 a second at peak maybe) but only reads it on server start once a day. Honestly I don't know if it's failing already but it doesn't matter that much. I would prefer to use something more stable though.
As for instance half of Sweden still have increased levels of caesium 137 since Chernobyl, and I have just finished a spaghetti bolognese made from a moose from that area, I am not really impressed by average values.

The health effects have been small in Sweden, but it still affects our quality of life, in the sense that we have to be vary of what we eat.

If we keep having an incident every 15-20 years, it will potentially affect large areas, and another incident in Europe might be unfathomably expensive.
What power sources do you prefer? Coal and other fossil fuels are probably even more deadly than nuclear. What else is viable today?
Which is a regulatory solution. I don't know the specific history of UL, but the most common way these type of agencies are created is by the government or from within the industry out of fear of government regulation.
I just don't think Japanese companies have a process on dealing with foreign M&As and fraud mitigation. When Hitachi acquired the spanish manufacturing company AnsaldoBreda, there were similar fraud accusations.
Keep the momentum
> While Pavlovich says he won’t comment directly on the US election hacking allegations

Right. Finally the evidence we've been waiting for. Or, ... not.

Are we grabbing at the straws here with the "Russian" narrative. By now I think we are.

They don't say it but that's why the article was probably written. The more they write articles like these without clear evidence, the more they discredit the whole PR story and lessen its value.
I concur. Of the maps proposed, other than maybe the Peter's projection version, i don't see any practical value for wide option of any of the other maps. Peter's projection is interesting because it correctly depicts the relative sizes of nations and gives better perspective to things most people think about (for example, how large Africa really is). Reading too much into things like the grand meridian was chosen because of colonial supremacy is pointless. Yes sure it was, but it works and the cost to switch is too high. Any other arbitrary place we choose as reference will have the same problems in the future.
> Newer reactor designs can avoid these issues.

I have a fundamental mistrust of the industry and our government's ability to properly regulate it. That mistrust is based on historical facts.

Even with newer designs, I think human error and regulatory capture is too dangerous to make nuclear viable.
I would hope someone went to jail for such an extremely dangerous form of fraud.
Startups should be paying more than established companies. The odds of success are low, the hours are worse, the benefits are worse, and the odds that the job will disappear within two or three years are high. Seldom is the equity worth much unless you're in the first few employees.
I really think it's the education issue. To be able to buy confidently in the mid-range without regulatory protections ensuring that things cannot be under mid-range (talking quality-wise) you have to know a lot. To do that for a substantial fraction of what you buy you have to practically be an expert at buying, with lots of knowledge and adept at spotting scammers. Ain't no-one got time for that (unless that actually is their job).

The quality bathtub graph falls out of that. Not enough confident mid-range buyers to pay 10x the crap price, so you never get to a scale where you can (and/or are forced to by competition) drop to 4-5x the crap price (multipliers pulled from thin air, obviously, and are just representative of some real values).

[EDIT] in fact, to take your example, you may need to know at least a little about jeans to be sure the $60 jeans will last at least 3x as long as the $20 ones, and with more knowledge and time shopping you might be able to find a $40 pair that'd last even longer than the $60 ones. The fact that the $60 pair might still be crap is the real problem.
But you could very easily forge a receipt to commit fraud,* so there would have to be some kind of biometric or cryptographic security.

*Possibly in conjunction with targeting precincts that heavily favor one party, or individual voters registered with a specific party.
> ...found that I would want about 7% equity, in order to be interested. They said no, of course.

You wanted 7% equity to make up for 20k? That seems a little excessive...
As a British citizen I have more in common culturally with my German, Swedish, Austrian, Spanish, Danish, French etc friends and colleagues than I feel with a large chunk of my own country.

The people who tell me that I should be patriotic and culturally identify with them as British are the people I'd want to run a million miles from.
Christ, any sympathy I had for them vanished when I saw they were using keys... The documentation is very clear about query complexity so this should have been an obvious one.