skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree that the tech industry is a hotbed of right-wing politics. In fact, I'd be surprised if I've ever worked with a single person who regularly votes Republican.

One interesting factor at play, though, is the environment you live in.

In the valley, I see how hard it must be to get by because it would be impossible to live on a low salary here, let alone on public assistance. And because I make decent money, the value of a dollar is not all that high to me.

If I lived in an EXTREMELY impoverished (or even just average rural area) and was making minimum wage, suddenly every dollar I come by is much more valuable. And forms of public assistance that are not indexed to cost-of-living are much relatively valuable in such an area. Suddenly I'd start resenting all these people not busting their ass like I am to make minimum wage, and it looks like they're living off MY tax dollars!
This is what happens when bureaucrats in the administrative state determine rules rather than congress.
It may be a myth, but that doesn't mean people won't manifest powerful images of it.
Brand Ferriss LOL. The thing that really sold me on his nut-content was an old blog article which mentally-wandered into mystical, utopian BS.

Too many startup people worship someone, someone they don't really know anything about, like a god just because they can project their hopes and desires on someone whom has mantained their vagueness with elusiveness and seductive propaganda. Like a pied piper for the purposes of manufacturing memes for profit.
"Zen was published in 1974, after being rejected by 121 publishing houses."

121 publishing houses...
Is there source code I can audit and compile instead of running some random exe file?
a common network topology is to have a load balancer distribute load to a number of cheap Http servers which internally connect to a centralized and powerful database server. In this case only the database server really needs ECC ram. The system is designed to be fault tolerant for any individual HTTP server node so the increased cost vs the problem it solves doesn't make sense.

I guess you could argue that a random bit flip could somehow make the HTTP server vulnerable and able to compromise the network however that risk is impossibly small. If we take IBMs estimation that a bit flip occurs at an approximate rate of (3.7 × 10-9) bytes/month and then divide it by the number of bytes in the system you can see that the odds of randomly corrupting a byte in memory that triggers a vulnerability is too small.
I had never heard of Shark Tank, or any of the people mentioned so far in this thread until I stumbled upon a mispost somewhere on Hacker News. I don't get why people would watch that. The investors came off as idiots.
Any software from a big company like Uber, Facebook, Google, etc. is far more complex than what you see. There are typically dozens of features and experiments rolled out to some users and not others. There is also a lot of work necessary to serve so many different markets, such as localization and internationalization. Furthermore, in Uber's case they have a lot more iOS applications than the ones riders use. In terms of complexity, Uber iOS apps are probably comparable to Facebook's apps.
I see that on sites all the time. I assume it's just the layout shifting because the page retrieves stuff whose dimensions it doesn't know in advance. It used to happen with images all the time; now it happens with XHR.
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Or maybe there was an event that led us to over hunting. We could have been fine for thousands of years until another food supply was exhausted and what had to hunt mega-fauna more. They weren't stupid, they didn't hunt large animals unless they had too.
They have an auto-deposit feature[0], but it doesn't purchase the stocks for you.

There is an unofficial api[1] you could use to cron-buy, though it's unofficial-ness means I don't officially endorse :)

[0] https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/206445496-Tr...
[1] https://github.com/sanko/Robinhood
Presuming everything else went the same way elsewhere in the ecosystem, Unix greybeards might have become very excited about Android or ChromeOS and the "developer hype" might have pushed Google into making one or the other a workstation OS.

(Or we could call W10 a Unix desktop. Is that allowed?)
Maybe the downvotes are because of the fairly aggressive political stance? I happen to agree with you, though I felt the tone and substance of the original post was not all that helpful; I probably would have downvoted it too, if it were not already at the bottom, and if additional content hadn't been added that is making it feel like a more worthwhile discussion.

Often people do downvote that with which they disagree, but that's not the intended purpose of the vote; keep that in mind when reading your own 'score'; it may not be the opinion but the content or tone that people are rejecting.
I didn't know venture capitalists had to wear spurs.
That is proof of poor investing common-sense: startups, without a sensible inbound qualification pipeline, is just about the riskiest kind of investing. Would anyone want a foolish investor (apart from not caring situations) or rather have a shrew investor whom can add value?
Agreed. Putting something on the Internet makes it convenient to access, but I've never created something that I cared about that I didn't keep a local copy of. The idea actually makes me a little uncomfortable.
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I don't get that phrase. I've been in a bunch of life-and-death situations and not once have I felt a sudden alteration in my religious views. I have to wonder whether it's an expression of anxiety on the part of the speaker rather than any sort of objective observation.
Why the hate for react native? Also, they use react native for uber eats: https://eng.uber.com/ubereats-react-native/
Why should the best engineers in the world come to Canada?
There is no "usual": you can define them geometrically (as lerps of lerps), symbolically (as polynomials), or even algebraically (as power matrix operations). All three are covered over on https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo which was on HN yesterday =D
I rarely ever use cruise control. I actually find it useful to be able to modulate the speed of the vehicle via the accelerator. I find that not using it also helps me to adjust to potential situations that may be developing ahead e.g., letting up on the accelerator to reduce speed before even having to apply the brakes). I also will speed up while passing in order to reduce the time I have to spend in the passing lane.

I don't know whether or not this is related to the use of cruise control, but I have observed many drivers using their brakes on the highway even when it's clearly not necessary. For example, they'll slow down behind a car before switching lanes instead of anticipating the traffic situation and either letting up on the accelerator before catching up to the vehicle in front of them or adjusting their speed and moving into the adjacent lane to pass.
Detecting OS despite a spoofed user agent is not relevant to that goal
It seems like they've broken into teams organized around features where teams own their feature in all locales. I think that's a better decomposition than one around centered around locales. Centering development around locale is actually incredibly absurd.
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This is a disgusting comment :(
College definitely has something to do with it --for all the reasons you just rattled off. We get fucked once on, say, a misdemeanor, and then we learn this FUCK out of how to handle cops. And a fed is just a cop with better shoes.
Uber riders have more than one ride-sharing app on their phone. If Uber can't match me to a driver, I'm still going to get where I want to go.
That's an outstanding article and highly relevant, thx.
It's not arbitrary, to whatever degree there is consistency in determining what makes a liar "big-league". That may or may not make it better.
I don't hate react native per se. I hate that people blindly throw that out there like it in and of itself will solve real engineering problems.

It's the naivety of it all that is so annoying.
This concept I believe represents a good enough sample size to provide a good overview of "most commonly linked-to items." If 100 people link to the same product across many domains, chances are that most of those will be Amazon links. You don't get all of the links, but you get most of them.

The exception will be items from sellers of products not available on Amazon. And there may be some communities in Reddit that are more loyal to another e-commerce platform or site you would miss (crafters to Etsy, antique collectors to eBay, etc.)
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About 1 year budget for the NSA. Hmm.
Thank you for a clear example of the difference between vulgar and offensive.
"I made all the RTS buildings, tanks, some enemies, terrain textures and so on. Maxwolf never paid me anything.

Since I never got paid I asked Maxwolf to help me finish my game SickBrick."

Well, there's one of the problems (Ignoring the misdeeds of the other person and Steam's inability to resolve this scenario). If you're in a situation where this person won't fulfill an existing agreement, don't start another agreement with the person. If they won't fulfill the one, you have no idea if they'll fulfill any of the other agreements.
I think you might of missed the point... everyone has regulations and current problems at any scale, but the ability of BS job roles to hide in a large workforce and for managers to build pyramidal layers of organizations of little added value (but lots of expensive management layers with ever loftier titles).
Sure, but I don't remember being asked to share this information either, that's the issue here.
Heck, Windows 3.1 had the start of something even more interesting: there was no real distinction between an icon and an iconified (minimized) window.

If we had carried through with that metaphor, and kept a 1:1 document:window relationship, we could have evolved a modern OS where a generic WIMP "document" icon was just the representation of a portable, disk-hibernated GUI process holding the memory-state of that document, rather than having a 1:1 mapping to a POSIX-filesystem file containing a custom-serialized representation of said state. (Sure, we could also have those, but maybe only "for interchange." Like how computers have directories/folders locally, but use archive files for interchange.)

Most of the time, when you were done with something, you wouldn't close it; you'd iconify it. Either it'd return to where you previously un-iconified it from; or it'd land on your Desktop; or it'd get stuck to your cursor as if you were dragging, and you'd have to drop it somewhere. It'd be sleeping at first (so, basically a minimized window); and then hibernated later. It'd just be a difference in restore-time: events, like chat-notifications from a chat-client window, would still appear even under hibernation (i.e. background services would still run for hibernated documents, unless you right-clicked and "froze" or "muted" the document or something.)

Imagine if bookmarks were just... iconified browser windows. Or if git repos were iconified IDE/text-editor sessions (which would then contain further icons for things like shell sessions spawned inside the repo.) Or—remember old MacOS?—"folders" would literally be iconified file-manager windows, separate from the underlying file-system concept of a directory (which might not be exposed in the GUI at all.)
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Beautifully written, thank you Chris!
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Esoteric languages tend to play along that "so bad it's good" spectrum.
> Android engineers are more welcome now. Especially if they write Kotlin.

I love Swift, and I love Kotlin.

To any young programmer out there (I'm in my fifties), learn these two languages and you will be highly employable for the next decade, on top of the wave.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
It was inevitable that it was measured to be constant. You need to build a measuring apparatus out of physical matter and use its physical properties to measure things. Use of any reasonable measuring apparatus will have the built-in assumption that c and h are constant, and either particle masses or G is constant, allowing you to measure combinations of lengths, times, and masses.
This exists where the economics make the most sense. Some shipping containers have built in tracking and satellite links. Usually the ones with expensive or refrigerated stuff.
I found this about France, reporting very encouraging results:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00430965/document

> This public policy has yielded remarkable road toll statistics. The number of fatalities has diminished by over 40% since 2002, and the authorities are speaking of 12,000 lives saved since the new policy was implemented. The number of injuries avoided is also considerable, even if the fatality figures are those that draw most attention from official decision makers and the media.

--

The "slowing down for camera" behaviour might be less of aproblem, if camera locations are biased towards safety critical places. But it also has a fairly simple technical solution: average speed cameras. These work by timing vehicle sightings between two cameras.
It's incredible. I've been attracted by weird sounds (vacuum cleaners, humidifiers and hair dryer) since I was a kid. That noise sends shivers down my spine, then my body feels completely relaxed. No side effects so far.

https://simplynoise.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5w8Vle2a0Y

EDIT: I agree with user ralmeida, I prefer brown over white noise. Analogy: pure white noise is coffee (focus, awareness, stress), brown and variable patterns feel like a soothing massage.
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Your game machine can live without ECC.

Your NAS should better have it, though.
I agree that the fear of "super AI" is overblown, vastly in my opinion. Discussion on this topic is tantamount to arguing over the attributes of imaginary entities.

Simple artificial life of some kind seems much more likely in the foreseeable future. I've often wondered why no-one has written a virus or worm that is capable of mutation or even cross-over (sexual reproduction of a sort). Under selection pressure it might evolve into something resembling life. The Tierra experiments were a fascinating experiment in this area.
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We see this problem of the parts competing with each other in humans. When cells abandon their part in the collective and start optimizing for their own reproduction, we call it cancer. The main way we solve this is by shutting everything down when this happens, and creating new ones from a single cell that hasn't evolved to be selfish yet.

The problem may be inevitable, but that doesn't mean it's insurmountable.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lowercase-capital
A tiger is dangerous even if its not selfaware.
Thanks! One thing that is unclear is that you seem to have to create a project based on a language/toolset. Can you use that same project using different client sdks?

If I want to use the same project across both front-end and back-end, should I be choosing javascript or C#? Does it matter?
No, it's valid advice. Non-WMO starts a frontend job for each file, WMO runs one job.

The frontend jobs do not share state, so each one parses all the files in the module.

In general the parser is very fast, and the type checker tries to only type check declarations in files other than the primary file when absolutely necessary, so it's not always O(n^2). But there are pathological cases you can construct today where the type checker ends up doing too much work.
What was the flaw? Also, isn't starting a company with your student loans illegal?

> He says he managed to graduate without attending class. In order to obtain class notes, he threw an annual keg party where entry required classmates to dump their notes in a bin.

I sure wouldn't want that guy as my lawyer.
I didn't have a specific miner in thought while commenting, but in this instance it could be 1) a miner that does not use any bitmain equipment 2) a miner that uses bitmain equipment but has otherwise preemptively mitigated this attack vector or 3) Bitmain themselves acting maliciously.
How much more expensive is ECC ram? I don't have it and I've never experienced obvious issues, if it's a lot more expensive it's not really worth it for the once or twice the desktop will likely experience an actual issue
There was the Xeon 3400 even before that. Trivia: it supported registered ECC, but only x8 chips and not x4.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Microsoft's plans to build an underwater data center.
I've travelled to many countries and the US is the only country I've been to where citizens have a legitimate and real fear of their government using force against them for something that most people would define as 'not doing anything wrong.'

Perhaps, in America, we should stop putting people in jail for not doing anything wrong.[1][2][3][4]

[1]-https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-ch...
[2]-https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/opinion/sunday/locked-up-...
[3]-https://melmagazine.com/i-won-104-million-for-blowing-the-wh...
[4]-http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/01/the-spy-who-sai...
[5]-http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/16/arizona-governor-drop-ch...
Glen Campbell, American country singer, was diagnosed a few years back, after having trouble remembering the lyrics during performances.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049586
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I think our legal systems are just too different.

Malpractice is handled by the professional order's Syndic along with all sorts of minor offences such as misrepresentation.

It is part of the judicial system. It can impose fine, training, disbarment, etc. As a side note, the American obsession with suing everything just look backwards to most of us.
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They got the ice from the east coast of the US and from Norway. Ice used to be big business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade
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Farmers of Forty Centuries by F. H. King

Reprinted by Dover in 2004
The flaw was that the early online trading systems didn't include provisions for reg-T, which stopped leverage at I think 50 percent of your balance. So, you could borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock with a thousand dollar account balance. He goes into detail on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUG2_cmZ6I
> it's also going to require even more expensive gear to cut multiple inch thick conductors.

I agree with most of what you've said, but cutting a few inch thick conductors doesn't seem all that hard. I think a single stick of dynamite would do it pretty easily. Two for good measure. This would still be an act of war of course.
I also think the location thing may be addressed in later solar technology. i.e. For our currently tech the sun really needs to be out. But as far as I remember, there's still a good amount of energy available on cloudy days (assuming it's not pitch black). As solar technology progresses so too will the locations it can be installed increase.
> Chrome Warning: This file is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous.

The warning is about download frequency of a particular file, not filetype.
I was hoping to find something about how the Swift architecture affected their ability to cleanly implement a tipping feature, since they've been a tad behind the curve on this very highly demanded functionality (just pinging my general group).
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Transparency just adds the idea of publishing the price up front.

I tried to clarify - different doctors are free to charge different rates for a given service (say 15K for an appendectomy), to make them charge the same is price fixing and should not be allowed. What I advocate is that Alice, Bob, and Charlie all get charged the same price by Dr. Sam regardless of insurance coverage or any of the other deals that take place today. Dr Alfred is free to charge a completely different price than Dr Sam.
If suddenly we had a black box containing a superhuman intelligence and no details about how it worked, then absolutely, we could not control it. For human minds we have something similar, but the box isn't totally black; we've done some neuroscience and psychology to figure out the heuristics and biases it tends to use, how it's easily exploited, etc. And then we have neural networks which duplicate the functioning of some subsystems, and of course our own subjective experience which provides at least a little evidence. It's not enough, but it means that, for example, we can write effective propaganda and advertising.

If we didn't just have the results of scattered tests, but had an exhaustive set of docs written by the creator of the black box, it still wouldn't be easy. But we'd have a chance. This is why one of the main strands of AI value alignment research focuses on building an AI that we can understand. If we can build something we can understand, that gives us leverage to alter it to value our interests.

(What "our interests" are, in a well-specified technical sense, is a whole 'nother problem, and one that there's very little progress on.)
I think a compelling argument is the variance in intelligence among humans themselves. A cabal of AIs 2x as intelligent as your average "genius" could be quite formidable were they to decide to act against the favor of humankind.
I say you transfer it to an air-gapped computer, try it and then have it nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Xeon has implied ECC support for as long as Xeons have had integrated memory controllers, which is just a generation or two further back than the first Xeon E3 product line. Before that, ECC support was a function of the northbridge.
Göbekli Tepe was built ~11,500 years ago, and it probably isn't a coincidence that early agriculture was developed in the same area -- about 1,000 years later. The early agriculture reference that you mention concerns the fact that the was abandoned as early agriculture started to take hold:

> Around the beginning of the 8th millennium BCE Göbekli Tepe ("Potbelly Hill") lost its importance. The advent of agriculture and animal husbandry brought new realities to human life in the area, and the "Stone-age zoo" (Schmidt's phrase applied particularly to Layer III, Enclosure D) apparently lost whatever significance it had had for the region's older, foraging communities.

I haven't seen any sources citing evidence for Göbekli Tepe post-dating agriculture, but there are many lines of evidence that it pre-dates it -- such as an absence of cultivated grains, granary structures, or other evidence that one sees as agriculture actually gets going. All the plant remains that have been found are wild varieties. Thus the mainstream assumption is that Göbekli Tepe was built by hunter-gatherers.
OK, thanks for clarifying. Is this enforced client-side in the default client? What other types of validations are performed client-side? Where is the limit on the trace up the chain? You'd have to have a full clone of the blockchain to validate all the way up, or it'd terminate at the oldest block. I assume that even if you're one of the few still running a full chain these days, transactions in the block aren't checked against the coin's entire history. Does it reject/ignore the entire block or just the transactions for which it has a conflicting history?