skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jamaica LIRR station, right?
> "Morally good" is dependent on perspective.

Yes, and? A computer stuck in a loop also is working perfectly fine "according to its own logic or perspective". That is its perspective, just like the moral judgement of others is their perspective. This does not lessen my own perspective and judgement one iota, and changing adjectives doesn't really help. That is, I wouldn't have said "morally good ones", I would have said people who weren't abused to created an bottomless hole in their mind. But what is abuse? What is a hole? A matter of perspective, and it's not like I can point to any results of my own ideals and actions other than the heat death of the universe... so who's to judge? I am, and you are, and then we simply append "IMO" to everything when someone forgets to explicitly mention it.

Also, yes, sometimes people are thinking they are helping others. Sometimes they are not, and sometimes they revel in that. Are you sure those don't exist? Why do you just mention people who mean well? That's fantasy, not nuance. Where are the lines between those people, and people who hear voices telling them they need to murder babies to avoid some space monster from eating Earth, and from people who know they are hurting and destroying people, but are convinced they deserve it, who have an inner reservoir of fear and pain that, in their mind, dwarves the lives of anybody else who ever existed? And even all that is not even beginning to touch nuance.

When someone implies everybody would be tempted by power, that's lacking nuance, too, and even just going "nah, I personally disagree" does restore some of it, any further qualifiers are a bonus. I agree that "this is evil" does not carry very much information, but neither does "some might mean well". Not well enough to stop the ones who don't mean well, so let those take a number. It takes one bad apple, and a lot of good apples who don't have hands or suck at throwing, to spoil the whole damn barrel.
> I'm also thinking long-long term. Terrorism isn't a seriously considerable risk to an individual American, but what about in 50 or 100 years? What if in the distant future, terrorist groups or weird death cults like Aum Shinrikyo are able to more easily develop or obtain biological or chemical weapons that can dissipate into a large urban area quickly?

All the more reason to stop with band-aid solutions like spying on the entire world, and engage in real efforts to bring education, infrastructure, and stability to the regions most prone to creating terrorists.

The NSA is part of a broader picture of US military and intelligence agencies that involves selling arms without oversight, overthrowing democratically elected governments, funding rebel groups that later become terrorists, congressionally unauthorized military action, a network of unscrupulous military contractors like Blackwater and Dyncorp, relationships with brutal regimes like Saudi Arabia, and political fear-mongering and propaganda in the US and abroad to afford a thin veil of legitimacy to these activities.

You are scared of terrorism, and so is the other side. As one small example of many, did you know that during the "Shock and Awe" phase of the US invasion of Iraq, the Oxford Research Group estimates there were over 6,000 civilian deaths? [1] That's more than on 9/11 itself, and the implication of terrorism is literally in the name "Shock and Awe" as well as in the stated definition of this military doctrine:

"Rapid Dominance would seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary’s perceptions and understanding of events so that the enemy would be incapable of resistance at tactical and strategic levels" [2]

[1] https://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/reference/pdf/a_dossi...

[2] http://www.dodccrp.org/files/Ullman_Shock.pdf
Linode seems to provide pretty much exact same plans, but their control panel is a bit too geeky (you need a few extra steps to launch a OS because launching an instance means powering on an empty machine without a disk), touching Vultr control panel feels pretty easy.

I just hope they both get block storage deployed on all their regions.
Maybe Charlie Sheen would fund it?
No it is not hacking.

By explicit I mean BinarySearch(Table, x = name) rather than "SELECT * FROM Table WHERE x = name"

Let me explain to you why "explicit" is better... Why should "SELECT column_name1, column_name2 FROM table" be more efficient than "SELECT * FROM table"? The abstraction is so leaky that in order to make a query better you resort to a language hack that only makes sense when you understand the instructions SQL compiles down into. This is bad. Leaky abstractions are bad. I shouldn't have to know what the SQL query is doing to optimize....

In web development your application servers use languages like go or python that are closer to the metal which allow us to explicitly deploy certain algorithms without this strange layer of SQL expressions that compiles to imperative code. This leads to faster applications that are easier to optimize at the expense of using terse highly abstract expressions such as those found in SQL.

Here's the strange part of web development. Everyone knows that the bottleneck for most websites are in the database. Yet why do we deploy easily optimizable imperative languages in the application server while putting a highly inefficient SQL expression language over the main bottleneck (the database)?

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't we have Web application servers written in highly abstract functional languages while Database languages written in easily optimizable imperative code that is closer to the metal?
Beta testers for my App
It's not that hard.

Hiring managers / hiring committees for technical positions at the big-5 are made up of peer engineers and managers (not recruiters or executives). So they hire the best person for the job because they're likely to be working alongside.

I haven't come across situations where there are direct diversity incentives at the point where the hiring decision is made. Sure, there's probably indirect incentives, but I don't think they're as strong as your suggesting.
I'm surprised Facebook hasn't absorbed / internalized WhatsApp's SMS requirements.
You've failed to account for the inevitability that general AI itself will be extremely interested in modeling human cognition.
I can't speak for your iPhone or the wifi software version on it, but the problem is kind of tough --- your phone would want to generally avoid hopping around different networks if it can get a decent connection from one, and it's not so clear-cut when you make that decision to check for other networks.

(I agree you make it seem pretty clear though, either it is silly or there are more details to be learned...)
Miranda: A non-strict functional language with polymorphic types (1985) [pdf]
> Surely the fact that skills are equal within levels yet more men get promoted is a problem?

Not really. If skill levels are equal within levels, it would indicate that the proper people are getting promoted, regardless of gender.
It really was a great way to run their economy.
To be honest, while Japan's achievement is impressive, Western Europe enjoys the same level of revitalization thanks to pretty much the same reasons, which I see as an indicator that Japan's success is not that special during the post-war era. The communist takeover of mainland China and the Korean War all drives US's decision to make Japan its influence hub in Asia and pouring tons of money/tech/resources into it. In that sense Japan's success also attributes to a lot of external factors that need to be inspected under historical context.
I'd take the declarative nature of this over the drag'n'drop of VB and CR any day.
I disabled it for this exact reason.
On the other hand, if it were not this aggressive it would probably not be useful.
Hi responding to my own comment, it has been some time since I took that course, and reading multiple articles about Learning has muddled my thoughts on what I had learnt and where.

So I went back to refresh my memory about the course 'Learning How to Learn' and realized there is more value to it than what other articles normally outline. I am linking to a few course notes to give anyone who reads this a better understanding of what you will gain from it.

https://github.com/Espores/Learning-how-to-learn-Coursera-No...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/5950tm/text_i...
I would love to live in a world where what things did mattered much more than what they were called. A rose by another name does smell as sweet.
It is amazing to watch Wright's Law in action as volumes grow to saturation, pulling down the price, to drive saturation. It will be interesting to see if batteries are like processing with self-generating demand, or if it is like prior industrial technologies that seem to hit ceiling based on some sort of inherent demand limit. It is hard to imagine wanting 3 electric cars...
> My small village fish market offers at least 20 varieties of fish in India's coastal region. A proper fish market would offer at least 100.

Which state did you grow up in if you don't mind me asking ?
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I enjoy those beats, and the visualization is pretty good...but is it really that much beyond MilkDrop [1]? I haven't exactly kept up with the visualization scene, but I've never come across anything that is nearly as good as MilkDrop, which is still amazing more than 15 years later. We should be able to do much better, but maybe that has fallen out of popularity with the rise of phones and streaming services.

Would love to be pointed towards anything new and at least as good as MilkDrop!

Note: you don't need the retired Winamp player, as e.g. foobar2000 [2] with the shpeck plugin [3] runs MilkDrop perfectly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop

[2] https://www.foobar2000.org/

[3] https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_shpeck
It is tools like this that make Linux a viable replacement for Windows for desktop use for me. I love running all apps through ZoneAlarm on Windows and this looks like it would be a fine substitute.
Anyone who doubts this should go test drive a Tesla.

Smooth, controllable, quiet, but surprisingly-strong acceleration, coupled with the fact that you never have to go to the gas station, make an EV with >200 miles of range a better driving experience than a gas/diesel vehicle, regardless of eco-benefit.

A corollary of this is that residential solar will also become much more attractive. An EV adds maybe $50 per month to your electricity bill; that additional demand makes the math for a solar installation really obvious (particularly with net metering).
I've found myself in all three situations: where performance didn't matter much and something like JSON or XML was fine, where performance mattered and a binary format was an obvious win, and one situation where serialized data needed to be as compact as possible and I could only achieve that by hand coding.

To me, formats like JSON or XML have one clear advantage: debugging is easier. I can fire up a decoder for a binary format, but that slows down the investigation.

That said, most binary formats have a schema file due to necessity of not serializing field names. That schema file makes it easy to have tools that spit out language bindings. And that reduces the tedium of actually writing code that uses (and validates) the data, so I generally prefer those formats for that reason.
Why are poor reviews not enough to combat this? (in the long term)
You should have taken the private express bus, and instead you complain about your poor choice? Eh?
> That + the fact that it was tied to your phone number was in my opinion genius.

This is an important aspect. Having accounts and contacts based on phone numbers allowed my mother and her friends to use the service in no time - those are the kind of people that don't know their own email address (if they have one at all) and would never register for an account on their own. Phone numbers, however, is the system they already knew since using SMS.
The paper says "Runtime" is 1-2 ms. I'm under the impression that this is before any compression, as well.
You are missing the point. I said "educated young people... move to world class cities". These world class cities are also expensive. You pay a lot to live in New York, Los Angeles or London. Unfortunately, this lack of affordable housing pushes out all but the highest paid workers. There is some social housing and other benefits to help the very poor. Everyone in the middle gets squeezed out of the big cities, especially when they marry and/or have kids and need more space. So, a lot more people would like to live in San Francisco for example than can currently afford it. This is why less well educated young people are moving to the newest suburbs. It's what they can afford. These new suburbs often have the fewest and lowest paying employment opportunities so it's a long term drain on the economy and future growth.
What's the ratio male/female antagonists in Hollywood movies?
This is great. It's like a mouse only stationary and with lots of keys that you can press instead of clicking. And you can program the keys to do whatever you want! Wow!
> Other than D.E. Shaw

That guy is hella badass. Shunned by your academic department? Fuck it, go make billions and use that money to fund the development of custom hardware to run high powered geometric integrators on biological systems.
I grew up in the south, and it really hasn't changed.
> It is hard to imagine wanting 3 electric cars

It's no more difficult than wanting 3 internal combustion engine cars - one for husband, one for wife, one for driving age children.
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It's also the stupidest second-factor you can ask me for: if I ever lose my phone, then I lost my number too.

This is a known probem, and most good 2FA services have solutions. For example, Google offers a small number of "recovery codes" you can store for times when your 2FA device isn't available. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en
It's not a clone. LittleSnitch is more functionally rich. The name is misleading. You can take pcap traces on applications, plot bandwidth usage and more.

Little snitch is closer to GlassWire for Windows [1] then OpenSnitch.

[1] https://www.glasswire.com/

Let's not start calling every application firewall a clone.
It's not just the Chinese though. In Seattle, Rising Sun produce in Ravenna is often better than say Uwajimaya and other stores down in Chinatown.

That said, I found Chinatown to be the most interesting neighbourhood in Seattle :P
There's that right. But not all stories are about the corporate world or something like that. A lot of stories are about relationships or Adventures or fictional stories completely. In The stories of our lives, representation is mixed and balanced. So I don't think on-screen world does represent the real world... outside of extending say, inequality present in the corporate world, through narrative, to other Realms where it is not present or not as present. So I think that's a form of bias creation and misrepresentation that doesn't work to promote equality... Or reality.

Secondly, movies are fictional worlds so they can represent whatever their creators choose them to represent. They could be representing more equally. They're not.

To me the misrepresentation of reality and the bias representation of the fictional world in Hollywood movies is a really clear example of sexism.

Just one example and I'm a huge sci-fi fan of the Alien series and Prometheus series. But I was shocked that in the trailer for the new Prometheus movie not only is pretty much everybody white but pretty much everyone he's a man. And I'm like come on it's the future surely the creators can imagine that things are going to be more equal.
Maybe some accessibility hardware? Or for one press, repurpose a U2F key? I think Yubico has cheap ones branded with sites like Github.
Maybe Hollywood knows women are less likely to lose their time watching lots of blockbusters?
Ask HN: Which social network(s) are the main focus of your business right now?
What tools do you use to grow in them? Is it worth the effort?
You really shouldn't be buying plant seeds off the internet. Invasive species is a big problem, and even if you buy legit oregano (or whatever) seeds, there's a high risk that a couple of the seeds are really something else that's not native to your region.
Sexism, racism and bullying are driving people out of tech, study finds
The vast majority of people in SV don't make 500k. 200-300 puts you in the upper middle even in tech.
It might be. But the sexism is economically based by consumer choices. But I just feel, " sorry that's not good enough, Hollywood, Can not you be doing something better?" I mean I they spend lots of money to promote particular narratives, values and ideas. Hollywood is based on the idea that you can persuade the population of something and promote certain values. So what I'm wondering is why doesn't Hollywood when it has the free choice to do so promote certain values to sway the population and promote equality.
The important thing to take away from that experience is that the detractors were all correct, as far as any extrapolation of then current technology into the future could take them.

I've experienced that cycle several times where I thought "oh this will be big in 10-20 years" and had people say "No, reason x, y, and z all mean it won't happen." and then some discovery or change in the situation made x, y, and z irrelevant.

As a result I've trained my self to look at it "in reverse" as it were, which is to say "currently x, y, and z makes it impossible, what would have to change to make x, y, and z irrelevant?" and then look for changes in the margins. Things like "making oil from corn" is impractical when oil is $35 a barrel but quite reasonable when oil is $150 a barrel. Or 'cracking hydrogen and oxygen' with electrolysis takes more energy than you get back, so how can you exploit 'wasted' energy like sunlight to help it along? etc.

The important thing is to avoid trapping yourself into believing nothing will change that isn't already known. People I've met seem to do this all the time.
Connection requests shouldn't be a performance issue on a standard desktop.
Right, but there are multiple accounts of this floating around the web, many contradicting each other, and none that I've found that can explain what sets the actual timescale.
I've seen how clinical trials take place here in India and yes, it's not always pretty. There are plenty of people who mean well and do good work, but the pressure to reduce cost invariably leads to shortcuts.
The winner in this may turn out to be GM. Chevy Volt sales are doing well, and Chevy Bolt sales are starting to climb.[1] Some months, GM outsells Tesla in electrics.

[1] http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
If you want your token to be used as money, the only relevant metric is liquidity: how many USD/EUR/etc. are deposited into exchanges, bidding on/selling for the token in question right now?

To prove my point, imagine I have created a crypto currency with 2^128 currency units, and I sell you one currency unit for a thousandth of a cent. Result: my crypto currency is now the "biggest" in the world, with a market cap of ~10^35 USD.
I didn't see exact numbers or returns for MBPs. Satisfaction is another thing. If alternatives are worse, a purchase is not necessarily from a satisfied customer.
The switch blade is pretty cool. They "The Switchblade remains to this day a mysterious concept" ... Any speculation on why?
Yes, this article feels naive. I suspect much of the cost savings is due to bypassing various regulations.
I performed a reasonably rigorous experiment for my AP statistics class in high school - I tested a ton of different sodas and their diet equivalents across my classmates, and of the 8 sodas tested almost all had a statistically significant bias in favor of the non-diet version. For coca cola, I also tested the non-caffeinated versions - the non caffeinated regular Coke was the top performer.

The only exception to this was diet SunKist - it handily beat regular SunKist, by a large margin.
Saw one today. Also concerned about the fabric material fraying at the edges. Doesn't seem easy to replace.
Or alternatively BetterTouchTool, which additionally allows Touch Bar customization if you have a tMBP. https://www.boastr.net/
Was just re-reading this paper [0], where they discuss how they "addressed some familiar limitations of the FRP model" in a research language called KScript. The defining constraint of the STEPS project was to make an entire personal computing system in 20,000 lines.

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2013002_KSonward.pdf
Maybe if they were required to mention categorical suppliers it would further inform consumers
Correlation!=causation.
If technology gets good enough batteries become attractive for a wide variety of engines that currently require either electric cords or fossil fuels. Think drones, bicycles, lawn appliances, vacuum cleaners, home UPS, solar energy storage, automated greenhouses, etc. It also could have knock-on effects on the type of powered appliances possible, eg. perhaps you'd want your toaster & cabinet to be mobile so you could have breakfast in bed, but this is impractical with electric cords. I wouldn't worry too much about demand for batteries.
Every poor review represents a failure and an unhappy customer. You want to stop that before it happens.
those quests aren't fun

Have a look on your favourite app store for "idle games". They're literally games where you just tap the screen for hours at a time. "AdVenture Capitalist" is a good example. What some people think is fun is weird, but you can't really say they're not enjoying it.
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This is a very confusing and eerie post. It sets off "scammer" red flags as well.

The account is 303 days old, and this its only post.
great to hear, thanks!
Probably because two thousand plus years ago the area that is now called Guangdong, and the area that is now Vietnam, was inhabited by the same people; And then the Guangdong area was conquered by China. The people who lived in Guangdong inter-married with the Chinese migrating south and also had a lot of influence on Cantonese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southward_expansion_of_the_Han...

Vietnam is "Yue-nam" in Chinese, and Cantonese is "Yue-yu" in Chinese, whose literal meaning is "Language of Yue".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiyue
i personally prefer http://www.soundice.com . This is way better than echoesplayer and also considerably better than youtube for me.
Conservative? Isn't "Socialist" right there in the name, i.e. "Nationalsozialist"?
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No need to mine it. Just buy in bulk at $1 and hold.
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