skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my mid-50s, and I definitely agree that I'm a lot less risk-averse than younger people. (Hell, I still ride a bicycle and roller skate without a helmet haha!) I don't really give a shit if what I say on the internet becomes associated with me, even though I use the standard 90s protocol of using fake names. I know it can be traced by someone, somewhere, in some government agency, and certainly by some asshole like Mark Zuckerberg. So what? I have very little to lose. The people who know me already know what an jerk I can be and yet they still let me come around, and the job I have wouldn't bat an eye since my private opinions have zero effect on their corporate image.

Every generation feels like they're waiting for the next generation to retire. I feel that way about Baby Boomers. (No, I'm not a Baby Boomer. I'm more like Gen X, but that's not quite right either. I'm in between those two, which is why I have feelings of contempt for the people who invent sociological models....but I digress.)

I am at an age where my experience counts for something with some organizations, and is considered a complete liability for other organizations. I have changed fields entirely several times in my life. Some of the skills I have that make me uniquely qualified to do valuable things for big organizations are completely unmarketable to those same organizations because I do not have an appropriate credential they can accept to certify my knowledge and expertise. I have given up on them, too.

My point is that there is always room for younger people to really shake up the dinosaurs, but if you are trying to influence my generation, you'd better be willing to take some risks and really just say it straight. I know that's difficult for people younger than me, and I know that people in my daughter's generation (she's 29) aren't very good at being blunt and usually screw it up when they try, but truth-telling without worrying about political nuance or whatever the hell it is that everyone worries about that keeps them from just saying what they're thinking is very attractive and useful, at least to people my age.

Oh, and don't whine when you're telling the truth. Not many people who are my age like whiners.
WePay is hiring SREs and software engineers
This reads like you think everyone has equal basic intellectual potential.

The scientific consensus is that there is a Gaussian distribution of intelligence, and most intelligence variation is heritable [1]. Aside from the most extreme criminal abuse, people reach their genetic IQ potential regardless of what zip code they're in or whether their parents pay attention to them [2].

So you are correct that you're privileged, but your privilege isn't your social position at birth; it is your genes. That's what made busting your ass pay off more. You could've been born in the same house with 100 IQ and had no chance at joking about being a "brogrammer".

[1] http://differentialclub.wdfiles.com/local--files/definitions...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/21/ssc-journal-club-childh...
I'm in the exact situation as OP. As a result, I'm moving to lower cost area and continue as a remote worker. Shameless plug: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

20% down payment + stamp duty tax is roughly 130k. There is also a nonzero risk of the property bubble. Only Hong Kong is worse in terms of property purchasing power for average salary.

There are serval reasons for high prices:

- Market is heavy regulated.

- UK doesn't have any land and estate tax.

- Developers oligopoly is hoarding the land to keep the prices.

- Foreign investor are using properties as a insurance for rainy days.

- Interest rates are low and inflation is high, so people are pumping money into real estate market.

- Councils cannot build council housing any more.

- Bank of England schemes to buy.

It's an unfortunate situation. Extreme misallocation of capital which is bound to cause problems in the future. Money don't flow to companies and productive investments, hence there is no growth and the wages are stagnant. What is more, it makes it really expensive to start a company.

What's the solution? 1% estate tax with 80% discount if you pay taxes in UK (British Columbia passed a new property tax and it works well for them[1]). For an average person there would be no change - they would pay estate tax instead of council tax directly or indirectly. That would cause 25-30% price drop in London[2]. Why government won't do it? It would piss off a lot of powerful people which own real estate. Significant portion of the population has bought properties to rent and that price drop could make them go bankrupt. This is an unsolvable problem given the extreme divide in British society, since the Brexit vote. There won't be enough political will to pass the laws.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160680
[2] - my estimation given other big cities salary to price ratio.
I think what fortytw2 was trying to say is that the AGPL is not a wise choice for software that wants to gain the most popularity and usage as possible since usage of AGPL licensed software is categorically banned (even more so than GPLV3) by a some of companies.

As an aside, one can certainly describe something as draconic(or whatever else) if one views it as such; it's just an opinion.
The burbs that are connected via major transport links are not cheaper by any means, you get a slightly bigger property but pay the same in taxes.

If you move further out then expect to pay as much as 5000£ per year to commute.
I don't think 2013 article is still relevant today.
>"they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers"

Source?
The author is pretty well-known

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garrett
London is an amazing place to be, but a not great place to live.
Thank you. That's a good point which was not clear at all in my sentence.
I wish I had advice for you but I don't. I just want to relate that it was also extremely hard on me when I had the same realization.
How does it compare to LMDB?
The AGPL for database products isn't unheard of. See also Neo4J.

It makes sense from the host business's point of view. If you are the sole contributor, then you're entitled to do what you like. Moreover, you're also free to charge for commercial licences.

This licencing model wouldn't be appropriate for a community-centric database, such as PostgreSQL. With many contributors to core, no one would be able to arbitrage the situation.
Unfortunately, I got similar advertisements on the Paint.NET site today.

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html
One good thing about India is attitude towards public transportation. One city to another is [easier/cheaper/safer] by train/bus than a car for most people. I wish the Govt invested more on core infrastructure and (1) Add more trains (2) introduce high-speed routes (3) Fix the IRCTC system so that people can reliably book tickets. More cars /1000 people is not a model that would work for highly dense and populous nation like India. There is simply no space for US like Inter-state roads in Indian cities. Plus, it is easier on the environment to invest in public infrastructure than adding more cars.

Growing up in India, I have always thought about a car when I three or four people need to go somewhere. If not, thought starts with motorcycle. I wish more cities in the US were motor-cycle friendly.
How does 'Patient A' get wcry2? Phishing? Via internet facing open 445/3389?
My greatest issue with Pinketty's work is that he fails to address the fact that compound growth is not commutative (meaning that it is always better to concentrate higher growth rates earlier on, and then benefit from then comparatively ”coast along” at lower growth rates thereafter). This means that average returns is quite senseless as a topic: one needs to take into account the temporal distribution thereof.
Live mockups here (found via a link in Bugzilla; I don't know how accurate they are, but S[tephen] Horlander is a Mozilla designer): https://people-mozilla.org/~shorlander/projects/photon/Mocku...
> Explaining the rules of professional interaction is not an act of condescension; it’s the first step in treating students like adults.

If you have to spend several paragraphs explaining how something isn't an act of condescension, you may have just spent several paragraphs apologizing for committing acts of condescension.

I suppose this article makes me crabby because it's written solely with the needs/wants of the professor in mind. The author initially wanted to be the "cool" teacher. It's a teacher's "job to correct sloppy prose". Formality helps defend the university's values "at a time when they are under continual assault." A professor has to "establish that I belong here" because "I'm the first and only black teacher they've every had."

How about the students? What's the most effective way to get them collaborating with each other and thinking critically about the material to which you've introduced them? Especially given that lectures have been shown to be one of the least effective means of teaching?

You do remember the students, right? Those people taking on burdensome debt in a desperate hope to gain permanent employment long after taking your class? I'd say if "cutie_pie_98@hotmail.com" finds it worthwhile to send you a question over email, you should put in the maximum possible effort your professorial brain can muster to write helpful and meaningful response. If you really think that response starts with, "it's time to retire that address," at least consider that your priorities are so out of whack that it may be time to for u to retire ur address.
It's still relevant. I took this screenshot a few seconds ago: https://i.imgur.com/6LoQ3TW.png
> AI has made tremendous progress in just the last few years. There are very few jobs that can't be automated with technology that already exists.

I'm tired of hearing this argument again and again. It amounts to saying this...

> I did a thought experiment and in that experiment is was theoretically possible to replace humans with AI in any job. Therefore we're all fired!

This is not far from saying in a Universe containing 100 billion galaxies there are probably aliens out there willing to work for less than the minimum wage, just dying to make us all redundant! It's also theoretically possible.

But just because something is theoretically possible, doesn't mean it will actually happen. Most jobs won't get replaced with AI because humans will remain the better economic option.

The automotive industry is an exception for economic not technology reasons. There are a small number of car makers making enormous revenue selling cars that are vastly under utilised. Grabbing a share of the revenue by disrupting that industry with self-driving cars makes economic sense; the massive investment required to develop (and maintain!) self driving cars.
The design looks great - I look forward to other improvements to follow suit (performance, plugin architecture, security, etc).
>Many have even started delaying longer since MS patches of late have been causing more problems for people breaking Office

It's not just Office that's an issue, it's Windows Update itself. In late 2016 both a Vista and a Windows 7 machine stopped updating. The windows update service on both just hung at 100% cpu time, not updating anything. I didn't actually realise for a few months. Apparently it's a common problem, and the only solution is to manually download and install all the updates. Even after doing that, the problem kept occurring.

I've now upgraded everything to windows 10, and so far no problems.
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I agree, I was being a little blunt, but it's not necessarily as complicated as people make it out to be. The best branch predictor is once again the perceptron, and it beats current Intel chips on benchmarks. (I would hazard a, guess that Intel uses something like the tage predictor)
> i'm not a fan of the wasted space around the centered but not-wide-enough url bar (urls are truncated even in the screenshots)

Somewhere previously I saw a mockup screenshot that showed customizing the toolbar, and the URL bar was flanked by flexible placeholders that could be removed. Removing them would also let you have the URL bar be left-aligned instead of centered.
That's like $2000/month for 7 years.

In cases like this, I would expect that $300K to drop later, or to be renegotiated at some point.
Who is doing this knowing fully well that GHCQ , FBI and possibly even the NSA are hard at work trying to get them ?

These people are going down . No doubt about it.
From what I gather, it tends to be one person in an organisation opening a dodgy attachment, then it spreads through the internal network via unpatched SMB flaw.
Do you want 3 letter agencies having more ways to get access to private networks?

Right now looking at how the election scandals went they are there at prosecution and have access that they are given willingly.
From what I've read, initial attack vector is still not known for sure. Spear phishing seems to be the current best hypothesis. I don't think anyone's seen a mass phishing campaign.

See: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/an-nsa-derived-rans...
We've asked you before to stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN. (That includes unsubstantive curmudgeonly rants). If you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban your account.
This is part of that.

The old UI required an antiquated, single-threaded, XML based widget system.

The new UI is a clean rewrite, which allows them to drop all that old, slow code from Firefox.
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I was looking for a list of those 26 indicators and found this article:

https://lunghu.wordpress.com/tag/yuri-trotov/
Sounds fascinating. Will it be cross-platform? (in other words: will you support Linux?)
Right, I am curious if you can still access content in your home country via VPN from overseas?
Badger is designed to store data on disk (like RocksDB or LevelDB), while Redis is an in-memory storage which can't store data sets larger than memory.
Yes, performance, stability, and security are the primary goals of the quantum initiative. I suppose they figure that such a disruptive change might as well warrant a new UI while they're at it.
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Tangentially-related silly trivia: in cryptocurrency circles, a 'hodlr' is someone who is committed to a long position. I.e. who is 'holds' the cryptocurrency with the idea that in the long (perhaps very long) term it will be more valuable. The term comes from a misspelling of 'hold' by a drunk poster to bitcointalk [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2b8t78/whats_hodl/
A friend sent me a proof of the Twin Prime conjecture. So why haven’t I read it?
It would be easy to fix. Current spending on residency programs is something like 10 or 15 billion dollars. With more than 3 trillion dollars in healthcare spending, a 10 billion dollar experiment aimed at lowering costs is cheap.

(and of course it isn't necessary to immediately double the number of slots in order to soak up the extra MDs)
redis is not an embedded database, while rocksdb/boltdb/badger are.
It's helped me immensely to move from a moralistic "I'm procrastinating because I have a weak constitution" belief to an "I'm procrastinating because I set up the environment wrong" mindset.

It turns out that I get more done, run faster, and find both intellectual and physical work much easier when I've taken excellent (rather than merely okay) care of baseline needs like sleep, nutrition, exercise, and household chores.

Willpower as a finite but manageable resource is a much more useful belief than willpower as a character trait.
Ravn: AI for documents
I cannot agree. Real books are great, you can use your fingers as bookmarks. Also its good to have opportunity to make marks in book with pen.

But in all other aspects they suck. Though DRM make things worse, you can break it. I always do it, because DRM is very inconvinient: even if it allows to use different devices, it needs some special software, which I didn't like.
Probably going to send Mr. Kay an email about this, but since it seems he's lurking about in these comments too:

You mention Outlook being "Gold", while IQ is lead. Outlook seems to be something we can improve, both on a collective level, and also on an individual level. You discuss a lot how to use this Outlook to invent the future, but how can we develop our Outlook at more of a meta-level? If we want to be the people capable of looking 50 years into the future and then bringing our insights back to the present, how can we develop this skill?

I suspect the answer has something to do with reading good books and learning from people who already have great outlooks.
Unfortunately not for v1 but linux support its high priority going forward.
Nothing has changed though. You still get these kinds of ads pretty much every time you visit the site. It doesn't matter that the article is from 2013 when the problem it describes still exists. That it has existed this long, despite people pointing it out, just makes it even worse.
How to write a 21st century proof by Leslie Lamport [pdf]
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considering the words "publicly traded company", no. more like a bank loan or intermediate term corporate bond.
Where's the search bar? I use that more than the URL bar, doesn't mean I don't want a URL bar too. Classic Theme Restorer will stop working when Mozilla goes web extensions only, and now this?
I imagine most doctors would be just fine as doctors if they graduated from high school at age 16 and also skipped 1 year (maybe 2) of undergrad.

A great way to spend more money on education would be to target lowering high school graduation age to 17, with at least a year of training oriented education for students that weren't interested in an academic track and a faster academic track for students that did want it. The idea that everybody gets value out of Algebra II is pretty confused and at my Big 10 university, I often knew more history on days I hadn't done the reading than most of the people in my discussion class (that is, our "well prepared" high school students aren't coming out of high school well rounded anyway, lets drop the pretense).
Which is entirely correct... on short time scales. You don't run a marathon cold, and you don't think someone is morally weak for failing to run a marathon cold. You train. You build capacity over time. You moderate your progress using rest days to mitigate the risk of an injury that knocks you out of the game entirely for months.

If anything, ego depletion proposes that intellectual work is more like exercise than we might otherwise think.
Yeah, I know folks who commute in from Bath, Peterborough, etc., and it's on the order of £30k a year for the pass.

And they wonder why the traffic is shit on the westway.
Slang is supposed to exclude those not in your group this seems similar in action.

In a way it's bullying since an agreed upon style is now considered old by some but if everyone is not aware of the change how does everyone communicate respectfully?

It's fundamental communication that both sides understand each other's meaning.
I wonder if they ran an A/B test on customer spending depending on the time it takes from "uploading" an ad to the network and the ad showing positive metrics. My guess is the result of such a finding would impact the duration and thoroughness of the review process.

And my guess is youtubers make up such a small slice of revenue that the threat of lawsuits outweighs the convenience of the customer.
Good eye. It does say "GOVT EXPER with OSS" (emphasis on 'with') rather than "XYZ of OSS", implying some sort of external role – such as helping establish chain of command in the early days, or some other bureaucratic help. A glance at the register itself shows that most OSS involvement is cited with the "of" convention: https://archive.org/stream/biographicregist1950unit/biograph... (BR, 1950 edition)
Eliza as SaaS?
Thank you. We switched to that from https://www.wsj.com/articles/robots-arent-destroying-enough-....

We also changed the title to the subtitle, which is less baity. The text itself is pretty substantive.
Shameless plug: looking specifically at the Dissemination Phase part, I can't help but thinking he would love Code Ocean (https://codeocean.com). It addresses each of his points:

- distribute software (execute with a single click)

- reproduce results (published code & data - yours and others' - is archived with its environment)

- collaborate with colleagues (built-in to the system)

(Disclaimer: I work at Code Ocean. We're in beta.)
Yeah I did. Console-based (tty) video feels snappy and devoid of lag, but X.org feels a bit sluggish, still.

I've tried Windows XP etc on VBOX with the guest addition and it feels soo much snappier ;(
You're ignoring that:
-having parents at home, or not working two jobs to make ends meet is linked to wealth
-having parents with good education has a significant impact on how much they can help children
-having parents with wealth means children get a better environment and are more susceptible to focus on work
-...

(Also you're denying the overwhelming evidence of stats and science on this matter)
Photon is significantly less like Chrome than Australis.
Non-geek computing 2017: Apple uber alles
Nowadays it's easier to tell – if they work for gov and aren't active on Twitter, they're hiding something
Two researchers said they found a variant with a kill switch.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/round-two-wannacr...
Unless it was the FSB. Then its 'aw shucks the russian hackers did it again'.
Navya: autonomous, driverless and electric
> Ever been to Williams Sonoma?

No, wrong country. I have been to John Lewis [1] many times; their duvets can be expensive too. The thing with the weighted blanket is you'll need one of these duvets as well - or other blankets - for much of the year. It's an extra.

1. https://www.johnlewis.com
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I think you vastly overstate this. While I can't speak to GHCQ, I really don't think NSA has a charter to pursue justice. The FBI may be, but I'm just not convinced they will move quick enough to matter (they do move, but only against a large established organization).
I'm moving to Krakow.
This is pretty common whenever there is a Bitcoin theft people sent small amounts of Bitcoin to the suspected theft address. I believe they do it as a means to tracking what happens to the stolen funds. It keeps them from having to keep track of every address instead they just send a small amount of BTC to it and then they just need to remember their wallet address in the future to track to all the addresses they "marked".
I definitely think that current DAWs are terrible at the composition stage of things, but I wouldn't really want to give up the ease of arrangement / sound design / mixing that they provide. Something that could be used for composition that fed MIDI into my existing DAW would be great.
Open Gaming in the Metaverse
Try Brave to get a taste of what browsing used to feel like. Just ridiculously fast. It's so fast it "feels" fake, hard to explain. Try it.