skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of an old parable:

There's a big manufacturing plant in town that's been around for decades. One day, a new company comes in and buys them out. The new managers look at the books, and say "Wow! Look at these crazy labor costs! There are way too many senior people here. Let's replace them with new guys, and we'll save a bundle."

So, they do that, and save a lot in labor costs.

After the first year, though, they run into a problem. The plant isn't working like it should. Output is down, and everyone's running around with their hair on fire, trying to figure out what the heck is wrong.

After two days of this, someone finally gets a bright idea: "Hey, why don't we bring in one of those old guys that we laid off?" So, they hunt down the most experienced guy they could find, and bring him in to take a look.

He shows up, and starts walking around the plant. He slowly walks up and down the whole plant, with a gaggle of concerned managers following his every move. Finally, he stops at a pipe at the back of the plant, and pulls out a hammer.

He lifts the hammer up, and whacks one joint really hard. Suddenly, the plant starts working again, and everyone is rejoicing.

The CEO is smiling, and pats the old-timer on the back, and tells him to send a bill for his work.

Well, the next day, the bill shows up. $10,000.
"What!" he exclaims, pounding his desk.
"Send me an itemized bill!"

The day after after that, a new bill arrives:

Hitting pipe with hammer: $5
Knowing which pipe to hit: $9,995
a link to a 500 error, way to trash up the ycombinator feed.
Not only that, but Drew Houston waded in. History 3,596 days later.
According to Wikipedia Pet Sounds was released in 1966 and Sgt Peppers in 1967.

Not only that that but McCartney and Wilson both know that they were influences on each other.
Is a pion a very small peon? :p
Donald Trump, Our A.I. President
The First Japanese Airline Company to Accept Bitcoin
I agree when you say that arbitrarily kicking the top x% is bad, but the discussion of shifting the distribution is a red herring. It's trivial to compensate and use only the un-shifted distribution to make these decisions. It's bad for completely different reasons.
TLDR: because the law says he has to announce some stock changes in a print paper. Lol, how vintage is that law.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=287767

anamax 3190 days ago | on: So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the serv...

If they don't have the money to pay you, you're not an employee, you're a founder and you get the same deal that they get.

If they balk, suggest that they find another code monkey while you find another biz monkey and let the market decide who ends up with the bananas.
Im also sick of you - where you is the horde of people who post endlessly about how sad they are. I've been hearing the same story about social media since probably 2008.
"JavaScript Delenda Est", by zeveb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851

Excerpt: JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, where there are so many better alternatives (to a first approximation, every other programming language ever used), is utterly appalling.
If it disappears sea level would rise significantly. Therefore we would disappear because most of our civilization would be effected that lives around sea level.
See also "Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developers Right Now?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949489) from two months ago
The "newspaper publication" requirement for legal notices has become a lifeline for small papers. They have a lobby trying to keep it from going away.[1] Of course, nobody reads those things; they look up the info online.

[1] https://apnews.com/7c871e1cae4f481db7ca1326a729a38c/fight-ag...
Container isolation gone wrong: a troubleshooting story
Never heard of it til now. After a quick skim, seems like the basics are in place.

In a world of many competing, stable cryptoprotocols I suspect the biggest pieces of the pie go to communities that are good at fixing problems in incentive balance. It becomes a human challenge more than a technical one. Who are your stakeholders, what are the incentives underlying their supply chain, and is there a better v2 we can design?

If Tezos or any other community shows a culture of doing that I think it's a good investment. Maybe not 2013 Bitcoin good, but a solid growth investment.

Ethereum has the benefit of being first mover, so they will automatically attract some good incentive balancers. And Vitalik has proven he's pretty good at it, having g successfully launched and attracted cash.
Where do you put a notice that will be reliably available 20-30 years from now?
GPU vendors presumably should have game titles that are co-promoted so a prospective customer would know that a) they'll want a good GPU for game/title and b) if they buy this GPU they can expect baseline usability for a that game or game-equivalents.

Why else does someone buy a GPU? Given the niche market, the generic consumer positioning may not make as much sense.
I honestly don't think we pay enough attention to the rising cost of living. Cost of living should go down year over year due to productivity gains, but we see at least three line items becoming more expensive over time: (1) housing, (2) healthcare, and (3) higher education.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/17/highlights-from-the-co...

https://howmuch.net/articles/american-spending-past-75-years
4-6 hours is still half to two-thirds of a business day. If I'm actively employed, I have to schedule a vacation day for that or lose precious work/life balance time. Even if I'm not actively employed at the time, I know the ancient wisdom is to spend your job search as if it were a full time job, but that isn't advice meant to mandate individual candidate employers independently force you into an unpaid, overworked internship of an endless stream of variations of building useless applications.
What do you use ? I found out that svc trained with proper data leads to satisfying perf for predicting the four first horses (in disorder though)
Well the US house and senate are some what unreformed 18th century institutions one senator /congress man commented that the house of lords was more democratic - the is pre removal of most of the hereditary pears.
You read my mind. I was just reading about social media and identity here: [1]. A very interesting read.

[1] - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
That's exactly what I'd love from any company. Funny I just got an anker car usb adapter and

1) the packaging was cute, very apple-ish in sensory pleasing, the product is cute and solid, below it there's
a tiny card with Happy ? on one side, Not Happy ? on the other ... it was very engaging.

2) there's a fitting issue in my car, the positive electrode doesn't connect with the socket until I put 10kg of pressure on it. Maybe I should make a review.. (I don't even need a replacement, just a tip on how to fix the issue)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4540459

This one from 'How To Die With No Regrets'
The optimal number of engineers sharing an office is closer to 2 than 8.

You might be able to convince me that it's e 2.71828...
I'm sad to hear that
I read in the Economist a while back that some historians speculate that the constant format changes of Information Age media could mean that historians of the 22nd century would have more primary and secondary source material from the early 20th century than the early 21st.
"Competitiveness" means nothing when only a fraction of the population prosper from those gains. On paper, America is significantly richer than it was in the 80's, yet incomes for the majority have been flat, social mobility has decreased, worker leverage has nearly disappeared, and quality of life for those outside of the coastal regions has gone down.

There's no reason to push for exponential growth any further until we can correct income and wealth inequality a bit.
Eliminating Flakiness in Selenium Tests
its == possessive form of pronoun "it"
it's == contraction of "it is" or (rarely) "it has"
> Like it or not there is a social stigma around NOT having a FB account.

Yes of course there is. Please do not take it personal, but the problem described in the article still exists, even if most people don't care. In Germany in the last century, most people cheered for a mass-murdering psychopath. Those who did not cheer, were surely stigmatised - right up to annihilation. Did this invalidate the stigmatised standpoint? On the contrary.
In principle absolutely, full disclosure realistically I honestly don't see myself being able to spend time on it between everything else. Love to chat further about it if you are interested or had something specific in mind that you would like to discuss. In that case let me know the best way to contact you.
Not GP, but I'm related to an RN, so I know a little bit about the sorts of things that nurses say about doctors when they're not around.

Basically as bad as our power dynamic is, the esteem doctors hold for themselves and the disregard they have for RNs as people who couldn't finish their medical training is well known if not widely broadcast.

When you walk around acting like your organization could function without any of the people who do all of the work, there are gonna be problems. But at least for us those problems mostly don't include people dying.
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This comment seems to be an exact copy of the last 2 lines of this comment --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395046

Why?
New York, don't fall into this scam trap. You don't need to publish unless you want your LLC to sue or defend itself in a suit. If you're bootstrapping, don't waste money publishing, you can always publish before suing or defending
It's a long and complicated document, but from a quick scan it seems that most of the subsidies listed are directed towards either renewable energies and alternative fuels (ethanol, alcohol) or the distribution grid, so proportionally equal for all sources.
The best answer I've had wouldn't work without a big change in politics: we could use a ton of home health aides and other support for aging Boomers, not to mention classroom assistants (one of the best ways to boost academic performance) or daycare workers.

Spending on directly helping people seems like a very humane way to deal with shifts in employment but I don't see us choosing to invest that kind of money, not to mention the problem with attitudes complicating shifting a heavily-male worker surplus into traditionally female fields.
There's also the premise of global superpowers locked into a theater of permanent economic conflict and the implicit balance of power perpetually threatening to break open and destabilize into massive full-spectrum conflict.

Given the state of nature that exists between large industrialized nations, each in incentivized to foment dysfunction in their rivals to slow them down economically. The more infighting in any given country, the more headaches present among citizens, the slower and more reluctant their economy becomes.

There's a slow, glacial, permanent grind that never goes away, because the world at large is trying to make you call in sick to work, so that they can gain some breathing room, and pump up their own economy.

Meanwhile, uncompetitive personality flaws get classified as mental illness, so that there's medical justification to ply you with productivity drugs. Take prescribed speed to perform for the economy. Take mood stabilizers so you don't snap at your co-workers. Take anti-anxiety meds for your impostor syndrome, and stop worrying about whether everyone hates you. They're all just cranky from the speed and psychological operations of global superpowers trying to slow us down.
Thanks!

Informative diagram:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/09/1620344114/F2.l...
From the branding, I think Aukey is a knockoff of Anker. Which I suppose should be considered a sort of flattery
The point they are trying to prove is that there is no way of knowing what happens in the bathroom. It is theoretically equivalent to secrecy
I loved the HBO animation when I was a kid, and I've seen that behind-the-scenes video a number of times since.

Conceptually I get the idea, but I'm still baffled as to how they composite all that together to get the final polished result, especially the fiber optic spinning lights with "lens flare" effects at the end. It looks completely computer generated.
That's highly unlikely for most places in the world. What is often required is additional screening at or near the gate to enforce US specific rules (for example liquids in carry-ons). But that's usually not US staff and US equipment but rather extra staff enforcing US specific rules (the same way the laptop ban is currently enforced in Dubai for example).
Nobody gets it...

He said you can have privacy without secrets. But suppose there exists a room with a door where you don't know what someone is doing behind it. The activity behind the door is the secret. The door is still representing privacy (not secrecy). That was the point of the analogy.
Romanians and Bulgarians work in an enormously broad range of fields from the most unlettered agricultural work to senior IT developers. Pakistanis run a lot of corner shops where you'd think they could easily learn Catalan, but so few ever do.
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You know that NVidia produce special cards for compute work?
Seriously - it's gotten so bad that I buy those things on eBay of all places. Even though there's counterfeits there too, at least the reviews tend to be better about weeding them out.
Having experience with Node, Rails, Go I would choose Rails for backend and Vue or Backbone (for full control) on the front.
Similarly, I've had a couple of these where my response is a detailed discussion of why the problem given was at least NP-Hard, and here's a good academic paper on the trade-offs of the most popular algorithm, which would take me a good several days to implement correctly (or even better here's this trusted open source implementation of it). To me, that feels like that research was a better use of my 4 hour block of time, but yet I've gotten feedback that I must be a crap programmer if I'm not going to waste 4 hours brute forcing my way to an unsatisfactory answer.

I don't know how some of those companies work, but I'd much rather work smarter than harder and step 1 in the real world, to my judgment, is often "research the problem and see how other people solved it", whether that's via academic algorithm research papers or StackOverflow depends on the type of problem.
Since the advent of containers, a huge amount of freight is shipped by rail, especially from coastal ports to inland hubs.

Trucks are used for shipments to more local warehouses or retail/factory locations that don't have rail access. And no, it's not feasible to build a rail spur to every warehouse or Wal-mart.
No, wages should not be higher. The cost of living should be lower. Productivity increases year over year. It should be much cheaper to have a decent life today than in the 60s. Plenty of people in other countries live a lot better than many Americans on a lot less money per day. We need to ask ourselves why.
https://whattomine.com/

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
Salespeople aren't selling to you or me. They're selling to other companies.
Trucks do disproportionately more damage do the roads than they pay in taxes for fuel, though. You're subsidizing trucking every time you fuel up your passenger vehicle.
You have to do the same thing to get a Fictitious Business Name in California:

"Within 30 days of filing the Fictitious Business Statement, you are required to have the DBA statement published once a week for four (4) successive weeks in a paper of general circulation in the county where the business is operating."

There are services you can pay $30 that will print your statement in some random paper that no one reads to satisfy the requirement. It's a racket for sure.
I've been hearing about gecko feet adhesives since the 80s. I wonder why it's never been commercialized.
I've already had to do this on several occasions of flying into the US before the laptop ban. There were signs at the airport saying that all electronic devices being brought on board had to had sufficient power to be turned on to be checked. I've also seem similar signs at courtrooms in the US for checking cell phones when going through security. It seems like a more sensible approach than banning the entire laptop.
This is exactly the thought that occurred to me, except for New York to Atlanta.

I've looked into taking the train a couple of times and balked each time at the idea of paying the same price for 10-15x the transit time. 40 hours in transit is going to be a non-starter for so many kinds of trips, unless you're specifically doing something like [1] where the transit is the whole point of the trip.

[1]: http://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/trains/roc...
Oh, sure, but again the CO, NOx, SOx and most of the unburnt hydrocarbons in gasoline-fueled vehicle exhaust are not particles (they're gasses) and are not removed to any significant degree by a HEPA filter.

In the US, diesel cars are rare, and I would guess that the non-diesel cars in the US produce very little in the way of particulate pollution. Am I wrong about that?
> I use facebook

> I am sensitive to privacy and secrecy.

I do not want to be rude, but unfortunately those options are mutual exclusive.
I'd subscribe to this in a heartbeat!
It requires uploading where you are. And it requires uploading the voice for processing if you want it to distinguish "what's the weather today" from "tonight", "tomorrow", "this weekend at <place X>", or "back at home".
Indeed. Thanks for the correction!

As an aside, using indentation as you did makes the text difficult to read, particularly on mobile, due to the side-scrolling it necessitates.
checkout letzcode.com, it uses scheme...meant to be a social way to introduce students to programming.
> Let's define socialism as the collective control and ownership of the means of production and their profits

> I care deeply about individual freedom and not having some collective telling me how I should live my life

Indeed, you're critiquing an inherent characteristic of socialism, that you even mentioned in your own definition in the first quote. Good so far.

> capitalism as the private ownership of these things

> I care a lot about social justice and not having the rich and powerful grind the poor for personal profit.

... Wait what? Capitalism doesn't prevent social justice and doesn't mean that the rich and powerful grind the poor for personal profit.

This is a textbook false equivalency.

> At some point the state has to intervene to enable some redistribution of wealth.

Not really, in a true capitalist society the producers would know that they need consumers or else they'll lose their income, it's self-correcting. A state is tangential to that.

The reason the USA might or might not be going into a totalitarian oligarchy is because of the state, not in spite of it.
also ReasonML
Potato potahto.

You are both saying that a job should provide more buying power.
The HN comment - "comeback of all time".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

The thing I liked about the thread is also has Drew Houston from Dropbox talking about his then startup idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35095
https://cdllife.com/2014/top-trucking-news/16-states-pass-de...
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I'm not sure I understand the question. If you own something.com then you automatically own any possible subdomains.
There are differences between relying on the existence of a commodity service/product or of a unique one. If my VPS provider boots me off or shuts down, I just move to another. I won't lose a single email, and just a few IRC messages during the transition.

Meanwhile, if FB boots you off, you lose everything, and must hope they at least allow you to create a new profile.
Certifying container images isn't 1 size fits all. Do it on your own terms
some of my most-upvoted comments...

energy systems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8386603

delayed IPOs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831214

desktop v mobile
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7182345

free fruit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728601

role of self-experimentation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965307
But this is orthogonal to the issue of LetsEncrypt not delivering wildcard certs.
I don't get what you're saying. Searching? For what?
You can get an 8GB GTX 1080 for 2/3rds the price and it offers 80% of the performance. If you don't need the 11GB of memory, it's a steal. If you're building a rig with multiple cards, 1080 might be an economical way to get great performance. If you're looking for maximal compute density, 1080 Ti is the way to go.
Well, it won't be sudden. But the job loss might not be sudden either. Personal computers destroyed the secretary job over about 30 years. And that used to be the most common job in America.

Even Level 4 automated cars debut tomorrow, we'll need truck drivers for a long time. You need someone there to watch the goods, arrange deliveries, unload, etc. It'll probably allow truckers to drive 24 hours a day instead of 14, which will cost jobs, but it won't be a complete loss.

Same goes for Ubers. You'll need full level 5 unless you want lost Ubers clogging our streets all the time. That probably means you'll need a person in the car for years to come.
A lot of users on my sites are older so they need bigger font sizes, so it's good for that and also make sure that if they zoom in on a page it doesn't break layout etc.
Well, that makes it not a "Star Trek-esque voice-activated computer interaction", which is the point of it.
Ah yea, I should probably add the nimble install line to the instructions.