skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Journalism!

If you haven't noticed, the world around us is falling apart. Personally, I consider this malady of discontent just a result of letting every idiot post their comments on the internet. But that doesn't change the fact that something needs to be done, and I think it's more of a problem of teaching people how the process works, not so much to change the outcomes. Generally, I see people reaching for conspiracy theories or accusations of corruption whenever they don't understand the complexity of a problem. I. e. "Why don't they just build nuclear power plants? It's CO_2 neutral, and Obama's solar power mafia is just trying to stop the neutron-emitting pebble-fusor that will be 10x cheaper! Scandalous!"

Unfortunately, I haven't found the silver bullet to do this. So, second best: somehow help today's quality publishers to survive, and hope they have better ideas. There are two tech/business ideas I would love to see:

a. "The world's worst ad-blocker"

Currently, all ad blockers are focused on blocking as much as possible. That, and speed, are basically the metrics they show you.

I think (hope) there's a sizeable fraction of people that wouldn't mind unobtrusive, non-spyware advertisement if it helps their favourite writers to make rent. What's needed is an ad blocker that constantly evaluates parameters including the page publisher's reputation, the ad network, the product/company being advertised, the file sizes, ad positioning, movement and/or sound, and privacy implications. Then allow. the user (some) leeway to influence it to their liking.

b. A netflix-like subscription

This is more of a business problem. I guess publishers are afraid of losing their current $200/yr subscribers to a service that only pays them $10/yr or so, because it divides those $200 among a number of publishers.

They may be right. But personally, I have just one subscription, and that's the really cheap New Yorker, which I bought just to not be a complete free rider. I have a few hundred $ for whoever wants it, and gets me the NYT/Economist/WSJ/FT/etc. as a package deal.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15362522
Are Gravitational Wave Detections Becoming Normal?
This is cool, but it seems like a crazy hack with no benefit besides "because it's there". Relu is already such a cheap function to compute.
Yeah, I understand the chain that causes this, but the root is the same. The advertisers are only upset because of those same bogeyman.

The problem is ultimately those people that care that the word is used, but not why or how.

To me that feels like something society is struggling with lately. People looking for something to belong to, and attaching themselves to groups and causes without fully understanding the cause. Promoting civility is good. Condemning certain words in all contexts is not about civility. It's about proving you belong.
Yes, but you also have the value of the old device.
I would be interesting in knowing a major pure programming problem, not one motivated by the outside world. Like the open problems of pure math.
Those numbers are far too high - it's extremely rare to find anyone who will pay those wages, even in tier 1 cities for experienced candidates.

By way of comparison, plenty of people in the UK entering their first IT job would make less than the equivalent of 25,00,000!
>The communist Utopia requires trade with another entity in order to maintain its Utopia?

Presumably all states do.

>Who manages the trade between the countries?

Communism is about owning the means of production so presumably the people will act through their government to decide on trade.

>Are the members of a society that claims to be Communist actually so if that society at large is part of a free-market?

Presumably, unless you mean to say that no actually Communist state has ever existed! (I'll accept this of course, I'd just like you to say it.) If you'd like to know more about this conflict I'd pull up the wiki article for "socialism in one country."

>This sounds like not getting rid of exploitation, but rather sweeping it under the rug and outsourcing it to a free-market entity.

Well the end-goal would be world communism without government, democratic everything, "from those... to those..." kind of world. In the interim trade would be necessary and you're right that unfortunately that trade may come from exploitation of the working class in another country. But if we can take our country, go socialist, reduce exploitation then that's still an admirable goal. Hopefully, those elsewhere will see and follow. I wouldn't call it "outsourcing exploitation" because presumably the trade level wouldn't increase dramatically after becoming communist. It's more like fixing our exploitation while admitting we may not be able to end all exploitation.

NOTE: I'm not actually a communist and I only know a little so these are the best answers I can give. A real communist would probably school me on this.
GP asked if only Americans are averse to swearing. Japanese don't have swearing so they're not averse to it. So this is not a counterexample as far as I can see.
Not a direct answer, but as someone working in this space, I'd like to also mention that while more money in education is probably good, I doubt it does anything. There are structural and cultural problems in the education system in the United States that cannot be solved with money.
i can imagine a uk/us (re)union, in theory, if brexit goes really poorly.
> But building this model is still programming.

I agree with you, but I don't think this is a mistake in the article. I read it as normal programming code meaning low level procedures as are typically written these days.
I'm sorry I can't find a link to the study right now (I'll add a link if I find it), but one of the most fascinating lectures in my college linguistics class was about swear words, and this exact question. The lecturer claimed that hearing or seeing a swear word has a physiological effect on most people, not unlike being slapped in the face. However, when you replace the text with asterisks or beep it out, the effect is diminished, even if the audience knows exactly what's being replaced.

In that context, it makes sense to avoid using swear words in more professional settings if you want to avoid giving the audience the associated emotional reaction; it's distracting at best and offensive at worst, and it's easier just to find another way to communicate which word was meant.
And yet to participate associates your name with their actions; perhaps even your tacit approval of their actions. And at some point, you have to just admit that as a CEO of a relatively small non-profit, you will have no real impact on anything by staying.
Raccoons solve an ancient puzzle, but do they understand it?
Right, plus 100% reusability and therefore cheaper per-launch cost than where SpaceX is now.
Thanks for pointing out the mistake. I will update the post accordingly.

I still think there are some valuable lessons here.
>>I'm willing to bet those are probably a tiny fraction of the cryptotokens out there.

And a tiny fraction of tech startups succeed.

>>That's not the case at all, and to try and phrase it like that is quite dishonest.

If a law is passed to treat token sales like how securities offerings are currently treated, that is indeed what it will be like, given that is how the venture capital market operates.

The only precedent we have with cryptocurrency regulations is New York's BitLicense, and that resulted in $60,000 in compliance costs and only two very well capitalized companies getting legal permission to operate in New York. The vast majority of cryptocurrency players are essentially banned from New York, and now you need lawyers to get past the ban.
>>lack of data scientists with strong engineering skills
>>less angel money

absolutely. this article is a great 30k feet up review of the scene and what you add is true.

i operate NYC but literally live 100s of miles away as my affordable housing policy, because I am building an open data science consultancy that is revenue driven.

what i'd add happens is that your scientists and tech people are a step removed from the real-world disciplines put in their petrie dish. they are not working in business settings, but institutional ones, because there isn't quite a silicon valley thing, and public-private-partnerships in NY mostly mean corruption, not innovation.

that said, what makes the NYC scene really amazing is that most of us are doing our part as a civic project.
The lack of empathy that online communication encourages. Empathy defined as conscious attempts to think and feel what the person you're talking to thinks and feels. It's quite natural with in-person and even voice communication. An extension of this problem is the lack of empathy online bleeding into offline communication.
It should be noted these panopticons were built by Machado, the dictator who Castro rebelled against.
I do the same thing with some of the suggestions I described in my previous comments.

Here is an older relevant thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938269
Might have something to do with the fact that SpaceX's ambitions seem to undergo major revisions on a monthly basis. The things they've accomplished to date have been pretty impressive, but they're not even in the same league as a jaunt to Mars.

Besides, everything SpaceX has done is sustainable in the sense that it helps them make money, either commercially or through a government contract. There's no commercial market for Mars, and a government contract would have to be so large large enough I doubt there would be enough political support.
There are probably jobs where there's someone watching a split-screen display showing the webcam images of all their subordinates.

A whole lot of daycares do this. A proper security system will keep the footage for a month.

At least the treat dispenser is advertised for use with the dog, but I bet if someone handed you this document cold with actual letterhead, it might take a bit of reading to realize the parody.
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Batteries. Batteries are the number one technical problem right now. A battery with energy density approaching crude oil would revolutionize the world beyond even what the Internet did. We really don't have an energy generation problem, we have an energy storage problem.
What you're describing is more or less why noise suppression algorithms in general cannot really improve intelligibility of the speech. Unless they're given extra cues (like with a microphone array), there's nothing they can do in real-time that will beat what the brain is capable of with "delayed decision" (sometimes you'll only understand a word 1-2 seconds after it's spoken). So the goal of noise suppression is really just making the speech less annoying when the SNR is high enough not to affect intelligibility.

That being said, I still have control over the tradeoffs the algorithm makes by changing the loss function, i.e. how different kinds of mistakes are penalized.
What's the GCP Slack?
You know what is worse then the open office plan?

The fact that large numbers of people loathe it and yet do nothing about it except moan on the internet.

People don't organize themselves and their coworkers to even ask for better things.
SF is also an extreme example of homeless problems because of various factors (weather, systems which attract homeless, etc).

There's a homeless problem in other cities, but we don't have tents downtown.
The biggest problem we are currently facing, as a species, is self-destruction. The two problems are:

1. How do we stop destroying our climate and planet as quickly as possible?

2. How do we look for new planets to colonize?
Introducing Pillr – A Python to Executable Converter
What you're saying is false, but what you're quoting is correct. I definitely wouldn't say "always".
Another interesting aspect of a moon base -- would it be easier and/or cheaper to produce propellants there instead of sending four rockets up to fuel each Mars-bound ship?
Can you describe why that hiring process was so good? What did they do that set it apart from most?
I think you need to take some personal responsibility here for not knowing how Javascript works.

That you've written so much indicates to me that you expect other people (like a framework's documentation) to introduce you to every language idiosyncrasy in any place you happen to be reading.

That's not what I want people to expect from me as a professional. People should be able to expect me to credentialize in the domain at hand.
In Bangalore, sale price/monthly rent ratio in an ok neighborhood would be around 200. In a pretty good neighborhood this go up to to 300-400. Mumbai is more expensive than this. Nobody buys property in India and makes a killing off the rents -- its mainly the price appreciation (inflation is around 6-7%).
Bubbles can be concentrated more heavily in higher growth areas, and there's been a lot of urbanization in the last 10 years, particularly tech heavy areas. I'm not saying I agree with his prediction, but I wouldn't dismiss it because some markets have lagged relative to others.
>name a single capitalist totalitarian dictator?

Pinochet.

>Now name how many successful western countries haven't embraced capitalism as, at the very least, their main source of funds to experiment with.

Almost all western countries are capitalist I believe? Usually I take western to mean (1) democratic (2) capitalist. Besides as I'm arguing elsewhere, the failure of many socialist states is due to US intervention. Cuba's Embargo is a great example, the coup that placed Pinochet in power is another. America hates socialism/communism so it constantly acts aggressively towards those states while helping capitalist states. It's tough to look at the scoreboard and judge when the ref is obviously biased.
Or the power or whatever. All I know is it seems to always turn out this way. The current generation can't be the first ones to ever want to change this, yet the system is as it is. This is my suspicion of why that remains the case.
This bus episode really isn't that bad, but there are terrible episodes where he is just constantly whining and being mean to his little sister, even pushing her around.
Okay, I'm posting. I've been afraid to do so because I might violate some unspoken Hacker News rule and be smitten with downvotes.

I think my adventure started with very generic youtube queries for 'afro' or something like that. Then I stumbled upon Black Merda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHSFsWZM1Gk&list=RDLHSFsWZM1...
... and I already liked psychedelic / krautrock.

But it turned out Black Merda is on a very long playlist itself, a playlist I'm disturbingly compatible with !

I'm far from even the half of the playlist, but some of my favorites (other than Black Merda which is awesome):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q59ZZtiLgYU&list=RDLHSFsWZM1...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyOg-K62co&list=RDLHSFsWZM1...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6lDGgs7jAc&list=RDLHSFsWZM1...

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

Watermelon Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FzNpto-jnU&t=1164s

The Variations - Saying It Doing It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OQl4WTkWTc&t=2549s

Only this track, really:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gXrS6eKfjk&t=841s

Plus, there's the joy of hearing silly things like "Back when Dinosaurs ruled the Earth there was a disco not many people knew about." I didn't have so much fun since planet Gong.

I also got some nice recommendations from listening Sisters of Mercy, including Billy Idol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZQaYKZMTI And I'm amazed how underrated Max Sedgley is. Must be the last name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugEgKA24dig
Makes me want hone my Inkscape skills.
As someone living in SF I’ve been seriously eyeing NYC for a while now. It just seems like an overall better city.

The roads are better, the people seem more varied, there’s even more things to do outside work, there are seasons (god I miss weather), and the tech scene is probably almost as strong.

But are there many startups? It almost seems these days more startups are coming out of Europe than out of NYC.
Strange, quite the opposite experience here in Canada.

Our biggest pharmacy (Shoppers Drug Mart) and dollar store (Dollarama) both with thousands of stores are going to be deploying self-checkouts soon. Various grocery stores and big box stores all over the city already have it.

Ikea only has 2 stores in the area so even if they remove it it won't be that noticeable in terms of deployment...

It may be Imea is trying more of a customer service thing for certain stores ala Amazon's focus on human interactions vs actual ROI or popularity.
Wow, thanks for that info! Our enterprise account uses CF as a CDN for medium sized (~50MB) video files and I just assumed that they were ok with everyone doing that. I guess not.

I guess the answer for the OP then is, get an enterprise account and you can do whatever you want.
There are also on-box perf counters that can be read via SNMP...

My point is that a networking department for a wall street firm would know that there were more tools available than ping and traceroute.
Is your pride regarding your correct opinion worth typing replies instead of just editing "spoilers ahead" into the parent?
And if we're talking about self-sustaining Mars colonies, we're talking about something that's relatively far off in the future. If we talk about terraforming, we're talking about something much, much further off. It's worth considering the potential future that a Mars colony would exist in. For example, it doesn't seem impossible that we'll have something like brain uploads in the next 200 years. When that happens, what's the point of trying to keep human bodies alive on Mars? It would make about as much sense as trying to use horses to ship freight across the U.S.
Ha! But in that vein, I suggest we start referring to New Glenn as the "Moderately Sized Rocket", or "MSR" for short.
Can you elaborate on this? Are you saying replace therapists with a software product?
Angular certainly didn't kill ExtJS. I was on a project that tried to move from Ext to Angular 1. UI-grid alone forced us to stay with Ext. Add in all the other Ext components and moving to Angular along with re-creating everything simply didn't make financial sense.

For what it's worth, I think they later re-wrote in React and integrated the Ext grid in that.
Ask HN: Your thoughts on people being worried about AI killing us
I see lots of discussions about this and it just never makes sense to me. From what I understand, today's AI is basically just stupidly effective pattern recognition, allowing it to appear intelligent.

I don't see how we could get from there to it killing us. For it to do so, it would, I assume, need to be conscious. And as far as I know, the science doesn't have an answer for what consciousness is. Like we know all the "how"s, how our brains work, but we don't know why. So I can't really see how we could make a machine conscious.

Thoughts?
Amazon-owned grocery chain #WholeFoodsMarket suffered payment card breach
Do you know that Indian GDP has grown significantly from 2007? Could it be that the market in Asia has grown and hence IBM wants a larger presense in India. And that since the labor is relatively cheaper they can afford more people over there than in USA? Why do you think that by staying in US IBM could have competed with other companies in India fighting for the Indian/Asian market?
I'll have to ask tianon to see what he says. I don't remember the number.
I tried to learn languages using an Asian drama streaming service's new tool
I can only assume you haven't spent a lot of time in at least one of the following:

- The EU

- San Francisco or Oakland
What? Your link shows they voted for statehood, so I don't understand your point.
It seems like Elon is trying to make impacts in both of these with Tesla and SpaceX.
Yeah, this is a total footgun.
It's been done alright!

> "As it turns out, Bob had simply outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm. Bob spent less than one-fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/16/software-devel...
I read the headline, and went "bet this is because Google can't keep their operating system up to date". Sure enough, upon reading, this is specifically a change to accommodate Google.
Don't buy from ikea, infowar says it is funded by divorce lawyers.
Agtech is big all over the place, for instance this Dutch company:

https://www.lely.com/the-barn/milking/astronaut-a4/

Also in the ag field "technology transfer" is a real thing (not just a euphemism for patent trolling.) Schools like Cornell and UNH are always looking for varieties of crops that can be grown a little further north and for ways to put money in the pockets of farmers large and small.
I know from being involved with a Washington state based NGO That there are entire unincorporated Spanish speaking villages in Washington. Even in places like Germany and Japan, you have itinerants. I highly doubt any country has a zero homeless population. That said, there is a big difference between such people who are largely self sufficient and stay out of the public eye, and those that don't. The latter are identified by society as a problem.
Denmark is very left-wing compared to the US (still, though our "dear" government is trying to undo that), and yet has been rated one of the best countries to do business in.

"Left-wing politics are anti-business" is a huge fallacy.
Oh yeah I read that elsewhere too. Think about how SpaceX would be different if the Russian deal went through..
If housing prices were indeed inflated then there's little difference between a "recovery" and the bubble inflating again (assuming prices didn't crash to something well below reasonable value).
According to your link, in the 2012 referendum, the majority (61.11%) of votes were for statehood, but congress decided to ignore the referendum because of the large number of blank ballots (500k).
"Biggest foreign creditor" and "biggest creditor" are worlds apart; it's not just about being more precise. More than two thirds of US debt is held domestically.
I'm not claiming the duplication issues aren't issues with his professional conduct. But from a purely scientific point of view, they do not change the results. This article is trying to make the claim that 1)this guy has issues in some of his publications, 2) some of this guy's publications were used for the "Smarter Lunches Program", so 3) the Smarter Lunches Program is flawed. The only attempt they make at connections between these three points is that the same guy is involved. They made no attempt to say the flawed publications were used to design the lunch program, and made no attempt to show the lunch program was flawed as a result.
I can't parse what you're saying. Are you saying the quote I replied to is correct?

In any case, I think always is close enough to fit. Yes, sometimes someone gets something very cheaply but that's usually because of ignorance or urgency from the selling party, deception, etc., etc. In a natural market interaction, if you're paying bottom dollar you are not and cannot be getting the best quality (unless you are in a scenario where the offering is flat: the best offering is also the worst).
foreign. That sense said just creditor without the 'foreign' bit.
Would be sweet if it was compatible with the original cassette/floppy drives!
The numbers you mentioned are towards top end of industry. Most people I know with 5-10 yrs of experience make less than 10,00,000 in any of the major IT company.
Plus suicide, disability, etc.
Software developer Bob outsources own job (2013)
There's a really interesting book called "Fed Up" written by Danielle DiMartino Booth, who worked inside the Fed for a number of years during the last popping of a bubble.

https://smile.amazon.com/Fed-Up-Insiders-Federal-Reserve/dp/...

She's done a number of interviews on podcasts as well. This one was decent: http://www.jasonstapleton.com/571-author-danielle-dimartino-...