skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fatalism meets comeuppance fetish. The emotional desire to see the next crisis come out of Silicon Valley, rather than a rational consideration for how likely that actually is.

The mainstream media is increasingly frothing at the mouth as it pertains to Silicon Valley being a power target for them to hit. You can barely avoid it on a daily basis when it comes to the NY Times or Washington Post etc. Somewhere in the last few years it became acceptable to target pretty much all aspects of SV for criticism (whether culture, or wealth, or political influence, or demographics), whereas previously it was mostly off-limits (not only did their audience largely not want to read it, SV is almost entirely liberal and a modern extraordinary economic success story, so attacking that made no sense across the board). What changed? It's simple, only one thing changed in the last 20-30 years: its companies got so big that it now challenges the power structures in DC and NY, and has corporations that are richer and more powerful than eg Exxon Mobil or Walmart. So the liberal media has decided their own ideological brothers in SV are now fair game due to their immense wealth and influence (I don't have an elaborate opinion on that targeting, it clearly crossed some vague threshold in the last few years).

Fintech is so hilariously, comically tiny compared to what caused the 2007 financial disaster (billions of dollars in scale vs trillions of dollars in scale). It would take decades of non-stop expansion for Silicon Valley's fintech to get big enough to pose that sort of national economic risk. You can tell that's the case by how empty the article is of any actual content or argument - it's about seven paragraphs of content, and maybe less than one paragraph says anything in support of the article's premise.
Seems to be similar to the direction taken by John De Goes (using algebras to describe your problem domain, building programs from those algebras via free monads/applicatives/etc., interpreting those programs using natural transformations). I think there is definitely something to this kind of thinking.

Both authors argue that modern programming languages do not have the best ergonomics for this style of programming, albeit it is at least possible to do most of it in languages such as Haskell and Scala.

1. Data Structures Are Antithetical to Functional Programming [http://degoes.net/articles/kill-data]

2. A Modern Architecture for FP [http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp]

3. Modern Functional Programming: Part 2 [http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp-part-2]
Oh, I own several dozen bows, a wide collection of arrows, and a couple of crossbows. I take a couple of handicapped people out to hunt and Maine allows handicapped people to hunt with a crossbow.

Wow... We are so far off-topic, but we're being civil and productive so, hopefully, nobody minds too much. Email is available and an option.

On that note, I'd probably rather be shot with a bullet than with a bolt from a crossbow. The energy imparted by a fairly bog standard crossbow at 100 yards is about the same amount of energy imparted by a .45 at 6". The damage a bolt causes is unbelievable, if you're not familiar with it.

Even a simple recurve bow with a 70# draw imparts a great deal of force. I can reasonably fire three arrows in ten seconds.

Anyhow, I do hunt during archery season - if you hadn't guessed. I'll be harvesting my deer during archery season and haven't decided if I'm going to try for a bear with a bow. I'm worried about not getting a clean shot and the bear suffering needlessly.

As mentioned before, I kill and process the vast majority of the meat that I eat. I respect the animal and don't want to cause additional or prolonged suffering.

I guess the partial point I'm making is that a firearm is a tool and needn't be used to harm humans. I have other tools that will readily harm a human. I don't plan on ever doing so and would go to great lengths to avoid doing so.

Not all of us want to be Rambo and dream about fighting off bad guys in an active shooter situation. Unlike the movies, getting shot at kind of sucks and is scary. I'd like to avoid that. The problem is, and it is a problem, we have people who seem to fetishizes just that. We also have crazy people. I submit there's overlap between those two groups.
I feel this focus on valuations, and saying that Trello "failed" just because a bunch of people who were not involved with the company at all thought they should have hit a different number is truly bad for our industry. There is zero reason to use the words "fail" and Trello in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. And yet, here we are.

We need to move away from the growth at all costs mindset, and go back to focusing on building world class products. It is perfectly ok to slow down once in a while, and not just chase the next quarter's numbers.

Trello was a success, and we should celebrate what they did. Not deride them because they didn't live up to some VC's hyper-inflated expectations.
I'm not sure what your point is but I'm just pointing out he's extrapolating from an incorrect definition.

I'm certainly not claiming that 'indigenous' means their ancestors literally sprouted from that ground.
how did this even get upvoted to the front page

These financial technology (or “fintech”) markets are populated by small startup companies, the exact opposite of the large, concentrated Wall Street banks that have for so long dominated finance. And they have brought great benefits for investors and consumers. By automating decision-making and reducing the costs of transactions, fintech has greased the wheels of finance, making it faster and more efficient. It has also broadened access to capital to new and underserved groups, making finance more democratic than it has ever been.

But revolutions often end in destruction. And the fintech revolution has created an environment ripe for instability and disruption. It does so in three ways.

First, fintech companies are more vulnerable to rapid, adverse shocks than typical Wall Street banks. Because they’re small and undiversified, they can easily go under when they hit a blip in the market. Consider the case of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, which was the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange until an apparent security breach took it down in 2014, precipitating losses that would be worth more than $3.5 billion in today’s prices.

Lehman, Bear, Aig failures were in the hundreds of billion, even trillions..these are a few billion, tops.

Betterment and Wealthfront are pretty much just index fund clones.
Odd that it doesn't compare the relative impacts of the dot-com bust (Silicon Valley based) and the Great Recession (Wall Street and finance based). Oh, maybe because that wouldn't bolster their point very well.
Ask HN: What is the best recent Sci-fi books you’ve read
The original Rift required a gaming rig to run. I'm curious what kind of tradeoffs have to be made to launch this.

Personally, I'm not very interested in a VR headset being anything more than a display. This makes me feel like it is a Smart TV, which is not something I want. We'll see how I feel in the future.
I'd argue that Silicon Valley's primary paying customer is the VC, and that VC's have had a field day with the easy money pumped out by the Fed and distributed to Wall Street over the last decade.

Signs of a crisis may show up in SV, but it'll trace back to a(lack of) VC funding that traces back to Wall Street.
Never assume mathematicians can see past their little definition/lemma/theorem games to solve actual problems where those definitions/lemmas/theorems are "obviously" applicable. Some can, but a surprising number can't.

I think this is due to a destructive meme that has crippled the minds of many mathematicians, causing them to instinctively equate applying their definition/lemma/theorem games to actual problems with low status.
How do you think FSB "came back" to the machine of the NSA malware developer who's in the USA? I think that's exactly what is not plausible. He surely isn't going to open a trojan named isthatyou.jpg.exe in the e-mail sent by them to him. He actually made such stuff (trojans or something) himself as he let Kaspersky's software automatically collect the sample of his "work in progress." Now the unnamed government sources "leak" this as a case of apparent "Russian hackers" whereas the only known hackers in the story are the NSA and the Israel's hackers who hacked the office computers of Kaspersky. Kaspersky's software just did what other antivirus software does too.
Sounds like that would defeat the entire purpose, as well as prevent anyone from caring whether they participated.
Because in our society people of different races are treated differently.

If you don't realize this, you either need to spend more time interacting with people outside of your bubble, or your friends aren't comfortable enough with you to share their experiences.

If neither of those are the case, you should tell us where you live, and what the secret sauce to this magical, post-racism colorblind Utopia is.
I bookmarked your Github repo and will probably forget about it
In the years since 2007, we have made great progress in addressing the too-big-to-fail dilemma.

In fact, there is movement in the wrong direction.
Most (at least most non consumer devices) supports ethernet frames of up to about 9000 bytes - aka Jumbo Frames.
Assessing risks associated with infectious diseases using remotely sensed data
Problem with MSS clamping - if the other party has MTU of 1500 but the Path has MTU of < 1344, then, what?

Well, it's broken. The sending party doing MSS clamping, will get the ICMP probably dropped, and the fragments will likely not work either (like large DNS responses).

GTP MSS clamping assume there is no <1344 link in the path! True, this is often the case, but is completely missing the point of "the design of the internet". Sad times...
Astronomers Just Found an Epic Ring Around an Exotic Dwarf Planet
I've taken to browsing with JS disabled by default (whitelisted for specific sites) and the speed/enjoyment trade-off is totally worth the occasional broken it oddly-laid-out page.

This is especially true in a HN/Reddit context where most links will be to articles.
Why are Apple’s chips faster than Qualcomm’s? [video]
Journalism should be about facts.
The fact, here, is that some statistically challenged organizations appear, maybe, to draw conclusion from U.S. Bureau of Labor surveys about median wages of men and women as if the data were about mean wages.

But instead of offering a lesson about the difference between mean and median, or a discussion of why the apparently needed average wage data isn't collected, Forbes tries to discredit the idea of a gender wage gap in general and calls these statistics "debunked".
Yeah, I've largely avoided using Tower for this reason, but you could theoretically get it up to an equivalent or at least comparable security level simply by SSH tunneling it or putting it behind a good VPN. Host compromise is still a risk even with ssh.
> the fintech revolution has created an environment ripe for instability and disruption.

The article did not do a very good job of making this case in a couple of ways. First of all, the reasons given were all hand-wavy and assume all finch will fail at the same time in the same way because... Automation?

The second, and probably larger problem with the thesis is that in the grand scheme of things there really isn't enough money in fintech startups at this point to make a big impact on the economy, and it'll be a long time before there is.
That’s awesome! Keep at it. It takes a few years.

And as other have pointed out, depression isn’t super curable, it’s more like going in remission. I liken it to addiction as well. Stop doing the things that keep it at bay? Boom there it is, comes right back.

Just like an addict makes an active decision every day to not do their thing, so too must I actively do things that keep the depression away.

No magic, just hard work,
Look at scraping Google and Bing maps?
The only kind of automation I use is a Python script for downloading fanfiction from fanfiction.net.

Reading through this thread, it seems like I'm living in a parallel world...
Normally when discussing mass, people are referring to resting mass, not relativistic mass.
I feel like this is an SMBC comic not yet illustrated.
Putting aside the context of whether this makes sense with the existence of Girl Scouts, as an Eagle Scout I’m pretty happy that the organization has made strides to turn around its image of exclusivity. It’s certainly about 15 years later than it needed to be, but such a huge organization that is dedicated to inspiring ideals in young people should be sending the right message. It’s a far cry from the early 2000’s era Boy Scouts which was projecting a much different message.

I’m quite ambivalent about the organization’s attitude toward religion, in that it is impossible to be an outspoken atheist and reach the rank of Eagle Scout. To reach the highest rank you must undergo an Eagle board of review, which is an interview of sorts with highly ranked regional council members. During mine, I was asked questions that were mostly formalities until the final question: “Do you believe in a higher power?” When given context to the question, it made a bit more sense: I was told the higher power could be anything, like the Mother Nature or karma. It was then that I understood that the question, however poorly worded, isn’t meant to really be around religion, but instead letting go of your ego. There are much better ways to ask that sort of question though, and being atheist and letting go of your ego are not two mutually exclusive properties.

I was agnostic at the time so it was easy for me, but I still question the approach now even though it wasn’t the WASP-like approach I expected.
github please?
>I imagine this is the way we get to "true AI", or AI indistinguishable from our own.

I don't believe it would necessarily be indistinguishable from our own, since the path of evolution that it takes has a huge impact on the final product. For example, cephalopods like cuttlefish are incredibly intelligent and talented, but they evolved from mollusks and invertebrates, and are obviously incredibly distinct from humans and human intelligence.
That works OK up to a point, but if validity depends on any sort of state that might be changing concurrently then potentially it opens you up to problems with race conditions.

Just like locking shared state for thread synchronisation or operating on a shared filesystem, there are usually only two completely safe strategies. Assuming your underlying operations are guaranteed to be atomic but might fail, either you can do everything synchronously and report any failure immediately, or you can go all-in on asynchronicity, so even reporting success or failure is done by firing a message back asynchronously later.

If you’re going with anything more exotic, you’ll need a strategy for dealing with the intermediate states, for example something that looked like it was going to work but then didn’t. That might mean something like doing just enough synchronously to guarantee you’ve got a record of what needs to happen as a result of the event, then returning a success indication, and then asynchronously following up on the other required actions later, with some sort of auditing and reconciliation processes to make sure that everything that should happen eventually does. In this sort of situation, maybe you would also be able to do enough synchronous validation up-front to know that your request will be able to succeed, even if the goalposts move during the process.
If Amazon moved to the Gulch, employees would probably live in O4W, Decatur, Midtown, or Buckhead, and take MARTA in.
> Because part of depression is self pity.

Are you sure you are not one of those people who confuse being moody with clinically depressed? Self pity isn't really high on the list of symptoms.
In the USA, wealth transfer from urban areas to every where else is official policy.

Not a claim. Merely a statement of fact.
Ola, India's ride-hailing leader, raises 1.1B to fight Uber
Throwaway for reasons that will become obvious.

Imagine that you met a friend you hadn't seen in years. They seemed really down, and you ask what's up. They say, "My job is to collect tolls in a tollbooth in Alaska. For 9 months a year it's freezing, and the heater breaks every day, and I'm stuck outside wrenching on the thing with one hand while Googling "how to fix a heater" on my phone with the other while I slowly lose my fingertips to frostbite."

Now recall a few weeks ago when someone posted an interesting article about a board game full of ridiculous, fiddling little rules that would take years and years to complete [0]. The reason no one has ever played this game through is not because there is _no way_ to play it through. It's not because a reasonably-intelligent person would be _incapable_ of coming up with a strategy for getting through the game. It's because so far, no one has thought it worth that time. There's no payoff.

When you talk to a depresssed person like me, you are talking to someone whose body is that tollbooth, and whose life feels like that game. You can say "exercise." You can say "talk to someone." But when you say those things, you are describing a strategy for getting through a 1500-hour board game with no payoff. You are describing to me how to fix a heater in a toll booth in Alaska where I may be stuck for maybe the rest of my life, constantly worried that the damn thing is going to break again.

So please, please, use that understanding when you talk to someone like me. Empathize. You can do that. You can say "that sounds awful." You can say "If you want someone to talk to I'm here." You can even say "Hey, let's go to the aquarium!" But be really, really careful about saying "go exercise" or "go talk to a therapist" and never, ever say it's going to be ok.

ok?

[0] https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-...
Indeed. You could also pick a right with North Korea (or the US) for just the same kinds of 'reasons'.
About 10 years ago I was in the market for a used Toyota Camry, so I wrote a script that scraped the used car classified and extracted models within a 4 year range and within price & mileage caps. This got plotted out into 4 overlaid point series, producing graphs that roughly looked like 1/x, roughly 2-300 datapoints total.

With that in hand I went to dealer offering the best match, told them which car I wanted and how much I was going to pay for it. Put the graph in front of the salesperson who was floored, went back to his manager, and gave me the car for that price.

That was before I even knew what the term "market price" meant.
One thing I want to mention in addition to what everyone else says is that community is essential. Even if you sleep well, eat right and exercise, without community it's likely depression will find you eventually.
Part of my local NextDoor after I got a card in the mail.

Lots of "Where was that police car that went down my street headed?", "Escaped Animal", "Flea Market swap", "Promoting my home researched Christian eschatology book published on vanity press".

Occastionally there's useful information like City Council issues, major road closures, etc. But As others have said a lot of NIMBYs, armchair patriots, and thinly disguised racisim.
I think we can assume that any suggested treatment has the potential to make things worse, and psychedelic therapy is no exception.

Furthermore, in a scenario where one ends up in a "full blown existential crisis", it's likely that one did not undergo psychedelic therapy, one merely took psychedelics.

Finally, just because you have an existential crisis doesn't mean it didn't work. Sometimes that's part of the healing process. Just like with physical therapy, our wounds can make certain movements painful, and we make them natural again through deliberate practice.
We trust applications like that all the time. Browsers update themselves, and we trust them to secure our communication with banks, governments, health providers, etc. Most browsers now also store passwords in an encrypted secret repository. If you're on Windows or OSX, your OS is also constantly updating itself with closed-source binary blobs.

I mean, sure, you can never use an auto-updating application again and always manually review system updates before installing them. But realistically, I don't see anyone besides Richard Stellman adopting that lifestyle.
I remain to be convinced. The last figures I could find was for 2015, 2010-2015 population grew 0.9% [0]. Not necessarily booming.

[0] http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/chicago-populatio...
This is tangentially related to something I've been struggling with for the last year. I began getting into photography about a year and as an attempt to surround myself with inspiration, I followed many of the top landscape photographers on Instagram. While their images are beautiful and they tend to position their photographs from the perspective of "environmentalism", I can't help but feel like they've done as much damage as anything else.

Two examples come to mind. Last year, the USFS extended the lottery permit season in the Enchantments by six weeks due to increasing popularity, no doubt fueled by the incredible pictures of it littered across Instagram. Iceland is a top destination for photographers (for good reason) and I traveled there two months ago, no doubt influenced by the pictures I've seen. But it felt like the country was beginning to get ruined by me and my fellow tourists.

It feels like we're beginning to lose the hidden gems as more and more photographers rush to be the first. But even the non-hidden gems are beginning to get exposed more and more often. But I see the same spots being visited by all photographers and I don't see how they'll handle the continued influx of people:

* Banff NP
* Dolomites
* Iceland
* Lofoten
* Greenland

It's great that people are interested in seeing the world, but I'd say the set of people that love photographing amazing locations and preserving them is much smaller than the set of people that only care about the former. That said, I'm probably more of a contributor to this than I'd care to admit.
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And if you only want to use some parts of FB, say the events, just block the main feed. There are browser plugins, or you can use uBlock's element blocking feature.
What if it turns out that there is a deep-seated psychological need present in many (NOT ALL) humans to participate in peer groups defined along lines of gender - and what if it turns out that if society denies them acceptable outlets for this need, that they fill the need by joining socially unacceptable groups (ie. gangs)? If we suspect that this psychological need is present, do we persist in denying acceptable outlets for it?
Auto completion is very nice and real time code compilation is also very useful. A very nice and simple IDE on Web.
Very clever, I like the project. I'm a fan of the pin too.. can there be a fridge magnet version?
That sounds awful. I can't even stand wearing sunglasses for an extended period of time.
Keybase has increasingly moved to its own crypto model that isn't GPG backed. Even in cases where "traditional" PKI RSA and ECC curves are used, it doesn't use the GPG tools anymore and instead other open source implementations.
Completely agree. How did this article make it here?