skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be interested in Facebook's recent StarSpace[1] paper, which also shows how this simple "entity embeddings" approach can be used for different tasks.

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/StarSpace
Who said anything about being capital efficient? The point is that this article is all hyperbole trying to paint Google / Amazon / etc. as vultures who are just ruining startups. And my position is that those startups have to pay somebody for the services they're getting from AmaGoogFaceSoft, even if it means building the services from scratch themselves.

And when you balance all of that against the fact that AmaGooFaceSoft enables startups that probably couldn't even exist otherwise (due to large initial capital demands) it's ridiculous to say that those large vendors are somehow detrimental to startups in this regard.

I see this article as nothing but click-bait preying on the currently prevailing "woe is me, the sky is falling" negativity meme.
Abuse from your own insular community re: a particular project is one thing; public abuse published in some of the most popular print media on the planet resulting in lost jobs/lost job opporunities is quite another.
> You mischaracterize. Fiske is not criticizing "people who pointed out statistical errors" and begins the entire essay by explicitly stating as such: "Our field has always encourages -- required, really -- peer critiques"!
> She is criticizing "unfiltered trash-talk [on social media]... [and] online vigilantes [who] are attacking individuals, their research programs, and their careers".

Let me quote Gelman regarding the subject of her criticism:

> The other thing that’s sad here is how Fiske seems to have felt the need to compromise her own principles here. She deplores “unfiltered trash talk,” “unmoderated attacks” and “adversarial viciousness” and insists on the importance of “editorial oversight and peer review.” According to Fiske, criticisms should be “most often in private with a chance to improve (peer review), or at least in moderated exchanges (curated comments and rebuttals).” And she writes of “scientific standards, ethical norms, and mutual respect.”

> But Fiske expresses these views in an unvetted attack in an unmoderated forum with no peer review or opportunity for comments or rebuttals, meanwhile referring to her unnamed adversaries as “methological terrorists.” Sounds like unfiltered trash talk to me. But, then again, I haven’t seen Fiske on the basketball court so I really have no idea what she sounds like when she’s really trash talkin’.

> I bring this up not in the spirit of gotcha, but rather to emphasize what a difficult position Fiske is in. She’s seeing her professional world collapsing—not at a personal level, I assume she’ll keep her title as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University for as long as she wants—but her work and the work of her friends and colleagues is being questioned in a way that no one could’ve imagined ten years ago. It’s scary, and it’s gotta be a lot easier for her to blame some unnamed “terrorists” than to confront the gaps in her own understanding of research methods.

> To put it another way, Fiske and her friends and students followed a certain path which has given them fame, fortune, and acclaim. Question the path, and you question the legitimacy of all that came from it. And that can’t be pleasant.
He's using the Google Noto library for handling fonts: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji

EDIT: This is also a really nice font library as well: https://www.emojione.com/ though you have to pay for a commercial license if that's your end game
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Let's tone down the drama a little; I am willing to bet there aren't many people at all who would literally choose to lose their home versus work with a technology they don't like (even if for valid reasons, and even if those reasons include data loss or other catastrophes).

If my boss tells me to use MongoDB tomorrow or live on the street despite my advice to the contrary, I will use MongoDB happily. I may look for a new job in my free time if using MongoDB makes me miserable, but I certainly won't be living on the street...
There is only one row. The one below the top is a strange and alien one called "number keys".
Thank you! Honestly, I never read HN on mobile devices, so, I wasn't aware of the issue, and I use Stylish for a dark theme and other enhancements on Chrome, which might be fixing some of the <pre /> issues as well.
I guess the subtitle of the blog says that - How to Create a Private Ethereum Blockchain from Ground-up?'
Comments like this are as bad as the comments by misogynist trolls. They're just coming from an equal (measured by inflammation) but opposite ideology.
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You need to find a sport that you like. I find simply running boring, but when done in a sport is a completely different thing.

Apart from the gym, I play soccer three times a week and it is nothing by fun. Switching volleyball session during the winter.

One of the best things I did both for my health and productivity was exercising + sports.
I had a colleague that applied, and was subsequently interviewed for a position with CSIS. He said he was instructed to go to a large office tower in Toronto, go to x floor and ask for a particular person. Nothing was labelled as CSIS.
Their "secret" base was a short drive from where I grew up. Every local knew what it was. But they are still the most badass dudes.
Yeah, like 15 minutes more. Ergo my original statement - 30 minutes. As a bonus I would also stream binary data directly to client without creating an image file.
time is a flat circle, marty
The WeWork claim is that some of their startups will become huge and they'll already have their foot in the door, so to speak, for selling those huge companies more real estate and services. Having a 5 person startup as a renter is not a big win, but if that startup becomes Twitter size...
Not sure why people are negative about the core idea of WeWork.

You get free beer, free coffee, bathrooms, an office, meeting rooms, phone booths with doors that close that you can also go work in whenever you want to be isolated, you can be there 24 hours a day, you have a keycard that works at all hours, and best of all, you're surrounded by startups and companies doing the same things as you. Meaning you can chat up your neighbors and meet some interesting people. Chance encounters like that are rare at a traditional office. People also throw events on the upper floors all the time, which gets you free lunch at a minimum.

The above experience costs $2,200/mo to get you an office with plenty of room for four people.

I don't know. I hope they never go out of business. It's the best environment I've ever been in.

Did I mention you're surrounded by empty rooms with doors that close? I mean hello, you get a door! It closes!

When you have the option to go work someplace with a door that shuts, it removes all the stress of not having it, even if you never actually use it.
Sounds like straight up sexism to me.
Given how controversial the various diets are, even between nutritional specialists, I'm not sure it can be claimed as less subjective than dating habits.
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Networking? Social interaction with other entrepreneurs? A separation of home/work?
You don't seem to know this, but no traditional RDBMSs actually provide CAP consistency, for that they would have to use at least two-phase commit or something, but they don't. So, they all are noCAP databases. Electronic health or financial records are way safer in a proper eventually consistent database, like orders of magnitude safer, but everyone just takes the risk with some insurance at best to cover the losses.

EDIT: If you downvote, please explain why. You can't disagree with the truth.
Where's Jeff Barr when you need him?

How summon
je ne savais pas !
My favorite ones are the projects with project pages that describe themselves in terms of other buzzwordy project and trend names.

"Buzzy is a new rewrite of Salad using an extensible monad-free Vomit dialect based on modern neopatterns. (note you'll need FooQwang3.7.2.1-R2 extensions installed in your pillar-tab in order to use it interactively)"

At least techno-babble [1] could make you feel intimidated. This word salad nonsense just makes me feel utterly lost and apathetic.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkT6C9Ose8
Yeah this is essentially it coming full circle. This book [0] is a great read on the history and use of Ecstasy and covers it's early therapeutic uses and how it progressed to party drug.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ecstasy-Dance-Culture-Nicholas-Saun...
One note; in general, I think we tend to diminish finding when we find out that the placebo effect is partly behind them. Wrongly, in my opinion. Better reactions might be, "Wow, we take this action and our bodies/brains take care of the rest of the effect through some placebo magic? That's amazing!!"
No matter what you think with regard to whether crypto-mining is "wasted" energy or not, my opinion is that running a miner in such a high level virtual machine is DEFINITELY wasting energy.
They've handled a number of things poorly. But they're not a monolithic entity, and I don't think we can make assumptions about exactly who will be involved with this and how they'll handle it.

Why do we need to assume anything now, anyway? I think it's appropriate to be agnostic about it. We can't know until if and when it happens.
Neighbourhood consultation and input is required, but this does not mean that neighbourhoods have a veto over any and all development.
I find it amazing and heartening to see this kind of humanistic, self-reflective discourse on hn, where I generally expect to find macho posturing.
If they had done so by presenting a product that was picked up due to it's merit and continued to gain traction based on that then I'd be rather impressed. Instead the story of MongoDB seems to be how extremely well targeted marketing and sales can build a so-so product into a huge IPO, there have been performance comparisons showing it isn't even the best at what it does so this IPO is riding on the network effect of those early stages of marketing alone.

In our economy this is sadly an entirely valid route to making money but their mindshare is going to continue to collapse as the warts on their product show more and more.

So the admiration you have should probably be directed at the wool the marketers behind MongoDB managed to pull over your eyes.
Next time I have this argument I'll invite you over and maybe we can bring some sense to the issue :)
Perhaps you are assuming your particular experience is normative. I think it is not. To attribute the demand to nothing more than “I feel special” needs more justification than what you've provided.
Sometimes it's not about autonomy, but simply the availability of tools. Lots of software for various industries is OS-specific, so you may not have a choice but to use a certain OS for work (usually Windows, but macOS in the case of iOS development).
Cheers for scientific revolutions being gentler than political ones. Cuddy lost her reputation rather than her head. But losing a reputation hurts more, or at least longer. More civility could have helped, but there's no painless way to lose status.

The scandal is that Cuddy's work met the standard of the bulk of published social science until lately. She studied the same phlogiston with the same tools as her colleagues. But when the revolution that comes for them, gently, is an epistemic advance, their pain is our gain. Join the revolution, comrad Cuddy!
Did you just suggest somebody leave their job because their employer wont let them install a software package on their mac-book?
It helps, but not enough to solve the overarching problem.
This article keeps asserting its core premise, but never offers any evidence. It cites people who agree with the premise that wealth is underserved, but this is not the same as an argument.

You don't need economic theory to refute an article like this - you simply need to point to reality. Every human need beyond picking wild berries off the trees takes effort to produce. The vast wealth of modern industrial society relies on complex forms of organisation and specialists in discovering and applying knowledge. Anyone's who's built a company, or even advanced in a demanding career, knows that success doesn't just fall in your lap. Beyond a certain point you have to really want to succeed and be willing to put in place the actions that lead to success.
I definitely agree that luck plays a part, but I like a phrase I've seen often here about "increasing your luck surface".

https://plus.google.com/116160612483689327039/posts/b3FPV13d...

Also mentioned on comments:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Lucky-discovering-ebook/dp/B0...
They just mean their releases come as a single binary file, so really it's "no installation dependencies".

This is remarkable in the static site generator world because many (jekyll, hexo, mkdocs) are modules installed via the language's package manager (jekyll is installed via "gem", etc). So you have to get the package manager working, then get any external dependencies working, THEN you can get started.
I've noticed over the years that comments seem to be moderated with political bias. I've been shadowbanned before for expressing conservative viewpoints (without breaking rules). Mods like their echochambers.
I agree with the sentiment but I think it very much depends on the role. I wouldn't expect iOS development to happen on another platform for instance. There are probably many niches with similar constraints.
Doing something is unproductive, and often counterproductive. It is the battle cry of doctors who prescribe unnecessary antibiotics because they cannot hurt and are what patients want, and wind up contributing to the development of antibiotic resistant microbes. It is the philosophy of politicians who make laws for show without solving problems (and often creating problems in the process).

Do not do something. Do something effective.

To suppose that the insect biomass is reduced because of problems with the environment, and that doing good things for the environment will help fix it, is sloppy, superstitious thinking. Will recycling help? Dunno. Will establishing a neighborhood cleanup crew help? Seems unlikely. Will raising awareness help? Only if it serves to better identify the problem or uncover a real solution.

Back when leaded gasoline was poisoning everyone, no amount of recycling, environmental advocacy, neighborhood cleanup, embarrassing politicians, etc., would have helped. The problem had to be understood well enough that people could be persuaded to agree to act in concert to solve it specifically and at great cost. This takes time and study.

Nature is not a moral agent. It will not heal and be kind simply because we act piously toward it. We must understand problems in the specific and fix them in the specific. If you want to help with this insect biomass thing, begin by studying it. Is it really happening? Is it really a problem? What is the cause? Then ask what we can do. Then try to persuade people to do it.

You can't skip steps. It sucks that it takes time and effort, it sucks that you can't just solve everything overnight, but it is the only way to be an agent of effective positive change rather than an agent of chaos.

I am committed to acting vigorously on problems that I know are real, in ways that I am convinced are effective. There is plenty of that to go around!
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I realize this may be a personal anecdote but I feel we get stressed when we're in great uncertainty, there's an endless list of tasks, and we don't seem to have control of anything. Sometimes I plan out breaks where I step away to do something else other than work and projects. The spiritual practice and the readings help to re-emphasize that even when I am deep in the trenches, I have a choice to take a break. It also helps to realize that I can be happy despite the circumstances, uncertainty and endless work. It's taught me to be little more patient, to be less harsh when things don't work out and persevere. Happiness within the chaos. You'll have to find what works for you but it's definitely there if you're seeking it.
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who lives on $500 a month? and the economy will simply adjust to absorb this increase anyway, so hence my comment about zero benefits. also, for young people at least,
"shitty" jobs build character, which seems ever more critical these days. after working a "shitty" job for a little while, a person may be motivated to better themselves, or at least get a better job.
What is it about, then?
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A point worth making is that this is not Google, it is Sidewalk Labs. I believe (ot maybe would like to believe) that part of the reason Alphabet was created was to remove these conflicts of interest.
As an old-ish guy who doesn't like people on my lawn, I agree with the sentiment.

A big struggle when balancing how to use the knowledge gained over decades of experience in today's context is trying to figure out which tools are needlessly complex and which bring real value to the table. What are the tradeoffs?

Makefiles aren't the glimmering beacon of simplicity I would lean on for an example but sure, they're less byzantine than webpack but you have to learn the syntax and other foibles along the way. Hell I used CMake back in the day when I was working on a big Lua/C/C++ app so that gives you an idea of my feels toward Make.

Far more common is the knee-jerk reflex to import a library for every damned thing. For stuff like a graphics library or mapping? Sure. Library for a data structure? Maybe? How much customization are you expecting to do to it? Will it work out of the box? Library for plumbing, like auto generating Redux action creators? Please don't do that. You're importing something that can probably be generalized for your case with a 10 line function.
Sorry for the confusion, but I'm talking about moving out of the vim ecosystem into Visual Studio or one of the Jetbrains IDEs or Eclipse when they can integrate an actual vim environment; not about moving from vim to neovim.
Postgres is actually much less solid, it's a database from the different era and doesn't come close to any post-CAP database, even to the infamous Mongodb.
Why would I want to remove a placebo if it works?

The placebo is false, it is not a truth.

Your reasoning seems to me to be constructs of your own making. My search is for truth in its simplest form, detached from human perceptions.

I do think that your thoughts are good, though perhaps not true.
I think it might be statically linked binary, so downloading and running the binary has no installation dependencies.
Besides that, the proposition that we should ignore one large industry because another is larger strikes me as obviously wrong.
Didn't Zuckerberg immediately issue a lot more shares and instantly sell them at the IPO?
Completely agreed!

And Microsoft is wasting opportunities even today. Windows is still very widely used yet they fail to capitalize on this. What was their solution? Advertisements! They lost a lot of user capital, so to speak, due to this.

To this day, you have to install paid software like Sandboxie if you want a macOS / FreeBSD-style-jails environment where apps can't meddle with one another (or the OS itself).

"But but but... it's gonna break this office's 20 year-old setup!" -- this is a very overstated danger. Microsoft has been really good at backwards compatibility. Sooner or later though, some sacrifices have to be made. If your accounting software relies on the ability to write to your entire disk, maybe it has to go. (Furthermore, I've successfully migrated one office's "database" and shared sheets to a dedicated small NAS machine and simply remounted their network dirs again to point to the new location. Took 15 minutes for an office with 5 machines.)

Several weeks ago there was a small discussion here in HN about OS-es morphing into a bunch of services you can use in a highly efficient manner. Of course most people scratched it off as "might break too much legacy software". Well, sure it could. Shouldn't be a reason why we shouldn't start and experiment along the way. I am sure the dangers are overstated anyway. Everybody is like "nooooo, the sky is gonna fall!" and nobody is actually willing to try.
Using stunnel is a genius idea.
You know someone went to MIT when...:P just kidding. Im currently studying mathematics in university can I shoot you an email? I'd love to hear about your experience there.
It's not free beer and free coffee, it's X% of $2,200 a month beer and Y% of $2,200 a month coffee.
Sometimes this is true, however there are many tricks that biotech companies use to prevent generics.

The first is the very high cost ($ billions) of getting through FDA approval for a drug. Once a company has done this approval, then other companies must show drug equivalence in order to produce generics that can stand in. They have to wait for the patents to expire, or figure out how to get around existing patents, but that's still not enough. They must show that their drug is equivalent to the existing drug. But this is not easy task, because the incumbent will do everything they can to prevent anyone else from getting the drug for research purposes. (e.g. the incumbent will claim that a particular company trying to get the drug does not fit their safety protocols, and thus refuse to provide the drug. Because the company cannot get access to the drug, they can't prove equivalence.)

Another method is that a prescription for one drug does not always guarantee that the prescription can be used for a generic drug of the same sort [0]. The incumbent company will spend lots on marketing by buying lunch for doctors, giving them notepads and pens, etc. Then, the doctor will write a prescription for that drug as write "Dispense as Written." This prevents the pharmacist from providing a generic alternative, even if they're biologically equivalent!

A final method is to develop a drug with a particular injection mechanism. For instance, if a drug company puts MDMA in a patch, then they can get a patent for the combination MDMA + patch, get approval, and then get doctors to prescribe it. (Maybe it provides a small dose over a long period?) This can occur even if MDMA was first synthesized a century ago. The prescription for the patch cannot be used for a pill form, or vice versa. This guarantees the drug company revenue as long as they can convince doctors to prescribe it.

So, to make a long story short, there are a lot of ways that drug companies guarantee their $$$ and prevent competitors from eating their lunch.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/some-doctors-insist-...
[or maybe the fact I watched a hundred million $ startup go down the drain in part due to bad engineering choices, of which Mongo was one, doesn’t entitle me to a negative opinion of Mongo]
shadowbanning is cowardly and cruel. If internet bullying is a thing then this is an example of such.
This business model has existed before WeWork, and I've used it. Here's an example: https://www.regus.com

Similar idea: free coffee, shared printer, power/internet access/etc.

It made sense for two people in one room. When it got to three or four in a bigger space, it made more sense to lease a dedicated two room office and setup our own internet connection, etc.
Seconding nearlyfreespeech.net for simple php sites, but for static I'd say either that or Github Pages.
That's not "software developers", though. And how many people would that actually be, not most I'd think...
When they hit a threshold, send them a check point event and kill and restart. Too bad chrome didn't thundering heard so hard when it comes back to life.
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