skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the sole signer on my 401k. Activist investors, short-term-thinking CEOs, state Republican parties, etc. can and routinely do choose to run pension funds into default. Heck, I trust my employer but I don’t trust it to be solvent in 40 years.
There's a difference between "opinions" and "facts."
I think if you're aware and you're trying that's about as moral as you can get.

If I didn't have aging parents to consider I'd go live in a cave, with a massive stack of book.
It's specifying a hard salary requirement.
Even if you subscribed to this bizarre principle that it's rude to call someone unannounced, you could always just ask by text.
The tip: “If you can get me X, I’ll accept the offer right away.”
> I remember having read somewhere about some company (Facebook/Google/Amazon/Twitter/Dropbox or something at the same scale) that regularly simulates a whole datacenter failure

It was Google: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516 ("Weathering the Unexpected" [2012])
I'm sorry to say that this pun was much more obvious than the Descartes one. The latter was just... inspired.
And I'd like to add that I am really skeptical of replacing this job with software, considering that facilities management in these buildings always seems to be barely holding it together.

I think a $50k employee can be more responsive / adaptable than a computer program whose administrative credentials are misplaced 2 weeks after installation. And probably cheaper, too.
Sorry, what?

Even the supreme court of the United States of 'but muh free speech' America has struck down the notion of threats of violence being a form of protected speech.

Also, where in sweet jesus do you come from that threats of horrific violence--anything short of aggravated assault--is COMPLETELY above-board?

If you use this language with your coworkers, you are liable to be fired. If you use this language with your subordinates, you are liable to be fired and charged with harassment. If you use this language to a server at a restaurant, you are liable to be expelled from the property.

Notably, if you use this language on Hacker News, your account will get thrown directly into the Sun.

This language is not tolerable, and it is absolutely not harmless (want citations?).
I think this is the first time I’ve heard Discordianism described as “more serious” than something.
my favorite tip is to say "I really want to work for your company, but the salary isn't where I would like it to be. What can you do to improve the number."
Often employers have some room to move and this way you don't have to give a hard salary requirement.
Only thing that I would imagine would fix it would be 1.) An expansive light rail and BRT network going out to several of the suburban counties
2.) Congestion charges
3.) fixing the damn schools so people want to live in this county and don’t commute
4.) fix the horrible urban bus system so you don’t have to go downtown first before you can go anywhere else
Mass transit is just like any other capital intensive fixed industry — they tend to go out of business a lot without implicit or explicit subsidy. Most of the New York City MTA system was built out of the ashes of defunct rail and bus companies that were devastated by inflation, bad business decisions, inability to handle maintenance costs or inability to raise capital.

Today most US mass transit is controlled by public authorities which are like a .gov/corporate hybrid.

Telecom has similar problems, but went a different route, where AT&T was able to secure a monopoly to build out the network in exchange for public utility status and some regulatory strings. Since privatization, telecom has gone back to that model to deliver long-term profit, gobbling up cable and media. Except this time they are dumping the public utility part.
$5.2 billion for around 25 miles of light rail? Honestly by American standards that’s pretty affordable. Denver spent a similar amount for much more rail but in the process got a commuter rail line where the grade crossings don’t work.
You've obviously never met someone serious about their Discordianism. I suggest not commenting on the hot dog eating habits.
Compared to heating a water tank, it would be a much more responsible use of power to fire up some folding@home images.

Perhaps a more financially responsible solution would be to spin up a bunch of instances that mine some sort of cryptocurrency. I doubt it'd cover electricity costs, but it could offset it some.
>We as individuals CAN decide where we spend your money.

Yeah, but then most people just don't care.

I'm just really glad nobody is asking me to boycott slave-produced southern cotton if I really want slavery to go away.
Typing forces people to think before they act. It is marvelous. Synchronous communication is overrated. A well written message of a few sentences can replace an hour of talking.
Leaving the county for the schools is definitely "white flight".

(I also live in Davidson county and even ran for school board).
15%-20% marketshare in the smartphone category and yet they capture ~90% of the profits.

To me, that's definitely a type of domination.
I find it rather vain of folks to think humanity should care forever about their personal experiences

That it won’t happen again or be known is part of the intrigue to me.

Why do we need to keep propagating our own contemporary fascinations forward in time?

We’re each going to die and very few of us will leave behind truly novel ideas that humanity can rely on

Most of our experiences are emotionally novel for us, and that specific time and place creates that novelty.

What makes them so will be completely lost on future people. So much information is inaccessible to them when reading about it or watching a poorly shot video

And to me that’s the cool part about having been there.

I’d rather folks go on creating such experiences for themselves than watch my highlight reel and never really get since they weren’t there
I wonder how this works for 3D game engines? It would be positively insane if AI could automate one of the most complex and high skill requirement positions in the video game industry.
I would think it's actually engineering job that is more at risk. Artists and animators will visually create these games and AI will figure out the code.
If you're a working programmer looking for a bit more depth on text searching, check out Taming Text by Ingersoll. It was written by some real pros, and it's very practical. It goes over everything from the first naive approaches to what drives many engines like Lucene today.

https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Text-Find-Organize-Manipulate/...
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Actually, I think the Google-provided map of hotels is a lot more useful to me as a search user than almost everything else likely to be returned from a spammy-hellhole-producing search term like this one.

I don't know how to make such search terms useful again. Maybe by aggressively delisting anything that reeks of SEO, has ads or otherwise wants to sell something. If that filters out everything but the personal homepage of Johnny S. Hotels of Las Vegas, then so be it.
I did something similar when I negotiated my first job after grad school. I responded to the initial offer with: I can start on ___ date for $___/yr (more than the initial offer), they countered about a tad lower than what I asked and I accepted. Seemed to work well. I didn't have multiple offers but had a year left on my current post-doc contract so I didn't need to go anywhere right away.
But it is 25 miles of light rail to get you to a city with a VERY inefficient bus system that has historically struggled to gain riders.

I suspect there are more people in Nashville using ride-share than are using public transit.
Why the downvote? The world is rife with people making claims like this but not putting their money where their mouth is...
How can you do this via settings in Android? I've spent hours searching for the answer and have yet to find it.
rereading my words i realize i was ambiguous; i didnt mean to say that 刀 and 刃 were unified (how would i have written them?) but that unifying those characters across multiple languages is ignoring that they have nuanced meaning based on what language they're in.

then add in your point that the written forms themselve are diverging over time.
Just the opposite, I think. The promise of computers has always been to take over boring work so that humans can focus on the more interesting bits. Artists will always have something to do.
When I want to figure something out, I find it helps to express it in words, written or spoken. So I could say my way of thinking is verbal more than visual or anything else. But I have the sense that I have a "background task" running that finds the answer to a problem while my conscious mind is forming the verbal expression. I am not sure I do analysis with the aware part of my mind. I also have the odd sense that I cannot think clearly about a problem while looking over someone's shoulder, but when I sit down at my own computer, putting my hands on my own keyboard allows me to concentrate.
Is that true even with a power of attorney?
Google maps is useful, no doubt. But surely they are monetizing it, not always by presenting what's best for you.
Clickbait, but great results all the same
Well, sure, for just a normal signature we use daily. Poster was talking about making the signature artful. It doesn't matter if it is legible or not at that point, but it still takes some control to pull off.
The reason ALDI pays employees really well is because the entire store is run with only a few employees at a time. A significant portion of the value you get from the store (cheap prices) is because their labor costs are low. I'd go as far to say that the real thing you are buying at ALDI is products that don't have a lot of labor waste built into the price. I've heard most places have 2 to 4 working at a time, but I've seen stores where a single employee is running everything.

Every employee I've seen there is working very hard the entire time. Before they added scanners, they were required to memorize the price of every item in the store. They pay more because they will not get the type of employee they need by paying less. While most of the people who are a good fit for ALDI like it there, you can find many reviews saying the work was too hard and that there was too much pressure.

If you look at retired RVers who have written about working at Amazon.com, you'll find many who felt that while the work was hard, it was good work and paid well (especially with holiday overtime) but you had to be willing (and physically capable) of doing hard work.

Like you say, the cost of each individual purchase from a company has little to do with how much they pay their employees. There is a much stronger correlation between employees who are doing hard things that add significant value and higher pay.
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Wasn’t a huge fan of KDX, probably because of the community I was engaged with on Carracho at the time. But good to hear it is still running. Might download the client and have a look!
For sure:

"The new, modified version, Creative Adversarial Networks (CAN), is designed to generate work that does not fit the known artistic styles, thus “maximizing deviation from established styles and minimizing deviation from art distribution,” according to the paper. For the training, they used 81,449 paintings by 1,119 artists in the publicly available WikiArt data set."

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rutgers-artificial-intelli...
Brilliant! I've had the (dis?)pleasure of spending hours with people like this in real life. They certainly are entertaining.
There’s a good summary by Two Minute Papers here: https://youtu.be/2VyhmbEjs9A
I just remember that another reason why I don't have white paint is about mobile layout. If you check the 320px-width mobile really quick, you will find there is no space for extra paint, because I need to keep the paint large enough to be touchable. But still, your point is valid, so I'll consider that in the next version.

But your second point is brilliant! Really appreciated!
Aside from the dense and compact NYC subway, is there any transit system in the USA that people would say is a great example to follow?
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It really depends. St. Louis has built light rail along existing rail ROWs in rural areas, inside existing Downtown tunnels, and through new urban tunnels built specifically for light rail.

The costs vary wildly along each of those segments.

$5 billion to build new tunnels? That's a bargain. Along rural ROWs? That's a boondoggle.
This seems like a puff piece that does nothing to capture the debate around this proposal that is taking place in Nashville.

Yes, there are state-level politics involved, but there are a LOT of Nashville residents that are strongly against this plan on the grounds that it will be outdated and under-utilized before it is ever completed.

The Mayor's PR machine and the local Chamber are working hard to create support for this proposal, but it will be an uphill battle and will likely fail with the voters.
They aren’t evolving we are making them better.

There are plenty of robots that already exceed humans at their specific tasks my dishwasher is much better than me so is my washing machine.
That's better but it's still kind of imposing. We are not socially wired to be compatible with the technology to magically steal people's attention from space.
> SKB: When the SubGenius was originally created, it was the trickle-down theory and Reaganomics. Those policies destroyed our middle class then, and it’s still affecting us today.

I don't buy the argument that Reagan's policies destroyed the American middle class.

Based on every available statistic, the middle class has been in decline since the early 1970s, a decade before Reagan was president.
That is just hilarious. Loved it!
What a terrible idea.

If my package is named "LeftPad-17", what's to stop someone else from creating a package named "LeftPad-18", which innocent folk may assume is the latest version of LeftPad.

A project name is semantically different from the version number of that code.
Why is it illegal? Alcohol is vastly more dangerous than LSD. That's the real difference, so it's curious that the legality is the other way around.
Chicago’s rail system (“The L” elevated line + Metra hub and spoke to the suburbs) as well as the CTA bus system are very good.

My suggestions to improve would be better funding for light rail, dedicated lanes for buses that other vehicles can’t enter, priority access at intersections, and a congestion charge to enter the core (“The Loop”).

EDIT: Dropped "light" from "light rail system".
How can it be outdated? Do residents think self-driving cars will take over by the time the system is ready?
Cancer patient dies from blunt trauma. News at 11.
> Since when is 3D printing a production method instead of a prototyping one?

When you have horrifically expensive, complicated, low-volume parts.

In addition, 3D printing can do some amazing things for things that have weird liquid flows (like rocket engines) because they don't have any seams when printed vs machined/stamped/cast.
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It's relentless. I've never seen anything like this. Everyday the media has an attack piece on social media and tech companies.

Just a few hours before this story, we had one titled "Is it time to stop trusting Google search?".

It's as if someone gave a command and all the media is acting in unison.

Lets see what stories tomorrow brings. Honestly, there hasn't been a day in a few months without an attack on social media and tech companies.
I remember the analysts opinion on Facebook pre-IPO. Virtually no revenue. One year later Facebook presented their first gains. While I was sure Facebook would be able to do it back then, I don't see it with Snap.

They could profit from Snapcash though. How about integrating some Patreon-esque function where you can unlock private feeds by payment/subscription? For some art-forms that could really work out well.
I have a Google Voice number, and phone set to ring only for people on a whitelist. So I pick the phone only from family and friends and calls that I expected. Everybody else gets to leave a voice message. I get a transcription on email and call back if it's worth it. If they don't leave a voice message, that means it wasn't important.
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We also have surface to air missiles....

Say some one builds a fleet of 50,000 autonomous drones that fleet goes Skynet and kills a bunch of people but some one would have to maintain, rearm and refuel that fleet.

Even if for some reason the fleet would come with some autonomous logistical capacity it will eventually run out of fuel or munitions.

For a robot uprising to work they would have to have the same agency as the human civilization that built them and that is highly unlikely to ever happen.
WMATA used to be a great system, at least from an infrastructure perspective. However the governance structure lead to a dysfunctional board, which has subsequently neglected the infrastructure. If they turn WMATA in to a voting district where the board is directly accountable to voters that could hopefully improve things.

While I'm less well versed in the governance issues of the MTA, it seems as though control should be passed back to local voters, as the NYC subway has been dealing with a fair amount of issues as of late also, and it appears the governor and mayor can't agree on who's fault it is and who should fix it.
Also, radicals and roots can adjust shape to accommodate the partner, so they can vary in exact shape from one character context to another.
The question is if you would recognize the difference if they weren’t side by side.

I am trying to teach myself Japanese, which allegedly is easier than Chinese. Hiragana as far as I can tell makes no internal sense. The characters for yo and ya don’t incorporate elements from o or a. And when you are done eh Hiragana you realize that it is on its own not enough to actually communicate in Japanese, so now in addition to those 46 characters, you have to memorize 2-4 thousand kanji. Oh man that is disheartening. I keep plugging away but it is slow going.
This was from Oct 19th and is somewhat old news by now.
This makes me happy. I started using Lyft in SF back in 2012 and I've always thought their drivers were friendlier and flat out more fun to ride with than Ubers.

I understand that a lot of people may not enjoy that kind of ride, but it's nice to see that level of customer service start to win out.
There are however tools like QuickCheck (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck) that can bombard the function with large amounts of random (but legal) input data and makes sure it's behaving.
Interesting. Installed hanazono font HanaMinPlus.ttf in Firefox as J-default and even in this comment section the distinction between katakana 'n' and 'so' is quite clear whereas using MS Gothic it's somewhat ambiguous. Even more so when the two fonts are juxtaposed in LibreOffice.
That's true when you're lucky. But if you're someone who does package development and methods research, you're usually not lucky. This is why pretty much all of the top / mainly used Python packages have lots of C++ and Fortran in there. As someone who develops algorithms rather than just using packages, I found this to infringe on my productivity in Python, whereas making Julia packages "production-quality" is straight forward, so even with the smaller userbase I think it's worthwhile to develop in Julia instead.
You might need less artists or be able to create more games with the same number.
The same reason the pharmacy puts your order into a brown paper bag even though you only bought some cough drops: That it provides cover for the next customer, who's buying hemorrhoid cream or whatever. If you only encrypt the sensitive stuff then encryption flags your stuff as sensitive.
Which one(s)?
Q is what do you want to do with the site.
If you think in your heart of hearts, you want to grow it, get that offer in writing and raise a seed round , or ask the guy to be an angel.

If you do want to sell it, ask your buyer how they came to that conclusion.
$5/user is okay but on the low side if you are monetizing per user
No shit. That's why it's done, and then used in production. That's the whole point.
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There's some work (in the CA/B?) to allow "redacting" certain information from CT logs. I don't recall all the details but I do remember reading an e-mail thread (maybe linked from HN?) about it in just the last week or so.
> “There is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a depth of formless feeling untouched by thought.”
- Rilke
The BART system is designed to be fully automatic. However each train still has drivers. The reason is because of of other people. Here are a few instances where a human operator has been able to do things an automated system would struggle with.

Able bodied individuals weren't leaving the priority seating to make room for a disabled person. So the operator first reminded people to make room. After that failed he threatened to leave his cab and make someone leave their seat. A computer couldn't do that. At worst it could halt the train until the cops showed up, which would probably be a sub-optimal way to handle asshole passengers.

There was police activity causing a halt to all train service. As a result the operator manually connected their train with one that was already in the station so the passengers could leave.

Another situation involved a sick passenger. The paramedics forgot to alert the operator they had picked up the passenger, so the operator had to verify everything was taken care of before departing. In an emergency the paramedics may not have the time or ability to coordinate with central control or whoever oversees the system.
The law is probably not much help if they're scammers calling from overseas.

Criminals from India call us here in AUS pretending to be from some legitimate call centre, advising us of some non-existent government rebate.
Is the 'unspecified' rendering supposed to be the same as the 'popular' rendering (on the right); or is it supposed to be the one in the middle?

For me seemingly every example's left most and right most column (for the sets of 3) looked identical, while the middle form was different.
I’m with you on this. I actually keep a list on my phone of songs that have given me that feeling over the years. I suspect it will be a “fun”, if emotional, thing to look back on when I’m older.
I understand, thank you. (Though a lot of inexact pattern matching is done with using exact pattern matching of substrings with the pidgeonhole principle.)

Tries led to suffix trees led to suffix arrays led to Burrows-Wheeler transform led to FM index, which is probably the best way to do an offline search.

If you haven't looked at BWT indexing, it's worth at least checking out. It preserves the advantages you speak of with linear memory cost with the search space. It's a lot more hairy to implement, unfortunately.
> At what point does personal responsibility kick in?

That only kicks in for people with IQs >= 120 and good mental self control. So basically never.