skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I myself actually usually prefer text to video, so I just search for tutorials and read the ones that I feel I understand... So I can't really recommend any classes (but if you see Karpathy listed as author then it's probably good :)). Do check out Kaggle - there is nothing better than playing with the best and learning from them.
Do some compound interest calculation on some of those and you'll see the problem.

Assume they've been doing it for years and years already.

There is a hard cap on some of those. Especially ad/content ratio and CTR. At some point, you're done. For many queries, ad/content ratio is already maxed.

Like, how do you optimize this further? It's a 2 page ad already, with links out to other ads that pay google. https://imgur.com/a/hAFas

Also, there is a point where that sours. Some consumers will bail once the ad overhead is too much. Either via ad blockers, or the next "Google".
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>> Why is the public still so naive about the "hidden costs" of cheaper?

Because it is not true. Apple products are considered luxury goods and the company is known for the horrendous treatment of their workers in Asia. And ALDI is a very cheap supermarket chain in Germany but pays and treats their employees better than some more expensive ones.

There might be a correlation but that means nothing for each individual purchase.
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Perhaps search “amazon sweatshop”? They are not hidden at all.

Nikes outsources manufacture to contractors outside the US where countries with horrible labor practices and labor laws and enforcement.
By analogy? They don't necessary have verbal structure either.

Use of spatial analogies for abstract concepts is common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor
Nice to see my hometown on the front page.

Saw the cover of this structure outside the Nuffield Health hospital a while ago and had no idea what it was.

Well I'll be damned!
I use Feedly for this exact thing! YouTube's recommendations were either distracting or just not relevant. Feedly embeds the video right in the reader so no going to YouTube even. And now I only get the videos I want to watch.
That is your unsubstantiated and overly general opinion.
When we had the building UPS replaced several years ago, the contractors accidentally left one of the neutral bars disconnected... everything was up and working fine, the switch was flipped to cut off mains and ensure the backup system could take over, and suddenly there were pops and smoke all over the place as hundreds of desktops, servers, network gear, etc got a dose of ~430v instead of 240. That was a very expensive test.
Phone calls in isolation are terrible. I've worked as support for both older and newer service providers. For the older provider, calls reached support agents with all the customer's information readily available, and support agents had easy means to invite customers to screen sharing sessions, so they could see what we were looking at and we could discuss it together.

That said, some customers weren't able to share screens (typically because they were working with classified systems), so I acquired the fairly uncommon skill of directing people through a Unix system by speaking commands letter by letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet while navigating through my own example system. That was slow, but it worked, and was necessary given the restrictions.

With my newer service provider, phone support is seen as some sort of extra option in case of emergencies, and is treated more or less as a pager system. Calls come in with no context, we do not have screen sharing, and the experience is generally terrible for both the customer and support agent.

No means of support is inherently bad, but all means of contacting support have their limitations. Good support departments recognize those limitations and address them, so that all avenues of support are effective for either addressing an issue or communicating why it must be handled via another channel if it's not something that can be resolved at the point of contact.
Just curious where you got this information? I did it online a few years ago and iirc I was able to opt out of all the spammy 'covienience' services offered by USPS affiliates
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I'm also getting crashes in Safari tech preview. Firefox developer ed. and chrome canary both run it, but Firefox can handle about twice as much as Chrome at roughly 2 million particles while still getting over 40FPS. Chrome slows down a lot with anything over a million. This is on a 2014 MBP.
If they were more sales focused, I would do the product/tech. If there were more of a CTO, I would do product/sales/business dev
The CommonCrawl dataset is another good source of host and subdomain information. The index server is here: http://index.commoncrawl.org There's a client referenced on that page.

[ec2-user@x cdx-index-client]$ ./cdx-index-client.py -c CC-MAIN-2017-43 '*.ycombinator.com'
2017-11-11 22:50:08,381: [INFO]: Getting Index From http://index.commoncrawl.org/CC-MAIN-2017-43-index
2017-11-11 22:50:08,387: [INFO]: Starting new HTTP connection (1): index.commoncrawl.org
2017-11-11 22:50:08,468: [INFO]: Fetching 2 pages of *.ycombinator.com
2017-11-11 22:50:08,477: [INFO]: Starting new HTTP connection (1): index.commoncrawl.org
2017-11-11 22:50:08,478: [INFO]: Starting new HTTP connection (1): index.commoncrawl.org
2017-11-11 22:50:10,409: [INFO]: 1 page(s) of 2 finished
2017-11-11 22:50:11,711: [INFO]: 2 page(s) of 2 finished
[ec2-user@x cdx-index-client]$ awk -F')' '{print $1}' domain-y* | sort | uniq -c
66 com,ycombinator
38 com,ycombinator,apply
500 com,ycombinator,blog
2 com,ycombinator,fellowship
2 com,ycombinator,macro
24036 com,ycombinator,news
25 com,ycombinator,old
2 com,ycombinator,ycblog
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The Feral Child

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
No, it is actually a RSS reader. It just tries to solve the information overload problem by curating the news sources for you. If you have a small number of sources you still can get to all of the information. In order to add a feed, just paste in the rss link and its in your reader.
Unfortunately it doesn't work that way, the ones that DO give you the option to be 'do not call' will forward your number to other spammers, actually increasing the spam calls you get. Do not ask them to put you on the d-n-c list!

Here's what does work (in my experience): answer the call, but say nothing, heck, mute your phone mic if you have to. Just give them silence. I'm not sure if there's some 'person on the other end' detection algorithm or what, but I went from 10-15 spam calls a day to 1 every few days. It took a little while, but it worked. Just don't answer strange numbers with a 'hello?', if someone's trying to reach you, they'll usually say it first.
Why Russia's first attempt at the internet failed
Thanks, no such luck here unfortunately, direct podcast link worked however, for anyone in the same boat: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/indie-hackers-podcast-ho...
The startup? Is that what you are referring to?
That sort of op has better tools already.
I'm glad to hear that. I've definitely seen it mentioned by a bunch of experts/academics as if it were accepted fact (Jordan Peterson is the only one that comes right to mind).

I think the idea might partly come from the dream-like quality of ancient myths, but I feel like that underestimates the ability of people to partition those myths from daily life. It's not like our current religious stories are exactly logical.
Oh, FFS, no they don't.

What they do is notify companies that already have your address of your new address. So (for example) your phone company and your magazine subscriptions are told of your new address.

They don't sell or disclose phone numbers.

There is also no way to opt out.
Technology doesn't magically become qualified and tested by itself, it's something you have to do.
In the same vein, I've always thought that operating on short (< 1s) video clips would help a lot with overfitting and object differentiation.
Can we please add a [2005] to the title?

Though they themselves are confused about the history of the actual article:

> Added to the site on 16-11-04

> This page was added on 22/03/2006.

I lived in England for a few years. Coming from Australia, where we have precious little surviving historical structures, either pre or post white settlement, there's a weird combination of envy, surprise, and shock at the Brit's track record.

The 'Lost gardens of Heligan'[1] are a good example, with a happy ending. Nearby, at Lyme Regis, a watermill[2] dating from the 1300's (perhaps a couple of centuries earlier) had, as recently as 1991, been been at risk from the local council of being pulled down and replaced with townhouses and retail outlets.

Hearing that, while standing in a beautiful/historic/functional building that's 3-5x older than anything we had back home, was surreal.

I appreciate the line needs to be drawn somewhere. There's an abundance of structures that I see around me each day that I'd be happy to see gone, and even if - perhaps especially if - they were still standing in a millennia, I'd encourage the demolition of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Gardens_of_Heligan

[2] http://www.townmill.org.uk/
Lmfao man needs a shrink.
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I had a couple of episodes of sleep paralysis where I experienced auditory hallucinations. Often times, the voices I heard were clear as day, which was strange since I wore ear plugs during a lot of these experiences.

Also, I saw an article on the news about a treatment involving VR for people who hears voices in their head. In the video, the person described the voices as distinct and she could even interact with them.

So I would say there's something to explore there.
If everybody who received spam calls wasted 5 minutes of the caller's time, then the whole problem would not exist.
I've stopped impulse buying on Amazon last year and haven't looked back.
An iPhone is a computer. When I was younger (the 1970s) I learned to program with a notepad and simulated running the code, since we couldn't afford a computer. Grrrr. :-)
awd ide for andriod is what I use. It's not bad but the ads are annoying. Only editor with sftp support without paying.
I agree, I really dislike the move to everything by text. Text has it’s place for communication (HN is a perfect example) however it is far easier to work through something even remotely complicated with voice instead of text. We speak much faster than we type, we can add inflexions and tone to convey meaning in a way that text can’t (although emoji help) and, most importantly, there are no typos when talking.

My job requires interacting with lots of people, be it customers, suppliers, investors I can easily interact with 100 people a day who are not onsite and by mid afternoon I look forward to those I can deal with on the phone - even just for two minutes as it’s a break from typing. I often thank suppliers for calling when I answer as I know it’s a chance for some wider bandwidth communications that won’t require numerous back and forths.
If you are pulling in 200 dependencies you're going to be in the grey zone fairly frequently.
Well if you don't mind me asking, what kind of annual returns are you generating? If you're in the 7-8% range you're probably about as "optimized" as you can be, assuming your 401(k) is only giving access to large index funds.

Another trick you can use is switch to a Roth 401(k). It means you'll be taxed on your savings today, but when you retire they'll be tax free. Now this is total speculation here, but I'm kind of assuming taxes will be pretty high in the coming decades as we try to keep social security going and pay down deficit spending, not too mention dealing with climate change fallout.

Also good for you on keeping all your money in the 401(k) accounts, some people cash them out when they change jobs which triggers penalities and taxes. If you can however, I would roll all your accounts in to one giant 401(k) so you can better keep track of what's going on.
I'm pretty happy they did, since it made me aware of feedly, which is much nicer!
Karpathy beautifully phrases what I felt before. This is important. Slightly frustrating too if you come from a 'hardcoding' background, but there is hope that many non-data problems remain to be solved. Data is software.
At least in the Linux world, this is part of the value that Linux distributions can offer. Distributions like Fedora and openSUSE tend to lead the pack here by actively testing updates before they're merged into the distribution repositories, and developing tooling for supporting continuous verification of everything working together.

c.f. Koji+Bodhi for Fedora, Open Build Service for openSUSE, and the OpenQA instances for both distributions.
Yeah, but I feel there's at least like a 30%+ chance that their attempt to make this mandatory will stop in its tracks. I just don't see corporations being okay with it.
they don't need to do any of this bullshit. if you let the people complain easily without fear of losing visa status then all the fraud will be wiped out automatically. I know very well how companies(including places i have worked for before) and lawyers combine together and circumvent the rules often times illegal if caught. government should learn from canada and implement a merit based system . Presidential Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American said something about implementing a merit based system but nothing has been done so far.
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How did people lose their retirement investments in 2008? Most of the stories I've heard where people lost all of their retirement around 2008 involved doing things were considered fairly risky before 2008 hit. Were there people who lost all their retirement who were following typical retirement investment strategies?

Edit: And to be clear, I know the value of almost everyone's investments went down, but unless your money was all in a single company it seems that most diversified portfolios bounced back.
Sure individuals can make dumb decisions with their money, like try to time the market. But so can companies when it comes to managing pension funds. This includes not funding future liabilities, since you likely won't be the one responsible when the payments become due.
Yes, that’s a better phrase.
Ada is a language that I really want to like, but I've never been able to get enthusiastic about it.

That being said, SPARK and the affiliated tools (particularly gps (? Programming Studio?) are much nicer to use than the other formal verification tools I've tried. (Frama-C, much as I do like it, is obviously more a research project; Dafny is undocumented. I haven't tried any of the Java options.)

https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/08/programming-language-sy...
People are arithmetically challenged. People also like to boast about doing good etc. Typically they realize how stupidly naive they were just around the time they no longer have ability to say "That's nice to know. So how much are you going to pay me?"

The down votes on calling spade a spade demonstrate it quite well
I think you're underestimating how hard these people have worked their whole lives.
The issue is not one of not working. It's one of lower class wages.
If you work your while life and do all the things society expects of you but still end up screwed. That's a systemic problem not a lazy person problem.
Which is why you shouldn't feel sad. You probably couldn't have realised that value anyway, unless you had those skills.
Roll all of your 401K's over into a single Roth IRA. I lost track of one for years until I went to work for another company that had a 401K with the same firm as my previous employer. It's easier to keep track of and mentally manage and last time I was in a 401K you are limited to a specific hand picked set of funds that may or may not be that great. Invest the Roth IRA 100% into index or age specific target retirement funds, off the top of my head there's a Vanguard 2040 or 2045 fund or equivalent at other mutual fund companies.
Or maybe they are showing you what most people want, on the grounds that most people search for the same stuff.

In the context of billions of users doing billions of searches, HN readers could be fairly extreme outliers...
Java gets this right.

for (int i : someCollection) {
pool.execute(() -> something(i));
}

Because "i" is effectively final, each Runnable closes over the correct value for that iteration. If "i" were being reassigned, the closure wouldn't be allowed to use it, you'd have to decide whether to close over a final copy or a reference to a mutable object that holds the latest value over time (a one-element array is the idiom).
It's necessary if your house has poor cellular reception.
You're radically exaggerating.

Yelp? I don't see how that's a particularly good example. Priceline is 27 times their size in market cap.

Let's examine that withering though. Yelp sales by year:

2014: $377 million

2015: $549 million

2016: $713 million

2017: likely ~$850 million

Is that massive growth what qualifies as withering these days?

How about Zillow? Tracking to $1 billion in sales, growing very nicely still. Expedia also has a very good business, they just printed a huge quarter ($481m in operating income).

How about Uber and Airbnb? $100 billion in market cap, both fast growing businesses.

Netflix, $83 billion market cap, 100 million paying subscribers, still growing nicely.

How about Spotify? Over 60 million subscribers. Beating Apple, Amazon, Pandora and Google at streaming music.

How about Pinterest? They've just begun the process of making money with their platform. Things are looking just fine for them. Neither Facebook nor Google have been able to harm them in any meaningful way.

Since we're talking about Google and Amazon, let's switch gears into payments.

PayPal is a monster.

Stripe and Square are killing it.

How about in code, given we're talking about Google. Github? Google is a non-issue. Stackoverflow? No threats on the horizon, they have a serious, viable long-term business.

eBay and Craigslist are doing just fine. Amazon hasn't so much as dented either of them. eBay is printing $2 billion annually in net income and has an extremely healthy business. Even lowly Groupon is planning to stick around, they're doing $3b in sales and are now break-even.

Shopify is also killing it right now. $10 billion market cap, with a business that has grown by ~5 fold in four years (72% sales growth in their most recent quarter).

Then we get into dozens of other major web businesses, like LegalZoom, Coinbase, Redfin, DraftKings, GoDaddy, Shutterstock, Automattic, SoFi, Houzz, Lyft, Slack, Dropbox, Etsy, GrubHub, Credit Karma, SurveyMonkey, Reddit, Shutterfly and so on.

And that's while ignoring the vast array of major cloud businesses and enterprise companies, many of which compete with Google and Amazon (or will soon). Companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Akamai, Digital Ocean and dozens more.
Very impressive stuff. We should see more and more of this sort of assistive technology, to alleviate and improve on the manual labour of programming. This isn't a language issue, although perhaps this sort of branch annotation in production systems is the sort of thing a futuristic language runtime might offer.
At this point, I have to assume that it's deliberate at some level. There is so much low-hanging fruit for improving the customer experience that it's no longer plausible to me that most call centers have that as a genuine goal.
I easily waste 10 minutes per online support chat waiting for the agent to deal with the 4 other cases they are on, fixing my typos because typing is worse than speaking and dealing with the context switching that comes from doing other stuff whilst waiting for them to respond.

Much better to start the call, get through the menu and then put my phone on the desk either on speaker or with a hands free set and doing something else whilst waiting for them, once I get the person on the phone I can then focus on the call and not other things.
In the same vein, I do not understand the popularity of semantic versioning.
Why would I trust hundreds of people that their non-breaking changes are really non-breaking to me?

And suddenly, the auto-scaling fails in production because something has updated to include a new bug.
Not sure if you actually want financial advice but here goes:

Buy a low cost diversified ETF. Take all your options, sort on management expense, and read the description. Not sure about your personal preferences and needs, but you're still young so you can be relatively risky. Buy 75% of the cheapest diversified stock fund and 25% of the cheapest diversified bond fund.

It doesn't have to be too complicated. You just have to not make very bad decisions (all stocks a year before retirement, or all cash for decades). And avoid high fees
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I was there for "Isn't that putting Descartes before the whores?" and now this :).

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cfbkx/im_85_cert...
Morality is actually purely visual to me. It's daydreams about scenarios, their outcomes, even the expression on people's faces. Just about everything is visual to me.
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My understanding is that all of us do our logical reasoning spatially, but there are different interfaces to it (visual, verbal, tactile, audible, etc), and each person is likely to have preferences among those. I find words to be a powerful medium between my memory and reasoning; it’s a good indexing system for memories/associations, and by carefully verbalizing and interpreting, I can load up a new spatial reasoning context and perform whatever evaluation is necessary.
It's interesting reading this because I also feel like I've been living a desperate, nomadic life.

There was a period of time in the past 2 years when I didn't have a home and stayed at various places on AirBnb while working remotely. The worst part was when I ran out of money because opportunities dried up on the work platform I was using. At the time I was in Russia with a dependent partner; we had gone there because of the low cost of living brought on by US sanctions. So I can relate to the feeling of being constantly forced to follow the money wherever it takes you. It's stressful and disorientating.

I don't understand how anyone in their 50s can sustain this lifestyle without going insane.
> m.nn.pp-alpha-rc0 may convey meaning to the author, but it is meaningless to users because the 'alpha' and 'rc0' mean different things in different libraries, based on their release processes

I don't think you are using the word "meaningless" correctly. rc0 may not mean exactly the same thing in different software packages, but it always means the first release candidate. Thus, it is not meaningless - it conveys meaning. And if the user wants, they can look up that software package, and find out exactly what rc0 means, gaining even more meaning from the description. Perhaps you are trying to say that rc0 doesn't convey as much information as quickly as the alternative you are proposing?
Ditto ... I would write programs, and generate output on cards using colored pencils. I learned a lot from that.
Just don’t answer, or, better yet, stick your phone on silent or do not disturb when you are busy. you’re projecting that emotion on to the caller, I see an incoming call as an indication that someone would like to speak to me, it a demand for attention. If I can’t take the call I won’t answer and will call them back (or email to arrange a more suitable time) when I can.