skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about specializing in a platform or language makes it hard to fashion a value proposition for it relative to one’s competitors in the market? (Not disagreeing; just trying to wrap my head around this. Also, I think your comments in this thread have been super useful.)
Found a bug -- they override the browser's scrollbar.
Mind you, by the sound of it, “experts” don’t invest in startups, or steer their direction, but just act as an oracle-like source of answers to questions. Whatever their opinion on Thiel, Thiel himself probably wouldn’t be interested in joining such a group. It’s all responsibility and no power.
He's not the one that made the claim. Look at the usernames.
Hey how did you have your weekend today and tomorrow I will need you for dinner at four I can do you want me a little late lunch
I agree that this article was superbly written, but hubris really is the best word I can find to describe Max. Blundering a knight on move 11 is rookie chess. This is not an impressive feat. His pullup "success" is laughable. Lastly, can we kill the trope that solving a rubik's cube is impressive? It's deceptively simple and the algorithms are well within reach (google).
Vice: ‘When the Fuck Are They Going to Address Sexual Harassment?’
Yes, those are real words written by a real person, stored on a real server and delivered to you by a real Internet.

A better question might be: "Is this really a copy of a letter written by a particular person to another particular person describing a particular incident?" to which the answer is "No."

An even better question might be: "Do the problems outlined in this document really occur?" to which the answer is "Yes, frequently."
That's doubly fishy, since it has an airbrake.

[My caveat on this, I'm not a road-car enthusiast, so I'm just deducing. But I used to work in motor racing, mostly bikes. Based on the standard of reporting I saw about stuff I did know well, I don't trust the motor press on tech claims.]
> Maybe it comes from being picked on as a kid, I like to stand up for the little guy.

Isn't that the opposite of being a jerk? Like, isn't that being kind?
Shit, you are my long-lost brother, apparently! I tried to get out earlier this year and it didn't take. I have means, I just have no idea about what else to do.
Irak war was also a political loss, and the "reconstruction" (almost alone, without inviting former iraki interest holder, like Total, or emerging country like Russia and/or China) was a moral, political and tactical mistake, and made the US loose a lot of cultural influence imo, at least in France and Germany.
But i agree that the confirmation bias in the article is obvious.
I feel like any channel where parents are getting kids to do things, and the videos are getting high enough view counts that the owner is probably making a serious profit from them, should be under extreme scrutiny.

There is simply too much room for emotional manipulation as the parent pushes the boundaries on what they're making the kids do -- or even, at its most benign, simply pushing the kids to keep being in front of the camera, long after the kid wishes the channel would stop.

Parents should not be earning money off their kids. The balance of power simply isn't right for that to work in many cases.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but time and again we get examples from YouTube showing why this can be terrible for the kids.
Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely address your points, and I really appreciate the constructive criticism :)
When I was about 6 I thought very highly of it. Now that I'm 30, even thinking about it makes me feel a little ill.
In my opinion, this was long overdue. Anyway, Ycombinator maybe strategically getting ready for a world without trump. Having people who supported this type of a Person won't be a good look in the future.
>”Just form another group, then don't invite Thiel to the new group"

Conceptually, this is also how VCs wash out founders.
Almost a case here for someone to start up a BBaaS (Bug Bounty as a Service)?

They could act as the 'go between' for the SaaS or manufacturer, as well as protect the privacy (and possibly identity) of the bounty hunters. The BBaaS could have tried and tested boilerplate terms and conditions for both parties, as well as handle the reward payouts and filing/validating of reports.
> I fucking hate it here. The wealth disparity is palpable, and people understandably resent it.

Then go find somewhere where you don't hate it.

> At least you'll make enough money in a few years - not having any people-y things to spend it on - to move somewhere else and really try to contribute to something. Seattle resents contribution.

Please provide some examples of "Seattle resents contribution".

I can see why people wouldn't like you though: you're apparently a rentier who has no interest in contributing back to the place that you're benefiting from.

> Nobody treats you like a human being if you're in tech.

Have you ever been working class? Worked retail, food service? It ain't great, I'll take working in tech in terms of "being treated like a human."
The title strongly implies the hardware is intentionally being bricked.

Being put out of commission by downed servers is still pretty terrible, but intentionally bricking the devices is a separate further step to me (and has been done by other companies).
Hollywood Hitmaker Plans to Fund Next Blockbuster with Crypto
His definition of a pull-up for purposes of the challenge was to reach 90°, but I agree that he doesn't do so in this video.

https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-for-40-pu...

You can look at his other projects, and he seems to do well under his definitions of success. He emphasizes that he's not starting from zero with respect to (almost) any of these skills.

https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridic...
Google says your average powerline carries 10k amps.. so it seems within reason, but it would require some power upgrades ;)
Peer-to-peer was killed by the advent of home routers doing NAT, making arbitrary inbound connections impossible. Configuring port forwarding was generally too difficult for "normal users", the web-UIs offered by typical home routers didn't make it easy enough.
NAT traversal methods exist, but from my experience they are generally unreliable and/or slow.

I still remember the days when P2P connections over the internet "just worked, always" (the early Napster/Kazaa days), and then it went to "it works sometimes", and finally to "almost never works (except if the service offers some kind of middle-man datacenter to bounce the connections between the two NAT'd peers)".

Try to do a IRC DCC file transfer with anyone these days and see what I mean... long ago, it "just worked".

I blame today's unfortunate centralization of internet services largely on NAT breaking P2P connectivity. Who knows, maybe spread of IPv6 will fix this mess... some day...
"The decision comes as part of the NSF’s years-long effort to offload several of its astronomical research facilities to free up millions of dollars each year for future projects, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope that is under construction in Chile."

Has the NSF's own budget been cut, so that it's forced to do this, or is this more of just a matter of shifting priorities?
How is it right that I get downvoted for asking for someone to back their bullshit opinions up with facts? Enjoy your hyperbole.
That doesn't sound like the Peter Thiel I have heard about. If his writing is any reflection of his beliefs, he is a big fan of monopolies (unless he doesn't own them).
And...what, do you think people are more likely to feel empathy when they're treated like subhuman dirt? (Or something slightly less hyperbolic, whatever)

Kind of an ironic complaint, isn't it?
This is a fair assessment, but the case charges them so fast that I almost never even consider the battery life, despite using them all day.
That sentence from the textbook is poorly worded, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_transfer_theorem...

Yes, power is lower when efficiency is greater all other things equal, but you work around that by not making all other things equal.
"Contribution" is pretty subjective. Seattle has historically had quite a bit of industry and R&D that employed lots of regular people, but the current software bubble is now crowding it out of the city, while also inflating property values thanks to VC cash. And that's not even getting into the hipsterification culture shift.
In good news, Seattle is building mass transit (http://soundtransit3.org/)

Yes! I'm really excited for having light rail 10 minutes from where I live! And, as long as there's no delay, it's coming as soon as year 2035! Just in time when Year 2038 Problem will create huge employment opportunities for us old farts!
They have before. The results have been noted. Germany was one place where intolerant groups rose to prominence through eventual consensus.

It just happens that on these little internet message boards, the consensus shifts in another favour, and the same seems to be [mainly] true in North American societies, amongst others.
For experimenting, I think the imperative paradigm (define the graph by running it) makes for much faster experimentation and requires a lot less boilerplate code.

All big DL frameworks (TF, PyTorch, MXNet, Chainer) are now either imperative or have an imperative API in the works.
> Even if I did, the cognitive overhead of this stuff detracts from real programming.
You are absolutely right.And why the standard comittee dont see this is beyond me.
Meanwhile OpenJDK (which is another project composed of separate but interconnected components) wrote a mercurial extension to manage multiple repositories easily (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/trees/). I think this is a much better solution than a monorepo, you can still see the "whole codebase" like it were a single giant repository but you don't have to deal with the scaling headaches in quite the same way.

I was pretty surprised when I made my own build of OpenJDK 9 how easy it was to work with, `hg tclone blah`, `hg tup jdk9.0.1+11`, `./configure blah; make images` and done. Even if git submodules were closer in functionality (checking out the same tag across multiple modules at once with ease) the song-and-dance with actually downloading the modules after cloning is annoying.
There are kids using Thai. Why is that an indicator?
No, there hasn’t been a human 'head transplant', and there may never be
Please provide some examples of being treated like subhuman dirt, I'm waiting. You make Seattle sound like they're pelting techies in the streets with rotten fruit. I have no idea what you're talking about, having lived and worked in Seattle.
FWIW, it's "Speak softly and carry a big stick" and Roosevelt meant in in reference to U.S. foreign policy. Specifically, negotiate peacefully, but with the threat of the U.S. military when necessary.

More generally, I take it to mean: act restrained when possible, using your power quietly and only when needed.
> Truth his, much educational software just re-teaches math, or history, but with buzzers and rewarding little cartoons for wrong or right answers.

Honest question: what's wrong with Skinner boxing kids to get them addicted to memorizing an introductory corpus of data? At some point you want them to get creative, but creativity is impossible without some sort of foundation.

My n=1 anecdote is that I now know way more about geography than most of my peers, largely thanks to playing Carmen San Diego 20+ years ago. That game had me look up facts in an accompanying reference book in exchange for a little cartoon reward. I played it many times and eventually retained the facts.

PS: Kudos on teaching your kid to use jupyter notebooks! I taught myself how to do stats in college by implementing it in lisp.
I mean contributing like art and culture and teaching; not everyone who comes here for a job has that at the core of their being, despite the way we're treated.
You needn't do this. Some random bloke thought it'd be a good idea years ago, wrote it down in a book. A certain type of pedant says to themselves, oh somebody wrote it down in a book - that's the rule them. Nope.

You can't use fewer in some places, but the insistence that if you can use it then you must is an zombie rule. If "less" sounds right it's fine.
Nobody treats you like a human being if you're in tech. They treat you like a wallet

Weird, I never have this experience. Where do you live? Where do you hang out?

Also, I can tell you from personal experience that people will treat you like a hero[1] if you tell them that you work on OneBusAway, so please help out on one of these all-volunteer projects:

iOS: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-iphone

Android: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android

[1] Unless they're Route 8 commuters.
> We are all born with the same brain (see the ted talk on the "After 83,000 brain scans"). Some of us just aren't born in the right environment to curate it and never learn the best ways to use it

That's blatantly untrue, and we have shitloads of twin and adoption studies to prove it.
Because of the way some cities annex everything around them and others don't, it makes for arbitrary numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic...

This is a better/different metric. It places Seattle's metropolitan area much lower in growth from 2010 to 2016.
> and adds nothing to the description of the list

"Curated" generally implies the selections were hand-picked by a single person or small group of people, presumably because they are high-quality. There's a big difference between, say, "Curated list of the best sci-fi novels" and "100 most popular sci-fi books from Reddit." The word is definitely abused by some but it still conveys useful information when used properly.

That being said, it sounds like the author is trying to create a comprehensive list of apps rather than a curated one (which makes sense in this case), so the word wouldn't even apply in this scenario.
Hopefully they can can all those me too daddy finger films and fake paw patrol videos.
I meant it is a great article, but isn't really "news". I became an amateur Orca enthusiast maybe 4-5 years ago after seeing "LA Pod" in Marina Del Rey / Playa Vista outside of Los Angeles. Youtube has hours and hours of footage of how each pod hunts differently. The most interesting ones actually beach themselves on purpose to snag a meal right off the shore before carefully pushing themselves back into the water.
Possibly that. I know that I used to 'shrug' in anticipation of the cold shock when I turned on the shower faucet.

But I think more than that - I like the blast of hot water essentially massaging the back of my neck and shoulders. I think the heat had a significant effect on loosening up the muscles and knots, and increasing flexibility and neck movement. The cold showers simply did nothing, and me tensing my body to meet the cold shock didn't help any.

I find that I do a bit of both these days - have a hot shower first and do neck stretches in the shower, then turn the water to cold just before I hop out.
Vastly different set of principles clearly.
I haven't been at this that long, and already the bar of entry is so much higher than it used to be. If you could sling some HTML and rudimentary JavaScript, slap together some PHP or ASP backend, and knew what a database was, that was enough to get in and hit the ground running, once upon a time.

I haven't seen that people coming out of college know anything more now than I did then, which even then was based on best-practices and experience from the mainframe and dawn-of-the-PC eras, and so was at least a decade out of date.

The complexity seems to be growing on a trajectory akin to Moore's Law, with layers and layers of abstractions papering over the cracks and making this labyrinthian mess barely manageable.
Nice find.

You can just look at his build to know the kid can't do 40 pullups. And that's the red flag that tells you most everything else could be equal BS. Lies are like cockroaches.
It’s not just coders who are commoditized. I find every specialist gets commoditized in the mind of people who are not specialists in that specific field. “He’s a programmer, he’s a quant, he’s a surgeon, he’s an astronaut...”. It’s because we have biases where we believe our own path is a bit harder than everyone else’s. I think it’s natural because everyone has a clearer sense of their own struggles, but only a superficial sense of the struggles endured to acquire expertise they don’t have. Furthermore we have a bias that insufficiently accounts for expertise atrophy so we tend to think of our expertise as the accumulation of all our experience but if we applied the right discount function we’d see that expertise has to be deliberately practiced to be acculumulated to the level in our egos. Few experts do that. The net effect is that the world doesn’t value our own expertise as much as we are inclined to ourselves.
Yes! To all of those!

I am going to move, once my leases are up. I've had it.

I've been trying to give back by trying to find ways to teach and get people interested in electronics - I really fervently believe that anyone can do it - but the furthest I get from indifference is hostility that I'd presume what I should be teaching. I want to give, but nobody wants to take...

And of course I've worked shit jobs and been treated like shit. But at least I was getting paid for it then.
> - He is remotely associated with Trump

I don't think his association with Trump deserves him anything beyond disapproval from someone who also disapproves of Trump, definitely not hatred. And I've almost never seen any hate-filled comments directed towards him on HN that weren't downvoted.

But to suggest that he is only "remotely" associated with Trump seems like a blatant misrepresentation of his activities during and after the election.
You know what'd be awesome? A sort of tether to prevent headphones from falling onto the ground or into a toilet. If we made it out of wire, we could even send the audio signal over it, which has the added benefit of reducing audio latency and electronics cost. Why, we could even get away with batteryless headphones: the future can be now!
Random teenagers and random adults are banned from wearing such devices as well under this law (they are even banned from possessing such devices at all).
Every senior developer in the market who codes at all in your platform is going to represent themselves as a subject matter expert in that platform.

To make matters worse, developers will disagree with each other about what the Right Answers are for a given platform or language or engineering approach.

Cryptographers (as a counterexample) also disagree with each other about the Right Answers in crypto. But serious crypto people are generally competing for jobs only against other serious crypto people, and there aren't that many of them.

Moreover, the general domain of cryptography isn't going anywhere. But look at Objective C, or Windows Mobile.

Finally, proving value as a subject matter expert on a language or platform depends on companies having hiring processes that reliably spot expertise. But, of course, hiring processes do a terrible job at that.
Most of my experience is in C#, and NullReferenceException is, by far, the most frequent exception that ever happens. Curious about if your experience with it is different, and if it is, how.
He seems to entirely overlook native advertising. I know of a couple of decent sized businesses ($50mm+ annual revenue) that depend almost entirely on native advertising, because Google/Facebook ads in their niches are highly competitive, and tend to not be ROI positive. Certain niches on Google and Facebook are dominated by startups that are willing and able to lose investor money on negative ROI ads in pursuit of growth. They drive the bids up, and this creates a situation where existing companies and startups that are not flush with investor cash must look elsewhere for advertising that is profitable.

Further, Google and Facebook have an insane number of rules about how and what companies can advertise, and therefore there are billions of ad dollars that do not and will not ever enter into their coffers. These are not just in scammy niches either...you’d be amazed at many of the ads that get rejected by Facebook and Google. This pushes additional billions in ad money outside of their ecosystems.

As long as investors are willing to fund losing ad campaigns, and Google and Facebook keep increasing the number and breadth of rules that result in an ever increasing volume of ad rejections, there will be publishers and alternative ad networks that can enjoy vast amounts of revenue that gets pushed to the fringes by these forces. They just have to position themselves properly.
I could define an apple to be a banana. It doesn't make it accurate.
Also - regarding your second #1, are we talking about something like a Chrome extension?
As a techie (who does wear his status on his forehead... Or at least, on company-branded clothing, which is 60% of what I wear,) I have never been treated like subhuman dirt in Seattle.

I have, however, seen quite a few homeless people, bus drivers, and food workers treated like subhuman dirt.

I'm not saying you haven't ran into problems, what I'm saying is that between being a techie, and not, the former has way less of them.
Is there any reason to believe in the encrypted data being exchanged? The conspiracy theory is basically equivalent to saying some groups are running number stations via YouTube comments and that's... silly in many ways.
Ask HN: Is it right to give 1 month notice for switching to remote position?
I work as a system admin for a private company in Canada.

I recently had notified my employer that I am leaving the country for 4 months and want to work remotely during this time. I have made up my mind that if they are not ok then I will just quit, because I really need the time away.

The top management were not happy, not happy at all, even though my manager is ok with it. They said that I should have informed them months in advanced, instead of leaving them a hole to cover up. And now they have to offer me the position because they have no choice and cannot hire another person at this time.

Now my question is: Am I at fault here to give a month of notice in advance. I quit my last job with 2 weeks notice and my boss was ok with it. But this is different, because I am asking to continue working.

Thanks!
Recently they had to enable /LARGEADDRESSAWARE in 32-bit Outlook.
This is like reading about someone who thinks they can learn enough basketball in one month to beat the US Olympics team 1vs5.

The first few moves were “textbook” moves, meaning they are completely standard and neither side has an advantage YET. It’s like giving the “basketball player” credit for dribbling to half-court when nobody was pressing.
Seattle's culture has been absolutely ruined by the huge influx of bay area types. Colonizing us and making Seattle more like SF is not a contribution. There was a time in recent memory when the city didn't cater to flamboyant hipsters.
That's a very good point. However, choosing to use a specific version already implies forgoing anything newer than the next release. This would include language features and crates (generally).

Thankfully, crates.io lists the dates next to crates so that users can select a version that is released before or during the release cycle of their compiler, thus guaranteeing compatibility.
Nobody will talk with me.

So I've just stopped speaking unless spoken to...this is the first place where I've felt like my mere existence is an imposition.

I understand that plenty of other people deal with that every day but...it still hurts.