skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1

highly agreed. I'm actually surprised that most people dont try Docker Swarmkit. It is unbelievably good for what it does.
Sure, but it’s pretty rude to drive-by a “no, you’re wrong” comment with no elaboration.

I asserted that insurance costs with Uber wouldn’t exceed what you would likely already have without Uber, and you claimed that was wrong. I see nothing in your reply here that backs that up, only that Uber provides secondary insurance which is what I meant - although not quite what I said - in my above reply to you. Regardless, my original point, that you aren’t paying more for insurance, seems to stand.
NYT, Economist and Atlantic are the ones I'm subscribed to as well. I've tried other publications but they turn me off for one reason or another.
It's nice to see China starting to import more - I got the impression for a long time that China was largely an export country (like a lot of electronics and such are made there). Should look up some figures before continuing to make such assumptions though.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China says China's the #1 exporter and #2 importer of goods in the world, so, never mind :p
> > Maybe it is wrong that SV companies have proportionally more Asians than whites. Not "morally wrong", but wrong in the sense that Asian communities have optimized for certain metrics (tests, school performances, college aspirations) and SV companies have just gone along with what's in the pipeline.

> How is that wrong? Let the other communities optimize for those metrics too.

what if it's missing candidates that could do the job? what if the filter is using metrics that aren't actually the best proxy for what we're trying to optimize? you missed this part of the comment you were replying to:

> Despite the fact that SV has a long history of highly successful companies being started by dropouts and other kinds of "miscreants".

which is basically to say, after being (rightfully, i think) enamored with silicon valley's love of ability over credentials... why go back to just cargo-culting over credentials?

> And if those other communities have a history of systemic oppression, poorly funded school districts, legal bias against them, etc, fix that too.

to me, that's what diversity initiatives and hard discussions like this are part of: fixing the effects of historic systemic oppression. lots of other fronts on which that can be attacked, but no reason not to try to do it here too.
Very cool, I remember this demo from that time! I even have a vague memory of trying to implement something similar.
Perfectly right. This will only change if several factors converge to create the right conditions. One big factor would be a new "Google" of bitcoin, namely a disruptive new entry in the payements space, marketing BTC for the end user and threatening the incumbents to the point of forcing them to drop barriers to entry, and even start adopting the new technology.
Video World
Seconded, all I can imagine is that he's sitting like 6 feet away from 2 TVs next to each other in a setup that would be great for racing games.
Google also extensively scores their job applicants on a number of metrics during interviews.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/

Unless you want to call that pseudoscience as well.
That's a bit patronizing, don't you think? Have you thought about all of the other freedoms you could restrict based on identical reasoning? It's a very long list.
Yep my bad. Should be USCIS
Then if we colonise and make massive cities in the moon or if we mine extensively the moon for minerals and move them to the earth, aren't we changing (slightly) the mass of the moon?

This lead to an interesting question. If we keep adding or removing enough stuff for enough time, at some point we could trigger artificially an effect on tides. We should have a wide safety limit (taking in mind than the moon mass is much bigger than lunokjod2 mass for example, and also any asteroid is also much more massive than human stuff left in the moon), but there is a limit in theory. This could change at long term if we colonise seriously the moon. I wonder if somebody has calculated this coeficient yet. If not, you can call it the "loony valdes" limit, XD XD ;-).

About if anyone can make money on the moon, I bet that just recovering lunokjod-2 and bringing it to the earth (or fixing it, if still functional) should provide some money for the rescuers. Is the biggest known concentration of rich metals in a small spot of the moon surface and also the easiest to find and mine. This stuff must be expensive.
Sure, though I'm not seeing the value in this thread when the original context was existential threats to the internet...

Some existential threats to countries:

* An equally or more powerful country declares war on the country. (Actually even an underdog can occasionally win, so the power criteria isn't strictly needed for a threat...) Similarly for a group of countries against another group of countries.

* Increased tensions within a country build up to a civil war. Survivable (USA) but still a threat.

* The US State Department doesn't like the country's leader(s)

* Country cannot produce as much as or more than it consumes. Side effects include mass starvation, coup attempts.

* Modern "acts of war" but not necessarily carried out by a war-declaring entity like another country. E.g. terrorist attacks on infrastructure. Probably worst (but least likely) threat is an EMP detonated about as high up as the ISS, if you wanted to affect a country the size of the continental US.

* Government bankruptcy.

* Mass disease (thankfully less of a threat given modern medicine and distribution)

I'll stop there...
E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...
Expensify uses MTurk to “SmartScan” user receipts with privacy sensitive info
If 3D TVs failed to reach mass adoption why would this?
I don't know Haskell, but in Lisp, and IIRC also in ML, a "let" expression is shorthand for a lambda application, so:

let x = 1 + 1
in x * x

is equivalent to:

(\x -> x * x) (1 + 1)

As the denotational semantics of any lambda expression is represented by its normal form, for function application that would be the result of evaluating that function with substitution; the normal expression is 4, which denotes the integer 4.

Similarly,

let x = 1 + 1
y = 1 + 1
in x * y

is equivalent to:

(\x -> \y -> x * y) (1 + 1) (1 + 1)

and, so, by the functional denotation, this also denotes the integer 4.

As 4 = 4, the denotation of these two expressions is equal.
There was no point in nuking Tokyo and such because it had already been almost entirely burned to the ground by firestorms from previous firebombings.
The current price increase was driven almost entirely by a major US-based exchange which doesn't accept tether and has fairly substantial volume. Somehow this doesn't falsify the idea that the price is driven by tether-printing because it seems there's no possible turn of events that can falsify that belief - it doesn't matter whether Bitcoin is going up or down, or whether the trading driving the price involves tether, it's always tether.
And there are reasons for that. There might be a genetic component, but before going there consider:

- nutrition

- access to clean water

- pollution

- exposure to lead, arsenic, etc.

Some people argue that there are SNP markers associated with higher IQ that are not present in African populations. The problem with that argument is that not all of those SNPs have been found.
But people are trading all the time. The exchanges prove that: as many bitcoins bought as sold! :)

Will the buyers be willing to use those bitcoins to buy other things than fiat currencies? Once more products are sold in btc, why not?
via tor: https://nurdletech.com/linux-notes/ssh/hidden-service.html

via reverse proxy: `ssh -NT -R 1234:localhost:22 youruser@yourmachine.com`
Now if you connect to youruser@yourmachine.com you can then ssh to your inaccessible machine with `ssh inaccessibleuser@inaccessiblemachine:1234 `
Actually, there very much are.

Most people are familiar with Dunbar's number, which expresses the size of a total community. That's not the number of important relationships, but essentially the number of total relationships you can juggle.

In your life, should it be a reasonably long one, you'll experience about a half-million waking hours. If you get to know 10,000 people in your life, the total time you can dedicate to any one of them is about two days (48 hours).

In The Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks notes the dynamics of team communications, which rapidly develop complexity after about 5-6 members. Programming teams, unless the work can be modularised to the extent teams have full independence generally lose effectiveness as they're scaled above this level.

The Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China -- effectively the inner cabal of government -- has ranged from 5-9 members, and is presently 7. (Each of them represents the interests of about 185 million Chinese.) Again, tight working groups simply do not scale past a large size.

I've been digging at various elements of this question for a few years, largely informally. But the clear point is that your relationship time is limited, that close relationships take time and investment, and that as attention is spread, the nature of those relationships tends to deteriorate.

(I'm not aware of specific literature on this offhand though I'm certain it exists.)
>Is it so damn hard to understand that selecting skilled people based on their physiology rather than their abilities, is extremely offensive and demeaning?

It's the BS idea that you can fix a root-level problem downstream.

Blacks face systematic oppression, poorly funded school districts, median poor households partly resulting from a century of segregation, redlining, less options, legal bias, etc?

Fuck that, just force companies to hire more of them. Problem fixed /s
Went from 3x 1920x1080 monitors to a 43" 4k IPS display a little over a year ago and has been great once used to it. Tiling 6 apps using divvy works nicely.

Lately I have found myself wishing there was a wider format 5760 x 2160 screen of about 37-43" for 6 full HD screens-worth. But can't have everything I guess.
I'd be interested too, though I'd be surprised if they weren't all at it. Especially those who missed out on the smartphone thing.
Have you been paying attention to what SV leaders think about H1B visas?
> But you say "going with what's in the pipeline", that basically means "hiring on average the best/mean candidates according to their metrics that apply".

> To say that they shouldn't do that you basically have two options: Say that they should discriminate and hire candidates that will be worse on average by their metrics, in the name of social justice,

> Say that their metrics are wrong and they should adapt them.

> I'd probably accept the second statement but that has to be a complicated and difficult thing to do.

would you accept the second statement and then also accept the status quo because figuring out better metrics is complicated and difficult? would it be better to keep getting bad answers and perpetuating old injustices because the alternative is difficult reform work?
This is still a theoretical problem, not one solvable by building a faster computer
If only we had developed the technology to target weapons precisely, or something like a warhead that breaks up into millions of fragments to hit a large area. Or if nuclear weapons emitted thermal radiation across a large area. Oh well. I suppose the Moon wins.
You make it sound as they do. Tried a few other western countries?
Because 3D in a TV is kinda ok, VR is actually affecting.
> where millions of people will eventually spend most of their time.

I'll try very hard to avoid that. I'd like computers to evolve in a way that we have to spend less time with them rather than more.
It's possible to look at this the other way. For something that is supposed to be such a great employment, it sure has it's downsides. I'm starting to think it's inherent in the type of work, much like the stereotypes you know of accountants. Maybe not working as a coder is a sign your priorities are right.

Part of it is that you need an insane amount of focus to be good at coding, and very few people have that and other skills like people skills (and if they do, there's plenty of other well-paying opportunities). That coupled with an understanding of technology (which most people think is magic) is actually pretty alienating. Hope you have some hobbies, otherwise you'll be socialising with "like-minded" people.

So maybe articles could also focus on the downsides, like they do with e.g. oil and gas jobs. I know I wouldn't have chosen this career if I had known. Not sure why we're trying to push so many people into tech. Sure, some technical proficiency is good, but knowing how to code is like knowing semi-conductor fabrication - irrelevant for actually using an iPhone.
Only if you learnt about the topic from popular politically correct culture. The relationship between race and IQ has been well established in psychology for almost as long as IQ has existed. They can't seem to stop testing it again and again. There have been studies controlling for culture, income, country's level of development, all sorts. But race still remains significant. Some of those other factors are too, since average African IQ is lower than African American.
I think you need to listen to reason. Snow Crash is serious business!
>what if it's missing candidates that could do the job? what if the filter is using metrics that aren't actually the best proxy for what we're trying to optimize?

That's for the company to decide, and not "wrong". At worst, it might be ineffective.

>to me, that's what diversity initiatives and hard discussions like this are part of: fixing the effects of historic systemic oppression.

For me they try to fix at the wrong level (like using a bandage to stop internal bleeding instead of fixing the cause) and thus cause more problems than they solve.
Early developers used this 12.5% to bootstrap projects and also to sustain themselves using ETH as a salary. On the early days ETH was pretty cheap so you can imagine them burning through a lot of it. I would say they hold much less nowadays. Lets say 4%.

And the more they hold, the better for the community as a whole as they have more at stake for the project to succeed.
Well surface is not a big problem in Spain. Population density is relatively low.
Interesting discussion :)

Gold has a relatively stable supply now but back in history we've experienced several gold rushes that I imagine made prices turbulent. From my limited understanding of Bitcoin the supply is also going to be limited and the mining of coins will become harder and harder.

Seems to fit more along the line of gold than a currency.
Any time there are metrics for success, there is potential for unhealthy incentives to arise in a system, which results in an overall decrease in whatever the metrics were supposed to optimize for. If this is the premise, then having other communities optimize for the metrics is not going to result in a positive outcome for Silicon Valley or society in general.

Test scores were seen as a fairly efficient way to determine academic skill and intelligence. Obedience to school authority is seen as a metric for character. Also, being penalized by school authorities makes it significantly harder to be an active participant/leader in school activities, which is seen as an important metric for well-roundedness, talent, etc.

Imagine how much of SV wouldn't exist today if the prevailing mindset -- in society and among venture capitalists -- was that a good-tier college degree was an important metric for tech workers and entrepreneurs. Not to sound like Peter Thiel here (and admittedly, showing some serious survivor bias here in this line of reasoning) but SV has shown that huge success can be made from folks who didn't go through formal college. Would Steve Jobs and Steve Woz even be taken seriously as entrepreneurs in today's environment, where college degrees are significantly more common than they were in the 60s and 70s?

> And if those other communities have a history of systemic oppression, poorly funded school districts, legal bias against them, etc, fix that too.

This has been an ongoing fight for decades. You think SV should wait on political overhaul before making decisions regarding optimization of their workforce>
>>>Metaverse/Oasis type VR multiuser environment

If anyone has an app for AR, Amazon has an app for AR.

Maybe they're expecting us to browse the aisles virtually in the very near future?
This is probably related to the fact that this site usually offers value as in information being usable for practical IT related issues, which is encouraged by e.g. spam, ads or pointless clickbait articles being downvoted.

Facebook is basically the opposite of that.

So you might guess that in the context of Hackernews a site like Facebook could be the anti-thesis or enemy.

Take it with a a grain of humour.
How exactly does ZeroTier differ from Hamachi [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogMeIn_Hamachi
> Transistor from 1920s

Since 1947, when it was invented.
Yes, the hardware for those services needs to be updated to work through another channel. For example, in my area all the alarms are set up to connect over the cellular network.
I also subscribe to the belief that there is no free will.

This doesn't mean I don't want to do good or don't want to see murderers jailed.

It simply means that if the universe was rewound like a VHS tape and played again, nothing would change. That our actions are fully deterministic.

If free will existed then rewinding the universe and playing forward again would result in different outcomes.
>> Not an argument

Totally an argument when "statistics" frequently just means, "I put my small sample size of confounded variables in Excel and ran the stat functions."

>> There is almost none signifact scientific/cultural innovations that came form Africa.

You mean people living in undeveloped countries aren't going to be on the forefront of cultural innovation? I'm shocked.

>> IQ study is the most well-researched and studied branch of Psychometry and usual attemps at "disproval" are centered around bogus arguments around enviroment being the dominant factor (where study finds that 50%-80% of it is genetic)

Never even addressed nature vs nurture. I'm sure if any other bunch of quacks spent a hundred years tweaking a test to predict their idea of intelligence, I'm sure it would. I'd be less sure about it predicting the forms of intellect they failed to consider.
In the US, you essentially can't return games if bought physically, you can only exchange it for the same product if it's broken physically (i.e., not just buggy). Steam has a 24 hour return policy? I haven't used Steam in a while.
That's better than having the algorithm detect your camera as a weapon.
So basically HN community has doubts about the usefulness of Facebook. :-)
omg took me some time to find the actual product page: https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/
> If you build the list from a balanced binary tree it's merge sort.

But in the example, the list is built by adding two lists. This means that in the example, it uses insertion sort which like bubble sort is O(n^2).
Are you saying that it's right to stifle ideas because they're difficult or or people will be abused for sharing them? That's enforcing your culture on people. Why not let arguments stand or fall on their own without the need to attack the people making them?

Culture is often promoted as the explanation precisely because it's easy. That doesn't make it right.
Is this some pre-launch marketing for Google?

I wonder if they're still able to meet their promise that they'll announce a 50-qubit quantum supremacy computer by 2017. Because the year is ending very soon. Was it delayed, or did IBM crash their party when they announced that even 56-qubits are not enough for quantum supremacy? (not sure if IBM's test was enough to prove that, though)
>then didn't some subset of techies print a lot more money than there is?

I think it's quite important that you watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC6RSau7r8

If you feel extremely angry afterwards, you're not alone.
Pingdom launches Visitor Insights
Give Metafilter a shot.
> Say that they should discriminate and hire candidates that will be worse on average by their metrics, in the name of social justice

If Google sends as many recruiters to Howard University as they do to Stanford and Berkeley, and those recruiters only bring back the candidates who meet the same standards as those for Stanford and Berkeley, how is that discrimination.

(again, I disclose that I'm affiliated with Stanford, but have no idea about admissions or recruiting. Maybe Google does send as many or more recruiters to Howard U than it does to Stanford. I apologize for using it as a hypothetical example if that is indeed the case.)
TransUnion launches mobile credit platform in Rwanda
One of the problems too is that it makes it more difficult to distinguish who is actually interested in being a close friend with you and who is only interested in being a casual relationship.

To give just one example - in the past, you might have gotten birthday e-mail from a few people. You would have a sense that these people thought about you enough to pay attention to your birthday and contact you. Likewise, if you cared about someone enough, you could do the same and signal that you thought of them highly as a friend.

But now you have Facebook asking everyone your connected with to leave a birthday message on your birthday. I've seen people who's Facebook accounts seem to clearly be dead, but they keep getting the same dozen birthday greetings each year from the same people who actually don't care enough about the person to notice they're no longer on.

And since the Facebook birthday seems to be the way a lot of people think about their friend's birthdays these days, not participating means that you're going to get much fewer birthday greetings than you would have in the pre-Facebook days.

Again, this is just one example, but I think it does a decent job of illustrating how Facebook has supplanted a lot of more substantive communication and replaced it with copious amounts of junk food communication.
Once they reduce the jail population, what's next? Likely, cuts in the number of jail cells.

Seems like a good thing, but will this make it less likely for police to arrest people in the first place, potentially making the streets less safe?

This article talks about the effect in the UK:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/police-reluctant-...
So American pop-sci-fi, not the ancient civilization?
> increase production

Maybe, but it's a risky bet.

It takes years to cure a leg of good jamón ibérico and China is buying more today, but also investing in curing its own using the same methods and pig breeds.

Same goes for the US. They now have serrano ham in Texas and Virginia, produced with the same breed of pigs used in Spain for ibérico. Only a matter of time before they start selling jamón "ibérico" made in the US.
The Indian subcontinent has more population substructure than anywhere else I’m aware of. The different sub-castes (jati) are endogomous to a really surprising degree. It’s entirely possible some jati are way smarter than the Indian average. Parsis have the same kind of ludicrous over representation in terms of high achievement as Askenazim do.

This is obviously not the whole story though. Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims from pre-partition Punjab are little different genetically apart from way higher Muslim inbreeding. IIRC all three groups outperform native Britons though and they’re mostly the descendants of peasants. Some likely very large portion of Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi educational underperformance is terrible education systems. There’s a great section in Poor Economics, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Bannerjee on education in the developing world, covering Kenya and India among others. It’s mostly crap.