skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to terms with a lot of things I am powerless over. I've had to accept that the Anthropocene extinction is happening and most people are only vaguely aware, only a few people are willing to change their lifestyle choices. I've accepted that billions of people just want to escape poverty and live with a few of the comforts most of us take for granted. Who are we say no to them? I've accepted that in order for humanity to keep growing, everything else will keep dying little by little. I wish I was wrong but everything I am saying is supported by observable facts.

I've started to grow disillusioned with the tech industry, how different is it from Wall Street at this point? I've grown a lot as a designer, a developer, a writer, a salesman but now I'm only interested in earning an honest living, not so much to 'save the world' like I felt when I was 20. It's tempting though, I struggle with the fact that I may live and die on this world without having had much consequence on anything. Yet I'm beginning to realize that in the end, all we may leave behind as a species is a lot of plastic, crumbling buildings, cigarette butts, and toxic landfills. There is the slight chance that we expand beyond the Earth but judging from geopolitics, I'm not sure we have our priorities right at the most critical time in human history.

I'm afraid that I am too meek to swim with the sharks and in the event I do succeed, then I have to be ready for the day when someone from my past will get jealous and exaggerate something from my past to some desperate media outlet trying to get views. I would much rather buy a cabin in the mountains and grow my own food, enjoy the simple things that have always made me happy. I'm content with a camper van, working remotely, and seeing what's left of the National Parks with my camera and my dog. I'm at the point now where I don't even think I want to get married or have kids, this is where I'm at age 27.
I'd like to believe that, but I suspect that more likely would be that people believe the videos of their friends are fake and believe the videos of their enemies are real, pushing us further down the easy slope of polarization by giving it even more fodder to work with.
Apple now lets you preorder apps in the App Store
On-the-fly encoding and decoding of bitmaps
I am married to a Korean (not Korean-American but born and raised in Korea) woman and consequently have married into a large Korean family, so I feel like I have at least as much insight as I would have watching more Korean TV shows than I have.
The only thing I use Nextdoor for is to sell or buy something where i need to trust the other side. Or to discover a good plumber/electrician/etc.

Not sure if its worth $1.5B considering Craiglist/Amazon/ClickCall/Angieslist/Yelp are good enough alternates
Robots have high capital costs, but are cheaper than workers in the US. A single robot is roughly equal to 3 workers since it can operate 24/7 and even if your humans only cost $5/hr, 3 humans would cost you $30k/yr before you even get to health insurance or payroll taxes. God forbid you have workers in Seattle, SF, NYC, etc where you would triple that number again.
10 before the ban, 4 after the ban.
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This really is an addictive game and the attention to detail is amazing. As a web developer myself, I'm quite familiar with building a typical web application but nothing close to this. If you ever decide to write a piece explaining how you built this at the high level, peeps like myself will find it extremely valuable.
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thanks for the more detailed and accurate info!
The big tech companies are demonstrably using deep learning to solve previously unsolvable problems. It's a significant advance.

What's yet to be seen is if startups can profit from this advance, since it depends on massive data and compute.
did you know you can make digital signatures without a blockchain
I think the point is, there are alternatives...
A lot of the dumb money coming in now can’t actually afford to lose the money they’re ‘investing’ and will sell at the first sign of weakness.

There are already problems withdrawing from exchanges, if a mass of people panic and want out, it could trigger a run on the exchanges, some of which are rumored to be running some kind of fractional reserve.

All it’s going to take is a few grannies losing their retirements for the congressional hearings to start, etc.

I think it can probably still double or triple from here, so I’m not gonna try and call the top, but chronologically, I don’t think it’s too far off—6-9 months is my guess.
I listen to a few different screenwriting podcasts and one of the most fascinating parts is the studio note process. Writers submit scripts and then studio execs make notes in the margin and hand it back. In TV this happens in a very compressed time, but with movies this can go on for years.

Studio execs are constantly trying to make characters more likeable or artificially raise the stakes of the scene. Some characters should do unlikeable things at times, then it's even more rewarding when they redeem themselves at the end. Or you want a really memorable villain. Some stories just have fairly low stakes.

Some of the most successful writers talk about reading "the note behind the note". They take the criticism, but don't make the exact adjustment the exec is looking for. They take it as an indicator the character isn't developed enough yet or the story isn't engrossing enough. If the exec were absorbed by the writing more their mind wouldn't wander enough to add a note.

I think that's a good attitude to have when producing anything of great complexity. The fact a customer has a comment doesn't mean you should just implement what they asked for, it means you should really look to understand what they value in the current product and enhance that.
I'm skeptical that there's enough to prevent validators from acting maliciously here.

Firstly, the only leverage against a validator is that if they act poorly, others will no longer accept their currency, so their personal UBI is possibly lost.

Secondly, the validator doesn't necessarily _gain_ anything from continuing to act in a trustworthy manner. Maybe they require membership fees or something, but that's not intrinsic to the system.

Taken together, all it requires is for a validator to insert _one_ fake account into the trusted pool to break even, and _two_ fake accounts to profit significantly. For example, they could create 50 fake accounts at the start of the experiment and let them accumulate fake wealth on the side, then operate as a validator for two years, then introduce these 50 fake accounts into the trusted pool and exchange 100-man-years of UBI for actual value. This appears to be more than they would receive over a lifetime of acting in a trustworthy manner, it's trivial to pull off, and if anything it's a _conservative_ attack - if a validator can get a userbase of 10000 people, 50 fake accounts doesn't sound easy for another person to detect.
The dependencies aren't really "downloaded" at all. When you build something, the artifacts are cached locally, but the files you are editing generally speaking not actually stored on your machine. They're accessed on demand via FUSE.
Yeah and beer's next chapter seem to be sours... Which I can get on board with.
I'd imagine the opsec would be much tighter for a presidential assasination/coup than Watergate.

The punishment for the former would be execution, the latter resulted in a simple resignation.
But no actual tokens work that way because no one would get rich off them.
and our linker prints out a slightly strange string in the help message.

Strange, or actually helpful? It would've been more devious if the message it was looking for actually contained more... potentially copyrightable content; here's one recently-mentioned example:

https://dacut.blogspot.ca/2008/03/oracle-poetry.html

This also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_International,_Inc._v.....

Anyone who has experimented with Hackintoshing may also recall the "SMCDeviceKey", a "magic cookie" that serves a similar purpose of attempting to use copyright as a blocker to compatibility.
The difference is that books already exist.

It is not about whether a token can rise or fall in value. It is about whether the token represents something that can be bought right NOW, or if it represents a future promise of some sort for something that doesn't exist yet. IE, funding book publishing in this example.
I'm 100% sure they both are subsets of abbreviations and the only difference is how they pronounced. I'm also pretty sure (not 100%) that due to misuse it's now okay to use them interchangeably according to some dictionaries.
How aligned is it with the BigCo’s biz model? There are several examples of a product from a small startup being far more popular than BigCo’s simply because it’s too small a pie for them and therefore the execution is lacking.

I used to be worried earlier about ‘what if google does it’ for every idea of mine. I don’t think anyone needs to worry unless their idea is a feature enhancement for ads or search (taking google as an example).
It happens when practitioners generalize theorems to scenarios that look similar but don't apply. The common pattern is misapplying an infinite set theorem to finite set case. If you don't know about the theorem in question to begin with, there is no way for you to misrepresent it.
I haven't used ROS in two years but it was such a painful experience at the time. We were stuck on an old, old build because we found that some of the drivers we used didn't work on anything newer. I spent so much time trying different Ubuntu versions paired with different ROS versions.

And this was with pretty popular consumer hardware. I can't imagine the experience with anything exotic.
It looks like I'm not the only one who visits your blog almost daily in anticipation that a feature as cool as Keybase Filesystem or Encrypted Git gets announced.

While this was an iteration, you nailed a feature I really need with open teams -- I was about to start looking at Slack or Discourse because I'm in need of that right now. And the team management interface will be very pleasant -- I don't have to add people to my private teams often enough that I can ever remember the exact command-line without using "--help" (that's not a knock to your CLI; it's way more intuitive than a lot of the tools I use).

Thanks, so much, for this product and the support that the team provides. I ran into an issue over the summer that affected Windows 10 Insider Fast Channel builds. It ended up being Dokany, not keybase, but your team was as involved as the folks were over there and you were the only Dokany down-stream that provided any help in resolving the problem. Having been in this industry longer than I'd care to admit, I've come to expect that support tends to have no correlation to the price paid for the product, but I fully expect "free" to mean "good luck" (though, paid often means the same thing)[0]. Your team treated it with urgency and was friendly to boot (a characteristic that can be rare in software development but is virtually non-existent in the crypto- space). Love it -- and you have the dubious honor of being the first thing that I install afte I load/reload a Windows / Linux machine/VM.

[0] And couple that with the fact that I was running Insider Preview builds ... I'd have probably thought "well, what did you expect?!"
> And then: the Wii U. It was not whatever the aforementioned things were, or maybe it was in a failure-of-execution sort of way. I never saw a kid particularly excited about playing the Wii U. Too much video game, not enough toy.

Well, my kids love it, and it hits a few of the points you mention. My 8 year old son loves the fact he can play with a few friends (or his sister and a couple friends. They play Minecraft on it all the time, and when it's just him and someone wants to watch TV, he uses the Wii U tablet to play without a TV. It really is the midpoint between a Wii and the Switch. Add to that stuff like Just Dance and New Super Mario Bros (which allows 4 players at once, in coop or less than cooperative styles), and it really is a good toy for groups of kids.
> the data sets have gotten large enough where you can start to consider variable interactions in a way that’s becoming increasingly predictive. And there are a number of problems where the actual individual variables themselves don’t have a lot of meaning, or they are kind of ambiguous, or they are only very weak signals. There’s information in the correlation structure of the variables that can be revealed, but only through really huge amounts of data

This isn't really true, since this can be said of any ML model. ML is nothing new. Deep learning is new. It works because we have so much data that we can start to extract complex, nonlinear patterns.
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And recognize you are up against the smartest brains in the world on discretionary and automated basis, some of whom can transact at sub-second frequency. Unless I see audited results from a reputable firm, everyone is full of BS. Don't believe everything you read.

~~a 25 year veteran of the markets, hedge funds, CTAs, equities, commodities, you name it.
I think you misunderstand my comment.

Let's say you're doing your part, to some reasonable extent. But you only have one vote and the broader population votes for people that steer the country or world in less effective ways. The planet is going to warm despite your best efforts. Does buying cold-climate land that will become more suitable for farming food in the future worsen the situation or indirectly make lemonade from the sour situation?
Right. I found that part of the article particularly irritating - there are tons of examples of researchers making substantial contributions outside of their primary field, cf https://mathoverflow.net/q/173268/6360
> It is not about whether a token can rise or fall in value.

Yes, it is. According to the Howey Test.
The value might increase if there's an artificially capped supply, but not otherwise. If demand increases they can just issue more tokens.
It works without administrator, you misread the stackoverflow answer.

The answer was about intercepting messages sent to an already escalated process (i.e. monitoring administrator processes from a user's context, even if they're technically an administrative user).

It works for one user context process monitoring another user context process. It doesn't work for IE or Edge due to LowPriv context isolation.
> Though, I would ditch my Google Drive subscription if I could purchase 100GB or so of storage.

These days every Keybase account has 250 GB of free storage. Check it out!
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Destroying music, one playlist at a time
> I'd honestly be perfectly happy with my Switch if none of those features, perhaps with the exception of Virtual Console, ever come back.

Perhaps? Man, the virtual console is a major draw for me. I only have a few games on it, but I view it as integral to the device. Every Nintendo platform needs a way to play the first four Super Mario titles, the early Zeldas, Metroid and Super Metroid at a minimum.
Huh? Bitcoin is a finite resource. There's lots of examples of finite resources (land, for example).
Any questions of feature compatibility are either tested directly, or requested with an explicit API.
So a token in an exclusive book club would be a security?
Is the K in his name actually not silent? Huh. I've been calling him "Nooth" for ages. That's going to be hard to unlearn.
Protect Shared Workbook, Determine Smart Art Shape and Convert It to Group Shape
The object was test by the aliens. If we had blown it out of the sky, then they would know we are armed and dangerous and stay away.

But we didn't do that, and so, well, let's just say that things are going to get very interesting.
MINOS: Multimodal Indoor Simulator
Monitoring www.msn.com and tracing slow network calls
Link to the bill:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Soylent is an extremely convenient meal that doesn't leave me feeling groggy or worrying about being nutritionally deficient in any area. That's real value.

By contrast, replacing a full meal with whey protein takes a stance on what you should and shouldn't be eating vs general dieticians' recommendations (and the FDA's). I wouldn't recommend replacing most meals with either one, but if I had to pick the fad diet, it'd be whey.
I dunno. Looking at the 'up-armoured' tanks in some articles, it's clear they have no real idea how slat or spaced armour [0] is actually supposed to work, and are just cargo-culting the improvements based on news broadcast images of US or coalition vehicles i.e. they are welding rebar with the same pattern of bars as MRAPs, but directly onto the underlying armour plates, giving no protection against shaped charge HEAT or RPG rounds...!

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slat_armor and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_armor
Tracking slow network calls on msn.com!
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1919/

I read somewhere that this might be a spent first stage, and the real spacecraft is currently decelerating as it approaches our solar system. That would explain the shape, tumbling, and trajectory, but then again "weird space rock" explains those things more plausibly.
Right now what kind of whey protein, and which veggie shake mix? Do I need to buy a blender?

It's more complicated. Hate is a strong word already. I don't think anyone (okay maybe a very tiny minority in sv or something where cool is defined differently from everywhere else) drinking soylent is trying to be hip or cool.

Do you hate people trying paleo diets? How about gluten free? I doubt it.
Look at his LinkedIn profile and how long he has been in SV and tell me if you think he might have been "young and naive" when he joined FB.
Is dumb money also considered money that is going towards free speech activists?

Why do you think the SEC should be arbitrators of what and what is not dumb money?
Holding people accountable for their actions is important, but we're still at a point where the internet is considered by most to be inherently benign. Putting all our attention on a few individuals allows us to pretend that the internet isn't a complete Pandora's box for society -- that it's just Zuckerberg's fault.
I remember working at a console developer about ten years ago, the Japanese developers I worked with said when Nintendo first showed them the Wii, the Nintendo guys had to ask my future coworkers (non Nintendo developers ) about online features of Sony/Microsoft consoles when they were asked about Wii online features because they had no clue what was going on there.

Before that, was on this project to look at Gameboy Advance cartridges and that was kind of a weird racket. All these numbers are from memory and could be wrong. Your development company had to pay something like $10 a cart to Nintendo (which seemed a bit excessive when the retail price was ~$30 for Nintendo carts and other cd/dvd consoles charged $10 per disk and the retail price for those was $50 to $60, PC gaming I think we got about 50% of each sale at something like Best Buy for full price sales so losing $10 of $15 pre retail sale to Nintendo is a huge margin) and reserve production at the official Nintendo plant a year in advance at that point, so you had to correctly predict how many carts you needed or you could lose big because you made too many and had unsold carts or didn't make enough and needed to wait months for an opening in production to meet demand which would be nicer problem to have. So Nintendo may be just too attached to making money off per unit sold to give it up for online convenience.
You can make this stuff up. People have been doing it for a long time, some even professionally.
That's an insidious trap; the low cost of living means you're less likely to see the world and more likely to blindly accept your surroundings as good. I think I understand more how so many people look at the coastal cities and wonder why people want to live here.
In the immediate term, I'll grant you, not a lot. But these regulations stay around forever. When we regulated the crap out of Bank transfers we ended up with ACH. At the time, it was revolutionary.

But in the year 2017, we still can't transfer money instantly without credit checks being involved.

The internet has thrived thus far as a free market. While I agree 'something' should be done to preserve the competitive nature, I don't think Title II is the answer.
Conversely, if a hack like Talley can muster 51 votes, I'll wonder about the Republican senators.
Nintendo actually still produces some traditional games, including mahjong and hanafuda cards, and sells them in Japan.

https://kotaku.com/the-traditional-games-nintendo-continues-...
Uber Driver goes crazy, runs over passenger, flees (NSFW language)
Extended Validation Is Broken
I'm 28 years old. I did a summer job for my boss's startup company in 2010, but then he invited me back to work for his other company in 2014. I've now been here for 3 years, the longest I stayed in any country.

You probably have a country, a home, a stable safety net where you can always go back to. I don't.

My hope is to get the qualifications for Permanent Resident status somewhere. The fastest is New Zealand, which needs only 2 years for the Skilled Migrant Category. But they also need 3 years continuous relevant work experience.

I finally have the work experience, but my girlfriend wants me to stay in Taiwan for one more year, and I want to be with her. I'm also really worried that when I choose to move on, if I burn my bridges, I won't be able to come back. I like my quiet stable life here, and I'm a little disappointed that my boss wants me to leave in 2019, even though I do agree that I should try to settle elsewhere.

Moving to the Famous Company would mean moving city as well, which would affect my relationship with my girlfriend. She's more important than my career.
You could have said the same thing about Photoshop. Journalism is as good as the integrity of the source. In places, you could argue that's systematically eroding. I don't think you can argue that fake videos are what will bring it down.
Performance-tuning a React application
Oh wow, I hadn't heard about KDP Paperback. They're literally telling people to start moving stuff over. Thanks for responding.
6-year-old Ryan makes $15M in a year reviewing toys on YouTube
> Right now what kind of whey protein, and which veggie shake mix?

Pretty much any of either that is on the market. Soylent isn't that remarkable, nor is there a well-understood narrow optimum (despite Soylent both pretending that there is and that it is always right at that point even with the major formula changes.)

> Do I need to buy a blender?

No, just a closed container for shaking will work tolerably well, or a blender bottle/cup (the ones with either an agitator ball or internal fixed plastic blades to help with shaking a powder) is even better.
You get that now. What $encrypted_internet_video_provider wants is a special fast lane directly into the ISPs' networks... at the ISPs expense, of course. Small time video hosting service will enter through the regular lanes. The fast lane will belong to the big boys. It's the opposite of the 'level playing field' argument that $encrypted_internet_video_provider is making. NN all basically comes down to who pays for the fast lane. $encrypted_internet_video_provider says, "Net neutrality! You pay half." ISP says, "It's a fast lane that only you use, and all the traffic is in one direction. You want it, you pay for it."
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Would you have rather he not made this statement? It may be self serving, but it also serves to validate and call attention to the problem.