skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

I didn't mind doing laundry when I lived by myself.

Then I started living with my wife. She has laundry preferences (among other things) different from mine (whoa!).

Then we had a kid. And another. And another. Not a family of 7, but I think I know where you're coming from. It was a walk in the park, individually. A complete non-issue.
Actually, I'm partly mistaken. The 95LX had the V20. The 100LX, 200LX, and 1000CX it seems had an Intel 80c186 codenamed "Hornet" which competed with the V20.
Speaking of large projects; they also destroyed the Walls of Benin and effectively erased mighty African empires from history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin
I figure that animals and humans are very good at assessing the amount of “work” that a given path requires and that we are likewise very sensitive to minimizing the work function, due to evolutionary training.
All crypto markets have always been shallow and rife with manipulation.

It's still almost a total free-for-all.
Yawn. When I was growing up in USSR of 1980s, Pepsi was _everywhere_, for the cost 0.35 of a rouble for 0.33L. Soviet soda was .25 for .5 liter. Nor our family (teachers) was "subsistent" in any way. I remember having meat everyday, every once in a while my parents would buy a chocolate cake. It was much poorer than US, true, but waaay more affluent than China, India, Africa and rather capitalist Latin America.
>Effectively what you are saying is that venture capital funds (correctly) think that percentage of shares aren't very valuable when they are equal preference to the employees.

That's not quite right - instead, he's implying that vc funds (correctly) think that the chance that this company's shares standing alone will suffice to return a multiple of the fund is low if they are of equal preference to the employees. That's not the same thing as "not very valuable", and the very counterintuitiveness of vc math should tell you that an asset a vc may not want (say, 5% of a company that sells for 75M after 3 years) may in fact be pretty valuable for the median employee.

>It seems like almost every startup funding system is predicated on early engineers being decieved about the value of their equity, and when someone tries to point it out on hn the response is "no venture capital firm will fund you if your employees aren't deceived about the value of their equity, idiot!"

Not at all - look, there are lots of good resources where you can learn more about how your equity works, and good founders will probably point you to them (e.g [0] and [1], although if you need a pointer to this instead of doing the 2-second google search yourself, you're probably not a great startup candidate anyway). Deception need not and should not enter into it. Not to say that there aren't scammy founders, but it's not best practice, and I don't believe Fred Wilson or most other reputable VCs would claim otherwise.

[0] https://blog.dweek.ly/introduction-to-stock-options-startup-...
[1] https://foundersgrid.com/employee-equity/ ...
Making the case against memories as evidence
Maybe the answer is more transparency on the market value of the options. For example, if I get X options (common stock), it'd be nice to know the market value of those options [as of last funding round].

I could then divide by 4 (vesting), and know this is an upper-cap on their worth (because preferred vs common, dilution, strike price, liquidation preferences, lockout period).

So to repeat, if you consider it a problem that engineers don't value options, perhaps give them all the relevant information they need to value those shares.
Bootstrap 4 colors tool for front-end devs export colors to SCSS/LESS variables
For windows users, there's stuff like http://arcanesanctum.net/negativescreen/, that might be interesting to investigate and/or integrate into this.
It's more like saying you need to use inference to identify constrained parts of the solution.
Slightly unrelated, but depending on where/what you moved into, upgrading toilets to efficient ones* also makes a big different, for relatively little coin.

*I mean the efficient ones (a gallon of golf balls with 1 gallon of water marketing gimmicks, etc), not the "low flow" crappy ones.
Where “smuggling” is defined as tea that was imported without paying duties to the crown; duties that colonists didn’t have any say in imposing. To make the comparison with alcohol in the 1920s work, it’d be like the government banning the purchase of alcohol from everyone except the government’s anointed “company”, and the voters having no say in the matter.
> I'm saving for an E-ink device, it's too bead the technology stagnated because of tablets and smartphones.

While I'm one who thinks there's always room for improvement, I've owned about 5-6 various Kindles and if you're interested in having hundreds of books on one portable device you should just grab one.

I've got the 1st (I believe) Paperwhite and it's all I need. I've looked at the newer Paperwhite and the Oasis but I just don't need the improvements they offer. Any paperwhite is fantastic. The reason I did upgrade to the paperwhite from whatever Kindle I had prior was the backlight was an absolute revolution. I used to have a battery powered light I had to stick on my previous kindle.

The $80 for a Paperwhite is a great deal for what you get. I have 0 complaints. It could be a little faster and I prefer buying books on Amazon from my phone or laptop (edit: and not through the Kindle directly) then reading them on the Kindle but it's not a show stopper at all.

Also, word of advice, if you're into Audible you can often find better deals by buying the Kindle version w/ Whispersync. I've almost bought $15-20 audible books before then saw that the kindle book was $7 and after that purchase the audiobook would be $3-5. It's not always the case but I can frequently find good deals on buying both.
It’s similar to 1999 dotcom run up, there will be a crash to remove all the bad actors (like the former pets.com), but it won’t kill cryptocoins just like the dotcom crash didn’t kill ecommerce.
Data pipelines: Be smart when storing the data
Is there an equivilent to i3 in the mac ecosystem? I currently use iTerm with tmux... so would using a window manager, on top of all that, be overkill?
I completely agree that the pursuit of Truth is a fool's errand.

And I'm a fool.

Storytelling and reality aren't mutually exclusive. Consider great minds like Clifford Stoll, Alan Kay, Raymond Smullyan, Douglas Hofstadter -- we can't be sure that what they say is True, but their stories are compelling, and their wisdom seems sound enough.
Humans are analogy-engines. For us, myths are the best way to transfer information. And even if the information isn't Truth, it's probably good enough. And "good enough" will likely improve the lives of your children and grandchildren.

Of course you can't know everything! There's endless territory to explore. But there's no harm in exploring the incredibly small world around you. And there's even less harm in finding ways to reduce suffering for others, if you're into that.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I agree with you in theory. But in practice, worrying about whether things are technically True obstructs the way of finding things that seem to work. And many of us deeply enjoy discovering things that "seem to work", and then telling great stories about them.

Exploring reality can be a lot of fun, if you don't take reality so seriously.
Ask HN: What are the better countries to immigrate for software developers?
I am currently working as software engineer working in developing country. I am planning to move to another country to work there. I am looking at the countries which provides better job security, compensation, easier immigration rules and importantly better culture(both in work and place)?
I did this once when I spent a week in a hotel near company HQ and forgot to pack a rotation of shirts in my luggage. I wore my one shirt into the shower each night and shampooed/rinsed it using my body as a support form. To dry it after wringing out I left it on my upside-down laptop overnight, with a busy-wait program running on the laptop to make it nice and toasty.
Study: Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem

Citation: Neil Gandal, JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, Tali Oberman, Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem, Journal of Monetary Economics (2017)

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2017.12.004

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2017.12.004

Abstract: To its proponents, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin offers the potential to disrupt payment systems and traditional currencies. It has also been subject to security breaches and wild price fluctuations. This paper identifies and analyzes the impact of suspicious trading activity on the Mt. Gox Bitcoin currency exchange, in which approximately 600,000 bitcoins (BTC) valued at $188 million were fraudulently acquired. During both periods, the USD-BTC exchange rate rose by an average of four percent on days when suspicious trades took place, compared to a slight decline on days without suspicious activity. Based on rigorous analysis with extensive robustness checks, the paper demonstrates that the suspicious trading activity likely caused the unprecedented spike in the USD-BTC exchange rate in late 2013, when the rate jumped from around $150 to more than $1,000 in two months.

Highlights:

• Suspicious trades on a Bitcoin currency exchange are linked to rises in the exchange rate.

• A single actor likely drove the USD/BTC exchange rate from $150 to $1000 in 2 months.

• Trading volume on all exchanges increased greatly on days with suspicious activity.

• Unregulated cryptocurrency markets remain vulnerable to manipulation today.
> This is what unfettered capitalism (anarcho-capitalism) looks like. I like capitalism, generally, but divorcing morality (or, alternatively, failing to separate socially-contracted power to coerce action) from economic gain results in the violence and brutality.

no. the cartels are what you get when you actively block organizations that are serving huge needs (recreational drugs), from access to peaceful means of conflict resolution and contract enforcement.

(and worse, you've got governments regularly going in and attempting to destabilize the cartels with force, so that even if they wanted to build up more peaceful resolution mechanisms, they'd be punished for doing so.)
Smart and good move. The whole thing about being decentralized is that you don't need one body controlling the flow of a familiy's cash especially when they need water, food and toilets.
So weird that the moment I read the title, I started thinking of DeathNote, and the morality of saving drowning people from the perspective of Light Yagami. :D
I've worked a little bit with libraries like this (react-mapbox-gl) and I think the point GP is making is more like this:

<3P.Wrapper>
<3P.Foo>
<3P.Bar
subcomponent={props}
/>
</3P.Foo>
{ someCondition ?
<3P.Quux
onCrunch={doQuack}{
/>
}
</3P.Wrapper>

where mounting and unmounting those child components interacts with the wrapped API. Contrast that with

<3P.BasicWrapper
useFoo
useBar
useQuux={someCondition}
onQuuxCrunch={doQuack}
/>

which is less suitable for generic use, but easy enough to write (and modify later) that you probably don't need a highly-generic wrapper.
I did the native version of this after someone mentioned it in one of the general articles on phone addiction that have been making their rounds on HN since the start of the year. So far I don't feel like it has had much of an effect. I've only noticed two direct behavioral changes for me so far:

1) It is forcing me to wait to watch YouTube videos until I get to a computer because I want to see them in color. That seems like it should be a big gain, but I still find myself scrolling through my YouTube recommendations anyway. Habits die hard I guess.

2) It is also delaying my reading of the couple of web comics I follow since, again, I want to see them in full color.

So I guess my phone usage overall has dropped considerably since YouTube takes up most of my time. I'm already off Reddit starting a couple of months ago and I've been off of Facebook (except Messenger) and Twitter for over a year. So maybe I'm not really the target of all of this, but I definitely spend more time than I would like on YouTube.

I also made a change to my settings so that my phone screen no longer wakes up when a notification arrives. So it is less distracting when sitting on a table.

In addition I saw a couple of other pieces of advice on here to curb phone use: One of them mentioned putting only fast utility apps on your home screen and removing notifications that don't come directly from people (basically every notification except for personal e-mail, human texts, and Slack messages I guess?). I haven't tried either of those things yet but I'm definitely considering it. They both require a bit more thought and planning than simple settings changes.

In regards to the site linked, I have only one additional piece of input: Please stop with the scroll jacking. This is a well known web design anti-pattern. I don't understand why this fad has persisted as long as it has. It literally feels like the site is broken when interacting with it using a click wheel.
It didn't help that many PC makers simply took their PCs with specs suitable for XP and put Vista on them with predictably bad results.
The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64710.The_First_and_Last...
It comes across like your point is "Stop implying that I, personally, need to quit toking every day." Because the idea that drugs impair cognitive performance is hardly novel.

It sounds like you feel personally threatened and you feel some need to shoot down the well established scientific fact that drugs impair cognitive function.

There may be more going on in his life than marijuana impairing cognitive function, but you have absolutely no basis whatsoever to assert that they are wrong about their own life and there is some other explanation for the cognitive effects they experienced.
There will inevitably be some centralization of development, as moving forward on a roadmap requires developer consensus. The only way to deal with that is to shift that centralization to a detailed protocol spec instead of to a specific implementation, so that multiple developer teams can build different implementations that remain inter-operable.

That's attractive in theory but very difficult to achieve in practice, even with a spec. That said, it looks like at least one initiative to do this in the industry is succeeding - Lightning Network. The protocol was agreed on last fall and now all three main implementations are inter-operating on mainnet.
Yes. It follows from the wave equation.
That sounded like one of those low-budget cable commercials for regional lawyers.
Ask HN: Payment forms for static websites
I'm looking at some quick options to add several payment forms to my side project, a static website. The idea is to later use AWS Lambda and Stripe if payments start trickling in.

I know Typeform is one of the more popular options, but they're expensive at €30/mo. Wufoo are at $39/mo.

I've come across Cognito Forms[1] and they take 1% of the payment value which is the best option money-wise. But I've never heard of them. Have you used them before?

[1] https://www.cognitoforms.com/
If they're truly profit-maximizing they're already exploiting other drugs, guns, smuggling, "coyotes", or legitimate enterprise as hard as they can already and we should expect them to lose money if one of the markets they work in goes away.
The same can be done on Android (Lollipop and above).
I've had the same experience. Especially if you get into using more and more niche packages (plugins for Leaflet), it can get ugly pretty fast.
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Yes. (Or at least we have a good model.) One description is that a photon takes all paths simultaneously and the paths that are not the shortest in time end up mostly cancelling out. The light's behavior is consistent with locality.
>"Video is, primarily, a passive experience. You tend to just sit back and watch it. And while you're watching it, you're not usually liking or comment or speaking with friends."

And how is this different than the passive experience of scrolling endlessly through people's vacation pictures, food pictures and baby pictures? Is clicking on a blue thumb icon really an "active" experience. Is writing a one lime comment about the picture of someones hamburger or their vacation shots really engaging with friends? This is no more of an active social interaction than a bag of potato chips is a meal.

I feel like the genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back in, regardless of these PR contrivances to convince us otherwise.

However, I'm sure in the next 6 month'z Zuckerberg will be on a press junket telling us all that "the problem is fixed" and that their data shows that people are having meaningful experiences on FB and that FB is bringing people together.
Except that the story tellers would've died without the discovery of penicillin, vaccines, etc.. Maybe even from a lack of hand washing! There are an infinite number of theories sure, only those that are testable are worth consideration and of the testable ones you find one that is correct at the current level of resolution and move forward.
While I think that video is great, the games on the Switch are the opposite of old.
This is a particularly egregious example of the pop-sci genre "making things sound more mysterious than they really are". How does light choose the fastest path to its destination when light can't "choose"? Well, we could hypothesize light is conscious and is making globally-optimal calculations, or we could just observe that if you work through the wave equations on what waves do when encountering a speed change, that's what happens. It so happens that solution also matches how to get to the eventual point in the shortest time, but that adds an unnecessary concept of "intention to arrive at a given point". Light has no such preference or intention, it just arrives where it arrives.

We could hypothesize dogs are working out calculus problems, or we could just hypothesize that the dog tried it one way, then another, and eventually over the course of its lifetime works out how to get to the ball the most quickly, which in comparison to the difficulty of manipulating all of its dozens of muscles to perform the running optimally in the first place is a frankly insignificant challenge. Or, to put it into a human reference frame, we do not do calculus problems to catch things. We "just" catch them. Neurons are built to solve this problem.

We could hypothesize that the ants have a simple pheromone-based optimization system that naturally mathematically converges on the same solution as Snell's Law when, after all, faced with the same problem, but... uh... actually it's not at all clear to me how the article manages to make this sound mysterious after what is a fairly effective solution to the problem. If nothing else, the ants taking the most optimal path will make more to-and-from trips than other ants, thus laying thicker trails; that plus an initial shotgun approach are adequate to explain.

This is particularly egregious since none of the math here is very complicated, and it is completely unsurprising that when the same problem is given to several optimizing agents in several domains that the same solution pops out. There is not very many bits of information in this problem.
Yeah, the futures markets seriously reduced volatility and kept the price within a narrow band around $14k. I'm quite pleased by this, actually.
Is the the Cloud Safe in the Wake of Meltdown and Spectre?
Djibouti – The most valuable military real estate in the world
> Pot is another one that theoretically lets you grow it yourself, but it's significantly harder and requires a larger investment.

A bunch of seeds and a pot of compost?

Speaking from experience, fwiw.
because no one ever watched black and white movies or tv shows...
Study: Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime

Citation: Gavrilova, E., Kamada, T. and Zoutman, F. (2017), Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime. Econ J.

Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12521

DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12521

Abstract: We show that the introduction of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) leads to a decrease in violent crime in states that border Mexico. The reduction in crime is strongest for counties close to the border (less than 350 kilometres) and for crimes that relate to drug trafficking. In addition, we find that MMLs in inland states lead to a reduction in crime in the nearest border state. Our results are consistent with the theory that decriminalisation of the production and distribution of marijuana leads to a reduction in violent crime in markets that are traditionally controlled by Mexican drug trafficking organisations.
Lets talk about QE-1-4, the printing of money and bankers being bailed out. Your argument does not stand by any measure of reason or logic. Lets also talk about investment bankers and VC's who are completely being disrupted.
You might find Feynman's popular book QED more, erm, illuminating: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8169.html
I have a 27 inch display, and the top of it is easily 6 inches below my eye level. It is about 3 feet away from me, so about 5°–35° angle measure below my eye level from top to bottom. It’s perfectly comfortable to see the whole display without moving my head from an upright position.

Put the display on an VESA mount attached to an articulating arm and put the bottom of the display bezel directly on the table or slightly above. Maybe if you have a 40 inch display it starts getting tough.
> the external HDD for the Xbox 360 has the "secret sauce" / binary blobs that allows this to work and emulates certain Xbox games

IIRC, that's _partly_ because it requires Microsoft to pay a licensing fee to Nvidia for the original Xbox GPU, so baked that cost into the cost of the hard drive rather than the console itself.
I'm afraid I belong to your group. I think he'd save the drowning person, he'd like the attention.
Diseconomies of scale and scope can prevent action in each of these industries, in a static analysis. It may prove to be more profitable to focus on a single industry (e.g. marijuana) than seeking at the present moment to dominate or even enter other industries (e.g. opiods) until market conditions change.

As things evolve, they may naturally enter other industries. Heck, even become legitimate.

EDIT: Fixed second paragraph.
So you think someone with Masters in Power Engineering and Digital Technology Management should contribute to the Linux kernel as a way to improve their chance for work?

Really?
Great result. At my job I manage a machine learning team and so I am fairly much all-in for deep learning to solve practical problems.

That said, I think the path to 'real' AGI lies in some combination of DL, probabilistic graph models, symbolic systems, and something we have not even imagined yet. BTW, a good paper just released on the limitations of DL by Judea Pearl https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04016
Yes, I will admit it is incredibly unlikely that they will pay off. In my 20 year career, I have only had a positive outcome on options once, and then it was not worth the pay cut I took.
Maybe I had bad luck, or chose poorly...