skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure Apple makes plenty of money from users that don't fill up their space to pay for the ones that do.

I have a 2TB family plan that I'm paying $10/mo for, a total of 135GB is used. Most of that usage is from iCloud Photo Library, and while I could use the 200GB plan I'd rather just pay the extra to have effectively unlimited space and not worry about needing to upgrade the plan, especially as I record video in 4K by default now.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this, $10/mo is probably nothing to the vast majority of people on HN compared to the hassle of worrying about whether we have enough storage or not.
Wouldn't be bad if the train was reliable, but if you monitor njtransit.com, it's late all too often, and if you have connecting trains then it will add to the stress.

If it was like Japan and you could actually make plans, then it wouldn't be so bad.
There's only one path from Mersenne Prime to Bolivia, if anybody was wondering. Mersenne Prime -> French People -> Bolivia.
Click bait title. See hn guidelines. We should rewrite yes no questions.
How are the paths created? I found intermediate nodes that didn't link to the actual articles. I searched Colombia > Silicon Valley
I always found it odd that one "needed" a large amount of software (Windows, IDE) to program something so small.

Additionally, the IDE is often under the control of the manufacturer. I understand there are good reasons why this means there will be "bloat". Manfacturers are acting sensibly in their own self-interest.

As a hobbyist, I prefer chips that I can program using a UNIX-like OS that I can compile from source.

I prefer to program from VGA textmode, i.e., no GUI. I am not going to run Windows just to program a tiny microcontroller.

I am grateful for projects such as avr-gcc.
And inevitable considering the pace of technology. Nothing is perfect, and IMO, its best to just get on the with it.
> Goldman is the more powerful institution

You're significantly overstating the influence of one institution which, while veritable in financial and New York City Democratic circles, is also one amongst many heavy banks which now have to share the mantle with the likes of BlackRock, Fidelity, et al, not to mention the reach and influence of tech.
I don't understand it either.

Here's an earlier submission that explains it a bit: Friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538623
I think this is going to be extremely computationally intensive. One of the big performance wins I got when designing the search algorithm[1] was visiting as few nodes in the graph as possible (which I did via a bi-directional breadth-first search). To find the most distant node, I'd need to traverse the entire graph, which consists of almost 6 million nodes. It can be done, but it would take minutes, hours, days, ...

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/a2699dc95d884ec64a4641630...
Why make it about culture/race? Using anecdotal evidence the author is suggesting there is cultural reasons why this is happening. It’s not too far fetched to go one step further and make it also about race. I’m surprised people are ok with semi-racists articles like this perhaps because they come from NPR? All you have to do is remove one layer to realize the pseudoscience used in this article is saying some cultures and therefore races behave physically different than us (although in a good way, but nevertheless) without any rigid evidence. Yet no one here seems to mind that and not see how this leads to prejudice and exacerbating that we are different and everyone else is “others”.

There are people in the US who also bend from the waistline.
You have to be joking. Rates of divorce? Would it even have been possible to pick an issue with more confounding factors?
> it's all about how much of their clients' assets they manage, and that's about $1.5 trillion. Google can only dream of having this much cash at their disposal.

So, given that number, Goldman manages (and is accountable to clients, as well as their own shareholders, for the management of) a little under 2 Googles worth of market value.

Google manages 1 Google worth of market value, accountable only to Google shareholders.
This article is completely useless without knowing the sample size.
really love reading bug hunting stories
Cool. You should consider using input type="tel" for capturing phone numbers - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

On a mobile device, it will automatically pop up the number-pad. Makes life a little easier for people filling in the form.

Similarly, input type="email" will pop up a keyboard with an @ symbol. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
It's broke, I'll give you $20 for it.

But seriously, it pains me to hear of people who buy collectors' items and let them rot into worthlessness. Why not sell it and give someone else a shot at actually restoring it? Or at the very least clean it up enough that it can be stored for a long period of time with information about what it is. So should the worst happen, whoever it is going through your belongings can recognize it as something that's been cared for and not something to be tossed in the trash.
A very nice video about the work of Newton and Liebniz (with the actual papers on a table read by the host)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObPg3ki9GOI
Damn you're right. Thanks!
As another oddity in ultra macho cultures, not to be content with dog fighting and cockfighting, in Afghanistan there is the occasional quail fight. People keep quail as pets, though it's not as common as having cats or rabbits.
Worst thing is it all seems to work fine in Safari as soon as I change my user agent string to Chrome, so it doesn't even seem to using any Chrome specific features…
What matters in Silicon Valley is how much effect you have on the world.

This seems to be the life outlook of every Product Manager I know.
I'm 20 years into my career, and 30 years into programming. What consistently gets better are things like breadth and depth of knowledge, problem-solving ability, intuition / heuristics, and the general level or complexity of the technical things I'm able to accomplish successfully. In other words, I've steadily grown personally in terms of programming ability. And that's really wonderful in itself! I love creating things that I wouldn't have known how to even begin 10 years ago.

Basically everything else that's career-related has been all over the place, no consistency at all. Salaries. Roles. The general nature of day-job work. All that has been a random walk, and yes part of the reason is I didn't go all out prioritizing those things. But in general, those things have a component which is the vagaries of other people's perceptions and quirks, or just realities of business. But not everyone's career can be a juggernaut, and I'm a very mediocre career-person.

I was much, much, much happier in my career when I had tons of responsibility and ownership of an obscure product as a junior 20 years ago, than when I found myself slogging through minuscule maintenance duties of huge, household-name, 100-million-user products as a 'senior' 5 or 10 years ago.

The craft itself, though - that only gets better and better, and it's what I care about the most.
What determines a "path"?

"Philosophy" is connected to "Ethiopia" through "Sexism", but I couldn't find that phrase on either page.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Philosophy&tar...
I personally don't subscribe to any news websites - I find that most of the best "news websites" (ones that go really in depth) are going to be blogs or niche non-paywalled sites.

I actually wrote my own application to send me real-time emails:

https://projectpiglet.com/

9/10 the websites linked to me are highly in depth, super interesting, curated towards what I'm interested in and I don't have to pay. IMO way better. Of course, I charge... so it might cost money, but you can find many of the same articles on Hacker News, Reddit, or just use Feedly (RSS) and subscribe to niche blogs.

(the site also predicts crytpo/stock movements, but unrelated)
Yeah, that really confused me. Distance from "M.C. Escher" to "Lucky Charms" sounds interesting only to get:

You'll probably want to choose the start and end pages before you hit that.

Took me a while to realize it didn't "lock in" the suggestions and I had to manually enter it.
These look nice but the big problem is that they may not be compatible and maintained over the long term because they are not a std part of the desktop.
Your notification for having JS disabled made me chuckle.

One suggestion I have is that the graph view seems to clutter up pretty fast. Maybe have a slider that increases the length of the lines between the vertices. Also, a SVG export would be cool for visualizing related concepts.
Most dCNN classifiers I’ve seen used simply rely on softmax to provide a “probability” among the classes. But it really is a score that has been normalized across the classes. Having 0.7 of one class does not mean the same level of discrimination from the remaining classes as it does for another class with the same score. By only using the maximum scoring class you don’t account for what score value is sufficient to claim a significant discrimination between the maximum score and the alternatives.
> The real story is the engineer drinking 8+ cups of black coffee or 10 sodas per day...

Very much agree. Compulsive consumption of sugary/caffeinated beverages is very much an eating disorder. People engage in this at work as a means of coping with stress. There are very harmful side-effects to this behavior: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps
GopherJS 1.10-1 is released
The Wikipedia database doesn't differentiate links which appear in the main article versus in the sources or categories sections. It's possible one of the intermediate links is in there. You sometimes need to do a CTRL+f in "View Source" to find the link. Also, the latest Wikipedia dump is from February 2nd, so it's possible the link has been deleted since that date. I'll regenerated my database when the new dump lands in early March.
Ah, gotcha. That makes some sense to me.

Would you call pre-streaming Netflix a tech startup? It feels like a startup to me, but at first it was just Blockbuster through the mail.

Maybe the difficulty in categorizing is that every company today has to use technology. When Netflix started out, getting a DVD in the mail was pretty novel. Nowadays, e-commerce doesn't have quite the "wow" factor it used to.
The same thing from 2008, with some fun graph facts included:
http://mu.netsoc.ie/wiki/
Totally. I'm hoping eventually they add a free or cheap tier of some sort for testing. Otherwise they are locking out a huge number of organizations simply because it is impractical to use something so expensive in development mode.
> You have the same recourse that you would if someone took your physical cash

People don't speculate in physical cash. Also, cash being physical constrains the speed at which it can move. It also makes things like cameras useful.
> The deficiency in your approach I see is that you expect candidate to spend time in convincing you without you spending time on researching them, pushing all externalities to the candidate.

You expect people to do research, but you clearly haven't listened to anything I've said about my process, which I've commented on multiple times in this thread. Your summary is a straw man unrelated to anything I do when I hire people.

And you still haven't yet proposed anything better!
Not sure why the downvote, but, for the sake of throwing a concrete response there:

Two bads don't make a good. If I don't want product X in the first place, then "just buy product X, and also spend a few hundred bucks extra on a 2nd product you otherwise don't want in order to try and duct tape over the things you don't like about product X" is a suggestion that comes across as tone deaf.
My experience is that its more prevalent outside of work hours, but far less prevalent AT work than people talk about during these sorts of conversations.
https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-...
The Largest Pre-ARPANET Computer Network: The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
Same, New Zealand to Faroe Islands through Italy.

Maybe both New Zealand and the Faroes reference Italy?
I was getting interesting results until I noticed a pattern involving the presence of "Wayback machine" as the only connecting dot between really different things.

That adds noise, since articles now automatically use the wayback machine for "archived" links, thus generating many paths that do not really connect topics, just because the text "wayback machine" is part of the link text.

It may be an interesting exercise to find outliers like that and compute paths without those nodes.
North Brooklyn is slightly higher than that range, but lower than 2700/month, and should be roughly the same commute time.
I think in the US people are starting to classify marijuana with alcohol and tobacco. It's not illegal in a lot of states, where I live (in the US) it is legal for recreational use. My understanding was this discussion was about more illicit drug use.
You need to go more obscure -- Fiber Bundle to Lars Ulrich was 4 steps. Calabi-Yau Manifold to Donnie Wahlberg is also 4.

I haven't gotten 5 yet.
The job description is to-the-point and doesn't ask for anything out of the ordinary. Other than mentioning a CS degree, I give it two-thumbs up.

Hiring is definitely a tough nut to crack. Personal referrals are by far the best source to get solid people quickly, but it's also a finite pool. Recruiters are definitely a mixed bag. I would suggest also sending a representative to a job fair (face-to-face still works!). It sounds like you're doing the best you can besides creating some really unique opportunity.

We had some luck bringing in people interested in functional programming, but ended up having to go heavy on junior devs since that's what's easy to hire for. We had some mid-level and a couple senior people which were hard to come by.

It's going to be a grind no matter how you approach it. All I can suggest is to make a really compelling offer, technologically, financially, or otherwise. Also consider finding older developers interested in part-time or remote work.
A highly specialized Web app doesn’t need to support more than one browser. If you’re a Firefox user, consider it as though it said “please download the Spotify app to use our service on your machine.”
How Easy Auto Loans Reinforced Car Dependence and Killed Transit Ridership
Finished the cycle last year, can't recommend it enough. The only problem is how well it intertwines the fictional from the non fictional, I'm not actually sure which parts I know about Newton's oddness is true or not.
The problem is that we generally rely on human intelligence to fill in gaps in specs that are really not stupid for a human. AI will exploit gaps that a human would basically say aren't there until they see evidence to the contrary.

So we can say that's a bad spec if we like, but what's the answer that leads to? I don't need an AI if I can just declare all users must be really good programmers spending their days writing unambiguous specs. That wasn't really the goal of the AI though.
Glad you found one of the Easter eggs :D

The graph visualization / performance is definitely not ideal. I spent a ton of time trying to make d3 more performant and layout the graph more nicely, but ultimately I just had to cut my losses and go with what I had. I do think there is room for improvement and I'll look into your suggestion, which is something I didn't consider. SVG export is also a great idea!
From the project description [1]:

Wikipedia dumps raw database tables in a gzipped SQL format for the English language Wikipedia (enwiki) approximately once a month (e.g. dump from February 1, 2018)...By default, the script grabs the latest dump (available at https://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/enwiki/latest/), but you can also call the database creation script with a download date in the format YYYYMMDD as the first argument.

I'd guess the tool is working off an out of date article.

1) https://github.com/jwngr/sdow
You may not be paying attention, even in just the fast food seafood there are tons of Captain Ds / Long John Silvers all over the US, not to mention the lower tier sit down restaurants like Red Lobster.

Sushi is very common in coastal California and Floridians love their shrimp. Were you especially inland in TX/CA/OR?
I'm not pleased with the security aspect of face id though. I get that touch id is not highly secure either, but I'm more confident in it and it does not require looking at a phone to unlock.
Garnier's lab has some software online. See down the page for links:

http://www.theswarmlab.com
Our brains exist as an adaption to allow us to survive long enough to procreate. We did not evolve a brain to work harder, smarter or faster. The fitness function for evolution is not intelligence, it is survival and procreation.

It does not follow that evolution would maximize intelligence or performance.

Human intelligence exists as a by-product of many cumulative adaptions for survival.
For anyone else looking for the electron app mentioned above it’s at https://documentation.pagedraw.io/electron/ BUT only in Mac and Linux versions
But then I smile when I think of all the things we'll learn from the super AIs we'll have beneath the continental plates of the McKendree cylinders lining our circumsolar belt nations and Dyson swarms and shell worlds with trillions of times the surface area of Earth and that can last for trillions of years beyond heat death.
By that same token:

I know of two engineers who are pot smokers (wake up and smoke type of people) - without pot they are bulls in china shopm with pot they tend to be calmer and more personable. I don't advocate for self medicating but these two have it down to a science and it is of benefit to their code quality.

By that same token I can point to two people who smoked pot and wrote the worst code imaginable....

The difference between them is night and day -

I get a lot of honest reactions from current drug users because I'm very frank with my past (I ate all the chemicals) -

I think that there is a big set of distinctions between recreation, abuse and use of drugs, and that every one not only treats what they take differently but reacts very differently to it as well.
This is an old idea and it is very difficult and incredibly expensive to realize while not actually fixing the issue.

https://www.livescience.com/22202-space-mirrors-global-warmi...
Numbeo has a great cost of living comparison tool. Here's Toronto vs NYC. It shows that you need less money in Canada to maintain the same level of living.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

I think the big one is this

> Rent Prices in New York, NY are 116.10% higher than in Toronto

It also doesn't account for different things like healthcare costs, etc.
This sounds like Neil Stephenson's Seven Eves scenario.
Not that it makes a difference completely but I have a feeling the employee was 22 and the CEO was 24
Yes, as a YC founder, I can confirm that if the Dropbox IPO does not go perfectly, my awesome yc experience so far will become immediately useless ..../s
This looks great! Nice work.
I have a suggestion: Could you highlight a path when an edge is clicked on? I guess the clicking on the nodes can link to their wiki pages.
Indeed. First thing I tried as well.

Found 1 path with 2 degrees of separation from Bitcoin to Adolf Hitler in 1.33 seconds!

Bitcoin -> Austria -> Adolf Hitler
For what it's worth, I am grandfathered into a $238/year billing plan and love it.

If you want $/GB, try Backblaze's B2 or Amazon S3.
How I made $200,000 when I was 16 years old
It's split between discussions of physical health and mental health. General consensus towards physical seems to be between belief they are a bit less than cigarettes to surprise and interest in pot being significantly less harmful, somewhat similar to a typical city's smog. Discussions of the mental impact are concession we all achieve flow and greater life stability from the high. Perhaps there is a general tendency towards mild hyperactivity among us, and we're a leveling self medicated crowd that all happened to be around when entertainment went digital. We all certainly know one another, at the multiple studios, now spread out globally. Over the last few decades we've worked at all the major animation/vfx/game studios.

Also, getting high is much, much less smoke than 1 cigarette, sorta. The hits, the draws, are much larger, but in 1-2 minutes you're done. Versus a cigarette is 15 to 20 draws over 5-7 minutes. Getting high 10 times a day is about the same as 2-3 cigarettes. Whereas a cigarette smoker goes though 10-20 cigarettes per day.
Looks really nice.

Can I get this on my desktop? (In other words: Can I work on this from a plane?)

I don't see anything about pricing in there, so using a web service (and having to log in...) to use this, I'm not super happy about. Balsamiq has a good system: They have both a desktop and a web version, let you import/export between the two, and charge you for licenses and online storage.

[edit: And furthermore, if you do a desktop version, you can also do it as a vscode extension, that'd be super cool]
We just released a v0 of our Electron app. Will upload Windows links shortly. Check it out at https://documentation.pagedraw.io/electron/
Look into a Squatty Potty. An extension that is basically a stool to help you raise your feet and knees into a more squatted position to help defecate into the toilet. Or just bring a wide stool to the toilet with you that raises the same.
Disinformatics: passionate call for a new academic discipline to study deception
For $300 / month, i'd want a publication on a more major website. Although, this may help with ranking on Google...

None of the syndicated websites appear to have traffic of noteworthiness: http://espacio.co/
In my experience, the dominant source of people I've seen come through admin channels on IRC are those who arrived there through running e.g. their own game servers. In my experience, the degree/certs you mention are chiefly offered through the business schools where they're offered and are indeed the domain of middle managers.

There can be electrical engineering in neteng, but really only at the upper levels.
Yep, I'm aware of Arxiv. What I should have said is that while it's certainly possible for people to self-publish, it's not the norm (as far as I can tell) for most serious scientific efforts. Whereas in the software world, it's not at all surprising when even huge companies like Microsoft and Google release software using GitHub.

I don't see nonsense as a significant problem. There are plenty of throwaway projects on GitHub that receive no attention, but we have methods of curation (i.e. creator reputation, reviews, etc.) for surfacing the things that do deserve consideration. These methods may be frequently imperfect and inefficient, but if they work for code, retail products, etc., I don't see why they can't work for scientific papers.
If you just get on with it, you're contributing to make Chrome a monopoly, and that will in turn slow down the pace of technology. Google/Chrome won't act differently from Microsoft/IE6. There's no reason to invest in improving a browser if there's no one left to compete against you.
Which software do you find most user-friendly for data analysis?
I definitely noticed that irony. I think he'd probably get just as many customers even if he open sources it, just because a lot of people like me don't really have the time or expertise to assemble this.