skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. How about it? Has naive adoption of such ever been achieved, without being ultimately detrimental to the host?

There is nuance, of course. Paying my taxes and helping my neighbor doesn't preclude sending aid to Africa.

But nuance is precisely what the title (article is behind a paywall, so I can't read it) dispenses with. There is no balancing of obligations between self, kin, kith, town, state, nation, and humanity as a whole. "Just drop that whole 'national' thing, post-haste."

The reality is: humans are social animals. Groups will form identities, or be dissolved and split into groups that do. And as long as the prisoner's dilemma and tragedy of the commons are things, there will be multiple competing groups, rather than one big one.

This doesn't mean "therefore, genocide." Quite the opposite: good fences make good neighbors. I wonder if those who are so free with their ingroup designations exercise the same fast-and-loose mentality when writing put options. Just as hedges allow investors to take on more risk (because they can take only the risks they want to), fences allow neighbors to share vegetables over the side wall without worrying about finding Fido in the petunias or whatever.

It's sad to see the perfect made the enemy of the good, especially when the good is really good.
This is crazy. The government is not a wall between you and what scares you; that is what politicians want you to think. The wall is never high enough; it is never deep enough; there are never enough cameras; we need better people deciding what is OK to do on camera and what is not OK.

This is all very fine to want, but it's an entirely different conception of government than the one described in the constitution. It's a government much closer to the one in Russia, or China, or Turkey, or North Korea. While it may be used to, in part, fight crime, the line item that justifies the surveillance state is the ability to invest in a guarantee of power.

Trying to turn the US into this state is just going to lead to abuse of power, abuse of people without voices, and a much more wasteful budget: infrastructure spending by investment in paranoia, with a return of more power by fear. Literally government by terrorism.
I am a huge huge music fan and meanwhile I tried most music services. I had Spotify for a while too.

But nowadays I prefer to use smaller sites like http://www.bandcamp.com and the sites of small labels.

For discovery I use http://www.gnoosic.com an AI recommender created by a fellow HN member.

For me, music consumption feels more adventurous this way.
The submission title is taken from the post, but isn't a good description of what this is addressing. This is Trustico's response to DigiCert's revocation of certificates and emails to certificate recipients.

Discussion of the DigiCert announcement here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485801
Very cool use of word2vec and fun to play with. Thanks for sharing.
Mario games, in particular the New Super Mario Bros. series, were starting to get a bit samey. Thankfully, Odyssey snapped them out of that doldrum.

The same with Zelda. Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword were both attempts to recapture the Ocarina of Time lightning in a bottle. Breath of the Wild really shook things up for the franchise and brought it into the modern era.
Yeah, but the alt-right believes in National Identity therefore it is different and bad. /s
The question worth asking is - how do you excel... at life...

That is the only career question worth asking.

You've placed constraints on it, such as 'new programmer', 'play by the rules', 'earn raises'.

How do you know excelling at life means playing by the rules? How do you know more money means a better life? How do you know you don't want to switch companies?

You don't. The way to find out is to just live your life, and not lose sight of what matters - excelling, at life, by rules YOU set. And they won't be the same rules, they'll change as you grow.

How do you set rules by the way? By following your gut, heart, and intuition, and sometimes what other people say. You so far have it backwards, where what others have said has left no space for following your own instincts, hence the question you're asking.

The biggest regret you can have - is living out somebody else's ideas and life, even if you 'excel'.
Oh my god. I'm trying so hard to keep from laughing my ass off!
I mean, it's not an atomic clock, but I'm comparing it to the 32.768KHz RTC crystals I use with consumer microchips. If super-precise isolated accuracy were actually important, I assume they would use a rubidium or cesium oscillator.
You must be deep in a caffeine binge. It's as hard to go cold turkey on caffeine as it is for nicotine. When you quit it for good, and drink a cup randomly, you crave caffeine for a good 3 days. If anything, sugar and caffeine addictions are grossly underestimated in North America.
I was using Spotify 3 years ago but it was killing the battery life on my Nexus 4 so I switched to Google Play Music (chose it because of the upload feature).

I like the service but there is many things in the UI that I don't like:

- No desktop app

- Album listing is a mess:
. It doesn't differentiate between singles and albums so the album list is sometimes very long for no reasons
. You can't mentally filter them yourselves as the number of tracks and the album's length are not displayed for each "album"
. It is somehow sorted by release year, but not entirely (you can't chose anyway).
. On mobile the year is not even displayed so if you want to quickly see if an artist has a new album or simply listen to the more recent one, you can't really be sure of what is displayed.

- On mobile the search button is not always accessible, you have to navigate / "go back"

- Features disappearing:
. You used to be able to filter new releases by genre. Now it's a general category of just popular artists.
. Same for popular tracks and albums. For my tastes this entire feature is basically useless.

- Radios: the UI used to suggest auto-generated radios based on artists you listen to, it was my favorite feature that helped me discover many great artists and songs. Somehow it got moved and it took me a long time to find it again (it's now only a link on the artist page I guess ? I never think to do that)

- Bonus nitpick : the upload feature is great, sadly your music is not available to other people on the family plan
The beauty of longer term surplus, storage, savings, preservation, investment, etc.

That's fundamentally why we can do it and animals can't. If humans were unable to store or save, billions of people would die off rapidly. As a species we'd largely stop being so generous & kind with each other. Famines would be common (again). We'd never be able to successfully support such an immense population scale. Operating by a year to year razors edge, is incredibly risky and difficult. Inevitably the mistakes will hammer you. Instead of 10 steps forward and 9 steps backwards (leading to quite slow net population growth), today we're able to make 10 steps forward and maybe 1-2 backwards, leading to immense success overall (whether we're talking about % that make it to old age, or % that survive infancy).

If other animals could store their productivity (including surplus productivity) for 50%-100% of their life span (or more), much less widely distribute/trade it for further self-benefit, it seems like it would lead to fascinating consequences over many generations of evolution.
Game of Thrones?
Ahh, gotcha
My Favourite Smells (2005)
*for the price universities are willing to pay

If salaries were increased, this wouldn't be an issue.
What would you find convincing? Any stream of bits released could be falsified. The library of used vulnerabilities or malware techniques is not something I would expect any national level security agency to release.
I wonder if this is somebody really being philanthropic, or if they just control a ton of bitcoin that they can't access (for fear of taxation / Questions Being Asked), so they drop it on charities they're sympathetic to...
Noted. Thank you, @xn.
We all understood their stance. The notable point is the stark contrast between the Americans (embassy and expats alike) and everybody else.

While most of us were cowering under our desks and tables during SCUD attacks, some of our American civilian friends were out with their families in the desert trying to film the Patriots "intercepting" the SCUDs and driving out to try and pick up pieces of debris.

I look back upon those days with fondness and gratitude, especially for the American forces that served.
Most of those wealthy people you mean are older and not as technologically aware, so the charities they fund are ones that they know of (and bring them more social kudos) such as AIDS/Cancer/Human Rights organisations.
Another good example is the Polish nation, which lost and regained it's state more than once.
Isn’t it also FOSS, which indicates that the legal issue of profit from Microsoft’s design is null and void?
Google Shopping bans searches for 'water guns' and 'Guns N Roses'
I am curious how this effects the compiler in particular?Does the compiler measure this in some way and respond with different behavior? Or is it already designed less efficient to account for these types of operations? Or a mixture of both and/or more nuanced hurdles? Thanks for any info you can provide.
This is totally overhyped.

The internet existed for quite a long time and most ISP's never did the things that were alleged in this article.
There are some things that have been proven, sure, but they're not the norm and they're usually rare. The FTC and the market sorted the issues out pretty reasonably.

If you're worried about tracking, you need to stop using Google and Facebook, now. You should also stop using Chrome or anything with instant search enabled.

The other thing thats missing is that most privacy VPN providers are very sketchy and make a ton of unverifiable claims. You're not really better off using a Privacy VPN provider given the current technology.

Tor is marginally better but YMMV.
I feel this way about Soundcloud.
What happens in the Swartzchild Radius, stays in the Swartzchild Radius.
No-one (perhaps except folks like Stallman?) is blameless here.

One of the responsibilities of citizenship is to preserve your liberty against encroachment by State and private actors. Neglecting to consider that is a moral failure, and one I've been guilty of in the past.

I'm not saying that it's necessarily immoral to, say, have a FB account. But it is to have one without considering the implications and acting accordingly.
Hard first or easy first?
Saw this on the HTML5gamedev forums. Great approach to the .io games
It’s not easy to do what you love
Thanks, was actually not aware of that. Did honestly not use MS Excel for probably 10 years. Looks very interesting, gonna check out the documentation.

Looks like that now with my Add-On Google Sheets can finally do the same what MS Excel apparently could since 2007.
I've been in corporations where this is not always possible. (Mostly, politically speaking, though IIRC at one job my grandboss was not located in my building/city.)
Formal preemptive detentive by generic factors is what is described in the article.
I always find it interesting to see which of the new distro agnostic packages these applications provide. In this case AppImage and Snap.

It really looks like AppImage is taking the lead among these new packaging technologies. When the project does provide these sorts of packages you always see AppImages, but rarely see Snap or Flatpak based images.
Uhh, the very next sentence in the article is:

> Floods pose a serious threat to those living in the city, with 61 percent of residents having already experienced water damage to their properties. While rainfall poses a threat from above, rising sea levels threaten the city’s inner islands, which could easily be damaged by flooding if canals overflow.
> Taking an innocent person, and improsoning him against his will is a crime

Every criminal justice system has to balance (1) the risk of convicting the innocent, (2) the risk of letting the true crime-committer commit additional crimes (due to not being caught or caught later), and (3) the risk of being abused. We don’t like pre-crime convictions because we believe risks 1 and 3 outweigh any gains in 2. A culture with a different balance of risks, however, could come to a different but consistent conclusion. I don’t like that conclusion. But it’s at least debatable. Putting political enemies in jail is not.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22quit%20google%22&sort=byPop...

Serious question, why is Quitting Google such a big deal?
> the psychologists who conducted the study find that the one making $200,000 is probably no happier than the one making $120,000. This is because both the $120,000 and $200,000 women have incomes above $105,000, which according to their research is the point at which greater household income in the US is not associated with greater happiness. The technical term for this cutoff is the income “satiation point.”

Sounds like satiation point is where the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy have been satisfied.

This article [0] makes the point that mastery, belonging, and autonomy contribute to happiness, as well as the worldview of abundance vs one of scarcity.

[0] Why so many smart people aren't happy https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/why-so-...
https://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/

This is another great link on debunking popsci like 75K is where people are happy sort of headlines that points to your point.
tl;dr - A new study finds that $105,000 is the income level at which people no longer feel happier earning more money. This updates the previous number, $75,000, from a 2010 study.

Personally, I’m deeply skeptical of any psychology or sociology research that relies on magic numbers like “105,000”. As far as I can tell, the study doesn’t even account for cost of living.
I don't know if it was a JW household. Poverty stricken single mother, iirc.

This was in Georgia, deep in The Bible Belt. Hellfire and Brimstone types seem to vastly outnumber the Christians who read the parts of the Bible about love thy neighbor and judge not lest ye be judged.

I've known sincere Christians that I respected. I have known a lot more that make me think of the passage about someone telling Jesus "Someday, people will do things in your name" and he replies "And I will say I never knew them."
> But if you're investing in an unregulated, highly risky asset,

A lot of people are about to find out that cryptocurrencies are, in fact, regulated. It's weird to see some techies agree with the idea that "pedestrian thing, on a computer" patents are invalid (because the "on a computer" bit is irrelevant), but when it comes to "fraud/misrepresentation on a computer", then it suddenly needs to be legally special-cased as somehow different. Intangible/abstracted assets predate cryptocurrencies - there's nothing new about crypto in the eyes of the law.
Made up? Consider:

1. Your nationality decides the lower threshold of your social security.

2. Your nationality decides where and how easy you can travel.

3. Your nationality decides the justice system you are in.

4. For many people, your nationality, decides your ethnic background, what language you speak, what culture you are raised up...etc

It is of course not made up, at least for modern people who grow up in a world that is organized by nation, already. Of course, it was constructed, because 2 to 3 hundred years ago, the technology we have at the time is not sufficient to organize and control a population of modern nation. When that technology is in place, boom, the national identity comes with it. It is not coming out of nowhere.
The donor has said/intimated they they have enough money from bitcoin that they own that they really dont need the rest and so it may as well go to good causes. He/She/They can probably expect something of a tax write-off but I imagine that taxes arent really a problem for them either. If you are happy to give away ~$80m then paying ~$10-20m in taxes is not going to phase you.
Very deceptive title. Apple is not moving your iCloud data to China. But it is working with a Chinese company to manage data of it's Chinese customers. They are also investing in those companies to build the infrastructure. This is a change that has to due with partnering with companies that understand China well.
Yep. Spotify is in an un-enviable position of having a superior product, but with competitors who don't need to earn a profit.

Your last paragraph is one of the best takes I've read on this.
His point was that all of $@, $%, $? have more descriptive names as well, you don't need to use these single character macros.

Also you probably meant ?= instead of := as the command you gave would still use /some/path instead of /other/path if you use :=.
This. Obama radically expanded the surveillance state as did Bush and arguably Clinton abided it even if he didn't outright affect it in the same way as his successors. I'm not going to make the statement that the Chinese surveillance state is wrong, because in this instance I think it's irrelevant to the greater point that its execution is a totally different beast from the government surveillance that takes place in the USA. Whether or not one party in the USA is worse than another, neither is comparable in this context to the CPC.
Ask HN: A company wants to buy me a perpetual license, how can I value it?
I'm a solo business with a SaaS (It is a software to process data, I prefer not to reveal the name) and one of my clients, the bigger one pay me around $1800 per month for the service, my client wants a perpetual license (they are a large company and need to keep control over it) how can I set a value for it? My net profit for this client is only 15% (I pay AWS costs to keep the service running), because a bad negotiation with a 3 years contract, with a license it is going to be the 100% net profit.

I was thinking to multiply 1.800 per month per 3 years, it is 64.000 with only a year of updates if any (maybe there will be not updates), if I release an update after that I will charge for it with a year update policy, can someone give me any advice?
Or they feel guilty with how those coins were obtained.
Looks good, I think you need to add PHONY targets
> I hope you at least have the courage of your convictions to use dynamically-typed languages and keep everything in one procedure.

I think this undersells the counterargument. It's possible for there to be a federal world government that delegates most decisions locally, but enforces the peace globally. That is, there are local fences, but a system of specially shaped holes that permit certain kinds of items to pass freely.
I had a Nokia N810 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810). It was a incredibly good device for the time and left other smart devices of its era in the dust, IMO. The lack of telephony is why I stopped using it but its functionality, perfect keyboard, superb browser, and a proper terminal made it something that I still remember very fondly, next to my Sharp Zaurus SL500.
I would love to apply for a CompSci position at a university, but I left college for a high paying engineering role during my freshmen year and the opportunity cost of getting a Ph.D. at this point is very high. I don't think 30 college credits is going to get me very far in academia.
The problem with The World is that it was designed during Dubai’s ‘throw money and solve the problem’ phase. They knew the islands were/would erode and had a very expensive rebuilding process in the works.
Also iirc utilities were very expensive, which pushed it out of the budget of rich people. You had to be ultra-rich/a big corporation to be able to afford a place there.

The Dubai of now is still an ostentatious place, but at least it’s embracing its resort town/holiday destination image with the multiple theme parks, water parks and shopping malls. More in line with, say, Florida but more luxurious.
Sounds too woke to me.
The original yacc(1) was written with fixed-size arrays for the parser tables, statically allocated. If the parser was too complex, the arrays would blow. To fix that, change the DEFINEs and recompile yacc.
It's also worth noting that it's normalized to household size -- income divided by sqrt(household size). So for a married couple with two children -- a number close to my own heart -- the 105k satiation point would be real dollars of 210k/year.

Dollars are also represented as International Dollars, which are adjusted for the local purchasing power, expressed in units equivalent to one USD in the US.
I have no idea, but the Google Blog is weirdly unoptimized for something so public-facing/PR related. Can't find the relevant HN thread, but somebody pointed out that on another Google Blog post, the author managed to upload something like a 4000x4000px image of himself that then got displayed as something like 80x80px.

When you open up chrome dev tools, the blog post is 19.2 mb (!). And they are all like that (e.g. https://www.blog.google/topics/arts-culture/just-flick-wand-... 92.2 mb).
It wasn’t clock drift, it was an error in calculation leading to separate parts of the system, that were calibrated to the same common clock, to drift out of synchronization. Using a different clock, like GPS wouldn’t help with this.

But the rest of your point boils down to ’if you know your system has a flaw why not mitigate it’? But of course at design time they didn’t know it had this flaw.
Per a WSJ article in January, Spotify has retained investment bankers (reportedly paying them $30MM) to help ascertain interest from large institutional investors, tell the investment story, et cetera. Given that, I imagine that they will advise the company and its pre-IPO shareholders on an indicative price or price range.

Also, I would be hard pressed to imagine that they would not nominate a stabilization agent to help deal with the issues that you noted so that they manage price volatility in initial trading.
As a job seeker, how is TripleByte different than the other companies that spam my email inbox with their own "exclusive" coding tests? It seems to me that when you peel back the fancy website, TripleByte is not functionally different from the hiring agencies on other job boards (cough cough, Dice) that would advertise an "exciting opportunity" with their nameless client in order to hook you into signing a contract with them. ("Hey, while you're not qualified for this role, we have others that come by our desk constantly. So how about letting us sell you to other companies?")

EDIT: Their website layout is a classic agency layout.

> header with giant "sign up" button

> "top tech companies" in big print as a selling point

> huge section with the most "famous" companies in their client pool

> free cost (you're the product they're selling, so they're not looking out for a best fit - they're looking to get paid for placing you)

> testimonials

> blogroll that reads like it was built solely for SEO
Most faculty position are paying dirt, and many of them are part time, it's hard to compete for talent when you aren't even in the game.
Americans inexplicably less pain tolerant than rest of the world
The exception being Tom Bombadil, but he is a strange creature.