skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back then, there was room in the world for Facebook to dig its own decently sized moat before it had to meet AOL head to head. Nowadays, that’s harder, certainly in the West.

Because of that, I think it’s likely that, if a company manages to dethrone Facebook, it will come from China, where the government is willing to act as a kind of incubator.

So, IMO, rather than seeing Facebook dethroned, the more likely outcome is a world with two (or maybe three? Europe seems not concerned about being part of the Facebook camp ?yet?, but it, Russia or Arab countries may at some time start helping a large local competitor emerge) giants that split the world geographically, and can’t merge because countries will forbid them from doing that.
For what GP is talking about, it's per giver. It's a combined gift/estate tax, with the goal of preventing someone from giving to escape their eventual estate tax burden.

But that isn't really relevant for the average person - gifts below the annual exclusion amount (something like $14k) are exempt from reporting/recording/tallying at your death. And this does apply per each pair of people per year, so in your scenario BG would have nothing to report.
So one base carriers or zealot rush?

Idk man, those cyclone pushes hold the line
Further complicating the situation, there is a roughly $30k (don’t bother looking it up) exception per year that allows couples to gift under that amount to individuals without affecting my lifetime $5m exclusion.

So if we have 5 children and 10 grandchildren we are giving away $450,000 a year to our family and still get another $5M when we die gift tax free.
there s the issue of content moderation. Facebook is considered generally safe enough that people post their photos without thinking they ll be placed next to nudes.
"Reposts" are fine. Better to formulate it as previous discussion.
There's good evidence the British used smallpox (shards of cloth carefully sealed, not whole blankets) vs natives in N.A. Less evidence of U.S. (or Trump) involvement I believe.

I'm not a Trump guy, I just like evidence more than assertion.
I wonder how long before we start seeing studies about the benefits of social media or casual games. "People with more than 500 Facebook friends live up to 2 years longer." "People who spend more than $100/mo on loot boxes find jobs 17% faster."

Just do enough studies and the benefits will show.
Why does a go get pull in docker and everything else?

I'm trying to clean up the Void package to make it more maintainable.
Making Valgrind Easy
I find that more and more often a search like "keyword1 keyword2 keyword3" will give results that only match 2/3 keywords in the first N results. I feel that I'm frequently having to think "How can I phrase this search to get Google to do what I want?", which seems like a problem they solved (mostly) fairly early on.

It's especially annoying when you search "keyword1 keyword2" then "keyword1 keyword2 keyword3" and get the same results, just with a "Missing terms: keyword3" note below each (and more often than not, an alternative search will find what I'm looking for, so it's not just a case of there being nothing to match all three).

Edit: missed "note".
One problem I've found with differential privacy is that no one talks about how to set \epsilon. I've read this book, and it's quite well written and complete, but as the title says it focuses on the algorithmic foundations.

This paper [1] is much better for practitioners, and actually gives very reasonable values for the privacy guarantee (e.g., (1.2, 1e-9)), and builds on this great paper: [2]. Worth a read if you train neural networks.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.06963.pdf
[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.00133.pdf
Reminded me of this kid that said he bought some bitcoins and then sold to buy some alt coins.

>At the advice of my friends, I took most of my savings and bought 8 bitcoins back in early 2017 for about $7200. You can imagine how I felt when it went up. Around December 2017, I got caught up in the altcoins frenzy and sold most of my bitcoins (about $120k worth) to buy a bunch of different coins. I didn't know this back then but it looks like I owe income taxes on those trades,

Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/84huks/i_j...
From what I see, last commit was a year ago and that was just to bump the version number. Is more work being done on this? It looks interesting.

edit never mind, I was looking at https://github.com/dominictarr/scuttlebutt
> What do you do about programming errors you cannot identify?

A programming language designer can only do so much for you. If you cannot identify errors in your programs on your own, consider switching to a different career.

> And what about programming errors that your process and your language causes?

Rigorous reasoning cannot possibly cause any problems. Rigorous reasoning helps identify and fix problems more often than not caused by prior non-rigorous reasoning.

> Programming language design is all about interactions with humans

Humans who need to reason rigorously in order to do things right, hence need to be pushed in this direction.
Such directories are non-portable and can’t be used in $PATH on any Unix, nor any other path-like mechanism like $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
I don't know about completely. They still all show ads and collect user data. But they will be less affected than some others (google).
Lifetime max $5,000,000. Yearly max changes but hovers around $15k per person (wife and husband diffrent people!) and doesn’t touch yearly max.
I actually find people's risk intuition spectacularly bad. People seem to suspect their IT department will catch them and report them for things that their IT department doesn't care about, for example. Or expect that the IT department and/or supervisors may be watching their webcam, which is creepy, and really not something ordinary workplaces do.
I guess it's about the dopamine rush of the always flowing new content and never ending notifications.
Yes. If you don’t have the key, you can’t sell. Selling is when you would realize your gain (or loss), and then do tax stuff.
Whiteboarding is a waste of time in my opinion. The problems are recycled anyway (reverse singly linked list, needle in haystack search, etc). It doesn’t give you a useful signal about the person’s coding ability when they can just do rote memorization on a toy problem.
Looks great. Two questions:

1. I wonder though why you/team didn't opt for extending the vim emulation - via a plugin - on VS Code. Did the exposed API limit you from doing so? Edit: Having used the extensions of VSCode, I am wondering if that is the case.

2. Does it support installation of sublime/atom/vscode plugins?
Yeah, KDE Neon is very distinct from Kubuntu 16.04.

Kubuntu 16.04 comes with a really outdated version of Qt and with KDE Plasma 5.5, which was essentially still a development version of the 5.x series.

KDE Neon pretty much just exists to fix that hot mess.
Personally I'm very defensive against more academic interview processes (like Google's) because I'm a college drop-out and feel some amount of insecurity being ranked among peers with better academic backgrounds who might excel at such tests. In truth it is a personal failure of mine, and something i'll eventually get over through study/training the next time I'm looking for a job (hopefully years from now).

Sure it would be great if we found some super-magical process that didn't irritate or inconvenience incumbent and new developers alike. But you probably can't please everyone, and in the meantime we need to do the best we can because hiring still has to happen. Companies with slightly better processes will be rewarded (hopefully) and companies with more painful processes will face some penalty from losing candidates that would move their company forward. Hopefully this is enough of an incentive to keep companies continually working towards better hiring practices. But I kind of doubt it.
And ios locked bootloader, no root, running only appstore code should not exist, but here we are ...
If you like the medium editing you and want it for your own site, have a look at quill.p3k.io
If I bought 1 ton of gravel at $10, then bought one ton of gravel at $200, then swapped one ton when it was $100 for a meal out. Which ton was used for the purchase, the one I bought at $10 or the one at $200?
I always wake up within 5-6 hours if I goto sleep drunk. Is this the reason why?
A moat is only useful if the project serves its purpose well. The question I ask myself is how a product that so demonstrably[1] makes people unhappier the more they use it can be sustainable. What problem does Facebook cure?

The engagement loops trigger behavioral patterns that are supposed to encourage healthy relationships, but in this case it pulls us into a low-fidelity world of screens that pulls us away from enjoying the moment together with people that actually chose to be there in real life with us.

The endless feeds are arguably even more destructive as it removes the natural stopping point and the small moments of boredom where our minds get a chance to be creative instead of just consuming.

Maybe real life has a moat that is stronger than Facebooks network? I believe all need people that are offended when we don't hang out often enough more than Facebook likes and pretty pictures, so if the choice is between the two ....

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-facebook-makes-u...
Also, sorry for the double response, but I had one other thought.

I'm not sure that most people understand even now, after the CA story broke, what the specific issue was with CA, FB, and app permissions. CBS news characterized it just like any other data breach. Slate's Political gabfest did the same. Most news articles near the tip of Reddit's front page were also light on details. Channel Four's original report didn't even focus that heavily on the FB/App problem. Friends in my FB news feed similiarly sound confused about what specifically happened. Everyone is outraged, but few seem to understand, even now.
Awesome! I have played with godot before, and while it has some sharp edges I am thrilled to see an opensource engine coming together so well. Great job to all involved!
"A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes"
Is there a difference between perception of challenge and a challenge? Either way, I do think that some video games are challenging. On the other hand, some games, particularly freemium mobile games really do just hijack your brain.
Yep. Needs to answer what is the precision?
No, just general keyboard and some mouse usage.

I suppose most of the use is because they don't use the DE itself that much, it's mostly just a launcher for the stuff they use. It's mostly full-screen IDE on one monitor, browser and terminal on the other.
I find WhatsApp is ubiquitous among my international friends, but my American friends who joined Facebook in college don't have it. Anecdotal data, of course.
I’ve been using a CPAP for a couple years, and remember everyone making it seem like there would be an instant change that supercharges everything. This never noticeably happened, but thinking back, things without a doubt improved over time. I mostly notice when I don’t have my CPAP for a night, and I wake up feeling like I didn’t get enough sleep with a sore throat.

The main things I notice now... I used to be able to sleep 12 hours a night easy and wake up tired, now I can hardly sleep more than 8 hours and function completely fine on 6 hours. I can drive for more than 2 hours without having to pull over and take a nap. I don’t feel like I’m about to doze off at work regularly. My productivity has overall increased, but it was a gradual change that I don’t notice unless I think back to my productivity in the past.
Roosendaal by any chance? I remember visiting the lighting r&d department with school when I was young. Was one of the things that inspired me to go into tech! They demolished the entire factory now ...
That assumption is reasonable but unfortunately wrong. The laws around spinoffs are specifically written to apply only to securities (stock in a company) and cryptocurrencies are not securities.
I think you might be making too much of the connection between rationality and the ability to use modern tools.

I don't have a lot of experience with terrorist leaders, but my experience with business leaders is that they are way more superstitious than the average engineer or technician working under them. The leader, in a technical team at least, is almost always the person most vulnerable to irrational thoughts about their own abilities. I suspect this has to do with how much most people value confidence in their leaders, and how much better you are at projecting confidence if you actually have irrationally positive beliefs about your own abilities.

Add to that, I'd argue that saying "From my cold, dead hands" to the US military or law enforcement is something only someone who doesn't meet my definition of rationality would do.
I have the same, often it feels like my body "forgets" to breathe while falling asleep and I'm back to square 1
Peter Kairouz [1] gave a talk [2] recently describing mechanisms to get around the limitations of DP described in other comments.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~kairouzp/

[2] https://youtu.be/6Uur2_TnwYE
I can tell you from experience ppl with college degrees go through the exact preparation process, aren't well off because they took an algorithm course 2 decades ago.
First off, yes it’s a pain in the ass in practice and a real headwind for using crypto as a currency. At the same time
most people are treating crypto as a property investment in practice, so it’s hard to dispute the IRS’s approach here.

As for solving the problem with software, it’s already “solved” by your broker. In the investing world when you sell you choose which lots you want to sell. You typically tell your broker what sort of strategy you want to use (LIFO vs FIFO) and they handle it for you. So I’d expect a software solution to work the same way - you would configure the software to LIFO/FIFO/other.
> To achieve it, the author suggests that people buy a domain name, spend $4 a month on web hosting, and manually install Wordpress. The author leaves out ssl, so I assume either the person is going to pay some more for a cert or spend time learning about LetsEncrypt and installing CertBot.

> Add to that Wordpress maintenance time and time installing plugins.

For most of us it would be more efficient to just use html.

Then you don't have to maintain Wordpress at all.

Or, if updating links etc gets tedious: use static html generators.
We use butter [1] for that, and we're liking the product so far. The various nontechnical people (ceo, writers) have been fine with it. Butter build and distribute a gem that just drops into rails and displays your posts. You have to style it, but you get the erb files.

They do have some support for local caching, but investigating that is on my todo list.

One big upside of this design is seo: your blog isn't on blog.domain.com, but wherever you want it on your main site.

[1] https://buttercms.com/
Bear in mind, if you give your credit card to a website, the only thing prohibiting them from storing it on their server is fear of getting their PCI DSS certification revoked if they get caught doing it. There's no technical limitation... and there should be.

That's why, of course, chips for physical purchase have moved to one-time codes, effectively, so that your credit card number can't be stored without permission. Ideally, someday our online purchases will work the same way.
> That's a narrative (like the comment I was responding to), not backed by any studies as far as I can tell.

The legalization narrative is about sexual abuse (in the general sense both for sex workers and the broader population) and not specifically trafficking.

You are redefining English in attempt to use a paper that is entirely conjecture based on the predispositions of the authors. I stated _abuse_ as in sexual abuse, not trafficking specifically.

Sex workers are objecting to this law because it is cutting off their ability to communicate dangerous clients to each other. That will lead to an increase in them getting raped.

Like, I get you want to say "Sex trafficking bad and clearly that is the only issue that matters" but it is far from the only issue.

Trafficked persons, in a legal environment, are going to have their place of work inspected, regular interviews with the police for licensing, and their citizenship status checked. The studies of early legalization Germany are so fun for opponents to push because they know Germany did not do this for the first years.

It is like comparing a known, obviously broken implementation and insisting all implementations look like that or that is the only measure of success.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bi...

> I was a #sexworker organizer for years in NYC. #FOSTA would undermine almost every single thing I would tell people for how to stay alive. ALL screening, ALL peer references, ALL bad date lists I could send. #SurvivorsAgainstFOSTA

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-...

> The authors provide “causal evidence” of a 32 to 40 percent reduction in rape and sexual abuse within two years of a city opening a tippelzone. The higher number is for cities that license sex work in the tippelzone; the lower figure is for cities without a licensing process. “The decreases in sexual abuse are stronger in cities with licensed tippelzones.”

> In cities with both a tippelzone and a licensing requirement, the authors find a 25 percent reduction in drug-related crimes within two years. That result persists beyond two years.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w20281

> Most governments in the world including the United States prohibit prostitution. Given these types of laws rarely change and are fairly uniform across regions, our knowledge about the impact of decriminalizing sex work is largely conjectural. We exploit the fact that a Rhode Island District Court judge unexpectedly decriminalized indoor prostitution in 2003 to provide the first causal estimates of the impact of decriminalization on the composition of the sex market, rape offenses, and sexually transmitted infection outcomes. Not surprisingly, we find that decriminalization increased the size of the indoor market. However, we also find that decriminalization caused both forcible rape offenses and gonorrhea incidence to decline for the overall population. Our synthetic control model finds 824 fewer reported rape offenses (31 percent decrease) and 1,035 fewer cases of female gonorrhea (39 percent decrease) from 2004 to 2009.
We all know struggle is a prelude to strong beliefs. And that much of quality art relates to the struggles of the common man. So why should this be of any surprise?
We absolutely should. Here's what I'm doing to help change it:

I'm launching a new venture that will try to help connect great engineers with great companies. Companies with great teams, competitive benefits, and the belief that engineers shouldn't have to go through bullshit interview practices and shouldn't have to study 150 hours for a round of interviews.

The flow is pretty simple: a quick Skype/Hang out call to learn about you, what've you done, what you want, and what you like/don't like.

Next, you'll get access to a git repo. In that git repo is a project with real code and a few features/bug fixes for you to implement. You commit against that repo just like you would at work. After a certain amount of time, you'll lose access to that repo.

One or more engineers will review the repo with no knowledge of your age, gender, work history, etc. Based on that engineer's feedback, we match you with companies that we think there will be a good fit. If there is mutual interest, you meet the companies in person for a final round where you can't get rail-roaded with bullshit questions.

Email me @ interviewingisbroken@gmail.com if any of these are you:

1. You're in the Bay Area or NYC and interested in fair interviews with great companies

2. You're in the Bay Area or NYC and work for a company that wants to offer fair interviews to get great engineers

3. You're a great engineer who would like to get paid to help create interview projects or perform reviews of candidates code - we're paying up to $100/hr. Great side hustle opportunity.

I wasn't planning on announcing anything about this yet but this post got me so fired up.
I’ve been using a CPAP consistently for a couple years now. Can still fall asleep in under 5 minutes. Only difference is now I can usually control when I fall asleep.
We already have decentralization in three primary forms of communication: phone, mail, and e-mail. They worked great in 1998. Why can't they work great in 2018?
Talking about Mastodon on Reddit
I actually really like the way that my company does software interviews. We do an initial resume check and screener phone call. After that, we send prospectives a take-home code sample that they can work on. The problems are very small and well-scoped and they can take as long as they want to work on it.

We do an initial code review. If we have notes for improvement, we give the candidate feedback and ask if they'd like to do one more pass at it. If they don't want to, but we think that the general thinking and instincts behind the logic is sound, we bring them in for an in-person where we ask them to go over their code review on where the pitfalls are and where they think they could potentially improve.

That gives us the most realistic sense of how well a candidate is going to do at the company, since this is essentially our process.
Yes! After reading the Nano whitepaper a few months ago I realized it could be a protocol for a general, free, scaleable social network. I've been prototyping and designing it for the past few months. You don't need to increase the transaction data size, just make the transactions pointers to the data which lives somewhere else like IPFS or S3, keep the chains small.

However a week ago I discovered scuttlebutt.nz who also had the same idea, about a year before me, and already had a working useable app. So I've been using it and will probably be hacking on this for a while and see how I could incorporate some of the ideas I came up with prototyping my own network.
Or have to be told that even though '123' as a password is 'easier' for them, that no, it's really not a good idea.

As to FB, if you were there in the beginning, you can definitely watch the scope creep:

Some of us hopped on Facebook in college when it expanded from Harvard to other schools (02? 03?) and it was a completely different beast. You could add friends or people from your classes, send messages, connect with that cute girl in your class (because you could search by classes), personalize it with quotes and photos, etc. It was basically a cleaner MySpace. As it expanded, I used it as a personal address book to keep track of folks I met while abroad and could see what they're up to. Over time though, it really changed, was less useful, and I honestly had no reason to go on it except for once a year when people would chime in with a happy birthday and I would catch up with them.

I'm much more worried about how integrated Google is into my life or the flashes of guilt when I order something from Amazon, which used to book that quirky bookseller with a poorly-designed website that had free shipping (5-10 days) but is now a behemoth that sells everything on a poorly-designed website that has different tiers of shipping which might be leading to abusive practices of its workers.
From https://mastodon.social/@Nigma
There are tons of threads on HackerNews on this and they all usually follow the same exact pattern of discussion.

Everyone hates interviews and how they are useless but in the the end we settle for the status quo.
Google can do this. keyword1 AROUND(5) keyword2.