skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypnagogia.. Didn't hear that word before. I get that a lot and tried to explain it to other people, but nobody seem to understand what I am talking about.

It feels like I am dreaming while I am still awake in some kind of transitional state, where I am not conscious and also not asleep. It is not the same as lucid dreaming, which I had a couple of times also.
I'm curious to know - how did you manage to buy and sell a house by age 24 in the midst of a major housing bubble?

Seems the down payment and credit-worthiness in any major metro would have been a pretty huge hurdle for someone only a few years into their career.
It does assume the continuation of American exceptionalism. I believe that a better benchmark would be a basket of stock markets rather than just the S&P 500.

That basket would be dominated by the S&P 500 so it wouldn't change things too drastically, but it would pull that number down somewhat.
You misunderstand the difficulty in the software side.

Developing competitive CUDA equivalent is much harder task than what you assume. There needs to be lots of tooling and need for optimizations in software to make these low level libraries high performance. The amount of testing and benchmarking to make the right choices may take many people working full time. Implementing the functionality is not enough.

AMD has had apis for a long time and it has an has an open source deep learning stack but it's not good enough. AMD also has CUDA to HIP converter but the results are not competitive and miss features.

Both AMD and Intel are probably getting there eventually and Nvidia is cashing the monopoly phase before the prices stop.
I'm guessing C-levels are going to start getting into shape if they have 20+ less hours on planes during their day.
> fake videos are used to compromise the voices of those which deserve our trust

Which leads to what needs to be considered the greatest sin and betrayal of all: The creating and promoting of such videos.

No one creates a false video by accident. They know what they are doing, and their intentions are clear.

And this is not free speech.

Putting words in other people's mouths and manipulating voices is fake speech, and is the direct opposite of free speech.
Number was very very very wrong. Actually it's 0.5 million. I've corrected the post.
“Being on a computer” doesn’t define a database, just as “being a number” doesn’t define math.
No, I get what is trying to be achieved, I am just questioning why it is being done this way and not something much simpler... I would much prefer that my JavaScript bundler only bundles JavaScript. Converting a PNG into a JavaScript module through base64 should be pretty trivial, so I'd prefer to do that with another tool. I do something similar for inlining CSS in my own projects.
It was not intended an appeal to hypocrisy. It was demonstrating that a lot of people (including you and me) get a tremendous amount of value out of Amazon and society is healthier as a result.
It's less about over/under-performance and more with incentive alignment and political perception, and organizational maturity.

It's really, really hard to get executive budgetary approval for a foundational data audit/cleaning project (comprehensive data cataloging, data cleaning, source auditing and validation, etc). Doing so implicitly admits that you weren't doing that before, and now you have to pay gobs of money to fix it. The larger the company, the more infeasible it is to push this through because of the breadth of technical/analytical debt that has accrued and the price tag associated with the project, combined with the perception of incompetency (i.e. it's an expensive project that's fixing a problem you as the executive shouldn't have let happen to begin with).

Whereas an ML/AI project/initiative/push is a net new capability that you're spearheading, and it's easier to get the political traction to spend money on net new things, especially buzzwordy net new things that the firm can use to be viewed as cutting edge. The fact that you're rolling up the cost of a complete data management audit to be able to even do the ML/AI project is a minor bullet-point that doesn't matter. Executive expectation is that anything ML/AI/new-age-techy is going to be astronomically expensive anyway, so it doesn't get noticed that they're paying a premium on labor to do it as a combined project rather than as two separate projects.

Effectively, the foundational work that's needed to support ML work is also the work that's needed to do basic SQL-based analytic work, but it's way easier to get that budgetary line approved in a flashy ML project, even if you're paying a premium by having the ML/AI firm do the foundational work instead of the specialist work.

Plus, spearheading ML/AI initiatives make for better resume points than "data management initiatives". So there's little reason for anyone in this process to attempt to change anything, unless you happen to materially benefit from a firm's profit. For this reason, my main consulting clients are bootstrapped firms that actually care about being pragmatic over being trendsetters.

Note: This is a huge generalization, and doesn't apply universally. But it's far more common than you would expect, especially as you veer away from the type of companies that pop up on HN towards more traditional industries.
How do you tell the difference between commercial scheduled rocket flights and incoming ICBM's?
No, it's still using people as a means to an end. It's even wrong to lie to the murderer at the door. Kant himself addressed this in an essay titled: On The Supposed Right To Lie From Altruistic Motives[1].

[1] https://www.unc.edu/courses/2009spring/plcy/240/001/Kant.pdf
What does the math look like to you? I mean, back when I was a teenager I realized that this century is different, I shouldn't expect to do what my dad did and end up (albeit through a series of acquisitions / mergers) at the same company for 30-something years with a payout plan at the end. Sometime in 2012 I saw this article[0] which starts off:

"The average lifespan of a company listed in the S&P 500 index of leading US companies has decreased by more than 50 years in the last century, from 67 years in the 1920s to just 15 years today"

I doubt things look any rosier 6 years later. So what does the math look like when the firm lifespan of the most profitable companies is quite a bit less than the lifespan of someone's useful working period?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-16611040
I think I follow what you're saying, we aren't going to be able to construct what aliens look like on a distant planet (or some other unknown). We're essentially looking at the information we have, which is why I expect continued interest in exploring for new information. Even as we continue to improve our reconstructions of 4D.
As of yet there is nowhere in the world where the installed cost of a 50 kWh hour battery system is only $10,000. I don't think you can even get that much storage for that little money even if you're qualified to install it yourself and are just paying for the hardware. Are you perhaps just looking at wholesale cell costs?
Where can I download the device schematics (or order a pre-assembled device) and an instruction manual on how to use it? I really bloody want a kind of "a crutch" that would throw me in a lucid dream without all that "dream journal" kind of exercises.
I get this a lot too and had to look up the term. The first time I tried acupuncture I went into this state right away.
Have you any experience with GINO (https://github.com/fantix/gino) or Peewee-Async (https://github.com/05bit/peewee-async)? These look to be feasible alternatives.
Kids won't learn if their parents are the ones doing the homework.
The average taxpayer is well above £21k -- that's the median income, which includes the 40% not paying taxes and of course median is well below average due to tail effects.
Even with PDF, there is a risk -- there have been some cases e.g. with the US government where sensitive info was thought to be redacted.

However, the people doing the "redaction" just added a black rectangle layer on top of the text, which was easily revertible.

E.g. https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/12/09/tsa-bre...
Guess because I've reached a certain age I remember things like rotary dial phones, vacuum tubes and linotype machines. Until quite recently here in Michigan we still had one weekly paper with handset type.

The last linotype operator retired from the New York Times after fifty years in 2016:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/insider/1966-2016-the-las...
That test mode of the desktop theme is actually live but super hidden away.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hacker_News&use...
I've been trying to add a preference to allow user's to opt into it - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186760 - if you can a token of support there might help this get prioritised.
Its not just devs that get these assignments. I've seen startups use BD folks for interviews to research and structure potential deals as a "homework" assignment. They dangle a fancy job in hopes of generating leads, which they do, and then they never end up filling the position. Candidates put in weeks of work setting up an actual deal for a fictitious job.

I think these tactics are a lazy way to interview. If you truly want to build a great company, you need to spend significant time with someone to understand 1) can they do this job, and 2) are they a fit with the culture, and 3) are they passionate about the mission. There are no shortcuts, yet so many companies try to hack the process.

Everyone is busy and looking for ways to steal time but this seems to be one of the most short-sighted. The best companies don't look at labor as just an input.
If no one can predict what will happen 10, 20, 30+ years in to the future, why is it okay when we're subjecting individuals' retirements to that same inability to predict the future?
If you just count the JS and HTML, then a minimal Electron app is (hopefully) also tiny.
Wow, it also has drivers for the raspberry Pi ! https://www.picotech.com/support/topic14649.html

This pairing would make for a trully tiny all in one oscilliscope, i'm tempted to get a picoscope and a tiny LCD just for laughs: project #1
Heavy regulation and requiring all flights to be registered with NORAD with high precision, probably.
Online platform for creative music makers based on RNN [Soundscape]
There won't be any Social Security when you are 62. The system is a ponzi scheme that will collapse with the boomer retirements.
You are already free. The shackles are in your mind.

Find meaningful work, whatever your passion is. In practice, you'll likely not starve or become homeless; but simply enjoy more modest means.
"The problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true." --Abraham Lincoln
To me the remarkable part is that Wikipeda stills works great without javascript.
I have a lot of goodwill toward wikimedia, but trying to use wiki data made me question my life choices. It doesn’t help that the official API endpoint Times out for anything mildly complicated. (As in a simple aggravation or sorting in the query)
Not sure it is a good idea to use a language that is not memory safe for GUI.
Apparently, incognito mode uses the same temporary cookies folder as regular chrome, so FB looks at this folder if incognito is open in one window while FB is being used in another.
Portland is my top option, keeps me in the PNW close to family, nature is still close by, housing is within my means and TriMet is fantastic (I used it every day when I was visiting for PuppetConf 2015, by far my favorite out of the major cities I have visited). Seattle is a another option, but I'm really not a fan of WA's regressive tax structure and it's not very close to outdoor activities.

If it didn't put me so far away from my family I'd consider Boston since my brother-in-law + niece/nephew live there, but my daughter is much less attached to them than my mother and grandparents so it makes sense to stay close (at least PDX and SEA both have nonstop flights available to BOS, makes it much less painful to visit than the BOI-DEN-BOS legs with Southwest).
I read somewhere that Thomas Edison used to take naps with ball bearings in his hands. At the instant he fell asleep, the bearings rolled out of his hands and hit the floor and woke him up during this transition state.
Biochemistry research, investigative journalism, crisis PR, surgery, solar power finance, and one is operating a brewery.
> Here in France, SMS / MMS are still the most widely used

What, which part? Over here SMS is used only as a last resort: interoperability when people aren't using the same set of messaging apps, or no data due to bad network conditions. Everyone is using Messenger (when mutually added), WhatsApp, Telegram, or iMessage, the latter three automatically populating when phone numbers are added to contact lists, which people happily upload.
why would it take 23900 times longer
Cyber stalking is only OK when big companies do it. Preventing it is not a technical problem as you succinctly stated in your first sentence.
i tend to agree that baseball shouldn't be tweaked. although I think if there's a way to incentivize small ball somehow without doing anything ridiculous, that would probably be good for the sport. the three true outcomes are dull.

if you were going to make an outrageous rule change, i've often thought that you could have some sort of "offsides rule", where either the outfielders have to be inside some line when the pitch is thrown (thus requiring them to run farther and limiting flyouts), or the infielders have to be outside some line (requiring them to sprint in and increasing the chance of reaching base on a grounder). or both, if you want things to be very silly.
That's not how averages work. If 9 people have an IQ of 100 and 1 has an IQ of 10, the average is 91. 9/10 people are still above that.
> I bought my first house in Berkeley
> rented out 2 remaining rooms
> buy a house in south SF
> my mom and I bought a 3 unit run-down place in Oakland and fixed it up
> rental income coming in around 13k / month
> Looking back, the best thing I did for myself is to refrain from living extravagantly

Surprising! Sounds like the best thing that happened in this story was partnering with other wealthy people to engage in leveraged speculation on Bay Area real estate.
Except - lots of current biofuels are thought to be "fossil fuel subsidized" and not that energy positive.

Solar panels also don't wear out soil nutrients, don't need crop rotation, and are probably much less likely to be completely destroyed by weather patterns than the average corn crop grown for biofuels.
While I agree with you with respect to the over-leveraging of the business, management fees are charged to the LPs (Investors) of the fund and not portfolio companies.
Fast and simple music and audio analysis in Python [AudioOwl]
The author seems to be bending over backwards to make the buyers look like evil masterminds that profited from running Toys R Us into the ground...

For example, he notes that they'll have to write off their investment in Toys R Us, but makes it sound like they're making out like bandits because they got $200 million in management/consulting fees out of the deal. So, they lost a $6.6 billion investment, and made $200 million in management fees? Doesn't sound like a very successful evil plot to me.

More importantly, what if this had been a success? What if they had bought Toys R Us and orchestrated a phenomenal turn-around? Would this still be a story? Would they be evil, but this time they'd be evil because they stole a public company for pennies on the dollar (a la the Dell lawsuit) and made bank when it returned to growth and profitability?

A significantly more dispassionate discussion about the debt burden that goes along with a leveraged buyout would have been far more interesting to read.
53% did not delete FB or tighten their privacy settings post Cambridge Analytica
Politics in a democracy has always been always been about hacking the electorate. It just seems that the tools for doing this are becoming more and more powerful.
In bacteria at least it's well-established that natural selection favours a smaller genome -- hence why antibiotic resistance will be dropped if the selective pressure is removed.
> the exorbitant management fees

These are charged to the fund (i.e. the investors), not the company. PE firms charge companies transaction fees. "Toys 'R' Us does say in its SEC filings that $47 million in transaction fees that it owed KKR, Bain and Vornado, have been waived. The advisory fees were also voluntarily reduced by the investment firms in recent years" [1].

Private equity isn't VC. When a holding goes bust, the fund loses a lot of money. That, in turn, sharply limits what fund managers can do and how much they can pay themselves, including from other better-performing investments.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/09/19/the-big-...
Heat gain is linear, but efficiency drops with larger temperate differences. Further, you have to worry about lower relative humidity percentage as you increase temperate differences.
Why is y combinator hacker news so popular?
Ask HN: Why not decrease the 30% AppStore fee for small companies?
Its annoying to hell out of me. My sponsorship with Microsoft is running out, meaning I have to pay for the VM that my iOS app is running on.

If I subtract my server cost + 33% AppStore fee, there is not much profit left.

Why cant Apple give some slack to indie developers with low app income? 30% fee is way too much.

This duopoly in the smartphone market is very, very bad!
This reminds me of the novel Daemon.

Not to give too much away, but the main way that the antagonist in the book preys on people is not by hacking their devices, but rather by hacking them through complex, technology-assisted social engineering.
This is an excellent point. I don't think I've read an account of the TRU fiasco from the POV of a person with kids. By my read, TRU's problem isn't debt or Amazon, but changing substitutes. E.g.:

+ YouTube + Amazon: Lets kids see what a toy looks like in HD, whereas previously you'd need to go to a store to see the big images on the box, or to press the "try me" buttons. As you said, the brand drives most of the sales, so the store experience adds little.

+ Advanced Supply Chains/McDonalds: The toys in Happy Meals are insanely nice, I wouldn't be surprised to see them retail for $5-10 at a toy store. High-quality toys are throw-ins for a lot of stores now, obviating the need for a special purpose store, save for Christmas/Birthdays.

+ YouTube + Grocery Store: The rise of Surprise Eggs over the last few years has been astounding, to the point that a decent amount of our toy budget is spent at the checkout line at the grocer, where these eggs are increasingly on offer.

+ YouTube + DIY: The explosion in popularity of DIY slime is another development where tactile time is invested in a project rather than a packaged toy.

+ Apps: The YouTube Kids app and the many thousands of quality games on offer in the app store are great substitutes for plastic junk.

No doubt debt played a role, but I think almost every story has underplayed massive changes in the toy market that are an additional headwind to the industry.
>You are trading one job ( the job ) for another ( constantly trying to live frugally )b

No, you are trading a job for any job you want.

You aren't required to sit out on your porch and rock your days away. It just means you have an indefinite runway to figure out next steps.

Mr. Money Mustache apparently makes crazy money now despite still living on $30k / yr, because he had time to find what he loved doing. And if he suddenly decides he doesn't like it, it means he can just... stop doing it.

---

Actually. Let me phrase this in "valley speak".

FIRE is about building and funding a personal basic income system.
Is AI on Track to Achieving Super Intelligence?
Trump, social media and the first Twitter-based Presidency
> go back to before photographs became a thing in 1839 or so

My favorite taste of this is the Blackadder episode Money. Blackadder ends up blackmailing a bishop with a portrait of the man in a compromising position, and everyone simply assumes that if there's a portrait of an event, it must be real.

It's a great bit of comedy just by pushing a plausible event into the past, and it looks like we're headed to that same scenario in the future. The loss of faith in photographs isn't going to be some unprecedented collapse of truth, it's going to be a return to the default position of politics and society after a mere century of novelty.
> Perhaps I sound too harsh, but I simply fail to understand how all these people thought that holding 6 figure amounts in a single stock was a good idea?

Indeed. But yet people in this thread are advising moving it all to just a single index fund.

While index funds are somewhat diversified many suffer from over-investment into specific industries like tech. If the .COM bubble burst again tomorrow several of the most popular index funds with be hit hard...

For example, look at the popular Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, 20% in Technology, and 20% in financial, but if you dig into the financial portfolio you'd realize that a pop in tech would also sink many of the investment companies in financial too.

I guess what I am saying is, an index fund is better than a single company holding, but it isn't a broadly diversified portfolio. If you want a diversified portfolio it will cost you, since many of the alternatives don't perform as well (e.g. international index funds, small-cap, etc).
They'd lose massive amounts of revenue and cease to exist. Even with digital advertising most newspapers are dead or barely staying afloat. They all struggled to convert to digital and tracking-based advertising was just one of many life boats they tried to save themselves with.
That's not the same though. You have to bundle electron to run your app. Your Java app is fine as long as Java is installed.
This looks similar to https://rapidapi.com but rather than pricing for each individual API, there is one monthly cost to access all APIs?
Inside the Nesting Geography of Exclaves and Enclaves
Most all of them bought houses leveraged and with inflation and 10-20% down, being paid off by renters, they have millions in property.

My neighbor lives in Europe most the year, just comes back a few times to check on houses. Has 2 homes in Europe too. That money was built by judiciously buying and maintaining the properties over ~4 decades while trying to minimize costs. This was as a self funded real estate agent. Not someone born with money.

There's a healthy mix of people I've known that have built almost all their net worth in real estate. In fact, most my programming friends that bought after the .com bust in SF and the great recession in 2008-2010 have more than doubled their single home investments.
> more like a genocide. In fact, in many parts of Eastern and Southern Australia, it was a genocide

Certainly. Sports & genocide are Australia's top 2 talents (Tasmania must rank among the world's most classically perfect examples of genocide).

The exact form of the stuff-up varies per domain: genocide here, ecocide there (everywhere). But that humans stuff up everything they touch seems to be a universal. Crap species.
That just sounds like realism.
Depends what you mean by "fast". It seems to have the highest stdout throughput, but that is not necessarily the most important metric: https://danluu.com/term-latency/