skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I feel about nearly every modern "blockbuster" style film or television show I see, though not specifically toys.

It seems like we're headed towards a future where there are no overt commercials, because the content is a composite of commercials.

Or maybe there will always be easily defeated overt commercials - it helps hide the in-content commercials in plain view.

Much of the youtube content I encounter is already rife with commercial influence, and youtube lets you skip ads - so you can get on with watching your ads.
The problem is, for every person like you, there's a person like me that actually likes those types of challenges and wouldn't actually mind being thrown into that type of gauntlet. My years of experience be damned.
what would be the most useful is something which everyone would need to use. phone app that tracked your location and time, and would show you the info on people you stood near for... maybe a min of 30 seconds? location tracking may not be good enough for this indoors all the time, but for me, that's the one thing that I've wanted at conferences - a way to remember who i was talking with without interrupting the conversation to ask for cards/emails (especially in larger group discussions).
The irony. You are asking if there is an extension that blocks the browsers company from tracking you. I don’t think they would allow it on their web store.
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If your aim is literally exactly 250k under all situations then it might be a very minor risk.

However, you don't need to pull 250k before taxes to match the equivalent of what a 250k salary provides after taxes due to preferential treatment of investments. And even less to cover what a 250k salary after covering retirement investments.
I would watch programming contests live streams.. Are there any available?
The article makes it clear Netflix uses Spinnaker a lot for these things. Anyone willing to comment on their Spinnaker usage? Especially interested in smaller deployments.
Current Amazon engineer.

Been with the company 3 years and this has happened to me once.

I agree with op. I disagreed but committed in an issue I saw. It soon turned out to be a production issue for a different team, as I had correctly called out and warned about...

I got called out in 1 on 1 by my senior manager for not having enough backbone.
Kona, a K implementation that's open source. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona

Useful for reading K-tradition C programming style, too.
The website claims that Nissan (the guy)'s business existed before Datsun became Nissan. I think there ought to be some kind of prior art for trademarks as well. It is not fair that a business suddenly not be allowed to use their trademark (even if they fail to register it) just because someone else registers it.
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They can only "build out networks" so much based on the available spectrum. Since they communicate in different spectrums, once they combine, the network coverage should improve.
No you genuinely can't see more than ~4500 stars. I think we imagine that we can see more stars because we see a lot of photos taken using long exposures that can pick out more stars [1]. A 30 second exposure can bring out several times more stars than the human eye can see.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2015/04/04/what-the-naked-eye-sees-in-...
What do people use your company’s product for?

If you don’t want to share on this thread, maybe wait a bit & post as a “Show HN”...
Perhaps it's the contrast with the idea that the universe is vast.

Looking up at the sky gives us a sense of awe. But why? Is it because we "see countless stars"? Apparently not. 9000 is a pretty small number compared with the grains in a fistful of sand, or a cup of rice. So why does looking at the starts give this sense of vastness?

It's possible that it's an acquired mode of thought. Perhaps to ancient people, the 88 constellations (and approx 700 familiar stars in constellations) were ... just that, a few familiar dots on the celestial vault.

I somehow imagined I could see tens of thousands ... but had never really bothered to count.
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Switzerland: First country to have national referendum about Sovereign Money
It would seem you haven’t done a lot of event planning. If I am wrong, I am sure Burning Man would love for you to come up with an alternate budget. Managing that many people in a space that large for so many days requires world class planning, insurance, expenses, and logistics.
>then in the classic interface set a filter that will land these mails always in your inbox with an additional label

I've been using inbox for about a year or two now and this is my biggest complaint - you can't do a lot of poweruser stuff without going back to gmail! Once you set it up, inbox will do it (ex, setting up a filter in gmail filters in inbox as well), but there's no inbox interface of doing it. Other than that, it's great (it used to be relatively slow as well but either I've gotten used to it or they've sped it up).
I just noticed that I mistyped: I should have said that the default behavior was most specific first
When cities were popular places to live, they were expensive places where service workers couldn't afford housing alone in the city center. Clerks, secretaries, and assistants would rent lodgings---often shared rooms---in boarding houses, or attics and spare rooms in other people's houses. Everyone else with less stable jobs, either slept in their place of business If they were lucky, or slept in dormitories, and "flop houses".

In the US, I'd hesitate to call it an improvement when the cities became unpopular, and the newly minted middle class chose to live in the suburbs, with tech parks, and factory parks. Then the poor could live affordably in cities, which people would still go to for entertainment, but crime sky-rocketed, and educational opportunities plummeted till inner city schools were the worst in the country.

To me, the issue of the underclass is systemic. You can't bandage over it with rent-control, or temporary welfare programs. The only way to deal with it is a universal entitlement that anyone, of any income, benefits from like for example universal healthcare which in Europe has leveled out infant mortality rates between the poor and the middle classed.

If we could provide education, food and housing in the same universal way, it would eliminate much of the issue of inequality.
> In this case bureaucrats should be condemned as if they were thief.

I don't think the public gets to go scott free in this. France is a democracy. If the French government does something, all French people are responsible for it. That's what the world says about us, why not France?
Show HN: OneTimeSecret server built for easy deployment and modification
Libraw-0-18-9 CVE-2017-13735 CVE-2017-14265
The fact that it's not automatic doesn't mean that it is now unbelievable and unachievable. That's the point. Fitness is not magic or something only a precious few inherited from having good genes. Most people would naturally be fairly fit, were it not for the sedentary lives we live since childhood.
I’ve been in parts of the country where there’s complete blackness in the new moon. I didn’t stop to count the stars, but it looked much more like the second picture than the first one. The Milky Way is astonishingly vivid and the stars are endless.

The author of that article might claim the first picture is “real” in a physical sense, but even if it was, it ceases to be when transfered to a limited computer screen and viewed in indoor ambient light.
How do you know when a drummer is at the door?

The knocking speeds up.

How do you know when a singer is at the door?

They don't have the key, and they never know when to come in.
Seems to require a social login. I might have tried it out otherwise.
Well, the name came out of nowhere (sorry!). As for comparison with ruby, all I can say is figurine is a single binary, whereas ruby's lolcat requires ruby's VM.

There are a couple of benchmarks and you can run them with:
$ go test -bench=.
Negotiations are not about what's fair but about BATNA (https://simplicable.com/new/batna) i.e. Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement.

Can you get a better offer elsewhere? If yes, then you have no reason to accept anything less than that offer. Even if those entrepreneurs won't agree to at least match your best other offer, you're not losing anything.

If you don't have a better offer elsewhere then your best option is to accept whatever they offer.

If you want that job then the question is: what is their BATNA? If they can find someone cheaper that can do the job, they have no reason to offer that job to you.

Note: it doesn't matter if they really can do that, only if they think they can.

Other points:

> I agreed to take a look and clean things up for a low goodwill fee.

A mistake. They apparently were in a bind. They needed a job done quickly and you were a proven person for the job. You had leverage. You should have asked for a high fee.

People are strange. It's possible that now they value you less because you did something for them for less than it was worth.

> I prefer equity over cash this time

I'm surprised you're so keen on equity.

Equity is worth $0 until a business has an exit event i.e. does IPO or gets sold to some other company.

If neither happens, the business can be very profitable for 20 years, the owners can pay themselves whatever salary they want from profits but your equity will be worth $0.

Exit events are extremely rare. Or to put it differently, you have a higher chance of multiplying your money by getting max salary, 0% equity and then going to casino and betting on black.

Betting on equity is no different than betting on black but people usually don't think of it that way. Equity in a company that doesn't yet exist is extremely risky.
Hm, I get this too because I have MetaMask. It uses this library: https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect

Running the detector on 'sanctus.io' gives a fuzzy match against the whitelisted domain 'auctus.org'. That's pretty odd, and clearly is a false positive. I guess it's better safe than sorry, but there should be an error message on that page that says something like "We think this site is pretending to be auctus.org, if you think this is a false positive than click here to continue".
I've never understood this take on things, though I'm ready to if it can be explained to me. :)

To me, it seems that the user experience vs dev experience trade off is subject to market forces and if it swings too wildly in either direction, a competitor will come through and wipe the floor with everyone else, no? It's always seemed unnecessary to me to worry about the effects of _more_ options, at least in the context of application development anyway.
I programmed figures for my thesis using TikZ for TeX. It is very cool and clearly the best way for many things.
Some fonts are broken I think.
Yes, that makes sense. To me, the vastness comes from knowing how many stars are in the dark 'gaps' I can't see with my eyes. And knowing how many of the visible stars themselves have planets. We're getting the to point of exoplanet discovery where you can find a star with your eyes, know which one it is, and check to see how many planets orbit it.

So when I look up at the night sky, I can almost see all the planets orbit all the stars up there, and all the moons around all those planets - and it is vast. Even just what you can see and imagine with your own eyes and head, it's vast. No need for looking through a telescope to get the sense of vastness - but perhaps you do need the knowledge that stuff is up there - even if you can't see it.

okay, a showerthought:

The ancients treated the stars and planets as Gods. And some of them have the same characteristics - they exist for seemingly eternity, or at least billions of years. They shine light and provide what is necessary for life to start, and for it to go on. They are always up there, 'above', 'watching' as it were (they send rays of light down to the planets, where it is partially absorbed and partially bounced back). And one day, when the Sun goes out, it will end the universe that exists on Earth. Based on what we know now, the ancients seemed to get a lot right in the actual nature of the stars.
Same here. Can actually consciously try to remember events 20+ years ago and often that will trigger a memory I haven’t recollected in a very long time. A person, an event, etc. Happens very well when I just wake up.
I'm not sure that you avoid errors by forcing yourself to write short code. With C macros.
The blog post had a graph in the middle of what I assume was some sort of load metric. It’s surprising how regular it was across the week and on the weekend.
Those people were hired for a reason; if the CEO literally cannot think of anything useful for them to do then they have utterly failed as leaders. But they are lavishly rewarded nonetheless.
Getting an error of "The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resume (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7WLu".
That book would be an awesome source for a scavenger hunt.
In my experience, most of the time goes into coming up with an algorithm or debugging. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think those would be particularly interesting to watch.
It appears to be an SPS (stream-starts per second) graph.

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/sps-the-pulse-of-netflix...
Another way of looking at it is to focus on the process and see the idea as starting point.

Don't be discouraged if there's an existing solution as you are likely to end up in a very different place from where you started.
IIRC, before the industrial revolution, wealth inequality was much much worse, with a majority living on subsistence farming.

Wealth inequality is misleading as it doesn't represent standard of living very well. Income inequality is better in that regard.
In this particular instance, clearly not. However, a rule of "first come first served" does not do anything but validate domain name squatting as a business model. It's like patents, you may have a patent linked to a legitimate business, or you may be in the extortion business. Let's not enable extortionists.
It is fun to see that they are trying to get some publicity the same way that spacex has pulled of so nicely.

I guess they could work on the polish of the video.

I have become quite used to the insane production value levels that spacex has. I have asked myself how many people is involved in just the filming/streaming of spacex launches on multiple occasions.
You could play with the distortion induced by core saturation, perhaps. Go full analog and run the audio directly through the core array.
1) A common pattern is having “page” components that render different layouts.

2) Yes, start out by learning to fetch data in componentDidMount and then calling set state with the result. It’s usually a good idea to do this at the top level of your app and pass it down to child components. Don’t look into Redux or MobX or anything like that until you run into problems. Most people do not need a separate library for managing state.

3. react-router is not “official” but it’s pretty damn close, probably the most popular. Look into next.js if you want client and server side routing.
go one step further. TMUS and S' lawyers must have anticipated this, and went ahead with it anyway. What gives?
Why does The Economist sometimes have separate headlines for print and digital?
> Are my observations incorrect?

I didn't downvote you, but your observations are incorrect.

Sprint is going bankrupt, nothing is going to stop that as things are now for the independent entity. They're incapable of earning a profit, and are drowning in so much debt that it now is larger than their market cap - a classic inflection point that practically guarantees their business is going under. The public shareholders are being wiped out by the debt. That inevitable bankruptcy guarantees consolidation.

Sprint's annual debt interest expense:

2015: $2 billion

2016: $2.2 billion

2017: $2.5 billion

While they simultaneously bleed immense red ink year after year and their top line sales show zero growth for years. They're gradually being put down by the other three carriers. It was bad enough competing with AT&T and Verizon, now T-Mobile is kicking their ass too. This is happening in a market with near zero growth (ie heavily saturated), it's a near zero-sum outcome competition. For T-Mobile to keep growing like it has been, that growth has to come out of the pocket of competitors; Sprint loses, it's that simple.

In more realistic terms Sprint is already a failed business. Softbank is willing to sell into a minority position because they're very desperate, which should tell you everything you need to know about just how bad Sprint's situation is.

Consolidation is coming no matter what. The only actual choice is in how that looks. Here are the choices:

Merge with T-Mobile. Consolidation.

Sprint goes bankrupt and its pieces are sold off to competitors. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile emerge that much stronger. Consolidation.

Sprint is acquired by a very financially rich, massive company in the telecom space (ie Comcast, AT&T, Verizon). Few have shown an interest in buying them, where consolidation wouldn't be involved. There's a reason for that: they're a horrific money pit, which Masayoshi Son has discovered as everyone else before him did as well. Comcast is the sole hope outside of T-Mobile (AT&T and Verizon would not receive anti-trust approval to buy them), and that's a really terrible outcome. Comcast buying Sprint would be a consumer outcome far worse than consolidation with T-Mobile.
Petr usually posts screencasts on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/petrmitrichev
Because you’ll end up debugging the code an hour later when it fails on an edge case?
I believe you mean MiBe. Also the game has had big changes depending how when you last played. All have resulted for overall improvement.
One thing that bothers me (Chapter 6, page 11) is how they approximate a circle using quadratic Bezier curves, and say that "an approximation
by eight quadratic curves is just about indistinguishable from a true circle." However, if you look at the picture on the next page, you can clearly see the difference.
The promotion sorting etc is awful. Have people never used email filters? We've had the ability to precisely design filters for decades already. I already have filters for the various mailing lists and forums I read.

I enabled some of the filters and it put an amazon update in with the spam so I missed my delivery. What else could you miss?
It's a very cool but strangely marginal technology; it's not going to have the density of Flash any time soon, sadly.
Middle class people should generally own diversified index funds, not hand-picked shares.
Hill Street Blues was decent.

Maybe not kid friendly, but well done.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues
Pastures new-ish
Do you think there is no correlation or the correlation is in fact positive? I wondered if they every AB test with lower standards for new hires.
It would be interesting to hear more people’s experiences with that. It resonates with me already; so many things I cared about no longer matter. It’s not exactly bad, but a little unsettling. Will I eventually care about nothing?
Sprint, T-Mobile agree to combine in $26.5B deal
The site is satire. they're not selling anything.
Just remember that inequality per se is not a bad thing. Capitalism seems to me to be the only way to get people out of poverty, which is, of course, what we want.
I sometimes wonder if such sudden recollections are the brain's mechanism of saying "do you want me to keep this in memory, or should I throw it away?"
If I can manage it for kid’s swimming club, I think most small startups can manage it unless user data is a big part of its value proposition
Keep in mind, yes this is just a small suborbital vehicle but Blue Origin is making a lot of progress on their New Glenn rocket, which has a reusable first stage and capabilities between the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy with a single core. They'll be built right next to the launch site in Cape Canaveral and use Methalox rather than RP-1 (SpaceX is moving to Methalox for the BFR rockets).

I'm a big SpaceX fan and they've got a big lead in terms of actual launches and recovery experience, but don't count Blue Origin out.
Even if most corporate stock is owned by the wealthy, in terms of relative wealth changes all that matters is a person's personal percentage investment in the stock market. For example, if you have a middle class person who has 80% of their retirement savings (wealth) in stocks and a rich person who has 50% of their wealth in stock (because of liquidity concerns for example - and this is common) then if the stock market goes up by 20%, then the middle class person's wealth increases by 16% while the rich person's wealth only increases by 10%. In that situation inequality is reduced by maximizing shareholder value, so I think it's totally incorrect to say that maximizing shareholder value increases inequality in general.

People need to educate themselves on personal finance matters like this because inaccurate thinking towards seriously emotional issues like this has dangerous consequences.
Yes. He never mentioned Mr NoseyBonk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87NHueHBHwY

There were some good things, like Vision On (a programme for deaf children, that included very early Aardman animation work) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyWKcgmHwpo
Maybe have multiple batteries, and use a dumb charger?
Another Netflix piece on failover: https://opensource.com/article/18/4/how-netflix-does-failove...
I used to have very bad sleep. Now I take Calcium and Magnesium supplements and feel 10 years younger. It's a miracle. It could be as simple as a mineral deficiency.
There might be another reason. Fighting Hitler essentially caused Great Britain to give up her empire. In a way, Hitler was a liberator to the Indians.
I think my point stands even with a loose definition of 'never'.
I own this book and attended the book signing. It is a great book.

Perhaps the largest cause of inequality today, however, is the rent-seeking of artificially high housing costs by making land artificially scarce in markets such as SF, NYC, London, Boston, ... through 1) zoning density restrictions, 2) overuse of historic landmark status, 3) overregulation that makes it difficult or expensive to build housing. This rent-seeking makes landlords like President Trump far wealthier than they would be in an efficient market without the rent-seeking and makes others pay more than they would in an efficient market. Japan has federal laws that override the local laws that benefit wealthy landlords so that there is far, far more construction of housing in Tokyo than in the entire state of California or NYC. 140,000 units vs. 90,000 and 20,000 per year respectively.

In addition, the rising costs of healthcare in the US contribute to depressed wages since money that would otherwise go towards salaries instead go towards ever-increasing cost of employer paid premiums and employee out-of-pocket expenses (larger deductibles and larger co-pays). These rising healthcare costs are largely caused by the increasing of unhealthy and overeating in the US compared with many other OECD developed Western nations.

Taxing sugar and sugar substitutes would probably make a large contribution to combating overeating and obesity.

Another cause of depressed wages in the US (and perhaps elsewhere such as The UK) is global labor arbitrage, the import of labor (from Mexico legal and illegal in the case of working class) and from other countries in the form of H1-B Visa abuse.

Fixing the rent-seeking which causes artificially high housing costs, fixing the high costs of healthcare by addressing obesity in the US, and stemming (illegal) immigration and H1-B visa abuse would go a long way towards dealing with inequality.