skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is society more egalitarian? Old-world monogamous societies were egalitarian, today you have sexual inequality which leads to online movements like these.

To quote Houellebecq:

> “It's a fact...that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market'...Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society.”
A fascinating talk, and a counter viewpoint from a top physicist:

"Freeman Dyson on the Global Warming Hysteria" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiKfWdXXfIs
Antihistamines are generally H1 antagonists, not agonists. They block the action of the histamine receptor(s); they don't activate them. They tend to stimulate appetite as a side-effect. "Prescription H1 antihistamine use did not significantly increase the OR for elevated glucose, insulin, or lipid levels." [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221329/#R6
I'm pretty sure euthanizing a dog by gunshot (if done properly) has never legally been considered animal cruelty. It's very common in rural areas.

There's something mildy shocking about the whole affair, especially the contrast with first adopting the dog, but I suspect that's the "art" bit.
While I understand the sentiment this might be risky. Creating the required documentation after the fact should your project take off might not be possible in every case.
Facebook marketing api audience limit?
What I'd really encourage people is to try acting classes. It's a weird form of therapy whereas the focus is not you, as when you go to a therapist, but inadvertently the things you do there work on yourself.

Here's an excerpt from a book on the actor's craft.
“You asked me a question,” Bill says, looking at Jon. “You asked me, ‘How can we get better at processing our emotions?’ You should all turn off your cell phones. Shut down your computers. Click off your iPods and your televisions and everything you listen to that isn’t human. Modern society has surrounded us with these things and they’re killing us. We’re beginning to forget what it is simply to breathe and eat and laugh and watch and wonder and listen and experience one another. We’re forgetting how to be human beings with actual opinions and genuine feelings and originality. And if we can’t be human, how can we ever hope to be artists"

This guy who taught acting classes for 30 years, is able to see clearly what technology has done for human contact.

If you think about it, it really makes sense that there's something really fundamental for us humans in acting. It's an art that has been with us for thousands of years, and has withstood the test of time.
I don't know much about human evolution and history... However, if language skills evolved after humans left Africa then I'd expect them to have evolved a bit differently in different local populations. Yet innate language skills seem to be the same everywhere. So I would guess that innate language skills haven't changed much in the last 100,000 years. So I would guess that people have been speaking languages like today's languages (in all their glorious variety) for the last 100,000 years.
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There is even a law enacted recently that highest earner in company (ie CEO) can't have salary more than 20x the lowest one (at least that's how I remember it).

There was a referendum to implement that cap (and at only 12x!) but it was rejected by voters.
> "The outcome is death, and it’s the end of most life on the planet because we’re so dependent on the burning of fossil fuels."

Climate change is a problem of grave concern but isn't doomsaying a hyperbole? Most countries plan to make transportation fully electric by 2040. But even without that, the cost of green energy is going down every year. The moment—which might be forthcoming in a few years—when owning a fossil fuel vehicle becomes an exorbitant deal, people will switch in droves.
Roundhay Garden Scene –  World's earliest surviving motion-picture film
Nope. Still driving the same car.
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What about mega structures...like super huge 'sun glasses' or shades that partially block sun rays from hitting earth so we can cool the planet that way? Maybe we just deal with 'near ice age' like weather for a couple years... we let the sun shine on farms only, block it for most other places forcing winter-like conditions year-round until the icecaps re-freeze...
You're right, there is also (gasp!) the right for users to request all of the data you hold about them, and also (shriek!) to be told how you use their data!

I just do not get what there is to complain about here - the GDPR is a good thing for consumers, and as a business owner than gives a damn about privacy, it is not onerous to comply with.
Wow, I really hope they have success.
Private money creation through fractional reserve is a real con, and completely unnecessary with modern communications.
> Do you think no one with great qualifications in the world is willing to be volunteer to make a website for Burning Man or be a treasurer for the event?

I honestly don't know. What I do know is that if I was in charge of selecting a treasurer to manage $35M I would definitely prefer it to be a paid position, especially if the money all comes in and goes out in a short timespan. I might trust volunteers with trash pickup, but this is 35 million bucks.

If I go to burning man with 70000 other people then $1.59 of my ticket price is going to pay this lady, that's less than a single cup of dusty coffee or a bag of ice! I'm okay with that. Handling 35 million dollars in a year sounds like a daunting task, doing it in a week sounds downright insane, I don't think it's unreasonable to pay someone a living wage to do this job. I also hope the people driving around sucking shit out of the porta potties are getting paid and I would not like to see that be a volunteer position.

Like I said, I have no idea if the other administrators of burning man are overpayed, but I do suspect running an event of this scale is much closer to a year-round job than you surmise, and in the real world being "radically self reliant" usually means maintaining an actual paying job somewhere.
> Terseness in the programming language helps at the microscopic level.

And even more at the sub-system level.

In practice I've found I can efficiently understand and work with chunks of code that I can immediately see + a dozen or so helper functions + 4-5 in-context/highly contextual other functions.

Everything else exists only at a very high level.

In c# I can see around 4-5 functions on my dual screens.

In APL it is closer to 100 functions.

> A pipeline of 13 operations is hard to understand, whether their names are one-character glyphs or 4-8

I don't think this is true and thankfully significantly fewer developers believe this is true than they did 10 years ago thanks to linq/streams.

By day I'm a c# dev and most of my colleagues can easily understand a long linq chain.

The mental complexity in linq almost always comes from heavily nested linq rather than from the number of operations.

> This is the problem with APL programs and programmers: failure to decompose complex operations into small functions with clear names.

The clarity of a name comes from the context, density, domain, and usage.

For example a single letter variable in a 5 line loop is often crystal clear.

So is a 2 letter variable used consistently hundreds of times throughout a code base.

So is a single word only used once that comes from the business domain.

I've found APL allows you to get rid of many pointless intermediate names and in doing so it increases the clarity of the code.

In a language like c# this can cause significant and problematic code duplication - in practice in APL it's not a big issue.
He even forced the US taxpayer to pay for golf cart rentals because he refuses to walk between holes. That's about the lowest-impact type of exercise you could get.
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One issue at a time
GDPR was written in 2012, as an update of a 1995 law; it entered into effect in 2016 with a grace period lasting until this year.

If 6 years wasn't a long enough period for companies to prepare I submit that no amount of time would ever be.
I'm using NewPipe, so I won't get any ads. https://newpipe.schabi.org/
And it will still be too late. It's already too late. That's the point of the article.
Make sure your claim is falsifiable. What would prove it wrong? Maybe finding that the number of stars was different from the number of grains of sand. But how different? If you don't establish the criteria for rejecting the claim, then it's pointless to try and prove it because you'll always find a way to make it look like it's true. If you're not going to think scientifically, then your conclusion is as worthless as any other religious belief.
A guide to wine tasting: How to bluff your way through a tasting
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Yeah, Nintendo has a few issues with being unwilling to do what's best for business/customers in favour of something 'different' even when the new idea isn't any good and the simple one would work significantly better.

See also how they treated F-Zero, Star Fox, Paper Mario, Donkey Kong in the GameCube era, Chibi Robo, etc. All things which had a perfectly fine formula that would have made for fantastic games if Nintendo did what people expected, yet which ended up commercially failing or being abandoned due to an obsession with the 'new'.

It's nice to try and surprise people, but you have to also ask yourself "Is this new idea any good, or is it being different for the sake of being different?"
Keeping Data Science Simple
Code Red: Organizing the Tech Sector
If you're interested in Amazon's story you should check out the book The Everything Store. Bezos started by selling books but his long-term plan was an online store that sells everything. He started with books because they were easy to ship, catalog, and that there were two major book distributors at the time that made creating an online bookstore easy. Not only that but he figured out how to game the system of one distributor so he could always order one book he needed, and 11 obscure books that were out of print, to avoid the 12 book minimum order requirement.
It's not hyperbole when it's an absolute... we've passed a point where we can't come back from without some MAJOR scientific breakthroughs -- think a huge megastructure like a dyson sphere that controls how much 'heat' hits the earth and acts as a thermometer basically... Or something that can filter all air in the entire world for carbon and remove it 100%... Even then we'll need to figure out a way to rebuild the arctic and antarctica so the permafrost doesn't escape--the gas in the permafrost will unleash a huge cycle of warming that will be hard to stop once it starts.
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Show HN: Fimmia – A place to support your education
I wish there was a transcript, it was really full of interesting facts. I personally have a tinnitus so lack of sleep is big a issue for me so I identified myself with a lot of things he said. I'm happy I discovered Tryptophan lately, it really helped me to get good a quality sleep.

Btw, another great episode is http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/peter-attia
Why does hn.algolia.com require JavaScript to work? Seems somewhat counter to the philosophy of HN's web design.
There are less dangerous ways to explore "building a CPU from scratch" that hit on the really interesting bits. "Digital Computer Electronics" by Malvino and Brown. You are given logic gates (and, or, nor, nand etc) and build up from there to a working CPU. The articles referenced about HF are terrifying. I am a programmer, but, have worked in a chemistry lap. Its just endless stinky stuff that will kill you in a variety of ways. The logic of how a CPU works is more interesting.
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Not burning coal kills the job market for coal miners. Presidents have been elected on promises of keeping them employed. Burying more charcoal than the amount of coal we dig out creates jobs ("clean coal" can even be reused as a slogan!), and you can sell the energy you get from burning the wood gas.
Let them try Telegram's awesome desktop clients. It's quite a good argument for many as I hear lots of people complaining about WhatsApp's.
The Fate of Text and Data Mining in the European Copyright Overhaul
Why I Became a Neuroscientist
It's not hard. You light a decent amount of wood and let in burn in an oxygen poor atmosphere, e.g. by covering it with sand. You get a bunch of charcoal, which you then bury. Charcoal is stable in the ground for a couple of millennia.
They need tax revenue, jobs for their citizens, and goods and services that their citizens want?? It doesnt even make sense for them to run around, shutting down every business they can. It would hurt them.
>Or do you mean doing it at such a massive scale we reverse the net flow of coal from the ground to the atmosphere?

We have no other choice. We either do that or it's possible that somebody is alive today who will see the collapse of human civilization.
One who is supremely unqualified for commenting on this topic and an outlier within the mass of scientists.
Out of interest, is it the absolute amount of coin, or your desire to drive a bargain? because $27 is $5 per year, which I estimate you will afford by digging around the sofa for loose change.

You don't need to know this. You want to know this. You will spend more money in opportunity cost finding out.
That's because HN search is hosted by Algolia who encourage searching directly from JS (client side) since it's faster (one less hop to an intermediate HN server).
Could be; we will see.

But, let’s say we get past this, and in a few decades or hundred years, a large asteroid (or similarly existential imminent threat) appears. I surely hope that Humanity doesn’t opt, again, to assume that the market will solve it. [That would be a good comedy skit though.]
Yeah, drafting and redrafting a few hundred words is easily delegated entirely to PR staff, and it says nothing about a CEO's ability if they take that route (nor will anyone outside certain circles ever know).

The samples of writing are entirely unremarkable too. Thousands of CEOs or CEOs' PR teams writing shareholder letters or microbusiness blogs achieve a similar fairly informal style using formal language, deploy anecdotes and vanity metrics and make aspirational statements about the future. Some of those businesses succeed at different scales, some fail, few even attempt what Bezos did.

"Divinely discontent" is a nice phrase, and props for giving the illusion of specificity by saying "trained random forests of decision trees" rather than the more buzzwordy "processing Big Data using Machine Learning". But that isn't even necessarily Bezos' personal stamp, never mind one of the qualities that actually made him one of the most successful business leaders of the internet era.
Scoot shared his recommendation to all readers and used laumars' situation description only as an example.

If you think that his recommendation is technically incorrect - please share why. But trying to suppress that discussion just because you think it is a private parenting issue -- is incorrect in a public forum.

I agree that "respectfully" was not an excuse. But excuse is not needed when commenter is sharing his suggestion.
That's what made things more infuriating at the company I left. I came in as the lead developer knowing that if I wanted to get things done, I would have to ingratiate myself to the net ops people. I could fire off a Skype, ask for what I needed on prem (VMs and hard drive space mostly) and by the time I sent the ticket request as a formality, it was already done.

But then they decided to "go the cloud" and instead of training their internal network ops people and having them work with the vendor who was creating the AWS infrastructure, the vendor took everything over and even our internal folks couldn't get anything done without layers of approvals.

So I ended up setting up my own AWS VPC at home, doing proof of concepts just so I could learn how to talk the talk, studied for the system administrator cert (even though I was a developer) and then got so frustrated it was easier to change my environment than to try to change my environment.

So now they are spending more money on AWS than they would have in their colo because no developer wants to go through the hassle of going through the red tape of trying to get AWS services and are just throwing things on EC2 instances.

In today's world, an EC2 instance for custom developed code is almost always sub optimal when you have things like AWS Lambda for serverless functions, Fargate for serverless Docker containers and dozens of other services that allows you to use AWS to do the "undifferentiated heavy lifting".
There is zero risk running hobby projects for developers. GDPR only applies to the relationship between a business and a consumer. If you have personal hobby-projects, they are 100% outside of the scope of GDPR. You can continue to collect any information you want etc.. What is defined as a hobby project differs with regulation in different countries, but usually it's something like revenue < 5000 €.

You can continue running all hobby tools you want.
If the information can be used to build a profile linked to me, it's PII. If you do not and cannot link it to me, then it's no longer PII. That is kinda in the name, Personally Identifiable Information. In short, if the collection of information can point to me, it's PII. If it cannot point to me it's not PII.
Buggier, less features, and even less people using it.

Also not available on F-Droid IIRC. Has this changed?
.split_at_mut(), there you go. But I understand that there are cases when Rust rejects correct program, that is where we need unsafe to build safe abstraction.
Come back to additional mental cost, it’s just the same debate between static & dynamic typed language. Either you write more, specify constraints, and have the usage checked or you write less, imply your constraints and must satisfy the constraints of usage by yourself (or with helper tools/tests). To me that’s just “when” I have to spend the mental resource, and the total cost is roughly the same. But then, knowing the separation helps to choose which tool for which type of project.
That's nice. I'm using https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k with zsh.
When my father did his sleep study, they found that for every hour he slept, he only got 15 minutes or less of restful sleep. Sleep apnea is crazy.

My own sleep study, done at age 24, showed that I had (have?) mild to moderate sleep apnea. They recommended I don't drink, lose ten pounds and exercise regularly. No CPAP until it's worse. I chose to suffer poor sleep instead.
Yes, except if you're found to be in violation of how you store or use the data they consented you to use, you're liable. Also they can at any point remove the consent and you need to deal with that.
Algolia and HackterNews (Y Combinator) are two different parties. Algolia implemented the HackerNews API (which is based on Firebase). Agolia uses their JavaScript library to enhance the user experience (for near instant search results).
FOSS client is more important IMHO.
This 'source' should be taken down.

This is a propaganda website - here are the top three current stories:

- http://newobserveronline.com/nonwhite-invader-caravan-storms...

- http://newobserveronline.com/indian-british-high-court-judge...

- http://newobserveronline.com/adl-booted-from-starbucks-racis...

Hacker News should be above supporting white nationalism and hate, especially so when doing so supports its preconceptions.

Gross.
> It will take a few nights, but they'll soon realize bed-hopping is not accepted.

Honest question: why is this not accepted? Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up in the West (I’m from Eastern Europe) where we didn’t have that much real estate space and as such us, kids, didn’t have “our own rooms” to sleep in, but I’ve turned out to be a quite a well functioning adult even though I shared my bed with both my parents and with my grand-parents (when my parents were “shipping” me in the winter to live with them). In fact, the very nickname which I’m using on this website reminds me of one winter when I was 7 or 8 and I was watching a Soviet TV show based on a Jules Verne book at my grandparents’ house in the Carpathians. I remember that it was aired each Tuesday night, I was watching it while I was in the same bed with my peasant grandpa’, my brother was in the other bed in the same room with my grandma’, there was nothing wrong with it, it didn’t even crossed anyone’s mind that would be something wrong with it, to this day those moments remain some of the most important in my life. I get that lots and lots of stuff gets sexualised in the States and in the West generally, I guess this is where this phobia against kids sharing beds with adult relatives comes from, but it wasn’t always like this, and saying that letting a kid sharing a bed with a adult parent or close relative is wrong goes against most of our history as a species.
I skimmed the article but didn't see it go into details about the testing environment. Are they essentially conducting a technical interview? Whiteboard coding plus the machine learning meme?

Because I'm not sure that the numbers in many other countries would be much better. Haven't we all pretty much reached the conclusion that these types of tests are very ineffective at gauging or assessing technical talent?
The source is eluding me, but I'm pretty sure that Datatilsynet (DPA in Denmark) have stated that as long as you have a reasonable plan for implementing GDPR in a reasonable timeframe, you're in the clear. I'd expect as much as they have only recently released their standard documents for Data Processor Agreements for instance.
To be fair 23 out of 25 programmers we interviewed recently in Italy couldn’t solve correctly the foo bar challenge.

And 100% was completely lost on “easy but require crytical thinking” questions, like what is the value of this in a script tag.
Targets in 2040 or 2050 make me laugh, for one it's just politicians making statements to make some people feel good, and for another, in 20 years it'll be a bit late.
Pointless comment unless you specify!
Our Leadership Principles aren't inspirational wall hanging...

Admittedly I sympathize with the 501 programmer sentiment, nevertheless these corporate manifestos, principles, credos etc. make me gag a little. But probably that's their purpose anyway, so great writing there.
Not burning coal is a critical first step, but at this point we already have enough CO2 in the atmosphere to cause serious damage, especially considering feedback effects.
Awesome, thanks for the pointer.
a lot do as "do not disturb" but i've found them to be annoying in one way or another (e.g: blinking LED in a dark room, or applications not abiding or whatever)

so, I take the shotgun approach and kill all data.
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It’s not advertising itself that is problematic. I’d be fine with an image loaded from the origin serevr. It’s the attached pervasive tracking and monitoring, coupled with the real security risks that come with the current incarnation of advertising technologies.