skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Acclaimed scientist Dr David Goodall leaves for Switzerland to end his life
It's been a while since read the book. IIRC, you are correct.

Your extra details are good, but we still can take a simpler approach: More people means more communications, of all kinds! So, the whole thing can go bureaucratic with endless lists of requirements, considerations, ....

E.g., my solo, sole founder project code has 24,000 programming language statements in 100,000 lines of typing, and large organizations, even using the parallelism you mentioned, might have taken more person-hours and maybe more elapsed time to do that than I did!

I had one of those situations: About a dozen of us. In the afternoon I heard the horror stories about the weeks of work they had to do to program the rule subroutines. Gads, their implementation would have made a mess out of the feature.

Some of the problem was a run time routine for some RETE logic. The programmers were planning to return from all the subroutines, run the RETE code, then somehow call all the subroutines again -- at best, a disaster. By dawn I had sent e-mail with a clean solution: Carry along an entry variable pointer to the RETE routine, keep it active on the stack of dynamic descendancy, and then invoke it where as needed. I got some sleep and when I got back the production code was nearly done!

How that happen? We had some bright guys, but one guy working alone overnight did better than the results of all the meetings and plannings.
Yes, we all want unobtrusive ads, but the problem with unobtrusive ads is that they not call your attention, so there are less chances of seeing them...
For me the best solution is to pay for the service you want, that's the best way to asure quality and independence.
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Both! But it can take some hard work to acquire interesting data and then figuring out what to do with it.
We've had adblockers for fifteen years. It was reasonable to speculate that they might kill online publishing in the early 2010s maybe. But now?

Print doesn't have easy adblocking, it's just you and a pair of scissors. Which is stronger, print or web publishing?

How many years of adblockers not destroying the internet should we see before it's reasonable to reevaluate our initial assumptions about their impact?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
I should have said 'extra information', not 'extra field'. A username with random characters like C85Y922 is clearly more secure than an email username.

Of the 6 major banks you use how many have email address as the username?
Goal line technology. What's the magic behind it?
Actually, you really can generalise - about large, and especially about large homogeneous - populations.

For example - homosexual men are statistically more likely to belong to larger families. Evolutionary biologists believe that this is due to the presence of childless gay men benefiting the children of their siblings,thus genes that at first blush seem to be "for" non reproduction survive in the pool. (Someone should notify the Boy Scouts that they've got it exactly backwards).

What you can't do is generalise about individuals from their group membership (unless that membership is voluntary, and even that is fraught).

http://www.freedomkeys.com/ar-racism.htm

But yeah, looking at history, it really does seem like a lot of people, across racial, religious and cultural boundaries, loved war.
Isn't that just like benefits, but instead of writing application letters or re-educating yourself or something, you dig holes?
I'd just say make things a responsive website until you run into features that absolutely don't work on a browser

My impression is that those extra requirements are more often than not related to data collection and user tracking via broad spectrum app permission requests. It is simply more convenient, robust and profitable to sit on a device and phone home than relying on the user to frequent a site.

Imo most apps would have been called (mal|spy|ad)ware a couple of years ago.
It provides a sense of purpose, it builds comraderie, and actual combat is more addictive than any drug.

There ya go, the basics in easily digestible civilian form.
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I faced it in 1995. You had to pay extra if you wanted TCP/IP. Having already experienced Linux, I found that to be a horrifying jolt.

Think about that one. In 1995, SCO was selling a UNIX clone that didn't come with TCP/IP.
That's a very personal testimony based on the own author experience, not an overall study on all army veterans. I doubt all veterans are "playing by the rules" by saying publicly how horrible the war is but secretly recalling the great moments. If we go that way, are all PTSD victims phonies part of the show? They're all part of making this narrative credible? Be serious one minute... What this guy enjoyed was the brotherhood and exceptional means mobilized for the purpose of the war, not the killing itself.
Future parents will teach their children to never talk to computers.
No, because absent taxes, your disposable income has increased by the same percentage as the increase in salary. Taxes make the increase in disposable income even more pronounced.

This math mistake is the key to the fallacy that a cost-of-living increase zeroes out an increase in salary.
Journalism is pretty much a pillar of democracy. Without anyone to report on the activities of government, you get cronyism and corruption. Look at any country where the freedom of the press is restricted for examples of this.
> I tried starting one that I realized just how painful it is.

Yup! Then try hitting the wall at 600 mph, after raising $100M. That ain't pretty either.
Any comments on the statement: Azure functions is extremely cheap to use? ( Work related and new @ Azure outside of appservices and VM part).

Also looking for any gotchas, someone mentioned stability/compatibility issues in another post
One thing I used to love about websites is that I knew once I closed the tab the site was gone forever and it was not allowed to execute any more code. That was heaven.

But now with web workers and service workers and god knows what else, I feel like I've lost that security, and that makes me uneasy. It's a security and a privacy issue.

I know I can disable all that stuff in about:config but how do I know they haven't invented some other new technology in the past months that I should be aware of?
An actually cheery way of putting that is "30 percent of your hypotheses will be validated, after some amount of refinement" ;)
I specifically whitelisted the ads on Daring Fireball (and a few other sites) because they're 1) relevant and 2) unobtrusive. I would whitelist any site with the same policies.

Back when I bought magazines at news stands, the ads were a big part of the reason as they were targeted to my interests (without spying on me). I want to connect with relevant advertising. I just want to do it on my terms, with out spyware, malware, slow load times, autoplaying video and sound, distracting animation, etc.
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You hit home. Contractors for someone unknowledgeable is a shot in the dark. Insurance are overcharging and they have lots of useless overhead. And given the iot world we live in, we can do better in electricity.
Thank you for saying this. Thank you.
Your links are from Jan 2017. Those were projections. 2017-2018 was $6bn budget surplus on top a $8bn rainy day fund. Here's the WSJ link from Jan 2018

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jerry-browns-legacy-a-6-1-billi...
Social login extension
Are the social login options helpful?
I already have free press, cronyism and corruption. They are perfectly compatible.
The money part of the technology is not important for central banks. Underlying technology allows more useful solutions than cryptocurrency.

What Fed and others in banking want is new forms of distributed accounting and settlement processes. You can apply the cryptographic technology for verifying and connecting database rows across institutions in a way that is both transparent, private and secure. If there is a public ledger online, it can be audited by anyone.
That is so nice.
About violence: I often feel that there's an "art" or a skill to master violence. As you say it's incarnation of survival; but emotionally and socially too. As a guy who naturally submits peacefully even if I feel aggressed. At some point I had enough and started to be able to embody my internal violent reaction. Not as an act but as a communication device. You're pushing me, you're about to get pushed, you can read it on my face, my tone, my posture / body language. If you didn't mean it then fine, let's keep it at that, apologies are welcome. That's something that most people can't really learn and get stepped on by others. (the recent woman movement displayed part of that, they stood silent, now they stopped doing so).

Society tries to tame violence, all good, but by supressing it we're not really improving things, we need people to master it in a way.

ps: a few years back some guy wrote a piece about why he loved war; title being counter intuitive, you'd expect a violent idiot but it was not. His point is that war is mentally easier than society, where every body lies, and confusion is normal. In war he said things become binary, friend or ennemy, inaction = death, decision = life. I found it very interesting.
Revenue is irrelevant.

They need a database server/cluster. Aws provide one, other places can host one cheaper.

Less money spent is less money spent regardless of your revenue.

Also, this strawman of “you can’t save money outside aws, you need someone to manage your racks” is beyond ridiculous.

If virtual machines work for you in aws, they’ll work for you elsewhere, and there are fucking thousands of companies who will rent you virtual machines for a fraction of what aws charges.

Ok, so yes you need someone to look after those servers. So? Are you seriously suggesting it’s wise to use AWS provided infrastructure without someone to look after it?

Anyone who says “aws means we don’t need ops” has no fucking clue what they’re talking about.
Instead of zoning out, why not work on a cool side-project?
I think the important part is to have skin in the game and you're much less likely to let down someone else than to let down yourself. If this is a cofounder or investor or someone else doesn't really matter.
You are being hysterical. The plus is there for historical reasons, way before acceptable ads were a thing.
Humanity is what happens when we tame human nature.
I don't pretend to know your business and what is right for your users, but using your demo I found it to be a long way from as polished as a native app. I still think there's 3+ years before PWAs will be able to compete on experience (I mean having PWAs that are better than the top 10% of native experiences), and it might be even longer if we consider the changes that will be made in the native app ecosystem.
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This article resonated with me. I was a Marine (no combat), didn't like it, but knew and respected the hell out of people who made a career out of it.

I learned several lessons in the service, many of which people don't want to talk about.

It takes only a few armed and motivated men to dominate hundreds, perhaps thousands of people. So disarmament and pacifism is not a workable strategy until the day we start programming people as if they were machines. Somebody has to have the job of being the most violent person in the room.

Everybody is violent. We are violent as a species. I think this is the thing that bothers so many people. They'd rather just turn away, pretend it's only others, and so forth. There is a ton of disgust and denial about who we are. We confuse who we aspire to be with our actual state. There may be Ghandis and Jesuses in our midst, but they are an extremely small percentage of the population. We are monkeys that kill things.

War is bad because of what is does to all participants, not just because it involves hurting and killing others. War slowly erodes our civilization, making more and more extreme things "normal". It doesn't matter who wins, who loses, or what the cause is. War harms everybody -- perhaps especially the ones who win, who view war as a logical remedy for whatever the next problem that they have. Those who have served avoid war not out of kindness for others, but because of the terrible destruction it will bring on our own society every time it is used.

(This, by the way, is another argument for the citizen soldier. Making war a separate profession that most people never experience just makes the self destruction that war does to civilization even worse, by isolating it and keeping it hidden. It also causes all sorts of misunderstandings and prejudices. The volunteer armed forces was a hack in the middle of Vietnam. It worked for a while, but it is having horrible long-term effects. Very bad stuff.)

I think the analogy that stuck with me most about this was that war may be the male version of motherhood, that is, the closest we come to being true to our biological selves. Somehow this feels right, although that's just intuition on my part.

Note: I am as non-violent as a person can get. I'm not trying to say that any of this is okay, simply that it appears to exist, whether it's okay or not.
The IP ownership can sometimes be a bit confusing.
60-year-old maths problem partly solved by amateur
Ublock Origin can work this way with a couple of clicks. Use the advanced user option. Allow all content globally, and then use local override on sites where you want ad blocking.
I often wonder if economic competition is not a re-emergence of that need into a non physical manner. Kinda like sport. You try to kill your opponent but symbolically (team or alone).
I am even MORE surprised that Windows PING also supports this!
I’m currently moving a client’s RDS into a linode hosted percona cluster, and we expect to pay no more, but gain flexibility (and reduce latency/wan sql trafffic but that’s not a normal case), and they’re nowhere near what you’re paying.

For RDS specifically it might be worth reaching out to Percona to get advice/consultation about what a replacement solution might look like (not affiliated in any way)
I don't know about consent -- I don't see much consent going on in conflict ... but there is definitely a lot of truth in the link between sexual violence and conflict.

Rape has been used as an instrument of war for all of recorded history - as a demonstration of domination; as a means of punishment and repression - and also - just because the men can.

Combating the use of rape and sexual violence in conflict is something that we are trying very hard to make progress on ... but it is a very difficult (maybe even impossible) task; human nature being what it is.
Well the average replacement rate is approaching 3 years, so you shouldn't be too amazed.

But you should also consider that those who switch don't throw their product in the garbage. The resale value of flagship phones, particularly Apple, is really solid.

For example, Apple today sells a 3 year old model (6s) for 65% of the price of its latest model. Even if you sell it second hand, you can usually get >30% on a 3y old Apple model. You can usually get like 75% on a 1 year old model.

I know a guy who buys a new phone every year and sells his old one. Say he buys every year the latest and greatest flagship for say $1000, sells it for around $750 a year later and buys a new phone. He consistently spends about $20 a month on the latest phone. It's not as crazy as you'd think, $20 a month for the very best tech in your pocket is pretty trivial to most people on HN. The numbers may be a bit different for everyone.
If this is for a more-or-less closed system, I wonder why it uses IP, and not an RDMA-type network (Infiniband etc.) which already is kernel-bypass and works routinely at around 100G, 1μs latency. There's nothing special about the Mellanox drivers amongst the Openfabrics ones in having free drivers in Linux, but they generally require blobs or separate firmware.
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The point of a startup is to get rich and then not think about money.

For some, sure. For many others it's to have the freedom to do something they enjoy, or to solve a pain they've encountered, or to help others. YC funds plenty of non-profits that aren't likely to ever make the founders "fuck you money" rich. In fact, most of the founders of those startups could earn much more elsewhere.
Same deal in Norway, consulting is huge because businesses want the convenience of firing at will but are not allowed due to employment law. Example scanario:

Salary for an experienced engineer (employed) is $80k.

Salary for a consultant (employed) is $80k. This consultant is hired out to a company that wants his services for $230k usd per year, but the company can now terminate this contract at will.

The consulting company has to pay the employee's salary regardless of whether they have a contract or not. The consulting company sets aside a portion of the $150k/year/employee profit to pay their employees if it's hard to get a new contract, but of course they will lay off their surplus workforce if there is ever an economic crisis. It' a super profitable business when talent is in demand. If demand is unusually high, the consulting companies compete to provide slightly higher salaries, so they do push the median wages up. So at least that's good.

The consulting companies love hiring new grads, because then they get away with paying a $50k salary, but earn the same profit. The clients can't tell the difference!

If you're smart, senior and well-connected, you'll get your own consulting contracts without the middleman, and make $230k/year directly. You do take some more risk; if the market tanks, you'll be laid off immediately instead of with 3-12 months notice. You'll also be the first to go.

As a freelancer, it can be hard to get contracts with the best clients, because they don't want to spend effort hiring recruiters that recognize talent, and hence pick exclusively from the top 10 consulting companies.

So to answer your question: If this setup looks suspiciously like a shady wage fixing scheme, it's because countries with a predomimantly Protestant work ethic like Norway and Canada don't think that's such a big deal. People were born equal, they're supposed to make equal money. (Company owners notwithstanding, now as during the Industrial Revolution). Market efficiencies don't factor into it at all, and you're a right-wing conservative if you suggest otherwise.

I am not joking.
But how would they know how long to wait before they kill themselves? What if Rudy hasn't killed himself yet because he's slightly slower at solving logic problems?
stay there for long enough and you will start to see the cons also.

There is a lot of pros for moving fast and getting things done, jobwise. Weather also is amazing.

Now for personal life, the older you become, the more I realize that this place (the bay area) is really not the best quality of life you can get. People all think the same way, diversity is only visual, and there is not that much diversity of thought. Everything gravitates around work and tech. People are happy to work a crazy amount of hours and feel cool for doing so.

I loved it for a couple years then started to become bored.
Free/cheap digital payments exist (eg. EU SEPA credit transfers); for credit cars, however, the majority part of the cost (and thus price) is not just making the payment but ensuring that payments are reversible in case of fraud and other disputes, and that customers can get their money back even if the money can't be recovered from a fraudster.

If you'd add a reputable escrow service, dispute resolution system and fraud insurance on top of any cryptocurrency, these features will drive the cost up just as high or more.
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Reminds me of this:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,... What comes next?

10 if it's the sequence of natural numbers

13 if it's the sequence of N such that N=2^n for natural numbers n, where N does not contain a 0

153 if it's sequence of N such that the the sum of the digits of N each raised to the power of the number of digits in N equals N.
Escher paintings are circular and self referential. Staircases that perpetually go up.

Bach’s music is circular in terms of scales. A up to G and back to A.
Agreed. The hit targets are too small for mobile, and that's something that's much harder to get wrong on native where the pre-built components are designed with that in mind.
This story illustrates that what we're being paid often has little relation to what we're worth. And this relation is important for job satisfaction.
Moving from Rails to Go
We started with Angular.js (1) and then migrated all our projects to 2+ as soon as it left beta. At this point we also evaluated react and later took a look at vue.
The main reason why we stick with Angular are the baked-in best practices and the tooling (angular-cli). Especially if you work on larger projects and have several people working on them, (opinionated) Angular simply makes your life a lot easier. With react (and vue) you have to make so many small decisions when setting up your project, that especially less experienced developers are tempted to make potentially "bad" design decisions (e.g. testing framework, bundling, routing, state management, ... you name it).
AFAIK there is no evidence, in the Snowden docs or elsewhere, pointing to a wide-scale use of ME by NSA for bulk data collection.
Indeed, and Apple's EBIT margin is around 30%. It's an important figure because unlike say an LG, I don't think you can really see Apple phones separate from the rest of the company. Would we buy as many phones at these prices if we didn't have the App Store, OS X Macs, iCloud, Apple Music, Beats, Watches, Tablets, etc etc, in short, the ecosystem. All of that needs a company with massive overhead to work.
Not really.
The cost of housing is huge and a barrier if you are not in tech, But if you move for tech you can definitely find a place and pay the crazy rent with your new salary.
Not a big fan of

14. (Edison's Law) "Better" is the enemy of "good".
PiMecha – Humanoid Robot on Raspberry Pi
I quite like William Poundstone's books. In this case these two are relevant: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Would-Move-Mount-Fuji/dp/031677... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Pu...

Edit: These are not puzzle books specifically, but books about puzzles.
3rd party options outside official platform tooling are always a bad option in the long run.

They never move beyond being a 2nd class citizen with their own set of issues and development problems.
I do not use any plugins so i'll probably try the "eternal dev" version. Hopefully it'll be fine.