skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these things are dangerous, and I think that guy needs a better work environment. I manage people, I do a lot of personality profiling too, from belbin to mbti and disc profiles to our own HR departments people tools, and they are largely as useless as horoscopes at defining people.

Everyone is a bit of everything, and the point of realizing or learning things about yourself, such as the fact that you’re more introverted than extroverted isn’t to say “oh well, I guess I’m an introvert” and then define yourself around that. The point is to figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are so that you can work on bettering both.

That’s not what always happens though. Some people do these tests and learn nothing about themselves or how to be themselves. They read that they are introverted and then they google what that means, and then they start becoming more and more like what their google results told them.

I see nothing in those slides that aren’t an exploitation of this.

Obviously you need safe spaces and concentration zones at a workplaces for people who primarily use their brains. But are you seriously trying to tell me that “extroverted” programmers don’t need places where they aren’t distracted? I’d say people with more extroverted traits need those even more, as they get distracted easier and are worse at setting up the “do not disturb” boundaries by themselves. Obviously you need to manage people differently. Some people won’t speak up as much and it’s import to make sure they feel heard, but even people who speak up, might not feel heard or come up with a better “come back” two hours later, and there needs to be room for all of that. Typically the how depends a lot more on the day/situation than what their “personality profile” is like.
I am rooting for RISC-V so that China can compete on equal footing without these x86 and ARM ISA nonsense.
Why? I'm proud of being an introvert. It's a source of strength. Most of my best ideas come from solitude.

I think this is a case of haters gonna hate.

The defining characteristic of an introvert is that you feel drained being in a social situation. Extroverts feed off the energy of a crowd.
I'm frustrated too but it's not really that hard. iOS (and Android) have had restrictions for years. My audio library just attaches an event listener to window for touchstart and mousedown and plays one silent sound via the webaudio API. One started there's no need to do it again.

Of course revisiting 10-50 old projects to make them work again is very frustrating
Is stadiamaps going to have native Android and iOS APIs? I'd like a replacement on mobile as well.
This looks more like bullying.

If you have a team of whatever sport, and the goalkeeper fails to catch the ball, you don't blame the goalkeeper. It's a team effort.

If the goalkeeper is busy catching balls is because the defense didn't work, because the forwards' attack wasn't working, or because the coach strategy was ineffective... etc. You get the idea.

Then, just like goals, bugs will always happen.

Unless you refused to do your job, or went against protocols/procedures, you should not be treated this way.

What you do is try to understand what happened and try to make it better next time.
Some signals actually do look at the crosswalk buttons. If no one is waiting to cross they keep the lights green in the direction of the most traffic.
Not too mention when the features just become some massive bloat and ruin the core features of the product. Chat applications are pretty much the worst offender for this kind of thing.
> I'm very curious about what a secular alternative to church would even look like

For me sports clubs fill that niche. From my local lawn bowls club I meet people of all ages, the oldest member is 84, the youngest are kids of parents and there is everything in between and from all walks of life. You can do this without even playing sport but if you participate you can meet an even wider range of people.

Much of this activity is centered around various sports and the bar of course. If that's not your deal then there are all sorts of other local communities, you just have to look.
For anyone else wondering...

"Support for Ruby, R, or Python 3 is still experimental in GraalVM. We are actively working on stability and support for all modules for those languages. At this point in time, we can run simpler applications of Ruby and R, but we do not have the same full compatibility we provide for Java and Node.js applications. Our Python implementation was just recently started and can only run small examples."[1]

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/docs/why-graal/
I agree though it would also be likely if he made them native apps they would stop working as well. Lots of native apps on all platforms stop working without updates. The latest for me is Photoshop CS6 which has a 32bit service that MacOS tells me will cease to function soon >:(
Thank you. Every HN thread about the stock market seems to ignore pr downplay risk. If the stock market was really risk-free everyone would be able to retire a millionaire.
What would you do with that much money then? Pepole like Jeff Bezos and Elon musk probably find charity ognizaiton's efficiency not to their liking. If you can change the world once? why not twice.

I personally feel like educating young leaders a good choice.
Gah. A blob with no info about it.

Looking a little further, it appears to be a ProtocolBuffer file, but would a bit of documentation hurt?
It's green paper backed by a government. If I printed my own paper money it'd also be worthless.
If his space travel project works out it won't be a such bad thing for humanity. Some like to give it to charity, others like to do stuff that couldn't otherwise.

What makes you think that x charity would create more value than its space program?

Personally, to live a humble life is not very inspiring or interesting to me. I would spare a part of my fortune for something like the Nobel prize though.
Very exciting news. People cant wait to buy NVDIMMs and then plug them into their desktops.
Human Dx is hiring generalist software engineers looking for social impact
The following is stated with total compassion not criticism.

This reminds me of the fine grained steps that non-technical people will write down when handling computer tasks. Every click and every menu mentioned. Even down to describing what the icons look like. Then each step will be followed with exacting caution. The interaction never becomes comfortable or natural. Instead it stutters along from one step to the next. Like counting off steps when dancing.

Whereas a skilled user will intuitively understand the UI cues. Even in an unfamiliar situation, where they don't know what menu or setting they need, they will move around trying things just to see what happens. The difference between skilled and unskilled is not planning, or knowing an ever larger number of correct steps. It's about a knowledge of the basics and a feeling of safety in taking risks.

When I read this post I see someone not comfortable enough in their own skin. Perhaps flagging people and making battle plans will help get him started, but imho the goal should be to gain a level of comfort that you can act without careful planning. That will allow you to avoid being 'stun locked'.
I built pretty much exactly the same thing, but without the polaroid camera shell, but did not get around to writing about it. A couple suggestions:

1) Apply exposure compensation and dithering to the image. this allows a better fidelity output. Example: [https://i.imgur.com/eCLRs8Q.jpg] you'll have to play around with the exposure depending on the camera you're using.

2) the 3" paper printer would make for a much better output than the 2" one, simple because the former is closer to an actual photo size.
I think they were talking about the Autism label.

Edit, I read clay_the_ripper's comment to be about the Autism label but may well be wrong.
you add a "click to start" button
“Beware of Fake Bitcoin Scam Stories,” Warns Richard Branson
A couple of counterpoints and expansions.

kinda of true, assuming you want to be more than a fabless company. But spinning up a fab 1 gen behind can be profitable, especially if it means higher yields (and thus lower costs).

true

* Still lots of money to be made at the forefront, i.e new chemistry, new lithography, better process control, etc. Lots of money in layout and software. Pretty decent money in RF work.

China has proved itself more than capable of replicating anything you put out there -- all it takes is some plans and a few key engineers, plenty of whom are Chinese nationals.

I agree.
What's the real message. Employees prepared to be fired as soon as we reduce the outsourcing budget. Your jobs are not safe so if a better opportunity comes up, take it.
Not that this would be surprising, but does that mean chrome is collecting user data?
This is super cool although one thing that I would do differently--after running--is to grab a beer and act a little more casual. Alcohol can help you relax if you're an occasional user, and there's the concern that you can make events like this traumatic by calling them traumatic.
I agree that office 2003 has enough features and is good enough for 99% of the things I use. In fact, starting with 2013, there are anti-features (integration with OneCloud, online docs) that I'd prefer were not included.

Unfortunately, Office 2010 already has issues opening files made with 2013, 2016, etc. Most of my PCs are on 2013 as I was able to grab several HUP licenses at the time. I seriously doubt 2013 will be 100% compatible in another year or two, and 2016 will be the minimum version one needs in a work environment where you're collaborating on docs made with newer versions.

I have no doubt that Microsoft has employees on the payroll who have no other function than creating annoying incompatibilities to encourage users onto the 365 treadmill.
Are they fit and healthy or are they thin? I thought tobacco use (much more common in Europe than USA) was a not insignificant factor in keeping weight down at the obvious expense of health.
Looks like a cool project.

One thing I noticed (and imagine was an oversight):

Credit not given to the Vahalla Project.

The OSS Routing Engine "Valhalla" [0] is listed as the core of the Routing
feature [1], yet doesn't seem to have made it onto the attributions page [2]. This not following (i.e. violating) the terms of the Valhalla license.

[0] https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla/blob/master/COPYING

[1] https://docs.stadiamaps.com/routing/

[2] https://stadiamaps.com/attributions.html
It was a static fire, so crew wouldn't be on board anyway. 100% no danger to crew in that case. LAS is likely to be very reliable for ground aborts. Design criteria insist on high (say, 95%) total reliability for LAS.

Part of the reason you might want to do such static fires is as a way to trigger (and thus reveal) such problems without endangering crew.
> Why do companies, when they could do it in house, use them?

A few basic reasons:

* You can't do it in-house as well as a contractor who specializes in this field, or as well as this particular contractor. Very broadly speaking, the best people in field X want to work for themselves, do things their way, and keep the revenue from their work. They don't want to be several layers deep in management at your company, to have f-ng morons (i.e., anyone else) telling them how to do their job, and to be paid a salary for the breathtaking, save-the-day miracles they routinely output.

* It's not worth the investment: You would have to find and hire talent, ramp up, provide resources to them (equipment, training, etc.), be able to manage the talent in a field that isn't your expertise, and keep them busy and interested. Maybe you don't have enough scale in the things they do to support quality resources; maybe you just don't have enough work or enough interesting work for them.

* Every additional employee or capability is a distraction for the organization, including management. Keep focused on the things you do best and that are strategically important; you don't even have time for that. If you're small restaurant chain, IT isn't strategically important - it just has to be reliable and good enough. Outsource it and focus on world-beating food, service, and marketing.

* You don't want to pay benefits, taxes, or have the other responsibilities of being an employer. See: Uber.

* Sometimes it's just politics: I once worked in an outsourced capacity for a company where the IT manager simply didn't want to invest in a technology that would threaten their fiefdom, so somebody brought in a contractor. It was not a fun place to be.
Your website doesn't have to be static to host it for free on AWS. You can do server side stuff with Lambda and if you can get away with the 128MB instance (easy enough to do for one function) you get 1 million request a month for free and 888 hours of processing time. (https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/). The free tier for Lambda doesn't expire.

The only free hosted database that I am aware of is Mongo Atlas a 3 Node cluster with 500MB oh storage.
Haha, fair line of reasoning, but no. I was working for a listed company...
Donating $130B to Henry Street Settlement would probably destroy them. When you have that much money, you don't care about deploying it efficiently, you just want to deploy it. You often can't deploy it efficiently without distorting markets. Rather than more stuff getting done, everything just gets done less efficiently, with everyone along the value chain becoming a highly-paid consultant of dubious value.

It really is a lot easier to deploy $10M in capital than $100B. $10M means that organizations that do good work and otherwise couldn't exist now can exist. $100B just means that everyone working in an area tangentially related to the benefactor's interests takes home fat salaries.

(My wife manages about $180M for a foundation, which is just about the sweet spot: enough to fund several organizations that wouldn't otherwise exist, but not enough to distort markets or incentivize people towards bureaucracy.)
Russia’s House of Shadows
> Too many transplants are in fact not arriving, because as this study indicates, 1 million more people left than arrived from other states.

“From other states” alone, sure, OTOH, California has had net positive total (domestic and international) migration.
No, Amazon mixes inventory. You should not trust Amazon with anything that is expensive or you put into your body. A product gets high ratings and is successful, then counterfeiters flood the market with a fake product that you end up inadvertently buying.

A recent example is Eclipse glasses that were purchased on Amazon. Since the inventory was co-mingled and Amazon doesn't have the time or expertise they refunded most purchases of the glasses both from legitimate and illegitimate sellers.
The reason most of the money isn't in the bank vaults isn't because it's "virtual" or was created out of thin air - it's far more prosaic than that. It's just because it's been lent out by the bank.

In principle, if everyone who the bank had loaned money to was able to immediately repay it, then you could unwind everything and make everybody whole again. The bank run occurs because this can't happen - the people the bank has loaned the money to simply cannot repay immediately, because they've spent the loan on non-liquid assets.

The fundamental purpose of the bank in such a system is to fund long-term, risky and therefore expensive debt (such as to someone who wants to start a business) with short-term, secure and therefore cheap debt (eg a savings account).
If you include illegal immigration, sure. I'm not sure that's a positive for existing residents though.
Indeed, that's all too common. It could also be a fluid thing. Huge images and lots of interactivity are in now, but it'll go too far (arguably has) and people may want to swing the pendulum back.
Find a way to involve the community in with your chores.

You've mentioned one of the biggest values of churches. They still exist in the bay area even if they aren't "cool"
Much previous coverage. There are many other interesting value-objects in the pacific, not just these. I have a small collection. Cassowary bones through stone rings. It's quite interesting how widespread the stone ring is as a prehistoric object of value - neolithic China, many Polynesian/Micronesian/Pacific islands, etc. Holey beads were also widely traded by the Romans and other empires and have often been found very far afield. I guess "hangs on a thread" was the killer feature there. If only it were so easy for modern startups...
If you could create such a model, you'd become very rich of course if you put your money where your mouth is and you are correct. These type of contrarian investors exist (i.e. black swan investors). The problem is that their funds lose money every year, year over year, and people think they are crazy until some unforseen crisis hits and they become "prescient" all of the sudden.

In game theory there is more and more research pointing towards ambiguity and how people deal with that. Ambiguity is defined as sourced of probability which are generally unknown but people still prefer one over the other. A well known example is the Ellsberg paradox [0]. In this paradox there are two turns, one contains 50 red and 50 black balls and the other contains 100 balls of unknown proportion of red/black. People often prefer to bet on the known urn (even on complmentary bets) leading to probabilistic contradictions (i.e. probabilities stop summing to one)

There's also a lot of research on behavioral finance and in particular behavioral macro, these models show that even with only a small number of heterogenous agents you can create chaotic models ...

The point I'm trying to make is that we, as economists create models, based on certain assumptions, that seem to work well, until they don't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsberg_paradox
Nope. Introvert.
Two big issues with these simplifying assumptions: 1. The stock market is not a constant return, and 2. People don't invest a constant amount per year. When times are good (and the market tends to be up during these times), you can usually save. When times are not good (and the market is usually down), you're either not saving or even digging into your savings. If you're betting on the stock market, this means you're buying when times are good (buying high) and not when times are bad (not buying low). Sounds like a recipe for investment disaster.

I know there were only a few times in my life when I've made enough to invest a substantial amount, and they were all at market high points. Whoops!
d. Please. One of the more usable ideas that could grow quickly.
Forcing the programmer to add handlers for exceptions he may not even want to handle (sometimes it's okay to pass it up the call stack) just creates a mess in the source code. It's fine as a suppressible compiler warning, but not as a compiler error.
Is there anyone here who is greatly familiar with the overall scene/industry in the U.S.? I’m heavily into the scene in Tokyo and I’d love to compare notes. Based on articles like this one, I sense there are a lot of differences, but I’d also like to hear more anecdotes/perspectives from the consumer side.
C, with another suggestion.

A super simple button on Reddit that I can click to download an immediate version of whatever it is on v.reddit. I currently just yt-dl it but would be faster in-browser.
Think in the long term. China calls its contest with the United States "a marathon race" [1]. Soon Trump will be out of office and this problem will still be with us. This will be the greatest contest American has ever faced.

[1] The China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era
Using your Head is Permitted
Paying when visiting friends sounds bad to American ears (maybe others) but I'm not so sure it's objectively bad.

Here in Japan if someone throws a house party it's common for everyone to pitch in $10-$30. Before I moved to Japan I had never heard of such a thing. In the USA when I or my family through a party for friends it was always our treat (we paid everything) and anytime I visited a friend's party they never asked for or expected money. The closest to that kind of thing was a "potluck" party where every one brought some food or drink.

Now that I've lived in Japan for a long time I've started to see the benefits of paying. It spreads the burden. It makes it easier to consider throwing a party since you know it won't cost you $50 to $200 in expenses.

Also in Japan it's extremely common to rent an an entire bar, space, restaurant for parties and tell all your friends, come to my party, $30 a person. Before I was lived here that idea would have blown my mind? $30? I'm not going if it even costs $5!. Now that I'm used to it I just see it has "paying for experience" and or "the cost of having fun" and I see that it enables cool venues and also places to be loud without annoying neighbors (since clubs and bars are usually designed for sound). I've gone to the opposite extreme where I'm disappointed when my western friends complain about having to contribute.

So, paying for playdates sounds like it might have positives. More playdates. Maybe easier for the organizer to stock all the various alternative diets the different kids need. etc...
This really isn't a bad idea. Of course they'd have to have a wallet you deposit into, and disable ads completely for anyone using it for there to be buy-in, but I like the idea of paying the people I watch directly.

1c a minute seems like exactly what I'd be willing to pay, as well. Just for an example, a relatively small livestream I watched last week would have made $1200; there's no way they're making that much on ads. If that's the case, channels would market it as an upgrade too - "join our supporter's club, and get a badge".
Reactive Machine Learning Systems
You can be proud of the term as per your understanding of it, but if you use it as a description of yourself then you're relying on people sharing that understanding. From my experience that's often not the case.
> Personally, to live a humble life is not very inspiring or interesting to me.

Personally, Blue Origin has not done work that inspires me. Specifically Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft seems to be reaching for the wrong benchmarks. They claim to enter space, and they do, but going straight up and down isn't nearly as valuable as orbital rockets. Blue Origin's timeline for entering orbit puts them years after Nasa's SLS, meaning they will be third to market for US based orbital launches, while competing with a large number of international competitors. New Shepard, Blue Origin's best success story, has less thrust than a North Korean ICBM.

Many charities are doing more impressive and inspiring work than Blue Origin.
oh good! another way to make housing in California more expensive to build!
> falling back to the perpetual license means downgrading, which is [...] something that I think many have an emotional aversion to.

They're playing on loss aversion and the endowment effect. It feels worse to lose something than to never have it, so people are more willing to pay to keep it than they would be to pay to buy it if they were never given it in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Is it? Seems plain to me, but

1) I honestly don’t know what the org structure is at Tesla

2) assuming there are hiring managers, if they’re hiring people they wouldn’t vouch for (to boost their dept size (again not knowing the org chart)), then managers are gaming Tesla, and that’s another problem
> A stunning failure of imagination.

I think the OP meant that $130B could be given to a lot of good causes in small chunks rather than all 130B to one small org.
Economists have more in common with priests than scientists.