skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Might be a good idea to finish the paper now ;).

I did read the entire paper and it was interesting.

You're more specific meaning of the word should have been spelled out before the claim. The meaning that I read was perfectly valid and shared by many others.
> Real talent doesn't just exist everywhere you go.

Colleges outside cities, like the one I went to, are brimming with compsci students that are then forced to move when they graduate, like I was. I'm sure if companies set up locations in such areas, they'd be able to tap into a decent amount of people like me who'd take a moderate pay cut to be able to live and work in a less dense region - not just the graduates I mentioned, but people who'd moved away from their home town and now could move back, or at least to somewhere more resembling it.
How about using a collation sequence like aAbBcC...? then many of the misused flags are near the intended ones.
In other news, McDonald's introduces air-locks between the kitchen and the counter to decrease scent-induced appetite.
> I agree with this in principle, but at what point do we have no other choice? Witches? Lizard people? Alien abductions?

I guess what I’m suggesting is that “listening” to crazy theories because you feel sorry for people under the assumption that they’re unstable or have trauma in their past is much worse than either 1) ignoring them, or 2) engaging in their debate on their terms (i.e. taking them seriously).

If it looks crazy, then just ignore it, but don’t assume it’s because the person is crazy or has mental problems. They might, just don’t assume.

The other half of my point is that literally everyone has crazy theories that aren’t supported by evidence. Religion covers half the world, but even scientists have bizarre beliefs, and all humans are subject to cognitive mistakes, and we are physiologically wired to hang on to our beliefs even when they’re wrong. I personally know a bunch of people with PhDs who stick to ideas that are wrong, like my doctor friend who doesn’t “believe” in counting calories for weight loss. I’m sure I have one or two myself, and I don’t know what they are.

We need to recognize that you and I and all of us also have wacky beliefs and we wouldn’t want to be labeled as mental. Assuming that something is wrong with someone because of their beliefs is a deliberate form of “othering”.

*edit:

One way I like to think about this is like so:

Make a list of all the thing you know that you’ve actually verified yourself. We know the earth is round, but have you actually proven it to yourself? I haven’t. I “know” that space exists because of other people’s stories, I’ve never been there myself. Pretty much everything I “know” about computers and politics and religion and psychology, and everything else, is things I’ve heard or read that other people verified, not me. The list of things I know 100% for a fact because I proved it myself is a very short list.
> the overwhelming majority of "Flat Earthers" are joking, pulling your chain, and refuse to admit it because keeping a straight face is part of the joke for them.

There is little double that some do, but I think you underestimate just how stupid people can be in general. E.g. just using the normal distribution for IQ (mean 100, stddev 15), 9% are below 80.

Now, to be clear: I just want to stretch your imagination. There are tons of people out there who just aren't that bright. Ok fine.

The problem is people who are a nasty combination of low IQ, ignorant, and militant.

Basically, you have people who could be cured of flat Eartherism by going out just one whole night and watching the stars rotate around the pole, just one trip to the ocean with binoculars to watch a ship disappear over the horizon, just one full day of measuring the shadows of the sun and doing trig, yet they refuse and instead sit inside and watch fucking dumbass YouTube videos made by other fucking dumbasses and then will literally get in your face and irate about something they clearly have zero actual direct knowledge of. It really makes you wonder wtf.

But then again, what are you gonna do? I tell them to predict eclipses, but so far no one has taken me up on it.
I think it will be much much more difficult to get a market beating return with a $100B fund than the $1.7B SoftBank invested back in the 1990s. The denominator is a huge issue -- to get a 3x on a $100B fund, which most VCs target and what is roughly needed to beat the market over the ~10 year life of a fund you need your investments to generate $200B of value. That's 25% of Alphabets value for reference. So if 90% go to zero, he'd not only need to catch the next Google but also would need to own 25% of it when it's worth $800B

Even if he did alibaba again, unlikely bc it was one of the best investments ever, the current stake is only worth $140B. If that's your only winner you'd be better off buying mutual funds

His strategy probably isn't just to get a financial return like typical VCs, he probable has more of a financial engineering / corporate raider / empire building strategy
Because Germany used to be different; if you had a long-term contract from 90s that e.g. stated your rent was 300 EUR/month, there was very limited room for any increases (basically only when your house went through some kind of renovation or the energy etc. costs rose significantly). So somebody who lives long-term in that neighborhood pays e.g. 400 EUR/month, whereas new tenants pay 1500EUR/month for the same. It's pretty normal in the US to see these kinds of yearly increases, but not in EU outside UK and EEU.
If anyone is interested to get a good understanding of Softbank's history and the Vision fund, I can strongly recommend a recent, lengthy episode the great Acquired podcast did on it: http://www.acquired.fm/episodes/2018/3/22/season-2-episode-4...
Thanks for the honest and detailed opinion.

If the show doesn't make you emotionally invested in characters, then no surprise you didn't like it.

I can sorta see where you're coming from. I picked up books only after watching whole S1, and then I re-watched S1. I definitely remember that the first time around, I felt that main characters are sort of... meh. Not bad, but also not very good. Just interesting enough to keep watching. The second time around I loved it, so I guess the show simply doesn't do a good enough job of letting the characters stand on their own, without the book background.

You mention Amos and I'd say you're right about him - he seems... arbitrary, without the book background. The source material does much better job at fleshing the character out. I could say the same thing about all the other examples you gave, except for Avasarala. I don't know why, but for some reason, I was in love at first sight.

RE tropes, can you give an example of a show you liked, that didn't have irritating world-building? RE that and acting, for some reason I seem to have much higher tolerance for that than a lot of my friend. I just don't notice, as long as it's not total tragedy.
I'm jobhunting now. Two interviews come to mind.

1. During a technical phone screen for an SRE role, the questions delved into, well, the nitty gritty parts of containerization, as if I were building my own Docker. Afterwards, I regretted not calling out how bored I was by this. I didn't want this to be my day-to-day work, and I disengaged from the questions. I should have bailed.

2. I'd submitted my resume for an SRE role, and a few minutes into a technical phone screen we realized it was for more of an IT role. The interviewer asked if I wanted to keep going, but I opted to pass, as it wasn't a great fit. Talking to the initial recruiter again got the SRE role rolling again.

Calling the interview off early saved time for me and the interviewer. If it had been more interesting or relevant, I could consider it practice.
Ditto. Grew up watching TOS in 70’s and 80’s. When I was 4, I started building the Enterprise in the back yard, and knew how to do it. Though I don’t know now.

The TOS heavily influenced me into electrical engineering, especially Spock building something to save the day, such as the mnemonic memory circuit with stone knives and bear claws.
That’s the treatment though:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rabies/diagno...

Maybe the vaccine can still stimulate you or immune system faster than the virus can take hold?
Yeah, I think it would be AMAZING if the B5 rights holders would turn over the reels to a film archive who could then digitize and release those materials to the public domain.

I have no doubts that the fan base would give B5 the remaster it deserves.

DS9 too. TNG was the Star Trek I grew up with, but having rewatched all of the Treks in recent years, DS9 is the clear stand-out in terms of quality writing. DS9 deserves better as well.

As for fan productions of Trek, it’s true Axanar got some bad treatment. Star Trek Continues, on the other hand, managed to do what they set out to do.
Shouldn't "hacking back" be extended to companies that collect user's data without obtaining their consent properly, without respecting privacy and local customs like Google, Cambridge Analytics, or Facebook do?
> Everyone in this area

Everyone in this area should have bought the flats they live in, or should have signed long term leases with inflation-pegged rent adjustments.

Other than that it's simply people trying to tell someone to not eat their cake, because they want it.
Years ago, Digby had a great post "The Action is the Juice" that explains this. (It's a quote from Heat.)

A zealot is eager for the arguments, to test the strength of their beliefs. If they still believe after all the facts, data, experience, it's scored a victory (dopamine rush).

I can't quickly refind her original post. Will update later if I can.
> I pay twice as much as some German friends living in my district because my parents didn't sign me up in a union 20 years ago

Can you maybe rephrase that? I have no idea what "union" you could be talking about in this context.
See the Church of the Subgenius for another of example of never admitting to the joke being the crux of the joke.
What hypocrites! Welcoming war refugees but not an extension of one of the world's largest corporations.
The show actually felt quite shallow to me, like it focused entertaining over presenting a coherent world. E.g. I'd expect to see identical cheap mass produced body running around everywhere.

I more fondly remember the near two decade old ghost in the shell fancies, especially for it's time. But then I don't plan to go back and may ruin my memory of it by re-watching.
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I just mean the moon moves from east to west in the sky but the eclipse went from west to east.

There are lots of videos and article with explanations but none of them clicked for me.
Nitrox’s maximum operating depth is ~32m at 32%. Oxygen toxicity is a quick death. To go deeper you need to add helium and actually reduce the amount of oxygen in the gas.
SMTP server with 10/10 MailTester score
How do you accurately determine calorie burning based on activity?
Wrong. People thought trump and his supporters were being outlandish, can’t be serious etc. flat-weathers are very serious, very wrong and the thought process behind it is very dangerous.
Are politics becoming outdated, in your opinion, too?
> I started building the Enterprise in the back yard, and knew how to do it

Hah, I did the same when I was ~10. With a friend, we went out to the park behind some trees where people were dumping appliances, and collected 2 bags of scrap electronics. My mother wasn't too happy when I brought it all home.
I heard that argument and I don't buy it.

First, "it's a standard" ignores reality: there are very few devices out there that implement the standard correctly.

Second, I don't buy chargers every day.

Third, even if I wanted to buy a charger, I would definitely want to spend the money on Apple's "proprietary" chargers, because they are safer and better than the cheap ones (see http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and... or http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and... for examples).

I like Magsafe, I've been very happy with it, and I think it is silly of Apple to abandon it for no good reason.
Wages in Berlin are extremely bad (unless contracting). But I doubt Google is going to pay 250k overall comp like they do in Zurich... They already pay much less in Munich.
"...it's not that rational arguments can't win such people over..."

I used to believe we could just talk (hug) it out. But now I've given up.

If you find examples, guides, howtos, case studies for what you're suggesting, I'm all ears, please share.
The incidents you cite are indeed deeply regrettable and even shameful. But quaere whether you're overweighting them.
Functional programming for embedded systems
Podcast: Why Manufacturers Struggle to Secure IoT
I'm aware of the problems with ISP-provided resolvers. I meant running your own resolver, like named, which queries the root zones itself, supports DNSSEC response authentication, etc.
For that to be true the salon attendant's goal should have been to test the humanness of the caller rather than book an appointment.
That guy is on to something but he's literally aiming too low. I'd assert you can't really see the Earth's edges until you get out the Lagrange orbit points. :-)

Let them crowd fund a small manufacturing hub out there.
Tcl is one of those rock-solid things that have been around for a while, where extrapolating from other projects of the same age you'd expect to find a somewhat muted community, and that's not the case at all.

Dormancy and stagnation can have many causes: author hiatus, the code clearing some threshold feature-complete, obsolescence by competing tech that solves similar problems. And it seems Tcl has managed to stay relevant through a combination of usefulness (like its standard lib, or Tk) sufficient paradigm difference to tech that came later, in some cases future tech building on top of it instead of replacing it wholesale, willingness to fix common gripes in the core (numbers, unicode, binary), and a developer-focused (instead of consumer-focused) approach to packaging. It's probably helped by being a captive scripting language on some embedded platforms too.

Languages that became big and popular in later years faced demands around the distribution of third-party packages. Perl became an early pioneer with a community repository, but later languages had to cope with the expectation of using a language-specific package manager that would download from the official repository, and automagically make packages available globally. Tcl encouraged user contributions in a less formal way [1] -- develop programs (code that uses builtin commands) or extensions (code that defines new commands) for your own use, and make them available if you so wish. This minor difference in attitude creates an ecosystem that feels different from a language package repo, where thousands of packages of varying quality sit, the long tail of them effectively unvetted.

[1] http://wiki.tcl.tk/2352
A good measure would be something that can withstand the ups and downs of life. What I mean is that if Finland would end up in a war and drastically changing the way people live. There wouldn't be anything left that would allow them to be happy, right? Therefore I think the best measure must be ones own experience of positive emotions and expression of gratitude.
I don't know if you live in the area (I only work there), but this is a recurring pattern that has happened quite a few times over the last years, not only to Google. Everything that is a. wealthy and b. from abroad will receive instant hatred. I talked to a few of these people and unfortunately it's only a very short way to conspiracy theories and open antisemitism surfacing.

If you show up being German and wealthy, treatment will be way different unfortunately.
A couple nights of stargazing (preferably spaced about 1 month apart throughout the year) with a starmap and it'll be pretty obvious the earth is round and going around the sun.
Berlin’s council can prevent additional real estate acquisitions by Google. They’re already taking measures to keep housing affordable with government intervention.

Germany is not broken how America is, so it’s easier to put people ahead of corporations there.
Yeah but they just got a tweet from a professor and repeated it three times. A bit more effort could be made.
There is some blatantly false information on this page.

> Google was caught red-handed participating in NSA’s illegall surveillance of almost everyone

PRISM was infiltration. The wiki also calls out Apple in this event, who are known to proactively limit surveillance. Many of the arguments also suffer from severely flawed logic, especially where the actions of others are held against Google.

There is some truth here, but it is far outweighed by false information.
> As a Mac user – how on earth could MS have a keyboard latency for so long? Seems very unprofessional.

A) It doesn't matter you're a "mac user".

B) It's a technical fault, not "unprofessional"
Huh, in what way was Theo right about Meltdown? Did he predict it? (just curious)
> Not being able to opt your child out [...] slippery slope to a Brave New World.

Having to opt out instead of in is already bad enough.

Not being able to opt out is way beyond "slippery slope".
Agreed. Plenty of people struggle with the problem they're solving here. Especially at Google, where they a) think of themselves as a nice, mission-driven company, and b) they do a lot of user-focused stuff that doesn't immediately contribute to quarterly revenue, and c) they have a workforce that can easily switch jobs, there's plenty of reason to think that they're sincere here.

It's surely true that execs looked at this and made sure the ROI wasn't blatantly large and negative. And there's definitely another level of analysis where a lot of good behavior turns out to be useful to the organism, in the same sense that moms love kids because genes need new meat-robot bodies to run around in. But that complimentary to your frame of analysis, not contradictory to it.
There was this company, how it was called, erm, ah I know: Nokia. It was the dominant force in fastest growing industry. For some reason they decided to become a headless chicken for some US corp, who knows why?

That's the short version of any EU-based competition to US companies in software. Dreams don't correspond to reality.
It's worth keeping in mind that, by and large, this is how the oligarch class thinks. Their top priorities are protecting and justifying their wealth and power. A journalist who exposes a massive fraud and probably saved lives isn't someone performing a public service - he's an enemy. There is no mea culpa. The relationship between the oligarch's own interests and the public interest is purely predatory and adversarial.

These priorities are relatively easy to see when it comes to techno-weirdos like Tim Draper and Peter Thiel or cartoonish megalomaniacs like Bezos, but they govern the behavior of even otherwise staid and conventional oligarchs (see, for instance, Eric Schmidt strong-arming the New America Foundation to fire everyone involved in antitrust policy research).
Definitely. I started reading only after watching entire S1. The books are better than the show.

(BTW. I found myself to prefer reading source books after watching a movie/series. In this order, my imagination is already primed by the show, so I don't experience the clash between how I imagined the characters vs. how the producers imagined them.)
I find it easy to be dismissive of Flat Earthers and Moon Landing Deniers as they tend to be Mostly Harmless.

I worry about the guy who fired shots into a pizza restaurant with an AR-15 because he believed it was a front for a child sex ring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

Or when some random clown from Texas, who campaigned on disbanding the Dept of Energy, now runs it.

Now you have my attention.
But aren't you then constrained until the end of time to ensure that cart ids and product ids are entirely disjoint? That's way too coupled for my little brain.
How to Make Millions While Saving a Forest
> corporate, neoliberal, infantile fascism

Not so infantile anymore.

> "pussification" ... "SJW"

Please keep this words limited to 4chan.
`>` is used to denote a quote and it's been that way for decades at least.

The article was asking for alternatives. Then jnxx responded with an alternative.

This chain of interactions was perfectly reasonable until you showed up and started accusing people without even a shred of evidence.

They only have 8 comments, you can read through all of them in the span of a minute. The only one that seems to be on one of their own projects is a link to this: https://gitlab.com/jnxx/check-trustpaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_(disambiguation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture

Might as well bring up the Jamaican reggae group or the Canadian rapper named "Culture", too.
>I think we're all doomed.

No, we're fine. Malice is surprisingly rare, but people will cut corners to make a buck. Effective regulation makes cutting corners more expensive than doing things the right way.

Most western consumers have a justifiable trust in the food they eat. They walk into the supermarket, load up their trolley and don't give a moment's thought to whether their meat is tainted, their milk is watered down or their flour is bulked out with chalk. They don't worry about whether their candy has been dyed with toxic cadmium or cobalt pigments. They don't worry about whether their wine has been sweetened with lead acetate. They know that food is being rigorously monitored for safety throughout the supply chain, because the cost to a business of non-compliance can be catastrophic.

European consumers often worry about "e-number" additives in their food, but the entire point is that e-numbers are given to additives that have been rigorously tested for safety. I don't have the first idea what dodecyl gallate is, but I know that E313 is safe to eat.
I didn't downvote, but it may be more inspired by your style of presentation than your opinion. It is hard to make out what you are saying because your writing looks more like lecture notes or a shorthand of your private thinking process than a means of communicating to others. Please understand that I don't mean to be snarky, and I would be the first to acknowledge that writing clearly is difficult.
You could make a new HN submission for this, not just a comment. I bet a lot of people will be interested in trying it and also discussing it.
One is a tax dodging multinational, the other are human beings.

You're missing the point entirely.