skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically speaking they are very different.

In the age of "Google everyone you meet" Mugshots.com and similar sites have pretty effective SEO that immediately taint (or at least question) a Google search for anyone who's ever been arrested and either isn't willing or able to pay their "removal" (read: extortion) fee. Complete with mugshot, obviously, which has the extra impact of providing visual confirmation of the identity. Bonus points in that a mugshot is rarely flattering and often documents someone at their absolute worst.

While various governmental agencies provide access to much of the same information to the public they are very scattered. For example, in the state of Wisconsin you'd have to know that it's called "Wisconsin Circuit Court Access", navigate to the page, click "I Agree", and then search. For one state. No SEO and in fact hidden behind a page that requires agreement to terms. Repeat x50 for each individual state (or those that even offer such a service), PACER for federal courts, etc. Some counties and municipalities offer their own versions as well.

Very different from the first page of results in a Google search.
That does not correlate well with the facts.
> most species reproduce when resources are abundant

I dunno, fungi usually don't produce mushrooms until right before their host is about to die or their substrate is about to be depleted. Reproducing takes a lot of energy, so individuals usually wait until they have no other choice.

Humans seem to be the same way. E.g. low-income kids go through puberty sooner, presumably due to having poorer health. And usually if someone starts drinking a lot or otherwise abusing drugs, they get really hot for a year or two before they start looking sickly and terrible.

At the population level species keep reproducing until they use up all the available resources, and then the populations collapse, but on the level of individuals the dynamics seem to work in almost the opposite way.
The particular family name he chose was carefully selected to ward off suspicion as well. Very interesting.

In your story, the lies were the emotional bait, correct?
I have been thinking about that too but concluded that blogs must be the new version of personal web sites. Tho, I'm still interested in sharing ideas.
> The 'bosses' think they are being super conscientious -- and often they are genuinely trying -- but their point of view lets them get away with thinking, "Oh well, they won't mind. Oh well, it's worth it, they can take it."

It's possible, but I doubt it. It seems more likely to me that the 'bosses' don't really care all that much beyond whatever they consider the 'bottom line'.
It is disingenuous to assert that immigration de facto causes resentment instead of the source population of the immigration.
Working can be a great way to network as well, particularly if you can land a job in the industry you're interested in.
The causal connection works the opposite way. When you are rich, you have fewer kids.
I think it's nerds and trains, rather than guys and trains. I know at least one woman who is pretty excited about trains too, and she is a colossal dork.

EDIT: and what it is about nerds and trains is that trains are wicked sweet.
Sounds like the "Slaugterbot"[1] to me.

[1]: https://www.sciencealert.com/chilling-drone-video-shows-a-di...
There aren’t that many art majors. There are a lot of business majors though, probably too many.

In my country (belgium) the universities are mostly funded through taxation. The government negotiates per-student reimbursement rates with the universities, different rates for different degrees. The average all-in cost of a student is around 12K euro per year, with the student paying 1K of that and the government providing the rest. The resulting education is of a quality matching good colleges in the U.S. at a fraction of the cost, while still paying faculty a decent wage. The catch is the heavy government involvement and price controls, this is counter to the U.S. philosophy of the role of government, which is why this system could never work there. Additionally, all-in tax rates are double those of the U.S. (also is used to provide universal healthcare), effectively nationalizing huge chunks of the economy.

The focus should be on bringing down tuition fees. Whether you pay for tuition in debt repayment or taxes, the result is the same. Arguably debt is fairer than taxes because every individual gets to choose whether they want to carry that burden.
I agree that some preachers misuse their little bit of Greek knowledge, but Lewis was a professor of literature and knew Greek well. Storge and eros are not Biblical words, but they are still Greek words that are often translated "love" and have very different meanings. My point of bringing this up Lewis was to show that there is support for different meanings for our English word "love".

Pope Benedict XVI, whom I believe is one of the greatest theological minds of our day, wrote about 3 kinds of love in his encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) [1]. He shows how these different words for love are distinct but related. (Storge is not included; some people translate it as "affection" rather than love.) Here is a quote:

3. That love between man and woman which is neither planned nor willed, but somehow imposes itself upon human beings, was called eros by the ancient Greeks. Let us note straight away that the Greek Old Testament uses the word eros only twice, while the New Testament does not use it at all: of the three Greek words for love, eros, philia (the love of friendship) and agape, New Testament writers prefer the last, which occurs rather infrequently in Greek usage. As for the term philia, the love of friendship, it is used with added depth of meaning in Saint John's Gospel in order to express the relationship between Jesus and his disciples. The tendency to avoid the word eros, together with the new vision of love expressed through the word agape, clearly point to something new and distinct about the Christian understanding of love.

1: https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/do...
Possibly relevant to the discussion: The ESP8266 is capable of running REPLs for JavaScript, Lua, Basic or MicroPython, which probably makes development a whole lot easier (cheaper?) if the project isn't considered to be very critical.
>No legal use case found to date

Thanks to regulatory capture and governmental privacy erosion that eschews anonymous transfers such as cash.
Immigrants to the US have the same level of college completion as natives: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/03/key-findings...
I don't think this is restricted to the male population tbh
I was curious if anyone had tried to train an AI to play QWOP. Of course they have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27TUmMkOA0 (among others)

I wonder if you could get a better result by including other factors in the reward function, like trying to maintain a slight forward lean.
It's in the context of regulating harmful CFCs, I think it's pretty clear "shady" means corrupt?

> It sounds extremely wide and viewed from a position of privilege.

Ah well. I am not the one who used the phrase. But I lived in a shady country, if I criticize it and call it corrupt and shady do I get pass of not being from position of privilege?
As fast as a system which is either distributed or secure?
> I hope we can move to a much more sensible immigration system, similar to Canada's, for example.

We have a decent immigration system in terms of getting the right kinds of advanced folks.

The problem is we are also unwilling to do what needs to be done to stem the tide of unskilled illegal labor that flows into the nation.
Is there a sub specialization you are looking at? - tools to write software / querying tools / visuzalization tools?
Costs in terms of time and money.

In the past, kids could work on the farm or in a factory and generate money, now you have to send them to daycare and buy them toys and they cost money.

Previously, more people would jump straight out of high school into blue collar jobs and raising families. Now, men and women are delaying kids to focus on college and building a career.

And mothers would more often stay home to raise kids. Now both parents are working more, and there's less time to spend raising children.
Under His Eye
Not just social security: it's public pensions and health care too - every program that expects a pyramid population shape with many young workers supporting a few older ones is going to implode in the next few decades. It's gonna get ugly.
Acephalic Agile: Worse than Waterfall?
Here's AMC's income statement: http://investor.amctheatres.com/AsReported/Index

Gross margins on ticket sales were 50% in 2017, so it would appear they do have wiggle room. Concessions are almost pure profit at 84% margin. Sacrificing some lower-margin ticket revenue (shared with studios) to generate growth in higher-margin snack sales (not shared) would seem to be a win for the theaters.
I read the book and it is OK. It provides some history behind OKRs but I don't feel it is a practical reference for using OKRs. There are better resources online. I like this introduction to OKRs:

https://medium.com/startup-tools/okrs-5afdc298bc28

And Google's re:Work site as a practical reference:

https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/set-goals-with-okrs/ste...
This is driven by a very simple thing - pension funds and insurance.

Back in the day (and in poor countries with no pension funds) people knew that they had to have children because otherwise nobody would support them when they were old and they'd die. Right now people are confident that they will get a pension when they are old, so there is no reason for them to have kids.

They consider children as an inconvenience, miss out on the marvel of parenthood, and basically make the nation die off gradually.

Plus of course - lowering wages and women having to work, thus making having a child a huge problem.
People always come up with ways to judge the reputation/in-group-membership/status of someone they're meeting for the first time. We can do it with clothes or accents or special jargon or StackOverflow badges, but somehow or other we always do it.
Honest question: is one-party consent satisfied if the party that has "given consent" is an AI bot? I could see how someone would argue that there was only one party on the call capable of consent, and that he/she (the human caller) did not give it.

Another hypo: What if my AI bot calls the restaurant and talks to their AI bot? Is that a call with zero parties? Can consent for recording be given at all?

My guess is that it depends on the definition of "party". Cue the lawyers.
No, but I had one sit next to me on a flight to Vegas once. It's a long story, first how we suspected and then when he admitted it as we got off the plane. They do exist though.
Japan is a prosperous high HDI nation. They have clearly decided that making bankers happy is not worth sacrificing their national identity by inviting mass immigration. They may not appear to be "winning" to those who measure civilizational success by the quarter but I bet their way wins out in the long run.
This may be mostly true for CS and around, but… I wouldn't like to put my personal well-being in hands of self-thought surgeon…
I think the dwindling white population is actually a good thing, because it will enable people of color to assert a leading role in STEM fields!
You wait until the 25th of May.
Web devs with small sites for business. GDPR quick cheap and actually compliant
This is a really important point. Often, elite discussions about the importance of college come from people who fondly remember their time at Harvard, and not those burnt by "schools" like the Boston Architectural College which has a 100% acceptance rate and charges $20K a year, Or Suffolk University which can barely hold onto its accreditation, but charges $37K a year to study "international business."

By bucketing all these experience together as if they're the same experience does a tremendous disservice to those who can least afford to make a six-figure mistake.
People flaming, complaining, arguing with shills about scams just look like sweet, sweet engagement to algorithms!
OK. But why was one rigged with explosives carried on a commercial passenger flight? I think it was going out for a demo, but surely it didn't need the explosives set up for the travel part of that trip?
Not only were these calls not faked, the dogfooders were required to go out and honor their reservations.

Internally, the criticism is brutal, because we want free-form, general, conversation abilities, and we don't consider the demo to be perfect.

But fake ?
IMO, if the team wanted to fake a demo, they could had done that years ago when the project started.

But we are Google. We don't fake demos because we don't have to.

[edit: To add to what I said: If you think that a team at Google could fake something at this scale and have the face of the company back it at our most high-profile event of the year, just think of the aftermath internally. The code is available for all of us to study. The design docs are there for us to read. There were thousands of engineers that at least peeked at the codebase even on the same day of the demo.]
There's a really nice scene in the movie Idiocracy about that sort of phenomenon.
Protipo – A New Type Family for Data
Wife and I decided ages ago to not have children. I had a vascetomy when I was ~25. I think our reasons differ, and mine are confused, but it's very clear to both of us that we never want children. Oddly, she liked being an aunt though, so there is that.
While it has speculative value [0], you can use it to buy stuff, but while doing so you will spend on exchange fees to convert in and out of crypto, you will use as much electricity for your transaction as 33 US households use in a day, you will subject yourself to liquidity risk and volatility risk [1] and you will have to wait for anywhere from ten minutes to a couple hours [2].

Calling this complicated, risky and expensive process a "use case" is like calling a Rube Goldberg machine that opens a door "useful for opening doors". It's like no, not really. It can do it, sure, but there are significantly better ways of achieving the same thing.

[0] When there are no more greater fools entering the market, the price will tank and you will not be able use it to transfer value.

[1] It's possible that right after your purchase, the price of the token shoots up or down 50%, making rational purchasing decisions difficult.

[2] transactions on Visa, Apple Pay, or PayPal all get complete within seconds.
Europe did the same in importing large numbers of Muslim laborers after WW2. The hope was that they'd either make their money and go back home, or culturally integrate. Many observers will say that neither happened and there's now a difficult social problem in many countries like France.
Makes sense - they've been sending me emails that they are consolidating duplicate music videos for the same artist on YouTube the last few months. When they collapse Google Play Music into YouTube Music, attach music videos, and leverage Youtube's size....watch out.
Yeah that bought depressed me too, but I think there was something literally different about old sites, where they were mixed media, didn’t necessarily demand feedback and were more themeatic.

I wondered whether actually you could make it app based (rather than web), with the key distinction being sites rather than profiles.
I think you can use .localhost freely.
For sure. I think there's a lot of evidence that certain meditative states overlap with some psychedelic states.

But, have you ever had a fully immersive meditative state? Is that possible?
Illegal immigrants usually do not (under the table, off the books unskilled labor), and are in the US in large numbers (millions).

Not a sleight, just facts.
Updating Your Engineering Interview to Make Better Hiring Decisions
It's not just a US issue. Fertility drops below replacement rate all across the world in urban settings with modern economies, from Germany to Japan to China, even trending in sub saharan Africa https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/blog/Is-fertility-stalling-in-su...
I'm amazed at how skewed South / Central America is to all other regions!
> Those seem quite the overstatements.

In addition to other comments, OpenVPN's default cipher is Blowfish. Since that sounds unbelievable, here's the manpage:

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn24ManPage

"The default is BF-CBC, an abbreviation for Blowfish in Cipher Block Chaining mode."

If you read just a little further you'll see that RC2, 56-bit DES and other obsolete ciphers are supported as well. To put this in perspective, DES is from the same time period as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

I'm very excited for WireGuard to be ported to other platforms.
So all 'joints' only move in 2d, am I getting that right?
Serious question: How is this not wildly racist?
People blame capitalism, Trump...It might be mysterious forces are working here...World doesn't need more humans, and Nature seems to be adjusting to that.
There are a few ways I could reply to this comment.

1. I could try and attack the evidence, by linking studies such as http://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar... which found that conscientiousness is better correlated with grades (a proxy for job performance) than SAT score (a proxy for IQ), but that's not a very strong claim considering all the proxy measures involved (and it still does show that IQ matters).

2. I could attack the article you linked: "employers are more interested in employees' social skills than their cognitive ability" seems correct, in that communication is a key difficulty in jobs at large organization, much more than any individual's cognitive capacity. One could claim it's better at a large org to "satisfice" for IQ while optimizing for social skill. "Emotional Intelligence" vs "Cognitive Ability" as linked later in the article also doesn't seem to capture a sufficiently broad space of factors. And what is "culture fit" about, then?

3. We could talk about the taboo on discussing IQ. I could discuss my experience talking with supporters of "human bio-diversity", geneticists who seemed quite interested in discussing correlations between "various socio-cultural factors" and IQ, mostly with the intent of riling up people, or playing a contrarian position. Many people have a weak understanding of IQ and genetics, and end up drawing incorrect and occasionally repugnant conclusions based on the data (typically due to a lack of understanding that, across generations, genetics are malleable, IQ is malleable, etc).

"Some people use the data badly" isn't a strong argument against mainstreaming discussion of IQ. A stronger argument might be that individuals like to feel ownership over their own lives. Telling people that "IQ, which is determined mostly genetically, is the largest factor in your job performance (read: life success)" chips away at the common knowledge that an individual has significant personal agency, which is important as a philosophical basis behind various facets of western culture. Scott Alexander at Slate Star Codex tries to synthesize the two sides (one side wants to mainstream IQ, the other feels their self-narrative is threatened, hence the synthesis that it doesn't matter so much on an individual level) here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/27/against-individual-iq-w... but not everyone finds his arguments compelling.

All this isn't to say I agree or disagree that there should be a taboo -- I personally don't have a stance, but would prefer not to hire based on the metric -- but I did want to share some reasons that an objector might give against making it an acceptable measure.
Well, you could of course move but in the end it is mostly about priorities.
Your first sentence and last two are contradictory.
And that's what it's all about.
I hate it too, but try to create a tutorial and you will understand the reason - it takes much less time, just record what you are already doing. The alternative to video is not text but absence of information.
To add context (and as you probably know). The esp8266 is an older design repurposed as an "IoT" play.

It was actually originally designed as a wifi interface. I think it was mostly used in cheap Android tablets. It just so happens that any generic wifi interface IC has pretty much everything required to make a general purpose IoT microcontroller.

That is to say, they've all cost an ARM or other cheap core inside as well as the Wifi physical interface. Usually the CPU just does data formatting, interfacing and other management tasks.

So, there are lots of those around. In fact if you search for USB wifi dongles on ebay you'll find them for 1 or 2USD. They all have some similar controller inside.

The difference with the esp8266 is that they released the documentation, and started marketing the chip as an IoT device. It's neat, because essentially all the of development costs have already been paid off by the Android tablet market.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischm... has a schematic of the track.

Looking at the map, it seems there are only two endpoints to the line on the island.

On the other hand, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstrandischmoor claims there are only 4 households on the island, so even assuming each has its separate fork, “each house” isn’t that much.

I wonder what system they have to prevent the two locomotives from meeting each other half-way through and to get one of the locomotives to a home when needed.
The anti blockchain sentiment on HN is something like the anti-Trump hysteria in the period leading up to/immediately after the election. Tons of grandiose "it's SO horrible" posts, tons of downvotes.

I predict it will shake out about the same way also.

Blockchain and bitcoin aren't going anywhere in the near future. Some people have, and will continue to have, a use (for whatever reason). The "I hates it precious!" screeds won't change this. In the end it will turn out it's not the savior the proponents claimed it would be nor the demon incarnate the detractors claimed either but just another instrument of the powers that be.

Why folks can't take less emotional views on these two phenomenon is beyond me. It really is. You don't like Bitcoin? Fine, ignore it. I simply don't get the mouth frothing hatred.
38yo Canadian male. Made a conscious decision to never have kids when I was 30. Haven't changed my mind.
Yes, I'm quite sure that what is happening is that a particular solution wasn't working well, so they're discontinuing it and continuing with the general search for better solutions.

I'm confident they're still working toward solutions that require less from customers, not just less from employees.
No, unless you count milliseconds as significant. You might as well remove one image in your content or save with a better image compression.
For those interested on the more-fascinating-than-you-might-assume history of coyotes I suggest you read Coyote America by Dan Flores.
There is also a fantastic podcast episode that hits the high points of the book: http://www.themeateater.com/podcasts/episode-033/
Secret project blue book video – Crashed UFO – Alien alive
China and India are both worse to be poor in, which still makes it a position of privilege compared to a significant portion of the world population. That's why "check your privilege" is such a stupid statement.
Firefox shows an insecure warning in the insecure form field itself so the user will see it.
I agree with you but this is a super controversial opinion on HN. People here seem to really like to ignore the environment cost of a child.
They're removing the streaming APIs, these allow a single long term connection to receive tweets, follows, etc... in favor of a Webhook solution.

The issue is that there are not comparable solutions. The streaming API allows a user to connection directly. With the webhook solution it has to all go via 3rd party server, and you need to pay for it.