skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now what?

I keep using dep for as long as it's reasonable for me to do so, because I don't like MVS and I don't like how MVS has been basically forced upon us.
That's a good idea. My current solution is to just try and make every page awesome, but I know some sections have more love than others.
I feel like I'm missing something here.

If I go out somewhere with a bunch of friends, we just ask for separate checks.
I know this isn't Reddit, but I can help but point out that 11234 = average(11233, 11235)
Doing video is cheap. Doing video well and without scaling issues (especially) live is still quite expensive. Not as bad as it used to be but still, it can eat up quite a bit of money. You'd need some way to monetize it if you are not going to limit clip length. Alternatively, at an even larger scale the equation turns around and suddenly you can set up your own fiber network and get some support from ISPs because you reduce their transit costs if they get your fiber into their 'meet-me' rooms.

Doing video on a third party cloud environment would be prohibitively expensive.
Good luck with that! PUBG is just an FFA FPS, nothing new at all here
What a cool company. Congrats on the raise!
A good starting point would be requiring a specific flag when executing any git command that should be attached to a hook. Something like git clone —-allow-hooks to enable post-checkout hooks ; or git commit —-allow-hooks to allow pre/post-commit hooks.
Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kiev
Before rdbms became a commodity, companies would build them in house and required very specialized skills.

Then it became a commodity and now you can just use postgresql for a basic web app without knowing much about dbs.

Start adding scale and availability requirements in the mix, and you're back in need of specialized knowledge on indices, query planning, disk access patterns and db admin in general.

Same for cloud providers imho: you can throw an app online quicker than ever before, but as things get more complex you will still need an understanding of infrastructure, network, availability, security etc.
Thank you for sharing/creating this. I love the concept behind this and also like how simple the user interface is.
Yep, it’s network effects. All my friends were impressed by Square Cash’s ability to instantly transfer to their bank accounts for a small fee, but nobody wants to install another cash app (and another virtual wallet) to use with just one friend.

When Apple Pay Cash came out, I was sure that it would replace Venmo, but even after all my friends updated to iOS 11 they continued to use Venmo. I’m guessing this has something to do with Apple Pay Cash not having any way to keep track of pending payments and requests, meaning your friend will probably never pay you back for lunch if the request isn’t paid as soon as it’s sent, before getting buried in history by conversation (iOS-only is another network-effect factor, but my social group is pretty much exclusively iOS).
I'm not that knowledgeable on friction. Do you think the friction equations are OK for high school level physics?

Would you say that this is accurate?

"Kinetic friction is primarily caused by chemical bonding between surfaces; however, in many cases roughness is dominant."
I think you might be right.
Is there some kind of asymmetry that prevents this logic from being applied with "older" replaced by other inherent physical attributes like race, or do you think that wouldn't be discrimination either?
I hope the opposite. When humans don't drive, they won't mind the car taking an extra minute to drive around the other side of the building. There'll be more opportunity for pedestrian-only streets.
If you live in SF, go to the Booksmith on Haight street and look up on the walls on the left side of the store. They have the first line of many famous novels, printed without context. I was shocked at how many I knew, even though if it had been posed to me in reverse (How does {book x} begin?) I would have had no idea.

I'm not even a very attentive reader, but I guess some of these really great opening lines will stick with you forever.

Two of my favorites:

* "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

* “I’ve been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.”
There's "Google time", their approach to leap seconds. 12 hours before a leap second, Google's version of UTC time starts running slightly slow, so that it loses a second over the next 24 hours.[1]

Some Google database systems rely on tight time synchronization to order update events, so they had to have a global monotonic clock.

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear
Right. First few sentences:

Morgan's Steel Remains: "When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic questions."

Stephenson's Seveneves: "The Moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason."

Lawrence's Prince of Thorns: "Ravens! Always the ravens. They settled on the gables of the church even before the injured became the dead."

Stover's Caine's Law: "And in this My Dream, Beloved, you know Me. Through your eyes I watch your blunt and broken hands scrabble upon the marble stair: spiders maimed and bleeding on frosted glass."

Scalzi's Old Man's War: "I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army."

Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief: "As always, before the warmind and I shoot each other, I try to make small talk."
Mostly Abay/Keystone

We liked to hate on Vail on that side of the pass, but it really is the best. The only problem was affording it ;)
All the conferences in my field have literal security guards checking the badges that are only handed out after paying hundreds of dollars to register.
I’ve thought this as well.

Pro-immigration policies are essentially stealing the best and brightest from all corners of the world and moving them here.

Why? In many cases they would be dramatically more effective in their country of origin. Take IIT in India, which is India’s version of Harvard. Over 50% of those students go abroad a year after graduating. How can that be good for India?
Eh. Or you can just let the auto-driving auto-mobile take the same "shit happens" approach that humans do. Whatever the code happens to spit out, that's the direction it goes, ethics ignored.
> Every history class I've taken, prior to university level, was piles of births, deaths, wars, facts, ad infinitum.

I have to second this. Most of my high school science classes was about developing an intuitive understanding of the problems we were trying to solve.

Most of my highschool history classes was about memorizing a sequence of events, with an incredibly white-washed context for them. The closest thing to 'lab work' was reading a handful of contrived 'life situations' written from the perspective of various persons from the 19th century, and writing an essay on which of them, if any, should have moved to Canada.
Most web interfaces to git will allow you to review the repo, if you blindly clone some repo that someone asks you to clone recursively I would see that mostly as a social engineering hack with the technical hook than a purely technical hack.

And depending on the sophistication you might want to do that in a chrooted environment or a VM.
Note that none of the vgo precursors (or currently vgo itself) have been official Go tools. dep, for example, is an experiment.

Tools have certainly existed, sure. And they continue to exist. But they have not been official Go tools.
> The "negotiated" rate with the insurance company is $80.

> The amount I pay, as a patient, is $10.

This is Shkreli math. "Oh, insurance companies pay larger amounts, most people will get this drug for a $10 copay!"

Oh yes, the insurance companies, those philanthropists magicking money out of ... somewhere other than your pocket, be it directly or indirectly.
Odd they don't name the deceased.
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Why though? Is there something relating overall quality to first line engagement?

"The primroses were over" does nothing for me, but Watership Down is great!
Dealing with time well into the future is rough because of the unknown timezone changes and unknown leap seconds. There's not much you can do.

Computing future times in TAI from user inputs in wall clock time is fraught, so I guess you can't store TAI in those cases.

For a calendar app, since users want to deal in wall clock time, you have to store time with timezone and with leap seconds (so UTC + time zone). And you have to store timezone, not offset to UTC -- timezones can change.

At least internally, however, dealing in TAI can be helpful[0].

Also, IIRC there's a proposal to redefine UTC as without leap seconds[1]... That scares me. Users really need wall clock time.

The continued existence of TAI was questioned in a 2007 letter from the BIPM to the ITU-R which stated "In the case of a redefinition of UTC without leap seconds, the CCTF would consider discussing the possibility of suppressing TAI, as it would remain parallel to the continuous UTC."[16]

[0] ttps://cr.yp.to/time.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Will be interesting to see if they can apply this to other markets. You'd think if they could quantify the risk for flying robots then they'd be able to do it for anything.
YouTube doesn't just demonetize for the fun of it. They do it because advertisers are threatening to pull their ads off the service entirely if there's a risk of being placed against offensive content.

What makes you think any youtube competitor would have better luck convincing advertisers to run ads against the same content youtube has demonetized?
Why not use Vimeo?
As a third-world citizen, I'll have to wait like 15 years for the price of that hardware to come down and be rejected by the first-world before I can ever hope to run all that crap.

Till then I'll keep feeding the Google/NSA machine.
> The issue here is that the "git clone ..." allows for arbitrary code execution

It does not, actually. It's the submodule steps that create the vulnerability, and those have to be done manually. There are no standard or automated ways of pulling submodules, every project that uses them has its own scheme and provides its own build instructions. Frankly they're pretty obscure and in most communities replaced by tricks like npm's dependency management instead. It's a goof, and fixed, but even for the most naive users the exposure is fairly low.

It's true that it happens early in the process, but it's not true that a simple git clone command is a vector.
To expand on that, say you want to market to only people within the ER room itself because you are an attorney for personal injury.

You will most likely get everyone who’s phone was within the overall geofence +100yards or so (sometimes better sometimes worse, really depends on what and how you are measuring).

That will include everyone above and below you with good enough signal to get through. Hospitals are usually tall in urban centers, so 5-10 stories of people?

Now you have your potential list. However, the real segment you just made are hospital visitors + employees/vendors.

Maybe you can exclude those that you see a lot or on a regular cycle as staff/vendors.

You are still not very close to just “personal injury” data.

Usually, you’ll need to combine this with something more to make better segment overall and go from there.

Unfortunately, data vendors will often market the above without much cleaning as “ER visitors” or “people with health problem X”.

There are numerous threads on HN about how bad some of these segments are - people tagged with mutually exclusive segments, wrong info, etc. That’s why FB and Google, and to a lesser extent for now Amazon, are sitting on some really valuable data - we tend to tell them explicitly and/or they have fine-grained location on us.

And let’s not forget that stuff like this has spurred responses like GDPR.
My Coulomb's law simulation is classical only, no quantum physics. I hope it has some value in showing emergent phenomena.

Electrons can just leave the atom, this is how static electricity works.
> Would be great to give the user an option to send statistics or something like that to do just that.

This is exactly what they do.
What experience do you "cranky elders" have that makes this seem dangerous? What possible malicious intent can be applied to the knowledge that someone shares rent with their roommate, or the occasional bar tab settlement? There aren't even dollar amounts attached, and usually just cryptic emoji messages.

Just saying "Information is power" makes it sound like there's been no thought put into the objection at all, I've not seen a single concrete explanation as to how this level of data collection is or could be dangerous. It seems like cowardly hiding behind a blanket principle because of paranoia about anything that can possibly be related to "privacy".

>I'm very painfully aware that other people often feel amazingly entitled to have some say in how I spend my life. I have spent a lot of decades arranging a life in which, no, not too many people have any say whatsoever.

I have absolutely no clue how this has anything to do with Venmo whatsoever.
I've always used grep for this with the -f option to read a list of patterns from a file and -v for inverted search as necessary.
Setting aside whether anyone does or should do "history labs", it seems obvious to me how you would organize one - go through a bunch of primary source records and develop a narrative about what happened that is supported by evidence. Kind of shades into journalism, depending on the age of the sources.
There's a toggle to make them stop asking that in the settings, but getting rid of Reddit is better than turning that on, so kudos :)
Given that Citizens United set a precedent for “money as speech,” it would be interesting to try such a case on the basis of free speech.
The medium nag-badge has got me to do the same thing. i don't click links on HN anymore if they are going to a medium blog.

hopefully we aren't the only ones being annoyed by this, if those badges are effective they aren't going away any time soon.
This is the market working; the market itself is thus a problem too.
It seems a little unusual for Go because they've generally gone with a good, simple, and well-proven model for things. That's sort of the whole appeal: the good kind of boring. I don't really see the point of the bikeshedding they're engaged in now, and they've made the upgrade path for everyone who's been working under dep, and glide before that, more difficult than it needs to be. The rationale behind it isn't really very solid IMO either. But I suppose I am just a mere mortal, so how I could I possibly understand?
The problem is that folks want either 'no regulation' or 'more regulation'. Neither is the solution.

We need regulation that targets specific problems, nothing more and nothing less. Instead we get regulation that may loosely address the problem it was originally drafted to address, but has since grown into a mess of compromises added at the request of lawyers, lobbyists, and uninformed politicians.

I'll start:

"You cannot send advertising to people when you suspect (e.g. by geofence) they are suffering from a medical emergency."
Other fields do this when there is no better alternative. It's is orders of magnitudes more expensive and also, more to the point, quite unreliable.
As far back as 2011, Matt Blaze was pushing for changes to the copyright policies of IEEE and ACM. http://www.mattblaze.org/blog/copywrongs
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Yep, that's my conclusion too: storing timestamps for events in the past and up to present time - unix timestamp with optional tzid, and re-calculate local time formatting from scratch for display every time. Events in the future, do the opposite: store as yyyymmddhhiiss + tzid, and re-calculate utc from scratch for calculations every time. As a rule of thumb, at least.
I remember reading something about this! Not sure if in a novel or on HN though.
Don't forget about when it asks you to share the highlighted text! I've disabled that with some Chrome extension, thankfully, but haven't figured out the popup yet.
It’s good advice in general for most folks. For those that know of Troy and this particular site it’s fine, but the general recommendation still stands.
Implementations of time-and-time-zone different enough between databases, and languages, and libraries, etc that I believe it's worth storing them separately as the author suggests, both for simple clarity and to force the developer dealing with them to actually think about timezones. Even if the database gets it right in a single value, it's way too easy for the developer to read the field and ignore the timezone information without consideration.
I never knew about that subreddit, thanks!
> is that from the data that the carrier is selling, or is it coming from some app(s) installed on the phone?

Could be both, could be some website you viewed, could be google maps, anything that shares your location. Location data is pretty valuable to advertisers, OpenRTB supports it explicitly during the real time bidding process.

All manner of cleaning is applied to the data to ensure that it isn't faked or useless before the bidding starts.
If you’re not already comfortable coding in general I recommend the Udacity intro to programming with python course.
'Google'.
The History of the Processing Programming Language
My divorce should have been an open/shut deal and never went to trial - still cost me > $12,000. I have another pending business lawsuit that I fully expect to cost ~$10,000 for what should be open/shut contract dispute. Lawyers are really good at wasting time while pretending to be doing something meaningful, and as a lay-person I have little recourse other than to play "Go fish!" and try to find another lawyer. So, $20K for anything of any substance doesn't surprise me.
The irony is that dep was an implementation of a widely used and well tested pattern, and that vgo is essentially a new paradigm which has been accepted after just a proposal rather than a full-blown experiment.

This particular problem has been obvious since Go was first open sourced, and the way the solution is being managed is a pain in the ass.
> Not every lawyer advertising near hospitals is an ambulance-chasing leach.

As opposed to a hearse chasing leach?

At least they won't need fast cars.
Unus sed leo.
Considering the etymology (Greek) and meaning (to reveal, as in the prophesies coming to pass), your point should come as no surprise (it is the book of Revelations, after all).

In fact, I become silently irked when I see the word "apocalypse" used in a non-biblical sense, though I am not a religious person.
Why we can't give up this odd way of typing
Interesting, in Mexico we do have that difference: We have got an "Informatics Technician" ( http://cecytev.edu.mx/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Informatica... ) and Informatics Licenciate ( http://www.uabc.mx/formacionbasica/FichasPE/Lic_en_Informati... ) with all the flavours (Software Engineer, CompSci, etc).

I only wish that Informatics Technicial would be more prepared. And that Software Engineers/Licenciates would really be worth their salt.
Interesting. I heard the same so I kept reading and reading and waiting for it to get good, and for me, it never did.
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There are only two types of time systems:

1. TAI, and systems that have a fixed 1-to-1 mapping to it (e.g., GPS).

2. Systems that are generally unable to calculate how many seconds will elapse until your next birthday. UTC is in this category.

Articles like this spend a lot of time on the varying degrees of insanity in category 2. But I would rather start with category 1 and negotiate any additional complexity from there.
If you do it from a private browsing window, maybe that would be fine. Maybe. (Otherwise the page could exfiltrate information via localstorage or something.)
Reading in this article about Kepler, it seems like the spirit of his discovery was more in the vein of numerology than science in the way we idealize it - he appears to have been looking for pleasing relationships like Bode's law and just happened upon something better by accident.
Well, that worked! Just reserved The Quantum Thief at the library.
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Prestige is one of the absolute hardest things to "move."
> The range I’ve seen is ~100 yard accuracy.

That's amazingly accurate, this is not for navigation purposes within the hospital but for advertising on the hospital grounds (typically a substantial multiple of 100 yards). It's not like you want to direct someone to a certain wing, though it is probably even accurate enough for that .

Besides, for many phones it is much closer than that, because location services are enabled for instance for Google (because someone used Google maps) or because some app has linked an SDK that lifts the location data from the phone and moves it to some server.
I currently work (as of 6 months ago) at a company where the software engineering staff is made up almost exclusively of two types of people:

1.) young 20-somethings who were hired right out of college. They do all of the coding and grunt work (for cheap).

2.) A smaller set of 55+ engineers who are coasting into retirement. They do all of the architecture and design work.

I was recruited rather aggressively and eventually accepted an offer (I'm definitely being paid on the high side for this area). As a 38 year old, this place is incredibely lonely (I have no "peers"). I have absolutely no idea why they hired me. The "elders", who have been at the company for 20+ years, are hostile, backstabbing and hoard all of the interesting work (and credit) for themselves. My "lead" (not the manager who made the decision to hire me - I never see that person now) seems to be actively sidelining me - I've been assigned nothing but grunt work.
Yep, transaction reordering to optimize fees is definitly a thing in the finance world. At least some Credit Unions do it too.
You also need to periodically compute the next event, but you can't do it too far in advance. You have to do it close enough to the event that that you can adjust to timezone definition changes. Hopefully you don't have to think about leap seconds.
Only math/physics/CS papers are put on arxiv. These are a small fraction of the total academic and industrial research output. In my own field, earth science, there is an arxiv-clone (eartharxiv.org) that is a few months old. I bet the majority of earth scientists (and certainly 90% of geologists) have never heard of arxiv.

Furthermore, many people just put pre-prints on arxiv etc. and don't update after peer review. Peer review is painful at best and quite flawed but the median paper is actually better after it, and many papers rightly don't make it through. Having open-access curated journals makes a lot of this better.
Had vgo not included MVS I think they likely would have. But there's a lot of disagreement over the design of vgo which could have been avoided had it just done what almost every other recent package manager has done. This is going to make it more painful than it ought to be, but ultimately since this will be the official solution I think it's likely that it will be adopted and that the churn will end since third party tools are no longer necessary.