skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just said this elsewhere on this thread, but I'll make it shorter: the hedonic treadmill is a bitch.

If you're having $4 lattes once a week, they're worthless. If you have a $100 dinner twice a year... man, those are nice.
Ie, similar to HN: Who's Hiring (June 2018)
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I must say, Java was pretty seamless. I followed the instructions and it came together quickly. Go was harder because there's a vendoring issue (surprise!) in that Bazel requires two versions of the gRPC for Go library ("google.golang.org/grpc"), one for Bazel, the other in Go's vendor directory. Gazelle tries to make you use the vendored version, which leads to a conflict, so I had to figure out how to disable that default behavior, which took a few hours of banging my head against the wall followed by reaching out to the Bazel Google Group, which quickly yielded a workaround (thanks, Ofer!).

Beyond that, the real issue is that no other languages have "official" gRPC support, i.e. support from the core Google team rather than from third parties. I do hope that they expand the number of languages soon.
Even simpler, it is an equation with three variables: income, expenses, and rate of return on savings. An important point is that you do not need to hyper-optimize all three variables to achieve a good outcome, which makes it adaptable to many lifestyles and circumstances. Hyper-frugality is not the only path. There are multiple viable strategies that can be built around optimizing one or two variables and paying minimal attention to the others.

Frugality (minimizing expenses) is the easiest strategy to execute and it covers the broadest range of individual situations.

I know some engineers that take the approach of aggressively maximizing income, which requires a different kind of investment/sacrifice, allowing them to achieve their goals without hyper-optimizing expenses or rate of return. I would make the observation that this strategy tends to take a human toll, so not for everyone.

The rarest strategy in the wild, because it is the most technical to execute, is hyper-optimizing rate of return. I only know a couple examples of this, including one who went from -$50k (debt with no assets) to financial independence in ten years (and handily beat the S&P500 every single year) on a modest engineer's salary. This requires a deep investment in understanding a foreign domain almost no one is familiar with and achieving a degree of mastery. It has the highest payoff long-term but it also requires the most diligence and effort upfront. Making this work requires an unusual kind of person.

Being frugal and investing in index funds is definitely the path of least resistance for many people, but many people (or their partners!) do not want to live a hyper-frugal lifestyle. Fortunately, there are other options available with their own set of tradeoffs and engineers are well-positioned to take advantage of them.
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You might be interested in a film called “Tokyo Waka”. The filmmakers call it a visual poem but it’s essentially a glimpse of Tokyo through people’s experience with the crowd.
You do realize that drones are not precise at all? Plenty of collateral damage from them.

That is they are precise in targeting a specific location but they blow up everyone at that location?

Let's not even talk about double tap drone attacks. The second drone kills everyone attempting to help the wounded. Talk about do no evil...
Yes, but when you seek your ML product as the panacea to all problems, you should be accountable for what it outputs but people don't want that; they want the ML to be viewed as something beyond human understanding, something omnipotent and all-seeing.
We were 1 homeless person away from Ebola in the US, the ambulance in Dallas picked up a homeless guy along with the guy who had Ebola. The homeless guy wandered away from the hospital. While Ebola isn't always transmitted by close contact, if it had been I bet there would have been thousands of people within a few days with it. How many doctors or hospitals even recognize Ebola when a random person walks in the door?
Can you use ssh/scp? Emacs is able to use that to edit files remotely. I often use it when I work with small Arm Linux boards.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...
You have good points. But I think you'd also probably enjoy Naval's thoughts as well.

There's a great moment in an interview with him where he says that he watched multiple friends get rich and not become happier.
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> You can also easily create a second "view" into a file with the Zerox command, which is a nice way to look at two parts of a file at once.

Emacs has this too. You can look at a buffer from different windows, or clone-indirect-buffer in order to edit multiple parts of it simultaneously.
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> You seem to believe that folks can just ignore being called the n-word day-in and day-out as if it doesn't really affect them.

They can't? Almost no matter who you are, somebody somewhere is musing about your death, if you can't handle that in words, I doubt you could live much, regardless of your identifiable characteristics.
(a) How do you get the total number of visits.

(b) This doesn't correctly distribute funds because there is a correlation between how much someone is willing to give per month and what kind of sites they frequent.
Do You Think Hacking Is Interesting?(Video/YouTube)
I understand that, but I don't think it's useful to use use the term "I/O" in the theoretical sense of the concurrency problem. It's also not typical nomenclature - for example, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/868568/what-do-the-terms.... We have terms like "CPU bound", "cache bound", and "memory bound", but we don't really have "disk bound" in common usage. This is because the common usage is "I/O bound".

Theoretically speaking we can model any process as one which has to wait and one which doesn't have to wait. But in modern usage we have a variety of types and speeds for reads and writes. When I/O simply means reads and writes, you lose all the practical granularity you'd otherwise get by decomposing the reads/writes into different bottlenecks. It's philosophically elegant, but practically unhelpful for optimizing HPC and distributed systems when, as the responder said, it's rare to be CPU bound.

I also think that the context of my original comment is pretty clearly using I/O in the modern sense of disk usage. Responding with a correction that everything is I/O bound is vacuous, not insightful.
Does Sales Tax count? What about gasoline taxes?
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Because browsers follow a pattern of reinventing the wheel with different tradeoffs, primarily focusing on "secure" execution of untrusted code from the web. Just look at the stack of web technologies, they provide an ever-expanding set of abstractions and reinventions of what OSes already provide.
Ask HN: Has Larry Page had any failure/ set backs?
“I don't know why people keep going around thinking they're being repressed if their decisions have consequences.“

For me, it’s because I fear both the government putting me in jail and private business putting me in poverty.

Today, private enterprise fills many roles previously by government. So while getting put in jail for “slandering” the government is bad, so is losing your ability to use the internet or be gainfully employed.

“Decisions have consequences” is such a weird statement as no one argues they don’t. The argument is that the consequences are inappropriate and don’t have the rule of law to protect people. By this I mean, going to jail means a trial and jury and judge and due process. Private enterprise making arbitrary decisions that have similar impact (losing hosting, delisting from Google, removed from Facebook, blackballed by industry) has no rule of law.

So for me, it seems odd that people don’t understand this aspect.
Well, removed insofar as it was never reimplemented when the browser UI was rewritten from scratch, but yes.
Visa card network crashes, causing increased decline rates across UK and Europe
Browser market share in May 2018
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Those wily blue cubes, getting out of control.... usually, it's the black disease cubes that outbreak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_(board_game)
>> You'll see a non-trivial amount of income from advertising on the website and speaking

Fuck the modern web. Such a bunch of crap.

Someone needs to build a search engine for sites that don't carry any form of advertisement. charge subscription. seems worthy.
I believe their point is that you'd have to buy 350 reps to get the same 1% coverage you can get today with 4.

You could probably get the same result by blocking funding external to the district and killing citizens united. And/or shorten campaigns to 60 days so they just don't cost as much. And/or, provide public funding and election spending caps.

I don't think that trying to scale out of it would be that effective but I see what they are getting at. My guess, is that would raise the inequality of the playing field again as the richest would be able to spin up an organization to manage 10k reps, decide whose relevant who to fund, and so on, people who didn't have lobbyists before won't be able to afford that even if the per rep cost gets cheaper, the total influence cost will rise and price additional people out of the market.
> Because fixed wings require either landing/takeoff strips, or complex systems to transition between two modes of flight

For small planes you don't need a full strip. You can use launch accelerator ramps and capture harnesses for a very small footprint, ala Zipline. https://www.cnet.com/pictures/take-a-look-at-ziplines-new-dr...
I agree with all you wrote above :)
sshfs is a thing. If i had to use remote machines only, i would use tramp; not run an emacs instance on a remote machine. I haven't had good experience running editors inside tmux.
huh?
What part of my comment are you replying to?

Edit: I see we're talking past eachother. I was responding to your claim that "Also a lot of people don't want children." I'm pointing out that, while that's true, the real problem is people who report wanting children but not having any.

I wasn't responding to your comment about male birth control. Although if you want my opinion, I think it will be good for men to share the burden of family planning. But I doubt it will cause the birth rates to plummet much. Men want children too.
Thanks for using Typeform ;)
Understanding why it is that way would probably be more useful than trying to get brownie points for your signaling.

It's like that because people with your outlook have deplatformed so much discourse that 4chan is the last bastion of a truly free exchange of ideas. Voat comes in a close second.

Calling something bigoted and racist is just an attempt to deflect and ignore the conversation. Offending people is generally the backbone of controversial discussion.
Timothy Leary on William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Bou Saada (1989)
This is one big "duh" for literally anyone around teens and pre-teens.
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.. then you might be part of the problem.
I think Tor will get faster, now new protocols like TLS/1.3, HTTP/2 and QUIC are being developed.

Currently Tor looks like HTTPS done with TLS/1.2 on TCP (like regular HTTPS). As these newer protocols get more and more delpoyed Tor can start using them too which will help make Tor faster.
Unethical idea that just struck me -- why not just flee the country?

You can make a living as an english teacher and translator in A LOT of places.
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Surely you understand that I'm objecting to the idea of sitting down and forcing yourself to read Shakespeare with the justification that forcing yourself to read is internally a good thing, right?

I mean, it's right there in what I wrote. How you jump to an insane, uncharitable interpretation that I'm advocating not reading is beyond me.
Don't listen to the breeders.

You can choose to have a family when you want.

You don't need to share blood with your child in order for it to be a meaningful and fulfilling relationship.

I'm from a large extended family that has overwhelmingly chosen to not breed and adopt children into our lives, when we are READY and WANT THEM, instead.

I'm proud of the fact that I will never breed. I will probably raise a child at some point though. Genetics are over-rated.
In case anyone else hasn't heard of this person, stolen from Googles:

Raymond Dalio is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Dalio is the founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. Wikipedia
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The New Cabal of the Web: 1) CloudFlare, 2) Google, 3) Mozilla, 4) Let's Encrypt, 5) a smattering of contributing vendors, 6) internet-related standards bodies, and a few other orgs I'm forgetting or not familiar with. Pretty much the entire WWW is being shaped and controlled by this group. "Open Web" my ass.

The really insane thing to me is that a lot of this tech is being pushed with the argument that they need to get around "port blocking". Uh. These groups setting these new standards run the most critical parts of the WWW, which is the most critical part of the Internet outside of the routing of it. They could get everyone to open up a god damn firewall port if they wanted. I mean this is just ridiculous. There's 65,535 ports and we only get to use one of them (443) because people are too lazy to do anything else?
That's straightforward in the case of massive defederalisation.

50 states. 300 representatives in each state's assembly, almost all power devolved to those states. 15000 representatives. OK, it's not 35,000, but I doubt that makes much difference.