skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a significant margin of error, but at a high level, the higher someone's salary, the better player you can expect them to be. There are some $10M players who aren't as good as $2M players, but a $30M player is likely considered far superior to a $2M player.
A fun example (apparently inspired by a related TLS proposal):

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/adding-random-entries-to...

(Let's Encrypt creates random protocol extensions on every connection in order to ensure that clients are tolerant of protocol extensions that they don't understand. Breaking changes to the protocol, on the other hand, will be served from a separate API endpoint.)
Leading sleep scientist explains why 8 hours a night isn’t enough sleep
Huh, weird. I ordered some CHIP Pros and dev boards in February last year, and got them in ~2 weeks. I haven't ordered from them since, so maybe they went defunct or something. I dunno. That's too bad. :(
Yea, it's quite possible that something changes at these (scary) high charge rates. Maybe charge efficiency takes a nosedive, or there are some other effects that are non-linear with charge rate. Thanks for the link.
I don't recall Ford, or any other manufacturer of note, publicly bashing a victim of a crash of one of their cars. Like telling the whole world that he had his hands off the wheel in the moments leading up to the crash while knowing that it had been nearly 20 minutes since he had been warned about it. Musk tried to use misinformation to deflect from his own knowledge [which was not yet public] that in fact the car erroneously switched into a lane-that-is-not-really-a-lane and then accelerated.

I know you're spending a lot of time white-knighting for Tesla on HN today, but c'mon, quit being so disingenuous about this. They are not at all perfect and in fact have made some spectacular missteps.
Show HW: A React JavaScript snippet preview component
It's super useful. There's a way to reference a node that just places that node as a child, whole cloth, and another way that merges the node reference with the local node.

This is useful, say, if you're actually de/serializing objects and want to maintain actual references, or if you're just trying to share data between nodes.
It's honestly hard for me to tell whether you're trolling or not, but all you need to do is compare and contrast the API of the built in map type and sync.Map. One has compile time type safety and the other one doesn't.
High Court Allows Milorad Trkulja to Sue Google for Defamation
Good read, broken down simply. Thanks for sharing :)
Hubble Space Telescope public data now available on AWS
Except it is well known that Bitmain mines with its shovels before selling them. People have reported receiving their machines with dust in them and you can see the changes in mining difficulty corresponding to when they in-house mine and then ship the ASICS out.

Anyway, Bitmain better watch out. Cryptocurrencies are now regularly implementing hash function changes. GPU mining is dying, but not to ASICs but to the more configurable FPGAs instead.

It is not the strongest that survive, but the ones most responsive to change.
It's been a while, but my understanding was that the results of the Milgram studies have been fairly widely replicated with consistent results.

Now, what those results mean / what is being measured by them is another issue.
It's absolutely a desperation career. Those always exist somewhere in any economy, and arguably there should be options available for desperate people, but the sheer volume of them is getting sad. It's like the US has a very poor, developing country double-exposed over an insanely wealthy and advanced one, both occupying the same territory. I'm not a historian but it strikes me as very strange and somewhat new to the world.
As my father rose from lowly lecturer to top professor, at the University of Queensland his parking privileges slowly got worse (though it never got very bad). This in spite of the fact that a lot more parking was built.

So it seems that parking was redistributed away from academic staff during that period.
You could say the same for Starbuck's daily customers. At 2 dollars a day (the cheapest option), they should all be making coffee from home.

Don't underestimate the power of convenience.
Which includes Tk, notable for being a relatively-easy-to-use GUI toolkit that embraces events as described in these slides.

(You probably already know this; just elaborating for those who might not be familiar with Tcl/Tk)
What does it include?
Agree. It's much easier to pick up. Maybe not much easier to debug what's going wrong (but D3 doesn't make it easy either), but at least the ways things can go wrong are very limited.

I picked up D3 and after a few days got to the "all I wanted was some graphs, not a graph framework factory" point. Vega is great for this.
Why roads? Panels are more efficient at an angle. Also what on earth would you have to make them out to sustain the wear and tear of car tires. Just imagine a small rock stuck in a tire's tread... It also has to remain clear to have any chance of remaining some what efficient.
Offsites, speaking gigs, trainings - but really, time with people (in this case, the investors/advisors) that can really coach (or straight role-model) you into being that much more amazing. I can't quantify thing-over-time both because this was an anecdotal impression, and because it was a decently long time ago.

You invest money in successful ventures, and they snowball; people invest themselves in other successful people, and you also snowball.

PS - Also just getting invited to meet other interesting people. It's suprising-not-suprising how much of an effect that has on yourself.
Or perhaps "A Child's Garden of Verses" [1] by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Child%27s_Garden_of_Verses
Atlassian security alert: Email sending domain compromised
I don't think that the argument that they don't use the product helps the case that Microsoft cares about Linux. If they want to be successful in the Linux world they are absolutely going to have to start using it. Every. Single. Day.
Graphics cards aren't used to mine bitcoin any more. Only chips that are made specifically for mining bitcoin (ASICs) are used in mining rigs.
I have a working-theory-slash-rant as to why things are the way they are. Some may disagree - it's a bit left-of-center - and I accept downvotes, but hear me out.

The mess everything's in is because things are working as designed. I think the State of The Web™ is actually a working psyop primarily on Google's part to make everything as complicated as possible in order to enforce their agenda.

Google introduced a browser to get a position on Web steering committees, then forked [from] WebKit so they could deepen their agenda down to the technical levels of the stack and simply sidestep the committees by throwing resources at what they want to actually be developed.

I learned (from an old novel) about the lawyer-training industry concept of "sweat files", contrived fictions built up over years that are indistinguishable from real client files and are solely for the purpose of exhausting and testing a lawyer's metal. I don't think that's happening directly with the Web, but I think something similar might: what if, some of the "web technologies" that are out there, are simply to create noise?

I'm not talking about noise for noise's sake, or conflating the thousand and one JavaScript frameworks developers build To Save The World© with Google's high-level agenda. But I do think it's a very interesting thought experiment to suggest/wonder/ponder that maybe that noise - so easily attributed to people learning - is the result of a deliberate social psyop within the Web steering industry (I consider it an industry).

The Web steering committees seems to be extremely weak in terms of strength of social structure. What I mean is that their defaults seem to be stagnation, bureaucracy, slow development, arguing about minutiae and trivia instead of analysis, dividing and conquering and commitment to measurable rapid high-level/real-world progress. The way I poorly express it it to say that these groups' instinct seems to be travel ever inward (zooming in on the details) instead of defaulting to traveling forward.

This situation seems ripe for social exploitation :(

I wrote a couple more comments on these lines a few days ago. Unfortunately there's no way I can link to the reply chain (hiding messages outside the chain) like you can on reddit :(

- Top of reply chain (all context, 20 pages of unrelated text :/): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17176032

- More focused, but less useful context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17176299

- Just my comments, no context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17192992
I would also highly recommend "Gulag" by Anne Applebaum. She covers the entire history of the Gulag in great detail from the Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Empire.
Absolutely. As an independent contractor with an autoimmune disorder, I make good money but it's still an absolute nightmare. I really hope the current administration doesn't bring back the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage for a pre-existing condition, because I can't imagine a reliable way to secure coverage that never has any gaps.
I've been using MobX (https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx) in my day job for a year now in a very large client-side app, and hands-down prefer it to redux.

Initially I was wondering why we didn't have a centralised store, but once free from that mindset it allows you to keep observable data locally to where it's needed. Much nicer for encapsulation and separation of concerns.

Far less boilerplate too, as MobX does some very smart usage & dirty checking for you.

mobx-react also provides an @observer class annotation, which ends up working pretty magically - things re-render when they need to.

If anyone's interested, here are some tutorials from the author: https://egghead.io/courses/manage-complex-state-in-react-app...
I walked 1/4 of a mile from work to my hotel room today. In Houston. In 95 degree, extremely humid air. In direct sunlight.

I knew I should've called the hotel's moving room shuttle for that sweet A/C.

Not everyone lives in a perfect, unchanging climate. People like cars because of their utility, including the climate control that you only get because it's a "moving room."
Beg to differ. The RSS Reader landscape had many, many competitors, then Twitter happened and Facebook opened up to non .edu domains. And then Google Reader happened.

RSS wasn't even the point. RSS as a standard is still in use. It's just that we've come to a point where it's a battle of platforms, and platforms mean money. Do you use Facebook, or Twitter, or IG, or Snapchat? I'd still like a unified experience, but none of those companies want to be a party to it. They want to take as much of the pie as they can get.
I had a similar experience, off the shelf didn't do what the customer wanted, so I delved into D3, which to be fair has the strangest API on first glance.

After learning how it works, and more importantly why, it's more obvious why it's useful. It's a chart building toolkit, not a chart builder, and you can dream up all sorts of interesting things with it.

The upside is that the author has a huge library of examples you can build from [0]. It's a great tool!

[0] https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/gallery
It's PHP there is none. In fact most languages don't include a safe way to evaluate strings out of the box.
Thanks for the suggestion I'll look into it!
>exactly contrary to the analysis of Keynesian so-called economists.

It seems like that article is taking a political position, so I'm not so sure how much credence to give it. I mean that's the closing sentence of his first paragraph. To base the article on the complete dismissal of the Keynesian school of thought isn't very inspiring.

Ya, looking at his portfolio, he's certainly a political shill. He's written some sketchy articles such as "Why Deregulation Is Essential To Restoring Booming Economic Growth, And The American Dream," "President Obama's Plan To "De-develop" America Shifts Into High Gear," "President Obama's Global Warming Calculated Deception Means Democrats Have Abandoned Working People," as well as promotes the return to the gold standard. I wouldn't use him as a primary source.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/#283999473eb5

He's also a director at the Heartland Institute which is a conservative "think tank."

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute
You can use vdom in web components. This article, that you didn't read, talks about using one.
Buybacks often don't creat value for shareholders though. When a stock is trading for more than its intrinsic value, buybacks destroy value.

Buffett/Berkshire is literally the only example I can think of where they only buyback shares when prices drop below a certain threshold. Most companies do it regardless of whether it is creating or destroying value, based only on whether they have cash authorized to spend.
It's an API for building custom charts. It's a huge step up from having to fully 'roll your own'. If you have to do any kind of vis that isn't available in the various off the shelf libraries, you can put it together with D3 easier than you could if you fully DIY a solution. It's well thought out but you have to use it for that to be more obvious. This book (by the D3 author) got me started, it's worth the hassle of learning [0].

[0] http://alignedleft.com/work/d3-book
three.js is faster?? That's nuts that the gpu accelerated shader pipeline are more performant than rendering a DOM.
Yes which is why I clearly stated - "Vice Media(as opposed to just the magazine)"
>we all depend on the stock market to climb about 10% a year

Can anyone point me to any scientific reasoning behind this? As I'm not an economist, I was always baffled by an expectation that the market will always grow. That instantly brings to my mind the comparison to cancer.
Same here! I was going with the assumption that standard environments are going away since they haven't been updated for years.
The real cost of 'disruption'
Would be handy for a ctf competition maybe if I could run a validator against a string. Especially if I wanted to check if some string validates against my program, and there are possibly many flags in the solution space.
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> But I'm not so sure it's that simple.

At this point I was expecting an explanation of how an similar number of low-skilled people would have jobs if these services didn't exist.

Instead you give the unexplained assertion

> You have this zero sum game ...

Which game is it? Who are the players? What is zero-sum about it?
I am kind of skeptical of the ever-increasing amount of recommended sleep. Apparently pre-industrial humans only slept an average of 6.5 hours a night. Sure, many pre-industrial humans also arguably live in worse material conditions than some of us today. But sleep science studies still do not seem very rigorous or convincing (many are based on absolutely tiny populations) and it all seems rather consistent with a cultural reaction against workaholism.
One of the world's largest steam locomotives is making a triumphant return
How about in NYC? Profitable there? I believe they announced that they were.

In any case, even if they're not currently profitable, that may be because of capital expense, not operating costs. Until they go public, it's hard to know.
Has Trump been busting monopolies?
Original article: "Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity" https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)307...
> Yeah, common sense

Could you explain

> Also, actual science work that they have to do.

Presumably these clusters aren't 100% utilized 100% of the time. They certainly weren't at the national lab I had access to ages ago...

My question was more inquiring if there's any red tape preventing the laboratory from paying the bills with mining, if it could do so profitably. Let's just assume there's idle time where this could hypothetically occur.

I'm not even trying to suggest that they should do that, it's just an interesting relatively new possibility and these things are quite expensive.
> covers how to use threads safely and sanely.

It takes a lot less expertise to make events as fast as threads as it takes to make threads as safe as events. I don't know about the rest of you, but I personally do not have a brain that can become an expert on every topic.
Web Components are awesome. They will be the future.
That said, I feel React has good future just because of React Native. It’s amazing that you can develop highly performant applications and target multiple platforms
Interesting Take on Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain
Wait - bear in mind that at the time the alternatives were MySpace, Friendster (already dying), Orkut (also a Google product, and no traction in the US).

"Only for RSS" is the technologist's blind spot - the _experience_ of RSS is what Dave is talking about. What was "the blogosphere". That's been completely co-opted by huge corporate platforms.
They should also sack the execs who made the shitty decision to hire these guys, being approached by salesmen ruins any shopping experience IMHO and the whole debacle has probably lowered Tesla's image even more in the eyes of most people.
Well they should be. Lovecraft was right, human minds aren't well equipped to handle the true nature of the universe.
They are insane.

They should be finding a way to compete with RunCloud's far better product and pricing (unlimited servers), not committing business suicide by charging for every domain you use on your server.

Under their new pricing, the plan that comes close to the features of RunCloud's $10 plan costs $10 per server and $1 per domain per month. They expect their customers to pay more for each domain than they already pay for domain registration every year.

Just to be clear, the RunCloud $10 not only has better features, it also allows unlimited servers and unlimited domains.

The only way ServerPilot works out cheaper is if you are willing to use the more basic $5 plan and will never have more than one server and 9 domains.
I've always felt that this philosophy, and others like it, ultimately boil down to "you're going to lose no matter what, so try not to care about the game."
Id's move back in the day to open their software enough to allow a modding community was an early stroke of genius. I still play quake mods from time to time. It's amazing how much longevity they got out of those games, let alone the engines.

Modding quake was one of my first great bursts of curiosity and creativity. I really remember those days fondly.
Is data encrypted?
Who in their right mind would use a micro usb fan?

My phone already has a bad enough battery life, why would I make it even worse?
And who gets to decide what training data/processes the judges use?
You know it's actually really important to be able to read code. Reading any code makes you a better developer, even old fortran which makes no sense, and has bad practices.
Tensorflow.js — yet another example of anything that can be written in Javascript will be written in Javascript
What about Common Lisp using SBLC? That's dynamically typed and amazingly fast.

LuaJIT is simply a very good optimizing JIT compiler. It's just as dynamic as Lua.

BEAM is a register-based bytecode VM, which is dramatically slower than native code. The fast JS implementations either don't bother with a bytecode VM (V8) or baseline compile to native after only a few iterations (WebKit) because bytecode VMs simply can't compete with a chunk of native code.

2018 MRI Ruby is ~14x faster than 2006 Ruby depending on how you measure. Neither Python nor Ruby have seen anywhere near the resources put into JS engines over the past 10 years.

Oracle dumped a ton of money into making the JVM support dynamic languages and now Graal is bringing full Java performance to both Ruby and Python.

It's not really inherent language design flaws that make it difficult to optimize Ruby and Python (they don't do anything "bad") but the community dependence on compatability, particular with C extensions. PyPy does a ton of crazy stuff to maintain compatability that then hurts performance, like faking reference counts etc.
The creator of D3 is Mike Bostock. That book is by Scott Murray.
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This is a bit of a fun parlor game: get Aristo to say silly things.

How many electrons are in a tortoise shell?
2 in inner, 8 in second and third, 18 in 4th, 5h, and 6th (30%)

How many people are crazy?
7.3 billion (22%)

How do lucky charms work?
Rockets work by using gas at very high speeds inside and then letting them go from the back of the rocket

Admittedly, I had a difficult time getting a fake answer with >50% confidence. Still -- fun.
Purely based on empirical observation. The rate of growth is actually quite bad for capitalism in the long run, as it's unsustainable. See Piketty's inequality.

As capital agglomerates, it creates instabilities. When a large capital cluster collapses, if it's too big the collapse has systemic impact. If everyone is small, an individual may experience greater risk, but the system is robust.

In reply to the other comments:
Economic growth is different from stock market asset appreciation.
> I've never had an actual Ph.D. Psychologist [prescribe drugs]

That may be because they aren't allowed to.
It's a byproduct of having more people and more productivity every year, you don't need large amounts of either for it to compound.

(And you don't need 10%, a lot more money is in bonds than equities and at much lower rates.)
This is very sad. The last thing someone wants is a tired, exhausted driver driving them around.
Is it at all possible to explain this to a sober person? One who is neither consciously nor subconsciously afraid of having the illusion removed?
It's not about tooling or clients, it's about creating widespread usage by real users so that proper support can no longer be avoided or mishandled.
Not a really economist, but...

The general idea is that there will be dips and bubbles, but over the long run, Growth will happen.

In general, we need to make things better. When we make things better we create growth.
Go to https://beta.observablehq.com and dive in: just start forking other people’s examples and fiddling and looking up stuff in the docs or asking for help whenever you get stuck.
If mining operations raise the value of high-end graphics cards in general, which they have, it sure is.
For those asking about how to dig in and learn, I learned D3 basics from the Data Visualization section of https://freecodecamp.org. I thought it was going to be very hard. I was pleasantly surprised that the basics aren't actually that difficult at all.
The gentleman in the video has a couple of good points (and it is likely that Uber will eventually get regulated). That being said, the premise here seems to be confused on a number of issues.

+ "Unsafe everything, assaults [and] kidnappings" are in fact already illegal. More regulation will not make them more illegal. Claiming we need a taxicab commission to enforce basic laws is a non-sequitur of breathtaking scope.

+ There was a vibe that Uber will compromise the customer experience to make more money. This is nonsense, uber is operating in a cut-throat environment where any cost savings will be passed directly to consumers who are getting what they pay for. As one questioner pointed out at the end, Uber isn't actually making a profit. Any cuts in quality are being passed on to the customer in reduced fares.

+ Insufficient insurance. This one is one that is up for debate; but the message of 'insurance good, profit bad' is probably oversimplifying the issue and likely pushing an outcome where everyone has to pay more for transport without a proportional improvement in outcomes. The speaker might feel better about that, but I doubt the Uber passengers would.