skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, thank you, I'm reading that.

I also read a lot of reporting and analysis, at the time.

I recall a step or two, on the path to a resolution. Perhaps one of those steps was Netflix offering to pay.

It's been 5 years -- I thought was even a bit longer -- so my memory doesn't retain all the details. But I do seem to recall reporting that included, for example, Comcast employees cited as saying everything at their particular facility was in place to interconnect; they just weren't allowed to make the connections. I also recall reported analysis into the possible "why's" of all this. And there was pretty strong opinion that Comcast's desire to gain marketshare in the streaming video market, then undergoing another push on their part, played a significant role.

It's been 5 years, and my memories far from perfect, these days. Thanks for the link; I hope people will take the time to read it.

At the same time, and considering both that experience and my much lengthier and overall experience with Comcast -- and also ATT (formerly SBC) and other big players in this space -- I'm not very willing to believe in their "neutrality" of perspective and cost analysis in this matter and the supposed limited scope of their consideration, tactics, and strategy in what developed at that time.
I've been working at startups -- small and medium -- exclusively since I got in the field. I don't know if I'd have it any other way. When I visit my friends at the big companies, something about the rigidness and massiveness feels cold and out of touch. I like being able to see my CEO on a daily basis and have a relationship with him.

I think that's worth it to me, because unlike a lot of people, I'm not in this field for the money as much as it's just something I love doing. I spend my free time writing code whether or not I'm getting paid. At a big company, I suppose I can accomplish the same, but the difference is that I am afraid I will not know to what end my software is being used, while working at a startup I know exactly how everything fits together.
Just be warned, a startup often has the promise of more autonomy, but there are plenty of startups run by ego-centric micromanaging wanna-be engineers. Be careful equating, 'being able to talk to the CEO' as autonomy, you may find yourself having to explain your decisions/code to people who's engineering skills are 'being able to convince a VC to give them money'. You'll also probably not tackle 'large problems' but hack and slash a Node/Django/React app into meeting an MVP.

Choose wisely.

That being said, I'd go for a startup if you want to eventually run your own. There's so much you'll learn from seeing things actually occur that you'll never learn from anywhere else.
From a financial perspective this makes sense to me. With "pancakes" in the name you're practically guiding customers to your $7 entree. Change the name to "burgers" and you're prompting the $12 entree instead, with a potential 70% improvement in revenue.
and patook, and others...
Firefox team has been making tons of effort for prolonged periods of time. I'd be extremely fond of them focusing on having a proper privsep model now.
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Actually I think that reinforces the point I made about who thinks in these ways. Either that or a distinct lack of empathy / regard for the well-being of all those that would suffer in their "utopy".
> Payment processors sell this data to the likes of Facebook and Google

Source?
>If this upsets you view it through the lense of risk management than any sort of value judgement of crypto currencies.

Personally I view it through the lens of a being a customer. If Wells Fargo doesn't support payment for as wide a range of goods and services as a different bank, then I will close my Wells Fargo account and take my business elsewhere. They are perfectly within their rights to offer whatever services they want, and I'm perfectly within my rights to reject their substandard offer and accept a more flexible offer.
Is there a hosted version we can try?
>"If bees can perceive zero with a brain of less than a million neurons, it suggests there are simple efficient ways to teach AI new tricks."

Why are they just speculating about this? Do they think it would be hard to train an image classifier to say "left" or "right" depending on whether that half of the image had more geometric objects in it, then show it one vs none objects to test it?

I don't think this would be at all difficult to do, the training data could even be procedurally generated.

EDIT:

It looks like the test accuracy was only ~60% but from the supplements it took them only 30-50 training examples over the course of 2-4 hrs to reach the criteria of 80% correct:

>When presented with the unfamiliar numbers of one versus zero, bees chose the lower number of zero (63.0 ± 2.9%; z score = 4.23, P < 0.001; Fig. 1D), showing an understanding that an empty set is lower than one,which is challenging for some other animals (5, 6, 18).
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1124

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2018/06/06/360.6...
Yeah, that was my take as well. I started by implementing Random Forests, really fast and compact for even the smallest of microcontrollers. Will probably add some variant of boosting trees in the future. https://github.com/jonnor/emtrees
I spent 3 years writing educational apps where interleaved memory was one of the foundational points of learning. Here's a reference
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interleaving-...

Others include teaching as a way to learn, changing location, spaced repetition. I can provide more references to research if you want.
I'm a startup founder and will happily say that if you are an engineer, in Silicon Valley, in 2018, and you are maximizing for income, then you should not work at an early-stage startup.

I did some hand-wavy math, here: https://medium.com/@kwindla/what-kind-of-silicon-valley-comp...

Dan Luu did some, too, here: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
I don’t think you get my gist about syntax vs information. I can express the same data in a different format, in the same way that JSON and YAML can often be transformed into each other.

You are pulling a straw man by implying that requires much cloudformation, which is completely unrelated. Besides, CF is a good example of how you can use two different syntax to describe the same information.
Stupid question. What does “this” means? (“what does this means” isn’t really googleable).
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You could probably inspect a kid's lemonade stand while standing in one spot. You could have volunteers in red berets do the inspection. I assume there are hygienic ways to dispense Country Time Lemonade and other ways. The differences might not be obvious to an amateur. But we're not talking about dairy or meat or eggs. Country Time should also diagram a model lemonade stand that is simple to set up and safe when operated properly.
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Context: I'm a mid-tier dev at a BigCo, and I was never classically trained as a computer scientist. Lately, I've been interested in problem spaces where having a deeper systems knowledge (think databases, streaming systems, operating systems, distributed systems etc.) is incredibly beneficial. I haven't found a straight forward path to learn all this short of maybe doing a Masters degree.

Is there a set/sequence of resources/MOOCs that HN could recommendation on getting ramped up on these topics. I understand that it will likely be a multi-month journey at the very least, but I'm tired of hitting a ceiling on what I'm able to contribute to due to my lack of knowledge.
The dairy part (even a buffalo dairy) makes sense. I didn't see anything about buffaloes killing prisoners with buckets.

Do you even know how milk is collected?
Are you sure? It seems to be providing a service on the Internet.

Also, why would NN only apply to ISPs? HN is at least a text network. Shouldn't it be neutral too?
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Same is true of my Razer Blade (2016).
As a reminder, repairing potholes yourself can be very low effort; modern materials obviate the use of hot asphalt.

Buy some kind of "Pothole Cold Patch" compound at your local home improvement store and dump it in the hole. In this way you can fix the holes on your local street/commute route without waiting for the city.
There's some sort of social media astroturfing going on, it's pretty obvious b/w the more "modern" news sites (and some not) and Reddit/HN. Lots of contentless posts or biased headlines/reviews.
Different interfaces - data sources mostly overlap as they are in the public domain.
US healthcare is clearly a huge barrier to older employees joining startups.

At my company we have a great selection of healthcare that's fairly affordable both for employees and the company. I think it's as good or better than any packages I've seen from big brand-name enterprises. However, as a European founder, I was shocked by the complexity and effort that went into the comparison shopping necessary to get anything other than expensive, poor coverage. The quality of what's out there from JustWorks, Gusto, Zenefits et al was frankly shocking - and they are feted as "making it all easy and affordable". (We use Trinet which although in many ways antediluvian has very, very good health options at least for NY).
Fed up with rising costs, big U.S. firms dig into healthcare
Hi Jared, I'd advise you and your team to take a hard look at GIPS (global investment performance standards) and create a similar model for startup equity packages.

Call it whatever, but the standards would have employee friendly terms so that people joining early stage companies would actually get something if the company liquidates.

Little stuff like recruiters need to not say stuff like "we are already valued at X, so that is great"... wut?

Or...

Big stuff like: 7 year option excersize term instead of 3 months. (Gross).

No one who understands the asymmetry of joining a startup would do it. Only people who dont know any better.

This is your opportunity to use YCs power to get people interested again.
That would be fine if there were any competition to begin with.

Allowing incumbents to abuse their customers does devalue them, making their competitors relatively more valuable. The problem is that there are no competitors!

What we are left with are incumbents who can devalue themselves via customer abuse without consequence, which simply boils down to customer abuse.
But don't banks want you to be in debt to them, paying 24.9% annual interest? Isn't this how banks make much of their money? Why would they care how you enslave yourself to them? Anyways, even if cash advances have been outlawed since I last did it freely and recklessly (been over 15 years, so maybe they have?), it doesn't take a genius to figure out how to get cash somehow or the other.

As a proof of concept, the very first coin dealer I just found randomly using Google takes all major credit cards and sells silver by the ounce. Well, gee whiz, I can run up my cards buying silver ounces, walk down the street, sell them at a different coin shop for cash, then go buy whatever I want. Hmmm... What is the real reason banks don't want people making certain investments??
Not only that, if you trade options or other futures, you are literally required to trade on margin (credit).
I've turned off the Google 'location history' setting, and am considering disabling location completely unless I need it, in which case I'll manually enable it.

The more radical option (which would also prevent any possible tracking by my provider) would be to forgo a cellphone entirely, but that doesn't seem practical in this day and age.
It's just a short-term marketing stunt to promote their burgers, they'll be back to IHOP soon enough. I'm surprised this got so much traction with people I follow on Twitter. A successful stunt, certainly.
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Having your own scooter is a crappy option. Then I have to store it (both at home and at my destination), maintain it, and charge it. Right now the scooter businesses handling all of that is the only reason I would ever take a scooter somewhere.

If there are multiple services, likely one of them can hang on long enough to take over the market as the others fail. If not, someone else can start a new one when all others fail and have gotten tired of the idea.
"Bain, KKR, and Vornado... will end up losing well over a billion dollars combined."

A lot of retail debt will be renegotiated in 2019 as underlying interest rates are increasing, so the pace of these might be set to increase dramatically as delaying reckonings like TRU did becomes steadily more costly.[1]

The article points out that the collapse of this one big name was pretty expensive to lenders, even if lawyers made some money during the unraveling.

I'm curious about the prospects for another financial crisis. How many billion dollar losses happening all at the same time are we looking at? How many can retail financing divisions endure without undermining the stability of larger banks?

It's not my main area of expertise, so I genuinely don't know if there's a serious contagion risk, but Google alerts for retail apocalypse have been a fun ride.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/
I work remote because I demand flexibility. I live within 20 minutes of one of my org's offices, but prefer the ability to work from where ever I want. I just happen to enjoy the low cost of living locale I live in.
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Some of those look common (but probably are of course some different variant).

I wonder if some of those are insects I or other regular people have encountered in the garden already and just called them "beetle", "earwig" or "moth", not knowing that they were never classified yet.
But you'd likely be a lot better off. Putting $1,000 into something promising isn't gambling, it's smart.

While no one likes throwing a grand away, it's also not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. So why not take a chance? It's not like you'll see 20 opportunities to invest money into something pop up every year.

People in general are too conservative. You should allow yourself to take (calculated) risks once in a while.
>If I make a chicken patty from a caged chicken that's indistinguishable from organic, free-range chickens, does it matter that it came from a cage? Can I sell it as 'organic, free range chicken patties'?

>Of course it matters. Consumers have a fundamental right to know what it is that they're buying.

Yeah, I didn't say they don't have a right to know. I asked what is the line where something goes from Meat matter to plant based meat matter, and whether that matters.

But I'll bite. Do you know where your food comes from? And do you have a right to know? As I understand it, supply chains, including food are largely proprietary and not usually disclosed. You certainly don't have that right with prepared food (restaurant doesn't need to tell you what is in everything and where it came from), or minimally, they don't need to volunteer it or list it on the plate/menu.

So on this point:

>Consumers have a fundamental right to know what it is that they're buying.

I would argue they actually don't.
The mind boggles at how the dongle mongerers hobbled these Mac models. From every new Mac, a tangle of dongles hang at odd angles. What a boondoggle.
this world gets shittier every day
> I see a lot of people working at startups who got tired of doing things at big companies that just weren't that interesting to them. Those folks have often made enough money that they can afford to work at a startup for a few years because the work itself is more fun, the company has a mission they like, or they appreciate having a bigger day-to-day impact.

The kind of people you describe are basically retired, and working primarily for recreation. While they do exist, they're very rare, and one thing is certain about them: they will _not_ put up with crazy work hours, intense crunches, etc.

They are not the type of driven people you need at a startup. They're essentially doing this for fun. If there are too many long days or unpleasant tasks - they're out.

Unfortunately, startups need these long days and grueling tasks done, and fast. Far more than the big companies do.

So no, these magical people aren't the solution to the fundamental issue, which is: smart employees realized that engineer equity at startups is low value, and can't compare to what big profitable companies pay.

The only solution is to increase the equity upside, not rely on the recreationally retired to run your startups.
Often I find a number of great engineers that the big 5 disqualify for two main reasons: Location or Education. The big 5 tend to not allow remote work and if you don't have a college degree it's often hella hard to get an interview.
I think that in a competitive market you and Pai are right, there would be competition that drives prices down(see cities where Google Fiber entered). Unfortunately wired ISPs is a natural monopolistic market, the cost of entry is extraordinarily high, and with incumbents making it even harder for competition to enter[1] only really wealthy companies can enter (like Google).

I think with the advancement of Wireless last mile reducing deployment costs we will see more competition in the space (if incumbent ISPs do not keep them out with lawsuits). But at the current time most Wireless ISPs can't match the speeds of wired ISPs and the average consumer does not care enough to check every so often if a new competitor enters the ISP market, and probably won't change unless they have a serious problem with their current provider.

So in summary I think that soon we may not need government oversight with enough competition, but in our current market saturated by incumbents we do.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/att-and-comcast-...
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Very hard to steer on a cell phone (Android, Brave browser) - pinch zoom kept flying me into the Cosmos.

Like the idea though - will try later from desktop.
I had to block it on twitter. So freaking obvious what it is yet everyone is eating it up.
It looks like the current owner has put up an ihop-looking logo and has listed the site for $50,000
'Shocking' die-off of Africa's oldest baobabs
At first I thought this was the joke as most of the descriptions for systems I have built are the same...
I agree with this. I would be comfortable moving more code to serverless if this weren't as big an issue. I think having a GraphQL server as an API to the database may be a good solution, since it can handle a variety of queries/mutations and RPC like behavior. But I still run into this issue a lot whenever I make a new serverless function/project.
In addition to the point 'jasode makes, I think there's an additional unrealistic subtext to the argument you're making, which is the idea that companies with stable but unspectacular growth are somehow less risky than shoot-the-moon startups.

But this just isn't true. In addition to the fact that companies fail a lot more often than operators recognize, there's the fact that a company winding down after years of solid but unspectacular returns is also a failed investment. Companies don't have to lose product/market fit to "go out of business". All they have to do is fail to compete with the operators other options. Eventually, somebody else will outbid the company for key talent.

Slow-burn companies can keep going for decades before this happens. It's not bad to be a slow-burn company! I've spent most of my career in them! But to take money from LPs, you have to have a story about how you can pay them a return.
I don't know about that, they changed their signs and everything.
When I used to read a lot of code for its one sake, maybe the majority was in books and papers (like SICP, Norvig, Knuth, Kernighan & Whoever, "Functional Pearls", ...) which explained points the author thought especially important. There's lots more great code to read without the extra commentary (especially nowadays) but you do have to work harder to find the lessons.

To me it was especially valuable to always be asking "how might I write this better (in some sense)?" whether it's great code or not. When it's especially good you'll still think of plausible improvements, and maybe the lesson is in figuring out how they're not actually such an improvement as you think.
Why can't everyone use plain simple shell syntax for setting values and then source the configuration file?
Got to love those European values, talk big about the Paris accord and climate change while making billions raping the environment through deception. Looking forward to Trump hammering Germany with tariffs and fines for once again deliberately violating US emissions laws. I'd be willing to bet he knew this was coming based on all his talk about EU tariffs against American cars last week.
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Not a lawyer, but this looks like an obvious Trademark name dilution scenario. Facebook, change that Sonar name.
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People do complain about lightbulbs. That's why lamps for sale list standard safety ratings, bulb socket types, and bulb capacities. But nowhere on my $450 phone did it say "No USB-C extensions supported, this is just a standard USB-3.0 device with a plug nothing supports".

If you bought a bulb that said "CFL form factor" and it was actually an incandescent bulb that just looked like a CFL, you could arguably sue for deceptive advertising.
I agree with this from experience. I worked at a startup for about 2 years and when they exited, it was a horrible exit for me. I made $30k in the sale. I got a $15k bonus my first year with the next company, plus I had so many other benefits of being at a larger company.

Work-life balance is not great at most startups and you're expected to not ask questions about it.

Larger companies, it's always touted that they're better about work-life balance, and after being in larger companies for the past 2-3 years, it's been apparent my stress has gone down while still being productive!
> You said this in at least 2 different places in this thread

Only one, as far as I know. Not sure where this other phantom comment is supposed to be.

> Clonazepam is in the class of drugs known as benzodiapines

I'm not sure why you picked that one in particular; Alprazolam is as well (and is perhaps the more well-known one). I'm sure you know this, but to clarify for other readers, most benzodiazepines (including these two) are in a category of drugs known as anxiolytics, as in, drugs which reduce anxiety.

> which are considered some of the most dangerous and addicting drugs given to patients

Wikipedia mostly disagrees with that claim.[0] Nevertheless, even taking the claim at face value, they are given to patients because they do have great therapeutic use, or at least little harm, for the vast majority.

And in general, Alprazolam's shorter duration of action probably lends itself more to abuse than Clonazepam — hence first-line preference for Clonazepam in treatment.

> Throwing around alprazolam/clonazepam as a solution for anxiety is trite and can be damaging.

I did not intend to suggest they're some kind of magic bullet. Re-reading my comment, maybe it suggests that. Sorry!

Sure, they don't necessarily solve the underlying problem. But they are a useful tool, and certainly may help.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness
Hi jerf, please note that

- the benchmark was designed to repeatedly parse an in-memory byte slice (not the hard drive), thus IO contention is unlikely here ;

- concurrency is a big win when IO is a bottleneck : keep processing dozens of things while some of them are waiting for data from network or hdd.