skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(PM on the team)
This page details the differences and why you would pick one over the other: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/nodejs/
No. Some of it is just rude. No "being direct and to the point regarding technical decisions".

"How did they noty die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?"
Musk's greatest skill is as a self-promoter, conflating technological progress with the success of his business ventures. Many fall for this marketing.
I'll be generous and assume you mean decimal as in the data-type: an interesting set of "floating point" numbers that behaves really badly (not a field, for example)
> Really, you can try to justify any tax policy by reframing the question, but the root argument breaks down to having other people pay more so I pay less which is never really justified.

Indeed, the "root argument" in favor of taxation is fundamentally all about "having other people pay more so that I pay less". That being the case, why did you start out by saying that "investments should have much higher tax rates", only to contradict yourself later?
Not to mention that standard is enough to run a pretty significant free-tier site.

I'd way rather program in JS than Python [edited: thanks yathern], especially now that async/await is a thing in Javascript. Very cool work by the Appengine team.
Most likely credibility, publicity, connections and mentorship that major VCs provide.
For not advocating a particular view-point, you seem to quote a prominent anti-vaxxer a lot[0].

[0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/9-reasons-to-completely-ign...
The URL restoreprivacy.com is an interesting choice, considering that the Internet and browsers were never private and weren't designed for privacy. The Internet was designed to be redundant and persistent, both of which are effectively non-private qualities.
One concern that I can imagine them having is long-term sustainability. If you allow researcher websites, you have to add additional provisions guaranteeing long-term availability, indexation, permanent identifiers, etc. They might even want to upload them to for-profit websites like ResearchGate or Academia.edu that at any point might hide the work behind paywalls, sell readers' data, add their own pages to the work, etc. However, if you mandate a state-provided repository, you can just make sure it ticks all the boxes and be done with it.
Why Super Smash Bros Ultimate was such a daunting game for its creators to build
Maybe not, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

Edit: looks like you've been doing this a lot, and it's really not what the site is for. Would you mind reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN as intended? The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
The most extreme (or normal actually) version of capitalism is to milk anything riskless. Build moats. Lock in customers create network effects and entrench your position regardless of how good your future products will be.

Musk is criticised for doing exactly the opposite. Risking shareholders money by (for example) insisting on going to mars, when there are lower risk options available.
I am apparently being misunderstood. I don't mean to imply that including a feature for exporting models is a bad idea. But I don't understand why it's controversial to take advantage of platform's payment service for actually printing those models as physical objects and sending them to users. Obviously one would not do that for free.

I guess I could have worded it better.
I found it somewhat dangerous to play with cortisol levels like this though.

I had to keep lifting, at worse, every other day. If I rested for two days, on the second day I was completely miserable. Like non-functional, despondent, etc. When I injured myself and couldn't lift for months, I fell into the worst depression of my life.
Is a "challenging" level of prediction difficulty not a thing because it provably doesn't exist, or do you just want more evidence that the bar is reached?

Use case: a randomized algorithm, performance critical, but some users might expose it to the web. Using secure randomness is too slow to be feasible, but using a trivially weak RNG might make people vulnerable to DOS attacks.

A potentially weak RNG that at least seems to be difficult to predict acts as a buffer. If it takes brute force effort to break the RNG, that correspondingly cuts down the strength of an attack, and the extent to which your adversaries do not have access to a vulnerability, you are safe from that attack from them. Since this is securing availability rather than privacy, should you end up finding yourself unexpectedly vulnerable, you can always switch it out for something else.
>"Military officers and gestapo thugs were compliant because they thought they are helping their race in struggle for survival in competition against hostile ennemy race."

Yes, this seems likely. Which flies completely in the face with the tradition narrative of the Milgram Experiments: that people follow the orders of authority figures blindly.

What the Milgram experiments actually showed is that people are willing to do something they normally wouldn't if they believe in the cause. The teachers in the Milgram experiments believed in science and were willing to step outside their comfort zone to advance science. The Gestapo believed in their cause too, and were similarly willing to do things a man otherwise wouldn't.

In both of these cases they weren't simply doing what they were told, they were not blindly following orders as Adolf Eichmann had unpersuasively pleaded.
True, although I'd never seen him attacked as harshly as he has been recently. This time it was a lot more personal.
The solution to overeating at social events is to go vegan. Then you'll only snack on some cantaloupe.
> But there is virtually no VC investment in the content. Nothing

Have you stopped to consider that content is a nearly-worthless commodity for which very few people are willing to pay actual cash for?
I can only guess because around a quarter of the population is Albanian, and they currently (and probably will also in the future) constitute the parliamentary majority. The Albanian population is currently in a surge, and Albanians don't really like to be mixed up with Slavs...
It's amazing how many people seem to lack even an intuitive understanding of correlation (i.e., "X tends to cause Y"), and think that providing a (usually anecdotal) counterexample negates the relationship/trend.

Alice: Smoking tends to cause cancer.

Bob: My aunt Wanda smoked for years and lived to be 89.

Alice: Exercise is good for you.

Bob: My cousin started jogging and found out he had cancer the next month.

Alice: The global climate is warming.

Bob: The weather in my hometown was unusually cold yesterday.

Alice: Childhood vaccinations prevent many deaths. On the whole, they provide a net benefit.

Bob: A child in a nearby town had a severe allergic reaction to a chicken pox vaccine; children would be better off just getting the disease.

This kind of innumeracy is distressingly common.
Your point is taken, but one must remember that in the end we are all of us responsible for our own lives.

There's a reason why people who lift joke that the heaviest weight in the gym is the front door.

One approach that has worked well for many is establishing positive habits to displace negative ones. That takes a while, but there are tricks to help, like having a group to hold you accountable.
> 'll likely get a few panels just so I have a little juice when the grid is down.

Most grid tie inverters have a shut-off switch that kills all power in case of a power outage. This is usually mandated by safety regulations, to protect linemen working on the downed lines. (there are a few that provide very limited solar power during an outage, but not full power, something like 2000W)
I just started using Web Components, and in my opinion, their future is definitely very bright. Now that HTML imports have been squashed, they're basically just standard JavaScript objects imported as modules, as they should be. Before, you created a class/object that had a property like foo.el which was the element it was associated with, but the link was tenuous, and required a bunch of code to keep things in sync, and various component styles could easily clash. Extending native elements and the Shadow DOM is a great way to contain everything. Wiring them up to something like Redux or MobX is trivial.

The only real missing piece is the concept of props over attributes. If I want to pass an array of ids to a sub-component declaratively, there's not really an easy way to do it. Hopefully there will be some consensus about this soon. The best thing is that this is all part of modern browsers without libraries, or even precompilation. Not every web app needs massive libraries, so having web components as a built-in, light-weight component system is fantastic.
Can I ask what psychedelics you're referring to?
Does this runtime have access to the Standard APIs? It doesn't seem like the docs have any mention of Task Queue/Memcache/etc.
> Pendant here: the Planck constant is simply a convenient length...

You tipped your hand by misspelling "pedant."
Another Terence McKenna quote I'm reminded of!

"The British enzymologist, J. B. S. Haldane in the 1920s, in an essay, said, "The universe may not only be stranger than we suppose; it may be stranger than we can suppose," and I suggest to you that as we look back over human history, every pinnacle of civilizationf whether it be Mayan or Greco-Roman or Song dynasty, has believed that it was in possession of an accurate description of the cosmos and of man's relationship to it. This seems to go- this seems to go along with the full flowering of a civilization. But, from the point of view of our present civilization, we regard all those conceptions as, at worst quaint, at best half right, and congratulate ourselves that our civilization, at last, has its finger on the real description of what is going on. " from https://www.asktmk.com/talks/Psychedelic+Society?query=stran...
This sort of depends on whether you're talking about "randomly selecting a real number" in the real word or in the mathematically abstract world. In the real world, you can't do it, because almost all the real numbers are non-terminating decimals. Or to put it another way, any selection process is a computation, and almost all the real numbers are uncomputable and so can't be found by any computation.

To randomly generate a real number in the abstract, I suppose you could do a random walk of infinite steps on the real number line, with each successive step randomly going left or right and shrinking the distance walked. Off the top of my head I'm not sure if that's rigorous, but it sounds like it would work.
The New Deal occurred in the USA, not Europe. It was in the USA as well as Europe that the economy was abusive and exploitative of workers. The New Deal never would have even happened if there weren't social movements to end child labor, to have a single person paid so much for only 40 hours of work that they could raise an entire family comfortably on a single income. It was the whole point.
Hi, I'm a Product Manager on the App Engine team. We're actually (finally!) gearing up to offer Python 3.

Would you like to be an alpha tester? Here's the sign-up form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLXViTUmtY6Ed_Gm9H...
And according to this article:

> After the acquisition of SolarCity, Tesla had another round of layoffs to restructure and remove duplicate positions from the acquisition, which resulted in about 20% of SolarCity’s workforce being let go.
(PM on the team) App Engine is designed for stateless HTTP workloads. for an email or DNS server, I recommend using Google Kubernetes Engine or Google Compute Engine.
So, reducing server load?

OTOH if the complexity is offset to the client, and you have multiple clients, then there is more complexity. No?

(assuming you have multiples types of clients)
Assembly language and the Amiga
So anyone who is good enough to work for a big company you have no interest in?
Or thermal mass storage for AC systems.
Maybe they should start some sort of USB Implementers Forum to coordinate or something...
This video does a very good job explaining what exact problems you would face if you tried to create a decentralized payment system and how bitcoin solved these problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4&vl=en
I have a fun one. I own syslog.com (since 1997) and I get all kinds of email sent from mis-configured routers and other devices meant to write to syslog, but somehow it escapes and ends up in my inbox.

The problem with that is many times these are automated and poorly configured, so I'll get hundreds of emails a minute from really badly broken setups. I generally email support at the domain owners but most of the time I have to blacklist them at the server.
I agree, lack of python 3 support is what pushed me to seek alternatives (e.g. heroku) when wanting to build out a project with minimal server infrastructure overhead.
Self-archiving (i.e. in a state-provided repository) does not typically require additional charges.

However, I'd prefer mandating Open Access without providing those fees. Authors are not really forced to pay those fees, i.e. some authors will not be able to and hence not publish their work in the traditional, expensive journals. That would mean that they would be missing out on quality work, leading to a diminished reputation, and even researchers who can pay publishing fees to forego those journals.

Well, in theory at least.
Web Components were interesting but too complicated and never gained traction at Autodesk (my former employer) where we just ended up going with React, which is actually a pretty good solution to the crappy ecosystem that browser based programming has become.
On a global scale, SF is tiny. Fewer than 1m people in a state of 44m, a country of 350m, and a world of 7,000m.

The impact of global population on SF is and will be negligible.
They aren't treated as founders of any sort. They get paltry equity and then don't get raises.
I know and appreciate that, but what we're trying to avoid is using pejoratives (which 'psychosis' is in this context) to make an argument louder without adding information. That's why that site guideline is written the way it is. It's about more than just avoiding personal attacks, though you're right that that's the most important thing to avoid.
This is pay-walled, but here's a summary:

The country we now call "Macedonia" (i.e. The Republic of Macedonia) was formed in 1991 after Yugoslavia broke up. Greece didn't like the name, because "Macedonia" was already the name of a large region in Northern Greece. This would be similar to a region of Quebec bordering the US breaking away from Canada and calling itself Maine. Some Greeks apparently felt that the Republic of Macedonia's name implied that it had territorial ambitions for parts of Northern Greece. As a compromise, the country will now be called North Macedonia.
It's not just related, it's the entire idea of the blockchain. It only exists to timestamp data; in the case of Bitcoin that data is a commitment to a set of transactions.
My argument isn't that the README won't be easily readable
between git interfaces. My argument is mostly a) I expect that conversion rates will be higher going from GH -> GL if the guide is hosted on GH, and b) the guide is already hosted on GH, so, therefore c) you'll need a much better reason than a specious argument about dogfooding to compel a change.

I mean, it's just a git directory with a README.md--it's not like it can't be both places, but the argument from dogfooding I don't think is a good one.
In my experience, people who are significantly depressed can't make time in their lives for exercise. One of the indicators that they are coming out of a depressive period is that they return to exercise routines that the abandoned on the downslope.

So -- I strongly suspect survival bias here. It might even be true that weightlifting is an effective treatment for depression, but it would be awfully hard to get a negative result because you can't get depressed people to do it.
> taking over a 75,000-square-foot space in South Williamsburg occupied in part by Death by Audio, a local music venue

RIP, DBA! I always found it somewhat ironic that Vice, with roots in being edgy and punk, drove away one of Brooklyn’s top DIY edgy music venues. With Silent Barn also closing it’s been a sad five years for DIY in Brooklyn. :(
You had to keep lifting? You make it sound like a side effect. Do you think its possible you are conflating "lifting" with "exerting energy"?
What programming language should you learn?
Don't worry about any of that. Do this diet: no sugar, no grains. That's it. Eat as much of everything else as you want. Watch the pounds melt.
Can I please get my (giggle) medical LSD? I need to take my medicine before I go into the Flaming Lips concert. (giggle)
This is a tough subject. Like the first link in GP's post notes, HPPD can't really be caused by LSD persisting in the body. The article presents another hypothesis, where LSD might kill off important neurons. But LSD and other psychedelics have been taken by millions of people, and the odds of getting HPPD seem fairly low, although significant.

Is it reasonable to assume a direct chemical action as the cause here? We accept that e.g. PTSD results from experienced trauma, and psychedelics like LSD can certainly induce very intense mental states. Could that not be enough to explain "flashbacks" etc?
(PM on the team) Thanks! Also, subsequent deployments are faster than the first thanks to some caching in the build process.
It seems like a false distinction to me? Sure, you can complete a marathon in 20 weeks of training, but you can also squat a barbell on your first try at the gym. As someone who has done both, you can dedicate years to the pursuit of either practice. Either way, you will likely be better off. But I will agree that more research on the health benefits of casual strength training is always welcome.
The fundamental tension of "unprofitability" was there from the very start, as real security is directly at odds with traditional business models. The goal of the businessman is to become a middleman, but security precludes having a man-in-the-middle!

Which is why these projects overwhelmingly flame out. The engineer figures there can't be much harm from a business type trying to design a business around their project, as they assume the project philosophy will remain unaffected. Meanwhile the business type is excited about having a new in-demand raw material to which they can add inefficiency to derive a revenue stream. The engineer figures they own the code, so whatever games the business monkey plays, they can only end up back in the same spot. Meanwhile the business type is busy conjuring and documenting bureaucracy like corporate structure and implicit contracts with which to seize power over the raw resource (the project) if the coder doesn't submit to his "real world" supervision.

It's likely that the engineer could prevail and end up owning the code, but only after an expensive and draining legal battle - it's simply easier to move on to productive non-zero-sum things. Meanwhile the business type is all too willing to fight said battle, as investing real money into paperwork games was basically their entire operation all along.

IMHO the real shame in this case was licensing the code base something other than GPL. GPL would have made continued use unambiguous even in the presence of ambiguous ownership.
Should Massachusetts change its name because the Massachusett people are not an ethnic majority there?

Just like US states, most European borders are not drawn according to ethnic groups, and their names are similarly historical rather than descriptive. The nation state is a 19th century fantasy.
I've been using web components in production for a while now and it's great. Our front end "stack" consists of a single polyfill and Webpack. Use template literals for templating, so you don't even need handlebars/mustache anymore. Webpack lets you write SASS that is compiled directly to CSS and inserted in your shadow DOM with an ES6 import, so no more style sheets for anything but high level page layout. Everything is standards based web components written in vanilla ES6, transpiled for browser compatibility down to IE10.

One major issue we've had though, which wasn't touched in this article, is inter-component communication among siblings. Sure you can just do a global event bus, and that works, but I've yet to see an elegant solution for this yet.
I've had arthritis in my knees since I was 18. All those running things just ain't happening. But I can lift. Lifting helped me get thru a pretty bad case of burn out.
If you're interesting in taking psychedelics, this is the best book to read beforehand. I seem to remember Neal Goldsmith's Psychedelic Healing book also being good, but it's been too long since I've read it.
Worth remembering that the average person in the US emits far more than the average person in India or China.
Wowoo this is great improvement.
Count me in.

So far, the difference I have noticed between union and non-union areas is this: in the heavily unionized locales, all work done is very expensive, but it is also mostly done correctly; in the lightly unionized locales, work is inexpensive, but is slipshod, and without any express or implied warranty. Both take at least twice as long as you think should be necessary, but the union guys will at least show up and pretend to work, while the non-union guys will just ghost.

I want to be the guy that shows up and (eventually) does it right, while three other guys stand around and watch. I'd rather not be the guy that cannot meaningfully engage with the work, because the pay is peanuts, and I could get fired just for sneezing wrong. I (and my ancestors) have a deep-rooted desire to be able to dig in my heels and give someone an earful (or page-full, as it were) whenever they are about to do something stupid and involve me in it. I don't feel like "at will" employment gives me that option. If I speak truth to power, I can get fired.
No, it's not. Content makes billions and trillions, and has always done it. From print to theater to radio to movies, since Gutenberg and Shakespeare and first newspapers, content been generating the revenue.
Do they want to stay in business and keep their jobs? Yes.
The problem is that most unbiased news sources have been corrupted. Reddit has fallen, and hackernews is about all that's left. That means that the trolls have begun showing up here.

Trolls have gotten more skilled, and are able to convert new trolls without people realizing they have become trolls. You just have to get people angry a few times, and they'll do anything you want. Once they've calmed down, they'll continue doing the same thing for the sake of consistency.

Musk has pissed off the media by calling them out on their lack of ethics, so a storm is coming for Musk that will look very similar to what happened to Gamer-gate when they called out the media. The media literally branded them as women-haters with zero evidence and it stuck.
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p4Rhea...

Not sure about being paid bonuses in kittens and puppies; that's kind of a reverse bonus. Somehow, I think I'm being trolled.
Tesla lays off thousands of workers in corporate restructuring
I have the same attitude. Especially its been hard when Google entered our "niche" last year and suddenly became #1 result overnight:

I blogged about it back then:
http://blog.speedchecker.xyz/2017/07/20/lessons-learned-from...
are you stratechery?