skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will make more sense to compare hardwares at same level. 300$ or 1000$ PC to 2000$ Mac seems odd, isn’t it?

Buy a PC with same price tag as a Mac. Use and then feedback.
What I see becoming common is "sure, we should respect different opinions, but _this issue_ is so important we can't afford to sit on the sidelines", and then you say that for every issue.
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How so? What's the number that you come up with?
Advice: You could write a book "How I got into YC without a technical cofounder" and sell a million copies to solo non-technical founders.
Libcorrect: Viterbi and Reed-Solomon in C
I am able to get onto it
who would actually buy subscription to see movies in the theater? I might go the movies 3 times a year....maybe. Who is going to the movies 3 times a month?
I don't know what distinction you're really drawing. Polluting production reduces the costs for producers.
try to portray Google as a place that's roiled by political fighting where the leaders are struggling to keep control over a irresponsible and politically radical workforce

What of Google managers quoted in media vehemently saying they wouldn't hire people harboring certain political positions? Why is it that so many of my acquaintances who work at Google pig-piled James Damore over his professional competence, despite none of them being in a position to have any idea about that? All of this smacks of a degree of ideological groupthink I would label as "virulent."

What you are saying would still fit if the overwhelming majority of Google had a large political skew and subscribed to a particular ideological groupthink. The majority would feel that, "people share their views openly, a wide range of opinions are respectfully shared, most people have the right to get into and stay out of political discussions," since conversations about things everyone agrees with can only go so far without an "enemy" who disagrees. A minority in that situation would still feel oppressed. It's how well minorities are treated which is the true indication of how open and benevolent an organization is.
Not knowledgeable in the field really, but I have a bunch of old school friends who do this for a living.

Your ability to detect Fortran is apparently excellent.
Google Home and Chromecast are down, reportedly worldwide
You are referencing solipsism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
“We currently already have a alpha build with a variety of clients saying they will or have integrated including some YCombinator companies: Posterous, TicketStumbler, and HeyZap.”

Brilliant.
There's a reason the pattern is referred to as "exiting early". Another description might be using guards. Basically, you shouldn't do this if you're doing something complex Basically you can imagine each of the if statements being a "guard" against an condition that might cause you to exit early. This becomes much clearer if you have multiple such clauses, and add the mental note that each conditional should contain only a return statement with a single expression.

function foo(bar) {
if is_null(bar) {
return TypeError
}

if !validate_input(bar) {
return ValueError
}

if cached(bar) {
return cache(bar)
}

// Added as a workaround for client XYZCorp since...
if (bar == "A special value) {
return "A special result"
}

return do_a_complex_thing_to(bar)
}

You could equivalently structure it as a bunch of else ifs, but there's no real reason to do it that way.
The usual video content I experience isn't presented this way. It's also not all video and includes still images. Video loops with text overlays as a webpage vs. Youtube embedded video vs. a movie on Netflix with no interaction. Maybe multimedia presentation is a better description.

The presentation style is simply not the same as a movie. You can argue that it's not unique or original, but trying to make that point by dismissing it as a movie seems pedantic.
Ticketmaster Warns of Data Breach, Customer Payment Details Potentially Exposed
They 10x programmer exists.

The push for this team effect where everyone is equal is equally as foolish. 10 programmers producing 1x work will not produce the same work as the 10x programmer because the communication between those 10 will always be slower than one mind.

The problem occurs when the 10x meets the 3x developer. The 3x developer is use to being 3 times better on average so they think they are a 10x developer.

Take a 10x soldier/marine pair them up with 1x soldiers. The 10x soldier will always seem like a jerk to the rest because they know how to survive and will be pulling the team in that direction without discussion.

Put the 10x developer in charge and they will make the most of the 1x team members. Tell everyone they are equal the 10x developer will wonder why no one is pulling their own weight.

The problem is with the flatness of startups or with the easily replacable cog at large org. Everyone thinks that every developer is the same.
Now how high would that tax need to be to so that everyday goods would dump plastic? And what would that mean for other uses of petroleum?

Let's say you want a plastic bottle to cost 0.1$ more, so that alternative options are considered, and you tax it on the original petroleum and gas processed, what does that represent for the fuel used in a plane?

The problem is that not every use is equal, some are more necessary than others and pricing things by a general tax is not a right solution.

Many countries are banning plastic plates and bags for instance, because their benefit is nearly 0 and their cost is super high because many people just throw them away randomly. On the other hand airplane fuel is not easily replacable right now, so it should probably be taxed less (but still taxed enough to encourage other alternatives to develop).
The Mirror Effect by Dr. Drew provides psych insight into this... that Hollywood and the media lionize eccentricity and extremes of behavior for money that then manufacture sentiment in the populace whom role-model this bc they believe these are desirable goals. IOW celebrity sex-tapes and power automatically given to vocal extremists, irrespective of the validity of their goals. So we end up with the Kardashians and their “reality” show, Caitlyn Jenner, Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Carl “Sargon of Akkad” Benjamin, Yale Screaming Girl and Anita Sarkeesian. Finally, it contributes to at least two polticals camps of people yelling at each other from parallel political universes and not getting much done, but divide-and-conquer (whether side-effect, planned or both) sure does benefit those whom are comfortably in actual power.
I think I've figured this out.

I basically have two modes, hunt and eat. When I'm at my computer, I pull in the list of HN titles via RSS. I go through the list (just titles, no upvote numbers, rankings, or other brain hackery) and select the ones I'm actually interested in. I pop those open as tabs.

Once I have the articles I want, I quickly go through them in a sorting cycle. Weird games or apps I might take a quick look at. Paywalls get busted down, bypassed, or ignored. The articles I'm interested in reading go into Pocket using the browser extension.

When I'm out and about or lying around, I read articles using the Pocket app. I have the articles I want in front of me and so my brain isn't looking for more quick hits. Completing articles is the hit in that context. Actually, I pump most of the articles into my head as audio, so I can do laundry or walk around or cook. That's when I get most of them read, plus books and such.

Might be overengineered but it works for me. According to Pocket, I read over 8 million words last year. I'm actually thinking of pulling back a bit as there are dcreasing returns. Not sure how it counts words, as that seems like a lot, but there's also a ton I read that isn't in Pocket.
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It’s not perfect but it tries to price an externality back in. Consumers may demand better packaging if this was a thing in the US, providing manufacturers to improve their waste level.
Do you have any sources or further reading for this?
Haha will keep it in mind!! Thank you!
Are you brain damaged or something? How is that relevant to what I posted like at all?
These hayabusa top speed claims are getting more and more outlandish. I don't care about your 4 in 1 exhaust, there's no way you broke 195
What about charging someone for education? Isn't that what this is? Education about the job from people who actually do it.

Personally, I don't have the idea that this is for people that don't currently have jobs - I see the main target as people that are unhappy with their current position and are looking to switch into investment banking. There are a lot of those but it's hard to know how to do something like that or who to talk to, particularly when you may have very specific questions about retraining or the consequences of shifting industries.
Or, how the one with the biggest market share became the underdog.

Other example, Surface Studio: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-stud...
>you definitely don't have the right to make prints of whatever you find on the internet

If you have any references that say that, I'd love to see them. Specifically, I'd like to see anything that says that printing a contents of a publicly accessible website for personal use and not to distribute or sell is a violation of copyright. I'm not a lawyer, but everything I read in the Wikipedia article I linked to says otherwise.

The printed version would be transformative, the image is from a published work, and printing it does not harm the market value of the image. That's why I linked it, because it's substantially the same argument.
Google Helps Chinese Military, Why Not US?
Depends on how you define living, really. It's a philosophical problem, what makes one collection of matter "alive" and another "not alive"?

Since at least Thomas S. Ray's work on Tierra in the 90s we've been creating universes in which things that could be called "life" have developed.
Student disruptors invent first new way to synthesise DNA in 40 years
I am not a trade lawyer - but I think this is logical.

If a market imposes the same tax to ANYONE selling in it, irrespective of origin, based on the quality or type of product, then it is not a 'tariff' (an unequal tax based on origin country) but a market tax.

Thus a tax based on the waste-handling cost for ineffective packing or non-durable uses of difficult to re-manufacturer resources could be an effective way of pricing the damage to the commons back on to the individual actors at a point where change can occur because of the pressure.
Releasing such info furthers subversive causes, as did disrupting active missions, having the Oahu tunnel shut down, and informing criminals and adversaries of our activities.

A privileged electrical technician torches your establishment to the ground and says he should be thanked for forcing you to rebuild stronger.
Git works perfectly in PS, why would you need to run it in WSL?
Keras Layers cheat sheet, written for the Metis curriculum
It might have persisted across uninstalls (browser profiles often do), because people were suggesting the "open in low resolution" flag as a temporary fix for Firefox performance issues on Macs prior to v61 being released.
But the water you and I waste by leaving the sink on, goes back to the water supply.

It is not like drywall manufacturing, where the water is tainted and should not be put back into the supply.
Actually, when you found out it was a simulation, we scrapped the current data, we had to restore it to the last valid snapshot and adjust local simulation parameters so that you wouldn't find it out. It's all reported in the post-mortem of the incident. Service levels are now fully restored.
Because no city had ever passed laws that the President doesn’t like.

And the President is also in charge of local waste disposal, as we all know.
Only one person wears the shoes and (maybe) takes care where they walk. Many people use a single dolly over different shifts and don't know what the last user did with it.
Consumer Reports also didn't use actual return/replacement rates with Surface devices, and included in their breakage rate things that are easily attributable to a Windows Update.
Considering that you don't know this already... if the Universe is a Simulated Video Game its very unlikely that it was created for you to play.

It's much more likely that you are just an NPC waiting to be harvested for some aliens experience points.

The most you can hope for is that you are destroyed in an interesting way, and perhaps your memory lives on in a highlight reel on that aliens stream.

I've often wondered if God existed at one point and we were just his video game. But now God found a more interesting game to play and we are just a forgotten game in chugging along in his steam account. I don't think there is a better explanation for the miracle of the pyramids, or the invention of magnets.
You can be certain that regardless what happens
with Mastodon, the network will live on and
flourish. Newer and better software will be born
within this ecosystem, but you will never have to
drag all your friends and followers someplace
else again–they’ll already be where they need to
be.

What is a 'friend' here? A follower?

If mastodon.social is shut down tomorrow, a user - say joe@mastodon.social - would lose all his followers, no?

First of all the followers that were on mastodon.social too - their data is gone just like Joes data.

And the ones not on mastodon.social - yes, they would still exist. But Joe would have to make a new account somewhere else and ask each and every one to follow him again. And he would have no proof that he is the same joe that they knew under the account joe@mastodon.social.

Or am I missing something? Is there some public key that is Joes real identity and only he knows the private key?
I don't know the details, will trust you on it :)!
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It sounds similar to the Japanese model. But it requires serious changes to the type of goods produced. For instance, Japanese drink bottles have labels that can easily be removed because the bottle, cap, and label are recycled separately. It's not like you just start categorizing the trash and you're done.

Also, the way waste management is handled at the municipal level definitely complicates things for us.
No, But I do pay all of the tax that is legally required. This is where we differ from Uber. Our company doesn't have a sweatheart deal with the government and would get into a lot of trouble if we didn't.
What are you using to convert articles to audio? Is that a feature of the pocket app?
It's not the code, it's the red tape. That's where the expense comes in on that kind of stuff.
> So in what ways is it a "serious theory"?

People defend it with a straight face?
because that doesn't sell.

I'm not at google but I'm at a bay area tech startup. I'm in slack channels around things ranging from learning to speak japanese and korean, keto diets, coffee discussions, lgbt issues, politics (aside from my groups on work specific things).

I guess I don't see why I wouldn't talk to my coworkers about things I like and care about? Some coworkers don't like to talk about these things so they aren't in those discussions - that's also great. We also have a code of conduct but it doesn't curtail debate it's just pretty much what you would expect - I imagine very much like google's
Single-stream recycling is pretty wasteful, so probably.
You could pay per item, so people would not recycle items that they won't get paid for...
Advertise for Microsoft all of the great open source work they've contributed to a proprietary OS.
I really like this answer. This is something else we struggle with. It's not really "job seekers" it's for people who want to consider other roles, companies, or careers, which slowly is becoming every working professional who isn't planning on staying at their current role or company forever. Thanks for making this distinction!
Because we don't see any reason for it...

That's appeal to ignorance.

and we don't have any precedent for something similar happening in other situations

Precedent? Come on, that's like saying atoms shouldn't exist because there is no precedent for them.

We also observe that many properties of subjective experience are counterintuitive

That's vague and terribly subjective. Who decides what is intuitive and what's not in this context?

and seem to contradict what we would expect from an emergent system

Who would expect what? Again you are simply saying that you don't understand it so it must not be possible.

I linked Feynman response just to make you undestand that what you are saying lacks any reference frame. You are using your own intuitions to declare impossible a thing that, to begin with already exists :) and moreover it's exactly what generates you intuitions, so you are falling in a circular reasoning.

Oh and Feynman doesn't say that magnetism can't be explained or that it shouldn't exist, just that it can't be explained in terms of other phenomena, exactly the same as consciousness.

Edit: HN won't allow me to reply to your last comment, so I will put it below, though I won't comment further anyway.

It's not that I'm not interested in how consciousness emerges. What I object to is the characterization of the basis of consciousness as a hard problem. It's just an area of knowledge that we haven't enough information to talk about. Saying it's a problem, even a hard one, it's jumping to conclusions very prematurely.
So someone still has to sort it. Raise taxes. Hire sorters. Save time and money by having software engineers spend more time learning software engineering, not whether a corn-based plastic spoon should go in compost or recycling.
What if the unhappy employees are honestly relating their experience? What if you can openly share your opinions, so long as it's in a rather narrow range of acceptable opinions? What if some of those "unacceptable" opinions happen to be held by scientific researchers who maintain a moderate position that both nature and nurture is involved in gender differences?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8

How would that differ from the anti-evolution groupthink I'd expect to find at certain megachurches?
Glad it's not just me. All of those really seem to stress Firefox out on my iMac. Chrome is far more efficient with something like Twitch.

Interesting thing I've noticed: If you don't use chat much and just want the video, try using Twitch's "pop-out" player that opens in its own window- for me this uses far less CPU (even in Chrome)

Chrome's "switch to fullscreen" transition on twitch for me is super laggy though, and I haven't been able to solve that one (Firefox switches to fullscreen smoothly).
That's what he does, he is a campaigning lawyer. He is only claiming about £0.50 IIRC!
I’ve been in those workplaces. The last one saw me mobbed out on a phony allegation the day before I went to a funeral, told my actions “T-T-Trump any explanation” by a director of Eng (Cormack at OpenTable, there’s been total refusal of dialog so I name him... and he stuttered-ed-ed it like that). In reality I used a colorful descriptor to get a persistent drunk girl to leave me alone, but the grape vine escalated to include drunken table flipping and there were 3 “matching” reports. Friends, man. Was also mobbed out of a prior job in the same way, but didn’t observe the social dynamics much then. Both involved Cal snowflakes. Kids are bannanas and my 18 year career is wrecked, over a mild potty mouth... it’s not what you say, it’s your social status when you say it; sounds like you’re bottom of the totem.
How much of a success do you perceive PCI requirements as being?
It's basically religion but with none of the morality attached to it. No wonder so many SV billionaires like the idea.
A basic modular system with all the basic oscillators and filters you'd find in a standard VST plugin set will cost roughly 5 thousand if not more. It's a bit expensive really, but I suppose that's the cost of analog in a digital world. It might just be me and my reluctance to spend money but it seems like prices would be dropping for equipment if it was making as big of a comeback as it is, but prices seem to be relatively stable, sometimes more expensive as new small scale manufacturers come out with modules.
I guess that last paragraph shows the temptation, our wish for meaning and some meta mechanism around us beyond a couple of rocks we can see flying around. We are unable to deal with the concrete mundanity of reality. (learning how things work is fascinating, but watching most processes for a prolonged amount of time is... not)
It was appended with "for other disciplines"

I'm not so much talking about the field itself but more how it is used for other disciplines. Mathematics is a discipline too and has a lot of academic work behind it but using an ANOVA or a t-test isn't scientific/academic in the mathematical sense. It's just a tool. The mathematical idea of an ANOVA has already been discovered, mathematics moved on.
Yes but recruiters are paid by a specific company usually not by the job seeker. So their allegiance is with the company and filling the role, not with the job seeker and making sure you get the best possible job.
I use an Elecom HT1DR and like it quite a bit. It is their "huge" trackball and I have found it to be pretty comfortable in daily use. The only issue I have is that some of the extra buttons don't work on Linux with the current driver.
I only reason I have a Mac is for Xcode. This can't be replaced on Windows.
Alien Life is Out There – says scientist who reevaluated Drake's equation
>But if you are making a copy so that you may use a copyrighted product in case the original is stolen, damaged or destroyed, your conduct may fall within the doctrine of fair use

That to me sounds like you can print something since web content can disappear at any moment.
"The universe may not sit on top of a giant turtle."

I'm so sick of these bullshit theorists coming up with unverifiable imaginations out of thin air. Produces lots of clicks and laymen books but doesn't do jackshit to help move science forward.
The 'I Am A Strange Loop' covers this beautifully.
> So fining would affect poorer ppl more than rich ppl

Yeah but if you're getting woken up multiple times at night in a poor neighborhood, then it's poor people who don't own car alarms who are negatively affected the most.
npm/node works fine in Windows (and I'm pretty sure it's the same with composer), so why do you want to use it in WSL?

Edit: this is a genuine question of an engineer, who uses Git/npm/node for fullstack development on Windows 10 every day. What kind of setup do you have and what UX do you expect, that requires running the tools in WSL?
I have noticed the pop-out player seems far more efficient, which leads me to think the chat and other things going on around the video might be the culprit
>Well, at Google we have things like Memegen where people post memes, and those memes have comments, so I guess you can see where that goes. Why do people post memes? I guess for the same reason I'm on HN at work; they're bored.

Yeah, but posting on HN doesn't advertise to my entire company that I'm dickin around instead of doing work.
Okay, that's a good argument. But you cannot just assume a malice when there's much simpler explanation - and in this case there is.
Not really, that comes down to false positive rates vs everyone else. AKA it's not that science is always correct, it's that their are zero more accurate options available.

It's the same reason people take bomb threats seriously. Such threats are very often fake, but getting a bomb threat pushes the odds of a bomb vastly above the odds without that threat.
>I don't think that's true.

Everyone in this thread is saying "I think so" or "I don't think so" and no one seems to be able to find any concrete evidence saying it is or is not illegal. I find that to be interesting.
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