skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Down in India too

I started getting errors while pushing, only then I realized that there is some outage

remote: Unexpected system error after push was received.
remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com!

Even the website is not available.
Sometimes they make a big break though, and they would've been gaming anyways. Seems like risk adjusted reward is extremely favorable.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I have a tough time believing that the preference for graduates from "top" colleges is entirely because they produce the best results rather than just a way to (necessarily) artificially limit access to a scarce resource. Just for the sake of round numbers, let's say there are enough quarter-million-dollar-a-year jobs for 1% of the population, but 10% of the population, with a bit of training, could step in and do those jobs. What do you do? You set up some semi-artificial, but still realistic, hurdles to limit the applicant pool. Doubling the applicant pool isn't going to solve the "problem" (if you even see it as a problem); it'll just necessitate an extra hurdle.
Can you imagine a response that doesn’t involve libel? How many people did Mark Zuckerberg call out as being pedos after his $100M attempt to save New Jersey schools flopped?
>I'm fond of Zizek's remark that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

Can you provide a source for that? Only because I'm reading some Zizek books right now :)
https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached/
> what if an uncomfortably large part of the population just really doesn't have anything economically worthwhile to offer in the modern context?

I agree with you, at the same time I believe that this is a failure of the educational system. The current educational system is fucked up. One of the main problems is that it creates "good students" as opposed to people who grow up to contribute to society.

I hated this about high school and university. You are forced to regurgitate what someone said as opposed to developing your own opinions.
> The average monthly payment on a NEW car in the US is...pretty darn close to $580.

True. However, car long-term ownership also can reduce the overall cost substantially, a possible benefit you lose with services like this.

My 2002 Sierra cost me $15K when I bought it in 2007, and it's still my daily driver. That's roughly $113 per month. Maintenance has been infrequent and inexpensive, and I do the work myself. I'm WAY below $580 per month.
I put it on for noise/background content when cooking/cleaning/working etc.
Yes, but creating a SAAS app from the ground up still gives gives a valuable skill set. Even if no one uses your app.
I was about to mention that comment. Especially since it is mine. I actually said that I’m a happy Backblaze customer, and couldn’t see why it was considered so negative.
> Someone still has to do the jobs. The sanitation workers, the McDonalds employees, the truck drivers, the waiters, the cooks

Those jobs are going away.
Interesting thought, I'd wager that our economy isn't as efficient as it should be with respect to the labor force. For instance there are tons of men in their prime age working years who are dropping out of the labor force, and the teen employment rate is low compare to previous years. You also have older Americans who may be physically unable to do manual work but could be hired in a sort of a human + software augmentation role (think humans looking at Facebook content that is flagged to double check the algorithm).
I stopped using instapaper a few years ago, I found their HTML parsing didn't play well with articles that had code in or used <pre> tags.

Might be much better these days but I can't try it out again because they've blocked anyone in the EU
>> Long story short, although I'm skeptical of the business incentives around associating HSV1 with something as scary as Alzheimer's, I welcome more research around understanding HSV1.

If this is proven, I imagine almost all the funding for Alzheimers getting diverted to curing HSV1. That would suck for one group of researchers while being a boon to another - as well as half the world population with HSV1. Shingles (adult chickenpox) is also in the herpes family.
And the value of karma is? There are many intelligent people here on HN. The fact that we even mention such a petty concept as karma shows we got hooked up on these little mind tricks just as easily as everyone else.
I'm being able to use github intermittently here in India. What a Monday for coders in timezones when you expect to start the week with a productive day!!
Not once have I ever seen a codebase where OO 'design patterns' have led to ease of development or modularity, every time they have made development worse. These principles should be kept as far away from functional programming as possible.
Down also in Italy. But here everything is down, government too.
Sure but the reason the licorice was used was to simulate accumulated dirt and grime, so he's either licking licorice or he's licking centuries of dirt and grime. Lucky for him it was licorice!
"We conducted a (quantitative) longitudinal cohort study with 30 third year undergraduate students in Computer Science"

No.

Not only is it a college student based study, how do you do a "longitudinal study" in a short period of time?
Our smartphones are dopamine triggering skinner boxes.

I don't use social media on my phone at all unless you would term reddit and hacker news social media. I consider them news aggregators.

But the content I get from them is addictive and instead of keeping focus for longer form content like books, etc. I am reading hundreds of bite size content chunks.
Why JSON isn't a good configuration language
It's probably picking up on words like "Looks ... cool ... but", "crashes", "I can't", "strict", "warning", "mistyped", "fault".
its back in CA..
Oops! GitHub is down :(

We're on https://hasura.io too.
Decent comment, good point about the evidence. I downvoted this because it opens with “what are you talking about.” In spite of being reasonably insightful, the presentation makes the comment negative value add IMO. Being nice makes these discussions much more productive.
Also, let's not discount the high probability that if you are successful, you are also probably extremely lucky.
> Imagine you have three components, A, B and C. You have written an extensive unit test suite to test them. Later on you decide to refactor the architecture so that functionality of B will be split among A and C. You now have two new components with different interfaces. All the unit tests are suddenly rendered useless. Some test code may be reused but all in all the entire test suite has to be rewritten.

That's not a refactor. That's a rewrite or rearchitecturing. Of course you have to redo unit tests, you've eliminated the units that were being tested.

> What if you decouple two components that are always used together.

If they're always used together, then they were a unit. Why were they decoupled? See the other front page post about Dijkstra's parable for a rather apropos example of where coupling (perhaps not his intended moral) makes sense.
I'd like to do some infrastructure streams where I play around with things like my Kubernetes cluster, unfortunately it seems like a pretty bad idea to livestream configuration of something that is connected to the internet.
We at Gumlet also provide image optimisation which just works: https://www.gumlet.com It's also accompanied by client side javascript library: http://github.com/gumlet/gumlet.js
I think we have to be very clear on what economic "models" Goldman uses.

If you're talking about GDP growth forecasting, or forecasting unemployment numbers, these are ultimately questions of aggregation. Yes, there are 7.5 billion people, but at the end of the day each individual agent's actions don't make a tremendous difference for an aggregate measure like GDP. During periods of low volatility, as we are currently experiencing, it's really not all that impressive to forecast the unemployment rate +/- 0.25%, or GDP growth within 0.5%.

If you're taking about their market-making and trading businesses, they've had some horrendous quarters recently as well (http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-just-had-a-hist...). A very small portion of Goldman's business is taking an opinionated stance, most of their income comes through relatively low-risk market making activities.

And let's not forget that during the 2008 financial crisis, certain departments within the company correctly wagered against credit default swaps, while others had exposure to subprime mortgages. The company still needed an injection of capital from Warren Buffett and the US Treasury to weather the crisis. Point being, they aren't clairvoyant oracles.

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Regarding your last point, which was also made in your original comment, you seem to be claiming some form of what economists call "omitted variable bias", and seem to be hypothesizing that the "omitted variable" is corruption or cheating.

From the purely technical standpoint of building models, the tiny samples (https://www.theringer.com/soccer/2018/7/11/17557720/world-cu...) and the nature of the "data" being collected means that there are plenty of other explanations, like incorrectly estimated parameters or measurement error.

If you're trying to suggest that there is corruption or cheating in soccer, please point to a concrete example of a team in a critical game receiving a disproportionate number of calls. Unsure if you're aware, but this was the first World Cup with instant video replays for the referees to use. Had this replay been in use more widely in international soccer, the US might've qualified for this World Cup (https://deadspin.com/u-s-a-out-of-world-cup-on-phantom-goal-...), England might've won/tied that pivotal 2010 World Cup game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_goal#England_v_Germany_a...), etc.

Soccer may have had a sordid past with the picking of host countries, but the trends in the actual game itself point to technology reducing the ability of referees to make blatantly terrible calls.
Yeah. Maybe in the 1800s or within a few already high status circles (being a rich Mormon doctor that can afford to have 6 kids in all the sports).
PureVPN does log your IPs
I have seen PureVPN's advertisement quite often now. Contrary to PureVPN's business statement. It does log users' IP addresses. Be caution using their service!
Why not print to PDF in that case? HTML can be converted to many other formats, while PDF cannot.
He's said it a number of times. Googling "zizek easier" yielded a ton of autocompletes, and then a ton of hits. :)
Show HN: How I used a recursive comment-bot to reap karma when GitHub is down!
You can't really compare extreme outliers against the norm. Very few Twitch streamers can have that kind of community you're talking about. I would wager low double digits.
It sounds like what you want is not sentiment analysis but rather some sort of political-correctness analysis, which rather than identifying aggressive language identifies "wrongthink".

I suspect you're the sort of person who would have torn down the signs 4channers put up last year saying "It's OK to be white", because despite the obviously anodyne and correct content of the message, you would have interpreted it as "polite Nazi".
Huh, I just tried it and Github is up (making this post 2 minutes after the parent). Located in EU if that makes a difference.
Honest question: how do people go about learning SAP?
this is why I only use sourceforge
There are always reporting problems, especially tracking the wealth of the extreme rich. Estimates of hidden income and wealth are in the trillions. Gini in both China and the US are likely worse in actuality. But when you're in the middle of the process of converting your economy from rural to modern then it's much easier to swing the Gini change in the more equal direction.

But because it's a different situation and harder to change in the US, doesn't mean we shouldn't be strongly aware of the implications of its worsening in the US.
Since most people can be self-sufficient, there shouldn’t be anything stopping a person from being at least worth their own weight unless there is a lack of natural respurces or energy for each person (as of yet not true). AI and robotics will simply make the cost of self sustenance even cheaper, which means at some point literally any contribution a human can make will be a positive one, even if all they do is identify and pick up a piece of garbage the robo trashman missed.
Seems like github added a new ip address for me `192.30.253.113`..

`Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '192.30.253.113' to the list of known hosts.`

Never seen this message before.
What happens when you want to know why your value failed the test? Easy, just break up your chained v8n call into smaller chunks and handle each one individually -- but wait, now we're back to the same procedural code we started with!

Never fear; the devs implement hooks that let you do something when a certain part of the chain fails. Cool -- but now all of our code is tightly coupled to the structure imposed by the hook syntax.

Okay, better solution: how about an array of "reasons" is returned that tells you why your test failed. Now we've got to tell v8n what reason text we want (if any) for each part of the chain that fails, so we're back to having to declare a bunch of messages somewhere, which is what people already do.

Yeah, we want abstraction, but we want the right abstraction. Premature generalization/abstraction is a common pitfall among even the best developers. This library could be useful for some cases, but I'm not convinced it should be used for everything it can be used for.

Is this 32?
The book Softwars spends a lot of time on this topic, where Larry Ellison blasted all of his integration partners for over-customizing their solutions when the correct approach was to update the business processes to match the software:

https://www.amazon.com/Softwar-Intimate-Portrait-Ellison-Ora...
I made one of these, too. Here's a gist: https://gist.github.com/chadlavi/15fd674162ccbd2f4765bd76f33...
You also have to consider that many streamers are playing video games they love to play and casually chatting with friendly fellow nerds. Apples and oranges when compared to grinding out an 8 hour work day.

I can definitely see how it could/would eventually become more work than fun, but that doesn't seem to be the case for many streamers.
>JCPenny's discovered that the consumer demands this behavior.

Which really disappointed me. I was thrilled when they announced the no sales model and switched all my clothes buying to them - it’s so much less stressful. Several people I know were similar.

Unfortunately “all of my clothes buying” was like two pairs of pants, while the people I know who love finding a “deal” go shopping every weekend...
The old world of warcraft auction house method, post something extremely high and hope someone mistakenly buys it.

Profit.
I contend its not that there are people "have nothing economically worthwhile to offer" its that the jobs that are being presented are not what they want to do or in their interest (i.e. pay what they think is enough). UBI makes sense if all the jobs are taken or jobs being automated away but if there are jobs that are out there that people don't want to do for whatever reason that shouldn't be an excuse to implement it.
A great novel with furniture fraud at its core is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17536302

"Three kids — which a generation ago was considered a slightly smaller brood than ideal — now seems aspirational, even decadent."
This is the right kind of question to be asking. Huge, influential companies shouldn't get away with making bullshit statements that don't mean anything. At least they shouldn't get away with it as much as they do.
Well-funded Amazon legal dept vs individual = not a fun time, regardless if it's found frivolous or thrown out.
Spices at Big Lots and Dollar Tree: Leaded?
Addressing your points in order:

1) Which is why the US public throws its hand up on this crap- do well on one metric and suddenly another is more important. And let's add some extemporaneous moralizing in there- if it wasn't meat or cars it would be guns.

2) But not the highest.

3) A fabricated metric that conveniently excuses the actions of past pollution/emission champions (Europe) and the current champion (China) so the self-loathing can continue.
I wouldn't like HTML for government documents. They are perfectly fine for website, or live documents. But for anything published by government there will likely be a printed version, and the online "file" will need to be in sync with the printed version as well. As a paper / documents based format, nothing beats PDF/A.

I remember Obama said something along the line to tech leaders, "Your job is a lot easier when you only have selected group of customers to please, but when you have to cater for everybody and every interest group, things are a lot harder." Paper based document will continue to be used for a decade or two more.

Why cant we just have both? Too much man power in auditing or publishing? Well that is what tech is for, automate it. The tech should be catering for its users, which is not just the public but civil servants as well ( I cant believe I just wrote that ), not trying to force the tech on everyone else.

P.S - I thought PDF/A is an open standard. Why is everyone suggesting PDF is a closed format?
Very lucky, no doubt
Being able to use github.com right now from India without any troubles. It was down for a few minutes.
> a lot of human misery could be spared by making a living income automatically accessible

You don't honestly think that those of us who have doubts about UBI are actually cackling and rubbing our hands together gleefully over all the human misery we're causing by denying living income to the miserable, do you? Of course that would be nice - and I do believe that humanity will eventually get to that point, but we're not there yet. We'll have flying, self-driving cars long before we have the level of automation we need to let everybody kick back and pursue whatever intellectual interests they find.
At least, they have burned a lot of trust from once loyal EU users. And the GDPR "shutdown" for EU citizens with no given warning was a topic in every major newspaper here, not only computer/internet focused sites and papers.
There's pipeline delay in a realtime conversion, but it managed to egress data at the same rate as ingress.
I can't see any way this will be abused.
Is there any roadmap for inclusion into release?
> Someone still has to do the jobs.

I think GP's argument is that we won't need them too much longer. The jobs you mention don't need to disappear completely for there to be problems; if the demand for that class of fungible unskilled labor drops by 20% (not hard to imagine in the next decade or so), what happens to those tens of millions of people who have no way to provide for themselves and their families?

Curious to know what you mean by "implementing full employment", given we're about as close to that now as anyone has ever been.
crop circles: or does it??

The archeologist studied at Reading and Sheffield so probably from the UK. He is only one archeologist so unless there are only hiring foreigners probably better to say British and Irish. You never hear UK and Irish because of the north. Maybe UK and Irish of the Republic archeologists?

It's gets interesting alright. I am getting a sense now that the "South of Ireland" thing only exists because it's impolite to talk about Republics too much in Britain. It can be great to pointing out the most northernly point in Ireland is in "the south".
So you’re already halfway done :-)
The site is blocked for me at work, but if he didn't include shadow banned comments, then he's missing the biggest pool of potentially negative comments.
Ex-CEO of Vodafone is making a film version of Faust
For the working class, tech is disrupting faster than it's creating value, the results are more distributional then they are enriching. The self driving car removes the human behind the wheel but does nothing to reduce the cost of the average car. Transportation does not become too cheap to meter - it costs about the same, minus the human salaries, and also minus the cab city tax that was typically redistributed into infrastructure for all.

There is almost no venture investment into say nuclear, too cheap to meter electricity. There is no investment into radically new and automated ways to build cheap, quality housing from locally available materials, or refine more, cheaper ore with less impact on the environment, or manufacture more durable, upgradable goods.

The supply of stuff is not disrupted by massive abundance, just the social rules about who gets what. It used to be the guys building the stuff in every community who were rewarded; now, all their paychecks go to a single dude in San Francisco that wrote a marginally better algorithm for doing stuff and the next day it spread around the world over the Internet. It turns out, there's nothing unique or special about a human body, just a soon-to-be-outdated type of 3D printer - with a software update latency measured in years and limited write cycles.

A basic income capable of lifting people from survival and into knowledge building is on the order of $5000 at current purchasing parity - impossible to finance by any tax or industry unless we radically alter the actual supply of goods.
Perceptrons from memristors
Expect an insta-shutdown in a few months.
It's easy to say this with thousands of Karma points. I'm trying to leave my kids something. /s

Same reason why people are addicted to Candy Crush Saga: it's fun. For nihilists, this is pure amusement in the nothingness.
Great insights. Are you seeing startups that grow into multi-nationals adopting SAP? or are their smaller system growing up with their needs? E.g. what does Google, etc. use for ERP?
It is very much a thing in the US. The middle class almost exclusively has 0, 1 or 2 children; only the poor and the rich have more.

21 percent of families earning > $200K had at least 3 kids in 2011, an increase from 15% in 2000. Every other demographic saw their numbers go down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/fashion/The-Growing-Three...

Anecdotally I see that too. Almost all of my children's classmates come from 2 child families with the occasional single; almost all of my wife's surgeon friends have 0 or >2 children.
> Of course I can. I don't know what you're getting at.

I was referring to it as an adaptation of the way I do it.

Your way of doing it is introducing another hop/point of failure and either adds a subscription, or having your addressed e-mail public.

> Doesn't solve the spam problem (which is what we're discussing here and the focus of my comment), and introduces its own problems.

I don't have a spam problem. Get an ISP or mail provider with some decent filters. Mine's been stopping spam since the '00 or something. Sometimes the spammers caught up, but only very temporary. I don't have a spam problem. I use the + to figure out how people (ie. marketeers/bots) got my e-mail address.

Also, a password manager does not introduce any meaningful problems.
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for that insight!!
I rarely put stickers on my laptop, but when I do it's not for the latest tech fad.
It didn't really matter who's right and who's wrong. If a fortune 500 sues you, you lose even if you win.
Five Things That Suck and Three That Are Kind of Nice about Being an Introvert
Yeah, I had the same feeling, seemed like a long stream of consciousness.

UBI is bad! because the U.S. doesn't have free healthcare?
Cooking has become vastly more efficient over the past 10,000 years, especially recently with labor-saving kitchen equipment. Yet there are still cooks. And we eat fancier food.