skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's due to the fact that many HN people prefer to give honest analysis/opinion, even if the truth hurts. In the long run, it's probably more useful that way to whomever posted, to get "real-life" feedback at least from a technical perspective.

The question did make me think, whether there's a small part that supports the stereotype(?) of "smart" people, or those working in IT/tech, having less empathy and emotional consideration. Kindness can be seen as unnecessary or even harmful sugar-coating..
Indeed, and the benefit of traveling at 0.995 c is that a container of information doesn't suffer from degradation by the inverse square law as it travels over a large distance. It might actually cost less energy to transport information to far flung destinations that way, interstellar snail mail if you will. Some amount of information has to accompany the robot anyway, at the very least, its initial operating instructions.

Of course whoever can get there at 0.996 c can take advantage of a market arbitrage. ;-)
Ha - thanks. Perhaps I worry too much...
> Something I heard at my corporate job: "Bring solutions, not complaints." It's a great rule of thumb to follow.

It's fantastic if they give you time to explore solutions, more often than not it can be translated to "work out a solution without pay on your own time and we'll consider adopting it". And even then the solution has to be obviously better and they have to be able to acknowledge the problem in the first place instead of saying "we've always done it that way".

"Bring solutions not complaints" is just corporate BS for "stop complaining".
Dupe, discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546979
They have competition "$6.3T BlackRock Targets Cryptocurrency & They’re Not the Only Ones" https://hackernoon.com/6-3t-blackrock-targets-cryptocurrency...
Thanks, good points. Looking at what problems the trend is trying to solve is a good start.
Ironically open defecation now seems like a good privacy move :)
Report from Australia about monitoring this kind of thing:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-01/sewage-tests-reveal-wa...

"West Australians are using about two tonnes of methamphetamine each year with a street value of $2 billion, wastewater tests have revealed."
In name perhaps, but the concept of an economic good having potentially different values at different times is universal. An economic system that tries to pretend it doesn't exist may work in the sense that a mathematical system without a 0 works. We can still analyze the system using the concept and develop insights using it as a tool, even if they don't recognize it themselves.
My guess is that they’re using variable-scheduled rewards: they’ll recommend you a bunch of shows they know you’d only give 3-4 stars, and “hold back” a 5 star show, surfacing it at some random set time since the last time they gave you something good.

Such a strategy would get you more addicted, but also allow them to stretch their supply of subjectively-five-star-rated shows at the same time. It’s win-win ...for them.
Improved medicine would probably be why.

My grandfather lived for another 5 years than he probably would've without modern medicine. I don't know if they would've been able to operate on him in the 60's like they can in modern times.
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Thanks for the great response. Lots of good points to think about.
Hm, that’s cool. Is your note taking an app part of the menu bar (if you’re using Mac) If so which is it?

Agreed on the global hot key. I use iTerm and it has a global hot key so you can bring it up with a shortcut and then hide it with the same shortcut.
This so much! When I open the documentaries category I get the same 50 shitty reality shows every fucking time
Well, apparently it's making a comeback. Unfortunately.
"They do have jobs" is a very sad way to justify poor working conditions.

Meanwhile Jeff Bezos' fortune is approximately $1,000 per American household.
Kind of unrelated directly to the article, but in reference to many comments - can't recommend these two books enough: The Charisma Myth and How to make friends and influence people (I know, maybe not the best title).

Those two books completely changed my life. They helped me become more confident, less socially anxious and be able to connect with people in a much deeper way than I was capable of before.

The first time I tried reading the How to make friends book, I couldn't really fully make sense of it or enjoy it (in fact I was offended that someone gave to me as a gift). It took reading the Charisma book and a lot of practice (yes, just reading these books won't help you, you'll need to put in a lot of work) to get to the point where the other book was helpful.
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Thanks. Similar points have been raised by other responses - make sure the recommendations/criticisms are well researched.
This actually seems just barely within the realm of possibility of something a privacy bulwark like Richard Stallman could support
Bring solutions not complaints" is just corporate BS for "stop complaining".

No, not in this case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547196
what is a bar raiser?

A PM who has never opened an IDE in his or her life and who is only familiar with “coding” concepts through Wikipedia. They read books by Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Kahneman, and Nassim Taleb and majored in one of the humanities. When they’re shown the webpage that the geeks created which loads in 2 seconds, they tell the lead developer that they want the loading time cut down to 1 second and the font to be changed.
So how would you come up with a random valid Unicode string, such that all possible valid strings were equally probable? Using base64 seems like giving up.

Hmm...I think I need a way to generate all valid combining character sequences, but I'm not sure that is finite.
> Hunting was a predominantly male activity, though.

Oh?
For Google Drive, even if not an official client I find that Gnome's Nautilus integration works extremely well and without friction (it's treated like an external storage) for the random file I could need to share with another device...
It's about the story and the people behind the objects. You could create an exact atomic replica of the Mona Lisa, but it still wouldn't be THE Mona Lisa that Da Vinci sat in front of and painted with his own hands. From a purely material perspective they're the same, but from the perspective of historical narrative there's a big difference, and that matters to some people.

In other words, people aren't placing value in the arrangement of atoms, they're placing value in the context of how those atoms came to be arranged that way. The original object is a token of that context.
In general I don't think I'm one, but introspection is important. thanks.
While I think there may be some deeper issues like another poster mentioned, his posts are mostly griping about money and status. It's literally comment after comment of playing the victim.
if your a doctor I'll send you the name of the drugs. They came out in 2015 and are about $80 each a pill, but you can buy them in India for $.34 each.
"Granted they could use the data and then somehow make up an excuse for coming up with another reason to observe something but that too would be kinda clunky and obvious and would come up."

It's actually a very common technique known as parallel construction. Apologies in advance if you were being sarcastic; I'm not great at reading tone in comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction#By_the_U...
I'm curious if this kind of thing would be prohibited in the US on fourth amendment grounds or not, or would be considered probable cause for a warrant.
Thanks! I'll definitely pick my battles.
Thank you! Lots of food for thought in this post. I have started applying at other places too. I'll follow your advice and keep trying to build up my skillset.
If phases are a problem, compute the average on a larger time period. 5 years would go down to 2013, 10 to 2008

Then, unless you believe the world is becoming a worse and worse place, I do not see why 1998-2008 should be a golden age, while 2008-2018 would have poorer ideas in general.

If anything, I believe in the opposite, as most of the mobile low hanging fruits are gone, and crypto is where the action is now,
So the same accent as Malcolm Turnbull, Jacinta Ardern, The Queen, Donald Trump, Leo Varadkar, my Polish GP, my Italian dentist, Elon Musk, Alan Sugar and Duncan Bannatyne.

I'm not sure that works.
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won."
My theory is that communities like HN and StackOverflow are a magnet for very smart people with a very direct style of communication. Yes, they sound sassy or snarky but most have no intention to be mean. They just lack most of the brain circuitry to refrain from comment or beat around the bush.
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I'm using TickTick (https://ticktick.com/). The only thing missing is the dependency of the task on other tasks. Is there such a thing anywhere?
A fighter jet is still a fighter jet and just getting rid of the pilot isn’t going to make them cost 50x less (just like future autonomous cars aren’t going to be cheaper than what we have now) Also I don’t think the point of op was necessarily to envision a 1v1 scenario but that the AI needs to be at the level of a human more so becouse it is carrying extremely lethal weapons that one would prefer to be used under human (or equivalent) judgement.
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That does give me some food for thought. To take an example I cook regularly, the absolute cheapest tomatoes are a bit under $1.50/lb, but San Marzano tomatoes are more like $3/lb, and worth every penny. Then, if you're making a basic pasta marinara, add garlic, thyme, oregano, maybe some pepper flakes, olive oil... No one thing is expensive, but it adds up. Then, if you really want to kick it up a notch in the cost department, add some fresh thyme and basil. Now you're at something like $4-5/lb for something that is nutritionally very similar to the $1.50/lb version, but damn is it ever going to taste better.

I guess to some extent I'm asking to have my cake and eat it too. It just seems like you have to give up most meat and a lot of flavor to hit $50/week or lower.
I'm going to totally guess and say that if the effluence uses public assets (town sewer) then it's okay for gov to monitor and do whatever and thus get a warrant based on probable cause if they get a good hit on location. If you have a septic on private land, then, I presume they can't just come and check your system for tell-tales of drugs.

But that's just a guess...
In person, voice tone, facial expression etc help convey warmth and kindness. On the internet, all you have is words (unless you go out of your way to include emoticons, gifs, etc, which are not the norm on HN). This often sounds far harsher than was intended.
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I would agree. If they can go through your garbage on the curb without a warrant, surely they can look at your sewer lines with permission of the utility company.
I remember reading back in the Bush era that when he travelled abroad he used a porta-potty so the Russians couldn't analyze his poo.
On Windows we have better interop story via COM/UWP or .NET.

On Android the interop story is Java and on the Web it is going to be either JavaScript or WebAssembly.
HBO has a much better movie selection than Netflix.
An interesting question for me is whether Netflix will also experience a wave of talent departures as an additional result of this stock plunge.

Netflix is competing for talent as a FAANG outfit, and as such much of the value they provide to their employees depends on their RSUs. This works great as long as stock price is on a steep rise, as has generally been the case for FAANG over the past several years.

Now that the price is on a downslope, though, we should expect their compensation package to be less competitive than other tech companies, and especially FAANG.

Will they be able to deal with it somehow? Or will their top talent migrate to more successful tech companies that can pay as well as Netflix did while its stock was rising?
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> Oh?

If you have any information that goes against civilitty's comment there, I'd be interested to read it. I was always under the impression that in most hunter/gatherer cultures the men were primarily involved in the hunting.
Years ago I watched a documentary about Sago production in Papau New Guinea. It comes from a Palm tree that's cut down before the fruit ripens (otherwise all of the valuable starch gets used up ripening the fruit). The starch is contained in the core of the tree. A single tree can yield hundreds of pounds of starch, but getting it out of the tree and processed to get rid of the wood pulp and such is incredibly labor intensive. The starch is then cooked into various kinds of pancakes and other dishes to eat.

Traditionally (and for all I know) the trees weren't farmed. Somebody just walked around until they found a suitable tree and then cut it down. So...hunting and gathering. But IIR, people track the growth of individual trees to make sure they're harvested at the right age, but they aren't specifically planted or cultivated in a "farm" sense.

It's not a terribly different notion from what's being written about here I think. I would guess that humans have found starches of various kinds throughout their environment, extracted and processed them, and then made simple flatbreads or pancakes almost everywhere.

It doesn't even have to be obvious. The line from palm tree to sago is not clear at all. Why even consider eating the core of a tree? Why invent a long, multi-part, labor intensive process to make it more edible? Nobody really knows how it started.

But I think the important point I got from this was that agriculture is not a clean cut-off. You aren't digging out root vegetables one day and then planting wheat the next. There must be some kind of transition period that depends on the local plant life and many of the things that we think of as indicative of post cut-off agriculture societies probably aren't that at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfGxm8canXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VomE4GN9Z6I
> a container of information doesn't suffer from degradation by the inverse square law

Neither does a well-focused laser?

EDIT: apparently it does, unless you manage to focus your laser very far away. Not sure how practical that is.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Greenwood

California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988),
was a case in which the Supreme Court of the
United States held that the Fourth Amendment
does not prohibit the warrantless search and
seizure of garbage left for collection outside
the curtilage of a home.
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More importantly, Hotstar is ₹999 per year right now and you get movies, TV shows including GoT and Westworld, live sports including IPL and F1.
It's a contentious issue.

There's (sort of) precedent in the form of court rulings on police search of garbage cans. Apparently, in 1998, the 7th circuit court of appeals ruled 8-5 holding that the individual cannot reasonably expect privacy of their trash left in publicly accessible areas. [1]

1: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1200020.html
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I went to watch it because of your comment. Wow does it ever. I'm guessing the cracks are caused ultimately by water freezing in the winder and melting in the summer, and not by a giant super volcano ready to explode.

That being said, Jenny Lake is a great hike to go on. I live about 1.5 hours away, and and gone twice. It is a hike around the lake with some great views of the surrounding valley.
OP is comparing apples and oranges. Cable TV with less channels and no HD is cheaper maybe than Netflix. With all channels and proper HD it will be about same as Netflix price or more.
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No discord here. In this case I fully disconnected my USB-C devices, replugged and they were still unresponsive. I then rebooted and everything worked again.
I had prime through subscribing for the shopping service. I never found one show I wanted to watch on there apart from old stuff I'd already seen elsewhere.
> > Various-southern US: slow, naive but friendly

That's a common misconception ;) More like strategic.
Almost in the exact same situation here. I've switched to audiobooks before bed. I've started sleeping much better too.
All of the TLS 1.3 implementations and test servers (including SwiftTLS) are listed at https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/wiki/Implementations#imp...
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They do it in the uk too. But hey, when china does it, it is an issue.
Similar to you. All the shows I used to watch on it were gone or I'd already seen everything I could find worth watching. I canceled netflix about 2 years ago after being with them long before they ever did their streaming beta. I thought I'd just not subscribe for about a year and come back when they had made a bunch of new content. The bits and pieces I've seen or what I overhear about that content hasn't been very enticing.
Exactly. It is possible can assess the same situation and emphasize either the negatives or the positives and be honest in both cases.
I've worked for a company that offered dinner significantly before 8pm. The number of employees actually staying that late, or eating dinner was not particularly high. Primarily it was the people who didn't show up until quite late in the morning, or sometimes not until early afternoon.
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Another large problem was that the Karma was a bad car, at least according to critics. Some called it "awful". If your car is incredibly expensive, you should make it fun to drive.

The original Tesla Roadster, was like one of those rollercoasters with the linear accelerator motors, except that it ran on roads and could (sort of) turn.
Honest question: education level or mental developmental level?

Mental health is enough of an epidemic that $company_with_exponential_scale is most definitely going to pick up a fair chunk of people with various issues, cognitive included.

Chances are this is even part of why the bar is a bit lower.

(Said as someone with mild high-functioning autism)
> I’ve talked to some of their UX designers, and data seems to rule all there, so they wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing if it didn’t help them.

They wouldn't be doing what they're doing if it didn't help them in the short term.

Data is great but you never have a perfect picture. What boosts your numbers in the short term could be the thing that makes your customers resent you and move on in the long term.
>The situation is likely worse on mobile.

You might think so, but not really. Any app you install on Android can watch what you do online in any other app, with no permissions at all.

https://hackernoon.com/android-gives-apps-full-access-to-you...
That's pretty interesting I had no idea. Thanks
London has a pretty big problem with raw sewage flowing into the Thames too, fortunately it’s not used as drinking water source though.

Each year at least 40m litres of untreated sewage flows into the Thames in London, as the Victoria sewers are at capacity. There is currently an ongoing project to upgrade them which should be launched in 2022:

http://www.tideway.london/

Last year a water company was fined £20m for dumping 2 billion litres over the last few years further upstream:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/thames-w...
English subtitles often don’t match the spoken dialogue for shows in English either. They are often simplified, probably for space and time constraints. I assume that the primary intended audience is the hearing impaired, not language learners.
There's probably a more reasonable expectation of privacy for bodily waste flushed down a toilet. I think any defense of such a practice would have to be based on the assumption that samples are taken far enough downstream to render individuals anonymous.
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No wonder it is so popular in San Francisco.
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Disney will also own Hotstar if the deal goes through which is currently one of the most popular streaming service in India.
Thanks for the recommendation, I just got it on Audible and I'm looking forward to listening to it.
I've enjoyed watching long streams of MP Hearts of Iron 4. At least before I mastered the mechanics of that game.
They're also too obsessed with control and exclusivity. See their practice of "vaulting" movies so they can re-release them every 10 years. It's basically the opposite market strategy of streaming services that live on the long tail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
> Amazon online retail is a Google search engine level monopoly now.

Not even particularly close. Amazon doesn't even have a majority of online sales, although it's getting close. They seem like a much bigger force than they are because of growth.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-...
> It was $110m down the drain on the first product

What happened afterwards? Did this trigger management to consider why the purchase was the wrong one? I.e. was it a $110m lesson? Or was it really wasted money?
The equivalent Dropbox plan is also 1TB. I personally don't ever use Office so for me that element of it is not a benefit.
It's actually pretty trivial. Getting the right parameters for the load will be hard and making sure you are loading it properly. Think about DDOS attacks. Generating the load is rarely the issue.
Netflix doesn't force employees to take RSUs. Every employee has the option to take anywhere from 0-100% of their compensation in cash. [1] This was also my experience.

1. https://www.quora.com/How-does-Netflix-compensate-its-employ...
HBO Now is so weird. I subscribed for a couple of months to watch Game of Thrones and Westworld. I figured I might as well check out the rest of the service too. HBO has many decades of original content right? There should be tons of stuff to watch on there, but I could find barely anything. It was just a light crust of the most current shows, whatever movies they were currently licensing, and a few crumbs from the back catalog.

I ended up dropping the subscription because I'd watched everything interesting on the service in no time flat. I could have been watching Tales from the Crypt for months, but it wasn't available at all. Where is the Rey Bradbury theater? Shows I'd heard about growing up but only got to see briefly in a hotel room on a trip. For a service nearly twice as expensive as Netflix they made seemingly no effort to keep me engaged.