skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This approach also allows for the reality that not all "positive" people are necessarily optimists. There's room for all kinds of valid perspectives in this world, and if you limit yourself to people who are engaged in a constant exercise of blowing rose-scented smoke up your butt (extremely common in the US, particularly places dominated by techno-utopian types...), you're missing out. People who make your life better don't always have to be saying happy things to you.

There are few things worse than people who are surrounded with a thick layer of "positive thinkers", who never deliver bad news or critical thinking. It's a fast track to delusion.
I think a modern U.S. Civil War will look a lot like Syria. Once social order collapses, you'll get a bunch of different armed factions all pursuing their own social agenda. Remember that the 99% generally hates each other a lot more than they hate the rich; I can't imagine a Nazi from North Carolina, an Evangelical from Arkansas, a proud Southerner from Alabama, a blue-collar Irish Catholic from Boston, a cattle-rancher from Montana, a Jewish doctor from NYC, a poor urban black from Atlanta, and a Californian tech-worker all fighting on the same side.

Any conflict where the U.S. disintegrates will likely spread worldwide, too, as other nations take advantage of the power vacuum to press their own claims. So emigration is unlikely to be a solution for people who wish to remain neutral.

The endgame for the 1% is likely to become lords or petty kings of little feudal domains. They may offer to provide security services to their employees in exchange for economic service. They wouldn't be global titans of industry, but they'd be heads of their little fiefdoms. The smart ones will avoid major military action, instead only clearing the local area around their corporate offices of populist insurgents. If the insurgents want to fight other insurgent groups, that's their business; they can all kill each other off.
As a citizen of somewhere other than the USA, we basically look at your guns and go “WTF”, but it’s your problem not ours so we don’t really care that much.
SF has a severe lack of free toilets, besides the streets.
> Due to the high resolution of the imaging, even a cubic millimeter of brain tissue can generate over 1,000 terabytes of data

This is so insanely unimaginable to me, wow
> If you look at a county by county map of the US election 2016 results...

Counties don't vote. Further, most counties have very low populations.

Two facts about the 2016 election matter:

- Hillary Clinton got 65,844,610 votes; Donald Trump got 62,979,636 .

- Donald Trump got 304 electoral votes; Hillary Clinton got	227 .

As long as those two kinds of vote disagree, we have extreme tension in the United States.
Most interesting tidbit:

> Apple was careful to mention its latest third-gen keyboard in its press release. The added quietness seems a bit underwhelming to our ears, and we suspect there's something more going on... As you may have heard, there's a brand new silicone barrier under here. Apple says this new addition is purely for soundproofing, but it bears a suspicious resemblance to their 2016 ingress-proofing patent—one that might help prevent the keyboard failures we keep hearing about. This bears further analysis. We'll have a deeper dive on the keyboard situation later in the week. Stay tuned!

Relevant image:

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/Xi2aYwBSYTs2fZT1.h...
I think the reality of the issue is the biggest counter-argument to M.A.D. Not that the concept of M.A.D. isn't sound, per se, just that it's not a strong retort to concerns about the risk of use of nuclear weapons, or even the outbreak of nuclear war.

M.A.D. is dependent on both a strong rational actor model and as well as a strong and strict state apparatus. In reality, at the end of the day what seems to have kept us away from nuclear war is the simple fact that most people are extremely risk averse and, in the first instance, will behave rather empathetically even against enemies. That's comforting from a humanist perspective, but given the prevalence of traits like psychopathy and other pathologies in the general population not anywhere near the kinds of odds that justify the current number and administration of nuclear weapons and weapons-grade material.
On a plane I find that I can actually hear voices better, because the background of the plane is gone. I don’t believe people who say “noise canceling headphones”, because they just don’t work that way. You’d need both the headphones and music or something, and having to listen to music all day can be just as fatiguing.
This might be a useful table for you:

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_leaderboard

The "Exit Velocity" section lists recorded speeds of batted balls broken down by batter, showing their maximum and average speeds. Notice there are a lot of players for whom the average ball they hit comes off the bat at 90+ mph. The "Hard Hit" column lists how many times each player has hit a ball that came off the bat at 95+ mph.

Keep in mind also that balls are also thrown quite hard in baseball, and an important part of a fielder's job is catching balls thrown by teammates.
Thank you for sharing that!

I normally queue up a station on Digitally Imported [0], but I do find myself getting distracted if I recognize a song I like, or when the ads come on. I'll give this a shot and see how I like it :)

0: http://www.di.fm/
My Uncle in-law sold his house a couple months ago in Santa Clara (right next to Levi's stadium) and was asking for $1.2MM hoping to actually get 1.3 for it (a problem unto itself..). They took a $1.5MM offer (from about 5 other similar offers) from a young couple who both worked at Uber and also got significant help from parents. Wasn't all cash but I believe they put down like $500k. So it's not just tech but sometimes tech with the help from family.
Not saying that I disagree with the sentiment of your comment but Bezos does not have $150B. I would be surprised if he had any more than a few million in cash/liquid assets. His worth is tightly coupled to the value of Amazon stock that he owns. A lot of workers do benefit from their stock increase through granted stock options.

All that said. Amazon needs to take a long hard look at how they manage their warehouses and fulfillment centers when it comes to workers rights and common decency.
As someone who grew up next to a highway in a place with constantly-on TVs, i don't notice most kinds of noise, so i can't offer any advice on that front.

What was a distraction in my case was internet browsing. This got solved by having a dedicated tablet for all sorts of non-essential browsing, and the work computers never having anything but work-related links.

You'd think that's not going to matter, but the little bit of friction that created was enough.
I was being sarcastic.

So I suppose this makes your comment sarcastic as well, if only retroactively.
Well, there's India. Which sort of blows up the curve, what with their billion-plus population.
No complaints about Brown going to the voters. It was the right thing to do. My complaints are about my soggy memory.

They tried this 2/3 majority thing again. It's not hard nor is it especially expensive to get a ballot initiative passed, more so in an off election. Prop 8 passed the same election that Obama got elected.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Two-Thirds_Vote_for_State...
Also, "up" and "down" exist relative to a coordinate system which may be implicit in your culture, but rotated in an adjacent culture.
One of the most entertaining forums I read is for a perennially under-performing football club.
It's real no holds barred stuff, as much about themselves as anything else, for wasting their money season after season and never learning.
By contrast forums where the vibe is to 'support the team' are dull and even oppressive.
Does anyone else thinks this question is not well defined?
Because,
1. How do you define employee productivity?
2. How do you know that Google employees have more productivity as opposed to other companies?

The analysis becomes even more convoluted when "employees" encompasses everyone from engineer to janitor to executive.
2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV
It is the whichever is greater of 20 million Euros or 4 percent of annual turnover.
Undergoing a similar type vibe with a recently set up website. Barely has content on it so not expecting much, but the low hit-count isn't exactly encouraging & motivating towards putting more content in place.

Must be far worse for streamers - that's a hell of a lot more personal.
Any sources for me to read up on? Googling just gave me the BattleChess duck story, some unrelated UX examples using ducks, and info about how the duck hunt "gun" worked.
Metanoia – A set of TypeScript decorators for defining a GraphQL schemas
Age-old truth: "Use the right tool for the right job".
I've lived in enough different parts of the U.S. that I've lost track of what sounds the vowels are supposed to make. I sound odd wherever I am.
The worst thing about so many of these "positive people" is that their comments are meaningless and their opinions carry no weight. If everyone and everything everyone's doing is "great", "great" has become synonymous with "average","typical" and "unremarkable".
I have Earthquake insurance from the CEA and it was surprisingly cheap, but of course, one thing is for the insurance to cover your home repairs and quite another to actually be able to do them because if/when the next big one hits, if you think contractors/developers are overbooked now it will be 100 times worse then, basically I suspect we'll live in a tent for a while. But at least I have my own piece of land where to do that.
T-shirts with lyrics and some sarcastic twist
Having been in a similar boat, what I find amazing is how there are words I say with an American accent 99% of the time, but in the context of a South African reference, will say it with a South African pronunciation. Tomato is one of these words. I say tomato like any other North American, but when I am referring to a tomato breedie, well suddenly, I say it like a South African. What I find most odd, is that I don't feel weird when I say it in context, but if I try and say it out of context, it seems so forced.
I'm not nearly versed enough in either lisps or Arc to comment on it as a language, but as far as the architecture of the forum is concerned, what is the rationale for functions that appear to just print CSS and javascript[0]?

Wouldn't it be better to separate CSS and JS into separate, static files and only have the forum deal with, at best, IDs and classes in HTML?

I'm asking because I'm tempted to actually try to fork it and make a PR for it but it seems like such a simple and obvious bit of housekeeping that I have to assume there's a reason no one else has bothered yet.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/news.a...
It's much-discussed in the industry.[1] Tesla Fremont is running 3 shifts, 7 days, to get about 3500 cars a week out the door.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/05/01/no-way-t...
I've noticed this about HN's "substantive comment" policy, regarding always "adding to the conversation" somehow.

By and large, it mostly encourages reproaches, much in the same way that vote ranking often encourages baseless downvotes that the community uses to drive preferred opinions to the top of any thread, and onto the main page.

The result is a very dry humorless community, preserving all the downsides of an echo chamber, but deceptively without all the back slapping, inside jokes, voices of encouragement and memetic kidding around that other echo chambers demonstrate.

You'll see what success on HN looks like, if you look at the karma scores of some of the most active users, whose tone is most reinforced by the incentive system, and then browse their participation artifacts, and reflect on what kind of a person might naturally play into this feedback system.

Is that the kind of person you would have this site transform you into?

The power of positive people, indeed.
The dog pictures are cached locally in the app - can confirm because they also show up when traveling through a cellphone-signal-free zone everyday.
It amazes me how many people seem to have bought into his cult of personality. Hopefully his recent pedophile outburst will give them some pause, and lead them to consider the long-term societal effects of worshipping corporate oligarchs.
https://www.eldiario.es/economia/principales-reivindicacione...
I'm very happy to report that most sentiment analysis is awesomely, incredibly, even beautifully inane.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17545540 and marked it off-topic.
Dammit, AMZN, keep it together, I haven't even vested yet...
This is really interesting but it's missing discussion about what makes each format right for what kinds of information/pages. Even some examples of things currently commonly PDF that would be most helpful to switch to HTML. I have trouble believing that HTML is right for every kind of government document (for example, a quarterly or yearly report published by some agency seems like a reasonable PDF).
It’s quite basic to see where you’re coming from; quite limited to convince yourself it’s sufficient or even consistent.

You’re conception overlooks the value in systematic considerations that build-in humility and compassion independent of judgement and measurements of interpersonal compatibility. I’m talking about the basis for some of the most critical elements of a functional society, like morals and other insistutions which defend and bring dignity to people who may be disabled, ugly, foreign, poor, uneducated, etc.

Humility and compassion can and must extend beyond your doorstep. This does not require you to be forced with disgust, discomfort, offense or anything of the like. But maybe it requires a basic concern for people as a whole and an appreciation for the deep complexities that bring your experiences to life, and for some people a walk in others shoes seems to be one of the only paths.

The idea is “humility and compassion” optimized on a systemic level, and not subject to the whims and follies of individual judgement and interpersonal emotion. This is the justification for morals. Be careful to not mistake morals for fairness, for fairness is subject to the aforementioned weaknesses.
My Myspace top 8 from 2006 begs to differ.
Damn right we do. And it's why we don't live in a capitalist dystopia.
Where Tesla excels is in the Model 3's skateboard-like, lithium-ion battery pack and related power electronics. "We are shocked by the advanced integration and advanced manufacturing techniques" used in the electronic control center, Chief Executive Sandy Munro told members of the Automotive Press Association on Wednesday. "This is the brilliance of the Tesla Model 3."

"Everything that's below the floor pan is amazing."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/04/25/teslas-b...
Heisenberg gets pulled over. Cop: "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?" H: "No, but I know exactly where I am!"
I could understand the outrage if this was a service you were paying for.

But this is a Free service being provided to you. Why do you believe you have the right to dictate how someone else uses their time when you're not paying for it?
How to Build a Self Sovereign Identity Wallet?
That's sad truth.
But it's convenience like anything else.

In my business I can put a hardware site
online with

---6X---
2 x intel gold 5115 10 core + 64 GB RAM
1 nvme @512G + soft raid1 @4TB magnetic
1 10G, 2 1G ether
~= 42K.

---2X---
storage or NAS with 60TB @RAID5 + 2x quad core low end xeon + 32 GB RAM = 16k

---2X---
1G edge/core mngd switches + 10G SAN/LAN mngd switches
= 5K

---2X---
Endian firewalls + threat appliances
= 5K

---1X---
Colo with 2 year lease and 25 amps @208v
1g port speed and committed throughput > 100/mbps
= 16K yearly

68K one time cost for depreciating assets we maintain, provision and secure + 16K yearly recurring cost.

Or I can go AWS and modify my processing model, security expectations and service infra and spend 25K a year + 15K
1x migration cost.
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I don't understand your argument at all. There are special use cases the require a car therefore everyone should use a car even if they don't need it? Well here is the thing. If less people use the road because of public transport then there will be less traffic congestion for the uses cases that absolutely require a car. Banning regular car parking in the city means there is more space for accessible parking lots. On top of that cars produce a high amount of pollution directly in the center of the city which leads to lung diseases. Car accidents also increase the number of people with disabilities. You're making it sound like public transport is one sidedly disadvantaging people with disabilities when in reality everyone benefits.
He has $150 bn in stock that he could just distribute to his employees.
Except that their current production rate, according to your previous Bloomberg link and the well-known and little-changing S and X numbers, is 5,500/week.
No. I work in one of the biggest fulfillment centers in the network. Shit broke.
Why github? You couldn’t just use pastebin? It’s a recipe! How much collaboration are you expecting to happen? Are you expecting people to file issues about your chili sauce?
Impossible, since every extra state will dilute the power of other states in the Senate.
That's what they have been focusing on for the last few years. A lot of the money they have reinvested has gone towards physical infrastructure (data centers, fulfillment centers, courier vehicles). Not only are they gaining a monopoly in moving physical goods from A to B but also information through AWS. You may not use their services but an increasing number of people are using them regularly.
Your understanding of jokes reads like it's literally insane, as if an alien was trying to understand humor. How could you possibly believe this? These unknown "studies" you refer to are clearly bunk. Anyone can disprove it in 10 seconds of looking at a list of jokes. This idea of jokes is not a fact by any stretch of the imagination.

Your retelling of "barbarian" etymology is also wrong. Apparently ancient greeks thought other people's languages sounded like "bar bar" to them. It's not what foreigners sounded like trying to speak their own language, which wouldn't really even make sense.

"The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking peoples, including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their otherness, because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish represented by the sounds "bar..bar..;" this is how they came to the word βάρβαρος"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian#Etymology
>Standard Oil probably had real oil (asset) and Amazon now has an inflated valuation based on potential future earnings. Apple to Oranges

Amazon has a dominant market position in online sales. It's not a natural resource but it a position that affords it strong economies of scale and, eventually, monopoly rents, just like those earned by Microsoft, Facebook or Google in their markets.

Network effects are the oil of our age.
What do you do when you need to pull the equity out of your home to retire? Reverse mortgage?
This is weird. In Chrome incognito, I get ~400 requests (without scrolling), and in Firefox private browsing, I get ~120 requests before scrolling, and ~190 after. What in the world? I disabled all the extensions in Firefox too.
The idea of open source recipes on GitHub is so charming to me.
Check out this startup that's tackling menstrual relief
No credit score in Slovenia. The country still functions...
Moving from MacOS to Pop_OS (GNU Linux from System 76)
> 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.

This is not really relevant. The author of this piece suggests that the path to affordable higher ed in the US is elite institutions doubling their full-rides. But that's a drop in the bucket; "everyone go to an ivy on a full ride" is not a sustainable or realistic way of decreasing the cost of college.

> 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.

This is also not a problem. Most people who go to college would be perfectly happy with a stable 80k. Or even 60k. The problem is not that folks can't get 250k. The problem is the massive amount of money they have to spend to get certain jobs that pay those wages, even at lower-tier universities. And more Harvard scholarships aren't going to solve that problem.
I own the Bose QC25 and have never really been happy with its capability to block human voices. Perhaps the QC35 are better. I also read that the Sony noise cancelling headphones (MDR-1000x and successors) have eclipsed the Bose ones in noise-cancelling quality. Anyhow, having to charge (or change batteries) for headphones every day is really annoying.

My current setup involves in-ear monitors (Massdrop x MEE Audio Pinnacle PX IEM) plus gigantic 3M Peltor X5A earmuffs on top of them [1].

I look ridiculous wearing the 3M Peltor X5A but it sends a strong message that I don't want to be disturbed, and they do a much better job than the Bose headphones at blocking human voices.

I have read that an alternative is to wear headphones on top of in-ear monitors, playing music on the IEMs and white noise on the headphones. This is the setup for Starcraft II professional gamers in tournament settings, for example.

[1] pic: https://pics.dllu.net/file/dllu-pics/20180716_151629.jpg
Doesn't Firefox private browsing has a tracking blocklist active by default?
My gut feel is that they did everything right to prepare based on forecasts from last year but still got swamped by demand.
>A slightly off-topic insight I came upon recently was from the civil rights movement: don't call people racist, because it backs them into a corner they can't get out of.
>It's better to debate them on their choices so they can find their own way towards a more enlightened and equitable worldview.

Whether this is possible is very dependent on what exactly is meant by the massively overloaded "racist"/"sexist"/"bigot" terms. These terms are sometimes apt, but quite often these days, they are deployed against facts, in which case it's not possible to reason someone out of the position.

>I've also come to realize that this may partially explain why conservatives I know have been reluctant to engage in political discussion in these times.

No, the main reason for this is that holding certain positions is dangerous in some bubbles. See: James Damore, Lindsay Shepherd, Eric Weinstein, or Charles Murray.

>engaging them in a more positive way. I'm still trying to figure out what that is, however.

Pinker has some thoughts on that:

https://youtu.be/fFohRupaXzc?t=972
Re: I've heard of even Unicorns throwing consistency out the window. Apparently Netflix has a bunch of "cleanup jobs" [to fix "bad" transactions]

If your business model is to be cheap with high volume sales, then corrupting say 1 out of 10,000 customer transactions may be worth it. If you give customers a good price and/or they have no viable alternative, you can live with such hiccups, and the shortcuts/sacrifices may even make the total system cheaper. You are like a veterinarian instead of a doctor: you can take shortcuts and bork up an occasional spleen without getting your pants sued off. But most domains are NOT like that.
Smonday - the period of time where you realise your weekend is coming to an end and you have to go back to work tomorrow
Wouldn't it help them to purchase from Amazon today? If there are lots of orders but no one to fulfill it seems like that would be greater pressure on Amazon.