skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to add, "does it need to beyond what's delivered by Moore's Law?" (which I use a metaphor for all increases in computing performance, including I/O, which has, of course, increased at a much slower, but far from zero, pace).

If your CPU utilization from user growth is doubling every 2 years, but so is CPU capacity, then don't worry about it.
Doesn't this show that the people who took $5 up front were right? The ones who waited for $50 at the end are getting screwed.
Yep, backwards compatibility, not just hands but bodies overall, if we ever make a robot that can drive existing cars it will pretty much resemble a human body, and our cities were created for human bodies/interactions (walking up stairs, etc)
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Apptimize is hiring for multiple engineering positions
I want to learn Clojure but every time I try I get bogged down thinking I need to learn Common Lisp first. I’m sure that’s silly but it seems like it would be important. Am I wrong?
How do you get the mobile numbers of the people who work in a particular building? That sounds impossible.
De facto coup? I didn't say anything about anything remotely like that... How about when did Congress or the CIA in Washington, DC approve the purchase of the Predator drones run for years in Pakistan and Yemen before people got wind of it and they signed up with the military to make the program semi-legit? They didn't. They just decided to buy a bunch of drones and start tele-killing people on their own. They got ahold of the drones somehow, and went for it. Who in DC approved the fake vaccination program? No one did. Permission was never asked for.

I'm not afraid of a 'deep state' or anything of the sort. I think it's just a bunch of people who realized that they have carte blanche to do literally whatever they want, and that no government on the planet can or will bring them to task. So they do what they want. There's certainly still a legitimate portion of the agency, those at Langley and all who run normal intelligence operations, but they don't seem to have much connection and certainly no control over those operating however they please with no regard for law.

I don't actually know how they jive their multitude of active operations destroying democratic movements (which are not conspiracy theories, I'm only referring to the documented ones). I presume, very cynically I suppose, that they have concluded that democracy is a nice story to tell the naive civilian children, but that in harsh reality there has to be 'hard men' in the shadows making 'hard decisions' and putting boots on some throats to construct and protect the artificial bubble of happiness the US enjoys. I think, very not cynically, that they are absolutely and completely wrong on this mark and that they are profoundly immoral and destructive to the world in general, including the US in their misguided quest. Democracy is right and works ok enough. The alternatives are indefensible philosophically.

When I hear things like about the drone program, I never understand why there isn't more controversy. The CIA is a CIVILIAN organization. They are in no way military or affiliated with the military. They have no mandate to execute military operations or use military resources, equipment, or tactics. It would seem to me that they committed some sort of fundamental and very cardinal error there...
It's common knowledge among most techies that the majority of Amazon reviews are fake and that counterfeit items are a big issue, but most of the general population is completely unaware. I was searching for an inexpensive pair of polarized sunglasses last week and the "Amazon Recommended" ones had an F on FakeSpot with 70%+ fake reviews.
I see no fewer than four paragraphs indicating it was a combination of over-promising benefits, longer lifespans, higher medical costs, boomers retiring at the same time, and poor portfolio performance.

I'm quite satisfied with my subscription.
that certainly wasn't LED display
"vaccine programs are being used by the US to kill people,"

That couldn't be further from the truth. They infiltrated the vaccination program of one single street to catch the world's most wanted terrorist. They aren't on a mass killing campaign via vaccinations!

Again - stop lending credence to the distortions pedaled by terrorists.
I understand the consideration that this Universe is all that exists. But isn't that... weird? That there's no 'why' to this particular existence? We could be much more complicated if you consider all possible things that could exist. Is it simply senseless to ask 'why this'?

This view is argued here by Sean Carroll: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02231

Personally, I'm not convinced, although I see the merits of the argument.

Of course as you noted, if you simply assume a parent system you get into an infinite that may or may not be reasonable (the parent system must have a parent, and so on, an infinite stack of parents; this infinite stack of parents also lies in another infinite stack, and so on). I think the only possible alternative to brute fact is to just assume everything exists, to different extents. Then after a lot of handwaving you can sort of explain why the universe is kinda simple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

I haven't picked a side, but I have to say I'm more weirded out by the proposition that this is everything that exists than the proposition that essentially everything exists.
I suppose it's too much to hope that BitTorrent fights for the users now?
You don't have to terraform Antarctica; people already live there. Merely terraforming Mars to the point where it's as habitable as Antarctica would be extremely remarkable.
If you don't drag bad ideas out into the light (kicking and screaming, if need be) and beat the crap out of them in rigorous debate, then they fester and grow in dark places and eventually kill you.

Edit: to add, the reason people don't take this tactic anymore, is (in my opinion) because they are 1) intellectually lazy, 2) poor debaters and 3) not comfortable with confrontation.
2 isn’t in scope of pension obligations.

3 is arguable. They usually look for 7%
Uhh HyperLedger from IBM is used to build blockchain systems without an unerlying cryptocurrency.

The use of cryptocurrencies within blockchain is to "promote" the adoption/distribution of a system. However, there are other cases where the stimulus for the adoption is non-monetary (e.g. access to the information) and thus a crypto-currency is not needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Political_influence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Influence_and_l...

Edit: She did flee a terrible situation in Russia, which I think probably explains (but does not excuse) her positions on socialism vs. capitalism.
“The question is not whether JavaScript is broken. The question is whether it is broken enough to merit being replaced by something else.”
~ Anders Hejlsberg

“Big JavaScript codebases tend to become read-only.”
~ Anders Hejlsberg

Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-...
The previous generations are far more conservative than our generation and they are still all for these sort of entitlements. This is not a liberal vs conservative argument, this is a "fuck you, I got mine" argument from the beneficiaries of these pensions currently
Regardless of what you think the fair comparison is, it wouldn't be serious to claim that the writing is unremarkable without... reading the writing.

Same goes for playing an instrument. You have to listen to the applicant to know whether their playing is remarkable or not.

To be as clear as possible: OP should have reserved judgment on the musical prowess of the applicants instead of claiming all 600-1000 applicants were unremarkable players without having listened to them.

tldr; "I didn't see any musical accolades listed in their packets" != "unremarkable players."
Deadly.

This is exactly the sort of reason I enjoyed the book. Its interesting how the story adapts to being told backwards. In most economic stories, the man would spend the dollars and stuff would happen.
So, overall I think given the problem you are solving, there is a LOT of thought that could be done in regards to UX. So, ignoring that you guys are probably keeping that in mind, I have a few smaller comments that seem like immediate thoughts.

1) It isn't clear what is clickable and what isn't, I feel like I should be able to click on the blue comment badges and see related comments (or is that # related to requested change count?)

2) Secondarily to this, when I click on a dom element, it automatically defaults to the inspector tab, when I feel like this gets too deep for a product owner just wanting to make comments on a section

3) I am not clear on what the difference between a red highlight box around elements and a blue one means

After looking at it a few minutes more, other than the comments above, I think you are thinking about it in the right way.
I feel like there are levels of depth/advanced features that should feel more progressive -- right now it seems like feature overload on that first view. Maybe the default view is just something where you can click on dom elements and add comments, the second "tab" is "Request Markup Changes" where there are no comments -- when you select an element you can make markup changes with the advanced inspector and there is a history of those, and then you might could even get rid of the "screenshot" view. Or maybe mix the screenshot "highlight area" functionality with the first/non-dev oriented commentary tab/view

Sorry if that last paragraph isn't concise, I can rewrite it better if some of it wasn't helpful. Also this is all obviously just my opinion

Edit: I made edits above ^
Edit: Last edit. I also notice the UI/UX seems a bit different on your landing page demo vs what is present in the demo link. I personally kinda like the comments having their own dedicated space to the left of the page, then you could toggle the advanced inspector tab on the right, in and out cleanly. Not sure if there is a way to change the comments to the left currently, or that was a previous build. But I feel like it addresses some of my commentary above.
It's not that it would call a different function, but that sometimes the RPC will fail to call the function. You can't get a network error calling a function which is in memory on the same process.
> As a result infrastructure is poor, toll roads are increasing, privatization of prisons, intelligence gathering, war, etc. are rising too.

I wouldn't bundle military expenditure with the rest of public spending. Our military budget currently stands at a staggering $639bn (that's billion) for FY2019.

In fact, there's a good argument that if we diverted some of these enormous funds to invest in other areas, those problems you mentioned (infrastructure, etc) would be fixed.

> The situation is easy to fix in economic terms but not in political terms.

The article is about defined-benefit pensions. Nobody has those anymore, not in the US. This is a large group of privileged individuals, who years ago got themselves a sweetheart deal as employees of the state. It's basically another case of the previous generation mandating extremely comfortable benefits for themselves, and passing the bill to the next generation.

These are people who worked for the government their entire lives. They may not be rich, but they were generally comfortable, and certainly not the neediest part of the population. They can stand a modest cut to their pensions.

Otherwise, your argument is that all of us should pay substantially higher taxes to bankroll these lucky few individuals who got themselves a sweetheart deal thanks to their affiliation with state and local government. In most places, you'd call that "corruption".
> Frankly, I’m not sure I have the time or trust myself to set up OpenWRT correctly/make sure it’s updating regularly/I’m installing the correct version etc.

As long as you're not going out of your way to install a nightly build of OpenWRT and you just stick with the stable releases, it's no more difficult than installing new firmware from the manufacturer and configuring it. The web interface for configuring OpenWRT is comparable to what most consumer routers provide, except that OpenWRT's UI is shared across all hardware platforms instead of being laden with vendor-specific branding and snake oil features.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/792/
It was probably both. Surely there is always a little optimism (our active fund manager can get us 8% instead of 7%!). But also-

For the period 1950 to 2009, if you adjust the S&P 500 for inflation and account for dividends, the average annual return comes out to exactly 7.0%

But, now economists are speculating that was an exceptional period (the post-war period) and "normal" return is probably more like 4-5%.
How legitimate is FakeSpot though? I find nearly everything has an F with a high amount of fake reviews when I use it.
That is not the issue this article is talking about. Public pension spending in the US is not especially low compared to the rest of the OECD [1]; as a portion of GDP it's larger than Norway or the Netherlands, which have much higher taxes.

The issue is that those pensions have been comically mismanaged; edit: and were not sustainable in the first place

[1] https://data.oecd.org/socialexp/pension-spending.htm
> The problem is everyone cheers on the politician that says you can have the $5 AND the $50.

And once that politician is gone, if one of the new candidates says "no you can't", that candidate will not be elected.
Just because they're using the program to kill someone you want dead, doesn't mean they aren't using the program to kill people.
This is a good example of the type of debate that well-meaning, thoughtful people decide just steer clear of due to the (lack of) perspectives of the majority of those currently taking part in the conversation.

The United States spends the better part of a trillion dollars per year on its military. A relatively small fraction of that would solve any issues their social welfare programs currently have.

It's a matter of prioritization and the perspective of those leading the discussion. Instead of turning focus towards changing priorities (the priorities are already seemingly in their favor), they turn to how expensive and unmaintainable the programs are that they wish to further de-prioritize. In the process, they draw attention away from the stark contrast of funding between various government programs. Namely social welfare vs military, or improving their society vs destroying others.
Recursion IS hard to reason about, and then implementing it efficiently (in a runtime / compiler) is also hard, and then an efficient implementation restricts your expressiveness, and then when someone else needs to read such code, it's hard for them to reason about it.

There are actually a lot of similarities with React.

Neither are useless nor bad per se, but given options, in majority of cases both are more of a smartass thing to do rather than the most optimal or most maintainable / developer friendly thing to do.
Brilliant reply to the parapsychologists 'incident':

"Where there’s smoke, there’s smoke.”
John Archibald Wheeler
Several years passed before the ESA was founded, and the UK didn't join until later, so I would say it was abandoned.
> Yet Americans falsely believe they are overtaxed.

Perhaps the observation of government wastefulness is conflated with feeling overtaxed. There are two ways the government can raise more money:

1) Raise taxes

2) Use existing taxes more efficiently

If you look at where the tax money is going, infrastructure is one of the smallest pieces of the pie. Why not divert defense and/or social service tax to infrastructure for a few years?
> So if a mugger has a gun to your head and say "Your money or your life" do you have freedom because you have a choice to choose???

That would be a prototypical case of _not_ being free.
Okay, that's a great solution. I actually had no idea that was possible.
I mostly just wish more people would read so that it'd be more likely that the 5 people I hang out the most were avid readers, so I could get some spillover wisdom.
Totally doable... right up until you fall ill or start to have medical issues and you can't care for yourself.
Unless you’re volunteering to die on Mars in the name of progress that you may in no way enable with your death, your willingness to sacrifice others rings hollow. A bunch of corpses in holes on Mars won’t in any way accelerate progress, and the specter of it might retard progress. “They’ll figure it out” has to be one of the emptiest cop-outs I’ve heard in a space full of empty cop-outs and hand waving. Trying is necessary for success, but doesn’t in any way guarantee it.

It’s also not as if Mars is some kind of lynchpin in a future of humanity in space, and if you focus too much on one target you’re blinded to other options. Keep more of an open mind and be a little less cavalier about killing people and things might turn out better than you’d expect. At least, better than the “build a mountain of smart-people corpses until the problems dissolve” approach can hope to achieve.

Or think of it this way; what you’re saying is equivalent to saying that the problem of humans not being able to fly can be solved by taking a bunch of smart people up in airplanes and pushing them out without parachutes.
I imagine being a doctor is more selective for high IQ than development and there are just as many female doctors as male ones.

If this is a true effect I imagine it's a selection effect. Women who felt luke warm about coding never entered, or left.
50 years of Cold War propaganda exacted its price. Communism, socialism, and taxes are trigger words for a large number of Americans aged 40 and over.

One thing I really appreciated about Bernie Sanders was that he did not shy away from the term "socialist". It's engendered a conversation America really needed to start having.
Their goal was never to be profitable on paper, but acquire a ton of users and use them as bargaining powers for big theaters.

It never worked though, as AMC and the others understood pretty well that the best way to deal with them is to ignore them and let them die which would eventually happen.

It is a shame, because there is a real issue in the US with movie theaters that are mostly empty due to Netflix and other "At Home" offerings. The marginal cost of someone going to a movie is zero, so there is definitely some business there.
Common Lisp is a very different language, I doubt it will help you to learn Clojure. Clojure is a smaller language than Common Lisp in a lot of ways, so learning it first, then Common Lisp later might actually be the faster approach.
I allways wondered how many skaters are reading hn. Skate and create. Skated palo alto in 92. Keeping it rolling in germany. Any readers in Frankfurt?
Until the 2008 recession, the vast majority of Illinois public pension funds assumed returns in excess of 8%: https://www.civicfed.org/iifs/blog/comparing-investment-retu.... That was more than the market returned in 1960-1980, but less than the market returned from 1980-2005.

But, those projections don't include unplanned pension benefit increases for existing retirees, which happens periodically.
It’s kind of surprising, I always imagined self driving trucks to be a more profitable business and “easier” challenge.
Best ‘brainy’ books of this decade
Ask HN: Open source API connection engines?
I was wondering if there are any open source engines that would allow us to build on in order to connect different APIs together. There are a lot of very expensive SaaS platforms out there that do this kind of thing but we would like to use something open source and add multiple sources and targets. We want to be able to connect Google Analytics API calls for example as a source with a middle layer that runs some transformations and then targets a marketing tool. Any suggestions?
I'm ashamed by this Networking 101 question, but what prevents you from connecting the UAP-AC-Lite directly to the ISP's device? (Assuming you don't want a physical ethernet connection at all). Is it for DHCP and assigning IPs to the clients?
What supervolcano are you predicting? The last Yellowstone caldera distributed its tephra only within the range roughly of the Great Plains--people in Chicago wouldn't see ashfall. Sure, airline travel would be screwed.

The rest of your comment is... I mean, to seriously believe that, you'd have to believe that there's severe extinction level events every million years or so, and the frequency of those kinds of extinction-level events is closer to every 50 million years.
Realising that a monad is just a lax functor from a terminal bicategory also helps.
Well, to clarify, I found the code in the libraries etc very readable, obviously I can read my own code :)
You're probably right. I shouldn't draw too many conclusions from my perceived experiences. And consciousness is complex enough that I might not appreciate my awareness of the sounds, not to mention my awareness of the elapsed time.

Plus, it's hard to argue against what the research suggests about echoic memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoic_memory. Minutes is at least at least an order of magnitude greater than what's been shown.
Becoming a parent is easy, it's the other part of looking after the kids that is more troublesome and difficult but, agreed, some parents do seem to talk down people who haven't experienced or chose not to experience it. At the end of the day, having kids is a choice (hopefully), and one shouldn't pull the parent card to convey a point... and do kids offer you enlightenment? Sure but so does a good book.
Yes typical dosing ratio is 1:2 caffeine:theanine.

With typical dosing being 100mg caffeine:200 mg l-theanine

You can buy l-theanine pills and take it with coffee. If you'd like it from nature, Matcha has the highest L-theanine content. This is because L-theanine is an anti-oxidant made in the roots and sent to the leaves to prevent against damage from the sun. Matcha tea plants are kept in the shade for the last couple of months, so they build up the theanine and it is not used up. The full leaves are then ground up, but will only contain around 40 mg per serving, which is why I generally recommend supplementing it. Suntheanine has a patented form that is made in a biofermentation process that yields nearly 100% pure L-isomer theanine.

Also interesting is that, while L-theanine the molecule wasn't "discovered" until 1949, the Japanese ceremonial tea scale has been for hundreds of years, organized by increasing levels of theanine content.
"And if they were a "hero" and increased taxes to try and tackle it, they'd only get voted out next election, so someone else can come in, undo it, then spend all the savings."

George H. Bush is one of the few important fiscal conservatives elected in my lifetime, and he is despised for it, especially by people who like to claim they are fiscal conservatives.
Such as ...?
This is a pretty common thing within Amazon. Internally it's called being "Frupid" (frugal + stupid). It's one of the reasons I left.

Also you have to jump through pretty extreme hoops if your hardware estimates (usually made at least 3 months out) were under-shot and now your service is redlining. This leads to teams way over-estimating their hardware needs and thus millions being spent on idle reserved EC2 capacity. So now they police (with savagery) idle capacity, so services or workloads that are "bursty" are basically an internal-bureaucracy nightmare.

It's much nicer to use AWS outside of Amazon :)