skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, Walter is a pretty solid choice. He's a successful businessman and extremely technically smart. There are quite a handful of similar people on here, who are very successful and intelligent and whose comments are always well thought out and insightful. (I want to be one of them one day but my career is just budding, so only time will tell.)

It almost makes me think HN should have a related feature, where people can universally stand out, separate from the leaderboard (link at the bottom). But knowing HN's philosophy, I know this would be against the spirit of the humble-meritocracy they're trying to build, and would do more harm than good.

In fact, I even wonder if this HN-Friends extension is going to have an adverse affect on its users. Right now the usernames are (probably intentionally) understated, to draw more attention to the content than the author. If we notice the person, we already have a bias not only toward their comment, but to read their comment before anyone else's. This goes against the meritocracy that I love about HN. But I also wonder how many thread discussion I had where I missed the context of who is talking, and the direction could have gone so much differently because of it.

And even more importantly, I love and encourage this kind of innovation, and don't in any way want to discourage you or anyone from making clever things like this!
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Sounds a lot like the "on the fly parsing" (§3.1) in Alagiannis' NoDB (See https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/files/stratos/files/nodb-ca... for details).
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It’s not just SF, it’s every community. I’ve spoken with developers (like, housing) and they face difficulties in every community in America. NIMBYism is running rampant, and disenfranchised voters are unable to fight, or don’t care enough to get involved. This is why local elections matter. My city just elected a NIMBY city council, which means we’re screwed for years, but we won’t stop fighting. People deserve to have places to live, and people deserve sane cities.
And in this analogy, those arguing against algorithmic ranking would forbid optimizing food for taste. I don't want to live in that world.
And that's another facet of the penal system's practical bias against the poor.
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It's interesting that some of the highest and lowest after-rent salaries are in the Bay area. That's a pretty clear indicator of SF's constrained housing supply in particular. It's also interesting so many low ranked after-rent cities are in Florida, which might reflect a strong desire to live there despite the lack of job opportunity.
Oh ok, is it possible to also maintain an aggregated “view” at the same time as an event view?
And bitcoin has made 100000% in 9 years. Its all a matter of timing.
I'd like an extension to remove usernames entirely. I would rather my opinions about commentary be less biased, not more.
Most of all music is garbage. The Beatles are more popular then Jesus, but at least 50% of their discography was composed of stinkers, that even fans have never heard about.

The difference is that with the benefit of time, we separate the wheat from the chaff.
I was literally just experimenting with ivank. Thanks for a great library!
"in a liberal democracy, as long you know you did nothing wrong, even if you got arrested, frisked, detained, there’d probably be no real need to panic. All you’d need to do is calmly clear up the misunderstanding and be back on your merry way."

This probably is a poor assumption about living in a liberal democracy,

but it seems ironic that he was actually able to resolve this relatively on the spot (he doesn't have to appear in court, or use the services of a lawyer to resolve this)

Kafka this isn't
Perhaps the most important political message I have seen on XKCD. Related Computerphile episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
I guess that some computer-powered elections are coming in the US, EU ?
DN and ETC.
I guess this is there as an “avoid showing unstyled content at any cost” thing. But really, WTF?
I'm aware. What makes the parent comment particularly relevant to VanEck's ETF vs all other threads about Bitcoin?
A bit pedantic, but Bitcoin is a hair under 50%, unless you count Bitcoin Cash with it (about 4%)
Of course he was in the wrong, but in other countries, you would have the manager come to you and tell you you mistakenly took some cash of the tip jars.

It seems surreal to me that you would have the cops called on you for 3 bucks.. what happened to human interaction (for real) ?
It's great that cost of elasticity is not hidden. I'm glad that there are alternatives.
Strong unions in the post-war era kept it at bay, but those have been declining in power.

Cost externalization has always been there. It's inherent in capitalist systems, and it lurked silently under the covers of neoliberalism for the past several administrations.

The change is its shift from covert to overt under this administration. They've saturated our ability to cover scandal, so they're no longer maintaining the facade.
> I write clear Stack Overflow question

Is this supposed to be English? I literally cannot read this. My behaviour is perfectly reasonable by the way, the problem is with you (the writer).
They get added to the carousel if they are AMP pages which for breaking news stories is life and death now.
> It means you don't give Apple money.

Well, sure, but where's the victory in using something you don't like (the situation that peatmoss (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709084) describes) for free? Sure, it's better than using something you don't like and paying for it, but (1) you're still investing time and effort, if not money, and (2) it seems better still just not to use the thing you don't like.
Which is why it's not a practical currency. If it's a speculative investment I have many other options.
Detroit is in a hype bubble, I think (sauce: lived there for a bit). You can absolutely pay $2,000 for an apartment in a part of town with some blown-out buildings nearby and nothing much to walk to. Why you’d do that, I don’t know, but you can. There are jobs if you wanna work for GM or Quicken Loans, but that’s about it.

There are affordable rents there, but what you save in rent you pay in car insurance. Michigan has the highest in the nation, and Detroit has the highest in the state. I paid almost $500 per month for mine. The legislature keeps trying to change policy to fix this (as it is ultimately a policy issue), but it usually gets shot down by the GOP who think it goes too far and Democrats who don’t think it goes far enough.
The Github folks could have used XDP similar as with Katran, I think their solution is very elegant in that the same node would still be able to process other workloads/jobs which is one of the reasons why Facebook decided against DPDK:

https://atscaleconference.com/videos/networking-scale-2018-l...
Income inequality in the USA has been increasing since the 1970's so whatever theory you have that explains the increase starting in the 1980's is simply incorrect.
I had an CS exam where I was familiar with all the topics asked and knew all the answers and even how to apply them, well despite some quirks surely ;P

But some questions in the exam required us to apply some algorithms by hand. I knew how they worked and I could also do them by hand. Did it on whiteboard with toy problems while studying for it. But what I didn't really expected was how fast the time run with manual execution on paper.. Even for modest data sizes.

I thought that the algos really could be improved to be much faster by hand, refactor to optimize for different operation costs when doing by hand given the available tools in the exam, reducing operation costs by speeding up hotspot manual steps by training right into muscle memory and better memory alignment on paper for faster data lookups in the first place.

I probably could have finished that exam in time, but with a baaad score. So I just quit and gave them a blank paper with my name to try again next time.

I knew what the real problem was: time, and I had a plan how to prepare for it.
It worked =)
> How does the US institutionalize racism? If anything we implement tons of policies with the opposite goal.

Redlining, racial-profiling, school-prison pipeline, pay discrimination, voter id laws that discriminate against minorities... I can go on and on.

> I'm not saying the US is perfect, but compared to China right now the US is

No its not. They are not comparable and shouldn't be. You think the US is great because I'm assuming you belong to socio-economic classes that have granted you a great quality of life and freedoms which are theoretically promised to all US citizens. But in practise, they are not and the situation is much more nuanced.
> 3,4,5

Those rely on the garbage collector. If you are willing to do C style memory management, they are all available with betterC.
Wow, this is so helpful.

As other comments seem to say. I googled quickly around when joining my first startup and this guide would have avoided me some typical first-timer mistakes.
What an asshole. Would he rather be interviewing people at Microsoft, or sipping Piña Coladas on a beach?

The difference is that he would probably not answer that question honestly.
It helped me get a job, because I framed it like having a small business. But I also never wanted to be a professional musician.

"We tested train routes and song styles against each other to calculate optimal earnings per hour, tailored our pitch to the audience most likely to donate, blah blah"
Two examples from Indeed.de in Germany, there are other results.

https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6c49a2deeb389df8&q=rust&tk=...

https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6823f26122417b2d&q=rust&tk=...
>Although I'd like to point out that bitcoin is now a rather small fraction of the whole spectrum of crypto economy

Sure, if you're calculating market share using the metric "how many crypto coins exist?", which makes no sense.
I am not sure of a prominent code base that does this exactly, but some people do similar things with "amalagmated builds". Like https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
Data Source: BusinessStudent.com

Makes sense that college towns would be over-represented.
Gloves won't save you this time.

Nor will sand.
If you put "!g" at the start of your search, DDG automatically redirects you to the search result in google.

I've been using DDG as my search engine for about 2 1/2 years now, and I find absolutely no reason to go back to Google other than location search, and DDG proxies that easily.
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You can do all of them without a garbage collector - you just have explicitly manage the memory yourself.
Tourism and service jobs just don’t pay well in general, which is why Florida gets dinged in these surveys.
The carousel on the top of a results page is only for AMP pages, so yes, they're absolutely prioritized.

But also, why are you so sure they're not prioritized in the rest of the results? It's very difficult to prove a negative here, and I personally don't trust anything google has said publicly on the matter.
Nuking the entire planet from orbit is the only solution.
What about the state of crypto right now leads you to believe they will _ever_ be a common form of currency?
As others have stated; Land and Gold can be confiscated; Thieves, Governments, Inflation. Its also hard to move.
Any lock can be broken; any safe cracked. I trust in AES with many iterations of SHA512 to protect my coins.

I feel you don't really understand the value that cryptocurrency is adding; It is by its nature very easy to move and cheaper to protect than Gold. Its the long bet against eventually everything will be eaten by the state; or by inflation.
«If I pay with a credit card I have level of protection. When I put my money in a bank the money is insured. Crypto is simply too risky as a way of storing money and trading.»

As always, the reality is not as black and white as you present it. Credit cards and fiat money certainly have advantages but they also have many drawbacks. Just to name a few: credit card fraud eats into merchants' profits, international money transfers are slow and crippled with high fees, bank accounts or cash can be frozen or seized by authoritarian governments, hyperinflation destroys savings, etc.

There are use cases where crypto adequately solves some of these problems that neither credit cards nor fiat money can solve. And, yes, crypto comes with a different set of drawbacks but that doesn't mean crypto is "too risky" for anyone to do anything with it.
Yeah, good luck using reason with these people. They'll just stare at you and say something along the lines of "But it's Google and they say so."

Tell them that it won't support all their various analytics scripts, tracking pixels, and A/B testing scripts that fill up their charts with vanity metrics they use to impress stakeholders.
Agreed. The obsession with page load times tilts the equation toward sites that spend more money on developers than content creators. Nothing against developers, but people indeed are looking for content rather than fast sites. I'd be happy to wait another second if the site I'm going to visit has more relevant stuff to what I searched for. Perhaps if a site is terribly slow, that's one thing, but differentiating sites based on microsecond differences is preposterous.
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It's also annoying to have the amp menu bar taking up space at the top. Screen real estate is scarce and another menu bar at the top is just confusing.
Are you being purposely obtuse?
Or why some people say never talk to the police: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvkgnp/law-professor-poli...
"in a startup if you can be legally screwed out of your money, you will be."

That is a (dark) awesome quote.
I actually know a girl that does that and she gets paid just fine. She also has her own dance studio.

The musicians I talk about are much more notable than the dancer in their own field, as far as I can discern. But the dancer does not work for an industry nearly as intricate. She dances, and she gets paid for dancing.

Finally, I don't expect musicians to have it easy. Just asking for ideas.
You say "drug laws" but then link to stories about marijuana. If you want to discuss historical fact, you can't just focus on marijuana when the picture is much bigger. African-American leaders[1][2][3] quite often wanted tougher laws about drug use. Drug laws may have been influenced in part by racism, but that is assuredly not the whole story. Black people don't want their communities destroyed by drugs and crime any more than anyone else, and they want enforcement as much as anyone.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/04/obituaries/rev-oberia-dem...
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=Pit7gWBM6M0C&pg=PA31&lpg=P...
[3] "The Congressional Black Caucus secured a closed-door sit-down meeting with President Nixon in the Cabinet Room. During the session, the group demands more action to stop the flow of narcotics into urban neighborhoods."
In most jurisdictions, the crime of theft requires intent to deprive the owner of the thing being stolen. According to Aaronson's report, this was not the case.
Did you turn it into real money or are you still speculating (now with the future of your family at stake)?
> He went through a traumatic experience with aggressive, armed officers not knowing why.

Talking to police officers for 5 minutes after you commit a crime is the cost of being part of society. It seems very reasonable to me and I wouldn't call it traumatic.

> maybe we should all be severely punished for our mistakes

This qualifies as severely punished?

> The world is a much better place if we can work together and be understanding of mistakes

Completely agree, that's why Aaronson complete inability to understand his mistake is so gross. Even after it's explained to him and he's back home writing a blog post about it, he still doesn't understand his mistake.
If you live in a place where a mortgage is double rent, you're basically a temporary resident.
In the case of Chapel Hill (and I'm sure others as well), it's a bit odd to see it singled out when it's really part of a larger metropolitan area.

If I were living in Chapel Hill, I could also be reasonably working in Raleigh or Durham.
I do not have a problem with internet advertising in general.

I do.
AMP was always a bad idea.
CARP and the likes rely on the presence of an L2 layer which means you get limited scale or increased risk of a global outage. An L3 design scales very well and is resilient (notably because of the distributed control plane and the inability to create a loop).
You're looking for the word: cryptography.

Neither cryptocurrencies nor cryptography are, by definition, the only crypto.
If I ever found another startup, I'll do it somewhere with significantly lower rents but proximity to a startup hub. For example, the Santa Rosa area fits the bill in SF, and there are areas of New York that are significantly outside of Manhattan or Williamsburg. It's just not worth the runway hit, and those locations force you to try for a certain kind of funding that might not actually fit the startup (or its stage) well. Cities like SF have enormous value to a startup but not so much that you have to be in them day in, day out. There was a time that this was the optimal thing to do, but I think it's passed.
No, just by the metric of market caps of fairly liquid coins (btc, bch, eth, sia, etc.). Bitcoin is the minority coin now.
Not worth saving. Born in Chicago.

The Tribune, back when they mattered, used a simplified version of English spelling.[1] "Tho" for "Though" was the most noticeable change. McCormack, the publisher, was into that. It didn't catch on at all.

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-per-flash-simplespelling-02...
It's relevant to both. Put another way, there's nothing special about the VanEck ETF; it's just another (and there will be many more) piece of news in Bitcoin that drives up, then drives down, the price. To your bigger, implicit point, that the comment doesn't belong because it's not completely relevant, if we assume that's the case, that's the nature of a forum. How many Apple conversations dare to have comments about how the MBP isn't for developers, etc, regardless of the original point?
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I think you missed his whole point. He admits he absent-mindedly committed a petty crime and failed to communicate with a minimum-wage worker. For these mistakes, he was presumed to be a hardened criminal and no attempt was made to see if maybe--just maybe--this nebbishy-looking guy with his family might merely be an ordinary person having a bad day in an airport who made a simple mistake because he was stressed-out. A few words of respectful human communication on the part of the cops could have saved everybody a lot of grief. But that option never occurred to them.
https://voatz.com/ is going to power remote voting in West Virginia, according to https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/07/voatz-mobile-voting-west... .
There is also a difference between people who find it difficult to explain complex technical questions in a manner that is easy to understand and thos who probs dont care cuz thei r 2 lzay 2 write and its ur problem
pre-fetching links is not a new optimization technique. And it doesn't require any new technologies to implement.
Your argument is wrong and ignores reality. You should feel ashamed of yourself for presenting such a disingenuous and widely debunked argument. This venue demands better.

For folks who don't know (hnaccy almost certainly does because this is the standard rebuttal to this lousy argument): Because the Chinese Exclusion Act was a real thing, the total combined Asian American population between the 8th census and the 1965 Immigration & Naturalization Act never exceeded 500,000 nationally, and that's adding a healthy margin of error. The recruited labor force was minuscule and not a significant contributor to today's booming population of over 20m.

It wasn't until after substantial immigration changes (oh, and federally guaranteeing non-whites could own property) that more folks were allowed in, and so we've had a relatively tiny fraction of US history where immigration was possible and desirable (who's gonna immigrate if you're legally forbidden to own a business or a home because of your skin color?). Folks moving in initially were folks who were rich and capable of going to a country with only minimal resources and support structures. The first year after the I&NA came about, the Asian population in America surged by over 200% and has grown at a healthy clip since then, dramatically skewing the characteristics of the population's wealth distribution.

So yeah, there's a substantial bias in Asian immigration, which has had a lot less time to give people with less means (a reliable predictor of maximum academic performance). We'd expect to see this in the data if economic resources enable academic performance, which we can point to multiple obvious mechanisms of. hnaccy's argument only makes sense if you believe there is some essential quality to Asian and White genetics that, in isolation of every other factor, reliably makes them "smarter" than black or brown people. Even a casual knowledge of genetics and epigenetics suggests that this is at best radically implausible at worst an outright lie dating back to 1930s propaganda trying to co-opt science for political gain.
> Talking to police officers for 5 minutes after you commit a crime is the cost of being part of society. It seems very reasonable to me and I wouldn't call it traumatic.

Did he commit a crime? What he did isn't a crime in England.
No. I'm merely pointing out that the Chinese Government has certain leeway in which to run their country. Concentration camps must and should be condemned and there are ways to achieve that: targeted sanctions on entities associated with those activities. That's why we have sanctions against Russian oligarchs involved in criminal activities and not against the entire Russian Federation.

What I'm arguing against is penalizing the whole country with a trade embargo. That is just bullshit coming from someone who understands very little about how international relations work.
What a strange view into the mind of someone who I assume is absolutely brilliant in his field. He sees the world as defying the laws of probability to oppress him but it reads the exact opposite to me. The surprising part to me is that we have created a world that so successfully coddles us. That a person who repeatedly fails to execute fairly simple tasks in an airport that is specifically designed to make everything as strait forward as possible is otherwise a very successful human. His ancestors survived warfare, hunting food in the wild, traveling across thousands of miles with only the things on their backs. Yet here he is, struggling to recover from the stress of being delayed less than a single day while participating in the miracle of flight. If his ancestors forgot their food pack at such a level of stress, or reached down towards a snake in the same we he grabbed for money in front of him, he would be dead.

I agree. The universe seems to defy the laws of probability. It's not to oppress one absent minded professor. It's that the genetic ancestors of this man all managed to not get eaten by a lion in order to build a world that allows him and his family to survive while being incapable of functioning under normal levels of adversity.
Also, interest-only loans are a thing in some parts of the world.

Beijing is a good example of a place where rents are way lower than sale prices, so you can totally wind up paying $1000/month to rent something that is on the market for $1 million.
*Paul Manafort
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The median home price in Santa Rosa is astronomical. Perhaps you meant Chico, or Corvallis, or something like that.
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