skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"but too high risk for normal investors." what brings it pretty close to "moon shot", doesn't it?

"And individual federal agencies that participate in the program can decide what they are interested in researching."

This is true, I never said something different. I just know from people two who got SBIR I and II who discouraged me to apply since they know how the selections process works.
I remember now wanting to create such a thing when I read the Ethics as a philosophy undergrad in the 90s, but lacking the tooling, time, or talent to do so. This is far more involved and better done than what I had imagined, or could have achieved.

To the creators, thank you so much for your work!
Insisting over and over that you are not being offensive while people keep repeating their disagreement with the idea by downvoting and/or flagging your comments suggests your social skills could use some polish.

You are entitled to your opinions, but you do not get to unilaterally determine what others do or do not find offensive. That's not how the universe works.
> Dinosaurs are a type of bird

The opposite. Birds are a type of dinosaurs, but the biggest dinosaurs like Triceratops weren't birds. I'm not wrong, feathers were found in small or middle sized dinosaurs, smaller than the elephant birds.
Ask HN: What are easy digital items to giveway on Instagram?
I'm looking to give away even something as simple as $5 or a video game card. I want to giveway this daily. But most giveways require getting a bunch of information from users or taking a lot of time to order 100+ of them.
So there's only one out-- Cowen has designed his funding criteria such that even he cannot undermine its efficacy.

Anyone know if this the case?
I'm so tired of this decision making process in business: well our statistics say <5% of people want feature X so lets just kill X to streamline.

Just stop. Please. Analytics != insight. Meetings should stop being won by whoever prints off the the most tables and visualizations, because gasp sometimes that leads to the wrong decision.
Who Is a Better Trader, an Emotional Trader or an Objective Trader?
Hey, no need to insult my social skills. I get that maybe the content of my post offends some people but it is scientific fact. There's a difference between being intentionally rude / antagonistic, and civilly presenting data that some people find offensive. Just because people find the data offensive, that shouldn't be cause to censor the data on a forum for civil discussion, should it?
Exactly. What google doesn't seem to 'get' is that email + searchable database = life. I email stuff to myself, or bcc: myself, all the time. If all emails were in a searchable database, perhaps with automatic clustering to group associations, all very fast -- that's killer sticky. The emails, plus stuff on gdocs, gdrive, etc, all fully searchable? Gold. (Yes, non-trivial privacy concern, but no personal data should reside un-encrypted in the cloud, and decryption should happen locally in the browser.)
I tip my cap to all the loyal users of MoviePass out there; I have long waited for the day when investors would be willing to subsidize my hobbies and you've been living in that world for months. Bravo, ladies and gentleman.

I have to wonder, though, why you'd want to go to the movies regularly these days, with all the dreck that Hollywood has been putting out in recent years. Maybe it's time for you guys to hit the $1.99 rentals on YouTube/Amazon/iTunes more often.
Gmail has snooze. With the settings to customize your swipe in each direction.
I have just a few acres. I've actually done this math. If the End of the World came, I could probably just about feed my family on my land. I could put in two acres of corn, an acre of vegetables, and keep a few of my sheep for the occasional Sunday dinner with meat. We have sime chickens in the back yard which are self sustaining during the summer but have to be fed corn in the winter. The sheep would need corn and hay in the winter as well. It wouldn't be a pretty existence but we might survive.

But I'm surrounded on all sides by other families. There are 13 people in addition to my family of four within shouting distance of my back door. They aren't farmers. Some of their land is theoretically arable, if they knew how to do it and had the equipment, which they don't, and if they had already improved their soil to make it amenable to subsistence farming, which they haven't.

Small farmers could have fed the country fifty years ago, when there were a lot more of us and when many more people who weren't farmers nevertheless substantially supplemented their diets with family gardens. But there are far fewer farmers and far more people to feed now.

It could be done - it has been done in the past - but we are heading in the opposite direction and have been for several decades.
If the product was a paid service, there would be a better case to be made for guarantees. Given no money is changing hands and Google is providing a world class service for nothing, I'm not sure users have any right to make demands about minimum notice periods.
You can customize each direction of swipe in the Gmail app.
Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley 'brainwashed' by higher education
If you select the Share option, one of the options on the bottom bar is actually "Request Desktop Site".
It's not civil if the rules are repeatedly pointed out to you and you choose to disregard them. It's the opposite of civil.

The comments can be seen by logged-in users who have 'show dead' turned on. But we started at 'moderators censor comments'. Which they generally don't and haven't in your case. That's all.
I am also curious about the allusion to Peterson. I am not aware of any huge societal contribution he has made beyond encouraging dueling op-eds. Certainly he has a devoted fan base, but I essentially never hear about him in real life.

I'm not weighing in on how good or bad his ideas are. But I see way more of the blockchain in the world than I do (knowingly) of Peterson.

What am I missing?
Should have switched to bare metal, things like AWS cost a ton more than you realize, it just looks like a good deal because you have smaller cost up front. But in the long run managing your own systems at places like Softlayer can save you a bundle.

EDIT: I don't care about downvotes, but if you are going to do it at least leave a comment of why you think I am wrong.
Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened
One of the clear design needs for go was “you have a crap ton of code you need to write, and you need to aggressively parallelize the work over a bunch of mixed skill devs, without the worst ones fucking it up, and without the best going off the reservation and making something that can’t be understood later.”

Personally that sounds like my own hell, but that’s the world Google lives in.
Fair but they effectively did censor my comment if they didn't honor my request to unflag it. In any case, do you think that comment should have been censored? If so, why?
The data isn't being censored. Flamebait actively undermines civility and that's all the mods were trying to address.

There are ways to make similar points without it being flamebait. If you really feel it is important to discuss such things, you could work on improving your framing and diplomacy instead of continuing to complain about the incident two months later in an unrelated discussion.

There's also no intent to insult your social skills. But the reality is there are only two reasonable ways to interpret your behavior here:

1. Either you legitimately are failing to understand. (There can be myriad reasons for that. Disability is not the only possible reason.)

2. You actually are a troll.

The first is the more charitable interpretation and the one I am most prone to because I raised two special needs sons. So I default to assuming someone honestly doesn't understand for some reason because I've dealt with that a lot in life.

It sometimes gets me into social hot water when I am sincerely trying to be helpful.

Like now.
There is always so much vitriol on HN about these kinds of announcements.

I've never understood why. Google presumably has lots of data and feedback from people using Inbox, and determined that it wasn't useful enough or widespread enough to justify ongoing investment. Why is this surprising or shocking? This happens all the time in commercial and open source software.

The internet is great, but unfortunately has the ability to agglomerate individual moments of otherwise transient irritation into a pyroclastic flow of outrage.
To get out of the house with my girl and not spend a fortune.

To use it as an excuse to join other members and see more films with new friends.

To get out of the hot summer sun and enjoy a few hours of entertainment inside a nice cool theater.

To simply enjoy blowing movie pass investor money that they were too dumb to hang onto because it’s hard to spot a unicorn and pets.com was taken this cycle.
How has the US "solved" foreign oil dependence?
> You don’t need goodwill until you need it, and then it’s almost impossible to garner.

This is the key. Google has my "business," but I'm also sick of it. The moment there's a really valid competitor - and these days, I'm starting to look at protonmail - I'm gone. The same stickiness that kept me with them will keep me gone.

I really don't think I'm alone in that.
I just tried to make a dumb joke about this very hard material on the star.

I deserve the downvotes. I'm not even a real dad.
> what can be sold is a function of market rules

maybe what can be sold successfully. I see lot of crap that never sells in the markets.
Thanks for sharing. I think I need to organize myself to be able to walk away from google and it's all-encompassing experience and grasp, and it's not always easy to make the first step.
By becoming the largest oil producer.
The flagging was done by users because the comment violates the site guidelines. The moderators didn't 'unflag' it because they they agreed with the users flagging the comment that it violates the site guidelines.
> In exchange for near monopoly power over the internet access

I don't like 'internet access' being conflated with 'high speed internet access'. Yes where I live comcast has a monopoly on the latter but I have 4-6 other cellular options ( in addition to comcast) for the former.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-becomes-world-s-largest-c...
iNaturalist crowdsources species identification
By producing more oil domestically than we use.
You mean the 63 citations that are either quotes from news articles or referrals to sister publications? And the rest are just citations to vanilla data?

It's interesting that citations for their actual claims/arguments are completely missing like this:

>Although California is viewed as having perhaps the nicest weather in the nation, it has suffered from domestic out-migration for many years.

>A tax increase in one jurisdiction may cause an initial out-migration to other jurisdictions.

>An income tax increase in a state may cause individuals to out-migrate over time.

>High earners are often entrepreneurs, and they may move their businesses and related jobs with them when they migrate.

>The capping of federal deductibility has increased the state and local tax bite on millions of households in high-tax states. At the same time, today people can easily find information to compare state tax burdens.

CATO is a think tank in the most oxymoronic sense. Fuck off with that "omg big number citation" non-sense.
Plenty of CS PhDs get hired as quants. Be sure to take as much math as possible. Google around to find which things you should take. If your school offers (graduate if possible) classes in financial modelling take some of those.

Quant jobs are making models of markets (or other financial items), using the best math and tools available. For practical performance these models need implemented, so you'll program. Developing these models is often done in math packages like Mathematica, then once nicely tested, ported to high performance code in C/C++/asm or sometimes even into FPGAs or ASICs.

Quant job are a mix between math and programming. The better you are at both, the more valuable you become. If you're really strong at one compared to the other, you'll drift that way. If you are terrible at either, you'll not get hired.
exploits a similar legal loophole by being smoothbore, and therefore has a barrel under the legal limit for rifles. It's silly

Funny. I live in FL where a carry permit is relatively easy to obtain. (Interesting that many local MDs in SW FL have one) But the Mossberg Shockwave loophole is hilarious. Take for example New Jersey's supposedly highly restrictive gun laws. An assault weapon includes A semi-automatic shotgun with either a magazine capacity exceeding six rounds, a folding stock or a pistol grip in their NJ Administrative Code Title 13. Yet a Mossberg 590 Shockwave 12ga 14 inch 6-shot with a handle grip resembling an old flintlock pistol is legal.
It’s interesting to see the America's most prominent libertarian economist state that capital markets aren’t adequately funding risky business ventures...
Any similar online resources describing low level operations in such detail?
I really despise this kind of extreme reductionist binary thinking. Not only is it wrong, it makes tech people look like the intellectually empty caricatures that the general public thinks we are.
Want to grow these apples? You'll have to join the club
It’s not, length restrictions apply to rifles not firearms make it as a pistol and as long as you don’t put a stock or a vertical forgrip on it it will be perfectly legal.

You can also have an open bolt semi there are quite a few conversions that didn’t went closed bolt.
“Quite a bit of US food production is going to produce animal feed, and some is exported. It'd take an amazing blow to cause actual starvation, given that could divert that back to feeding the population.”

Well, not really. Yes, it's true that a substantial fraction of current US food production goes to animal feed. Yes, it's true, theoretically, that you could turn all of that into human food production instead. Of course, that would mean we'd all need to become vegetarians, but of course that's better than starving.

But this elides two important points. First, humans can't survive on what is currently being grown. In other words, we can't just stop feeding all of that corn and soybeans to animals and give it to humans instead. We can't live off of a diet that is 75% field corn and industrial soybeans. We would have to change what is being produced, and that would be like turning a battleship. It's doable, but it would take time.

And second, without animals in the loop it's very hard to have a sustainable nutrient cycle. Animals, especially ruminants like cattle, sheep, and goats, can turn otherwise inedible vegetation on unarable land into manure which can be used as fertilizer. So if we do away with the animal agriculture, and turn entirely vegetarian, then we are as a side effect reinforcing our dependence on industrial fertilizers.

Of course, you can argue that that nutrient cycle is already broken in our current system, and you'd be right. But if you want to look at what a truly sustainable, environmental agricultural system would look like, it almost has to have ruminants.

Look, for example, at how Amish farms work. Those guys do it right. Their crop yields are on par with the best yields in big ag. It's a sustainable model.
https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/

This article has some great numbers on pocket size variation between men's and women's pants.
Alleged AMD EPYC ‘Rome’ 7nm Based 64 Core Processor Performance Leaks Out
If the US goes to war with China, if we're literally shooting at each other and dropping bombs, I don't think it's going to be all that big of a step to expropriate some farms on our own soil that they happen to own.
> I wonder where everything went so wrong.

Easiest question in the world: monopoly (goes under the name 'intellectual property.)
"It still blows my mind how companies with billions of dollars to burn get UI wrong. Like the first Windows 10."

It's much harder to build a UI that a billion people like than one that a hundred people like.

Startups have the luxury of being able to pick their customers. They can (and should) make the UI really, really tailored to their initial customers, because that's all they've got. Nail that and the initial customers evangelize the product, and bring new customers in.

Big companies do not have that luxury. Most peoples' desires are contradictory; some people like things one way, other people like it another way, some people want it configurable just the way they want it, most people get confused and leave if you put in too many knobs and configuration options. When you're doing UI design for a billion-dollar company, you have to shoot for the middle-ground that will piss off the fewest people. That's invariably something that doesn't make people all that excited either.

I was involved in 4 UI redesigns for Google Search, one as the first engineer, two as a tech lead, and one as a consultant. Usually the version we launched was a pale shadow of some of the cooler ideas that the UI designers came up with, and made nobody particularly excited, including the people who designed it. But that's the reality of serving over a billion people. Every feature cut was cut because it would make the design unusable for some fraction of the userbase; every misfeature added was added because somebody really wanted it, and in most cases we had the metrics to prove it.
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1) Irrelevant. Care to post all these quant jobs that can be done with undergrad math? I just posted a lot requiring a PhD.

2) >The first job was all discrete math, the second was optimizing x86 assembly.

I suspect you didn't have the math so ended up pushed to the programming side, right? If so, how can you judge what math a quant uses?

3) >Credential inflation is real.

Job requirements are real too. Keynes was not a quant, and his quote is irrelevant compared to simply addressing the point. If you're simply going to start quoting random people instead of addressing he issue then we'll be here forever.

4). > Most undergrads will never see the mathematics. True.

Didn't you just write "Most math quants use is at the undergrad level"? If it's undergrad level math, won't most undergrads see it? If most won't see it, perhaps it's taught more often in graduate level courses (which it is).

Just curious - since you worked as a quant, can you explain in your own words the importance and mechanism of Black-Scholes? And if that's too easy, how about explaining more recent generalizations?
Meanwhile in a different topic, people are criticizing Google for the confusion of having way too many chat services.

I think in the end, Google doesn't want more than one email service. If Inbox showed enough growth to someday replace Gmail, it might have had a chance.
I can tell you that I am going through the experience for the 3rd time now of my entire team being let go in favor for engineers in India.

So far it seems to be like this.

1) Have a big spin up in the US. Create a new product in 1 year or less.
2) Stabilize the product over the 2nd year.
3) Slowly lay off US engineers and support teams in favor for guys in India.

Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with Indian engineers. The problem seems to be management cares about headcount and not quality. It would be one thing if we were being replaced by better engineers, but that is not the case.
I wonder what would happen if you could somehow grow mice with these brain cells

(Planet of the mice!)
I misread the comment as Boston-New York like the route in the article. Boston-New York is slower than the rest of the route. South Station in Boston to Penn Station in New York takes 3:46[1] and those stations are 212 miles apart[2] which is an average of about 55 mph.

[1] https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Pennsylvania+Station,+New+Yo...
The part that gets me the most about killing Inbox and forcing users to go back to Gmail is the accumulation of Pinned emails.

I was happy to oblige to using pins when I transitioned from Gmail -> Inbox. Stars were replaced with pins but there is no direct mapping. But now that Inbox is dead, the years of pinned emails are effectively useless when they should've been starred in Gmail. It's a frustrating experience for users especially when this is not the first time for Google.

This is why as an Android Developer, I'm in the majority community opinion believing that Dart/Flutter/Fuschia shouldn't be trusted. These products/dev tools are going to be in perpetual beta and not worth taking the risk of going to prod with.
> managing your own systems at places like Softlayer

The problem is, at a place like SL, they're not actually your own systems.

> can save you a bundle

It can, and usually does provide at least some savings, but it still comes with both the obvious form of vendor lock-in, and a subtler disadvantage, which is that you're limited by SL's specific hardware and engineering (including network) choices.

The real (performance and/or cost) magic of running ones own servers comes from custom combination of commodity ingredients, not merely lack of virtualization.
Facebook’s search is bad too... so nobody has mastered personal search.
> What I will say is that the implicit, convention over configuration approach of rails means you really do have to RTFM.

And there you have it. Most devs I have ever worked with hardly read docs beyond as reference material.

To be fair, effective documentation (beyond just api reference) is hard and time consuming. I have a lot of respect for the projects that have documentation _worth_ reading.
Not a chance. Gmail is the gateway to their cloud storage and office products. There is not way they will get rid of free Gmail. Maybe cut back on the free storage. But even that...
Since June 2017, an app can also run the downloaded code on its own interpreter, and it can be any language, not just JavaScript.
I never knew you could drag and drop to retrain. That needs to be more discoverable.
Outlook has snooze.
I'll take it over the health consequences of a food shortage any day.
You need to check out WEBGAP.io, its the future of endpoint security and solves the big problems in browser isolation.

FYI am the CEO.
This is bizarre to me.

Pivoting is seen as a tremendously good thing in the startup community. If you have a product that isn't working and isn't getting users, you do something different or your company dies. You simply cannot keep throwing developer time at such a product.

Google has a lot more money than a startup and can afford to waste developer time, but it still isn't good. "We tried this thing out and it didn't get a lot of users" is an absolutely reasonable argument for killing a product. Google just gets known for killing products because they are so big and therefore start so many new products.
Honestly, Hacker News as a community, and you as a moderator, don't deserve to have a permanent username for contributors. Changing usernames is really the only option for participating in the discussion when dealing with people who down-vote or moderate based on popular opinion rather than the supposed guidelines. I've seen you in particular selectively apply those guidelines, so I know you don't have the moral high ground here. It's ok to be sarcastic and abusive if you're saying something that goes along with the group-think, but the hammer drops if you dare question, much less contradict, in anything but the absolute most polite tone.

I doubt you have the energy to try and enforce your one-username policy against all the users who do this, but even if you did, you're just contributing to making this place even more of a monoculture than it already is. People who keep their usernames are mostly playing a popularity contest with silly karma points. Are you sure you're incentivising the right group for healthy and enlightening discussions??