skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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As for kids, I think Blippi is one of the best teachers available on youtube teaching toddlers in a very engaging style.
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Any bets on how much NYT will go for?
You can read it with:

https://github.com/damng/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content

This generates an RSS feed with the contents of the articles inlined and available at https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/...

By-passes most soft paywalls. No Javascript. No Tracking. No 'social' media buttons. No modal dialogs. Just text you can read in a terminal based rss reader like canto.
Last winter i faced a non-standard situation with Microsoft Office subscription. I moved to another country and had no active CC from the original country working anymore - realized only when my Office stopped working - and had no way to switch country or payment method before paying my arrears - which i counldn't do because of not having the damn payment method...

Surprisingly, MS support was quick and absolutely helpful in resolving this for me - took no more than 15 minutes - and they ended up simply waving my arrears so i never paid that $10 - and let me enter new payment method.
There you go

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_name
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_name

Some cool (but not so weird) alternatives to popular US names.
I have been using RSS for 12 years. It has been transformed by big players, Is n't it Facebook a RSS reader with social features? I only unsubscribed my friends rss and connected in facebook, other sources like news, releases etc still I am using RSS.
This is one giant bandaid on ranking algorithm. I post several stories and depending on day/time/other events either it would get 0 votes or 1000. Same story, same content. This should make people who are in charge of this website do a lot of thinking...

I think the issue is that every new story is randomly shown N times at the end of normal results and without initial votes story quickly gets ranked down. When N is too small, you might see random behavior. However they are probably not able to keep N too high because of limited slice of impressions it can be granted.
NYT was bailed out a while ago by investment from Carlos Slim (of the Mexican state-granted telecom monopoly). It looks like he currently holds a little under 15%.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/carlos-slim-sells-40-millio...
This is true, but we know the result is the same:

" J.D Verhoeven and Alfred Pendray reconstructed methods of production, proved the role of impurities of ore in the pattern creation, and reproduced Wootz steel with patterns microscopically and visually identical to one of the ancient blade patterns.
Reibold et al's analyses spoke of the presence of carbon nanotubes enclosing nanowires of cementite, with the trace elements/impurities of vanadium, molybdenum, chromium etc contributing to their creation, in cycles of heating/cooling/forging. This resulted in a hard high carbon steel that remained malleable [25]

There are other smiths who are now consistently producing Wootz steel blades visually identical to the old patterns.[26]"

I'm not sure what more you would want :)

IE the article claims " Anyone claiming to be making authentic Wootz/Damascus these days is delusional".

Regardless of technique, this is almost certainly wrong.
The end result is almost certainly authentic wootz/damascus, even if the technique is different.

and the technique may not be different anyway. The point of that research in the first sentence was basically "it's unclear they did anything that special, it seems to mostly be due to local impurities" (A short summary is here: http://www.thetruthaboutknives.com/2017/06/knifemaking-legen...)

In particular, a very low percent of vanadium impurity produces the pattern (see https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol42_4...) and the other properties are due to other historical impurities that would have been found in the area it was produced.
Completing projects does a lot to help you learn, and you can complete more small projects per amount of time than larger ones. So give your learning projects small, defined scopes.

Actually properly learn the tools you find yourself using a lot. Like if you use javascript, don't be the guy who doesn't understand how "var" and "this" behave. And don't feel pressured to know everything - if you only use Python to edit scripts twice a year then it's fine to be looking stuff up every line.

Try to ignore programming fads, though of course as a person embedded in society it's hard to know what's just hype. On average these things last as long as they've already existed, so learning things that have been around continuously for a long time is pretty safe. Since you're just starting, it's particularly important for you to learn things that'll last a long time, since you have longer to use them.

Learn something that lets you make a website backed by an SQL database. It's a pretty safe bet you'll want to do things that fit this description a whole bunch of times. This is also a place where a bizarrely small amount of expertise can change "start asking for VC money" projects into weekend projects.

You can go your whole career without ever needing to write a parser, unless you know how to write parsers, then you'll see cases where they're the best solution all the time. I don't actually know how much this is "if all you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" and how much is "boy I'm glad I know hammers exist."

It's more niche, but I've never regretted learning more vector math.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001796 and marked it off-topic.
That's my impression from what I've read. But I have no personal experience, so ...

What's really cool here is that I think he's basically acknowledging that, and declaring his commitment to transformation. Recursion can be very useful :)
It's a harder problem than it looks: since it's typically pretty inefficient, how do you manage the signalling to get the right amount of power into the target device (you have 1/r2 issues, alignment issues, and insulation issues) without heating everything up and wasting power. I think that's why Apple's Airpower pad has quietly been put down -- heat. The current Qi protocol is pretty low power.
Do your employees understand the status quo clearly, or are there things that are hidden from them? The last thing in the world you want to do is avoid giving them bad news because you hope you can right the ship. You owe it to them to be honest and forthright.
What if the shape is the set of all finite curves arranged as a star and given equal length?

If you accidentally start in the middle, there will always be a worst case scenario route determined for any arbitrary curve and no way to pick between curves to find the best one.
there was great excitement and adoption before github

famous linus talk at google 2007 https://youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8#

github founded 2008 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub

git's distributed nature was revolutionary. Although not the first (BitKeeper for one preceded it), it has a mind-numbingly simple design, of distributed data by content addressing (data named by its hash, so it has the same name whereever it is).
I couldn't find a place to buy it online. Do yoh have a link? Thanks
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Consider working email in there somehow.
And yet here we are on Hacker News, a social platform for news stories.

I honestly have never used a feed aggregator, I used Slashdot, then Reddit, and now a mix of Reddit and HN.

Having a filter of some sort is really useful.
I'm not conflating things. "What the market decides" is either the PV of future cash flows or investors' expectation of what other market participants estimate the PV of future cash flows to be. It's turtles all the way down.

Markets aren't perfect but they are efficient; feel free to believe in the strength of that efficiency as you see fit, but in any case there is an underlying asset that generates cash flows.

You can nitpick arguments in my response, and I'll be happy to clarify any omissions, but my whole point is that crypto has no similar underlying asset and is therefore an entirely different beast.
Ask HN: Which U.S. city should I live in?
I'm moving to the U.S. at the end of this year to look for a job in the Software Engineering industry (5+ years of exp.). With so many jobs opportunities available out there I would like to have an idea of which places I should consider for applying.

For example, I recently visited San Francisco and I really didn't like it and I found the renting and housing prices unreasonable for a city like that.
I've also visited New York, Miami, Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, Phoenix, Houston and New Orleans and the ones that I liked the most as a tourist were Seattle, Boston and DC.

As a someone with just a general knowledge of the U.S., how can I take the best decision? My main goals are to have a nice living experience in a place where I can keep improving my professional skills but also have access to cool things to do (I'm in my early thirties and recently married).

Any thoughts appreciated!
Walter is one strange person on Youtube, simply just for forging knives. Not a bit of showing off his history, he actually is a writer...
how did this story get here? clearly rss isnt dead, 98% or more of my news comes from rss feeds that are parsed into newsbeuter or another reader.
I still use RSS and it's, in many ways, better than the web stupidity that surrounds us.

The title is misleading.

People who captured the feedreader market, killed the competitors then dropped it did a lot of damage. Maybe deliberately. LESSON: Never trust a big company that relies on advertising.

RSS is a way to escape the nonsense that has come with those, who have no idea what the web can be, but have flooded in and drowned so much in their ignorance and lack of vision.
"Some deaths involved more than one type of drug; these deaths were included in the rates for each subcategory. Therefore, categories of deaths presented are not mutually exclusive."

So the count includes people who died after taking both cannabis and a more dangerous drug.

These crude death rates aren't a good indication of safety. For instance, antidotes like Naloxone are presumably also present in a large fraction of overdose autopsies, but that doesn't mean Naloxone itself is unsafe.

Determining causation from statistical data is hard. I think USAFacts might be doing a disservice overall, by presenting raw data from which wrong conclusions can be easily drawn.
> Most times I bring [Open Source Definition] up, my conversation partner has never heard of it.

That really doesn't matter. All they know about open source is based on this definition. There millions of articles about open source on the internet that use it. You are trying to invalidate all of them for no good reason. As a consequence every opinion about open source they ever read prior to your efforts would be outdated. Most people understand danger of these actions which leads to behavior you described as "bullying".
> Not sure who made Utah the name prophecy state, but that’s what it apparently is.

This is not surprising at all. Utah and Idaho Mormon culture is famous for being a veritable stew of bizarre names, everything from derivatives of Book of Mormon characters to alternate spellings unique to a single person in the world. It is the crucible in which new baby names are forged.

Googling for "Utah Baby Namer" is enlightening.
At least he was capable of clever insults.
Can you replace the battery in your airpods? No? So you mean you're literally buying something to throw away every 5 years or so? How environmentally friendly, but I'm sure Apple is glad you've decided to make paying them a regular part of your life. Nothing about removing the headphone jacks had a point other than to increase profits. The phones are thicker, waterproof phones have headphone jacks, they parts are cheap, the next big thing isn't really a drop in replacement or better yet.
I'm unlikely to write a book, but here are a few more tidbits that come to mind.

Re the above -- I don't mean to imply that any of this is malicious or even conscious on anyone's behalf. I suspect it is for a few people, but I bet most people could pass a lie detector test that they care about their OKRs and the OKRs of their reports. They really, really believe it. But they don't act it. Our brains are really good at fooling us! I used to think that corporate politics is a consequence of malevolent actors. That might be true to some degree, but mostly politics just arises. People overtly profess whatever they need to overtly profess, and then go on to covertly follow emergent incentives. Lots of misunderstandings happen that way -- if you confront them about a violation of an agreement (say, during performance reviews), they'll be genuinely surprised and will invent really good reasons for everything (other than the obvious one, of course). It's basically watching Elephant In The Brain[1] play out right in front of your eyes.

Every manager wants to grow their team so they can split it into multiple teams so they can say they ran a group.

When there is a lot of money involved, people self-select into your company who view their jobs as basically to extract as much money as possible. This is especially true at the higher rungs. VP of marketing? Nope, professional money extractor. VP of engineering? Nope, professional money extractor too. You might think -- don't hire them. You can't! It doesn't matter how good the founders are, these people have spent their entire lifetimes perfecting their veneer. At that level they're the best in the world at it. Doesn't matter how good the founders are, they'll self select some of these people who will slip past their psychology. You might think -- fire them. Not so easy! They're good at embedding themselves into the org, they're good at slipping past the founders's radars, and they're high up so half their job is recruiting. They'll have dozens of cronies running around your company within a month or two.

From the founders's perspective the org is basically an overactive genie. It will do what you say, but not what you mean. Want to increase sales in two quarters? No problem, sales increased. Oh, and we also subtly destroyed our customers's trust. Once the steaks are high, founders basically have to treat their org as an adversarial agent. You might think -- but a good founder will notice! Doesn't matter how good you are -- you've selected world class politicians that are good at getting past your exact psychological makeup. Anthropic principle!

There's lots of stuff like this that you'd never think of in a million years, but is super-obvious once you've experienced it. And amazingly, in spite of all of this (or maybe because of it?) everything still works!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyda...
I mean, care about whatever you want to. I find it odd that someone who doesn't care posts in an RSS-related thread, but maybe you post about things you don't care about all of the time.

Reread my post. There is a difference between caring about whether the majority of users are using RSS and caring about whether publishers are creating RSS feeds.

I specifically said “Once I start finding sites that don’t support RSS then I worry.”
> Maybe social sciences are just really hard.

More likely is that they're not actually science.
Orban isn't Hitler either, and PiS isn't NSDAP.

But they're precursors, in which that sort of thing incubates, until it's ready to hatch. It's all just talk, until it's normalized to the point where it isn't anymore.
>Nobody who understands research expects every study to replicate

I guess I don't understand research then, because it seems reasonable to me to expect most studies to replicate. Why not?
Back in my high school days, I made a beautiful damascus blade from 5160 leaf springs and 1095. After having worked in the labs at https://www.scotforge.com/, it is apparent damascus has very little large scale use due to weak tensile strengths(which of course depends on the forging process). However, in personal, small scale use, I've noticed my damascus blade has withstood much more than say, a pure 1095 blade could endure. Essentially, the higher the carbon the more brittle the blade despite the heat treatment process. Damascus in a small blade seemed to yield properties of each steel involved without using a costly alloy. It is very difficult to combine high carbon steels with stainless steels due to the large difference in heat treatment processes, as stainless steels are very often air hardened, and carbon steels are hardened in a brine or oil solution.
Ask HN: What is your experience with Stripe Atlas?
Hey HN, I'm considering to apply for Stripe Atlas. If you've used Stripe Atlas, how was your experience? Is Stripe Atlas beneficial for everyone? What are the things I should know about before applying?
SpiceJet Inks MoU with Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries
Well, kudos to Linus. I still think the man should not change, but hey who am I to say that.
What's described in the comment I responded to is exactly "reformatting the message" - you still communicate the same thing, ultimately, just in a way that allows the person on the receiving end to save face.
California wants to launch its own climate satellite
http://archive.is/teoas
I could have, for sure, but I am broad of shoulder and 90% of the reason why I get a window seat is to not get whacked by the carts going up and down the aisle 7,308 times per flight (not to mention the other passengers). So I stayed put and just angled to my right a bit. It worked out in the end.

Hopefully I have another empty seat next to me on my return flight. That would be amazing.
The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know
Ten years ago or so, I'd occasionally read the print version of Time. It was a serious magazine full of in-depth articles. These days, from looking at their online presence, it seems to have mostly devolved into BuzzFeed and news spam for social media. What happened?
A related point that occurred to me about the convenant which Torvalds has included is the "Scope" section. It looks like it leaves most of the details to the project maintainer which I suppose is a good thing. However, an explicit statement about where the whole thing doesn't apply would be useful.

If a person has a political or other opinion and is very strident about it in every sphere (twitter, personal blog, facebook etc.) outside of the project, the convenant should explicitly allow this. That way, it sounds more like a "this is our house and these are the rules you should follow if you want to enter" vs. "you should be a certain kind of person in all aspects of your life to be allowed in here". The latter has too much overreach IMHO.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001786.
Linus torvals behavior has spun a bunch of people who think it is perfectly okay to be rude, like the some of the linux folks in intel
I loved NextSTEP so I bought a Mac, which IS NextSTEP, only better.
Why do you think so? The question isn't whether sites distributing pirated stuff exist - the question is, how many more would have existed if not for policing, and how many people would have used them that are deterred under the existing regime.
This is the only practical solution. You can get a feel for soft-skills/likeability but when it comes to hard-skills, the phrase "it takes one to know one" applies.
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Time kills everything, your stress and pressure. think what way you can kill few weeks of your time. you may try things like - give visibility to your employees, spend your time with them and be with positive people or loved ones. hope this helps.
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2017/archive-1/chinas-van-goghs/
The Secret to ML Mastery
Accusing DDG of doing the very thing it claims it does not and will never do is beyond "relatively minor" in my opinion.
oddsBeforeEvens = uncurry (++) . Data.List.partition odd
Probably a significant portion of that is the MFI program, which does quality control of third-party accessories.
Not sure HN qualifies as a social platform, and i got there through RSS anyway :-)
Used to love Slashdot, now spending more time on HN too i guess and following some reddits through RSS. I even follow some Facebook pages through RSS so i minimize the time and energy spent on FB.
That and "how to win friends and influence people" are solid. Should be taught in highschool imo.
It would've taken less time to configure Let's Encrypt or Cloudflare than it would've taken to write that blog post. A lot less.

If you're going to be broadcasting information to the entire world, and you can't be bothered to take basic steps to maintain said broadcasts, then you probably shouldn't be broadcasting information to the entire world in the first place.
Is the book worth reading in your opinion? Which edition would you recommend (earlier editions are sometimes less pc than the latter ones, and therefore contain more/better information)?
I think successful mentorship works in the other direction. The mentor analyzes the mentee, matches the mentee's experiences against his/her own, and guides the mentee in the right direction.

I think the best question you can ask is "what do you think I should do to meet my goal X" for whatever value of X.

I guess it can't hurt to ask questions like "what books influenced you," as someone else answered. Except that it wastes your valuable time with this person. If this person thinks a book was instrumental enough to make a difference for you, they'll certainly mention it.
I have a friend I don't see often who invented the thing which didn't become mysql. I believe he's philosophical about it.

Another pair of friends at work (at a university) were sold down the river by co founders who accepted their "I'm out of here" 24h before the unknown independent buy-out he was orchestrating went wild. They're less philosophical I think but it was over 20 years ago.

Another friend had a pre-nup go very bad on him because she thought the vesting value she had was worth more than him, which I think totally sucked and misunderstood his values, and value as an entrepreneur. he's now very very very successful in lots of fields. He also worried a lot about the burden he owed his staff, building a sustainable business. I respect that. I value he cared enough to worry. Many don't worry, and consequences can be dire.

So my take-away from this, is that you need to develop a thick skin against "slings and arrows of misfortune" but remain empathetic to the concerns on the employees, and if you get knocked down, get up again, and keep on trying. And expect there to be lots of venal, nasty people out there.

Another had a varied work life before being a founder. He'd been a restauranteur. Thats stress. far more stress in some ways.

Another had good corporate lawyers. He did well. Maybe sharing the money with smart people with business chops and legal chops paid back, I don't feel he suffers from founders burn-out.

Find value in a life outside work. Be prepared to have to walk from a work-passion, and exist (as most of us do) for reasons other than just work.

btw, I'm not a founder, and I have chosen not to experience this stress, but I do talk to founders. They're interesting, but I appreciate they live in another world to me.