skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Been following this guy since he was at Lionhead, and while he's obviously a very very smart guy, it's disappointing that he puts his hope in techno-fixes. To me it seems fairly obvious that the problems our society faces stem from continuous exponential growth (primarily of energy use), and while technology can be used to tweak the parameters of the growth curve, as it were, the eventual outcome stays more or less the same. This was already shown in the The Limits to Growth model back in the early 70s. To me "new technology will fix it" is essentially a statement of faith, the numbers don't back it up, nor does thinking about or situation honestly.
That's great and I am in no way diminishing your achievements; but a work of caution for others reading too:

It's most likely that you were severely underpaid in the first place, the raises have just slowly brought you up to industry standard, just spread over 3 years.

Your title increase is also great, but keep in mind, having you feel like you are a leader is also a great retention tool for you to keep working for them, producing good work.

I recommend looking in the marketplace for a new job to really see where you can be in your 4+ years. Don't feel like they have been so good to you that you couldn't increase your salary again by 30% by switching employers.
I'm pretty sure a few of those wake early simply because it is expected, not because of discipline. They aren't the only ones that have discipline either.
That doesn't really work when the vast majority of iOS users upgrade so quickly. These devices mostly not in control of IT departments.
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The Sqlite database becomes corrupt ?
How about stopping the baseless accusations thrown at China?

http://finance.sina.com.cn/money/bond/research/2018-04-13/do...

http://finance.sina.com.cn/money/bond/2018-08-31/doc-ihinpmn...

http://finance.sina.com.cn/money/bond/research/2018-06-15/do...

http://bond.jrj.com.cn/2018/09/30133825154607.shtml

http://bond.hexun.com/2018-08-01/193639187.html

Edit: Looks like I'm being flagged for pointing out the false accusations? Slowly losing my faith in HN.
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1) I don't agree. I prefer to have GDPR in Europe, no GDPR in the USA, and see which turns out to be better for human rights. I suspect that GDPR will very soon start to be used by corrupt politicians and other criminals who want "to be forgotten" for their misdeeds (ie, censor us when we want to remind the public).

2) I can't help but notice that GDPR is a great idea for Brave / BAT. And look: I'm long on BAT (I'm not wealthy enough to be a whale or anything, but I bought a small amount in the very early days). But this seems self-interested to me, rather than an assessment of the proper course for American politics.

Eich admits this in part, of course, saying early in the letter that "I view the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a great leveller. The GDPR establishes the conditions that can allow young, innovative companies like Brave to flourish."

But he also says "The enormous growth of ad-blocking by people across the globe (to 615 million active devices by late 2017) proves the terrible cost of inadequately regulating the tracking-based advertising system."

Does it? It seems to me that people are working to find ways to improve their lives, and that they'll keep doing so to the shegrin of the internet behemoths absent any "regulation". In other words, the state is not needed to make this phenomenon regular - it's already quite regular and becoming moreso.

Let Brave and Chrome fight it out and the best (not the most politically expedient) one win. For now, I'm using Firefox.
No, the cartels are an economic problem.

Make drugs legal, and the problem will fade away with time.

Of course, not immediately. But when the lucrative funding of drug trade is cut off, it will slowly diminish their might.
Ask HN: Why can't I just install stock Android?
Why can't I install stock Android on my phone just like I can install Linux on pretty much any PC? Is there a fundamental difference with phone hardware which makes this especially difficult?
I tried Babel some time ago, but I can remember it was painfully slow. Has this improved?

I also didn't understand why so much functionality for different languages are harbored by a single tool, instead of multiple smaller tools.
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I'd recommend Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. (2016) by economist Robert H. Frank. He details how much of success is luck.

Pertinent xkcd, Survivorship Bias:

https://xkcd.com/1827/
> things that matter.

Very, very subjective.
> The internet was doing fine for decades with minimal involvement from governments - why change things?

Things change on their own. The internet used to be accessed by highly sophisticated and technical users. Now it's mainstream.

And all mainstream things follow two basic rules:

1. Everything move at the speed of the slowest person.

2. The weakest members of the community need to be protected.
I don't support the death penalty, but I'll play devil's advocate here - because it seems the trade-off in cases like this is one not-innocent-to-six-sigma person being killed, versus quite a few innocent witnesses being killed.

And the nightmare for witnesses will continue after the trial, because they're never, ever, going to be safe.

It's not a problem with an easy answer.
I’m interested.

And: I’m still attempting to understand copatterns, but this is quite reminescent of copatterns. That’s all I have.
>Science needs an environment free of politics.

I find this sentiment weird. Science is, to me, inherently political. As I have noted before, it's interesting how people will claim anything they don't like is "political"-> bad. You probably don't go around telling off scientists acknowledging climate change for being political, after all.
Thank you very much for these great answers! It's really helped me understand some more issues that I didn't understand before. I really appreciate the amount of time you took to think through that and write a reply.

As a complete aside, I actually had inside knowledge of the JDS - Uniphase merger (a friend of mine who worked there inadvertently allowed me to see something that made it was clear that it was happening a day or so before). It took all my self control not to buy up a lot of JDS stock. I always wonder if I would have gotten in trouble (or gotten my friend in trouble)...
I feel the strategy is just different.

In our culture there is no need to suppress the bad news, it can just be drowned down in a flurry of stupid news, contradictory statements and "why do you hate freedom" kind of finger pointing.

If random people speaking freely has close to no effect on the leading class, there is not much need to suppress free speech.
Rsing at 4:00am is more likely to either be the symptom of someone addicted to their work above all else but it also probably shows the fragility of life at the top! If you were Tim Cook, what would you do next in a company with billions of spare cash to keep the investors away from your door and without losing focus?

I don't think I would sleep if that was me!
In the western world, being able to voice unpopular opinions is treated as a given, a baseline, a default state (and it is, since it's a fundamental part of western democracies). The "politics" here have negative impact on the ability to explore avenues outside the zeitgeist.
> The proper scientific answer is a peer-review,

Not necessarily. This can be viewed as a case of vaccines-cause-autism. The proper scientific answer there is to prevent endless repetition of the same boring, already sufficiently disproven, 'good points'.

His observations/facts/data can be explained in a number of different ways, if you take into account that there are sociological factors to consider. Even in physics just taking the data 'as is' is not acceptable: you need to check whether the data is reasonable. In these case there are huge questions to be answered: why do women publish fewer papers? Why do they get cited less? If the answer is 'because of sexism', then the argument presented by this physicist is a circular argument.
Perhaps I am just less attuned to evil muses, but I think you might be reading too much into his words.
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It's the Bartebly column, an entertaining look at work, not a scientific paper or even news.
Because there are way easier opportunities than STEM. How many men go into STEM because they were interested in the field vs for a well paying job?

It’s socially acceptable for females to marry a rich guy and be a stay at home mom. I would say some women prefer the traditional route of raising kids full time so that should reduce the number of working women.
Ask HN: Is Reddit censorship healthy?
Most of you probably won't be aware but Reddit has recently quarantined /r/TheRedPill saying it is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

For those unaware TRP is a "Discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men".

I've been browsing TRP for a few months and I just can't see how it can be considered offensive content unless you're against self-improvement which is the main focus of the sub if you actually read its contents.

Is it not dangerous to allow companies to have such power over free speech?
Yes, today it was TRP but what is going to be deemed offensive tomorrow?
Who makes this arbitrary rules?

I believe HN has a bigger voice than the 300k TRP subscribers so I thought I would bring this to your attention and hopefully generate some healthy discussion.
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That's a good way to keep the problem going forever. You can't lift people out of poverty and end the cycle of violence with bombs. That's the lesson the US completely failed to learn from its forever war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I am replying to a comment is basically saying "hey he was a fucked up abuser, but he was right some of the time, and he was rich, so he must have been doing something right, right? "

If we, as a humanity, are to stay on this world long-term, we have to create a society where humanity is more important than success and money. We can't idolize abusers, manipulators and psychopaths because they are successful CEOs.
How is it for things like Java or C# or JavaScript?
PSNR for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_signal-to-noise_ratio
I find Gdocs hard, because I'm not used to it. So it's really a case of which tool you are used to working with and are proficient at.

People take to Wordpress relatively easily in my experience.

So I'm reading your plus point specifically as the collaboration support in Gdocs.
Dynamic typing and garbage collection go directly against the "low level and performant" goals. You can avoid GC with clever lifetime rules (Rust) but that loses "easy to learn".
Huh? What are the good points? It's very cringey presentation!

First slides trying to sound sciency about a political topic. You can't use statistics as objective tool for political decisions - the questions you ask are already biased, see for example slide "% of women in theory". There is (super weak) negative correlation between gender index and women in fundamental theory. So what? If you chose a different subfield it might come out differently! Cherry picking at its best. "I'm evidence-based" lol, the fake paper about chocolate helping weight-loss is as well!
yes, Quaternions.. thank you! Will do.. :)
I was expecting exactly this answer to the third problem I mentioned in that medium article.
I've been thinking of studying them for some time now.
Humans are a technological species. Hence, to modify our parameters of existence from the materialistic point of view the solutions are technology based.

Technology is not just something someone invented - it's an inherent manifestation of the psychology of our species. Hunting patterns? Technology. Better stone tools? Technology. The wheel? Technology.

The key to this, is the rare capability among some individuals to device new solutions to a problem, and the en masse capability of everyone else to copy the solution once implemented and explained.
This is a problem of lack of decentralization in Ethereum. This is not a problem of smart contract as a concept.
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> PR nightmare, boycotting, and developer exodus that would ensue

Perhaps, but I have less and less faith in these 'corrective forces'. Tech companies often seem to discount such consequences, and they get away with it just fine.

More optimistically though, I can't recall any instances of a major tech company reneging on a promise like this. The 'Microsoft Community Promise' has been honoured, for instance. (I accept it's quite possible I'm just being forgetful, mind.)
Only if you think hiring decisions should depend only on certain measurable professional qualifications. Which they of course never are. If someone has a specialization that you already have in your portfolio, while a competitor has a different specialization that would be an addition, then the competitor can be preferred. If someone is a loner while the competitor is a teamplayer, then the competitor can be preferred. Etc. Maybe he just behaved like an a* during the hiring procedure, taking for granted he would be hired. You don't know and any conclusion based purely on the numbers is unwarranted and premature.
Then again, us men seem to have put up with it since at least Galileo. Who famously spoke out something unrelated to the current controversy, but with the common feature that the clergy at the time also found it comparably unacceptable.

I'm kind of worried that this inflammating mess is starting to take hold in Europe after stirring up so many waves in the US and especially Canada.
I guess that was US specific.

In Portugal they were hardly seen anywhere beyond a couple of digital agencies and some departments of a couple of well funded universities.

And Interlog, a local re-seller with offices in Lisbon and Porto, was the only gate to Apple's kingdom.
That's true but the learning curve difference between React and VueJS isn't anywhere near as significant as the learning curve difference between JavaScript and Elixir for example.
Programming languages have a lot of nuances and patterns of use which can take years to fully absorb. Angular, VueJS and React share many similar patterns and best-practices.
The two most exciting bits are:

> Having excluded SM explanations at >5σ confidence, we have argued that the SEECR phenomenon, if confirmed, can support a discovery-level claim of “beyond the Standard Model” (BSM) physics.

> Within these SUSY-motivated scenarios, the SEECR particle’s associated least-mass SUSY particle can provide an attractive candidate for the dark matter

Seems like I picked the perfect time to become obsessed with particle physics and astrophysics a few weeks ago. Can't wait to see what happens if/when this passes peer review and gets independently confirmed!
You are assuming this was 'reasoned talk'.
I grew up with the Internet. I've been on the Internet since 1995.

The old, unregulated Internet was not made of companies milking users of data and violating their privacy.

Of course it was better.
I think you may be mistaking them for a different type of puzzle with diamond shape & similar look.
As far as I know,there are two possible variants of similar looking Octahedron shaped puzzles:
1) Face turning octahedron (the ones I've currently defined in the project)
2) Axis turning octahedron (on which you can twist around axis)
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What does external storage refer to here? I don't think iOS has extendable storage does it? So is it eg. iCloud?
Core Data is basically a layer over SQLite that turns it into an object graph database.

External data storage lets you offload large binary data from being stored in the SQLite database without changing how you access that data from objects in the graph.

An example might be if you're creating a photo library. Rather than storing the actual photos as say BLOB data in SQLite, you can tell Core Data to transparently store it as an external file. It then basically stores the filename and some metadata in SQLite instead, keeping the SQLite database small without changing the Core Data API to access the data.
Some function of the difference in pixels between the original and decoded compressed version. This is a complicated subject, because a good error function should account for human perception and weight unimportant differences less.
This link is so bare.

Can anyone improve on the horse's mouth: https://www.opera.com/mobile/touch , which also says practically nothing.

Opera seem to be great at adding features, and yet very poor at promoting them.
Other than branding, there isn’t any on clothes or cars around here, and only very occasionally on cars in the last place I lived (and even then 3:1 in favour of the advert being a hand written private sale offer for the car itself). Likewise, none on shopping carts or in gas stations around here. The only adverts I’ve seen in aircraft (unless you count in-flight menus) are in RyanAir aircraft, which I avoid. None in any baggage screening bins I’ve used either — those have all been plain grey no matter the airport or country.

I presume from you saying “gas station” that you’re in America. The EU doesn’t generally have as much advertising.
Well, I think these scammers will always try to steal our money by using hundreds of methods and tricks. Almost everyday I could read dozens of complaints and reports filed at social media and also sites like http://whycall.me about phone scams. We need to keep informing our family about these scams. They are never getting tired of trying.
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Theoretical differences? People don't regularly go missing in the west for reeducation.

There is a difference between a biased news source and flat-out censorship. Equating us to China is disingenuous and loopy.
yeah I don't have the ability to edit the comment it seems, so it will just free float there?
And it's quite possible he's holding shares of Waymo's competitors, no?
I used react for 4 years. I don't see the point in using something that is 10% different.

Then you need to hire engineers, most of them know more react than an obscure library.

React has lower chance to be discontinued.

React works well. I rather focus on building new products than changing tech. Of course during the jQuery time I hated it all the time and I was looking for alternatives, but react is exactly how I think about UI: components (html, CSS, js all in one file) and not templates.

I'm pretty efficient at react and I can't justify using something else.
Another great option is DuckDuckGo's 'Privacy Browser' (for Android AFAIK) that has tracking protection and ad-blocker baked right into browser's architecture. Thing I like about it the most is the minimalistic interface and no BS UX. Highly recommend.
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> How about stopping the baseless accusations thrown at China?

Apologies, but all the links you posted are in chinese, and google translate just turns them into mostly garbage so Im struggling with the context of your comment.

But I'm not sure what this issue here is, the user above you pointed out "the kind of information being censored" as an example of what's being discussed in the parent article, and that seems unrelated to the argument "Stop throwing baseless accusations about X".

Is the problem with the accusation that China is censoring economic information, or is it that the default rate as used in this example is inaccurate?
I have just read an article that might be useful for everyone who has received multiple calls from legit businesses at http://www.whycall.me/news/my-4500-payday-from-a-telemarkete.... It's quite difficult, but I think if we could win against those telemarketers, it will feel really good.
Statistics is probably the most valuable tool for creating policy, the aim of politics. What else do you propose we use to make decisions about interfering with stochastic processes over diverse populations?
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Ego depletion and decision fatigue suffered pretty badly in the replication crisis, although I have no idea what the current consensus is. The key phrase to search for is "ego-depletion RRR", if you're interested.
It's a must-have on Android. Makes the web actually usable on shaky mobile data connections.

I tried it on Windows, but I have decent adblockers there, and need JS enabled for too many things to bother fiddling with whitelisting sites.
They do look at prior art but remember they only have basically a "google search" type of tool so often find so-called duplicates that are not (because they have the same words in the title maybe) and miss ones that are the same because they are called something else.

Just a very poor system for the money it costs and the potential outcomes to businesses who can literally go bust over a wrong decision.
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Going by their estimates, no kidding - they're talking a 3x reduction in latency from their proposal.
> It will be transferrable without internet in short range wireless tech that actually works reliably and without any additional apps.

I'm genuinely curious if you've tried Android Beam. It works very smoothly in my experience and much more fun to use with a tap between two phones, but if I recall correctly it transfers over Bluetooth so is not as fast as AirDrop. That being said, it can be used in many more situations to transfer URLs between browsers, map directions, etc.