skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, you know Savoy! I'm a native of the area. You're correct - my favorite towns are Ashfield and Williamsburg near the Northampton area. I'd make a plug for North Adams right now. Williams College is in the the next town over, and Mass Moca is driving a lot of development that has been quietly happening over the past year or so.
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Actually it sounds like it’s too bad we didn’t do with the Abrams what we did with the F-22.
Your comment post-edit is pretty much the reason I read HN.

This model of geopolitics as an ungoverned society of nations is something I’ve never considered.

Then, the natural tendency of people within governed societies to analyze geopolitics as if governed social dynamics applied to it could clearly lead to some disastrous conclusions.

It also illuminates the tension between people who greatly value our military, and people who are just frustrated with it and casually declare from their bedrooms and TV studios that we should cut spending in half because it’s all such a waste. As if nations are nice people, and as if a weapon provides no value unless it is used.

Both groups mostly want the same things: a safe place to live, explore, work, have friends and family, and enjoy their lives. They just have a different model for how they understand geopolitics and the state that it’s in.

Lately I’ve noticed an increase in politically-motivated downvotes on HN. I think that’s really unfortunate. This was probably comment of the year for me.
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Of course, there can be more explanations

1/ Assuming the contributors can punish anyone, participants who contributed higher in 2-3 rounds would start punishing those who contribute less, given at some level, they are also free-riding though not to the extent of free riders.

2/ Free riders punishing the contributors hoping next time they do not get punished (cos punishment is a choice rather than an obligation, you may choose to enforce it.)

3/ A cynical way of playing this game is that when you know contributor is punishing someone, he loses a bit more, and free rider's profits are reduced(when overall pool < 20). Athens have a reverse effect when the rules are changed. A deduction is that I can risk to lose a bit of my gains, and can bully the contributors into not punishing me again and again.
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What about a facebook clone with regular ads?
Maybe it's from the project running over budget by hundreds of Billions of dollars and being a decade late?
Bitcoin ICOs, Mars colonization ... whatever happened to critical thinking?
>...but a lot of engineers disdain self-promotion.

Assuming you're doing good work your boss should be your strongest advocate and trying to help get you recognized and promoted.

But if you're not inclined to self-promote then it definitely hurts and lots of folks on HN say they suffer from some level of impostor syndrome. If someone thinks "Should I really be here, am I really good enough?" they may also overly discount the value of their work and think there is nothing worthy of promotion in both senses of the word.
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I think the change is people are realizing things are different for other people.

Your still going to get treated differently for drunkenly making a scene in an upper class suburban neighborhood vs a white working class one.

NYC is as corrupt as it always was. The subway worked for a short while in the 90s but it’s back to its average level of grunge and disrepair.

I think the main problem is really that nothing has improved much since the 60s.
How would you reconcile this claim that Buran was a better system when Buran was stolen Shuttle technology and wasn't reusable? See http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/12/14/buran-shut... among other places for more on NBC's reporting on the theft.
This is an interesting point, and is basically the premise of online dating apps/websites - it's better to trust that things have a chance of working out rather than not trying.
Yes my point is not that nasa is a bad thing - I want to increase spending at nasa. But I don't want it to be wasted on basically congressional district earmarks. There's always been some of that going on, unfortunately, but the SLS is a major drain on other things at Nasa. They can't afford to waste money on this. SLS may never fly, it's at least a big rocket looking for a use case.
One day he will become president somewhere.
Maybe, but many people read tweets and novels, just as many people watch short clips on YouTube but also watch 3-hour films and binge watch entire drama series on Netflix.

I don’t see much evidence that consuming fluff significantly impacts our ability to consume material with depth. With the exception that they are competing for time.
This marketing entrepreneur talks down a ransom seeker with a heart warming story AND manages to record it? Sounds a little too good to be true
I would have thought that it’s the sun setting which causes them to wake unless they have a perception of time which I don’t think they do.
I think cancer is a more specific concept than just "unregulated growth." Cancer is a phenomenon that occurs when a valid "self-replicate then die" program has a similar encoding to a "self-replicate indefinitely" program, such that random-noise damage to the program's stored representation can result in the former being rewritten into the latter.

Whether or not the substrate is biological, I would think that you'd still have to worry about ensuring your program is encoded in such a way that the part of it that turns it off can't be damaged without disabling the program as a whole.
I have the idea that google enployees are paid a ton of money when they join, so why do they care so much about being promoted?
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you’re either into eugenics or dysgenics. i await your reasoning on why improving the human race is a knock.
Hey, any specific example are you talking about?
We know https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/bubble-with-tempor... is a pain so far and we are fixing this along side other performance improvement.
Unfortunately that's no longer possible in the united states due to citizens united.
The US military wants to teach AI some basic common sense
Sure, that money actually paid people to do work and those people were then able to stimulate the economy, pay for their education, all that good stuff.

But that same money could have been spent to actually do something useful and it still would have had that economic impact.

*And now I see where everyone else already made this extremely obvious point.
Good shoes are expensive, but expensive shoes are not necessarily good.

Thanks to industrial processes, good shoes also have a maximum manufacturing cost. There are only so many features you can pack in to one footwrap designed to be worn on the surface of Earth. Springs, torsion bars, carbon fiber, pneumatic chambers, pockets, separated toes, non-Newtonian fluid insoles, flame resistance, arc reactor exhaust ports, or whatever. All of those things still cost less than the trademark logo.

You can avoid buying some bad shoes by filtering out those with low prices. You can avoid buying shoes with a bad price/quality ratio by filtering out those with high prices. You still need to carefully examine any that are left, because with shoes, quality influences price, but price has many complex factors and you cannot easily determine what fraction is due to the quality.
Sorry - early days. Thanks for pointing out. We'll fix them as we go! Soon.
Uhh, sure? Not sure how this is relevant.
Took it from squatters? Do you mean legal action?

If so. I think this would definitely be worthy of a blog post on exactly how you did it.

Everytime I search for domain names, they are all taken up by squatters who want 5 to 6 figure amounts and they have been sitting on them for more than 5 years, 10 in some cases.

Of course I email them back laughing, but it does mean I have to choose something completely different.

I'm definitely not going to do a snappa.io to snappa.com lol [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/60gnyx/how_we...
Europe will not win race for ambitious people.

I lived in Sweden for almost one year as an expat (I'm a software engineer). Now, I live in the Netherlands for more than two years.

I can say for sure that Europe is nowhere near Silicon Valley in terms of compensation for ambitious software engineers. Sweden went total nuts with taxes, anything above $6500 per month would be taxed at 55-60% tax rate. It's effectively cap to enforce equality of outcome.

60% tax doesn't mean that ultra-high salaries will be taxed at this rate. It means that ultra-high salaries will not exist in job market in the first place.

The best Swedish startup threatens to leave Sweden because of regulatory and tax burden [1].

The Netherlands recognized importance of highly-skilled expats by introducing tax discounts called "30% ruling". I do respect their efforts to attract talent. That's why I moved from Sweden to the Netherlands in 2016.

However, as non-EU citizen you can work only for publicly registered sponsors [2]. Usually, it's boring well-established companies. So I missed some cool opportunities due to this limitation.

As I learned dutch local job market, I found that almost nobody will pay you 10'000 EUR per month.

Aside from tax and regulatory burden in Europe, there are cultural things like Law of Jante [3]. I can't imagine how society with such mentality can attract highly ambitious people.

Also, talking about money in Europe is kinda taboo. And dutch automatically repeat "money is not everything". It wouldb't annoy me if someone committed to work for open source software. Or being great painter. But when recruiter respond me "money is not everything" when I'm asking "too much", it annoys me a lot.

With that in mind, I decided to abandon idea of living in Europe, getting citizenship, learning dutch language etc. It was tough decision for me but it's time to move on. It's not kind of a society where I want to spend rest of my life. Sorry dutch and swedes, I don't fit here.

So I decided to move to Hong Kong. I've just got very lucrative job offer in Hong Kong (in HFT). The size of compensation is far beyond of what Europe can offer me. Now, I'm almost on par with US (I couldn't get into US because I don't have any degree). Now, I'm just waiting for my HK visa getting approved.

You might troll me saying that, I'm whining. OK, I have answer to that. Just look at my net salary increases:

Russia -> Sweden (2015) +28%

Sweden -> Sweden (2015) +15%

Sweden -> the Netherlands (2016) +63%

the Netherlands -> Hong Kong (2018) +83% (and possible bonus up to 300% of yearly salaries!)

I will work like crazy fanatic and in next six years I will be well over $1M of liquid net worth.

So Europe lost me. Europe is perfect place for people who just want to work from 9 to 5 and put family as their top priority. It's not suited for risk takers.

Links:

https://www.thelocal.se/20160412/spotify-founders-sweden-is-...

https://ind.nl/en/work/Pages/Highly-skilled-migrant.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
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Just to share anecdata - I grew up in Malaysia but am generally based in Australia, and have noticed a vein of this tendency in the Southeast Asian culture (not covered in the study).

It's only a small percentage, but there really is a type for whom public goods are a concept which only have a flimsy existence. Instead they hold the belief that the smartest people are the ones who try to grab the most for themselves, to an insane level. It doesn't really matter how much the damage their lack of cooperation does, and they get a personal satisfaction from "winning" or "being smart". If punished for that behaviour I would expect retaliation - they were just trying to do the smart thing after all!

Some extreme examples - I heard about uni students who upon graduation took out credit cards, bought a bunch of nice things, then moved home for good and skipped out on the bill. And they clearly didn't desperately need the money as they were medium rich overseas students. One guy I knew personally (who was eventually kicked out of our student group) would do stuff like grab giant stacks of napkins from restaurants and take home rolls of TP from public restrooms. So gross!

The people I met who had this tendency all had a poorer or working class family background, but were all middle class or higher now. My theory is this might be something to do with intergenerational experiences in these poorer countries that (1) the commons will definitely not look after you, and (2) if you didn't have enough you and your family might literally starve to death. And so the right thing to do is look after yourself first at all costs. Looking after the public good might feel like a luxury or foolish behaviour under these circumstances.
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That's not true, I have both my Bank Of America and Merrill Edge accounts protected with 2FA using my Google Voice number, and it's been working fine for at least a couple years (when I switched to that method), I use both of them weekly receiving their authentication text via GV and never had a problem.
Thank you for the history lesson, that was thoroughly enjoyable! Bonus points for the comic book manual.
I don't think anyone wears those shoes. They're just for sneakerheads to collect. Then it's just a game of telling people what they should desire.
Wrong. TOTP is supported, although hidden.
I agree with the premise but it seems that there are more solutions out there. As other commenters noted, you can collect histograms or hdrhistograms. Those have the problem of needing to be precofiguring and of not being able to be merged unless they are configured the same way.

Instead you can use the t-digest (https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest), a very cool online quantile estimation data structure from Ted Dunning (which he has recently improved with the Merging approach). There are a number of implementations out there. It is not unreasonable to serialize them and merge them. Unfortunately there’s no easy way to set this up in Prometheus but making that easy could be a fun project
Paypal's Symantec HW token can be replaced with a TOTP app.
In another thread I read the Soyuz is designed to stay in orbit for 200 days, which is in December for the one currently attached to ISS. So unless we can get a spaceship up to ISS by December, the crew has to return in December and the ISS will be left unmanned.
I read "How to lie with statistics" and had the exact same experience.
> it's much more interesting than I thought even just to see the frequency, time, and interactions of users on HN via Telegram updates.

Uhm, so now you're aware just how hard I procrastinate :<.

> For example, I've found that some users seem to be active at the same times, and (as a result?) get into discussions with each other regularly.

That's very true. I also wonder if this isn't partly responsible for differing perspectives HNers sometimes have about HN. I sometimes see people claiming that HN is full of things I've never really seen here. Maybe it's just timezone difference? Maybe HN does look different at +12h offset?

> there's a bit too much 'noise' for many keywords

That's true, but I think just making the user responsible for picking right keywords would give 80% of the value.

Aggregated keyword matches is something I've never seen done in the context of HN/Reddit, but I feel it's worth testing. Maybe I'll finish up my dashboard, free time allowing.

> but I'd be happy to let you know if I've got it in some kind of shape that I'd be comfortable sharing :)

Please do. Don't worry about adding new features first; from what you describe it's quite useful already.
I ported my Google Voice number to T-mobile about 6 years ago, replacing my main number

Great decision as I got to reset my social graph - no services would try to auto-connect me with everyone from high school and college that had data dumped their contacts

10/10
As someone at a non-FAANG, but relatively large tech-based company in San Jose this resonates. I've basically had 3 managers in two years.

Trying to leave but it's been difficult. My skills have kind of atrophied due to my current situation.
> effectively mine at scale

You mean "in order to spend an extra $2 in power to make 3c for someone else"? Very effective.

As long as there are more price-efficient mining pools which are an appreciable fraction of mining power, it will not be cost effective to mine anywhere less efficient since margins will naturally approach what those larger pools can support.

A consumer desktop will never be able to compete with a centrally cooled data-centre which likely gets special power rates and was intentionally built in a location power is cheaper in. Especially not if it's having to go through wasm.
You're looking at the wrong real estate. The people that bought and drove up prices for all this junk real estate in the middle of nowhere were ordinary people who had no idea about investment, fueled by subprime loans. That kind of money wasn't coming back with QE.

The kind of investors that got money via QE wouldn't invest into junk like that, instead they've driven up prices in urban areas. The same kind of people are driving up stocks, which are currently massively overvalued.

Either way, you can't look at the initiation of QE and expect results by next tuesday.
What is L5?
> One does not even need to bribe or defraud telecom employees

wow, no proof of stake required, rating 1/5
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The lack of security of cell phone providers is absolutely infuriating considering the sheer number of people who are paid $20/h that have ability to see and manipulate records at the likes of AT&T, Sprint, TMO and VZ not to mention those who work for resellers like BestBuy that are authorized to make activation and porting related changes.

It reminds me of MJR confidently stating that the maximum cost of gaining access to any secure network is min:

1) A yearly salary of the lowest paid employee who has access (i.e. someone's secretary)

2) A price of a Desert Eagle
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On the other hand, organisms are generally very "fault tolerant" systems in the small—if you get a crucial gene copied, and then one of the copies mutates to do something weird while the other remains functioning, the resulting organism is probably going to be viable, since the weird thing that the mutated copy of the gene does will [unless it's some very specific type of "weird thing" it's producing] be treated by the body as just another foreign enzyme to xenometabolize or foreign antibody to attack.

And the organism's genetic line can persist with that mutant gene indefinitely, building onto it until it becomes a useful feature.

(This isn't so true in especially small organisms, where an extra gene here and there might blow their size or resource budget. This is one of several things constraining the evolution of mitochondria, for example.)
There are multiple versions of Qwerty, and the worst one is the European ISO one, since it requires you to press multiple keys(2 to 3 keys) when making anything from huggies {} or bananas () or even staples [] because every key on the numbers row has 3 symbols on it
CO2 follows warming if you look at the data too closely.

No one has proved that mankind’s contribution is material to the underlying trend, nor proved that warming will be as bad as claimed. So what if Greenland becomes green again?
What's an example of a modification to DOM spec that introduces vulnerabilities? I'm not sure I'm familiar with any.
I love file.pizza (and its friends) but they're not great for large files. It has to buffer the whole thing in memory.
Fix for the Supreme court is to make them stand election every 8 years.
I recently learned that salmon find their way back to their birth stream partly by smell: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-spawning-f...
When you consider that only 6 shuttles were ever built and the projected cost of the f35 program includes thousands of fighter jets and decades of maintenance then this will really open up your eyes how much of a failure the shuttles were.
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This should be a huge warning.
I feel like there's an obvious joke here:

IRB> "some string"[/look a regex!/]

https://xkcd.com/208/
Ostensibly yes...but with supply and demand being what it is, the economical value of viable sperm is going to drastically start increasing.

https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
Hi, one of the Vega-Lite author here. I'm glad you like Vega-Lite and were inspired by our Infovis paper. Vega-Lite is much more mature than when we wrote the Infovis paper so I suggest you to check it out. Compared to Muze, Vega-Lite is embracing full declarativeness.
It was in the pipeline, and it seemed silly to leave just weeks before it was in effect because:

1) If you are a regretted departure, there is a good chance you'll be hired back at your old level with a minimum of fuss. There is a pretty big difference in salary, bonus factor and probably GSU grants between L5 and L6, so I did not want to loose that advantage should I ever want to return.

2) It was a personal goal. I suck at whiteboarding, so was hired as L5 when I should probably have been L6. So I did not want to leave before I finally got to the level that I thought I should have been at all along.

3) There is an internal Google system (go/epitaphs) where you can look up an Xoogler, and it will tell you when they worked at Google, what their title was, what their level was, etc. If I ever wanted to join a startup that was being founded by Googlers, I thought it would look better if they could confirm the L6 was claiming on my resume. If I had left after the promo was announced to me, but before it was effective, it would look like I was an L5 and just spinning a story.
I may or may not have laughed out loud in my cube. Well played, sir
FusionCharts is a configurable JS charting library. You choose your chart, define the parameters (highly configurable, though) and then render it. FusionCharts' strength is ease of use, backward compatibility, theming etc.

Muze is data-first. You start with data, apply any operations (if needed), then render. Muze automatically detects the right chart for that and then renders. Also Muze allows you to compose any kind of cartesian visualization, as it follows grammar of graphics.

So if I've to explain this in a spectrum, it goes like this:

d3 (very powerful, high learning curve, you can do anything)
Muze (data-first, Grammar of graphics oriented, compose viz)
FusionCharts (chart-first, lot of depth in configurations, but can't extend yourself for new chart types)

Hope this helps.
I've seen it a lot over the years. Literally two folders side-by-side with the same name and same icon and questionably the same path but are two different folders. I even had it on a customer's PC just last week. Don't know what else to say.
Are they enforceable in New York? I am finding conflicting information in Google.
I find it strange that one can put anything in a contract with a disclaimer at the bottom saying that it is "enforceable to the fullest extant of federal and local law" knowing what is enforceable. This is misleading at best. In my opinion such contracts should be entirely null and void, not just the unenforceable parts.

I do admit that were I in an even remotely close position to changing the law around this it would probably disproportionally affect workers, some penalty would need to be levied against the infringing party, but where would that end?
It was a handwritten svg animation with d3 later enhanced using adobe illustrator.