skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The above comment indicates lack of surprise. Are you surprised unhappy workers will do illegal/immoral things, _even when the contract says otherwise_?

Expecting people who feel cheated or abused to behave accordingly is not a judgment over whether their feelings are accurate, fair, or their reactions are justified. It's just saying you aren't surprised.
Is there really a bubble? The players look fairly solidified to me.

You have Facebook, which might not be as cool in all countries with younger users, and has had a lot of controversy surrounding fake news, election influence, and privacy, but it's doing well.

You have Instagram, which is doing very well, was a great Facebook acquisition, helping their parent company even more.

You have Twitter, which seems to be struggling by, and is still very relevant.

Reddit is doing very well if you can even call it social meddia.

Apps like Yik Yak, Whisper, Snapchat, and such all seem to have been going downhill or are gone for some time now. But I think the players we have are here to stay.
> the majority of ad-supported content is hot garbage

I cannot argue with that, I very much agree. But plenty of people not only like consuming what I deem hot garbage, they're more than comfortable supporting it via ads; something I would never subject myself to if given a chance.

But I don't believe I should be able to dictate how other people experience their content or how they fund it, and there are still mountains of ad-supported content that is actually good and that would likely be non-viable on a patronage/subscription system due to things such as their target demographics.

So, Brave seems to tick our own boxes of "no ads" and provides the option for others to subject themselves to them. Unless we're arguing for going back to the old "pre-mainstream" Internet (to which I say, there are many places for that, and the Tor network is particularly fertile for fostering such a culture) then I say the Brave model improves the situation on every front.
Tensorflex: Tensorflow bindings for the Elixir programming language
Where are they suggesting that we witch-hunt the Commies? I see no such call-to-action.

Or are you saying that is it McCarthyistic to merely remember the past and attempt to avoid repeating it? https://eureconciliation.eu/institutions-promoting-awareness...
The notion that government does everything right and cost doesn't matter is destructive and needs to die quickly.

Whether the government performs the work itself or contracts it out, it must do so competently, exercising appropriate oversight and regulation. In this case, the government failed to properly oversee their contractor, which isn't that different than failing to oversee government employees doing the same thing.

So, yes, a private company failed to perform the job. But, so too did the government, on whose behalf the company was operating.
They're fucked.
#regions are great. Syntax is the one issue (as you pointed out) but it could be better by adding a special comment code syntax and removing the closing. For example, a comment like

//== wrappers for inherited functions

where the equals work like in markdown headers, and the region continues until the end of scope or a new region.
This isn't directly answering your questions, but RemoteOnly [1] is quite a good list of companies with carrying levels of remote work. While this doesn't answer how their cultures are, it can be a starting point for companies to look at.

[1]: https://remoteonly.org/
”Adults, not teens. Messaging, not Stories. Developing markets, not the U.S.”

So... Snap basically wants to be Facebook?

Adults, messaging, developing world — Facebook is already enormously entrenched in the overlap of those markets thanks to Messenger and WhatsApp. FB has also shown the ability to clone Snap’s product innovations.

I have a feeling 2019 is the year when Snap is acquired. The market cap is already below $10 billion.
Nor in Baltimore.
I think the claim "scan the whole world down to the detail of a single grain of sand" is hot garbage. SfM or any kind of 3D scanning method doable with cell phone or drone data will not get close to that. You'd need some very expensive scanners for that and no one would use these to scan a large area.

It doesn't matter if your mesh is that precise when your data acquisition method isn't.
Well I did fully acknowledge that Vox & Gawker are not without their problems. And if we break down Gawker to be ALL of Gawker a big problem of trust their is their Kinja contribution system, but some writers within the smaller groups (Kotaku, Gizmodo) have done good reporting. Wikipedia stated the reason they removed Brietbart was due to its "unreliability". That means they did take the time to explore BB as a source to validate the claims. If Vox and the entire Gawker network were "unreliable" I'm sure they would do the same.

I put it in quotes because it was a statement the GG latched on to to claim as their whole reasoning. However countless doxing & harassement attempts, specifically towards some women, prove otherwise. Again, one of their big tent pole arguments was that gaming press (which in reality is relatively young) had a mailing list they all communicated on. Which is just ludicrous to use as "collusion" b/c it assumes all press operates in a black box with no communciation.

There is a double standard in press reporting, but it is not some thing that is exclusive to gaming. There's a clip of Rooster Teeth slamming another press outlet for their review of Fallout while all three of them (Rooster Teeth) are decked out in Fallout gear. I can assure many more YT personalities are getting free gifts from companies to promote & review, but not disclosing as such. There is a new practice now of seeding games to these personalities early to help drum up hype around games. This is precisely the ethics situation you claim, but that's if you assume YT should be considered press (it's not). Someone who was contributing to IGN just got ratted out for plagarizing and IGN, after investigating, removed every piece of their content. By GG standards of IGN they're some unethical place and would have never done this. So yeah, GG in itself is a double standard and completely unreliable in their message.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Currently Mexico, usually British Columbia, Canada.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not.

Technologies: Mostly server-side with some frontend. Java, JSP, Spring, MySQL, Git.

Resume: https://ggabelmann.github.io/

Email: greg.gabelmann@gmail.com

I have over a decade of experience, mostly server-side and Java but I've done some frontend work with whatever framework happens to be popular at the time. I like to do "full-lifecycle" development and release to production frequently. I've been learning about Rust and hope to write a Network Block Device server with it when I find some time.
I'm confused, is this tropical forests that still exist now emit more carbon, or land that used to be tropical forest release enough carbon to override the left over forest?
I work remote in the tech industry but I spend a significant amount of my personal time growing food for my family.

I don't ever call gardening a hobby, it's always part of the economy whether you sell or not. Anything I grow I don't need to buy, whether that is food, seed, or plants for propagation.

My long term goal is to buy land and scale up my operations and what I've learned on my small .33 acre yard.

That said, the lifestyle changes related to permaculture are great in their own right. Changes what I buy because I'm always looking for the eventual output.
Accelerating Machine Learning Research with MI-Prometheus
Solar still provides power on Cloudy days, just less.

Storage is still a poor solution to this problem it’s much cheaper to have excess renuables.
Bulgarian investigative journalist murdered
Alternatively, disable JS: the page looks perfect, just the article and its images. I have to congratulate the TC frontend devs.
I don't have many friends on Snapchat, but I follow a lot of celebrities.

Literally the same week, 90% of them stopped posting, and it never recovered. Now it's a ghost town.

People who followed friends got hit, people who follow celebrities got hit, I just don't get it what was on their mind.
> What is the difference between collecting and simply buying?

I worked in a comic book shop during my youth. We knew who were the comic book readers and who were the collectors by their buying habits.

Comic Books are rife with examples distinguishing collectors from readers. Comic books are a business of entertainment. Historially aimed at children (price point, themes, etc.). To overcome the impulse to spend their dimes on other products, they're numbered. In this sense numbering is a mechanism used by the publishers to prompt serial purchasing--"don't miss an issue". Even if a great story ends, you're compelled to keep buying. You have another 'continuity' with our human tendency to relate and invest in some characters. You want the story to never end--Peter Parker should be over 71 years old!

As a comic book seller you know someone is a collector when they spend a premium price for the best quality of an out-of-print comic ('back issue'). Whereas a comic book reader, compelled to buy a back issue (continuity), will buy any quality and at the lowest possible price (mildew and all).

And maybe what makes a collector (person) is when they have ammased a collection (group of similarly themed objects). When they make an effort to preserve these objects in the same state as when they first purchased the item. Comic book readers don't care about preservation, and are known to give their comic books away to their grandchildren (Mr A).

In our consumer society we expect products to age and deteriorate on their own (acids in cheap newsprint discolor comics over time). Products also become damaged from use, and you replace them with another similar product. That's not the same for a collector--Nostalgia.

I still remember my first comic book (GI Joe #26, origin of Snake Eyes). And the kid in art class who showed me his copy (Arthur), and said, as he pulled it from the "bag and board" to be careful--it's Mint! ahaha (no it wasn't). So now, when I pull that same copy (the copy I purchased from the Comic Zone of Fremont, CA) from the back of my closet, pull it out of the bag and board (careful with the tape!), my first thought is 7-th grade art class and Arthur.

GI Joe #26 is an object in the 'collection' of $h@T from my life. I was a comic book seller. And I'm a collector.
Extreme north or south. Barrow Alaska gets over 60 days without sun in the winter. A bit further south in more populated regions you only get a few hours of sunlight during the shortest days of the year.
Ah apologies - I block that by default. I haven't yet found a way to block the stupid GDPR cookie pop ups.
I think it's unsurprising when founders of unicorns eschew A/B testing in favor of vision.

Admitting part of their success was luck is tantamount to admitting "I went from nothing to a billionaire because the dice came up right."

I don't know many people who would be comfortable truly accepting that. And even fewer who could do so AND be the type of driven person necessary. All while everyone around you is looking to you for answers.
I don’t get any of that lightbox junk you’re talking about on my iPhone - did they update the link to a different site?
More like senior engineers have learned from experience and just triple any estimate.
Too much sweetness bitter for health?
What the market teaches entrepreneurs is that the best thing you can do is build and own the infrastructure, because that's how you extract rent.

So if you see applications that already exist, then you don't want to build "just another application," you want to build the infrastructure they all live on.

It seems like this should be the way it works, but it just doesn't. Good products with infrastructure attract other enterprises to their infrastructure by having a very successful product first, which other enterprises emulate. Twilio is probably the #1 example of this.

I'd argue it's impossible to build infrastructure that others play on at scale, without owning some large segment of users with a great product first.
From my perspective the country started on a bad path with Reagan. He popularized the notion that government is never the answer and he popularized the belief that lowering taxes is always the right thing to do. So now we have cities, counties, states, and federal government trying to lower costs and avoid having taxes raised to pay for services. We now live in a system in which fees, fines, etc. are used to generate revenue. Local police forces need to get a significant part of their funding from parking fines, speeding tickets, etc. I got a ticket a few years ago and the fine was $25. However, fees for court costs, administrative fee for processing ticket and other such stuff added $100 to the bill. But taxes are low so hurray!

We privatize prisons and say the cost per prisoner should go down. This comes in the form of lower services for prisoners, lower pay for staff, and cheap food, and skimping on amenities and on rehabilitation programs. All in the name of getting a low cost on housing the prisoner. We Americans tend not to look at long term costs or on external costs.

We thus end up in situations in which large numbers of poor voters rely on things like Obamacare and vote for people who actively want to dismantle it in the name of lower taxes. We are a money obsessed people always seeking the best deal. The most food for the cheapest price and that kind of thinking. It's weird that this is so because we have so many religious people and they seem to overlook or deliberately forget the Biblical admonition that the love of money is the root of all evil.

As you say, the vast majority of the country is one illness away from penury.
"Natural philosophy" was not called that because it was an emerging science. It was called that because it was different from theology in the way Russel described.
Acknowledging the way the world works and trying to improve conditions without addressing the root cause is sometimes one of the best possible outcomes.

When a doctor helps you with the arm you broke because a car hit your bicycle, a doctor doesn't try to improve road conditions for cyclists.
Proprietary? No thanks, I'll just use Mozilla Deepspeech.
I think that was a smart choice too. It's good that they could see through all the hype with the more recent languages and pick SQL. interesting choice indeed. Not sure how it scales though.
It does seems as though SSRIs shouldn't be used as first-line therapy. They are powerful drugs that alter brain chemistry in ways that aren't properly understood. There are a number of low-hanging fruit which can be tried first, such as increased exposure to sunlight, exercise, change in diet, meditation, CBT and so on. But if all of these fail, an SSRI is definitely worth trying - they do work for some people.
I didn't know OP made the graph. If I had I would have been less upfront, e.g. "I would have chosen different axes".
Why would you try to argue this point with A,Bs and Cs? Even if you called them monkeys, horses and lions it would have been more understandable. There’s a reason we don’t use these kind of variable names...
Being profit driven does make things magically better. Countries like India suffered for decades under central planning policies, and have been going through a huge boom in prosperity since the 1990s thanks to reforms that took power away from government planners and made room for the market.

At the same time, the government hasn’t proven to be any more “humane.” Most US prisons are public. Are prisoners treated humanely in Illinois, where private prisons have been banned since 1990? New York, another state that has long banned private prisons, is famous for the abuses in its pre-trial system, where non-convicts are sometimes held for years.
Unless of course there is crime, or a fire.

That said, I believe geographic mobility is important and probably one of the things that makes things most challenging as an adult.
Self-centeredness (illustrated here as violence through revenge) is a characteristic most strongly associated with single-cell organisms. Along that axis, humans are characterized by being a complex system embedded in a complex system. We are defined by our internal and external organization, and are always striving in this way. The biggest denial of our humanity is to think of ourselves and our actions as apart from the reality of this systemic functioning.
I don't see this as a replacement for knowing package manager syntax. As someone who works with many machines running many different distros at the same time, I appreciate being able to open a terminal and run "install htop", without using even a single brain cell to think about which distro it's running and instead focus on doing whatever I need to do (which is often time-sensitive).

When I need to do package management, I'll use a package manager. But for when I need to quickly install one tool to get something done, my giant shell function "ji" (stands for "just install") has saved me precious time.

In its current state, this project is equivalent to a bunch of command alises, but that doesn't mean it can't be useful.
That was a fantastic read, so much insight into group dynamics!
Please post something useful, insightful or worthy of discussion. Otherwise, don't post at all. Thank you.
A lot of Bay Area companies subscribe to the "make the world a better place" mantra. To me, the original meaning was to create (technology?) products that make things possible or just easier.

However, that's not Silicon Valley's take. People take it as a green light to take their morals (what they think is "good" - including their political views), and then, through their employer's product, impose those morals onto the user base.

Some are fairly benign. "Positivity is good", albeit a simplistic view of the world, isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things. The standard modern approach of "create a metric, optimize" comes into play. Might result in things like highlighting "positive" content and downplaying "negative" content.

Some are slightly more questionable. Every SV app (including those that are absolutely not related in any way) is trying to get people to vote. So, in a "vacuum", voting is good. However, CA is left-leaning - so, why is this only a thing during Trump and wasn't done during Obama? The usage demographics of these apps are also left-leaning - these calls to action for voting are affecting the distribution of voters - if they truly wanted an impartial result, they should show the "vote" banner to a uniform distribution of people (through subsampling). I'm looking at Reddit and Discord here.
I consider socio-economic polarization an existential threat to democracy: Money buys political influence, so I would argue there's a legitimate fear of capitalist societies turning into oligarchies.
Over half the HN readership lives in areas where these abbreviations are human-readable. And 100% can google the abbreviations. Would it be better if we started using UTC+5, etc.? Sure. But good luck getting Americans to change. If the OP's European counterpart posted a time in "CET" I'd have to go look it up, and I'd be fine doing that if it was important to me, rather than pointing the finger and crying Eurocentrism.

What I did find objectionable about the times, though, was the lack of "AM" or "PM". In the US, 3:00 might be in the morning or the afternoon, and the context does not make it clear which is intended.
As ridiculous as these medical treatments sound to the modern ear, I wonder how people will look back on our "state of the art" 200 years from now.
I absolutely loved this game in high school. It’s very special, in that it’s primary mechanic is real world relationships placed into a tactical context. The downside is that it pulls real world relationships into a simulated zero-sum environment where the game ends but the relationships persist.

I’ve never played any game quite like it.

Unfortunately, I can’t think of a situation in which I would ever play it again, because when played well it will almost certain damage relationships, and when played poorly it’s just sort of a disappointment.

This may be my favorite game of all time, and I don’t think I’ll ever play it again.
Can you "decorate/boost" those dams with inflatable ballons on the lake's floor?
The interesting thing here is the hint about double taxation; apparently this pumped storage facility pays fee when it ingests mWh to store, and again when it releases them for use. According to the article, that scares away investment in upgrading the facility.

The Bloomergites certainly have the chops to unravel and explain this corner of utility economics. Wish they'd do it! The smart-grid future holds all kinds of energy flows into and out of storage. Storage can be characterized in a bunch of ways.

* Total energy capacity (mWh)

* Peak discharge rate (mW)

* Rampup time for discharge. Rampup is most of the content of this article. The 100mW Tesla-built Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia has a subsecond rampup time, which makes its energy very valuable for short periods of time.

* Local efficiency (mWh discharged / mWh ingested)

* System efficiency (mWh at source / mWh at sink, counting transmission loss. The lines up to a mountain dam and back down have losses).

* Money efficiency. Taxes, fees, etc.

* Peak ingestion rate (mW)

* Rampup time for ingestion

* Capital cost (please include externalities like decommissioning and disposal costs)

* Expected lifetime (pump storage lifetime is very long)

* Operating cost

The future smart grid needs a finely tuned balance of capacity, rate, and rampup time to succeed.
You sound like someone who hasn't had Docker shit itself and lose track of a container's data which you then had to find and manually migrate...
Binge Drinking and Blackouts: The Sobering Truth About Lost Learning
OTOH: With good monitoring, starting naive and improving later isn't the worst. My company uses NewRelic and it auto-magically sets up traces for all transactions. Can see where time is being spent, and the number and duration of DB and external-requests.

Of course you actually have to pay attention to it. I've gotten a lot of praise by just optimizing things that everyone else shrugged off. (Turns out people appreciate a fast authentication system; who knew!?)
In my college experience, it would take approximately 6-8 hours for a game. Usually about 6-7 hours deep, there would be 3-4 players remaining, and 2-3 of those would join forces to eliminate the weakest player and call it a night.
As a co-founder of a China-focused startup this is fantastic news for me.

Finding good partners who you can personally trust has and will continue to be the key to survival when interacting with China.
The Long Distance Con
Which then requires a centralized authority, of members who trust the systems/processes and people in place, if going to use blockchain technology..
Firefox + NoScript works great.
Ublock Origin plus Cookiemonster list - I never see a cookie banner.