skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed; Grice's Maxims/The Cooperative Principle suggest that communication would not even be possible without these kinds of generous assumptions. And I don't think it's getting too quacky to extend that premise to society in general. Since it's so expensive to verify true intentions, when it's even possible at all (which, generally at least, in language, it's not), we have to sort of get by hoping that most of the time most people are being mostly honest in order to successfully communicate.

Of course, we all flout these maxims daily, to varying degrees, from white lies to outright perjury. But viewed as a Tragedy of the Commons, there are people who will advance themselves by deliberately and consistently flouting them, to their own calculated advantage.
doesn't this fix mean it crashes after 2^32 milliseconds now?
Interesting. A company which wants my real name as a customer is using fake company names to hide away.
That's interesting. I used to be a professional user of Stata, really day-to-day stuff; but I never saw R positioned as an alternative to Stata.
I remember reading articles about the subprime problem in the Economist way before the crash. I think they're pretty good on the whole at being informative and not sensationalist.

Here's one from 2006 [1] that I found relatively easily. But there's one in my head that I remember about an HSBC owned bank that was flailing and could potentially start a crisis, but I can't find it right now - I just remember reading it at the time, it was the reason I decided to wait for a downturn in the housing market. I wish I'd ignored it and bought at the time, but with the benefit of hindsight ...

[1] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2006/12/13/s...
> Look at SCOTUS and how many cases are narrowly decided by a split court 5-4.

Because it's a second-level appeals court with largely discretionary jurisdiction biased toward taking cases with unsettled questions of law (a factor which tends to weigh heavily in favor of them taking an appeal is a conflict between the circuit courts of appeal on a question of law), SCOTUS rulings are vastly deceptive on the degree to which legal outcomes are uncertain.
I dropped out of CS about 15 years ago because the way it was taught bored me to tears. No I don’t want to build another bank account manager just to learn data structures or databases or whatever. Went and got a degree in history, ended up using the few things I picked up when I studied CS to fall into a business intelligence job.

And now I’m kinda looking into programming again and many books I examined still go with “let’s build a bank account manager” as an example project. Such a shame, programming offers endless possibilities and the first encounter is the worst kind of business app.
Exactly. The other day I was carrying 2 relatively heavy boxes (furniture; I just moved into a new place) and suddenly a guy comes up to me and asks if he can help me. At first I was kind of flabbergasted, but after a second I was like 'he's just trying to be nice' and gave him one of the boxes. We carried it until we arrived at my apartment complex and had a nice chat along the way. When we arrived we exchanged numbers, since I learned he was new in the city and looking to meet new people and improve his language skills.

If my mum knew about this she'd probably think I'm crazy, being afraid of someone running off with her stuff. But in the end I think "trust-by-default" is a good way of going about life and meeting new people. Also, there's still gut-feeling. Maybe I'm an outlier there but I'm pretty quick in determining if someone is being sincere or just sweet-talking me to get what he/she wants.
I hate and like people behind JS development as a language at the same time.

Node.js devs more than anybody else realize what's wrong with the general direction of mainstream webdev languages, while at the same time cultivating that culture around themselves like that.

A good decision they made was not using high level IO abstractions that both eats performance, and obscures synchronicity implications.

And the bad one is their general chabuduo attitude. While nobody in a sane mind will use node.js for an airplane autopilot,or a space mission software, there is no reason for them not to strive for improving node.js reliability to the extend demanded in the "serious software" industry
Yes, talking about a fraction of US population, which itself is just a few percent of global population, while billions of lives have been improved is random samples.

If you must scope your argument that narrowly, it does not hold. The US also has the greatest opportunity and socioeconomic mobility in the world and this has only improved. Your attempting to piece together a narrative from disparate data while ignoring the world, even though we already track measures for what you're talking about and they all show great improvements.
heard they were free under fully automated luxury gay space communism
License is GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 2.0 according to fiasco-18.09/src/kernel/fiasco/COPYING
Probably mostly 3, and that Google is larger than the other faangs where you might (Netflix and Facebook).
Product search and discovery is a hard problem, but not the hard problem they've chosen to make it in to.

It's a fiddle.
A big part of the recession danger was that if several of the too large wall street banks failed, there would be chaos and cascading failures, because you wouldn't be able to get your money from them for a while, it would take months or maybe years to figure out what really was owned or loaned. If I was say retired, my 401k might be 25% bonds and 25% cash and x% stock but if the company that held the records failed (say fidelity) and the stock market crashed, and the value of the bonds was unclear since so many companies went out, you can't easily get your money to live on - that was the danger of the 'cascading series of failures' scenario.
Landmark Music Bill into Law
What the ‘Grievance Studies’ Hoax Means
The amount of (dev) dependencies doesn’t matter that much to me, but I agree about the client side. I wish gatsby could emit a version without client side routing / react. I also find the way to create and manage pages (and yeah trees) is not as flexible as it should be.

"Just a txt > html converter" is what every developer builds for themselves at some point and hence the 300 different projects that already do that. I‘m glad someone is making a database backed (kind of) static site generator for once, even if it brings some code weight with it.
It's the Microsoft mindset that they rule the world and everything works the Microsoft way. Not only do other operating systems not exist (yes yes Linux subsystem for win 10 whatever), but every software vendor and user is assumed to use the system exactly the way it was intended. That means no app will have the path to the original folder hardcoded instead of querying it the official way, and no user will mnavigate to the old pre-redirect location manually for any reason. By that definition, the folder can only be empty, so it's safe to delete it, recursively, since deleting an empty folder recursively is no different from deleting it non-recursively.
Just Answering a Video Call Could Compromise Your WhatsApp Account
> It's the road to currency collapse

This is overly simplistic. QE led to neither rampant inflation nor dollar depreciation. Money velocity fell and monetary policy responded. (Fiscal policy’s relative non-responsivensss meant monetary policy had to overcompensate.)
Shout out to Foone in general. A+ twitter follow if you're into old and weird tech. They're quite talented at converting "wtf is this" into an enjoyable narrative.
It's supposed to fall that way in that scenario. The Soyuz capsule is capable of generating lift during re-entry, which it usually does for a nominal orbital entry, but that's not always desired in every situation.
This kind of "economists are always wrong because they didn't foresee a major problem" is like saying "engineers are always wrong because they don't foresee issues caused by DNS"
Wired for life: Study links infants' brain circuitry to future health
It might have been more high trust because it was less culturally diverse.

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/...
If you find this surprising you should check out "The Ugly Indian" TED talk.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1VA5jqmRo
I sold my Polaroid 405 backs when Fuji made their cuts, figuring it would be the last chance to get any money for them. Not surprising that new Polaroid can't do it, unless they want to buy Fuji's production line. (tangentially, I had an RB-67 for a while too. They're great, but I ended up trading it for a Hasselblad, because it's half the size)
Researchers Show Change in Beliefs Associated with Dopamine in Brain
There is billions of spending on projects they don't need, forced by congress, like SLS. It's mostly not independent systems - space x is far more separate than boeing and other companies.
I don't think the explanation covers it.

Wanting to punish people who cooperate with the state (because the state just takes everything away) doesn't imply wanting to punish people who cooperate in the contrived example game where the game does not take anything away. Unless OP means to imply that people can't mentally separate the machinations of the state from the rules of a game, I don't think the explanation is satisfactory. (Although I don't have a better explanation myself).
> I got here because I followed you, actually!

Huh. I'm flattered :).

In a way, I think there's a triad of required features for productive use of discussion groups: following topics that interest you, following people whose comments you like, and getting notifications when someone talks to you. So following users and keywords are two big things missing for me (notifications on replies I get through HN Notify http://www.hnreplies.com/ by 'dangrossman). I find that I often miss discussions on exactly the topics that interest me, because for some reason they don't show up on the frontpage at the time I'm looking; I hope a keyword-based search will plug that hole, and decrease the urge to refresh the frontpage so often.

A keyword-based system doesn't have to use e-mail - in fact, I think it would be better as a dashboard (the side project was working on was actually going to be a simple webpage with a list of matches). The benefits of such solution would be that a) you can easily de-duplicate matches, solving your biggest annoyance and avoiding spamming someone's inbox, and b) reducing the distraction factor a bit more for people who didn't yet decide to disable notifications on their e-mails.

That Telegram tool of yours - any chance I could take it for a test drive?
I don't see how providing a script with the usual disclaimers is any different than receiving the same advice, with the same disclaimers, from an individual.

When you say 'individual', are you implying individual attorney? Granted, I'm asking because I'd genuinely like someone who has credentials from their state bar (i.e. a licensed attorney) to answer this: their TOS says they are not a law firm, and that they are not providing legal counsel.

If your friend says "yeah man that sucks, you should sue those bastards for what they did to your car", no reasonable person would argue this rises to the definition of 'legal advice'.

But if your friend prescribes what exactly you need to say to a court in the context of legal procedure, when summoned to appear, this doesn't qualify as 'legal counsel'? That I'm curious about.
"I am Talkie, Talkie Toaster... Talkie is a name, and toasting is a game!"
Depot maintenance. It’s a near full teardown and rebuilding of the platform. How do you think B-52s have been sustained over the past 65 or so years? Long enough that we may have four generations of pilots in one family (I’ve met several B-52 pilots who had a father or grandfather who flew the same airframe).
The economist was warning of the subprime bubble in 2005.
If it doesn't work, the attempt to set a timer that won't ever fire should throw as well.
Shooting the Machine Learning Rapids with Open Source
There is another critical thinker I recently came across - Adam Greenfield - much better then Morozov IMO. Have a look at his latest book: Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30724899-radical-technol...
I've ported one back out, you have to sign into your account and allow it.
Defending Facebook's Portal gadget
> cumulative running time is not needed to calculate when next to call the interval

I don't see how that solves anything, you are just defining a new limit to be broken, which would occur when the timer resolution is next increased if not in practice.

It makes sense that either the actual interval or timeout periods are limited by the underlying types used to store them... but I see no intrinsic reason why cumulative time that setInterval runs need be limited by any underlying type (cumulative running time is not needed to calculate when next to call the interval).
Isn't a basic premise in finance that past results don't guarantee future returns? Why does their past predictions invalidate their current argument? Sounds like you just have a bias...
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I clearly remember NPR was talking about the subprime in Feb-Mar of 2007. That does not mean that NPR foresaw 2008 great recession. Most people saw a dip, but very very few people saw a Valley that it truly was.
Why marketing matters
Here's the way that I do it. Copied from a previous comment:

Keywords, Google keyword tool, forum chats, Reddit comments.
Use tools like these to find EVIDENCE that people are trying to find a solution (similar to yours) to the problem they have.

If you find this evidence, it proves that:

1. There is an inefficiency present (opportunity is simply inefficiency by another name).

2. It shows that the problem is painful enough that people are trying to find a way to solve it. And..

3. It proves that the customer is aware enough of the problem to be able to see you as a likely solution (so you don't have to educate them).

I used this process to come up with my own successful ideas. One of which being: https://myapptemplates.com.

This video will help shed more light on the above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exMoRoaxKtQ
The future of student debt: How employers might help
On a more upbeat tone what has usually worked for countries like Russia (and what usually worked and still works for my Eastern-European country, too) was to set up a system of patronage, i.e. a system where you share part of your gains to those immediately bellow you in return for their service/trust, they in turn should share their gains to those bellow them and so on and so forth.

The key for this system to work for more than one generation is that all parts involved should keep their end of the bargain, meaning that you should be there for the person depending on you, financially and otherwise, whenever they need you, and in turn they should also keep their loyalty to you, no matter the circumstances.

I know that what I basically described is basically just a feudal system, and I can also say that I don't like it in principle, but I'm also well aware that this system has been one of the most resilient social systems over the last two millennia (at least), present in one way or another on all populated continents under all types of governments (democracy, monarchy, tyranny etc), and as such it shouldn't be discredited.
Don't understand first sentence. Are you saying you bought a house and rent it out?
Learning Through Intentional Underqualification
Yes, they did. Leading up to 2008,there were a chorus of predictions of a near-future general collapse driven by housing market bubble popping from economists across schools and across the political spectrum.

It's true that this was perhaps still somewhat understated because the levels of outright fraud supporting the bubble weren't recognized, but the nature of fraud is that it tends to be actively concealed.
I was thinking of the lead arsenate used in apple orchards. Specifically its widespread use to combat moth epidemics that were causing major problems and is related to contamination of groundwater around them. It was first replaced by the technically less longterm contaminating DDT briefly before a less toxic effective replacement could be found. Apparently it was banned by the 80s so I messed up the specifics but the point is that "organic" old style pesticides were often worse in toxicity and are far more general in their targetting.
I've noticed the same, especially in Google, but also in media like the "smart TV" version of apps like Netflix and YouTube, and more (like the Amazon example).

The Web used to be a place where you "go to stuff." The going to stuff required knowledge and, well, effort. That limited the web.

Now the Web is a place where stuff "comes to you." Sort of like commercials "came to you" on broadcast TV every 12 or whatever minutes.

The marketing people and the Googlers would say, "That's a great achievement, because now we can predict what you're most likely to enjoy [ or buy ] and make it easier."

The cynics say, whoa, this erodes trust and privacy, and perhaps even the human psyche which becomes this vessel filled in by data provided by ML-using corporations.

I'm with the cynics.
Are a substantial number of illegal robocalls still made domestically? As I understood it, the TCPA actually has teeth and has worked pretty well, but has a few big holes.

The first was closed in 2013, when a "prior business relationship", which had come to mean "basically any purchase from any company", ceased to bypass the consent requirement.

The second, unclosed, is the high transferability or extendability of TCPA consent - the shady person calling you might be five transactions down from a legitimate-looking request and still be legally protected.

The third, perhaps uncloseable, is that lots of robocallers seem to get or spoof domestic numbers without actually keeping assets in the US. I can't imagine that the people calling half the country every day with spoofed Chinese embassy phone numbers are actually operating domestically. I don't know how this happens - do they contract with US dialers and lie about permission? Can they dial internationally and spoof to domestic numbers? But I'm pretty sure collecting is out of the question.

The people using fake numbers to tell me I won a free cruise might still be domestic, and it'd be awfully nice to make that stop, but most of this stuff seems to be hiding either behind or from the law.
Billionaires Are the Leading Cause of Climate Change
> Maybe I'm an outlier there but I'm pretty quick in determining if someone is being sincere or just sweet-talking me to get what he/she wants.

Personally, I feel the same way. But it's illogical. What data do you have that you're good at ferreting the genuine from the not?
Reminds me of the Ultimatum Game experiment[1].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
Life is dirty. So's your data. Get used to it.
Thanks for the book recommendation, I'll check it out.

Believe me, I think there's too much red tape in plenty of areas of government – I definitely don't see it as black & white.
Pandas Various examples and solutions
It’s amusing to see the bottom of issue threads like this grow with messages “issue was referenced from another project.” It would be cool to generate a graph of which projects have issues linking to each other. I suppose it would be sort of like a dependency graph, but one that only includes the most fragile dependencies. :)
Just saw a tweet storm of the CTO of Charts.com talking about Muze and a lot of the things make sense as to why they went with a data first model and the roadmap ahead. Link for anyone that's interested: https://twitter.com/1dot61803/status/1047384637289500673
use Linux

Yay and become a beta tester for life.
This is one of the nasty legacies of the Apollo program. NASA crewed spaceflight has always been a lot messier, a lot more political, and a lot more pork-barrel oriented than robotic spaceflight. That goes back to the Johnson administration and the extensive politicking he did to make Apollo happen. He very cleverly figured out how to locate NASA centers and contractor jobs to areas with a lot of political power in congress. However, that legacy has outlasted the Apollo program and today we have the SLS, which has the primary purpose of funneling government money to several very specific corporations in very specific congressional districts. Results are, at best, a secondary objective.
CanJS Debugging Tutorial
Layman here, but I don't understand how the title follows from the article. It's not that same-sex mice were able to reproduce, it's that scientists modified their genes and cells (not even just sex cells) using "cutting-edge science" [sic] in a way they could artificially produce alive zygotes from two individuals of the same sex. How is this, for example, any different than cloning? We were able to clone a sheep (Dolly), but that doesn't mean sheep can perform asexual reproduction like starfish or hydras.

From the title I was expecting either scientists observed mice having same-sex reproduction under extreme conditions (e.g. their population is in great danger) or that scientists created an artificial environment in which mice were able to have same-sex reproduction. Being mammals, mice being able to do one of these would be groundbreaking and extremely surprising.
don't over promise and under deliver.
Why Do Companies Care About Their Stock Prices?
Honestly at this juncture I haven't a clue what your point is. At no time have you offered anything resembling a direct contradiction.

Instead of vague implications and analogies, just state your opinion clearly.
Turkeys and Parthenogenesis (2011)
Depends. Are you trying to improve the behavior of bad actors? Or scare randos away from acting badly? And how much do you worry about false-positives and out-of-proportion punishment?

Myself, I think it's starting to look a bit like that short story, The Lottery. I just assume that I will be (falsely) accused sooner or later, and plan accordingly.
That doesn't sound accurate. Anecdata, but in my current org in Amazon Retail I think about 1 in 15 engineers browse HN daily. When I was in AWS it was around 1 in 3.

Why do you think people in Google/Netflix/Facebook browse HN more than Amazon/Apple?
female mice were genetically engineered to produce sperm and a penis and be attracted to each other for mating. they had some babies that didnt die immediately (but they were mentally retarded). they tried the same thing with male mice but it didnt work
Could someone summarize this for people with reading difficulties (and for karma)?
>Went and got a degree in history, ended up using the few things I picked up when I studied CS to fall into a business intelligence job.

Could you elaborate on this? I hold an associate's that I want to upgrade to a full Bachelor's in CS; I'm looking at my options for a minor and History is one.
Difficult to prove impact but during 08 global recession the Australian (Labor) Govt gave everybody money with the directive “to spend it”. Also pumped money into system through govt projects and rebates (schools building, solar rebates, etc).

On the other hand, Australia was also exporting coal and iron ore to insatiable (at the time) India and China. We also didn’t have the same real estate bubble (at the time).

Hard to prove either way, but Aus did move first and injected a lot of capital into the system, we didn’t enter a recession (unlike rest of OECD), and we didn’t end up having to bail out banks.
Interesting experience.

>It also helped me realize that some of the ennui I felt at Google was really a shifting of interests -- I'm not interested in technology for technology's sake anymore, but instead am motivated to solve problems that I think can be solved via technology.

I personally have an interest in both aspects. Still like and find technology interesting, but I guess I had somewhat of a business orientation from earlier, so appreciate that aspect too.