skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have really misunderstood society.

Nobody is "given" these opportunities by some Opportunity Santa. Those who go out and search for opportunities find, create and take them.
The blindness/sightedness phenomenon you're describing is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight .

There's a controversial opposite, called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%E2%80%93Babinski_syndrom...

(Semi-relatedly, plug for Peter Watt's book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) )

Your sentence about "It almost seems to me as if..." seems to be hinting at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism / https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/ . This is a theory/proposal that consciousness does not actually cause behaviour, but is simply a subject experience caused by the physical processes that do cause behaviour (how's THAT for a gross oversimplification, fite me bro). I suggest that this is both an interesting theory in its own right, but also an interesting mental exercise to limber up how one thinks about things like volition/free-will and responsibility.
Piscine en plein air
Two arrested for alleged card skimming at Sunnyvale California gas station
For me, Cash is freedom. No one can block my transaction, record what I purchase, or tell me who I can and can't give money to. I live part of the year in Argentina, and when I'm there I don't even carry a wallet. Just a pocket full of cash, maybe my bus card if I need it. I love it.
There's a game similar to what you're describing, except in the USSR instead of the USA:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/446020/Jalopy/
would be great for a doctor who episode, I dunno
Getting HPC Simulations to Speak Deep Learning
Of course you can drain accounts with 50% hash power or greater. And the number isn't 51%, it is actually 50%. If you have 50% of the hash power, you will be ahead exactly half the time. However, you will selfish mine and this creates an asymmetry. When you are ahead, other miners will mine off your chain, making your chain the longest. You will never mine off other published blocks, no matter how far behind you are. And no matter how far behind you are, you will eventually be greater than even at some point.

Because you can start mining at any point in the past, you can erase all transactions except the genesis/first transaction.

The bitcoin developers realize this so they essentially stuck the blockchain in the source code by putting 'checkpoints' in the code. This protects their coins. The developers are the actual central blockchain authority. If they changed the checkpoints, they would fork the whole chain. The chain is essentially in the source code.
On AMD, if I'm not not mistaken, FP16 is twice of FP32, as it should be

"For their consumer cards, NVIDIA has severely limited FP16 CUDA performance. GTX 1080’s FP16 instruction rate is 1/128th its FP32 instruction rate, or after you factor in vec2 packing, the resulting theoretical performance (in FLOPs) is 1/64th the FP32 rate, or about 138 GFLOPs."

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-...

"FP16 performance is 1/64th and FP64 is 1/32th of FP32 performance."

https://blog.inten.to/hardware-for-deep-learning-part-3-gpu-...
Maybe I've been going to the wrong events, but I've never gone to a networking event where I made a contact with whom I ever had contact for a third time. Extremely rarely would I have contact for a second time. Well... no, sometimes I'd see them at additional networking events.

I've stopped going to networking events to network. Usually, I won't go if the sole focus is networking. If there's another purpose that's the primary purpose, I might go, depending on what that is.
>Iran, North Korea and Syria are examples of countries that are a significant threat without having any Western arms in their arsenal, and operate outside of Western soft powers. The West is far from being the only arms supplier in town, and when countries can’t rely on Western political, technological and military support, it is very likely they will attempt to pursue WMDs to make up for it (as done by all three) and use assymeteic warfare instead of standing military (as done by Iran and Syria).

Really? They're the "threats?" How much Korean, Iranian, and Syrian blood is on the hands of Western arms dealers? Any "threat" they pose is a direct reaction to hostility from Western powers. If we want to stop the threat, we should stop threatening them.

>Israel was under a US arms export embargo up until the late 60s, for all intents and purposes. Israel was never shielded by the West - there has never been direct military intervention in Israel’s favor. This, combined with the trauma left by the holocaust only couple of decades prior, and the calls to the destruction of Israel - unprecedented that a country had its legitimacy disputed like this in world politics - have made it pursue nuclear weapons.

What? US started importing to Israel in 1960, and both France and the UK aided Israel in the Suez Crisis, followed by heavy US support in the Yom Kippur war as you mentioned. And if millions of your people getting killed followed by a continued call for your destruction are legitimate reasons for a nuclear program then nobody can object to North Korea's.

>Today, Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia behave in line with Western interests because they feel embraced and protected. In the face of an imminent threat from Iran, they rely on Western arms and support.

Or because the US is a far greater threat than Iran, given what they've done in the region.
You know what's better than both? Perseverance. Learned or by birth,those who can persevere succeed. The world is full of gifted losers. Even those born rich might not amount to more than what they were born with.

If a child grows up to be a decent human being,a functional member of society ,a responsible spouse,parent,child and can hold down a decent job is that person not doing better than a rich and gifted person that can't function well in society and does not treat others well?

All I'm saying is 'better' should mean across the board better. Not just financially , career wise or contributions to society.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479093/

Table 3 is interesting.

"Almost half (50.7%) of the children with low IQ [0–79] came from families with income <Rs. 50,000/month [$675/mo]. On the other hand, 65.6% of children with high IQ [above 120] came from families with more than Rs. 50,000/month (P = 0.001)"
Carrying cash makes it easier to give to people who ask for it.

On the other hand, I've had some interesting meals with people because i couldn't give them cash so I picked up the tab instead.
I'm always interested in what exists in this kind of dataset. Near me, they have my neighbor's stables and garage, and the covered picnic tables behind my church.... but have neither of my barns which have been here since the 70s, and are about 3 years behind on the homes being built.
anyone else read the title as e-chocolate?

The capital E makes it look like a proper noun, like Email.

Crazy thing how these letters in our alphabet work.

We need a better alphabet! Ya?
> Amazon already does it.

No they don't.
I agree with this but the $30k could've also gotten hires of a higher quality ignoring gender considering the larger pipeline.

Also see my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18210856
Think of 4 dimensional spacetime as an oddly-shaped rectangle, which is much wider at one end than another. Maybe more like a pyramid with the top bit missing. All of matter and energy started as an explosion at the narrow end, and is traveling across towards the much broader end. The expansion of the universe is merely the expansion of the barrel, and the dark energy spreading apart the universe is really the slight trajectory differences caused by the shape of the charge that started the process.

To me, it's like 3d canon shot flying down a 4d barrel.

Or trace the worldlines of these particles. Any given point in time represents a 3d slice of the 4d pyramid-rectangle.
IMHO the only worthwhile competition to the "international payments cartel", as the author puts it, could be something Blockchain based. Decentralized and by some algorithm protected from a sudden surge in fees. I know lots of people have an opinion on what cryptocurrency could be the one but I think we simply aren't there yet. Personally I feel that Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum has the best project at hand to accomplish anything as big as an VISA/Mastercard killer (in terms of scalability) but at the moment we are not there. Decentralisation however just makes so much sense in order to protect both sides from shady behaviour from the middleman. Just take a look at the adult entertainment industry, who are mostly unable to process credit cards without giving up enormous chunks of their revenue, just because the big two refuse their business.

That said, cash will always have the advantage of relative easy and effective anonymity. I find it troubling that people are so eager to give up on such an essential feature of their money.
I'm not sure how I feel about networking but I really like the part about meeting arrangement (Pre-Meeting Motions). It's amazing how drawn-out meeting scheduling can get if you are not proactively concrete about it. I don't usually do calendar invites, though, and that is actually a good idea. I had it happen when we agreed on a date and time, but then they thought it was a different day of the week for some reason.
Wiring altered at gas station pumps in Sunnyvale prompts  fraud investigation
Just did this with my XS. It immediately disabled face unlock and required password. Neat.
We don’t have a lot of case law to go on but generally speaking most experts assume article 33 will be the easiest part of gdpr to conform to.

Even under the most harsh interpretations 3 days is the standard & that comes with all kinds of outs.

To the rest of your other points they largely are not at all covered by GDPR.

For instance I’ve never seen an interpretation of the GDPR that required a timeframe for remediation.

Further there is no requirement to allow a supervisory authority investigatory power after a breach.

In any case this appears to be a Facebook acting with extreme transparency. Exactly what the regulators want. It would be weird if this lead to negative ramifications.
> We need to focus on figuring out how to get people to operate and deliver their best work, because if they do that, the satisfaction will follow.

That sounds like a shortcut to burnout. No, employee satisfaction is not based on "operating and delivering their best work".

Being able to perform at your best is a contributing factor but employees are humans with feelings and families. Maybe treat them as humans for once.
Mostly I agree with this. However, one time we did a work style evaluation thing, and it changed me from completely not understanding one of my co-workers to completely understanding and able to both help them and get help from them. So, it is sometimes, or at least once to my knowledge, to be worthwhile to do some of these kinds of things.
I agree that this is a glaring omission. Car insurance companies already have monitoring devices you can plug into your ODBII connector that monitors all your driving behavior. OnStar also has the ability to report driving behaviors to insurance companies. Or how about companies that claim your credit worthiness can be judged by your Facebook friends and posts. How long until these extremely invasive practices become so profitable that companies make it required? I worked for a company whose Heath insurance offered $50 to employees that got a heath screening through them. The next year it was no longer a discount, but a fee if you did not participate.
> I am currently 36, working for pay as a software developer since 1999, father of three -- and I would like to reiterate oppositelock's comment: "you're being too picky"

Someone once taught me that effective lists have between three and five bullet points. On the list of A to H, I'd sort them from most to least important, and then focus on the top five. If that doesn't work, maybe the list doesn't really capture what OP finds important, and they need to draft a new list.
Edison, EINSTEIN, and Musk?? You think that "general relativity project" would never have gotten off the ground without some solid networking skills by Al? Or developing quantum theory from a Swiss patent office? Maybe go with Edison Jobs and Musk instead.
After Mohenjo-daro was excavated they found that the city had been rebuild on top of itself a few times. They theorise that it got flooded when the Indus river left it's banks. They just added more bricks to the walls and the city got higher. From what I remember looking at the ruins it happened 3 or 4 times and some of the walls were 3+ stories tall. It's weird to think that 3-4 thousand years ago they build bulidings that survived floods but we are still not able to .
Misread as 'Networking for Hackers' and thought finally going to learn more about networking.
> College is already overpriced because of government subsidies.

That is an interesting narrative. Direct state funding per-student for college is down in almost all states over the last 10 years and the last 30 years. Tuition has risen for several reasons: 1- to compensate for lack of state funding, 2- because colleges and universities have larger higher paid administrations than ever before. Some of the subsidies we have are nothing more than consolation prizes for state funding cuts that are larger than the subsidies, so I simply don’t buy that public funding has caused tuition to rise, when public funding is declining overall.

> Your plan would make it worse.

I didn’t share a plan, so I’m not sure what you mean.

But, I have to wonder, why does it matter if tuition goes up, if it’s a net positive to the economy? Why would it matter if tuition goes up, if it’s paid for? Why do you assume that tuition prices would look anything like they do now if all of education was publicly funded?
You meant the entire backend? that's interesting. So you just used lambda as an app server? Will the cold start bother you?
Yeah I was really hoping computer networking when I opened this and was sorely disappointed.
> the idea that we're particularly knowledgeable about our own conscious thought processes.

Is there anyone out there actually pushing this idea?
As someone who deals with cokeheads every week I think it attracts self centered people and enhances that trait.
I've been following this since it's been announced and it is a really cool idea. But I agree with most of the people here that there is a limited sense of practicality for this product. The only thing I can see this being useful for is for education purposes. This would be great for schools, especially middle and high school. I even used a mindstorm for one of my graduate classes/lab to write our own algorithms (in nxc).
Crack and cocaine are different. Route of administration has an enormous impact on addictiveness. While cigarettes are pretty addictive, a nicotine pill wouldn't be at all.
I've recently returned to professional programming after working in another profession for 10 years. My former profession (let's call it "medical transcription" for the sake of my anonymity) is a dying profession, and is being replaced by a combination of technology and global outsourcing.

Now, with relatively few exceptions, the only people who can actually make a good living at medical transcription are the master networkers and salespeople. And even though they present themselves as being "successful" at making a good living at medical transcription, what they really are making money doing is selling courses and books to people who want to get into the (dying) profession. Of course, they never mention to those people that it's increasingly difficult to make a decent living at medical transcription.

This isn't the first time I've watched social butterfly networkers and salespeople take advantage of people and engage in ethically dubious conduct, so I have a bad taste in my mouth regarding networking. I'm also an introvert, so I'm naturally very bad at networking.

That said, I also realize that I could be doing much better financially and professionally if I had a strong network of friends and colleagues, particularly as I'm starting at a new profession in my 40s.

It's frustrating.

EDIT: Changed a few sentences to make it clearer that the dying profession I'm referring to isn't programming.
I too thought the article's arguments were pretty weak. Brave New World and 1984 are good counterexamples to disprove the article's main point. I would also enjoy seeing a point-by-point analysis of what was predicted and what happened (had the article not missed forest for the trees).

The article also argues many things are the same (like drinking water). Well, I know how much life has changed in the last 40 years. These concepts were unknown by the public or not-yet-popular a short 20-25 years ago: internet, smart phone, social media, wearables, electric cars, autopilot, laptops, machine learning, online learning & working... We're going through exponential change, and the author still argues not much has changed in the last 100 years. We're still drinking water etc :) Laughable.

If you think think change is only at the top (of economic ladder), see also "The Better Angels of Our Nature" or "It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 years".
"If the only people who can do that are "the wealthy"..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump#Family_and_person...
FPGAs are extraordinarily hard for most software engineers to use effectively. They can offer huge speedups in orders of magnitude but PCIe bit twiddling + VHDL/Verilog might as well be black magic. An EE that can take any part of a generic app written in e.g. Python or Go and speed up the computationally expensive parts is worth their weight in gold. Look into doing some consulting in this area if you are decent at understanding the software aspects. Plenty of software/finance shops would love to ship their own custom ASICs for e.g. Machine Learning if they had the technical know-how. Bridging the gap is the most valuable thing you can offer.
Also known as "Chesterton's Fence". Before you tear down a fence, understand why it was put there in the first place.
That's a fantastic idea.

What about a babel plugin to transform all code into fetches to a proprietary REST API? By doing all of the work for them, we'd ensure reliability with common operations like + and /, which obviously means we eliminate the need for tests! This would allow devs to move and break things even faster, while we/I collect $10–$20 per 10,000 API calls.

E.g.,

// Regular code
console.log(3 + 2);

// Transpiled code
console.log(await fetch('http://fetchify.io/add/3/2'));

// Regular code

const isFive = (x === 5);

// Transpiled code
const isFive = await fetch(`http://fetchify.io/equality/strict/${x}/5`)
.then(body => body.text());

Some of this is almost too easy to understand though, therefore it's pretty amateurish and we're not doing proper programming. What about something like:

// Regular code
const thirty = 5 * 6;

// Transpiled code
let $$_tmp1;
const thirty = (
$$_tmp1 = await fetch(`http://fetchify.io/multiply/5/6`),
$$_tmp1 = await $$_tmp1.text(),
$$_tmp1 = parseInt($$_tmp1, 10), $$_tmp1
);

Even some seasoned developers aren't aware of this syntax, so it's perfect.
OOT but funny:

During uni time, a friend invited me and my other friend to a "networking event". Being computer science students, the two of us thought it's "computer networking". Heck, we just had Network 101 class the day before.

We asked the inviter, and he did confirm it (but smiled). When we reached there, I didn't see any computer stuff, but I saw grandparents, uncles and aunties (basically, people I wouldn't relate with computer). I thought, "Wow, this organizer really good at convincing computer illiterate people to learn about computer networks."

The first speaker showed up, enthusiastically greeting us out loud, "Good morning everyone!" (it was noon) and started talking about fulfilling your dreams and Ferraris.

My friend tricked us to a MLM event (we knew what MLM was, and not with a good reputation).

Cut story short, the inviter is no longer my friend.
To me, it's not so much that they shouldn't be allowed to do that - it's just that we need to recognize the advantage it gives.

These statistics should give a person pause when they talk about "bootstraps" or when they hold a Calvinist perspective that a person not being successful somehow "deserved it." It doesn't mean that we need to have some sort of totally even playing field: but it does mean that we shouldn't pretend the field is even - even if the actionable result is just to treat poor and/or unsuccessful people with more empathy and compassion than we might have previously. And perhaps a measurement more of self-examination when we decide (consciously or unconsciously) that we are "better" than others due to our success.
They’re already snorting one of the more famously addictive drugs that does quite a number on your cardiovascular system, they’ve already demonstrated a lack of judgement. If they snort a lot of cocaine on a regular basis, then like a heroin addict they’re desperate to get high and would happily snort borax if it had a little coke in it. Of all the drugs out there the ones to really avoid are the ones that are powerfully physically addictive, and offer little therapeutic benefit: cocaine, heroin, meth. They’re just bad news, and at best you get away clean, at worst your life is wrecked. It’s not like pot or mushrooms or even responsible acid use, some drugs are just best avoided. Having said that I’m against prohibition, but people should fucking avoid coke.

Or as is popular, TL;DR “who knows what could be in there.” They already know it has cocaine in it!
Sure but Tokyo is also a real place that was aesthetically pretty unique and way more futuristic looking than anywhere else at the time (other than maybe HK). Id be interested in African scifi/cyberpunk but at least for film it doesn’t quite have the same punch to me.
Here's a pretty decent explanation from NootropicsDepot:
http://nootropicsdepot.com/articles/magnesium-glycinate-vs-l...
Whoops! I read core and not node. That makes more sense :). Thanks.
You articulated this problem perfectly.

One of my central theses is 'Its almost impossible for people to determine what's true and equally as impossible to get them to admit it'.

Every single case you point out each actor thinks they are doing the right thing. Nobody knows what they are doing aside from one of those cases. The caveat being they have to fight against everyone else who believe they are also correct.

This all feeds into another central thesis 'the truth is at the very top of Maslow's hierarchy of "nice to haves"'
My wife interviewed several OB practices in the Chicago area before settling on one for delivering both of our children. In her group of friends, it was common. There was a small charge at each as an initial consultation.
and that’s why we don’t want socialized healthcare in the US. because it shouldn’t be other people’s business
As my old boss used to say "qualify your advisors"
How have network dead man switches not become popular? "If this phone has had no network access for 4 hours, power off" (assuming encrypted storage).
Thanks for that! I love HN discussions, they add so much to the article linked. These will too!!
"But if the same norms applied to CEOs and judges, we could not have our civilisation."

Those norms don't apply to CEOs and judges?

News to me.