skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, in my various jobs I always considered myself fairly gifted in intelligence. Then one day I met a guy who is actually clearly damned intelligent - a technical cofounder of a company. The speed with which he would comprehend a problem and approach it was off the charts in comparison to me. Quite remarkable, really, and it sort of made me realize how smart some people can be. It was like going to college again and finding out that while you were exceptional in school, you’re now with a lot of people just like you. Love it.
And personal property is theft too, eh comrade?
Ironically if I were writing code I would've been much more verbose, like offersPrivateOffice, canWorkFromHome etc.
Acetone and chloroform are both extremely volatile and rapidly evaporate leaving no residue. In fact in the lab people use acetone to help dry glassware of water. There's nothing dangerous here.
Rocket out of atmosphere, circle globe at ungodly speeds, fall back down to the ground.

Sure. It’s fast. But your body is gonna be pissed about it for awhile.
Not quite, but first MVP in 3 months and $80m gross revenue in the first year. Selling t-shirts. We did it with 3 engineers, no devops or qa teams and definitely no pagers. We had zero downtime and the very rare bugs were fixed on the next push to master (CI/CD) and real testing.

I'm not saying the datastore is perfect, but using the datastore has well known and predictable limitations that need to be engineered for. It is definitely not something you can RTFM later on. Just like any database to be honest. It is not a relational database. It doesn't do aggregations. It is for storing data (using Objectify [0]) and memcache is for caching that data.

[0] https://github.com/objectify/objectify
My God that quote is brilliant.
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There's been an emulator online for years.[1]

[1] http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html
A weird hate game on Steam
Yeah, they've done alot of work recently adding an entire settings UI so it may have broke in that change.
There’s no way around it without an oracle ranking us all at our suitability for a job, unfortunately, and I would question the ability of such a thing to exist, never mind the ethics.

Something has to connect people with various skills and I trust people to do this better than anything to be honest. I would imagine that it would be a false efficiency for something else to happen. The number of charlatans in the world is too high and without human filtering I would never participate.
Out of curiosity, what was their primary technology background before being expected to use/learn React?
I wonder if this means that hereditary red/green deficiency is correlated with hypothyroidism.

As a severely green deficient individual however I'm glad there's still active research into this. Maybe some day I'll be able to experience the full color spectrum, not just the approximation I get with my enchroma glasses.
The problem with hurricanes is USUALLY storm surge, but Hurricane Michael hit Mexico Beach with 150 mph sustained winds, effectively making it a very large EF3 tornado. NOAA predicted that wind would be the biggest problem, and if you watch any footage from Hurricane Michael, that's pretty much all it is with a side of storm surge.

What also happened is that this is not an area usually hit by hurricanes, so a lot of the structures were built mid-century and hadn't been put through the cycle of hurricane, rebuild, hurricane, rebuild that much of Florida has so lack of buildings up to the ol' post-Andrew code level is also a LOT of the problem.
There are a few things that give me pause about progressive visions of the future, but the biggest one is just the sheer terrifying demographics of it.

The predominant culture of the developed world is catastrophically infertile. The more progressive parts of these cultures are often the least fertile, while the more conservative and traditional parts are more fertile. But the offspring of these traditional subcultures often convert into the progressive culture, at least where that culture is more prosperous and holds higher perceived status.

Part of what makes religions so persistent is their evolutionary fitness from a memetic perspective. “Tell everyone you know to worship $DEITY, have lots of babies, and also kill/shun anyone who tries to stop worshipping $DEITY” is a great algorithm for maximizing the number of $DEITY-worshippers. “Never have sex or try to convert anyone” is a shitty algorithm, which is why the Shakers are practically extinct while Islam is on course to become the world’s largest religion (and may already be, if you subtract the plurality of western Christians who are behaviorally secular anyway).

I suspect some memetic program that survives contact with science, prosperity, and progressivism without turning infertile, if it ever evolves, will be the foundation of the future of human culture.
Five Reasons Why Great Technology Is Unconditionally Human
I have no chops whatever in this field, but it's fun to think of experiments we might do:

If I understand current theory, dark matter only interacts with itself and with ordinary matter through gravity. Hence the importance of Vera Rubin's observations [1] that some galaxies were rotating too darned fast to hold together based on the ordinary matter we could see. Gotta be something invisible generating more gravitational force.

If so, couldn't we expect larger masses to attract more dark matter than lesser masses? And mightn't very high resolution measurements of those masses' gravitational forces disclose a discrepancy attributable to more dark matter clustering around a larger mass?

I think of constructing two spheres, one of lithium (density = 0.534 g/cm^3), the other of platinum (density = 21.45 g/cm^3). Both have equal diameters, and very different masses. Park them out in space - maybe in an orbit inclined 90° to the ecliptic so there's some time when they're far away from the complicating effects of planetary masses.

Then release test objects with accurately known masses (think the silicon spheres made for Gravity B Probe's gyroscopes [2]) near each of the two spheres. Minimum approach speeds would be given by the assumption of only ordinary matter in the spheres, no dark matter present. If there is dark matter, and if it accumulates according to gravitational interactions, the test mass approach speeds should be greater than calculated from ordinary matter gravitational force. Also, the larger mass should attract more dark matter and exhibit a greater deviation from ordinary matter force.

Depending on the local density of dark matter, one might see the results change over time with differential accumulation of dark matter around the two spheres.

Do we have the measurement capabilities to do something like this? I recall LIGO measures distances four orders of magnitude less than the width of a proton.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin
[2] https://einstein.stanford.edu/TECH/technology1.html
>Give it to the amplifiers ...

How are you supposed to meet these amplifiers then and get them to care about your work?
I work for a growing startup and now, nearly 4 years in, the thing that keeps me engaged most is the potential value of my stock options.

The first few years the work was interesting and fun, but as the company has grown, the work has become more segmented and specialized and so much "big company" process has been put into place that it's not nearly as fun, and something that I used to do myself requires coordination with several different teams and seemingly endless meetings.

HR (or "people first", as they call themselves) is not helping, HR used to be our office manager/HR/facilities manager all rolled into one -- if employees wanted 2% milk in the refrigerator or an ergonomic keyboard, they only had to ask him and it was there in a few days.

Now we have to make a request... and get it approved (if possible, maybe it takes several levels of approval), and someone has to enter it into the purchasing system, and maybe someday I'll get it.

In an effort to "streamline employee benefits", benefits have been reduced, nothing added. Likewise, the "unlimited free snacks, add your favorite to the list" have been reduced to "Here's what you get from the vendor we outsource to"

Our average engineering salary must be close to $200K, but it still takes VP of engineering approval to get a second $700 monitor because "policy says employees only get a single monitor"

When the new office was being planned, management asked for suggestions about how to make it more engaging, feedback was overwhelmingly against an open office plan -- the response was "We are listening to your feedback, but we are going with an open office".

I think a lot of this comes with working at a larger company, but we've already lost some key early employees, and will lose more as the company grows and becomes more "big company" like.

The economics are slanted against employees as the company grows - if a 100 person company spends $100/employee on a benefit, that's only $10,000. If a 5000 employee company does it, that's $500K - the cost of several HR staff, so HR can say "Look, we've saved the company more than our own salary by streamlining benefits!"

It's not all bad, of course, or I wouldn't be here, but more and more, I find myself thinking that I'm just here for the money rather than because I enjoy it.
Was banned by Twitch before the demonstration so switched to stream.me who also banned him, says he'll record it and post a video later instead last I saw
My colleagues pointed me to this. Some of us have reported the game to Steam.

A medium post on the "game": https://medium.com/@jpaulorio/denouncing-hate-speech-on-the-...

My reason for submitting - we as technologists (in this case, the actual game developers working on the game) need to think about what we're enabling.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." - Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
THIS is the kind of advice one hopes to get from friends and industry associates.Thanks for pointers.
Jacquard loom
Are you also advocating against the freedom of association then?
It sounds like a great idea, when they’re targeting people you don’t like.
Interesting, I'm a SWE trying to pivot into EE. I would love to talk to you in detail about some things that might make you more valuable but I'd like some info about what you actually do. Any chance you'd reach out to me at jan.sharp.1990 at gmail?
Your Kickstarter idea on sale in China before you’ve finished funding it (2016)
Years ago, someone sent me info supporting the idea that zinc deficiency impairs vision, specifically suppressing perception of the color green.
> I had never before reflected on my past, and it has planted the seeds that were necessary to help me understand why I'm so horribly, horribly fucked up at the moment...

Hmm. I'm a bit surprised by this, I reflect on my past all the time. Too much, probably.

I don't think imagining one's idealized future is particularly difficult, but I'm also not sure if it helps much at all with actually reaching said idealized future. It's often just easier and more straightforward to adapt to things that come along the way, and sometimes what you want can drastically change over time, as well. o.O
1 death is a tragedy. 1 million is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin
I don’t think anyone is saying avoid taxes entirely. I honestly don’t see why money should be taxed twice. Take income tax, fine, but if I decide to save money for my descendants then let me be. On its face it’s literally just a gift.
Though it's hardly the author's point, carrying a bit of cash for outages, emergencies, and incidentals is probably smart, and then you have a bit for the exceptional busker. You can still do your day-to-day spending from a card. Or cards, whichever gives better perks for the store in question.

And there's the rub: most payment networks charge the merchant, and through the elaborate tendrils of corporate ownership kick a proportionally smaller amount back to the customer. Still, it's a reward that's nice to have, and coupled with fraud protection, three weeks of delay in due dates, single-item usability, and a built-in credit line, credit cards are winning out among those who can obtain them.

Card surcharges are one way a merchant can pass on the cost of credit card acceptance to the customer, and are currently a state-by-state issue, but big retailers don't want to surcharge lest they create friction and lose shoppers to a competitor. This furthers the price pressure on small merchants or moves them further upmarket where price is less of a factor. Companies like Square (physical) and Stripe (online) able to make headway by simpler fee structures, ease of use, and a welcoming attitude towards small businesses.

Meanwhile, Google's much-rebranded payment network, Apple Pay, and Samsung's me-too Pay are an attempt to leverage the market penetration of cell phones to gradually ease people into different payment habits. It's not hard to envision a situation where in a few years, the cellphone-making companies of the world have cut out the likes of Visa and Mastercard from payments, giving them negotiating power with banks, merchants, and other payment networks. This is a particularly plausible outcome for Amazon, who is extremely intent on being a complete end-to-end solution for customers for anything that they'd want to buy.

In a world like that, cash becomes an instrument of those for whom lenders don't want to extend a line of credit, or those who can afford to use other payment instruments, but are paying extra for their privacy.
You remind me of a border-guard.

Waiting in line, he walked up to me. "You are visiting $PLACE" I replied yes, sweating slightly as the location was thousands of kilometers from this entry point. "I remember you were working for $COMPANY, are you still there?" Who is this guy was all I was thinking, do I know him? I'm still in the queue awaiting immigration. "Can I see your passport?" Border crossing and border guard. Presenting this and flicking through pages, he smiled widely "See my badge, I stamped your entry 2 years ago (the stamp had his badge number)". He walked off happily. I went through routinely. I'd only ever used this entry once before, that time when seemingly he was behind the immigration desk.
Depends on where. Europe, Asia, Latin America. SMS is dead. Messaging apps rule. Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, WeChat, depending on region.
Ah, I had no idea about this one!

Bonus: I just learned the word proleptic...
A huge issue with getting rid of cash is tourism. In China, cash is becoming more rare. It is all WeChat. Except that I can't put my credit card into WeChat... they only accept Chinese cards.
Great story. I still think the sharing of photos with collocated friends needs solving, or have I missed a Google photos feature release?
Your looking in the wrong places. I would probably hire you over a number of "more qualified" idiots who can't get crap done....I always tell my interviewer: look there are two types of companies; those who care about years of experience, degrees, certificates, etc and those who care if you can get stuff done. I want to work for companies like the latter.
Also, keep in mind two things. First, that cost of living compounds just as investments do, albeit at a different rate. Second, that at some point, gains on investments will ultimately be taxed. If your projection spreadsheet doesn't take all of this into account, you might be underestimating what you need and the value of the fact that you're a good earner now. Big props for controlling expenses--that will be the biggest factor in determining when you can bail.
Another point is that cash allows you to buy unethical things and illegal things. It allows economical activity on the edges of society. Some of those edges are bad, but some are good.

How could you run a gay bar, in a place where gay bars are illegal, and the government could just block your payments? How could you sell marijuana and build the legalize movement, if government could just block those payments? How could you run a whistleblower leak site on the internet through donations, if the government can just block all payments to you?

Deciding what people can buy and cannot buy sounds great if you're the one in power. But if you're not, it will pretty quickly turn into another form of tyranny.
I agree.

If I understand current law, one cannot be forced to supply a password or passcode because of 5th Amendment rights against forced, potentially self-incriminatory speech.

A fingerprint is regarded differently. You can be forced to supply a fingerprint because it is something you are, not something you know, the latter being speech which cannot be compelled.

One could use biometrics like facial recognition and still enjoy 5th Amendment protections if a sequence of facial gestures were required to unlock a phone. While the biometric features comprising the sequence are indeed something you are, the sequence is something you know, and constitutes speech, which you cannot be compelled to supply.

So yeah, Officer - I'll stare at my iPhone for as long as you like. It won't unlock until I blink my right eye twice within 1 second and raise my left eyebrow immediately thereafter.

edit to add missing word
I have not had the same experience as you have. Maybe it depends on the city? In the Bay Area hardcore engineering is still in enormous demand. I had expected automation and the cloud to reduce the demand for engineers, but it’s actually increased the demand for engineers familiar with cloud technologies.
Because you couldn't buy fuel any other place.

But you CAN view live video streams at numerous other places.

This is the difference that's glaringly obvious to everyone else, but somehow seems to escape you. DailyMotion exists. Twitch exists. Vimeo exists. Facebook video exists, and is actually larger than YouTube. (by megabyte stored.) Twitter video exists. Instagram video exists. Snapchat video exists. The list goes on and on.

You have to have a monopoly, to break up a monopoly. YouTube doesn't have a monopoly. You, presumably, just like their property more than Twitch or Instagram video or whatever. So you want to use YouTube.

Fine. I get that.

But that's a 'YOU' problem, not an 'US' problem.
Sure thing.I will email you directly and we can start a thread.
The Voluntarist Personality
I've been pondering the plight of homeless people and buskers and panhandlers lately too, for the same precise reason, which is now that tap to pay is almost universally accepted I find I'm rarely carrying cash. I went in a different direction than the OP, however: I've been thinking that buskers and panhandlers should consider signing up for Square's tap to pay reader so they can easily accept card payments.

I know it might seem odd, especially in the case of panhandlers, who may have difficulty persuading people that the transaction is secure in addition to the fact that some people will be judgmental and assume that if they can afford a smartphone, a card reader, and a bank account, they must not need the money.

But what's the real alternative? It sure isn't trying to persuade people to carry cash because of "The Man" or so that they can keep buskers and panhandlers in business. If people who earn money on the street can't accept card payments, they're screwed, plain and simple.

There might even be a non-profit startup idea here: something like Square, but optimized for panhandlers and buskers. Something that people get used to, that clearly communicates that the transaction will be secure and small (e.g. $1 or $2 every time), that charges absolutely minimal fees (or none if possible), and perhaps that works without a real bank account - e.g. money goes onto the device, and then the device itself can also be used to pay for things, like Apple Pay.
What you are looking for is a worker's co-op. https://github.com/hng/tech-coops
I have a trick. Soon after I meet someone, I scribble their name and some interesting characteristic of theirs into a Google Docs document on my phone.

e.g. Anna, teacher with dreadlocks.

Then the next time I see them from afar, I whip out my phone to refresh my memory. And then I go up to them and say hi.

I rarely forget details about a person, so making conversation is not hard. It's their name I keep forgetting. Writing that down has helped immensely.
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Lot's of nonsense here.

Rich vs gifted? Yeah, right, as if you can control for all the other factors and compare the two.

Rich correlates with so many other things (genetics, support network, exposure to the right kind of things).

Gifted is also impossible to ascertain (e.g. exam scores aren't a perfect indicator of gifteness as ability, perseverance, hard working ethic etc all drive success in life).

What's discussed here cannot be science. Take it for what it is.
What other news sources do you like?
I really wish some more thought had been done on Rust's syntax. It's god-awful. Apostraphes for namespaces is a shocker, the rest don't spring to mind but there were a few more.

Syntax/character soup.
It sounds like you're trying to self-discover initiative. Initiative is not a first-class thing of its own; it's an outcome of, for example, staring at an inefficiency until you can't stop twitching.

But (to use my example) "efficiency" is relative. It requires a good mental model of what fits into what and how. So, to solve for that, you'd focus on absorption, and taking-in as much of the environment you can in as much detail as you can - oh, and focus on the most insignificant things the most. (The idea is to stretch your attention span and make it grow.) Endeavor to absorb at the same rate on day 100 that you do on day 1 (ie, replicating the way you react when things are new/interesting). Not perfectly achievable (I don't think), but that's the approach I've used to get my brain going in the right direction.

As for sociability, that's something that needs to be practiced in its own right to get stronger, like attention span. A bit like learning to use a new tool, you can't immediately be fast at it without some initial purpose-less practice. (Always fun to bootstrap those kinds of things...)
I hate using cash because I hate change (coins). Also, what do you do for big purchases? Most ATMs have a $200 limit.
I'm OK with Jetbrains getting my telemetry. I'm not OK with Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc getting it. JetBrains isn't going to try to make money off of my data and will actually use it to improve their product. The giants own search engines, try to make money off my data, try to bombard me with products elsewhere on the web based on my data, and have all been served NSLs numerous times so are under unknown orders from the gov to do who knows what with my data.

Unfortunately vscode hits that sweet spot that only Atom comes close to.
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Exactly. Not all galaxies have the same % of dark matter.In fact some have none.[1] Maybe those with little to none, formed by random fluctuations, while others formed because of the attraction to dark matter in their vicinity.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/galaxy-without-dar...
Today I learned about the Houston tunnel system.
Ask HN: How can we get information on what Khashoggi was going to report?
The House of Saud took extreme risks to terminate Khashoggi. He had something important he wanted to share.

We the people need to find out what that was.

How can we do it? Does anyone have any ideas?
"A players hire A players, but B players hire C players..." -- Steve Jobs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102639
something can be useful simply because it's fun or entertaining.
card skimmers are getting more and more complex. so far i've stuck to Exxon/Mobil where I can use Apple Pay and not have yet another credit/debit card stolen. :|
Most languages are character soup. It's hardly intuitive that star is a pointer, yet we get used to that.