skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of revelation from the author in this post, but I suspect not all of it intentional.

Consider the claim:

> I started out in open source like a lot of us: wanting to get my name on a commit and counting on "getting" something out of it.

I can't find any good research on this area, but anecdata from a few decades dabbling in various free software communities suggest a) this isn't the primary motivation for most, and b) there's an inverse correlation between free software contributions and religiosity. (With the second, most of my experience has been in more secular societies - it may well be skewed differently through Asia and USA.)
Sorry welfare dependence does cause crime.

Almost all of my step family on the Isle of Wight (this in the UK) are doing this along with most of their friends.

I know what I saw with my own eyes. I know what some women have said "I can get X amount if I have another kid". I also know that almost all of my step brothers and step sisters abuse the welfare system mainly by having children with other people.

Telling me that it doesn't happen, when I know it blatantly does and then telling me it doesn't because of some academic release that for all we know probably hasn't been peer reviewer properly. A slight aside ... some dudes managed to get Mein Karph through peer review recently by changing the wording slightly.

Also guess the arrest rate for my step family? The first day I met them they got arrested. Every-time I hear something about them one of them or their mates or both have got arrested.

You know what the connecting thing is ... they are all on welfare and their parents were drunks and lived off of welfare on the Island because there are no jobs.
GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it
There are plenty of jobs where the bar you have to clear is "shows up on time and isn't strung out on drugs". Don't even need a resume for them.
For talking about links between wealth and happiness, it matters greatly what absolute level of wealth you are talking about. Within first world countries, the link between between wealth and happiness is weak. But when comparing between countries that are rich versus on the brink of starvation, the correlation is one of the strongest known.

This may seem contradictory makes sense if you think of it in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. If you are at the base level of meeting your physiological needs for food and shelter, wealth directly helps you meet those needs and makes them happier. If you can take care of that, the law and order that brings you safety is again correlated with being in a wealthier society. But beyond that, the correlation vanishes because wealth doesn't give you love, esteem or self-actualization.
Ask HN: Good papers on Monte Carlo method to resolve perfect information games?
Short seller Citron reverses opinion on Tesla [pdf]
Can you clarify what you mean by "virtualization technology". It's a pretty broad term ranging from hardware assisted system virtualization to application virtualization to containerization. All of these types are run on servers all the time but each has very different performance and security characteristics.
I would be slightly wary about the leadership if they have been around for 7 years with less than 15 people and thinking of being acquired.

Acquisitions usually happen because of tech, customers, or talent. Are there any assets within the company that you feel would be worth acquiring? If this event doesn’t happen, your stock options are virtually worthless. Equally important is checking the price they are offering to you for the options - my strike price was set so high at a previous company that the options were just worthless because we were never going to sell for that high.
That's true, but you've netted zero on carbon. You need to put up more trees if you want to remove carbon. I mean, by all means tear em down, but you gotta keep putting them up.
It is, in fact, not the same for every DB. Databases vary significantly in their default and maximum guarantees for successfully acknowledged writes; Mongo chooses fairly weak ones. By contrast, consider systems like VoltDB, which aims for strict serializability by default, or etcd, which offers linearizability/sequential reads by default.
Providing the solution to a problem that doesn't exist
If you fear for your future, start living like it and preparing for it. You'll fare a lot better if you plan for rough patches along the way than if you just keep living like you'll always be on the up and up.
> Second, maybe the task is stupid, and they're waiting for it to be killed. (How this matches up with the fact the requester is still asking about it and is starting to get concerned is another story.)

There is often surprisingly little relation between a thing being stupid and not worth doing and how much some party wants it to be done.

Notwithstanding the potential existence of fourteen other simultaneous MacGuffins to be obtained at the highest priority that has the plucky adventurer spinning plates and shaving far-off yaks, about which the requester has no visibility.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but an ack-without-fsync will not "unapply" a write while keeping things happening after it intact? It also won't "unapply" those writes without something catastrophic happening, e.g. dead disk or power outage. This isn't a general failure mode in a distributed system. MySQL with synchronous replication won't ack until all/majority of nodes ack the write.

Also, just because you fsync doesn't mean your data will hit the disk. It's a fairly large problem that has nothing to do with the consistency model of the database replication.
What should these tech companies have done to prevent this?
Tesla has stated that this is exactly what they would allow customers to do, rent out their self driving cars when not in use to generate revenue for the customer and I assume Tesla would take a cut as well.
How can you get biochar into the soil without tilling?
Is L1 the most efficient for a fixed size? The difference is ~6000 km for LEO versus 1.5 million km for L1 to the Earth's center and the r^2 law means you need to put a lot more area in L1 than in LEO, even after discounting for the fact that in LEO it'll be on the wrong side of the Earth half the time. Filling up appreciable fractions of LEO might have it's own problems.
I do not mean this to be mean, it is something that made me feel less stupid and worthless when I was younger. Smart doesn't often succeed all by itself, but hard work usually does.

You gotta put in the work if you want the result. Luckily, you can choose your own challenges.

Maybe you're not a book learner. Try getting a job shadowing someone with some skills you want and learning on the job. Maybe try online development classes instead of school. Hell, start hacking around with unity3d or something fun if you want to feel like you're not wasting your time while learning.
Researchers Explore a Cancer Paradox
The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf]
I've never seen that, do you have an example link you could share?
Are you interested in a device, that allows you to take notes, seamlessly anywhere, it's small enough to fit in your pocket and with a battery the last for years. Do you want to buy this pen ? Seriously though, sales is about understanding the problem and offering a solution, as a developer, not only are you good at this already, you also know how to implement said solution.
I'd second this. Great list. There's also this map with lots of carbon capture projects: https://www.thirdway.org/graphic/carbon-capture-projects-map
I don't know how any scientists take this seriously. CO2 increases biological growth and metabolism, thus increasing the metabolizers who sequester CO2... Everyone undervalues the stabilization processes and overemphasizes the run-away processes - and the only reason I can see for it is that their jobs depend on this belief structure.

Because I know people only accept mainstream authorities as sources, unfortunately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v5I70Gt_NQ
What is sustainable tourism, and why is it so important?
I want real poverty simulator. Or, better, Low Income living. With adequate probabilities (like going more than 10 days without crashing your car), knowing that you have a kid upfront, etc.
> Which factors? Who'd buy them at a premium? Wouldn't any auction of >1 bidders stabilize at face value?

Think of the stablecoin as an ETF. If people need to launder money or take advantage of a programmatic bug, that would raise the stablecoin price over $1.

By default, I'd imagine the reduced liquidity and counterparty risk (relative to dollars) would cause the stablecoin to trade at a discount to cash, particularly when auctioned by the government. (You have to spend resources monitoring the auction, closing the transaction, and cashing out to complete the arbitrage.)
You mean the standard that never caught on and now lives on as a piece of Internet history? Yeah, super advanced shit, let's have that again.
Here is my crazy idea.

Walk "El camino de Santiago". This will give you a daily goal, it will keep you busy and it will get you out of the current depressing routine, allowing you to reset your mind. You will meet new people and change your outlook on the world. It will also increase your confidence.
Web performance software company Cloudflare readies IPO
My first real job out of college was the end of the 80s, as a contractor at IBM. This was when they were really going down the tubes, and I saw them lay off literally my entire department except for me (my contract had already been paid for the whole year, so they still owned me). On one hand, I saw that IBM management was actually doing everything they could for those folks - I saw managers on the phones all day, trying to find jobs for their employees.

But on the other hand, I saw all these people whose only skills were COBOL and RPG3, and even back then those technologies were obsolete. They'd been getting large salaries from IBM primarily on the basis of their domain knowledge, and when IBM stopped caring about those lines, the knowledge became worthless.

Seeing what this did to people that I had been working with, and friendly with, really made a big impression on me. I promised I wouldn't let myself get into that same technical debt - but these day's that's easier said than done.
There's a lot of ambiguity about air rights and it's never been precisely defined by either the legislature or the judiciary. It wasn't a big deal before drones (outside of a real estate context). And under current FAA rules drones typically have to stay under 400 ft.

It will be "interesting" to see this plays out. It seems obvious that regulations won't allow routine and widespread drone delivery flights to fly a few hundred feet over personal property--given that I suspect a lot of people would be really unhappy about this.
a security blog you can only read after enabling javascript for a dozen domains. Nice one google.
After a presentation I saw at ToorCon earlier this year, I don't trust unikernels in general. Several of them are beyond bad from a security standpoint with little to no protections from malicious software.
Is that passion I hear? Censor him!
The game is rigged to encourage you to struggle and empathize. The initial setting is truly a hardship by itself: unemployed, homeless, single parent $7,500 in credit card debt, delayed car payments and only $1,000 left.

I managed to reach a month, but in that month: a relative died, the landlord arbitrarily increased the rent $150 BEFORE the end of the month, a kid broke a window that cost $100 to replace, got an incontestable false speeding ticket for 250, the car broke and a dental problem needing $800 developed, got depression, etc. How much can this guy endure?

Also, this guy should have had food stamps already. Maybe he didn't qualify before? I figure him at 45-50, trying to get a job like the one he just lost and letting things go too far before realizing he had to get a low-paying one.

It makes you think, that's for sure.
The problem with faith is that there is nothing you can't believe based on it, no matter how incredible, supernatural, or unproven it is.

Faith is not a reliable path to truth.
We let them march because they are using public streets to do so. A KKK march through a shopping mall would be quickly broken up.

You don't have to allow the KKK to use your private property, and neither does anyone else.
Unfortunately, any book that mentions closing the sale "my pen or yours", or objection handling isn't going get you where you want to be. You might get a sale but you will then have to work really hard to turn them into word of mouth advocates. It also results in your reluctance in wanting to sell.

I would recommend learning sales the hard way and you will need to put at least 12 months into it.

Learn about:
- Becoming more open minded to see things from others point of view, dropping your own beliefs.
- How to ask really good questions to find out what they want.
- Be able to communicate clearly to many different types of people, marketing, CFO and the impatient CEO.
I've used them in the past, knowing that 99% of the time it'll be a "We'll get back to you" message. But for the most part, I find it helpful as a quick "contact us" option without having to wade through contact pages trying to find a contact email.
1. record all network interaction going out of your MRAID adapter, from your few, actual users.

2. replace timestamp and userIDs fields on the network requests you will replay with Math.random()

3. Profit!

Seems pretty simple and banal to me.
How Good Is Tesla’s “Enhanced Autopilot” Feature?
Perhaps the adventurer is asking themselves, "Hey, doesn't the task giver KNOW the guy who has the key? And they're really good friends? And they know exactly what they need? And where to get it? And what to do with it? So why are they asking ME to do it for them?"

Perhaps they resent a poorly communicated request. Perhaps the task giver does this literally ALL THE TIME ... getting other people to do their work. Maybe the adventurer wants you to fail, because you do this all the time, and like, maybe for once you should do it yourself.

There's lots of reasons things don't get done in projects. Mind-reading and coming up with explanations about why someone is failing in the project is a shitty replacement for communicating needs and wants clearly in an organized fashion.

That is, when a project has a project manager, the project fails because of the project manager.
What kind of fraud does Google do?
> Outside- > Catalan and Spanish, Computer-> English & Spanish, Family-> Ukrainian and Russian

Wow, your language skills look decent. Join it with some IT curiosity and make some help website/forum/services for Ukrainian and Russian people in Spain, you would be surprised how much demand it may bring you. You can try get Certified Translator title too both in Spain and Ukraine to boost credibility. I know Central European immigrant who did it in Spain -- constant flow of customers.
I get where you are coming from, but this is an non-factor.

Drones can be built to be very safe with jet-engine like enclosures.
Also, Their power will mostly likely be nowhere enough to cause significant damage to a human.

A heavy object falling on a head and causing real damage.... now that's a more likely event.

__________

If drones are sufficiently regulated :

1. Can't fly over private property, regions with many kids.
2. Prefer to be flown above roads
3. Drone owner liable for damages

Then I can see them being a great replacement humans in food delivery.

I don't think they will be louder than a car or a motor-bike any way.
I think you're still not understanding the dynamic between children and parents these days.

Things are not how they were 30 years ago. Children are exposed to a myriad of information on a myriad number of ideas in a myriad number of ways every day of their lives. Here's the reality of being a parent today, your children will have set ideas about many many topics long before they would ever speak to you about it. So the idea that a child would come out of their room, or come home from their friends house, or from practice or whatever, and ask you about the weighty issues of the day, is fundamentally flawed. Children will Google it. Whatever more they need to know will come from their friends via snapchat.

Here's the bad news for all the new parents out there, YOU, will be the last person they will ask about anything like that. And they will attach the least importance to your opinion. (And they will attach no importance to your opinion if your opinion deviates from information on Google or Wikipedia).

Does this mean you will have no impact on your child's development of ideas? No. But it does mean that you have to set your expectations reasonably. The combative and argumentative parent-child relationships in my own opinion, usually arise due to parents not having a realistic set of expectations in this regard.

As a parent, you have to adapt to this new reality. I'm not going to tell people how to parent in the new reality, or even in the old reality. But I will say this, launching into a lecture about the importance of free speech is a REALLY good way to lose the room when dealing with kids. (A lecture sounding speech on anything is a good way to lose the room.)

Or maybe lectures do work for some kids. And maybe there are some kids out there who talk to their parents about these things instead of simply googling them. But my last kid is going to college next year, and that was never my experience.

As I said initially, I really don't think that the scenario that you are envisioning, would happen very often in today's America. Kids today will already have these sorts of ideas set long before you even think to talk with them about it.

(And if that's too much for prospective parents to think about, I won't even let you in on the fun that awaits with respect to the subject of sex, or drugs.)
Henry here, didn't expect this post to ever be on HN heh!

The podcast is a 10 episode series (pre-recorded it over the last 5 months) with my friend Nadia (who isn't religious)

I'm writing up a post about making it from scratch (never made a podcast before) and will post it soon as well!
I think that's correct afaik, and it reinforces what I was trying to say: most ghg emmissions come from the absolute wealthiest individuals on the planet who do not allocate these resources efficiently with respect to human welfare/pursuit of happiness.
If anyone's reading this. I'm really passionate about this crossing of tech and environmental issues & awareness. I have a tiny carbon footprint myself, I am super conscious about everything: no car/no emissions/ tiny electricity and water bills compared to everyone else in the city/food&waste minimization etc

If anyone needs a developer and/or marketing engineer with a passion for automation (think very advanced Zapier) hit me up because I'd rather work with you than working for the next "Crypto currency company". Look at my profile for how to contact me!
I remember a "MacGuffin" not to be some preliminary objective in a plot, but rather a meaningless, exchangeable objective that nonetheless is central to the plot. The Indiana Jones films serve well as examples: the specific artefacts he's trying to recover could be replaced with any other valuable item without meaningfully affecting the story.

(But there's the distinct possibility that I'm wrong, or that I'm splitting hairs, or just generally missing the point of analogies)
When it's all red you know it's a good website.
There's no innate profit potential for this technology. If the governments decide to pay lots and lots and lots of money to sequester carbon, then there's a giant profit potential for anyone who can do it. But note the "if" - as of now, there's no indication that they're going to do so; and if/when it comes to such an emergency that they will, they might as well nationalize (or 'globalize') that tech and implement the solutions at-cost without any meaningful profit for the owners of these technologies; if push comes to shove enough so that the major powers of the world will be willing to invest a nontrivial share of their GDP in fighting climate change, honoring international intelectual property agreements will be the least of their concerns.
San Francisco Needs a Marshall Plan – For Toilets
"Digging deeper into why this worked this way was interesting, but it's bed time, so I'm going to cut the scroll here."
I can very roughly intuit why this is-- the difference between the two Applicative instances the author noticed was that the shape of the first tree was being fitted into the second tree vs the shape of the second into the first. So if you "bind" the lefthand side of <* > first, its shape will be "fitted" to the righthand side, and if you do the opposite you get the second "fitted" to the first shape.

I believe it's the same as iterating over the righthand side of <* > in its implementation first instead of the lefthand side like in their first, wrong implementation?

But my reasoning feels loose here. I probably just need to look at their implementation of Monad Tree closer. :-)
Last I ran the numbers for that chapter, I determined that there simply isn’t enough ocean surface area to achieve the carbon absorption necessary, even if we used every underfertilized patch of seawater on the planet.

It was close, but it still came up short.
How elastic is the price of that olivine?
Or more directly, criminality could be linked to very low levels of the personality trait Agreeableness, which is known to be genetically influenced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#He...
Thanks for the recommendation. Could you explain a bit more in detail why you recommend reading it? I've read a lot of online resources (IPCC, wikipedia, different lectures on advanced weathering, pyrolysis/biochar etc) and have been looking to read a book related to the carbon dioxide problem.
I assume any serious paper production company replants the tree, so you start with a tree and end with a tree and landfilled paper.
There's a fourth explanation: Engineers don't get paid more for producing features faster (or on time), they just get more work. A smart/rational engineer eventually realizes they don't get rewarded for finishing tasks quickly or on-time, they get the opposite: more work. And promotion happens laterally not vertically, they get it by changing jobs because it's not obtainable by delivering more things on time or faster.

As long as engineers are paid based on salary/wages this will always be the case, and has been the case in every company I've worked with.
> That modern economics has programmed in accountability for slow, large payments doesn't mean the system wouldn't be better off if it changed

It's more fundamental than accounting. If a transaction costs X, aggregating N transactions into a single transaction reduces the per-transaction cost to X/N. The latter, batched process will always be slower and cheaper than the former.

(If a transaction costs Y%, aggregating bilateral transactions allows for "netting out," thereby reducing costs while increasing latency. For example, suppose Bank A sends Bank B $10, Bank B sends Bank A $5 and the Bank B sends Bank A $2. Real-time systems would see 3 transactions of $17. Net-settlement systems would see as few as 1 transaction for $3.)
#2 is true but not exactly for the reason you specify, basically every company I've ever dealt with has an advertising budget, they spend it and they monitor how much they spend and how sales change based on that (and ad types and ad channels etc). If you have ever seen an advertisement for a Data Scientist at an online retailer this is what they will do, day in and day out.

As long as the revenue gain (and resulting margin) is more than the advertising spend, it is a winning strategy. Meanwhile, every ad network has a 'beta' value which is the ratio of ad spend to revenue increase, ad networks with a low beta either have more fraud or they are hitting the wrong demographic, either way dollars are shifted away from that network to one with a higher beta.