skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drug experimenting is not dangerous at all. If you know how to read, you can read studies about these drugs. Drugs like weed, alcohol, LSD, tobacco are extremely well-tested and we know most short-term/long-term effects on adult humans. If you decided to experiment with something known to be toxic to humans (like cigarettes), then that's on you. If you read studies claiming pot to be safe, and you're not convinced, then don't smoke it.
Fun anecdote, my Bipolar disorder didn't manifest itself until immediately after the first time I consumed marijuana, and it is now a lifetime endeavor.
I don't see this working.

In most countries the law has wide acceptance, international recognition, deep supporting ecosystems, but most of all: access to and authority to command thousands of men and women with guns and dogs.

Courts are no going to say "oh, shucks, smart contract eh? I guess my power to exercise judicial review is magically repelled, fooey!"

They are going to hand down judgements. As with other forms of private law, they will generally not interfere, but they will never surrender the power to interfere, and they will be able to do so whether you or I like it or not.
"Hey Bob, you ok? You're talking kinda funny".
That is an excellent summary. It was like an answer that failed to produce any questions from me and I feel like I understand it now.
It's ok to single out nationalities such as Chinese or Russian as long as it feeds the standard leftist narrative. $(BadThing) + "Chinese" or "Russian" is a good headline for spreading political FUD, while "black" or "muslim" is politically incorrect heresy. Any pejorative hints against women will get you summarily executed.
I'd love to see more research on this. I may occasionally consume, but one obvious effect is that I remember far less dreams if under the effect prior to sleeping that night. For me this is appreciated because dreaming is a source of mental annoyance the next day.

I have heard that it may reduce REM sleep. Consequently, many people who consume regularly then take a break will agree that after stopping they are flooded with more dreams than normal. They may be more intense, realistic, etc. But the effect subsides to normal quickly. Withdrawal is minor to non-existent for such people. Interesting!!
I remember when many technical books were spiral bound. Ah, Tandy computer documentation, how I miss you.
That was definitely surprising to me.
Also, after checking his about me I realized it Nicholas Zakas! I learned so much about giant Javascript apps because of his books!

It really shows how much negotiation actually does matter.
Millions of people are told to stop smoking every day and they don't do it. That's because humans are bad at judging the likelihood of long-term effects, whereas food allergies have immediate and very painful ones.

This has nothing to do with the substance. If weed stopped you from breathing and made your tongue swell, people would drop it right away.
> PayPal and Visa/Mastercard have long lists of high-risk goods they simply won't deal with.

Still a strawman as there is no inherent financial damage of political speech compared to those high-risk goods.
As a career-long deaf white male SDET / QA Automation Engineer:

- 2013: $70000 + 3% bonus, freshly graduated with BS in CompSci, worked at big corporation in east coast

- 2014: $72000 + 3% bonus (something like 2-3% raise - got max bonus+raise due to performance), same company as above

- 2015: $74000 + 3% bonus (something like 2-3% raise - got max bonus+raise due to performance), same company as above

- 2016: $77000 + 3% bonus (something like 2-3% raise - got max bonus+raise due to performance), same company as above

- 2017: $80000 + 3% bonus (something like 2-3% raise - got max bonus+raise due to performance), same company as above

- 2017: $87000 + 0% bonus, moved to the midwest and worked at a startup, recruiter told me I'd get a bonus but turns out it's only for higher-ups or something (wasn't happy about this but still here)

- 2018: $90000 + 0% bonus (something like 3% raise), same company as above

Overall I don't know whether I should be happy with this. It's good pay and it's a medium COL in both places where I lived on east coast and in the midwest and I keep my expenses low, but I frequently read huge salaries on HackerNews, CSCareerQuestions and such. I am very effective in my QA manual and automation test duties and catch nearly everything no matter how obscure, so a lot of my colleagues value me. However, the frequent low raises and low salary jumps tell me maybe I should just stop QA altogether and do development instead which would be an easy transition because I mostly work in development side for my QA test suites.

In summary, 5 years of my career has netted me a total raise of 28.5% from $70k to $90k with no stock options or bonus or anything. Am I doing it wrong? I've also never directly asked for a raise - am I supposed to do this? I asked a few colleagues and they said they never asked for a raise and were just given what they're given. I do not know my colleague's salaries past what's posted on Glassdoor.
> In some popular databases like MySQL and others you may get the list of available tables just by typing: SHOW TABLES;

Is there any database other than MySQL that does that?
Midwest:
2002 - $8/hr University Helldesk
2003 - $7.25/hr ISP front line support
2004 - $12/hr mid-size webhosting company front line support
2005 - $28k Sole IT person at a small video production house
2006 - $38k Linux/BSD Sysadmin

Texas:
2007 - $50k Sysadmin / Support at a large web host
2008 - $65k Same company, more sysadmin, less support

Bay Area:
2009 - $87k HPC/UNIX Sysadmin for Uncle Sam
2010 - $110k Ops at an SF startup
2011 - $120k Same gig.

Remote:
2012 - $110k HPC/Linux Sysadmin for NYC based startup
2013 - $120k AWS/Ops for a different NYC based startup
2014 - $130k AWS/Ops for a fully remote startup
2016 - $140k "
2017 - $151k "

Not Realized:
2018 - $178k Remote offer I had to reject over a crappy legal agreement from the startup's PEO.

I could probably make more if I were willing to go in to an office daily, but I'm happier remote/async.
The w2 outsourced contractors are a long standing issue in silicon valley and tech, as such even the IRS has weighed in and basically only allows tech companies to have someone on contract for 2 years. There's some additional issues with it in that you really are a w2 employee because you don't get to chose when and where you do the work (or what hours you work).. So in a sense it is worse than uber because you can't choose your hours. Companies like it because it is low risk and you typically can get someone in for a lower wage than you would have to pay otherwise. Netflix is using contractors now btw..

I imagine things have evolved since the good old days:

https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-...

But things largely have stayed the same.
> This lines up with having a Chinese spy in California Senator Diane Feinstein's office

That's not really an accurate description of what happened. Here's Feinstein's statement:

"Five years ago the FBI informed me it had concerns that an administrative member of my California staff was
potentially being sought out by the Chinese government to
provide information. He was not a mole or a spy, but
someone who a foreign intelligence service thought it could
recruit.

The FBI reviewed the matter, shared its concerns with me
and the employee immediately left my office. He never had
access to classified or sensitive information or legislative
matters. The FBI never informed me of any compromise of national security information."

Nothing in your article or any other reputable sources I've read conflict with that statement.

From your article:

'“He didn’t even know what was happening — that he was being recruited,” says our source. “He just thought it was some friend.”

The FBI apparently concluded the driver hadn’t revealed anything of substance.

“They interviewed him, and Dianne forced him to retire, and that was the end of it,” says our source.'
Forgot to mention. That is before taxes and in euro.

Roughly 2450 euro per month each. One with having 12.6 and the other 14 payments over the year
Not to necessarily disagree, but "go make your own... it's pretty easy and affordable" only holds so long as you can find a hosting provider, network provider, and DNS registrar.

As has been shown a few times now, this capability can be summarily revoked.
When we were discussing the Bloomberg story, I replied a couple of times to people hypothesizing maybe it was an American government conspiracy to turn people against China. My reply is that we didn't need to make up such stories, because we've got plenty of much better sourced ones already. For those who were wondering, here's an example. It still isn't proof, of course, but I think we can generally agree it's almost certainly better sourced than the Bloomberg story, which is all I'm going for here.
Well, that's quite a leap from saying that human beings are naturally curious about changing their consciousness, which is what I am saying. I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
How does this work with autocomplete if you need to know the method name before the object you're working with? Maybe I'm not getting something but that sounds incredibly painful to use in practice.
Mobile first experiences. Some banks don't offer all of their services via their mobile app.

Sometimes I'm still required to go to a physical branch, etc.
Resident Evil: Understanding Residential IP Proxy as a Dark Service
Yup take a look at Nuclear Throne and other really cool indie titles built on tools like that. Also if you're building your own engine it's really easy to get sucked into that than the actual gameplay/development.

As they say: "Help a man to build a game and he'll ship a title, teach a man to build a game engine and he'll never ship anything"
I think companies do make choices that lean towards the political proclivities of their founders or employees, but that doesn't mean they won't screw things up. You can do this strategy and also be selfish. Google supports liberal causes generally, like gay rights legalization back a few years ago. At the same time they certainly screwed up by following the "pay off high level sexual abusers to go away quietly" strategy, which is against their liberal agenda and so that is apparently leading to the employees doing some kind of walkout.

Compare G to say "Chick fil-A" which is diametrically opposed to some things that google has supported, they are open about espousing Christianity. Chick fil-A not a big proponent of lgbtq.
Or Dwarf Fortress, which inspired both Rimworld and Minecraft, and is free so the number of downloads are not tracked.
I agree but the crossover between the tech demographic and the DIY demographic seems to mostly be with using software and electronics skills to have add additional functionality to things. A few people will get into hobby CNC and car tuning but people tend not to branch out into multiple expensive hobbies so if electronics/software hacking is your thing you're probably not going to go too deep into those.

Most people won't pick up woodworking skills until they own their own home and need to maintain it and only people with woodworking skills will have a pile of scrap wood around. Keeping scrap material in general around "because it might be useful" is not something the HN crowd is generally predisposed to doing.

Basically, we're mostly a bunch of office workers so expecting more than a couple people to whip up decorations out of whatever is lying around is kind of unrealistic since only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of people here are going to be in a position to do that.

And before everyone comments about how they're personally an exception and they drag sheets of plywood home on the roof of their smart car I'm talking about the typical case here.
A Burger Made of Money
You're right, I mixed up the terms while writing this. It doesn't use the logistic function, it's a more general case of binomial regression [1]. (The example is a line, but the site actually uses a logarithmic function as its link function.) Just corrected the post, thanks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_regression
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/alcoholism-treatment/me...

Alcohol abuse destroys your brain as well as your liver. It's a substance that creates an actual physical dependence that can kill during withdrawal (something that even heroin doesn't do!).

It's an extremely toxic substance. Not trying to make any statements about pot here, just noting that you seem to be grossly misunderstanding the effects of prolonged alcohol abuse on the human body.
you can gain from some sweet VC funded fx rates (for now...)
I think you'll like this talk by Anand Giridharadas [1]. He makes the point that the tech industry still thinks they're the pirates and don't realize that they're the navy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM
Identifying US Currency
For roguelikes IMO the "make or break" part is the world generation and gameplay balance. After all most old-school roguelikes work fine with ASCII symbols so there's no real "art" involved besides arguably the shape of rooms and maybe the colors used. Even those who actually use pixel art tend to have rather primitive sprites, including popular roguelike-likes like FTL or Rimworld.

I think it's one of the reason roguelikes are often so deep gameplay-wise. You want to add a new species of trolls who can fly to your game? Just implement the logic and associate a "T" character or whatever. Want to destroy a wall? Remove the "#". Want to make a lava pit? Display a red "~". You don't have to worry about having to create new models, new textures, new shaders, new sound effects etc...

Meanwhile generating interesting levels and tweaking the Random Number God to make the game interesting and challenging without making it unfairly difficult is pretty tricky.

Good roguelikes have a good mix of human-made "scripted" elements integrated in randomly generated worlds. Too much of the former and the game feels repetitive and predictable. Too much of the latter and the game feels soulless and aimless.
Yea I've never worked at a company where the designer was also doing HTML/CSS.
Do you think board game states might be a good target later?
Mmm, I think the only case for it is that the screen is smaller and that it weighs less. Otherwise it is exactly that, an inferior machine for more money.
What are some red flags for you in Go code reviews?
Tom Francis (the heat sig developer) also made Gunpoint, which while not a rogue like is still a fantastic little game (and has a bunch of user built levels). Would highly recommend.
Because idiomatic Clojure code is based on functions and not methods.

The method call syntax is just there to support interop with Java.
>As I understand it THC aggravates symptoms in people predisposed to psychosis.

This seems to be similar reactions to those who take doses of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
One thing I'd point out is that a drunk driver, dangerous as he is for individuals in his path, can't really affect anything beyond his immediate vicinity. Facebook has national and world-wide influence.
The base comp at FAANG for principal is double his total comp.
For a couple years there was an author on my team. She didn't contribute anything to the team itself; she largely sat in her cubicle and wrote books. It felt as if the company had hired her so that they could trot her out at sales pitches for a 'halo effect.'

So she was basically getting paid by our employer to write books, which were her intellectual property, not our employers. Sweet gig.
> take advantage

What makes it "take advantage" and not "serve"?

People want entertainment on their phone. So entertainment is provided.

People value seasonal rentals more than permanent housing. So seasonal rentals are provided.

What party is being "taken advantage" of? What coercive or dishonest elements at play?
> invite the outliers

Yep, reading that guy's salary history almost made me want to go jump off the roof, but I figure he lives in CA and probably went to an "upper-echelon" college. Here's mine, from somebody who went to a college that didn't make the US News top 100:

(Georgia)
- 1992: $25,000 (Internship), mostly Cobol
- 1995: Graduated with BSCS, no-name college, 3.5 GPA
(Illinois)
- 1995: $28,000 (got a raise to $35000, the only raise I've ever gotten without switching jobs), Cobol
- 1996: $40,000, C++
(North Texas)
- 1997: $50,000, C++
- 1998: $60,000, C++/Java
- 1999: $100,000, Java
- 2002: $100,000, Web programming/Java/Javascript ("lateral" job change, old company went out of business)
- 2008: Graduated MSCS, sort-of-name college, 3.9 GPA
- 2011: $120,000, Objective-C, iOS
- 2014: $120,000, Java/Javascript (another "lateral" change)
- 2018: $140,000, Java/Javascript
Same here. I know people who bum out with it much like many other vices. I also know many analytical and intellectual minds that enjoy it's effect for more open-ending brainstorming (architecting code for a solution, etc), then they sleep on it, wake up sober, and flesh-out the work from there. It's the balance that makes this work so well.
Isn't the point of word2vec that embeddings are semantically meaningful vectors?
Study Fingers Bitcoin as Major Climate Change Culprit
An Open Source Push Notification Service Written with Rust
5 things we wish we could change with the new MacBook Air
Only in the USA. You get every game live if you purchase through a country that doesn't like American Football much.

Edit: To clarify, there are 3 tiers of GamePass. What you get depends on where you purchase and access from.

USA: only preseason live

GB, Mexico & maybe some others: regular season games live (no postseason)

Rest of the world: All games live + RedZone

Seems like they get paid a lot by existing corporate players for exclusive distribution rights in the states.
They have applied for a banking license, but that was like a year ago and haven't heard anything much since then.
I think with apples push of AR on iOS its clear that they are thinking about a future in AR glasses. They'll have a huge advantage over others if they can make existing ARKit apps work on a pair of spectacles. Glasses also fit with Apples "fashion" branding.

People on HN seem to downplay how amazing a good AR glasses product can be. Any information in the world (from restaurant menus to road signs) can now become interactive, animated, personalised, and 3D. The killer feature I believe will be having face-to-face meeting using AR glasses. Oculus put it well in their recent keynote: cities are build such that people can be close in close proximity for meeting face to face. People are willing to spend thousand of dollars to fly across the globe for a face to face meeting. With video and voice call you can only go so far. AR glasses (maybe even VR) can get you pretty close to what you would find in real life, and even some added features like being able to write in the air and pull out virtual 3D models. But, the tech is still a long way off.
"Most programmers are turned off by the syntax and/or immutability."

Programmers who don't see the value of immutability or can't understand it are not programmers you really want to work with.
Actually, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Text excels at abstractice capability, relationships are less explicit via name and procedure bindings, they can be even be compressed via loops and functions. On the other hand, relationships are very much explicit and in your face in a patch/wire visual language.

This is just a trade off, visual languages are better at being explicit but worse at being abstract. When you think about it, that makes sense: a picture requires the commitment of detail that an abstract textual description does not. Incidentally, simply designing a more abstract visual notation is no easy way out of this, because the notation will inevitably resemble text as it becomes more abstract.

Also, most VPLs have some amount of textual language I them. A patch/wire VPL will go text on patch names and port labeling. Scratch, in contrast, is basically graphically edited text with some visual elements. This makes judging the entire visual paradigm even more tricky, because it isn’t homogenous at all.
> Unless he's working for a javascript tool builder, why does his name add any extra value to the company?

For the company that I worked at, employing a published author was a method to seal deals for the sales team. Basically created the impression that we were experts at DevOps (we weren't.)
Code: https://github.com/moracamilo/Bitcoin/
I don't believe I fail to understand the freedom of the press. Websites are not treated as publishers - if they were, they would have the responsibility to regulate their content; freedom from such responsibility is not enshrined in the first amendment.

Interesting that you quote Zeran because this is the most used portion:

[[The specter of tort liability in an area of such prolific speech would have an obvious chilling
effect. It would be impossible for service providers to screen each of their millions of postings
for possible problems. Faced with potential liability for each message republished by their
services, interactive computer service providers might choose to severely restrict the number
and type of messages posted.]]

Blumenthal v Drudge, where they didn't hold AOL liable for paying to re-post a libelous Drudge column:

In recognition of the speed with which information may be disseminated and the near impossibility of regulating information content, Congress decided not to treat providers of interactive computer service like other information providers such as newspapers, magazines or television and radio stations, all of which may be held liable for publishing or distributing obscene or defamatory material written or prepared by others.

US v. Backpage:
http://www.dmlp.org/sites/dmlp.org/files/gov.uscourts.tnmd.5...

"On one hand, Backpage.com has painted a clear picture of the hazards of self-censorship if this is the case: websites such as Backpage.com will bear an impossible burden to review all of their millions of postings..."

They later quote that same bit about Tort in Zeran

There are about a half dozen others that reference the same bit about it being impossible and using the following chilling effect argument to uphold the application of section 230.
I've never worked at a company where the designer was also doing HTML/CSS. Design and HTML/CSS are totally different skillsets. I'd be impressed if a designer also knew how to write HTML/CSS for responsible websites/webapps, especially CSS and it's nonsensical rules.
Nice hack, thanks!
Most other word embeddings have hundreds of dimensions, not thousands. Are you able to hint at what causes this difference? Do you see better downstream task performance?
The most frequent use I make of the Barclay's app is to top-up my Monzo card. The Monzo app (and Revolut, but for some reason I use Monzo more than my Revolut) is just better. It is more focussed on my daily use and has a more pleasant interface. It does not do as much as my Barcaly's account but it does the 95% most frequent banking activities a lot easier.
Because a JPG stream can end mid-file, and the remainder of the data is ignored.
Our company decided to open source what we could and one of the now free services is a system to send push notifications. It has served us for a couple of years without that much maintenance. I hope somebody finds use for the code and it could be a showcase how to use Rust in your company.
I don't use Monzo but the big benefits tend to be -

- Low or no fee usage abroad
- Real time transaction notifications on your phone.
- Transactions showing immediately on the account.
- Automatic categorising of transactions. I.e you can see what you spent in restaurants, shops, public transport etc. Monzo also let's you set budgets for individual categories.
- Automatic saving. I.e. Chip monitors your account and takes moves what it thinks you don't need to a savings account.
- Ability to freeze the card in app (if say you lost it).