skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’ll have an account, but probably not actively use it for posting content.

Assuming kids are the primary driver of content on fb, then with their absence should come a drop in value from checking into fb daily (this is occurring to me, today. I’m not sure if its due to more aggressive advertising or loss of usage, but my feed is like 50% ads atm, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t true five years ago).

If theres a lack of people posting content on fb, then you’ll naturally feel no incentive to post (the social media feedback loop, in reverse). Eventually, the feed becomes useless, and all thats left is the messenger app driving value to fb

And of course, in social media, the adults follow the kids. If the kids are running around on a different app, then those who wish to stay in contact will slowly move to it as well. And those who wish to stay in contact with both and so on.

Social media is all about feedback loops, and the young are the primary fuel for it. FB will struggle to survive in its current form if it doesn’t have the next generation.

And social media doesn’t have the kind of lock-in to claim a current population gaurantees a future population. You can have yik-yak and fb simultaneously. If half your audience is on yik-yak and the other on fb (eg friends on yak, family still on fb), you might cross-post. But dangerously for fb, you’re not going to cross-post to fb if yik-yak is your primary, and your audience has yik-yak as their primary too.
It'd be cool if you create things like in the Scribblenauts game.
it's not legally binding and not the law. The TOS can forbid all they want.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub...

suggests there is little to no recourse for IMDB and the likes. Craigslist was able to win their case against 3taps, arguing the scraping was putting a load on their servers (typical Craig Newman bullshit) and that they continued scraping even after the IP ban and that is a computer frauds act or something like that which is draconian response likes of which that guy who killed himself because he got caught for scraping academic journals.
but can you recreate your own list which will be definition be very similar to the original? If not it is first past the post rights to public domain data, which has always been my major objection to database/digitization rights.
LMDB is a key-value database. The Euclides DB build on top of a existing key-value database, LevelDB (could be LMDB) as the persistent layer.

Im not familiar with EuclidesDB, but from what i've understand from the documented architecture it uses gRPC to expose a RPC interface over the internet, and abstract away the objects in the domain of machine learning (like images) tied to PyTorch.

Anyway, its a higher level concept and architecture modeled on top of a key-value storage like LMDB, which is a lower level building block for this product. LMDB being comparable to LevelDB, not EuclidesDB.

(It looks that the author is here, so please correct me if im mistaken in any way)
As I understand it that is not the meaning of the term. It’s meant to describe the phenomenon wherein the closer simulations of humans get to approximating the real thing, the less believable they are.
It is reflected in reality. The vast majority of GitLab's exclusively remote workforce does not live in SF or NYC.

If more companies offered such terms, the labor pool would spread out more.
We at Ably Realtime have a largely remote engineering team. I’ve been searching for a good remote recruiter for some time now and not come across one. Unfortunately I think it’s just largely easier for recruiters to focus on local markets, and sadly it seems the demand is mostly for local workers in spite of what you read in the tech media.

Top talk was mentioned and are good, however I’ve only used them for contract roles.

We’re recruiting now too, perhaps see if it’s right for you: https://jobs.ably.io

Best of luck, remote work rocks (if you like it!).

Matt
Ably
https://www.ably.io
I don't think a donation model is scalable if it came from corporations. In my group of friends of high income earners (> 200k), most of them donate less than 5% of their income.

Our students are grouped into teams to launch real products so they can list work experience on their resumes. When they start their interview process, they train new students on their codebase.

I think if some of our students launch profitable products that are sustainable, we could show corporations that it might make sense to invest and train their community and hire from there rather than constantly 'look for the best' around the world.
The market is not perfectly rational. Sometimes companies do things that are against their economic interests due to irrational perceptions to the contrary.
The fraction of a byte was amortorized over the number of requests (e.g. the mean bytes lost per total requests), which is what made it puzzling and hard to track down. It only happened under specific conditions that were not evident running under valgrind.
> Its a generally well documented trend that once rich it becomes difficult to actually fall out of wealth. I'd definitely love some unbiased research in how much better these purported rich people are better at allocating capital.

Huh? The fact that they're rich is proof.

> Because I can easily start naming microeconomically selfish ways of managing capital that the wealthy practice on the regular that it is no way economically beneficial to the parent economy - offshore tax havens, tax loopholes, real estate bubbles, buying politicians and policy to harm liberty, investing in companies that themselves offshore, launder, and hide their capital outside of the economy.

Sure, but they had to get rich in the first place.

> Businesses in the US are magnitudes wealthier today than they were forty years ago but the standard of living has at best remained stagnant for the last 20 (depending on locality, there are substantial regional swings). Money is flush in the upper echelons of society but it has provably and demonstrably not resulted in economic prosperity for the whole nation.

Yes, its been very unevenly distributed. How do you think that relates to the question at hand?
Cyber Risks to Next Generation 9-1-1 [pdf]
This is true, but a web browser can't really make those choices without a breaking a lot existing stuff. The big problem is that we keep piling onto HTML, CSS, and JS. For instance if we wanted web apps it would have been better to make something separate. Instead we have taken HTML which was originally just a way of rich text formatting and have made into the beast that it is today.
> What will these rich capital allocators do when nobody has money to buy their stuff? We need people to produce things and we need people who buy things. Both of these roles are equally important. Considering how housing and other asset prices are going up and companies like Apple are sitting on billions of dollars it seems there are a lot of rich people who don't know how to invest their money productively.

Totally agree. To be clear, i'm not advocating either narrative, just pointing out that both sides have one. I think they're both important. You need efficient allocators productively allocating capital...and you need them to have the capital to do it with. You also need consumers, with the buying power to make the capital allocators allocations work. The debate ends up being around what the right mix is, and I don't know the answer to that, simply pointing out that it's not a one-sided narrative of "give poor people money!" or "give rich people money!".
I completely agree, I have had a very similar experience with Henrik.
It's less about capitalism and more about people just lining their own pockets. It's human nature.

It's not like unions aren't susceptible to the same thing. [1]

[1]http://nlpc.org/2018/01/18/top-ten-union-corruption-stories-...
Duke's case alleging researchers used fraudulent data to win millions in grants
Instead of dealing in black and white absolutes, how about World 3, where 99% of everyone has .9x and 1% have 9x.

Plenty of economical arguments exist to supply a profit motive as a means to spur economic development and advancement. At the same time, I highly doubt Bob the CEO of Big Bucks would staunchly refuse the job and that no other qualified candidate would consider doing it if the mean CEO salary was only $600,000 a year instead of 7 million. Hell, thats what they did make until Clinton era tax incentives.

Its the same argument as to why lifetime of the creator + 70 years copyright is ridiculous and absurd. Maybe Jules Verne would have written ten sequels to 20000 Leagues if only he could guarantee a distribution monopoly for 70 years after he died?

The orders of magnitude of wealth difference are colossal, and something with plenty of documented study showing your average citizen has no clue how large the disparity is between the average and the extreme prosperity at the top.

Others have answered why its a problem, I just want to point out its not a black an white either you go full communism or laissez faire.
I'm a CS guy through and through. Regular languages, cfl, ..... Np complete, what was the books name again?

But I gotta say, regex isn't the best way to show things. Hard to verify, hard to maintain and what not. Computer sciency, sure. But not well "designed".

Now I have no love lost for people who talk about stuff without understanding the fundamentals or the basics even. So I don't doubt that the person was "whatever". But I do feel that regexes need an overhaul

Ps: I'm a fan too when I have to do quick stuff in shell. But not so much when I save it to a file to be read by me and multiple people weeks later. Regex is one thing that is way easier to write than read.
Stating the fact explicitly, not just with a “generic notice” at the end.
The first on Netflix released. It has a similar plot
Right. Google does the first, Facebook did the second
I loathed "Infinite Jest" having got through it in one try. The advice I have since received is that I should have started with DFW's shorter pieces. I'm not going to now, but I do feel it's good advice given the love I've seen people who followed that route generally gain for his writing.
Thank you for this insight! Would you be so kind as to provide some pointers to the concerns you’ve mentioned? Any pointers on turnpike theory would also be appreciated!
Yeah, in the arguments for a lot of other cryptocurrencies are different: use the financial incentive to build something else.
Microsoft users are locked out after global multi-factor authentication outage
If only we could aloe property assessments to increase with a local cost of living index, we would at least have enough property tax revenue to pay teachers.
Also see Pulvermuller, The Neuroscience of Language: https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Language-Brain-Circuits-...
I’ll be in Burlington for thanksgiving, can’t wait to try them!
I hope this leads to improvements in scraping software. I find it perplexing there aren't more tools to help strip away the cruft from structured data.
How much longer would you live if you breathed clean air?
If you're a software engineer, and know even a little electronics ( V=IR, basic components, schematics , etc), you can get your technician's license with 2-4 hours study using https://hamstudy.org/tech2018 . There are many exams every month, and it's only $15 (use http://www.arrl.org/find-an-amateur-radio-license-exam-sessi... to find a local exam)

Think of your HAM license as a driver's license for radio communications, and you'll see it opens up a lot of opportunities & functionality. You can do voice simplex (radio-radio), chat on repeaters (bunny-hopping to reach distant stations), DMR (same as above, but digitally encoded), CW (morse code with low bandwidth & long range), APRS (digital beacons for GPS, weather, etc), and more.

Most people experience radio through a commercial (aka unlicensed) product like GSM/CDMA (cell phones), WiFI, FM-broadcast, FRS (walkie talkies), CB Radio (trucker's radios) etc. That's a great intro, but so restricted it's kind of like comparing bumper-cars to driving a car.

It's more than a just a hobby too. Most emergency response teams get licensed. The Red cross sent Hams to puerto rico when the network went down. Sailors still use radio to communicate.

Since your first radio is $30 and the technician's exam is $15, it's a very easy and rewarding hobby to get into.
i suppose it depends on where you get the data from. like implementing your own version of a function, if you can demonstrate that you haven't looked at the other implementation you should be fine.

greetings, eMBee.
This is incredible. I first thought it was just screenshots. Anyway to contact you offline? I want to suggest Nascom 2 support.
I don't understand your comment. I think the site is trying hard to strike a nonjudgmental tone. Yes, poppy seed tea is a way of taking opiates. The point being made is that the dose is difficult to control.
If there were fewer people interesting in taking up non-tech jobs, then supply/demand would drive up wages for non-tech jobs. So before we get to "barren wasteland of office buildings with no services", there would be a happy medium where service industries would be high paying.
Rabin-Karp Algorithm for finding matching substrings in text
> When we've saved those millions of lives, we can work on ways to get the benefits of both privacy and still saving those lives.

In this hypothetical, the genie is out of the bottle unfortunately
> Give China another 20 years and they will surely have overtaken the USA in world leadership.

I guess anything is possible but I highly doubt it. Do you really think culturally, linguistically, militarily, politically and even economically china is going to lead the world? Every major international instution in the world from the UN to the ICJ to the WTO is in western nations.

> Consider their new Silk Road initiative. 3rd world/developing countries and America's numerous enemies alike are lining up to ally themselves with China.

Sure. But they are also working to contain china as well. You really don't understand politics in a local or a global setting if you think china is going to be leading in asia, let alone the world.

If you think the likes of india, japan, korea, vietnam or even iran will let china lead, then you don't understand geopolitics. And lets not forget russia with their thousands of nukes along china's border.

The day that the US doesn't control the world is the day regional competition and violence begins as 2nd rate powers vie with each other for influence within their regions. Nobody, especially china, is going to replace the US as the leader of the world. Once we are done, it'll be back to regional power plays.
I started an SSRI a couple of months ago to help treat major depression and anxiety. My GP went over all of the side effects and potential health risks, timelines, as well as its severe withdrawal symptoms and that if I wanted to stop I should slowly wean off it by lowering the dosage (cutting the pills in half for a while, then quarters, etc). This was in Sydney, so some at least do it :-)
For many people, their coworkers are their main group of friends. I personally would have fewer friends if I worked remotely. If I was married, I would prioritize my family over my friends, and would likely prefer remote work.
Everything about this post is highly dubious, especially all the numbers involved. And then this:

We do not teach for loops and while loops. (Recursion is the only loop we use)

...okay. Maybe that's a joke, but look at that Github account! Your typical 18 year old CS freshman could throw together a more impressive set of code than this "charity" that has the wherewithal to pay out 25,000 (or 24,000) times 20 dollars and landed 14 of said students "full stack" positions. My shit company would drop all 14 of their resumes right in the garbage. Where are they getting hired?

And who in hell would spend their 401k on something like that? No one. Not the greatest fool in the world. Especially not a fool who managed to gain all of 41 Twitter follows in the process.

...just a plea for a minimum of skepticism. Hate to see a rather obvious swindle fool people.
>E.g. why do we call Rust packages “crates”?

This is off-topic, but I was curious enough to go looking. It seems there has been a thing called a "crate" ever since the first commit in Graydon's personal repo [1], though I'm not sure it had the same meaning as it does now.

[1] https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/b0fd440798...
My guess is that while your anecdote may infuriate you, the effect of investors who don’t rent out their homes is negligible on housing prices. The real fix is to build enough housing for everyone. Eliminating prop 13 could help with this, since it would cause homeowners to be penalized for high home values, building political will to build more housing and bring down the prices.
Yeah it's really easy to overgeneralize if you boil it down to nothing and ignore everything that isn't convenient to your point.
anecdotal counterpoint to the anecdotal issues: I've tapered off Prozac, Wellbutrin, and 1 other SSRI without problem.
I’m not sure I understand your question. Other cryptocurrencies are building systems backed by financial incentives. These systems offer different properties: File storage, name resolution, smart contracts, etc. Every cryptocoin is trying a different tech. As I said there is a lot of bullshit in the field but if you dig, there are things that are interesting. These projects are flying under the radar and potentially have a future.

I’m not selling you anything, just pointing out that a lot of people (on both side) are clueless and I think you proved my point.
Ok, the dam scenario is excessive (and kinetic already), but where that threshold crossed? If a string of on going attacks caused 10s of billions of damage but with no fatalities, would it crossed? What about incidental fatalities such as preventable deaths in a blackout?

Messaging and intentions aren’t clear in this domain yet, that’s the worry about unintentional escalation.
That's some really interesting insights from a founder, thanks!

I'm a huge fan of the show, but one thing I would like to point out is that I don't think everything of the show is negative. sometimes it makes me wish I was developing (data science here). my favorite moments of the show is when they overcome some huge challenge (spoiler like with 2 days of the condor)
Uber questionable decisions before its self-driving car killed a pedestrian
Where will they get the IP from?
>And that doesn't count the lifetime pension, health, early retirement some of them get.

That website explicitly includes benefits, what are you talking about?
Color Eights – A Card Game of Eights for the TRS-80
I can't change my hours at work, and I'm not going to shut out my family so I can work on a side project. The only thing after that I still have control over is how much I sleep. I usually get 5 - 6 hours of sleep a night. My wife works as a teacher and has to go to bed pretty early for work. My kids are young and need a lot of sleep, so they are in bed pretty early. That usually gives me around 6 hours a night to work on something. I also work remotely, which helps a ton.

Not giving this as advice, but it is how I manage to do it.
Back when San Francisco had open space and people could actually build things, my grandparents got a 4-bedroom house there for $9000. They produced 8 kids. Kids were everywhere. The neighborhood was filled with kids. Kids played outside all day long, running up and down the street. Now the place is silent.

There is a bit of hope outside the big cities. Farmers tend to be smart. Not every software developer has been lured to the big city.
I meant server side state. Client provided data isn't state from the server's perspective.
> You POST to get a transaction ID, the thread starts a DB transaction [3].

I don't disagree with the logic here, but this is going to get old fast in a modern load-balanced, multi-region/zone topology, since it means pegging the client's state interaction to a particular backend process.

Sticky sessions are the classical answer to this, but they are very much something you want to avoid these days, because they require that every proxy along the path to your app is aware of the stickiness. If you end up deploying your app to, say, Google Kubernetes Engine, you don't even get a load balancer that supports stickiness.

The only way I would implement this would be with a level of indirection. When a request comes in, start the thread, open a listener socket (with, say, gRPC), then store the socket address in some reliable shared data store (Etcd, ZooKeeper, Postgres, etc.). Any requests from the same client can then be routed to that socket internally. If you're writing this in Erlang, you can replace "socket" with "process" and be done in half the time.

That might work okay for latency-sensitive OLTP stuff, but a good pattern I've used before is to model transactions as explicit state. The client uses CRUD actions to build up a "batch" of data (e.g. in a CMS-type app, create a folder, then create a document in the folder), which is stored separate from live data and completely invisible. Once the client is ready to commit, it sends a commit request, and the backend takes the stored state and tries to apply it to the main database.

There are some benefits to this asynchronous, batch-oriented view of transactions: For example, you get audit logging and debuggability "for free", and the backend can be smart about conflict merging and retrying without involving the client. It also allows the client to post incomplete data; it can create a document before the folder exists, even though the document at this point is not yet valid according to business rules, and later in the same transaction it can "patch" the document with the right parent folder. This maps well to the kinds of ETL that apps tends to want to do, where it's nice to write a thin dumb import process that doesn't have to keep lots of local state.
I think you're under estimating just how hard it is to prove that an anti-depressant works. The placebo effect is massive. The tools to measure depression are more qualitative than quantitative. That's why a number of pharma companies have abandoned neuroscience entirely.

Yes, you only need 2 positive phase 3 trials to get your drug approved. Yes, you could have done 10 others and had them fail. Yes, the FDA already knows this.

The FDA is willing to approve drugs for depression with much weaker data than say, cancer, because if they held them to the same standard, no drugs would be approved at all.
Or until landlords are abolished like they should be.
The theme I'm replying to is 'Regan's stated policy objectives were implemented in the 70s and were probable causes of rising income inequality'. Maybe policy settings were twiddled, but the sudden stoppage of growth is probably linked to resource growth tapering off. In a counterfactual scenario where some other set of economic policies were in place, you'd probably have seen income growth trail off regardless.

The 'fix' could well be rich people being worse off, not poor or middle income people being better off. Not much of a solution, that.

A fun thought experiment, there are some good answers to this: at the end of the day, a different policy would be redistributing something real away from the rich. That wouldn't be food (rich people eat as much as everyone else), so what would it be? That is to day, what exactly are the rich securing that is unfair? (money isn't a valid answer, the answer is what the money is then used to buy)
> For many people, their coworkers are their main group of friends.

From what I've experienced, this is true only until your late 20s, or about 20% of your career.
>While I appreciate the ideological and political points of view, we must still govern and analyze based on facts.

The fact is these deals have only two clear beneficiaries: politicians and shareholders.

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/farren_and_philpot_-_p...