skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might like this documentary on the origins of National Semiconductor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbRZGDV-ws
The line blurs a bit when it's "Here's some money, please show this specific link with a bunch of tracking methods to young Democrats in a 50 mile radius of <city> who recently bought a car and have a credit card balance >$10k".

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2497941?hl=en
Why Don't More CS Professors Use the Results of CS Education Research?
Surely everyone else just sees this as a scaled way to keep training Google's machine learning models, right?
swaggyBoatswain's comment is responding to csytan's comment, not your post.
If teachers makes 100k / year and good ones make 200k / year, there would be alot of people going into teaching. Personally, I don't think that teachers should be making less than an entry level software engineer.

I'm also not advocating everyone learn to become a software engineer. I think its unfair for people to become stuck in their low income jobs because of financial responsibilities. The goal of my nonprofit is really to help unstuck as many of them as I can.
I still hear fitting a model, but usually it's just shorthanded to "training."
It's not clear what 'generic' means here, or in the parent, or anywhere in this thread. But in my view, this post [1] is saying that payloads that define a complex transformation or atomic manipulation of multiple independently-accessible resources require an extremely intelligent user-agent to construct case-by-case, because there's no widely-accepted terminology to describe arbitrary transformations of arbitrary data, or to introspect raw, semantically non-marked-up data ahead of time and figure out what needs to be done.

In other words, to construct a resource you could POST to '/bank-transfer' that removes x amount from account y and adds it to account z requires the client to know about what these things mean. But the point of this post [2] is that that's precisely true, and it shouldn't be surprising, because this is exactly how every resource works.

The disconnect between the expectations in this post [1] and this post [2] stems from the fact that most of these CRUD-over-HTTP APIs are actually implemented as thin middleware that parses info from the URI and hands it to database to retrieve. Resulting data items are then serialized using simple conventions as some commonly-used, non-hypermedia structural format, like JSON (no links, no rels), and served as 'application/json', devoid of any programmatic semantic meaning. A human reads this, and uses a combination of common sense, natural language skills, documentation, and trial-and-error to extract meaning from such a payload (e.g. "customerId" probably matches our customer number). For both retrieval and the inverse of this as storage, this is simple, and works: fields are matched by name, and the values are taken at face value.

To the author of this post [1], this probably feels 'generic'. It takes low effort to implement on the server, it can be templated to work on any resource it can find in the database, and assuming an intelligent (i.e. human) client, these resources are practically self-describing! But to the author of the other post [2], this approach seems like a hardcoding of a particular behavior into client based on the the structure of a resource (e.g. a Customer resource), which doesn't seem meaningfully different from the same burden that would be required to implement a resource that describes a domain verb rather than a domain noun (e.g. a Bank Transfer resource).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18488976 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18489402
Fair point. And while it's too late to edit my post, I think I found the flaw in the math.

Just because X converges in probability to x, f(X) doesn't necessarily converge in probability to f(x). If that were so, then logarithmic utility would be sound, but it isn't.
The wild variety (Olea oleaster) is not as messy.
You do realize there is a lot of money in software services correct? It's not about selling pants, it's about selling ads and digital products to the rest of the world, like sillicon valley. Baidu, tencent, alibaba, xiaomi, etc are some of the largest tech companies in the world and thats with most of their business in China.

Not to mention the enhancement in global surveillance it would give the CCP.
- Secondary Index

- some way to store ordered records to speed up range query

- comparison & benchmarks of FoundationDB vs other distributed DB like TiDB, CockroachDB, ScyllaDB, etc
IRS considers debt forgiveness income. https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc431.

So, legally they are the same thing.

PS: Though with various caviots as the law is never that simple.
Wow! You need to check out Augmenta.ag
Can you elaborate? What makes you think that nilpotence is under appreciated?
The essays are a much better place to start. Pick up A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and read those, especially the last essay, which is what the book is named after.

If you like that kind of thing, then the books might be for you. I love DFW's essays. I really cannot get into the books. I know a lot of people like this.
> It does appear to also be a problem in Tokyo

Those prices are still substantially lower than they are in NYC or San Francisco. Notice also that despite the volatility the current price is ~3% higher than it was when record keeping began a decade ago. This is significantly below the rate of inflation. And the bottom of that graph isn't at zero -- it's also exaggerating the level of volatility.

> Houston's economy is still recovering from a natural disaster

That would be relevant if they were problematically high prior to the hurricane.

But would you prefer San Antonio? Phoenix? Jacksonville?

> What am I missing here?

Saturation. If the NYC metro area (8683 sq mi) had the population density of Mumbai (73,837/sq mi), it would have population 641 million. The US population is 325 million. Therefore that population density is impossible in the NYC metro area (without a massive, implausible degree of international immigration exceeding what's permitted under existing law). Moreover, it can absorb even fewer additional people at the same time as the same occurs in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Los Angeles, etc.

There exists a point where there is enough housing for everyone who wants to live in that city, at which point building more does not attract new residents, it only lowers prices for existing residents (as more landlords compete to not be the one with an empty unit).
It also draws from the book 'Soul of a New Machine' about Data General's a few years before Compaq.

The 'adventure addiction' scene, for example.
It turns out that this was fairly hard data to compile. The easiest set of data came from the Brown-Forman annual report. They list their distilleries and their sales volume in clear terms. The rest of the distilleries were not nearly as clear. Further Heaven Hill, a giant, is not public so don't need disclose an annual report.

In any case it became really clear really early that this bet devolved into 'does Jack Daniels outsell the rest of the American Whiskey industry by itself?'

Surprisingly, the answer is 'its actually close'. Here is an article that summarizes similar results to what I found: https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2018/06/world-whiskey-bra....

Dickel is the next biggest non-KY distillery that doesn't show up on this list. They are effectively .1 additional 9l cases combined. The crafts are .007.

In any case, I'll concede the bet. Let me know the charity.
See also this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207478 for what that Genomics 'standard' they are trying to push is actually like.

MPEG is a rent-seeking organization that doesn't actually contribute anything useful to society. It just tries to lock up technology and standards behind patents, and then extorts money for use of those standards.
Everything you need to know about how Silicon Valley funding works in a little over a minute https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo
> Sorry for the amp link, the main page was broken.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hbos-silicon-valley-had-dive...
Sheryl Sandberg’s saintly image in Silicon Valley is unravelling
Sure!

Truly accurate time tracking and recording. Then using those historical times to inform future estimates. Most development we do is not the great unknown. If it took you 10 hours to design, code and test the update to a Student record for a db application last year in Java, it will likely take you roughly 10 hours this year to do something similar in the same language.

The problem is that most organizations are unwilling to develop the rigor of recording time on task accurately and saving them in such a way that the times can be retrieved later, and using those recorded times to estimate future work.

All of that takes effort and it's effort that's not billable to a project, so no one wants to do it. But when you do it, it does work!
> However, San Francisco is currently experiencing a teacher shortage of several years [1], so that vice versa I mentioned above is simply not true. The city is offering cash bonuses for teachers now, and it introduced some legislature to attempt to incrementally increase their wage, but it's simply not enough.

A "teacher shortage" isn't the same as an increase in (free market) demand for teachers (or education). Who says that people actually demand the education that the public system forces upon them? It's more like the government can't fill the poorly paid positions it decided it needs to educate people.

If a private company figured out that it could make more money by hiring workers at a higher price, they would do it. But if they just have a "shortage" of cheap-enough workers to make more money, that's not actually more demand. That's equilibrium. Everybody always has a "shortage" of getting something for nothing.
So a variant of spiking neural networks?
Time to relearn the basic classes of economic goods, and their corresponding pricing behaviours: commodities, wages, rents, interest, public goods.

Land, monopolies, skills and talent endowments, capital, and power all return rents. Likely risk as we'll.

Most of books 1, 2, and 5 of Smith.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
> That can be achieved by being born with the right parents, not necessarily by doing intelligent things.

Again, exceptions are irrelevant. We're talking about the aggregate here.
A lot of cynicism in comments. Seems like an innocuous experiment. Cool graphics. Average experience. But built on the web, that's important. Let's not conspiracy theories get the better of us.
I'm not disagreeing with you. You need both.
Arguably his best essay, however, is the one on Michael Joyce, The String Theory. Some people have judged it as one of the best essays / short stories of all-time.

https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david...

It is then remarkable that an author dared to write a follow-up to this iconic essay... and mostly succeeded.

https://longreads.com/2017/01/17/michael-joyces-second-act/
(too late for me to edit my post, so I'll reply to it)

The logic I posted above will show you that the log of your money X converges in probability to some value x that you can optimize. Optimizing x will optimize a monotonic utility f(x), which seems useful, but isn't. The problem is that just because X converges in probability to x, doesn't mean that f(X) converges in probability to f(x). Probability and convergence are weird.
Nice.

Reminds me of a post describing implementation of a React login page FSM using some simple ClojureScript to describe and run the state transitions:

https://github.com/jebberjeb/reframe-fsm/blob/master/doc/HOW...

I found it unusually clear, useful, and easy to follow.

For anyone going down the ClojureScript path that wants more sophisticated FSMs, there a few nice libraries dedicated to that:

https://github.com/ztellman/automat ,
https://github.com/cdorrat/reduce-fsm ,
https://github.com/jedahu/spaghetti
Share photos/videos in real-time with full resolution, unlike WhatsApp
Reading the article the whole time waiting to see the words “real” or “adjusted” — thank you for doing the leg work.

It is no surprise that all but the fastest growing wages cannot outpace all but the fastest growing real estate prices in the world.

If those wages were nationally adjusted for inflation instead of locally adjusted for housing costs, the story would be entirely different. The middle-wage jobs aren’t fully pricing in real estate I suppose because the people who hold those jobs don’t live in the “Real Bay Area” and must commute long distances to work.

It’s terrible for just about everyone for housing prices to raise faster than 2-3% annually, certainly any faster than national inflation rates will impact mobility.
> And astoundingly, outrageously, you actually think State Republicans, who have basically been an endangered species for years...are actually to blame.

I don't think that at all, I explicitly said that I have no thoughts on the issue. I was pointing out that policies outlast governments and the momentum of their decisions carries on well past the election date. You implied that everything that happens from now on will be 100% the democrats fault and that's simply not true.

If we want better politicians then we need better memories than goldfish.
Heh,google's entire business model is sharing your data with third parties. Is it better because they filter out some details?

Also,Chrome might be more secure from a vulnerability point of view but browser exploits(exploit kits) are not a very common means of deploying malware these days. They tend to focus on IE and flash these days: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/03/exploi...
In practice, people trust Google more than hey trust the news site. Google News in Spain was shut down in 2014. Google dominates search engine market share in Spain today and for every period from 2014 to 2018.

In fact, Spain’s news industry suffered for it.
Ah...sorry lads! couldn't tell on mobile :-)
Cendertron, extract apis from your Web 2.0 page with Puppeteer and Monkeies
The dutch literally watched the russians over cctv cameras(apt28).
Those first two are pretty trivial. Keys are already stored in sorted order in a b-tree. Secondary indexing involves putting the indexed value to the left of the primary key in the key you write.
Can't ProtonMail just solve this with a meta tag...?

<meta name="google" content="notranslate">
> In King of the Hill, our white Alpha, Hank Hill, the only guy with any common sense

Ah, that's not my memory of King of the Hill. In it Hank is the biggest idiot and it's only those around him that have any common sense.

I probably only watched the first season but I remember one episode in particular where some Laotians moved into the neighborhood and Hank couldn't except that they weren't Chinese or Japanese. His father who fought in South East Asia knew immediately that they were Laotians but Hank refused to acknowledge any kind thing other than Chinese or Japanese. Hank's wife went on to bake a "Apple Brown Betty" (I think that's what it's called) and got upset when the Laotian neighbor made it better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CaZ4EAexQ
"Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power."

-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...

Or: Yes, I agree. And much of Smith's book concerns this.
The WSJ has gotten with the times. They’re doing well with their approach. It’s what their customer wants. I like their model.
How does FDB compare to Spanner as far as the Consistency model and trade offs?
Yeah,one provider does that to the net,exposing their network which includes their IX router which connects to your IX router which connects to the IX lan. Heck,a well resourced attacker can peer with you on the IX lan just so he can attack you.
So you need to attack both. Land tax and wage floor.
Arguably MPEG isn't the problem, it's just a symptom. You will not find many people as disgusted by rent-seeking as I am, but the real target in my scope would be US Patent law here.

MPEG is the rent-seeking arm of several organizations, some of which actually do excellent technical work that is arguably beneficial to society. They don't have a monopoly on doing excellent technical work, even the kind that is beneficial to society, and back when you could count on MPEG LA being the only contact you needed to license a set of patents, it wasn't the worst state of affairs in the world. Not ideal, but definitely not the worst that an army of lawyers could come up with.
iPhone 'Sales Panic' Is Good News for Apple
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Apple Highlights Five Reasons the iPad Pro Can Be Your Next Computer
Demonstrating that labour markets are regional.
This sounds fantastic. I think I could set up a ‘news org’ for the free government revenue pretty easily.
Sharing Data Between Microservices
Also if its not obvious that seagrams entry is from Indiana. So this top 7 list actually shows outside of KY on top, but the next N major distilleries are all in KY.
I'm not sure what advantage you think to obtain from inferior, but consistent, principles. For example, the "like cures like" principle is used to ill effect in many medical systems around the world. The only reason to support such a practice is prejudice - the conviction that the conclusions reached are, by themselves, superior merely because of the methodology used to produce them.

I don't advocate jumbling the methods of obtaining knowledge (although I think the notion of methodological purity in science is incorrect, I think the consistent principle in science is the establishment of authority, and not the methods applied by that authority, which change over time) - naturally every system must have its own internal consistency, or else it would not be a system. I advocate instead something close to what you are saying. It is fine to read scientific literature, but it is also useful to recognize that science can't tell you everything, and that its epistemology more or less fails at discovering certain things.
Show HN: Prevent sharing of your SaaS application accounts
As olliej mentions the bigger warning might be mixing benzos and opioids. (And to clarify poppy seed tea is only used to get high)

This news article is basically exactly the same except the medications were prescribed by a doctor -

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-31/raising-awareness-of-...

Poppy seed tea can kill, but I think in the real world it's because people have mixed it with benzo's and it's not commonly known how much more dangerous this is.

OT See if you can google how much alcohol you can have safely when on benzo's. It's impossible to find, just the typical prohibition style none is safe, except I know lots of people who do mix them, because you can, but no one will talk about it. Erowid's the best around.

[edit] As a0-prw points out blood free-morphine content 219 ng/ml was lethal alone.
The second reason should be reason enough. People don't want to live in a town overrun with tourists. All their stores and bars and such become touristy gimmick places, cause those can charge huge markup on stuff that tourists buy and make more money. Tourists drive the locals out (AirBnB is a fairly large factor in rent prices increasing in Ireland, for instance) and make it so only tourists are in town. It's horrible.
Why you should definitely plan for miracles
Turns out most people are perfectly happy with their little SUV even if you can't transport a couple of tons of steel or win a Formula 1 race.

It's ridiculous to think that anything can cover all use cases.
Except it doesn't work. People buy out apartments simply to AirBnB them, meaning one less local can live there. Others get driven out due to noise, and then yet another AirBnB company comes in an snatches them up. AirBnB is a huge issue that nobody seems willing to face, imo.
> Gina Bianchini

> Ning

This takes me back 10 years when I would read pmarca's blog religiously.
FoundationDB and Spanner both offer external consistency. Spanner does this through synchronized clocks. FoundationDB has a similar clock called TimeKeeper, which is not a clock per se but a counter which advances approximately 1M times per second. Transactions are ordered based on this timestamp.
Interesting. I thought the Python builtin hashlib was more convenient (and more random). But yes you are right, good implementation of murmur3 hash is much faster.
Well in this case, dual numbers have this nilpotent constant epsilon that’s analogous to i such that epsilon ^ 2 = 0. It’s the basis of automatic differentiation. I don’t fully understand it yet, but it seems that nilpotence is useful for smoothness and differentiability.
Please don't make up fake stats.

I live in Manhattan and the idea that a full third of the real estate here is empty is laughable. Have you ever visited??

As my sibling comment points out, the real rate (as determined by actual data) is less than 5%.
They discuss this on page 11
MASH begs to differ.
> “Alternating standing and sitting while using a computer may be useful for some people with low back or neck pain,” he said — but people shouldn’t be under the illusion that they’re getting exercise.

Nobody is under the illusion that standing is exercise. What a pointless article.
Oh jesus, this is super useful. I had a hard time with ML people speak.
Have you given Firefox another shot during the past year? I agree that it used to be terrible, (as in bloated and buggy and slow) but the work they've been doing with servo and quantum has really, really paid off. It really is a whole new experience.

I don't do webdev, so I can't really comment about that. I agree wrt edge being terrible and not being willing to pay Apple prices.
I wonder what DFW would've thought of Tao Lin.
I don't think that's the point. The problem here is that we seem ro forget that by using Chrome, Google has direct access to absolutely everything we do on the internet.

Go to https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity and you will see all the things they track. It's bizarre.

The one that pisses me off the most is that they track the apps that I open by binary name and I own an iPhone and use Safari. I don't even know how the fuck they do that.
Maybe they could take two Greek letters and form a word out of it and do some kind of reverse acquisition, breaking apart the original company into just a unit of the new company, then Zuck can be the CEO of the new company and pass CEO of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Occulus, et cetera down to some favored lieutenants.

Would definitely be a complicated legal maneuver, but hey, then we would have Muzeta.
This sort of happened when the WHATWG effectively wrested control of HTML away from the W3C (although Google was not a founding member, they are one of the Steering Members now). https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/when-standards-divide/

The membership of the W3C supported XHTML, to improve interoperability among other reasons. Apple, Mozilla and Opera had a different vision and broke away and formed the WHATWG which Google and Microsoft later joined. Those companies (minus Opera) now have near total control over HTML and the W3C just rubber stamps whatever they decide.

(Note: I don't believe the participants in WHATWG were doing what they did for anti-competitive purposes, but in hindsight it had that effect.)
Find a differentiator. Often simply the UX differences can be enough. Look at the CRM space for example. Salesforce is a collosal mess from a UX standpoint, so companies like Pipedrive can do pretty well by specifically not being Salesforce.
The first Thanksgiving happened earlier than you think
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How long did it take you to build your product? My partner and I are bootstrapping have customers but I’m always way behind on product as a solo dev.