skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tip: Whenever someone is claiming "extremely fast", like xxhash or meow look at independent benchmarks. Nobody beats the simplest multiplicative hashes, esp. such big ones.
Nicotine was one of the few nootropics that had real measureable positive effects in gwern's testing. Unfortunately it's addictive as hell, but nonetheless, you'd think that as much as we research into opiods and other narcotics, there would be more effort to find safer forms of nicotine or nicotine derivatives.

https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
Hi HN! Long time lurker and thought I should join in on the fun

I have been raising seed funding for a new startup, and found it challenging whenever I need to reach out to a new person by email (investor, press, potential advisor...etc.). Drafting these emails always take me waaay too long. So I started collecting samples and templates from various sources for cold emailing people.

I thought others might find it useful to have a central place where they can find these email templates, filtered by tags (audience, usage, attributes...etc.), so I put together a microsite to host the content (at https://coldemailtemplate.cc/). I am planning to add more email copies to it so please let me know if there are any resources you'd suggest!

Also submitted this to ProductHunt today (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cold-email-template-cc) - I'd appreciate an upvote if you are on ProductHunt and find it useful Thanks all!
Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
I remember when RSS was "launched" in the early 2000s and was very excited about it. Fast forward to 2018, feeds are in a sense _the_ way we consume web content (facebook, twitter etc) but the only place where I find RSS to be the prominent protocol is in podcasting. Why is that?
why does every article have someone like you commenting on it? what value does this add to the conversation about this topic? is this your idea of an issue submission? do you think the author will rewrite the article now? do you think your reading aesthetic is generic enough that this is a useful warning to others? do you think that difficult texts shouldn't be read?

like literally I don't know the answer to any of these questions and I am struck by them every single time I open the comments to almost any non-tech post (of course the tech posts have their own flavor of perennial criticisms).

what compels someone to complain about free content. I will never understand.
That’s just it’s...IMO it’s saying if you are smart and not successful you have no ability or skills.

Which we all know isn’t true. The lack of social mobility in the US has nothing to do with lack of ability or skills. Power and wealth are to concentrated and “success” is more dependent on access to those than being smart, having abilities or skills.
Google's original infrastructure was their main advantage, this is quickly being eroded. Ten years down the rode its not unreasonable to think that the costs to join the search business as a new competitor have gone way down.
Is your startup built on open source? 9 tips for getting started
Does the guy have a smartphone?
Deploying LoopBack 4 Applications to IBM Cloud
> Quitting Instagram: She’s one of the millions disillusioned with social media. But she also helped create it.

Interesting how the people making these social media platforms are growing disillusioned with them and leaving them.

After they've made their money, of course.

See also: Facebook creators talking about how addictive and dangerous it can be, or this just posted today -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18450058
Difference is anyone can create a web site and compete. That is the big difference.
What Tesla’s ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’ Is Like for Model 3 Buyers
What is the best ETL tool and why?
wow dude i duno if the comments have been edited, but that's wrong. biometrics are much more like usernames than passwords. its a common sentiment among those educated in security
Last I checked, ZeroNet didn't allow user-upload to somewhere else in a way that supports gigabytes. Text-snippits and gifs...sure.
Onboard with the instinct to fight HN snark about management, but I think this is a different category. Representatives shouldn't be expected to be experts in _solutions_ to problems, but they should be expected to understand the public experience of the problem. (You know, in order to _represent_.).

Cybersecurity exists because of the ways people use computers; it's impossible to evaluate trade-offs that will affect the public without being in the user role. It's also an error of judgement not to have sought that experience.
Maybe I’ll sound like a bitter old techie, but it’s absolutely wrong to have someone with no direct experience managing something that is technical.

If you can’t code, you shouldn’t manage coders. If you’re not a lawyer, don’t run a law firm. If you haven’t been in charge of a class of kids, you shouldn’t run a school. And that’s despite the day-to-day of these management roles not touching code/clients/kids.

The experience gained in a few years on any ladder is enough to appreciate most of how people in those fields think.

Have you ever tried working for someone who didn’t have relevant experience? You get people deciding that they don’t need an issue tracker, let alone a code repo. You get people who think paying Google 5 bucks a months is not worth it, they’d rather have their own email server. And it’s not that there’s never a case for having your own server, it’s that the case is never made in a technical way (eg we want security / uptime / whatever). The techies end up having to translate complex reasoning into something a layman could understand, or at least pretend to. A lot of time is wasted explaining things. And then when there’s feedback - and most people cannot resist the temptation to act like they’re contributing - it only makes sense to the non technical staff, while the tech people are trying to implement whatever crazy modification it is they’ve been given.

What these people tend to do is to make everything a management issue. So management, just like politics ends up having its own ladder. Relevant experience for being a health minister is to have been an MP. Relevant experience for managing a code department is having managed the interns.

It massively corrosive to let this continue.

And before someone makes this argument, it's perfectly possible for techies to do the managing and politics.
On the plus side, this guy is literally unhackable!
Right? They (PM and emperors) are kinda mandatory to have some experience in leadership too.
No, the platform is dead unfortunately
I wonder how many companies will either not upgrade to RHEL 8 or seek to leave RHEL because of the acquisition by IBM.
Beaker is a web browser, where the user can make & serve their own website from within Beaker.
Try reading it out loud. Keep in mind that the original is in French and this is a translation of that French text so you are probably more at war with the translator than with the writer. Even so, to me - also a non-native English speaker - there wasn't a sentence in the article that I could not understand, sometimes it just takes a bit more effort.
yum is now based on dnf

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
Canopy, a privacy sensitive recommendation system
Ask HN: Relationship advise, just wants to sleep or?
One guy is interested in me and I am not sure if he only wants to sleep with me or something serious. But many guys before this told me, they want something serious but they leave after sleeping with me for a while, they get bored, they leave for next girl
How can i see if a person just wants to sleep with me. Asking them has never worked for me.
Looks great, nice work! Registered my account, bill_barnhill.
I've just made a change in the source code. I don't know if now it's working . Could you try it again?
He doesn't need to be an expert, but NEVER having used a computer, and not knowing what a USB drive is, is notably below what the average citizen knows.

This is akin to the minister of defence not knowing what a bullet is for. It's okay if he's never used a gun, but not knowing what a bullet is, is just way too much.
The service google and facebook provide is access to their captured audience. In the case of google that is the advertisement market with search and the platform of youtube. It is rather commonly known that many video producers are extremely unhappy using youtube but feel locked in since thats where the audience is, and the audience is equally locked in since youtube is where the producers are. New video platforms pop up all the time but with the captured market being what it is there is a huge wall for both producers and viewers to switch. A better video site have a hard time to compete with youtube, not based on merit but based on market capture.
Best way to keep your online data safe? Never go online!
Maker set out to create a stable-valued coin by trading volatility to speculators who want to leverage ETH. That went live at the end of 2017 and their DAI token has stayed stable within a couple percentage points despite huge fluctuations in ETH value. It's been a popular system and the contract holds a huge amount of backing ETH. (Token: MKR)

https://makerdao.com/

There are also a fair number of token exchanges built on Ethereum. Some use the 0x protocol, which has off-chain orderbooks and executes trades on chain. (Token: ZRX)

https://0xproject.com/

A completely different one is the Bancor network, which does away with order book entirely, relying instead on reserves held in contracts. (Token: BNT)

https://about.bancor.network/

These are all live on Ethereum today.
>> he used PC in school before he was 25 years old

At the age of 15, in 1965
Sounds crazy, but how often do you see CTO’s that know nothing about technology.
You are right, but I was wondering how an alternative could look like. Probably just giving it to universities to create more and better paid PhD possitions?!
only Systrom and Krieger walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars; Facebook offered other early employees small signing bonuses and limited Facebook stock grants

Why you should never be an early employee at a startup, example one zillion
Also just a minor detail - let's roll
> Traditional monopolies "control supply of a good or service, and where the entry of new producers is prevented or highly restricted."

It might not be prevented or restricted in the traditional sense, but the barrier to relevant market share has become nearly impossible to cross. The alternatives you cite, besides maybe DDG, aren't serious contenders to Google or Facebook.

Now, perhaps they would be if people paid to use those services, then they'd be more likely to pick and choose between the selection because they're going to want to pay for the right one for them, not necessarily the one that everyone else is using. But because the internet is largely ad-funded, hence nobody has to pay for most immaterial things, they're free to flock to wherever the crowd may be. That's why it's particularly bad that Facebook and Google are such "monopolies", even if the word doesn't exactly fit the situation. To compete with these services, you can't just appeal to a person's sensibilities within a market. DDG might be an exception, but it hasn't been around long enough for us to tell whether it's just a fad or will be quickly stamped out by something else.
This is so interesting. I have met many people that others considered "geniuses" because they solved hard problems and got things done fast. And then 3 years later, people still complain about having to deal with "[Name of Developer] Code". I guess if you move fast and write code that others can't read, it's easy to get labeled a genius.
Not to sound pessimistic but... have they been really regulated?

The most common example of this is the tobacco industry and it's pretty much still there. Smaller, sure.

But do we really regulate the sugar industry killing millions every day? Or the car industries destroying the environment, cities and people? Oil industry perhaps?

There are many other examples of these. They are "regulated" in the strict sense, but in reality, they control governments and keep doing whatever they want.

I don't think anything will ever change in this scenario. After all, capitalism is the answer to every problem, right? /s
Came here hoping this was some five-dimensional chess / wallfacer situation where he had airgapped himself in order to be the perfect incorruptible security officer. Alas, nope.
Not that exotic. I've met a couple of billionaires myself (although I haven't worked for them). Just live somewhere that billionaires are (ie Silicon Valley) and do work they find valuable.
This. I wonder how much it'd cost for them to just add a bit of on-board storage.
I am not a native speaker and always eager to improve. I understood the "then" as "at that time (in the past)". Is that wrong?
Rookout launches its live Kubernetes debugger
I kinda agree. I've seen too many people using their self-diagnosed over-intelligence to excuse some of their surprisingly non-smart behavior. Behavior that leads to failure in their enterprises.

This kind of article always make me uncomfortable because I feel smartness/cleverness/intelligence does not seem to be objective enough a quality to lead to such analysis. And some people may identify with such patterns and declare themselves as "too smart" and not try harder, believing the problem is from the other side of the table.
Sure... but while you're at work and being paid by the hour what does that matter?
Yes if my Facebook homepage was still mainly ALL my friends posting personal photos and stuff in a chronological order maybe it would still be fun and engaging.

I noticed last summer there was a sharp decline in vacation posts. Instead we shared on Whatsapp groups, so I guess monetizing it makes sense.
MakerDAO seems to be delivering on the original vision quite well - https://makerdao.com/
I'm not pretending the market doesn't exist, I just explain some of its limitations. I admit I could have explained this better. The thing that matters is choice. Without it, there's no free market. Healthcare is not a free market for urgent issues because you can't afford to shop around. Especially if an ambulance is involved, you just get taken to the nearest hospital. Depending on where you live, you may not be able to shop around much for non-emergency issues either.

With jobs, people with ample financial reserves can afford to shop around, but people who live paycheck to paycheck can't.

With food, well, it depends on how many different places sell food. Fortunately, there's usually no shortage of shops selling food. The market for expensive food is absolutely free, because I can say no and eat something cheap instead. But the market for cheap food does indeed not behave like a normal free market, as any economist can tell you: when prices for the cheapest foods go up, people will actually buy more, because they won't be able to afford more expensive food. And if one company had a monopoly on all food and set prices for all food high, it would not be a free market anymore, though that's true for any monopoly. Still, if it were a monopoly on something non-essential, people could still say no.

A free market requires competition. When no competition is possible, there's no free market. When there's an army of unemployed people desperately hunting for jobs, companies can afford to be picky and underpay them; there's no meaningful competition to hire those people, who can't afford to say no, because the only alternative for them is to be unemployed. This can lead to a situation where even people with a job have trouble making ends meet.
The climate conditions of today are not dramatically different from those historically. There have been many, and much longer, dry periods throughout the past few thousand years. In fact, the past century has been unusually wet.

> Stine, who has spent decades studying tree stumps in Mono Lake, Tenaya Lake, the Walker River and other parts of the Sierra Nevada, said that the past century has been among the wettest of the last 7,000 years.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/25/california-drought-pa...

Fires have similarly been a natural part of the ecology for thousands of years.

What's new is not very dry conditions or fires. What's new is the California fire management over the past century or so. The biggest different climate condition isn't the weather, it's the lack of regular fires burning up fuel. Now, tons of fire-fuel has accumulated and fires burn hotter than normal. But there is no way to solve this other than by ripping off the band-aid now. If you don't, things get worse.
Totally agree. I lived with a guy from the Middle East for several years, and it actually helps to imagine his voice when I read Taleb.
The building code for high risk fire areas should require roof top sprinkler systems. Those exist but haven't been widely installed. Keeping the roof and exterior walls wet is usually sufficient to keep a building from catching on fire unless the fire is very close and hot.
Just in time - in the middle of building out an image intensive Vue app.

For the record, Vue has been an absolute dream to work with and major props to the creators.
That, and maybe instead of giving the money to a big, inefficient corporation that's going to spend it on low quality bullshit and snake oil, spreading the money along multiple established companies and startups, seeding them all with some money and offering additional incentives for achieving milestones/whatever.
China’s artificial intelligence ambitions hit hurdles
I see a lot of comments arguing "you don't need to be an expert in the field to be a minister".

That's pretty right, IMHO, but we're now talking about him not being an expert, we're talking about him not having the slightest clue.

Not knowing what a USB drive is for, is akin to a minister of defence not knowing what a bullet is for, or a minister of health not knowing what medication is (or what it's used for).

These are key, basic elements, and most mid-level education citizen will understand what they are. It's hard to understand how he can represent their best interest in that scope.
This is indeed simple logic. So simple that it probably fails quickly if you think about it. Many things can be done to prevent this, underground cables are one solution.
PundiX
EthLend allows decentralised loans, they have a working product and an active team with regular updates:

https://ethlend.io

Oveview of the loan process: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ETHLend/Documentation/mast...
To the extent that they are now, no. But the Rhodes Scholarships were established before he reached college age, so some persons from rest of the English-speaking world, and even Germany, were making to Oxford.
What matter are laws that are making harder to compete with them.

Thanks to GDPR, you’ll probably never see a fb competitor emerge in Europe for example.
> user IDs which by definition are all changeable, since they are essentially aesthetic symbolic pointers towards primary keys and bundles of identity

Citation needed? A fingerprint can absolutely be used to generate a hash that functions as a pointer to primary keys.
Agreed, I made a similar point recently[1], that a monopoly should be judged by lock-in, not by raw market percentage, which is an arbitrary measure anyway; no one cares that I have a monopoly on SilasX-labor. What matters is whether it's hard for others to offer alternatives to SilasX-labor and whether buyers can switch to that alternative.

In that sense, you should worry about monopolies on OSes or rail routes, which have those kinds network/lockin effects, not search engines or (as was in the news recently) retail sales of organic foods (where it's easy for numerous grocery stores to enter the market if they wish)[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18394628

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...
Sorry I made some changes... could you try it again?
Lets open up a vast class of exploited workers who are adults with families because your son wants to work for pocket money in highschool.
Is the old file hosting service that was once on sr.ht still accessible to people that had an account?
Does https://uetoken.com/ count?
I miss blue frog.
The true test will come at the next downturn, my speculation is that most of the people who buy index funds because the "shoeshine boy" told them, will panic and sell, realizing significant losses. Shortly after, more active traders will come in and reap the rewards by buying at the bottom (e.g. like Buffett did in 2009).

I believe if you continue holding (I will) you'll do fine if we don't face a catastrophe, but you certainly need to have some sort of financial discipline to see your net worth slashed by 30%+ and stay still.
>Serious question - why didn't rationality kill off this debate?

Because rationality is just about making logical deductions. Not preferences, not what life is better, not goals, and nothing. At best it's about how to achieve one's goals more efficiently/faster etc. Not what goals to have.

Rationality as some all-around solution to the worlds problems is a naive pre-modern concept. Tons of 20th centuries atrocities and bad decisions have been performed by highly intelligent people using very rational means to pursue them.

>We have consensus on basic ethical norms

No, we don't, except at very crude stuff like don't kill and don't punch blind old ladies. And even "don't kill" can get tons of discussion and counter-arguments when it comes e.g. to protecting one's country, property, interests, the law, whatever.

>- isnt it possible to identify which courses of action/inaction (regardless of bent) lead to ethical outcomes - and review the results of past actions under an ethical lens?

Even assuming we agreed on ethical outcomes (which we don't) the world is too complex to determine "which courses of action/inaction lead to those outcomes" except in very crude cases. Plus, all actions/inactions have second order effects to other ethical outcomes where people can disagree, ad infinitum.

The past is not some safe guide either: circumstances can and will be different, so following the same action/inaction might bring results now whereas it didn't in the past (and vice versa).

Plus, even more hoopla is not about "ethical outcomes" but about personal interests.

No matter what the "ethical outcome" is, even if we agree on what it is, people can still, completely rationally, want to screw ethical considerations and e.g. take your property, squeeze value out of you to your detriment, etc, if it means they get more wealth/happiness/whatever out of that.
Hey - could you share some of your SA rules/config that are working well for you?

I tend to find that when I manually categorize spam/ham and sa-learn, spam goes to 0 for a couple of weeks, then creeps upward as trends change (?!) or as they learn (?!?!).
Save the World, Fire Mark Zuckerberg
Here's the offical strategy (in German): https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/...

While I'm very skeptical of this initiative for a number of reasons, I appreciate that they explicitly mention the need for Open Data and seem to commit to improving accessibility of governmental data sources.
They'd probably get more return by 'encouraging' Google and American tech companies to open bigger offices.
RPA startup Automation Anywhere nabs $300M from SoftBank at a $2.6B valuation
A production version of ROS 2