skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a certain type of person is attracted to being valedictorian, generally people who seek approval from others and society. On the other hand I knew a person that intentionally got a B in a elective because he didn't want to give a speech. Personally I follow the 80/20 rule, I could get A's and B's with no effort while getting a 4.0 would have taken quite a bit more effort. I was able to learn about the things I wanted to learn outside of school. Result of that was only having a 3.4 GPA but having the highest standardized test scores in my class, to the surprise of the teachers and admin when their dutiful valedictorians were surpassed by the slacker.

TLDR: the type of person who actually cares about being valedictorian typically isn't the type to go outside the lines set up for them and create startup or business
This really resonates with me.

I'm a marketer who has become more and more technical over my career. The amount of opportunities that has unlocked have really been worth it for sure, but it also simply lets me be better at my trade than those who do not have those skills because I see connections they may not, and I can implement those things independently or with fewer resources than others.

It also frankly just makes things more interesting, because when I think I've reached the bottom of a rabbit hole and risk getting bored, suddenly there's this new tunnel branching off of it that I can explore, and before I know it, I'm delving into expert-level problems of a part of my industry I've never considered before.
Clinton was a hawk but think about what you're saying.

You really think she would have drone bombed an embassy in the heart of fucking London? Come on. That's clearly delusional.
Blue Origin was Founded in 2000 two years before SpaceX and they still have yet to reach LEO. That’s a really bad sign of actual progress. They are optomisic they might be able to launch four years from now assuming schedules don’t slip. But 6+ years from now is more likely.
> We found that, for every increase of 100 meters in altitude, suicide rates increase by 0.4 per 100,000.

That is really weird and fascinating.

I'd love to see the correlation with distance from an ocean.
It’s great for taking conference calls from the coffee shop
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Procedures can't cost more than the average cost of the same procedure across similar oecd countries.

We pop the corruption bubble and all fights about insurance costs would just disappear because in reality the reason they are so high is because all of this is just a shakedown from the medical/pharma industry.

I'm so sick of this all being framed as a battle over single/multi provider obamacare insurance bullshit when it is really just misdirection and we are being wildly overcharged for services.

It's like we can only debate whether we pay 1000% markup using a credit card, paypal or cash, and not talk about the 1000% markup.
So far all we know that US is preparing to prosecute Assange for something.

We don't know what that something is so you're jumping to a big conclusion that it has something to do with vague "freedom of the press".

Freedom of press is about things like "government can't interfere with publishing of information through prior restraint" etc.

Freedom of press doesn't provide immunity from crimes.

We can table "freedom of press" discussion until we know what exactly US is accusing Assange of.
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Yes that is precisely why video game companies can, on average, get away with lower pay, worse crunch, worse job security, etc.
See! You get it! If I felt I had an urgent problem I'd just deal with the study, but "feeling tired during the day" is very, very low on my list of complaints. I sort of feel like I get away with murder, biologically; I go to sleep at 1AM and get up at 7AM and do just fine.

On the other hand, my wife tells me I snore and randomly stop breathing, so I have reason to believe there's something going on.
People will upvote this comment and complain about the system being broken then turn around and ridicule anyone who votes third party or claims large media companies are corrupt.
Sasse's new book actually looks at this. I was reading the description of it today, and it basically said that the collapse of local communities, combined with the rise of easy sharing, has essentially made political parties the new "tribes" in America. Seems like an interesting thesis, even if I don't agree with him on other things.
Yes. None of that (even if you buy into all of it) adds up to "Clinton would literally order a drone strike on Julian Assange", let alone if he happened to be in the Ecuadorian embassy in London at the time.
>More than 5% of the Section 702 wiretaps conducted under the last President's administration were performed illegally by their own admission.

Source?
But then what are the advantages?

I think we should have a few different types of marriage and then see what people choose.

For example one marriage option could be the man gets automatic full custody of the kids in the event of a divorce.

We could have another free and easy option like you are suggesting.

Etc.

Then we let the market sort it out.
Which tech companies are the ethical ones?
You realize he may be a Russian spy, don't you?
Haven't come across these guys before, thanks
So, according to this rule, if I wait for 10 minutes for a bus to come and
none does, and then I wait for another 10 minutes for an alien invasion and
none happens, the two have the same upper bound on their probability?

Or are we going to start talking about priors, on buses and alien invasions,
in which case the rule of three is not really useful? If I want to know how
likely a specific book is to have typos, can't I just go look for statistics
on typoes in books, and won't that give me a better estimate than a "rule"
that will give the same results no matter what it is that it's trying to
model?
It's very clear that the new CEO tried to help Steve do just that. Just the way that he framed it as, "you're a candidate for your job" set Steve's defenses up way higher than they needed to be.
This looks fantastic! One feature I would like to see in a service like this would be support for custom domains. Personally, I would be willing to pay extra for such a feature. It’s nice to have control of the domain for personal work, but self hosting for a handful of personal projects is a big ask - I would rather pay for someone to do it the right way.
That sounds like a realistic number, considering the measured latency for the test satellites they launched earlier this year:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/8mccic/musk_tintin_...
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>>The common term for this is "toxic masculinity," which is often confused by persons like yourself to mean that masculinity itself is toxic, whereas it really means that masculinity can be toxic, and can manifest in negative ways

And what modern feminists like yourself struggle with is that men are inately predisposed more toward certain personality traits than women. You want to talk about obviousness and self evidence? Look at evolutionary pressure. Look at our closest related primates (and most mammals) and how much more agressive males tend to be, and how with, for example, gorillas, few males will mate with many females, while less dominant males go mateless. Yet you do not even consider the possibility that humans are hard wired towards certain average behaviors, that men are almost certainly predisposed towards agression, that females may very well be attracted to dominance (hell, it's all over our culture if you look with an open mind).

Instead, you deny biology, hand waving away all discrepancies and differences with words like "toxic masculinity" and "patriarchy." You deny the pain and loneliness that unnatractive men experience daily because of factors beyond their control - height, build, facial structure, social difficulty.

You cannot fix society by ignoring biology, and you are only alienating these men, who are human beings like you and me, by slandering them as incels for having the same desires for companionship and affirmation unfulfilled while simultaneously blaming them for the problems in society.

Pride, agression, drives for achievement and competition, these natural, "toxic" masculine traits BUILT the modern world. Yes, there was plenty of bad along the way, but one cannot ignore all of the good that has resulted from these drives, and in truth, modern society cannot exist without them. Nor should it.
This. Probably before that.
There is something to note here, the "free market" is a pretty wide term, goes from corporate anarchy to heavy regulations with everything in between.

I agree that it is the right pattern to organize into as in "freedom for private enterprise to provide goods and services" but it not necessarily the right way to handle retirements funds.
Overall I am quite far on the side of regulations, claiming that free market needs to be constantly beaten into shape to keep it a meritocracy.

you could say that this is the free market greatest strength: private enterprise and public government can have a dynamic dialogue trough regulations often with an almost symmetric power structure (when things run smoothly).
Interesting, yes; however in tech, products, partnerships, experience or any other quantifiable measure, Blue Origin is far, far behind SpaceX.

SpaceX has launched many Orbital missions.

Blue Origin has launched none.

SpaceX has two functional, tested, orbital spacecraft in production.

Blue Origin has a sub-orbital pod with goldfishbowl windows that's not quite ready yet.

SpaceX has successfully partnered with NASA for commercial cargo missions to the ISS.

Blue Origin has not.

SpaceX has landed more than a dozen rockets post-flight.

Blue Origin has landed < 10 sub-orbital rockets.

SpaceX has designs for rockets and spacecraft that might plausibly target inter-planetary travel.

Blue Origin has not gotten to orbit yet.

Don't get me wrong; I want Blue Origin to succeed. However, the slope of their progress graph has been much shallower than SpaceXs. I don't see them ever catching or overtaking SpaceX unless something drastically unforseen happens.
I looked into moving to Vermont but the main problem was that there was an extreme lack of housing. The cities in Vermont are incredibly small and have very little in the way of new developments. I tried trawling Craigslist but I just couldn't find many attractive places to live.
So true!! I really wonder how some of the folks that live there sleep at night. Like some of the things they do, do in fact change the world, but many more do harm it!
Hmm I wonder if I'd be eligible for this after having left Oklahoma post high school...
Do whatever the one that donates more money to him wants him to do.
> hacked voting systems
do you have evidence that fake votes were cast?
Unlike you, the law does make a distinction between expressing political opinion and unlawful interference with election process and we have independent judicial system to apply those laws.
Python and Perl don't (yet) run in a browser. Also Javascript is probably somewhat "faster" (than CPython, at least) due to its JIT.
T systems. Do not think I have ever worked with people more incompetent than the 'senior consultants' from that place. No surprise it is not going well with them.
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could filter your facebook/twitter/whatever feed through spamassasin too?
“What’s best for them” often also includes a vague notion of “feeling good by helping humanity” of similar, which often doesn’t show up when just looking at salaries.
Thanks for your feedback! This is definitely something I'm interested in adding in the future. I don't think I can prioritize it right now, because I have limited time to spend on sr.ht (I still have a day job), but I want to tackle it post-alpha.
Insisting on no death penalty is required by all countries that have banned the death penalty on human rights grounds, not just the UK but all of Europe and much of the world.
> What? I would be proud to have got this into postgres core, but perhaps you operate on a different plane of excellence. https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blobdi....

It's just a minor rewrite of parts of the commandline client. Mostly made verbose by by renaming structs members / moving members around. 22+ years ago.

> but perhaps you operate on a different plane of excellence.

I work on PG close to full-time. So I sure hope I've many more contributions than that ;)
Ronaldo is peak human, Messi is supernatural.
Interestingly though, I remember a big cultural change in the UK back in the 1970s. The bread industry then was dominated by few manufacturers and their sliced white bread.

For some reason, a wave of strikes hit these manufacturers very badly; I remember there being queues to buy bread. One of the side effects was that people found that the sliced white was sold out and there was only this weird "granary" wholemeal stuff left on the shelves. Granary became a lot more popular, and its popularity held up after the strikes ended.

It ushered in an early interest in different kinds of seedy bread.
While some of the things that were exposed were certainly illegal and should be handled as such, it's hard to feel any empathy for a guy who is essentially a Russian asset. If you think of him as an extension of Russian military intelligence conducting propaganda wars against its adversaries then it becomes a lot easier to understand why prosecuting him is a genuinely good thing. Russia airing the dirty laundry of others is good for Russia. Now, don't get me wrong... I'm not defending the dirty laundry I'm just saying that the intent behind the messenger in this situation is not at all altruistic.
The political climate and the absolutely horrid public school funding are doing far more to drive educated white-collar workers away than arbitrary measures of "excitement" ever will.
Which is why I would expect them to already have better-latency options than going to space and back. Does anyone even bother setting up an HFT firm outside fiber range of a major exchange?
The purpose of the DNC, as with the RNC, is to choose a candidate they feel is most likely to win. I don't believe choosing Obama over Clinton would have been any less political than choosing Clinton over Obama, or Clinton over Bernie. I don't believe that political calculus or meddling or special privileges granted to high-ranking party officials is actually atypical for either party.

Of course, Wikileaks never released any data dumps from the Republicans, so we can't really know, I guess. Maybe the Republican Party is just a paragon of virtue and their opsec is perfect.
The results are sophisticated.
Does that excuse the war crimes that were committed?
> Is this what listening to men looks like?

Interpreting this as charitably as possible (though I suspect it might be a lost cause): yes, that is exactly what it is.

GP didn't suggest that GGP was wrong, stupid, harmful, evil, or any of the above. They understood what GGP wrote, and suggested that it might be based in an opinion formed due to a skewed cultural influence, with the implication that re-examination of said opinion might be in order.

That's understanding a claim, thinking about it, and issuing compassionate criticism. Whether you think it's correct or not is up to you, but it certainly isn't a failure to listen.
Asset. Spies work directly for Russian military intelligence. Assets are the ones they control.
Just because you italicize "sigh" doesn't make you any more right. I've found it easier just to assume that the heads of national security are lying. They've been caught perjuring themselves too many times to count.
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Proof of how successful they were as a competitor to Facebook, rather than being outcompeted by it.
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And yet, those are still legitimate actions for media. As a general rule, if Fox News can do it, so can Wikileaks - and it was precisely traditional media that made the dump politically damaging as opposed to Wikileaks itself, which is an obscure web repository the wast majority of the public will never access.
They should do a study on suicide among all workers who are forced to use Slack. #notkidding
Yeah this is my exact line of thinking. We are all trying to find meaning and purpose in life and the ability to give birth is inherently valuable. Men feel the need to create value through work/skill so if you fail totally in that area....
Which is why Trump should want to keep him far away from American soil. Only Assange knows all about the Russian email hacks which could be bad for Trump.
Eliminating speculation across certain security boundaries seems to be viable and not too horrible from a performance standpoint, though you have to be careful to get the boundaries and I imagine this'll be something like buffer overflow attacks

Can these be detected in the same manner that valgrind can detect buffer overflows?
I said absolutely nothing about fake votes being cast. Why did you make that up? What are you talking about? Please elaborate.

Russia hacked voting and electoral systems. Here is a news article about that: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/russians-penetrat...

In related news, you will find constant streams of articles demonstrating the epic quantities of failures of voting systems across the country. You will also find lots of news articles about voters being eliminated from the voting rolls, in mysterious ways.

Which acts are done by the Republican people in charge of the voting systems? Which acts were done by Russians who hacked in? I don't know. None of us do, yet.

But you're here making up ridiculous claims and using logical fallacies to try to insert false 'facts' into your question. You twist my words and ask non-sensical questions. Why?

Russia hacked our voting systems. That is not up for dispute, that is a long-established fact.
This is a good point. When I grew up in Chicago during the Bulls dynasty era, Michael Jordan’s trainer Tim Grover wrote a book on explosiveness training mainly through body weight type exercises and flexibility versus heavy weights, now which is finally in vogue 20 years later. Meanwhile, Phil Jackson was very into mediation, which was adopted years later by Google with mindfulness training, and now mindfulness studios are popping up everywhere. Today, information is more accessible, but it’s still probably better to learn what Federer or Lebron does versus what your local trainer is recommending.
You've apparently forgotten all about that whole Osama Bin Laden thing. You know, the person who Clinton sent a team to kill even though he was never charged with any crime. There's even a video of Clinton watching his illegal assassination.
I accidentally "evolved" a microwave antenna in my microwave oven, once.

I put some hematite sand on the top of a glass plate that was suspended about 5 inches from the bottom of the microwave oven. I wanted to see what kind of pattern the standing waves would heat the hematite to (this microwave didn't have an RF stirring fan).

Instead of some standing wave pattern, I ended up with a fractal like antenna that grew from a molten blob in the middle. The initial molten blob extended into arms of molten material, with each arm necessarily extending in the direction that maximized RF absorption, causing additional material to melt. It grew brighter and brighter as it extended, reached some peak, then some of the arms shorted and it dimmed. Then the plate shattered from the heat.

I wrote some software that converted the picture into antenna elements for some free antenna simulation package I found at the time, but it couldn't support enough elements to get close to the shape of the antenna and would just crash beyond 10 or so.

I'm not sure how useful of an antenna it would be, since it was maximized to generate heat, but it was a neat kitchen experiment.
"Just because something can’t be tied to “people died” does not make it a positive for society."

I never asserted that Facebook was a positive for society, neither here nor ever in my life. I'm just saying it's a very steep uphill climb to make a convincing argument that it's worse than something that directly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and cost trillions of dollars.
> giving the money to a big, inefficient corporation that's going to spend it on low quality bullshit

Like T systems.
> The days of one-size-fits-all SaaS are numbered.... most companies can find massive efficiency gains through smart deployment of tools like Airtable and Zapier with turnkey automations.

Yeah, we're working through Zapier integration at the moment for our paperwork assistant (https://lexico.io) and I'm pleasantly surprised that there aren't as many established B2B SaaS companies doing the same thing as I thought. Self-serve automation definitely feels like the path ahead.

Still don't quite get Airtable though.
"Would you though?"

Yes. There's a difference between drone programs 'crossing the line' say, in a hunt for known terrorists, they blow up a building that has civilians next door our just outside ... and arbitrary targeting of 'annoyances of the state'.

There are actually quite scant false flag operations in US history, and many of them weren't even false flag so much as 'purposefully misrepresented'.

And besides - there would be no 'false flag' with any kind of attempt to kill Assange.

The notion that Clinton (or any agency) would go after Assange with drones and hellfire missiles is well into crazyland territory. Not even the crazy among them are thinking it, it doesn't make sense really on any level I think.
How much light do you get (and of that, how much is artificial vs. natural?)

How much space do you have?

How often do you want to have to water it?
Well, games and play have been a part of the human condition for thousands of years. It's not rational, but its definitely human.

Instead of thinking "what can I get?" just revel in the players own sense of joy and mastery.
>That indictment does not actually mention Wikileaks at all

If you read the indictment it's pretty clear that "Organization 1" is Wikileaks.
Neither Amazon nor Google hired a PR team to push alt-right narratives about how "George Soros is out to get you." Facebook has.
No, but do the war crimes the US committed mean that Assange is not guilty of being a Russian asset?
But where is the money going? I don't know many poor doctors, but most of the ones I do know are not exactly rolling in cash.
Third party is great.... if you have a better election system than plurality voting.

See Maine CD-2
> Silly case in point - it's been a few years, but you go to Frankfurt and ask for an alt beer, you get served. You ask for an alt beer in Munich, you get funny looks.

If this is what you think is remotely relevant in a conversation about a "diverse environment", I'm not sure what more can be said.
> Between due process and a drone attack, I take due process any day.

I'd take the drone strike. The end result is, with almost 100% certainty, going to be the same. At least with the drone attack, you don't have to waste away in prison until you die. It's all but certain he would be convicted.
OK, there is evidence that Assange sold the broadcast rights of a show to a Russian controlled news organization. Do you think that Jesse Ventura should also be prosecuted?
Ah, yep I'd say that word fits the concept I was thinking of. Thanks!