skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving twitter, no great loss is it? I never get the appeal of twitter.
I’m assuming you’re American then. I don’t think it’s the offensive vs defensive nature of your army. I think it’s the arming smaller groups and letting them descend into chaos that is the problem. Arming a group to fight another group that they also armed while occasionally intervening. It’s like modern day cockfighting at a higher level. Except when one group loses the guns and weapons remain for next batch of fighters.

Their intentions are to help end the conflict but they fail to remove the weapons from the society afterwards. I realize this is implying the next batch carry the same views as the previous but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say your parents influence your outcome.
I just meant "being able to fly around without any maintenance being performed on it"
> I would call him a good, hardworking student. (At least that's what we'd call it in Singapore ;)

How many singaporeans are top math students at cambridge? If hard work is all that it took, we'd all be studying math at cambridge.

> Coincidentally me and Xu went to high school at the same time in Singapore)

"Coincidentally Xu and I..."

> Let's take the top 20 universities across the world (harvards,mits, tsinghuas, iits etc.) and take the top 10 graduating students from each class (math, physics, etc.) => are we saying that the world is producing 500-1000 prodigies every year?

I'd say there are far more prodigies than that being produced every year. You do realize that there are 7 billion people on earth right?

You don't have to be newton or einstein to be a prodigy. Most prodigies never live up to their expectations. Maybe you use the word differently in singapore than in the US.
> Your concern should be with any elected official who offered Amazon concessions to locate in NYC.

Yes! In fact, all (or at least most) of the cities who "bidded" for the Amazon HQ2('s), did so by keeping the bid secret from their taxpayers. THAT is sketchy and vastly more harmful than a couple Amazon exec's getting a little greedy with condo real-estate.
Disappointing Resolution to a Famous Disagreement
Facebook hires former US antitrust enforcer
Glad you like it :)

That's good feedback! We'll look into optimizing that.
I found a sequence of updates from the guy if anyone is interested:

https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2017/11/bsnyc-field-trip-20...

https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2017/11/would-that-i-could....

https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2017/11/this-title-is-100-f...

https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2018/06/wood-bike-status-up...

https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2018/01/sawdust-in-wind.htm...

read for yourself
Having kids and supporting their interests is still part of adult culture.
Matt Levine is actually a lawyer.
Wealth redistribution is not a goal. Goal is to avoid stratification of nation. And the most effective way to avoid stratification is progressive tax system.

Efficiency can be calculated as (dollars spent on primary goal)/(total dollar spent).
I was the kind of person who would upgrade every year... and not just my phone, but a bunch of other tech.

I currently have a 7+ and haven’t bothered to upgrade. The upgrades are so marginal and the time it takes to actually upgrade seems like a hassle these days. It takes me a good 8 hours of work to upgrade a device—transferring this and that, getting things set up, learning the new gestures (which don’t do anything fundamental new), moving over 2FA (even though Authy makes it a little easier, you still have to set up things like Mail, Gmail, etc.).

If I buy a new iPhone tomorrow it will probably take me all day to have it be a clone of my current phone in every app and whatnot. Just not worth it. I’ll do it when the battery becomes insufferable, but the reality is that that new iPhone isn’t worth the hassle, despite how relatively hassle free iCloud makes it.
In this example it sounds like the app was making assumptions and pre-segregating matches based on implied attributes rather than specified preferences.

So even though a user might only say "show me matches between 18-35 years old" the app would apply additional filtering based on the user's supplied attributes in an effort to improve "relevance".

I'm not saying you're wrong, or that this was wrong/right but I did want to clarify what the OP seemed to be saying.
Author here! Thank you for taking a look!
Introducing Semantic Structure to Neural NLP
People don't care about privacy in the abstract but do care once it becomes concrete. If you ask someone if they are willing to let an impersonal algorithm analyze their data in exchange for a free service, the answer is generally yes. If you ask them if you can read their email and peruse their browsing history, the answer is almost always no.

The problem privacy advocates have is forging a link between the abstract and the concrete. I don't really care that Experian compiles a list of my credit data. I really do care when they fuck up and leak it publicly. The tricky thing is that the former is a prerequisite for the latter, so I should care about that, too.
I’d also question how the determined how often criminals use guns.
"While employees of companies are barred from buying or selling stocks based on information that has not yet been made public, lawyers told the Journal that they were unaware of any such ban affecting real estate transactions."

This is exactly what I was wondering, I know there are rules against insider trading, but I wasn't sure if there were rules against people buying property based on a potential location for a new HQ.
Show HN: Scan your old tweets for stuff that could get you in trouble
Import Instagram Photos from Users Directly (API)
> because we see through the bullshit (when we don't outright block it) where as they don't.

Sounds like the "marketing doesn't work on me cuz I'm so smart" fallacy, which usually means you're getting hacked by a different type of marketing.

Getting the eyes of wealthy target demographic -- and IT/CS/Dev/STEM folks qualifies -- is definitely worth $$$, the only question is if it's $500 or lower (or higher?). I used to have clients who existed to target the hyper-wealthy, and they made cash hand over fist schlepping details about those folks.

$500 bucks for semi-personalized deets about FAANG devs making $300k+ makes sense, and you can find those people on HN for sure.
based on spam email i have received, that i clearly should not have, i believe this was an exposure to marketplace sellers from whom you have bought a product.

I am very careful with my email. i’m not just guessing here. i actually reported it to amazon security. (no answer from them of course.)
I often have specific authors or periods in mind - such as when I am reading a book and come across a reference to an untranslated author or piece - and so I just search for the source text (usually on wikisource or gutenberg) and make sure its public domain.

I publish them myself, yes - there is a "press" I put them under but its just me. I have a few friends who do reviews and I am also on several academic mailing lists
Anyone know how Texas handles this?
I know that they have many competing power utilities and people can choose which one to sign up with, but how is transmission managed?
Ask HN: How to be in peace with all the wrong in the world?
I don't know how to write this properly, sorry. I'm approaching 40 and I have no one I look up to as a role model (parents are fine but got the same problems as the general population).

People are usually being jerks, not thinking about others, supporting racist ideas, voting to put psychopaths in power, not respecting the laws everywhere, taking advantage of others, etc. The list is infinite and this is all I can see. Every. Day.

Is resignation the only way to keep sane? Going back to my home, working on my computer and avoiding interacting with others? Shrugging things off as "that's how they are"?

It feels like I'm turning into my grandparents/parents in that way: slowly but surely without energy to affect change. But while they seem fine, I can't cope mentally.
I never meant that it is easy to ride paper trail free in China, or if you can get ID free tickets on a golden platter.

With busses it is still hit and miss. Bigger bus companies, which allow you to reserve tickets online tend to require it, and smaller "Uncle Liu Bus" type companies more than likely not.

As for train tickers, you will always be asked for an ID and given a regular blue ticket if you buy them right at the railway station these days. To get an old type pink ticket, you have to look for standalone ticket offices ran by agents. There are very, very few remaining, but they do sell legit tickets. One or two in Foshan, one in Shunde, one in Meizhou. And there is always a risky option to buy them from grannies.

https://imgur.com/a/xlB2sX4

And one even lesser known way is to find stations with very, very old ticket vending machines that are from 2008 or so. Those don't require IDs, and take cash. Only single digits of them are remaining in Guangdong, and whom ever knows of them don't blabber around about that.
maybe you could use uv light to neutralize the ozone.

Ah on second thought

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...
Yes, both of these are fair points. The second one, in particular, seems like an important difference between the two.
It's a sensible way of having content creators get paid, but I'm not particularly comfortable with Google watching what websites I visit, which is necessary so they can dole out the cash.

What's worked for me is a combination of aggressive ad-and-tracker-blocking and subscribing to the print versions of content I enjoy.
Strongly disagree. I got my first job at apple, and a job at another unicorn by cold submission. I find as an engineer, cold submission on a website will often get me in contact with a recruiter quicker than any other method.
You could do what all the clever rats do at night: plot how to conquer the world.
People constantly confuse the security benefits of sandboxing and isolating applications (seccomp etc) with "containers".

Most container implementations were not born with security in mind. Also, overlay filesystem are not required for improving application isolation.

There's a zoo of unmaintained docker images, snap and appimage packages & same Linux distributions that are full of vulnerabilities.

Nobody care or has the time to backport security fixes to whole zoo, unlike traditional distributions where maintainers are responsible for doing that.

Statically compiled languages are only making things worse.

This is going to come back and hurt all of us in few years.
I am a little late to the conversation, though want to share some quick thoughts here.

On the one hand, I understand why you this situation makes you unhappy. On the other hand, I want to offer a different perspective. Based on your description, it sounds as if the two of you could form an excellent team! You have the technical know-how and drive, he has the relationship building and political skills. Perhaps you should team up with him and make him your advocate for career advancement - he at least appears to be good at it. Never forget that advancing one's career in a company is NOT a zero-sum game!

Also - when a manager, whether or not he has the title, says that he did something, or that he will do something, in stead of taking credit, can also signal acceptance of accountability. In other words, if a deadline is missed, or a system breaks, etc, he will take the flack. Perhaps this is something you need to clear out with him directly.

Assuming that you enjoy/prefer the technical work, aligning yourself with him might be a match made in heaven. You continue to make him look good and he makes sure he gets you regular raises, progresses your career, gives you time off, sends you to conferences or training courses in which are interested, gets you bonuses, etc., etc.
The key takeaway:

"If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera."

—John Rich
Why Symfony Framework Is Leaving PHP-FIG
> It's the most perfect way to gauge it's true economic value.

Seems like an incredidibly narrow-minded way to gauge its economic value to me.
You are confusing packaging, orchestration and virtualization.
Over the past few years, LIC has grown a ton - to the extent that it is depressing rents in neighboring areas like Astoria. As you mentioned, I'd imagine a lot of Amazon employees are going to want to live in different parts of the city as well. Considering both of those factors, I'm not concerned.
Counterpoint: I haven't got one, despite using both the UK and US Amazon website regularly. So it remains to be seen what happened, and if Amazon is to blame.

Edit: Asked around, so far, none of my friends and family who use the UK site exclusively have gotten an email.

Could also be phishing gone wrong? Because what better time to do it than close to Black Friday?
Yep. When I was at Walmart the code freeze started in early November, with only critical bug fixes going in, then continued until the start of January.
eBay are particularly careless in that regard.

There's no reason that a seller should ever see the customer's actual e-mail address on such a site but I'm up to ebay5@ on my mail server due to direct spam from sellers from whom I bought one item in the past.

No, sellers, I did not 'opt in' to your spam just because I bought something. But why does eBay ever give them the address?

Oddly I've never had a problem with random Chinese sellers, it's always Euro or US ones.
Gaining eBPF vision: A new way to trace Linux filesystem disk requests
Hmm.. sounds like AD was used at some event to store people's favorite drink and look them via AD. And they had to leave the code in since they put in a production release.

EDIT: just did some googling and its actually part of a RFC https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1274.txt. :)
I can speak for all FB advertisers when I say this was a huge pain in the ass.
How Our Relationship Survived When My Partner Got Sick
Chrome and Android have both forked() warmed-up processes to speed application startup. Although looking at this 2011 post it's more complicated than I thought in Chrome:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/08/zygote....

This one is also kind of old:

http://coltf.blogspot.com/p/android-os-processes-and-zygote....

If anyone has any updates on these I'd be interested.

As far as I remember App Engine also did a similar thing to avoid reinitializing a Python VM for every request.
I do, the difference is "woah this thing powers itself" kind of noticeable. Sure I could get the same average speed on my ride, but at the cost of so much more effort on low pressure tires.
Ahh, okay..."no moving parts". I get it now.
> the only thing it lacks is a decent text editor

That’s a funny joke. It’s made funnier by the fact that Emacs can emulate Vim. (“Viper” and “Evil” modes.)
They intentionally provide this information to marketplace sellers. It's arguably poor design but it's definitely not an unintentional security flaw. Marketplace/FBA sellers have talked about strategies for utilizing customer email address for years [1]

[1] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/how-to-access-all-...
Why does it always have to be "can't afford"?

How about "can't justify"?
Millions left behind as diabetes drives surge in insulin demand
I second this. Climbing exercises your body and mind!
Failure to replicate doesn't prove the original findings were wrong. Other things that can cause replication failure are:

- Poor explanation of experimental procedure, so the replication doesn't match the original experiment.

- Awareness of the effect may invalidate it. For example, it'd be hard to replicate the Stanford Prison Experiment because every psychology undergrad has heard the story.

- Change in social conditions or prevailing attitudes. Consumer behavior (the subject of some of these studies) has changed significantly over the decades. Homophobia (another study) varies dramatically over time and place.
It's not that simple. You may have the necessary background and experience but if your resume that doesn't show it clearly you get filtered out. Writing a resume that gets noticed is a very important skill. When we hire most resumes are really bad but there are some that stand out because they are well-written, concise and convey a clear message. It's rare though.
> I'm one of those kids who grew up playing now "classic" games wanting to become a game developer themselves.

This is why I got into development. I am so far away from that in the dev world nowadays. It is sad because it sounds like the video game industry does not promote healthy work environments.
I'm actually pretty excited by this. I hope you didn't take my comment negatively, this is something that I might really be able to use.
That's just straight up what-about-ism. Any corruption in the past or from opposing political parties has zero to do with current corruption. The law doesn't take two people and pit them against each other for who violated a law the most. Any corruption is unacceptable.
In theory. It could be made with no moving parts and steered via thrust vectoring by varying the location of the negative voltage. Lightweight high voltage equipment like that is very expensive to make at those reliability levels currently, but the idea of an operational window of a year+ doesn't seem like a pipe dream. We'll probably see applications in military intelligence (spying) and drug smuggling before other more civilian uses.
4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space
Or use two different browsers.
Scaring people is one of the main functions of a justice system. The whole reason police go for big newsmaking busts is that it's more effective at scaring people.
Lots of people in the robotics field might be making such an observation. Hopefully, this won't also apply to many production self driving vehicles.
> And banks spend a lot of money to minimize that

Any examples of that, relevant to a desktop bank website user?

Do they sell antivirus solutions, or work with browser vendors to improve security?

I suspect banks have some kind of money-back obligation when hacked, but curious how far that goes when a sizeable part of their customers is hacked.
I've been wanting to write a SciFi short story about this for years now. I expect that human-to-human communication will get faster and faster, especially once we get brain-to-computer implants. At that point at least from the outside making will be indistinguishable from a hive mind or even single lifeform made up of cells. On the other hand are we really that different from ants already? Maybe ants think of them last themselves as highly individualistic.
Like Chris Sacca said a while back, news feeds should be a push and not a pull. Also, majority of the people read news in order to kill time, which is counter intuitive. I would think people would read news mostly to stay informed with what's going on in the world. So to answer your question(s):

- Why people read news? based on current data (do a quick google search) it seems that people need to kill time.

- Why would I read a specific article? Same as previous statement as well as personal interests in the moment

- Why would I watch a video? In my case I watch more videos than your average person because I hate reading. It's just not efficient enough. So I'd most likely consume video news rather than articles. Why would I click on a specific video? This goes back to the 2 previous points...
The author seems to be talking about NixOS without containers. If you have an all-powerful package manager you can solve dependency problems "properly" (i.e. with parallel installs of multiple versions of packages) instead of shoving everything into containers.
> Or even better, will they be living in these condos for a few years, or selling them in 3 months?

They could rent it out. If LIC is expecting an influx of highly paid workers, rents are bound to increase significantly over the next few years and if things work out, the condo prices will increase even more. Why not hold onto it for a few years collecting rent and then cash out with a nice long term capital gains tax treatment on possibly significant capital gains?
Slightly tangential but I believe the resume situation is another part of the "broken hiring in tech":

1. There is a whole cottage industry of resume writers. My CV got me mostly where I wanted and then some, but of course the professional "resume reviewers" told me it's awful and I need to pay them $50 to make it noticeable at all.

2. The "importance of results" makes people willing to bend the truth and then resumes start looking very sleazy. I saw CVs of interns from Silicon Valley darling companies who claim in every line how they saved millions of dollars here and there. Hard to believe frankly.

3. And what do those results even give us? If resume A says "Implemented ETL tool that improved customer acquisition 420%" and resume B says "Implemented ETL tool to work with customer data in Java", there is no reason to believe candidate A is at all better than candidate B. Well, they are better at resume writing or hiring resume writers. Or maybe they are good at office politics and were able to put themselves on impactful projects. But will they pass the FizzBuzz?
Almost any Linux distribution can do that. Why I should chose an obscure distribution instead of major one, like Fedora?
Dark mode is easier on your eyes–and battery
If you haven't brought aws yet. They provide 1 year free service, check if its available.

Then deploy your server side API code using lamda and serve users from that layer(Read abt serverless architecture, u don't need an ec2 instance). Which is relatively cheap, its pricing is based on number of times it runs, if i remember correctly they give 1 million free call per month i guess, even if its not, its pricing is relatively cheap.

And store the images in s3.
It’s not as easy to get ahold of >20kV power supplies these days! Before, you could find them on the street corners and in your neighbors trash. There was always a CRT to
sacrifice.

My lifter, probably like most, eventually caught fire.

Efficiency seems fairly poor [1], and from my experience, ozone is absolutely a problem.

1. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4890353
Cancelling all student debt – giant welfare program for the upper middle class
Awesome :D Thanks!
This is absurd and scientific american sure has taken a fall from grace in order to believe it. Electrostatic "lifters" have been around for half a century. They are toys. They do not scale up. They cannot even lift themselves as their power supply or energy storage has to be on the ground with tiny wires going up to the lifter. There is absolutely no chance this can be called a 'plane'. It always has to be tethered with wire to deliver the power.

They were really popular with the UFO/Free energy crackpot crowds back in the late 90s and early 2000s.
aha, I very appreciate your comment, also the suggestions were great.
So no video?
Ask HN: How to overcome lack of feedback at work?
The company I work for has all the fancy HR stuff in place (reviews, 1-on-1, etc) but I barely get any feedback. Everything is always good, I'm doing a good job, etc.

I actually had I dream last night about someone getting since feedback and being annoyed and I thought, in the dream, "I'd rather get negative feedback so I can improve than always positive feedback".

I can't be doing everything right. Any advice?