skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it does not. When you decide to delete your account it should be up to you if you also want your content deleted. The company should not make that choice for you one way or another.
In every discussion about birthrates, this point is raised. And every time, it is ignored, glossed over, or deflected. Overpopulation was briefly a concern in the 1970s, but since then we seem to have forgotten about the problem, at least in the mainstream, media-driven consciousness.

I think there may be something fundamental in the human psyche that refuses to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reducing global population growth (or at least freezing it in place) is essential to prevent an eventual catastrophe.

Of course, this is the definition of a self-correcting problem. It's just a shame that it is going to result in so much suffering.

"When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death." -Thomas Hobbes
> ruthlessly downvoted for ideological reasons

I think it's just people here being a bit unclear about whether 12RFL qualifies for the non-fiction part. I mean, to me it's clear that it does, but with Peterson also being the author of "Maps of Meaning", mixups are inevitable.
They do have humans, but they make mistakes and have bias. And if we need to cover the amount of content Youtube gets per second we'd need a country of people.

Oh wait, Youtube have just gone bankrupt.
You will probably enjoy "DNA seen through the eyes of a coder"[1] , previously discussed on HN[2]

1: https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16233644
I really enjoyed Just Mercy as well.
Do they actually do this as a meaningful part of their revenue stream or are you saying this in jest?
By reducing the operating expenses, they could, for example lower fee or increasing interest rate.
well... http://stackoverflow.com for programming, and the family of http://stackexchange.com websites for many other fields.
Even the government investigates disability fraud.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2018/09/27...
Pretty much, one of the things about working at a place like that is you have ZERO value as a human, your prior experience, educational level, none of that matters.

You're expected to be a literal human robot, a mindless cog in a machine and the picking rates reflect that. It's basically a living nightmare.
They weren't written in 2018, but some I enjoyed:

* Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution (Steven Levy)

* Masters of DOOM (David Kushner)

* The simpsons and their mathematical secrets (Simon Singh)

* Countdown to zero day (about stuxnet, by Kim Zetter)

* Sapiens: A brief history of human kind (Yuval Noah Harari)

* Coders at work (Some interviews, not all, but I enjoyed it. By Peter Seibel)
Because Amazon makes many billions more than your Alaskan fish factory. There's no reason that Amazon couldn't improve conditions of their buildings, or allow more bathroom breaks, or notify workers in advance if they have a shift (it's common to dismiss workers when they arrive in the morning, denying them access to any other job). These are such small changes to their bottom line, but would humanize the process a lot more.
What you were willing to put up with as a teenager doesn't have much of a bearing on the standards of treatment and payment everyone else who has to work a warehouse job should demand.
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Fantastic book that makes you realize how poorly designed many things in our lives are.
Building Native Images of Kotlin Programs Using GraalVM
Neither possibility is good. I like science writers that know how to explain things, not ones that pretend to be stupid to pander to the reader.
That does not seem to be an unreasonable opinion. Sure, it could be wrong (seems like data would have the answer one way or another) but either way in itself not offensive or really deserving of a downvote. strange. did anyone comment with an opposing view?
Besides the obivious lack of oversight on Der Spiegel and ethics of the journalist. I believe that there are a few lessons we can take away here:

1. We value honest hard work. However, we rarely value the people who do it. (The journalist was a "star" journalist and was required to perform at that level constantly.. does this ring a bell to any developers?)
2. Confirmation Bias is rather nasty, and that has been used to propagate some bad narritives. Right now the political deviviness has encouraged by the media. This article: Look at these "racist", "sexist", *ist people in some low-class people in this rural area. At least this is what I get from it. (That's been the garbage tauted by the left)
3. This guy was trusted as a leader way too much. I would not be surprised if he's a psychopath. (He has no concerns over the people he screws over, and the only reason he seems sorry is that he got caught).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735903
Xeyes and xclock were probably ports or variants of programs that had existed on Unix window systems since forever ago.
How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big - Scott Adams (2013)

One of my favorite quotes:
“I put myself in a position where luck was more likely to happen. I tried a lot of different ventures, stayed optimistic, put in the energy, prepared myself by learning as much as I could, and stayed in the game long enough for luck to find me.” pg - 158

My top ten list for the year:
https://www.gregkamradt.com/gregkamradt/top-reads-2018
This is a link to the slashdot summary; the original article is http://extras.mercurynews.com/lastrefuge/

Could @dang or someone else change it?
Agreed. If anyone thinks it’s a legitimately bad book, feel free to discuss why.
Stuff the Internet Says on Scalability for December 21st, 2018
An undersea robot delivering baby corals to the Great Barrier Reef
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734421
More Amazon workers speak out against atrocious working conditions
What was the market cap of that fish factory, and how rich was your CEO? It's not a surprise that one of the world's most dominant companies, led by the world's richest man, evokes more scrutiny and questions about whether its practices are harmful. Its policies affect far more workers, and of course, are far more noticeable than any single small business workplace.
> Though it certainly isn't the case for Instagram...

Maybe it's because I've work with people in this space, but I'm convinced 60% of Instagram activity is generated by bots. Give it time.
Not everything is a nail. Life experience teaches and strengthens critical thinking ability that doesn't demand facts to support the intangible, because not everything in life is a rational, hard-science experiment. When you grow older, you will hopefully appreciate this.
> Employees typically have so little stock that this makes no sense

Well, yeah. If you're already comfortable with under-compensating early employees feel free to continue shirking them.
Favorites read in 2018:

Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg. This book is, so far, the closest I've come to finding a "spiritual successor" to The Soul of a New Machine by Kidder. If you liked The Soul of a New Machine, or if you like watching Halt and Catch Fire, you may well like Dreaming in Code.

Inspired by Marty Cagan. Really solid overview of the essentials of product management.

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl. Judea Pearl is, of course, a giant in the worlds of statistics and AI, and this book distills his work on "causal inference" and lays it all out in a pretty accessible manner. Not a textbook per-se, but not completely non-technical either. Read this if you're interested in how statistical analysis can be used to truly establish cause/effect relationships.

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand. Do you think you hate Capitalism? Do you not understand why so many people love Capitalism? Have you based your opinion of Ayn Rand on second-hand commentary instead of actually reading her works? Then read this book.
Tim Harford’s “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”¹, an enthralling collection of tales from really diverse projects. I’ll freely admit to only picking it up because I recognised the name from the More or Less² podcast, but it was well worth the read.

1. http://timharford.com/books/adapt/
2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
But they do. They provide services people pay for.

GS OTOH is a meta entity that moves your assets around in a never ending quest to find bigger fools willing to pay more than they did to acquire them. There is literally nothing useful about it and eventually it destroys the value of your assets once there are no more fools left. But it’s legal because they seek out and fund, make rich (IPO), or (apparently) pay off enough socially important people that the practice is allowed to slide. And it’s sure nice when you get the modest kick backs to your account, amirite? Let’s just hope the supply of fools never runs out and we can keep growing money forever. Not an unsafe bet either, unfortunately.

Put another way, what the corporations you cited do is called produce goods. It’s the economic model in many places and despit capitalism having its own set of problems at least companies produce things that people pay for. There are many useful services the financial industry supplies but here we are talking about the guts of how the investment banking subsector operates. If the industry was honest 2008 wouldn’t have happened. When was the last time Tesla royally fucked over your personal assets?
Sorry, but an "Authoritarian Government" absolutely makes it FAR easier because it can chase any kind of developmental boondoggles it wants to. See China's ghost cities. It has stupid cheap labor supply and can relocate hundreds of thousands of people in the snap of a bureaucrat's finger because they have no rights to fight the state.

They also have cities with 30 million people in them, and dominate the cities with populations > 1M on the planet besides India and other parts of SE Asia. Rail just makes more sense there in a way the US can't even compare. It has nothing to do with country size and everything to do with density and cost.

Even if you could plan HSR in the most rail-friendly parts of the east coast, you're going to have to eminent domain tons of property for immense cost, or disrupt the shit out of the exiting rail line which the region actually depends on for things like commuting.

The conspiracy about interests wanting to kill rail make little sense. Its struggled because other modes of transit have proven better. Amtrak is heavily subsidized and terribly unpopular for travel because planes are just better here.

California's eternal dream is HSR between LA and SF and it is turning into a ludicrous cost-overrun disaster. Construction of rail costs 7x in NYC what it costs in France due to labor, environmental and other land use regulatory burdens -- let alone how much cheaper it is for China (who has a looming debt problem but is also mostly internal IIRC, and doesn't have to worry about efficiency because it is not a business)

Rail doesn't happen en masse in the US because other modes are more cost effective given the population density realities. Atmospheric CO2 scrubbing tech is coming a long way in a short amount of time, so rather than chasing rail that will never be faster than flying (not to mention the fact that you can change flight paths with ease as demand to go from place to place changes because there's no physical infrastructure limiting you) we should focus on the rest of the green energy in our grid to make a dent in carbon.

I lament USA's car driving culture as much as anyone. I live in a dense and transit friendly city and wish more parts of the USA were like that, but HSR is part pipe dream, part white whale, and part hammer that politicians want everything to be a political nail for. One can't just assume that just because something works in one place, it will work everywhere. The realities in the US are different, and next-generation transit here has to face those realities.

There's probably room for more rail here as cities become revitalized and between things like airports and said cities, but you will have to change the entire face of the majority of suburbia and rural America to make trains become the most useful mode of transit here and as someone who wants to go live in Europe for a bit for many of the same quality of life dreams you probably share, I wish you good luck with that.
PaaS startup. Share web applications instantly without infrastructure
It distorts the market is my point and when you hit a recession and cant keep pace with inflation it can lead to unrest - its called out in a recent guardian piece on the yellow vest movement.
It's easy to breed and sell dogs and hard to regulate/litigate against bad breeders. The US Kennel club prioritizes promoting 'breed standards' over the wellbeing of the animal. My informal observations suggest an overlap between such priorities and the general belief in animals as property/divinely ordained for human use/lacking in consciousness of any kind.
This was posted last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14678504
I had a channel where I did silent game streams (no-commentary streams) and I was playing a game where its background songs were generated procedurally (not citing names today), and I got flagged by a company that represented "keygens and cracks blah blah blah".

A company that represented songs in keygens. The ones used in piracy.

The irony was so strong I shut down my channel to never look back.
I'm not a religious scholar but I am religious.

> Jesus said “follow the Law”. He always taught to follow the law, and never once said it would be obsolete after his crucifixion.

I've always interpreted those conversations to be Jesus attempting to spread an idea that the religious institutions of the time had lost sight of the message of love and peace in return for control and power.

If you read it with Jesus speaking knowing that members of his audience are members of those power groups, you get the sense that he is very, very carefully choosing his words.
> These are such small changes to their bottom line, but would humanize the process a lot more.

Is Amazon breaking the Law? (honest question). If not, I don't see why expectations should be different for Amazon vs every other company out there.
But you still don't need Notebook, Cell evaluation is all you need, which can be done without all the notebook hassle.
Modeling Life Outcomes with Stochastic Methods
I was using a rhetorical device - all I saw was an anonymous complaint about grammar and no real substantive critique with know examples?
Nobody says it's a bad thing (licensing traps aside, if any, which I didn't check). It just should be noted that when big corps/celebrities get struck by bad publicity they must react with some good move as a lever to counteract the negative press. I'm not saying they wouldn't have done this, but it's a very common move among politicians, corporations, celebrities etc. Their PR office is just doing their work.
Can you cite your claim that there is a huge amount of worker's comp fraud? I'd like to see the data. Specifically the amount of claims that end up fradulent.
Most people pay something for their communications in the form of home internet or cell service, so I don't think the answer is just nested paywalls or the internet would be more polite than it is.
It's sad to hear this. We're currently building a video streaming platform (live and VoD) with a major focus on letting our users control their entire brand identity and viewers.

I might personally help you to resolve this situation. But we need to explore and scope it out. I'm currently the head of the product here at vVents (we're hunting for better name now, since our product is ready! ).

When we started with our platform, we genuinely felt a need to help artists stand on their own feet. Unlike other platforms, it was and is hard to cache our frontend assets, because everything is customizable. But we still took a bet to fix many issues just to make sure our users can showcase their own brand.

If you, or any other person needs to react out to me please mail me at pk at vVents dot com
I haven't tried to compile these specific examples, but a while ago Eric wrote an article about the abstraction cost of (a previous iteration of) the range library. At least GCC generated pretty much the same assembly as the hand written nested for loops.

Since then, both the library and compilers have improved.
New Dark Age
The latest accusation against him is embezzlement [0]. Also, the Spiegel reporter who tried to unmask Relotius was threatened with a termination of his contract when he talked to supervisors about his findings. [1].

Also in the FAZ, there was a very good commentary on the whole case by one of the publishers [2]. He identifies the same narrative smoke-bombs ("story-telling kitsch") in the Spiegel's writeup of the whole case as in Relotius' original articles.

[0] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/betrug-beim-sp...

[1] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/fall-relotius-...

[2] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueber-die-fa...
Or just ignore the claim via YouTube and reupload the video. Then send a letter to CDbaby literally telling them you will continue to reupload it and to fuck off.
Why do you think single payer would stop us from preventing fraud? Btw this is done in single payer countries as well.
> but your Python example makes a complete mockery of it.

I mean, try getting the same kind of performance and static verification in Python?

So much of the complexity of C++ is due to the static typing and the optimizations that can come with it. If you're willing to give up and make everything dynamic then of course it'll simplify your code, but you get a massive penalty both in terms of performance and in terms of error-checking.
Because it would be just as illogical to allow a function `Vec a -> b` to be called as `a -> b`. And Rich must agree because Clojure itself does not support that!

Maybe Clojure's standard library just isn't that focused on vectors? Python stdlib doesn't support this as well, but NumPy does.
Breaking the law isn't the only standard for workers to judge their company by.
The have nearly 100 people in their fact check department. Legendary German efficiency.
Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

http://a.co/d/jknRNxt
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies - César Hidalgo (2015)

Fantastic read that gave me a new way to understand the world.
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvoting. That just gives another, and this time legitimate, reason for downvoting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm just as glad I never bothered with it much, instead I spent time on the so much more successful Linkedin Q&A section.

Pretty sure that got killed off at some point in their pre-MS struggles, at least on LI there was more chance of getting people with relevant experience.
clickbait-esque
Because some people feel entitled to a larger share of their employer's profits regardless of their position in the company.
Rising standards are, in general, a good thing I would imagine.

My parents worked in an incredibly taxing physical environment and their reward was ruining their body.
Moving and sad story.
If you're into mobile dev, try Flutter it recently went GA with v1.0.

If you're into webdev and want to try something a bit different see Elixr/Phoenix and the Way it can do dynamically updated server-side rendering.
High speed rail is a circuit switched network. Air is packet switched. Surface roads are in between. Generally high local redundancy, occasionally bottle necked by geography.

There's nothing wrong with circuit switched networks. POTS has great voice quality. ISDN tends not to drop packets. But we all carry cell phones because packet switching is more flexible in more places.
NFI. My iPhone 6s (a few years old) includes "Assisted GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS" [0] and I suspect that most other modern mobile phones do as well.

Besides, I would consider relying totally on any one country's GNSS (especially when several are available at very little additional cost) to be a rather poor decision.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP726?locale=en_US
Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber
Well you're right. I assumed it was the same person, my mistake.
* Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker

* Masters of Doom, by David Kushner

* What Doesn't Kill Us, by Scott Carney

* Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou

* The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondō

* How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams
Wow the visualizer linked too at the end (http://georgeflanagin.com/visualizer.php) creates some crazy patterns if you follow the instructions (segment 1 at 7 and segment 2 at 8 creates a shifting optical illusion). Neat!
> The article touches on this, but a big factor of Content ID is that it's not in any way tied to copyright law or the DMCA.

Yup - it's a "Copyright Protection System" that has nothing to do with Copyright. So, how long before people start referring to it more simply, as a "Protection" system"?
> Amazon has nothing to do with this

Amazon surely incentivizes Sedgewick to reduce costs. Just like Amazon micro-manages every other warehouse aspect to wring out maximum efficiency.
I read a chunk of “Capitalism” on my train commute, and it was really interesting how often a fellow passenger felt the need to start a discussion. I’m not sure if this is a warning or a recommendation… I’m going with recommendation.

[FWIW, UK’s KGX-CBG line.]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

Pretty interesting:

> Virtually all New Testament scholars and Near East historians, applying the standard criteria of historical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is effectively certain ... with very few exceptions such critics generally do support the historicity of Jesus and reject the Christ myth theory that Jesus never existed.
/s? ;-)
Facebook HQ is just across Bayshore (84) and Willow Road from East PA, owned by drug gangs, crushing poverty and classism/racism. It's where people would think to look to buy an NFA Class 3 machine gun or destructive device illegally... I know a homeless RV guy who got a MAC-10 for free from a drug dealer in lieu of repaying a loan. It's an entirely different world from Palo Alto proper just across Highway 101, with $5 million homes, families walking their dogs around the block and kids going to the best universities in the world.
Are there incentives for discovering a claim as fraudulent -- or do they just get paid by the hour, with certain standards that must be met, and that's it?
> Amazon has nothing to do with this. They simply pay premiums for Sedgewick to administer the claims.

Amazon chooses to employ Sedgewick. When they learn of this kind of abusive behavior, they can switch insurers, or hell just threaten to switch. Amazon has all the leverage here, to abdicate them of all responsibility is absurd.
Sure. And workers are free to choose where they work. Nobody has a gun on every Amazon's employee's head to force them to work there. We are not in the Middle-Ages anymore.
That "professional trader" was over-acting the hell out of that scene. I also love that each consecutive "day", they had the same clothes but slightly more undressed.
FWIW, I'm also a big fan of Susanna Epp's book on Discrete Math. I found it more accessible than Rosen's book.
Being a mathematician and solving already-theoretically-understood math problems are two things that often don't have a lot of overlap.