skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
word2vec is a Google project.
I am not dismissing medicine. But the existence of medicine now does not mean life centuries ago was a horrifying existence struggling to survive as popular culture suggests. There are still primitive people now, whose existence is far closer to that subsistence stereotype than medieval Europeans were. They are overwhelmingly happy and healthy. They eat better than we do, are healthier than we are, and work less than we do. If they had modern medicine, it is hard to argue they wouldn't be better off than us in every way.
Certainly not the CEI's (Competitive Enterprise Institute) who distributed your figure. They have a long history of spreading disinformation, going back to the fight over tobacco policy: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise...
It didn't look very substantial in the video posted here earlier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUBsxCcJeUc&t=385
You are a clever critter
Interesting tidbit in here:

> [M]ultiple sources have told us that social media platforms were being courted by Microsoft for acquisition at one point (Microsoft declined to comment on the rumor when we looked into it).
Their claim that this is normal and expected reeks to high heaven. These people are persnickety beyond belief and they just... don't have a problem with this? I don't buy it.
It's not easy to move a rail line. It's politically and economically infeasible. Amtrak hugs the coast in the northeast in part because that land is useless for anything else. Much like the subways, bridges, tunnels, roads, and every other piece of transit infrastructure in the northeast, the rail problems are systemic and it's a huge effort just to keep things moving at all. This isn't a blessing; it's a snapshot of one of dozens of problems that are just as urgently in need of investment.
> At the point one becomes a social advocate, they probably shouldn't be running for judicial office at the very least, and maybe reconsider any ambitions of public office at all.

Judges (and, a fortiori, judicial candidates) remain citizens and do not surrender their right to participate publicly as citizens; there is a certain degree or restraint and separation of advocacy and judicial role, but (while there is room to debate application in specific cases, and clear places where the existing norms have failed to be applied) there are well-established norms of conflict avoidance and recusal/removal from particular cases that address this. I don't think stronger basic norms are needed here, though more vigrous enforcement of existing norms.

As for non-judicial public office, social advocacy is very much what the electorate looks for in candidates for those offices and how it judges them, the idea that anyone involved in social advocacy should avoid such offices is, well, unusual, and it definitely needs more of an argument than you've presented.
The food is worse than airline food? Wow. Is that even possible?
If we want people to use principled technology, it has to be usable, full stop. As a developer, being able to say "I'm willing to sacrifice convenience, in the name of principle", is a privileged position - you know how to navigate software when it gets difficult - other people don't.

What I find a lot of people miss when comparing Slack to IRC, is that not everyone using Slack is a developer. The world doesn't consist solely of developers - and if your company is 30% of engineers, and the other 70% doesn't have the reserve to wrestle with XML, then your company is using Slack. Otherwise, you are simply choosing to sell out your friends and family in the name of "principle" as well.

Personally, I'm tired of the comparisons to IRC and XMPP. Both are garbage - time and time again its been show how difficult it is to create greate software on these protocols. Contrary to your final statement, there have been better open source applications - gitter and riot come to mind.
Why is an announcement of a patch release on the front page of Hacker News? Just because it's about Rust?
Hopefully this is a signal that Apple is going to take steps to improve Siri. If Apple can find a way to get the best of both worlds from data privacy and machine learning then it will have been well worth the wait.
2018: When VS Code Eclipsed Visual Studio IDE
I wonder to what degree a couple of decades of persistent warfare without an end in sight also plays a role.
Appeal to Authority: Insisting that a claim is true simply because a valid authority or expert on the issue said it was true, without any other supporting evidence offered.

I don't know why there was no followup or mention of these obvious objections I came up with by thinking about it for a few minutes. But it wasn't. I'm not going to take his claims at face value and it appears he is pushing an agenda through hyperbolic language (e.g. "killing us")
8-bit style voxel art can easily be made with this. In fact, that's the intended use case.

This would be a very poor tool for creating audio, and anyone looking for an audio tool would notice this immediately.

"8-bit voxel" is completely understood to the target audience. Anything involving audio would not.
That's a question for Slack how they found out and that is a great question, but there seems to be much conflation of that question with justification of sanctions in the first place, which I wanted to address. It's a question of nationality and citizenship if Slack determined one of those to be the case then they simply followed the regulations set forth by the sanctions.
So one problem with that is not all of our team uses Linux, we're a Mac/Linux hybrid team. Our workflow was to edit the puppet manifests locally and then Vagrant up, and we wanted something that would work across different dev machines. However, the fussiness of environment setup started to go higher the further we got from VBox; our team didn't really want to invest time into a workflow that was supposed to be an intermediate step to our "end game" development pipeline, so we just left it. Thanks for the link though!
Idk, I remember kids talking about drinking coffee as early their 6-7th grade year. I don't think I remember anybody bringing in coffee to middle school though. I think most kids really started drinking coffee regularly in high school.
Anti virus causes so many problems on Windows systems. Even the included defender product. My laptop experiences random pauses a couple of times per day and I've correlated them with high CPU in anti malware service executable. It's difficult to cure without uninstalling anti virus.
I think something like personal AI, like something out of a William Gibson novel could fix this issue.
HN seems to be doing fine
Extensions add "support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards."

I'd argue the added features themselves are mostly shit. If you need hypervisor RDP or FDE there are much better solutions than VirtualBox.
Murdoch hates Facebook and Google because advertisers are spending their money with those guys instead of in his newspapers. So he's launched a consistent campaign to discredit them. Check the sources of these stories. I bet 9/10 come from Murdoch owned companies. Trust me on this inside info.
Interesting quote: "Stacy Rasgon, an analyst with research firm Bernstein, said in a note that Germany was a small iPhone market for Apple, selling about 10 million units a year, with possibly only half of those being the older models affected by the court’s order."

Probably won't affect Apple too much, Germany is quite an Android country.
The creator of the html page will typically look at the website before he publishes it, so unlikely that someone will publish incorrect html code. It's not like html has branching logic so there's no hidden crashes, everything is explicit similar to the safety you get with type checking.

javascript is actually bad for the same reasons. It tries to correct your mistakes by doing type coercion making a null + 1 + 'blah'= "null1blah"
Vector Capital took them private in 2008 at $4.00 a share. Odd that nobody has historical charts, I can't find it either.
that makes sense. though I wonder if for training purposes they can simply remove the user identifier. (like anonymizing them for instance)
This reminds me of Lambda School (in a good way). Will 10% of students' first year income be a sufficient cut for you? I assume a salesperson's first-year commissions will be much lower than future years.

Also, have you considered doing in-person courses at some point? It's less scalable, of course, but people may be more open to committing a portion of their future salary to a program they engage with in-person.

I see cool "learn to code" courses and bootcamps all the time. I haven't seen the same for sales. Looks like you are well-positioned. Excited to see where it goes.
Just chiming in with the others. Trying from Israel, Access Denied.
> Super anecdotal but in my experience I hear developers complaining about bloated websites an order of magnitude more than ordinary users.

That's because developers are the only people who know what the fuck is going on, and who to blame. Regular users don't have a mental model to correctly identify the source of their annoyance. So they end up blaming "the computer". It often manifests in requests like "could you come over one day and clean my computer? I think it's full of viruses." No, it's not really full of viruses, just the websites you're using the most went through another redesign, and now consume 10x resources for zero added utility. But what can you do. I install adblock and sometimes buy them another RAM stick, so they can throw their laptop in a garbage bin a year later than they would without my help.

No, users do complain, you just have to know where to look (and actually talk to them).
Which division has the highest operating margin (and what is that margin)?
> The worst nightmare of US officials would be someone line Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez utilizing a similar strategy

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is (or at least will be in a couple weeks) a US official.
The figure of 40% appears in quite a number of sources. Do they all make things up?
Does the "operating margin" somehow refute it? Does "operating" here mean 22% after subtracting all additional (possibly luxurious or generously allocated) expenses?

No one really wants to criticise anyone and every work should be fairly rewarded. It is the unfair part that people are objecting to.
Hey they're great languages and if it works for you, it's great. I would just be conscious of any security vulnerabilities using older software, but outside of that, if it works it works.
Speaking of Amtrack with such fast news cycle, did they find out the cause of two recent crashes (I believe New Jersey /Connecticuit) ? Ine over some oassage-bridge. I cant find anything on it anymore.
> Many of them have degrees from schools (e.g. MIT, CMU, etc.) much better than schools most of us went to.

Explain to me how a degree from schools "much better than schools most of us went to" indicates the person is more competent or intelligent than anyone else? "better" should be subbed out for "prestigious".
After some searching I discovered https://mattermost.com/. Anyone have experience with this?
Yes, the common belief (and it's mine too) is that the gatekeepers like Elsevier use free or low paid experts to pick the good papers and edit them and keep that expensive fee you pay them. Is this only in CS? In my experience all the work was done by free-to-the-publisher editors and what the editors got was listing they were on that journal.
"tRust" me, most of us are
What subsidies did the recently unveiled tunnel receive?
Does your 51% stat include sales taxes, gas taxes, phone taxes, electricity taxes, etc? I believe you are talking about federal income tax and not including other forms of taxation. Is this correct?

People getting money back from tax filings is an indication of too much tax being taken out of their paychecks. Isn’t it? People pay taxes throughout the year. Once a year, for most people, they formally file their taxes and some get money back.
Apple uses premium materials & packaging but they historically have not had very good engineering quality. This goes back years and years, too, it's not a recent thing. Apple frequently does "Exchange and Repair Extension Programs" for these mistakes.

I think it's unfair to blame their QA team, either, as some of the issues should have been obvious without QA. Like the recent 6-core macbook pros that didn't receive a thermal capacity or VRM upgrade in response to using a CPU with a higher power usage.

It's just not really a thing Apple does. They focus their engineering on the parts you physically see & touch, not the ones you don't. They just deal with that later with repair & replacements programs or crude workarounds.
Yes, this attitude is a clear part of why Slack crushed IRC. "It was easy for me, therefore anybody who finds it hard is dumb and we can ignore them."

I too figured out all sorts of computer things at 12. By standardized tests, I'm also in the top 1% of ability for things like that. And my dad was a programmer then, so I had a leg up.

At some point, I realized I had a choice. I could feel smug about my (narrow) genius and focus on tools for my (narrow) cohort. While grumping, of course, about how stupid everybody else was. Or I could recognize my luck and use it to make things that were good for everybody.

You know what helped me make this choice? Realizing how bad I was at so many other things. And how generous other people were in not only putting up with that, but helping me along.
You’d think that if personal websites were a valid substitute for Facebook, the whole thing would have never taken off in the first place. Personal websites didn’t see massive adoption the first time around, and we can safely doubt they ever will.
> I think its pretty straightforward to host things yourself.

Said as a true developer who no longer realizes how hard some of the things we do are to the average person who can barely operate their computer or smart phone.

Think of all the things you have to learn in order to host your own site. I still have to explain the basics of what a domain name is to potential freelance customers, and why they need hosting in order to have a website online. This is knowledge that is not common outside of the developer ecosystem.
I just ran through this - works flawlessly. One peculiarity that might help someone else in my shoes: I was connecting to my VPN node through Terminal (with Solarized Dark) on OS X and generating the QR code with the suggested command but the result was a little 'off' somehow and didn't read as a QR code to my phone. By replacing 'ansiutf8' with simply 'ansi' I was able to get a smoother, readable QR code. Just a heads up in case someone else follows this excellent guide and gets the same issue - I fully blame Solarized ;)
Fair point.

From the developers point of view though, the site is incorrect without the ads. He wants you to look at the ads, he's not in the business of providing you website content for free.

Still the adblocker actually does a surgical removal that maintains correctness of the html.
I've read that the reason for this is to clear your mouth of the bacteria that have accumulated overnight, otherwise you're going to be consuming them with your food.
I really wish there was an alternative to testing on rats. They're so regularly put through so many terrible experiments. Hopefully we'll have more sophisticated computer models in the next few decades to reduce the need for animal trials.
I just skimmed through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18723936 and there were multiple comments about pros and cons of your different choices for Mac.
I remain unimpressed with everyones "siri". Siri does what I need correctly 95% of the time. I want it to do way more, but no one else service does way more. These technologies are also surprisingly underutilized except for making funny youtube videos. Amazons devices probably get used more than anything else because there is no other interface.

"AI" is more than siri. The photos recognition in Photos (kind of a dumb name for internet searching on fixes or features, right?) is very impressive and when it came out was far ahead. The creation of memories videos is a certain kind of algorithm logic that is impressive. Speech recognition is poor on almost every device. It will get better over time as we apply more brute force solutions and refinements.
Sorry for the inaccuracy about Mossadegh.

I do agree that the successive Iranian governments and the Iranian regime is far from a saint in this story, specially since the Islamic revolution.

Calling Israel a "cancer" or a "little satan" (with the US as the "great satan") is an atrocious way to do diplomacy...

The Iran hostage crisis was a really bad starting move. with long lasting consequences.

Iran is also quite active militarily, but the goal is more to maintain security at its border (Iraq), or maintain the few allies it has in the region (Syria, Lebanon). There are reasons behind these adventures, even if that doesn't excuse them.
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Bodyguard from the BBC on Netflix was really, really good.
>Somewhat counter-intuitively, the answer to that is often "no", due to induced demand[1].

I see what you mean but couldn't you raise the same objection if somebody wanted to, say, create a new subway system or something similar? More people in the new transport system means fewer people in cars on the streets means induced demand... I don't see why this particular project is different.

>I think the point being made here is that ingress/egress imposes such a significant bottleneck that total throughput will still be low, and very few people would actually be able to benefit.

I agree with that, it's also a problem with hyperloop. It seems like Musk's vision of the future is great if you're rich, not so much if you're poor.
Basically because Glenn Greenwald/Popehat are lawyers-turned-fringe-bloggers and Bush/Obama won office, rather than the other way around
Yeah, I agree they're not the biggest thing. I submit them only because someone will, might as well be me. Not a ton to discuss here, though.
Right. Hold off until at least the second number changes.
"We do not accept REMOTE applicants" would still be a false positive.

And same would go for visa. "We do not sponsor VISA"

I really think you're going to have to do some sort of sentiment analysis, either via human or machine.
I think his primary interest is around tunneling technology. If one follows his thoughts on developing extraterrestrial settlements, the need for experience in development of underground tunnels becomes obvious. That would be the best bet for inter-settlement transport infrastructure given the hazardous conditions anywhere outside our planet. From this prospective, the current project - the improvement of LA or whatever, is just an intermediary goal.
Mickey and the related characters aren't all that popular in the US anymore but their likeness is immensely popular abroad in Asia. Stuffed animals and games of the original characters do really well there.
> No - users actually do want more features. They want more features than you can ever hope to deliver. Figuring out which features they will actually appreciate is the tough part. Your competitors are working very hard to build those features before you can. Your competitor's sales team is already cold calling your users.

I'll believe it when I see it. With notable exception of collaborative editing, most software on the web is essentially a subpar reimplementation of desktop software from 10 years ago, missing half of the features, but consuming 10x the resources.
This is nothing compared to the estimated $3.5 billion to redirect the tracks underground in San Diego. Coastal bluff failures are occurring within several feet of the tracks on a regular basis. I spend time at this beach and I don't know how this track will be viable in a couple years, with or without rising sea levels. Once it is deemed unsafe, San Diego will be completely cut off by rail.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sd-del-mar-bluf...
As a tech guy, history is the biggest complaint.
riot.im is great in this respect because I get IRC (with history!) and a great UI.
The goal is to shift costs over time to the employer, while still aligning incentives with students, so they have skin in the game. Companies struggle to predictably hire top sales talent, and our graduates come in with a big leg up - not only learning best practices for SaaS selling from experts, but learning tools like Salesforce and Outreach.

We emphasize personal, 1v1 mentorship and coaching, which is our way of getting the benefits of in-person learning. Over time, we'll be partnering with community groups and their spaces to offer IRL coaching as well.
I agree, that's the point he was trying to make. I don't agree it's a correct conclusion.

Have you read any of the almost-weekly tech interview threads here? Or been in a high growth startup where you are interviewing a lot?

Just because there are lots of people in the internal labor pool, doesn't mean there are lots of qualified people. When you can reach out to the ROW for your highly skilled talent, why would you limit yourself to less qualified local talent?

As an employer, it's [rhetorically] my job to hire the best talent I can find at the best price I can get. (Assuming that is maximally efficient; in some cases less good labor for better prices may be a better calculus. But let's ignore that.) It's the government's job to strike the balance between native employment and immigrant employment. If the H1B pool is consumed each year, I'd say they are doing a reasonably good job at it. If it's consumed, that means there are plenty of folks denied, for lack of quota. Those are jobs that end up filled by less qualified native talent.
No. Google got big literally only because a huge f-ton of nerds saw them as a new, unique, good alternative to the big tech companies and pushed their services.
Remember when working at Google was a dream that spawned several movies even?

Then, Google just went and deleted "Don't be evil" from their manifesto.
Literally they did that. That's like saying "Yo guys, we are evil now".

And what happened? Nothing. They are fine.
>Almost all of the widespread hardware problems Apple is experiencing these days could've been avoided if they would just allow themselves an extra millimeter or gram here and there.

That's a bold claim. Can you back up it?
Speaking of phones, aren't most people's smartphones already "an always on microphone in their homes"?
> The underlying problem is that most people just don't value art enough to pay for it in 2018.

In other words, the problem is that "art" is vastly overproduced. Which is only natural when it's being subsidized so heavily via copyright: everyone wants their chance at that rare bestseller which will see them set for life.

Honestly, we need to question not only whether copyright is a reasonable way to promote the production of art, but also whether there is even a need for such promotion in the first place. There is already more artwork in existence than any one person could properly appreciate in their lifetime, and no technical reason why it can't be perfectly preserved and made available to everyone at minimal cost.
The law is defined by the fair market value of the thing stolen or destroyed, and by the risk or damage to human life. That seems like a reasonable way to draw the line. Any sort of working car is worth a lot more than a video game account.

And there's obviously no comparison between the impact of an arson attack versus anything that could happen related to a video game. I can't fathom why you'd even bring that up. Let's have a sense of proportion.
I figured you had to trademark specific numbers, not a regular expression "[0-9]+ 0 [0-9]+", which is how I'd guess it would work in the US, vs enumerating all the numbers in separate trademarks (patent #1 (100), patent #2 (101), ... (909)).
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