skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we agree more than disagree -- I believe the blame for abuse should go on the abuser. I think (you can correct me if I'm wrong) that you want to have the discussion "given there are abusers, what should a platform do about it?"

Would an optimally designed platform handle abuse better than Twitter (or Reddit, or the like)? Absolutely. I also don't think that that absolves anyone of the responsibility to engage in civil discourse rather than uncivil.
Yeah, from the netflix series it's more like you have to touch everything of the same category and then compare how you feel.
I remember when Microsoft announced Windows on Arm 2 years ago. Now in 2019 they still haven't delivered. I couldn't care less about performance because there are no ARM products on the market that are actually interesting to early adopters. Even if we take alternative routes that weren't intended for mainstream customers, for example arm SBCs. After 2 years literally only the RK3399 SoC which was basically intended for chromebooks anyway, so ARM contributed 0% to it's success, has actually offered extremely basic features like PCIe. But thanks to the raspberry pi monoculture nobody is working on things like GPU drivers or better software support for SBCs anyway. Your crappy A11X or whatever with nice artifcal benchmark scores doesn't interest me. It's a shut in that can't communicate with the outside world and barely competes with an obsolete i5 3540 from 2012.

There is a reason nothing happens and it's because most companies don't care about ARM in the server space at all (including ARM themselves), they only want to use it to negotiate better discounts with intel. So far Google is the only company that has ARM based computers.
> In 1998, 17 inch CRT sold for nearly a thousand dollars.

Huh?
I use Markdown with an HTML preview. I don't have to punch the wall because of syntax errors, unlike with Latex. I use Pandoc to make it look the same as a Latex-generated PDF.

I'm thinking of switching to AsciiDoc as I'm running into some of the limitations of Markdown.
Well, /I/ think her approach is very marketing-oriented. For example she asks whether an item sparks "joy". Joy is kind transient, very subjective, etc. But it fits within her "shtick" and it works. For me, I'd ask whether it provides utility, but that sounds very boring and isn't a term which would fit well in marketing.
As much brilliant as Vinod Khosla is, i always think about him as the billionare who blocked public beaches
There's also the male suicide rate, which is a multiple of the female rate.
FWIW A lot of these media organizations derive a lot of their inbound traffic from Facebook. Last January[1] Facebook changed how the news feed algorithm worked. My understanding is that this severely impacted the traffic to many of these media outlets as they no longer showed up as frequently on people's news feed. For example, from a site for content marketing[2]:

>Since Mark Zuckerberg’s 2018 announcement that the Facebook algorithm will prioritize “meaningful interactions” from friends and family over content from brands, it has become trickier than ever to ensure your organic content gets the screen time it deserves.

[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/news-feed-fyi-bringing-...

[2] https://blog.hootsuite.com/facebook-algorithm/
He’s also incredibly expressive, which to a western audience may come across as “cheesy” but I personally love it. Give Rush Hour a shot and I guarantee you’ll enjoy it.
Most of the time I'm fine with AMP links, but this one is awful.

Non-amp: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzi...
US healthcare is one of the most inhumane disasters in the history of modern civilization?

What is this bubble you live in?

Have you been to a third-world country? Have you been to a communist country?
I don't know where you live; around here, taxis have had regulated prices for decades, so you don't negotiate either. The only real difference is that you can ask one to come to you rather than aimlessly walk around looking for one.
Hey guys. This listed is computed via the data we have at Datastreamer (http://www.datastreamer.io/) ... we basically index the web and have a petabyte search engine that we license for people very serious about open data.

I realized that we had Hacker News for every day and wanted to compute the top PDFs for my own usage so I wanted to share with you guys.

My side project, Polar (https://getpolarized.io/) is used for managing PDF and other reading so you might want to check that out too. It's basically a tool for researcher, students, or anyone passionate about long term education and use read a great deal of technical and research material.

PDFs are supported but we also support offline caching of web page content. We also support Anki sync so you can create flashcards and sync them with Anki so that you never forget what you've read.

EDIT. Awesome! This landed on the home page in less than 15 minutes and is now #2.. Super excited you guys found this helpful. Great to contribute back to such an awesome community!
It's a bit weird how they're announcing a new mission statement about how this is a small focused project for macOS at the same time they're announcing Windows and Linux compatibility.
however I did it I am sure I used (imported or not) hash tables or similar from stdlib (no algorithm complexity difference in this regard).

But based on the comments from everyone it is reasonable to say that my implementation had something wrong or the test was off in some regard.
Cash itself is intermediation.
Yeah, I've managed to get big Word documents into weird states where it stops numbering sections properly and could. not. fix it.
Fully agreed that the problem of internet abuse originates with human nature but is amplified by the medium.

And yes, this problem was actually much worse a decade or two ago. You should see archives some of the old private open source forums! Holy moley were people horrible to each other.

At least now we have some awareness of the problem and better understanding of its mechanisms.
> And, frequently, it allows for anonymity, which removes the social consequences of malicious actions.

I don't think anonymity is a problem per se. Real people engage in all kinds of shitty trolling using their real names. And their real friends egg them on.

The difference is perhaps that their local real life community don't know about it, outside of their friends.
That looks really interesting.
Not sure I follow. If his ownership stake is cut in half, and the ex-wife owns half of Bezos' stake in Amazon, that effectively cuts his power in half.

Sure, right now they are likely on the same page, but what about in 5 years? What if she starts selling her stake or sells her decision-making stake to an activist hedge fund, for example, or someone directly adversarial to Bezos? It could make things a lot harder for him to lead the company.
One thing I think is worth considering is why you enjoyed coding to begin with? For some developers it seems to be the craft itself that gives them enjoyment, but IME they are relatively few, and for most people coding is simply a means to some other more highly valued end, be it influence, business impact, money or what not.

For me personally, when I had a lot less experience the attraction was mostly a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction that I could make a machine do exactly what I envisioned in my mind. As I accumulated more and more professional experience, the source of my satisfaction became increasingly distant from the actual code itself, e.g. analyzing a business need and identifying a technical solution that met it became more satisfying than writing the actual code itself. 10+ years down the line now and in my current role I very rarely write any production code. To the extent that I miss it, it's probably mostly down to nostalgia. I typically get more satisfaction from working with strategic technical problems, enabling developers, doing high-level designs, liaising between tech and other departments, etc.

So TL;DR - yes, it's perfectly normal to find non-coding software development activities more gratifying :)
Ask HN: Websites/Apps that you visit/use daily?
Seconded. Scoop.sh is spectacularly simple and to the point for all the areas where chocolatey feels needlessly complex.
Is it possible that they foresee problems with Amazon valuation and this a way to save half of the assets they have?

Whether it's true will depend on what his wife is about to do with the shares.
That's a pity there is no visual word processor designed right for this. In my vision of a perfect word processor it should only manage the outline conveniently and let you write the content but have no features that let people use it the wrong way: no way to directly set font of individual elements (only let you mark them as headings, quotes, emphasized spans etc) etc. Of course I can do this by writing HTML or Markdown manually but there still are many people who won't (some because it seems unnecessary hackery to them, some because they actually lack mental capacity to get it) and even me I would appreciate a tool that could make it this more comfortable. I have described idea of a perfect writing tool here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858538
Making the Invisible Visible: A Look at Building Tools for Square Developers
All phones have undeletable apps provided by their manufacturers. For example, on iPhones you cannot delete Messages, Phone, Safari, Clock, Photos, Health, App Store, and Camera in a conventional way.
No, it is not. It was a metaphor.
Yes it absolutely does. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/
> Taxis also requires you to carry physical cash,

That's a bit stone age. Here in Scandinavia I never take cash when I go to one of the other countries, all the taxis take plastic.
Data Science Ephemeralization: a minimalistic yet general approach to DS
I really don't like the Cambria Math font, alternative ones are

* XITS https://github.com/alif-type/xits (port of STIX, kind of looks like Times New Romans which is not my preferred style but still better than Cambria Math)
* https://github.com/firamath/firamath for Sans Math font

In generally I think Computer Modern is okay, I am not enthusiastic about it.
Going through Marie Kondo's process was amazing for me. I've tried so many times to get organized, and her book seemed to address the exact reasons why each of my previous attempts has failed. And it really, really, worked.

I would encourage anyone trying it to actually give the stupid sounding stuff in it a try. For instance, I found with items I was having a hard time letting go of, verbally thanking them for their service and saying goodbye, as she suggests, actually worked. Somehow it seems to satisfy whatever part of your brain is reticent to part with a particular thing.
The colors remind me of editing MS-DOS files & drive structures with Norton Disk Doctor! Fantastic!
==> This operation has freed approximately 3.3GB of disk space.

Wow, thanks
why does specific data need a rebuttal?
Do sentimental items provide utility? Only if you define utility in a way that includes "owning this makes me feel particularly good even though the object itself isn't otherwise functional." Which sounds a lot like "sparks joy."
The ability to communicate in another language can really only be a positive development for any individual group.
Except the high healthcare prices are paid by the working class...
The Real Problems with Artificial Intelligence
Also, they make extensive arguments against LaTeX based on the fact that they think that text in their preferred text editor is hard to read.
It's not windows support, it's WSL support.
but if you want to disable colours in this why not use hexdump or xxd :D . it's like the only feature it adds to standard hexdump tools
I bought Nokia 6.1s for my parents. Only $225 for a phone with great build quality, more than acceptable performance, quick security updates and a pure Android experience. The 32GB of storage is plenty for them.

The biggest drawback is probably the camera which although not horrible is a few years behind recent flagship phones. Not everyone cares about having the latest greatest camera on their phone. The camera is perfectly fine for my Mom to send me a picture of the latest thing she saw at Costco for a great price which she thinks I need to get and that will account for 90% of photos taken with their phones.

Mid-range Android phones that are part of the Android One program have really started making it difficult to justify spending the money flagship Android phones are costing these days.
How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor
I think the opinion that the title is quite "gossipy" for HN is shared with a good portion of the community. I was entirely ready to just disregard the post after skimming the comments, but your point about splitting of assets is a great topic for discussion.

What has happened historically when an executive gets divorced? Is this is the first high-profile tech company executive divorce?
Ask HN: How do you normally choose your database?
We all know there is a ton of DB technologies out there and "apparently" one size doesn't fit all.

There are multiple ways to evaluate and choose database technologies, but there is no common ground/sense about the process developers or an IT professional follows to select the DB they are going to use (or buy).

Some might choose primarily by performance, others choose by the number of features or even by the trustability of the brand offering it (e.g AWS, GCP).

That said, what's process you normally follow to choose database technologies for your company/project?
flagged! let's keep hacker news an ivory tower, ok?
You can buy love until you get married and she wants her payday.
The reason why Cory wants to hitch on Uber is because he knows people trust Uber more than a random app they've never heard; he says so himself, when he recounts his Shanghai experience. So you'd find the driver on Uber (borrowing its trust network) before switching to the other app. But that also shows why his argument against Uber is flawed: they can charge more money because they actually provide a better service by being available worldwide, unlike these local apps. If the Meta-Uber were to kill the host, it would destroy itself.
I'm not sure why you're not replying to that comment, but yes, there's a bunch of software created to have better defaults than vanilla TeX. This reinforces the point.
My partner made me watch a few episodes on Netflix. I was pretty sceptical about finding something innovative in the show but thought her approach made a lot of sense for physical things.

I was wondering about translating it into organising my digital life. What's equivalent to step 1: Clothes? Probably video downloads or other large media in the Downloads folder that take up a lot of space and carry little emotional attachment.

It gets harder to figure out how to organize important documents, though. But they should probably be united in one "heap" first, too, maybe with annotations.

Luckily we don't need to let go of many things in the digital realm, so organising things with emotional attachment is a lot easier.
up in netherlands
People. Twitter doesn't read your mind and post without permission. Its on the person who wrote it. Now, of course, language can be a barrier and regional conventions, but I doubt those are the issue.

This reminds me a bit on the discussion of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633985 where some folks were trying to justify that it was ok to throw their used paper towel on the floor instead of the trash. A person is responsible for the pain they intentionally bring others.
He chose his own biography title:

“Khosla, Gatekeeper”
The parent asked about the

> virtuous yet intangible quality of non-economically beneficial "wholesome" education

How could I possibly provide evidence of an intangible benefit? All I can do is show that they provide the education that's supposed to have this quality.
Very nice!

It's also interesting that it differs from this search[1] performed in HN's own search system.

[1] [pdf] with filtering on Past Year -> 4,422 hits.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%5Bpdf%5D&sort=byPopularity&pr...
Most of the people who actually put work into it don't make their money from profits. Their salaries are paid. Plus, these companies basically burn VC money to starve competition.
Bay area housing prices have been in steady decline for a few months now as well.
The pattern matching story has not reached a conclusion, though it is getting there slowly.

But that’s an important Nim philosophy - do not put into the language things if you can efficiently and nice-syntaxly implement them in a library. Once pattern matching is sufficiently mature - if it is too slow as a macro library, or the syntax too cumbersome - it will likely find its way to a core language feature.

But if it’s good enough, it will stay a library (possibly, but not necessarily, part of the standard library); why burden the language?
Rush Hour 1 through 3 have long been some of my favourite movies!

If we're getting into Jackie Chan movies, though, one cannot leave out Drunken Master
I only know very little on the surface of chip design in general. My impression is yes, expertise are transferrable. Although the key here is cultivating market and hone the operational prowse, those also require time to do.
If you’re going 20% down with 4% closing costs it’s more like $360k.

I honestly think a lot of buyers have paused into a “wait and see” mode.
What did you do before? Was it a total career change, or just getting MS/PHD in same field? Also did you name on of your kids null?
I wrote my electrical engineering thesis in 2005 using LaTeX. My university had a style guide file for thesis submissions. All I had to do was focus on content of my thesis and a little wrangling to make images look nice. The formatting, typesetting, fonts, sizes, margins, all of it was taken care of. To not have to worry about that was amazing. Thank goodness the style file was already there for me to use. I love LaTeX, but I know some of its limitations and its not intended for the layperson.
Except this hasn't been true since about 1980. Gains from economic growth have not been passed on to everyone. Health care is not available for everyone, especially. This isn't just a matter of technology.

The "cost" of production of medical technologies has very little to do with their price, in the US anyway.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm now evaluating a bunch of my prior writing.... Eh that's a lot of red!
My parents have a basement overflowing of stuff that is full of potential utility, so I think that the joy aspect is to provide a different view point so people let go more easily.
Congratulations on the success of your investigation and reflection! Undertaking that effort makes you an exceptional individual IMO.

The medium of the internet brings out the worst in all of us -- even the most empathetic among us are worse people on the net than IRL, because we are all missing that feedback.
Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie splitting after 25 years
You are contending there is not a bubble, while the data presented indicates that there is a bubble. I was wondering if you had any data or analysis to back up your "no bubble" assertion or rebut the "bubble" assertion?
Good data point. Although there are no individuals with $2B yearly income, It would be good idea to put same the upper limit for the __effective__ marginal tax rate in every income bracket.

Poor people can have very high effective marginal tax rates.

> To put it another way, the effective marginal tax rate when a person moves from the bottom to the middle quintile is 1 - (15.4-12.9)/(12.6-2.2), or 76 percent.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2018/06/an-effective-marginal...
Or you could allow more houses to be built. The market can’t work if building is restricted.
If you ever want to understand why parts of Silicon Valley has a 16:1 new jobs:new homes ratio, check out this twitter: https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/999364778907914245

The NIMBYism is insane. You have people who own $2M houses ($1.9M of which is capital gains) complaining about gentrification and ruined neighborhood character.
There is no data (or even a link to a study) in this article that gives the the reader any sense of what the mortality gap between the wealthy and poor is, or even how "wealthy" and "poor" are defined. I come away from this article with a better idea of the male/female mortality gap than the wealthy/poor gap (one of the article's two headline claims).

I've noticed that politicized headlines in non-editorials that aren't suppprted by any facts or data are an increasing media trend in the past few years. I saw this in another article I commented on a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794757

If it's a real problem (which I believe it probably is), journalists shouldn't ignore "show, don't tell" in their writing.
Apple also ships with a bunch of their apps that I would classify as crapware but unlike on Android I can't replace them as defaults with 3rf party apps of my choosing.
So here is where I'm coming from. Does a hammer provide "joy", maybe I haven't used a sander in over a year. I don't miss it; it doesn't provide joy, but it is very useful when needed. Do photographs and souvenirs and personal items provide utility, I'd say so.
a steady decline from a massive high..

we started 2018 with a 3.95% for 30 year mortgage, it went all the way up to 4.94% in november. sure, it's declined since then, but only to 4.51% current rate which is still much higher than what we started 2018 at
> Then he actually has a hard time putting forth arguments against latex

One of the main things he does point out is that the justification often used to promote LaTeX is complete bullshit. "You should use LaTeX because you spend too much time trying to worry about what size your title should be in Word." No, I don't.

He also points out that, even if you prefer writing markup yourself to WYSIWYG, LaTeX isn't exactly the simplest markup. Stuff like restructured text or markdown (hell, even HTML in many cases!) has much less intrusive formatting information than LaTeX does. LaTeX is designed for final typesetting, and it has too much overhead for the majority of writing cases where you don't care about final typesetting at all.
The author fundamentally misunderstands the argument for LaTeX. The point isn't that people in word processors spend absurd amounts of time deciding what fonts to use or might make stupid choices about formatting. In both word processors and LaTeX, people do the same thing: they write to match a style guide.

In LaTeX you drop in a class file that defines your style guide and boom your whole LaTeX document is now formatted according to that style guide. If later you want a different style guide, switch out the class file and you've got something different. Need to write your bibliography in a different style, swap out the file defining that and all your references are changed.

That's the point that advocates of LaTeX are making. You separate the content and presentation. Your LaTeX just contains the content and the style guide indicates how to actually format that content.

Now, LaTeX doesn't actually do a great job at this. It shows its age. Its got a lot of messiness due to the fact that at hard its a macro expansion language. Its not quite possible to get away with putting everything to do with the style in the class file.
I liked Rush Hour, but according to IMDB he's been quoted as saying those are some of his least favorite movies.
> If you want to get further away from D&D, well, what direction do you want?

SF or Cyberpunk
No I wouldn’t want to owe the entire amount of the loan but if I can’t pay off the loan or the forgiven amount I’m screwed either way. Just in the latter situation I’m relatively less screwed.
Never had crapware other than google ‘s own spyware.