skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay. Still doesn't change anything. Stack Overflow has officially made plenty of official announcements on political issues that I oppose, despite being an active user.
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The first lady is expected to pursue social projects in the US and serve an almost head of state like position.

Those who actively pursue the role do a good job of staying in the limelight. For example, Michelle spearheaded a number of projects like her shift to require more nutritional school lunches.

It's an interesting position, and I wonder how things will be for the first first husband, if it happens and it's not Bill.
>Right, 10 years in and bitcoin has proven it's value as a digital alternative to gold.

Meh, it's far more volatile than gold. What it has done is proven it's value as the cash-equivalent of the internet for illicit trade.

It is hard to say how much bitcoin (and other cryptos) are used for illicit trade but one simply has to log onto a darknet market and look at the number of reviews for specific product listings, or for entire seller accounts to see that likely tens of millions of dollars a day in exchanges are occurring across 'publicly known' darknet markets, the bulk of that for drugs although still a decent amount for digital services like credit card dumps as well as fake identification/documents/coupons, weapons etc.

I even found human remains for sale on a darknet market while attempting to get a rough idea of how much commerce is taking place on them early last year. Multiple sellers had basically every major bone in the human body for sell including dozens and dozens of skulls . Now, you can buy skulls on the clear net but they're often well-handled medical specimens. I got the very distinct impression these were absolutely grave-robbed remains.
That’s a really interesting point. It does seem that we’ve (the US) got a long tradition of the First Lady (and First Gentleman once the time comes) taking a big role in politics.

At the risk of sounding ignorant, do most other countries require their president-equivalent to live in a government building? If not, perhaps that’s a contributing factor?
Why, because they show you ads for tracked interests? Something they're quite upfront about, and allow you to opt-out of if you'd like.

Is that so "evil" that it somehow outweighs the hundreds of open-source projects they've released? Or the extremely useful free-services they provide like Maps and Search? The thousands of jobs they've created in our industry? The new protocols they've released for free to the IETF? The security bugs they've helped uncover?

Google does an immense amount of good for society. I don't understand how people can so easily lose sight of that.
I recommend swimming laps, if you have a place where you can do that. It's a fantastic workout, and easier on the body.
This, more than anything else, is why we won't see serious Dapps. Turing completeness doesn't belong on the blockchain and the idea of making everyone run everyone else's code (and branching to code they can't see) was awful from Day 1.

This is exactly why Satoshi didn't include these features in Bitcoin.
No borrow checker is intentional. I believe the intended workflow is that one uses the regular Rust compiler for that. Which should be doable for embedded systems (for which I think mrustc is most relevant for), as it supports cross-compiling rather well.
I began reducing the carbs in my diet due to what I believe is gluten intolerance. I'm basically doing a Paleo diet. I've lost 25 lbs in the past 3 months, and feel great. I have no cravings. I'm done eating sugar and any high carb food (pizza, etc). My wife feels that I'm very regimented but my intolerance to gluten makes me so. I feel better and hope to have a longer life as a result.
Website owners already know your rough geographic location via IP address. If it's that big of a concern for you, you should route 100% of your traffic through a VPN.
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> A related phenomenon I've been thinking about is the impact of traditional entertainment media (TV, Movies and Music) and the inherent bias in the sample of worldviews that the people who work in those businesses espouse.

Agree, to the extent that we consume that media for purposes other than entertainment. I would argue that most of what entertains us is created by "insane" people, and that's ok. Same about art.
You could say the same about many people in positions of influence -- sometimes they just kind of luck into it. It's like asking why anyone cares what the queen of England thinks -- because she has power and influence. Some first ladies choose to do more with that platform than others though...
Clickbait. But totally accurate.
Of course I understand. What I'm saying is that comment/information should be available eagerly, by the company, upfront to all of their customers when they found out about this problem without requiring a journalist.
>The prolific commenters are molding every discussion in their image.

This is actually why disinformation works so well. Many people are consumers. A handful of people create content. Everyone has an expected behavior in a rather fragile system. If an organized group comes in and acts in a way that is outside of the system norms, they can very much control the dialog.

I did a project on this during my Masters. [1] Reddit has an option to display your upvotes and downvotes publicly. About 2% of users have this option enabled. I scraped a random sample that I found from the torrent of all Reddit posts and comments. I looked at pairs from that set that shared common votes and the highest pair was from /r/the_donald. This behavior is what allowed it dominate the front page for so long. When most users are just voting on 1 or 2 things per page, and someone else comes along and votes for every post they see, it can greatly affect what is displayed.

When you have a small set of people controlling a conversation, they can manipulate what a huge number of people consume. Social media is an incredibly effective propaganda machine!

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/82ylpv/_/d...
I'm not clear as to why that'd be faster than what we/PG has done. On a quick skim that allows for conflicts in the hashtable, which our new implementation doesn't? Ours is also a C array (albeit of offsets into one blob of string srather than the strings directly, the higher data density achievable due to that was worth it).
I agree. It's fine to let something stay a side project. Having a company setup that pays for a lifestyle and stays fairly passive is a success based on the original intention.

Founders can look back and say "I could have had more" or "I could have been like X multi-million dollar company", but then the company is no longer a side project. Then the company is your life, which seems contrary to the initial motivation if the point of a side project is to not work 24/7 in a CEO lifestyle filled with meetings and managing.
>The message was clear in August 2016 when the company laid off the editorial staff of its trending news team, shortly after some workers on that team leaked to the press that they were suppressing conservative-leaning stories.

So - All the claims of censorship for conservative views. it's true then? I previously thought it was an excuse.

How can we have a dialogue as a nation, if we don't allow opposite positions to speak?
Or rather 62 million preferred him enough to the alternative to vote for him in the national election. Among that 62 million were probably very many genuine supporters, but I think that a lot of them chose to read what they wanted into his rhetoric. So it's a bit more nuanced than that.

On the other hand part of the reason he seemed like such an outlier might be because the consensus he seemed to deviate from was itself driven by outliers.
That's really cool. Any tips on identifying startups with this work-life balance?
If you actually wanted to make the roads safer, you'd build physical "traffic calming" obstacles like speed bumps or chicanes [1]. Switzerland is full of these, and they're very effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane#Traffic_calming
Not necessarily, as talents at that level which are valued in top tech may be different than talents at that level that are valued at growing startups.

There a variety of companies that pay top dollar for talent, straddling early stage startups all the way through established companies. That doesn't mean it's easy to get those jobs. It does mean that you should apply your talents where it fits.

BTW, you don't need to be at a unicorn to earn top EV. 1% of a 100M exit is 1M, which is more than the vast majority of equity grants I've heard of from FANG. Many people put 0 value on startup equity. Those people decrease their lifetime EV through misconceptions of statistics.
Attention? Attention
> Is there something I'm missing?

Yes, they don't have their own crawler for regular websites. They get their organic search results from Bing and Oath.
https://twitter.com/Package_Control/status/10837381368475729...
Value Types Are Coming to the JVM (2018)
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Zenefits is an example of a surefire unicorn that made too many mistakes and lost most of its value very quickly.

The key points are:

1. Startup valuations are highly volatile. There were plenty of startups that were valued above the billion dollar levels, then sold for 8 or even 7 figures.

2. While profitable established companies can also go south, such companies pay you in cash and liquid RSUs, so if they spiral down you just switch to a better performing company. Getting most of your pay in illiquid options means you risk losing multiple years of earnings in the best part of your career.

Specifically, tons of talented people took a job in Zenefits based on the assumption that their illiquid shares will be worth six-seven figures, and likely will never see anything close to that in real money. Same thing wouldn't happen for those paid in liquid assets.
I have no doubt the 'for profit' part will be taken out sooner than later. Never rely upon a law where it's seemingly justified by a few extra rules.
It will most likely be smaller junior "partners" like canada, poland, etc for the time being. Maybe New Zealand, Australia or Norway will be next? It all depends on how much pressure Trump and his backers want to put on China. If he truly wants to escalate, he'll tell major "partners" like britain or germany to arrest a chinese exec/official. After that, it will be direct and open US vs China hostilities. But I highly doubt we'll get that far.

As for china, I suspect they'll arrest a polish or a poland-linked exec/official of some kind just like they did with canada or enact sanctions on poland. They have to respond or they'll look weak. It's geopolitics 101.
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Ok, we've put a loophole in the title above.
Your idea of well defined and mine are somewhat different :)
PureScript has a C++ back-end, which is an interesting prospect: https://github.com/andyarvanitis/purescript-native

Our development process is very pleasant. We use VS Code, .NET Core and Ionide as an IDE. I find an IDE essential for languages with global type-inference.

For bundling, we use Core RT to create a self-contained application. This is then bundled using Warp (https://github.com/dgiagio/warp) to generate a single binary.

The script is here https://github.com/LoopPerfect/buckaroo/blob/866ae97ffc82ab8...

The final binary size is quite reasonable:

- Linux 66.1 mb

- macOS 63.9 mb

- Windows 35.4 mb

I haven't investigated why Windows is so much smaller!
Thanks. Indeed, I've found relationships and building trust to be incredible factors of success that often get missed out in all the entrepreneurial advice out there. And trust comes from just working really hard for your customers.

I've also found that some VCs don't get what we're doing (because they're not part of the industry) and some do. At least here in the UK anyway. So I've shifted my strategy somewhat to try and leverage corporate VCs while also getting them to bring us into the enterprise market.
To be clear, "OSS predates CSS" is not a refutation for "CSS makes the OSS ecosystem larger and more robust". Apologies if that's not the point you were trying to make.
It's totally true that there are lots of people in the world who don't have the circumstances to make a business like this happen right now.

But there are many, many people who do have the circumstances to make it happen, and who would benefit from it, but who make wrong choices and waste their time elsewhere. Those are the people who the article is intended for.

Speaking more broadly - The fact that this business strategy isn't immediately available to every person on Earth doesn't seem that fruitful of a point to make. Why does this come up every time someone posts about anyone doing anything entrepreneurial and succeeding? What is the message for disadvantaged people in our society? "You have no chance of succeeding because of your circumstances; give up now"? Somehow, this external-locus-of-control [0] viewpoint seems very attractive to people to the point that they actually want to spread it memetically. And yet it's been pretty well demonstrated that this style of thinking is actually harmful to people to who engage in it.

Even for many of the people who can't immediately carry out a strategy like that in the blog post - many of them could, with some time and preparatory action, get themselves into a position where it's possible. Consider someone who lacks skills, connections, and experience. They cannot reasonably expected to start a company right there and then. They can be expected to get a job, spend a few years getting experience and connections, move up a rung or two, then perhaps quit and go entrepreneurial. If that's out of the cards, they can likely study to move towards the point where getting a job in the target field is feasible.

Yes, there are people who are so downtrodden that they can't even take steps towards getting into a position where they can do better. And some people won't get all the rewards they deserve, in some moral sense. But the great majority of people can do something to improve their lot, even if it isn't exactly like what goes on in this blog post.

Even consider the author of the post - he didn't just start this business from college; his success here depended on the years of work he did before and the connections and experience he built from that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
I feel like one of the best things you can do if you're trying to lose weight is to consciously avoid the urge to finish everything on your plate. Try to habitually leave some food on your plate. I call it leaving an offering to the food gods. I think this leads to better mindfulness about what and how much we are eating.
The problem with using the map is that you can't see most of it when you first load the game. So you have to play more (and build up more state) before you get to a completely unique solution. Being able to use the starting equipment makes it much simpler.
> "Um, actually, I prefer a nice mead"

Now that you mention it, I actually DO prefer a nice mead. Nice mead is amazing.

Get yourself 15 pounds of honey and give it a shot if you have brewing equipment or know anyone that does.
It's an user-experience problem: for an audiobook, Book of Why is quite dense in formula that are hard to visualize when spoke as words.

For example, consider what happens if we try to describe a causal diagram in words

"A points to B, A points to X, B points to Y, and X points to Y. Now, if we apply do(X) to the diagram, we see that we can Y is now no longer a child of..."

or even simple formulas in words:

"P of A given B times P of B is equal to P of B given A times P of A"

For most of us, this sort of deal is hard to "get" and would be much better served if we just looked at a visual diagram or saw the equation.

I personally had to repeat many sections over and over again with a notebook and pencil in hand to truly understand what was being read to me... but if I'm taking notes and creating visuals for myself, then I might as well have just gotten the paper variant of this book lol.
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We are allowed to be wrong. That is why I don’t care to correct random people anymore.
Would you rather start an outdoors civil protest in the Winter or the Summer?

Its been proposed that Thatcher allowed the miners strike to occur but only during the Summer when the effects of lack of coal (power cuts) would be less.

There's some speculation that Occupy Wall Street collapsed in the bitter cold. Many UK riots seem to happen on warm summer nights.

Has anyone done an research or written about this? Can we expect the Yellow Vests to be less successful in this winter than in the summer?
https://github.com/nhivp/Awesome-Embedded
Cool to know. Do you use any framework for the backend? And if you don't mind what's the project? I am thinking about using Rust for one of my projects but I am still unsure if I should use it instead of something like NodeJs or Python.
The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming
As Matt Levine likes to say, everything is securities fraud!
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F9qwg8YJY
I was surprised to see an enormous sign saying YORKSHIRE, although i suppose if a Yorkshireman put up a sign it would hardly be a small one. Having squinted at the pixels, i think it was probably an advert, or an office sign, for an insurance company:

https://heritage.aviva.com/our-history/companies/y/yorkshire...

There's another sign for an insurance company, Aachen & Munich, below it.
> to have each group actually be independent, and to work together the way components of a market economy do.

If you look at truly revolutionary making environments like Xerox Parc, they are like this, no bosses and small groups.

However, what you didn't see in Xerox Parc is a market economy. Why? Because competition destroys invention.

Humans are not meant to compete with each other. Markets are another artificial environment, but of course, Paul doesn't see that because he is the fish in the fishbowl.
If you want to look at it that way, sure. Most communities ban certain behaviors to cultivate a welcoming culture for their target audience. Even HN has the guidelines which highly discourages certain posting behaviors to keep comment threads civil.
There is nowhere near enough grass to feed nearly all Texas cattle to marketable size in Texas. Nearly all commercial cattle are bred and born in Mexico from US genetic stock and transferred to the US for fattening with cattle feed because it is cheaper to breed in Mexico and feed in the US. Last I checked only about 3% of US beef was fully grass fed. So it's fully possible you know some grass fed ranchers, but it's unlikely that the second biggest export in Texas is possible without massive amounts of cattle feed. Grass fed beef tasting better is subjective but the costs associated with the process appear to dictate that to consumers it's something they are willing to pay for.
>Today, we still remember the names of

So you're living based on how you will be remembered by strangers? That sounds incredibly unfulfilling and doesn't sound like a good way to live. In a few hundred more years almost no one will remember the names of those people either.

>da Vinci, Tesla, Turing

It's incredibly safe to say that you are not going to be as successful as these people. Almost no one achieves this much success in the sciences. At most you will probably advance your field by a few useful steps and then be personally forgotten about except in research paper footnotes.

>not because they had a successful family

You know who cares about you and remembers you more significantly than as a research footnote? Your family.

>I just want to keep the dream I had as a kid

Man, don't we all.
Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
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China is exporting surveillance tech to Venezuela
My Mistake. I try to be good about that, for some reason it just popped up in my aggregator and I did not look closely at the date.
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Does this apply to monero as well?
Ask HN: What would your ideal issue tracker look like?
Issue trackers are something every development team needs, but no one ever seems happy with. Jira is slow and crusty, Trello doesn't scale well for large organizations, and so on.

If you could manifest it just by imagining it, what would your ideal issue tracker look like?
Is there no way to countersue Bird Scooter for economic harm?
This 1000x. The field is huge. Get the common basics down, then pick a specialization that seems interesting or useful.
Yeah, they just gave it to China.
For those on the outside, especially outside the tech scene all together, looking in, a multi million dollar series A for a company of under 10 employees looks like easy money, compared to say someone trying to run their mom and pop retail shop. Of course most people forget that this money isn't free, there's cost and expectations around how that money will be used.
Do you have any sources to back you up? I was never obese, but i definitely was on the "healthier" side back in the day (~182 pounds at 5'8"). Going to gym and running or working out gives you a perspective of how much work you need to do to burn even 100 calories. Iirc, A can of coke contains ~160 calories, two oreo cookies contain around that amount as well. Once you start thinking about how many calories you need to burn to eat those things, your diet becomes significantly healthier. And before someone says anything about not being able to control themselves, i will still finish an entire pack of cookies in one sitting if i buy them. What has helped me is not to buy them outright itself.
For anyone interested in how some of the modern history is shaping up from a language perspective, check out the Language RFC repo: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/
I agree that exercise can be helpful for appetite suppression. Although, it appears that this effect varies by type of exercise and other factors.

https://health.usnews.com/wellness/fitness/articles/2017-07-...
It also feels more like "real" programming.
A lot of web development is dealing with BS problems resulting from building apps on a platform that was never meant for applications in the first place.
I thought for sure this would be a post about Instagram destroying marriages. I'm sure that's more prevalent than the "husbands" profiled in the article. As it is, this is just blind promotion of a fairly toxic lifestyle.
1000 m < 5500 m

What we do on the surface has far more effect on these species than does the researchers' mud-digging at far greater depths.
A discussion about this book on the statistics StackExchange, with some interesting answers: "The Book of Why by Judea Pearl: Why is he bashing statistics?"
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/376920/the-book-of...
Armed guard transporting 'very special load' for Apple killed in crash
What was your equity compensation at these companies? Given that many (most?) companies refresh equity grants, it's very possible that after a full vesting period (usually 4 years) that you would then have multiple RSU grants vesting every year. With ~150k annually in RSUs, 150-200k base salary and 15-25% bonus is how lots and lots of people attain compensation this high.
An old client of mine, an actual mom and pop operation in Germany was harassed and was almost ran out of business by a law-firm who went around, the moment GDPR dropped, trying to find targets to sue.