skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step one to solving any problem is recognizing there is one. In words from Rambo, you need to come full circle with your fear that...

1) You don't know shit

2) Learning requires patience and time

3) It's ok to take a step back and start from square one

I approach learning new programming languages, hardware design concepts and software design concepts very similar to how I might approach hiking through a forest, mountain, etc.

If I'm hiking i'm usually taking the most interesting scenic route I can take out of pure curiosity. This drives my interest as I'm hiking wondering what might I see around the bend or just over the next ridge. This part is crucial for me to keep going otherwise lost of interest is high and the end goal of getting to the top seems less rewarding.

The same concept should be applied to learning. There should be an elevating amount or sustainable amount of interest towards the end goal of learning something new. Each chapter of a book or functional line(s) of code that does something should excite you and elevate or at the very least sustain your level of interest.

I'm probably one of the weakest software engineers (or possibly was) at my company mostly because I'm a first generation college student and engineer out of my family. I grew up on a farm and ranch where most of these resources were limited. I've had to spend more time on improving my skills and learning new things than probably the vast majority of individuals in our software department have. This methodology I've mentioned above has done wonders for me and has shaped my character/personality to how I approach problems and learning new skills.
In short, building more housing for "rich" people frees up more housing for everyone.

This is not true. Building too much housing for rich people simply results in a lot of empty housing. See for example, Manhattan or Vancouver, which have hundreds of empty condos that could be occupied by locals but are instead owned by wealthy foreigners who leave the units vacant.
At this point, maybe just delete your Facebook account?
I have used one of the smaller and cheaper competitor products just for chat support, Tawk. We do try to review the incoming messages once in a while. If more than 2 customers asked the same question, then we should probably fix that on the website.

More often than not though, some customers just don't like digging through FAQ and KBs. They just prefer to get personal help.
I guess I'm kind of confused- additional value to what exactly? The GDP in America is massive but I don't know what are the returns of a growing GDP to my experience as a human, to my family, to my friends, to my quality of life. Will I pass by less homeless people on the way to work if I work harder? Will there be less hungry children in my schools if I make the economy grow, and by how much? What "additional value" is actually occuring?

(EDIT: This is a genuine question; I'm not highly educated on economics and I'd like to know the approximate models that currently exist on how much growing the economy helps numbers like homeless population, healthcare coverage, lifespan, birth survival, food security...)
> They do when regulators come calling with significant penalties.

I'm pretty sure Facebook considers pissed off regulators a regular cost of doing business.
I find the notion that morality can be objectively demonstrated by convincing a majority that your viewpoint is correct very interesting notion...

In any case, I also think the charge of racism is a bit uncalled for, the complete disregard for human suffering exemplified by the firebombing campaigns are surely enough to qualify as very serious war crimes all on their own.

(Though to claim that an America that was interning all its japan connected citizens in camps was acting without any racial impulses do seem rather implausible)
Right, and what’s happening now is Spotify choosing not to send free pizza to those people anymore. What’s the matter with that?
This is just the “exposure” argument. Not every client converts to being a paid user. The kind that use free service and then block ads may not convert at a high enough rate to justify providing the service. Especially since it also cannibalizes the other product (paid streaming). The marketing team can then decide they’re not worth it.
I believe it's safe to assume that (1) You sell a product or service for which people pay you, or (2) You derive an income working for someone else that sells a product or service for which people pay, or that (3) You receive financial support from someone who is within one of the above.

What happens to the food on your table when people take that product or service without giving you money for it?
Exactly- everyone just wants to be seen as siding with the winner. I specially see it on "hacker" news actually.
I think it’s common usage that investor is implied? I invest in tech companies at the seed stage.
> Because a) humans have been wildly successful, and b) the fact that our brain is inordinately expensive, so if a new class of non-conscious humans that were equally adept as conscious ones ever arose, they would easily outcompete us for resources.

Assuming that there's an extra cost to consciousness. The problem here is that nobody knows how to fit consciousness into the physical picture. There's clearly a correlation, but we don't know how and what that entails.
Yea of course it's not for everyone, everyone have different concern, but I could see myself work on this if it paid well.
I don't believe that it was a unfair race so to speak. In my knowledge it were the German scientists who moved to US and helped US develop the bomb. US may have had the resources but it definitely lacked the knowledge for building bomb which German surely possessed.
This is pretty crazy. I love it.
Exactly. The whole HQ2 Willy Wonka show was never going to move to some area that really really needed it. NYC is currently a boom town, and I as a NYer am disappointed that we gave them such a huge amount of tax breaks. I support NY perhaps lifting some of its bureaucracy to make such a large move here possible, but do not support giving Amazon money.

Amazon needs NYC because it has a metro area of 20 million people with more developers than Silicon Valley, and also many other skilled people in management and business. The days of someone moving to a company town to work for them are over as you have seen with GE moving to Boston and other corporate moves. Nobody is going to move to a small city to work for Amazon.
Did the same, after a while I just deleted the thing.

Nothing of value was lost
So the technology to defeat this kind of obfuscation has already been developed and is reliable?
> I said the military saw no military utility in hiroshima and nagasaki

How do you reconcile that with the commonly held historical view? Or is that merely your own personal opinion?

"Hiroshima was a city of both industrial and military significance. Hiroshima was the headquarters of the 2nd General Army 第2総軍 (日本軍) with responsibility for most of western Japan including Kyushu as well as a depot and port of embarkation in the middle of an urban industrial area. It was a good radar target and it was such a size that a large part of the city could be extensively damaged. There are adjacent hills that were likely to produce a focusing effect that would considerably increase the blast damage. Due to rivers, it was not a good incendiary target. It was classified as an AA(Prime)Target. It had a military garrison of about 40,000 men. Hiroshima was the primary target for the August 6 attack, with Kokura and Nagasaki as alternatives. Far from being an innocent city full of civilians, the garrison of 40,000 soldiers were doing calisthenics when the bomb exploded and were in fact the largest single group of casualties in the city.

Nagasaki was a major industrial city making torpedoes and ammunition. Mitsubishi Steel, Orikami Ordinance Works and a large engine works dominated the production in the city in addition of a large garrison. There were also a major dockyard used for the transport of men and materials to the north. It, too, was a high priority target but was a secondary target that was only hit if the primary target was too cloud covered for a visual drop on the primary."

https://www.quora.com/Did-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki-have-milita...
This is now one of the things I screen for at any new job. At my current company, we've banned PowerPoint for any internal communication, and use text for just about everything.
Yeah but scandal attracts eyeballs and people are more interested in spectacle than choosing the morally superior option
on a side note, that's going to be 2 million less users in their ML feeds (1.3 percent of the user base)
I'm currently developing a facility to do live updating of processes with running game loops in Go. If one were to add in dynamically loadable libraries (working in Linux, last I checked) one could have the same facility for changing a single endpoint in Go. (It could also be implemented with small executables and reverse proxies.)

I think what this demonstrates is that Go isn't a better PHP. Rather, we're at the point where Go could be used to build a better PHP. The most likely paths for this, are to somehow come up with a big group of developers with a penchant for doing this, and/or have some big company fund this.
--"I have little doubt that the current president will be confronted by a stack of previously sealed criminal indictments on the afternoon of the next president's inauguration day. Those cases will be tried in courts with a fixed standard of proof--beyond reasonable doubt for criminal cases, and preponderance of evidence for civil cases."

The precedent has already been set there also -- both Bill and Hillary Clinton have remained free of prosecution in spite of all the many criminal conspiracies they engaged in.

There's no debate there was just as much, if not more, dirt and conspiracy around them when they were in office as there is around the current occupant of the White House.
Check out this new item in the toy box. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/funky-mirror-turns-e...
type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where your immune system kills the beta cells that live on the pancreas. you can get donar beta cells that will work but your immune system will just kill them off again. This only works with immunosuppresents which will cause 10x more issues than just taking insulin.
The epidemic of JS heavy ads is there for 2 reasons: 1. fraud, 2. tracking

I myself is skeptical about advertisements having future as such. In the age of the Internet, ads are the least useful method to discover product info.

The analogy for Internet ads today is like if modern cars were propelled by horses - an unviable arrangement. I know many online only companies making good money and spending literally zero on ads. The industry will eventually follow that path.
Where's the point when you can simply create new accounts? You do not even need to verify new accounts, so you could simply push some garbage email.
Except you can do this with Spotify.

https://support.spotify.com/is/using_spotify/features/listen...
Are you involved with Haiku? I'm somewhat interested in helping.
Have you talked with a mental health professional about your anxiety? They may be able to help you with techniques to reduce it.
Sure it is... and nearly every language has concepts i like and concepts that i don't like...

The above list is just an indeed subjective list of things i don't like about PHP, although i like PHP in general and it is NOT a PHP rant!
The hard thing for platforms is that no one trusts the platform to not lie about delivery metrics. Thus the need for advertisers to run code to verify it ran and run alternative networks. No idea why advertisers trust the ad networks over say spotify. This was going the otherway then facebook's massive lies about video ad views tanked it.

Other services like twitch have done what you said and users are equally irate about ads they can't skip and are completely embedded.

Basically it sucks for all parties involved. But at the end of the day you have to monetize or die.

Also I feel a lot of users are voting that 2 coffees a month is too much for music. I'm an old so... but for most of my life music just came out of a box for free. Sure I didn't have much control over it. But when I use spotify I just or pandora or amazon I tend to just get a genre based station going and just let it roll. Just like radio. I don't have time to be futzing around with optimizing playlists and that, I literally just don't care about music very much. Hell one of my friends, when he wants to concentrate, just puts the same song on repeat all day long (8+ hours).

That used to cost: cost free, price of tape/cd ($16 / year way over priced), free(napster,piracy), free with ads (pandora)...

Hell I can't even stomach paying $12 / month to xm when I'm going to drive cross country with no coverage.
The "nuclear option" is just a senate rule. It's not a law, it's not in the Constitution.
There is no metal needle anywhere in the product. The needles are made of freeze-dried insulin. It is injected into the stomach wall where it dissolves into the bloodstream.
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Based on a lot of meetings I attend I suspect that the people who don't read or understand the 6 page format shouldn't maybe be at the meeting. A lot of meetings spend a lot of time with catching up unprepared people and almost nothing of substance gets achieved.
...by design.
The idea is to link a e-learning website to a freelancing website. Users can take courses uploaded by universities which contain course videos and course notes explaining concepts. Users can then apply what they learn in the real world by completing tasks for companies in the freelancing site. This way users can get jobs without having to pay tens and thousand of dollars in student loans
Well, neither extreme seems right. We reasonably expect Medicare to pay out for decades and plan around that even if there's a possibility of laws changing.
It's essentially no different than carrying a credit card in your wallet... The bitcoin network IS the bank, your key is your card. There's no need to horde anything under said "digital bed". It's frightening to see so many ignorant comments.
Would be curious to know what the overhead of the UBI program was compared to the overhead of whatever unemployment program it was replacing.
Well he is referring mostly to moving companies to the upstate region which actually really needs it. But I guarantee it is not convincing a company to bring 100 jobs to NYC. If Amazon wanted to build HQ2 in Utica NY or Buffalo I'd say give them all the breaks they want. But they were always going to move to a NY, Boston or DC for the talent and the contest was a sham.
> Maybe it's a sort of self-modeling feedback loop. Our brains model our physical bodies, mental state and the mental state of others. At some point, this modeling becomes sophisticated enough to become recursive. The model includes cruder approximations of those models, etc like being between two mirrors facing each other. The symbolic representations expand beyond our ability to perceive them. We become aware of our awareness. Bang! You're conscious.

I don't see how sensations like color, sound, pain arise from a feedback loop. And those sensations are what make up our conscious experiences.

It's an interesting way of approaching the problem, but it honestly sounds like a bunch of functional words strung together to magically produce qualia, because mirrors are a neat analogy.
If you get banned because of an adblocker you didn't know about, assuming you care enough to contact their customer service, I'm guessing they'd unban you.
I don't know or care about that 0.5% figure, but five percent of exports is a significant chunk of the UK's economy, yes. Are we pretending it isn't for some reason?

It will be an unusually useful flow of money in the months to come because it doesn't depend on a decent trade relationship with the EU to continue.
Do you think parenting is the only thing that has changed? It’s clearly possible for other effects to dominate.
> 2. Offer a paid version and a free version, but some people use ad blockers, and expose most of your customers to malware.
I wonder if the rise of gig-economy type work has dirtied the employment data pool? If you're out of work and looking for a employment, yet you're still scraping by a few bucks every week due to Uber or Lyft or something similar, and you're a part of a significant percentage of people doing the same then unemployment numbers probably aren't as pretty as some would like us to believe.
I think a lot of people would be surprised how much music is available for free at their local public library.

I load up my holds list online on the weekend and pick up a dozen or so CDs one day a week on the way home from work.
Why not just optimize human output like China did and incentivize education in fields that provide large scale value to society (STEM primarily) so that children are likely to deliver commensurate value to society to their costs?
Bacteriophage treatment of human infections [pdf]
I wish my company did that. Even if you write a document usually they ask for Powerpoint so after a while everything regresses to bullet points on slides.
That an entirely different discussion.

My point is that saying "people are happy but jobless" is missing the point of UBI.

UBI at this point is more an experimental pilot project to see what it does to people not to actually figure out how to pay for it which is another discussion also.

What it's not a pilot project for is to see if people get jobs as it's a proposed solution for a jobsless future for most.
I would like to see this argument based on data as opposed to your feelings. There are many years of argument about the effectivity of advertisment, with a ton of data. One can usually argue that ads are not worth the price... it's very hard to find data that they are completely ineffective. They may be less effective due to ab blocking tech but they are still able to influence people.
Rust is an llvm based language, which is to say the caveats that apply to optimizing c compilers almost all apply identically to rust since llvm at its core is more an optimizing c compiler than anything else.
Look at it this way. A VC fund has a finite number of investments to make. Typically a partner gets to say yes once or twice a year. They usually take a board seat and spend lots of time helping the company.

Knowing that many of those investments will be worthless, they want to maximize the number of shots they get towards a billion dollar company.

If 1/3 of their companies are a 3x return, and the rest become worthless, the fund has failed. They’re all aiming for the one company that will deliver the big returns that offset all the failures (and the high fees they charge LPs.)

Seed stage investors are different. YC, for instance, spends much less time with each company, and therefore can take lots of shots.

Growth stage venture is different too. They aim to invest a few years before a company goes public, and are fine with a 3x-5x return. They are taking much less risk.

The VC model also creates a fundamental tension with the founder. Founders get one shot at a time. $50M exits represent life-changing money for them (as long as they didn’t raise too much money.) VCs pressure them to take greater risks than are rational for the founder. This is why you want to look for VCs that will truly put the founder first. Or keep control of your board.

Joel Spolsky explained this well 15 years ago, so we knew about it going in and chose a founder-first VC firm.

Here’s that post: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/06/03/fixing-venture-cap...

Thoughtful VCs will do what’s right for the founder. It’s rational because their reputation matters so much when competing for investments. This has changed for the better since Joel’s post.
Checkout Laravel, it powers some Fortune 100 sites -- it's definitely "large-site" capable.
I think the consequences of blackmail are inherent in it.
All this is is getting in front of the story
Yes, the article is shitty. But I'm surprised there aren't more people discussing the headline.

The simplest reason why not to helicopter parent, in my opinion, is that it doesn't produce people I'd like to be around. With exceptions, of course, but by and large true. Helicopter-parented kids who follow their parents' carefully set path just feel... artificial, to me.
Maybe pointedly so? "Don't let the interesting be the enemy of the good."
It would have been nice if Ontario was permitted to finish our Basic Income pilot project. It would have been a valuable other data point. Sadly it was killed off before we could see any results.

The project in progress, however, saw people leave their existing jobs to, get this: go back to school full time so they could improve their lot, have children, or start businesses.

[Instead they got the rug pulled out from under them ~1 year into the program by the new government after being told they could rely on the program for 3 years]

I know it's a bit of snark, but your take is a bit simplistic and hand-wavy.
https://www.smallbatchassembly.com/
Arial or Calibri are my goto fonts. I like things to be clear and easy to read.
> $9-10 I can buy 10-12 CDs per year

For that money I can rent a cheap DSL line with which I can download 10-12 terabytes of music for absolutely free and without ads
You should probably read about J. Edgar Hoover...

He was arguably more powerful than the Presidents he supposedly served.
These are possibly a re-translation, supposedly the german originals were lost, at least that was the situation in 2013: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/09/13/what-did-the-nazis... (third paragraph)
you'd loose your liked songs library, playlists... the whole profile that makes the suggestion system work okay-ish.
Of course, radio was paid for by ads as well.
Plus is not like Manhattan land is going to drop in value any time soon. That's like money in the bank...unless NY decides to make them a landmark site.

For all we know they are seeking partners by saying we don't want to sell. This article was probably pitched
"...aged for 12 years in Mezcal barrels to give it a smoggy aroma and a robust gunpowder-magnesium chloride finish."

That is legitimately brilliant.
There's a webcast here:

http://videonet.fi/web/stm/2019028/eng/

They are very open that the trial was not perfect and should be bigger / longer / better structured. Obviously economic experiments cannot control all variables.

Interesting that the majority of the UBI recipients switched back to standard unemployment.
Or a RIB, or most inflatables.
it's hard to ensure honestly

but I think we agree, the goal is to reduce faux-slavery due to the need for basics necessities
In Finland there's no tuition and almost all students get financial aid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_financial_aid_(Finland...
Which would be a fine outcome. We're entering a real messy period where dignified, decent paying jobs are becoming scarce. All of our philosophies about work and welfare are rooted in a post WWII era where we were essentially rebuilding the world and there was more work than competent people. If we are going to insist that all productivity gains must now go directly to the capital class, we're going to need a UBI, universal healthcare and housing guarantees.

I worry that greed is too baked in, and those that have would rather let the world burn before they give the current system up.
As a non-coder it feels like the learning curve for building a website portfolio is super high - even though I am told by coders that it is not. Could anyone lend some guidance on where to start?
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Wide multi-pane diff with committer over each pane and horizontal scroll to navigate.
Yes, and many of them have failed. Pfizer's inhaled insulin was a flop and MannKind's isn't doing well. They were positioned as "no more needles!" and what they realized is that it's not enough to get people to switch.