skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, this statement -

No you probably wouldn't, as Silicon Valley attracts the top X% of the tech population

Could literally be summarized/rephrased as -

Silicon valley doesn't have a lot of black people, because it attracts top talent only.

I do presume you didn't mean it that way, which is why I didn't expand on it. But I want to point out that is the impression given.

One could argue that for a myriad of reasons, probably mostly money(again, for its own reasons), some minorities are underrepresented in the best tech schools and/or do not have the funds to up and move to the coast. That's an absolutely fair assessment. But I wouldn't assume that they are automatically not 'top talent' for those reasons. In my experience, the bay has a pretty low signal to noise ratio. Cheers.
Commenting so I can find this later. Thank's. I have a webcomic and only use about 80 lines of html. This is very attractive to spruce it up a bit.
Most large tech companies actually forbid hedging their stock's equity performance with corresponding options.
Hey Tyler, thanks for responding.

Sure, I mean different forms of capital are better in different circumstances. So in which circumstances is the form of capital you're offering better than a 20-30% APR business loan?

Asking as a profitable bootstrapped SaaS founder.
That hasn't been my experience with BMW so far, but time will tell. I do think the "M" cars are problematic and that BMW overall parts quality has gone through the floor compared to cars built in the 1990s, of which I still own one. The 2013 BMW I have has been very reliable but am awaiting the day it ain't. I'm wealthy enough to just go buy another car off the lot for cash if I want to, though.

I look at cars constantly. I would probably buy a Toyota truck if/when this BMW goes to pot. I am keeping my eye on Genesis. I hate cars with CVTs, I will never own one and I don't particularly care how good CVTs become or what, I just think they're trash.
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Your more general point is argued a little more strongly than I would argue it, but there is a stronger and more limited point against demographic comparisons between tech industry workers and the US population as a whole. That argument is that tech industry workers are hired from a global pool, not a national pool. If the Bay Area tech sector hires 200 Czech engineers in a given month, they increase the number of Czech engineers in the Bay Area tech industry by 200, and they also increase the population of Czech people in the United States by 200. Same numerator, but a different denominator. Purely by mathematical necessity, this directly causes demographic disparities.
I bought a plain, no turbo Volvo 940 for $1000 ten years ago. It's 25 years old now, and still is very reliable. Newer Volvos seem a lot more complex, and I can't help thinking that there's a lot more electronics and mechanisms that can break than in the old construction. Edit: ugh, I just realised I have become a grumpy old man.
Or replace all "infringing" videos by a public information clip on why lifelong copyright is harmful for the same period.
>For $154 you can get a lot more computer with linux.

Although I totally agree with you for that price you can get also get far more computer with Windows! Refurbished Intel machines with a windows 10 home license can be had all day long for $89+.
The entirety of the tax code that allows them to pay under 20% of their profit in taxes.
Microsoft was (nearly) giving away Windows 10 Home OEM licenses for SFF Intel Atom pcs for a short period of time. I cannot remember what this program was called to get a link for reference. Maybe someone else familiar with the program can throw in a link.
That is still greed. Money, Power, Influence, Status
Another tradeoff is size. You can pack about 4 raptors in the same area you can fit a single SSME. (Or, 8 in the space you can fit a single F-1). This is relevant because to lift the shuttle on 3 SSMEs, or the SLS on 4, they need to pack in massive amount of thrust in SRBs.

Instead of doing that with all it's cost and safety implications, SpaceX intends to put 31 raptors on the bottom of their rocket. You could not fit the same thrust in other major US engines without making the rocket comically large.
Can you cite any specific sections? Just one example!
Behavioural economics helped me kick my smartphone addiction
The problem of course being that for this to be true, housing price inflation has to be greater than general inflation

In real terms I agree house prices oscillate around zero growth (sometimes with decades long periods of higher or lower growth).

However, the leverage makes a difference. If you know bank policy is constant inflation, taking on large debt to buy an asset which tracks inflation makes sense in the long term. Over time the debt becomes less and less significant, and the asset price and yield tracks inflation/wages.

If you could borrow multiples of your wage at low interest to buy stocks for decades the same argument applies - the yield in future will outstrip the cost.
Opportunity's and Spirit's original missions were planned to last 90 Martian days each. They ended up lasting over 8,000 combined. That is almost as impressive as getting the rovers to Mars in the first place.
One of my best work hackathons was spent asking non-technical people what parts of their job sucked, and helping them automate those tasks. The last project involved updating a button that cloned data to go further, and clone some additional data. That work took me an hour, but saved a team at least 10 hours every month!
If they stockpiled revenue in banks, it would be counted as profit and taxed, which is clearly not the case.
A lot of great points, really hope you guys expand beyond the current scope. Underutilized talent is a terrible condition across many diverse industries today.
Honestly, if there were a web standard where I could opt-in to all of this tracking and it meant I would be ‘trusted’ I’d happily have my user agent send them almost anything they want. I trust Google not to fuck me.
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What an awful opinion! Instead of having a transparent tax code that the public understand and can judge, we have an obfuscated tax system that only a few people can understand, so everyone should just ignore the fact that Jeff Bozo-head is the richest man in the world and yet Amazon pays almost nothing in taxes
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> The story goes that when the Bloomberg terminal was created in the early 80s all the consoles where monochrome, and the only choices were green or orange (on black in both cases, of course).

It's probably not entirely true given there were dozens of known phosphors, and there were monochrome displays in other colors (e.g. the 1980 Apple Monitor III was available in green and white).

However assuming they went with pretty standard equipments green was by far the most common followed by amber. Amber is also somewhat softer on the eyes, which might have been an argument in favour given they'd have folks looking at these displays all day long, especially for charts which would fill the terminal with <color>: green monitors were OK when you had mostly black (text, curses interfaces) but it was way too harsh otherwise.

Our first computer actually had both green and amber displays, the amber display was dedicated for games and the like, anything which would light up a significant fraction of the display at once would go to the smaller amber monitor instead of the larger green one.
Then we disagree. I'd much rather filter based on diversity of thought/experience/knowledge if I'm looking to cover all my gaps, then base it on race where there is a chance you'll end up with group think because they all have similar thoughts/experience/knowledge.
Ya, i'm not a huge fan of 'correcting' people's preferences. I do think it's possible that part of the issue is how women are socialized, and it's also possible part of the issue is how CS is taught. However, I think the lion's share of the variance is explained by biologically innate preferences, and while there could be good arguments for changing those, I don't see any being made at the moment.
I think the MySpace narrative has always been a bit off- sure, most user pages were very much in the vein of Geocities, but that was only one problem. Very few of my friends were on MySpace, and the main reason they cited was it was too complicated. Even copy-pasting a pre-made layout was too much bother. I clearly remember multiple friends pushing me to get a FB account very hard, and often the main selling point was "easy".

Although for Twitter, I think they absolutely know the site has a problem with toxicity, but they 100% do not care. Angry people will spend longer on the site arguing, post more, and see more ads. They may say they care, but their actual business incentives push them towards maintaining the current state of discourse.
>I've never seen a lower federal budget, and the "small government" party has brought us 2 wars costing over $7 trillion over 18 years, and a perpetual war on an emotion that has caused an INCREASE in governmental size and spending, overall.

The "small government" party was in power that entire time? Why weren't they voted out and replaced by a party that wanted to end these disastrous and costly wars?
The new Reddit interface wasn't designed for users. It was designed for the customers (advertisers).
I think you'd be surprised how quickly people can pick up on an interface that is as simple as the kinds of TUIs we're talking about. These kinds of things were very common for all sorts of tasks throughout the late 80s and early 90s and I don't think I've ever heard of the learning curve being a problem.
This image generator does not understand the concept of earrings. Or stretched earlobes with plugs in them. Now and then I get a person who has these weird jewel-sores on their cheeks.

Kinda nifty.
Fish roe is apparently an excellent source of phospholipids, so health-wise, it's probably pretty good. But krill oil is probably a cheaper source.
Yes, the next step is 3D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1LYJb818Q
FWIW, the HN thread from 2 years ago, "NHTSA's full investigation into Tesla's Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction", with 800+ upvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437905
I hate Electron too, but the bi-monthly hour of Electron hate on here is a little tiresome. It's clear that it solves some major issues from a development standpoint for a lot of organizations, and it's here to stay. Slack isn't going to rewrite their app (hell they can't even implement dark mode). It's just another thing we have to get used to.
Yep one of the reasons that it lasted so long was that it was too small for an RTG so as long as it the solar panels were still somewhat intact it could operate even if the battery would essentially be completely dead.

The 90 day figure is simply the time period for which NASA asked for money to operate the thing no one is going to ask for 2, 5 not to mention 15 years worth of operating budget you usually get a few months at the time and extend it based on your needs.
Given the implications, wouldn't be a SOPA-like website blackout be in order?
Come to Turkey. We have 200+ percent tax on gasoline but no one stops refuelling.
The 45% that are disabled, retired, unemployed, or who make barely enough to live? Who cares that they pay nothing. How many citizens have $10B in annual income and pay nothing in taxes? The effective tax rate for the top 1% of citizens is about 30%... what do you think it is for the top 1% of corporations?
Or split it.
You could have a DSP kind of repeater where the satellite receives a signal, unencrypts it, reads the information inside the packet, encrypts it, and the routes it accordingly (maybe to a different antenna or to the avionics computer inside). The old designs were basically just two antennas with an amplifier in between them. If you wanted encryption, that was between you and the recipient. The satellite was pretty much agnostic to what was going through it. The benefit of even the simplest digital repeater is that your signal only has to be good enough for a one way trip. You can do higher data rates because you only need to worry about the space to ground link (ground to space usually isn't a problem since power is more available).
I wish I could give you an award for this. I've been working on developing cellular automata for solving sudoku, but you're lightyears beyond what I've so far been able to do.
I 'm curious to see the "industry" that will be set up to police this directive. The gdpr has already created an industry of 'experts', consultants and lawyers who all claim to know the One True Law (though they don't agree), a bunch of agencies etc.
Coffee.

I roast my own coffee, so I can get many pounds of green coffee for ~$6 a pound or less. Buying it pre-roasted easily quadruples the price. Buying a cup of coffee, whether a latte or trucker-stop black, is tantamount to lighting money on fire.

At the same time, I look at the markets for coffee and it strikes me that Hawaii's Kona is likely closer to the true cost of coffee production if we wanted to pay a non-exploitative and sustainable price (both are debatable, I'll admit). This doubles the price of green beans compared to other origins.

Thus not only would I pay double (because I have in the past) but I also think coffee is underpriced in the global market.
Pretty odd comment, considering Windows 10 does a lot of tracking and ads.

> Windows 10 Collects Activity Data Even When Tracking Is Disabled, But You Can Block It

https://lifehacker.com/windows-10-collects-activity-data-eve...

> We also display advertising in some services, and we’d prefer to show you ads you find interesting.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows10privacy

And the numerous steps you have to take to improve your privacy:

https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy
Oh, the problem isn't the article arguing an ethical position.

It's more the article is exploring a bunch of different concepts with all of them labeled "consciousness". I mean, would a "philosophical zombie" pass the mirror test? Does that even matter?
The article says the method traces to 1830s Chicago, but interestingly modern day Chicago doesn't look like that.
If you want more granularity I’d suggest giving uMatrix a try. You’ll basically break every site at first and have to make adjustments for every site you visit (whitelist certain Ressourcen on a per domain basis) but I think it’s well worth it.

NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS, uMatrix can block much more.
> I'm surprised that nobody seems to have used preburners to pressurize the tanks

This combines the worst of both worlds. You get the weight and complexity of turbopumps. And you get the weight, explosion risk and leakiness of pressure vessels.
I suppose BRTFS, ZFS, and XFS have feature parity in the sense that both are filesystems which work on Linux, but without checksumming to detect silent data corruption, to me XFS doesn't seem like it's in the same league as BTRFS and ZFS (and HAMMER(2) and Bcachefs).
None of those things have to do with the actual security of your code/data storage. They're procedural.

The GDPR focuses on procedural liabilities. You're asking for application level liabilities, which like I've said 3 times now, are a whole different ballgame.

Since you're so deadset on this, I'll just ask again: Who is liable for Heartbleed or for Meltdown? Who gets sued, and for how much, and why?
One in six American adults now wear a computer on their wrist
Wow, I kinda wish I worked somewhere with so few real problems they had to invent new ones just to keep busy.
Do you mean the firm that manages the retirement plan or incentive comp? Or brokerage firms in general? I don't think my personal brokerage firms knows who I work for.
Personally, I have no issues with the dissociative effects per se. However, studies have determined that they aren't related to the antidepressant effect. Fwiw, a full clinical dose feels like ~1/4 of a 'rail'. There's no introspective trip here, just slight drunkenness.

(Incidentally, we have some evidence that the metabolite that causes the effect can be blocked via concurrent CBD administration - without reducing the dissociative effect)

The standing appointment to get slightly high for a couple of hours every three days does get inconvenient (though it's not as problematic as the resultant insomnia). I expect esketamine will be more so, for less antidepressant effect. And, being a controlled substance, I'm concerned I'll be unable to increase my dosage to make up the difference.
Those yachts don't buy themselves you know!
> Can we?

Absolutely! The norm in a lot of industries is to judge on projected figures (electronics, CPU, GPU, automotive, aerospace, mining, etc).

> We know nothing of the build quality, reliability, safety, or a multitude of other characteristics of a mass-production version of these vehicles.

"Superb" is subjective - I could say a 1965 Porsche 911 is a superb car, even though it compares terribly with a 2018 Toyota Corolla on build quality, reliability, safety or a number of other features.
I've had it load the wrong dictionary, surprisingly, yeah (I keep en-us and en-jp handy). It's a classic case of Apple abandoning macOS like they have for multiple releases now. ;P

There are bugs for NSSpellChecker going back as far as 2009 regarding automatic language detection (they're, however, now annoying as piss to link to... because all the old mailing lists/archives have been seemingly nuked. Thanks, Cocoa community!). This in turn hits Electron apps, since they're just passing back to the native API anyway.

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-spellchecker/i...
I got perpetual free keys from university that I just keep moving to whatever PC's I'm using.
As per Matt Levine's 10 laws of insider trading, it's better than an "short-dated out of the money call option".[1]

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-08-12/the-10...
I assure you Kara Swisher cares not. Turning this into a shitfest is a big win for her.
Russian internet has already split itself off global one.
That's a fair criticism of the tax foundation-- I do think that a carbon tax would be a good market-driven approach to reducing CO2 emissions.

I think we can provide a lot of energy without running into climate change and physics though. Nuclear energy is something I wish we did more to encourage. (It's a reliable emission-less source of energy!) Renewables are good, but we need battery tech to improve some more. (And the battery issue might also be another example of pushing against the limits of physics.)
I now see what you're saying. I guess it's just funny that I could defeat military comms by simply leaving my mic open and bumping the dial to the right frequency...

It sounds like back in the day what I described above wasn't an issue.
Opinion: Yes. Just less of a malignant one.
> Why is this only a civil SEC investigation?

The civil SEC case normally comes first because the SEC investigation can have two outcomes, that often come together: civil charges by the SEC and a criminal referral to the Justice Department which then triggers a criminal investigation. But the referral itself is not generally public, and Justice doesn't usually talk a lot about investigations until/unless they file charges.
Netflix is the king of this awfulness for me. Every time I use it the homepage is different. Different lists show up, disappear, change position, etc; even my list of saved shows that I reference all of the time suffers from this. Sticking with literally any layout I've seen on there would be better than the randomness that I have to navigate through each time.
> A difference is that most common mixers are not collision-free.

That is not true, most modern hash implementations use invertible mixers. See Bob Jenkins' notes on hash function design:

http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/evahash.html#funneling
The entire trend of research in animal consciousness over the last 300 years has always been “animals turn out to be more conscious than we think”.

If you look at how the London Zoo treated animals in the mid 1800’s, you’ll see how even the most scientifically advanced group (at the time) that was working with animals could have been so cruel without realizing it.

Sometimes it unnerves me that we’ll realize 100 years from now that animals were more conscious than even we me imagined possible and our treatment now of them (specifically livestock) is was really really bad.
Personally I prefer uMatrix. It has a nice CSS-ish quality to it, e.g. you can whitelist random subdomains like *.cloudfront.net _if_ the root page is a domain you trust already.

It's still a pain to get rolling at first but it feels more friendly to me than noscript
Bing operates in China, doesn't it?
A good blog post about xor-shift-multiply reversible hash functions: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/
The inverse functions are easily found by computing the modular inverses of the odd multiplicative factors.

Real perfect hashing is more about hashing a non contiguous set of elements with no collisions, unlike the set of all integers that fit in n bits.

A different problem is Minimal Perfect Hashing. In addition to being injective, the function should have a minimal image of the input set: the set of keys is mapped to consecutive integers without vacant slots.

The implementations in optimal space are non-practical but some libraries construct such functions with a bit more memory (2-3bits/key), like emphf or BBhash (both on github). The latter use a series of 1-hash bloom filters where keys having collision on one layer are removed to be handled by deeper layers. The overall rank() of the bit where a key ultimately lands gives its hash.
This Directive will make p2p greater than ever
>Stuff like that will come, eventually.

Well, I'm not so sure. On one hand, games use graphics techniques that were developed couple years prior to their development. On the other hand, they fail to capitalize even on relevant AI research of the 60s and 80s. When they do, it looks amazing (e.g. FEAR AI), but it's very rare.
I almost never post selfies. They're pretty rare among most of the people I follow, too. Some people like being in front of the camera, some don't.
And the related follow-up: https://xkcd.com/2111/
Why? Google already fulfills Article 13 with Content ID and now every other company that doesn't have such a system will have to buy it from Google.
Or reddit. The experience of participating in small subreddits is vastly different from frontpage lurking.
Another point to note is that production code needs to meet a higher bar in terms of testing and auditability. It’s one thing to train a NN on a data scientist’s machine and show that on test data, the new system performs 10% better; and another to put what is essentially a black box in production and use that black box to make financial or business decisions which can have far-reaching consequences on data it’s never seen and which is potentially outside of the scope of what it was trained on.
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The problem is that our tax laws allow immense, profitable corporations to pay nothing in federal taxes despite using massive amount of federally funded infrastructure in their course of doing business. How much burden do all those delivery trucks put on our federally funded roadways, bridges, and environment? And that's just the start of it...
Ah I see, you mean a newsgroup-style tree. With comment collapsing, I never missed that, but to each their own.
Playing Games Can Build 21st-Century Skills. Research Explains How
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A forced arbitration clause was included by my realtor in all the paperwork I filled out when buying a house last year. I didn't sign that page and nobody brought it up again.
Like using open source software and not doing basic things like changing default passwords? https://www.wired.com/story/us-weapons-systems-easy-cyberatt...