skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super appreciate this!
I can literally see LIC right now from my window.

If you're tired of $24 pizza consider the cabbie serving south asian places along 21st street, they're fantastic, and yes they're still there.
And the company that owns vast swaths of cloud computing space doesn't have talent to back it up? Amazon is way more dominant than LeBron in their respective businesses.
Maybe they trust GCP because they know if their account get auto banned by stupid google AI they will be able to talk to a human (ex coworker) to fix the issue... Unlike the rest of us who don't have a friend inside google.
Google fix your fucking ban process and non existant appeal process, give few days to answer instead of deleting all the infra of your paying customers!!!!! Stop raising your prices and killing services with super short notice And maybe in a decade or two we will trust you again for anything serious
>> So what happens when a mistake happens on the blockchain?

Most popular Blockchains haven't had any major issues in years. Some projects have had bugs which lead to the network stopping for a few minutes but no lost funds.

>> I think most people here are aware of inflation

How much new money did the Fed inject into the US economy in the last decade?

According to some sources, at least 9 trillion. https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/news/economy/central-banks-...

Based on the constantly growing corporate sector, we know who ended up with most of that money: Big corporations and their shareholders.

They got most of that money by locking other people out of opportunities. That is the primary business of corporations today; monopolizing financial channels where the money flows easily and letting hard working individuals fight for the scraps.
I don't mean to be negative, it's a great looking site and works well, but there are a lot of these kind of tools popping up on show hn that don't really provide that much value. It's a cool convenience for sure but there really isn't much value. It's great as a practice project I guess but there are so many of these on show hn these days, dunno if anyone else feeels the same
UBI, livable wages, raise estate and corporate taxes, operable unions without "right to work" (for less) / union-busting laws, more worker-owned co-ops and integrated standard-of-living net that lifts instead of treating people like criminals.

But first, getting rid of the corporate capture of both major political parties, elected officials, government and policy-making is a precondition to do anything to reverse the neoliberal, cannibalistic anarcho-capitalism inverted totalitarianism being forced on us.
I found a small inconvenience of maintaining ChangeId (usually handled automatically by the git hook) a very small price to pay for all great features provided by Gerrit. I know that Gerrit team investigated few times a better way to attach this metadata to commits but so far it works this way.

What other 'hacky ways' you mean? 'Magic' refs/for/* branches can be a bit weird at beginning. On the other hand introducing Gerrit 7-8 years ago to my back-then employer made me understand the Git model much better. Anyway, e.g. IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Gerrit should alleviate almost all pain points (if someone stick to JetBrains products).

Were you working on Android/AOSP? I always assumed that this is the primary project where Googlers have a chance to work with Gerrit. I thought that Google uses some in-house CR system, as mentioned by https://www.gerritcodereview.com/about.html.
In their slides:

> Work until completion, not just to your hours

Sorry, but no. If I wanted to work more, I'd get paid hourly.
In a draft PR you can add a description and annotate lines of code with comments - making it easier for your peers. A branch can be harder to find and in your case you had to manually notify that you wanted them to have look at your code, whereas with a draft PR you probably get a notification.
Well, technically it's not as good as it was yesterday...
Ohio is definitely considered the midwest.
Probably not, given that he abandoned the app and works at Stripe now.
I use and ask other team members to make draft PRs now (ad-hoc, basically the subject includes "WIP").

#1. PR triggered checks will fire

#2. You use the same tools for reviewing and can leave better comments

#3. I like PR comments to be detailed and explain the changes well for non-team members. Composing the draft message can help reveal items I need to make clearer or need to still do.

#4. It's clearer which branches/tasks are still being worked on, and how the work is progressing.
Taxes collected increases revenue for NYC; to speak of "profit" we'd have to account for the cost to collect that revenue from Amazon.
Self hosted and only required when you are about to post something would be preferable to a lot of people.
What do you think of life-long learning scenario that models are trained incrementally forever? For example, I train a model with 1000 examples, it sucks. The next guy pick it up and train a new one by putting a regularizer over mine. It might still suck. But after maybe 1000 people, the model begins to get significantly better. Now, I will pickup what I left and improve it by leveraging the current best. This continues forever.
Imagine that this community is supported by a block chain. We won't be relying on big companies any more eventually.
1. New York State has a high tax burden. They don't just collect income taxes - they also collect property, sales and capital gains. $12k per year all-in for a high income worker is pretty typical when you account for these additional taxes.
2. Amazon inc. will also be paying taxes. It doesn't fall entirely on individuals.
3. Ten years isn't that long for a four hundred year old city.

Seems like an clean net positive for the city even viewed in the shallowest of accounting terms. This doesn't include the positive network effects of encouraging the future growth of Amazon and other tech companies in the area.
> The blog post seems to specifically answer this question far better than anyone here could.

Clearly not, otherwise I wouldn't have asked. :)

> It essentially formalizes a workflow like the one you describe.

How though? What do I gain by doing it this way that I can't already get? What's easier now? That's the part I'm not seeing.
Actually no, gentrification causes existing homeowners to increase their property values. It literally gives the existing community the opportunity to move up the economic ladder.
One of the benefits of mono-repos
There are worse problems to have. ;)
There's actually been a lot of really good work recently around textual transfer learning. Google's BERT paper does sentence-level pretraining and transfer to get state of the art results on a bunch of problems: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805.pdf
Why would anyone do this? You should either save up and buy PV infrastructure outright, or not have it at all. Being tied to some sketchy company via contract sounds horrid. I would automatically exclude any homes with this setup from my search.
It's not particularly surprising to see that it was the investor going "so... could you, you know, work harder and make more money?"
It reminds me of "The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb" (https://www.amazon.com/Book-Genesis-Illustrated-R-Crumb/dp/0...), which I enjoyed.

He, as an atheist, tries to present it in the raw form, without "explaining the hidden message" or any religious interpretation (neither Jewish nor Christian).
I was only responding to the claim that Google had made no real commitments.
10 to 5 is fine, if there's intensity. I think that's what the article essentially concludes.
Perhaps the application questions could have been further refined.

But perhaps the questions are intended to raise some people’s hackles.

I get temporarily disappointed every time I’m declined by YC, but I appreciate what they are trying to do in a number of ways:

Sharing everything(well, most things) they have learned with complete transparency.

Constantly talking down Seed/Series A valuations in aggregate because they see the crazy.

Experimenting with universal basic income(UBI) using their own money in what appears to me as an attempt to apply the scientific method to public policy lobbying.

So I can excuse YC for some application questions that might come across as pretentious or more likely to appeal to the self aggrandizing.

Two thins I’d like to see with YC120 are:

1) livestream the weekend as it could help with building attendees networks

2) Use YC120 applicant/application pool(with applicants permission) with data anonymised as an experiment on applicants/applications.
Another point I want to make that I think a lot of people on HN miss is that you cannot do this with a database alone.

This is the equivalent of a token table where the token is a cryptographic hash. However, it’s the cryptography that you are trusting, not the database.

The simple analogy is that you are using PGP to sign a message where the contents are a dollar. Only the person who can decrypt that message gets the dollar so you only give the hash to the person you want to have the dollar.

If there are actually dollars involved, this is a real thing.
Expecting some sort of Riscberry pi to spend my money on
I think the idea of the report back is that the knowledge of how to use such a strategy, will be widely disseminated, and that will make other victims of patent trolling more likely to fight than settle.
So why did NYC bother to compete for HQ2?
Opening a Draft PR-

* Signifies that the work is being done, preventing duplicate efforts.

* Shows people all the work being done in a single location, rather than having to hunt down forks and branches.

* Gives a nice UI showing the exact changes, without having to compare to specific commits.

* Gives a review interface, where people can comment on the code itself or even on specific lines.

All your other points still stand- you still create one branch per feature, check in frequently and push up work. If you explicitly want a review you can ask people for it (as you already do), but now they have a nice place to do it.
This is what I meant. There's no enforcement of EU laws in the US. (Thankfully.)
For a second I thought that that would be an "About Us" on blackbird's site, because the first part makes it seem like a business pitch. Then I thought "why would you advertise that you bring dubious lawsuits?"
If that’s the case, why would the NY politicians put that money on the table? They did so voluntarily.
That is pretty cool, is there a ThumbV2 vs RISC-V paper somewhere for 32 bit RISC-V ?
How Virtual Reality Messes with Your Mind
Ok this is an excellent point. Thanks!
AI That Can Write a Fake News Story from a Handful of Words
But does this cover software emulation?
Very true on the first point. distribution, allocation and use problems with existing food production for all sorts of reasons (political, economic etc) are the much more immediate issue but as to your second point, the above doesn't disqualify the usefulness of even better crop yields or a need to give the technologies behind them a nuanced defense.These things are a long term investment in human development, and they always have been.
It has, but is almost undoubtedly slowing as Seattle becomes more expensive and housing becomes more scarce (in other words, as it becomes New York-like). Massive inbound migration was possible because pre-Amazon, housing in Seattle was comparatively plentiful and cheap.
Focusing prematurely on scaling and replication is the exact opposite of "focusing on your core business". The only thing that I always recommend in terms of databases is having a backup system in place. When need be and you're one of those 1% that needs scaling, aws, google and azure are there for a warm welcome.
In hopes for a RISC-V Pi
"App stores" is generic term. If you are looking at mobile, I'm sure the number is more than 50%. There is no possible way that 50% of Windows apps come from the Windows store.
Kafka Cruise Control Front End
How is Amazon taking more than what they paid for?
Think of a building with apartments for rent. Half the apartments are empty and the building is falling apart because the rent doesn't cover repairs.
The building manager offers new renters 20% off for a year. The existing renters protest and the new renters back out. You don't suddenly end up with more money to cover repairs.
Approximating CNNs in ImageNet performance with a bag-of-features model [pdf]
It just seems to get mixed up often. Advice for an introvert may not work for a shy person.
Our Employees’ Password Policy
So basically it's for the code competing interface? I guess that makes sense. I've never worked with a team that made good use of those, so maybe that's why I didn't think of it. Thanks!
Wie ABN AMRO Die Deutsche FinTech-Szene Aufmischt
That is for you to assess. macOS gives you the opportunity to either override the security popup by right-clicking the app and launching it anyway, or not.

Also, the "security risk" doesn't get a whole lot smaller when the app is signed. Only widely known malware apps will get their certificates revoked in time.

The new "notarization" is slightly more thorough but the risk is still up to you and the app permissions for non-appstore non-sandboxed apps are indeed quite open. Malicious or not, an app that is not sandboxed can steal or damage your data anywhere in the filesystem.

So again - all up to you to decide.
I kept expecting this to be satire.

/speechless
That’s a bit rich coming from Tenzin Gyatso — a man who lived in utter opulence as the leader of an elite priest-class and ruled over serfs who would be tortured if they didn’t do as they were told.
Front end dev/JS interview: topics like prototypes, context/scope still needed?
I'm a frontend dev for more than a decade, and constantly interview new developers for 5 years. In my questions I always tried to avoid framework-specific questions and - in the JS part - lead conversations to mention basic and newer concepts like scope, context, browser event handling, closures. These are things that come up with literally any google search on "frontend interview questions". But. In the past few years, but also overall, I get really bad or very basic answers. Senior devs clearly having many years of experience could at best give partial and mostly incomplete answers.

It really disturbs me why, and can't find a cause for it. We could say we just got bad candidates (I worked for 6 companies in 2 mid-european countries, positions were with average/good salaries and actually interesting work, not agency stuff). Or maybe that devs are so high in demand that they just don't prepare for technical questions (I'd say in all my interviews maybe 20% had any serious technical part).

But then it occured to me how little these basic language features are used nowadays directly. Prototypes are abstracted away for good, classes are mostly present as built-in elements. Frameworks (and thus devs in general) use "this" less and less (thank God). Componentization removes the need to think about bubbling/capture. Conventional tasks can be solved without "smartass" array functions that are not map() or forEach(). I'm not even mentioning "low-level" mechanics like the event loop. Frameworks and proliferation of a few basic patterns erased high level concepting like design patterns or phrases like higher-order functions from most dev work.

I still believe that these concepts are basic and you're flying blind if you don't know these parts of a language. But yet I see how seemingly able professionals stumble at these questions. How could basic concepts be explored better? What is your view on a swift and fun real-world-based FE interview?
Knowing the state of things and the history of the project I'm not much surprised by this, yet I'm a bit taken aback that this indeed has come to pass.

You can't beat the laws of physics. I've read somewhere that the Boeing 747 sat in some kind of design configuration sweet spot. The A380 achieved a larger size by taking on a higher wing loading than what was ideal.
I think that the best solution to this problem is to ban gender-based discrimination by advertisers and data-aggregators.

These algorithms only exist because marketers want to buy impressions from "25-34 year old men" If that was not a legal option, these algorithms would not have an economic incentive to exist.

Surely "people who like power tools" as a demographic is much more targeted, both excluding "men who don't care about power tools" false positives and including "non-men who do" false negatives. A system of advertising that allows gender based targeting inherently reinforces gender stereotypes.
Major Docker Security Hole Discovered
The differences seem minor to me. I create draft PRs all the time and probably won't bother with using this feature, because I usually open PRs using the `hub` tool or via VSCode, and only rarely via GH web site.
The article should be titled: you don’t need to quit your job to make, just deprioritize everything else

Tl;dr Take the 8 hours of free time you have and devote it mostly to make. Now you don’t need to quit your job.

Really groundbreaking thoughts here.
"From what I’ve observed, really smart people tend to be right, and you can safely accept their viewpoints."

What?

I couldn't believe this statement. It completely neglects the massive differences that exist between people of any intelligence in terms of what and how they think. I'm talking about things like educational level, ideological biases, epistemological approaches to thinking, etc. It also completely neglects the honesty and integrity of the person you are emulating.

To give just one example: I've found that most of the "conspiracy nuts" I've met (people who think we didn't go to the Moon, etc.) are highly intelligent, probably pretty far above average. If anything being highly intelligent makes it much easier to rationalize a ridiculous belief system. Any idiot can imagine a round Earth that spins and orbits the sun but it takes someone with very high intelligence to understand ether vortex theory. Judging by the intricacies of their speculations the "bakers" who assemble bizarre far-fetched conspiracy theories out of QAnon's cold reading act are also quite intelligent.

Con artists also tend to be highly intelligent, hence my comment about honesty and integrity.

For some odd reason it seems like a whole lot of very bright people have adopted this weird kind of biological determinist hard materialist view of cognition and its quality. By materialist I mean it reminds me of Marxist dialectical materialism: the idea that the state of society is a pure function of its technology and other capital. A bunch of people think you can measure someone's IQ and that will tell you how correct their opinions are. Smart people have better opinions because they can think more faster, or something.

I struggle to understand how anyone could possibly believe this. It's patently absurd. It's roughly analogous to saying you can tell the quality of a driver by the performance of the vehicle they are driving, or that the correctness of a computer's output is a pure function of processor speed irrespective of what software it's running.
Well said, live is a marathon not a sprint.
All great points, thanks for the explanation!
Those numbers are just the caller id rather than the true origin of the caller. Anybody can claim anything as their caller id. The phone companies know the true origin (usually outside the US) but they do not pass that information forward.
Let me explain it in terms that any New Yorker should be able to understand: If you are a New Yorker you are no doubt familiar with the concept of "one month free rent". Most buildings in NYC will give you one month free when you sign your lease. If a building doesn't give you that offer its probably not as tempting as another nearby building that does. Yet the "one month free" isn't a losing money proposition for the building because they continue to make rent money from you for a long time after the free month.

NYC was basically offering the same thing to Amazon: "hey come live in our city, we will give you a temporary tax reduction, in exchange for a TON of money over the next X years".

Overall the city wouldn't have lost money, it would have gained many billions of dollars of additional money in the future in exchange for an initial 2 billion reduction.
in my experience, the atheists that mocked the unrealism of the scripture did so as a reaction to christian fundamentalists, who interpreted it literally and until recently wielded considerable political power
> PR triggered checks will fire

Ah, didn't even think of this one. Thanks!
Yes, I'm talking about coordinating PRs against multiple repos. Obviously, this isn't a git feature, this is something that Github would need to do, just like issues/webhooks/comments are not git features.

This is one of the reasons cited for monorepos, you can make a single atomic commit/PR that changes some API, and the consumers of that API.

As it is now, you end up writing a warning comment to merge some other PR at the same time and hoping your reviewers read it.
I wrote a short article on how I find ideas: https://tinytracker.co/blog/how-to-find-profitable-business-... Hope this helps :)
Governments are not made up of people; they're made of politicians. The most powerful dynamic in the marketplace is purchasing power. If you don't like something, quit using it and the company will eventually fold (most likely) or morph into something people want (far less likely).
Author of Sloth here. The controller didn't start out quite so fat, the whole thing was quite slim, 400-500 lines, when I first put Sloth together some 15 years ago. It grew as various additional features piled on over the years. However, your point is well taken. I should refactor things at some point.
QEMU exists so I guess they're OK with software emulation but Arm seems to go on the attack at the slightest whiff of an unlicensed hardware implementation.
This was only a matter of time.

For the DEFCON AI Village in August I talked about the implications of this sort of tech, and how that impacts how we release "exploit" code / think about "cognitive vulnerabilities": https://medium.com/@aviv/what-does-a-world-with-automated-so....

If you are doing work in this space, either in ML research or related security, you need to be thinking about implications (also see e.g. https://maliciousaireport.com).
I'm using Chrome 72.0.3626.109 (64-bit) on OS X 10.14.
Filling Android Autofill Gaps
I agree with Dan, and I wouldn't have commented had I not read this comment. It's easy to underestimate the happy-but-silent majority.

Dan was spot on when saying that this acidity compounds. It leads to a vicious circle of increasingly hostile comments unless someone decides to be the bigger person and break the chain. Having a neutral third party step in to play this role (i.e. a moderator) makes this chain-breaking far more likely and works to all of our benefit.
The subsidies themselves would have been given to Amazon over the course of several years. NY would be in the black after no more than a year.
Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger
You can get out of the credit game. You can use a cell phone without a Google account, or buy one of the new open source ones coming to market.

No one needs a social network like FB. Just stop using it and they will go away.
The point of lean startups isn't so that your startup finds the global maximum.

Investors invest in many startups. Each one starts in a different valley and starts climbing the hill. The investor's job is that one of the startups pays off. Your job is to climb your hill quickly and cheaply.
Is this "work harder, not smarter" day, or what? There's that other article on how to make your employees work harder, or at least look busier.