skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view, instead of cutting down on your fun time and activities, you can cut down on your expanses, so that you need to work less and thus create more free time for yourself. It's much healthier to work half-time or 3 days a week or something like that - and then use that extra time for your own projects and still have enough of it left for a normal life, family, friends, reading books, going out. What author proposes is certainly doable, but not something I'd really want to do to myself: no relationships, no tv (or books or games or sport), no much social life, just work and sleep. Maybe I'd do it for a while if I had a really promising, unicorn kind of idea, but just to fool around with side-projects and learn new stuff it seems like a hell of a sacrifice on his side.
I was referring to feel free to pat yourself on the back for not "falling for it", which was a gratuitous bit of personal sarcasm, just the sort of thing which acidifies online discourse. Also, arguably, the bit about an attempt to revise history is an uncharitable escalation (though not personal).
After 30 years of coding and tech management, I want to get into movie making
I see often Ask HNs asking what would you do if you were not in tech? I am trying to get into something else, namely making movies and documentaries.

Because I know nothing about this business, the first one is only on the sidelines and as investor, however, the plan is to get more and more involved.

Here it is:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NPZWHFV

Wonder if anyone else here did something similar and has tips on, for instance, getting larger investments and doing promotion. I have only ever gotten investments or promoted software and software services.
Nobody commutes, has kids or pets, shops for groceries, cooks food and cleans up anymore? That all comes off the 8 hours.
How is compromising SWIFT credentials different than compromising a private key?
copy already successful idea so that you don't have to look for product-market fit. Improve it in some dimension i.e. better customer care, lower price, additional feature etc.

If you already have money there are other strategies that you can use to generate extra revenue.
Come to the Twin cities, plenty of land, lots of tech already, highly educated work force. Lots of lake houses and downtown is booming. Winter isn't that bad.
> I have read books and blogs suggesting that the best problem is the one that I have faced before.

I agree with this advice, but my problem is that most problems I have faced are software development problems. I have tons of great ideas for software development tools that would be super cool. However, there is no market for selling software development tools, because everyone is used to getting them for free from open source projects subsidized by large companies.

Nobody wants to pay for software development tools. Even worse, software development tools tend to be local programs instead of cloud software, and licensing/DRM for local programs is a nightmare for everybody involved. Either you just accept that the majority of people will pirate your software, or you go crazy implementing invasive DRM schemes that hurt your paying customers and still don't work.

I think this is actually a big problem in our industry. Our tools suck because there is no strong profit motive to produce improved tools. We have to muddle through with whatever big companies see fit to subsidize in their open source programs.
Well, I guess they will continue not getting my money then.
Learning the idiosyncrasies of the tools involved is one of the tradeoffs. But there's no getting around it. These tools have been around for far too long to change them all in some misguided attempt at consistency--the semantics of most tools are so different, it wouldn't even make sense to try to enforce some consistency anyway.

You don't have to know every flag for every tool. You don't need to know if you can glob args together in a certain tool. These are different tools developed across decades by different people for different purposes. The fact that you can glue them all together on an ad-hoc basis is magical!

You learn by learning how to do one thing at a time--cutting characters 10-20, or grepping for a regex, or summing with awk, or replacing strings with sed, or translating characters with tr--and adding it to your mental toolbox. It's okay to have a syntax error because man is there and you can easily iterate the command to make it do what you want.

You aren't writing a program to stand the test of time. You're solving a problem in the moment!
And that’s why markets end up stuck in local minima. Unless you consider government subsidies, which is a way to collectively share the burden of overcoming temporary obstacles.
> I patched my own systems (wrap the calls in a loop as per standard practice) and then proceeded to run literally hundreds of thousands of PostgreSQL instances on NFS for many more years with no problems.
-georgebarnett

> Actually as great as Postgres is and as generally approachable the community is - my experience was the same a few times and I read it on the mailing list happening to others:
- jarym

It seems that despite things not being perfect (and they never are), these people are still having positive experiences with the product and the community overall. So, to restate, some people care enough to post about it on HN, but nobody (who continues to use PG, and there are a lot of us) cares all that much.
Earnest Capital “a fundamentally predatory investment agreement”
Yup, goes both ways. Assuming the companies promised more and underdelivered, your city's economic council should have written the contract-break into the contract. Or assuming the companies didn't promise that much, your city seems to either have done a deal aware of the potential of negative outcome (and accepted it) or did not do due diligence. But it doesn't discount the idea of economic incentives as a whole due to poor city planning in this case (or a gamble, whichever it was).
Not the OP, but the ongoing typhus epidemic in LA would be near the head of my list.
I’m a trans woman – here’s why algorithms scare me
Why is everyone concerned with scaling databases and clustering before even launching?
Receive and Respond to Texts with Server-Side Swift, Perfect, and Twilio
When I was interviewing GitHub employees for my book (https://buildingtoolswithgithub.teddyhyde.io/) one of them made a surprising comment. Early on, his GitHub teammates told him he should create an empty PR with a plan of attack before writing any code. I thought it was a brilliant idea and most teams don't do this. Smart of them to make this a separate feature instead of just bolting on WIP.
I wonder how this would do on the Hutter Prize (I doubt it would beat the current record but I'm curious what the result would be)

http://prize.hutter1.net
I mean the only reason why you save a lot more money now is because your current lower paying job had a better negotiated salary. You could have just as easily gotten a job with less take home pay in Omaha than in NY.

I think there is something to be said about early career people rushing to NY and not realizing how much 80k really is, though. Schools should really have a class for all majors that just goes over how you calculate and compare cost of living and put a price on benefits, including the intangible benefits like having other employers you could move laterally among without planning to uproot and go 1000 miles away.
This is exactly the line of thinking that this article inspired in me... AI scouring the internet, figuring out what makes us tick and generating perfectly persuasive stories to convince us to to... what? I kept thinking about the story "Sort by controversial" by Scott Alexander: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Gerrit has had the concept of "draft" for a long time. It's also better at multiple "patchsets" as a "changelist" evolves, some of which can have rebasing without needing a forced update. On the other hand, it's somewhat hacky the way it layers on top of git, requiring a "change id" to link the different patchsets together. Much of the way it works came from trying to deliver a similar experience as Perforce.

Disclosure: worked at Google, have used both systems a lot.
This move will keep more tech in SF and not in NYC, beyond just Amazon. For every Amazon we lose, we lose 50 startups to the valley. I can't believe NY politicians let this happen.
You really have no idea what LIC is like, do you? They're completely unable to support small businesses except those that cater to the upper-middle class. There is no dollar slice, only $24 gluten-free artisanal pizza. The only business Amazon was going to displace was Citibank.
Wordpress is a tool to make websites. Yes, you can put your content on a website and then link to that from Twitter.

But that puts a big barrier in front of your content and the Twitter users. Visiting a website is usually a horrible experience. So people are very hesitant to do so. Click through rates from social media to websites are abysmal.
DatabaseChain could be fun as well
I work in middle Tn and the Amazon job postings have already started.

I really have no interest in them though. Primarily remote work is the best.
> No, pretty much all sales and advertising is built around finding some problem the customer has that the product or service being sold solves

“Finding a problem” in sales is very commonly a euphemism for creating the perception of a problem that the customer did not perceive before the sellers efforts.

> But there's no need for the problem to be pain and fear

“Pain” (outside of it's narrow use for physical pain) is a synonym for having an actual current problem, fear is having a concern about a potential future problem. The distinction you propose is vacuous.
> He's almost describing a future where we might buy/license pre-trained models from Google/Facebook/etc that are trained on huge datasets, and then extend that with more specific training from other sources of data in order to end up with a model suited to the problem being solved.

Yup, that's basically it. (Although I think there might be more than two parties involved; I think probably there will be one giant pretrained image model that everyone in the world starts from, then someone will specialize it for some domain, then someone will specialize that for some subdomain, all the way down to an individual person's problem, which might only have a few thousand data points.)
Kids are tiny adults in progress, not your personal maker project. They should be afforded as much autonomy as possible, where your only role is to keep them safe and healthy until they can reach an age where they can do so themselves. If anything it's more like having an employer that you do work for free, or even out of your own pocket.
tl;dr: keep your day job and stop watching TV.

Excuses incoming.
Hi everyone! Author here. Let me know if you have any questions, this is one of my favorite subjects in the world to talk about.
Yes, I don't know why, the SMP support is far from "rudimentary". I don't think we ever had a Giant-lock, and our scheduler is pretty good, too (runqueue-based, O(1) w.r.t. threads, O(log N) with respect to cores, fully utilizes ACPI topology information.)
Why is it Canada's answer and not General Motors? Canada isn't building this ridiculous thing.
Then why bring the H1-B, a nonimmigrant visa for temporary workers, up when arguing about benefits of immigration ?
Ask HN: Linear algebra textbooks
What are the best linear algebra textbooks / learning resources for autodidactic programmers?
That is pretty neat, it's essentially a macroscale version of a CMOS process.
TablePlus' authors should read "How white space killed an enterprise app (and why data density matters)"

https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app...
RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption
Liquid from Blockstream is actually doing what you're describing, but as fairly and openly is possible. The company itself doesn't have any operating nodes (JPMorgan has), Liquid is open source (https://github.com/Blockstream/liquid) and public, just the operating nodes are selected in a controlled, centralized, but geographically distributed way.

Another difference is that Liquid allows 2-way pegging to BTC, but allows other (for example fiat based) tokens to issued as well (but not part of Blockstream's business model), and the transaction types and values are encrypted.
Basically, he likes blockchain as long as he controls the chain. The problem with Bitcoin was that it was decentralized.
It's not "allowed", i.e. if I want to have GTranslate by default on my site regardless of what browser someone is on, I can't do that anymore.

Their translator can also be accessed via API, but again not "allowed." It's not a huge issue since they don't do much other than try to 503 you, but it's still "illegal."
I Wish I’d Had a ‘Late-Term Abortion’ Instead of Having My Daughter
Detroit played the same socialist games with big business and see where that got them....
I wasn’t referring to the NYC deal specifically.
People want to live and work in NYC in part because of those useless subway lines. There is no need for NYC to hand out taxpayer money to any company. Companies will come regardless.

Increasing density isn’t going to make subway lines cheaper by the way.
Disallowing a film being shown 60 days before an election because the person is not a bona fide film maker is very much different than disallowing a film 60 before an election because the person is not a bona fide commercial film maker. The word commercial is important. Citizen's United was not a commercial enterprise. No one disputes this. No one thinks their film wasn't done by a bona fide film maker.
That's why I said "classical geometry" instead of just "geometry" - I meant Euclidean compass-and-straightedge.
I evaluated solar cells for my home, and ultimately decided against because I probably get more total energy saving from the current passive solar of having huge south-facing windows and an oak tree in front of my house - free heat in the winter, shaded in the summer. For solar electric to work, the oak tree would have to go.

That said, central issue mentioned in this article aside (which is legit concerning), cost wasn't really an issue I spent much time worrying about. Am I the only person more interested in giving the middle finger to my corrupt utility provider and their coal-centered power generation strategy than whether I came out a few bucks ahead or behind in 20 years? I suspect a lot of people who install solar have similar motivations.

But that in itself can be a problem, too. The thing that concerns me about household solar is that it's a bit like owning a Prius - it becomes a status symbol for people more interested in _appearing_ green and assuaging their guilt than actual concern about their total carbon footprint. Take a vacation to Hawaii once a year and you'll probably knock off every single bit of good you did for the planet.
Public and decentralized are not necessarily the same thing. Even if just two other banks join in, under an equal footing of ownership of the proof of work, its no longer centralized. I think assuming "all blockchain tech must be used only for situations with anonymous participants" is unimaginative gatekeeping. There is plenty of room to reimagine business process workflows between consenting participants, that doesnt at all hinder the public coin marketplace, or infringe or harm principled stands trying to change the world. These arent coins a single human bank customer would ever hold or use, these are for institutional settlement.

A good example could be a construction project where the general and all the subs collaborate on a database, but no one company owns it.

The smart part of JP Morgan's plan here is scalability. It might be centralized now, but it can be trivially extended into becoming decentralized at the flick of a switch, without a redesign.

Microsoft already has pushed for a non-public-anonymous-participant private blockchain that has throughput of around 1600 transactions per second.
https://medium.com/coinmonks/coco-framework-a-game-changer-i...
Plugin for the site! You could add/trigger it and have the entire site autotranslated for anyone from any browser as long as you left the "translated by Google Translate" somewhere on the site.
I asked it if the laptop came in blue, and the response was not sensible. :P The previous question, how much RAM it had, was technically answered correctly, though in a phrasing that suggested I had asked a different question, like 'is it enough RAM?'.

Probably my biggest concern with this is that generally I expect known information to just be on the page in question. For example, if I am looking at buying an ASUS VivoBook, the RAM would be listed plainly, and I would not need to ask.

If I needed to ask information not on the page, I would expect a real person to answer with an actual response.
Why replace your hammers, screwdrivers, and chisels just because someone invented a 3D printer? They have tradeoffs. Powershell has some good ideas, and benefits from having been invented altogether, rather than evolving over four decades. But in practice it's not as efficient for doing simple things. It's oriented towards much more complex data structures, which is great... but there's no need to throw out your simpler tools just because you think they look ugly.
Not at all, actually.

Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt's book, Doing Data Science (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028529.do) covers this almost immediately. Because the term developed sort of organically as a cross-discipline approach to solving certain challenging problems, students in their classes were often a mix of scientists, statisticians, and software/database engineers like yourself.

So, you may not consider yourself "a data scientist", and that's fine, but there's certainly a role for your specialization in data science, and that doesn't at all indicate trouble in the field. On the contrary, it's exciting that there's a marriage of these specializations underway.

If I had the time, I'd write a much more in-depth reply along the same lines to many of the criticisms in the article. The lack of a clear definition for "data science" or "data scientist" has caused some confusion, but at the same time, there is new technology available and new approaches to working with large-scale datasets that weren't available before, and that does represent new skillsets.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151101062311im_/http://cdn.med...
Many companies are happy to pay for IntelliJ, Docker, and GitHub. I think it depends on which tools you choose to build.
The Amazon Backlash
> If a bank's SWIFT credentials are compromised the attackers can transfer all the funds a bank controls. With a blockchain coin it would require the private key of the customer to send the coins.

Replace "SWIFT credentials" with "private key" and you have exactly the same scenario.
I said, I "hope" to grow it to scale. Not my top concern ATM.
Unfortunately, after further analysis, my suspicion that this is a very bad deal for founders seems to be true. A founder would have to be desperate and ignorant to take this deal, and no one deserves to have years of hard work wasted by taking a predatory deal like this.

I hope they fix their terms but based on how misleading they've been, I would never personally do business with this person.
While the points you make are true, they don't address the parent's hypothesis about engines, which is true. Once you get into commercial jetliner engine sizes, the fewer the number of engines for a given thrust level, assuming equivalent internal technology, the lower your fuel burn will be. It's a matter of minimizing unavoidable per-engine losses, like bearing losses, cooling losses, endgap leaks in rotor tip regions, etc. These kinds of losses do amortize well with engine size.
This is great. I am a big fan of building processes using AirTable. I am looking forward to seeing Glide + AirTable integration. Excited for your team!
This is a very weak justification. Are we in high school in America on this site?
What if another state gave the concessions, and then it worked out spectacularly for them, completely reviving a city and building up a new ecosystem that funnels in new wealth and new money. Would NY be kicking itself then?
> his numbers

Her. Not just men are becoming makers. :)
Lightning's Strike electric motorcycle: liquid-cooled motor, Ohlins suspension
The stock is down 0.61% today. Effectively flat, especially in a well diversified retirement account. It’s still up 2.8% WoW
[video] Rosalind, a new parametric, CoreXY RepRap 3D printer modeled in OpenSCAD
Writing Custom Metrics to Stackdriver in Golang
People dont pay money because they want to. But because they need to. So make sure its something you are already paying for. Then make something better or cheaper. Unless you want to give it away for free. But its probably better to ask your non technical friends what they pay for.
I see your point, but certain companies hogging the lion's share of the H1-B's is not Free Enterprise.
like https://english.edward.io/ ?
The advantage in basketball frequently oscillates between big/slow and small/fast. The best teams always have a mix.

Mugsy choose to capitalize on his "small and fast" talent. It's coaches who make the decision to augment teams with speed.
Chocolat Degoutant
Yeah kids and commuting eat at least half that. Take another hour off, minimum, for basic chores to make sure you have food and your house doesn't turn into such a disgusting mess that makes the nightly news.

Also all hours aren't created equal and congratulations, you now have what are probably your three—at most—worst hours left to try to "make" in, without cutting into sleep. BTW unlike a job the time commitment is barely better on the weekends. Hope you can work productively while having 1-10 minute interruptions every 1-10 minutes. If not then the math's identical to that for a weekday.
Ask HN: Why do reverse phone lookup services suck/don't exist – are spam?
Why is reverse lookup so crappy? Privacy can't be the concern from the general corporate world as they exploit personal data all the time.

So - why is there no good, not spammy/malware-like reverse phone lookup.
They basically are. There are some "Mormon" sects that aren't LDS but they are much smaller, and LDS adherents want to disambiguate.
It's pretty interesting that their training set consists of "outbound links from Reddit which received at least 3 karma". There are definitely large subreddits which are flooded by highly voted fake news which you don't want to emulate (unless that's the goal).

It also reminds me of a short fictional story which explores what would happen if an AI learn how to maximize reddit's sort by controversial score instead: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

Maybe that dystopian story is closer to reality than we thought?
I have seen the (far?) Left say, quite recently and very publicly, that wealth inequality is an unalloyed bad, and that taxation is the answer. That's not quite "taxation is an unalloyed good", but it's definitely "you don't need (and shouldn't have) that money, so we'll take it".
I'm sure the governance and reasoning seem just fine right now but are we to trust being locked in to JP Morgan forever? It's certainly the same way I feel about Google AMP polluting the web.

Seems very buzzword friendly but I really cannot see why transfers (B2B) aren't perfectly trivial and should be instant, free and totally secure and at the tick rate of the market if in a different FX. What is stopping the banks doing this now with just normal encryption?
Not quite buying that yet. Why would one need a metric ?

Let me give a concrete example, in compression and statistical estimation you can get by fine with KL divergence alone. KL divergence is not a metric and does not define a topology.

One can of course define metrics on the probability space or the space of parameters, but I dont see why that would be necessary ?
The So Good They Can't Ignore You book should help.