skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious to know why the HN title is using `FOSS` but only mention of `FOSS` is on the site’s /faq page. For free software zealots, the sites tag line “... maintaining popular open source projects...” may not spur action as OSS is missing that required RMS approved F.
Makes me think of Rendezvous at Rama[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
The auction isn't designed to be fair for all, it's designed to allocate domains efficiently (in the economic sense).

Mr. mslev does not consider [hisfirstname].dev to be worth $11k, so he will not buy it yet. But someone else might consider [hisfirstname].dev to be worth $11k, so they will buy it.
However, if nobody else values [hisfirstname].dev much, then Mr. mslev will buy it when it costs $12 (or earlier, if he thinks it's worth more).

So domain XYZ.dev is given to whoever values having XYZ.dev the most. And yes, people need money to demonstrate that they value it so much.

This also helps prevent domain squatting. I would love to buy asdf.dev and apple.dev and facebook.dev and hello.dev. apple.dev and facebook.dev would be worth it even at $11k because you could resell them to the actual companies, but laws effectively prevent this. However, I would not want to buy asdf.dev and hello.dev at $11k unless I know I could resell them for more than $11k. If I could resell them for more than $11k, that means someone else (the buyer) would buy it right now at $11k.

If everything was $12, bad guys would buy up asdf.dev and hello.dev and everything they could get their hands on, but now that's not a valid strategy unless asdf.dev and hello.dev are actually worth that much (or you'll lose money reselling them). And if they are worth $xxx, they will get bought at auction when the price drops to $xxx.

Speed will still win (buy valuable-name.dev at the crack of dawn when auction begins, before anyone else has a chance to, and resell it within hours), but hoarding domains long-term is no longer an effective strategy.
There are way more people who are born wealthy and continue being wealthy.

OK. But that still doesn't translate to the idea of being self-made being a "myth". There are existence proofs that it is possible to be a "self-made success" - depending on exactly how you define "success".

One thing that's important to keep in mind is that all these references to various billionaires, etc., are mostly irrelevant. For most of us, the benchmark of being "successful" is not becoming a billionaire. So the question of "can you become a self-made billionaire" is really a red-herring that contributes nothing useful to anything.
With Fitness Trackers in the Workplace, Bosses Can Monitor Your Every Step
This is just false. Cynicism isn't a substitute for knowledge.
https://www.cloudorado.com/cloud_server_comparison.jsp
I've always taken the "I'm probably on a list now" to be the product of cognitive dissonance, and a kind of flirting with the idea of being an outlaw.

It's not like the NSA has to optimize to spend fewer resources. Their only constraint is finding a justification for the level of surveillance against any specific individual. And when considering how quick social networks fan out, I would think that's game over for anyone posting here.

Honestly given how programmers can be indifferent to legal concerns, I wouldn't be surprised if the actual implementation was optimized to just a list of specific targets to not retain surveillance on. And it's probably comprised of a single herd of cows in Wisconsin.

It's prudent to just assume we're all on "a list".
We can't look at 'Oumuamua any more, with any kind of spacecraft. It's headed out of the solar system. There's absolutely no way we could possibly put together a mission and build a craft and launch it and have it catch up with 'Oumuamua at this point. If we had something ready to launch now, it might be possible to catch up with it, but it would be years before we could have a mission ready to go, and we don't have the propulsion technology necessary to catch up with it after that much time.

This should have been a big wake-up call to have pre-made probe craft ready to launch to investigate anything odd that entered the solar system. But expecting humanity to be that fore-sighted is pure folly.
We didn't detect it until it was leaving. So we have no data to compare to in order to even begin to speculate if it changed shape at its periapsis.
The perception alone matters to clients, that's enough to take action let alone potential insider trading type ethical issues. I work at a firm doing a lot of M&A work and Chinese walls are a big deal to alot of our clients in that space. Also we're a smaller firm and able to manage confidential projects, I'd think McKinsey of all people could figure out how to do this.
If cheaper automation drives down these wages far enough then it won't matter if the people have a job or not. $3 per hour would be similar to no job.
Show HN: Chrome/FF Extension to Add Random Sort to Plex
Tracking time is part and parcel of being a consultant, at least if you have multiple clients and overlapping work. After doing it for 15+ years, I've tried it all - everything from the spreadsheet, to the apps, to forgetting and having to go back and reconstruct.

I read this article and I think it's missing the point about what's so hard about time tracking.

What's hard is: Implementing the trigger on the context switch.

You're working on one thing, something happens and you make a context switch to something else - and in order to track your time, you need a trigger to fire to prompt you to record the switch. It doesn't matter if it's in a spreadsheet or an app or on a piece of paper - I find that my brain doesn't fire that trigger very reliably. Especially if I'm busy.

If someone can solve that problem with a fancy app, I'd be impressed!

I've said it in another thread [1]: I want a robot that watches me and quietly makes intelligent decisions about what I'm really doing, and tracks that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790918
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I don't think it's particularly important to know a big list of what all the data structures and algorithms are, what you really want is to be good at thinking about them and coming up with your own when you need it. But it's easy enough to get a big list of common data structures into your head. It takes about 2 seconds to learn what a trie or AVL tree are. Correction: 6 seconds, just type "avl tree" into Google and you'll be told precisely what it is in one sentence. In my head, all I remember is, it's a BST with some sort of balancing mechanism, and hey, balanced search trees exist, and the performance cost is from pointer chasing and rebalancing logic.

If it will make you more comfortable with the world to understand how popular sorting algorithms work, it's easy enough to learn that. They're all really simple, just a quick dive into Wikipedia. You'll be like, "Oh, that's what merge sort is."

You have worked with graphs. Git history is a directed acyclic graph.

Could you have made Git? Is there software you can't make right now because you're weak in data structures/algorithms type stuff? If so, then improving your ability in that department will make you a better developer.
It is not very big sum of money.

300000$/6years = 50000$ yearly

For this money you can hire around 0.5 developer.
This is very nice summary of lot of social media discussion that has been happening. Very thoughtful arguments from people who actually work on this stuff.
Well, unless you think $300k sets you up for life and unless they could get a revenue stream going, it's going to run out and be back in the hands of volunteers no matter what.

This line of questioning (or accusation) is a good example of the phenomenon where people often expect a disproportional amount of your future time because they once gave you a one-time quantity of money, or possibly by pointing to money that other people gave you.

Look at it another way: $300k got us Light Table which was a pretty cool editor. I used it to help people get started with Clojure and I didn't pay them a dime. It didn't get us eternal paid support and maintenance, though. How could it? It also unfortunately never developed the ecosystem around it like Atom and VS Code were able to, so now it's here trying to find maintainers.

Also, pretty much all editors are dependent on volunteers to create plugins and ecosystem, even ones you directly pay money for like Sublime.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try again.
It's a Nigerian publication and I believe English is used more as business/education language than a conversational language there so it makes sense that the writing comes across a bit more contrived.
I thought this blog post response was pretty good:

OpenAI’s GPT-2: the model, the hype, and the controversy
https://towardsdatascience.com/openais-gpt-2-the-model-the-h...

I think this is a better response than the article submitted here. There are ethical concerns and risk with these releases and it's probably a good idea to start considering them. What they did release seems reasonable in context.

I find the argument that making the technology as open as possible leading to people taking a skeptical look at things not very convincing. Recent election interference, disinformation campaigns, and the general inability for the public to disambiguate fact from fiction seems like decent evidence that just because people know something can be faked doesn't lead to critical thinking - confirmation bias is strong.
I remember meeting the co-founders through Startup School back in 2017 and they were pretty genuine and enthusiastic about their product. I think they had just started development. I'm glad to hear Canny is doing well.

These types of articles are nice to read but maybe not for posting onto HN because it's a little fluffy and non-technical/non-quantitative as can be seen from the critical responses.

As a side note, I personally think it's difficult (but not impossible) to use social networks as a way to determine a company's culture. Everyone should be mindful that IG/Facebook captures only the moments someone wants to share.
that makes me very optimistic, I've located many related WhatsApp groups and telegram, the only thing that concerns me is how to deal with copyright, people seem not to have any problem infringing copyright on WhatsApp and telegram sharing files.
That’s the thing, they aren’t scraping IMDb, they scrape other sources that have the IMDb ratings from what I remember. Directly scraping IMDb is not a good idea if you make money off it.
If someone gave you $1M and a decade later you had $1.5M, no you're not self made.

If someone gave you $1M and a decade later you had $100M, yes, you are self made.
What do you use to read your eBooks now? Also does your current solution sync all elements of your eBook activities across multiple devices?

Take BookFusion for a spin and let me know what you think. BookFusion allows you to easily read your entire eBook collection and sync your bookmarks, reading progress, highlights and comments across all devices. BookFusion has native Android, iOS and Web apps.

More at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library
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I completely disagree. Please don't go 5 over in places with pedestrians and stoplights.
I mean, do you think it's really that likely that the portfolio manager of the hedge fund is in collusion with the board? That would be highly unusual, and I seriously doubt McKinsey would risk such collusion.

I know people here don't think highly of the financial services industry, but let's talk about self interest. The fines from the SEC if there were collusion would be massive, this would be one of the biggest cases of insider trading in the past decade.

I know people from McKinsey, and while I don't know about top management, I believe that they are a reputable firm and wouldn't touch anything like this with a ten-foot pole.
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It's not so much a question of who is correct or incorrect, but rather which will be more relevant to consumers. Probably the "consumer product" reviews. Not always, but for the most part.
Yeah, so in the end it's all about the relationship between the programmers, and as I've said, this can be tricky. If you neglect that it's not going to work.

For example, if you're sending a patch to the owner of the code and they are known to be very picky, maybe it won't be considered an insult to rewrite it, since in the end it's their project and it saves a lot of back and forth? Or maybe it's a team where they have gotten used to it?

Believe it or not, starting from a patch that actually works is actually pretty helpful and does save time compared to starting from scratch.
Btw, to ascertain the competence for a given individual in a given field it is easy to check. Go to Google Scholar and look at the number of citations.

For Edray Goins it is a relatively low number, that's why I used the word "mediocre."
Yup, very true for small businesses. I get almost 100% of my clients through client referrals (I own a test prep company).

While I am not rich, my businesses is growing really well and I feel confident that we will reach my goals for the company in the next year or two.

And all of this without almost any presence digitally.

We have a website that is actually more extensive than most tutoring/test prep companies our size (I did some freelance Wordpress stuff), we get almost no business from it.

I tried doing some Facebook ads a while ago, but it just seemed like more work than it was worth. It's better for me to focus on making sure my students get their scores than to drum up business from spending money on Facebook or whatever other social media.

I feel like getting business through Facebook or Google or Instagram would just take way too much effort, time, energy and money for me.

I would rather keep improving my test prep courses than do that.

And if you get students the scores they need, not only will it change their lives, they will give your name and number out to everyone they know.
> How is it any different than believing that unicorns exist as physical objects, just in their own universe?

We have very well-developed representations of the number universe that we can embed into our own universe. These things are governed by precise axioms. By contrast, we don't have such well-developed "unicorn universe".

(For starters, what is the definition of "unicorn"? If it's just a horse with a horn, then such a thing is plausible with genetic engineering in our universe.) As we endow the unicorn with additional properties, then it becomes less and less clear that there exists a universe where such a thing can exists other than as an imaginary being. If the concept of a unicorn could be axiomatized, then it could constitute a universe.

> Or, math is also a number of simplified alternate views of reality.

Well, that's the math that we do; not the math that we (possibly) are.
I think there is merit for the last idea in the article - some kind tethered drone array as a windmill using something like autorotation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation

Similar ideas have been suggested using balloons:

http://latesttechnology-world.blogspot.com/2013/07/magenn-ai...

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=134023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_wind_turbine

An array of wind-powered drones could scale well beyond what's possible with a traditional wind turbine, since most of the torque gets applied at the wingtips. There might be advantages with inconsistent wind gusts too, since the rotor could wind up in strong wind and unwind in weak wind. Startup costs would be negligible since a few drones could start the rotor and more could be added as needed. It might even by safer for birds if a drone array turns slower than a fixed rotor.
That is good news for people suffering from ALS. Perhaps I read the article too fast, but what exactly is "EH301"? Is that the combination of the supplements NR+Resveratol or is that a separate compound all together?

It looks like NR has a greater effect on NAD+, but also has some dosage risks based on some body building forums I just stumbled across. Apparently there are other things you can take with it to reduce the risks?
3rd person, nearly useless anecdote: I have heard around Seattle that this is “the biggest issue we have” in the minds of Amazon employees.
I have my primary storage on my laptop (+ secondary backups). I sync music from my laptop to my phone. you are suggesting I should convert the music to lower quality because most people cannot distinguish between lossless and mp3? I should compromise because companies refuse to deliver what I want and what I would pay for? That is the really lousy argument. Btw. you do not need to be genetically gifted to hear the difference. Also you do not need an _expensive_ headphone you need one with great sound quality. There are plenty of hifi headphones with reasonable pricing.
We have a metric for this. It's called socioeconomic mobility. In general your claim that people are born rich but don't go anywhere is only somewhat true.

People that are born rich and wealthy in the US generally do not fall to a lower socioeconomic class, and people in the lower classes tend to not rise. Assuming that skill levels are equal among both groups, can you explain why this is the case? If skill was so important, then we should see overall upward mobility be relatively similar.
We're not 'drawing statistical information' from the observation itself, simply saying that if it is the case that such objects come from interstellar space and are relatively rare, it is more probable to encounter one that originated nearby than it is to encounter one that came from far away. With those assumptions, you can arrive at this conclusion without observing such an object at all.
It seems hubristic to think that you can develop a software application to manage the entire economy.
I have an idea that seems (to me) to be somewhere between a higher minimum wage, and universal basic income:

Require employers to offer very high amounts of paid time off. Perhaps only applying to low paying jobs.

For example, if a minimum wage employee was guaranteed 6-months worth of paid time off, they could work two jobs and make twice as much money. And even though they would technically be working two jobs, they would not have to work more hours.

People with two jobs are less likely to lose all their income from being laid off, and would be willing to be more mobile in the market, because they already have two jobs and can compare them. It would increase competition between businesses to offer good work environments.

It would also have some of the benefits of universal basic income, because people would have a lot of time they could spend going to school, or starting a business, etc.

If minimum wage employees became accustom to a lot of time off that would also put pressure on other jobs to give more time off. As far as I understand the US is pretty stingy with time off compared to other developed nations?

It could also address one of the fears about universal basic income, which is that people would become do-nothing hermits. That couldn't fully happen if people still had to work some of the time.

It would essentially double the employee cost on business though. But so would doubling the minimum wage.
I'll certainly bill my long weekend runs where I get most of my best ideas.
I have no good idea how it compares to others these days but Gandi has had pre-registrations for .dev.
I've had good experiences with Namecheap in the past.
The definition of the Peano numerals has two constructors, Zero: N and Succ: N -> N. Russell's paradox (assuming that we're talking about the idea of "set of all sets that are not members of themselves") is avoided simply because the objects produced are not sets, and sets have no exalted position within the mechanics of category theory.

Talking about concepts like "the category of categories that don't contain themselves" is kind of navel-gazey; and ends up falling apart in most constructive variants just because you can't give a comprehensive construction of elements of this category.

Admittedly I'm throwing some concepts from intuitionalism and type theory in the mix here; if I took the time I could make these statements more precise.
Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare
For a humorous take on what can be done with a sample size of 1:

http://www.thebigalientheory.com

Certainly, any new information is going to radically adjust the posterior probabilities, but you can still make some tentative inferences.
At the very least there’s signal amplification (and possible highlight clipping) at higher than baseline ISO. Otherwise you'd get a very dark image indeed.
Fair enough, though there weren't really any "aspersions" cast. I'm aware you can unravel set theory if you care enough about that particular exercise. But, in context, you could also interpret that comment as being written by someone who isn't aware that the empty set is defined as {}.

Responding to someone's definition that natural 0 = {} that mathematics is a "castle built on sand" isn't exactly a cogent criticism of set theory.
Solve the problems you have not the problems you may have. If you are dealing with a specific industry or region, then your compliance needs should be obvious (EU - GDPR, Healthcare in US - HIPAA, etc). Of course, take all reasonable and appropriate precautions to secure and protect your customers' and users' data. As your business grows and evolves, you may find more compliance requirements but you probably don't need to deal with them until you hit those stages
> We can build algorithms to avoid racial bias, with awareness and effort. How confident are you we can train cops to do the same?

How confident are you that we can build algorithms to do that? You can't just flatten the probability distribution based on race when many of the legitimate factors are correlated with it, any more than you could do so for gender or age or nationality. Unless you want an absurd false positive rate against octogenarian women from Japan.

But given that some racial (or gender or age) disparity is expected, how do you know if the amount of disparity in the algorithm's results is legitimate? It could be too high, or too low, and knowing which one would imply possession of an algorithm that gives the "true" amount, which was the original problem to begin with.

The answer is to require high standards of proof and conclusive evidence, so that it's impossible to choose a random innocent black man off the street and convict him of anything just because you're a racist or some algorithm decided he fit an aggregate profile.

But that's the opposite of the dragnet approach. You need evidence on a specific person, not statistical data from thousands that doesn't give you a better than 5% probability that it was any given one of them. And suppose the actual perpetrator wasn't carrying a phone at the time of the crime, so now you've got a list of "possible suspects" 100% of which are innocent.
TSLint in 2019: TSLint Will Be Officially Deprecated in Favor of ESLint
Unless it's very large why would there by much of a gravity gradient?

It never came all that close to the sun, so the gradient on different parts of it wouldn't be that extreme.
I'm confused as to what this is. From what I can tell, it's a Lambda competitor?

I 'reserved' a domain, but haven't received an email yet.
Well he did said

> fell apart without me