skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question: If it were just columnized data you could keep it in csv format, but Excel supports way more than that.
Reports on tasks, messages, progress of their implementation. – iSmartLife demo
I wouldn’t recommend C or C++, but in their defense, you don’t need to worry about tuning as soon as you do on the JVM. Many apps won’t need to bother with it at all (which is good because C/C++ programmers have all manner of other things to worry about that aren’t a concern for modern languages).
> 1. If you're an alcoholic and think you can handle a single drink, you're lying to yourself. 2. It's honestly not worth it. Life is better than being stuck in a multi day binger. The physically effects are taxing on the body. 3. You'll always have those urges and that feeling of wanting to drink isn't as bad as the act of actually drinking and the damage the follows.

Worth noting that #1 is AA dogma and is certainly not a medically proven thing. About 5% of people who go through AA eventually get sober, roughly the same as other treatment approaches (many of which skip the disease model of alcoholism entirely).

IMO, the AA notion that you are diseased for life unless you turn your life over to a higher power (which looks suspiciously like the personal god of Western Protestant Christianity) is poison.
One of the best things to come out of so-called “big data” is the slow destruction of the human ego.

I read an interesting joke few months back (not sure where, might have been in Capital Minded), the gist of it was basically:

If 99% of people who buy corporations for a living can't beat a monkey throwing darts over time...why do we believe people who run corporations for a living are any smarter? They're both looking at the same corporate balance sheets and industry trends!

I mean, it makes intuitive sense. For a fully scaled company in a legacy industry, what would really change if we removed the CEO and replaced him with the Janitor? The business will still be subject to the greater trends of the market and its industry. It doesn't take a Harvard MBA to take a data input like: electric cars are the fastest growing automotive segment therefore...my auto company should probably invest in electric cars?

Edit: where I think this could fall apart is in frontier industries like tech. The decisions require much more specialized expertise and the industries are much less mature (ie. Say ridesharing).
Indeed, it's painful to get notes into Anki currently. I would prefer if I could get any text selected into a new Anki note with minimum number of keypresses, rather than creating flashcards in Polar and then syncing them, which seems rather inefficient.
> As there is no second equivalent social network that friends and family already use with a strong privacy focus so no wonder that you see no such behaviour.

Yesterday afternoon I had a beer with a neighbour and some of his friends while sitting in the sun.

‘Social network’ doesn’t have to mean internet based.

Edit: The irony of posting this...
What about regretting your behaviour or how you treated someone
On his website, he's listed as the author of two books [0], and his about me page mentions that he was in the army for ~3 years. I was looking for info on how he financed these adventures as well, and these were the only things that I could find.

[0] https://www.johngoddard.info/books.htm
I am absolutely 100% confident that the success rate of individuals with no training doing their own research is way way way lower than the success rate of the academic community consensus.
There are plenty of imbalances within the EU, Greece grows olives, Germany grows Volkswagens.
Alternatives to social networks taking advantage of our privacy
The paper makes it clear they were evaluating languages based upon efficiency.

The rust implementation was more efficient than the JS one. A CPU bound service of course is bottlenecked at the CPU, and this benefits from efficiency.

At scale, it makes sense to replace this with Rust. Javascript did the job, but did not provide the same efficiency as Rust.
In my specific case, it wasn't dev profiles but people on a spectrum going from I grok tech stuff to only browsing and the office suite.

So obviously, whenever I started doing trainings on how to use the cli / the toolkit, I could see what is best described as mild panic.
Which I get, CLI isn't inviting at all, it's pretty daunting, there's no real emphasis on safety (as in not breaking anything), it's far from being easy to reason with when you're used to the Windows / GUI world.

The lesson was not so much about the prompt and more about understanding your target audience and catering to them really.
Scientists Injected Nanoparticles into Mice’s Eyes to Give Them Infrared Vision
OCaml really shines when your problem is data in, data out, and the transformation is non-trivial. So, maybe try compiling or generating stuff. I have two examples of my own: USSM¹, a simple static web site generator, and Monokex, a secure handshake generator like the Noise explorer (except much smaller, much simpler, and very incomplete).

[1]: http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm/

[2]: https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monokex
I doesn't seem clear at this point whether re-usable will be significant for activities beyond earth orbit. Partly the excitement comes from being a workaround for humanities reluctance to spend money on space exploration. Believe what you want, but from what I can find this doesn't seem to be a significant part of what would e.g. make humanity interplanetary. At least not yet.
You're in a tremendous bubble.

The average software developer makes around 100k (https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...). This average includes fresh college grads as well as 40 year veterans. So let's say the average 22-30 year old makes 90k a year.

Take out fed, state, sales and property taxes and that's 60k a year. Even if you save 20% of your after tax income (vastly, vastly higher than the normal savings rate), you're going to have a hair over $130k saved by age 30 assuming you invested all of it and the stock market did it's usual 7% thing. (And this doesn't count first paying off the average college debt of $30k...)

The average software developer salary is not $200k or $300k - that's top 10% salary. Even in SF, the average household income (including all earners) is around 100k.

This isn't sour grapes, by the way - I make in the top 10% myself. But we can't fool ourselves into thinking that's the average.
Is there a PDF of this?
The Number One Reason People Fail in New Roles
Someone showed me this strip ~10 years ago when the place I was working briefly instituted a similarly counterproductive incentive policy. I just Googled "Dilbert code me a minivan"
The obvious solution is to eliminate corporation tax and shift it to areas that are harder to avoid such as dividends, capital gains and land value.
A median price of $3,700 doesn't imply that single bedrooms cheaper than that don't exist.

>don’t see any solution anytime soon

There's not. But a solution 5 years from now is better than never.
Bioterrorism, rogue Nono-tech, rogue AI, hyper-stable authoritarian government.
Ah, that makes sense. Yes, understanding your audience and meeting them where they are (or maybe just a bit closer to where you want them to get to) is always very important.
We humans have a multitude of competing ethics in the form of religions; we can't even agree on which one is the right one; programming ethics into AI is going back to that chicken-and-egg problem, requiring selecting which philosophical system is the right one. We can view competing religions as optimization algorithms where the best one for given state of world is winning, pressuring other ones to evolve or die off. Would we need competing, multi-GAN style AI "religions" all times at each other's throat as well?
Most of those rules were driven by anything but practical concerns. Typography in Europe was dominated by "picket fence" black-letter scripts which emphasized the vertical strokes to the near exclusion of everything else, rendering the script difficult to read even for that subset of the population which read professionally. Newspapers until very recently were horrendous evenly-spaced columns of monotonous walls of text with barely any more formatting than punctuation. Until the modern era, graphic design and to some extent design in general focused on adding more and more minute details, as if the purpose of design was to demonstrate you cared by how much time it must have have taken to produce the thing by hand. The more details, regardless of their function, the more effort it must have taken and thus the more professional it must be. If you ever have the chance to take a history of graphic design course, you'll see it's basically culture driving it with little understanding or theory. It's not really a refinement created through 3000 years of scientific inquiry and we can place our trust in the traditions of skilled artisans who built this system for us. There really isn't a system until maybe around the turn of the century. It's basically just random bullshit and we're only just starting to figure things out more formally.
GPS tracks eagle for 20 years
A friendly fyi to BookInsider: I noticed that your amazon urls have "?tag=bookinside-20" and therefore you need to clearly disclose on your website that your book links are part of the Amazon Affiliate program.

If you don't, someone could report your website to Amazon and get your account banned. (https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ban+seller+account+ta...)
How many insecurities are there going to be in software that doesn't connect to the internet or process input from untrusted users?
If your awk script gets too long / unreadable you just put it in a file and use some whitespace and longer variable names.

AWK scripts tend to be very readable (much more so than e.g. sed) as long as they stick to the "stateful filters" use-case as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294195 calls it, but yes they have their limits.

If speed is a concern, you may want to try using mawk instead of GNU awk/gawk. I've had 4x speedups with mawk.
The disastrous pivot that the Provident Financial did in the UK is one example.
Can the battery last for 20 years?
the entire platform is based on Electron (Node + Chromium)
How to Nail Your Startup’s Pricing
A simple unit testing demo using Mocha in Node.js in ES6
Antartica is not a stepping stone to further and greater endeavors out into the cosmos It's more of a "dead end", cosmically speaking. This is why it doesn't have same interest or appeal.

There are also other reasons. You can't learn about the possibility of life on other planets in Antartica, and seek to answer one of the greatest questions of all time: "are we alone?". You can't closely study another planet in Antartica. You can't be a brave new explorer seeing incredible places for the very first time in Antartica. There are far less new scientific and engineering challenges in Antartica whose solutions will greatly benefit everyone here on Earth. And so on.

Note, these things are true for any next-gen space endeavor in our corner of the solar system. It doesn't have to be Mars, or even just Mars. For example, we could build larger and more advanced facilities and machinery in LEO, while also building a small base on the moon and exploring Mars for the first time.
> Yet there's no great reason to use one to store content,

Depends upon internally-created data or external. If you talk about exposing internal data there‘s /Interoperability Problems/.

You don‘t have to think about other apps creating invalid files. State stored won’t vanish because another app decided it‘s not needed and ignores it during editing+resaving. And all the other interoperability problems you may encounter.

If its external files I may agree.
Well the page on MOSS lists “distance teaching” as falling under the definition of digital services. So I guess the answer is yes?
For bzip2 why not just use pbzip2? Frankly, I wish distros would replace the stock bzip2 with pbzip2 (I think it's drop in compatible).
I was at a tech company that went through a round of layoffs 2 years ago - I took my 3 month severance ($24k) and started my consulting business with that. Getting fired actually worked out really well for me.
> Anima Anandkuma, a Professor at California Institute of Technology who has previously worked on Amazon’s AI systems says, “Diverse teams are more likely to flag problems that could have negative social consequences before a product has been launched.”

I would love to see proof that this statement is true.

Oh, next paragraph:

> There is arguably no other industry that is more impactful to society than the technology sector. If the firms that comprise this industry are almost entirely represented by white male populations, it is hardly surprising that their products end up being biased against other ethnicities.

I don't know how asian people who work in tech in the Bay Area can read these two paragraphs next to each other and not have their brain explode. I'm white/hispanic, and my brain exploded. Tech is "almost entirely represented by white male..." Yeah yeah yeah, white males = evil. Good job, author.
consider making your site accessible to nonjs users, please. currently, the book lists are not visible.
Well, poor outcomes can certainly be attributed to poor direction from a CEO. Many of us have experienced that. My example is a new ceo who came in making a lot of noise about cleaning house and righting the ship. His intention was the sales org, but effectively scared off the best developers. He did also gut the sales org, and sales never recovered.

So objectively it’s not out of the question the reverse could be true, that a ceo could influence a positive outcome, maybe just harder to measure?
Great writeup of a situation I've been in before. The path that the query planner traces through the space of all possible query plans is not always a smooth curve. That's the best way I have of explaining it.

Interestingly, the choices the planner makes can even be affected by trivial things like clause order. And as much as that sounds initially like a bad thing, it does enable those who have the time to perform some trial-and-error on a particularly important query to find ever faster formulations for it.

As for how to detect problems like these before they bite, I've considered whether it might be worth having one of your "staging" environments running with a version of your data that's, say, 10% bigger in all dimensions. Has anyone ever tried anything like this?
It reads like an innocent misperception due to inexperience with Java.

Very few people would choose to install libraries (JARs) used by their code via their OS package manager for instance.
Which is roughly the equivalent of every single human being downloading two npm packages per week. To me, this suggests that the real problem is that too many packages are being downloaded.
How Will We Prevent AI-Based Forgery? (HBR)
thanks, very helpful
Wow this one is good https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Clarifai-R...

Fun fact, they hired an ex trump org assistant to be his new assistant https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-benita-23703449
Hey, I’m working on a similar product for a different type of fitness competition. Email is in my profile if you’d like to catch up and compare notes.
> Taxation is theft.

No it isn't. Property rights are determined by the state, hence taxation by the state cannot be considered theft.
No thanks. scp works just fine for that purpose.
We already have rules requiring that! So what's the content of your proposal?
Interactive Space Simulation for Nanosatellites
You can't monetize it without it being a business. So accept that and manage it like a business; decide how much time you want to devote to it and what are acceptable revenues to justify the time you are giving it.

Look at different business models and pick the one that works for you. If you want to hang ads on it, do that. If you want to work with the certifying authority for the sport and have the sports association pay you a yearly fee to provide the software to all official events, start investigating if that's possible. If event promoters find value in the software figure out what they are willing to pay for it and sell them licenses ( yearly, per event, lifetime, whatever works ).

Don't half-ass it by thinking you aren't in business, fully ass it by making it _your_ business.
I watched Free Solo not long ago, yesterday I watched Falcon 9 launch then land flawlessly and today I watched Dragon 2 dock with the ISS.

It's mind boggling how apt humans are to what should be impossible.
I think the evidence is decently strong that this is the case. The problem is that the lifestyle diseases, while bad, are clearly much better than the diseases they replace.
Or ethical wire clippers?

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
TL;DR:

Sell it per download.

Why?

If it is to be run in areas that rarely have access to the internet, then your target market isn't probably interested in buying a license or any thing that even remotely makes the app hard to use.

Go easy on your customers. From the moment they visit your website to the moment they have the app up and running should not take more than 3 clicks. Just my 2 cents.
Warren Buffet famously says he likes to invest in businesses that could be run by a ham sandwich.
Thank you for these very useful suggestions. I'll look into it.
Once a programmer achieves a certain competency level with Rust, writing familiar workflows requires little additional effort than what is expended with a dynamic language. However, lower level Rust will demand more, regardless of proficiencies.
> the best guesses for the magnitude of human-caused sub portion of global warming is about 1°C

As far as I know the global average temperature increase caused by humans is about 1C. You can't simply compare that to single days and say that we couldn't have cause this.

More records days per year seem to indicate more extreme weather, which is expected by climate change. The average global temperature doesn't have to rise much for this.
Murder is the taking of a life in a manner/context which is considered bad by definition.

If you consider there are many situations where the taking of a life is considered politically or economically expedient, ethically justified, or a social or cultural necessity, the ethics of life-taking become a lot less straightforward.

One of the greatest potential benefits of AI is that having to define our ethics explicitly, instead of wrapping them up in layers of propaganda, manipulation, and self-serving lies, has the potential to transform society.

It's currently a very remote potential, but it does exist.
Me neither, I do like Rust and see its adoption at NPM as good PR for the language, however I also think that the way the decision process went wasn't free of bias.
> If they would work we wouldn’t be in this situation.

What situation? What crisis is happening I'm completely missing?
There is nothing inherently ethical about any religion. They have some ethical concepts in them that might be universal like don't kill but they are easily overridden by don't kill fellow believers. Similarly there is nothing ethical about any society other than within the small confined system of a certain ideology which validates its own ethics. At the end ethics is just a game we play and we can teach computers to play similar games with a certain set of rules. That does not in any way mean that a computer will be ethical, only that it can be taught to observe the norms of the ethical games played by the society it serves using a rule based system that is applied to certain final actions that it has computed it should carry out.
How it isn't? You just explained it quite well.

Not to mention that the Web is now full of discussions around this, with official posts from Oracle, Red-Hat, Amazon, IBM, Azul, Microsoft explaining how to go forward.
MIT Mini Cheetah
I think this is the right answer... not sure why I was so resistive to it. Maybe its the hive mind :p

Thanks.
I'm not sure I want to quote it because, like I said, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article. But if you search for "And to Scout Burns: [...]" ..
The success of a company rests on thousands of factors one of which is the CEO. Even the best CEO can’t ensure success when all other factors are against it, but a mediocre CEO will sometimes fail when all favors are in their favor.

Which is to say. When trying to figure out if a CEO is ‘worth it’ don’t like at company success as a metric. You need to look across the industry and find “big obviusly avoidable but extremely costly mistakes” and see how much they cost, and ask: is it worth it if they can avoid all thoses issues.
But ... I am having to readjust my understanding of "the market"

Ok so is this just the global tech firms, who have a 1-2 billion user base so every good and bad software decision gets multiplied by a lot of zeros and it's worth the cost.

Or is this a function of tech firms in the valley - a function of supply and demand (plus house prices)

Or are the non global reach tech firms also having to join this bidding war - this is the part I have trouble believing

I have worked for the past several years in a major US bank - and I do very well for a UK contractor - but no where near this well.

And I am not noticing that there are people on a large multiple of me as a daily rate. I am sure there are but this seems ... common ... at FAANG

In short, Do I move to silicon valley and get any job, do I apply to Google any location or do I just wait for the rest of the world to catch up?
I don't think that's what it does. "the authorization
service that determines
whether a user is allowed to,
say, publish a particular
package"

Also, I would assume any crypto in v8 is already written in C, with JS calling into it.
This might be an issue with SheetJS, the library used for reading data from input files. If you create a GitHub issue with some example data for reproducing the problem I'll look into it.
Perhaps you are underutilizing your capabilities. I have found this access to books and papers incredibly enriching.

Though my ratio of books skimmed or read partially to books read from beginning to end has skyrocketed, I've found that with many books just one page or even one sentence carries valuable knowledge.

I can't even begin to compare the knowledge I have access to today to what I had just a decade ago, and a decade ago compared to two decades ago is even wider of a difference.
The are going to be mandating GPS based speed limiters on all new vehicles for the EU, as has been reported recently.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/02/27/all-new-...
Alcohol is a diurrhetic. The worse you feel the next day is entirely caused by dehydration. It has nothing to with what brands you drank and more to do with how dessicating your drinks are. Beer contains more water than liquor.

Drinking water doesn't "clean" you, it stops your kidneys from failing altogether.

You should always pound down water after heavy drinking. It's the only physiological cure for hangovers.
The Eastern European countries have been growing consistently for years. If you only look at economics countries like Poland have been doing very well.

You have to remember Western Europe has developed economies. They aren't likely to grow at the rate Asian countries are as those economies have a lot of catching up to do.

Also European countries don't necessarily have the same priorities as the US for example. Most of us prefer decent workers rights and consumer protections over 1/2% on GDP.
Or stop taxing "profits" but tax every transaction on its total amount, that would also end a lot of "tax niches"
Saying “no” is easy. But it’s hard to say “yes” if it involves some risk.