skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that hn has a policy of banning alts and people have been at the receiving end of Twitter storms for defending freedom of speech when it's unpopular people doing the speaking are you surprised?
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What is the point of this comment? You cant justify the bad by pointing at the good. Murderers dont get let off just because they do charity work. ExxonMobile are still responsible for supressing climate change awareness even though oil is a useful commodity.
There is no magic solution to preventing people from being people, but it’s still a good thing to not build systems that allow any entity with an internet connection to find, connect, and share content instantly to anyone and everyone all over the world.

Mark Zuckerberg has long held the belief that a more connected world is a better world - and 10 years ago, I was as optimistic as he was. Today, I know for a fact that connecting my grandpa to people in Russia paid a few hundred dollars a month by activists to spread FUD is a terrible idea.

Yes, email, chat, IMs, etc are also being abused - but they all have a certain amount of friction and properties that put them nowhere near the kind of scales that social networks enable.

You can only have one phone conversation at a time due to the nature of the medium, and when it’s over, it’s over - whereas partaking in a Facebook/Twitter thread will feed you an addictive slow drip of notifications over the next few days. People don’t really get their news (in the formal sense) by phone conversations, so media companies aren’t incentivized to flood you with phone conversations about increasingly controversial topics to keep you engaged to generate ad dollars. Because phone conversations are real time and decentralized, no entity can prevent anyone from saying a certain word or mentioning a certain event for instance, the way social networks can and have.

Email is an interesting one - sure there’s spams and scams, but it’s fairly non instantaneous, and the decentralized aspect means that no single entity can choose what emails people will see. Email users also don’t expect their email server to be injecting content in their email queue, or reordering their emails to try to get them to read things that will generate dollars for them. It has its flaws, but people just don’t feel manipulated by their email as a medium (although of course individual emails can manipulate people) .

Social media is just the perfect storm of tapping into human compulsions, a product controlled by a single company which seeks to derive profit above all else, misaligned free market incentives between platforms, advertisers and consumers, etc. This all makes for formidably harmful forces, and responding to the fact that these social networks have determining roles in genocides with vague platitudes such as “but they enable people to find loved ones and report crimes” comes across as a tad disconnected.

And avoiding censorship? Facebook, Twitter, etc cooperate with governments to enable censorship! If you want to avoid censorship, you are much better served by the broader, open, decentralized internet.

In case it isn’t clear, I’m a huge fan of the internet, email, instant messaging, message boards, and so on. Social networks in their current incarnation though are a very destructive virus for human culture.
“Future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers”
>Condemn FB for their shady tactics, but don't forget the positive effect. Get out of your bubble. Put yourself in regular people's shoes.

What are some of the benefits unique to FB?

>Just because there are bad sides of it doesn't make it a mistake.

Lists, can be used for good or bad. The only way to ensure they're not misused is to minimize or eliminate the data collected. The centralization is problematic, as always.

Edit, formatting :/
FastMail is still using the old FIDO U2F API; we’ve been planning on migrating to WebAuthn since it was finalised, but investigation revealed that the migration would not be entirely straightforward (especially if tokens registered with WebAuthn needed to still work with U2F, which at the time was important but could probably now be skipped), so we deferred it, since the U2F support is adequate for most users. I expect this is the experience with many small teams that support the FIDO U2F API. Documentation on migration is difficult to come by; I think https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/27/webauthn.html is the main source I’ve encountered.
Fair point. To clarify, I’m not saying that Facebook can’t be used for good things. It’s a tool. The “knives can be used to chop vegetables or to kill people” analogy is a cliche at this point, but it’s still true.

What I am calling out as a lie is the premise that Facebook’s guiding principle was “for the greater good” (which was how it was sold to us at the beginning, in sharp contrast to other corporate entities), as opposed to “win at all costs” (which it has demonstrated again and again, from the “move fast and break things” mantra to the infamous Boz memo).

It’s fine if your corporate values are to win at all costs. I mean, it’s how most companies operate in our society. The problem is that they pretended to be something else, something inherently virtuous, and capitalized on this perception to win the early battles for top talent.
At big companies I don't think that happens. Everyone understands that everybody is there for a temporary period. In my case, I think only about 3 people knew about this, and I believe they genuinely wanted me to stay.
Likewise, I'm not sure I'd think anything was strange if I came across https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/12110.
Holy shit you went from $55k to $475k in 5 years with no college degree.

This is a big reason I'm in tech. What a rocketing salary progression.
I feel that human beings are not evolved enough to withstand a connected global consciousness. Weak minds are influenced, and atrocious deeds done.
That’s insane. Do you seriously expect in five years to be in better financial shape then you would have been had you stuck it out?
This is where engineers should be moving, not California.
It's simpler to buy-and-sell the appliances on craigslist. That way you don't have to worry about the borrower depreciating the value of the appliance or not returning it in a timely fashion.

Also, maybe I'm not in love with the ladder I have. Selling it for $20 so I can justify buying a $2000 composite one that fits in your pocket is a pretty good use case.

If I lived in a dense metro area and couldn't afford to store a full complement of tools, I could afford to hire people to perform the labor associated with those tools, so urban isn't even a use case for a borrowing app.

Borrowing is like bartering: a coincidence of wants is much less likely than a want of coincidences.
"I am now inspired to give it a read"

No offense but I suggest you slow down on this type of pretentious way of talking because it's very off-putting.
That was the point of my second paragraph. Mandating the use of a particular product to mitigate environmental damage should still be considered a subsidy. The right way to do it without subsidies is to mandate the mitigation, and let the market figure out what to use.
There's two under construction now in Georgia and one came online in late 2016 in Tennessee. But these are all additions to existing facilities.

The cost of new nuclear power is far beyond most traditional and even renewable power generation, so we're not likely to see many more any time soon.
Can we please get a Jon Skeet neural network to provide answers?
I did something like this once, but from a different angle. Since salaries usually trend up, it's interesting to look at each salary bump in terms of how much money it makes for you over your entire working lifetime.

For example, if your first job pays $60k, and your working years are say 52 years total, the payout from sustained employment is $3.12 million dollars (52 years * $65k).

If you then move onto another job 2 years later, and make $70k. The payout for that jump is $500k ($10k * 50 years).

Or another way is to look at how much each pay bump has made for you till now (instead of over your entire potential working lifetime).

This helped put into perspective for me how important certain pay increases were for me and how unimportant others were. For example, big pay increases that occurred recently haven't yet had time to really make me any significant money, but even modest ones from 20 years ago have.

It also really puts into perspective how bad bonuses are vs wage increases. Even a large bonus pales in comparison to decades of small increases.

It also gave me better information when I chose to take a job at lower pay, in terms of how much I was sacrificing, and when I eventually ended back up where I was, how much that choice was actually costing me over my lifetime.
The fact that your mobile internet is so expensive and such bad quality, and Facebook traffic is prioritized and free, is not a coincidence.

You are trading ease of use and convenience for the next generation's walled garden where Facebook sees and provides everything.

Sure, the impact doesn't feel as such. And supporting Facebook's plan by talking to your relatives on it doesn't seem like a big deal. Neither did it feel like a big deal when the generations before us decided to sacrifice our entire planet for a few decades of economic advantage.
Nice. This is really cool. I know a lot of people who love VS Code; nice to see it get a handy feature.

For any Emacs users looking for an equivalent, you can edit a file over ssh like so:

emacs /ssh:username@host.example.com:~/path/to/file.txt

Dired, etc. works like a charm. Best if you have your ssh key installed on the remote box.
I'm not sure if it's a fiduciary duty of an accountant not to disclose this kind of stuff, but it should be.
Look, I agree the US system is inefficient, immoral in the aggregate, and generally a bit of a pain to interact with.

But this idea that highly paid professionals in the US have crappy healthcare experiences is just silly. Anyone earning $100k as an employee in the US will have a good health plan that will provide excellent quality of care for a reasonable out of pocket cost.

In fact, this is kind of the problem with the US system! Rich people have a healthcare system that works well for them, they get lots of choice, very fast access to specialists if they want them, and generally rich people are happy with their health care.

This means there's no electoral coalition strong enough to pursue more egalitarian or more efficient systems, they'd all run the risk of appearing worse to the rich people.
For the record I didn't infer that from their response. There was no reference to you being part of a fear mongering campaign, unless the comment was edited.
It's not because it's "more easy to write". It's because code that generates the entire tree every time can be side-effect free, while stateful UI is, well, stateful.

We can debate if that's good or not, but it's not about "ease of use". Neither is it necessarily more wasteful. It's a different paradigm.
I think you're both correct. I've seen a spectrum of "whales" that include:

(1) very "casual" players who don't spend that much time, and just want to roll, or to use money as a substitute for game time;

(2) very dedicated players who want to be at the top of some ranking.
DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System

fact:

DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source Voting System

ambition:

secure
It is censorship. Just not government censorship. I wish people would stop trying to defend censorship with that trope. They have a legal right to sell what they want on their platform but that doesn't mean it's right. Especially when Amazon has turned itself into a near monopoly.

And considering their humble and rather "anti-censorship" beginnings, it's rather disappointing to see what amazon has become. Seems like another case of you die a hero or you live long enough to be a villian.
CloudFlare acts as a reverse proxy. They would terminate any HTTPS connections meaning they still have access to the request and response.
A few times, I've come across Stackoverflow questions on technical topics I'm not very familiar with, and the question makes no sense to me (there are clear spelling, grammatical, and consistency errors). But there's an answer, and a comment exchange that seemed to resolve the question. So, I conclude, it's just my unfamiliarity prevents me from seeing through those errors.

A related phenomena is seeing fundamental errors in a newspaper article on a topic you're expert in... but believing articles on topics you're not familiar with.

This can operate as a partial turing test: a gradient for iteration.
Very interesting question. Most capital is deployed into fixed assets (like land) which generate regular dependable income. Excess capital is then invested in US companies.l (based on historical performance).

Also: a B2C service startup in the US has a bigger potential market than the same one in Europe (assuming they’re targeting what they know—the local market).

End result: no gigantic piles of cash looking for investment opportunities going to VCs to funnel into 100x success maybe startups, no companies minting money like crazy, no salary inflation
You don't need to make the gallery "public" just because you are logged in.

The gallery will not be shared publicly unless you click the "Share to community" button - it will just be available through the URL, exactly like now. With the benefit that you can edit it afterwards.
It's an evil plot to greatly accelerate the heat death of the universe.
The scale matters here. I think a better metric for your parent comment would be the delta in skill per game played.

A human is significantly better on game 11 than game 1 (I recently got into Starcraft). Current ML systems are not. It's up for discussion how to take the human's previous experience into account, but the total amount of experience is significantly less that the computer's.
In a couple decades, we will see a Mad Men style show which illustrates life at the world's largest social media company, as well as the kinds of deals that went down, the kind of people that made them, etc., all to a realistic and historically accurate backdrop which connects real events to the scenes in the show.
“I am still under construction” – a blog on lifelong learning
> In the developing world where I live Facebook gives me the opportunity to maintain contact with my family who live on the other side of the world, as I walk the streets of São Paulo, for free.

There were, before Facebook, hundreds of apps that did the same thing, and there still are.
I have ~50k/year of passive income. I'm definitely not in the same class as people with ~50mil/year passive income.
It sound like you want a wrapper that does nothing but change SHOUT to CamelCase. A lot of work to for a developer only cosmetic.

What are you doing in UWP that's arcane?
There have been lots of reports of non-citizens being registered to vote in the US. It is very rare, but elections are also generally very close races.

I dont get how people can just shrug off reports of dead people and non-citizens being registered to vote as a non-issue.
I’m 24 man I ain’t even thinking about having kids; I’m just putting information out there. Tbf I spent nearly every waking moment of my childhood outside and I’m extremely near sighted. I can’t even see my laptop screen without my glasses.
I'd guess his idea of upper class is people with mansions and yachts. 220K isn't enough for that in California (but it is in other places in the US). I think in California that gets you a nice house outside of the most expensive areas and whatever kind of car you want to drive, and maybe private schools for your kids if you want that.
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If you're interested in this you might be interested in 8-bit Guy's new computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayh0qebfD2g
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping
I love that there is a group of people who still love the Z80!

Such a beautifully designed chip.
Perth, very similar to your stats.
Well I switched to consulting in 2015, but I'm now a pre sales analytics architect serving the Southwest.

So my promotion is more technical scope (BI/DW, ML/AI, IoT, Big Data, "DataOps"), more customers, more leadership, and more commercial responsibility (i.e. I have a quota.)
This is so freaking cool!!

I’ve been dreaming of building a Z80 computer for literally 20 years. I think you inspired me to stop dreaming and start doing.
How did you make SDE-3?
Google is a terrible company!
We can't explain the implementation details, but a human system can literally explain the logic she used to reach a decision. For example, for applications in the justice system that AI has been recommended for, this is a highly important quality.
I know exactly what you mean - from toggling a mode on a mechanical keyboard I didn't know existed and spent 20min looking for how to turn it off, to managing to delete several Powerpoint slides that were not on the screen at all, solely via keyboard (so that I didn't notice it until saving/closing the file and losing them forever). It's amazing :)
On a related note, I've noticed several manga and anime that focus on a career/profession in such a way that they seem to be geared toward encouraging youngsters to take it up. I would think they do a good job of it, at least, because I finish them with a new respect for and knowledge of whatever profession the story was about.

An example of this is the manga Act-Age that explores acting, or the anime Shokugeki no Soma for cooking, or Yakitate!! Ja-pan for bread baking.

Stories like these sometimes involve some kind of realistic, profession-related "superpower", like the protagonist in Act-Age being very talented at method acting, and the protagonist in Yakitate!! Ja-pan having optimally warm hands that allow him to knead dough better.

Is anyone working on something similar for programming or can recomend one? A story that involves programming that is realistic (as in no magic, etc, but can be exaggerated to a point) and that a reader can learn significantly from?
The problem is not very similar. Scientists don't work anonymously, and we aren't trying to prevent scientists from selling their vote.
Ha! For the record I’m all for it. I find the entire election procrsss highly entertaining.

The funniest thing I heard on the subject was the suggestion to nominate Trump as a Democrat so he qualifies for their primary debates and can take on all of them at once.
You can use gaia hubs, which are user owned stores, to host your data wherever you like. Gaia focuses on user owned data, and leaves the work of network consensus and replication to the identity associated with your gaia hub: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html where the identity is defined here: https://docs.blockstack.org/core/naming/introduction.html

We have an Amazon EC2 AMI, and are working on others, but the idea is you could bootstrap the docker-compose on any VM you like, or a rasberry pi if you want even: https://github.com/blockstack/gaia/blob/master/hub/README.md

There are IPFS driver requests and now requests for drivers to support privatestorage by Least Authority as well, if you also want to replicate your data temporarily across some nodal network.

While gaia fundamentally does not require using the comprehensive Blockstack API, we are working on tutorials to abstract the use of only gaia without Blockstack. They are designed to be functional independent of each other, in the same way people can use Blockstack authentication without gaia, the reverse can be true: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html

Currently, I want it to be even easier than just bootstrapping a docker-compose in gaia for users to host on their own machine, or rasberry pi or what have you. We are working on that as well as cloud hosted solutions.

I would like for people to be able to launch a vm with a preinstalled image locally on their own machine, not just google cloud, amazon, Digital Ocean etc. The groundwork for a secure and minimal VM is mostly in place. We need to set up more instructions for this but feel free to launch the docker-compose and give it a whirl in your environment of choice if you don't want any of the cloud AMI's we currently offer.
> Sutton takes an even more extreme point of view, suggesting that most human feature engineering is similarly a waste of time.

In fact, wasn't there an article posted here recently saying that they'd had good results with using learned features to feed traditional non-NN-based machine learning?
Sure. What would you like to ask?
TLDR: these kind of salaries also come with really good health insurance that your company pays for.

A trip to the ER might cost your health insurer $50,000, it costs you a $1,000 deductible, and almost nothing for any follow up visits.
If they cared about making the filtering easy then I'm not seeing why they banned drawings too.
Agreed. If you have fans, they will do whatever they can to read it as soon as possible. Example: people lining up at book stores for midnight releases of Harry Potter novels.

I imagine if the e-arc was leaked after the release date (after the vast majority of people bought an ebook copy), then the e-arc would have had a negligable affect on sales.
Maybe citations would help, but language like "Canada donated a design" simply makes no sense geopolitically. No country "donates" nuclear tech
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My grandma has shaky hands. She can’t really fill out a scantron. I have no problem with people filling out their own ballots. The pristine filled out and verified by the voter ballot seems harder to spoil than a hand filled out ballot.

My preference is for plenty of machines available to fill out paper ballots, but give voters the option of filling out by hand.
One of the mitigations in this case is not allowing MTBE to enter the environment.

Turns out if you ban MTBE people use ethanol to reduce tailpipe emissions.
What industry were you working in when at the Series B and Series C/D companies? Do you feel like your salaries at those companies represent the going-rate your colleagues also received?