skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a very similar situation at the end of last year. Young kids and a work life balance that couldn't be beat. Had a couple expenses pop up that aggravated my irritation at being underpaid to the point that I looked for a different job. Calculated out how much I thought I'd need to offset the work-life balance bit, and went out and got an offer for that amount. Actually accepted the offer but my employer said they'd match that offer, which was a much better outcome for me given the work-life balance part. I figure if it doesn't end up working out, the worst case scenario is I'll feel comfortable asking a higher salary next time I am on the job hunt. For now I'm living in the best of both worlds.
Actually it's a bit like "spec work". https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-spec-work-1697435. If you get 100 ideas per investment, then the average idea gets .02% royalty.

The chosen ideas will be idea + market research / inside info as to why it is a good idea. That has some value over a one line "Uber for X".
They seem to be getting some support on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pipdig/status/1112310062956064768

It's easy enough these days to blame things on journalists and "fake news".
"Did they bother talking to anyone at Google before they started doing this?"

How would you go about contacting Google? As far an I've ever heard they're notoriously impossible to contact by anyone who isn't paying large amounts to run ads.
Nah, PHP survived because it wasn't strict, it tolerated a lot of crap. It would process almost anything it can and not fail. Most other languages would error out seriously. Also it's model of running each request as a fresh process eliminated persistent bugs. PHP's documentation is garbage. I say this as someone that has made money handsomely from PHP. :-).
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In case this is meant to be a serious comment, there's a standard mechanism called the robots.txt file to tell crawlers you don't want them to scrape your website. You don't have to let them if you don't want to.
Psion's Series 3 was a non-PC x86 device still available in the late 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3

Microsoft released a non-PC x86 device in 2001, the Xbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)
I have the exact same problem. When I know what needs to get done, even if it's tedious, it's not so bad to put my nose to the grindstone and work through it. But when I'm not sure how to approach a task, suddenly every distraction in the world is more appealing.

You often see the suggestion to break up big tasks into smaller, baby step chunks to avoid this analysis paralysis. Doesn't help when I'm not even sure what to do yet.
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This is the premise of one of the short stories in Black Mirror's "Black Museum" episode (written by Penn Jillette, actually). A doctor uses it as a diagnostic device and then, as you might expect, the plot turns dark. It's very well done.
Oh, you forgot the best way to get a response! Spam emails to common names @google.com.
The Archive Team made a public call for help two days ago, which possibly has increased the number of ips that download content. This might have triggered automated defenses that weren't triggered before, or were manually disabled before.
Humans drive 8 billion miles per day in the US, through a variety of conditions, crazy weather, crazy traffic, crazy pedestrians, etc. “Just being safer than humans” is an extremely tall order.
More prorocols should be designed such that random willing individuals can contribute to the core infrastructure? DNS was made in an era where just anyone can run a DNS server for the public,hence the design choices.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

This quote has never been more relevant here.

> Yelp employees don't know about these practices.

> Yelp says it doesn't have these practices.

And both of these parties have skin in the game. Their incentives are, of course, to pretend they do not have dishonest and extortionate practices and to perpetuate the status quo.

> I'm thoroughly convinced after reading countless of these types of posts that the anti-Yelp sentiment is purely born out of salty business owners who don't like the fact that they get terrible reviews from an experienced audience.

I'm thoroughly convinced after your post that not only do you not understand how Yelp works (that they have the ability to arbitrarily move reviews to and from recommended and not recommended, affecting a businesses' score), but you also do not understand that Yelp is generally a bad medium for non-biased reviews, because most people will only leave a review if they're ecstatic about the business or have a gripe with it.

For every piece of feedback you see, there are probably at least 400-500 normal business interactions with regular people, despite whatever arbitrary rating Yelp has chosen to display on that week.

> And these people can't ever offer substantive evidence for the outrage porn they're writing.

You don't get to play arbiter on the height of the bar set for evidence. There have been multiple accounts over the years from business owners detailing the nature of their phone calls with Yelp. Until their algorithm for rating is open sourced, the burden of proof is actually on Yelp to showcase that the ratings are not being manipulated in any way. What's stopping them from removing a 5 star review and citing that it "doesn't follow guidelines" and pretend that it's ok?

> This post does not belong on HN.

Indeed it is your post that doesn't belong on HN. It is indicative of poor research, victim blaming and vague goalpost moving.
This article sounds like it was written by some pretentious idiot. Especially given the pro-Commie subtext.
My girlfriend seems to handle "direct" pain, like hitting stuff, getting cut or back pain, compared to me. Most times she just keeps going without uttering much at all.

But she's significantly worse at dealing with cold, heat and high brightness. One thing is that her body may be worse at regulating temperature, but she can't stand going out in the cold even for a few minutes unless she's dressed like she's visiting one of the poles.

Me on the other hand have little problem handling the discomfort of being cold or too hot. I also have no issue handling very bright sunny days without sunglasses, while she cannot.

Writing this it seems tempting to view it in an evolutionary perspective... giving birth is a very painful event one must endure, and when hunting it certainly helps to keep pushing even though you're too cold or too hot... or maybe it's just the way the two of us are wired up.
sorry, you lost me after the second comma.

Were you trying to say that we are going to be in trouble with the plebs if we don't manage to create an all powerful AI for them to treat like God?
I would buy some blighted properties in West Baltimore, fix them up, then rent it out through AirBnB.
In my experience, scraping Google data is hard. I did it years ago for a project. And I had to lease a huge block of private proxies. Each one only lasted a few minutes. But with a large enough block, they'd come back.
Indeed. I also recall a number of pretty cool Max Payne Matrix mods.
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Not nessesarily. Driving is one of the most common tasks worldwide, so it makes economic sense to pour large amounts of resources into automating it. Beyond sensors and computer components it also doesn't require any new hardware.

Most forms of cheap labor in the West don't fit that description.
I’ve found a lot of benefit from taking Piracetam or Noopept in the mornings with a daily coffee. I feel hyper-focused in a way that I don’t usually feel with just coffee alone.
Yeah, people feel uneasy with this. It seems that amphetamines work for pretty much everyone at the right dose, and they have very few side effects. I've had a prescription for about 15 years and while I don't take it daily, it's incredibly helpful sometimes.

It's a problem if everyone does it, but that hasn't really stopped me. It's unclear if I'm a rational actor, a bad person, or both.
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Thats why they have Jeff Dean! He can change everything.

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This story is specifically referenced in the article, which then explains why there's more to it.
There's a great sci-fi world based around this premise, called The Culture Series by Iain Banks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_(series)
Work or worked at lyft? Haha
a speculative, linear-reductionist rant... interesting read nonetheless
What would you call "results and details" of an investigation which led to a conclusion?
Hey Soroush,

Thanks for replying. I am pretty sure I was having a bit of a slow morning and didn't think my initial reply through.

I do agree with you on all points about eating real food. I think it's crazy how most stores and supermarkets consist of 99% dead food and 1% organic. I think it's crazy that you have to look for the organic/natural section in the store opposed to it being the first choice.

Nevertheless, I do not agree with using science to depict the topic of fruit vs meat or X vs meat. As someone with firsthand experience (5 years vegetarian and 1 vegan), there is absolutely no need for dairy, meat, or other animal products to live an extremely healthy life.

In fact, an organic lifestyle is not even in the same bracket as animal produce. Most stuff we buy in stores today - meat, etc. - is extremely mass-produced with a ton of hormonal injections for faster growth and production.

If anyone can justify that then they need serious help because it's not normal.

Grass fed? Perhaps, but the conditions would need to be just right. Elk hunting and such I can agree with to a degree; as long as overpopulation is an actual thing.

Of course, I love latte and cereal, so hell, I guess that makes me a hypocrite. But perhaps I am just that passionate, without all the science bullshit shoved down peoples' throats.
It’s not a long time. Computer speech recognition, a far simpler problem, has barely advanced at all in 10-20 years. Siri is no better than Dragon Dictate was in the late 1990s. It’s possibly worse.
They start with the same open source code. The main difference between Postgres and Aurora/Postgres is the storage engine and optional integration with AWS IAM, S3 extensions. If AWS didn’t store the data in a way that was cross compatible with Postgres. There would be a major outcry. But he is using DO. I doubt that his requirements are that of a large enterprise.

I don’t know of one large enterprise that you could go to and say we want to use Digital Ocean.
The perfection of humanity is very rare but not only possible, but definitely attainable. It takes a lifetime of effort, of questioning one's own motives and past actions and one's societal traditions through the lens of love and brutal honesty. Love is defined as selfless service to others without regard for recompense except for the inner peace and happiness that results; i.e. loving behavior is the opposite of selfishness. It is our political and industry leaders' selfish pursuit of power and wealth at the expense of others that has dominated the world since time immemorial and is the driving force behind why things are so miserable for the vast majority of human beings on Earth today (and getting worse). Only when we choose "public servants" to be our leaders will the sh*t stop rolling downhill.

Everyone who says that the perfection of the human being is impossible have never tried, thus they are acting just as the contemporaries of Boltzman and Einstein who derided their advanced understandings of the universe. The reality is that most people never try to better themselves, especially if the techniques suggested stray beyond their preconceived notions of the nature of the universe and themselves. As well, most people are caught up in their desires for pleasure and material wealth and generally have no concern for those outside of their social circle, be it based upon ethnicity, form of religion, class, sexual orientation or gender identity.

That the incremental perfection of each human being is possible is provable simply by noticing that every choice we make can be better chosen each day, by conscious thought and honest self-reflection on our past deeds combined with earnest study. We must consciously shift our societies' dynamics from destructive competitiveness to constructive cooperation, from selfishness to selflessness, from callous indifference to caring compassion. Love is the essence of humanity, without such agape (service-based love for all other human beings) we are left as the unenlightened animals we all begin as. Only we human beings have the ability to consciously rise above our foibles.

It is also our nature to require an inward connection with our Creator to effect our transformation from selfishness to selflessness. There is a science of spirituality that is beyond any form of religion but most modern scientists deny such science for lack of external evidence. The evidence must be perceived within oneself, just as Boltzman and Einstein's contemporaries needed to read the papers and understand the processes that they were describing. The difference is that denying the spiritual path indeed makes it not exist for that person, for each person must embark on that endeavor themself before being able to feel its reality. Those outside of that circle of understanding must have an open mind and heart to enter that circle or else they will never experience it and that is just another aspect of our human reality: we are free to choose to remain ignorant of it, but we all know what history says about Boltzman and Einstein's deniers.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi
As someone who's often asked about my productivity (and who also often feels unproductive anyway), I think this quote from the article gets at the heart of the issue:

>A better option is attention management: Prioritize the people and projects that matter, and it won’t matter how long anything takes.

Progress is persistence + time. Nonzero values of both will lead to results. If you spend 1% of your time on a project which requires a hundred hours of work, it'll be complete in a little over a year. I don't shy away from projects which I know will take years to complete, and as a result they eventually get completed :)
People who do pay large amounts to run ads get to talk to someone, but that someone normally has absolutely no power whatsoever.
But there's only a single piano available at the moment.
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I struggle with this, I think as long as you aren't getting spit in your eye as a batter, who cares if a pitcher throws a spit ball, a cutter, or any other "cheat" pitch. I feel like that is living on the margins and that you probably aren't affecting the balls flight path as much as you think you are. 60' 6" isn't really a great distance, and batters have generally hit 1 out of every 3 or 4 times they bat since basically forever...
It’s interesting they’re taking the German route rather than the English route which is to erode most feminine gendered trade words: waitress, stewardess, actress, governess, baxter, etc. likewise the male equivalent have become neutral so actor, governor, baker, waiter, etc don’t only apply to men.
Are you also one of these 'people' that will not accept a computer driver? Those people are using a poor emotional argument.
The fact that you don't use the knowledge gained in a particular course does not make that course worthless. The discipline in having to work your brain through the mental gymnastics required to understand the material stands you in good stead for solving different problems down the road.

I would far prefer to employ somebody who has a wide range of experience and knowledge over somebody who has churned out what is essentially the same CRUD web site anyday. Even if the job is to produce CRUD web sites.

One employee will just be able to produce what they have always done, the other will be able to look at the particulars of the problem, analysie it and potentially produce a product that is far more likely to meet the customers requirments.
In many cases it's scientists who decide if existing funding is used on many small studies or few large ones, and which studies in particular. In that sense it is important to evaluate if maybe having fewer studies with better statistical significance would be better.
The one time I had to call google because when I was working at a large company down the street and they had blocked all of our netblocks and we couldn't use their systems for a few days. Some young teenager-sounding male answered the phone and sounded annoyed that I called and said that we should write a message on the forums and then hung up on me.
I suggest you do look up the author, because he is rather infamous for saying and writing stuff like this:

"In a covenant concluded among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one's own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very purpose of the covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centered lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order."

(Yes, the man seriously calls himself a libertarian.)
They seem to have put up that SPF record now, so I can only presume they weren't aware of this at the time.
I think the difference is that software tends to be much more fragile - and more predictable - than humans. Paint fake lane markers, and an autopilot might drive full speed into a wall because it trusts them; the next 5 cars with autopilots will all do the same thing. An attacker can verify that an autopilot will do this ahead of time. A human on the other hand will be more likely to notice that things are amiss - they can pick up on contextual clues, like the fresh paint, and the fact they've driven that road hundreds of times before and instantly notice the change, and the pile of burning self-driving cars.
My mom had the standard teacher’s pension which I believe is 60% of your last years salary. Assuming she made 60K a year at retirement that is like 900K savings at a 4% withdrawal rate. My dad had less than a million in savings.

Of course she did have guaranteed access to health care insurance. My dad has less than a million.
Maybe if we got them started earlier than college CS, it would be easier.

I learned how to use the MSDOS prompt growing up as a teenager. Most of my programming was done in an IDE, though -- including the first few years of my career. I had also worked a little bit with Linux command line, so I wasn't completely unfamiliar.

At age 26, I joined FAANG and was forced to adapt to developing in Linux 100% of the time. The transition wasn't difficult. I felt comfortable with the Linux command line after a few months, with some help from coworkers and Stack Overflow searches when necessary.
Then you may be interested in pursuing structural models!

Thanks for the chat.
Not to be argumentative here, I'm seriously asking- is there anything keeping them from doing so anyways, and just not publishing it?
From my experience, try having enough projects in your belt that at least one of them has something actionable to do, and work on that while you ruminate on the other problem for a few days/weeks/months. Don't worry about getting anything done soon, prefer getting them done correctly and pick something else up when you get stuck. Also, don't forget that "staring into space for an hour while you think about a problem" is also a valid form of working.
People have their competencies which may not often be evident.

I do still think that, in the hyper competitive corporate world today, such kinds of people will get shafted regularly until they realize themselves what their great skills are and build on them.
Haha, she agreed not to sue you for hitting her? Sounds like she caused the accident.
That doesn't mean anything gets done because of said internal contacts, and you can only leverage internal contacts so many times before you've worn our your welcome. That is what I've learned from internal contacts :P
There's a general misconception between being productive and being effective.

One can fill their days by completing many mindless tasks and consider themselves as productive, but in the end hardly any of those tasks really matters.

On the other hand, another person may only complete one or two tasks in a very short time during their day but these were critical tasks that could generate much higher values. This subsequently makes the person more effective than their peers.

The output values must be weight in determining if one is really productive. Effectiveness triumphs mindless productivity.

This is quite similar to the cognitive and decision fatigue principle which indicates that each of us only has a limited pool of cognitive resources and so we must be very selective in choosing what activities we engage in.

To remain highly effective, not just being productive, particularly for a project manager, it's imperative to spend time only on tasks that require critical decisions to be made, and to delegate the rest. When you take on more tasks than you can handle, like some are misunderstanding this may help them appear as productive, it will undoubtedly affect the quality of each of your decisions and the project will suffer.
I've always found it strange that companies don't give raises to current employees. A team I am on just lost a good engineer to another company offering him a $30k+ raise. He would have stayed if our company had even given him half of that. Instead, they let him go, and how will have to hire someone else, probably at that higher salary. So weird, and seems to happen a lot.
Did they seriously have the audacity to deny all this after all those code examples were shown?

Edit: Wow, peoples' responses on Twitter are even more delusional. Wtf?
But the reason for intervention isn't just "risks" but the decimation of an uncontested population due to disease caused by a previous intervention. In other words, it seems as though the "prime directive" has already been violated and this is damage control.
The human mind is an amazing and complicated thing. I think we’re only beginning to scratch at the surface of truly unlocking its abilities. Seems like a lot of these “rules” are simply cargo cult like remedies.
Yes, everyone who ran a server on the internet would know, and make a big stink about it.
This is the first thing I have read about information theory that really made sense to me. I think I now understand it about ten times as well as I did before.

>What does information really measure? It measures the uncertainty we overcome

My thought here is that matters because human beings have to make decisions all the time, and reducing the uncertainty regarding the situation makes it more likely you will make the correct decision.
We are as a species electronics noobs. Applying our new shiny toys to everything is natural.

Electronic voting lowers the bar because it moves away from physical representation of people and ballots. Mail-in makes it easier to game for the same reason.
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I’ve seen stackoverflow’s retro UI. Any other good April fools jokes or themes?