skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cultural narrative has shifted to the right?

All I hear from my red-state family is how basically the world is coming to an end because the country has veered so far to the left.

I live in SF and things here always seem to be drifting leftward as well, but of course this is probably left HQ so I guess that's not surprising.

That said, some of my farthest left friends in San Francisco are convinced that some kind of extremist right-win revolution is about to happen, and one of them literally moved to Canada in fear of it.

I don't say any of this to disagree with you. Rather, I say this because I feel like something weird is going on in the world. There doesn't seem to be much consensus about what's going on around us - like people aren't living in the same reality.

As for me it seems like mostly life is just going on like it always has - but I deleted social media a while back and quit watching cable news... I think unplugging from that made me realize it's all a giant circus and a lot of people are getting roped into various factional hallucinations and sort of losing touch with reality. But I just don't get how it's become so pervasive, and it leaves me questioning how you can even know if anything is true or not.

Okay, side tangent over... carry on...
I can only look at the result of how many republicans turned into a submissive tool used by trump...
Isn't that just called charity?
I've in the past been downvoted for suggesting that counting the number of attractive women you see walking down the street would give you the best single metric for measuring the vibrancy of a neighbourhood. Now that I've got some data to back up the claim, I would probably still get downvoted for suggesting as much.
If anything, the most (or only) effective aspect of TSA checks are that they remind people to be vigilant. That may be the single best reason to continue using security theater, and a very strong argument in favor of keeping it.
>With CT technology, we could see even more nuanced differences get flagged for unusual.

Good, that's more data to learn from and that would only be a minor issue for a short period of time for new devices. How often have you flown with something that other passengers hadn't likely have flown numerous times with before you? Even if the system picks out 0.1% of items for manual classification and training, that's still mountains and mountains of data for it to learn from and that would only take a tiny fraction of the time for airport security to identify compared to what they deal with now.
Doctors and dentists make six figures: its the other workers that have to accomodate to their hours.
Here in Palo Alto I get offered rides in the middle of the night for less than a dollar! (I do sometimes get a pass). I pay Uber less than they pay their driver.
How can choosing uber rationally as a driver, and be taken advantage of by uber both be true at the same time?

Someone might rationally decide to drive for Uber, not because that is their best option, but because that could be their least worst option, among a list of shitty options.

If Uber and Instacart are my only options, and I decide to go with Uber, I am still making a rational choice. But only because I think Instacart is worse than Uber. That doesn't mean these companies aren't taking advantage of me, it just means one is less shitty than the other.
> The fact that dozens of companies have been built around millions of lines of Common Lisp code at all levels of abstraction solving some of the most complicated problems is a testament to the scalability of Lisp.

I would draw the opposite conclusion from your statement. "Dozens" is not a big number compared to the universe of software-based companies. Up that number by three orders of magnitude and I'm sold.
It is an interesting question. For the FAA, there is at least data that the number of fatal accidents has decreased, but it's hard to say for sure if that is due to the FAA.

http://planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
This is done for consumer surveys quite often. They will send you a $5 or $10 bill (cash) along with a, usually long, survey.
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Brilliant. Can I setup a line so all Robocalls are charged $1000 per minute?
I seem to remember Uber being caught out keeping data that customers never explicitly agreed to?
It vastly reduces the chance of you receiving a packet that contains no new information. If you just rebroadcast the same packets over and over again, a receiver that has 999/1000 packets may have a very low chance of serendipitously receiving the packet they need.
That's what a strike is! The workers stop until the bosses acknowledge market value.
You could sign up for Informed Deliverey online with just an address. There was no verification whatsoever.
Oh this is really sweet! I was always in love with physics. One day when I was in high school, I saw a computer game that did projectile path simulation. Something clicked in my brain. I realized just how powerful simulations could be in validating and discovering new physics. That was the day I decided to become a computer engineer. I wish something like this was available when I was in high school. Younger me would have been absolutely delighted. :)
This has been my experience as well. I just left a company after only six months because my boss was the most hellish micromanager I've ever encountered in my almost 30-year career. I asked him repeatedly to just give me a list of what he wanted done and leave me alone to do it, but he insisted on being a hinderance and causing all kinds of technical debt.

I told H.R. during my exit interview that working for my boss was like having Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Houston Rockets, run out on the court every five minutes to stop the game and show his professional players how to dribble correctly. It was absolutely ridiculous!

I don't know why companies keep micromanagers around. They don't help and in many was detract from the company's success. If nothing else, they drive talented employees, who know they don't have to put up with that shit, out of the company.
They say 70% of children is born to single mothers in Iceland. The stats they reference says 70% is born outside of a marriage. That’s just because most couples in Nordic countries do not marry not because the mother is single. If they get that wrong what else did they get wrong.
I cannot comment on this chip in particular, but my experience is that most arm platforms have unavoidable non-free firmware.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532185
If you think you have a really kick ass product that everybody will want when they see it though?

well probably you will alter your thinking based on feedback, but maybe not!
not sure, I am a seller using their services, not an investor. Are you not able to invest in new deals?
An electronic song reduces attack and mating success in Aedes aegypti
The article doesn't really say anything about attractiveness. Maybe you should adjust your metric to single-looking working age women.
Not just "shady" jobs! Any company including the large tier one's doing "big data" are harvesting data by various questionable means for questionable purposes.

After working temporarily in big data at a large unnamed telco who has a monopoly my home internet is locked down, vpn'd, dns going out over vpn + over tls and the ISP provided modem straight in the bin as it's untrusted where ISP's can push updates when they want with what they want. One prototype may be performing a network scan for unknown to the telco mobile phones who are on a different provider so they can up sell mobile+bradband packages!

Likewise your insurance company offering health monitoring devices for free discounts or car tracking devices to reduce premiums is not for your benefit! The only benefit is to a) Figure out a way not to pay out or increase a premium, b) re-sell the data to other 3rd party companies for further $$$.

Big data is the most soul destroying, meaningless job i've worked in, often going own questioning the meaning of life!
Full title: The electronic song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" reduces host attack and mating success in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti.

Aedes aegypti is a mosquito specie
> My theory, completely made up and untested, is that these powerful Lisp/Smalltalk systems weave code and brains together in a way that amplifies both. It’s very organic, very hard to document, and thus it becomes very hard to absorb new brains into the system. <

Here's a simpler and less mystical theory. These programming systems are fundamentally image-based, and much of their leverage comes from the coder's ability to leverage all aspects of the meta-system. However, the more the core image is evolved the easier it is for a team to get out of sync. This is the ultimate namespace clash.

A slew of other highly-productive languages share this feature, e.g., APL and Forth.
I wouldn't say they're counterfeit, assuming you mean the ones I'm thinking of. They're branded as produced by third-parties, so it's clear that they're not an OEM product. There's nothing wrong with selling replacement supplies for devices.
Engineering guide to writing correct User Stories
Does it store the time zone, or does it store the offset?
Off topic but I just wanna say, oh man the T68 and especially the later T618, one of the most beautiful phones of all time. Apparently sold tons as well.
It turns out that if overused the stuff wreaks havoc on the bladder. Britain has a shitload of bladderless people who enjoyed K too frequently.
I'd really like to see an analysis of the total number of passenger-minutes that are spent waiting in TSA lines. Divide that by the avg human lifespan and compare it to the number of people killed or injured by a terrorist attack.

When looked at like that, TSA costs more total lifetimes than have ever been taken through terrorist attacks.
If there's no Pre-Check line and you have Pre-check then they give you a big laminated card that says "Pre-Check" and you don't need to take shoes off / remove laptops belts etc.

Yeah, with Global Entry it's worth paying for the priority baggage otherwise you'll just spend 45 minutes waiting by yourself in the baggage claim area as the bag belts get clogged up and stop with the bags of the passengers still stuck in the passport lines.
Are they X-raying people now?
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Kudos for the concept. Intriguing form of counter-surveillance that could actually work in a lot of existing surveillance states. Had a few questions :

1. Who in the system is responsible for maintaining and updating the object detection model? It seems like a centralized point of failure for an otherwise decentralized system. Might want to check out existing techniques for Federated Learning for ways to counter this. (https://www.openmined.org/)

2. How possible is it to mount a Sybil attack on this system? Why did you select PoW considering it's weaknesses? One possible problem could be that early adopters will necessarily have to be co-located for the system to have any value(Hence consolidating value in a certain geographical area, making it very easy to regulate/shut-down).
I am probably missing something obvious, but how can the number of single women increase 50% but single men only raise 15%? Unless there is a large population of lesbian women who suddenly decided to stop dating, I would imagine the number of single men and single women would track each other (roughly, with differences being accounted for by same-sex couples, gender distribution changes, and death rates.)

Unless this is just a population boom among women?
Works for serious illneses, not much for anything else. You won't get extra time off (which doesn't cut into your paid leave) for dealings with your bank, barberer, vet, HOA, etc.
This is how timeshares are sold. The testament to their success is that they offer much more than $5, typically show tickets or hotel stays.
Does it have a viniculum?
Higher than a manager at the same company? Be at one of the companies that offers a separate promotion track for engineering.

Higher than managers in general? Keep interviewing, raising your rate and you should get there. I mean if you work in software dev you probably already make a shitload more than a lot of people with "manager" in their title so just double down on what works.
Thank you for chiming in. In my SQLAlchemy+Postgres app I've chosen to store datetimes as timestamp without timezone columns where the time zone is always UTC. I'm quite happy with that choice. The last thing I want is for Postgres to start implicitly adjusting timestamps. By making the timestamps non-timezone-aware, I'm telling Postgres that if I ever want it to do any time zone conversion, I'll ask for the conversion explicitly, never implicitly. Explicit time zone conversion works quite nicely in Postgres. I want no magic.
"Probably the most important thing it does is to keep the world from descending into a flaming fireball of constant wars between countries"

How many millions were killed by government in the 20th century? WW1, WWII, concentration camps, gulags, Mao's great leap forward, Vietnam, and the list goes on. War has been a constant for most of the 21st century.

There is a strong argument that much of the above would not have been feasible without large centralized states.
I agree, however on the flipside the Apple pay rollout has been a nightmare. Our big 4 banks have been fighting over the implementation of the platform which has led to some our biggest banks simply not implementing it.

This is where the Apple card will put additional pressure on our institutions to be more compliant. Given that if my current bank won't allow it, I can easily sign up with Apple card and be on my way
We have 4% of the world's population and 81% of its opiate use.

In 2019, you are more likely to die in the US of an opiate overdose than you are to die in a car accident. That staggers me.
The single men could be living in a different neighborhood than the single women.
Why did you assume it's expensive to obtain drivers?
Another obvious option is men dating multiple women.
Just checked out Xaval and i really like it. When i started with OpenCV it took me a lot of time to install it and get started. The tool is good for beginners to just jump straight in and focus on learning the fundamentals.

Is the name inspired from "Naval" ravikant ? :P
OK thanks. But that would mean the performance gain would not be as dramatic I guess ?
All of those statements are frames for our astronomical & rising across-the-board material abundance.

a) We have so much food and so little need for the human body to expend energy (cars, infrastructure, oil, etc) that it’s a public health crisis.

b) We’d rather have $0 than see our neighbor get $10 while we get $5. Indicating that we have satisfied all material desires and the only thing left to do is play social status games. It’s seriously incredible that inequality (rather than deprivation) can be anyone’s main concern.

c) The planet is profoundly affected because participation in (a) is getting less unequal, spreading from rich countries to the whole world.

You are describing the tradeoffs of too much improvement, not a general downward trend.
PowerPoint is a poor tool for decision-making
> Narcan is saving a lot of lives (although it does little or nothing for addiction itself)

Nothing whatsoever, and from a bigger picture hurts.

"Ideal" treatment for opiate overdose? Manage respiratory depression/arrest, slowly titrate IM (not nasal) Narcan to keep level of consciousness lower, get to hospital, offer patient treatment options/longer term help.

Blast IN naloxone into someone and they'll almost always AMA (against medical advice) on scene.

-- paramedic
Ha! Good point. Customers would complain quickly enough.
It depends on how many domain experts (N) disagree with you and how much of an expert you are. If you're not an expert in the domain, you can forget about it. If you are, then the chance you should scrap the idea is proportional to N.

With technologies pushing the edge of research, N is typically very small, and being headstrong and willing to take risks and experiment is an essential skill. At some point, you alone are a large enough fraction of N that all of humanity is essentially depending on you to take the risk. If you don't then it might be a very long time until someone equally as capable will.
We can just as easily build a drone that senses CO2, humans sweat odour and heat, that kills humans.
I'm wondering how one converts to a data scientist or ML engineer from a pure web development background without going back to school? I've been a backend developer for many years and I'm already a bit bored with working on software-only products. Would love to move on with my career to a point where I could have some more influence on what's happening in the real world off the web. Where did you start?
There are better games to play.
> yes I do, it's in UTC, because I assume the application is written to correctly handle datetimes.

This seems to assume that only past events may be stored in a database. How would one schedule events at some clock-on-the-wall point in the future when either the exact applicable time zone is unknown or the mapping of a particular time zone to UTC isn't guaranteed to remain unchanged?
Good point. I suppose it depends how far you need to take it.
That's about six times the engineering power you have there.

Our data is indeed simple and beside data collection via a web app, the focus is on reports with that data; but always in small sensible junk and never across the whole available data for a model.
Good for you! Stand up for yourself if they ask, use words like “inappropriate” and “disrespectful” to describe scheduling a conference call on a Saturday.
Interesting idea to create a currency of proof of work for a task of intrinsic value. I had thought about creating a currency around making successful predictions, some computational activity that is not random but has some demonstrated value.
All docks I’ve seen require careful insertion of the phone, to a) hit the spot where the cable goes in and b) not to scratch the phone if I miss. Wireless: just slam the phone on the puck (or stand), carelessly.
For those of us not in the UK, what is a PPI refund?
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> OpenSSH 8 will add quantum resistant algorithms for key exchange.

Any additional information? This is really good to hear. PQ key exchange in SSH makes a lot of sense: Except when its used as some backend communications for automation SSH key establishment is hardly performance critical, and can easily afford extra round trips for negotiation.

Any idea if there are plans for PQ key authentication? A SPHINCS signature or similar would be very nice-- and the security story for hash based signatures is excellent.
While outcomes may be obvious, mechanisms are seldom obvious. Understanding mechanisms often helps us discover new outcomes that weren't so obvious before.
[Regulator Phone Pay] says Premium rate numbers are not designed to be used in this way

Yes they totally are. The whole point of them is to make money from callers. Exactly what else were they designed for?
Hold on now HK women are of a very specific type, and of you know tou know and if you don’t you wouldn’t believe me
What you said is incorrect.

Almost all DNS servers ever have an ability to set a DNS forwarder instead of using root hints.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/getting-started-ncurses
Wouldn’t a typo be more like mintue instead of minute.

I wrote an entirely wrong word spelled entirely correctly.

Wikipedia has this to say about typos:

A typographical error (often shortened to typo), also called misprint, is a mistake (such as a spelling mistake)[1] made in the typing of printed (or electronic) material. Historically, this referred to mistakes in manual type-setting (typography). The term includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger,[2] but excludes errors of ignorance, such as spelling errors, or the flip-flopping of words such as "than" and "then". Before the arrival of printing, the "copyist's mistake" or "scribal error" was the equivalent for manuscripts. Most typos involve simple duplication, omission, transposition, or substitution of a small number of characters. (emphasis mine)

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

Hmmm. Definitely spending way too much energy here.
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Consider learning to cut your own hair with scissors if your hair type allows it.

I've done haircuts for myself for 15 years with only a pair of thinning scissors. I have never once used a clipper. I'm Asian with straight hair so this is possible. The sides and back are hard at first but thinning scissors make the cutting very mistake-tolerant. You can cut at any angle, roughly around the place that needs it, and it cuts some layers of hair off. You just repeat cutting and feeling the length with your hands and eventually it'll be at the right length. It takes me about 30-45 minutes including everything from cutting, showering after, vacuuming and clean up. I only recent stopped (and went back to a barber shop), only because I have a baby now and I really need every bit of energy and time I can get back in my life.
Great point on the site blocker and infinite possibilities for distraction. Removing the whole environment of the Internet takes away all the cues for distraction.

Burnout and tiredness are definitely factors that keep people in a cycle of distraction because our brain is ready to be distracted in those states. If unproductive work leads to excessive work, this is a vicious cycle with tiredness as both cause and effect. You can’t regulate your attention optimally unless you are well rested.

I would say the “root cause” in this situation is the need for sustained attention on the intended task and the lack of a system to achieve it. The strategies I’ve listed are well known ways to achieve this. The author found a different way and was pleased with the results.
This is answered in the article it seems. Those numbers are associated with obligations of fairness, liability, etc. which an individual is unlikely to be able to provide the callers with.
In all these comments re: rural versus urban versus megacities, nobody seems to have brought up arcologies (as per the sci-fi'ish concept, not half-baked experimental villages like Arcosanti):

A city contained within a single megastructure, or a small cluster of megastructures, with large areas of natural/semi-natural, green, forested lands around them.

Manufacturing and energy generation for all the needs of their residents would be done inside the megastructure or adjacent to it.

Let's see:

• People love living spaces that they have complete control over.

• People love being near other people, without being forced to always be near other people.

• People hate feeling crowded, without any convenient escape to solitude.

• People hate long commutes.

• Unbroken stretches of concrete jungles are dystopian and depressing as hell, no matter how "modern" or glamorous they may be (see places like Dubai.)

• People love greenery, occasional communes with nature, the babbling of brooks and seeing other lifeforms flourish without impinging on human habitats.

• If given a choice without giving up convenience, people want to avoid pollution.

Cities compressed into a few ecological + ergonomic + economic megastructures would tick a lot of those boxes.

The tech may not be there yet, but I hope to see a functional arcology in my lifetime.
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fbaexperiment.com used to post really helpful information on their Amazon FBA journey. There was also an HN post last December. The site seem to have just vanished as of now.
just wondering, is any US based shop selling similar machines?
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