skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The auto industry in the 1950’s was a boom-and-bust industry, and every good phase for workers—1950, 1953, 1955—was followed by a tough stretch that wiped out whatever precarious toehold they had established.
Nothing wrong with that, but if I ask you why did you become a developer and you list that as a main reason, then I will immediately dismiss you as not being serious.
FB is the only company I wouldn't accept an offer for, I'd still apply but only use any offers submitted for leverage.

I'm surprised no other commenter has brought this up yet but you do realize that short of working for the NSA Facebook is the most unethical job I can think of for a Dev.

Every other week they're being blasted on HN for another ethical violation and everyone comments on how their devs must have known what they were doing when "they did X fucked up thing to Y users", etc...

I'd take the offer to your current employer or literally anyone else you might be interviewing with and tell Facebook to suck a lemon.
I am interested in knowing what happened after. Did they just give up on the rats? What do cities around the world do to control the rat population?
Anecdata: I jumped jobs every 3-5 months for the first 2 years of my career and went from 50k - 250k with a 20-50k raise every time.

I’ve been at my current gig almost two years now.
Cash is the same.
WaPo links work fine for me in incognito mode (so it can't accumulate a count of articles read). But NYT recently started detecting/restricting incognito mode. So now for NYT you have to do the same thing as WSJ links: click 'web' or look up the article's title on Google. Then with Google as the referrer NYT will not paywall the article.
I was contorting with a tape measure and typing them in, so my apologies I can't. :)
You sell small amounts at the daily BTC x [venezuela currency] rate? It allows your money to retain its value.
> So it is again a long term gamble to maybe make one day a load of money.

No, that's not what this is. The comment above you said nothing about this anyway, it seems to be off-topic? The entire point of this launch is to reduce the risk, assess potential problems early, and find paying customers quickly to prove the market demand before and their ability to handle it, before scaling up and launching more.

> So again one of Elon Musks enterprises is promising a long term success story.

There is no way to make the world better without trying to do it. And that takes time. Why would you have a problem with someone trying to make the world better on a long-term scale? And also, nobody is promising anything, especially as SpaceX is not a public company and has no public investors.

> Before they get there they have how many satellites to build and launch?

Like, 60? And just this launch? I believe they intend to be revenue-generating from this very first network launch? This isn't some long-term gamble, they are testing the market quickly for acceptance of their tech and business model.

> Before space link is profitable and cash positive all that cost has to off set by profit and positive cash flow

It's called Starlink. And, okay..?

> Personally I doubt that SpaceX is cash positive and profitable

Oh. You are directly stating that the CFO, CEO and President of SpaceX are liars? If that is your position I don't think much that I say will ever change your understanding of this. You are mired in conspiracy theories and not listening to the facts in the world.
The core problem is that experts bad predictions are ignored, and they are continue to be consulted. Fundamental flaw in human psychology.
Final fate of a Leidenfrost droplet: Explosion or takeoff
This comment is more than enough to identify you by any YC company following this thread.
In the mid 20th century coding was seen as a trade school skill. Perhaps boot camps are another version of this.

When I attended MIT in the 1970s there was no pure computer science major even though competitor schools had such. The faculty said it was a skill most of the students picked up in high school. In 1980 MIT made computer science a co-major with electrical engineering. And finally last year an independent school.
I'm curious what the timeframe is for Fuschia to displace Linux in Android, and then maybe ChromeOS.
They’ll have thrusters to keep them aloft longer than they would otherwise last. But the whole constellation will have to be refreshed every five to ten years. The whole project depends on cheap launches, which fortunately SpaceX is able to provide.
No offence, but if you’ve never worked in the particular cult-like pressure cooker that is Big Tech, then you can’t relate. The article was not about culture shock.
this guy made an excellent youtube video modeling and visualizing the satellite orbits, the network routing paths across them, and the resulting latencies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU&t=4m

NYC to London on the current internet is 76ms, he shows it across starlink's updated plans as working out to around 46ms.

Later in the description he points out a mistake in his own math and says that starlink paths should be 8.7% faster than the video shows, so really jfk<->lhr ~ 42ms.
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Phil Tetlock, the expert on experts whose research is discussed in the article, does raise this point. He also discusses the difference between being a good predictor, and being good at raising interesting questions. There are some videos of him and a number of other smart folks here:
https://www.edge.org/event/edge-master-class-2015-philip-tet...
>I would thank you to stop trying to police my participation here.

I'm not policing anyone, I'm offering my opinion. Likewise, I would thank you to stop being paranoid, and either respond to what I said or ignore it. Not respond on some imagined "intentions".

>You have something of a history of treating me like an idiot.

Actually, I have absolutely no recollection of who you are, and of having treated you like anything. I don't even remember the name "DoreenMichele" or having had a history of discussing with you, or whatever.

If I indeed have a history of treating you like an idiot, it's not because I go out of my way to treat that particular username (which I don't recognize and don't follow across threads) as an idiot.

It's either because I treat almost everybody like an idiot (which I might tend to), or because your individual (non-connected as belonging to a single person to me) comments over threads pushed the same kind of buttons on my responses (e.g. because you tend to make comments that I tend to disagree with and respond in a certain way to).

In any case, I don't go around keeping tabs. For most people I talk with on HN, I only ever remember the names/opinions of a few frequenter commenters which tend to commend often and on the same things so end up as identifiable, e.g. pjmlp has a soft spot for older languages, research compilers and so on, dang is one of the moderators, tcpatec is a security boffin, and so on. I only recognize as specific people on HN something like 10 persons or so, the majority are just opaque aliases that tell me nothing when I see them, even if I have engaged in threads with them at various times.

>If you are not consciously aware of doing that, well, consider yourself notified that I have noticed a pattern of behavior here and it's something I don't like and don't want done to me.

Well, the problem is I seldom ever check who I respond to. I mostly check what's written in their comment and whether it triggers a "somebody is wrong on the internet" / "I must respond to this" sentiment. I might glance at their username, but in most cases I wouldn't even remember it.

I could do some effort to check for your name and not respond in the future. In fact, if there's something like "block" I could use that and spare us the drama.
Surely every player in a capitalist has an incentive to reduce or reuse material in their own production, and an incentive to recycle if it is cheaper than binning it.
I’ve read the book. Just because something is ridiculed, doesn’t mean that it’ll be a success eventually. Sometimes it’s actually just a bad solution.

It was pretty clear that the innovations in that book provided some value. I don’t remember it being a thing that most of them were ridiculed, it’s just that the established alternative represented a much higher revenue stream for the established companies that they didn’t see a point investing time and resources in the alternatives.

The core problem is that the only real value blockchains provide is systems that can be implemented without a root of trust. So by definition it only provides significant value in failed states. But the real solution here is to build functioning states with trustworthy courts that can be the final arbiter in the case of disputes L
I think this isn't true what you say, Do you have links? I always assumed some of the free market hawks are to incorporate the externalities in the cost, e.g. selling the right to pollute.
I heard that Netflix collocate in many ISP's data centers.
Interesting, thanks.

I could certainly see it as less of a stretch for people elsewhere in Europe especially.
Except of course, that the Bitcoin ecosystem also uses human capital to write payment processing infrastructure and attracts people that like to make money by writing trading algorithms, and the "actually we don't need to pay people to secure our storage or monitor our transactions" approach is a bug rather than a feature of crypto exchanges, which is why they lose people's money so often. The unique thing about proof of work isn't the lack of human capital, but the enormous energy requirements
Is it practical to regularly buy small amounts, given the high transaction costs? And who is selling Bitcoin for Bolivars?
Agreed, it was partly coming of age and partly corporate culture. The issues with microsoft sicken me a bit, but its not much different than what I have seen elsewhere.
Yes, but why isn't every coin trading at 10x its market cap? Many of the same markets that report Tether volume also trade Bitcoin. If you look at relative differences between coins, even if volume isn't accurate, it indicates a very concerted effort to keep Tether propped up.
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People are animals before they are humans and life is a battle for survival. Money and sex always come before morals and values. Classic red pill vs blue pill and hardest lesson I ever had to learn.
When there are 12,000 of them deployed wouldn't there be more than one above you all the time? Couldn't the connection from Earth spread the traffic among multiple satellites?
Graduates from a decent college is already a huge filter. “Weeding out poor performers” is another one.

So no, this isn’t evidence that “anyone can code”. It’s evidence that “most smart people can code”, a completely different statement.
I searched for this for the last 5 minutes but couldn't find any info about it online. Do you have any links or citations? I think it is false info.

Edit: Based on the info I was able to find, it looks like this is indeed false information and not true at all.

I can find no evidence that SpaceX is having trouble raising money or that their recent raises have gone poorly. No evidence. But I can find a lot of people explaining why these numbers are incorrect and why it is false to say that SpaceX is having trouble raising money. A lot. Here are a few.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bem0lr/spacex_only_...
TL;DR: rat hunters were cutting rat's tails to obtain the reward, leaving rats alive to let them multiply.
To a lesser extent, the same can be said for those who get an "IT" degree from a no name school from the college of business. I've spent a lot of my time training people who graduate from local small colleges instead of say, Georgia Tech or UGA (I'm in Atlanta) because management at my big corp is throwing cheap bodies at the solution.

Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed mentoring but done kids graduate with no clue and the wrong expectations.

I've mentioned to management these kids don't graduate with the proper foundation... And I'm told it's my job to give it to them....sure, I'd love to if they give me their college tuition!
All the while being driven by the bogosort of financial transaction processing, which injects massive amounts of co2 into the atmosphere.

Fuck everything about bitcoin.
> But I consider that also as a success to Linux... as that means that people who feel like home at Windows can also develop Linux Software, and that's the big deal.

The problem is that it does nothing to ensure the viability of Linux as a Desktop alternative. The more people will feel at home "in Windows" even to develop Linux headless applications, the less incentive there will be to run Linux Desktop. It might very well end up being a net negative in terms of alternatives for the end user.
You end up hiring "professionals" that will actually keep the spirit of the agreement not just the letter (contracts do wonderful things in the modern world).

Although, I do know of one case where the locals gave up on a building (exterminator said no, the cats ran for it, and hantavirus was a concern). They cut a trench around the building, filled it with gas, lit the trench up, then set the building on fire. It was a bit horrific. They built another building on the same plot but not the exact same place.
Students should be more like jocks: giving a dam.
It was an off hand remark considering the cost of replacement satellites and the running costs to keep the existing ones up there and running. Launches are only a part of the equation.
Will Microsoft "Linux kernel" devs influence Linux roadmap?
While this could be true, I take such tweets with a grain of salt. What I noticed throughout the years is that every time someone makes a claim about Bitcoin, they are wrong. Bankers, CEOs, traders...all of them.
I remember someone did this using a smart phone sitting on the same desk as the keyboard as the sensor (and maybe the processor, I forget), but the idea was to recreate what they were typing rather than biometric identification.
It'll help me feel better
> it's 2019 and I cannot hibernate or sleep my laptop reliably.

Oh, no worries, it doesn't even work properly on Windows on half of the hardware.
I will stick with workona
If you’re going to quote the article, I think it’s important to include context. So let’s broaden your article quote (that is, the article is quoting someone else) just a smidge:

“Medicare payment rates, which reimburse below the cost of care, should not be held as a standard benchmark for hospital prices,” said Melinda Hatton, general counsel for the American Hospital Association, AN INDUSTRY TRADE GROUP, in an emailed statement. [emphasis mine]

You claim that the quoted statement is more accurate / truthful than the statement that private insurers pay more than the Medicare rate, and seem to imply that the Times’ reporting is biased. Did I get that right?

Would you like to furnish some support for those claims?
Linguini, is that you?
I think there is a useful distinction to be made between fields like physics, where expertise in the field makes you more likely to make accurate predictions (e.g. about when that comet is going to appear in the sky), and fields like economics, where expertise in the field actually makes you less likely to make accurate predictions than a non-expert (e.g. whether we will have a recession soon).

Consider an expert in medicine, back when the "four humours" theory of medicine was what experts used. A non-expert would think, "bleeding is bad, I don't want to bleed, I need my blood". Experts believed in bleeding their patients/victims to restore a balance of the humours. George Washington was probably killed by his doctor in this way.

Being an expert in a field only helps, when the basic theoretical models of that field have reached a certain minimum level of maturity.
"Antisocial personality disorder" is a polylexical synonym for psychopath.
I don't know the history, but the endgame modern consensus is that decreasing garbage availability is the only way to go.
What laser interlinks are the planning to use anyway? Do they plan on making their own, or to buy them?

I've helped with EDRS [1] and I can confidently assert that these things are everything but trivial to get to work well. The technology is so highly sophisticated on so many levels that I was quite literally shocked more than once during that time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Data_Relay_System
If you try implementing a RNN from scratch with the same base as the OP N-order Markov Chain and without Numpy or a deep-learning frame work, I guarantee you that you will not find it so easy.

For reference his code his 400 lines and this is what he is importing:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <random>
#include <algorithm>
#include <array>

We can assume that <math.h> import is reasonable for comparison

To implement RNNs for text you need to implement tensors/ndarrays of 3 dimensions with slicint and all that jazz, efficient matrix multiplication, implement the RNN, implement the RNN backprop properly.

RNNs stands on the shoulder of giants.
Why are you linking to some PH page?

What's the direct link to your project?
No Python?
You're going to ignore that most of the mining happens in China using excess hydroelectric capacity?
How do you cope with spending the majority of your time being a "sideshow"?
This has been my experience, and I'll add I have noticed there is a massive disconnect from the reality of just how complicated modern software is. I remember beginning my career what I think used to be a quite common experience of being quite a bit overwhelmed by how much I had to learn, very aware that I didn't even know what I didn't know and this definitely motivated me. This awareness is completely absent from 100% of the boot camp grads I've encountered, who have been sold and apparently internalized the idea that "everything is easy" and are quite resistant to the suggestion that they might not fully grasp the scope and difficulty of the situation. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I also suspect these people would have found their way into software development without going to a boot camp.
Fundamentals of calculus in India, two centuries before Newton and Leibniz
Seems like Socrates would fall under that definition.
> Get this: Chromebooks also support Android apps, as Google’s mobile operating system is also built on Linux. Which means that developers could run software from three different operating systems at the same time on a Chromebook.

No, two only. ChromeOS runs on the Linux kernel and the rest was merely a thin web client. ChromeOS apps are simply offline web applications.
The next release will a) have it on by default and b) not allow you to disable if I'm reading their release notes correctly.
There's a nice parallel in Ancient Greek, and from there to modern philosophical parlance: Eristic[0]. Here's Plato, for example:
"it is on the purely verbal level that they look for the contradiction in what has been said, and employ eristic, not dialectic, on one another." (Republic V 454a, translated by Reeve)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristic
>as its dependent on the hash rate rather than the transaction rate.

Even hash rate doesn't affect it unless there was a recent spike/dip, because the network retargets difficulty (controlling for hash rate) every 2 weeks.
The best analogy from "data is the new oil" is that a data breach or privacy event is like the Exxon Valdez.
The pragmatic reason is the idealistic reason: control. It manifests itself in things like forced Windows updates, even if you're actually using the computer at the time.
Not OP but: This is the 2019 raise they were referring to [1].

I don't know much about SEC regulations - they're required to file info about who has invested in the first 15 days - and rumours used that to say they couldn't sell all they offered. Other rumours said that they don't have to file to say they sold it all. Would appreciate clarity from someone who knows SEC regulations.

[1] http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/04/17/spacex-embarks-fundin...

Edit: you've found the discussion I read a bit ago. Good.
It’s the problem-solving, not the language part, that requires special aptitude. You might speak a dozen languages but it doesn’t help if you don’t know what to say.

Besides, have you tried to learn a new natural language in adulthood? A bootcamp won’t get you far. And natural languages are really forgiving in comparison because you’re communicating with a human-level intelligence that’s used to inferring meaning from low-bandwidth ambiguous datastream.
I used links but I'm gonna rewrite this code to simply pass IDs. The reason is simple: I need additional configuration for my server to know its hostname and I don't want to do that. May be my server even have few different hostnames for different clients? So I must parse client request and extract Hostname? But it's served via reverse-proxy, so I must do some complex configurations to pass this information. So many issues. But client knows perfectly well which server he's talking to, so he can just append server-base and id. Yes, client must know about its structure, but it's nonsense that client can somehow learn something. I'll code that anyway.

May be it makes sense when you're writing an API and some different person writes a client and she's so shy that she don't want to even ask you. Yeah, she can inspect answer and find out that this seems like a link to query further. I never was in that situation, I was always building all software myself, so for me this does not make sense.
Fake news. Microsoft deploying the linux kernel just means they're running it in a virtual machine within Windows. They aren't switching to the Linux kernel. NBD.
I have also heard that they are having some trouble with the laser interlinks and alignment as well as the cost of them at this point, so they are starting with the microwave interlinks. They still plan on doing the laser interlinks eventually, but they weren't reliable or cheap enough by the time they wanted to begin launching, so they are being left off this first batch.

All of that is completely unsourced and heard through anonymous sources that have posted on various forums, so take it with as much salt as you need.
Interesting! Whatever you optimize for in human (or machine) behavior is what you get.
What is exactly Linux Desktop?
Isn't Linux Desktop = Linux Kernel + Mostly Free Software?

If you run a (free) Linux kernel and (free) Linux software, why can't that be considered as Linux Desktop?

What is the downside of an additionally-running Windows kernel?

Is it the usual everything-should-be-free-and-non-free-is-evil paradigm?
Looks like another firm trying to pull an "impossible" - hype up something as lab grown meat, sell veggieburgers.
Here’s one: https://coincentral.com/bitcoin-mining-trumps-gold-mining-en...

Amusingly, when I search for the energy consumption of gold mining, the results are all about comparing it to Bitcoin.
It's worth considering how the entire supply chain used to work.

In days of yore, soft drink bottling plants were in every small town. They were locally owned, were good citizens and local suppliers of jobs, sponsored sports teams.

Distributors used to pick up bottles sorted for their bottlers and then put them in a great big bottle yard for further hand sorting (don't ask me how I know).

Beer, while they mostly used brown bottles (Miller for one excepted), also was much more locally sourced although not as locally.

In the meantime, there was huge consolidation in beer manufacturing, huge consolidation in distribution (with the inevitable forced closure of family-owned businesses, not dissimilar to car dealerships), similar consolidation in soft drink manufacture. The whole underlying network changed in the interest of efficiency/profit maximization for the corporate motherships.

tl;dr You simply can't just declare reuse of bottles and be done with it. There's a whole ecosystem.