skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned about Yasuke from playing "Sekiro." There's a black samurai/ronin that you can interact with. I thought nothing of it, but others postulated that it might be a reference to Yasuke. I was fascinated to learn about his journey.
Because... the higher the salary the higher the intelligence?
It definitely depends on the type. Some gyms are very "class" based. Planet Fitness ==> heads down. Crossfit or Orange Theory ==> much bigger sense of community.
Uk and Japan Suspend Huawei Phones
Ask HN: Starting same business of the company I left?
How morally wrong is to leave a company and start the same business because you like the business, you think it can be way better and you know that that company will never improve it? What could be the problems? How could I get the customers?

The story behind the question, if you are interested:

I worked for 2 years for a small company (25 people), in a small team (4/5 people, all pretty young, 27/33). Basically fresh from college, I was hired as a backend engineer to re-do the backend services (DB, APIs). Lots of decisions were already taken when I joined.

These decisions were not great: a lot of architectural choices were done with no rational behind, just by feeling. DB was a mess, no triggers, inconsistent data, zero to null security, and so on. Application layer even worse.

What's worse is that the dev team was given ALL THE TIME AND SUPPORT from the management to redo everything from scratch, but still made a mess, eg, again, de-normalizing the DB without knowing if it would really be a performance plus, but just because "I feel it would be".

I don't claim to be the best, but I think that as engineers we should at least try to take decisions based on real things, and not "by feeling" (which I could accept from someone with a lot of experience and recognized in a field).

I learned a lot, but lots of things I wanted to do, implement and improve did not get approved. So, at some point my I had enough and left, because I saw that the only things we were doing was trying to fix the mess that was done, and I didn't want to go on with that when clearly the whole codebase was so messy that the only solution would be to start over with a real and well defined plan.

The service now works somehow (with "duct tape", as we say) -although there are lots of complaints from customers- so management now is kindof ok with that (because they spend money and time in the redo, so don't want to do that again), although they know its shitty (once again).
this is really interesting.

I've been meaning to dig my teeth into F# sometime soon because of its highly functional base.
I've never used CQRS or Event Sourcing, but I found it very interesting after watching some of Greg Young's videos.

He also has this: https://leanpub.com/esversioning

This blog by Jay Kreps (Linked-in) is also a good read: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
We don't even know if ethnicity and IQ are the common factors here. I have a hunch is it's far more weighted on culture than genetics but I don't have any evidence to back that up.
I agree that there are an awful lot of people who'd like to put forth your point as a means to defend their actions.

And like them, you're the one seeking to erase senses from the dictionary by pretending they aren't there to begin with.
I don't think EU will trust Huawei at all. Recently my country Netherlands has found backdoors in Huawei equipments https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-huawei-tech/d... . and the biggest telecom in my country just banned huawei in its 5G network. I am sure this will prompt more countries to reject Huawei, especially if one of the bigger countries like Italy, France, or Spain rejects them.
As someone designing what could be construed as smart public furniture, I absolutely agree.

Such change is both economically and politically incentivized, and people will almost always err toward convenience. Some recent research[0][1] suggested that purchasing free time (through paying for convenience) makes people happier than material purchases.

Further, potential criticism of such changes is swept under the rug as high end / high tech brands pioneering these services align themselves publicly with the fairytalesque yet disembodied/unassailable image of a "sophisticated" "urbanite" "consumer" who is "time poor" "cash rich" and thereby "successful" because they are "going places" (being content with where you are is unsexy). Moreover, they have "choice" so are "empowered" and can "express themselves" and "their aspirations" through "their choices" (read: spending / conspicuous consumption / subsequent social network image spam). The mythical "successful neighbour" or "keeping up with the Joneses": aspects of human social behavior (and thus capitalist marketing norms) are such a crock of shit sometimes.

A motto for the future? iCaveman: I can't.

[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/18/1706541114.full

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/science/study-happy-save-...
The first thing I thought of was a callback to those old books targeted at near-adolescent boys e.g. The Boy's Own Guide to Fishing.

Obviously, it comes off as clumsy and inappropriate today or 16 years ago judging by the date on the footer.
I find myself procrastinating the most when I know what what I'm doing will likely be interrupted, even if it's hours down the line. For instance, even if I can work on a certain thing for 3 hours, when I get word that I'm probably going to have to work on something else for the rest of the day, chances are I'll take those 3 hours less seriously because I know that, when I come back to the task the following day, I'll have to mentally start over. Even if I consciously try to push through it, the back of my mind keeps shouting "What's the point?"
Idk, have you seen the interfaces with default implementations in latest C#? Also duck typing? Both are mistakes IMO. First missteps I feel like I've seen C# make.
Did I just read what I think I read?

Are you suggesting that people take a bus from New York to Los Angeles, because though the chance of being injured or killed is higher, it is worth it because the trip takes so much longer?
I would argue that rich people have on average far, far more debt than poor people. Rich people also have far more ability to protect their assets from inflation than poor people.

With regards to "no one has their savings wiped out by inflation", tell that to, say, Russians in the early 90s. Very real and very significant savings in Sberbank turned to virtually nothing, i.e. wiped out, by inflation.

I would still argue that a higher unexpected inflation rate would hurt the poor the most, but may benefit middle class holding mortgages (although the more likely effect is that the negative effect on the overall economy would end up hurting everyone, with the poor being hurt the most).
Academic journals, in general, need to evolve for a lot of fields.

Besides being too closed and a bit crusty, I think journals work well for sciences and possibly also for philosophy. That's not surprising, since they evolved around these. But, for "soft sciences" (economics, psychology, etc.), I don't think the system works very well. Possibly some areas of health/medicine sciences/studies too.

First, they have a lot of problems in practice. The replication crisis is a big example, and it impacted psychology most severely. Economics has this issue, which kind of comes down to ex post hypothesizing.

There are fairly serious issues with generalizability. Even if results of some economic or behavioral study/experiment are good, can it be generalized past the narrowest terms of the experiment.

The publishing system (or, maybe "publishing" is not even the ideal frame) needs to work in a way that promotes accumulation of evidence, data and replication but the system seems to be producing sprawl.

I'm not sure what the answers are, but glad to see there's an interest in change.
Almost always, but not everywhere. For US, yes, other American nationals make ~50% of their illegal immigrants, and that's a phenomenon on its own.

But take a bigger sample. Swiss were biggest offenders in Hongkong, Macau, and dozen other tropical vacation destinations.

Few years ago, Singapore's biggest offenders after Malaysians happened to be US citizens.

India, complicated story... but if you not count Bangladesh citizens, and stateless, I think almost all of OECD members will get to the chart

Vietnam, heard that they struggle with US citizens in recent years as well, though mostly Vietnamese Americans

African countries, a known story - tourist overstayers
Here’s a Tour of F# by Microsoft:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tour
Like every tool in the toolbox it has a range of proper applications, comes with its own complexities and downsides.

Having tried and failed to apply it shouldn't aautomatically generalize the failure to a problem with the tool, but rather to either its inadequacy to the use case, or its improper use (and this is useful learning as well).
Yes, and it's shitty for consumers and publishers as well. Before if I was interested in a niche product, there would be publications that were supported by ads from the niche industry. Now, they can figure out that I am interested in fountain pens from my browsing history, and instead of paying someone to write fountain pen content for me to read, they put the ads on any random website that I happen to visit. This means that now niche publishing is unviable because it doesn't have a high level of traffic and it also can't deliver more highly targeted ads than e.g. Facebook.

The clearest example of this is the collapse of local news.
Read the research. Read the links. Study sociology. When you invent a metric and model, you imbue it with bias.

“Objective” is something that has been up for debate since the dawn of epistemology. It hasn’t been solved yet. It’s also worth understanding the Demarcation Problem.
Like with a funnel plot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_plot
I could understand this excuse if instead of 2003 it was written in 1920.

That said, it only contains the word "boy" once in the entire article, and only in the provocative headline.

I think we can all look past the provocative headline.
The title is obviously tongue in cheek and meant to be light hearted. I mean the article's first sentence is "There is an unfortunate strain of pedantry..." And given that in 2019 you can't use the joking title "A boys guide..." to anything anymore, the world has become much more pedantic. Humor will no longer be tolerated if even a single person doesn't think it is funny.
Nice username lol
I've worked in mature CQRS/ES services at scale, I've also helped convert other systems both into proper CQRS, and out of proper CQRS.

Like anything else, it's one tool in the tool bag, but like that giant pipe wrench that you're always looking for a reason to use, it's almost always the wrong tool for the situation. CQRS carries horrific complexity and requires commitment to a handful of golden rules or the entire thing comes crashing down.

> I don't think people are qualified to reject this pattern

I don't think most people are qualified to know what the hell this pattern truly is, much less put it into proper operational use. I've seen plenty of people attempt to use CQRS when they should have stuck to a simple CRUD model. At one point I was adjacent to a team that had built 8+ services to handle one or two trivial business processes.

CQRS isn't a fine wine or stinky cheese. If it smells funny for your case, it probably isn't the right choice.
Of course the IQ tests themselves are also long known to kinda suck at their job, clarity towards what they are actually measuring and let alone the actual causality.

IQ brings to mind "screen time" as a trendy but useless metric as it is even worse than "print time" where the contents could be anything from pulp fiction and comic books to advanced textbooks qnd latest articles and more.

Even the article lazily goes with the cliches of pop culture to blame (certainly not calling the Kardashians and their associated personal image cult/business venture anything but vapid) but this "issue" inevitably turns into yet another choose your own useless scapegoat based upon preconceptions fest based upon no evidence.
I had a similar issue not long ago. I went in and really changed it into a massive 50 character pw.

My spotify account was hijacked in 2017 and managed to get it back - someone from Tunisia - he had the audacity to start creating playlists full of autotune rappers. I wouldn't mind sharing but man his taste in music was awful.
> Surprisingly not everyone overseas is linked with international terrorism as you imply.

Unless you're trying to send money to North Korea that wasn't my implication at all, I have family overseas to whom I manage to send money without crypto or getting overcharged.

There are tons of international remittance services already including Andreesen-backed TransferWise which charges ~0.85% or less to move money internationally. Much less than the sum total of the cost of buying coins on an exchange in one country, paying an on-network transaction fee, risk of huge swings in the asset value and fraud along the way and one more exchange transaction fee in the destination country.

Generally even WU is quite competitive. In markets where they appear pricey the cost is usually to de-risk things like political issues which are all borne by crypto too but opaquely.

For instance, the USD-INR corridor is almost fee-free on all services.

If you've got a ton of money to move, you may be best off opening an Interactive Brokers account and performing the exchange there. They take a commission minimum of $2, or 0.002% ($2000 per million) for the trade. [1] It's a $5.1T per day (legitimate) market after all.

This is not a particularly good example, it's a solved problem.

[1] https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1590&p=fx
Wait a second. IQ is a weighted average. IQs “raising” in developing countries due to more modern problems to solve, would also manifest itself as “dropping” IQs in developed countries.

This does not mean people are getting dumber, it just means there is a narrowing gap, which is good, not bad, assuming you want the best for all humanity.
>American Airlines flight 587

The accident investigation found that the vertical stabilizer was stressed beyond its certified load limits by the pilot's rudder movements.

I can see why people were inclined to blame composites at the time of the crash. But 18 years have passed now, and there was never another incident where an A300 had a structural failure of the vertical stabilizer.

There's a good comment here: https://forums.jetphotos.com/showthread.php?50480-Airbus-Com...
Trust in The New Yorker is not in question. The matter of concern is reputable news sources, of which The New Yorker is only one example of many, behaving in ways that makes it easier for fake news sites to emulate their appearance. Whether you trust the compiler your browser was built with is also not a serious consideration; pull your head out of the clouds.
It is a little risky assuming correlation - hopefully salary is correlated with a sort of general economic contribution rather than intelligence. Intelligence isn't a prerequisite for contributing mightily.

If intelligence was correlated with salary that would be a symptom of bad outcomes in the economic system. I'd expect that, but wouldn't be happy to see it. Eg, whoever is running the local plumbing small business is in a position to make a lot of money. The plumber might be smart or might not be, really shouldn't matter.

I've seen situations where truck drivers make a higher salary than engineers. More intelligence almost correlated with a lower salary.
Edited a bit, Nvidia has always been late ( or waiting for it to mature ) to leading node. So in reality we are looking at 2024 / 2025 for mainstream part.
What's the benefit of these fancy financial instruments other than for someone who wants to enjoy a slower, higher stakes version of the roulette wheel at a casino (assuming the Boglehead wisdom that individual stock picking is about as reliable as that)?
Hopefully, it will not only boost RISC-V adoption, but also the FOSS EDA[1][2][3] tools, FPGA[4][5] and ASIC[6][7][8] design tools, various high-level languages, and toolkits to work with hardware designs. You can also follow my idea[9] and initiative to create low-level hardware IR instead of al tools parsing or producing Verilog/VHDL. Apparently, both are a pretty bad fit for chip design, thus many high-level languages[10] were created.

[1] KiCAD http://kicad-pcb.org/

[2] Qucs https://github.com/Qucs/qucs

[3] gEDA http://www.geda-project.org/

[4] Yosys https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys

[5] SymbiFlow https://symbiflow.github.io

[6] The OpenROAD https://theopenroadproject.org

[7] The OpenROAD https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project

[8] Chisel3 https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3

[9] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19

[10] https://github.com/drom/awesome-hdl
You can’t use those USA app in china. Use chinese app ?
Hijacking the thread (bear with me).

Is f# a good language to work with in Linux servers? Is possible? Would you recommend it?
As one of those relentlessly positive email users, thank you for this feature. It’s easily ignored and very useful at times.

I don’t believe you are contributing to the downfall of civilization.
It can be hard to avoid since carriers reasonably often change what aircrafts they use after the tickets are sold.

Norwegian Air Shuttle has been in a lot of trouble over that when they sold tickets promising Dreamliner but instead leased in a much older airplane to fly that trip. (well they have done it multiple times on different trips)
NYT editor predicts almost all newspapers will die in 5 years
I can recall only a couple of actual time critical rush projects in a career of non-profit IT work, which was filled with high stress "we've got to have this now and CHEAP" exhortations. They were not "disaster relief" important, they were "the meeting will not come off as scheduled" important.

I was proud to work that hard partly because I felt no one else would do the work if I didn't, and partly because I expected I was building equity towards an early retirement where I wouldn't have to work so hard. I wound up expending my health and enriching others instead.

At least I enjoyed the work as I was doing it; I can't imagine how horrible it'd be to look back on 10, 20 years spent doing something you hate and realize that you didn't even get paid.
Please show me how EASA has outsourced certification to the manufacturer (Airbus) itself like FAA has done with Boeing

Otherwise I have no idea how you could even remotely compare these two situations
The business money need not flow through to their owners. It can instead show up as unrealized capital gains, which A) gets taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income, B) can be deferred indefinitely, C) can be cheaply borrowed against for tax-free spending money, and D) gets wiped out when the shares are transferred via inheritance or in-kind charitable contribution.

If you have $10M of non-dividend paying stock, you could conceivably spend $200k per year while having a taxable income of zero and remaining eligible for income-based health insurance subsidies.
This is so cool. It's like the boy's king Arthur of finance. I get a fair few channels and podcasts on engineering and such, but I haven't found a lot of good approaches to financial topics. This is great.

Thank you!
It does in fact contain the word "man" though in a (normally) non-gendered idiom.

> rather abbreviated poor man’s guide to the field

edit: just realised that there wasn't a space between "poor" and "man". However, it seems from a quick google search both versions (separate and a single word) are used for this expression.
It's a messy example but in Myanmar/Burma the government used to be pretty uncaring and oppressive but eventually enacted democratic reforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932015_Myanmar_poli...
Here in India pretty much every online banking transaction requires an SMS OTP. To get a SIM card changed, you need to provide govt ID + you don't get any text messages for 24 hours. IIRC, if you go into a store asking for a SIM swap they also send you an OTP, and ask you to text the new SIM's serial number to a special number to activate it.
Yes, it would be strange to say "I saw two men programmers working in the cafe today". And for me, "...two women" as well. Just like it'd be strange to say "I saw a black guy programming at the cafe today" unless you (or the person you're addressing) found that to be a sight worth noting.
wrong on so many levels.
I disagree; I don't want to spend 10 hours traveling, I want to get from point A to point B. Unit of distance is what makes sense. Who cares if I have half the chance of dying per hour, if I have to spend ten times the hours subject to that risk?

I'm not sure why you think just doubling the speed would impact the crash/unit of distance ratio. If ten planes do a 600km trip and one crashes, that's 1 crash per 6000km regardless of the speed at which they're traveling.

You're right that fixed per-trip risks are diluted, but that's because plane trips are longer, not because they're faster. The right comparison, in my opinion, would be to draw the curves of death rate / trip length.
Historicize.

Medicalization.
Agreed, and it's disappointing that you're getting downvoted for pointing this out.

It's probably an attempted play on words based on guides for boys, but yes, it's pretty tone deaf for something published anytime in the last 50 years or so.
Airbnb Wants You to Travel Based on 23andMe Results
Articles with gender in the title tend to get complaints. If it has women, men, boy, girl, male or female in the title, there is almost always a comment complaining to that fact.

I think it would improve the comment environment if HN had a title policy against using gender in it unless the article is clearly focused on it and has something new to contribute on the topic of gender. A lot of article titles would benefit by simply removing it.
That sounds much more prepared than I was, I arrived and then wanted a quick solution on the fly, Tor fit the bill nicely.

I would probably use my StrongSwan IPSEC VPN setup to home now that I have one.
Some people refuse to take care of themselves, others do not. To lump all entrepreneurs/founders in to a single group is ridiculous, the people who start companies are the most individualistic members of society.
I think this happens a lot. Did you sign a non compete? Some companies make you sign that for around 1 year.
I think it’s just a title in the British style from the 40s where there were lots of books with “for boys” in the title.

It usually implies a gloss over some otherwise serious subject: camping, survival, the universe, etc.
Strange comment about a firm in a totalitarian country which does not allow USA app will favour openness and freedom ...
> Even in capitalist societies there are still places like that, with free healthcare, basic necessities available for everyone, guaranteed roof over your head, and even full employment. These are called prisons.

Ah, the good old "noncentral fallacy" [1].

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
F# is a joy to use. After a certain time, many C# developers find themselves writing in a functional style. F# makes this the default, but lets you continue using all of your existing code.

Better yet, Linux and macOS support via .Net Core is excellent. F# on .Net Core is now a powerful alternative to Node.js.
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