skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your joking, right?

https://supchina.com/2018/01/18/caught-in-a-crossfire-chines...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-weste...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/us-intelligence-chin...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches...
I don't mind elevating the autonomy of D.C., but there was a reason D.C. was created in the first place - so that no state would have too much power by containing the capital. It shouldn't become a full state.

I'd rather dissolve D.C. and re-institute the original state boundaries of Maryland and Virginia than elevate a district to a state.
Alphabet just announced a buyback a few days ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-25/alphabet-...
I've done a lot of work with n-grams in NLP and in my experience it's only useful up to 4-6 words at a time, unless you're trying to index proverbs.

The reason being that grammar is intensely hierarchical, so that mere "linear" processing that n-grams do stops being useful beyond things like compound words or short sayings like "don't mind if I do!"
> If they didn't maintain this you would be stuck keeping an old computer alive that had a floppy drive and a CD burner, to burn any data you needed to a CD, then another old computer that has a CD drive and a USB port to move the data off a CD (/s, but only kinda).

If I understand it right, the USB floppy drive drivers were still maintained; it's just the old ISA (now LPC) floppy controllers that were orphaned.
I still have a redhat 9 machine with a 333Mhz pentium3 cpu, 5 1/4 floppy, 3 1/2 floppy, Yamaha scsi CD burner an adpatec 2940, and a Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI IDE Controller for strage old IDE disks. It also has a soundblaster with the wavetable addition for that old-time midi goodness.

It connects via a 100mbs 3com 3C905BTX nic. I call it the network attached device driver.
Even forcing that should be illegal.
> Presumably you also object to academics working on entirely abstract problems?

Yes I do. But at least there isn't a large monetary incentive to push people into it. They push themselves.

> After all, they could be doing something else much more useful.

I doubt it. Maybe.

> Who gets to decide what the most useful allocation of resources is?

Interesting question, but unrelated. We were discussing about the overhead versus benefits of high frequency trading. It's about the efficiency of the system itself, not about how to act within this system or where to direct the resources you get out of it. There is no conflict of values, I think.

My feeling is: it's an arms race. The profits that used to be randomly allocated are now either lost to you (if you decide not to participate in the race) or they are predictably spent on the race itself. Nobody wins, except those who enjoy the race for its own sake. Before that, someone was just winning randomly, and got to decide what to do with the profit.

Do those fast trades actually increase the overall efficiency of the system by more than their cost?
Tree Command, Improved
> more people under 45 were exhausted (43%) than those over 45 (35%), with the least exhausted group being those over 60.

Welp, they aren’t making the greatest case against ageism here, are they.
We've a system at my employer that has a 5" floppy, IDE CDRW drive (yes they exist) with USB 1 so that we can pull off some really ancient software every couple years.
Interestingly I have recently purchased one of those third-party solutions (not the one you linked, one that is supposedly an even stronger fan), and these have pretty minimal effect. It helps a little bit, that's about it.

I think it's not as simple as just having more venting. When I lived in Sacramento a popular method is to leave a 0.5-1 inch gap on all the windows while parked. It actually helps quite a bit (hot air exits near the top end of the car interior), but when the car is under the sun for long enough, at best the temperature in the car may be 100F (instead of 120-140F with all windows rolled up), which is still enough to be a killer. In those sorts of temperatures I think you actually need an AC system running for it to have a real effect.
Chrome OS was my thought as well. I'm not sure how much of that is included in Chrome itself, and how much is bundled separately as part of the OS though.

For some reason I thought Chrome Apps were deprecated. PWAs can do most of the same things today.
Yeah, but you never know when something somewhere else in the kernel might break it. And not many people have the hardware (not to mention patience) to run a bunch of regression tests for new releases.
The rich are interested in getting richer because it's fun. And there are real benefits for thousands of people to growing an organisation. It's easy to justify.
World Tree is solid. I've talked with the owner and she has a good program set up with the farmers who grow the trees to get the capital they need to plant them and then revenue share from the sales. They raised money (about $1 million) on WeFunder earlier this year to help grow the program.
Yeah that's true, one thing that sometimes helps manage it is drinking LaCroix but ~1 hour later its back and feels worse.
That's like 6x the size of Texas. Can probably pull that off if everyone in the world pitches in.

Not sure what other effects like invasiveness of the species factor in.
It is an irrational emotion driven thing for me. It is sort of like not going to a particular amazing popular restaurant just because the service isn't good - it hurts me by not going to the restaurant and enjoying their incredible food but it becomes a matter of principle.

Gandhi protested the British by spinning up his own yarn and making his own clothes, it is the concept not the objective ROI of his decision to not buy British-made goods.
In the U.S., if you've held the stock for at least one year, its dividends are taxed at a very favorable long-term capital gains rate. Stock held for less than a year is however taxed like regular income.
Does your startup have the potential to become a $100M+ business? (online quiz)
To quote a comment from other places, "Welcome to the 19th Century."
> I have no idea what's on the floppy.

Luckily for you, there now is someone who wants to maintain the floppy driver for the Linux kernel...
KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum
I definitely wasn’t making the argument that anyone was arguing for slavery, just that notional definitions of moral progress are much more complicated than simple economic metrics. There is so much more that goes into what is “right” and “wrong” than pure economic level, at a micro or macro level.

Now you might say I’m making a straw man of their argument, but then what are they even arguing then? I can’t figure it out. What does “advancement” mean? They alluded to social sciences having various measure of human happiness is and that a “Progress Studies” department could synthesize these metrics into... what exactly? Policy proposals? A religion? Metrics of human well being assume an underlying framework of morale agreement to begin with.

You simply cannot philosophically convert an objective metric into an “ought” without making a ton of morale assumptions. You cannot prove that your morality and values are better than anyone else’s because you will infinitely regress into definitions if what “good” means.
> They held the event, they caused everything... they tried to make us angry.

Brainwashed dictatorship proponents are blaming those who oppose dictatorship for their own aggression. How classy.
I love the fact that the device most people think of as a "floppy" disk isn't even floppy -- by the time removable-spinning-media-in-a-sleeve became truly mainstream the drive itself had gone back to being rigid.

So the word "floppy" was itself vestigial.
Google doesn't, Facebook does: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebook-doesnt-make-much-mone...
VRChat users put together un-official meet-up named after world's top reporter
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So your PC104 board working with the latest Linux kernel and had a floppy disk interface? Which processor does it have?
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It's amazing how some parts of the kernel barely get maintained explicitly. A year or two ago I was digging through the block driver subsystem and at some point took a look at the loop device as a simple reference. I learned that it supports encryption, because that was actually the only way to implement encrypted volumes about 15 years ago. Dmcrypt didn't exist yet. I would be surprised if anyone still uses that feature, yet nobody bothered removing it. Loop is mostly ever touched if anything changes in the block layer. It was the first block device to be switched over to multi queue though, most likely due to its simplicity. Which is most likely also the reason nobody bothers becoming the official maintainer.
Random q: where were you based in China?
I think it's a fair question to ask whether or not people should be allowed to stay in the U.S. after demonstrating toxic behavior. In case you didn't read the article, these students are using violence and doxxing personal information of protestors:

> One of their friends was also "doxxed" - personal information including his passport, marriage certificate and student ID details were posted online. "Don't worry, there won't be a peaceful life for him in Brisbane," read an accompanying caption on Chinese social media platform Weibo.

Is this the kind of behavior that you would allow from a visitor to your home?

EDIT: Some shady down-voting going on in this thread. Not sure what else I expected with a politically-volatile topic like this one but it just goes to show that people don't care about discourse - they just care about feeling right.
> Shouldn’t the floppy driver be incredibly stable code after all these years?

Not if it calls or is called by code that changes more frequently.
Amazon to kill Dash button functions on August 31
Say you modify the HAL interface, then you need to edit this to work as well.
It’s a great question and a tough problem. We have written a little bit about the problem of ‘slackers’ (participants with low attentiveness and engagement) [1,2]. The things we’re doing right now to address this problem is to 1) test for attentiveness and engagement before participants take part in real studies, 2) distribute surveys more broadly to reduce the % of “professional survey takers” in each study and 3) educate researchers about ways to use good attention and engagement tests [3] in their studies. We can then feed this data back into our system so we can iteratively improve on data quality.

I can’t go into too much detail about the attention and engagement checks we have built in, but if you sign up as a participant and pay attention you might spot some. In the long run, we think good feedback systems and high trust will be key so that our pool iteratively gets better and participants don’t feel as incentivized to cheat. It’s key to make sure that participants feel that their high effort responses get fairly rewarded (both financially and with social appreciation).

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[2] https://blog.prolific.co/bots-and-data-quality-on-crowdsourc...

[3] https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/categories/3600...
The sleeves are rigid; but the disk (of ferrite-dusted plastic) is still floppy.
>Is HN exactly like Boomer Facebook now? What's with this "kick them out of the country" rhetoric?

This is complete false equivalence. No one in this thread is calling for all Chinese to be expelled from Australia or nonsense like that.

>If people are assaulting peaceful protesters, arrest them, charge them, try them, and punish them according to the law. It's literally right there on camera.

This is exactly what people are calling for. If you are convicted of a serious crime you can be expelled from the country. Some people feel they should be. Perhaps you disagree, but you're saying the exact same thing.
On the one hand, sure, percentage-wise you learn less in year 20 than in year 10, because you already know a lot more in year 19. But that is no more true of this field than any other field. Is a doctor, architect, civil engineer, or auto mechanic with 20 years experience more valuable than one with 10 years experience? Heck yes.
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I'd argue that anecdotes are evidence. Albeit much weaker evidence than a scientific study. In the absense of better evidence, it would be foolish to disregard them entirely.
A small minority of Americans do that and when talking about large populations, it goes without saying that we’re not talking about population distributions in an absolutist sense.
I was like WTF is "homophobic encryption" lol
sounds like a Software Architect route, but not everybody is capable of reaching such milestone
Combinatorial is popular for spectrum auctions as well. Typically it's used in auctions where there are different bands of frequencies being sold at the same time (700Mhz and 2.1 GHz in the same auction for example). In that situation, bidders bid until supply meets demand to determine block prices in each band. Then the bidders can bid any combination of blocks less than or equal to what they bid at any point in the auction and give that package an overall price. The solver mechanism crunches all those packages to determine a solution that maximizes revenue for the government.
We should have a HN thread "Who's hiring over 40?" or maybe a tag like "VISA" maybee "Geezers" ?
> What does Elon know that Google as a whole doesn't?

It's not what he knows per se, it's what he does, it's the source of his motivation for being and doing.

It's that invention and innovation is most often driven by individuals - whether acting together or in solitary - in pursuit of something that matters to them. You saw this throughout the industrial revolution. You saw it at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. You saw it with regards to the individuals that pushed the Internet and tech universe forward, from Ted Hoff to Dennis Ritchie to Tim Berners Lee.

It wasn't a giant corporation and team of 100 people that created Doom and Quake. It was a tiny team of highly motivated people doing something that mattered to them. That same conceptual story frequently occurs throughout modern history.

Elon Musk desperately wanted (wants) to build Tesla and SpaceX. Steve Jobs cared about Apple as though he were maniacal about it, like it was his true love. Who at the very top of Alphabet/Google cares about anything they do there that much? I haven't seen any evidence that there is anyone at the top of their organization that fits that.
Which is a little weird, but cases where you'd want `isset` to treat variables intentionally set to null the same as variables that are entirely undeclared are considerably more frequent (just ran into one yesterday!) than cases where you'd need to carefully distinguish them.
It reminds me of the famous spam form letter [1], where one of the standard objections is "Why should we have to trust you and your servers? [to identify which domains should be blocked]"

[1] https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
I was in China few months ago. My general impression is that parents are crazy generous toward their children's education. There are whole department store building devoted to extra-curriculum classes for all different ages - and they ain't cheap at all.

My impression of Squirrel AI is really just using more advanced analytics for education, which is good in concept; but really they are selling parents' the fear that "if you don't buy our services, your children WILL be left behind."
Genetically engineer or selectively breed a salt-tolerant version?
So like 2% of the worlds acreage...
I hate standups with a fucking passion.

All a standup to me is an interruption 30-45 minutes into the day which causes me to lose an hour or more of time every single day. I basically just fart around with things that don't need much focus until the standup happens.

The worst part is that I suggested instead of standups we just send what we we would have said in the standup via slack. That lasted 3 days. The reason no one liked it? "I don't read what other people put into slack". Yeah, ex-fucking-actly. It's literally not helpful because you don't actually need to know what someone is working on that day, and if you do it's because you're also working on it and you can communicate that privately.
To add to your comments, there are remarkable opportunities for developers of all walks of life in the market. It takes some luck to find an open door, but people are willing to pay for excellent talent if they can find it.
For people like me who don't have a good mental image of the size of 970 million acres, I did the math and that is just over half of the land in the continental United States.
I found an old Oldsmobile tape recently.

I couldn't play it (without hooking up my old tape player), but I did find it on YouTube:

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I spend vacation time working at an academic summer camp for 11–year-olds. My hall typically includes some students from China.

This year, one of my Chinese kids mentioned that he frequently used a VPN to get around China's firewall. This made another one of my Chinese kids quite upset: "You broke the law? How could you?"

The argument got somewhat heated, but I didn't intervene because I legitimately wasn't sure what to say. On one hand, yes, within the context of an 11-year-old's worldview, breaking the law is bad and should be avoided. On the other hand, China is an authoritarian regime attempting to suppress free access to information, and everyone should work around that however they can.

I've been replaying this in my head quite a bit, and I'm still not sure what I should have done.
You keep saying it's somehow safer with the government involved. The government doesn't limit how many lottery tickets you buy. They don't even have the legal right or means to limit how many lottery tickets you buy. There are no precautions in place. There is no tracking or reporting of individual behavior. There are no restriction whatsoever. The government advertises their vice, blocks the free market from taking part, and reaps enormous profits for their coffers. There is nothing moral, right, or safe about this whatsoever.
Also a terrible deal for people at the receiving end of the services of such a person.
You kids! It’s called a floppy drive. Back in the day, not even the drives were rigid.
> I want open services to compete with the entrenched players

Are you ready to roll out free email, maps, photos storage on a massive scale? Cannot beat free, as they say.
The man behind Suspicious0bservers is definitely not tinfoil-hatty. The YT Suspicious0bservers channel is the most skeptical and informative science news source I've ever seen. Love it.
When people have democracies, they start asking for crazy things that are in their self-interest, such as mineral rights and ownership over their farmland.
Doesn't appear that they do, based on Google, but I can offer a suggestion, Fidelity is the best place to keep your HSA. No fees and excellent investment options.
> The Empress Splendor tree belongs to the genus Paulownia. There are many different species of Paulownia and only one is classified as invasive, the Paulownia tomentosa (http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/printree.shtml). We do not use this variety, choosing instead non-invasive species such as the Paulownia fortuneii.
Can you show me where someone said that the counter-protesters broke the law by "speaking louder in public places"?

This is entirely about the counter-protestors violently attacking the protestors.
Honestly, even if the university is too scared to take an actual stance, assaulting a fellow student should be grounds for expulsion by itself.
I was on unemployment with the state of Michigan last year, and it was a literal nightmare. A few hours into the work day, customer service became backlogged for the entire day with a message saying "we're full" and then hang up on you. Living on the west coast meant I had to get up at 4am to catch the early call. The online portal was an absolute mess in usability and functionality, and nearly every step I took required some "fact finding" requirement, often taking several weeks to resolve. Many times my benefits were delayed, someone's up to a month. It's easily the worse system I've ever used.

Raising minimum wage has negative side effects. You can't escape this truth.
As long as we exempt engineering teams from OKRs I can tolerate it
After watching Kevin Hale's lecture on how investors evaluate startup ideas (http://bit.ly/318hNsE), I was inspired to create a 12 question quiz that any startup could take to find out their growth/success potential based on Kevin's own investing criteria.

You can take it here -> https://mench.com/11966 (Currently it only works via Messenger)

I created it in about 1 hour using the same conversational tech we're building at Mench during this year's YC Startup School.

I thought it would be relevant to this community and a great opportunity to showcase the potential of chatbots for assessing/quizzing/categorizing.

Based on your answers your startup will fall under one of the following 4 categories:

- Great potential!
- Moderate potential
- Low potential
- Poopy potential

I also incorporated Kevin's advice after every answer to help founders get more context as to why your answer may help/hinder your potential for growth.

I'd love to hear any feedback/thoughts!

Many thanks,

P.S: our result for our startup was "moderate potential" to become a $100M business.
> this basically proves that Linux has the best legacy device support

Floppies still work just fine on Windows 10, you know.
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It's hard to imagine someone saying this if they've ever taken care of a pregnant woman all the way to term. Yes, it's teamwork, but the man gets the better end of the deal and it's not even close.