skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Most Americans have less than a year's wages invested into capital,

That's still investment. Make up your mind on if an investment implies criminal and financial liability or not.

>and won't be receiving a lick of pension upon retirement.

That's because pensions aren't very popular in the US. You should look into IRA's, 401ks, etc to understand how the current working class has to prepare for retirement. Pensions (at least the ones that used to be popular in the US offered by companies) are complete garbage for the very reason that they can be raided.

>The harm that caused the liability has already been done, the shareholders have already been paid from the profits of it

No, it's actually pretty rare for modern companies to immediately issue all profits to shareholders as dividends.

>In any just world, these profits would be clawed back.

Well the company gets hit with a huge fine and all of the shareholders (and bondholders in bankruptcy) lose their investment. It's very rare to find a company that did something illegal long enough to generate 100% dividends to cover the initial shareholder investment and then get caught and wiped out.
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This video of his made laugh for about an hour straight. I must've rewatched it at least a hundred times by now.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLWKNTUHiEU
I have just been planning on setting up a newsletter - just got the "idea" right. So thank you - a nice comment online at just the right time - you've put a smile on a wrinkly old face :-)
You being able to lose 7 figures means you are loaded... I don't think any advice you have is applicable to the majority of people.
You're correct, I've removed the 'Miss' as it sounds pretty pretentious.
fwiw, having been at a company from 6-160 people, early stages, investors aren't a great source of ICs. They end up a lot more useful when you are hiring senior leadership and an executive team. These roles align better with their own personal and professional networks.

We had a little luck tapping YC and YC alums early on though to some extent, and posting job reqs here on HN definitely helped.
+1 - came here to say this. I love the idea, but the text block at the bottom of the screen and the corresponding code at the top left is a bit of a pain to go back and forth to with your eyes before the time runs out. It would be great if the text was much closer to the code.
Using soft wording is an 'MBA Classic'
Why should the number of bankruptcies matter if the person is still rich?

Because money laundering is illegal?
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I'm actually quite impressed at the level of propaganda that has been ramped up over the years with most of the fear mongering coming from the left side of the political spectrum.

It's no wonder they are so angry, they are being told the entire planet around them is crumbling, animals are going extinct and the planet will be uninhabitable! If I actually believed all of this nonsense I'd probably be pissed off too.

It's funny telling people how things are actually going great and seeing the look on their face, "wait you don't think the world is ending?".
Hipster company trying to cut costs.
Looks like they just changed their link structure: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/operation-fix-toshiba

But we don't need your money—the project was successful and we've been teaching people to fix their Toshiba's on iFixit for years now.
You have a very valid point here. Our hope is that we can help them find new homes as well. Most of the homes selected by our algorithm tend to be very affordable, so a larger segment of the market can take advantage of appreciating home price. The goal is to make sure that not only existing wealthy people can benefit from rising home values.
The pollution of plastic in the ocean is a breakdown of sanitation and is primarily the result of 5 asian nations that have poor sanitation systems.

You fix that by improving the sanitation system so that garbage is not dumped into the ocean, not by trying to stop the creation of garbage going into the system.

350 million metric tons of plastic are produced each year and that number is growing by 4% per annum. Plastic bags are not going to change that, and plastic is only one type of long lived material in our garbage.

The solution is to not dump garbage into rivers and oceans and to create effective sanitation systems in developing countries.

But people in Germany forgoing the use of plastic bags, thinking that they are saving a seal or something are just misguided. Germany has an effective sanitation system -- India, Thailand, China, Myanmar do not. Nothing you throw away in Germany is going to end up in the ocean.
I agree so much with the first statement. I got the cheapest Nikon DSLR on amazon and won a surf photography contest the first day I took it out to shoot because I was in the right place at the right time with perfect lighting. The others in the contest were pros and had way more experience and more expensive equipment. Knowing the subject you are shooting also helps a ton.

Shutter priority mode is my go to for surf pictures because it matters a lot to make sure you take shots at the right time during a wave.
It's generally a signal for hiring and sales/marketing, similar to how universities create prestige for individuals. Highly subjective and immeasurable.
You trust Microsoft's number here? 33% market share in the US? I
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It’s an odd business model. I think if you had any faith in your predictive ability you would just raise and run the fund yourself so as not to leave money on the table. This sounds like all the “crypto trading as a service” scams that have come up over the past few years. YC should avoid getting involved in trading businesses they don’t understand. Just my 2c.
Wow, that is an impressive survey --- thanks for putting that together!
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Oh wow, that now that sounds like an upgrade. Sadly it doesn't seem to be available in the UK quite yet.
Maybe this will help. Consider the first cup of water that Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun drank on his 18th birthday. That water is currently raining down on the Amazon forest. This is not a good argument that we are being overwhelmed by pharaoh water. (Of course, the plastic could be a big problem; this just doesn't show it.)
Amazing, thank you for that list! I'm going to check those out.

Also, thanks for pointing out the missing Airtable. Ironically, I must have accidentally deleted it last time I added something to the list, because it's supposed to be on there.
Since the training is done on the tasks of masked word prediction and contiguous sentence prediction, I'd suggest about a million sentences (from the same domain), with an average token length of 7 per sentence. Longer sentences would definitely help, as BERT uses the transformer encoder architecture which has multi head attention. This would enable the model to do better contextual representation learning for the embedding layer.
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> refuse working for an employer who doesn't take sustainability seriously

I hear this a lot, and I have to wonder, what's the end-game here? To boycott the business on the employment side, so that they can't do effective work and eventually have to shutdown the company? Or maybe induce enough hiring pain they'll be forced to change their unsustainable practices to be able to attract talent?
Great work! I would love to see the comments inline next to the current highlighted lines vs. at the bottom of the screen. Also having this like watch windows would be awesome as well, especially if you can clearly see the different state transitions that happen.
Yeah, that's generally how caching problems happen.

Caches are built and served to the wrong person so everyone who saw someone else's profile can probably be sure theirs was shown to someone else.
I'm curious who you think doesn't know Chinese in this discussion. I already mentioned I do, hangonhn said they do, and leemailll's username makes me guess that they're not an exception either.
Ask HN: Entire API and DB generator from model definition
I've recently got back into some backend development after being more front end focused for sometime. At the current company I am at they are quite invested in using JSONAPI spec (which I actually think is great) for their microservice APIs. I've realised that a lot of these APIs simply become REST interfaces over the database with resources mapping 1:1 with the db models.

Our current process for building these out is to build a swagger definition with a mock service backend in js to unblock upstream clients like web and mobile. From there we go an implement the real API in python/flask with postgres.

It got me thinking that probably 80-90% of all the code written for the real API is boilerplate setting up models, db migrations, routes, controllers, authentication etc.

I am imagining that a fair bit of this could be automated, all you really need is a modal definition, and you could generate all of the above, abstracting all that away from the engineer. Providing hooks for inserts and updates would allow for custom business logic to slot in, and would be all the real code engineers would need to write.

What else am I missing that backend developers would want from a framework (or managed service) like this?
>For the next generation, though, who grew up with enough food to eat...

Which is why it has now been proven wrong, none of those who grew up with enough food ( Very decent food in fact ) cares or even think about it. Look at those who grew up wealthy and are now studying aboard.

Maslow's Theory, is just a theory after all, not a law.
Buy put or sell calls on an asset that's highly correlated with the overall economy. This is honestly the least controversial claim the OP is making.
Is a tweet tagged with `$TSLAQ` really a good source?
this was my reaction, too. please don't patronize me by telling me it's for my benefit. advances in things like NLP are great, especially for the social sciences, but it's not going to connect me to my (facebook) world.
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I don't know much about it, but this seems a lot like a company that is mostly just meant to make the CEO rich no matter what with a good chance to see the vast majority get screwed.

Like how much money is still being funneled right into his pockets because he owns the places the company leases?
Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, perhaps? (Arguably both should have better seats at the table.)
Maybe. Or, Pinterest is just a narrowly scoped and realistic product while this audience is more interested in pie in the sky ideas.
Not this dad. My wife kept trying to get my 14-year old daughter interested, but so far she's not. I think, based on these three data points in my family, that I have pretty conclusive proof it's a not-quite-young-but-of-course-not-old-female demographic.
Not that great:

Input: https://i.imgur.com/YLYnxx9.jpg

Output: https://i.imgur.com/5DLHoSi.jpg

Anime and cartoons have very specific qualities that allow for these types of techniques to be effective (as other reply explains).
So... not that much about Valve, but quite a lot of parallels with other structureless entities. Seems like a clickbaity worthless read. Used to not have those on HN.
It troubles me that there are man-made particles in the air and everywhere, but I was shamed on HN 4 months ago for worrying about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19673894. Not sure how to feel about it now.
> In reality, the case broke Microsoft's monopoly on pretty much everything but desktop operating systems (the market broke that later on) and a chastened Microsoft was unable to apply its 1990s tactics to the emerging mobile market, in which it was soundly trounced.

And search. This piece makes the argument that fear of further antitrust trouble inside Microsoft is why they didn't crush Google in the beginning (search for the phrase "If you are younger than 29" to get to the paragraph): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-case-against...
An algorithm that applied upscaling to a picture of a person would eventually have to find a way to draw skin cells.
The CEO and a few investors make money.

Nothing else really matters.
And also not realize that Gimp and Blender exist.
At some point in the near future, a company with a data breech will update it's TOS post-breech to say that all data should be considered public & that the service is for entertainment purposes only.
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I never knew pinterest was that big, never used it in my life not even once. How many other startups and market tangents have I been ignorant to I am beginning to wonder.
Every time I've interacted with it I've found it extremely obnoxious, it is very strongly oriented to capture users within it's network and actively tries to avoid letting users do anything while logged out or to get a raw image.
Vert.x web routes with JAX-RS annotations
http://zombo.com/ is still alive and ... in Flash.
Write code to support radical causes, groups, or infrastructure. Or study existing capitalistic infrastructure and use your engineering skills to shine a light on how it works, whether that's discovering symbiotic financial relationships, illuminating lines of physical supply, or identifying logistical pain points.

Sure, recycle, be a thoughtful consumer, write your representatives, but direct action gets the goods. Look into alternative approaches to governance and autonomous political structures too. There are lots of ideas and projects floating around that could benefit from a technical assist, and (sort of like Linux) you can just show up and start doing it, just be open to advice and suggestions along the way.
> low inflation and red-hot housing market.

The more reasonable way to look at it is that it is high inflation and a weak housing market. If the housing market was so hot, why would interest have to drop below zero?

Rather, houses are extremely expensive because money for houses (i.e. mortgages) is extremely cheap.
> people dumber than he is, who are apparently blind to seeing his completely obvious con artist act and voting for him, that's how.

Or, you know, people who didn't want to see Supreme Court seats go to the extreme left for the rest of their lives.
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." -- Lewis Carroll
Isn't the new WeWork in the Brooklyn Navy Yard empty? They have been trying to fill it for months. But double-check me on that.

1/2 billion to build that baby.
> They just need to have a passion for constantly learning and solving problems. Then they'll be able to figure things out as they go, just like all of us do.

The best people can learn on their own everything college teaches.

College is designed to help ensure there aren't any skill gaps. It isn't perfect, but I'd expect someone from a good university to be able to:

1. Put together a professional looking presentation.

2. Have good to above average written communication skills

3. Sit in a meeting with engineers from a different discipline and have at least some vague idea what is going on, and have less of a ramp up before they can start contributing.

4. Have an understanding of statistics and calculus.

5. Be at least familiar with all of the main hard sciences (chemistry, physics biology)

6. Have a greater than average understanding of, at minimum, the society that their college was based in.

When it comes to technical abilities, 4 years of learning is going to better prepare someone than 6 months to 1 year of learning. Multiple programming paradigms help a lot as well, someone who knows just JavaScript or C# is going to have less mental tools at their disposal than someone who has programmed in purely functional programming languages, used pattern matching, and who understands what code actually compiles down to.

I've hired from boot camps, 4 year programs focused on games, and CS programs.

The best boot camp graduates are of course amazing, but just coming out of school they are lacking a lot of skills, and there is no guarantee that any random boot camp graduate will be able to pick up those skills (again, of course the best ones can). CS programs have no problem failing students out if they hit the C++ courses and can't hang in there.

Graduates from schools like DigiPen can hang in there, but they also have huge gaps in their knowledge that have to be filled. (On the flip side, they also have skills that people with CS degrees don't have!)

A student from a good CS program should be well rounded. Ideally they should be able to join a team doing low level systems programming and ramp up on embedded C just as easily as joining a team writing some sort of insane load balancing / network caching system.
Do you think all the people taking these photographs just go home to the suburbs at night? This is a difference in worldview, not life experience.
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> Individuals must be aware of this and need to make better choices or else this problem will just continue.

No they don't. At least not if they live in the developed world. Virtually all disposed of plastic in the US and Europe is sequestered in solid-waste landfills. Modern landfills leak virtually nothing to the outside environment.

Virtually all environmental plastic contamination comes from third world countries in Asia or Africa. In particular China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. Due to rampant corruption and lack of oversight these countries have gross mismanagement of their solid waste disposal.

Plastic is completely fine to use. As long as it's properly disposed of, there's essentially zero environmental impact. If you live in a first world country, I can assure you that your plastic straw will absolutely not end up in a turtle's nose. The issue is that the international community needs to hold Asia and Africa accountable for not upholding global standards on ocean pollution.

[1] https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/how-do-modern-landfills-work
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#mismanaged-plas...
Since Indo-European-Languages share to varying degree some root bundles, there are idioms that have analogues in all those languages, and subsets of basic grammar that are nearly identical.

Of course there is a particular reason to expect perfect alignment between languages, hypothetically, which is so far hopeless, namely universal grammar.

I'm sure that example sentence has 95 variants in English alone. "You're tied up, I know".
TB generally, and XDR TB specifically, are quite dangerous on a global scale.

"By the end of 2016, XDR-TB has been reported by 123 WHO Member States. Information from countries with reliable data suggests that about 6.2% of MDR-TB cases worldwide have XDR-TB.

In 2016, there were an estimated 490 000 new cases of MDR-TB worldwide. Only a small proportion of the XDR-TB cases among them are detected given that many low and lower middle-income countries still lack sufficient diagnostic capacity to test for resistance to second-line drugs and thus detect XDR-TB."

In a study in South Africa, MDR-TB had a case fatality rate of about 9% in HIV- individuals, and 20% in HIV+ individuals.
I say they are obsolete for programmers, video editors, graphic designers, anyone whose job consists of doing things on a computer.
I got one about a year ago as a backup (thought why not), actually works rather well, small, but perfect for laptop bag, cheap enough to not stress and small enough to not take up much space. Not pondered scrapping one for parts, but certainly something I've become more mindful of since Maplins closed.
Okay... but who issues the instruments? I mean, what happened to instruments sold by Bear Sterns when they were acquired?

And what instruments are you actually buying? Are there put and call options for CoreLogic Case-Shiller???
> Must be real fun to have to list themselves!

Exactly, we need to be very serious about the security of the thousands of users at risk here and it's ironic how they list themselves in this security fault. This to me looks like clownish behavior here.

But come on! You have to give them credit for informing you about all the other security breaches out there and now including themselves. But hey, karma's a bitch isn't it? :)