skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I have always had amplified psychedelic experiences when pairing them with cannabis and since using psychedelics, I've been much more sensitive to thc. It's weird that people have so many different experiences from those chemicals.
WeWork Is a Mess for JPMorgan. Jamie Dimon Is Cleaning It Up
Congratulations to the Quilt team on the launch!

Quilt reached out to me and suggested I chime in suggesting that people interested in versioning data also check out Dolt (https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt) and DoltHub (https://www.dolthub.com).

We've taken the Git and GitHub for data analogy a lot more literally than Quilt has :-) We are a SQL database with native Git semantics. Instead of versioning files like Git, we version table rows. This allows for diff and conflict detection down to the cell level. We are built on top of another open source project called Noms (https://github.com/attic-labs/noms).

We think there is a ton of room in this space for a bunch of tools: Quilt, Noms, QRI (https://qri.io/), Pachyderm (https://www.pachyderm.io/), and even Git. We're excited to see so many bright minds trying to solve this problem.

We're going to be populating DoltHub with a bunch of datasets we harvest from the open data community to show off the capabilities of Dolt. The coolest one so far is the Google open images dataset: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/Liquidata/open-images.
>I feel like we peaked with BattleBots nearly 20 years ago

Let me introduce you to the present https://www.robomaster.com/en-US https://www.twitch.tv/robomaster/videos FPV controlled, computer vision oriented, AI enhanced (gun controllers/target tracking is fully automated).
I agree 100% for phones sold through the Google Play store. Offer security updates for 100% of their phones indefinitely. Stop the automatic feature updates when the phone becomes slow enough that the new Android version would be a downgrade, but still make it available to users who want to manually upgrade it.

The fact that single individuals in their spare time have been doing ROMs for devices that achieve this for years proves that this isn't the maintenance burden it's sometimes made out to be. The device tree stuff means that even closed source modules aren't that bad to deal with these days.
Thank you. ^_^
> They are often used to QA, product improvement, and knowing where to invest your time and effort in your product.

Ah, I see where our disconnect is happening: all of those uses count as being part of the business model to me.

In any case, I fully understand why telemetry is used. My objection is when it's not possible to opt out of telemetry (having to opt in would be much better, of course).

If someone is gathering data about me or my use of my machines without my informed consent, that counts as spying. What purpose the data is being put to is irrelevant (although it would be relevant to my decision about whether or not I'm going to consent).
See jamestimmins post about https://teachyourselfcs.com it's a recommendation of textbooks to follow for self learning CS
This is not a very useful link, it's a short op ed that's pretty devoid of anything work reading. The actual study is here:

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf
Thankyou. 1. My target is researchers in psychology, sociology, and similar fields.

2. I've tried to price the product so that the individual could make a discretionary purchase (have discussed the pricing with quite a few people with positive responses). The simplest plan is $480 per year and the next plan up is $780 and comes with a second account for an RA or student. I only need a couple of hundred users to be quite comfortable and successful do from done number crunching at the beginning I was pretty confident that that was a small % of TAM.

So far the software been used for both research and teaching but the teaching part was an unexpected bonus.

Thanks very much for the thoughtful reply. Excuse my terse response as I'm typing on a phone.
We have a data curators program on Quilt and I encourage you to apply (page bottom on open.quiltdata.com). For high-value public data sets, AWS's registry of open data will, if accepted, cover the costs of storage and egress. We went through this process with Allen Cell and I'm happy to help.
That's not only false, it's a smear.
That’s the thing with your brain: Everything is kinda like that! All the time.

Most of your brain literally cannot distinguish between fantasy, dream, stories, and actual experiences.

And the parts that do, will never be able to tell if it’s all just made up.

Philosophically, there is no ”reality“ but that what you perceive.
Which, due to relativity, is, well, highly relative too. There is no absolute reality either.
You can literally have conflicting facts about even simple things, that both are true, and scientifically verifiably so. (Like ”Who shot first?“. Or ”What particle came first?“.)

So be very wary whenever you are confident about such things. Because that is only possible with enough convenient ignorance.
My experience as well. People on this site tend to think everything goes back to hunter gatherer societies and genes (a field they generally know little about) when the most plausible explanation (advertising) is something they know a lot more about. Kinda puzzling, or maybe a coping mechanism.
Thanks for sharing your experience - that sounds pretty bad, I hope you work it out somehow. I think the vesting schedules should be talked about more especially among starting entrepreneurs so they can prevent situations like ours.

If you are comfortable sharing it - what is the reason the guy leaving the company doesn't want to negotiate something with you? Does he want to retain his full equity?
That paper is about using a classical computer to simulate a quantum computing algorithm.

I'm pretty sure OP is talking about an actual, physical, exists-in-reality usage of a quantum computer to do anything meaningful, not theory. There's lot of theory.
I don't disagree, but more people watch Fox News than PBS, so I'm not sure how much it would help.
my degree is in economics and 8 years ago I taught myself iOS Engineering and since then I've been a professional software engineer.

Don't let your degree stop you from doing what you want, the resources are all there.
I do this myself. Cycling is much more enjoyable this way. Even better with edibles and a long distance ride.
My Russian teachers always used the old "fre[sh ch]eese" example for us English speakers.
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of another copy
> a recruiter working very hard to convince me I'd be rich when they IPO

When a recruiter makes that argument to me, I consider it a huge red flag all by itself, and am much less interested in working there.
I agree!

Enforcement is always difficult. Creating more laws does not mean a shift in the culture or the behaviors in a society.
In what way do you think news sites would pay for this service? They want full throttle ads everywhere right, not sure why this service is of any use. They just think: the more header bidding partners putting cookies everywhere the more money
He's talking about those who apply terms like 'white privilege', 'male privilege' etc as an explanation to literally every social and political issue.
Correction: UCSC (UC Santa Cruz).
But British English could have. I mean it desperately needs reform, it's a mess.

I guess the problem is the momentum of such a large population of speakers means this risks breaking British English off in such a way that it may eventually become too non-standard and British people become disadvantaged somehow.
> you can do the same thing with a cluster of free tier t2.micro machines

Not if you already used your free tier. Lambda is X free per month. Free tier t2.micro is X free for first 12 months.
methinks it was a brexit joke
This sounds to me like they haven't updated their sources in fifteen or twenty years. Text chat was huge back in the Starcraft/Age of Empires era.

I'm sure it exists in newer games, but I have no idea where I'd find it in most of the games I've played from the past decade.
Possibly because the U.S. provides the "best high school education in the world.. It's just a shame you have to go to college to get it."

-- Alan Kay, some anecdote I forget how to locate
Really depends on the union structure.

I can imagine plenty of good and bad, and experienced a lot of bad.

My experience with some negatives:

- Unions love to get more and more involved in things, on a granular level because let's face it unfair things happen at every level of a job. The problem is negotiating that all out results in ultra prescribed jobs, job functions, and etc are all defined. Over time flexibility decreases and decreases .. and so on.

- Many unions love seniority, because powerful union members are often more senior. Not all, but many. There's few things less demoralizing than sitting behind a bunch more senior folks (i'm over 40 so this isn't just some ageist thing) who only want to learn what they want to learn ... and the union backs them at every turn. Promotions, choice roles and hours, all become about seniority.

- Limited relationship with your boss is another issue. I LIKE working with my boss and have all my career, but in a union situation it was a very prescribed relationship. My boss no matter what he felt couldn't treat me differently based on merit or anything else, it was all about the union rules. I could be the best, or worst there, it changed nothing. It dramatically changes that relationship. And no matter what anyone says your boss can still be a jerk if they want to and unions are sometimes unable to help. Thus...

- Unions can be surprisingly poor at helping out with individual issues. A lot of situations between the union and employer are negotiated out in detail. That means provided the employer meets various easily measured things, they can (and will quickly learn) all the things not negotiated by the union and can do what they wish there, and unions are surprisingly hands off at that point.

The fact is Unions are another bureaucracy and despite the goals they may not align with what you want, and they're more than happy to limit your options as much as any nasty employer.
As I understand, tap-to-zoom adds a minimum latency to every click on a page since the browser needs to wait to see if its a double tap. This makes some buttons etc. feel laggy.
Can anyone here point to a resource that gives a comprehensive treatment (use cases, pros and cons etc) of all the types (Nosql, NewSQL, relational, timeseries) of databases being used today?
I think a combination of various ideas. Note what follows may not all directly connect but are rather a set of loosely correlated ideas. Stuff is certainly missing, some things may be conflated, the parent commenter may have an idea totally different than mine, and what I have here may just be a gross strawman.

1. That differences between individuals or groups of individuals is better explained by "nurture" rather than "nature."

2. That society is constructed in such a way that it benefits certain traits over others. Some benefits may be superficial- ex: whites are the most attractive. Others may be structural- ex: programmers make more than teachers because programming produces more value because capital is invested more in things that programming affects rather than things that teaching affects. This contributes to men making more money than women.

3. That it is possible to reconstruct society to avoid creating "nurture" originating differences between individuals and groups of individuals. Ex: Men are more likely to hit on women than women are to hit on men. Perhaps by teaching men to be less aggressive, this disparity will be avoided.

4. That society's structure is not a necessary development but rather an accidental one. Ex: America eats a lot of meat, but this only happened because the government subsidized corn, which made feed for cattle very cheap.

5. That society may be reconstructed in such a way that structural benefits are not present. Ex: Perhaps we should defund corn subsides and encourage people to eat bugs and plants rather than large animals?

6. That the reconstructed society will be "better." Better probably being less income inequality, more freedom, less violence, suffering, etc.

7. That when someone does something "wrong" in society, they may be "excused" since their behavior was nurtured, and they didn't know better. Additionally, since society is arbitrarily constructed, perhaps the "wrong" they committed is not an actual wrong. Ex: a student arrives late to class and receives a 0 for attendence. Perhaps this attendence should be excused because they come from a society where timeliness is not needed? Perhaps we should reconstruct society to make timeliness in class unnecessary?

8. That there is more than one right answer or truth. Ex: "Some physicists subscribe to the Many Worlds Theory. Others subscribe to the C[sic: I've forgotten the alternative] Iterpretation. Both can be right and there is no real need to reduce them down to a single correct answer."

While I certainly see how these individual things could be true, I don't see how any of these individual things are proven to be true. Further, while people seem to operate politically using these ideas under some grand unified model of progressivism, I don't see any evidence that the grand model will ever be realized.
I can only speak anecdotally but Volvos have a reputation in America for requiring more maintenance more frequently than other manufacturers.
Ask HN: Why elements with absolute CSS units can be zoomed?
For example, I have a 5cm x 5cm div on a web page. If I zoom a web page (cmd+ or cmd-), this div is zoomed as well and as a result, in absolute measurements, it becomes bigger than 5cm
Realtime match. In industry you need. High performing engineers available today
Is your complaint here that the writers of these segments didn’t use a time machine in order to determine that the regularly lampooned pop culture celebrity they were parodying would become president several decades later? Or that they did use a time machine and that this particular parody was politically motivated, unlike all their other celebrity parodies?

Because they parody a lot of celebrities and always have.
And a fourth playing the game.
I play a lot of games but never used voice chat. But I never play multiplayer either.
I bet most of crypto forums are screaming HODL right now. I mined bitcoins, it helped me finish school when the prices went through the roof but it is a terrible place to store money. Also, many supporters drink too much koolaid and are cult like.
>I guess, negotiation happens at a very human level. Taking SOS calls, asking the right questions and making the right decisions is a subtle art.

ML excels at the subtle, as long as the outcome between subtleties is observable.

ML could be used to identify and craft better procedures for the humans.
And you'd need a fourth person to push the floppy in.
I just want to give a plug for sharing data in the public cloud and S3 in particular. Jed Sundwall (AWS Global Open Data Lead) sums it up really well: "The cloud completely changes the dynamic for sharing data. When data is shared in the cloud, researchers no longer have to worry about downloading or copying data before getting to work. Instead, they can deploy compute resources on-demand in the cloud, where a single copy of the data is made available. It is much more efficient to move algorithms to where the data is, than to move the data to where the algorithms are, and this makes it cheaper for researchers to ask more questions and experiment often." See the full whitepaper here: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/opendata.aws/AWS_Sharing_...
In which case, the major failing of We was that it did not go public fast enough. I wonder if we'll see this translate into time pressure for future startups to go public a little earlier before the bloom is off the rose.
The pf-blockerNG package on pfSense would be the next level up. Not as pretty as pinhole, but far more capable if you are willing to stick with it. And you don't have to use pfSense as your firewall/gateway if you don't want to - pfSense will work just find with only one interface as an application appliance purely for running pf-blockerNG to use as your internal DNS server.
Ramanujan was a "DIY" mathematician. It's just that the barriers to entry are relatively low for tech.

But sure, suppose it's a "trade", so what?
For the last couple of months the highs have been dropping and the lows remained steady. Eventually these two trends met, and the price needed somewhere to go. The general downward trend implied the price would pop down, and that's what happened. This likely didn't come from any specific news, just malaise, algorithmic trading, and possibly a whale or two catalyzing an obvious setup for future accumulation.
I think if you are going to point out that every market economy has failed to properly handle externalities, you also should acknowledge that every centrally planned forced cooperative has ended up run by abusive leaders who do not take care of their citizens.

All systems are going to have powerful people who work the system for their own gain... mitigating that is the primary problem of government design.
Good for you but this is still extremely shady. Any respectable company should tell you how much you are getting and how those are currently being valued. Attaching no value to a private company RSU is pretty smart though.
It'd be really nice if vendors for specialized hardware like this could give at least a ballpark figure without me having to give a bunch of info to some sales rep (if that's even possible; the "Contact Sales" button just brings me to a page with no content - just the header and footer). Will Spot be $50? $500? $5000? $500000? $50000000? How about Handle or Pick? If I don't have a ballpark, I don't know if it's even worth calling for a quote.

This is a problem that seems to be endemic among vendors that sell things to businesses; they always seem to be hush-hush with the price, which strongly suggests to me that they're going to try to screw me.
Some of My Peculiarities
I have a t2.micro that runs several things:

- Mumble server for my wife's WoW guild (They don't use Discord because some of their peeps are running on really dated hardware that can barely handle WoW, let alone an Electron app running concurrently with WoW)

- Taiga.io task tracker

- Dev server for a web game I'm working on (If I ever decide the game is good enough to publish, obviously I'd run dev and prod servers on separate instances)

- IRC bouncer

- Pi-hole DNS for my phone

Containers? Don't need 'em. And each process requires next to no CPU time, so I always have nearly full CPU credits. RAM is enough unless I'm building the latest version of my IRC bouncer, but hitting the paging file for a few minutes is no big deal.
Physically strength is not required at all. But you do vomit usually, so if you have some sort of intense fear of that it could be an issue.

I don't believe there is anything mystical benefit to Ayahuasca, although the psychedelic element can definitely fuel your creativity if you want it to.

But certain drugs appear to have long-lasting effects on mental states, even if they aren't administered daily. Ketamine is another drug that shows promise in this area. There needs to be real studies around this, but in my experience the 2 day session is highly effective for at least a year afterward.
The NYC Starbucks Reserve location is certainly in a hot spot, right next to the Google offices and Chelsea Market.
Feels like that war was lost when all the chat providers abandoned XMPP messaging. RSS was downplayed and essentially deprecated round about the same time. Open and decentralised is last decade's answer.

I don't much like what's come since, but there you go.
As an occasional iPad user, I find the interface somewhat bewildering, even as a power user of other devices.

I want to search to see if an app is installed. I expect an Overview screen that's easily accessible for this like Android, Gnome or Chrome OS, but on iOS I have to swipe left a few times? Weird.

I want to switch wireless network I'm connected to. I correctly guess that I can swipe down to make a wireless icon appear. I expect that from the icon I can get into the settings, but that doesn't appear to be the case. It only seems to toggle the wireless networking on or off.

Sometimes I have good luck telling Siri what to do, but other times the comprehension of what I'm asking falls flat compared to Google's AI.
Mastodon[1] is probably the future here. Decentralized nodes but you can follow folks on any other node. Each node is moderated by it's own policies - you can have a very tight topic based node, or a super wide open anything-goes approach.

It's not perfect yet, but it's the best solution so far that works, and works today.

[1] - https://joinmastodon.org/
I disagree with you in one regard, I think you are taking the position of a young person who hasn't had much education outside of high school.

Take a look at it from the perspective of a 30 or 40-something with some college or a degree in another domain looking to transition into CS. In this case, the fact that formal CS degrees are, I dare say, polluted, with irrelevant crap is a waste of time, money and brain power. For example, my son, who happens to be studying CS at a major university was forced to take a class on Marxism. The only word I can come-up to describe this is: Demented.

I would prefer to see a system where degree programs focus on the material necessary to support the degree and nothing else. They could, as an aside, offer a parallel track where the student could take additional non-degree classes for general culture. These classes should not have any effect whatsoever on the degree. To continue with the example, if my son failed or dropped out of the Marxism class (he did not, he passed it with full marks) it should have no bearing on his overall standing in the CS degree.

I also disagree with the concept of a fixed timescale being required in order to gain understanding of a topic. There's plenty of evidence in support of this. Companies complain that traditional CS grads don't know how to write code. Yet they spend four to six years in school getting BS or MS degrees.

Frankly, going back to my son, if it weren't for the fact that we work on a number of real-world projects together his coding skills based on schoolwork would likely be substandard. There's a difference between learning to CS to pass tests and applying it in real-world environments.

My argument might very well support the opposite conclusion: Get through schools as quickly as possible, one or two years for a BS in CS and go to work. Medicine has residency and internship as part of the process for that very reason.

I would much rather hire someone who devoted a couple of intense years learning and two years full time directly applying and honing the craft than someone who takes four years to study and comes to me with no experience other than, perhaps, a few summers as an intern here and there.
Wasn't that what the Mueller investigation was about?

If the Dems were confident in their position, they'd beat him at the polls and if there really was a crime, he'd be prosecuted afterwards. This attempt at impeachment will fail, it's just for show.
It's funny because this was one of the big issues I kept hearing (and agreed with myself) about Windows 8 - all the things that can happen when you hover in the corners and the hideous "charms" bar.

I really REALLY wish buttons would come back in style.
I would think both average quality of life and the quality of life of the worst off would be a better measure than "employment"

Employment is not an intrinsic good, it is a means to an end.
I would love some kind of cure or treatment for misophonia. I've suspected my problem was not being able to filter sounds properly, but I can't think of any solution other than physically filtering sounds externally.