skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say for the sake of argument that I was being hyperbolic with my "punching yourself in the face" statement. Let's say you are addicted to social media, and you use it for 5 hours a day. Let's say I take away your phone. For a week. You will probably feel gradually diminishing impulses to look at your phone, which will eventually subside almost entirely within a handful of days. You will not experience withdrawals. You will not lose sleep. You will (probably) not try to scam somebody else out of their phone. If I hand you your phone back after a week, there's a good chance you might just delete the social media apps off the phone yourself, having realized how much time you were wasting.

In other words, if the social media companies are doing every trick in the book, it's not really amounting to much. If you were spending 5 hours a day on Facebook, it probably had a lot more to do with the general shape of your life and opportunities for actualization and socialization, than it had to do with intermittent reinforcement schedules.

And fundamentally what I'm saying is correct: it is mundane daily suffering that creates the void filled by social media and other distractive addictions, giving them a foothold in your life. This is orthogonal to any claims about whether social media is "actually" "addictive".
How to Make Sure the Tech You Use and Build Reflects Your Values
You really think that everyone abusing opioids is obtaining them
Legally? This “thread” is about blaming the media and not placing blame on “the parents”, “the culture”, “the lack of personal responsibility”, etc that was placed on the “inner city”.
> What happens when a ‘gifted child’ finds himself in a wilderness where he’s stripped away of any way of proving his worth?

You primarily prove your worth to yourself, and if that capability is stripped away then you get depressed. You learn helplessness. The author is conflating proving your worth to proving your worth to others. Then he goes on to make an insane conclusion to shed the self, dissolve the ego.. This is the type of guidance that gives gurus and pseudo-counselors a job for life.

I have a commitment to my family, and I know deep down that it’s primarily because of the benefit to my own well-being. I had kids because I wanted them. So what I benefit? If I’m a good dad, everyone wins. There is no other motivation mechanism in the natural world.
Furthermore, one has to distinguish education vs schooling. The upper classes always have access to education, the rest might have access to schooling but not education. The reasons for this are old (19th century Prussia) and tied to the origins of public education systems and their ideologues. Just as an example of what is typically taught as schooling, deference to authority (media nowadays). Just consider doctors and vaccines, what makes you think that the doctor received any particularly deep understanding of this topic, it is not like they are any more critical of what they might have read in a textbook than you.

Btw, I would have you reconsider your careless use of the word antivaxxers, if anything ask yourself why is it so heavily promoted in media and what biases it carries? Again, I'm not against vaccination, but there is a lot to investigate about the context of how it is carried out. Kinds of conservation chemicals, optimum schedule, frequency and side effects of all this. You will find there is still quite some debate around this from more scientifically minded doctors.
Amused that it is listed as pre owned on eBay
My guess is that they will restructure the whole thing to leave Neumann in charge of and owning some sort of parent WeGroup, which holds all the random stuff and can continue to aim for raising the level of global consciousness or whatever, with the actual office leasing business, WeWork, being a subsidiary, with a single share class, a professional CEO, and a much more sensible story. Floating the WeWork subsidiary (at a valuation much less than the SoftBank highs) will let the parent company raise cash, which Neumann can then spend on cosmic alignment etc.
I agree with that premise. Quora will be lucky to bail out with a $425 million exit on the downside of this expansion. They're a decade old, the VCs are going to want their money soon and the clock is ticking on this long up-cycle (as the desperate IPO rush blatantly indicates). Who is paying $1+ billion for Quora? There are no overpaying buyers for that type of entity - Yahoo is dead, AOL is dead, and InteractiveCorp is far too shrewd to pay that extreme valuation. Quora is worth $100-$200m tops right now.

Genius is in the same boat. A decade old, failed premise (turns out people don't actually want to annotate everything), failed expansion plans (so... back to lyrics then), no business model. At the mercy of the VCs, they'll eventually be passed around for $10m or $20m like MySpace or Tumblr.

These companies are this start-up generation's About.com (or the latest eHow).

Simple rule for anyone doing a knowledge service: if you put the profit motive over the knowledge motive (which is the only choice if you take a lot of VC), your service will end up in the dustbin of history, no exceptions.
>No 4 year university will teach you React as part of a CS degree. Most probably won't even teach JavaScript.

You're conflicting computer science with being a developer. A CS degree isn't about learning how to program in the industry.
You could also get a free Udacity account and watch the Georgia Tech CS Master classes (OMSCS). Algorithms, Machine Learning, Operating Systems, etc. It's a good program.
I think this will prompt other countries on the ME who haven’t yet embraced unconventional warfare, uavs in particular, to begin familiarization and adoption and then use it strategically. SA are overinvested in conventional defense and offense. I imagine they’re looking to ramp up quickly.
Does anyone have a similar resource for applied math?

I am looking for something that goes beyond the standard calculus, linear algebra and stats material. For example, optimization, numerical analysis, stochastic processes, dynamical systems etc.
We Need a PBS for Social Media
Why "SV" hype? WeWork was founded and HQd in New York.
> I can now usually recognize first- and second-mountain people. The former have an ultimate allegiance to self; the latter have an ultimate allegiance to some commitment. I can recognize first- and second-mountain organizations too. In some organizations, people are there to serve their individual self-interests — draw a salary. But other organizations demand that you surrender to a shared cause and so change your very identity. You become a Marine, a Morehouse Man.

The second mountain mindset sounds like a great mindset to get indoctrinated into a cult with. And what types of people are more likely to get indoctrinated into a cult? Those in what the article describes as the "valley". Those going through harsh times.

I'm not saying you should only serve yourself, but the mindset the author describes as the 2nd mountain is pretty terrifying.

Love is unconditional, but you still need to think for & about yourself. Also I'm not cleaning a room twice.
The painting improvements to Notes look nice, but I gotta say: not having an official Apple Paint program seems like a huge missed opportunity. Even just the nostalgia pull – whether it was Mac Paint or Windows Paint, how many people's love affairs with computers began with a system-bundled paint program?
>What makes it run that long is that they don't overprovision the battery that much, so much more of those 60kwh is available for driving.

there's a reason they overprovision. the battery is going to wear out way sooner than their competitors.
True. One of our newest coworkers has been robbed by gangs on the way back from work twice now, and he's only been working there for three months. There's real reasons to be concerned about crime.
One thing I’d love to see happen as a result of this is HN supporting Reader View (if not outright dark mode...)
Cloudflare's got POPs almost everywhere (though densities vary with population of heavy internet users), and has a very good free plan which I use. Have a look: https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

Akamai's coverage is better still; they've got just about the entire world covered: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/me...

Cloudfront, Google, Fastly, etc. all have pretty good coverage, though you're right they're spottier when it comes to S. America, Africa, and a few other places. Their POPs are, from what I understand, have higher capacity but are less dense. Good for cost savings, though probably worse for latency.

There's also the consideration that most web sites have most of their users in the developed world (though that equation is shifting quickly for a some).

Out of curiosity, what is the significance of "<<" and ">>"? I'm assuming they're not bitwise shift left and right. I've seen them more often as of late, and they seem to come mostly from non-Americans. I ask because they're quite difficult to run an internet search on without knowing what they are called.
Unless you're an outnumbered conservative.
Yeah, sorry, I misremembered. The middle device of the chain in the motivating example given for P2P-DMA was for compression, not encryption.

https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SDC/2018/presentati...
I really like this list, but believe it's wrongly titled. I'm a nuclear engineer, who pretty much just writes modelling software all day. The software architecture stuff is something I've never been taught and always felt would be immensely valuable to learn. Some good resources for that on this list.

Also a request for any resources of scientists trying to get their head around how to write good software, we're all pretty much people who once read a C++ tutorial and just went with it.
So should she not be concerned about this behavior? Does the fact that it stems from systemic racism and oppression make her any more safe from it?
The startup is in Europe, which could be anywhere from Switzerland to Moldova.

$10/hr is reasonable for a normal full time developer job somewhere in between.
Comment by Dr Mamdouh G Salameh, International Oil Economist
Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School, London is also interesting. No way of verifying accuracy.

'Having done a lot of research and analysis for years about Saudi proven oil reserves, I reached the final conclusion that Saudi reserves couldn’t be more than 55 billion barrels (bb) rather than the 266 bb the Saudi have been claiming for years.

Moreover, the Saudis haven’t been transparent enough about their production capacity. Their oil production peaked in 2005 at 9.65 million barrels a day (mbd) and has been in decline since. In my estimate, their production capacity doesn’t exceed 8.5 mbd. Moreover, they never had a spare capacity of 2 mbd as they have been claiming because to have such a spare capacity would mean that their production capacity is 12 mbd and this figure has never been tested. When they say they are producing 10 mbd, at least 1.5 mbd come from their stored crude.

With estimated stored crude oil of 130 million barrels , the Saudis could continue to meet their customer needs for less than a month after which their stored oil would have been totally exhausted. The proof they aren’t telling the truth about the timetable for repairs is that they have been telling their customers that some lighter grades would likely be replaced with heavier crude grades.

The truth about Saudi oil potential and reserves will eventually come out. And when it does, the global oil market will get the shock of its life with a horrendous global oil crisis to match.'
No, I'm in agreement with that view. I'm responding to OP's line "If you're learning to code just for fun, these things are totally fine and can be incredibly fun, but if you're learning to code for a job, please don't treat these things as an "alternative" to college."
China probes unidentified ‘gel-like’ substance found on dark side of the moon
I am surprised Dgraph isn't mentioned as an example. It is the most starred graph db on Github, and I think it is the best one in terms of performance and scalability.
Oooh, you had me up until the "libertarian ethos" part.
You'd think Google AI could easily block audio ads with TensorFlow. Oh, conflict of interest. Never mind.
The moral economy of market competition in adult webcam modeling [pdf]
Yeah, Jeri's Amphour talk is one of the things I make people I know who are trying to get into tech startups listen to. It's a great insight into what happens when a sucessful startup gets the wrong kind of VC help.

For what it's worth, the original glasses set worked wonderfully years ago when I used them and I'll back this one again. I'm still determined to have my floating CAD solidworks demo with it. Customers will freaking love it.

p.s. The games were fun too. Try it with Alien Swarm.
There is a vast gap between "parents make < $100K/year" and "parents have assets to pay in full".
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This is the inquiry and investigation that preceeds any actual impeachment (indictment). It's closer now to the Senate, but it's not headed there yet. The House is (finally) doing its job, even if the Senate might not be convinced to convict.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but I actually just signed up to be a (thankfully month-to-month) WeWork customer for a HotDesk today in Phoenix, and it's actually been a pretty great experience: Great space, nice people, reasonable IT, I was up and running and working within 30 minutes of doing my tour. And yes I've had a cup of the famous We Kombucha.

This particular location just opened 3 weeks ago and is apparently already at 70% capacity with a mix of enterprises and startups. Even my Hotdesk membership can't start officially until Oct 1 because they're apparently sold out (though walking around there's plenty of space).

Based on these surface observations, the core business at least seems "plausibly profitable". But all the crazy side businesses like co-living just seems like overexpansion to me.

I'll politely decline as an investor, but I'm happy to sign up as a lowest-tier, month-to-month customer.
All of which ignores one rather crucial detail: Attempting major geopolitical change like this without a coherent plan and suitable strong mandate is suicide.

Brexit may have had some merit of sorts, but launching into this without those was destined to be a disaster. And what's left of the farce is entirely meritless
>Plenty of businesses are run at a loss intentionally nowadays for tax reasons

Please clarify this. I don't know of any tax regime where it pays to deliberately lose money (eg. setting money on fire).
If you don't include the economics of the business model in the evaluation, you could say exactly the same of Juiceroo. There's clearly significant demand for juice presses.
If you don't mind my asking, what sort of terms can you expect to get with an angel investor? What ownership stake vs funding levels are normal, and is there a point at which you revoke funding, or is it delivered all at once?

Do angel investors typically fund startups that don't have great capital expenditures?

Is this type of investment sought in the initial bootstrapping, before VC funding?

How much of a prototype is expected? A fully working product with customers?
Protecting a Rails app from small scripted attacks
I shall add my favourite bugbear to this wise list

Don’t reach out; contact.
What kind of women and does anyone else find it sexist to assume that men will always be the offenders and women the offendees? Programming involves deconstructing complex problems into basic steps while ignoring full real world nuances in order to derive a reasonable abstraction. Like... deconstructing allegations against Minsky into basic aspect (instructed to have sex vs actually had sex, aware of lack of consent or not, aware of age or not, 16 can consent in jurisdiction X year Y or not). Successful programmers trend not super socially aware and often on autism spectrum. So maybe women genuinely interesting in programming would be like Ada Lovelace, a compulsive gambler with messy love life who dreamed of building a computer to beat poker? How long would she last in 2019 MIT?

And if you get alienated from a career path because of one bad professor, go and find something else that you want so badly that you are willing to tough it out. Otherwise you will always blame your professional success limits on people not supporting you enough, or cracking an off-color joke or two or microaggressions. Do you honestly expect to never have to deal with a problem boss/coworkers/customer in a super-competitive private sector job? Don't tell me nurses and schoolteachers never have to deal with someone like RMS or worse. And sure, some degree of bad behavior should have proportional consequences, but do we hear about how women get alienated from these professions en masse?
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It doesn't disprove anything. Some Japanese manufacturers have a good supply chain and service to the US, it doesn't preclude that plenty of other brands don't.
That if you are not a White Christian you don’t belong here and you are not a true American or that you are a second class citizen that shouldn’t be treated equally by the justice system. There was always the undercurrent of it - especially in the south, but in the current political environment, it’s very front and center.

Again, I am not saying that it is a majority of Americans but because of the electoral college and the allocation of 2 seats in the Senate regardless of population, that viewpoint has an outsized voice right now.
Make a fake google/facebook account.
Spreadsheets are the oracles of business truth
Conviction is not the point and so what the Senate will do is less important than it might otherwise appear. First the House gets to drag out the investigation over months and suck all of the attention away from an obvious narcissist, baiting him into wave after wave of self-incrimination on Twitter. After the House votes to impeach in early 2020 the House then gets to be the prosecutors in the Senate — #MoscowMitch and the rest of the senators are the jury and get to be spectators in their own chamber for several months before voting to acquit someone who is obviously guilty of the crimes in the indictment.
It does, and it has special entitlements to let it do so.
I wonder if they actually have any evidence or are just arranging a political lynching. Seems to me that they've had a devil of a time trying to find any dirt.
Indeed. In buying a new car some years back, I found a reliable way to translate answers. When the dealer answered, "Yes" it was generally truthful. But when they answered, "I think so", the actual answer was definitively "No".
The big problem with projects like this is the quality is pretty much lacking. Most of those MOOCs to begin with are no way intended to replace the equivalent college class. Most of them are watered down introductions to the courses. At a baseline for me to take any MOOC seriously then I want to see a high-quality textbook (or equivalent) for the course. If that doesn't exist then my opinion is the course is likely to be of low-quality. I'm sorry but replacing a textbook with a series of online blog articles or tutorials is simply not a sufficient replacement.
Friend reports the same. But hotdesking doesn't support a $10+B valuation.
Personally I've bound caps lock to ESC, but given the emacs style shortcuts it does make sense. Thanks.
SDKs: A Loophole That Turns Your Apps into Spies
So the site is not broken, you're using a plug-in that breaks it.
Play post-modern games, win post-modern prizes.
Those giant robots are years away from having the mobility needed for entertaining combat. I feel like we peaked with BattleBots nearly 20 years ago, early on before the spinning doom meta took over. There was fun stuff like that bot that had a net in a giftwrapped box, basically begging for a spinbot to tear into it and get paralyzed. Young me has a lot of nostalgia for that, but the new season they tried was not great.
Cluster-Wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB (2019) [pdf]
Google hasn't had incredible speed for many years, now. That reputation is woefully out of date.
Thanks, that is a good point!
> Personally I’ve always found that libertarian ethos in support of crappy things, like shitty schools and tobacco, and opposed to nice things, like healthy kids, frustrating.

It's because of the people who become libertarians-posting-online, man. They don't have kids; people with kids seldom have time for this, nor do they think Every Man As An Island is tenable anymore once confronted with the true need for a Village To Raise The Child.
It's more don't follow the opinions here like it's religion because you will learn tech no one uses in the real world and miss out on great companies like google.

I get the impression google is seen as the best employer at least paywise mosly from comments on here. Go figure.
Seems like a fairly light penalty for manipulating the markets, especially not having the accept responsibility for the charges.
Guarding a refinery is at least doable in principle, but most oil is transported there by way of a pipeline. Guarding miles and miles of pipes in the middle of nowhere is going to be prohibitively expensive.

The Trans-Arabian pipeline for example is a whopping 1214 km (754 mi) long[0]!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Arabian_Pipeline
> Out of curiosity, what is the significance of "<<" and ">>"? I'm assuming they're not bitwise shift left and right. I've seen them more often as of late, and they seem to come mostly from non-Americans.

They're quotation marks in many European languages and I believe (though I'm not sure) that the correlation isn't non-Americanness, it's non-English-keyboardness. People from English-speaking countries will still use the quotation marks you're used to.
You can interact with it immediately. You can hit the X to cancel the page load, you can close the tab, you can quit the browser or use another tab. Browser devs already adhere notoriously and fiercely to the ideas in the manifesto.

Whether the app/site you requested can be interacted with depends on whether the app/site devs care about interaction latency.

Talking about network response times is irrelevant to the point here. Clients can, and do, make changes on-screen before the network response.
Also a request for any resources of scientists trying to get their head around how to write good software, we're all pretty much people who once read a C++ tutorial and just went with it.

That is an interesting question I had not thought of. I genuinely cannot think of a single resource that teaches good software engineering practices, like how to structure code in a robust and maintainable way. In fact, many books that I read usually include examples using terrible coding practices. And then the ones dedicated to software engineering are usually too out of date or academic (GoF, Fowler books).

I would say read up on inversion of control and dependency injection. And then a book on unit testing. Writing your APIs to use dependency injection and making them easily testable (by testing output not internal state) gets you most of the way there.
They were trying to find more secret sauce that's less expensive / more cheaply scalable than the Kombucha.