skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God I hate this stuff. It preaches the wrong ideas to people and then screws them up for life.

We need to think less about “the future of work” and think more about “the history of work”.

What people need to embrace is the Discipline Economy. It’s simple. Find something that is of value to society and pays enough, then work everyday to be better and better at it until you reach your maximum potential, and you will be rewarded. No passion required. You just get up and do it, every workday. And at the end of the day, clock out and go do whatever you want.

You don’t need to be doing something you like, you need to be doing something that sustains you. If that also happens to be something you like, then that is a gift, similar to being tall, or smart, or attractive. Life will be easier for you then, but that is not the default. Someone still has to shovel the piles of shit or dig a ditch.

The Passion Economy appeals to people who don’t ask what they can do for society, but rather what society can do for them. It’s selfish, and unsustainable. Passion doesn’t last forever. Discipline does.
"The Nobel prize judges have always been sticklers for experimental proof."

One of the big challenges of devising a grand-unifying theory of everything is that, if it doesn't make different predictions than existing theories do in any context, it's experimentally unverifiable. We can hope for a unifying theory that makes everything simpler, but it's far more likely that a theory that deals with all things at once will makes dealing with special cases harder. If such a theory is harder to work with and does not differ from special case theories that are easier to apply, why bother?

Of course, a unifying theory probably will differ from existing theories in at least some contexts. They may be extremely high energy, gravity, etc. contexts that are beyond our current technology to test. String theory likely falls into this category. The question is, how much resources should we pour into developing a theory before demanding that its differences with currently accepted theories become testable?

Quite frankly, answering this question is above my pay-grade. Scientific history is full of both dead-ends and things that were initially thought to be useless that have since become the foundations of entire fields. How do we know which string theory is? If we cut funding to string theory development, are we cutting off a field that will one day be essential? By continuing to pour funds into string theory, are we funding a dead end and starving several other things that might have been revelations?
> But just in that one sentence I would learn like 1000% more about biology than I currently know.

I mean, no you wouldn't. DND1 is a protein name and googling it won't tell you exactly what it does, because it may be involved in several pathways. There is probably a gene dnd1 (note the lowercase) that will muddle up your search results . Destabilizing mRNAs can happen a bunch of ways and knowing the others won't help you with that one, also the vast majority of biologists don't care about mRNA being destabilized one way or the other. Biology is a ton of details, and by learning too much too early about the details you miss the big picture. Just sign up for a class if you're at this level.

> You need them to communicate their research and get to the point.

Arguably the problem with the sentence you quoted is it gets too much to the point. It is very precise and obviously of use to anyone is interested in mRNA decay. It does not tell you what most HN readers want to know, which is why they should care about mRNA decay.

(And if they want to know that, they should read review articles.)

There is a problem with opaque biology papers, but in my experience, the main problem in those cases are the data (impossible to find) and the figures (tables filled with bad statistics and low-res western blot pics). I understand all the jargon in the sentence you quoted, but none of the implications; and I understand that this means I haven't learned anything by reading it at all (though I do have a grad degree in biology).
Yes it does make sense.

An American company didn't offend them. An American company "bent their knee" (as people are saying) and ban a user who showed support of the Hong Kong protests, fired the two commentators, and rescinded the prize money the gamer won.

CCP wants people to believe they have "power" - control, and that "all" will "bend their knee" for them. We don't know if Blizzard posting an "apology for offending 'China'" for the actions of a user was from anyone in a decision chain at Blizzard - from the very top or if it was ordered or perhaps "requested" under pressure.
From the article: "Today I am excited to announce that I am stepping into the role of CEO at Anaconda..."

Stepping _into_, not stepping down.
Ah, it would seem that Epic has a nose for marketing opportunities especially today when "values" / "we are good folk" marketing is all the rage
There are at least two ways to fail. You can get something wrong from the start, or you can get it right and fail to keep it that way.

Perf sensitive code can often be that way. Some innocent coworker comes in to add a feature and they don't get why two idioms are not equivalent from the compiler's perspective, and so they change things.

Meanwhile, you're busy doing something else. The code is still correct from a testing standpoint. It still satisfies your code standards. But it no longer meets your response time expectations. It's a lot of work to maintain the sort of toolchain that lets you reliably spot this sort of thing at build time or even in pre-prod environments, and it's difficult to identify places where those tools are failing to detect problems until there's been a problem.
https://i.imgur.com/xQfRoPa.jpg

Blizzard has already apologized to China publicly however.
A parallel to this concept is that of "decontenting" a product. Nissan did this in the 1980s and 1990s to the Maxima to keep prices in line with the Camry and Accord.

See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decontent
Don't make the mistake of assuming a GUI is automatically more complex or more advanced than command line tools.
"Not endorsing pedophilia since 2016" is not exactly the ringing character endorsement you might consider it to be.
Make a living as an ethical hacker playing CS:GO
Tesla’s Autopilot Could Save Millions of Lives, but It'll Kill Some People First
Our quick start guide notebook on Google Colab is also a great place to get started!

https://colab.research.google.com/github/bentoml/BentoML/blo...
In 99% this is _not_ a EU thing.

Maybe some German law?? Or just common practice in Germany?

Edit: I think I confused your response with parent. I understand price/kg is a thing although I didn't knew it was mandated by law. What I don't understand is being forced to use some odd unit like price per 500g.
I suspect that after 60 days fasting you can only stomach light things like greens until your stomach expands a bit.
That you dislike it, doesn't make it inaccurate - it feels a bit like you're saying "it's unfair to call me privileged - I earned it". But regardless of how it came about, it describes you in certain situations, and enables you to do things others cannot.

People who need their job and have few other options are not necessarily docile and compliant by personality, as you seem to be saying; you can be outspoken and principled by personality /and/ have the privilege to be able to use that, where others can be outspoken and principled by personality but must appear docile and compliant to avoid consequences which you can ignore.

Were you instead running for public office, you would need to avoid taking unpopular positions or you would be out of the running. You couldn't ignore the consequence of people not voting for you, compared to an unelected positions who don't have to care about popularity.

It's not tautological to say that success ~= privilege, but that is where the idea of "fuck you money" comes from - it's an amount of money which lets anyone do the things you attribute to your talent and personality. If anyone can buy it, how much personality or talent can it involve? And if it's situation dependent - you might not do the same things if working behind a Top Secret classification, or conscripted into the military, or if dependent on your public image - again how much can it be "success"?
What do you need to do for focus to follow the mouse pointer's movement? It doesn't seem to work like that out of the box, and the only settings I've found require clicking.
That language comes from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commissioner_of_Internal_Reve... ... and unfortunately that particular case seems to be of no help clarifying many of the relevant issues.

> even if you have no desire to touch it in any way.

Not just desire, in most cases people don't even know about most of the cryptocurrency forks!
Thanks, I was just considering getting back into PoE, but I'll look for other ARPGs. Any recommendations?

I've heard good things about Grim Dawn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
I have to assume that people are reacting to the fact that your OS isn't supported anymore. Check the top reply to your question.
Can you quote some official document from US that even mentions a single human right demand? Because if you refer on some keyboard worries on twitter then there are probably EU worriers too though they might not be a CEO of a big company that seeks a bit of PR points..
We don't have experience dealing with the psychological consequences of certain death among thousands of people confined in a tin can without any chance of external help.

To prove your theory, we would have to gather these thousands of people in a dome in the middle of nowhere, not help, not let them leave at all costs, and maybe enforce a % of deaths to simulate what could reasonably happen in space. Find volunteers for that.
I wonder if you might try the subtler word myths instead of lies.

Reality is formless, and we reason about it through what Foucault called grids I think, where every structure that we impose on it to bring something new into view necessarily obscures something else.

This is a bit like what Alan Watts talks about when saying that stories are like music, in which it wouldn’t have any form unless there were notes left out.

I think of a fact as a compressed statement of experience in service to some story. This is like the surprising observation that bits of information seem to always have some color that cannot be captured[1].

And there is the type of myth I like to call Fruith, as opposed to Truth. Most myths comprising culture might be these—in that we pretend things are true in the belief that it brings something more important to fruition, and that is the truth which overrides the seminal “lie”.

I see your despair, but I think it’s bigger than what you may be suggesting.

[1] https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Why is cryptocurrency treated differently from stocks?

I bought 100 shares of GOOG worth $1000 each, or $100,000 total.

The next day, the stock split and now I own 100 shares of GOOG worth $501 each and 100 shares of GOOGL worth $499 each, or $100,000 total.

Under the stock scenario I don't owe any tax on the new GOOGL shares, but if it was cryptocurrency then suddenly I have to come up with a pile of cash for taxes?
Very interesting extension. For others, link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod....

The main value-add I could never get set up was the deploy/run with hotkeys. I guess I will try it again.
Staged means presented and performed implying some kind of prior organisation. This only means fake in the context of something presented as unplanned.
Web Scraping – Discovering Hidden APIs
> It's either a lawful request from any country or none.

My preference would be to group countries into categories that respect users and their privacy, and those who don't. And then don't pursue selling into countries that don't respect privacy. And no one gets "gold key" or "backdoor access". It is only a legal front door to the data the provider possesses in plaintext. Specifically, data residing SOLELY on the device would NEVER be in said provider's possession in plaintext form, if the user desired that.

But that will never happen. Because, growth markets, amirite? (Sad face)

> Should corporations get to decide what a lawful request is? That's a horrible idea either.

Agreed. Corporations don't get to 2nd-level guess the law (ignoring lobbing in this example). They either get to choose to operate within laws of the territories they do business in, or they don't do business in a said territory. This is my EXACT complaint against Uber, AirBNB, etc.

> FWIW, I am appalled by this constant call to weaken encryption. This is not worthy of any country who deems themselves under the "rule of law". It's even more appalling that they do the dirty work for the countries you listed...

In total agreement. Furthermore it is what is view as extremely easy. Of course the NSA/CSS/CIA/ABC/DEF whatever will always target and crack-open the endpoints. To do a double-duty and attack the crypto itself is just fucking annoying to me due to the collateral damage said efforts bring. They already own the endpoints. Just focus on that. Don't attack the math operations.
I've talked with a bunch of cranks and my experience resonates with this article. I believe in reasoned argument and persuasion, probably to a fault, but I never managed to change any of their opinions in the slightest.

One of them had a theory that every electron was made of two photons going round and round. After pointing out a few of the many problems with that he tracked down where I live to try to report me for "censorship".
You can use Google Groups as either a mailing list or via the web. It's pretty handy and easy to administer if you don't mind outsourcing that to Google.
Sadly it doesn't translate very well to every kind of grocery item.

Kitchen paper towels and toilet paper can still give you a pretty good math exercise to figure out what's more affordable.
You can also flip GDPR on its head - should American web sites be subject to European laws?
Unfortunately there's no competing against monopolies because of the network effect and the chicken and egg problem. A better product won't solve much, exclusives are almost the only option.
Yes, just like how all the articles about China currently plastering the homepage aren't devolving into outrage laden diatribes. Same goes for articles about global warming, Facebook and RMS. HN is above politics and even emotion itself!... unless it involves subjects that upset the ingroup.
Immediately thinking of the recently declassified ‘UFO’ videos... prototypes?
That's why you don't compare the GCC binaries built by different compilers. Instead, you use each of those GCC binaries (which may use different machine code but should implement the exact same functionality) to build another GCC, and you compare those binaries. That should result in identical binaries as long as GCC:

- is deterministic,

- does not invoke undefined behavior, and

- was correctly compiled by the original compilers.
The reason that A16z is taking about top earners rather than median is that their audience is the people building the platforms. These people care about the total revenue which you'd expect to be a power law distribution dominated by the top earners, so the max is the most important number.
I stand with you here. I recognized something like this myself - I phrase it as "I want to live in a world of cooperation, of win-win deals", but there are still people who prefer to exploit others, play "win-lose" games.

That's why I despise the advertising industry so much. They're all playing win-lose games with society, and the collateral damage slowly eats at the base of what keeps our societies together.
> ...Management didn't want to give us budget to rewrite it in a modern language, sadly.

I fully agree with the management. The problem with software developers of today is that instead of being engineers and getting shit done they are more like script kiddies trying to do cool 1337 things. There are some golden rules in engineering: never touch a running system, if ain't broke, don't fix it and don't reinvent the wheel - just use it.
Nothing unless, as I said in another comment one is either just not a native English speaker or is deliberately trying to misconstrue the words used in a vacuum of context.

But I fear we’re quibbling the point now and getting pretty far off topic. So I’ll desist.
Ask HN: What are your favorite resources on information access?
Something I think a lot about is access to information[0]. I'm generally of the opinion that while we've done an excellent job aggregating and distributing human knowledge (Wikipedia, Google), that the most important thing we can do for humanity is guarantee every person complete access to the complete sum of human knowledge. This presents a couple obvious challenges - how do you guarantee every person has access to the internet (via cell phones, landline, etc.)? How do you aggregate this knowledge in one place (Wikipedia, LexisNexis, school syllabi)? How do you enable people to find what they're looking for quickly and easily (Google, DDG)? How do you allow anyone to get the same value of a bachelor's degree by studying at home, for free? I'd love to read any research or whitepapers about this field, so any resources would come highly recommended.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_to_information
I've dealt with this problem my whole life and tbh it's a cost/benefit trade off. Assuming your employer isn't being flexible enough to upgrade they are simply saying that the risk of exploitation of employee machines is a lower risk than the cost of upgrading.

If all parties are ok with that trade off I'd say don't worry about this iterm update and also don't do anything involving PII on that computer.
But they only have to actually follow GDPR for European users, right?
> if it doesn't make different predictions than existing theories do in any context, it's experimentally unverifiable

Given the number of holes in and between our theories, this seems unlikely. And there are still a lot of experiments yielding surprising results in fundamental physics.
"If it can be achieved, nuclear fusion would be a massive improvement over fission in that it produces much lower levels of radioactive waste and greenhouse gases, does not require enriched nuclear material that could be used to produce weapons"

thermonuclear weapons are fusion yield devices using fission to ignite a fusion fuel. a fusion bomb, or other such weapon is probably closer to production than fusion derived power generation generation.
yes and no

as far as i know, to set up a periodic sepa transfer - at least here in SVK(EU), you need to do it in person (although more and more banks are starting to allow this through their web/phone app)

eg. issuing a sepa for my monthly ISP subscription, i put into the system that 1)from this account 2)this amount of money 3)to this exact account 4)with these aditional details/comments/etc...

and if it fails for whatever reason - in my case mostly because once in a while, the amount that should be withdrawn for that month is more than the pre-set money

- the payment gets witheld at my bank / simply fails;

- the other side contacts me via phone/mail/... that there was a failure (which i can check on my bank account, so "kinda-phishing-safe");

the other side is still able to withdraw only that specific amount once in a period (most likely a month), and if anything is amiss, the payment simply fails
Interestingly, I did learn braille. However, I didn't really learn to use paragraphs until 6th grade. Therefore, it doesn't come very naturally to me.
If they're structured so that shareholders can do this directly (not a case of needing to be able to influence the board), they'd have to convince 11% of other shareholders to either not vote (if just a majority of yays/nays is needed) or vote with them.

Sweeney on the other hand has allowed Fortnite to become their top item and it generates money other developers only dream of so I highly doubt other shareholders are particularly angry with him (they probably love him quite frankly). He's sufficiently defensive/offensive when things are setup to work against Epic Games (when Microsoft was ambiguous as to how important Windows Store would be to the Windows 10 ecosystem. To the chagrin of vocal gamers, he's aggressively going after Steam which could've frankly crushed Epic Games Store at the onset if not for how aggressive Epic has been).

Honestly, their best course of action would be to cut bait.
They take a 30% cut of every game and make billions. They are not a free service like, say, Discord is. They should not be showing popup ads.

People are up in arms about Windows 10 showing ads in the Start menu, but somehow Valve showing them in a popup which you have to actually close is okay.
Wow, that's a throw back to the late 90s, early 2000s. I'm still slightly scarred from working with ATL and COM. A lot of people around here would probably be surprised to hear that there were even Python -> COM bindings back in the day that were even used to ship server software once upon a time. Anyway, I remember that Don Box book well.
> 3. They don’t understand what it means for something to be mathematically impossible.

This one gets a lot of technically competent people.

I spent a very unsatisfying 45 minutes vainly trying to explain to an eminent biologist that no, really, some statements really are _undecidable_ -- and no, that doesn't mean that at some future time we'll figure out a new approach that lets us decide them.
AFAIK the EU thinks so if they service EU customers.
Google for one.

Although I think they have regretted that decision.
https://outline.com/WBeYRT
I'm interested in your thoughts on one public policy example of this. Back when AIDS first hit, the community of scientists and public policy makers said that while it was starting in the gay and drug community any moment it would hop into the general population. They knew this was a lie, but told us this because they didn't believe Americans would spend money helping gays and junkies.

I've come to understand that to varying degrees a lot of public policy works this way.
They need to talk about the network effect, and where the power is centered here. Hint - its not with the content creators, nor the users. Its the platform. Its the rent-seeking behavior on the part of the platforms that causes every entry in this space to rise when there's investment money, and then fall when they have to start making the money back and implement creator and user unfriendly mechanisms. Then the content creators have to replatform, which can lose them much of their audience.

We can break the cycle with self-hosted platform-agnostic tools. Most everything these platforms do is available off the shelf - the differentiations don't actually matter. The content creators aren't being given an audience, they build audiences for the platform. Everything the platform does once it has to start making money is in service to the platform and the investors, not the "workers", or the users.
500g coffee packs are pretty much the regular size in Germany too, at least for pre-ground [0]. Packs with whole roasted beans are usually on the bigger end.

[0] https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/354801_...
It's hard. They might have secretly voted for Trump/Hilary. /s
Tldr; A collection of simplified and community-driven man pages
CNC is a way to control a tool, and the tools that can be controlled are so wide ranging that it's weird to talk about the efficacy of CNC, rather than the capabilities of the tool you're controlling.