skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah thanks, wish that was documented. thought it was public.
Hopefully has protection from disassembly.
yea, I would love to read the article, but that's a horrible experience
> you only make money by taking it from someone else

This is false. Money is an expression of labor and is exchanged in return for labor or the product of someone else’s labor. Totally dismissing that the exchange of money requires both parties to gain something is a deceptive (and in my opinion, immoral) trend.

When my money “grows” in the stock market. It isn’t because I took money from another person. It is not a zero-sum game.
Dumping Unit Tests
'm considering dumping most unit tests from our app, because they almost never make a difference, they take a lot of work, our team is super tiny, and that work could be invested in features instead.

What I'd like to do instead is integration tests, since these would be much less work to maintain.

Can you convince me to not do this?

I realize that what I'm proposing is against the common wisdom, on the order of using tables for layout or spacer gifs.
Middle class in Frisco
Probability Logic
The More Active Your Brain, the Shorter Your Lifespan May Be
maybe we will get "The 3to4 tool will automatically adapt regretfully-named-keywords when converting your sources to Python 4."
Ok, but what else could it be?
There are significant differences in most of the 55 personality traits.
Especially in Emotionality, Authority-challenging, Cautiousness, Extraversion, Cheerfulness, Agreeableness, Trust!, Emotional-range, Challenge, Excitement, Ideal, Liberty, Practicality, Self-expression, Tradition, Helping Others.
In other words, the letters are a world apart from each other.
The minimalist approach of the matpakke is probably a lot better for parents and childrens' mental health and stress levels.

Peer pressure is an unfortunate reality in society but so counter-productive. Saw a similar thing with birthday parties in primary school where some mothers were apparently reduced to tears due to the stress and pressure of wanting to have the best party for their child.

Thankfully, after Prep & Grade 1 everyone was done with parties.
Experience matters (much) less than being able to survive a day or more of whiteboard algorithm questions. The other option is sliding into something development-adjacent that's paid better than developers almost everywhere except FAANG (management, software architecture, that kind of thing) so might pull almost that much comp, and has interviews that are more about speaking well and job-relevant experience & knowledge than memorizing Introduction to Algorithms and operating for hours on end under a microscope. Also don't be old (30+) and without some existing FAANG or otherwise "impressive" employers, or it'll be assumed you've been wasting your life, your experience must just be "one year repeated x times", and you don't belong.

I'm trying to work toward the tech-adjacent side because developer comp tops out around 150k or 160k total in my area—and the top end of that's usually got one foot in management. Remote comp seems similar, unless you can do the hardcore algo interview thing—and even some of those don't pay especially well, if they're offering remote and feel like they're already doing you some kind of favor.
The 30 year inflation adjusted return on the S&P 500 is 6%, and if dividends are reinvested, 8%. Retrospectively, a long term 7% return would be unremarkable. I wouldn't bet those numbers will be quite as strong going forward.
No, because 10M generates a steady return in a growing economy. So the steady-state consumption of someone with a net worth of $10M is much greater than someone with $0, all other things (e.g., income) being equal.
I'm sure they would. And then there is of course simply the right thing to do.

People who are scared of immigrants because of medical costs are not only lacking in their humanity, they are also lacking in math skills. Long term immigrants are a big plus for society in a financial sense.
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I'll shutdown my bitcoin mining operation if you shutdown your AC. I find 21c living to be incredibly wasteful and a luxury only offered to those blessed to be born in the first world.

This type of argument goes nowhere fast.
Alt+tab would be amazing.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/06/fungus-...

> Fungi, by contrast, keep it casual. To mate, all a fungus has to do is bump up against another member of its species and let their cells fuse together. S. commune uses a special kind of structure called a clamp connection to do this, and it allows them to exchange their cell’s nuclei, along with the genetic information inside. This keeps reproduction simple and means that a potentially huge number of sexes is possible — other fungi species have dozens or more, though S. commune is certainly an outlier.

> The “sexes” don’t really involve physical differences either, as we might think of when the word “sex” comes to mind. The variations are all in the genome, at two separate loci, or locations, each of which has two alleles, or alternate forms. The loci are called A and B and the alleles are termed “alpha” and “beta.” That makes four possible sexes, but there’s another twist. Every A-alpha/beta and B-alpha/beta can have many different variants, called specificities. It amounts to more than 339 specificities for A and 64 for B. Putting those two together yields thousands of possible unique sexes.

> The fungus can mate with any specificity as long as it’s different somewhere on both A and B. So, two prospective mates could both have the same A-beta and B-alpha, but have different A-alphas and B-betas and they’d be fine to hook up. If they shared A-alpha and A-beta, though, their pheromones wouldn’t be compatible, meaning that they couldn’t carry out the reproductive process. That leaves a ton of options for mating, though, and essentially means that anyone a fungus meets is fair game for sexy time.
No they don’t. Step functions usually signify the change in evolutionary epochs. Meaning any time the change is too great, it literally means starting over.

Python barely survived 2to3, it should serve as a warning to every other system that thinks it can do a stop the world upgrade.
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I never understood why a gay couple wouldn't want to support a gay wedding cake baker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds
Close to 2/3 of Americans over 25 don’t have college degrees, so how is that meaningless? The educated slices of the workforce aren’t the majority and we’re talking about income inequality generally.
This smells of "No true Scotsman" IMHO.
You can attempt to frame it however you would like but what you want is an environment where people can only discuss political views that you agree with.

There is no harassment when someone simply states "I don't think same sex marriage should be legal.". And before I get downvoted into oblivion, I don't agree with that statement, I'm actually completely apathetic to it and think it's unimportant.
Everyone was fine with chronological order.
Let's just hope all this spiritual automation doesn't lead to a "Nine Billion Names of God"-style ending.
What? Why would we listen to the men? They have it easy!
HK people stand with Catalonia! Free Hongkong! Free Catalonia!
Other than that pesky nebulous western value of "Freedom", sure, I guess you have no reason to be able to make that kind of business decision. Compelled speech or compelled production of value come in many disguises, and are hallmarks of oppressive and dangerous regimes. It's disingenuous to suggest that starting down that path would be innocent.
The energy consumption of Bitcoin isn't new news. What continues to disappoint me, however, is how many people immediately jump to its defense with arguments based on the value it provides, as if that offset its cost.

What gets neglected is that the Bitcoin algorithm is inherently wasteful. By its very design, it results in an insane amount of duplicated, pointless computation.

The question isn't whether something like Bitcoin can provide any value. The question is whether we have better options. And the answer is: we do, by far. From proof-of-stake (like Ethereum is moving towards) or trust-based models (like Stellar), technologies exist that grant almost all the benefits of Bitcoin at tiny fraction of the environmental (and monetary!) cost.

I give Bitcoin credit for being an interesting "first answer" to an extremely hard problem. But it is in no way something that we should be doubling down on.
Perfect example of junk food news.

“Hey, click here. you probably aren’t making this much, so read about who is.

Or hey, maybe you are and you want to feel like you belong / superior.”
Iirc there is a bitcoin “atm” somewhere in my city
This isn't research about hands, this is research about recognizing 3d reality in a 2d image, filling in occluded details based on knowledge about complex objects.

Hands do make a great subject for the experiment, but are not the end goal. The results are impressive and a step forward.
This is a good relevant question. Both are easily verified, impossible to duplicate, convenient value density, and (!) production correlates to increase of total world economic value.

As such, the question is interesting: how much energy required to produce one new ounce of gold? vs one bitcoin?
Same thing with London vs the UK.

There is so much difference between some capitals and their countryside nowadays, they could be different countries.
I'm not so sure. During WW2, Nazis enjoyed strong political support from the American Right, and the discussion is known as The Great Debate. It was the ambush at Pearl Harbor, and not a clear moral consensus, which closed the debate.
Is Artificial Intelligence Good?
And the problem this creates for society is that we censor content that isn't advertiser friendly. We've already seen where this leads with broadcast television, lowest common denominator trash that is safe for advertisers, escaping that advertiser optimum made youtube good in the first place.

I subscribe to a lot of history channels so I've seen the effects of this filtering directly, history contains a lot of talk about nazis and hitler and you can't even mention the big H without being demonetized.

But this is just another example of how advertising is a cancer on society.
... and by then $10M is worth $1M
The risk here is that the customer commits fraud by saying they did not receive the TV. Amazon may side with the customer and refund the money; but the merchant should still be able to file a small claims lawsuit or maybe even a police report.
Right, but local control is a pretty large part of our governance. Its not like zoning laws are mandated federally - they remain in place because the representatives of that local area do not remove it.
You bring up a series of fair points, of issues that absolutely need addressing when they occur.

The point of my thought experiment is not to diminish these issues, but to point out why people may oppose bringing up those topics. Most reasonable people won't react negatively to issues of accessibility, or someone feeling uncomfortable because of their LGBTQ+ status in context of a mostly non-LGBTQ+ workplace; they'll often jump to accommodate their colleagues. But there's a bunch of people wielding these topics the way preachers from my example wield the Bible, and these are the people who are first in line to tell that you need to discuss politics at work (and everywhere, all the time). If one is sympathetic to their position, it may be hard to imagine why others oppose it - hence the example from the other side of social spectrum.
Precisely the correct question - cap gains at that same 7% would yield $700k/year and be taxed at a rate of less than half the income tax rate.
Then it doesn't censor your email at all.

You can freely view the emails in your spam folder, with one click. You can optionally move the emails to your inbox and train Gmail ("not spam" button) not to place them there in the future.

It's going too far to call it censorship (in any manner) when an email provider places an email into a spam folder that requires one click to view/review.
I've found levels.fyi to be pretty accurate. For hard numbers you can compare with salaries reported on green card PERM applications (which exclude stock amounts.) Netflix pays all cash and only hires at senior and above so should be comparable:

http://visadoor.com/greencards/index?company=Netflix&job=&co...

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Netflix&track=Software%20Eng...
My horror film: I have no brain and I must think
AirGarage raises $2m from Founders Fund to turn parking lots into multi-use hubs
Staff is even one level above senior.

It's true that they make a lot of money, so do the owner of a SME or a director in a large organization. It's not a position most employees will ever attain in their lifetime.
You’re not even addressing the engineering costs though. The portion of cost of a search engine solution attributable to the set up of Elastic Search is basically zero. The cost is understanding if the search surfaces relevant items for the specific use case, including asymmetric costs for surfacing bad items in many use cases. Not to mention that plug and play third party solutions like Solr / ES are highly inapplicable to a lot of use cases.
Thank you!

I completely empathize with the time involved learning new tools. I'm happy to create a tutorial specific to your use case. We've built a few workflows to process Github events and I'd love to show you how this works end-to-end.

Is there anything specific you'd like to do with the commit / merge events, just so I make sure the tutorial targets your use case?

Feel free to reach out directly if you'd like to talk more at dylan [at] pipedream [dot] com.
https://www.levels.fyi/

Get promoted once at google / Facebook and you should be there. Promoted again and you’ll be 300-350k
I'm not sure why I would expect that. People have heated debates on lots of nonpolitical things. Have you seen the HN threads on microservices?

Perhaps more on point, Gitlab surely doesn't have a policy that you can't discuss anything people disagree on at work.
No? You can’t forbid people from forming a union, but you can forbid things like arguing about the president.
The context of your original comment doesn't change how disgusting it was.

You're literally questioning someone's right to exist in a location, the fact it's a single street doesn't excuse it, do you really not see that?
No, energy expenditure for bitcoin mining is larger than that of all altcoins combined. Despite the considerable technical innovations of some altcoins, bitcoin remains king in this world for now.
Well, the problem is that practically anything can be "politics", I don't think it's a useful way to frame thinking around what you can or can't say at work.

Generally though, when people say something is "politics" what it means is it comes down to a value judgement, rather than there being a middle solution, or the issue is too complicated for there to be a general consensus. As an example that probably wouldn't come up at work, consider the abortion question. If you're of the fundamentalist religious sort, your values practically demand you believe that aborting a baby is wrong. If you're not, then it's a lot more grey. Something like that is a value issue, there isn't really a compromise that doesn't involve one side changing fundamental beliefs about the world and the universe.

To answer your specific issues though:

- lgbt: not relevant. It's illegal to discriminate on that, so... either your company is following the law or it's not. Also: nobody needs to know. It doesn't need to be discussed, it just either needs to be litigated or not litigated. But no smart company wants their employees talking about their personal views on that because that could be a huge liability if someone has intolerant personal views (even if they don't apply them professionally).

- Women in tech & underrepresented minorities: ... well it IS a pipeline problem. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of companies would love to have more diversity, but you can only hire the people that apply. I see a lot of the SJ types make offices miserable hammering on this stuff that frequently can't be fixed locally. I mean yeah, if someone is scaring away people, then address that behavior, but that's more of a "having respectful competent management" issue.

- Education - Never really heard of this being an issue that isn't allowed to be talked about. I don't think anyone would really get upset about this though.

Also, as others have mentioned... a lot of times when people say these issues should be "discussed" they don't really mean that. The far left generally hates "discussion" on their pet issues if there's even a hint of not towing the party line, and it quickly escalates into people being called racist. So frequently, avoiding "politics" is just saying, "please pick your fight somewhere else"
My understanding is that it is not.
Turkey won’t be able to arm or use those nukes, while they might be bold they aren’t bat shit crazy taking control of those weapons would require them to engage and likely kill the entire protection detail and effectively start a war with the US.

If Turkey takes those weapons the US would have to respond with an immediate assault if not Russia will as there is no freaking way Moscow would allow 50 US nukes to go missing on their drop step, Israel might also decide to take action but their options are limited to only a large scale air assault since troop deployment over that area is impossible as there would be no safe ground to retreat too.

Turkey isn’t holding anything hostage in fact I think the moment they even jokingly mention those weapons is the moment the US expels them out of NATO and introduces Turkey to a USMC amphibious ready group and a carrier strike group.
I think those are just two equivalent ways of thinking of the same thing.

The standard way is probably much easier to reason about.
guys do you know what time y combinator sends invites?
On the contrary; walking encourages foot traffic to small shops. If you're in the car anyway, you're likely to go to the big mall outside the city instead.

Having to carry stuff a bit is not a huge problem, that's what personal shopping trolleys are for.
Made me think of Bourne: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31451186-borne
The anxiety is what I mean by general stress. I'd bet you probably suffer more from the anxiety about the sensory distress more than you do the sensory distress! I had a problem with this as well - the anxiety totally took over, and was much worse. Over time, I managed to keep the distress local to when I was actually feeling overwhelmed, and then could start to work to mitigate the sensory overload, by taking frequent breaks outside, wearing noise cancelling headphones, sunglasses, or finding quiet corners with fewer people.

Its not much of a problem for me anymore, and over time my senses have become a bit more fine tuned and won't be piqued by much more than very loud/unexpected sounds.
secretary of state sorry!
I’m not the grandparent commenter, but my total compensation this year is roughly the same, so I thought I’d chime in with my savings:

$28.6k - 401k contributions & match

$112k - RSUs after tax

$14k - Monthly emergency fund contributions from paycheck (yearly total)

~$16k - Bonus after tax

My expenses really haven’t increased in line with the compensation. The picture would look different if I had a family, but I’m in my late 20s. I suppose I could eat high quality sushi daily, but I’ll settle for weekly.
I feel for the agents who have to spend time on those sites to investigate them. I’d be traumatized having to watch things like that for work
Eh, I guess this is not true. To me, 'social media' always meant websites like MySpace and Orkut where friends connect, and not just 'website where users can communicate in some way' a la Pinterest/Reddit/YouTube.

But I realise now that isn't the right definition... still not sure what the word is for the Friendster/MySpace clones--but among those I am pretty sure Facebook is more than 90% of the market (outside of China), possibly more than 99% with Google+ closing.
Ah, that makes sense. By random search, I thought you were referring to random search as defined in http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume13/bergstra12a/bergstra12a..... I believe that's the more common method for hyperparameter optimization cases like this (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c..., https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.mo...).

It has much better guarantees than the method you used and tends to work quite well in practice. It's also probably what the reviewers meant by a random search baseline.
Bitcoin physically cannot scale to replace any substantial portion of the financial industry. That is a primary design feature of proof of work systems.

It's this wasteful at this level of scaling. That only gets worse.
The energy consumption of the next closest altcoin is almost an order of magnitude less even with ASICs. After that, you'll find the security model of almost every altcoin to be total garbage (low energy consumption).
Oh, it does. The kind that self-disables via detonation if conditions are met that trigger what it believes is an intrusion or unauthorized disassembly attempt.

To be clear the "detonation" is NOT the nuclear material going critical, or even a "dirty bomb" type explosion. It is akin to thermite on the electrical firing ICs/circuits to completely destroy the intelligent logic of managing the conventional explosives that triggers the nuclear material.
A person with $10M in wealth should be earning $500k a year taxed at capital gains rates. This person does not and will not ever live like a mere mortal (unless for show or sport). Assuming he's not an idiot, the $10M guy would have to try reasonably hard to become broke.

A person earning $500k/yr is reasonably likely to be a normal guy--maybe semi talented business person or tech exec paying regular income taxes (at least partly) that could quickly become broke or at least become a mere mortal again if he stopped working. I don't really have anything against this guy. He's not a pervasive driver of inequality. He's not at the tier of wealth where you're buying influence. He's likely stuck in an expensive COL place. Unlike Mr. $10M, he probably hasn't carefully shielded his funds from divorce, family, etc.

>Wealth is just what you happened to save up to that point in time.

Nobody just "happens to save up" $10m. You either inherited it, lucked into it or grinded for years or (more likely) decades with the express aim of a payday (and you got lucky enough to get one).
I haven't come across such a delicate, but spicy, read in a long time
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Don't think there is a way to tell the difference without stepping outside the universe to look back on the system relative to another frame.

But AFAIU, there is no edge to the universe with an unknown something beyond the barrier. Space is not an expanding balloon inside a bigger balloon. Ie, there is no space beyond space.

Not that i'm truly able to wrap my head around it, but at the moment of the big bang, time and space themselves exploded into existence.
Perhaps men and women in tech face different challenges, and the challenges that women face are unique to women and related to their sex/gender expression.