skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Iconic movie Blade Runner (1984) takes place in a dystopian future which was imagined to have happened by November 2019. So, I had the plan to come with a sonic tribute on that date. And here we are. You can play with the varied tracks - even animate the sliders. Among others, you will be able to recreate the mood of the opening scene in the original movie, and classic Vangelis moods. As the different stems loop with different timings, the whole creates ever changing variations. The iconic Yamaha CS-80 sounds have been recreated using the modern Moog One - an all-analog synthesiser too. This soundscape goes really low in frequency, good headphones or a subwoofer, are highly recommended. Enjoy!
Yup, Stream's blog is down as well. Thought it was WPEngine at first, but turns out it's netlify.
Or you could not give either of them your data and use Firefox. I hear it's been around for a little while.
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> Almost everyone who had the opportunity to use the Internet, would.

I'm too young to have experienced this. But I've seen countless of clips and interviews of people claiming they would never use the internet because they can send post and use a telephone instead. "Computers are for geeks", etc.

> New use cases manifested immediately all the time. Nobody ever said “we implemented this world wide network thing, now we are looking for use cases”, there were, and are, always more use cases to choose from than resources to implement them.

It took a dotcom bubble to find the use cases we actually use today. Would you have not said the exact same thing back then about the internet?
Wrt. the sci-fi greats, I once worked my way through the list of joint winners of nebula and hugo awards, and it was awesome. Those books are all excellent.
> how long each of us waits on hold

What is this based on? A phone number? Probably doesn't help me that my outgoing and incoming phone numbers are usually different.
> It's features have been around forever, and have been ported to Linux and BSD (with various levels of success).

And Windows, apparently, at least for DTrace.
If they are undermining the fundamental purpose of government, then why wouldn’t the government want to do something about it?
It's always been like this. Once it was Pokemon cards and a Gameboy, now it's a Fortnite emote.
If an organism have enouth DNA diference that dosen`t allow it to reproduce with another, that would not make it another species?
> why shouldn't they have access to the same type of data or where these scooters are? How hard is it to open up an API?

They don't have the right to know where I go.
Moncage: Clever Perspective Based Puzzle
> particularly multiple calls to the database for very simple join operations that aren't made apparent in the ORM unless you're watching SQL logs (they aren't).

No need to check the SQL logs directly.

First thing I learned about optimising Django was to check django-debug-toolbar to see how many queries were being generated per page. This is fairly common knowledge.

However. I don't often bother because SQL calls aren't the most common bottleneck. It's nearly always a better use of my time to look at page weight or javascript blockage.
I was diagnosed with Aspberger's syndrome as a child (I know it's called autism spectrum disorder, but I don't like that name). My school district had pretty rigorous special education programs for learning social skills and such. Most people wouldn't guess I have any issues now but it does bubble up. I work at Microsoft now, and while I didn't come in through their autism hiring program I have gotten support. I am encouraged by how much support Microsoft, and I believe the other tech companies are giving. Honestly, coming into the company I was a little cynical about the companies diversity programs, but I feel like the culture is about legitimately trying to help everyone.
I have a very clear memory from the 70s of driving around the roads of rural Ireland on dark evenings with my Dad - a rural vet - and swarms of insects being attracted to the headlights of the car - long before they met their demise on the windscreen. There are no swarms now, though.
I don't think it's just government, but also likely industries as well. I've seen what could only be trolling for support of nuclear power and the medical industry.
Saudi Aramco, World's Most Profitable Company, Will Make First Public Offering
I took this as a completely serious and reasonable proposal. For context, I have taught (middle school through University), am on the board of an education non-profit, have an advanced degree and plan on accumulating more of them.

What is unreasonable about what the author says? You seem put-off by the way they break down college into 3 principal components: signalling, training, and fun... But other than an emotional reaction to that framing, can you say why it's wrong? I can think of one piece left out, but I will explain why it's reasonable to leave it out.

As part of marketing 4 year liberal arts degrees, schools play up a fourth component, which was more of a factor in the past: non-economic human-development (i.e. learning certain topics enriches your life and adds meaning). I do think this is a real component, but I think, in an effort to maximize profit, universities have completely thrown this away in practice (while making it a cornerstone of their pitch). And if we separate economically usefully human development from non-economically useful human development, the later is (by definition) a luxury good. This luxury good can be obtained for free on the internet, so paying $100-500k for it is just signalling. Hence it can be ignored.

Don't get me wrong, I want to live in a world where everyone's motivation is non-economic human-development... But that is not the late-stage capitalism dystopia we find ourselves in - and I think the author does a good job describing the state of things.
Krispy Kreme tells student to stop donut reselling service in Minnesota
> Not as dumb and not something that catches everyone but a similar problem in the UK is free childcare.

> 22 hours of free childcare a week is worth ~£9k a year post-tax. If either you or your partner earn a penny over £100k then you're no longer eligible for any of your children. So with two kids in nursery a penny pay rise might lead to a £30k pre-tax pay cut.

Means testing is usually fairly expensive to administer too. It's more political point scoring than anything else.
What’s happening with the project? Or the manager?

Project possible in terms of timeline? Scope? Is there a plan?

How is the team morale? Why is it like that?
Not familiar with that interpretation, though there is another similar one that refers to what you mentioned: “written in stone”
> Call me when there's a popular one of these which has multiple lives or some other mechanic that ensures a single mistake doesn't result in ~5 minutes of being unable to play the game. I don't have the time or the patience for this.

Fortnite has numerous other game modes than solo BR where this would be the case. At it's most basic level you can play duos, trios or squads where you are "knocked" but can be revived by a teammate, or "rebooted" if you get knocked and eliminated. There are even more varied game modes that are even more arena-like: 50v50s where you immediately respawn with the same loot for example. I have no stats but I'd guess that these alternate modes are more popular than the main BR modes.
This seems like a great app idea. Kind of like haveibeenpwned but for checking out what data vendors have on you. It would be pretty expensive though considering a lot of this info needs to be purchased.
Where to begin when hiring for remote work
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> Eh, there's Stellar, Nano, whatever.

Exactly. That's why only 0.001% people chose to hang onto cryptocurencies - no scarcity whatsoever...
What trouble Congress is in! They have to be experts in law, warfare, every industry from oil refining to adtech, science (at least as far as funding it goes), ecology, economics, medicine...

In fact I would say that it's impossible to expect anyone to understand enough to know what they're legislating. Aside from being a powerful libertarian argument against the excessive involvement of government, I think it shows that we have to figure out a way to work around the fact that congressmen don't understand everything that they're in charge of, rather than trying to remedy it.
I can’t stand blue logos. Not sure about red, but anything else is better. Makes it feel ancient to me (IBM, Microsoft in the 90’s...)
In response to your 1) may I recommend Counter Strike's Danger Zone mode? It has multiple respawns as long as your partner is still alive, and you can respawn anywhere you want on the map.
Hehe. That's a somewhat idealistic depiction of Confoederatio Helvetica.

The running joke is that in Switzerland, one must pay to even breathe. Yes, it is true: Switzerland is among the richest countries in the world, and the standard of living alternates between #1 and #2 spot constantly. What nobody will tell you however, is that Switzerland is so ultra-hardcore-capitalist, that it would be every Texas Republican's wet dream. If one isn't drawing on social benefits, one pays for absolutely everything out of one's own pocket. Imagine a country so hardcore capitalist, where one is expected to pay for parking at a private grocery store parking lot. Ayn Rand would be beside herself from happiness there: it's like Galt's Gulch, only it's real.

The ultra-capitalism-one-pays-for-everything enables the taxes to be low, and low taxes, efficient legal system and armed neutrality bring in even more businesses and investment, so much so, that the European Union is whining and putting pressure on the country asserting that it competes unfairly by having low taxes. Even the cantons (states) compete against each other which one will have lower taxes. Those which have higher taxes have cheaper real estate and vice versa.

Galt's Gulch. Everybody pays outta wazoo, but the standard of living is high. By appointment only.
It's not obvious that a women who qualified for either YC or one of those other accelerators would tend to prefer one of those others. Women-only acelerators may have some benefits to balance against some drawbacks, similarly to how we don't see women largely preferring women-only colleges over the best coed colleges.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/

There's some doubts to the veracity of that quote, which is why I opted for anecdotal when it came to older evidence :)
I don't know if there is such a goal, but we certainly try to reduce undefined behavior in OpenJDK; e.g. https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233144
> before systemd won, there were: * SysVinit + RH-derived initscripts * Sysvinit + SUSE-style initscripts * Upstart * OpenRC * prcsys - parallel rc system (Mandrake and derivatives)

Many things about Linux would be easier if we standardized on only one implementation of each thing rather than multiple competing implementations (e.g. only one desktop environment, only one text editor). But we would also lose everything that makes Linux great.

> You don't need to wrap your head around systemd to do things with it that you would really struggle to do with any other init system. But, you've probably been too busy fighting it, or trying to prove why it's worse, rather than trying to do real things with it, or you would be able to point to valid bug reports.

There are any number of major security vulnerabilities, but that's not really the point. Most of the really obnoxious things systemd does are by design so there are no bug reports. Tight coupling to kernel and udev versions, to a non-standardised binary logging daemon, to a custom DNS implementation...
It is more like a reductio ad absurdum. It is showing that you would not support the position you are arguing for by taking it to the extreme.
Of course, you may get more bang for your rooting buck if you supported a browser that didn’t use Blink as its rendering engine.
> Deepsteg performs visual attacks, structural attacks, and statistical attacks (including deep learning based attacks) [...]

This sounds a lot more evil than it actually is. :D

But thanks for sharing the tool.
If anybody is duplicating the effort, it's Chromium/Blink/KHTML or whatever it is now. Firefox pre-dates it all by years. I love how twisted up the history of the web browser has become.
Since Microsoft owns Github, and since Github leads the development of Electron, and since Microsoft leads the development of one of the most important Electron apps (VS Code), does Microsoft have any plans for increasing the sharing of code and developers between Edge Chromium and Electron?

Alternatively, do they have any plans for eliminating VS Code's dependency on Electron?
Companies (and people) take on debt to invest in themselves, knowing the growth can (hopefully) pay off the debt and generate more income in the long run. Here's a fun list of companies with debt:
https://wolfstreet.com/2019/07/26/the-most-indebted-companie...

In the case of students, the idea is to take some debt now and pay it off with increased earnings. The problem is, those increased earnings aren't guaranteed and students are way worse at determining the return on their debt than companies with dedicated teams.
It hasn't because I've not done more than merely look at Nim.

However it bothers me aesthetically and has put me off trying it.
You still have to call a method if you want it to do something. It doesn't simply happen as a side effect of something else. A method call only ever does one thing at a time, not multiple things in a random order. Read this if you still think triggers are a good idea: https://blogs.oracle.com/oraclemagazine/the-trouble-with-tri...
The issue is that JavaScript and the DOM are not 100% specified. There is no technical solution for that. Removing obvious ways to enumerate differences can help but can never be a complete solution and many differences can not be removed at all.
You can use chrome extensions without issue. At least all of the extensions I am using right now came from the chrome store.
> the US government wont make my family disappear if I don’t cooperate,

Don't be so sure of that. If you hold valuable information on a foreign state, you will be accused and quickly convicted under various national security laws if you don't co-operate.

You severely under-estimate the power of a state, especially one as powerful as the US. If they want something from you, they will get it. Have you broken a minor law? Maybe you've been stellar, but some member of your family hasn't. The likelihood of being in an entire family with spotless records is very very low.
> Is that an _emotional_ response? I guess it is. But I can hear my botanist side saying, “That’s not an emotion. That’s just a response.” But I think we can draw these parallels. It comes down to language again, to how we apply this language to look at these responses in plants. ... [W]hen you go and whack off the top of a plant ... Its genes respond. It starts producing these chemicals. How is that different than us all of a sudden producing a whole bunch of norepinephrine?

> Indigenous people have long known that plants will communicate with each other.

This is... postmodernist in the colloquial sense, and then straight-up Noble Savage theory?

I truly believe that we can't fuck-yea-science ourselves into better respecting and spending more time with trees and nature. This will never catch on, and I hope I'm right.
1. Why do you think that you can't have a face-to-face discussion remotely. You can using video chat software. It works very well. No, its not _exactly_ the same as being in the same room, but it doesn't need to be.

2. If executives blame a remote team that is functioning well and punish or fire them for it incorrectly, then those executives should be replaced. That's just lazy scapegoating.

3. It sounds like you are saying that you think that you should lterally watch over a software engineer's shoulder to see if he is typing a lot, or if not, asking for help. This is extremely ignorant. Programming doesn't mean that you look busy a lot. A good engineer might spend a lot of time just Googling. Or actually sitting there and thinking for a couple of minutes without even necessarily typing (unless he is afraid the manager looking over his shoulder might get suspicious).
> As a Bay Area single-family home owner, I do not see how I am benefiting from increased housing prices. I have lived in my home for almost 10 years and expect to live in it for another 20. I don't rent it out or derive any income from it. My home is not a "money source".

Most people buy a larger house while raising a family, then sell it for a smaller one after the kids grow up. The increase in price funds much of their retirement. (This is basically a pyramid scheme, but when the population actually looked more like a pyramid than it does now, it mostly worked. This is now breaking down but a lot of people haven't accepted that yet.)

Moreover, even while you continue to live in your house, having more equity allows you to take out a home equity loan to e.g. send your kids to college.

> I'd oppose a 100 unit high-rise apartment being built next door to me not because of housing prices, but because there'd be 100 more cars on my street which is made for far fewer. There'd be 100 more noisy neighbors partying at all hours. There'd be 100 more kids in my daughter's already overcrowded school. I'm not a real estate investor. I don't care about supply and demand and market prices and all that crap.

Nobody is saying that there shouldn't exist single family homes. The problem is that the landscape is covered in them and we need to convert some percentage of that land into higher density housing. You may not like that to be your house, but take consolation in the fact that if it is, the value of your land will increase significantly (because someone will want to buy it and put up a high rise), and then you can take the money and buy a different single family home in an area still zoned for lower density. And have hundreds of thousands of dollars left over to use for whatever you want as compensation for your trouble, because a single family home in the area still zoned for lower density won't cost you as much as you got for your existing one which is now zoned for higher density.
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Coming in 2021, the electric Ford F-150.[1] That should be a great truck. Empty pickups have poor weight distribution; not enough weight in back. With a giant battery pack under the pickup bed, traction is better.

[1] https://youtu.be/bXFHgoon7lg
The actual problem was Microsoft gave up too quickly and switched to Chromium. Had they put in the resources (which a company of their size ought have no problem acquiring), they could've made it very competitive with Chrome and Firefox. They just stopped developing new features a long while back and it was essentially in maintenance mode, and then came the death knell announcement that they're abandoning their own browser effort after well over two decades in the area. That must have been among Google's happiest days.
Python + SQL seems like a good match for many analysis problems, but Excel + SQL is not bad either. I like the ability to combine complex SQL views or SQL functions with Excel pivot functionality, querying the database directly from Excel
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> It's a very valuable source of equity one can borrow against

...At insanely favorable rates. A person in SF could build quite the nest egg by doing a cash-out refi every year and investing the proceeds.
Would’ve been better, IMHO; to pull an Alphabet and rename the company.

This reminds me a little of the ‘Apple TV’ vs. ‘Apple TV’ article running around recently.

If Facebook wants to differentiate their company from their service, a rename makes sense and also wouldn’t hurt their reputation when they create new products.
These are just his favorites not everything he's read, and kudos to him for putting this out there. But I'm a little disappointed as the list is kind of heavily Euro-centric. Probably even just a couple decades ago this would be the norm but I think in 2019 a person of his calibre and intelligence could benefit a lot by broadening his reading tastes, and there are increasingly many excellent (non-european) authors to choose from to broaden one's perspectives. Not a criticism, just my observation.
Considering how many people are notaries and how easy it is to become a notary, I don't think it's any form of security. It's just an artificially created market for people to make quick bucks signing documents.
Upon clicking the link, Firefox popped a notification saying that they had blocked a 'social-media tracker' from running on the site. New typeface, same tricks.
Nursing is a high-pay job for its education and risk bracket. It's low pay compared to doctor, but there are other confounders like education required do get an MD license.
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