skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that SQL and data frames are pretty exceptional together in combination. I'm a big fan of a Python module called PandaSQL https://pypi.org/project/pandasql. What makes this work so well (for me, at least) is that I can combine pandas operations that transform data frames with SQL operations that transform data frames in the same pipeline, and if I really need to, I can just break it all apart with python and reassemble it back into a dataframe later. I don't need to recreate Boolean algebra with complex and potentially buggy dataframe operations[1], and I don't need to recreate loops, conditionals, stats operations and so forth with complex and potentially buggy SQL.

For clustered work, I've found that Spark sql data frames give a lot of the same functionality (not quite all, though I think that's because there are some pandas operations that require a full in-memory dataframe and don't lend themselves to distributed solutions).

[1] there have been so many attempts to replace SQL with a different relational-like language. the end result is a new syntax that doesn't work if you try to pull your queries out and run them against a database independently. I'm going on a tangent in a footnote here, but I remember reading "your data will outlast your application." I personally strive for a usable database outside the context of the application it was originally created to support. Trust me, eventually someone will want a set of reports that would (in many cases) be fair easier to write as queries if you'd made sure your back end database was a properly designed relational database.
I've been wondering: if there was a world government, corporations would probably reach a point in which they are unstoppable from a law point of view. The bigger the machine, the harder to steer it in a good direction.
I can't find a link, but back in the 90s, someone published a website being served by a retro (IIRC) computer to Slashdot. It was surprisingly resilient to the hug of death because the content wasn't dynamic and it served clients serially.
The eye focus on the a7iii is amazing. There is no way I would capture in focus images of children without it. It's so fast and so accurate.
I thought that it was a line from "Battlestar Galactia".
If America even had any "character". I'm sorry for being frank but most of the US, in particular outside of big cities but also often in big cities, looks like crap and depression. Neighbourhoods look better in Argentina, Italy and Greece, countries currently in the middle of their own Great Depression. Rows of boring malls and identical houses, no people walking around, parking lots. Everything is built in the cheapest way it could possibly be built, and out of a single template repeated across the country, and yet somehow costs a fortune. Including most of Silicon Valley. You have to go to Connecticut or some other super wealthy place with a bit of history to have some enjoyable neighbourhoods.

Also, the reason why for example Spain is so exciting visually is precisely because it mixed styles and influences over time. It's completely natural. Have you seen the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba? It's mind blowing, so cool.

There's only one thing that people really want to preserve, and that is the current price of their homes. US government is complicit in running this ridiculous policy of forever home price appreciation, be it via Fannie Mae or the FED or mortgage incentives or zoning restrictions.
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>You missed the AHDH bit

I didn't miss it. Every single person is going to have something they need to work through that others don't. ADHD is a cross that OP needs to bear and he has to learn to deal with it the same as a single mother of 2 has to juggle raising her children and providing for them, or a recent immigrant may have to work through language and cultural barriers while working their job and sending money back home for their family.

>Op wants a break from that mental process of forcing his concentration

We all want it to be a little easier, but sometimes life doesn't give you that option. And OP didn't make it easy to empathize with him when he shifted the blame on the world and likening himself to a slave because he has to work 5 days a week (leaving not enough time to do 'chores' and 'still have fun') until retirement.
Why does following this link delete my history ?!?

After all modern ads and cookies on every site, they just keep finding new ways to make my browser experience even bore abhorrent.
> I think you're looking for a more direct (verbal) story

I'm really not. The "plot" involved in any multiplayer only shooter is at best, incidental to the game. It's almost never a selling point.

> The point of the article, as I read it, was to describe how Fortnite uses its play area over time to build a lore, without words, and as a pretext of "battle royale" happens around it. The novelty here is how immersive the experience seems to be, from the author's perspective, which is something he doesn't believe has historically been possible with writing as we understand it currently.

And I agree with all of that, my problem is that it's all centered around a game that I believe is fundamentally unworthy of that honor. A cynically produced product designed from the get-go to pry money from people's wallets, by way of manipulating their children. I find it inhumane and cruel especially to the kids who's parents aren't financially well-off enough to indulge them.

Games have a tremendous potential that I think is largely yet untapped, and it grosses me out that one of the first games with mass appeal to accomplish some of that is this... thing. This gross, manipulative, soulless little mediocre shooter.
I've probably been guilty of that on more than one occasion and can explain 2.5 reasons why.

1) Battle royales suck. The entire genre. I grew up on arena shooters - your Quakes, your Unreal Tournaments, and so on. Getting booted all the way back out to the lobby to go through deployment again because of a single death isn't fun. It's making me replay the most boring aspect of the game. 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.

2) Fortnite's success killed two games I was really interested in - Paragon, a gorgeous third person MOBA, and a reboot of Unreal Tournament.

Those first two are very concrete and have nothing to do with tribalism. The last one is a bit murkier:

2.5) Fortnite seems to be aggressively marketed towards children, which means its players are probably disproportionately children. Minecraft had this problem too, but it had a single player mode and private servers which allowed you to sidestep it.

That one probably carries the whiff of "kids these days", but when you consider that the game is going to be designed to cater to the average player...
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KGB: Some Aspects of Training Operatives for Psychologic Influence of Foreigners [pdf]
Lots of those jobs would be in the USA if we had high tariffs on imported semis.
Teenager solves car blind spots using a webcam and projector
We ban accounts that do that. It has never been acceptable on HN, not since the beginning, and not by a long shot. People have wildly varying ideas about what is "widely accepted in SV", largely imaginary I think, but in any case not in the section of the Venn diagram that HN overlaps with. (Btw, only about 10% of HN's community is in SV.)

One case where we might not instantly ban someone is if they had a long history of using HN as intended. Then we might left them off with a strict warning not to do it again. But that's rare. Real community members tend not to do this kind of thing, and that makes it easier for the community to spot: since such comments are made by people without much experience here, they tend to stand out like a sore thumb—usually a bunch of green thumbs that turn red when whacked by a ban hammer.

Many has been the email thread in which a sheepish startup founder or manager wrote to apologize for what their "growth hacker" did and asking to be unbanned. We usually let them off if they promise not to do it again and to tell all their friends that what "growth hacking" got them on HN was a swift ban.

Another case where we incline to mercy is when the underlying article is good work and something the community would normally find interesting, and it's clear that the "growth hacking" was happening out of naivete. Usually this is because someone had the mistaken idea from afar that it was "widely accepted in SV" that this is how you do startups. Ironically they usually turn out to be classic technical types who are clumsy at marketing and influenced by the wrong kind of blogs. I say ironically because if they would just be themselves and present their work in a direct way, they'd more likely do well on HN. In this case the cure is to educate and hopefully make real community members out of them.
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This is sort of like saying the solution to gambling is not to gamble. I mean, on one level, that works for many people, but on another, Las Vegas isn't going anywhere.
The second link for "rust http" for me (and in incognito mode) points to https://github.com/hyperium/hyper, which is exactly what you want.
Learning organization: A fine example of a management fad [pdf]
I've believed for some time that part of instagram's continued success comes from the average consumer being completely unaware that it is associated with facebook in any way. This change risks facebook's controversies becoming instagram's when consumers realize they could boycott both/either.
I'm not saying that money isn't useful as a storage of value. What I am saying is that there is very little social benefit from that usage.

To decide whether a currency is successful, one should look exclusively at its use as a means of exchange, ignoring any use as a storage of value or speculation target.
> Debt is a powerful tool when used correctly,

Could you expand on that? It's a very interesting perspective
For example, in the United States, the IRS applies a set of tests to determine if a person can be considered a 1099 contractor or a W2 employee.

In the US, the primary determination is if the contractor can set their own schedule and client list. Also if the contractor can determine the best way to perform a task or get to a result.

It's an interesting take in the context of remote work, for sure.

I couldn't find the direct IRS link, but this looks official enough to reference:

https://galachoruses.org/sites/default/files/IRS-20-question...
Presumably it comes from academia, they have things such as peer review, the paper is presumably public and they will have to defend it, including with some data. How does one determine which experts and authority are actually trustworthy?
Check out the difference between the new Facebook company and app logos: https://facebook.design/companybrand

One is going for authoritative, while the other is going for nonsensical.

I agree that it's strange to go for friendly-authoritative with the company logo since most conglomerates typically go for innocuous, but it may make more sense in the other app UIs.
In my experience (going through YC twice), YC is more like a replacement for an MBA.

YC doesn't teach you the fundamental skills of programming that you need to become a software engineer. A lot of people don't want to take a risky shot at being a successful entrepreneur. They would much rather have a stable job paying them a six-figure salary. That's one career track that a traditional CS degree provides. If that's your goal, YC isn't really the right way to go. You are much better off going through Lambda School.

However, let's say you have some experience as a software engineer, but you are interested in having a more flexible career, and not just writing code, but also getting more into the "business" side of things. You're willing to take a little financial risk for a more interesting career path. One option is to go back to school and get an MBA. But YC is really a good alternative here. You will learn a lot about business, even if you are the "technical cofounder" and spend most of your time writing code.
It's interesting perhaps, but not particularly new. MMOs have provided existing examples of such things. Final Fantasy XIV had an in-game apocalypse (storyline and all) to mark the end of the troubled 1.0 version of the game, which was remade as “2.0”, very much not the same game.
I dislike fortnite mainly for its aesthetic. It feels like... social media. Highly commercial, attention demanding, fleeting, etc.

Yes I know many other games fit that model, especially things like popular shooters, but fortnite seems to have perfected it. Miyamoto’s big moment was figuring out people liked being someone else (Mario). Fortnite feels like a place where you are defined by others. And it feels gross to me.
In my experience most companies don't even measure worker performance metrics so how can they even make a rational decision to improve their bottom line? Many companies can tell you how much money they saved by implementing an open office plan and squishing more people into a smaller area, but very few can tell you the cost of having more disruptions, more noise, more context switches, and less privacy. Companies are very good at optimizing their costs (open office, hiring temp contractors, curing budgets), but many companies do a poor job optimizing for worker performance.
The vast majority of contact offences are committed by people abusing a position of trust e.g. relative, teacher, coach etc. I don't there are grounds to intervene until they have committed at least some offending, or at the very least indicated a desire to offend e.g. in forum messages. You wouldn't even necessarily lose access to your own children even after being convicted of a CSAE offence, e.g. if you were convicted of downloading IIOC and not suspected of anything else you would probably not lose access to your own child.

Surveillance in the general sense definitely stops offending from happening because it allows on-going offenders to be identified. This article is about client-side prevention of distributing known IIOC, which is more a method of preventing a crime before it happens (the crime being Distribution of IIOC, not the sexual assault/rape the imagery depicts).

Loads of things "worthy of investigation" are closed off due to resourcing issues but what you said was that only cases where there is an _immediate threat to life_ are investigated which is completely false.
This is real handwavy and potentially wrong, but maybe helpful.

Closed is the thing you're _enforcing_. You have to pay your taxes. Open is the policy that you don't care much about. Cash, check, money order. Maybe others get tacked on later.

I know it doesn't sound like much, and it's really a pretty weak tool compared to stuff like contracts.

The best example i can dredge up is gui components. I don't care _what_ you draw. I do care that you stick to the small area of the screen set aside for you. The base component _enforces_ no coloring outside the lines. Inside the lines, you can be a textbox, or a button, or a whatever.
Notarization essentially puts a $30-$100 price tag on the operation, which meets with a lot of resistance.
as the power of the big tech companies approach the power of the government, governments are naturally going to seek to limit their power.
I think Fortnite is the opposite, its designed by rapid iteration and prototyping. Epic had almost a decade to develop this game - and others - and iterate on them while they were financially supported by external investment and the success of Unreal Engine. It paid off when they finally found the right combination; skilled developers, excellent tech, accessible artstyle, free to play, battle royale, and construction. The only other studios that can really accomplish something like this are Blizzard and Valve.
Well, I think the amount of CLI config required, means most EdgeMAX users won't think much of having to add a "disable telemetry" command in their configs: They already have to add like all the basics manually to begin with.

But the other thing is, since UNMS devices like EdgeMAX and AirMAX are intended for mass deployment by ISPs, there's a decent chance UNMS will reveal and aggregate that telemetry data and allow UNMS users to see it themselves for their own troubleshooting and diagnostic purposes.
Likely deep within the terms and conditions you agreed to with your private health insurance company, you did indeed give permission.
With the exception of talos and various bits of used hardware POWER has only been available in rather expensive systems-- so no onramp.

Even with things this announced it remains the case that EPYC, not power9, is the king of memory bandwidth per dollar at least at most price-points.
I can work M-H, have a 4 day weekend, work T-F, have a 2 day weekend, and repeat. I am not sure how I would do that with your schedule. Plus, I don't want to work weekends.
Agreed very much. I want to add that Bitfinex is making huge parts of their code open source: https://github.com/bitfinexcom/

Paolo Ardoino (CTO) basically pushes code every day: https://github.com/prdn
A side effect of that strictness is designers trying very hard to skip the logo or move it in weird places when it doesn’t fit what they’re doing (for instance a very warm, but light/pastel design. Marketing people often don’t prepare for these cases)

Having freedom of colors helps a lot I think.
Yes, increasing efficiencies of production have mostly benefited owners and a relatively small slice of high skill workers. (Like the engineers who build systems to remove human labor from processes.) Displaced workers in high income economies have seen their prosperity diminish because they lose a lot of earning power without seeing it fully counterbalanced by lower prices. In fact, inflation targeting efforts (and a host of other factors) keep inflating the costs of health care, housing, and higher education in an era where improved techniques "should" be making everything cost less.

Quoting from the article, Elon Musk has apparently said "There will certainly be a lot of job disruption because what’s going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us." I don't think that the story is "more of the same for ordinary people, and even worse" if machines can take all routine, productive jobs [1]. If owners don't need ordinary people as employees, then neither do ordinary people need owners. If machines do everything, then the cost (and price) of goods and services falls toward the costs of raw materials and energy. And raw materials and energy themselves fall precipitously in cost if machines can perfectly build more nuclear reactors or solar farms and batteries and mine even low-grade ore deposits without wages or breaks.

In this scenario, ordinary people don't even need to seize the existing assets of rich people to start living well without them. Just have the robots make copies of everything. There are a few edge cases of positional goods where robots can't duplicate things (you can't make more Old Master paintings or Manhattan real estate), but those don't really stand in the way of broad prosperity. If robots do everything routine, then everyone can have good medical care, clean water, plenty to eat, safe and climate controlled housing, abundant electronic entertainment... pretty much everything that the median adult citizen of highly developed countries currently enjoy today.

Keep in mind that I'm not saying that machines will replace human workers in all routine, productive jobs. I'm just thinking about the effects if they can.

[1] Routine, productive jobs would include things like driving trucks, diagnosing and treating leukemia, picking apples, and running experiments as planned by a principal investigator. It wouldn't include things like writing new poetry or coming up with a novel line of research as a principal investigator. But nonetheless, the "routine" jobs include most of today's economic activity, including most that are currently high pay and considered high skill.
Seems like the common theme is they own too much data on us and it’s not clear that any number of apps might just be a subsidiary of a larger org.
Love it! Linux backend is cool too ;)

Is there a stand-alone that I can host and run in a cloud vm myself?
>I don’t think the boomer generation “earned” cheaper college.

Exactly. Later generations simply inherited expensive college after the devastation of Nixon.

If Nixon wasn't stopped, they would have continued until all Americans had been returned to lower opportunity levels equivalent to many minorities before Civil Rights, other than those whose significant capitalist privileges had already been well established before the early 1970's.

EDIT: more rapidly returned to lower opportunity levels

Edit: It's still too easy to underestimate Nixon Youth.
What about second order effects?

If I ran state security for a poor African dictatorship, I would find all successful expatriates in the .US/.EU/.AU and sell their details to other nasty outfits and offer to "apply my heel" to their families for a fee.

And the optics would be on my side.
there is an old adage I recall in trading.. "volume justifies price". so if you can sell your shiny new coin for a dollar a token with a billion such tokens outstanding & you can do it with any significant volume then yeah it would be a billion dollar cap coin.

Nice strawman though!
The Sift report is based on your email address, among other things. My email box is full of random people's insurance quotes, medical and electric bills, birthday greetings, and welcome emails to services I've never heard of. We all know the company is going to spend approximately zero time to sanity check or sanitize that data firehose. Turns out the movie Brazil was a documentary.