skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, those are all good things to do, but that's all about growing your money for retirement. It completely misses the side of protecting that money you work so hard to grow. Financial health is about more than building up savings, it's about building up resilience. You can gamble on not being one of the millions of people that become disabled / die and can no longer work each year to support their family, or you can play a little defense and wise up on what the adequate insurance levels are, create a will / trust, etc. These are the things people don't currently understand. They understand if they save more money they will have more money.
Does this service has CD quality?
Imaging stress and magnetism at high pressures using a nanoscale quantum sensor
Traditional encyclopedias didn't lose because of their intellectual property model, they lost because they were trying to charge money for their product, so a free as in beer competitor was able to take all their market share.

A maps data set will require constant updating and the quality of the data set will be determined by the amount of work put into it on an ongoing basis. The question is which number is bigger: the monetary value of the time people are willing to donate making contributions to openstreetmap, or the amount of money that Google makes on map ads and can therefore spend improving the data quality.
The other 51% is lying
Yes... often JSON serialization and deserialization are the biggest blockers, if they're using puppeteer (as suggested in other comments) that can have its' own instance overhead. I think with ECS they used the "easy" button to start off with and now that they've hit those limits have had to refactor, which isn't unreasonable imho.

I'm working on a project now that's very CPU bound and using limited workers behind an MQ as a distributed RPC behind a fronting API interface so that I can handle scaling... though it's also a Windows-only library involved. There's definitely an art to scaling certain types of workloads and many different options. Sometimes the simplest solution you can come up with really is the best option.
I like the ones where you can't use a slash or a quote in your password because (1) they are storing the password in plaintext, and (2) they don't know how to escape strings in SQL queries (or use placeholders.)

People at places like that will argue that they can't afford to do it right or something, so the one choice you have is to do business with someone else, particularly if it is a bank.
Remaining life expectancy at age 18 was even lower in 1800 or 1700, from what I can tell. You can find small exceptions (like aristocrats in particular countries) but I'm not aware of any large (50,000 people or more) preindustrial population where the average teenager could expect to die older than age 60. I would be delighted to see counterexamples.

EDIT: This was interesting.

"Lifespans of the European Elite, 800–1800". It examines the lifespans of European aristocrats over the thousand years prior to the Industrial Revolution. It limits its analysis to people who reached at least 20 years of age. Per Figure 8, the average lifespan remained below 60 in the entire time period.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-...
Definitely. Shops have limited inventory so they will tend to sell a well rounded, well made product (depends on store of course). And if it is junk, you can usually tell in person.
I posted it on my engineering org's random channel. The 4,000 instances of the same service thing immediately got a laugh out of everyone. How a tech company operated like this is beyond me...
Honestly my first thought is this is nothing compared to the PGE and SCE blackouts in California which last for days at a time.
You're talking about a pretty specific type of physical goods that have to fit properly and meet your requirements for aesthetics, quality, and function.

Buying physical commodities or items where those factors don't matter on the Internet is incredible. I don't have to go anywhere, I don't have to talk to anyone, I don't have to lug anything anywhere, etc.
> How on earth do you look at this website and think "yeah, they're just trying to help the defenseless wealthy"?

That's a bit of a straw man. 1) I don't think that, 2) I never said they were defenseless. Clearly they are capable of defending themselves.

My entire point is that people, all people, outside of obvious outliers like people who commit extreme violence, are capable of changing their behavior for the better and should have the opportunity for a second chance, and since socially there really isn't one, I understand why they take these measures.
If the watermarks are just text oddities, wouldn't it make sense that they were removed during some sanitization process?
> These two aspects of the gameplay cannot be completely separated, because strategic goals are mostly achieved through tactics, while the tactical opportunities are based on the previous strategy of play.
> Conventional investing wisdom tells us that VCs should pass on most deals they see. But our research indicates otherwise: At the seed stage, investors would increase their expected return by broadly indexing into every credible deal.

> That’s one of the results we found when we analyzed the thousands of deals syndicated by AngelList over the past seven years to test assumptions about the nature of venture capital returns. ...

That period includes the loosest Fed monetary policy on record. It's remarkable for both Quantitative Easing and in some industrialized regions negative nominal interest rates, two things that few economists were talking about before 2008.

At some point it will be clear to everyone that the last 12 years have been a mirage conjured by utterly unsustainable economic policies.

As the saying goes, if the wind is strong enough even turkeys can fly.
Your comments in this thread have been breaking the site guidelines, and getting worse as they go along. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? Note the bit about curious conversation.
China’s Collective Villages Struggle to Keep It Together (2018)
Let's be honest, there's also a lot of money involved.

Who wants to trade their nice, comfortable, upper middle class lifestyle, in favor of joining the lines with the middle class or maybe even the poor depending on what happens? Jobs that provide an that sort of lifestyle are not as plentiful as people believe. I'm really uncertain whether or not people are truly aware of how much a Google engineer can make? Contrast a family's lifestyle in the presence of that sort of salary, against the very real fact that being middle class or poor these days entails a lot of uncertainty. At least in the US.

I'm just saying that there's a lot at play here, and it takes a certain kind of person to follow his/her convictions no matter the cost. It's definitely a case where it's easy to be critical, and at the same time a bit tough to empathize. But I think empathy leads to a better understanding of some of the important human dimensions of these issues.
Online shopping is convenient at least. Why does it need to not suck? Has it ever not sucked?

Buying something without actually holding it in your hands and testing it out will never be an awesome experience. You can't really trust reviews and ratings. But you can usually return stuff and I don't see why the author made such a fuss about returning.
Have anybody found this useful for achieving personal goals?
Sometimes you research a lot only to end up buying the first option you saw.
No brightline is and always will be a horrible argument. If your entire purpose of a trip is to go as fast as possible while disregarding safety of other and the law, I think one can consider it to be despicable.
> If I were you, I'd be pulling your comment before it harms your reputation any further. :)

This is the douchiest thing I've seen all day. This trust-fund kid thinks he's Donald John Trump.

It is flat-out hilarious to hear that a supposed tech company had more pressing concerns than technology.
It would be really cool if you could plug your phone in and it appeared as a USB keyboard device and you could "type" the password from the password manager that way without ever giving the computer access to anything except that password.

Maybe some sort of simple USB dongle (like a yubikey) could be fed by the phone via bluetooth or nfc to do this?
> The unfortunate reality these days is that the majority of items on, say, Amazon

I find “on, say, Amazon” entertaining. Amazon may well be the worst largeish US online vendor. It’s gotten to the point where I trust eBay more.

If you want winter gear, buy from one of several excellent online stores dedicated to it.
Presidential candidate caught lying. News at 11. :-)

Seriously, are we going to hold politicians to not distorting the facts now? Since when is that even a thing? No politician has ever been elected into a public office without lying. In fact presidential elections could be viewed as a competition for who lies the most convincingly.

Also: facts do not matter in who gets elected. What matters is how people _feel_ about a candidate. Facts affect that very little. I think Yang's ideas are kooky, but of the entire dem lineup he _feels_ the best. He's obviously very intelligent, he's also much more authentic than all the others, especially the frontrunners. And he's not a career politician, which is a major advantage in this day and age.
> On the first page, there are two different gloves listed, one for $17 and one for $60, that look exactly identical and come in the exact same colors. Both have the same exact star rating (4.5/5) and hundreds of positive reviews.

> I’d love to only spend $17 except there is no way 17-dollar leather gloves won’t be fake and off color and smell of gasoline when they arrive, and after only a few wears the lining will pill or develop holes. I’d love to just buy the $60 gloves except that seems like a pretty large amount of money to spend on non-weatherproof gloves, and how can I, when there are identical $17 gloves right there.

It could also be that the $60 gloves came from the same factory and are exactly identical to the $17 gloves, and if you buy them you're going to get ripped off by at least $43.

I wouldn't say that the problem of shopping is now "perfect information," it's rather a deluge of information liberally peppered with dishonesty and arbitrariness.
I didn't get that impression.. what I got was a few probably common issues that will come up when trying to handle more parallel requests with Node. Note: gRPC doesn't support cluster, so you'd have to manage your own multi-thread (Workers) or multi-process (fork) options.
Do you have similar thoughts on emigration (or brain drain) from less fortunate countries?
Hilarious. Aren't you basically advocating for a planned economy? Just with a corporate, instead of a government, bureaucracy.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and especially not name-calling ones and ideological battle ones. We're trying for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tidal rents out the audio, they don't sell it. All of Apple Music, Tidal, Google Music or whatever it's called now, and Spotify are lacking when it comes to simply having every song in my library. There are always tracks getting grayed out from each service's rental libary due to shifting agreements and margins.

That all said, Tidal sounds amazing and its videos are extremely high quality as well. I had serious issues with its desktop client last time I tried which caused me to switch back to spotify. The library is much smaller as well but that didn't matter as much because of the clear tradeoff in quality.
Automation has already wiped out massive amounts of manufacturing jobs.
"Shopping" on Amazon.com is not a good strategy IMO. It's always best to find something you want on another, more specialized site (forum, review aggregator, specialized review site, etc.) and then look for the item you want somewhere online. Amazon, walmart, alibaba et al. are more like UI's for a warehouse for me at this point.
Google licenses from a number of places, including LyricFind. Which, I don't think, is a music publisher.

I offer that to correct a mistake, knowing it doesn't invalidate your point. Reading the complaint, it sounds like it's a ToS violation. The interesting thing is that Google -> Genius have some business agreements (Genius is an adsense customer, at the least).

To my Not A Lawyer brain, that moves it out of the "scraping public documents is fine" and into a more complicated relationship. The outcome of this lawsuit will be interesting!
Characterizing Thunder‐Induced Ground Motions Using Fiber-Optic Sensing Array
Maybe it's not brutalist, but it's certainly brutal to the eyes.
Currently I only trust reddit for "genuine" reviews. Seems like Amazon reviews these days are gamed to the max. Once companies figure this out and reddit has a high degree of astroturf it will be impossible to find out what normal, unbiased (as in don't have an agenda) humans think about a product.
https://www.xkcd.com/125/
Does the book talk about how the centrifuges are from Siemens and that Siemens still has offices in Iran?
> it is usually not easy to realize this and understand that OSM is where you need to go to fix a map error

The OSM licence requires that people using OSM data attribute OSM, i.e. that their users are aware that the data comes from OSM. In theory this means that the final user should know that OSM is where they should go to fix data issues.

But, alas, it's often not followed that well...
JOSE and COSE fill a void not filled by anything else on the market.

Sure, Branca may compare to just a JWT, but it doesn't compare to a JWS let alone JOSE.

If all you need is stateless auth tokens, use Branca or a good JWT library.

IMHO, the problem is the libraries, not the JOSE(JWS/JWE/JWK/JWT/JWA) standard. IMHO, after ~4 years there's still no good Javascript or Go library for JOSE, but potentially a few good JWT focused libraries.

https://blog.zamicol.com/2018/03/its-jose-not-jwt-pedantic-c...
Ask HN: Company quietly did stock split, implications for options?
Hey HN,

I was a software engineer at a US startup now considered a unicorn and recently in the news. It's got the right market, revenue and profit to have a liquidation event soon. I'm very concerned about a situation regarding my employee options and need advice on how to proceed.

I found out from friends higher up in the company that the company did something very quietly and I'm not sure exactly how to proceed. While still working there, between the time I started vesting options and the time I left the company they performed a stock split. I didn't notice this at the time but the options listed in the initial offer letter are the same as the number executed when I executed my options. It seems like they didn't follow through the stock split.

1. What do I do?
2. If the situation is as it seems, is there any legal recourse?

Thanks
Based on my experience, people who were in university level classes and people in high school. Back then, one could download mIRC and connect to IRC or use any mail/news client like Outlook Express or Netscape Mail & News to connect to usenet and check their email.
The author could just buy whatever gloves are marked as "Amazon's Choice".

Of course, then she is assuming that Amazon has her best interests at heart, and hasn't just chosen whichever product makes them the most money.

But, by shopping at a store with a more limited product selection than Amazon, you are relying on the same assumption. Also, the assumption is almost certainly wrong in all cases.
They weren't removed at first - that's how Genius confirmed the lyrics were being lifted. They were only removed after the WSJ article.

Then Genius embedded a second watermarking scheme, and -- drumroll! -- Google's results only removed one of the two sets (the ones they knew about).
The bar to acquire the technical skills of an ML engineer could, to continue the example, be likened to the bar to acquire the skills of an automotive engineer. It's a technically skilled profession. But the industries it empowered to arise (drivers) have much lower bars to entry. The point is that ML will create jobs not just in the production of ML but primarily in the application of ML. We cannot anticipate what that looks like, but it may be as simple as a clerk who speaks to a Star Trek-like computer and says "Computer, extrapolate what this person would look like in ten years and display."

The more we pursue new technologies boldly without fear of the consequences the more power we give to the common man to get things done that would've previously been impossible to him.
It would be even cooler if I could open an app on my phone, point it at a QR code on screen, and not have anything else bother me
This is a great lib for your personal videos. I'm always impressed how adding some sound effects increase the fun and quality of home videos.
Yea I think you are right about the training data. So that would be more impressive. I still would like to see a team dedicate some time to it, but that's really not in the interest of a pro team. Also the things that affect real tournaments like drafting would be really interesting to see some day also as that is a huge part and considered a more cerebral aspect of the game.
Pandora Launches Interactive Voice Ads
The other issue Google / LyricsFind has is that their response wasn’t “this is totally okay, you have no case”, but “we would never do that, we would investigate, and cancel licensing agreements with anyone doing that”.

And then not doing that. And instead concealing and fixing the watermark that allowed the -detection- of the issue.

You can’t do that, and make the statements above and then credibly try to argue “nothing to see here, you have no rights”.
If I want winter gear, I'll physically go to REI or Sportsman's Warehouse and buy a coat that actually fits.

I was actually thinking about my recent experience trying to buy a $5 Monoprice USB-PS/2 converter when I typed my original comment.
I still use BASIC for writing DOS programs.
> so expensive that Google Fiber had to give up on it

Part of that cost comes from ATT and Comcast using their government sugar daddy to make running fiber as expensive and difficult as possible.

Example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/att-and-comcast-...
Betting against technology isn't a winning strategy in the long run. There's idea that I had first heard articulated in Sapiens: that the rules of society are shaped by the underlying technology (e.g. kings only make sense after agriculture).

We've been living in a society built around the 1920-1940s when we passed universal high school and labor union laws, setting up a scenario where companies needed human labor in factories and human workers could be compensated well as their companies succeeded.

If technology advances again it only makes sense that we would need to update the social contracts as well, as we have always done.
For finding what particular type or model of random good to buy I’ve become utterly dependent on just adding ‘reddit’ as a search term.

Living in Australia, adding ‘ozbargain’ and ‘whirlpool’ instead to another two searches to follow up completes the trifecta.

I just hope Google never optimises for that because then the content of bad reviews will shift to and overwhelm these sites instead. When a metric starts being the target it ceases to be a good metric.
I expected the downvotes. I am no McKinsey apologist. I worked there for a short time. I didn't like it and left. I have no illusions about the place. But if you don't know what it looks like when a political campaign generates astroturf coverage of an issue in the press then you are naive.
I do really feel badly for (mostly) young people who have no frame of reference for things other than Amazon and comparison websites. I would probably never go to Amazon for something like gloves (or most other things) because you have no idea what you are going to get. When I do know what I want, the first place I try to buy it from is the company that makes it. If they don't sell it direct, then they will probably tell you who does. If they have their own store on Amazon, I will use that, even if other providers on Amazon are selling it for less.
Apparently there is Qobuz which seems to check all the boxes on paper. Haven't tried it though.
If you're interested in a deeper treatment of these issues check out the 2004 book [1] The Paradox of Choice.

Some interesting notes from follow-up research [2]:

> In a meta‐analysis of 99 observations (N = 7202) reported by prior research, we identify four key factors—choice set complexity, decision task difficulty, preference uncertainty, and decision goal—that moderate the impact of assortment size on choice overload. We further show that each of these four factors has a reliable and significant impact on choice overload, whereby higher levels of decision task difficulty, greater choice set complexity, higher preference uncertainty, and a more prominent, effort‐minimizing goal facilitate choice overload. We also find that four of the measures of choice overload used in prior research—satisfaction/confidence, regret, choice deferral, and switching likelihood—are equally powerful measures of choice overload and can be used interchangeably.

[1] https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060005696

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jcps.2014....
The problem is that even in big cities, real world shops are disappearing.

This year I wanted to buy a TV, and wanted to see them in real life to judge colors/brightness levels, and shockingly, in London, I found just one place which had like 10 TVs from the leading brands. I'm sure there are a few more, but I wasn't able to locate them using google, or walking the main shopping streets. I remember shops 10 years ago which had acres of electronics (albeit in a different country).
It did evolve over the last 20 years, you just casually dismissed everything it evolved into as being "slow" or "harder". The VB.NET version numbers continued from 6 and the VB.NET team has always considered itself to be the successor language. Visual Studio has decades of improvements from the VB6 era when every language was siloed and weird inconsistencies between project systems was the norm rather than bugs to be reported. It got slower for a while, but VS 2019 is faster and more capable than VB6 ever was. WinForms and WPF (and UWP) learned from a lot from the mistakes of the ActiveX/OLE era of VB6 and got better because of it.

Everything evolved, it sounds like you just don't like the direction it evolved in.
Ummm, I just looked at that list. If you spread out an investment over those companies... I'm pretty sure you're doing damn well despite obviously having a few under performers. Since 1970, Disney grew 3500% faster than inflation. Walmart grew 2000% faster than inflation. Even with the companies that went to 0, there are some insanely good buys in that list if the year was 1970.
Right now, I'm using a Pebble, but I think that watch doesn't have too many years left in it, so I've been looking at building a new one. That's a future project, though.
> Bertrand’s box paradox:

I suspect the problem isn't well stated, at least in the article. If one considers a random choosing a card, repeating until the card has a white side on it, and then putting that card a white side upwards, then probability doesn't seem to me be the one mentioned.
What super micro chip story?
I agree! I think my volunteer experiences doing non-technical work have made me a better communicator and more well-rounded developer. It’s also let me find a community and friendships outside of work (those all-too-rare post-30 new friends). I would hypothesize that volunteering in a capacity orthogonal to your work would have stronger mental health benefits than just doing your job but without being paid.