skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I put myself in very uncomfortable position. When I need to prove my words by blaming someone who did very good job for the community in general. At least have these good intentions. And the same time I don't want shame somebody in public.

I did some research and think this link is enough https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/1137.
I was using a moderate, prescribed dose of Vyvanse/Adderall, I've always basically always had ADHD type symptoms and it was never a huge issue, but I never took any pills until I was an adult in an attempt to focus and get promoted at my big 4 job.

It ended up backfiring as I had a manic/psychotic episode, which led to highly erratic behavior that led to me losing my job, burning all my career bridges, etc. Then I also got diagnosed with heart failure. Almost ruined my life in every sense.

Since then I'm just totally sober, off all meds, and fortunately my brain and heart have both fully recovered. Were there other factors that triggered the episode, sure, did I probably have some predisposition to these issues, sure, but I highly suspect that the ADHD meds played a major role in triggering it all and I would highly caution people against them.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We've already asked you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20054571.
World's first floating dairy farm could help cities adapt to climate change
Any government activity conducted in secret is anti-democratic by definition. How can we ever hope to hold an agency accountable for policies that can't legally be disclosed?
I frequently have perfectly adequate strong passwords rejected because it doesn't have the anointed mix of special characters, or more infuriating, has ASCII printable characters that aren't accepted, like caps, digits, or symbols. The latter systems are 100% guaranteed to be storing unhashed passwords.
I got two. For those that don't know, a good portion of these nagging modal windows play nice in the sense that pressing ESC closes them - good to be able to instantly dismiss them without having to hunt for the close button. The first one I saw could be closed with ESC, the second one required clicking "Close".
That "tyranny of perfect information" begets FOMO. If you'd looked at one more site or one more review you might have discovered a "better" (cheaper, high quality, higher utility) item.

I'd add that's it's worse because the world is flatter. Why should I buy Brand Item when I can get a version from Alibaba for 10-20%? If it truly is comparable, then why pay the markup when the internet lets me cut out the middleman? But then when the version from Alibaba is total crap, there's no recourse. It's not like a local shop with reputation at risk.

So you end up in this world where nothing matters and it's a race to maximize attention. Which means, as a consumer, you have to do your research or risk getting taken for a ride.
Here's the direct link to their projects page https://explore.ovio.org/
The bigger issue to me, is (at least the last time I looked) you can't use the cluster module with node combined with gRPC, so the only real way to take advantage of extra CPU capacity, if available is workers or external processes that are self-managed vs. cluster integration.
But the human competitors also require large amounts of training in order to competently play Dota 2, and their training is not simplified that training in a similar way. I realize that "fairness" is not really the point of having humans play against bots, but doesn't it damage the usefulness of the comparison from having them perform a human activity?
Off topic, but based on the discussions here.

I'm seeing a lot of discussion here about how the lifespan of humans (not counting infant and teen mortality rates) may not have improved much in the last thousand years. As a tangential question, does that mean all our medical progress has a) improved infant mortality and b) counteracted the unhealthiness of modern life, and not done much for us beyond that?
It's about the same as "download install.exe and run it," really.
just that by not leaving players walking randomly is already an astonishing accomplishment to my simple eyes.
What if you grew up in a communist state and watched the network of secret police and neighbor spies regularly bully and make people disappear when they heard anti-party, anti-authoritarian, and otherwise unconforming viewpoints?

"Everyone" never falls into any one category anywhere, but are you somehow suggesting that the engineers at these organizations are somehow exceptionally more in tune with ethics and the humanities than the rest? Because we are deficient across the board.
That cocaine that people purchased didn't manufacture and distribute itself across international borders.
4k containers? That's microservices going macro big time.
> Maybe but it also has played against humans in many instances across many years time span.

Those are evaluation matches, they don't feed into the training data.

> The bots had a pretty specific playstyle, and if pros had dedicated time to beating them I think there would be different results.

Well, the pros could have joined the open games too, I don't know if any did.
> As you rightly pointed out, there is a significant amount of B2B adtech that gets done at Google

B2B adtech is the overwhelming source of revenue. The consumer services you mention exist either a) to entrench the ad business by commoditizing its complements, or b) as a side-effect of Google’s strategy to secure all the best R&D talent even if it means inventing fun projects to keep them busy.

Neither of those things make Google a consumer services business that happens to sell ads. It makes Google the largest ad business in history, which happens to build free consumer products as a means to protecting and expanding its business.

Google Cloud or Waymo could, perhaps one day, become a source of revenue large enough to truly change the nature of Google’s business. But at this time their revenue is not large enough, and Google’s leadership has not shown the desire to shift their strategic focus decisively.
All the programmers at Cycorp, and most of the ones who've gone on to do other things, have a dream of re-writing the inference engine from scratch. Its just that those dreams don't necessarily align in the details, and the codebase is so, so, so big at this point that it's a herculean undertaking.
No. The evidence is that ethicists are as moral as everyone else.

https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/12/10/why-arent-ethicists-mo...
Brandless is pursuing something down this line:

https://brandless.com/
Or stop trying to hyper-optimize?

Buy from a handful of trusted brands; if it doesn't work out, don't buy from them again. Like what people did before all this information was available.
I just published What is Medium or medium?In publishing and art
Shopping only sucks if you're in a hurry and even then it's hard to argue that it's gotten worse, just a different set of problems.
OodyMate – Best travel app to meet people over a meal
> Genius does not hold a copyright on any of these lyrics

It's worse. They started out by stealing and scraping these lyrics from other websites.
Yes, typical users want a "just works" solution. But yc-news commenters aren't typical users. In the time it takes to post a comment on this forum, anyone here can just fix the problem themselves using OSM's very simple point-and-click editor.

Contrast to Google Maps, where the process of getting a change made can take weeks or months - if the fixes ever show up at all.

There really is a lot of power in having a map of the world that we can all "just edit".
I had no idea they even came at that price range.
Amazon is.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-to-launch-new-grocery...
Please don't post political battle comments to HN. This site is for intellectual curiosity, which leaves the field swiftly when people start bashing each other over the head.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Refreshing Awfulness of Rick and Morty
They were using ECS, it also looks like they had to work through a couple bottlenecks to get multiple requests per node working well... I think they could get further by using the newer workers api, since gRPC doesn't work with the cluster module.
I tried to locate the issue and think I found it. I updated the extension to version 0.0.2. Could you please check if the new version helps with the issue you had?
Google licenses from the same music publisher that Genius does. I doubt Genius or any of the other lyrics sites have the right to create sub-licenses.
I see. To me that is then not something that would specifically lead to monopolies.
I don't want to denigrate this effort in any way, because this robot is very cool and represents real progress. But that's not a shirt.
In fairness, if you have a good password manager on that phone, that password will be protected by not just the device's unlock PIN but the password vault's master password as well, along with potentially other layers of added protection as well (a second factor to unlock the password vault, biometric authentication to unlock the vault or the device, etc.)

But almost nobody uses a good password manager, so... yeah.
He owns a rocket company too.
> OSM seems like a great fit for this since information is tagged in a structured way:

OSM both is, and isn't, structured. It's free form tagging system, where anyone can start adding new tags whenever they want, without any gatekeepers.
Ask HN: How do I find a few customers for validating a niche product?
YC teaches that startups should find a few customers in real life that really love your product. My ideal customer is someone who travels somewhat frequently overseas for business.

How/where can I find said people since I don't know anyone personally who would fit that profile?
yeah, I get bombarded with ads on Instagram for a decent looking product at a "must be a quality item" price. But a quick AliExpress search reveals there probably just getting it there and reselling for huge markups. Pretty smart actually.
Any competition without local loop unbundling [1] won't be a solution. Without it you simply will never have proper competitive markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
> not being able to pick single objects that work for absolutely everyone (ironically, this criticism comes from outlets that each exist but for the grace of extremely wealthy Silicon Valley benefactors).

It's been a long time since a long-form vice article has really resonated with me. I am happy that we're clearly moving away from a world of a million variations of the same plastic crap to a place where consumers are demanding the right thing.
This is a common problem across reporting today. Scam, cheat, and fraud operations are diminished as "trolls". Lying is softened as "telling mistruths". Shills and hucksters are praised as "moderate". I think it happens because major media outlets have a strong political interest in perpetuating status quo where the ruling class remains untouchable.
What is a TVA?
https://old.reddit.com/r/circlejerkcopypasta/comments/2ceq3u...
I would hardly characterize this as a breakthrough: https://openreview.net/forum?id=r1RQdCg0W
>But otherwise, if in other contexts it'd be a waste of your time, it's still a waste of your time when donating,

Is it?

[We] seem incapable of stating the obvious truth:
that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor
people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we
have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered
people
David Foster Wallace
When I was living in the PNW and realized I direly needed gloves, I just hit up a few of the department stores downtown until I found some that met my criteria. Which are probably similar to those of this author, I wanted some that looked cute, had a conductive patch on the finger so I could use my phone without taking them off, would fit on my long hands with long fingernails, and weren’t super expensive gloves designed for arctic expeditions. I could see them in person and make choices based on how their build quality felt.

I think my total time, including the bus rides downtown and back (even though I was probably doing other things downtown on that trip like “working”), was probably less than she spent opening ten thousand different tabs in her search for The Perfect Glove.

And then in a couple years I had to do it again because I could only find one of the gloves when it started to be too cold for bare hands again. It ain’t worth investing a ton of time into picking gloves or umbrellas or other things that tend to get lost or separated.

Shopping for physical goods on the Internet sucks.
Intel CPUs: Ten-year plan to includes 1.4nm
Maybe, but sometimes the more you research the harder it gets to decide.
When you do a

pip install this-or-that

do you actually first download the source and look at what takes place? probably not.

In that sense curling is better as you can see the code beforehand just pipe it into a pager.
Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
> Why should I buy Brand Item when I can get a version from Alibaba for 10-20%? If it truly is comparable, then why pay the markup when the internet lets me cut out the middleman? But then when the version from Alibaba is total crap, there's no recourse. It's not like a local shop with reputation at risk.

The unfortunate reality these days is that the majority of items on, say, Amazon, are the same crap from Alibaba imported by a guy who read a How To Make Money On Amazon book, or just marked up directly by the same people selling on Alibaba. Heck, even the "brand items" may turn out to be a cheap clone that someone had shipped to Amazon fulfillment, bypassing their incredibly stringent "I pinky-swear this really is the authentic item" vetting process.
I've been using DEITY's Falcon https://github.com/deity-io/falcon it's a React frontend for magento or vendure or other ecommerce + wordpress for blog part + search with algolia, it's a modular approach I like
Sure, money is cheap. So cheap, in fact, that companies are borrowing money to fund buybacks. But that begs the questions--if you're not only using free cash for buybacks, but borrowing cash for buybacks, then what does that say about capital investment opportunities and the willingness of private investors to pursue them?

Maybe there's just so much free cash that companies can keep investing normally while also doing buybacks. But few people would deny that America has a serious infrastructure problem, both in maintaining our existing infrastructure, and failing to meet demands for new infrastructure. So there are plenty of investment opportunities--to the extent public infrastructure could maintain and boost productivity--and nobody is disputing that these opportunities aren't being pursued. The question is, how do we direct that cash to fund those capital improvements?

The old argument was that share buybacks returned money to shareholders, who are better capable, writ large, of discovering new investment opportunities. But they're not. All we're seeing are more buybacks and more cash accumulation. Investors aren't investing, they're just cashing out, which because there has been so much cash floating around[1] has become a persistent trend rather than cyclical.

[1] IMO more because of global industrialization, not because of injection of dollars by the Fed. Reduced capital investment is a global trend. Because of the structural position of the U.S. in the global economy, much of that cash is funneled to the U.S., at least for the time being.
“If there is one thing I have learned about communicating choices, it is that we always focus on what the choices are. I now realize you have to spend at least as much time on explaining the logic behind the choices.”

This is a great thing to keep in mind for engineering architecture and policy.
I'd have them all ripped, right? Honestly I'd happily trade them all for lossless copies and my basement back.
> I would like to switch to OSM but I haven't been able to find a quality replacement for the Google Places API, which is critical to our application.

I know a lot about OSM, but next to nothing about Google APIs like this. Can you explain what you're looking for, what your requirements are? Maybe OSM can help you...
To some degrees, it did though; the market was flooded and dealers on the U.S. government take have said that they couldn't sell it fast enough.
Nobody does it. Nobody implemented it yet. Nobody made it production ready. That is what a few minutes of googling gave me.

As much as I'd like to see it, your JS without an event loop is a purely theoretical construct so far.
I would look into Qobuz. They do streaming, but also have a download store which is relatively reasonably priced and lets you download in FLAC or other lossless format. I've purchased quite a few albums from them and been quite satisfied.
Where I work compliance is job #1.

That doesn't prevent us from thinking about performance. GTFO with this nonsense.
"Our ability to inform the public online is fundamentally broken"

Is it worse than before or was it always broken?
Read my sister comments- transcription, if by a creative process and not automated absolutely -can- (but not always) be protected.
The SpaceX Decade: How One Company Changed Spaceflight Forever
Besides the whole Bloomberg also running for president thing, I'm also just still waiting for the second shoe to drop from the supermicro chip story.
> spend no time in school—or anywhere else—teaching them what money is, how it works, and what the rules of the game are.

Things have sure changed from when I was in school. I remember that a significant amount of time was spent on this.
Based on some arbitrary heuristic? I'd wager the definition of important depends on a lot of variables some people might care about more or less than others.
Do labels.... "Priority - Low", "Priority - Medium", "Priority - High", "Priority - Critical"
I worked at a company that did this about ten years ago. This was the only thing in the entire playbook. They also wanted to create an alternative to the current FICO score based on their data, presumably a score that could easily be influenced and increased by paying more money. Nowadays, the business is very pedestrian. Half the Internet is posting lies and bullshit online these days. These guys have just been doing it longer and for more money than most.
I agree that mostly hashes do their job.

The same time I think there is some corner cases. As nature of the python packages can be a bit different comparing to the other packaging systems. File setup.py actually is python file and it is executed when processes. So, it possible that depending on existence of some libraries on your system you will get very different results. For example packages can require very different dependency if you build on Windows or Linux. This case hashes can't do much to guaranty consistency.
So par for the course for 90% of the comments here.
"In their defense: money they've raised"?

Is this supposed to be a contribution to the thread?
When I went on-site for an interview with Palantir about a year ago, I had the same idea going in and left very disturbed.

I'm not sure what else I can say under NDA, but anecdotally they have a frightening culture. I'm less worried about the tools they make and more about their motivations.
I suspect there are a lot of people who have their only copy of a lot of things in one cloud service or another.

Very true, think of all the people using cloud-first tools like Google Docs or Google Sheets - how many bother to download/backup those files?
I have always wondered, I have ripped hundreds of CDs which sit in boxes which i never expect to access again; i do not even own a cd player.

do I need to keep them indefinitely? what if they were lost, would I be obligated to delete the rips?
@Sideburns, at this point I have to conclude you are pretending not to understand.
Here's what happened:

1. I wrote a comment, summarizing 2 experts' views on "strategy".

2. You responded to my comment, quoting one line (Rumelt's definition), then saying something like "I've seen this error before." -- which made no sense because neither the definition you quoted, nor my full comment, made any reference to any error. Thus your comment seemed like trolling.

3. For some reason I responded (still in good faith) attempting to clarify.

4. Then you edited your comment, changing the meaning of your opening sentence to which I'd responded. (Note it is still illogical / incorrect, bc I never mentioned an error, but at least it's less ambiguous.)

5. Then others reading the thread for the 1st time saw what looked like my inexplicable confusion about the ambiguity which you'd removed by editing your comment...

6. Then you double down here by claiming you don't know why I might be annoyed.

I fear I'm guilty of feeding a troll, and hate to post a boring meta comment like this, but that's what happened. What a waste of time.... Apologies to mods and other readers.
> Wealthfront, on the other hand, provides passively managed portfolios with financial advice based upon questions they ask their clients. The portfolios may be equivalent to Vanguard's funds, but the value-add is the financial advice. Maybe you don't value that advice, but it doesn't seem fair to characterize this as simply a repackaging.

So I worked at a competitor of Wealthfront and while this is how a robo-advisor is marketed, this isn't actually what Wealthfront does. There is no real personalization of the product; you merely fill out a survey and it comes up with a risk score that adjusts your asset allocation. I know how those surveys work (because I built one) and it is laughably close to a Buzzfeed survey that guesses which game of thrones character you are closest to. The survey gets a measure of risk, which is really just one of a million inputs that you need to give proper financial advice.

The truth is relevant financial advice requires inputs beyond a generic 15 question survey. You need to do a data dump of all your assets, your financial goals, and then you need a human (or robot) to do analysis to figure out the path forward. Wealthfront doesn't do that. It doesn't adjust my asset allocation in my wealthfront account because I already have existing funds in those areas in other brokerages. It doesn't tell me about the backdoor Roth IRA trick which will maximize my retirement savings. It doesn't analyze my 401k funds to tell me which funds make the most sense. It literally is a re-packaged target date fund that is customized based on one data point (client risk). For 99% of Americans it doesn't do any more than a target date fund or a mix of index funds do. Yes, I guess it works for the 1% of americans who's biggest financial issue is that their passive index funds don't exactly match their risk profile.

I'm a personal finance junkie, and in the last year I've talked to a lot of people about their financial goals and challenges and I've yet to speak to one where the main solution to their problems was a robo advisor. It's just not a real use case.

Here are real use cases I've encountered:
* Figuring out how loan refinancing can reduce debt burdens long term
* Figuring out how to contribute to their kids future education expenses
* Figuring out the size of an emergency fund you need and where to put it (the answer is a high yield savings account)
* Figuring out a reasonable living budget based on income and debt
* Figuring out how to maximize tax burden through a combination of 401K, IRAs
* Figure out how to get tax savings once you hit income limits on IRAs

The point I'm trying to make is this "variable mix of index ETFs based on a 15 question survey" is not as much of a gamechanger as the roboadvisor's tout. It's a very limited product that is actually quite easy to build, and doesn't really help most of Americans (but it sounds cool).

For me the sharedholder structure of a credit union and Vanguard is way more revolutionary than the current Wealthfront product.