skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like overkill. Why not just give them a barebones linux box with tty only. No X server, no windows manager, just a cursor blinking at you, daring you to do something. As a christmas present you could install lynx for them.
Crisis of meaning is so last century. I think there are more pressing crises today.
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Yeah, I realize I didn't make it super clear; there were some enhancements, but it wasn't this huge thing like I was expecting. I was expecting it to be like the Genesis vs 3DO versions of Road Rash, where the 3DO version is vastly superior graphics-wise.
> Not OP, but the simple answer is: “because my returns over the years prove that I can.”

But I could make the same argument as to why my "strategy" playing slots or roulette is good, but in reality it just means I've gotten really lucky, and I might wipe out all my earnings in the span of an hour if that luck suddenly turns. That's not to say there aren't legitimately profitable trading strategies—"you can't beat the market" is, strictly speaking, demonstrably false—but "buy stocks of companies I like" is not one of those, and is entirely equivalent to gambling.
I think the Microsoft prediction is even more off...
If you install the 2004 version of the game on iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-bards-tale/id480375355), the old 1980's versions are also installed as extras. I spent so much time on these, but never finished III, I remember the combats taking forever almost like infinite loops.
Depending on how big the house is and how much stuff it has (being a parent's house increases the chance that they lived there for long enough to accumulate a lot of stuff), this hilariously technical solution might actually have taken less time than a "simple cleanup". A single cabinet full of stuff can take several hours to properly organize, and a house can have dozens of them.

On the other hand, https://xkcd.com/530/
> Or catches up people that can’t get a lawyer/consultant’s advice before booking every trip.

It’s 2020 now, presumably you mean “people with no access to the internet”?
I only say this because I myself am a girl who learned 68k ASM when I was ten or eleven through the Sonic ROM hacking scene :)
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The "fire the bottom 10%" thing is called stack ranking, and it has been studied over and over and it never leads to good results. At this point I don't think that many companies are still doing it- the biggest example, Microsoft, killed it off in 2013.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-...
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> I wonder if they would perform better if they routinely fired the top 10% of their employees (by org chart, not by performance ratings) and let talented new blood bubble upward.

IIRC, the US military follows something like that practice. It's called "up or out":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out#Military:

> ...the 1980 Defense Officer Personnel Management Act mandates that officers passed over twice for promotion are required to be discharged from the military.

IIRC, the idea is to prevent people who lack greater potential from hogging the intermediate positions that others need to advance.
positive expected value means it is more probable that you make money in the future, so staying employed and having income is EV+. negative expected value means it is more probable that you lose money in the future, so not having income is EV-.
http://hnrankings.info/ does a pretty good job about this as well, though its individual post viewing capabilities are limited.
Check your IDE cables
They aren't as powerful as you think- it's not like they get a huge say in how things are run. If the board was a reorg they have the power to put the people in place to make it happen, regardless of what some random Director or VP has to say about it.
The Google we knew back in the 90s died the moment they added the "Sign in" option to Google.com. The purpose of Google shifted that day, from being a simple, and quick search engine, to being a data farmer - and later on, an advertising platform.

Whether or not it was a good decision depends on who you ask. I've gotten a lot of utility out of Google's other services over the years (Gmail, Maps, Voice, Drive, Photos, etc, etc...), so I'm not going to completely deny the upsides, but lately I've been slowly migrating away from relying the Google ecosystem.

It's too much control and power in the hands of one monolith. Most modern governments have checks and balances to power that the people (users) can weigh in on. Google is beholden to its stockholders only, and the primary visionaries have moved on.

It's hard for me to continue backing the company vision at this point - since I don't know what it is any longer.
Thank you. I should have imagined it had been asked already.
You'd have to encode it in the bylaws at the time of incorporation, and then enforce it upon pain of dissolution of the company (so that if a rogue CEO decides they want to stay after all, the rest of the world is like "But now there is no company. Have fun with your paper throne.")

It's a lot like how no ruler will ever abdicate and still remain ruler, so for millenia there was no way to remove a king short of death or coup. We got around that with the invention of the constitution and the definition of a nation-state in terms of that piece of paper, which states that the ruler is defined to have set terms and be subject to an election every so often, and if they don't you get undefined behavior.
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Finder is such a bad file manager that you sometimes start doubting your intelligence, thinking that something so trivial it should be possible, and you are the one not being able to figure out it.

For example, it is the only file manager I have ever used which doesn't show a consistent view of files in a directory. The view sometimes seems to be cached. Let's say I downloaded a file. I can do ls for it from a terminal window. However, finder doesn't see the file. Cp or mv to another folder and boom, finder can see it now.

Also, the search in finder is pathetically bad and totally unintuitive. I sometimes think apple might be internally using something different, that's why they don't realise or care how bad it is.

Off course, all this is valid if you have used other file explorers. If you come from a walled garden without any file system, anything can seem to be a boon, even Finder.
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You could like at the website of Bridgewater Associates, a big macro hedge fund, though they obviously don't publish most things.
I pity the scammer that tries to take my mother in. She's incredibly disagreeable. I'd wager that agreeability is a risk factor for this sort of thing. It's almost impossible for legitimate entities to deal with her as well, however.
From what I've heard (no real scientific data to back this) the stems contain very little psylocibin.

And the dosage for mushrooms is surprisingly high. For run of the mill strains, I believe 3.5 grams is considered a standard dose. Which is still not a blast you off the planet amount, but enough to experience visual distortions and euphoria.
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> This will cause prices of pork in China to rise. China will have to import pork to fill the hole in order to avoid a political crisis.

I see this all the time. Is there any data to suggest a political crisis is possible? China is a well controlled authoritarian country.
"appropriate cause" sounds ripe for abuse. Cops will be able to disable this "feature" in their personal cars, naturally. without consequence.
Chinar:

2022 — the last of political opposition to Xi makes its bid for power, it fails with some noise, and we see a compromise establishment for the rest of Xi's life

2022 — the last of political opposition to Xi makes its bid for power, it fails miserably, and Xi secures claim to absolute power, and reigns Brezhnev style to his last breath

EU:

Coming of Trump alike in Germany, or Austria is not unlikely.

If it comes to that, EU may well be under mortal threat

Russia:

Some orchestrated "transition" to some high profile mayor like Sobanin happens, but nothing really changes.

Alternative? Military insurrection by officers being tired of being sent to god forsaken places on whims of mafia boys.

USA:

Really no idea — your country has been defying common sense for 2 decades straight. Understanding America is beyond me.
Sorry, I think that sentence was a bit unclear. What it meant to convey is that we had 200 daily active Facebook uniques, essentially that very few folks used FB to connect to Digg.
Sorry, when I say these days, I mean >= Kafka 1.0. Things like auto commit offset in 0.8 days were something like 1 minute, as opposed to 5 seconds onwards, max fetch bytes was set significantly higher etc.

My biggest problems with it were when developers who didn't really understand Kafka started setting properties that had promising names to bad values to "ensure throughput" - let's set max.poll.records to 1 to ensure we always get a record as soon as one is available!

That might be my biggest issue with Kafka - it requires a decent amount of knowledge of Kafka to use it well as a developer. I'm not sure if Pulsar removes that cognitive burden for devs or not, but I'm interested in finding out.

And yeah, the wrappers to remove that burden were written in our company too - but then proved quite limiting for the varying use cases for a Kafka client in our system. sigh
Side niggle - I used to notice a lot of Django projects would use complex job queues for absurdly low workloads. Beginners would get recommendations to use RabbitMQ and Redis for sites that probably were only going to see a few hundred concurrent users at most.

Seriously - don't add complex dependencies to your stack unless you need them. The database makes a great task queue and the filesystem makes a great cache. You really might not need anything more.
Interesting points, thanks for the response. I haven't had the experience of living below the poverty line.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say 2035 at the earliest for full self-driving partly because A) software engineers never feeling quite done, B) the underlying software, firmware, and hardware won't be proveably safe enough and C) because something political will make self-driving EV's much more difficult.
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>import permits are issued per-country

It is even worst than that, it is not even issued per country or per company, it is per Plant basis. Along with other regulation hurdles. So you end up with news about China opening up to certain countries for import but then not issued a single license permit of any plant for years.

But despite all of these, the still allow proteins via unofficial channels. The word "Allow" here means they knew about it, but they turn a blind eye to it.
They don't need a warrant for anything on the outside of the envelope. They collect this metadata of to/from for every piece of mail sent. https://www.newsweek.com/postal-service-photographs-every-pi...
Without knowing what that service does, how many users/request it serves per second/day, I can only assume it just an http listener up on some port that returns "Hello {username}" when someone sends a GET request.
You should write a spec for vectored versioning and register vecver.org to host it :)
I predict Apple/Google/Amazon/Facebook are only going to get more valuable and bigger. The previous idea that there are limits to growth that have already been reached... don't apply anymore.

Not because they're any smarter than anyone else, but they're able to continuing buying and absorbing any and all competitive threats. And that the "moat" of initial costs to compete with them in existing areas is too high. (E.g. try building your own search engine.)

And regulation and antitrust law isn't going to make a dent because any potential legal principles against it won't be convincing enough to the average citizen, so there won't be any particularly convincing legislative proposals for support in Congress to coalesce around. (It's easy to say "break up Facebook!" It's really, really hard to come up with a reasonable generic law that results in breaking up the "too big" companies without harming the "good" companies, and breaking them up in reasonable ways.)

I don't think they're going to get any more "evil". They're just going to keep expanding into more and more valuable products/markets -- like Apple has with wearables, or Google has with Cloud, or Amazon with TV shows.

(I'm not saying whether this is good or bad -- I just think it's what will happen.)
Getting patents.
You can always look at the /active tab, I think it sorts by how many comments stories got the past 24 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/active
I suppose the IRA was motivated more by real-world issues whereas Islamic (or otherwise) suicide bombers are often motivated by some kind of mythology involving an afterlife. Of course, IRA members were (almost all?) Catholic, but Christianity's notions of martyrdom are much more passive than those of Islamic fundamentalists.

I googled it and discovered that the pIRA did use human bombs, except that the human involved was under coercion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bomb

You're right about there being far fewer terrorist incidents now. I believe the London tube bombings of 2005 and Manchester arena bombing of 2017 were the only suicide bombings in the UK this side of the millenium.
It would be interesting to find out how many US workers actually do 40/8

Based on this [1] paper, 85% of white collar workers are exempt from the 40 hour week limit.

p38560, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-07-06/pdf/2015-1...
Typically you have to eat a whole bunch if your goal is to trip. Since they don't taste very good, people often eat them with other fun to help mask the taste (pickles, peanut butter, etc).

I'm sure you can find dosage guides online easily enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Maya_collapse#Drought_...
Yes i agree and that is probably what my original point should have been.

There is a common thread ive seen among alot of people today where everything is understood through a truth lens of science based materialism as it is inherently assumed in western culture that the source of all truth is science.

It's a topic that could be debated for years but I think a lot of the issues around fake news are heavily influenced by this cultural bias and the inability for people to reason about events conveyed to them by unreliable facts.
How can you be so certain? C++ Bjarne Stroustrup [pdf]
i really need to know
I think it's slightly different in that it would only apply to the top 10% of the org chart. A first-level manager passed over for promotion wouldn't be dismissed; only VP or C-level executives would, and they would be regardless of whether they were recently promoted. (In fact, because the positions are periodically vacated, they are guaranteed to have been recently promoted.)

It's much closer to term limits and the elected-office/civil-servant split in a democratic government. That has its own set of problems, but is generally fairly good at discouraging empire-building. It also differs in that civil servants generally can't transition to being elected officials (despite their qualifications, they face a lot of obstacles to winning elections), while here executives would generally be drawn from the ranks of ordinary management, keeping the ranks under them dynamic.
I'd love them to do a break down on common knots as I trust my life to figure 8s and fisherman knots pretty regularly.
The 18% and 4/5 in 500 is just an example I pulled out of my butt. I didn’t do a scihub search to find the study but 18% is pretty weak. It’s also more for an assessment at a personal level how much risk you could expect as an individual, which most people care about. Even if that means 600k more cancer patients than before, you’d have to compare that against the null hypothesis to even see if you’re still in the territory of what random chance could arrive at.

An example I can off the top of my head remember is related to how much risk there is for women to have children post 40. It is a 100% increase in birth defects. From 0.5% to 1.0%, sounds bad right? Well its out of like 100 000 people and was based off of 1600’s era French women. Always take studies like this with a grain of salt and look at the numbers to assess personal risk.

Making lifestyle changes purely off of these studies is premature in my opinion. But you do you.
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I'd say that this prediction is describing current developments quite well. Newer programming languages (Go, Rust) and development tools are making the "software as lean independent components" vision more relevant than it ever was.
Could you link me to the article about the oil tankers?
these time travelers are getting cocky
> Functional programming / dynamic languages will go out of fashion.

Glad this didn't happen. Also it's weird to me to equate functional & dynamic like that.
I think that's my point. It's not about making people no longer be racists, it's about making them not overtly express their racism. Which from the perspective of the corporation is great because it reduces their liability. But from the perspective of a worker who feels unsafe because they know their coworker is a racist, knowing that coworker has been put through diversity training and now knows better than to overtly express their racism seems like little consolation.

It may even make the situation worse for the racist's [present and future] coworkers since now they have a wolf in sheep's clothing situation to contend with.
From the OP "Buy TSN, SAFM, HRL...but it's probably too late at this point. We were placing bets on this 18 months ago."

Emphasis mine.
Are you thinking of SVP?
by DrJokepu:
> Surprisingly enough, Apple will still stay relevant even though Steve Jobs will have to leave his position due to health problems or something else.

Sad, but accurate.
I would like to see a legally enforced compulsion to work for the public good and not the investor good.
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Maybe median wise, but not mean. Most ETFs still have fees and they use Authorized participants to make the trades from individual stocks to the ETFs and thus they are also taking a cut. Investing yourself using a no fee broker involves no middleman whatsoever so it cannot possibly achieve a lower return in aggregate.
Banks and Wall Street are pretty liberal with "VP" titles. There they give you that title so the person you meet (to make a deal) thinks you are serious and sent a VP to sell.

Tech companies, not as much.
I just mean there could be political unrest because pork makes up a not-insignificant portion of their CPI. Point is China doesn't want a huge run-up in pork prices.
FANG replaced by something else from the job opportunity point of view.