skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. I'd drummed up Dr Evil, "Mr. Powers, you'll notice that all the sharks (planes) have laser beams attached to their heads. I figure every creature deserves a warm meal."
Mr. Sub-zero?
Are Slack threads, though?
It's ludicrous, not just silly. People are talking here like this is a study that can be verified.

It is a random person ranting and completely subjective.
And Insta, and VK, and Tinder, and WhatsApp, etc.

They're all owned by the same handful of companies. You gotta get rid of em all.
I do the same. I listen to a tutorial or tech talk, and find myself wanting to keep my hands busy. So I start messing with causal games on my phone. Some stuff I can still follow like a tech talk but If they show actual code or something I find my self either pausing or rewinding.
Compare searches between Ecosia and DDG. Same results.
Do you remember how people used to ship blocks of ice a century ago? It was a massive industry.

Thousands of pounds shipped over thousands of miles of water. A miracle for its time. The improvements in food storage that came afterward were nothing short of a marvel. The ability to preserve food, to hold it in statis; it bought people time to ship and eat food (a very precious commodity indeed).

Looking back now and it seems strange. So much effort for so little gain, relative to what we're capable of doing now. Plug in a refrigerator and you're done. Ice cold for a lifetime.

There's still a lot of effort going on, but much of it is hidden—a landscape of electrical grids, mathematics, steel and gold mined from the Earth to create the technology in our kitchens.

Most people probably didn't even know things could be much better; that's all they ever knew. The leap to refrigeration was by no means an easy or obvious one. And it seemed to happened slowly as the infrastructure was slowly built up bit by bit over the course of a few decades.

Review systems remind me of the ice shipping industry: A marvel for its time, but only for its time. The ability to filter information about locations and products; to make informed choices by aggregating a large set of human opinions is remarkable. You can make choices about things you've never experienced, across a wide variety of domains: Amazon, Airbnb, the App Store, Shopify, Google Play.

But it's slow. It's tedious and subject to error. It's easy to miss great insights. It's the lowest common denominator for gaining information about a product, subject to manipulation and noise.

Nowadays, whenever I go on a 5-star review website, I'm thankful for the information when I can get it, but I always wonder when my refrigerator is going to arrive.
Bjorn Erik Olsen. There was a Planet Money episode on it (and pretty sure it's been posted here before): https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-n...

And here's a little bit more detail on it: https://www.norwayexports.no/norways-introduction-of-salmon-...
I mean, likely AirBnB did relay the information confidentially... but doesn't take a genius to figure out which guest suddenly provided the confidential feedback which was sent on the day after your stay ending.
> If 40 million people in the US get Covid, as with the flu, it will probably kill between 500k and 1m people.

This is a greatly, greatly exaggerated number based on incomplete reporting.

We cannot yet estimate the number of unconfirmed COVID-19 cases in the US. In healthy adults, the COVID-19 symptoms are no worse than the flu. The CDC uses projections to estimate the fatality rate of the flu every year, since actual hard stats are impossible to generate. Time will tell, but this so far seems nothing more than a media frenzy.

Does anyone remember the Swine Flu? How about the West Nile Virus? What was the outcome of those media frenzies? How'd it turn out for all the people hoarding toilet paper and water bottles back then?

> It swamps healthcare systems, as we saw so dramatically in China

I don't think it's even remotely relatable to the US healthcare system, and the general health of the US population.
Watch it on a VR headset :-)
Towards the end of the video he also calls up 1900s America as the period of time that best exemplifies capitalism, not surprisingly an era marked by extreme inequality.
It's Hard to Find a Good Lamp
Let's do some numbers:

Georgia, with 50 tests/day and 10,000,000 people is at 0.005 per 1K people.

Oregon, with 40 tests/day and 4,200,000 people, is at 0.0095 per 1K people.

Italy, with about 2500 tests/day and about 60,000,000 people, is doing around 0.04 per thousand people. It's about an order of magnitude more.

The point isn't a pissing match between states, it's that the entire US has not responded well so far. Hopefully things ramp up, so that we stop seeing these situations where people get exposed and have no idea what's going on.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-...

I do not know why this is, just that it's not going well so far.
Code drunk, commit sober.
Damn.. I clicked on the comments to see if the tech can be adopted to dealing with insects...
Any advice here other than "talk to multiple doctors and decide for yourself" is bad and dangerous.

SSRIs can be life-saving, or they can ruin your life. People have different degrees of illness and different reactions. No one can help you figure this out except a doctor.

You can and should get multiple opinions if you don't feel confident in your current psychiatrist's recommendation.
As an ex-googler, Google was mostly nice and virtuous till Larry/Sergey/Eric were at helm. Things started changing when Ruth joined Alphabet, there was deeper focus on investor returns etc. Soon after that CEO role was transferred to Sundar.

However, I have to qualify this by saying that I didn't ever work in Ads. And this is a common day-to-day googler's view who didn't know anything that went on in the executive land (e.x. Andy Rubin)
Nice idea, although I think the difficult thing is how to make that obvious to the user as it's not a standard way to select something.
The CDC stopped posting the numbers of tests they'd run a few days back. I don't know if they started again. It's not confidence inspiring.

I don't know if this has anything at all to do with firing the pandemic team, but you have to figure that didn't help, either.

Any administration has a lot of competent career professionals working for them. Events like this are the time to let them do their thing without hindrance, and without random commentary from uninformed leaders.
The US Fed's actions recently (emergency meeting, 50 bps rate cut [1], futures markets anticipating a 89% chance of a 75 bps cut in March and a 59% chance of a cut to 0% in April [2]) seem to indicate that these events are "canaries in the coal mine"; policymakers and central banks are already seeing current and forward looking data ahead of what is publicly available indicating an economic contraction is in progress. I know the Fed has access to electronic payment data (credit card transactions) in the US through an agreement with those networks, and uses that info for decisioning (among other data sources not publicly available).

Also, 10 year treasuries are at a record low today below 0.7% [3]. This is unheard of, and an indicator that capital markets are seeing an unprecedented flight to safety [4].

Not intended to be alarmist, these are simply observations (although I heard someone say very recently, "the bond market is basically signaling that all hell is going to break loose."). It appears macro econ policy folks are trying to engineer a soft economic landing, but monetary policy only goes so far. Be prepared, make good personal finance choices in the near term.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed/in-an-emergency-m...

[2] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?count...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight-to-quality
Following up. Your confirmation email gets flagged as leading to an untrusted site in Gmail. Might be worth figuring out.
Ebay has a positive/neutral/negative review system for sellers, right? Does that have any interesting side effects?
That works right up until the point someone turns off their cellphone and goes hunting.

The problem with leaving all this data around is eventually the proletariat will begin prefering to share it all with each other. When they start doing that, they will begin to co-ordinate instead of compete. For awhile the information advantage will be with people who have money, but that can change.

Then they begin realizing things like Uber is owned by the Saudi Oil Fund and all the soulless corporations are really vampires owned by foreigners who only care to garden in their backyard but sh!t in yours...

I have a very optimistic viewpoint of this discovery; right now law enforcement uses it for an information advantage, but, that won't last forever.
It would appear to be this: https://www.dafont.com/linux-libertine.font
I often think that bullies get a lot of perceived leverage. They may not have real leverage but they intimidate people.
Nintendo Playstation: Ultra-rare prototype sells for £230k
Everyone who has ratings does it. I used to rate 3 = professional and fully acceptable until I got a call from Dell asking what they had done wrong, and then from Honda. I realized ratings are all inflated and staff are effectively penalized for less than perfect, and since I'm not going to screw someone because I disagree with their rating scheme, I just set 5 to acceptable and go off that.

The sane way to do it would be to ask yes no questions, but that would require thinking.
I've been wondering how WeWork's implosion and several underwhelming tech IPOs will effect seed rounds.

So, yes, it'll be hard to untangle all of the confounding factors.
Correct, in GPUs can indeed do a better job at hiding latency through massive parallelism.

My expertise might be outdated here, but the problem used to be that actually getting to that max bandwidth through divergent warps and uncoalesced reads was just impossible.

Is this still the case with Volta? Did you avoid these issues in your Equihash implementation?
And ongoing risk of an endemic new virus even after a vaccine is developed. Even though we have flu vaccine, it still takes its toll every year and is probably here to stay.
> people

I assume the lobstermen are hoping that this is what their government will pay them to do (i.e. subsidies). I would rather hope that we leave the poor sea bugs alone.
Canada Government testing to replace IBM Phoenix payroll system with SAP
I'm surprised at how often the "About Us" isn't actually "About Anyone", there's no names, it's all just "Us" and "We".

That's something I often get instructed to use when doing freelance writing. It is considered "professional" and "corporate speak."

The other thing is that women and minorities sometimes intentionally hide or downplay their personal details. One guy with a very "foreign" sounding name legally changed his name to something normal WASPy sounding because it was a barrier to doing business. I have seen at least one article on the front page of HN where a woman founder was being sexually harassed and generally treated terribly by clients when doing support chats. She changed her picture and her name to make it appear you were dealing with a man and that largely stopped.

I'm a woman and I've had to deal a lot with awful behavior from people, much of which is pretty clearly rooted in misogyny, basically. I'm still not sure what the best path forward is for me.

One part of me is clear that hiding or downplaying my gender to try to be successful just reinforces sexism. Another part of me has to wonder if that's a hill I really want to die on or would I rather be able to, you know, eat more regularly and what not.
I never read positive reviews.

If the negative reviews sound whiny, I ignore them. If they bring up valid concerns I stay away from the product/business.
Note the "allegedly" in there. Historians have tried to dig up evidence of that, and not found anything.
Deleting Facebook doesn't mean they won't stop stalking you. In this case it isn't about Facebook collecting data about you, it's about other companies willingly sending data to Facebook. Deleting your Facebook account won't stop those companies from sending data to them. The solution is to stop doing business with all the companies that did share data with Facebook, whenever possible.
How do I start?
What other trickle down effects will we be seeing soon?
Yes, if your message contains only 1s, then its expected information content (aka Shannon entropy) is zero.
I think one important point that Dan and others miss is that `const` enforces a single-assignment style of variable naming that many find preferable. It makes it easier to read and forces people to provide more thoughtful names for their variables. I'm not saying that this behavior is enough to justify using `const` everywhere, but it should be weighed in any judgement about style.
I wonder if they did this with our only negative review. Her comments were rambling but the visible review was vague.

We charged 20$/night since it was our first Time doing it. We put in the description, No TV. But the guest asked for a TV and Chromecast.

So we moved a spare living room TV upstairs. I went to the store and bought a 35$ Chromecast.

We got a negative review for the TV being Dusty.

It made us paranoid and we tried extremely hard from that point forward. Got some sort of "best host award"

Then our city shut us down.
32-bytes accesses are not short. 8 bytes (double precision floating point) are shorter and that's makes sparse matrix multiplication hard on GPU.

Also, SHA256(d?) employed by ethash is, actually, quite long - 80 cycles, at the very least (cycle per round). In mining you can interleave mining computation for one header with loading required by computation of mining of another header and, from what I know, this is what CUDA on GPU will do.

The sheer amount of compute power makes ethash mining faster on GPU.
Or just move next door to some noisy neighbors that randomly wake you up with bangs.
I am American?

I am saying that as an American, one that works in America, and from my subjective experience working in b2b and consulting jobs, the business culture around me is full of contractual bullshit.
Does B2B advertising still rely on stalking and collecting personal data? Personally my problem isn't as much as what the ads are about and more about the data they collect, essentially creating an ever growing liability for me up until the entire thing blows up when the data finally leaks.
Most times I open the comments first and hope to find a "tl;dr" section in the first comment.
I used to give most Uber drivers three stars until someone told me it’s not supposed to be like that. There’s nothing in the app to guide you that the scores are shifted like this.
Pretty sure you're incorrect, and there's no danger in what's being done here.
This is a great example of how interrelated so many economies have become.
Why would he make it so personal? What did you guys do to him?
I drink a cup of coffee in the morning, maybe have a green tea in the afternoon. I've gone off caffeine and the only negative impact is I just take a little longer to wake up. I am sure everyone's tolerance is different, but I think I would need to start drinking more coffee to feel any kind of withdrawal affects.
If you shared the content, you didn't keep it confidential. Maybe you are confused with anonymous?
I have used DuckDuckGo a couple of years back, but, after some more consideration switched back to Google. Apart from privacy I never really liked the direction DuckDuckGo was going in (more below). Just recently I decided to search for an alternative search engine once again.

Things I want to consider are:

1. Reasonable privacy - I don't want the search engine to take super invasive steps to track me (but still keep in mind that I need to send my queries to someone, so there's really no expectation of full privacy)

2. No personalization - I want to be sure that only obvious parameters affect the ranking of search results (e.g. manual language or location selection, manual time selection, ...). Want to avoid personalization and a search bubble at all cost.

3. No results processing - I want links to original sources, not processed or aggregated information with little or no references to sources.

4. Independence - I'd like to support a search engine that can operate as independently as possible. A search engine with it's own crawler seem far more resilient to external influence than a meta or proxying search engine.

Google falls short on 1, 2 and 3. But holds up very well on 4.

With Bing or Yandex I don't have much experience, but expect something similar.

DuckDuckGo heavily advertises 1. I guess 2 follows from it but didn't find it mentioned as an explicit goal. On 3 and 4 it falls short. If I remember correctly DuckDuckGo was one of the first to offer processed results (Instant answers). I'm not sure about the situation now, but I believe it started of as a meta search engine and proxied most searches to Yahoo, Bing or Yandex. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... still lists Bing prominently.

Startpage.com seems to get me 1 and 3. But 2 is questionable since the results are still tailored by Google (not to me personally, but it's still not clear what factors into ranking). And 4 obviously doesn't apply.

To find a better alternative I started looking for search engines with independent web crawlers. So far I found mojeek.com, beta.cliqz.com and qwant.com. mojeek.com looks good on 1,2,3,4 but results aren't quite good enough. With Cliqz I'm not sure about personalization, but otherwise looks good.

I finally settled on Qwant.com for now. It promises privacy and no personalization explicitly. Has an independent crawler. Sometimes it tries to provide a processed answer card, but so far I managed to ignore that. Results are surprisingly good.
AirBnB takes down negative reviews. I had a poor experience and wrote about my experience. When I asked for a refund, a small percentage was refunded by the host. AirBnB immediately took down my review and then refused to communicate.
When you consider the amount of pitches this might actually be an improvement rather than a regression if done well.
I remember reading writing advice somewhere (prose, not code) that suggested you have an alcoholic beverage in the evening for your rough drafts, and then coffee in the morning for your editing. The strategy was: loosen up and then tighten up.
If you score around three stars each time then you’ll see the prompt each time and not think anything of it.
Add your first name or just your initials. That would pretty much solve that problem.
Goodhart's Law - reviews were useful ten years ago, they are utter trash now because they are totally tainted.

This is going to reverse horribly on all the "platform" businesses because they are totally conflicted. As ever, we will go back to the same stuff that people always used: word of mouth, building a trusted brand, etc.

All the "successful" unicorns are only distinguished because of their utterly trash brands. Every one of these companies grasped the short-term gain (whilst saying that private capital meant they were long-term thinkers), they hired staff who had no idea how to run a business and were interested only in enriching themselves, and they are basically toxic now. AirBnb, to my mind, are one of the worst. There is no coming back from this.
It refers to "our demo day website" - what address is that?
My family is from Prince Edward Island and in the past you wouldn’t want to bring lobster to school in your lunch. You would be teased for being poor.
For restaurants that sell the lobster at "market price", you might see it change by a dollar or two. But in general, note that the price of a meal is driven much more by demand than by the cost of ingredients, which are only about a third of the actual price of a meal.
This point only pertains in places with a poisonous legal system, such as US or UK.
Generally speaking most languages treat `let` as constant/immutable, and the real shame is that JS did not. It's understandable why (they needed a block-scoped `var`), but unfortunate nonetheless.
I have demonstrated precisely how it is not zero sum, using the iPhone example.

> Under capitalism the government is nothing more than a management committee for the rich...

You are mixing definitions here. Capitalism means private ownership, and what you've described there is government control. The US has Cronyism, not Capitalism. Your argument for it being mythic also mises the mark. Cheating, lying and stealing are illegal under Capitalism.

The 4th citation is completely false, as it considers non-capitalist countries capitalist. In that list, half the countries are "Mostly Unfree" or "Repressed" according to the Index of Economic Freedom[0].

If you actually look at capitalist countries, that paper supports that so-called "fantasy", as the countries mentioned as "High-income" are "Free" or "Mostly free". Irony at its best.

[0] https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
> Suppose I go to a restaurant, and I booked using my name and phone number. The restaurant sends that data to Facebook to say "Terence Eden ate at this restaurant on this day." Facebook can then tell if I saw an advert which led me to make a purchase.

That's just great. So I guess the gift that marketing agencies have given us is that we can't trust anybody. The only thing left to do is go entirely cash-only and never give any personal details to any business whatsoever.

The marketing industry has become so toxic that it is now poisoning everything.
Typical Socialist BS. Greedy Capitalist calls for the death of millions. Just read the headline and trust our analysis.

Except Santelli was clearly (but poorly) trying to argue that Coronavirus isn't that big a deal, as we'll all find out eventually. He wasn't actually proposing or "calling" to infect everyone.

He was just saying it will take months for people to realize how small an issue this is and infecting everyone would shortcut that time table, very tongue in cheek.
> Fortunately we also have Woz and a couple of others like him to balance things out a bit.

Except Woz ended up a low digit millionaire, and Jobs a multi-billionaire. Hard work simply doesn't pay off the way being a sociopath does in our society.
I'd be really interested to see the deal statistics compared to other years if YC would be so kind to share them.

Could be a game changer if a remote pitch event can be as productive (or close to) as one in person.