skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, this means a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Hi, I live in that region. I thought I might be able to give a little more insight in the situation here.

> This means the return of violence to that region.

It's kind of funny you guys assumed it stopped... It's reduced, but it's not stopped. When the Good Friday agreement came in, it gave Northern Ireland the option to leave the UK when it wants. It turns out that the general public that live here do not want to leave the UK, which diminished the influence unionists and separatists had over people... Turns out having a democratic option made it hard to convince people to join a fight on either side.

Further, most people are more practical, self interested than ideological currently. For many, the Republic looks like a worse future for NI, with less money to go around than if it stays in the UK. The Republic government of course also views NI to be a horrible drain on their resources, so have repeatedly stated over the years that "now is not the right time".

While this has been happening, both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have lost significant populations of natives. The Republic has had a massive increase in immigration, so much to the point that the nationalism and that sort of ideology has declined, reducing that want for conflicts even further.

None of the politicians in Northern Ireland have a desire and cannot be compelled to create a physical border between the Republic of Ireland. This of course does not sit well with the EU. The UK parliament does not actually give much of a shit about Northern Ireland outside of how much we spend and leaves NI to its' own autonomy out of fear of violence in the mainland UK.

At this point, I am convinced that if a border is going to be imposed, it will be from the Republic's side. The Republic government doing this of course would put the Republic and EU into a very negative light. So of course, the Republic is very unhappy about this and has voiced this in confidence a few times.

Taking the temperature here, there is a lot of uncertainty, but, I think regardless of what happens, Northern Ireland is probably likely going to benefit more through this. It will be the only UKish territory (ignoring Gibraltar) that shares a border with an EU country that retains easy access to Great Britain, which will make it either a special trading partner, or a special back door. Whether the UK and EU like it or not. I do not think the violence in Northern Ireland will be increasing much more than it is now; they do not seem to have the people or the resources.

The UK parliament of course has made some new acts so that the people of Northern Ireland can control our own fate in face of brexit after a deal is made, democraticing what is happening here.

The UK and EU in my opinion are both trying to use Northern Ireland to get a better trade agreement.
Can you say something vague about your deployment scale?
Wait, you're saying it costs 12x as much as your salary? That doesn't seem right... the company I'm at uses it pretty heavily and we're at about 1x of a FTE salary (and it's still super worth it)
Great point. We think founders/builders make the best investors. They can sniff out failure. Selection is done through peer ranking by the applicants themselves. Top make it in.
Consider the outrageous claim that Tucker Carlson made today (that NYT was "planning" to dox him). Was it true? Did he just cleverly "pre-empt" it? Or did he intentionally create a story to teach a lesson to the NYT reporters?

Things are made much murkier when you then find out that, yes, indeed, he was actually doxxed before once. And people did actually show up to his house to protest. And even more amazingly, the first person account of this "witness" actually makes you believe if Tucker has a point. Why did they go to his house at night? And how can anyone, from the inside of a house, distinguish "firm knocking" vs trying to break down the door. Will you be calm enough and just say "Oh.. I thought he was going to break it. But it was just a firm knock, now that I think about it. Phew.. "? And why in fuck's name would you actually spray paint anything on Tucker's property? He is going to refer to it as vandalism, because if someone came to your house and peed on the front door, that's exactly how you would refer to it too. Or are you instead going to say "Well, it's just some organic material, it can always be wiped off"?

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/i-was-at-the-protest-outsi...

At this point, there isn't actually any reason to believe one side over the other anymore. It is just complete hysterics on both sides.
This is also a great way to surprise people.

Surprise seems to be one of the most important ingredients to getting things to spread (I won't quote the academic or anecdotal research of that here.) So I use this inversion analysis often in thinking about coming up with ways of surprising people. My most successful example of this:

I was originally thinking, "How can I get more customers?"

Inverting it I came up with, "How can I lose more customers?" (A different inversion from the OP's but an inversion nonetheless).

Using that as my base I came up with this funny campaign where I tried to figure out how to fire more of my customers. What if I could fire the worst of my customers. So I invented a honey pot website called trickajournalist.com where I described some software you could signup for to spam journalists. And then I used the list of people who signed up for that and banned them from using my product that had an email newsletter component. We didn't want spammers.

It was a nice media/traffic win for what we were doing. And it all came from inverting what we originally struggled to answer.

P.S. If you're interested more in the whole trickajournalist.com thing, the original site is dead now, but some articles about it:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathankontny/2018/02/27/trick-a...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathankontny/2018/03/08/reddit-...
"An orange is a citrus, not a fruit".
The computer revolution hasn't happened yet (Alan Kay, OOPSLA 1997)
UK Intel committee: Social media firms should remove state disinformation
The first time I read this, I had to read it a few times to really understand. Great essay/lecture, but what else would one expect from Ken Thomposon?
Do most companies need an external API?
Machines can learn unsupervised 'at speed of light' after AI breakthrough
These APUs have 6/8 Vega CUs onboard, so they're going to be way more capable (AFAICT) than comparable Intel integrated GPUs, and in fact are considerably more capable than a GT730, which is about all you're going to get for that $50.
You can do whatever you want with your bike but I sure am not carrying something designed to be activated by a strong jolt on my bike when I bike through decaying city streets full of potholes and bumps and other fun stuff like that.
Ask HN: Requirements for Stories
What is the quality of the requirements that you recieve for a piece of work you are doing? Is it better at technology companies as compared to companies that use technology to support their regular business?

I work for a financial company and it seems like the product owners and business resources have no idea or vision of what they really want. In many cases, they can't even describe an existing process that they want us to automate or modernize.

As a developer, I see the lack of details as a waste of developer time. I get that stuff can change through iterative development or changing the implementation if issues and edge cases are found. In my opinion, the story should never leave the business analyst to be assigned to a developer until 90% of the requirements are known. I would love to work on software when the business can provide a valid business process map for any existing workflow.
The war heats up over Seattle’s attempts to regulate Uber and Lyft drivers’ pay
If you use vscode you should look into the dendron add-on.
The author quotes Yuval Noah Harari "Sapiens" then argues against him with:

> That’s one of the big differences in our times. For me to thrive does not mean you could not thrive. The chances for you to thrive are higher if I thrive

A grand statement for which I see very little support of this stance. Much of the article is based on plastics (and credit). Plastic is limited and finite. The more plastic you make, the less materials there are for me - so I will not necessarily thrive. Now, I may live in the same country as you and thrive because of your prosperity - but not necessarily if I live elsewhere.
How to reach $1MM/year as a traditional employee
I think the parent's complaint is a function of how your engineering org "uses" prometheus.

If you use it as a store for all time series data generated by your business, and you want to have indefinite or very-long-term storage, managing prometheus does become a challenge. (hence m3, chronosphere, endless other companies and tech built to scale the backend of prometheus).

IMO, this is a misuse of the technology, but a lot of unicorn startups have invested a lot of engineering resources into using it this way. And a lot of new companies are using it this way; hence the "one engineer's FT job".
Seems super interesting! Will follow progress!
The pdf I linked to contains only pages 181-218 from Vol III of the 1962 lectures (Jaynes). I’ve not read the others, I don’t know if they may be available online.
Good timing. as a founder I could use something like this more than ever
Evolution of Microservices
Says a lot about nothing. It could just be summed up as material science and mediums of exponential finance have bolstered what we can do such that consequences are comparatively worth it from the world prior. And even then, that's not really profound a statement.
> I'm saying the lecture style of this class is sufficiently ineffective that I don't see how it's worth anyone's time to watch.

Again, you're incorrectly extrapolating from your minority view and making global statements about how it's not worth anyone else's time. This lecture style is very effective for most people and is absolutely worth their time. Witness how highly rated the class is, and how successful it is at drawing people in to the major.

> The style definitely doesn't work for me.

That is a fair statement. But saying it's not worth anyone's time absolutely isn't, and is directly contradicted by the fact that this class is in fact highly successful, well-rated, and does a good job of accomplishing its goal of introducing people to the field.
The README [1] says C + GTK+3.

[1] https://git.zrythm.org/cgit/zrythm/tree/README.md#n22
This is a great idea. I'd be willing to do this with my keto cereal companies if there was a pool of other promising food startups.
> Material that cannot be cut ... The Ultimate Bike Lock

I remember the bike shop guy trying to sell the last bike lock that was cut resistant. It was a steel (I think) "U" lock (back right after they came out). I worked at CompUSA at the time. A co-worker had discovered the consequences of holding one of those "air duster" cans upside down, aimed at the steel pole keeping his above-average-build body in his chair (it snapped, he fell). Turns out a can of air and a good hammer and you can do away with one these locks at least as fast as any other lock (and some scrap?). IIRC, the generation that followed had very thick rubber insulation glued to the metal.

The bike thief cares about taking your bike/parts as quickly as possible and (probably) selling it somewhere. They don't care about breaking your super-lock. They'll cut through/break the thing it's locked to, and toss the whole thing onto a U-Haul as it circles the block[0]. Your wheels/gears/seat/parts are expensive, the frame can be frozen/shattered/cut quickly.

There have to be a lot of applications for a material like this (pretty much everywhere diamonds are used?).

But hey, if the aim was a better lock, here's my thinking: maximize for "it damages blades that try to cut it". Mimic a lock design that thieves hack (ideally, one that is difficult to cut but has no faster approach; encourage them to attach the expensive blades). Anything that increases the time during a theft might be enough for them to jump back in the van and drive off to the next set of bikes. And like all things security-related, use it in combination with other techniques that balance the strengths/weaknesses of each approach.

I really hope it's not ... the problem at hand is really "I want access to a bike with specific features when I want to use a bike with specific features"[1]. But alter the variables of "how nice of a bike I can ride when I want to ride it", "how difficult/easy it is to get a bike where I want a bike when I want to ride it" (it's not easy, now) and "provided I follow simple guidelines, you'll take the grief of bike theft mostly off of my plate/offer replacement on-demand insurance". There might be a market for "have the bike that's ideal for the trip" combining scheduling/delivery/insurance options.

[0] ... that same U-Haul that was briefly parked next to your car while you ran into Wal*Mart... the trip hereby known as "that really loud drive home after which you discovered your exhaust system had been hacked through/catalytic converter stolen".

[1] Like most, I chose to solve that by buying a bike. There wasn't another option that mixed "features", "convenience" and "price" (note, "theft risk" wasn't a thought until after I purchased it). Most people don't think beyond that and the creation of an alternative without "ownership" of some kind will likely be a non-starter for many people (...depending on price/features mix, for me ... I'll frequently use a service that requires having to schedule days in advance if I can ride a bike I can't afford for a very reasonable price).
While I don't agree that writing a component with a hook is always a mistake, I have seen them used in situations where it wasn't warranted.

In the end, they are just another tool -- knowing how to use the tool appropriately is the critical part.
Only 1-5% of founder's shares are contributed. 95% or more retained. It's insurance; not a plan B.
GPT3 + replication crisis = huge volume of scientific papers produced, but nobody can know if they're accurate or not.

Landmark to watch for will be when the first GPT-generated paper gets a citation in a human-authored paper without the human realising.
Thank you! Will check it out.
Your code calls a library.

A framework calls your code.

Really great explanation here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/15600924/revisions

Edit: another really nice exposé here: The Difference Between a Framework and a Library — https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-difference-between-a-f...
> You are abstracting over a CPU and memory. Your abstraction leaks in that memory layout actually matters for performance, for example.

I find the idea that an abstraction is leaky if different implementations of it perform differently to be fairly useless. I don't think it's a useful concept unless the abstraction captures the expected performance. If the abstraction doesn't give any performance guarantees, then the caller shouldn't have any performance expectations.

Similarly to abstractions around accessing a file on disk that might fail. The abstraction should account for potential failures. If it doesn't account for failures, but the implementation does fail, then it's meaningful to call it leaky.
> Apply to a pool in your startup category, within 3 months of the valuation event.

Most "valuation events" for startups are seed or series X fundraisers, no? So how could founders who bootstrap participate in this, if at all?
1) We screen companies based on their quality, ex: a round raised within the last 3-6 months.
2) Founders get to interact with participating companies and rank them based on their insight. Only companies that are highly ranked get into a pool. A pool is also dynamic and founders in the pool can invite new startups based on their interactions.

Overall, this is based on the concept that founders are often good judges of other founders/startups. And pool is more than just for risk diversification, they get a community of founders ready to help your startup because they are vested in it.
Resetting Passwords – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
It’s a reasonable idea, but would make a lot more sense for employees. While outside forces impact companies, founders and executives are responsible for outcomes.

Employees have little individual power to impact strategy and are more likely the victims of poor management decisions.
Which aspect attracts you most?
Its organized in rounds, but current pool members can invite other startups in with a unanimous consent.
Which kinda confirms the parent’s issues... InfluxDB is really easy to deploy and forget. With TimescaleDB you should be ready to know ins-and-outs of PG to secure and maintain correctly.
Sure, for scaling and high loads TDB might be good but InfluxDB is easier and suitable for most loads and maintainability.
Show HN: Doom-scroller.js – Helping you to avoid endlessly doomscrolling
"you don't need to attend Harvard" says the guy who attended Harvard. It sounds like a guy from a rich family who after failing some business, finally succeeded and then says: "if you fail, try again, don't give up". They just forgot that most people can't fail. That's a stupid advice
I mean, this material is only resistant to drilling and grinding. Saying you "cut" something with an angle grinder is a fair use of the term, yet grinding away at something probably isn't the first thought people have when you just say "cut". I'd say the truest form of cutting is shearing, as with shears.
Applied Natural Language Processing Summit
Interesting. Does anyone know of anything else like this out there?
I think when people see that, it scares them so much they have no process at all and hit a new set of problems...
Dumb question I'm sure has been asked... we've been throwing stuff into the sea for awhile then going and picking it up later as it's bobbing gently in the waves. Why not just have some inflatable buoys that deploy in the water and have it float? Catching it seems pretty difficult, albeit pretty sweet.
This is the way of beginners. The truth is, read the source code of these libraries. You'll realize a lot of stuff on SO is just copypasta work-arounds, while a more elegant, more efficient solution may exist that just wasn't documented well for your use case.
Absolutely, and it would be great if teachers were able to fully dedicate themselves to optimizing the inter-personal aspects of it rather than also having to do all this other work of lecture/lesson planning, coming up with curricula, etc. We ask far too much of our teachers/professors, and realistically, most of them are not going to do remotely as good of a job as Dr. Malan has here on CS50. So if you're teaching an intro CS class, use his materials rather than coming up with your own! Same for any other subject; we just need all these ideal materials to be available for every imaginable class targeting every possible age level (elementary on up). Admittedly it's a big a lift, but a seemingly necessary one.

And yes, I know a lot of this already exists to some extent, but where it gets lost is in its availability, centralization, and being targeted at teachers only rather than also being available to the students.
Got an example? And could you use it to pay for my domain, which is not using "your" registrar?
Depends largely on whether they also restrict import of digital products. If they do (which will extremely difficult) then American tech salaries will generally rise. However, because of the difficulty in restricting data and communicating with offshore destinations, I suspect this will lead to more digital jobs going offshore.
Colleges Are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students
We are using this as a screening for adverse selection, but founders who are bootstrapped can also apply if they have proven traction (we have a few stellar startups who were highly ranked but never raised money)
> That's outrageously ahistorical

First of all, there's nothing "ahistorical" about the simple fact that the South's economy was decimated after the abolition of slavery, and to this day the industry that utilized slavery the most continues to be weaker than elsewhere in the Union. That is your original allegation here: that slavery necessarily flourishes under a capitalist incentive structure. That's plainly untrue, because at the same time you had no slavery in the North, and its industrial economy outpaced that of the South (read: accumulation of capital, in your words).

You see this happening today as well: in countries where slavery is unfortunately still legal (Syria & Libya), they don't have any greater accumulation of capital or output than capitalist nations that do not have slavery (nearly every first world industrialized nation). On the other hand, nearly every single modern first world country, from Canada to Singapore to New Zealand to Switzerland to Sweden...all operate on capitalist systems where the majority of industries are privately owned, and operate for profit. They are also notably devoid of indentured/involuntary servitude while also enjoying some of the greatest accumulation of wealth and capital in recorded human history.

> The former slaves weren't suddenly "free" and unexploited in the US after the civil war. In many aspects they were still enslaved through various direct and indirect means.

Sure, nobody is arguing that people in the South were suddenly "free" after the abolition of slavery. You're absolutely correct that sharecropping and other practices essentially continued to ensnare black people in the South. The point is that this DID NOT translate to greater rewards in the capitalist incentive system. During Reconstruction, planters that exploited former "free" slaves LOST the agriculture race to the Great Plains, and the industrial race to the North.

> Furthermore your entire premise is false, even if we accept what you suggest is true, which is highly controversial, the result is not what we're talking about, but the incentive structure and what outcomes that will produce. Of course people searching to accumulate capital will endorse and proliferate low labour costs if it's possible and currently acceptable.

There is nothing unacceptable about "low labor costs" in a society with robust social safety nets. Countries like Switzerland that have close to 0 poverty, the highest median wealth, and among the highest standards of living in the world also see variation in labor costs between a janitor and a doctor, or a fast food cashier and a civil engineer. Not all labor is equal in value, and the capitalist incentive structure prices labor as a function of the value that it creates for others. If your argument is that this is somehow tantamount to chattel slavery, then it's you who is regurgitating propaganda.
It's peer selection based on ranking. We are moving to a version of Gale-Shapley stable algorithm for pool construction
How else would they know about it unless the CA told them?
There's a youtube channel for an offroad recovery company in Utah, and they recently were called to a nearby salt flat [0]. They almost got stuck themselves.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUSpD_waiEQ
> From time to time I also follow what's coming in InfluxDB 2.0 but I must confess that 16 betas in 8 months are not very promising.

Don't read too much into that, it's more a result of wanting to get testable releases out early and temporarily redirecting engineering resources to take advantage of opportunities that arose in that timeframe than anything having to do with the code of 2.0 itself.

Our Cloud 2 SaaS offering is already running the 2.0 code in production (albeit with changes to support it being deployed as a massively multi-tenant service)
It's really dry out there most of the time. And the salt flats are flat and hard, which is why they are used for racing.