skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the profiles just don’t seem right somehow"

Is any evidence for your belief? Not having a bio text doesn't indicate a fake profile.

Alternatively, you could try setting up a fake profile of a really handsome guy. I think you will see that the girls you thought were fake, are not only real, but happy to text, engage, and even call or meet up with you.
Yes, but I had forgotten about it, thank you!
Howard Marks – Thinking about macro [pdf]
Currently working on my shaper (Book 3)
Tech was once not that respected, & mostly full of nerds who were just way into tech. But then tech rose in status & income, & was invaded by top school kids seeking such things, who took over the top slots. These new kids didn’t much respect older tech folks from wrong schools.

https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1421212798881722368
The guy is frustrated and people say things like that when they're frustrated, it's understandable, though he certainly isn't helping himself by expressing such thoughts.

The "lies" he's talking about, I think, are a side-effect of the dichotomy of having an investor class that is doing better than ever and a working class that's in a downward spiral. Sadly, economic performance is measured strictly for the benefit of the investor class. So yeah, when someone who's involuntarily unemployed sees booming market numbers and talking heads on TV are calling out an economy that's "bounced back", it looks like a lie (and honestly I believe it is a kind of lie too).
and pointers to other papers, too - thanks!
> If I provide 1M of value to the company, why would it not be ridiculously bad to get 10% of that value for myself?

If you generate 1m of profit, I don't think 10% is that bad. If you generate 1m of revenue then 10% is pretty good depending on operational costs. If you're talking about 1m of saving 10% is not bad. That 10% is paid in a salary.

> You call it a "commission" as if this was a salesman getting a cut of the cost of the product they sold

You can call it whatever you want, salary, bonus, commission etc. I use the word commission because it is easy to relate the concept, if you generate 4m for example what is your worth, and it is probably easier to count that as a percentage.

But fell free to use whatever nomenclature you want.

> but a salesperson selling a $1M product is not providing $1M to the company

If you are not producing sales or a product which is sold, or reducing costs just how are you adding 1m of value. By this I mean tangible value, value which you can be paid for. Because that is what we are actually talking about monetary value being added somewhere.

> On the other hand, an investor who gives the company $1M normally expects to get more than 100% of that back (with some risks, of course). Or would you say that an investment where you pay $1M to get $100K back is a good investment?

Why would I ever say investing 1m to get 100k back is a good investment, getting 1.1m back might be a good investment depending on risk though, sticking 1m in a bank I am unlikely to get that rate of return for example. But I don't understand this part at all.
First he tried connecting robotics, now he is trying connecting all devices
Founded by a Single Tweet Startup OmniEdge's effort to let connect without concern.
First he tried connecting robotics, now he is trying connecting all devices.
Biden is just a CCP puppet.

Fucking piece of shit - can't even make a full sentence, degraded old fuck.
They just check against identifier. It even claim google chrome is a better solution on the new Edge browser (which is basically a ms'styled google chrome).

Doing that is so absurd in my opinion.
You don't think bringing people joy is a positive impact?
Yes. That was not what you claimed and it does not imply that your argument is correct, for reasons that I feel I've spelt out fairly patiently. You are welcome to remain opposed to the incineration of plastic waste, but I feel that your reasoning suffers from tunnel vision.
The aluminum cans are stolen because they actually have a intrinsic value. The plastic bag does not and there is no way to artificially add value to it so people collect and return them.

>Glass is sand -- throw it in the deep ocean or pile it up I don't care.

But who gonna do that? And why would someone do that but not do it for plastic?

The reason we dont have a floating patch of glass in the ocean is not because humans piled it up on land its because its sinks and rather fast reaches a destination where it stays for hundreds of years. Unlike plastic which falls apart floats around get eaten by animals etc. etc.

The oceans must be full of human made glass its just not visible and has no known severe effects.
But replacing all plastic with glass/aluminum just for the small fraction that will ends up in the ocean makes no sense. The extra pollution cased by not using plastic is far far grater. Instead we should focus on the moment plastic turn to pollution.
Ive used thousands of plastic bags in my life and none of them ended up in the ocean. This is true for most people so where do the bags actually "leak" into the environment. I would assume there are places where rivers are used as garbage trucks to move the trash away. This is the real problem. Not people who actually use the plastic bags. Its people who intentionally "dispose" trash in the environment.
No living creature enjoys suffering therefore do no action of intent which causes suffering to any other living thing. That's the One True Morality and every person can measure it for themselves because all of us is directly connected to suffering.

It's not pompous, it's reasonable, as in it's a deduction that anyone can make for themselves with the reason they have, applied to the vessel they were born with.
To be fair to one of those examples,

> von neumann would chew people out who couldn't keep up with him

Imagine what that experience was like from his perspective, constantly explaining simple things to people too lazy to put in the work necessary to have a proper discussion about whatever before ultimately wasting his time. Over and over and over again. That gets old quickly no matter what level you're operating on.
Right. The same issue confounds studies that show charter schools perform better than their public school counterparts, after controlling for student demographics. It could be that the quality of a charter school education is truly better, but it’s also possible that parents who care enough about their kids’ education to take initiative to send them to a charter school provide a better home environment in general.
Have to add to this,

Spent time in the remote Australian desert for many weeks, it was the first time I realized that the Earth is the best space ship we could ever hope to have.

I felt the same type of weightlessness and experienced "the dome" for many nights on end. Every night was a wonderful gift.
Classic. Users asking for an obvious and predictable feature they will never use and that will only taint the app. We throw it in because it is obvious and "you gotta have that." Resist.
Adam Savage uses checklists as a motivational tool. Something satisfying about marking things as done. On paper, esp.

I could only find this -- with a link to another wired article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20263850
Is it just the cost/benefit ratio that you have to consider? How about the quality of being realistic? Tell me, and in the context of the previous responses--how realistic is it that North America will be able to carry out and enforce its agenda in the Ganges?
This stuff is probably ridiculously toxic / dangerous.

I predict it is used to create artificial sweeteners and fat, and sold with inadequate safety testing.
What if some patriotic soul just shoots Fauci?

Then are we done?
Of course I do, even under a Human Right violating regime.
Human Rights transcend local authorities.
And this authority would be both wrong and illegitimate if it has endorsed those Rights by ratifying a treaty that defines them, and somehow doesn't "belive" in them as you put it.
Fauci is a faggot.
I think a company decided it was more important, not people.
closed-source == not secure
This video by Huberman labs shows the scientific way to learn optimally: https://youtu.be/uuP-1ioh4LY
To echo this, a previous employer has scheduled downtime that coincides with spring break because they recognized so many parents take time off because of having school-aged children.
Additional issue was that to become a standard, there would have to be at least two different proof-of-concept implementations. That would mean, someone would have to write a SQLite compatible database, that is not SQLite.
I want to suck Fauci's dick and then I want to suck Biden's dick.

Kamala can't join - she's already sucked enough dick.
What is a better way you've found?
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)
Obviously not with that attitude. I'm not even talking about back-porting. I'm saying going forward, in new drivers and extensions, and new growth where it makes sense to do so.

There's even plenty of means for backwards-compatible strings and arrays, such as sds.

But really the point was more to "this should have really been addressed decades ago."

https://github.com/antirez/sds
95% of whiteboard apps I've used have unreasonable latency.

I'm not talking about network latency, but in the browser, on my end. If the drawing is 300ms behind the cursor, handwriting is wonky.

Microsoft got this right in their early Surface stuff, but somehow messed it up in Teams. Google does this wrong. Zoom does this wrong. There are a few things which does this well, but it's rare.
Resource allocation is another issue. But even if the other teams try to independently replicate results (imagine such luxury), that would be useful.
The more people there are in the field the probability of challenging the status quo is higher.
Also why scale up the number of companies? You can increase the number of startups trying something new.
If the business is run sensibly and isn't hemorrhaging a large percentage of its workers, not hiring just means delayed growth, not an existential threat.
Those months can be planned for well ahead of time, and there's generally plenty of child caring activities (camps, schools offering day sessions, etc). This was... very different, and a lot more difficult for most people.
I have about 5 or 6 of those square on/off ZigBee switches. They're perfect for automating through Home Assistant.

Now I just have to find those encoders you're talking about. It's exactly what I wanted to buy.
Being able to be picky about employees is the opposite of a labor shortage.
For most of out lives, we are taught to learn subjects in a linear manner - pick up a book on Calculus, read it from start to finish, and you can do calculus. This breaks down when learning something like React. There are a lot of tangential technologies that can throw you off in this process.

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I have a 3 step process for learning new frameworks and technologies in ~1 week with a 10-15 hr time commitment. This specifically works well for web development tech but it is easily transferable to other mediums.

Prepare: Spend 1hr Mon. - Thurs. watching videos

Plan: Spend 1hr preparing a small project idea on Fri.

Project: Spend 4-6 hrs executing the project on Sat.
Repeat

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Example workflow with learning React.

Prepare: The best way to start is to watch a ton of videos and sleep on them. This will build an internal mind-map of related technologies like Hooks, React Native, TypeScript, Class vs Functional Components, Redux, etc.

Plan: The worst thing you can do is not setup a project and do all the misc. work required to be productive. You want to keep that weekend timeframe to JUST code.

Project: This is self-explanatory. Just finish the MVP, google the "right" questions by utilizing your mind-map and build confidence to learn more the next week.

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In-depth Video Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYvPQOTBNo
Except right there in the report they list the vaccine coverage for Massachusetts to be at 69% (out of the “eligible” population, implying I’m that number is somewhat less for the total population). If 74% of positive COVID tests come from vaccinated people, then we’re already in “being vaccinated is worse than not” territory. Not saying that’s the necessarily the correct conclusion, but it’s something that definitely needs some kind of explanation and shouldn’t be hastily brushed away.
> But if Firefox was genuinely better it could win via word of mouth; whether it’s power users recommending it or people having it on their work computers (because their IT mandates it) and wanting the same great browser at home.

That's how it used to be.

These days it is still better at what I need it for (learning, research), but it isn't orders of magnitude anymore and certain people tending bugzilla for Mozilla are borderline hostile, see for example here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447#c171
Minecraft’s 'Worst' Server Was Exploited So Hard, Griefers Could See the Future
>Japan is surrounded by a sea of trash due to the countries surrounding it.

I'm seeing mainly trash from Japanese companies that are Japanese products with Japanese labels. It's easy to recognize. Externalizing blame isn't the solution because it's not the problem.

Currents likely help carry trash away from certain regions. Japan's east coast isn't really being affected by trash that would be coming from, say, China, because currents don't carry most of it to our beaches. It's stuff being washed out locally and brought back by waves here. Much more is likely being passed out into the middle of the ocean.
this. i think many people don’t get that spaced repetition isn’t for learning new things the first time.
It's a sliding scale, which is why I mentioned the national parks. More people = more trash. Take a little plastic bag with you next time and pick up every piece of trash you see. Suddenly it will pop out of the woodwork. Waterways collect and concentrate it.
Shameless plug:

If you just need a dead simeple notepad that also works offline, check out https://notepad.js.org
The bit about the Zeigarnik effect was interesting, I didn't know about it but it does make sense and matches my experience.

But the reason tasks aren't done frequently usually has nothing to do with how the to-do list is organised, and I'm not sure why the app creators from the beginning of the article were surprised about their checklist not being more effective than any other method. It still doesn't mean it was useless.
That doesn't matter.

Until the countries have processes and infrastructure in place to properly handle it, it should not be sent there as that is relying on inadequate laws to reduce costs. And here we are.

But here is an article that talks to some of it, single source so grain of salt. https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2019/3/6/1570...
When I listen to German the words seem more distinct from one another than Spanish or Italian. I wonder if it’s a reflection of how many words in the language end in consonants vs vowels.
Multiple misconceptions here:

1) We don't cut down old growth trees to make paper products - we cut down fast-growth trees that are farmed for exactly this purpose. Cutting down these trees is not a problem, and in fact pulls some carbon out of the atmosphere because the trees captured it and the paper product end of life is usually getting buried where the carbon is mostly trapped.

2) You're ignoring that renewable energy can be used for production.

3) You're also ignoring that common plastics start with oil, which isn't just used for making plastic products. If you see a bunch of plastic bottles, you should also be thinking about the other oil products associated with them that got burned and turned into GHG.
Unleashing international entrepreneurs to help the U.S. economy recover
Just a quick search shows how even though it might be just 3%. 3% is a huge number with the US being the biggest plastic waste generator. 3% = 1.25 million metric tons.

And in 2016, more than half of all the plastic collected in the US was shipped abroad. To places that supposedly "mismanage" plastic waste.

I have personally seen the impact when China banned all this waste from landing. It moved to places like Malaysia and Indonesia. I got more than a few calls to try and see if they could move that plastic from Malaysia and Indonesia to other countries. It is still a massive ongoing problem.

Basically the US and a lot of western countries have outsourced pollution and then blame developing countries. This happens when discussions about CO2 emissions also comes up. When most of that pollution is generated production cheap goods for the west.

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/us-pl...
So just because you are gay, or your sibling is gay, or your best friend is gay... then totally unrelated people are not allowed to have their opinions, because you don't approve them?
Neal was taking questions during some book tour or another, and someone asked a question about Snow Crash while calling it “dystopian.” Neal kind of smiled and replied that he didn’t think it was a dystopia. He had some more to say, which I don’t recall and cannot find unfortunately.

Snow Crash has been optioned for one project or another for over 20 years. As of May 2020, HBO was adapting it to a TV series. Here’s hoping that’s still on track!

https://www.cbr.com/snow-crash-hbo-max-adaptation-dream-cybe...
Whats that debacle about? I'm using latest Chrome and am still using uBlock origin.
Yeah this also sounds like part of the "MBA-ification" of business.

I think a lot of this comes from a reasonable goal to have: if can find appropriate metrics which represent the work your company is doing, this should give you a reasonably objective way of measuring how different interventions move you closer to or farther from your goal.

But I think the problem is that actually finding and implementing those metrics is a bit of a pipe dream in most cases. A lot of these metrics which people come up with to try to measure productivity - story points, ticket flow, time-on-task - are all fairly subjective, and not very good proxies for measuring actual value creation.

I think it gets worse in orgs where there's a disconnect between management and the workforce which is actually getting things done. Often times, upper management only has these artificial metrics to evaluate the performance of a team. A lot of company cultures put management in a bit of a bubble, so middle managers have more of a focus on conversations with other people in that management layer, who are metrics focused, rather than dealing with development teams, who are actually engaged with the product.

As a result, the "ground truth" for management becomes the metrics, and you start to see really silly things happen because the metrics matter more than the product.
> If I may suggest one thing... instead of range requests on a single huge file how about splitting the file in 1-page fragments in separate files and fetching them individually?

Edgesearch does that though with Cloudflare Workers mediating searches: https://github.com/wilsonzlin/edgesearch

Uses roaring-bitmaps to index, but could also use Stavros' trick (bloom/cuckoo-filters) to further gate false-positives on-the-client: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473365
I had a job once where I did nothing except for when I would find things to do in order to quell the boredom.

When I tell people this they are usually envious but I always say 'be careful what you wish for'. For me it was the most miserable period of my life.

I've had depression and been homeless - that job was worse.
This is a bizarre kind of double-think.

If someone the other side of the world tells you that you have the right to freedom of religion, but the authority you live under disagrees, and the people on the other side of the world don't do anything about it, then in what sense do you have the right?

You don't - it's meaningless.

If I say I have decided that you have the universal inalienable right to beer, but where you live doesn't agree, and I don't do anything about it either, then have I really given you that right? Of course not.

I think what you're saying is that you think people should have these rights. Great. But they don't in practice, and so they aren't universal.
> It doesn't really matter if Electron has code you won't use.

It does matter very much when it negatively impacts your application's performance and user experience.

I definitely didn't dismiss the benefits Electron provides, in fact I completely acknowledge those benefits. The thing is, those benefits don't have to be exclusive to an unsuitable platform like Electron. What's stopping us from bringing that developer productivity to a desktop platform?

This post mostly focuses on app development for independent developers. However, these points are exaggerated even further for entire teams and companies where you actually have the time and resources to invest into the appropriate technologies instead of forcefully trying to reframe every development problem into a web problem (if all you have is a hammer...).
There are skewing factors here.

Kids under 12 are 100% unvaccinated at the moment, for example. People who are anti-vaccine may have a tendency to also avoid testing. etc.
> You're leading with energy use but that's really not the point.

Isn't that the critical point? Of all our environmental problems, atmospheric CO2 is the biggest one, right? My assumption is that the energy used in industrial manufacturing is almost always non-renewable. If we're advocating for using paper bags over plastic bags, that means we're advocating for way more CO2 in the atmosphere. So what we should actually be advocating for is mandating that people reuse bags, bottles, and containers of all kind.

It's been a long time since I've been involved in chemistry, but my understanding is that extruded polymers like plastic bags, wraps and containers are almost always synthesized from waste products of fossil fuel refinement. If it wasn't for products like plastic wraps and bags, these "waste" gasses that are polymerized into plastics would be released into the atmosphere (especially in places without environment regulation or enforcement). The production of plastics at least traps those gasses into some solid state that we can then hope to maybe possibly bury in a landfill. I know it's ugly and pretty horrible, but from a climate perspective I'd go so far as to say that I'd prefer the plastic in a body of water than in the atmosphere.
HTTP/1.x is anything but simple. They were under defined and overly complex in many ways. The original RFC was so complex that when reworked, they split it into 6 documents.

I've worked heavily on some HTTP implementations and its ridiculously hard to get them right.

Not to mention, this "server" only responds to a simple well formed GET request. Without handling about 90% of what the HTTP specifications talk about. Its a nice project, but it doesn't speak to the simplicity of HTTP