jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Same reason Tesla is valued so highly, even though they're not profitable yet. Expectations.

Also, their product is nutritionally completely. It's not slimfast. I'm sure you've compared the nutritional information, right? Of course you have.
“Doesn’t seem to have been harmed”?

His life was upended. He gave up his full time practice and moved on to writing as his #1 source of income.

That’s because he managed the situation spectacularly well. Imagine if NYT had gone ahead with the doxx earlier: it could have disrupted his life a lot more.

Rationalists are angry about the principles/norms being violated. The outcome doesn’t negate the criticisms.

On the other hand, it’s clear that the Left is willing to throw principles under the bus in pursuit of outcomes desirable to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who,_whom%3F
Exactly! "Everyone has their own opinions and perspective and the right to express them and have them heard and respected by others" is an excellent philosophy!

It's also something that most rationalists tend to reject outright[1]. It sounds downright woke to me.

[1] When it's about someone else's opinions and perspectives.
This sounds very illegal. From what I know, in France the notice period is 1 month if it is "meublé", or 3 months if the appartment is empty.

Edit: actually, I just checked and that's for tenants. If the landlord wants to break the contract to sell the property, it's 3 months for "meublé", 6 months otherwise.
I bought some silicon sleeves that fix this issue (the bottom half of the remote face with no buttons is covered by silicon). It also resolve the issue that the remote is very slippery in your hands as well as the issue of being unable to tell which remote goes where if you have multiple Apple TV’s (you can get different color silicon for each TV).
Greeks had a mechanical cube-root finder.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3615516?seq=1

(btw. are scihub links allowed on HN?)
I think his spiel has been that while blog readers could trivially find out his real name, but his patients could not (searching 'scott siskind' wouldn't bring up his blog in the first n page of results), until this association was made in the NYT. If you search that now the first two results are the wiki for SSC and the NYT stories, and if you look in the wiki for SSC you'll see that his real name was kept off of it (despite weekly-ish edits attempting to re-add his name) up until the NYT story.
Consultants are a whole other animal: astrologers willing to give HR directors kickbacks. What they say, or can't, is not informative.

If just reading the descriptions is enough for you, do that. Most people seem to need more structure.
I have this running as a uBO scriptlet injected into every website before content javascript starts to execute

*##+js(myscript)

does various things, disables webassembly, websocket, AudioContext, serviceworkers, openDatabase and indexedDB, navigator.sendBeacon and window.opener, some fingerprinting randomization stuff, etc. I wish there was a Browser on the market actually letting you configure such things _per domain_ as Opera Presto used to, alas we are on our own now :(.
I think it's not as bad as you make out. Over time, with thousands and thousands of words written, I get the impression people are actually converging on some semblance of truth. In my rather optimistic view of what's happening: initial reactions give way to longer, more thoughtful pieces, and eventually there's broad consensus and people stop discussing it.
That's pretty much what the author did [1]. He just screwed on a shelf on the coffee table to support the keyboard and mouse.

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
What does that quite mean? It was obviously not meant to be.. In this game of "startups" and world of "entrepreneurship" many hurdles, obstacles will try to come your way. The number one job is to jump over and accelerate faster harder and better each time. I have had this happen to me on projects before today and all I do is break down the wood and add it to the fireplace ;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8821847
He has a specific gripe about this because of an adult-themed website that lost its domain registration, since Libya is an Islamic country and the registrar adheres to a different set of cultural standards.
It seems to me that the moral of the story for early-stage founders is this: Don't (over)-optimize for valuation.

Naturally you want to raise at the highest valuation you can, but it's not quite as simple as supply-meets-demand economics. There are different parties that bring different sets of skill and enthusiasm to the table, and all not only have to justify their investments to LPs, but are actually hoping to make a return on the investment.

If I were to raise a seed round again (and we were oversubscribed - not best-of-YC-oversubscribed but oversubscribed), I would optimize purely for investors that would be most helpful, and let the valuation be an afterthought. My guess is 90% of founders who have gone through it would say the same. Doubly so if they had a really bad set of investors.

If you are a YC founder and you want to start a bidding war, can you find some sucker wiling to give you money at a an absurd valuation? Probably. But when Series A/B time comes you have to justify that absurd valuation. The day of reckoning is ~1 year away. That's a hell of a lot of pressure on a short time-frame for a company just barely getting off the ground.

To a certain extent (and I recognize this is a very flawed analogy), your seed round valuation is like getting somebody to bet on what you'll score when test time truly comes. So if you want to say, "I'm going to score X" and you get somebody to believe you, that's great, but now you have to fulfill on that promise or nastiness comes. That could mean a lot of dilution, a down-round, CEO firings... not fun stuff.

That being said, every company is different, and a lot of the time I see people saying, "Look at that valuation, it's 1999!" while knowing absolutely nothing about the company, its founders, the market, the trajectory, the metrics, the revenue, etc. There are relatively few metrics someone outside of the deal could use to determine whether or not we're in a bubble, so we mostly look at how many zeroes are behind a valuation and determine according to that if it's "a bubble." Pretty difficult, but everyone will have their say.

Personally I wouldn't mind things being deflated a little bit. We didn't raise the highest valuation possible, mostly because we wanted to go with people we trusted and get back to work. I'd like to think taking a little bit of the valuation edge off would make hiring less competitive, rent in Silicon Valley cheaper, etc, and I'd be OK with it being less hot than it is now. Obviously I hope a 2000-like scenario never happens again, but I'll be around no matter what happens, so let what may come.
From reading your other replies, if you're staying in it for the kids; don't. If my parents were deeply unhappy with each other I'd much prefer they went their separate ways than to suffer through the marriage just for me.
> Can we stop with these headlines trying to scare people [...]

What a funny time, after a full year of media-driven hysteria, to decide that this is a priority now!
Lower taxes = less mandatory diversion of people's money to corrupt activities. With corrupt private companies you are more likely able to just "withdraw" or stay away from them. That is not at all the case with state-level corruption which requires you to actually flee the country, emigrate or vote in new non-corrupt politicians, some of which are next to impossible for a good chunk of people.
> concluded that Finnegans Wake just isn’t worth it

I thought it's still not deciphered to the same extent that you would expect to grok ‘Ulysses’?
That fantastic and terrifying at the same time. The complexity of Kubernetes and when you open the container: Bam, Cobol.
I always wonder why people don't trust their offsite back-ups to cloud providers. I know they're trying to get away from getting locked out of their data, but what are the odds a burglar steals their computers on the exact same day their cloud provider locks them out because they violated the 'no making fun of ridiculous cloud provider lockout policies' policy?

As long as your house burning down and your cloud getting locked don't occur on the same day, you're golden and thus no messing with blue-rays and bank security boxes.
The diagram alone is more than enough of an argument to dissuade me from giving this a shot right now - it's simply too complicated and too much to manage for the amount of time I can dedicate to it.

BUT - I'm really thankful for people who keep posting and sharing these sorts of projects; they're the ones iterating the process for the rest of us who need something a bit more turn-key.

I'm excited to see this eventually result in something like the following:

- Standard / Easy to update containerized setup.

- Out of the box multi-location syncs (e.g. home, VPS, etc.)

- Takes 5 minutes to configure/add new locations

I want this to be as easy as adding a new AP to my mesh wifi system at home: plug it in, open the app, name the AP, and click "Done".

(Edit - formatting)
If you think this is gruesome, or that it's only other living creatures that get treated this way, I'll point you to King Leopold 2 of Belgium and his treatment of the congo.

https://www.amazon.com/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial/...

Warning: this book will probably give you mental trauma.
Might be minority of programmers, but I'd bet it's actually a significant percentage of the users (probably including the developers and the early adopters on their Discord). They might not be looking at the entire market for text editors, but more at keeping their current users happy. Just my speculation though...
In the first months after starting to wear a watch (smart Apple or any other kind, really), I kept forgetting that it also tells the time. The habit of looking up the time on the phone was so deeply ingrained, if I tried to find out the time while in a bit of autopilot mode, I'd always reach for the phone, instead of looking at the wrist.
Ever since first hearing about Airbnb here, I've thought over and over about what an amazing place to work it sounds. This just confirms it: one of the founders truly digs into what creating a startup means (no better customer development than using your product more than anyone else). Plus he sounds like a really cool guy.
I wonder if something like Simple’s Goals could be implemented using Stripe Treasury.
To add to this: the point of the disappearing messages in signal is to enhance the value of the forward secrecy by not having the record of the messages (so long as both devices are using correct clients and no one is screenshotting messages.

The other feature is deniability: having an encrypted message and it’s decryption doesn’t give you any more information than a screenshot of the message in signal. There isn’t a way for the encrypted message to prove that it was legitimate as the previous keys are revealed in a way that means anyone sniffing the traffic could make a message encrypted with that key.
Yes but not clicking through the shrink-wrap agreement isn't a real way to do it. Legislation that requires people be able to say no to data collection without loss of service would go a long way.
You're right - that is a misunderstanding. I think you accidentally replied to the wrong comment seeing as I didn't say or imply that.
The FAA's press release: https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsI...

And the final rule:
https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/SFA_Supersonic_Fi...
> has been tried and tested in the form of gold standard and deemed not satisfactory.

I believe the comparison is unfair:

- Gold can't be transfered in under 10 minutes halfway round the planet

- Gold can rather easily be confiscated

- Gold is very hard to subdivide to tiny quantities

- Gold can easily be "faked", especially for tiny amounts.

- Gold's supply is not really finite

- [edit]: carrying 100kg of gold across a border is - to say the least - problematic
I could be wrong, but I believe the twitter poster is referring to this event from 2019:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/23/20929080/...

https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-storm-scif-national-...

&c.
Why he thinks centralisation is best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

(Title: 36C3 - The ecosystem is moving)

To me, it's a sound argument and he's convinced me. Fighting the status quo by constantly improving in a short amount of time is incompatible with decentralisation. It's the same reason e-mail hasn't been able to change and improve, or encrypted email still isn't practical, but I'll leave the meat of the argument to that video.
It's part of timing the market. Dropbox wouldn't have the market fit 5 or 10 years before. As people have become less technical and as devices multiplied and as people became more willing to spend on this category of customer products it became a winner.

Rsync is easy for those who used it. That number (people who knew rsync) declined but less so here. Hn users were not natural customers but even that changed
That understanding is too simplistic. 1947 was two years after the end of WW2, the second time in half a century that the US got dragged into a massive European war. From a defense perspective, it's better to keep the fighting on someone else's territory. If Hitler or Stalin or Putin rolls over Europe, North America will be next. There's nothing nonsensical about putting a stop to that early.

Also, Europeans are our friends. It's right to help defend them.
Enjoyably deadpan :-)
If you watch the video they sold before launch.
What is funny is when you Google these people either all of their other sites show up first or their about.me page doesn't even make it in the top 10. The only exception is Tony.
There's two trains of thoughts here:

1. You can disable lint warnings, so it's no big deal if some rules have false positives

2. Disabling lint warnings should be a code smell, so if there's some rule that's getting people used to disabling lint warnings, it is a problem.

I'm on camp 2 on this rule.
I didn’t say the gold standard caused the Depression; I said it exacerbated it. This is well supported by your link and other historical sources.

The point is, without control of the money supply, a government cannot prevent deflationary spirals. Since Fed can print money temporarily, that makes recessions much milder.

You're right, in a sense, that money printing is inflationary. But when money printing happens, it's to avoid a far greater evil: severe deflation.

https://www.history.com/news/how-did-the-gold-standard-contr...
Ok, now lets say you did the Bitcoin thing and your assets are safe. You are still suffering from poor governance and Bitcoin isn't going to change that one bit.
You are totally right!
Net loss is increasing, operating expenses increasing, cash flow looks bad. Not sure there is anything to like about this stock other than speculation. And it's already a 12yo company
AMF, not AMC.
It was exceptional for the US because the infrastructure wasn't bombed out and were very well poised to supply goods to a rebuilding Europe. International shipping wasn't efficient enough to outsource the jobs to countries with low wages so there was actual opportunity for the middle class to grow and get ahead.
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If I find something remotely worthy, I bookmark it with the nearest button available. Most browsers have one near the address bar somewhere.
Linus Tech Tips actually just released a video a couple of hours ago where they compared the Surface Pro X SQ2 with the M1 MacBook Air. It was not pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhESSZIXvCA
> Here in the northeast, it's horrible in the winter when it's dark by 4:30 pm. For a lot of people, it's a huge life upgrade to change that to 5:30 pm.

Just to be clear, I live in New York City. It gets dark at 4:30 this time of year. I know how frustrating that is.

But I also think that if this bill passed, most would discover that getting up an hour earlier in the morning is clearly worse. Others have posted some great studies in this thread, but for me, the clearest evidence is still that on days when people have the ability to sleep later, that's what they do. We stay up late on Friday evenings and sleep in late on Saturday mornings, without a care for all of the wasted Saturday daylight.

The numbers on a clock are arbitrary—you can change them, but all you're really changing are the societal commitments for which people are obligated to wake up. Our society is already too optimized for early risers, and late risers are paying the price. I don't think we should make the problem even worse just so we can shift around a few hours of sunlight.
Wouldn't anyone who held shares during that time have standing for the lawsuit, regardless of when they bought them?
Should a single foreign for-profit megacorporation have that much power over our elected governments?
I think it's a little deceptive that none of your screenshots show ads, when this app prominently displays ads.
Yeah, but the "stuff" on 23andme is the result of years of human genome research. The fact that we can now examine our genetic makeup is a large scientific step forward.
Well, yes. A roaring lion rampant is SUPPOSED to be menacing, and it does the job.

On the other hand take a gander at the Great Seal of the United States:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg

The eagle isn't doing anything especially menacing like the British lion is. It holds arrows to represent preparedness for war, but also an olive branch to represent preference for peace. I'm not familiar with the symbolic meaning of the elements of the British Royal Coat of Arms: does it contain any equivalent to the American olive branch?
These people will never change. Wasn't Yalta conference or Cuban missile crisis sufficient to understand that one should never trust Commies?
Ah, brilliant!

Also, Jason Scott replied to me! Wohoo!

Also, thank you for all the work you do, and thank you for writing about it.
By syntax macros I mean expressions that can be referentially opaque, i.e. m(a) and m(b) might have different semantics even though a and b have the same reference. Lisp (and C, and Haskell, and Rust) is referentially opaque while Zig is transparent. Opacity is strictly more expressive, but is harder to understand; Zig strives to be the "weakest" language possible to get the job done.

MetaML certainly does seem to be similar to Zig, although the one paper I've now read thanks to your suggestion (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439750...) does not mention introspection and type functions, and another commenter here suggests that it is, actually, referentially opaque.
Is anything interactive except bulb?
Is it game / game concept / just a art expression ?
I have to decrapify every ubuntu install. They have so much telemetry and autoupdate and other BS.

I'm starting to learn too much about apt to try and prevent things from reinstalling themselves.
Why not make use of some existing and alive p2p network's DHT, like BitTorrent? It would solve peer discovery time issue.
Good. America needs more unions. They helped build the country that America enjoys today. Meanwhile, as they've been made weaker and weaker, people are left wondering why wages have stagnated so bad. Unions lift wages for everyone. They increase worker strength against large companies with the ears of politicians.
I'm not OP, but I find it easier to read a 50k word book than 10k blog article. The latter had better be really good (and many of Scott's are) if I'm going to make it to the end.

It's probably something about the nature of reading on a screen, on a device that's capable of fifty zillion other things at the press of a button. When I'm reading a book, there's only the book. Less willpower is required to maintain my focus.

Long blog posts are much easier to read if I send them to my Kindle, but I rarely bother.

Edit: a word
What a wild ride. Made me lose a lot of respect for the NYT and gained much respect for Scott for handling it like this.
More Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Artificial Intelligence articles/software
We don't need the general population to understand email security - they use what's available/provided and it'll have to be easy enough that it works in practice. Once there's a viable alternative and financial liability is tied to the pretense of email being secure, suddenly we'll change to the new system.

What's interesting is that it's only liberty minded tech people working on the problem. The next email system will be tailored to protect the user because that's what the designers care about, rather than the interests of other organizations, for example serving legal papers electronically.
It has been suggested that Elop was installed at Nokia specifically to act in Microsoft's best interest. Indeed, his actions make sense when so viewed.

Interestingly, this may be his specialty: check out his movements preceding the sale of Macromedia to Adobe.
Foursquare is up, but Quora is still showing the 503.
You can have multiple devices registered to the same Kindle account. My wife and I use the same Amazon login to buy everything (yay, Amazon Prime), including Kindle books. That means her iPad and my Kindle both get to download and read the same books. No lending necessary.
"forget about classic unix filters that have been used for 30 years"

no thanks, link-bait!
There's clearly a level of money you could offer that would get most people taking it and I sort of agree that $3000 isn't a huge test of loyalty, but at the same time its a really good idea.

The people who are most effected by relatively small amounts of money like this are marginal employees - people who don't really think they'll be happy at Zappos or are just working there until something better comes along. If you're getting rid of people who wouldn't have stuck around that long anyways it seems like a really good deal for Zappos (you don't have to pay the wages of the employee _or the people who were training them_). It seems like a really good and obvious in retrospect idea that many other companies might be wise to adopt.
You could stand next to them all day and it would still be less than 1% of your daily radiation dose from cosmic rays. More importantly, for argument's sake, it would be much less than the amount of additional radiation you pick up on a standard flight.
FYI, this article is back from September 2008. I'm not sure whether or not this practice is still in place now that they've grown exponentially.
Google would make it free - but trawl all your data to send you ads.

Apple would make it apple only - which is kind of irrelevent to 99% of people.

Microsoft would just do it sooooo badly.
Expression Web with SuperPreview does exactly what you're looking for.
I would probably go on a one-way trip to Mars, assuming there was decent Internet access (not likely, given the 20-40 minute round trip for radio). I guess I'd have to have a buddy at NASA who could send hardened hard drives with the resupply missions.