jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Practically every "market" in America is a cartel or monopoly. Really this augurs the future of massive multinational corporations consolidating and controlling worldwide markets with cartel/monopoly power that will be even more insulated from regulation.

Innovation comes from many players in actual competition.

Sure some innovation can come from subdepartments in megacorps, but if you've spent any time in large corporations and witnessed the empire building and other structural behaviors more in common with single party rule governments, you know that innovation is suppressed.

Employment likely is suppressed. You'd need more people doing the various roles of companies, and while that seems less efficient that what large companies are doing overall, I'd argue the reduced middle management pyramids and increased amounts of people trying different management and software approaches will lead to a net gain in efficiency, more fluidity, more GDP, and more local employment.

Large cartels/monopoly megacorps also are better able an to lobby the government to entrench themselves. Possibly their greatest advantage. And highly incented to do so, which increases the overall corruption in the system of government.

How much of the perceived corruption increase in American government, despite the transparency that the internet allows, is due to the monopoly/cartel consolidation throughout the economy?
There are 3: one in the bedroom, one in the vanity area, and one in the actual bath/wc room. We close all the ones except the one in the bath/shower/wc tiny room, bc that is the place where we are often both naked and wet. :)
Been looking for something like this for a while.
I once proposed to also speed up and simplify asynchronous async/await function calls by removing the extra caching layer and state machine underlying all such calls that come from using promises:

https://es.discourse.group/t/callback-based-simplified-async...
It’s like every single social network pitch since Facebook succeeded. Take existing form of content (podcasts), tweak it a little, make it easier to produce and let almighty algorithms generate billions for you.
+1 for Work Adventure !
How many software engineers with 15 years of experience, perfect English, strong up-to-date skills, and ability to work seamlessly with an American team, do you think exist in South America or Europe (very different timezone)?

If it was so easy to reduce payroll cost (the biggest cost in the budget of all tech companies) then it would have been done years ago, COVID or no COVID.
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Compensation for everyone is still under debate, but will involve salary + options + exposure in the fund.
We use the following: python, pytorch, node, javascript, typescript, websockets, postgres, parquet, aws, cuda, scp, ssh, lambda cloud. We are experimenting with: c++, go, rust, self-play, MCTS, probabilistic programming, deep RL.

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Fair enough. A lot of comments are talking about forcing drivers, even with allergies or phobias, to take any fare requested by a disabled person. It's definitely up to Uber to figure out how to comply and how to incentivize. Forced labor of individuals definitely isn't the way to do it, and is antithetical to modern principles of government.
He did this when I was 15. I was forced to be vegan as well, since he put the groceries in the house.

I was voluntarily a vegan in my early 20s from 2001 to 2005. I too felt far better when I first transitioned to veganism, for several months. Over time, I gradually had a hard time keeping my weight at a normal level, and noticed that I healed slower from physical activity, but supplementation helped with that. The thing that ended up doing me in was an experiment to try to gain muscle mass (I had lost it while being vegan and working construction) where I started eating fish and eggs ended up having the unforeseen side-effect of curing my depression.

I'm not prescribing any diet to anybody, but it wasn't a great fit for me.

My father's development of heart disease was no mystery. He's a dumb redneck who went vegan because of a woman and the ensuing social circle that gave him what he always wanted, a sense of community. He's a shitty cook, except for meat, and so he ended up replacing meat with carbs and vegetable oils. Refined carbs trigger the liver to crank out triglycerides into the blood stream, who consequentially damage arterial linings and cause inflammation. His diet went from being a relatively healthy one that included animal products, but was a lot of game meat and fresh caught fish, to a diet that happened to be vegan but was shitty.

The religious zealots he was around told him that animal products were THE cause of heart disease and cancer and everything else. Total BS of course.
I love that the Arkenstone is what Bilbo holds on the cover, and not The One Ring.
I feel like you can be in both camps(not anti vax, but pro vitamin D) and still be right, I am. I am about to get the 2nd pfizer vaccine shot and supplement daily with vitamin D. I have had lower levels years ago and would get extremely sick during the winter/spring. I started taking 3000IU daily and it has had a dramatic affect on my health. Colds are less severe and the duration is shorter.

I had my vit. D levels tested and was still a bit off optimal, this after running in the middle of the day during winter, eating meat almost daily and my previously mentioned vit. D doses. The reality is most everyone is probably not getting enough vitamin D and only a visit and a blood test from your Dr. will tell you for sure.
Vitamin C is water soluble, excess is excreted in your urine. Vitamin D is fat soluble. If you take more than your body can use it builds up inside you. It can cause problems if too much accumulates.
My code only use the 10KiB blobs for comparison, so as long as I don't have any buffer overflow bugs the actual content doesn't matter. Even if I had a buffer overflow bug, I'm running the code through Docker with distroless based image [0], so that helps a little as well. I guess I can also change docker's runtime from runc to runsc [1] to help mitigate further, but I don't really see that as necessary as it's quite hard to have buffer overflow bugs in go code.

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

[1]: https://gvisor.dev/docs/user_guide/quick_start/docker/
Probably because California is NOT a right-to-work state, and all studios that matter have agreements with all the unions (guilds) that make their productions union-only jobs. So, even if you are Tom Cruise, Dwayne Johnson, or Scarlett Johansson, you have to join the union in order to get work.

* Yes, there are small studios and some other ways of avoiding this if you only want to film in certain states, but if you want to earn the big bucks, you have to join the union.
The obvious step would be to require the uploader to be responsible for their content. Less so than youtube, ph's content would generally imply that the owner has secured the rights of its participants.
If they want to alienate drivers less, why don't they just issue new rules stating that drivers must accept X% of rides in order to stay on the platform? I thought they already had such a thing in place, anyway.
> I won't be surprised if I wake up one day and we have race-specific water fountains again.

We already have: Race-specific clubs on Universities.[1]; Race-specific departments on Universities.[2]; Race-specific video playlists on YouTube. [3]; Race-specific filters for map apps. [4]; Race-specific brands [5]; Race-specific merchandise [6]; Race-specific professional feeds [7]; Race-specific video channels [8.1][8.2]; Race-specific graduations [9];

I could go on endlessly with this list. You see the trend. America is socially segregating itself. So the concern you raise with race-specific water fountains is valid. Though that form of segregation, specifically, may not return, but other forms will.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/company/bbsasfsu/about/
[2] https://equity.sfsu.edu/blackunitycenter
[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbpi6ZahtOH5pZK-VXFwj...
[4] https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/blac...
[5] https://www.target.com/c/black-owned-or-founded-brands-at-ta...
[6] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/01/apple-celebrates-blac...
[7] https://www.linkedin.com/news/daily-rundown/special-edition/
[8.1] https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/81299227?so=su
[8.2] https://www.hulu.com/black-stories
[9] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/more-t...
This is exactly what Michael D Higgins, the Irish president accused European historians of. He calls it a feigned amnesia over colonialism [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/11/irish-presiden...
If you split groups based on enough variables every single one of us is part of a disadvantaged group. A fight which isn't directed in the right direction is a waste of time and resource.

> "looking out for your own kind" is not racist

If "your own kind" is based on """race""" [0], it is, no matter who's doing it. Words have meaning, either they apply to everyone or they don't apply at all.

[0] aka ethnicity, skin color, &c. because "races" don't exist anywhere on earth other than in the US
Non stop Yolo meme stonk market. Sign me up!
You honestly think the US military annual budget is 150 trillion / year?
Sig's recent P320 system is another obvious example, where they've completely modularized the fire control group, allowing that to be swapped freely between multiple grips, calibers, and even form factors.
I feel like something similar happened with me middle of last year. I was studying for an Azure certification and deployed a few ubuntu servers. Around that time I received an email from someone named Aldo with 'Business Development' in their email signature.

We don't use anything from conanical at work and I've never signed up for anything from them that I recall. I remember at the time thinking it was weird to get this email when I had never before used an ubuntu server in azure. I certainly never expressed any interest in "running ubuntu in a secure manner on Azure" to anyone.

I received the email on June 6, 2020, and then several follow up emails when I didn't respond.

This was the message:

> With 85% of enterprises having either a mandate, preference or exploration of open source technology I've connected with many individuals, while working from home, who have reached out to discuss how we provide proactive security for Ubuntu deployments in the cloud. I understand you have similar interests around running Ubuntu in a secure manner on Azure.

> Ubuntu Pro, our carefully optimized image for production public cloud environments, provides all-inclusive patching for over 30,000 packages (for up to 10 years), FIPS 401-2 certification and Automated security profiles including CIS and DISA STIG.

> That is just a handful of ways we keep companies safe and I was hoping to show you more. How does your schedule look this week, or the next, for a quick chat?
This guy has been arguing for years that it is sugar (fructose actually) that increases the "bad" LDL in your blood stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Direct cash is not without problems. Theft, mismanagement, exploitation, violence are all known issue of just throwing money at people.

I’ll admit the administrative costs are low compared to no/low income housing or food assistance.

But this can be a be careful of what you wish for type of thing. A lot of homeless people are not prepared to just have cash. I know from my time working with a local shelter.
I always groan when I see posts on HN with grandiose claims about category theory, like this one.

I think it is actively harmful to propagate pseudo-mathematical claims like the those, for example, found in the
slides of Guest Lecture 1:

>>> It’s touched or greatly influenced all corners of mathematics.

>>> It’s become a gateway to learning mathematics.

And from the audio of the lecture (paraphrasing):

>>> Category theory is the stem cell that differentiates into and lies at the root of all pure mathematics. ["All forms of pure math" is also written on the slides.]

These statements are simply false. The vast majority of pure mathematics research done today does not involve category theory at all, and does not benefit from it. An even greater majority (like 99%+) of mathematics done in industry and in national labs does not involve category theory. Numerical analysis, probability, statistics, partial differential equations, dynamical systems, harmonic analysis, even lots of modern differential geometry – no category theory to be seen!

Want proof? Pick up any introductory graduate textbook, or any major journal in these fields.

Now, if you want to do research in number theory, or algebraic topology, or algebraic geometry – sure, you likely would benefit from categorical thinking. But those fields hardly have a monopoly on pure mathematics. Even in, for example, Hatcher's introductory graduate text on algebraic topology (perhaps the most widely used), category theory is stuck in a small appendix and you can read the entire thing without it, with no real loss [1].

I don't have the energy right now to explain why I find the lecture series misguided more generally, but I want to at least flag these obviously incorrect statements and urge caution.

[And before anyone grabs a PDE book and tells me the use of cohomology groups in certain places means PDE uses category theory, please note that e.g. homological algebraic and category theory are different things.]

[1] OK, I guess you need to know what e.g. a natural transformation is to read some parts of the last chapter, but no one does that in an introductory course anyway. A motivated teacher could easily present the material in such a way that this didn't matter.
>Iran's, and North Korea's, strategies are working out pretty well for the people making those decisions...The people of Iran and North Korea are not doing so well.

So your contention is that nation-states shouldn't interact with each other at the nation-state level? That is, if a nation-state proceeds with antagonistic policies, like funding regional militant and terrorist groups against your allies, you cannot hold that nation-state to account lest it hurt their populations? This is not an easy ethical question. At the nation-state level there is no rule of law, it is anarchy. It seems like there may be 'international law' in the modern world, but that's only for those that live within the sphere of influence of the relevant superpower who can enforce it (USA plays that role in much of the globe, soon to be replaced wholly or in part by Chinese influence).

Policies like sanctions have many goals. In the specific case of Iran, sanctions have a goal of curbing Iranian regional antagonism and not necessarily regime change (we're much too cynical for that).

>But if you were an Iranian citizen hoping for a better future, would you really pin your hopes on a US-backed regime change

There is no easy answer. Ultimately, it is the Iranian government that is responsible for the well-being of their citizens. Their citizens could have their lives drastically improved TODAY if their governments chose to do so. I don't know why you put that responsibility on the US because US cannot do this job. US needs to balance the well-being of their people as well as the well-being of the people of their regional allies as well, in addition to basic rights of all humans.

I posed a question to you in my previous message and you refused to answer it. But I'll rephrase: Why do you bend over backwards to remove all agency from Iranian government for actions they chose to get themselves and the people they are responsible for, into the present situation. This includes their absolute refusal for making decisions that would get them to stop being a regional and global pariah.
> Most of the successful startups are based on a pure, authentic vision of a founder who is absolutely convinced about their vision for the future.

This is true for the unicorn startup type: you don't create a Google, Facebook or Microsoft with a startup studio but there are many opportunities in other startup types. I would add the deep tech[1] concept that complements some of the weakness of the general startup studio.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_tech
Half the country (ok, that's hyperbole) believes Trump won a second term by an overwhelming margin and that the Democratic Party has installed Joe Biden via coup de tat, possibly on behalf of the CCP. Republicans have openly called for martial law, and using numerous underhanded (but technically legal) tactics to overturn the election, and state governors have suggested secession and civil war.

The narrative he and the right wing have been building over most of the last decade - that America at all levels of society is being infiltrated and captured by leftist extremists as a pretext to some kind of communist/globalist/NWO takeover (so vote for God, Guns and the GOP) - is exactly the doomsday trigger scenario that American militias have fantasized about and wargamed over, and QAnon and many Evangelicals believe Trump has been sent by God to cleanse America of occult pedophiles and atheistic liberalism.

Sinclair Lewis may or may not have said "When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross," in other words, by infiltrating American gun culture and conservative Christianity, because those are the forces that control the greatest potential for populist violence in the US. Trump may not have succeeded directly, but it remains to be seen who he's laid the foundations for in the future.
Define successful in your second paragraph? Are you only considering traditional VC unicorn-type startups successful or something else?
The Art of Prolog is available as a free download (PDF) on the MIT Press website under „Open Access“.

AFAIK the biggest item that’s missing is constraint logic programming. Markus Triska discusses CLP in his Power of Prolog book.
They could provide a randomnumber@receipts.pistats.io email address for each account. Then it would be easy to send all your receipts without giving them access to your GMAIL. Another advantage would be that non GMAIL people could join too.
As someone with a background in computer programming, I found biology quite frustrating. I wanted to see some underlying structure or meaning in the genetic code. It took me a long time to realize that it wasn't there. Biological systems and their genetic codes are the result of random trial and error filtered through Natural selection. Biological systems clearly have a design because you see the same "form" reappear in each generation, but the design itself is completely random. In other words, the design has to work, but it does not have to be sensible.

To summarize, the design of biological systems is random. It was a hard pill for me to swallow, and an utterly dissatisfying one at that.
There is a service which gives you unlimited disposable credit card numbers, just ask your bank for it.

You can't stop abuse against a time-based trial, so why use a time-based trial?

I don't know your business, but you should consider designing an unlimited trial instead, if your service is good most people will eventually pay for it, or even better, someone else will pay on behalf of them.

A prime example is Dropbox, when you purchase specific phone models you get extra storage, the user didn't pay for that storage, but someone else did (most likely the company who is selling the phone).
Most employees of the bank are far from being able to affect money inflows in the bank, so you are specifically talking about traders/private client bankers here, which are few % at most in any bank
"They predicted 13 out of the last 2 bubbles"
> given the numbers, its pretty clear there is something significant stopping women studying computing.

Or that they are free to do what they want and choose to do something else.

I strongly encourage you to expose yourself to people who are not like yourself. Especially women, because they are most unlike you. Believe it or not, vast swathes of the general public have no interest at all in computers or programming. And this is despite it having lower barrier to entry than other technology. The GNU project is coming up to 40 years old and today not only is there more free software than ever before, it's more easily available than ever before. There is a wealth of free training material out there ranging from excellent interactive tutorials for the latest frameworks to full University lecture series. Anyone who wants to do it can do it. But most don't because they are not like you!
Dubious.

The man cannot criticize the project publicly. In fact, he and his squadron probably have real opinions that never leave their base locker rooms.
Yes, the maths that underpin a nuclear power plant exist independent of any culture, but the same cannot be said of the decision to deploy that plant in a rain forest on the edge of an ocean where a village has survived for millennia.
For me React is great in comparison to anything I've tried before, which was really hand-rolled, jQuery, and Backbone. I tried to get into Ember/Angular in the past, but the learning curve was way too high. I didn't have time to spend a month going slow. With React, I was up and running within a day.

Of course, it took way longer to put together a good stack. I spent months pushing React and trying to learn the best practices there.

I did end up with something relevant though. I built Reapp: http://reapp.io

It's really a bunch of things in one, but I think it's hugely overlooked for being an awesome bootstrapping method for getting a full-featured React app up and running. You can have your app running with hot reloads, ES6, cordova-builds, flux, etc all in minutes with a single command. And of course it includes an awesome (IMO) UI kit to boot.
We could throw away von Neumann architecture, move computation out to the data, and build an ALU per every 32k of memory (plus some FPUs here and there). That gives us 33.5 billion compute units per TB of register-speed memory :)
Indeed it's more likely to boost the economy since people living on basic income would almost certainly spend ever penny such money would flow instantly into the economy.

Also it could actually create new business opportunities. If there are large numbers of people who currently have zero purchasing power (eg the homeless) who suddenly have some cash, they will likely want different products than middle class people at a different price.
That's far from a foregone conclusion. Printing new money could be an excellent way to create a BI while leveling the economic inequalities present in the present economic system. I.e. reducing the hoarded wealth of the 1%.
I believe there was a post just yesterday for a piece of software that would lock and unlock your machine based on proximity to your phone through bluetooth.

Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917992
Kids these days still play MUDs. They're called MMOs.

WoW is just a skin on top of a MUD; but said MUD skins are nothing new either.
Whose conventional wisdom says that? In the UK, "convention" says the opposite and is sorely misguided.

In reality they are just different asset classes and should be judged on their merits.
Interesting article that appeals to my interests (as an occasional portrait photographer with a Julia Margaret Cameron obsession).

And Laura In Black really knocked me back in my chair.