jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That documentary is rife with inaccuracies as well. It's a consequence of having a bunch of wealthy Hollywood folks convert to veganism, and then jump on board with pushing a diet as the be-all/end-all.

It's one thing to claim (accurately) that a good, careful vegan diet is healthy for a person and very healthy for the planet. It's a whole different ballgame to claim that a healthy vegan diet is nutritionally superior to any and all diets that include any form of animal products, which is essentially what Game Changers claims.

There was a rather entertaining and informative debate about Game Changers between a bad-ass vegan MMA fighter and another nutritional expert on Joe Rogan's podcast, and one thing they both end up acknowledging is that Game Changers is a propaganda film disguised as a documentary.
What sort of comments would be intellectually interesting?
>>> I've heard it said that future cultural anthropologists of the future will absolutely love mining the rich personal data coming out of this period of time.

Former Anthropologist here.

While culturally speaking it will be interesting, up to a certain point in human history there has always been physical things left behind by cultures to denote their existence.

As our whole lives have become digital, once the servers are gone, the pseudo physical evidence will vanish. One of my professors told me in passing in the early aughts that, "This generation (meaning the Y generation) will barely leave a trace of its existence in 200 years."

He inferred that once technology has evolved past our current rate of burn, the mechanisms by which we preserve our memories will be forever wiped out. He made a note of saying, "When was the last time you used something physical to create, retain or share your memories?" When was the last time you printed a photograph? Listened to a music album? Once the devices by which we save our memories become obsolete, so does our existence.

It caught me off guard, and was. . one of those times where you stop and wonder what people will dig up in 2-300 years from now and discover about our civilization? Will it all just be zero's and one's on a server somewhere?
I think Google has shown they're trying very hard to become a primary infrastructure host for any business in "The Cloud", getting more people online opens up new opportunities there too
Thats exactly what their doing, using the words "natural disaster".
Every single 'code interview' question site/blog covers FizzBuzz problem ten times a year. Tests like this are a giant waste of time.
60559 specifically allows value-changing optimizations, so long as optimizations are not disabled. I have seen more than one compiler that allows at least some value-changing optimizations with their equivalent to gcc -O2.

Also, as far as I can tell, C99 (even with Annex F) does not follow parts of IEC 60559 with regards to:

> A language standard should also define, and require implementations to provide, attributes that allow and
disallow value-changing optimizations, separately or collectively, for a block.

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And note that one example "value-changing optimization" is applying associative and distributed rules. Fused multiply-add is another that is really common.
Humans suck. They are mostly social creatures who follow social instincts to gain social credit. Logic and efficiency play a back seat to those goals. If you pretend or hope they'll become like Vulcans, you will be repeatedly disappointed.
> The good news is that there is one way to avoid this (the only way AFIK)

I managed to recover from a similar level of burnout/pissed-offedness by changing my domain of software development completely. I got out of high-stakes server-side software and into client-side mobile software. It took some effort to pivot, but in the end it was a great relief. In my experience, Apple's slow approval process is a much better problem to have than getting pinged at 3am for any reason.
WPF was great to program in for the most part -- was able to write some really compelling and complex UI's in it, and UI programming isn't really my thing.
I never understood why these companies just didn't invest as a hedge. A lot of these startups didn't need outright purchase but wanted working capital. Blockbuster could have bought 10% of Netflix as a hedge and seems like similar things here. You also don't have all the "merge everything together" nonsense that kills deals like this AOL+Time Warner and now Verizon+Yahoo+AOL. You can hedge a call option with a put option once you understand how.
“It's things like income, marital status, job field, health, criminality.”

Yes, it’s all of them. And they all need to be addressed instead of trying to pick the one all-dominant factor.
Nevermind, it's all on github and seems pretty well documented. Great work!
My one counter argument for 1 and 2 is that with infix, I'm forever trying to remember precedence rules and in my own code, just end up wrapping everything in parentheses anyway, to be sure. In lisp, the ordering is always explicit.

For 3, that's one reason why I like Clojure's syntax: it has just enough extra syntax to break up the code and provide visual cues, at least for me.

Re 4, sure, you can even enable macros without homoiconicity, but with s-expressions, I find it to be mentally much simpler because I can just write a template and fill in the gaps and its natural since my code is in that form already. Overall, though, in all but a few cases, I think macros should be avoided in favour of pure data structures and functions, when possible.
I'm not a fan of all of Tesla's management practices, but this does seem to be a bit of a knee jerk reaction. One company has less than 1% of all fires for the industry, and with a component with known combustibility.

Even if the electronics failed, leaving the driver stuck inside, you would think the owners would have the foresight to either have something capable of breaking windows or a method by which to break them.
Make a spelling error.
You're missing the point, but it would actually make a pretty good episode. Here's my attempt:

* RIAA baddies turn up in suits demand money
* Glee club hasn't got the money
* Will asks for money from Sues budget. Obviously she
says no way. She needs to save for the hovercraft.
* They decide that Glee club can no longer sing copyrighted music
* Your task for the week? "Original song". Compose an original song.
* They all do cool funky new tracks
* Turns out the RIAA guys were listening,
and have a change of heart they work out some deal or something.
Maybe the original songs are *so* hot that the RIAA want in on profits.
* Yay! all is good.

They can then sprinkle in as many of the issues and arguments about copyright as they see fit/are allowed to.
He's spot on that designers don't always have a language of critique. Jesse James Garrett talked about that last year: http://www.jjg.net/ia/memphis/

If you didn't learn it in school (see my previous comments for rants on modern "designers" who lack design backgrounds), you probably don't know how to do one, or how to take feedback.

Feedback is tough. In the workshops I run, getting good criticism about something you thought up and sketched only five minutes ago is nearly impossible.

What I've found success in doing is three things:

First, make feedback mandatory. Tell people there are "five things wrong with this idea," and get everyone to write down five things in a few minutes. This is pretty easy for people to do: you've said there are N problems, so they already "know" there are things wrong, so they don't feel so bad about it. Come up with five things and say one thing. Have the next person say something different, all around the room until you've covered a lot more than five things.

Second, pit people against each other. Given that list of arguments, have someone (who isn't the original designer) or a group defend the design. If you're a designer, you can figure out why they did things that certain way. Argue against that list of reasons. You'll either strengthen the reasons or disprove them. I've also done variants where this list started another round of designs.

Third, discuss metrics. Have the two groups jointly come up with metrics -- actual testable questions, not just "we'll A/B test," get them to figure out WHAT they are SPECIFICALLY testing -- that will let them "prove" who is wrong and who is right.

I've started doing these things in every workshop, now, including my most recent one on tag clouds. You can see the exercise breakdown here:

http://vi.to/tagclouds
The only power the employer has is to offer money in return for labor. Similarly, the employee has the power to offer labor in return for money.

In this regard, there is complete equality between parties.

The union has the power to use threats of violence (at the hands of the government) to prevent any third parties from undercutting them. In contrast, the employer is forbidden from colluding with other employers regarding the hiring of employees. The union is permitted to withhold their services from the employer. The employer, however, is forbidden from withholding employment from the union.

Near as I can tell, all a union does is shifts power completely from employers and workers into the hands of the union. Not to mention that it deprives third parties (non-union workers) of their rights.
the problem is that those using AdMob, Google could find out about devices and features even before Apple release them. That's competitive advantage. Apple is a business, not a non-profit organization (just like Google), they need to defend their business. Want to be have ads? Go use Mobclix or other providers.
I'm uncertain about the ability of independent start-ups to gain much traction in the petroleum industry. Much of that has to do with owning/having access to fleets of ships that are capable of bring you and your equipment to/from the right location on time.

That said, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has indeed shown some light on potential niche fields that could be accessible to start-ups, e.g. Kevin Costner's Ocean Therapy device.
Thanks for the comment. Just some meta-notes: Why didn't you reply to mseebach directly? Have you considered writing out abbreviations and capitalization?
"hey I stalked you and I don't like the skin color of your employees" is surely not a very strong argument
Seems his degree is legit, so I don't know what am I missing here. It's not like the Bitcoin devs can do anything.
I’m not surprised at the link — I’m a young person, I got covid in June, and I’ve been having a lot of asthma problems (which I didn’t have before). Super frustrating.
Keep in mind the racist content wasn’t from Coca Cola (as the headline implies) but rather a LinkedIn Learning contributor based on the work of Robin DiAngelo.

All material based on Robin DiAngelo’s work has since been removed from LinkedIn learning:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu4u1VUWgAENWKd?format=jpg
UpWork primarily connects laborers in underdeveloped regions to people having at least some spare capital in other regions (mostly developed regions). Each of these groups sees an exploitable value in the other. "Clients" see people willing to work practically for free (relatively speaking), and freelancers/agencies in these regions are quite happy turning in marginal work for 1/10th (or less) the wage a person in a developed country might charge.
I'd guess because:

* It takes months for an engineer to be properly ramped up on a new codebase and even longer for business domain expertise. Until then they might actually be negatively productive due to onboarding questions other devs must answer.

* Enforcing any coding standards is difficult so you get a lot of technical debt over time.

edit: Also, a good engineer on a well functioning team will push back on bad or inefficient feature requirements. If you're just getting paid by feature and feel no ownership of the product then you have little incentive to do that.
The traditional meaning does seem to involve sales and many law firms seem to still use that definition. However, trademarks are widely used for upstream open source projects. Here's Google's take on the "use in commerce" phrase: https://google.github.io/opencasebook/trademarks/

ADDED: The disconnect isn't really that surprising. Historically, why would you trademark something if you had no intention of selling it? How would it even get broadly distributed if you were just giving something away? Obviously, those conditions don't necessarily apply today even though you have the same issues of confusing different goods and services that have always existed. As for the law firms, it's mostly an argument that if you want an IP lawyer in an open source context, you probably want one who actually has experience in the area.
MicroStrategy market cap: $7.2B

MicroStrategy BTC holdings: $4.5B

62% of the market value of MicroStrategy is its BTC holdings. Saylor is, intentionally or not, making MSTR a proxy investment vehicle for BTC.
It keeps surprising me that Groupon still find merchants given their current revenue share. Most deals are 50%, the share is 50% of 50% - 2.5% for credit card fee processing leaving the merchant with 22.5% of the original price.

If you sell anything that you buy, you'd need to have a 77.5% profit. Most restaurants only do a 10 to 20% benefit usually.

They'd be better served by pinning a huge promotion on their front like :'50% percent on friday'; they'd reach more customers in they neighbourhood, who would be more likely to come back and they'd keep a much better share of the deal.

It's not even nice for your actual customers who come the same day and pay the full price just to discover that they got screwed because they could have paid half by going to groupon.
"All the papers I've seen on it are total jokes."

Couldn't agree more. We were actually laughing in the office when an office mate brought up such a paper many years ago.

"I really think it's the mindset that is the biggest problem."

Linus is a superhero 20+ years working on the supertask of changing people's mindset.
That's like saying 'guns don't work because sometimes when you shoot someone they survive.' Guns and captchas work, you just don't like being shoot at, or having to guess at obfuscated letters.
Been done. Imagine my surprise when I went to tune up my 4-cyl nissan pickup and had to replace 8 plugs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Z_engine#Z24

On the plus side, the truck still runs clean (300,000 miles later) and gets great mileage.
Relax consistency rules and don't use the DB for everything, flat text files are sometimes enough
Ok I stand corrected, the economics of paying for forum spamming does not make sense and the software you mentioned (I don't want to name it here) does solve many captchas automatically (It is even rumored to solve Google's captchas)

But for other stuff that I mentioned in my previous comment, it does make sense for them economically and they do use it.
These are all things we care about, but they are probably not the most common questions we ask. E.g. we already know about the equity split because we ask about it on the application form, so we only bring it up during the interview if we noticed something odd about it.

The thing we care most about in interviews (at least of things one can change) is how engaged the founders are with users. How do they know people actually want what they're building? Have they talked to real, live users? What have they learned from them?

We don't care super much how big the initial market is, so long as the startup is making something that (a) some subset of people want a lot, and (b) if that market is not itself huge, there is an easy path into bigger neighboring ones. Basically, we're looking for startups building Altair Basic.
I have to disagree completely with your example of horrible naming conventions regarding the jobtracker and tasktracker. The names are very descriptive and convey enough details to know what their purpose is.

http://hadoop.apache.org/mapreduce/docs/current/mapred_tutor...

"The MapReduce framework consists of a single master JobTracker and one slave TaskTracker per cluster-node. The master is responsible for scheduling the jobs' component tasks on the slaves, monitoring them and re-executing the failed tasks. The slaves execute the tasks as directed by the master."

If your problems is in remembering the difference perhaps you have not spent enough time understanding the tools you are using.
There's really no room for a private, invite-only type network -- at least not one that would make enough money to be worth your time.

One key you need to understand about the display biz now -- advertisers aren't as focused on buying sites anymore. Instead, they think of it as buying "audiences." Buying from a couple exchanges will give an advertiser reach to 95+% of the web. Add in some unique data with the built in targeting of the exchanges, and you can make both very broad and very very granular buys.

There are actually players in your "niche", you just can't see them because they are way too big. The large buying platforms are capable of targeting users (audiences) on a very granular level.

The only real model that works now is:

A) create unique tech (dynamic creatives a la Like.com) or gather a unique data set (preferably do both)

B) charge a premium for use of your unique tech / data while buying on the exchange

With any other approach you either won't make much money (so big players not interested) or won't find clients / leverage (big players too ingrained already and will crush you).
Yeah if the cheating students took game theory courses as well, they would know that the best action would be to remain silent. Stupid students!
>My understanding is that soda costs basically nothing to produce

Absolutely true. I can't disclose dollar figures, but McDonald's owes a considerable amount of its profitably to Coca Cola.
At first I agreed with what you said, but then I realized that not only is it an elitist sentiment, it also misses the mark.

I graduated from a university that is known for its CS department. I can still remember most of the concepts that were introduced. I can also imagine that if you work with a narrow slice of that curriculum for 10 years after graduation, you might forget or get rusty on a good number of unused algorithms or ways of thinking.

But I have also seen a lot of cases where different universities focus on different things in their curricula. For example, my university did not mention the phrase "functional programming", although that concept was well-known for over 15 years before my attendance. I was blissfully unaware of first-class functions. This is not new stuff, but several years after I graduated, I discovered it for the first time.

And imagine my surprise and glee when I discovered over six years after my graduation first-class classes, multimethods (or generic methods), and the like. Suddenly, languages like C++ and Java -- which a lot of universities force-feed their students -- seem very restricting. Yet all this is fairly basic, just different ways to think about and approach our problems.

The reality is that college can give you only so much, and you must accept that others coming from other colleges have been exposed to a different array of concepts and know about those more than you. You have to continue your career forward where the college left off.

And it sure helps when a place like Hacker News can occasionally bring up these various subjects. On the one hand, it exposes different people to new ways of thinking, and on the other hand, it might encourage other readers to join the field.

This stuff is old hat. But mentioning that and that you thought about it back in 1843 is a meaningless ego massage that, no, does not deserve sympathy. In a significant system, you cannot develop alone. Bring others up to your level, and learn from them, too.
#3, I'm not sure I'm ready to be the mentor, I'm only 23... two years out of school, all spent building a business.
Fountain drinks costs like 5 cents max when you scale large enough (McDonald's level). This is why they can roll out their 'any sized pop for $1' thing during the summer and laugh their way to the bank.

And weird, bars usually charge for soda. Soda is usually like the single highest margin item at any establishment. Their so high margin that buffets can give you infinite refills so you eat less, and still make money off their pop.
With software and music media etc. you don't buy the physical good (the CD, DVD etc. which you seem to be talking about) but the right to use it, listen to it etc. One could argue though that this mode of thinking is inherently broken because you usually don't get the right to use it, listen to it etc. under any condition but only with the right software/hardware equipment. And since you're usually not allowed to make copies or to transfer it to another system, the correct use of the good equates the good anyway.
Ad networks are tricky. I did a lot of research on them and even built a small one at my last startup. They're easier the start than ever, but also riskier to grow than ever. Contact me directly if you want to chat. grantis_omega(at)hotmail.com
I've had the system Flash uninstalled on my MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks now. In cases where I really do need Flash, I open the page in Chrome.

Chrome keeps its own version of Flash, and if you quit the browser once you're done with the Flash page the Flash processes won't hang around beating up your computer.
Sea-steading...it might be a pipe dream, but it's the only concrete effort that I am seeing around here.

Is that a pun on seasteading.org's plans to use ferroconcrete?
If it wouldn't trouble you to do so, could you go into more detail please? Do you have experience with this?

You are saying that any sport event, in particular those that are in play actually have some statistical mineable property with profitably exploitable strategies? If this is the case, with such a low barrier should this not be a game with zero expectation in the long run (maybe negative if there are minimum bet rules)? Whatever distribution that can be learned would have much higher variance than your typical intra day trades no? And while these techniques may be similar in spirit, do the fundamentals map sufficiently? As they say, the devil is in the details. but I speak from ignorance.
TSI is a great project, but the main function is to get noticed and spread ancap ideas IMO.

Reason: There will never be new country on the ocean in a world full of nation states.

The reason there are lawless international waters 13 miles offshore is because there is no threat to incumbent nations there.

The moment Seasteads start floating around, the UN will abolish the concept of international waters thus rendering the entire project worthless.
That was my biggest take-away: with caveat emptor, curation is critical!

Sadly, this article highlights an abysmal failure of government and the free market -- with exception to Amazon.
At the very least they can understand what they are managing.
Useless anecdote:

I have been to shanghai, and agree that it is not cheap.

However, other than special-case-outliers like Aspen and Davos, nowhere I have been is more expensive than Zurich.

It's like, crazy expensive.
the amount of conspiracy theories about every post attributed to dillon is getting out of hand
>> Simple things like scrolling can be very spotty most of the time.

That's just FUD. Only hybrid apps that use non-native scrolling are jittery, and for years now you can use '-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch` to get native scrolling with bouncing.
A lot of people around here seem to think "economically rational" is the same thing as "ethical". In a lot of places and times in the world (including US cities in the early 20th century), due to crushing poverty and a glut of labor it has been economically rational for people to accept work in factories with horrific working conditions for wages that will barely feed them. That includes where they're physically locked into massively unsafe buildings. Such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. That doesn't make the practice of offering jobs in such conditions ethical.