jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Whether advertisers would have that influence depends on the specifics of the implementation; I think Wikipedia has the smarts and culture to resist any attempt at advertiser (or donor) manipulation.

The decision to make money from advertising (or other services other than charitable donations) is independent of the decision to be a mission-oriented non-profit or a for-profit. A non-profit can still make most of its budget from selling considerations; see for example The Mozilla Foundation.
Of course. But all of the other nutritionally complete meal replacements on the market (and there are quite a few) didn't have a recognizable brand name.
Valuations have much more to do with social issues (faith in founders, quality of lead investor, size of recent exits) than it does the product.

The product could be terrible, but if all those things are in place, investors could be fighting each other to get a piece of the deal.

You can fix a product in the future, with enough money. You can't fix a founding team, and you can't go back in time to join a deal that you missed out on.
My understanding was that wire transfers weren't very reversible.
> Why not label them conventionally?

Space.
I've profitably used the domain modeling and program design lessons I've learned from Prolog multiple times, please and thank you. You don't need to use a language in production for it to be a valuable addition to your toolkit.
That's why it is recommended to thoroughly research and understand your market value in the location and field that you are negotiating. Talk to other developers in the area, research online, etc. - finding out reasonable salary expectations is not impossible.
What is China's approach to covid data?
Any country doing this will weaken their own public health system.
You say that I want to reduce suffering at all costs. This is misleading because there is no significant cost. The cost might be unfulfilled childwishes or no one to take care of the elderly. What is not a cost is the happiness these unborn miss out on. There is no one to experience the "missing out on happiness" (which is really just another form of suffering).

Regarding "forcing" someone into being: you have a problem with my words, not with my reasoning. As I said, birth can be a harm because the victim is still around to suffer its consequences. Death or "never being born" cannot.

Most people disagree that people can't be harmed by birth. Women are rather sternly discouraged to use alcohol during pregnancy. It is frowned upon for people with any significant genetic problems to reproduce. Incest is also taboo. Many people would think it better if the poor would not have kids. This has no bearing on the truth, of course, but I would be surprised if you didn't make similar judgments. It is clear that there are at least some cases where pre-existent beings' future well-being is taken into consideration.

The question then becomes "where do you draw the line?", and reason would draw it where I do (at "nobody should procreate"). The idea is simple, if you're willing to suppress your inner pedant: those who are never born do not suffer and they do not miss out on anything. This is the bottom line, and all the pedantry in the world won't change this fact.

The only case that could -- MAYBE -- be made is that if the kid's life turns out just fine, it wasn't too bad to create him. Just like an attempted murderer could say, of his surviving victim, "sure I tried to murder him, but look -- the dude's doing fine!". Things may have turned out alright, but I wouldn't say that attempting to murder a person is acceptable (beyond the intentions involved).

If I gave you a wheelchair, you might ask me what the hell you need a wheelchair for. Only after I have gnawed off your legs will it make sense. Before this, you had no need for a wheelchair. Similarly, the unborn have no need for a life that turns out just fine.

Procreation is never in the interest of the newborn. Suffering is guaranteed. Happiness cannot be used as a justification. It's all there, isn't it?
"Many spent an entire afternoon working on this thing without success. I hope they liked the challenge, but I’m also glad we didn’t have to use our internal resources reviewing their resume."

What a great attitude. People who work hard and challenge themselves are worthless, they don't even deserve the time it takes to reject their application. A person like that would never be of any value to your company. I mean, you can't expect people to learn new things and grow professionally while on the job. If they don't already know everything then they are idiots that you want nothing to do with.
The main problem is that the spread of tints is too small.

If you exclude black and white (and gray scale) you will normally have around 8-10 colors to work with if you don't want your wheel to look too Schizophrenic.

You can choose between:

Dark Blue
Light Blue
Dark Red
Light Red
Dark Yellow
Light Yellow
Dark Green
Light Green
Orange
Violet
Beige
Brown
Pink

You could also use textures (just like in the old IBM matrix printers did) to represent the variations.

I would though normally stay away from more then 5-6 color variations in a pie chart.

EDIT: Although I guess I have fallen prey to the temptation of having colors too close to each other. (see page 11 in this pdf http://000fff.org/uploads/LMG_Visual_Final.pdf )

In defense I would say that you could roll over the individual bars to see the name.
'Island' should be required reading, right along with 'Brave New World'.
Also Germany, Scandinavia and parts of Japan I have found uses this browser. Europe more in percent than America. I am not sure why this is. If any one knows or guesses, I would be curious to find out.
I was asking to get an objective definition of a "subpar" noogler.

I'm about to be a recent college grad and I want to know what subpar is so I can spend my time now making sure that I am not that.

It's really frustrating to me when people say things like "Let's just say I know enough Googlers who are currently fed up with the influx of subpar nooglers." And I have no idea what they mean.
This is one area where they could learn something from Microsoft. Microsoft use UserVoice for product feedback. Outdated list of UserVoice product sites:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/o365guy/2018/01/02/submi...

UserVoice allows voting on what issues impact people most and allows the company to provide feedback to those issues/ideas. This isn't to say that a company must do all upvoted ideas, Microsoft certainly don't, but it is a useful outlet for both parties.

Microsoft aren't the only major company using UserVoice: https://www.uservoice.com/customers/ and there are competing services offering similar benefits. The concept is maybe more important than that specific product.

Apple seems to lack basic communications channels in both directions. This is a problem regardless of company policy.
That sounds a lot like Fastmail to me!
Carriers obsoleted battleships 80 years ago because the carrier's weapons were able to out-range and destroy the battleships before the battleships could get close enough to use their guns which could only shoot about 20 miles.

Modern missiles can out-range and kill carriers which can't get close enough to use their planes which only have several hundred miles of range.

Q. What do you call ANY surface ship in today's world?
A. A slow, expensive target.

Q. What do you call a complete Carrier Strike Force?
A. A BUNCH of slow, expensive targets.
> One question that specifically stands out from his book - is that the West believes in Universal Human Rights. China obviously does not. This is a point of conflict and we have some very difficult questions to address in the future. Suppose China attacks Taiwan. What if China has a second Tiananmen in Hong Kong? Do we sanction China? What if China responds with more violence? What do we do? Do we go to war? This is an obvious point of conflict. And these are questions that we will have to work out in the future.

We don't need to go to war with them but we also don't need to invest in their suppression.
It’s understandable it’s a touchy subject. Why piss off China if you don’t have to? Only something to lose and nothing to gain.

Also this story of a Chinese Stanford professor/investor’s “suicide” last year is quite the story. There’s a potential safety issue here too. https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurherman/2018/12/13/a-death...
Some years ago, I looked at a bunch of these VPN review sites over time, relying on archive.org captures. At any given time, there were just a few distinct sets of rankings. Some of that could have reflected shared ownership. But it likely also reflected changes over time in advertising budgets.
I am sure China would gladly welcome YC and all the IP it has access to.

There is no question China presents an opportunity to generate capital returns on a scale that YC can no longer achieve in the more mature US venture capital market. They also present many risks that are hard to put in an equation.
Products are rated relative to one-another, though, not on any absolute scale (because everyone uses a different personal subjective scale, so all a review or recommendation system can hope to do is to normalize each person's ratings against their own learned model of rating criteria such that the person's lowest score becomes a 1 and their highest a 5.)

If people don't like USB-C, they're just going to rate everything Apple makes as a 1.0/5, which, as far as a normalization algorithm is concerned, is the same as rating everything a 5.0/5. It carries no signal and gets completely dropped from the algorithm.
For some people systemd "brought joy" into their lives.
Until they make it be partnered with a local company, which eventually forces a majority ownership, spins out, and YC is left with nothing.
In my experience that's not the case in quite many countries. Most of western Europe is the same as the US though it varies from country to country; e.g. the nordics are a bit better on this front then e.g. Germany or my home country the Netherlands. I suspect most of South America has similar demographics.

As far as I know Asia is generally better on this front I suspect it has a lot to do with women being more interested in things that give them economic opportunities.

This is something driven by women themselves. IMHO women are actually also part of the problem in the west. There seems to be a dynamic where women self select out of career paths long before they would even be in a position to be subjected to the type of workplace abuse that is often blamed for this. Don't get me wrong, that abuse needs to be fought and challenged and rooted out. But it's not going to be enough.

You see similar dynamics across many developing nations where women empower themselves by taking on anything that earns money. Many of these countries are otherwise pretty conservative/unremarkable when it comes to women rights and arguably a lot worse than most of the west. But that doesn't seem to stop women being successful doing all sorts of things for which many high-school girls would pull up their noses.
I wonder how many people tweeting about his "meltdown" use Facebook every day? Probably all of them, which is just bitterly ironic. ("Facebook sucks! Let me go check Facebook.")
Except he has no revenue model and is essentially just a big digital ponzi scheme. Who is going to foot the bill for Facebook? Advertising? Please...the click through rate is 1000x more effective for Google adwords than Facebook. It's passive vs. active advertising. Anyone involved in marketing or advertising knows this and will stay away. Only the naive would consider using Facebook to advertise. Zynga/Credits seem to be their newest revenue model...but seriously how long can that sustain itself? Persistent profitability..I don't see it.
Occasionally articles of this kind evoke some sympathy with a tough position, but more often than not it appears the person up for the loans made some really bad choices.
Uhh... I don't see what the big deal is. The dude was a little sweaty while being grilled, but even managed to give a pretty solid answer. Jason is just jealous.
"There's no human right to be educated in something useless at no expense to yourself, and I say that as someone with a BA in philosophy."

Rock on, we need more philosophers like you.
I actually gave this guy different advice a few years ago on Slashdot. At the time, I told him to go to the most prestigious academic medical center in his area and not to trust the average primary care doctors.

So I assume he's done that already. How else do you explain 18 years of going to doctor after doctor without any improvement.

Suppose he'd instead said that he'd been to astrologer after astrologer and found no improvement, in spite of the recent realization of the placement of Mars. You'd probably not tell him to keep trying to find an astrological explanation... so why are you so confident that there is a medical explanation right around the corner?

The body has incredible ability to heal itself. By following my advice (after 18 years of following yours) he may actually stumble upon some information that helps lead toward a solution. For example:

- Maybe he gets no exercise at present because he uses what energy he has for work.

- Maybe he has a rare food sensitivity. If so, eating the diet I suggested may make it much better or much worse. In either case he gains information.

- Going to a relaxing place (CR has the happiest population in the world) will help alleviate all the existential stress he's taken on after 18 years of dealing with this illness.

My suggestions are based on big picture lifestyle approaches that actually do work. Medicine does not even remotely consider suggesting such a therapy because most people could never actually follow it. I predict that if you could do a study where people followed the therapy I proposed you'd find it was more effective than many of the most lauded pharmaceuticals and surgical techniques in use today for a variety of ailments.

There is also the chance that this guy has some exceptionally rare condition that is not even known/understood by medical science. If so my advice would be to just enjoy life as much as possible rather than become a human lab rat.
It was her decision to take the loans and go to that particular college. Now it was probably the wrong one but she decided on it and would have been able to see where the debt was taking her if she looked into it properly, the terms of these loans haven't changed.

It goes back to the problem of people perceiving the value for money all wrong, would you pay 5 to 10 times more for a similar functioning car just based on branding?

Not to pick on certain degrees I know little about but perhaps someone here does, with an arts degree majoring in religious and women's studies is it even a good chance to begin with that you are going to land yourself a job that can easily pay back a loan of this size?
I agree with the desktop integration part. Is it just me or is everyone expecting some kind of desktop integration for web applications nowadays?
It's hard to believe the ISS is 12 years old this year. This is a prime example of what the world can achieve when we work together. Amazing.
Speaking from experience, yes, customer issues that can't be answered by support agents do get escalated to the engineering (and PM) teams.
>you can't comment through that

Honestly, that might be a bonus for me.
And? None of this is contradictory unless you're reading too much into the headline.
starlink only just went publicly available - its going to take a while to filter out to people who it could benefit.
Pilots are still used to take off and land the plane. Personally, I'd have apprehension too. I'm coming up on a turn on the freeway at 60 mph and I'm just supposed to hope this version of software is bug free on top of everything else? We are talking software, here. You can't inspect it to see if the parts are rusted out or do regular maintenance and expect with certainly the wheels won't fall off; it works or it doesn't and that's terrifying.

I'd be comfortable with automatic cruse control/lane departure avoidance, but for complicated maneuvering on interchanges or in gridlocked traffic, I'm going to want to be able to take the reigns at a moments notice and expect to still have a steering wheel/etc.
You'd want to use a strong passphrase. Even if you do, it's protecting the physical key. If an attacker has access to the that they can perform an offline attack. i.e. attacking a passphrase offline with decent hardware and no likelihood for being noticed means it had better be strong!
> It's literally just branching at one release and fixing bugs in that release for a few years

This takes engineering time, i.e. money. It may also benefit upstream branches, but again porting patch between branches takes time, especially after massive refactoring happened on latest branch.
the following is a quote from the article. the article is a bait and switch. in the title, it tries to get you to believe that, hey, something you thought you had almost no chance of achieving is actually within your reach, but then with this definition of “true fan” define it in terms of a 1 in 50/500/1000 of a population of fans in general, which are worse numbers than i would’ve guessed before reading the article. As I said, bait and switch.

“ A true fan is defined as a fan that will buy anything you produce. These diehard fans will drive 200 miles to see you sing; they will buy the hardback and paperback and audible versions of your book; they will purchase your next figurine sight unseen; they will pay for the “best-of” DVD version of your free youtube channel; they will come to your chef’s table once a month. If you have roughly a thousand of true fans like this (also known as super fans), you can make a living — if you are content to make a living but not a fortune.”
Speaking as a biochemist, I feel you're too quick to condemn based on what I would assume is an overly rigorous interpretations of these words.

I would assume, knowing what I know, and presuming what he knows -- He's not saying biology/nature has no toxins. He's saying biology by and large isn't toxic to ecological systems made of average biological components. And I feel he's more right than wrong.

The efficiency thing is only right in certain domains, but really interesting ones: e.g., (1) functional state of folded proteins being an exact match with the lowest energy conformational state that it's linear amino acid order allows, (2) ecology recycling everything and re-using it all without "waste", and stuff like that.
There was never time when Java was cool. It was always language to get the job done, basically.
This seems like an exaggeration.
That's not true. Wikipedia [0] has a nice summary:

> A single-page application (SPA) is a web application or website that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current web page with new data from the web server, instead of the default method of the browser loading entire new pages. The goal is faster transitions that make the website feel more like a native app.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application
Well, just like anything can be securities fraud, anything can be a political lie. It just depends on perspective.
> Could it have something to do with being locked up for the last 6 months or worry about ones future career maybe?

So you're saying the study is so shoddy that they didn't have a control group of people who went through the same lockdowns but didn't get COVID? Otherwise, your comment doesn't make sense.
YAJF - Yet Another JavaScript Framework
I mean, if you keep that first election but replace that second election with prediction markets, then you're roughly describing Robin Hanson's idea of futarchy!
How is the Windows support? One of my big needs for any general-purpose build system is that I can get a single build that works on both Windows and POSIX. Without using WSL.

That said, you're right, at least at first blush, tcl is an attractive, if easy to forget, option.
Good god, JIT for CSS... I thought this was one of those joke articles about insane complexity of front-end development.
No offense, but I think you may have aimed too high in reaching out to the CEO. Unless you honestly think you're going to nab a position on the CEO's staff (which is possible, but unlikely) you should try to get an intro to the person(s) most likely to be able to make you an actual job offer.

I've seen variants of your situation several times in the past. CEO meets someone, is impressed in some manner, passes the contact over to the lower-level person, that person has no time/interest/need for candidate and the process halts, usually after initial expectations were high.

I'll also say I find it a touch odd that after this single experience you find it necessary to post the whole thing here.

tldr; you have some experience, you pursued 1 job opportunity which wasn't even an actual open position req. and then you didn't get hired.

You could fill 100 HN sites with 1000 variants of that exact same story EVERY DAY.

Again, not trying to be harsh, just trying to filter the reality out of this, which is yours is a very non-noteworthy experience in life.
Maybe part of the problem is the 'work for free'. It may suggest to people if you see no value in what you can offer, what value would you be to the company.
>Nobody gives a shit about you, except YOU. What other lessons should I be taking from this?

Anecdotal evidence is not evidence, even (especially!) if the anecdote is your own.
We've been learning recently that we should have started building relationships with bloggers, media and potential customers a long time ago. I say "learned recently" but we really knew it all along as it is such oft repeated advice in the startup world.

Unfortunately we kept putting it off because developing the product felt a lot more tangible and progress came easily. The same cannot be said for building meaningful relationships that can be used as a launchpad come launch day.

So, my advice (which echoes so many other voices around HN): start writing about the space you are in. Start building real relationships with bloggers. Start a mailing list to collect email addresses. Start joining forums that are in your domain and build a rep. These things take a while to cultivate and you want to be able to harvest at launch.

As for SEO, get the basics sorted (domain registration, keyword heavy landing page etc), but don't spend too much time on it. The real SEO power comes from getting quality links. These only come when you have those relationships with bloggers etc pumping.

Goodluck with the launch!

-James (Carlo's partner in crime)

(edited for typos)
thanks! yes it's a small custom script
Positive correlation between x and y means that if someone has x they are more likely to have y. Negative correlation means someone from with x is less likely to have y.
I take it you have to use debit to pay for everything for this feature to work well or can you integrate your credit card expenses too?
Positive corr would mean, "The more of X we see, the more of Y we see". Negative corr would mean "The more of X we see, the less of Y we see"
185 experts. Over 100 medical doctors. Roughly 100 professors, including many of the most respected vitamin D experts in the world---check out the list of names and qualifications yourself.

Please read the link before posting about correlation or other opinions on the topic. The point is to note the aggregate credibility of the backers here. This is analogous to the open letter done for face masks last spring.
Some feedback: the typeform form for the 10 questions was a little hard to use. Only one question allowed using shift+enter to insert new lines, but all of the long form questions would have benefited from this. For most of the questions, I ended up writing one extremely long line, using hyphens to try and separate things.

If possible, I'd explore finding a form system that allows using textareas.
How about you do 15 pushups, 15 squats and 2 minute plank everytime you check your phone?