jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Realize now you are statistically unlikely to get it; and, given that, think about what you specifically want rather than broad concepts."

Funny, I was about to read a chapter on this very topic in Felix Dennis' How to Get Rich' last night. I skipped it, because I didn't want to hear it.

I read PG's wealth essay in about 2006, when I was in first year at college (I dropped out after first year to work at a telecom startup - anything to avoid school!). I think he said something like wealth is whatever you want; If you're a billionaire but there's no food for sale, your cash is useless. True enough.

I do know that I want autonomy, and not having to rely on anyone financially (I used to think I didn't need others for anything, but recently realized how stupid I was). It's just that I've seen that almost everything in our lives is related in some way to money. Many marital disagreements are about money. Many lives get ruined by poverty. Not having to worry about money simply makes life easier. Hierarchy of needs, you know? Although I've never been poor (more or less middle class), I've come to realized that I, like most people, are only a few wrong turns from poverty.

Please post the list! For me I've often thought that I'd like to be rich enough @ 30 to be a music composer. I sometimes procrastinate by researching MIDI, Linux Audio software like Rosegarden, etc.
Have not been using for years.
I agreed with the article in the sense that a smaller company has seen the error of some major manufacturers' ways. My opinion was that these major manufacturers do not have the user's best interest in mind and used their PC sales as another example.

They have billions for research at their disposal and they couldn't see that their equipment was too power hungry, would not be sustainable in the long run and probably needed re-tuning? I'm guessing they did.
And depending on how it's reported, it might also be possible that instead of reassuring the general public, reporting radioactivity in banana units might decimate sales of bananas.
> - Wildly under-capitalized
> - Organize as a sole proprietorship rather than a corporation
> - Don’t write a business plan
> - Start from scratch

These sound like they probably correlate with noobishness, as in by the time you know what you're doing you probably have more money available and are more familiar with complicated corporate structures (and more afraid of lawyers) and have been taught to like business plans.

> - Sell to consumers rather than businesses

"Ninety per cent of the fastest-growing companies in the country sell to
other businesses; failed entrepreneurs usually try selling to consumers, and, rather than
serving customers that other businesses have missed, they chase the same people as their
competitors do."

Most failed new businesses try selling to consumers; but how does this compare the the fraction of all new businesses that try selling to consumers? Most fastest-growing businesses are in B2B; is the market growing or are they cannibalizing their competitors?

> - Don't understand financial controls

Does this mean budgeting and such?

> - Under-emphasize marketing
> - Try to compete on price

These sound reasonable, in that I wouldn't expect them to be confounded by being a strong demographic selector like the first items.
Their tech overview PDF has less layman fluff than the article: http://dev.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/SeaMicroTechOver...
> My take: it doesn't actually quote SSC, what a failure.

> https://howthehell.substack.com/p/nyt-ssc-quoting

Am I reading that right? It complains the article didn't actually quote SSC, then contradicts itself by listing ten actual quotes from SSC that are in the article, and then lists ten other quotes that he happens to particularly like (one of which is a dreamlike thing that appears to be from some fiction).

I kinda get the impression the author of that blog post would have been satisfied with nothing less than something that read like it was written by an enthusiastic fan.
Part of the problem is that research positions tend to be for Ph.D. students and post-docs who cost less than permanent research scientists. This is good in the short term for the individual grant, but has the side effect that to continue research we have to produce more Ph.D.s than there are permanent fair-paying academic positions for.
Monopolistic platforms don't own the copyright on user-generated content. The users do, and they license it to the platform.
That is surprising - sorry your experience was not good.

I have written a lot of books for publishers and I have some advice that might be useful in the future: always either meet deadlines or give a heads up if you expect delays; thank editors whenever they catch an error and make good suggestions; don't ignore editorial advice if you dont agree, always respond with a reason you are ignoring advice; as much as possible make some personal connection with editors even if it is just a few minute talk about family, career, interests, etc.

I always view publishers as my customers and treat them as I do people who pay me to do consulting work.
> You email people you know. In an effort to broaden your horizons, you could send email to strangers in, say, China, but you don’t.

couchsurfing.org: 2420358 members, 2808581 friendships created

HN, reddit, omegle, interpals etc

There are no end of examples of internet communities which create connections spanning different cultures and social groups.

> Try this experiment. Go to any of the websites you ordinarily visit and attempt find a page that does not feature self-promotion, advertisements, or some opportunity to spend or “donate” your money. It’s not going to be easy.

HN. That was easy.

I can't quite put my finger on what is it about this essay that annoys me so much. Perhaps the pages of unsupported assertations, perhaps the fact that he can see only the similarities and not the differences, perhaps the belief that everyones online activities are as mundane and boring as the authors' apparently are.
I have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing, but still find Mikotik confusing and hard to set up for non-trivial use cases. Like configuring an SSID per VLAN.
The problem with mass banning on a large scale driven by whoever is loudest is that it very, very quickly devolves into witch hunts. Nobody wins.

I used to run my own BBS back in the dialup days. Even then, the problems would be recognisable to a modern forum mod.

The only workable solutions I've found are that the more focused a board on a select number of topics, the easier it is to effectively moderate in a humane manner, and that it is impossible to rules-lawyer your way to success. In the end, you have to spend significant brain-time evaluating behavior on a case-by-base basis, and be willing to ban, listen, and revise in equal measures. It's hard work, and generally unappreciated.
Some sources say Coinbase has already been trading at >$100B on private markets [1].

I find it interesting that about 2/3 of their trading volume (and thus revenue) is from institutions. Also that 44% of their trading volume is from "Other Crypto Assets", which implies that there must be a rather large bit of institutional activity in "Other Crypto Assets", and it's not just the stereotypical retail crypto investor trading in alt-coins.

[1]: https://www.axios.com/coinbase-valued-100-billion-direct-lis...
You can avoid a lot of flying and driving by using zoom on that laptop.
I guess it depends on what you want to use the data for. There are plenty reasonably priced APIs for streaming the latest closing price once a second for, say, up to 5 stocks at a time. That's much more manageable than, say, streaming all 100,000 global stock and their transactions, bids, asks, closing prices, outstanding orders across multiple stock exchanges per stock, and 3-dimensional options data (strike price, expiration date, type). This may approach (but still be a few orders of magnitude less than) particle collider levels of data.
Hey all,

I've always had an interest in domain names, and often found myself buying some for side projects that typically never got built. I recently became interested in the domain name aftermarket, and joined a few communities to learn how to trade them effectively.

According to industry wisdom, there are specific ways of valuing a domain name. For instance, .com is generally considered more value than other top-level domains like .net and .org. Short, catchy brands and single words are also highly prized.

The industry has produced a wonderful range of automated tools you can use to value your domains, using a range of signals like search traffic, similar names sold in the past, whether the same name has been bought across a range of top level domains, etc.

And while these are extremely helpful, what's missing (in my opinion) is the subjective view. Some domain names, especially brandable ones, can't be valued using computer models. Sometimes only humans can do the job.

The site is free, but you have to vote before you can submit your own domains for others to vote on. I hope this keeps things fair for everyone.

I came up with PeerIdeas to scratch my own itch, and since launch I've had both positive and negative feedback (as can be expected). However I've enjoyed the journey immensely, and I invite you to give it a try if it meets your needs too.
The difference is the risk/reward ratio. During the California gold rush, around 300,000 came to hunt for gold.
Approximately all of them needed shovels, while approximately nobody (<1%) struck it rich. As an individual, you are far more likely to make a profit selling shovels than digging for gold.

It's almost as if there's a parallel to Silicon Valley and the startup scene here...
I use Firefox in compact mode on all of my work/personal machines, and have noticed that most of my Firefox-using friends also use compact mode.

I absolutely cannot stand product managers who try to remove features that they don't personally use. I remember when Firefox used to be customizable. I wish there were some way for users to have a voice -- the bugzilla system doesn't even have a way to vote against a "feature" that removes features you actually use!
That's a very patronizing response. When I say that depression often manifests as an unmotivated mental state, rather than the overt sadness or melancholy one might assume, I'm speaking from personal experience. As someone who has been medicated for it, I'm the last person who needs to be told that depression is a "serious illness".
"1-2 man operations who are lacking areas of expertise"

Wow, you hit the nail on the head there!

That sounds like something my startup COULD benefit from, but I am wary of the cold hard cash bit as we don't have any :D

The virtual mentor thing could be good as my business partner and I are both from technical backgrounds and are business noobs.

Also I have as of yet not attended any meetups, but I plan to! One of the reasons I started this thread I suppose...
Try to work with books which have exercises - such as "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html), "Introduction to Theory of Computation" (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michae...) or "How To Design Programs" (http://www.htdp.org/).

Keyword here is _work_.
does it call any other services? or is it all in the JS?
There are different learning styles. For some (lucky) people, reading it in a book is enough. For you, that may not be enough. If it isn't, then you need to learn how to teach yourself. The book is there to provide technical insight. It is up to you to turn the information into a curriculum that you assign yourself -- little projects or scratch coding things (weekend hacks) that you can do to test out the technique, strategy or technology.
So, why cancel the courier then?
I did try that once, the results were very good, though not optimal. It did converge very quickly to a good solution, however.
They don't because they need to earn money, and to earn money you have to go where jobs are - cities. With basic income you wouldn't so people would be incentivised to move to lower cost areas.
this was a nice gesture from Pebble to offer their products to Kickstarter backers at a discount and priority

The Kickstarter page says the standard watch will cost $199 retail - yet the official website is advertising it for $99 | https://getpebble.com/shop

Am I misunderstanding something here?
> and their "are you 100% sure" question is obviously intended to illicit a particular response (who is ever really 100% sure of anything?).

When you routinely get prompted with that question dozens (hundreds?) of times a day, it can't elicit that response successfully. It's just not how our psychology works.
Or like a storage container for kibble that when it gets to a certain weight, orders a new bag.
.edu is reserved for postsecondary institutions that are institutionally accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies.
Meta: interestingly enough, the HN submit changed the asterisk to an u in the title :).

This is Oklahomas attempt to lure Tesla/Musk to build the Cybertruck gigafactory there. While not interesting by itself, it's interesting on a meta level I think.
It's sad how Hong Kong is often left out or lumped together with China in these visualisations.

I'm glad at least Taiwan is listed separately though.
Most people prefer the desktop software for better UX.
Optimized is too small a term. It's neigh on impossible to responsibly load a plane without the required infrastructure in place, weight, balance, shifting loads and so on are all reasons why standardized cargo containers are used. Loose loads in aircraft can have this kind of effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_eP0zdfZFk

So, assuming you can get the load safely in to the plane, without some kind of containerization inside it you are running a significant risk. Note that the video shows a crash due to one or more Humvees not being properly secured and I'd expect shifting loads to be a bit nicer than that on average but still, that's a risk that need not be taken.

Cargo planes are cargo planes for a reason.
The example of the classic 4-line math typesetting at the top of page 4 is the best you will ever see. Anything else would serve nothing but to distract and annoy the reader (not to say anything about the writer who now has less time to think about math proper.)
Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of Rust and I'm very hopeful about its future. This is why I spend a lot of time studying it.

As someone who is learning and comparing the language there are things that I think definitely suck about Rust:

* Syntax is ugly, unclean and overloaded. There are things like the ? operator which seem to have no purpose other than sugar in the sense of "you write a bit less code", which I find to be useless, obscure and even had restricting implications on async/await. Also the whole language suffers from being a weird mix of C-like statement syntax and FP-like expression syntax, which takes time to get used to. Function signatures are both verbose and arcane. I wish Rust just admitted early on, that it needed a different way of expression and went from first principles instead of superficially trying to mimic other mainstream languages.

* Rust being a very error driven language is a good thing, but make it less suitable for prototyping the happy path. This is fine but a constraint that one should keep in mind.

* powerful pattern matching, dataless programming with traits, FP-like API on iterators and option/result etc. make it very expressive on a higher level, but more basic things like string operations and array indices (possibly other things as well) are far less ergonomic than in other modern languages. Typically in other/older languages you'd struggle with abstraction but the basic stuff is easy, in Rust you struggle with the basic stuff and abstractions are ergonomic.

* all around (a bit) too much emphasis on structs over hashmaps as the default data structure for associative grouping.

Things I like about Rust but are not for everyone:

* Rust is very error driven, you tend to write a lot of code around errors, options, results.

* pattern matching/destructuring is the main way to write branching logic.

* a lot of emphasis on enums (tagged unions) to express configuration, state, variants and things like that.
I asked every one of the people who wrote those if they were comfortable with my updating the name in their testimonials prior to changing them.
> That is if you took the top-tier angels today then the investments that they make over the next year will do disproportionately well compared to other angels.

Do you think that has to do with a virtuous cycle, and not say any magic in investment thesis of these angels.

Said differently, because of Ron Conway's position, he gets first pick of all the best deals, which have a higher likelihood of success, because in part they're connected to Ron Conway.
More people die in their beds than in their chairs, so clearly lying down is more dangerous than sitting.

People don't die from a single nights sleep either but in the long run it gets them.
For me it should be careful not to forget about reading books. From ages 10 to 24 I would have averaged at least one book a week. Then my internet addiction surfaced. Since then I have probably averaged 2 books a year, but at the same time I have probably read more words on average per week than before. The problem is that 80% of what I read on the internet is piffle or at best mental chewing gum. I've recently started reading books again and I cant believe I had forgotten how rewarding it is. No time to read anyone else's comments sorry, I'm going back to the engaging story of Karl Ove.
Perl5.18 has some limited support for Perl6-style function signatures, but it's still considered "experimental" and requires a pragma to enable. I don't consider that to really be part of the language yet; real-world Perl5 function definitions end up looking like this, at best:

sub foo {
my ($foo, @bar) = @_;
...
}

I'm not sure if that's valid syntax in Perl6 or not, but either way it's certainly not idiomatic.
From the article: "This piece was designed for a ritual purpose, which is why it was found folded. Bending a metal object as a symbolic act of destruction before burial was a common practice in the Bronze Age and later."
That's definitely a factor, but he's still remembered. It would have been easy for the programming to have been ignored and Carmack to have been overshadowed by Romero, but that didn't happen.

Amongst game programmers, we certainly pay more attention to who writes the code, not just who designs the game or draws the art. Most gamers are more likely to know of Cliff Bleszinski than Tim Sweeney, but programmers are more likely to know of Sweeney.
What I don't like about Racket (former PLT Scheme) is that it's a closed environment. You can't use common Scheme libraries (for instance: SLIB), debugging facilities are hidden into Racket's editor therefore you can't access them from Emacs or other tools, etc.
That others don’t see the blatant hypocrisy of the gambling/investing false dichotomy speaks more to their _own_ biases.
Couldn't agree more. The reason why CEOs are so well paid is to come up with processes to prevent such things from happening in the first place.

The management team should be the first to be blamed when such incidents arise.
the point is most gamblers aren't
So Berkshire now owns about 10% of Apple, if I buy a $1,000 Macbook $100 of that money goes to Berkshire, what are they doing with that money since Apple is the one doing the R&D and building these products? I know at least some of that money is driving up the business value of Berkshire, it's a great investment on their part but is it good for customers that Macbooks are 11% more expensive than they should be?
I’m a terrible trader, and had no shame in admitting it. The moment I saw red, I panicked and sold. If I had open orders on the market, I couldn’t concentrate on anything else. I found trading to be all-consuming, exhausting, and completely demoralising.

But I also couldn’t bear to just let my hard-earned savings sit there, wasting away. A cup of coffee cost more than I was earning in annual interest!

About 3 months ago, it suddenly dawned on me... If I know I’m too emotionally volatile to trade effectively, why not get an algorithm to do it for me? I don’t know much about the stock market, but I’m good with statistics and can write code. Why should the hedge funds have all the fun?

I spent a month researching technical indicators and quantitative analysis, then another few weeks building my automated trading system from scratch. I put it on a server last week, and it’s been chugging along quietly, 24/7, ever since.

I don’t have to get involved in any way — it picks stocks automatically, A/B tests different algorithms against one another, and manages its own budgets. I just set it and forget it.

The only time I hear from it is when it sends me a Slack notification — with moneybags emoji, of course — whenever it makes a profitable trade.

Honestly, it’s been the most fun I’ve had on a personal project for years. It’s taught me lots, kept me busy during lockdown, and might one day provide a little extra cash. We’ll see!
And friendlier in regards to taxation. Doing a roundtrip of buying more shares with dividends means paying income taxes.
Blaming the intern instead of root causing it as a systemic failure just leads me to wonder if they will actually take the correct steps to prevent this from happening in the future.

Fwiw this is a good archive of mostly well done post mortems: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
I had the impression this was already state of the art in 2007 when I started my CS degree.
I think this applies to most companies. What they write in their blogs is a shiny, optimistic, limited view of the best part of their best system or similar. Once inside, things are never that great.

I myself was very ashamed of a company I worked for (also SF based) blog post... even the author of the post was a very well known open source maintainer of many libraries of a very popular programming language. Reading the posts in the blog was like.... I cannot believe we lie this big... internally things were just crap, and what the blog post made look like it was the norm, was just a side project of this person.

So, never trust companies blog posts by default.
I can safely move around three eggs at a time, moving 3e9 eggs at a time is slightly more difficult.
How can you differentiate the beginning stages of hyperinflation from an everything bubble?
Not quite. I'm sure both the company and owners have tons of crypto in their portfolio. But I'm also sure they'd love to be able to diversify that into boring fiat dollars and dollar based holdings too.
In languages were it “ends at scope”, this is still wrong.

I don’t quite follow -- what would go wrong? If you put that in a loop body, won’t you get one open() and one close() per iteration, as intended?
Well it’s a fork of cmucl. Carnegie Mellon university Common Lisp. So they couldn’t have named it the same as the thing it was derived from.
If Satoshi is identified he might also still be alive.

This means that Satoshi's BTC (~1mio.) are potentially liquid which would mean a gigantic influx of fresh bitcoins.

It's quite plausible that any movement of these old wallets would crash the Bitcoin price for quite a while.
Came here to say something similar. It seems fairly obvious (to an amateur like me, I guess) that the lack of color on one side would simply be from a pigmentation issue. But the description of the event by the photographer as a "once-in-a-lifetime, one-in-a-million encounter" makes it seem like there's a very clear reason he narrowed out pigmentation.
> We have forgotten why we used cryptocurrencies in the first place. The original promise of cryptocurrency was to become independent from banks.

Lots of things evolve and change and their original intent is twisted. It’s ok. Life goes on.