jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As long as you understand that "losing thousands per sale" is a number achieved by dividing Tesla Motors' "losses" by the number of cars they've sold, without paying attention to what those losses involve: i.e.: massive investment in capital as expected for a startup in a new industry.

Where is Porche's supercharger network? How will you charge the car in 15 minutes when there's no supercharger available?

What change in technology is coming down the pipeline? The so-called "Lithium-Air" battery requires a store of liquid Oxygen (which is not "air" but don't let the facts get in the way of a headline), then there are the Aluminium batteries which are nice in the lab. Getting a technology from the lab to production is a decade-long effort, assuming there's anyone interested in commercialising the technology.

There are incremental changes to Lithium batteries, with a new manufacturing technique promising more capacity and a different process promising batteries that last "forever".

The market for Tesla Model S and Model X right now is people with cash to burn on a status symbol that will be current for at least two years.

When the Porche E comes out, the market will already be different. People will be used to the idea of electric cars, there will be more charging stations at all levels, and hopefully we'll have something closer to an industry standard for charging.

Let's revisit the numbers when the Model 3 is out.
Admittedly, I've never worked in real estate other than the brief stories with my father.

>> A great agent can be the difference between getting a property or not.

I've heard such success stories, and I agree with you. An agent knowledgeable about one city would be ill suited to sell homes in another. It's very difficult for an agent to transition between cities, even if that agent is excellent at selling properties in his or her current city. Success depends too much on how much an agent knows about the local region and community. The point I was trying to make was that the amount of knowledge is relatively constant (e.g. what sellers look for in a buyer), it's just a different body of knowledge that depends on the region.

>> You do realize that the number of pocket listings has grown substantially in the past several years, right?

No, I did not realize, sorry for my narrow perspective!

>> They're far more likely to be tapped into the networks that will give their clients access to properties that haven't hit the MLS.

This is again to my point - the success of an agent depends more on what they know about their region (e.g. available properties, all-cash offers vs. larger offers, etc.), than the actual amount of work.

IMHO it simply isn't enough of a difference to justify a 10-fold increase in price. Palo Alto is an extreme example. There are likely niche communities where buyers would rather pay a fixed-cost and accept the risk inherent with taking a less-reputable agent.
I think the comparisons are not correct. Dropbox is a privately held entity and the founders have every right to enforce the ToS and to compare that against Internet itself is not right.
A twin study is just one form of (natural) experiment. It's common in medicine/epidemiology to perform double-blind trials with placebos, etc. Good medical research utilizes experiments rather than assuming causation from correlation like this study does.

I am a big fan of twin studies, though (my background is in behavior genetics). Take the example of smoking. The most solid demonstration that smoking was bad for your health (aside from maybe the experiments on other mammals) was comparison of twins where one twin smoked and the other didn't.
Yes, in an ideal world their system would only ever store and forward a received DMCA notice.

But here in the real world Dropbox doesn't really give a shit whether they actually got a real DMCA notice from Sony regarding the presence of "Spiderman.3.DVDRip.avi" in a particular 13-year-old's public folder — since none of those accounts are paid, they're just saving themselves money, and noone would discover it normally or have a reason to be pissed off at them. They can't even get in trouble for perjury since they were never sending DMCA notices to users, but rather telling users that Dropbox had received a notice.
Agree the Dropship s/w itself was in some violation of the ToS, but was the file that was uploaded to the public dropbox share in violation? What I am trying to separate here is, how could Dropbox the company "determine" the uploaded file indeed was the Dropship s/w? [I know in this case it was obvious as the dev had probably linked to it].
I am trying to pose a question to a different level, where how can/will dropbox scrutinize each uploaded file in this manner without actually receiving a DMCA from a third person?
I think we are agreeing here, we're just phrasing it differently. I didn't mean to imply there was a direct cost comparison; just that part of your payment is for them to fund someone's paycheck. In the grand scheme of things it's definitely cheaper to maintain a high ratio of machines-under-maintenance to systems administrators.

That being said, the difference is Amazon pays an administrator to watch potentially thousands of machines of which you may be using a tiny fraction. You're essentially paying for a very tiny fraction of an admin's time (somewhere) who isn't vested in your business nor does he care that your site is acting wonky. He's just answering and working through tickets (if you bought support). Cloud providers can be come markedly less helpful the instant you (attempt to) deviate from the very carefully maintained cookie-cutter pattern they've set out for you.
How does one know his or her limits without testing them? I'd much rather hire the kid that attempted 99 failed classes.
Who are you? We thought we knew most folks who run TCP Anycast... Anyways, I've run multi-day long TCP streams without issue. Like any sort of anycast, there is a lot of finesse, but if you are logical in your network architecture you will have no issues. In fact, you can re-establish TCP connections across datacenters if desired using tools like pfsync.
Know what the outcome of that lawsuit was? Press tends to follow the beginning, not the end, I'm having trouble finding anything :/
> LP expectations are set by VCs.

Right, which is why a VC selling such product (low return but same as before high risk of failure) would have a tough time. They are essentially selling the ROI similar to that of real estate (or some similar asset class), but with higher risk of failure, lower resale value in case of a bust, and lower probability of being able to wait a crisis out by sitting on assets and not selling during a market downturn - what a deal.

> Reality is most VCs don't generate spectacular IRR (or any IRR at all) outside of the top 5%.

I don't think it matters for large LPs, as they diversify across a bunch of VCs anyways, and even those VCs have a collection of funds with wildly different returns (the KPCB fund that did an early investment in Google, e.g., did great, the KPCB cleantech fund was a bust, you ask two different KPCP investors and you'll get two very different opinions depending on their exposure).
I wouldn't upload them in the first place.
> I think that isn't so much attitude as experience

Experience with library ecosystems which lack proper versioning support, perhaps.

> some of the policies will be (broad adoption) language
> suicide

What policies? How does this discussion at all concern any deficiencies that are unique to Rust?
Last week I flew into SFO from Paris. I was called out at the Paris airport with another person (of Muslim origin). The person at the counter started asking me a few questions, and then asked me if we're colleagues. I said we weren't, and that I don't know the guy. He let me go after that, but I was then flagged for security at every single checkpoint after that.
I was pulled for a bag check after scanning my boarding pass. In SFO I was flagged for 'secondary screening' during immigration. The immigration officer took me in a room and basically asked me to give details on pretty much my entire life and activities for the past year. After I got out of there, I was then flagged at the customs, where the officer rummaged through all my bags.
I'm terrified now that this will become a regular thing, and that was only because I was accidentally associated with a young Muslim male. I now understand what they must be going through pretty much every single time they fly.
It boggles my mind the path of "cover it up" that America is going down.

Before a court case has even been held to determine if anyone did something wrong, those people have already applied for immunity so they can't be held responsible.

There are no consequences for people that do something illegal, only for those that talk about it happening.
He drove around a parking lot once, searching for the charging station.
> The main difference is that it chose javascript instead of lisp as its universal language

The main reason is that it's backed by Microsoft, both because of the investment that provides and the visibility it provides.

JavaScript over Lisp probably helps, but if VSCode had Visual Basic as it's extension language it would still be doing strong, and not because VB is a good or popular language independently.
CLRS is over 1000 very dense pages. I assume the author just did a fairly casual reading and didn't work through many problems.

Even still, this is a full month of study just for the interview process, and little of this sticks unless you practice it. This basically says to me that big companies just want to hire new grads or people who have copious amounts of free time to waste on studying, or perhaps enough wealth and freedom to take several months off (someone I knew with several children and a dependent wife took 3 months off to prep for interviews and got multiple offers! But this is only possible if you are already wealthy because of the high risk involved and lack of income).

I'm not saying I haven't done an extensive amount of prep - I own 3 of the 4 mentioned books plus CTCI, though I've only read the latter and DDIA, and I just did advent of code 2020 - but I'm a man with a remote job and no children and it's still a pain for me to stay at my current level of being moderately competent at algorithms. And then, of course, you'll get into BigTech and spend time fiddling with frontend components or configuring infrastructure or gluing apis together and you'll never need any of this again - with the exception of the content of DDIA, which would be a much better focus for senior engineering interviews and you end up learning/using a lot of this in practice.
GDPR applies for American companies in the EU, so to answer your question, no, it’s not “OK”.
Luck is obviously a factor along with survivorship bias but you'll notice if you've done any research that a very large portion of relatively successful to highly successful creators did not start out with wanting to grow their audience but focused on the content they wanted to make and were caught unawares by the reception to their work

To expand on this a bit (I know you mentioned you didn't want unsolicited advice, but I think this is fundamentally important), there is a glut of good marketers with not much product. Ideally, you'd want to be a good marketer with a good product, but barring that the goal is to have a good product first if that makes sense. Otherwise, you won't have something that will keep the audience coming back since they have an ocean to choose from.
Okay, I have to ask: shouldn’t a system like this use TAI or at least UTC? If you are air gapped and really need accurate time, you at least have to deal with leap seconds. Even if a one-second error doesn’t bother you, there’s an entire two-hour interval when DST ends in which the local time is ambiguous. Or do these systems try to do the right thing by distinguishing 2:30 AM PST from 2:30 AM PDT?
Or do not buy the hardware..
Rust backend & Javascript / Typescript | Urvin AI | Remote (US, Berlin, Barcelona) | Contract-to-Hire | https://urvin.ai

We are looking to hire two junior developers. The first position is working exclusively with Rust (with potentially some Kotlin), and focused on developing tooling, testing our natural language engine, and helping to write backend services to interact with it. The second one is focused on frontend work, producing product/functionality demonstrations and working on client projects. We have used React before, but are open to Vue or Svelte. Typescript would be great to have.

You will help us build out our natural language understanding product, Urvin.Discover. Urvin.Discover is a high-performance language engine that is uniquely able to understand the ambiguity, context and nuance of unstructured data. Urvin.Discover is currently used primarily in the legal and finance industries for specialized document understanding, and document search and discovery.
For the Rust position you should have prior experience with Rust, but not necessarily in a production environment. If you love rust, dabble with it in your free time and show some code on github we are happy. For the frontend position you should be similarly be able to show some of your work using your favourite stack.

These are contract-to-hire roles. After 3-6 months, we’d like to make each position full-time, with benefits, depending on your location.

Stack: Rust, Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Svelta, Vue.js, RocksDB

Location: We are a 100% remote team, primarily located in Central Europe. You should be able to attend online meetings at 5pm (CET, UTC+01) at least once a week, and have at least 6 hours overlap with our core working hours (9am to 5pm UTC+01).

Contact: If you are interested or want to know more, get in touch at jobs [at] urvin [dot] ai / https://urvin.ai/careers
Actually, I don’t need to read it, as I would never work for a company like Facebook - Facebook itself least of all.
Wow. That sounds sketchy to say the least.
Is this post written to invite a breakup?
Well there was the cop that extorted an arrested woman into giving him nudes, seizing the houses of the parents of people arrested for minor drug crimes, using children as leverage in civil asset forfeiture, solitary confinement, tacit approval of prison rape as reformatory, prison labor and private prisons, and the murders of union organizers...
A few states have a roadworthiness test. Most states don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unite...

It's partially a social justice issue, as we've managed to build up much of our country in such a way that walking and public transport are geometrically impractical, so poor people would be trapped at home if we banned them from driving the ill-maintained car they're barely able to afford to own and unable to afford to maintain.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were ultimately related to the fact that it's a solved game. Programs exist which provably never lose. So the strategy is known, there are (in principle, anyway) no "hard choices" that many of the higher-ranked games have.
The car takes you and your kid to work/school, then goes to a charging depot or back home. Who's plugging it in?
In state level taxation. State and local taxation and spending, however, are highly coupled, and looking at state level taxation in isolation can be misleading. Especially in the case of California, where local property tax rates were made artificially low, and as a result state income tax and sales tax artificially high.
The upside is that the company has excellent developer tools and infrastructure (I mean aside from AWS), very accessible principal engineers, a huge amount of paying customers so your work has real impact, and it seems like most teams have autonomy to work and deliver in their own way. Within a week or two of joining I was given ownership of an important internal product while also getting up to speed on the main event (the retail website). The technical challenges are there for the taking.

I also mentioned some of this at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2488980
> Hundreds of thousands of folks (nationwide) lost their jobs at established companies in the wake of that mess.

False. If you went to the east coast, people were largely unaffected by the dot-bomb in the valley. The most significant impact was seeing various stock market indexes drop, which hit people in the pocketbook, but it did not result in layoffs.
If the dock moves, then why have a dock at all? It would just be another row of icons.
Perfectly put. I do love liberal arts a great deal. I try my best to be able to learn about those whenever I happen to get some free time, but even if I had to do it all over again, I might not chose it as my degree and stick to engineering.
The c2 wiki is the source of secret programming knowledge and opinions. As such the first rule is not to talk about it lest people ruin it.

It's probably one of the best sites on the internet for programmers wanting to learn.
I recently built (more or less) a REST API and a Backbone front-end using Python. Why would I want to use Django to do so when there are so many other (more appropriate) options? Does Django really need to be a framework that does everything?

I started before Flask supported Python 3, so I used bottle, psycopg2 and a bunch of other python packages. Knowing what I was interested in accomplishing, I was pretty easily able to stitch together these libraries to create a solid, to-the-point codebase.

Having spent a bunch of time working on various backbone-heavy apps with Rails I don't have much interest in using a big, full-stack, opinionated framework to act as a REST API. There is so much overhead and so many opinions to work against.
Right, what makes Erlang interesting is the VM and how it's put together, with its own scheduler. It's fairly unique, but something you could replicate elsewhere. Go has a scheduler too, although it's built differently with different goals in mind.

The problem is that you end up needing to do 'real world' stuff, and hit something like this:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/xmerl/xmerl_ug.html
It is only "object oriented" in North America. Europeans have long used "orientated".

If you've followed the HTML 5 spec process, you'll have answers to your other questions as to Hixie's inisght and taste in technology paradigms.
Sorry you are wrong. MBS is not classed as a derivative. As pointed out above it's actually a structured finance product. But anyway as a simple sum of underlying cash products it's still a cash product (you pay upfront cash equal to the notional of the instrument)

A stock option on the other hand is most definately NOT a cash product, although the underlying is. The stock itself is not traded , it's just a financial contract whose value is a function of the stock price.
"Oriented" is the right word. "Object-oriented"
who fasts every day of Ramadan every year

Muslims calling Ramadan "a fasting month" is a serious devaluation of the word "fasting". It's not actual fasting if you only eat at night. It's fasting if you don't eat for at least full day. Say, eating once or twice only every other day.

Also, doing this for one month in a year is another sham. How very useful!
The messaging protocols that are still here from the older days of the Internet are not going anywhere. Email is here to stay. IRC is still going strong. Hell, even Usenet is still kicking. Ignore the FUD.
And each of these sent at least $250K to ICANN to open up the TLD right? What a scamola.
> The US actually

Are you speaking about the US as a whole or just the federal government? If you only consider federal income taxes, then yes, our system looks progressive by comparison. However, US citizens pay federal, state and often city taxes and the tax rate become more flat in many locations when all levels of taxation are considered. Also, for the full picture, you really should consider benefits. For example, even as someone with no major health problems, my health insurance and healthcare costs between 10% and 20% of my pre-tax income - as it does for many Americans. Other nations have comparable healthcare systems that are funded by taxes, so excluding that benefit skews the comparison.
A little optimistic about Apples SoCs aren't you?

Also...given that AMD exists and the x86 instruction set is not some magic potion ingredients...
I assumed that was a possibility but that still means "HCL" isn't a benefit since kubectl can load json from the CLI and from apiserver.
> For what it's worth, I can tell you I'm being completely sincere here and I just wish the literal most privileged people in the world would look a bit around them before claiming to live oh-so-horrible lives.

You're conflating two unrelated things:

1. American's poor understanding of conditions in the wider world, and of history.

2. How Americans feel about worsening conditions of poverty and health in America, or-- frankly-- how Americans feel about anything they feel is missing in their lives.

The times when Americans have implicitly conflated those things-- e.g., after WWII when a steep increase in depression among middle class women accompanied unparalleled prosperity in the middle class-- Americans actually prolonged their own suffering instead of ameliorating it. AFAICT, trying to "jolt" oneself out of depression by convincing oneself there's no good reason to be depressed is similar to trying to drink oneself out of alcoholism.

In fact, the idea, "You don't know how good you have it," is so hammered into the American psyche that one of the most popular Netflix series-- The Queen's Gambit-- is essentially an 8-hour long refutation of that idea from exactly that same time period. I'll save you the time-- that idea does not work.

Communicating with ignorant people by telling them about your experiences can be fruitful. Teaching your own coping strategies to people even though they are only experiencing first-world problems is graceful.

One-downmanship is simply not an effective tool to achieve either of those goals.
Given the weight of the craft and thin atmosphere, I would be surprised if there was any noticeable surface disturbance anytime outside of takeoff/landing.
Death is not a disease. It is part of life. What people should be scared of is not dying, which is just an inevitability - it is the failure to live while they are alive here on the most beautiful planet in the universe.

The future you envy of "consciousness distributed amongst computers scattered throughout space" is not living in the way that we have available to us now here on earth.

Look up at the sky. Feel the sun's rays. Visit a mountain and notice the wildlife in the treetops. Just watch those wildlife for a while, until their thoughts become yours.

Talk to somebody you've never met before. Just smile and say, how about this weather! What they say will be worth more to you than any number of MIPS from a grid in space.
There's also http://apollo13realtime.org/ with fully synced transcripts.