jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Eventually this will become a battle of systems, and it is not clear that this time, freedom will win. The Chinese system works very well, and in some regards much better than the western model of governance. It feels very much that the western world is in decline - we can no longer coordinate on large-scale projects, or produce beauty. The aqueducts are still standing, but we can't build new ones.
This feels like some modern day "Glengarry Glen Ross" type stuff.
I think your expectations of how a company handles Leads are unrealistic. A company just needs to keep your data safe. A sales person having access to Leads makes complete sense. A sales person being able to see if a lead has been chased makes sense. A sales person being able to find Leads to chase that they are best qualified to chase makes sense.
That's correct.
Cubbit doesn't ask to mine anything.
Cubbit is very democratic ;)
Math to do this in the USA in case you're intererested:

210,000,000 working age adults * $5900 / mo * 12 months ~= 15 TRILLION dollars per year.

The annual GDP of the USA is about 21.5 trillion.
Hm. I will obviously appear to be biased, but isn't the collection of anecdotes that you've gathered a manifestation of some kind of inverse survivorship bias? Within the total population of people who work or have worked at AWS, the largest group of people with a negative experience will be in the subset of the population that has left the company? I really believe that companies the size of Amazon will inevitably have a certain percentage of people who had negative experiences - just like the company has negative experiences with individuals.

Like I said in my other comment in this thread, I'm sure that there are some teams that don't have a good culture but it also comes down to the individual in many cases. I guess it comes down to individual preferences, some folks really don't want to work at Google, others dislike Facebook, some don't like AWS, etc.. But at the end of the day, all of these companies still attract a ton of incredibly talented people and I personally don't see that trend ending soon.
Why don't these experiments get set up as a closed system, where all the participants are also paying taxes into the UBI program to sustain its costs?

They can even go a step further and set up an experimental currency to model what happens when experimental federal government running the experimental program has an experimental budget deficit and sells experimental bonds to the experimental central bank to pay for it all.

Why don't the experiments account for these factors?
I am only starting with it myself, so I mostly see the benefits without actually being aware of the drawbacks, but you might consider Elixir and its most used web framework Phoenix.

It has some inspirations of Ruby/Ruby on Rails. José Valim (Elixir creator) had background in it and started creating it when Ruby was trying to solve multi-core/concurrency and somehow found about Erlang and its VM (BEAM).
Should be, but we know it won't.
The solids in butter are what burn quickly. Clarified butter burns at 230°C, which is at the higher end of cooking oil smoke points.
Sure, and that goes for all internal experiences.

In the ashram where I stayed we weren't even allowed to talk about the practice.
We are using FraudLabs Pro. If the results required manual review, we will look at the analysis report to identify any red flags. We will also give them a call to confirm the orders before shipment.
I think it's a very smart investment. I hope SpaceX do well. It would be awesome if they succeed at everything they say they're going to do. Just do it, don't let dream die. Hope I can travel to Mars in my life time.
I've been on the largest one, which is in the Arts Tower of Sheffield University, UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Tower

There are a few safety features that help you to not get chopped in half. The front of each platform flaps up on a hinge, so if you got a limb under it while its moving down it just flaps up (the red board on the photo). Also there's a sort of trip wire along the upper edge (you can just see it in the photo) so if a limb of a rider is protruding while they're riding up and touches the wire the whole thing emergency stops.

We felt quite safe on it, and even perfected some fancy dismounting techniques (backward rolls and such) :)
It is a bit funny that your verdict is that someone is "ignorant" of the black magic in high speed communication, and you're linking to someone who literally has called two of his books "Black Magic".

Now I don't happen to agree with 'userbinator's skepticism -- indeed I think that a lot of engineers who work with digital stuff tend to forget that it is analog under the hood, with all the associated crosstalk and BER problems. But creating this atmosphere of "Ooooooh, it is something you probably don't understand" isn't very productive, if you know what I mean. I wish Johnson had titled his books, "High-Speed Digital Design: Quite Simple If You Do the Math and Physics".
You and i may disagree on whether something looks like actions taken out of ulterior motives, but to me the whole episode looks like it, and that is honesty, nothing else.

As for interpretation: There is no room for interpretation when someone claims "no vulnerability" and "disclosed a vulnerability" on the same thing.
TCP does what it's designed for: Reliable, ordered, stream connection with fixed end-points. UDP is the other extreme of this permutation. Wonder why no one explores the spectrum in between?
I would recommend not using PHP. http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Here are some suggestions for web-app languages:

Python + flask.

Ruby + rails.

Go standard HTTP library.

Haskell + snap.

I've used all of those and thought they were at least decent. The last two are my favorite for web development.
Plus, you can "scale up" the interview to harder questions so you can test the candidate without making them feel bad by bombing a touch problem at the very start of the interview.
>But rockets are still rockets, and a messaging app is still a messaging app. I think it's the incredible disparity in total embodied energy for WhatsApp vs SpaceX that makes this intuitively hard to accept.

The hardest thing I ever did as an investor was let go of thinking there's some correlation between the things I like and market value.
i don't understand why "intelligence"/"smart" is a good thing to optimise/aim for:

1. it's not a well defined quantity.

2. under any definition, it doesn't seem to be anything useful in itself.

can some entity create an entity better at a task that the creator? obviously yes. c.f., compilers, factories, cranes, &c.
not sure about hypercomputation but Godel did try to prove that humans had intuition something that would allow them to somehow go beyond the limitation of his incompleteness theorem. Of course he did go crazy thinking about all this and he never did finish his proof about intuition. I personally don't believe it's possible. Humans are as limited as machines.
"The Coinbase Vault Has Zero Fees".

So how do they make money from it? By stealing your assets, like most Bitcoin wallet companies?
Neat. This layered approach reminds me of the Youtube series where they explain concepts such as Quantum Physics at 5 different levels of difficulty (children, highschool/uni students, phds, field experts).
Of all the upcoming languages out there. I think rust is best positioned. The fact that it is really the only contender that can preform the same role as C, but it folds in lots of the language design theory of the past three decades puts it in a league of its own.
It sounded like they were talking about "resources". I took that to mean they were redesigning the back end of the site to handle the all of the traffic, submissions and the confusing range of submissions they get. I dunno either. It wasn't clear.
This is already being done, by Aireon.
Due to it's co-op nature (which is fairly unusual to non modern boardgamers), some people might have a poor time playing Pandemic if there is an overbearing person quarterbacking the entire game.
Some people love working together to discuss and find the absolute optimal solution collaboratively, but other people feel the need to play their own "character" and work towards the goal as best they can.

With that in mind, I find Ticket To Ride a far less hit-or-miss modern boardgame for new players.
All 4 seemed to be blocked from my office in Kerala. Github is up so they probably have resolved the issue.
A week back Github became mysteriously unavailable (with github status showing no downtime). I guess now we know what happened.
Lots of IDEs have complicated keyboard chords. For IntelliJ, there's Alt+[1..9], Shift+F6, Ctrl+Alt+L, and others on a daily basis. Some of them cross basically the entire keyboard, and it's not convenient to use one hand to do so.
Thanks! The complete version is available :D
Tangential question, what does the !! operator do in:

const supported = !! self.WebAssembly;
Thanks for your wishes :)

That's a good point. To me, the speed is not the first appeal for this kind of system, but more the flow as you say, and it's difficult to demonstrate that on a video :D but I'll think about that for sure.
Couldn’t agree more.

I’m working on a tiny piece of the broken hiring process, Job Descriptions. Many of them (esp non technical role) are essentially illegible and absolute garbage.

Hopefully it reduces the wasted time upfront by improving the quality of matching between job postings and job seekers
Other way round: in the UK, all sorts of companies were popped up to sell masks to the government by people who had the political connections. Quite a lot of them didn't deliver.
What, sanctions? The US is totally reliant on China for manufacturing. You'd grind the West, and China, to a halt.
I frequently and Highly recommend "Design of computer programs" to everyone I can. As an intermediate developer before taking it, I still recommend it. He is an amazing teacher I have learned considerably just from the way he explains and approaches problems.

Plus taking a class for free from the director of research at google :)
There's been a boom in France as well in crowdfunded equity. A startup I did some work for did it, and were happy with the results.
Like the author of the article, I was totally stoked about jumping on the "standing desk" bandwagon. I had thought about getting a counter height table to save on costs over a sit-stand.

Before I made a big purchase decision, however, I figured I'd set one up using some spare furniture as stands just to make sure the idea worked for me.

For the first 30 minutes of standing, I wondered "wtf was I thinking?" After standing for an hour, I did get used to it.

After a couple of weeks, I realized a stand-only table was actuallly not a good idea for me. It wasn't so much related to fatigue (I do squats periodically to break the monotony and get the blood flowing), but I realized that for me, some work was just better done sitting.

My hand-eye coordination was never good to start with, and it was a little less precise (or maybe I'm a little less patient) when standing. I find that mouse-intensive work like manipulating an SVG in Inkscape or placing objects in a PowerPoint requires me to sit down.

I'm actually thankful I set up my temporary standing setup, because I realized that for a long term solution, I need either a sit-stand desk, or a something like a Varidesk (http://ca.varidesk.com/) or a Winston (http://www.lcdarms.com/winston-sit-stand-workstation.php).
In the US: http://www.ecstasydata.org/
A Vagrant or Docker VM is still remote as far as the local desktop is concerned.
Why don't you research those answers yourself if they're of paramount importance to you?
I don't really get it, places helps Google deliver the most locally relevant data, which seems useful looking for a business like this. The preferred alternative is to infer similar information from other similar services online?

Things like citysearch and yelp are even built into the places listing, seems better than just having the one that has the best SEO visible.
Please don't kill O-Moby yahoo!!! It is the coolest thing that I show young people to aspire them.
If you just start typing from the new start screen...
I don't know what they're talking about... My CV currently:

I am an entrepreneurial team player that has a proven track record being an innovative problem-solver. I have extensive experience operating in dynamic and fast-paced environments where I am results-orientated and extremely motivated.
Nope I use Duck Duck Go
I picked out some over-used words and phrases. For example, how many times have you been told by someone they have "unique abilities" and they "help professionals"? At least with LinkedIn you can believe it, but that doesn't mean the words aren't abused.
It seems to have some PL heavyweights working on it: Philip Wadler (Haskell, Java Generics), Shriram Krishnamurthi (Schemer, author of Programming Languages Application and Interpretation).
> people must be able to reap the benefits of their mind/creativity to survive --> people must control the produce of their work/creativity to survive

There is the flaw: the second does not follow from the first. There is no necessary requirement that produce -- in this context copies -- be controlled.

Consider the basic logic/physics of abstract goods. There is no necessary dependence of production on subsequent copies. In fact it is the opposite: the copies depend on production. It is perfectly conceivable that things be produced -- and the producers paid for that -- without any restriction of copies.

And this is clear in practice. Take an architect for example. They are commissioned and then design a building: they have done intellectual work and been paid for it, and so 'reaped the benefits' of their creativity to survive. Yet there has been no need for restriction on copies of their designs.

> The point of IP is that it's the produce of someone's mind, . . . If you copy it without permission . . . you're undermining somebody's ability to benefit from their creativity

But as explained above, this is not essential: it is only true for a particular, contingent, commercial arrangement.

You see that production is good, and also that copies are good too. What I ask is that you see that there is no essential need that one should restrict the other. And since both do us good, surely we would want to do both. What we want
is a system that supports people to produce and allows freedom of copying.

This is why the pragmatic argument is the only plausible one. If we don't need, for practical reasons, to restrict copies, why would we? How can it be moral? What good does it do us? The idea that people have some intrinsic right to interfere with others, based merely on creatorship, is nonsensical and utterly self-destructive.

Just compare the limit cases (and since it is already established there is no necessary dependence of production on copies, we can look just at the copying aspect). Either: with free copying/sharing, we all greatly magnify our access to good stuff, at no cost to anyone. In a group of 100, if each of us makes some music, everyone has 100 pieces of music to listen to. Or: with absolutist IP, we all keep our own stuff (our own 'property') to ourselves, and so we all have much less stuff available to us. If each of us makes some music, everyone has only one piece of music to listen to. -- And what could be the justification there? that we 'know without doubt' we are doing the right thing? -- Which community to join is an easy choice.

It is not possible to say a priori what particular structures of organisation or commerce are efficient. But it is possible to say the moral essentials mean we should prefer free-sharing rather than copy-restricting.
I was bullish on the price of oil when it was $20. For the world's most traded (and important) commodity, any jump in price is significant. It's now $90/bbl. That's huge. And I'm still bullish. I still think it's underpriced. Why? Because, while we'll never run out of oil, it will get much more expensive to get what's left. The price of extraction after a certain point in a reserve (around half-way) goes dramatically up; the technology we've invented in the last decades has increased our ability to get to pockets of the cheap/easy-to-get-to reserves; and no large reserves of (cheap/easy-to-extract) oil has been found since the 1970's.

I'm surprised at the confidence in this thread, but humans have a terrible capacity for forseeing change. Taleb's Black Swan is about this. He has a great example: every day of a turkey's life is a reinforcement that the farmer feeds and cares for it, until the last day. For the turkey, it's a black swan; for the farmer, it's not. Whatever you think of the future of the price of oil, above all don't be too confident. Don't be a turkey.
http://nixty.com/course/Web-Design-Essentials-XHTML-CSS
Lack of mobile client drives me nuts, but I love Workflowy. It's my meeting note-taking notepad, my to-do list, my scratchpad, and about a half dozen other things. Absolutely indispensable.
It's the latest data from their q4'10 earnings report, specifically this pdf http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/q410_ir_da...
3 and 4 seem scary to ponder at this point, but I suppose they'd seem more attainable after I get my sea legs (1 and 2). I'll give it a try! Thanks.
Perhaps, "a money machine" is a better word than "hands-off investment."
So https://banned.video ?
Crypto however has not. It has spent a comparatively tiny fraction of its time at ATH as one would expect for a speculative bubble. In fact, it spent the last 3 years way below its ATH.
Now I'm convinced! Thanks.
They could very well be using Git internally. But they don't want to release the full history of their development process, complete with authors, commit messages, and intermediate commits -- that's likely to include or imply a lot of information that isn't appropriate to release.
> No, its not.

There is no qualified immunity protection upon the conviction of a criminal act regardless of how narrow or broad underlying factors are.
Yesterday I didn't know who Adam Curtis was. Today I've seen him referenced twice. Here, and a fresh off the press Talking Politics interview with him.

Baader-Meinhof effect in action.
Literally was just thinking the same thing. Maybe if you put a export tag on it so the cell secreted it, but you'd probably run into glycosylation differences (since these are bacterial proteins naturally) and you'd probably make very little, again because it's a bacterial protein and not one normally made in mammalian cells (like SARS-CoV-2 spike). The approach I would take (just thinking aloud) would be to solve the structure of the tailocin (probably easy by cryoEM since it's highly structured) and work out the business end mechanism then iterate humanizing it while keeping the important bits constant. I guess it boils down to "probably not straight-forward".
This started a couple of years ago. I remember quite distinctly when suddenly the suggestions were injected with things I already watched instead of actual on-topic suggestions. Tried disabling the watch history with mild success.

This was also around the time I just turned off the entire thing via DF YouTube :)

I now view YT like a dumb video hosting service; can't be bothered to fight with its stupid UI or inexplicable ML background fuckery.

Maybe some day they'll equip users with the tools that are appropriate to browse the biggest video platform of all time. They could take a hint from Steam on how to do that (or just use common sense)
Let's pre-empt the inevitable sub-thread: "This is a private educational establishment and they can do what they want. It is not censorship." and "If you have a problem with this, just start your own medical university".
My favourites are -

STANDARD HORSES: These magnificent animals represent the culmination of seventy years of selective breeding experimentation. Each horse is GUARANTEED to do work at a rate of 746 W or your money back!

TRIVIAL SOLUTIONS: Perfect for cleaning up those seemingly insoluble problems messing up your lab. $10/liter
Something like 34% of reddit users are women according to at least one survey.
Actually the NT did implement the left on red stuff for a short while. Too many idiots was the final judgement.

Also roundabouts work great for low volume roads but with roads with significant traffic directions basically lock out the ones they pass.
Of course it is, it's just not an explicit direct answer spelling things out in detail.
The README mentions Squash, where you can see the results of many more compressors. https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/
Whelp, thanks for sharing. Not sure that matters much in this situation.
Now waiting for the React-Native for the Android :)
Also, they don’t phase out any of the targeted programs that also support these people, which is one of the main things that UBI proponents so I will offset the cost
Thanks a lot for the input. Yes. In a way I dont mind it, because I am using it to learn things.
Fair point. By technology, I dont mean just tech stacks or programming languages. I am exploring domain/business problems/solutions too.
I believe I saw this on reddit last week and I feel it's disingenuous. It's sped up and meant to make it look like the whale is frantically trying to escape while being hemmed in by ships, but a more plausible explanation is that the whale is attracted to the wakes of the passing ships.

This speaks to some kind of phenomenon that creates a feeding opportunity for the whale.

Perhaps a marine biologist can speak more intelligently to this.
Satoshi has not envisioned ASICs, no. But it doesn't matter what Satoshi thinks/thought of. Bitcoin is not controlled by anyone; anyone can introduce a better way to mine/use it.
Some kinds of "expert" are a commodity: you can hire an astronomy PhD or a registered nurse.

Entrepreneurs traffic in a special expertise: valuable, unique and defensible IP. All Roy Kroc had to know was how to teach people to teach other people how to run a McDonald's restaurant.

A business that achieves "product-market fit" has a very specific and path-dependent situation. Sometimes you find this "one weird trick" that lets you make money hand-over-fist for a while and you want most of all to keep that a secret. Other times the knowledge is so specific (how do you grow the most rice you possibly can in this valley?) that it's not of interest to outsiders.

"Expert networks" are notoriously promiscuous so firms have a lot of fear that they'll bring in an expert who walks out with more valuable information (e.g. "one weird trick") than the they can bring into it.

My favorite kind of expert is this kind of guy

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

who grew continuously through a 40+ year career and went from being in the dark about noise in circuit boards to an inspiring vision of how electrical energy flows not in the wires but through the space between the wires that makes everything I thought mysterious about antennas seem obvious.
Cool.
A derivative thought: If we observe the dots versus time of the day at that location, it might give us interesting patterns of engagement.

For example, for few minutes I ran, I saw more contributions from Saturday evening locations compared to Saturday morning.

Its fun to see causation of common life patterns via data.
The WSB definition of class warfare seems to be trying to pull the guy on the rung above them down whilst simultaneously kicking the guy a rung below them in the face.

It is basically a viral/social media version of John Nash's So long sucker[1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker
Went again to my local store, and my error rate on the new keyboard is just super high.
What's the opinion of M1 owners, after a few months of experience?
Are you saying this has helped people in Venezuela?
I started switching over to a paid Fastmail account with my own domain several months ago. I still use my gmail account for some sign ins (and my work uses google for email and sso), but if my account was locked tomorrow I’d be ok.