jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
while his name is listed in the table the footnote says

> (4) [..] held by entities affiliated with Andreessen Horowitz, as reflected in footnote 9 [..]

footnote 9 attributes the shares to him and a variety of funds
I think the bigger thing is that we think about requirements, but they change so frequently they require rework. I was working on an FMS for a customer and they changed their high level requirements every 3 months or so, driving huge costs and timeline overruns. It's easy when the Air Force gives you a solid set of requirements to work with, but what happens when the Army 5 months later gives you something contradicting those?
> The specific quote exists as part of a broader context in this thread in which the accessibility of any proposed alternative to excel is relevant.

Right, which is why I tried to address the next claim:

> while emacs might be a valid alternative for some, it is not for most users

I think a distro like Spacemacs but with cua-mode / UX targeting Office users instead of with evil-mode / UX targeting vi users could make it fairly viable for many or even most users, it seems that it already is for many users, like the secretaries I mentioned in my other comment, who considered themselves non-programmers if not non-power users (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
My personal experience is that it's a bit of both.

I am not a genius, but I can tell that I'm likely above average. I was raised in an environment that did not value intellect or education, and I always felt out of place. It definitely felt innate, and there are lots of stories from people in similar circumstances.

On the other hand, I never did well in school, especially math. One of my teachers literally called me stupid. So I had this self-perception of just not being very good at STEM. Had I not fallen into programming by accident, I would never have changed that perception of myself. I imagine there are very many people who had similar experiences, but were not so lucky as to learn their actual potential.

So, it's almost certainly a combination of factors.
I've contacted one. They said we have a case, but that the federal courts don't really care about rights violations unless there were substantial financial impact. In theory, the DOJ is supposed to investigate our complaint and take injunctive action to correct any agency policy, practice, or pattern that violates the rights of defendants/people. We'll see how that actually works, but I won't hold my breath.
I found this case from March 31st. [0] UVA filed a motion to dismiss all four counts, judge dismissed three and refused one, so it’s carrying forward.

Seems weird that the state attorney general is defending the university. Is that normal?

Also this was a second year med school student and the “professional conduct complaint” was filed by a professor. So these are all adults, not kids involved.

[0] https://casetext.com/case/bhattacharya-v-murray
I think you have a point about spreading knowledge. Rather than code review though, I think having engineers pair up on a feature is another (better?)way to knowledge share that probably is more efficient time-wise?
Agreed that it may be similar to the archaeological catch-all of 'this was probably used in religious ceremonies'.

OTOH for something like this to have been constructed ~3800 years ago suggests that it was probably the product of a more sophisticated kingdom than a couple of sheep herders would have had either the means or inclination to construct.

That it has survived this long - well, maybe a bias, but also may indicate that it was well cared for, and stored away carefully at some point, such that it survived the next few millennia.
If you're on the "facebooked" list your number is already disclosed and correlated to you and your email address - inputting it onto a website to see if it's one of the compromised will have absolutely no effect.
Or what Dr. Ingham talks about is based on KNF.
My point is that I’ve found that there is very little local state that doesn’t eventually benefit from being merged into the global state management store.
The significant difference to me is you know exactly who is running HIBP, and he is open about what he is doing producing a long blog post about it.
And there's already a unit for "amount of substance": the mole (symbol mol). 6.02214076e23 bytes is rather more than one encounters every day, but prefixes can handle that. A zeptomol of data is 602.221476 bytes, an obviously convenient number for indivisible amounts of data.
You’re not crazy, their bias really is that obvious.
Zuckerberg redefines the word "indefinitely".
Not really, these were for the most part from election
workers.

If would be more like dismissing UFO evidence from 1000 sworn affidavits from people that work at the Pentagon.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night.

Even Bill Barr just came out

>Former Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that President Donald Trump inciting a violent insurrection on Capitol Hill the previous day was a "betrayal of his office and supporters."

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-ag-barr-trump-betraye...

But go ahead and hide behind "well he never ACTUALLY said it!!"
> Do you think that he wouldn't have done what he has done if there was a wealth tax in the US?

Maybe he would've left the country and tried to build something elsewhere. If he didn't, you also can't proclaim to know that he would've pursued his projects with such vigor in the presence of a wealth tax. The wealth tax idea has been tried before and has failed, so whoever is promoting it at least has to explain why this time is different.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-happened-when-the-we...

> Or do you think the single mom ... cares about electric cars and rockets?

Climate change (EVs) isn't only going to impact the rich. Also, reusable rocket tech is massive value add to our society including to regular people; satellites - which working class people rely on, plus diversifying life in order to reduce existential risk which is something everyone should care about.
> Social media platforms are private businesses owned by private individuals who can choose who they want to let in and who they want to kick out just like any restaurant or bar or concert hall.

I hate to break it to you, but bars and restaurants and concert halls can't kick out anyone they want to. There are rules around access to semi-public places. For example they can't kick someone out just for wearing a MAGA hat, or for being black, or lots of other protected classes.
> This is essentially the Google model.

What? Google uses all your info for creepy personalized ads. Telegram is showing the same ads to everyone in a channel. And it isn't in 1:1 chats cuz they're supposed to be non-intrusive and gives a feeling of privacy.

Who is the 'maintainer'? Telegram is the only entity here.
Trump did not incite violence. If anything, the media this summer was much more involved in inciting and fueling the BLM riots.
Because a car company that manufactured 500k cars is worth _more_ than the entire car industry combined... which manufactured 70 million cars? This is irrational exuberance.
I also can't make sense of the article. The 1A clearly doesn't protect you from prosecution if you deliberately cause a disturbance by shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. It's an uncontroversial example illustrating that the 1A has limits. The fact that this uncontroversial example was used in support of some controversial arguments ~100 years ago is neither here nor there.
At the moment this question is closed as "opinion based". Which is ridiculous. There really needs to be a better scheme for how questions are closed. It's way too easy for questions to be closed for spurious reasons and the current method of reopening them is too hard.

The question is asking for historical information, not an opinion.
Oh totally.

My beef is that tech folk have a tendency to make themselves the customer, or maximize convenience to IT over whatever the actual problem is. Internally, the politics of the company tend to dictate this stuff. In the marketplace, software is usually much better!
Best place to learn about a lot of topics in math including the necessary background for understanding the Feynman trick and related maneuvers is Terrence Tao's website:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/

Measure theory in particular:

https://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/measure-book1.p...
Your #3 is only one of a bunch of things wrong with that paragraph :(. This seems much worse than his earlier posts that I read, mostly a couple of years earlier IIRC. Not sure if that is typical of his more recent writing or not. But yes, I would say that is exactly the pattern, long arguments from first principles leaving out obvious counterarguments or mentioning them but dismissing them without understanding the argument. Obviously when discussing complex topics it is impossible to mention everything, but he seems to often fail to understand the most common objections against what he is arguing.
We hired a junior developer from Flatiron School in NYC. We were very happy with the process of working with them and very happy (now 6 months in) with the hire. She got familiar, then proficient, with our stack (Rails, Rspec, heavy client side JS with Backbone & Marionette with Jasmine specs, Postgres) at a rate I'd expect of someone with a year of experience.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Present-and-future-K%C...
That term even has its own Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_embarrassment
Blockchain is a globally accessible public database+compute engine with rwx for all.
There is no other database that can do it. G, FB, etc., are all privately owned.
"Hardness" abstracts some core beliefs we have as a society in assets and builds an analogy to some of our current beliefs in Gold and institutions.

WDYT?.
You're already screwed, because you've put so many eggs in this one basket, and seem extremely emotionally tied to this one piece of work.

That was a huge mistake.
A site that really wants Cloudflare's protection would ignore all traffic that doesn't come from Cloudflare though. In practice, many origins probably aren't locked down in this fashion.
Anything referencing blockchain or cryptocurrencies is a scam. That also applies to the original Signal.
Centers also handle the ball on every offensive play. Most centers are intelligent and kinesthetic players who would be as sensitive as the QB to the feeling of the ball. Someone needs to tough-talk the Pats center about this.
Yes but how much does this explain? Even being convinced of the significance of the effect, I'd like to know the magnitude, as well as how much the magnitude changes conditioned on success. E.g. do the very successful (however defined) have a higher likelihood of being the oldest in their class?
Whether the Colts inflated their balls outdoors can be easily checked and would be a major news story. No story has appeared.
But the data in the post does not seem to be super correlated to seasons. You can see that the decrease in life expectancy occurs way before spring (as soon as February) which is still supposed to be a winter month. So the season link is weak.
Why is this being billed as the "first U.S. Bitcoin exchange"? No doubt Coinbase will do a good job but it isn't the first or even the first regulated exchange based in the US. CampBX, Kraken, and Coinsetter are all based in the US and follow regulations.

If there actually is some distinction between what Coinbase is doing here and what the existing exchanges have been doing for some time I'd be interested to know what that is.
This is a project I'm working on in a class with @digitalarun. Beta currently available through TestFlight!

TimesFree is the new way to get more from your time and save money, by sharing tasks between a circle of friends and neighbors you trust.

Get help with everyday needs like babysitting, dog walking and errands for free or share time and skills by exchanging training and creative services. TimesFree keeps track of how much time each member has given and received, so everyone pulls their weight.

There's no need for anyone to take on all the boring administration and co-ordination duties of a co-op or timebank with TimesFree - so you'll have even more time to share!

TimesFree lets you:

• Create an account with Facebook, Twitter or your email address

• Find exchanges - groups of people sharing time and tasks - near you

• Start your own exchange in moments, share it socially and invite your friends

• Control who can join your exchange, and whether it's displayed in search results. You can keep your group totally private if you like!

• To get help from people in an exchange, create a request with the date, time and how long you need someone for. It takes seconds, and you'll see if your request matches anyone's schedule before you post!

• Choose to get notifications when someone posts a task that matches your schedule

• Get notifications when someone accepts your requests, and when they start or finish working on them

• Chat with other members within the app so you can ask any questions about a request before you accept it, and co-ordinate with the people who want to share with you to get things done.

• Instant access to help and customer service from anywhere in the app - just swipe down with two fingers to read all about how to use the page you're on, or send a chat message to the app team. We'll get back to you as soon as we can!
This has nothing to do with batteries, but rather with how it works. Comparing ability to process concurrent requests for django vs node is like comparing apples to buildings. They are a bit different.
Regarding "the zone" and "uninterruptability": I often wonder whether programming attracts people whose modus operandi is what it is, and "other people" would, for instance, have no problem with being interrupted, or whether programming is an activity which forces people to tackle problems in this way.
HTML5: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior.
Academic papers have abstracts because a very large percentage of their readership won't read the main article.

(For one thing, the abstract has traditionally been free to read and is indexed by library tools like PubMed, while the whole paper has traditionally cost a small fortune and/or required a subscription and/or required a trip to the library stacks and a very tedious photocopying session. What scholars used to do before the photocopier I have no idea. Maybe they had that tidy handwriting because they got a lot of practice.)

(Even in the modern era, abstracts can be useful because scientific papers have a required format that makes them bulky and hard to skim. But, a hint: It's often better to skim the first few paragraphs and the last few paragraphs of a scientific paper than to read the abstract. The first section contains the references to prior work, which help you put the paper in context and give you hints about where to look next; the ending has the more-detailed version of the conclusions, with fun bonus features like attempts to pre-empt the obvious criticisms, speculation about what the work might really mean, previews of coming attractions, and sometimes even hints about where the bodies are buried.)

Meanwhile, bureaucratic memos have Executive Summaries because they serve at least two audiences. If you delete the executive summary nobody with any political power will read your memo -- executives read only one sentence at a time -- and your proposal will die alone. If you delete the body you will lose all of the ass-covering detailed analysis that you carefully larded it up with, and six months later someone will accuse you of not thinking your crazy idea through.

But essays don't have abstracts. It's like telling a story by first spoiling the ending, or telling a joke by leading with the punchline. If the story promises to be so boring in the telling that it's not worth following along, don't tell the whole story.
Try the "fun" saturday first, if you don't see any interest then offer to give the day off. If you give the day off first and then ask people to come in, you might not get a positive response.

Also, why does it have to Saturdays? Employees with children might like a day off during the week, to do things which are harder to accomplish in the weekend.

I went to primary school in Mumbai where we had Thursdays and Saturdays off. I liked the break in the middle of the week, but I'm not sure if my sentiments were universally shared.
Since we're dealing with metaphors, we're free to invent whatever we want - the metaphor should be judged on it's usefulness to ourselves and our fellow programmers.

Which of the following would you rather be? Which would you rather work with?

- ninja
- craftsperson
- rock star
- artist
- resource

Pick your poison. Craftsperson works for me.
In the short term your revenue is linearly dependent on the number of hours worked, but in the long term it's a function of productivity. The focus should be on creating value not putting in hours because you can always increase your hourly rate, but you can not work 25 hours in a day. And revenue is meaningless, the only important number for a company is profit.

PS: You can add employees but foxconn's 920,000 employees generate around ~100 million in profit per year. Google's 26,316 employees generate around 80 times that much profit meaning they are generating ~ 2,800 times the profit per person.
> Learn teco$$

This is pronounced "learn teco altmode altmode".
Startup opportunity: build a site which correlates the problems in the new edition with the old edition. (I.e., problem 5 in edition 3 = problem 7 in edition 4, turn "4/3" to "9/7".)
>the language has enough quirks and shortcomings that it forces you to take long detours to accomplish what would be very simple tasks in more modern languages

Any examples that you've come across?
> Eight of those ten are not even complete sentences, let alone "not blockquotes".

A quote that is not a complete sentence is still a quote.

> Every quote need not be a complete sentence or paragraph, but including almost none strikes me as poor journalism. A good writer would include a bit more information and give Alexander's statements a chance to speak for themselves.

The kind of journalism that has lots of long quotes like that is called an interview. This article was not an interview, nor could it have possibly been, because Scott Alexander refused to be interviewed.

It's incredibly weak to criticize something for not happening to be the random thing you decided it should be instead. You might as well criticize the NYT for publishing this article as a newspaper story and not as a thick book.
First: Calling the virus Chinese is racist.
Second: Trump is now gone.
Now: The virus might have come from a lab in China.
Summary: Playing politics harms all.
None of those things are evidence of discrimination in tech hiring. When we send 100 applications to Google for engineering positions, do we see male resumes selected where otherwise-identical female resumes are not?
Why is it important that peoples' intentions are obvious in every piece of writing?

Journalists, anthropologists, and plenty of others strive towards rhetorical neutrality intentionally, and just as someone can be a citizen scientist, someone could also be a citizen journalist or anthropologist.

And furthermore it just isn't any of your business anyhow. What you are talking about is the equivalent of worrying about thoughtcrime. No objective harm was done but you worry that someone secretly holds an opposing viewpoint.
One can simultaneously support a journalist's right to free speech and believe that he should not have published this. Just because I don't want to use state violence to prevent the publication of this article doesn't mean I endorse it. It's like saying that anyone who dislikes a product doesn't support the free market.
Same here, developer with a 2.5yo kid at home.

1. I do not recommend screen time for kids - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/how-does-screen-time-...

2. I bought a dozen of books, like fair stories, animals where pictures can put your kid to imagine, question and discovery new things. He spends a lot of time here

3. I bought a small speaker (kid-proof?) that I use to put playlists for kids, with time he started singing the songs and that was just a way to spend time for him
4. I put ideas in his head like "wow, this is Spiderman" (while showing it from my phone) then I bought a Spiderman toy and now is one of his favorites toys
5. Pla-doh, just make sure he understand is not something to eat or to mix it with other objects
6. Crayola stuff - https://www.crayola.com/athome
7. Audiobooks or podcasts for kids

Again, please do not use screen. I did it for few months as an option to let him discover new topics and he woke up in the middle of the night crying and screaming about stuff he watched
In china, a lot the spread isn't from stranger to stranger but family to family:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-28/coronavir...

https://youtu.be/e3gCbkeARbY?t=37

How do you do physical distancing within your home? Eat meals alone? Don't share cups/plates? Wear gloves for doorknobs? I feel like there's currently no solution for this.
The big problem is how this exports pain outside the US.

Even if the US could allow US companies to default for a year without penalty, the Chinese companies expecting coupon payments wouldn't receive the funds they use to operate. They would then have to default on their Chinese obligations.

If Chinese companies can't pay their debts in China, China faces huge pressure to devalue or inflate. They're unlikely to adopt the forgiveness rule. Emerging markets are at the end of this game of crack the whip.
This is what hedge funds do, they use various strategies to build hedges and reduce volatility according to their mandate.

Nothing crazy about expecting a downturn after a 10+ year bull-run with frothy markets, but looks like a bit of luck on the timing for those puts.
CBD is interesting but regularly overhyped; lots of “believed” and “may”, personal testimonials and pilot trials; not a lot of robust large-scale trials to really sift out the truth. PubMed is just an index of published research, not a measure of quality.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cbd-oil-the-new-miracle-cur...

What’s the current medical recommendations where you are? I’m not going to guess—too much dodgy advice going around as it is—but best to follow that.
We could, if the right candidate came along. We are actually just about to announce that our tech has been adopted by a major LMS, so the timing could be interesting. user name at gee mail for more info!
This an interesting idea. I’d imagine you’ll have a lot of lawsuits to deal with though I think you’d win. On the other hand it’s trivial for content streams to contractually bar venues from modifying the content and that would supersede the overall right to do so.

Side point, is there a master kill switch to turn it off during the Super Bowl?
I don’t think leadership would have increased presence overall. It would certainly not be good, either, for leadership to be remote while everyone else worked together in-person—I’m assuming most employees are remote in these situations.

The benefit of more traders/analysts/customer-facing staff is that they can do more work. Part of the groupthink problem is that the work becomes commingled into a few big decisions in which case the value of the additional employees does temporarily become reduced, but the workload is still available the rest of the time. Again, this is in my anecdotal experience, hence the source request.