skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to rework Twitter into a profitable company does not seem like an enviable position. How do folks see Twitter becoming sustainably profitable, without tactics that will alienate their userbase?

They've tried ads (promoted tweets), which doesn't seem to have worked well. They've tried analytics targeted at high-end users/companies, which doesn't seem to have much traction (though it does seem both useful and unobtrusive).

Paid accounts? What features would such an account have that free accounts wouldn't?

Longer tweets? That'll certainly change the culture drastically, but not necessarily for the better.

Richer content? Likewise.

Twitter seems like the contemporary company with the most valuable yet least profitable product.
Your comment glosses over the fact that many open source developers do this for a living. It's not some side project that they just do after work. Sure, they could put extra hours in, but open source is not just a hobby
Correct. They don't prevent, they reduce. Used at typical rates, 18% of women will still get pregnant every year (reduced from 85% - it's a large reduction, but I would not call it prevent).

For a situation like this, with (according to geertj's calculations) 40% chance of severe birth defect, that's far too much.

Condoms are not the solution here - in fact I think they do more harm than good because people think they work (like you did), while they are not sufficiently effective.
> I like to say if your income is consistently growing at ~10% every year, when the economy is growing at 2-3%, you're likely making someone worse off.

That is like saying, "The average age of the country is growing at 0.1% per year while my age is growing at 4% per year, therefore I must be making someone else younger." Income usually increases over the course of a career, but in the end, people retire or die and stop contributing to the average.
Why does sex seem to get a pass for "you can't control your biological impulses" when other drives don't?

That isn't really the problem. The problem is more complicated than that. It includes:

Delusion: Modern peoples think birth control is more reliable than it really is.

Guilt: I have seen studies that indicate that certain populations of women have a high incidence of pregnancy because they feel planning for sex makes them a slut, but just getting swept away with emotion makes it "love" and that is somehow OK. So, birth control is proof that "I am a slut."

Religion: Some religions (Catholic church) forbid use if birth control.

I am sure I could add to that list, but I have other things I need to do.
And designed the first log structured filesystem [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout
The vast majority of services use email address to identify you so diversifying your email addresses helps a lot. I've known about every hack/info leak ahead of everyone else for that reason - I use a unique email for every service.

I also use different cards for the major online retailers / tech giants so knowing the last four digits from my Amazon account is useless to validate anything else (though this does require having several credit cards or debit cards).

Whois privacy is absolutely required.

Unfortunately if someone is determined enough, almost all ISPs, cell companies, retailers, etc will happily give them control of your entire digital life. You can only minimize the risk somewhat.
You either have to grind it or love it. If you love it, then you don't feel the grind.

Exercise helps like everyone is saying.

Recently I read a book called Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. Great tips in there.
As someone who has tried GTD and failed. Do you mind me asking a few questions?

How do you deal with habits? What are projects and what are tasks? Is vacuuming once a week something you would schedule in a calendar? Would you schedule doing dental floss every night?

Also, for big projects which would have a task list of several 100 tasks, many of which would not be visible to you on the outset, how would you deal with those?

And what about all those halfbaked, barely logged ideas, sentences for things to write someday, concepts...

In essence. GTD stresses me out because it promises complete control over what to do and think about and when. Trying to implement it whilst dealing with the above questions induces anxiety and procrastination.
Whois is great for social engineering attackers. You get a name, email, address, and the first service to attack.

Meanwhile, the ICANN is working around the clock to make it illegal for us to protect our personal information, and whois protection is becoming an increasingly niche service for registrars.

For example, gandi.net (and thus Amazon) doesn't hide your name when you have it turned on. By the time you find this out, it might occur to you to just type in a different name, but now you're violating ICANN policy. And it's already been scraped by any of those whois history websites.
It's simple economics.

If you have a lottery with a single 25BTC prize, that can only be played by spending electricity to compute hashes, then expect 25BTC worth of cheap electricity to be spent (every 10 minutes that the lottery is held).

The increase to 1 exahash/sec is simply due to the latest generation ASICs having achieved 0.06 joules per gigahash.

At least this "waste" is reduced in half every 4 years.
Yeah, that's the smart thing to do, especially when there's strong demand for their skills, like from silicon valley. Heck, that would make a great plot for the show of the same name:

PP is looking to academia to hire and they informally offer a candidate "100", by which they mean "$100k/year", but (they later find out) the heavily underpaid post-doc took to mean "$100/day", and they debate whether they should write up the offer letter with the lower amount.
1. Lack of clear product vision
2. Bad execution. Look at Facebook's execution in the last 3 years. Messenger, Sports Stadium, etc.
3. Potentially another re-architecture?
PubPeer looks like it's very focused towards professionals who want to engage in peer review. I'm curious to see if it's possible to leverage a wider group of users.

I like PubPeer because it can help fix science. But what's also broken is journalism/popular media, and how it encourages "pop science" attitudes. It sensationalizes unproven and dubious content, actually making the public dumber.

Would you agree that there's room for a site that wants to fix science journalism and how the public interacts with science? Heck, it could even link to PubPeer, without directly replacing it.
Err what re you smoking? it was Asian MP's that piloted the bill through parliament.
Interesting. So you would expect them to say "don't have sex" - even for a married couple, rather than birth control?

Are you sure that's really what they would prefer?
> ok, TopGun was pure propaganda, but USN wasn't actually writing the scripts.

That's a big assumption. How many recruits were attracted to naval service by that movie?

Tom Clancy was another example of likely propaganda from that era. How likely is it for a random insurance agent who likes to play Harpoon to write dramatization of war plans, and then get the type of access that Clancy had?
Awesome, but them are going to be some fat static binaries. Of course I get the sense that shared libraries are being abandoned so that seems to be how things are going. You have to ship qt with any qt app anyway.
The article is very impressive, and the author is an experienced graphics developer, which makes me wonder why not do these experiments using the free software graphics drivers in Mesa?

We (the team that writes the Intel driver in Mesa) would love to be involved in things like that and would be happy to answer questions where possible -- #intel-gfx on Freenode or mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org.

The documentation doesn't contain much if anything in the way of performance data like instruction latency, so we've implemented similar methods to what the author used to measure the number of cycles a piece of code takes (environment variable INTEL_DEBUG=shader_time). We'd likely even learn something about the hardware ourselves by being involved in experiments like these.
> What is a strategy except for a well-considered set of ideas strung together?

It's probably better to think of the idea as the overall goal and the strategy as the plan for achieving it.

e.g. "Let's $idea by $strategy."
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This. The fix for the pay issues is for the over supply to go away. If we attempt to legislate or worse, unionize the field, we will just end up with many who want to work with no job as requirements will spell out exactly who gets employed and how, effectively locking out any who cannot get on board.

I still of the opinion that the university system needs a good hair cut. They are able to rake in billions of federal dollars for student loans and unlike the medical care field where federal money also goes no attempt is made to course rates. As in, if you want students on federal loans this is what you can charge per course hour for this course.
It's not just those doing research. Many times, behavioral scientists (or management consultants, or others) read some research with some interesting results and then write a book that is basically a literature review with more anecdotes built in. You don't have to be the researcher yourself to cash in on the self-improvement market.
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No. Austrians reject econometrics on principle.
So given that torture is objectively not reliable for obtaining truthful evidence, what is a good non evil non stupid explanation?

I consider torture itself evil under all but the most extreme and rare ticking time bomb scenarios. Little to none of the enhanced interrogation stuff I've read about fits into that category. So that leaves the question of whether the motives are also evil or just stupid.

Doing something that you know doesn't work on the theory it will intimidate is stupid, especially with an enemy that comes from an honor culture that relishes conflict and values martyrdom. Failing to evaluate your techniques for actual success rate is stupid. And so on...
So, I checked the code from Nuget's GitHub pages and at the first sight it seems more complex which doesn't have to be 'bad' but its simply more demanding than my small example.

Of course, it also seems that you can do more sophisticated things with this Nuget.

Regards,
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Wage-growth is conceptually different from the gains from trade within an economy. An isolated individual who doesn't trade(eg subsistence farmer) would produce goods of value of an order of magnitude less than current US GDP per capita.

Similarly, your hypothetical individual who 'makes someone worse off' must by definition be inheriting some scarce asset, be lucky, deceptive, coercive or inflicting negative externalities. Otherwise why would anyone trade with him?

This is not to say that inequality isn't a problem or greater redistribution would not be desirable. But you need to frame the problem correctly.
Don't get stuck oversimplifying with "whiteness" being the full explanation.

Meth has been a disproportionately white drug, but it strikes in areas of poverty where the parents of addicts are already the underclass, and can't drum up sympathy with the 'power structures' of their community. (Think judges, police, town officials.)

Opiates often hit middle class or wealthy families. Thats the real difference: This is a drug epiedemic that is crawling into areas of society with political capital. Parents of addicts or the addicts themselves know or work with the people who can show empathy when creating & enforcing policy.
How does it manage C++ bindings? Rust struggled with that, and it has a lot of issues because of compiler specific name decorations and etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling#How_different_co...
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Some countries have less inequality, but also have less average wealth. People do not migrate to those poorer countries seeking to be richer than their neighbors. Instead, people tend to migrate to areas of higher wealth, even though it means they will have less relative wealth. It's clear that absolute wealth is more important to people than the zero-sum game of relative wealth.
My favorite thing about Erlang is that the syntax is so simple and terse. And none of it is optional. So its either necessary or it isn't there, and this saves me from a lot of ambiguity issues.

I also like that it practically reads like bulletpoints. There's no cruft or decoration around function definition or internal statements. I was even able to write my CV in Erlang after attemtping 3 other languages first (Elixir, Rust, C) and Erlang was the only one where it didn't look like a jumble of weird code and syntax, and was consumable by executives, engineers and headhunters alike.

My only wish would be that Erlang adopted Elixir's atom syntax, or that Elixir adopted Erlang's variable syntax, because then I could look at my code and know immediately at a glance what was a function, what was a Variable, and what was an :atom.

As it stands in Erlang atoms and functions look superficially the same, and in Elixir the functions and variables look the same.
I don't know what I'm talking about, but let me try anyway.
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As a former adjunct I can understand how you feel. That said, I agree in many ways with the article, you're also not seeing the budgetary perspective with a structure of 1960's university and only the 1990+ structure which probably currently exists at your school. That is a pre ponderous amount of administrators that used to not exist are eating a significant amount of the total cost of operation. If employee pay is the biggest constraint, the first look should be towards the administrators and not the educators. The educators are and should be the focus.
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Qt has evolved fantastically since Digia's acquisition. Just throughout the 5.0 series it has gained incredible feature support for almost anything from full multimedia faculties to websockets to a revitalized 3d rendering engine. And QML is such a breakout success in UI design and just general applications programming compared to the competition - if you have not, you must try coming up with a simple program idea and then try implementing it in QML. Compared to any other tech - GTK, HTML, even Android's ADT the mechanism behind QML is incredibly elegant.

I dream of seeing a day in ten years or so where everyone expects right once run everywhere native look and feel applications out of Qt, a toolkit that provides you mechanism to access the full power of your target devices without having to lock yourself into whatever vendors SDK is and thus forcing you to rewrite the same program 5 times for 5 different target devices.

Its not there yet - just the other week I was arguing with someone on reddit about the usability of Qt on mobile and conceded it lacks a prebaked gesture support library to easily just do a two finger swipe rather than having to use the multitoucharea type to specify how two finger motion works - but it is getting so very close.
I've always said / thought the same, but they're still around. I know some people on the ad sales team, and I know how hard they work. They might be struggling and not thriving, but they're not out just yet.
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I have long been fascinated by the principles of business management, specifically those in the well known book "The E-Myth".

The idea is that it is easier to grow and scale a business if every role is reduced to something achievable by the lowest common denominator. The book cites McDonalds as an example and how they specify the exact location of pickles on a burger to make sure that a 15 year old can produce burgers indistinguishable from their peers. Sure, plenty of people can cook a better burger than McDonalds, but anyone can cook a McDonalds burger given the equipment and instructions.

In terms of programming, a similar approach may well exist. I've seen it in two forms. First is the enterprise strategy. Standardize on simple, yet inefficient technologies. Anyone with X credential can be as productive as anyone else (this works well because nobody is very productive so its a low bar). This makes hiring and firing much simpler.

The second approach is the "hire smart people and provide them with the tools they need to learn and succeed." I've personally seen great success with "Welcome to the company, let's learn Erlang."

As an engineer who enjoys being challenged I prefer the latter, but I'm not convinced that the first strategy is a bad one from the business's perspective.
Econometrics relies on economic data which is lacking here. That is precisely my point.

This is not econometrics.
I have the 5DsR, which is the same as the 5Ds but with an anti-aliasing cancellation filter. I can confirm that at the pixel density on this camera, it is VERY challenging to get perfectly sharp photos if your shutter speeds drop too low. Pixel-level blur is a real problem on these cameras. Conversely, on medium format, you have a little bit more leeway for tripod shake as the individual pixels are larger.

I have no experience with analog photography, So I'm not sure whether these same considerations are present.
I wouldn't know about that. It sounds like the OP is specifically asking about people who contribute to OSS as "just a hobby"
On your Amazon home page, go to:

Your Account › Change Account Settings › Advanced Security Settings

Turn on 2-step Verification.

It won't completely solve social engineering, but it can't hurt.
Don't remember seing any army stuff in POI.
This policy can only be implemented, if the church agrees to pitch in. Otherwise, almost impossible.
I was told the "7%-38%-55% rule" during an awful management training session on giving presentations. The instructor said that this rule is based on research that people get only 7% of the meaning of what is being said by a speaker from the actual content, while the remaining 93% comes from body language and tone of voice.
I looked around the room and couldn't believe that everyone was nodding along with this nonsense. It doesn't stand up to the slightest bit of logical scrutiny. How do you break down the "meaning" of something like a presentation into percentages? Does this mean I can stand in front of a crowd and babble complete gibberish, and providing that my tone of voice and body language are good I'll still get 93% of my point across?
Anyway, I finally got around to googling where this "research" comes from. It turns out it was a (flawed) study where someone would say a single word and the listener would be asked to describe the inferred meaning [0]. Extending this idea to an entire presentation is clearly ridiculous.

I guess my point is, many people seem happy to believe utter nonsense without a moment's thought, providing it gives them a clever-sounding, apparently counter-intuitive anecdote to impress their friends with.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian
Actually, if you take a look at the semantic preservation theorems that CompCert actually proves, you can see that it allows for compilation to fail, even in optimization and code generation:

http://compcert.inria.fr/doc/html/Compiler.html

As one particular example, register allocation is performed by an untrusted oracle that may not even terminate, and then verified a posteriori:

http://compcert.inria.fr/doc/html/Allocation.html

They proved a traditional register allocator correct in a paper (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/regalloc.pdf), but I guess there are practical reasons why they are not using it in CompCert by default.
Last year, I wrote a fairly complete Genesis (MegaDrive) emulator in C++, for education purposes, that contains a full VDP emulation. The VDP in Megadrive is the father of the VDPs on Saturn, so you can have a look to see how it works:
https://github.com/rasky/genemu

The code should be quite easy to read, as I wrote it to be close to what the hardware does, without any additional complexity for optimizations.
It's unfortunate on Linux, but on Windows and Mac, as you note, you're already shipping your users a copy of Qt with the application.

And, in the modern world of big computers (desktops and laptops), it is not all that big of a deal (I don't actually know, but I would guess it's on the order of a few MB, maybe in the tens of MBs), and from what I can tell a lot of applications are already built statically for distribution to Windows and Mac OS X.
I see a lot of movies like this as a sort of propaganda. what it does is shows that our heros are hard working american soldiers that defeat that worst of the worst.

In reality I think that it is much more grey.
Beautiful beautiful program. Some of the preset scenarios are great (i.e. galaxy's colliding, Jupiters moons)

(also, often on sale on Steam)
Thank you. I find I cannot hear that enough. :-)
If you had read the article you would know that they already had 2F turned on before the first intrusion and throughout the subsequent intrusions.
While Mises played some lip service to Game theory, Austrians have generally have huge resistance to formal methods.
I'm of the camp that it's just not possible. Given their demographic and model, I don't see how this company ever makes enough money to justify any valuation.

It's an electronic wasteland and not the kind that makes money. I don't see how that ever changes.
Author says they were influenced by a class from Bard College. I will note that Bard is home of the far-left Levy Institute think tank.

It's hypocritical too, because institutions like Bard and UMKC are home to a lot of heterodox economists who rant and rave against the neoclassical orthodoxy for making unrealistic assumptions, and then they pull off rigged pseudo-Paretian chicanery like this. An economy of zero transaction cost spot-exchanging automatons without so much as a capital stock.

This is nothing but a political provocation.
I think this is a very well-written article about FOSS culture. If you disagree it should be easy to disagree with facts.
Pyramid schemes involve misleading and/or false promises. Do schools do this to graduate students?
This is how I feel as well. I used to put more time into open-source and just code in general, now it's more of a means to an end for me, with the odd "passion" project. Life is short, don't waste it all working, even if it's what you enjoy, there are many other things to enjoy and experience. I refuse to work with companies now that put over 8-10 hours a day in, it's just too much, and fosters a competitive environment.

As far as being known, just do what you enjoy. If you enjoy it you'll produce quality work, and if you produce quality work then the rest falls into place. Play your cards right, get yourself into a position at some startup (or your own startup) doing what you're interested in.

I think it helps to be vocal as well, blog a lot, speak at conferences a lot, and so on. I'm not really this kind of person but I've seen others who get really popular from being "thought leaders", possibly more so than for any code.