skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this happen at Stanford around 2005, as the logic-based and expert systems people were pushed aside as machine learning people moved in.
I don't know why this got flagged. I vouched. I think it's valuable advice. The only thing I disagree with is rule number 7. Don't say 'thank you' all the time. Be grateful, but show your gratitude with actions. Always saying thank you and never doing anything about it is weak.
I'll take the million bucks now, of course, because the idea of a "20- to 30-year retirement" is an absurd fantasy. I don't intend to retire, nor do I expect it will ever be a realistic option.

Besides, if the pitch is "wait 25 years and then some organization will pay you $5,000 per month", then we have to assume that this organization will still exist in its current form that far into the future, that it will still be capable of making good on the $5,000 commitment, and that it will still be willing to do so, and won't have gotten acquired or gone bankrupt or otherwise restructured itself in a way that frees it from its previous obligations. Political and economical environments are always changing, so I would definitely rather have real money now than hypothetical future money which depends on someone else's future organizational continuity.
A bit like Sun microsystems in the dotcom boom.
That seems to be in direct contradiction with what Hamming said on the matter: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Maybe some people thrive by slacking, and others by working their ass off?
It's weird to me that he would attract supporters or detractors. He's not Steve Jobs.

I got the Vive instead of the Rift because I like Vive's room scale tracking better than what Rift offers. I could care less about any of the names or personalities behind it.
That time == money though. I'm curious how you calculate what's really worth it.
Kind of sad that stuff like this is interpreted as a device-feature (since it's really just a modified camera app, which shouldn't be very noteworthy or device-specific)
I really have no idea what your trying to argue.

OSX is a certified UNIX.A bunch of BSD people ended up over there. Android and ChromeOS use the Linux kernel and Redhats C lib. The one time I checked it looked like most of there compositor and components are also C/C++, skia etc. Windows is written in C++ and you have WinAPI. And of course vanilla Linux is C and all the GNU libs are C.

So its WinAPI and Linux system interface with a preference for POSIX. With lots of other irreplaceable Libraries that are also only written in C/C++. High performance high memory usage that needs to run stable at full load and maximum memory for days at a time.

Keep in mind that there are large industries that have usage and development patters that your oblivious to. And that claims of safety espoused by language developers based on criteria that they themselves have created are so low on the priority stack that there simply non existent in specifications.

What should we do? Should Google and Microsoft and The Linux foundation rewrite there whole stack in XYZ meme language? Or is it just all the other companies that that should switch to a language they don't need or care about just for the hell of it?
A sort of uneasiness about their symbolic basis to start off with, nothing subsequent - I can follow it. Lack of understanding. That 'it smells' feeling. I'm not suggest they are wrong, just asking. Its okay to ask?
For one, I try to keep my commits as "atomic units of functionality", not just state snapshots. I often have three or four commits' worth of changes in my working copy, and sort through them carefully when one is complete to create a commit of only that small piece of functionality.
I had to write a more extensive response to the OP, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13998898 https://medium.com/@ben.hutchins/what-youre-revealing-to-you...

I think this ignores article too much about what is actually at risk, regardless of whether a VPN is a viable solution for some.
Breathing is not just inhaling, you also need to exhale.
Not OP, but I really like fossil. There are some rough edges, but the simple workflow is at least as simple as Git's and comes with QoL like the web interface.
But you're still going to make lots of requests which result in inefficient data access on the server unless you batch them up. So you just end up moving batching from the client where it is easy, to the server where it is hard.
I think Terry Tao's advice is consistent with the original article:

> There is an important distinction between “working hard” and “maximising the number of hours during which one works” ... Generally speaking, it is better to try to arrange a few hours of high-quality working time, when one is motivated, energetic, prepared, and free from distraction, than to try to cram into one’s schedule a large number of hours of low-quality working time when one or more of the above four factors are not present.
Why do you go through the act of arguing when we agree that scientific progress is a mix of politics and science?

My first claim in great grandparent was that the argument that science on progresses when scientists die is used to argue that politics and science are equivalent, that science is reducible to politics. Since we agree that is not so reducible to politics, let us agree that we agree and move on.
Yes, merely staying late to work every day won't lead to a breakthrough.

Being so absorbed in your work that you forget to stop working is a by-product of really enjoying your work and wanting to learn more. You can't force enjoyment of (or a breakthrough in) a subject just by slaving away for hours after the office closes.
Narrator, not author
Fairly sure FB would have made it worth his while to sign a non-compete.
Ask HN: What's the closest one can get to a personal Basic Income with software?
If you want to live modestly, cover your basic needs in the smallest fraction of your time possible so you can work on other things, what is the best path to take?

What types of businesses are most suited to that? (Only thing that comes to mind is Bingo Card Creator.)

Where do I find other developers and entrepreneurs shooting for that goal without getting drowned in the spammy noise that the theme of (semi-)passive income brings with it?

I'm not just talking about bootstrapping. I'm talking about making specific decisions so that you can put in time in the beginning but with the clear goal that once you reach a certain monthly recurring revenue, the thing you optimize from there is the time you spend achieving that revenue, not its growth.

Note that the answer "it's impossible" doesn't count. In the spectrum between zero maintenance effort and being a full-time business owner there must be tons of opportunity. What's the lowest amount of hours needed to make X amount of money? Or what's the highest amount of money possible to sustain with Y weekly hours?

And where do I learn about how to do it and find people with the same goal to grow with?

Thanks!

P.S.: if you look for Garrett Dimon's post on Recurring Revenue vs Disability Insurance, you will see how this is not about living the easy life, but having a little safety net when things go really wrong for a really long time. His quote:

"No source of income beats creating something that makes money while you’re asleep. Or sick. Or in the hospital. Or busy caring for a loved one."
Not sure how much he has in terms of liquid cash, but according to wikipedia his net worth is $730 million

He'll be fine.
It's not incompetence. It's a deliberate negotiating tactic, designed to tire the opponent and force him to agree to suboptimal terms.
Probably indicates that VR really is deader than dead. The only people this appeals to are the tech-bros.

I really don't understand the Silicon Valley tech-bros that think VR has any hope. How do they not see the obvious user-experience problems, like motion sickness and limited visibility & resolution, as well as its product liability issues, like always falling down along with running into walls and breaking things? If you think VR is a solution, then we know you're a bad product designer.

The first generation of VR died out because of product-liability issues. Did those fundamental issues get solved? No.
I'm not sure that there is any challenge presented by society against individuals who choose not to be selfish, but not respecting the selfishness and poor ethics of a group that considers you a member may as well be criminal.
A law gets passed. Years later, a court case comes up about it that changes the way that the law is usually interpreted. There's nothing in the law itself that links those two occurrences, but the legal case has essentially clarified and/or rewritten the original law. The annotations would link those. Sure, you could read through both parts of the law (the codes and the court cases), and presumably that's what Lexisnexis did, but it doesn't seem like the unannotated state law would be practically useful, because it won't transparently reflect what the actual controlling version of the law is.
I stopped following magit closely after the big rewrite, but magit is goldmine, so lean and so mean.
Yes, voice biometrics are used in telephone banking for instance
Isn't that what the Romans said?
Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption probe
"creep" is a totally subjective value judgment, so yes, he does have the right
I kind of think that a lot of these insights are either pretty flawed[0], or are only achieved at after a lot of mental struggle. I had a deep depression in my teens after logically deducing that there was no point to our existence as a species, nor as individuals. At the same time, telling me that "We, as a species, just are. Don’t try to figure it all out. Enjoy your journey." wouldn't have helped a single bit because I wasn't in a state of mind that would allow me to accept that information.

[0]:
"Don’t Complain" is actually stupid advice. If you're in a group of people and you see something wrong, you have two options: 1) Continue being unhappy. 2) Speaking out about it (i.e. complaining). Other people might have the same concerns, and you might actually spark something off that helps people to change it. Either that or you have learned that you will always be unhappy in that group, and it is worthy to change it. In addition, complaining itself can be extremely cathartic, and can help that spark that enables you to think through problems and flaws.

"Don’t Care About What People Think" -- my criticism of this is divided into two points: 1) If you care about what people think, you are not in a position to readily accept this information, thus this advice is pretty worthless. 2) There are some circumstances where caring what someone thinks allows you to improve yourself. Of course, "Don't care about what most people think unless they happen to give very good advice or have 10x more experience than you at the task you're attempting" isn't as memorable as the soundbite that they bulletpointed. Point (1) also applies to "Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable".

"Take More Risks" -- "Risk" can be divided into three categories. "Physical risk", "Financial risk", "Mental risk". I assume that they don't mean "That car's going slowly, you can make it if you run", and I also assume that they don't mean "Pour all of your life savings into this quack's venture". Although the "Don't be such a wimp" part makes me question this assumption.
Thanks for the reference, I missed that section! 300 lines, so mostly scripts that this recommendation applies to. That's not 'small projects' if you ask me.
"Exploding" the way you are referring to it really is a term related to startup funding, right?

The problem is startup funding != claims/dispute resolution/litigation.

In other words...exploading offers in funding don't have the same justification as deadlines to accept settlements. Moreover, settlement offers need deadlines because if they are not accepted the legal cost are exponentially increasing for both parties.

For example, I might try to settle a case the night before mediation and offer settlement that expires if not taken before mediation the next day, because that mediation might add $20k to my client's bill, and so an open ended settlement would allow the opposing party to force my client to incur $20k cost and then turn around and still take the deal.
Lesson of the day: Keep out of politics if you're not on the "correct" side. If he walks away from VR we've all lost something.
Ex S. Korean President Arrested in Corruption Probe
Twilio and AWS SES with AWS Step Functions
You didn't tell why you feel an "urge" to stay later at work.

My advice is to come into work early.

The tech field is especially lax in time. The majority of my jobs have been 10-6, where my current job is "come in sometime before 10 and 11".

The problem with this is you feel you now need to stay late into the night. You came in at 10:30? Well, I guess it's understandable to be here until 7. This is how paradigms eventually shift to allowing yourself to work until 8pm or later, even if it means you've now worked a 10 hour day.

I agree with a few of the commenters here who talk about routine.

If you show others that you are coming in late, then they expect you to work late.

If you show others that you are there before they are, then it's more reasonable in their minds that you leave before they do.

If you continually show up early to work, then people will not even question or think about it that you leave early (or on time).
I'm so incredibly surprised this hasn't been sued out of existence for anti-competitive behavior. Not that people in the Bay Area ever have more than one choice to begin with for internet service (AT&T and Comcast seem to split the area up amongst themselves).
Trump is more or less a (far-ish)right populist and economic nationalist.

Not to rehash the election unnecessarily, but I seriously doubt Sanders had any chance nationally. The US has a political center that is center right to right wing on an absolute scale, meaning the average American Democrat would fit comfortable in most moderate/centrist conservative parties in the rest of the developed world. No judgement there, it's just a historical fact and likely the result of some political realignments in the 20th century due to the Cold War. That is to say that someone as far left of center as Sanders would have no chance in most swing states where the election is decided.
Path tracing is just like ray tracing with randomized deviations of the rays and reflections, and this is repeated many times to reduce the noise.
This can also be done with shadow rays to some extent, for soft shadows.

(But it seems like every person you ask knows a different meaning for terms like raycasting, path tracing and physical based rendering)
> In the late 90s there were $400 billion given to broadband providers and the job was by 2006 for everyone to have fiber running to their homes. They stole that cash [1].

That number is fictitious. I've addressed it at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556. The number is built out of two pieces:

1) Comparing the company's rate of return to that of utilities like power companies, and calling everything above that "excess profits." (By that analysis, taxpayers are paying Google and Facebook enormous subsidies.)

2) Calling accelerated depreciation of telecom network infrastructure a "tax break," while ignoring that accelerated depreciation made total sense in the 1990s as telcos upgraded their core networks with fiber.

> Verizon is horrible at keeping it's promises on fiber [2][3][4].

Everyone is horrible at keeping promises on fiber. See Google halting Fiber rollout. Beyond that, the question is: what's the harm? Did New York pay Verizon a bunch of money for building out broadband in New York City, only to have Verizon renege on its end of the bargain?

Here is the lawsuit New York City filed against Verizon relating to the deployment: https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/verizon.... Here is the underlying franchise agreement: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doitt/downloads/pdf/verizon_nyc_.... Read both, and point me to the big check New York wrote to Verizon to get FiOS service. Or even the big tax break. You won't find either. If those things existed, they'd be in there (because "and then they pocketed the money we gave them" makes for a way better lawsuit).

What you do find is that Verizon got to pay New York millions of dollars + 5% of gross revenues for the privilege of spending another billion dollars building the FiOS network out to New York City.

So on the moral outrage meter that ranks up there with Lenovo teasing the Thinkpad Classic but never releasing it. People aren't outraged because they pre-ordered and Lenovo kept their money. They're outraged because they want it and they can't get it.

> They are still as sloppy and slacking big time in gigabit/fiber.

They've deployed fiber to 15x as many subscribers as Google, and are rolling out near-gigabit (provisioned at 1024 mbps but marketed as 750 mbps) throughout the FiOS service area through 2017.
Counting how long it (the rock) goes for I think.
The implementation of this article actually shows a perfect example of why obsessing about image size might be entirely the wrong way to look at a problem and at best a misguided optimization.

The header image of this article is gigantic and mostly black, which is a huge waste of space. In a case like this, it’s not the image size: it’s the way the image was designed, and the fact that maybe an image isn’t even necessary most of the time. At the very least, a smaller image could produce the same desired effect, and probably no image is needed at all.

Use a black web page element to produce a large black field, right away ensuring that at most a much smaller image would be needed for the non-black center. Then, use green text (which is more accessible anyway). Once that’s done, probably no image is even needed; and if an image is still needed, it would be really small, taking care of just minor adornments that the text did not provide.
I'd just like to point out that this article was written by a journalist living in Baltimore, Maryland - someone who is doubtlessly earning in the top 10% of all incomes worldwide; someone who enjoys a standard of living far above what most in the world could reasonably hope for.
Is there any type of calculations in which analog computer can outperform modern digital computer?
That's a rule of thumb for people who don't care to do the math I suppose.
Interesting. I haven't used Apollo in production. Are there specific things (apart from mutations!) that it makes easier?
With normal tenants, you gamble once every couple of months or years. With AirBNB, you roll the dice possibly every few days or more.

It's the same difference as owner occupancy vs renters, but taken to the next order of magnitude.
Ironically, for the first time in 5-7 years of me using Twitter, the replies didn't load until I refreshed the page.
Exactly this. This wepay post is well written and interesting, and DBZ sounds pretty neat. However, I think that the use case they present is an antipattern that incents/greases the wheels of leaky abstraction. Hell is having ETLs break because one refactored OLTP...
IMO open source projects need a critical mass of developers to achieve "polish". All the edge cases and so on that isnt' a matter of writing clever code, but sitting there for days writing tests or manually investigating corner cases, or putting in resources for good crash reporting, seamless updates and things like that. I have yet to see an open source project that deals well with this (Firefox doesn't count because they have a lot of $$ and can employ devs to work on all these things.)

When you reach a scale of millions of users, all these tiny details start to affect a sizeable amount of users.
> it is easy to optimise for diversity

only in the most crude, ham-fisted way though.

it's extremely hard to find people who actually break the groupthink. it's extremely hard to even identify your own groupthink blind spots, let alone cover them with people with genuinely different perspectives. the crude diversity solution seems highly likely to select for people with superficial differences but core similarities.
Infinite amount.
> You get up at the time your contract says and you go to home.

Are you American?

The vast majority of the American workforce is "at will." There is no contract.

> he solution is simple, just stand up and leave and talk to your boss about the amount of work so he can hire someone to help you or delegates the work to other person.

This is exceedingly dangerous. You are telling people to go to their bosses and say "hire someone to do the job you hired me to do."

Source: practicing attorney.
So much looking forward to the same thing happening to Climate Change.
I read this comment before the article. I also assumed that the surgeon was male - my best guess at an answer to the riddle was in the wording: the people in the car crash were "a father and daughter" not "a father and his daughter", so my answer was that the man killed in the crash was "a father" and not "the girl's father", thereby allowing the possibility of the surgeon to be the girl's father.
The search experience really is great. I'm not surprised to see it took some very performance focused effort and top notch hardware.
CSI: Towards a more universal storage interface for containers
Two things happened around the same time so I can't say for certain which had the bigger impact. I was a habitual over worker. I would try to beat rush hour on my drive in, and leave after it was over. Then, shortly after the birth of my son, we gave up the second car and I started taking the train to work. Now instead of waiting for traffic to die down, I have to get out right on time to catch my train. When my boss tried to give me little jobs at the end of the day i could say, "Sorry have to catch the train." Eventually my boss got use to it and stopped trying to give me work just as I should be leaving - leaving me emails for the morning instead, and balance is much improved.
They've also convinced your average, market-loving American that there are options and if you don't like your current ISP, you can just switch. I'll switch from Comcast to Wave! Oh wait, Wave just resells Comcast. Ok, I'll switch to AT&T! Sorry, the nearest switch box is more than a mile from your house...your speeds are going to be ~ 400K/s.

Yay, free market.
Facebook introduces personal fundraising tools
File a police report, then go to small claims court. I think the limit for small claims is $7k, but it might be higher now.
Ah, the tried and true method of making a market non-free. Increase number of middlemen and make processes complicated so that no transparency remains.
Can you name a few? I'm looking.