skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been thinking about this as a busy parent.

I just have one tech side project. It'll take as long as it takes. I now try to use similar tech as I do at work for expediency and to help with my job.

My non tech project is losing weight. I've made the process as lean as possible. No cardio just weights and eating less for now.

So I guess my answer is focus on few things and ruthlessly optimise.
Hmm. Seems unlikely given the manual nature of shopping at WalMart, shipping costs, returns, etc, on an $8M revenue base.

Edit: He contradicts himself..."four years later, we're a team of 11 and we're doing well over $200,000 in sales per month"

$200k/month isn't even close to $8M/year. And you aren't netting 7 figures with $200k/month and 11 employees. Now I'm thinking this is just a puff piece for his get-rich-quick lecture series. Too bad, as it's probably still a decent story with the actual figures. Just not a rags to riches one.

I'm also having trouble visualizing 11 people buying $8M (retail) worth of stuff from WalMart in shopping carts. That's $2k per day, per employee, every day.
>A lot of the racial tension is probably not by accident.

It absolutely is not by accident, not most of it. There are a lot of interests that make money keeping racial tensions high. News outlets are one.

Bacon's Rebellion is a very significant historical event that happened in 1676 that still gets taught and still has an effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion

The alliance between indentured servants and Africans (most enslaved until death or freed), united by their bond-servitude, disturbed the ruling class, who responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery in an attempt to divide the two races from subsequent united uprisings with the passage of the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705.

Indentured servants both black and white joined the frontier rebellion. Seeing them united in a cause alarmed the ruling class, historians believe the rebellion hastened the hardening of racial lines associated with slavery, as a way for planters and the colony to control some of the poor.

The reason the ruling class is allowed to rule (today and through history) was because the underclass was divided. Kings would keep nobility fighting with each other and not the kings.

The US racial divide is an implementation of the same thing. If poor blacks and poor whites constantly bicker (and worse) at each other, they certainly aren't bickering with the powers that be. Divide and conquer. One of the oldest strategies in the book. Hell, look at what the Hippies were able to do as far as civil unrest with the government in the late 60s. Hippies weren't known to be racist, infact the opposite. That certainly wouldn't do. Enter the drug war.
For perspective on what dating and marriage choice used to be like decades ago, I recommend Aziz Ansari's "Modern Romance".

I didn't expect it to be more than a joyread, but he wrote it in collaboration with a social psychology professor iirc, and went to great lengths to do first hand interviews with many people all over the world.

It is also the most comprehensive account of the multifaceted roots of Japan's "no sex problem" that I've seen in any publication.
Excuse me while a shed a single tear for the world's uberrich.
Serious suggestion: consider amphetamines. Dangerous in excess, but not unlike any other double edged tool, relatively safe when used responsibly.

Edit: faceless downvotes? How about some actual discussion?
Ask HN: What books most impacted how you view the world?
What books (or blog posts / long reads) made the largest impact on how you view the world on a day-to day basis and daily life?
Parallelizing Golang File IO
As a Nordic citizen, I'm torn between believing that everyone, citizen or not, should have the same rights to healthcare, an education, transport, telecommunication and so on and that by enforcing this system we have effectively cut off the possibility of private services within those fields that some may need or prefer, specifically healthcare to get appointments at their own leisure rather than being assigned one that you're practically force to abide by or the ability to privately tutor kids rather than sending them to a public school that doesn't necessarily fulfil their needs or potential.
That said, I much prefer the system of everyone having the same basic rights at a very affordable rate than potentially having to struggle to live a decent life at the expense of getting a better service if you happen to be able to afford it.
Reminds me of the South African system. Enforcement of electricity levies depends very much on location. Townships vs leafy suburbs
Erlang's OTP API is pretty much the best. Python's logging is nice, too.
The article might be exaggerating but it did state that he had 'millions in profits' at first paragraph.

Salary is a different matter, CEOs of new companies dont earn from annual revenue but more from stock sales and gains.

Paying 150k is also before taxing and profits and is an expense in wages.

Taking a quick guess and say that this person has 1 million in profits, but most likely 1 million to 2 million in gross profits instead of net from what I can think is more likely and 150k in his salary as well as wages for 11 people and warehouse rent which likely reaches 700k to 1 million, he likely has around 3 to 3.5 million in revenue and net profits of likely 50k as thats your average web retailer net margin
Holy crap.

DST Global and its affiliates have (or had in formative years) significant stakes in Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, ZocDoc, Planet Lab, Xiaomi, Stripe, Alibaba, WhatsApp and Airbnb [1]. Milner has close ties to Y Combinator [2]. It's been a deal-terms setting, behind-the-kimono peeking major investor for a decade.

This is immensely scary. We've utterly failed, as an industry, to self regulate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venture-milner-ycombinato...
Back in the 80's, it was practical to buy software packages in the US and resell them in Europe at a substantial markup. After a while, more and more businessmen started doing this until the price differential disappeared. Classic arbitrage.
An interesting perspective. I can’t disagree.
Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
I agree that screaming something like this on Twitter when you're in temporary rage is nothing but childish. But it's also hard to ignore that someone who represents webpack was able to resolve the situation calmly and civilly only to call the person a hater and a troll later on. This, in my eyes, is a breath away from screaming obscenities on Twitter.
> Such tax schemes sure are immoral in my eyes, I'm a hard-core capitalist, but no way your average Joe stands a chance at "optimizing" taxes.

This rather shows that the tax system is far too complicated, so that only really rich people can "afford" (i.e. pay the necessary apparatus of lawyers, tax experts etc.) to use the loopholes. Rather tell your government to radically simplify it with the long-term goal that one even can formulate "correctness proofs" that some kinds of loopholes simply do not exist etc.
Kremlin Cash Fueled Yuri Milner's Rise in Silicon Valley
>I can't see any benefit to leaving the city.

There's less crime, driving is viable (what do you do if you want to bring home a large item from a store in a city?), your surroundings are actually nice to look at, it's quieter, establishments aren't crowded, some people don't like walking all day, you can play loud music or whatever in your home without a noise complaint if you don't live right next to anyone, and privacy in your yard, for a few examples.

What's special about city food? That it's more expensive? Calling small towns "away from civilization" is so disingenuous that it seems intentional. I've gone over this in another response, but do you really believe there isn't nice food and events out there?
Edge Computing – A Beginner’s Guide
Appleby claims these documents were obtained during a security incident last year:

https://www.applebyglobal.com/news/news-2017/media-coverage-...
I think that male genitalie pictures were reason why you cannot send pictures in Tinder chat.
Interesting observations, thank you.
> we should be doing is insulating the government from outside influence.

We should be insulating it from the influence of money, not of voters. The influence of voters is the foundation of democracy and legitimate government.
I want something like this for regional cultures. Ie measures of how connected people feel to their neighbors. Is it like Las Vegas where the culture is downright antisocial at times? (It was populated largely by people fleeing other areas to flee from the people there)
The BBC has just done a remake of the Guy Fawkes story starring Kit Harrington which is pretty good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05j1bc9
I would say this is a false equivocation to the extent that the "database" that the author referenced in beginning of the metaphor should not include victimless crimes such as "drug abuse".

The author also assumes that there would be a de-facto backlash against the "hacker"'s behavior. I don't think so. If the justice system is "innocent until proven guilty", and these people are proven guilty in a court of law by evidence (even if such evidence is blasted to the world by this 'hacker'), there is no difference between whether they make $10 or $10 million per year.

This does invoke a bit of a quandary as referenced earlier over whether certain victimless crimes should actually be classified as crimes, but I believe that is orthogonal to the conversation to some extent.

The stronger argument was mentioned below: Do you as a citizen strive to minimize your tax burden to the most extent it makes sense and is legal? If yes, then why should it be any different whether you make $10 or $10 million in a year? Is there some sort of arbitrary monetary amount where you are supposed to make this moral decision "oh I made enough money now, it's time to pay more taxes than I am legally required to". If so, when is it? If not, then the tax code and subsequently the government are the systems you need to look at if legal lowering of the rich man's tax burden is something you find reprehensible.
I think your unpopular view is very true. Worse, it's the key to finance and politics.

I used to know someone who had nothing but contempt for developers and the IT team, because while he was busy playing the corporate ambition game, they just wanted to do a good job.

As far as he was concerned, this made them easy prey.

Guess which kind of person runs the world?

Engineering and science won't teach you this. You can finish your PhD with a completely unrealistic view about how politics works, and how political outcomes are generated.

Neither science nor engineering are immune to this. Popular beliefs and high-status areas of research are decided politically, not dispassionately.

It's tempting to say that things would be better if we had dispassionate objective AIs deciding policy, instead of individual and tribal ambition - but of course one of the challenges of AI is that instead of simply automating math, AI has the potential to automate and amplify influence and persuasion.

When you don't really understand influence and persuasion - but others do, in practice if not in theory - that's not necessarily a good place to be.
How is this charity? Isn't "the poorest among us have some basic level of livelihood" exactly justice, and exactly the job of a government?

Please don't use this kind of argument to turn HN into reddit.
40% in 2-3 years is pretty unlikely, even in the hottest markets. But even still, does that mean you discontinue shopping in the neighborhood altogether? Because all the surrounding homes would have seen the same increase?
> Well, we do things now that we didn’t used to do, like write tests :)

We didn't used to worship tests. We used to write them, mainly for detecting
regressions. Perl's CPAN society developed whole standards around testing
(ever heard of Test Anything Protocol?), and that was in the late '80s.
What's the name of the company you work for?
There is research comparing wikipedia to encyclopaedia britannica which concludes that wikipedia has more "left code words" per article than EB.

However
a) this research is very US-centric
b) the paper also concludes that code word per word is pretty much equal between the two, wikipedia just has longer articles

1. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-experts-or-collective-intellig...
America in grave danger from terrorists? The numbers tell a different story
It's always disappointing to find people on the web who don't believe in basic human rights.

Don't we all have the right to a basic level of livelihood? Why should the family I was born to determine wether I have clean water to drink or not, for example?
Why is this surprising? When Milner came virtually out of the blue (or red, as the case may be) a few years ago, it seemed obvious that he was a conduit/laundry for oligarch cash at least. I even remember telling someone at the time that if we were chosen for YC, we didn't want Milner's dirty money.

The additional Kremlin state ties seem only an additional technicality. (I mean the formalized acknowledgement of what I presumed existent.)
> It's the wrong angle. One should not look at corporations as the moral saviours.

It's too late. You're arguing a return to the past, "money is just money, corporations are just doing what's in their self interest."

That's still the dominant ideology, but it's on the wane.

It will be replaced when cash is replaced. Cash will be replaced by bonds. I won't pay McDonalds in cash for a burger, I will pay them in a bond specifically to be disbursed according to how I want the money to be disbursed. Yes more burgers. Yes advertise all you want. No, this money may not be spent on rainforest destruction. If they misuse funds, the bond will be broken and they'll be subject to penalties. Intentionality will reach forward and back across the disbursement boundary. Cash will die.

Capitalists have always talked about cash as if it had the color of a bond, "vote with your dollars" and that kind of thing. And repeat purchases do start to act like a bond. If I'm a large repeat customer and I complain, the business is likely to respond.

But that setup, where the bond is just implicit in the revenue stream, inevitably caters to the wealthy. If you're a big fish, your cash is treated as a bond. If you're a small fish, it's treated as cash.

Digital currencies will allow us to actually pay for small transactions with microbonds, giving much more power to small purchasers.
This is a computer on your brain (2006)
Reminds me of Peter Sripol, a young dude whose built one primarily of styrofoam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6CS-YJ3_VU
In my humble opinion, the job of the government is absolutely not to give money to the poorest people, not even to maintain a "basic level of livelyhood".

I'm also fairly certain this has nothing to do with the concept of justice.
Concerns about Milner And his ties to YC are not new.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143604
We bought our house, lived in it for two years, moved and rented it out for a few years, then sold it for a 40% markup. Didn't do anything special.
Those are also prices for a new aircraft, used go lower.
It means that if 1 million strangers tried to unlock your phone, one of them on average would succeed.

Obviously the phone requires a pin after 5 failures, but that’s another matter.
I am pretty sure the idea people are talking about here has nothing to do with messaging and everything to do with adding video: you can tell so much more about someone watching a few seconds of them moving and talking than you can staring at a stack of photographs. When I think about "why aren't profiles on these apps videos instead of photos", only having photos feels stupid in retrospect, but apparently other people disagree.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/17/15561800/dating-apps-vide...

"The Internet is Moving to Video, but Dating Apps Choose to Arrive Fashionably Late" "Everyone wants to be Snapchat, except your dating service"

> “I’ll admit it: video is scary,” says Behzad Behrouzi, who oversees product operations at Lively, a video-based dating app. “You’re showing off so much more of yourself than if you just posted a selfie. You’re showing your flaws, your personality, the real you — and that can be terrifying.”

> Behrouzi calls video dating largely uncharted territory, but points to Snapchat’s success as an admirable model. “You’re sending videos to friends,” he says. “With Lively, you’re posting/sending videos to people you don’t know, which can be intimidating.”
Couldn't you argue that an increase in compensation driven by 'ballooning healthcare costs' wouldn't actually improve the standard of living of workers? Comparing wages (rather than total compensation) to cost of living would seem more pertinent in this regard.
You've got the process figured out :)

Reason through the code. Sometimes, reason through the output assembler (in case the C code is making invalid assumptions). Stare at oscilloscope traces. Think really hard about what's happening, come up with a hypothesis, and test that hypothesis.

The hypothesis testing part is key. I've worked with embedded developers who "fix" a bug by making a code change, but can't at all explain why the change is likely to fix the bug. In many cases, the reason it seems to fix the bug is that it changes the timing just enough so that the bug happens less frequently, but without having a really solid causal explanation, it likely just means that it's going to be even harder to find the bug when it pops back up again.
Anyone with less than half the money the militars spend should had "got" me all those things.

But they didn't. As the old saying goes, the Swiss had peace for 500 years and all they invented was the cuckoo clock.
>Taxation is theft to begin with

How is taxation theft exactly?
> The additional Kremlin state ties seem only an additional technicality

The line between investing for potentially-corrupt interests and acting at the behest of a geopolitical competitor is night and day. DST didn't just hand cash over to companies. They conducted extensive diligence and sat on Boards.
What's so bad about needing help? And what's so bad about society helping it's neediest maintain a basic level of existence?
Computer Science Papers in Web of Science: A  Bibliometric Analysis [pdf]
Shelf space is valuable, and customers like full shelves. Walmart warehouses as little as possible — everything gets pushed out to the stores. So you’ll have regional and seasonal variations where a store will overstock to push more product.

When that season ends, it’s more useful for the store to unload the inventory for cash quickly and switchover to the next thing.

You can always spot a struggling general retailer when you see “holes” in the aisles or low-density merchandising... it’s a sign that the vendors are tightening credit terms.

Amazon has a less competitive market position because people are buying stuff for convenience and there’s a high transaction cost due to shipping. Every major retailer is launching subscribe and save programs to nip at those Amazon convenience shoppers. Amazon needs the job-lot people because they are the only folks who can get a tube of toothpaste for 1/3 the retail cost. It’s a great strategy, until some psycho tampers with product by putting poison in toothpaste or acid in shampoo.
Depending on the rules, a game may be drawn due to an "eternal life" (an endless forced repetition).

https://senseis.xmp.net/?EternalLife

In Go this is very rare (as opposed to e.g. chess).
When Russian adventurism was a blip on the American radar, the '08 Russo-Georgian War aside.
> Don't we all have the right to a basic level of livelihood?

You have the right to it, but you're not entitled to it.

To me, having the right to do something means you can't be prosecuted for doing it. It doesn't mean that society must help you.
Because she wasn't really a co-founder and it only seemed like she was doing anything for WakaTime. She´s very good at making people believe that when she´s only really self-promoting herself. It does not surprise me at all that she was at the female founder conference.
Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15617309&goto=item%3Fi...
Then what is the role of government, in your opinion?
>What happened to the idea that we could apply our intellects, reason, logic, and rational thinking, and improve on the old way of doing things?

There are powerful groups of people with intellect, reason, logic, rational thinking but also have large sums of capital and the government's servitude to counter anything we try to change.
SG is the ISO code for Singapore.
>, and they don't do anything like ruling the world. [...]

I guess people interpret it differently. Whenever I see the phrase "rule the world", it's just a common rhetorical device and not necessarily clickbait. E.g. it's common to see headlines like "the US dollar rules the world" or "Hollywood rules the world".

I don't think we have to take that phrase so literally since we know in the back of our minds that nothing really rules the whole world.

I do see that the "net state" label bothers many readers so she probably should have coined another neologism.
The stupid ignorant masses don't appreciate their intellectual betters on HN. They ignored hollywood, silicon valley, the media, and voted for Trump (with Russia's help of course).
Not believing in basic human rights isn't exactly what I would call a "humble" opinion. Words have meanings.
I read your comment like somebody saying he is not impressed by this bus that helps the whole town going to the office because he couldn't figure how to do nascar with it.
Maybe that wasn't good phrasing. I'm trying to say that I never saw the division between those corrupt interests and the nation state they belonged to. I always felt they were acting in their national interests.

What will be interesting here is how fast it falls off HN.
Then maybe you should investigate more, for example using the waybackmachine and finding out that Alan founded WakaTime almost 2 years before she ever appeared on the website. He didn't even know her when he started WakaTime.

Also read: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15617309&goto=item%3Fi...

She's very good at making people believe her lies.
I don't understand the gripe of the article and pointing out Republicans controlling Congress as some sort of bad guy deception. There is a new satellite for climate monitoring set to launch on the 10th. They wanted to store old technology for $500+ million and *maybe launch it? Something's missing here.
Highly recommend checking out the podcast Exponent and the blog Stratechery, both by Ben Thompson. He is a great analyst and both Exponent and Stratechery focus on the intersection of tech and business strategy.
"Justice" means upholding laws?

Most of the world has signed conventions that makes basic livelihood a right -- and puts it on the state to ensure this.

Perhaps you don't agree with these laws and conventions. But please consider that the very concept of "ownership" and "property" is also something that is only upheld by laws.

Also on a pragmatic level, why should those without property acknowledge and support a state which doesn't look out for their basic livelihood? A state that does not at least try to make sure everyone has a livelihood is a sure path to social unrest / revolutions that causes problems for rich people as well.

You should turn around and ask: Why should people support the notion of property?

Property is part of the social contract in much the same way that human rights (everyone having a livelihood) is part of the social contract.
Ah then you must also believe that the government should not be giving money to corporations, and special breaks to the rich; breaks that make it so the poor have a harder time escaping poverty??

They do, because the laws are bought by the rich.