skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Agreed. It's just some people are fond of latching on to anything "...gluten..." and then using that to push back againt. I didn't want to get into that politics, and wanted to recommend it as a brain hack type of manual. At least that's how I see it.
I can't speak to Gibson, but I know that if you have enough money, you can certainly get Fender to work with you on a custom spec guitar.
I don't really get all the negative dismissal here and I'm frequently saying "meh" to myself at a lot of things people get excited about. (For example, Max's shock-level-2 level of excitement and thought about the future.)

How is he a fraudster? Who is he deceiving? Will any one of us think about him in a month? How exactly does a goal of solving a crossword puzzle fit into trying to get famous after 12 months?

He's got daily posts about this stuff, it's not hard to evaluate his honesty. I was curious how he managed to learn enough Hebrew to converse for 30 minutes on a topic. In the intro post he states: "Like most other challenges, I’m not starting from zero: I studied Hebrew at Brown for a few semesters, and also lived in Tel Aviv for six-months during my junior year of college." That's a huge advantage to have. But he's not being secretive about it. Maybe the inference of not actually starting from scratch is lost when being reported by media, but I'm more likely to blame the media than the individual. It's a fun human interest story and serves as a good reminder that rapid advancement in a skill is possible even when you work full time. Especially when you work full time and can afford to pay for assistance, in fact.
should it be an 'open' team or 'closed'?
The high falutin fancy pants term is regulatory capture[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
I think something similar but for musical artist could be very fun. Betting on the next 'big band' sounds like a good time.
Let's get to the heart of what this is: a crude pseudoscience.

While DNA call tell you a few obvious traits, like sex and ancestry with high confidence, almost everything else is speculative (i.e. they are LIKELY to have such and such other traits, but in reality they may not have any of those traits at all).

This is 21st century phrenology.
> Programmers to programmers: You must be a super agile ninja capable of teaching yourself everything at a moment's notice.

I'd be interested in a demographic breakdown of the people who say this. I'd be willing to bet that most of them are in their twenties, live in SF/SV or Seattle, and/or work at startups or insanely demanding trendsetting companies (e.g. Google, Amazon, Tesla, Apple). In other words, these claims are made by people who care about being "cool".

I don't think you'll hear this much from people who live in less trendy areas and work at less trendy companies. Older people and people who work at conservative companies in conservative areas of conservative states (Hi, I work at a B2B telecom in Plano, Texas, and I'm in my 30s) probably aren't going to be making those kinds of claims.

If you stop caring about being "cool", you'll find plenty of work that'll sustain you until you retire.
And who gets to hold that money in an interest bearing account until the recipient registers? What if they never register?
Senior developers don't just write code. They know how to get other people to write code and frame problems in a way that they can be implemented within whatever organization employs them. Many companies value these talents quite highly. They are not that different from the skills that characterize great managers.
I have a theory that it is possible to travel inside the light, most likely at close to the light speeds and travel thru universe literally on the beam of light scattering thru the space.

We know its possible for laser to have different spectrum and resonate with different speeds (imagine putting very close to each other million lasers and creating one large "tunnel", where outlayers vibrate at higher speeds thus creating "walls/ceiling/floor". That's probably the "easy" part. It might be super expensive in terms of used electricity to power such travel channel but tiny bits comparing to manned trip to Mars. Most likely the biggest problem here would be putting an object, or a person inside it and make it not accelerate to speed of light in split second (as light travels it creates a wave, similarly to a river creating stream and you getting in it are being pushed by it). The object put inside such laser tunnel (lets call it "lunnel") would have to be incredibly heavy so that it starts accelerating slowly and won't disintegrate hitting max speeds before reaching destination.

As a result of building such vehicle, imagine seeing a blimp or red light on the sky that least less than half a second. What happened? Oh, just another cargo delivery to Mars, no biggie.

One day I will write a paper on it, so it can bare my name.
Where are the engineering recruiting channels? Can't find anything except corpspeak blah blah that isnt even meant to be read
Freedom in principle is important in the US. Why can’t I sell a shoddy product? Why can’t I buy a shoddy product?
> He's of the opinion that university is a waste of time and has gone so far as paying people to drop out.

IIRC, he was paying people to run with their startup idea rather than wait until after they finished college. It was far different than just paying random students to drop out.

> Democracy only works if you have an educated public that values critical thinking.

That doesn't mean that the university is good. Do the universities really teach people to value critical thinking? Or do they teach them to value thinking that supports the currently prevailing viewpoint? Too often, it's the latter.

Note well: I'm not a Thiel fan or supporter. What he did to Gawker was both dirty and hypocritical.
Given enough time, get Shakespeare
Everything old is new again. I wasn't even a teenager when everybody was convinced the guitar bands were gone for good. As mentioned somewhere else in the thread, back in the sixties the same history.

I'm been playing for almost 30 years, and what I've seen in the last few ones is, I can buy a guitar for 300 bucks that beats anything that I owned as a teenager for that same price. And I'm not even touching the amp market, it's crazy what the same money can buy in terms of quality and flexibility.

I'm hesitant about this, but I'm half sure this deflactionaty process is going to actually popularize playing the guitar in the middle term.
New Zealand has the consumer guarantees act that requires companies to provide repairs or replacements for goods for a reasonable duration.

https://www.govt.nz/browse/consumer-rights-and-complaints/co...

I used this with my first MacBook when the trackpad stopped working outside the default period.

Rather than being based on a fixed period of time it’s based on the expected quality of the product- because Apple computers are a lot more expensive than competitors it’s assumed that Apple are selling a higher quality/more durable product that should last for a reasonable period of time.

Unfortunately Apple doesn’t have any NZ offices so I had to deal with Australian office that took several letters to convince them they needed to make the repair under New Zealand law.

In the end we negotiated and I got free replacement parts and service under a $100 service fee.
Remember that leases aren’t just leases for real estate. Many companies operationize most or all capital costs. Companies dump all sorts of crap into them.

When I used to sell stuff in college, my fortune 50 customers dumped all sorts of stuff into leases like office supplies, etc. My account had me running around buying thousands of pens from stores around us to for one Fortune 50 customer to roll into a lease for a bunch of servers.
While some jurisdictions have been able to block data requests on the argument that they contain private intellectual property -- the case that comes to mind is Ohio, which won a case against providing map data because somehow the ArcGIS software used to create/save the map was inextricable (yes, it's as absurd as it sounds -- this doesn't seem to be the case here.

According to MuckRock, Maine allows for fees of $15/hour for search and copying time. If they demanded $750 before sending the file or making it otherwise accessible, MuckRock could challenge them to provide the record showing 50 hours of billable work.
Funny you say that. This makes me think of gift cards in the sense that I suspect they will have thousands of tiny balances that are never redeemed. Usually you lose any balance after X years.
> actually committing binary .debs to SVN alongside their source code, because that meant that the SVN revision number was the single source of truth

This is totally armchair-devops, but it sounds like a more ideal case would be CI that runs based on your commit. In my experience, developers get lazy and are likely to commit binaries that dont match the code or miss some dependencies or steps.

I completely agree with your point, using the tools as intended isn't always the best way to get things done. Video games are an easy example, code is often dependent and intermixed with binary assets and you want those to be versioned together.
what did you think?
I was agreeing with the begining of your post, but

> You are free to choose to restrain the means in which you apply your free speech and association rights based on this narrow, misguided, elitist view of the role of the hoi polloi, of course.

Is where I burst out laughing and moved on.
Bubbly Bitcoin not worth the wager: investors
This. Exactly this. In five years time it'll be the 40-45 range, and in ten years 45-50. There is a point in time to where computers and software development really started to take off, becoming ingrained in every person's life from the start.
How do you do the cello tuning? Assuming you're not using a tenor guitar, it's CGDA on the lowest four, then do you just keep going up in 5ths to EB for the last two strings or do something else?
My era was more The Clash, Joy Division, and the like :)
We don't have remote software engineers currently (maybe in the future).
How do you generate your diagrams? They're really beautiful. Zooming in on the svg I see that it's all just unicode, but was wondering if you're manually typesetting it.
I know you can't trust me because I'm just another stranger on the internet, but I worked for Fender briefly in their marketing department a few years back (as a web developer).

I can unequivocally say that they still care about valuing craftsmanship of their products. It may not be to the level of an individual craftsperson constructing a one-off instrument, but it is there.

At least, that's what I perceived while I was there. But take my words for whatever they're worth; I don't play guitar, nor did I take advantage of learning while I was there (part of me regrets not doing so, as the employee discounts were generous, but I still couldn't justify another potentially expensive hobby).
Aren't incandescent light bulbs pretty much the poster child of the problems with capitalism's expectations of infinite growth? It is possible to create incandescent light bulbs with extremely long life time, but it doesn't make much economic sense, so no one does.
We moved from San Francisco, it's much worse there. Also, i feel it'll take a few years but Seattle will calm down as more and more tech workers integrate and make this THEIR city.
> and skeptic of capitalism

Well, I'll bet you bought at least one of those guitars, didn't you? Welcome to the capital market. If guitar makers can't sell guitars, and do something else instead, then that's no less capitalistic.
But even within the 1%, the income distribution is highly skewed, i.e. those 400 people are responsible for a very sizable total of the overall wealth within the 1%.
Entering a new era in Art. Finally
I'm now collecting for every charity in existence even though I don't have a relationship with any of them. All they have to do is contact me to retrieve the funds.
Thanks for writing the article, it was interesting.
To see if I'm missing something here though, in order for this to offer benefit the way it is now, I would need to already have a correct min_lsn for a user? But the issue is that if I got this from a previous request it could be out of date, isn't that accurate?
Show HN: SteemPixels.com – Decentralized Collaborative Pixel Canvas
Yes. Agree. Some are. But certainly the "is there an app for that?" generation has to be effected by that mindset.

Or maybe I just need new friends? Maybe their kids will be different? :)
Thank you. I always wondered what was the difference.
Can't even imagine living in an area without 3 supermarkets in walking distance and broadband cable/4G.

As someone once famously tweeted: "why would you live there". Although I guess you can see the stars at night?
Didn't see any marketing themselves as Gibsons, but here's a "Gretsch" White Falcon in that range: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-selling-white-Gretsch-fa...
Yeah honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't part of why I whine and complain like this online. I feel like it's probably unhealthy (you know, relatively or whatever) to lose that reminder that you're just another asshole who can't quite make things work right, just like everyone else. I feel like most people get it from talking and discussing and arguing about intetesting things, but when all you can afford is grits...
The Soviet Military Secretly Mapped the Entire World
I understand there are likely business reasons behind this, but kind of funny that a 'space company' doesn't have any remote workers.

"We can communicate with a rocket hurtling through space, but we need you to come into the office"
Artificial Life, Open-Ended Evolution, and the Origins of Biological Complexity
AFAICT shoofly pie is basically just layers of streusel (made with butter or shortening) and molasses with leavening, so…Streuselkuchen minus the Kuchen (egg/yeast).
"Workers at the 90th percentile of the income distribution for professionals make 3.5 times the earnings of the typical (median) worker in all occupations in the United States. Only Mexico and Israel, which have very high inequality, compensate professionals so disproportionately. In Switzerland, the Netherlands, Finland and Denmark, the ratio is about 2 to 1."

It's hard to find comparable numbers, but aren't the median wages higher in all those countries?

The article vaguely makes it sound like it's just a matter of paying highly-paid professionals less, but would that lift the bottom or just concentrate the money to an even thinner slice of the population?
If you actually commit binaries to help with the CI, then those binaries should be installed by the CI. I'm not saying it's a good idea to do it this way, but if you really want to for some reason, then that's the way to enforce no steps or binaries are missing. (And if devs forget to add something, the build would just fail)
They were never actually for sale. The practice of attaching a fixed amount of charitable giving to some indulgences, as the requisite good work for gaining the indulgence, was widely abused, to the point of great scandal, during several troubled centuries in the first half the second millennium. Given just how great the scandal was, following the Council of Trent, Pope Pius V abolished (1567) all indulgences of that kind and forbid any of that kind from being granted in the future. That disciplinary restriction is still in effect today, and probably for the best. Both prior to the centuries of abuse and afterward to the present day, the vast majority of indulgences were and are attached to certain prayers, occasions, and pilgrimages.

For more information, see the Indulgences[1] article in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

For the disciplines in effect at present, see Pope Paul VI's 1967 Constitution Indulgentiarum Doctrina[2].

[1] http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07783a.htm

[2] https://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_constitutions...
This is excellent advice. I would add that another key ingredient is never resting on your laurels, and continually learning and improving. Successful people (and companies) often get to a comfortable place where they can get away with doing the same thing over and over, but the money keeps rolling in. It can be very tempting to step off the gas and just enjoy the fruits of your labors for a while.

Some people get to this point and never step back on the gas, because it seems like things are going to be great forever. Once people get too comfortable, it's only a matter of time until it bites them.

IMO it's important to continually reinvent yourself throughout your career, to keep things interesting, but also to always put you in the best position to take whatever the next step is. If you wait until it's time to take that next step before figuring out where you want to go, it's too late.
Thanks for the clarification, sparse object fetch seems like a small change in concept at least.
I have great admiration for Thiel as an entrepreneur and I agree with him on a number of his economic views. It's unfortunate that his infamous Cato essay point about women and welfare recipients being difficult constituencies for libertarians has been misconstrued (maybe purposely for political reasons?) as if to mean "women and welfare recipients should therefore not be allowed to vote". When I watch the American news media covering state & federal elections, they routinely say that X candidate or party usually has a tough time with women/people of color/college students/older people, so I never really agreed with the interpretation that many in the media seemed to want me to derive out of that essay.

It's really unfortunate that politics has turned into some kind of tribal warfare and polarized the USA to this degree. From the perspective of an outsider it seems like there either side is somehow morally superior to the other. Of late I personally tend to hear things like "taxation is theft" and "property is for fascists" on a disturbingly regular basis from voices that seem to grow louder as time goes by. Where did all the moderates go?
Bump, a technology that allowed you to match two devices (phone and/or computer) over the internet. You did this by literally bumping them together, or bumping the phone against your spacebar on a computer. A mix of geolocation, timing, and accelerometer data.

I used it a lot for file sharing, exchanging contact cards. Worked like magic, until Google bought and murdered it.
Bellingham? Take me with you. :-) Yeah, I don’t know why everyone tries to cram into this one small geographical area. I always figured back in the day that new startups would center around the Eastside, what with a boatload of ex- Microsofties to hire. Nope, drive across the lake to Pioneer Square or SLU, bitches. It’s even worse now that Amazon showed up. Instead of someplace like Bellingham, let’s see if we can cram one more startup into Pioneer Square.

It’s too bad Seattle grew without plans in place to help preserve its livability and attractiveness to small businesses.

From transit to housing, I don’t think I’ve lived in a place so much in denial about future growth. The fact that light rail is just now getting built is a prime example of this.
> There is a point in time to where computers and software development really started to take off, becoming ingrained in every person's life from the start.

Computers and software use, maybe; for software development it hasn't happened (it seemed to be heading that way in the mid-1980s, backed off starting around the beginning of the 1990s, and seems recently to have turned back around at least in terms of what lots of people are saying. We’ll see...)
I only use my Echo Dot for a few things:

- checking the weather/time
- settings a timer
- having Alexa read me a bedtime story (Audible)

I think if I dedicated some time to actually integrate Alexa with my home (lights, Nest, speakers, etc.), I can see it improving productivity. Especially with how easy custom skills are to build, you can really take the technology much further.
Two Passwords Are Always Better Than One
There's a surprising amount of cork-sniffing that goes on in the guitar world, and I think that plays a role in slowing down the decline of the guitar market.

Just try searching for advice on what guitar to buy, and you'll be inundated with people claiming that tiny little differences (e.g. rosewood vs maple fretboards or lacquer vs poly finishes on an electric) have huge effects on the overall sounds, which is clearly not true. The idea that there's always something better to buy drives some people to keep purchasing. I'm sure there's some degree of this with other instruments, but guitar seems to be particularly bad.
Thanks fo sharing. Just wanted to comment that while generalists do not get outlandish compensation offers, they are more likely to qualify for a wider set of jobs. In a way, it is a different strategy in the employment game: you go for a less risky bet than specializing in something, and by that increase the chances of being employed.
This only works for compilers written in the same languages as the ones they compile...?
I'm a big fan of Peter Thiel, and of anyone who's a divergent thinker and has well thought out opinions that run contrary to mainstream ideology (e.g., Noam Chomsky).

If YC ended its relationship with Peter because of his political affiliations, I'd find that extremely unfortunate. Any institution which closes itself off to outside information, challenging viewpoints and diversity of thought risks becoming an ideological echo chamber and ultimately weakening itself in the long run.
There's 5000 emergency rooms and 3500 Walmarts in the US.

So the first two don't narrow things down a lot.
I don't know if anyone here has exposure to the recruiting side of things. Friends who have worked recruiting for Facebook have told me of very blatant and direct age discrimination for the older set; regardless of their talent & experience. It's not "dead-end" but there are certainly issues.
The 1% is still a large number of people, and the people you refer to are the .1% or fewer. That's not to say that their methods of wealth accumulation aren't worth discussing, but apparently that wasn't the group that this article was focused on.
What the hell is this domain?

"theguadrain.com" kind of looks like a phishing domain, but not sure what the purpose is. Most people don't log into news sites, and all of the links point to "theguardian.com". Different whois info.

Is guadrain 'guardian' in a different language? Is someone doing something malicious with this?
It is entirely possible to be a skeptic of capitalism, its application and its effects while engaging in a market in which capitalists provide goods and services. It is also possible to do so and sell your own labour-power (which is what workers do). To say that one's skepticism or criticism is invalid because of participation is equivalent to saying that the feudal serf may not complain about his position: after all, his pick and clothes were provided by his lord. He ought to be grateful!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721545
This is a classic example of the pseudo-journalism that dominates our mainstream mass media. The only real news in this article is that a study took place and came to some conclusions. Missing are details such as the study methodology, a citation, peer-review status of the study, hidden assumptions and biases, qualifications of the researchers, and so on.
Peter Thiel out at Y Combinator
Everything you say is absolutely right about the very richest 0.01% -- unearned rents and inheritances are a big problem. But there are very few such people, and what really drives the top-line inequality numbers is the redistribution of income upward to the 5% or the 1%.