skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am 38 yo now and I made 3 career decisions in my life that significantly reduced my income. I never regretted them, quite the contrary.

I was never as wealthy as you, but proportionally, it is a similar situation. My reserve wouldn't allow me to live for 3 years with no income, but I had the benefit (in my last move) of my wife being able (and willing) to pay the bills on a stable job she likes.

My decision process for those radical moves is: will I be able to endure the realistic worst case scenario?

In your case, I imagine this scenario would be something like this: failing miserably at your idea, not only financially, but not even enjoying working on it as you predict you will. During this period your family would be living in a significantly lower standard of living. A lot less luxury that 500k/year can afford. After 4 years and having consumed 1/3 or 1/2 of your reserves, you have to go back to the job market. You will find a job that will pay you 250k/year and you will hate less than your current one (this is the realistic part, I really doubt the skills that took you to a 500k job will not get you choices, even after a 4 year gap, if you are willing to earn half that).

Do you think you would be ok facing this worst case scenario? If you think it might lead you to desperation, depression and hurt your family relationships, don't do it. If you think it is not the end of the world and all your family is on the same page, do it.
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typescript has both :D
Amazing, but a bit different prediction, Heilein (from the link provided) described mobile phones at a time where there was walky-talkies (invented in 1937). The difference between walky-talkies and mobile phones is in the lack of phone switches and base stations, not so much in the terminal.

Brunner described phones (not necessarily mobile) that had a camera and a screen and that were used to access encyclopedias.

There was at that time ATT's picturephone, but it was point to point connections through the switched network. Given it used a Vidicon tube for the camera an a cathodic tube for the screen, it must have been quite large. And it was not used to find information on online encyclopedias.

Hey it was published even before Arpanet was launched!
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Serious Question: C-team won't admit failure
I spend a lot of time trying to hold people accountable for what they say and what they ask of others. I feel like I'm fighting a battle I don't want to fight.

I started off learning as much as I could from executive leadership and seeing them as competent individuals with something to teach.

After trying to explain what I learned about digital marketing (split testing, significant data, etc.,) the CMO made it clear they were uninterested in details. They outsourced the work as I moved to other duties. I have never seen the CMO present analytics to the executive team.

Our CBDO, when I started, didn't have a clear grasp of the technology. I have no engineering background and often explained both the mentality of the user base and the core functionality of the product to them. Every time they announce progress within the company, it feels like it's either to display their success, or to get others to do the work for them. When I try to hold them accountable, they give excuses.

I find the internal company posturing to be dishonest and an obstacle for the rest of the team. They rarely communicate long term objectives, strategic goals, show and explain KPI's or other forms of data, or seriously assist in solving other team-members problems.

I often try to put our best foot forward with any external entity we meet, supporting those two members in what they say.

Internally, the team is so small, we should be really honest about what is going on.

Instead, I feel like everyone is dealing with impostor syndrome and using this company as a stepping stone to a more lucrative career. I don't feel like the executive team is seriously invested.

I know this is a toxic environment for me. I know that I may be an unreliable narrator here and that my entire experience may be based off of my perception of the situation. I know I should leave.

My question is, how normal is this?
The Framers of the US Constitution were rightly concerned about standing armies. Not that anyone cares about any of it at this point--we're all going to go through hell again, probably nuclear hell, then people will understand.

Seriously, how much death and destruction does the US need to mete out on an annual basis, regardless of drones or what have you? All this tech has done is empower the worst, most brutal people.
Having just switched business banks in the UK, it appears that the rules have become a bit stricter in recent years. At minimum, you're now going to require the basic business details (registration number with Companies House, etc.) and the same standard of personal ID for all the people involved as for any of the other areas now covered by the anti-laundering rules (government-issued photo ID, recent proof of current address). We also got asked a variety of basic questions about the nature of the business and its finances, including things like where we did business and how we got paid. I don't know how many of those were strictly necessary and how many were this particular bank doing its due diligence, but other banks we've used have also asked broadly similar questions in the past.

In short, starting a limited company in the UK still seems to be fairly easy, but getting access to other facilities such as banking may be a different story if you're doing something unusual.
Have you looked into LBRY?
That's a pity, it was very promising, but if I remember correctly it hit some major blockers that weren't solved yet?
Perhaps the biggest problem with Youtube is discoverability. Youtube's algorithms determine what you will see next.

How is that solved on the decentralized platforms? How does discoverability work, what assumptions does it make, and can it be "gamed"?
I realize this, but I still have a hard time not using Google services. I know they are analyzing my data for ads, but it in incredibly convenient for me to be on the exact same platform, from email with gmail and file storage with google drive and browser with chrome and android on my phone, they just seem to get me with one thing at a time in the name of standardization. What steps can be made to prevent this?
Can you add an about page?
Riding the AI Cycle Instead of Building It
> and you end up having an accountant for your company abroad and one for yourself.

That makes sense. After all you have assets abroad now, parts in a company. The company’s revenue will be taxed in the U.S., but if you pay yourself dividends these can also be taxed at home. Even if you don’t pay yourself anything, I imagine in most countries you have to disclose that you have assets abroad. That makes your individual tax returns more complicated—that being said, if you feel up to it you could still do them yourself of course.
Hopefully just one :)
You're indeed right, but advertising is even more pernicious than lobbying: it makes people love the problem.
He just needs a warm body to bill out so he can take his cut. Ask for more money and eat into those margins.
In the mean time, look for something else.
very confused on what it does and how it applies to startups working together.
mitm seems like the most important bit. They'll know what sites you visit regardless when you actually fire off a request to the site, yeah?
Pay per view is not convenient. You have to make a decision each time "do I really want to watch this, is is worth it" and then have buyers remorse afterwards.

Pay a monthly, automatically recurring, fixed fee is convenient. Out of sight, out of mind.
Do you have a blog or twitter account to follow?
I've been running a two-disk RAID1 setup, alongside a single disk root drive (for snapshots) for almost two years without a single issue. I think there's still a lot of FUD being spread on account of the RAID 5/6 write hole still existing, for which this is the latest update:

> The write hole is the last missing part, preliminary patches have been posted but needed to be reworked.
What I‘d like most is a VR port of Riven. How good is their VR game?
It's disappointing that SST died off the way it did. In the 1960s, the 747 was originally designed as a stopgap between subsonic and supersonic, which was viewed as the next inevitable step.

Unfortunately, in a hamfisted effort to study the impact of sonic booms, the air force created so many over Oklahoma City that the government lost a very large lawsuit over the damage done to nearby buildings. Regulations ensued, and that effectively stunted any efforts to minimise the sonic boom in commercial applications.

I'm hopeful this can kickstart a new effort to renew SST and scale it to where it was more cost effective than the Concorde tried to be.
If I remember correctly Threes is free now as well.
The Kickstarter is only for the physical stuff. Making games run on newer versions of Windows was done by GOG.com and will be released even if Kickstarter fails.
tl;dr - I explain in detail why you should use Facebook for your advantage instead of complaining about their lack of decency.

Anybody who denies Facebook doesn't recognize its true value for ones personal brand. It's not about your data - you shouldn't do anything remotely personal on this platform, ever. It's all about personal marketing. And for this purpose, it is the perfect tool. You can decide how people perceive you and gain social power and influence other people.
If you refuse to take this chance because they sell your data, you're wasting a big opportunity. It's known for years that they don't care about privacy, and neither should you when you use those platforms. Use encrypted and decentralized communication channels if you want to communicate without being spied on.

But Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat can be used to build powerful social influence. And this can be used to gain further power - I'm not a fan of Nietzsches "Will to power" bullshit, but I'm interested in power regardless to build my personal empire (maybe based on deep insecurity and narcissim, whatever rests under the consciousness).

For all those Facebook haters: Your distaste for this platform stems from the fact that they don't value privacy and that people in general don't really care. But don't miss this opportunity just for the matter of doing "the right thing". If you're an existential nihilist like me, you recognize that all those opinions don't really matter (including yours) and are often used to find value in oneself like many vegetarians, no-facebookers, minimalists, etc. use it (I'm a vegetarian - it can be used to feel good about oneself if you prefer to give your narcisstic side those impulses. I try to avoid doing it for those reasons to overcome myself).
Sigmund Freud called this the "Narcissim of small differences", don't get fooled by your unconscious side - even if you think that it's rational to avoid Facebook. Think in terms of power and how you gonna get it. I know, this certainly sounds like a sociopath, but you can do good things with this power. "Humans of New York" is a Facebook page that shows us how we can use this power for good.

Don't hate the game. It's man-made and without any purpose like our whole existence. Learn to play it if you want to master life in this society.
Otherwise you just support your ego - exactly like the people who are on Facebook. You're not smarter than them. Nobody here is including me.

I just hope that people learn to value the opportunity and do a rational risk-assessment instead of using emotions of rejection because a company is selling user information.
I don't support that Facebook does that, but we can still use their platform to our advantage while hiding our true personality (and therefore enforce our privacy).

edit: Maybe most people who are on Facebook see it like this - although I have the notion that most people don't reflect on this level about their Facebook and social media usage.
You would have to bet on Elm being maintained in the future. It's quite a lot of buy in, especially considering it's just one guy.

Also, some apps are just very difficult to code in Elm (interactive, lots of DOM manipulations, video, etc) and it's just not worth it.
dns over quic would be more interesting.
Swift: Lets reconsider MVC
On my android: Threema, Slack, HipChat, Telegram, Hangouts & WhatsApp - this is the only option to reach 99% of chatting. In Germany / my list of WhatApp user is decreasing.
Generally a positive, there are drawbacks related to maintenance, but that's a problem for any system.

Say you're tagging hundreds of academic papers, so you have top-level tags math, physics, computer-science, graphics, machine-learning. Each of these has many subfields, and there is significant overlap between many of those. Perhaps more importantly, there is unpredictable future overlap, so it is generally impossible to define mutually exclusive categories (i.e. conventional directories [not counting links]) that are future-proof. I like to be able to define each hierarchy separately, then freely apply tags from any hierarchy to any item.

That's just one group of related hierarchies, and other categories of items (mutually exclusive categories DO exist, with care they can be suitable for very high-level organization) will have similar groups, which may or may not overlap with the top-level tags listed above.

I would love to see a GUI file browser designed with tags as a first-class concept. You might just call them "dynamic folders" - in any folder you can view a list of dynamic folders, generated by the tags in the current folder. This dynamic folder list could be adjusted from 1) only the top levels of the local tag hierarchy, down to N) all unique tags that are present in the current folder.
AMT is in the ballpark of what you shared. I included it in my calculations for the cost to exercise in addition to the options when evaluating if it would be a worthwhile investment or not.
I can't mention the name due to DNAs, but yes, the robot use cases includes sauce and toppings.
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They intentionally removed green threading from Rust long ago, so I would guess they intend to leave it outside core?

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b...
I live in New York and unfortunately have to be in Queens and Brooklyn regularly. if circling the neighboring blocks for 20 minutes every night to find a parking spot is what you call a livable residential community then ok.
We can argue about the implications all we want... but given the choice between sending an American soldier overseas to die or a robot to get destroyed... the choice is pretty obvious to me.
Everyone who uses a password manager would win
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That seems to be the solution. But for the side-project of content membership, I am using this new startup https://www.substack.com/. I really like their platform and business model, it is a perfect match for my needs... except they only accept Stripe for monetization of my newsletter.
If you need your credit card, then you can be censored. That's why it uses Bitcoin (BCH) instead.
Welcome to Restaurant Facebook. If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
But if the 'little folk' who are affected by the monetization changes find they can make money on Dtube or wherever, who will fill the lower tranches of YouTube? Other than those producing and uploading out of principle and without desire to earn anything.

Unless you can ramp quickly to 4,000 hours of viewing per year, YouTube is a penniless grind. Whereas other sites offer pay-per-view right from the first viewer.
I appreciate the sentiment. But its not a dichotomy. You can do both. Work for change, and adapt to what is.

Now, just giving up on Facebook if it could help you is a self-defeating action. Idealism is good, but better when used for positive action. Instead of spiteful making-a-point self-hurt.
Weather has an impact but cities still see a return on building bike infrastructure.

http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/walking-cycling-in-vancouver-2...

Canada is big but most of its population lives in the south. If you're in Yellowknife that could be different, of course.
Do you have a site/mailing list where we can sign up for alerts regarding launch of the Android app? I'd like to try this, but do not have an iPhone.

Without having tried the app, my biggest complaint with apps such as these is that they recommend recipes/meals (great!) but cannot take into account certain things that I won't eat (tomatoes, most cheeses, low preference for fish). Does Lyle take these things into account when making meal recommendations?
US business taxes are based income / profits. In order to do that, it's required to allow profit-seeking entities to deduct business expenses (such as raw materials, wages, etc.).

Logically, interest and property taxes are business expenses for landlords, just as steel and electricity are business expenses for Ford.

Then, there's a question of whether you want to have a level purchasing environment for prospective owner-occupants when they are bidding against a prospective landlord. (I believe that we do want to encourage owner-occupancy, at least to the extent that they are on equal footing with landlords.) Repealing the OO-MID (owner-occupied mortgage interest deduction) would mean that a landlord could literally pay more for a property than an owner-occupant and achieve the same long-run financial outcome, or pay the same and achieve a better outcome. This would amount to a subsidy to renters over owners. Providing a similar (now lessened) subsidy to owners serves to level, not tilt the playing field.

If one believes that a nation of entirely renters is preferable or indifferent as compared to a mix of landlords and end users, then there is no valid purpose for the OO-MID.

I believe there are community and public benefits to owner-occupancy and support the level playing field.
For those curious, the Oklahoma City boom tests is explained in full here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests
I think its too early to tell. I do think however that change will happen when or if people decide FB is not a company they want to work for. That despite a CEO who wears t shirts, the free gourmet meals and fro yo its just "megacorp" with questionable practices.
Paying for moderation/upvotes sounds like a terrible idea to me, it basically turn all posts into "promoted posts". If the platform becomes successful what will prevent companies and lobbyists from paying to have their content at the top, always? This is already a problem with popular platforms like reddit (and to a lesser extent HN) where this is actually considered inappropriate and against the rules, I'm not sure it's a great idea to embrace it.

Being able to "tip" the content creator to reward their work is good however, but it's not particularly novel.

>forgot to mention that if you upvote content, later upvotes of the same content earn you money.

Now I can't imagine how anybody could think that's a good idea. It incentivizes you upvote not content that you deem interesting but content that you think other will find interesting. In other words the website pays you to play into the hivemind.

Imagine reddit (which already has huge hivemind and low quality content issues on big subreddits) if you rewarded people for upvoting popular content and punishing them for upvoting more unusual posts that might not fare as good. Sounds like a terrible idea to me. See a funny cat gif being posted? Quickly upvote it to reap an easy reward. See a post about a very interesting but complex essay on the geopolitics of Botswana ? Better not risk and and lose some money.
Sonic Booms wern't the only problem. It's hard to get around the cost element since jet fuel is a significant chunk of an airline ticket and SSTs are necessarily going to burn a lot more of it. Ultimately people largely chose to save the $1,000 and take the extra 3 hour penalty to their trip. Even for people willing to pay more you have to consider competition like the luxurious Emirates A380s that give you a small bedroom for the trip vs. the coach seats on the Concorde.
Interesting that you think SF is special because Google is there. What made it special before Google existed? What made it special before computers existed?

It's geography, climate, and culture make it special. Tech companies don't get to show up and stake an ownership claim on this stuff. If the hippies told the hipsters "we were here first!", they wouldn't be entirely wrong.
Has there been any technology that hasn't been used in a military conflict?
The arguments presented are fairly weak.

The two main suppositions are that "AI can be used to target racial groups." and "AI weapons could end up in the hands of ISIS, et. al."

While both of these are true, and certainly cause for concern, the author greatly ignores the game theory aspect of AI powered weapons.

Namely, if our enemies are building them, we must too.

I'm not trying to fear monger, but US and China are already engaged in an AI arms race. It's illogical for either party at this point to stop development.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/technology/artificial-int...
OK, here is one book for you: More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Money_Than_God

My message is this: do not settle for the average - everyone can be a doctor, lawyer, developer, speculator, you just need the drive and to put the hours...

Passive investing for me is a big mistake, because it ignores the risk management, especially for small accounts (less than few millions), people just cannot afford to be losing money for extended periods of time, just look into Japan's Economic Bubble and Nikkei index, every passive investor in it is still at about 50% loss for almost 30 years and counting...

To make money in the stock market, you have to have a system that makes money, not only on the way up, but on the way down as well... For me, personally, my money are too important to leave them to such a "buy and hope" investing strategy...
Prevent what? Making convenient things?
You just started me foraging in Wikipedia :-)
There was a public wireless phone system in trains in Germany that was launched in 1924.

And behind the iron curtain, there were people that did develop pocket phones (one weighted only 70g).

Thanks for starting this discussion!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones
But if you have to download Matrix for a smartphone from one of the established corporates like Google or Apple then you have already given up your anonymity ?
This is a big part of why my wife and I emigrated, but that option is pretty drastic.

More generally, perhaps we'll finally see people question if college offers the best return on an investment of 100 grand+ and 4+ years of life.
Assuming I'm using IMAP, I still have to trust my mail provider, be it Fastmail or anyone else, right?
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