skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe financially, but in the long run the best thing that he/she learned was that spending money doesn't lead to increased happiness. Stated differently, the same level of happiness can be reached at far lower financial cost.

Even financially, that may be the more valuable learning.
True, but I don't think BFR is ever meant for the masses. And airplanes, which are gentle but can be uncomfortable, are barely for the masses (in 2015 only 45% of Americans flew on a plane).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/04/14/americans...
But people worship that laziness when it's not about JavaScript. E.g. the Unix philosophy.
The camera works exactly like it would in a 3D editing software. Felt 100% intuitive to me.

Think of it as grabbing a model physically moving it vs. you controlling camera across a 3D scene.

Edit: Or perhaps, you being the city in third person vs. you being the camera in first person.
I believe Dali did it too: sat in a chair, holding a key above a metal plate.
Put your assets in a trust, if you go bankrupt personally, it's irrelevant.

Once my companies valuations + my net assets hit my magic number, I'll use my estate tax exemption and move 100% of it into a trust.

I will agree though, working for yourself is fantastic if you can afford to do so.
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That's why people close to retirement or who are in retirement need to change their asset allocation. Nobody is suggesting a retiree should hold 100% equities.
The other problem is that Toys R Us was a terrible retail experience. Warehouse-like, dim flourescent lighting, reminiscent of an old KMart. Dirty floors, unattractive steel shelves in narrow aisles for displaying merchandise. Indifferent, bored workers. I think I shopped there twice before giving up.
According to my calculations in this comment they are at least close to net zero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16906549 Which is pretty good outcome for them given TRU has failed completely.
Un-leveraged companies don't need to restructure; the comparison is apt for the question which is asked. In any case, your claim that most PE-backed companies fail is patently false.
My grandma isn't travelling on a plane 12 hrs to anywhere. Long haul travel is more for the youngish anyway (think baby boomers). And my parents would take a 30 minute roller coaster over a 12 hr flight even if that meant using a puke bag every time.
Faced my fears and launched on Product Hunt.. What now?!
After facing my fears, I put together a product from scratch and launched it on Product Hunt. #scared

I just launched on ProductHunt and I'm pretty nervous about it. Don't want to end up with 5 upvotes..

I sent out a few tweets, contacted Ryan Hoover and a few other PH top hunters. What else can I do to get featured on PH home-page?

Link to PH post: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/remote-jobs-club (no pressure)

Thanks so much!
Did you have a kid or start traveling more? I noticed that when I am on a plane (usually very sleepy b/c I can only afford red eyes), I drift off a lot, but get woken up a lot too (PA announcement, food cart to the knee, etc.)
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won't this just make HN noisier?
An easy way to bypass the wsj paywall is to use a facebook redirect.

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/who...

works as usual. Putting "http://facebook.com/l.php?u=" before the url does the trick.

I've had picked up this technique from a fellow HN user, wanted to share.
I think SpaceX should just sell this service to military clients. The other comments here are talking about noise pollution, G-forces, bank angles, and other negative downsides of the service. However, if you have a bunch of active-duty, trained personnel who need to get across the globe ASAP, this is something I could see the military paying for. Moreover, most bases are not directly next to large population centers, which helps with the noise pollution argument.
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Social Security also averages over 35 years of work as well.

It's a decent backup for extra income after 67-70 if you live that long, but it can also be a benefit for your spouse.
10 gigabit ethernet to the home over singlemode fiber, with the extreme challenge that it needs to have a reasonable ROI for the ISP, fast build process, and reasonable per unit passed costs. And five nines uptime goal over 1 year of statistical measurement.
> There may always be tasks for which we need someone to write a process description in a Turing-complete language, but even as a programmer, almost all of the non-programming tasks I do today would have required programming 30 years ago.

And the end result of this is what? More or less code gets written? Is there a need for more or less programmers over time? What's the trend, do you think?

Maybe the computing pie gets bigger faster than the software needs can be turned into non-programming tasks.
> fictional movies affect our thinking about real events

A creative writing instructor of mine many years ago told a story about watching Saving Private Ryan with his grandfather, who was on the beach at Normandy for the invasion depicted in that movie. Watching the fictional movie had a profound emotional impact on him (driving him to tears) in a way that actual footage of the Normandy invasion never did.

His point was that the power of fiction can be much greater than the power of fact. His take wasn't that this was a bad thing (it was a creative writing course, after all), but that fiction in service of the truth is a powerful tool and a useful one. Of course we didn't get into the power of fiction in service of misinformation, but this predated the current scourge of misinformation by about a decade and a half.
Yeah, the results have to be hacked. No way the politicians can be so tone death as to scuttle their chances from the word go...
To be clear, I don’t mean to apply that sentiment to every ex-BigCo entrepreneur. Of course many are successful.

However, in my experience the skillset that makes a good $BigCo employee is often distinct from, or even mutually incompatible with, the skillset that makes a good entrepreneur.

Since ex-BigCo employees are likely to get funding even with very little traction (because VCs like to invest in ex-BigCo teams), those entrepreneurs are more likely to found a business that is well-funded but fundamentally doomed to fail. The founders want to feel like they’re running a business, and they go through the motions of it, despite little substance or strategy behind the product. I believe Paul Graham calls it “playing house.”
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Coriander [1] looks promising: "Build NVIDIA® CUDA™ code for OpenCL™ 1.2 devices".

[1] https://github.com/hughperkins/coriander
It's actually not a duopoly, but two monopolies:

If you're on iOS, you have to eat the Apple App Store cut.

If you're on Android, you have to eat the Google Play Store cut.

They don't actually compete with each other in any meaningful way, so there's not even price competition between them. As long as they're able to control their respective platforms and ensure they're the only successful app stores on them, they can charge whatever they want, and have no incentive to lower their rates.
If the full 30 minute flight is like a roller coaster, I would be green by the time we got there and probably have a full puke bag. But I'd still prefer that to a 12 hr long haul flight in coach.
This is similar to the pre-elightenment skepticism of alchemists. Soon after the printing press, scientific communication was invented as a way of addressing the trust issue. The internet might be forcing a similar shift.

I wrote a bit more about this here:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.scholarpedia.org/2013/11/0...
This resonated with me because I was a corporate drone that left to "mindlessly" become an entrepreneur. More charitably, I believe it's being in love with the idea of being an entrepreneur but pursuing that path based on pop-culture information (think Entrepreneur magazine articles) and less on direct experience.

Nonetheless, even though my business ultimately failed, I thank my lucky stars I'm not working in the cube farm anymore. On to business #2!
This is super interesting and something I've never thought about.

One other issue I have noticed with 401k's. Do 401k's exacerbate inter-generational income inequality? I know a number of people who are going to, in the next few decades, inherit very sizable 401k accounts. This is great, in that their parents were very frugal, saved well, and had comfortable retirements. But on the flip side, a pension would have died with that person, now there is this ongoing inter-generational transfer of wealth that otherwise wouldn't have occurred.
We'd also know where the launch comes from, and how many got launched.

Russia can already stick a nuke in a commercial airliner and set it off over NYC, if they want.
That sounds amazing actually. As of today, I'd consider a few minutes of micro gravity to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. If that ever becomes something you can experience for the price of an airline ticket, I'd consider the ride itself to be worth the price of admission all on its own.

Obviously not for everyone, but you don't really need to be able to service _everyone_ to be profitable.
HFT microwave network architecture and engineering
Natural language processing and how it can be used to research health/well-being

Getting people to click on ads

Biochemistry MD/PhDs

Geologist for a lithium mining company
Exactomundo, amigo :)
Thanks for that input, I was very curious to know about performance on much older hardware. This makes TP's worht even higher. 600kB total .. can you believe that ?
How would it work if the mask was covering the mouth region? Afaik teeth have always been difficult to reproduce...
I agree that there is a danger of overreach and political instrumentalisation and that we are seeing it in full force in many public debates right now.

But I think that the sort of wording that nokcha posted in the sibling comment does a pretty good job at putting the breaks on any tendencies to extend the meaning of inciting violence endlessly.

I think the real problem of overreach arises because governments are trying to outsource censorship to huge corporations that are running our centralised internet.

These corporations are not going to be as wise as the judge ruling on Brandenburg v. Ohio. They are going err on the side of caution and ban everything remotely suspicious to avoid controversy. And then everyone will say it's not censorship because it's not the government doing it.

You are right that bans on speech are only very rarely needed. But that's how it should be. It should be a tool of last resort just like the use of lethal force by police should be a very rare exception. But I think we do need tools of last resort.

I want this particular tool of last resort in the hands of the courts though, and not applied automatically on a massive scale by corporations trying to stay in the good graces of governments.
Many people use more fuel in a month getting to and from work than a round trip NYC to London flight. It comes down to both distance and fuel economy with some commuters putting in over 1000 miles a week. The range for commuting fuel uses vs transatlantic flight is much wider than 10x months to year.
For real. Trying to imagine the reaction I'd get to "hey mom, want to go in with me on a multi-family building?"
> There won't be any Social Security when you are 62.

Unless political opponents use this exact kind of scaremongering to push a repeal, yes, there will.

> The system is a ponzi scheme

It's not, though it's failure mode is a sustainable analog of one.

> that will collapse with the boomer retirements.

No, it won't. The projection is that the Trust Fund would be exhausted, which would reduce SS to paying benefits exclusively out of current payroll tax revenues, this would reduce benefits below full benefits, but would not collapse the system.
A woman flying back from France brought apple through Customs. It cost her $500
This in essence is what makes me (and presumably many others) incompatible with FIRE. The things I like to do, the places I like to live, and the standard of living I like cost too much for it to be compatible.
It doesn't matter what was factored into the speech, you still can't speak in parallel. It's not physically possible. At some point you need to get agreement as to what the output should be.
Thanks for the historical perspective. Now what about times before 1950's, when societies were typically /not/ flooded with money? You mention that "The government SHOULD be providing healthcare, and decent retirement". Was that the norm before 1950's anywhere? If yes, how did the math work out?

I believe longer lifespans coupled with generous safety net provided by the government is a historical anomaly, propped up due to the growth spurt that happened post great depression + ww2. Now that things are reverting back to historical norms, we should rethink the way society is structured.
Sorry, advisory fees. We don't know how much they siphoned out of Toys 'R' Us over the last twelve years, and without that information it's premature to say that they lost money on the deal.
As a candidate, when there are companies I'm interested in working at I research the hell out of them. A lot of companies will put employees on their website and I will research the profile of every person on it. If they don't, I find all the employees I can other ways. If they have an engineering blog I read everything I can, then I research the authors. I research the investors, the market, including competitors and any analyst commentary I can find. I look for past employees and try and calculate a rough idea of churn rate. I basically build as perfect a model of the company as I can as an outsider, and then I test the model throughout the interview process, updating as I go. I make it clear to people that I've done this through ways both subtle and obvious. "I noticed on your profile you were at X last, did you work with Y?" "From my research it seems like your CTO left earlier this year, can you tell me the story behind that?" "This journalist says you're doomed, which is funny because you don't look doomed, but what would you say to them if you could talk to them directly?" Etc.

Yes, this involves a lot of online stalking people. Honey badger doesn't care.
There's nothing new in this post that didn't exist 4 months ago when Palihapitiya said the words.
Assuming that 20% of that was to the holders of the $1.32B debt

This is a very poor assumption. The PE firms bought equity in TRU, they are not paid back in the same way and on the same schedule as holders of debt.
>"doesn't go into much detail" -- the article specifically stated that they totaled $200m in fees. The author was specifically trying to find and account for those fees. If there were more, the author would have included it as more fees supported his point better.

So, you are claiming that the author somehow didn't find over a billion dollars in fees for them to break even over 15 years? If so, he's a pretty incompetent journalist. And, even if there are a billion in 'hidden' fees, they still lost money.

For them to have made even a modest 5% interest for 15 years, which is a very modest/baseline profit goal for finance pros, you'd need to find almost $2billion in missing fees.

So, where's the money?
I wish I had this information with me when my Rental unit burned down and I tried to use a small fire extinguisher I had in my car!
I'm with you but in my experience it's a lost fight. Most of the projects I come across these days follow the id convention.

The advantages of using person_id are even more obvious in multiple joins, such as a star schema where you can using(person_id) all the things, reducing both the typing and the cognitive load.

I suspect that if this convention was more pervasive, programmers would be a little bit less afraid of diving into SQL.

Well, at least we're settling with some convention, so it's not all bad.

EDIT: typo
> We don't know how much they siphoned out of Toys 'R' Us over the last twelve years

Yes, we do. It's disclosed in SEC and bankruptcy filings; they lost money [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/bain-kkr-...
This may be a stupid question, but could people be put under for 30 minutes and just be woken up at landing?
...only? that's a first world problem if i've ever seen one :)
What was it that started the fire in that particular instance? Did you find out?
Another reason is if for some reason we have an oil crisis. Most of what you eat is delivered on trucks. No oil means no food in about two weeks. Hunting used to be par for the course just a few decades ago.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but isn't the technology to detect fake video in fact part of the process of generating it? I was under the impression that these deep fakes used an adversarial network, thus, the better the detection of fakes, the better quality of the generated fakes.
For all the hate it got, the Notes/Domino platform did some things really well.
The same way you tell the difference between commercial scheduled airline flights incoming kamikaze pilots?
It depends how you define "code". If "code" is a system of rules to convert information from one form, to another, then software will always need code.

This article talks about the "agile", but creating software has never been about code. It's always been about delivering value. Code or no code, creating software and delivering value is no trivial task.

I believe we will always need to define the conditions and boundaries that computers need to work within.

What we need to get better at is defining and communicating what those conditions and boundaries need to be.

I think one great example of that is Behaviour-Driven Test (BDD) and gherkin. Gherkin is code written in a business readable, domain specific language.

Programming computers may change and complex computer code will become abstracted away further, but no matter how you look at it, programming computers will never totally disappear.
I agree they should be contributing.
Homeowners insurance mostly covers catastrophic events not deterioration that takes place over time.

I’m not arguing against home ownership at all. Just that you need to save for maintenance and that you can get large unexpected bills.
Poor wiring in the living room and the tenants had too many devices plugged in!
I've been working on http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/FMJ.html

It's ongoing work, and visible progress has been slow over the past year or so. Recently I've been refactoring the code, and improving the type system. One thing worth noting is that representation of functions as a graphs makes type inference more straightforward.

English and other languages are text because our ears hear a single stream of speech and written languages reflect that. Historically, computer programs are single streams of instructions because computers have until recently had processors only capable of doing one thing at a time, and we've usually programmed with text (GRAIL and DRAKON being exceptions) because that's all most terminals could display.

But for finding your way around a city by subway, representing an electric circuit, an organic molecule, or an elementary particle interaction, we use diagrams.
The bulk of that was not KKR or Bain's money. They were loans that Toys 'R' Us took on as part of the LBO.
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I don’t think I’d like that. The type of messages I leave with chat and the type of messages I leave with email are characteristically different. I suspect I’m not alone here.

With instant messaging I tend to not leave long messages until I’m in contact with someone, and in messaging it’s more kosher to send quick one 1-word responses, even breaking replies into several messages to have some “timing” to my communications, similar to speech.

With emails I assume the person may not get them for a while, and I tend to leave longer paragraphs, and assume a response timeline of a few hours or even days.

Messages “falling back” to email, or emails turning into messages doesn’t seem like it would work to well with most people’s communication expectations IME.
> at a job that pays way too much money to even consider anything else.

I've seen this sentiment expressed elsewhere, and I don't understand it. While I can't speak for others, there are many jobs I probably wouldn't take regardless of how much they paid. These jobs often harm society or are bad for other reasons (lack of autonomy, burnout, etc.).

Most jobs I'm qualified for pay me enough that I'm happy. Once I reach that point, I'm optimizing other axes.
> Given that the LBO happened in 2004, there have been 13 years of interest payments, which totals now $1.1B roughly

The actual total was $470 million [1]. KKR et al lost close to a billion dollars. They will see zero recovery on their equity and close to zero recovery on their junior claims.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/bain-kkr-...
> hack the electorate to accomplish that

What is the purpose of campaigning, if not that?
I don't know. I thought that when I was in my 30s and 40s. I'm 56 now, and it looks like there might actually be something by the time I get there.

Would I count on it if I were 30? No. I don't count on it for myself, either. But I was more cynical than has been warranted (so far).
No. General anesthesia is a risky procedure, requiring constant one-on-one monitoring by a anesthesiologist.
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If you connect your code buffer to an jupyter notebook via Emacs IPython Notebook [1] then you can hit C-c C-o (ein:console-open) which will launch a jupyter REPL.

- [1] https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook
I reliably have dreams that involve flooding when I am stressed or frustrated. I'm not particularly good at remembering dreams, don't try, but after one dream that seemed particularly 'symbolic,' I read some Jung and now I recognize that, in almost every dream I do remember, there are archetypes and symbols that he mentions. Jung wasn't really 'systematic,' but there are on order of 10-100 sub/objects in dreams that he emphasizes quite a bit and I see these in mine. Also, I tend to only remember a dream at times when my 'subconscious is [probably] trying to tell me something'
Because instead of things being obviously ads on TV and the like (which work, but we can still understand the nature of the source), now things are effectively coming from your friends (“trusted”) with a tiny summary such that you don’t even need to read any further if it works with your existing confirmation bias. Combine this with instant, relatively inexpensive and totally anonymous micro targeting, and you have the most advanced psychological warfare weapon yet.
Bitcoin currently has almost 4% inflation per year of its token count and it has been higher in the past. While this will go down over time, I don't think you can blame any existing issues with the economics of Bitcoin on its long term deflationary nature.

If you were around the Bitcoin community in the early years, you will remember that the community took a very dim view of ICOs. They were called "pre-mined" back then, and it was basically a slur that was synonymous with scam. It is the newer generation of enthusiasts that have embraced the ICO. Again, I don't think you can blame this on the fundamental design or original community around Bitcoin.
Concrete Semantics is an excellent free book http://www.concrete-semantics.org/ written by some well-known names in the field. It's a good place to begin.

The book itself contains references to much more advanced works such as Nielson & Nielson or TAPL. It doesn't cover one part of formal methods, (probabilistic) model checking.
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