skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that it wouldn't increase confidence, but if you don't know what you needed to be worried about, you can't be sure that you really tested it.

Loading and unloading fuel repeatedly doesn't validate that the ground crew will be sober for a 5:00am launch on May 6th.

Validation testing is good for testing a known unknown. Whether it's good for testing an unknown unknown, is unknown.
Why does it matter that you present yourself as proficient?
What this shows to me is that a life can have a profound impact through long, careful and modest dedication; rhetoric of disruption and youthful riches can be profound too, but we shouldn’t lose sight of other possibilities.
Sounds similar to employers who pay contracted bonuses late, don't pay if you quit before the bonus date, and use bonuses to make up for reduced salaries.
"Aim to provide" is pretty loose. There really should be a guarantee of some sort in there. Not to be funded, of course, but something.
You can actually keep your next current version by buying for a few months to extend to the next 12 month anniversary. See last timeline example on this page:

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
It's

"I'm super progressive"

Until

"I have a downvote button now motherfuckers"
Yes for real, make an effort and stop complaining (and downvoting ;)
Unfortunately, history shows that new battery chemistries are a dime a dozen. It's commercialization and manufacturing at scale that's the real bottleneck. Look at what happened to Aquion, which raised $190 million for their salt water battery:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Aquion-the-Bill...
Is that you, Ken M?
Warren Buffet says 6-7%, and by rules of compound interest, that 3-4% difference is a lot over 75 years, so I'd say "high." I'd guess a really good, modern, algorithm from the past couple years could average, maybe, 15%? I actually have no idea.
I wonder why Chinese people steal American names?
Are they ashamed of chopstick names like xi xu wu goo foo

Chop chop.
it's a lot easier to have a contracting shop send over 500 people than it is to hire 500 people
If this had been communicated as "Improving Autoplay Blocking in Chrome" I think it would have been better received. Because that's just what it is.

Instead I had a sort of loss aversion based reaction where I think now some things will autoplay that didn't before, but in fact fewer things will autoplay full stop.
Google treats .io as as generic TLD like .com.
Got my 1803 update installed on a 4.x years old Lenovo g50-45 AMD, low powered machine in an hour.. no issues at all.. machine restarted few times during the installation.. and it was done..
I think it's exactly that. Hackernews is just another filter bubble and a haven for a particular personality type.
The bigger concern I have is that it encourages extreme nepotism — people vouch for people from their schools and prior jobs, and so risks introducing systemic bias against people from different backgrounds. Obviously gender and race are heavily represented in this kind of thing, but even basic stuff like west coast vs east university nonsense can start happening.
The difference is you used to pay for a new version. Software 2 would be charged for another $50. Whereas now you pay for Software and it gets improved in perpetuity. It should be charged as such.
Yeah I feel this. 24ish and I never really experienced the 'so easy to make friends in high school and college'. I guess not so much that it wasn't easy, I just wasn't in a place where I wanted more than one or two close friends. As a result, I never really got practice.

I think once you figure out what you want (way harder than it sounds like) it becomes just another thing to work on, like going to the gym. I've been making new friends lately, partly by globbing on to some of my roommate's local friends, and it's been easy since I decided to let it be (apologies for the cryptic sentence, I'm still not sure exactly what I'm trying to say). Actually I think it's way easier than the gym, but I've only got a small sample size, and I'm particularly bad at going to the gym.
Women are tired of fucking in modern times by 30. That's why no friends.
Destructive and inane immigration policies cause US to be a greenhouse for foreign talent, only to then drive them back to their home countries as they are about pay back dividends in the professional market; US loses talent - and at the same time, other countries gain it (it's like a single game outcome decides if you're up 2:0 up or tied 1:1).

What would the disgruntled Chinese-born, US-educated engineers and scientist do back home in China if not compete with US?
If they can make connections better than I can on my own... if they can, say, evaluate and help negotiate a partnership with a business person better than I could and/or provide good ongoing advice and connections... or if they provide a prestigious credential, it's cheap.

Of course, I don't know if they can provide any of those things not worse than I could provide them myself.

I do think the fee alone would be too low, unless it's just a social club. And... if the founders fail to convince people of the above, that sounds like it could be a good way to take it.
If people don't want it, why does it succeed on social media, or anywhere at all?
There's some more detail on the construction, and what becomes of the hydrogen (it will be stored in large pressurized steel tanks) here: https://cen.acs.org/energy/energy-storage-/New-battery-serve...
You would bet and loose. I did do a clean install from a Dell recovery USB image, that's part 2 of the article. Also, I don't "openly admit" to jailbreaking my iPhone. I nonchalantly mention this :)
You should bill the $360 to the investors instead of the engineers. It will also prove to the engineers that you can round up the investors.
Right, they pay more because the company wills it and people (I think) are more receptive to subscribitions. This is what the author of the article is complaining about and the reason consumer advocacy groups exist.
It's not so much a guarantee we (the potential users) want, as something showing that the company could credibly provide that access.
'walrus01 did specifically say that this happens to their spouse, so, I do wonder if this is gendered or otherwise based on presentation/stereotypes. I get little pushback on catchall addresses at my domain (I give $company@ldpreload.com to every company), but I can imagine that if I didn't look like a 20-something guy in a T-shirt and jeans and messenger bag, who therefore stereotypically understands the internet, people would be more likely to question me.
Ouch, I don't think we want to hear their proposed solutions to that issue.
Why You Should Focus on Customer Retention
> Of course you can find examples on each end of a spectrum.

A good example is the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection which was so expensive to buy in Australia that it was cheaper to fly to the US, buy a copy and fly back. Now, you can get a years subscription to Creative Cloud for 'All Apps' for about 1/5th of the price of what CS6 MC was in Australia. It is still expensive, and after 4 or 5 years you will have spent more but thats significantly longer than Office 365 which costs about 2/3rd the price per year of a copy of Office 2016 outright.
I don't think a 21year old secretary was saving the equivalent of $70k 2018 dollars in 1943.
beware. the alleged BTC and ETH giveway in the twitter thread is a scam (from @kimBdotcom instead of @kimdotcom)
Good luck getting normal consumers to start using a cryptocurrency for this. Most of them will give up in utter confusion when they try to set up a wallet.

I see no reason the US dollar is unsuitable for microtransactions.
Is it common for secretaries to be working until they are in their 90's?

Because 96 is really old. I am amazed that she didn't quit earlier. In an era where the retirement age is around 60-65 and most tech workers plan to retire by their 40's. It is truly astounding to see someone work well into their mid 90's.

Props to the lady for that!
It’s nice to see that somebody is patching those bugs that are ruining the overall experience of the otherwise great KDE.
Yeah I didn’t have much luck with LFS but we didn’t really need it so it wasn’t a problem to just disable.

I love gitlab. I have it running for a small team on a Digital Ocean Droplet it was trivial to get running. If we had gone for self-hosting we’d have gone the docker route.
Having CI built in was a massive boon when we switched over.
My only complaint really is the resource usage but it isn’t causing problems (8GB). Aside from that I love it.
Isn't this basically what a lot of paid software with licenses used to do anyway? It's still how paid forum software and CMS plugins tend to work, with the rule being that anything released while your license is active you have access to forever and anything released after it expires you have to upgrade to get.

Why can't all subscriptions work like those old license schemes do?
Put effort into a group activity or club that isn't work and you'll make friends. Regularly meeting the same people eventually turns into friendship.
Make it be $300/month. This would align people too. Or maybe publish the list of VCs and angels who will come to pitch week. If its Andressen Horowitz or Sequoia or Mayfield, that makes sense
The design decisions that govern fwknop provide guidance on how fwknop is different from knockknock: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/docs/fwknop-tutorial.html#d...
I have victor.earth and usually sign up with $SERVICE@victor.earth which then redirects to me@victor.earth. But so many websites don't understand that .earth exists, so I still use my @gmail.com from time to time, because of shitty email validations.
There’s no need to quote authority; this is public data. The annualized return on the S&P 500 over the last 75 years (Mar 1943 - Mar 2018) was 11.35%. Adjusted for inflation, 7.45%.
I like that it lists newton as the sole inventor of calculus but then uses leibniz’s notation.

That said - can any (maybe mech only?) engineers explain their field’s preference for Newton’s notation?
Get immunisations done in the afternoon. They will sleep great that night. The other days of the year aren’t so easy.
What I was trying to say is that most people have pretty strong preferences for the bay are or for texas. And you can induce some to switch using higher wages/lower CoL... but those preferences remain pretty strong, and for some are almost absolute. For me, I think I'd need to make about 2x the money to live in Texas; and I'm sure there's a lot of people who feel that way about coming to California. (to be clear, I'm not saying either one is better in general, just that many people, perhaps most have strong preferences one way or the other, preferences it would take significant money to overcome.)
Who said anything about $70k?
This 100% mirrors my experience, and not just obscure TLDs. Despite owning <my name>.com, I always, always defer to a @gmail.com address.

Outside of my small bubble of tech savvy folk, not a single person has looked at my perfectly valid email address and thought it wasn't a typo or lame joke.

If I was a company, <name>@<company>.com is totally fine, but as soon as <company> becomes a <name> all bets are off.
All it takes is one remarkable variable -- age.

The same values taken for a 50 year period are only $1.65MM, nothing to sneeze at, but a far cry from $8.2MM.
Funny, just hours ago I was looking at buying a .ci domain and couldn't even find a registrar that offered me to purchase it... Good to know so thanks for posting!
In the 80s, the danger was very real in Atlanta....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_murders_of_1979%E2%80%...
Most meter boxes have such a switch?
Industry stradgey exists in every country...It is just because this is China so it is on a much larger scale...
China should have done this 5-8 years ago. It took the blocking of ZTE and Huawei in the US for China to realize that they don't have the fabrication capabilities for the chips that they need (the most advanced chips are all US/JP/KR/TW built.) And no one wants to sell China that fab capability- so China will have to build/use corporate espionage to make it themselves.

Even though it seemed expensive at the time, Masayoshi Son was smart to buy ARM.
Ok, YOU do not want that, but who's to say the majority of users don't want that? HN readers most likely don't represent their typical users.
> an era where the retirement age is around 60-65 and most tech workers plan to retire by their 40's.

Those of us in our 40’s—who haven’t yet hit the startup lottery—only wish this was a possibility.
Actually M&A lawyers know the law, and have a lot more to lose than the average person. So insider trading amongst them is quite rare. Ask around at work and see what your GC thinks about your hypothesis.
The market cap of bitcoin going up does not make the market cap of gold, usd, or real estate go down. Total aggregate wealth is not zero/fixed sum.
My personal overall rate of return is 13% over the last 20 years, without any algorithmic bullshit. Just 80% in a basket of dollar cost averaged mutual funds and 20% in cash strategically invested when opportunity arises.

Iirc, last year was around 14% in the mutual funds, with the “fun money” mostly cash.
60 minutes has always had a "season" and showed reruns during the summer.
>My guess is that it's mostly advertising in franchise lifestyle places (like magazines) combined with the fact that it's selling a relatively low-cost service and works more by appointment than an open storefront. Sort of a cheap version of a business retreat or clown showing up at your birthday party.

well, you've gotta rent the building, so if you don't have it full all the time, that's a pretty hefty cost, at least around here. The days of $1/sqft industrial space are long gone
Uh, no. $8 million after 75 years of compound growth isn't significant.
Yes, it means scarcity and the GP used it to mean abundance.

My mnemonic is that "dearth" looks like "death".
As a personal anecdote, I've also noticed that people around me are less interested in personal anecdotes in general. It seems more pronounced over time. I could hypothesize that Facebook and Twitter give people all the anecdotes they need, or that my anecdotes have become more poorly worded over time, but I really have no idea what the cause is.
Parent is stating $5k in 1943 dollars is $70k in 2018 dollars (a claim I did not verify).
Hey, is this related to Code Geass?
I own https://rya.nc/, but hadn't used it for any important email. After an issue with the registry caused some extended (over a week) downtime, I don't ever plan on using it for email.

Potential issues with obscure ccTLDs:

* Search engine penalty outside that country.

* Limited registrar support.

* For a really obscure ccTLDs like .nc (only a few thousand registered), the TLD itself will be a cache miss in many cases. This makes initial name resolution very slow (hundreds of ms).

* Various ccTLDs require a local presence. If you're not a local, you'll have to have it owned by proxy. This can be expensive. There are only two companies that will handle this for .nc.

* Smaller ccTLDs may be run locally with no off-hours staff. Timezones may be an issue if anything goes wrong.

My personal email has been on a .org for many years, and I haven't had problems with it, other than the generic problems of trying to run a small mail server. The "guilty until proven innocent" style systems run by a few major problems are infuriating. If you don't send enough proven non-spam, your mail goes directly to junk. If you run a vanity domain somewhere like FastMail, you probably won't have this problem.
Such people are called nativists.
Are you sad about that? I think it may not be a good idea to be all in on your girlfriend.
I thought he was just quoting poorly the ultimate caption that was the front-runner previously: "Christ, what an asshole!"
Show HN: Spaceplanar, Augmented Reality Event Planning Tool (MVP)
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But where did the third couple come from? Is this a riddle?
Previous company I worked for foolishly decided to host our API on a .io domain, which stopped working from time to time. Eventually we started hosting the API over .net and .com and never hit any issues.

I was trying to search for any comparisons about tld uptimes, but seems there is none. .io has been one of the lesser good I've used.
It's pretty clear he means it made it into the platform, then was later deprecated.
The article seems to focus on the worst offenders (aka outliers) and some recent cost increases (when inflation happens to be going up after a decade of stagnation).

I currently have 7 different subscriptions ranging from $5 to $15 per month. They add up to $61/month. That's less than I used to pay for a standard cable package. And combined they provide me so much more of what I actually want, at an overall higher level of quality.

As a bonus, I spend less time viewing advertisements now than at any other time in 40 years.

I'm living in subscription heaven!
I dunno, GM and Ford build a fuck-ton more cars and have better build quality (which is shitty by int'l standards). Seems like Teslas's problem is bigger.
Making church friends is really easy for this reason. I'd like to see an actual study, but I suspect it's not hard for people who regularly attend religious services to make friends.
My point is that should this concept of the author's take off, we'll just be in some new decision-lock hell, where you'll never be getting"the best deal" because to do so would require solving the most insane graph reduction problem ever conceived.

This is exactly how I feel about "travel hacking". Not the earning points part, which is fairly straightforward, but the redemption part. If I want to go to Bogota on vacation for specific dates and I have hundreds of thousands of airline miles and rewards points spread across a half dozen programs, the number of options is ridiculous. I can book with cash, pay with reward points, or book via dozens of different airlines and partner airlines with various fare classes, stopover options, etc. Worse, if you're fortunate enough to have a lot of flexibility around when and where you travel ("I want to go to South America sometime this summer"), the complexity skyrockets even further. It's just frustrating because even when I do piece together a deal, I can't help but feel that I'm still paying double what I would if I looked at the options differently.
I know the rhetoric is appealing, but as a Chinese national myself, I have not seen a single STEM person who has left the US for China because of immigration reasons. On the contrary there are plenty of them that have gone to China after securing a US green card.

If competing with China for talent is the goal, easeness of doing business and more early stage VC funding - a la “back to 2015” - can help, but it’s not clear those are the right things to do.
"most tech workers plan to retire by their 40's"

Most tech workers who plan to retire by their 40s will be working into their 50s.
I think the Soviet Union would still exist if they had their own modern semiconductor manufacturing. They had everything they needed (education, math culture) around semiconductors to make this successful. China absolutely needs their own fabs.
You are neglecting inflation. There was no way this secretary was saving $5000 a year 75 years ago - her yearly salary was mostly likely around that amount.
Why is there no way to whitelist an arbitrary website in my browser with this new scheme? http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901 is broken with the latest Chrome.
this happens a lot with me, and it annoys me. First I try to establish if it just a good reason that I don't know about. 99% of the time, this is the reason. They either forgot, had an emergency, or got to busy. Second, I consider the other possibility that they intentionally did this. If this is the case, they are trying to show a "power move" or superiority over you, aka "I am better then you and this is my power I ditched you" When you fully think it out, these people are actually powerless and sad. They lack self confidence in themselves, they lack power over themselves, so much that they have to artificially make up scenarios where they feel empowered. This is basically the definition of a sociopath. So immediately you don't want to be friends when them once you realize this. Also, you want to check critically to see if you have any of this type of thinking inside of you and move to get rid of it. So also, this happens a lot in business. Sometimes you have to deal with it. I had very prompent lawyer stood me up 3 times. Eventually, somehow, she wanted me to do something. We were to meet and I give her access to a conference she wanted to go to. I became ill and couldn't make it, I called ahead. Apparently she didn't get my message and got stuck at the conference waiting for me Eventually they let her in when she namedropped me. It was totally unintential, but basically I mirrored what she did to me back to her. Long story short we became friends as far as professional. I use mirroring a lot in business like this -- if you respond to my email in 3 days, I wait 3 days. If you call only during business hours, I make sure I do the same. If you return my calls immediately, I do the same. So but that's business. In friendship, consider yourself lucky you dodged a bullet. One way to test if they honestly forgot or whatever circumstances is to never bring it up or bring it up in a way where you establish if you can tell by their body language that they got pleasure by ditching you. An honest person will feel bad about it. A dishonest person will feel powerful and haply spiteful. I'm not the best at articulating all of this, you will need to think this out for yourself. You have to take their power away by not getting upset. Its the same when somebody is bullying you and you laugh at their jokes with them, they get upset and mad. If they are a good person, it goes away after a while perhaps you become great friends. Some people do this as a way of protecting themselves from risk also, its about self confidence. Again, our society is broken with this toxic ideaology. Right now, bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. Its changing, but right now sociopaths are being rewarded and honest people aren't. Just don't give them the power over you to make you upset and they go away.
I enjoy this joke because it tickles my pre-conceptions, that I grew from reading articles on the internet by Americans. But is it really accurate (not in the literal sense obviously)?
Tesla is doing more innovation than the median tech company, and probably more than the 95th percentile. Plus, it's a consumer-understandable product, so you could "explain what you do at a dinner party" to someone outside of the domain.

"Engineer at Tesla" beats "engineer at IBM" but probably is socially inferior to "radiation oncologist".

Obviously status is to some extent subjective and culturally/individually determined, but there's broad agreement that certain jobs are higher status than others by various groups of people.
I saw it on a VICE news episode recently. They showcased these AI/Machine Learning companies using street cameras to detect jay-walkers and then shame them by displaying them on a big screen as they are doing it.
I think the more relevant videos are:

Pad abort test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FXVjf46T8
Pad abort test (POV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHD9AmkxA0
Stream of the same test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpH684lNUB8
6.2% would be inflation adjusted returns. Actual inflation adjusted returns were 7.4%. So investing the equivalent of $5k each year from then until now (so starting at $350 or whatever) would yield >$8.2M.