skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is always unpopular but, how about the name America?

I refer to the country south of me as "the US" or "the USA". To me as a Canadian I live in the Americas so I could be an American. Growing up nobody I knew called the US "America" you'd even hear "the Boston States", I have no clue how that originated.

But I've noticed over the past decade or two it's become more common for people in the US to refer to their country as America. I know it's a shortened form but still, to me, it's weird because:

Europe, Europeans
Africa, Africans
Asia, Asians
Americas, ? (demonym for people of the entire region?)

I know some people counter with it's "North America dummy!" but wouldn't that mean the USA should be the USNA?
Rome Vs Greece is little known well I never :-) I suspect Mr keen was not educated by the Cristian brothers.

And I am not so sure that the manipular style was ineffective in a straight fight. Rome abandoned the phalanx for a reason.
The question makes sense as we as humans will always be worried about something. If you don't have anything to worry, you will complain about the weather. Billionaires somehow found a way to waste their time worrying about really big problems. Their level of anxiety at first will be the same, but applied to bigger things. Others might take it as a game. It all depends of course. Some people get more anxious about facts, problems. Others about dealing with other people.
Look at what happened with Google Maps recently. Was pretty cheap to use, people flocked to it. Then they changed prices. We went from never worrying about paying since we have a relatively small amount of traffic, to scrambling to reduce our usage. Now it is their product, they can do what they want with it, but how many sites are pretty locked into Google Maps?

This seems to be what Google does. They either kill off a free service that people relied on or begin charging lots of money.
As a frequent Uber user who just purchased an ebike, I don't think I would have been interested in a service like this.

E-bikes/scooters are no where near as expensive as a car. No insurance or gas payment and the maintenance cost is nothing like that of a car.

E-bikes/scooters also don't require a specialized parking space.

E-bikes/scooters can be charged from home.

These are some of the reasons why owning an E-bike/scooter is much easier than owning a car and therefore fewer people will be interested in a pay-per-use service.
The explanation I've always heard is that the AT&T lawsuit [1] kneecapped BSD just as the x86 BSD variants were getting started.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_In....
>Or maybe because the goal is something more than just making money

Maybe they view their payoff date in a longer term fashion, maybe the way they will make their money is 'cool' but Space X isn't more charitable than any other company.
> The effect isn't good when you properly design the study.

Not sure if you meant to say "isn't as good', since that has a very different meaning and it's what's actually stated in your quote:

> smaller reductions in depressive symptoms
>Overall Musk has been pretty straightforward and explicit with what he's doing.

He's selling things that he can't produce now, and possibly won't ever be able to produce. If you think this is simply about missing a few deadlines, you aren't following along close enough.

Telling people profits are around the corner for years on end, that self-driving is around the corner for years on end, that you'll build a mass-market $35,000 car for years on end, all the while collecting money to do so. Being very coy about disclosures. Playing the Trump "fake news" card (every negative article is fake!).

I remember coming to HackerNews and reading about Theranos, and anyone who claimed it wouldn't work was sexist or couldn't dream big enough. We are lazy bums, and these people are changing the world! Who are we to criticize?

>If Tesla disappears, this could set back electric cars by 5yrs

Five whole years of setback? Versus the hundreds of thousands of jobs related to GM, as well as their world class self-driving tech and decent EV programs? Maybe you need to reassess what you "care" about.

>Why doesn't Elon get this amount of rope?

If he didn't want to be accountable to shareholders, he should have kept the company private. Why is it that HackerNews acts like companies go public as a favour to the rest of us poor schlubs?
This looks fantastic!

Why do you think investors will take the time to write and publish reports for other investors? Part of the equity crowdfunding allure, compared to direct angel investing or syndicates, is the reduced burden of diligence since most of these websites - MicroVentures, Republic, and others individually vet and DD startups and make this info available to investors.

Congrats on launching! I actually run a VC-founder discord server and I would love for you to join and share your experience building Crowd Lustro!
http://discord.me/thetwitchvc
That would be a very different project. No I didn't think about making a no-std web server. At least I don't know what is the demand there, and who's willing to pay for it.
> Not very many people are going to pay for something when you can get the exact same thing for free somewhere else, and in a global marketplace it makes sense for someone to plagiarize paid content and reproduce it for ad-revenue alone. $20/day won't support me in California, but in India?

Exactly, content became a near-worthless commodity.

> Removing Google and Facebook changes the game entirely.

No, it doesn't.

But it seems that what you're suggesting is that ad-funded business models should be outlawed, is that it?
> They are not in financial trouble. Most people are only skeptical if they can do it without raising capital.

Take a few minutes and read https://priceonomics.com/porsche-the-hedge-fund-that-also-ma.... The moral of that story was, if you're "fine as long as you can raise capital", then you're actually in a very precarious position. And it was even another luxury car company to boot!

Not that Tesla is making the same speculative financial shenanigans that Porsche was, but the point is, access to capital has a tendency to dry up right when you need it most. If there's a recession in the next 18-24 months (which, glancing at yield curves, is looking increasingly likely) and lending tightens up, Tesla might not find it as easy as you think to raise capital right when they need it to avoid running out of money.
Maine used to be part of Massachusetts.
> it was technically competitive but had already lost the popularity contest.

I think that’s the case. It never gained traction outside of niche markets. Most ISPs in late 90s were running a lot of BSD-based servers, companies like Apple, Juniper, Sony, Nintendo are still using BSD kernel and/or other components in their products, but it was and still is relatively little-known OS.

I can’t say I’m happy about that. I’m currently working on an embedded Linux-based firmware, I’d gladly switched to BSD. Maybe it’s just my irrational fears but I feel BSD is more reliable. However, that would require too much work to accomplish. I need stable and reliable GPU and WiFi drivers; hardware vendors (ARM and Realtek, respectively) only ship drivers for Linux, and I don’t think I’m competent in that area to attempt to port them, I never did substantial work on Linux nor BSD device drivers.
For me the main thing is Peer Support. It's basically a service implemented by people who have had also engaged in some mental health treatment. It's really the only treatment I've found that promotes the self-determination of the recipient.
The day-to-day is certainly up for debate -- I prefer SQL myself. But imagine the initial learning curve for someone fairly new to programming. Persisting data to, and reading data from, a "database" is a lot easier in code than learning SQL (which frequently use a client-server system, only further increasing the surface area of knowledge required to produce working results).

The difficulty required to think about a solution increases significantly with additional components.
Event bus is how things often ended up getting done in Angular 1, and definitely not something I'd want to maintain (because you end up with comefrom-hell type of issues).

Redux feels like a step in the right direction conceptually with its centralized state bag, but I feel like it's a bit distracting (since it was primarily conceived to handle serializable actions for a very specific use case), and also doesn't have good patterns out of the box to organize side-effects (sagas kinda do, but people I've worked with are fairly divided on whether it works for them or not)

Recently I've been thinking that a lot of the complexity around React+Redux comes from wanting testable state, but as it turns out, Jest can mock imports making the entire context shenanigans somewhat pointless - just import a global state bag. I've had pretty decent success with just having a naive global state bag, would love to hear about similar approaches
Management Books

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - What makes your team not work?

Radical Candor - how to treat people without being a jerk or pushhover

Tech Books

Mythical Man Month - The classic on tech management

Phoenix Project - this book is best described as management porn. But it has a focus on dev ops.
Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals
Personally, I'd love to see HTML add a standard way to refer to the value of JavaScript objects in memory. This is already done (badly in my opinion) with the blob:// url you can pass to media elements. Declaratively defining an element with a live JS variable for attributes would be very useful in lots of ways, and not specific to any programming style.
>The proof basically shows that even if you imagine that you had a countably-infinitely-long list of all the real numbers between 0 and 1, you can construct a number that must be missing from the list -- which is a contradiction, and thus no such list can exist (implying that there are more numbers between 0 and 1 than numbers greater than 0).

So, there is no list of all the real numbers between 0 and 1, but you are claiming there are uncountably infinite of them?
I'm not sure (you can look it up as well as anyone), but from what I've heard (again, Pollan's book), controlled, randomized trials are very difficult if not impossible with psychedelics. It's obvious to both the patient and the observer who has received a placebo and who has not. That's part of the problem with studying this class of drugs, what we have considered the gold standard for clinical trials isn't effective here. So do we trust what results we do see or dismiss them because of their nature?

When a small study shows that 80% of smokers stop cold-turkey after a single session and 60% of them are still abstinent a year later (versus 30% for therapy), it's hard to discount the results so long as other trusted methods are used.

Study using psilocybin for smoking cessation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27441452
Study using CBT for smoking cessation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119230/
That’s the other beauty of the business, the scooters sitting everywhere ARE the ad campaign.
I want you to run with this thought wherever it takes you:

1. Tesla is heavily shorted.
2. Tesla and SpaceX are disrupting heavily entrenched industries (and we could argue a lot about how much or how effectively, but let's not).
3. It's become apparently easy to mobilize armies of artificial opinion on the internet, who in turn mobilize real people due to groupthink and the human love for picking sides and shouting about it.

I am not suggesting in any way that there isn't anything valid to criticize or that anyone who does so is a sockpuppet, but if there aren't any such campaigns by moneyed interests to tarnish those brands online I would be extremely shocked.
Companies don't exist without customers. You can make zero profit, sell no useful products, but still be alive because you have customers.

Knowing that there is a potential market is a start. But your goal is customers.

My advice to validate a startup is to find your customers. Not your friends or peers, but push yourself to find customers everywhere. Start stalking linkedin profiles, get emails of potential clients. Tell them what you have. Will they pay for this? Just go out and amass a wealth of potential customers. People who are willing to onboard before you even launch.

Finding customers is like attending a career fair, you meet every recruiter (customer) and try to get them to hire you (buy your product). For every good match you hand a resume, and that's your landing page. But you can still get hired without a great resume, just meet as many of the recruiters and have great conversations. For those who you didn't get to talk to, your resume (landing page) speaks for itself. But your greatest chances are with those who you spoke with personally. Throw your landing page everywhere, but get out and find customers 1:1.

Startups fail because they can't find customers.
Sorry about that, the example was developed as a standalone SPA with history for the routing. But since we decided to embed it into the blog post itself, the pushState routing doesn't make a lot of sense in that context.
I stopped following the author's site many years ago because I found myself too angry too often at the things he writes.
The problem with these investments is when they completely implode, it'll taint the investor public's perspective on tech in general and likely bring down the whole sector.
> Same for Alexander Macedon (he's obviously greek)

Alexander III of Macedon died in 323 B.C. That's 2,300 years ago. Turning a millennium-and-a-half footnote into a geopolitical issue is stupid.

> If you claim some identity in front of many people you must be able to support it otherwise you end up looking like a fool

Greece's per-capita GDP is three-quarters that of Europe's average [1]. Macedonia's is less than one-third that of Greece's. This is a stupid thing for two poor countries to create economic, political and geopolitical hurdles out of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
I'd go for .net or .org. It will have the same SEO value and it will look good on your promotions. It is all a matter of budget. Since you took your time to ask here, I guess budget matters.
They are literally laying off 9% of their employees. Saying that they are laying off people is not "bias", it is stating facts. The fact that Tesla is taking steps that typically are associated with "financial trouble" is just what the reality of the situation is.
Implementing Diversity in Startups
According to Wikipedia, it has evolved since Freud, so it may not be valid to say it hasn't moved past Freud. On the other hand, I'm sure homeopathy has changed in that time as well.
I am a guy and hear and read about diversity all the time. But I get the feeling that not a lot of founders are taking the question of diversity serious enough to act. Here are my thoughts, which are imperfect for sure. Feedback by you guys is much appreciated.
If you’re building a web app you can fail upwards until you find success. If you’re building a car and you fail people die.

Its like the difference between any random saas and Theranos.
it was a newsgroup - usenet was still a thing, and not just about binaries, back then
And later picked up the cohort under the Marian reforms for reasons as well, especially once the Gauls began hitting them with frontal charges again.
Honestly I would too be disappointed if a company planning high growth goes out and says "whoops we lost a backer, now we're selling" It definitely makes it seem like the company is knowingly misledning investors in an attempt to pull in funding for an urealisabel plan.

If you're at the verge of having to sell the entire company at a loss, the least you can do is try to restructure, reduce costs and plan for moderate growth which doesn't depend on you pulling in huge amounts of funding.
Actually, defense contractors haven't designed any new rockets and found themselves dependent on a Russian design (which were arguably better).

They contractually had the option to build their own derivative but punted and then found themselves with a Senate banning future imports. Now they want $5B to design a new rocket, or maybe use Bezos' design.

The SLS is nothing more than a patched up space shuttle launch system with a capsule on top. Except that it will cost a lot more to launch. Not much new ground there.
I work with people who have addictions.

Sugar doesn't come close.
I normally try not to make low effort comments but this resonated so strongly with me I had to chime in with a "ME TOO."

I _LOVE_ history now. I collect antique history books, just to see how perceptions changed over time. Ken Burns tops hollywood in terms of "# of films watched" by many times over. However, this only started MUCH later in my life when I started to see history as a tool, a way of thinking, of reasoning about the world.

History as it was taught in my early schooling was not only useless, it was utterly counterproductive; As you say: memorizing slabs of rote dates and events not only removed any utility or holistic understanding from the facts (and related time periods), but convinced me that I "hated history" and should avoid the subject like the plague. Arrogantly, I was one of the better students in my high-school, so I can only imagine what the less advantaged crowd felt about those courses, and it doesn't leave me surprised with the "lack of historical context and appreciation" I feel to be pervasive in the American population.

To truncate this rant: History is _so fucking amazing_ when you start to consider it as an interplay of human pathologies, and as a tool for understanding our present. It's such a frustration that our education system doesn't do it justice.
> I still don’t understand why everyone uses Linux now, but BSD only stayed in very niche markets.

Myself and others would argue it's because of the GPL. If you can't distribute a binary without releasing the source, more contributions are going to flow upstream.
(PM on the team) Migrating from Node.js flexible to Node.js standard should be pretty straightforward. Chances are you only need to perform a new deployment and remove `env: flex` in your app.yaml.
As I understand, Sophon SC1 shipped in last October at $600 price, making Bitmain ahead of other competitors. It seems to be out of stock(?) now. Bloomberg reported on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-17/china-s-c...
> It may have been less oppressing but it was still oppression.

Well, by that argument anything short of perfection is unacceptable.

> Also I'd argue that they _thought_ it would be better, not that it was.

It was demonstrably better. Median income (measured in constant dollars), lifespan, and education levels all took a dramatic jump over the course of the 19th Century, both in the U.K. and the United States.

> Regardless you stated that none of the opression that happened in Europe to workers happened in the US and that is probably false.

I stated nothing of the sort. You're confusing me with another poster.
Note that the more prominent link to the paper is 404'ing, but below there is a proper link.

http://rfpose.csail.mit.edu/files/rfpose_cvpr_zhao.pdf
You seem like a good guy and principled person, but you should let folks know that you are the developer in question, no?
Sure, but then I wouldn't have learned something!
>...China is currently 2% nuclear

Do you have a source for that? According to wikipedia it would look to be at least 50% higher than that:

>...Nuclear power contributed 3% of the total production in 2015, with 170 TWh,[5] and was the fastest-growing electricity source, with 29% growth over 2014.[6] Nuclear generation increased again in 2016 to 213 TWh, a 25% increase,[7] and in 2017 to 246 TWh, a 15% increase.[8] China ranks fourth in the world in total nuclear power capacity installed, and third by nuclear power generated.

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

>...that leads people in this discussion to poo-poo solar as miniscule and irrelevant.

I haven't seen anyone here saying that solar is "miniscule and irrlevant".
> I think a better argument for enforcing their rights

I don't think anyone is arguing that they shouldn't be enforcing their rights. But that they shouldn't use use people's phones as listening devices to do so.
Google doesn't have any significant control over the web. Google wins big in two categories. Search and Ad Revenue.

Google Search processes 2/3-3/4 of all searches, with declining market share. Search is held hostage by user's expectations, if the quality of search were to decline users would leave.

AdSense is in a commanding position, but it is under attack from a lot of different directions. Facebook gives more targeted ads. Snap allows more qualified ads. Apple is revamping it's ad system.

Google is in a strong position, but this isn't a case of them gaining more control, and their power is defiantly under check by other interests.
Nice work. But, serious question - When going with parameterized types I know from Haskell how you always end up needing one more language extension and always end up banging your head against the wall that separates types and values a little more. At least if you're not a math genius, but probably even then.

And from Java I know that there's a pretty trivial example that showcases how its Generics implementation is unsound when mixed with inheritance.

And I know that the Go maintainers have been hesitant for a long time because they didn't know a good version of Generics to add.

So, is there any version that just works, and never leads the user down any rabbit holes? And that doesn't lead to ever increasing type boilerplate?

Because I've been super happy ever since I decided that worrying about occasional usage of void pointers in C is just not worth my time. And where configurability is really needed, function pointers are totally fine - I don't think there is any need for static polymorphic dispatch (function pointers are probably even preferable, to avoid bloated machine code).
How does that happen without $1 billion worth of test requirements from the FDA?