skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ben Thompson just released a great post that talks about exactly this issue, including moats in the space.[0] Essentially, there is no two-sided marketplace advantage here like there is with Uber or Lyft (the drivers -> customers -> more drivers flywheel).

I like the idea of this playing out with 1-2 companies offering several different transportation verticals in each city. Rather than checking Uber, Lyft, Via, Bird, Lime, etc. to try to get from point A to point B, I can check an app that gives me the prices for ridesharing, scooters, e-bikes, whatever...and then I choose one of those options from the given company.

The moat here is to be the best aggregator for the entire network. Netflix has enough good shows for me that I don't pay for Hulu to watch the one show there that I'd like to see. The same idea exists here, just in the physical world.

[0] https://stratechery.com/2018/the-scooter-economy/
HN Discussion of the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284094
I was approached by a Tesla contractor in Home Depot on a few days ago. It was honestly not a good experience.

For one, I was approached cold. I too had no idea that they had this agreement, so I was looking at something when someone came up and asked me something like "what type of project are you working on?" So I naturally just described what I was doing and before realizing this was not a HD employee.

He asks me if I thought about solar and whatever, but it wasn't relevant to my situation (roof slope orients E/W at the 45th latitude, so not great for solar). He goes on his way.

It was just a weird experience. I wasn't in a department related to electricity or solar, and they had no displays indicating a partnership with Tesla or that you may be cold-approached by a Tesla employee.
I disagree. Blockchain and crypto currencies that use PoW are a terrible invention. Bitcoin mining alone is now using more electricity than Ireland, and this figure is only increasing even more. In an age where the global effects of climate change are becoming more and more apparent while still too little is done to mitigate it, maybe we should not exacerbate the problem even further This applies especially to something like crypto currencies that, so far, provide very little in terms of tangible societal benefits.

We could of course discuss PoS solutions, but those have their own drawbacks, and that still would not change the fundamental fact that crypto currencies and blockchains have yet, after roughly a decade, to find any kind of non-niche use case. Google needed far less than a decade to become the dominant search engine. Netflix did the same of video streaming. Modern smartphones exist for about as long as Bitcoin, and they have become globally ubiquitous. So how good can the blockchain really be?
Ask HN: How to optimize products on aws marketplace?
I have a few products listed on aws marketplace (Both AMI an SaaS). Does anyone have experience in optimizing product position in search results?

Marketplace listing management has a field for adding keywords, but they don't affect result position.
There are legitimate criticisms of Tesla that shouldn't be hand-waved away as trolling.
1) I may sound like a total n00b, but don't you find it hard to code only from a command line environment? I mean, you can't use IDEs with SSH, right?

2) I'm going to be that guy that chimes in and says you have to be careful with code you write on company's time / using company equipment. So, be careful with that.
Prediction of the FIFA World Cup 2018 – A random forest approach
> They have ~$2.8b in the bank, so that's about a year if things continue like they have been, less if they hit a snag.

More if they succeed in ramping up the Model 3 production.
Or the world changed around them in unpredictable ways. Or you took a risk that didn't pan out, but if it had, you needed these people.
Instead of Maine, you can find a better analogy at the opposite end of the United States.

There’s a Mexican state named Baja California and a US state named simply California. Exact same thing as this Macedonia business.
Thanks. Those are both good examples.
And I agree quality of life is better metric than standard of living.
Or their LP agreement might not allow them to invest in crypto directly, only in companies (generating crypto)
Quoting Wikipedia [1]: "The Balkan Wars (1912–1913) and World War I (1914–1918) left Ottoman Macedonia divided between Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Albania and resulted in significant changes in its ethnic composition. The immediate effect of the partition of Ottoman Macedonia were the nationalistic campaigns in areas under Serbian and Greek administration, which expelled Bulgarian churchmen and teachers and closed Bulgarian schools and churches. As a consequence a sizable part of the Slavic population of Greek and Serbian Macedonia fled to Bulgaria or was resettled there by virtue of a population exchange agreements. The Bulgarian population in Vardar Banovina was regarded as "Southern Serbs" and a policy of Serbianization was implemented. Within Greece, the Southern Macedonians were designated "Slavophone Greeks".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Bulgarians
Bitmain was playing very ugly with monopolising ASICBoost mining and promoting Bitcoin cash heavily. I really hope their competitor will be successful.
Well, I'm Bulgarian, there's much hatred as they like to call us tatars and all kinds of things. Not really very nice, considering they have the same genes as ours, same names, same language(except for a few serb add-ins). Also, they would rather be absorbed by Albania, than join their blood brothers :)
But this is an online forum, not a court.
Requires "7+ years of experience in blockchain, and cryptocurrency." That narrows things down quite a bit.
> Yeah, ask anyone outside of hacker news if they ever heard of Google Reader.

Consider that because of your highly-technical background, you may be underestimating the popularity of Google Reader and overestimating the popularity of Hacker News among the general internet-savvy population at the time.
The Insatiable and Unknowable Anthony Bourdain
People are somewhat irrational in nature and fear rare, but spectacular events more than the mundane. This is the number one problem with nuclear that I see it: no other power source has had anything on the scale of Chernobyl. The only thing that I think offhand could come close as far as potential deaths is a hydro dam collapse.

The reality is, we are all human, the world loves to throw unexpected surprises at us (such as the tsunami that helped cause Fukushima). So a Level 7 event is always a small probability. Even if it is much less of a probability than fossil electricity accidents and the issues from pollution overall are worse for fossil fuel, it's a hard sell because of the ways humans are wired.

It also doesn't help that the technology is mysterious to a lot of people as you mention. "Flammable material burns, makes energy" is somewhat intuitive to most people. Nuclear is not intuitive at all. Just think at how Hollywood tends to depict nuclear in the popular lore. :)

At any rate, my personal reason I think nuclear will never gain much traction in this modern world is that one of those "potential surprises" is terrorism. Nuclear plants are an acknowledged target. So at the very least, you have to add costs to safeguard the structure and really beef up the security around the plant these days. IMHO this would make any big central nuclear power solution quite a bit much less attractive.
What is the effect size of the randomized controlled trial for psychedelic therapy?
I'm a mental health professional (PhD) who works with founders and tech folks.

There's a lot of good content here already.

Strategies to prevent mental health struggles: regular exercise, prioritizing sleep, time with friends, a pet, reasonable nutrition, a life philosophy that includes self compassion, breaks from work as well as time to deep-dive into meaningful work, self-reflective practices (like journaling), having a relationship with a "wise" person (therapist, clergy member, mentor, etc), volunteering or finding a way to make meaningful contributions to other people. Many of the other things people have mentioned.

Strategies to cope with mental health challenges include extra doses of all of the above plus a mental health professional who "gets" you. Who doesn't have an agenda beyond understanding you and supporting you. I admit it can be hard to find the right therapist or physician but it is worth the effort. Most problems do not require medication (bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are notable exceptions- they are almost always treated with medication)

Most HN readers will do well with someone who is tech savvy and has experience working with folks in the tech industry.
But, but . . . Elon Musk! Sports Cars and Electricity and Space and stuff! What's there not to like?!!
Strategies for Securing Web Content
It's not as bad, but the script used to build deb package for azure-cli is a bit weird and not really a thing of beauty:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/dev/build_scripts/de...
SpaceX has admirably ambitious goals. While cheering/hating is of negligible value, it doesn't hurt to broaden one's view about NewSpace.

Ref: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ffc-12-in_elon_we_trust
Does anyone has build-in realtime features?
Voyager 7.1.0 – HAProxy ingress controller for Kubernetes released
That was in response to your suggestion of “Slav Macedonia”.

But there’s certainly a “California” both in the USA and Mexico and it’s not confusing anyone.

I was born in Finland and have also lived in France.

(Edit: I see you replied to me by editing the parent post, but it makes the conversation impossible to follow if we both do that.)
So what matters is the wishful thinking, not the pioneering work SpaceX’s competitors actually accomplished? What matters is that Tesla plans to bring EVs to every household in the future, not that it’s shipped about the same number of EVs as Nissan to date?

Look at your own post for why Tesla/SpaceX engender negativity. GM revolutionized the landscape of America. Douglas Aerospace helped design the most powerful rocket ever. And you denigrate those companies and their actual achievements by pointing to the things Musk says he’s going to do. And that’s exactly how Musk has positioned himself. So is it any surprise when people react negatively to him when information is revealed that suggests a gap between promises and reality?
well, I set up bitcoind back in 2011. I can BS my way in...
> Is it reasonable to assume a direct chemical action as the cause here

I don't think so. There might be a chemical cause, but to me the correlation with anxiety makes it more likely that it's a state-shifting phenomenon, more like depression.
Ahhh, I misinterpreted :)
For many people the web is google. If google drops a site out of search it is effectively turned off for many people.

Another point that he has been harping on is that lots of sites do not need https, but Chrome will shortly warn on visiting those sites. It stands to reason some future version of Chrome will block those sites outright. There are parts of the internet that could disappear when that happens.

You may not necessarily agree with his doomsday scenarios, but I assure you Dave Winer[1] understands how the internet works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer
How about, for starters, that Google and FB control 85% of the ad market, with the rest going to everyone else.

Also, I run a website for doctors. Google learns that my visitor is a doctor, and next time displays a doctor related ad on Candy Crush, when she is playing the game. So by invading her privacy, Google makes money and my website literally competes against Candy Crush for the ad revenue.
That is precisely correct. The current framework has already destroyed countless lives, targeted minority populations disproportionately, and enriched drug companies peddling opiates (which are much much worse than recreational marijuana).
Longer-lasting archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180612191711/https://cryptojob...

I wait anxiously to see this job mentioned in lists of Everything Wrong With Kids These Days.
Isn't that self-evidently false? On at least a superficial level it's a constant part of the conversation. It has in many ways precipitated the debate around self-driving cars by putting the technology in the open (for better and worse and also it's not-quite-there but still!). There's a really strong argument to be made that Tesla has accelerated the development of electric cars at more mainstream manufacturers and pushed large-battery technology substantially forward.

Even if Tesla vanished tomorrow, it would be very hard to say it has had no impact.
I have no experience working with software "at scale" so it may be that my interviewing experiences are different from yours. Generally speaking, though, software developers at non-tech companies, or at agencies for small-med business clients (what I tend to work for) don't ask those kinds of technical questions.
There’s also a state north of Mexico called New Mexico.
Metahash has released #MetaGate
I like the idea of pasting to see the formatted output.
I needed something like that - so I built this for this purpose https://devstuffs.mustak.im/formatters/json-formatter-beauti...
Except the "Baja" in this case (or its lack in the USA) is like the compromise, "North" Macedonia.

The situations would be more analogous if the Mexican state were called simply "California" or the US state were called "Baja California."
>"Yes, but answers are also reasonably found

You just picked the easiest questions and left out the rest...

>"the person that discussed the historical reasoning and mythos that led to the naming of Tuesday and why having a seven day week is so pervasive throughout the world, leading back to ancients looking up at the sky (which was better than what most of us see, considering light pollution)."

You should question this as well. Have you ever considered there was a period where the ancients could not see the stars, moon, or sun due to excess clouds, smoke or dust blocking the view? Perhaps an asteroid hit, or there was a lot of volcanic activity, or whatever.

Imagine if it was always cloudy, perhaps this even lasted for a generation or two so that no one alive had ever seen any of that, then suddenly the sun appears through a break in the clouds. This would explain why the bible claims that light was created before the sun.
Chris Packham warns of 'ecological apocalypse' in Britain
BMI is a pretty poor indicator. Raw bodyfat is probably the best measure of "obese or not."

Someone at 15% bodyfat and 6 feet, 1 inches tall can easily hit 220 pounds, if they have high muscle mass.

As another commenter pointed out, this isn't even considering the weight of clothing and carried items. My backpack usually weighs at least 15 pounds, sometimes up to 25. Clothes adds another, what, 3, 5, maybe even 8 pounds if I'm wearing boots?
Are you replying to me? That's exactly what I'm saying.

Google Reader was an irrelevant product to the general public, only adopted by a very small niche of users, just as Hacker News is largely irrelevant and unknown to the general public.
Other than the article I can't find anything that points to redundancy being the cause:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16545956/tesla-solarcity...

Is the only other reference that I have found and articles around this time frame don't make it clear the redundancy was the cause.
10K IU of vitamin D, since Michigan winters are kind of harsh. And I don't product a whole lot. After that I added guided meditation with Headspace. Next I will probably add 20 minutes of exercise 3x week.

Its more of an engineering exercise at this point. I just need to keep evaluating new improvements I could make.
The article you linked to is 21 years old. Microkernels is the fusion power of software, always 50 years in the future. They're great in theory, it's just that nobody got them to work outside the lab.

As for security, yes, there are still vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, and a microkernel might be helpful here, but it seems to me that the high-impact vulnerabilities we've seen in the past few years have been outside the kernel (spectre/meltdown and rowhammer in hardware and heartbleed in userspace). It's not obvious that microkernels will give a big enough security benefit for the investment to catch the technology up to the state of the art.
I've reread parts of it (2nd edition from 2001) on my vacation the last weeks and at least in the first half of the book there's no mention of microkernel vs Linux - on the other hand, several examples are given "this is how Windows does it, this is how Linux does it" - so there definitely don't seem to be any underhanded sidestabs in there.
There are others missing as well, Riot/matrix.
This feels more like an advertisement than an honest comparison.
Two words: code review.
You just leave them in the streets when you're done riding? How can you prevent theft?
Backdoors, backdoors for everyone.

https://www.antbleed.com/
Perhaps we need a new category of prescription, e.g. "for use only under direct supervision of a qualified medical professional"

In other words it could be dispensed in a clinical setting, but not via a pharmacy or other "take home" pathways.

I'm thinking that must already exists for certain surgical anesthetics, etc.
True, but the previous comment can be adapted to Tesla: "You never understood the fandom behind a company making cars that can do 0-60 in 2.5s?"
I think this analogy shows that names don't really matter: military superiority does.
Its not so much questioning everything that is childlike, instead that would be not knowing enough to avoid talking about it with people who don't know or care.
The thing to really appreciate is you are one of the ones that got lucky. The majority would not be able to recoup the money they would have made by not working for a start-up.

Essentially a start-up is a school, don't join if you don't intend to learn a lot while getting paid a little so that if one day you want to do a start-up of your own you will at least be a little bit prepared.
I'm very excited to see the results of this study [1], testing the effects of a one-time dose of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) on a sample size of 400+ suffering from treatment-resistant depression.

The podcast episode referenced in the article is also well-worth listening to. They talk about the current state of the research, the regulatory process, getting funding, etc.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2018/05/23/depression-the-psychedelic...
Clutter-free, paywall bypass. https://outline.com/8tASn6
How to handle app secrets though?
Haha yeah I mean "be done with it" in terms of legislations. In all likelihood, what will happen is that they outsource the maintenance to one of the traditional publishers, or a company that they have acquired (such as Bepress) or will acquire.
None of that solves for the fact that your readers aren't willing to pay anything to read your content.

You can remove Google and Facebook, replace by anyone else, or eliminate it entirely. It still won't solve the problem: nobody wants to pay for your content.

Maybe the problem is in your content...
I am amazed that video delivery is not a solved problem still.
Just the name evoked fears of territorial ambitions or is there history of "North Macedonia" and "Greek Macedonia" being unified?

And did Greece suggest "North Macedonia"? If I was worried about territorial ambitions, I don't think "North" would allay my fears.
> >1. The actual reality: this is an ethical experiment and no one is at any risk

>It's unlikely that the "teacher" subject believed #1

There is ample evidence that many of the teachers believed the experiment to be a sham and understood that nobody was actually being harmed. Some of them noticed inconsistencies in the experimental procedure, such as the learner not being paid, flaws in the narrative such as the learner with supposed heart problems being far too willing to be subjected to shocks for beer money, or general incredulity at the entire circumstance including unwillingness to believe Yale would permit such obviously unethical experimentation.

>is strongly suggests that people are willing to ignore real suffering, if someone in authority denies the suffering

It only shows that if the learner is persuaded it's being done in the name of a cause the learner already believes in.

>and that is seen throughout politics, religion, and business...

People who view all of these things through the lens of traditional narrative of the Milgram experiments are doubtlessly discounting the role true belief in the cause plays. Adolf Eichmann claimed he was just dispassionately following orders, but do you really believe that? You shouldn't. The traditional narrative of the Milgram experiments would have you believe just following orders is normal human psychology, but actually the experiments did not show that.
Sounds like the same problem you find everywher regarding engineering, programming, IT, and sales competence: if your products seem simple and bulletproof, your servers seem to never go down, your program just works intuitively, and people want your product even before they walk into the store, that does not mean you can downsize those departments. It means you should give them a raise because they're doing a great job!
Really bad analogy.

A lawyer that you hired and pay for represents your interest 100%.

A union rep represents union interest first and then your interest. But if union interest is at odd with your interest, you loose 100%.

For example when GM hit hard times UAW agreed to firing all UAW members in California factory, the one that Tesla then bought and is operating.

As you might imagine, none of the UAW members that lost their jobs wanted that outcome.

But it didn't matter what those thousands of UAW members wanted. UAW agreed to that deal with GM to save jobs of UAW members in Detroit.

See e.g. https://solidarity-us.org/atc/146/p2793/
You're absolutely right, it's a bit of a false distinction, and there are years of benefits one can see in either discipline. I just find that with strength there are obvious aesthetic changes for years, it seems to offer its most visible rewards on a much longer timeline.
For me, the biggest plus of web components is the potential simplicity of unifying the document's object model with that of your application. Every JS framework, like React, Angular, Vue, etc. seems to have a parallel OM that either wraps or renders into the DOM (Angular seems to have about 5 of them).

The result is your can never just use the basic DOM APIs and devtools to inspect and interact with your application's components. Instead, you always have to get at them through some other API, and understand how the UI and state you see in the DOM is produced and updated by some mediating layer (virtual DOM, view hierarchy, etc.). It feels like trying to get at the truth by talking with two different people, who each only possess a subset of the facts.