skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve done quite a bit of research looking for such a scooter and have not found one. Would you mind linking me to such an e-scooter that you’d recommend (with high build quality and reliability - has to be worth buying of course) that can easily slip into a backpack? I truly have not found one that is so. I’ve been looking at the new Boosted Mini X - which could at least potentially strap to the back of a backpack.
Way too early for me :-).
>> The appeal of the Stanford prison experiment seems to go deeper than its scientific validity, perhaps because it tells us a story about ourselves that we desperately want to believe: that we, as individuals, cannot really be held accountable for the sometimes reprehensible things we do. As troubling as it might seem to accept Zimbardo’s fallen vision of human nature, it is also profoundly liberating. It means we’re off the hook. Our actions are determined by circumstance. Our fallibility is situational. Just as the Gospel promised to absolve us of our sins if we would only believe, the SPE offered a form of redemption tailor-made for a scientific era, and we embraced it.

This is odd because it's the exact opposite of the way I usually here the SPE narrative discussed: it's not a tale of redemption, it's a condemnation of humanity that purports to show how any of us have monsters inside of us that come out if given the chance.
> we, as individuals, cannot really be held accountable for the sometimes reprehensible things we do.

opposite. It shows that we have to be held accountable - without credible threat of such accountability the reprehensible things will be done.

>it is also profoundly liberating. It means we’re off the hook. Our actions are determined by circumstance.

not even close. It means that person A putting person B in the position of power without proper checks on that power and without effective system of accountability for the power abuse is guilty too of whatever power abuses person B would commit.
> How in the hell does a single bureaucrat have this kind of power in the US to make a unilateral decision affecting millions of people and billions of dollars in commerce?

The FCC is not a single bureaucrat, it's a five seat commission limited to three members of any one political party; in practice, approximately (not exactly because of term timing), that means three members of the party holding the Presidency and two of the other major party.
why show modern borders for 240M old earth?
Effectively, both partie:s current position is "let the courts decide." The Republicans are outwardly hostile to it, but the Democrats have only pushed the issue when they knew it couldn't pass or would go to court.
Assuming the profit margins are about the same [citation needed], then greater revenues translates to greater profits.
I rose in a sales role to be a non-Founder CEO of a material science startup. We were successful - but after 9 years I was burned out and came to a friendly resignation with my board. The name recognition component is real. I got great offers within the industries we sold to - but outside of that there was a lot of explanation about the business, etc.

Brand perception is a real issue - and it doesn't get covered up by your title or role.
I agree about offering early employees as much equity upside as you can (and, just as importantly, a great work environment and team culture).

But I disagree that the kind of people I described are rare, or that they are "basically retired."

That's just not my experience. Many of the most valuable, hard-working engineers I know at startups have a few years of big company experience in their recent past, and are choosing to do the startup thing all in. Sure, because it's "fun" -- but fun doesn't mean fun every day, and it certainly isn't a synonym for easy. Nobody who has done one thinks startups are easy. :-)

Some of us like going to work to do hard things.
I just wrote up a human memory section in my dissertation a few days ago.

There seem to be two more widely accepted limits to working memory than George Miller's 1950s limit: (A) 3-5 chunks [1] or (B) it depends greatly on the context and type of chunk (e.g., visuospatial) .

[1] N. Cowan. Metatheory of storage capacity limits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
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I think a huge part of whether it is more fun or not is about where you are in life. Startup life was great for me when I was young and single, and enjoyed the startup lifestyle of excitement and risk. Now that I am older and have a wife and kid, I really like the stability, predictability, and salary of a job with a bigger company.
Last I looked that limit was per IP address.
So, basically they are playing the game with full cheat codes, nothing is a personal challenge anymore, so it gets boring/tedious quickly?
> Our approach requires an expensive pre-training step - 1 month on 8 GPUs.

Wow! I enjoy playing with neural networks but this kind of thing reminds me that I'm not really doing deep learning...

I have no idea how researchers could have the patience and confidence to wait that long for a result. In my own (small-data) work, I get frustrated if it doesn't converge in half an hour.. I constantly end up Ctrl-C'ing and tweaking things if it doesn't behave as expected, or appear to be continuing to improve.
Debugging on Mojave
Markets that have a high barrier of entry and products that require a certain degree of in-house customization. The trade-off is scalability but the gain is that your space won't get slammed (or is less likely to get slammed) with VC-flash funded 'start up' versions of your start up in the medium run.
Some of this hinges on work environment, not just habits. I was glad to see the reference to Cal Newport's "Deep Work", but it's hard to do deep work when you have three meetings scheduled that afternoon.

edit: I consider Deep Work a must-read for anyone serious about doing hard things.
Contracts are tough when the employer isn't able to honor them. That forces the employee to vet the fairness of the offer and the employers ability to pay it out if needed.
"And similarly, I don't want to feel bad about if I am doing something wrong or not the most efficiently, but still charging full price for that time."

- A lot of people at the company would feel guilty and put in free hours to the client. (They would usually also get rewarded with excellent customer feedback.)
Those other optimizations select for financially independent individuals and young, single individuals coming from an affluent background. It's an oblique way to maintain an "old boys'" network and discriminate by age.
Title II was a consumer protection. It is removed. We have less. The only thing now is a lack of competition unless you count a convenient redefinition of competition to include wireless.

To quote another FCC commissioner:
> Internet service providers now have the power to block websites, throttle services, and censor online content. They will have the right to discriminate and favor the Internet traffic of those companies with whom they have pay-for-play arrangements and the right to consign all others to a slow and bumpy road. Plain and simple, thanks to the FCC's rollback of net neutrality, Internet providers have the legal green light, the technical ability, and business incentive to discriminate and manipulate what we see, read, and learn online.

What do we have left? Well truth in advertising. But that just requires lies by omission and half truths to bypass. "Speeds up to 1 Gbit" is truthful. 0.01 mbit is within the advertised "truth", except when browisng websites that not paid Comcast's now legal extortion fee. Then they'll get less.

We have a protection that was removed! Full stop. The existing protection of truth in advertising did not change. So we went down.
U.S. podcast ad revenues hit record $314M in 2017
Because if you default, or go bankrupt, they lose out the interest payments and the debt owed back. Its all about risk management.
I just started a job as a data scientist at a FAANG company. PhD + 2 years of experience for $200k total compensation (plus another $50k in one time bonuses/relo). It’s almost double what my previous (non-tech) employer paid. Although I’m starting to wonder if I should have gone the software engineering route instead. SWEs get double the RSUs as data scientists for the same experience level (so ~250k for my level) and they also didn’t spend 4 years working on a PhD to get there. Oh well... I can’t complain. Very happy with my current situation.
Apply that to crypto. When your balance is zero, how do you get a tv?
> It sounds like a much more fair and accountable system than giving the power to people who are neither elected nor appointed by elected people.

This response is kind of ironic in context of net neutrality being repealed considering it is a decision which empowered those who are neither elected nor appointed by elected people against the will of the overwhelming majority of the citizens.
There’s certainly career value to being a “celebrity programmer” of sorts and it can be a signaling thing for the employer and hiring pipeleine.
Thanks for the pointer to global investment performance standards - that's a good analogue.

We already agree about 10 year exercise windows (https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity) but we need to do more to make it a standard.
Eh, oddly enough, they possibly could. Water usage and restriction laws are weird.
I work for a tech company that's public now, but has had an unlimited vacation policy since before IPO. I take 5-6 weeks of vacation per year (in addition to the 10 fixed holidays we get). Who cares if you don't "feel comfortable"? Do it anyway! Trust me, you'll start feeling comfortable real fast once you have a reasonable work-life balance.
Not the first time for Psychology, I remember my professor dismissing Freud and etc. even though we learnt about him in our textbooks.

Not saying that Freud is a fraud (or even Jung or Maslow), but their theories are hard to replicate and have been gradually phased out as a real explanation of events and furthermore their psychiatric/psychotherapy diagnoses are not effective to diagnose actual psychological illnesses, their treatment techniques on the other hand have been invaluable (https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/mental-health-and-the-le...). Psychology is definitely going thru a replication crisis. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_...)
You are conflating the validity of a political process with the validity of an economic process. Saying that 51% can rob 49% and that is fine both in justice or economic terms means that you have no capacity to argue against anything but the number of votes. IT truly destroys your position to say that the only right thing is the result of a poll.

But lets say I go down this path with you, one that is not only not how democracies work, but a reprehensible if it were. Lets put it up to a poll then. Lets vote for all these issues and see what happens. The results might surprise you. I have seldom if ever seen a vote for a tax increase to pass popular support.
As a pro, methinks "everything needs to get done" is the main one. It's a trait shared with all small companies, and can be petty things like buying the coffee to coming up with a plan to do X and overseeing it because nobody else has time. If you're able to take initiatives the startup/SME world is for you.

The main con in my personal experience is the grueling entitlement of some founders. Not saying this applies to any or all YC startups (never worked for one) but there are founders out there who expect an arm and a leg and then some, fully expecting their employees will work long hours for peanuts. I'm assuming this is less of a problem at YC companies since they seem reasonably well funded and able to actually pay employees properly (if not you're doing a good job at PR but shame on you), but it's worth raising if only in passing.

Another big con IMO is lack of experience of quite a few founders. The best way to frame this might be a lack of insights in the industry they're targeting. Rewarding turning a business model into something that can work with a pittance of cash and equity is not very enticing to say the least. I've seen this play out from within and without and it's just plain ugly to see whoever came up with the bright idea being thrown a bone as means of thanks while the founders and their VCs laugh on their way to the bank. With respect to this, methinks try to teach humility to founders you work with: if an employee or a consultant shows a much better way then by all means invite that person to the team as a cofounder or nearly so. It doesn't matter if there has been 3 or 5 years of work poured into a hopeless idea before that. I've seen more than a few startups where someone put a brilliant improvement forward only to be shown a bone as a reward, finding a new job as a result, and the startup eventually going nowhere or failing from lack of execution.
I did not, my mind went straight to marriage/divorce when I read the title. I don't think the title was at all click bait.
Open Source Security Hit with Anti-SLAPP Bill for Bruce Perens Defamation Claim
Diesel engines should be banned entirely. The collective effects on human health are catastrophic, even when compared to gasoline.

You will find a lot of Europeans, particularly Germans, who still believe in the "efficiency" and "cleanness" of diesel engines, but this is really just a residual effect of VW's extensive marketing campaign during their turbodiesel "glory days" - before they got caught lying about it. VW really caused crimes against humanity that we're still paying for.

There is no such thing as "clean" diesel and there never will be.
What this suggests, capitalistically-speaking, is that there is insufficient supply of developers and the supply that does exist can be most effectively employed by large companies. Is the problem that startups are not an efficient way to use scarce developer resources, because there are too many of them producing too little value? Or is it that the supply of developers is too small?

A YC apprenticeship program, with in-house coaching, could play a similar role to traditional union programs.
>Just as the Gospel promised to absolve us of our sins if we would only believe

Ironic example... and wrong.

BTW is not for "believe", but for repent, change the old ways and continusly live good for the rest of life. And have faith... too.
How do you "protect the consumer" without laws and regulation? The new competitor will already be at a higher price since Comcast can limit that new entrant to 56K speeds unless they pay an extortion fee.
I think the idea here is to look at the code for the libraries you're using. The documentation might lead you to believe it behaves in a certain way, but the actual code is the true source of truth. Open it up and have a look instead of wondering.

Something I liked about working at Google is that I never had to wonder what the lifecycle of a certain request looked like. I could always open up the code for the server I was trying to talk to, and piece together what "internal error" really meant, or what "optional" fields were actually required to make the request succeed.
It could be much more than just a USB stick. Think about LTE, GPS, microphone. Or something passive [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
What's worse is this is a link to NPR, on the front page of HN. There are no sanctuaries.
Semi unrelated -- but nice dotfiles! Been looking for a good example on how to show battery status / system stats.
Netflix actually caved and paid comcast to get better speeds ("interconnects").

It wasn't the bad PR that forced the issue.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netfl...

Speeds increased 65% after the payment. It was kind of a big deal at the time, since most of the time nobody paid for this.
"Netflix has struck payment-free deals with Frontier, British Telecom, TDC, Clearwire, GVT, Telus, Bell Canada, Virgin, Cablevision, Google Fiber, Telmex, and RCN"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/after...
It's really telling that every anti-HTTPS opinion I have ever heard expressed is either ten years out-of-date (too slow), or completely and totally bonkers (NSA backdoor).

It seems to me that for-profit bloggers will be contrarian for pageviews, and aren't afraid to lie if enough stupid people will believe them.
> not accelerating anymore

maybe in a frictionless vacuum!

At high speeds the force you have to exert to counter wind resistance is less than what you need to gently accelerate when going slowly.
As a temporary marketing campaign, this is brilliant.

Everyone says they care about the IHOP brand, and "threatening" is has brought out a viral storm of news stories and discussions. Everyone claims to care about IHOP, but how many people actually eat there anymore?

This reminds me of when Radio Shack decided to call themselves "The Shack," or when Toys'R'Us closed down, or Sears began to disappear from the American landscape. Each big change triggered a wave of nostalgia, but it was too late, the brands were on the way out, and nothing was going to save them.

In this case, though, IHOP is alive and well, and suggesting that the brand might change could make people who haven't set foot in an IHOP in years think about going back, just to revisit the experience.

Actually having a value proposition to offer, in this case upmarket(?) burgers, means IHOP won't just be banking on nostalgia, but really trying to woo consumers. Of course, if the burgers aren't any good, this will be a debacle. There's a saying on Madison Avenue, "nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising."
Filtering LinkedIn Group Invited Connections While Rescinding in Bulk
Huh, I really had the opposite feeling when I went to work for a big company instead of a startup.

Both startups I worked for never had serious traction and both shut down as failed. We worked so hard to create really cool products, but there just was not the demand for what we made. Cool software with no users.

Now, I work for a huge company. My work gets deployed to tens of thousands of servers, and I know that people use and need what we make (because they pay us a lot of money). I can tell people who I work for and they know who it is, and I can point to things they do in their daily lives that my work touches.

I feel like I have a much bigger real-world impact at my current big company than the startups.
The Tale of SettingContent-Ms Files
I'm not sure how generally important this point is: perhaps it matters more for contest-style fields than more open-ended ones. The guy who can't "invert a binary tree" for his Google interview also made Homebrew.
This is really cool! Thank you!!!
Right, that's correct. Most of the time, those $49 one-way flights aren't refundable and you're going to be charged extra fees for bags and changing your flight if you need to. So the value prop for Teleport is having the convenience of a subscription model and being able to book at the last minute and still get a fairly decent price. There's no guaranteed seat or compensation for delays, but those are good ideas which we're now going to look into :)
Here is an earlier sub-thread on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15917671
I’m sorry but I don’t buy it. Startups employees are squeezed out by vc dilution and lack of big exits. Those $1m total equity cash out from startups I fear are fairly rare.

Whereas working for faang type companies, a l5 is more or less guaranteed to make $300k a year. $500-750k is doable without being a “brand name”. Timing and luck, but the spread is much smaller.

Startup founders have made a devils deal with vcs to underpay employees. You know it. Unless you issued preferred stock to all employees?
Depends whose interests you think the system operates on behalf of.
Looks like ihob.com was transfered (or at least the whois updated) yesterday... the owner is going to make a tidy profit if this name change is permanent.
Then these so-called 'lite' wallets should be referred to with a much more contextually pertinent description such as 'trustful' wallets.
Power Delivery is not just for USB-C. It was defined for use with USB 2.0 and up on any of the legacy connectors.
Your history of paying the debt back is likely to change for the worse if you're buying some shitcoin with the expectation of reselling at a profit rather than budgeting for repayments from your salary like if you'd bought food or a sofa. Credit card companies have an interest in not supporting behaviour which makes clients a higher risk than their current credit rating would suggest, and that includes not funding gambling or investment products. Especially where the product class is also disproportionately likely to be used as a means of converting a stolen card to untraceable cash and disproportionately likely to be subject to merchant fraud.

The overlap between the set of people who "invest" beyond their means in cryptocurrency and the set of people with so little grasp of risk management they express views like "anyone with a credit card should be able to use their line of credit to purchase anything they please" is of course another strong reason for them not to want to touch crypto with a bargepole...
Love the map! Anyway to view a non-globe version?
> We already have a system of checks and balances for this. If you borrow more money than you can pay back, you take a hit on your credit that can last years, and banks will trust you less in the future for your high-risk behavior.

There's no reason the banks cannot be proactive in assessing risk and protecting themselves from high-risk purchases. You can't buy poker chips or stocks with credit cards; a ban on buying crypto with credit is in line with this.
Trees That Have Lived for Millennia Are Suddenly Dying
Is there data telling how deep the oceans and tall the mountains were during those eras?
Windows 93 hidden stuff
1. delete a: and see what happens.
2.press delete while booting
3. put windows 93 in trash
Its probably also about fraud and chargebacks.

Take a look at what AMEX said when they banned porn 18 years ago:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amex-just-says-no-to-porn-site...

>"The decision was ... based on about a year's worth of work we've done with this industry," Fisher said. "There was an unacceptably high level of customer disputes. We worked with the industry, but the challenges remained, and we just decided it was no longer profitable or practical to work with this industry."

(I think I recall reading porn companies pay exorbitant credit card processing fees due to high chargebacks.)

I can imagine a higher than average percentage of Bitcoin purchases were fraudulent and the card issuers were having to deal with a ton of chargebacks and disputes. If these purchases yielded more cost than profit, they'd be crazy not to ban them - you don't participate in a business activity where you are losing money.
I wonder if there is any data on the efficacy of these techniques.

Deliberate practice makes sense to me, but I really wonder if the others require purposeful study or if you just pick up metaskills if you hack away at your project.

Heck, in 5 years I might be reading an HN article: "Deliberate practice isn't all its supposed to be." And an article about how the original deliberate practice study was flawed because it just forced people into hours of extra practice or something.
Plus you can share flights that you're not going to use in a certain month with family/friends for free.
The CNN Money article including quotes from the CEO indicates that it's temporary and that a few locations may change signage temporarily but most will remain as they've always been.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/11/investing/ihob-ihop-burgers-...
I very much agree on groups. I find myself not even trying to think myself when in groups since everybody is talking and my focus becomes more about being a good listener.

Then I go to my computer and right away has good ideas how to solve something. Just because I got some alone time to focus.