skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well in addition to reflection of the problems of rampant short-termism, bubble-surfing, and crash-and-burn corporate raiding as opposed to creating something of lasting value there is a more charitable and sensible explanation for that mentality: risk and returns tend to correlation for many reasons that all add up to the same thing.

As a company becomes big the risk goes down but the growth goes down as well by necessity as it saturates its niche. Look at say Cellphone manufacturers - when everyone has a phone already growth potential is limited vs selling everyone a phone. On the other hand it becomes far harder t be wiped out when a behemoth. Corporations that were pretty much dead and everyone else knew it zombied along for decades. Even if they closed operations tomorrow they would still have a large amount of capital and collateral and thus investments are more protected and less risky.

You can turn a restaurant into a franchise chain or have it go bankrupt or but short of managing to get the entire chain seized as a front for illegal activity or similar extremes you can't lose all of the value of an entire franchise.

They technically can hold onto their early successes as the start-up became google but then they aren't really venture capitalists anymore and have shifted into being company stockholders. In order to see those types of exponential returns again you need to fund new businesses. However there is also the growing expense of all of the failures making it not a free lunch. If their total returns between all of their failures and successes are less than just holding their existing ones it is clear in retrospect that they should shift their funding to just the safer investments and they should have quit while they were ahead.
Do you have a picture or a diagram of this? I'm finding it hard to visualize.
Nothing stops you from creating a quick website with details, screenshots, and good SEO to show up in Google.
> I don't care about the 99% cases when google maps work. I care about the 1% when it doesn't work while I need it.

This right here is a huge reason I distrust Google apps. When it's good, it's good, and when it isn't... it's terrible.
I'm not commenting on whether it's a good heuristic or not. Just a possible approach.
Gorillions of dollars, I’m sure!
Is there a way to sync orgzly to Google drive? Not natively, sadly, only Dropbox supported.

Too invested in the Google ecosystem to also depend on Dropbox.

I have tried some folder sync apps, but I prefer not to depend on those either.
> information itself wants to be free

That never made sense to me.

Information desiring something of itself would imply that information is sentient.

I think it is people who want information to be free. And not all people want that, at least for not all information.
Do you think the company actually improved by it or do you think they bought the goose that lays the golden eggs only to kill it while trying to choke more eggs out of it?
I use catchalls for my business domains too.
Practice lots of practice
Yikes, I'm disturbed that occasional outbursts of righteous anger would make someone start assuming serious psychological problems. That's concerning to me - and I do not think I would be comfortable working with people who are so deeply offended by an angry email.

God help you if you'd ever grown up working on farm equipment.
I've found that for my anxiety ERP based therapy is much more effective because often anxiety isn't a matter of your rational brains understanding but rather trained responses of your subconscious.
Is there a good app that scans a camera image and appends good metadata, plus has good handwriting recognition, and saves in interchangeable formats?
Have you found any researched reports on Android vs. iOS market share? That's where I'd start if I were you.

I, personally, would never choose to only focus on iOS. Apple's walled garden seems extremely hostile to me. If you ever got banned for some reason, what would you do?

At least with Android you can distribute .apk files via a website, even if you wouldn't get the visibility being in an app store might give you.

You also might want to consider which platform is easiest for you to develop on. Since you're just a one person show, that might be the most important aspect.
I think the $5/month he's envisioning is for the computing/bandwidth charges on the cloud providers he mentions. The software, container, images, etc. should all be provided for free, and the open source bug tracker should have a 1 second SLA for replying to questions on getting it set up.

But on a serious note, yes, it would be nice if there was some pre-built container that just served the OSM tiles on an HTTP port. I imagine most people integrating OSM want to use their existing static-file-serving setup, which is why it doesn't already exist. (Or maybe it does, I haven't looked.)

In the end, Google Maps is free for 25,000 map loads per day and you don't have to run any servers. I'm guessing this is why it's more popular. The $5/month the OP ballparks as a price is how much Maps would cost for 760,000 map views per month. In the end, I doubt you'd do a lot better than that unless your bandwidth is free or you're serving a lot of maps. This, I guess, is why OSM isn't much more popular. The map data ends up not being the expensive part; bandwidth/hosting is.

I think the innovation in OSM is being able to use it for whatever you want. Garmin bike GPSes don't even use Garmin's own map data anymore; it's apparently cheaper for them to just use OSM data. That's because they don't have to pay the bandwidth hosting costs, they just dump the data out of the database and give people that care an update every 6 months. Each incremental map render costs them nothing, and nobody can stop them from using the data however they want. Pretty interesting that it ended up a better deal for them than using the maps they collected themselves (and probably supplemented with other vendors' data that won't let them use it on that "download once, use forever" model.)
I’m surprised that it took Spectre to get site isolation enabled. Without site isolation, an RCE allows a malicious site to violate the same origin policy even without a sandbox escape. Site isolation is a very nice defense in depth feature.
Statins? Hypertensive meditations? Anxiolytics? Prophylaxis in general?
A reasonable definition of the current usage might be that toxic means extreme.

"This gaming community is toxic" could be read as "This gaming community is extremely obscene"

"This forum is toxic" could be read as "This forum is extremely negative"

Seems to match the usage I see anyway.
You’re just arguing from Kant’s authority here. In my view (and in the views of many others, including many renowned philosophers and many important legal systems) Kant’s views are deeply flawed (anyone can argue from some authority). But this is my view because there are many situations in which otherwise ‘bad’ actions may be easily justified. Sure, ethics is currently a matter of opinion, but I think the fact that some opinions on ethics are more easily lambasted than others suggests that their quality differs. And yours is certainly a minority opinion, a good thing in my view.
This is an entire section of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Reverse Engineering WipEout (PSX)
> also have a millennial son, who is an IOS coder, and he tells me that all kids in college have iPhone these days. My other son in high school says the same, every kid in his class has an Apple device. So, my son who is an IOS developer says not to worry about Android and to become proficient in IOS only, because that's the only one which is going to matter on the long run

I'd be highly skeptical of claims that Apple's platform is going to be the only one that matters in the future, especially based on the subjective opinions of two people who may travel in unrepresentative social circles. It's sort of like that quote "How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him."
Worth understanding how to build something compact, and have a clear roadmap for growth. Knowing where to monitor for bottlenecks and how and when to tease out functions to mitigate them. In that context understanding a large system can provide insights. A curious technology manager (who pays bills) can ask informed questions.
Yes- but if you make the part that is legally the gun yourself, it's fine.

Anyone is allowed to manufacture a gun, as long as they don't sell it. If you want to sell it, you'd need a license.
The example We had to deal with in the real world was the onslaught of visitors during the American Thanksgiving holiday. The company I worked for would post the ads for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Yeah, nothing like getting >500K RPS on a 2 DB server setup (Main & Backup) that was highly tuned that would drop to it's knees. The traffic we got, didn't really turn in to that much overall profit, which meant, we couldn't have a huge cluster of DB's to handle the load. Having a caching system using Memcached (120 second query cache), we were able to handle that load like it was nothing. We used caching on other parts of the system, but the DB cache is what saved us from having to leave the dinner table every 15 minutes.
That doesn't work for the Wall Street Journal any more, and hasn't for a year: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/wsj-ends-...
|\ /| imagine those being the doors slightly open into the room.

Now here it is with the doors shut and the wood beam between them. ||__||

Can’t open either inward until the beam moves.
Thanks. I searched the file name, and got nothing.

Google image search yielded a bunch of hits. And that tweet seems to be the oldest. How did you find it?
College student wins $1M Powerball using Smartphones App
The strap could be diverted around a pully so the room is still usable
So it emits particles at near-light-speeds aimed towards us. Some questions (possibly stupid).

Are they still at near-light-speed when the get to us?

How can you detect something going so fast? Aren't there weird relativistic behaviors?
Talking about modes of transportation that work well based on countrywide population density is silly. The US's population density is massively skewed by Alaska and everything from Kansas to California being almost completely empty.

Most east coast cities have actually decreased their population density considerably since 1930.
does their package manager still suck?
It always bugged me how vague the rule was. Without specifying a time window the maximization doesn't mean anything.
Microsoft Office Lens
I can’t believe that somebody could write a whole book based on such a contrived premise. Shareholders don’t control a company? They do, they control who sits on the board, and the board controls the company. Shareholders aren’t entitled to a company’s profits? They’re entitled to its dividends, if they think the company isn’t paying enough dividends they can elect a new board. Shareholders don’t own a company? They own its profits and they control its decision making. Some semantic of the word “own” is pointless. You could argue that shareholders don’t often exert this control against incumbent management, but that is only because management most often respect shareholder primacy. When shareholders invest their savings in public companies they’re trusting them to grow those savings. If you’re not operating in the interest of shareholders, then your public company will not survive long.
Why will buses be much cheaper than they are now? Because they are driverless? I think that's one small part of the calculation that goes into fare prices.
No need for a strap, Bluetooth linked locks that are automated so when one opens the other does to. Or put the lock on the wall rather than on the door and have a mechanical device running up and through the roof to the other door, configured such that the two door locks are restricted similar to the automation.
If all you care about is a low-yield, wasteful, heavy bomb? Yes. If you want an advanced dial-a-yield thermonuclear device capable of leveling a city, and fitting on a missile? Not so much.
I was thinking kernel to/from outside kernel IPC, sorry for the ambiguity. Some documentation can be found at https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...
Why, because of the string thru the room? It can be placed along either side of the wall.
The shareholders themselves specify the time window by exerting control over the board, and by selectively investing in companies that coincide with their own objectives.
I used to work for company acquired by Vista. What you said is true, but in the end they were just another private equity buyout.
> I thought the US A didn't tend to use IQ tests for a number of reason

Any employment requirement that produces a disparate impact has to be proven to be reasonably related to job performance. In practice, that probably means some kind of validation study tailored to each specific job catagory. That’s expensive.
Amidst cost cutting, how are new capabilities, like machine learning, explored? Does the Vista "formula" allow for speculative research and development?
It's become a near-meaningless particle to indicate that the speaker dislikes something and wants to cast it as some great evil at the root of society's problems.

Toxic always brings forth memories of either Ninja Turtles or Swamp Thing, for me though.
It's surprising that a corner stor can survive on my block even though there is both a trader Joe's and a full-service grocery a block away. I guess it's relatively upscale and much faster (no waiting in line most of the time) which helps.
Battery dies every so often and guests complain. Also, Bluetooth. It's often unreliable.
Or in business with knowing that customers don’t want 1/4” drills, they want 1/4” holes.
I'm an American (of the U.S. variety) and I've been using and hating phillips head screws all my life. I agree with everything you said.
Not even that much. Once I knew what those specific matrices were and how they are usually made, it was so much more straight forward. Immediately crushed all of those.
Similar to the XY problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
I agree. In fact, I find myself looking at Classic Mac OS's resource fork and feeling profoundly sad that it feel by the wayside as *nix took over the world.

The resource fork was a beautiful idea; structured data built into the filesystem itself, and I wonder what the computing world would have looked like if it was used by the dominant operating system of the Internet instead of a sideshow.
Is this 'get stuff done' or 'apparently started companies that did great things'? I know the type described in the article, they would seem to be more 'driven founders' types.

So many people that 'get stuff done' in the 'work' sense are those who have good focus, set priorities, and focus on outcomes. They often don't even stand out.

Moreover, the 'I am special' is still arrogant, in a way.

Many of these people can have softer, beta type personalities, but the actions, decisions and and outcomes are still those of an arrogant person.

I know loud, boorish and apparently 'arrogant' people who are at the end of the day pushovers in the sense that they are actually nice guys, soft on negotiation because they want a 'fair deal', loyal to people to a fault etc., they just have a brusque, apparently cynical outward demeanor.

I think this is a very interesting psychological framework with the wrong wording in the title ... or rather, a much better definition of what they mean by 'get stuff done'.
So can you tell me what you think of nft? Details if you feel like it please. I'm a sysadmin type who has stared at way too much iptables and decided to start going full nftables. I haven't hit any showstopper yet but I figure it would be worth asking someone who has dealt with its complexities. I've been putting off Bpf because it feels like actual programming in yet another language. Did you try that?

One last comment, you might check out Dragonfly BSDs network stack if you haven't yet for ideas, the last benchmarks I ran were surprising.

To anyone listening, does Bpf enable us to get past the 10gbs dma issues on a Linux router?
There will be a lot of headlines about Intel being doomed. And they will continue to make money hand over fist, with very little loss of market share.

Contrast the times when everyone was certain Microsoft’s days of reign are over. Linux was cheaper, OS C was better, and in the end, nothing really changed.
> You could, of course, tear down and rebuild the entire hotel, at great expense, so that each room has its own bathroom—a solution that might sound ridiculous, but isn’t so far removed from how similar design problems are addressed every day.

The 'similar design problems' link in this sentence points to an article about how the video game Destiny was delayed due to a story re-write. What on earth?
The date itself is already a universally unique identifier (provided there is never more than 1 issue per day).
This is very much captured elegantly as XY problem:

http://xyproblem.info
Correct, since 2009 roughly, the sensor power was tied into the LED, so if the sensor had enough power to register an image, the LED would have to be on. Apple modified the circuitry specifically because of the old exploit.
I'm not blaming VCs and big tech companies. The form their role takes is ultimately shaped by the housing market.
Preparing for a 5G World
Sure, but if science (especially neuroscience) were that simple then we'd have all the answers already. I'm more interested in quantifiable/demonstrable knowledge of this topic beyond a mere thought experiment.
They are certainly at risk of killing it. I don't think they realize how razor thin everything was already cut to make the sale to them happen. And they want to cut more. I'm afraid they might make one cut too many and a type of systemic failure will happen as a result. It reminds me of this article about how escaping poverty requires 20 years with no mistakes.[1] The company is doing well externally, but the internals are without much of a safety net.

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...
This hotel was built over 100 years ago and was destroyed in a fire in the 1960s. The article isn't about how to actually solve the problem of locking shared bathroom doors... it's about sharing insights into how designers were better able to solve a problem by focusing on the objective rather than focusing on the implementation.
Torvalds is pretty sustainable though. Since 1991 he's handling it. He also explained on why he needs to use aggressive language, can't find the source though. He said that unless you put some really strong words into a person, they won't stop with their (wrong, bad) project and get sad when it's rejected after they finish it.

Well, you get physical well-being for free on Internet discussions. For the rest, I don't know. People get triggered over harmless shit so often, I just shake my head for such stupidity. You mentioned spiritual well-being. I contradict and say that if I disrespect your religion (not you as a person) and you get triggered by it (love that word) it's entirely your problem.

But my Internet communication experiences also include games, so these words are not even the worst you could hear. With that in mind, the above pretty much applies all the time.
> What kind of "business" skills do you need?

Pre-existing connections in the entrenched industry you're trying to break into? A rolodex of "people who went on to be potential channel partners" you met while doing your Harvard MBA?
Gun don’t kill people, people kill people. Taking guns from law abriding citizen will not reduce gun violence. Criminals don’t care what your laws say.

Beside, most killing happened in schools. Still puzzled me today why don’t they remove school from gun free zone. It is a killzone.
>But there's absolutely no point in opening /dev/futex from a shell script
or similar, because you don't get anything from it.

The same can be said for files in '/dev/input'. Why are mouse and touchpad input exposed as files?
Most of the means of optimizing trebuchets make sense after the fact, but would not be intuitive to me at first glance.

For example, making the frame more rigid improved the outcome here, but if you put the whole thing on wheels you would likely still get more increase because the weight could take a more direct path downward as the frame moves.
Business owners don’t have singular goals. Neither do shareholders. Profits are important. But short-term earnings aren’t everything, to whole business owners nor shareholders. Some managers like to pretend they are, because hitting a single quantitative short-term goal is easier than running a business, and that’s the problem discussed here.
Wow - this.

I didn't quite realize that this was a thing.

I share the same tendency and it may have as much to do with something else: the 'epoch' moment which implies change, i.e. a 'decision' or outcome which could be bad.

'Development' is a grind, but at least you're alive. After launch it may go well, but you could get wiped out - I think people may fear this.

Also, launch brings so much chaos, unclarity ... in 'development' you're in charge of what's going on. After launch, your users and investors definitely own your time.
> But what if we relax the second requirement to only apply to intentional resignations, forfeitures, and fouls? What if we had a game where both sides were trying their absolute hardest to make the other side win?

The article address that. You still have to follow the rules of the game.
Here's a weird, slightly roundabout analogy I like to use.

The premise of the paperclip maximizer thought experiment is as follows: suppose you program a (sufficiently advanced) robot to maximize the number of paperclips. It might start by -- reasonably -- collecting all the paperclips it could find, and bringing them to you.

But after it does that, it might also realize that it could convert other things into paperclips — things like raw metal, other machines, and the atoms in the human body.

Basically, the paperclip robot says "maximize the number of paperclips at all costs." The corporation says "maximize shareholder value at all costs."

How can you be sure that the goals you've programmed into a sufficiently-complex system are actually beneficial to the people using the system?
> When you have your stronger players stay on the bench but still keep going for goals you're balancing your desire to lose against your need to look to the judges like you're still trying to win.

This reminds me of historical approaches to war-fighting, where both you and your opponent nation-state would build e.g. five classes of ships, biggest to smallest; and then bring them all with you to a battle; and then your big ships would fight their big ships, while your medium ships fought their medium ships, and the smalls fought the smalls.

It always seemed to me that, in such situations, choosing to send those medium and small ships off to fight one-another was, in some way, "playing to lose"—or at least not "playing to win."

It goes against the more recent war-fighting learning: force concentration. If you've got medium and small units, well, you can have them also shoot at whatever the big units are shooting at, and maybe it'll get dead sooner such that they can all move onto shooting at something else!

I hope the analogy to business strategies is obvious :)
> It makes no sense to remap a home row key to such an infrequently used key.

1. Having never used caps lock in years, I think any remap is an improvement.

2. I'm guessing you don't use Vim ;) For me, esc is one of my most frequently used keys.
Don't forget getting rid of parking minimums that add so much to the cost of construction that it adds hundreds of dollars to the monthly rent of an apartment in a typical urban area.
Show HN: Enjoy computation resources sharing at your laboratory with `lxc-gpu`
I remember there being an IFTTT recipe for syncing DB and Google Drive, but I never gave it a try. I was using DB before I used Drive so I'm fine with Orgzly's reliance on it, but there are options.