skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a decent point about email, but there is nothing they're doing on the website that couldn't be done without a link shortener. And even within the context of email it doesn't really make sense, because email clients can just do the same thing without rewriting the URL.
There are many online businesses that sell a product and make more off display ads next to those products. Marketing is crazy and the arbitrage from affiliates is the search for the price of your attention and conversion.
The number of middle earners is decreasing because some of them are moving into high earners.
Buzz Feed News has a stellar rep.
> But let's just go back to passive aggressively condescending to people we don't know on the internet

Please stop accusing people of this; it's being observed as radiating from your own commentary by multiple people, which might explain why others are responding in kind. I called out the gaslighting elsewhere, and the fact that you're persisting with it against multiple parties hampers constructive discussion.
I was in YC Startup School too, and I agree with what you described about the calls, videos and the improbability of aiming for a billion dollar company.
To convict someone of a crime, you'd need credible evidence. To not give someone a seat on the supreme court, credible allegations should probably be enough.
I don't know how you define "respire", but water dissolves and releases gases. Fire is a gas, so it can't "respire" the same way. It is just one gas or another.

As for digestion, water is a powerful solvent that breaks many things down. Fire just heats them up, which may or may not change their chemical structure.
Obviously I don't know much about biology, but are regular genome patterns with unclear functions such a common occurrence that they are seen as inconsequential?

> Working on obscure, niche stuff is how you actually contribute to science.

That's what they tell you (my favorite example BTW is conic sections - obscure and niche for millenia before it became known that they describe the orbits of planets). But is the deluge of highly specialized obscure papers really the consequence of free play of scientists' minds pursuing their own interests? Or is it more a consequence of the sheer number of phd candidates and postdocs that each need to achieve sufficiently novel results on a reasonable time scale with a fairly certain chance of success (objectives that are obviously in conflict)?

Of course ground-breaking research can grow out of niche results. But for growth to happen someone should build upon and improve upon these results. It is difficult to build upon a research prototype that works barely enough to register a minimal improvement to some metric and is thrown out afterwards.
> If it were, then VMX drivers would not be able to coexist with each other.

Most VMX drivers are unable to coexist (in the sense that VirtualBox, HAXM, Hyper-V, and VMWare Player are mutually incompatible / can't be used in the same Windows boot session).
> Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.

My goodness that documentary had me so infuriated. If people haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

> The only bank to be prosecuted criminally for shenanigans in the subprime era.

That's the amazing part. Out of all the multinational "too big to fail" banks in NYC, they went after a small community bank. Just on optics it looks terrible, but the bank they went after actually had very low numbers of defaults and foreclosures.

That was as clear a case of bullying as I've seen. They went after the smallest bank they could find to intimidate them and force them to settle so that they can tell the press the banks were punished for the financial crisis. Which would have been a farce had they succeeded.
> There are some standard library features that provide and work with heap allocators, but those are optional standard library features, not built into the language itself.

Note that this is also true of Rust. Programs build using `no_std` and `libcore` don't have an allocator. A surprising amount of functionality is still available, like sorting and string splitting.
What this is really exposing is a facet of the sham of "transfer pricing" in general.

The problem with transfer pricing is that "market price" is a context-dependent volatile fiction. If you buy a jar of peanut butter, it might cost $2 at one store and $2.50 at another on the other side of town. Which one is the market price? The difference is 25%, which at scale is enough to consume most companies' entire profit margin. And the answer is both, because the less expensive one is on the outskirts of town and the other is in the center of town where rents are higher and you pay a premium for the convenience.

Which is one of the ways international companies avoid tax. You have a 10% profit margin internationally, so you overpay/underpay by 10% for everything from your sister company and make zero profit in the high tax jurisdiction, but the entire difference is within the "market price" margin of error. It's even possible to justify the difference by making note of some value add feature/service you did or didn't have that justifies a higher or lower price.

The entire concept is a farce because the error margins are larger than typical profit margins.

Which is how you get bizarre nonsense situations like this. If Vanguard is charging less than others had historically, are they charging less than the market price, or that just the new market price?
Agreed. But the death penalty still has the property that it avoids recidivism completely. Which is a deterrent of sorts.
Engine power is a fraction of weight. Even at full thrust (which is rarely used in commercial service, even for takeoff), the engines are only capable of 0.25g or so.
Yep, younger founders skew heavily toward consumer apps, partly because it's what they know. And those are much more likely to be well known by the general public.
People have had enough of this trope. Both parties are the same. Trump us not an intelligent man, but that's a feature, not a bug. He's the shakeup that our broken 2-party system needs. Someone who doesn't act according to the official corporate-sponsored narrative. And the "anything is possible" realisation that may spur non-fake candidates to run for office and actually do something.

Also worth noting: he's been in office approaching 2 years and the sky hasn't fallen. Maybe there is something to this derangement theory?

(Obligatory non-apology for "bringing politics into this")
Wait until BCIs like Neuralink come out. Then there will be no way to escape ads.
I may be wrong, but I think the problem is that startups are by and large unsuccessful across the board. It's a bit like trying to find the cause of a disease by looking at what doesn't cause a disease.

I did a quick search and got a lot of different answers, but the overwhelming number I got was that "over 90%" of startups fail in the first 3 years. With that, the number of possible common variables is going to be overwhelming.

However, it does potentially answer the question of why successful founders tend to be in their 40's. If you have a 90% chance of failing in the first 3 years, if you start 10 startups, perhaps you have a good chance of succeeding ;-)
Wouldn't viewing the deceased body have the same effect?
Case in point, any interface heavy C codebase. Function after function of laying out function pointer vtables.
Text message. Phone call. And no lie, occasional post card and Christmas card.
> It's just hard to develop an entirely new skillset and network in later-middle age.

To leave age out of it, the study shows that those who successfully founded growth companies already had the skillset and network to draw on. (Perhaps the older ages were due to the years it takes for someone build their skillset and network?)
I don't think that Go will move to exceptions. Sure, panic/recover are renamed exceptions (very similar to Rust panics, btw), but standard library and community libraries uses errors, so you'll use them anyway (unless you want to rewrite or wrap the world which is possible, I guess, in automated way and that's a provoking thought!).
Totally agree. There is massive confusion in the space...the tooling appears hard to maintain and often unloved. There is a whole push to get Android devs using Kotlin...I'd love to know the stats on actual usage. Personally, I see Kotlin as movement rather than progress.

At some point I think it would make sense to have a clean break. Personally, I'd love to see something like rust encouraged (possibly with JS frontend to ensure huge adoption). Probably never going to happen...so with that said, we'll probably end up with dart...suitable for writing macros around machine learning code.
Why couldn't the print imported in the hypothetical short example above be made to fail? If all the stdout code is packaged into it, with the same try's, it seems like the code could at least be:

pub fn main() !void {
try print(...)
}
How do you know if your boss is mad at you? Or if someone is interested in you romantically? Or if a landscape is beautiful or ugly?

Not all knowledge is gained through empirical methods. We know that because people had knowledge, including sophisticated technology, before there was a scientific method, i.e. before the 16th century. Most of our knowledge is gain through interpretation of the world...basically, doing the various things our minds do to arrive at conclusions. In the humanities, we (I am a humanist though also a programmer) try to hone our interpretive ability. We have a bunch of fancy names for ways to do that, like hermeneutics and dialectic and rhetoric, but basically you do it through practice.

There's bad interpretive work, just like there's bad scientific work. But thinking empiricism is the be-all of knowledge is kind of silly. Do you use the scientific method to decide if you should kick a dog or pet it? Whether you beleive a politician's statement? Wheter a newspaper is trustworthy? No, you go through a process of modelling that other consciousness. That's interpretation.
You could always go the route I go with uncooperative corporate entities. Send signature-verified letters about your frustrations and ensure them that your state’s attorney general is receiving copies.
What I hear less and less about, is how the Amazon Rain Forest constitutes 'The Lungs of The Earth' (together with The Great Barrier Reef).

Oh? We are making good progress in cutting it all down, you say? Makes sense.. all that beautiful hardwood just standing there is just a waste of cold, hard wealth /s
I work on HR software that provides sourcing. We have a feature that allows you to skip candidates from certain companies.

We need a law that would make wage fixing a crime with harsh sanctions and better data from IRS about wages.

Here is a free statup idea. Create a better version of Unions that would maximise people's earning potentials and improve working conditions.
Maybe we're doing something wrong, but those charts severely underestimate the percentage of income going towards housing. In San Jose, it says 12% of families earning 150K are cost burdened. In SJ the avg townhouse/house now costs 1.1 million with 200k down, that means you pay 60K per year just on mortgage, plus 14K in taxes, (no longer deductible after state income taxes), plus 4K in home owners insurance and possible HOA, plus another 3K in basic utilities. The total is over 80K on 115K after tax income, making it 70% of your total take home pay. And that doesn't even cover repair costs.

The only thing that can explain it: I suspect what's going on is that they're averaging everyone out together, including those that bought over 20 years ago. if the ones that bought over 20 years ago represent a sizable majority 60 to 80% or more then that would explain why they underestimate housing costs so much.
Viewing detailed statistics is unnecessary as long as it's well-established that the IRS is looking out for and prosecuting certain schemes.
Really? My turning point was when he called out companies for not hiring him and then said he did more work than the engineering team in 3 months
I guess it makes sense considering how tiny the margins in fuel retailing are.
The Doctor Who Gave Himself an Ulcer and Solved a Medical Mystery
> I totally agree with this. Take the recent Tesla fiasco. Do you think a $20M fine means a damn thing to Musk? That's like $0.01 for most people.

Elon Musk was forcibly removed as Tesla's chairman. That was the real punishment. Furthermore, Elon Musk agreed that two new board members would be selected by the SEC. Finally, Tesla promised that they'd watch Elon Musk's twitter account better.

The $20 Million was a slap on the wrist. The "real" punishment from the SEC were those new restrictions, which should clamp down on Musk's behavior.

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No one wants to see Tesla or Elon go bankrupt. The SEC just wants Elon to be more factual in his tweets. Neither jail nor fines help anybody.

IMO, the SEC should have threatened Elon Musk's CEO position a bit more (I mean... they could push him out of any officer position in publicly traded companies), but there's a strong argument that Tesla wouldn't survive if Elon were forced out.
How would you show an interstitial without rewriting the url?
Devices have bugs, corner cases, incomplete implementations of standards, and standards can be ambiguous. The advantage isn’t that Apple have to implement less interfaces, it’s that they have to test with less devices.

I’m sure on paper Linux works with all my devices. In practice it does not.

That’s the gap Apple close with their hardware.
The simplest mechanism to offset higher wages is stock options. If a company needs to attract talent they can use that.
It is common in pretty much any developed country.
That's a car review, not an advertisement. If you actually read it, they don't even like it much.

>Meh.
All-in-all, the Lexus NX 300h is an uninspiring car. If you like hybrids and want to drive one with a luxury badge, the NX 300h is worth looking at. I would have liked the option to suck the battery dry before the internal combustion engine kicks in (à la the plug-in Chrysler Pacifica hybrid). Instead, EV Mode in the NX 300h is limited to low speeds.
That's because Americans are a massive bunch of snowflakes offended at the mere thought of people having different views from them.
> compile-time function evaluation

Sorry, potentially stupid question incoming: I thought this was pretty standard for c++ optimizing compilers. What makes D's version of this special?
there are a ton of companies that reach 150 mln dollar valuation and get sold. You don't hear about those, all you hear is consumer facing giants. Those are probably more likely to be founded by younger people. A 45 year old is probably more likely to sell early, but I am guessing.
They keep on insisting this is the case but they never give reasons why and spend all of their time on the offensive. Cynically it looks like they want in on the action and are trying to extort what they want via character attacks instead of any merit. Like courting lobbyists. All while giving vague and unsubstantiated hype. Nobody needs such parasitic manipulators.

Even the example is a terrible one as it shows a lack of technical knowledge and hype susceptibility. Machine learning is vulnerable to all about spurious correlations - that isn't lack of humanities but not understanding how to apply statistics and the limitations of the tools. Despite what statistics say Nicolas Cage doesn't drown people.

http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=359

That said a good understanding of history can act as a very good guide. Humanities may have their uses but their promoters never seem to be honest.
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Sgt_Apone beat me to it.
You don't need a link shortening service for that. The website and API can just start changing the URL it includes in the tweet if it determines the original URL is a scam.
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Your argument is reasonable. The software I touch is allowed to crash if stdout fails. Maybe zig is indeed not for me.
> I believe that only works if it’s the first item in the array right?

No, it works regardless of that.
Have you used your Facebook credentials to create an account anywhere? That can reactivate a Facebook account automatically, and it can be a pain to decouple them.
Just a personal anecdote but yep, I've seen that one for real.
Capitalism is just taking advantage of Globalization here. So if you're in favor of free trade and open borders, you're also gonna get low paid Ukrainian engineers.
Ideally the humanities forces you to think about values and the why of things, not just the how. Not all goals are worth achieving...you can "change the world" and make it a worse place.

More practically, the humanities teaches persuasion and rhetoric, in writing and in speaking, as well as reading between the lines when reading or listening. I work with engineers...kind of am one myself, though I was trained as a humanist...and I see them dashing themselves on those rocks on a weekly basis.
“This is why we cannot have nice things.”
It seems a bit more like wherever ads can be stuffed, they will be, because they are viewed as a consequence-free additional revenue stream. Once gas pumps had LCDs instead of eight segment displays, it was only a matter of time before someone realized "hey this thing could play ads!"
location.replace removes the back button interaction, i.e. history.

I have always preferred to use it (location.replace) within the same site. Also it allows to better control browser cache policies.

Although it has been almost a decade since, I doubt much has changed.
I try this every single time and it’s never worked.
Thank you, this is incredibly useful (and motivating)!
Here’s how to see if your personal data was stolen in the recent Facebook hack
IMHO seeing the death of someone who may have tortured or killed many others is far from disturbing.
The point of link shortening was to allow links within the constraint of 140 characters.
I just don't think that is true.

> The court system makes complex contracts possible in a way that really only benefits holders of capital.

The court system is not all that expensive to run. Furthermore, just enforcing arbitrary contract would also allow most of these contracts.

> Infrastructure for transportation and information technology benefits everyone, but especially people who own companies that ship goods and deliver services over the internet.

Again, infrastructure is not the major cost of the government. Secondly, many people who make their living form simple stuff like pluming NEED the roads to make money also.

I think its hard to argue that OVERALL, richer people profit more from infrastructure then poorer.

> The police tend to provide better protection to wealthier people in wealthier communities, who have more to lose from property crimes in any case.

Again, the police is actually not a major cost of the government.

Furthermore, property protection is a pretty small part of police work and there a LARGER force of private security already operating to do that.

> Government contracts benefit people who have a stake in the companies that service those contracts.

That point I actually agree with.
3) work for big corp, have idea that can't be done small, and successfully pitch internally. Move vertically internally. Not as sexy, but much more likely to succeed if your goal is the idea.
>Although cable television was never conceived of as television without commercial interruption, there has been a widespread impression...

Cable companies, even though they now act as ISPs, where never conceived to track you browsing history and do with it what they will. And somehow there's a wide spread assumption that they won't.
The judicial system only applies that principle when it's considering locking up someone. When dealing with a grievance between two persons, it's only "preponderance of evidence", meaning "more likely than not".
Right. My concern is mainly that there is a common unspoken view that executions aren't more humane because it's a mix of being a public spectacle and the victim's family wanting the person to suffer.
Probably small, couple inches?

Normally I'm there with you, we stuff way too many TV's everywhere as some kind of sign of success & progress. But in the case of the dreadmill, I can understand. Nobody has figured out how to make those livable.
Phone and email, though my situation is likely different from yours, so that may not work for you.

Maybe start a group blog or private forum or something and try to let folks know they can find you there, but you're phasing out participation from FB?
how does that combine with the world's trash being shipped to East Asia to be dealt with?

is it actually Asian consumers creating the waste, or is it American trash being thrown in Chinese rivers?
That isn't a STEM thing by any means. It is a societal and organizational thing. When their job and/or life depends on it most people do the same thing.
Only when people decide to fight them. Sadly, many people un-aware of their dubious legality honor them even if they are in fact unenforceable.
Yes, but new markets have high network effects and winner-takes-all outcomes. There is a non-zero risk of having a couple of trillionaires and billionaires living isolated from a pariah sociality. That would cause a enormous instability, violence and crime.
Don't believe the World Bank – robots will steal our wages
That's what I was saying. The death penalty is about making a violent example of someone (regardless of whether it is effective). A compassionate execution is a failed execution because it fails to make the statement that was the point of the exercise.
In my mind, black is straight down, while loud is in front of me a little above eye level, rotated clockwise.

You can map any set of concepts into an N-dimensional space if you have a similarity metric between them. If some concepts are anchored in space, they define the overall layout. It could be that loud is related to large, which is related to tall, which is naturally anchored above eye level.
Any OS w/o a POSIX interface is probably a non-starter at this point. Anything POSIX is arguably UNIX. This said, who cares about the kernel? Android is not about the kernel. There are 100x more difficult problems up the stack than the kernel. My guess nothing will happen there. It has been too hard to get Android where it is.
“You do not have to emulate the entire brain,” he said. “But you do have to understand how the brain works and emulate the important parts.”

Nonsense.

What % parts of a bird were necessary to understand for the first successful aircraft?

It may be very helpful all the way to unnecessary, no one knows that yet.
I'm a fan of the spaaaccccce.com URL lengthener

http://spaaaccccce.com/Gotta_go_to_space_Theres_a_star_There... (link to HN homepage)

Full URL since HN abbreviates it:

http://spaaaccccce.com/Gotta_go_to_space_Theres_
a_star_Theres_another_one_Star_Star_star_star_
Star_Space_Are_we_in_space_Oh_oh_oh_This_is_space_
Im_in_space
Looks like a very interesting alternative to Knack (https://knack.com), but without the frontend building aspect.
I mean... we could use a tank. Take the entire head off...
I feel like these are both excellent points.
> If you tame the flash flood [3][5], you can change deserts

This is very hyperbolic. Yes it is helpful but desert are deserts.

Californians have been planting and watering huge in-land areas for decades. All these areas have reverted to pure desert every time there is a drought and water quotas.

Reforestation (and saving the rain forests) are x10 easier and cheaper in rainy regions !!!
Helium would likely be even safer, since any that leaked would rise towards the ceiling/ventilation.
I don’t know what country you work in it might be worth doing an anonymous tip-off to your local competition authority if you’re in Europe. A software product providing affordances for tacit collusion would have a high bar to clear. It might be worth it if it’s even sold in the EU somewhere.
The governor might issue a pardon before you actually inject the drug.