skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not releasing 24 hours after you start working on something. That you can plan for.

The problem is when you discover something to work on and want it released in 24 hours then you are throwing away any existing schedule as you can’t plan for what you don’t know about.

Call it an emergency or just day to day operations, but the only way to work like that is to give up on the idea of a schedule of any kind.
How have you bought happiness with money?
A lot of that ptivate sector inefficiency is because big companies have the artificially cheap ability to fundraise thanks to access to the public markets.
Similar to the way my NN (brain) can solve the TS problem by just guessing the best route. Sure that's <i>a</i> solution.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Hold 2019 CES Press Event
To overgeneralize that subsidies make the "economy as a whole... most people" less better off is to make a false statement. Market efficiency is too narrow a view to constitute coherent policy. In the face of an existential threat, it's inconsequential.
> They have proved these "conspiracy theories" to be true quite a few times.

Such as?

Facebook has explicitly denied spying on people's conversations. I can't think of any situations where they have flat out lied about something like that, so I'm curious to hear what conspiracy theories they have proven true.
This is cool. When looking to muzzle velocity, did you measure the diameter / weight / length of the bullets? It seems there could be some interesting effects there.

1. Interference with the rifle barrel
2. Interference with the shell casing (is there a measure of how tight a shell fits the bullet that changes the velocity / is more interference fit good?)
3. do slight variations in diameter or weight matter more?

Great work!
> But unhealthy and dying people DO consume a lot of health services.

Yeah, sure, and I'm not saying something that kills people early always saves health system money. Just that it can (a lot of analysis of cigarette smoking have showed that reducing smoking in many countries has a net public cost, considering the aggregate of health and public pension payments, and I think in some cases that was true of health costs alone.

> Not to mention the fact that unhealthy levels of pollution can lower the quality of life for a great many citizens, something most people think that governments should care about.

Sure, quality of life is another important concern aside from health costs. I'm definitely not saying deadly pollution is a net good, even if it might save public health costs.
Link: https://hbr.org/1976/03/how-to-run-a-meeting
I could never negotiate that, so I quit the industry after 10-ish years and went into "leaner life-style, honest day's work" type of deal. Best thing I did with my life.

Oh, and Wim Hof breathing. Just the breathing, for now.
Your comment is completely irrelevant to mine, given how I explicitly am not talking about Erdogan, Germany, or Turkish people in Germany.
it would be interesting to conduct the same experiment for N=9 and then N=10 and find out how it scales. Single case contains no information about the function in question.
That's approximately 20€ a year per taxpayer.
You have to understand the liberalization that led up to June 4th 1989 was pretty unprecedented. That it resulted in a horrible knee jerk is really sad.

China was liberalizing at an unprecedented rate in the 80s, to the point that the government didn't immediately react when a bunch of students gathered in Tiananmen square to protest. That could not have happened in 2008 and definitely not 2012.

Hu Jintao was not a reformer, not even close. Power was divested for sure, but the general direction of his reign was a show of opening before the olympics and then quick repression. Xi consolidated power, but did not "reverse course" on liberalization, it was already going in that direction.
Then there is a large amount of the world which you have not seen.

People are still tried and convicted of witchcraft in many African nations. I have a friend who recently had to play diplomat to a small village in a country in North Western Africa because his company was flying a drone near their village. The drone was named the "witch bird" and the village was convinced that my friend's company was practicing dark magic.
Not the person you asked, but I also switched from LastPass to 1Password. The reasons were (1) 1Password's more integrated/more convenient 2FA support, and (2) AgileBits seems to care more about design.
With Trump?

unlikely
Stop you're crashing my BAT investments! /s

https://screenshots.firefox.com/tqACbxJj731kH7Ri/pro.coinbas...
This is Germany:
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.5951409,8.7342041,743343m/da...

Disable labels and look at the beige patches on right center (south of Berlin). The vast majority seem to be open mines, presumably coal.
Look for "Tagebau", for example here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sqNPN

Switch to satellite View.
>I do this by putting on dark filters known as ND or Neutral Density filters that trick the camera into thinking it’s night time forcing a longer shutter speed.

Author is knowledgeable enough about filters but can't figure out manual mode on his camera?
While he is exaggerating earning that much money and living with a flatmate is hilarious. It just shows how insanely inflated are the prices / salaries in the valley.

I can easily afford 860sqft apt for 300k $ while earning just over 60k $
This is more like the FISA courts and NSLs. Not the dragnet stuff.

Though usually the lines are a bit blurry, sometimes secret warrants are issued to access already dragneted data. But those warrants are very far from real oversight.
> There was a phone that people complained about reception on that was displaying the current service signal strength using a realistic algorithm.

> Review sites, etc, complained about it compared to other phones despite it being better in actuality.

> A "fix" was issued. That fix was to use the same signal bar algorithm as everyone else. The same review sites/etc were awash with how much better everyone's reception was and gladness the bug had been fixed.

Source?
There are several physics equations (some I linked to in the article) which discuss this topic. One of the main takeaways I learned from running this experiment and doing some of the math was that my rifle is 900x heavier than the bullet, which is why it is able to accelerate so much faster and leave before the rifle/barrel move at all.

It does bring up a good point though, which I'll cover in the article where I deep-dive into the physics: Knowing the acceleration of the rifle, I should be able to calculate how far it has moved in the same amount of time it took for the bullet to leave.

Thanks for taking the time to read it, and for your feedback!
Exactly! It makes no sense to switch to something else if all your friends are still on Facebook.

Also, who knows if the app you switch to will have less problems in future than Facebook does now.
>> cats tend to be this mix of genius and idiot and weird

I applaud you for trying to explain this. You could be completely right, or wrong... We're talking about cats after all.
>If the error is not nil, there's an error.

And if the value is also not nil? Or if both value and error are nil?

>Monads are hard for people to understand

How are they hard if they are nothing but a mere formalization of a computation step?

>I don't think it's the least error-prone

Sure, typeless errors which you have to check in runtime, which are so tedious that people usually either ignore them or write something like that [1] are the least error prone error handling mechanism possible (beyond having no errors at all)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18732485
Without paywall: https://outline.com/PUAZEj

Much of this can be summarized as "Modern business must acknowledge the nuance of modern demand."

The traditional phrasing 'maximise profit' is still valid - It's people's perception of what 'profit' means that needs to change, or even just perception on how to most effectively gain that profit.

This is a good thing. Consumers are starting to demand that products cater for all stakeholders - Not just themselves. Externalities are being offset. Organizations that purely look at the bottom line (tangible $) are missing the point (and by extension alienating a new and growing type of consumer) - There are hidden costs & benefits to consider. Saving $1 in costs could cost $2 in brand perception.

A more discerning worldwide customer base over time (through education, technology, availability of information) will force capitalism to shift. The premium tier is already transitioning over to more 'holistic' capitalism, where companies will identify and address all externalities. The wedge at the bottom is the issue - The mass produced, 'use once' plastic widgets. Consumers without $ can't afford to look at higher tiers of Maslow's hierarchy, so demand is closer to a simple, traditional model (function + price).

This is an inevitable and arguably sensible way to transition to more ethical capitalism anyway - As Tesla have correctly applied (target premium tier, then work downwards). Discerning customers are the ones with disposable $ - They can afford to shoulder some of the offsets, and they can afford to care about such things and start to demand them.

The question still exists though - Will the 'cheap' end of markets resolve themselves by adopting proven technology from above? (Once premium tiers have introduced maturity and economies of scale for ethical operations, then it is viable for lower quality products). And will all consumers become discerning and conscious enough about externalities to help swing this shift? The cynical answer is no, which moves us to the argument that legislative state intervention is absolutely necessary to prevent future costs* (e.g. mass migration from climate change).

*Comprehensive costs, not just $ costs - Including negative emotion, lost productivity, general wellbeing of the world populace, reduction of poverty, population health, life expectancy and mobility, and opportunity costs
I was disappointed in that one. The concept was great and the world was interesting, but I found the characters to be bland and poorly developed.

The Bloom was a monotonous slog. I wish you spent less time in the Bloom and more time in other parts of the game (or new areas).

The combat was mediocre at best (nothing like Wasteland 2 or Divinity which are great).

Finally, the bugs were terrible. I only finished the game a couple months ago, so it's had plenty of time for them to get fixed. I still ran into one game breaking bug where I had troll the forums to find out how to hand edit a game script to cause an event to trigger so that I could continue the main quest. That sucked, especially since I didn't do anything unusual. The flag just didn't get set and I was too far along in the game to go back to a previous save.

It's the only game I've kickstarted. I did that because I knew there was no other way a game like this was going to be made at the time. I wanted it to exist. I'm still glad I did and glad I played through it, but it could have been much better. I'd put it at the lower end of my list: worth playing if you really like these kinds of games, otherwise pass.
That's hilarious that gives you a fairly competent team of 10-60 developers in Eastern Europe
What if the sun was a bunch of parallel laser beams? Then you could focus them all into a single point.
For package thieves most of the problem is solved, at least for those at home most of the time, like me, by simply having the delivery man RING THE BELL. Why this is not common practice for all deliverers, UPS/FEDEX/AZ etc. is beyond me. If the delivery man is already at the front porch all he has to do is reach for the bell. If the recipient knows about it he can be prompt, prompter than the thieves...
On second look, the thing I thought of doesn't work, so I retract the statement...
Sounds very clearly like "scam" as well!
I just took a look at the roadmap of SC [0].

3 underwhelming gameplay features and 11 ship designs? Other games like Warframe tend to suffer from feature creep because they keep adding dozens of features which do not integrate deeply with the rest of the game. (I'm looking at you Archwing mode) StarCitizen's development pace in comparison feels rather anemic and primarily focused on all the damn ships people have preordered for thousands of dollars.

[0] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/1-Star-Citi...
Which, hypocritically and ironically, Ferris does not live by. He works almost constantly, and his business isn't automated and entirely dependent on self-promotion. I wouldn't call a company with a bus factor of 1 and which requires physical speaking appearances and engagements automated. McDonalds is automated. Amazon is automated. Writing, speaking engagements, podcasts, is the opposite of automation.

The 4 hour work week is a lesson in marketing not automation: Selling desire (not having to work) is very, very effective. Another way to look at it: What made Tim Ferris famous and rich? Selling the 4 hour work week.
Bounce raises $1.2M to tap local retailers for short term storage
My wife and I have chosen to live in Vancouver twice. Once in 1989 after ten years in Tokyo (8) and Copenhagen (2) and again in 2012 after six years in Cambridge MA. I grew up in Montreal. We chose Vancouver for some simple reasons. Direct flights to Tokyo, decent sushi, a culturally diverse environment in which to raise our multicultural children (now grandchildren), an interesting arts scene (in the 80s and 90s, it has declined as housing prices have gone up) and a relatively open society and political system. Economic opportunity was not a factor as I have always worked globally. I also prefer to be off centre, a bit away from the cities that think they are important like the Bay Area, NYC, Tokyo, Toronto, London etc. as I find that little of deep creative interest comes from these places. Innovation thrives on the edges and where different cultures rub up against each other.
Right, but that point would be exactly as hot as the surface that the light was coming from, and no hotter.

(Is the argument as I understand it).
Autism involves a large-scale reduction in RNA editing
This comment is conveniently forgetting that Utah taxes gas. In fact, one of the ballot items was the increase this tax.
Fake whisky ‘infiltrating’ rare Scotch market
Henry Cavill is SC’s more notable get [0]. Nicolas Cage is unfortunately mired in mostly VOD projects to deal with his reported financial problems.

0: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/63481/superman-star-henry-cav...
Yeah because avg salaries in germany for IT related jobs are just around 50kE. Not that hard to compete...well the taxes would kill your income anyway beyond certain point.
Not sure if its related to the acquisition, but if you're a firefox user the app has gotten very slow in past few years. I think the issue is related to the move to chrome extensions but really that shouldn't be an excuse. Lots of add-on have done this move and haven't had a problem.
This has happened to me several times as well. I use them with the temporary container tabs add-on (so, short-lived containers by default, plus a selection of specific sites that I retain information for, with strict cross-domain isolation), and let me tell you, losing that configuration is painful after setting it up.

The fact that you can't sync container configuration between devices is also a huge pain point, when you have a nontrivial setup.

I still use them, but I accept that I'm going to endure some pain now and then; I can't recommend Firefox containers to people who just want to get work done right now.
Less meat is still meat. Never said it wasn't necessary.
Tarrifs tend to be complex and not mirrored on both sides for both items

For instance when Europe put a tax on American chicken, America replied with a tax on their Trucks.
It’s a bit of a silly term but what it describes seems like a sensible thing. It’s meaningless if you’re only worried about CO2 but it’s significant when considering pollution that affects air quality.
Exactly. And isn't it curious how many down votes the initial bland observation elicited? Strange.
>but I figured the trade offs between those and totalitarianism was self evident if you lived in one, I guess I was wrong.

Have you lived in that totalitarianism, though? And are you aware of their perceptions of the shortcomings in your society?

Speaking more broadly, though, how great you think life is under certain circumstances is a function of your model of the world, and thus your ideology (once you get beyond food, shelter and security).

Another aspect I've found: People who come from a country with a lot of "problems" have developed their minds to be relatively tolerant/immune to them. But small issues in the country they move to are large for them, as they've not built mental defenses against them. Don't underestimate this aspect. I recall once when I was in school a conversation between two foreign students (from different countries). A was complaining about B's culture, and was itemizing the headaches. B countered with all the problems A's culture had. A responded with "Yeah, but I know how to deal with all those problems!"
AT&T also did that with the 4G rollout – my iPhone 4S, which lacked 4G hardware, would display 4G in the status bar, which was especially cruel since they had a huge capacity problem and the average speeds were in the double-digit Kbps range.
Well, I don't define "better" as having the higher price. From the point of view of the economy as a whole, efficient is better than inefficient, because it can produce more outputs for the same inputs. This isn't just abstract - people can use those outputs.

Tragedy of the commons is an issue, but subsidizing a coal mine doesn't seem much like a tragedy of the commons issue to me. It seems more like your last words: a "political optimum", that is, something that produced votes, because the mine owners and workers want the subsidies much more strongly than the taxpayers want to not have to pay. That may be politically optimum, but it's not morally, socially, or economically optimum.
Incredible, thank you for sharing.
Note that taking minutes at a meeting is a skill and its possible to be embarrassingly bad at it. Consider finding a few episodes of Car Talk, My Favorite Murder, or another podcast with at least 2 people talking back and forth, putting it at 1.1x speed, and taking notes on that.
If you're thinking "but my employer will never do this", there's another alternative: you can negotiate.

As an existing employee you are hugely valuable, you know how things work, the tech stack, the business, who to talk to... Replacing that is hard. So you have a good negotiating position.

It's also possible to negotiate for a shorter workweek at new jobs, though it's more difficult.

I've done this at 3 different companies, and you'll see in the comments here that others have as well. E.g. I interviewed one programmer who has been working 4 days a week for 15 years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...

And if you want to learn how to do this but aren't sure where to begin, I've condensed my experience and research into a book: https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/
1Password cites several on their support page:

https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/
Design.Google
Western Union doesn't claim to be accepting donations on creators behalfs.

Western Union can refund money sent if it hasn't been collected by the recipient.

Western Union doesn't require a minimum amount of money be sent to a recipient before they collect.

Really, it is 1 & 2 together that seem to mark this clearly as fraud. 3 doesn't help either.
This is a wonderful thread for its diversity of choices, acceptance of other people's choices and openness to learn.
It does indeed sound like a mess.

Keybase had a better idea: tie various identities to something stronger (private key). That way you can say: I'm X on reddit, Y on HN, Z on YouTube, etc. I think Brave could follow the same model, just make it seamless (or partner with Keybase).

You could take it further. Why one and not multiple owners? Imagine you have a handle H on HN and then that handle publishes 5 messages of "My public key is XYZ". Then if someone were to donate to H through the system you could split it between participants.

And you could run with that! Why even split if you could build some crypto system of control on top of that through smart contracts that lets you basically manage a small organization.
> If software is a process of evolution and continuously building on previous work, copyleft licenses represent an evolutionary dead end, while liberal licenses represent branches of the tree that can live and progress much longer.

This strikes me as not quite right and a bit out of place for an essay that's otherwise pretty thoughtful. Copyleft is a niche or a branch, not a dead end.

There's a fundamental question facing anyone approaching the economics of a software project (and the economics of many other kinds of projects too): how much of the value of the project do you try to control/capture vs how much do you try to share in an effort to multiply the value? Source licensing questions are a subset of this: how much of the value of the project lies in certain levels of control of the source vs the prospect of a community around the source.

The copyleft licenses are one answer to the question: if the utility value of software developed by an active community around the source strictly exceeds the value of any one player controlling access to the source, control the source to maintain community property of contributions, but let anyone work out their answer to the value capture question via the utility of the software or their knowledge about it.

It isn't the only answer and I think it's fair to say that not every useful piece of software can be developed or maintained on that model, which is why I'd say it's an adaptation to a niche.

A niche is pretty different than a dead end, though.

This also addresses some odd conceptions of copyleft being incompatible with improving ones own lot or based in premature adoption of Star Trek values.
They just explained it oddly. ND filters reduces the amount of light so it is possible to do long exposures during the day. If they tried to use manual long exposure without ND, the photo would be fully white from all the light coming in.