skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! It is either an intentional sarcasm or Mr.Buzz is a 'know-it-all' like it was portrayed in the First Man movie.
I feel the median would be a more interesting statistic. Could be a few people getting most of it.
Most of the problems my team faces today are due to poor architecture decisions, often made by people who express a similar opinion as you have. Coding is the relatively easy part.
OK–more than half way through! In Part 4 of my GraphQL series, let's create some authors out of thin air and publish a few books. Implementing mutations on the server will help us with our whimsical mission.

I'll be releasing one part a day for the next week (in case you'd like some holiday travel reading). Here's what you can look forward to.

Part 5: Mutations (client implementation)

Part 6: Subscriptions (server implementation)

Part 7: Subscriptions (client implementation)

Have you gotten stuck at any point so far? I would love to get your questions and comments.
That's not really what I'm asking, no.

I've been programming since I was a child in the 80s basically, but virtually all of my career has been focused on sysadmin/DevOps/infrastructure and I don't have coding side projects at the moment.

I'm looking for advice from engineers like me who were still very hands-on on the DevOps side of things + had good technical vision owing to a long experience, and ended up part of a co-founding team.

Did they have to purposefully decide to hone their full-stack dev skills first in order to become more attractive to potential business co-founders ? Or were they able to make use of their existing infra/backend-oriented skillset, maybe by teaming up with another tech co-founder with complimentary skills on the product/front-end dev side ?

I suspect one of the mental hurdles is that you have to transition from a "run" mindset where you spend most of your day taking other people's code live and operating it (what you build is "just" the infra and systems around it), to a "build" mindset where you actually code the business logic (but don't necessary understand how to run it reliably :) )
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It is based on a mixture of tenure and equity. I’ve seen reports of new hires apparently getting between 300K-500K.
> Musk and Bezos, they're talking about putting colonies on Mars, that's nonsense.

Probably kind of people which were telling "They're talking about landing rockets, that's nonsense".
"The percentage of men who die violently (as in, at the hands of other humans) is around 25%."

Did you mean to qualify this? You meant at some particular point in time?
“I've been studying their moves carefully”

What moves specifically?
Tying this to tenure at the company as well as their existing stock holdings means it's mostly an opportunity for some form of liquidity for current employees. I don't expect it will result in immediate attrition, and likely will work as a great recruiting tactic. But, the details in the article make it fairly clear that most employees are not getting 1.3M.
can't tell that from the outside... and if you're looking for people who are trying to hide illegal activity you actually care about prosecuting, I'd bet there's a higher overlap with the tor users than non-tor users. Even if there isn't the cops probably think so...
I liked the mistborn series even better. Check it out. I still can’t figure out how they’re related though.
Toasted whole grain bread from organic grains grown, milled and baked in your local community is also carcinogenic.
We live in a sick (figuratively and quite literally) world where people who create an addicting, health damaging product easily accessible to and abused by kids are celebrated for some kind of "success" and rewarded financially as a result of their immoral creation.
What is the cost:benefit ratio to long term colonization of an inhospitable planet?
If you have this kind of standard then literally everything is machine-readable, even handwriting with proper machine learning models. That's quite clearly not the spirit of the wording.
I mean it did go to space, numerous times. Just because the budgeting projections were way off doesn't make it a failure.
In somewhat related news, the US almost managed to get rid of teenage smoking, but Juul has been so successful that teenage smoking is back at the level of roughly 15 years ago.

https://twitter.com/themehakvohra/status/1076433054099492864

This is not a 'good' company.
This basically describes it: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320551-Li...

> Multiple mobile devices and Android tablets are not currently supported.

Also for me anyways I have changed numbers 3 times in the last 6 years. Once when I moved to Iceland, once when I moved back to Canada, and once due to abuse on my number. Having a service that can be tied to email instead of phone number is awesome.

As far as I understand it Signal is basically considered the most secure option out there. After looking at lots of options which primarily included Telegram, Wire, Keybase, and Signal I settled on Wire as the reasonable compromise.

I actually really liked Keybase. It was just a little too complicated for random family members.

> I also love that I can set messages to expire and they're gone for everyone.

Wire has that feature as well. Works on direct messages and can be set on group chats as well.
It's built into UWP

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/data-access/sql...
After a (slightly more than) cursory skimming through the code, AutoComplete appears to be an auto complete library without fuzzy searching (i.e. searching 'comptuer' would not match 'computer') that has a built in approach for showing why the library matched the results (i.e. searching 'comp' would show 'computer' as a result with the 'comp' part highlighted).

Fuse.js is purely just a fuzzy searching library. It's entirely up to the developer to do the front end (including the highlighting).

Based on AutoComplete.js's roadmap [0], it's pretty clear OP intends for this to become Fuse.js but with a front end component added on top.

[0] Primarily item 'Sort rendered results': https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/#/?id=_6-roadm...
I’m curious, what do you do for work in Iowa?
It was bad UX because people couldn't easily tell the difference between a vorpal bunny and a weak one. The name wasn't enough. UO had a "consider" style skill but no one used it (I forget the name, "evaluate" or something). Eventually, "consider" was streamlined in MMOs into color coding mobiles, a la WoW. But in UO, people relied on the creature's sprite to assess difficulty.

The energy vortex sprite was a different Easter Egg iirc. And sometimes, you could get energy vortices that were llama-shaped...
We brought those astronauts home after the mission.

What's the point of a suicide mission to Mars?
I would contribute towards a Wall St Journal full page ad "SQLite: Most widely used DB in the world" with little misleading graphs comparing to Oracle and DB2
pretty sure he makes money when folks pay him to have the site cache the pages you bookmark in case they go away. Also allows you to search the content of the bookmarked pages, not just the stuff you typed in when bookmarking it.

I don't check how quickly the cached copies are created after bookmarking. All i knows is that they're there when the site has disappeared. He's got about 7.8GB of stuff stored for me and i've been happy with the service.
1. Lots of lore and whatnot. More than people give credit for, actually.

1a. The prototype was actually based on U6's rendering engine, not U8.

2. Far too long a story. UO2 was a bit of a mess technologically, IMHO. EA disliked Origin in general. UO continued to do well and the question of why have a sequel came up. And more. But I left OSI before it was killed so can't say for sure.
I imagine many had a similar view of sailing across the Atlantic before word spread of riches in the New World.
I think the point is that we didn't need it to get to space. There were cheaper alternatives.
Oh, you could tame animals to make them your pets.

One Halloween I logged into UO, and my character had been transformed into a deer, as some kind of a sick joke! All my inventory was gone, and all I could do was deer stuff.

Then some bastard came along and TAMED ME. That totally sucked! I had to follow him around obediently all day. I guess I'm lucky he didn't skin me and make me into leather armor.
Many would love to risk their lives. I would. Some of us think like explorers.

If I lived a long time ago I would rather have died alone with arrows in my back as an explorer of the American West, than in a warm bed in my old age having never explored or tested fate.

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain
> In the Ultima online case the skins were just worth essentially vendor cash, but without that market force in the middle, the economy tanked. Now if vendors paid less and less for hides as the rate of hides redeemed for cash increased, it would provide a natural limiter on the value of that activity.

I don't think players were killing the animals for the skins, I think they just indiscriminately mowed over everything for skill gain or just to kill stuff.
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How to help an entrenched organization change direction, improve culture and engineering. Not what I expected to do this year, but it’s definitely the main event.
It tends to be hit and miss. Some places have it work well and sometimes it just hasn't gone through. I'll have to take a look at Sherpaa, I hadn't heard of it before.
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Waste of time, easy to get around by asking an American friend to forward the data.
Food for thought: Sending live human soldiers to fight Bugs is literally sending them food, and thus perpetuating the "problem"
the last sentence from jim lovell is not something i'd heard before and makes you think. on his view of the earth from the moon (wow):

"When I looked at the Earth itself... I started to wonder why I was here, what's my purpose here… it sort of dawned me," he said.

"And my perspective is that God has given mankind a stage on which to perform. How the play turns out, is up to us."
Well, if you're trying to pose an ethical problem that involves making a hard choice, the person who has to make the choice is the one who has the problem.

But it might be interesting to consider a situation where there is no one who is obviously presented with a choice. For example, in the lifeboat example, what if there were no boat officer at all? I.e., no one with any kind of recognized authority to make choices? Might be an interesting variation to consider.
(1) IPFS is a service, because it is a single database with consistent information. It is somewhat unusual in that it is widely distributed and is owned by multiple independent actors, but that does not make it any less of a service.

An example of set of protocols is HTTP. There is no single "HTTP content cloud" -- each HTTP server is unique and provides different content.

(2) I defined "serverless" as "does not need the server to operate" (we traditionally ignore static files servers in this definition). So the case of "collaborative text editor" is a great example, because there are two very distinct products using this name:

- Some of them are designed for throw-away documents and have little expectation of durability, like collabedit -- these could be truly serverless, with all data stored in LocalStorage (of course a commercial entity would still at least maintain a TURN server, thus making it not fully serverless)

- Some of them are designed for more permanent purpose, like Google Docs. For those, even if you use peer2peer synchronization, you still need a central server. After all, you don't want to lose your life's work if you cleared your browser state.

My assumption with most of the databases is that unless mentioned otherwise, they are durable and capable. For OrbitDB, it looks like if you want your database to survive browser cookie clearing and/or to have more than LocalStorage limit, you need to maintain a real server on your infrastructure. So it is not serverless.
I think there's enough clearanace stuff there that it might be helping to cut down on waste. It's surprising how much junk there is there, and much of it looks like it wasn't intended to wind up at a dollar store. If not for a dollar store would it wind up at a landfill?
Smoking cigarettes?
They weren't just going across the Atlantic just because. They were looking for a new trade route with Asia. Discovering the New World was just a fluke.
in which case the source of nitrates is plant or mineral. oh the irony
I am excited to see the uptake of 5G next year. As far as I understand it’s going to be a price similar to our current 4G plans.

I would love to see a network that is much slower (maybe 2G speeds) that is ultra cheap to use.

IoT and other low bandwidth systems could use this. Hell, even a free system based on mesh networking would be really cool!
Philip Morris and other old tobaccos always paid extremely well. Had to. Something to attract and retain talent despite actively killing people.

Coming from say, McKinsey, was a lottery jackpot - and a ticket to hell.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. I feel the same way. I’ve been invited to multiple social events that were largely organized on Facebook since deleting my own account. I was always informed either directly or indirectly through mutual friends, usually by phone or SMS/iMessage. I’ve also been made aware of multiple events I did not attend because I do not consider myself close friends with those hosts and I’m happy to avoid that awkward ‘has not responded’ status that Facebook would mark me with.

In a world with email, SMS, and iMessage I do not fear being left out by my true friends.
For all the criticism LinkedIn receives here, this is the kind of situation where it shines. If you have a well-developed LI network, there's a good chance you can search up somebody at Harper-Collins there, find that they're a 2nd or 3rd degree connection, and get at least a weak sort of "warm intro". Best case, you might get a very powerful warm intro from somebody they know well.

Here's another thing you can do... search LinkedIn for people who previously worked at Harper Collins, and cold email a few of them and say "Hey, I see you used to work at HC, I'm trying to work on a deal with them, could I pick your brain for a few minutes". Quite a few people will likely happily agree to a brief phone call / video chat, to help you out. Talk to a couple of such people and there's a good chance one of them will be able to point you in the right direction, and maybe even give you a warm introduction to the person you need to talk to.
> "When I looked at the Earth itself... I started to wonder why I was here, what's my purpose here… it sort of dawned me," he said.

> "And my perspective is that God has given mankind a stage on which to perform. How the play turns out, is up to us."

I think they are saying; that there's nothing out there that humans are capable of taking advantage of. If going to the Moon has any benefit, then it is to point out clearly that we shouldn't explore more and stay right here on earth, and taking care of whatever we mere human can take care of. If going to the moon is that hard and costly, then how does this compare going to the mars? Even if we did managed to, which few selected population can reap the benefit? Is it worth it for us to pay so much civilian money only for it to be a special planet for very few selected capitalist from earth?

At some point, we just had to lose our interest in space exploration. Just because there's too much of this world to keep us busy with.
And nitrates are likely only carcinogenic if cooked at very high heat, i.e don’t burn your bacon and best not to eat cured too often anyway.

Source: On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee
Haha, I’ve never considered the similarities between “The Producers” and Star Citizen before, but it’s worthwhile to think about.

Actually shipping a finished product would turn off the donation stream...
You may be right, but it’s also possible that you are projecting your own bias onto what the author is doing.

If you read his pieces, it’s clear that his focus is on Bayesian probability and reasoning in general.

That question is interesting, because you can certainly read it as a leading question.

But you can also just take it at face value. One answer might be that the fraction is likely to be close to 100%, since there is a good chance that the population is just one, and we know that she actually did.

What fraction of people can tell the difference between a Bayesian economist asking a question with an uninituitive answer, and someone with a ‘falsified’ agenda to push?
Also streaming requires reliable high-speed internet. This is easy to take for granted when you live in a major metro area, but for more rural users, high speed internet may not be available at all.
> Juul just got a $2 billion dividend payment from its new investor Altria. It decided to give that money to employees.

From tobacco giant investor Altira. This feels like kind of a "sorry that you now work for a tobacco company that kills people" bonus.
From 1990 to 2016, dementia has more than doubled
Right, the Russians were sending LEO payloads for < $2500/pound. Event our own old rockets were much cheaper.
From the graph in the parent post, it looks like Juuling, not "real" (as in inhale-burning-tobacco) smoking.
I think we're in danger of attaching the stigma of tobacco to something which is far less damaging. Vaping need not be zero harm for it to be socially acceptable; research shows that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, that red meat is carcinogenic, and I imagine that despite recent legalisation efforts marijuana poses a health threat.

Let's not become the 'no fun allowed' society.
Could you please elaborate on what exactly enables stack allocation of intermediate values?

Is it a direct result of the semantics of delimited continuations? (perhaps because closures are passed as parameters and don't capture variables)

Or is it enabled via staging or optimizations?
It seems like the solution here would be to have a government agency that counts how many government agencies there are. I believe that could be done with an executive order but correct me if I'm wrong.
I can think of one instance in which this does not seem to hold true - Dance Dance Revolution, at least for me, was more about reacting than planning. Once I got to the point where I had to memorize and think ahead to the next steps that were about to show up, I lost interest.
I know a few people on the Juul and they're addicted to it. They do say it helped them quit cigarettes, but at the same time, people who never smoked a cigarette are also addicted to Juul. So it's a 'better' alternative for cigarette smokers but a gateway drug to others.
Are you speaking of an e-cig company or social media? Is physical health less important than mental health?
Perhaps the parent commenter is 50.
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I had this same discussion 4 years ago on hacker news.

I couldn’t convince anyone. Perhaps if some of the people realize how much time has past, they’ll realize that we can move much faster with robots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540462
Could you provide a link to the Kaggle book? A quick search reveals quite a plethora, and I'm not sure to which exactly you refer.
> My assumption is that these habitable zones would be required to generate the necessities of life in an environment devoid of any of them.

Mars is not "devoid" of these things. It requires some energy to get them into usable form, but all of the basic chemical elements needed for life are there on Mars. Similar remarks apply to many other planets and similar objects (like satellites of the gas giants).
Life risk aside, the rovers are in many ways significantly less capable than humans. For instance, it took decades for us to send a rover than could "see" just a bit into the martian rocks by hitting them with a laser or using a small drill. During the moon landings, you just had an astronaut hit one with a rock pick and look inside. It took decades for us to be comfortable sending a rover with a small shovel which could only dig a few inches into the martian soil. During the moon landings, you just had an astronaut with a shovel...

So far, no robot we've sent has been better at tool use than a human. Sure, they don't require life support or consumables, so their longevity is extraordinary, but man, there are so many things that took decades to test for with the robots that a single manned mission would've been able to solve in a few days.
Yeah my pi-hole blocked this one too and after reading the comments here I am glad :)
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The cost:benefit of colonizing the new world was immense and known prior to widespread colonization, esp. in the tropical parts.

Settling mars is like colonizing the Sahara desert, except this time with no oxygen or camels.
Would traveling across water to open new trade route to make more money, and just happening to stumble across fertile, richly-resourced new territory... be even a remotely good comparison to make with traveling across space for years, getting irradiated, landing on an inhospitable planet with no breathable air, nearly constant cold temperature, no timely resupply or assistance, and essentially no hope of return to home planet either for humans or for any valuable mined resources?

The value proposition just isn't there for colonization of Mars. If you want to say you did it for bragging rights, then just say it. Anything else is foolishness.
Drinking gets you buzz, marijuana gets you all sorts of different kinds of highs depending on the strain, tobacco gets you... Kind of a little more awake I guess? I don't remember any positive side effects of smoking other than companionship with other smokers when I step outside, which I could easily get by just walking up and saying hello.
Gatwick drone police say 'there may never have been a drone at all'
Various cryptocurrency related things like Solidity, ERC20 protocol.
Compare that to losing one’s permanent residency, which can happen because of something as simple as forgetting to tell the government that you’ve moved.
> Anders went to space in ‘68.

On Apollo 8, which got to orbit the Moon but not land there. Anders didn't get any further Apollo missions, so he never got a chance to actually land on the Moon. I wonder if that might be coloring his opinions.
To be fair, vaping is probably safer than smoking actual cigarettes. That being said, vaping/Juul has undone a decade of progress in reducing teen smoking. It should not be celebrated.

I don't understand anyone that intentionally starts vaping. I'm a senior in college and Juuls are fairly common on campus, so it's not just a high school/teenager thing.
I don't understand - are you saying vaping == smoking? This equality test fails.
Shouldn't payment processors, and sites like patreon that hang off them, which ONLY bow to the law, and nothing but the law, be a huge, un(der)served niche right now, steadily becoming bigger?

It'll be $next_year soon, there needs to be better than e.g. this, which was in the suggested videos sidebar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7hvZee-PQ&t=8m07s
Vaporizing nicotine is unlikely to be as harmful as smoking long term. Nicotine itself is only moderately addictive without the concomitant administration of MAIO inhibitors. However, the incentive structure being what it is I somehow doubt vape companies will be able to resist creating similar cocktails.
True, but it's going to be hard to convince a small group of people to live a miserable, unrewarding live in an unforgiving desert in the off-chance humanity ends in sudden catastrophe.
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