skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically this kind of work has already been done. It’s usually not described in these terms but there is a lot of analysis of What Works in the field of screenwriting manuals.

“Save The Cat” is one that’s really narrowed in on What Sells. It’s not about what makes a “great” movie, it’s about what makes a movie that makes a good profit, and it’s kind of hilarious how much that book conflates profit-making films with great films. I recommend reading it with a very cynical eye as to what biases it’s author has before you go taking it as gospel.
>That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a percentage of borrowers.

That only makes sense if its not implemented like taxes are. For example if when you exceed 50k and your repayment rate for the first 10k of income past 50k is 2%, and you earn 59k, you would take home $58,820. Why would you not want to take home this extra income.

Is of course is assuming it works like taxes in the US (which it probably does). The same kind of bad logic occurs in the US when people won't take a raise because they don't want to "jump tax brackets", but they don't realize you only pay the higher bracket rate on the income that was in that bracket!
I mean, "Soylent"?
> ~$19k USD

Was this with room and board? FWIW, there are many college degrees in the USA that are in the $7k/yr range, and many of then were around $20k total prior to the last round of state-level austerity in the USA.

Getting a US college degree for under $20k is still very possible if you a) commute and b) do the first two years at a community college (typically closer to $2k/yr, or $18k-$21k for 2 years cc + 2 years state college).

With a bit more public subsidy (or differently targeted subsidy), many US colleges could be well within the $20k USD range for commuting students. And some courses of study already are.
I wonder what will happen to all those "lifetime" tool warranties once Sears closes?
I understand, but in this fictional situation, I added an explanation why that question was ok (because Sancho mentioned his family often, implying that is regular subject in their conversation). Maybe I should also make it clear that it is not always ok, depend on the relationship
Well certainly nobody feels its necessary to run illegal corn growing operations in national parks. But as long as legalized drugs have a significant price premium over black market drugs, then incentives for this behavior would still be in place.
That's effectively how tax brackets work in several countries that have a null tax rate for people in the lowest income bracket. So only after you reach the next bracket you start paying any income tax.
I did my first 2 semesters in community college then transferred to a CSU (California State University), and my experience with the teachers were roughly similar. But CSUs don't focus as much on research so maybe that is part of why.
Reminds me of this announcement from AWS nine years ago: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-qc2-the-quantum...
Okay. I'm thinking that animal suffering ought not be the metric here, in that case.
Valuation is in the NYT article :)

The model scales very well. We move people from low(er) income to high(er) income. That’s how it should be, and there’s a whole lot of that to be done.
If I am not mistaken, later versions of Delphi removed the restrictions on declaration order.

I am with you on performance for graphics stuff, hence why I never bought into stuff like disabling bounds checking on the whole application is a must for performance.
There's a selection effect that means that the best job for you might not be the best job among people who have that job. Software development is notoriously full of people who are really really into programming. If you're not that kind of person, getting into programming isn't very actionable advice.

Like, professional programmers as a class are winners of a fairly strict meritocratic tournament - either you can code to an acceptable standard, or you can't. Of course it's good to be employed in a manner that's after winning a difficult competition. Like, there's a difference between how good it is to be an NBA player and how good of a decision it is to try to become an NBA player.
I'd agree with the general point of the article. There seems to be a sort of self-styled counter-culture movement emerging around sites like Quillette and it's basically a very clever branding because it sells. Like the author I haven't found anything great or original on the website, what sets its apart is its opposition to the 'mainstream media'.

When I see this debate I just have to think of Kissinger's remark on academic discourse: "Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small".

I have serious trouble believing for a second that a group of liberal college professors, affluent middle-class inhabitants and million follower podcasts hosts is somehow seriously ostracised.

This has always existed and these back and forth knife fights about who has the right to speak with authority in small intellectual or academic circles is as old as history. What concerns me a little is to what degree people capitalise on this both financially (on say Patreon) or culturally by declaring the decline of Western civilisation, and how it is seeping into mainstream, who would in my opinion be better off ignoring all of it.
There were breaking UN sanctions when they were in place.
Or they could just drag Windows in to the world of sanity and store everything as UTF-8 (at last) instead of the 16 variant... Then endien-ness and a bunch of other bugs no longer matter.
Twitter will test new conversation features out in the open
I agree with your memory. I think they would undersell bestsellers, but Amazon has always been meh on price.
It might be cynical but it seems you are moving from a bad system to another bad one.

In the current system, students are the customers, in your new systems, students are the products.

How will you ensure that your private interest are aligned with individuals, and society needs ? You are currently avoiding that issue by targeting high demand/high paying jobs but on a larger scale those issue will arise
Really? You think those guys got where they were by throwing out random ideas? The point is that with the right skills and chutzpah, solo founders can make it.
The payments work the same way as tax brackets, so say 10% of your salary above 50k. Would you keep your salary lower to stay in a lower tax bracket?
I went to a middle ranked university for undergrad, but it was ranked top 2 in the country for undergraduate teaching.

Undergraduate teaching ranks should be weighted more in overall rankings since that's supposed to be the school's primary function and all.
> It's a scummy business but without it bail bonds wouldn't exist, or at least be as widely available as they are today.

And...is that bad? The availability of bonds factors in to the level at which bail in a money bail system is set to give reasonable assurance of compliance, so the main effect of available bail bonds is to make purchasing a bond instead of paying cash necessary by driving up money bail prices.

> Maybe there are better systems for ensuring compliance with orders to appesr in court than that of Bail

Certainly there are better ideas than money bail structured to support a commercial bond industry.

> but as long as the concept of Bail exists, private Bail Bonds will have to be a necessary part of the system

No, because bail systems outside of the US and the Phillipines (as well as D.C. and California in the US) are not money bail systems.
Another update: I've made the "signup/login" banner button to navigate to the registration page (with option to see login) instead of the login page by default. This should a much better flow as most users clicking the button will be those registering. Thanks for the tip!
> Is it stepped at all? Do you owe nothing before 50k and then once you cross that threshold you now owe money? That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a percentage of borrowers.

You make no repayments below 50k but it when it kicks in starting at 50k it's something like 1.5% of income, with increments as you earn more. Combined with the fact that it's (1) real-interest free, (2) payments are collected by the Tax Office and automatically added on to your tax bill, and (3) Australia is really expensive, there's not much incentive to stay below 50k just to avoid paying it. Historically there have also been large discounts (10-20%) just for voluntarily paying it early too.
A private office costs between 1,000 to 22,000 a month in ny city. Why not rent a house or apartment the privacy would be better and beer for all.
if something is rotating clockwise with respect to surroundings. let us say,
and we were to then turn the object 180 degrees in a plane perpendicular to its rotation, the result is an object that is now rotating COUNTERCLOCKWISE with respect to its surroundings.

In summary, an impact with a another rotating object and transfer of momentum is not the only way. the object could have undergone a pole flip.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18857220
I remember when I climbed Guadalupe peak in west Texas. I got to the gate around 3:50, and 4pm is when they close new permits for camping near the summit. Well I start climbing and because I started to late the sun set before I even reached the camp site. So I set up my tent nearly in the dark as the temperatures were dropping. Well, I knew it was going to be cold, but I lived in Texas at the time and didn't really remember what to do in sub freezing temperatures overnight. Stayed up nearly the entire night shivering.

But I'll never forget the sun rise up the flat Texas horizon from the tallest peak in the state. It was so beautiful and peaceful there. Clear skies, everything was perfect. I don't really remember the night before anymore, just that I need to pack some extra layers next time.
I really like the "don't be a hero" advice. I think people often try to do two really hard things at the same time. Wake up earlier and start running. Log all of my eating and eat less. You need to pick the easier one and go with that first, even if it doesn't get results right away.
Would your tune change if by not agreeing to sell your own data, the service charges you money?
Counter point: I can probably brew alcohol for cheaper than I can buy it. But the convenience, availability, and legality makes up for the cost.
Interesting question - continued learning is directly linked to statically better cognitive function and fewer brain disorders in elderly people, but that doesn't necessarily mean that learning as an adult is important for operating effectively in society. So, I guess that would mean that it's not really necessary to retain new information at a certain point in your life. As long as you can still access information that you've already obtained (which I believe alcohol exposure over a prolonged time can affect)
Tim Cook’s total remuneration jumped 22% in 2018
i tried at rubis diner the 1.0 version and i was surprised how good it was but was way too salty and krispy like some alternative meat but still meat. they are on the right track so am expecting greatness for 2.0.
The transience bit is going to become a huge problem over the next decade. I've personally had 3 phone numbers since college (an out-of-state # doesn't mesh well with my career and I've moved several times) and at least one of the individuals who picked up one of my old numbers is the kind of person who has potential for serious run-ins with the law. My mother called my old # once and I guess it was auctioned to company that has a big market in prepaid "burner" phones. In the era of "Big Data" I can't even begin to imagine the sort of hilarious comedy (sarcasm) that can result from the two of us being linked together by what has become a primary source of personal identification.
Customer ids may or may not be ok. You will get different guidance on that. For instance cookie ids are personal data.
You can label issues to make that distinction. I've seen quite a few maintainers dismiss issues for similar reasons, much to the chagrin of the issue maker. It's kind of disrespectful just to pooh-pooh someone's issue.
How are students the products now? We only get paid when they are successful, that doesn’t mean they’re not the customer.

The service we provide is helping them into a good job, so of course hiring companies are stakeholders, but companies are the customers.
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We can estimate. Assume that the OP needs 8 hours, like most of us do. That means a 9pm bedtime for adequate sleep. The OP mentions that the first call is at 7am. Assuming a 40 hour workweek, with an hour for lunch, that's a 4pm clock-out. This gives OP 5 hours in the evening/afternoon and 2 hours in the morning before work, and an hour for lunch, for a total of 8 hours 'off'. This is a very do-able schedule for morning people. Mixing kiddos into this is not too bad when they are young, but as they turn into teenagers, this is likely to shift towards later hours as the teenagers shift too.

Personally, my natural times are a 8am wake-up and an 11pm bedtime. I need the extra hour and I'm a night-owl. Couple that with a mandatory 8am stand-up and 6pm 'clock-out' time for my job's work schedule. It's ... less than fun in Corporate America.
Jet engines have unbelievably powerful suction on their intake side. A fence wouldn't stop anything; a bird or drone would just get broken up into smaller pieces as it's sucked through the filter.

Similarly there's no fence that could keep this crab out: https://youtu.be/AMHwri8TtNE
Exactly this, the CEO of a publicly traded company would have to answer to the board of directors and investors. That would add resistance to spending lots of money on something unproven. Publicly traded tech companies get much more freedom in this regard. Plus just the amount of institutional cruft (technology, policy, procedure, personnel) in a large/old company like Sears.
This is a good article on solid state batteries. But I think it is all wrong in claiming that we will have to wait for them before BEV autos will take over.

The fact is that BEV's are already better than ICE's in many ways, and the best, Tesla's, are so good they are busy taking away market share. And lithium ion batteries are steadily improving in characteristics and also getting cheaper. Furthermore, China, the world's largest auto market, is putting a very big push behind BEV autos, and many other governments are also making efforts.

From what I have read a tipping point is coming around 2023-25 when consumers will start flooding to BEV's, and ICE sales will start dropping rapidly. And then in another half decade or so solid state batteries will be ready and the trend will accelerate.

The basic message is that the century-long dominance of ICE cars is coming to an end and in the not-so-distant future, it's just a matter of time.
I stopped using Delphi after version 4, but I was curious, so I did some googling. Looks to me like forward declarations were still needed in Delphi 2010, at least for class declarations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2137030/cant-get-a-forwa....

Borland's Pascal compilers did have a way to disable bounds checking locally, with a special compiler directive comment: {$R-}. It took effect from where you used it, so you could do:

{$R-}
for i := 1 to 10 do
writeln(myArray[i]);
end;
{$R+}

</nostalgia>
A few years ago mainly to keep the DHSS happy when claiming Job Seekers Allowance I applied for an apprenticeship with HMGCC.

My idea was that some one might see my atypical CV and think outside the box about hiring.
In my own experience, I believe people have been trained from a very young age to "get up and GO" and for many years working in Software I would wake up and immediately start thinking about work problems etc.

My conclusion is that it is a waste of mental energy which is very evident on days you are feeling under the weather etc. These days it is all about a gradual wake up, having a nutritious breakfast and spending time with my dog (walking) before I leave for work commute.
> Sonos / Google Home / Amazon Alexa

Interesting, are you planning to mute Sonos/Home/Alexa by analyzing it's audio output stream?
If so: do you plan to use the devices audio controls?

Are you planning on using the Sonos/Home/Alexa microphone for detection of other sources?
Elon's Musk with a Moustache
That sounds much more difficult than installing python 3 on centos 7. Why can't you do that instead?
Ethereum Classic is still being targeted by a 51% attack today
Anecdotally... Many of my neighbors started smoking when it was legalized here. Neighbors on both sides toke pretty much every day in their backyards. Well actually at first they vaped mostly, that wasn't so noxious, just occasionally caught a whiff of it. Now it seems they have figured out they can buy weed from the resident dealer for a lot less without all those pesky taxes, at least I see them talking to him a lot more often these days.
Indeed. My bug was that setting/changing a proxy required restarting the service, something the service itself could not complete. I needed this to establish connections to Tor hidden services.

Instead, I fixed this via the DNS resolver daemon within Linux itself, so my systems natively can handle .onion sites. In a way, it was a better fix, since every program is torified if connecting to an .onion .
California Moves, Haltingly, Toward a Post-Lawn Future
Wikipedia says JET at best did Q = 0.67, am I missing it hitting the break even point?
Ex-Magic Leap employee launches mixed reality glasses Nreal Light
Show HN: Dinnertable.chat – An open live debate platform to find middle ground
The US can still issue letters of marque and reprisal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
I live in SF and your Vancouver day is the same as my day here.

I wake up at 7am, do my daily stretching routine, bike/ride the bus to work at around 7:30.

I'm at work around 8:00 - 8:15. I have breakfast and work for 3ish hours. I go to the gym two blocks from my office building at lunch, shower, and then go on with the rest of my day.
> Only

Nope. Never in my life heard of it being a britishism.

Edit: A downvote for proving an absolute statement wrong?

"Bloody" is used as a britishism. "Wee" is not, at least in many areas.
The young and lonely hearts of China’s shrinking cities
Energy storage is viable and being deployed right now. Moss Landing California has one of the larger installs in the near future, at more than 1 GWh, because it's cheaper than gas peakers.

Recent bids for solar/wind attached to storage are coming in at record braking prices in Colorado, Nevada, and Indiana. Every month there are "record breaking" bids for storage projects, today's news is about Hawaii:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/hawaiian-electr...

But in a few weeks there will be a new low cost somewhere.

Batteries are getting cheaper faster than anybody expected, just like solar and wind did before. Fusion is progressing more slowly than anyone imagined, and will likely never be financially competitive. Nobody even talks about it being cheap anymore when I ask people why they think fusion is exciting. At best we're getting simplified supply chains, or baseload power. Even baseload power is not desirable, coal plants are shutting down all over.

And in addition to all the grid storage that will be added, people with electric cars will keep 3 days worth of their own electricity in their garages at night. Huge amounts of storage will be deployed by the EV switch, and as those batteries age out they can have second lives as grid storage, before finally being recycled.
That's like saying that the undecidability of the halting problem has no practical effect because real world computers are actually finite state machines and not turing machines. This argument is true in only the most superficial way.

I haven't read the paper and so don't know how applicable it is, I just don't like your argument.
Reason #1 sort of invalidates Reason #2. If Google is reasonably confident that they have an unmatchable (in the short term) advantage in interpreting and monetizing your data and can also generate additional revenue by selling it to firms that can't extract the same value from it, what incentive is stopping them? If competitors start to catch up in the areas jn which they have the clear advantage, they can simply shut off the faucet and the revenue generated by selling information jn the here and now helps fund initiatives to keep them ahead in the first place.
Time spent per year is roughly equivalent. UK degrees are shorter than US degrees because we spend only three years at university for a bachelors degree. Depth is similar but there's less breadth - we only study our major, so as a CS student all my classes were taught by the CS department apart from a handful of math classes.
Contrasting F# and Elm’s record types
I think most people, certainly me, who would be looking for a Pascal compiler are trying to avoid C++ like the plague.

It’s funny when you read about languages like Rust and Go basically trying to undo decades of C-induced damage, reinventing (albeit also exceeding) thangs that Pascal/Modula/Eiffel already had.
in california, you can apply to get your first year of community college free ( https://home.cccapply.org/money/california-college-promise-g... ), there's an assembly bill ( http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?... ) which would add a second year to that.
Two bits of advice.

1. Often takes 3-4 years to develop a functioning sales channel. In B2B companies will order samples and literature and then place no orders at all for a year or two. And then only place small sporadic orders for the next two years after that.

2. Going to scale is frightfully expensive. Developing the production process is 5-100 times more expensive than developing the product. This is where most small groups trying to develop hardware get stuck.

3. You can't fix hardware issues by pushing changes to a server. Consider Takata Corporation, shipped bad airbag inflators from one plant, went bankrupt as a result.
Rec Room Reports 1M Installs, but with Small Steam Stats, Likely Much Less Users
I doubt you can, considering your opportunity cost.
You're correct, although it should be said in view of recent events, that the path they took didn't play all that well with investors either. But you're right, most investors aren't interested in the 20-year timeframe.
Thank you for pointing that out. It could also have been their free-range childhoods. These soldiers would not have been press-ganged. I’ve read that elsewhere in Africa, child soldiers are forced by older soldiers to commit atrocities together (rape etc) in order to form a sort of perverse bond or espirit de corps which is otherwise not present when you’re forced to be there.
The best fake meat patties I've ever had were the veggie patties ("Soul burger") at Hero burger in Canada. My wife (who is vegetarian) thought it was real at first and was upset they had made a mistake and had me try, and I also thought it was real. But it was actually vegetarian!
Counter Counter Point: The supply chain has been a place for a long time and is pretty convenient, I'd say even more so.
It looks like a typo. "You're right" was intended, not "Your right".
This approach might work at short distances out in the desert, but in an airport or city? Good luck. The noise floor is already incredibly high.
This is creepy
it is exactly the opposite imho

the idea can already be there, already implemented and even already successful

and an incredible execution can just take over

you don't take over on ideas, you do take over on implementation

few examples: hotmail and then boom gmail took over, IE6 and boom Firefox took over, etc.

in fact implementation is so much more important that you have to keep doing it right otherwise someone else take over

also you can not keep an idea secret forever, once you release your product, everyone know about it and get a shot at their own implementation of your idea