skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately I've been wondering if a full-scale thermonuclear exchange might actually save us in the long run. Our endlessly growing industry is going to eventually wipe out much more of our biosphere than even a worst-case nuclear exchange would. Imagine that. It might actually end up dampening our industry and giving us more time. Sure, fallout is a terrible thing--you have a bunch of deadly isotopes hanging over a region with a half-life of 80,000 years or so--but what is the half-life of a Sahara desert? How would most of the world hunker down and survive if nearly all latitudes resembled that for the next few million years? What about when our oceans completely collapse? There's already dead zones the size of entire continents out there. How long will that last when the whole thing is a dead zone and has to start over? If that happens, all large, complex life on land will be 100% fucked. That would last so, so long that even if humankind somehow miraculously managed to survive (fyi: they wouldn't) the survivors would no longer be anatomically modern humans by the end. They would have slowly differentiated and adapted and evolved through several stages of new, distinct species along the way. Our sentence for the crimes we're carrying out today will be that long.

The great oxygenation event is probably the most similar historical precedent for what could happen if we continue chemically sterilizing the oceans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

We're in for a very tough time--I don't want to sow any seeds of defeatism or unnecessary cynicism, but we are no longer looking at a choice between catastrophe and a continuation of our normal way of life. We are looking at a choice between catastrophe and utter cataclysm. Between hundreds of millions of deaths and billions. This is going to eventually come to truly desperate measures. Humankind will not get through this without having to make some incredibly difficult and bloody decisions in the future. Every day we dawdle and ponder what to do makes the decision our descendants will get stuck with more and more horrific and Pyrrhic. It will eventually come to a point that the most rational decision is to start attacking industry and agriculture with force. That's terrible, but there will come a day when it's an act of basic self-defense. It will also lead to strife and death and famine for millions. But we no longer have the privilege of choosing an option that doesn't involve suffering and atrocity--we have missed our best chances and in the future we will be forced to choose based on the degree of harm, not whether or not there will be harm. The horrors of the 20th century won't even hold a candle to what we're currently laying out for our offspring. It's utterly shameful.

The world today is safer, more civilized, and more prosperous than it has ever been in history, but this is a false stability that we're borrowing against our own future to maintain. It's eventually going to come back to us with a shitload of interest.
The vesting schedule line has 2 sections, 1 for founders (which is bracketed, i.e., needs negotiation) and 1 for other employees.

The rank and file get a standard 4-year, monthly vest, 1 year cliff. The founders presumably get something very different. Existing employees are an unknown.
It's clear from that same introduction paragraph that the focus of the studies is pretty narrow and excludes a whole slew of factors that would normally be considered extremely relevant.
As a biologist, I think it is worth being skeptical of analogies that treat biological entities as equivalent to computers.
Don’t have the attention span to watch the whole video right now, but I love that now
with youtube and people posting lectures online I can come back to it later. Thanks for posting!
And then find a way to monetize that data to $500 MRR :)
Ask HN: 30+ year olds - how much have you saved so far?
Curious to know how much people have saved (total assets) by the time they are in their 30s.
I go all the time, all over Northern Virginia. It’s not just one store or one city. Frustrating to say the least because I know Best Buy can be a great store.
you're being pedantic; i'm aware juliacomputing is not /the/ language. in fact it's an organization of people that maintain the language AND the juno ide.

what is the value proposition of julia? productivity of python with the speed of c (or some kind of tagline like this). a large part of the productivity of python is the fantastic set of tools around python. hence it's quite fair to judge julia proper on the polish of the tools that you need in order to be productive in julia.
Launching, landing, and responding to emergency situations are all things I wouldn't trust an autopilot with. Liability involved when there's crashes on private lands would be extraordinarily difficult- as you know, airspace is managed much differently than roads are. Imagine if you could get hit by a car in your second-story bedroom.
Step 1: Start Business

Step 2: ???

Step 3: GoTo 1
Pitcairn only has 50 inhabitants according to Wikipedia! Apparently there was a conflict between the islander who had management of the domain and the island's Council (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pn).
No. DANE did such a bad job for SMTP that the major email providers banded together and created an alternate, non-DNSSEC-dependent standard, MTA-STS, to work around it.
Practical Privacy: A Guide for Everyone
Let's render iframes in spreadsheet cells, and only display a selected element of the page in the iframe. We'll build interfaces that help us deal with information accross webpages and websites in no time!
I agree with you for "limited delivery applications", by if we're talking about limited delivery applications, why wouldn't we just use low-cost powered flight? Much safer and more controllable.
Can you expand on that somehow?
it is, of course, complete BS that this is the norm.

however, be aware that you can negotiate for early exercise or 10 year expiration prior to joining. even if the startup has never done anything like that prior, they will make it happen if they really want to hire you.
I'm glad your grandmother is doing fine, but you probably shouldn't portray it like your grandmother is getting back her employer since her employer is ultimately the taxpayer.

Also, the fact that 125 days pretty much covers her entire working year as a teacher is rather astounding for people who work in the private sector. Most of us have to put in 220+ days each year to justify our salaries.
That means it's not a Show HN
I haven't yet read the article, but the title immediately made me think of Paul Graham's Doing Things that Don't Scale[0].

[0] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
I feel like the answer to your question is implicitly that there is nothing they can do. they're "cancelled". Even a personal apology (with supporting documentation) would be ignored, since you don't care about the product anyway. Is this true?

I mean, I don't necessarily disagree with you, they have to regain trust, but at some point you have to be open to it.

Trust but verify.
I would appreciate that very, very much!
My reaction exactly...
Have DPDR, I appreciate that DPDR is becoming more talked about. Makes me feel less alone and less abnormal. Thankfully, I've slowly (~years) been returning to normal.
How Technicolor changed movies [video]
Preferred investment can generate a yield and/or can take priority over some but not all other equity. I’m not saying it’s a good deal...just trying to answer your question.
Many accountancies (at least in the UK) will, for a small fee let you use their address as your registered company address, and some will either receive mail on your behalf that you can, or forward it onto you.
The Trouble with Turbulence
No, I'm talking about the MDX that was on the list.

You're correct that it's not based on the CRV; it's based on the Pilot. So I should have said, "It’s just an upgraded Honda Pilot."
On-Call Nightmares Podcast – Episode 8 – Melissa Palmer – Veeam
Making oligopolies even more "oligopolic" rarely improves the lives of consumers. Almost any economist not in the back pockets of large corporations will agree with this assessment.
Technical “whitepaper” for afl-fuzz
Because states were threatening local versions of NN. But many lawmakers want to take away states rights for that.
> I don't think a war between the China and the rest of the world is terribly likely and I believe globalization is overall more good than bad for humanity.

A war doesn't have to be likely for the location of supply chains to have a negative geopolitical effect. For instance: China could use the knowledge that globalization has become the US military's achilles heel to confidently take aggressive action elsewhere, knowing the US can't respond because it can't sustain a response without Chinese cooperation.

In a similar vein, economic dependence limits the pressure the US and other western countries can put on China in the name of Chinese human rights.
> my latest theory is that people like participating in the news cycle more than they are inclined to consume it.

That's an interesting observation. It seems like how most people who watch sports have little to no interest in playing themselves, even recreationally, but they "join" a team because of the sense of participation they get. Not sure if that's the best analogy, but it's reminiscent for me.
See for example the "Hindawi affair"

https://www.asi-mag.com/ann-marie-murphy-hindawi-affair-30th...
What Constitutes Artificial Intelligence? Is It the Turing Test?
Barnet vs. Brentford: Live stream, TV channel, kick-off time and team
https://qiita.com/viboleKotha/items/6fa5aa384e157e65d5dc

https://qiita.com/goodboy24/items/7e7d415dd9a38fe43895
Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk
The short version:

Our Aha moments, the features that made us different, were also the reason people weren’t sticking around. People expect an email client to work a certain way. Our unique features made us too different. They made the interface unfamiliar — if you didn’t engage with our onboarding, chances are, you were lost.

We took all of these features out. Every single one of them. And by doing so, we created a bog standard email client. It did everything a regular email client did, and nothing else. It worked exactly as users expected it to — so we didn’t need our complicated on-boarding anymore. But that’s not exactly a compelling proposition.

We took them out of the UI, but we put them somewhere else. We created a ‘Skills Center’. You accessed it via a button that we highlight early in the user journey. It is the only thing that stands out from an otherwise familiar UI. Now, when a user played with Hiri for two minutes and realised that there’s nothing new or different, inevitably they clicked on the one thing that was. And when they do — we have them.

In the Skills Center, you can add the features that make Hiri unique. In your own time, you can explore these features and turn them on.

It reduced our time-to-Aha moment from one week to one hour. Our conversion rate shot up from 1 in 50 to 1 in 10.
I don’t agree with your characterization of the parent comment, which makes your comment seem almost entirely non sequitur. Perhaps you should reread the parent.
PWAs on iOS 12.2 beta: the good, the bad, and the “not sure yet if good”
It's the other way around. Employers are generally prohibited from bargaining with minority unions.[1] They can change policies that apply to everyone.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employers/i...
I've worked in and out of coworking spaces for the last ten years. I love them mostly for the ability to ride my bike to/from them. Of course, I could do this to a coffee shop, but I like the security of an office for my bike. Tip: ask if you can get a 10-day punch card. I've found some of them that'll do it; then you don't feel like you have to go in every day (if you're on a monthly agreement).
PKD had his own unusual experiences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Paranormal_expe...
After reading it, it also has some "perfect is the enemy of good" messaging.

It also purports that being too efficient (and therefore specialized) reduces agility and can be dangerous by preventing pivoting.
Capitalism seems to be capable of producing far more than it can consume.
That is an awful, selfish plan. It is not selfless or solid. You are worth more than any amount of money. Please reconsider.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946292
Well yes... It is a promise.

Your reply suggests that it's not binding ('legally' binding, obviously).
Why should people be paid for sick days that they didn't use because they weren't sick? Otherwise what is the distinction between sick days and vacation days?
The test files are coupled tightly to the implementation. He says it himself that when he wants to restructure things new tests have to be generated. It seems clumsy, but I don't have strong negative feelings on it.
FOMO means Fear of Missing Out.

So, say you're interested in a certain smaller brand that may not sell thousands or more copies of certain items, but something on the order of 50, or 100, etc.., then when you see that others have been purchasing said items you worry you'll miss out on your chance to buy one, and then you'll be one of the only people who like the brand who don't have said item.. thus, you wind up purchasing too.
I think it just comes down to risk preferences. If you optimize for a higher valuation and give the investor downside protection for that, then you own more of the business and therefore more of the upside. If you choose to better optimize for the downside by taking away investor downside protection, you may end up with a lower valuation, lower ownership of the company and lower upside.
In my experience if you avoid TripAdvisor/yelp restaurants and attractions, limit the number of pictures you take, and avoid buying souvenirs you can still travel but not feel like a vapid tourist. Not that there’s anything wrong with tourism in my opinion but I don’t like how it makes me feel.
Twitch.tv uses it a ton (check out their chat feeds).
Immigrants Do a Great Job at Becoming Americans
Samsung Galaxy J1 smartphone is listed in the article. J2 isn't but just pointing out that at least one phone is on there.
It would be an airline providing what help they can for a situation that wasn't the passenger's fault
If nukes are used the loosing party would need another 100 years to get back on its feets. I'm pretty sure the loosing party would get some restrictions as well(i.e no army). I doubt they would start blowing themselves up like in the middle east either.
Existing employee vesting is generally left alone unless they have something crazy.
It's the contrarian writing that helps us learn the limitations and tradeoffs of the technology.

I agree that evaluating the contrarian side is quite valuable, however both sides need to be taken with a grain of salt. I think that sometimes reading the negatives is more helpful, because people tend to be a little less careful in exposing their prejudices, or tend to be drawn to the more clickbait-y side. This makes the shallow criticisms more obvious, except for the cases where it manages to exploit your own prejudices.
This is misleading. All employees got 2.5 months of salary. Do you want your 2-3 weeks of PTO or would rather take 10 weeks of paid leave? Legit fake news.
NLRB Returns to Long-Standing Independent-Contractor Standard
I did not. Simply using objects does not mean one has adopted OOP. OOP means modeling behavior _with_ data, not _around_ data. It is something that must done be intentionally, not a product of your choice of language (although can certainly play a factor).

I would suggest that most systems adopt a procedural style where objects are more or less bags of data being passed around to functions/methods. This generally fits the mental model of how people think. That is, in terms of input -> output. OOP blurs that simplicity because each unit of behavior (method) also has a surrounding context (properties) that may be affected as well.

At the end of the day the difference between Object.DoSomething( data ) and DoSomething( object, data ) is just semantics (look at how python implements classes for example).
In college freshman year I tried to teleport to see my gf by driving into the back of a semi on I-79. As far as I can tell it didn’t work.

I spent a lot of time lost in what felt like a deep metaphor / parable.

One time I thought my gf as an alien from another star system; when I looked out at the city of Madison, WI I saw present day Madison but also an overlay of an ancient city — it felt like this was some sort of eternal city that always was.

I walked into a church and saw the priest was a vampire.

I had a conversation with a time traveling Albert Einstein at an airport in Boston.

At times it felt like childhood make beleive, there was still a tether back to reality but I was deep in the other realm.

At times terrifying. Flights into the depths of hell and judeo-Christian mythology.

I was also in and out of suicidal depression.

Somehow I also managed to start a number of projects and get lots of press and even some investment, but I couldn’t keep anything going sustainably.

A few years ago I was at wits end and had a vision that guided me to start feeling my emotions.

That led to Psychedlic therapy, Somatic
Therapy and Breathwork.

It also led to a new context for relationship and learning how to navigate love induced psychosis and coming out the otherside more healed.

Eventually I was able to get underneath the symptoms.

I found abuse in my childhood, dishonest and narcissistic care givers, a school that couldn’t hold my high IQ, bullying, etc.

I was also always fascinated with technology, psychology, shamanism, the occult, Psychedlics, personal development from a very very early age... sometimes this feels like my purpose.

Anyhow, I’m symptom free, healthier than ever, in love and engaged, running a fairly full transformational coaching practice (supporting unicorn founders and other creative minds), building an eco village island at Majagual.org and have no need for medications.

Western Psych said I’d be on meds for the rest of my life. Turns out I followed the path of others like Jung - going mad and then creating your own tools and frameworks to find your way back out.
A downloadable version of the doc is linked directly above the image. That does the job nicely, since it allows you to immediately edit.
For context, Hellwig is the guy that tried to sue vmware in Germany and had the case dismissed because the evidence submitted summed up to references of stuff on the internet and basically copy and pasted git output. It didn't even include details on which lines of code were allegedly used by vmware, or details on authorship in any of the code comparisons that were present.

Which is a shame, because it would have been nice to see if the shim usage pattern is actually a violation of the GPL - a lot of us would like a clear ruling there. I'm sympathetic to his viewpoint, but that whole ordeal was a bit of a "wtf?" because of how it was handled, and I can't imagine him being sympathetic to anything else in an even somewhat similar situation.
Sadly, Patrick Collison does not have relevant experience in these areas.
What am I supposedly ignorant about? That AA is a religious sobriety program? The next sentence of the "Our book..." quote you've cited is "God will disclose more to you and to us". So perhaps it's not not doing the work you think it is.

In any case, the motivation for my comment was to point out that many of these "xA" programs are inspired by the 12-step "AA" program. That program is not scientific, or even amenable to change as new evidence about the efficacy of sobriety comes in.

Rather, it's dogma. Whatever white-washing of AA's mention of "God" over the years as "higher power" doesn't change the fact that it's not science-based.

Does that mean it's completely useless? No, but as others have pointed out studies of its effectiveness are rather damning[1]. It just bears pointing out when treatments for addiction are discussed that AA is a dogma-based therapy, because many people suffering from addiction think AA is just what you're supposed to do.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effectiveness_of_Alcoholics_An...
Do you think teachers are working solely during the school year? Do you understand that the private sector already pays significantly more? There's a reason teachers have been striking across the country.
You can make arguments like this in negotiations and sometimes they can work. It just depends. As I mentioned elsewhere, this was meant to be more descriptive than prescriptive. Founder vesting/re-vesting is often a negotiation point in a Series A term sheet and the outcomes are varied and fact-dependent enough that it's tough to say that there's a standard here.
I’d love to know how all these people manage to accrue all this PTO! Most jobs I’ve had give you 10 days. So, after a handful of sick days, you really only have a single digit of vacation days a year. You don’t use any of these? Year after year? I don’t believe it! How do you work it so you’re not out of PTO by the end of the year? Don’t get sick and don’t take a day off?
> America mines its own minerals and pumps its own oil. China cannot. This was the same weakness Japan had. In an American-Chinese conventional or proxy war, among the first Chinese targets would be its ports, pipelines and oil tankers.

Russia also pumps oil for export and shares a land border with China. It's also relatively friendly to China and relatively antagonistic to the US.
I didn't call anyone a cook. I mention someone who cooks. Chefs cook too (if they are any good).
Finland, the world's happiest country, gets a reality check on job creation
Wow, the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium were paying for product placement even back then!
These laid off BuzzFeed staffers should get together and form their own news parody site, similar to The Onion. BuzzFeed is already well experienced with passing off satire as "news" so it should be a slam dunk.
I am trying to read transcript, but I can't really make sense of it. It seems all over the place. I mean, what is even the argument that society, or growth, is hard science bound? Maybe that isn't the point.

Some things that define society, or at least peoples views, have also just been getting harder. You can't really do something as obviously meaningful in space as the moon landing. You can do many other things if you change your frame of reference, but we are not going interstellar anytime soon.

If there is any observation I would make it is that the way innovation is made seems to have changed. It used to be you had some sort of goal and then tried to get the best technology to do that. Today, it seems like companies, and societies, are sitting around waiting for technologies to exploit. One day self-driving cars, 3d printed houses and AI enabled health scanners are going to save us all. We aren't really sure how, why or if there is even much worth saving at that point, but it will surely happen?
Nice out-of-box thinking, I think. But I wonder, ...

If there's nothing novel in the initial version why would people think they would want to switch? What would be the reason?

Could it be that your product without any unique features is cheaper than competition, and adding features costs something?