skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many of you see this as touching and heartwarming. From the point of view of a disabled adult, this is rather a story of a man who was isolated from his community. It sounds like he didn't have friends in offline life, or disabled friends, or connections with any political ideas of having the right to an independent life. No way to live apart from his parents and manage his own personal care assistants, no college, stuck living at home with parents who treated him like a child. Loving parents are wonderful, but parents who don't enable a disabled young person to have a life apart from their role as child and "patient", are not educated about the opportunities that we have in society or about our rights.

I'm glad he had his guild, certainly. I ask you all to question your emotional reactions to the "touching" aspect of this story. Instead, feel some solidarity, even rage, for the opportunities denied to this person. And, if you are the parent of a disabled child, please get to know some disabled adults, and get familiar with the many writers and thinkers out there so that you can educate yourself, and also, put your child in touch.
The real reason is because getting your podcast listed in the iTunes podcast directory takes care of making it available (via search, instead of copying and pasting an RSS feed url) in most podcast apps on most platforms.
> The all-male charity, the President’s Club, which raised money for causes including children’s hospitals through high-valued auctions, was forced to close after the Financial Times uncovered sexual assault and misogyny at its annual dinner; executives of Oxfam, a poverty eradication charity, visited prostitutes while delivering aid in earthquake-stricken Haiti, and were allowed to slink off to other charities, rather than being castigated for their actions; and ex-Save the Children executives Brendan Cox and Justin Forsyth stepped down from their roles at other charities, after allegations of sexual harassment and bullying toward junior female colleagues resurfaced.

Maybe I just lack the context but I don't really understand how sexual harassment is in the same vein as visiting prostitutes. What is morally wrong about seeing prostitutes? Did it somehow interfere with their jobs? Or were they using charity funds?
Sounds like they do both. Further down in the article they mention selective breeding over generations.
> Man plans to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent

I rarely actually LOL but this headline got me
Litigants like this should be sentenced to death.
> It doesn’t matter how amazing your product is, or how fast you ship features. The market you’re in will determine most of your growth. For better or worse, Gumroad grew at roughly the same rate almost every month because that’s how quickly the market determined we would grow.

This seems like a simplification, and perhaps overly fatalistic. A company's growth rate is a function with many parameters, and at most points, one parameter will be the limiting factor. An amazing product is (usually) a necessary, but not sufficient condition for rapid growth.

It sounds like Gumroad built a product that delighted their users, but there just wasn't a level of market demand to hit the growth numbers that they were hoping for. (Though I consider their end state a big success; being a unicorn isn't the only way to add value to your users' lives.)

In a different market, with enough pent up demand for the product, the story could have gone another way; "We kept on getting new users, but ultimately couldn't keep users because our product wasn't awesome enough."
Unfotunately, this kind of situations are not all that uncommon. IMHO, there is a subset of people with those qualities that are drawn to startups. Take a “vision” or a “business” person with good social instincts and loosen their ethics and values and you will get yourself a little Machiavelli.

As I see it, you have a few moves:
1) Very gently distance yourself from that person until your relationship is strictly professional. Make sure they know as little possible about your personal life or work plans, projects, intentions, etc

2) Become more social and political yourself. It sounds like she’s been running the company and you just work there - you’d need to get your voice back. Cultivate your own direct 1:1 relationships with key employees, board members, and investors.

3) Try forming a subgroup within the company that is under your control and that can deliver some kind of independent and visible result. Do good work and make sure that more people know about it. But be very cautious about how you advertise those results

4) Figure out if anyone else is noticing her toxic behaviour. Your board and investors should be very interested in keeping the company culture healthy

5) Maybe there is a way to gently prompt a financial review by the board or investors?

If you do some of this for some time you should find yourself in a better position whether you decide to stay or leave
Haiku is pretty rad but not so useful without hardware acceleration. I'd contribute code but I'm a hack who only knows higher level languages.
From the OP:

> The real constraint only kicks in when there’s too much spending relative to a limited supply of goods and services—in other words, when inflation spikes. And there’s been little sign of that in America for decades.

It amazes me that this can still be repeated with a straight face. The prices for housing, healthcare, and education have skyrocketed - many would say that the costs for these are the problem.

What is happening is that technological and economic progression are continually trying to lower the prices of consumer goods. Rather than let this natural deflation occur, the overt monetary policy is to inject new money in the consumer sector until average prices rise instead.

But this money isn't given directly to consumers as cash, but only supplied as loans through financing channels. People don't have an extra ten dollars to spend on groceries (which would make grocery prices rise), but an extra $1,000 to borrow and bid up financializable assets. The monthly payments to service the debt (sometimes called rent) are also mandatory, so their financial position becomes ever more dependent on continual income.
Oh boy, this film is a masterpiece in almost every aspect. The narration (done with original sound recordings by actual WW1 veterans) is just perfect. The last third of the movie, where death becomes a regular, almost trivial annoyance, left a haunting impression on me. At the end of the film, one of the narrators describes the minutes after the truce: most of the men could not grasp the fact that they could now stand upright without dying immediately.
I work for a company in the podcast hosting space and dynamic insertion in real time during downloads is something a few companies provide, including us. Actually one of our products[1] is just a "plug in your RSS feed and we'll give you another one with updated URLs which dynamically inserts ads during a download", so you can use a different hosting provider than ours if you want and still get dynamic ad insertion powered by us, since a lot of hosting providers don't have that feature.

[1] https://www.voxnest.com/dynamo/
He does have a point. We exist, one or the other way, for the pleasure of our parents. I find this sad.
If the sstable format is compatible why not just copy sstables?
Oops… Britain Launched a Satellite, but Who Remembers It?
Calling Tencent a Chinese censorship powerhouse is a bit of a stretch. Might as well call every Chinese IT company a censorship powerhouse because they are all censored by the Chinese government.
Alcohol is also a true physical addiction. You might want to die from heroin withdrawal, but it won't kill you if you quit cold turkey. The same cannot be said of high level alcoholism.
"Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can't be sought before we are born, but insists that "it was not our decision to be born".

So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues."

This is an interesting economic/social perspective actually. The later parts of the article about eradicating humanity aren't that original though.
Understanding Database Sharding
When marking the ballot in a parliamentary election, people put the X beside the name of their chosen representative for their local district, but in practice that name often has very little impact on the vote. The party and its leader have far more sway in most voters' minds than the local representative.
Except... we have regulations. It's state by state. Meaning, the laws adapt to the needs of the people of each state.

The new laws would have removed 90% of the industry, including my ability to have participated.

I fully supported the limitation of debiting end user accounts, which was part of the legislation.

I'm completely against the need to 'verify someone can pay'... which I read as basically requiring credit scores. Which again, don't really protect people as they have little to do with your ability to pay (just your previous history of payment)

I'm seeing this as filled with details that need to be considered and making decisions to support or oppose based on that.

But please, don't let details or getting to know what you are talking about get in the way of your decision to support something or not.
I'd avoid the cluster module, its not the recommended way to scale Node.js. It exists mostly as a way to make naive Node.js benchmarks perform better in multi-CPU comparison testing... like yours! :-) Many cloud providers charge per-CPU, so node's "mostly not threaded approach" is reasonable, IMO and that of many other users. Node is scaled by spinning up more instances, each instance being one of the cheapest "one CPU" variety. I'd be more interested in seeing a version of your benchmark that limited each of the language instances to a single CPU, and/or that spun up multiple node instances equivalent to one multi-cpu instance of go/elixir --- this latter may sound weird, but its a "cost equivalent" comparison, which is ultimately what's important: transactions served per $$.
Assuming the only difference is cost, would you recommend seeing it in 3D?

(Also: It's amazing to me that they could convert hundred-year-old film to 3D.)
Can you be more specific? Which platform, how well, and for who?
I don't love the idea of personalized ads in general, but I'd sure love to listen to a full podcast without an ad for meundies and stamps.com
Skype Can Now Blur Background So You Don't Have to Frantically Tidy Your Room
Cyber Security People are Praying Together on LinkedIn
Dual Space Preconditioning for Gradient Descent
I've been following Haiku for a bit, it looks like development is pretty active.
Hi, good stuff! I am curious to know why it was primarily written in Python (according to GitHub 83.3%)?
How does the decision get made at Google to open source something?

I'm always confused about what gets shut down vs open sourced vs paid product.
$1.1M @ 1X

$7M @ 1X

$2.25M (the bridge I mention) @ 4X
There's a weird disconnect between poverty in terms of income and poverty in terms of access to basic needs. For instance, American Men are much more likely to be homeless than American Women[0]. There's all sorts of interesting gender/race/age disparities related to homelessness[1]. The effect of income appears to be outweighed by the effects of gender, race and age.

I should have been clearer than simply stating _desperately_ poor; I intended to convey that they are in a state of poverty where there are few other options available.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2018/12/29/homeless...
I am quite ignorant on this subject. I looked briefly through the docs, and still feel a little lost. So before I go too much further, would it be possible to use this for web apps or unity games?
Capitalism has ignored negative externalities for a long time, and now the bill is nearly due. The environment is devastated, climate change will disrupt the ecosystem services we take for granted, and inequality is giving rise to political turmoil.

A better title would be, How to save Capitalism before it's too late.
Is this the fuzzing tool that was used to find bugs in Bitcoin? I don't see it in the repository.
Congrats on the success
Yes I'm confused why Gumroad didn't become more like stripe or patreon. That would've been a natural development. It must be execution problems.
If you're going to teach a class, I'd recommend going out of your way to give each student a Pi 3 Model B+. The additional ports means that the device can be useful as a general-purpose computer outside of class (just hook up a keyboard, mouse, and monitor/TV).

I realize the difference between $300 and $1050 is a lot, but you get way more hardware at the $35 price point. Building the institutional muscle to figure out how to get the additional $650 in funding is a good skill set as a teacher. (If you're at a school, there might be special funds set aside for buying STEM equipment you can tap into. You might also be able to get some money through the charity arms of local companies, or out of a local bank's petty cash fund. If you're teaching students at the middle-school or high-school age, you can ask them to help with the fundraising process. If you're teaching adults, just charge each adult a fee to cover the hardware cost.)
Wells Fargo nationwide outage affecting debit cards, online banking
Just more evidence that FB cares only about their profits and is willing to manipulate people (and democracy) in order to gain more of them. This is a company that's ok with encouraging racism, violence, self-harm, stealing from children, manipulating elections, and who knows what else.

If there was ever a time to quit FB, today is the day. (And they even make that difficult.) I quit 2 years ago after being an early adopter (and even teaching FB for business to clients and classrooms.) I'm very glad that I did.
Agreed, why use such a simple and commonly used command shortcut? This will most certainly conflict with my current ZSH. Probably one of the worst possible choices in terms of likelihood of clashing.

Question: when using `marker mark` does it bookmark the previously used command?
Saying Goodbye to Louisville
No one has accepted anything. "Man plans to sue his parents". Plans.
Could you please not do this here?
So I have gotten over the FOMO by simply allowing FB to send me notification emails to see if I have been tagged and so far nothing (been about a month). If I am tagged then my filter is to only use the web version if I was tagged by someone I cared about!
That's really more for market leaders. If someone stops by your site and starts comparing it to other businesses and their features, you're not likely to shift the market soon. Even if you do shift the market, you might not get the growth as your well-funded competitors copy your features. It'd have to be some ground-breaking technology that essentially propels you to market leader overnight.
I don't think Gumroad could be the high-quality, full-featured product it is today without raising VC funding. Less, maybe, but bootstrapped, no.

(Though, I was living in SF.)
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3:

Next I turned my attention to all the outrageous violence that takes place on this planet—the tears of the victims, no one to comfort them; the iron grip of oppressors, no one to rescue the victims from them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead instead of the living who are still alive. But luckier than the dead or the living is the person who has never even been, who has never seen the bad business that takes place on this earth.

We’ve been on this idea for a while.
It is irrelevant to most jobs and no I am neither young nor inexperienced.

Just as one example, the basic level of algorithms, where one could realize when they're creating a O(n^2) routine, is relevant to just about every shop I interacted with working for a language/VM vendor. I found it disturbing, the number of times I could play the hero just by knowing that much.

I've worked in shops using C, where I kept bumping into workers who hadn't the foggiest idea how a C compiler might work, and it not only showed in their code, it even showed in management decisions. (Long story short: The application literally had 100's of re-implementations of linked list.)

I've interviewed recent grads from top-tier schools with near 4.0 GPAs, who try and tell me things, like adding a pointer to a struct incurs zero memory use. Then I ask them how much memory a pointer would take up, and they can't give me any kind of answer. (Or ask me a relevant question for more info, so they can answer.)

All this stuff could be avoided if there was just a certain level of basic background knowledge. They're like car mechanics who don't know the first thing about electricity. There's a certain level of background that can keep you from inconveniencing and hurting yourself. You don't need it most of the time, but when you do, it can save you a lot.
Could you please not post flamebait to HN? It doesn't matter how right you are, it damages the site.
`reselect` is an option that you don't have to use.

The mapStoP and mapDtoP are just plain functions that do what they say on the tin. Easy to read/write once you understand the pattern.

The connect HOC like all HOCs is a bit of a smell, but easy enough to use without understanding much about HOCs.

Likely soon hook replacements for connect will make all that "verbosity" even simpler and easier to work with.

For instance, useMapState and useActionCreators from this proposal for redux hooks: https://github.com/epeli/redux-hooks
I think there are a few good responses to the question of "are markets efficient?".

1) Markets are efficient enough in that you generally don't see any real big arbitrage opportunities. Small ones will always be present, and as is often pointed out its not worth the big players time to search them out and capitalize.

A trader also sees this as evidenced by the fact that we are using more and more data and ever increasingly complicated math to eek out smaller and smaller chunks of alpha.

2) different people have different ideas as to what the correct price actually is.

Consider a company that is continually losing money.

- Fundamental analysts will value this as a poor company due to its future cash flows dwindling. They may consider this a short opportunity

- Merger Arb folks may bid up this up as a potential merger target thus raising the price.

- ETF's tracking an index just don't care, they'll buy the company in proportion to its index weight.

- Stat arb folks will be agnostic to price and only compare it to a peer that they feel it will trade in relation ship with, these people will be both long and short this company at different times, often unrelated to what its price currently is.

3) Physics often uses the simplifying assumption of no friction to make things easier. The efficient market hypothesis works under the assumption that everyone knows about news immediately and has time to react. Some investors react in micro seconds, some in weeks. Both affect the price
I think what he meant was, there is no product so amazing that it will give you growth enough to satisfy your VC investors, if the market you're in is not big enough or growing fast enough. Could have been worded more precisely, but in the context of the article it was pretty clear.
>executives of Oxfam, a poverty eradication charity, visited prostitutes while delivering aid in earthquake-stricken Haiti,

Hmmm to me it seems like a pretty shitty thing to do. You're an executive at a charity there helping people after a natural disaster....paying one of those people for sex seems just ya know...like a bit of a shitty thing to do. Even if it was their job. I think it's more the context and timing of the situation that's the problem.

Again...these are executives in a charity...in a disaster stricken country....supposedly there to help out...having sex with local prostitutes. I'm sure if it was during their own free time, possibly while not in a disaster stricken place it would likely be less of a big deal.

Especially because as an executive at a charity devoted to ending poverty you should probably be trying to help these women find other means to live rather than encouraging them to sell themselves...especially right after a natural disaster. Just saying...seems real shitty to me.

They're basically taking advantage of people in a desperate situation despite supposedly being there to help.
umm.. the Radeon VII's memory makes up over half of the production cost of the card. HBM2 is not cheap.
A cool library that implements C coroutines, available for both idiomatic C (http://libdill.org/) and in the same style as Go (http://libmill.org/) with line by line translations
Keep up the good work, Johnathan! This is a great feature.
>So before I go too much further, would it be possible to use this for web apps or unity games?

Web apps, almost certainly no.

ClusterFuzz (and fuzzing generally) is most useful for finding bugs in C/C++ code so maybe it could work for unity games?
I don't know much about them though.
Please keep generic ideological tangents off HN. They're predictable, therefore uninteresting, therefore off topic here.

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Unfortunately, no.

This project was done as a raster display, not a vector display. Well done work, but not what you want for vector Asteroids.

If you wanted to DIY a laser vector Asteroids, you'll need to build your own galvo system in some manner. Google around for "DIY Laser Galvos" - you'll find a few people who have done it. Note: It isn't simple, nor easy. In fact, it'd probably be cheaper to buy some second-hand galvos off ebay than the time and cost to build it yourself. It would depend on whether you are more interested in DIY-ing the laser game, or if you are interested in learning how to build a laser light vector scanning system from scratch.

It's kinda the same question when people learn how "simple" it is to build their own CO2 laser - they think "Yes, now I can build a cheap laser cutter!"

But if you look into the forums about homemade laser building, every single one will advise you against that path, because it is a foolhardy thing to do - you will end up spending way more money for way less of a result than if you simply purchased the laser cutter (or at least the tube and such) outright, pre-built. Because building a laser is not as easy as it looks.

Same here. So weigh what it is you are trying to do and learn; maybe it would be worth it to you - and the game is really secondary.

That said - check out this instructable (and be sure to expand and read ALL of the comments - I mention something in there that may potentially be possible):

https://www.instructables.com/id/Moving-Things-With-Printed-...

IOW - there may be a way to make a very cheap capacitive feedback "galvo" using custom etched quadrature magnetic positioning PCBs. I think the concept is sound, but the question would be "throw" of the laser, and speed, and whether ringing/overshoot of the mass could be controlled using such a system...
I am not upset. Points 5 and 6 on that article detail what I believe are legitimate criticisms about the lack of transparency in the process and how ALEC is used to bypass what I view as reasonable requirements for lobbying the government.