skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> CEOs have skills, and have invested heavily in training those skills (if they aren't terrible) but those skills are not skills unattainable to the normal person

This is an understatement. I'd wager that the average fresh graduate of a decent two-year MBA program has all the raw knowledge and business skills required to be the CEO of 90% of companies out there. What they do is not rocket science. The reason all of us are not CEOs is not that it's impossibly challenging or specialized, it's simply that there is only one per company and there are more people than companies. It's a small tent and not everyone can fit under it.

I've met senior executives who I considered brilliant and wise beyond belief, and I've met senior executives who I'm surprised could even tie their own shoes or back out of their driveway without running over their mailbox. There's no correlation with pay or prestige. They're all rich and beyond the point where career failure is possible, purely due to the rung of the ladder they happened to land on.
You share democratic institutions with sincere adherents of those odious beliefs, and they win elections at least some of the time. Understanding the “other” population and how to reason with it, or at least negotiate with it, is required if those democratic institutions are to continue.

Today’s dogma was yesterday’s odious belief. If we feel that the correctness of consensus opinion is on the rise, shouldn’t we be hesitant to freeze out future changes? If we feel it is falling, shouldn’t we want some protection for today’s correct ideas when they become odious again?

I can really only imagine subscribing to this viewpoint from within a long-term stable utopia whose primary threat is that someone will spoil it.

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>What it does is normalize those beliefs and enable them to propagate while simultaneously exhausting those who oppose them.

I think this is is simply a mistaken view of human nature. Nothing confirms a conspiracy theory quite like jack-booted thugs who are actually out to get you for saying it. Nothing galvanizes a cause quite like official suppression. See the Streisand Effect or, for that matter, Christianity.
If the release isn’t noteworthy enough, wouldn’t the downvoted, or the lack of upvotes kill it anyways? I feel marking it as a dupe seems an unnecessary mitigation when these are the exact kind of things crowdvoting is really good at.
There is significant competition growing against Tether. The following three stablecoins have $500M+ in circulation all backed by US regulated companies: USDC, TUSD, and GUSD.
This works if your remote team members live close to each other. Which is possible for some teams but doesn’t apply universally
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It always surprises me how few people use brackets on switch statements when the situation calls for one.
I'm happy with my current setup. I live about an hour away from a satellite office. I go in once or twice a week by train. It's enough to get me out of the house and keep my face fresh with my coworkers but not so much that it's a burden. I fly to HQ every month or two for similar reasons.
Absolutely wrong. The fact that stag beetles never trade below 6 pounds on eBay does not indicate that you can sell as many as you want at that price. It indicates that nobody finds it worth their time to make sales at a lower price. How many of those sales actually occur in, say, a 12-month window?

If you have 7,000 dead bees, you can try to sell them for 1 pound each, but you'll quickly run through everyone who wants one and be stuck with a bunch of leftover bees.
It's not shortcodes per se, those work fine for the most part.

Twilio/Google Voice (more generally, VOIP numbers) are explicitly being blocked (because it's possible to find out what type of number it is) at a number of services, likely to combat fraud.

I've found MSFT (Azure) and AWS to be recent examples of such services. Google itself does the same.
Algorithms are brutally efficient and this is what happens when their creators don't have any incentive to think about the end result of their work beyond "user engagement" or "more clicks".
People leave all the time...especially anyone who is late 20s/early 30s knows plenty of friends who move out.
To the extent this is a real phenomenon, it's because of competition and not measurement. Competitions that are judged qualitatively have the same effects, and measurements without competition (e.g. measuring the height and weight of babies) don't result in power accruing to the folks doing the measuring.

That said, people systematically overvalue anything with numbers attached due not understanding the epistemology of measurement and statistics. That's why managers at software companies are obsessed with pointing tickets, why scientists are obsessed with p-values, why the school system is obsessed with grades, etc. So if you want people to compete more fiercely over something, coming up with some numbers is a good way to make that happen. (At least for a while.)

It'd be nice to believe that this is just a temporary quirk of our current cultural values. But we may also have just topped out, at least for the foreseeable future, in terms of just how well people can really understand the world given a relatively fixed level of intelligence. Even though individuals are ostensibly becoming more transmodernist, it's difficult (as a layperson) to see how that or something like it could ever really could become the dominant philosophical paradigm behind our institutions.
Is it cheaper? Do landowners have any incentive to lower rent prices?
You could look at the people with creative output and ask how drugs help, or you could look at 'non-creative' people and ask how drugs stop them being creative..

Or maybe artists just take/enjoy/use drugs 'because' humans take/enjoy/use drugs. You just only hear about it when it's someone famous for something.
>I firmly believe most of what it means to be a human is not quantifiable

This is a tired argument, especially because it itself is taking the first step towards quantifying what it is saying can't be quantified. First you have Boolean categories ("what it means to be human," and "what it doesn't mean to be human"), and later on you refine them into more subtle models, models which sometimes use real numbers to express their parameters. Even by suggesting that "what it means to be human" is a coherent category into which things can fall, you are already on the road to quantifying it.
I personally use http://hackerne.ws
Checking fuckedcompany.com multiple times per day, seeing rumors about a third round of layoffs at 60% of staff in two days, and then seeing 16% layoffs right on schedule.
Anyone else working in tech for the past few years having more frequent existential crises about what they have enabled?

I have never worked at FB, but I've worked at a few well known yet somewhat controversial companies (in fintech, marketplaces, etc.) that I sometimes feel uneasy about.
Power accrues to whoever has power. That's the primary use of power.
Since the rest is behind a paywall, just for fun let's deconstruct that intro paragraph!

> MEASUREMENTS PERVADE life and society.

Some parts of it, sure. And much more in some parts of the world than others.

> Infants are weighed the moment they blink into the world.

That practice is probably thousands of years old, because it is a good indicator of the health of both baby and mother.

> Pupils are graded.

Hundreds of years old, because if you want a standardized school system you have to at least seem to judge pupils by their merits in vaguely similar ways across a very diverse set of schools and educators.

> Schools are judged on their students’ performance, universities on graduates’ job prospects.

And this is where it starts falling down. Schools and universities in places with problems are funded so disparately that they are no longer standardized in practice, so stop-gap measures like these rear their ugly head.

> Companies monitor the productivity of employees

And studies have shown that measuring productivity is bad for morale and productivity, while being easy to game.

> while CEOs watch the share price.

... leading to short term thinking because human intuition is not very good at statistics.

> Countries tabulate their GDP,

Which seems to have been discredited.

> credit-rating agencies assess their economies,

Well, I'm just glad I've never had to live in a place where those are actually a thing.

> investors eye bond yields.

Very wisely.

> The modern world relies on such data. It would cease to function without them.

By this token most of the world has already ceased to function.

The subtitle, on the other hand, seems right on the money. Being someone who decides what to measure is a position of great power and responsibility, and I sincerely hope we get better at measuring the right thing, not measuring at all when it would do more harm than good, and knowing which to choose.
No no, I mean a coworking space just to get out and socialize with other knowledge workers. Doesn’t need to be geographically close to other coworkers.
The Bay Area is experiencing population growth due to birth and foreign immigration despite net domestic outmigration.
> Their decision is important, but their involvement isn't worth the full value the company receives based on making that decision

CEO's don't get anywhere near the full value the company receives based on the decisions they make.

The average S&P 500 corporation is worth $45B and grows earnings by 10% each year. The average S&P CEO gets paid $13.5 million dollars.
Well at least it was after high school
And UI design?
Cappuccino
There are a whole lot of places between “most expensive place in the world” and “no place.”
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I think it’s important for anyone getting to this page to read his whole thread, which is more nuanced than suggested by the sensational title. The point he seems to be making is that it’s better for startups that aren’t looking at being unicorns to look at other locations where they might have a better chance of success.
It's worth keeping in mind that the Republicans and Democrats already once swapped sides on the "left" v. "right" spectrum. It ain't inconceivable to think that it might happen again (and in fact might already be in the early stages of happening again).
I'm relatively unsympathetic to the author.

I'm not a mechanical device, but my arm is a lever. Period.

I'm not a steam engine, but thermodynamics applies. Very much so.

My impressions from reading this last time is that the author misunderstands the kinds of models that physics produces, their power and generality.

So: yes,the brain is not just a computer, but it can be fruitfully modeled as one.

(In the same way it is not an engine, but is can be modelled as one: it consumes fuel, performs work, etc.)

AND THESE MODELS CAN MAKE AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BRAIN WHEN USED CORRECTLY.
Shouldn’t that link be https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=when+was+wolfram+nks+r...? ;)
Yes, but that question has nothing to do with the Internet. The correct set point of that social norm is whatever it is in the rest of society, because the Internet (at least in the US) now includes almost everyone.

My point is that the folks that founded the Internet, even if they believed in techno libertarian ideas like that mentioned by OP (which I’m not sure is true—the Internet was built by a bunch of defense contractors at a very mainstream company), have no say in what the Internet should be like. It belongs to my mom and my six year old as much as anyone.
There are many places like you described, they are just not in the US.
Just because an AI can get generate semi-plausible news items doesn't mean people are likely to believe them. After all, the source of the news is what conveys authority to most people. Otherwise, it's just a random blog post.
All of which can (and have) been emulated in places like New York.
I don't think you're groking the economic value of large corporations. CEO's don't get all the pie or anywhere near the full value the company receives based on the decisions they make.

The average S&P 500 corporation is worth $45B and grows earnings by 10% each year. The average S&P CEO gets paid $13.5 million dollars.

It's reasonable to expect a great CEO to grow earnings by 1% more than their average counterpart. If so, they are responsible for $450M/yr of value creation. $13.5M is a small fraction of $450M.
why is this comment rated so highly? it's completely niave with respect to the use cases of blockchain technology. I realize that a lot of people like here like to boohoo this stuff but there are several legitimate reasons to use a blockchain. One of the most important reasons being the ability to resist government censorship of information that would otherwise be subject to cease and desist or outright take downs. Another is the ability to transact with any other individual without relying on a system of banks and long waiting periods and their fees. And what about reward systems that remove the middle man? What about the recent scandal with Patreon? I could go on and on I hope you get the point.
This is not a problem for a gas transmission pipeline. Gas leaks are a problem for low-pressure (a few psi) distribution pipes. There is simply too much pipe to find and repair every leak, and low pressure means low leak flow rate.

A gas transmission pipeline is hundreds of times higher pressure, they will shut down a pipeline as soon as a leak is detected.
There is something really hypocritical about the difference in how we treat guinea worm and wolves. Going by what we've done with wolves, we would reintroduce the guinea worm over the objections of the people living in the area.
i agree with you, the article is rambling and mostly sets up and attacks straw men
Well, for starters, try bribing a police officer in USA vs. Russia over a speeding ticket and see how far it gets you. My money is on you going to jail in USA and getting off scot free in Russia.
This comes up time and time again. Here are a few reasons (whether they're real or perceived) 1) H1B transfer difficulty 2) Family nearby 3) Friends 4) Immigrant friendly culture 5) Velvet handcuffs

I've strongly considered it myself.
Only to a degree
No. An obvious solution to the afganistan problem is to simply cut off all immigration from that country.

Or enact similar immigration restrictions, like Trump did about a year ago.
He sort of shows the bay area bias with the bit about how “$100M” startups will be created elsewhere. There have been some much larger startups outside of the Bay Area and I suspect that trend to continue. Unicorns aren’t just a bay area phenomenon anymore
Suppose you have set up everything to get you going with a single route. Now, adding another route/handler is just deploying another function. And you deal with everything at this function level and never the entire "monolith".

You get all the advantages of breaking free from a "monolith", independent iteration, scale, federated management. Consider a big team which writes 100s of routes/handlers, then you can just federate the ownership easily.

Not very great for a solo-dev kind of projects, I agree.
> These systems are content agnostic

That's pretty demonstrably not true.
What's the point of being a startup not looking at being a unicorn? I genuinely do not understand how somebody can cap off their ambitions like so.
No, he checks each time through the loop to see if the counter ever goes below zero; if it does, then the string is unbalanced.
I don't know what your message is meant to be in citing this, but this quote does not at all support rejecting and excluding people who espouse beliefs that one considers morally reprehensible - quite the opposite. From the page you linked:

> In a 1997 work, Michael Walzer asked, "Should we tolerate the intolerant?" He notes that most minority religious groups who are the beneficiaries of tolerance are themselves intolerant, at least in some respects. In a tolerant regime, such people may learn to tolerate, or at least to behave "as if they possessed this virtue"

Substitute "religious group" with "political group", and the same applies. If you ostracize and reject people who hold views you find reprehensible then you're relinquishing your best opportunity to change them. If the surrounding community rejects them, then these rejected people will commiserate with like minded people and probably become more extreme and vengeful of society.

"Intolerant of intolerance" refers just as much to the intolerance for different worldviews and values that we harbor within ourselves as it does to the intolerance we sometimes witness in others.
The biggest problem with squatters is that they pay 100x less then you do for a domain. If they had to pay the same price they would squat on way less domains.
Though the point it more about funding and founders, seems like a salient point for developers too.

You can learn a lot, really fast, and with very long odds maybe get a nice reward in the Bay Area.

Or you can choose a slightly more boring path with a startup almost anywhere else with a normal 9-5 schedule, pretty good pay, and a low cost of living.

Quality of life is likely better in most other cities as well, the only downside being concentrated tech talent in Bay Area.

Unless you're working at one of the mega companies, how much of a benefit is it really for developers to live there?
I wonder why Boston hasn't risen further, with Harvard and MIT both at their doorstep along with a lot of other really great universities and good companies.
Where in Northern Virginia?
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Heating oil is diesel fuel not legal for on highway vehicle use. It's fine to buy diesel fuel taxed for vehicles and burn it in your heater though, but you'll (eventually) get in a lot of trouble for doing it the other way.
> like airbnb, uber, and theranos

One of them is not like the other
paypal also supports TOTP through an old trick. Look it up.
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SpaceX was a moonshot. Who in their right mind would think of a relatively minor private enterprise being able to stand toe to toe with NASA.

Google Maps/Earth, and GPS in general, blow my mind to this day. Think of the applications that most of us work on. Not even close.

I think ZBrush, the 3d modeling/sculpting program, was a total moonshot. It's been copied many times since, but it totally changed the way movie and game art is made.

Neural nets in general. Observe the simplicity of a neuron, attempt to arrange roughly analogous entities and connections with gradient descent error minimizing, and something approximating intelligence emerges. Pretty crazy.

The internet is a moonshot.
And nobody said "boo" about the thousands, if not millions, of Microsoft office installations on NMCI and other DoD computers. What, you think the Integrated Master Schedule for that latest Vertical Launch System wasn't organized using MS Project?
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> that amount is so skewed that it can't possibly be based on performance.

Of course it can be. I'll give another example - Microsoft under Gates/Ballmer/Nadella. As an MSFT shareholder, I am very, very happy with Nadella's results and he's worth whatever he's paid.
Software engineering is only part writing code. A lot of time is thinking, understanding, collaborating and designing. Also a lot of testing.
Same. Heck, I've been in forty below, but that was with wind chill. That's actually one of the worst things, the wind. As someone who has camped in ten below and 110, you can always put on more, but you can only take off so much.
1) DDoS not just at the API Gateway level, but also at the database level. Suppose you fiddle the query to return you a million rows or some horrible aggregated join. You can slow down the entire DB. You need to hide the query from the client.

2) Yeah, connection pooling is apparently not relevant for DynamoDb because it is HTTP based, I wonder how they implement transactions then. How can I manipulate code while having an open transaction?
I believe it has. We work with a few coastal firms where we were among their first non-traditional tech hub investments and conversations suggest many are looking for gems in new places.
I get the idea, but at least I bond with coworkers by working together.

Just sitting in the same area with some other remote workers that I had nothing in common with would probably just be weird.
Personally I'd use usersByID and users - I nearly always name my maps thingsByKey, and my default is that a plural thing on its own is nearly always a list, so adding a suffix of List doesn't add anything much here for me (Cheney's "Don’t name your variables for their types").
Reading through your comment history seems like your comments trend like this one. I wonder how it feels to be so righteous. If you have this attitude maybe you ought to hold a mirror up to yourself; you might just find that you’re every bit as toxic as you claim this person to be.
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There are lots of places with a wealth of well educated talent and poor to non-existent amount of startups coming from there. Access to capital is probably the largest factor.
From reading the prior article, it doesn't look like anyone ever thought the bee was under threat. It's just that it's been documented occasionally, and that recently happened again.

It isn't documented continuously because people don't really care that much about it.
And based on my brief research on this specific pipeline (which appears to have been scrapped), the gas was to be used for power generation. There was also a proposal for a 320KV transmission line to import power instead, which appears to be going ahead. Personally, I would 1000x rather have a gas pipeline transit my land than a 320kv transmission line. Residential proximity to HV transmission lines increases risk of leukaemia ... at least gas lines can be monitored for leaks & repaired. The people who scuttled this seem to ignore that the dense urban development that they love requires importation of energy in some form from far-flung places.
Ashburn, Tysons, Reston, Sterling, McLean. Where the original kings of the internet existed. The area is full of talent, though not as flashy as the bay area.
Working for yourself. You only need so much money to be happy. And statistically speaking, you’re not going to be a unicorn. You’re more likely to fail entirely. But if you make a nice business out of it that you can go to each day and be happy, you enjoy the work, and have your bills paid comfortably, that’s enough for a lot of people.

Hustle and grind in moderation.
Something's gotta get the robot in and out of the car.l unless they're all accessible. Which given the demographics they may be
Found the haskeller.
The comments on just about every story anything to do with China get overheated lately, I wouldn't take it personally.
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I really don't care what Russia or china thinks.

The only thing I care about is that we stop wasting trillions of dollars for the purpose of killing brown people.
In theory disputes, customer care and all the work intensive tasks could be managed by the network itself: instead of paying an employee's you pay users to perform these tasks.
There's a few projects proposing this.
Not sure whether it will be efficient but it's certainly interesting.
How is this better than today's plumber licensing?