skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flipside of this is that SF's high burn rate kills many startups that otherwise would have been $100M companies. In particular, startups that are margin-sensitive.

I totally agree that you often can't choose if you're a $100M or a $1B startup, but if you're a founder, I think it often makes a lot more sense to optimize for the $100M scenario, given that it's more likely. The caveat is the founder who's already made f-u money, and whose true goal is to shoot for the moon.
I didn't bother to reply to your original comment because I agree with mindslight's criticisms of it. I will reply here. Thank you for vouching for my comment.

Seems your condition is very different from that of a newborn baby with an under developed and fragile immune system

I'm going to guess you have no idea what my condition is, or didn't when you left that remark. I'm quite open about my diagnosis, while trying to not state the diagnosis too frequently because that tends to be drama, yet it is easily found if one wishes to find it.

The assumption that my condition is very different from that of a newborn baby with an under developed and fragile immune system is very much in error. I have a genetic disorder that causes me to have a permanently impaired immune system. Standard treatment for it involves lots of vaccines and other strong drugs.

I have gradually gotten better in part because I concluded that such a harsh approach may win the battle, but lose the war because the body is the battlefield. So when you bombard it perpetually with strong medications, you leave it a shelled out husk.

Then doctors take credit for winning the latest battle against your latest infection by prescribing you such harsh drugs. When you die young, they don't take the blame for that (never mind the multi-page foldout warning you of possible harmful side effects for such drugs, especially when used frequently over a long period of time). Instead, they blame it on your genes when it comes to people like me.

I fundamentally disagree with this current foundational tenet of Western medicine.
If you are of the opinion unborn children are children, you can. Not all people subscribe to that belief.

This simple fact is why the pro-choice/life debates go nowhere. If you disagree on this basic point of fact, no amount of discussion will change your mind. If you believe fetuses (fetii?) are people, then abortion is murder. If unborn are not people, it's a medical procedure between a doctor and a patient.
A war with Russia would require a draft. It’s ridiculous to think otherwise. Everyone is being evasive and not answering the question, which is: why should a guy from the Midwest die to defend Eastern Europe?

Your point about spending is ignorant and silly. We don’t buy billion dollar submarines to fight Islamists in land locked countries.
Or society collapses and innovation is taken to a personal survival level where capital is pointless.
The HN guidelines call for changing the original title when it is either misleading or linkbait (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). When users complain that part of a title is misleading, we usually change it, especially when there's a bit of baitiness in there too.

A lot of projects/products get posted to HN with promotional titles. If we always went with their own descriptions, HN's front page would be a lot noisier and less to our readers' taste. They prefer factual and neutral language.

It's true that the word 'lightweight' in the title above wasn't that bad, but if one reader complains, it's likely that some others feel the same way. We've learned to trust such community reactions.
I recently signed up to recruit to make a dinner reservation in Japan.

They used a lot of dark patterns for their email marketing. Bombarding me with multiple different newsletters I didn't sign up for and I had to cancel every single one of them separately. And nearly a week delay after sign-off. One of the worst non-spam marketing I had to deal with in the last years.
Did the Windscale fire create corium?
We never “called it a day.” We remain active on social, justice, and political issues from abroad. In fact, we are beginning the process to incorporate a small 501c3 around civic engagement and betterment. We spent a decent fraction of our pretax income on the aforementioned effort alone in 2018.

Nevertheless, when taking the whole risk and probability matrix into account, neither my spouse nor I feel confident that the U.S. will turn itself around successfully to warrant an all eggs in one basket approach. The United States would need to stop acting like a petulant family at war with itself and start taking better care of itself and its people.
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>They are both massive bloated platforms that do lots of different disconnected things not very well. e.g. the wechat messaging app contains subprograms for games, payment, flight bookings, etc you can't turn off

In an age where bringing users together and building ecosystems seems to count for more and more this isn't necessarily a downside. We're used to the startup and "move quick" mentality but conglomerates have been making somewhat of a comeback for a while now, and Google and Amazon aren't exactly 'non bloated' either, because I'm sure for many of their services there's some small company somewhere that does it better. (case in point, DeepL's translation is actually astonishingly good).

So maybe being a big scary monolith with government support is a good strategy to be a dominating internet company in this day and age and in the years to come.
Iirc, modules have a dependency on bareword paths that can get awkward. I'm not a professional python programmer, so the fastest way for me to deliver something that I could be 100% guaranteed to work was that way. Maybe I'm wrong, but that was my logic.
Do you have any source for that? I have some friends suffering from alcoholism that could probably use hearing something like that, but google isn’t turning up anything.
How is having that much debt a good thing?

Buffett answers this in a previous paragraph about BNSF. BNSF has debt but they also have cash generation even in times of recession. This is really important. If you are unable to generate cash during recession and you have a ton of debt, you are dead.

A similar analogy applies to US. During recession, they can print money and generate cash. US will never default on their debt, or the probability of them defaulting is almost 0, hence the coveted AAA rating. Granted, the value of that printed money decreases right away, but eventually the value will stabilize w.r.t all other currencies and a stable store such as gold. Also note that the combined household wealth in US is nearing $100 trillion. That should count for something.

It's ok to have debt, if you have significant cash flow to cover your debt eventually, even in times of recession. Apple follows a similar philosophy. They raise debt for their share buybacks and dividends, even though they are sitting on a cash pile.
Fascinating how few of these people spent the money on their own financial security. Can’t say I would make the same decision, but good for them!
Hmm down voted... Would like to know why?
I don't work a 9-5, so weekends aren't that special to me. Often I work on weekends, or don't work on weekdays.

This weekend is the beginning of tech week in the theatre -- I'll leave it up to the reader to decide if that's evidence of my productivity and success, or lack of!
What if I told you TA doesn't work for geopolitics.
Stephen Wolfram created his remote organization in spite of Richard Feynman advise:

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http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/you-dont-understand-ord...

You say you want to create your own environment - but you will not be doing that: you will create (perhaps!) an environment that you might like to work in - but you will not be working in this environment - you will be administering it - and the administration environment is not what you seek - is it? You won't enjoy administrating people because you won’t succeed in it.

You don’t understand "ordinary people." To you they are "stupid fools" - so you will not tolerate them or treat their foibles with tolerance or patience - but will drive yourself wild (or they will drive you wild) trying to deal with them in an effective way.

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Rather, I would find it very valuable to read how a variety of people have answered this question for themselves.

I agree with this idea. It would also be nice if they fleshed out the how with some of the why in their case (without violating their personal sense of privacy, preferably).
But you couldn't replicate the 'questionable'?! Success of the US elsewhere.

Most rich countries have some kind of USP. That isn't an argument that they shouldn't try to replicate the more successful elements of other nations.

Germany is an anomaly in Europe, France also, along with Britain, Ireland, Italy, etc, etc.
And 80% of the internet switches (Cisco and juniper) are controlled by erlang. So?

I think you're looking at this wrong. Part of the reason why so many large scale products use OO, is because they use Java, and java is awesome if you're working at such a large organization that your productivity is most easily measured by pointy haired managers who count how many LOC you've written ;)

As for readability and conceptual simplicity, may I introduce you to something called the Factory pattern?
> Are you suggesting that taxation is equal to violence?

It's a frequent comment on HN and it's fucking stupid everytime.
I like this. I love the aesthetic of a clean “organized” workspace, but damned if mine aren’t often the opposite. Your observation of what-follows-what is actually profound in light of what I guess (and you suggest) an “obviously organized” space is.
Why is kernel_task slowing my Mac down so much?
I'd much rather whave a couple of language that specialize in their own paradigm rather than a single one which tries to do everything, to be honest.
Sure, and optimizing for those massive returns is the VC's problem, not the founder's problem. You're one out of dozens, if not hundreds of their investments. They'll be fine.
How can you create a product that really catches people’s eyes without speaking to them first ;-) each step in getting there from designing product, coding to speaking to users is a variable challenge that cannot be generalized. For example; introvert coders might find it hard to speak to strangers while an extrovert will flourish but find coding challenging etc. finding the right cofounder that complements you goes a long way to launching a product that really catches people’s eyes.
We will. But can you be specific? How long would count as substantial warning?
Not having Windows 9 was for a very good technical reason, not because of marketing.

An unknown number of RegEx strings are looking for Windows 95 and Windows 98 just by looking for 'Windows 9'.
Interesting, so they implemented a new scheduler, VM etc?
Before some of you take out your pitchforks against India's "socialist / commies" out to screw western companies, please read this:

> An investigation by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed that Microsoft has been passing user data that it gathers from Indian banks that are Office 365 customers to various U.S. intelligence agencies, upon demand ... Microsoft is bound to share customers’ data under US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and US national security letters as and when required by the US authorities.”

> ... In the Office 365 contract, the banks agreed to share such data only if it was sanctioned by the Government of India or an Indian court. The contract also made provisions for gag orders issued by the U.S. agencies, where Microsoft wouldn't be allowed to outwardly acknowledge the disclosure of the user data ...

Source: "Microsoft has been sharing Indian bank customers' data with U.S. intelligence agencies" - https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-been-sharing-india...

Again, this highlights one of the obvious dangers of using a "cloud service" - foreign governments and companies can access your data.
Piece of Programming
Social Cycles are built as anomalies of the past, magnifying apparitions in Fairy Tales;
and thus the Planet as to any other titles appointed in perception of communication,suffers the construction of these realities in futuristic illusions;

so this perception was attributed in memory to the products,and computers are stored in the situations a fame to be perceived by the viewer;
then the programming in which it enables the customization in the willingness to present information,it compels the suffering in new structures of the matter influencing the programming;

Lazarus-IDE was discovered in this simplicity where social conflicts reconstruct the fame of presenters,in which Microsoft Windows introduced UWP from these structures where it happens not being a Win32;
Then a PenDrive was understood in usability of Fat32 system by NTFS triggering the futuristic tool of these manifestations;

Is it known that programs with Forms logic will be discontinued in the presentation of these virtual realities,generating the need where codes become unstructured in adaptation to new forms of presentation?
meaning a lack of consistency by observing MS-DOS system with text design in new three-dimensional procedures?

what happens to these parameters not being capable because they are structured as holograms using the same Pascal language,and efforts in continuity flawed by assigning a new presentation with the same code?

Desktop programming is flawed on account of HTML engines and such - being a problem of Operating Systems as well as Microsoft and support for older drives;
what makes these structures not fit in the fame of these logics where simply the proceeding only includes a 3D handle by the system?

Is it a defeat to do programming with Lazarus-IDE? and if so, what is the tool suitable for futuristic production of these structures not being disorganized by society and more focused on productions with the machine?

Thanks;
I am reminded of the addage "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I suspect the author is has systemic problems working with others. I think if someone is earnestly doing their best to improve their skills, a true professional will accord them the respect they deserve.
Thanks for that. I appreciate the feelings you're expressing, and am sure that at the core they are valid.
Thanks for the response man. Not sure if you'll see this, but- is it actually proven that some % of traders are consistently, year over year profitable? Because that would seem to be another blow to the strong form of EMH. I could see a more EMH-friendly world where some traders are profitable some of the time, but it's not consistent who's who year over year (which is what is supposedly said about active fund managers, one good year has little correlation to having another good year)
The fundamental mistake seems to be assuming that violent conflict arises from misunderstanding or a lack of close contact.

I think it’s more likely that violent conflict arises from actual conflicts of interest or belief. Closer contact might exacerbate those problems instead of fixing them...
Not _everything_ but a large part of what I do does involve rather deep thought.

Anyone's ability to think deeply and pull out feats of clever is a limited resource. A well designed project tries to optimize this. Think of it as martial arts. It's good to be strong. The techniques are there to use your strength more efficiently.

I was once in an Aikido class with someone who lifted. He had to constantly remind himself to use the technique and not just strength. (As Ramsey Dewey likes to point out, technique plus strength is pretty darn awesome.)
Your response is assholish. Try being more compassionate next time, some dude probably worked on this on his own time, and these issues you’ve noted can be fixed.
Strange “Paint Disease” Is Putting Georgia O’Keeffe Paintings at Risk
> There was even a humanitarian program that provided summer getaways to some European countries for kids growing up in that region.

Yep, when I was young, various families of kids in my school would host children that were affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
True, but whether the examiners or the USPTO get that money is totally beside the point.
I've often argued that the basic "dumb fucks" sentiment from Mark Zuckerberg's university days has not changed within Facebook's leadership and frequently got push-back that Mark Zuckerberg has matured and is now a responsible steward of our data.

I feel vindicated by news like this. It's pretty clear that privacy overreach and violation at Facebook are not "accidents". It's standard operating procedure.
I'd ask you to reconsider what an optimization is, and to also consider the concept of "premature cleverification".

A switch statement is a pretty idiomatic choice for the example. Merely knowing more about the low level cost of different options does not make a snippet an optimization.

Examples of actual optimizations (from real world code I've seen) would include using bitmaps, lookup tables, large regexps, tries and binary search. All of these have the property of obscuring the search space in the name of performance, and many come with trade-offs such as increased startup cost or code size. Choosing to use a trie here, for example, without considering its trade offs would be a premature optimization. A switch statement is at worst a refactor that maintains the same algorithm.
Do they use Fortran in those fields?
The sheer volume of publication is a problem, as is Sturgeon's "law" that "90% of everything is shit."

So for fiction, which I really enjoy, I mostly read the work of deceased authors. Why? Well, if they are old and still in print (or still mentioned in things I otherwise enjoyed) then they are probably better than the run of the mill.

Doesn't mean I read anything old -- I can't stand James Joyce, though I have friends who love the work. I don't have the education to understand it.

With apart from the two examples below I won't mention particular authors, 1> because it will inherently sound snobbish ("oh he likes to read that old author -- I had to read that thing in school") and 2> because everybody's taste changes.

For some perspective on my attitude: in high school I was really saddened that only seven of Sophocles' plays survived when he had written over 100 and we have records of some of the missing work winning prizes. But I came to realise that must have been some clunkers in the mix and over a few thousand years perhaps these seven are seven of, say, the best ten. Pretty good!

Also I have never understood the fetishism of the original. People obsess over Shakespear's first folios, and the differences in printings and revision: which is "correct"? These old works are "good" because they are continually reinterpreted and remixed into our underlying culture.

"good" in scare quotes because it's all personal judgment -- I have a few Shakespeare plays I really love, and many I can't stand or am indifferent to, and personally I couldn't care less about his sonnets. Doesn't make me a good or bad person, nor is it a comment on your opinion if you feel differently.
That does seem odd. I'll look into it.

Edit: it's because the /front pages were dividing up days differently than the story timestamps, which use UTC. I've made everything use UTC now.
So what do you mean by “math-fearing”?
My guess is that you’re seeing popularity based selection bias at work: languages with more common features are easier to understand and gain popularity faster than truly bizarre and unique languages which are confusing to newcomers. These popular languages end up being the ones you see every day.

I bet a true random sample of programming languages would be a lot weirder.
If you’re on a group plan, which you would be with your employer, they’ll cover your preexisting conditions.

You will have so much more leverage to negotiate for your skill set. They Truly value your skills.

Kick your safety net to the side, jump the pond and make a good business decision for yourself.
Something doesn't need to react to influence the environment; it can act as a catalyst, cause damage physically, or bring smaller things with it pass defenses.
It’s the overpriced medicine problem.
Note first I disagree with allowing to opt out of your body used as an organ donor after your death.

No value is absolute. Trolley problem and all that (Judith Jarvis Thomson phrased the trolley problem as an organ transplant case it so happens). The potential destruction wrought by an unvaccinated child is deadly enough it overrides the individual bodily agency. By taking away the bodily agency of one child you are potentially saving several living, actual humans. When you take away the bodily agency of one woman, you are potentially saving the life of an unborn person at best. This doesn't compare favorably. Also, beyond bodily agency we need to weigh all effects of forcing a decision and forcing vaccinations have an extremely low chance of causing harm to the child being vaccinated whereas banning abortions have an extremely high chance of causing harm to the woman.
> of course there is not

And yet you bring it up as an example of how well Ethereum might work. And claim “there are hundreds of other examples”.

So what you claimed is false, and there are no other examples. And the avility of Ethereum to provide what you claim is yet to be proven (it was nearly crippled by a friggin kitties game which could fit in its entirety on a low-powered laptop eas it not for Ethereum/blockchain).

> If you forget bias

There’s no bias in calling out a lie
Hoax [thing] is also a good way to bury real [thing] by simply casting a shadow of doubt over all occurrences. Just like articles that portray themselves as pro or against something but use arguments that are so ridiculous that they make you doubt the validity of the original claims even when it comes attached to real arguments.

Earlier today a pro-feminism article on HN used the argument that phones are so big because that's the limit of what a man can use with one hand. This of course completely ignored the fact that average US/world male height is ~1.75m which makes the average phone (5.5") also too big for their hands.

A casual "on the fence" reader could very easily conclude that feminism is made up or just a pile of BS, and this discredits many valid future arguments and articles by mere association. And you can do this for any topic.
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Without insurance, a 15-minute consult in Canada is, like, $40 CAD. That's like $20 USD. Factor of 5x or 10x savings.
Yes. For hysterical raisins, VGG-16 is usually used as the hash/space for the nearest-neighbor lookups. Recent example of this is in the BigGAN appendix, where you can see that despite the dog samples looking perfect, they are nevertheless totally different from their closest neighbors in the ImageNet training data and so can't be memorization.
Switzerland is kind of made to appeal to rich foreigners who spend money. Not too long ago, most people here were very poor. A lot of problems are hidden.
> There is always a better element than 'div'

Please show me a better element for “a card to display an image and text”.

It would also be nice if that element used CSS grid.
But even if humans are bad at this, how is that an argument to allow Facebook to do this on purpose?
It's a joke from a movie. No science here.
Their tld is also .ch if anyone hadn't noticed it yet