skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They certainly weren’t given cash like the french government is doing. The most you can say is that Bell Atlantic, Verizon’s predecessor, was allowed to accelerate depreciation of their copper network more quickly than under the previous tax rules.[1] Whether that amounted to a subsidy depends on how quickly the value of the copper plant decreased after fiber was built. The accelerated depreciation was based on the quite reasonable assumption that the value of the copper network depreciated more quickly after fiber was built. I’ve never seen a calculation refuting that premise.

[1] When you build an income-producing capital asset like copper wire in the ground, you can’t deduct the cost from your revenues immediately for tax purposes, like you can with say employee salaries. Instead, you gradually deduct the capital cost over the income-producing life of the asset. If the government allowes you to depreciate an asset faster than the value of the asset actually drops, that nets you some tax benefit due to the time value of money. On the other hand, if the accelerated depreciation reflects the fact that certain types of assets depreciate quicker, then it will result in the correct amount of taxes being paid. For example IT equipment in data centers can generally be written off immediately—unlike wires in the the ground it’s pretty much worthless after a few years.
Market cap $150 billion is insane. Never thought it is that big.
But not having a bank account is a choice. It's not about "rights."
SF is a non starter for most startups who don't have $3,600/month or more for even a one bedroom apartment (since YC requires all startups members to locate at their hub).

Austin is the new shining star, way lower costs, lower taxes.
Yup. And when you chime in with "wait for it..." you get the nasty vitriolic comments thrown at you like you're going to rot in the basement of a fortune 10 feeding a legacy system while the $cool_kids enjoy the sunshine on the beach with their new shiny frameworks.

Yet "Wait for it" usually turns out to be correct.
I would be really interested to know what kind of unit testing was done to prove that a feature like this won't break anything. I see that he left the original messages and added more guidance, so it would be possible to regress against GCC8. But the addition of the new guidance must require a certain degree of code partitioning and hand-inspection, given how complex GCC is under the hood.
Show HN: A bookmarklet to make your YC app PDF-friendly
I wanted a nicely-formatted PDF copy of my unsubmitted YC app to share for comments/feedback so I made this simple JS bookmarklet.

https://bookmarkify.it/13444

When you run it on the application editor at https://apply.ycombinator.com/app/edit it replaces all of the inputs/selects/textareas with <p>.

I wasn't sure if there is a better way to do this. I hope someone else may find it useful.

Be warned Saving your YC app after running the bookmarklet may cause it to be erased. Somehow this happened to me by reloading the page. Luckily I had another copy :)
Secure for thee, but not for me!
https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
> This automatically split the task into all available CPU cores.

GNU sort can already utilize multiple cores, and you can override internal heuristics about whether it's going to be beneficial for one particular input or not with --parallel=N. Anyways, if multithreaded sort is available what you should probably do is replace `sort | uniq` with just `sort -u` to save some time on pipe IO.
By damn, I just love when the big kahunas still involve themselves in the community they cultivated so long ago. Cheers, Sam; the best of luck to you and the team at YC.
You're mistaken, they still profit by selling your data. It's just banks can't retrieve your credit report to open a new account when it's locked.
Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private Is Bitcoin?
I’m 36 and I kind of consider myself an older programmer, if for no other reason than the fact that others my age also consider themselves older coders.

I’m not the greatest, but I get the job done and produce results. That’s what businesses want.still, I wonder how sustainable that is.
I’ve found manually prefixing links with http:// (http://go/test) is a better alternative to auto-linkification via chrome extension (works in slack app, mobile apps, etc.)
What you propose break economies of scale which are often needed to do something cheaply.
it will have to pry my paperclips from my cold dead hands

Btw, what are the popular theories on why Eliezer Yudkowsky was let out of the box? Did he ever say?

From the Sam Harris interview [1]:

"To demonstrate this, I did something that became known as the AI-box experiment. There was this person on a mailing list, back in the early days when this was all on a couple of mailing lists, who was like, “I don’t understand why AI is a problem. I can always just turn it off. I can always not let it out of the box.” And I was like, “Okay, let’s meet on Internet Relay Chat,” which was what chat was back in those days. “I’ll play the part of the AI, you play the part of the gatekeeper, and if you have not let me out after a couple of hours, I will PayPal you $10.” And then, as far as the rest of the world knows, this person a bit later sent a PGP-signed email message saying, “I let Eliezer out of the box.”

[1] https://intelligence.org/2018/02/28/sam-harris-and-eliezer-y...
Okay, but the problem is, 45-60 minutes is usually all hiring managers have to assess a candidate. What can you do in that amount of time to assess someone‘s real world performance? Having a high level conversation about technology and problem solving approach helps but often doesn’t translate into writing code. Tech-stack specific challenges are no good because general programming ability is more important, you can learn a new language on the job. Algorithm puzzle problems aren’t great because then we’re selecting for people who spend a lot of time on hackerrank or whatever.

Maybe effective programmer hiring is just an unsolved problem.
Interesting, but then the question remains, just how you want that message delivered.
When I was in college, we had issues with the oscilloscopes in our electronics lab. They were sensitive enough to register body movement nearby with no physical contact. This was about 20 years ago. Think they were HPs...

It wasn't really a problem; we only noticed because we couldnt get a signal out of our circuit due to a busted internal lead connection, but we noticed the changes as people walked past. Was curious.
I remember a documentary about octopus reproduction, the mother would spend their final hours heating water around the nest then as a last gesture would go die as far as possible from it, allegedly to avoid attracting predator around "her" corpse. I have no idea if the sacrificial narrative is to be trusted but I was nearly tearing up.
>How about animals we eat that are treated well? If a cow lives a happy life, is slaughtered as humanely as possible, and wouldn't have existed if not for our demand for meat, does that make that meat ethical? Maybe even more ethical than not eating it?

With suffering and pain out of the way, this would boil down to the question if existing is more comfortable than not existing. The cow needs to exist in order that you can eat it.

Everything in this universe has the laws of nature as a resistance, and molds itself into a form to lessen this pressure (the easiest or viable way). life strives for a more comfortable life, which is also helped by bonding. Aren't emotions always connected to some kind of connection with something, a bond?

The core or main difference between the universe and life itself could be separation vs. union. The universe drifts apart, but life might eventually concentrate in one part of the universe as different species find each other.
> The CO2 impact of flying, and of flying first-class, is understood incredibly well

No, it's not! If you look at NGOs and charities, you find massively different numbers, even for flights with the same characteristics.

I have yet to find a decent model that takes into account everything: cargo, class, seat layouts, personal weight, etc etc. For example, Googling tells me every extra kg of weight burns 0.2-0.7kg of fuel per flight (naturally highly dependent on flight time, aircraft type, current weight etc etc.) If you take 3.15 g CO2/g fuel, and a 2.7x CO2e factor, that's 8.5 kg CO2e/kg fuel. So someone weighing 136 kg (several million Americans weigh more than this [0]) will cause up to 511.7 kg CO2e more emissions than someone weighing 50 kg will! That's more than half a ton of CO2e, and that's just in a simple body weight difference! Throw in a checked bag and a heavier carryon and you're well on your way to a ton of extra CO2e per person for longer flights.

The case of first class also depends strongly on airline-dependent factors: how many economy passengers a first class seat displaces, as well as the weight of the first class seat/bed and other things taken along to improve the journey for first class (blankets? food? a large wine selection? additional attendants, as you mentioned?)

It's an equation with an insane number of variables, as well as economic effects. Example:

There's a weekly (short) flight from <island> to <mainland> that's barely profitable, kept alive by a few passengers flying in first class. In this case, the impact of the first class is huge! Airport fees and taxes ensure that the profits from each additional economy passenger are low, but every first class passenger has a very high impact on the viability of the route.

Furthermore, like you said, there's radiative forcing caused by aviation, of which CO2 only contributes perhaps half. Contrails can contribute far more to global warming than CO2 emissions can, for a flight, depending on the weather. There are NOx emissions which have a cooling effect, which is based on altitude. So a short flight in warm weather in South America will have a much different emissions profile than a long-haul from Canada to Iceland.

I'm going to make a bold claim: the CO2e per passenger kilometer can vary by at least one order of magnitude depending on the flight characteristics (airline, weather, route, direction, location, aircraft, etc) - before you take class into account!
> Microsoft's team originally produced a new touch-first interface that wasn't entirely different from the eventual iPad. They took it to various corporate customers, and the response was unanimous: it needs to run Real Windows or it has no future. Facepalm. So they went back to Redmond and changed it to be Windows on a touchscreen. It met all stated customer requirements, technically, but of course it was clumsy and people didn't really see the benefit over a laptop, and it never took off.

This is not so obviously wrong. It's fairly well acknowledged that the biggest barrier to the iPad becoming a general computer for most people is iOS. It's unclear that the answer is 'Windows on a touch screen' but it's also equally clear that Apple hasn't done anything like enough to make iOS work for the larger form factor.
Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
Write code for microbiology? Play with computational chemistry on GPUs?

A friend at work moved from lab rat to data analysis and experiment design, switching departments from Adjuvant Research to IT. A couple of years later, I left the company to go from sysadmin to software and tech writing, and it was tough for about nine months. He went from scientific software to security research at a new company.

We were able to jump because we had few family or financial commitments. So I have no idea if what I experienced is relevant at all. But if you feel pulled in the software direction, start writing something, probably Jupyter notebook stuff. Explain Like I'm Five years old what you have experienced already.

Going through the process of sitting down (or walking, then sitting) and writing something takes a bit of focus, perhaps. I wrote a book, then wrote software. I can't recommend writing a book without a real job (my book netted me about $0.25 per hour). But write something you show other people.
It's a change in mindset to treat SSH keys as unique, non-duplicatable physical objects, but it's very comforting to be able to reason precisely about the whereabouts of a given key.

It does mean you have to get better at keeping your public key lists up to date, so that revoking a key doesn't need a bunch of manual steps. But that's something Ansible/Chef/Puppet are good at.
And yet individuals are not their group identities which is why a person can go beyond and below the average through their own effort and choices.
I wonder if they could catch the Crew Dragon with Mr Steven instead of water splashdown? No loss if they miss, and less refurb if they succeed.
How do the biological propellants compare in terms of stability? Maybe not an issue for launches, but I'm curious about their viability in satellite thrusters that hang out for years/decades (although this is a digression from the GRG emission concern)
> hitting the pedestrian in the crosswalk may be the lesser evil.

I would not go so far as to say that, only because if that had been the situation then the car and it's onboard system would have to take the all the blame.

But in this case, based on the footage I saw the car was travelling down a freeway at high speed and at night.

Now some of the blame might be attributably to the car, but the real cause of the accident was the pedestrian walking down a freeway, so it seems clear most of the blame hast to be attributed to the pedestrian.
Hmm I've found that carbs like bread and bagels work best for me. I usually have a sandwich or a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast and dinner.
I think YC only fairly recently started exercising their pro-rata. IIRC there was a while before YC Continuity was started when they didn't have funds allocated for pro-rata. They've had it for a while now but I think they may have missed out on some of the earlier successes, like Dropbox, Airbnb and Stripe, which is where a lot of the gains have been realized at this point.
From: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-goog...

> We're excited to grow and improve the product going forward. While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.
By taking over decision-making roles, and then making locally-optimal decisions without regard to negative externalities. (Humans are pretty good at this already, but computers can streamline that whole cumbersome process of making bad decisions.)

The world is already to a significant degree run by machine learning algorithms that are designed to maximize shareholder value in some way, and many of them are deliberately engineered to manipulate the public, often by using their personal information.

Now, consider if this assortment of for-profit AIs were able to replace humans at the top of the decision-making chains in their respective organizations, and then were able to bribe/blackmail/manipulate the political and social structures of society to increase their wealth, power, and influence. It might seem kind of silly to consider computers doing this, but it's at least sort of how the world works now with humans in charge. If AI was in charge, it removes the restrictions of empathy, moral principle, and mortality on the acquisition of wealth, not to mention limited time and attention.

(Why would we put AI in charge of corporations, you might be wondering? How many boards of directors would disregard the idea if such an option could be reasonably expected to increase profits? And how many middle-class workers would refuse to invest in such companies if they had the best dividends and stock value growth?)

So, maybe we end up in a profit-centered dystopia where computers own all the wealth and people are effectively slaves. That's not the end of mankind, but it puts us in a position of no longer controlling our own destiny and being unable to react to existential threats. For instance, we might not be able to do anything about climate change because our AI overlords don't individually see any advantage in spending resources on that.
It’s slow.

Do you use ReSharper?

It’s been a while since I used either ReSharper or Visual Studio, but I remember ReSharper being like lashing a half-ton Snap On tool chest to your car.
If you read the article you’d probably be able to work it out, but essentially:

- it marks the return of American human launch capabilities after a several year hiatus from the retirement of the space shuttle

- it is being done on by a private company (with government funding), which is unprecedented

- dragon crew is intended to be reusable (in opposition to Shuttle/mercury/Gemini/Apollo

- the capsule is designed to have inflight abort capability, which is unprecedented and a differentiator from the Boeing effort (previous abort capability came from a ‘towed’ approach (the big pointy thing on top of Apollo) and was only available on the pad, not in-flight, so if something goes wrong during flight the crew is probably buggered)

(Edit: removed Soyuz from list of non-in flight abort capsules)
You're welcome to suggest a more accurate way of consistently accounting income tax requirements.
> But in this case, hard breaking would have been plenty fine and with little downside risk

Except to any cars that might be following behind that then end up ploughing into the back of that hard breaking car.
That's actually a really good suggestion, thanks!
Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down
By definition that would not be a meritocratic environment then. It doesn't prove that it's bad but rather the opposite.
I used to cycle commute everyday and would vary the route from 12-60kms. Where I live is very hot in summer and wet in winter. So a shower was needed when I arrived at work. I preferred to not carry a backpack or have a pannier on my bike, so every fortnight I would drive to work and drop off work clothes for the next couple of weeks.

This also meant I would go out for lunch each day as I didn't want to carry food with me on my commute. The cost savings of riding to work vs driving and paying for parking meant I was ahead. If I took public transport and brought lunch from home it would have worked out slightly cheaper but taken 30mins longer each way.

Sure I could have carried lunch with me on my cycle commute but and saved more money, but then I would have enjoyed the ride less. I figure I would still be ahead compared to people who don't cycle and pay for gym classes/memberships.
I'm not really sure what your point is; program and section headers are different things.

ASLR is, relatively speaking, a recent invention (when compared to ELF). ELF describes memory layout, so if you want to randomize it you pretty much have to do your relocation at runtime...which you can do except for the entry point, but I suppose you could make an extension to relocate even that. For that one small thing I think you could propose a revision to the ELF spec.

And I'm sure there are still bugs in bfd! But with ELF being pretty pervasive these days that 30 year-old (just noticed that: 1989-2019) software is less useful than it used to be. But feel free to send in a bug fix if you can't have a string table index of 0 (it would surprise me if that bug really exists, but stranger things have happened...)
Various apps use Foursquare's API to query what is at a specific coordinate. Foursquare knows what queries were made by a unique device. That's it. Not sure why this is so controversial.
As an out of state resident who needs to ride that train to get to the airport thanks for the warning. I'll keep my wits about me.
I don't see how being a "fat slob" is relevant to the discussion in any way. It's just toxic for no reason, and it doesn't belong here.
Blockchain and 5G-Enabled IoT Will Redefine Supply Chains and Trade Finance[pdf]
> How about animals we eat that are treated well? If a cow lives a happy life, is slaughtered as humanely as possible, and wouldn't have existed if not for our demand for meat, does that make that meat ethical? Maybe even more ethical than not eating it?

If that's a general argument, then the same thing goes for humans, so it'd therefore be better to have a human child and eat it (if it's slaughtered as humanely as possible), than not having a child, right?

Whenever we argue this way about a non-human animal this way, it's worth considering whether we'd feel the similarly of about a human being with similar mental capacities. Otherwise it might just be our speciesism leading us into motivated reasoning.

Of course, part of the problem with the argument is the false dilemma between killing someone and them never having been alive. Additionally the assumption, that it's harmful for someone non-existent to never be brought into existence, is an odd one. If we accept it, birth control would be highly immoral, and rape could often be justified as being in the interested of a potential unborn child... which is actually what's happening here with farmed cows, because they're being forcefully inseminated non-stop, and you're arguing it's for the benefit of the unborn calf.

If we buy this premise, we'd also have to support a hypothetical cannibalistic farming industry rearing captive human children for food, because otherwise those children wouldn't exist.
They aren't all independent 50/50 bets. There are a few clear trends in the wagers (bullish on the US economy, Eurozone/EU will not completely go to shit), so predicting just a few trends correctly wins most of the bets (though being wrong on those same things would lose most bets) and there are some bets at very long odds (e.g. 200:1 odds on Ron Paul becoming president) so even the person on the other side of the bet doesn't think it's a likely outcome.
That's dumping and the source of funding is irrelevant.
Here’s some numbers I looked up:

Average co2 from a car per year: 4.6 metric tons (https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...)

co2 output from a Falcon 9 launch: 440,000kg or 440 metric tons (https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/13082/calculate-fa...)

So a single launch is about 95 cars worth of exhaust a year, give or take.

There were 21 SpaceX launches last year (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_...)

The number of launches is expect to increase to 30-40 a year (previous source).

Let’s go with 35 launches per year. And remember we’re disregarding all other rockets launches in the world.

35 x 95 = 3325 cars worth of emissions per year.

It’s definitely not great. However it’s such a tiny drop in the bucket overall that it’s not even a rounding error. I think cows produce more methane per year. I’m on mobile at the moment so not gonna look up those numbers.

Rockets get terrible gas mileage.
Hmm a spiritual concept. Matthew 4:4: But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. and Luke 4:4: And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Yes, that State legislature keeps all the liberal deviants in check, Austin has a high percentage of liberals from Western states that can sway the vote, our State legislature solves that problem.
This, the current best, most realistic AI threat/risk assessments have "unintended consequences" written all over them.

Details can vary, predicted outcomes are incredibly non-original, seen previously in survivalist movies/books. Mostly macro-economic processes failing for some reason, wars all over the place, etc.

More or less, what it is expected as possible if the climate change somehow blows up in our lifetime (far sooner than expected).

Surprisingly, non of the skynet scenarios is currently thought possible by anything we're sure is far good and solid science. There could be surprises, I hope not.