skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calvin - give your content marketing team a raise - or yourself since it's your byline :)

This is an outstanding breakdown and I loved the "highlight" strategy.

Composition feels a lot more like high quality / expensive financial services report aka Greenstreet Advisors but targeted to growth ecosystem.

Couple of questions:

1) If you could pick 3 early stage companies in your analysis to be an investor in which 3 would you select?

2) Do you guys have a data business around anonymous usage beyond this article or planning to get into the space?
Only the 13" has the cable fail issue.

I've had my 15" 2012 for three years, and hope it lasts for a long, long, long time.
Hi Ignoramous - Thanks. Very helpful comment with good questions. I will update or cover in the next post.

Regards
Why not "polynomial"? Can be quickly verified.
Ask HN: How to Improve Daily Standups?
I feel like everyone had a chance to be part of a team with a boring/useless stand up. How did you improve yours?

Currently ours (20 person team) is asking what we did yesterday, what we plan on doing today, and what are the blockers. The problem, I feel, is that it's just noise, nobody really pays attention, and it's just waste of 15-20 minutes for everyone every morning.
> It may have been harder or they may have had to work hard, but there's no reason to make the argument the opportunity wasn't there, because it typically is.

This a a fallacy. The difference between pulling yourself up by your bootstraps or not is far more than just "how hard you work". Similar to a successful start-up, hard work is a prerequisite but not sufficient.

In reality, that opportunity is just frequently not there for many poor people, regardless of how hard they work. Yes it is there for some people and some of those people fail to work hard enough to take advantage of it. However, the belief that people are poor because they are lazy is generally false and quite disrespectful.

You want to see taxes as money being taken at gun point. That is sorta true, but then you must also be opposed to debt collectors being able utilize those same guns to collect on their loans?

In my view, our ability to make money is inherently dependent on the society we live in. You can't make millions without customers or infrastructure or educated workers or the rule of law. As such, wealthy individuals owe a debt to society for helping them acrue and keep that wealth. That debt is what justifies taxing that wealth. There is a good deal of evidence that the sort of broad investments you can make with that money have incredibly high returns for society and the ability for individuals to accumulate wealth.

I think we agree that the money is best spent investing in providing more opportunities to society rather than encouraging bad choices and laziness.
Politically my guess is modern Turkey but 'Western turk' is legit term to distinguish, culturally, from Eastern turks such as Siberians, Kazahks, etc whom the Turkish language, spoken in Turkey, descends from
I'd rather have an apartment building than be homeless in the sunshine.
False. There are numerous examples of very high estate tax societies that didn’t descend in to chaos. Are you also for a landed gentry with inherited titles? If not why? Why is one type of property ok to pass down and not the other.

The notion of the “idle rich” spoiled offspring exists for a reason. Nothing kills ambition more than unearned wealth. Obviously there are many counter examples with many wealthy heirs contributing significantly to society. But I would argue that they would behave the same if they inherited less.

As Aristotle roughly said, the mean between extremes is often the right answer. You could completely eliminate any transfer of wealth without social collapse; just like you could have essentially unlimited transfer of wealth with out social collapse: you would just end up with an aristocratic system. The question is what do you want to create.
I haven’t worked on Windows in quite a while, but IIRC one problem is there are three different font renderers in there. And nobody ever goes back and fixes old parts of Windows when new ways of doing things are invented. So it’s pretty easy to end up with a screen showing as many as three different renderings of three different system fonts.

I used to have a fun way to demo this where you dive through the archaeological UI and rendering eras (including XP-style control panel, with a hideous sidebar link hover rendering bug that I don’t think ever got fixed) until you end up at the iSCSI control panel, which I think may be literally unchanged since the year 2000.
News that the Transbay Terminal is something like $300 million over budget should not come as a shock to anyone. We always knew the initial estimate was way under the real cost. Just like we never had a real cost for the Central Subway or the Bay Bridge or any other massive construction project. So get off it. In the world of civic projects, the first budget is really just a down payment. If people knew the real cost from the start, nothing would ever be approved. The idea is to get going. Start digging a hole and make it so big, there’s no alternative to coming up with the money to fill it in.
- Willie Brown (former SF mayor)

I think the inability of politicians to have a real conversation about costs is a big part of high construction costs. Without this sort of difficult conversation it's hard to plan and try to mitigate things that might cause ballooning costs because you need to pretend that don't exist in the first case.
As I mentioned above, a particular Linux kernel version not supporting your hardware well doesn't mean that other hardware is equally poorly supported. That's the reason you get rebuttals, because your "doesn't work for me" is no more valid than someone else chiming in with "just works for me".

> Taking arch for example. 3 years ago, I was at a friend's flat. He was using arch because "it just works, never have a problem". And of course, when we set for watching a video, it didn't work. "Codec problem. Just a quick fix he had to do later. Usually it works fine.".

This has nothing to do with Arch. And presumably if that codec issue even happened, if you want everything under the sun installed for you out of the box you should be using something like Mint or Ubuntu. I've had zero codec problems myself, things always just worked with VLC and mpv.

> They all lived the problems I'm talking about, and are filtering

No one's saying that Linux works perfectly for all hardware. But it's not broken for everyone either as you claim.

Besides, I'd much rather spend extra 5 minutes installing tlp and tweaking sysctl for battery life than sit through hours of Windows Update installing candy crush and blocking me from doing work.
The product sounds interesting, but I'm not going to link my account unless I can see that the product is legit. i.e testimonials, screenshots, a navigation menu that doesn't just point to home etc..
The kerning is absolutely perfect on my system, both Firefox and Chrome, both portrait and landscape. It looks nothing like the disaster on the article's snapshot.

(Debian Stable, 3x 1920x1200 monitors, very likely I have tweaked most tweakable things at some point or another -- this system is 15 years old.)
Kleinberg and Tardos book: http://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/~jiangli/teaching/CS222/files/mate... But that book is not an easy read either and will be hard to digest for someone not comfortable with reading mathematical proofs. It comes with the territory.
One of my first jobs in IT was for a big general contractor.

We built schools, hotels, restaurants, you name it.

Whenever we had a government project, like a building for the county, a jail, new secretary of state/dmv office...we went way over budget and way over schedule. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

We'd have a 'groundbreaking ceremony' and then not be able to actually dig at the site for 12 more days because permits got tripped up. How can the government not approve their own permits on time?
At the same time if I walk into a sunglass hut thinking that it is a neutral marketplace where many brands compete for my purchase across the dimensions of fashion AND price I am being deceived. sunglass hut and most of the brands inside of a sunglass hut are owned by the same company which is not competing with itself but instead acting as a dominant firm using it's price-setting power to increase how much I'm going to be shelling out when looking for a pair of sunglasses.
"While a flat tax imposes the same tax percentage on all individuals regardless of income, many see it as a regressive tax. A regressive tax is on which taxes high-income earners at a lower percentage of their income and low-wage earners at a higher rate of their income. The tax is seen as regressive due to a more significant portion of the total funds available to the low-income earner going to the tax expenditure. While the upper-income payer still pays the same percentage, they have enough income to offset this tax load."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/flattax.asp
> the character for emperor isn't invented yet

Hmm it's right there。 The 4th “皇” and 5th “帝”。 And the combined form “皇帝” - a title invented by the First Emperor himself。
Hi CharlesW - Thanks. Probably we will publish another post with details on how people can try out the global edge fabric. That probably would be good fit for "Show HN"?

Regards
Dealing with Death as an Entrepreneur
That's just the article's handwaving. The case report actually says:

> During follow-up at 3 years of age, routine ovarian surveillance showed Twin 2 to have gonadal dysgenesis, and prophylactic oophorectomy was performed.
I think the issue with cobalt is that it's produced as a consequence of extraction the copper it occurs with. Meaning no primary ores exist. Some other metals like nickle are also mined as secondary minerals but the current supply dwarfs the amount needed for batteries.

Counter example lithium comes from primary sources. If demand goes up we'll just increase extraction and or bring new sources online.
I was wondering about the Slack emoji :love_hotel:, and now I know.
yea this seems a lot like how I do things with Jenkins-x preview environments. Other parts of the stack are pulled in based on the latest version of the respective helm charts.
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I haven’t had time to read through the entire article in detail but my skimming indicates that the article fails to identify what I believe is the true reason for tunneling increases in the USA: third parties and their ability to sue projects.

This increases costs due to risk of lawsuits/challenges and excessive amounts of money put towards mitigating this risk. This continues from procurement through design and through construction. Environmental concerns have ironically been coopted into this category by NIMBY folks.
Kramer had the right idea. I want out of this mail thing, entirely.
Maybe, but maybe not. Evolution only has to be better suited to the current environment, but it doesn't necessarily need to result in perfect creatures.

Creatures could have developed the day/night awake/resting cycle independent of sleep just because at night you want to conserve energy to stay warm, and it's difficult to hunt at night.

Once creature developed day/night modality, taking advantage of that time to run repair processes would be an evolutionary advantage.

The question isn't why people sleep, it's why can't creatures run repair processes 24/7? If they could do that, then evolving to not need sleep would be a lot easier.
Congrats to the Segment team. Here at Candu Labs, https://www.candu.ai, we've just finished integrating with them and it's been a really great experience. The docs are super clear, and the Segment's team really worked around the clock to help us get their integration done. I'd really recommend integrating with them.
If nobody wants to do it, stop doing it.
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If you're not ignorant, no.
At my company we joke about the test that tells the robot whether it's talking to a human or not.

Chalmers' position (which I strongly agree with BTW), reminds me of the old Groucho Marx quote: "What you need to succeed is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made." Just s/sincerity/consciousness/
Evolution is essentially an optimization algorithm, and like many such algorithms, it can get stuck in localized maximums.

Suppose there exists a far better brain design, but all the brain designs that are part way between the current design and that design are far worse. Any mutation that steps toward the better design will be selected against.
My optometrist has a machine that automatically generates your prescription. They do some cross-checking with the old fashioned "which looks clearer, this one or this?" lens machine too, but just out of caution.
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What if I want to have my wedding in low earth orbit?
A flat tax rate is a bad idea, because as your wealth increases the incremental utility of money decreases. This is why we have a marginal tax rate system in the US. The highest rates only apply to the portions of income greater than $500k.
Each state still gets two electoral votes for its Senators, so small states still have an advantage with the Wyoming Rule, but less of one than they have now.
Of course. But you can say "Only if there's no x" about many x's. The point is that jobs are only good as a means, not an end.
It's an interesting refutation. The author explicitly claims the following:

1. Construction unions in New York, specifically, cause horrific and unjustifiable cost increases.

2. But unions in most of the country aren't in New York, and don't have the same power that NY unions do.

3. The problem is that New York is responsible for a lot of construction, and more sensible areas unthinkingly copy New York's awful, union-driven policies -- those other areas don't need to do things New York's way, but they don't have enough construction experience to know better.

The author goes on to say that union-busting politics as they exist in the US won't solve the problem, but obviously believes that unions are responsible for significant parts of it. (And in fact says in so many words that in the absence of particularized US politics, union-busting would be somewhere from neutral to productive.)

An immediate implication is that if you're worried about getting things built in New York, you should be trying to break up the unions there.
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This is a clear perspective and it needed to be put out there for others to understand. I salute your well-worded post, lm28469.
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Perhaps 75% of Americans do believe the wealthy should pay more taxes (why not!), but what if we instead asked exactly how much the highest marginal rate should be? I'd guess 30-50% of answers would actually be below the current rate (39.6%). What percentage of respondents would want to lower the current rate after learning the current value? What percentage of Americans actually understand marginal tax rates in the first place? As for meaningful policy, high income earners have little in the way of income and alot in the way of capital gains. Should we increase short/long term capital gains taxes or impose marginal taxes? Public policy needs an actual number and that also happens to be the sticking point!

People are upset about income inequality (or just mad at large) so they say we should increase taxes on the rich. I think these sorts of surveys should be taken like any other sort of user feedback; listen to the problems and discard the proposed solutions. We have actually run the experiment of tax policy by popular vote in California, and not unexpectedly, its a disaster! Lets tell our goals to the economists and let them figure out the rest.

see also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
Is that actually a Tesla advantage?

Panasonic manufacture the cells, do they not own the ip etc?

I suppose its a current Tesla advantage, Panasonic are signing contracts with other manufacturers though, so it isn't really a defensible moat.
Why family group texts cause anxiety, and how to escape them
The politicians can’t have a real conversation about costs because the legal and political complexity of our society has reached such high levels that it is impossible to accurately project costs multiple years into the future.
I think their argument was that civilization iterates on solutions to many social problems by adjusting policy over time so that human coordinated behavior is effective. The argument above isn’t focused on wealth transfer in particular.

Civilization experiments with policy. At the extreme, there is a push towards consolidation and monopolies and this is counterbalanced by the rule of a unhappy mob. This causes policy to shift over time.
> I don't know what the hash is unless I actually do the build

Yes you do, this is the point of reproducible builds. The same source always produces the exact same binary.
Interesting, did not know that. Do you know how it compares to a K80?
Coould be the opening bank scene in the movie ‘Sneakers’...
>How can the government not approve their own permits on time?

I'd wager that "internal customers" aren't buying donuts to accompany their permits and doing all the other borderline corruption type things you need to do in order to get government do work with you in a timely manner.

Edit: Having the person at the desk remember your company as "the one that brings donuts" and the mid-level manager remembering your company as "the one that sponsored my son's little league team" don't has the potential to make a massive difference. For a company that does a lot of business with government spending a few grand a year making sure the people of government see you in a positive light is well worth it.
It might.

http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEw0ePZUMHA
I don't know how they started. They may have started as regular "motels" like in the US and then turned into love hotels because they were usually far away from downtown, near highways and that's a better place if you don't want to be seen with someone else? Nowadays "motel" equals "lovel hotel" in Brazil, without exception AFAIK.

Cheap motels (in the US sense) that are near highways and are not "love hotels" will just call themselves "hotels" and avoid the sex-related stuff. There are plenty of those.

I think it's also pretty common place for people who meet at night clubs and don't want to take their partners back home (in order to keep their privacy). They go to the motel and that's it.

Wikipedia doesn't have a lot on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motel#South_America
Rich people don't spend enough on books and NYC is rapidly becoming nothing but rich people.

Going to be awkward when no one is around who can do their laundry or run the McDonalds. Will we see the return of servants quarters?
The point about the size of the stations is very obvious in Chicago. Most of the stations were built 100 years ago, and are roughly the same size. A handful of stations have been rebuilt--at great cost. At some of the older stations, you can't barely walk 2 people side by side on the platform without feeling like you're about to fall on to the tracks. The new stations by comparison are 4 times as wide and have gigantic entrances.
Given that the ultrawealthy tend to make their money from capital gains and go through great efforts to reduce their taxable income, I suspect that your proposal to tax everyone at a flat 20% would actually raise taxes on the ultraweathy, and thus you are among that 75% you’re trying to argue against.
> if 1 billionaire gets taxed at 75%, how many impoverished people does it stand to help?

Not enough. That's the fundamental issue with all "tax the wealthy" proposals: the wealthy don't have enough money to fix all the problems the tax-the-wealthy people want to fix, even if they were taxed at 100% of their income and no loopholes. So "tax the wealthy" always ends up looking more like "tax the middle class", which does more harm than good.
That would not happen because each of my integration test cases are properly isolated form each other. If any specific test case starts failing, I just disable all other test cases and start debugging the affected code path; it usually only takes me a few minutes to identify even the most complex problems. Also, because I use a TDD approach, I usually have a pretty good idea about what changes I might have made to the code which could have introduced the issue.

Unit tests on the other hand are useless at identifying complex issues like race conditions; they're only good at detecting issues that are already obvious to a skilled developer.

* I restart the system from scratch between each test case but if that's too time-consuming (I.e. more than a few milliseconds), I just clear the entire system state between each test case. If the system is truly massive and clearing the mock state between each test case takes too long, then I break it up into smaller microservices; each with their own integration tests.
There are plenty animals that have all but eliminated sleep; giraffes, elephants, dolphins to name a few, can get away with very short bouts of sleep. Others perfect the Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, I've even seen studies that humans do this to a lesser degree when sleeping in unfamiliar surroundings.

The majority of our hominid evolution was in Africa, where we likely developed night time sleep patterns as a defense to the big cats developing better night vision. Other benefits like social interactions, heat-conservation, even directly procreation; As well as the diminished usefulness of any work, from hunting to building in darkness would all play a roll.

I find it fascinating that we likely also developed a fear of the dark as a response to the big cats developing better night vision in exactly the same way gazelles developed better hearing and faster legs.
I frequently get actual mail addressed to my neighbors, so IMO that's a worse problem than seeing the images of the envelopes or packages.

I also don't know what problem this really solves. Grasping at straws for the USPS to remain relevant I think. Big waste of money in my opinion.
By international comparison the US has a pretty small number of reps/inhabitant.

Both houses of congress in supermajority control of a party not holding the presidency could do it.

Also more reps means more leadership posts, more committees and more people on those committees all spreading those sweet sweet press ops around.

I could see it happening.

The logistics of fitting people in the Capitol building might be tough. There are advantages to a smaller legislature (more people means more institutional politics)
How come you aren't using ```HiddenServiceVersion 3```?

Onion v2 (16 char addresses) uses old crypto (SHA1/DH/RSA1024) and has now been superseded by Onion v3 (56 char addresses, SHA3/ed25519/curve25519 and many other improvements).

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/NextGenOni...
hacker news is more mainstream than ever, so this is to be expected
Even if the human has been encouraged to lie, cheat, and steal from you?