skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dig the desert. It’s nice to escape to e.g. Joshua Tree.

Later this summer I’ll be hiking Mt. Whitney, and will swing through Death Valley on the way home. 15k altitude change in a few hours.
We don't need high-tax, low freedom SF. People can do work over the internet. Look at GitLab. Hundreds of employees and no physical location. Imagine making a 6 figure income but living in a place with minimal state and local income taxes. We are entering the period of fully digital corporations. The ultimate form of this is the DAO (see Bisq, Maker, Augur sort of).
Germany Prepares to Auction Its 5G Frequencies
Is it electric stimulation? From the video it seems touch is sufficient.
I'm talking about the merchant fees, not the interest rate for cardholders. The cardholder interest rate is not at all analogous to Apple's revenue share.
The video was so serious, but the 7 year old deep inside of me was just laughing the whole way through. I wonder if they realized the absurdity of this as they were making the marketing materials.
> It appears that you aren't very familiar with 4chan or 8chan based on your other posts about not knowing much about them.

I never said anything like that. I said I haven't been on 8chan before today. You shouldn't lump both together like that anyway, it's disingenuous.

> 4chan and 8chan have numerous skinhead forums.

I wouldn't qualify /pol/ or /b/ as "skinhead forums" by any reasonable standard.

> They are two of the most popular forum sites for skinheads and white nationalists.

4chan has subforums for anime, lgbt, video games, porn and all kinds of other things. It's a popular site in general and there's people from all over the political spectrum.
The compiler folks at Microsoft are first rate and just good people.
I'm only playing around for now, Toyota-style. Also, our area lacks some infrastructure that others take for granted (e.g., bulk product stores with bring your own container) For example, we got a carbonater as an at-bat. This eliminated 3-4 1L seltzer bottles per week, plus some cola 20 oz.s (via Cube Cola). Will it be worth it? We'll see. But that's why it's a "fun hobby", i.e., past-time status. Other things are on deck like composting as much as possible. I'm already making bread regularly, but bread bags don't account for much trash, so that's really a preference thing at this point. I'm also experimenting with fast methods of making fruit spreads from frozen fruits. I like PBJ sandwiches with jam, so I was tossing 1-2 jam jars a week. The general idea is to learn truths about time/money costs and trade-offs via rapid experiments. If things go well, we gel the stuff that works into weekly workflows and enjoy less trash. We already reaped a minor victory. The trash company had some... business issues, and didn't pick up for a month. What we tossed still fit in the bin when they finally came back.
II remember as a youngster in the early 00's our teachers and librarians constantly reminded students, "Don't believe anything you read on the internet. Always check your references."

This was an inherent precursor when using the early internet, and is even more relevant today.
I think that it might be interested to use something like that to help aim solar panels towards the sun?
Well the only alternative route to reducing consumption, if you don't want it via pricing is legislation bringing forth rationing, or outlawing marketing. I'd imagine both those would be more difficult.

It pretty clearly isn't sustainable. So what would you do?
You're confused as the information is not widely available. That's 7k ft about sea level.

From [1]:

> The aircraft climbed very slowly and only to about 1,000ft above ground before crashing.

https://leehamnews.com/2019/03/15/bjorns-corner-the-ethiopia...
Sneakers worked well because it had A-list actors playing up the social engineering aspect, which an A-list actor can do. It had comparatively little meditation on the hardware and technical aspects and from a plot and longevity perspective I think that was a particular strength of the movie.
See another comment above for explanation how I got to that count. (In essence: reviewing lots of interviews)

> Do you have some examples of how this might be done?

I do :)

We did it at a previous company. We brought in several candidates at the same time, declared them a team, and gave them a half-finished video game (since it was a games company). With the goal of turning it into a better game by the end of the day. We also embedded one employee with that team for the whole day, and other reviewers would drift in and out, observe how people worked together.

The key components there:
* Some groundwork is already done, you pick up an existing project. (Also tests a really important skill - reading and understanding code)
* You work in a team - more output, and tests for your ability to work in a team.
* You have a source of experience that can answer all your questions around tooling and libraries, and you can lean on them to get some of the hairier stuff done. (Also tests if you're willing to let go of the desire to show off to instead make things happen for the team)

And yes, we'd hire the whole "team" of around three people if they were all good, and we'd pass on everybody if they were all bad, and everything in between.

It worked pretty well, gave really good results, and both interviewers and interviewees enjoyed the process. It's also something you can't really learn by rote in advance, because you do what you'd be doing every day anyways.
Congrats on the launch. I would have thought that instead of trying to convert existing CC holders, you would have a better shot at converting cash/debit card holders who don't have great alternatives. Often these people will have low credit scores, keeping them from the very best CC opps, but by linking to their cash balance, you can give them rewards without having to handle credit risk.
> How does this contradict my argument?

You said that available land limits the power, but not the energy, available via renewables. If power is what you actually need rather than energy, that point is irrelevant, isn't it?
Hmmm... this seems to address my confusion appropriately. Make sense.
The shooter's manifesto was mostly ranting about demographic displacement, which those newspapers seldom cover. While you can certainly blame the publications for parroting US government talking points and helping sell the war, I don't think you can pin this particular shooting on them.
Professional marketer perspective:

Sales and Marketing is around 60% of revenue at 47 million a year. Advertising is around 5 million a year, so the rest of the spend looks like sales costs, content production, and maybe event marketing.

The media spend seems to be mostly adwords: "The effectiveness of our online advertising has varied over time and may vary in the future due to competition for key search terms, changes in search engine use, and changes in the search algorithms used by major search engines."

Also, they only have 5000 FB likes - if they were spending $100k+ a month on FB these likes would be higher as a byproduct of the paid spend. I do a ton of B2B/SMB FB advertising, my guess is that they could move some spend to FB from AdWords and see better ROI.
Yeah, his project was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.
A Research-Based Approach to Protecting Intimate Images
Why does the value of Apple's App Store infrastructure and network effects always get zeroed out in the equation here? Spotify is welcome to build their own app distribution infrastructure on their own mobile hardware and charge whoever whatever they want for it and keep all the profits themselves.
We're also pretty cool when we're not partying. 24/7 cool.

Not Zero Cool
Detecting Non-Consensual Intimate Images and Supporting Victims
Oh to built 20Mhz systems again! ... no picosecond timing skews to stress over, no ground plane worries, no trace-related design rule violations, no harmonic noise issues, no dynamic bus inversions to prevent victim/attacker degradation, no thermal issues... I spend so much time debugging GHz multi-layer circuit boards that I forget how "easy" 20MHz digital circuits can be. This guy's project is truly inspiring!
I eagerly await the rocket car we were promised.
FWIW, yes, I am.
I'm curious what landlords accept a debit card for rent payments. I've always been required to setup an ACH/automated transfer or give a physical check (note this is in California).
That does seem to make sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Part of what Businesses pay for is support. Heck think of all the free databases/open source stuff that is funded not by the code but buy offering support/integration.

EDIT: Funny though, as a consumer I'd pay a little more, say 20% more for my comcast bill if they had what I'd describe is "nice and helpful support", but if that was the case, my bill would likely be accurate, and we wouldn't have all these BS fees and charges showing up out of nowhere, which coincidentally can make my bill 20% higher then advertised.
It's the same in Brazil. All toilet paper goes into a small trash can beside the toilet.
2017: $79.6M revenue, ($38M)in losses.

9 months of 2018: $84M revenue, ($34.5M) in losses.

Costs seem generally under control except the significant growth (+66%) in G&A expenses.

Why the hurry to IPO?
> that German health care is superior compared internationally.

Their healthcare is very cost inefficient [1]. Poorer post-Communist countries have more efficient healthcare as it might be bad but as well is rather cheap there.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/u-s-near-...
There is a world beyond gcc, clang and MSVC.

Just out of my head, MikroElektronika, TI, Green Hills, Embarcadero, IBM, HP, Unisys, Intel, PGI.
Thankfully not 2.5 work years. See above for explanation. Probably around 0.5 work years, smeared over almost a decade.

And no, not an actual business problem, a constructed problem. But in the same domain. (See other comment above)
> they were radicalized and incited by 4chan and/or 8chan

If you can prove that statement then it certainly deserves to get shutdown, but you cant

if you read something in the newspaper and it makes you angry and/or sparks an extreme reaction, should that newspaper be banned? or a TV network, or any other news source?

Its a slippery slope if you go down this road IMO
You seem to assume SF salaries will be offered in places that are also super cheap?

Do you expect founders and investors to ignore the cost of living reality in Nowheresville just cause?
My thoughts exactly! It seems either all the banking apps have entered into special arrangements with Apple, or they are violating this provision out of ignorance or "me too" mentality.
they have a history of manufacturing problems, do they not? they may not be having them at this very moment, but it is well documented and discussed that they have had issues. i think when you're building cars in a makeshift, outdoor assembly line just a year ago, you can't say that you have everything together. maybe they've hit their numbers, but their manufacturing process hasn't been elegant. is this incorrect? and this is a personal opinion, i think founded in some objective reality, but i don't believe teslas to be well-manufactured or designed from a non-owner's perspective. i have sat in them and ridden in one, and it just is not an impressive design and fit and finish to me compared to more entrenched car companies. this is both a design and manufacturing issue, from my understanding.

the point of my comment, which i thought was clear, was a counter to the continual tesla hype in that "can't wait until tesla addresses <this> problem" as if they've conquered all problems that have come before. toyota has it together and has a significant amount of r&d that goes into their advanced assembly lines. it's a bit laughable to think of tesla suddenly taking them on in automation given their historical troubles. or am i wrong?

also, those numbers are fine, but tesla isn't even the largest electric car manufacturer in the world, by sales numbers. and they don't approach traditional car makers. for example, kia sells around 600,000 cars in a single year, and that is including say three times as many models as tesla has available. tesla isn't some manufacturing darling story as far as i can tell. they have no ability to yearly iterate like other car companies. or do they? how do they update their models?

i think the point remains: it is flippant to suggest they can just suddenly innovate on an automated line.
Good market now, bad market likely in a year or two.
Their seed round was in 2010—early investors are likely pretty interested in an exit
It’s still usually viewed as a cost center by management in either case, and employees in support roles are notoriously underpaid, overworked and at risk of inexplicable layoffs.

I would love to see more companies treat support technicians and customer support agents like prized human capital, give them good job security, don’t try to outsource or downsize them, and give them top class compensation to make them very proud to do the job.
Would you give an equivalent argument that Microsoft pushes automatic security updates because Windows vulnerabilities make it "slightly harder for them to make a profit"; that "a small chance of becoming part of a botnet" is what Microsoft thinks about because it's their business; but that there's no reason to believe this is more important than individual users wishing to experiment with A-Life?
That is not the version of the law that is being voted on. The amended version is much broader, doing away with the restricted access condition, and now applies to all crimes rather than a specific list. But the worst part, the text has been changed from "provide" to "facilitate access to", meaning this could also apply to ISPs and free software contributors.

Diff from the initial proposal: https://www.internet-strafrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/downl...
He's asking because in some states it's illegal to collect rain water, it belongs to someone else. Colorado, for example, only recently legalized rain barrels - but limits it to only 2: https://source.colostate.edu/extension-offers-fact-sheet-on-...
SV isn't the best fit for a lot of startups. It really shouldn't be the default location for all startups especially since there are different options that offer different things (NYC, Denver/Boulder, Austin etc).

The Bay Area has 3 things that set it apart from anywhere else and startups that really need this have no other real choice:

Investors who are willing to invest super early

Lots of top tier engineers

An extremely optimistic culture

Investors- Our startup did fundraising on both east/west coast. Valuations, investor quality and potential help was relatively the same, but those in the the Bay Area were completely fine in investing in a pre-rev idea. That was, and still is inconceivable outside. A NYC fund flatly told us they will do no investments until we reach 50k MRR. That wasn't a requirement at SV and we got the initial seed funding as a result.

We do something very tech heavy and quite at the forefront in our field. We need really good engineers and most these types of specialists currently are employed at a Google or Facebook etc. In theory they should be super expensive and impossible to dislodge from these tech giants but what I find is that these super smart people get bored after a few years. They know their worth and that there will always be high paying jobs for them, but they can be persuaded to join a startup on a lot lower salary because they get a lot of freedom and ability to make a difference. A lot of the people that complain about expensive demanding engineers in SV are basically a bunch of PMs or salespeople who want a CTO to build a front end app. If you actually have interesting tech, finding engineers at a discount is quite feasible.

The last thing is about culture. It's like the YC interview day. We spent the entire day before and after the interview (and snuck in again the next) because the other teams you meet- the optimism and energy is infectious. It's the same feeling the morning of a marathon where you're worried it's too cold and wet, but the instant you see the crowd, everything feels right.

If you're doing something that counter-intuitive, and changes existing thinking, then culture is essential. Most startups, even in the accelerators, are ops businesses. They utilize tech, but business not tech is their key driver. There's nothing wrong with being that kind of startup, but if that is the case, then the Bay Area isn't a good a fit which is what this article says. Your customers aren't there, it's expensive, and there are other options. But if you do have a early crazy idea that is based around a key piece of tech, the Bay Area is still the best choice by far.
I try occasionally because I'm pretty sure that eventually I would get to a place where Emacs would be astounding. (Or Vim, lest any partisans think I haven't given it a shot.) I just so far haven't quite gotten over that hill. But someday.

(Ironically, I spend most of my professional editing time -- which involves writing documentation in Markdown, not coding -- in BBEdit, because while there are a lot of coding editors that do more than it does, it has a few features for text slicing and dicing that I just haven't seen duplicated anywhere else.)
flatpak permissions + Wayland are (imo) some of the best things happening on Linux right now. You could always kind of do the same stuff with containers and custom wrappers around each program, but it's really cumbersome.

I want this to be the normal. Right now, it's basically a free for all -- record the screen, send network requests, fingerprint hardware, scan for files, examine other processes. The default, out-of-the-box security settings for most distributions are unacceptable.

I'm really excited to see that sandboxing on native is starting to move in the same direction as the web; I'm hoping that within the next year or two we start to see dramatic improvement here.
Yeah that's what I told him.
Not to mention early employees
That's interesting.

In the list of intentional homicides Sri Lanka indeed ranks higher than I expected, rank 132 of 230: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

About being calm: I agree about the anger on roads. Except for that my impression was a calm and peaceful one -- maybe what you encounter as violent is still OK from my culturally distinct perspective? Do you think there are many 'fights'/arguments where people are shouting in the public, or would such a thing happen at home?

And what is your opinion about the high suicide rate?
The problem is that this isn't legislation about the proper manufacture of bicycles. This is exactly the kind of legislation that governments and the police are looking for, to cut into civil liberties and fortify their own positions of power. This is exactly the kind of law in which the NSA specifically went looking for loopholes, in order to conduct its dragnet warrantless surveillance of American citizens -- and then shielded its exploitation and abuse of the loophole using its secret rubber-stamp court system, effectively making it impossible for the loophole to be actually hammered out in the courts. When a proposed law bumps up against civil liberties and so clearly has the potential for abuse, it's not right to treat it with the same sort of irreverent attitude changes to the tax code or military spending are treated. This is one of those laws where people need to stop and think about what an authoritarian political outsider would do with this kind of power if they were to end up winning the right election. Generic language doesn't belong in laws like this.
Interesting that they reference their Glassdoor rating:

The strength of our culture is key to attracting and retaining the best talent, as demonstrated by our high employee retention rates, and, as of January 31, 2019, a Glassdoor rating of 4.5 out of 5 and 100% approval rating of our chief executive officer.
Chinese people can have different opinions from each other.

There are staunch defenders of CCP and China in general, there are people with more nuanced views, there are ones who are super critical of CCP, and there many who are apolitical.

That being said, even as someone with mixed opinions of CCP, I definitely am careful at sharing pro-China ideas in non-Chinese spaces, due to the likelihood of causing arguments or inviting personal attacks; but I feel much safer expressing criticisms of China.
What ancient poop can tell us about the rise and fall of civilizations
Silicon Valley Fingerprints All over College Scandal
i think they must be referring to tesla factory fires happening in fall of 2018, which is easily searchable (how i found it). apparently there were reports of frequent fires before a big one.
The app literally can't send you to the Web page so you can sign up there. It has to say something vague for Apple to approve it for publishing. Here's an example from Kobo [1]. They apparently can't even tell you the domain name.

[1] http://imgs.fyi/img/7hut.png
If Boeing had chosen to name it the 738, would that really have had no psychological impact on the humans involved in the process of determining whether or not Boeing should be permitted to consider it the "same" aircraft for certification/rating?
'There is a difference between “making a move” and “harassment”.'

Along with the fact that I suspect you are trying to refer to a specific incident, I'd point out that in a world where everything is subjective and in the eye of the beholder/victim, no, actually, there isn't. This is relevant in the context of discussion of "blackmail", if your definition of "make a move" happens to be their definition of "harassment". Even if "heavenlyblue" thinks it's the former, it's not going to help.
I addressed this with my local emissions comment about benzene. Maybe you missed it.
Bidets are a thing -

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A0RHSJO/
> Remind me, does the ABS system make the car speed up?

Irrelevant. Cars don't crash on deacceleration .

And ABS does override the controls - especially if the user just presses as hard as he can.
Latest revision of the law drops the "restricted access" condition.

Diff can be found here: https://www.internet-strafrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/downl...
As someone who browses 8chan I'd rather the entire site doesn't take the hit, since not the entire site partakes in this. It's only /pol/ that needs to be removed.
How can you distinguish between the 3rd and 4th categories? How do they behave differently?
That's disgusting. I don't want to have a bin full of shit stains next to my toilet.
PagerDuty feels like abandonware. It hasn't changed in the last 4-5 years.
Half the growth in G&A expenses is due to their one-time donation to the Tides Foundation. If you back this out their expenses growth here is in line with everything else.
> In 1998. That's really the crux of your comment. As to the costs of your school in 2019, since you haven't provided a link to back it up, I cannot check your claim.

Fair enough. http://www.fau.edu/finaid/other/cost-of-attendance.php

> Fair enough. In that case, I think it's expensive. The same price range gets you a very comfortable flat in Berlin, Germany's capital. [1]

I was filtering apartments out, but there are quite a few in Brooklyn and Queens as well.[1]

> And yet, you're pointing fingers at me like I'm the problem. How about a nice warm cup of reality to start the day?

> Still not OK with reality. That's fine, you'll get used to it. We all do after a while. :-)

I'm complaining about your tone and general attitude, which have apparently not improved. Being a condescending jerk has nothing to do with reality.

[1] https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/219258/NY/New-York/Brook...
Thanks, I see. Still, around six minutes seems a decent amount of time to fix a flight control problem once you know about it?