skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Requiem for a Dream. Since I saw it as a teen ~15 years ago, it hasn't slipped my mind.

It's has an effective anti-drug message, probably more than any other movie or documentary I've seen. And it does this without being an "anti-drug" movie, belaboring you with facts and stats.

It's a heart breaking drama, because it goes beyond drugs. Because what the characters are really seeking isn't a quick fix, but an ability to connect with others.
Adding to this: Non-drivers who cause others to drive on their behalf such as a pizza delivery do pay for the roads indirectly. They pay the company which pays the usage fee.

So nobody can say they benefit indirectly without paying.
> Blockbuster didn't have individual customer's ratings of the movies they watched to go on

But they weren't doing individual recommendations, they were trying to predict aggregate demand for titles at local stores; aggregate predictions of the type are a lot easier to get usefully correct that individualized predictions of subjective quality.
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (1960) [pdf]
Major study debunks myth that moderate drinking can be healthy
What I'm about to say isn't politically correct, but I believe it's true. Women are so rare in science and Hi-Tech jobs because their ability to focus attention is much weaker. And it's weaker because female brains have slightly different setup w.r.t. hormones, etc. Ability to focus attention is a prerequisite for the ability to analysis. And without analysis there is no science. Males who go into science do it for only one reason: when they reach the point of understanding something complex, they get that subtle pleasing feeling. Women are rarely able to reach this tipping point and thus see only the tedious never ending hike uphill.
To write the regulation, they go to specialists. Who do you think that will be?
I’m not sure the entire storage and network technology industries count as “roughly nothing.”
Here’s the thing about meth and most other recreational drugs. The fun part is immediate. The bad part is subtle and can take years to be a problem if it ever does.

If you lie to kids about what drugs are like, they’ll never believe anything you say about them.

The reality is that drugs a lot of fun and can improve your life in the short term. People wouldn’t use them if they didn’t. It’s not like you use meth and start looking for black helicopters out your window and you’re horribly dependent. You’re likely to have a great weekend listening to music with cool people and staying up all night talking and then you feel fine in the morning.

Drug dealers are not dangerous criminals and people that use drugs can be really fun to hang out with.

The thing is that gradually it gets less and less fun and most people just quit on their own. It’s only a small percentage that get hooked on any of these drugs (other than opiates) and most of them have extensive psychological and personal problems. Most people with happy childhoods and stable relationships don’t become junkies. Almost everybody I knew in the rave scene who became out of control addicts had histories of abuse and neglect from alcoholic or addict parents.

What it comes down to is this: don’t be an addict, model good behavior, love your kids, be honest with them, pay attention to them, don’t traumatize them with abuse, and it’s very unlikely they’re going to become addicts, even if they fall in with ‘the wrong crowd’.
What makes you think EU government employees are underpaid, uninterested or unqualified? The "low pay" thing is largely a US phenomenon in the first world. Here's a write-up from Brussels claiming quite the opposite [1]. In many places working for the government is something to be proud of. 38% of Norway's entire labor force works for the government. Further you know the FAA and NTSB are both ... "lowly paid government auditors" right?

[1] http://www.brusselstimes.com/magazine2/5828/myths-and-truths...
he certainty of religion as an anchor for all other meaning
Founders who raised seed rounds, what were your target Series A metrics?
Just because each step might be a valid reason, does not make the steps as a whole valid.

I'm doing to draw an example to hiring in the tech industry for example. It's fair to have a phone interview for a job position, I think we could all agree on that. The same goes for a phone interview plus an in-person.

Now let's start adding more steps into the mix. Let's say you need a phone interview, followed by a small side project, another phone interview, a timed test, then multiple days of in-person interviews, followed by another phone interview and ending with a final vocal offer (which if you don't say the right salary might be rescinded).

Are each of these steps valid in itself? Sure. But every time you add an additional step, you end up shedding a lot of individuals. Some that might be actually pretty good hires, but made a small mistake that got them filtered out early. The end result is the company has trouble finding 'the right candidate' and a position ends up open for months.

It's the exact same idea here. The government has added so many steps and gotcha moments that all it takes is one small mistake to get denied.
Oh man, this made me remember how much I loved this course. I highly recommend the Coursera version to anyone who didnt come from CS and wants to truly understand how a bunch of on and off switches become a computer.

That reminds me I should probably take part two... (Although once you write a compiler its easier to see the road ahead than when you've only got a NAND gate).
> Are you introverted? Want a job where you seldom have to meet anyone new? Want to sit at the same desk or bench year after year and work mostly by yourself? Get most of your satisfaction from solving puzzles? Have we got the job for you: industrial scientist! If you are extremely introverted, you might prefer to work as a computer programmer.

> Most workers, however, get a lot of satisfaction from meeting new people, working with others collaboratively, being thanked by customers, teaching, having a direct positive impact on other people. Jobs such as medical doctor, lawyer, schoolteacher, airplane mechanic, and plumber all provide greater amounts of these satisfactions than most jobs in science. In fact, the only science job that regularly offers any of these satisfactions is professor, which we've already discussed from the point of view of salary and job security.

I find this to be the primary false stereotype about programming jobs that ought to be dispelled to bring in more people that are well suited for it. Many introverts develop computer skills at young ages and become programmers, but the actual job tends to involve large amounts of teamwork and can be extremely collaborative, especially in some companies.

The common perception of the isolated programmer doesn't do justice to all the work being done at companies that use various high-communication techniques like agile or pair programming. If you want to be even more social or have higher status, there's always the technical management track.

Enrollment numbers suggest that smart people are starting to understand that smart people are understanding that a CS degree can get you similar amounts of money to a medical degree in less time, and with far less stress.
> ..agile without hiring a large Ops team, .. we were beginning to outgrow Heroku. We ended up .. running on Google Kubernetes Engine

Or you could hire few cloud infra devs and stick to autoscaled VMs (EC2), not spending time on k8s? I bet k8s took you a while to set up and maintain.
Is wasm really faster than javascript? Can't the browser compile javascript some something just as fast?

Or was the C code in this example better optimized?
The last sentence is incredibly naive. The rural U.S. has great connectivity.
Any attempt to scare kids away from drugs is going to have the opposite effect. The more negative hype you feed them, the less they're going to believe it, because they're going to meet many, many functional non-addicted drug users in their lives. When they get to college and see people casually doing some drugs at the occasional party, while remaining perfectly functional at school and work, they're going to completely dismiss all the fear-mongering hype you've fed them.

Drugs can be very bad for many people, but they are not universally bad for everyone. Be honest with kids about the dangers of addiction, the poor decisions that can result when inhibitions are lowered, the health problems, and most of all, how being high is an escape mechanism and a boredom solution, when a better idea might be the find a healthy hobby. There are plenty of negative things about drugs that can be discussed without resorting to the kind of extreme fear-mongering that is certain to backfire.

And if you drink in front of your kids, have a good long think about the hypocrisy before you preach. Alcohol is the most dangerous drug in the world, yet it's legal almost everywhere. Kids are not stupid. They'll see their pothead friends acting a lot better than their drunk parents, and they'll reject everything they've been told.
Before Netflix, there was a big difference between flipping on the TV, and going out to rent a movie. Netflix started as a replacement for rental stores, but has steadily been shifting towards a TV replacement. The title selection between their streaming and DVD services is almost completely non-overlapping at this point. I dumped the streaming service, and went back to DVD, which I find to be a better fit for me only because of selection.
I mean, that kind of begets the problem. Addiction wouldn't exist if people could control their drug use in the first place. I'm sure plenty of addictions started with "I'll only do this once" or "this is just a weekend thing".
I just did that on my phone on a United flight. The performance was pretty bad. The media stopped at random places, then resumed 15-20s later.
Funny enough, last time I looked through domain prices, .xxx domains were pretty costly. So someone has gone an extra mile for the pleasure of owning one.
I’m really hoping to get the project to a point soon where it is easily hack able even for people who are just starting out to code, or even for whom this will be the first contact to code. But I’m far from being there, right now it is a pretty large, pretty unusual and almost entirely undocumented codebase.

So by all means start teaching yourself to code by playful experimentation, but start with something much simpler first :)
Who, then, understands his philosophy of life? I've tried looking up various interpretations and they all seem to range from "gross" to "really gross", and are just rehashings of might makes right, which is the least imaginative and most ancient philosophy in existence.

Example: https://rafal.io/posts/nietzsche-slave-morality.html

Please point me to the correct interpretation of Nietzsche, because I'm apparently failing to find it.

Or maybe we all who are not fans of him understand what it seemed Nietzsche wanted to get at just fine and are not interested in sugar coating the consequences of such belief sets.

> I think you'll witness first hand what happens when weak people rule and excellence is abandoned for equality.

Question: do you consider Stalin a weak or a strong person in this context?
Good times in Jr High. Disks were expensive, but we found we could punch the 5.25" floppies in the school library to store copies of games on the back side. There were quite a few unremarkable software titles that got heavy usage.
You don't think type classes and higher order functions are concerned with abstractions?
Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (2013)
I've never seen any source indicate that SI defines units for data measurement. I've only seen such standards coming from organizations like IEEE, IEC and JEDEC, and those standards have not been all that consistent over the past few decades.
I miss actual 1-5 star ratings. I want to know if a movie is rated by a majority of people to be more than 4 stars. If its not I don't want to waste my time watching it. I don't care if the movie is rated to be a 95% match for my wife.
And I dislike the persistent-error setup in Rob Pike's example for the same reason as disliking global errs in C: they're easy to forget, especially because they're abnormal. And history keeps showing these things being forgotten in large numbers, so I don't see why it wouldn't repeat with Go.
TeaVM and DukeScript looks pretty cool.

Similar effort in Clojure or ClojureScript - https://github.com/oakes/play-cljc

It's more intended towards Game development though.
The feasibility of this is completely determined by the insulation and albedo of the house. Working around the thermal inertia of the house is tricky, blasting the AC hard at night is only effective if your house is moderately well insulated or good at not absorbing heat (reflective roof, wall insulation, reflective blinds etc, and by reflective I don't mean tinfoil, I mean like white or bright colored, basically no black or dark). Building elements are remarkably bad at storing heat/coolth since their sensible heat capacity is quite low. There are ways to enhance this effect though by getting building elements that are doped with phase change materials.
I read it more carefully. Egads! They invented their own hypervisor that essentially poorly imitates Xen’s PV mode. I wouldn’t trust this thing at all.

Here are some likely holes:

They prevent the kernel from mapping “sensitive” code into its own address space, but they don’t seem to prevent the kernel from mapping it into a user address space with write permission, which is just as bad. (Also, the kernel already maps most memory writably in the direct map, and they don’t mention what they do about this, so I would guess that they have a bug.)

They don’t mention protecting sensitive code from DMA.

The kernel can corrupt use code execution in many ways, such as corrupting non-“sensitive” registers. They don’t seem to have a rigorous model to defend against this.

They protect the IDT, but I don’t see anything about protecting the SYSCALL MSRs. The kernel could redirect SYSCALL to skip the magic hook. This might not matter if there are no syscalls in sensitive regions.
BMW, Daimler, and VW colluded to prevent better emissions control tech, EU says
The convention for how large a 1TB drive should be predates the use of 4096 byte sectors. And the box always says "1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes" but doesn't specify capacity as anything other than 1000GB or 1TB, meaning the most precise measurement printed on the product packaging is also the least accurate.
You are more or less describing a monad
I have very serious health issues and dietary restrictions are a big part of remaining functional at all.

When I had a corporate job, I did not hesitate to bring my own stuff to team get togethers where food was provided. This soon caught on and my overweight boss, who was constantly dieting, began quietly bringing her own salad and eating a single piece of free pizza with the group instead of dutifully joining in on multiple slices of pizza plus breadsticks or whatever, then stressing about making up for going off her diet. Again.

The key to this is downplay and deflect. Do everything in your power to minimize attention given to the food you brought yourself.

Do not critize anyone else.

Do not complain about what is being served.

Do not in any way make other people feel judged, rejected, etc.

So no casual comments about the food being fattening or something. Practice your replies before you go so you don't say something unthinking in that vein.

Expect people to ask questions. Do not be huffy about their questions.

Be polite and friendly. Give an honest, but very minimal reply and change the subject.

"Oh, you know, I have some health issues. This is what I need today. So, nice work on that project this morning! How did you come up with that solution?"

Eventually, no one will care what you choose to eat.
Torrent sites seem to manage it. I don't think it's about cost of digitizing but it certainly has to do with old business model having trouble to adapt.
Or the Imperial Radch series—the undergarden.
I would like to understand your message better. Can you share more about this variation in the way of writing code in this situation?

I am personally not a fan of this trend of browser libraries falling apart beyond a few tens of thousand items. Native apps scale well to such numbers of items and stay performant, albeit there would be a freeze for a while. Excel and Matlab come to mind as examples. I have given millions of items to both for real use cases.
What do you mean by queueing questions? They are not publicly visible until someone releases them? They come one by one to the host? They get to some staging area, visible, but others can chime in? Or something else?
Exactly. My actor system operates on much smaller, much simpler actors. See the sibling comment for my in-depth talk on it.
I can confirm that. Moved from moderate to heavy drinking lately - feeling much better ever since.
Symmetries and Quantum Error Correction
Some people have trouble understanding. Some don't. I always felt he was the clearest philosopher of them all.
I've been caught in Beijing traffic exactly once, and it's not something I'd ever want to deal with ever again.

I think any person who can pay to avoid it absolutely will. Chinese traffic makes American traffic seem completely smooth.
Do they? There are many sources disputing whether DARE had any positive effect, and this specifically https://www.dualdiagnosis.org/drug-addiction/dare-program-wo... also shows growing use. (Then again, it depends what's "now" and "past")
People want less relevant ads, that’s the point.
IMO "Fair" is in the eye of the beholder. My guess, is if you're asking here - you don't think it's fair.

~$85k in the Bay Area isn't a ton of money. After dilution (post seed) 2% will be much smaller. If you're the only technical found and the only one who could build the product, I personally would ask for more. HOWEVER, if you think someone can do it other than you, you may not command such a deal.

Regardless, I always focus just on the base salary. At ~$85k, I'm assuming they aren't covering healthcare, 401k, etc. That's maybe 35% - 50% (with benefits) less than you could get at a larger company.

Do you think the companies worth it?
Boeing gets 700 billion a year from the US Government, and they have permission to shoot a particle beam in orbit for missile defense.

You will be much better served looking inward. Stop all the obvious signs of uncultured ignorance in your life, learn what they are doing, and you build.
It's hard not to see Nietzche's "slave morality" in today's successful backlash against "toxic masculinity" and the "white man".
Your legal duty to your customer doesn't end wherein this duty is inconvenient.
> [3]: The "1.44 MB" storage device was rigid. It wasn't floppy in the least. It was a diskette. The 5¼", that was floppy.

Cut them open? - this will also explain why they were called disks/discs, even though they are decidedly rectangular...
Moore is less, I guess? People holding on to older phones longer.
I think the idea is: the new app is a convenience to a job that existed before the app. The company that uses it then decides to make it essential to that job.
Ah, right. The "that guy did it" excuse.

If they aren't legally obliged to purchase "broadcasting right" from "members", they can always stop doing so.

If they ARE legally obliged (or forced by corporate mob, depending on your preferences) to engage in the rent-seeking, their budget founding should be permanently set to zero.
That makes sense, it is sort of unfortunate that we feel that way. It shouldn't be about which geopolitical tribal wars and more about objective data and analysis.
It's not hard to see parallels between the two situations. Both the court and the average consumer of news are trying to figure out what's true and what isn't. A real human being who is quoted in the paper will certainly be "cross-examined" when subsequent events show him to have been completely mistaken. DC-insider ventriloquists with no names will not be cross-examined so.
Compare the 3 approaches, I rather go with the first one. Yes, it's verbose, ugly, repetitive. But It's dead simple, easy to understand. The other two approaches just make the code harder to reasoning once it getting bigger.
We don't know exact question asked. And even if it contained exact "stealing" phrasing, it's possible mr. Bengio simply decided to ignore connotation for sake of productive conversation. It's clear both we and him are aware of brain drain happening but, he also have noticed mutual beneficial effects of the facts and I my personal believe is that had he felt important to object, he would, but he didn't. But that doesn't say much to support he believes it's unfair competition
I think once you've paid for Netflix, Prime video, and your taxes to a public library and can't get content, creators are running the risk people will get fed up and buy a fast VPN instead.
It's true, but that will have to change if they want to start handling the volume of students we're being asked to handle.
There is no normal honestly.

Experience counts a lot and IMO the amount raised does as well along with your equity stake.

Not knowing how much experience you have it is hard to say. You could be fair now or low or frankly high. Obviously for where you live I doubt you are overpaid.

I will say this I don't think based on the very limited data that you are paid poorly for an early stage company.

If you want to shoot me a personal email with more details (or post here) happy to give you a more detailed opinion. I myself am the CTO for a company that has raised and have been a founder myself a few times so I feel I am a fairly good judge on this stuff most of the time.

BTW. There is nothing wrong with asking for a little more as the company hits certain milestones. Just be fair and honest.
These bunkers has multiple rooms. It is not uncommon to have 8 people living in one room, and a large bunker site can have 20+ rooms. A bunker site can have living area similar to a 20 room motel, underneath a much bigger building on top (at least when they are inside the city).

Since these bunkers were built, they were build for war, some of them have very thick gas tight door to complete seal the environment from outside.
If I were to increase regulatory capture while cutting back regulations how exactly would I do that?
They want less ads, not irrelevant ones. Relevancy is the #2 complaint by consumers about ads.
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/Pub...

Here is some data that contradicts your arguments, but I would like to analyze it further and I do not know the reputation of the source.

Quoting the article:

> Comparison between countries is also possible when it comes to salaries. American and Belgian public employees come out better than their Swedish and British counterparts in this regard.

By the way, please refrain from using rhetorical questions when making arguments, it comes across as impolite and brash.