skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels absurd to have to keep asking WTF people mean when they arbitrarily say x in y is better than x in the US (and let’s be honest, that’s a sign it’s not, you’re just nostalgic), but what is better about British milk? And I swear if you say fresh off a local farm whole milk is better than the skim milk you bought in Walmart that one time I’m going to stab you... we are comparing apples to apples here, not apples to white water that isn’t what your mom served you as a kid.

US eggs are refrigerated, as are those in some EU countries. It’s actually variations in temperature that cause condensation and lead to salmonella, so your whole “guaranteed salmonella free” thing is, at best, crap... as long as they are consistently warm or consistently cold you’re fine regardless. And none of that has anything to do with the quality or taste.

With cheese you finally hit a point. You want Epoisses and can’t find a decent one. That is a fair complaint, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of anything in the US. I want a good rich, sharp, non-waxy (“crap”) cheddar. I also cannot find that anywhere... I’m in Europe. In the US I could find one in any grocery store I walked into.

This is about variety and availability, NOT quality. I dislike that I can’t find a nice cheddar, but I’m not writing off entire countries or continents as having nothing but crap because of it - the rest of the locals obviously don’t want it enough to keep it in stock, so it’s just going to mold before it gets bought. They have plenty of other good cheeses, just not the one I’m looking for.

What differentiates the US from other countries is that you CAN, absolutely, without any doubt what so ever, find what you’re looking for somewhere. Sure Walmart and Safeway don’t have it, but there is a smaller shop or a gourmet chain that does. That... isn’t quite true elsewhere.
Now that you mention it, if they're trying to sell as many as possible, why not just give away the car for free? People love free cars.
We do our standups in VR in Hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com) so it serves as a great integration test :)
> It seems to me that Approval Voting might have the unintended negative consequence of electing a joke candidate

I think we've already crossed that particular bridge.
But if something is blocking you, you should not wait for the standup to bring it up, what a strange way of working is that. Just ask someone who can help you. That's one thing that works well in my company.

Still people also want standups, basically to hear what others are doing and feel like a team.
You got my vote!
Well, you've got dozens of different taxes out there, and most of them are regressive. A "flat tax" income tax would probably have a lower bound number below which your taxes scale linearly down to zero.

But tweaking the income tax does nothing for the other payroll extractions. Or the gasoline excise tax. Or the sales tax. Or property tax (paid through rent). Or tariffs.

Or the hidden tax on the everyone: inflation. That paycheck doesn't go quite as far each year, does it?

Beyond that, you've got land-use controls and building restrictions that artificially drive up the cost of housing close to job centers. Then school zones create more barriers. You'll spend more time commuting, which means the rest of your life is more difficult. And buying a car is more expensive as the regulatory burden on auto-makers increases year after year.

Unfortunately, this is where many say, "Well the government just needs to help those in need." So taxes go up. Rent control is added. Rinse & repeat.
Seeking cofounder(s) for a privacy friendly social network
In their pursuit of growth at all costs, Facebook has failed in its mission to connect the world, and instead has led to increased isolation, addiction, vanity, surveillance, tribalism, and more.

A true "pivot" to privacy would've addressed more fundamental issues, including:

1. The collection and permanent storage of vast amounts of user data (e.g. locations you’ve logged in from, every profile you've visited, etc.) for the purposes of data mining.
2. Tracking people around the internet via the like button, monitoring what they’re reading (e.g. health issues, etc.) and other behavioral attributes without consent.
3. Newsfeed algorithms that encourage addiction, FOMO, and outrage by promoting viral content.
4. Tying user data across owned properties without user consent.

Facebook is likely structurally unable to addresses these issues in a meaningful way, due to technical, business and cultural constraints.

I believe people should have a healthier option, so I’m looking for cofounders to take on the ambitious challenge of building a mainstream social network that doesn’t track you. Think: a mobile-first social network that collects minimal metadata, encrypts as much as possible, and is designed to encourage good behavior (e.g. chronological feed, feed updated every 4h, etc.)

This idea won’t be easy to execute, but if it works, it could be massively good for the world.

I have a deep understanding of privacy (having worked at a leading privacy-oriented company) and growth. Would welcome smart, scrappy folks (ideally with skills in product, design, or engineering) to join me in this mission. Remote is great — talent is equally distributed.

If you are interested, please email privacychef@protonomail.com.

Thank you!
Mltshp
Your question is really good and I hope you get some meaningful answers out of it, I am just here to help you in another regard: timing.

This was posted 9 hours ago and your comment about 8h30 hours after its initial 'interest boom'. Usually things die out in hacker news after a night or so so you probably won't get many answers out of this.

My lateral advice to you is: keep your eye open for more of those "how did you get out of your {mindless|boring|notwhatiwant} job" posts that usually appear here every 2 months. These posts attract lots of people and are usually very active for almost 2-3 days before people stop answering.

If you catch'em early certainly you are gonna get lots of answers.

Someone that may or may not be me might have found one of those posts someday in HN and he was lucky to come up with a quick throwaway account and post almost exactly the same content as yours and he got (quite a lot of) meaningful answers out of it from people from varied walks of life.

Good luck on your stuff, you are not alone in this "problem" you have.

Also, pat yourself on the back everyday for providing for your family and keeping strong even tho you hate what you do on a daily basis. You are doing good for your peers.

o/
I don't think so. Tesla is like Apple in a way. They are both the "Brand name" and the "technology" all in one package, and splitting the 2 would lead to each one being significantly less than half their total.

Personally I think what would be best for Tesla (in a vacuum) is if they stopped trying to grow so quickly, and grew much like the other car manufacturers did, over a longer period of time, so that missteps and mistakes are speed bumps rather than mountains to get over.

Sadly I also think they can't afford to slow down, because if they do I really think the other larger car companies will eat their lunch.
> I always work in at-will states, it's trivially easy to let someone go. I also personally have no problem doing it.

Most managers are not as cold-blooded as you are claiming to be.
That's the long term goal!
The usual reason for this sort of design is so you can support loading a new configuration without having to restart the whole thing, if the new config might need you to do additional things that require privilege (maybe bind to new low ports, or read key files).
I'm surprised FastCGI isn't more popular for that reason. Using PHP as an example, Apache + mod_php executes all code under Apache's user/group. If, instead, you use PHP-FPM, you can lock down the execution environment much more.

PHP-FPM supports an arbitrary number of named pools, each of which may be configured with its own user/group pair. Ideally, each virtual host gets its own pool.

e.g.,

[poolname]
user = poolowner
group = poolgroup

listen = /run/php/php7.2-fpm-poolname.sock
listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data
...
> irritatingly reliable

This made me laugh. I have an AMD Sempron 3850 cpu+gpu sitting in a small case under the TV that has been chugging along for 5 years now. The somewhat recent addition of a cheap SSD has increased its usability even more. As much as I'd like to replace it with something more up to date, I can't justify it while it's still working fine.

It's funny to think of what is "good enough" for a lot of needs.
Any methodology where it takes more than a month to turn around a bugfix for a discovered issue in the first week of the month seems flawed. Unless I'm missing something, that's the case here.
Googling has gotten really hard. I used to be able to really nail exactly what I wanted, craft queries that'd "drag" obscure pages up to the first couple results by picking words likely to be used in links to those pages but rarely elsewhere, that kind of thing. No longer works at all. Attempts to narrow with quotes and phrases end in "no pages found" (bull. shit.) It's like they downranked everything not on the top 500 most trafficked sites so hard that they dropped right off their index entirely. Except blogspam. God they love blogspam.
I disagree with this, on a very strong and deep sense!

Invariably you will have error conditions; situations that are expected work in order for your application to function. Your application is expected to open a file to work, if it can't open the file then that's an error. Your program cannot continue to do whatever it was supposed to do.

You make a call and it can't do it's job. So it returns to you an error and maybe that means that you can't do your job now. So you return an error to your caller. And if you do that all perfectly, you're basically doing exception handling without any help from the language.
Ask HN: Hiring managers and recruiters, how much does resume layout matter?
I work at Big 4 and interview people regularly. I get to see the resumes of people who have passed 'resume round' and are now mostly subject to the feedback of the interviewers.

I'm constantly shocked out how many resumes I see that follow none of the best practices everyone involved in 'resume review' talks about. College students with 2+ page resumes. Poor layout choices. Overall 'unprofessional' (font choice, size, coloring, etc) looking. Lots of extra details about their pet, choir, etc. that we're always told to omit unless we're applying at the student union.

Honestly, none of this bothers me. I firmly care more about their accomplishments and ability to perform in the interview than how their PDF looks. But it surprises me that it doesn't seem to concern the people who review candidates purely on their resume. Given some of these resumes, you'd think it was done entirely by a computer. Is it?

Curious what recruiters and hiring managers think about traditional resume best-practices and how much they care about 'bad looking' resumes.
In fact, copyright law is designed with the intent to enforce permanent data loss, and destroy data in other people's hands. Namely, yours.
China's one child policy has had HORRIBLE side-effects.

No thank you.
Real talk, the entire country is a prison.
There are _way_ more factors than that. Not the least of which being "do you believe Tesla is the company that is able to deliver those effectively?". All signs currently point to "No".
> Who wants a Tesla without autopilot?

Those who don't want to be killed or injured when the autopilot steers into a wall or oncoming traffic?
Even worse, I was driving around the other day and saw entire parking lots full of inventory at this weird thing called a dealership, maybe GM and Ford are going under since they have all this inventory sitting there?
> Electric cars are still less than 5% of new car market. Hardly impactful

That is up from <1% five years ago, in a market where demand spurs demand by increasing availability of charging points etc. Meanwhile the EV market is currently production capacity constrained and multiple companies are expanding production capacity.

I doubt we're going to be at 100% electric cars in ten years but I would not be surprised if it was somewhere in the mid double digits by then. And by that point it becomes a lot easier to target ICE cars with legislation because there is a proven viable alternative.

> The increase in efficiency is more than offset by the growth in overall car market

Any given factor is more than offset by the growth in the overall car market. But you add them all together.

> Potential legislation in China? India? Emerging markets? Sorry but nothing suggests that is happening

China has a slate of domestic electric car companies and it's exactly their style to pass legislation that favors domestic companies over foreign competitors. Climate change provides them a really good justification to do that here.

And carbon taxes generate revenue, which makes it easy to make them revenue neutral. Use the money to lower other taxes or fund a UBI. This knocks out the "harms the poor/developing countries" argument because the cost becomes only the cost difference between fossil fuels and alternatives, which is rapidly approaching zero.

Moreover, most of the current oil demand comes from the US and Europe. If either of them, much less both, passed relevant legislation then not only would their own demand fall off, the increased economies of scale and network effects that would spur in alternatives would also make them more cost effective in countries without any such legislation.
Discrimination is based on a realistic assessment of trust?
The worst part about taxes is that I never know if I did them correctly since the feedback loop is up to 3 years. Just shoot them off into the ether and cross your fingers you don't get a giant bill next year.

The first time I filed, I had not updated my W4 soon enough after moving and owed NYC like $4k in taxes which came up around 18 months after I filed. The following year the software I was using said I owed around $10k in taxes, which I was pretty sure was wrong, so I went to an accountant and they did it for me and said I owed nothing. Even after all that, there is no way to know who is right until 3 years from now (IRS theoretically doesn't look back more than 3 years for individual returns).
Couldn't you just strip the tables for the color map and the additional glyphs for the other color layers? Or does Noto use bitmaps or SVGs for the colored glyphs?
The prices need to be set in advance. Just getting on the road and not knowing what it will cost sucks
That's where it breaks down. If you strip the Scrum-Industrial Complex nonsense away, one of the basic concepts of Scrum planning is that the business gets to define the stories, and the developers get to assign the points (or whatever mechanism is being used to estimate). Business sets the scope, technical sets the resource requirements.

If developers can't hold the line on estimates, they're toast. Nothing will ever get done on time or under budget, because the organization is focused on basic dishonesty about what work can actually get done. Which means people are being rewarded for the wrong things. Measure by estimate accuracy rather than promises made, and you'll see a lot more honesty in estimation.
By the way, clicking on a fact on Chrome iOS is not loading anything.
Not cool, but nothing new. Distrokid was blatant enough to brag about it in his newsletter in 2017. I sent a polite email voicing my concerns, but I never received more than the auto-reply.

Distrokid email: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8tw90s0n8urj9j3/distro-email.png?d...

My reply: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ym9oxvwprkqm9ph/distro-reply.png?d...
The USMC is significantly more. Everyone in the USMC is first and foremost a rifleman. Your actual MOS is secondary. The other branches are the opposite. You do your job primarily with weapons training and use a far outside possibility.

The USMC has the most strenuous small arms requirements outside of actual special forces. It starts in boot camp and you must qualify every year until reaching E-8 or 0-5, respectively. The Corps is HUGE on marksmanship, and Marines are expected to hit targets out to 500M with iron sights, although these days, the kids get ACOGS, which I didn't have. Pistol out to 25M. Your promotion, in part, depends on how well you do. No one wants to go unq (unqualified) or not much better, wear the lowest level, which is Marksman (referred to as Pizza Box) due to the shape of the medal one must wear on their uniform.
that github api is really interesting. does github never run GC on repos or do they flag the commits you create from the API so they are never GC'd? I guess in a normal workflow and normal git gc options commits that are unrooted would not be deleted because git avoids deleting recent data during GC. however, there doesn't seem to be any warning in the API that your commits might disappear if you don't root them.
Plastic is the new lead.
I just used it in another comment. :)
Right? If anything, it should be very clear at this point, once a person has some money, they almost inevitably want more money.
> I liked the graphics heavy style of the article

I'm glad you posted this because I felt the exact opposite (it's almost always good to have my assumptions questioned).

I wanted to read some info but I had to click, see a picture, and then see some small amount of text slowly appear. I closed the tab after seeing that on the first image -- to me it's basically as worthless as a video. I don't have the patience for that and feel that the NYT doesn't value my time. Clearly some people feel the opposite!

I would love to see some data on these experiments by the nyt: do they show greater revenue than ordinary articles?
Passive networking isn't very effective.
agentless is not a feature. System changes/breaks occur. agent-based approaches are a kind of "continuous validation" of your infrastructure.
A quick google gave me this: https://uber.asu.edu/ . I would be more confident if the paper was issued by an entity with no economic ties with Uber.
Will investigate, thanks for letting me know!
It's also an "acquihire." I was thinking along those lines, just without the company acquisition.

In practice, there can be a lot of difference between a consulting team and a regular one.
You may be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places

About a decade ago I remember being in some city in France (Bordeaux maybe? Bayonne maybe?) while studying there and the city center was demo'ing a car free plan. There were parking lots for delivery trucks outside delivery hours (when they had street access, 0200-0400 or something) then bikes would come and ferry things in. I remember being shocked at how great it all worked. Not sure if it's still in place, but I'd love to see more of that here in the States. The noise reduction alone was worth it.
Tesla deliveries fall–especially for high-end Model S and X
So to be against loopholes you must support the 30% tax rule on incomes over USD 1m? I feel this conflates tax avoidance with having a very high income. Mr Buffett for one might be upset at the implication.
An uploader can easily edit the watermark out of the book, if he is so inclined, and he probably is. It only annoys those who were not bent on uploading it in the first place.

Also, I specifically would not abide to any kind of law saying I cannot give a book I bought to a friend.
I genuinely suggested that Americans reminded me of Russians to an American once in New York. They were shocked and disgusted. It’s a common sentiment because it’s as close to a fact as a subjective opinion can be.
You can totally believe that, and have no faith in Tesla itself. On the high end side I don't see how they will counter the like of Audi, Jaguar, Porsche and Polestar, which come with actually well made cars, a service network that works and actual prestige. On the low end Korean and Chinese brands should slash prices...
The above comment by moviuro, who seems to be from France, directly contradicts your claim.

"1. That's how it's done in France AFAICT. In April/May we get the pre-filled form on our tax site [0,1] and make sure it's ok, then tick a box.

2. We also have a website for that (though it's probably just a glorified multiplication and graph) [2]

[0] https://www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/particulier

[1] it looks like https://www3.impots.gouv.fr/simulateur/calcul_impot/2019/sim....

[2] https://aquoiserventmesimpots.gouv.fr/"
>The explanation put forward (which seems reasonable) is that the cutouts were disengaged because the aerodynamic forces were stronger than could be overcome by the manual control, so they had to turn the electrics back on in an attempt to move it (which allowed the MCAS to continue pushing the stabilizer to the extreme)

But the only way it would end at the total extreme is if they were within 2.5 degrees of max when they re-enabled electric trim and they crashed within 5 seconds. Otherwise, they should have been able to at least get some adjustment.

>Boeing’s anti-stall software on a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet re-engaged up to four times after the crew initially turned it off due to suspect data from an airflow sensor, two people familiar with the matter have said.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/03/ethiopian-a...

4 cycles should have gotten them to 7-10 degrees away from the extreme. So something else was going on.
Hang on a minute.

The only difference is that the languages you are talking about have captured "doing I/O" as something that can be statically reasoned about, but not "consuming memory" (for example). From a mathematical perspective, one is part of the axioms while another is not.

One could imagine a language where all memory allocation must be done explicitly via a monad, just like how in Haskell all I/O is performed inside an IO monad. If that were the case, you could have additional static guarantees about how memory is used. That doesn't mean that languages which don't do this are somehow inherently "impure"; they are simply "pure with respect to a certain set of axioms" (which don't talk about memory usage).

"The system crashed" example is fun too. All pure functions must return a value, right? Well, that's obviously not gong to be the case if the computer blows up halfway through executing a pure function. "Blowing up" might not be something your type system talks about—Haskell does to some degree (with _|_ inhabiting every type), but Idris for example has total functions which at runtime could most definitely be interrupted by a sudden explosion. They are "total" only with respect to a set of axioms which imply an execution model where computers do not explode mid-program.
I suspect it looks cheap simply because culture has changed in the 16 years since this was published. Remember that in 2003, the only way you're going to be reading an essay online is if you're devoting the time to sit down at a desktop to do so.

Do you feel your criticism would still apply with the same force if it was clear that the author was considered to be a geek by himself and others?

*Edited to add a quote from http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/fifteen.html regarding this point:

> First up is the issue of what "geek" means. It's an ill-
> defined subculture at the best of times, but I generally
> see two loose and overlapping superfamilies. On the one
> hand, those geeks whose common denominator is a passion
> for technical pursuits of all sorts -- OS geeks, coding
> geeks, sysadmin geeks, etc.; on the other, those whose
> common denominator is a passion for media -- comic book
> geeks, film geeks, anime geeks, gaming geeks, etc. I'm a
> game designer with a degree in performance studies. You
> can probably guess where I fall. I wasn't thinking espe-
> cially rigorously when I wrote 5GSF (or, for that matter,
> Why Geeks Like Anime), so while I defined my terms, I
> used the media-geek definition throughout. This caused
> problems for some readers coming from the other side of
> the tracks -- like, say, Metafilter.