skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It costs lots of money to digitize and host the old stuff. And the non-profit organization doesn't lend itself well to selling access - it takes time and effort (read "money") to research with the lawyers whether "selling" or "membership fees" or whatever other business model is legally acceptable under the organization's structure.

But since new content is shot in digital, and edited digitally, it's a minor step to convert for streaming and also broadcast so they just stick to that.
AFAIK there's no actual theory - no specific model one can evaluate. The couple attempts by economists to critique MMT were always met with the response that the thing being critiqued isn't actually MMT (but never with specifics of how it is different).
We need more transparency as well as good willed founders willing to pledge and honor more equitable systems for themselves, investors and employees.
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I don't understand what people expect in this kind of situation. The company was bought for around the amount of money that they took in investment, or less. Why would the employees get anything? If preference didn't exist, and I could take $10M in investment at $100M in valuation, and then the next day liquidate the company, return $1M, and keep $9M, obviously that would just mean that nobody would invest in startups any more.

Does it piss people off that the execs got retention bonuses? You've got to give the execs some incentive to stay around if you want to keep operating the company. Do people expect execs to work out of the goodness of their hearts?

The company failed. That means the stock isn't valuable. What is hard about this?
The options that are for sale are distractions, lessons maybe; they always end up making you miserable and less free.

Freedom is a mindset, not 500 TV channels; it's a lack of lack, not more crap.
Hey @segah, founder of Chartio here. I can deeply second all the comments on how long of a feature tail BI is, and the amount of work it takes to have real product depth and stability vs. an impressive demo. It takes years, and ongoing maintenance that is impossible to estimate in the beginning.

Also, it's definitely a challenge to support 100's and 1000's of users digesting data, especially in the democratized fashion that we're typically used in. It takes good data governance, support, and admin tools. I gotta chime in and say for the record though that Chartio well supports many such customers.

It may be weird for you to chat as you worked at Looker, but I'd love to hear anytime on why you see Chartio capping out at a lower # than the others listed. You can reach me at dave-at-chartio.com!
Guilt by association? AT&T is a completely different kind of company than SV tech companies.
I think it is funny that we perpetuate this myth that the geniuses are in financial engineering and ad-tech.
The umber of trans people harassing somebody in the bathroom, or otherwise, is probably minuscule enough, and indeed there are laws that deal with that.

But you seem to be intentionally overlooking GP's main point -- people (dare I say most people, probably) have that strange hangup that they really prefer to visit the restroom with people of the same biological gender.

And before somebody comes back with "at some point people did not want to share bathroom with people of a different race", there was a movement to make people see folks of other color as fully human. There is no movement to make people accept seeing naked people with different genitalia.

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I don't think anyone is arguing seriously that transsexuals should not use public restrooms, period. But which restroom to use isn't quite as simple as "whatever gender they identify with", unless you believe that others have absolutely no say in the matter.
>Asking "can modern monetary theory work" is sort of like asking "can I recreationally use heroin and not get addicted". The answer to both of these questions is yes, in theory both are possible.

I would say it's the other way around: MMT works in practice while in theory it should fail. Heroin, not so much.
What the article alludes to is that while the demand to spend money is relatively liquid because it is linked to the whole economy, the demand to hold it, loan it, or commit to prices over time are a speculative bet on how it will be issued. And because it is speculative, it can move disproportionate to the economic size of the actions involved.

Right now the speculators' trust is rooted in the apparent independence of Fed from Treasury. If the US were to seek trust to self-manage from Treasury alone, how would it earn or argue for that trust from the community of speculators?
That is cool. Is the script something I can download somewhere?
It's implied that this is in the context of the consumer market. Mashable has probably never heard of Meraki.

(Although another explanation is that the tech press generally doesn't remember anything that happened more than a year ago.)
1,000,000,000 isn't even divisible by 4096, the sector size, so I'm not sure what you're expecting?
It does seem that Solar Thermal plants are better for the expected future of energy demand. I wasn't thinking of them for some reason.

But yes, people need to be mostly aware about the time-cost of energy. Even if Solar Thermal is less efficient than photo-voltaic cells, the fact of the matter is that 5:00pm to 9:00pm power is the REAL problem that people need to focus on. That's when America uses most of its electricity right now, and is likely the main driver of peaker plants at the moment.
Indeed. There were like half a dozen people from the company all commenting on this post including their CTO. And then poof, gone.
Really like and appreciate the approach... the biggest thing keeping me with react is @material-ui/core, which is in my opinion hands down the best set of components and theming I've used for web development in over two decades.

For the most part, imho any new paradigm almost needs something like bootstrap and/or a material design library as a starting point. Bootstrap likely easier to work towards for a starting point.
My company was designing a product that was solar powered with a battery to keep it running at night. We originally were designing in lead acid batteries and the size of the battery needed for that kind of service was too large. De-rate because you're cycling daily and suddenly you need 3X the battery. De-rate again for environmental conditions and add another 2X.

We punted and switched to a lithium iron phosphate battery. Because we could get away with a 2.5 amp-hr lion battery vs a 12 amp-hr lead acid. It's cheaper and we don't have to worry about a workman trying to lug 15-20lbs up a ladder.
Meh, Lawrence of Arabia had an intermission and I doubt many film buffs would say that ruined the art of it.
Can from Kosmos School here. Really enjoyed this conversation between me and Esteban, as he has a unique background in gaming and education, and also led co.lab, which was an accelerator funded by Zynga that focused on companies at the intersection of gaming and education.

The most intersting thing I thought was that Esteban described a lot of educational game companies as "broccoli with a chocolate cover", meaning that they try to trick player's into education which never works.
No, that would be pretending that saving $5 could make any kind of difference.
I have been involved in M&A activity, and when we (owners) bought a failed competitor for clients and assets, we wiped out the owners (who had misstated some financial factors of importance) and made the employees whole (who had all been stiffed on pay). We didn’t have to, but it was the right thing to do.

Everyone has different morals and ethics I suppose.
I am so confused, were the owners just idiots about judging the value of the sale?

There is no reason that all the stockholders should have voted to approve this sale unless they were going to walk away with something to pad their pockets so... did some majority shareholder sell out to amazon and get some separate remuneration? I feel like that should definitely be illegal.

Edit: Oh, so the founders assumed they'd be acqui-hired and got screwed over after screwing over all the regular employees. Okay I'm totally fine with that.
"Alt.Ed gone bad"? That's far more of an attack (and clickbait) than the article's title. As for discussion, nothing wrong with posting your opinion in the comments -- we all can discuss.
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The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education
My take on this is that with your background, you should be able to go straight into a Master's degree CS program. Or at the very least, skip the first two or three CS undergrad years entirely: take some fourth year stuff only, maybe third.
meraki is subscription service, not a product that people own. Once your subscription is over, its a paperweight.
>potential startup employees internalize the economic reality of working at a startup.

Treat your salary as your total income and equity as a lottery ticket?
>free university education
>a job for everyone that wants one

These are not utopian.
FTA:

In response to an inquiry from Kaine, the Education Department
disclosed last week that 38,460 people had submitted requests
for forgiveness as of Dec. 28 under the new program. Most of
those, 28,640 people, were immediately rejected because they
had not previously filled out a formal loan forgiveness
application — one of the many criteria of the relief program.

Of the 9,820 applicants who cleared the first hurdle, 1,184
are still under consideration. The rest were rejected for
myriad reasons. Of the applicants who cleared the initial
hurdle, 40% still had years to go before hitting the required
10-year mark. Nearly a quarter were ineligible because they
were paying less money in the wrong payment plan than they
would have in the correct one.

Others were turned away for having the wrong type of federal
loan — those originated by private lenders through the
now-defunct Federal Family Education Loan Program. Some had
not made enough on-time payments or had not had at least 10
years of full-time employment certified by a qualifying
employer, according to the department.

I really don't see the problem here. People aren't qualifying for the program (many in obvious ways, such as not meeting the 10 year minimum, or making on-time payments), and I'm supposed to (from the article's clear intent) feel outraged by this?
There are a ton of reasons why Apple prioritizes what it does, not least of which is available resources. We don't even know what dependencies they may have between their product teams. It's not like Apple is this all seeing entity that commands its team to do as it wishes, at least not at the micro level.
Your confusing analogy about bears and wolves was the counterargument. I didn't find it a persuasive response to the original argument: "Every other city's experience with congestion pricing shows decreased car use in favor of alternatives. Effects on local grocery prices were minimal. And in the end, revenues paled in comparison to the health, infrastructure, policing, quality of life and economic costs of traffic congestion."
Not the GP, but I'll share my story, as well.

In early 2001, for the project I was working on then, we needed something like a SQLite-lite. (SQLite existed, but was less than a year old and was still way bigger than our needs.) One of the other engineers and I paired to build something that worked well enough to run with over the course of a weekend, and then polished and improved it along the way, until the project was abandoned a few months later, because of the dot-com bomb.
Agreed. I wish more movies were 3-5 hours long with maybe a 10 minute intermission where the director shows something metaphorical.

I love deep story telling and will gladly sit through a 3-4 hour movie
Let me get this straight: One person displaying an interest in two projects using the same language is a red flag for astroturfing?

Is it possible that it's someone who has invested in learning a language and is looking at projects in those languages?

If someone posted two repos of projects written in JS would you feel similarly? Two projects in Perl?
I'd always seen it being wider than "just children"
More of a "I'm concerned by the effect of this on minds I consider more feeble than my own (due to some massive superiority complex I'm in possession of)"
i.e. My own massive intellect is capable of withstanding this 'thing' - but we should ban it to protect the feeble-minded (and I'm too chicken to call others that, so instead I'll do it by proxy).

More serious point is that when a democratic process (Brexit, Trump, Netanyahu, Erdoğan, Putin, whatever) doesn't return what you what - we all retreat to our talk of "the others" (or you could flip the whole think around depending on your personal beliefs).

It just detest my/others/everybody's unwillingness to examine the lazy/meaningless terms we all bandy around and start pinning our shitty arguments to.

I'm not pro or anti "screen-time" - I just hate the term as it's not anything anybody should have an actual opinion on.
For a year or two i used to manually track all weekly spend, to help stick to a budget. No software involved, just noting spend on a paper spreadsheet at the end of each day, & summing up weekly totals. I don't do this any more, instead just periodically review expenses (using logs from bank transactions) and have a think if I need to make any adjustments in habits or shop around for better deals for utilities, insurance, etc. I still track ratio of savings to income net tax, but it's only worth calculating this once or twice a year or when thinking about decisions with a large financial impact (moving house, changing job, etc...)

Quite a few years ago when i was trying to build a habit of getting more exercise i had a calendar & i'd mark the days where i'd cycled/jogged/swum, and perhaps the number of laps. Again, low-tech physical paper calendar + a marker, sitting somewhere where I'd be forced to notice it. It helped build habits.
I had the same thought -- Amazon bought the assets of a failing company. The failure may not be the fault of the employees, but employees almost always lose when a company fails.
In some sense it would be more "honest" if the company was completely wound down and then the top 10 employees got hired by Amazon or something like that. But yeah, the result would be similar.
Yeah a lot of people point at lithium as the scarce input. But Cobalt for common lion batteries is problematic because it's produced almost entirely as a by-product of copper and zinc (I think) mining. For the other metals used current production dwarfs the supply needed for batteries.

However there are lithium iron phosphate batteries.
That makes no sense. You have no authority over the bank. The federal government can be considered a scary bully who will lie to send anyone to jail.
Error Handling in Go (2016)
China’s clampdown on religious freedom
I mean I joined a unicorn as a very employee and barely netted $1.3m. I’m not complaining, but there are far more certain ways to make that amount of money.
As I said, there is nothing spectacular about this.

This notion that a database must be a difficult and complex thing and best left for experts is just turning people off from exploring and learning.

When it doesn't need to be general purpose, has only one thread accessing it, stores at most 1MB of data, has only KV access (so basically persistent hashmap) and doesn't have to be blazing fast, the resulting code may be very simple.
Charter schools live or die on their own merits, which means (a) they're likely to be more variable in terms of quality than public schools, and (b) the best charter schools will far exceed public schools in quality. As long as we're trading anecdotes, the charter schools I know of near me are extremely high quality. Several kids I know attend some of them, and their experience has been phenomenal.

Why not institute whatever's necessary to weed out those that are abusing the system (i.e. embezzling, failing to educate, etc.), and give people the freedom to decide on the rest?

I suspect a lot of the attacks on charter schools are coming from folks who view education primarily as a means of propagating their political viewpoints.
If the drive had all the technology of a modern hard disk, I wonder how much we could fit. That would include shingled recording, large sectors, modern error correction, etc.

One could even do a single-sector disk, spiraling it around to avoid sector gap overhead.
Ask HN: How do you control your diet while working at a tech company?
I want to preface this question by saying that I know that those of us who work at tech companies where lots of free food is always readily available are very privileged (and perhaps spoiled...) in having that particular material need satisfied. Also, forgive me if this question has been asked before.

That said, I’ve been working in tech for a while now and every workplace I’ve been a part of has had basically unlimited junky snack food and provided buffet-style breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I constantly find myself failing to exercise restraint when eating in the office. This happens both through snacking and during meals. Furthermore, most of my meals are with my team, and I often find it extremely difficult to be disciplined about what I eat when the group decides what to eat together.

In contrast, during times in my life when I’ve had to cook every meal for myself, I found it extremely easy to control how many calories I ingested - these times are the only times I’ve been successful in losing weight.

Looking at the eating habits of my colleagues at various companies, I don’t think I’m the only one who has experienced this problem, where the high-availability of food and social nature of meals are a constant temptation. I love working where I do, so I don’t see this environment changing.

For those of you who are able to eat healthy, well-portioned diets (and perhaps even lose weight) while being surrounded by temptation at work, what strategies do you use to practice moderation? And for those of you who have changed your behaviors, how did you do so?
Nailed it. Also, loyalty only to yourself. You are a mercenary, seeking the highest total comp you can, ready to move jobs on a whim.
Trying to write a C11 c compiler in Rust (working on)
Hey guys, I just learned how to write some rust code, and I felt like this language is what I like, so I decide to write a c compiler to practice my rust skill. I spent a week to learn rust and at the meantime try to use it to write my own c compiler.

Now I just finished several fundamental parts, it can now compile simple c program and generate x86-64 assembly code.

I felt it was interesting to write compiler and using rust, but cause I used to be an algorithm competitor, I'm good at writing short tricky code, but now I'm not good at writing big project.

Here's the project link: https://github.com/onehr/crust, so if you have interests and want to contribute or help me, I would be really grateful. I will try to implement all C11 features, and maybe some advanced parts like analyzer, IR generator, simple optimizations just for FUN.
Because we're the United States. We're not the United Countries.

The "natural flow of migration"?
What about a bunch of NVMe drives?
I can see your point. But it does sound like a SaaS product that deliberately makes it hard to cancel but legally doesn't have to stop charging your card.
Actually, prostitution is relatively safe and predictable way to make good money, in countries that have the appropriate legal framework.

You can probably make as much as a software consultant if you play your cards right, get a nice house in the countryside and retire at 30.
> Blockbuster had exclusive rental agreements where they could rent movies for weeks before Redbox. I'm not sure where the first-sale doctrine came into play there, but this was a reality of the time when Redbox began to make a big splash in the physical rental scene.

First sale only works effectively once the studio starts selling copies at retail. After that, when anyone could go down to Target, or Walmart, or Best Buy and buy retail copies, then so could Redbox, and there was nothing the studios could do to stop them.

I believe that the way things like the Blockbuster exclusive deals worked is that the studios would make a deal with Blockbuster to sell copies to Blockbuster weeks before they released them for purchase at retail.
Unfortunately, the closest Friendly Local Game Store is 40 minutes' drive away. I've been to a few events there (prereleases, mostly), and they're OK, but not worth the trip for me.
I think Delaware can further help here. They've been very willing to expand their securities laws in favor of disclosures for employees compensated in securities of private companies. And VC backed companies still incorporate there (even though none of these companies ever really need the court of chancery), but it is nice that the legislature is expanding their own regulations.

Right now employees are offered stock options at arbitrary fractions of a percent, and forced to put a smile on their face because of the "generous offer" "bigger than others" that you got. And not everyone gets options, and not every industry gives routinely gives you ANY exposure to the success of the company. SO SMILE AND DON'T COMPLAIN. But the employee has no transparency into:

The liquidation preferences of existing shareholders

The valuation of the company per round, if the company decided not to brag about it

How that relates to the strike price of the option

What the option pool even looks like, dilution necessary to support it if at all

and of course, has to consider coming up with the actual money to purchase their exposure to the company, even without any of this transparency

If you issue the right or interest in a security to employees, they should have transparency. Delaware can do that.
> their UI has sucked

Would you be willing to elaborate on what you find frustrating? We're doing work in a similar area.
ArangoDB announces Oasis, its managed multi-model database
Agreed. What we're seeing from the thought police is a resurgence of puritanism. With various degrees of success, religions can put guard rails on puritanism with 'love the sinner hate the sin' messages, it's not apparent whether any of that exists for puritanical ideologues - the Pope washed the feet of Muslim refugees, when's the last time you saw someone woke AF go out of their way to affirm the humanity of someone who holds opposing views? Ask hollywoods liberals if they'd shake Trump's hand.
Nietzsche is by no means an individualist. He had no interest in any current of thought talking of "individualism".

He was an individualist and he wasn't interested in any current of thought, talking of individualism or not.
Sadly, no. It doesn't run on Macs, and I don't currently have the funds to justify a second computer just for Windows-only games.