skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah all those useless frontend engineers (sorry, "jQuery developers") at Facebook and Google, being paid $500k+ / year to work on their 10k hits / day blog.

Edit: Also, I'm not your buddy, pal.
My company recently dropped our in house data center and moved almost entirely to AWS. We had a few reasons; we just don't have the multiple data centers to gauruntee uptimes. Our product isnt data security so our limited staff can't keep the data as secure as AWS whose entire business is around security. And we just got to a point where it was cheaper to host on AWS than just to maintain our own data center. I hope that offers a little insight
You are making me smack my forehead to the point of giving myself a concussion. If your comment were true, market economies as a concept would be unviable. The global economy would not exist if your comment were true. Ride-sharing is a market. People compete in the market. That’s how literally every solvent business in the world operates.
Ask HN: How do you convince yourself that you're good enough?
For things like applying for better paying jobs, coding open source software (and not being concerned your code sucks), writing articles, building your own commerical products, building a business network, doing freelance work, etcetera.

I always feel like I'm not good enough or worse that I'll never be good enough. I've done things in those area's that I'm proud of but I still feel this gnawing anxiety that I won't ever be good enough. This applies to everything outside the scope of this question as well.

I won't apply for jobs that I think I'm not good enough for, I don't want to publish any of my projects code because I fear its trash and people will be critical of it. I like to write but I don't feel confident about what I can contribute.

To me the anxiety of not feeling like I'll ever be good enough sucks all the joy out of these things. I've stopped projects that once inspired me and never returned. I'm not even sure why. I just get this anxious feeling that only goes away when I give up and distract myself with entertainment.
Probably a good idea for anyone in an influential position.
For me, I’ll always monitor and follow his poll analysis. But something about how he handled 2016 soured my view of him. It’s like he didn’t just “predict.” He insisted on being correct in a way that was too overt.

Further, let’s not forget all of the dirty deeds orchestrated through Facebook, online, and hacking. The election in three key states swung by tiny amounts. It’s not correct to blame what otherwise worked for the perfect storm. In fact, I don’t remember 538 sayin anything about fake news or election hacking prior to the election. It was all polls of polls.
> Just like 500 years ago how religious people controlled the narrative and set up the rules of society and "laws of nature" to basically be giant money trees for them, there's a new class of people who have done the same thing.

It's still religion, in terms of the psychology behind it. It's just a religion devoted to money. Every middle-income person has been fooled into thinking that they're a CEO for a company of one, so instead of viewing taxation and public works as good for their fellow human, they've been trained merely to see the dollar signs draining from their coffers.

Individuals in the U.S. now truly believe that their lives are better keeping the additional 10% (or whatever) of their income than letting that be used for the public good. They physically can't allow themselves to see the cumulative potential of everybody giving an extra 10% to the public good, and just how much improvement their lives could see from it.

People have been trained to see the government as a black hole of money wasting. I mean, the myth that NASA spent millions on developing a space pen while the Russians used a pencil -- haha I can't believe how stupidly the feds spend money -- persists to this day, despite it just not being true. A private company developed the space pen, NASA bought a few thousand, and the Russians also ended up developing space pens. But no, the myth is now ingrained. I remember being told this as a fifth grader.

And yes, there is corruption in the public sphere that has strong negative effects on the efficient investment of public funds. But where does this corruption stem from? Sure, there's the occasional bad actor Congressman who's in it just for his own pockets. But the bulk of the systemic issues are heavily influenced by the corrupting influence of giant, private corporations.
> E*Trade would be one of the largest securities brokerages to allow crypto trading. It will enter into a competitive market with startups like Coinbase Inc., which have made names for themselves as go-to places for such transactions. Closely held Coinbase reached a valuation of $8 billion in 2018 and projected sales of $1.3 billion. Fintech startup Robinhood, most recently valued at $5.6 billion, has also added cryptocurrency trading as a way to woo millennial customers.

TD Ameritrade has also been rumored to have quietly rolled out Bitcoin trading to some customers:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/td-ameritrade-nasdaq-re...
I think he’s somewhere on the spectrum to be honest, and wrestles with his public image, preventing him from cultivating the image you think would be helpful. Combined with Herculean amounts of stress and using Ambien, alcohol, and maybe even a dash of cocaine, his persona developed into YOLO. It’s lonely at the top, married to your aspirations.
A $15b return on $400b invested in 2008/2009 over ?5? years is a terrible return. And it conveniently ignores management costs.

That was "close down your hedge fund(s) and change your name" embarrassing level of return.

Your link's source for its $30.7b profit figure is unsupported by its linked treasury.gov press release
When I asked Jussi (in July, 2016) he pointed me to http://www.ebay.com/itm/1000x-VINTAGE-RAW-FERRITE-CORES-5221...
The only reason this matters in legal terms is because he's chairman of a public company with legal obligations. Whether that applies in a general cultural sense is a different question.

The risks Musk is willing to take and his private investors and coworkers tolerance for that is their own voluntary choices to make.
How do you track your vaccinations?
Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)
Using regex on serialized XML has the potential to go off the rails thanks to the wiiiide variety of ways to express character entities, import docs, use namespaces, escape or not, etc.; consider an event-y/SAX parser for performance if you might run afoul of such issues.
Interesting. Corporate America has been a similar experience for me but it's obviously you're much less emotionally and personally invested in each corporate opportunity. Thanks for sharing.
Netflix pulls it off because they have nearly 0% cost of goods sold, so it doesn't matter how much you use Netflix, nearly all of your subscription price contributes to profit. Not so with companies that sell physical goods and services.
It seems like this is captured with plain old LTV - CAC. What’s the advantage of introducing “depreciation” here?
Punch cards are mechanically demanding. A paper tape reader is feasible. A writer is probably fairly challenging.
https://mxroute.com/ maybe?
Uber will eventually profit from long-term SAAS+Ops+robots contracts with municipalities and governments, assuming they can grow/operate for that long and out-lobby and out-execute Lyft, Ford, Tesla, Google et al.
From the description:

> Matter is confined energy, bound within fields, frozen in a quantum of time.

> Polarization of the local vacuum is analogous to manipulation/modification of the local space tie topological lattice energy density.

> If we can engineer the structure of the local quantum vacuum state, we can engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level

If real physics sounded that cool, it would convince me I took the wrong major in college. :)
Self hosting email is a pain in the butt.

Try
fastmail
infomaniak.com (can also buy email for external domain)
gandi.net (email included in domain)
> This is starting to sound very similar to mark-to-market accounting, and the one word associated with "mark-to-market" is "Enron".

From Wikipedia:

Mark-to-market (MTM or M2M) or fair value accounting refers to accounting for the "fair value" of an asset or liability based on the current market price, or the price for similar assets and liabilities, or based on another objectively assessed "fair" value.[1] Fair value accounting has been a part of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the United States since the early 1990s, and is now regarded as the "gold standard" in some circles.
You get 3+ hours of deep sleep?! I seem to regularly crack 1 hour of deep sleep (tracked by my watch) but that’s it.

Anything you’ve done or do to improve the amount you get?
ooh that's a good question. I'd think of that on two levels:

1. a meta-level: all designs of systems have tradeoffs. There is no perfect system. So, by decentralizing we may have to tradeoff the ability to halt trading, in exchange for getting more openness, transparency and neutrality of the marketplace or its operators.

2. specific design: i think there may be ways of achieving this even in a decentralized fashion.

Many use-cases of smart-contracts (i.e. a program run in a blockchain transaction) have envisioned the need for having an "oracle" or external data source. For example, flight-delay insurance contracts (e.g. on etherisc.com) that payout in case of a flight delay would need to get information from some flight-info APIs. To serve this need, there are projects for building decentralized-oracles (e.g. https://chain.link).

Similarly, one can imagine the SEC creates an oracle through a system like ChainLink. This oracle has an api that indicates whether some asset's trading status is ON or OFF. Smart-contracts running the marketplace/exchange on the blockchain have code that reaches out to the SEC oracle before proceeding with a transaction to exchange or sell some asset (i'm describing this synchronously, but it could be done asynchronously).
PS: From the comments of the link

"We run small hosting company, if any domain blocks our clients mails we block theirs and problem gets solved magically." :-)
yes, they are, and they've been really really good. haven't seen any of the behavior you refer to. ever. now SORBS on the other hand... doesn't really exist anymore (fortunately) but spamhaus has been great.

especially when used as a filter in Postscreen.
Vacant properties have a lot of negative externalities -- higher safety risks, reduction in the quality of a neighborhood and in foot traffic (harming other businesses), higher incidences of squatting/homeless encampments, etc.

A vacancy tax is an attempt to correct for those externalities and encourage better behavior from landlords. This is a situation where just having something is noticeably better than nothing at all.
Pi-hole dashboard is quite useful to see what's being blocked and add new domains/lists easily. For example, I also add all facebook domains (https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...) and sometimes Hacker news when I want to be productive.
Personal finance is not corporate finance. You’re not worth north of 500 billion with probably millions of difference sources of revenue. (Billions since they’re clearly turning each user into revenue.)
I didn't even know those words were allowed to be together.
Strange how USDT only loses peg temporarily when the news broke. Why is everyone still holding USDT?
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tether
What's had he succeeded? Trump tower with Daddy's money. Yes.

But I'm not really sure what else. Renting out his name is actually based on the Trump Tower.

Replicating the same success with casinos and hotels was a stock market disaster.

Ps. Yes, he said everything went great to stock market analysts. But he still went broke 2 times shortly after.
It’s all good! To elaborate a bit, there’s a trait, Executor, that people can implement to build these kinds of things. This stuff, along with the final version of Futures, stabilized a few days ago. But it’s been baking a while.
The search function seems to be broken. I searched for instances of "Russian collusion" and waited for two years for the results and it came back with zero instances of Russian collusion found...
Ever since or most recently there is always market force to move it back to closer to peg
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tether
إفتتح خبيرالتجميل الفنان المتميز الاستاذ “أحمد ديلارا” مركزه الكبير في بغداد
> In other times, it was being an ordinary private citizen of the United States.

There was never such a time. Never, in the history of the United States, was it ever common for "ordinary private citizens" to speak their mind without fear of consequence. American culture, while giving lip-service to freedom of speech, has always punished those who venture to criticize the status quo.

>"Speaking your mind" isn't exactly the same thing as engaging in defamation.

Of course it is. If Elon Musk, or anyone, should be able to speak their mind without fear of consequence, that implies the freedom to defame people without fear of legal consequence.
The Use of assert() in SQLite
wikipedia disagrees with you:

"In Kubrick's opinion — as in the opinion of other readers, including the original American editor — the final chapter was unconvincing and inconsistent with the book."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(novel)
"Hating" is much too strong a word to describe the article—so much so that invoking it in a thread like this is a big upping of the flamewar ante. There's no need to do that, but it's hard to resist, when a topic stirs up powerful emotions. This creates a need for relief, and venting that energy in the form of extreme words is one way to get relief. Unfortunately, it doesn't relieve anything at a community level. It just tosses the hot potato around in a way that only makes the potato hotter and more painful to the one who catches it next. What provides relief at a community level is when people find ability in themselves to acknowledge truth in what the other is saying.

I would say there is more love in the article—consider the passages about the author's grandfather, whose humiliation she in a way dedicated her career to repairing—and later about her father. Note how she includes a moving (to me at least) moment of reconciliation at the end ("Her eyes were glassy as she said goodbye. Mine were, too, grateful for her vulnerability."). How easy it would have been to shame the woman who made the faux pas instead. Such moments of acknowledgment are hard to come by, and are worth emulating. This is not someone who's just out to hate.

> thinking things are far too intentional and getting angry/offended

A more charitable interpretation of the article is that a series of omissions can compound into a bias, even without deliberate attempts to exclude. That's interesting, and I'm a bit puzzled by the aversion in some commenters to look at it. Yes, angry accusations have been made and still get made, but that leads us to hear them also when they're not really there. We need the ability to notice when they're not really there, so as to respond in kind. That would be a de-escalating movement.

> the author makes multiple accusations of racism against companies, technicians etc

I'd urge you to read the article again and see whether those are really there, or if you haven't somehow filled those details in, perhaps because it felt that way while reading it. I just reread the whole thing myself, to see whether I had missed some accusation of racism against a company or a technician. I didn't find any. In fact, the second reading convinced me that the author must have taken great pains to restrain herself from doing that—since nothing would be easier for someone in her position to do.

The article does contain a lot of pain—the pain of being unseen, excluded. And she does do something difficult for the reader: she creates tension by never expressing the pain directly. It's there implicitly, which heightens the effect. That's a pretty effective device for making a point, and I wonder if that's really what people are reacting to: the discomfort we feel when something intense is present but not expressed. But there's also generosity in this. If someone holds back from expressing as much as they could, even when feelings are intense, it creates space for others to do the same. Those opportunities are worth noticing and acting on, because otherwise we all just repeat the cycle.
I rolled my own for my primary but I use Private Internet Access for the other. the price is right, they're trustworthy, and have been stable for me.
You could argue Musk wasn't really making a specific attack against the person related to any specific action/activity he did in his life (for example volunteer rescue work helping children) (AFAIK). It could easily be perceived as just a general insult Musk made in response to an attack.

In Texas, the standard is, "How would the statement be perceived by an average, reasonable person?" Could the statement be reasonably interpreted as a straight-up accusation of pedophilia? I don't think Musk is safe in any jurisdiction.

Which would be far easier for the 'victim' to disprove as a false statement

Not how it works. The plaintiff doesn't have to prove anything. The burden of proof is on the defendant (the one who said the thing) and being able to show the statement is true is an automatic defense.

The latter situation is usually how it'd have to work. Something concrete and specific.

For the particular insult/statement, it doesn't work that way. It's defamation per se. It's assumed to be damaging.

Otherwise it's perfectly legally to insult people on the Internet and hurt their feelings.

Defamation is one of the things you can't do.
Oh, good. Thanks for pointing that out. I used fastmail for many years and am glad to know that it ended up independent.
One of the first faculties to go is judgement. Those macho people who talk about toughing it out literally don’t know what they are talking about. You can’t self monitor when you’re loopy. And your recall of events is hampered too. The only measure you can count on is to look at the consequences after the fact, and there are a lot of fragile egos that can’t handle counting the cost of all their mistakes. If you won’t see them you can’t account for them in your mental math.

I’ve tried to borrow some ideas from protocols for hypoxia. By the time you’re loopy you should not be making any decisions.
79% of use cases not time sensitive – Results of Deep Learning survey 2019
I have everything set up correct and gmail even accepts 90% of my emails but every now and then it randomly marks one of my emails as spam. A gmail user emailed me first and I replied with a text email no links and that gets marked as spam.
I’ve seen the behavior mentioned (public outbursts, baseless allegations) from friends, family, coworkers, owners of companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and con men (literal confidence men).

Standards mean something until they don’t. People are fragile, and not always handled with care. If you’re surprised by these sorts of “deviations from the norm”, I assure you they exist and are more frequent than your social circle would lead you to believe.
> The government initially released the document in a PDF format which renders it like an image, impossible to search. When PDF files are uploaded to the Archive, we automatically run them through an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. This turns those images into text, making it much easier to move between sections and search for specific words or phrases. This allows journalists and the public to more easily parse through volumes of information contained within these massive documents.

Shouldn't an accessible, searchable and digital version of government documents be the default form in which they are released?

Why do citizens have to resort to the Internet Archive to see such a basic right fulfilled?

In my country this happens frequently, as well. Too often, documents that should be accessible and widely publicized are hidden somewhere on the internet with practically no incoming links and in a form which is the digital equivalent of a grainy fax.

Sometimes the intention of superficially fulfilling a transparency obligation, without actually communicating anything is palpable.
I've had many similar feelings and still struggle with this.

Look for objective feedback and praise you've received from other people. Most people give compliments when they mean it honestly. Depending on the situation, you can take people's word for it.

Think about how you've gotten better. Do you think back to anything you did in the past and feel like you'd do it better now? That means you've learned.

Things like that are not delusional and giving yourself credit for that is not bullshit.

I suspect with both of us that these feelings touch on something deeper that just reflecting on past progress may not fully address. I'm still struggling with it.

Have you seen a therapist before? These are the kinds of things they're good at dealing with.
The fact that you're being downvoted for stating the facts is a good indication of HN's groupthink.
Tesla Autopilot Thinks Everything Is a Minivan
Go ahead and villify the media for a situation the Americans have brought on themselves, just as the first civil war was self- inflicted.

You either believe and adhere to your founding principles or you don't. Are all people CREATED EQUAL or are they not? Does the bill of rights apply to everyone within the country or does it not?

If you want a country where oligarchs and tycoons get preferential treatment, look to emulate Russia. If you want a country dedicated to one race, one culture, and one party rule, you can emulate China.

Americans killed each other in vast numbers during the first civil war, to create a country that exported security and interstate integration to world (call it globalization). If you want to abandon that and let neo Nazis, flat earthers and anti-vaxers create a homeland then go for it.

Political chemo therapy is unpleasant, but each American gets to suffer a dose or two.
>Firstly, Gmail's success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem.

It absolutely does not. It is so large now that what the parent poster said is the real case. It has such dominance that people are pressured to switch to Gmail or Google apps to get stuff reliably delivered to the massive percentage of email users.

This is exactly like an IE6 PM coming on extolling the virtues of open standards and how they are critical to the success of internet explorer.

Seriously think about it (assuming you are even posting in good faith). If Gmail's success was "entirely predicated on the health", do you really think Postmaster tools and other interoperability efforts would have so little investment?
Denver is just a small minority of the US and we just can't please everyone.

(afaik in denver water boils at 95C)
> There’s easier ways to make money with the same skill set.

Yes but some people really love to nag.

I work in enterprise for similar reason, I really like sighing at things.
Show HN: Budgeting Software with Electron
It's a "desktop environment" for phones, or rather a phone environment. Most the work is done to package and deploy it as a UI to traditional Linux distros.
Elon Musk reaches settlement in SEC tweet battle
HN discussion really is useless these days.
Seems to overlap somewhat with smoking:
http://time.com/3832031/smoking-map/