skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really weird takeaway from what I said, which is that it's a lot easier to assign value to what Lebron James does.

A team gives him a specific amount of money to perform a very specific task, which is 'perform on a basketball court'. The team paying him believes that his performance will draw in fans and money to outweigh what they're paying him.

Netflix didn't pay Adam Sandler for 'thought leadership'. They paid him to deliver a certain number of films, which they know that they can extract a certain amount of value from.

The only way to measure executive leadership is the impact they've had on a company's valuation, and that impact cannot be as clearly tied to a single person as Lebron James' performance on the court, or Adam Sandler's (admittedly surprising given how bad his last several movies have been) star power.
Ripple was never implemented.
> Nevertheless, Iger couldn't sell this much stock without either being accused of insider trading (since such a large sale would surely manipulate the stock price), and the SECs regulations on insider trading are very strict (they prosecute based on the appearance of insider trading).

Lol, this is bullshit and pretending you know what you're talking about does a disservice to this conversation. You'd know this was bullshit if you did even a basic search, which would have alerted you to the fact that Iger has sold more than this in stock before.

Disney's market cap is gigantic, this would be a blip in the daily trade volume. He just has to schedule the sale and it's no problem.
So a really really good book in starting in this area is Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin Pearce
I'm surprised that nobody included "clicking on the url bar in order to modify it" as a mitigation.
To anyone who upvoted this: can you explain what you found interesting about it? I read the entire thing and found it to be rather rambling with no clear point. I’m trying to keep an open mind though, so I’m interested to hear some context or another view that might make it more clear.
Playing Beat Saber on Expert+ seems to be more effective than meditation and therapy combined. It really unlodges various memories that I can then process, if I take mindful approach to it. Getting better access to my emotions and what's really bothering me, not being able to run away from them, or wanting to.

The point is, I will always have some problems, but with exercising for 2 hours, they will become to surface where I can emotionally access them.

Jogging works too, but I find Beat Saber is more fun and I have much easier time keeping a regular schedule.
You can work for yourself. Make and sell your own software/saas products. I pay myself well, and have a six figure number of users/customers, but have never spoken to any of them in person or on the phone. I do answer emails but that could be outsourced if you really want zero human interaction.
I assumed that too until I read this slightly grouchy but very interesting thread: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/issues/1515
Related recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19744513
Using Firefox for android: if I open the page and scroll down, the address bar becomes invisible and the hsbc bar shows up. If I keep scrolling down, I just see hsbc. The moment I scroll up, the original address bar is shown, and even if I keep scrolling down, the bar does not disappear.

Edit: it's happening kind of randomly. 1 time it happens, 3 times it doesn't...
I'm sure many games can get away very well with an immediate mode GUI. I think the question is not can you, but rather should you. My last project used a custom immediate-mode GUI. At the absolute pinnacle of optimization, it was pushing 2,000+ FPS on my machine with something like 3-4k vertices, with heavy texture mapping and anti-aliasing. But the problem was that even with peak optimization, the CPU was spending 15-20% of its time every frame recreating the UI's vertex buffer. Now imagine if we had done a retained-mode GUI instead. That 15-20% overhead would be reduced to near 0% on a typical frame. For nearly any type of game, that kind of savings is really significant. Think of how many more vertices your artists can add, or cool gameplay elements you can add that you didn't have the CPU time available before, and how much better it will run on lower-end hardware.

Why settle for "good-enough" performance?
By the way, what if a new form corporation could be introduced (not to replace the classic but as an alternative): a democratic corporation governed by all the people who work there the same way democracies work. So every employee would vote to elect the board members or the CEO. Could it be viable?
Your assumption is that the management was good despite their failures. It's quite possible that they simply didn't perform well or make great decisions, despite their reputations.
The standard (but rather heavy and difficult) is

Abraham, Marsden: Foundations of Mechanics

More gentle is

Vladimir Arnold: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
Many countries have successfully enforced laws against libel and slander without infringing on people's ability to espouse genuinely held beliefs, and challenge popular persons/organizations. I fail to see why this is any different.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and following them when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On the allocation point, the efficient way to handle this is to use a per-frame memory pool. Because nothing in the IMGUI can persist between frames, you can allocate a single arena of memory for any UI elements that need to store bounding boxes or callbacks or whatever. Each frame just reset your next_ptr to the start of the arena. Technically you are allocating memory, but in practice your allocations are free.
If I see any resume with RSI on it, here's how I read it:

* I think less than 1% of the high school students in this country (the US) are aware of summer programs such as RSI. Knowing about RSI, let alone being selected into it, is a strong signal that in your pre-college years you were very invested in math and STEM.

* even if you don't have a very prestigious college degree is not a negative signal anymore from my point of view. At 17-18 we are all very fragile beings (and we keep being fragile until at least 25), so lots of things could explain why you didn't get into a top university. I would inquire about that, but I would expect to hear some reasonable explanation (and I wouldn't mind if you simply told me it's personal and you don't feel comfortable going into those details).

* I would ask you if you participated in any math or CS competitions in high school/ college.

From here, lots of ways to have a pleasant chat for about 30 minutes.
If you can figure out a way to run arbitrary commands, I’d suggest looking at swift -frontend, which works like you’d expect a normal compiler to.
Yeah, I don't mean to question him having had it miserable.
ever is a long time. I mean, given "ever", I could build 10nm chips.
> doesn't seem to out of whack for it.

And that is part of the problem. Somehow this has become ok, but workers unable to live on a single wage is not.
>If Verisign were to charge him $10 million per year to renew the tucows.com domain name despite "the bile that would rise" in his stomach he would likely pay that renewal fee because it is only through Verisign that he can obtain the tucows.com domain name and because the domain name is that vital to his business.

Would it be in the company's interest to sue ICANN at that point?
In principle, it's not a mitigation - I was just too lazy to forge an interactive URL bar! You could make one which acts just like the Chrome URL bar, but e.g. acts as a MITM.
From what I can see, it's only for setting up a VPN provider, nothing else like Tor etc. (that may attract unwanted attention). It supports IKEv2 which isn't blocked by a lot of firewalls and supports far more VPS providers than Streisand.
> What people forget in the debate over public company 'CEOs' is that, when the price of disney shares goes up from $24 to $135, that is millions upon millions of peoples retirements that are that much more secure.

I would happily accept that argument if we were talking about other sectors of the economy. Copyright trolling and rent-seeking in general, however, are not value-creating activities; on the contrary, they actively destroy value and wealth. For each person whose retirement has been "made more secure" by such a business, many more have been made substantially worse off.
I think Audible works though because of the monthly subscription and the fact people get credits a month in exchange for a book. This credit is purchased at a lot lower cost than paying for the book outright. But it's sold on the basis that people will stay subscribed and thus end up with books they wouldn't of otherwise bought as they are looking for something to spend their credit on this month.

A different model than someone actually knowing the author, waiting for the release and then buying it directly from them. It's essentially free money for author/publisher so they are all rushing to the platform.
I know the exact feeling. I am almost sure that I am depressed as of the last 2 months.

I have written less than a page of code (last sem in uni) but have the IDEE open in front of me 24/7. Stopped working out, stopped developing my hobbies. For context, I used to be a proper high functioning extrovert and juggled full grad level course-load with good grades through 2017 and 2018. have even landed my dream job starting in July.

It is frustrating to see people tell me to just get on with it. I am fully motivated to do the tasks that are piling on, but the absolute sense of mental inertia is something no one understands. I have blocked websites. Avoided "time wasting events" and stayed up at night hoping to do something. But, it has failed literally every time.

I am slowly inching towards a solution, and it has to do with making the task more mentally accessible.

Instead of working out at the gym, I do pullups on my door frame every-time I stand up from my laptop. I try to walk to the campus whenever needed instead of taking public transport to catch some sun and get some exercise. Instead of going to the gym, I follow the feet of my friend who is also going to the gym, just so I reach there first. (not even lying)

Making the task a series of small and achievable smaller tasks seems to have been the best approach so far. It's not perfect, but I am getting there.

I am however, sure about what my 'depression' (not diagnosed, so can't be too sure) is based in. My friends have all graduated and I have no peer group left. My relationship with my project guide is purely professional, and I feel like an imposter to ask him questions about simple things when I get stuck. Lastly, I am stuck in the project in a spot where the problem can't be broken down into a series of small steps.

I have seen plenty of others stuck in such a situation during their time in grad school. In almost all cases, external support is what works best. A new group of friends you can rely on. A gym buddy who will pull you to the gym. A mentor who is willing to go beyond call of duty to walk you through the block.

At this point, I can't wait to graduate and move to the new town, where I have established friends and get a breath of fresh air. Hopefully, that change will be sufficient.
Technically you can download audible .aa files and convert them to whatever format you want, default ffmpeg can handle the conversion.
I bet CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, modems, DRAM, flash, optane-like things will all end up on the same die eventually.

Granted some processes are better at making some types of devices ... but maybe we'll see more one-size-fits all type chips in the future.

Now that I write this it seems like we are already most of the way there.
you are making a good point imo. strange to me to read that audiobooks cost so much more than printed books. about the same amount of work goes into both. and i don't think people buy audiobooks because their favorite actor is narrating it. if they do then yes, they should be charged a lot. i also think maybe text to speech software makers need to get into that business. will drive the cost down a little.
They were also _way_ more expensive.

We used Kiss for a while, but Mixpanel was free for the same volume and just as good if not better.
highly resource constrained, real time, bare metal (or micro kernel) embedded programmers tend to think what they do as "embedded programming". There's a certain element of truth to it if you make the distinction between "embedded system" and "embedded programming". "Embedded programming" loosely groups a bunch of techniques for dealing with real time, bare metal, resource constrained devices. But there is no real formal distinction between those things.
Only if you use conversion within the language: void *p=0;

If you said memset(&p, 0, sizeof(p)) then that's not guaranteed to work on all implementations.
Brain Drain Across the United States
Sure, it's due in 2021 now. At this point, Intel's 10nm has been two years away for about 5 years.
I’m still wondering whether gallium chips will ever make sense as replacement for silicon in cpus.
I haven't tried it, but it should be doable. A lot of linux-based rust libs wrap C libs and link to them, or compile their own embedded version during build. Same thing here too, though there could be some problems regarding what C compiler is used and where it expects to find its libs.
It isn't hand-wavy. However, it is problematic when people propose solutions to fundamental design issues, without knowing the threat model.

In the link that was posted, a pollution of a distributed root zone will vitiate the entire Internet's DNS. That is the vulnerability, and there are many attacks that will achieve that for the link that was posted.
Libby has a "clunky weird interface"? It's different, but it works really well. I think it's fantastic, and it's certainly better than the old Overdrive app.

As for a limited selection, that depends entirely on how many licences your library buys. My local library has a very good selection. Alas, it also has a lot of users, so some of the more popular books will have long hold lines.
It's encouraging to see that the community has done a pretty good job of substantive discussion here, given the flamebaity and ragebaity title.

A more interesting article about Abigail Disney came out a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19524325
Poor Android users .. no blue bubbles and now this!
> She also has a net worth reported to be in the $500 million range.

Not sure what she is complaining about.
At that point I’d expect more like a shared bus with speeds similar to ram and large motherboards. But I don’t know how feasible that is.
They were certainly promoting that concept in 2012, and for years after that. Remember, everyone was going to be able to release their own promises on it... so you could have a Euro backed promise from X which you could swap on chain against some USD backed promise from Y? And XRP was supposed to be just the fee currency to pay for it?

Am I wrong here?

Did Ripple predate Bitcoin?
I love this way of getting data out of dbs. Before the json functions existed, I was doing a similar thing with the SQL/XML functions on both Postgres and Oracle (which had practically the same set of functions thanks to the SQL/XML ISO standard). Single round trips to grab all the data needed is awesome.
No. It’s not the crux. It’s still Apple’s app store, GP should have asked “So you want Apple to sell spyware in their store?”
Or look at how the "rating" for C dipped precipitiously, then climbed back up, between 2016 and 2018. There wasn't a sudden shift in the popularity of the language over those two years -- that's the source data being unreliable.
If you removed the CEO (and any leadership), would there be any success to give credit for?
> “We’re black and white because the news is black and white — what is there to color?” Mr. Blachman said.

This sounds like a very poetic and simultaneously very New York thing to say. I don't know Mr. Blachman but I like him already. I know everyone on a first-name basis but he sounds like the kind of person you'd strictly refer to as "Mr. Blachman."

This makes me wonder if other cities have this kind of thing or if it's unique to NYC?
I'm an admin on the Clojurians Slack workspace where we have about 15,000 members, of whom about 1,400 or so are considered "active" for Slack's purpose -- which is still an unaffordable amount for an open source community. Over the years since we created the Clojurians Slack, we've tried to create communities on a broad range of alternatives. None of the others have gained traction, unfortunately. I think Zulip is probably the best alternative and it offers a free option for open source projects with full history/searching, and that's probably been the most successful alternative so far. Clojure's community on IRC was in the hundreds. Slack very quickly became thousands. It surprised us. The fact that none of the alternatives have grown has also surprised us but people go where people go.
Counterpoints: Michael Jordan in basketball: without him millions wouldn’t watch the NBA, Gatorade and Nike wouldn’t have become the cultural juggernauts they are today...for all that he was only paid ~1 Billion. Tiger Woods in golf. Steph Curry made the sleepy warriors worth over 2 billion resulting in a 1.6 billion net worth increase for the owners. He has only recieved, for his efforts, maybe 100 million. Roger Goodell, as much as I hate him, has managed to screw over the working class nfl players with a settlement bordering on criminal, but the owners of NFL teams love him for it, they’ve all gotten billions of dollars more richer, and for all this Goodell has only been paid around 300 million.
Company strategy and focus matters. And CEOs have outsized powers in deciding that. The rest of the company 1) either executes the strategy 2) proposes new strategies - some of which bubbles upto CEO for their review/approvals and 3) are G&A (HR/FInance etc.).
Looks like the "never redisplay the true url bar" trick didn't work for me on my mobile Chrome.

https://imgur.com/a/Pjybovf
Not sure what device you have, but Rattlesnake OS [0] might be suitable. You can also build LineageOS for many devices and forgo installing Google Apps Framework.

0. https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack
I wonder if that game exists for MacOS? Probably not.
Probably not. With technologies like React that make retained-mode UIs look more like immediate-mode ones, there is less need for full blown immediate-mode UIs. React achieves the programmability of an immediate-mode UI without sacrificing the performance of a retained-mode UI (at least, that’s the goal).
And some of that "methodology" is seriously suspect.

> Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings.

Bing and Yahoo! are both front ends to the same search engine. Wikipedia, Amazon, and YouTube aren't general-purpose search engines at all, and it's unclear how accurate the results of a Baidu search would be for English-language search terms like "Javascript programming".
Why has this been posted 8 times?
>It seems likely that, in the next 50 years, instead of actually curing cancer, we will just get really really good at early detection and prevention.

You got it _very_ right.

Many years ago on youtube I heard a non-main stream cancer doc who said that, the battle against cancer has been stagnant in 40 years ( so 50 years sounds about right). Main stream medicine does lot of massaging of numbers/statistics to give the impression that we are making progress on cancer. To add to the illusion that there is progress, early detection means a person diagnosed with cancer is likely to survive well past the 5 years mark. The 5 years mark is one of the parameters that is used to define the cancer 'cure rate'.
Since Iger took over as CEO in 2005, Disney has outpaced the growth of the S&P 500 by 6x (not adjusting for dividends). In aggregate, this higher growth rate is responsible for >$150B of market cap.

It certainly wasn't just Iger's decisions that led to this growth, but it isn't much of a stretch for investors to believe his decisions were responsible for at least a small portion of that. Iger's $60M equity grant dilutes shareholders by roughly 0.02%. If the only thing Iger did was make decisions that resulted in Disney being 0.03% more valuable than they otherwise would've been, then Disney investors got a great deal.

The existence of $12/hr jobs at Disney is a totally legitimate concern, but I believe that's a separate issue.
Now I understand the reason behind why Kissmetrics died: egoism and not listening to customers. It is the same way this article is written with such a headline.
This is largely obviated by most corporations having multiple classes of shares. However corporations ARE democracies. The citizens are the shareholders and our ministers/government officials are the board of directors. Our civil servants are the employees (including executive employees)
The article indicates it's not supposed to. It's a quick and dirty proof of concept, working in one environment (Android/Chrome), with a screenshotted fake header. Just enough to prove the point.
Microsoft Has the Answer for the Future of Journalism – Microsoft News
> Options are nice, but they are not cash and do not belong in the same conversation as salary.

Also, options are usually tied to continued employment. If you leave the company, you will need to exercise your options within a certain amount of time (often, 3 months). This can easily be an outlay of (tens of) thousands of dollars. It depends on the number of options and the exercise price, which is set at time of the option grant based on the then-current 409b valuation of company shares.

So at that point you are left with a choice: spend a lot of money to exercise your options and buy a bunch of illiquid common stock, which may or may not be worth something someday. Or, just walk away from the options then and there.
Putting it here because it isn't well known and bit me once.

NOTIFY payloads are deduped over the course of a transaction, with a O(n^2) algorithm if all payloads are different.

If you do a NOTIFY on delete or update and hit a few million rows, the query can go from seconds to hours.

The solution would be to write your payloads to a temp table and send them in batch when the transaction ends. Notifying in chunks of 100 will make the process 10'000 faster.
If Airbnb is so popular it demonstrates either there is a significant demand for travel lodging that is not being met, or significant inefficiencies in the traditional hotel market that is making Airbnb so much more competitive. Probably a bit of both, but maybe more of the latter.

In theory, hotels should have a significant advantage over Airbnb. They can leverage economies of scale and are usually located in more tourist oriented areas of the city. I think the issue was that sort of like taxis hotels operated in a closed market and were competing against other hotels - sure motels existed but they were on the total other end of the cost-quality spectrum. They invested in fancy bars, and other stuff most people don't care about.

Then, Airbnb comes along and now you could pay a fraction of the cost of a hotel and have much better lodgings. It's worth scrutiny to see what percentage of Airbnb listings are operated full time vs. actually operating them in a sharing-econony fashion. But at a fundamental level, if Airbnb is growing so much we also need to examine why standard hotels aren't working.
Generic retained mode is dead, but creating a scene graph driven by something other than imperative updates (eg constraint satisfaction via a physics engine) is alive and well. The problem is that you can’t overlay the former very well in the latter, so things like OGL retained mode are never used anymore.