skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the cost of labor stays the same while productivity increases due to technological advances (e.g. moving from an in-house server farm to the cloud), profit increases.
I want to work better for my own pride, not to make my employer happy. I want to do better work because it makes me feel good at the end of the day, not because it adds to someone else’s bottom line; that it does so is a happy side-effect.

That said, if you’re working for “an employer” and you don’t give a shit about them or the job, you should find something else to do. You seem happy enough to take their money?
One option would be to add your most important stuff to the Operations Dashboard, since the button for it is always shown up top. You can also set it as your home page (Settings - Preferences - Default dashboard)
They may be "fine" without you, but every person that gets turned away means a higher salary they have to pay the next person or an increased wait time for the next candidate. Small costs can accumulate.
Mongo and Elastic built all of their technology on top of open source tech. Elasticsearch is built on Lucene. Its written in Java, and I'd bet a penny that they're not paying Oracle for that. Let's just take a quick look at Mongo and Oh look at that they're using dozens of open source libraries, such as zstandard [1]

When its convenient for these companies, they're more than happy to release expensive, closed source addons to their "open source core". When its convenient for them, they'll point a finger at Amazon and say "look at how evil they are, they took all the hard work we put into this and want to sell it" (simultaneously, the hundreds of unpaid community contributors in the audience look perturbed, raise their hands to complain, and are immediately shushed, "just ignore them")

"Open Core" companies like Docker, Mongo, or Elastic want to have it both ways; they want the moral high-ground that comes with accepting free contributions from the community, alongside executive power when it comes to deciding what will and wont be open source and who can and cannot use it for what purposes. You shouldn't have it both ways. That doesn't mean you can't build a successful "open core" company (all three of these companies are successful), but lets drop the act of granting them moral superiority. The only reason they exist is because of the exact same licenses and policies which enabled Amazon to do this.

[1] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/tree/master/src/third_party...
Curiosity does not provide funding in the quantities needed. Nor does it allocate resources towards maximizing the benefit to the maximum number of people.
Angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings
Easy guess, everybody's is a bounded context.

But if you want a closer analogy, I don't like being taxed for roads that wash away and need rebuilding every year, or every rainstorm.

It happens that I do live off such a road, and am.
A few years ago I implemented a vaguely similar image compression algorithm just for kicks. I basically did a separate binary space partition for each color channel of the image, with the splitting points determined by minimizing an error function. It was extremely simple to implement and worked pretty well, except it represented big curves with little compression.

The fun part was when I dropped the error minimization in the partition choice function and set it to choose them randomly:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMr5LaMUQAA2h2E?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMr4Vc4U8AAOlyn?format=jpg&name=...
A question that needs no answer
> We may not, as a society, be currently equipped with a business model to support that, but we should.

There are many newsletters that are thriving. I can only point to Steel on Steel as the one paid bit of content I subscribe to, but I think there are many like it.
Corporate debt is fundamentally just a piece of capital structure and tax arbitrage. It's not really something that is that concerning.

Fundamentally, the overall value of a company is independent of how it is financed. You can sell some standard bonds, issue some of those senior to other ones, issue common and/or preferred stock, convertible bonds, whatever. End of the day there's assets and expected cash flows, and all the various tranches add up to the whole thing.

So, why do companies like debt instead of equity? It has advantageous treatment in the tax code. If your company is financed entirely by equity and it earns $100M in profits, you get taxed on the full $100M. If you sell bonds that pay out $20M in interest each year, your taxable profits are now $80M instead of $100M.

The people buying these corporate bonds are all fully aware that they behave like equity. Capital structure arbitrage firms will actually hedge their long or short corporate bond positions by taking offsetting equity positions - buy the bond, short the stock, and collect the excess yield. So it's not really any sort of moral thing with having lots of corporate debt out there, mostly just an anomaly in how claims on corporate assets are divvied up in order to end up paying less in taxes.
My mum used to make her own. She said her mum used to cook with lard and food just didn’t taste as good with alternatives. She also felt it was healthier to use animal fat than chemicals.

Now I see signs for “no pork, no lard, no msg” and it makes me sad. All the best things and I can’t have any of it :(
Hey ! It's me the reporter of this issue xD
Dowgrading the version on my system was the solution, but, it can't be a definitive solution.
The tech is nice and all but there is only so much market penetration to be done in the luxury car segment. I would put the Model 3 in the luxury segment as well since you can get a base BMW 3 series for almost the same money ($40k).

People that can afford luxury cars and aren't "in tune" with tech are likely looking at other brands too like Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, etc. If you think about it further, some of those brands have a following because they are fun cars to drive. Drive being the keyword there, BMW comes to mind. If those people don't care about autonomous driving and really like the brand they have, what would get them to switch?

In my opinion, they need to punch much lower than $35k for a lowest option. Ditch the auto-driving, sensors, etc. and come out with a base $25K four door sedan, nicely appointed but not luxury, that has the range of a model 3 (220 miles).

I took a quick glance at Consumer Reports car reviews for giggles. I would just dismiss them straight from that since I don't want higher chances of maintenance costs long term.

The issues they have are with the market, not the tech.

And if there are talking points about forgetting the cost of gas and oil changes, etc. when comparing costs ... how many consumers keep detailed track of those expenses to know what the monthly cost is over 5 years of payments to understand if a Tesla is actually cheaper?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8317359
The US sees shifts in geographic mobility patterns among its highly-educated
Just ask Trendon Shavers, Charlie Shrem, or Ross Ulbricht.
Minor correction: they only raided $700m from Tether reserves, as part of covering the loss of $850m in Bitfinex funds.
KaiOS is based on Android..
To me, the most salient and remarkable aspect of this story is the upheaval among the rest of the team. I’ve found, in leading my own company, that the right decisions are typically met with comprehension and sometimes even relief. If you understand that CEOs are the last to know about problems, especially problems of culture, this makes intuitive sense. You, the CEO, sees something going sideways, you react, and the rest of the company is like, it’s about time you dealt with that!

But this sounds like the opposite problem, where the team doesn’t know that the managers have an issue. Such an incident would alarm me greatly, since I generally consider my team to be something of a Greek chorus, mourning my decisions before I even make them.
I just looked this up. According to Wikipedia, Gates called MITS and offered to demonstrate an implementation of Altair BASIC in roughly 8 weeks. He used those 8 weeks to implement it. So I was wrong - he didn't license it, but merely scheduled a demo, before it existed.
Hmm, an alternative but still with all the Google tracking. What's the point? I'll stick with Sailfish OS or Librem once it's out.
Some fall into the category, but quite a few are low skill immigrants that simply did not have opportunity for higher education.
> "the hardest working CEO in Silicon Valley, bar none."

i'm sorry but she was early stage at Google, what since then has all that hard work gotten her?
And rubber.

_The Thief at the end of the World_, the story of "bio-pirate" Henry Wickham, who smuggled rubber seeds out of Brazil in the 1870s, is a great read.[0]

[0]-https://www.amazon.com/Thief-End-World-Rubber-Empire/dp/0670...
One answer is soap. Maybe a decade or two ago, it was possible to buy bars of "soap" that were made from detergent rather than actual soap. A useful advantage was that it didn't produce soap scum in areas with hard water. Zest advertised this: "You're not really clean, till you're Zest-fully clean."

Today, the same brands all list lard and tallow in their ingredients, and the detergent is gone. I'm betting that lard and tallow are cheaper. I use detergent based liquid body wash for this reason, since we have hard water.

Animal fats and soaps are still used in some industrial processes as lubricants, because they're non toxic and cheap. An example is some kinds of sheet metal forming and drawing.

But I doubt those uses can consume the entire production of lard and tallow, which must be quite a lot.
I think that’s actually a stereotype about the Irish, at least in the US.
Tether’s worthless if it’s not worth a dollar. You’ll either get 100% or 0%.
No - I am arguing that the only way not to have selection bias is by doing a randomized survey - it is the very definition of selection bias. If andbberger wishes to make a nice, nuanced argument, I encourage him/her to do so. However, if instead (s)he wishes to provide two word answers, (s)he should expect push back.

Furthermore, I highly doubt andbberger has done a randomized study, and thus the accusation of selection bias applies equally to him/her. Saying things like "perhaps you should talk to more poor people" is simply dismissive, and unjustifiably assumes that someone who is disagreeing with him/her hasn't talked to enough poor people or that the other person suffers from selection bias, and not him/herself.

Look at the whole thread: andbberger's comments are short, lacking any citations, sarcastic, accusatory ("middlebrow dismissal", not talking to poor people, talking to the wrong poor people).

Contrast with HN guidelines:

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

(Two word responses don't help).

>Assume good faith.

(Implying people of being ignorant of the conditions of the poor doesn't help).

>Please don't post shallow dismissals

("Selection bias")

So no, I'm not commenting here to argue whether the conditions of the poor constitutes a sky falling. I'm commenting to counter low quality statements.
As opposed to rehosting (stealing?) the picture from its original source? It is after all an embedded instagram post of the Official Ministry of antiquities in Egypt showing a shot from inside the site.
I learned as a young sailor that if you always had a broom in your hand, nobody would find something for you to do.
It wouldn't make sense for them to open source Windows Phone, too much of it is in common with components of Windows they don't want to open source. Windows 10 Mobile was a significant upgrade from WP8 in nearly every way, and it would make zero sense to use 8 over 10.

What's really cool is the work a few people have done getting full Windows on ARM loaded onto phones.
On being a risk-averse entrepreneur
Lard is also key to Mexican cuisine. Everything is cooked with a little lard.
Turn them all into Starbucks, but with EV charging stations.
To repeat the other reply:

The primary suspicion about tether was lack of solvency, and the [edit: CFTC] subpoena went out in late 2017. It would not have taken more than some weeks to determine if the assets were not present.

It's pretty hard to imagine the AG sat on tether insolvency for 18 months.
Tesla Raises the Bar for Self-Driving Carmakers – Nvidia
I've found this diagram to be extremely helpful for thinking about why/why not to use blockchain: https://i.redd.it/uu0qg8t28tq11.png (p.42 https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf)

One problem is blockchain is good for identity but not so much access/authentication.
Ditto “I was wrong”
My family always had a jar of bacon grease in the fridge when I was growing up. It was great for eggs.
I have the same situation, technically I write well, but I lack the skill, like experienced writers, my texts are dry and not always interesting written. Now I read the book Jurassic Park, author Michael Crichton, I like the book more than the film. I want to write a review about the book and its differences from the film, I will use the help of writers from the service https://edusson.com/write-my-thesis.
But do people expect the apps to look the same? I think people want them to behave the same with a few visual features kept intact.

To take Discord as an example, I don't know that people actually can't live without the UI slavishly copied for every platform; I think people rather want light and dark themes on all platforms, message formatting to look basically the same, and for everything to be found in roughly the same place.

This idea that users expect apps to look the same is, I feel sure, something someone said and everybody has gone along with. In my experience, people want things to behave consistently — so if Discord had a native Windows client and a native macOS client, people would be more interested in whether or not they could still find the little microphone and headphone buttons at the lower-left of the screen, sod if the icons and colours are identical.
> And even if they do spend 75 hours at their workplace, they're probably spending far less than 40 actually working.

Interesting, in Europe the hours are less but you are expected to work every minute you are there. In America you are expected to physically stay longer but being on FB/Reddit is no big deal.

Sounds like a bad way of doing things.
GWT lasted 11 years.
Depending on the other options your candidate has, you could be filtering out the best candidates. You could also ruin the company's reputation.

I've seen close friends have all-day interviews, or require spec work (requiring higher end hardware and a couple days of dedicated work) as part of the interview process. Peers blow off those companies or knock them down a tier when seeking work.

Just having an all-day interview can make scheduling way more difficult, delaying it until that other job with a 2-hour interview has happened and moved onto negotiating benefits.
I prefer to direct my thoughts towards the project as a whole and not fixed on any particular person or persons within the project. I have a very limited view of the project, certainly not enough to question anyone's motives specifically.
You could say:

"It is a funnel, you look at the stages, and at the end there is a great engineer that is usually working for a long period for the company.

Each level has expenses and conversions. Go an optimize keeping in mind the constraints."

But what I noticed is that is all about your company specifics and how you overcome the trade off...

For example the average new startup in unsexy industry has problems to get any body in the funnel. Getting somebody that know how to write some code can be a challenge... interview is more about persuading them to accept the job.

Great "sexy" companies have ton of people applying and would do everything they ask them to do. The problem for the company is to efficiently select those people.

When you have enough candidates, somebody may think: "We can save time and make accurate evaluations by giving a screening test offline to evaluate most of the relevant skills of the person!". Unfortunately the test takes on average 10 hours to finish.

Result: mediocre candidates desperate for a job try so hard to get everything done, but the great engineer has plenty of options and does not want to spend 10h on a test. In the end all great people that you would like to hire quit in the process.
Isn't this the same exchange that got hacked, and socialized the losses throughout their customer accounts? They've been shady on many fronts for a long time.
Hmm, I always take the fat straight out of the fridge and cut it with a knife so my fingers don't warm it too much. I'm certain I didn't over-work it. If anything, maybe I should have worked it a bit longer to give it some structure.
"Its" here is Turris. Accurate, see Project Turris, by NIC.CZ:

https://project.turris.cz/en/
How come this is (such) a dealbreaker for you?
It's based on B2G/Firefox OS.
It was like a spread - i could scoop it up with a spoon, rather than having to slice it.

I haven't had a chance to try to Ukrainian style solid fat!
Those guys actually are regulated. The axe falling on them was inevitable, it's just taken a long time.
Indeed, the difference between sounding good and being good means that although I’m an optimist on the timescales and benefits, I wouldn’t want to be in or near a vehicle which was only self-driving 99.9% of the time, as that’s not self driving for roughly one second every 20 minutes.

I’d consider occasional use of taxis with two more nines, but I’d really want three or four more nines.
Then we probably agree more than disagree in this regard.

What I do know as someone with degrees in mathematics and physics and several years in the USAF, is that some very smart people that I have personally spoken with have seen artificial objects in the sky that move in ways that they cannot explain nor do they have imaginative basis on which to speculate about such performances.
Toyota Prius do not exist in Western Europe outside Uber. They are synonymous with Uber driver and rarely ever bought for private use.
The other interesting speculation with Bitfinex is they may have used Tether money to manipulate the Bitcoin price. I wonder if we will get more info there.
They hire you for whatever they hire you for. If you're hourly, sure what you said applies. Otherwise, no, they bought your brain.

The game theory is to find the people who believe this, and to get rid of people who don't.
How porky is homemade lard? One challenge I heard of for lard crusts for pie is that sweet pies don’t do well with a strong savory pork flavor. (They recommended leaf lard, which is made from specific pork fat and pretty tricky to find).
Just go a step further and claim that US interference in other countries' sovereignity, and acting as world police caused God knows how many deaths and leave it at that.
Aiva is way better than this honestly, and I mean the pure AI part of it, that (AIUI) only really generates monotimbral, piano-like music (the orchestration in the full pieces they release was - by their own admission - done by humans, last I looked into it). You can actually tell that Aiva involves real serendipitous ("out-of-sample") creativity of the sort that AIs (and good human composers!) are best at. (But the openly-available models I mentioned elsewhere in the thread are still a bit better, TBH. At least IMHO, and when it comes to rewarding active listening.)
Context for those not in the know: the Belgians excel at fries (pomme-frites/frites) in a way that other nations can't even imagine. If you find yourself in Belgium, you should get some frites. If you're there in mussel season, get a moules-frites.

My favorite joke about Belgium is that the world's largest friterie/frituur is on the border between Holland and France.
I've been looking a fair bit into these embedded checkout things recently and I gotta say that braintree is far-far inferior to Stripe in terms of offerings, usability, API, etc.

There's things one would consider no-brainers for this type of service like discount codes with an expiry date and maximum number of uses that Braintree doesn't offer but their saving grace is PayPal support that, for better or for worse, is a must for most businesses.

The end result is that a dev needs to create a custom checkout UI integrating both services and having their customers split among the two ecosystems which is just gross :).
>In practice you don't kick the ball at players in football (soccer)

Yes you do, just not intentionally. It is common for a player to shoot near the goal line in two ways: excellent placement with just the required strength, or a powerful shot.
Wait... but bonds these days are usually issued to fund stock buybacks, which inflates the stock price. Why would you short the stock in that case?
Don't confuse Open Source with Free Software. Open Source is a necessary but not sufficient part of Free Software.

RMS/FSF goal is to protect the rights of end users. Not developers. That's the difference between copyleft and permissive licenses. Commons Clause is neither, and it seems focused on the wrong thing. The problem isn't charging for software; the problem is charging and preventing others from redistribution and access to source code.

As for losing interest in maintaining software, I don't see how Commons Clause helps.
Radio frequency transmitter based on a laser frequency comb
It's worth the market's perception of what the holders will get after a prolonged bankruptcy process.
And yet tether is still hovering near $1...
Stepping Away from Sass
This is disingenuous. Yes elastic cloned an open source project and improved it in some measure but also made the access free for a decent chunk of the features. Most of what is under the paid license in the elastic stack has less to do with lucene itself and more to do with quality of life improvements in deployment, security, analysis etc. There are enough improvements over and above the lucene project to make elastic worthwhile in itself.

OTOH, AWS pretty much xeroxed the elastic stack and added a paywall (at least after a year). Compared to that you still get immense value out of the elastic stack for free.
My Spirit Animal
Personally, I tend to do most of my shopping at a regional bulk/budget chain. For produce, I tend to hit up the farmer's market and the neighborhood grocery store (I buy produce on an as-needed basis rather than as part of my scheduled shopping).

Whole Foods is too expensive and unpleasant, Walmart is too unpleasant, and Trader Joe's is too variable in terms of quality -- some of their stuff is great, some of it is awful, and it's hard to tell which by looking.
Matrox cards were awesome. With the right Trinitron monitor you could have 2048x1536 resolution @85Hz refresh rate. there would be no jitter or color irregularites to worry about. just pixels displayed as specified, no fuss, no muss.

If you could source the adapter cables and play with modelines deeper, a Matrox card could drive nearly any CRT you cared to hook up.
Let's not think of it as a bubble. Let's think of it as Wyle E Coyote running off a cliff and forgetting to look down, because that seems to be the modus operandi of the average HODL.
> Perhaps we should be concerned about the impact of these technologies on our evolution as a species.

Tinder is already breeding humans in a sense.
Ahh so maybe it's because the packet, once out of the VPN and heading to it's destination, is (normally - it is 2019 after all!) TLS encrypted so you can't just modify the payload like I said. Fair enough.