skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guys, you shouldn't be all disappointed like this. In specific words and knowledge only 10% of proper fiscal payment is received, This is practical knowledge, There are objectives to achieve, in every autarchy. Not surprised at all. At Least the house of the richest person is more beautiful than the government buildings in most countries. And the funny thing is that we find the opposite on communist countries, im not defending then, it still exists a bad organization for fiscal revenue, but there is more on autarchy's world than media shows up, they have to pay procedures, it is not just the house you know, there is a yard, a pool and the neighborhood
No, I'm not a capitalist. Just because I was born in this system doesn't make me a willing participant.

Thanks for playing though.
Ancient ideas:

“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” - Socrates

“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection.” - Plato
I think historical accounting practices and standards are not great at evaluating SaaS businesses.

We came up with the concept of depreciation/amortization as a way to better match up expenses with revenues in a given time frame.

I think we need a similar mechanism for allocating sales & marketing costs.

My company spends about $1,000/year on Slack. We likely will in perpetuity, as long as we/Slack exists.

Slack spent marketing/CAC dollars on us all the way back in 2014 to acquire our LTV stream of cash flows.

If you "depreciated" Slack's sales and marketing costs ($104M, $140M, $223M) over the LTV of the average customer, they would show massive profitability already, and even greater profitability in the future.

We do this already with depreciation - why not with sales and marketing for recurring revenue software companies?
Not sure if you saw this, but :

https://qz.com/1605167/amazon-to-make-free-one-day-shipping-...
What boggles the mind is that they've a very string disincentive to fix it: I had to move away from my privately run email to Gmail for that very reason, and I'd gather I'm far from being alone.
Google? Any large organization. I help a small non-profit run their site in my free time, and Google's actually been the nicest about our oldschool forwarders and Mailman lists. Despite being on no public blacklists, AT&T domains drop us at the border, with the only appeal process being via email, and I've never heard back. AOL and Yahoo? Flip a coin.

Of course, email forwarding turns out to suck, but we're just going to suck it up and move to G Suite for organizational email addresses and let folks forward from there. E-lists, OTOH, I haven't found a good integration to automate membership in the organization vs. G-Suite; perhaps it's time to just move to a forum.
Because this had become a semi-regular occurrence, and apart from three occasions out of some forty episodes, I managed myself back to a functional state. Hospitalisation is an absolute pain in the ass, means no sleep, no rest, and even more time lost.

I also greatly lost faith in the medical establishment - they failed to diagnose me, and carried out an unnecessary surgery which made matters worse.

I spent years excluding things from my lifestyle and diet to figure out what was making me ill to no avail.

I finally left my business, as I was getting to the point that I was in a perpetual cycle of being ill and frantically catching up, which was immensely stressful over the last five years or so of my tenure there, and about six months later, the vomiting stopped. It’s now been years.

I never took chronic stress seriously - now I do. It nearly killed me.
I have been thinking a bit about the anti-competitive effects of Google's behavior in the email space. It is something I'd like to research further. One interesting part of the research would be looking at email provider market share over time (or even just a current snapshot).

Does anyone have suggestions on how to go about this? My first thought was to use a password breach like Collection #1 to get a distribution of domains used, then query each domain to see which provider they are using or if they are self hosted. But I would certainly appreciate other suggestions!
I wouldn't be too surprised if they open sourced the new Edge at some point though, since it's a fork of Chromium anyways. In which having the capability to build it built into Visual Studio would make a lot of sense.
Mark Riptoe's video CD's for starting strength are excellent, show you the best form for lifting, taking account of your posture etc
I thought the point of SSL was that a MITM couldn’t decrypt it? Unless they have the private key(s). (Or the ability to substitute their own keys, but that seems to get noticed fairly quickly and the relevant certificate authority gets rapidly shunned).
Judging by what ends up in my gmail, very few people "can deliver to gmail" in any kind of reliable fashion. It depends entirely on how messed up the spam filtering is for individual accounts. The only reason I'm still on Gmail is that it's so entrenched in my life that tidying things up to move is a massive pain and will take a long time (and no, forwarding is not a reliable solution; my experience is that even forwarding from one gmail account to another will invariably cause some mail to go the spam folder of the account you forward from - yes there are options that are meant to prevent this; no they don't work reliably, and haven't in the years I've been using it, so it means one more place to check mail).
I don't disagree with you and I trust you to make the distinction between the two things. However, I don't trust lawmakers/police/military to have the same sense of nuance.
The group doesn't claim to speak for the part’s electorate. It claims to speak for a particular ideological faction, toward which it also claims the party electorate has moved since the last election, so that a candidate representing the faction that was uncontroversially still dominant in 2016 is now out of line with the dominant view in the party.

Nate seems to be implicitly arguing out that that claim would not have been inaccurate if made in 2016 (and further that the claim that may have been implied but was not made that the same faction is positioned for success in the general election should it succeed in the party nominating contests would also.have been untrue if made in 2016.) But that is silly, since it's a claim about how the 2020 landscape is difft than 2016.

Or, maybe Nate is conflating endorsements with predictions rather than advocacy, and trying to argue that the rate of success of the groups endorsements is somehow indicative of the reliability of their descriptive statements.

Or maybe Nate, who aside from running a prediction site is also an activist aligned with the faction being criticized against the one doing the criticism, is not posing a rational argument at all, just trying to provoke an emotional response by posting something that vaguely insinuates that the criticizers are wrong in some way.
Thank you @andybak, you made my day. Truly admirable document! This is the highest concentration of BS I have ever seen. I have to check who was the VP Marketing and CEO of Pepsi were at the time. They deserve a place in history for having bought that pipedream.
Google has become pure evil. Avoid Android. Don’t use Chrome, G-mail or Google maps, or their search. Block Google analytics and alikes.
It’s a crypto exchange. The bar for it actually being stolen by a third party is high. Usually it’s just an exit scam, or they gambled with customer money.
Purely empirical... just figuring out what I did last day/evening, and then noticed how sleep is affected in certain patterns.
No don't worry, I didn't take it personally. I appreciated your effort. It was useful for me. It was the harshest feedback I've gotten so far but I'm fine with that. I totally understand that these things are not for everyone. Thanks again. Kelvin
better than I could do. I can't make hide nor hair of it.
I literally stalled on the first sentence where he asserts without any rationale that an OS written in Lisp "would be a good thing in itself".

WHY

WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK THIS MATTERS
And people in charge believe that kind of shit.
I've been unable to find an open source multiuser local photo product. I'd love for my whole family to upload cell phone photos and SD cards to a central place we could share and tag from, without it belonging to Google.
Exercise your right to remain silent and don’t answer. No answer, no lie.
Well now I feel stupid. We use Slack at work, but it's not our official communication channel. I've never needed to block or mute individuals. I didn't know that it couldn't be done.
Not saying it was proportionate but we had colonies for infectious back then. Of course we were also idiots who used it mostly for Hansen's disease instead of far more virulent diseases like Smallpox because lepers were way more marginalizable as opposed to something which can infect anyone. Although stubborn cases like Typhoid Mary also got the same treatment.
I have only ever worked for people that take this attitude, and now that I lead my own team, I am sure to make this clear to them too.
I used to work for a business that sold a software platform to both government buyers and large private companies, and we saw absolutely no difference in inefficiency, waste, and fiefdom-building.

Those things are all absolutely a matter of organizational size, almost to the exclusion of everything else (including public/private distinctions).

Some of our most frustrating clients were the massive private sector companies that would kick around a proposal for six months, call meeting after meeting, and deal with an ever-changing cast of stakeholders who needed to sign off on this round.

At least in government there was less flux in who we dealt with over time.
Funnily enough in order to get a green card you need to present proof of comprehensive vaccination. This is only done almost at the end of the process, at which point you would have been in the US for years.
It's not as difficult as you've been lead to believe. But if you have no experience with administering servers, the initial learning curve could be significant.

The upsides, sharing many of the common features of all self-hosting, are things such as pure and total control, data privacy, ultimate flexibility of configuration (e.g., infinite and unfettered aliasing), customization of interface, high-performance, etc.
Node.js Memoisation Package
Hm, I may lack the proper knowledge. Why do I need redundant infrastructure? Why can’t I have instances in the cheapest region (300 ms delay is not going to kill anyone in a chat app), and if an instance fails, bring up a new instance, and if the region fails, bring up instances in another region. I don’t see why there should be redundant, idle instances running. Maybe duplicate the database / make it highly available.

I also don’t understand how duplicated infrastructure makes it super speedy for end users when they are from around the world. Yes, they could connect to regional instances, but then the regional instances must synchronize with the other regional instances on the other side of the planet, which gains nothing.
Can you suggest free email provider with similar level of service which allows to use your own domain?
This does not contextualize anything in any way. He is selectively picking data to form a narrative. I dont think you are objective at all so I will stop trying to convince you but lastly think about this:

Why doesnt Nate reply to Neera Tanden, CAP or Nancy Pelosi with “stats” on medicare for all support which is polling at 72%?
What specifically will make the market crash?
That makes sense actually.
And with all this corporate shills chant that "Hosting your own things is easier than ever before".
> is there a reason why the Big Bang couldn't have happened uniformly in the dimension-3 hyperplane

It's a really good question. I think it has to do with how space expanded after the big bang (which is to me still a mysterious subject).

To avoid confusion, let me call "time" the arrow of time as perceived from within a system, and "TIME" the coordinate axis of spacetime that has the opposite sign from the other three.

The early days of the universe were full of heat and radiation everywhere throughout space, which seems like a high entropy scenario for sure. But entropy was able to increase as the universe cooled because space itself expanded adiabatically (and so the configuration space became larger).

In other words, we end up with an entropy gradient that points along the TIME axis because the volume of space expands along that axis. Like space-time is shaped like a pyramid rather than a cube, with the pointy axis in the TIME direction.

I don't know enough general relativity to say for sure, but I expect that that pyramid shape (expanding towards later times) is probably a consequence of TIME behaving differently than other spatial dimensions. If spacetime shrank volumetrically toward the galactic north, in a fairly uniform way throughout all times and throughout the universe, then we'd have a different conclusion. (This might seem like the case near a black hole).

I guess another thing to remember is that TIME and space really are different things. For example, conservation of angular momentum means the universe has constant angular momentum at all times, but not necessarily in all directions of space.
What the Supreme Court is doing behind closed doors
My experience is that most people in business are 1) terrible at constructing trials, tests, or experiments, of any sort whatsoever, 2) terrible at interpreting the results of same, and 3) have a very limited tolerance for discussion of how bad they are at it and why their various tests are meaningless, no matter how gently it's presented.

I've not seen a place where this isn't broadly true, no matter where the business folks come from (top-tier B-school analysts, Bob's discount MBA emporium, doesn't matter) or how good the reputation of the firm they're at. This also extends to management and administration in the public sector—schools are rife with obvious pseudo-science bullshit, bad attempts to replicate results while skipping half the measures that were taken, et c., but dumb-ass superintendents (you would not believe it, seriously, "dumb-ass" was not chosen lightly) and principals eat it up.

[EDIT] which is to say I'm not at all surprised design "science" is full of BS, because it's sold to people who almost all suck at evaluating those kinds of things. Any "science" that largely exists to sell stuff to middle- and upper-management or "stakeholders" probably tends to be awful, because it doesn't need to be good.
Archive link in case you have hit Medium’s paywall for the month: https://web.archive.org/web/20190426144613/https://medium.co...
I think so. I get worried I ask too many questions some time (newest hire of a small team of vets) but we have a lot of good conversations and learn from one another, aside from friendly chats and making one another laugh from time to time.

Humor is always good, really it just comes down to recognizing your surroundings and acting accordingly.
Company costs are revenues to someone else (even payroll is then spent on goods & services). Revenue will double count. Also I just did a very quick number lookup without pretending for scientific correctness, just became curious after reading the parent comment.

GDP is C + I + G + NX. In MSFT 10-K R&D are after the gross profit, so I is there. C attributable to MSFT is sales less costs to avoid double counting. G are taxes which are also there. We should also add D&A and Capex normally as a part of I, but for software companies it's mainly R&D that is allowed to be recognized as cost (which gives huge tax benefits and should stimulate R&D activity, in theory).
Starting Strength is good but IMO the best way to start is to book some sessions with a trainer and go and actually lift some heavy things. In my experience it is very helpful to have someone knowledgeable help you with your form early on and it also gives you someone to spot you and to push you.
I fairly regularly get e-mail sent from gmail users in my gmail spam folder.
Q1 Earnings Amazon Is a Beast
Might depend on your definition of "intelligent" though. I've met quite a few, too, including friends and relatives. Sure, they better than average programmers, but general intelligence seems to be the same as in your general college educated population. Otherwise we'd be arguing that Damore (or, say, Altheide, if one has ideological preference for one or the other) are also "very intelligent".
Its not just police being able to force to unlock your device. The idea of possession alone for security authentication is generally very problematic. Its only introduced out of convenience, which is generally not a good sign when it comes to security. Opsec unfortunately is and remains rather difficult.
Does it matter what time of the day you sleep or just how many hours?
Can you provide examples? The only example of a 'scientific' study I am aware of is the disgraced Wakefield stuff which has been disproven so many times it isn't even funny. That's before you add in the malpractice that happened and the conflict of interest he held.
What Happens When Judges Police Themselves in Secret? Not Much
"Social inclusion is the most productive means of social control."

Excellent quote. There's a lot of truth here. Social exclusion is at the heart of a lot of behavioural pathologies.
For the same reason "all the best schools are small" but aren't really [1]. It's the "Law of small numbers" that is: scale-dependency of variance. It's much easier to get an large variance if you sample in small sets.

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09/th...
This is surprisingly neat. It sounds like anyone who has a GoDaddy domain can presumably use DDNS for free with this?

It's a little ironic, I probably just moved the domains I'd most likely use this with off GoDaddy a week ago. Might have to move one or two back.

The list of providers at domainconnect.org already on board is pretty solid too.
Gerry Adams didn't have the voice I'd expected after all those years. I had in my head more of an Irish Joe Pasquale.

It was pretty disappointing.
PepsiCo offers to settle with Indian farmers it sued over potatoes
I don’t know your use case but my team of 20 moved from Slack to Teams and has been very very happy with it.

Video chats and screen sharing are better (Screenhero is all that was around on Slack and it stunk). Video recordings save right to OneDrive for important meetings...

Oh and if you use Office 365 it’s a no brainer, everything is integrated!
I would agree. Teams is pretty half baked. It sort of works but the main reason for using it as that it’s cheap if you have office 365 already.
I don't mean to be a killjoy but both these quotes are obviously fake for anyone familiar with Plato. (The concept of god was not used like this in Ancient Greece and Socrates didn't talk like that.)
It's a gamble: stay with Slack and potentially be forced into an "Our Incredible Journey" migration in the future, or migrate now and shamble along until 40+ year old and profitable enterprise juggernaut Microsoft figures out how to make their product work right. Neither option is great.
And this is news worthy, how?
So much so that I made this for fun a few months ago :)

https://www.ideasarecheap.net
FBI Director on China IP Theft Threat
Council on Foreign Relations discussion w/DIRFBI Christopher Wray

https://www.cfr.org/event/conversation-christopher-wray-0

Director Wray: Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up to the economic ladder, at our expense. And, the U.S. is by no means their only target. They’re strategic in their approach, and they actually have a formal plan to achieve dominance in critical areas.

https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1121756067980087296

See entire thread & article

Specifically targeting not only industry but also academia & research
Prior art: http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/large106661.html
It seems that we have wildly different definitions of what pejorative means. I am describing my experiences, their actions, and my wishes. I’m not labeling them as a person or describing them in intrinsic ways. If saying “you did X to me” or “I don’t want Y” is pejorative I’m not really sure what to tell you.

If I’d said “you’re an X person” or “you’re Y”, I would understand. But I didn’t do that.

I would also like to point out that my complaint about them interpreting my words in bad faith, a pejorative according to you, was exactly what they were doing in that comment, as they literally made up a weak argument on my behalf and then shot it down. (I also must complain about the FUD bit, which I’d argue is similar to calling me a shill).

Next time I’ll just flag and move on I guess, but I genuinely do not understand what you’re on about here.
It is possible to pay a lot of money for branding - it’s a huge part of company’s image and it may be worth it. Chermayeff & Geismer, Pentagram, Interbrand, etc. can deliver exceptional value for $$$ spent.

But man, this Pepsi logo presentation reeks of ill-informed executives drinking the branding coolaid to fix the company image. There cannot be any other explanation. This logo was presented to executives at Pepsi Co and was approved by them. How did they not realize the amount of bullshit in that presentation, it’s truly perplexing.
Typography often takes into consideration the width of the text explicitly and how it influences the style and tone of the document. While I don't imagine that everyone is doing this, it is a thing. The nearest analog I think of is maintaining the aspect ratio of an image. You might still understand the piece of media if it's not in its original format, but that was not the intent.
Wouldn't this need to be listed on the disallow on the robots.txt if they didnt want them to index the page?
Hi I exist
Mixing personas is always challenging. See also people who want to be both entertainers and journalists depending upon what suits them at a given moment. Of course, there's no reason someone can't be both a pundit and a data scientist but one casts suspicions of lack of objectivity (which, of course, never totally exists in real life) on the other.
It's optional for all team members after around a year in, when they are familiar enough with the systems. The reason it is optional is that not everbody is able to do it - due to family, health etc.

There is additional pay for on call, based on numbers of days served. It does not matter if there were alerts or not - this is especially important: we don't get paid for work but availability. This incentives to harden systems and adjust monitoring well.

We also rotate regularly.

Each alert is followed up with incident report. If there was a lot of work, manager would give extra time off.

Hope it helps :)
Yeah they do, of course they do. They are in business to make money, after all.

The real story is the absolute travesty of government corruption that TurboTax and HR Block have perpetrated by making it illegal for the government to make tax filing as easy as it should be. It's one of the things I would immediately correct if I was king for a day.