skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really did enjoy this framing of Jack Dorsey as a foil for Elon Musk (I mean I didn't think of this prior to the article, but it was an entertaining comparison). I think for the spectacle of it all, Elon really does need some sort of rival that's not the SEC, but a man with a face and a name and a personality and to paint it as Jack Dorsey is just wonderfully entertaining as an idea, despite being from a practical standpoint pretty irrelevant.
Antidepressants undergo clinical trials and are prescribed by medical professionals. There is no glamour or publicity in that at all.

The comparison would be closer if you were talking about IG fitness influencers selling 'fit tea' and 'all-day energy BBCAs'.
> but boy they could have gone into Ads with a MASSIVE user base but they chose to limit Ads in the App Store

But they still with with Ads. And they've tried Ads in the past, with iAds. That they failed doesn't mean they didn't try, and doesn't mean they won't try again. Apple is all about advertising. Now, we can discuss how they handle privacy related to ads, but let's not pretend Apple is in no way a contributor to ad ecosystem.
Ah I understand what you're saying now. That makes sense.
Ask HN: How to find a buyer for my startup shares other than Sharespost?
Hi HN, I'm a former employee of a startup and have options that I want to exercise and sell.

I know about Sharespost and I'm considering contacting them but is there another option to find a buyer or are they really the only game in town?

Thanks
If I'm interpreting you correctly, you're making two points, and neither of them are entirely correct:

1) Microsoft had telemetry in Windows Phone.

2) The security/privacy mindset hasn't died alongside Windows Phone. I think it's actually gotten stronger,
GDPR has been the biggest forcing function.

[disclosure: MS employee, but my employer wants me to state that this is my opinion, not that of Microsoft]
That is simply a corollary of the fact that Pearson's r and regressions are usually linear/additive, and things like Meehl's demonstration wouldn't work if they weren't. You'd just calculate all the pairwise correlations and get nothing if they were solely totally nonlinear/interactions. (In which case you'd have a hard time proving they were related at all.)
what distros are supported?
The border patrol has had a checkpoint about 60 miles from the border since 1924 ( https://www.ocregister.com/2013/08/16/border-station-is-more... ,
https://goo.gl/maps/Zuv2utFVGVp1xazDA , although, technically, it’s close to the Western border).

I’m not saying that’s a good place for a border check station. I’ve always thought it was silly, but it’s been there for a while.
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They discontinued the Volt because they closed the only plant that built it (Lordstown). That also included the Cruze, the Impala, two Cadillacs, and a Buick.
Battle Creek, Michigan is to the cereal industry as Detroit is to cars. Both Post and Kellogg were started there.
Cereal was originally pitched as health food, something that was good for you.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/ct-trav-bat...
Not sure exactly, since I haven't used any of the dozens of similar efforts. It sounds like you're a lot more familiar with the area, so here's some resources:

* Bazel's FAQ: https://bazel.build/faq.html

* A description on how Blaze works: https://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/08/build-in-cloud-...

Unfortunately the design doc for Blaze is internal and AFAIK not available publicly. I imagine they took a look at a number of the similar efforts and made decisions based on what those approaches did wrong.
Or, accept in a greater sense. Like, "God is so great, he created all these planets, and the Garden of Eden is representative of that creation everywhere." That's what I would hope for, anyway. Certainly in the event that the aliens turn out to be ones that do sexual reproduction.
That's correct, ikeboy.

Also, when California imposed a state sales/use tax collection obligation (effective April 1) on out-of-state sellers with more than $100,000 in sales or at least 200 transactions in the state in the current or preceding calendar year, it also required in-state and out-of-state sellers to collect and remit district sales/use tax in any district where they surpassed the $100,000 sales/200 transactions threshold.

Here's the clincher that has created a real headache for a lot of sellers. The law that was enacted April 25 retroactively supersedes the previous April 1 rule. So, as of April 1, the transaction threshold is eliminated, and the sales threshold is now increased to $500,000.

The new law also eliminates the need to track sales in each district. And, starting October 1, 2019, it requires marketplace facilitators to collect sales/use tax on behalf of third-party sellers.

To be fair, the changes adopted by the legislature should make sales tax compliance a bit simpler for in-state and out-of-state sellers alike. While many businesses are undoubtedly pleased with the new policy, the fact that California adopted one set of rules/requirements as of April 1, changed them weeks later (as of April 25), and set more changes for the not-too-distant future is frustrating.
GCP may catch up on “features” but with Google’s horrible reputation for both poor customer support, and abandoning products, any decision maker should have second thoughts on choosing GCP over AWS or Azure.
Here I applaud Chevrolet for being ingenious. Tesla PR techniques literally cost people lifes.
Try outline.com? https://outline.com/LkwUvJ
how is the lobby of an office building "public space"? its private space owned by that company...
John Cleese, in his wonderful [lecture][1] on creativity:

> So, you’ve arranged to take no calls, you’ve closed your door, you’ve sat down somewhere comfortable, take a couple of deep breaths and if you’re anything like me, after you’ve pondered some problem that you want to turn into an opportunity for about 90 seconds, you find yourself thinking “Oh I forgot I’ve got to call Jim… oh, and I must tell Tina that I need the report on Wednesday and not Thursday which means I must move my lunch with Joe and Damn! I haven’t called St. Paul’s about getting Joe’s daughter an interview and I must pop out this afternoon to get Will’s birthday present and those plants need watering and none of my pencils are sharpened and Right! I’ve got too much to do, so I’m going to start by sorting out my paper clips and then I shall make 27 phone calls and I’ll do some thinking tomorrow when I’ve got everything out of the way.”

> Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

> And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do, than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

> So when I say create an oasis of quiet know that when you have, your mind will pretty soon start racing again. But you’re not going to take that very seriously, you just sit there (for a bit) tolerating the racing and the slight anxiety that comes with that, and after a time your mind will quiet down again.

> Now, because it takes some time for your mind to quiet down it’s absolutely no use arranging a “space/time oasis” lasting 30 minutes, because just as you’re getting quieter and getting into the open mode you have to stop and that is very deeply frustrating. So you must allow yourself a good chunk of time. I’d suggest about an hour and a half. Then after you’ve gotten to the open mode, you’ll have about an hour left for something to happen, if you’re lucky.

> But don’t put a whole morning aside. My experience is that after about an hour-and-a-half you need a break. So it’s far better to do an hour-and-a-half now and then an hour-and-a-half next Thursday and maybe an hour-and-a-half the week after that, than to fix one four-and-a-half hour session now.

By the way, today is the 500th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest human beings in history at doing a lot by spending time ”doing nothing”, i.e., observing, drawing, and thinking: [Leonardo da vinci][2]! Have not seen a Google Doodle, or anything on Apple’s homepage, marking the occasion, which makes me think we need more creative people in charge in the world, to counter-balance the business suits.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Pb5oIIPO62g?t=977

[2]: https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/leonardo-da-vinci-500-...
I dunno that it's a counterpoint. The thesis of the article is that setting up a user onboarding flow before you're ready is a waste of time, and/or that it's not as useful an activity as others you could be doing with that same time.

I'd consider Polar a success of "adding onboarding when ready." I just don't want people to consider onboarding as the first and only tool to reach for when trying to fix your Trial-to-Paid Conversion issues. There are a lot of other useful tasks you could - and frequently should - be working on as well.
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Housing trickles down to an extent, for lack of a better term.

Luxury condos lose their luster, and then become just regular condos. Regulars become cheap. It's effectively entropy. Also, people that can afford to live in a luxury home, don't want to live in a meh, or even crappy home. Yet, if they can't get a luxury home, they settle the meh one. Since they can pay luxury prices, the meh one becomes more expensive, and the less well off get frozen out, because they can't compete.

If you build at the high end, or more accurately "market rate", not only can developers recoup the cost of construction, but you're also taking pressure off the meh and crappy houses, because the people that can afford luxury prices, take the nice home. Also, those currently live in what was considered "nice", upgrade to the new luxury home, because they're now in downscale, thus freeing that house and and lower the prices.

https://ggwash.org/view/68496/why-are-developers-only-buildi...
> He didn't invent keto, cold showers, intermittent fasting, or meditation.

This is the best one-line summary of current buzzwords ever :)))
I actually just read The Road to Wellville for the first time a couple weeks ago, and was struck by how much it reminded me of the modern-day startup scene. A profusion of tiny health-food companies, all making extravagant claims and so desperate to raise money that they hawk shares to travelers getting off at the train station. All these companies crowding into tiny Battle Creek, not so much because there was any practical reason for them to be there as because Battle Creek is where health-food companies are supposed to be. A "move fast and break things" attitude that leads to patients getting killed by such "treatments" as bathing in pools of electrified water and prolonged exposure to radium.

The book was written a quarter of a century ago, so it's not like this is a parallel T.C. Boyle explicitly set out to draw. It's just striking how these patterns seem to repeat themselves.
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Hey now, dont knock it till you try it. the article talks about college drop-outs, not highschool flunkies, and i think theres a real point to be made here.

College isnt for everyone, but parents push super hard to get their kids there and I dont know why. I went to a 2 year trade school for diesel engine repair. It was affordable and I could pay my way through with a job at a local pizza chain. Try finding a 4 year college you can afford with that pay-grade.

living in a big city isnt for everyone. I did a stint in Brooklyn once, learning to service buses and garbage trucks. The pay is good but the pace is sometimes insane because thats the pace of the city you live in. Theres a lot of pressure to deliver it right the first time, and i dont regret learning that work ethic, but I didnt find home in that city.

What i can say for the trade i have is that its rewarding and sometimes pays close to cut-rate lawyer money. I dont worry about bills and ive got plenty of cash to hit the pub once a week to see the game. The world needs electricians, plumbers, and even mechanics to keep running. Check out the hourly base pay of most of these trades and try to imagine pulling a little overtime, which is usually part of the trade in salary jobs as well im told. HVAC is also a great trade with endless advancement and opportunity.
Tim hasn't made enough money or amassed enough power to be on the NYT scale of comparison. He's similar in terms of insanity but more niche in his influence. Similar to Joe Rogan (though less entertaining by an order of magnitude, at least imho).
Many IT departments are desperately trying to get away from managing their own Exchange server.
> I simply do not believe this.

If you're not willing to put even that must trust in your various cloud providers, you aren't the target market. Surely you aren't sharing this information with Google already, right? So the feature isn't for you.
It would have been fairer to let the users decide how many days precisely they want to keep history, and let everyone find their sweet spots.

And, sure, it's deleted from Google. Is it also deleted from ads networks after Google shared the data with them? I doubt about it.
Same reason billionaires buy supercars and register them in Montana to save a few bucks on taxes, because it's so unfair that the government wants a large chunk of their reg fees for a car they drive so rarely, but the rest of us with far less money play by the rules.
Videos aren't here, but the text and most images are: https://web.archive.org/web/20190502180114/https://www.cinci...
I've also come to the same conclusion. Many people, if they are not attached to a traditional religion, will similarly attach to something else. The human mind may have a god-shaped or religion-shaped hole in it.
> It seems like the clear workaround is to ask travelers if this is the case, and to ask for their passwords to any popular sites that provide this service. A clean laptop desktop is suspicious on its own.

So someone wanting to hide something will simply create false 'clean' accounts they can provide access to, while keeping the stuff they want hidden, hidden. Meanwhile, innocent people are getting their security compromised and privacy violated.

Even worse, the authorities could claim the sites they did provide passwords to are 'too clean' and thus they must be hiding something and hold them ... until they give up passwords to accounts that may not even exist?

When I was in public school, the school blocked several popular sites from the school network. As an unintended result, it provided me a great education about DNS, forward and reverse proxy servers, VPNs, and related tech as I figured out the dozens of ways to work around the blocks. Think the same thing wouldn't happen here?

All you're left with is catching only the stupidest criminals, violating the privacy of innocent people, more than likely finding a bunch of false positives of whatever you're looking for, and at the same time forcing the actual criminals to become smarter about their opsec (making it harder to catch them -- in general, not just at the border) and still not catching them.
> From October 2017 to February 2018, there was a 315 percent increase in the number of cases of adults with minors fraudulently posing as “family units” to gain entry.
Your scenario means you have to sue Google and win, as well as prove damages. That has historically just not worked. When Snapchat was shown to be collecting location data after explicitly promising not to, for example, they just got a slap on the wrist.

I'm taking about a system that would let companies voluntarily increase their legal exposure to specific claims as a proof of commitment. That would allow companies to pick a level of privacy protection they wanted to offer, and market to customers based on that commitment, in an enforceable and credible way.
> So you have to build new baseload capacity, usually gas.

Since when was natural gas ever good for base load? It's almost always used peak load because it spins up quickly.
You are confusing right to work with at will employment.
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Fair point! But imagine the reaction if Dorsey was stocking Twitter lunch rooms with anti-depressant pez dispensers. There's a difference between personal choice and advocacy.
Fasting, cold showers, and meditation? Can't read the full article but remember another article painting Dorsey as "extreme".

But to be honest, it's a reasonable reaction to stimuli that are unique to human history. The 24 hour propoganda news cycle, density with increased stressors, cognitive fragmentatiom due to the number of distractions, and an absolutely horrible dietary culture that will lead us to squandering trillions on treating entirely preventable diseases. Not merely monetarily but literally reducing the cognitive potential of entire populations!

I don't see the quackery in adopting working strategies against these challenges. Note, working strategies. Personally implementing the above 3 along with with weightlifting has been like feeling a cold mountain breeze after living in a swamp.

Nietzsche's remarks, on how the priests of the world have ignored and (gravely) trivialized
the 3 things that give arise to daily moral/cognitive judgement: Climate, Diet, and Habit, have been in my mind years after reading them. And their validity seems to flower the more experience life throws.
I'd need to see some rigorous comparisons to other professions to conclude it's "so common".

The mere act of naming an "engineer's syndrome" could arise from the fact it's peculiarly remarkable against type, or satisfying to resentful observers - rather than actually common. And, once named, such a designation would tend to collect confirmation-bias-feeding anecdotal examples.

I've encountered cranks from every walk of life. I see more engineer cranks, too, but that's simply because professionally, I interact with more engineers than, say, hairstylists or bricklayers or actresses. And have you ever let a taxi/uber driver just expound on their confidently-expressed theories-of-the-world?
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As a person with ~intermediate knowledge of Nix/NixOS and only knowing Guix from a distance yet:

- I don't see a word about GuixSD there - what's the status of this? Is it also 1.0 now?

- (How) can I pin my whole config to a particular commit of the package set/channel, and only update gradually? I'm kinda having trouble finding out how to do this in NixOS

- Can I package non-libre software for Guix? Are there third-party non-libre package sets/channels? I know GNU proper doesn't want me to do this, and I'm sympathetic, but not ready for the jump. What's the situation for me in practice?

- Can I replace kernel with L4Linux? I tried to do that in NixOS but gave up because of complexity.

- Does GNU mirror/archive all package sources used by Guix somewhere? If github is sunset by MS, can I still build an OS from a 2018 snapshot?

- What's the multi-user story? In Nix it's complicated.

- Does Guix have something like Nix's home-manager?

TIA!
I would definitely consider having your braking/acceleration/navigation/security upgraded without a visit to a service center a feature.
I think every country offers an immigration program of some kind. To get super pedantic you can show up in Svalbard and live there forever with no immigration process - you just get off the plane and tell the Norwegian governor you live there now. So there is always somewhere you can go. I think the travel costs are the smallest part of immigrating somewhere new (especially since most immigration programs are employment sponsored). That’s not to understate the scope of what you’re doing, it’s a big decision, though it definitely is an option. I guess I’m saying “yes and no.”
Allowing yourself to take advantage of the fact that you don't have eye-wateringly high, ivy league levels of student debt, and therefore can offer better cost efficiency is a BIG advantage. If you ALSO have massive debt and require massive pay, without a degree, well, yeah, you're screwed both ways. Same solution though: work extra hard.
Oh man. They say there are two things you can't discuss over beers, but it's three.

Politics, religion, and whether their house is an investment.

People get pissed at you if you tell them that having all of their money in their house is a bad investment. You'd get less aggression telling your friend you think their wife is cheating on them.

If you are in a lower income bracket than what we used to call middle class (before being middle class meant "up to your eyeballs in credit card debt"), it's likely that the majority of your net worth is the equity the house. That's bad. And that doesn't mean "take out a second mortgage and start playing the stock market", that means you have more house than you can afford long term.

The people for whom it works as an investment are diversified. If less than 30% of your money is in your house you are probably doing it right. If it's 75% and you also don't have a retirement fund, well you're subsidizing those of us who are both more fortunate and better at math.
I mean, the BMW plant near here has fires about once a year two, if the last couple of years is a baseline. I'm not convinced that you are proving anything.
for me I don't think it's really enjoyable, but in my weird mind having that block of time "scheduled" for jogging+gardening makes me more motivated towards keeping my schedule the rest of the day (I'm self employed, so have to really keep after myself)
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Hydropower has environmental issues and the number of places with sufficient hydraulic head and no dam there already is not all that large.
Idk, I have found the best programmers all love to code. Unless you are a prodigy talent, you are going to have to program a lot on your own to be able to even be good enough to land and keep a job at a good company.
Who says that warp drive even requires most of the things in our tech tree? I'm reminded of Turtledove's "The Road Not Taken" here: https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
I'm not sure legally that would work all that well. I think it is unlikely they'd ask for every account. I'm sure someone has asked for passwords, but legally I don't see that working long term / it being a serious hassle.

If the thing simply isn't there on the device, generally speaking as far as a typical border search goes I think legally it ends there.

Otherwise your workaround would work for ... everything as it is now, but that's not how they operate at scale.
As Twitter’s head, he spends his days navigating issues around free speech for white supremacists, online abuse and the spread of terrorist propaganda

The phrasing seems designed to imply that Free Speech is only for bad people and terrorist propaganda.

The reason why Free Speech is a fundamental human right, is that it keeps powerful people and authorities from squashing dissent. We can't just have "Free Speech, so long as we like it and the speaker," precisely because biased parties can then smear their opponents to squash their speech. (Witness the behavior of the SPLC of recent years. Witness the false smearing of Ben Shapiro as a "white supremacist.")

This does mean that we need to let bad people speak as well. No one can be allowed to arbitrate Free Speech. Not only the government, but also powerful people, press conglomerates, and private organizations.

This is precisely why the ACLU in the 20th century often defended the right of (the same) bad people to speak. Because what must be defended is the right of everyone to speak.
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