skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might also be that maybe he can be selective with the type of companies he funds. Ones that may not be "moon shot" ideas or require an upheaval of an industry. 99/100 companies who think they will unicorn, will not.

He's just choosing not to head for those avenues of founders.
>Management where I work attempts to pressurize people and I just laugh. Yes, the "hustle" culture is right--so your boss's boss's boss can make $20M last year while you have to cut coupons.

yep, that's what happens when incentives are extremely mis-aligned. you know very well that you probably won't get paid more if you're more productive. and management knows that they'll always get paid more if you're more productive.

but they still refuse to bridge the gap and make it so you get paid more if you are more productive because it would mean a smaller payout for themselves in the short term.

of course, this severely limits their ability to earn in the long term due to the massive gap between potential productivity (with genuine incentivization by sharing of revenues earned by additional productivity) and the actual productivity of their employees, but i haven't met a single C-suite person who understands the concept.
> There is no incentive for being a pioneer in a culture where IP is not protected.

And yet mobile payments are integrated into Chinese e-commerce with the frictionlessness that Apple Pay and the others can only dream of.

Who defines what "pioneer" is? Is SV not "pioneering" because the vast majority of its companies are trying to be Salesforce and not Uber?
> not to mention that it would take years to find just one real German friend for normal social interactions

That's factually false and incompatible with your previous statement.

> could spend every month at a different place around the world
1. Either Tesla drivers are 4x safer than the average driver or their stats aren't comparable

Most car accidents happen to drivers that are very young/inexperienced or very old, two groups very unlikely to own a Tesla. People in the 40-55 age range, which is the 'safest' age range, are probably greatly over-represented among Tesla drivers so just that fact probably makes Tesla drivers 'safer' than average. It would be interesting to compare Tesla, not to all cars, but to 'equivalent' cars.
This is the right ruling. These guys are the biggest IP bullies out there in tech. Their entire business model depends on it.
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Yes, a loose connection but as China does treat them as if they are IP and with as much (if not more so) control - I include them. For example - if a country was to clone Panda's without China's consent, the level of outrage and response would be very comparable had some high-level IP had been stolen.

But as an isolated example - I'll agree it is a weak one, but worth including for how it is treated as IP by the country.
In America when people cannot cope with something that alters their worldview they simply call it racist so they don't have to deal with thinking about it further.
The smallest pulley on the bottom betrays how it is done.

The rope is a line along the side closest to the pulley, the other side of it // the wire pattern are made by attaching triangle(-ish?) shapes to it. Only the bend at the smallest pulley is so tight it shows.
> I'm going to risk being labeled an ~incompetent dev~

Why is that?

I thought your comment made a lot of sense.
I am so glad several other commenters here have pointed out that boy's guides were fairly common and this is a cute reference to that genre of book. There were girl's guides too. It is not the least bit offensive nor meant to cause offense.
>What you are saying is government should direct resources to every research

Yea, this sounds like an awesome idea. Let's do it.
Let me read this article before I work on my work. I think procrastination has always been associated with anxiety and fatigue. Besides the normal state that many people need more sleep, there is the problem of intellectual fatigue, which I have always felt I suffered from. Programming requires bringing your focus to that small screen in front of you and shutting out the awareness of the world, at least for me. And that is tiring.
Limited risk in that for the short there is potential for an unlimited loss (-infinity), while for the put option the maximum loss is the premium (-100%).

But the option strategy is much riskier as a loss of -100% is significantly more likely under the put option than the short due to implied leverage, time value decay, etc.
I can choose either Ryanair, EasyJet, Norwegian, BA or SAS to fly direct to London. Just clicking around FlightConnections [1], about half of routes to 1500-2000km-away Europe have more than one airline. For example, two airlines fly to Stuttgart and Zürich, but one each to Basel and Luxembourg.

Of course, if you live near a smaller airport there's less choice -- but you are probably more used to connecting flights in that case.

[1] https://www.flightconnections.com/
Depends on what you want from your desktop:

There's a number of people who can't stand KDE because of lack of consistency in padding etc (I have to take their word for it because I cannot see such things).

Often such people seem to enjoy using Macs and I defend that choice.

Personally I prefer Linux or even Windows to Macs because of (drumroll) consistency.

I want my keyboard to look mostly the same year in and year out. I want the layout to be roughly similar either I sit on my laptop keyboard or an external keyboard. I want modifier keys to work the same between apps. As a heavy multitasker I want my alt-tab to work the way it used when I learned it.

As for why KDE/Linux instead of Windows I just really like it for some reason. On top of that I prefer the Linux ecosystem, the reduced build times I get when I compile, the snappier git etc etc.
what is hustle porn ?
Has little chance of success outside of China UNLESS it's open source and the appstore and update infrastructure is outside of China for non-Chinese customers.
>My first thought was that kids are spending more time on schooling and homework, and less on creative play and unsupervised time outdoors.

In America, unsupervised time outdoors is illegal in many states.
Almost all planes have more crashes in their early years, and many had worse or equally bad early records. It's too early to claim the 737-MAX will be inherently less safe than other planes using a multi-decade long measure.
Right, obviously heat is an enemy of li-ion batteries. My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that if a MBP is plugged in the power bypasses the battery once it reaches 100% charge, correct?
I'll ask them today. Github Satellite is in Berlin tomorrow.
Xi jinping is angry enough about this that Winnie the Pooh is a banned concept in a nation of over a billion people.

That's China /shrug
In Asia, kids regularly go outside without supervision. In Japan, kids as young as 7 or 8 walk themselves to school without their parents.

That kind of thing is illegal in America.
I sent them your reply and magically all is good. Thank for the "ammo" and the work.
Nice to read all the comments on this story. The story is about the how Go is not truly open source and community driven and the flame war starts on how Java does not implement generics correctly etc.
Guys: each language has it's benefits and it's shortcomings.
If we want (need?) more control over the language, can't we just fork it? Start a new language that is based on the current implementation of Go?
Feedback loops like transistors increasing economic efficiency to pay for more transistors are unusual.

Sure, over the long term markets change, but day to day most competition approaches zero sum. Americans are only going to pay for and consume so much food each year. That may move around a little, but mostly it’s a question of competition between food producers not expanding the market.

Entertainment competes for only so much free time and disposable income etc. Now as productivity increases people may have more disposable income, but Disney can’t really influence how much money people have.
Ask HN: What's the most valuable SQL Query you ever wrote?
The other day I could not find a copy of a SQL Query that we only use about once every 3 years for a rather obscure purpose and I realized suddenly that the query itself contained a body of both SQL and domain knowledge that I don't have anymore and I felt like I'd really lost something of great value and hard to reproduce, although it's just 5 or 10 lines of SQL.

Kinda interested to hear of other valuable queries - either in terms of the knowledge they held or the effect they had.
The electoral cycle has shifted presidential incentives towards the short-termism that quarterly financial reports have for publicly traded companies. It's about looking good in the short term, by any means necessary.
So, the Flynn effect is over?
So what do you suggest people do who hate violence, murdering, everything about the cartels? The world is complicated, maybe it could be that by doing certain tourist activities or traveling to certain places that I'm supporting them.
Aren't intellect and memory roughly intelligence? What element is missing that you needs to be there to be called intelligence?
Thank you! Aside from non-free kdb, there are not much products available in the field. I will test it and see if it works for my tasks.
The lessons from this article are many, the 400,000 jobs lost book-keeping vs. 600,000 jobs gained accounting is a figure worth remembering if you are trying to get some automation introduced somewhere.

There are parallels in many areas of customer service for instance. Anywhere where you can do a better job of helping the customer with knowledgeable staff that don't have to be doing so much mundane stuff.
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The markets think the trade war stinks. A California garlic grower disagrees
The fundamental engine of growth in the economy is the continual increase in productivity.

that is the increase of unit of work per staff head.

Having staff work hard, not smart lowers productivity, and therefore profit.

For example uber:

IF they were a company capable of making a profit, it is because currently they have a virtually staff free monitoring and dispatch system (that is, no branch offices, no radio dispatcher, no mechanics etc.)

However thats only a small part of thier overheads. The vast majority comes from paying their drivers. Adding more drivers adds cost linearly.

However if they were to somehow manage to perfect driverless cars, their productivity would smash through the roof, as they can replace linear cost increases with an upfront capital cost (ie, buy loads of self driving cars instead of paying a per mile cost.)

If you are working your staff 996, not only are they going to burn out, they are going to be inefficient. There are legions of studies that date back to the early 1900s that prove this. In china there is an abundance of staff, so one does not need to worry, as if you burn out 35% a year, they can always be replaced, cheaply.

but you can't afford to do that if you have a limited talent pool.
Well, in these cases it's very similar to F#, except it's based on .NET and has different syntax. I guess the main point of the comment above is lacking IDE support - refactoring tools don't exist and autocompletion is also not excelent. Do you know some decent tools for Scala? I don't know much about it, but it could be a very good language if IntelliJ had full support for that.
Awesome, thanks! I noticed some of the older videos are listed with download/viewing links that don't actually work at least in current Safari. For example, the "Working with Core Data from iOS" one is a no go. But still very useful for the rest of the videos.

Edit: Got that one video to work by right clicking to download, and then QuickTime played it after an automatic conversion step QuickTime did. Of course it's very outdated, but still some useful info even in the very old videos.
The phrase that I saw was “killed fellow whites”.

I don’t understand what your point is here, I’m afraid — if the reason that the suffering of Jews is recognised is simply because they are part of the “us” group, despite multiple millennia of racial and religious discrimination, why would the Irish count as a “them”? It’s easy to forget how severely “othered” Jews used to be. The only explanation I have for the dichotomy is that the Jewish people were the enemy of the enemy, while conversely the Irish were… I’m not sure which time period to consider, but in my youth they were “terrorists”, which I guess made “them” a direct enemy in popular discourse at roughly the same time that Jews were unambiguously innocent victims. The same model also explains why communists killed in the holocaust are ignored in half the often quoted death statistics: communists were the enemy in this period, rather than the poor innocent victim of the brutal regime whose destruction was totally a pyrrhic victory (for the Empire) that had to be justified.
Curious how working memory factors into this. We recently had our kids tested for a bunch of things and although their IQ's were average their working memory was off the charts. We had never really heard of working memory and perhaps it's a new "thing" but it makes sense.

From this page: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/keep-it-in-mind/2010...

"The study also found that, as opposed to IQ, working memory is not linked to the parents' level of education or socio-economic background. This means all children regardless of background or environmental influence can have the same opportunities to fulfil potential if working memory is assessed and problems addressed where necessary."
China smuggled sweet potato

http://www.chinastudyabroad.org/indepthchina/1039-china-and-...
Who discerns what is fake news? Why don’t we decide for ourselves?
Some of these "fancy financial instruments" are not as fancy as you think. For instance, futures and options are a form of insurance. My great grandmother was a farmer and would trade derivatives to insure her crops for the season. Some trader in Chicago can trade this speculatively, but a midwestern farmer has a real world use for the product.
At this point Android is as open source as Windows.
Wait, this is talking about actual physical fabrics ... woven textiles.

See this is why I hate figurative terms like "data fabrics" all over the place. It makes for terrific confusion when the real thing comes along.
Although true for programming CS, I have to note here that Google hires people who didn't study programming per se. One guy I know who worked at Google did processor design. They hired him for web programming or something about as unrelated as possible. Who knows how many extra-bright, barely-programming grads they pull in. They need them to learn quickly to be productive as closely to day 1 as possible. Hence, Go.

I think Python was main language in that space before Go. It's not as simple or performant as Go, though. So, this was a major improvement even if I think they could've designed an even better language from our perspective.
My anecdote is that people I come across who quote him tend to have a lot of anxiety and pent-up energy around the idea of wanting to be in business but they don't have an idea, skill, or plan.

So, the business proverbs they live by both give them hope and amplify their anxiety that their opportunity is slipping away with each day that they're not hustling.
IBM seems to be using swift on the server [1], probably most notably with their Kitura web framework [2].

TensorFlow also has a Swift API in development [3]. The people at FastAI seem quite excited about it [4].

[1] https://developer.ibm.com/swift/

[2] https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura

[3] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/api_docs

[4] https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
Yes and many a well-done documentary telling the story. Though the story of how tea was smuggled out is one I've only recently become aware of and equally as fascinating.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-british-tea...
It’s quite clear that in 2019 it is not possible to get all powerful entities in the world to work together on an issue like climate change. We should focus on band-aid solutions like reflectors in space above the poles that prevent sun from hitting the earth at all. We are past the “if only everyone bought electric cars” phase of solutions and need special projects that assume the amount of CO2 emitted stays the same or increases.
100 points of IQ is the mean. If scores consistently fall so will the mean.
To this day you mention repeatedly that the woman in question was "shaking her ass" at you. Dude, you have a problem. You clearly cannot see it, but you have a problem. I'm not making assumptions based on anything but your own words, and in your own words, you have a problem. Maybe less of a problem than you once did, but still a problem.

Also, "can literally cost you a job" but it didn't! This is said over and over and over, but the usual consequence is having a conversation with HR and then life continues as normal. Based on your words, you did not lose your job, so please stop parroting this over-the-top edge-case claim as it if were the norm.
Maybe a real reason is that it's precisely a distro which means it contains features and reasonable defaults so that users don't need to learn about them, install them, and configure them.

Basically same debate as between Linux From Scratch and a full-featured distro such as Ubuntu.
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Let me Godwin it up

>We're optimizing for click through rate.

and so was Hitler in ~1923. Optimizing something that affects how other people act (same happens on YT Veritasium:My Video Went Viral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsa9DqmId8) leads to bad outcomes (radicalization, race to the bottom, catering to lowest denominator etc).
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If explicitly naming the type is better, then do that. I find it useful for cases such as:

OurConfabulatorWithADashOfSpice confab = new OurConfabulatorWithADashOfSpice();

Versus:

var confab = new OurConfabulatorWithADashOfSpice();
The 787 is not weird. It is an evolution of practices and learning from across the industry, academia and governmental organizations (NASA, ESA, etc) that culminated in a new product. The 100% composite structure has been completely flawless for the most part, with the largest issue being how to recycle the plane when it's done. Boeing has long outsourced the production of many components of all of its planes to various vendors, the big difference with the 787 was that they did this on a global scale.

The use of LiIon batteries was a logical next step as well. Manufacturing issues in the first sets of batteries required them to re-engineer the safety system around them, and the vendors that created the batteries now have stricter standards to adhere to.

None of these issues currently compromise the safety of the airframes.

It's easy to pile-on after incidents occur, but these are machines made by people. People make mistakes all of the time. You wouldn't not use a computer because it had bugs. The likelihood of you falling out of the sky in a modern airliner is still vanishingly small and is getting smaller every day.
History also tells us that after the rudder issues, the 737 went on to become the safest airplane in history.
It's about the impact of 1000 little things.
Even if Huawei would let you unlock the bootloader properly, using LineageOS on an unauthorized device (such as upcoming Huawei devices) would be a pain. Google recently started requiring you to register a device with your account for every unauthorized device running Play Services (that is, a device that didn't get certified; certified devices running custom ROMs don't have this limitation) and apps might not show up. Netflix is not available for rooted devices, for example, and probably won't be on uncertified devices either.

I don't think it's the people who are worried about Huawei though; this whole thing reeks of US government power play, trying to protect US businesses over the backs of consumers.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that the ultimate limiting factor of 7/5/3nm nodes is the type of litography being used (i.e. only EUV-equipped foundries can go beyond 7nm) and that the only serious manufacturer of cutting edge EUV tools is ASML (which has only managed to develop powerful EUV light sources with tremendous r&d expenses and years of delays) ? Once you have an EUV system like NXE3400B (just one of these EUV tools is $200M and up... plus high running expenses), the rest is "easy". And by easy I mean "possible" or "up to the foundry". I feel like the R&D expenses and the history of EUV development show a bleak picture of the future of semiconductor miniaturization. BTW: As far as I know, commercial 3nm EUV tools do not exist yet. If you're looking forward to 3nm products, you should expect to wait another 5 years. 5nm to 3nm is going to take a lot longer than 7nm to 5nm.
> early acknowledgment of the situation in a safe environment and a timely manner.

That could work. The problem is trust though - how do you know the environment is safe? Especially in employe-employer relations. I did worked in a receptive place once, and I regret not being slightly more open, telling about a few more of my personal quirks. Ultimately, we all hide stuff that are implementation details of the abstraction a "productive employee" is; the question is, how many of those details can leak before you start looking bad against candidates whose abstractions don't leak?

> Don't let your mind build illusory labyrinths.

Yeah, that's a good point. Seen that happen both in myself and in others.

> It's pretty well outlined on wikipedia

Oh, thanks. I didn't realize "need for cognition" is a proper name.

> Also, I always welcome recommendations for "loud active cognitively-draining music". :)

I don't have any particular recommendations; I tend to keep a collection of individual songs, not artists. I've also discovered that the most cognitively enhancing music for me is the one that "resonates" with my current mood - so if I feel sad, I listen to depressive stuff; if I feel energetic, I pick something powerful. In that latter case, quite often it's either Sabaton (or other power metal), or random Nightcore songs from YouTube, on a loop.
> I don't know if a lot of dev' are going to repackage their app "play-service" free

Don't many already for Amazon's store? Or does Amazon's store usually get used along-side Google's Play Store and/or have some sort of compatibility shim?

> for one vendor (wouldn't be surprising for popular app tho').

Huawei is a reasonably significant manufacturer though, and other Chinese manufacturers may get on-board (even if they don't have to now, as a precautionary measure in case that changes) and if they end up offering handsets cheaper with the new OS than Android people might buy them in significant numbers.

And if it is easy to package for this new OS as well as Android, i.e. there are minimal or no changes needed to the main app code just extra steps in the build process, devs might support it because the effort is small so why lock yourself out of a market?

They may also just stop using Play specific things, if losing what-ever benefit they offer is deemed less hassle than maintaining the extra build.
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> "US is basically terrified of losing control of mobile networks when 5G ends up being implemented by a Chinese company."

US companies don't control the mobile network device business now and won't after this. The largest beneficiaries of this are European.
There's no stationary orbit over the poles