skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the most absurd pieces of writing I've ever read and I'm only half way through.

I had to check again and see whether there was some sanity in the comments before continuing through it.

>Then there are people who come along with a sword, or a gun, or taxes, or crony capitalism, or Communism, or what have you. There’s all these different methods to steal.

What a gem. Taxes, guns, both about the same. Your "wealth" was obviously created in a vacuum, society contributed nothing to it.

>Overall capitalism [meaning free markets] is intrinsic to the human species. Capitalism is not something we invented. Capitalism is not even something we discovered. It is in us in every exchange that we have.

And this makes it more clear that this is about some form of religion.

>I started as a poor kid in India, so if I can make it, anybody can, in that sense.

Wish I could find an expression to accurate capture this sentiment...

>Now, obviously, I had all my limbs and I had my mental faculties and I did have an education. There are some prerequisites you can’t get past. But if you’re listening to this video or podcast, you probably have the requisite means at your disposal, which is a functioning body and a functioning mind.

Casually insulting people missing a limb, those obviously wouldn't be listening to a podcast about making it anyway, right?
Those guys are f*ed.

>If you’re a trusted, reliable, high-integrity, long-term thinking deal maker, then when other people want to do deals but they don’t know how to do them in a trustworthy manner with strangers, they will literally approach you and give you a cut of the deal or offer you a unique deal just because of the integrity and reputation that you have built up.

In the words of Mark Wahlberg spoken in The Other Guys: "Oh my god, you were a pimp".

>Warren Buffett, he gets offered deals, and he gets to buy companies, and he gets to buy warrants, and bailout banks and do things that other people can’t do because of his reputation.

Yes. The main reason I'm not asked to bail out banks is I don't have the reputation for it.
The process is obviously:
-"Who could help us bail out a dying bank and make billions in the process?"
-"I think I know a guy who's trustworthy, Warren I think is his name."
-"Are there any prerequisites to offering him the opportunity to help?"
-"I don't think so Jim. It would help if he had some cash on hand but we'll figure things out if he doesn't!".
Toyota will do both battery and fuel cell electric vehicles. Hyundai is also doing that:

https://www.electrive.com/2019/06/05/hyundai-to-sell-their-f...

And Volkswagen is keeping fuel cell cars open as an option:

https://www.audi.com/en/experience-audi/models-and-technolog...
You can take a look at https://colab.research.google.com/ (hosted jupyter notebook from google) to keep your notes organised.
are the tags active(self-powered) or passive(reader-powered), if reader powered you might have trouble trying to get them from a distance of 1 metre
This slide deck might be nice as a wallpaper for a presentation, but it is not a good read.

Is there a blog post targeting readers in the web?
It's possible, but complex simulations have a lot of room to grow before they stop fitting on desktops. Go from one to ten threads and you still fit on a mid-high end CPU.
Well, it could also happen that your first key simply fails or gets broken, in which case it's easier to just have a backup.
https://github.com/WesleyAC/plotty-bird

> It works by streaming HP-GL commands to the plotter in real time - the game gets around 20 "frames" per second.

According to the GitHub page, yes.
It is a problem insofar as you trade more emissions for the next ten years at least for fewer emissions later and you cement in infrastructure for vehicles that are larger than needed. It seems better to me to encourage the use of smaller vehicles, public transport, and (electric-)cycling. For example I once owned a 1992 Renault Twingo. It needed about 5.5l/100km in the city. Why don't we slap a modern engine in a car of that weight class or build even smaller cars? It would be pretty hard to beat their lifetime emissions with an electric 3 ton SUV and they'd use less space in cities, allowing for denser neighborhoods where you need the car less.
So the answer to why it is this way, is because they wrote it down this way..? I think the real question was why this decision was made, not whether they announced this.
> It'd be just perfect for Toyota, then, once they give up on Hydrogen, The Fuel Of The Future.

Before getting back to Hydrogen when the world realize there is not enough Cobalt and Lithium on Earth for every car.
Fiber is still serving customers. Not sure what you're referring to.
> Free markets are intrinsic to the human species

An anthropologist would disagree. Counter-examples are numerous. Ironically, individuals inside a corporation don't interact with each other via free market behavior. Friends, family, etc. Whole societies back in the day.
You've redefined "house" to "mansion" in order to reach your conclusion. There are plenty of places in the world where people build their own houses and live in them quite happily.

A farmer builds up a flock of sheep or a herd of cows, and everyone in the village is richer. A miller builds a water mill and everyone in the village gets bread. A blacksmith builds a forge and everyone in the village now has access to metal items.

Wealth is not a zero-sum game.
Tags would be passive.
Chances are good that people will become dependent on each other at some point in their lives anyway, especially with those you plan to grow old with. And that is completely fine. Doesn't mean that you need to identify yourself through your partner or friends. I do think this get interpreted wrongly too often, since a fundamental part of a relationship or friendship is having someone you can depend on in times of need.
Enjoyed reading this.
We are the most connected society in the history but still the most depressed and loneliest one. We have lost the significance of physical presence of someone. Over the years we have evolved to live in tribes, that is why depression was quite rare in Joint families.
Standardisation is good - if it's adopted by others. Hopefully this one is as I see a need for it.

Though, I can also see this happening: "None of the old standards are good enough, let's create a new standard", and now there are N+1 standards.
Apple shares free 'New York' font from original Macintosh for developer use
I don’t think “most” games are multiplayer only
You have the benefit of being your target market, though. Your problems are your customers’ problems, you speak the same language, you get excited about the same things. That’s not always the case. Sure, there is an element of passion for your product that must be present in the conversation, but how it gets conveyed might have to change pretty dramatically depending on target audience.

Think about selling a federated IM solution to regular users and to privacy geeks: two completely different crowds talking in different ways about different problems, even though the product might well suit both camps. If you get nerdy with regular users (“it’s federated pubsub with e2e crypto!”), they will ignore you; if you get product-y with geeks (ala Apple - “you can send emojis to each other! Best ever emoji system!”) they will ignore you. Switching between these two modes is effectively a “slimy salesman” technique, and it’s unavoidable.
well all the keys as stated will not allow you to clone keys, except potentially the solo key hacker version and the tomu (hacker version if there is one), as the whole concept behind the 2FA devices is that you can't read the crypto keys off the device, if you could then a reader/device could grab a copy of those keys and your 2FA is no longer secure.
Don’t shill until your product has paying customers
There are a handful of companies that will try and sell you this. However Id say anything thats simple enough to be expressed as a chart or 1 page summary is not actually useful. Interesting outages have variable breadth, scope, and severity. Its usually some methods or a subset of customers that are impacted. Thats really hard to communicate as a straight percentage. You need to map it back to your particular workload and dependencies. And the meaningful result is how your particular application or customer experience would be affected.

Source: Im a principal at AWS, historically focused on infrastructure and availability/operations, have been oncall for 20 years, and do some internal incident management as my job.
In the places I have been working at (lots of different types of jobs), overtime used to be 2x pay or 2x off. None of them were IT-related though.
I think you got the markdown formatting for links backwards in paragraph 3.
No, not at Google. Lore has it in our office that it used to be hacked high speed segways. At least until somebody decided to build a ramp to jump with and the fiery chariot was reduced to rubble. The driver lived.
The idea that form communicates to us more strongly than function is particularly strong and resonant. We have moved into an era of fashion in hardware and software: look and style sells more than underlying functionality. Apple have rode this particular wave most noticably and successfully out of the tech giants, but the entire marketplace has shifted into this niche.
There will be release notes once the release is getting closer. The slides are just very early.
The Striking Vipers episode was really interesting in terms of imagining what we could do with VR in the future. The problem with consumer VR systems right now is that it's a hassle. You have to put on a giant headset that sometimes makes people sick. In my opinion VR is a little too early. Once it gets to the point of popping on some VR glasses (no bigger than standard sunglasses) then I think the VR gaming scene will explode.
One of my favorite comic strips features the topic:

https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kern...

...but seriously, he was in fact busy developing that filesystem capability at the time.
Well grandparent also assumed HTML since he put an HTML tag with html attributes in his node. I'm not sure how different this is, and if he wants to convert this to markdown he'll also need a html to markdown converter.
I agree with you. Rather than arguing against progressive taxes in general, I think his point would have been stronger if it had explicitly argued for taxing wealth directly, rather than looking only at income. It's narrowly true that it doesn't make sense to tax someone far more for earning nothing in years 1-9 then $1M in year 10, vs someone earning 100k per year for 10 years. (Although in reality the person earning the lump sum would probably be able to spread that tax burden over multiple years using a corporate structure, etc. But still, the basic point holds.) The logical conclusion though is to look not just at annual income but at overall net worth when determining tax owed.

Of course, there are two major obstacles to that happening. First, income taxes are very convenient, because income is much easier to measure than net worth, and one would have to be careful with net worth taxes to make sure they don't have unintended consequences around illiquid wealth. Second, a lot of powerful rich people would be against it.
Hotel WiFi will never be usable again.
I've consumed more words from RFCs, hacker news, emails and chat this last month or two, than from reading books.

This is a strong reminder as the writing is beautiful.

When we read our writing and world view takes on a small part of what we read. If all we read are fragments designed to communicate without ambiguity to the highly logical them we lose a lot of romance in the world.

Thank you for posting this on here.
True, but usual you do not start with a large and successful software company. I think starting a small software company is much easier than getting a job at Google. However, growing a small company into a large and successful one will be significantly harder. If for nothing else, it will take much more time and effort.
Thats what the government/retirement savings are for.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20120642
It's not the police's job to investigate AirDrop pictures sent to oversensitive individuals.

If the recipient is a child that is covered by the law, at least in some European countries, if not all.
I'm moving to an entirely different city for the first time in my life, moving into an apartment for the first time in my life (not including student studios as I am incredible fortunate with my parents). I look at it both ways:

On the one hand, in my mind I have to take every possible opportunity that presents itself. You're not living when you say no to everything and I'm pretty easy to convince when my friends are going places. Last night I asked whether someone was up for getting something to eat, planning on returning and studying after again. Though I ended up staying and meeting a dozen new people. You're never going to discover life when you don't leave your comfort bubble.

Then on the other hand I am afraid. I barely know anyone where I'm going, those I do know are older than me so I'm not really inclined on "hanging" with them like I "hang" with my people of my age (early twenties). (I hate the verb to hang, but eh.) In my mind I'll figure it out and get some new friends. Ever since I moved to a student apartment/room I've changed significantly. I've made it a habit to cook for new people I know: at the start of the year I invite everyone over for dinner or I playfully mention to some new people I know that they should come over someday and I'll cook for them, most of them are very much inclined to say yes. It'll be harder in the big city where I'm going to be living as I'm currently living in a much smaller city where I bike everywhere and there is a huge amount of students. I'm in multiple student unions or clubs so I get to meet new people that way as well.

So in the end I feel like the best moments in life is when you're afraid. It means you're actually living, taking on what is to come. Most of my good memories are because I'm afraid and it turns out great. When I don't overcome that fear and don't go out for example, I almost always regret it and then I've missed out. So in the end, I'm very excited to move to an entirely new city as well :).

For those who are wondering, I'm moving to London.
It's a common misconception the amount of creativity that is required to engineer a product. Engineers are the creatives! All the greatest game titles were designed by people with an engineering background. It was only later that some games got designed by artists using already existing game engines.

The reason Valve isn't producing great games is not because they can't. It's because they don't want to.
Technically, the barrier to entry is as low these days as any other messaging service: you can sign up on IRCCloud and instantly have a friendly browser-based experience without worrying about setting up a persistent client, logging etc. by yourself, and mobile and desktop clients are available.

These days the network effects just favour old farts and engineers.
Someone activate the Brett Victor alarm.
Can you explain how volume comes into play?

Solar energy absorption is proportional to surface area, and radiative dissipation is also proportional to surface area.

By the way, Mercury is tidally locked, with a hot side facing the sun all the time. Even that hot side is not as hot as Venus.

There is no question, if you were to strip Venus' atmosphere away, it would cool down tremendously and probably be not much warmer than Earth, or even cooler depending on what albedo it ends up with.

This isn't even an open question or a mystery or an active area of study, by the way. This is very solidly known. I was hoping that by pointing out well-known but surprising facts like that Mercury is colder than Venus, and Earth absorbs more sunlight than Venus, it would encourage you to question your previous standpoint. But if you want to really challenge this point, then please at least do a little more to measure the strength of the limb you are standing on.

Atmospheric composition is not in general a function of mass, volume, and distance to a star, by the way. Due to feedback loops, planets can have multiple stable equilibria, and a history-dependent climate and atmosphere. That is why the concept of terraforming even makes sense. A planet with the size, mass, and location of Venus (or Earth...) can be made into a snowball or a fireball depending on albedo and greenhouse effects, and transitioned from one to the other.
An interesting case is where a human does the selection; this was pretty well covered in Dawkin's 'The Blind Watchmaker' [0] with his program for generating biomorphs. Some nice speculation in there too:

'Dawkins speculated that the unnatural selection role played by the user in this program could be replaced by a more natural agent if, for example, colourful biomorphs could be selected by butterflies or other insects, via a touch-sensitive display set up in a garden.' (from the wikipedia article).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Watchmaker
> What does it mean to have sub-frame latency?

As someone who used to play fighting games competitively I know that it makes a huge difference if it's sub 1 frame input lag or not. It's the difference of being able to execute certain combos with 1 frame links (basically the time between inputs) 100% of times instead of <50% of the time.

Which is huge in a competitive environment.
What makes you think these people even wanted kids?
same for u2fzero if it's not locked already, no?
After creating an account and installing the app I am pleasantly surprised by the app insofar as actually using it to access a remote computer however.

- I have no idea if the premium features listed are inducements to pay for a premium version or if there is no way to use the app at all without paying the monthly fee.

- I don't want to create a calendar event to remember to pay or cancel. I'd infinitely rather have the app affirm that I wont be charged unless I make an affirmative choice to use your app beyond the trial and click pay the first time. This is especially true on mobile where google already has all the info needed to bill my account.

- The UI has no cancel option. I am left with the strong impression that I have to call someone on the phone or email to cancel at which point someone may or not bother to cancel the account or hey just keep billing me for no reason. I'm sure your are more conscientious and professional about that but I've seen erroneous behavior from otherwise great people.

In brief I'd like to see clarity as to if the subscription is required to use the app, an affirmative step prior to billing my account, and a way to cancel in app or on the web page. Thanks for sharing your work.
Hey, you got a bunch of great people giving you suggestions for what to do. Just wanted to add - hang in there. I'm sure you'll get to a place in your life where you'll feel more connected with someone/less lonely in general.

Best of luck!
YouTube Is Basically Killing Everyone
I'll check it out, thank you! :)
Can I just vent on how extremely annoyed I am about normal bits of software, that aren't even genuinely a service, being priced on a subscription basis at ridiculous price levels?

5$ per month is $300 over a five-year time period, which might be the lifetime of, say, a newly bought laptop computer. Now imagine you're at an electronics store, looking at laptops, and there are two identical laptops sitting in front of you. One has a pricetag that says $1000. The other has a price-tag that says $1300. You ask the sales clerk: "What's the difference between those two?" The sales clerk answers: "This one comes with a piece of software that lets you SSH into remote machines." You answer: "But there's free software to do that." The sales clerk goes. "Well... But it's colorful and shit." Seriously?
> As a software engineer, I'm just an entertainer for rich people. I wish they would just give me the money for free so that I could create real value working on my open source projects.

That's due to regulatory capture and a high tax rate due to excessive regulation. There is a book I highly recommend that you read. It is called "The Kingdom of Moltz" by Irwin Schiff, a bonafide political prisoner in the United States who died for his beliefs. When you read this book, you'll realize that crony capitalism and fiat central banking has sacrificed the well-being of the vast majority of US citizens.
That's the point. If they are pushing it to the cloud, they can at least use it for something desktops can't handle. If they have a cluster, let them make some game with AI that can utilize it, instead of making it a replacement for something desktops can already do well.
I still wonder why anyone is still spending money on studies without a control group, it makes the whole study useless. And it wouldn't be that expensive since you wouldn't even need to give them tomato juice, just measure their cholersterol and blood pressure levels.
I still run an IRC network with over 400 users.

Not sure what I'd do without them, it feels like a "real" social network, where we are different people chatting in real time over several days, the simplicity of the protocol forces people to be clear in their words and not use excessive emoji (although, yes, IRC does support emoji)

If anything the decline of other groups running their own IRC has been good for mine, as their groups decide to continue living by becoming a channel on my network- then their members bleed into all of our social groups in addition to their own, obviously it won't last. But for now it feels very natural and organic.

If you want to join we're on irc.darkscience.net/+6697 (SSL) #darkscience

however, I used to use IRC at work, that seems to have been taken over by slack in most companies though.
So they could return special build for people targeted by NSA and nobody would be surprised that their download is different.
It's amazing what people have been able to build because Twitch chose the open IRC standard.

Anyone interested in C++ and Twitch should checkout a project of good friends of mine https://github.com/Chatterino/chatterino2

A crossplatform chat client for Twitch in QT so no electron BS.

Personally I have also really enjoyed developing chat bots for fun tasks or logging. So IRC is definetely a big part why I love programming so much.
The law already recognizes the differences between pictures and actions. Suggesting that they are the same is histrionic.

Apple likely assumes that adults don't need a nanny. Parents can disable AirDrop for children.
It's either that or special rooms at an office that have a different/redundant setup. Remember that this happened on a Sunday, so most engineers dealing with the incident were home or elsewhere, at least initially.
If they don't want to die completely, they should probably build BEVs. This seems to be a sign of them slowly realising that.
All you saw in Termius is that it is "colorful and shit"? Seriously?
> They dropped X11

You don't have to be anti-unix to do that though, any reasonable organization would have done the same. I agree with the rest though.
Please read the complete statement again.
>> This is false and the people who say this tend to be in elite circles so they don't see the scarcity which is obvious to everyone else.

There are countries with an over 90% home ownership rate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...