skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His key metric moved from 66.3% to 65.7%, this is his evidence of death.
It's interesting how this lesson is never learned. We constantly see how oversight is reduced or removed because companies decide that the costs are too high and the rules too stringent. But as soon as the rules are relaxed the companies immediately begin to cut corners and things begin to fail.

It's human nature to find ways to get from point A to point B using the least amount of energy even if we need to break the rules. We should all keep that in mind.
I've never been to a store that gives a discount for self-checkout, but it probably does lower the overall cost of shopping there. there's very little that Walmart can do to differentiate itself from Target, so I would at least expect these kinds of businesses to be forced to pass a lot of the labor savings on to their customers.

if you really hate ringing up your own groceries, there are plenty of higher end grocery stores that have more cashiers (at least in my area). if you want better service, you might need to open up your wallet.
In an Industrial Corner of France, 18,000 Jobs Go Unfilled. Why?
From the article:

> When you know you have a safety net, you are more willing to take risks.

Maybe to a certain degree, but not really.

Not having a safety net is what makes you more likely to succeed because there's no "well, if this doesn't work out at least I live in a mansion and my family has enough millions of dollars to live however I want to a realistic degree for the rest of my life".

When you have no access to money, you have a special kind of drive. It's the drive that says "look, working a regular job for the next 40+ years is going to drain your soul -- either bust your ass and figure out how to do what you want, or suffer for the rest of your life". The alternative is so awful that you'll do anything to avoid it (assuming you want to be someone who starts their own business).

This is coming from the POV of knowing with 100% certainty I was not made out to work a regular job since I was 11 years old and my family has no money.
Who gets to judge the value of content? And how can it have "negative value"?

Regardless, the action of consuming the content itself means that it has inherent value. I believe whether it's worth it is a decision for the user instead of dictated by someone else.
he main reason for high education in the modern US is crime prevention, not any kind of achievement. It's known to any competent public school teacher in say Watsonville, CA or in Baltimore, MD that the majority of their students cannot learn. But keeping them in school prevents crime.

Your mere attemt at argument with the OP is ridiculoüs. He is of Chinese descent. They have won, and you with your policies have patently lost the game already.
Two Performance Aesthetics: Never Miss a Frame and Do Almost Nothing
“Narrow view” seems unqualified without more about how the studies are actually excluding other entrepreneurs from the findings. Point of the article seems obvious just from the headline, and then there is the body of supporting text too that seems to say that entrepreneurs are not all that special in knowledge or biologically.

The obvious extension of this point is that entrepreneurs require no special treatment, favoritism, or perks in exchange for exceptional entrepreneurial traits to coax them to your territory of taxation (or whatever).

Instead you might consider developing your current population by increasing their access to capital, resources, connections and safety nets to enable new business ventures based on their proposals to meet a real need that turns a sustainable profit and creates jobs at all salary levels (not just the bottom). No need to provide additional support to just any millionaire/billionaire that will do nothing productive except seek to extract rents from those with less means.
Show HN: React Spaces – divide a page into anchored/resizable/scrollable spaces
Did you really mean to say you swam 10,000 yards in one session? At the pace you mention (50yds = 1min) that would take over 3 hours.
There's even a saying about it:

1. first generation earns the money

2. second generation spends it

3. third generation has no money

I don't think having everything handed to one is conducive to being a successful businessman.
If you understand facebook's business, you wont view it positively.
I used to work at an advertising company that worked this way, doing lead gen. In some verticals there's nothing better, and as long as your own metrics are good you can figure out how much a traffic source is worth. If a traffic source goes bad and starts being 50% spam, no problem, your automatic system lowers its bids by 50% and you're fine.

The thing is, only a very small fraction of the ads ecosystem works this way. Coke wants to show ads to people to position their brand, not to get people to buy soda over the internet, which means they're not able to measure the efficacy of channels on a per-publisher basis and figure out if they're being cheated. Brand advertisers typically use third-party fraud detection services like Moat to inspect the environment their ads are running in and see if they look legitimate.

Then there's a large range of people doing things where you could measure the effect of channels, but the site just isn't that sophisticated. Some pizza place somewhere buys some ads, they don't have the tech staff to measure conversions and optimize their channels, instead they trust the ad network to make sure they're not being cheated.

Even sophisticated performance advertisers rely on ad network fraud detection, just indirectly. Yes, you run your ad campaign, and you bid what the traffic is worth to you based on your measurements. But the existence of that traffic stream comes from fraud detection. Imagine some publishers on an ad network start spamming it, and the ad network isn't able to detect the fraud. The money from advertisers now isn't going to publishers in proportion to the value of their traffic, but instead in proportion to how much they're cheating. The publishers that were the source of your good traffic go out of business, and the ad network collapses because it doesn't have valuable traffic to send to anyone.
> When you have no money, you have a special kind of drive. It's the drive that says "look, working a regular job for the next 40+ years is going to drain your soul -- either bust your ass and figure out how to do what you want, or suffer for the rest of your life". The alternative is so awful that you'll do anything to avoid it.

Ironically, what you fail to see is that this line of thought is only possible under two circumstances: rock bottom, or born to money. An unemployed 30 year old in between would give their right arm to have a job for 40 years.
That’s the point. The same principle applies to Docker. Although conceivably the daemon could be just about process/container management instead of image management as well.
Earplugs are for hearing protection; they will cut damaging volumes down to merely loud, but not interfere with perception that much. What matters is the relationship of the signal to the noise floor, and masking is a lot more effective. A box fan works for me.
It’s like the old adage about television:

“How do you know someone doesn’t own a television?”

“They tell you.”
Thanks for sharing that. I've had this feeling in my gut for a while, and I think it touches on a similar notion.

The feeling has to do with the fact that where I live, nearly every software engineer you meet works for a defense contractor, an issuance company, or a finance company. These jobs, and the dollars that come from them, seem somehow hollow to me. I'd accept a significant pay cut if my code were somehow contributing to something like growing food.
Stalking horses for a TSLA-like fall to accumulate.
Not to mention the extra resources being eaten by all this JS. When I leave a typical website with lots of ads and tracking open, I can see the energy usage averaging much higher in Activity Monitor on my Mac, even in Safari and with some basic ad blocking on.

I imagine folks serving up the JS have figured out ways around whatever simple blocking tech I have. If their JS wouldn’t eat up so much battery, I’d mind a lot less, since I leave tons of tabs open.
Many startup founders do not take a salary for some time. The average cost to launch a startup is around $30,000, according to the Kauffman Foundation. Data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor show that more than 80% of funding for new businesses comes from personal savings and friends and family.

This sounds to me like they really mean big money, high growth enterprises and are out-of-hand dismissing the kind of people who start more traditional small businesses with no goal of ever becoming a Mega Corp.

I haven't looked at the data too much recently, but twenty to thirty years ago:

Women had trouble getting funding at all, plus typically had ongoing obligations to do the women's work at home, so they typically started smaller ventures with less risk and less growth potential. They were disinclined to borrow any money at all and completely bootstrapped it, paying for any growth out of earnings as they were able to afford it.

If your very definition of business de facto excludes the type of businesses typically started by women -- and no doubt other less-privileged groups -- you shouldn't be shocked when they are underrepresented in your data.
Yes 10400 in 2:56. It’s called a birthday set
I find that a lot of the time spent on learning is learning new APIs and library usage rather than the craft itself. Sometimes it takes weeks to grok even a change from one major version to another in a library or framework you already use. Companies don't give you too much leeway to actually study new programming paradigms, they only accept the time it takes to learn whatever new tool or library you use and that's an endless constant running around catching your own tail type of situation. Sometimes you learn new things on the way but 90% of the time it is just the same stuff in a slightly different way. It is really frustrating.
Not only that, but (for tech products) they don't have to invest tens of thousands of dollars paying someone to build the software.
Does the author even know what genetics are? I was expecting some sort of study of adopted kids and risk taking behavior to control genes vs environments. Instead the author doesn’t seem to realize that entrepreneurs coming from families with means is hardly evidence against the genetic argument, and in fact supports the opposite view.
How does family background disprove genes?
cernVMFS sounds like AppFS [0] with fewer features. Some of those features, like writability or setuid files, might be useful for CERN users.

[0] http://AppFS.net/
In the store's perspective, the case was theft. They couldn't tell the machine wasn't taking the proper discount, and they likely wouldn't do the research to uncover the truth.
Sorry if the post sounds like I am trying to argue that one approach is inherently better than the other. It is not my goal. Rather, I want to show the amount of language level machinery (extensive static checks, or runtime nullability) that is required if the language has constructors.
Ahh right. I'm actually British but never heard that before, thought it was refering to making a phone call. Those cash registers are before my time :)
Thé main reason for high education in the modern US is crime prevention, nôt any kind of achievement. It's known to any competent public school teacher in say Watsonville, CA or in Baltimore, MD that the majority of their students cannot learn. But keeping them in school prevents crime.

Your mere attemt at argument with the OP is ridiculoüs. He is of Chinese descent. They have won, and you with your policies have patently lost the game already.
>>subverting long standing regulations that exist for good reasons.

Do you have evidence that they exist for good reason? It seems to be central economic planning, based on the delusional idea that cookie-cutter rules designed to regiment every class of interactions will preempt misbehavior and promote socially beneficial behaviour.

The opportunties for special interests to stifle competition with regulations are replete, so there are many explanations for regulations existing besides their being in the public interest.
One observation from personal experience with prolonged intermittent fasting: My metabolism slowed down quite a lot. After nearly 10 years of eating once per day, my resting metabolic rate was 3-400 calories lower than average. Whether that's a bad thing or not, I have no idea. My grocery bills were certainly low. And it saved a ton of time on meal prep.

More recently, I became too physically active to maintain that diet and returned to eating 3-4x a day. My metabolism has steadily returned to baseline since then. It took about 6 months but it is now essentially back to normal.
My father was fond of a couple of sayings:

1. Most people don't recognize opportunity because it comes disguised as hard work.

2. He'd tell me I wasn't afraid of hard work, because I'd lie down and go to sleep right next to it.
Goddammit. The comments are why I browse HN on a daily basis, but sometimes you folks are worse than Wikipedia. I know I shouldn't click that link.

/me grumpily clicks link
Interventions for Women Experiencing Perinatal Loss
It can be hard when one is too... "entangled" with one's own issues, feelings and deeply carved thought patterns.

Being able to distance oneself from them can definitely help. Just like it's often easier to figure out someone else's issues and their solutions (unless one is projecting or missing an important part of the picture)
Hmm. Yeah just if it was like 30 (or even like 100) it’s not exactly overly valuable other than an initial indicator.
Pony 0.30.0 has been released
Raise. Wages.
There was a model railway show in London in the mid 70s that my grandfather took me to.

The least decorated layout there was the most interesting, as it was computer controlled. Even better, a small child could program it by writing instructions on paper and handing them to the controller who then put them into the computer

For a 10 year old, this was magical! This may have triggered my interest in computers
It's not like we'll have historians in the future, because we'll all be dead from climate change anyway...
What a terrible article. Think of how many would-be founders read this and see it as an excuse not to start. Not to mention it takes credit away from all the founders who don't come from wealth.
> make us all like up in one single line for the human cashiers

I have encountered these at Decathlon and Carrefour (in Europe). It feels fairer, but standing in longer line feels worse, even when that doesn’t make any sense.
The usual argument has broken out that yuh-huh and nuh-uh and there will be salvoes of anecdotes screaming into previously-entrenched opinions.

The thing is: some founders come from privileged backgrounds. They have nothing to fear, so they take big chances.

Some come from unprivileged backgrounds. They have nothing to lose, so they take big chances.

My guess? Both of these types of people will be over-represented, compared to the general population.

In any case, after two clicks, it's possible to read the original paper everyone was hanging their blog posts off at the time: https://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf

The same authors have continued to work on the population characteristics of entrepreneurs: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/ross_levine/Papers/SES_FULL...
Did you cut out alcohol as well?

I’ve noticed it’s much harder to do in the summer as that cold beer at the end of a hot day is ever so enjoyable.
It's 100% anecdotal but the observation has a 10-year run...

I've been riding the same train line in Chicago for almost 10 years (Blue Line) and when I started I remember cringing that so many spent their free time scrolling facebook before/after work on the ride home.

Now it's much less social networking--but when it is, it's definitely instagram or occasionally twitter. Can't remember the last time I saw someone scrolling the blue app on their phone.

Guessing people still use it at home sometimes because they have to, or in the case of boomers, they're hooked on political memes.

Losing ground so much ground on the phone is an ominous sign.
Um, AirMail was a thing in the 20’s and 30’s, long before FedEx. It’s where the airline industry got its start.
Can anyone give a quick summary of what you can do with this theory? I know a bit about geometry (up to the basics of the De Rahm cohomology and the Riemann curvature tensor, say).

What does the discrete version get you? What are its applications to CS?
I listen to ad-supported material, I just have muscle memory, and a visceral reaction to advertising where I will just advance VLC's playback by 1min via shortcut-key (assuming one uses a standard RSS reader and DLs the mp3 file locally).

I'm not sure I understand the point of saying you listen to non-ad-supported podcast, and not mentioning how they are supported or if it's pure hobbyist stuff you listen to.

Advertising comes in many forms (i.e. native content), and unless you link your .opml file, I can't ascertain the value of your statement. I do not recommend doing so, but young tech people think it's OK to put your real name on the internet (which is contrary to the ideas I was taught in the 90s; the use of pseudonyms has proven sound given our current circumstances).
I'm kind of surprised to learn this wasn't obvious or already known. People have been hacking old hard drives into crappy speakers for a long time there are countless examples of this on Youtube. Perhaps the most artistic is a rendition of Radio Head's, Big Ideas (Don't Get Any) played on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum attached to an array of hard drives. [0] I always just assumed that any thing that acts like a speaker could also be made to act like a Mic.

[0] https://vimeo.com/1109226
All for this - and if it’s successful, I wonder if cybercrime will increase in this region as folks with few prospects take a shot at getting a good job via “non traditional” means
While this article has a number of problems that have already people have astutely already brought up, no one has yet mentioned his misrepresentation of the content and location of anatta in Buddhist philosophy. Anatta is just one the three characteristics of existence that mindfulness allows one to see directly in one's own experience. The other two are anicca (impermanence) and dukkha (sufferering). Defining any one of these on its own very difficult because they are so interrelated, despite being distinct concepts. In fact, it is traditional to define each of these in terms of each of the other two (and especially anatta, which is usually regarded as the most difficult to gain direct understanding of). If you don't take care with your definitions in this way, it's easy to argue with Buddhist philososphy on Western metaphysical terms instead of on it's own terms. In this case, the author represents anatta as being roughly equivalent with the metaphysical claim that there is no soul or "an underlying subject of our own experience". But that is not at all the claim made by annata: rather than simply being a doctrine of no-self, anatta holds that there is no permanent (anicca) and coherent/satisfactory (dukkha) self. From this definition it does not follow that "one is not one's feelings" or that one's feelings are not oneself. Though these are both true in a certain sense, the real insight of anatta (along with anicca and dukkha) is that it allows one to see right here and right now that neither of these statements make sense at all, because the dualism they assume is experientially and metaphysically false.

That said, this kind of careful study is lacking from the vast majority of so-called mindfulness meditation - which I think the author is totally right to call out. Teaching mindfulness outside of the full context of the Buddha's actual teachings (the Pali Suttas directly, or through teachers with years of practice and study) is - as he argues - never going to get you farther than a bit of destressing after work.

Here's Mahasi Sayadaw's discussion of selflessness for an example of defining anatta in terms of anicca and dukkha: https://www.budsas.org/ebud/mahasi-anat/anat05.htm
Try a cold diet soda, or that classic, a cold water. It doesn't take long to lose the craving for sugar.
Just finished swimming a race from Alcatraz to shore, it's just the best high. I do tons of endurance sports, but swimming is the most reliable in yielding that euphoric feeling.

I think it's due to it being essentially forced mindfulness meditation. Though you could swim with music, I don't and that means it's just my thoughts for 30-60 min (watch the thoughts, can't do anything about them right now). I'm forced to focus on breathing on a set schedule (analogous to vipassana techniques). I'm moving my whole body in a way that requires balance, complex coordination and attention to what my body is feeling (analogous to body-scans, yoga). If you're not listening to music it's also a little like sensory deprivation, there's just neutral water rushing sound.

I know running and biking can get there for some (myself included occasionally), but on a pool swim there's nothing to worry about other than the occasional turnaround at the wall. No obstacles, no dodging others on the sidewalk, no traffic. You're in a controlled, safe environment.

That or maybe it's just the hypoxia ;)
>I don't actually want to block ads. If you want to put a small text or image blurb anywhere on the page... Good for you. I'll gladly accept those on a webpage so that the content creator can make a bit of cash.

For years I allowed google text ads because of non invasion and distracting they were. However the of amount tracking taking place forced me to also disable them.
I recognize that other advertisers may have different goals, such as for large, brand-centric advertising campaigns. I'm not an expert on those so can't offer an informed opinion on any specifics. From a casual observer's point of view, I don't see how they're any worse off than the classic "everyone is wasting half of their ad budget, they just don't know which half" of the print/broadcast era. As you say, at least with online ad networks there can be some indication of where the ads are being shown, allowing a level of independent scrutiny by the advertiser if they wish.
The problem probably lies somewhere between afraid of getting sued and not wanting to shake the medical groupthink apple cart.

Last year I was suffering through a bout of strange fatigue that came about right after a mysterious throat infection. There were days I could barely go up the stairs without being winded or without assistance. I googled around and started reading about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and found this large, shadow community of millions of sufferers. Many of these people have had these symptoms for years, and when they go to the doctor they are simply told "It's all in your head," and if lucky, they'll run some tests and prescribe something that gives them temporary relief.

I asked my cousin who is a doctor about his opinion on CFS, and he told me it was difficult to diagnose and even harder to treat. The most they will do is refer you to a specialist or even psychiatrist.

After a couple months my fatigue went away on its own. But I did find that creatine helped. And this has been backed by others in the CFS community who have stated that eating raw meat relieves their symptoms (natural creatine in meat is destroyed once cooked). But a doctor would never tell me that, because if there isn't conclusive proof from a medical journal and/or a big pharma drug to prescribe, they are either too afraid or unwilling to say anything.