skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument for keeping Capitalism is that people like owning stuff and don't want to share their property.

But capitalism itself is going concentrate ownership, removing it from the vast majority of people. At that point what's the point?

Speaking of Cisco, if the Soviet Union lasted 10 more years, would we all have IPv6 by now? (Not to say that I want more Soviet Union.)
Uber doesn’t HAVE a moat. I use a different ride share service in each European city I travel to, and they each do pretty well.

If all your product does is get you from point A to point B then I don’t care if it’s Uber or BobsRideShare.
The scientific discussions of Dark Matter seem to be the scientific version of political doublespeak which boil down to- "We aren't really sure what is going on but since you have questions, we should have answers..." I'm about to check the previous article and comments and kudos for krastonov for the suggested reading.

Still trying to make sense of this dark matter subject besides the usual, no one is really sure...
Sexy Beautiful Women Walking Around and Moving in Slow Motion
Mark them as spam - at least on google it seems to learn pretty quickly and in a few days whoever is spamming is in my spam folder and then not even there (some spam seems to get blasted even from spam folder? Maybe they stop...)
I used to work on drivers within IOS for a high-end switch. Between how complicated startup processes are, how specialized the hardware is, software workarounds for hardware issues, and the small demand for this, it doesn't seem likely. You're more likely to see Juniper take a different strategy to try to get more customers.
Lots of ghosts walk on I-80 in Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, during night times.
Couldn't a bot do logging?
Around 15 years ago, the price of cocoa shifted significantly relative to hazelnuts. (I forget which one actually moved in absolute terms)

Cue worse-tasting chocolate bars showing up in the stores, proudly proclaiming on their wrappers: NOW WITH MORE HAZELNUTS.
What? How does what I commented at all resemble a planned market?

I elaborated a little on an alternative proposal for increasing investment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665196

I think the only thing similar to planned economy here is that you're shifting tax burden and resources invested from larger companies to smaller companies. The idea being that small companies are a beneficial resource because they contribute more directly and locally to their economies.

You could argue that this is a distortion but I think it's a long way from a planned economy.
Emails in git commit logs are not a secret, which I wish more people understood and acknowledged. In general I don't think that expecting your email address to be private is reasonable. If you collaborate with others online, they should be able to get in touch. Stuff like this is an unfortunate consequence, but a manageable problem imo.
When you run 'git config --global user.email my@email.net'... where do you think that email goes if not in your git commits? Why do you say "my email is not on the web" if you upload your commits to a public web host?
I hope whoever is working on this read the Three Body Problem trilogy.
Along the same line, it reminded me of salami tactics [1], where not sudden but gradual change appears to be more effective.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics
By applying a process to begin identifying the needs for moderation and developing automated solutions. Later, designs can be modified to remove the need for the automation.
> Can anyone explain the definition of big bang that they're using here?

They're using "Big Bang" to mean the hot, dense, rapidly expanding state that is the earliest state of the universe for which we have good evidence. In models with inflation, this state occurs at the end of inflation, when "reheating" transfers all the energy stored in the inflaton field to the Standard Model fields (quarks, leptons, and radiation).

This is actually the standard definition of "Big Bang" used in cosmology, but unfortunately pop science books and articles still use "Big Bang" to mean "the initial singularity". We don't even know if there was an initial singularity (in eternal inflation models, for example, there isn't one).
I appreciate the devil's advocate. To be frank, I just made up the 5% figure, it's based on my observations looking at Uber Eats, Deliveroo, and similar apps. Though the theme seems to be the same, a lot of times you'll see they actually match the in store prices, which makes absolute no sense to me.

I had an experience with a Deliveroo driver, who told me the restaurant took an hour to make the food despite saying it was ready and that's why the delivery was almost two hours late. He ended up waiting for one hour at the restaurant for them to make my order. He was asking me to make a complaint against the restaurant because there's not much he can do.

My small order for a single person, costing £7.50, took two hours out of this person's life. Now I'll admit I don't know how the system works and whether the people get paid to wait around doing nothing but I very much doubt it, and actually felt bad that I made some person trying to make a living wait an hour at a restaurant so he could use his own vehicle to deliver a burrito to me, possibly at a loss.

But yeah everything's fine, let's keep going
I don’t know, before i moved here the system was kind of confusing but having lived here for a year, i think it is pretty neat system! I really have had no need for street names after i learned to understand it.

(And you know, writing the address to google maps gives you pretty precise location)
Same in Vietnam.
I think it’s one of those things you learn from your parents by riding in the car with them, and the relative age one starts driving vs moving far from their childhood home.

I did both - learning names of roads, landmarks and routes from the back seat, then later studying their Gregory’s (Sydney street directory), more than my parents ever did, and navigating for them from the back seat.

To this day some of my friends think I’m some crazy human GPS for being able to remember how to get somewhere after traveling there only once, sometimes 10+ years earlier.
"Rebellious teenagers always want to establish independence from their parents"

The rebelliousness of college students seems so obvious to me. Everyone here using youthful behavior (almost all in their teens and early twenties) to bash their favorite bogeyman group (usually composed of much older people) is missing the completely obvious.
Uber has made it explicit by tossing in free delivery to a list of restaurants that presumably have an order going out near you. You get like 5 minutes to respond to a list of like 4 restaurants usually when you open the app at peak times.
A lot of this bad serial number hardware was built by the "night shift" at the same factory making the official hardware. These things just happen when you outsource.
This pretty much all falls under the umbrella of mathematical physics- any mathematician will tell you it's not "real" math. Don't let that stop you from studying it if you're interested, but it's not for the faint of heart and most people require a mentor (aka an advisor and PhD program)- many self proclaimed "autodidacts" stall out once there are no longer online tutorials and they have to slog through textbooks written by physicists and mathematicians who seem to enjoy making a subject hard to understand.

Starting with analysis, measure theory, and I suppose the obligatory linear algebra should first if you don't already have those. Spectral theory and maybe group theory are probably next steps to having enough background to do the quantum and relativistic stuff. I glanced at the abstract for the source material for the HN post (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...), and it almost certainly requires spectral theory.

I'm not an expert in this area, so a mathematical (or theoretical) astrophysicist might chime in and fill in the gaps.
There is a term for that.
No one raises and kills cows for the leather; the leather is a byproduct.
You can design a separate compass transmitting data to the smartphone. There's many people who could trade $50 and some additional weight in their bags for accuracy.
There is record private equity dry powder right now. Money is on the sidelines waiting for asset prices to come down and investors are only buying recession safe assets.
Of course we bought those games for the 4 triangles, at least initially, but it was certainly possible to finish them.
Economies of scale might give the market owner such a huge advantage in food delivery logistics (coupled with ride logistics etc), that it’s worth losing a lot until inflection. The winner forces everyone out, and gets there by spending more up front.
> The two are distinct because the inflationary period is described as happening at a rate faster than the speed of light and the big bang is expansion constrained by this limit.

This is not correct. "Expanding faster than the speed of light" isn't really a good description of the expansion of the universe at any phase, but if you're going to use it, it can happen during all phases--in fact it's happening now relative to us for parts of the universe beyond the Hubble horizon.

The key difference in the inflation period was that all of the energy was in a single field, the inflaton field, whose properties caused exponential expansion of the universe with a very short time constant, so the universe "inflated" by a huge factor in a very small interval of time. At the end of inflation, all that energy got transferred to the Standard Model fields (quarks, leptons, and radiation), which don't have that property (although now the expansion is dominated by dark energy, which does have the "exponential expansion" property but with a much, much longer time constant so the expansion only accelerates very slowly).
It is a pretty great adaptation, and pretty difficult if you think about how you can express things in a book vs movie. I really enjoyed this video essay breakdown of the adaptation process: https://youtu.be/QTxvzkwVsQE
As I wrote, I don't use an oven! Instead I finish the baking in a covered steel pan, and this does give a crisp bottom.

> match a commercial pizza oven.

"Match" in what sense? What I described is different but works great.

For the 20 minutes, even in Manhattan, tough to take the order, make and bake the pizza, slice it, box it, and deliver it, all in 20 minutes.

For the quality, that's a matter of taste, but frozen, carryout, and delivery don't use better ingredients.

Whatever strong opinions some people in Manhattan may have about pizza, for the world of pizza, Manhattan is a very tiny place. E.g., apparently all or nearly all Sam's Clubs scattered all across the US sell 5 pound bags of part skim, shredded, Mozzarella cheese, and no doubt nearly all of it goes for pizza: Pizza is all over the US and much of the rest of the world -- in comparison, Manhattan is a small thing!

By the way, for delivering a pizza quickly, there is a fundamental problem made fully clear in queuing theory: The orders have to arrive essentially as a Poisson process. But the pizza shop has only fixed capacity in pizzas made per minute. So, we have random demand fed to a fixed resource. Then the pizza shop has just two alternatives, (i) deliver quickly but have a lot of expensive time where the delivery people are doing nothing and (2) delivery slowly, from a queue, where the delivery people are busy but the customers have to wait.
I used to avoid sci-fi because of non-realism. Not my cup of tea to read insanely powerful tech used in really disappointing ways (e.g. Sophons from Three Body Problem writing timestamps), or for example societies in 2030 that are culturally unchanged from 2010.

Then I tried Blind Date with a Book, which is where the book gets wrapped in brown paper and labelled with some hints about the book, so you know what kind of book you're buying but not the title or author. I ended up unwrapping Chiang's Story of Your Life, the short story collection. Chiang ended up pulling me back into sci-fi. Every story had sci-fi elements that were thought-provoking without being unbelievable, not to mention phenomenal worldbuilding, which I am a real sucker for.

Even if you're not a sci-fi fan I'd recommend several of the stories in Story of Your Life -- Tower of Babylon really left an impression in my friend group, to say the least.
I would normally buy this argument, however the data in the featured article indicates that increases to bank balance sheets through corporate lending simply return to the bank via savings rates for the wealthy.

Traditional models of money supply were built around agricultural and industrial uses of the money supply, and it's not inherently clear that the current model is yielding anything other than higher asset prices.
API? Why bother with that when you can just "git clone ... git log"
All these people talking about repetitive strain injuries and other joint issues have a deeply valid stance on this issue.

My best advice is that prevention is better than cure (or treatment). Remember, if you are computer-locked, to aim to do wrist stretches as well as look out your window (or any far distance) to exercise your eye muscles.
> But that's not a sustainable business model.

If a business doesn't have a sustainable business model, it should operate in a way that maximizes value to its shareholders as it goes through its end. Remember, preserving the corporation is not the goal; maximizing value to the shareholders is the goal.
This is great advice. It's akin to my manager asking me to write pieces of my own promo packet throughout the year. It'll also be a great time saver during review season.
Agreed here. You must love the material/story or you’ll never write it.

Also writing is revision, and revision is hard, even for professionals. But it’s the process of going through the hard parts that make the story good.

Staying passionate can be a challenge, especially if you’re writing long form like a novel. And sometimes, even for short stories. The thing to remember is that writing is rarely a linear process. If you’re trying to force a story out, it won’t work. The readers will also sense this immediately. You need to take breaks from the material and come back with fresh eyes, especially when you’ve lost the spark.
Don't even bother cloning! Just view the commit details in the browser.
Relative to when? Is it good for a consumer to even care how a product used to be? Isn't time of purchase the time that truly matters?
this is literally a ponzi scheme and a tax avoidance scheme rolled up into one. I wouldn't be surprised if money is being laundered in this scheme as well. borrow a billion dollars and buy back a billion and 100 million dollars in shares, who's going to notice the 100 million that got slipped in?
There are lots of successful authors who just jump into longer works and make it up as they go. Building background can help, but is not mandatory. There are very few absolutes in writing.

That said, writing for an audience beyond yourself is work, just like anything worthwhile.
Yes, if this happens, this is good, from a monetary point of view. If the end goal is that the multi-billion dollar corporation who forces everyone out from the market makes as much money as possible, then this is great, for them at least. I guess there's some praise to be given out because everyone wants to be like that, and wishes they were smart enough to be the first to dive into this burning pile of VC money.

But what if the goal is something else like creating a profitable, sustainable and efficient service that benefits both consumers and producers? Too boring for shareholders I guess.
There are at least a couple of ways to reduce the annoyance of "people will abuse knowing your email address".

I think most of the "you didn't know email is easily readable in your commits" are responding to "try and hide your email address". This is kinda tough, since you need to know how each program you use works well enough to know what's public or not. (Or you need a way to have disposable email addresses).

I think another is "adjust expectations and response". I think if your starting assumption is that an email address is public, or that your email address will receive garbage, then it's easier to mark it as spam, complain on social media, and get over it.
Why is this a big deal?

Of course recruiters search public information.

Learn to live with it.

If your outrage threshold is this low then you’re going to spent all your life in a state of outrage.

It’s nit even interesting let alone important.

Information in github, far from being surrounded by an invisible force field of integrity protection, is actually prime hunting territory for recruiters and any recruiter who doesn’t mine it probably needs to explain to their boss why they’re doing such a bad job.

The recruiter in question, far from being apologetic should have said “yes of course I got your email from GitHub so what?”

The guy recommends avoiding this recruiter. I recommend you use this recruiter as they clearly display basic competence at the task of recruiting.
I think lots of places don't have the numbering system that Americans take for granted.

In Vietnam my address is something like 422/35/11 Dien Bien Phu, Ward 17, Binh Thanh district, Ho Chi Minh City.

The number means "go to the building #422 on the main road and turn down the unnamed road you see there; drive until you see the house numbered 35 and turn down the unnamed road THERE; then proceed to number 11."

Make sure you're looking for #422 in Ward 17 and not some other stretch of the same road that might reuse those numbers.

Oh, and if you're still using the old address system then I'm actually at 107/11b. ("B" because a single lot was subdivided once upon a time.)

Notice there are no zip codes.

99% of web forms outside of Vietnam can't handle my actual address. They require a zip code or disallow the "/" character or don't have room anywhere to write the Ward and District. Last time I checked, Open Street Maps didn't know how to parse my address and find my house.

And this is for a country with 100 million people -- more than France, the Netherlands, and Belgium combined. I'm sure other developing countries, also with tens of millions of people, have their own idiosyncrasies that get papered over by Western developers.
What is the marginal contribution of the shareholders to the bottom line of a 25+ yo company? What is the corresponding contribution of it's workforce? Why the shareholders should have priority?

Let's say I buy WalMart stock tomorrow, why should I be prioritized in the distribution of profits next year? I never gave a dime to WalMart, at best I helped the stock price a little. The folks at the warehouse though, have a measurable contribution to the performance of the company.
Or in other words, why WalMart has to pay to the eternity a "loan" that it got at the IPO, and not use the money for improving the company itself with the potential to further increase its value?
Just get his two anthologies: Story of Your Life and Others, and Exhalation. They’re not long, but you’ll find that his stories are worth rereading.

I’d recommend starting with Tower of Babylon or Understand, then jumping into Story of Your Life.
I got the impression from the tweet it wasn't about github, it was about the recruiter.
The lengths the recruiter is willing to go through to get an email address doesn't start and stop with github.
Can you explain who should notice the 100 million and won’t? I’m not following.
> Its not in any one businesses self interest to be philanthropic by paying their workers more or slashing their prices to drive up the available consumption of the working class.

Tragedy of the commons, I suppose. All large business want a slice of consumer spending, but if they don't support consumers, there is no consumer spending to capture.

> Eventually the thread is drawn taught enough that bread stops showing up in the stores and nobody knows where it went because all the bread companies stopped manufacturing because the marginal returns from the poor by feeding them didn't justify the capital expenditure over playing books and offshoring profits.

I hope things don't get that bad. I'm all for the idea of motivating people with money. Some inequality is a good thing. But too much inequality is a disservice to everybody: widespread food instability in the country with the highest number of guns per capita would be a national security crisis that even the wealthy could not ignore. I hope we act with some foresight. We have plenty of distance between here and that point. But I do wonder what level of inequality this country will sustain before things become slightly more egalitarian.
Don't be too impressed. We only have the price per unit listings, ingredient lists etc. as the result of bad business practices (and sometimes deaths) in the previous century. So it's not retailers or manufacturers responding to consumer demand... they're responding to government laws and regulation.
So they're hypocrites because they don't try go out of their way to be physically harmed? That's a unique take.
Email addresses in general are not supposed to be a secret. They’re supposed to be for people to send you electronic mail. Remember when there used to be books that contained everyone’s phone number?

If you’re a high profile person or are particularly guarding of your personal communication, I think it’s your responsibility to maintain separate public and private email addresses. You should only be making commits to open source projects with an email address that you intend to be public. It’s literally there so that people can email you about the commit.
LGR Oddware – The 1997 Audible MobilePlayer System
Can you build and run the server locally?
Just for nostalgia, some other gems from that era -

Silent Hill,
Residential Evil,
Unreal Tournament,
Wolfenstein Enemey Territory,

*Edit, commas.
Last miling food with drones sounds more feasible, but I don't think that requires $500m in investment.
1 - I am not heavily invested.

2 - Misinformation poisons and I’m trying to surface facts that are being overrun by a narrative.

3 - Misunderstanding one of the largest entrepreneurial & capital efforts in our lifetime, especially on HN, will inevitably slow other entrepreneurs journeys who miss the real story and how to apply these lessons themselves. That’s why I wrote the parent comment.

4 - With your “uppity” comment let’s limit the ad hominem yes?

5 - Broaden your thinking around how “eats” eventually becomes a business worth having. Research “cloud kitchen” concepts - this is an amazing space with giant scale, an unnessesarily distributed supply side (most B+ quality delivery food is more or less the same), and massive loyalty / customer LTV
I just don't really see any similarity between the model 3 and the Taycan other than them both being electric, they are completely different classes of cars. They have the same layout because that is the most obvious layout for a 4 door AWD electric car (i-pace has same layout too). The Taycan is a luxury sports car with good handling and the ability to run at full performance for a long time. The model 3 is a practical car with a fairly poor interior, poor handling, and great acceleration and range.
The paper's authors are surely writing for an audience of physicists and not a general audience. As mentioned here[1], their audience will expect this usage. ScienceDaily may not have, though if they did, it would have been nice for them to highlight the distinction.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666140