skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company that doesn't care enough to have a copy editor go over its blog posts does not inspire confidence. What other errors have crept into this post that arn't obvious?
Im wondering if the neanderthals and other pre humans had this idea, and decided that concepts, and not absolutes should be displayed. we would probably do better with symbols that somehow relate to the life experiences of the reader.
and create a cartoon of sorts that displays our daily habits, ways of doing things, and establishes a time directive. such as what we did when the sun is down, when sun is high, and sun setting.

most importantly, how we related to the world around us, and what we did to it.

there are a lot of cave paintings, petroglyphs and heiroglyphs and megastructures, that seem to do just these kind of things.
Hyperbole. Developed economies don’t have a “996” policy like China does, and even China will dial that back once the average standard of living rises sufficiently. The US had ridiculously harsh labor conditions in the first “gilded age” (long work hours, difficult and dangerous labor tasks, company towns that paid in scrips and charged high rates for company accommodations, etc).

“The robot economy” allowed each WhatsApp developer the power to supply 18million users each with their service[1]. It’s not that we are working more to accomplish the same amount of work. Total productivity of the economy compounds as innovation and specialization increase.

Also, from what I can tell, those who are highly productive seem to have phenotypes that drive them to constantly work at a high level (curiosity, grit, drive, etc). Those who don’t have these things are likely to be unable to find decent jobs, keeping them forever working for stagnant hourly wages while resentlful that they can’t find a rung to a ladder that leads higher.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-...
The article does seem to get there eventually:

> The result is an institution increasingly unable to carry out its own mission, as tuition rises to pay for more administrators, and ideological drama makes it harder and harder to actually teach. And now we are back at the original question. What was the point of Yale? What was the point of going to Yale? What is the point of elite institutions?

I don't think it's just the lack of a mission that's the problem though.

I think that these kids have been disrupted.

A sort-of-smart rich kid who went to a good school used to be valuable. They could be like a LinkedIn for a new business with their social network. They could be a StackOverflow, because smart people would want to curry favour and answer their questions. They were a Venture Capitalist for people who had no idea what that meant, let alone where you'd find one. They were a Quora with a rough idea of what management at various levels and in various areas was like.

OK, they are still valuable. But they're no longer quite so important - there's plenty of half-decent substitutes.
Ask HN: What is a good Mac app for keeping notes, that supports code snippets?
I use OneNote for most of my projects/notes, but having code in it is a nightmare, and I prefer to write in Markdown, or at least a much less 'rich'/minomal editor.

There's a few buyable options, but no trustable reviews or trials.

Any recommendations?
At the worst, I had continuous wrist pain and woke up in the morning unable to feel my arms. I couldn’t physically hold a mouse for more than about 15 minutes. When this happened I was also lifting weights.

I spent thousands of dollars on ergonomic chairs, keyboards, mice. It helped but didn’t solve the symptoms completely. I was unable to do things like use a laptop without pain.

Several years later I started doing basic body strength exercises. I thought I had permanent nerve damage by that point, but within about 4 weeks all symptoms were gone. That was 10 years ago.

I think a lot of these problems are related to shoulder, neck, and arm muscles. Stress, cold, seem to exacerbate the symptoms. Nothing I read in years of research had the right answer.
Yet they need more tax breaks so the wealth trickles down to the... shareholders? No. We need to invest in infrastructure and research so that companies have places to invest in. Share buybacks are just propping the economy up until assets blow up.
So here's the issuing with buying back, it creates an artificial demand on the stock. As we know, demand increases price, so the price of the stock goes up. In order words becomes inflated. People's 401k, pension are invested in those stocks. Meanwhile, the folks CEO/Boards behind the buybacks cash out! The price of the stock doesn't reflect the real value in normal conditions. When the music stops, folks with 401k, pensions invested in those will be the ones losing big time!
> All cars designed primarily for the highway rather than the track have issues with brake heating, transmission fluid heating, et cetera, and slow down over time.

This doesn't include trucks which are a large part of the market. Being designed to haul, everything is oversized.
No one is saying that. The evidence shows that companies are spending on automation, so the argument that tax cuts for corporations are going to lead to an increase in labor are dubious at best and utter nonsense at worst.

The best way to stimulate labor is to stimulate demand, aka giving money to the people who will spend. It's sickening to see people pretend that massive corporate tax cuts and middle-wage tax hikes are going to do anything other than reduce labor demand.
I think it's 20-30% better energy density than current batteries
Exactly why you should avoid working for cowardly, craven bosses if you can help it. Leadership takes moral courage to do the right thing. Leadership means looking out for those working for you and who have placed their trust in you. When you discover that that is not the case, it's time to move on.
If you're a mature company making something like ketchup or tyres or whatever, there's limited scope for growth. There'll be good years and bad years, but nobody claims ketchup revenue will treble in the next 15 years, in the way Netflix revenue might do.

For a company whose sales have reached cruising altitude, a dividend is the equivalent of the interest you'd be paid, had you put the same money into a bank account.
Yeah, that's about what I calculated in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20426368 — 130 petawatts of terrestrial insolation and 18 terawatts of world marketed energy consumption.

I think solar panels will tend to have lower albedo than the surfaces they shade (sunlight they reflect is not available for energy production, and even the 16%-efficient ones that are common today are pretty black), especially before the humans start floating them on oceans. Essentially all the energy they successfully harvest will later be converted to heat on Earth. So they will represent a positive thermal forcing in the climate system. I don't know what you mean about getting counted twice?

I don't know why anyone would propose orbiting solar panels when it's still easy to put solar panels on deserts. So I assumed that was what they were imagining, even though that's not a long-term scenario; it could happen before 2089, which is very short-term.
I think the article's abstraction of the problem was overly mechanistic.

Similar to parent comment, fighting from the hallway is a legal and strictly dominant strategy.

The MGS-style counter was to have enemies notice you, communicate your location to other enemies, who would then approach from behind your location, mooting your advantage.

The Half Life et al. counter was to have enemies telegraph an attack strategy shift, which would again moot your advantage. E.g. "He's hiding in the hall, tossing grenade!"

I think this is the fundamental difference between Doom-likes and HL-likes. The former sees level design as a primary focus, and the latter sees AI behavior as a primary focus. Borderland-likes probably fall somewhere in the middle.

Also, re: "playing to win", Sirlin's masterpiece, for those who haven't read it.

http://www.sirlin.net/ptw
Yes, however the thing with safety nets is people typically avoid having to fall back on them. I could go broke and fall back to living with my elderly mother, but you can bet your ass I'd rather avoid that.

A rich kid might be able to ask their parents for more cash, but the embarassment and scolding that might come with that is likely enough to get a lot of rich kids to avoid the situation by choosing to live within the artificially imposed bounds of their allotted budget.
There already are quite strict rules along those lines in the EU. For example, here's the UK's interpretation:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and...
Yea that data (partial bookings) would be great. It’s hard to get reliably, I have it for some rooms but not others. Once I have more quality on it I’ll start showing it on the site. At the moment, booked means fully booked.

This site also has a review feature. Please add some reviews :). It shows how many rooms the reviewer has done, so you know if it’s a new person or someone with experience.
If you had a heart, you may care about the financial outcomes for other people. And if you had any sense, you would realize balancing economic inequality remains precarious and our current levels are closest to the period right before the depression.

Socialism isn't an absolute, it's a spectrum. Most people don't seem to care about the lack of privatized fire fighting as it existed in ancient Rome.
The article's explanations for why rich people pretend to be poor are exactly the "more likely" explanations you say that it misses. The article is saying that shirking responsibility is a side effect.

Quotes from the article:

> Rich people pretend to be poor to fit in

> They want independence from their parents
There is one near me that has a room(B) that leads into anther room(A) that leads to an exit. The premise is basically that the team in Room A have to escape before the team in Room B(which leads into room A) can get inside and catch them.

You switch starting rooms when round is over and there are 8 unique styles that rotate each week, there is a league with 14 teams in so far that complete a rotation which they are calling 'season'.
A lot of scrapers!
Russia is much worse, trying to destabilize Western democracy.

And no, it's not FUD
I'm in complete agreement with you, but we're on a forum with many people who have had great financial success and definitely benefit short-term from the tax policies. That's the reality of the community.
I thing the "Why not?" is another way of saying that you've put more effort into understanding the motivation behind this project than OP did.
From the article, the tower had been decommissioned over a century before the article was published a few years ago. This is Victorian-era tech; steampunk but real. This was not high tech post-WWI, as the headline would indicate.
Tesla Model 3 owner unlocks car with her arm after implanting RFID chip in it
For those in this thread, try mechanical keyboards without much actuation force, like Cherry MX clear.

Also try programmable keyboards or custom keymap layouts, which will allow you to map Return to the caps lock key to balance RSI a bit. I have issues with my right index which I almost completely blame on Diablo 1/2, swapping left + right click helps a lot.

I’ve also tried and wouldn’t recommend:
Dvorak (no noticeable difference)
Egrodox (extremely hard to learn)

Maaaaybeee tiled window managers, dunno where I stand on that one but it probably doesn’t help a lot ergonomics wise.
Economic inequality is at its highest level since 1928 and is about to increase even more due to automation, this climate of victimization/identity politics is being increasingly forced at a higher level by corporations, a simple way to build goodwill in the public opinion and feel that they are in the right.
I used to train AI to help researchers find more relevant papers at http://iris.ai This was nothing more than just classifying. Would this kind of opportunity be available for data remotaskers at Scale. Best regards for groundbreaking work
I think it is a bit more complicated than that. The bottom 90% keep a big chunk of what little savings they have in cash or cash equivalents. The top 1% invest most of their savings in treasuries (investing in federal spending) or equities (businesses) or other investments (real estate, etc). This is why many believe it is sensible to reduce taxes for the wealthy; perhaps they will continue to invest the savings in private businesses.
Coming soon to Netflix: The Wrath of Tardigrade.
I think these sort of social issues are probably the dumbest thing to feel strongly about or take a stand on as a white person. I also think working in academia is particularly dumb as well. So due to this persons self destructive actions I think he may have improved his own life, this post may be some more self harm in action though.
Payer would be charged with?

I don’t know what you could charge a person who disabled a safety feature.

I don’t know what you could charge a person who wants to avoid responsibility for a crime.

I mean, crimes are serious, if the complexity of charging a person exceeds the willingness of the government to prosecute, what does that say about the government?

Everyone is effectively looking the other way?

Those officials could be charged with misprision, depending on the evidence. Those officials could be charged with negligence. Those officials could be named and shamed so that they may never be employed. The payer himself could be charged crimes involving malice aforethought if there was evidence.

The US government is an extremely powerful entity, for which the members of which are choosing to act like cowards?
> Buying your own stock is like returning money to shareholders.

Right. Before, the shareholders have shares. Afterwards, they have shares and money. The total value has not changed at the moment of the operation (ignoring taxes, assuming infinity liquidity, that the information about the transaction was incorporated already in prices, etc.).

> It's effectively a dividend, by raising the stock price by the same amount they use to buy back stock.

It's effectively a dividend, but it's different in that the share price remains constant for a buyback and goes down for a dividend (again, in the ideal case).

With a dividend: Before, the shareholders have X shares. Afterwards, they have money and X shares (which have a price lower than before, to keep the total constant).

With a buyback: Before, the shareholders have X shares. Afterwards, they have money and Y shares (which have the same price as before, but there are less of them to keep the total constant).

> Like if they use $1 billion to buy back stock, the aggregate value of the outstanding stock should go up by $1 billion.

Nonsense. It's the other way around: the aggregate value of the outstanding stock should go down by $1 billion.

Where "should" applies only in the ideal case, sure, but there is no way at all to construct an argument where it "should go up by $1 billion".
Oh but it is going in a wonderful investment: consolidation of elite power.

When “gains every quarter” are the goal and the measure of “gains” is finance, if you own all the valuable assets up for trade in the finance market...

But that’s ridiculous!

Humans are not and never will be rational actors. They carry their childhood memes with them for life via their brains. Offer some science that refutes it if you got it, but the functional processes of literal reality trump our conscious gut and that’s a well debated fact of human behavior.

The narrative has always been “protect inherited power.”

We see Tonight show hosts, religious true believers, true believers in capitalism, etc stand up to protect the “torch” they’ve been handed. Symbolism above all else.

Finance is another source of illusory power that we have a habit of blindly bestowing on others for emotional feels, before utilitarian value. Not saying that’s good or bad, it’s just what I find to be a reasonable summarization.

What a shock! Tim Cook and the rest aren’t investing in r&d. But their era was corporate micromanagement. Business of financial economy. Not nation state building and rivalry, which flooded the economy with public investment dollars via high taxation.
Money does sit idle. It's used to hedge against recessions and acquire assets when their price is the lowest. Have you ever heard of liquidity?

The whole point of finance is to maximize returns on investment. One strong strategy is to build liquidity before economic (or industry) downturns to cheaply acquire assets. This idleness happens at a much greater rate for the wealthy than the poor. And by poor, I mean the bottom 90% of society. They don't have the luxury of savings. This means it's of greater value to give them money because they spend it quickly . The economy doesn't grow when companies buy back stock, it grows when someone has enough money to pay for medical treatments or to buy a new car.
> My GP read the note and informed me: He would not prescribe me painkillers. He would not send me for a second opinion from a neurologist, or treatment from any other specialist

In a real Healthcare system, a second opinion doesn't require the consent of your doctor. It is despite them, not at their descretion.
I always thought an angle to try on these was to turn the escape room inside out. Instead of paying rent, get old cars/buses and build an experience where people had to get in rather than out. Something you could relocate to another city or take out to kids parties. Have components in the trunk, under seats, in roof capsules, glove boxes.

I’m sure bus-based ones have been done, but I haven’t heard of retro-fitting junk cars.
The early Model S motors had problems like that. They got a lot better over the years. The Model 3's is great, and the Model S/X front motors are now the same as the Model 3's, while the rear motors are something else that's still a lot better.
If you care about security Whatsapp is so much better imo.
If you're using a custom ROM or rooted phone, your messages won't be protected with end-to-end encryption.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/26000005/?category=52452...
The section on parallel joins is a bit out of date. Shameless plug: I've written and spoken about this subject extensively, if you are looking for more information, with further links and pointers to other blogs and academic papers.

Parallelism in PostgreSQL in general:

https://speakerdeck.com/macdice/parallelism-in-postgresql-11

Deeper dives on hash joins:

https://write-skew.blogspot.com/2018/01/parallel-hash-for-po...
https://speakerdeck.com/macdice/hash-joins-past-present-and-...
Multiplayer games probably follow a bell curve, much like the technology adoption lifecycle[1], peaking a few years after release. Except for GTA, the more single-player games in that list (ARK, FM, Rainbox Six Siege) are all younger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle
Uh.

Yes.

But things don’t disappear do they?
> What did I miss?

Well, the player would still presumably have to cross the door's threshold to trigger the checkpoint. The article's problem case is that the player doesn't even have to move through the door. The article's solutions (a dividing wall, hiding enemies) would actually work with your proposal. And having a mechanism like the door closing behind the player is more of a blunt, niche solution than one that makes the game feel dynamic for the player.

Another problem is that putting a checkpoint in the middle of action isn't always what you want. By ensuring there are multiple viable approaches to an encounter (instead of one overpowered cheesy solution), you're solving a more general problem that now doesn't depend on checkpoint location. In fact, now you can place the checkpoint in the spot with the most decision-branches for the player instead of the spot that forces their hand.
No gearing is bad for performance and inelegant. Tesla's cars should have a top speed over 220 given their power and acceleration. They're all limited to ~140 because no gearing.

The motors start to get inefficient even around 80mph. Telsa's have amazing 0-60 performance but get beaten by many cars on a highway roll because of no gearing.
It’s too bad for them too since eventually someone will build free software too.

In many cases, they already are, though it's debatable whether it's ready to compete head-on with the major commercial offerings. You can buy white box switches and open software platforms to control them for SDN purposes right now, for example. But I'd say so far the main SDN suites haven't built up a great reputation and a lot of IT groups still prefer to source everything from one supplier with an expensive but all-encompassing support contract.
Thermal tech and longevity have been pushed by Tesla. 18650 is a form factor not a chemistry.
Nice that this is finally live. I was in the beta group for it for about a year and really liked the feature. Only shortcoming was at night it didn't do well at figuring out your direction as it uses visual clues to get the exact direction you are pointing. Was great for walking around cities as I travel a lot.
I've worked extensively with both Java and Clojure, and the latter is far easier to read in my experience.
It's more empirical than that I think.

The situation in SE England in which 95%+ of those under, say, age 30 or so, will never own a home (and are currently in little rooms sharing with others if they're not partnered off) is not something that is a result of some sort of economic formula.

Individuals still have to decide that it's better than their alternatives (e.g. lower cost towns, rural living, staying with parents, emigrating, ...).

Beyond that there's also political action.
Neighborhood security apps are making us wildly paranoid
Nice photos. Extra info about “telefontornet” can be found in https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2014/10/when-the-telephone-...
I use notion.so

They support code snippets via code blocks.

I use it for notes but also for much more.

For example, my website (https://blog.kowalczyk.info/) is almost fully generated out of content stored in Notion via a custom program (https://github.com/kjk/blog) that uses my (unofficial, reverse-engineered) API library for Go (https://github.com/kjk/notionapi).

Notion is very rich so it might be overwhelming at first but it's the last note-taking application I'll ever use.
That's curtailment. A twist on that is to install some of the solar at an angle appropriate for winter instead of summer.
> However, if the stock is under pressure (below its “fair” price), say 50 cents in the above example, then by buying the stock back, you are creating true value for your investors.

Which means that your company just gambles its money at the stock market by betting on its own price.
Academia is a lost cause in its current high cost form.

They have a financial incentive to provide a playground for feelings to entice as many students as possible. Those students borrow money to attend that they can never be forgiven on.

University administrators pocket most of the money while educators get pushed downward as the primary motivator for attending a school becomes the culture for students to be “comfortable”.

The pendulum will swing back. I don’t know in what form yet.
VoodooPad.
>I mention this only because what works will vary between people and I think it's an important change.

I really like this because I took an alternative option. I decided "home row" thinking was too confining when writing code (I probably write more scripts), and I can't think as fast as I can type with that sort of approach. My colleagues call me a "hunt and pecker," while I actually simply refuse the home row. Muscle memory is quite odd and can be cultivated to encourage less repetition.
I was trying to find its source once and I couldn't. Thanks!