skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This letter completely misses the point. The point of any long term investment is what is reversible and what is not.

Lets look at the three pillars:

1) Team - completely reversible. Hence not important.

2) Product - completely reversible. Team can change the product architecture given a strong demand from the strong market.

3) Market - not reversible. Yes, a pivot is possible, but than the company is basically a new venture.

To sum up. Market (the idea) is the only thing that counts.
> I've tried to explain my point and provide some examples of how the problem manifests in the ecosystem of the language. While my writing skills may need work, I would not call the post random.

True. I wouldn't say it is random. It was an interesting read. I do find it interesting that the title is "Javascript is Bad" as opposed to say "Here are some warts you can find in Javascript". My take is that it can't really be entirely bad. If it is then it doesn't really seem to matter. For various reasons (some probably down to chance) JS + HTML + CSS underpin the web in spite of their faults. What that suggests to me is that JS must have some properties that have enabled to dominate the web up to now. I wonder if in reality what matters most is the user experiences delivered to users and the value that derived by the individuals/companies that produce them. In addition the ease with which new devs can get started with the language seems like a big plus. With that mind, in some ways it's possibly irrelevant how nasty the code looks, how many iterations it took to weed out bugs due to the warts, packaging, etc
I met a cruise ship worker from Bali who started staying in the USA illegally because it pays more than the cruise ship. He works in some restaurant and will just keep doing it until he is caught or he wants to get married. Then he will return to his home country. In the mean time he is sending money back home for his family and sister's education.
Science and technology (and maybe trade?) are our global culture.
You got a new user. I love it. Great work!
Suitsupply also has a very nice shoe collection made from italian calf leather for a reasonable price.

Sneakers for $179 and dress shoes are priced at $249.

Like you said amazing quality shoes last for several years when given proper maintenance.

Business attire is also top notch from this brand competing with similar Brioni suits for a 1/3 of the price.

https://us.suitsupply.com/en_US/shoes
> Everything is hashmap-typed and you need to do runtime checks to make sure the data you receive is what you expect. You cannot trust any input

I don't mean this in a type system flamewar but in java if you receive Person object and want to get firstName. Your options are still the same.

1. runtime check to see person.firstName is not null.

2. or blindly assume that it can never be null and do person.firstName.trim()

So those are the exact options in clojure too. What am I missing here.
I guess one question there would be which Greek civilisation - there was a significant collapse of civilisation (the "Late Bronze Age collapse") starting around 1200BC or so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

The works of Homer, written down much later, are probably based on oral histories of the times before this collapse. There still seems a lot of debate as to what caused this widespread collapse.

What I find fascinating is that there are vast ruins like Gla that aren't even mentioned by Homer that appear to date from just before this time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gla
A fictional universe of battletech illustrates that quite realistically.

They have fusion reactors for every housewife, godlike metallurgy and rocket engines, but they can't make advanced computers no matter how hard they try after an interstellar nuclear civil war put an end to interstellar trade and, thus, complex economies and long supply chains.

Such things require enormous societal organisations to work, and that requires period of civility, prosperity, and material security to make people with brains to do things like that and not to scramble to work on better bomb shelters.

After few generations of people living caring about only basic necessities, the society went into downward spiral because the less scientists and engineers there were, the less were available to teach the next generation of them, and maintain advanced manufacturing equipment.

Despite the basic knowledge of science still being there, there were nobody with hands on skills and material capacity to make complex manufacturing equipment even after a period of relative prosperity 300 years later.

It's like asking a average random engineering or physics PhD to make AMSL 3500 EUV scanner. He will have a basic idea how the thing works, but it will take him more than a lifetime just to make a single part of it if he were to work alone without societal and material facilities for making something so complex.
On the other hand, Swedish fast food chain Max has a pretty good "plant beef" burger made of wheat and soy protein, and it costs the same as the meat version.

I guess with Beyond and Impossible you pay a hefty price for their marketing. Or for irrelevant features: Didn't one of them put a lot of research into making a "bleeding" plant burger? Bleeding may be relevant in some settings, but not at Burger King where you always get your burger well done (AFAIK).
Culture changes. One day when I was growing up, someone said, "Hey dog owners, pick up your dog's poop." Insane. No is going to wrap their hand around a bag of hot poop. That's just not who we are. It was crazy. It's still crazy.
I know several people who have been diagnosed with, say, fibromyalgia, Crohn’s disease, PCOS, or some other chronic problem and would be happy to know about new, potentially more effective medication. In theory, they’re the primary audience for these commercials.

Additionally, some commercials are targeted at people who have undiagnosed problems, who may not even realize that what they have is unusual. Those commercials start with a list of symptoms, a recommendation to talk with a doctor, and a note that if you do have a particular condition a new drug could potentially help.

And, of course, there are ads for things that people can readily self-diagnose, like erectile dysfunction.

In practice, the ads leave a lot to be desired. Probably the worst marketing campaign I remember was Nexium, which ran ads for several years encouraging people to talk with their doctors about “the purple pill,” without ever mentioning what it could treat. The tag line — “little, purple, different” — didn’t help.
Thank you <3 This will be fixed asap

Edit: Fixed
"... unless you are willing to pay us for reading this content. In which case you've already paid for it so browse however you like"
That will result in a lot less software for mac OS. Since there are many applications that certainly will not spend anything on developer ids, e.g. most open source software there will simply be less builds for the platform.

ChromeOS supports android apps, but yes, I would state that iOS, chromeOS and android are really bad operating systems.
They pretty clearly said that it’s about being prevented from using their own property the way they want.
This. This is niche-within-niche-within-niche level stuff. Gaming nowadays is insanely big market and there are endless weird niches for all kind of tastes. Businessmen like Jeff discover some specific niche and make living out of it.
There's an amazing OS program called Wox [0], which uses Everything [1] (an infinitely better search program) to produce an experience similar to Spotlight on Mac. Can't recommend it highly enough. (No affiliation, just a fan)

[0] http://www.wox.one/

[1] https://www.voidtools.com/
May I suggest adding Turbolinks? Performance doesn't get more minimal. :)

https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
Wait a second, is the implication that anyone associated with him was also somehow tied to his illegal sexual activities? That seems like a stretch, and this seems like an attempt to smear anyone even remotely attached to him. Its entirely possible and likely he gave money to scientists and they had no further connection to him beyond that. Buzzfeed is such garbage, how is it reaching the front page of hacker news?
> What do you feel I handled differently on account of my association with Brave? Will gladly correct any mistakes.

Put it in your twitter bio. Just "working @brave". If I'm reading your opinion on software its helpful to know I'm reading the opinion of someone employed by a competitor without needing to dig through other parts of your twitter account.
I came here to mention the same thing. I experimented with the Clojure version a long while ago, and evaluated the Haskell version about a year ago for a project at work. Good stuff.
The Flutter framework is helping keep it alive. I think it's also used a lot in Google's Fuchsia OS.

I thought it was too bad it was not widely adopted as a JavaScript replacement, like it was meant to be.
Every field has exceptional people, things just come naturally to them. Recently I've been watching some videos of Kim Jung Gi on youtube (warning, some of his videos are not safe for work). In a world of super talented artists, Kim is on a whole another level. Apparently he was exceptional, even as a child (though he does draw a lot). Ramanujan woke up from dreams in the middle of the night, wrote complex Math proofs and went to sleep. And so on.

I guess the loophole here is simply being born with talent :P
Ask HN: Questions for Wes Bos about how he learned coding without a degree?
I'm interviewing Wes Bos soon for my blog: www.nocsdegree.com

Does anyone have anything they want to ask him about how he learned to code or about his courses? I was pretty surprised that he did Business Management at college and not Computer Science given he makes a very good living now teaching Javascript.
Is your organization collecting Singapore ID numbers? It's probably illegal
That's an interesting thought. But consider

- If "where should I put" is unclear, "where should I find" is equally unclear.

- Code should be mostly "local" anyway (what's the word again?)

- Text search exists, and IDEs nowadays even do fuzzy search.

- I didn't say we should make a total mess. If there is an obvious organizational strategy, just go for it! But namespaces are not that important; you can still get most of the organizational advantages of namespaces by just grouping in files and maybe prefixing.
The counter ID is the same as in the <img> tag? If I go to the editing page and I use

ID = 27214990

email = mattbgates_12345@12345_gmail.com

can I edit it?

[Let's try some variations like matt.b.gates matt-b-gates matt_b_gates and @hotmail.com, @live.com, @yahoo.com, @yahoo.co.uk, ... Or I could try to see if in your profile or previous projects you have a public email, but I'm too lazy.]
There's no way I'd ever import a tiny library like that. Verifying that a library does what I expect it to do, uses an appropriate license for my project, isn't likely to break my project in the future, etc., is a fair bit of work, and it only increases as more tiny packages are added. The worrying over increasing the size of the dist folder is a symptom of using a bad package manager. I do believe that packages shouldn't be bloated, and should mainly focus on a single goal, but that goal should be at least somewhat broad in scope. Manipulating strings is a good objective for a package, but changing the case of strings seems too small to be worth it.
That hard drive doesn't exist in isolation unless you have forcibly removed it from its computer. I would be more worried about not having an electric grid that lets you power the computer.
So everyone who ever worked or met Epstein is guilty by association ?

Is this what journalism is ? - Naming and Shaming people where there is no crime or unethical act committed.
Thanks for clarifying.

It’s clear that you don’t care about the consequences to anyone who owns a home other than the ‘Boomers’ who you want to make pay.

I didn’t say ‘tech bros’. But I did mention tech. I stand by that but I agree that it is narrow - It’s a stand in for anyone who is young and in a position to have high future earnings.
>Also the per-kilogram energy storage is far less important given the price difference between iron and lithium. There's a huge market for stationary battery storage where weight and even (to a lesser extent) size are non-factors compared with cost per kWh.

Excuse my ignorance, so what is this Iron-Ion battery good at even if we discount Per Kilogram Storage? Iron / Lithium isn't even the 10% of Battery BOM cost. Am I missing something here?
With Lodash I also get currying and sort of pattern matching (via conditional execution). To be fair, I probably should have said that I was considering the situation when commonly used libraries are available.

Immutability isn't enforced, but I have all the tools that I need to choose to handle data immutably.

I completely agree with you on types though. I don't know that much about TypeScript, but perhaps it would help?

You definitely have a point that functional programming would be much better in JS if these features were built in and/or enforced. However, the problem is: what's the alternative? Haskell/Clojure/Ocaml jobs aren't exactly common. And at least in terms of Haskell and Ocaml, I've found the syntax to be pretty arcane.
As it should be in my opinion - admittedly colored by own experiences and phobias. Hospitalization is a leading cause of PTSD. That "discomfort" can leave people pretty traumatized and messed -all because of other's puritan desires.

If you washed someone's wounds in salt water when there were alternatives it would be rightfully regarded as sadism - why the tolerance for unnecessary pain and suffering otherwise?
Selection bias. Jeff's customers are not representative of Jeff's would-be customers, like the ones he casually dismissed in his previous post.

No one is talking about "artsy fartsy", whatever that means (are Jeff's RPG stories "roley poley"?); they are talking about coherent colors and style and uncluttered non-distracting layout. Many/most successful indie games look decent not ugly, and not "artsy fartsy".
Ah ok. When it came to using PHP back then I didn't even use third party frameworks. I just cherry picked things like database libraries and pulled them into my code base.
I think he probably had multiple goals in mind but it mainly looks to me like someone who wanted to make money by getting in good with the people doing fundamental research so that he could have an inside track on new technologies and new products that would be reaching the market. It's what I would do (not the pedo shit, that is beyond perverse).
It's cites a single review and for no other purpose than quoting the reviewer. The rest is hearsay, at best.
That'd be a really nice feature
Many of these people traveled on Epstein's jets and visited his houses repeatedly. There's a lot more here than accepting money from a sex offender (which in itself is really awful).
You are right, I'm off on a tangent here.
care to share what game it is?
A theme I wrote with some Bootstrap 4. I am not a pro front-end developer/designer, but I guess it does the work for my personal blog!

(https://www.ecalamia.com/static/css/style.css)
Exactly this, we seem to have a lot of "guilty by association" going on in society lately, but I think it will pass. There have been a few waves of extreme responses to limited real things that pass after a year or two lately.
Oh you could shortcut tremendously. Once photography was invented (1830s) we could have had integrated circuits. If we had known they were possible. Which we do now.

There's ideas that can survive long after devices turn to dust. The germ theory of disease. The Staff system. Ops planning. Cross-fertilization and hybridization. Optics. With these ideas, the devices can be recreated, and in a better sequence that we accidentally created them the first time.
>Makes me wonder, if a highly international organization could make Esperanto part of onboarding?

Hmmm, get some YC companies to start using it just 'for fun' an hour a week or for a blog or whatever could probably foster quite a bit of new speakers.
I think he tries to make his sponsor messages as awkward as possible as a joke.
I think I have the same watch - a Casio WaveCeptor Tough Solar. It was a 21st birthday present. The complete lack of need to replace batteries is amazing. I have the titanium version, which is astonishingly lightweight. And it is indeed tough - I've gone travelling, swimming, diving with it and it's fully functional. The timezones feature is also extremely useful when travelling, being able to swap between home and local easily. My current apartment makes it difficult to pick up the time signal though.

However, I bought a Pebble a few years ago, and I have to say there is definitely a way to do smartwatches right. The idea of charging a watch regularly is annoying, I can't deny, but Pebble did something right when they prioritised battery life. I routinely get over a week of use out of the Pebble, and that's with an always-on LCD screen (contrary to popular belief, it's not a traditional e-ink display, but a 'memory LCD', which has a refresh rate fast enough to display animations), which for all the watch does is quite acceptable battery life. It can fully charge from USB in an hour. And the ability to have a watch face showing a large amount of information at once (just like the 'complications' on traditional watches) really helps - on the main one I use, I can see the local weather at a glance. Having certain notifications pushed from my phone is also useful. Although sometimes, I do find myself ensuring the watch is exposed to sunlight like my Casio, trying to charge it.
I think it's unfair to call it mining. You're simply able to be rewarded in their token if you allow ads. That is completely different from mining.
Patents exist to prevent the sale of innovations. The notion that I can't make a buck without a patent because someone else will undercut me may be true, but it also says that innovations will get to market without patents.
>So everyone who ever worked or met Epstein is guilty by association ?

If you met him after his first brush with the law (and that's putting it very delicately) yes, you are guilty of association. I don't think it should be taken lightly.

The article itself doesn't make any accusations outside of the association.
It looks that after all he did something good with the money. If more people would donate to science before to go to jail(or commit suicide) the world would be a better place.
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> Unless they were given tampered numbers or false factual information, Musk could oversell SolarCity prospects six ways from Sunday and they can't do anything about it.

That would be true if Musk had owned SolarCity but not been CEO of Tesla: puffery short of actual fraud would be fine. As Tesla CEO, though, Musk has a fiduciary duty to Tesla shareholders, which means his (enforceable, legal) obligation is greater than just avoiding outright fraud.
These people also socialized with him and when they accepted money from him it was after he was a convicted sex offender.

Look at Ethan Zuckerman's post on leaving MIT where you can see he urged Joi Ito to not get involved with Epstein because it was already well known that he was abusing underage girls:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...
There's Methane Hydrates underground too. More of that, than oil. Estimated 6X. So we have 6 more tries at civilization?
> And if you're Purdue, you have every incentive to lower the dosing interval because you can charge more. You make more money with every 8 hour dosing (which is still better than most drugs) than every 12 hours.

The article addresses this.

> Company officials worried that if OxyContin wasn’t seen as a 12-hour drug, insurance companies and hospitals would balk at paying hundreds of dollars a bottle. Some already were.

> If a doctor complained that OxyContin didn’t last, Purdue reps were to recommend increasing the strength of the dose rather than the frequency. There is no ceiling on the amount of OxyContin a patient can be prescribed, sales reps were to remind doctors, according to the presentation and other training materials.
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In the land of collapsed technology, an accessible copy of Wikipedia may be a priceless gem.
I read this entire thing and don't understand what's the issue - is it that Epstein is trying to fund people who might give a scientific "excuse" for his criminal behaviour or it's just "scientist took money from bad man, bad scientist", because if it's the latter we might as well shut down NASA and the space program since it was funded by Nazis, etc etc.

Edit: I do think that Harvard, et al singing praises to him knowing he was a pedophile is wrong. But the article is really confusing as to what is trying to say (and it wouldn't be the first time science and human rights abuses or crimes are associated).
It's not like it's an implementation detail of their parser, it would make the language more difficult to write correctly and still be parsed by any parser, including a human reading the code.
My apologies, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth.
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I think it goes both ways. I don't really understand what people mean when they say they "picture" something. What's the sensation like, compared to not picturing something?
As soon as I use the same code twice, I try to make it into a generic component. The same logic twice becomes a function. The same concept twice becomes a package in a shared library.

Emphasis on "try": Some languages make it difficult to avoid code duplication in certain situations. (Looking at you, Go...) I allow code duplication if it's more readable than trying as hard as possible to refactor out common parts.

For Go-based API-driven services, we have collected some of these reusable modules and functions at https://github.com/sapcc/go-bits.
You could probably throw out 90% or more of dictionary words for your permutations, I'd say that is significant enough to paint a target on your back.
> (or looks, if he is alive)

No conspiracy theories please. We have enough assaults on truth as it is.
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That's not really what I was trying to get at.

Putting your thoughts into words so that they can be understood by someone other than yourself or working through a problem are both deliberate ways of thinking that have clear benefits.

I do disagree with your last part. It's quite hard to test though. But let's say I'd ask you to just talk about any topic you want without preparing what you are going to say and right when you start a sentence I will randomly create some signal/noise which you should understand as the signal to stop talking immediately. I'd say you will know exactly what you were about to say.
Agree, Which is exactly what we do.
> you are guilty of association

Guilty of which crime ?
I'm contesting the "76B doses is about a 6 month script for every patient with chronic pain in the US" statement, as well as the idea that every chronic pain patient needs opiate treatment.

> if your doctor says "take two every four hours"

That'd be weird for an Q12H drug, wouldn't it?
There are alternatives. It won't be as easy or as cheap, no, but windmills and nuclear plants can both be built with WW1-era technology.
You are reading more to the article that what the article says.

Epstein was some kind of confidence man and hustler in addition to using underage girls for sex. It's interesting to see how wide his network was. He was able to buy or wiggle into the life of these people using his money and connections.