skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What can help with this is to start building little systems and solve these problems in general.

Dedicate a given day of the month or week for all your meetings so scheduling is simpler.

Chase invoices on the same date every month, chase all invoices that are overdue by some threshold you have set. Just follow the rule, and chase using a template. Perhaps even code the first few chases into an automated system.

Try to avoid customized proposals, use templates for many things. I agree this one is hard.

Managing employees, you have to consider each employee is a force multiplier. The idea here is to invest a day to get a week or similar.

Overall, you need to just invest a limited time into each decision. After that time, go with what feels best even if it isn't perfect and move on. I find the same thing hard myself.
The Athenian solution to this, if I recall, is ostracization. Every year citizens vote by writing the name of a single citizen. The citizen with the most votes, provided a minimum bar of 6,000 had been met, was banished for ten years.

I think this would have the effect of preventing polarizing figures. If you were so polarizing a large portion of the population hated you...

I could imagine adapting the practice for modern sensibilities. Create a resort run by federal money out on the beach of some tropical island. Free food, drinks, games. It could double as a tourist attraction so there would be people to hang out with. If you win the ostracization vote you get a five year vacation on the state and all of your previous positions or titles are withdrawn.
Then I'd need an adapter to plug it into my other audio devices.
> you might have couples split in HK and mainland

I have no direct knowledge of this, but HKers working in the mainland is common enough that I suspect this could account for quite a lot of split couples.
I'm pretty sure seeking out the logical fallacies in a story like this is not the point...
My idea was just to have this integrated into your ISP bill.

I once thought that ISPs should pay for all content, then pass the bill onto users + costs-and-profit. I guess there would need to be separate standardized rates for video, audio, and text, but that creates a ton of regulatory and technical issues. Not the least of which is people don't want to pay. It would be like music licensing essentially, and look how that played out.

So just make it all voluntary like patreon, but integrated into my ISP billing, and give me an app/browser add-on to make payments and track my spending.
I have found that running a twitter account is helping for this. I have <20 people following and their encouragement that my stuff is not total rubbish really helps.
> People become addicts because they’re unhappy with their lives and their environment,

You know what's one thing that makes people very unhappy with their lives? Severe chronic pain. Aside from the pain, it also removes a great deal of agency and self-efficacy from their lives. They can't control the pain, the medical system is basically out of their control, and now there's a societal hysteria about opiates.

Beyond that, what you're describing it the difference between addiction and dependency. Any flesh and blood human will become dependent on opiates after a few weeks. It's why doctors have you taper off opiates and other meds that cause dependency.

Although even that distinction seems to be going by the wayside in the current hysteria.
> Amazon released a book ahead of embargo and they will face zero repercussion for doing so.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49592021
Tavis Ormandy, who discovered the latest and several other Lastpass bugs, has these password manager recommendations:

"KeePass and KeePassX are both good choices. If you really must use an online one, at least LastPass are responsive to researchers and have a competent security team, I would use them."

Asked about the experience he had reporting a 1Password vulnerability, he says:

"Astonishingly bad"

(source: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1167311357957435392)
Exactly. Shannon could have called his metric a 'Logarithmic measure on probability spaces', but he chose to call it 'Information' -- even though it's not exactly what we mean when we talk about information informally; the inspiration and analogy was very important to the work (personally I'd have called S 'Average Information', but that's with hindsight).\*

As long as you clearly define and state things (definitions) and can separate the context-specific [technical] meaning from general usage, I find it's a very good strategy not only for popularization purposes but to inspire and draw some valuable intuition from our daily lives into technical matter.

Naming things in the sciences is an art :)

*: It should be obvious I don't love the usual term 'Kullball-Leibler Divergence' in place of 'Relative Information', although in this case the names are obscure and difficult to pronounce enough to give it an air of rigour and nobility.
Let a Level 1 job consist of doing tasks "foo", "bar" and "bash" on a daily basis.

Let Level 2 tasks consist of doing "aleph", "zeta" but also sometimes a little "foo".

Some L1 employee killing it in terms of time-taken-to-complete bars and bashes, as well as being solid at foo...

Is not the same as

Some L1 employee is [okay to above average] at their regular job responsibilities (foo, bar and bash) and every now and then handles aleph and zeta without trouble (and sometimes excels at it).
Healthy ways of dealing with persistent boredom at work
Good chance that'll start to change as WASM gets more fleshed out and more commonly used, but that is a barrier to it's adoption at the moment.
There's a lot of Saudi fear mongering in tech media and it is not undeserved in some ways (MBS is a brutal authoritarian), but I'm not sure what interests people think the Saudis have in tech firms other than getting a return on their investment.

As bad as MBS is, it's not like he has some secret plan to spread Saudi values throughout the world. In fact, he's actually a liberalizing force in SA (economically and socially at least, although not politically). And Saudi Arabia, unlike e.g. China, isn't attempting to remake the world order to revolve around itself (and its authoritarian rulers). So while I understand the sentiment "I don't want to accept money from Saudi Arabia for my start-up because of their human rights violations", I have a hard time understanding why one would fear Saudi Arabian board members would abuse their seats for geopolitical influence purely due to the fact that Saudi Arabia has little to gain in the geopolitics department from tech companies.
Discretionary income is measured in dollars/time, cars are valued in dollars. That’s relevant because cars are affordable to middle class Americans because of _financing_ (also because of mass production). Your car payment deducts from your discretionary spending while web advertising does not—without web advertising you would need to subscribe to the websites and services you consume and that would come from your discretionary dollars. Whatever your views on the matter, getting rid of advertising isn’t going to come for free.
Similarly, given a gradient of anti intellectual to pro intellectual where would all societies rest?
When you always feel the need to lock up the last guy it doesn't exactly scream "peaceful transition of power".
Forgot to mention, the syncing is all done via Nextcloud (open source dropbox like system, but also does a lot more).
$200/yr isn't even remotely enough to compensate me for the hassle of using coupons.
Depends on what you're selling. Walk door-to-door in your downtown shipping district and ask to see the owner. Go to meetups for your consumer target and tell people about your project in personal conversations. Whatever it is, get on your feet and pound pavement.
We're in the mock-up stage and has started negotiation with on of well-known VCs in Silicon Valley

So, based on our condition do you think which deal is good enough?

We have a $1.5 trillion annual Total Addressable Market - TAM globally in smart cities market and we have chosen a company as our beachhead market strategy that has 1 million customers which if accepts our solution we will have $2.5 billion annual sales which would be between $250 million annual income

We need around just 500K users to become a unicorn

So what's the best strategy today for us in the pre-seed stage?
It would be nice if there were a reciprocal subscription model. All subscribers to the NYT can also view articles of the LA Times or some other site, but reciprocal logins are tracked and funds are divided accordingly. That way, with some limits, each site could set their price, offer the bonus of visiting other sites, and there would not be the huge barrier to entry of requiring a massive player to aggregate things and wield power over publishers they don't want to accept. It's basically the model of reciprocal agreements used by the postal services around the world.
Does YC have hardware partnerships?
I’m seeing a range of answers that seem to betray individual value systems more than anything.

I’ll play along. I’d say Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan. Societies of continuing celebration of poetic, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievement.

(That’s a short list, and a fast-thought out one that is shorter than it should be. Don’t crucify me for it. There are entire ranges of the planet I’ve skipped)
I think that one of the hidden points in there is that you do not really need a container to deploy python wsgi application, you need an venv and few system packages. Doing that by means of ansible playbook or even manually preinstalled system image that you just clone and then just only use Python packaging mechanisms is even somewhat simpler and faster than building container that works (ie. take a VM, poke into it until it works and then just clone it, deployment of your application is decoupled from the underlying OS)
Culturally it is basically a separate state. Everyone not in the Chicago area is basically a rounding error far as state government cares (Chicago has all the money so of course the government panders more to them, that's just how things work, no surprise there) though Chicago will complain right back about "those hicks downstate" (or something like that) preventing them from doing what they want.

If it were up to me we'd have like 100+ states so that people don't have to deal with sharing a state with and potentially get told what to do by some jerks that they have nothing in common with. I usually pick NY as my poster child example but IL works too.

Edit: Down-voting me won't make Chicago and downstate reconcile their differences.
They're basically bragging they have something Apple really wants.
Now they have a bunch of people at least interested in what they got.
I'll say that's not a bad PR.
>Amazon is more like shopping mall that decides to start operating their own stores and competing with their tenants.

more like a big box store that allows other stores to operate in them so long as they get a cut.
It seems like a fuel-inefficient maneuver. It could also expose the aircraft to anti-aircraft systems for longer than a high speed pass would.
If you read other plays of the era with Jewish characters, like Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (where the eponymous villain is a cartoon caricature), then you might better understand why there is room for nuance with Shakespeare’s depiction of Shylock compared to his contemporaries.
Why can't they use cloudfront?
Wanting to listen to music on your phone that is plugged in at your desk seems like a pretty reasonable use case to me
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the definition, but I'd consider those to be excessively conformist nations and not the beacons of intellectualism.
I don't see how that follows. Usually what happens is that those sustainable companies are copied by another company. This is perfectly fine but then that second company uses it's access to VC money to eliminate the competition. The sustainable company will have to close shop and years later the unsustainable company will close as well. Meanwhile the VCs don't care because some unicorn investment got them 20x returns.
Huh, but you have investors, eh? :-)

What about this: pass through infrastructure cost with a wee markup for maintenance/support and negotiate a modest percentage of gross revenue from your successful client companies.

That way you have a low-risk "farm" of potential big hits, and your users have stable costs.
Ancient Greece, too.
How does Elixir handle OOMs, in such a case?

Do they fail the entire VM, too?
From the guidelines (see link at the bottom of the page):

>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Russia copies a lot of anti-intellectualism from US. (just watch russian television if you dont believe me)
If you’re looking at the latency chart, higher is worse. The right hand side of the C# graph is not a good thing.

The throughput graph doesn’t show C# pulling ahead significantly. Significant is how far behind Java is from Go and C# in that benchmark.

Also be sure you’re not looking at JavaScript on the throughout graph, since it is colored very similarly to Go.
At this point, if I don't have a phone with a good camera, I'll have to go buy a new standalone camera- probably a point&shoot- in order to satiate my need for documentation and taking photos of my kids.

Also, nobody here seems to mention convenience- carrying around a smartphone is a great replacement for the calculator, watch (possibly with an integrated stopwatch, if you don't get anything too fancy,) walkie-talkie, stress toy, fidget spinner (there's an app for that), elephant, newspaper, or tabloid that might otherwise be on their person.

Utility!
Are there any examples of flagship Android phones that are similar in size to the iPhone SE? I doubt Apple just forgot about the SE, and it also seems unlikely that someone high up just made a gut call that the SE size is over. It seems more likely that this userbase you're talking about just isn't as big as you think, and isn't big enough for the R&D of redesigning the SE to be worthwhile for Apple, at least not yet.

Just to offer some counter-anecdotes, I've noticed a lot of women have the larger Max sized iPhone, since you get all the benefits of a big screen but it still fits fine in most purses. I carry my phone in my front pocket most of the time and the iPhone X/11 Pro size is perfect for that, I have no need to go down to the SE size. The only people I know using the SE are people who live in the Bay Area and work in tech who want to make a point of doing something contrarian and joining the tech backlash. And what better for this hipster crowd than discontinuing the phone altogether, so now you can only buy it used and having one becomes even more of a statement?
I'm very surprised the article listed the LG G8 and not the Asus Zenfone 6.
> You might be surprised how many people make this problem go away by running havaged, [sic] which provides very dubious entropy.

My personal favorite is:

# rngd -r /dev/urandom -o /dev/random
DNS traffic is often resolved through ISPs even if you use a VPN.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/13900/if-i-use-...
Interesting. Thanks for the details. I didn’t realize how few cores mainframes had.
Bluetooth works almost perfectly for me too, and I still use my phone's headphone jack from time to time. And the 3.5mm headphones I use work immediately with every other device I own. It's just a basic and useful enough feature that it doesn't make sense to remove it.
Yes, your personal perspective invalidates thousands and thousands of webapps out there that are reaching massive numbers of people that they otherwise never would have ;-)
What product/service does your company sell if you don't mind me asking?
Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software
Maybe your business attracts customers now because they have a lot of discretionary income to spend on it, but if other services that are a higher priority to your users start to find a subscription model to be more valuable than an ad model (because ad blocking is too effective, for example), your customers will have less discretionary income to put to ad-free reading. Further, all of those ad-subsidized reading sites now become your competition.

This isn’t a pro-ads argument, but an appeal to sober, informed debate.
I would also say TV has a significantly different timeline to books and games.

Different mediums can expect vastly different audience retention. Outside of the biggest hits, most TV won't be attracting attention 10-15 years down the line, but books are probably more in the 20-30yr dropoff.

Copyright lifetimes simply don't reflect the profitable lifetimes of most products.
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> Russia

While under the Soviet Union intellectual pursuits were more appreciated among the general population than in other countries (though naturally there were significant restrictions on what topics could be breached in art and literature), a lot of that culture disappeared in Russia after 1991. You don’t see many commuters reading belles lettres on the metro any more, chess still has its fans but nowhere near like in the socialist era, and Russian television today is as garish and sensationalistic as anywhere else.

One of the reasons that there was such a book culture across the Eastern Bloc is because books were extremely cheap by local standards, but there was little other media to consume or few other products to spend one’s money on. After the fall of Communism, books were no longer as cheap because the state no longer artificially set their prices at low levels, and there was an explosion of new, free television, radio, and magazine media that the population could consume instead, and there were new consumer goods to spend money on (when one had money, as there were some rocky times).
Whenever you hear the term "drug seeking behavior", imagine instead you're hearing a term "food seeking behavior" being used to describe someone at a grocery store. People "seek" things they think they need, duh.

People wouldn't "seek" drugs at the doctor if they could simply buy them at the store. Even if you believe the current regime of controlling access is worthwhile (debatable), then you still have to accept that many patients are going to apply themselves to solving their own problems more than any doctor during a half an hour visit. They may not necessarily be correct, but it is a better default attitude than removing their agency.

Tangentially but not really, I feel like a large part of this outrage fest against Purdue Pharma is a media-scapegoat to deflate attention from 1. Ongoing price gouging by the rest of the pharmaceutical industry and 2. The large spike in street opioids even before the fentanyl epidemic, likely due to invading Afghanistan.
When you sign for a credit card it's so the company can show you the signature if you think it might be fraud (forgot but recognize your signature)

They're also useful for acknowledgements in paper work.

They aren't for authenticating that you're you, they're just extra information.
You said all the other answers simply betray personal value systems, and not to crucify your list, but your list is essentially one of (Northern) Euro nations, plus Japan. Then you cite poetic, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievement as your criteria, but leave out countries like India, Russia, and China.

Could you explain your rationale here?
The Temporary Memory Lapse of Transient Global Amnesia
You don't know that this was the only action he took. This was not a great criticism considering how limited our information is right now.
To be fair, it's a true statement. The NBN is shithouse and compared to what was promised originally, it could be considered fake.
Stephen Conroy (on the left) was frequently called a Luddite by tech magazines. A leading IT forum even had an short lived happy April Fools he had been fired.

https://whirlpool.net.au/news/?id=1841&show=replies

I'd do more research if you want to know more.
Not normally. Film restoration isn't currently considered innovative enough for the output to be cobsidered a new work.

However if you create new credits, titles, interstituals, etc. then it generally does qualify as a new work.
You know this is tricky.

The CCP leadership is intellectual and is pro intellectual for its own cadres. But are they pro populace intellectualism?

Same for the Bolsheviks.

And to be honest, I think GWB's anti-intellectualism is as much a problem as is disconnected intellectualism who take it upon themselves to do what's "right" for the population at large.
1. Personally, no.

2. I love BetterTouchTool – I use it at work and at home. Ambivalent towards the touch bar without it, LOVE the touch bar with it.

3. My mid-'16 personal Macbook has the "stuttering keyboard" issue – extra characters typed if not careful. I haven't been doing much side-work lately so I can ignore it, but it's a real pain in the ass for sure. Haven't had that issue on my 2018 work Macbook (yet).
GM promises electric pickup truck production in union strike negotiation
Yes, of course HNers are too wise to be taken by simple vendor lock-in!

Facebook is closing Parse (parse.com)
1202 points by theunquietone on Jan 28, 2016 | hide | past | web | favorite | 500 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991729

...oh.

;-)
One reason I really want to work as an early employee. You have to wear multiple hats in the beginning.
I've been told that amazon might do "personalized pricing". Friends have told me their friends come up with lower prices in other locations.

Target was caught doing this. People with location services turned on using the target app would find pricing for an item jump up as they approached their local store.

search for "The Target app price switch: What you need to know"
These haven't come to my city (yet), but rentable bikes using a similar business model have. If the people using the scooters resemble the people using the bikes, then here's what gets me upset about them: the riders tend to be obnoxious. They ride in ways that are illegal and dangerous, and when they're done with the bikes, they just leave them wherever they happen to be -- very often in the middle of sidewalks.

Disclaimer: I ride a bicycle as my primary transportation, and I am the exact opposite of anti-bike.
> E-books lack the ability to share, sell, and pass it on.

How so? If you have the PDF file, it should be pretty easy to do all of these. Some or all of them may be illegal, but it is not the same as lacking the ability.

If it is DRM-protected, there are still ways around it.
I'd love to know how you're running Django and React together. I've been trying to figure out how to make that combo work in a mono-repo, and I'm definitely missing something. Any advice?
This is reasonable enough, but personally I'm not really convinced a text editor should be handling windows at all, especially since neovim allegedly is designed to be embedded by a ‘real’ UI (and presumably could be embedded by a terminal-based UI that handles windows—or just uses tmux).

I do recognize that I prefer software to be simpler than most people (for the record, much of the time I use ed(1)).
In France, there is still such a thing as a "celebrity philosopher".
Teach parents to teach their kids to foster connections across the globe outside official channels like school which are heavily curated.

Changing economics for us, in our lifetime is a lost cause. Our limbic systems are wired with the emotional bindings of our childhood. It’s hard to let go.

Teach kids to work together directly from as early as possible. Cut out Wall Street middle men and political grifters.
A commenter on the post says something similar, and the author replied that it's about more than just dosage: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudo...