skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an important point for jcims' situation: If you want your kids to get out, then get out yourself. You have to be a role model for getting out - both in the sense that the kids see that you had fun doing so and as a model for the skills used to master the situation (e.g. casually talking to people, gift culture, helping each other out and so on. The specifics obviously differ for different (sub-)cultures).

The role model thing is often overlooked when parenting. If you want your kids to do sports, let them see you doing sports etc.
Some of the comments here are taking about just “male friends”...point here is about “close friend” not juts friends. I think its difficult to make close friends in the digital world where you never see real side of the people
doh! I meant someone buy it to conserve it and protect it from harvesting.
Thanks, I'll try this out! Has it ever happened that it doesn't get created immediately for whatever reason? And if that happens, will it automatically cancel the request and/or pipeline within X minutes, so that it doesn't randomly get fulfilled like a month later?
Just following up, I tested in Firefox with strict privacy settings and location disabled, and it works for me with the IP geolocation fallback. If IP geolocation fails I have a further fallback to enter your street address. So something else must be broken.
From the few mailmen I know, this is hardly the case.
I think that's the plot of that Black Mirror episode, Be Right Back.
> "The number don't add up. Being scared of terrorist attacks is like being afraid of winning the lottery. Your chances are lower than you think."

Don't want to detract from the rest of your comment. But, one of the fundamental "points" of terrorism is to make this this the case. I.e. to instill fear (even if not remotely likely for it to happen.) The fear is what they want, unless they're trying to wage a guerilla war.
I'm not sure I buy your explanation at all. Social media may make distant friends feel closer, but I don't think this explains the lack of close friends. I understand that this is a data point of 1, but this article and the HN comments all ring true to me, and I hardly ever use social media.

Most of my not very close friends also don't use social media. A friend of mine tried creating a group on facebook to help coordinate social events for a group of dads and almost universally the wives ended up RSVPing for their respective husband.

When we ended up getting together we ended up talking about work and our houses and all the different things we're doing. Men have a tendency to communicate differently (IMO society has trained us to do so) than women. When my wife gets together with her friends they talk about how they're feeling about things and their relationships. This leads to men having a tendency to have more superficial relationships.
>"Wetherell says that the shortest explanation for his treason is that he "married the wrong person.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold#Plotting_to_ch...

The wiki article is much more informative. The history.com article, for example, doesn't mention how severely wounded he had been, with the wounded leg 2 inches shorter than the other.
Often yes but in this case I don't think so. These guys are worth _billions_. It would be financially imprudent to not cash out a little bit purely for diversification and buying a nice house or two.

If you'rea a founder in a world where you can fundraise enormous sums from private markets, why deal with the headache of going public?
No the schedule is March to April, with one month of takeover. Only the first few teams had different schedules. More plausible is that the blast was too far away and small to be observed from the island.
Now that analog fpgas are becoming a thing, I see someone in the next couple years replicting one with that.
And cleared a bit to reduce fuel loading in case of fire.
The technicals of the story are interesting around the software supply chain.

I’m put off by the statement: “I want to be clear that this decision is not about contract value—it is about maintaining a consistent and fair business approach in these volatile times,” he wrote. “I do not believe that it is appropriate, practical, or within our mission to examine specific government projects with the purpose of selecting which U.S. agencies we should or should not do business.”

I hear about practicality all the time at my office and sometimes it’s real and sometimes it’s laziness. This sounds like a little of both but also profit motivated (not saying that’s wrong for a for-profit company).

Interested in your options on code of ethics and the above.
Thanks, not showing up in search for some reason.
With $700M extracted and long term leases to the company for properties that he owns... One could easily ride off into the sunset.

It will be interesting, and insightful, to see if that is the tact he takes. If he does... It will add credibility to the already strong case for this being deliberate deceit versus unchecked ignorant hubris.
What I don't understand is what is so mind boggling to GP? This is the norm for the vast majority of private companies.
One thing that is valuable is activities with downtime where you’re forced to get to know one another outside of the activity. If you do something like martial arts or rowing (which I do), it’s when you travel for competitions that you bond. Activities like skiiing where you share housing for the season gives downtimebto get to know people between the activity. Hiking and camping is another good one where you spend time at the campsite at the end of the day preparing food together.
Any pitfalls?
Because then no one would buy the more expensive, higher margin car, purchases of which are indirectly subsidizing the cheaper one. This would push its price up.

The alternative is to design a car with a smaller battery pack. This would mean additional design work, and less efficiencies of scale. This would make the cost of both tiers of car go up.
Ah, I didn’t know that. I thought it was a repurposed chip. That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
I think there's more nuance to the claim from statistical perspective. How is the average estimated, what kind of a distribution does population IQ have, and what factors influence it?
Meetings outside the working hours?! Where is this common?

Here we work 9-6, but even in the places I've worked on where unpaid overtime was common (otherwise you wouldn't keep up with the workload), no manager would have the gall to schedule regular meetings outside working hours.
> Oh, and be prepared for lots of these friends sending signals that they would like to be more than friends. How you handle that is obviously up to you.

That’s exactly why it’s difficult. This doesn’t happen with my male friends.
I'm mostly doing the same, but letting the DVD mail ride until it's not economical. Right now, it's still rocking.
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Very interesting numbers. Of those men who indicated that it was difficult to find friends, 26% responded that the reason was that they didn't feel that they needed friends. Only 14% of women responded the same. (Page 43)

Others have commented that the gender gap in having no friends is much smaller then the headline implies, and this difference may account for a good chunk of it.
Yes... And Softbank was so high on kool-aid they let Adam sell them $700M of his stake. Absolute worst use of investment at that level...

Taking a little out to derisk yourself after a B or greater round is reasonable. Taking almost 10% of a round is obnoxious.
If you want an accurate analog computer, you'd still be paying a pile of money for precision components. (0.01% resistors cost about $10 on Mouser.) And even with modern ICs, you're not getting a Moore's Law scaleup on your op amps. Plus, the interconnect doesn't scale nicely.

That said, there are claims that analog computers will make a comeback: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/not-your-father...
Can you not move to using SoftLayer directly? The closest page IBM has to something like a sales page is unclear.

https://developer.ibm.com/startups/
That's mostly because it's the default in some versions and the developers don't know/care that MyISAM is dangerous (as it's not transactional and it will transparently ignore any kind of foreign key statement).
Ask HN: Anyone here still using Meteor and why?
I've an old application that I want to update with new stuff, when I made it meteor was a good choice to quickly code the foundations. Now, there's many frameworks like Vue or React that can give me more freedom for the stuff I want to update.

I'm curious if people is still using Meteor over any other framework, just to know if there's any pros in keep using Meteor.

Thanks
I didn’t take offense. Did it read that way?

He is on a self-professed quest to cure loneliness, and seems to equate that with not having close friendships. I just want to make sure he is aware there is a distinction and not everyone classifies that way.
I expect that, to be ethically consistent, this developer will also return all salary or payments he received while creating this now-deleted code.

I think leaving a job is a better protest than doing damage to your employer. And perhaps for his next contract, he might insert a clause limiting what his code can be used for. In limiting the utility of the code he sells, I expect he'd be taking a lesser pay rate for it.
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“Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor”: supplement
I sort of agree with this but my parents constantly had people over when I was a kid. That and my oldest daughter is a raging socialite at college, lead RA, secretary for the university student govt, just got invited to box seats with the university executive leadership for a football game, has 3-4 friend groups and a core couple deep friends that she meets constantly.

A little nature a little nurture, but to be clear I do agree with you that it's better to model than not.
Bored and lonely are two very different things. "It's okay to be bored" is about disconnecting from the constant feed of entertainment and information, not about isolating yourself from other human beings.
If I was ever spin up for anything after houra I would fix it so it didn't happen again. If it's "normal" it just means the teams don't talk and/or no one knows how to fix the issues. In that case status quo is for management to keep whipping up a frnzy and harassing engineers that don't know any better to work odd hours.
Having consulted for hundreds of analysts writing SQL to explore their data and create reports, I would agree with this assessment. Additionally, I tend to avoid recommending MySQL because of a strange behavior when using Group By. In Postgres, every column must be either aggregated or grouped by when using a grouping expression. In MySQL, this requirement is not present, and the ambiguity of the query is resolved by returning basically random results which are quite often misunderstood to represent the desired report. In other words, you can screw up in MySQL easily and not notice, whereas in Postgres, you’ll get an error message.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023347/mysql-selecting-...
Very creative project! Congratulations!!
If I had 500 million in paper valuation and could turn 10 million into real dollars, I would do it and so would you. I would have to be an idiot not to do it.

Not being able to sell shares in private companies is a standard practice. There are good reasons for that. The reason public market is heavily regulated is to prevent fraud.

The fact that large shareholders can sell shares in companies is also a standard practice. You might not like it but it's not capricious either. The founders created the company, the investors put money in it. They get better kind of shares than an employee because their contribution is materially different.
You or your partner will die at some point, and your marriage will end then, right? What happens after that?
Hey, that YouTube video got recommended to me a couple days ago on their front page and I really enjoyed watching it. One of the few instances where YouTube didn't recommend random crap or just videos of channels I'm already following.

Again, great job! That's exactly the kind of content I'm enjoying most on YouTube.
It used to be. There are a ton of popular songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s, especially in country music, about "9 to 5" jobs being the gold standard and basically how you had it made if you got one.
Back in the '90s, people used to say "hackers build FOSS to scratch an itch, not for the money" and "it's both free as in speech and free as in beer" and FOSS as a movement flourished.

Now in the '10s, the johnny-come-latelies and MBAs are thinking "We want the geek cred and goodwill for being open source but OMG look at all the sweet, sweet dollars sloshing around; we want a piece of the pie too". Thus, you get FOSS-wannabe licenses like open core and shared source that try to have it both ways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042408
Yes, that's why the company has stated it is going public.

I don't understand why this was written in response to the company announcing its intention to IPO before expiry.
Many states have laws on maximum interest that can be charged, though at this point there are so many loopholes they basically no longer have any effect.

https://statelaws.findlaw.com/consumer-laws/details-on-state...
That was the idea once upon a time[1], but it's been dead for ages.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
Once upon a time under the patriarchy, men’s social clubs were a common phenomena, but then it became unacceptable for such places to exist because of “power structures” yada yada yada. It’s not a coincidence that loneliness for men rose as spaces for men declined.
yeah, i know, i didn't mean any disrespect.

I grew with floppy disk (5.25 inches) and, yeah, it's perfectly normal (and fortunate) and the people have forgotten them.

AFAIAC, I have fond memories of them : the sound of the drives (anybody remembers Locksmith, CopyII+,... ?), the hope that the copy you made would work (those floppies were not that reliable), my first experience in cracking, etc.
I think the linked article has the same information:

> The [Save the Redwoods] league recently signed a purchase agreement with the family, and is seeking $15 million from the public to acquire the land and the giant sequoias on it, nearly 500 of which have a diameter of six feet or more.
If you read the article, the developer already was not working for Chef. Chef was/is relying on OSS components which the former develop pulled from the open repository. -edit for clarity.
Didn't investors, especially SoftBank, enable this behavior? They deserve as much blame for this mess as he does, if not more.
This is really cool, what prompted the idea to combine the two?
I am certainly not a doctor, but it seemed to me that it was well-known. Look, eg.:

https://www.gastroenterologyandhepatology.net/archives/febru...
My company recently looked at MySQL vs PostgreSQL. While we chose Postgres there is one thing that stood out in my research, I haven't found any comments on this:

We were looking at scalable, HA, possibly multi-DC workloads and such, and yes, relational DBs are not necessarily the right choice, but MySQL looked a bit better in this regard, especially for master-master replication. There are several high-profile teams that have huge production deployments running on MySQL (IIRC Uber and Github) and there are a lot of things to be learned from them.
56:30 - 58:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ
Hosting is easy, it's still the transit that'll kill ya.
It's because it's immensely cool what humanity can continue to achieve.
With the entropy of a password, abcdefg has less entropy than kfbeksn because it is more likely to occur. Further, the calculation of entropy is based on an alphabet of symbols, shared by sender and receiver.

I don't see how that connects to the ideal gas example. Care to share?
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Books on setting up a start up step-by-step?
Something like startups for dummies?
This is awesome, it might force the private sector to regulate governance structures more strictly.

The exchanges and indexes already do this, but haven't gotten around to cultish companies that consider themselves tech. The exchanges and indexes say things like “minimum X% of float needs to be in the market”, so you dont have 1% of the company trading with the CEO now being a billionaire on paper from 99% of shares. Ive seen Chinese exchange allows for shenanigans like that, for example, while US ones dont. They could easily dictate share class structures, ultimate beneficial ownership rules, and more.

This would force VCs and PE to require changes no matter how much FOMO they have.
The terrible USB file transfer mode is one of the reasons why I stopped using it. Last time I tried I had to use a web browser to drag files to some web page. No idea why they didn't implement a mass storage API the way any other device does. Has that changed in recent versions?
I’m an introvert. People drain me. I find fulfillment in the world around me and my hobbies. I’m on HN not to be social but to learn things. I don’t need validation from others.

I don’t hate human interaction either. I have friends. I just don’t NEED them, and don’t need to go seeking them or be especially close.
Thank you Aron for the many hours of enjoyment that I got out of your character in DS9. Here's to more of those hours! Just started rewatching DS9 for the fourth time.
The last 10 years have been investors competing over startups, so this is what you get.
What you are asking for is a timer. Not an app.
https://www.amazon.com/Uigos-Digital-Kitchen-Magnetic-Backin...
He’s quoted as saying he wants to be “President of the World” and live forever. This guy isn’t riding off into the sunset.
Depends on the terms of the contract :) The main pitfalls/problems are probably the cost associated with trying to do this, because you may need to hire a lawyer etc.
lie detectors are interrogation tools. their actual efficacy is secondary to perceived
Thanks, I overlooked that somehow. (pre-morning tea over here :) )

I haven't read many OSS licenses. Can't someone just publish an 'unethical' fork and life goes on?
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"Hire fast, fire fast" is something I used to think was a good idea but it relies on management having the balls to fire, in the case I saw they never did grow the balls and the competence of the team cratered as incompetence became the new team culture
I just love the podcast. The report between the two hosts is amazing. And the insights are great -- I often say to myself: "Hmm, I never thought about it that way!"
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Why did Trump betray America?
MS SQL Server definitely has some important features that are missing from PG. Top on that list IMO is real stored procedures that can return multiple heterogeneous result-sets with simple select statements. Another big one is client side tools. Query optimization and schema flexibility (being able to alter things instead of dropping in re-creating) might still be not as good in PG as well.

You won’t get a ton of agreement from this crowd though, despite the majority of them probably never having used it.
That’s something that wasn’t particularly clear to me from the article, but some browsing around GitHub cleared it up.

Chef now has the repo ‘forked’ in to their GitHub account: https://github.com/chef/chef-sugar
GameStop is a very interesting stock bet right now. It could easily go to route of Blockbuster (most obvious route), but it could do so many things to not be another crappy retail experience. Not confident they will turn it around but there's certainly an opportunity for a brick-and-mortar game shop done right.
Yeah, I’m not as much of a film buff as you. Pay to rent on Amazon does the job for me except about once a year when I order a disc.
He adds very little of value at this point, and only harms the reputation and uses it as a way to funnel VC money into his bank account.
Some of the process on gathering the data to create the labelling dataset is described here: https://useguard.com/experiment

But most probably I'll be publishing a paper later this year detailing all the details and process :)
>No, they do not. There is no legal precedent for this.

There are numerous Supreme Court cases showing that aliens are still guaranteed rights protected by the Constitution.

>Under what law? Police accidentally collect data all the time just from their body cams

The Fourth Amendment. Police collect data in public, or they have a warrant, or expectation of emergency, which are varieties of authorization.

>They were. Tsinghua, Huawei, multiple telecommunications services, etc.

Strange list of names for Hong Kong hacks. And that is ignoring the greater point, crimes don't need personal lawsuits to be crimes.
Did you evaluate Citus as well?
> I'm not sure why more companies don't just adopt a 'hire fast, fire fast' system.

Because it will vastly limit the number of skilled developers you can attract.

Let's consider two scenarios. In the first, a developer performs a coding challenge. The company is fairly sure that the developer is qualified to work there, and the developer is fairly sure she has the talent to stay employed there.

In the second, a developer is hired for non-technical reasons, and she quits her current job knowing that if things don't work out, she'll be looking for another job in six weeks.

Fuck that. Job hunting is stressful, and there is no way I would join a company if I didn't think I would be there for at least a year. I wouldn't even send my resume to a company with a reputation for that kind of fast turnover.
A good neural net simulator would work just fine with imperfect components.
This is 100% standard for private companies, particularly startups. The company often prefers to buy back the equity rather than have it go to a disconnected third party. This First Right Of Refusal is often also explicitly outlined in the shareholders/purchase agreement. The largest shareholders with voting rights are who create this agreement.

It's not dirty: it keeps incentives aligned because the shareholders have common goals, and the terms are stated clearly upfront.
Or because societal norms arent conducive to forming new male friendships?
I should credit my partner for originating and articulating this idea:
https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-stay-friends-when-yo...
I encourage you to do your own research, but the general rule of thumb is you will make more money working for an established tech company even if you do pick a unicorn. Since most of the data I have for this isn't public I couldn't share it if I wanted to, but in addition to all of the public data you can Google I personally know about a dozen people who were employee #X (X is a single digit number) at companies that were acquired for more than their last valuation at over $1 billion and only 1/4 of them actually felt like it was good financial ROI.
Or the military reserves - no better place to meet a large number of adults.
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I think the problem here is that you are assuming that the amount that your wife was paying made up for the lost sales of unhappy customers when titles aren't available. The math is not revenue for someone else to rent at normal rate vs. the revenue for your wife to hold onto the title, but rather the revenue from a customer that keeps coming back vs. the late cost revenue minus the the lost cost customer revenue.
Oh, it can happen with male friends too ;)

In my case at the moment I am still married so I have that shield. I will lose that when I get divorced.
Because it's small. The same way I could use "South America" for Uruguay, or "Eastern Europe" for Slovakia, but "China" for China, and "Russia" for Russia.
This is amazing! Thnks