skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US auto industry is on two non sustainable paths. The first is internal combustion engines. The second is building fewer but more expensive cars.
Ask HN: How do I start building a game?
Assuming a good background in C++, also in python. Some experience with the web too. Less on graphics. I am interested more in libraries, languages, platforms. I want to start from simple. In general, what architecture should I aim for?
If you take away people’s ability to provide for themselves and their families you’re bound to make enemies and that’s due to hurting people. It says a lot about what one calls progress

I would suggest helping those people move on to something else that enables them to care for their families. It’ll make change far more palatable and is better for people
They don't have access to your not-world-public Facebook posts, or flagged posts?

So they literally cannot flag your bank details over such things?

Do you mean that visa employees can flag your account over personal reasons?
that's a slippery slope fallacy but movies are generally all priced the same and make up the difference in volume.

Nobody pays different ticket prices at the box office for blockbusters.
Costco's Business Model Explained
> current equity compensation is far too low and tricky

Of course, we can imagine various ways in which the situation can be improved, like getting equity directly instead of options, increasing the amount of equity, etc.

But that's beyond the main point of stocks. The point of them is to align employees with founders more, get them excited and motivated about the future.

> workers, and especially new workers, should not be optimistic about the benefits.

But the same argument can be made about founders and starting new companies. Of course most startups do not succeed, but should that discourage people from creating them?

I think there is a bit of confusion in that generally it's believed that these aspects of startup industry are much different - one is a 'unavoidable state of the world' and the other is 'unwillingness of certain people to make the situation better'. But perhaps both of them are in fact state of the world... There are many variables that go into selecting the values for employee stock grants and could be just as much hard to change.

Maybe they ultimately end with 'smarter people are able to control those less smart', but that's another discussion.
The Guinea Worm eradication campaign featured prominently in an episode of The Politician, a (fiction) series which was just released on Netflix. Coincidentally, I think.
Debt is not always bad.
Of interest to people who are willing to examine claims of treatment modalities outside of the mainstream medicine, without labeling them as quackery:

An Italian oncologist by name Tullio Simoncini believes that cancer is primarily caused by a fungus and he uses baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) as the primary treatment. He claims that he's been successfully treating patients for decades. I'm willing to give him the benefit of doubt, and I'd would welcome any information from someone who has investigated his treatment, or has direct experience either as a patient or personally know a patient.

His website: http://www.simoncinicancertherapy.com/en/index.html

To the causal skeptic who will feel the urge to respond to my post : It's ok to be skeptical(Infact it's the wise thing to do, initially), but flippant skepticism is another matter altogether. Flippant skepticism a dead end, even if it's very gratifying. I'm also aware that there are unverified rumors that Simoncini's license was suspended. Personally to me, it does not matter if his license was indeed suspended.
Yes, but macOS has enough native apps for everything, and the advent of web apps and mobile apps, made the whole point moot.

You can do everything and more on a Mac.
Yes but the web drivers users are probably less than 1% of all Nvidia users.
What the Intel executives are doing here is called speculative execution! (pun intended)
Can't you ask your bank branch to print a cheque for you?
That is a lot of moving parts for a toaster. It seems like even a few crumbs falling into the wrong spot would jam the falling/raising mechanism.
That irrational behavior in the wasteful allocation of resources doesn't generate a negative feedback loop that causes even more waste?

Who said it didn't? I think you're missing my point. The irrational behavior is a flaw. But it's not fair to call it a structural flaw of capitalism. The flaw is prior to capitalism. It's like saying toilets are flawed because people piss on the seat.
It's definitely a flaw in capitalism, because we concentrate decision-making control for large sums of capital (that is, yesterday's labor [1]) in the hands of a small number of people. And quite often those people are irrationally greedy sociopaths who are comfortable with, say, burning billions of dollars on the off chance that it will get them very rich.

Of course, no decision-making apparatus is perfect. Our current version of capitalism with all its flaws might be the optimal way to run a society. But we should be clear-eyed about those flaws.

[1] https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/abraham_lincoln_395631
I think the way we take care of people is by providing many diverse training paths and transparency. Not just college age programs but lifelong learning where it’s possible to learn to code or weld or teach or whatever. Our libraries and community colleges should include more low cost certification and structured learning programs where people can explore interests.

I think this is very different from the high cost 4-year undergrad or masters programs that are expensive and take a lot of time. A UAW worker will have a hard time, I think, getting a degree but should have an easy time taking a few 1-4 week programs at night or from home to pick up useful skills.

I’m not sure what other program will really work unless UBI gets here real soon (I don’t think it will). Programs where GM has to pay workers who don’t work will just kill GM. I suppose it will be ok for a few years, but once GM dies then no one will be able to pay.
Interesting points. Will give this a try myself.
18 minutes for that. Jesus Christ.
I'm usually on board with HN moderation but I have to disagree here.

They're literally refusing to do their jobs, for a reason analogous to farriers striking because the automobile is taking away their jobs because no-one needs horseshoes anymore.
he survived.
It all sounds awesome, just like the records kept for every single step of production in that PCB factory, how-to instructions for every single action, I mean it's eye-opening how many records Japanese factories keep, except it was all useless at least in that case and in its intended purpose. Workers would check if the fake data seem reasonable and do faking blitz before inspections. The factory had only one incident in which it paid damages for high frequency interference issues to a Japanese TV maker.

Rebellious middle school drop-out (no offence) workers earning basic income plus 1.5x overtime wages for 12 hours a day 6 days a week won't take any of that seriously, schedule and cost are always of higher priority.

In the story of iWatch, the two groups of independent contractors use their barely working equipment to do seal test, the equipment is so bad that it returns different results even for a same watch part, but hey we
gotta make it work, so their tech guy wrote code to always return results that are up to standards.
Except there's no reason those things couldn't be supported in an existing API with less friction to adopt. It's software.

I think the reason software abruptly changes (API switches, rewrites, UX redesigns, etc) is because doing that employs more software people than incremental improvements to old stuff. I don't think this is necessarily a choice, it's just the way it works out.

It's kind of a perfect business in that way. The downside is that occasionally an important customer says "enough!" They're totally justified in doing that, but it doesn't align with growth, so it's the cost of business.
For context this dates from Jan 2008.
That is something! TODO - research and write about Buck/ Bazel.
If you give fines based on beneficiary without verifying that the beneficiary actually caused those faces to be sent, a bad actor could bankrupt their competitor by sending a bunch of spam faxes "benefiting" them and waiting for the claims to roll in.
Ok. My RNA/DNA knowledge is quite limited. But I still don’t get it. Did they come up with a way it could happen, or did they actually make it happen out of the “soup”. To me—as someone who knows little about it, except for the fact that having RNA/DNA spontaneously form under these conditions would be be awesome for our understanding of our origins, and would make a killer argument when talking to creationists—the difference between the two is very significant.
The dialogs are extensible by third party drivers and applications. Microsoft has api’d itself into a corner, that’s why they can’t bring many of the dialogs up-to-date.
1989/1990 was also when convolutional networks first started working with LeCun’s breakthrough paper on digit recognition.

Incredible to think how much amazing research was happening back then and wonder what research is being done now that will change our lives in the next 30 years.
> Scientist Who Discredited _______ Didn’t Report Past _____ Industry Ties

Fill in the blanks for many industry studies.
Small, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719999

Medium, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16684513

Large, 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13053137

Related from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758697
I don’t think people have a right to a job. But I do think that we as a society have a responsibility for baseline care of everyone. When we can’t depend on the profits of individual’s labor to support them for life any more - which will increasingly be the case according to the current trajectory - something else must be done. This goes beyond the very real issues of wealth disparity and to a much more fundamental problem that comes with automation at these levels.
> it has become one-sided in several debates siding with hard leftists,

There's plenty of people who think the current BBC, especially in flagship news (Today on BBC Radio 4) and current events (Question Time on BBC 1) takes a right wing position. See for example: https://twitter.com/search?q=bbc%20right%20wing&src=typed_qu...

I'd be interested to see if there's any research on actual bias.
I was trying to teach Hindi to a colleague of mine a few years back and the Ts and Ds really threw him off - I was so used to different Ts and Ds that I couldn't help him understand the difference. I think even English has the different sounds but it is not obvious.
In the US if you want to fix that you have to outlaw MBA programs. Because business schools are behind a lot of the decline in US Industry.
Does it require any additional configuration?
A bootcamp is going to focus more on the day-to-day of how to code, and practicing coding. That isn't really what you need. You need to understand what coders do, but you don't need to get into algorithms or the syntax of any particular language or framework.

What you do need to know is how to prioritize. You need to understand that while everyone shares the goal of getting features out the door, some take longer than others. Some build upon others. Some block others. Coding Feature A today might be a 4 month effort, but coding smaller features X, Y, and Z, might build the foundation work the A needed... so you could get all 4 features out the door in 5 months by doing A last, and being ahead of the game in the long run even though you deferred the feature most important to you by the same amount of time it would have taken to just code it.

Making such decisions is less about knowing how to code, and more about understanding the different layers of technical architecture, how they integrate, and how they can both enable some components, while blocking and restricting others.

It is also about knowing your team. You don't need to be able to figure out all the answers yourself, but you do need to be able to communicate well with the senior devs who can give you those answers. And you need to figure out which devs are good at figuring out such things. We do not all share the same skills, and don't all look at software the same way. Get to know your team, and who has which strengths. Your decisions will be empowered far more by knowing the team, getting their input, and looking at the big picture of planning how to move a product forward than they would be by knowing how to code.
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Can somebody explain to me why we need to switch to electric cars when we have Fischer-Tropsch to produce fuel literally out of thin air?

We could keep all the existing infrastructure while having zero CO2 impact. I think digging up loads of Lithium and Cobalt and plastering the country with charging stations is neither more sustainable nor less environmentally harmful.
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The learning coefficient decreases over time making the model less plastic.
or useless.

or naive.
It’s political. The American left has taken an anti-science, moralistic stance on climate change.[1] Fixing climate change through technology, without changing the economy or politics, doesn’t serve desired ends. While most people here are scientifically minded, they’re also generally left leaning, and the opposition to nuclear power is part of that platform.

[1] That’s not to suggest the right has embraced science by denying climate change is happening. As far as I can tell, the right’s solution to climate change is “god won’t let anything bad happen.” The left’s isn’t any better or more realistic. I’m at a Costco in the Maryland exurbs. A hugely diverse crowd (black, Hispanic, Asian, white) is doing their weekend shopping. Families with 2+ children in tow. No joke, some just shouted out “living the suburban dream” while we were eating froyo. Then they’re going to get into their SUVs and go home to their, on average, 2,000+ square foot house.

The idea that we’re going to solve climate change by having all these people move to 500 square foot apartments in the city, going only where the government decides to build public transit, and limiting themselves to one kid, is utter fantasy. In fact the opposite will happen. Chinese, Indians, Bangladeshis, Africans... they’ll get Costco and SUVs. Hoping otherwise is just as unrealistic as thinking God will fix things.
Ugh oh: correlation is not causation - hence you cannot state it's a "determinant".

They are probably both caused by - say - "criminality" which makes a place more or less walkable.
Whereas Firestore is a NoSQL dB with awesome triggers and subscriptions, AppSync is a hosted GraphQL endpoint for many data stores. You can query one endpoint to get data from DynamoDB, RDS, an HTTP server and more sources.
Why would investors go for that? In case of no investment, the company goes under, so you get 1% of $0. Therefore, you should be happy with pretty much any kind of dilution, new investors can easily force existing shareholders to get e.g. 0.1% of $5m.
This is exactly my experience as well. They sent a team of engineers from Japan to come inspect our work, particularly our testing procedures as the equipment was being put through its paces. Their attention to detail was unparalleled.
The NSMenu system is still Carbon actually, as far as I know (last I dug deep into it).
Spectacle App no longer maintained
I inherited one of these from my grandfather. I always thought it was elegant because there was no manual lever, but I had no idea how complicated the mechanism is (current through a wire heats it so it expands, triggering a series of levers). After watching the first part of the video I wanted to get it back out and start using it again. Then he described the paper insulation around the wire, and I decided not to. Maybe in a few years my kid and I will watch his remediation video and give it a try. Seems like a pretty serious fire (and electrocution) hazard as-is!
The more that capitalist greedheads label anything that involves being nice to people instead of seeing them as perfect libertarian spheres who act only in their own absolutely rational financial self interests as “socialism”, the more people who give even half a shit about their fellow humans start to think “socialism” must be pretty good.
What would be concrete actions that enable someone in their late forties or early fifties to find a new job when the whole industry they've worked in so far basically disappears? Say someone working at a coal plant, or someone assembling ICEs? Who will hire them?
Changing the word “End” to “Eradication” would be sufficient.
3.6 magnitude earthquake hits about 9 miles southwest of San Francisco
I have an essentially identical question: Factory owners do not want their factories to explode and lost ten million dollars by the virtue of profit-seeking capitalism. Yet, being profit-oriented and neglecting basic safety and preventative maintenance is a very common phenomenon, always happens, and seen as the evil of "business people", and it happens even in the most powerful company. I don't understand it.

Is it simply cognitive bias at work, like LessWrong often says? But I think there must be deeper reasons than that. Did anyone write good books on this subject? Either sociology, psychology, management & decision-making or economics prospective is welcomed.
Since they seem to want to take over the internet, I guess that would be right up their street.

Clients can also synthesize the DNS64 records themselves locally, or use 464xlat.
The interstate highway system between cities, and around cities, was a great improvement.

The interstate highway system through cities was a disaster that mostly served to turn economically productive land into craters of parking lots generating very little tax revenue. Those with the means fled severed neighborhoods with spiking pollution levels, leaving the poor with asthma in their wake. While some cities managed to recover in the following decades, not all of them have.

And suburbs that people fled to are not necessarily faring any better; suburbs are cheap to live in initially but become extremely expensive when you start having to replace infrastructure at the end of its life. Nassau County, NY, home of the first generation of suburbs, has been under state fiscal control since 2000 despite being one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, because the fiscal math does not add up.

A lot of the suburban growth that happened was also just shuffling it around a region rather than true growth. For example, Buffalo's metro area has tripled in land area despite the same population, so the same tax base is now expected to support triple the infrastructure.
then? What happened?
> Working in an auto plant is hard, backbreaking work that will leave you physically broken by retirement

Is it? I've watched a lot of modern car assembly line videos and it doesn't seem to be hard or backbreaking at all. Boring and tedious? Sure, here's one for GM's best selling vehicle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nr3I-Fddv8

At no point do you see anyone lift something heavy without the assistance of overhead cranes.
What skills are people going to learn in a week that employers aren't already willing to provide training for?

Are things so broken on the employer side that they won't take a 1 week risk on a new hire?
Most of the supposed better than free ideas apply to a very small niche population. Most people, myself included, are not especially concerned about authenticity for instance; I don't care when something was created and am certainly not interested in getting something hours or days before the rest of the world. As for paying the creator, well in a capitalist world creators are ten a penny and getting cheaper, not to mention that the world is awash with interesting, useful, and beautiful stuff that already exists.

In many respects we are already in a post-scarcity world not that it will make any difference to the vast majority of creative people; they will not be any poorer than they have always been.
The number of people making the decisions doesn't matter. Democratize things as much as you want and you'll often get irrational choices.

By your logic, literally every single endeavor that involves human decision-making is flawed in that exact same same way. Socialism is flawed because humans are in the loop. Representative democracies, monarchies, oligarchies, and anarchy are flawed because humans are in the loop. Both science and religion have the same flaw, because humans are in the loop.

It's not that it's untrue... It's just common to any venture where humans are in the loop, so it carries almost no information and isn't worth saying.

I guess capitalism is flawed because resources are not infinite? Is capitalism flawed because humans die? Is Usain Bolt flawed because he has only two legs?
"Beware the chopsticks gene."

Abstract:

Population stratification is a potential source of error in psychiatric genetics. New study designs and statistical methods can help guard against this problem. Molecular Psychiatry (2000) 5, 11-13.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10673763
Perhaps you have a different understanding of what “expensive” means than the generally accepted definition. Expensive generally refers to the outlay (the expense), not the income, or the net income, or any other financial metric.

> repurposing an asset you spent $X to build is the same as spending $X on a new asset for that purpose

Does GAAP agree with your claim?
Related previous discussion: "Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19236245

Sounds like many HN users liked the Volt. Thread also has some insights into the political nature of the Volt's disappearance.
true tech debt occurs when a business under-invests in their core technology over a long period of time, or deal with concept drift in its business. I know of multiple fortune 500's that are reliant on bespoke emulation of hardware and operating systems that haven't existed in decades, even worse the source code for the software they're running may no longer exist in any usable form.

In many modern web companies a given project has a useful life of ~3-5 years, if its still running by year 8 with a team that's been on KTLO a few things are probably true.

A: No one knows how to productively add features.

B: The business need for the project was much larger than the KTLO funding would imply.

Odds are at this point there are a long list of user complaints, year+ old feature requests, and excuses being made to the board for why some initiative is facing yet another delay.

Perhaps we should be talking about software depreciation rather than tech debt?