skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's insane. And, yes, it does. Same narrative to justify it.

We can't increase taxes on poor old grandpa's deli. He'll never be able to compete with all the other delis that also have to pay rising taxes. Think of poor grandpa!

Meanwhile, you've got landlords owning those shitty 6-unit dingbat apartments they built in the 70s for $100k, paying taxes of $1k per year, charging rents or $3k/month for each unit. All the while, they're collecting another $1k or so in land value increases per month, that will be taxed at a lower capital gains rate -- of which the state will see almost nothing. AND it's the whole reason no one ever sells those buildings to be redeveloped. They make so much money, since they pay no taxes, that there's no better investment in the world. Why would anyone ever sell one? Even at $10M, you'd still be crazy to sell it. It'll be worth $11M next year, and you get all that tax-free profit.

Totally legally, and totally cool.
>"The Unicorn is allured by scent."

>Tretres writes, that the Unicorn so hunts after young Virgins, that he will grow tame with them. And sometimes he will fall asleep by them, and be taken and bound. The hunters cloth some young lusty fellow in maids cloths, and strewing sweet odors on him, they set him right against the place where the Unicorn is, that the wind may carry away the smell to the wild beast. The hunters lie hid in the meantime. The beast, enticed with the sweet smell, comes to the young man. He wraps the beast's head in long and large sleeves. The hunters come running, and cut off his horn.

http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Phil%20281b/Ph...
If you invested $100 into these Summer Tech IPO's you would have
Judge felt there where mitigating factors in the fact that he witnessed his wife being raped, the judge felt that in the absence of another individual raping his wife he did not have a higher inclination to kill than the average citizen thus his gun rights should be restored. See my comment below, the judge felt that the mitigating circumstances, counterweighed the aggravating circumstances that got him a larger sentence and thus he had paid his debt and owed no more to society, thus his right should be restored.
speaking as someone who has dealt with burnout twice, done a bunch of research on it, and just gave a talk about it:

While you may have legit issues working with others, it's not really what causes burnout. The environment of your tasks, and possibly the fallout of your limited / poor collaboration skills would be. But You can be an a-hole who hates other humans and still relish the rest of your job and not get burnt out.

The more i think about burnout the more it comes back to the ideas of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose that Dan Pink put forth, but maybe not in the way he meant.

If you don't have tasks where you can exercise autonomy (make uncoerced decisions about it) feel like you're doing something meaningful (have purpose), and the ability to actually get better at the thing you're working at (mastery) you're pretty much going to get burnt out. If you can't find those things in your job you need to find them in your personal time. I've read a bunch of articles about this and the ones that are by people who actually know what they're talking about seem to basically boil down to those 3 ideas.

Re. quitting IT: It won't help. it's very common for people who are burnt out to think they can't continue with their profession, that the profession is the problem, but it's not true. You'll find the same situations in other professions. Switching careers with just kick the problem down the road. You may be better for a little while because you'll be a newb in the new profession and things will be more interesting, but eventually you'll be right back in the same place.

Working for yourself instead of others might make a difference, but really you need to find autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Outside of that: eat healthy, get exercise, meditate (100% serious about those). And, of course a healthy work/life balance.

Also, learning how to find good things about dealing with other humans would probably go a long ways towards improving the non-burnout related aspects of your life. Maybe if you get along with them better you'll get more meaningful tasks that you enjoy... THAT would actually help prevent burnout.
Yep. Lost 80 lbs in 2 months. Got a few e-mails about this comment already so I'm throwing together a quick summary of what I did, results, and logs I took during the fast. Learned a lot since that fast though, it was over two years ago at this point.

Eating is definitely optional if you have the body fat.
My recollection was that he had samples of NSA malware on his computer, that Kaspersky detected this, and that shortly afterwards he was directly targeted by Russian state hackers.

It was not so much that Kaspersky was acting as malware, but that they were sending tips to the FSB.
All of the underlying tools are native 64-bit, but it's hidden behind a project property that you need to turn on to use them.

I think it's just the C# code editor process that's still only 32-bit.
Strawman logic. You might find some sources that say this but people involved in the science don’t argue this point at all.
Apologies, I can't edit the above comment any more, but if I could I would amend it.

My original statement is not intended to be against a Chinese person, but the Chinese Communist Apparatus as it currently stands. I believe healthy suspicion of sudden "devil's advocates" on topics regarding state activities is more important than ever given the alarming trend of governments world-wide using clandestine "grass roots" attacks against free narratives.

I should have left out the final bit to place emphasis on suspicion that the grandparent comment came off as state-sponsored. Then again from reading the guidelines, I shouldn't have gone with the first sentence at all. Sorry.

[Edit] for posterity, I tried to clear things up in a later reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199273
Kinda like the Perennial Philosophy [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy
During my short time at Google, I never knew anyone that had time for a a 20% project, and such projects had to be approved by management and have some kind of alignment with the company objectives. I think the Google 20% project of old died a long time ago, before I ever worked there. I knew plenty of people there that had various open source side projects outside of work though.
This article captures a lot of the issues that I had with Artifact. I ~really~ wanted to like it; I've very fond of other Garfield games like Magic, Android Netrunner, and Keyforge and had a friend that was very excited about the game. But in the end, it didn't hook me.

The issues that stuck out to me:

1. The complexity, particularly when watching a stream/game where you're not intimately familiar with the decks in use.

2. Lack of a budget format.

3. Valve failed to move in the right direction when there were problems. Games have recovered from much worse launches, but Valve responded too little, too late to the issues.
This is some hit-piece reflecting anxieties in the Bay Area in the wake of the WeWork fiasco, rather than a meaningful appraisal of value that you’d see from a publication with credibility from Wall Street’s point of view. Don’t buy the hype!
Why can't you bring back Congress?
Did you watch the latest interview with David Fravor on Joe Rogan's show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ
No, 60 days, first 30 water/salt only, second 30 I added in a few supplements, nothing that could really count as calorie intake though.

I also adhered to a strict no coffee/tea policy.
Does hunger count as a negative experience?
I love valgrind, but it falls on its face if you're dealing with more realtime aspects. In particular, dealing with high frequency trading systems. Valgrind, in of itself can through timings off in of itself to be unusable in some contexts.

That said, great tool.
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Ask HN: How to get a job after a failed startup?
I worked it for 8 months. I've now completely exhausted my savings. Our product is live but the growth is super slow. There is no way I can see it reaching product market fit. Investors are not interested with such low numbers.

I am a product guy with moderate level tech skills.

Should I keep the startup on my resume (with reason for shutting down + lessons)? Or should I leave it out from my resume and instead add the product we built as a 'project'?

I'm looking at product management jobs or software engineering jobs.
I think part of the reason this advice gets overemphasized is introductory screenwriting books. Show, show, show gets drilled into you. For obvious reasons it’s more true there than in prose, but still gets people into trouble for similar reasons to the ones you list.
It's ok—honest mistakes are no problem here.
It's also worth mentioning that he's making it using historically appropriate techniques and tools. He shows making the tools first and explains the techniques for using them, and goes into detail on why he chose each tool or method.

Fantastic videos.
>I don't know any developer who is excited to work for less than $40k/yr on the absolute lowest

In my country, $40k/year is a super high salary, even the average senior developer wouldn't make that much.
Judging developers by origin of country is the same as judging people by color. This is hate speech.
I don't get property taxes. Why make people pay taxes on land they already paid a bunch of money for?
In a Ponzi scheme there isn't an actual business occurring, or only the facade of one. If they make money, they can stop raising from investors.

The line can be a little fuzzy, since some Ponzi schemers pretend to be an honest business and some real businesses end up being, functionally, a Ponzi scheme.
The myth of inevitable technological progress
FBI violated Americans’ privacy by abusing access to NSA surveillance data
apps to optimize the space in their office layout for maximum efficiency

That sound like some useless bullshit if I've ever heard it.
A useful analogy: when you stand on a long straight road, perspective makes it look like the road shrinks to a dimensionless point in the distance... a singularity, beyond which you cannot see the road.

Of course if you drive down the road to reach that singularity, you never get there; it recedes before you.

Likewise the idea of a techno-cultural singularity is “real” in that there is a point in our conception of future change beyond we cannot predict what will happen. But as we move toward that point in time, our perception moves forward too, and the singularity recedes before us.
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I'm struggling to think what of that couldn't be done with off the shelf software, honestly. Hell, most of it could be done with Outlook and Active Directory.
> I don't consider that unipolar hegemony to have ever been a good thing for most people outside - or inside the US.

The same. I am greatly encouraged that we are moving back to a multipolar world and that the USA's untrammeled power is being challenged. And that it being challenged will be good for the US American people as well.
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification!
I don't mean to pick on you personally, but it was clearly your comment that brought in the "unrelated controversy and generic tangent" that the site guidelines ask users to avoid. Steltek ought not to have stoked the flames, but the fate of the thread was already determined at that point, which is why phrase that guideline that way.

I'm sorry you felt like I was throwing threats at you—definitely not how I want a comment like that to come across.
>Do you really think that people living in metros are bankrolling indiscriminate terrorist attacks against themselves?

That’s not necessarily contradictory. A different example is drug related gang violence. Money from drugs can be traced and consequential and resulting in gang violence, but obviously a given gangster isn’t going to fund a shootout targeting her or him, but obviously other targets, but in the end in aggregate can result in violence for all gangsters (and many bystanders).
I don't understand why "food-delivery startup" counts as a "tech company".
Honestly, I want a subscription service that allows me to see most major websites without ads.

I think someday someone's going to realize just how silly the advertisement game is, and as long as the payment structure is in place, we can get a much better web experience.

For example, may of us pay a small monthly fee for Netflix. I'm sure that a small monthly fee could add up to more than what most sites make from ads.
When China Rules the World by Jaqcues and AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee are both very good.
What's your experience working in a company following NoEstimates principals?
> I'd even expect the 'correct' long term 'required' choice for blizzard is to ignore any blow back and focus on the Chinese market.

So, the shareholders would be for practical purposes passive investors in what would become a defacto Chinese run company?
I appreciate you guys taking such a hands-on approach. It helped me bite my tongue and remember the human.
Yeah. I’ve been running 10 miles now at a time and I still refuse to use those things. I’m thankful the zoo has vending machine that that Apple Pay :)
I went 21 days with just water and electrolytes. My son is a type 1 diabetic so I had access to a glucose meter to test myself with. My blood glucose level at about the halfway mark was 59mg/dL (for reference, most non-diabetics should be between 70-130.)

I won't say fasting for 21 days was the most pleasant experience, but it is entirely doable by the average healthy person. Nice job going 60 days. The hardest part for me was the social aspect, family/friends' repeated concerns because I'm 'starving myself', sitting at the dinner table while everyone else eats, etc.
Using Cloudflare Workers HTMLRewriter to Extend Ghost(Pro)
Personally, Ive never tried to make Vim my IDE on Linux. Just Vim as my editor, make as my "builder" and gdb as my debugger. Effectively, bash was my IDE.

I know on the older spectrum of the audience here, but that is an effective workflow for me. But, as a nearly 40 yr old, the command-line is very natural to me. I actually get irritated when I have reach for a mouse to complete an action.
> HaikuOS boots with GFX disabled, but is not anywhere near stable.

Can you elaborate? It's been fairly stable for me.

P.S. It's just Haiku, not HaikuOS
We should boycott the NBA.
Money is not evil, the love of money is.
Well...characterizing the usage as a marketing term wouldn't be relevant if the potential for making money weren't an issue here.

Even beyond that, on a human level, the attacks on an individual trying to make a living seem unnecessarily harsh. My critique is mostly about the spirit of the negative comments (not just yours, sorry), which all seem to assume malice where there likely is none. I.e. several comments here and on the github repo calling the developer a liar and coward, etc (again, not you, this just happened to be the comment I replied to)

And I think this entire discussion proves that the definition of 'open source' is not as cut and dry as some people would like. And because of that, saying 'just be honest' when someone uses one of the alternative definitions of the term seems unfair.

I've always thought that the terms FOSS exists specifically to provide some extra clarity in this regard...

And I don't know what you'd call this other than "open source" because I haven't heard the term "source available" until today, and I would have had no idea what it meant if that's what the developer had used....
One negative experience, slight hair loss that started approximately 6 to 8 weeks post fast. Maybe 10 to 15% of the hair on my head fell out in total, but it all grew back.

One other negative experience but that was due to my own stupidity and I've since learned better.

Basically if you're above 15% bodyfat, you only need two things to live. Water and electrolytes.

If anyone has any questions, more than happy to answer e-mails.
Hash Tables in Python
And at the end of all that, it ends up boiling down to "It's the result of a superposition of states collapsing into a single state upon observation, and the mechanism by which that state gets selected is non-deterministic" and now you have a very confused five-year-old.
Although it seems like a lot, the US reaction was maybe a 2/10 before trump and dialed up to a 4/10 after trump.

There’s MUCH more the US can do if they really wanted to. Consider:

1. China is an export-driven economy.

2. The majority of trade flows through ocean trade routes.

3. The US navy patrols and controls the majority of water routes around the world.

But, extreme escalation on either side could push this beyond an economic dispute and no party wants that.
"The next governor" was a Democrat, and both houses of the Legislature were (and continue to be) Democrat-controlled from that election on, often with supermajorities.

As for the Brulte bill, not one Democrat voted against it in either house (77-0 in the Assembly, 39-0 in the Senate). It was shepherded through by Senator Peace and Assemblymember Martinez. Peace continued to claim parentage until after the resulting disaster.
We have billions of human brains already running around the planet. I don’t fear a bodiless simulation of one.
Sorry, my mistake -- you're totally right. Number of bits is log_2(k), where k is just the maximal key number.
Not just the NBA, but every company owned by the 30 plus owners in the NBA could feel pressure.
US whistleblower dropped from speaking at Melbourne cybersecurity conference
Nah this is not true, we actually sell more stuff to China than the other way around. They've just not yet really tried to retaliate. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/the-1-4-t... Tariffs hurt yourself first before anyone else. But if shit really hits the fan they no doubt will.
Looks slick! Reminds me of Alfred.
I saw folks do this for Buzzfeed layoffs and Uber layoffs a while back, and I think it was helpful (context here : https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-uber-employee-has-created...)

If you're affected by the WeWork layoffs and looking for a new role, fill this out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx4TOVN7AdgvyAZGbq...

If you're interested in recruiting ex-WeWork folks, you can look them up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CAtBsn3ZTL59tNMVbew...
Sure, all those things intersect with intellectual curiosity, as well as writing advice and the life of Lord Byron and the Nobel prize in physics and lots of other topics that appeared on HN today. What isn't so good for intellectual curiosity is hammering on the same hot stories over and over again. One of our jobs as moderators is literally to moderate that, i.e. make it not so excessive.

It's human nature, or at least internet nature, that hot controversies and sensational stories get lots of upvotes relative to everything else. If you want to have a site for intellectual curiosity, you need a countervailing mechanism against that, or such stories will dominate the front page entirely. On HN, there are a number of such countervailing mechanisms—user flags, moderation downweights, and software penalties. When you see a story that seems like it has a low rank relative to its points, one or more of those is the reason why.

The Blizzard story was the top item on HN for its day (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-08), so I don't think it was underrepresented. Moderators gave it the standard downweight for indignation that all such stories get, which didn't reduce its rank much. Once it had been on the front page for 15 hours, software added an additional standard downweight. That helps flush yesterday's major stories off the front page so that the next crop of stories can come up.
jq is one of the most intentionally designed pieces of software I've seen. In due time, I expect it to become as ubiquitous and indispensable as ls, grep, sed and awk. The jq language could use a formal spec, but other than that jq has a sublime elegance.

By contrast, this seems like one of the least intentionally designed pieces of CLI software I've seen.
>How many Chinese will pay attention to "whatever those people are doing in Hong Kong" for the first time because of this ?

Most of them are already aware, and due to state ran media and an ultra-nationalistic view, are in full support of CCP and are very much against HK and their protests.

Here is a video from a guy who lived in China for over a decade, is married to a mainland Chinese woman, has family both in Hong Kong as well as Mainland, and how it's destroying his family due to the Mainlander's views of Hong Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4wbx9hIN4E
This is impossible to know because of how censorship works.
We have a design system that supports both black text on white and white text on black (as a contrasting block of content).

If we want to support dark mode now we have to support four different options. Writing that with a combination of classes and media queries is going to be a nightmare:

.default-theme h2 { background: white; color: black }
.inverted-theme h2 { background: black; color: white }

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
.default-theme h2 { background: black; color: white }
.inverted-theme h2 { background: white; color: black }
}

Your trick might make this a little more palatable.
Ask HN: Sitting is killing me, anybody can help?
Older software dev here, I spent the last 25 years of my life sitting 8 to 10 hours per day on my butt.

At this point, sitting has become an endless struggle, lower back pain, prostate pain, cyst, broils on the ass etc. Sorry for the gore details, but maybe it can become a warning too for younger folks...

I tried a standing desk, it killed my legs, gave me venous dermatitis after a few days, so I had to ditch it.

If anybody has any tips, I'd be forever grateful!
Valve habitually ignored needed update on dota2

There were bugs affecting game play in the 30mm TI9

Just a symbol of their lack of attention to basic staff.
You're totally right. joshuamorton made the same correction on another comment where I made the same error. Mea culpa!
Dahua also on the list.
I have no idea.

Anecdotally, I've seen people comment on HN and Reddit that fasting helped them with some chronic health issue or other. Here's an HN comment that says he was on antibiotics constantly until he tried fasting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20279338

If you find any such studies, please share. Thanks.
Exactly, it is really low-balling the candidates. In some countries it is common practice to have something like a 90 day contract period, and after 90 days if all is well and good, roll over to a full-time contract (longer contract periods roll over by law in some countries). We can really take good advantage of this!

I think the industry is pretty sick with all these interviews, tests, "trials" etc. Wasting both company's and candidate's time. Let's do it the old-fashioned way. 1) Likeability of the person 2) seems knowledgeable to do the job 3) start work next week, with full pay (or why not 80%?) and we'll see how it works out.
As far as I can see everyone of importance is Chinese, the locals are all sales and admin?
The Trusted Advisor (a book about consulting)
I sort of did that for a while. The differences between what management thinks they have, what is actually running, what data centers are charging back, what licenses are being invoiced, what finance is depreciating, and what is actually needed for operations can be astonishingly large.
The paper is not arguing that the people that go from zero tax to some tax are driving the charitable giving tax. It’s arguing about the people in higher income brackets & it shows pretty robustly that charitable giving is linked to the price of silver.