skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually not! It will work fine. Linear history is one strategy for using git (and it's a reasonable one), but try introducing (manual, planned, not done with git pull) merges sometime, at points where the actual intent of the maintainer is to perform a merge - you may be pleasantly surprised. (If you use the program naively you will eventually confuse the algorithm, which may have bitten you in the past - forcing linearity is way better than naive use.)

See https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gi... for more info
We launched right at the beginning of the end, although we didn’t know it at the time.

Everyone thought they were making tons of money, based on valuations that were only on paper. Kind of like losing $5B and still thinking it’s a valuable company.

I first noticed problems when we repeatedly had potential client me be dark when we showed up for meetings. They were just gone, and no one bothered to Let you know. They had other things to worry about.

We didn’t get to the point where we could exercise options, but some people were badly burned at time time. If you exercised a million dollars worth of options and hold them past the end of they year, you owed taxes. If the shares were now worth zero, you still owed the taxes. This bit the rank and file, who thought they were getting rich, and ended up poorer than before. (IIRC you could carry forward the loss, but that’s no good if that was the only stock you ever got)

We got bought, and had dead end jobs for a while, before they laid us off. Was not too hard to find a job again.

I recommend reading about tulip mania. It’s amazing how similar that was.
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> So it seems to me you were clearly expressing an idea of what a metric is, in rejecting the need for metrics, that you now attribute to me and say it's the wrong definition.

No. You said a bunch of things, that to me are almost entirely unrelated, and I responded to several of them.

One of them was about determining the consequences of actions and I responded to that because it was part of your argument about having personal values.

Before any of that, you wrote: "How can one "fill the void" without measuring anything? Personal values may vary, but I can't see the concept of determining the consequences of your actions as being an optional one of them."

The implication is that if you reject metrics you still have to measure and determine the consequences of your actions, so metrics are unavoidable. If metrics are not the same thing as "determining the consequences of your actions" to you, then you answered your own question of how to "fill the void": you determine the consequences of your actions without metrics.

The question of whether metrics are a good way to determine the consequences of actions is separate from the question of consequentialism, or whether actions should be chosen by looking at consequences alone. You seem to be assuming both and I'm challenging both.
China's healthcare system is involved in harvesting organs from prisoners and dissidents.

https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgement-report/

Makes you wonder what else they're doing to keep costs down.
I was living in Florida, working for a Boston-based WebDev/ISP consultancy. Smart people, high-flying projects, free snacks, nerf shenanigans, constant hiring, with bonuses for you-name-it. I'd recently gotten a nice bonus for bringing on my good friend as the office's systems administrator.

Business slowed, clients missed payments, people started watching f*d.com, the first round of layoffs came, the execs did a tour and promised all was ok, the second round of layoffs came. We spend a lot of time at Starbucks contemplating plan B.

One day I came in and the laptop wouldn't connect to the network. I stick my head in my friend's office, and say "My laptop won't connect, is there something I should know?" He gets that deer in the headlights look, rushes off to check with the management, and a meeting is convened where the third layoff happens, something I'm part of and he's not (Probable cause for me being out: I didn't play ball on a traveling assignment I didn't want, was OK with the outcome. My friend hung on to the bitter end, and we laugh about it now.) The hardest day was sending back the extra paycheck the company had accidentally sent.

I started looking for jobs, but I started getting calls from friends who heard I was available for a week here, a month there, a six-month thing, etc, etc. I wound up forming an LLC and staying self-employed until decided I needed a nice safe job just before the financial crisis.
Yeah. There were a lot of reasons why it was a good name. This panel briefly discussed the naming process: https://youtu.be/0b3x5Tlh6g0?t=2m30s
There doesn't seem to be any single, general, perfect answer.

I use systemd across distros, and am now confused when I run into an old SysV system.

When I'm sufficiently advanced to bump into one of these corner cases, it will be a Good Problem To Have.

The market penetration of systemd is about as good an empirical validation as can be had. How soon until it's codified in Posix?
Why would it be an insult? I agree that if you went to a boot camp for 3 months and then began calling yourself a software engineer, it's a bit misleading. But what's the cut off line?

My CS program was in my school's college of engineering, which had a much more rigorous application process than the lib arts school. The first two years were essentially the same for CS, CE, MechE, ChemE, etc - lots of math and physics.

Maybe I'm just a bit sore. While society doesn't stereotype us as badly as before - the typical low status nerd - most of that improvement is due to SV engineers making such good money. But it still feels like we're not respected the same as other higher paying careers like law, medicine, or even other types of engineers. I mean I've actually had managers who probably make less than me assign me remedial tasks like fixing their laptop or resetting their password.
"Business" idea: A search engine that searches just user comments and reviews (on HN, Reddit, Amazon, Google Maps, etc etc).
I somewhat disagree. Without the assumed historical connotation of the quote, which as you have just indicated is incorrect, the thought itself (trading liberty for safety yields neither) is just false. It is simply one of the trades one must do in a stable society.
> But you also want to tell those running things that they have a huge impact on poor people's success,

They already know it. They know that it would make sense to raise corporate taxes to offer free and good education to everybody. But in most of the countries, the people in power were not elected to do that but to lower the corporate rates.

That is why I focus on the individual side, although I'm ideologically communist. To hack capitalism and live well coming from a violent/poor background is one of the most revolutionary acts we can do and teach how to do currently.
I don't trust that you have enough experience with deaf people to make your claim.

The word disability has a lot of meanings and a lot of uses. Only one of them is about getting access to accommodations.

Deaf people absolutely label themselves disabled for the purposes of getting access to accommodations, like you suggest. I think you misunderstood that they're upset about all the other things that are associated with disability. The idea that deafness is "lesser" (e.g. hearing loss) simply does not resonate with most culturally deaf people.
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His entire net worth can be accounted for with Softbank's investment of $20m in Alibaba in 1999. That's now worth ~$110B... and he has a 21% stake in softbank.

Remove that.. and he's at 0 or even negative. Is that luck or skill?
Labor unions are inherently limited by human nature because they’re made up of humans, not cats. They’re also limited by economic facts which would be the same if they were made of lizard people. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth attempting version 2 but there are very real constraints on what’s possible.
Are you talking about cow farts? When cows eat grass, the carbon they emit was already in the system. It's just like any other organism staying alive. This is different than burning fossil fuels, the carbon of which until they are extracted hasn't been in the system for millions of years.

To the extent that the beef industry burns fossil fuels, that's something you could criticize, but it's hardly unique to the beef industry. Cattle would eat less intensively-cultivated corn and more grass if the corn farmers weren't subsidized so much. If no corn was cultivated at all, cattle would still be a pretty efficient way of sustainably extracting food from marginal grassland.
Downvotes as disagreement is perfectly ok.
What exactly do you think fascist means
Alternative possibility: you just got old.

In all seriousness, older people are more opposed to UI and other types of change.
The IRS at least for now doesn't throw people in jail because they can't pay. There aren't enough jails and being in jail negatively impacts ability to pay.

Sometimes if the amount is ridiculously out sized compared with ability to pay the IRS will settle for a lower amount.

Notable if the IRS ever filed a lien against you: IRS Form 12277 Application for Withdrawal of Filed Form 668.
And were you able to see one of the other meanings behind "disability", and why deaf people want to avoid that stigma?
If it’s open ended, 15m.
> There's more code out there on github, but that's just one aspect of creation.

1,000 free, open-source blogging platforms on github, but we all just post on Facebook.
There seems to be a pretty big difference between customers voluntarily choosing what to buy and not buy, and the government making the decision for consumers, and not giving them a choice.

The country is taking away rights that the consumers deserve to have.
It's looking like it will have a physical Esc key but no Fn keys.
I can actually see this working out. Comparing the first half of 2018 to the first half of 2019, WeWork roughly doubled revenue while keeping losses constant. Their losses went from ~2x revenue to ~1x revenue, which is still nuts, but improving quickly. They also had $1.5 billion in revenue through 2 quarters, and are growing at roughly 100% year over year.

If SoftBank can really reign in spending, in 2 years we could be looking at a company that’s cashflow neutral, growing very quickly, with annual revenue in the range of $5-10 billion. From the outside looking in, this seems possible to me, and would result in a company with a valuation much higher than $8 billion.
Today I tried to read a few links off HN and hit endless paywalls and ad infestations, all for a paragraph of fluff. I logged onto Facebook and my feed was crowded out with promoted posts and memes. I went on Reddit and the tiny bit of great content was crowded out with memes. I realized this is it. The web has fully lost it's early magic and it will never recover it in this iteration. There are ways you could fix it, but it's too late and all the players are too entrenched for anything to change. The monetization model is broken. This pony is all out of tricks.

We'll need to pioneer the next platform for tech to be exciting and fresh again. Probably VR, possibly AR. I'll see you guys there.
One hopes you're not arguing that companies shouldn't bother trying to figure out if they're in the 95% or the 5%.
And depending on your commits, you may need to solve conflicts several times (rerere alleviates this, though).

Also, isn't this very basic? I thought pull --rebase was one of the most basic commands everyone learned while getting acquainted with git.
Each of us is born into some structure that human animals impose. Some groups afford more or less ability to individuals to contribute (e.g. by voting, putting themselves forward as potential leaders, etc.) to a discussion about whether the existing structures are appropriate. Couching it in moral terms isn't interesting, from a practical perspective.
That's so true. Diploma, years of experience, experience itself doesn't mean anything. I've interviewed a lot of people who came to interview with a pile of of diplomas and recommendations and were quite weak and hired people without prestigious education and extensive experience who produced amazing results.

People tend to collect toys like diplomas, certificates, etc... I'd probably be downvoted, but imo correlation between actual skills and those toys is getting weaker lately.
This is a company that dedicates office space and employee time to massage, coffee bars, LAN party rooms, rock climbing walls, bowling alley, all manner of perks, but not one hour per ever of discuss of employee rights.
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I do not and never will understand fashion. I understand the whole speech in The Devil Wears Prada (that the things we all wear were once the trendsetters, just like the tech in luxury cars trickling down) but I just don't get it.

Even when someone buys me something I tend to just pick a favourite and stick to it. I have a few pairs of shoes but pretty much just wear one unless the occasion says I shouldn't.

And then there are the gamers with their "Fashion is the real endgame!" attitude which I've found in a few games. I seriously don't care if I look like this (http://i.imgur.com/SfYDtUO.jpg) when playing. Just gimme the stats I need.
LOL at dudes in the thread shopping at thrift stores and dumpster diving for clothing. I own 2 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of shoes, about a dozen t-shirts and some underwear, socks and a hoodie. My wife, on the other hand, has a bedroom-sized closet stuffed so full of clothing and shoes, if a clothing- or shoe-slide happens inside she won't be able to open the door. 95% of what's in there was worn only once or twice as far as I can tell, and she has long since lost track of what she does and does not have.

Which is a long-winded way of saying, dudes contribute nearly nothing to this particular part of global emissions, and all the dumpster diving will be for naught. You gotta convince the ladies they don't need more shoes and clothing, and this is very, very hard to do. I've been trying for 20 years now, and so far I haven't figure out how to argue this case effectively.
> Not much has been added.

Apart from "smart" phones, which had tremendous repercussions for your otherwise remarkable list.
It's crazy that it's not basically fraud to do what they did. They put out a 100-200 page document saying "Our business is great" so that retail investors could make an informed investment decision and then 2 months later are like "actually it's relatively worthless and we have no money left and if we can't raise money right now, we will die". Did the people involved really believe that glowing 100+ page report? The difference between this and a pump and dump is simply intent, and I think it's most likely that the intent was there.
That's a different term used to mean entirely different things.
I'm seeing James Tiptree Jr being still relevant 30+ years after her death. Same with PK dick. Le Guin (died last year) is a good candidate too.

I bet a sizable number of concurrent SF authors outlives 100 years.
We've currently never built a manned space ship for month long travels in outer space. We've never built a space ship that uses centrifugal force to simulate gravity and done longitudinal studies to verify that this doesn't have an adverse impact on Humans. SpaceX is has a market capitalization of 33.3 Billion. SpaceX which was founded 17 years ago has never had a manned flight. SpaceX has also never had a flight leave the atmosphere so far. But yes, it's entirely believable that they will go to Mars in our lifetime.
There's a degree of state influence on the US media, but turn on any news site and you'll see criticism of the current regime. I'm speaking as a Ukrainian immigrant who sometimes tunes into Russian news, where they call me a Nazi and say I'm a threat to the Russian way of life. I don't give a shit about US/Russia relations, but if you wanna talk about China and their human rights violations, Russia is a close second.
He is evidently NOT opposed to changes, read these quotes from him:

> I don't like change when it unnecessarily breaks things that used to work just fine.

> I used to like change more when it actually made me work better, when the advantages clearly outweighed the downsides, when progress and improvements were noticeable and thoughtfully implemented.

He is opposed to changes that 1) break things that used to work fine, 2) do not make him work better, and so on, you get the idea. If those changes make him work better, or when the advantages clearly outweigh the downsides, and when improvements are noticeable and thoughtfully implemented, then he is all in favor of those changes, i.e. not opposed to changes in general, just some changes that do not meet some criteria.
To quote Steve Oberlin of Nvidia ( quoting House M.D.) about cloud customers... "Everybody lies."
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Windows 95 was buggy too, but a history of OSes would be silly to leave it out
Every single day people crash cars, cut themselves on kitchen knives, and choose weak methods of single-factor authentication. There’s only so much the seller can do. We’ve seen how much users love (and subvert) “strong password requirements.”
Isn't the answer "Denver"? The city has a higher radiation dosage than average yet no more medical issues. Or at least that's something I heard once. A quick google brought up this site (which I have no idea who is sponcering)

https://atomicinsights.com/science-falsified-no-safe-dose-hy...

Also

https://www.google.com/search?q=denver+radiation
FWIW I prefer rebasing locally (to squash/split/cleanup commits, or catch up to upstream) and merging remotely (create a merge commit at the completion of each work branch). I just wanted to get the info out there for those interested!
Your perspective suggests you think deaf people are jealous of hearing people. I think it's different. Deaf people have created a bunch of other solutions that don't involve cochlear implants, and a lot of that has been ignored by society at large. (For example, how do you raise a deaf child.)

Also the controversy around cochlear implants is mostly about giving CIs to young humans. It's not that much about "hearing again". (In fact I don't think CIs are as effective later in life.)
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No pretending to be an engineer can have deadly consequences. Imagine someone saying they're an engineer and being contracted to build a bridge or building. That could (and has) have disastrous consequences.
That happened because you exercised and didn't sell?

Also, we may be hearing many stories like that after the Bitcoin bubble when IRS goes through the records more carefully. Always remember to take profits the instant you make those profits, put some of that cash aside for yours and IRS's sake. Always.
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Sure.

To give you an intuition though, LNT would suggest that the body has no repair mechanism for healing damage from radiation (should be suspicious about this) and that all effects are accumulative (which makes sense if there is no repair, but doesn't if there is repair). We can heal from other things and have demonstrated in the lab that cells can repair from low radiation dosages.

Basically the thing is that measuring is incredibly difficult because there's a temporal component and effects are very different depending on where that dosage is received (eg. your eyes vs your hands. See equivalent dosage). So what do you do? You overestimate on the side of safety. Failure of modeling is built into the safety standards (I used to work on radiation shielding devices and I fully support the use of the LNT model in practice. Better safe than sorry).

I haven't read all of these and didn't archive what I have read so these are what I came up with quickly (I did read abstracts, of course)

(Short end is that it isn't clear how much cancer risk increases for dosages <100mSv -i.e. "low dosages" -, which is WELL above occupational standards - 5x actually)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663584/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000927971...

not an article but a good high level response (notice the hand waviness) https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q12755.html

This part of the wiki page is also good and shows you the contrasting sides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model#Cont... It also has links to other journal articles.
Some areas feel easy to fake-innovation-as-consulting due to high throughout or concierge: recruiting, ads, etc. You do a normal job, maybe handhold, and market with something fresh. Can get some level of sales proportional to marketing and services effort. But ultimately nothing truly differentiating or sticky vs the next AI/niche/whatever startup, and investors move on as the startup fails to keep growing past $1M/$10m/whatever. The consultancy/services gets bought at consultancy/services-level terms for consultancy/services-level value.

It took me awhile to notice the pattern of businesses that can get to some revenue quickly, but hit a ceiling soon after. Sample sign: a few top principals are drive most of the early deal value, and revenue scales at bad multiples after them.
Yes, and an even better example is Ramsar Iran.
What sets it apart from conventional explosives is that it's decentralized. A single attacker can distribute these things all over a city. This makes it much more difficult to mitigate the threat, let alone apprehend the attacker.
Are we seriously living in a world where most people can't read street signs and describe where they are?

The popular service has offered convenience that seems to have withered most people's brains.
There weren't a lot of jobs.

I was at one place through much of the boom, eventually they folded. I was the last employee, part of my job was winding down and archiving the assets. After that, jobs were a bit scarce.

I didn't mind the break, though it was a bit demoralizing. Much like today, if you can create a name for yourself, it's easier to get hired.
If everybody here would flag the paywall'd junk and not upvote it, it could be a nicer place.

Liberally using the 'hide' button also helps, but only yourself. You kind of need to cull out a third of it. One of these days I'm going to make a custom skin that filters out the worst of the hosts that clog up the front page.
I don’t think most people do, because if they did, Reddit would also be gamed.
Watch those batteries. The batteries at a wholesale club are dated 9-11 years out.

I’m looking at a box of batteries I received last week. They expire in 2020.
I think a company that saves $2B (meaning they were able and willing to spend even more before they had this idea) is more than able to have multiple competencies. Acquisition and vertical integration is how many companies became massive.

Of course it's a question of scale, but a lot of arguments I've seen usually come down to CapEx vs OpEx accounting which is silly because a dollar is a dollar.
Don't forget opportunity cost. The future profits need to be higher than the $5B plus liquidation value, PLUS the expected value of another investment at the margin.