skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> percentage of the company with transparency on prefs

I had this at 1 of three startups job offers that offered options. Guess what? It was only at that one that equity paid out to anyone.

Having an "equity" package without this is insane. Why would you want to work for someone who trusts their core business to someone they think would fall for junk like that? It's not just "equity has unknown value", it's "equity has unknown value but I'm giving it a wholly fake measure of 100,000 Monopoly dollars because I think you are just that stupid."

I'm not going to join a team that is pulling the moral equivalent of a 419 or Windows Tech Support Telemarketing Scam on day 1 of our relationship.

These companies are actively selecting for morons. Not only are they immoral scum, but they aren't going to be very successful if their engineers are morons.
Hackers by Steven Levy.
I totally agree. Periodic clean installation of OS for your personal computers is unnecessary and only creates hassle. I've upgraded from Leopard to Mojave without problem, with several different computers.

Servers, though, are a completely different story. Servers are like cattle, but personal computers are like pets.
The budget cap will be largely ineffective as there are numerous exemptions[0] and starts in 2021 but a large bulk of development will happen in 2020.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2019/11/01/the-18-billion...
Fantastic article but... “ The implementation here is in LISP which is a great language to learn but in my experience a tough language to use on larger projects.”

OBJECTION YOUR HONOR!!
Flashfood App Review; This App Reduces Grocery Stores Food Wastage
This^ apart from your accidental misspelling: "If they can't compete with the legal option..."

Competing with the legal option is why black markets exist. Not being able to compete ensures their eventual demise.
What’s fun is the odd projekt where they’re miksed. Unity has MonoBehaviour, but mostli uses US spellings otherwize.
I haven't heard this general hatred of Dart. Why do you think it's an absolutely awful language?
It wasn't so much "gave up on" as it was "deliberately destroyed".

Since the late 1800's, the banks and the governments have pursued a continuous policy of economic centralization and integration, and key to that policy has been the gradual ratchet of making farms unprofitable and uneconomical.

We could have a thriving agricultural economy — just change the policymakers.
The operator is much better with nullable types because you're less likely to add it everywhere defensively.

Hopefully tsc or eslint will actually warn when you use optional chaining on a non-nullable receiver.
I don't think OnlineGladiator is assuming it will be worse. You asked, "what do we have to lose?", and they're answering the question by pointing out that we still have a lot to lose.
My app is featured on the app store. How would you get investment?
Localiser Un Téléphone Portable
It is actually quite nearby on astronomical scales. For reference, the milky way is 105,700 light years in diameter.
It's bits; they're limiting you to 2G. And yeah, it's basically useless.
Maybe people feel insulted by your claim because it's needlessly hostile and judgemental (and wrong by all metrics). That you can offend many people with it doesn't make it any less counterfactual.

> The meta-point I'm making is that every group believes our current problems are somebody else's fault, what we're really facing is a systemic breakdown of the attributes that make for a functioning society

I'm sorry that I have to be frank, but that's just wishful thinking and ignorance of history. There was never a time when "values" or "attributes" where such that society magically worked and everyone correctly assumed responsibility for their problems.
Wow, I'm surprised by the downvotes.

There are more details in this BI article mentioned in the coindesk one. I would have linked to it directly, but they have a paywall.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-bottlers-sap-scali...

As the article explains, they're expanding their test because it's demonstrated that they could reduce order-reconciliation duration from 50 days to just a few days. That's a big deal for a $21 billion-a-year supply chain.

So, for those of you who are so sure that blockchain is pointless end-of-story, it seems like you're not taking into account how messy and expensive it is to manage data and legal contracts with many small business entities throughout supply chains. But I'll read more into the links you sent with your arguments, thanks for that.
It sounds to me like this is the dominant strategy for many people who dont use the traditional credit system much and are young and have no assets. You get a 1 in 20 chance of a million dollars and in 19 of 20 cases you go bankrupt. Seems like a extremely +EV deal.
federally subsidized student loans shouldn't exist. supply and demand--they are the reason college has gotten so expensive in the first place.

in the old days, people could pay tuition with a part-time job.
It is. At least 2001, maybe earlier.
3DFX was defunct in 2002 or so. Someone got Doom 3 (2004) to work on a Voodoo 2, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQSIT18bOvg
> “The Eurozone is fatally flawed because they share a currency but have no transfer payments between rich and poor members.”

This is incorrect. The EU has substantial transfer payments. Wealthier EU countries (like Germany) subsidise poorer ones (like Poland) on the order of tens of billions of Euros annually.

Regional development (subsidies for poorer areas) is the second largest EU budget line item after agriculture.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48256318
Then the government can pay the people in rural areas enough cash to fly in food, or enough to pay for prices high enough to make it worthwhile to open a grocery store.

Costs should be as transparent as possible. If there is low supply and high demand, you can increase supply by moving the prices up.

Alternatively, people in rural areas have to charge far more money for what they sell.
I observe that high tobbaco taxes have been a serious factor in discouraging or reducing smoking where I live, however, I'd like to point out a drawback. I'm not asserting that it would outweigh the benefits, but still.

What I'm seeing is that the high taxes, combined with a boundary to a neighbouring country with much lower taxes, is creating an extra financial incentive for crime that wasn't there. It suddenly created a situation where there's big money to be made in smuggling, and a strong pressure for corruption for various officials (customs, local police, administrative officials, municipalities, judges) funded by that money, and for violent crime (e.g. murdering honest officials that refuse to be bribed) funded by cigarette smuggling. In some sense it's comparable to the drug organized crime, because the market for 'gray' tobacco is comparable to drugs; while the customers pay much less, there are many more customers. And any black market has all kinds of negative side-effects on society simply by existing, as it adds incentives for bribery and corruption, and it funds people and organizations who naturally extend to other crimes - just like prohibition funded the rise of mob in USA.

So I'm worrying that the expected benefits of legalization are (in part) reliant on users moving from black market to legal means; however, in a legalized but heavily taxed environment many (most?) users would still prefer to keep their illegal dealers (because their product is affordable) and the expected decrease in crime and violence would not materialize because of that.
Oh they do mean bits, it is indeed completely unusable after you hit the limit and get throttled.
In a realistic situation, the homeowner or designer could end up in jail for endangering the kid.

Stilts would be expected to resists minor impacts from accidents and general course of life without bring the house down on your head and killing you in the process.
> Just decriminalize it already.

Just leave it at that. And treat it just like food. It's immoral for governments to be stipulating what drugs people can use.
I'm curious how big were the eng teams at the two companies upthread from this comment.

So many startups have CTOs of 5 person eng teams.
Article doesn't mention any actual instances of people wanting or trying to soak the rich.
Is source code generation an anti-pattern?
It might vary by state? CA DMV around the Bay Area is horrible, but New York is quite pleasant.
Internet speeds are usually measured in bits though, and include the protocols overhead, not just the final bytes transferred in HTTP.

Right now my download speed is 10.62Mbps and upload speed is 13.38Mpbs. That is some heavy throttling indeed.
During WWII, the government urged urban citizens to plant Victory Gardens so that farmed produce could go to the troops. Home and community plots resulted in an estimated 10 million tons of harvested produce, equal to the commercial production of the time.

The cause of these food deserts must be addressed, but in the mean time, I think a return to the Victory Garden would be useful (assuming it doesn't work too well and end up tanking agro prices). You just need south or east facing windows, porches or roofs, and you can easily construct (or buy) window boxes and raised beds.
24 months at $100/month leads you to 25k subscribers at $60M.
Ogre has been around for a while and not only were people less aware of pointer chasing issues, they weren't as much of an issue relative to the full speed of the cpu.
Delta – a syntax highlighting pager for Git
Funny how you say that.

Fentanyl solution for injection that hospitals get is a lot less potent than the hydromorphone solutions for injection that they can stock.

(50mcg/mL vs 10, 20, 50 or 100mg/mL).

As for the actual dosing... fentanyl is a lot more forgiving than morphine or hydromorphone, as measured by therapeutic index.
A literal, and not uncharitable reading of your argument is that you arguing this point, on this forum, on the internet, is merely a participation and destabilization of truth.

Some of the details around how best to protect freedom of speech seem complex. That it is either an absolute ideal or near enough, seems rather obvious to many.

One thing you can always count on is some portion of people who, when their ideas and values are status quo, will argue for undermining speech in some way. I suppose it's a natural enough of a thought. Some people, it seems, would much prefer a world where they constantly preach to the choir (regardless of how mind-numbing that would be).
If you own a house/land, you must maintain it in a safe condition and can be liable for injuries to third parties that result from poor maintenance.

Simplest example: a roof tile fall off your roof and kills a passerby.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I guess a lot of HN voters are against the idea of regulation that would prevent a lot of startups from gaining traction ("why can't I sell my stuff at a loss to get new customers?"). In reality, regulation extending anti-dumping laws to startup-type products/services is a possible solution to this issue, it's just one that would be difficult to implement and enforce. Ex. where do you draw the line on dumping vs. acceptable marketing and how do you calculate it for something like SaaS that usually has really high margins?
they think a pay period is 24 months (it may be). 60 million / (24mo * $100/mo) = 25,000
The ones I knew would definitely prefer a $100 million exit where they made $20 million to a lifestyle business.
Using TouchID for sudo on macOS
> In 2015, a judge ruled that the allegations made by Ms Giuffre regarding Prince Andrew were "immaterial and impertinent" and ordered them to be removed from a claim against Epstein.

I'm not up on British legal terminology. What does it mean when a court finds an allegation "impertinent"? I know what the word "impertinent" means in ordinary English, but if it was just that it seems an odd thing for a court to declare when dismissing something. I'd expect them to just say it was immaterial and leave it at that. So I'm guessing "impertinent" has some specific legal meaning in their system?
Keep in mind that TypeScript does make breaking changes in point releases. They don’t ascribe to semver. Not sure if that’s your issue or a bug though
Micronaut predates Quarkus by almost a year, but they both seem to be great frameworks.
Just one backcountryAnal.com away from a really awkward lawsuit.
IMO, there hasn't been a Democrat worth a damn since FDR, and there hasn't been a Republican worth a damn since Eisenhower. I'm already tired of the 2020 electoral farce. I'll vote straight Democrat no matter what because I prefer champagne socialists over fascists and dominionists, but my money is on the GOP to win unless the Democrats grow some backbones and learn how to beat the GOP at their own crooked game.
My wife has always been a remote worker, and she swore off yoga balls after a "catastrophic failure" that may have been cat-related.
There is no requirement that you understand anything except how to check that checkbox that says, “yeah, yeah, I promise I read the PDF you sent. Let me trade da options!!!”
I'd argue that for most customers the various drugs are somewhat feasible substitutes for each other, many of them fill similar needs. The introduction of new "products" seems to be driven by supply side because they're easier to manufacture or transport, because some chemicals aren't yet illegal, etc.

IMHO if a limited number of mostly well-understood drugs (from different types) would be legalized, then it would seriously undercut the demand for any of the new substances.
So I'm running macOS in KVM with pcie passthrough (Vega64) in order to emulate an Apple I on the GPU.
What a tremendous era we live in ;D
I believe fentanyl can be provided in a relatively safe form if it was legal.
One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble
Some people will die of ancillary causes (mostly lost wealth). It will impact the poorest, and frankly dumbest, individuals who will not face a creeping inevitability.
Don’t have time to read but certainly will bookmark this page and forget about it
Yeah, the "type of types" is called a kind in Haskell https://wiki.haskell.org/Kind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_(type_theory)

Caveat: there seems to be some reason not to think of kinds as actually being the types of datatypes, but I don't understand why that is.
I miss him so much.
> Farms will come back, they will just be run by corporations instead.

I believe that is already the case.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/06/state-of-american-farming-bi...
See also Druid:

https://docs.rs/druid/

...and this thread where two interested parties discuss SwiftUI briefly:

https://twitter.com/raphlinus/status/1190025792534798338

...and also this blog post:
https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2019/10/31/rust-2020....
The UK does not have compulsory voting, maybe it should.
How about decriminalizing tax evasion as well, while we are at it?
I was shocked at how bad the documentation for Facebook was. I assumed wiring up login would be super simple, it’s amazing how hard it was to find in their documentation. I guess when you’re paying devs to implant a shitty custom currency you can’t invest in docs for one of your biggest integrations.
If one person could destroy it, it wouldn't be healthy would it?
The commenter was talking about a release of create-react-app, which is a starter-kit/scaffold. For such a project with the goals of being a packaged collection of tools/configurations, it seems prudent to only release if your set of tools present a consistent experience.

Many js developers see formatters as a sane default, and create-react-app is a layer in the ecosystem that incorporates it as a "core" piece in the way that you meant above.
I get the feeling that half the "problem" is bigger stores moving into grocery (e.g. Walmart, Costco, Dollar General) and some serious problems with distributors. If you live in a rural area, then "local" can often mean 45-90 miles. Heck, go to Sam's Club or Costco a couple hours away every couple of weeks is not a big deal. The quality of store bought food I can get now as an adult far outstrips what I could get during my childhood. Frankly, Walmart is a whole lot less corrupt than the local grocery place.

The interesting part is that the old truth seems to still work, if you have a good butcher, you can survive fairly well.
Lately, I've had this fascination/idea of reading about world history (or at least major events in world history) through the history of seemingly-mundane, everyday objects. The search for literature in this vein has been predictably difficult but I've been fortunate to come across two great books of this theme.

The first is A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton. The main idea of the book is somewhat like a visual variant of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: that our maps shape our perception of the world and, in turn, our place in it. I actually tried going into this book with a skeptical mind. I first took on the premise that you can't say much about world history by just looking at maps; maybe the crudeness of various Mappaemundi make them unsuitable for educated speculation. I am pleased to say that, by the end of the book, my premise has been completely obliterated.

HN Readers might find the final chapter particularly interesting. It reads on Google Maps and demonstrates that even today in an age of satellite imagery, a map can't claim complete objectivity.

(I'd like to note that in a couple of instances, Brotton gets some technical details wrong. There is an especially glaring one in the Google Maps chapter the hunt for which is left as an exercise to the reader. It does not really affect his main arguments and I really enjoyed the book despite these errors that bite at my attention to detail.)

The next one is Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles. This is lighter in content than 12 Maps and deals mostly with obscure figures (in world history) and yet has emerged influential to the modern-day library. The big thing that piqued my interest in this book is the part about Nazi Germany. I know, I know, any discussion can be maneuvered towards Hitler and especially one about censorship. But Battles shows how libraries are, more than anything, social institutions; how even in a bleak time and place such as Nazi-occupied Europe, make-do libraries can support a community.

He also touches on the other side of the coin. We are used to thinking of libraries as benevolent institutions of knowledge but we rarely think of them as ideological apparatuses to curtail knowledge. Highly recommended even for non-bibliophiles. At least, enjoy entertaining stories behind libraries even if you don't get a grand takeaway lesson from it all.

(Edited for formatting.)
Lookup_dcookie(2)
They weren't first (imode, Cisco IPhone, iriver).
What is the purpose of square bracket executable?
Github api. honorable mention.
Why We Sleep is really good. It really changed my view on sleep.
Not entirely, as federal dollars pay for army bases, manufacturing projects, etc. across the country, resulting in significant redistribution of wealth.

The EU has far, far less tax income, and for the last 10 years been spending all that money on the new entrants instead of Greece, Spain or Italy as it did pre-EU27. (And I would argue of course they should spend the money there for the greatest good).

So there's no redistribution through tax, and Germany benefits from a much weaker currency, while struggling countries can't use currency controls to kick start their trade.
I agree with you on legalization. However, I imagine these cool kids in my surrounding neighborhoods (that like to intimidate people etc etc) using them and it makes me think twice.

It feels like it would be anarchy. Which I believe most people think too.

With the risk of sounding grumpy. Some people are really immature and deliberately anti-social and defying social norms.

But I still think legalization is good.
The mistake people always make is assuming left wing partisan = blind support for Trudeau/liberal party. Which is not what that means. The CBC isn't being accused of being a propaganda arm for a particular party. Not is it not about just blatantly supporting a single centre-left political party.

The biases are about ideologies and how idea/stories/people are presented, spun, or casually dismissed in general. A big one is what sources are used.

Additionally, even shamelessly partisan rags like WaPo or Vox would be critical of obvious democrat mistakes too. The bar isn't that low yet where something like SNC wouldn't be covered. It's often in the details and the stuff not said or treat uncritically.
Punished by Rewards https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541132.Punished_by_Rewar...
Indeed but if one owns one’s own business one is probably not planning on being an employee again any time soon.
Affordances: Science Fiction About Algorithmic Bias and Technological Resistance
I'm happy to read about the tech. Not so much about the business but as long as you're working on what you like then who am I to say anything. Good luck!
What a deplorable response.
The actual story can be read at [1]

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/affordances-cory-doctor...
> Do the regulators have to get public approval for each new regulation they pass?

No, and that would actually defeat undivided accountability for outcomes.

> Does that system actually align incentives so that the utility is motivated to preempt problems like these?

Do politicians like to be blamed for burning down the state with no one else to point to?
The force of gravity is 0. But the potential of gravity is higher than on the outside, so clocks run slower.
Transporting a truck of legal goods across a whole continent and multiple countries is much cheaper and easier than a briefcase of illegal drugs.

The total cost of risk-free (i.e. fully insured) delivery of a truckful of goods is trivial compared to even quite cheap products; while that briefcase would pretty much have to double in value after that long trip to make the transport profitable.
Alexander Acosta (prosecutor against Epstein in 2007) made a cryptic remark that Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and that he was told to leave the case alone.

This remark, along with the soft plea deal he got have created a lot of speculation (mostly outside of mainstream news outlets, for obvious reasons), that Epstein was operating a blackmail honeypot for some intelligence agency, either the CIA or Mossad I guess, since he had some ties to the Israeli defense industry and some former high-level Israeli
politicians.

It's honestly not that implausible that an intelligence agency would let him keep his pedo ring as long as they knew who was in it, it would have been a blackmail goldmine based on the kind of people that were in his social circle.

Here is the source of the quote and some more information on his ties to Israeli intelligence if this interests you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Financial_cons...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Israeli_startu...
theoretical gallons of gas is not useful when you have vastly different ranger per gallon (or kilowatts) of energy. Reporting miles of range is what makes sense. Cars get less mileage when they 70 miles per hour than 60 mph, but its not so visible because you don't ever have such an exact measure of gas and range available.
Hollywood accounting to fly under the radar would hurt the share price. Double edged sword.
> pollution from China

Really from Western consumers if you look at who the vast majority of those factory products go to. The US used to be just as bad a polluter until it became easy for US companies to move to a country with fewer regulations.
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"omg what about my privacy!"

Always the same thing. You're are getting surveyed because you happily surrendered your personal space for convenience. In many cases there's is no option, but somehow people always complain about the cases where they clicked "I Agree".