skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that being a great founder doesn't always make you a great leader. You might not even want to be a great leader. But you're still responsible for making sure your organization is being led well if you don't want your company to fail and your holdings to become worthless. Great leaders have an ability to pre-empt many of these org problems from even happening in the first place as it scales. Once you see them in action, you'll never look at people's problems inside the workplace the same way. It is a cruel irony that as a founder who would benefit the most from learning leadership from an excellent mentor, you are often forgoing some of your most valuable years and learnings you could earn at a mature organization learning how to build sustainable leadership and organizational growth and instead making your own mistakes on your own very costly dime, with no one above you to share the responsibility and help you clean up your messes in case you get in over your head.

Have you ever seen two key employees spar at a high flying company that later on falls apart due to collateral damage between two warring political factions? If you haven't, let me tell you that I've seen that situation go in many ways, but two ways happen very frequently. In one way, executives take proactive but firm measures to squash the conflict -- if it can't be reconciled amicably and fully, one or both party goes (this usually happens regardless). In another way, executives reactively try to paper around the problem and minimize the damage of the conflict without removing one or both parties. The first way doesn't always end in success, but I've seen it work out 50/50. The second way has ended in failure every time I've observed it -- usually with one side winning albeit with a huge amount of attrition and collateral damage to the company in every way, along with a tacit endorsement of the idea that "might makes right".

It is true that the reality of business is messy. However, there there are effective ways and ineffective ways for organizations to solve people's problems. You do yourself and your company a disservice if you're not constantly pushing yourself to find more of the former.
Nice work, thanks!
Safari removed support for it for that reason, making it essentially dead as other browsers should follow (if they haven't already): https://www.macworld.com/article/3338152/apple-safari-removi...
It surprised us at first, but this is legit how many design teams use them…!
> Hopefully there's something useful in that context but many of these ideas could be applicable beyond that also.

They’re very applicable outside the context of consulting - they’re fundamental for any leader joining a new organization to integrate well and get things done. Consultants transition more often than most; the principles you’ve shared are a great reference for the rest of us on how to be effective in a new environment.
In most parts of the country, there's both an upside and downside to increasing property values to landowners. Upside: they're worth more, they could sell and move somewhere else cheaper, pocketing the money, or they could rent out their place for more. Downside: they have to pay higher ongoing property taxes. Most landowners still like increasing property values, but it's not all good for them.

With prop 13, the downside is wiped out. Increasing values are only good; they could increase 10x overnight and this would only make landowners filthy rich, there's no negative effect for them. Ergo, they have every incentive to keep housing supply constrained, to keep voting for politicians and policies that limit housing density.
I have seen this be a huge problem for smaller companies that do not either a) have someone's who is good at their job of following up on invoices or b) an owner to does this themselves.

Like months past due on invoices that are make or break for payroll and at least one time that a company missed payroll over this.

Without knowing much about what you've made beyond the link, I think that there is a need for what you've created.
So your ownership of a company should be taken away if you don't actively manage it? Would you advocate against me being able to own my 10 shares of Microsoft stock and profiting from the hard work of the engineers? People of all levels of wealth offer their capital to companies in exchange for some return on their investment. Bill Gates provided disproportionate value to the economy and was rewarded as such. He then has large amounts of capital to invest in companies that need it, which he is compensated for. I don't understand what's wrong with this. Bill Gates is one of the best examples of the 0.01% benefiting society.
How are you jumping from judges not having legal training, to Jim Crow literacy tests?
This is South Carolina, which has never really been a fan of the equal protection that's supposed to be provided by the US Constitution.
I can't edit my post, but to be clear, kratom itself obviously isn't an opioid, but it contains opioid alkaloids.
Just as an FYI, when you use code formatting for text it makes the text unreadable on mobile devices.
> The scary language has real-world consequences. These 3D scans could be used by people who want to 3D-print a replica for a classroom, integrate the 3D model into an art piece, or allow people to hold the piece in a virtual reality world.

Partial reuse for art & photocopy for classroom are areas where people have traditionally ignored copyright and been fine. The question of copyright in a historical scan is I guess an important question but not for these reasons.

More relevant case might be a rival museum setting up a gallery of 3d prints of scans.

I'm not an expert but the law here is probably unclear -- I think the author of this article is blurring the difference between copyright of the sculpture and copyright of the scan. These scans are hard to make. Someone who drew a picture of the sculpture could assert copyright over the drawing (as other comments here point out).

Also, the sculpture itself may be copyrighted if significant restoration work went into it.
What was the deal with those roach clips? I always felt a joint needs a small filter, which I would roll up from harder paper(takes 10 sec). Was it just a Cheech and Chong prop or did hippies really carry those around?
Me too. I don’t think there are many people making enough money to eat working on Open Source software. If you see GitHub, the largest most active projects are funded by Mega Corps like Micro Face Goog.

I wonder how many companies are successful with open source but paid licence for commercial use.
I’m glad I finally broke this habit. I probably bought hundreds over the years! I’m down to about 5 now :-)
I hear a lot from people say "all the low hanging fruit have been taken" or "all the big ideas are already done" with regards to tech businesses. Definitely lacks both foresight and hindsight.
I clip too many articles and URLs that I never read!
Never been an industrial accident in California, eh?
OTOH, puzzling something out through trial and error fosters curiosity and teaches a "fail fast" mindset. For a sixth grader, this "play" may be a more beneficial lesson than only being able to tackle problems for which you already know the optimal strategy (in this case, algebra)
Garbage collection solve many problems on virtual machine as memory leaks and override on primary memory, many programming languages now implement something like garbage collection on API then the compiler can manage the memory for the user.
The language is quite irrelevant with the right architecture and infrastructure.
Who should get credit for Fermat's Last Theorem solution?
Fascinating. The NameCheap CEO is in the replies, and seems to be saying that the registration was pulled at the registry level for some "perceived violation or legal request" -- I'm kind of curious regarding what protocol is for these kinds of situations, and how much they vary from TLD to TLD. I think about the once-popular .ly TLD becoming less popular after instability hit Libya, but I'm curious about what the other case history is here.
I wonder how much of this is due to brain drain due to political immigration policies.
Maybe you could ask at a US embassy if you don’t find answers?
But the people in San Francisco have got what they wanted. Maybe in 20 years SF will be able to change but right now the majority of people are actually in favor of the way the city is being run: to stay stuck in time as long as possible
Muneeb Ali: Blockstack and Crypto Singularity [video]
Any obvious advantages over, say, Keybase + Pass?
You don't know anything at all about Texas if you think that. All of Texas' large cities lean liberal.
Would a SBB night train from Basel to London be possible?
Why carve out equity that should have a wealth tax associated with it differently based on the type? I would think that intellectually consistency would demand that either we tax all equity based on unrealized gains the same whether it is stock, equity in a business or real estate property.
That’s the expectation, but outsourcing means modern democracy is in large part run by for profit companies. Law enforcement traffic cameras are a great example of this with layers of separation between voting and implementation. More insidious is border agents depending on outsourced software to screen people. In theory government agents are in charge, in practice it’s more nuanced.
Important to note here that the Registrar (Namecheap) is working the issue[1], and that the domain was pulled from them outside of their control[2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/namecheap/status/1200682593500483584?s=2...

[2]: https://twitter.com/namecheapceo/status/1200714718610153472?... (This is from Namecheap’s CEO)
The AMA doesn't limit how many doctors can graduate. The bottleneck is in residency slots. Every year students graduate from medical school but are unable to practice because they can't get matched to a residency program in a teaching hospital. We need more public funding for those programs.
One is confident that this electronic voting system will not get hacked
It's a mentality of abundance. In times when resources are extremely limited, we see exactly whose lives are "more valuable."
I disagree, the community is both more fragmented and smaller, what had 144k users on its last day vs the 35k of its spiritual successor today. The few music trackers that have sprung up post what.cd after said spiritual successor are all pretty small. The niche genre trackers all have about the same user numbers since then so they cancel out. Then factor in that waffles has been down for some time now and the difference is pretty big.

I can only estimate because exact numbers are hard to find, but I'd say peak what era music tracker community total users was in the 350k region and we're probably somewhere around 100k now.
That was an edifying, enjoyable watch. Thanks for posting it.
It's not obvious to me that you can't also have a progressive / marginal tax system for property taxes based on home valuations (e.g. home values >$1MM taxed higher than those worth $200K). So, I don't think property taxes are inherently regressive.

That said, I don't think it's enough to just look at one tax. We have to consider taxes and regulations as a whole to understand whether a place is overall regressive or not. This leaves room for different implementations of tax policy which if done correctly will benefit the people.
No, that's a fallacy, unless you can credibly argue for a causal link, i.e. because of the prize people feel they can get away with violence.

I find that not impossible to argue, but incredible, and would want to see supporting evidence.
Thanks! The_DaveG, this is great to hear! I hope we can help the smaller businesses to not lose out on these overdue invoices, and to never not send an invoice either!
Cheers
Eating too much sugar and not exercising enough.
Huh? Wasn’t Nobel opposed to (many uses of) high explosives? Wasn’t that the point?
No you can’t just “ship land” elsewhere. But, there is nothing stopping people and companies from moving where land is cheaper. The land is only valuable because people want to live in California instead of places where it cheaper.

Its not just the supplier who is being “obstinate” the consumer is also refusing to look other places.
Not much better on desktop if you leave out line breaks (as was done here).
Where I work we routinely openly disparage each other's skills and work ethic, but keep it jovial without any serious personal attacks or ganging up on one person. Criticism is never taken personally, and you build a culture of friendly competition, and nobody is ever afraid to tell anybody else that their code sucks because everybody has shitty code somewhere, took a short cut to meet a deadline, made a mistake, etc.

In your situation I would've said to the new devs they should be more worried about screwing up my lunch order being so new, and claimed I wrote the terrible code myself instead of selling out the old devs, and that they need to pick up the pace and step up if they want to compete with my 10x skills pushing working product out the door. I would've also nicknamed the loudest critic 'Triple A' from there on in too just like how they nicknamed me when I started and took forever to finish anything.
I disagree. The hard problems in math, science, and engineering are not amenable to a "fail fast" mindset. They take years, decades, or sometimes centuries of study to solve.

This sort of puzzling through play is good for solving math contest problems that have been specifically designed for the purpose, and little else.
Yes, but that cuts both ways.
They only get the prize after stopping, so you're arguing for something more complicated: violence, then non-violence, then violence.

Possible, but not terribly plausible, IMO. And the examples proffered so far (Obama or Kissinger) certainly don't fit that pattern.
I was also thinking that most of these things were already doable in AngularJS.
There is no evidence that nurse practitioners and physician assistants deliver worse care than physicians for routine conditions.
Garbage collection isn't that slow. I find allocating off the fragmented memory after collection slower.
Valuable in what sense? People talk about value like there is some absolute objective value. There's not. Things hold different values to different people and even the same people in different circumstances.
Hands-on: Free vector graphics iOS app Vectornator comes to the Mac
This. I can't express this enough. And other thing I can't express enough is how logic is an extension of common sense. Just go and read the wikipedia articles about the Three Laws of Thought: the Law of identity, the Law of noncontradiction, the Law of the excluded middle and the Principle of Reason.
I made it ~60% of the way through this and thought it was really well done. The guide gives detailed instructions so you never feel stuck, but because it's language-agnostic you still have to translate everything into specific code which forces real understanding (can't just copy-paste code snippets).
I made a crawler-bot to spell check my whole site. Hits all my dynamic pages too
Well, if we want to get technical, birds don't have a neocortex- it is a mammalian-only structure.
Not any more than desktop Firefox. GeckoView is mostly a Java API for interfacing with Gecko, https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/andro...
There’s a reason why toddlers have an insatiable desire to put everything in their mouths for about a year. Do you think nature would evolve that trait if it wasn’t beneficial?
TFA:

>SRLabs didn't find an issue in the RCS standard itself, but rather how it is being implemented by different telecos
They didn't drift. They knew how to sail. How to transport live fruit trees over vast distances. The history of the pacific is really long and complicated.
I only argue that there is a plausible mechanism, you argued in quantitative terms.
Yeah, this changes the story a lot. Original headline makes it seem "this guy spoke up, then he's deported," it's more like "this guy was gonna be deported, he offered up what he knew in hopes they'd let him off."

It seems like a major building collapse doesn't involve criminals operating in the shadows to the same extent as e.g. drugs, murder, etc. The architects, engineers, contractors, etc. are usually findable since they have to be licensed, there's a paper trail for everything because lots of filings have to be made for big construction, the "crime scene" (collapsed building) is basically impossible to alter / hide, and so on.

So I'd say it's a fairly good guess this guy didn't know anything the prosecutors didn't.
I am not sure I would consider #2 and #3 as "unusual changes". That being said I didn't realize you could do #1, definitely will give it a try.
I’ve run a .in site through Namecheap for 6 years. Glad they are responding to the issue.
I don’t know if there’s a huge difference between “a brand new thing” and “an old thing that is not interacting at all the way we understand it to.”
Where did the OP say that they have a dog?

I grew up around hunting and farms and also don't find it surprising that animals are fairly intelligent.

While your statement about pasturing being good for the environment is partially true in that there are some forms that do some good, by and large meat production is actually one of the largest causes of GHG emissions.[1] A lot of this land would actually be used more efficiently for production of non-animal proteins like legumes, especially considering the land that is used to supplement pasturing through production of animal feed in most modern agriculture.

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/
If I had most of my net worth tied to my SF house, I would be a NIMBY as well. Don't blame them though.
He saved a few lives
and a nice old house

One wonders if they're related.
It's not that everything has been done. It's that the economics are not conducive to further baby steps, despite this still being the beginning of the beginning, technologically.

Doesn't matter how low the fruit is if the monopolistic glass ceiling is even lower.
Britain’s lower courts are presided by magistrates. There isn’t even an election. It’s a simple interview and a application form.

https://www.gov.uk/become-magistrate/apply-to-be-a-magistrat...

While there are supposedly checks on their powers, abuses though sheer incompetence happen.
An interesting story on generational garbage collectors: a couple of versions ago, Lua experimented with a generational GC. But it didn't improve performance, so they kept the old incremental collector. A long time later, they looked at it more closely and realised that the actual problem was that the generational collector was moving objects out of the nursery too eagerly. Objects in the stack are live and will survive if the GC runs, but many of them will stop being live as soon as their function returns. They fixed the issue by making the stack objects that survive one round of GC to stay in the nursery. The new GC is now much faster than the old one, and is one of the big features of the upcoming Lua 5.4
Yeah, unfortunately, domain squatters have poisoned the well for .com domains. There are many, many domains which should be available for use, but are being squatted indefinitely for speculative purposes. This has caused pretty much every new company to migrate to TLDs like .co, .ly, .me, .ai, .in, and .io. Since these are almost all ccTLDs run by countries, governance is not great. .io has been particularly bad;

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/
Definitely agree. None-the-less very interesting Twitter thread with Jeff Atwood, DHH and the Shopify Engineers.
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To be fair, with coroners it's more out of necessity than anything. One of the counties next to mine has few coroners and it's something of a problem, as you can imagine. We recently had a friend die and the coroner's report is still not complete, three weeks later. We still don't know what the cause of death is, and as it's suspected to to be a suicide, it's not been a fun time waiting for the results to come out. An elected coroner could relieve the burden by preforming reports on 'mundane' deaths and leave the more complicated cases to more experienced people. Again, it's not a good solution by any means, but it's a better solution than the one they have currently.
I closed that one after the first few screens as even the first pattern was absolutely disgusting. I don't like when companies behave like needy little children and spam you "play with me" all the time. This whole engagement-based/time-wasting-based business model needs to die.
Calculus is super intuitive, but the algorithms are both difficult to memorize and involve a lot of guesswork if your pattern matching isn’t well honed (integration, specifically). I would advocate teaching calculus with charts and stuff to demonstrate the logic of if, but not require the solving of problems. Most of it is a waste of time, but the concepts are useful.
It is also nice for yourself to do. One time I created this visualization using vis.js of the Legendre transform: https://www.annevanrossum.com/blog/2015/08/08/legendre-trans...

It made it click for myself and it's fun to do!
The OP here is also the author of MathB.in, a popular math pastebin. He has decided to shut down MathB.in now as a result of this incident. Quoting from http://mathb.in/6 below:

> I have considered shutting down this website several times in the past. But when another of my domain, susam.in, where I used to host my personal blog (archive) was seized and transferred to a law enforcement organization without any notification or authorization, it was the last straw. I do not wish to spend my weekends worrying about spam and unlawful content. I do not wish to maintain constant vigilance on my online servers to maintain ownership. It consumes time, more time than I can afford.

This is sad for WWW. We need more independently run websites, not less. The web of early 2000 is rapidly disappearing.
There is still some evolutionary chauvinism when it comes to assumptions of animal intelligence as "distance from humanity" as other counterexamples prove them wrong already.

Reptilian brain crap which seems based on superficial shape when we really should know better now given evidence sitting in front of us.

It doesn't really hold. Sheep are infamously too dumb to live unassisted perhaps owing to overbreeding for docility.

Meanwhile cephalopods are capable of opening jars and get up to mischief like getting out of their tank and shorting out light fixtures when bored and I have observed hermit crabs transmitting behavior socially ("punching" instead of pinching with their larger claw) and figuring out how to rotate an improperly secured lid on its axis.
As long as we're linking to other pieces he wrote, "The History of T" is fascinating. (Mostly not funny.)

http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html
Thanks for the blast from the past. You've just reminded me how awesome mail was back then. Do you remember IceEdit?
Well, it's still an easier way to share higher resolution images and videos with other non-technical users.
From ActiveRecord Callbacks to Publish/Subscribe Pattern and Event-Driven Design
Roach clips were all too real. Everyone I knew rolled the traditional joints with both ends twisted, and we all had roach clips.

The roach was the strongest part of the joint, so it was highly prized and we smoked it right down to the end. No matter that it tasted awful and burned your lips and fingers even with a clip.

I did see a few people roll little filters into their joints, but it was rare. You were wise to do that.

As for myself, I never smoked again after trying a flower vaporizer for the first time a dozen years ago. So much better than burning it!
The long awaited garbage collection chapter is finally here! I'm not sure the discussion about white/gray/black objects is strictly necessary for a simplest possible garbage collector, but it definitely will help those who want to read more about the topic in the future.