skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The challenge is that people need to think of shareholder value more broadly.

If I'm running a company, maximizing shareholder value might include:

- paying my employees top dollar so that my turnover is lower and I don't waste money on recruiting

- donating money to local school to incentivize students to join my industry, so that I have a pool of potential employees in the future

- providing really nice (and expensive) customer service as that will make me more competitive and I'll end up with higher market share

Maximizing shareholder value doesn't necessarily mean cutting costs to the bone, treating employees like crap or polluting my local river.
This article from September suggests he still has depressive episodes: https://psiloveyou.xyz/depression-doesnt-ask-if-now-s-a-good...
> Many startups aren't being built for the long run and more than a few are just attempts at a quick cash grab...

From a VC's perspective they would rather take a loss on a short term investment than waiting 15 years for your investment to pay off.
452,000 it appears.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2017/07/one_mans_huge_lottery_...
Selling ads does speak nothing of diversification.

In 2001 Google probably only sold search ads.

Today they sell ads on so many digital places, some of those they own.

As for the question of "long term" - Google X was founded only 9 years ago.

That probably a reasonable time for a drug startup to show sucsess.

And they recently started testing self-driving cars with no safety driver , with real passengers. So they're close to some deployment.

That seems quite good.
Using World of Warcraft to Teach Economics
Only via the licensed path. The amount of ketamine his blog post talks about him receiving actually costs less than $100.
Years ago I sold a property I owned for about $150,000. Then one day, probably about two years later, I got a letter from the IRS. It was a notice that I owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes, and that I had 30 days before they would begin to take money out of my bank accounts (a bank levy).

The problem was that when the title company recorded the sale, the person entering the data added an extra zero to the sale price, and the IRS thought I had sold it for $1.5 million! Luckily the IRS was very easy to deal with and gave me a few months to resolve the issue, and the title company was able to fix the records.
Archaeology breakthrough: 800-year-old Mayan secret code ‘finally unravelled’
Thanks, but not the one I'm looking for. Its from a few years ago, made it to the top of HN and had lots of comments to go with it.

The reason I remember it is because there was an implication of influencing the subconscious somehow. The first few lines didn't seem to be very pointed or hard hitting or driving a conclusion, but were terribly important in influencing the outcome for the person reading the article.
So like x86 mov?

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
I do not understand why they retain the old system? What possible good effect can this have?

Japan has the same system of sort/branch codes and account number, but when I enter those here the recipient name is automatically filled out, making incorrect transfers pretty much impossible (unless, I guess, your mis-entered transfer to Mr. Sato is transferred to a different Mr. Sato instead)
The problem with smart weapons is that we only seem to use them against goat herders. Hardly a pressing need for a big tech and Pentagon meetup.
They went from product announcement to shutdown in 6 months. That seems like really bad planning.
It's a huge business! Not sure if that makes your idea terrible or not though...maybe both?
I've run into so many people in organizations who look at me like I'm from another planet when I start asking "why".

As an engineer I've always found that knowing why, knowing that there is a real customer out there who really wants what I'm making is very motivating.

So often people just come to me because their boss told them to go get engineering to make this thing. They don't know why, and sadly, their boss doesn't know why either as it was just passed to them from an executive mandate. And there is lots of pressure to get to done ASAP!
Last time this topic came up on HN this came up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupropion/dextromethorphan

Combination of Wellbutrin & Dextromethorphan -- which is a dissociative with some side-effects similar to Ketamine. It's in trial for severe depression treatment. 15mg of DXM (which you can buy at any drug store) combined with 150mg Wellbutrin (which you can get your dr. to prescribe to you.) Could be worth a try...
Part of what you are saying seems to focus on the idea that "these ideas are fundamental and everyone is doing this", which is true but a slight misdirection from other important issues.

The reason they are fundamental and popular is because they are very compelling ideas with very plausible assumptions, and they tend to chronically outperform other strategies. It is like someone saying "Assuming average performance going forward is the stupidest idea since beanie babies" - ok, they can say that. Sometimes it is true. But it is a default position of such overwhelming practicality that there needs to be a really good reason to move away from it.

The issue isn't going to be the ideas, misinterpretations and misconceptions about applications are the problem and that happens no matter how good or bad the underlying idea is.
There is no more shortage of math teachers than there is a shortage of developers.
The FDA already takes that into account when doing a risk/benefit assessment.

If you're looking to treat relatively health people for most of their lives (say a drug that precent type I diabetes), the FDA will scrutinize the hell out of it.

If you're looking to treat someone who is dying (e.g. metastatic cancer), then the FDA is much more lenient in their analysis.
This is a popular secular trend that's very important to watch out for. You never know when's the next big rewiring of property relations, and it's foolish to think it will not happen again. Suffice to say that "socialism" is no longer the dreaded name for failed economic policies of the past, it's a popular word with the young people. I'm not advocating for or against it, it's just a fact that there's some chance that it will happen.

Declining labor share as a % of GDP is very real and very threatening (it does piss many people off, whether or not they know about this metric).

"Distribution of Average Income Growth During Expansions" is quite scary too.
Yeah, that opening sentence was extremely valuable, because it let me decide to stop reading so quickly.
That's what the current console SOCs pretty much are - intergrated CPU/gaming GPU on one die backed by unified GDDR for both CPU/GPU, though 8 weak cores as it was the only viable architecture AMD had at the time for a console type device.

From what I understand this is still different from the Sony approach where you'd have a weaker GPU, but would offload shaders etc to the CPU which could do this due to it's powerful dedicated vector processing units. Of course this had the flaw of GPUs eventually develping shader capabilities etc and making it pointless - and harder to program for if you have to target PC/xBox etc as well.
Profit comes to mind.
> parsing and planing the same statements over and over...What programming language even interpreted...reparses and binds on every hit?

Yeah, I agree.

But I typically don't see it as a big problem because (1) queries are short so parsing is nothing (2) in some cases you'll want query plans to depend on parameter values, which hurts any cache rate (3) personally I heavily batch operations, e.g. a big insert is simply:

INSERT INTO example
SELECT * FROM unnest($?::int[], $?::text[])

P.S. AWS Aurora PostgreSQL has a plugin with global query plan caching and management. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
Yeah exactly, but for this particular usecase the "token based login" seems to be the best tradeoff between complexity and requirements.

They seem to have put the effort elsewhere, e.g. keeping their system devoid of billing and credit card info. Something a lot of shops that salt and do multi round scrypt hashing probably don't, because even though they do follow best practices, they don't actually think about security.

Would I have built it with hashing and automatic keygen on reset? sure! But this thing seems good enough tm.

Security isn't something where one solution fits all, otherwise everything thats low stakes like this (homework, guitar notes collection, my dogs homepage) gets the same security best practices as the hight stakes stuff (medical, financial, social).

I'd rather have this hacked together in php, but my bank run idris code, and my kitchen robot run haskell, than everything using node with scrypt hashed JWT.
Maybe it isn't? Here is what we're trying to be a bit better than:

max(internet_default, being_a_jerk)

... which hopefully is implied by "a bit better than internet default".
Both have a 100% risk of extinction when played infinite times instantly. Doesn't matter which you choose.
I too like money
Not on these devices, it isn’t. Without Apple’s signing keys, they run whatever Apple gives you, until they are EOL’d and then they run nothing else, ever.
I can't tell if you're being naive or deliberately perpetuating an Intel FUD. You're being part of the problem by doubling down on some ambiguous comment (which is not even based on any real test) as if there actually is a problem with AMD's AVX implementation.

As a physicists, I can tell you for sure that no, this is not why Intel disables it. Intel had quite a success by purposely crippling icc/ifort and MKL on AMD, and created GenuineIntel as a legal barrier to prevent AMD (and AMD users) to come up with a workaround, which allowed Intel to essentially kill the competition in HPC.

It is a well known fact that Intel has been actively working to cripple AMD's performance across the board. They invented GenuineIntel exclusively for that purpose, which was a part of the bigger picture filled with false advertisements, bribes (the most famous Intel bribe cases involved Dell), smear campaigns, lawsuits, so on and so forth. Intel has a long history of playing dirty against competitors.
Maybe with chiplets things like this and async circuits will have more of a chance to shine.
I don’t think it’s impossible either. I think most early stage startup people do a mix of everything there and it doesn’t have to stop early stage.

However, I do feel like actually being insightful and competent in so many domains of knowledge is a bit too much to ask of a single role.

I’m arguing that there should be separate roles, with different responsabilities, of people that are good in their specific domain and that the process of delivery should take care of mixing their outputs into something meaningful for the customer.

Putting my faith in this magic product engineer role that touches all aspects of the company, and expecting that person to really get good stuff constantly seems like a step in the wrong direction to me.
would it be feasible for DHS to turn to a Palantir based out of Eastern Europe or India if such a company existed?

The answer is almost always no.

The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation, along with executive orders and other lower level orders, places explicit limitations on the source of technologies that will be used in Defense.

The mundane result of modern tech companies not working with the DoD, or other federal agencies, is simply that the average serviceman or woman will continue to have to use terrible software and generally default to the "Microsoft Weapons System" (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Sharepoint). You wouldn't believe some of the amazing Macros built by innovative Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines.

There are efforts to remedy this by building modern software natively by service members, but we're still in early days.
Sure but that’s not the algorithm you used in the repo.
"Socialism for the rich. Capitalism for everyone else"
It's really (or was back in the day) simply short for "operating systems programming"
For some reason, I thought this was about Vim...
The companies with the highest Corporate Social Responsibility budgets also pay the least taxes. Go figure.
So instead of the swing vote being in Florida the swing vote is somewhere else. Nobody is talking about designing a system without a marginal voter who determines the outcome. I don't think such a system is even a candidate in discussions.

It is a lot of mucking around for essentially no improvement; an argument that a swing voter living at address A is going to be better than a swing voter living at address B is suspect. You're still going to have a situation where ~50% of the voters will still be getting an outcome they didn't want.
Maybe delete your email from this post when the guy contacts you
Apple is Apple because every ten years or so they take an existing product category and make it worlds better than anyone has ever before. They’ve done this with workstations (iMac), laptops (iBook then PowerBook then unibody/retina), they’ve done this with phones, and they’ve done this with in-ear headphones.

They almost did it with wireless speakers (the HomePod is an absolute engineering marvel, entirely unparalleled as a speaker), but they left out bluetooth in a platform play for AirPlay on their own phones/tablets, and it basically flopped. It would have been an airpods-level success if it were a record player that could play everybody’s records.

People keep talking about how they might do it with cars, or televisions, or glasses, or whatever. But so far, as yet, that has failed to materialize.

Edit: I left out the watch, despite it being the best selling watch. It isn’t as better than a normal watch as an iPhone was better than a blackberry; it is merely sufficient: great, but certainly not insanely so. If it could support Google Assistant instead of Siri, and had better bluetooth device support, and didn’t require an iphone, it might be. But the watch presently really just falls short of the Apple level expectation for a product. To be fair, that level is literally “insane”.
Yes but that’s irrelevant to the point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677
As someone who works in the drug industry, when Maxigesic is approved, please don't prescribe it. Just tell your patients to take one each of the OTC drugs, they are dirt cheap (like $0.02 per pill).

The market is full of drugs that are combinations of OTC medications and usually they are way more expensive. Even if they didn't go nuts with the price, why make a patient pay $0.50 per pill when they could take 2 for $0.04?
It took the guy 2 years and nearly 50 thousand pounds to get it back. The law can say whatever, but if there's no enforcement then what are you going to do? There's a good chance you can get away with it, but yes, the guy had an extraordinarily bad luck of sending the money to someone who had zero morals. I'm sure(hope?) that most people would give the money back.
> If anything I see selection for wealth: the samples in one of the bigger studies selected from “the 15 best STEM graduate training programmed”, which is broadly a proxy for wealth.

Not everything is about wealth.

STEM graduate school doesn't select for wealth at all. Undergraduate admissions sometimes do, but essentially zero of the wealth-based admits major in STEM. In fact in my experience the effect is the exact opposite of what you say: STEM takes in whoever can do the work, regardless of wealth, and helps produce new wealth. In every institution I've been in, STEM people had the lowest average family wealth by far.
Gravitational waves create space-time “memory”and permanently distort space-time
> Tech companies have faced challenges when trying to work with the Pentagon. Last year a defense program, named Project Maven, set off a revolt here inside Google

The word _here_ made me think it was an employee writing about Google. Turned out to be just a hyperlink. typo? or is this wording common practice
This argument is missing the point - the questions is not how many people will be of age X in 2040.

It is about how many homes will be released due to owners passing away in 2020 vs 2040.

The very fact that there will be more older people in 2040 also contributes to getting more homes released.

What the statistics does not even consider is what happens if we manage to extend life, even by say 10 years. A completely different picture emerges where homes get even more expensive.
An example of "worth" (as in net worth) which has potential to simply evaporate. Individually disastrous for families assuming intergenerational wealth was safe in the parents house, fiscally disastrous because the economy will be in shrinkage as it was in the sub prime, because of excess housing stocks causing a decline in construction spend, and declining values forcing more people into drawdown on capital, or a retreat from spending. Under employment hits. Deflation isn't fun.
That’s nothing to do with Apple. That’s just because you are now used to the technology and not so awed by it.

But that feeling is irrelevant to whether or not they are innovating or not.
Same here. I don't use any of the yunhost apps though. Instead I use docker images and the redirect community yunhost app to route to them. Eventually I want to run yunhost itself in a docker container. Regardless it has been Rock solid for me for about three years as well
Show HN: xwamp – zero-install WAMP made with Go
No. The Apple Watch was started under Cook.
That second link I'd read through before, but oh my, you're right there's a number of critical events ahead: an ice age around 50k years from now; in ~300mil years (oh cool never noticed this before), "All the continents on Earth may fuse into a supercontinent"..resulting in another glacial age; in 700 mil years, "The death of most plant life"..

Also realized, there won't be much "fireworks", since apparently the stars are far enough apart that the merging of two galaxies won't cause much collision.

Still fun to imagine things on that scale, especially in light of some of NASA's beautiful photos of colliding galaxies (like https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/hubble-s-daz...).
I think you kind of prove the previous post's point though. As you said, to the millionaire all of that is just an "inconvenience". Even if you assume that they couldn't fight it in court, loosing their license is still just a slightly larger incontinence as they can just hire a chauffeur. Now to someone else, those fines could mean not being able to afford the basics like food and medical needs. Not being able to pay those fines could (and does) lead to further fines/fees and jail time, loosing homes, jobs, etc. How exactly does a punishment qualify as equal treatment under the law, equality punitive, when to one person it is at worst and inconvenience, and to another can destroy their life?

How would it not be treating "everyone exactly the same in front of the law" to just say that fines are assessed as a percentage of income and/or net worth?

All of that said, personally I wouldn't extend this all the way back to the original argument about theft though, stealing $1000 is the same regardless who you steal it from, at least as far as the law should be concerned. I could see a moral difference, but the law often does not (and can not) make moral distinctions. It could however make reasonable distinctions in the application of the punitive aspects, as it sometimes does in terms of jail sentencing.
I’m just going to be nasty now and say that those managers I’m talking about don’t read management blogs, they read <insert other role here> blogs so they can ‘stay on top of things’.

The article is exposing some very good traits for anyone to have or to hope for, but let’s keep it realistic if we want it to be valuable.

You could do a space ship launch by hand ignoring for example wind resistence. It would be awsome in theory, less fuel, easier to stabilize, but it probably won’t get where you expect.
Non-viral, polymer-based nano-containers may improve delivery of gene therapies
Was it not Hemingway who wrote the two sentence tragedy ? "For sale: newborn shoes. Never worn"
I was on a team that would do present to groups about how to improve their products and would some short presentation on a tech topic, like rolling out Wi-Fi in real products. Being part of the team, I listened to all of the talks and participated in break outs with engineers. Seeing the commonalities was number one. Then coaching the really reluctant engineers. Little by little, by parroting what the business and C-levels were saying (when it resonated with me), I would see the light and polish my message. It's been a bit by bit journey, but I no longer avoid jobs like calling a bunch of customers to see what their needs are.
>To move from the micro to the macro, we can contrast the returns achieved by shareholders in the era of managerialism (defined here as 1940-90, although the results are robust to the exact sample chosen) with those achieved in the era of SVM (1990-2014).

>Given this data, the natural follow-on question is, of course, what went wrong?

I don't really understand. Can you really do a comparison like this? Aren't the events that transpired during these two periods very different from one another? My layman's expectation is that WW2 and its aftermath would have a significant positive effect on the first period considered. I would also guess that globalization in the second period would have an impact due to manufacturing moving away from the US.

Am I just mistaken and you can just straight up compare these two periods with one another?
What is a sort code? I don't think the US or Australia have the concept. It's weird to me that people would have the same account number.
If you use O_TMPFILE and pass file descriptors to child processes instead of paths this is possible. It's allocated on disk but never given a directory entry, so it gets deleted once the last process holding an fd terminates.
I think for the ROI to be worth it now somebody would have to literally give you $3000 to $4000 of GPUs for zero dollars, and your electricity bill would have to be some magical $0.00 per kWh.
Why do you feel you need to defend finance?

The fiance mindset has won and taken over the world. Being this defensive about one opening sentence makes you sound like sore winner.

I don't know anything I'm sure compared to you, but I do know that we are trashing the environment and we aren't even bothering to feed clothe and give basic health care to everyone yet and we probably never will.

I suspect maybe it's because we think in terms of finance.

In medieval times they used to have people debate endlessly on obscure points of theology and catechism. Just because they had a lot of erudite people poring over that esoterica doesn't meant it was useful.
I thought the point was that “the issues you are complaining about are just software, and software can be changed/updated”.

If Apple doesn’t make sufficient changes and upgrades, nobody else can - and the device is back to being an appliance that has the functionality that it has right now and nothing further, and it’s not “just a software upgrade away”.

There’s still no way to get the time display off of the face of my Apple Watch. You can customize everything except turning off the clock.
The ghostwriter software engineer: Do all the thinking, planning and work, receive no credit for it.
At a guess: Any team that's working on substrate rather than on code that customers directly interact with won't be a good fit, unless the person has a very flexible view of "customer" and "product." Like, if your team is working on performance improvements for your company's data storage layer, the mindset described in the article won't bring a lot of benefit, I think.