skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blind man up thread wanted actual relationship, not just some communication over letters with someone who pitty you that ends soon.

It is not that he does not have chance. But common, it is harder for disabled people of both genders.

And yes, this thread made prison relationships sound way more probable then they are. It is much less convincing argument that "it is not entirely impossible and some few people can find relationship as prisoners".

And from discussion people did seemed to buy the "significant amount of prisoners get love" argument in it. Even speculating about women finding safety in ot or "liking bad" guys. Both very wrong conclusions.
Joinable API Proposal
No one knows why rocks are exploding from asteroid Bennu
To play devils advocate, you can sell games without building perfectly viable general purpose compute hardware and then locking it down with DRM to make it useless as such. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are not developing game consoles out of anything but an incredibly evil greed - they are wasting insurmountable amounts of raw materials making computers that cannot be used as computers.

The consoles that existed in the 70s and 80s were largely justified in being specialized hardware specifically for realtime rendering which had no realistic application outside the narrow scope of fixed function realtime interactive rendering they produced. In the 90s the PS1, N64, and Dreamcast were all computer adjacent with the next geration - PS2 / Gamecube / Xbox - all being perfectly functional general purpose computers that were simply crippled with proprietary software into being toys.

Since then their hardware has only gotten more generic and general purpose and the degree of their draconian platform lockdown grown to an insane degree to resist emulation and unlocking. Its a shame Valve only ever saw SteamOS as a hedge against Microsoft - if they had taken it seriously and put in the legitimate ridiculous amount of money it would have taken to breakout a console platform without the horrifying amount of proprietary bullshit going into the competitions products we might have seen that incredible amount of waste become as taboo as it deserves to be.

Honestly the worst offender is the Nintendo Switch - it is verbatim just the successor device to the Nvidia Shield Tablet, just with a grotesque proprietary operating environment and impenetrably locked bootloader. Every time I see one of those things I am struck by how absurdly wasteful it is to see someone carrying that thing and a regular tablet when Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft could all just be shipping their own proprietary DRM laden store apps on top of a freedom respecting software foundation. If you want to exploit people by depriving software freedoms while they pay you for it... I'd argue its a product of propagandized deception and manipulation, but its still people considered informed consumers buying that garbage. Its a lot less bad than entire computers, fit for a multitude of purposes, being reduced to toys.
Generally, different VC firms give a lot of money to similar companies at the same time. In one vertical, I worked with the same company for three years. CPC for the same keywords doubled every year for all 3 years, when the unit economics of the industry didn't change. It's fiercely competitive.
Most computers have only one instructions set. It might have hundreds of instructions, but it's only one set.

Perhaps you nitwits mean the "One instruction" computer?
Telling someone that their situation isn't how they think it is, unless you've taken the time first to establish a real connection with that person—one that they can feel—is likely to come across as a dismissal of their experience and a putdown. I'm sure your intention is to help, but this is a way to hurt rather than help. Bluntly firing facts at someone, assuming they are facts, is definitely not going to do it. The truer the information, the worse the effect: in order to shield themselves from the blow, they will defend against the truth, which moves them further away from a solution.

If you want to help, the first question is how to create a felt connection with the other person, which will give them some reason to be open to what you're saying. That's not so easy to do on the internet, though maybe sometimes possible. Words like "I have significant sympathy for him" and "his understandable distress" aren't sufficient though.
Recently I have been charged with helping someone setup paperwork for their startup. I am not a lawyer so I simply have the paperwork, standard agreements, and general company structure that any lawyer would (I assume) give away for free. Avodocs has pretty much all that paperwork covered, carta has the captable, and pilot has the books under wrap. After reading this article I'm somewhat torn about mentioning things like c corps and filing in Delaware to my friend since in the end it really is only the product that matters. Corporate structure steeped in law/history is a hackable test which everyone must take...resulting in either getting bitten or by running to attorneys and tax advisors (because they were bitten in the past).

TLDR opinion. The hackable c corp structure Y pushes has payed off well for Ycombinator yet it is the very thing that can distract from building a good product.

Then again I'm sure someone might make the claim that c corps are also a way to easily share equity with your employees.
If you have a point, just make it.
Over a decade, I went from doing grunt work freelancing — data entry, HTML conversion, etc — to charging about $500 an hour as a true consultant.

Freelancers do what they're told. Consultants advise the client on what they should do.

When you start out, it's natural to think you're Doing A Thing (whatever skill you have & want to charge for) rather than Running A Business. I started out thinking "I'm here to make web pages and get paid for it!" and that made it very easy for people to take advantage of me. I would do exactly what the client asked for and then they would complain about it.

By the end of my consulting career, VPs would come to me with their ideas and I'd feel free to say "I'd love to work with you, but that idea won't fly. Here's what you SHOULD do." And they would go with it!

I realized that I could have positioned myself as the expert much earlier on in my career, and saved myself a lot of stress of trying to do every little thing the client asked, no matter how foolish.

The business mindset also means service agreements with initial deposits, work schedule with intermediate payments, kill fees and more.

I now run a product biz — the star being a time tracking SaaS for freelancers http://nokotime.com

Turning my catch-as-catch-can freelance business into a real consultancy is what made me able to charge more, work fewer hours, and have less stressful projects (bc I was the actual boss rather than a tool to be used by the client) and build the SaaS on the side.

Someone else mentioned Freelancember. Guess who made it? Me! Based on all my mistakes and years coaching others to level up like I did. http://freelancember.com

I highly recommend the book The Secrets of Consulting, which is like "the inner game" rather than explicit stuff like contracts, taxes, etc which are covered elsewhere.
I don't know if 'feeding expansion' is necessarily the right way to think about this, but by the first Friedmann equation, loss of photon energy will in fact be balanced by the increased expansion rate...
Unfortunately FaunaDB isn't a SQL database, so it's in the same class as things like Cloud Firestore, AWS DynamoDB, and Mongo Atlas. Good datastores for serverless applications, but not so great for traditional applications migrated to serverless.
It's an opinion piece, not a white paper. Take what's useful to you and dive deeper to see if you agree with the author's conclusions.
It isn't clear to what extent Qwant actually makes their own results.

In 2013 they said they were temporarily using Bing results they purchased as "training data" [wikipedia].

They haven't given any updates on that I could find (in English, at least), but they recently proudly announced they have 20B pages in their index in an article on their partnerships with Microsoft [betterweb]. Google's index is 1500 times larger, so I'm not sure how competitive their own index is [goog]. And, if they no longer needed to rely on Bing results, wouldn't they announce that?

[wiki]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant

[betterweb]: https://betterweb.qwant.com/how-microsoft-tools-strengthen-q...

[goog]: https://venturebeat.com/2013/03/01/how-google-searches-30-tr...
This.

I work towards wanting less stuff. Living a simple life, I do feel richer for sure. Wealthier, perhaps not, I don't even care actually.
"There is a bit of a walking-away-from-Omelas element to this—you get to think about driverless cars and human immortality because in some dingy basement ad metrics are being tortured—and it was a lot easier to forget the, uh, all the internet stuff in 2015 than it is in 2019."

One of the best and most tragic short fiction stories ever written. It is scary how accurate the metaphor is.
That, incidentally, is why key functions (aka native support for decorate-sort-undecorate) is so convenient: rather than a fiddly and error prone comparator, the key function just returns a comparable (a value or composition of values).

A good alternative for statically typed languages is to have the comparison result be a proper sum type, and provide ways to generate and compose comparisons e.g. Haskell or Rust's Ordering (and Ord trait / typeclass).
This is already happening bit by bit, what functionality are you missing from js that you use in lodash?
Connectome analysis of adult mammalian lungs may enable new lung bioengineering
> I will say though, the problem is one of “standardization” across an organization where it’s too big for everyone to fit in a room.

I think you've got a lot of this right (disclaimer: we've built the product I think you're describing)

The don't think the most important problem is standardisation though, it's observability/instrumentation ie. if you don't measure what's working, you can't improve things.

The very best tech companies measure quite a lot, and often look back at their hiring processes in the event of a mis-hire to figure out what went wrong and how they can avoid the same happening in future... but even then they only do that in exceptional cases because it's done fairly manually. That means they have low statistical significance and a stuttering cycle of learning.

I believe they should be constantly looking at what's working well, for every hire. So that's what we built.

Once your hiring pipeline is trivially visible, a lot of these questions go away. You can see what's working well and try new things in safety, you can optimise with your eyes wide open.

One thing we did straight away was to deprioritise CVs and replace them with written scenario-based questions relevant to the job. If managed properly that takes your sift stage from a predictive power around r=0.3 to a performance we find typically above r=0.6. Far fewer early false negatives makes your hiring funnel (a) less leaky, (b) more open to pools of talent previously ruled out by clumsy CV sifting, and (c) potentially shorter as the improved sift accuracy allows companies to consider dropping their phone interview stage(s)

Our NPS rating for HR teams is currently running at 85, and MRR churn is under 1% so there's clearly some value to the approach.
> None of this helped if you didn’t know the material well enough to identify the legal issues in each question.

My machine learning professor who was from CMU would allow us to put anything we wanted on both sides of one piece of printer paper to bring to exams.

No amount of notes helped if you had no understanding of the algorithms and formulas.

I almost failed that course too, but it was also one of the cornerstones of my university career. It made me realize how much I had been optimizing for the wrong thing: grades instead of understanding.
I covered that with terminal velocity. And it isn't just falling, but going down a hill. Folks commonly think heavier bikes will go faster down a hill. That isn't how that works.
That is mentioned in the first sentence of the article.
Cool - thanks a bunch for the info and the link! It looks like a great read with terrific practices :)
I think I was too snide in my comment and it wasn't clear.

I meant that if Microsoft launched a privacy-focused product and hid their involvement with it they would receive extremely negative publicity on the sort of websites people who use privacy-focused products read.

Completely leaving aside the harm that would cause to the Microsoft brand, it would also be completely useless. Essentially no one would switch from DDG to Microsoft's (hypothetical) shady clone.

Your hotel examples aren't relevant because people searching for hotels and people searching for private search engines don't evaluate details about corporate ownership the same.
They offer both: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/

Discord's description of the issue sounds like issues with either zonal or regional SAN storage.
I have a recollection that at the time when this sort of thing became possible, that there was some worry that unfriendly nations could use this to get around technology export restrictions (what no, we're not buying a supercomputer--we're just buying 500 game consoles for our weapons designers).
See also the Adrian Colyer discussion (if you have deja vu, this is why, but it's not a repeat of that post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21460759
Everyone who makes this much money exploited some kind of feedback loop and economy of scale.

Once you make so much money you can buy laws to make yourself more money. (as you mentioned)

Once you have so much money you can buy competition before it becomes competition. (Look at how much of Microsoft's portfolio is actually acquisitions.) Their scale makes it infinitely easier to buy their reinvention (all while current legacy revenue still flows in as contracts end), and shift capital from a dying business to the future (like IBM buying Red Hat. Dell buying VMWare.)

Once you have so much market share, and you become a default part of all business (Outlook, Visa, ATT/Verizon, Google/Facebook ads) you become more of a tax on business. Companies either pay that necessary business tax, or they cant compete. Once institutions hit that "you need us to even exist, more than we need you as customers" level, their money multiplies itself. Obviously they can fade over time if they dont reinvent themselves (see above paragraph.)

Once billions are accrued into one place they tend to not just disappear.

These are market failures. Billionaires are becoming billionaires because of something not protecting against these feedback loops amplifying themselves ad infinitum.

There are often arguments that billionaire philanthropists and inventors spend their money better than governments. Tech giants do seem to have replaced the military and nasa in ways.

There may be a middle ground between "dont let billionaires buy influence and power, and collect riches, tax their wealth for equality" and "private industry is better than government." One of those middle grounds may be some kind of reimbursement or credit for contributions to society. Imagine a world where Facebook and Googles open source contribution values are quantified in a way that counts as charity. Another middle ground is public-private hybrids, where funding for research is public, research and profit for invention is private, and the output is publicly owned. Tax billionaires, and break up monopolies arent the only answers. They may be some answer, but they are reactive and dont address root causes of loops, and they dont actually create new creation systems to replace what they break apart.

One of the greatest market failures government power is capable of addressing is proprietary institutional silos. They should use their authority to incentivize consortium to implement open, federated, and decentralized standards, that any new market entrant can latch onto, benefit from, and improve. Whether those standards be payment networks, accounting system interoperability, communication, or data and infrastructure portability. Additionally, Government is equipped to incentivize long term value creation over short term wealth extraction. Absent of Government, companies seem to need to be either be private, or pseudo-private autocracies, where one or a few shareholders can stand firm and focus on the long game.
Google Cloud Persistent Disks are implemented on a kind of Storage Area Network (AFAIK it's based on IP networking, IIRC it's iSCSI over Colossus /D, not on fiberchannel or other off the shelf SAN tech)
Killer Whales of Eden
The distribution of numbers is not uniform across the 0..googol here. The implementation first chooses the length of the number, then fills in the digits. This makes it biased towards smaller numbers.

Does it still have the same optimal strategy as for uniform generation?
Try a different instant messenger? Slack is geared toward people who already know each other/know what they want out of another person. If you try one of the more casual instant messengers with programming communities (think IRC, though a proprietary alternative would be Discord), you might get better results.
Great. Thinking about it, I should apologize for "terrible". That's an exaggeration to be sure. And also, I suspect some of the problems we have are our kitchen's implementation.
I'm treating that like a constraint on the player. It's not just part of the challenge -- really, the entire challenge is to provide input that simultaneously advances the story without breaking it.
Hah! I was a subject in that first study.
The Bath Bubble
Nematic Energy Scale and Missing Electron Pocket in FeSe
Not gonna lie, one of the first things I said to my friends is why is discord using Google, it should be AWS.
“Such scams .. show why secondary protection mechanisms — like verbal confirmation — are necessary when making high-value transactions”

How about digital signatures and end-to-end email encryption.
That feels wrong.

You can say that two larger things attract each other more than smaller things. Especially as they get closer to each other. Catch, of course, is all things on the earth are in the noise range compared to, you know, the earth. If you are talking about gravity and acceleration on the earth, you are talking about 9.8 m/s^2. Pretty much period.

And yes, there are terminal velocities that impact maximum speed. Acceleration, though, is not velocity.
“A distributed system is the one that prevents you from working because of the failure of a machine that you had never heard of.”
Terminal Essentials for Developers
Note the transcript PDF:

(It's very nicely formatted for readability.)

https://static.3playmedia.com/files/2O_NhKHa13A/transcript.p...

(Let's hope it doesn't expire. If it does, get a fresh link from the actual web page.)
> That said, you're going to hurt a lot of non-china multinationals who operate there.

Not my problem. Figure out a better way than getting in bed with fascist countries and then complaining when the inevitable door swings shut due to rightful backlash.
The European population is stagnating or shrinking so as a millennial I have little faith in ever receiving any pension when the time comes.

Whoever doesn't have a plan B (inheritance, properties for rent) will be super fucked.
If a computer program crashes would you investigate the problem by opening the case and testing the chips inside with a voltmeter? My motivation in labelling the problem as I did is to show where I think it truly lies and thus make it easier to solve. Metabolism is notoriously complicated.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Indeed information is the most fundamental concept and mutations. If you will call time a causality force which makes this mutations it's fine. But it's wrong if you think about time as a dimension in which you can travel.
Absolutely, using an integer instead of a static sum type hides the problem and actually makes it harder to solve correctly.
Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]
the wrong assumption is that the large bets on ETFs are "wrong" for extended periods.

If the ETFs are incorrectly pricing assets because of blind buying, then an enterprising managed index fund could bet against it. Or, find some other arbitration mechanism. But of course, this doesn't actually happen, because price discovery _still happens_ even if ETFs account for a large percentage of trades (since price discovery can happen even with small number of trades).

And if ETFs is just betting on the market average, then the worst that can happen is they get average results. ETFs don't use leverage or debt.
If the trend continues of index fund growth as a percentage of the market, then the remaining active investors will gain an outsized influence on market direction. This is because index fund managers make very few trades on their own initiative, relying on market stats (trade history) to direct their own trades. Those market stats are built on the recent trades made by active investors.

If (when!) there is a correction, there will be analysis done on the cause (pick one or more of: student loan debt, sub-prime auto loans, trade war, something else) and then new investment strategies will be devised. And maybe passive investing will be shown to leave you vulnerable to a sea-change.
> a great white at around 2.3 tons

Did you confuse thousands of kgs and lbs? Because 2.3 tons is the unverified all-time record (with verified being 1.9), while 6t is a large orca and the all-time records was apparently around 10t.
1000-year simulation shows space debris will become ‘uncontrollable’
Yeah I was needlessly abrasive, which was my bad.
Automation, robots... Things are changing, so can the pension system... But this implies to share the value created by our society in a different way
Unless their mom is around protecting them. Like bears and, I assume, Orcas do.
But there is non space "fabric". There are interactions between qanta/matter but space is still space right?
My read is different than yours.

I think Daniel uses those examples because they are actual examples from projects that he is or has been working on, and he's familiar with them and actually cares about them, and because it's at least a notch more realistic than something totally synthetic.

It seems like a very roundabout thing to use as a cry for attention for SIMDjson (the project I assume you are talking about), and I don't believe that's the purpose. I see no problem in linking the project.

Picking two random benchmarks and trying to extract any kind of more general IPC claim is not on solid ground, but I'm pretty sure Daniel will say he's not doing that: he's only sharing these two specific results. That's a style that reoccurs across several entries in that blog, however, so if it triggers (as it has me on occasion) you might want to look elsewhere.
So much agreed,

I'm French. I wear a gilet jaune, but that's for saving my life when I ride a bike in the night. They also protested against speed limits decrease (https://www.gouvernement.fr/les-actions-du-gouvernement/inte...), I often ride on 2-lane roads, and obviously the faster a car is, the most likely it is to kill me

Aside from that, I'm auto-entrepreneur which gives a quite low retirement, but I don't think it's a reason to go on strike. I've had tough years, but always had some good margin, being used to spend very little money

People can easily save money by changing their lifestyle, instead of asking for more money, for more unnecessary over-consumption. Those individual changes would be so beneficial for the environment and for themselves
Yeah, and we have words for that. Momentum, is a good one.

I should clarify the last time I had this conversation, I'm talking about 40+ year olds building bikes. They were thinking a heavier bike would accelerate faster down a hill. That just is not how that works.