skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The internet must transit to a market where people pay for goods and services just like on literally every other market. There is money and goods/serviced and they get exchanged. That's how it should be.

While I don't think simple flat payments for services and goods is wrong, it's worth noting that it's more regressive than ad-based services: the value of ad impressions is proportional to discretionary income, whereas a flat $10/month is proportionally more for a poor household than a rich one.

Like, try asking poor households whether they'd rather pay $5 or $10/month for various internet services vs seeing the ads they get now, and we both know which option most would choose, for very sensible reasons.
https://beta.cliqz.com/ is EP for search engine
Yes that too, good point.
U.S. Tech CEO Departures Rise to Record High
I get a linux desktop with x2go. It operates entirely over ssh and is pretty easy to use and setup. It's very secure.
Here is the quote from article "This not only involves some normalization, but also expansions and spell corrections, if necessary. "
> If you merely read good books on medieval history, most of the stuff you learned wouldn't be on the test. It's not good books you want to read, but the lecture notes and assigned reading in this class.

It is the professor's job to decide which parts of medieval history are the most important to learn. Therefore, those are what I need to study.

Maybe not all professors do this effectively—but as long as we're talking about ideals, this is how it should work.
That depends on the capital expense of the fuel plant. If it's a high percentage of the fuel cost, then it needs power 24/7.

On the other hand if energy is the dominant cost, then it's best to take cheap low-cost energy and shut down fuel production other times. That would apply in a nuclear grid as well; you could keep your nukes running 24/7 and run the fuel plants when demand is low.
Studying, getting hired, career promotions, raising funds... It’s all about beating the system. You’re evaluated based on certain criteria and you optimize for those.
Impossible to really say without splitting RenTech into its different funds (you're probably referring to Medallion) and knowing what the underlying strats are. But at a high level the difference between MMs and quant funds are AUM which means different time horizons. An MM might have a time horizon measured in mics to seconds, and might be focused on micro market analysis like the balance of order book over the next 1,000 microseconds. RenTech (likely) can't deploy all of their capital in these types of strategies so they focus on strats with better liquidity and almost certainly longer time horizons (minutes to hours and days, possibly weeks for more CTA style strats). And at the opposite end of the spectrum, Berkshire can deploy tens of billions in a single trade, but that means an investment horizon of years to decades.
Not be to dogmatic but thus is really good:

> A twelve-factor app never concerns itself with routing or storage of its output stream. It should not attempt to write to or manage logfiles. Instead, each running process writes its event stream, unbuffered, to stdout.

Then, switching log provider is done globally, on the environment level (eg. installed on k8s)

https://12factor.net/logs
We (Screenhero, W13) may well have been one of the many YC companies PG’s referring to! But instead of hoping there was some test to hack, we were worried that there was some unknown hack out there that we didn’t know. It was quite a huge relief when PG told us something to the effect of “all the successful startups have found their initial grown through just one thing: delighting their users with a great product”.

That realization / confirmation freed us four engineering cofounders from worrying about some “growth hack” we never learnt, and helped us focus on prioritizing our product development through talking to users. We then used Sean Ellis’ “very disappointed” survey methodology (which Rahul @ Superhman recently wrote about) and used it as our North Star to find the few features to focus on polishing.

We got acquired by Slack in 2015, and built out Slack Calls. I left last year, and I’m now in the final stages of launching a new product around super-charged meetings for remote teams (picking up where Screenhero / Slack Calls / Zoom left off), and am using the same principles again. No hacking of tests, just building a product that people want, and using their feedback as the only valuable bit of data in determining priorities. Thanks PG and YC (and Sean Ellis!) for startup principles and methodologies that have stood the test of time.
First the Reader, now the Alphabet.
I didn't see time4vps on here. They are the only provider I've seen with large storage vps's for a reasonable price. I use one to do all my cloud backups and I can still run afew services on top.
https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm
Here is my way of doing it, after 20+ years of experience in the field. Be sure to watch the video in the "article".

www.trollandre.com/rent-me/
I never cared about grades, but I was never very good or very bad. Just slightly above average

In academia, having good grades is sometimes helpful to climb the ladder. Not all people can study medicine. Not all people can get a master degree.

Often these gigs are given to the best students only, but sometimes you can circumvent the grading issue by waiting longer, going to the military, be friends with a prof. or working for free.
I'm not sure what "unlocking" the article, but assume that we should be able to see the full article. Currently, I can only see the two first paragraphs and the article ends with "with direct knowledge of the discussions" and then a "No subscription? You're missing out." ad. Seems to still be behind a paywall.
Negative Emissions: The chronic complexity of carbon capture
This advice is good for the UK too. Yes it is dysfunctional

However it is a pretty simple one off step to incorporate, which your accountant should handle easily for you. After that optimise to maximize cashflow, and don't get excited about other tax savings. Some people get bogged down trying to save little pieces of tax by, for instance, buying assets they don't really need. Optimise for best cashflow. Optimise for best cashflow. There I said it three times. I am a finance professional who has held fc roles. I think about tax very rarely. I think about cashflow constantly.

Optimise cashflow for consultants:

Charge more
Charge up front
If you supply anything make a margin on it, and get paid upfront
Bill on time
Bill on time.
Seriously stop working and write your bill out. A well functioning finance department at the client will pay all authorised invoices around the due date. Authorisation takes time, get in the queue early.
Chase your debts immediately, if you have large bills due for payment call your clients accounts payable (know who this is) and ask them if they have the bill and ask them to confirm what date it will be paid on and the amount. Send statements too. I see this every day, where someone is waiting for co to pay them but co has no record of the invoice, it is in spam, in the wrong persons inbox etc. AP departments don't mind being chased, they expect it, it is their job, don't be shy!

Copy your bills directly to accounts payable as well as your direct contact. AP are generally good at chasing internal people for things they know about
This refers to the CIVICUS Monitor rankings. See the interactive world map: https://monitor.civicus.org/
Here is my way of doing it; www.trollandre.com/rent-me

Based upon 20+ years experience.

Be sure to watch the video listed in the doc.
This makes me wonder if pg has ever read any of the writings of John Taylor Gatto?

Various quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/41319.John_Taylor_Ga...
So the whole light field techbuzz was just vaporware hype? Or no, but even that can't do black?
You'll also see terms like "2/10 net 30", which means if the client pays in 10 days, they get a 2% discount. Otherwise payment in full is expected by day 30. Your accountant would have a "Sales Discount" account to record it as an expense if they get you the check early.
If you got the information from someone legally classified as an insider, then it's insider trading. If you developed it yourself from public sources, it's not.

(I'm not a lawyer, but that's what I've read.)
I'm an iOS developer and I'm not sure what you mean. Auto Layout provides enough hooks to take care of rotation. Why would rotation be a source of strange bugs and side issues?
No, Duolingo is just actually bad. They gamified language learning and I have “beaten the game” in a few languages and it did not make me conversational in those languages. Nor could I read a real world newspaper or Wikipedia page in the target language. That is entirely Duolingo’s fault.

The app teaches you facts, but not conversation. The sentences increase in grammar complexity, but not depth or diversity of topics. Even with their language bots, you’re still having super basic conversations about nothing.

They could easily fix this by simply improving the quality of the sentences in the later lessons. Or switch to a different testing format, which worked in the beginning but don’t scale well once you’re past the middle and comfortable with the language. Maybe include substantial reading and listening comprehension exercises (i.e., multiple sentences), instead of a single complex sentence.

Duolingo has concrete problems with concrete solutions.
I believe the reason gene editing is still widely banned is because the tools are still imperfect, which could result in unintended sequencing and results. In layman terms, when the original CRISPR tool cuts out and replaces it with new letters, it still relies on the natural DNA cell repair process to sequence and put everything back. This is the step that is still prone to error, and could result in an unintended sequence which theoretically could introduce devastating effects.

The new prime editing tool is supposed to improve further on this, but I'm still not sure if these tools are in a perfect condition ready for mainstream launch.
Odd, I can definitely see the full thing. You're definitely clicking through from here on HN, right?
So, for sleek jets, heavy but compact jetfuel will rule. But for zeppelins, the weight-to energy ratio is much more important, as they have plenty of volume to spare..
I agree there's a problem with pirates in some parts of the world. Source: I used to work in this area.

I recall a shipping lane chart that showed large carriers making a wide swing around and away from somalia.

Ships can be obscenely ill-regulated at sea. Also the crew is, due to greedy owners, a skeleton thereof and paid like dirt (and not necessarily treated much better). Anyone pushing for nukes on large ships needs to work in the industry first before opining.
The comparison to fighter pilot is inaccurate, because literally anyone can learn to speak a language.

The correct comparison is between motivated and unmotivated people.
Xvfb would give you the virtual desktop that the TeamViewer Server gives you access to. You'd still use the TeamViewer client to connect to it.

Xvfb is just a way of running a graphical environment on a machine that doesn't otherwise have one.
Slimv – Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim
French Strike Aims to Save an Envied, but Convoluted, Approach to Pensions
> And even most of that you can ignore, because you only have to worry about the sort of thing that could turn up as a test question.
There's a lot of L2 acquisition research on extensive reading and it's definitely worth checking out.

I covered some of my reasoning about the limitations of SRS in the 2nd half of this podcast: https://alchemist.camp/learning-machine/spaced-repetition-sy...
Animation is very well thought out, and quite easy.

As for complexity, you hit the ceiling very fast, and the solution is to break up in smaller and smaller custom views and modifiers.
Not sure I agree with this.

The real world is very much about optimizing for and beating tests.

It might be producing a specific CV or preparing for an interview whiteboard session to land a job.

It might be socializing and networking in a specific way in order to land funding.

The real world does not commonly reward just being really good at arbitrary things. It's almost always focused on meeting a need that someone else has defined, much like a test.
Look at some other hft shops like Virtu for instance, this is fairly common. What is difficult is scaling the activity. These guys take on very little risk, which makes it difficult to deploy lots of capital. The guys who manage to crack that balance are the more money than God types like RenTech.
The ego depletion saga demonstrates the importance of effect sizes
What about Dart and Flutter framework?
Users should be able to restrain communication and duration of computation..
That part just did not describe my experience in college. Maybe I was bad at knowing what "could turn up as a test question."

My college also did not have any old tests floating around, at least as far as I was aware.
If I could prove I'm not associated with China in any way, and in fact don't like what they do, could it be proved that the wave of Tiktok-related posts has nothing to do with Facebook/Google?
Really liking these new developments! JavaScript is not the horrible language it used to be anymore (in my very subjective opinion). When I started writing JavaScript in 2016 after a Python background I was frustrated every day... Then after some time and learning about which dark corners to avoid, which tools to use, etc. it became quite an enjoyable experience. Nowadays I mostly use a mix of JavaScript and TypeScript depending on the projects and it's been great.

One thing that I am a bit afraid about though is that the language might become more complex and complicated over time because of backward compatibility (C++-like?). I saw that they will be introducing a new function "replaceAll(...)" to avoid the weird semantics of "replace(...)" (stopping after first occurrence unless a 'global' RegExp is passed as argument). And that's great, but that's a new function, and maybe 'replace(...)' should have had this behavior from the start. I hope to be wrong on this one!
1) Do they sound interested in what your business actually does?
2) Do they work with other people in your industry, or comparable ones.
3) Did they get back to you in good time
4) Do they take documents electronically etc.

Most of all

Recommendation
So while I agree with what he is saying directly, to me, testing is a function of filtering at large scale. To a secondary degree, measuring as feedback for that system.

Testing and grades in general are a society level filtering mechanism and is a measuring proxy for how the work force filters for candidates at the entry level. As most know, once you've got about 10 years, most of that is largely ignored at the bottom of your resume.

Entrepreneurs, in the eyes of this system, are deviants of sorts. Hacks who couldn't/didn't want to make it in the system, but turns out that system is not the only way. A non-western example of this are a lot of the families that came up in money in China the past few decades. They didn't make it in the rigor of Chinese school system, but when they said fuck-it, I'll survive by starting something, they were wildly successful.

Controversially there's evidence pointing to education doesn't help people at scale[1]. So that whole structure, debatably, has diminishing returns.

So, I agree with Paul Graham 100%, schooling isn't the only way, and I mean that by - if my children decide they do not want to attend school anymore because they have a plan that, while unconventional, can do great things; Support all the way.
Not at my skill level. The closest I’ve encountered are occasional German language YouTube adverts that sometimes run before tech videos — but I wouldn’t call those interesting.
I can't find whose quote it is that "the most difficult thing is to teach people to think simply".

Unfortunately education cannot test that, because tests are by definition testing only a fragment of a system. Knowing and understanding one thing end-to-end is meaningful knowledge, and qualitatively better than knowing fragments of 100 things. Perhaps you can assess the former by grading a diploma thesis on a very specific subject. Tests may have an important role in motivating students to delve more deeply in subjects but they don't go beyond that.

There's similarly more value to knowing some technology "end-to-end" rather than specializing in only one level and never understanding what's below.

It's also interesting to read this:

> There are now ways to get rich by doing good work, and that's part of the reason people are so much more excited about getting rich than they used to be.

Which may reflect how things were 15 years ago. There were 2 threads in "Ask HN" last week which basically concluded that these days you're much better off (money wise) working for an uncreative role in FANG.
I'd say your underlying problem is using TLS 1.1 and not updating your LDAP server, the version of which must also be too old. Wouldn't you agree that it's bad practice?
Show HN: MacUpdater 1.5 released. Keep all your apps updated
For me the nice part of freelancing was the end date. I knew I would be gone in a month or two so could detach myself from the politics and bullshit and just observe. I used to try and think of it in terms of a trip to the zoo.
It's exactly the same with hiring at FANG/McKinsey/BCG/... :). You optimize for the (well known) interview process. You study 10 hours/day for 2 weeks. And you get the job with 99% accuracy.
I was out of the USAF by this time, so I have no direct knowledge. But I imagine they did a risk assessment over the possibility of the Iraqi forces gaining access to GPS, either because they bought commercial receivers, developed their own, or got loaned some from more-capable country who would have liked to have seen the US + coalition fail.
Joel Spolsky is (semi-)retired
Musk's defamation win may reset legal landscape for social media
Source? Although that sounds like something Willhelm II. would have done he couldn't make laws on his own and I think education was a state matter anyway.

At least it was according to the constitution but that doesn't mean much. Often laws that modified the 1871 and 1918 constitutions did not change its text but overrode its meaning. Imagine the US constitution but longer you get to hunt down the amendments yourself.
Can a law against deepfake videos root out the threat? (The National)
When I looked at the numbers and the measurements it was not necessary the case at all. For example, the author used the ratio of patents/GDP or number of new enterprises/total number of businesses as indicators for entrepreneurship, but who says there must be more patents when the GDP becomes larger? Or I can not see why the number of new enterprises should increase when the population remains relatively stable and the number of businesses is already big. They are the normal phenomenon of a mature economy and not necessary showing a decline in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Lab Results Show Apple and Samsung Phone RF Radiation Exceed Federal Limit
maybe. won't know until you try
The real money is probably made by you renting out the server racks close to the exchanges!
There are over 9,000 fully cellular container ships operational right now, and container ships are only 13% of global merchant shipping capacity. The roughly 70 ~20k TEU megaships all together are only 10% of total container ship capacity. A few megaships is insignificant in overall economic terms.
Thoroughly depressing.
>I don't need to comment, and neither do you. We're both just silly people talking about things that we don't understand, because our egos won't let us not say anything.

This reply made me laugh. You get 10 points for self-awareness, and a free beer if we ever meet.

Because ego (under the guise of Philosophy), I feel the need to point out that if Mathematics is just a language (an idea we both seem to be agreeing with) then you can't ignore the fact that it falls under the Chomsky Hierarchy.

So whether Mathematicians need to study Formal Language Theory, or Formal Language Theorists need to study Mathematics is really just a stand-off between finitists and infinitists Philosophers. And even more precisely than that - it's a stand-off between people who believe in Time and feasibility (computer scientists) and people who don't care about such details (Mathematicians).

Obviously (because I am a finitist, and therefore all infinitists are wrong - according to my ego errr.. I mean Philosophy ) I shall post a paper that agrees with me.

"Confessions of an Apostate Mathematician" by Edward Nelson
https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/rome.pdf
Maybe a couple examples would explain what I think people mean. You're getting dinner with a friend, and they mention their new friend just started a company and is looking for some people who do X. You don't really do X, you do Y, but a lot of people who do X also need Y.

On the 0 to 10 scale:

0:
"I don't really do X, thanks for thinking of me."

3:
"Hey, I don't really do X, but he may need Y. Let him/her know if they need Y they can call me."

5:
"Oh, that's neat. Why don't you introduce us, I'd love to meet them. "

8:
"Oh, cool, what's their name/email? Can I mention your name and reach out? "

10:
"Cool, let's invite them to grab a drink with us after dinner. What neighborhood do they live in so we can go somewhere convenient?"
Sure, but note they're NeoVim-specific(the terminal buffer works a bit differently there). And I adapted them to work without my other custom shortcuts, so they're longer(and even more indecipherable for sane people...I'm sure this could be done in a cleaner way).

Open a terminal running SBCL on the right with "\ls":

nmap <leader>ls :vsplit<CR><C-w>l:terminal<CR>i sbcl<CR><C-\><C-N><C-w>h

Execute paragraph around cursor with "\e":

nmap <leader>e vipy<C-w>lpi<CR><C-\><C-N><C-w>h
Hey wait, I thought "Goofy Droopy Glasses" were a slinky for our eyeballs.

http://www.houseofrave.com/goofy-slinky-eyeball-glasses.html
It doesn't actually accumulate in any particular area. There was a study done at at an airport that showed no particular accumulation at the airport. Leaded gas ends up poisoning the whole world a bit.

This "dilution is the solution to pollution" argument is the excuse the FAA uses for forcing everyone to use leaded avgas. This should be more of a scandal. The FAA is basically helping maintain a harmful oil company monopoly at the expense of the world.

This is not just about recreational aircraft. For example, 45% of the Canadian commercial fleet is piston engine based. Incidentally, Canada was involved in a test program with the FAA for leaded fuel replacements. The FAA recently dropped out of that program.
I've been freelancing for ~20 years.

One of the biggest mistakes was not charging enough early on, which lead to taking on work from questionable clients.

I think it was easy for me to fall into that trap because I started really young (pretty much right out of high school). I had no mentors or anyone to talk to, and this was in the late 90s so there weren't thousands of blog posts and Youtube videos on this topic.

Your rates make a big difference and it's not just related to your income, it's also heavily tied into the type of clients you'll be working with. On average after many hundreds of gigs at varying price rates I find the more you charge, the more easy going your clients are. They tend to trust you to do your job instead of trying to micro-manage everything with unrealistic expectations. Of course this comes with more responsibility, but that's a trade off I'll make every time.
"democracy does not equal absence of civil unrest. Possibly even the opposite." This is next level thinking and reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_mil...