skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a big reason why I don't start my own company, because I couldn't really live with doing that.

My current armchair strategies:

* Compete in a way that big tech are not willing to do, which means distributed remote companies. A lot of people don't want to live in $3.5k/month rent SF or other tech centers for various reasons.

* What a lot of startups do, but RDF (reality distortion field) over with 'we only hire the best'. Don't hire the best. Either because they couldn't hack the big tech co interview, have visa issues, are very jr or have personality problems that make them unhirable in big tech cos.

* Go bootstrap, so no VC style business timelines.

* Give offers that basically make them pseudo-founders and match the expected value of bigco with the risk premium of startups. A hard pill to swallow when investors give a lot of money offer similar or smaller dilution terms effectively.

I've never gone out to get investment, so I don't know how much of the above is also blocked by investors in general.

Also crypto style 'startups' (ICO or just a completely new coin) have shown to deliver compared to normal SV startups, but most crypto companies do not deliver actual lasting value and are more pure speculation plays. A big crucial difference is they give crypto coins instead of stock, and those coins are liquid immediately. They are also not restricted to start in the USA.
Hunt prey on the savannah? Be food-insecure? Live to 60 if you're lucky?

We need to understand these things, not just assume whatever is (prehistorically) natural is healthy.

Humans didn't particularly evolve to live places where winter days are as short as they are in much of North America and Europe. We hacked our body by inventing clothing, shelter, and fire (fire/cooking is a huge digestive system hack). Sure, I guess there was a little adaption in skin tone to try to compensate for less Vitamin D, but then we invented supplement vitamins (so people of all skin tones can live healthy lives at high latitudes in winter). Hacking the body is probably what most makes us human, and it should be celebrated.
Skilled leaders make a big difference in organizations, and they have skills that engineers don't (always) have. A leader that discounts the advice of his engineers is doomed to failure, but an engineer promoted to leadership that doesn't know how to people manage and steer the ship will also fail.

It seems that some of these fluffy C-level people are actually good at their jobs, but we haven't found how to reliably distinguish them from the fluffy C-level people that slash and burn everything and juice the stock price with buybacks and financial engineering, then ride it out until a catastrophe happens.
> Unfortunately that’s not true. If you look at the thorough reporting of Cambridge Analytica’s operations for example, it shows that their targeting was not based on issues but on psychological profile, which they determined with personality tests. Specifically they focused their attention on people exhibiting signs of neurosis and anxiety, and then experimented with various content designed to amplify their fears.

Sure, that was their marketing pitch. But we have no evidence that anything like that actually worked, or was meaningfully implemented at scale. Secondly, what does it mean to "target people with anxiety or neurosis"? Were they shifting their opinions? Or were they just saying, "Hey, are you afraid of stuff? Well, we've got the candidate for you". My guess is it's the latter, and if it's the latter, that's just another way of communicating issue alignment of their candidate.

I don't think there is any substantial evidence at all that CA or anyone like them was actually shaping opinion. As far as I know, all the evidence indicates that they were finding the issues people cared about, and explaining why and how Donald Trump aligned with them on those issues.

The underlying fact that nobody seems to want to face is that large numbers of people aligned with him on many important issues. Not because they were tricked, but because that's what they truly wanted.
I am running ESPHome on ESP8266, sensor is MH-Z19B.

You can also run Tasmota firmware on ESP8266 which means you can easily monitor CO2 value from your browser.
> We currently have two primary forms of government: dictatorship and democracy.

No, we have a third form: plutocracy.
> I had to enter the Apple/iCloud account credentials multiple times at different points before it stopped asking me to sign in again.

dear god yes. I stopped using my ipad because of this, and I would never purchase another one.

Apple Integration is still top notch, but I agree 100% about their UI. I don't run mac, but I've been an ipad/iphone user for many years and it's definitely gone downhill. I disabled automatic updates and live in fear every time there's a new major version.
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I was reading an article from FastCompany the other day on my iPhone, until a circle requesting my email address covered half the screen.

The target size on the 'close' icon was unbearably small, to the point where I tried tapping it three times only to have this giant circle covering the content jump around the screen like it was having a seizure, only to end up larger than it was before - it had somehow zoomed in while the rest of the content didn't zoom.

Worse are the sites that include a large header bar along with an ad bar at the bottom, along with interstitial ads in the article. I've had several of these pages where I would close the ad at the bottom only for it to re-appear several seconds later as I scrolled down the screen.

I resort to manually removing <div>'s that contain ad-related content from the page if I really need the content - in the cases that Reader Mode doesn't exist.

I have enable Reader Mode by default set up on my iPhone. It's immensely useful.

UBlock origin is really the only effective ad blocking platform these days, it seems - I consistently get requests to disable AdBlock Plus when I'm using it.
The even worse part is that the government funds network rail. So we have privatised the parts that make money and kept public the bit that costs money.
Germany's multi-payer system has significantly stricter consumer cost controls and Germany in general has more government-run health providers (eg: your out-of-pocket costs are effectively capped at a low % of your household's income). It's a good bit more socialized than Warren's and might, taken as a whole, be more socialized than even Sander's M4A plan.

Perhaps a German HNer can chime in on how frequent medical bankruptcies are in their country.
Not silly at all. You could even relate the suicide of lower status males to this kind of mechanic. Or the grandmother hypothesis about why women have a menopause.
> By the definition of 'safe space' given by the article?

I don't understand your reply. Perhaps you meant to reply to a different comment?
If I understood the article properly, then:

PLAY - Playing a physical game like tag, catch, soccer, volley ball, hide and seek... provides both physical exercise and cognitive / social stimulation because of group play's dynamic nature.

This next bit might not be useful. In college, the distance from my apartment to school was 15 - 20 minutes. And I took to the habit of listening to audio books on my ride (traffic was low so it was relatively safe).

I noticed that if I listened to a track while riding, I would remember exactly where I was the next time I listened to the track.

(The track reminded me of the location, rather than the location reminded me of the track.)
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Any time a presidential candidate has dominated in the mass media of the day, they've won the election. FDR did it with radio. Kennedy did it with television. Obama did it with traditional social media. Trump did it with guerilla social media.

I can't necessarily say these presidents weren't elected on the basis of issues, but beating the competition at getting your message on the popular mass media does seem to be a common factor in all these elections.

If there were a way to disrupt the economy of information that Cambridge Analytica types can manipulate democracies with, we still wouldn't break the whole cycle, but we would at least break this latest and most uncomfortable iteration.
They are after venture backed city states. Funding sovereigns if you have enough money. Government run by corporations will not be pretty. Most likely not a direct dictatorship, but not far.
I understand the general skepticism, but if Peter Thiel writes you a check for your current annual salary as a signing bonus and asks you to join his new company - you’d be stupid to turn that down now.

Worst case you can just go back to Microsoft on failure without too much lost.

Today the salaries are higher, but they’re often pretty high at VC funded startups too.
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Johnson & Johnson has known its baby powder caused cancer since the 70s, so what did they do? Focus on marketing it to minorities.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/johnson-johnson-baby-powder...
I apologize for accidentally breaking the rules, and I will endeavor to follow them more closely.

I hadn’t realized how deeply effective the intelligence efforts to re-polarize people on this topic had been, and walked into a minefield entirely on accident. I thought my comment was uncontroversial, but I was mistaken. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yeah, I could have been more clear - the BigCo I'm at is still pretty light on process, and teams are free to use whatever project management approach they want. As seattle_spring conjectured, I was thinking more about technical best practices. I've learned many patterns from the software I work with now, and I've been able to grow from working with really smart engineers that have enough experience to be pragmatic without compromising on quality.

An (admittedly controversial) example is repos-per-service vs a monorepo: now that I've worked at a bigco with a monorepo, I would have used a monorepo at my previous company.
I've got a 32 hour contract, so all my weekends are three days. It's great, would highly recommend it if you can afford it, or if you can make small lifestyle changes that would allow you to afford it.

(And for nbrempel: I'm an employee at a small startup. Everyone else works 40h, but I asked for a 32h contract with reduced salary and that was fine.)
Ah, a star catalogue equivalent of non-existent streets in a map that are only drawn there to prove copyright infringers. Somehow I was expecting to read about a stellar equivalent of a D&D mimic.
The spelling is (believed to be) attrocious for similar reasons.

There is significant overlap between people that can't spell to save their lives and people who know very little about real world finances ("We need you to send us 10k for fees to unlock the 50 million").
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>Many argued at the time that J&J was at fault because their packaging wasn't sealed or tamper-evident.

Do you have a citation for that? I don't doubt it's possible but I've never heard it. As far as I know no major pain medications had tamper resistant seals at that point in history.

I've read a lot about this (being from Chicago myself) and do not believe you're representing it correctly. J&J took responsibility insomuch as they pioneered tamper resistant packaging, but they very clearly blamed a saboteur. The initial allegation was that Tylenol was unsafe. J&J successfully re-spun it, correctly, as an external terrorist poisoning their medication. And, to their credit, they did a great job making future Tylenol very safe.

But the bottom line is that these two incidents are very different. In J&J's case they were not at fault. In Boeing's case they were.

Info taken from https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/02C2/Johnson%20&%2...
Yes, closer to ~7 hours in the summer. 8 to 8.5 in the winter. I'm at ~47" N.
There is no democracy, there's a farce of it. Most people don't get to decide on almost anything, except via direct protest. You get to pick "representatives" from 2 or 3 alternatives. These alternatives are heavily decided by electability that is directly related to funding and the few people do the most of it.
Down the road, the still hotter thing in Seasteading will be physical security.

Do-it-yourself city-states will be like owning hard metal gold, and for the same reason: once you reach the tipping point of being valuable, you become a target to own/eliminate.

For a more near-fetched, though not precisely analogous example of the this kind of issue, see Deepwater Horizon => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon
Hmm, it seems like we could see behind our sun with our space probes
To understand "rationality is not always to our benefit" from an engineering perspective it can be helpful to bear in mind the ideas of evolutionary psychology - the evolutionary pressures on brain design are towards getting your genes into the next generation, not towards being perfectly rational. For example as to who gets the girl or the leadership role the guy who says I'm the greatest and believes it has an advantage over the guy who thinks he's mediocre even if in reality both are equally mediocre. So rationality works well for engineering things, less so for dealing with humans.
I can imagine this to be true but do you have a source for that information?
Which means to go private he would have to secure funding quite a bit higher than that
"democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the rest"

That's until you realize that representative democracy (rule of majority) is effectively an authoritarian system, which is based on the monopoly of force and the monopoly of currency, and which incentivizes politicians with low time preference to spend more money than what they take (by force) through taxes, therefore indebting and impoverishing the whole population progressively.

There's a social organization system that allows for individual freedoms: free markets with no centralized governments. It's not a setup that will be implemented through revolutions, reforms or good will. It's inevitable that we'll get there as the cost of transactions becomes increasingly small (therefore making centralized systems of organization not viable). Refer to the work of Ronald Coase to understand why that is.
It sounds something like Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands, but worse. It probably isn't as awful as Jonestown, but the potential is there.
Forms of government have varied depending on time, place, access to technology, population, cultural history, and innumerable other factors. Of course self-sustaining space states will have novel forms.
I’m not sure this is just being written in bad faith, but in the 2016 presidential election, the winner had over 3 million less votes (over 2% of votes tallied). The electoral college system of the US values certain voters more than others in terms of assigning points to the contestants.
Another factor: are your languages supported by bazel? If you use the same languages that google uses (C++, Python, go), it's fair to say that those are well supported. For all other languages, even if they are widely used outside of Google (JavaScript, nodejs), you may be out of luck.
I was monitoring indoor CO2 at my home. It definitely swings in the 800-1000 range, especially if I keep the door to the rest of the house closed or mostly closed. But if I leave that door open, it often drops to 600 or less during the day when I'm probably not adding to the CO2. If I open a window it drops to about 430 in a few minutes. It's noisy where I live, though, so I mostly don't ventilate much externally now and live with it.
I have an unbranded one I bought from Alibaba. It's a box about 50cm x 75cm x 25cm and runs on 2 AA batteries or USB power. Not rechargeable. Right now it's showing 628 ppm CO2. Outside, about 395 ppm, which is about right. If I breathe on it, 1500 ppm CO2.
Has data logger functions and a USB port. Costs about $150.
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Commonwealth Saga is two books, not a trilogy. But it is certainly long enough to make a trilogy!

I personally was engaged for the entirety of both books, but found the trilogy set in the same universe (The void trilogy) dragged a bit in the third book.
Statistically or mathematically average height does not equal normal height, it has no relevance in this discussion. If you read the article, the average does not fit most people even if you take a single dimension, height.
The problem with emergency care being free and non-emergency being paid is that people will try to make things into emergencies and it discourages preventative care.

But we do need upfront pricing. It should be mandatory in non-emergency situations.
Patents run out and they are made public. If you go through the expensive process of developing a drug, you're likely to want to get a return on that. If there is enough evidence for the cure to work that a company wants to bury it, they're more likely to not patent it.

Also, this presupposes that the companies are actively trying to do evil. In reality, most people would rather have cancer cured than not cured. The profit motive can bend these incentives, but I think the caricature of a company full of amoral sociopaths making decisions to maximize human suffering are kind of... unrealistic.
How exactly does seasteading accomplish any such thing? What other means of government are they itching to try exactly? And how do you judge the success or failure of each experiment? How can you possibly eliminate externalities from any such system?
Could it be that a group of stars was passing by between us and the stars that remained when the first picture was taken?
Surely a small stepper motor will still consistently win?

I mean this is cool for fixed structures but overall finding some empty space and pointing the thing straight at the sun seems better.
Haven't looked at the full implementation of BigCache, but typically, a cache would fetch the object and key from the data structure. If the full key doesn't match the requested key, then the cache will respond that the key is not in the cache. The calling function would then figure out whether to replenish the cache or not.

Update:

Yes, that appears to be the strategy in shard.go.

if entryKey := readKeyFromEntry(wrappedEntry); key != entryKey {
s.lock.RUnlock()
s.collision()
if s.isVerbose {
s.logger.Printf("Collision detected. Both %q and %q have the same hash %x", key, entryKey, hashedKey)
}
return nil, ErrEntryNotFound
}

so there is no risk of returning the wrong data for a key.
Just take a few hours off during lunch.
Go for that bike-ride. Tire your body, free your brain.

That (with few exceptions) is what keeps me going and happy for years now.

Job's that don't allow me this little bit of flexibility, are just not my kind jobs.

What's a big happy purse with a sad person to wear it?
As I see it, if it comes down to such criteria to decide which path you'll take — i.e. you're in tech for the money — then it makes no sense to dabble in startups. Statistics clearly don't lie in this regard.

What I meant however was a bit meta: those who are deeply cut for entrepreneurship and startups are not motivated by money first or even at all; they thus don't and shouldn't care about statistics aiming at maximizing personal benefit... to a founder, "personal benefit" is more about getting things done, creating the dream. They'd rather optimize for long-term success (the kind that's much harder to take away from you, that creates real value).

Wealth, personal or collective, is but a consequence of a successful economic endeavor. As an employee, you'd choose to work for a startup because there's something in it that corporations money can't buy for you. There's no bet if you already believe in the work, you will get what you want every single day on the job. Different values, different goals, different rewards for different people I guess.
I’ve found the following list to help with “dickbars” and other modern nonsense.

https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
Try a few before you give up. Boxing, martial arts, weightlifting, running, hiking, scuba, swimming, soccer, sword fighting - really, the options are endless.
FAANG pay has gone through the roof while startup pay has not. I am not a software engineer, but I still work in a field rife with startups. I don’t even work at a FAANG, but I do work for the industry leader in my field and I’m making a safe $250k annually after 5 years.

I have gotten a few startup offers just to test the waters and I’m generally being offered $175k + $50k-$100k in stock options. Sounds OK if you expect the stock to grow 100X, but the problem is that even Series A funding these days pushes valuations into 8 or 9 figures. In my field, the total market is 10 figures. The valuations are going up so steeply that anyone but founders or employee 1 will be better off on the FAANG hampster wheel
I'll just point out that plenty of people experiment with alternative forms of societal organization. It happens all the time. The Amish have been doing it in the US for centuries. The Mormons have taken a swing at it too, and their fundamentalist offshoot, the FLDS, is still trying. And there are all sort of other intentional communities out there.

As far as I can tell, what most of these experiments show us is things we already know. E.g., the FLDS mainly seems to demonstrate that patriarchy is indeed awful for everybody except the men on top. [1] A lot of the rest seem to show that however people start, it tends toward familiar things, like oligarchy and dictatorship. So unless these folks have taken special care to avoid the problems, I expect that for-profit communities will end up being the city-state version of Away: high-minded language, an always-positive public face, and a lot of abuse and exploitation behind the scenes.

[1] See "Under the Banner of Heaven" for a readable take: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1R2S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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>Working for Microsoft cost me $200 million

And not playing the Mega Millions Jackpot lotto cost me $1.6 billion. I had the opportunity to pick the winning numbers, but instead, I didn't even play! What a chump I was.

Don't make my mistakes.
This is the usual argument.

But it doesn’t hold water. France, Germany, Spain all have cheap, really good government-owned trains - in fact they also operate some of our trains in the UK and use the profit to fund their own trains.

Prices have gone up by the maximum operators are allowed to increase them every year (there’s a 1 year exception where I think they were frozen for political reasons) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49331238

Just because we tried something before and did it badly doesn’t mean it won’t work in future if done well. Execution is everything, right?
Looks neat, I wonder if you could get it down small enough to run on something wearable like a watch-style device.
>> its about who has better targeting.

In a dark way, this is expected, right? Politicians often lie. But targeting now allows them to tell a different lie to different groups, each seemingly serving a sub-population's desires -- without groups hearing each-others messages.