skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you going to buy an iDevice when you can't afford a SomethingAwful subscription?
Not really. The hard parts are initiating the slide and recovering from it, in the correct trajectory. The actual slide can be done with a rope and a 2x4.
I don't often go to bad sites, but when I do… it's usually SourceForge. It's not as bad as it used to be, and it's not nearly as bad as Mainstream News Type Stuff, but still.

Literally no one wants to "Get latest updates about Open Source Projects, Conferences and News", thank you very much. Why is there a giant banner dickbar (that got blocked by my DNS resolver so it's a USELESS STICKY GIANT WHITE STRIPE with a tiny gray "Advertisement" label) below the navigation bar? Why does the navigation lead to nested categories of "Business Software"? Why is the sidebar (which is 100% junk anyway) impossible to scroll fully as it sticks to the top all the way and then gets obscured by the footer? Who decided to make the breadcrumbs in 12px font next to a gigantic 3.42857rem (comes out to 48px!!) current thing title?
say what? This article just hit the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865579
You mean the criminals that we catch are the ones who cant help getting too big
It's also self-serving. There simply doesn't exist $200M for every software engineer out of college. But if this guy, a venture capitalist, can get a thousand more people to think they'll win the lottery, invests in all of them, and 999 go bust, he'll still make money on the one startup that succeeds by being in the right place at the right time.
And i heard that they are supposed to get a huge compensate because they "take larger risk" than the soldiers, while inn reality they put OTHER's life and money in risk while they themselves take fat compensate and even if SHTF they just resign to enjoy life in some islands.
Sounds horrible. I don't get why people want to go through life like this.
I'm part way through "The Credit Card Catastrophe" right now. It was written by the author of the article and is also worth a read.
Yet, in snow, non-abs cars still stop faster. Hmmm.
> toxic social justice group

What group is that? Where can I find such a group that only has toxic members interested in social justice?

> do not believe that the work of dead white males

Does everyone in that group believe that specific thing as well?

> self-select out of classes with an emphasis on the western canon

What percentage of those people outright reject the Western cannon as not worth learning? Do some of them think it's worthwhile to learn, but also want to get other perspectives as well so don't take quite so many of those classes?

I'm not trying to nitpick or go line-by-line, but just asking you to question your judgments about people. I find people are overwhelmingly more nuanced and reasonable than is often assumed.

It's like when people talk about "the south" as if it were one thing. I'm from the south, and if you get two random people who live in the southern US (or any part of the world) they will both be individuals with a complex system of beliefs. I mean, even when you start generalizing about people, different neighborhoods in Houston contain very different people of different viewpoints and circumstances. And then there are rural areas, different socioeconomic spectrums, etc. etc. etc.

Don't lump people together. And I'm not trying to hand wave all analysis of people as "too complex to understand," but just to realize that people might be quite a bit different than you think if you give them the benefit of the doubt.
Startup Failures of 2019
Good question. It might - maybe that's why people say - driving is stressing or exhausting. One distinction - While running you are physically moving, and not while driving
> remove seat cushions on the locomotives

A very short-sighted action. Driver seats are not like passenger seats, the drivers will strike if they are discomforted by the seat.
> The core of what he was trying to convey was the sooner you get to understand real user / customer problems the better off you'll be in life as an entrepreneur.

And sometimes you're better off learning this at an actual company that ships products to millions of people than grinding away at a startup that won't exist in a year or two, with options that are worth nothing and a salary much lower than you'd get at a more established company. And there's a good chance the startup never ends up shipping anything of value. Startup vs Big Co isn't always a no brainer, lots of factors to consider.
Too many dweebs in the downtown hogging all the food court spots.
Show HN: Corewars inspired AI battler
Hello, very impressive project, great job! I have two qestions, somehow related but not fully.

1) How did you handle such big distance draw? Are you using lod and occlusion culling? Was it PVS or rather depth buffer based solution? Did you use bsp or octrees or something else?

2) what data structures did you use to hold the world and it's objects? And how much of it is kept on the server vs client?
I guess if I'm a dictator worried about my legacy, I'd be okay with being remembered as "not quite as successful as Rome"
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - perhaps they are too sane for their own good :)
If you’re referring to hexane being the extreme chemical, there is 0% chance of any amount of hexane remaining in the final product.
Everything else they mention, diatomaceous earth, clay, phosphoric acid, are all edible and pose no health risks.
> The $200M loss was a cheap way of getting user attention, but hey it worked!

Many Hacker News submissions get flagged to death for such tactics alone.
No, but he did have the option to buy that lottery ticket.

If Apple had gone bust there would have been nothing to write about. By the same measure I can review my life and take every decision I took with hindsight and re-calculate what my net worth would be if I had taken the other fork, I'm pretty sure I could come up with a few hundred million as well but that doesn't matter, you only get one life.

Next time you have to make a decision like that: take the other fork in the road, and likely you'll still end up frustrated because of the road not taken.

Life is a series of 'and' ports, if you miss one it will look like that was the one that did it but in the end random chance had as much to do with it as that one decision did.

So the comparison with a lottery ticket is on the money. Besides all that I think you ended up quite well so 'cost' is probably not the best term anyway.
Good heuristic for whether it's worth considering moving to bazel for your build system:

- Do you have 200+ developers working on a monorepo?

- Are you willing to vendor all of your dependencies and maintain their builds yourself?

If so, consider it. The productivity you're losing to unnecessary rebuilding and re-running unchanged unit tests will probably be paid back if you can contort your development process to the one Bazel expects.

If you're a small shop, the benefits Bazel is going to provide over, say, Make (or whatever standard build system your primary language uses), are going to be minimal. And the overhead of maintaining Bazel is going to cost you a ton of developer time you may not be able to afford.
It's the definition I start with anyway.

Having the general-case "me" matter more is kind-of essential to the article in any case.
> It’s funny how people treats unions as panaceas to all problems.

> But it is not some grand solution to high level engineering problems caused by stupid cost saving priorities made by C-class executives and other weakness in quality down the line.

They're not a panacea to all problems, but they could be the solution or part of a solution to many of them. In this case the "stupid cost saving priorities made by C-class executives" were the major issue, and how do you deal with that? You increase the power of other, non-management stakeholders. Unions are the way you do that for labor.

Of course, in this case they're not the complete solution. Increased and more effective oversight by the FAA is probably more important, and there are other things as well. However, unions could be helpful by protecting employees who want to make a fuss over management decisions from management reprisal, for instance.
This man's experience & his positive report of campus culture at an Ivy League school are heartening among all the distressing stories of ideological conformity on elite college campuses. It certainly is not all students at elite schools who are trying to shut down discussion, and claims that all students are doing that are surely exaggerated.

Two things should be noted, however. First, that this is one person's account, not an examination of broader trends. For a broader, data-supported survey of anti-free-speech trends on campus and why it harms students, "The Coddling of the American Mind" is a fantastic and enlightening book. (Incidentally it cites causes from right & left wing extremists, on and off campus, it's not a story of "snowflakes bad".)

Second, it's not necessary for authoritarian/illiberal activists to be in the majority in order to have a profound impact on the culture. "A small group of dedicated individuals" can affect great change even if they're in the extreme minority. If 1% of people on campus are willing to publicly condemn you and do everything they can to destroy your reputation or get you fired, and 4% are willing to go along with it, that can be enough to convince the the other 95% to keep their mouths shut.

None of this is to take away from the fact that this is a refreshing narrative of unity, openness & cultural exchange in the Ivies.
or a simple mixup of causation. It may easily be the case that healthier people also happen to be more optimistic, from the article (I haven't looked at the study myself), this appears to be purely correlational.
> 420 often refers to the police code for cannabis possession

Hah, this journalist is so out of touch with the joke. 420 is the time to blaze it!
I'd be happy to have a cubicle again. The 'cattle feeder' style 3' (if that) hoteling desks are hot trash. The previous layer of hell is looking pretty good right now.
I'd be a lot happier in a cubicle than this big open seating area where I'm elbow-to-elbow with my coworkers.
determinism is frequently weighed in consideration of criminal cases; eg mental illness and insanity affecting sentences
The other big thing messing up startup comp right now are super-high valuations for mid stage companies. When you’re getting options based off an inflated evaluation your upside is low, and the probability your options become worth $0 even if the startup does moderately well (eg if it raises a round at $4b right before you start and goes public for $3b). Doesn’t matter how many options you got, they were pegged to an inflated evaluation
1) Yes.

2) No. It's sugar + opinions.

Elixir gives you a lot of 21st century development tools: Async Tasks, Compilation environment (dev vs prod vs test out of the box), first class documentation and first class test suite. Sure you could implement these in erlang, but in Elixir, it's opinionated and everyone is basically on board with the same set of tools.

Some of these tools are making their way back to erlang, like telemetry, and some aspects of docgen.

There are also some under the hood features, too. I can run async tests where the test is given an id, the database gets a sandbox with that id, I can escape the vm (via chromedriver, eg) passing the id, and when the request hits the http server component, it and all child tasks is aware of the test that it's in, so all of the database calls are routed to the correct sandbox, resulting in concurrent and idempotent end-to-end tests. Again, you could do this from top to bottom in erlang, but elixir has support for this out of the box, and the good anointed and 3rd party libraries (Mox, ecto, hound) use these elixir features.

It's pretty nice to be able to run a full suite of unit and E2E tests in about 10 seconds.
Perhaps, but it’s a second-order effect of America rendering postwar Japan as a de facto, right wing one party state. Whether or not Japanese society conforms to specific American social norms is less important than whether the society produced by this order serves broader US interests. You could make the same observation about other far right or monarchical regimes the US is currently allied with (e.g. Saudi Arabia).
They do biannual liquidity events internally. If you’re an employee you can sell your stock back to the company for cash.
Discussed earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471857

I feel like there was a larger discussion too, but can't find it. Anyone?
The same question could be asked for many video games, which require the same things.
I think the real lesson here is that if a friend that believes in you to the point of offering you $70k simply to remove money as a decision factor for you, try and remove money from the decision.
Oh for sure. I think the point is, any of these moves is an inherent risk. For every Apple or PayPal there are a thousand startups which fail.

Knowing which will succeed and which will fail is sort of the whole caveat. You can't know the future when you make these decisions.
Here's what most surprised me recently, which compounds all your points.

Middle of Nowhere, France, 11 AM. My Uber arrives, a cool Model 3, "huh, great!" I thought, "I'm gonna pry this guy's brain for info on EV's."

Sure thing the driver was a talker and over the course of the next 20 minutes proceeded to tell me all the good and bad, in his opinion — it was his 3rd or 4th EV.

Tesla is "out of this world" — his words. "And you know why? Because they have the best free charging network, period, others are not even comparable". Remember, we're in the middle of nowhere in a rural town. He points to me a couple gas stations on the map nearby: "I can charge there, super fast, no problem. But with any other brand, the German, the French, the Japanese? It's a mess. Nothing before 30-40 miles at least, can only charge during work hours, that sort of... problems. And Tesla's (sorta) free and has much more range to top it all."

Consider that we're talking infrastructure, Tesla being better than the French and German brands in France of all countries, about 200 km from the German border!

So, there's that. The headstart and pragmatism of Tesla, even far away from homeland, USA is big and consequential — it'll take years for others to catch up, and they're not heading this way as they all rely on different standards (NIH syndrome) and bodies like the EU haven't catched up on regulation yet (like they did e.g. for phone chargers normalized to micro-USB, now USB-C).

I know it's anecdotal, but for a professional driver it was pretty clear that Tesla is just about unchallenged in EV.
Only do this if you're part of the in-group. If you're part of the out-group and reveal yourself, you could lose your job, friends, and more. If you were to reach out or fraternize with someone like James Damore, you will likely be cast out.
> While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis into its development and future prosperity.

If these really cared about Africa, they would have stopped subsidizing their agriculture. They don't. "Aid" here is a way to hinder development.

China is being scummy, but who's criticizing China here? Europeans who did far worse to the African continent and their inhabitants? talk about lacking of any sense of self-awareness.
If Peter's company hadn't worked out then your decision would have been correct in hindsight. It is very hard to tell with foresight which startups will succeed or fail. Given the statistics, at the time your decision would have been the most probable one to produce more personal wealth. Even if you had chosen differently, you may not have made the $200 million anyway. If you were given stock options, decided to quit before a liquidation event, then the rational choice would be to not exercise the options because you can get hammered on taxes.

I think your choice was perfectly reasonable and was not a mistake at all.
There have been 5 or 6 different pieces of good news in the past two weeks which have led into what I believe is an insane enthusiasm for purchasing this stock. Go on investing forums and you will see people casually throwing out numbers like TSLA to $1000. It's like bitcoin 2.0. I would not short it.
That's amusing, because shortly after that I was converting MSFT ESPP into AAPL shares (started as diversifying, then turned into an appealing strategy).

Still a lottery pick, though; I'm no financial genius. I just really enjoyed the iPods we had recently purchased.
I wonder what percentage of Google's ad clicks come from people clicking an ad for something they would have ended up at anyway, because it's exactly what they were searching for. Especially with their deceptive bullshit ad placement on mobile results.
but that was when MCA's limit was 3 or something degree. its authority was increased after that statement. it's a huge mess and there isn't a single accountant Vs engineer root cause, it's cross sectional within the company culture
Thanks for the note! I appreciate the feedback.

These things are crazy rare. I didn't do a good job of explaining then how weird this experience was. In the moment it felt like any other startup. Peter was great and well known but not outrageously famous the way he is today.

I also didn't do a good job of doing an intro on this idea that tech startups are taking over all of the economy. There are some things that I just take for granted— I guess in abstraction now there are trillions of dollars of market cap in just tech firms, and this fits with my overall view that software is eating every part of GDP. We see this every day, but it's not well explained in my video/post.

I was making a joke about Google eating all of the world's revenue, but it didn't land. Sorry about that.

Really appreciate the feedback here. You're totally right that it's more directly lucrative and lower risk to work at a big tech co. I just still think people should consider making things for themselves though.
I disagree with this. Why was Thiel willing to cut him a check - would he have done so for any software engineer straight out of college? Did he technically interview Tan?

If the original comment is revised from "Be buddies with Peter Thiel" to "Be in the set of <1000 people who has connections with Peter Thiel sufficient to get him to write you a check," the point still stands - this article is not generically applicable advice, and your point (which I agree with) that you should take the opportunities that come your way generally implies you should take the Microsoft job and hold out for promo - and I think you're shallowly dismissing this comment.
You just can't use statistics when they say "95% fail", otherwise you just don't do startups, ever. With that mindset, joining an established company is more likely to "succeed" for you and maximize serenity.

Actually, you certainly can do that. Most people do. And depending on what you're optimizing for, it seems pretty rational to me.

Another stat for you: most entrepreneurs fail "about twice" before making it, i.e. you'll probably fail 1-3 times for sure before entering the 5% of those who create a profitable business. Trick #1, thus: you can roll the dice several times (consider 2-5 years per "real try").

Yes, but that's for founders, not employees. If "success" here is defined as "made more in risk-adjusted income as early-stage startup employee than I would have made as big tech company employee", I doubt any early stage employees are "successful". Every failed startup you participate in (2-5 years of your life gone) adds to the opportunity cost "debt" you have to make up once one succeeds.
I agree.

But to broaden your point, it could be argued that this problem affects every single application that uses the network... How do I know that Chrome, Firefox, IE, or any other U.S. made piece of software -- doesn't leak private information, one way or another? Intentionally or unintentionally?

I've thought about this long and hard (as someone who wanted to publish an app), and the only two things I can come up with are:

1) Open the source code; that is, make it open source, and subject to peer review.

2) Inform users that due to the complexity inherent in computers and software/hardware/firmware stacks in this day and age, there cannot be a guarantee that your private information will stay private; thus, the simplest solution is don't put any private information on the app / don't assume that it will stay private.
Get this hateful drivel off HN. Wtf.
I suspect it's healthier to judge a few misfeatures in a programming language than to judge all developers, or people as a whole. I'm really very optimistic about the future of humanity, but less so about the future of Python :-)
You're wrong, all drug offenders are political prisoners. The violent one were just more willing defend their human rights. How do you square treatment of Sackler vs Guzman?
> If Steven Colbert (similar to his better know a district series on the old show) started to tear down agencies within departments, going after Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Nuclear Security Administration or Foreign Claims Settlement Commission[1] - then he'd actually be subverting the government. The executive branch is both structurally minor and, IMO, partially exists to be the target of blame and praise so that the rest of the government can get on with their business.

Well, if Colbert started running those types of investigations, do you think is show would get pulled off the air? I'm pretty confident it would not. John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, while not a broadcast show, might serve as a better example in that respect. They've run a lot of pieces which are critical of a wide variety of government agencies. And they don't just crack jokes, they get into the weeds.

And then there's outlets explicitly dedicated to investigative journalism, like ProPublica, and many of the major newspapers. None of this could exist in the UEA, or China, or Russia, etc.
The mantra I'm always told around slices is "Don't keep pointer slices. Don't keep pointer slices." Because the entire thing will fail escape analysis and go onto the heap. But it's OK in this case, right? Because, as you say, the BigCache (including the []*cacheShard) is allocated once; never gets GC'd; and it's around forever.
I've done a bit of blogging. Have you experimented with driving traffic through newer forms of social media? I'm played around with FB groups and Instagram. It doesn't feel familiar, but I've seen some results, after experimenting with content; though, I'm still experimenting.
Apologies for the clickbait— I'm trying to build a YouTube following and having some collaborations drop this week. Just trying to make it work on that platform. The values and what is acceptable on different social networks is so different! I didn't really think it would appear on here, so tuning it for different audiences is hard.
Spotify sent mysterious USB drives to journalists
I'll try to make a longer post about this. It's hard to get it right in 5 minutes of video.