skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there is something different where you live (I presume the US).

Here (Italy) you make a reservation, and if you do that through one of the portals such as booking.com you surely already provide your credit card number and the authorization to either bill the room price or bill the "no-show", which usually is one night unless you cancel 24 or 48 hours prior your reservation.

For the hotel it is a win situation, as the room you reserved will have no costs attached (laundry, maid, cleaning as it will be not used) and no costs for (the actual ingredients of) your breakfast, while the hotel will cash the same money.

Not only, a few (again according to my personal standards dishonest) hotels will bill you the "no show" and sell anyway "your" room to someone arriving late, thus doubling the income.
The writing was already on the wall in Europe when the US arrived. There is little chance the allies would have lost, just that all of Europe save probably for the UK, would have come under Soviet rule/influence.
No. They said the exact opposite of that.
>The plane tends to pitch up when accelerating.

They all do this. You have giant engines on the underside of the wing; what else would you expect to happen when you throttle up at low airspeed?
"due to pop explosion ran into a gringo go home resistance"

I wonder what else happened in the 60s...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
It says in the article that cognitively demanding video games + exercise together equals more BDNF
> He'd be able to go back to MS after 6 months/1 year no problem and would have only lost out on some vesting.

And internal tenure and connections. Yes, for some companies, it's easier to get promoted as a new applicant. At others it's easier to get internally promoted and losing out on a year of that costs you quite a bit of future value.
>and I'd guess in many times wrongly since the US incarcerates twice as many people per capita than Russia or China.

That's a very interesting theory.

How is it you conclude the US vs Russia/China prison population is indicative of the US wrongly incarcerating "many people?" The current estimates say US wrongful conviction sits around 2-10% with an 85% conviction rate overall, meanwhile Russia has 99%+ conviction rate overall (suggesting far more corruption and wrongful convictions) and China it is estimated 90% of crimes go unreported due to general mistrust of the system.

Based on US crime rates, the majority of violent and property crimes go unsolved...hell I think murder cases are around 60% unsolved...so how exactly is it: 1) US many times wrongly imprison people; and 2) Russia/China prison population have any connection to this conclusion?
Thank you for identifying the hash function in specific - that makes sense why it was in `fnv.go`!

My point is more to do with the fact that BigCache does not handle collisions at all, whereas the built in Go `map` almost certainly does.

Essentially, I can imagine that a Jepsen-like test would reveal that BigCache loses some percentage of writes (dependent on the data, of course).

Whether or not that is a problem depends entirely on your use case, of course.
I just don't think Japan is going to change any time soon. They've been very nationalistic for the last 400 years, if not longer, I only have a little knowledge of their more recent past. In this scenario, blaming the victim is being realistic. If you're not Japanese, don't expect to be accepted the way native Japanese are. Even among the pure Japanese they have castes, so foreigners are even lower on the list.
the nyt obituary mentioned that he used it a couple of times a year into old age
> And wouldn't one solution be to use an alternate front-end with less clunky and error-prone syntax (say, python) that has doc strings so you can hover over an API in your IDE and read what it does, get auto-complete, etc.?

You're right of course that there are great advantages to using existing languages with familiar syntax and good existing tools. I agree that CMake should have gone with an existing language rather than inventing a bad one of their own. Same applies more generally to projects that roll their own language for no clear reason, such as FlightGear. [0]

For me the question is how much work it would be. If they could introduce a decent Python frontend, in addition to supporting their existing language, I agree it could improve things greatly.

> The benefits of allowing arbitrary language bindings are immense.

Arbitrary languages? If that's the end-goal, presumably they'd really just be exposing a C API (the way LLVM does), or a machine-friendly text interface (LLVM supports this approach too with its own assembly language). I don't think that would be the way to go, but I can see the case for supporting one language well. Python3 would be a fine choice.

[0] http://wiki.flightgear.org/Nasal_scripting_language
Not OP, but no - the profit motive is the main perverter of the pharmaceutical industry. By talking a profit you ensure that your cancer treatment will not cure cancer - too few people will have access to cure the disease and millions will still suffer and die needlessly. I guess a few rich, first worlders would live, so it's not all bad.

People celebrate Jonahs Salk because not only did he develop the polio vaccine but he rejected his opportunity to massively profit from it because it was more important that patients have access.

No company that develops a cancer cure these days would do that. Their shareholders would revolt, their boards would fire their exeutives, their stock prices would plunge, and their competitors would pile on.
This gives me a good idea for a video: How and when to quit.

To be frank I also quit Palantir far earlier than maybe I should have. A story for another day.

Thank you for the feedback though, I do appreciate it.
Google News on mobile has reached a new low with their un-dismissable "There is a new version of Google News available" dickbar when reading. Even worse, it pops up even when you're reading a story.
I meant the impairment itself does not impact cash flow (setting aside taxes, can’t comment there). See Verizon Oath write down. Of course this can happen to already distressed firms who are experiencing cash flow issues. It’s just a way of making things appear “even worse” in your books without materially impacting your day to day business.
Having finished the article, I was just coming back here to edit my comment, because I described it inaccurately. The article isn't only about taking the opportunities that come your way; it's more specific. It's about owning more of the value that you create and having more creative autonomy in your work.

Some people are going to respond positively to that message, others not, for various reasons, but it obviously has nothing in principle to do with Peter Thiel or "Be in the set of <1000 people who has connections with Peter Thiel sufficient to get him to write you a check".
I hadn't heard of this, and see there is a lot of concern over using this project except for specific use cases.

I'm always weary of build tools that try to do multiple languages. On Scala projects I use SBT, and for people who have tried to hack on SBT itself or its plugins, you know it's a big mess under there. On other projects I've tried using Gradle with Scala, but I found a lot of times Gradle just wasn't setup for a Scala workflow or was missing essential tooling to make it as effective as SBT (although its configuration is considerably more sane). Most of the tooling and plugins around Scala are built around SBT as well (for better or for worse).

I try to stick with the major tool for a given language; cargo for Rust, SBT for Scala, the built-in tooling for go, with the exception of Java projects where I'd gladly take gradle over the hellscape that is Maven.
but we only have formal societal judgements because we people made idle judgements and then talked about them with each other and formalized it - no?
My uncle had a jeep he called his million dollar jeep, because he cashed out of some Intel stock in the early 80ies to buy it.
Let me guess, you are western and white, I ask because only a person of your demographic would dare to say that the Chinese has done even worse than the African slave trade, if you are going to mention the great leap forward I can easily mention WW1 and WW2 so I dont know where your sense of smug superiority comes from. I am not chinese by the way, nor "white".
Sorry I missed including my source, here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

(and yes, it's probably got a quite high inaccuracy, but there aren't other easy to ingest sources I found)
Update to Notarization Prerequisites
I doubt driving (or video games) engages the brain the same way.

Driving, you're heavily insulated from most noise (or, like in my Jeep, your hearing is overwhelmed by road noise). You're not smelling your environment, nor feeling it, and certainly you're not exercising as many muscle groups.

I'd speculate (ok, wild guess) that it's the combination of blood flow, muscle exercise, all of your senses, which is so beneficial. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Child_in_the_Woods.
Everyone's opinions on tradeoffs vary. Were it me, I wouldn't be proud if I'd made the call to join the company that is directly supporting The US's broken ICE system (https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/technology/2019/05/do...), even if I were $200M richer. It seems Garry dodged a bullet on this one.
> “It’s clear to me and other tech leaders that Trump and the GOP are better at creating and sharing engaging online content than anyone on the Democratic side,” Conway said in explaining his conversation with Bloomberg.

No no no. I don’t want bipartisan “engaging” content, I want data analytics use for hyper-targeted political advertising pulled from the list of allowable political tactics.
Yes. They're also bad for you if eaten regularly. Not all "real food" is healthy. Not all "fake food" (whatever that means) is unhealthy. They're orthogonal concepts.

IMO any processed food that hasn't been around for a couple of generations should be treated with some suspicion.

If you want to define "processing" a loosey-goosey definition might be "anything that can't be done in the average kitchen using ingredients commonly found at a grocery store". By this definition, maybe breakfast cereals aren't processed - you could make Grape Nuts in your kitchen if you were sufficiently determined and masochistic. But it's a decent heuristic otherwise.
Investigate each layer one at a time.

Not every end user will be able to independently verify every piece of software on their machine—going fully open source wouldn't do that either. But these types of investigations should be open to the general public so that peer review can take place.
Yeah, at the end of the post I tried to reference this: You probably shouldn't work at a startup for the money per se. The real value is short cycles with users and being able to make decisions and ship.

This is also cautionary for startups. You have to be an actually rewarding place to work, otherwise there is literally no reason to work there.
I absolutely disagree.

Nova Launcher is an example of a pretty good piece of software that fulfills all 3 requirements in my mind (it's a 3rd party launcher, or desktop, for Android). It's what I use personally so it fits my power user and ricing needs, but it's also what I set up for less computer literate relatives.

It has every option one could want, but they are organised sanely and are kept separate from the basic interface. I don't see why this is difficult.

As a power user you could easily set up your click and hold labels with KWGT or KLWP. Having this option available doesn't make the phone worse to use for normal users. All hail the android ecosystem!
What meaning of conservative are you using here? A conservative approach to the 737-MAX would have entailed a more thorough process and canning the design on the recommendation of the engineers, in my interpretation. Instead, we got a rushed process.
The short-term view is the Normal throughout history, long term view is the rare, basically only when they just built a nation and were really motivated, rather than "inherited" the nation from their ancestors.
There has been lots of positive news in the past couple of months, and you'll see some listed in other replies, but IMO it's more due to the fact that the bear story has disintegrated.

Prognostications of Tesla’s doom have gone from concerning, to annoying, to boring, to pathetic[1]

Tesla has a successful ongoing business just selling Model 3's and Y's. The S could be destroyed by the Taycan, the Cybertruck could flop, the Semi could fail to take off, Autonomous driving could remain a slightly more intelligent cruise control, their solar tile business could fail and Tesla would still be OK. It wouldn't be worth $420 a share, but they wouldn't be bankrupt either.

1: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/12/21/prognostications-of-tes...
Exaggerating, sure. But, the general point is accurate especially when looking at cost relative to income: https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/o...

More recent: https://a4ai.org/extra/mobile_broadband_pricing_heat_map-201...
> How many countless others have invested years of their lives, in exchange for equity and comparatively low pay, in promising-sounding startups only to see those companies fail?

My intuition leads me to believe its more than the cumulation of these "I could have made $N" stories :)
420 was the California Bill for medical marijuana legalization (and of course the time to blaze it).
Yeah, I hope none of the criticism was too harsh. I'm a big fan, we've actually met in person, and I almost got into YC while you were a partner. Oh well :)

Agreed on most of your points here, especially about software eating the world. There's a good post here, just not sure this is it yet!
The Gift of Hope
OTOH, one party can effectively conspire with the President to subvert the constitutional limits to that power (SCOTUS in Bush v. Gore; McConnell refusing to try an impeached president.)
The FAA just did a simulator test and more than half of the pilots failed to follow the intended procedures in case of failure. These pilots were specifically trained on the 737, and know they're participating in a trial. I think I'll stay clear!

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/pilot-procedure-co...
Ask HN: What is your marketing “stack”?
I was watching a talk from the webflow cto where he listed 11 tools for marketers. I felt like i needed to know a lot more about marketing automation and tools. Where can i know more as a solo founder, and what do you use?
> The real reason you should consider working at a startup or starting your own: It's not the money

I think this is correct, but makes the post's title seem really click-baity. I think expected financial upside is exactly where Big Tech unequivocally wins over startups (esp. joining and not founding), so it seems weird to frame the post around money.
Since Plantir is not going private for while, would his $200M be at all liquid in any way?
The article or study is on to the beginning of something but it seems too light on causal links to be substantial. The effects of BDNF and other brain drugs have an entertaining defcon talk in the biohacking village. Cognitive enhancing drugs stuff looks ripe for exploration, though the side effects are concerning.
I don't think this is fair. In part, because valuations are so high today, but 2004 was totally different. This was shortly after the bubble burst. An enormous number of people went to interesting startups and lost their jobs/equity when the companies went under. Nowadays, startups have been de-risked quite a bit and there's obviously a lot of money if you operate well, but at the time, a career in Microsoft probably seemed extremely rational.
Maybe more poker than a lottery. A lot of luck, but there's still a little bit of skill in there.

I appreciate the feedback though. I know this is just one voice of many, but it's also what I experienced. I think it's up to the viewer to decide if my experience is applicable.

I think Paul Buchheit said it best: Advice is merely n=1 experience.

This was my n=1.
The "could of", "would of", "should of" game... Ah.... how I love to play thee.

But wait... let's go further and play the "what if" game as well!!! What if... you took the job and moved out to Palo Alto only to trip walking up the stairs on your first day of work to break your spine and be confined to a wheel chair the rest of your life???

Point being... life turns out the way it does for a reason and you never know what events will unfold or are avoided cause of the decisions you choose. Be happy that you are alive and have what you have. Life isn't always about getting or having more things.
Many became yakuza because it's one of the few groups they could join. Hisayuki Machii (Jeong Geon-Yeong) was a legendary Korean yakuza leader
This is insurance fraud and abuse. Over-billing is very common in the American medical world. As long as there is no oversite, nor competition, it will continue and grow worse over time.
Then the author did a disservice to us all by the clickbait framing of his decision.
If you spend enough time in tech, you meet a lot of people who have this kind of story. It's ridiculous, but not that rare.
> For example, we recently showed that collegiate cross-country runners who train extensively on outdoor trails have increased connectivity among brain regions associated with executive cognitive functions compared with healthy but more sedentary young adults.

I've definitely noticed a cognitive boost when I switched from gym weightlifting to cardio/endurance based on outdoors activities (trailrunning, strenuous hikes). The latter has given me an intense calm and mental space to work on problems that I did not get from weightlifting.
A Breakthrough in Graph Theory – Numberphile [video]
By 'you' do you mean me in particular? Or do you mean the world in general? If you mean me then the answer is no; I see no reason why we should not have transparency in transport costs.

If you want subsidize certain kinds of mass transport then target the specific type. If the price of food (which is at a historical low in the western world) goes up as a result then that will simply show people where their money is being spent. If you want to subsidize it then subsidize the people who need it (low income customers).

Other public utilities, such as electricity, do not give a free ride to freeloaders who cause extra expense to the rest of use they charge for the damage done. For instance a user of electricity that has a very bad power factor will be charged a very high rate and will therefore be encouraged to improve.
It could be better... in the University of North Carolina System you are FORCED to participate in 401(k) or the state pension and once you pick one you have to keep it throughout your employment.
This sounds nice for Tesla, but it sounds utterly insane from a greater perspective that EVs can't charge at any electric charging station.

How stupid does it sound if I said I needed to find a Ford gas station to fill up my car?
This is a problem, no doubt.
I would guess that the rate of criminal activity in the world is relatively flat until you start introducing factors like political instability. My optimism would say that the US is probably on par with China in terms of providing a stable society, and both of them are miles ahead of Russia. The US may not be as stable as some of the European countries but the netherlands has an incarceration rate of 61/100,000 while the US has 655/100,000 this is all according to the rough numbers up on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
Fair enough. Make it a longbet - python vs. human race, who's going down first.
Well, yeah, historically and now "authoritarian government" is pretty redundant. The only meaning it might have is to draw an arbitrary line and consider only the governments on one side of the line to be "authoritarian," but when people do that they seldom bother to articulate where they're drawing that line and why. So I completely agree that the word in practice does not usually have much useful meaning.
My mother-in-law, who was fully Japanese but had naturally, slightly curly hair, was accused by her school of getting a perm, in violation of school rules, until her parents provided photographs proving it had always been curly.
I don’t think poor people will trust things with strings attached. It’s what screwed them in the first place. I wanted strong relationships built on trust.
Seems like a good topic to talk on, soothing the burn on missed opportunity, perceived or otherwise.
Thank you for saying this. There are three classes of people: (a) hardened criminals/terrorists who work professionally, (b) amateur criminals who don't know what they are doing and (c) law abiding citizens.

Of all the criminal activity out there, I would guess the largest proportion comes from (b). You could argue that if you could eliminate one category of crime, it would be better to eliminate this one than the crimes committed by group (a).

I still think FB should implement E2EE because of the costs to the third group (c).
Opinionated thoughts on the intersection of tech and finance by patio11
I'm pretty sure he's making reference to the large pharmaceutical companies that earn more by treating problems than fixing them.

The incentive is to continuously charge these people for the rest of their life. They make more money if you stay sick, so they can keep treating you.

If you are cured, then the flow of money stops until you get sick again.
I’m by no means an expert on satellite orbit selection, but from my experience as a consumer the quality and frequency of imagery for an area has to do with a variety of factors - how often the overhead pass occurs in daytime vs. nighttime, how much data capacity they will devote to downloading the imagery, and what angle they point the sensor at.

Here’s a real world coverage map from a European earth observation mission, you can see they were able to select and orbit that gives them daily coverage of Europe but only biweekly coverage of Africa: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Slater12/publicat...
I'm one of the creators of Okteto, thanks for the shout out!

We recently wrote a post on how to integrate Okteto with NodeJS apps, in case anybody wants to try it out: https://okteto.com/blog/how-to-develop-node-apps-in-kubernet...
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> don't skimp on the build process

Another advantage of a "one click" build process is that it documents, perfectly, the product. What lives where, maps to what and how, how each element is configured, etc. That "one click" is your way into the whole project.
> it's a data and tech platform for progressive candidates and causes

Are you able to share any other candidates or causes you have worked with? Bloomberg isn't exactly the most popular candidate among progressives and without knowing the other customers this looks like a vanity company with the primary goal of getting him elected.
Even if you could -- the statements "can make money doing X" does not imply "can build an MVP for X".
Maybe except someone who'd chosen jet ski as a way to commit suicide ;)
Really? I get a similar error for part 2, a link from the way back machine links here: http://web.archive.org/web/20191223074202/http://cliffle.com...

How were you able to see it?
Ghana launched a satellite in 2017, for 500,000 dollars.
It was used for environmental monitoring. Since the Ethiopian satellite is to be used for the same thing, it will likely cost the same amount.
The US is in very dangerous territory at the moment, I will not argue that point. We should all be very concerned.

But—at least right now—there's a very clear difference between the US and the UAE.
I loved every part of this. This is true leadership.
An Inside-Out Course on Number Theory (Pt 6)