skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously Paul Graham's essays have been hugely influential here, and it's going to be front-page news on HN whenever he publishes a new one, even if it's not world-shaking in content. I really don't see why this should be surprising at all, or why this deserves a comment complaining about it. Some things are notable to a certain audience just because of who wrote them, and that's just the way it is.
I don't think this is "calling home". Ubuntu has been pretty open with their "analytics", which are are really minimal (OS version + screen size + disk size + ...). And yes, they ask for consent.

I think this motd is there to (1) advertise more complex canonical products and (2) be used for security announcements.

Also, I don't think you ever see motd on a desktop install.
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
Did you just take me to task for not directly responding to a point you made earlier and then, after I took the time to generate that response for you, pretend that hadn't happened at all? Are you conversing with me or just using me as an opportunity to riff for the thread? I doubt anyone's really reading this far down other than you and I.
I think of it this (probably wrong) way: If a particle is sent to me, and its pair - for the sake of argument, the matching photon pair that comes from one beam of light through a prism, is sent to you, they will be continue to spin in exactly the same way since they started the exact same-but-mirrored way. So if we each look at the photon at EXACTLY the same time, and nothing has slowed down either photon's travel, the spins will match. In order for us to see it, we have to observe it - and that takes some sort of sensor that is definitely slower than the speed of light (as was the photon's travel through the prism). So the moment we see them, they'll match, but unless we know the EXACT way the spin was altered by both sensors and reconstruct that, anything beyond the initial spin we caught is forever unrelated to the spin of the other photon.

Likewise an eavesdropper would have to alter one of the photon's spin in order for it to reach their eavesdropping sensor, and at that moment, it is useless. Same goes for the true recipient, because the photon passing through the eavesdropping prism changed the spin simply by reflecting it away from its original polarization, and so the "key pair" will no longer match.

Think about how networking works. If your stream of photons is treated essentially like binary (but better), then your packets will all end with a checksum of sorts. If the packet contained an error, the checksum won't match, and you resend the packet so eventually the message gets there.

It's not a very "spooky" factoid when you look at it purely mechanically. I believe this is also why we can coax out quantum behavior from water, electricity, and other things that move around easily. We can even demonstrate quantum weirdness using 3 polarized lenses like you get from the cinema.

The randomness you can envision with all this travel and bouncing and sensing adds up to a lot of noise, making it an expensive problem to solve before things get practical. Early IP networks were pretty crappy. Look at how they go now! The information is light speed. The reading of it is simultaneous. Splitting one of the protons into another pair leaves you with 3 unrelated protons that are not read at the exact same moment (a little simplified - there is math involved to calculate when is that EXACT moment).
Racial covenants were rendered invalid in 1948 by SCOTUS (Shelley v. Kraemer), so very little SV housing was affected by legal discrimination.
Could you explain why you feel that is relevant?
Being able to associate a particular file with application instead of all files of the given type might be handy feature.
incidentally, a folk artist is simply an artist that does not have a formal art education
This reminds me of the paradox / thought exercise of The Ship of Theseus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
I had the same hypothesis as you about the generational preferences kind of thing, but personal anecdata seems to run against it. I am in my mid twenties, have plenty of friends spanning from early twenties to early thirties (with a few in their late 30s/early 40s), and have noticed zero correlation between the age and their willingness and preference to learn things from youtube videos vs. written sources.

Not accounting for some specific types of things (e.g., I cannot for the life of me learn intricate details of operating physical things like fixing something on a motorcycle without a video, despite heavily preferring written sources for learning otherwise), the general preference for learning through youtube vs. reading seems to come down (at least from what I've observed) purely to the individual's own preference.
Why it should? How that wouldn't be censorship? and if so how you justify it?
Student debt is a main driver of poverty and homelessness. Solving the student-debt crisis will reduce the poverty and homelessness and reduce the burden placed on programs meant to deal with those issues. It may be cheaper in the short term to just pay into those services, but why should people suffer before getting relief, when suffering could be prevented altogether?

Also, your impression about what college students actually do is completely unrepresentative of the experiences of those who are grateful for the opportunity to have an education, i.e. the people who would most benefit from having the costs of their education subsidized, i.e. those who go in with few opportunities and come out with many more. The only people who party are those who could already afford to live their lives normally after they graduate, or the people getting degrees in high-return fields (i.e. business and engineering).
>If you're getting a necessary degree, it's very uncommon to default on your loan because you'll be in demand and getting a decent wage. Banks understand this fact and will do the math to give a loan anyway.

Why doesn't it make economic sense to declare bankruptcy in any situation, even if you're a CS major from Stanford, at 22 when you have nothing if you've got a loan in the six figures and IF you're allowed to do so, which is what you're implying (loans that aren't guaranteed)?
The narrative that God is an eternal void that has become self aware and out of suffering decided to create/imagine a world of humans is not entirely implausible, but in the end it's just a story with no supporting evidence.

Consider for example Max Tegmarks idea that the universe is a mathematical structure in an infinite set of platonically real mathematical structures. I don't believe this view to be true either, but it certainly has a few arguments in its favor. And it's completely incompatible with the former narrative.

My point is that it's possible to conjure up different kinds of narratives to explain our existence. Believing in something just because you thought it up is the delusional part.

It seems relevant to add that I've become a Christian later in life. But that's largely because of things that have happened to me first hand, that have led me to believe in a divine savior at work.
Search for "middle east startup funding" ?

How much do you need? Any recurring revenue?
I think a better version is "you get what you measure".

Metrics fail when what they measure isn't directly related to what you want. I'd much rather have n conversions than n000 LoC, if all I get to pick is n.

(I suspect this is especially an issue when you find a metric that retroactively correlates reasonably well with something desired. For example, you find that closing a ticket in less than 20 minutes correlates with the issue getting an incomplete solution. Then you make it into a metric, at which point you're bitten by the fact the correlation no longer works: people just leave the ticket open in a tab for a few hours, ignoring it but letting the clock run, before they close it. It's not enough for a metric to historically correlate with good things, "gaming" the metric has to cause the good things as well. Obligatory relevant XKCD (the helpful comments one): https://xkcd.com/810/)
>>paul graham has a phd in computer science. he is a successful startup founder and vc. that is the extent of what i'm interested in his opinion on.

Smart people are much more likely to believe that they have intelligent and well-informed opinions on areas outside their expertise. PG himself is no exception.
What's left for private messaging? [video]
Ask HN: What is the best to prepare for competitive programming contests?
Hello! I'm interested in learning how to solve problems such as those from Google Code Jam. What is the best way to do that? What books should I read? What websites/resources should I use?

Thank you!
> Which text is that?

I've edited my post, please reread.
The low-end video editing market also hasn't been satisfied with closed source proprietary software either.

Yes, there are a lot of players, especially on the Windows side in the under $100 price range, but nothing I've used has been comparable to iMovie on the Mac. It's the one void that hasn't been filled for me since switching from Mac to Windows.

I've purchased Cyberlink PowerDirector, Corel VideoStudio and Premiere Elements, and I didn't find them to be very good. There's too much of a sloppy "kitchen sink" mentality to them.

I actually found Windows Movie Maker to be better than the aforementioned products, but that got discontinued without a replacement for quite some time. There's now a "Video Editor" application which is part of "Photos" that is serviceable, but I would gladly pay a Windows app that is akin to iMovie - simple, focused and functional.
Or wait 20 years until it's cancelled. People regularly take out 30 year home loans much larger than the average student loan debt without debilitating psychiatric problems.
The idea that people shouldn't do demanding physical work, and that everyone should to the best of their ability make sure their own kids don't, doesn't seem to me like a good way to structure a society.

My uncle was an electrician (he's retired now), and so is one of his sons, and they both seem pretty happy with their lives. Happier than a lot of tech workers I know.
Correct (?) link (it's quite high up in TFA):

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1210242188870930433?s=20

> My believe is that there are 5 creative hours in everyone's day. All I ask of people at Shopify is that 4 of those are channeled into the company.

> Now true - some people, myself included, need a few hours to wind up and wind down for those to occur. Right now I'm procrastinating on twitter instead of writing my summit talk for instance. Reddit and HN are my siren calls.

> That's fine. We are not moist robots. We are people and people are awesome. What's even better than people are teams. Friends, that go on journeys doing difficult things.

While I'm sure they want people to do some non-creactive work - it sounds like in principle they'd be fine with 20 hours of focused creative work. Maybe a 6 hour day, to put in 4 hours of work?
It seems kind of a reductionist view of political association.

A multi-dimensional (at least 2 axis) model [1] would probably be more enlightening in terms of why high profile personalities view things that seem "accidentally moderate".

Example: Sanders disagreed with Beto's gun buyback citing both the constitutionality and the fact that the only way to round up the guns would be invasive police searches which could lead to a despotic act, despite the potential for reduced gun violence. This viewpoint is both shared by hard left and hard right.

[1] https://www.politicalcompass.org
Do you know where PG stands in the Nolan diagram?
I always remap Caps Lock to Compose (built in functionality in Linux, WinCompose for Windows).

But what I want more than anything is to be able to modify the laptop keyboard firmware on my Surface Book 2 so that FnLock can never be turned off. Does anyone have any tips for this?
Many world leading scientists fled Germany after 1933: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.2018092...

And 15% of the scientists that we're fired from universities were responsible for 64% of academic citations.

Also, many ways Germany had the inferior war technology and progress: encryption. nuclear. Soviet tanks we're better. Germany didn't have long range bombers. British anti-aircraft systems were better.

And all that from a country that led the world in science and engineering before WWII.
Less aggressive regenerative breaking to compensate for cooling deficiency, and less efficient inverter.

Tesla being able to "turn off" front motor, and lack of differential probably also adds a little bit to efficiency.
Again, what about sticking to a sensible default that covers the 99.9% case? The installer is hinting you to do the right thing (to create some swap), even if it doesn't provide all the possible myriad options. Swap files vs dedicated partitions have different trade-offs, if you start going that route it's easy to start blaming the installer for having less power/flexibility than invoking debootstrap directly.
You tell them to pursue it at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc, not at Pratt or Columbia, which are known money pits.

You can do anything with a liberal arts major from Harvard.
> if you're writing a distributed database

is this really a requirement for all distributed databases or only decentralized databases? if I'm using a distributed database and I control all the nodes, if one of them is down I don't plan on spinning it back up (assuming the data is replicated across other nodes). I guess what I'm saying is if I need 20 nodes, I'm going to make sure I always have 20 nodes running.
See also https://web.archive.org/web/20190927163255/http://cantorsatt...
Try getting Debian working on a laptop. Those "non-free" packages in Ubuntu make a huge difference.

On servers, not so much difference. Well unless you are using k8s, etcd, juju and all that jazz
Resources are finite. People should be free to study what they want, but we shouldn't be allocating resources to subsidize all postsecondary study for its own sake. This is why a lot of people think community college should be free: it's largely pin-compatible with the first several years of university education, but has none of the social status and leisure components that have turned college – yes, including state universities – into a Veblen good.
When you have a foundational role in hacker news and post a lengthy exposition of your views on a continually contentious topic I would think a reasonable individual would expect engagement. Most importantly the individual themselves is more than capable of making that concept clear himself if he so chooses. We don't need to speak up for him.
All these "things" GPS can do involve the satellite signals being received by very specialized equipment, not cell phones which arguably the title implies.
having more than one degree won't help someone get a job, but it will help that person succeed in their career
Did you mean vertically integrated?
My parents destroyed their body doing professional fishing as their career.

They were very happy that I decided to get a desk job because they didn't want me to be in perpetual pain and disabled like they are.
no?

here's your partial response

>I don't own the post anymore and can't unpublish it. But even if I could: it's annoying that I can't just post my shitty first drafts of things to some random website and not have them get periodically featured on a huge, busy community. That's what blogs are for.

the first sentence does directly address it (choice) wrt to you and your blog (not pg's which he owns).

but the last sentence

>That's what blogs are for.

even according to you

>But even if I could

is the crux of what's at issue. and this you have not addressed anywhere that i can see
That's because they're buying growth. Their last quarter revenue was almost $4 billion, you can definitely serve millions of daily rides for way less than that.

My point is that you could have an open source version of these services that could be managed by local governments or not for profits.
This has been going on for as long as I had an xbox netflix app, going back to the 360. Whats worse is that if you try to watch a series it picks up from 95% done on the episode you just finished. Feels like the VHS days.
Cite the studies and I'll be glad to explain to you why they don't say what you believe they do, or why their methodology is laughably incorrect.

Again, btdt. I don't need a think tank to write a paper to tell me how the military works.
Projection, much?

No. I did a 5-week exchange program with the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, which led to me networking with a state-owned defense company to develop products for them. This then led to me hiring some grad students and other engineers to prototype a software-defined radio device for said defense company, but the remote-management of that team eventually failed.

Another trip was to attend a defense-related research conference which was hosted at HUST. I had a pre-existing relationship with the conference as it was started in Thailand and I networked with the founders (Thai military officers, some of which had studied in the US).
You've been here since 2010 and know the answer to your own question.
"it wasn't us it was the model"
Does anyone here believe there is now a market for securing the masses against the obvious gaping security issues associated with these devices?

"Smarter Home Networks" and creating a business around bolstering security on the slew of IoT devices available today.
Remember iTunes/Music? I have little hope that it’ll get better.
The German has such a more enjoyable roll coming off the tongue though.
I don't think intentional moderates ever run in any party. The point is to give off an impression not to do actual work. At worst some politicians understand "talk less, smile more, don't let them know what you're against or what you're for". I guess you could call this "superficial intentional moderation".
For Asian regional news in English I'd recommend Southern China Morning Post. It's based out of Hong Kong and still independent from the CCP's grasp (for now).
Tell the parent that their child is as unlikely to become Lee Iacocca as they are to become Robert Redford.
If you reward a team for increasing story points completed, then you will very quickly find that every single story has the maximum possible estimate. In the longer term you'd get stories split into more smaller stories far more often than is reasonable.

It's an incredibly obvious example of a measure that's useful only so long as there's no incentive to game it.
So then your argument is that nobody should fish professionally, right?
A lot of political science is not really relative. I mean, you can understand the Democrats' and Republicans' positions as relative to each other or even to themselves since they're both always changing, but a reactionary position is by definition more conservative than a progressive position.

Calling the median between today's US Democrats and Republicans "moderate" or "centrist" is not really indicative of any political theory.

I really think the problem is Democrat and Republican are too closely thought of as "left" and "right" or "liberal" and "conservative", however, the parties are distinct from the political theory.
Ceasing to be Japan would equal to have the culture be extinct so it's obviously not a solution.

Even if it wasn't (like you seem to argue), I would rather realize than in 10 years many jobs will be automated, so you won't need as much manual labor and Japanese will be just fine.
To quote the article:

> and the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong.

So everyone is right some of the time?

> Moderates are sometimes derided as cowards, particularly by the extreme left.

I can name half a dozen right leaning issues that would get me thrown out of a gathering if I expressed my views, maybe even threatened with physical harm.

> If I knew a ... people in the entertainment business, ... Being on the far left or far right doesn't affect how ... how well you sing.

Is followed up with...

> You could be mindlessly doctrinaire in your politics and still be a good mathematician. In the 20th century, a lot of very smart people were Marxists — just no one who was smart about the subjects Marxism involves.

Holly crap this is the most ignorant thing I have read in a long time. There was large attraction to Marxism after the Great Depression. Not only did smart people take it up but droves of them in the "entertainment" industry. Is he completely unaware of the House Unamerican Activities Committee and the blacklisting?

> It's possible in theory for one side to be entirely right and the other to be entirely wrong. Indeed, ideologues must always believe this is the case. But historically it rarely has been.

Both extremes have been bad "historically" but it ignores the common theme of totalitarianism as an overriding ideology.

> For some reason the far right tend to ignore moderates rather than despise them as backsliders. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it means that the far right is less ideological than the far left.

Again, House Un-American Activities Committee ... And just about every issue the US far right champions today. In fact the far right base could be grouped into a few "single issue items" (guns, taxes, abortion)

> But if the ideas you use in your work intersect with the politics of your time, you have two choices: be an accidental moderate, or be mediocre.

This whole article is mediocre, it is a right leaning assessment and bent on politics. Shades of Ben Carson, pyramids as grain storage.
That's what Sidecar was (ended operations Dec 2014), and as best I can tell, no one ever carefully distinguished Sidecar as a "good guy"; they were always lumped in with Uber and Lyft (among other four-letter words...).
Your approach sounds good. And a reading tip (BTW) is http://boringtechnology.club/
I have two children and one is coming up on college age. I'm not advocating for "Ivy League" for her. There would have to be a really strong argument for that because the prices have skyrocketed in the past 20 years. Nobody is "working all summer to pay for college" unless it's at some corporate internship that actually pays decent.

My kids need to be practical people, understand money and especially debt, and be able to make strong investments choices--and also take the risks I couldn't take. College debt is not a risk, it's a surefire way of being poor and having fewer options. You have to have a plan you can articulate whenever you are taking on debt.

The only reason I can see stretching to some rarefied school is because you want to connect socially with people who are more well off than you are in hopes of "marrying up." I think that what I just said did pretty much worked out for me--after all the hard work I put in, a fundamental irony of my life is that my happiness didn't come from schooling, it came from marrying the right woman whom I would not have met had I not sought out a PhD. You can't overlook the indirect benefits.
cash out their equity

... which means they pay income taxes on the unindexed gain (not adjusted for inflation).

When you combine that tax hit with the cost of a replacement property, and it being taxed at the full current rate, it's not worth it.

Those voters who voted No on Prop 5[0], which would have made tax basis portable statewide, have nobody else to blame for the low property turnover among long held real property.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_5,_Property_T...
Actual URL: https://public.amplenote.com/embed/53SmZouWw5nNyBaJNEe6CSdF?...

I completely don't get this weird iframe for the entire article thing.