skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess if he can figure out how to cut 1500 jobs without affecting the bottom line, that saves the company $150m a year (assuming $100k average salaries) and so a few more million in CEO salary seems like a drop in the bucket.

But I'm guessing you could find someone else able to cut 1,500 jobs for a little bit less than $29 million a year.

What it really comes down to is sort of like the old "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM". A board of directors has no incentive to take a risk on an unknown leader when they can hire a "brand name" one for a mere $29m.

Same reason a company pays millions of dollars for a simple rebranding logo update or why Google pays $500k for top engineering talent. There are plenty of cheaper options out there that might be just as good or even better. But when the new company logo is a flop, you want to be able to say you hired the best. Not, "Well we saved a ton of money by using 99designs."
Two things make a great narrative game, the narrative and the game mechanics. As one would expect Alpha Centauri's game mechanics have been significantly improved on since it came out, however the narrative and setting is so strong that poor mechanics connect you to the nature of that reality. For instance mindworms (Alpha Centauri) vs barbarians (Civ). The mindworms should be annoying but because the game shares stories of mindworms attacks the annoyance is transmuted into a feeling of sympathy with the settlers of the game. You never get that sense with barbarians in Civ.

The best example is horror games like Amnesia. They are essentially "walking simulators" with almost no game mechanics beyond movement. Yet the atmosphere is so good that the players don't notice.

Personally I think too much attention in the game industry has been placed on flow and artificial-sweeteners such as RPC leveling reward systems at the cost of neglecting atmosphere and as a sense real presence.
One should always be careful with using pronouns. Especially if the only pronouns are going to be they and them. In this case "so they banned them" who is they and who is them?
The readable/properly-formatted version:

The data was originally forked from rosettacode.org on 2019-10-22. In comparison to Rosetta Code, in RosettaGit all code is stored and hosted in a repository on GitHub instead of a MediaWiki. This has following advantages:

* Code can be edited with proper text editors

* Continous integration and delivery can be used to ensure a high code quality

* All infrastrucuture for git (e.g. GitHub) simplifies further development

* Faster load times as pages are only rebuilt after a change
It's Adam Savage and 2 "incidents" in 3 months isn't too crazy I know plenty of people that get their window replaced just in time for it to be bashed in again. If he's been street parking in the mission for 10 years I wonder how many times a year this normally happens to him.
A lay-flat seat tops out at being slightly less comfortable than sitting in your couch at home. I wouldn’t consider it a vacation-tier experience (unless you count it as a mini-vacation every time you plop yourself down in front of the tv after work).
Just curious, because i've never really understood, I see this a lot without much explanation. I've used gimp for years for various image and photo things and haven't used Photoshop since the mid 2000's, what's so bad about gimp in comparison, other than the ui(which to me seems much the same as old versions of photoshop), to Photoshop?
> young people can't afford bikes due to student debt and other debt.

I find comments like these interesting because it shows a fundamentally different perspective on motorcycling.

It sounds like you view it as a hobby or pastime, and an expensive one at that, likely because you see it as something to purchase after already owning a car.

I see it as a highly efficient and cheap form of personal transportation, especially for urban areas. In my city (Montreal) motorcycles park for free and almost anywhere they wish, essentially lawlessly. I don't own a car and use a motorcycle to avoid public transportation yet not impact the environment nearly as much as a full size car. The economics of it are amazing too, I spend about $15-20 on gasoline a month while commuting daily, spend almost no time in traffic and nothing on parking. Maybe $600 a year on insurance and $300 on plates. The initial costs were higher due to getting gear but that still doesn't compare to car ownership.
Because there is no logical consistency to the attributes used to define each grouping. They're just a hodgepodge of loosely related (at best) ideas. So a lot of people simply don't fit in either category.

For example: I am absolutely pro-choice on the abortion issue. I am also rabidly pro-gun on the second amendment issue. So do I fall into the "left" bucket or the "right" bucket? The answer is "neither".
No non destructive editing available is one of the biggest drawbacks
Ask HN: Partnership Compensation for Side Project?
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should structure compensation related to a side project I have that makes money?

- I am not incorporated yet.
- I do not have immediate plans to raise for it, my main project is something else.
- It's profitable, but not really profitable enough to just hire someone.
- While it makes more money than it costs, it is not really a significant amount (yet).

The options I was weighing:
- Get a cofounder and split it 50/50.
- Hire contractors for one-off features (currently trialing this).
- Get a partner(s) and split it something like 80/20.

Any thoughts?
I have capital, but little business experience. My product and niche is pretty cool and very research heavy.

Sounds like you are motivated. How much of the research would you be doing yourself? How much do you anticipate needing to spend? If you have both capital and motivation, then consider moving somewhere cheap and investing your own time to maintain complete ownership. You can get all the hand-wavey advice online, YC videos, books, etc.

My only advice would be don't discount the importance of marketing. "Build it and they will come" doesn't work. If possible, get a few committed or LOI (potential) customers and some small income guarantee first.
I made a [fork](https://github.com/ahalma/cats-of-jasnah) that allows for some internationalization. Now you can play the game in Dutch or Spanish as well (or extend it for your own mother tongue).

You can set the language via an URL parameter:

https://ahalma.github.io/cats-of-jasnah/index.html?lang=es
outline version: https://outline.com/nepZzS
In 1933, there were 80 millions young German. Today, most inhabitants in the western world are too old to fight in a WW3, but at the same time, there is no more need of a massive army to trigger a WW3. :-/
why has nobody said superintelligence by nick bostrom yet? You all need to read this because it describes what happens and how an AI will eventually start taking over the world(s)
I’m surprised Lisaac is in the list, I thought the author stopped developing the compiler.
IDK where you got these numbers, Teslas are selling better right now (q4 2019) than ever before.
Re: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, this critique of the book is worth a read: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Is the Wolfram Programming Language/Mathematica still the most concise language? https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/which-programmi...
Why? Other than their move to non-native android I find Rocket quite good.
Tell HN: 500 unread mails, 2K unread articles, 5K unread posts – I am drowning
And that's on top of the hundreds of tweets that I also "bookmark" in order to check later, on top of a couple of client projects I am currently working on, on top of my relationship that often feels neglected and on top of my life as an individual (= my friends, my family, books I want to read, movies I want to watch, music I want to listen to, places I want to go to, etc etc).

But to add some more context: I am a freelance developer (web, mostly), one of my clients is a company that has hired me to do data analytics for them in a field that's quite new (and so there's a lot of studying (about statistics) and research (about the field) from my side) and I really, really, like exploring, studying and learning new things in many areas.

So, over the years, I've been collecting pieces of knowledge or other general information that I found interesting. And now, I find myself just before the start of a new year (= reflectioning and resolutioning) and just before a commitment that will require some very effective time management for the next few months, thinking that I just can't do it.

Now, to "do it" means to take action over all of these ~7.5K items. With very simple mathematics, if each item requires an action of ~5' each (this number is quite off but I am using it just to make more sense), I need something like ~26 days of doing nothing else other than "actioning" on these items (or ~52 days if I split the day in two halves, etc etc). Not very possible.

And here I am, asking for thoughts, opinions, advice. How do I do it? I could just "-f delete -all" in my inbox, pocket and bookmarks folder but I just "can't". Have any of you been in any similar positions? How did you deal with it? Is it some sort of standard "digital hoarding" situation? Is there something deeper? Should I seek for professional help, maybe?
It’s the same feeling I have watching people work in Java; their IDE and whole language development experience is a tier above Python. I am surprised that the world decided on Python as the informal lingua franca of science.
I'm the flip. I'm now Gold on United which gets me Gold on Marriott. (I stay in Marriott a fair bit but not enough for Gold and that doesn't give you Lounge access any longer anyway.) I'm assuming the relationship is still in place next year though I haven't checked.

A bunch of programs went a bit cross-status nuts a few years back but those seem to be slowly going away or getting watered down.
From the article: "Yes, all of us know the text tool (in Krita) is horrible but at least it is a bit better than the last one which was just pure shit." Pinta also has a terrible text tool. It's so bad that sometimes the font selector disappears and you can't get it back. Generic problem with Linux image editors?

I'd settle for something on Linux that works as well as Photoshop Elements from ten years ago.
Synchronous and blocking is not that bad in timesharing systems, as the computer always has something else to do while it waits for the IO to complete.

As for the expensive MMU operations, as someone pointed out before, they were not always as expensive as we currently have to make them when we need to guard against leaks between processes and multiple CPUs sharing unified memories and caches.
As of now, in the UK, LG’s TVs are fairly up front about automatic content recognition, and it’s off by default.

But I agree, we need a consumer-electronics company that uses privacy as a competitive advantage the way Apple does for phones.
Alphabet ha preso di mira video e contenuti YouTube sulle criptovalute
Ahh, I misunderstood! I would say that is when it gets returned if I need internet to operate my TV.
I agree with much of this, both out of personal experience and that of my friend.

Work is a distraction from what is really gnawing at your ankles. Even if you start to burn out it still feels preferable to the alternative, if you're even aware of that in the first place.

And to be honest, it's valid even though it's massively unhealthy. Facing your underlying issues, whatever they are, is hard work but also, it's ultimately the most rewarding work.

I've a lot to share about the matter, but it's a bit much and a little too personal for a public response here.
I Built a $9K/Month Crypto Tax Calculator
Bonus: They get free marketing with the success of Netflix's The Witcher
Fooled by Randomness.
i picked it up from my friend's dad's bookshelf in 2010/2011 by pure chance. Best decision ever.
Computer Simulation and History
I think they used "UNiplexed Information and Computing Service"
It's kind of ironic that the more a society is efficient and productive, the more it's subject to a overproduction crisis and massive unemployment. We need to change the model.
The amazon book page is confusing, it lists him as a co-author. The book's cover says it's just a foreword, so I guess you're right.

Still, not to surrender in this thread completely, letting such type of person to write a foreword for a book is not a very good initial signal in itself - it casts doubt on the main author's judgement with regard to whom she considers an authority in matters of communication (or, in any matter other than producing confusing statements).
Gas costs are negligible on a motorcycle, I pay at most $20 a month for premium (91 or better) gasoline... The economics of an electric bike just aren't there yet while they remain above $10k for the base models.

As much as I'd love to own an electric bike,vlike a zero, they're still in a premium early adopter phase that I can't justify yet. A good comparison would be the model s vs 3.

Speaking of, it's a shame Tesla won't make an electric motorcycle.
Motorola flips for its futuristic foldable phone
When you have a truck with 700hp and 800 ft lbs torque, you are only using all that power in good traction situations. I don't think you'll need more then 25% power per wheel with traction in slippery situations.

Also, in bad traction situations open diffs have the issue of transferring all the power to the wheel without grip and much engineering is put into solving this on off road vehicles. A 4 motor electric car solves this while being mechanically much simpler and likely lighter.
The opposite also happens: barring multi-family dwellings that would reduce costs, and enacting codes that would allow for cheaper, but still safe, dwellings. The former is happening in pretty much every city, and there's no shortage of reporting on it, so I'll leave that to you, but for the former, I would specifically look at the laws that are forcing advocates of tiny houses and backyard apartments to continue fighting. Toronto recently reformed their laws to allow for the latter, after years of pressure.

Suffice it to say, these situations are far more common in cities than the ones you've described.
> is the value of YC worth 7%?

There is no universal answer to that question. For some companies the answer is clearly "yes", for others it is clearly "no", and for some it's a tough call. But there is absolutely no way anyone could give a more specific answer without knowing a whole lot more about what's going on.

That is not something that should have to be explained to you unless you are a totally clueless noob. That is not a value judgement. There is nothing wrong with being a clueless noob. Everyone starts out that way. Echelon even came right out and said that he (she?) had "little business experience".

But I'm not convinced that Echelon was really being sincere about this because he (she?) then went on to strongly imply that his company was so bad-ass that YC should be willing to seriously consider changing their standard terms for the privilege of being allowed in. Echelon is almost certainly wrong about this [1]. So "I have little business experience" sounded to me like a humblebrag.

My answer was intended to convey the following message: Yes, Echelon, your lack of business experience was evident even before you told us, and though you don't seem to have fully taken this on board, it is a serious threat to your success. You are almost certainly not as bad-ass as you seem to think you are. Not yet.

Maybe I should have spelled all that out originally, but I was in a hurry.

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[1] Since I am passing judgement on Echelon's odds of success on very little data, I feel I should give you some of my bona-fides: I have been a principal (founder or co-founder) in six startups and invested in about 20 others. Just this year I am closing out an investment fund that I managed which had an IRR of 70%. I've seen success, and I've seen failure, and while there is obviously no reliable way to make these predictions, there are a few warning signs that manifest very early that have in my experience proven to be very good predictors of failure, and signaling that you think you're bad-ass when you pretty clearly aren't is one of them.
no one is thinking about that automatically adjusting suspension. It could lower itself when you get near with your phone, like an elephant kneeling down for you to climb on to it lol
I think it has multiple intended meanings. They give life to others. They also carry ideas which implant themselves into others' minds.
Those voice-acted quotes after you finished research or build your first building of given kind are little gems that stay with you for decades.

"The Academician’s private residences shall remain off-limits to
the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability,
we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not
allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this
ridiculous witch hunt!”

—Fedor Petrov,
Vice Provost for University Affairs

... spoken with official, assertive voice right after you completed research on "Retroviral Engineering".
In a language I worked on ( github.com/skiplang/skip ), at the moment where we throw a syntax error, we can look at the previous few tokens and generate much better error message.

In the case of the above, if last is ], previous is number and before is 0, then put a nice error message where octal notation is not allowed.

This is not “pure” from a language theory sense but in practice if you add a handful of common ones, it makes for a much better experience.
Plant-based burgers will make men grow boobs, Livestock News reports
Sounds like you have a goal. Making progress toward a goal can be satisfying. Even more so than reaching the goal. One problem I see is that you are comparing yourself to others (you mention the average person). Whatever landed you where you're at is unique to you. It's your challenge to overcome and should not be compared to anyone else. There's only you today and you tomorrow. Keep moving toward that goal even if it takes a lifetime.
Source?
'unsafest' relative to which countries?

Edit: btw I am not saying India is safe by any measure. The official statistics released by government doesn't match with what you say, be it propaganda, reality or just lack of significant funding into researching these stuff.

Without insightful data, how do you plan to combat anything?
'Growing' rape rates has been used as an excuse to form internet surveillance, censorship (porn ban? adult themed movies?) and other faucet of life.
Did that reduce rape rates?
Rapes are increasing? Why?
What is happening in a developing country that makes it more vulnerable to rape cases if its true?
Why evolution is true. Coyne.
So say we all!
You will always have caches of some sort because of the speed of light limit, and because moving data accounts for a lot of the power consumption in modern-day chips. What you'd need for determinism is caches that behave more like pure scratchpad storage. Ultimately the OS gets in the way of this, as does multicore (which comes with the need for costly cache-coherency setups in order to keep the desired semantics for shared memory access.)
That skepticism is valid. 3.5% might be the new 4%. Personally, I don't worry too much about returns because even though U.S. standing has declined, our returns have been incredible, mostly due to stock buybacks. Corporations have been the net purchasers, by a significant margin, in the past decade [0], somewhat driven by debt and specifically, low interest rates. Returns are increasingly untethered from actual performance. For these reasons, the U.S.' waning hegemony may not lower returns.

[0]: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4271159-corporations-bigges...
Notably GNSS-SDR supports not only GPS (US), but also Glonass (Russia), Galileo (EU), and Beidou (China). https://gnss-sdr.org/docs/tutorials/gnss-signals/

However, I believe it's worth mentioning that if you buy a commercial navigation IC these days, it will support them all out of the box, often with the addition of inertial navigation, which is what allows the navigation system screen to update properly while you drive through tunnels without satellite signals.

Other ~viable (for various definitions of "good enough") navigation paradigms include celestial, visual/terrain, other signal sources such as cellular, various radio systems, AIS, etc.

Here are relevant chips with prices starting USD$2.7 some of which support GSM/GRPS as well: https://lcsc.com/products/Communication-Modules-GNSS-Modules...
I'm not saying they shouldn't fact check - rather, if they aren't sure about a leak, it's irresponsible of them to talk about it before they're sure! Same goes for security - if delaying a leak helps security, surely it helps even more if you don't speak about it at all until ready to release.

Furthermore, announcing leaks gives the orgs being leaked on time to get their story straight and destroy evidence, so I'm really skeptical that announcing leaks like that is the responsible course of action.
> Have fun getting OS vendors to do that

That is exactly what IBM and Unisys mainframes do with their language environments, and has been picked up on Windows Store, Android and watchOS as well.
You sound rather liberal, in the literal sense.
That was my first thought as well, it only looks pretty to someone whose never had to pull over and take off their gloves to check their phones GPS...

It also looks like a free tablet to anyone bold enough to rip it off while you're parked on the street.
What is your takeaway? What did you mine from really thinking about the meaning and direction you want to take with your life?

*clarification: I mean it earnestly, as I have not done anything that you have.
Frankl’s work always seemed like cultishness and apologia from what I had elsewhere read on the history of the Holocaust. But I was unprepared to learn that he was a card-carrying fascist who inserted meth into the skulls of people who had killed themselves in rebellion against Nazism...

> In his "Gutachten" Gestapo profile, Frankl is described as "politically perfect" by the Nazi secret police, with Frankl's membership in the Austro-fascist "Fatherland Front" in 1934

> None of Frankl's obituaries mention the unqualified and unskilled brain lobotomy and trepanation medical experiments approved by the Nazis that Frankl performed on Jews who had committed suicide with an overdose of sedatives, in resistance to their impending arrest, imprisonment and enforced labour in the concentration camp system. Operating without any training as a surgeon, Frankl would voluntary request of the Nazis to perform the experiments on those who had resisted and once approved, published some of the details on his experiments, the methods of insertion of his chosen amphetamine drugs into the brains of these individuals, resulting in at times an alleged partial resuscitation, in 1942, prior to his own internment at Theresienstadt ghetto in September later in that year
How do you define "a significant portion of their users"? 51%? 25%? 1%?
So, only a few more days now, the UK will be snowland.

I read the headline and thought the UK will be a political stepping stone between USA & Russia.
Good thing large computer monitors are still a thing, and seem to do well.

I don't have a single proper TV in my house, because nobody needs them. We can consume whatever video streams we care about via the internet, using computers that I reasonably control.

Not an option for non-IT people, though, alas.
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Not only should PGP go away for that use case, but it easily could; very few people would need to be convinced to upgrade it to a better format. What's held that back from happening is nobody agreeing on what that better format is; it's the same reason we're only now getting WireGuard after almost 2 decades of IPSEC VPNs.
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0620-5