skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn’t, James Scott had to write it a century later. The wait was worth it.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
I really hope I can download my data without having to pay extra, and that I can opt-out of their central data collection.

If not, I'm unlikely to buy this. But $500 already puts this out of my range so my point is moot.
I'm older than the person mentioned at the top of this article, and I've made no efforts to hide it.

I've been in the tech industry for about 27 years now, and silicon valley for the last 11. In silicon valley, I've worked at multiple startups, as well as two 'FAANG' companies.

My comp has always been very good, and I've not detected even one little hint of 'ageism' at work. In fact, my career and current work environment has never been better.

> “In Silicon Valley, it’s commonly believed that if you’re over the age of 35, you’re seen as over the hill,” said Fan, who touts himself as an expert in penile enhancement and Botox injections. “People here value the young for their passion and their ability to look at things in new ways."

These sentences cause my jaw to drop for several different reasons. Penile injections? Really?

I will say that keeping myself mentally 'fresh' in perspective and outlook takes real work, but that's just part of necessary continuing education.

In my career, I've generally targeted a 45 (on average) work week. A lot more is fine, from time to time. And I will say that I've seen quite a few of my co-workers who seemed to enjoy working way more hours than that. Some of them young, some of them older than me.

What matters at work is results.

What also matters to web sites is clicks and emotionally driven attention.
I live and work in mainland China, and the government here pisses me off. Yeah, i am a foreigner, but this is my home. I pay taxes here. I deserve to have my voice heard. The Chinese government is trash.

Because i am a foreigner the worst that could happen from me voicing such an opinion is the government doesn't renew my work visa. For Han, it could affect their social credit rating. For ethnic minorities it could land them or their families in "reeducation camps".

That's the trick of authoritarian regimes. If you just shut up and do whatever the government says, they won't bother you (unless you are rich enough to bother extorting). But if you make a noise, you are screwed. That's the reason why everyone you talk to is allegedly happy with the regime. It's not in their interests to be anything else.
You left out the part where they captured all the web traffic and they monetized toxic garbage "news"
Brand appeal I suppose. I remember 1/2 the Casper price tag goes to marketing - I just bought a generic Amazon Zinus for 1/2 the price that research suggested came from the same foam factory. Seems like Zinus has gone down in cost in the last few years as one would expect with economy of scale while Casper has gone up one, $250 now from Amazon shipped, 1/4 of Casper. Simultaneously feels like Casper has cut back on marketing. Also Zinus is a 40 year old Korean company that's been doing bedding for for 15 years compared to Casper, a tech company that's been around for 5. It seems like a no brainer decision for anyone doing rudimentary research.
I’m going to call bull shit. Im old by sv standards (38) and the only things I worry about is the quality of my code and quality of my ideas.
If you know you're a lotus eater and you're comfortable with it, that's when you can live life peacefully.

To keep searching for Ithaca is to put to much emphasis on your professional life. A great professional life is not a sufficient condition for a happy life, but an acceptable/ok professional life is a neccessary condition.
Some people think things are supposed to be harder than they are.
That is normal, e.g. if you travel through a federated regional bus/train transport system, you're paying through the platform and the company is processing your payment, sending money to individual transport operators. See flixbus as the most extreme example, but there are tons of these across Europe, many of them formed during post-communist privatization. Its similar with parcel delivery companies, these even are forced to have the PPL brand on their own cars!
Implementing React Hooks with Stream Chat
One way I've heard the role of product manager described as is a "shit umbrella".
The comment you are replying to does not say it has to be even
History doesn't tolerate what-ifs, but just in case. Soviet Union wouldn't stand war with Germany without Allies. Hitler would get access to all the Soviet's resources: cheap slaves' workforce, food, oil, coal, steel, Arctic and Far East seaports. Then attack on the US together with Japan, both East and West coast. The US would not have a chance. Game over.
That seems to me a quite useless and potentially misleading comparison. Scientists should be aware that everything they say can be used against their own work in the wild world of social networks.
The article is literal disinformation, gaslighting the readers into not questioning the climate emergency narrative. At the very end of it they admit there's been hundred+ arsons, so the writer can claim plausible deniability later on.
> Nobody at the traffic light made & makes fun of a Tesla so consumers feel safe to buy a Tesla.

Why would you care what other people think of your car if you yourself like it?
Is there a reason to use acres at this order of magnitude?

In case anyone else finds it easier to imagine this way: 1.5M acres converts to 2,343 mi^2, which i can then envision as multiples of a reference area (7 NYCs).
At least we still have our penises.
> I would guess the answer has something to do with inter-gender competition and status

And simply socialization. Gaming is socialization for many male gamers - it is their primary or only social circle and friends. It is the main thing they talk about even in person (what tv used to be).
Facebook’s PR isn’t broken, Facebook’s just doing some really bad stuff
I got Costco's house brand memory foam mattress for that when it was on sale. Best mattress I've ever owned. (And I probably wouldn't have it if I hadn't tested out a memory foam mattress at a Casper store, in a bit of irony.)
The Rust project has much more things under its wings than the C ISO group does. It’s a superset.

The Rust project sees Rust as more than just purely a language. For example, the C ISO group doesn’t run any web facing infrastructure, with all of the legal and financial obligations that implies, nor do they develop compilers, with all of the CI/hosting infrastructure that implies.

They’re just different in scope, which has been true for all of Rust’s lifetime.
I feel like Google simply didn't like users having such control over extending their browsers' functionality in ways that are harder to track, so they started the anti-flash bandwagon by abusing their browser's market share to kill it along with all other add-ons (a continuation of their death grip on what extensions are allowed and making unapproved extensions not available to the average user either), leaving a vast graveyard of significant, great content unavailable to the average web user. The golden age of web functionality was the period of HTML5 and Flash both being supported at the same time and Firefox having full support for NPAPI and the old extension system including allowing unsigned extensions. Now we're stuck suffocating in sterilized walled gardens almost everywhere we go. Android still lets you install third party apps for now at least but I bet the days of that are numbered too. Sad state of affairs for users all around.
Keep in mind, the US population is 51% female. So there is still a higher percentage of employed males vs employed females.
Sure, Amazon does it all the time to small startups. They fly you into Seattle, setup a fancy meeting with strategy teams and M&A, make you run through a pitch deck, explain every aspect of your business. They take diligent notes until they fully understand your inner workings, they tell you thanks, you'll hear from us soon.

And nothing happens, 6 months later AWS launches your exact product.

Founders need to be extremely careful when talking to potential acquirers. Dollar signs cloud your vision and you need to understand why they're talking to you. It may be genuine interest or it may be deceit in order to gain a competitive edge.
all leadership, generally.

understand enough broader context to set direction, then distill, cut, and communicate what your team needs to know to do the work
Involuntary manslaughter implies criminal negligence or some other crime being committed. Otherwise it is just an accident.

And I am not against the idea of serious consequences, the problem is about whose heads are going to roll?

It is easy to blame the executives, they are high profile, they are rich, they are the kind of people we like to hate. But are they really at fault, execs are just employees serving the shareholders, and if you have Boeing stocks in your portfolio, then you are a shareholder, so maybe you should go to jail.

And what will happen if the CEO goes to jail? The board of directors will name a new scapegoat CEO, there are many people who are ready to risk jail time in exchange for being the CEO at Boeing...

Same thing about the FAA, except that's more about the politicians you elected than about the shares you bought...

Putting a few high profile people in prison will certainly appease some vindictive minds, but I don't want vengeance, I just want safer airplanes. And as someone mentioned, they are already impressively safe despite all these shenanigans.

As for the victims' families, of course they should be compensated. But I don't think putting random people in jail is the best way to do it.

I am not saying that no one should go to jail. Some people most likely committed real jailable offenses, like corruption, and they should get punished. But making some heads roll for the sake of it isn't a good solution in my book.
Do you suppose there's a timing attack where someone can figure out if any particular users (target user, or admins) are currently online and get up to nonsense if they aren't?

Not sure if your app is big enough to care, but it might be you want to normalize the response times, so server load is reduced but auth time is fixed.
> it is trivially easy to move a couple blocks within a city in comparison to moving to a different state or country

Exactly. Extreme example of how the more localized we can keep politics, the better people can choose their government.

> If no one actually moves based off privacy law

A. Just like employment, there is a totality of factors to consider.

B. That should tell you how important it is.

> Also a lot of problems within HOAs stem from interpersonal conflicts

Have you ever seen state or national news?

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I'm suggesting that as a rule, it's best to localize policy when possible.

Even if you disagree with the principal of "vote with your feet", there is still the point of how unnecessary it is to have 300 million people reach a consensus on DMV operation, when all you really need is the couple million it actually affects.
Rofl I love that you got downvoted. Because everything you said is spot on. People who regularly exercise are indeed smarter, sharper, and (wait for it)... more healthy.
Jeffrey Epstein Gave $850k to MIT, and Administrators Knew
This touches me on a spiritual level.
Its not about how dim it is. Daylight is orders of magnitude brighter than any lightbulb out there and has different levels of color wavelengths. Dimming a screeen actually does the opposite of what you would get reading eink outdoors, even in the shade. This is why TV's and projectors have such a hard time reaching the required brightness levels to be seen in broad daylight.
Why wasn't it an emergency before these wider fires then?
Costco just had them for 480 bucks. I picked one up, so far it's been worth it.
Jobs was far more of a "tech guy" than either Sculley or Cook. He understood the technology very well, even if he wasn't writing code.

I would also say, Jobs had a far, far higher regard for technical talent than you do. He was absolutely obsessed with finding the absolute best engineering and technical people to work for him so he could deliver his vision. He recognized the value of Woz's talents more than Woz himself. He gathered the original Mac team. If he had, say, a random group of Microsoft or IBM developers, the Mac never would have happened. Same with Next, many of whom were still around to deliver iOS and the iPhone.

Your take is like a professional sports manager saying having good athletes isn't important, the quality of the manager's managing is the only thing that matters.
I'm curious at the use of acres in this article, or even otherwise. This is about 6070 km square kilometers, which is a square of about 77 kilometer.
Sure but don’t you do the same when you are watching a movie or playing a videogame?

There are games to interact with other people in the room btw and they are super fun as well! Check “keep talking and nobody explodes” and “acron: attack of the squirels ”.
You may be interested in the TAS (Tool assisted speedrun) of Celeste from AGDQ 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcv7BD1q9o

ADGQ 2020 is currently going on.
From what I have heard, Costco buys Casper mattresses in bulk and are able to charge basically whatever they want.

It does make sense that Casper itself needs higher profit margins than Costco due to the differences in business.
Hollywood is a reflection on culture, not the other way around. They just make what people want to see (it's a business, after all).

Anything else is mindless conspiracy theories. There is no secret cabal pushing culture to the masses.

It's so bizarre to observe normal humans and businesses (and how organizations completely fail at any meaningful scale), and then to turn around and assume there is a hyper-intelligent, hyper-powerful secret society running things.

Instead of blaming Satan, now we have boogeymen from conspiracy theories to fulfill his role.
The shelf is, in fact, to save you from water splashing your cheeks, not for inspecting...
Lol, yup plus a few other things.

Some people manage to do it all but I have no idea how.
Just wanted to say, I'm currently reading Good Economics for Hard Times by Banerjee and Duflo (the 2019 Nobel Prize winners), and it talks about this. It's a really interesting read about how we can make a more just society without giving up on capitalism as a whole, and quite a shocking transition from what you hear a lot on TV or from older economists (about trickle down, etc.). I'd recommend everyone read it; I got it from library, but now want to go buy my own copy to keep coming back to and rereading.
foam mattresses at Costco, Amazon, Ikea, etc. are under $500, so this is more than double for something that is not clearly 2x better than comparable products

if this was objectively proven to be the absolute best foam mattress on the market, I would generally agree that paying top dollar for the best is fine for something you spend a lot of time using, but there's nothing out there that suggests this is any better than anything else on the market. It appears as if it's mostly just good marketing.
Wyze is using the term end-to-end wrong, which is very disappointing but not surprising. They are considering themselves an end, which changes the meaning in a way to make the term totally meaningless. The end in end-to-end is end users.
I was an Econ major in college, which is one of the most popular majors across all schools in the US. I don't remember even having a textbook beyond the first couple of statistics courses. We were only ever graded on problem sets or term papers with some kind of statistical analysis component.

That said, my American Economic History course was easily one of the most eye-opening learning experiences, and absolutely one of those courses where "I understood the reading" was necessary. It greatly expanded by ability to understand why the economic story played out the way it did, and how much of it was based on the societal and political context of the times, and not on the findings of bean counters doing stat analyses.
Interesting, but would need some disclosure and explanation.

All the links are affiliate links.

In several instances although Amazon would display "by <vendor>" the website returns "Sold By: 3rd Party", and an affiliate link. ex. [B0814GF8MW]

It did show 1 out of 10 times where the vendor may have multiple names. [B0178HOTOU]
The article is stating the exact opposite. In the past, this was true... but it seems like women are now starting to start participate in jobs Men have traditionally dominated.
I'm not sure if this is the same one he was watching, but I was watching it last night and it sounds very very similar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3qjCvkQWvs
To avoid trademark fun, you may want to rebrand at some point.

A tech selection from Googling 'haystack'

https://www.haystack.tv/

https://project-haystack.org/

https://thehaystackapp.com/

http://haystackdata.com/
Not foam, it's some hybrid spring thing. There's so much crap out there it's hard to know what's real and what's BS
> the true Ithaca always was and is within you.

This is what so many people miss. You need to be internally motivated to reach your Ithaca. Being externally motivated will make you forever unrequited, forever wondering if what you have reached truly is Ithaca.
While I agree Facebook is doing a bad job with regards to political advertising, I am actually really glad facebook isnt stepping in and deciding whats truthful or not. Does anyone really think that we should give Facebook any power over our political system or give them the power to be the gatekeepers of what political ads we see? I think facebook should do what twitter did and just totally get out of the political ads game, however, since theyre not, call me crazy but I am kinda glad they arent deciding whats "right" and whats "wrong". Facebook has already proved to us over and over that they don't know the difference between right and wrong and that they make decisions that are bad for society.
Facebook, at one point, did curate the news that was shown in the News Feed. It stopped doing so after one side complained.
You know, it'd be nice if they'd look at the cultural aspects of gaming as opposed to just assuming all videogames are bad. It's like being in the 1920's criticizing someone spending time reading as opposed to working in a mill.

But what can you expect from a clearly biased news source that, while possibly not wrong, is likely not going to give any benefit of the doubt to people who live life differently from the "good 'ol christian boy" fashion.
The Unexpected Horizontal Dynamics of a Series A
Transparent cost of driving will promote development of alternatives, change real estate prices and influence working/living arrangements. Long term result will be better public transit, better cities, business situated at better locations.

Right now this cost indirectly paid by everyone, greatly reducing quality of life. Once it’s direct, it’s way easier for market to optimize around it.
Maybe.

Aren't there laws that prevent discrimination on gender and race pretty much in every first-world country? That would make it illegal to pay a woman less for the same job.

If you consider jobs where the title is the same but the professional works B2B, maybe women are less likely to ask for a better pay? That's why pink razors cost more, after all.

Female soccer players make less money because less people watch and there is less money, same thing for BBC journalists who demanded the same pay even though they got 10% share compared to their male colleague.

There are so many variables...
No one knows exactly why this is happening, though declining demand for low-skill work seems to be a factor.

What happens as this continues to decline?
There seems to be something else going on in addition to what you've mentioned.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871403X1...
That sounds like a convenient way to ignore anyone who disagrees with you.
The ignition source for a bushfire isn't relevant. What creates the necessary conditions for severe bushfire? Long periods of hot and dry weather leads directly to large amounts of easily combustible material - fire danger ratings and total fire bans are issued on this basis.

Any ignition source, deliberate, accidental or natural can set it off. Yes arson happens, no the arsonist(s) didn't create the conditions necessary to burn a million hectares, he merely provided the ignition source.
http://archive.md/uZkcU
You are correct: https://fortune.com/2016/04/19/casper-amazon-of-sleep/
I am stunned - astounded - at the overwhelming negative response to this article. Touched a nerve, did it? The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Are you really (already) at the termination point you dreamed of growing up? Have some coworkers, have some family, die?

I, for one, found this deeply profound. Today I wake from my dream, get back on my ship, and start rowing.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.
> I have no idea why income HAS TO be distributed equally. Unless you want to force women to become software developers..? But why.

Some people don't believe that men and women are (on average) slightly different so to them any gender inequality is evidence of fowl play.

They don't see it as forcing women to do things they don't want, but righting a social wrong.
From 2020 Europe is fining car makers if they don't have EV vehicles available (https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...). The easiest way to a car maker to avoid the fines, even if they don't want to make EVs like Mazda, is to put a couple of EVs that lows the average emissions of the fleet.
Prohibition was the result of women fed up with drunk men the first time around
I'm not really sure what you're saying here, and I may be missing the point. High torque and high speed introduce additional wear and earlier breakage on EVs just as they do on ICE vehicles. The steering, acceleration pedal, and brake pedal are just as digitally controlled on either kind of vehicle, and are calibrated for an arbitrary "feeling" on both kinds of cars. Cars are no longer made with mechanical versions of these inputs. For reliability (and consequently, cost-savings) as well as safety purposes, these controls are calibrated to perform at less than their peak possible outputs.

An ICE does require more air and fuel for acceleration as does an EV's motor use higher currents as the pedal is depressed, that is true. The nice thing about EVs is that you get aboout twice as powerful performance for your money.

TL;DR: I agree with your statement that all EVs are artifically slowed, just adding that all vehicles including ICEs are also artificially slowed in order to behave a certain way on normal roads.
Fiat will effectively fund Tesla’s German factory
> 365 RFCs by Darius Kazemi

> In 2019 I read one RFC a day in chronological order starting from the very first one.

Ooo la la!
Because the emergency is the amount of damage the fires are doing and wider fires do more damage.
Yes, each social group has their own brand of social signaling, some defined by the social signaling of another group, even mutually so. Career minded ladder climbers try to disambiguate themselves from the worker bees, and visa versa.
If not derail then just to get a ton of valuable business insight that isn't available publicly. A while ago a large software company dragged us through this process for months, and eventually backed out at the last minute. A short while later they had a complete clone of our service ready for launch.
I've got bad news for both of you: you're going to die, and you won't be resurrected. So better live your lives as if every day matters.
This is not an example. This is an explanation of how it could happen.

Can you share an actual case? Such as, a startup that went through this.