skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the power is a factor and that it's not about the company having a down year. This exists in Tech Software sales too. It's about not paying full price for a person who doesn't produce.

It's about shifting the budgeted comp of the under-performers to the over-performers. Inevitably, you will end up with a bunch of over-performers killing it, and the under-performers who can't make their number will leave. It's a giant selection process.

Good employees make bank. Bad employees quit and go somewhere with less downside risk.
Expensive underground “sleeping pods” proposed to house San Franciscans
You’re anon, and I was always curious in terms of $$$ how much did you end up with? At what stage did you join and how many options did you get? Very rare to find real data online about this
Ditto in Australia. In fact we even have a saying about it: "Australia: where you call your mates cunt and you call cunts mate".

Obviously context and tone play a lot into it and both "cunt" and "mate" can be friendly or threatening/derogatory depending on delivery and circumstance, but I imagine it would be remarkably difficult for people who aren't immersed into Australian culture to figure out which is which based on text alone
At certain large tech companies it’s the difference between an all terrain vehicle and laying frikin tracks for a frikin train.
The whole of automation is riddled with this. Its gui programmable, easy to learn, no programmers necessary. Watch how i build this and that, with 3 easy steps.

Its marketed to, this is difficult to translate "gebrannte kinder" (children who have touched a hot stove), sales people and ceos. For them software is this mystery field, that sucks in money and seemingly competent people, and spits out failures, projects that dont complete or dont complete on time.

So they dream of a world, where they wouldnt depend on that field. And buy systems with heavy incoded restrictions, and often even worser - tech debt and architectural restrictions build beneath the drag and drop programable surface.
Where they get burned again.
So there is a constant back and forth towards this tools. They are marketing gimmicks, lacking the power to execute more complex software, for which they are usually not bought, but into which the project inevitable grows.
I stand corrected, I assumed that their lineup was sorted by pricing. The Portofino does start from there.

The Roadster has been discontinued for seven years. What it sold for then, as a fundraising vehicle (literally and figuratively), or what it sells for now as a collector item, used, is still a problematic comparison.

I'd probably be thinking more Lincoln / Cadillac when I was looking for a comparison for a US higher end manufacturer.
Leaving sex out of the equation was an unfortunate oversight.

Maybe it's covered under "vigorous exercise?"
IP doesn't require new hardware because it's a lower layer.

Transmission Control Protocol - TCP - is baked into the firmware of every client network interface card, and I would suppose in almost all of the switches and routers of business infrastructure.

I have no idea what data centers use. Infiniband and similar things aren't TCP, I think.
> the Swedish government would much rather have avoided the whole mess rather than get all that negative publicity.

Sweden's actions indicate otherwise.

> The problem was he went after somoeone

Assange didn't "go after" anyone.

> he thought he could get away easily by just leaving the country.

1. He had no criminal act to get away with.

2. He was questioned, denying the charges. Later, he asked whether he needs to stay for another interview, and was told he doesn't have to.
Very simply: it is the best thing that can happen to your life. So don't wait so long to have them.
This seems kind of philosophically similar to FTFY, https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy, except for CSV files instead of botched text strings.
> A post of Sabine's talked about how she thinks the crisis in physics isn't about physics [1]. Is it instead about the politics of the money and popularity? Is it about the psychology of being wrong? I mean, different physicists contradict each other and the truth isn't what's popular it is what's observed, right? If people contradict each other they can't all be right.

A good book (or two) for this is Isabel Stenger's Cosmopolitics 1 and 2.

She goes into a lot of physics debates from the 20th century, along with a lot of the political debates
if you just remember that all the classic unix-editors were used by secretaries/data input persons picked right from the typewriter, that's not surprising at all. What's surprising is that this insight was so fully eradicated by years of IBM/MS/Apple-marketing (except for the lone warehouses still running on IBM mainframes with terminal frontends)...
Visa to buy fintech Plaid in $5.3bn deal
The preprint: https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Scaling-u...

Interestingly, the baselines are all systems that model grapheme forms instead of acoustic (phonemes) directly.
See the proposed plans for underground 'sleeping pods' in San Francisco
Beyond liver failure excessive alcohol use causes throat and mouth cancer as well as pancreatitis at the very least.
If I understand you problem clearly, you can use TFIDF to reduce the weight of meaningless words.
Yeah, most people only get creative only when they absolutely must, and not one minute earlier.
Fwiw, usefulness, even as a hikkiNEET, isn't only to be found in formal employment - but I totally agree with you about its importance.

I've known a lot of the sort of people described in the article over the years and one of the big factors that seems to dictate whether you love or hate the infinite free time lifestyle is what you do with that time. Doing nothing but consuming leaves you in a sad spot, while the full-time wiki editors, fansubbers, forum mods and guide-writers do a lot better in terms of self-respect and general mental state.

I think the phenomenon of the NEET is here to stay in rich societies, so I'm hoping that those affected are increasingly able to channel their energies into productive and rewarding outlets rather than drowning forever in vapid consumption.
Remarkable stuff Greg - no surprise to see your work on the front page of HN - always inspiring.
Money. They are sold out.

The real question is why people are buying them.
When you're on a highway, speeds fast enough to cause fatal crashes are a given. When speed is cited as a primary factor in an accident, it means speed that is too fast for the conditions.
> I've long since run with the notion that if you must have Smart TV features, do it with an external box

I'd go farther. I want everything to be external boxes. Right now I'm looking at having to get a new A/V receiver because mine cannot handle 4K video. It does all the audio stuff I need just fine.

If video switching and audio processing was handled by separate boxes, I'd just be looking at changing out the video switching box.

Now suppose that later I decide I would like to be able to control my receiver with Alexa or Google Home. As it is now that will be another "replace the whole damn receiver" moment. If it were all separate boxes, the preamps, amps, surround sound processor, and radio receiver would all be separate components, controlled by a controller box. If I decide I want Alexa, I'd just buy a new Alexa compatible controller box.

Or I decide I want to upgrade from 5 channels to 7 channels...buy a couple more amp boxes and speakers for the new channels (and might also need a new surround sound processor box).

Basically, take a block diagram of a complete full featured home theater system, and make every block in that a separate box so I can (1) just buy the boxes I need for my system, and (2) upgrade a box at a time.

That said, I doubt TV makers will ever stop primarily making Smart TVs. A Smart TV can function as the only component of a home theater system. Someone moving into their first apartment after school, say, wanting to start putting together their entertainment system can start with a Smart TV, stick it on their home internet, and then use the Netflix/Prime/Disney+/etc app on the TV to watch movies.

That Smart TV probably has a few HDMI in ports, so they can also use it with the cable box if they have cable, and with their gaming consoles.

With a dumb TV they'd need the TV, and they would need an A/V receiver, and speakers, and something to run the Netflix/etc. apps. Buying all that at once might be a budget buster for someone starting out.

By making the TVs smart, the TV makers greatly increase the chances that a TV will be the first component bought for a new home theater setup, and probably also increases the chances that that first TV will be a big screen, high resolution, high quality display model.
Every bank I use provides _some_ sort of structured data export (at the very least a csv, and in most cases a more finance-specific format (OFX, etc). I'm not talking "modern" banks here, either (Ironically, the most modern bank I use, Aspiration, only provides exports in a non-standard csv format)
If you look at stats for temperate climates, the chief factor is normally not the winter but the summer. In snowy weather, drivers actually tend to slow down, and even though many go off the road, they are slow crashes with few fatalities.
A long, hot summer is deadly though, because it means more miles travelled and hence more accidents. And crashes in the summer tend to be fast, and thus more deadly.
>Are they happy with it, compared to...

I think a lot of it is that most of them haven't ever been outside their own country, and seen what it's like in other places. You're right about "billing hell", and of course that we get much worse outcomes for more money than anyone in the world, but if you say this to most of these "happy" Americans, they'll say something about long waits in Canada, or worse, "death panels".
I like to think of it as a really bad axe. With it I can chop wood, wedge open crates, shave, climb mountains, fight off monsters, pick my teeth, scratch my head, and throw it at anyone I see.

I guess what I'm saying is - it hasn't killed me yet.
Remember that power required to push air out of the way is quadratic with speed. The 10 mph increase here is a 30% increase in kinetic energy in any given crash.
A health care veteran tries to upend the system and bring drug prices down
Plaid?

Edit: I guess I’ll look up their homepage, and try to scroll through the marketing speak to figure it out. Seems like it would be nice if someone in the know could just tell us.
Would you give a felon a 2nd chance?
Well, maybe it's just that these are actual problems felt by many people and things need to be done about them. The problem is, rarely are things actually done (say, about housing affordability, healthcare accessibility or economic inequality), mostly because doing things endangers interests of privileged groups (property owners, the insurance industry, executives etc.)
I'm currently working on a side project (https://non.io) that's webcomponent based, and I really wanted to try and make something production version that operated more like a mobile app - e.g. you send the entire app at once, and the app decides what page to display.

This was the result, and it's pretty quick! Would recommend it for small projects, but as it's webcomponent based browser support isn't fully there yet. If you wanna see how it feels on a larger site, feel free to log in to the dev version I have of my site (https://non.io username: asdf@asdf.com pass: asdfasdf) and click around.
Consider a Venn diagram. 3 circles : the observable, the understandable, the communicable. Intersecting at a chubby triangle. That's physics. And it's pretty darn small compared to the rest of the diagram.

Maybe the triangle is exhausted. All mapped out. The limits of the method have been met. Time to find a new method.

Maybe?
>They whoop and holler at the lower rent from living in suburban sprawl, but don't notice that the various costs of car ownership are nickel-and-diming them, and their municipality's budget.

They also don't make the obvious connection that driving everywhere and never walking is what's causing them all to get so fat.
Before the change, Michigan had the highest car insurance rates in the US. I am sure this will make them even higher. Having policies that make car insurance expensive is an unforced drain on the statewide economy. Sensible policies would add about $1200/year in disposable income per car in Michigan.
I use SQLite myself, although I would like that those who provide the data should make the data available in a format such as CSV, or TSV, or a SQLite database, or to have some sort of protocol which a SQLite virtual table module can be made to access any data using such a protocol, so that it is possible to do so without having to deal with complicated stuff in a web browser or whatever else it may be, sometimes which is not even compatible with my computer. SQLite is common on all computers, I think, and CSV or TSV will be simple enough to work with many programs, so it should do.
> I fear that soon we're going to need an open-source alternative to Plex.

Alternative: Emby https://emby.media/

Open-Source Alternative: Jellyfin (fork of Emby v3) https://jellyfin.org/
Why does it seem what way? Like a violation? For the same reason that it would be a violation of my license if they copy/pasted the code and just made some modifications to the implementation, then released it under a proprietary license.

> So you mean, they don't even use your source code?

They delete the implementation but keep the API. But sure, let's say they deleted 100% of the code just for argument's sake.

> that shares zero implementation details of yours be contributed back?

My opinion is that APIs are implementation details. I completely fail to see why some people are insisting that APIs are not code.

> Another bad side effect of things like this is that potentially things like `Shape` and `sort` become copyrightable APIs.

Doubtful. For one thing, they exist across tons of languages - you can't copyright the work of others.

> If oracle has copyright on Java APIs, that prevents other people from implementing better/other versions of the Java sort function (maybe it's faster, but unstable), you can't implement that.

Not true. Oracle's copyright would not extend outside of their enterprise / separately licensed APIs. If people choose to use those APIs they are accepting Oracle's copyright, which is an obvious mistake that they should avoid.

Copyright is not there to protect you from making a bad technical decision If Java's APIs were all copyrighted the obvious choice would be to not use Java.

Same reason why companies ban using libraries that are AGPL3.
An explanation of the internal implementation of React's useState hook
There probably should be some apps marked non-removable, because they would break core functionality of the phone, and even if they are made re-installable via Play Store [many of them aren't], would generate tons of complaints and support calls from confused users who uninstalled by mistake.

I'm thinking of: dialer app, SMS app, contacts app, settings app.

The problem seems to be that OEMs mark apps as non-removable when they don't fit that category. And even google does this. [eg. Looking on my phone I was not able to remove Google News, only "disable" it.]

And also on Android, you can install multiple dialers, multiple SMS apps, etc., so maybe you should be able to get rid of the stock one if you have a replacement.
For some reason made me think of Matthew McConaughey speech in The Wolf of Wall Street
Woah, this sentiment nails it. Please recommend reading.
Oregon (US) has something similar in the Portland area; they call it the "urban growth boundary".
I have spent 5 years on and off in the no code space and IMHO you're almost spot on. Almost all standard enterprise platforms are non complex and can be delivered in no code solutions, requiring maybe 5pc as real code. Failing to acknowledge this is why IT organisations in large enterprises are typically sidelined by shadow IT teams, who often deliver great solutions in Excel and Oracle Apex.
What’s up with Git’s peculiar usage of ‘learned’ in their release notes? For example:

> Git learned the ability to execute a “partial” clone...

> ..In Git 2.25, --format learned the verb l/L...

I’ve never run across another piece of software that talked about itself this way. I’ve tried to research it in the past, to see if it’s part of some software engineering philosophy, but have always come up short.

Anyone have any insight?
> 2. What does it even mean to create more space? The universe is expanding. Ok, I can accept that. But what does it mean?

Consider several droplets of water on the surface of a latex-based birthday balloon. The balloon is inflated, and droplets spread further apart, yet each droplet retains its shape and size. If you measure the distance in droplets it appears that you have created space as more new droplets could now fit in between those placed earlier.

We only have two comprehension tools to help in grasping the universe - math and intuition. The above is intuition, and you know better than me where to find math. There isn't more "meaning" to it than that, just the tools.
I'm not sure what the point of quoting that is really. I guess if you subscribe to the idea that reality is somehow modified by your age, sex, race, education or whatever the heck then it has some relevance but then the whole idea behind an encyclopedia seems pointless and we should just each maintain our own unique knowledge bases as they will have no relevance to someone other than us.

That an article like that exists is patently absurd in my view and kind of makes me a bit ill. Things like that is what led to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

I really firmly believe that if you think there is a European (?) science and an African science and they are distinct and equally valid then either me or you do not belong on Wikipedia and I would actually like Wikipedia to clarify their mission in this light.
Not what you want to hear about a version control system: "Python is a dynamic language and there are tons of invariants that aren't caught at compile time and can only be discovered at run time. These invariants cannot all be detected by tests, no matter how good your test coverage is. This is a feature/limitation of dynamic languages. Our users will likely be finding a long tail of miscellaneous bugs on Python 3 for years."
Hmm, looks like whatever that WAPI package is, it's not just on Xiaomi devices, I see it mentioned as bloatware on a OnePlus 7 Pro[1]

1: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/how-to/debloa...
Not so much to harass Assange as to uphold the image of the justice department, do you think any law agency will take a fugitive escaping to a different county and then being very public about their whereabouts quietly?

Especially when they flee from accusations of a serous crime that the government has pretty lousy track record at solving. He flees to the UK, and you expect the prosecution to go "oh well, that's like 2 hours flight away, we'll never get him now"?
The issue with I’ve had with go is that it’s batch compiled: I can repl something together in an interactive shell and then generalize it, which is my preferred workflow
Maybe I'm just skeptical and a cynic, but...

> VPN with an in-app purchase

Lets pay for a product, and they have the ability to sell that data.

I get, acting like a pi-hole and what-not but, a VPN for that task seems overkill.
Universality and consensus are not goals I have when seeking the truth.

If there is one truth per (willing) mind we might as well call them points of view, no? I won't hide that's a big part of what pulled me to mathematics for my college degree: foundational issues notwithstanding, it is the discipline that, at least on some fundamental notions (such as the number 7 being prime), gets closest to universality and consensus.

I prefer to ask questions where the answer has real-world implications.

You have basically stated that science is more interesting to you than philosophy. We can agree on that, and so can most other people.
Yikes, $1 per transaction pull? Wonder if there's a way to only pull transactions when a charge for a specific vendor comes across.
Not sure you really understand my point; "male socialization" is simply "the way we raise boys" -- which includes the ways we as a society neglect their needs.

This isn't a "men versus women" thing, but rather a "we need to pay better attention to boys' emotional needs" thing. When you don't, you teach them that their emotions don't matter and aren't a thing they need to manage to have a healthy, happy life.
It also really affects the viewing angle.
Hybrid symbolic and NN will be my next area of hobby research, currently getting my masters degree in NLP. Do you have a few good resources to get startedor/read about?
I knew someone who worked for an R&D company and the lead for grant proposal writing was making just shy of twice as much as the lead developer. Base salary. Now to be fair, this person had tried to leave before so they had to sweeten the pot for retention purposes, but it was serious serious business, and this employee was functionally irreplaceable. I may write all the code we sell but I won't do that if the paychecks stop coming.

I think one of the things that the ridiculously wealthy have trouble finding is people they trust - deservedly or otherwise. Money they've got figured out. Next week they'll have a little more or a little less, but they know where to find it if things get bad.

All that yammering on the phone is building rapport, and putting in time interacting. It doesn't sound that different than the way that informants are recruited (eg, The Like Switch). They feel comfortable with the guy who gave them tips on how to get out of a sand trap. Despite the fact this proves nothing about whether IBM is a good buy right now.
Well, I have a lot, but I don't want this to turn into a dissertation about why I don't like UDP for most things.

The biggest red flag to me is that it is trivial to make the server send sizable packets to clients who didn't ask for them nor want them. Spoofing is not a solved problem, no matter how many times people scream at providers to block it before it gets out. Why isn't there a minimal ACK process up front? I mean, this thing is designed such that it's vulnerable to reflection attacks on -day 1-.
It's surprising how many people believe that you can use a magic comment to make Python use UTF-8 encoding as the default. All the magic comment affects is the encoding of the source file, not the run-time.
For the builder of small to medium (say, 10k to 1 million monthly users, some media but not the primarily focus) websites, apps, APIs, etc, is it time to begin deploying HTTP/2 or even 3?

How would one make the decision, what factors would influence it? What are some of the best books/essays arguing either direction?

I believe in maintaining best practices even if you can get away with sloppiness on a specific project, to be good and fast at doing things the right way, but I honestly can't tell where the new protocols fall.
> I read just far enough to know your argument was going to be "free will to decide what contract to sign".

Uh... That means you literally needed to read one or two more sentences to see that this is not the argument.

If you're going to make claims about me and my understanding of the world, please have the decency to base them on what I say, not on what you guess I am going to say.

> The first thing these companies will start doing is trying to protect their investment

Why are you assuming that the equity financing will be by "companies"? The entities trying it right now are non-profit universities and governments. Who can still fuck it up in the way you describe, of course, just like they have already fucked up debt-funded education.

And there is plenty of "contol and oversight" going on with state-funded education (my option #5) as well, I should note. And I absolutely agree this NOT a good thing.