skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, most US cities, even those with terrible traffic, are not uniformly packed with cars. That's because there are lots and lots of roads in a city, but only so many cars. However, usually there are certain corridors that one practically has go through if one wants to get from one area to the other, and those are the most congested.

For example, I live in Seattle, city with one of the worse traffic situations in the country. However, if you stroll on most of the surface streets in downtown, you'll never notice that. Most congestion in the metro occurs on the major freeways that allow one to travel through the area on a north-south axis: SR-99, I-5 and I-405, and on the surface streets and ramps directly leading to these freeways. Before you get to these, and after you get off them, you'll see rather little traffic, and pretty much no congestion to speak of.
> discipline and culture

Monoculture
... wow, how did I get this far in life without noticing that. a a a a. Edit: Apparently Verdana doesn't seem to do that.
Founders want employees to have the founder mentality without giving them founder equity. AngelList (which this author is shilling) salaries and equity grants are pathetically low. So they write fluff pieces about how you’ll learn so much doing a founders laundry. I learned a lot more, faster, as an employee at big tech than at early stage startups. Startup VCs and company need to get out of the business of writing fluff pieces about how great it is to be a startup employee and get into the business of fixing early employee equity grants. The “standard” is pathetic.
AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery
But he also might be talking about money or computers.

"Stakeholders" is (usually seen as?) a subset of "people", whereas the modifier in "human resources" is very much not redundant.
Seems like a better business model than ads. And Netflix is worldwide. So really it’s a question of do you want to pay for the content with money or with your personal data.
There's a study I want to see. Mortality rate broken down by cause compared to health enthusiasm rated by sect.

Or even simpler, compared to book ownership. Pick a few hundred of the most popular health books and track a population of owners and their cause of death or significant health events.
So is almost every other piece of software. I would like to see an analysis of commercial closed source software on how many of then use good practices, have clean code etc. Not the ones that filled in the [] we y
use TDD in the CIO monthly questionnaire. Maybe I meet the wrong companies I have to work or integrate with, but in my experience it is not very far from 0% (but it is >0 luckily). I met one company last week who do everything right, but only for projects over 500k where over 10% goes into those practices, otherwise there is simply no money for the overhead...
In my partner’s speciality, a job in SF or Oakland pays less than a starting software eng at Google or Facebook. A medical degree costs easily 5x an undergrad CS degree.
Yes, and for distribution, that's fine.

The ruling is less about Apple forcing consumers to buy only through the AppStore, and more about only allowing sellers to sell through the AppStore.

If I make a PS4 game, or a Nintendo Switch game, I can sell it on the PSN store and/or Nintendo e-Shop, sure, but I can also produce a physical copy that I can obtain outside of the store, and that is definitely not the case for Apple software developers.

Apple software developers MUST go through the AppStore and they MUST pay that fee, no matter what.

It is that specific lack of competition; the lack of other places to sell your iOS applications, that the USSC judged against, by my reading.
Not true. A primary care physician at Kaiser makes a bit over $200K if they work full time AFAIK. Average American makes about $50K. Considering the 4 years of med school and 3 years of residency they are not overpaid. Specialists are the people making $500K+
Tests are the only thing that give me confidence about any code I write, Javascript or otherwise.
> I always immediately (within a week) found customers and handed the product to them, and abandoned the product if the response wasn't absolute euphoria

How do you find customers? (I.e. people with buying power, and clearly defined unsolved problems.) Being able to do so is a pretty valuable skill!
Dopamine and TD learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
It's nice to see MS pushing for tracking protection as well. Firefox now takes the lead on privacy issues. Google will try to hold it off as not to hurt their own business. People will eventually migrate away from Chrome because of this and the tracking/ad business will go down. Now is a good time to do some thinking if you're in the online tracking and/or ad business.
2025 is the official end of life year. You can find a page on MS's website with all the end of life dates.
I didn't say it's easy, I said it's something more amenable to an SDE self-learning.
>I'd rather enjoy discovering that Nicholas Taleb was bullshitting here...

I'll go with user error here, but who cares? What do they think, Taleb purchased boost on a whim to race someone at a red light, then asked for a refund when it was over? The fact that they straight up said "no refund" is crazy, and telling. I'll bet Tesla operates like an insurance company: deny all claims until it's too noisy to bear.
I am so sad about the fact that Edge can no longer read epubs and seems to have (so far) sub par pdf reading. It's been my go to pdf reader for a while now and I love the way it scrolls. It is so smooth - just like preview on a mac. I haven't found anything else that comes close to edge for the smoothness of its pdf reading on windows, so I will definitely be holding out on this update for as long as I can. I don't really need two chromium based browsers on my PC anyway.
The previous business model was ad-revenue supported. That business model screwed them.

It's up to the new owner, but I don't expect him to take that risk a second time if the risk model for a better walled garden looks lower.
A non-sequitur me thinks, as the code doesn't look simple and correct. File needs to be closed on error if it exists, fd if not. i.e. The broken version looks broken.

While there is lots of meta-complexity around this, the bug itself is relatively simple. Make sure files are closed properly on error.

Also find -1 is a wrapper from C, probably kept for compatibility reasons.
Here is a (longish) post I wrote about this issue (mainly from the perspective of verifying autonomous vehicles):

https://blog.foretellix.com/2017/07/06/where-machine-learnin...
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Ok, but please don't post shallow dismissals to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also when these companies are selling ads instead of relying on native ads, some of the moves are made in anticipation of future revenue rather than based off current revenue numbers. It is just like a startup that touts active users over any revenue numbers. Once you have people's attention, monetization was generally assumed. A company might therefore move video to Facebook as soon as they consistently see that Facebook videos get 10x the viewership numbers compared to videos on their own site only to later realize that inflated viewership number was wrong.
@ghall Is there a planned feature where one might generate a list of the most frequent keywords and market needs to guide one's self study efforts?
> The headline is "cheaper to fuel", and under the realistic assumption of paying home utility rates it's not.

Your personal assertion is not correct, and you're trying to force your assertion by ignoring the data presented in the article. You can't simultaneously assert that an article is wrong and ignore everything stated in the article, from data to conclusions drawn from the data.

However, if you really feel strongly about the subject then you're more than welcomed to write a blog post where you write down your personal assertions and try to make your case.

> It doesn't pay back fast enough to make up for the price difference, but that's a very different claim.

That's a secondary claim, which was only made to drive home the fact that Tesla Model 3s are more expensive to own and operate than a Ford Camry even with the unrealistic assumption that Tesla owners benefit from a perpetual source of free energy.
Where do you work? Sounds like somewhere I'd like to apply.
Friendly tips: you can replace any with unknown.
Other friendly tips: runtime type checks are available
https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts
https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes
Well, there should be a bit of shame in writing code that's buggy or not working at all...

Of course if you avoid that while still writing a mess, it's mostly fine.
Are cloud costs killing companies?
I've read about several companies that seemed to be doing well, shutting down. I've had the opportunity to start digging into one, and saw that the costs to keep their cloud running might have been what killed them. I'm in the process of trying to re-build the thing from the ground up on purchased, dedicated hardware, but not everyone could do that.

Are cloud costs, and the associated lax engineering practices that are being solved by throwing more cloud resources at problems causing problems for these companies?

Cloud providers seem like drug dealers. They make it easy to get hooked, then they jack up the price.
Ah, that's nice!
SB50 could make California livable again
Wow that just made med like Tesla a lot less. I know it's "just business" and all that but several thousand dollars for "unlockables" reminds of the way gaming has taken a turn for the worse.
I think this is generally true of Naval.

He tweets these vague pseudo-philosophical koans, things that look fine as 280 character retweets. It's fine for self-branding and he's certainly played the genre well.

But that middle ground between advice directly relevant to a practical question and a nuanced, deeply investigated ethical framework isn't as self-helpful as marketed.

It's those things people read and _feel_ like they've done some life-work today (and perhaps that's what people really want.)

As you point out, much content by well-known, materially successful people is a post-hoc constructed narrative to explain why they are where they are.
Although I love Naval's ideas, I don't think there is a singular model to accountability and skin in the game.

It is to compete with yourself every day given the constraints you have as an individual.

As an example, I would rather find the best happy me than copying a so-called successful person.

To me, owning a business is the ultimate experience for people skills which you can never learn in a classroom. But I would rather do it on my own individual terms than copying a mental model.
You do it while complying with GDPR, of course.
True; I guess ID had this internal engine strategy or it grew out of the culture there naturally? I read the Doom book but don’t remember if that was explained. I have the Doom black book but did not read it yet.
I've found TypeScript and React with VSCode to be incredibly productive for web development. If you're on the fence, give it a shot.

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, so it brings a lot of baggage along with it, but if you're writing frontend code it's a real pleasure to work with compared to JS.
> “Games aren’t just an ordinary piece of software, they are a complex beast that require many different disciplines to successfully ship, and often on timelines that require sacrifices to be made,” said game developer ...

Is this any different from any other type of software? What is this "ordinary" software that doesn't require different disciplines, or have timelines?
Im not saying Tesla is the only company that does this. RV dealers are renown for doing the same thing. That is why everyone recommends buying an RV that is 3 years old because everything should be fixed by then.
Honestly, I found the image of a boy in pain, shot with something that teared up his calf pretty horrific.
http://graphics.wsj.com/elon-musk-twitter-habit-analysis/

He seems to reply to everyone, but I guess a blue checkmark gets more attention
I don't agree. I think it is just what you are used to using. I'm used to Firefox and find their dev tools to be superior to Chrome, but I'm pretty sure that is just because I'm just more used to Firefox's dev tools (having used them since the firebug days).
Main cheater identified as Pavel Pleskov.

According to this presentation

https://www.slideshare.net/DataFestTbilisi/how-to-win-a-mach...

He worked at H2O.ai (but I think he was now fired).
Prior to that (again according to the above).

- Master of Science from Moscow State university
- New economics school (Moscow)
- Financial Consultant
- Quantitative Researcher
- HFT Fund partner

Overall seems to be impressive track, this is the type of track that often mentioned on HN, the top firms would hire from...

Completely not clear why he needed to cheat, are there other sophisticated cheaters out there for these types of competitions?

May be there needs to be prises for 'checking' other peoples work..?
I'd imagine just keeping the videos on YouTube still brings some 6 figures per year of income to someone so no point in deleting those.
I had an ssd/system combination that would not communicate at sata 3, and either the bios wouldn't try at sata 2 or it would timeout detection too soon after. If your bios lets you set a sata revision, it's worth a try (mine didn't, but I used a sketchy download of the AMI Bios Editor to adjust the default; I couldn't figure out how to use the editor enough to make the setting visible). And also maybe reseat the cables.
The big problem with one data center drive is that if that goes bad, you still lose all your data. You're assuming their marketing MTBF is correct.

They do make NVME raid solutions now -- with the advantage being that NVME can be faster than SATA. And there are various price points for the NVME drives depending upon speed.

This one from 2018 (not sure if it has full raid or uses VROC)(EDIT: it requires software raid)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3297970/highpoint-7101a-pcie...

This one is cheaper but relies upon Intel VROC (which has been hard to get working on some mobo's apparently)

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-M-2-X16-V2-Threadripper/dp/B07NQ...

In either case you're looking at max throughput of 11 gigabytes per second, which is roughly 20 times faster than SATA 3's 6 gigabits per second.
It's not that tough of a sell when you consider that many/most medical students are math-phobic and would most likely be unable to obtain a high-paying SWE gig in lieu of becoming a doctor.

There is a significant difference between the skillset that produces a medical student (work ethic and drive) and a SWE (analytical reasoning).
What’s the practical difference? The console makers still control physical distribution by forcing third parties to obtain a key, they have to approve all software that goes on their console, and they get a cut of each game sold.

Today, almost all games have an online component - that only work on console controlled networks.
Google to ‘phase out’ third-party cookies in Chrome, but not for two years
Sophistry's worse than snark.
I'm interested in the way you describe handling errors here. Do you have any real world examples you can point me to? Thanks
Too much preamble. I stopped reading when the author started shilling his "How to Get Rich" article before he even started his point.
Or, you know, switch to one of the systems used at other developed countries that are significantly cheaper.

EDIT:
> It is already starting to happen and is one way we can reduce the cost of health care.

To the downvoters, I'm replying to this part of the comment, not the overall thread.
Yes, I understand the argument - but it doesn't alter the fact that those excuses can always be used, and probably always have been.

Quantum mechanics was more revolutionary than general relativity, but came almost immediately after and was simpler (after the conceptual leap) to study, which rather undermines the low-hanging fruit excuse.
It's basically a high interest unsecured loan on future revenues. It's very much the Mr. Wonderful model from Shark Tank. 7-15% return on revenues for 3-5 years on $25k-$50k investment. Maybe it makes sense for some, maybe it doesn't. But as an asset category? I wouldn't be plowing money into podcasts expecting much of a return. The successful podcasts don't need your money.
>What's the take-away for us?

My takeaways:

1. If your goal is to try and make money, being focused on one idea at a time is probably better than deep diving in to several narrow niches.

2. I shouldn't be discouraged by not (yet) generating income myself. Despite lots of stories of success and people telling you otherwise, it's a hard thing to do, especially if you work a full time job.

3. I'm really glad I don't bother with the effort of micro tracking my time like this. On the surface it seems appealing but after reading this it seems like it takes a lot of effort, and doesn't provide much value.
Explicit state machine is better than an implicit one. And every program is one of these.

4 KLOC for big chunk of game logic is rather frugal.

The main problems that are plain is not enough names (for states, flags and triggers) and not having split off text to some central repository. (Making translation easier.)

Orthodox version of the state machine would have code execute while you're changing states rather than in any given state.

The big switch statement is a good design with mediocre implementation. (Compare with Sierra's AGI LOGIC code: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGI/Specifications/... )
Sorry, JetBrains, but I can't stand ligatures in coding fonts.
> Mike Vrabel taking penalties to burn the clock might seen unfair

Certainly not unfair to do it against Bill Belichick, who did almost the exact same thing earlier in the season--first time I'd ever seen a delay of game or false start penalty declined.
While TypeScript isn't perfect, it surely is a major step forward compared to plain JS! Newer features like conditional types and mapped types open up new possibilities. My colleague actually recently gave a fantastic talk about these advanced features at the TS Berlin Meetup, highly recommended watch if you want to see what it's like pushing the boundaries of TypeScript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjeHzvi_VQ
Eh. I think that's a bit of oversimplification. I work in computer graphics. All of the "old school" companies (been around for 30+ years; Pixar, Blue Sky, DreamWorks) wrote their own renderer/compositor and other tools because they had to. Today most of those companies have shed (or spun off) most all of their proprietary core software. A very few companies (Sony and Disney) have developed newer generations of rendering software--but both of those have been in business for 20 years.

I was never privy to the numbers, but I know carrying the salaries is a huge burden. As a user, proprietary software will often lag off the shelf features by many years because the teams are smaller and they're focusing on things off-the-shelf doesn't do. That's assuming it's well managed.

On the user side of video content: I'm not the biggest fan of YouTube, but bespoke websites can often lack features that keep me from sharing content (wont work on phone, preroll gets stuck, can't link to timestamp). SNL used to only host clips on NBC.com which I could never get to work. They started serving them on Hulu, which was only slightly better. YouTube has been significantly better.

The focus is always spending time/money on the unique thing your company can provide. In addition, like you're saying, be aware of owning as much as possible of your stack--but spreading yourself too thin or trying to run your business the same way you did 10 years ago can bankrupt you, too.
I have to be honest; I think a lot of this rhetoric (not just from this poster, but in general) smells like "I miss being in charge of a wonky system that was hard for people who didn't specialize in understanding it to use."

IRC didn't go anywhere. LiveJournal is still there. JavaScript-free pages still exist. What has changed is the network of users has found them wanting and left those spaces ghost towns because they don't feel as good to use, or they're too complicated, or they haven't received any UX love beyond "Bare minimum viable product."

I don't miss that. I don't miss a system that excludes users.
Linked at https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy:

"We will honor your choices about browsing data and collect only what is needed to make your experiences better."
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17454/lifecycle-faq...
What would be the font you can recommend?
Example: Comparing engineering salaries :/. It can be addictive and disheartening to look up salaries and see giant numbers.
This is still very much true, to the point that game consoles will reserve areas of rotating media for different purposes, depending on speed (e.g., disk caches on the Xbox are on the outer tracks).

For optical media the layout of assets can be critical to the user experience. You probably want your startup assets located on the outer, faster tracks.
> One of my major requirements when I was shopping for my last car was that it not have a cell modem to enable connected car features.

The EU's eCall would like to have a word:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall
yeah of course, 15 year hindsight is 20/20 :)
Oh no! you said goverment intervention!! Burn the heretic!

(I'm joking but I guess that's why you got so many downvotes)
Fair enough. Thanks for the reply, that all makes sense.

I have never run into a situation where my current company tried to limit its warranty in legally interesting ways (and it wouldn't necessarily get to my desk anyway), so I never really had call to dig and find Magnusson-Moss. I suspect that knowledge of that law is probably more top-of-mind for DIYers than for OEM lawyers.

I still think that whether requiring telematics is a "reasonable" condition for a warranty is more complicated than you think, but what you're saying is exactly the counterargument I would make.

And, I hope I've provided some assurance that I am, in fact, a lawyer. Whether I'm a good one is perhaps up for debate. :)
i went to wharton and it didnt work out. finance is really brutal man.
I worked developing Facebook Games for a little bit. Don't build your business on (Facebooks) platforms and their currently promised functionality because it will completely change in the next 6-18 months. As in a 100-1000x difference in exposure to players.
This isn’t a shallow dismissal. I’m literally quoting a part of the piece that is absurdly bad.

Would it be edifying for you and others if I explained why I think suggesting that a smart startup employee should not be doing the CEO’s laundry?
What’s interesting is there’ve been a couple threads recently on HN talking about this with medium. Bloggers who’ve lost a significant amount of self referral traffic by relying on medium for it’s traffic spikes.

Seems to be a common pattern unintentionally trading your long tail for initial spike traffic. I’d be surprised if this is ever sustainable.
Site is nearly unreadable on mobile safari. Giant header, huge floating footer, had to rotate the phone multiple times to finally get something to render correctly.
Strange Microbe May Mark One of Life’s Great Leaps
You clearly don't know anything about GDPR, can you please stop commenting?
Only in name.
Another Typescript fan here. The title didn’t match the post content but I agree with everything he wrote concerning type “soundness”. From my POV it’s a downside of typescript but it makes sense since it’s just a superset of JavaScript
A non-symmetric divide-and-conquer recursive formula for the convolution