skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of unrelated comments:

> Why would it behove me to validate a position when the author clearly could not bother himself?

The author wrote a book. This article is an excerpt. (It's really an ad for the book.) You can't expect it to give the whole case for the author's position; the book does that. This just gives a flavor of where the book is going.

Why should you do different? Maybe because you want us to believe you. (I'm talking about your original post. This post clearly shows that you bothered to validate your position.)

> That the Americans were not able to quell subsequent local [Iraqi] violence and insurgencies isn't a failure, I don't think anyone could have done this.

I think we could have. It just would have taken an occupation on the level of what we did with Germany and Japan - maybe 300,000 to 500,000 troops for 10 to 15 years, rebuilding a functioning government, training politicians in how to function within that government, training the population that they could resolve disputes within the government system, and that they now had something worth keeping. We didn't want to do that; we tried to occupy Iraq "on the cheap", and the result was disastrous.

> America has many problems, but it's not 'in decline', far from it.

I think that the "decline" is in political will. The American people are no longer willing to accept a war of mass casualties. They aren't willing to restrain either politicians or corporations. They don't view the nation as an "us", but rather as an "us" and a "them", at war with each other. That may be a less disastrous decline, and more reversible, but it's still rather concerning.
Which is why you see it heavily used in distributed real time systems where those guarantees are valuable, even at the expense of raw throughout.
Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
I remember like it was yesterday: I applied to a job overseas through a job platform and didn't get hired. People from the platform contacted me telling me one of the possible reasons was that I didn't have any code on GitHub. After that I started uploading all my code as open source projects and began to search places to tell people about it.

Soon I learned about Hackernews and made a post that got 1 vote. I then decided to contact HN to ask how can I get more traction to my projects and they told me about the Show HN, a tag design to share small and even unfinished projects. Soon I was posting every idea I ever had made into a project. After InvaderZ - a space invaders clone that uses genetic algorithm (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577659) - people started liking my projects and I started to gain some attention. That was very important cause I was being approached by some companies.

I don't do projects to gather attention, I do cause I have fun doing them. I already had a lot of things done when I decided to upload them to GitHub. Well, in one of those times when my post was in top 10, a cool company from São Paulo saw me and called me for an interview. They liked my project so much they offer me a job.

I'm living in São Paulo now, it's a huge city full of things to do and places to visit. It's been really cool so far and I have a huge appreciation for Hackernews and the good people that work here. They provide a cool platform where people can share relevant news. They provide tools for people to start their own startup. They share job openings. They share companies that are hiring. It's a neat place for programmers, hackers and tech enthusiasts in general. I wrote this cause you never know when your story will inspire others and maybe there's someone on the struggle right now looking for a job. This was my experience. HN help me a lot and I think it might help you too. Thank you all and have a wonderful year.
Read the reply just above yours. I'm not a climate scientist but I am a scientist, and contradicting, competitive studies are the norm. If they didn't exist no progress would ever be made. If you're gonna make up demons you should know how the thing you're trying to vilify operates at any level.
Very common in public speakers.

YouTube often offers the opportunity to catch different stops on speaking tours.

Talking heads in multiple TV soundbites, or candidates in stump speeches as well.
re: Housing in Georgia

Never been near the area but wouldn't those restrictions just be a termite thing?

https://archives.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/ref/atlhoctip.pdf
DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel
Do you know of any good plaintext formats for calendars? Also, I'm pretty sure DjVu is a more open and well-documented format than PDF.
There are many confounding factors there. Countries with government-provided healthcare also have many other differences that contribute positively or negatively to entrepreneurship.
NSA disclosed this CryptoAPI vulnerability. What's the lesson to draw from that?
I've been using google flights after Hipmunk started losing carriers.
Librem 5 isn't ready for public use, is it not? checking out zerophone, haven't heard of it, thank you
A Masters Project
Garbage out without garbage in (ATTiny serial problems) (2016)
Those are two different things, with different effects. Unions don’t make things better for everyone except their members in the long run, or the short run. They make things better for their members. Unions are economically labour cartels. Like any other cartel they don’t make the economic pie bigger they make sure their members get more pie. Pie either goes to consumers in the form of lower prices, owners in higher profits or workers on higher wages. There’s no free lunch.

Collective bargaining can actually make things better by reducing labor unrest and allowing for industry wide coordination such as greater investment in training or German style Kurzarbeit during periods of low demand, where more people keep their jobs but their hours are cut.
"IMO being a good engineering manager is quite subjective"

I studied Civil Engineering many years ago and was a grad. member of ICE. I'm not an Engineer or an engineer of any sort these days.

Nowadays I'm just the MD of my company.
>I'm not suggesting choosing between left and right, only pointing out that the bias is pervasive and undeniable.

Can you point to specific examples of this where the science is actually robust and well documented but has somehow been blocked from being published or otherwise stopped due to this pervasive bias?
Out of all the large banks, citi has the most obtuse, sensitive and brain dead 'anti-fraud' systems out there. I opened a credit card with them and had such a bad experience with the anti fraud (which involved waiting for a letter for 2 weeks to be able to use the card again) that I won't open an account with them again.

Chase, schwab, capital one, discover and amex I've never any issues with like I did with citi. Even BoA was better.

I think my experience is a reflection of systemic issues at Citi, which is reflected in how they are doing fairly bad compared to the other big banks.
I would say already that the most creative minds of younger generations are almost entirely moving to the indie and middle market games industry.

In 2019 I played new titles like Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Baba is You & Ape Out. I'm about to start playing Heavens Vault & Caves of Qud

In comparison, I cannot think of a single tv show or movie that I found to be as innovative, original, or interesting as any of those titles. Movies just had one of the least original and most derivative decades in its history, with funding towards endless superhero sequels crowding out the development of new ips. Tv had a better year than movies but I still can't shake the feeling that I saw nothing as innovative or memorable as I had seen in the video game space, with maybe the exception of Love Death Robots.

I think its near impossible to meaningfully discuss which genres have produced art or not without thuroughly defining the word. I would ask this though: have games shown themselves capable of producing the range of experiences that tv & movies can produce?

I would argue that not only is the answer unambiguously yes, but that on the flipside games have shown themselves capable of producing experiences that have no analouge in movies or tv. I haven't seen any show that has given me the sense of epiphany I got from discovering the hidden mechanics of the witness, or the level of intellectual engagement I have gotten from Spacechem, or the level of flow I have felt playing arena shooters and platformers.
This post seems to have all the qualities of a highly popular HN post

* Anti-incumbents in large industry

* Poor customer experience / hit piece

* The new tech company does it much better

* Doesn't try to understand the intracacies of the industry being criticized (wire vs. ACH???)

I know very little about banking and even I know (roughly) the difference between ACH and wire. My point is not that the author lacks intelligence, just that they should, as other commenters point out, try to learn about banking before you're so quick to criticize. I think us programmers suffer from thinking "this is all too complicated, it could easily be done simpler and better." That's not always the case and it can help us to understand how the current system came to be before making these judgements.
Craig Wright to Judge: “bonded courier” gave me keys to Satoshi’s 1M+ bitcoins
Facts are things like CO2 levels are rising, ocean temperatures are rising, etc.

What will happen as a result of those changes and how it will impact us are models. The application of those models fed by assumptions for the trends/changes in the parameters are forecasts. Forecasts and models aren't facts.

So are you defending the facts? Or are you calling your favorite models/forecasts facts and saying no one can question them?

Seems to me that science education is as much an issue as the taboos...
I don't follow Abe Winter's logic: he had a good experience with an online service and a bad experience with a bank, and the bad experience required significant time to correct. Therefore: banks are bad. To make an accurate comparison, he would need to document a fraud alert on his Stripe side. Otherwise this comparison is meaningless.

Anecdote: I had a massive issue with PayPal payments being held up due to a changing my business to a different state. It took literally 2 months of losing 80% of my online purchasing revenue (paypal vs. CC). I had a very difficult time getting in touch with a human, let alone a human with authority. I felt like I was never making progress.

So from my perspective, talking to a chatbot or sending emails to anonymous mailboxes is equally fraught as OP's experience and I could enumerate a similar list of gripes.

Bottom line: complex systems fail spectacularly when you encounter a new bug, regardless if it is some <10year old online startup or >100 year old banking system.
After NSA finds major security flaw in Windows 10, Microsoft issues free fix
> One thing I know I can't do for my personal projects is constantly dedicate time to working on it after I've “shipped”.

Very appealing, but long-lasting software --- grep, SQL, java --- is maintained long after "shipped".

The thing that makes it easy for you to create better software, also makes it easy for someone else to do the same to you.

They can take your idea, with a slightly different perspective, that makes it better for more people (even if "worse" in terms of what you aimed at). Which is probably what you did to someone else in the first place.

aka "progress"
This YouTube link is questionable, study it, the email gathering part . . .
Big discussion of the original source a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22002734
I tried delta.com but it wasn't able to find some international flights on their own alliance airlines. I called them about this and they confirmed this is done deliberately when booking using points. This made me lose confidence in delta.com and I went back to using Skyscanner.

(Yes it's basically a scam that their "partner" airline flights are hidden when buying with points.)
I confess that I look at the first illustration and see a woman frantically trying to dodge a variety of missiles being thrown at her; and she has evidently failed, because her head has blown up and a cloud of smoke is emanating forth in its place.
> Hipmunk's parent company got a piece of my $60k in travel last year (most of that was work, maybe $2500 was personal), because that’s where your percentages can matter.

I think for corporate travel management, the fee structure is usually $X per transaction, rather than a percentage of the fare, although I can't speak to exactly how Concur charges, and it'll differ depending on the size of the customer. Average ticket prices for corporate airfare are likely considerably higher than for consumer, since that's where the majority of business class and refundable tickets are sold.
You can't really call a sect "Christian" if they deny the definition of Christianity.
It’s been a while, but I remember the name DoubleDOS. Something that let you run two programs at once my preallocating half of memory in a device driver.
Climate change is empirical fact, the extent of climate change is not. Within the scientific community, there are wildly differing theories about impact and causes.

As for climate modeling, there are WILD differences in projections.

This is why there are constant "X years until point of no return!" articles in tabloid media, which are all different and usually incorrect.

Immediately shooting people down for being anti-science for suggesting the impact is on the lower end of the prediction spectrum is not scientific.
Have you read Debt: The First 5000 Years?

That's the core concept from that book and I found it really interesting. It tears down the common school example of barter based economies preceding money. In most societies people kept an informal ledger of favours owed in their heads and had a rough idea of commensurate value over time. Direct barter was relatively rare.
That even in the most technical endeavors, many skills more often associated with the humanities - e.g. writing, speaking, basic psychology - are often the real keys to success.
It's odd to see so many commenters insist that there's money to be made in flight search, despite not having industry experience.

This comment nail it dead-on. Flights are a loss leader. It's the gateway to more profitable travel services like booking hotels, which ironically have shrinking margins over the last few years.

There's no need for an OTA middleman when a hotel can build a direct relationship with the customer (via loyalty programs).
Come on you guys, please keep predictable rhetoric off this site. It's tedious and we're here for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There are seven basic plots[0]

That book's theories should be considered critically, not as an accepted view of literature.
When I first read this several hours ago, I was surprised and in agreement with the conclusion of that quote, that this would "drag down" the business. As those numbers seem very low for the costs associated with getting payment.

But it should be pointed out that those numbers are in the context of a quote from ~1958. Back then, postage was $0.04. Also, $4.58 and $12.82 (as examples) would be worth $40.52 and $113.41 today. So I'm not actually sure if a 6% charge on sales would be worth it here. I don't know what the cost of labor would have been back then (assume minimum wage in that area in 1958 maybe). Anyway, the point is the numbers don't seem as alarming and obvious to me after looking up postage and inflation at the time.
This has happened repeatedly, though. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRO#Climate_change_censorshi...
Mocks are terrible and should almost never be used, but this wasn't a mock. This was a monkeypatch.

Does anyone expect that their software would function properly in the face of arbitrary changes patched in by untrusted third parties ?
Please don't add flamebait to HN comments, regardless of how frustrated you feel by other users. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Bad enough, but reality gets even worse. The author of C might be relatively incompetent, have a tendency to add and remove semantics without documenting the changes, be unwilling to fix their bugs, or just plain be a raging asshole.

These days I think long and hard about dependencies, and ten times as long and hard about dependencies controlled by people inside my organization that I don't have the power to strangle.
How is that "50% larger"?

Isn't 100B the number for the whole world?
My point is that the structural "NOBUS" framework the parent was trying to construct has glaring, recent counter examples, and can't really be used to holistically describe their behavior over the past couple decades.

Of course I applaud responsible disclosure, and if they continue down that direction they have the possibility of rebuilding some of the trust they've broken in modern times.
Hydraulic Empire
Thank you. I really like the point you are making, but I am unsure about a lack of cause and effect. When I think of cause and effect, I think of it as taking the state of the universe from state t+0 to t+1 using the laws of physics. All of it being deterministic, except for quantum mechanics. This indeterminism in QM creating the branches allowing one to escape death.

Couldn't believing in quantum immortality be compatible with this? You could do things like firing a gun to your head, and it would misfire every time. You could jump off a building and would land in a passing open-topped garbage truck full of soft material. You'd experience all sorts of crazy coincidences, but all of them plausibly deniable and within the framework of cause and effect as we know it.

With that said, I feel like what you are saying is true but can not fully formulate my thoughts on it yet. I agree completely that you can never have logical certainty of it's truth, but I'm not certain it's contingent on it being true. Perhaps we should instead say that QI is either true or false, but we can never prove which? This removes the implication but still makes sense in the context of Godel's first incompleteness theorem.
It is not an accident that locations with rent control have the worst housing crises. Rent control immediately discourages new construction and therefore the starting rents go up as fewer units are available with growing populations. New York and San Francisco are classic examples of the destructive force that rent control has on affordable rents.
Cool, that's a start. Another implication is that you're a lot older and you've experienced a lot more than you identify with at the moment in the span of time identifying as this human system.

I won't give you more than you can chew. Accepting that process=experience is already a huge paradigm shift.

If you're interested in deeper implications, it's better if you come to them without anyone handing them over.
At any mature employer if you fire someone (and it’s not due to general layoffs) you need a 6 month PIP pre-termination as legal cover.
I was in Singapore recently and regularly saw adults smashing away at games while on the train.
By that same logic don't they already pay for property value reduction via a reduction in property taxes?

I think the long term shift of revenue from property taxes alone have been observed to be insufficient to properly influence the market behavior - that makes a fair bit of sense since mayoral terms are almost never twice the mandatory reassessment window and sometimes don't even exceed the standard length between reassessments.
That source does not refute my point. Arson has been confirmed by dozens of government and police sources. NSW police are on record as it being the primary contributor.
It hasn't.

It looks like the US peaked in 2009 and has had a tiny (~5%) decline since then.

https://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/quarterly/2015-vol9-1/f...
Hey, I really appreciate your work on these bindings. I have done a lot of work with Metal on iOS, and found it frustrating to start over from scratch when trying to combine graphics and deep learning (CUDA on Linux). It would be awesome to see a future where you can write high-performance GPU-driven apps in a cross-platform way with js/webgpu/wasm and slap in platform-specific UI, without bundling all of Unreal or Unity. Running in a browser would be an optional convenience.

Anecdotally, I was trying connect PyTorch's CUDA tensors to the GL textures that Electron/Chrome uses to render in a Canvas without going through CPU memory, but couldn't figure out where to inject my code. Chromium's GPU code is quite a maze. Perhaps a smarter person will be able to accomplish that.
Right. I agree with all of that. My position is that I defer to the majority of scientists on the topic. The argument I'm making is a bit different, though:

No amount of supporting evidence renders a topic exempt from scrutiny.

Climate science is solid, to my knowledge. And while I think most of the people who want to see it pulled down from the pedestal are wackos, intellectual humility demands that they be allowed to continue to try. Not with the same tired tactics – they shouldn't be able to DDoS debate with the same old crap. But to the extent that people can come up with novel, testable angles.. the question shouldn't be forbidden.

There's subjectivity here. IMO there are good faith and bad faith attempts to challenge eg climate science. The overwhelming majority are in bad faith. But the good faith versions of the question should not only go unpunished, but be encouraged.

It doesn't seem to go that way in practice. Certain lines of inquiry are de-facto forbidden in science, at least informally.
You shouldn't expect to graduate with a CS degree and immediately architect complex systems in the first few years. Experience is what makes people proficient, and mistakes help make you better. Every time you code something up and have to redo it cause you messed up or didn't understand the problem well enough, you learn more and get better.

I also agree with db48x, the complex elegant solution you saw wasn't designed and done in one sitting. It was likely done over time and with a few prototypes and concepts that then got refined into a more elegant solution. Once you get enough experience, you will go through fewer iterations because you'll recognize patterns and when to apply them. Even then though you might prototype a couple of different ideas to test some theory.

Now if you say you've been coding professionally for 5-7 years and you are struggling still with basic architectures, then maybe there is something else going on.