skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shapes are basically hand-made:

> And now a few words on methodology. As with all maps and statistics, these should be taken with several grains of salt. The goal here was to create a simple infographic for broad comparative purposes. To create the footprints themselves, I used satellite imagery to physically trace the boundaries of the built-up area of each city’s greater urban area. These footprints do not correspond to administrative boundaries. They are based purely on the divide between urban and rural land use. Which, at times, can be a very subjective task. I included low density suburban housing tracts within my urban footprints (hence the size of the US cities). I included dense built up areas which weren’t connected to the main contiguous urban area but were within its periphery (examples: Moscow, Frankfurt). I excluded rural areas, farmland, villages, or large urban parks. Obviously, simplification was necessary.
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How does it not appear to be broken, when they approved the guy as a Director even though he had nearly zero experience as a manager?
What about the CO2 cartridges? Sodastream has attempted to stop people using third parties to refill them by using a weird connector. Is that not similar?
> There's a difference between lying about one position and making entire linkedin profiles that you set up. One's mischievous and one's deception.

As a human, you can only bring a few things to the table: inherited wealth, demand for your talents, and credibility. The first is a gamble, the second is impossible to control given the market, your credibility is the only thing you can really guide.

Be honest, be trustworthy. It takes forever to build, but in the end, it's how people make judgment calls about everything else.
What is up with you taking one of the most reproduced images in history [1], but not even linking or showing it?

[1] https://arr.am

>I took a photo that may now be one of the most reproduced images in history.
My understanding is that they didn't really select for the ugliest color but the one that best conveys the "cigarettes are bad" message.

It has to evoke things like death and sickness in addition to being unattractive. It has to literally look like shit. Magenta has none of that, it is just "ugly".
Yes. Taking into account gut feelings has been a part of the rationalist community's strategy for as long as I can recall.

The rationalist community's "Rationality" is not about using cold calculation for everything. It's about not letting your human biases and motivated reasoning get in the way of finding the truth and being effective. (Whether or not the movement is successful is a bit of a debate, of course, but the core philosophy is sound).

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z9hfbWhRrY2Pwwrgi/summary-of...

> System 1—the intuitive system—is the older of the two and allows us to make quick, automatic judgments using shortcuts (i.e. heuristics) that are usually good most of the time, all while requiring very little of your time and attention.

> System 2—the deliberative system—is the newer of the two and allows us to do things like abstract hypothetical thinking and make models that explain unexpected events. System 2 tends to do better when you have more resources and more time and worse when there are many factors to consider and you have limited time.

...

> The main thing to take away from this System 1 and 2 split is that both systems have strengths and weaknesses, and rationality is about finding the best path—using both systems at the right times—to epistemic and instrumental rationality.

> Being “too rational” usually means you are using your System 2 brain intentionally but poorly. For example, teenagers were criticized in an article for being “too rational” because they could reason themselves into things like drugs and speeding. But this isn’t a problem with being too rational; it’s a problem with being very bad at System 2 reasoning!
> Has he changed his message to win? Or is he consistent?

Serious question, why is this a metric?

Changing your mind should be a good thing. I find this odd coming from a tech and more science oriented website. I'm not saying that we should just encourage people to change on a whim but changing positions because 1) you're presented with new evidence and/or 2) the people you are representing have changed positions, this should be respected. There's a difference between changing positions and feigning belief. It is especially bad if you feign a position and work against that position (I can respect you if you even if disagree with a position but work for it because your constituents hold said belief). #1 is obvious why it is good (because we're human and fuck up). #2 is good because you're adapting to what those that you represent believe.

I for one DO NOT want a president that is going to double down on bad beliefs and not change beliefs as either culture changes (e.g. Obama changed positions with gay marriage as the US culture changed) or because they are presented with new evidence. These things should be regarded as a good trait.

tldr: why is consistency such a highly regarded metric?
Yes, and while that is super cool and nifty, I am struggling to find the perfect use-case for this.
> Just because you cannot detect something does not make you wrong nor does it mean it doesn't exist. What a ridiculous statement.

If you cannot detect something, it's can be equally ridiculous to say it exists.
“Inflated his resume” and “simple LinkedIn manipulation” are extremely mild ways of describing what he did. He lied about his entire work experience, role at previous job, and got someone else to pretend they were a VP and cover for them on the phone. This is fraud, not ‘inflating your CV’.

That is, if this story is even real.
Some people get confused and think LinkedIn is where the best networks are grown. They are wrong. It's by picking up the phone.
I sensed this too. So I looked at the author's profile. Now I'm even more confused:

From https://arr.am:

Stuff That’s Happened to Me

I took a photo that may now be one of the most reproduced images in history.

I once came up with an idea with a friend that accidentally became a national TV ad featuring Nicki Minaj, Serena Williams, Usher, Kylie and Kendall Jenner.

I once crashed a fashion show, pretended to be a model, and walked on-stage as dozens of photographers snapped pictures of me.

I was paid in whiskey for a live harmonica performance at a jazz bar in Tokyo. I don’t play harmonica particularly well.

I DJ’d for Chamillionaire. I don’t know how to DJ.

I was yelled at for five minutes by the founder of Skye Vodka for taking his favorite table at a restaurant.

I’ve discovered and excavated dinosaur bones in the Montana badlands.
Apple hits back at EU over 'wasteful' universal charger proposal
Just an FYI, a lot of people that voted Trump in 2016 were big Bernie supporters. I personally know quite a few people that made this switch. Is it a surprise that the same thing is happening again?
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There's another parser generator written in Forth, that I have personally used myself: Gray [1-3]

The zip file [1] has english documentation, the papers [2,3] are unfortunately only available in german.

This [4] is a mostly working grammar for the Verilog language written using Gray. It uses a lexer that sits on top of Gforth's regexp [5] package that directly compiles regexps into forth code (BTW quite a few bugs in the regexp package were triggered by the lexer and subsequently fixed upstream).

[1] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gray4.zip

[2] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl89.ps.gz

[3] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl97.ps.gz

[4] https://sourceforge.net/p/fourhdl/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/parse...

[5] https://github.com/forthy42/gforth/blob/master/regexp.fs
If you use Google's Dataset Search for SEC Filings[1], you get outdated information. FTP access has been removed for years but SEC Filings are still are great example of large datasets. I built a side business at https://Last10K.com using buffettology and provide 10 years of company annual reports (10Ks). There's also an API at https://dev.Last10K.com that returns financial data from these filings in JSON or XML.

[1]https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/search?query=EDGAR...
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> According to a copy of Williams’ agreement that Apple attached to its complaint, the contract required that Williams “will not plan or engage in any other employment” that competes with Apple or is directly related to the company.

"You may not engage in work, necessary for your survival, with anyone but us." - how is this not one step removed from slavery? Unless he works for Apple, all he's allowed to do is untrained labor!

And just like forced arbitration, this will become a standard element of contracts if we allow it.
To be fair at least it probably doesn't appeal to younger people. The minimalist sensibility is kind of acquired with age.
Why do they have a cultural value of exactly zero?
This playlist seems to make sense of dark matter and dark energy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNA6WUmOsEEi...
That cloud car probably isn't all that interesting, cost wise. You'll only use it, if you don't want the contract of a lease car. Otherwise, it'll be quite expensive.

In Europe, we have a number of car sharing systems. They all have daily prices around 70-80 euros. As soon as you need a car for two or more days a week, you might as well lease it. Leasing is cheap, compared to the car sharing prices.

I think it has to do with the fact that a lot of the cost of the car is depreciation, which is highly dependent on the mileage driven. Which goes up if you share a car. Plus a shared car needs a host of care takers; app builders, help desk people, car cleaners, etc.

Everyone's betting big on cloud cars, but in fact they're expensive compared to the mass produced item that's called a car.
If this was reddit I would give reddit gold to ya
I wonder if the EU has done any other notable things to fight mass surveillance, because if so it would mean they weren't focusing on one particular identification method. I mean maybe they are working on multiple fronts.

Also perfect being the enemy of the well-intentioned here.
> ...dragging 2 tons of car along with you just to go get groceries is a little bit like paying $5 for single day of cable TV even though all you watched that day was two minutes of the weather channel...

If only humanity would start to realize this, that would alone help to save us from the coming climate catastrophe.

By the way the article does a nice job at describing why this is so hard for hundreds of millions of people, especially without help from the government in the form of nudging and infrastructure development.
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It's about putting off new people, especially kids. No longer are there any cool-looking Lucky Strikes, or whatever.
> There are zero consequences to anyone important when a data breach happens

probably not in the EU - at least not if some kind of negligence, as specified by the GDPR, took place.
I can't help but think that the people affected most by the debranding of cigarette packs are cashiers. I used to work in a small convenience store, and finding the right pack a customer asked for from the giant wall of smokes behind the till was difficult enough when they were all different colours.
This is dangerously dismissive. Cultural value is subjective, and in any case these articles provide an in-road to other articles, giving the opportunity to expand people’s knowledge further.

I would, however, support Wikipedia having ads on articles in such pop culture categories – and those alone, of course, to avoid conflict of interest where factual accuracy is more vital. This would have to be carefully managed by the Wikimedia Foundation — marking articles for monetisation should be handled only by a specific role – but if done quite carefully and in a privacy- and user-respecting manner (eg Carbon ads [0]) could potentially subside the academic content without damaging Wikipedia’s brand.

[0] https://www.carbonads.net
Does it support HDMI input though?
The classic response is "you'll just order a driverless cab with child seats" but you still have to lug all their toys and gear with you everywhere you go, and possibly more importantly, you'll have to put your kids into car seats that someone else's kid has already rubbed their diseased mucous all over.
> a cultural value of exactly zero

I hope you recognise that this is only your opinion. The beauty about a crowd-sourced encyclopedia is that you don't get to define what other people find interesting or of cultural value. The (utopic) mission of Wikipedia is to encompass the whole human knowledge, and that includes a lot of niche topics which might be interesting only for a small amount of people, but it is not limited to that. I love that Wikipedia has a lot of info on "current" (i.e. popular right now) topics, as I get to know what I want to know avoiding the gazillion ads (even though I blackhole all of them) or click-baity titles from the rest of the internet.
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consumer harm from a regulatory-mandated move to a universal charger would cost at least €1.5bn, outweighing the €13m in associated environmental benefits said a study commissioned by Apple.
These numbers don’t add up... does the 4.3M pages that got less than 100 include the 3.6M that got less than 10? I should image so, otherwise that’s 7.9M pages. But then you say only 2.3M got less than 1000 views? That obviously can’t include the less than 100 or 10’s, but if you add them then you’re at 6.6M..??
It's actually (sort of) an intended feature. They want to make it harder for the tobacco companies to promote their products.
Relevant quotes: "Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping,..." and "Future plans include studying the pathogen that causes SARS..."
> Serious question, why is this a metric? Changing your mind should be a good thing. ... why is consistency such a highly regarded metric?

It's not about consistency, it's about being right consistently. Unfortunately, most decisions whether made by an individual, CEO, or politician have to be made with imperfect information. The data just isn't there to do a full analysis. In data's absence, when you need to make a decision, you rely on instinct and foundational principles.

Of course, when the data becomes available you can adjust, as anyone should. But when you have good enough instincts or principles, you can operate effectively without good data, and that makes for a good leader.
I've just submitted a refund request, I'm not sure if it will be granted but I'd hope that others who do not run Windows will also consider making a refund request (unless offline play is your preference anyway)
there are still some hypotheticals about if the star is going supernova, but if that is the case

> When Betelgeuse does eventually go supernova, it will be the most fascinating act of nature witnessed by any human ever. Other supernovae like SN 185 and SN 1604 were much farther away than Betelgeuse.

> When Betelgeuse goes supernova, it will the third brightest object in the sky, after the Sun and the full Moon. Some estimates say it'll be even brighter than the Moon.
>All the more reason to make it profitable for fabs to exist within the US.

I'm particularly interested in this space. Anyone more familiar with it care to comment? Is there a push for more US fab capacity? Any startups? Any political push to change laws to make it more favorable to start one?
Ask HN: Software Industry Maturity
Hi, HN! In the software industry there's always the push to rewrite and "innovate" instead of maintaining applications for decades. Legacy software and technologies are often considered "toxic assets" nobody wants to deal with.

For those who have been developing and/or managing developers for decades, do you think this industry will mature professionally and converge to some region of stability, or are we doomed to always having to replace/rewrite old but reliable applications with trendy tech stacks?

P.S. I'm aware of business- and safety-critical systems running Cobol, PL/I, etc., which are maintained by rather few experts.

However, higher education institutions disregard old tech stacks.
Correlation is not causation. Computing performance has also increased significantly since the mid 20th. Should we blame Intel for the drop in T levels? Where the hell do you get the idea that porn reduces testosterone? Research shows that watching porn increases testosterone levels in men https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2799222/
I use a similar strategy in balancing out exploration and exploitation with videos - pull 5-10 random links and pick one of them.
Google is eating the travel industry.

Search for anything travel related and you get pages of Google products and advertising widgets before you get to the first organic result.

The change over the last 5 years is huge.
Because if he had planned to open a lollipop shop Apple wouldn’t have given a shit
They also should make companies produce longer lasting products to reduce further waste.
The problem with Wikimedia salaries is that they often are allocated to some projects / roles that don't have much to do with the principal activity (Wikipedia). Although I recognize that it is important to fund / subsidize stuff that won't otherwise be included, I wish their final goal was more concentrated on the wellbeing of Wikipedia, rather than other minor projects.
if the best candidate you interviewed is a fraud:

- either the candidate was competent:

then why did he need to lie to get the job? maybe you're over-filtering based on resume and years of experience.
The variable your looking for is competence. Years of experience, is just a proxy. if the proxy is drying up your supply, maybe it's not an effective one.

moreover, people are not born managers. why not give new talent a chance.

- the candidate was not competent:

The interview process is therefore broken and is not measuring competence. Maybe you're overvaluing confidence or the speed of answering. Maybe the questions are not Technical enough? I don't know. But notice that valuing anything that is irrelevant would lead to a lower expected value of candidate's competence.

Using ineffective tools while searching for something rare is unsurprisingly hard.

As a side comment, I'm kinda taken aback by the fact that interview results like "culture fit" are shared this way. I would've expected a higher standard of privacy. Is this commonly accepted?

Another point, I've noticed that the hiring process involved a lot of "friend / wife of a friend". Wouldn't this if left unchecked cause some ethnic/age-based bias ( not necessarily in a legal sense)?
Or, most likely, it will be economical to recycle batteries, especially if they contain rare elements
Well the GDPR helped quite a bit already. Creates a proper inventive to not "just for good measure" aggregate PI
Well, there are several available options, as follows:

1. Bootstrap first, then raise one or more VC rounds.

2. Go typical VC route (angel/pre-seed/seed, Series A, etc.), but skip a round or, better, two.

3. Establish a multi-class equity structure, where a) founders are issued equity with increased voting power (typically, 10+ votes per share vs. 1 vote per share for common [and sometimes even preferred] shares) or b) founders' equity has voting power, while common shares have zero voting power (more often used for crowdfunding and Reg D private offerings). There is an extensive debate on advantages, disadvantages and ethical aspects of this approach.

4. Use alternative funding approaches (e.g., SMB loans, asset-based lending and revenue-based lending).

P.S. Hi from ATL! :-)
There are efforts such as https://libresilicon.com/ to design open source processes to manufacture silicon chips at the small scale. I am hopeful that these efforts will bring down one-off cost to the 10k USD level or less.
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(1) It's called “Mythic”, not “Mystic”

(2) the Mythic Game Master Emulator actually leaves all of the details to either the players or a human GM, it just provides directional guidance. It would be interesting if you could use it to provide a framework around which an AI could provide detailed descriptions, though.
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It's hard to think of many movies above the crap level that are not "execution dependent". An "execution independent" script has to be so good it works as a bad production.

The reverse is more likely. Action movies today are quite often great executions of a mediocre script. Especially action movies, most of which don't hold together if viewers have enough time between the explosions to think about the plot and dialogue.

Comedies, maybe. They're more script-driven.
Did you read the Pragli article at all? It specifically addressss this.
Of course you can

But tell that to the hundred-tracking-cookies-js-bloat website with the ridiculous "We care about your privacy" popup

If AMP cuts that crap from the website, I'll go to the AMP version, thank you.
I think you are supposed to view the CRT from a bit afar, then you'd get that gray feeling. Also these "bands" were either jumping too much up and down to be noticable or not appearing at all on the old purely analog sets. As I remember them, the static was truly chaotic, no lines.
> It was at this point that I actually said out loud to myself “I notice I’m confused.”

Strange how never this occurs when executing or designing web technologies, particularly the DOM. Instead people jump immediately to the largest prepackaged solutions currently available without question, everything plus the kitchen sink, as normal as breathing. Invented here syndrome is the default without even the most subtle hint of consideration.

This is perhaps most clearly realized in that most developers have some irrational horrid fear of the DOM when they encounter it and yet simultaneously find the DOM to be some sort of savior to allowing Web Assembly to replace JavaScript. Never is the confusion or irrationality questioned in favor of something comforting.

I also find it strange how eagerly people are willing to impose bias in hiring and candidate selection to ensure the most important selection criteria is conformance opposed to performance. It really is as though the thought I notice I’m confused is something fearful to be protected from instead of confronted when developers are tasked with hiring.
“Psychiatrists, we are the only medical doctors that never look at the organ we treat.”

Ouch.
>shift some cognitive burden from yourself to the compiler

This is the best way I've seen the advantages of static type checking articulated.
> static is high-contrast flickering of b/w dots or short lines with an amount of random grey between them

Like snow, even. Hence 'Snow Crash'. :)

I imagine the sky in a predominantly cold, snowy or rainy place could look a bit like static. Dry sunny climates are tend to be more "A/V 1" blue. :)
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Functional vs Non-Functional Requirements Prioritization Template: Is there a best practice available? Especially, to communicate customer value when examining the template.