skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intended or not I like the line about "if that was a real $20" as sort of a subtext of how sometimes in economics you see predictions or explanations assuming people or businesses are somehow assumed to be logical.

The $20 just couldn't be real because who would do that?

But of course they do that and the expectation that being logical pays off or how we expect the market to work is all out the window.
Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on the teaching at my uni then. There was a pretty decent amount of attempts at getting an intuitive explanation of how the systems worked, and quite a few demos of different control schemes and how they worked and might fail (as well as tons of maths).
Iran seemingly continues to operate their fleet of F-14s which US had supplied when the Shah was in control, decades after the relationship soured with the US. It seems even that an Iranian pilot is the top ace with the most kills of all F-14 pilots.

But speaking of Huawei they are'nt in the business of military supplies, they sell commodity telecom gear. Imposing such extreme restrictions, seemingly encroaching upon the sovereignity of other nations, feels strange. In this whole matter, it the US who appears to be acting foremost with political considerations.
That's not a flaw, it's a very intentional choice that enables the US to be the federation of states that it is. Changing that would be to fundamentally change the form of government that the US has.
Google pays people hundreds of thousands $ per year so that it acts like a faceless government bureaucracy staffed by lazy drones.
> That's incorrect unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean with primary columns

I'm referring to "Cannot execute this query as it might involve data filtering and thus may have unpredictable performance. If you want to execute this query despite the performance unpredictability, use ALLOW FILTERING"

> It's just not as efficient.

That's what I thought, too, so I "allowed filtering". And crashed the database. (Apparently the correct solution here is to use Spark).
Who is using my Postgres connections?
Because the DIY market is reletively small. Intel still has huge sway with OEM's (and mindshare with consumers). It's difficult for AMD to overcome that even with a better product
It is still tough to find toilet paper at retail here (Reno, Nevada), but manageable. The lack of commercially packaged TP being sold at retail or alternative market mechanisms remains one of the greate mysteries of the crisis for me. I know plenty of people who would have bought the big rolls just have something.

There was a real demand issue on TP as well- lots of people who used to only buy 1-6 roles at a time started panic buying 4x the amount.
As an aside, I'm of the opinion that selective censorship marginalizes groups that don't readily have representation at companies like Google. I'm talking about with terms like "redneck" or even "dumb American" that we (me included) mention that go with the flow of current mainstream discourse that some groups likely find offensive. Perhaps that is why there can be a divide and we end up with such insular communities like infowars or thedonald.
I ordered a PinePhone the other day and I'm going to do as much as I can to try and make it my daily driver.

I really can't be arsed with this stuff any more.

Why are the developers at Google acting in such boneheaded ways? Is it literally just "I get paid loads of money, lol"? Do people not grow out of that eventually when they have enough?

Like, you're literally a developer. Why would you make something you wouldn't want to use? Is the company just wholly made up of people who actually don't care about computing?
This is not a new startup strategy. VA Linux Systems, which had the dubious honor of having the largest "pop" on its IPO day, and signalling the end of the dot.com boom, was selling x86 Linux servers to its customers (including companies like Akamai) for $50 dollars under the BOM (Bill of Materials) cost. So it was losing money for every server before taking into account assembly, shipping, or R&D costs, but it made it up in volume. The revenue numbers were "up and to the right!". VA Linux systems was "successful" in that it IPO'ed and the Vulture Capitalists had a very successful exit. Unfortunately, it didn't do so well a year or two later...

VA Linux Systems had its IPO on December 9th, 1999. So 20 years later, people still haven't learned, and Venture Capitalists are still happily funding this model. Sometimes they appear to have been able to successfully exit, but sometimes not. For all that humans are smart enough to go to the Moon, humans are also really, REALLY dumb!
this is a great breakdown on the WHY of SQL.

giving clarity as to the what / why of SQL empowers those that don't yet know it how to make better asks for data in their organization.
What the.. hmm...interesting business for sure.
In 2020 everyone serious about own stuff should use own domains.
Irish support for Native American Covid-19 relief highlights historic bond
How far Google has fallen. From proactively fighting political censorship to silently facilitating it.
Old VC model was invest $80M in startup, profit, IPO. Now it’s a billion here, a billion there....
At least where I live, the employer only has to send in tax forms during the parental leave. They don't pay the salary - the state does.

So, if your employee quits at the end of their leave, that's probably not a huge issue. They will likely give you plenty of warning, and you can offer the position to the substitute that you had to hire anyway.

Of course people are counting months and planning when to have children. That's the whole point! We decided that it should be easier for an average two-income family to have children. That's the reason for the rules.
I thought that the model was to underprice the market and force everything to go through your platform and then exploit the monopoly position once it is secure
Fair enough. It came across as snark to me on my first read. And if you're under tight restrictions on what you can or can't do in your apartment (been there, done that, don't envy you), and have already reached a high level of 3-d tetris in your current layout, then yes, composting food scraps and using the compost to grow herbs or vegetables is going to be impractical.
sounds quite fun, right? I also have this impression and kinda miss that
A lot of them couldn’t visit their friends without involving an adult because everything is so far away. Plus you get the “stranger danger” hammered into you so hard you learn that staying in and playing video games is what everyone wants out of you.

A lot of the poor behavior of this generation is due to the fact that they weren’t given much of an alternative.
They need to cut their labor costs to get things to work. Depeopleing is essential.
Ask an automaker: did they make the iron? No, it was a supernova 1B years ago.
I didn't pose a question in my comment. I made the point that individuals who see a great risk and those who see a low risk can both make choices that fit their individual perception of the situation, without needing to impose undue constraints on each other. I don't see what's wrong with pointing that out. There is room for debate if you have an additional perspective to add to the mix - I'd love to hear and understand that view even if I don't ultimately agree with it.
I was simply stating a truism, not complaining about it..
IMHO Unicorns are built with the assumption that almost every developer is replaceable. At that scale the critical knowledge is not with the developers.
"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

Seems to have worked
Ok maybe an automation that blocked a parking lot is a better analogy.
That's not true at all:

- data: most data for anything at the level for fraud investigations isn't open, open is very coarse. Operational is generally closed.

- tools: these orgs then own the tools ecosystems, which further completes practical low-level layers of the lockin

I'm not sure why the effort to misrepresent, or maybe you come from a special use case..
The Gig Economy Facilitates Entrepreneurship [pdf]
"Launching with a Parachute: The Gig Economy and New Business Formation." NBER WP update (gated): https://www.nber.org/papers/w27183
German government funded research tends to be made publicly available, so if they find something, other countries would probably gain the knowledge necessary to produce their own medicine, too. Whether or not that creates some sort of "you owe me for the future" situation is another thing. But better to be healthy and owing your neighbors a favor, than to keep things a secret and let people die.
I fixed my comment to account for space (and to correct the typo -- thanks!). If your response was truly "serious and practical", GP has provided some excellent advice for you. Sad about the lease ):

Nothing wrong with snark, though! I upvoted your initial comment.
Well to be honest from my very first post I state mine to be a personal experience, not raw global scale data followed by any somewhat serious study; and secondly, if you look at this thread almost every other reply is a personal account of some sort.

I don't imply to be right, I'm just stating my opinion.
To answer your last question, the more money they get paid the less likely they are to grow
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Show HN: A Chrome plugin that previews stars for GitHub repo links on the page
Get it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-star-spy/b...

A week ago I was browsing this list of zsh plugins https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins and I wondered if there was a way to quickly find the best and hottest without visiting each repo's page. I found none, so I've built it myself.

It's a Chrome plugin that uses GitHub API to fetch metadata for each repo it finds on the page and then it shows the results right next to each link. It's opensource and you can find the code here: https://github.com/alexpyzhianov/awesome-star-spy

I'd be delighted if someone else finds it useful :) Any feedback is welcome
> the various unicorns didn't detect and ride user behavior but used their massive piles of cash to distort it in non-sustainable ways

Seems likely given the ubiquity of "Pivots" where startups have already raised cash for some half baked idea and can pivot to selling something completely different to consumers by force feeding marketing down their throats.
In Sweden, neither parent is forced to take paternal leave, but they both get 90 days of paid paternal leave each (at 80% of their usual salary) that they either use or lose. The remaining 210 days of paid parental leave can be split between them however they like.
GCC 11 Adds CPU Detection for Newer Intel Families
"Developer mode" is incredibly brittle. If you don't press the right key combination at boot, your user partitions get formatted without warning and you lose all data. That makes it essentially a toy, not a real "developer" device.
There are studies dating back to the 70s that suggest publishing headlines about suicide causes people to commit suicide. Headlines about murder-suicides similarly caused an uptick in murder suicides.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17750236 (https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/science.201.4357.748)

> Abstract: Fatal crashes of private, business, and corporate-executive airplanes have increased after publicized murder-suicides. The more publicity given to muder-suicide, the more crashes occurred. The increase in plane crashes occurred primarily in states where murder-suicides were publicized. These findings suggest that murder-suicide stories trigger subsequent murder-suicides, some of which are disguised as airplane accidents.

There have been some studies which found similar correlations with fatal car 'accidents.'

It's easy to speculate that comments discussing suicide, such as yours or mine, might also plausibly cause suicides. Perhaps that's something for you to consider.
I think this book is mostly bullshit - the same author that wrote the linked HN post dug into that book and there was a ton of manipulative data and just straight up false claims. [0]

I get a pretty strong pseudoscience vibe from it.

From a previous post:

I got a strong motivated reasoning/bullshit vibe from Walker in this interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630792401/sleep-scientist-war...

Particularly this section:

> “Sleep is not like the bank. So you can't accumulate debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time. And the reason is this - we know that if I were to deprive you of sleep for an entire night - take away eight hours - and then in the subsequent nights, I give you all of the sleep that you want - however much you wish to consume - you never get back all that you lost. You will sleep longer, but you will never achieve that full eight-hour repayment as it were. So the brain has no capacity to get back that lost sleep...”

I don’t think this follows - seems likely to me that sleep is not some linear time thing and that there’s a standard overhead that doesn’t need to be repeated to extend and make up the time. This feels like a symptom of not understanding the mechanism and making a bad assumption.

I also found the “I won’t mention the cognitive failures I can detect” irritating. If there’s some actual thing to mention, say it - this kind of thing sets off alarms for me.

It doesn’t surprise me that the rest is similarly bad.

[0]: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
I bet Uber/Lyft enable single car ownership for lots of couples, and is nothing like a luxury good. Things like people who carpool, but need a backup when that falls through. Or the ability to get to a doctor (or any location) poorly served by public transit.

I mean, it's not a luxury good in the sense that you can buy a car, but I suspect many folks have made difficult or expensive to unwind decisions that make car ownership expensive. Classifying transportation where an alternative may well cost more than $1k/mo as a "luxury good" is a real stretch of the word luxury.
Hi dang, I wanted to ask you something related to your modwork. A while back, I saw a comment you made about this phenomenon on internet forums of comments that are...well basically empty negativity trashing the very forum they're posting in, that amount to, "this place sucks and everyone in it is dumb (except me, obviously)" and how these types of comments are unproductive and toxic.

I don't suppose you have a, like, a blogpost or really in-depth comment that talks about this? It elucidates something that I intuitively felt before, especially as a reddit mod, but had trouble articulating.

I also really liked your comment about contrarianism that you went in-depth on, that one is pretty easy to Google for though.
What does the effect (or lack thereof) look like when doing xmm stores?
I once saw a presentation with a slide that said “failure = success”. Yes, I am aware that this happened on HBO’s Silicon Valley, and no that’s not where I saw it.
I don't understand your point, can you please elaborate more? I read it twice and your comment isn't making any sense to me:

1) Are you suggesting that developers should go join a smaller company so they are less expendible?

2) Are you suggesting that developers, now that they are laid off, go work on R&D projects, tooling and open source startups?

I am so confused. What is the take away?
It does depend on the system you're controlling, often there's a natural integral in there and so you effectively 'shift' everything down one (P acts more like I, D acts like P, and I is a double-integral). Like how PD is fine for the quadcopter control until wind is added to the simulation.
Yes and yes and yes. Google nuked BlackBerry’s potential at a mobile comeback with BB10 by not allowing play store integration.
> At that time Google’s motto was still “Do no evil”...

still 2 years after Steve Jobs died which I think had a better moral compass
> guilty pleasure with absolutely no practical use whatsoever.

Are you sure you are talking about the right thing here?
This is an excellent breakdown of the differences. I've been looking for a pro/con list between the two that isn't heavily biased by my views, and I'll probably use this almost verbatim next time I have that discussion.
And conversely, other HN'ers get confused by a very narrow definition of what constitutes a market. It is this very definition that is under scrutiny.
More tests would reveal more carriers, yes. But at the same time, the curve would be more accurate, no? If the curve isn't going down DESPITE more tests being done, wouldn't that indicate that the problem is not getting better at all?
My simple answer: because most people (myself included) who find terrifying stories to be interesting lead otherwise boring and risk-free lives. Some people like to live vicariously through other people while taking no real risk of their own.

If you drive a 2006 Honda Civic to work (really safe, good mileage, and it's completely paid off!), spend all day writing Java code that someone else scoped, spec'd, and paid for, then drive home to your family and have spaghetti for dinner (we have spaghetti every Thursday, it's our tradition!), of course reading a story about the zombie apocalypse is going to appeal to you. It satisfies a biological need you're not currently fulfilling: to be put in danger and successfully navigate your way out.

It's the same reason people holler at movies/shows telling the characters not to go in that dark room, or yell at the NFL game that the quarterback should have thrown the ball earlier. It's the same reason people play Sim City or The Sims or Football Manager/OOTP/Motorsport Manager or any other "god games". It gives you a feeling of risk, reward, and power you're not likely to find in your real life.

This has been a thing since at least Homer's Odyssey, created in a time where the average person took on a level of risk we'd never even consider. And this thrilling tale of dashing heroes sacrificing their lives to get back home to their boring life only to find out they have to fight and kill even more to protect their boring home life... it's not a new trope.
Ah, eugenics by wealth. We've seen it before, here it is again.
X-Plane's Vulkan Renderer Maturing, More Performance Optimizations Still Coming
I'm not sure it is really happening in most of the US anymore. Take your examples of flour and chicken. They were sometimes difficult to find at the beginning of the lock down but it has been weeks since I went to a grocery store that didn't have flour and chicken available. My friends in other parts of the US report the same.

Edit: By "really happening" I mean shortages of foods in the stores and not the dumping of food.
Is OpenBSD considered to be an alternative OS?
I really enjoyed the book, especially the part between Softdisk and Quake when the two Johns combined to form a great team and productivity was super high.
> "critical business function" gets shoved into the backlog to never be seen again.

Never worked for a unicorn, but everything from big corp to startup to government. "Urgent" provokes no reaction from me anymore because of this.
If you interpret freedom of speech as freedom of opinion, the sentence fragment "communist bandit" is a statement of opinion that should unequivocally be protected, whereas that isn't quite as clear cut for the name as such of a specific person. (Note that I think that the prohibition on the name is at this point completely moot anyway)
What type of video games? That matters a lot to me. I can play a turn-based game like Civilization completely fine on little sleep (measuring the quality of play objectively, like by productivity or victory within a certain number of turns.) Soft real-time games like say a Mario platformer are a little worse but playable if I'm tired. Hard real-time games with very tight and sensitive timing like Guitar Hero or high-level Tetris are unplayable at anywhere near peak form if I'm not fully rested.
I say don't make each thing open in its own tab, but use a standard link, so that if a user enters the command to open in a new tab (for example, middle-click on Firefox) then it will work correctly.
Wouldn't surprise me - I've read some stuff on card counters and seen a few videos, seems like there's a whole other side of successful card counting beyond the technical skill where you have to read out the social situation, since any pit boss worth their salt will be able to spot a card counter a mile away. Which I'm guessing Carmack didn't really care to do since he was just on an intellectual kick.
Looking for New Wearable Testers
I live in downtown Orlando. Lime, Lynx, and Bird have littered downtown with scooters. I run almost every day and they are often left directly in the middle of the sidewalk, either upright or fallen over. A couple months ago I began relocating any rental equipment I find in my way on the sidewalk. I am not at all gentle about this and I'm sure I have damaged some of the equipment. I like the idea that people might use these more than cars, but investors need to figure out a better way to store them than in the sidewalk.
I had never thought of it in those terms before, but this is similar to portfolio diversification in investing. There's the quip that when you're properly diversified there's always something to hate in your portfolio. Of course the flipside is that there's always something to love too.

All that compared to making concentrated bets where you can win big, or lose big.
This is more common in investment professions.
>Once you've smothered the competition in investor money, you're free to raise prices to profitability and beyond.

That's the theory at least. How much can Uber realistically raise their prices before people realize that yellow cabs or driving themselves is just too much cheaper to ignore. So they'll have to massively increase prices and subsequently kill off their own userbase. It's a lose lose and I don't think any of these companies expecting to pull this off will survive.
The curve has beyond been flattened already. It's nosediving. We're below replacement fertility and falling. I don't think incenctivising >2.1 fertility is being "protonatalist". And mind, this is coming from someone very much opposed to unrestrained growth capitalism. A proponent of "degrowth" if you will.