skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! I'll keep that in mind. Thank you so much for taking your time to correct me and sharing the details.
@martingoodson - Congratulations. Imagine receiving an Ikea book shelf with missing parts and an instruction manual in Swedish. That's basically what parenting is. A very much "well shit, what do I do know" experience. You can't truly be prepared for your baby until their arrival and trust me, you won't need a manual or want one. Here's the good news - there's no one else better fit in this world to know what to do for your baby than you - and your partner.

There is, however - a manual for building your baby registry. I just launched it. https://poppylist.com.

It's not what you're asking for, but I can at least help simplify one area for you.

I'd wish you luck, but you won't need it.

My daughter just turned one in May - welcome to the best club on earth.
Registration wall. Ugh.
Good lord, do you really want to die on that hill? I miss the day of well defined schemas. Parsing HTML is a minefield these days.
That's a chunky monkey!
I'm with you insofar as I'd prefer slightly fewer, but I have seen some important topics with unique discussions here. I think that's why the guidelines say "probably" instead of making it a bright line.

Even if it's not exactly where I'd set the dial, it's probably a rough average of the community, and the consolation prize is that controversial stories rapidly bury themselves.
You can't really automate enterprise sales.

Whatsapp would have needed at least 200 salespeople uf they hadn't been bought by FB.
> If these laid-off employees have an average fully-loaded cost of $400,000 (which probably isn't too far off),

I highly doubt that. Most of the folks who were let go are from HR/Sales. Plus a portion of the folks are located in India and all.
>Oil is basically what made the middle east a violent and reactionary place.

Colonialism did that, the oil was just a motivating factor.
I know - I just read it as such and chuckled.
Comp is still less generally as they can't really pay the type of equity a company like google pays. Thus, the equity is sort of a golden handcuff, valueless until the company goes public which could be a long time from now or never.
Love the title lol
A long time ago on an island far away... called Nauru, they tried to invest their wealth from their natural riches (phospor fertilizer). It didnt work out, if I remember correctly.
I'm not a racing or really car enthusiast, but, don't races have pit stops where mechanics change out the tires and such? Tesla's old 90-second battery replacement tech could be used here. Just thinking out loud.
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I've been a dev advocate since 2008ish and before that worked in pre-sales (mostly crafting custom demos and prototypes for prospects and existing customers). In my early days as a dev advocate, I was hired into marketing and most of the work was public facing (blogs and conference talks). But then that role soon moved into an official Dev Rel org where we did mostly 5 things:

1. Build and maintain a plugin SDK and integration framework

2. Help write docs and guides (we had a dedicated tech writer in our dev rel org)

3. Do public facing stuff: blogs, conference talks, participate in hackathons, etc.

4. Plan and host events: company developer conference, hackathons, meetups, etc.

5. Write code... could be anything... sample code, tech blogs, integrations, bug fixes to product, new features in product, etc.

It was a hard job in the early days -- lots of context switching. Those who were well suited for it were devs who communicated well, knew how to tell a story, and loved the hustle.

In the past several years, I've seen this role evolve a bit more to be what the author of the article describes: basically dev advos with a social status who speak at conferences a lot. While I think that's an important aspect of a Dev Rel org, I think a Dev Rel org should have a healthy balance of people who are good at the public facing stuff and those who are highly technical and can get in the weeds with other developers. A Dev Rel org with that combo can deliver high-level and visionary stories to the public and also dive deep into the tech with any developer/architect in the industry.

With the pandemic, we're having to reinvent ourselves yet again and trying to figure out how to get the best signal-to-noise ratio with our audience. A lot of people are trying new things out. For us, we're diving into video a bit more as a medium. I'm not entirely sure how good virtual confs are going to fair in the next year, but from what I've seen recently, I'm not optimistic about the platform.

Other roles we've seen ourselves optimizing in lately... being a more useful resource internally especially for our sales organization -- helping them craft a better story, providing better demos that are reusable, writing long form guides on the stuff you probably wouldn't have thought to write about in the past.
That makes it even sadder. I'm sure everyone had the choice to learn the actual level of danger (to the extent it's known) but believing in a higher mortality rate makes it easier to panic. And if you don't panic, you're seen as irresponsible and/or hating humanity.
tired old arguments
If Sony ever brings back Xperia Mini I will be a happy man.

I don't want the best camera or the fastest cpu. Can live with a tiny display. Just give me something that can run Android 10 reasonably well in a tiny package and you have my money.
Sad to see the article did not mention the OG 1990's CS50 rockstar, Margo Seltzer.
I've been waiting for this generation of Ryzen APUs to build a Small Form Factor PC for under my TV.
There is a context in the original tweet.

Trump had repetitively used the term "Chinese Virus" since the pandemic. Quoting the Conversation[1]

> The expressions “Chinese virus” and “Wuhan virus” personify the threat...The adjective “Chinese” is particularly problematic as it associates the infection with an ethnicity. Talking about group identities withan explicitly medical language is a recognized process of Othering (here and here), historically used in anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy, including toward Chinese immigrants in North America. This type of language stokes anxiety, resentment, fear and disgust toward people associated with that group.

In this particular tweet, Trump used the term "China Virus" instead of "Chinese Virus". Following the development of the recent events, it is very clear that such a term still ties to people of an ethnicity, or people of a location, instead of, say, just a location. The dismiss of the comparison is weak.

> So what? I'm gonna guess he wanted to amplify the photo of a mask-wearing Trump, not the China Virus.

Even if pg's intend was just to amplify the photo of a mask-wearing Trump, the fact that he liked and retweed a message inciting hatred is beyond disappointing.

[1] https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-chinese-virus-the-...

edited: add link
Looks to just put an API in place. I think they are using creative license with the term "realtime" (since I presume all scraping actions are queued and async)
> Who wants to build a factory in Saudi Arabia even if it weren't unstable? Everything just costs too much because of the oil - land, materials, labor.

So, import all the inputs you can and sell the output on the local market where everything is expensive.

Dutch disease is way more complicated than just "there's too much money coming from this source, the economy is fucked-up". I would really like to see any non-simplified study for a change.
Well it is possible to pay some (municipal-level) taxes in Switzerland in Bitcoin. That’s a start. As for the guns — how about, say, using Bitcoin in lieu of dollars for petroleum and other import-export settlements? You can’t sanction Bitcoin, you know.
Extensive discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23906296
Norway kind of proves it is possible to make it work without the corruption. But Norway also proves that you need to lay the groundwork for that, before you lay any actual groundwork. I am not sure if these other oil producing states could reach a level of stability as Norway.
ICE look way more complex than EV to me. More moving parts, more feedback loops. I wouldn't be surprised if enthusiasts were able to swap the controller for something else.

But then I perfectly know you are right about the general tendency of integrated and locked-in parts in engineering nowadays.
> It's not strictly a "wrong leaders" problem. It's much more systemic than that. Elect a good leader and the oil will provide the impetus to tear that leader down.

See also, The Dictator's Handbook, summarized well by CGP Grey's video "The Rules for Rulers" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs).

It's an unstable equilibrium to run a country on a wide power base, if it has centralized resource-extraction economy; as any dictator who just plans on staging a coup to take the oil and then reward their few revolutionaries with it, will be able to win over pretty much anyone from the previous wide-base government, who was previously getting a much-smaller slice of the pie.
You're right, I was narrow-minded in my thinking there, thanks for pointing it out :)
90 seconds for a pit stop is an eternity.
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The hypocrisy of this:

- Non-U.S. citizens operate with a high degree of freedom online, although there are minimal restrictions on the collection of the data generated from doing so by private companies or the U.S. government.

- Non-U.S. companies are free to operate in the United States without restriction, and in other countries that follow the U.S.’s approach.

Is really through the roof given how the same site just recently argued how TikTok must either be sold to the US or prohibited in this:

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/

The sad thruth is that the US is ok with a free internet as long as it is completely ruled by American companies and by extension the American surveillance state. If anything challenges that the piper will soon play a different tune.
This talk had a profound effect on how I think about complexity, and taught me not to conflate easy and simple, 2 words in english that are often treated as synonyms. It really opened my eyes to how much tooling we use as devs (particularly in ops) that hides much of the complexity of a system. I’m much more dubious now whenever a tool comes around that makes X easier, and look for any added costs to complexity to see if there’s a hidden tradeoff.

I highly recommend giving the talk a listen to.
Germany’s coronavirus response is a master class in science communication
> I fear that I’ve tried to apply these simple-vs-complex principles and only made my code harder to understand. My understanding now is that complexity for every application has to live somewhere, that all the simple problems are already solved in some library (or should be), and that customers invariably request solutions to problems that require complexity by joining simple systems.

Simplicity exists at every level in your program. It is in every choice that you make. Here's a quick example (in rust):

fn f(i) -> i32 { i } // function
let f = |i| -> i32 { i }; // closure

The closure is more complex than the function because it adds in the concept of environmental capture, even though it doesn't take advantage of it.

This isn't to say you should never pick the more complex option - sometimes there is a real benefit. But it should never be your default.

You are correct in your assessment that customers typically request solutions to complex problems. This is called "inherent complexity" - the world is a complex place and we need to find a way to live in it.

The ideal, however, is to avoid adding even more complexity - incidental complexity - on top of what is truly necessary to solve the problem.
Investing money into raising the capability level of these rich states usually has a very low success ratio mostly because their societies do not value labor but authority, power and money of which they have plenty.
Thank you. More importantly, this is not new. Sheesh, how much of AI is just hype. I am in favor in not using the term AI for such things.
Undefined variables is already a thing in most IDEs? I know VSCode does it. I can't imagine the others don't.

One interesting thing I've found in JavaScript (and I'm guessing it would be useful in Python) is the CodeSpell plugin for VSCode

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsi...

It spell checks code by separating camelCaseWords and identifiers_with_underscores. Sure it's not "smart" but for dynamic languages, at least for me, it helps prevent bugs. A static language the IDE would already have the info it needs to highlight a non-existent property but in a dynamic language generally not so I've found it quite useful.
I would like to see a total ban/block of any kind of cryptocurrency articles on HN. I'm happy to include my own, if that's what it takes.

https://louwrentius.com/cryptocurrencies-are-detrimental-to-...
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I’m really sad to see this kind of tone more and more in HN comments...
Those are Alexa rankings, which count actual page views and time spent, not mere accounts.
EVs made explicitly for racing very short distances often have fairly small battery packs and use DC motors instead of AC -- as they have no need for regeneration, the motors are cheaper, the wiring is simpler and the possible torque is insane.

Their chief limitation is managing heat, and maintaining the DC motors themselves.
Word. The 1990's CS50/CS51 course enrolled both students who'd gotten a "5" in the CS AP and students who didn't know what a for loop was. It felt like learning to swim while simultaneously drowning.
No, this isn't so. And besides, the main function isn't even the first thing in your program to run. The standard library does some setting up first. For instance populating argc and argv.

You may enjoy reading this: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... It explains a lot of how linux loads programs. It's a bit dated though: everything is 32 bit.
Like https://mylittleforum.net/forum/? I am also looking for non-js + open source (self hosted) forums and I don't find much anymore.
Jio monopoly is a series of convenient regulations tailored to them over the last decade [0].

[0] https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/government-helping-reli...

I know the article is paywalled but it's the most comprehensive piece on the matter
To expand on https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/, 10k people aren't required per se, they're there to make more money than they cost. Specifically:

- sales & billing for linkedin premium, lynda, and other paid products
- billing fraud detection, to cut the cost of chargebacks
- security, to prevent that one leak from happening again, to keep PCI compliance, etc.
- spam filtering, tuned to balance keeping paying customers (recruiters) happy with keeping suppliers (candidates with a resume) happy
- Writing new features, to keep engagement and signups up
- fixing things that keep breaking, like the email contact scraper
- testing code for new features to make sure they, IDK, don't break the signup page
- a/b testing the hell out of any and every thing
- collecting and storing the massive analytics datasets they generate daily
- analyzing daily datasets to determine which a/bs to promote
- coming up with new features
- testing anything at all
- deploying corporate networking in all the offices buildings and such
- optimizing infra costs
- deploying actual physical datacenters because the cost is cheaper than paying the profit margins of AWS
- moving back to cloud (azure) because after you were acquired, the markup dropped and the calculus on on-prem vs cloud flipped
- managing all the projects associated with above
- recruiting staff to handle all the above
- managing all the staff associated with above
- acquistions (lynda, fliptop, glint, drawbridge)
The assertion that too little policing being a problem at large can be used to dismiss police brutality is disgustingly stupid and wrong. Police brutality isn't "too much" policing poured upon a location like floodwater but inherent crime and abuse of power and always a source of problems. Throwing police brutality into Jurarez is how you make the situation even worse and is part of how it got so bad in the first place!

No institutional trust in policing caused organized crime to form long before prohibition was an issue. Police brutality is a seed of crime. It isn't like trolling where attention creates the problem but a tumor where ignoring it makes it grow from manageable to insurmountable.
My mid-2010s Subaru SUV has ~550 mile range, and fill-ups take ~5 minutes.

Semis can have 2000+ mile ranges.

I am also excited to see battery densities increase, but so far the way we're getting comparable range in EVs is by allocating a greater proportion of weight to fuel. And recharging is still relatively slow.
And then the EV has to stop and charge for a couple hours. The ICE stops for gas for 10min. Also, check out records like the cross-country NY to LA cannonball run. Cars used there add additional gas tanks to extend range. I'd bet by the time you added enough fuel to a car to equate the weight of an EV battery the range would be significantly higher than that of the EV
Could you elaborate on your point about the Confederate generals?
Do you mean the Xperia Compact, or did they have a separate Mini line too?

I love Sony's phones, but their product naming confuses me to no end...
Makes sense. How do you go about determining if one whiskey is similar to another? Are you going off of experience or attempting to crowd source the data?

There are a couple of reasons I would use something like your service.

1. I want a cheaper alternative to something I really like. For example, I really enjoy Eagle Rare, but it would be nice to have something at a lower price point for making cocktails.

2. I want a more readily available alternative to something I really like. Going back to the Eagle Rare example, occasionally it is difficult to find. In this case, I would be willing to pay a little more to have something else that is similar.
We made a place to promote GitHub projects
Ben says:

“Any company that wishes to achieve scale needs to do so in its home market first, before going abroad”

Not really sure why this would be the case. Spotify didn’t do this did they?
Don't know what consequences you specifically mean here, but some projects won't get done, some sales won't be made, some research won't pan out. Some institutional knowledge will be lost so the next rev won't go as quickly.

There will be many consequences, just perhaps not obvious for those on the outside looking in.
It's a strategy that's worked well for Norway though
> The 200k Tesla Roadster is expected to have 600 mile range. What ICE car exceeds that?

A large number of diesel cars can easily go over 600 miles. The Audi A8 and VW Jetta, to pick two random examples, can go 650+ miles on a single tank.
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That’s a much better way to bring donuts to the office
Oh, I loved the X10 Mini. Especially the one with the little slide-out keyboard. I typed better on that than I do on my much larger iPhone.
Fine. Even if they average $200,000, you are still looking at a quarter billion dollars a year. That will still show up in your quarterly results.
Airtel used to be the biggest player and in a few short years it has dwindled to 35% customer base of Jio. The rest of them are tiny compared to even Airtel. So sure you have options for now, but its increasingly looking like there won't be in the future.

Also the original statement that Jio is the only option for a majority of Indians is true because a lot of people only joined the mobile revolution because of Jio.
This is what China's elite have been doing...

Their "hundred year plan" is fn' formidible and they really will be the super-power based on, not only, their implementation of it - but the lack of forethought from literally any other nation on the planet, save Norway.
I think we’ve seen that UGC is and always has been a bit of a myth. Social media companies have always quietly employed armies of people to moderate user posts, persuade famous people and Companies to post, to actually do the posting and “media strategy” for those VIPs and companies, and then of course to sell the ads and pro services that come with it all.
I don't know anything about anything but I'm willing to bet that the end result is very similar. They're "just" using neural networks as rich approximators.
India’s Ancient Sites Are Under Threat from Development
My snake oil detector perked up here. It seems like this guy is attempting to take credit for Instagrams success while simultaneously trying to apply a hand-wavy growth 'theory'. Seems like he is attempting to market a startup in incubation.
DAFs at established administrators, like Fidelity/Vanguard/Schwab, rely on brand name so that users trust the money they donate to the DAF will be granted to the non-profits they make recommendations to.

Other than being currently connected with YC, what else can users rely on that their donation to Charityvest will in fact be granted to the non-profit the make the recommendation to?
GPT-3: letter substitution, lookup tables, theory of mind
http://www.olafsw.de/a-better-qt-because-of-open-source-and-...

Specifically this:

> In case The Qt Company would ever attempt to close down Open Source Qt, the foundation is entitled to publish Qt under the BSD license. This notable legal guarantee strengthens Qt. It creates trust among developers, contributors and customers.
Interestingly C# is introducing top-level programs now.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/welcome-to-c-9-0/#top-...
> those 400 ton mining trucks won't be electrified anytime soon

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
One thing that prevents people from working remotely in other countries is the differences between laws, regulations, and certification/licensing practices.

A doctor that can work in India might not carry a US medical license. A lawyer that practices in India might not have passed the California Bar.

These protectionist regulations cover a wide variety of jobs and industries, and remain a blocker even when robots could be on site, and controlled by remote workers.
I would say basically almost every company has this policy and that culture is a just a lie. If he puts it on his company page, at least he's being honest.

That being said there is one company I am aware of that is proven to not to be like this and that is gravity payments.
Trader Joe’s does the same thing. (Parent company is German Aldi group)
If CBP suspects they aren't really your kids you get separated. If they don't, you stay together.

That's the point.
> Yup. This is why I actually agree with Zuckerberg on his “no censorship” approach.

The Rohingya massacre in Myanmar begs to differ.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Yeah, I was a few minutes early and missed the $129, then the $139, and ended up just getting the $159 option.

Pro tip. Have your credit card info saved in your kickstarter account so you don't end up like me.
You could do much better with a specialized high-risk vehicle, probably on the order of a couple of seconds.
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