skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that's new to me (or at least I've ignored it long enough to have forgotten if I had learned it before).
To go further, the Author also suggests an alternate technique along the lines of Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets and Superforecasting where probabilities are assigned to estimates. I had previously encountered such practice in Scott Alexander's blog and thought it clever: have skin in the game and keeping track of wins and losses.

This whole section of the author's blog is very interesting. It goes into the US Intelligence Community's interest in superforecasters and the Good Judgement Project, a kind of elite tournament of forecasters. It talks about how superforecasters estimate by overcoming cognitive biases and questioning assumptions. And then it ultimately points out though that there are limits to forecasting and low probability events do occur all the time.

https://commoncog.com/blog/the-forecasting-series/
The problem with an enlightened and benevolent ruler is that even if he really is that good (and history uncovers a lot of dirt even for rulers popularly known as enlightened and benevolent) what do you do when they die or decide to quit ? Their children could be insane psychopats unfit to rule (as indeed often demonstrated in history) or there would be a civil war with various factions trying to fill the power vacuum.

With all its faults democracy has these edge cases handled and makes the elected group of rukers much more acountable with mens to get ridd of they if they turn out to be too unfit to rule.
discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/hv6m2n/terry_tao_on_s...
Mine just has a single 33 gallon tank (and I can get over 20 miles per gallon on the highway).
there was a website that was tracking that stuff. Not sure how often its updated, but:

https://alternativeto.net

So punching in illustrator:

https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-illustrator/
All valid questions. We are adding more information about the company, the people and the business model of Founderpool.

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But the downside is that I like to use ipython and %run the file and if it's not in a function, I can then inspect all the intermediate variables and not just the result. Every time I do put it in a function, I regret it for this reason.

Of course I could just use a real debugger...
I haven't read the whole paper, but this has a section on performance and a security analysis of the hardware feature:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/3337167.3337175

CET has two parts, a forwards edge protection (indirect jumps and calls like those necessary to execute a C++ virtual function, a Go interface function, or a Rust trait function), and a backwards edge protection to protect against Return Oriented Programming (overwriting the return address to attacker chosen code).

If I recall correctly, Windows will only use the backwards edge protection, since they already have a superior technology for forwards edge protection (CFG and XFG). The backwards edge protection has an impact of 1.65% according to that paper. Forwards edge protection had no impact.

I have to say, this is well worth it.
Well, the python interpreter has a main function.

This whole topic is like comparing apples to oranges. The python interpreter(which IS compiled and has a main function) defines the rules of whats required in python. And it can reasonable assume that the entry point is the beginning of the .py file its running.
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Interesting. I read an article that mentioned it was the fastest teleco(?) in the world.
I wouldn't be surprised if YC implements a version of this internally
I basically haven’t written any JS code in over two years at this point. Everything I do is TypeScript. When I pick libraries I make sure they have TypeScript support. Preference goes to TypeScript-written packages.
That was the original plan. But according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Centaur
they went ahead without funding it, though they may some time in the future. So for now Vulcan is going to have a disposable first stage, just like all the other old-time space rockets.
UI is the worst. I can’t tell you the number of web apps that render UI off screen, fail to resize when adjusted, etc
I remember when Arc90 first unveiled Readability (now "Reader Mode" in several browsers), folks were ostensibly right on board. One Mozillian praised it enthusiastically on her blog. I pointed out that the problem Readability solved was directly attributable to the lack of empathy by web site operators for their visitors—choosing instead to prioritize the operator's "expression" over the visitors' needs and best interests. It should go without saying that the template for her own blog hardly let it stand as an example of a minimalist jewel of legibility.

I'm also surprised at how poorly Reader Mode fares with "pages" served as text/plain. Is there even a case to be made against text/plain documents being shown with Reader Mode enabled by default if the heuristics can give it a high enough confidence score (with an opt-out escape hatch back to tiny monospace black-on-white for whomever wants it)? Eventually, we could do the same for very simple HTML pages like those found on cr.yp.to or danluu.com. I'd wager we could eliminate a huge part of the "Website Obesity Crisis" if unstyled pages were attractive by default.
Plenty of (say, gaming, entertainment etc) companies in developing countries employed plenty of people due to advertising revenue, which would otherwise not be viable.

Google display ads takes a fraction of revenue and passes the rest to publishers. Same with audience network.

Digital advertising lowered the barrier significantly to making profit for lots of digital businesses. It enabled lots of physical businesses to get recognition and discovery in one way or the other.

Not sure why this is not clear, but happy to discuss more.
I would say that losing to China so that it is cheaper to post from China to USA than from local to USA is a big deal. If they can get it cheaper than DHL, but slower and still hold onto the great ride of goods moving ... Just if
What do you find lacking in USPS?

My experience with other countries is Israel and Russia's postal systems, which are both notoriously bad at actually delivering mail. USPS doesn't ever seem to lose my mail, and stuff gets to where I send it in ~3 days, so I've always been a happy customer.
Then part of feature detection could be detecting bugs and working around them. This wouldn't have to be done by every web developer, but bundled into a commonly used library so cruft can be taken out when browsers fix bugs.
All of the other major delivery services in the US (UPS, FedEx, DHL, Ontrac) are horrible and far worse than the USPS. And without the USPS to compete against, they'd be even worse.
> It's not really a language problem, it's a compiler problem

This has never seemed like such a clear distinction to me. A language is essentially just an instruction set for a compiler.
Thanks dang, I understand and appreciate you pointing this out. However, I would say the original flamebait and a tangent was mention and praise of a person who has committed well documented genocide. So I don't see why my comment is the only one being flagged for pointing this out.
> What are you not understanding? You seem to have completely made up my "Central Argument".

I literally copy/pasted your own words, but it appears you've finally settled on one argument (emphatically so), great job!

> I'm AM saying that in an environment where slavery is socially acceptable, as it was in the US South during that time, the incentives of Capitalism will make it flourish - and it obviously did.

Capitalism is just an economic system of allocation of scarce resources by maximizing the output of production while minimizing the input resources required to produce a unit output, while also preventing a tragedy-of-the-commons. So you're superficially correct that in a regime where slavery is legal, this type of resource allocation might find an equilibrium that coexists within the rules of that regime, which may include perpetuating slavery. Hypothetically, if murder was legal, capitalism might allow the murder industry to "flourish", through hitmen for hire, private armies, and mercenaries.

It's an observation that has few useful implications in our modern world today where slavery (and murder) are broadly illegal.

You could even go so far as to argue that because socialist economies do not do a sufficient job of allocating resources / production to adequately meet the needs of its people (just empirically speaking), that the allowed use of involuntary servitude will thrive under a socialist regime, where the social need for forced labor outweighs the individual liberty to voluntarily refuse it.

That is to say, "in an environment where slavery [by the state] is acceptable, the incentives of [socialism (severe shortages)] will make it flourish". We saw this play out in the past[1], and we see this play out today[2][3][4]. If you think that this is an absurd analogy, then you finally get the point: drawing causal relationships between abstract economic systems (whose sole purpose is to solve the resource constraint problem) and specific institutions (like slavery) that have existed for thousands of years under the backdrop of many different economic systems, is an absurd endeavor.

[1] http://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/07/venezuela-new...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-ppe-exports-uighur-lab...

[4] https://www.prisonersdefenders.org/2020/01/08/united-nations...
Senate Report - Future of the Internet could be Chinese and authoritarian
There have been four rating systems, including Glicko and TruSkill, received lots and lots of complaints for both those systems. This new system receives few complaints. Tested across 135000 players. If the players had not complained so much, we would still be on Glicko. Those are the facts. The theories as to why that is are up to you.
One Quick Trick: On the gimmicks of capitalism
+1 datapoint in favor of rq: https://twitter.com/sdan_io/status/1285687026386444288 was built with it.
I wouldn't call my career especially successful. I have slogged for 20 years at this. The one programming language I know how to use is probably the least fashionable and most laughed at around. I'm just saying that the focus in a "cutting x staff" thread is always on the loss of a job and not that the job was provided. I have multiple mortgages and a family that has limited my relocating. Being a small web studio getting eaten away by platforms has been seriously challenging, taking a client to court to get paid is challenging, etc.

Someone with a mortgage losing a job has to cover for the downtime, sure. I've had to cover for the peaks and troughs for 20 years. At no point have I had the safety of a predictable pay cheque.

If superstars were let go, wouldn't they often be in a position to capitalise? Or have the intelligence to up-skill or diversify skill set? My line of work has been savaged by platforms. What was once "We have a $10k budget to build a site" has become "So I've done 99% of my site on [platform] but I can't work out the last bit. My budget for the most annoying and least predictable remaining bit of the job is $100."

An employee is at the mercy of their employer just like I am at the mercy of my clients. Any individual has some responsibility to maintain their skills or diversify (against platforms) or stockpile for hard times. I absolutely have sympathy for someone losing their job but I don't have any particular sympathy given it's the flipside of a coin that sees them get a regular wage for a given period.
> Or do you think they hack us?

Would that surprise anyone? Governments are known to stockpile and exploit vulnerabilities in targeted computers in order to obtain access. The US government even came up with an euphemism for this malware: network investigative techniques.
> But, since formal barriers to entry are demonstrably useless

Could you provide an example of such a barrier? Bar exams and medical review are extremely valuable to other industries. They demonstrate both competence and ethics.

Since software is utterly lacking anything resembling a formal qualification barrier it’s hard to say a thing isn’t valuable. It doesn’t make sense to disqualify something that was never there in the first place.

Industry ethical standards are also hard to disqualify because they similarly don’t exist. To someone who has never met such a burden for any professional industry it’s an easy thing to deem as worthless. In other industries compliance to ethical standards are more important than perceptions of competence.
For me it means not everything can be prevented, and sometimes whatever bad can happen, happen. It's out of our control. We just need to handle those in our control and predict the probability of uncontrollable one, and whether we can accept those risks (probability * severity).

Edit: and that's why coronavirus is so devastating to businesses. Primarily because it's probability is so small with high severity and it's out of our control.

* On a side note, I really have thought about it once, that my ex boss's diet is so horrible I'm afraid he will caught a disease. Thankfully it didn't happened in my 4 years of working there.
This comes out of the founder's vested shares -- not the company stock -- transferrable only if there's ever an exit event. It's arguably more desirable for investors, the board, and acquirers than if the founder sold shares on the secondary market.
It's a good list!

If you haven't visited already, maybe you could take a look at https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
>quality of life, and wealth.

Can you elaborate more on how invasion of Iraq helped in increasing quality of life for an average citizen?
I'm not having the same experience (using uBlock Origin)
It was actually used on Roman soldiers for capital offenses (cowardice, rebellion/treason, etc). The cohort being punished would be divided into groups of 10, then draw lots. The "lucky" 9 were then expected to kill the 10th.
That's a bit reductionist in terms of Cornell's history.
I try to use it to mean ~ 1/10th - given the origins of the word, and the availability of 'devastate' as a more appropriate word to describe 'near total destruction'.

I think it's one of those cases where people have heard decimate, not known what it means, think it sounds more sophisticated than devastate, and have substituted it in. It makes the language poorer for people who understand the distinction, as our communication would benefit from increased nuance, rather than myriad synonyms.
It's hard to overstate how much of advantage the computers in Bletchley Park gave the allies in WWII. At least bump the Computer Age back one year so you can get D-Day in there.
The USPS offers a unique combination of affordability and reliability that simply cannot be matched by the private sector.

Yes, it is subsidized. The reason is that being able to send and receive mail cheaply and reliably is the cornerstone of our society and our economic system.
1 in 10 Americans don't have enough food, double the rate before pandemic
Worse in what way? I've always had better experiences with every one of their competitors.
I would guess if you looked at the assembly for that fortran program, there is some function getting generated. Care to post a disassembly?
I can counter that. Here in Arizona, I have sent packages probably a few dozen times in 20 years and have never had an issue, and the post office near where I work is busy almost all day with people sending things, so their problem might just be consistency across all sites. Some sites may not do enough business to support their staff while others may take in more than enough.

Maybe they just need to reduce their footprint, and close underutilized sites.
I’m not sure on fraud but certainly it wasn’t as great as the press. He definitely made a mistake going all-in on financial services going into the financial crisis.
What position of privilege might that be? Choosing a life with essentially no income or luxuries so he can do what he believes is right?
To say nothing of the fact that other delivery services frequently rely upon USPS for last-mile delivery in more rural (read: less- or un-profitable) areas, and those areas would simply not be served by a privatized postal service.
What they don't seem to lose is priority mail (I'm assuming it's actually tracked in a way that counts). They have lost plenty of my regular mail.

Not to mention consistently misdelivering my mail to other mailboxes. One time, I had to escalate all the way to the region supervisor before I found someone that would actually hear me out. The general attitude seems to be one of incompetence and total indifference.
Still playing it and do a pull request even, plus a further plan to upgrade yous. But the pull request has a minor bug which I fix. Life in a day of programmer I supposed.
What about process startup time?
How do ants find a piece of fruit I left on the table?

How do Jehovah’s Witnesses find me no matter where I live?

Finite address space, lots of time for bots to go door to door.
It is not.
https://hoaxeye.com/2018/01/19/nazi-cola/
I think it's a slippery slope in eroding public services in favor of private corporations, instead of improving these systems we shouldn't let them die and allow monopolies to run rampant and become less and less competitive.
We wondered the same. Can't speak for YC but we do understand that most funds would have trouble running this internally due to fiduciary conflicts of interest and management concerns.
The USPS's primary revenue source is as a Spam delivery service. That basic problem is why it has refused to modernize. Anything with any significant value is already sent via Amazon, FedEx, DHL or UPS, or hand-delivered (in the case of really valuable stuff).

See:

https://www.insidesources.com/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-post-of...

The USPS has to be reformed and it needs a new purpose in life, other then stable government job for people. There needs to be significant value that others cannot meet. The reformation that is needed is being blocked.

For example, how about allowing me to pay $5 a month to not have you deliver crap into my inbox? Or to fully digitize the process, so I don't have a recycle bin full of crappy products, alumni magazines, and pizza coupons that I don't need or want.

Oh. And stop selling my data to third parties as well. Looking at you NCOA database.
tldr: Charles Koch
TL;DR Charles Koch wants to privatize the Post Office. You're so surprised...aren't you? :-)

I used to be a libertarian, then got out of it, but I just thought the Kochs were eccentric libertarians. The truth is actually far worse than that. They aren't just political manipulators, but are truly awful people screwing over everyone who gets in their path including their siblings, government officials, employees, etc.

Here's some further reading:

+ Dark Money: Good overview of general Republican big money politics

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radic...

+ Sons of Wichita: Koch Brother / family history - it's really crazy how corrupt they are, and it seems to come from Fred Koch really fucking them up as kids. He was like Daniel Plainview + Alex Jones.

https://www.amazon.com/Sons-Wichita-Brothers-Americas-Powerf...

+ Invisible Hands: Some Pre-Koch Republican big money history - essentially worthless heirs to privately owned extractive fortunes (Scaiffes, Mellons, etc.) had full ability to spend their closely-held businesses money on keeping their monopolies and found libertarian thinkers to help publicly justify low taxes / lax regulations.

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Hands-Businessmens-Crusade-...
How would that library be any better than using user agent strings? I think it would likely be worse.
And as a good friend of a blind person, this is a tragic shame.
I've heard that some YC founders approached them about it, but the management of this structure may be more work that distracts YC from it's focus.
We hope every accelerator and VC film does this eventually, we want to power as many of them as we can under the hood.
Thanks for clarifying.

Is your custom built routing system open source?

I can imagine the Svelte community could benefit from it.
I really don't think it's very friendly to need to create an account to see what charities are supported.
There are a couple of yt channels out there, for example https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A

But nothing like you might expect compared to FOSS creative software in other fields, like Blender or Gimp.
In your experience how do you filter candidates without a degree? Portfolio? Do you review their code?
> like the performance-hostile calling convention, are harder to fix.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? I’m new to go and want to understand the performance implications.
i would assume all publishing platforms have terms of conditions full of legally stuff that you dont want it sounds like, i would assume your only solution would be making your own site.
I guess it depends on what you mean by “productivity.” If that comes from quantity of typing you can optimize for that. 90% of my productive work happens in my head, maybe while laying on the sofa, maybe when out for a walk. I doubt my chair has much to do with it.
Your viewpoint on forks doesn't really check out. It's based on a misunderstanding of how related these forks are to Bitcoin.

Anything that forks off of bitcoin is an entirely separate network, asset and market. You can in fact fork Bitcoin today and attempt to create a market, will your new coin be valued as a Bitcoin and derive its current ~9000 USD price? So the value of a fork coin is not in its approximation to Bitcoin. It's merely tied to how much fire power you have to convince others to buy it.

Regardless of how you personally view the best use of cpu cycles, the market overwhelmingly disagrees. The network total hashrate has done nothing but go up and to the right since inception. Which is to say, that the market also disagrees with your theory that Bitcoin will lose scarcity (therefore value) over time.

Based on which signs or hypothetical scenario are you imagining that this whole systems turns back on itself and breaks?
Can’t decide which Jurassic Park wisdom applies to this: “they were so worried about whether they could that they didn’t consider whether they should” or “Life, uh finds a way”
Correct. Though just to be precise, a bailin would happen well ahead of a bankruptcy, the regulator wouldn’t wait for the situation to be that bad to call the bank non viable (except in a jump to default scenario).

Absorbed/acquired: that’s a bailout. Always an option but I think everyone agrees no one wants to see that happen again unless it is a willing private buyer.
We switched from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB for our IoT solutions. InfluxDB is very difficult to work with large datasets and enterprise/region compliance. We ingest around 100MB data per day and growing.
Depends on the industry. Happens often enough in cyclical industries like retail, consulting and financial services. It’s more shocking when old-line stable companies lay off for the first time. One of the lessons from IBM and HP is the first cut is rarely the last.