skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are the CEO and your company does terribly, you should probably get paid 0 that year.

Imagine you are an amazing developer, and a company with a terrible codebase and a high risk of technical problems wants to hire you, precisely because it is aware it has problems and needs you. Then the company says "oh, and if we have any technical problems your pay will be zero." You would be extremely unlikely to take that role, regardless of the salary they were promising in the event of technical success. Every hire, including CEO's who work for the board of directors, is subject to that same calculus. If a company is at risk of doing terribly, it will often seek to bring in a new CEO or retain an existing CEO. If that CEO knows they will receive no compensation in the not-unlikely to expected scenario of the company doing poorly, they will walk away from the offer, even if they are the best candidate to potentially solve the company's woes, precisely because anyone who is the best candidate to solve the company's woes is good enough to obtain another better offer that doesn't contain a punitive no salary for you clause.
UI looks gorgeous.

How do you actually access the chat data? Didn’t realize this was even possible.
Maybe they don't know of fdm. Found out about xdm last week, time it's open source too
From what I can deduce, though, the US government statistics start at age 16, and there is no upper limit. I'm thinking we don't want large numbers of 16 and 17 year olds in the labor force year-round, and similarly we don't want 95 year olds in the labor force either.
Flu and pneumonia killed five times more than Covid last month
Never heard of Malinformation before (even my spell check doesn't recognise it). Interesting concept. Kind of what Wikileaks is built on I guess.
Loop you in for what purpose? Can you share more?
But on the flip side, the same population that keeps voting for those "kids" runs some of the businesses, stores, etc.

A good solution is probably a redundant solution, but pushing the solution too far towards only government versus privatization likely decreases the service that underserved populations can expect.

Taking that generalization and concretizing it to the topic of a post office, there are several alternatives in the private sector already to USPS. but they don't serve the margins of the country like USPS does as per its constitutional mandate.
Psychedelic drugs reduce depressive symptoms by helping people accept emotions
>Disinformation makes people mistrust their news sources

But the news sources themselves make you distrust them. I doubt that they are actively trying to make their readers mistrust them, but they seem to get that end result by simply engaging in politics.
> In 2018, the definition of length was changed to count each lane separately.[1]

Did you actually read the article? It was changed to meet International Standards on how lanes are measured. What is wrong with it?

The old numbers were revised to the new definition too. It doesn't change the facts.

Just because the old Governments weren't following International Standards doesn't mean the new Government continues to do the same. This is actually more transparent as we know exactly what is the cost needed to build 1 lane of a highway as opposed to masking the actual costs by saying 1 lane actually equals 2 or 4 lanes.
More effort than I can be bothered with personally, but you're free to do one. ;)
People have to realize, that software is not done when written.

Software makes the fabric between everything in our lifes. It brought us tones of innovation; It is one of the biggest enabler, innovation drivers and tool we have. It is one of the complexest and cheapest tools we have.

You know what happens with software which is stoped being worked on?

Very old, unflexible Cobolt Software on Mainframe systems in banking systems. Guess why your bank is so antiinnovation?

Security holes

'Legacy hell'

We just need to do less Software and better Software.
I find it a bit strange - the example of "a list with an even number of elements" can be modeled in typescript as well (simply using a list of tuples with two elements).

The distinction of the two "views" does not make much sense to me. In Haskell when doing `data A = X | Y` also "restricts" `A` to X or Y.

However, as much as I like and appreciate Haskell's typesystem, I find union types very powerful. All the reasons for not have subtyping in Haskell always drill down to problems with type inference or other "practical" issues that seem to be fixable by a more advanced compiler or by accepting some inconvenience - but maybe someone can enlighten me?

Also, being able to do `type X = A | B; type Y = C | D; type Z = X | Y` is very powerful and helps a lot when using code to describe business requirements without having to use wrappers and dealing with the overhead that they bring. Even more so when a typesystem is so powerful that it can express a pattern match on some type `Z` and do: `if(NOT A) ... else if (A) ...` while checking exhaustiveness. I wish more languages would adapt this.
Hm... what's going on here?

$ host xn--n3h.net
host: 'xn--n3h.net.' is not a legal IDNA2008 name (string contains a disallowed character), use +noidnout

Looks like emoji were forbidden in IDNA2008... :'(
It looks like it has been that way since the 1950s from your graph.
i would call a vax a "super mini". one of the crop of 32 bit multi-user systems that came out in the 80's.
a pdp-11 was a mini, it was multi-user, but the machine was weak. a 'super mini', with 16MB of memory, now that was a machine you could do great things with.
>The WebExtension API even years later is afaik still less capable than XUL.

XUL extensions were an ungodly mess and arguably hurt Firefox more than they helped. Stability, performance, etc. issues were common to be caused by them. Which when everything is in a single execution context is not fun. Most of the popular extensions simply hijacked random internal Firefox functions which is why they couldn't just be installed together.

edit: I wrote the first Tag Groups extension back in the XUL days so I contributed to the mess.
Vergecast: The app store chaos episode
It’s clear the author of the original post is taking an elitist stance on what it means to work as a coder and trying to brand the work of others as less important & give it a different job title. Essentially saying “a real
programmer does the job in this specific way I say a real
programmer does.” It’s not the kind of attitude that benefits anyone. It’s the kind of attitude that does push people out in an industry already with a reputation for pushing people out.
Companies are spending less money for ads, some even went bankrupt. People also have less money to spend, or are just careful not wasting it in uncertain times.

Though, yes, in most countries it normalizes, but the dent in income is visable.
Ask HN: Why not keep a copy of your data?
Context: Using an on-line service to then provide services to others.

On another thread someone said:

"Do I need to regularly back up all my content in case it gets suddenly deleted?"

I replied[0]:

"You should always have a copy of your own data. Always. Without exception."

That was getting some upvotes, but I didn't think twice about it because it seems like such a no-brainer. But then it got multiple down-votes, so that made me think:

Am I wrong? Are there circumstances when you should not keep a copy of your own data?

I can't think of one, so I ask HN:

When should you not keep a copy of your own data?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24167952
The more I learn about text representation and Unicode, the more it looks like a complete clusterfuck, and it boggles my mind that somehow all this works almost perfectly while hiding all the complexities from the end user.

I suppose this is inevitable when you tasked with representing literally every symbol in existence. You couldn't pay me enough to touch this problem with a ten foot pole (this and text rendering).
I had no problem with the concept with what she calls “VendorOps”. My last two jobs after moving up to a position where I was a developer but also either officially or de facto responsible for deciding when to build and when to outsource, my job is not to develop software. It’s to add business value. I am just as proud of the code that I had sense enough not to write as that I did.
Your ask is pretty ambiguous. What specific questions do you have?
Nigerians Are Using Bitcoin to Bypass Trade Hurdles with China
I own n.nu - is that the shortest domain possible?
The trick here is to know which skills you need and which ones cross over. There are lots of families of languages, and maybe that's a better way to evaluate. If you need a C programmer, then you want to know they can manage memory. If you want a Haskell programmer, you want to know they can handle difficult functional abstractions. So there are certainly cases where you need to worry whether they have the transferrable skills, but it doesn't necessarily mean they have to know your exact language.
> This tactic of elevating your pet issue by linking it to a hypothetical catastrophe seems a bit unserious.

I definitely have to agree. Seeing papers with such blatantly clickbaity sounding titles gain a lot of traction is pretty disheartening.
That’s fair, but I personally lived for more than 30 years overseas before moving to the US, and am in contact with plenty
of people outside the US.

My experience has been that people’s perceptions are mostly reflective of what they read in the press.

They were grossly inaccurate and misleading when the US was perceived as a magnificent success - most of the problems we have now were already apparent then.

But they are also grossly misleading when representing the US relative to other states now.

There are ‘failed states’ inside the European Union for example, and pretty much every one of the problems the US has are reflected elsewhere too.

It is obvious that things are a lot worse, and that serious problems have gone unresolved, etc.

I live in the East Bay and stores were looted only a few blocks from here. Similar things happened during the riots over Oscar grant at when I lived in another part of the East Bay.

There is no descent into chaos. It’s not surprising that it seems like that if you live in China or Singapore, where the penalties for rioting are draconian. You can make argument either way as to whether the riots represent something healthy or unhealthy.

But it is simply not true that US is descending into chaos. It’s not even true that this is some new thing.

But of course if the media present it that way, then people will think that.
Why not just set up a Dutch LLC (whatever the form is there) so it’s easier for US companies to do business with you without worrying about Netherlands labor laws?
Arguably he's already comparable, no? I mean he hasn't made a film yet, he also didn't inherit and spend his family's fortune - although yes, he had access to enough resources to build on his own efforts, successes.
Optimize for Simplicity First
Non-US person here, I've worked as a contractor for US companies for more than a decade. You don't need to set up an entity anywhere, that's only for hiring employees. All contractors need to do is sign a contract for providing services.
10 million migrants just from sea level rise. Sea level rise is actually one of the smallest threats that arise from climate change. There are some specific countries like Bangladesh that will suffer heavily from flooding but the vast majority of countries can deal with it. Climate change involves much bigger threats than that.
I have suffered through Gliffy + Confluence for months, so I love seeing new software in this space. This looks very nice, but seems to be missing a lot of important features: boxes to segment networks (a la VPC), directed connections (arrows, filled or not, dashed, etc) and text boxes.

I really, really like how good this looks, especially the isometric view. It adds some personality that makes otherwise boring diagrams interesting to look at.

Finally, I want to say how awesome it is that you can try out the app without an account and with only one-click. Nothing "sells" your product better than your product, and this website is a textbook example of how this should be executed.
I agree with a slight adjustment: i actually believe it is both robotic-type of automation, as well as, fewer people forced to do more than previous workers. I think if a company makes physical things or is moe under the blue collar type of output, then maybe the percent sways slightl more towards physical automata such as robots, but also might include the "less people doing more" aspect. Now, when the companies are more knowledge-based/white collar work, then the percents flip...but again, i think this is all nuanced, and no single form of automation prevails universally.

> ...The net result is that you end up with more roles that are senior level and less opportunities for entry level.

I've felt this has been a thing for almost two decades now...And, if you're right, (and my spidey sense/tingling feeling) has been confirmed, then it would be very scary! I wonder if the apprenticeship models that have been championed and succeeded in places like Germany, will eventually force our nation to adopt them, and veer away from the traditional (college-esque) route because there simply is too few entry level options now? I'm not saying the college or the apprenticeship route is best, or if there's even room for a hyrid, just pondering based on your hypothesis, which i actually, scarily agree with.
You can't destroy (or create) information in QM; a consequence of it being linear.
It can do less but won't cause your browser stability, performance and other issues. Nor will writing them require reading the Firefox source code. XUL extensions routinely hijacked random internal Firefox functions which is why many had issues being installed together. Then all of it was executed in a single context (which is why they could hijack those functions to begin with) along with the UI and web page Javascript.
I dunno. "Trite" and "substantiative" usually don't go together.
there's a startup to help companies hire and pay people around the world

https://pilot.co/

(not affiliated, just heard about them)
Many function spaces are infinite dimensional.
Would not be such a bad idea. You control the presentation 100%, can use any resolution, and the result can be saved compressed as a PNG.
Musk says he's doing engineering 80% of the time. If you watch him discuss the products he knows what he's talking about, he's intimately involved - he's not just the standard talking head CEO role.
Word of caution, the activities of the employee can trigger a PE for your company and expose you to corp income tax, and depending on possible "technical service" clauses in domestic law or tax treaty between the two countries, you can be liable to more taxation in the host country even without a PE.

Plenty of tax treaty case law showing audits do happen to all of MNCs, small companies, and individuals in these matters, with financial and even criminal penalties for your directors in some jurisdictions.

BEPS is also now cracking down on PE avoidance and types of arrangements/facilitators out there.

Sometimes better, and easier, to just declare and manage a PE. Employment services firms don't offer actual legal protection here since doesn't matter if direct or indirect employed.
Density blocks radiation but it's the "hard way" of doing it

It's better to have something that resonates in the frequencies you want to block.

Given that melanin already works in the UV range it's not surprising that maybe with some changes it works with higher frequencies (though not too trivial neither because of the way quantum physics work)
The actual title is: "One in Three NY restaurants ..."

Submissions automatically have a leading number removed, but it can be put back if you edit your submission.
Isn't i.nu a little narrower, at least?
Little known fact on unemployment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#Limitations_of_de...

"For the fourth quarter of 2004, according to OECD (Employment Outlook 2005 ISBN 92-64-01045-9), normalized unemployment for men aged 25 to 54 was 4.6% in the US and 7.4% in France. At the same time and for the same population, the employment rate (number of workers divided by population) was 86.3% in the US and 86.7% in France. That example shows that the unemployment rate was 60% higher in France than in the US, but more people in that demographic were working in France than in the US, which is counterintuitive if it is expected that the unemployment rate reflects the health of the labour market."

More unemployment by the official measure (normalized OECD) but ... more people working relative to given population.
You can absolutely grant stock options to contractors. I have done it for engineering contractors in Eastern Europe who have worked with us for a long time.
> I am looking at a C Corp from Stripe instead of the LLC because I think the business will grow in the next two years.

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/llc-vs-c-corp

I'd say go with a C Corp if you know you're on the investment track. You can convert from an LLC to a C Corp later. The reverse is harder.

Usual disclaimers apply.

> Are you getting E&O insurance through Stripe (or a referral) or did you add that elsewhere?

Haven't gotten one, so can't speak to that.
You're right, that's my bad. The thinking I had in mind when making the post is that entrepreneurship is difficult enough and the desire to make social impact introduces a sometimes competing demand.

I wanted to get some perspective on what this is like and if there were any role models out there to study as I am keen on going down this road!
The thinking I had in mind when making the post is that entrepreneurship is difficult enough and the desire to make social impact introduces a sometimes competing demand.

I wanted to get some perspective on what this is like and if there were any role models out there to study as I am keen on going down this road!
Brazillian Gaming Company Wildlife Studios raises $120M at $3B valuation
Looks like this startup school company is trying to work on this problem: https://heyportal.io/
https://www.startupschool.org/posts/36040
Pigs can eat acorns, lots of other mammals can't without pre-treatment. I know Texas and Georgia have a feral pig problem, which would indicate a biome that can support them...I don't recall CA having a similar pig issue; but maybe they haven't gotten there yet.

Help help, I'm being repressed.
India to launch a solar orbiter, a Venus orbiter and more in the next 5 years
There is probabilistic behaviour in the game for reprocessing uranium [1], presumably they found a way to keep the RNG in lockstep across clients. I'm pretty certain it's possible to make a mod that does what you've described, but I'm also pretty certain it would make the game less fun :P

[1] https://wiki.factorio.com/Kovarex_enrichment_process
I co-founded Raisely, we’re a social enterprise. Impact is baked into our constitution, we report on it before profit, we restrict who can use our SaaS and we’re a bcorp. I wouldn’t call it “riding a wave” or just “talk” - it’s just genuine global citizenship.
Not enough foreigners applied for H1B visas this year, govt ran a second lottery
I can second this having done the same for many years. You often need to supply the company with a W8-BEN form, which they don't need to submit to the IRS, but they do need it on hand should they be asked for it. The form exempts the company from needing to do withholding of taxes in the US.
YC has a nonprofit programs :

List of the YC non-profits:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_VuERKGdeFU_VnsJpybvpwuF...

see more:

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4k-what-y-combinator-loo...
The thing with draw.io is that the pretty isometric views are only for AWS. I'd love to have something like https://www.cloudcraft.co/ that can be run locally for not cloud-based infraestructures.
Lukashenka's War on Belarusians
Looks like cloudcraft to me from a few years ago but more general. Still looking for a multi-dimensional / multi-planar tool that can let me show the same functional components with different graph coloring and edges. A control / management diagram won’t look like a dataflow nor anything similar to how I want to do a network segmentation diagram for auditors and security engineers. Every time I write a new diagram for a different audience it feels like I’m repeating half my work. Heck, I’m not sure if anyone else has this frustration even
This is perfect, thank you!
I have some insider information I can offer. DM me.

Update: I should delete this because it doesn't offer anything useful to the discussion.
I want 64bit inferno. Maybe I should work on it.

I believe someone did some work but I’m having trouble finding it. Also they may have replaced Limbo with Lua (or maybe I just smoked too much of the good stuff).
... and leaving them stranded where ever they were, banning them from flying with them again? Most likely not, airlines are staffed with professionals, not emotional teenagers.
Higher is better.
> I watched hundreds of users, given the choice, or doing so themselves installing / using Chrome by their own selection.

I don't know who you are, but having watched “hundreds of people” installing a web browser sounds a bit dubious…

Personally, I have discussed with a few dozens of websites users and most of them would answer the question “what web browser do you use” with “Google” no matter if they were using Chrome, Firefox, or IE (there are few Mac users in my country).

Firefox users had it installed on their computer by some computer-savy relatives, and most of Chrome users didn't know were it came from (most believing it was already there beforehands) which is a good marker of people getting it bundled with other pieces of software.
Maybe there's more Mexican food in your area, since Mexico has used "manchego" for a while to refer to a kind of cow's milk cheese.
Cannot verify and I am on Linux for a couple of years and on different hardware during those years. Arch-distribution, so maybe the defaults are what is different here??
Browsing, scrolling(with trackpad and without) startup time, etc. all fine.
One thing that I find interesting to always ask:
Performance under what circumstances?
There are users who have literally 200 tabs+ open and then they complain that everything is slow.
> I'm curious: under what conditions do you think the threat to Carolina (and other similar regional flagship schools) becomes "existential"?

In my opinion, when long-term demand for a traditional university education shows signs that it will significantly decline.

I just don't think we've seen it yet. (Nor have we seen severe short-term decline in demand. Enrollment is down less than I was expecting.) There are a variety of competitors such as edX, Coursera, etc., as well as university-affiliated "startups" such as SNHU's massive online program. For the most part they haven't caught on that much, and I don't think they will.

As tuition keeps rising, it will squeeze out smaller, less prestigious, and more expensive private schools that offer (in my opinion) questionable value for money. But I'd expect many of these students to choose state schools instead.

All this said, I don't have all that much insider knowledge, just strong opinions. :)
Even at the heat death of the universe, butterfly effect would have resulted in different distributions of matter in their final resting states.

I feel like your argument is akin to saying that it doesn't matter what an artist does on a canvas, because in the end, the painting is always abandoned by the artist. Yes, that's true, but the paintings are only indistinguishable insofar as your only criteria is that they are no longer being updated by the artist.
I think it’s certainly an extra thing to consider and just focusing on profit is maybe easier in the short term, but I think profit without purpose quickly leads a company directionless and staff demoralised.