skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute numbers tend to be overrated in analytics. Often relative numbers, like the number of conversions per tracked user matter more. Also, if your product is targeted at privacy-savvy individuals like developers that often use blockers you might be better off using server-side tracking. That seems to have become a lost art though, especially since many sites use CDNs that hide a lot of visits for cacheable content.
Mali President Keita Arrested by Mutinying Soldiers
I think you’ve got cause and effect a bit backwards.

> whenever you feel you’re treated unfairly, walk away. People will stop treating you unfairly.

Walking away from a bad deal certainly prevents you from being taken advantage of in that moment, but it will do nothing to prevent the next company who knows nothing about you from trying to hoodwink you again. While the ability to say no to a bum deal is important, it’s no substitute for actual leverage in these situations.

Executives and highly valued FAANG engineers have more leverage not because they say “no”, they have more leverage because both parties know they can say no, and they’re valued enough for that no to hurt. The startup needs not just an engineer, but that specific one. The threat of a “no” those with leverage gets far more results than from someone without it.
`ed` is better than either.

`cat>newfile.txt` - teaches you not to make typos.
Vegetarians are a minority. Most omnivores would consider it a sacrifice to shift to a vegetarian diet.

Changing the world's mind on this is a losing strategy for sustainability.
A Walkthrough of Ruby 3 Scheduler
Container processes shouldn't run as root
I think ID is an essential core function of government. Without it, for instance, there could be no justice system. I don't know that an ID system not grounded in the physical world is workable. Jurisdiction is ultimately determined by physical location.
I think the wealth tax and the wealth ceiling should be a function of population, water & groundwater health and safety, food price, real estate price, transportation cost, communications cost, and air quality. I think we should heavily dis-incentivize wealth accumulation through human predation, mooching, and looting. I think that we should set this function to gracefully break down in catastrophe so as not to run contrary to survival and means itself, and so that the cost of real catastrophe is clear and apparent to all, while simultaneously destroying the incentives to harm future and potential interests.
And the flat files are IIRC markdown, so it works just fine for long term archival.
ever try to use Swift without xCode?
the point is Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't do it in California if there was a wealth tax. Not that he wouldn't do it all.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Statement
I find this attitude odd. Billionaires are accountable to no one at all, yet have enormous power over all of us. To you this is a good thing? Our political system is obviously a total disaster, but at least we have the power to change it if we want to. In fact, there are popular movements on both the right and the left that are working to make this change happen.

Many of the problems with democratic government are in fact caused by the power of the billionaire class to shape society to their whims. I remember reading a paper that compared people's policy preferences to actual implemented policy. They found no correlation. Instead what they found is that the policy preferences of the wealthy were quite well represented.

> America is suffering from misuse of the money taken from all sources used to prop up two political parties so that they are immune to their own actions.

This makes no sense. Both political parties are in fact propped up by their wealthy and corporate donors. If you look at the establishment of both parties, you will find that they are indeed quite cozy with your beloved billionaire class. Paul Graham has given hundreds of thousands for example: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=paul+g..., and he is a fairly mild example.

> All this talk of fair wages, $15 an hour, while they lavish pensions on their public employee buddies to the tune of a 100k or more per year, while they gain seats on various commissions and committees paying them 200k a year for part time work all on our dime.

Why shouldn't ordinary workers have retirement benefits? It used to be part of the deal: you devote your life to the company, and get to have a decent, comfortable retirement. In the private sector, unions are so weak/nonexistent that these benefits are gone, but why is that a good thing to you? Similarly, if you refuse to pay politicians a good salary, then only the wealthy will become politicians. I guess to you, that would be a good thing, but most of us would prefer having more ordinary people in power, not fewer.
The action is placed in 2050 and nothing prevents the actual population to change their numbers in the next years, is just a way to say lottazillions of people
is he not worried about getting in trouble for divulging this?
Everyone please stop blaming coral bleaching on climate change. Nitrogen run-off from farming is the main cause. We need to reduce nitrogen enrichment in farming, which will lead to lower yields and lower profits (or, more likely, higher prices). But blaming climate change here is an egregious example of green washing which will prevent or delay resolving the real issue. Stop it. Please.

"Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment is often associated with coral reef decline. Consequently, there is a large consent that increased nutrient influxes in reef waters have negative longterm consequences for corals"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187734351...

"Increased loadings of nitrogen (N) from fertilizers, top soil, sewage, and atmospheric deposition are important drivers of eutrophication in coastal waters globally. Monitoring seawater and macroalgae can reveal long-term changes in N and phosphorus (P) availability and N:P stoichiometry that are critical to understanding the global crisis of coral reef decline"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-019-3538-9
> In the meantime, there are some longstanding operational initiatives — efforts that predate my arrival at the Postal Service — that have been raised as areas of concern as the nation prepares to hold an election in the midst of a devastating pandemic. To avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, I am suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded.
>1) effective

Maybe if the virus is as deadly as anthrax or ebola, but for covid its not worth it.
Indeed. High skilled labor and research is also often trained for free by universities, so we can put pharmaceutical companies, mining companies, etc. there too. Hospitals often provide free healthcare for the workers, and municipalities often provide waste management for a very modest fee.

In fact—as you point out—the average company in most industries relies heavily on state provided infrastructure, that they get to use for free (or a really modest price).
This is funny, but I think the real insidious reason is that it takes away the "saying your name" psychological advantage.
As silly as that firing is, I wonder if Apple has really changed that much in those 13 years. I like that they are trying to produce hardware as sustainable as possible, but if they were really interested in going green, then they probably shouldn’t be trying to sell you a new iPhone every year. I mention this, because it’s another example of how silly they kind of are when you look at it.

I think you have to go waaaay back to the garage days to find an Apple that wasn’t the Coca Cola of computers/phones/tablets/iPods.

Not sure where you’re going to find a major company that isn’t kind of rotten. Most of them just have worse PR.
Did you run into memory protection?
Nitpick: The name of the Swiss entity appears to be “RISC-V International Association”, notably an association, not a foundation.

[1] https://riscv.org/about/history/#international
The same kind of deal making happens in the VC/PE world? Isn't it true that you not only get money investments from VC/PE firms but also get connections and deal-making with their portfolio companies. In that way it is quite similar. Either you are in the club or you are not.
Soooo you still live in our society? Including using bottled water? Cloth from overseas? Consuming highly processed food?

You are very much dependent.

Whats the difference between me, working in tech, having a good job, great money and being able to put everything i earn in my own land and become independent with something between 40 and 50 versus you? Stoped working, doing small jobs barely making it, not having any money for any sustainable development on your own?

If you are not doing it, everyone else will do.

Either you understand and accept that the world is going to look different in 50 years and you are ready for it with the minimum footprint you need or you go more extreme to try to change something.

And even if you do know that you might not change the world, if you would sacrifice for the society, the money you would earn in tech would allow you, as a single person, to funnel the money from the economy where you want to. You would do more good then tthe other person who is now doing your job and who is just spending and consuming it somehow.

And just to clarify another thing: In tech you are able to go to your boss and work half time and even then you would have more possibilities then in any other job.
The more nuanced version of the same comment would've been to point out that it's no co-oindence that rappers commonly choose an alter ego (not just a pseudonym, but a character with different mannerisms and traits) under which to perform. On top of that, Eminem used an alter-alter-ego, Slim Shady, for his most egregious lyrics, and conversely used his birth name to lend realism and humility to the songs that were (or alleged to be) honest about his real life details.
>>>without lifting a finger

They lifted many fingers to become billionaires. You are denigrating them in order to cover for your own inadequacies of effort, skill, and competence.
As much as I love the idea of a single page, I've seen massive Slate docs where time-to-interactive is 10 seconds or more because even a modern browser on a modern machine struggles to layout such massive volume of docs.

See, for instance, Spreedly's documentation - an incredible service btw for future-proofing your payments stack and allowing PCI-compliant routing to practically any payment processor. (Not affiliated, just a happy customer!) The only time I'm not a happy customer, though, is when I'm time-constrained and have to load the docs, because this is their Lighthouse report:

https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com//lh/html?ur...

> Performance score 8/100, first contentful paint 9.5s, TTI 16.1s, 5s for style & layout, 3.5s for rendering, 43k DOM elements

All that said, Slate is really great. I'm certainly not asking for Spreedly or anyone else to switch tech for their docs. The benefits outweigh the costs.

And I get that you can't have gradually-laid-out content and also preserve scroll position on refresh in a responsive environment. Theoretically, you could, but you'd need to exactly measure your text size at dozens of responsive breakpoints and pre-set each section's height, which would require a headless browser as part of the compile pipeline. And the last thing we want, especially this week, is advocating for documentation sites to take longer to compile. So perhaps this is the local optimum. But hopefully there are other more creative solutions!
> The problem is not per se that execs at NPOs pocket millions of dollars.

It is, because money is not infinite so those resources spend on high level execs could be spend way effectively elsewhere.

> interest in attracting (and retaining!) high quality staff.

I know ton of high quality people (researchers) and they aren’t pay millions of dollars. A C-level desk warmer could do its job as effectively if paid a high, yet decent (in comparison to the average wage) amount.
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Without knowing your exact situation, one thing to keep in mind is that the preferred value (last valuation / # of shares) of a share is generally a good bit higher than the tax liability (value of a common share from the 409a minus your strike). Still likely a big tax hit, but perhaps slightly better. IMO changes to tax law for illiquid assets is the best but most unlikely option here.
I'm curious what you mean by complementary workers.

In the example of immigrants doing hard manual labor, especially agricultural work, who are the complementary workers? I'd infer it's workers like the people who transport crops around or operate the machinery to plant / grow the crops, etc.

Is that close to the meaning you intended?
I believe they are referring to posting a picture of one's hog
That's precisely my point. Startup work is not any more meaningful or everlasting than work at a big company. GP claimed PMs at big companies only come up with meaningless work but I think the work is meaningless almost everywhere. Every human needs purpose but pouring yourself into something that is very likely to have so little permanent impact seems foolish. I think there is a desperate call for balance in life which is why work-life balance provided by stable companies is valuable, not because the work you do there is any more or less important than a startup.
This is great. I can say I've used and encountered literally all of these techniques many times in every Haskell codebase I've joined and built.

The concise cost/benefit analysis very helpful.
> I spent a long time working on things like Wayland and next-generation graphics technology

I don't know you, so this might come off as overly aggressive. But very little that happens in the FOSS/Linux space and has to do with graphics I would describe with "next gen". Wayland for example is meant as the "ring to rule them all" as a way to drive displays, yet it doesn't even support color management, so it's increasingly useless in a world of non-sRGB displays. X11 does color management (in a cludgy way), for example.
The (smart)lights in my office turn on at 9am. At 4:30 they turn red. At 5:00pm they turn off. I never stay in my office past when the lights turn off.
No. I don’t want to live in a country where the government can force people to have any kind of test.

It’s one thing to have misconceptions about vaccines and tests but government mandated medical treatment is totally different and completely unacceptable.
Everything you're talking about is really just small companies, not startups at all.

Go to work for an established, profitable, small company. Make a good salary and have a fulfilling career.
Sure, but in many cases the politicians who are statistically able to win office are about as likely to do something meaningful (and not just symbolic) about these issues as the tech billionaires are.
Evolution has local optima. Octopus and dolphins kind of have the intelligence to create civilizations but they are stuck in water. Dolphins never have the time to re-evolve feet because predators will hunt them down. There are C3 and C4 plants [1] but without technology, it is very unlikely that C3 plants become C4 plants.

Enter technology, and food production can be optimized. Combine those processes with others, and you can create plants that don't exist yet but are much better at creating food.

Technology doesn't mean that plants are outright destroyed. But it is very likely that new processes will be more efficient. To hedge against the threat of not knowing, seed banks will be kept. A risky move compared to keeping nature alive, but I doubt that anybody in power will maintain a rain forest over using the area for more efficient means of energy and resource creation.

Maintaining nature only makes sense if we are interested in knowledge as the primary driver. But the primary driver is power. Like Alexandria and Baghdad, there is no way that knowledge will be maintained when it stands in the way of power.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation
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I personally don't think that "it would help criminals" is a good argument against any piece of technology nowadays. Distributors of illegal content already have, TOR, torrents, offshore servers and probably hundreds of other custom solutions at their disposal, so yet another distribution network does not seem like a real concern.

I do however see how the fear that one's servers might be used to store CP or equally problematic content could stop Filecoin and similar systems from getting adoption.
They do. He's paying sales tax to buy them, he's paying for the wages for people that built then. Consumption is when the money starts to trickle down. I think I'd be ok with forcing super-rich to spend their money or taxing then above some level. Let's make the limit somewhere around GDP of a smaller European country (Slovakia - ~105bn, Ukraine - ~140bn) & tax above that.
Do you happen to have the link? This sounds really cool.

I worked on something similar for fun as a side project, didn’t get far. It was sort of based on how the Sims game has these stats, but not a video game, more of self improvement tool.
Tongue in cheek - kind of? If a country can try banning the export of cryptography, why not try banning the export of programming languages to say China? After all US companies make lots of important ones!
No other way to read it, unfortunately.
Thanks! I had missed that.
I don't exactly give a shit, I googled Bezos current net worth. I'm savvy enough to know it's not liquid cash, if you're trying to make a snarky remark. Or you could just say what you mean.
Pony: Lock-less, data-race-free concurrency
I think you might not be understanding what I mean. I'd like to be able to use Filecoin as a backend storage that will only serve up data to people in a particular group.

Take the example of a traditional website or web application like Facebook. When I post content I can select who will be able to access that content and there is no way for anyone NOT in the groups I select to pull down that data even in an encrypted form.

If Filecoin operated this way, then there would be no way for anyone to archive the data, because they could not access it in the first place.
A more detailed, colorful map (Google Maps)
I think you're too quick to dismiss it. It's one thing to know that it exists and another to recognize that it's somewhere between 20-40% of your total traffic, especially unprompted. I've had many conversations where people assumed their traffic numbers was real until this point was raised, at which point everyone metaphorically slapped their foreheads and realized that they had forgotten to take this into account.
Undergraduate and Graduate Students’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yes - you're absolutely right in that data is a messy business.

Even in the early days we've seen crazy data types and constraints that makes our job of completely automating the process hard. However, every instance of this makes the product better and this transfers to the next customer.

> You really need an analysis phase that can tell a customer whether their data will work or not

This is part of the roadmap, it's a non-trivial piece of engineering. In the meantime you can try it for free and see if it works for you :)
Paul Graham should model living on a static minimum wage while cost of living goes up.
It's true, it's possible a nation-state could colonize mars. But there is a problem for the US.

Presidents come to office, scrap the previous adminstration's space goals, create their own new goals and then their's are scrapped by the next admin before they come to fruition. It takes more than 8 years (the max a president can serve) to really follow through on an ambitious vision for space.

Billionaires can stick with it longer.
Maybe. I don't know that there's an objective way for us to convince each other.

Subjectively, I just can't see "streaming media player that is good enough" as a long term differentiator. Seems like too limited a domain. I'm not dismissing "good software is hard," but this isn't iphone vs android. It's more comparable to a single app.

Recommendation algorithms... I honestly think this is overemphasized. It's selecting from a pretty shallow content pool. This isn't TikTok/Youtube/Instagram/spotify etc. Discovery just isn't that big a problem when there are circa 2000 options.

Online streaming is a content game, ultimately. You can't win on tech, I think.
Why My iPod Classic Is the One Gadget I Always Pack
I am submitting this link somewhat in response to this article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24200337
Japan specifically chooses not to do mass testing because they don't think it's effective.
https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/vol-ismp/25_bixb...

The story narrated by Bixby, the cofounder of CPLEX and Gurobi the two best available commercial mathematical optimization solvers. The magic happened in CPLEX V6.5 back in 1999 with almost 10x y—o-y performance improvement.
Now, there are people sensitive to a certain kind of insoluble fibre, and if you are you might have some trouble on a vegan diet, but these people are in a minority. Apart from people wanting to avoid FODMAPs (the fibre group in question), the only problem I have heard of from friends becoming vegan is the transitory flatulence from eating beans.

Anecdotally the worst gastrointestinal problems I have ever had was on whatever version of the standard American diet I was served when visiting the states as a 20-something year old. I couldn't shit for 10 days...
I beg to differ. We still have no idea which policy will prove correct in the long run because the Covid-19 timeline (6–8 months) is still too short. It's not outside the realm of possibility that letting the virus burn through the population is more beneficial; it's possible that in 2-3 years the United States will have herd immunity and Covid-19 is in the back-mirror, while countries that followed China's model still has to shut down cities relatively frequently as outbreaks inevitable occur.
Really if TikTok is a threat to Hollywood they should hang their heads in shame if absolute amateurs with short clips can do a better job than professionals.

One thing I don't get about porn is why it remains so pariahed despite it being a foregone "pretty much everyone watches it at least occassionally single or couples". You still wouldn't list it on your LinkedIn profiles but you would think advertisers would be less afraid of it and you would see at least contraception ads preferred there as opposed to mostly circular porn advertising. There are few who would be offended by products for the recreationally sexually active who would actually use the product. Instead the only online ads I have seen for contraception are work youtube when it mistakes me for a woman.
If the ~50% of Americans who choose not to vote, actually did, that would by definition change the politicians who are "able to win."
Justin here, thanks for your interest. ;-) On the point of professors attracting grad students interested in seeing and participating in the prof's work... That's true and it is a major element of what I'm doing. Many of the people who take my courses do so to stimulate/improve some kind of personal creative or intellectual project; I write books and such alongside the courses, and we occasionally discuss strategy, tactics, workflows, etc. So it is very similar to the working relationships I had with grad students in the university. The only difference is now my students aren't hoping to land academic jobs, they just want to do meaningful work and make their dent on the world through the internet.
There are a host of reasons both, practical and philosophical, to oppose a wealth tax. The impact on founders and startups is at best a second or third order one and ultimately is a distraction more than anything.