skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the point somehow change if you run that same math for the 100th, 1000th, or 10000th most wealthy individual?
"Political power" is an unavoidable side effect of having power, simply – this almost reads like a tautology, but it's worth keeping in mind that the former is effectively an extension of the latter.

I argue money is power in a free market society. I'm not sure there is a way to fix the first part of that sentence without completely modifying the latter.
Another early browser is MidasWWW. I found some code dump or something a few years ago and tried to build it[0] and after a few modifications to fix some C stuff that i guess at the time were accepted by compilers, i got it mostly working. The main issue (as can be seen from the image) is the main bar placement - from what i could tell the browser was made using a modified version of Motif for some workstation which wasn't 100% compatible with the "standard" Motif. The fix would probably be trivial but at that point i had lost interest :-P.

I uploaded the modified code to Mediafire[1] some time ago when someone asked for it, just in case you want to try compiling it yourself. Note that most of my changes were quick hacks to get things compiling, not proper fixes. The dates in the archive indicate the files i modified. The original code can now be found at GitHub[2] (though i'm not sure if it is the exact same code i used myself - looks similar enough though).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/W37vhBW.png

[1] http://www.mediafire.com/file/sr956k2fokms73d/file

[2] https://github.com/dckc/MidasWWW
Vector language users are passionate about their power and heartbroken that so few have had the transformative opportunity to really get to learn them.
Shadow traffic: site visits that are not captured by typical analytics providers
I wonder if this would work for coding!
It's always worth remembering in these conversations that the thing which for you is a MUST MUST MUST do, doesn't matter for someone else.

Personally, when I started working from home more way back when, I definitely did things like dress up business casual, worked from my home office, etc.

These days, I pretty much break all the rules. It's a case of being reasonably disciplined about working hours while still having some flexibility. I guess I've internalized a loose routine to the point where I don't need the props any longer.
>The people have voted to decriminalize vehicle break-ins

BINGO! Isn't there a really, really old saying about not crapping where you sleep?
This is a pretty sane move on MS's part...

I find it reasonable that an OS doesn't let you remove what may be the only browser on the system, for a lot of reasons.

I read this as a push to really ditch IE in the very near future, and don't really mind at all.

In no particular order

- Something has to provide a native webview for desktop applications

- MS has no default package manager for users, and doesn't provide browser downloads on their "store" (or at least I wasn't able to find any, I may be missing something). So removing the browser may leave a user unable to bootstrap another browser onto the system (at least once IE is actually gone) without outside help or another machine.

- The browser itself takes up a pretty negligible amount of disk space, there isn't really any benefit to removing it (unless MS is playing dirty and starting it behind the scenes, but at least in my usage, I haven't seen this). So these users don't want it "GONE", they just want to desktop shortcut removed (and I actually agree, MS shouldn't push as hard here).

- There are lots of system integrations that expect at least one browser to exist, removing the only shipped browser may break these, or add a lot of complexity to some feature implementations.
Here's Peter Hessler in the New Yorker on life in China over the past few months: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/how-china-cont...

Basically it seems they do have things well under control.
No, but your wireless carrier has all the information, and if you have an Android phone with location services turned on, then Google has it all too.
Cloud providers don't care about security – and they shouldn't
Thanks for the clarification, I looked into it a bit more and it looks like what you get on the radio section is a Shoutcast client with 3 exclusive stations. I would assume the integration is a better feature sell than the exclusivity agreements. It seems more of a cheaper competitor to SiriusXM when viewed this way, where instead of leaning on the Shoutcast broadcasters to fill in a sparse radio section, they actually run a bunch of their own curated stations.
No need for /s, judging by some comments made above Australians are as happy to house-arrest thousands of their fellow citizens with no trial, no anything, just because said citizens happened to live in the same building as some other people who got the virus. And all this is presented as healthy competition with neighboring New Zealand.

If someone would have told me one year ago that this discourse would have been seen as normal in a non-dictatorship country like Australia I would have branded said person as a lunatic.
> I heard her call him Jake (nowhere in his name legal name)
> Someone who is just getting into tech may be allured by a 50k salary and "1 MILLION OPTIONS!!!!"

This reminds me of a job offer from a startup I interviewed with that offered me a specific number of options, but wouldn't tell me anything that I could use to value them, effectively forcing me to value them at $0.
what utter fear mongering bullshit
That applies to people put under quarantine. I'm not sure if the US has a similar tracking system in place, but they can heavily restrict your freedoms if you're under quarantine. Presumably you'd be given a choice of the aggressive tracking or be locked up somewhere.
Oh absolutely, I didn’t mean to imply falling growth will neatly solve all the issues they listed so much as continue my one sided feud with our distorted ideas of future population levels.

Should have left out the income quip at the end in hindsight!
One feature that is overlooked from the Chinese response is the rapid contact tracing on a community level through the communist party's Neighborhood Committee. This could be duplicated in the west without authoritarianism through more effective community engagement. For more information, read this article by a New Yorker journalist:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/how-china-cont...
Google Maps is getting a lot more detail
It's likely a scam. If the name is worth four figures now, you should continue sitting on it and see if you can turn it into a five-figure offer.
It supports open-ended transcription too: https://voice2json.org/commands.html#open-transcription

Users have reported good accuracy with the English Deepspeech profile: https://github.com/synesthesiam/voice2json-profiles
> I don't know what he's _trying_ to do

He's trying to justify policies that keep himself rich.
Plenty of seafood is farmed. The majority of shrimp for instance comes from farms.
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Reminds me of this scene from The Wire

(NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5aIvjNgao
Normal p-n junctions (including solar panels and ordinary semiconductors) are light sensitive because one photon of light can strike and transfer its energy into creating one electron-hole pair (promoting one electron from the valence band to conduction band). This is called "optical generation", in contrast to "thermal generation". These electron-hole pairs are generated in the depletion region of the junction where they are quickly swept across by strong electric fields that arise from the junction itself. But in general, one photon = one electron-hole pair -- at most.

Avalanche photodiodes already exist and convert a single incident photon into multiple charge carriers. They do this using an externally-applied electric field. This externally-applied electric field enables "impact ionization" which means that one mobile charge carrier seems to be able to knock another one loose.

(As a thought experiment: imagine a bed of pebbles. Toss in another pebble, and it's likely to kick one of the existing pebbles free. Now, pretend the bed of pebbles is at a 45-degree angle to gravity. Toss a pebble in and it's more likely that the ejected pebble will itself kick another pebble loose when it lands. Make the angle steep enough and you get an "avalanche", hence the name.)

As far as I can tell, the novelty here is that the high electric field is created by the geometry and materials at the surface of the nanoscale needle structure, so some version of the avalanche effect happens without needing to apply an external electric field.

In the headline, efficiency refers to quantum efficiency (electrons per photon); conservation of energy still applies.
I had heard that theory before as well. I think possibly from a Yuval Noah Harari book. His overall thesis is that the structure of society follows technology. E.g. hunter gatherer societies tend to have very common religious beliefs which are different than agricultural societies which have other beliefs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-n...
100% agree. I'm in the low 7-figures right now (on paper), and will probably be mid-7 with the next round of funding. So I have 0 chance of affording the taxes if I wanted to leave, and am kind of at the whim of the board if they want to extend my window.

It's not a great feeling, especially when you contributed a lot to the company at a very early stage. I am glad there's companies popping up to help with this problem, like ESO Fund, but in my opinion the companies should be trying to fix this instead.
We provide a wealth safety net to insure against large loss of capital, think TARP, so then some portion of benefits from large increases should also be shared.

It is unfair to ask a country to socialize your losses, but not benefit from your wins.
Indeed. A high-level programming language (e.g. Python) does not allow you to do _more_ than assembly but _less_. But it helps you declutter the presentation to such a great extent that realistically you could not write Python program in assembly.
I take baths before bed most nights, but I'll try this!
Due to COVID, I put most of my food at home in a spreadsheet to track inventory so I could figure out how much I had to buy on each shopping trip to last for a week or two.

At the moment I have 54938 calories of food on hand (not counting tomatoes, lettuce, and onions that I do not track because I only use them as sandwich toppings or for small salads where they contribute negligible calories).

This cost $171.44. That works out to $7.49 for 2400 calories.

Most of this is heat and serve stuff. E.g., there are some mini deep dish pizzas, some frozen breakfast sandwiches (think Sausage McMuffin clones), Hormel "Compleats" entrees, instant rice cups, add water and nuke mashed potatoes, canned soup, and such. Another big group is things for sandwiches: bread, sliced meats, condiments. An assortment of things that don't require any cooking or prep, such as protein bars and potato chips. Finally, ham steaks, liquid egg substitute, and frozen mixed vegetables.

It turns out I'm spending somewhere between 1/2 to 1/3 of what I spent on food pre-COVID. The interesting thing is that it is not a hassle. I always knew I could eat a lot cheaper if I cooked at home, but that also took a lot more time. But for most of what I'm keeping now, cooking is really just putting it in the microwave or in a frying pan for a while. That doesn't really take much time at all.

When COVID is done I will go back to getting take out--but only now and then for variety. I don't think it will ever go back to being my main food source.

I will probably gradually add more things made at home from lower level ingredients, which should bring the cost down some more, and can probably be done without adding much more time.
InVision refreshes its Design System Manager
This is a duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190085
A recent report from New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/how-china-cont...
Before the internet, people used to behave differently depending upon "which hat" they were wearing...
US/Canada Farmed Steelhead Trout, Rainbow Trout:
http://seafood.edf.org/trout

Arctic Char:
http://seafood.edf.org/arctic-char

US Farmed Tilapia:
http://seafood.edf.org/tilapia

US Farmed Catfish:
http://seafood.edf.org/catfish

Basically, avoid any fish farmed in Asia, as there are no environmental regulations on those.
I don't know anyone making stupendous amounts of money. I know of only one guy making a FAANG salary. I suck at life and I suppose the high performers socialize with their own kind.
Most seafood is produced and sold by the hungry poor. You're not doing them any favors by boycotting their goods.
Not sure about the first question, but as to the second: If you are starting a startup, especially for the first time, you absolutely need to get a good startup lawyer. Ours* charged $500/hr and was worth every penny. Saved our asses many times.

* https://www.bierlegal.com/
Hey guys - here's just some critical feedback from a fellow dev - here's my n of 1 perspective - of course this could be a very different perspective for e.g. large enterprise companies struggling with this.

Feedback:

It seems overly complicated. You lost me when you said i have to train models? Are you assuming that software developers want to train machine learning models to do something as simple as creating some test data? In reality - I reach for tools that make things easier for me, which includes not having to read a ton of documentation, download new external tools, and things that 'just work'.

It is 100% easier for me to export a little production data to test on (and maybe sanitize), or to write a small script to generate a few users and those things I need to test. Plus - then I know exactly what I'm going to get. A lot of times, after I've done this once, it will work for a good while as well - if I do change the schema, I can add some additional data for that column, and go from there, or otherwise.

For those companies who have 'messy' fixture data - is the tool the issue? My take is that the difficulty with maintaining the data could contribute to this issue, but is also more an issue of simply bad housekeeping - e.g. rushing and not tending the garden. While your system might handle this, your system also seems to require a different skillset (e.g. specific training/knowledge) than the standard QA developer might have.

If I did use it, i'd prefer it to be much easier to use - if I could include a ruby gem, and incorporte it into the testing progress, e.g. an 'after' hook after migrating the db, that would be ideal. Then, I dont really need to know much. However, I would still be concerned about whether this is deterministically creating data or if its random?

Good luck!
> NSOs are ultimately worth maybe 10%-20% less than "equivalent" ISOs

I'm at a company that gives NSOs. Can you explain what you mean when you say that NSOs are worth less than ISOs?
All but 5 of those families have less wealth than MacKenzie Scott; whose claim to fame is marrying the son of a bike shop owner.

The odds of breaking in to that list are something like 1 / 300,000,000 but evidence is anyone can do it. MacKenzie is also my subtle counterargument to "Look at the Waltons". Breaking up the wealth ain't always voluntary.
Take a computer-nonliterate but otherwise functionally competent adult with very limited vision (macular degeneration, glaucoma, etc.), onset of cognitive disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, TIAs, ...) but compelled to use computers for some functions (utility payments, banking, government services, remote comms, socialisation, hobbies & interests).

The world contains numerous people who are not tech-savvy, capable, digital natives. And even a large fraction of that population would fall prey to attacks of this nature.

Please show more awareness and compassion. Perhaps beginning with your handle.
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> Taxes reduce profitability and therefore limit risk taking behaviour by companies.

But taxes provide services that give people a greater safety net. Healthcare is the canonical example but there are many other ways that taxes can help ensure that one mistake does not ruin the rest of your life.

Personally, I would love to live in a country where businesses took fewer risks and individuals could take more.
Depression in British adults doubles during coronavirus crisis
Didn't striking down net neutrality rule that internet lines are NOT public utilities?
Give CGPGrey's "Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You" a watch -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck

In large majority it's about making dedicated spaces, which can be hard in a small space. But you can at least make dedicate mindsets spaces. Ex: I do these 5 things to prepare my desk for work at the start of the day, and I do these 5 things to clean up my desk at the end of the work day. These can be routines or physical things you do (Ex: get out work laptop, work notebook, etc).

I'd strongly believe in coming up with a schedule that works for you and your needs. Then try and stick to that schedule. In my case, I (San Francisco Bay Area) have calls with Europe starting at 7am every morning. So I get up at 6:30, take a shower (always, never skip, even if I slept late), put my shoes on, have calls for at least 2 hours. At about 9am I take an hour to make breakfast (and eat) for my wife and I.

Also, if you have trouble "disconnecting" yourself at the end of the day, turn off notifications from work apps on your phone. If you're someone who say has your work email and slack on your phone. Tell people that if it's urgent they can text/call you.
Your logic is faulty.

> "the mass die-offs we're seeing are because the world's coral reefs will be dead by 2050"

This does not make sense.

Let's break it down:

This is what you're saying:

"The [current thing happening] is due to [the occurrence of a future thing]."

Clearly, something in the present is not due a dependency on an event which has not happened yet.

What you should perhaps say is something more like:

"The [current thing happening] is due to [the same causality] as what will cause/is causing [the future occurrence]."
There are a LOT of bots and crawlers with bogus browser user agents.

Some of the bad ones you can select see indirectly in logs because they pick UAs that almost no one uses any more. Go search your logs for IE8 or Firefox <= 70.0. Most just pick a random modern User Agent though and that's awfully hard to see in server logs.
I really enjoy reading the Backblaze analysis on this every year, it's such a valuable and interesting data set. I do have one suggestion: it would be great to go one step further and add confidence intervals for the AFR estimates. E.g. if you see 0 drive failures, you don't really expect an AFR of 0 (that is not the maximum likelihood estimate), and the range of AFR's you expect for each drive decreases as a function of the number of drive days (e.g. if one drive has 1 day of use, we know basically nothing about AFR so confidence interval would be ~0-100% (not really, but still quite large), or it would be smaller if you wanted to add a prior on AFR).

It would also be interesting to see the time-dependence (i.e. does AFR really look U-shaped over the lifetime of a drive?). That would require a dataset with every drive used, along with (1) number of active drive days, and (2) a flag to indicate if the drive has failed and of course (3) which kind of drive it is. Does Backblaze offer this level of granularity?

EDIT: They offer the raw data dumps!

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html#downl...

Backblaze, god bless you.
Much lower water usage and impact on the land used though, even if it's bad soil and you have to use a ton of fertilizer.
At least she doesn't need the costume: https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html
This is a standard thing in English academic grammar. When you are listing multiple entities, you list them alphabetically. That's the most likely the reason for how it was written. Academic papers list all authors alphabetically and papers are named are named after the first few authors.
If you throw an apple at an orange tree, you can knock down an orange. Someone did even better and figured out how to get two oranges to fall about 3/10 of the time.
As GoOnThenDoTell pointed out, they could probably independently pay for Firefox developers but it'd probably be a messy approach.

Keep in mind that the Mozilla foundation gets something like $10 million in donations per year while the Corporation gets $500 million per year from Firefox search deals. So donations are a drop in the bucket compared to the existing revenue streams.
>Only a few will make personal sacrifice for the common good.

Are you vegetarian? I chose to, only because I want mankind to live on this planet for a long time. That's not a sacrifice, that's a basic choice. I'm not sacrificing stuff when I chose to behave responsibly (e.g driving safely, not stealing my neighbors, paying taxes, etc). Do you think people only pay taxes because they fear the police? Or they don't kill each others only to avoid going to jail? Of course they are abuses on our systems (like any social situation), but if you think most people behave responsibly only to avoid a kind of punishment, then you have a very dark idea of society or you hang out with bad people (that can change).
Global warming will free up an enormous amount of arable land (most land is in the northern hemisphere anyway)
If you like this "Life as a RPG" concept, I can't recommend Habitica [0] enough. Completely helped me structure everything I wanted to do in my life, and it's even open-source.

[0] https://habitica.com/
This isn't true of Protocol Labs. They have already shipped IPFS, which is already in substantial use. Filecoin's testnet is live now, they have not shipped mainnet yet, but it's pretty imminent at this point. There are certainly some ICO scams out there, but I do not believe Filecoin was one of them. I still think $200m was too much, too soon. However, they didn't issue the tokens to themselves under the table. They issued a SAFT agreement for tokens to accredited investors in the United States, abiding by SEC regulations. They allocated 10 percent to investors, 15 percent to themselves, 5 percent to the Filecoin foundation, and 70 percent for Filecoin miners. That was all part of the upfront ICO.

It could turn out to be a flop, but the only people that would lose would be accredited investors who, according to regulations, should know better. I would say Filecoin has at least as good of a chance of succeeding as any ordinary VC investment.
I've seen startups willingly train their new employees to think about equity in broken or meaningless terms. Early in my career I sat through a discussion of equity with a VP of engineering where they explained that our options would always be priced ~$4 on acquisition and $12 on IPO. The finance people would always just make it work that way regardless of the number of options in the pool and the total valuation.

I also once joined a company to be told 3 months in that the board was not approving any new-hire grants as the valuation/appraisal work had expired - and that it wasn't reasonable for me to ask them to pay 90k just to approve the options they had granted.

At this point in my career having worked in FAANG, I wouldn't value private equity at all unless I could take 20-50% of the company. It's not even a lottery ticket anymore, and has just become a way for executives to exploit information asymmetry.

I'd be curious if any startups have explored venture debt arrangements with employees to guarantee that they receive meaningful deferred compensation. Or if there are other mechanisms to publicly show that the equity is meaningful in most successful outcomes.
Why the need for the corporation? The foundation could hire employees, coordinate development, etc. right?