skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right - he has a great trove of knowledge, small tidbits of wisdom, some interesting and very abstract perspective of life, etc. He then combobulates it with how to get rich and other topics which are entirely different.

For example, he thinks that we should always be working for ourselves and building leverage. But ignores that most people actually don't want to run their own company and hire people. They're pretty content with their jobs and theyve got other priorities besides making money. He probably looks down on people like Chris McCandless (Into the Wild) who has a completely immaterialistic view of the world.

Great philosophers push their ideas without pulling down other's. Also humbleness comes from the ground up state of mind that our thoughts, no matter how convinced we're to ourselves, is not universally applicable and we should respect others who may not share the road to englightenment.

Furthermore, he looks down on things like:

- Audiobooks and speed reading. They're useless he claims because only the intellectuals actually read them and only then they can comprehend what's being said.
Just knowing something is true without knowing why is a lot less helpful in figuring out what else is true.
The article starts off with a report of what sounds like an actual helicopter, but then the bulk of the article is about reports of lights moving around and changing direction far faster than a helicopter could.

The author seems to be deliberately confusing the two for the reader. But obviously an article about a couple of rogue helicopter visits wouldn't be worth reading about.
Not sure that's the conclusion at all, I've certainly read quite a few stories of very fit and healthy people becoming quite ill. While we all want a quick fix to this I think we need to let the scientists do their work and approach treatment methodically rather than jumping to solutions that confirm our own biases.
In many cases that is correct, but in practice this will never happen.
I think you mean wine.

Honestly though, a lot of games are now native for linux. There are very few games that I need wine for nowadays (and there is no game that I want but can't play)
> Longer term, the company may offer to audit customers’ AI systems for ethical integrity, and charge for ethics advice.

If Google'll act as any other company in a free market, then this'd seem like a neat offering. Maybe it'll be a helpful service, or maybe it'll be a flop; but, worst-case scenario, just don't use their service if it's no good.

But the language of "auditing" and "charg[ing] for ethics advice" sounds almost like someone's laying the groundwork for regulatory authority over AI.
They take 30%? More like 3% or less.
The difference is risk. If I take a risk like that, I end up living with my parents. They just fail and move on to the next failure, or a success.
If I had enough money, I would rewild and reforest land in large and small tracts. A small part of forestry planting for timber/logging.

I tell my friends in tropical parts of the world to start investing in planting hardwood acreages with valuable wood like ebony, sandalwood, agarwood, rosewood, teak etc. these are slow growing and will ‘grow’ with their children and can fund their futures.

But they are also logged and smuggled for their value. Made me wonder if planting and caring for monetarily valuable slow growing trees in location protected forests a viable business model?

It sounds good but when I tried to price it (land acquisition and costs of forest management, logging, permits, security, labour, paperwork), I can’t crunch the numbers. I don’t even know where to start. Thoughts?
I remember this from back in the 90's when I was a kid. You'd get into this little platform and they'd lower an arm with a ring around you to keep you from walking out and hurting yourself. Then they put a heavy, bulky helmet on and gave you a pointer device to hold straight out at arms length for the entire time you played. It was super fun even with terrible graphics but by the end of it my arms and neck were awfully sore.

And as far as I can remember, my brother and I were the only two customers we ever saw in there during weekends and we went at least twice a month until it went out of business
What's wrong with vanishing scrollbar? I prefer them this way. The first thing my emacs config file does is to hide scrollbar.
No. But you should expect (I think?) the grocery store not to ban the cookie maker from packing notes about how to order from the maker directly. (Edit: I mentioned that because, per the story, I think Apple has a policy of prohibiting you from telling users how to circumvent Apple's cut.)

I actually don't know if grocery stores generally require this -- maybe they do. I suspect it's not an issue because it's generally going to be more expensive to do one-off orders directly from the OEM, unless it's an order too large for the grocery store to want to manage anyway.

Edit 2: Earlier comment where I made your point in a different context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23162403
> Well, to be brutally honest with you, it's one thing for you to be proud of yourself for playing video games, but why would anyone else see that as something pride-worthy?

For exactly the same reasons anyone thinks that reading novels is pride-worthy. People who plays some of the more complicated niche games have some respect from me at least.

Similarly getting good at a game requires dedication and work, so people with good ranks in games also has some respect from me.
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I think you posted this comment on the wrong post, but anyway:

In this case, no, and it's actually slightly inefficient to pass those variables as arguments, because a copy of the argument has to be made. This copying matters more if the argument is a big struct or another large value.

However often it is useful to use arguments, for example when calling a goroutine in a loop. For example:

for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
go func() {
fmt.Println(i)
}()
}

vs

for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
go func(i int) {
fmt.Println(i)
}(i)
}

have different behaviours, because the first receives the (changing) `i` variable itself, whereas the second receives a copy of `i` at each iteration. The second behaviour is often the behaviour we actually want.

Something like

for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
i := i
go func() {
fmt.Println(i)
}()
}

also works as expected.
Privatize the profits - socialize the costs.
> They're only the same by name which is unfortunate, because it's completely new.

I certainly wouldn't say that. Full Framework .Net and .Net Core are _far_ more similar than they are different - they share a very large common base class library API surface in Net Standard.

A huge percentage of .Net MVC 3-5 (full framework) applications could be migrated to .Net Core MVC in a matter of hours to days.

You don't even have to specifically target .Net Core in a lot of cases - v2 included a compatibility shim so that libraries targeting full framework just work as long as they don't call any of the API's that were in full framework but are not in the Core runtime.

The main differences are in startup configuration of your web app and how you go about implementing cross-cutting concerns that might inspect or intercept every request - but even for a lot of common things like authentication there are similar extension points to what existed previously.

There are some particular technologies - like WCF Server or Linq2Sql - that are hard blockers if you were relying on them - but by and large moving from older full framework .Net to .Net Core is not that difficult and certainly doesn't require learning much new, especially fundamentals - it's mostly just some details of the web app framework.
It seems like you're making the argument that no color palettes are any more natural than any other color palettes, since all colors exist in nature, but I don't think that's the point of the article.

You may be right that #000 is not actually pure black, because of the light reflecting off the laptop screen and other such reasons, but when looking at an image, our brain tends to compensate for these things. It interprets colors based on the surrounding colors in the image. Introducing pure black into a color palette without being thoughtful can throw off the balance and create a color combination that feels "unnatural", since it would be rare to see colors with that sort of contrast side-by-side in nature.
To be pedantic, a government can be a collective noun for governing and ruling bodies, state-affiliated or not. And Apple, the iPhone team, the iOS team, and the App Store team are certainly governing how developers can act.
Closish, but not quite how I see it.

Having information does not imply having knowledge of it. For example, an engineer may not know which material can withstand a given environment (temperature, corrosion, pressure, etc) but they may be able to look it up in a book and select the appropriate material.

Knowledge is similar, except it's within the mind. For example, an engineer may know that the thermal coefficients for steel and concrete are similar, so the expected deformation under temperature change should be similar. But this doesn't mean that they necessarily understand why these two materials have similar coefficients, only that they do.

Understanding is a matter of cognitive appreciation of the underlying situation and is built around the parameters of a situation. For example, someone drowning understands that they need to grab something buoyant in order to breath. It's built on a base of knowledge, but it doesn't necessarily imply that they have knowledge of the complete situation. Even in science or software, there are things that one can know without understanding. Personal example: There was once a bug in ruby when built from source. I was tracking down a bug in production and I was unable to replicate it locally. So I finally got someone to shell into prod and run three lines of code for me. That code crashed even though it worked fine on literally every other computer I tried it on, including staging. I knew that the issue was with the production server, but I didn't understand why. It took further work to go from knowledge to understanding.

Wisdom is squishy. It correlates with experience, yes, but there are other factors that play into it as well. A child can be wise and choose not to associate with, say, a gang not because they've experienced it before, but because of something else. An inner reflection of the dangerousness of the situation and the courage or inner resolve to avoid it.
I read this a lot online, but strangely enough I see the opposite in practice. Young people who grew up immersed in social media are primed to recognize the difference between a rising social media star and the norm. It's the older people who associate any degree of notoriety with ultimate success who struggle to understand the difference between a super star and someone with a lot of social media followers.

> If I had seen the acrobatics you see daily on Reddit or the "casual home musicians" on Youtube, I'd probably have given up all my efforts.

But you wouldn't give up your efforts if you attended a concert of a famous musician, would you? Seeing a video with a million views on YouTube is a step below being a famous musician to young people.

If anything, seeing people gain small degrees of fame and notoriety without going all the way to the top of their field is even more motivating for young people. Seeing different levels of success drives home the point that success isn't binary, it's a spectrum.
It's fully legal, it's called UVP.

You state the price it "freely" cost on your product.

And if it cost somewhere more because additional costs is clearly visible.

Lastly this is not about saying "you can buy it cheaper there" but saying "apple gets 30% of this". Which the difference between not so nice marketing and making prices more transparent the later one is a fundamental part of a (working) free marked...
https://mobile.twitter.com/naval/status/1262182228148146178

Moreover, scroll through Naval’s twitter replies on May 17 and you’ll see that he trolls en masse a bunch of people who want to debate him regarding Canada.

He’s human, we’re all human, but you can imagine someone looking at his trolling spree and feeling a little sad, as I did. I used to admire him a lot, especially the way he tried to teach the importance of keeping your cool
It's just absurd that's any transaction

For the app? Sure. Hosting, vetoing, version control, etc. (Even if we forget that developers already have to pay $99 a year). I'm fine with that. I would be more than fine if that $99 got more expensive the more app downloads you had.

For just processing an IAP? With no volume discounts? It's ridiculous.

Sure, they don't want the "free app + unlocking IAP" but they could think this better.
> The only good thing is that the situation are getting better, as the older gen goes away slowly.

I do want to believe you, but most of the time it seems I am clutching at straws. The Hindu right is doing a pretty good job of catching them young and indoctrinating. At the same time there is ton of money flowing in from Saudi Arabia to do the honours for the other side.
That's silly.

If someone spends 100 hours coming up with, say a clickjacking vuln, it does not magically make it worth $5000. If someone spends 6 minutes coming up with zero-click sandbox bypass in chrome, its not just worth $5.

Severity matters not time, especially in a bug bounty. If you want the stability (and assurance) of actually getting paid reasonsbly and consistently for this you should get a job as a pentester.
Easier said than done. The most important prerequisites to getting successful treatment for ADHD are the abilities to:

- Stay focused while shopping for a psychiatrist for a problem that fills you with a sense of despair.

- Make appointments and consistently attend them.

- Clearly and persuasively explain to your loved ones how important it is to you for them to fill in a description of their memories of your childhood symptoms... and hope you weren't inattentive subtype. Spending hours reading history books isn't memorably annoying to parents like hyperactivity.

- Keep an organised record of the impacts of medication as you go through titration.

- Deal effectively with the administrative complexity of either health insurance or a new country's healthcare system. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUdadCsuRE)
Imagine a White person, who is the head of the organization in a country sharing a post that African Americans are a "degenerate community". In any western country, the person would not only be promptly sacked, but would also become untouchable in mainstream organizations.

The Indian politics and judiciary have been compromised by right wing Hindu nationalists and it is impossible to expect anything from them. However, I expected better from Facebook. In a western country Facebook wouldn't think twice about firing any employee who shared such a post.
> I would put a correction that Apple users specifically like walled gardens the app stores.

I don't disagree with you, but I don't think it's specifically liking walled gardens: it's rather about hating fragmentation.

It's the same thing with gamers who complain about Epic exclusives that want their entire game library on Steam, or people who complain about Disney/Hulu/Prime licensing titles that were previously on Netflix.

People just don't want to have multiple accounts.
This made me think back to something I once attended, an eye opening weekend cross cultural course, with the purpose of getting to know the different nationalities I worked with. Why they/we would act/speak/behave as we do. We were a full ball room with multiple nationalities.

One of the speaks was about how different north is from the south, even within a country. Also, a huge difference was between Europe and US. Europe being a very old continent, lots of history and US a fairly new one, just a couple of hundred years old. The speaker said youths in US and Europe had been asked about whether they believed they would become millionaires during their life. About 90% in US had said yes vs. about 9% in Europe. The long statistics in Europe and fact that not so many will succeed had made us more realistic, but this new conquer-spirit that started US a long time ago, was still there.
That's kind bad - first of all 50$ can be really low depending on the region, but more importantly this disregards the time spend on looking for exploits that don't pan out.

So I would multiply that 50$ by at least 4.

But still like the other said bugs should pay by severity not by time spent.
Or we could take the piece charitably and assume the best instead of asserting incorrect definitions. Especially given that common terminology is loose.

Alternately, we need formal language to talk about these concepts or we risk another "evolution is just a theory."
"How is that legal?" is never really a relevant question when it comes to Tesla or Elon Musk.
>you'd have an incentive to produce batteries just to throw them away.

the point of a deposit is that it's charged on the production, and only refunded on the return. you're not just paying people to return batteries. If there was a $5 deposit on a phone-sized lithium-ion battery, it would no longer be possible to buy those batteries for $1-2 because the deposit would have to be charged on import.
> It casts light on how we are asked to act in a work context though. And perhaps on how much you see yourself as primarily in that context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
At a cursory glance there might be. However this restriction will force companies to experiment with other designs. Maybe they'll have to use proper gaskets. Maybe phones will end up being 1mm thicker. These _might_ be negative, but IMO it's still better than the status quo: right now we're not putting a price on the hidden costs of littering the earth and wasting lithium. Ignore these externalities long enough and they will come back to bite you, the prime example being carbon emissions and global warming.
> Perhaps your answers to 1 and 8 just revealed a dark trait in you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
> I've studied this pretty extensively and honestly don't think it'll ever happen. At least unless the current paradigm of supply changes massively.

"I don't think we will see any changes in the industry, unless the industry changes." Kind of tautological, no?

> Most of these businesses use very very old tech, and will actively resist change.

I don't think we are disagreeing. Maybe we are just thinking in different timescales.

I don't doubt current business will resist change. What I am saying is that there will be a point where adopting the technology will be such an obvious advantage for the large players that the existing business will either be forced to adopt or be disrupted by some new business.
So basically under the cover of having packaged technology much of which was developed with public funds, Apple is acting as a monopolist provider of security protection. Nice linux-based networked computing device you got here, shame if something were to happen to it. Why is policing the streets a common good, and policing apps left to a pair of oligarchies?
Oh thanks for clarifying. And here I was thinking this was a capture of all the binary blobs, which would be massive!
> According to the ePrivacy Directive, they should not last longer than 12 months

The quote you keep referencing is false. The ePD says nothing about this.
I’d like to see communities support non profit coworking spaces to attract talent.

Like a library, with wifi, printers, a coffee bar, and a few EV charging parking spots. My coworking space has these amenities, I happily provide financial support.

The days of communities catering to businesses to move to them is over. Cater to remote workers (Tulsa, OK has a great campaign for this). They’re the ones bringing dollars.
Yep, there is a survivorship bias because they get to try multiple times in quick succession, compared to once every ten years, or just once, or never.
Should such a note be illegal?
The majority of text displayed on a monitor only uses a small number of pixels, which emphasizes the edges where it doesn't cleanly intersect all of the component colors of the white background. #000 on #FFF emphasizes the colorful artifacts. We don't control what monitors our users own. Taking a step away from the most extreme possible contrast makes our UI's look a lot less like rainbow bleeding failure on the uncalibrated 1080p 29" monitors commonly used by executives making software expense decisions.
It’s a known practice.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hWObybWWGW4
I think the point might be the term? I read somewhere a suggested alternative: product debt.
The technical side is the one that loaned the time in terms if shortcut. Paying it back has always a steeper cost.

Not only that, it also compounds.
hydrogen keeps status quo - big corporations supplying fuel stations. battery drives help with decentralisation - you can charge your car back at home from your own solar.

Also, hydrogen has how much - 60% energy loss?
I have the complete opposite feeling. As long as you filter yourself fairly well on which topics you read, HN can be immensely useful. You can learn about new things that can help you a lot in your career, that you otherwise may have missed.
It was easy to guess this article was written by Tim Higgins before I even clicked the link.
What would that look like? How could Apple ensure that subscriptions made through a third party payment processor are cancelable without dark patterns?
> They are doing it and forcing everybody to follow along with that because it's best for Apple

I’ll concede the point that Apple are looking after Apple. I’ll also concede the point that Apple don’t disclose enough about their restrictions to their customers. However, I still find their App Store and fees reasonably tolerable, as a customer. Apple’s approach falls in line with much of how I want my computing to work. They’re not perfect, but compared to Google and FB, they’re by far the more appealing supplier. Compared to Microsoft, I just find Apple’s stuff nicer to use.
If the fee were 5%, then Apple wouldn't be abusing its monopoly position.
Fair. This makes sense. I didn't think of militaries as companies.

I guess the ideal situation is when your goals align with what the company wants out of you.
Could you build a passenger version of this and run it up and down the west coast? (or trans-pacific?) Sounds like a "speeder" from Star Wars!

NASA (or atleast someone affiliated with NASA) seems to think there's some potential!
https://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/IF...

The last slide shares conclusions:
"Commercial ground effect planes will lead to more fuel efficient trans-oceanic flights.
• Cheaper flights.
• More accessible.
• Less pollution.
• Revolutionize aviation design."
I believe their point is that Game consoles have been doing the same thing for decades, which you might or might not see as being the same thing as the AppStore does. There's also Steam and some other game stores too (although I'm not sure if he's referring to that).
That’s not the same thing at all. I’m saying that you bought the product from a grocery store, and the product itself contains information discouraging you from continuing to buy from the grocery store.

In the app case, you bought an IAP from Apple (I know it’s Facebook’s app, but that doesn’t change the fact that the transaction was executed by Apple) but somehow think it’s ok for there to be a note saying you can pay less if you buy it on your computer instead.