skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least that one is obviously just an opinion piece. I donno how they arrived at the conclusion that having a stable family made him conservative, but that's his business and that's fine. I'm pretty sure both sides of the aisle are aware of the value of a stable family.
The sq ft per person in the average US home during the Depression was about 200 to 250. The sq ft per person in the average US home in the 2010s was about 1000. Wake me when the sq ft per person returns to the 250 level. Most comparisons between the Great Depression and today are deeply flawed in one way or another.

Source: https://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/05/25/the-size-of-...
Way higher risk and totally different "day to day". You have to really want it, have a good idea and good team lined up, and be ready to sacrifice a lot.
I’ve read the book — it’s excellent. And I’m not arguing that Balwani isn’t at the very least, gross on a lot of levels. But that book and the other reporting (Rebecca Jarvis’ podcast for ABC News, Nick Bilton’s stories for Vanity Fair) seem to indicate that she was the boss/leader at Theranos. That isn’t to say there couldn’t be some bad things that happened in her relationships that led to diminished capacity defense, but the burden is on the defense to prove that.

Based on what we know right now, I think any claims that “I committed fraud because I was abused” — assuming that is the defense — trivializes the real men and women who suffer from abuse every single day and don’t do the things Holmes did.
Slack is really poorly built for async workflows though. That's why in my product I have all communication be async, and figure out who needs to get notifications (also async) from their role in the interaction.
For example, if you're the owner of a story and someone asks a question you get notified, and the asker gets notified when you reply, but everyone else gets to keep their sanity.
I also structure comments and require you tag them with the purpose of the comments so people know what it is up front (question, sugestion, todo, etc). That really keeps the stress levels down.
You're comparing seed funding (Y Combinator) and series A funding - most YC companies have yet to raise a series A. The other thing is that most YC companies are young and still have time to grow.

I think you're comparing apples to oranges and trying to make a quantitative conclusion.
Democracy and separation of powers are not infallible.

> If we can’t trust democratic principles how can we trust any power or technology? The potential for misuse can apply to all power, big and small.

Exactly, we inherently DONT. That is why we have a constitution and bill of rights - to prevent abuse of the system.

Also I'm not buying the "all technology can be misused" argument. It's MUCH easier to be tempted into spying on a political opponent with cameras than it is to nuke them.
If you need that much or absolute control, I'd recommend don't use a framework or high-level library at all.

As for specific features or functionality, feel free to ask on our forums in more detail, or request it on the issue tracker. I don't really know what "complex scenarios" entails here, or "hot loading modules" can mean a lot of things.
Import paths are used to figure out where to fetch the source code from. To simplify a bit, if you see `example.com/foo/bar`, it works because there's an appropriate meta tag at https://example.com/foo/bar?go-get=1 . The import paths are pretty directly used as URLs.
My casual observations of it were anecdotal, that is. Glad to see someone else has noticed similar behaviour.
I love my tutanota email, well worth the money. I use it for business only but honestly Id love to ditch gmail for the rest too, tired of the spam
Except it's not. It's high risk, low reward for most rank-and-file employees. Unless the company has an insane exit, you'll end up with new car money at best.
Equity at a startup is essentially worthless. Exercise prices, taxes, 90 day max exercise windows, asymetric price information, preference stacks, all contribute to a lack of clarity.

Of course eveyone thinks their company will be worth a cool billion but thats rarely the case. Plus founders and investors are incentivized for your options to expire; they go back into the pool.

Startup compensation needs a refactor pretty badly.
I get this trope of valuing equity at $0 because a lot of people have been burned, but it’s bad advice.

The fastest way to wealth is through equity.

Yes, it’s hard to value but that value is not zero. Spending effort trying to value it is worth it, and picking companies where you think the equity will be valuable is worth it.

Also worth considering the character of the founder and the other directors. There’s a lot of ways to get screwed out of equity, working with good people is important.
Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run libraries (2017)
> President Trump has set Sept. 15 as a deadline for the company's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to find an American purchaser, or it will face a ban in the U.S.

I know it's been almost 4 years but I still have a hard time grasping that I'm not on The Onion when I'm reading sentences like this...
There used to be 'sportsman's' clubs, ham radio clubs, sailing clubs, hiking clubs, bowling leagues, search-and-rescue, jeep clubs etc that have to an unfortunate degree just faded away only to be replaced by meetup groups that just seem to be trying a little...too...hard....

Fraternal organizations, hell, that's what they're for! Men of 30 and up to get together and drink beer and tell war stories.

It's not weird and anachronistic at all!
Erlang is interesting too here, in that it basically works the same way (unification essentially via substitution). If you can't make it work, a program exception is thrown instead of a false language.
This all makes sense since prolog talks more about logic, and erlang is GP language.
Does SpaceX really have the common man lining up to be fleeced for vaporware Mars tickets? Not really, as far as I can tell. They may have taken money from some very rich people who presumably understand the speculative nature of what they're paying for, e.g. the "Dear Moon" thing, which is by the way entirely within the realm of current technological possibility. We already sent humans to the moon, several times. Fifty years ago. SpaceX has definitively proven that they know how to build things that go up and things that come down and things that keep people alive in space. You do the math.

Beyond that, I really just don't see the angle of Musk as a con man. He's a maniac—literally, manic—and that certainly comes through in the aggressive and sometimes unrealistic nature of the promises he makes, but accusing him of being somebody who would settle for delivering "very minimal results" just seems to ignore the reality of the man himself, both the personality traits he's clearly displayed (and I don't mean that in an entirely positive way) and more importantly the results he's already delivered. They are not "minimal". He's delivered unprecedented upstart success and unprecedented innovations at scale in two markets that have been dominated by incumbents essentially since their inception. That's not a man looking to spin a web of lies and hype and then cash out. In fact he seems to be in a very small class of extant business leaders who've actually done something worth talking about besides being very rich and overseeing incremental (valuable or not) progress.

You and "many others" are free to think whatever you want about the technology, and I'd probably agree with you to some extent on many points, but it kind of undermines your status as an impartial skeptic when you show so clearly that you have an axe to grind. And why? I really just don't get it. I would never work for Musk in his current form, and I don't own any products made by any of his companies, and I think he's guilty of treating some of his factory workers quite badly, but I give credit where credit's due and you should, too. It's not about endorsing him, what he stands for, how he treats workers, his opinions on COVID-19, or whatever else—it's simply about seeing the world clearly.
https://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Finding-Things-Out-Richard/d...

What do people think of Feynman’s book?
Except for trading engines is pretty big exception :) A lot of exchanges still use FIX, which is a very simple text format.
If you can determine company value and future with any reliability, you may as well just take those skills to the public markets and use your extra cash compensation to buy stocks/options.

Far more information is available about those companies than any privately held ones.
And yeah, if someone who doesn’t have enough to eat steals from a grocery store we throw em in jail. I’d venture most people in prison were traumatized at some point. Take into account their circumstances. This is an educated privileged woman who defrauded everyone around her for years. I expect her to get community service, frankly. The only reason she’d end up in jail is that she took rich peoples money.
I stopped because they were clearly monetizing content and the comments were overrun by nazis and they clearly didn't care

Edit: I coulda just said the nazis part but some folks here don’t wanna see ads so
The ads on this page drive me crazy. The text of the article jumps around like a rabbit on steroids.
Low-tech air filter for bad air quality emergencies
The most striking quote to me from this was:

> In 1960, the out-of-wedlock birthrate in the U.S. was 3 percent. In 2000, it was about 30 percent. Today, it is 40 percent.

No matter how you feel about it, it’s got to be said that change thing large has to have some sort of affect on the population. And those effects are still quite unknown.
I read it as the sender died (and they were returned to sender) but the recipients may still be alive somewhere.
It is the absolute truth. If you want to deny that a young white woman is treated differently then say, a middle age black man, you are not being honest. If in 2020 we are talking about the legal system the most important question is the race and gender of the defendant.
Found it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/how-to-...
Generally when I stumble upon a minute long video, it's either really, really good or clickbait that's completely uninteresting. It tends to be the latter. The sweet spot for videos in my opinion is 15 seconds or so. Short enough that I can't possibly get bored but long enough to have a meaningful tidbit of content.

Finding subsequent parts of a multi-part series generally isn't worth the effort.
The problem with wirelessly controlled cars is that there is no instructions on how to disable it.
Maybe our ideas of scale is a bit different?

I think yaml files hold's up well to about 50 lines.

I have only seen toml files up to about 10-20 lines and it looks great at that scale, but I am having a hard time imagining it being nice at 500+ lines.
They get larger the more aggressively you inline code.

Edited: I totally forgot about this great paper that shows the size of the top 100 most-executed functions at Google. See Figure 8.

https://people.ucsc.edu/~hlitz/papers/asmdb.pdf

Here's a gigantic function I found laying about: https://gist.github.com/jwbee/2167565e043578000ae489f67a82d6...

Protocol Buffers message decoders tend to be extremely large, since each message has an auto-generated parse function that will tend to inline everything. My local build of protobuf contains 20 functions each larger than 5KB, including a 10KB-long specialization of std::sort.
Yeah I do do that, but you have to risk more and I disagree about it being easier to value from the outside.

Public markets for non-dividend paying stocks are also betting more on what other people think the stock price will be rather than the company value itself - it’s a bit of a different game.
How hard would it be to set up a SQLite database or use a simple cipher?
That’s wonderful advice because it alleviates some of the knowledge asymmetry you’re at the pointy end of in that situation.
The age gap and his reputation for being an absolute tyrant also stood out to me. I wouldn't rule out some sort of abuse.

That being said, she also seemed to be a bit of a tyrant herself, and it's very possible she latched on to him at 19 to use his money and connections, and found it handy later on to have a co-conspirator as ruthless as she was who was willing to feed the falsehood treadmill.
Not being married does not mean the relationship is not a stable or long term one though.
I have about a 20% failure rate where email address validation fields reject the + character
> Complete English sentences in present tense are infix. . Implicit subjects only follow after the first sentence in a paragraph or a phrase.

This is true of the indicative mood, but not the imperative.

Giving commands in the indicative mood is not typical.
Thank you! Mind I only tested on latest ubuntu and fedora so feel free to DM me on twitter if you run into issues.
> The fastest way to wealth is through equity.

The fastest way to wealth is actually through winning the lottery. Equity is kind of a lottery, but with you having an influence in the odds.

It's important and could definitely make you rich, but it shouldn't be counted on.
It was interesting to see both at the White House to receive the presidential medal of freedom. Both are maniacally competitive and dominated their field for a decade unlike anyone before or since.
I didn't get that idea - I posited that idea. No one is talking about the famine in Syria. If people don't care that people are starving now, they won't care when a few billion more from poor countries are either.

> I'm talking about world-wide famine. If the way we feed the world isn't sustainable, then there's going to be a global problem eventually.

That's not how it works - the world has enough food for current population P + x offspring. Whenever food supply starts to dwindle P+x will go down. Less people will survive at the fringes - the poor will die, much like they do now, hence I brought up Syria, which no one on here talks about, because they don't care.

A worldwide famine would be the result of catastrophic failure. Catastrophic failures you're suggesting will impact any population size regardless of its sustainability. Sustainability is about maintaining resources without depleting them - it's inherently different than catastrophic events destroying most of the system. No amount of sustainable farming matters if, say, a meteor impacts the earth, or global warming renders most land un-farmable. There is no sustainability fix here.

> Bringing all of humanity out of poverty isn't going to do it either, if they all want to have an American diet.

It's the only proven way to reduce birthrate without war and disease.
The Voynich Manuscript is a unique document. Nothing else is written in the same script. A few others from the period are encrypted, notably Bellicorum Instrumentorum Liber by Giovanni Fontana, but they're trivial to decipher. Only one other I'm aware of has any naked women in baths.

For other scripts, there either are numerous texts for each (e.g. Egyptian, Sumerian, Mycaenean Greek, Khitan, Etruscan, Rongorongo), or very few short texts (e.g. Pictish). Not a stand-alone 240 page book.

But there are examples of forged documents from the middle ages, e.g. the Gospel of Barnabas and the Donation of Constantine.

I tried to decipher the Voynich Manuscript, before discovering that there were other, simpler explanations for its apparent meaningfulness (e.g. the observations described in the Montemurro & Zanette paper): http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/voynich/Voynich.html . It's possible it's some kind of verbose cipher devised by someone ahead of his time. It's even possible, though very unlikely, that it's written in a Northwest Caucasian language. I've ruled out other language groups.

The approximate adherence to Zipf's Law is telling us something about how the text was produced. When I have time, I might look into whether state machine generated output follows Zipf's Law. I suspect it does generally, and know it does for the text I generated, but I'd like solid proof and it would be another nail in the coffin of the idea it's unencrypted or lightly encrypted text. Or it might not.
Schools That Have Announced Resumption Dates
Left side assignment is still used to us, from maths and most other programming languages, so it keeps things familar.

The `:=` has been in use in other langs like MySQL
i am apparently mistaken, and the battery is replaceable. so thanks for that. just ordered a new one.
> whatever language you’re using.

This is the #1 mistake people make when designing, evaluating, or critiquing frameworks, file formats, protocols, and the like.

I don't get to choose the language. I'm not writing 100% of the code that I use.

In fact, I have control over approximately 0.00001% of the code involved in processing a typical JSON file, or TOML file, or YAML file.

OTHER people control the language choice, and it certainly won't be ONE language. It'll be many languages.

If submit an ARM template to Azure, it'll go through at least three languages in the process: C#, Python, and JavaScript. Possibly C++ and F#. Who knows?

Even when the language is reasonably consistent, such as JavaScript, there is very little consistency in the specific parser used.

After the parser-level inconsistencies, there's further inconsistencies in how the stringly-typed data is converted into some more strongly typed format. That's just up to whoever wrote the code that consumes the data. There is exactly zero standardisation of this. None whatsoever. It's almost never documented, and there's just no way to know without experimenting.

NONE of this is in my control, or your control. I can't emphasise this enough.

Stop thinking in terms of a developer sitting down in front of an IDE with a new project, where they type all of the code in, hit compile and ship the binary to some customer.

Start thinking in terms of having to deal with inconsistencies between Terraform, Cloudformation, Amazon, AWS, GCP, and CloudFront.

Starting thinking about having to publish something like a Rust module to three different crate repositories, and cache it locally, and have it work properly with the various IDEs people use.

Start thinking in terms of security vulnerabilities of different parsers at different layers escaping data differently, or smuggling data using encodings accepted by the back-end past web application firewalls that don't understand that particular encoding.

This stuff matters.

JSON famously had a definition so short that it fit on a business card.

Less is more, right?

This "simplicity" lead to fun blog posts titled "Parsing JSON is a minefield": http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

The designer of TOML seems to have never read that article, or if he has, he hasn't learned any lessons from it...
The amount of nonsense spewed about the legal system here on HN is sort of astonishing. A PD has absolutely no ethical or legal obligation to do anything of what a defendant says except in regards to the defendant testifying - you can advise your client not to testify, but they have a right to. Otherwise the PD, or any attorney for that matter, decides what evidence to use, what witnesses to call, and what the theory of the case is.

And yes, I am attorney. No, this is not legal advice.

Edit: apologies for the harsh intro tone. I had a long day of wrestling with disagreeable judges.
The time from founding to IPO is a stat that is widely misrepresented by well-educated people who may not have had the time to check the numbers.

See for instance the graph Company Age (Years) shared by Meritech. There are 8 companies in the cohort that are 20+ years, only 1 (Salesforce) that IPOed with less than 10 years. In fact, from the entire comps (20+ public SaaS), only Salesforce IPOed at year 5.

https://www.meritechcapital.com/public-comparables/enterpris...
Sure, you have to use a non-pixel representation to make an image search index. I understand that. However, if the end result of the search is not an image, then is it the same? For example, you could learn some very basic features from an image, like "person's skin has this hue, their eyes are this color, etc." If you wrote that down and made it searchable, with the search target being a person's unique identifier (SSN or whatever), it would surprise me if that ran afoul of this rule, even if the features were extracted from an image. You can't be searching for a reference image if there is no reference image to search for.

Maybe I'm wrong though. IANAL and honestly it doesn't matter. But if I were writing this law, I would write that no one would be allowed to use any system that extracts and searches using or makes searchable information about human faces. That would seem to cover my proposed workaround, and I doubt it would hurt any other use case that they meant to protect.
Going to the website on your profile made it immediately clear, but even without that confirmation, there's a much higher probability of you being a random programmer vs. a specific older mathematician.
Agree. This reminds me of the afluenza defense somewhat.
[*] https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/12/the-affluenza-defense-j...
Makes sense. Vinyl and cassettes are both cool retro tech. CDs are just... meh.

I have one friend who listens to music on (or at least collects) vinyl. I have another friend who listens to casettes and makes mixtapes. I don't know anyone who uses CDs.
There’s a difference between Nikola’s repeated product announcements that haven’t led to actual products, versus rigging a demo of the half-working alpha version and then shipping the real thing shortly after.
This is a “fact”, you say? Provably so?
> Maybe it's practice for the kinds of risks adults sometimes have to take to survive.

Shooting pellets at unsuspecting drivers and bicyclists and racing blackout drunk in large vehicles are not risks that one needs to take to survive. They’re not even risks, they’re just blatant acts of disregard for others.

I hope my kids don’t live in a community where people routinely break laws that kill people.
The Vyatta/VyOS/EdgeOS CLI took heavy inspiration from Juniper’s JunOS, so saying the config is unlike a “real” switch is factually incorrect.

It’s still a little odd, but as somebody quite comfortable with JunOS (I run Juniper switches in my homelab) it’s pretty easy to pick up any of the Vyatta forks and hit the ground running.
As an individual negotiating compensation with a company, you are at a structural disadvantage: the company does this all the time, and (lacking a union to negotiate on your behalf) you do this rarely.

Unless you are an elite negotiator (and if you can hire a lawyer you are elite already), the complexity of any compensation package works in the company's favor.

For almost all of us, equity is a vehicle to get screwed over. Articles like this one only to serve to perpetuate startup mythology and inflate false hopes.

Theoretically, a startup that actually wants to compete on compensation by sharing in good fortune could craft an equity package which is simple and standardized enough to be comprehensible by ordinary humans. But so long as employees keep snapping at the vaporous bait of deceptive equity packages, there's not much incentive to do so.
It’s not equity though. The investors get to revalue your common stock whenever they feel like it. They have equity. You have a good selection of table scraps.

Except for a very small number of people who essentially exist to make the rest of us think that could be us soon.
If a yc co from 5 years ago still hasn’t raised a series A, it’s probably dead. (I would push this to “1 year ago,” but yc invests in long term projects now like biotech.)
No way. If I sign up to, say, a mailing list, or make an account using my email address, I am NOT giving my consent for that site to use my email for targeted marketing (other than the specific mailing list I signed up for).
Is this hw capable of dual booting to macos too?
Amazon Says It Was Not Price Gouging When It Sold Toilet Paper for $36