skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once heard, from a potentially unreliable source, an interesting story about this. When countries border each other and also share a coast there is a issue of how to decide who owns the water. The simplest way is to find the point where the two countries and the coast meet. Then from there draw a line along the longitude. However, that is problematic, because there are countries like Libya and Egypt where their boarder is along the latitude.

During those times the British were very colonial, and one of their methods of keeping power was to cause the colonised people to fight amongst themselves (as can still be seen with the Indians and Pakistanis, Israelis and Palestinians). Well, they invented a method to split the coast by first finding the angle of tangent on the point of the boarder between the countries and the sea. Take 90 degrees of the tangent, and that is the sea boarder.

While this looks good upon first glance, due to the coastline paradox, you can always find a different tangent line. That then could be the cause of conflict between countries as they try to determine the sea boarder.

If anyone knows if there is any truth to the story, I would be interested in hearing.
I think you're right. Not building meaningful relationships with friends, family, and neighbors, is one of my biggest regrets of my 20s. It adds a lot of stress thinking how small my support system is, which prevents me from wanting to take risks that could further my career or life goals. It reminds me of the African proverb "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
This is kind of true. I went to a not-quite Stanford college and knew a good number of people who went to work at startups while I worked at big companies. Some of the smartest people I knew were going to startups. Those people by and large did better than me financially, although there were exceptions. I used to believe that they were making a statistically worse decision but from the data points I have now, I am beginning to doubt it.

I think a lot of it just depends on intangible, hard to define things like how good of a candidate you are (are you going to a startup that competes with top tech companies for talent, or one that isn't) and what type of companies you want to work for (for example, a boring ecommerce or enterprise SAAS company with revenue very early on is probably more likely to pan out than a self driving car startup or anything long-time-prerevenue). So while it might be true that in general startup equity and options are going to end up being worth little to nothing, it might be the case that for you and the companies you're trying to work at, you have much better odds.
This is really good. It's one of the best descriptions I've seen of what being a staff engineer is like.

When I came into the role I was stunned at the amount of time that I ended up talking to people and just trying to figure out what is going on.
>Everybody wants to hire senior engineers; nobody wants to make them.

Gold.
it seems they had an error connecting to the database for lowercase letters
Statistics simply aren't visceral, they don't appeal to most people emotionally.

it takes graphic imagery to bring it out. Trump saying a statistic is far more likely to evoke a response than someone reading it in a book.

Even if statistically poverty is less and crime is less and abuses are less, if people don't SEE that, is it actually real?
With 9 classes of units, and ~89 total combat units in the game, I would argue otherwise.

Combat plays a strong role in all Civ games. Not least of which because of barbarians forcing you to defend yourself (which are impossible to diplomacy with).

You're going to be spending a non-negligible amount of time in any Civ game (from 2 through 6) building up a standing army, even if only for defensive purposes. Ideally, that aspect of the game should be fun.
The phrase "based on what we know right now" seems inappropriate to me. It's like when people talk about the covid epidemic based on the numbers that we have to date, implicitly assuming that there will be no new cases tomorrow. Even though we don't actually have tomorrow's information today, we can be sure there will be something coming.
I expected this new feature to use the -> token but they went with => instead.

Is there any reason why they overloaded the hash rocket? Even the simple examples in the article look like somewhat malformed hashes to me!

3 => box_height
[170, 65] => height, weight
traits => height, weight

How does the parser tell them apart?
There's a better way to add nitrogen to soil and it's through the nitrogen cycle. The US Midwest (which grows a lot of corn) used to be highly populated with ruminants who did exactly this.

We killed them all (well, most) and now grow corn which we use most to finish off cattle, which is also a ruminant.

Maybe a better solution would be to feed the ruminants off the land now used by the corn? Imagine what that might do.
Sure they can. Nearly all standard pre-IPO equity comp contracts state that any sales may only be done with board approval. And pretty much no board ever approves that sort of thing.

One potential option is that you could enter into a contract with a third party to sell your shares to them after a liquidity event, but they'll give you cash right now. There's a risk to the buyer that the shares might end up being worthless (but that's the price you pay for a speculative play), and a risk to the seller that the shares might be worth quite a bit more at IPO/acquisition (but that's the price you pay for early liquidity).

Not sure if any equity comp contracts stipulate that you can't do that, but presumably they could prohibit you from doing that as well.
Witty Response: She's a Lisp hacker AND a SAP programmer(!)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP) -- that's why her name is "Alys-saP." and not "Alice P."! <g>
When you are a teenager you feel invincible and you value life much less. It feels more expendable while also feeling more robust.

Have you spent time with kids? They love kicking eachother in the balls well past the age of toddler.

Things that seem obvious to adults are not obvious at all to 16 year olds, and often even counterintuitive.
https://luafun.github.io/intro.html is the best I've found for performant stream-y transforms. But I tend to just believe in always writing for-loops because they are how computers actually work and IMO it's easier to reason about what they are doing (of course, encapsulating logic per element and so on into their own functions). C++'s STL stuff I think is actually also good / ok here and one exception I make because you can see the code generated and things get inlined, and things like `std::remove_if` or `std::lower_bound` are actually well implemented. The rest of the functional shenanigans are cool I think for their theory (eg. as far as applicative functors for parsing and whatnot); but I think if you care about performance, the data layout in memory for cache utilization seems to be what matters now. Clojure is ok yeah but IMO you should know that it's impl'd with structural sharing + GC and decide that that's the behavior you want. Here's eg. a library that does persistent data structures of that sort in C++: https://sinusoid.es/immer/ (no transients for maps though)

Re: the Lua / JS mismatch -- I think the main thing is that you kind of have to decide if a table is an array or not, and in a lot of cases there's no sensible thing here necessarily, especially if there are a lot of `nil`s in the array -- so is it a sparse JSON array or an object with those keys (stringified -- which is gnarly) or what? etc. You can see settings for this in lua-cjson [1], and the fact that the settings exist is the issue. It's not as bad for pure JSON as much as when you start wanting to do things like generate a diff from changes in the Lua side (that's when you start getting sparse arrays) and apply those to the same document in JS, or the other way round and so on. I wrote a real-time automatic diff sync'ing thing once that was something like this; and that was the main place where there the impedance mismatch came up. nil-null basically didn't matter -- I decided on one conversion and stuck with it (I basically decided we would not use `null` for anything -- just use something that represents the actual semantic thing you want instead).

Also FWIW, I don't find CL super 'functional'. Scheme and Clojure a little bit, sure. The most functional stuff I feel like is Haskell / ML. If it's just about closures--I feel like every language except C, Zig and Ada has closures these days.

Lua strings are pretty simple -- just an array and immutable (there's no COW because there is no W) and always interned. You have to build a new string with the modification you want. For a 'builder' approach usually the pattern is to accumulate a table then call `table.join`. Usually I manage fine with `str = str .. 'new stuff'` though unless it's in some hot code path.

[1] https://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lua-cjson-manual.html...
Apple will no longer terminate Epic’s usage of ‘Sign In with Apple’
And it's the golden rule. I bet few people even know that.
It's possible your latter paragraph is correct, but she was primed by earlier experiences. In general, she could have a personality disorder and be a victim.
The point is to illustrate that those 'freewheeling actions' are not normal and not just part of 'teenage rebellion'.

All of them could cause major harm to oneself or others that's not normal, signs of serious underlying problems.

'BASE jumping' or 'stunt plane piloting' is dangerous but that's something altogether different than 'driving down the freeway blindfolded' - which is quasi suicidal and very dangerous to others.
I guess the telephone was able to replace a lot of those messages - and is possibly the reason they dialed back in the 1950s?
> The attached doc suggests that they are only using unsupervised learning, which I find very hard to believe, to be honest.

Where are you seeing that?

I see:

> Recommendations are based on a number of factors, including things like:
> User interactions such as the videos you like or share, accounts you follow, comments you post, and content you create.
> ...

and

> A strong indicator of interest, such as whether a user finishes watching a longer video from beginning to end...

which indicates the opposite

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/how-tiktok-recommends-vide...
There are many different radiation environments in space, which a quick skim of this article seems to ignore entirely. Low earth orbit isn’t that high-rad because of the earth’s magnetic field. Go outside outside it and you need some rad hardening for sure. Orbit in the van allen belts or go somewhere like Jupiter and you need extensive rad hardening for sure.
Glad to help. Main site is beautiful and product seems like a great market fit.
This kind of review is something I really enjoy doing (weird hobby, sure, all hobbies are a little bit unusual). I'm always available for more of this kind of thing. Email in profile.
I hope you have set up a deadmansswitch.net reminder to let customers know.
This doesn't make sense. The losers of those wars were risk takers as well - and they lost.

In fact, for an EXISTING nation, risk taking males are more of a threat to social order. Risk taking, non-conformist males make terrible infantrymen - that's why they beat out the risk taker and make you follow orders. The military doesn't want a cosplaying rambo cocking everything up.
More of a joke than deception. They sold flamethrowers for heaven’s sake.
I see a lot of people complaining about why this is pointless but the much more worrying thing for me is what happens when you suddenly "subscribe" to your car and if you haven't made you GM payment well then sorry you won't be driving anywhere until you pay plus a $20 late fee plus a $30 accelerated processing thing.

Beyond even that lets imagine a CCTV catches a crime runs an ML scan of all the people in the city it hits your face with a 83% match, better then any one else. Boom the Department of Automated Crime Prevention uses the government mandated kill switch that is required to be available in every vehicle. When you finally find out why your car doesn't work you find out you can't get it reactivated until the following Monday because it is 5:45 on a Friday afternoon and the government offices are now closed.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast [pdf]
Editing Skills That Will Help Sell Properties
It's fine - people will be still perfectly willing to continue using it after it does that. ;-)

(Plot of later part of Sword Art Online - really.)
You might just want to read the section called "Different orbits and other applications of radhard ICs".
>FAANG (and other large bay area tech companies) pay mid six figures for senior engineers.

FAANG (and every other similarly paying company) accounts for at most 5-10% of the engineering talent in the US. Using them as a benchmark for how all companies should compensate engineers seems silly. A startup that needs at best an 80th percentile engineer has no need to meet FAANG compensation to get one hired.
I'm of the opinion that there is much overlap between them. If I can have that (the opinion that is, not the concession on your part), then I accept.
I think it depends on company stage and size, though. If you're a part of a 5-person shop, then you'd better be able to increase the value of the company by way more than 1%, or the company made a really bad hire.

Even through 50 and maybe even 100 employees, I'd think it's possible to have a meaningful impact on the company without having to destroy your work-life balance. But of course as the company grows, your influence gets smaller and smaller unless you become an executive.
Any thoughts on the AMT trap, and the potential inability to exercise (or go bankrupt with AMT) when you leave? It's not exactly written in red warning letters on offer packages, right?
It probably helps that most vinyl releases also include a free FLAC download. So you get your collector's deluxe edition with inlay signed by the band, plus a lossless quality (or even 24-bit better-than-CD) version without having to rip the download yourself.

I'm sure there are some people playing vinyl, but I also bet a lot of these are never being played, it's just decorative.
Nothing anachronistic about it at all though.
Pájaro viejo no entra en jaula (Spanish for "Senior bird doesn't enter cages")
People seem worried about the connection being wireless on this battery. As far as I can tell from the article, the only consequence of a connectivity loss is: GM gets less data. It doesn't seem consequential to the consumer.
Good to see some competition in the browser wars. Badly needed.
Can confirm. Exercised some with a large tax hit, based on some hand wavy assertions about liquidity in the future. Now I'm stuck with it, with no liquidity in sight. And I'm sure it's been significantly diluted by this point.

Live and learn I guess.
It's a terrible notion, yes.

But at the same time, she started when she was very, very young, and was in that bubble from the start.

It's not a defence but I can see how someone gets caught up in a cultish situation like that.
90 days if you leave is deceptive and will lock you to the company unless you're independently wealthy. A less deceptive thing is a 7-10 year window if you leave, because that isn't "you forfeit your equity when you leave if you aren't already wealthy."

Equity pricing is also nonsense for many private companies. I was offered 1 million dollars in equity in a company 4 years ago assuming a multi-billion dollar valuation. It's unclear if the company has even achieved that valuation now, four years on. And they're still private.
> Still alpha: spec is still alpha and it looks like it will remain like that since the intention is for spec2 to completely replace it in the future.

Out of curiosity for the folks in the know: why is this the state of affairs? Where we have the library in alpha for a long time, and being replaced already?
Cassette to aux in adapter? Like $10. Cd to aux in? Doesn't exist, gotta replace the head unit.

CDs were a step in the wrong direction
>This is false.

No its not. You are moving the goalposts. Obviously people can hire whatever lawyer they can afford and potentially change lawyers if they have a valid grievance that a judge agrees is a reason to allow it. They can also opt to attempt to defend themselves. In either case, the judge would probably tell you that its an incredibly stupid decision that you should reconsider in a very kind attempt to prevent you from ruining your life.

There's a significant difference between "I can make my lawyer do whatever I want them to do because the law says they have to" and "I can get a new lawyer if my current lawyer doesn't agree with me."
I guess we'll find out as the case plays out.

I reserve my sympathy, as the length to which she and Sunny went to to intimidate and threaten people was chilling.
I was thinking the same thing, based on my teen years in a small town far away from any city.
It's not just rural towns. My dad grew up in the suburbs outside a major city, and he has similar stories of people getting drunk and destroying property in high school. The cops were just as lenient as well. He told me one time he was drinking with some friends and they got pulled over, and the cop just told them to drive straight home because it was the middle of the night and he didn't want to deal with a bunch of drunk teenagers.
I mean it might be rude to say "if you're able to get hired at top startups of a certain kind the equity might be nonzero" but for the people that applies to, it's not terrible advice. Like, high school kids in general should not assume they can count on a career in the NBA, but if you're a 7' tall human male you have a >10% chance of playing in the NBA in your lifetime, so for them knowing that they have greater odds of success could be valuable information.
> One needs to work hard to keep up personal relationships with product/sales/project management/etc to ensure that the level of trust is there to be able to have the hard conversations.

In the heat of the moment, on deadline with a bunch of bugs and yet multiple compliance hurdles to clear, with a short-staffed team and conflicting management priorities, it's pretty easy to lose sight of the common goal.

Microsoft has a nice cliche you can use when you catch yourself on the adversarial end of this type of conversation: "assume positive intent". It's written on most of the Redmond campus whiteboards. If we are all assuming positive intent, it can give us the right empathetic mindset with which to build this trust even when it seems difficult. I've found working with other teams through the hard conversations with compromise instead of "no" leads to better results. They're assuming positive intent as am I and it's OK. If I'm feeling something is adversarial I need to understand why.
I've been using emacs-w3m for a long time, but I haven't used eww. If someone who's used both could compare the two, I'd be grateful.
This is an extremely hard problem. I've been following efforts to replace nitrogen for around forty years. It's part of a bigger trend of the seed industry grabbing a larger portion of the crop production dollar.

It's the science of GMO's. We've replaced some insecticides by letting the plants produce their own. We've eliminated some herbicides (weed sprays) by producing resistance in the plant to first Roundup and later other herbicides. It's truly one of the scientific miracles of the past thirty years.

Yet it has had strong opposition by the very people, organic advocates, that it benefits the most. This saddens me greatly. The very people who run around advocating 'listen to the scientists' on some issues, then selectively don't listen to them on others.
> CEO about connecting me with buyers. Silence.

Why would the CEO introduce more supply to the market when that would undermine their ability to generate more runway? Every $ an investor spends on existing shares is $ less they can spend on newly crafted ones for raises...
If you're L5 at FAANG you're going to be making more like $400k, so the math starts to break down pretty quickly.
I want the old Viennese/Parisian/Arabian intellectual cafe and salon clubs to come back. I would join one in a heartbeat.
Generally I think the defendant wouldn't be aware of this, or even realize that they are being deprived of their right to adequate representation. Not to mention, how will they know the replacement will be better?
There are extremes at both sides of the spectrum - Detroit real estate plummeted, San Francisco real estate skyrocketed.

You're right to point out that there isn't one narrative that defines the prior generation. Some people lucked out, others didn't, but the reality is that on average (both median and mean) home prices have drastically outpaced wage growth for the past few decades, which is obviously unsustainable.

The best the younger generations can hope for is to eventually have enough wage growth to afford a home that hopefully holds its value.
This is pretty specific to the bay area market (should apply as well to Seattle and New York, but I'm not familiar enough with the hiring markets in other areas to comment). But I think for the average engineer getting a job at FAANG/equivalent is not very hard if you're willing to prepare for the interviews.
Max Tegmark goes into detail on the potential pitfalls of anthropic arguments in "Our Mathematical Universe". Very interesting book.
A fascinating excerpt:
"According to Noonan, some 100,000 dirham coins, most deposited between the years 900 and 1030, have been unearthed to date in Sweden alone, and there are more than a thousand recorded individual hoards of five or more coins recorded throughout Scandinavia, the Baltic countries and Russia. In addition to inscriptions, the Muslim coins bear the year and place of minting—vital details for modern numismatists and archeologists. One excellent find in Uppland, Sweden contained a mixture of coins minted in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Isfahan and Tashkent."
Canada taxes capital gains at 50% anyway so it’s probably not a great idea to value it as much there.

That said, if you’re comparing FAANG and startups you’re already pretty selected which is not true of all the kids trying for NHL.
Yes, adolescent behaviour is a consequence of parenting.

Marriage is not a guarantee of good parenting. It's just a legal status that may or may not indicate a capacity and readiness to perform good parenting.

So, what is good parenting, and how does it work?

It is an inter-generational positive feedback system. All mammals have it. The human parenting lifecycle is longer than most.

Securely attached parents have higher baseline oxytocin (OT) and a more pronounced OT response to interactions with their children. OT augments the mesolimbic DA system response to visual child stimuli, enhancing their reward value. It also inhibits AMY and augments anterior insula (AI) responses to infant-cry stimuli, facilitating a more empathic reaction. OTmay also modulate prefrontal cortex activity to suppress negative emotional reactions to infant crying.

These neurobiological influences promote responsive, affectionate caregiving, which in turn promotes OT activity in children, along with child attachment behaviors that further engage parental brain systems, resulting in a positive feedback cycle that culminates in a mentally healthy, securely attached child.

Genetic influences of the child can also either support or interfere with child attachment behaviors and parent-offspring bonding. OFC, orbitofrontal cortex; PFC, prefrontal cortex.

The biology of mammalian parenting and its effect on offspring social development
James K. Rilling1, and Larry J. Young

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306567/