skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much any incentive scheme can cause problems if it’s poorly thought through. You also need people paying close attention to any abuses.

I knew of one company where the Sales team were compensated based on the value of orders booked by a given date at/near the end of each month. That monthly value was unaffected by any orders cancelled from the previous month. What happened, of course, was that they would persuade people to place orders to be cancelled once the date passed. The value of the orders was always decent on the date in question, so the Sales staff always did quite well but the same orders might be placed, cancelled, and placed again multiple times over the year before they properly materialised (if ever).
Discord and Element's homepages are info/signup pages even if you're logged in. So is AppVeyor's homepage.
No, it is not well designed. Just about every major feature has something incidentally or fundamentally wrong. It is proof that a language does not need to be good to succeed. But it does need a miracle.

Java took off because it offered developers a path out of serfdom to Microsoft, at a time before the smartphone era somewhat reduced their market power. Once it had enough users to benefit from network effects, its future was assured. It took Sun putting billions of dollars into promoting and supporting it to get there.

Sun's commitment to Java probably killed the company, in the end.

There were better-designed languages at the time, and there have been plenty of much better-designed languages since, that have or will fail to displace it. Rust might be counted among these.
Something like https://www.okta.com/products/advanced-server-access/ ?
These are valid points but did any of that change since 2011, when IRS was auditing a lot more rich people and was still cost efficient? Not really.
Seems like they built a wonderful machine for answering "42":

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-year...

Or will build, if they are granted the additional money they ask for past 2023: “The development of high-quality brain simulators requires a long-term commitment of resources”. We shall call it Deep Thought: the sunk-cost brain.
It's more about fleet utilization.
Indeed most of our fossil fuels were created during a window in the evolution of life on Earth where plants had developed tough cell membranes that the microbiota could not deal with and transformed the planet into a massive mountain of underbrush in a heavily oxygenated environment. The forest fires must have been spectacular. Trees grew tall and eventually died. Then they fell over, but did not rot. Instead stacking deeper and deeper. This is why we have seams of fossil fuels in the ground to draw from today.

If we wipe ourselves out the following civilization will have a much tougher time getting through their equivalent of the industrial age, especially if they're dealing with the aftereffects of climate change.
A.K.A. "What an ordinary engineer can do for a dollar, a good engineer can do for ten cents."
Bollocks. There are a lot of people who regularly consume dangerous amounts of salt, ultimately resulting in heart disease in the long term. Water, maybe not so common, but among runners or during heat waves people get sick from overconsumption. Neither will somehow change taste, although it's hard to consume an acutely lethal amount of salt because it simply doesn't taste good in concentration.

People with healthy lifestyles will feel when they're having too much licorice for their own good. This was a person with a poor diet in general and possibly didn't notice the negative effects of his overconsumption because he was already used to high blood pressure, shitting salsa and having his heart play math rock.
I want to see three car seats in a hatchback.
That functionality also allows someone to turn your oven on while you're on holiday, but worth the risk in my opinion.
The oldest hard-rock mountains are 1.5 billion to 3.5 billion years ago. Those include some heavily mined areas, such as the Appalachians, If a previous civilization had been into serious mining, we'd probably have seen evidence of that by now. There may be nothing left of the mine, but an area without the good stuff and the remains of a big rubble dump would be interesting.

Conversely, a concentration of rusted metal is not likely to occur naturally.
Audio Units... the most annoying vendor lock-in ever.
> No matter how you see it, games are primarily made to run on Windows and the other OS's are an after thought

I think this hasn't been true for some time for studio games. Most (big budget) games are ported to windows from consoles, except for indie titles
I actually just ordered a HiFive1 Rev B to play around with. Kinda excited for the potential of RISC-V, we'll see how much wind this article takes out of my sails. Thanks for sharing it.
In roughly this vein, I wrote a brainfuck interpreter in the lambda calculus a while back, it was fun

https://github.com/MichaelBlume/lambdafuck
The best way is to take one of those day gigs selling anything under the sun: magazine subscriptions, American Airlines credit cards, Joe Biden fundraising, etc. Getting over the fear of the “no” is critical, and getting the occasional “yes” is also important, and these sales gigs teach you both.
Renault Twizy probably isn't a million miles away (though for regulatory reasons, it's slower). I do think it's interesting that most if not all European equivalents have been made to look apparently as un-car-like as possible, whereas this one looks like a very small car.
Interesting, I had meant to point out that I had no evidence one way or the other if it was actually true, the point is just the idea of keeping it simple.

And your counterpoint about the graphite floating around is a good parable for why seemingly obvious, "clever" solutions often don't actually work, and that armchair critics should not assume the solution team was not smart enough to consider the obvious ideas :)
It's even better if you force a hardware two-factor authentication before you grant the ssh cert.
You can now ‘adopt’ a BART car for $10k, but they come with lots of rules
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Thanks for the tip about how others might perceive me - I'll take it under advisement.
Thank you to everyone who has offered commentary here. I can't imagine there are too many communities around which respond so graciously to such a self-pitying post.

It's a huge relief for me to be able to speak on this issue. I'll continue to read through over the weekend and do my best to parse the feedback.
"I have to be in the car in 20 minutes. Seems like a good time to install bitcoin to pay this guy $2" - said no one ever.
Maybe morality, madness, a form of art, investment, or just-because-we-can...
> (Half the salary to the employee and half to the state, then tax the employee's share again afterwards)

Can't think of a single country having that. This money which you count as tax goes into retirement, healthcare and stuff like that. Would you consider US packages including healthcare to be taxed ?
Does anyone know how well RISC-V will be able to compete with ARM in the higher end? It seems pretty easy to come up with a processor design that is competitive in low-compute load applications, but what about more advanced designs? I'm curious what it is that ARM brings to the table there and if there is a chance that RISC-V will ever offer serious competition.

Certainly RISC-V does not need to be the best to survive as a viable option for most designs. It may absorb a lot of market share from ARM in the long run. It will be interesting to see how it develops.
Rule number one for a Q&A site should be to not land you on a marketing landing page as main page. Put your questions as main page.

Your layout is having issues atm. It shows less questions in a single screen as compared to SO. It is quite an eyestrain with all the colors (every tag another color, multiple colors in design, icons I do not understand like the eyes etc.) I see comments run out of my screen on ios, iPhone 11 max.

In this space you have one big competitor. Your landing page, which you so prominently slammed in my face, should state why you are worth switching to. Right now you give 3 things that SO already has for ages (and better). In addition to all the things they have and you miss it makes it unlikely I will visit again..
Very interesting to see audio messages pop up as a feature, especially as a value-add in an analytics tool like this!

I'm working hard on an MVP of a system with some similar ideas, so I'm keeping a keen eye out for things like this. My own work is more about bringing audio messages into the daily team chat environment, e.g. in a context similar to slack or IRC. And as one user noted is a must, it includes auto-transcription.

If anyone is interested, there's some info up about it at https://heysync.chat -- hopefully people don't feel it's too self-promotion-y to add a link!
Scrimba who recently posted a launch HN [1] does this for their teaching/coding platform.

It’s so rare to see that I thought wow this is it was really neat! [2] is an example of this.

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579699

2 https://scrimba.com/learn/learnreact/react-todo-app-phase-7-...
Finding mistakes and cheating from lower earning tax payers merely takes some computer time. Finding problems with richer tax payers who have more complex tax returns actually takes a lot of manual effort, so budget cuts in enforcement affect the latter much more than the former.
Mathematics (and logical reasoning in general) is almost impossible without a language, but in and of itself mathematics is not and cannot be reduced to being just a language. A language is invented, math is discovered. On the other hand, in science (and inside mathematics itself) the word “language” is often used in a relative sense, in which even chemistry, for example, can be called “a language.”
Don’t think I follow?
I just installed macos in a VM a few hours ago to test cross platform builds
I strongly agree with this take.

I've been working on a paper comparing the effects of the Anthropocene to mega catastrophes in the geologically recent past. In addition to the Younger Dryas Impact (12kya), there's the Oruani (26kya) and Mt Toba (77kya) eruptions. From my calculations, it seems the climate change from each of these dwarfs any actions humans are currently capable of, namely petrocarbon burning and also total nuclear war.

I'm also critical of the account given to these events in the IPCC reports.

It seems unbelievable to me that the climate change debate isn't considering these more, so I'm still debugging the numbers and research. But happy to take comments from anyone who's interested!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yo9yHMfEnEepefDCRdar-B-4...
Access to capital is only one part of the equation; having a culture that favors innovation is the other part.
FWIW, space junk wouldn't necessarily survive that long. Things on lower orbits would deorbit themselves quickly without station keeping. Things on higher orbit would get pushed away by solar radiation over long time, and degrade under high-energy radiation (such as UV rays). What remains would be hard to find, because space is big, so it would have to be fairly large and/or fairly reflective for us to notice now.
Wouldn't metal dissolve over thousands of years? I'd be on the lookout for plastics.
This ignores the EITC which is available to a huge swath of low income earners.

The only reason the IRS is involved is because the payment is a tax credit, rather than just a payment from some govt body.

22M Americans receive EITCs and the average payout was $3200, for a total of $70B per year.[1]

[1]https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/policy-basics-the-...
It’s in a similar vein to Roasted Addiqtion. “By the hit, by the gram, by the kilo”.

It’s a pity they went with the ‘q’ imho.

https://roastedaddiqtion.co.nz/
Have some facts:

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-inco...

> In 2017, the bottom 50 percent of taxpayers (those with AGI below $41,740) earned 11.3 percent of total AGI. This group of taxpayers paid $49.8 billion in taxes, or roughly 3 percent of all federal individual income taxes in 2017.

> In contrast, the top 1 percent of all taxpayers (taxpayers with AGI of $515,371 and above) earned 21.0 percent of all AGI in 2017 and paid 38.5 percent of all federal income taxes.

> In 2017, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid roughly $616 billion, or 38.5 percent of all income taxes, while the bottom 90 percent paid about $479 billion, or 29.9 percent of all income taxes.
Lack of money is not the problem. The problem is that anything remotely successful gets acquired by a US entity or that people don't even bother to try to get off the ground in the EU but that they start in SV through YC or some other US based accelerator.
But sometimes...

My anecdote: a close friend's brother was working as a laborer on a pipeline dig. One day work halted for a couple of hours, during which the construction supervisor and engineer were huddled over some plans.

My friend's brother saunters past, looks over, and says "there's your problem," placing a finger on the plan. Then he walks on.

He had seen a triangle with angles not adding up to 180 degrees. He was right - that's where the problem was.
For example, I'm trying to setup rust-analyzer with emacs right now, and the instructions here makes 0 sense at all: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/manual.html#emacs

I'm completely stuck at step 2 and 3, how can anyone parse this without being an emacs pro is beyond me
This looks exactly like MobX
It isn't always as egregious as the eBay case. SLAPPs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...) are one example. Then there are Twitter-fests such as Arizona Public Service (https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/07/30/aps-allies-attack...), involvement in political campaigns against elected critics (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/technology/amazon-pramila...).

On the other hand, there's the Kerr-McGee corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood), Monsanto (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/07/monsanto-fu...), and Bloomberg LP (https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/828565428/bloomberg-news-kill...).

Corporate investigations is an industry, too. (https://www.aegis.com/investigations/corporate-investigation...)
Yup. The said movie actually shows the right thing. How this is a popular myth and clarifies it.
I think it will utterly fail. Some interesting spin-offs may still happen but the whole project is a great exercise in marketing, not so much in science.
To give the next species a chance to grow?

While a stretch as a motivation, the Uplift saga by David Brin has this as a core point: ecology and biodiversity is important for all the species in these books; planets are leased and used for a while, and then lain fallow to let them regrow and potentially spawn more sentient beings that could then (be helped to) join the galactic community.
*flout
Lots of good, more specific recommendations, so here's some broad and cliched advice:

You have two ears, one mouth. Focus on what your potential customer needs, their problems, pain and goals, and how your product can help. It will help you get out of your own head.

Don't take rejection personally. If you can't sell the product then you can at least sell yourself as someone trustworthy, friendly and helpful.

Remember that people are not purely rational, and often have hidden motives, biases, and incentives. You may win or lose a sale on factors totally out of your control, or because of reasons that are not at all clear on the surface.

Charm is a real thing. I can think of a few times I've bought something solely because the salesman was doing SUCH A GOOD JOB of making me feel special, cared for and considered. Even consciously recognizing what was happening didn't change that I wanted the experience to run through to its natural conclusion and to complete the ritual.

Something interesting I found reading Caro's LBJ biographies is how much of a Jobs-like Reality Distortion Field the man had. People who worked with him describe how he'd wind himself up mentally and emotionally while working on an issue. He'd hit some inflection point where he truly believed whatever he was selling, even if he'd been very opposed to it only shortly before. Once he was there, the emotion and energy would overwhelm resistance and he'd get his way.

I'm not saying either of those men are to be idolized, but they do reveal something about the power of exposing your emotional side during a sale. I mention this because you said they can bog you down. Consider how you might turn that to your advantage.
Child of the World
Be bless
I wonder how it is that the iron in meteorites doesn't just dissolve away. Any thoughts on that?
Such a confusing writing style; I gave up pretty quickly. 4 (mobile) pages down and I have no context on what I’m reading.
Surely $10 million should be well within the spending abilities of a fair number of tech people? Many universities now have fairly large computing clusters as well.
Alphabet's X (formerly Google X) may have helped popularize the term, as they have commonly been referred to as the "moonshot factory".
> But the argument that Boeing isn't responsible at the end of the day for software they outsource is... a really dumb argument.

100% agree.
This seems like the most cynical take possible, most of those choke points aren't really that firm anymore. Microsoft had a brief chokehold and then smartphones became the computer of the working class. Google is dominant in search but now they're competing against other megacorps who are investing heavily in catching up. All that's died is the naivety of the 80s and 90s that believed small mom and pops would somehow be outcompeting megacorps rather than serving as product development for them.
There’s no way RMS asked you how something pertains to open source. :)
Source: I’ve been in biz development and pre-sales for almost 10 years.

I like the Sandler sales methodology as a simple and cooperative process.

Cooperative in the sense that you’re continuously moving closer to a signed deal _with_ the prospect’s commitment and understanding.

It helps you not to waste time with “tire kickers”. By focusing on a “pain” to solve. If someone wants you the spend your time with them educating them at length about your problem and don’t have a clear problem they’re trying to fix then stop immediately and get them to engage with marketing.
How do you measure user engagement?
Sgt Pepper is a concept album about a fake band, that has nothing to do with reality or the times. If you look at through that lens you are missing the point entirely.
Google Suspended LBRY for Android
To counter the extraordinary volume of bland negativity in this comment thread, I'll add my own bland positivity. I came across the 2003 version of this list in my early teens, and listened to a bunch of the albums here (or at least some of them), and it strongly influenced the development of my musical taste in a way which I think back on very fondly.
I hadn't seen an image of James Gosling with white hair. Felt the sudden weight of the years. Then when he mentioned he worked on the Pascal compiler, and I realized that he was just a student when Nicklaus Wirth was already a legendary computer scientist.
I think this case was a little bit of both. Senior management had made up their mind to spend money with McKinsey and we (I was the product manager) rolled our eyes a bit. But they got some fancy spreadsheets out of it and, in all fairness, they did get a trusted outside partner who basically said that our pricing etc. strategy was reasonable.
Openssh also supports OCSP, which can be used to more efficiently manage revoked certificates.
I see your point. But you are incorrect and too much reasoning probably from your current position. In many new companies practicality is very important. There are maybe no resources to setup a giant set of utilities which replaces info you would normally get by SSH to a server.
In a new company you wanna make this a graduate process. The security aspect is always important. But it's a balance. You cannot over engineer.
Wealthy people have the resources to defend themselves in court. If you live paycheck to paycheck, you generally cannot afford lawyer fees, taking time off work for court appearances, or the risk of actually losing a case, or the probably million other things I'm not thinking about right now. It is almost always easier to go after the poor than it is to go after the rich and powerful.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem essentially thwarted Principia Mathematica by proving that mathematics itself is either consistent or complete (read: either useful or definable), but not both.

The best definition I've heard calls math "the science of pattern". However, proving itself undefinable seems fundamentally better.
It’s funny because it’s true. The best Linux desktop will be a Windows box.
Delaware Officials, FBI Seize Enough Fentanyl to Kill 75% of State’s Population
> Just wait for the day some new killer Linux apps encourages, or even requires, WSL rather than native Linux to run properly, or to run at all.

Why that would exist? If you wanted an app that could only run in Windows, you could write it for Windows. Nothing has changed here.

The only reason to use WSL is because you want to use Linux software or you have a Linux server environment and you want to use Windows as your Workstation environment for development.

> just as WINE has killed Windows on many desktops where the real thing wasn't necessary.

Except, of course, this is running an actual Linux kernel. So really it's just putting Linux in Windows and running them side-by-side. If anything, it makes moving to Linux easier if somehow this becomes even more popular.

The thing is, your attitude is stuck in the 90's and Microsoft's isn't. They used to write software for many different platforms and they're starting to do that again. Microsoft definitely cares less now if you run their software on Android, iOS, Windows, or even Linux. They're going to make money off of you either way.
> Apple keeps dropping old APIs to make their OSes better and simpler internally.

Hand on heart, do you really feel OS X/macOS is improving much?
> evidenced by the fact that they did not leave behind any space junk

Whatever space junk we leave behind will be gone 100 years from now. https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html
There's two articles [1] now on the front page of HN from this bit-101.com domain and they both seem pretty basic for HN. The other one is just about some guy installing a third party CPU cooler. No new tech, nothing interesting about the cooler, he just found it works better than the stock one. This article walks through using a shell script he found on GitHub to virtualize MacOS and his install and his very unscientific opinions on performance. Where's the beef?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24599832
I have been using OpenSSH and OpenLDAP to do password authentication for decades and just recently discovered this as an option. It is pretty simple to setup. Basically just extend your ldap schema with the public key attribute and then tell openssh to use it.
If you you make more than $200 USD because exchange rates changed, you are supposed to report that as capital gains. Of course, most don’t.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2019_publink1000...
You'll get rust, but huge piles of concentrated iron oxide in a low erosion zone are not found much in nature.
what do you propose?

> That would go against tradition.

a tradition of it being unprofitable, perhaps. It just goes against the numbers. Small artists just don't get enough listens.

Everybody complains, but you aren't entitled to success. Once you're popular, there's plenty of ways to monetize.

The only solution is basic income, because you probably aren't gonna live off your music otherwise.
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