skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies has:

2 legitimate hits (stripe, dropbox)

? WTFs? (Cruise, Ginkobioworks,Flexport,Rappi,Brex)

? losers (AirBNB,Doordash,Coinbase,Instacart,Gusto, Reddit)

I started writing this list up but can't bring myself to finish it because it's so bad.

On the one hand, yes you should apply because people with money will give you some of it.
On the other hand, they're not going to help you be successful; you have to do that yourself. YC doesn't seem to have any special insight into how to make your company successful. And they don't seem to be able to pick winners any better than anyone else.

I'd suggest going in with bright lines that you don't want to cross. Let YC tell you what they are willing to give you money for, and don't budge from your principles.
That's less than 2% of the country, not going to swing an election.

Besides

100k income in 2009/10 (when Labour were last in power): Net income £65,312. 120k income in 2009/10: Net income £77,112.

Marginal tax 41%

100k income in 2019/20: Net income £66,539. 120k income in 2019/20: Net income £74,139

Marginal tax 62%

That's not even the top level. If you're a masters graduate on £50k with 2 kids your marginal tax is 75%.

There are many myths, that conservatives are good for the economy, that they don't have boom and bust, that the stock market does better, than employment does better, that taxes are lower for everyone, that taxes are lower for "rich" workers, that the country has less debt.

They're all myths, but they all seem to stick in the national psyche.
Ive always loved this photo

http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/ima...
In my experience, a side effect of a healthy working environment for one person is that it's a healthy working environment for everyone.

There have been a couple of teams I've been in a position of technical leadership and/or been better than the rest of the team on all or some relevant technical axes. In all of these cases, even if I was being 100% selfish, I would still _want_ to grow the people under me, since the stuff they grow into is the stuff I want to grow out of. As a concrete example, I'm currently the TL of a team, with a primary personal focus on ML, and it's been a huge win-win to hand off ML system maintenance tasks to non-ML engineers. These tasks provide them valuable exposure to the way ML production systems work, familiarity with ML workflows/tooling, and practice reasoning about ML systems. But they also free my time up of tedious, straightforward little tasks, to work on things that challenge me more. It's win-win-win, as the company is getting a more efficient and productive allocation of resources too.
It's really FAAMG.
Yeah, I have a Pi 4 as a home server.

I had it connected to a UPS that went bad, and that trashed the bootloader/firmware on the Pi.

I had to reflash, and it works, but I have also had two 2.5” usb3 drives die in the last month (I had a independently powered usb3 hub attached).

If you care about your files and time, have a working backup strategy in place.
I was in your boat, and I have small fingers. Here are the things I did to change that:

I had a keyboard tray at work, so decided to get one of those from M3. It seems like a no brainer now.

Removed the side rests from my chair, and lowered the keyboard height so that the lower wrist rests easily on my keyboard tray's wrist rest.

I use the 'timed' shift functionality of the ergodox EZ. Check the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1rj9ZSBggg

I use vim extensively, and changed from hjkl to jkl; to keep touch typing in vim consistent with typing outside of it.

I use the layer 1 extensively, and have mapped my thumb keys to enable those on a long press.

My layout configuration is here: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/BN33O/la...

I still struggle a bit due to small fingers. I am currently in the process of ditching my pinky for typing, but 95% of my complaints are now resolved. I also don't have the default keycaps, the ones I have are a random assortment of SA/DSA keys I got for cheap from a grab bag, I want to switch to cherry profile which aren't as deep and would hopefully work well for my small fingers.
Is it really such a good idea to entice young people like this? Shouldn't someone at least be interested and have domain knowledge in CRDTs and real-time collaboration before diving into building a startup like this?
Is it really that hard to google? If you're trying to learn about a subject it can get annoying to repeatedly have to jump to the meat of the article or fast forward if you're watching a video.
So allow high occupancy vehicles (say at least 3 passengers, 4 for taxis) in bus lanes.
some of the more modern formulations like Humalog came off of patent protection in the US around 2017, but no one outside the manufacturer has picked up white label manufacturing.

For drugs, generics still need to prove that their own product meets safety standards and is the equivalent to the drug coming off patent protection. It's not cheap. For biologics like insulin, it's even more expensive.

Thus house brands seem like an obfuscation of the market to my uninformed eye so far. They seem to act in the macro scale as a way to prevent real competitors from arising and taking away real revenue and margin, by stuffing the distribution channel with SKU's that give a slightly larger cut to the distributors in exchange for maintaining the same vendor count (thereby making it much more difficult for a competitor to gain shelf space).

That's not how retail works. Stores are more than happy to put new products on the shelf, especially if they sell well. They don't "maintain vendor count," they allocate shelf space based on actual sales. If a product doesn't sell well, it loses space to better-selling products on a daily or weekly basis (depending on the store). New products show up all the time, and depending on the arrangement with the manufacturer have between a week and a month to show their selling power. (New products are usually on a consignment basis so the manufacturer only gets paid if units sell.)
Thank you! Interested to hear how it goes :)
There are tons of reports from 2016 as well.
tmpfiles.d
So, where did the old school hackers go to then?

Also, this seems odd. Being inside Google is still the position where you can influence this stuff the most.
Sure, solar + natural gas is cheaper than nuclear. But that's not a solution to climate change. The amount of battery storage that some plants use is negligible compared to the 11.5 TWh that the US uses on average every day. The entire country has 8 seconds worth of battery storage.

The reality is that nobody has a plan to power a country with renewables. The storage requirements to do so are staggering. The US would need 12 hours of storage to get to 80% renewables - and we'd still be burning fossil fuels for the remainder. To get to 100% renewables we'd need 3 weeks of storage: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/03/01/12-hours-energy-stora...

Intermittent sources are fundamentally not viable as a primary form of generation. Solar is currently being used to supplement fossil fuel generation during the day, but one you saturate daytime power generation the usable energy you get from solar drops substantially.
author here, i find myself using more specialized search engines like github search (the best code search engine right now https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/searc... ); so specialized search engines might be the place to go when the big guys fail to find something. So it's not always the same as searching with site: ...
As all of history has shown, this doesn't work. Literally anyone can jump into their shoes, and for the most part, a lot of people are waiting to. There are a lot of poor people who will take an opportunity to get out of their status even with high risk.
Not easily, unfortunately. Accessing the app files itself is usually not possible on a normal iOS device, and even then they are encrypted with FairPlay DRM (which is easy to reverse–but only on a jailbroken device).
One of the charges seems to be that the proportion of black voters chosen for "deterrence" is about twice as large as proportion of black voters in the general population. Given that 92% of black voters voted for a candidate other than Trump[1] and about 50% of all voters voted for a candidate other than Trump, it seems that simply selecting "Democrats" for deterrence explains the outcome, nothing to do with race at all.

Am I missing something here, or is this just a huge misunderstanding of statistics?

[The fact that this database exists and is used at all might be suspect but that seems orthogonal to how the numbers are reported in this story.]

[EDIT: Changed "The charge seems to be" to "One of the charges seems to be". The article contains plenty of charges (the existence of the database at all, for example), besides the statistical aspects.]

[1] https://www.mic.com/articles/159402/here-s-a-break-down-of-h...
I wonder how they choose what is worth of a bang and what's not. Are any of the bang operators paid placements?
> Like one time we had to build an SQL AST represented by the DOM, and she put down this recursive series of components that to this day I have trouble explaining to new people on the project.

Sounds like the kind of thing you might pick up in a computer science class. Maybe read up on parsers and compilers?
Sure. Just make sure you don't ask the French to build your plants. It's 2020 now and we're still waiting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
When Kamala was elected to Congress she was reported to be the first Indian woman in Congress. Now she's black?
This is wrong because many benefits are like insurance.

It costs the company $100 per employee to offer rarely used $10000 benefits to everyone.
You mean doing the work _again_. I had all the algorithm stuff down cold out of college and maybe for another 5 years after. Now after 20 years of rarely needing any of it and having it be a web search away when I did, I couldn't come up with any of it on demand.

"Doing the work" meaning having to study to relearn a thing that I'll maybe use sparingly in my work means the interview process is broken, not anyone's motivation.
Use to read Alphaville for a time. Gave up on it early. Went back to it yesterday and surprised to see how politically left it is now.
Offline Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
You have to be very careful with claims about relative abundance. Take water as an example, 2/3 of our planets surface is covered in it and yet for practical purposes it's useless to us for drinking or watering crops. Regardless, I didn't make any claim about abundance of lithium, only the current manufacturing capacity.

My point about Iceland is they already have huge amounts of geothermal power and they should be able to develop it and sell it back to Europe as green electricity. Currently 70% of their power consumption is used to smelt aluminium so it's not like they are constrained.
> Your age isn’t the problem; I know plenty of young people that don’t want to do the work also.

It's fascinating, coming from the world of "Strategy" Consulting, to see the byzantine, bureaucratic shibboleths of dinosaur companies recreated in SV in real time. And justified the same way, no less!
Listening to Developer Feedback to Improve Google Play
Or some new-old sort of visual display device ... Cathode Ray Display Terminal :)
Very cool! What's the story there?
How utterly strange. Thanks for that.
That's not always the case. Sometimes the white label results in a small decrease to the name brand and captures sales to a different market.
Obviously googling isn't hard, but having to google what could be easily explained in the text breaks one's concentration, something that is critical for most readers.
don't gaslight people. dude wasn't insulting anyone.
I don't use this, but looking at that list, I would disagree. I just looked up some of the top sites I'd want to use and I wouldn't have guessed any of them

Wikipedia -> !w

Youtube -> !you

reddit user -> !reu

subreddit -> !reddits

also !reddit points to new version, I'd want !redditold

Twitter -> !tweet

Steam -> !steme (???)

Twitch -> !ttv

That being said, if you're on DDG, there's pretty good auto complete on bangs so you can find it by typing the name and looking at the favicons.
Given that the author defines CRDT (conflict-free replicated data type) a few paragraphs in, it might have been accidental. The author might have re-ordered a few of the paragraphs during editing.
You can also be even nicer and have the first expansion of the acronym link to a wikipedia page or other relevant explanation.
> Banning/setting up a firewall makes us no different than the CCP! [1]

That's pretty clearly not the case. Context matters. For instance: if I shot someone in self defense, and you shot someone to murder them, we're not "no different" because we both performed the action of shooting a gun at someone. In that case, like this one, the context motivating the action is more important than the action itself in determining its meaning.

> Personally I think all the effort and resources spent policing social media platforms is a complete waste and malinvestment. This looks like an overreach of government power.

Some people say the same thing about having any military at all.

[1] Italicizing something like that is a common quote style, but I'm assuming you're italicizing your own statement for emphasis because that isn't anything like what I said.
Not really and if I recall correctly, that's the main reason why AppStore is considered incompatible with GPL.
I know a dozen nurses making far less than six figures in the US. San Francisco and the Valley should be considered almost its own economy at this point.
Most people have two biological parents. So yes, she can be both Indian and Black. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/kamala-harris-parents....
Well, yes, of course. But my comment assumes the person might be interested in the subject.
Is a Turtle an Animal or a Fish?
Sure, let me start with a disclaimer, I have used TS briefly and found it great but I personally prefer Elm's type system.

My understanding is TS was designed specifically to statically type existing JS patterns in popular libraries and frameworks and while that's great, newer libraries rarely need such flexibility if they aim for type safe designs from the start.

When I use typescript I often get the feeling there are multiple ways of typing the same function, which is reasonable given that one of TS goals was to embrace the JS ecosystem and that meant covering multiple overlapping use cases.

Consider Enums and Union types in TS, at a higer level both express the same thing (this value can be one of these sets of values) but in practice there is lots of discussion on when to use which.
I have not seen sum types (as they are usually called) being implemented in two different ways in other languages.

I think one of the ways to think about TS is that it was designed to help programmers better understand their JavaScript code by adding types while reinforcing their designs in a safe manner so if TS didn't have to interface with existing JS code many of the cool tricks it's picked up would not be useful I think.

Finally on the point of expressivity, I'm interested to know how TS helps in modelling application logic to make invalid state impossible.
>Could you not have afforded skis?

I’m not sure if this was intended as a joke, but when I spent time in northern MI using snowmobiles instead of commutes wasn’t uncommon
Should I ask my customers if they would use a feature before building it?
Should I ask my customers if they would use a feature before building it? I've seen plenty of user-bound surveys with questions like "If our product had XYZ feature, would you use it?" and I've always thought them to be a useless question. I felt like it was common knowledge that most people will answer yes, but the reality is much different (they wont use the feature). I'm having trouble finding supporting evidence though so I'm wondering if I need to change my stance on this?

Obviously this is very contextual, for instance a group of users digging holes with their hands will most definitely use a shovel. What I'm talking more about are features that maybe a competitor has, or a feature that is usually considered "table steaks".

Curious what HN has to say about this.
Intel is more like 3 steps behind, one of their shoes is missing and the other is missing laces
That is a nurse anesthetist, very different from someone who is an RN (registered nurse) which is (in my incomplete understanding) an "average" nurse.
And that is even a bit of a high risk guess, probably closer to 2025. But yeah, pretty much. Is Intel even looking into Mbcfet?
I agree. I think if you're going to use "disharmonious" as your benchmark, you should be comparing it with "pulchritudinous" instead.
I try to use the keyboard for everything but unfortunately I haven't found a proper plugin for modern browsers. I tried to like tridactyl on Firefox but there were too many rough edges and it was unreliable (not really their fault, mainly limitations of what webextensions can do). As a result it was frustrating to have your keyboard shortcuts not work right ~25% of the time because you had the wrong part of the browser focused or something like that.
That's for a CRNA. A regular RN in a city like Los Angeles will be making 60k and up.
If you assume that officers are following proper protocols (masks, gloves, proper hygiene) .. then I would say that it makes sense to not quarantine everyone that the officers come in contact with.
her father is Black and her mother was Indian.
As you alluded to, if you only judge something in its most optimal setting, then of course that thing seems very workable and successful. There are very few objective truths when it comes to WFH policies; there are only compromises that people are willing to make/accept. People always seem to make it about one-size-fits-all X is Good Y is Bad.
That's an interesting observation... it's true I don't check the news I find plausible as much as the news I am already sceptical about, while I mostly become sceptical about the news items not because of the reporting/writing itself, but because of the alleged facts not matching my expectations / biases.

It's a messy problem, as checking news items takes a lot of effort and it's just impossible to deal with the news volume nowadays. Ideally I'd love to see some cooperative effort to check news items by many people with different ideologies/biases, but I think there's currently not enough manpower for that and it's also very easy to end with a biased set of checkers.
It's similarly true on Windows - not everything supports COM.
There is a lot of truth here but it's not universally true, it depends on where you work and who you work for.

Two teams in the same building, same dept. can be night and day different.

The longer people hang around, the less of this is possible.

I saw a lot of this at a fast growing company that got 'very huge' and then failed, partly due to this reason, I have so little respect for CEO's that promote hustlers.
The direct global thermal pollution for both solar panels and nuclear are negligible compared to the 100-200 petawatts of light hitting the earth constantly.
Yes, and it's very frustrating too: they lowered the bitrate when Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Breton said the internet would not support the extra load due to work-from-home/COVID. Breton was CEO of Orange, internet & 4G provider. This is all sounds very suspicious, and it was clearly wrong. Some of us pay for UHD quality and we don't get what we initially paid for.
Well said. It's amusing imagining the soup that would result from attempting to do this sort of thing in various other languages!
One thing that I wish was more obvious to me when I was starting my career on how to get promoted - work for a growing org in a growing company. If your company and org are stagnant or shrinking - there is likely a cap on how many people at certain levels they will support. And even if not, promotions will be slow due to budget.
I think 'revenue money' would feel more like you're a part of a organization that functions properly. It's nice to believe that what you're doing is creating real value rather than just draining a bank account.
Agreed, there's a lot of hidden complexity, but I'm talking about this phenomenon where people seem to lose access to the ability to properly identify things that are clearly visible.

For example, higher in the thread someone seems unable to see a distinction between TikTok and Twitter, and even http://english.www.gov.cn. They indeed have many similar attributes, but this similarity seems to then be presumed to extend to all other attributes. There are blatantly obvious differences in both distinct attributes, and values of those attributes (otherwise, they wouldn't be different applications), yet people seem to be in some sort of a state where they cannot see them.

This is just one example, this thread is full of all sorts of other counter-intuitive (compared to historical norms on HN) behavior, or at least the surface level appearance of it. The way people describe observable reality is just....weird. How can there be such massive variance in observations between (presumably) intelligent people, but only under certain scenarios? And this isn't a one-off anomalous thread either, I strongly believe that this phenomenon has been present and clearly observable for quite some time now. Am I maybe imagining things?
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> eval "filename=$escaped"
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[foo'
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> In one confidential document seen by Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica admitted the Trump campaign did target “AA” (African Americans) with what it called the “Predators video” – spending $55,000 USD in the state of Georgia alone.
I had one of those Ferguson 11.5" B&W sets[1] that were common in the UK in the 80s, it was very hit and miss.

[1] https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/s4UAAOSwmTVfUWyM/s-l1600.jpg
While I agree that reading the title was confusing ( as I am not familiar with CRDT ), I think the writing style was actually very good.

I read the title, wondered what CRDT was, and started reading. In the back of my mind I was wondering what CRDT was, but reading the article felt like I was going on a journey. Every term that needed to be defined was defined. Finally, when CRDT was mentioned in the article, it was immediately defined.

I generally agree that throwing acronyms around without defining them is not fair to the reader, but I don't think this article did that at all.
If only all the Scala world which misuse the label "tagelss-final" heavily for some only very remotely related concept would read (and understand!) Oleg's papers…

It's such a simple but powerful concept which deserves more proper attention.
Ironically, this is an extremely Western mindset you're what-iffing. And you don't need to rely on stereotypes for a population to have a preference(or viewpoint) on something.

If you say pizza is Americans favorite food, because 60% of individuals you ask say pizza is their favorite food, then no stereotype is in play.
It's a specific kind of work - I assure you I spend a lot of my spare time learning and working on hobby projects. The grind of drilling on brain teasers and toy interview problems is something I have little patience for anymore.

In any case I'm doing ok these days. Most CA employers (short of, say, Google or Netflix) wouldn't offer a big enough pay increase to offset the cost of living, and besides, I hate living in cities. My current dream is to find a good paying remote gig and live someplace... remote :)