skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree with everything you said.

Excel itself is never the problem. It user error, and sometimes even "boss of the user error," that leads to both situations you describe - analysis paralysis and overreliance.

I call out the "boss" concept because as some people get away from what leads to the numbers that are ultimately output to aid in the decision making, they can sometimes rely on the numbers too heavily relative to other, less "hard" but more important qualitative factors. It also can become an expectation that "robust analysis" is always conducted, and the time required outweighs the value created.

Obviously not always the case, but just a tendency you see in things like investment banking, corporate business development, private equity, venture capital even ---

For the record - without excel my job would be nearly impossible, so I love it. I just took the chance (and am getting the downvotes for it) to put a reminder out there for the less hard-data centric fields you should always add critical thinking to what is an impressive tool.
If you make the assumption that the frequency of opportunities is inversely proportional to their potential (ie, the bigger the opportunity, the less frequent they are), then in the short term you're going to be better off expending your energies exploiting an existing opportunity rather than chasing a new one.

If the distribution of opportunities is fat-tailed enough, then given a long enough baseline I concede that continuing exploration might provide greater expected value. But in practice, most successful founders are in their mid-40s, and most businesses take years to grow to fruition. So I think Buffett's advice is good in the real world.
Because the data doesn’t fit your world view, so you’re fine just ignoring the data?
You’re pulling numbers out of thin air and basing your conclusions on them.
The opportunities you talk about are much like the opportunities to be an actor on television, they are few and far between compared to the amount of people who want those jobs. If the market supports 6000 Youtube stars and 100,000 people want to be Youtube stars your pep talk is naive.
Pardon my language.
That's an utterly useless title and no description shared here either
Amazon One wants to use your palm as ID
I'd say breathing is the most important concept of our time.
It's the idea, rather than the implementation, which I'm advocating for. For a shell, it would likely be best to trigger with a reserved character (or two) that's much less likely to be encountered in normal usage.
Running NSS and PAM modules in-process was IMO a historical mistake. Convenient in one aspect, rather inconvenient and impractical in many others.

If we were to redo these today, I think we'd do them out-of-process and talk to them over UNIX domain sockets or pipes.

The transitive dependencies of NSS and PAM modules can also wreak havoc with your application. There are many bugs which have arisen because of these limitations. Yes, looking at you, GnuTLS.
This has less to do with India, and more about what happens when there’s no prior culture of open source, to balance against the willingness to “hustle”. The fact that a lot of these PRs might originate in India is only relevant insofar as there are a lot of people willing to hustle, and don’t have much open source experience. Chances are that they are oblivious to what happens on the other side of the table, and open source projects are abstract entities (which might as well be run by Github, or some other bureaucracy!) A useful reminder that the celebrated “hustle” is susceptible to the unintended consequences of Goodhart’s law.

If this was Sean Parker with Napster or Zuck with early Facebook, we’d be celebrating it.

(For all those who advocate for growth hacking techniques, or annoying ads, this is exactly how scummy most such techniques / dark patterns feel to users. I don’t think that is geographically localized in any way.)
Lack of privacy is the capitalists' distributed social credit system. We have thousands of companies that mine massive data to spy on people in all ways. And that data can and will be used in hiring, firing, monetary credit, clearances, customer acceptance, and more.

The hardness to maintain privacy will be used as a means of significant control over access to money in all ways.
I have 2 TLC Roku TVs. One I use as a large monitor for my desktop. I’m very happy with them. I mostly watch Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime video and have never noticed the ads on the navigation screen (since they are just tv shows).

I’m planning to get YouTube premium to remove ads there and vote with my money for an ad-free Internet.

I never imagined that they would be spying on the actual video output, but I would consider that not only a major violation of privacy but corporate espionage (because I use it for work).

I don’t believe that is the case, but I’ll be researching if that is being done.
There is great wisdom on this topic from the good old 4chan. You could google "there are no girls on the internet". It's much deeper than you might think! I'll paraphrase: There are no genders on the net. That's by default since it's mostly text-based. But (some) girls love to label themselves as such. They do that because it gives them immense advantages in real life and they want that on the net, too. However here no one cares since there is no (sexual) way of benefiting. That's why many people react so aggressively to those who present their gender in aggressive ways. And that's what I meant: Just be a human, not a woman.

The style of aggressively attacking "internet woman" might be questionable, but there is a deeper truth to it.
If you wanted to access it remotely and don't want to set up a VPN yourself you might check out https://www.tailscale.com/

I haven't used it yet myself, just came across it and thought it was neat.
If the choice is "The Apple Watch heart monitor sends too many people to the doctor" and "The Apple Watch heart monitor sends too few people to the doctor," I'm OK with this.
I feel like users should be having automated tools to scrape for their own use. Once these kind of sophisticated browser automation tools come out eventually Google and ilk will be putting out all stops to prevent browser automation and verify who is using the browser, their real identity and what they are allowed to see (and not see)
Is there a reason you believe you will be attacked while voting? I've been voting for a while now, and have never seen any incidents. Everyone just lines up and casts their vote.
I suspect that individuals with strong cultural values self-select to create and lead such communities. Others who maybe do not identify so strongly with the same values, but who are in need of community, crystallize around these leaders and adapt/reflect their cultural conviction in order to reinforce a sense of belonging.

At least, this is my experience with non-cultural interest groups.
I'm similar age.. the talk of hourly wages rings true to me.

In the early 90s I was still in HS.

I made $8/hr as a lifeguard in HS and $12/hr as a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. I'd clock out of one and clock in at the higher rate depending on what I was doing. That's about $14-21/hr based on inflation. These were actually jobs that were much harder to qualify for compared to most jobs high school kids get. They required my parents having the foresight to sign me up for many years of swim instruction and then lifeguarding & teaching classes. WSI classes were actually quite difficult back then, and I think they still are.

I actually know a lot of people working lifeguard and swim instructor jobs make less than $8/hr today. Just an example but I think these jobs are similar to many others. Most places my son has taken swim lessons the instructors are not Red Cross certified, and it really shows, the programs are nowhere near as well designed and the instructors don't even swim well enough to make it through the WSI course. Meanwhile the business owner charges WAY more for the swim lessons. The employees make 50% what they did 25-30 years ago but the business owners are likely making WAY more money. Heck swim lessons weren't even really a for profit market back in the 1990s. As soon as I had one year of college I always had summer software internships. The first one started at $16/hr and the hourly wages went up every year.

As far as the recollections of the .com crash in 2001/2002. It's impossible to know how good the blog author was.

In the first .com boom there were a lot of companies that did 0 productive work, burned through lots of VC money, and never even shipped a product. They hired lots of people without college degrees, sometimes they hired people who dropped out of HS. "We don't do any work, we just play Quake all day in the office" was definitely a thing in the late 90s. There were a lot of people who worked places like that who had "Sr. Software Engineer" on their Resume and had very little ability to do the job. The .com crash was a correction for a lot of that. There were other people who had the same lack of credentials but did fine because they were legit, had the talent, worked hard, learned on the job, and worked at companies that were actually doing real work.

I think today's startup market is different. Code quality standards are a lot higher. There are weird parts of the software economy around social media, advertising, etc.. but there seem to be less companies that are just there to outright defraud VCs. Investors are a lot smarter now.

I worked as a Perma-Temp for 2 years after the .com crash. It was actually very lucrative at that time. 2002-2005 were pretty scary. There was tons of talk of Outsourcing just replacing everything in the US. It didn't work.
It's pretty well correlated to wealth inequality. The more wealthy cheaters there are, the more the masses are pro-cheating for themselves.
I think that's all it takes to make the front page of HN, right?

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I'm curious to understand the use cases they're trying to solve for. I recognize this is experimental, but it's hard to visualize what this is supposed to be for.
That's not what invert sugar is.
Lone voice here I guess - I have a mid/high range Samsung TV and love it. Picture quality is brilliant and it looks good on the wall.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an advert on it from Samsung - where are they appearing exactly? I just switch between terrestrial TV and various apps like Netflix and Amazon on the bottom navigation bar and don’t think I’ve ever seen one. Might be wrong though!
Rebate is the term haha
Is there a positive case for flatpack? I have only ever heard people basically cursing its existence.
I down voted against the example. It's really bad because latency has no relevance to FPS and games can actually approach 100 ms and work just fine (consider rendering time and TV delay as well).

It's fine because the latency is constant. Your brain internalizes that there is a delay between moving buttons and things happening. Your brain internalizes that you need to shoot where things are going not where they are now.

If anything, latency is an example that consistency is more important than speed.
That's a poor reading of that Wikipedia page, it says pretty much the opposite of what you have written.

Anyway, there is an old quotation attributed to Horace (about 65 BC):

Be but great,
With praise or infamy—leave that to Fate;
Get Place and Wealth, if possible with grace;
If not, by any means get Wealth and Place;

That's an English translation from Alexander Pope, somewhere in the 1700s. Maybe he made it up.

Either way, you can't blame America.
Right, but on the flip side, how many companies do you think should have publicly exposed Elasticsearch clusters before we think of having certified for security.
Can you give an example to support this statement?
Apparently not this year:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/trump-support...
Everybody's talking about TVs in comments, but Samsung also mentioned mobile, any idea of the form it can take ? And I guess the next step is cars, as they are also more and more connected...
Why Python? It's 2020. It should be Rust.
Farms take up massive areas so farmers can not live in cities. Natural resources like minerals are unlikely to be located close to major population centers, so miners can not live in cities. Between population centers there must be people maintaining the transportation infrastructure, these can not live in cities. All of these people who can't live in population centers need various services, the providers of which also can't live in cities. The people in rural areas are overwhelmingly there because they need to be. People want to live in urban areas, it's a real problem that people leave rural areas despite the need for their services, and thus the rural communities are no longer capable of providing good quality of life, leading to even more people leaving until only those who can't escape remain. If the communities providing resources to the cities collapse, what happens to the cities?
An opinionated history of programming languages
But that still doesn't answer the question of why use it. It's going to be inherently less stable than using first party apps, and the Pi is still more expensive in the first place. I just don't see a compelling case for it.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

Could you point me towards books or some other resources that go in to more detail about number 2. that you`ve found useful, and others(although they are more or less self explanatory).
The outer circle is also proportionally taxed in practice. Why is that left out?
In theory, yes, but in practice it's a different story. Early on in a project's life, avoiding these pitfalls is easy. But as a project grows both in team and codebase size, those quick CSS hacks to get some functionality out the door accumulate. After some time, you will begin to run into issues where some components in the tree aren't rendering the way you expect because some other component(s) are applying styles using a selector that may have worked at the time, but is now too broad. Even if your app is 100% CSS in JS, though easier to avoid, you may run into these issues. I'm all for this feature.
One of the best Excel tips video I’ve seen is by Joel Spolsky - aptly named “You suck at Excel”. I’ve been an Excel user forever and this video taught me about features that I never knew existed.

Have a look: https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c
98% of that rhetoric of indigenous population is lulz though.
> Again, to whom?

Are you trolling? I think the answer is obvious: less duplication of efforts may make the linux ecosystem be more lean which may mean more manpower to... bring the year of the linux desktop.
I would guess that with something like this (where there is probably a lot of people involved in varying capacities) it's easier to demonstrate that the company as a whole did something wrong than it is to demonstrate that specific people within the company did it.
Transaction costs exist.
> If the top 1% get their income doubled, and the median doesn't change (even after accounting for inflation / purchasing power), then it's debatable if we even have a problem.

I think we do, as these people have disproportionate economical and political power, which results in unbalanced economic policies that favour one specific socio-economic class and breeds discontent. I don’t have links handy, as I am on the phone, but there are works showing a correlation between political instability and economic inequality.
Outside of SV, working with law enforcement and government agencies isn't viewed as a cardinal sin. I wouldn't claim they're a threat to liberty just because you don't like them.
As far as I understand it's runs in expected polynomial time regardless of input.

No assumptions on the input necessary.

The expectation is over the choice of random bits created while running the algorithm.
You could also check out James Bowman's "Gameduino" line of graphics boards [0:2] (which includes a Forth-programmable CPU, the J1 [3], implemented on FPGA)

[0] https://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino/

[1] https://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino2/

[2] https://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino3/

[3] https://excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html
My assumption is that it is a low priority format for MS. Perhaps because it does not further .xls / .xlsx lockin, perhaps because most ordinary users rarely need to open a .csv file.
Successful people like Buffett are presented with opportunities constantly. There's some truth here, but his circumstances are radically different. That's why for people at the bottom the advice is to say yes to more things!
Thanks, probably this issue? https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/1304
Broadly speaking the term "miles" was historically due to their correlation with earning rates not redemption rates. You earned 1 base mile per mile flown (conditions apply) based on the great circle distance in statute miles from your origin to your destination (http://gcmap.com).

When that correlation doesn't exist they are usually referred to as "points" instead, as in hotel programs.

So airlines have miles, hotels have points.
You can do the same with bash:

!:q<ESC>^

(<ESC>^ is Escape Shift-6 in my keyboard)
Taking some vague numbers from that article, a low-income salary might be $20,000, which gets an increase of 5%, so $1000. Meanwhile a high-income salary of say $100,000 gets an increase of 2.5%, so $2500. Which one is the bigger increase?

Measuring these things in percentages hides the fact that the underlying numbers are immensely different. Perhaps if we reported numbers differently, we would say that the pay increase for the high-paid worker was 2.5x the pay increase for the low-paid worker.
Location: Bucharest, Romania

Remote: Always

Willing to relocate: Only Asian countries (HK, Singapore, Tokyo etc)

Technologies: React Native, React.JS, Node.JS, Solidity, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain, MySQL, WebRTC, Websockets, Redux, Material Design

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1COY6hjmQSB5Kqkg0Ekio7ZHv...
I hate (and block) ads everywhere I can, but if we take your numbers as a starting point, doesn't that $30/yr translate to an extra $300 for Samsung in those 10 years, a 30% boost in their income on the sale of your TV? My naive assumption is that they make more money on ads in the short run, which is why they're doing it. But they may (should!) lose money in the long run if competitors can sell ad-free alternatives at a decent price...
What version of OS X are you running? What GPU do you have?
A TLS 1.3 handshake adds 1 extra RTT to the normal TCP 3-way handshake(assuming 0-RTT is not in use)
Palantir did not go public via a SPAC but by simply directly listing their shares for public sale. A company might choose to do this if the number of shares it offers would not be significantly valued higher going through the "traditional" IPO process.

Even with a SPAC there's no avoidance of disclosures that are required per SEC filings.
>Rather, I think it is about access to public capital markets.

I don't see anything, anywhere, regarding their goals for raising cash through this "IPO"; it looks like insiders selling shares to me. I could be wrong.

But they are a software service company. Why would they need an influx of public capital?
Great, let's create the bug report, otherwise GNOME devs may not know about this defect.
How does this approach relate to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor ?
Yes, Bash is nice as long as you use it as a shell only.

For a scripting language, better look elsewhere.

If we had to standardize on one language, perhaps Python would be a good choice.
The part that bothers me the most about this is that our app has all of the certifications and controls that they would need - they just don't know that. Soc2/3, ISOs, Fedramp, etc (trello.com/security). But as you point out, you have to get it approved and that requires navigating a lot of internal roadblocks.
> One example is requests to support PostCSS instead of SASS

In practice to use PostCSS, you need npm to install plugins, and maybe a `postcss.config.js`, so there are no advantages of having that PostCSS call in Zola's `config.toml` or as a script in `package.json`.

I don't really see how others SSG would handle that. Hugo just shells out a command to `postcss-cli` that needs to be installed (https://gohugo.io/hugo-pipes/postcss/), along with whatever plugins you are using. It's not really something "built-in".
They are a threat to liberty because they are used to perform surveillance and intelligence gathering on American citizens. Before the Snowden revelation this kind of behavior would have been considered criminal.
> killed by bad design

Are you thinking of 12/31/1899, perhaps?
That's pretty neat. Somewhat reinforces my experience in how things will perform.
It is. But @trowaway888 is a 35 minute old throwaway sea-lion account - they're not interested in discussion
> Violation of privacy might lead to the situation that someone will be unemployed forever because of something that he or she wrote 20 years ago on Facebook or employees managed to fetch data that a person was depressed, has many kids, etc.

Ok but being real for a second, this is extremely difficult to imagine happening. What on earth could you write on facebook 20 years ago, short of a confession to a heinous crime, that would make you unemployable?
I bought one of these, partly because the in-store advertising/info panel said it was capable of fax.

I returned it the next day after unboxing it and discovering that the fax capability was actually just the ability to connect to an Amstrad-operated gateway, that used a premium-rate number, costing something like 50p/minute.
You mean like this?

echo "message" 1>&2

Yes, that's probably a good idea, though I cannot recall this causing a problem for any script that I've written so far.
Neat, would love to try it but can’t buy the card anywhere. Another shitty Nvidia launch.
I`ve made a reply to your original post, but I`d like to add to my earlier question. Any books or resources or suggestions on defining values, techniques to exert more control over my internal state?

Thanks again.
Security vs. Developers: The DevSecOps Showdown
Pixel 5 turns off face retouching with Google Camera tweaks
This is funny, its like Facebook is suing itself - what a strange world we live in.
I'm not sure whether "Owner occupiers' housing costs" only includes mortgage repayments

If it's similar to the situation in NL, those housing costs includes things like municipal taxes and local services (water, sewage, electricity), parts of which are billable to the registered owner of the property, not the inhabitant. And since the central government has been outsourcing more and more responsibilities to local government, these local taxes have increased massively to pay for things that were hereto paid out of the national tax budget.

So if a house price goes up by 100% but that's because it's twice as valuable

Not likely. Many studies have shown that in scarcity, house prices don't follow the value of the property, but the budget of the buyers. The increase in housing prices is more due to the ease of access to mortgages (low interest rates, tax bonuses, etc) than due to value increases of the property.