skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech is there, I can write static pages like it is 90s and upload to Google Cloud with gsutil, that's not much different from FTP:

<h1>My awesome site!
<p>Under construction

I browse without JS by default last ten years, it works fine, but it is niche. Today's web is so much more. Just look at Youtube, it is incredible. I've recently started playing Ukulele, so much data there.
Employees file for unemployment all the time when they may or may not be eligible. There is a whole appeal process which takes a look at who is really the "moving party" when an employee leaves.

> Frequently after notice of a quit, layoff, or discharge has been given, either the claimant or the employer will act to accelerate the separation. Such action can alter the character of the separation.

https://www.edd.ca.gov/uibdg/Voluntary_Quit_VQ_135.htm

I don't really think unemployment is relevant in this case. I am interested in whether she technically quit or resigned though.
Good luck keeping politics out of ethics.
Nice! Thanks a lot for that.

That really motivated me to check HTDP out!
I think, assuming the older one is athlete as well, the younger one gets to practice and learn from not only a great athlete but also a 'coach' who can give personal fine tuned feedback. I might be biased but for the youger sibling all learnings are almost ready made, they can just absorb if they are interested in that sport and it is very easy because it is very easy for them to connect with the elder brother/sister . Just my opinion, however biased it may be (speaking as an elder brother & athlete)
With pittances. What is an example of even a $20 billion project by a private party? Elon Musk's current wealth could fund SpaceX for over 350 years.

I have a favorite illustration of what just one billion dollars is: a million dollars per week for almost 20 years.
> and on the other have no idea about the EU parliamentary process. It is what you make it.

Yes. But the problem is people have a very hard time doing that. You cannot engage with EU level politics the same way you can in a real country. All these people speak different languages. Very hard to stay engaged when you have to listen to translations. You hardly ever get the kind of engaging coverage you would for domestic politics.

I know most of the politicians and parties in my country. I would easily recognize and have some opinion about most prominent congresspeople and senators in the US. Same goes for knesset members.
Yet off top of my head I couldn't name you 10 EU MEPs. I know names of the biggest parties in the EU parliament but I couldn't tell you much about them.

Unless EU actually tries to establish a common culture and a common language, I don't see much changing.
The event that kicked off my value exploration was my first startup failing. It caused me to realize that my rat-race values were dependent on outside forces and causing me substantial pain.

After reading Dweck's book, I focused on self-growth and learning as primary values. However, when my second startup hit a slog, I found myself losing motivation again. I realized, then, that I only chose self-growth and learning as a means to achieve status and wealth.

I began to question whether it was even possible to change my values. Perhaps rat-race values were so ingrained in me through my upbringing that it was too late to change. My question, then, was: Is it even necessary to have values? Wouldn't life be simpler without values?

I transitioned into a period where I tried to live without values. In reality, this meant my primary values were: momentary pleasure and emotional fortitude. That is, I tried my best to design life so that I was experiencing pleasure most of the time. And, in the face of hardship, I adopted a stoic attitude.

This, perhaps obviously, led me to a bad place where I lost motivation to continue working on my second startup, and withdrew from many of my social obligations.

Thankfully, I soon came to the realization that I have certain needs that my value system must support. Notably, I must make enough money to support myself. And, I must maintain a certain degree of sociability to stay sane.

After some consideration, I decided that my primary value going forward should be: devotion. That is, in whatever activities I endeavor, what ultimately matters to me is that I try my best. My goals in life will naturally change with time. Currently, my primary goals are making my startup a success and strengthening my relationship with my family. Later, it may be raising a family or contributing to society. Whatever my goals are, and regardless of whether I fail or succeed at achieving them, what ultimately matters to me is that I gave it my all. Devotion, as a primary value, passes the test of being within my control and also feels authentic based on my upbringing.
No they wouldn’t seek out the new interface. They just bounce.

When they first launched the new interface some new users got the new one and some new users got the old one. The bounce rate for the new one was lower and the signup rate was higher.
And let's not forget that deep learning started really exploding and becoming mainstream around 2015-2016. I'm not sure how you could expect someone like Pfizer to hire top experts and build a competitive lab in such a short time, particularly since, Pfizer would want these people to focus exclusively on biotech, which would not be that attractive to most deep learning researchers.
Thrifstores are different nowadays, I agree. People who owned vintage stores used to run through thrifstores and buy whatever was better quality, I know some cases like that in NYC. Now they have a separate triage process so no better quality item can end up in thrifstores.
A better question is about ReasonML/ReScript.
So... add dash and underscore to your character set? The contortions seem pointless.
But I really really don't want to be "on call". It's a terrible experience and it comes on top of normal work hours usually because the company also knows you're not doing anything.

So basically you have to work but are not doing anything but can't do whatever you feel like either. It's horrible.
> That's the great thing about market economies. If other people both knew about this need and were able to satisfy it, they already would be, and there would be no room for your startup.

> Which means the conversation during your YC interview will have to be about something new: either a new need, or a new way to satisfy one.

I'm fairly sure they also look for a moat don't they?
> One drawback you omitted is that you have to set it up and learn how to use it before you reach a point where it competes with other less sophisticated solutions.

I've not found this to be the case. org mode has an extremely shallow learning curve.

If your note taking flow is simple, it will be correspondingly simple in org mode.

Once you start adding sophistications to your workflow, you may find some tool that is easier to use than going through the trouble of configuring org mode, but only if that tool's author shared a very similar mindset to you. I've not found this to be the case for my workflow. Even worse, if you decide you want to try some other workflow, that tool likely will not be as flexible and you'll have to hunt for another tool. And possibly migrate all your notes to it.

If you use a flexible solution that lets you alter your workflow, you'll find it will compare with org mode in terms of ease of use.

> I think there's also some kind of discoverability issue with org-mode features: I don't really know which features should I look into to improve my setup further and have something really nice instead of a glorified markdown.

I mostly discover these by reading people's blog posts on how they use org mode. Having said that, I tweak it very rarely, often with a few years in between any major tweak/exploration.

> One day I'll just read the manual from start to finish and try to start properly from there, one day.

It's a good idea, but don't expect a massive productivity increase from it. Often you'll read something and say "That sounds cool, but I'm not sure how I'd use it." I usually get more insights from other people posting how they used feature X than from reading about feature X in the manual.
Those publishers are so predatory and user-hostile, I wonder if they will actually be able to restrain themselves long enough to establish a market. As it is, very few people are stupid enough to buy a "textbook" that comes with auto-self-destruct DRM that renders it unusable at the end of the semester.

Of course many college kids are just kids fresh out of highschool with no financial skills or haggling skills so I guess I take back what I said about there not being enough dumb-dumbs to fuel a market for DRM "textbooks". People do still take out loans to finance their English major, after all.
Positive but the Senate will reject it. Federal legalization is long overdue.
Coinbase arguably is just a casino in another form.

Reddit's incentives are aligned towards a similar addictive loop as Facebook.

Stripe, Cruise, Dropbox, Gusto, and Gitlab are pretty unassaible IMO, though.
Yet, it is.
Germany had voluntary bike registration to prevent thefts, I still have an old bike with the sticker. Didn't work because the police just flat-out tells you that they will not investigate bike theft if you report a bike as stolen. You just get a copy of the report for the insurance, but they systematically refuse to do anything.
The main problem is that quantum mechanics is telling us that systems evolve in two, apparently contradictory, ways:

- isolated systems evolve through unitary time evolution; and
- coupled systems evolve through an application of the measurement process.

Decoherence is an attempt to reconcile these two processes, but it's not clear that it works for systems with spatialy seperated entagled states. However, it all works out if you define a theory with emergent locality.
> The redesign is absolute garbage.

It really is unusually heavy; even for a "modern" web-page.
This is an incredible writeup and hard to summarize (compress) since there is so much good stuff in there. Give it a read and don't forget to subscribe to Zeynep's substack. I rarely find that reading her is not either educational or thought provoking. Her writing also is non-polarizing and has a refreshing quality to it.
Consider the possibility that they fucked it up.

That tweet is actually pretty amazing though: pg discovering practices 37Signals has been using for a decade.
At first I thought "wtf this this the second person here who want to make striking illegal", then I realized you are the same :)

We are a democratic country, people are free to strike, and it's a good thing. It's a bit annoying sometimes, but it's certainly worth it (I'm sure there is no strike in north korea, but I'm happy to live in a free country with that minor annoyance)
Isn't a CS degree (from a non-degree-mill school) such certification process?
I'd just like to point out that the taboo against murder has been around for far longer then the Bible or likely any religion that exists today.

The Code of Hammurabi predates it by 1700 years(almost 4000 years ago). Not allowing murder seems good for the survival of any society of humans.
‘Make something people want’ is hard for me to understand - is this a fair expansion?

Make something people want that can evolve into a commodity, ensure only the inventor can profit (e.g. with IP protections), and architect your business such that returns scale independently of operation costs.
That is true but every pharma has a structural biology department that solves product-related crystal structures with the intent of using that data to speed development. It's an established thing, $100+M/year budget per company.
Generally well-respected and considered some of the most important IP the company can generate.

They also have theory groups which try to do structure prediction and drug docking but I don't think those groups get any respect inside the companies any more.
> 2000 years ago, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" was a seminal idea, eventually resulting in the world today where killing is demonized and this is existence proof of a solution.

Uh, what? Do you think murder was first outlawed 2000 years ago? I mean "Thou shalt not kill" is one of the Ten Commandments which is part of the Old Testament which predates Christ by at least several hundred years if not over a thousand. Even the Code of Hammurabi references charges of murder and it is closer to 4000 years ago. The idea that murder is bad is probably as old as civilization itself if not older.
Very dogwhistle-y comment
It’s not illegal for a company to marginalize someone for rocking the boat. I’ve worked with tons of people who have been relegated to basement offices or positions where they just “advise” but do nothing all day. Someone thought they had something left of value to add. Then they get a new boss or their current boss has enough and kicks them out.
Rags can be used to make paper or some forms of packaging.
This is not how it works in Europe. Usually you get some minimal stupid fee of say 50 euro per month for "being on call" (usually during one week per month or so) and you only get paid for the hours if something actually happens.

This is shit because the 50 bucks does not make up for the enormous loss of flexibility in your free time. Even if nothing happens your whole off-time for a week is restricted.
Thanks for the heads up. The old title was also clickbaity but this new title is even more so. I wonder if even HN comment reactions are more towards the title vs the content.
The people who mention unions have in mind better rights for employees not better pay (no one seriously thinks SV developers need better salaries).
I think it looks better. Better fonts, better element spacing. It just does not perform very well and seems to have a lot of "state" issues or inconsistent design elements. Reading comments and browsing is slower than it used to be, but I prefer the new look to the old one.
They are both JS frameworks, but they are fundamentally different approaches.

React (and React-rails) moves rendering / state / logic clientside. You can use tools like react-rails to more easily pass data from your Rails controller to your react components (basically conveniences to create props from instance variables).

Stimulus doesn't handle rendering at all. It's intended to be used for small little "sprinkles" of JavaScript (think things like: showing / hiding content, toggling classes, basic event handlers). If you used to write jQuery snippets to wire up a click event to run ~5-10 lines of JS, then you might look at Stimulus as a more modern implementation (es6, mutationobserver, etc). Stimulus plays nicely with Turbolinks since it needs existing HTML (servered rendered from normal Rails views) to attach to.

You're basically looking at two diverging paths: do you go down a JS-driven SPA application with React (or some kind of hybrid where you have React do parts of the page) or do you opt for Basecamp's "I cant belive its not a SPA" approach with Turbolinks, server-rendered HTML, and Stimulus for small interactivity.

Here's a talk I gave at the London Ruby meetup about Stimulus and in what contexts you might want to use (or not use it): https://assets.lrug.org/videos/2020/september/matt-swanson-s...
Often even a "native" executable is opened by something like the ELF interpreter, relocated, etc. Yes, a JVM is a lot more heavyweight than these services, but...
Then, this is a confrontational tone too.

I have the distinct impression that what they want is for discussions to become personal. Don't let them get to you.
Not sure I fully understand this one, perhaps I missed it in the white paper.

The more traditional method of this is the investors fund the project and then the benefitting company pays the investors a portion of what they would have been paying the utility companies if it hadn't been for the upgrad project. It's not clear to me if that actually takes place in the Efforce method, does the benefitting company have to buy tokens to pay the investors?

Also, if all savings are calculated based on meter readings sent "directly" to the chain, how do you account for changes in energy requirements due to upsizing or downsizing or any other change not covered by the contract? A mechanism for this would seem to require a method of putting a thumb on the scale, and if that's he case then why use the token instead of the more traditional method.
> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit.

+1

It's not even subtle anymore. You can predict with 99% accuracy the ideology of any political statements in content on the first 10 pages of r/all. It's a 52M daily user echo chamber.
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> Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SUN) hereby grants to you a fully-paid, nonexclusive, nontransferable, perpetual, worldwide limited license (without the right to sublicense) under SUN's intellectual property rights that are essential to practice this specification. This license allows and is limited to the creation and distribution of clean room implementations of this specification that...[list of requirements]

AFAICT the whole fight is over API's and not "don't pay what the license specifies" as they give you the ability to do a clean-room implementation without paying royalties.
Find the people who criticize current developments in terms of the original promises of (the relevant) technology. People with a sense of history and the big pictures that no longer exist or which are being actively destroyed as inconvenient to business plans.
>> Idea for the solution is to get everyone together to opt-in to a value system that demonizes excess accumulation.

> I'm glad people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates have billions of dollars - they're solving some of the world's hardest challenges right now with their wealth.

There's a difference between having billions of dollars and controlling billions of dollars. Having usually implies controlling, but it's not necessary for that.

A hypothetical value system that "demonizes excess accumulation" will can still allow talented people to use massive resources to solve challenging problems. For an actual real-world example: the US didn't have to wait for a SF fan to become a billionaire before it built rockets to travel to the moon. Similarly, billionaires often don't solve any problems with their wealth. Musk spends millions to build rockets and win government contracts, but other purported billionaires spend millions on money-losing golf courses and vanity airlines instead.
I think it is also very embarrassing to IBM, which has been trying to get into healthcare with Watson.
No they are not.

I work with text, and the difference is night and day.
The amp stuff is beyond annoying. I click on "view more comments" from an amp page and it redirects me to a non amp page and then i have to click on view more comments again.
Keep in mind that the Paris metro has 0% reliability if you need to ride it between 2AM and 5:30AM. Or rather it is 100% reliably not running during those hours. NYC could probably boost those numbers if they could do track maintenance during guaranteed non-running hours.
my galp2 has the 4k display. I'm not sure why they changed. It's been great. .. well, except for tiny grub text.
Old clothes are still used to make paper in many developing countries.
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It’s crazy that so many of these companies with billionaire founders have thousands of employees who are not billionaires, nor have a meaningful stake in the decisions the company makes. Wonder what that’s about.
In a very partisan vote that will not survive the Senate. Apart from virtue signalling, why bother? We are post election, so it doesn't even help us decide how to vote.

Trying this after January at least might've made more sense.

It's frustrating we see full House votes on pointless partisan efforts when there are issues like infrastructure that both parties could and should agree on and progress in.
I hate that they show so much contempt for their users they deliberately broke many basic features (as in they used to work, then they removed them) on mobile web, especially when logged out, to force you onto their app.
We've known the "why" of protein folding for many years. You can plug your amino acid chain into NWChem and have it spit out the system hamiltonian. From there it's just using the Schrodinger equation to evolve the system in time. Good luck finding a computer that can do that before the universe goes dark, though.

I guess you're hoping for some higher-level heuristic that would let us skip a lot of the computation. Maybe it exists. That isn't how nature does it, though.
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It's a workaround for a bug in Intel CPUs: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62011
Desktop apps can reach higher quality. Compare e.g. Apple Keynote to Google Slides, the difference is obvious.
Choosing worthwhile projects doesn't mean spending less.
Yes, this 100%. Back when I started my PhD program in biophysics, the exact opposite was stated: "if you can determine the 3D structure of the protein that causes a disease, you can target it with a drug.". I wasted decades believing that paradigm because really smart people kept repeating it.

unfortunately there is no clear next step for the disease biology part of the study, as far as I can tell, except to collect enormous amounts of high quality data about diseases, typically one or a few at a time, and hope you get lucky finding something (IE, serendipity is just as important as intelligence).
This is not realistic in any kind of inclement weather or at night.

I guess these central areas of Paris will become completely unsuitable to families, who will be forced out to suburban areas.
NuShell is also attempting this. Both are cross platform.

https://github.com/nushell/nushell
Interesting article, but the answer I'd be looking for is #itdepends.

What's the impact of a bug in this code base?
How likely is there to be a bug?
How quickly can you rectify a bug if it happens?

Most of my Makefiles and setup.py files have 0% test coverage. Libraries that are automatically deployed to a few projects, where I can't easily ship a fix and I don't really fully understand the impact - I'd aim for 100%, but not arbitrarily; I want to make sure we've actually tested the edge cases.
If I could give HN platinum to you I would give it. It is a strong "SECONDED".

Removing Old reddit might be the single biggest negative change that can occur to my daily internet life.
Pretty sure they're doing this to entice people to vote in the Georgia runoffs so Dems will control the Senate. "Vote for us and we can make this law."
Wouldn't this be a surprising high note for Trump to go out on.
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I think you need to differentiate between the "design" and the "experience". The design itself is good e.g. the wireframes of the website. The actual engineering behind the design is not good.
Could you provide the math, then, rather than haughtily dismissing me?
You can track containers on railroad websites. Some require a company login, which they manually approve. Others don't. Some require you to be a 'Notify Party', others don't.

The trains aren't being tracked. Containers are. And not real time. Rather it's a snapshot every 12-18 hours.

Maybe what you're thinking of applies to the trains themselves? Or specific types of railcars?