skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and that was one of the few things I liked about him, but you know it's all BS when he doesn't support unions. Plus everything else about him is just heinous and basically a ruse to just get people to like him and stroke his ego.
My blogging engine [1] allows tagging of each post, and after twenty years of entries, I have:

* over 5,000 entries
* over 3,000 tags

And I still have issues finding posts I've known I made via the tags.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
You left that PR open for 7 days before closing it?

Average PR lifetime in ziglang/zig repo itself is about 12 days. This is actually pretty fast compared to other projects. I'm proud of the fact that the oldest open PR in zig is from October 2, 2020 - only 2 months and 11 days old.

From the perspective of someone submitting a pull request, it's frustrating to not get a response within a day or two. I completely get that. But it's just not possible when you have a team of 1-3 people who are able to engage with PRs, and hundreds of people submitting PRs.

Since this project has started, the Earth has completed 1732 rotations, and yet 2877 pull requests have been closed. That's 1.7 per day, including weekends and holidays. Consider that for the first couple of years of this project, I was moonlighting it with a day job.

I'm not trying to throw shade at you, just saying, man, cut me some slack. I'll get to your PR.
It’s been pro ccp since the buyout of the news paper
You are comparing handling of 'private property' of a long dead man and his controvertial and unprecendented prank-will with gulag system - this comes across very silly to me. By labelling this as communism, you are trivialising it.
Criminalization of drugs is a price support program for the cartels.

Legalise the drugs and allow legal production - and the cartels will have to find an honest way to make a living like the rest of us have to do.
These are all Russians hackers who compromised a control panel on the base! Russians have an agreement with Trump to srart a local nuclear war in EU, to postpone Biden's inauguration in January.
Private bird one scooter. I bought it for $1300. Now you can buy them for $800...so now I highly recommend buying it: https://shop.bird.co/collections/bird-one/products/bird-one-...

It's a solid ride. It's so solid I can't imagine there being any scooter more solid.

I first rode a bird scooter while working for a tech startup in westwood, los angeles in 2019. We would go for scooter rides past UCLA. Great times...

Now I'm in Pittsburgh with my bird and I'm reminded of those times.
Even Payoneer has introduced the same without mentioning the fee amount in the change notification.
One should note, that the factory owner is Wistron, a Taiwan company.

American politicians are supporting American companies to decouple from China, even if it means to go else where.

And since America supports Taiwan, in a sense, America is supporting these actions and their consequences.
First World Problems are almost always funny.

"Oh no... I have something worth a lot of money that most people in the world would envy and its such a huge problem!!!"
His followers hang on his every word. If he had simply said "yes masks are a good thing" 90% of his followers would have preached it from the mountaintops and things could have been much better. Instead we have almost 300K people dead and a lot of those are deceased as a result of his policies.
One great way to find books to read is to see what people you look up to recommend. I've built a service that scans twitter for book recommendations from ~2000 thought leaders. https://www.readthistwice.com/people
> Both Google and Amazon use stack ranking, which is about the most brutal system there is.

This isn't really true (at least at Google, IDK about Amazon). "Stack ranking" historically has two components:

1. Being rated relative to your peers as opposed to a rubric.

2. (Usually fast) removal of the lowest performing individuals.

When combined, these become "fire and replace the bottom 3% of people on every team every year." The downsides to this approach are that if you're on a strong team, you may be a median employee, but be the weakest on your team, and be forced out for this reason. It's clearly problematic.

IDK about amazon, but the first is only half present at Google, and the second isn't really at all.

In some sense you are rated to your peers, not a rubric. But only in the sense of at aggregate (that is, in an organization of 1000 people, you'd expect ~30 people to be in the "worst 3%" category, so if only 10 are, that may raise some questions.) This removes the competition and potential animosity with your direct peers and aligns more with the rubric based idea, though it is possible that a an organization may have across the board above-average (or below) performance on occasion.

For the second, people with NI ratings aren't immediately fired (I know of a few people who got NI and found new teams and much more happiness), though obviously consistent NI could result in that.
> A spy modelled on Bingham, who was “breathtakingly ordinary … short, fat, and of a quiet disposition”,

One of the defects of James Bond is he has too much charisma. If you ran into him, you would never forget him. That is actually, a downside for a spy. For the most part, you want someone who will just fade into the memories of those who encounter them, as just another face in the crowd, nothing special. Looks like le Carre painted a more realistic picture.
You also completely ignore that Bitcoin might be overtaken by another competitor in this area. Altavista and Myspace didn't win either.

Think about it… it's highly unlikely that something else could achieve the network effects, mindshare, hashing power and all of the rest of bitcoin's attributes right now. In the early days, when bitcoin barely had any value at all, it would have been possible. But having gone from $0 to $350+ billion in market cap, it's too late.

Quoting Travis Kling (@Travis_Kling):

"Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global, immutable, decentralized digital store of value. It’s an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally."

This explains why Bitcoin won't be overtaken.
Based comment, 10/10. Feel bad for these rubes. We're currently in the "giant sucking sound and harbor incomprehensibly drains" phase of the hard money tsunami, and people can't see it.
I first read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. I was hooked. Espionage after reading him would never be the same again. I can attribute my Cold War 'philia' just to him, I reckon. I am yet to read his autobiography.

Other than some well-made new TV works based on his work like The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl, you might want to check out the excellent works on TV in the 80s and 90s; usually done by the BBC.

He was the master of unhurried, ruminating, and unostentatious spy craft writing. Tasteful.
As a caucasian male, Narcos has made me want to visit Mexico and Colombia and eat yummy food. Reading the New York Times has made me scared of visiting Mexico. Colombia seems okay though.
Something will stop them. They're not expanding into a vacuum: they're expanding into well-established markets full of billion dollar companies run by people just as driven and talented as they are - not to mention other forces like governments, supply and demand etc. Look at someone who eats 5,000 calories a day and gains 3 lbs a week. "My god, in 10 years they'll weigh 10,000 lbs!"
fantastic read thank you
Speaking to your last point, and I believe I agree with you, people will likely on average spend that same X% of their pay on a vehicle? I mean there are already vehicles covering every price and quality point. We know that people will happily spend all their income and essentially live paycheck to paycheck. Somebody driving a Honda Fit(a great value) either can't afford more car or doesn't want to pay for more car; there is already more car for more money available right this second.
thanks for proving my point?
...80%, personally. Even 100 looks comical on most sites, I can't imagine using 160%.

But I think this is too dependent on monitor, system font, etc. to generalise.
We have to assume this is partly the reason for the parabolic increase in TSLA stock price don't we? Thinking out loud here, correct me if I'm wrong anywhere..

According to your second source, there was $14.5B worth of shorted shares on 1/14/2020 and the closing price for $TSLA on that day was $107.58.

According to the source below [1], as of 11/15/2020 there was $27.19B worth of short shares. Closing price 11/16 was $408.09

Shares shorted 1/14/2020: 14.5B / 107.58 = 134.78 Million Shares

Shares shorted 11/16/2020: 27.19B / 408.09 = 66.62 Million Shares

According to TSLA July 2020 10Q they had 186M shares outstanding [2] so while not the most accurate when comparing a 9 month change in Shorted shares, we can estimate in the neighborhood of 1/3rd the shares on the market were covered by short sellers.

[1] https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/TSLA/short-interest...
[2]https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data//1318605/00015645902...
> Your point works fine for email

I'm not sure it even works there. I have emails both categorized and tagged and still can't find anything between the thousands of work emails I get a week from coworkers, mailing lists, and automated systems. Any search brings up dozens to thousands of results.

> but for documents on my drive tags don't seem like a great approach because at least on my machine even though tagging is an option, it's not robust and reliable.

Not to mention that most users aren't interested in tagging every file they have. I never tag files. My emails can get auto-tagged by mail rules, but I don't have time to add tags to all of my files.
Apple doesn’t directly produce any video games, though. They may provide some funding, but most Apple Arcade titles appear on other platforms. And many of them are quite excellent. (There’s also a lot more of them out, so it’s easier to evaluate them as a whole)
The parent argued that low social mobility in the US was because of foreign labor. I pointed out that Europe has higher social mobility but also competes with foreign labor.

Never said cheap labor was evil or that foreigners aren't people. I never made a judgement good, neutral, bad. Not sure why you read it that way?
You didn’t happen upon someone on an island playing with a remote controlled Pterosaur did you?

They might be able to get you a helicopter ride to NORAD, so you can stop it.
Sorry to hear that; wishing you a speedy and full recovery.
Zettelkasten in Vim
It's not that it has warts, it's that it's overly complex for what it does, and beyond the initial feature set wasn't so much planned as organically grown.

I think the best and most thorough explanation of this is gotten through reading the systemd retrospective[1] that someone posted earlier this year. What becomes abundantly clear when reading it is what I think I was trying to express above, that there is so much that could be better in systemd but that it's hampered by it's own legacy baggage, which accumulated very quickly and very soon after the first implementation was released.

That link is a long read, but if you have any time or effort invested into systemd and systems that use it, and find yourself having to create unit files or diagnose weirdness with services, it's very worthwhile to read if you haven't already.

1: https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/
So, how does this compare to existing extensions for blocking trackers, etc...?
Thanks I hadn't seen that one.
That worked really well for police misconduct this Summer. It's all on film, because they know they'll get away with it.
How fast is the 'worlds fastest', can you actually use these for typing (with your eyes open)?
I think the issue is structural. It's an economic situation primarily.
Because it is very difficult to get returns in traditional ways when interest is near zero, so money floods the stock market. If you are chasing appreciation, you aren’t going to bet on GM, or even Toyota, you are going for Tesla, Airbnb, or whatever is else is institutionally favored.
So the NSC met yesterday about this hack, and yet they're already reporting attribution, including:

"...three of the people familiar with the investigation said Russia is currently believed to be responsible for the attack. Two of the people said that the breaches are connected to a broad campaign that also involved the recently disclosed hack on FireEye"

Reuters obviously not going to get comment from Russia, but decided to throw this in: "The Russian foreign ministry did not immediately return a message seeking comment late Sunday."

"This is a huge cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.S. government and its interests."

"“This is a nation state,” said a different person briefed on the matter."

And yet:
"The investigation is still its early stages and involves a range of federal agencies, including the FBI"
All signs point to SpaceX and his mission to Mars.
New Material Can Store Energy from the Sun for Months or Even Years
> Does the investment fit with the company's business strategy?

This situation is an obvious and predictable consequence of the SEC's refusal, after seven years, to approve any kind of bitcoin ETF whatsoever.

It's not like they haven't had plenty of options to choose from.

Stock market investors obviously demand the ability to get bitcoin exposure using stock exchange transactions. It should surprise nobody that companies are interested in meeting that demand.
You're right. This 'strategy' question is a mis-understanding people still have with Bitcoin, I probably should have written about it. My TL;DR is:

Bitcoin is not a business, it doesn't require a staff to run, yet it is still viewed through the same lens as a business acquisition or strategic pivot. If executed right, a Bitcoin purchase changes absolutely nothing about the underlying business.

Bitcoin is nothing more than a tool for MicroStrategy to keep the money they've earned over the last 31 years.
> Legalise the drugs and allow legal production - and the cartels will have to find an honest way to make a living like the rest of us have to do.

This is magical thinking. Organized crime can make money in other ways. This story is about kidnapping, for example. Organized crime exists in many places where it’s not funded by drug trade.
I want an API to this so I can use it for desktop background images.
BART police reverse dozens of ODs:‘A body in the morgue if Narcan wasn’t around’
The Night Manager is one of my favorite novels. The miniseries adaptation starring Tom Hiddleston is really enjoyable too.
Why do people on the internet say that 2 things can't be compared immediately after comparing them?
> When showing what possibilities there are, they are used no matter by whom. For instance when I showed what is possible with inline svg in React everybody in the team bought into that eventually. Also designers are (in contrast to artists) all about creating things considering a lot of constraints.

If you show someone a tool that they can use to make something look like x, they'll use it. But what they won't do is restrict themselves to things that look right under all your different XSLT/CSS transformations, unless you make that very easy to test for, and probably not even then. Designers do work within constraints, but like anyone, if they find a cool new technique for doing part of their job better, they're going to want to use it, and not worry too much about some abstract concern of whether it's "semantic".

> To me XHTML failed because it was really painful to use (and still is). You forget one closing tag and everything fails. The amount of people using IDEs (or even XML editors) are still in the minority. On the other hand React proves that XML (JSX) can be used in a modern way. That's probably mostly due to the fact that it's not used in one big blob but modularized into more digestible pieces and the barrier to write custom functionality is really low

One missing character can make everything fail in JavaScript too, so the reason React/JSX succeeds isn't that it has a looser syntax. I agree that it's because it's easier to use, but IMO that's mainly because JavaScript is a much more expressive language than XSLT - seriously, XSLT is the worst language I've ever seen anyone produce by hand. Page-global CSS is an indimidating mess as well though, agreed - we need reusable modular components that know how to style themselves, expecting to be able to style something from the outside by fiddling with its internals is a recipe for unmaintainability.
What I don't understand from Facebook's side is why even do something like this!??

First, it's obvious that this upsets customers. It makes many uncomfortable. Secondly, its obvious that this will make governments curious given the reach and power FB has.

Besides being out of touch with reality or just ignorant, I really try to understand what people at Facebook are thinking these days?

They have some of the smarter people one would think.
I had been unaware of the volume of PRs that you receive, apologies, I had thought that my PR was just ignored.

Thanks for your reply and thank you for Zig.

I'll reopen that particular issue, and will try to fix any example zig apps that I can't compile, and will submit PRs for them.
> same system of a weird pyramid scheme rich people are doing with art, wine, relics, real estate

All of those are non-fungible; that's why rich people like those.

Bitcoin is pretty damn fungible.
If you intentionally race through a city.
It underlies the decision tree model of computation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_model
Is this true on a $ weighted basis? Makes total sense as % of total traders over a X period long session. Presumably Blackrock and Vanguard have longer hold times, therefore at the margin the price movement is driven more by infrequent traders. However, are day traders really "the market" now? Haven't kept up.
Actually he's having trouble speaking right now because his mouth is full.
I rewatch the 1979 one every so often and there are still new things I notice.
> Organized crime exists in many places where it’s not funded by drug trade.

Organized crime will likely never truly go away, but it has flourished because of the war on drugs (just as it did in America during the prohibition era).
What if I told you it was 64.5% not 25%
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/133808592857801932...
This will likely be my last post as I doubt you will see my [dead] replies.

I just wanted to thank you for being courteous, constructive, and informative with your responses. The broader HN community has made it clear that my opinions are frivolous and to be ridiculed. With your posts, I have at least come closer to understanding the rationale behind their ridicule, and I mean that in the most genuine way.

Thank you.

-prucomaclu
I saw a U-2 at an airshow (California Capitol Airshow at Mather) and it also looked beat up. I asked about it and they said that it's a working airplane, not some show piece. Basically it just had a lot of hours on it since it was last repainted.
And how much the global energy market, which they are also disrupting?
>You don't need any special invitation or application to join the party. In fact, NOT joining the party can be a signal and a problem, which might complicate business setup, banking applications, things like applying for a car plate, etc.

This is false information, I'd say the b word actually if you are really Chinese (you need to be a Party member to apply for car plate? WTF...)...You do need application to join the Party, and not joining the party is perfectly OK (China only has 100M Party member). It was only in decades ago that joining the Party was kind of automatic because there was not much private economy, definitely not the case for today. A lot of people still apply and join, for their own benefit, but it's a choice, not a mandatory (Neither me and my wife joined and our careers were pretty good).
Apple services are designed for broad adoption. They are the Disney of tech.

Non-tech, typical parents will stick with their vertical rather than be nickeled and dimed by Netflix, and Amazon, and CBS, and...

I’m pretty sure how the 20th Century thought about this stuff is on the way out.

My kids have no clue what any the names on those icons mean. They watch random stuff and don’t cling given the diversity.

I am teaching my kids to make content with modern tools. ML will no doubt take over.

Consider how much textual content we have given the internet. ML will be able to generate video and audio and where we need new ideas, help humans iterate much faster.

The emotional value of any given property will nose dive as it happens. Mario and Solid Snake will be lost to time. Really though, unlike Aristotle, or Galileo, will humanity have lost anything near the overall value?

Pop culture isn’t forever.
We half-legalized one drug (cannabis) and they pivoted to stealing oil out of pipelines.
Isn't this basically proper nouns implicitly creating a set of size 1?
> the bear case for crypto is Tether gets shut down by USA (or international treaty)

I am pretty astonished this has not happened already.

Only way I can explain it is that Tether is helping the CIA launder money. Seriously. Nothing else explains it.
FireEye report on SolarWinds Backdoor
That's what people say right before ponzis collapse.
At some point, rubber meets physical road though.

You can't offer 2 day shipping, if your supply chain doesn't support it profitably.

Amazon's genius was leveraging marketplace and FBA to scale the logistics they also used (gee, kinda like AWS) while taking a cut.
In a kind of similar light, a few of my friends are all remote and we've been looking at renting an small office together. We all work at different companies, but would be fun to share an office.
But if organized crime didn't have the resources to buy off the government, military, and police wholesale the magnitude of the problem would be much smaller.
You serious think that taking away the stream of income that has put trillions of usd in the hands of cartels / organized crime won't have a huge impact?
There just isn't nearly as much money in any alternatives. At its root money is required to maintain cartel power.

Sure they aren't going to disappear overnight. But cutting out their most profitable product lines would make a huge dent without a doubt.

We have a real-world example of that from Prohibition so it isn't entirely theoretical.