skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m 10 years into my career and been in Toronto the entire time. I often feel like I’m slowly wasting my talent here that would be better utilized somewhere else. Maybe Shenzen or the West coast.

I work days at a job and nights and weekends on my business. The business is doing good, it’s slowly scaling, just a long slog.

In the last 10 years I worked at around 15 different places as a contractor. I met a lot of developers and tech people in general. I get the sense that people here just don’t have the motivation or ambition for business. Maybe because house prices have shot up the last few years, or because it’s the financial capital of Canada. People just want to make money (again the house, living costs, and taxes are high) or move up the ladder. Or maybe because life is comfortable so everything moves at a slower pace.

On the technology front, growing up learning about Nortel and RIM/Blackberry, I just feel like the Innovation Ecosystem is just not here compared to
other places. Maybe it’s partially because Toronto Is just too conservative (eg. East Coast vs. West Coast mentality). There’s a lot of Fintech, Marketplace (Shopify), and SaaS Apps. Pretty much safe bets in terms of Businesses.

I think as a tech Founder part of your goal is to try to balance money generation with innovative ideation. Companies here adhere to money generation before innovative ideation, which results in “meh” businesses.

Being Asian I also feel disadvantaged. It’s like if I moved to Shenzen I would have an advantage because I’m westernized people there would value me more. But the grass is greener on the other side (aka. 996).

I think the Government protects businesses too much vs in the States. Seeing how there’s so many monopolies it’s hard for the small startups to rise up. Look at the telco monopolies and how verizon gets blocked into coming to Canada. Or how the marijuana LPs get a huge head start before the micro craft growers can enter, and you still need a bunch of license to grow and distribute.

It’s a comfortable life here though. I’m mainly here because of family.

My last point is that there is a big problem with startups being acquired by US companies. Tim Hortons got bought out by BK, North got bought out by Google. When I first started, this notable design company behind Medium, Teehan+Lax got bought out by Facebook.

Also, I think North got propped up by the tech media here even though their product was never good. v2 showed promise though, maybe they just burned too much VC/Angel/Grant money so they had to sell to Google.
> Many people spend upwards of years before going to trial.

Yeah, and some like Assange spend their time in prison BEFORE their trial.
"Experts" didn't really tell people not to wear masks. A small number of political bodies did, but the scientific consensus was pretty clear right from the start. In fact, even those who said not to wear masks argued it from the point of view that those masks should be allocated to medical workers because of a shortage, not that they didn't work.
> I really hate censorship from institutions and providers where it would be better if they were naive and impartial.

Situations where the company doing the proactive banning is practically invisible are downright concerning. It's gotten to the point where B2B corporations go out of their way to signal their willingness to evict unsavory customers.

It's like if not only Chick-fil-A, but companies like Sysco closed on Sundays to signal their devout Christianity. Nobody asked them to, and probably most people didn't think about whether or not they worked on Sundays at all. Chick-fil-A is like social media companies, who have their logo constantly in the public eye. Sysco is like domain registrars. Most people don't know they exist, and yet they go the extra mile (in this hypothetical) to show their devotion to the cause.

If it gets as far as landlords, things are going to get really crazy really fast.
> how else do businesses know they're offering competitive salaries, benefits, and perks?

I would assume from how many applicants negotiate - or outright reject - their job-offers

But yeah - I forgot about the consulting companies that do the survey thing.

But we have our own! https://www.levels.fyi/
Where and how can I get such a gig!?
> less liquidity

THIS. THIS. THIS.

I remember calling Interactive Brokers panicking because I couldn't dump my position since there was no counter party at the deep OTM strike.
A lot of people still argue that Charles Manson should have been freed as well.

I mean it's not like the guy ever killed anyone. /s
Not sure why this was voted down, as that's the way I'd expect it to work as well.

The red light should flash or pulsate when recording, in fact. Otherwise, people without good color vision might miss the cue.
This idea boils down to if you believe the human brain exists purely in physical space. Let's assume it does. There is no free will. Every thought, every neuron, every sense can be represented and is controlled solely by energy and matter. We could record the electrical signals between your optic nerve and your brain, and send those same signals to your brain again in the future. We could recreate what you perceive as red by shocking your brain in the right place at the right time. If we perfectly understood the human brain, the sensation of red would be defined as a sequence of neurons that need to be turned on and off at the right time.

As far as I know, the only thing limiting us from perfectly understanding the brain is our limitations with measuring it. I don't know of any scientific studies that claim the brain exists outside of physical space.

Let's assume the brain doesn't exist purely in physical space. Free will exists. There is something immeasurable and outside of matter and energy that experiences the color red. Sensations are impossible to define because they exist only in this immeasurable world.

I heard about a guy that claimed it was obvious that the origin of lightning and earthquakes were from the gods themselves. I try not to think like that guy.
They have in some countries.

https://network23.org/blackoutaustria/2014/07/01/to-whom-it-...

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/05/23/russia-finds-a-new-t...
California Requires Insurers to Pay for Breast Mutilation for transgender youth
Start interviewing

Be ready to face rejections

There's been a couple of good threads here about facing interviews.

Also: have you thought about conducting online training videos? Like, on PluralSight, Udemy, YouTube, etc ?
Uganda elections 2021: Facebook shuts government-linked accounts
The Sieve Mail Filtering Language
Taking into account anything conspiracy nutjobs have to say about this stuff is an exercise in futility. They will not not find another wild excuse to declare conspiracy.
Actual protest from the end of 2020 when PIS decided to just break established multi party agreements and outlaw abortions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ericprydz/comments/jkzj5a/antigover...

how it happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygAMU7HOM7I
>highest economic mobility

This is just a bold-faced lie. It’s false by every measure. Americans have nowhere close to the highest economic mobility in the world. That hope retired with the baby boomers.

>purchasing power

Europeans have free healthcare and education. That alone accounts for far more than the difference. So, what are you counting as “purchasing power?”

Then there’s all the other minimally functioning public amenities that Europeans have access to.
The signal protocol is used in WhatsApp, and will be rolled out as a part of Google's latest RCS effort. Signal maybe didn't catch on, but Moxie's goal of making communications encrypted seems to have worked out all right.
One wouldn't notice that, given how many eschew the progress made and live in the command line as if stuck in the 80's.
In that scenario, couldn't they just send an unmute command?
> You have to be lucky every time and the market needs to be lucky only once to end your trading career

It's not for everyone. But with proper risk management and mindset, it's not a casino either.

Common sense rules: Only play with risk capital (what you can afford to lose).
Don't go all in WSB style, that's the surest way to blow up your account.
Don't FOMO chase, wait for the right setups, look at support and resistance levels.
Take profit incrementally.
Use stop loss.
etc, etc.
So I figured I'd go read what's ‘password spraying’ that you mention:

> Password spray is the opposite of brute-forcing. Adversaries acquire a list of accounts and attempt to sign into all of them using a small subset of the most popular, or most likely, passwords.

(https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/23/protectin...)

Are you saying that your fifty-character passwords are common ones?
>"We found this network to be linked to the government Citizens Interaction Center at the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology in Uganda," Facebook said in a statement.

to continue..

>"They used fake and duplicate accounts to manage pages, comment on other people's content, impersonate users, re-share posts in groups to make them appear more popular than they were," the statement continued.
Theranos pretended to do blood testing for chemical markers. I don't see the connection to the covid pandemic. Theranos didn't even pretend to do PCR tests that would be useful for virus detection.
It's not that it's universally true, but I quickly learned during my collegiate years that many people studying computer science came from mostly white affluent areas. When you come from a blue collar area, it isn't all that common to leave and go study STEM. These bubbles may be overstated, but they are real. And as a practical matter, it's quite easy to see how others in one's own profession are doing: are they being laid off, promoted, hired elsewhere, etc.
How do you feel about covered calls? From a risk perspective they are equivalent positions, limited upside and big downside risk.
Both are respiratory diseases with similar symptoms. Most of the times you need laboratory test to confirm which one you have.
Those examples can all be considered performance art and are protected.

Erecting a gallow outside of the Capitol with a mob of angry rioters chanting about hanging Pence isn't really comparable. Those threats should be considered real, not performance art. It's not entertainment, it's real. Pull your head in mate.
No, America is listed 27th in the world as far as economic mobility, behind most other highly industrialized, democratic countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index'

As someone who has gone from the bottom to top quintile, I think this is a very interesting and sad aspect of American life. Especially how it is perceived vs the reality.
It's not at all a conflict.

I am simply pointing out that where both of us observe/experience the pattern, your mind ascribes to it significance by relating it to the Mathematical construct called "Golden ratio".

My mind doesn't make that relation. I call that pattern (and other patterns like it) a "snail shell pattern".

We index the experience differently.

From your perspective a Mathematical expression describes the pattern.
From my perspective an English expression does.
Danke Apartment: China's “residential WeWork” leaves young Chinese homeless
Single-tweet, standards-compliant, high-performance JSON stack
So you go on about Lmao pals and licking boots. What it is that you actually propose? That someone who has a publishing platform, they're forced to propagate your message, no matter what it is? And if they refuse? Fines? Jailtime? Pitchforks, torches, white hoods, noose?
Alongside fvwm (the original one), I imagine.
The bank has concluded that there was no other way to end its relationship with Trump before the loans become due in the next few years, other than forgiving the huge sum (300 million).
Ah, Poland. The next 1930s Germany.
Median household income in 2020 was $68,400, average was $97,973.61. That's a difference of ~1.4X which is not nearly as large as you are implying.

https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen...
I don't have any idea how the makeup of the Disney+ executive team affects their programming. But at least as a phenomenon of executive behavior, this 100% aligns with my experience consulting with senior enterprise leadership at various companies.

Senior leadership at enterprises, in my experience, does very little collaboration. The CEO or the board make a choice to install a senior candidate in some senior position. That senior person drags behind them a retinue of trusted aides and associates, whom they busily install everywhere their reach allows. Most of their activity from that point on is trying to demonstrate that their team is the best, shitting on the remnants of whatever came before them, and forging non-aggression pacts with other people of their rank within the enterprise.

We often saw rolling waves of departures after a senior reshuffle, as departing senior execs took "their people" with them. Why stay if the next boss will consider your existence a threat to their ability to cultivate prominence and influence?
Long term investing enthusiast for the past 15 or so years, i read "the psychology of money" by morgan house. Completely changed my perspective on risk, return, timing, life choices and decision paths. Simple, but highly highly recommended.
The Dichotomy of Expectations
Asking for "comments" to an email may not end so well for them, especially when it comes to "strengthening [...] warfighting capabilities".

Seems like they might be trying to spin this "Challenge" as a sort of AES-style competition, but merely requesting comments en masse seems like it will go the way of the Net Neutrality comments on the FCC site - lots of spam drowning out legitimate input, leading to powerful entities feeling justified in ignoring all submissions.
"I documented my findings, and sent an email to my ISP. I quickly got a response back acknowledging that this is a bug on their side, and thanking me for my research."

I am actually shocked that:
a) the ISP has an email or any sort of asynchronous communication. Most in the US have at best a "talk to a bot" functionality
b) they acknowledge the behavior and did not simply respond "have you tried rebooting the router?"
Found this:

https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-there-will-never-be-a-vac...

> Vaccines target a specific virus or pathogen. One difficulty with developing a vaccine for the common cold is there are at least 200 different viruses that can cause cold symptoms, including rhinovirus, coronavirus, adenoviruses, and parainfluenza.1

> Rhinovirus makes up about 75% of colds. Still, there are more than 150 strains of it circulating at the same time.

> At this time, there is currently no way for one vaccine to protect against all possible strains that can cause the common cold.

It also goes on to say it self-resolves and only causes mild illness.

So they potentially could find a vaccine that covers most, but I'm guessing would be a waste of resources.
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment.
Ask HN: Using BSL (Business Source) License as a Dual License?
Hey everyone, what do think of open-source projects adopting the BSL ( Business Source License) with "Additional Use Grants" to allow production use for educational, non-profit, personal, private ( non-competitive ) users? This effectively allows the BSL to function as a "Dual License" where it can be configured to work as an "Apache 2.0 / MIT" like license for the majority of people ( via the use grant ) but restricts its usage by competitive companies/cloud-providers/etc which may take advantage of such services? I'm considering releasing a set of libraries ( and complementary web client/tools ) but under a BSL license and trying to gauge what the responses might be like. Also, do you think this is preferable to setting up a GPL/AGPL license with option to upgrade to a more permissive license?

BACKGROUND:
I've noticed some open-source projects ( specifically larger ones like databases ) adopt BSL (Business Source License) license or similar as an alternative to pure "Open-Source" licenses like Apache 2.0, MIT, etc. The intent seems to be to prevent larger companies and cloud providers( AWS, Google, Azure) from abusing/taking advantage of their software it seems without any contributions/returns.

LINKS:
https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/
https://blog.adamretter.org.uk/business-source-license-adoption/

EDIT: Added links
I can't understand people who wants to get vaccinated yearly for just a flu. Please make me understand. I mean it's just a flu and we have Netflix.

As a Moderna shareholder I think that is stupid. As a healthy eater I think that is really stupid. Now I can only think I must be really stupid.
Old crusty greybeard here.

If you're being charged 10x @32k, that's 3k/week 'normal' charges. This makes me think that your infrastructure could be hosted for about $3k/year, redundant, with bare metal and minimal downtime.

And that's with renting bare metal. Not even the cheaper option of owning your own.

There are lots of paths here, but I doubt you want to leave GCP, even though you're now seeing the perils of:

1) Zero real support from places like AWS/GCP/etc

2) Zero real control, or ability to easily migrate, once you tie-in

That said, as you believe you can do nothing to move/mitigate, I believe this is a logical appeal to GCP to 'fix things', by shaming them with this horrid bug, via this post.

And they should be shamed! GCP, as AWS, is charging an insane premium for such services.

However, there isn't much for us to do, accept agree that the entire scenario is absurd. And my post serves that, as I hate to see so many young companies have all their runway eaten up by absurd, 100x to 1000x costs in the cloud, even outside of these bugs.

And bare metal is how you control your own destiny. It's also how you remain un-vendor locked into cloud 'extras'. You can also run your own 'cloud' on bare metal too.

NOTE: my email is in my profile. Suggest (if you want to remain unannounced) you create some sort of throw-away for yours, if you want to enable out-of-band communication on topics like this.
When I was there, almost 20 years ago, it was all about C++, Python and Fortran, with GUIs being done in Java Swing.

I bet it is still mostly the same, just using Web GUIs nowadays.
Research for Asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19
> This is also the thrust of the original LessWrong Quantum Physics Sequence

Thanks for linking to this! Absolutely agree with his gripes in the first article about the traditional historically-oriented introduction to QM confusing students.

The rest of the articles (still reading them) appear to be pretty much the route taken by Feynman's _QED_ book (which, of course, is fantastic). It's also very interesting how his 1960's Feynman Lectures books seem to tell the student "QM is confusing and weird and hard and scary" roughly every ten pages or so, whereas by the 1980's with _QED_ he dropped the fearmongering language.
I understand what might make you feel that way, but I don't agree that banning the speech of those you disagree with is the way to keep them from power. Instead, oppose them with your own, better speech. That way you don't give them the validation of making you look too afraid to let them be heard, and you haven't set the precedent of banning political speech you don't like.

If you can't allow an idea to be expressed, you are admitting that idea will overcome your ideas if it is heard. Can you really say that about the ideas that led to the Capitol fiasco? I hope not.
Ten Predictions for 2021
I’m not sure what’s more intolerant than censoring the other side from even having a voice.
>As someone who has gone from the bottom to top quintile

Are you in the US? Because only there you have such high mobility. Good luck getting in the top quintile in Europe if you were born in the bottom. That is what real economic mobility looks like.

Sure, Europe does better in these statistics, but in the real world, US gives its workers way better odds at getting to the top and that's coming from an European.
I'd love if there were a list somewhere that keeps track of these shutdowns.

Donald Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter.

Law Enforcement Today from Facebook.

Ron Paul from Facebook.

Who am I missing?
But email does work that way.

On my mailserver, I make the rules. I decide how my spamfilters, greylisting and blacklisting is tuned. I decide who is allowed to have an account. And therefore, I decide what is allowed to be sent and received.
I think term "expert opinion" here is key. We want the results of the work of experts, not their opinion.
OP should also Insist On The Highest Standards and remind them that OP is Right, A Lot.
> sometimes the empathy can make it worse when you realize the person just will not get with the program.

That sounds more like frustration from wanting the other person to think or act a different way. Empathy would involve setting aside your own feelings and wants for a time so you could experience what the other person is feeling. To do so, you would try to take account of the factors that have lead the other person to this point.

For example, if you saw a mother scold a child unfairly in the supermarket, you might consider factors such as the mother's income or lack thereof, and how difficult it might be for her to have to admit to herself that she can't provide what she thinks her child needs at that point in time. Her frustration gets displaced as anger directed towards the child, but that's not because she has ill will towards the child - its because she has no other way to dissipate the energy at that point.

That's one possible example, but perhaps I'm just not getting what you are saying. Could you give an example of what you mean?
I had a site deplatformed by them a while back. Rivals from another site signed up, posted objectionable content, used firebug to inflate their views and shares etc. took screenshots. Reported their own content and got our domain dropped!

Not very cool but a valuable lesson, not least of which is never ever use GoDaddy.
It's difficult to see how to fix that though. A lot of the poorer regions in the UK had money pumped in from the EU yet they still voted for Brexit.
From a comment by raggi below:

The goal appears to be to design an architecture that supports in-place updates of most components due to them having tightly constrained state management and inter-component dependencies.

Maybe that explains the reference.
I am quite bullish on #7 and #8

Don't know enough about others to comment.
2020: Earth spun faster than normal, scientists say
in the same vein, what about the overlooked 1mm x 1mm chip that holds logic such as {{ if red_led==active then pushAudio('udp://amazon.com/jeffsBathroomSpeaker') }}
Kotlin's future is tied with Android, on the JVM it will be another Scala in 5 years time.

If JetBrains gets lucky, they might manage to create a cross-platform Kotlin eco-system as they are trying hard to push, as means to sell InteliJ licenses.

Lets see if it doesn't end like like Typesafe.
From using an echo at home, the unmuted state is only during the bootup process during which there's no processing or recording of audio going on anyway. If it shutdown muted mine starts up muted, even if the power cord is removed.
EU countries have substantially better safety nets than the US, but you're overcorrecting if you see that as an ironclad guarantee that everyone can afford the necessities of life. Hunger and homelessness are still very real problems there.
Then this propagates and dissipates down the hierarchy. Disney is definitely corporate.
India considering Covid cess on high income earners