skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts; I actually have heard of those 2 companies/communities before, though never really looked into them (and didn't purposefully use similar language).

It's true that it really depends on where you are as an entrepreneur. We currently have 2 such mastermind groups running with more experienced founders, and assuming you're on the same 'level', if you join one of these, you're definitely able to both give and receive plenty of value (in terms of advice, ideas, etc.)

With regards to amateur marketers and idea predators, I do not share that experience. Almost everyone in our community is already working on an idea or company, and while some do offer B2B services, they are not actively pitching those to others. Rather, they try to help each other by giving feedback and often simply help others for free.

I'm happy to talk to you about it some more if you're interested. And thanks for the feedback, those are clear pitfalls that I have to look out for when we grow this community further.
I'm going to create an imaginary friend who has better recall of our shared memories so I can get helpful hints and tips when doing stuff I keep forgetting.
Like writing god aweful powershell.
Thanks. I just sent it out to 500 not realizing they couldn't access the course landing page.
Show HN: Don't Let Him Poo. I built a game long back, frustrated from overwork.
I have deprecated the repo, because the game isn't fun.

You will always win, because the premise is such.

I was basically burnt out, from overworking.

16 hours on average, and 19:30 hours tops, without seeing a single compensation.

I just wrote a blog post about it recently, thought I would share.

Please leave your comments on the blog, and play the game a little.
> A serf cannot 'quit' his lord. An employee can.

An employee thinks they can, in many countries they can't, as there isn't any other job to do.
Following your line of reasoning, all Muslims are evil because a few associated Muslims did bad things.

> If you find out that someone is best friends with someone you despise, you will automatically assume the worst about them.

Or maybe your friend has knows them better, or understands them better, or compartmentalises

I don't like that my dad likes Trump but he's still my dad and I still love him.

It reminds me a little of the West Wing episode "The Supremes" where everyone assumes the conservative supreme court judge they are considering giving a seat is the height of evil only to find that he's a reasonable person who can actually make valid arguments from the right's pov as is not just "guilty because he's on the right"
Freedom of speech is not freedom from social consequence. It doesn't apply to private institutions. Ever. End of discussion.

What should be discussed is whether or not Twitter and Facebook have crossed into the "public utility" domain. I mean, twitter literally facilitate and handover a POTUS account that reaches hundreds of millions of you Americans.

It feels like Americans won't do that though because the idea of talking to the other side is unimaginable.

But twitter and facebook have incredible power over the public, and I don't think it's crazy to suggest a regulator
Thanks jaymo, really appreciate the kind words.
Yup. My point exactly.

Do you think companies want to waste money on 401k matching or healthcare benefits? They don't. They do it because it's either required by law in some capacity and for when it isn't it's because it's such a uniform standard for any nonfledling startup company who wants to hire someone full-time they would look like idiots for not only providing these benefits but providing them from respectable third parties. Over time these things became standardized and highly regulated and that's a good thing.

You're right, if we had to rely on the goodwill of a company this most certainly would not happen. I don't think it would happen overnight but I do believe the best and brightest will go for places who offer competitive advantages and others will follow suit.

If it garners high quality employees then make the company profitable in the same way every startup wants to pretend they are like google with video games and playrooms and brightly colored walls and provided lunches, actually not treating your employees like crap if they have an issue with another employee is also a competitive benefit that could become a trend for any company who wants to be competitive.
I will share the podcast. I don't usually contribute financially.
Gary Taubes: 'Obesity isn’t a calorie problem, it’s a hormone problem'
> d) Apple is trying to spare developers who haven't yet addressed the bugs that arise when running their apps, written for a different platform with a completely different user interface idiom, from being inundated with support requests and unhappy reviews.

That's an elaboration of what I meant by (b) and I think it's on target.
I guess another take on how to find a mentor is, be active, be interesting, and be accomplished. In short, be worth supporting.

At university, many faculty are glad to interact with students who are curious, successful, and proactive. People will advocate for you if you clearly show potential.

Out of school, it's not as clear how to do this in every job. If you join a community and offer obvious value, senior members might try to help you out with advice.

But I've seen this work out much more with "frivolous" communities, like niche programming languages, or 3D graphics hobbyists, or Code for America type stuff. Not a lot of excitement around people who work in enterprisey jobs on enterprisey things.

The one exception to that I've found has been SREs, who, as a community, seem both tight-knit and nerdily excited about enterprisey things most devs find extremely dull.
Thanks! I did not know this term. This is also the only argument that makes sense. Governments don't seem so keen on implementing though, because of many reasons. Airplanes were flying empty in, at least, beginning of Covid because of bureaucracy ffs!
Because shoes tend to wear out a lot faster than other clothes plus wearing shoes that are broken in to someone else's foot doesn't tend to feel all that good.
Absolutely! Snatching those gaps for clean up means you are not faced with total carnage once the meal is finished. It is clearly more efficient
If there is an eternal god, why couldn't we become it?
I’ve never hit subscribe faster on a pop up. You’ve nailed my interests.
This is a very fair point but at the same time it there are one-million asians in New Jersey (mostly non-Japanese) and the link states that the pattern is true for lots of big states such as NJ, MA, NY, PA,etc. I agree there are probably cities in Japan or certain areas that have extra high life expectancy too but I think this cuts against the diet argument a bit.

On a recent Tyler Cowen podcast he stated that Japanese Americans have the longest life expectancy and speculated it was a combination of genetics + wealth. I think it is a good counter to the diet argument the piece puts forward. I was unable to find a link to the study he referred to though - so I linked to the one above. Hopefully my recall of Cowen's point is correct.
Because it's an infectious disease your model needs to account for spread. So that's what matters here, it's not that 1000 deaths per year is magically fine while 100 000 per year is not, it's that right now 1000 cases turns into 100 000 cases and deaths accordingly.

So assuming the vaccination programme is able to achieve herd immunity and maintain it either indefinitely or until the pandemic is over or border controls isolate that impact then you don't need to try to pick some number of micro-morts.

This is another reason elimination was obviously the correct strategy. Zero is special. If something doubles every day then no matter your start number you're screwed - unless it was zero in which case you're fine because zero doubled is... zero. Elimination allowed New Zealand to not need to estimate R numbers and weigh up whether to open bars or nurseries, universities or sports stadiums, because zero multiplied by anything is zero.

But if you can achieve herd immunity through vaccination you get to the same place by being assured of the multiplier instead, and that's a more practical option for countries like the US at this point.
Do you have some resource to share on this simple set up?
What happens at the margins is probably random and depends on which moderator was having a bad day. But the Trump ban is quite different, especially since they gave a formal and thought-out justification [0].

The tweets that they quote are simply innocuous. The ban isn't justified based on the tweets, and was either a panicked response to the news with no investigation or a very thinly veiled political move. I think the right wing has reason to claim bias from that one. What is the closest parallel with that involving a left wing figure?

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
> No. The replies don't address a single scientific point whatsoever

The reply actually addresses all the points.

* It provides an objective description of the test, supported by primary sources.

* Provides a description of the sources of criticism that were referred to in the initial statement.

* Describes the nature and quality of the criticism.

* Allows you to check that the papers under attack were not retracted, which is the testament to the scientific substance of said attacks.

* More importantly, raises the attention to the fact that there are far more test procedures nowadays which, even if we took the complains at face value, render them null.

There's a radical fringe which for some unexplained reason are both radically anti-science and heavily invested in trying to produce and use fraudulent pseudo-scientific work to attack scientific findings they find politically inconvenient, as a kind of Trojan horse based on appeals to authority.
For people unfamiliar with the protocol: it's a instant messaging targeted crypto protocol originally thought up by some big names in crypto many moons ago (Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov). It offers deniable authentication (so doesn't leave behind strong evidence of participants) and forward secrecy. Used in many IM apps / protocols.
It's a nice idea, but in practice what would likely happen is the "third party" HR contractors would still generally side with the company, because the company is the one paying them, and if the company doesn't like their decisions, they may stop paying them.
Aldous Huxley is one of my favorite writers of all time.

Weird, mostly unknown fact: he died on the same day that JFK was assassinated (Nov 22nd, 1963).
> Today, "witch hunt" means something like "piling on".

And historically, it often meant moral panic and mass hysteria. Compared to another comment, that's _all_ it means to me when applied nowadays. The mainstream reception of the threat of witchcraft is what's changed. You might see parallels with (theoretical) homosexual conversion in parts of the US, I suppose.

Speculating on historical drivers: coercive confession existed then as it does now. Some law-enforcement officers' careers depended on confessions. After 35,000 to 100,000 executions I bet the technique was pretty smooth.
Looks like Russia to me (Rostov-on-Don). Where are you seeing the Netherlands?

344019, г. Ростов-на-Дону, ул. Максима Горького, д. 276, этаж 5, офис 11.

from https://ddos-guard.net/ru/info/contacts
My family migrated to different employer healthcare with zero changes on the provider side other than premium cost.

Perhaps we’re lucky or the system is already monopsonized in our area. However, sometimes you can also get the same network at your new employer (e.g. Kaiser or other HMOs).

That said it’d be a lot better with single payer and the largest risk-pool of an entire country.
Chrome seems to compile before it runs it. Only Firefox takes some lines before it runs it as fast as Chrome. Now I wonder why it takes so long to do the JIT? I always thought that JIT compiles with every execution...
This seems way too interesting to not have more scientific studies on it.

It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain where after cutting the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain:

> It is known that when the corpus callosum is severed during an experimental procedure, the experimenter can ask each side of the brain the same question and receive two different answers. When the experimenter asks the right visual field/left hemisphere what they see the participant will respond verbally, whereas if the experimenter asks the left visual field/right hemisphere what they see the participant will not be able to respond verbally but will pick up the appropriate object with their left hand.

So it's definitely possible to have two consciousness occupying the same brain.
There's a concept called "Mise en place", which basically is some french phrase which means "Prepare your stuff".

Do all your measuring of ingredients at once. Once all of the ingredients are measured, then combining them when needed becomes far more efficient, instead of context-switching.

Alternatively, use a scale. Keep your dish you're baking on the scale, and just keep adding stuff until the right amount of weight is added. IMO, the scale methodology is far easier.

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As far as "chopping an onion", there's a safe way to slice food. You want the knife to be very sharp, then when you do a slight "slicing" motion, you can feel the bite. When you feel the bite, that's when you can press down, knowing that the knife won't slip on the onion and slice off a chunk of your skin.

If you push down before you feel the bite, you may have the top of the knife slide off the top off the onion and onto your fingers. With a dull knife, that's not a big deal (but a dull knife means you're not really going to be cutting very quickly...)
The HW is still good after 6 (!) years! Best tablet ever, but the OS sucks.

That's why we started https://github.com/pixelc-linux
Add 'line-height:1em;' to make it look a bit cooler.
Success in one domain, doesn't guarantee long term success.

Rust still needs to win a spot on major OS developer SDKs, industry standards for HPC, GPGPUs, embedded certifications.
> Until the ACA, you were 100% trapped

It is unclear how premiums that exceed income along with deductibles that exceed rent are a freeing experience.
You can move countries too. It’s meant to be difficult for most (easier for the elite).
Thanks but I’m gainfully employed. I’ll pick it up. Drop one off in your local Little Library instead :)
I've been talking with companies that are somewhat small but receptive to the idea of employee protection. Unions is often the subject but the damaged done to their reputation in the U.S. is irreversible. No highly paid professional wants to even talk about it.

With unions, an employee being treated unfairly has a place to complain. A place that will actually listen and side with her instead of the corporation. But non-union employees often think that HR is the exact equivalent. Unfortunately they almost always learned the hard way (me included).

If we want to make any dent in the system, HR is the place we want to reform.

The idea that I have started proposing is of a public HR. An hr department that reports back to the state government. The government may not be perfect, but it has a better record when it comes to employee protection.

Edit: previous discussion for more context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25795851
The backstory behind MLK’s iconic 1967 speech in Berkeley
No, this fine would go to the state. But if the fine holds up in the courts, employees stand a good chance to bring civil damages, in a separate claim.
Probably it is too obvious to you, but I want to point out even good German knifes need to be sharpened regularily. (Just a few pulls through the knife sharpener). I know people who do not do that and are suprised that the knifes do not cut that well.
This is not correct. Before covid only people who felt like thay might have a cold or similar wore face masks, to reduce risk of infecting others.

(This is my understanding after living there for one year and then travelling for a month every other year for ~20 years. I’m not native though so there may be some nuance to mask wearing I’m missing)
The origins of tulpamancy, as I understand them, were kind of with the “forever alone” crowd - people who had a hard time getting along in society for whatever reason, and fashioned an alternative reality. Nothing wrong with that, up to the point where you become further disconnected from the more commonly agreed upon norms. Do you carry on conversations with the tulpa in public? Does it result in you being even more isolated? Being alone has its own seductive qualities, quite apart from loneliness, do you just stop trying to make real friends at some point?

Do tulpamancers hang out with each other, and do their tuplas come along? It is a problematic dynamic. I’m not sure it’s really doing anyone favors. I could see it being useful as potential practice/conditioning to get past social anxiety but I could also see it becoming a crutch and a magnification of underlying mental illness. People can be tough to deal with, is an imaginary friend an exception?
I was fired once in one of the worst ways possible. It came as a total surprise.

My boss and my boss’s boss booked a meeting with me at 17:00 in an external meeting room. My boss’s boss did the actual firing. My direct boss just sat there like a sad puppy.

They handed me a piece of paper and I signed it. I was still in shock. I was escorted to my desk to collect my things and then taken to the head of HR for my “exit interview”.

I told her the whole story and she actually seemed shocked herself. I think I spent over an hour with her, holding back tears, explaining “I wasn’t even told what I did wrong. What am I supposed to do now?”

She told me that she thought what the company was wrong. It didn’t change anything but it meant something at least, considering the state I was in.

I noticed from her LinkedIn that she left the company a couple of months later as well.
First learn what it was to program for MS-DOS, then comment, without bashing.
The reality is that I've heard unit, integration and e2e almost entirely used interchangeably, maybe except the former and latter. I don't think trying to nail down the terms to something concrete is necessarily a useful exercise. Attempts to do so, imo, make subjective sense in the terms of the individual's stack/deployment scenario.

To me, it's a contextual term much like 'single responsibility'. In this case, the two "sides" of an integration test are present. A consumer issues a request and a provider responds accordingly. The tests would ascertain that with variations to the client request, the provider behaves in the expected manner.

At which point you might point out that this sounds like an e2e test, but actually using the client web app, for example, might involve far more than a simple http client/library - in no small part because the provider can easily run a simple consumer in memory and avoid the network entirely. E2e tests tend to be far more fragile, so from the perspective of achieving practical continuous deployment, it's a useful distinction.

integration tests in this instance: varying HTTP requests (infrastructure layer) provoke correct behaviour in application layer.

e2e: intended client issues http requests under the correct conditions, which provokes certain provider behaviour, which client then actually utilises correctly.

This, to me, is why the most important part of testing is understanding the boundaries of the tests. Not worrying about their names.
> Sideloading is a loaded word to make you think there is something suspicious and abnormal about installing a program on your own computer without asking for permission

I believe sideloading in this context means extracting a DRMed app image (e.g. from a backup of your iOS device) and installing/running it on macOS.

It's almost like running an app in an emulator. From that perspective, I'm somewhat annoyed that Apple is preventing you from doing so, because it's an app that you paid for; even though it's only "licensed" we still call the "App Store" a "store" and not a "licensing service."
A corporation is not a democracy though, and no one is calling it that. Everyone knows this acutely because they know they have a boss to appease. In contrast, in a government, there's really no "boss" to appease, we choose the leaders.
A cluster is a collection of stars that are relatively close to each other in space, and bound together as a group by each other's gravity.

For example, the Pleiades has a core radius of only about 8 light years, and almost all of the 1,000+ stars in the cluster are within a volume of radius 43 light years.

A constellation is a two-dimensional region of the sky, more like counties or states on a map. The "celestial sphere" is divided into 88 constellations, which were chosen essentially arbitrarily, based largely on historically significant apparent groupings of stars.

Stars in a constellation superficially look to us as though they're near each other, but they may be very different distances from us, because we see the night sky as two-dimensional.

For example, one of the furthest stars visible to the naked eye is over 16,000 light years away, called V762 Cas in the constellation Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia also contains many other stars that are much closer to us, such as Eta Cassiopeiae which is just 19.4 light years away, practically a next-door neighbor.
That's insane. Here in Korea you're required to scan the code (or write your contact info on paper) in order to enter the premises.
> Unlike the serf, I can go find another Lord. I can pit the lords against each other for a better deal.

For many people that isn't really true. And even if you are in a high-demand profession, and have the necessary negotiations skills, moving between jobs has a pretty high transaction cost.
You are moving the goal posts.

Police knocking on your door is not a raid - the element of surprise is the defining factor, from the US to anywhere in Europe to an infantry section in Kandahar.

You claim above that raids are unique to the US and its abnormal police, but now the claim has morphed into the manner in which they are conducted that's different.

Even in Ireland, where police are routinely unarmed and gun crime is rare, if there's a reasonable suspicion that a suspect may have firearms, a police raid will involve nearly identical weapons and equipment to a US SWAT team.

I think you have an unrealistic view of policing outside of the US. There are no police forces that do not conduct raids.

The militarisation of police is separate problem, and the solution is not going to involve removing the tactics that the so-called normal police forces rely on.
Griffin may have apologized but has since rescinded that apology and subsequently published the image again. And as of this writing it’s been up for 2 months.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/348388-kat...

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/524681-kat...
Like the movie Her (2013)(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/). Pretty sad to watch but has an amazing sound track.
Figure 6 on page 50 of this FDA document [1] provides similar data for the Moderna vaccine.

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/media/144452/download