skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least you could do it over chat. WSJ requires you to call with long hold times. The only reason, of course, is to make it as difficult as possible and ensure they read you all of the "are you sure?" scripts.

I would love to subscribe to the WSJ, but I cannot justify the cost at the moment.

Here is a free workaround for many periodicals. Get a library card. Access ProQuest through the library's website and find the RSS feed for the newspapers you like. Plug it into an RSS reader and get a daily feed of all news stories.

It is not as good as a digital subscription. No images or interactive features. But it is pretty good for $0.

Similarly, most popular magazines are available with a library card through apps like Libby.
From what I understand, they're using Reddit right now, but the model will apply to any text source. I'm guessing twitter is a bit too big for now... It updates every thirty minutes.
I grew up in metro Atlanta and studied at Georgia Tech. The state government subsidizes college education for grads with a certain GPA (HOPE Scholarship). However, I (and most CS grads I knew) left Atlanta for better paying jobs in NYC/Bay Area/Seattle/Austin. I always wondered why the ATL tech scene was 'underdeveloped' compared to comparable sized cities like Seattle and Austin, despite having major research institutions (Georgia Tech and Emory) to anchor it.

This is what I mean by 'underdeveloped':

- Most software dev job postings (as of May 2018) have SPECIFIC tech stack requirements. This to me is a red flag. Most recruiters in 'developed' tech cities assume that software development skills are transferable and that technology stacks/frameworks/languages can be learned.

- The salaries offered were still very low compared to comparable COL locations like Austin

- No major FAANG presence to put upward pressure on local developer wages
Tobacco is legal, and also illegal to tell people it's not addictive, at least in any sort of marketing sense.

Also, my understanding of most drug legalization is that the intent is to legalize usage/possession, not distribution. This is done with the intent to make it easier/safer to gain treatment and decrease addiction.
If you are a great engineer that can get a job at FAAG, joining a start up is almost never worth it from a strictly financial point of view.

17 years ago, Paul Graham was able to post this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html - nowadays, the compensation in tech has shifted upwards so much (https://www.levels.fyi/) - that start ups are just not competitive when you adjust for a risk premium. Finance captures this concept using metrics such as the Sharpe ratio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio) - which measures how much extra returns you are getting in exchange for the additional risk you take on. For start ups - your expected returns are lower, and the risk is very significantly higher.

Are there other great reasons to join start ups? Absolutely: several start ups are working on exceptionally cool science problems, some are solving tasks that will make a meaningful improvement in the lives of people (https://detroitwaterproject.org/, etc), some people just prefer working in a small company, you get a chance to work with your friends - but - if you are going to work for a generic SAAS company, don't accept a pay cut.

The VC that's financing your start up evaluates their investments with a spreadsheet and zero affection. Ask them how they sacrifice their own income to work on more interesting work, and they'll (politely) laugh in your face.
I've experimented with nicotine (in the form of gum) myself, but haven't really observed much in the way of benefits. Did you see benefits? What form(s) were you using? How did you end up quitting?

(I was turned onto this after listening to an interview with Dr. Peter Attia [haven't yet made up my mind on whether he is a huckster])
Well ok. Georgia does has some nice things like the start of the start of the Appalachian Trail, hostel in the forest, and beautiful coastline.
That'd be my next project if I complete this one to my satisfaction.
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A concept explored by Greg Bear in his book Slant:
https://www.amazon.com/Slant-Novel-Greg-Bear/dp/0812524829
> As if our traffic didn't qualify us as the LA of the East.

I lived in Athens, GA for almost a decade, and when my wife and decided to move to a bigger city, this was a major factor in us deciding not to move to Atlanta. We're really big on biking and public transportation, and at the time it didn't feel like Atlanta was an option because of this.

That said, I miss Georgia a lot. I don't think people who live in other states realize how cool Athens and Atlanta are.
The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists (2018)
zsh is POSIX compliant and has been around for a very long time. Long enough to be considered a standard. csh too.
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Such optimizations seem unreasonable in pathologically constructed examples such as this one, overlooking that in many more practical examples such optimizations can truly make a difference in well behaved programs.

A compiler being able to prove that certain code paths can not be taken under certain conditions is quite a powerful tool that allows said compiler a great deal of practical optimizations. It is normally quite hard to prove that it will not happen, but relying on that it is u.b. if it happen can simplify this task, for in well-behaved programs it will not happen indeed.

Consider a more practical example, that we have an integer variable in a language where integer overflow is u.b.. Consider that the compiler can prove that if the integer be positive at the start of a function, for a certain test to succeed after arithmetic, overflow must have occured, as such the compiler can statically assume that the test will always fail so long as the integer be positive, and can greatly simplify the computational efforts to compute the test.

If the program be well-written, the programmer has indeed ensured that no integer overflow can occur.

We can even up the ante and say that this code path is the only place where a certain memory location is modified and that the compile can prove that, and can thus prove that so long as the initial integer be positive, that value will not be modified.

The code reads the value at some point after the potential modification, but since the compiler knows that so long as the integer be positive that it cannot be modified, it can forgo reading it a second time, saving memory lookup.

Of course, this is all under the assumption that the programmer indeed did design the code so that no integer overflow could ever occur by whatever means. If it do occur, then there are our nasal dæmon: the compiler has removed a codepath entirely, and a value that was updated seems to not be updated at all.

Nevertheless, the assumption that compiles are free to make that no u.b. will ever occur in practice allow them to indeed prove properties about control flow that can lead to substantial optimizations that one is typically not even consciously aware of in well-behaved code.
When I started building a computer and realized these new cards were going to be unobtainium last fall, I bought a used 1080ti instead. Despite being older it still holds its own against newer cards. Lacking RT and DLSS features (which didn't matter much to me), it was reselling at a sizeable discount vs comparable used 20x0 cards.

Five months later I still have my eBay searches saved, and the exact model I bought is now regularly selling for 40+% more than it cost me. There's one right now with a few hours left on the clock, currently going for 50% more than I paid, with 75 watchers and 51 bids. It's wild.
This is great analysis!
The thing most people forget about options & RSU is that one is taking away a big chunk of the TC and delay it to a future year. Even when you hate your job, you will be hesitant to leave the company because of FOMO and sunk cost fallacy

That said, anecdotally, every one of my close circle of friends made decent amount money from equity (one of the many companies they worked at did very well) - far higher than the 10% stat that I hear talked about. May be the last two decades was lucky for this group of people.
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You remember incorrectly.

https://which-50.com/how-uber-learned-it-had-a-huge-ad-fraud...
Good for you. A lot of people enjoy living in Atlanta . If you don’t like it then don’t visit. No need to speak like this .
I mean, a real hacker would just assemble it themselves. You can get all the parts needed. You can get custom caps printed with whatever symbols you want.
Reminds me of an old saying: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Pigs and Chickens meeting standard taken to outrage bait?
Its not ‘late stage capitalism’, its two uncoordinated groups in the same organization. Capitalism not required.
Originally coded up the prototype in three.js but main site was done in Babylon for the extra sparkles and awesomeness.

Just a bit of a play project some folks here did, but glad folks found it and have been enjoying it.
> "...willfully handing them my data (in the form of search and browsing history); of course Amazon is going to keep that and use it to personalize my results."

sure for the few minutes that that data is relevant to selling you stuff you're looking for right now, but why would you expect them to keep it for longer, as this seems to imply?

the time dimension matters too. keeping that data for more than a few minutes should also be explicitly opt-in, as it's data being collected and potentially shared in the future (intentionally or not).

reach and accessibility are naturally limited 'in the old days' where a salesperson might remember your preferences, even writing them down to share with other salespeople, but that data hardly leaked out to other retailers (and potential competitors). it seems that that should be our baseline, and any further gathering/sharing be subject to explicit opt-in.
That begs the question: is there a middle ground between fully interconnected and off-the-grid subsustence?
> But it could also have been avoided by longer and more extensive training, right?

Generally in this sort of risk analysis there is a hierarchy of mitigation, and the least of them is training. e.g. when you find a potentially hazardous situation, the best thing you can do is design the system so that it can't happen. Failing that, you design in an procedural or workflow aspect that naturally avoids it. Failing that, you put in a system to force the use to confirm or review the action. Failing that, you train around it.

A common sign of a flawed design process is when things get pushed into the "train around it" bucket late in the process, not because they were unavoidable, but because they were looked at too late in the design to effectively make changes.
I'm pretty sure that's the one! Takes a bit to get to the punchline but the idea that you want to look for tests that are unhackable is the big idea (and making a good product to get lots of users is the exemplar for an unhackable test).

Thanks for finding that!
This is why I don't listen to the music they play on the radio and only listen to demoscene tracks and armature folk recordings. You can feel this stuff going on in the music.
Same. I was hoping Mail software developers had agreed to block Reply All if it would spam mailing lists or too many recipients.
This is widespread at Citibank. Citibank's website will show you the correct minimum credit card payment on the summary screen, but when you click through, it will show you a different lower payment. If you only pay that one, your account will be flagged as not paying your minimum payment every month. This has been reported to Citibank multiple times over the last few years. It won't be fixed.
Most victims of crime are also socially disadvantaged, so enough with the Robin Hood crap. Theft is also strongly associated with violence, intimidation and mental stress on the victims. Promoting or justifying crimes in your comments here is reckless and irresponsible.

If someone wants to sell a device second hand it's pretty easy to voluntarily wipe your device. Apple devices have very long lives, receive software updates for much longer than competing devices and keep their second hand value very well and so make excellent and very economical second hand devices. Contrary to your claims of Apple not wanting a second hand market, they support the device wiping process and even have a trade in program that channels refurbished iPhones to 3rd world countries.

If you really do care about the environment and supply chain ethics, you'll also be happy to know Apple get the highest score of any of the big tech companies from Greenpeace. In fact the only tech company at all that beats them is Fairphone, but since they get only 2 years of updates I think Greenpeace doesn't sufficiently take into account device longevity.
Maybe I misunderstood and you aren't checking in those files, in which case it isn't the same.
Hah. @jolmg & I almost collided to the second. :-) That stackexchange link had an answer with the INC_APPEND_HISTORY_TIME setopt which seems to work without SHARE_HISTORY (I think using his whole stackexchange answer might still result in 0s..at least it did for me when I ran it in a precmd() instead of adding the hook, but it could always be something else varying between his & my setopts).
Responsible drug users sounds like an oxymoron. Is there any data that shows those people even exist?
The stability and ubiquity of C are probably it's biggest upside characteristics and, as you say, there is a lot to like there. But you have to admit the language is showing it's age and has some huge flaws.

To call manual memory management a foot-gun would be a ridiculous understatement. Once you've used a language with modules and namespaces, going back to C is so painful. The C standard library is super minimal and has lots of... lets call them... quirks. Basically lots of things that are easy and safe in any of the languages you mentioned are difficult and dangerous in C.
Personally I don't take pictures of myself and don't have any of the real name or picture based social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc.) I only use HN, Reddit, and Discord because I enjoy talking about current goings on and ideas with others, and to communicate about shared hobbies or interests.

Do I like to get some Karma on HN/Reddit or reactions on Discord or replies on all 3? Yeah, I do, but not because of some "desire to be noticed" (I think) but because it means someone thinks I have provided some input to a conversation and they want to talk about it at the very least it lets me know I'm not a crazy person talking out of my ass. In fact, I'd prefer that nobody knows my real name or what I look like on all 3 of those sites. I can be a bit more authentic and candid than I'd feel comfortable being otherwise.
So they essentially got themselves in a pickle. It looks like they have not invested money in infrastructure and instead lowered prices to attract as many people as possible thinking what they currently have will be "enough". They have not predicted that the demand will be so high that it will exceed their current abilities and they have no money to increase the production and they are unable to raise the money without destroying the market they built. That they want to give the experience to the "poor" people it is just a poor excuse of poor management.
A guy like Bezos basically doubled his net worth in a matter of just a couple of years for the simple reason that the US decided to flood the market with money, money which made its way into the stock-market, among other few places (like real estate or corporate bonds). Amazon does more business compared to a couple of years ago, but their share price wouldn’t have been the same without the US taking in more debt.
Take PJs tweet -- https://twitter.com/PJVogt/status/1362233699220258818

"I should have reflected on what it meant to not be on the same side of a movement largely led by young producers of color"

That's basically it in a nutshell: the quality of a movement, of an argument, of an opinion is to be judged solely by the minority or oppressed attributes we can find in its supporters.

It doesn't matter if PJ was against the unionizing for his own reasons whatever they might have been -- how they might have affected his benefits, financial reasons etc. His stance against the unionizing is viewed as a personal attack on the attributes of the supporters -- young people of colour.

Put another way -- is there any objection that PJ could have raised to the unionizing efforts that would not have resulted in this same outcome? I doubt it.
Sure, but op is talking about someone who uses controlled substances outside of work. If they’re not under the influence of a substance at work, then it’s not the same situation you are talking about.
Doesn't this argument imply that anyone who is against "wokeness" supports abuse?

I see lots of shutting down discourse from both sides here.
Yes, they could do it either way.
I know that the EU and WHO at least rank drugs by harmfulness.

On the WHO lists, alcohol ranks below heroin and the like, but not far below, and certainly not as low as cannabis.

Harmfulness seems largely irrelevant for legislation.
Reminder that valuations are a measure of what investors think you might exit for, not an assessment of whether your technology is any good.

Even in "tech" startups, the marketing, growth strategy, investor marketing, and userbase are incredibly important. If all those are amazing enough you can IPO before you even launch a product.
He says only 1% to 8% of opioid prescriptions result in addiction (and that this is often misreported as being higher). If knew it was even this high I would never accept a bottle.
Powershell always felt more like a .net REPL than a normal shell to me.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26097153 (55 comments).
>Pushes hard to ingest your contacts, expanding their social graph

This is the #1 thing that new apps seem to do. Is it just a growth hack, or is there something nefarious about it?

For example, I find it mindblowingly irritating that Telegram, of all things, blasts a notification announcing you've joined, the instant you join, to every other Telegram user who has your number saved in their phone. You can't opt out of this. And that's without even allowing access to your own contacts!
Thanks for that by the away. It's an amazing educational resource.
Even then, that's more a problem with google than amazon. Or, more accurately, it's a problem that we treat email as electronic mail. We feel we own the account like we own our address, Heck, for some stupid reason we use them for identification all over the internet.

But technologically, they are postcards sent to a business. And we just visit the business to pick up our postcards. Imagine every time you bought something, they sent the receipt to walmart for you to pick up. Not in an envelope, just handed to the guy at the counter and put into a box for you. We never should have let email get this far, but we did.
See, this is saying something else entirely. Also, do you have a source for this?

Would I do opium again? Sure. It was fun. Would I do medical grade heroin or morphine again, under controlled circumstances with a nursing staff dosing me? Yeah. It was fun. Did I have some weird urge to go out and do it frequently? Nope. But to be fair, lots of folks drink on more than one occasion as well. They get high more than once. They might even have more than one drink or hit in one day. Simply wanting to do something again doesn't mean anything. I've done acid more times than I can count, and I wouldn't call it a habit. The only drug that I'd probably do more often if it were not dangerous to do too often is MDMA because it feels spectacular (better than opioids, to me anyway), but I'd not even call it a strong urge.

This isn't addiction, nor is it anything uncontrollable in general.

Unless you are implying that folks get uncontrollable urges, and in that case, please back that up with facts. Though I've met my share of addicts, most things just aren't instantly addictive. Even heroin isn't that way - especially if you actually improve an addicts like (hence, troops addicted to heroin in wars came home to be non-addicts).
<sigh!> The fatuous use of animated images to illustrate the wonders of a tool that is fundamentally text/character based is (ahem!) puzzling, considering that those most likely to be interested are also those most likely to wish they could do simple Cut/Paste of the examples for experimentation, now difficult or impossible because of all the glitz....
I personally didn't experience benefits, just side effects. I started with vaping, then moved to smoking.

To quit, I switched to vaping for a few weeks, then tapered the nicotine concentration to zero over the course of a month or two. Cigarettes have MAOIs which make it more addictive which is why I switched.

I was irritable for weeks and still get the urge to smoke sometimes(it's been over 5 years since I quit). I don't recommend starting.
To your second point, high functioning alcoholics are real. The bad effects take longer to manifest, but long term alcohol abuse makes up half of the 95,000 annual alcohol related deaths in the US.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...
I assume they'll eventually blame ERCOT for the mess, pass some reform measures, and the situation will return to the status quo. For the powers involved in the matter, the lack of regulatory rigor is a feature, not a bug.

I'm always happy to be proven wrong, though.
The demand and growth for the social network is what the valuation is based off. Marketing/Growth is really expensive and more expensive than actual infrastructure spend for most companies. Users of the social network don't care what the infrastructure is based off of.
I believe that would not be able to get clean inner corners, though I could be wrong.
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Just out of curiosity, as an Atlanta based dev, what kinds of salaries are common in Austin at various levels?
This boils down to "just don't do undefined behavior". It's 100% correct and misses the point entirely.[1]

1: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/04/your-statement-is-10...
My takeaway is that by now every company is a "tech company" whether they want to be or not, and needs a bench of in-house software engineers, NOT contractors.
I guess it doesn't help that the article contains literally not a shred of detail about what the offenders allegedly did. The only reference is:

> contributing to a “toxic dynamic at Gimlet” that was “near identical” to the Bon Appétit culture depicted in the miniseries.

Sorry, Vulture, but I'm not going to listen to an entire podcast series to try to decipher what you're getting at here.

So I have to try to infer what's going on here, and to me the first thing that comes to my mind when you see these kinds of mass resignations and vague, overwrought apologies with language like "I don’t think anyone needs me taking up space right now" is the toxic crusade for ideological purity that's commonplace in the circles Reply All travel in.
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Targeted actions against individuals is bread and butter covert operations for states. Just ask the CIA or the Mossad. I don't think you can use the evidence of targeted attacks to suggest that a state will engage in crimes against humanity.
How can you tell they are on depressants? Did you drug test them?
Do you see them transmitting audio data? Because if you don't, you're probably missing something. (In your writeup it looks like you're only looking at HTTP requests.)
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