skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I largely agree with this.

If you want music to be libre, someone needs to subsidize the cost of creation: The wages for the musicians for one-two months, the wages of the technicians, the rent for the studio, and also subsidize the cost of writing the song in the first place.

The current paradigm amortizes those costs among all listeners of a song, with some profit for the facilitators.
FizzBuzz in TensorFlow (2016)
Amazon is doing some rather creepy stuff with the CIA [0]. Can you elaborate on what Oracle did that was so bad? Is charging for software and enforcing license terms somehow worse than what Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc. are doing?

[0]https://www.theregister.com/2018/05/22/aclu_amazon_aws_rekog...
Thank you. I too lack spotify, gleefully.
The kid's family is also most likely loaded, otherwise he wouldn't have so much free time on his hands to dedicate to doing something like this.
If you take the bark off with a draw knife it seals the wood by closing the pores. Chainsaws rough up the wood and open it up. The most important part is the bottom, you need to keep the bottom row away from mud and wet ground.
Uhm.....back when? In the UK out of the 9 houses I rented so far 8 were 80+ years old, and the last one was "only" 40 years old. Installation of solar panels on houses this old also presents some challenges, as most of them will have original roofs quickly approaching a full century. And if you need to replace the roof just to install some solar panels it quickly becomes an unprofitable idea.
I didn't know he had a book on late speaking children. I ordered that one because of this article. My 3rd child didn't say anything until 4. You couldn't get my first two kids to shut up starting around 2.

It was frustrating and challenging. I fear that he's not gifted in any way, as the summary of the book suggests. He has had a load of speech problems that has slowed down his reading abilities dramatically.
Perhaps you didn’t read my comment: Burt’s Bees, the company, kept Burt around even when they didn’t have to. The OP argued that it was about the single motivation of money, and I offered up the evidence that it clearly wasn’t all about money, considering they then employed and recognized Burt for his contribution to the product. You’re rebuttal is against the wrong person.
An idea will be to give you standardized container (and pay less like for utensils) when you pick up.
What was it like being a median artist in the 90s, before and after Napster? The music industry has always been top heavy, then and now. But does anyone have data on artist earnings? It'd be interesting to know if the earnings of the median artist have increased or decreased in the last couple of decades.

I totally empathise with their demand for a cent per stream, but they could be asking for a share of revenue that doesn't exist. And if the median artist is making more now than they did before Napster, they could be asking for a cut of revenue that has never existed.
This book is more general, describing brain development, but there is a lot describing nerve/synapse development including myelination.

I give it to most of my new parent friends as a gift.

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Going-There-Brain-Develop/dp/05...
Thank you for Bolu
Was the cause of this an antibiotic? Could there have been any other cause? Did you have any surgeries or injuries around the same time the symptoms started? Did you ever have LASIK eye surgery?
I don't think this is how people's relationships work. Putting a number next to someone's name doesn't make this person more or less reliable. The only kind of recommendation that is trustworthy is the one made by someone you know.
I don’t want to friend all my professional contacts on Facebook, either.
I take issue with this view at the beginning of the article:

> They need salt. And not the kind of salt that flavors our food, but the kind that melts snow and ice. If we don’t have salt, no one can drive, because salt is what keeps our roads manageable.

Driving in snow/ice without salt is absolutely possible, but requires better driver education.

I may be wrong, but I heard that in certain Scandinavian countries (e.g. Norway) being able to control a skid is part of the driving test.

Driving in snow/ice, even snow/ice that is at the melting point and therefore extremely slippery due to the water, is absolutely possible without salt, but it requires your 'average Joe' to understand that they need to slow down, to leave 10* the space from the car in front, etc.

As many have noted, salt negatively impacts aquatic ecosystems, and also decomposes your shiny new car into a pile of rust.

Any situation that can be permanently resolved by education and intelligence, rather than by brute-forcing a constant 'workaround', would seem to me to be the best way forwards; but as is often the case, stupidity, laziness, resistance to change, and those who provide the salt being scared of the loss of revenue, win out...

/rant
> This is a very stupid proposition

Surely there's a more respectful way to criticize the idea.
His books are better than his interviews. I'd start there if you want to get a better understanding of him.
I grew up in Colorado, and have never seen a tire requirement. I had all-seasons the entire time I lived there. I got my first set of snow tires in my 30s when I moved to Ithaca, NY.
I could see higher rolling resistance leading to poorer fuel efficiency and greater exhaust emissions. Though, I imagine temperature inversions, home heating (particularly via wood), etc. have a much greater impact on Winter air quality.
> Unions ultimately get entangled with regulators

Oh? Show me one major regulatory body in the US that has as many union leaders running it as it does leaders from the industries it regulates.
So, what is CAID? How does it work?

Is it a composite fingerprint based on how the device works, or an alternate ID that Apple isn't restricting yet? Would be nice to get some details about what exactly TikTok plans to do beyond "they found a way to get around it".

Or is that information just not available yet? I can't find anything online detailing what the attack is.
.. and if you are wondering where to start, i'd suggest either "Basic Economics" or "Intellectuals and Society". The later being more relevant to todays culture.
> On the one hand, I want to chalk this up to them being like everyone else: 90% of them are just shit at their jobs. On the other hand, I have it on good authority from nearly every nurse I've ever met that doctors are indeed arrogant, dismissive, and often mistaken.

I think there's an extra layer. Any public facing jobs tend to take a toll on you, too. Some more than others. With doctors patients lie to you constantly, for a variety of reasons. Some drug seeking, some simply not wanting to admit it.

Yea, i imagine they're like everyone else (shit), but i also imagine it is very easy become very dismissive in that line of work.

It's a fine line to know what to filter and what to ignore, i imagine.
Adobe holds a near monopoly in the creative world. Everyone /already/ hates them.
Isn’t wip.co telegram a secondary feature? The payment is for the community at large. Namely the website, no?
The red flag is in the first 20 lines of code, after the comments. The original variable definitions were all formatted nice so that the values line up. Then later coders came along and added more stuff but didn’t bother following the original formatting, messing it up.

It’s a sign of the attitude of the programmers and probably reflects the quality of the actual business logic code as well.
> 1. They cannot be monetized via anything but ads. Sure a few people will pay for access to a social network. But the majority will not pay $0.01 because the friction of the transaction will prevent them. Moreover, an SN operator can make a lot more money from ads than from subscriptions, at least until proven otherwise. As a result any useful value that an SN provides will quickly be overtaken by more and more intrusive ads.

I don't know about this. It may well be that only being ad driven can monetize them to $billion+ valuations. But I don't know if it is for sure that you can't have a more modest, but still very respectable business worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars by monetizing in other ways.

It should also be clear that social media's monetization strategy isn't just about ads, it's about data farming to serve highly targeted ads. They're not just selling out full page ad spreads and selling classifieds like in a newspaper. Those would be perfectly fine monetization plans that just focus on self-reported areas of interest and some very basic geolocation. There is some incentive to drive engagement to get eyeballs but it's not nearly as strong because they just need you to log in and hang out. They don't need you to interact constantly to collect data on your emotional state and receptivity.
They could be at least 400,000 years old.

https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/secrets-under-ice
But then that's not actually 2FA then, is it?
We could start the tax incentives on the low end financially and as climate change ravages the land value of coastal homes more and more people will qualify. /S... but only slighty.
And pity even more so the one who has a language where all words have declension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension
I read "Camels are more dangerous than we thought" and expected no discussion beyond "of course camels are scary dangerous,wth?"
Semi trucks and trailers are two different components. Most trailers have a large flat area, but these can get swapped often. And even within the same company you won’t always have the solar trailer hooked up to the electric semi. The swappable nature of the load is part of the appeal of semis.

I guess what I’m saying is, even if you had a solar trailer, you would lose a lot of the load flexibility of using a semi truck. And you wouldn’t want to plan a load where you needed the solar power. So either way, you’re planning for charging at fixed intervals. Solar might help a little here, but not very much.
We know that temperature got a good 1-2 °C warmer than today during the Eemian period 130,000 years ago. That was enough for a considerable portion of Greenland to melt.

The exact map of ice extent during the Eemian is under debate; the region is notoriously difficult to model as this is directly next to a highly fickle ocean current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Labrador Sea. As a result, different model assumptions produce different possible maps.
I've seen similar sentiment being repeated about Sahil, even by other successful founders like Nathan Berry.

It is a bit unfair to look at everything in hindsight and assume Sahil acted maliciously. He did what he could to scrap together the resources to save a failing company. It's not like he ran some sort of shell game to rob the original contributors of their equity. People always view the past in this way and it is incredibly biased. You have to go back and step forward in time with each piece of information as it was available, and at the time it appeared the company was surely going to fail.

In any case, I'd be curious to hear from some of the original contributors as to how they felt they were treated or how Sahil behaved.
There is Oracle risk to be sure, but people using the greater java ecosystem are far less tied to the JVM itself than they used to be because of cross compilation to targets that help with ffi boundaries, JIT, IO, memory concerns, etc. That's true with both Kotlin and Scala.

Meanwhile the Oracle vs Google case is still going on.
> If you care for your can you will not want to leave it in open sun for extended periods, especially when you live in lower latitudes where this car would have more sense.

I purchased a car last year and have yet to put on 3,000 miles this year since I started working from home. (And I took a day trip with it).

I live in an apartment with a garage, but I use it for storage and don't mind parking my car outside. (I don't care about leaving my car in the sun and I live in a Southern state where it gets hot)

I'd consider buying something like this if it was a little more mature (Maybe in a future/cheaper Tesla model) simply because I love the idea of leaving my car out so it can stay charged.

We don't all think like you and your neighbors.
> The employees didn't pay for their options because the options were "out of the money" and the employees had various confirmations that the shares would not be worth anything, but they still had the choice to.

That’s a side effect of the problem, not the cause of the problem.

Why did the employee options expire worthless? Because they were issued at one valuation, then the investors changed the valuation to $0. Yet the company and technology didn’t change. In fact, it kept operating with the same brand, same customers, and website.

The investors and founder both dipped the valuation to zero because it was in their best personal interests, dropping employees with options in the process.

That’s why I framed this as a cautionary tale for employees looking to help startups. This wouldn’t have been a big deal if the company simply went through the normal failure process where the IP was sold on the open market in the normal process. Even if the founder had bought the company IP back for $1 if no one else wanted it, that would have at least persevered some appearance of fairness.
So I pay you a fee in order to pay more in foreign taxes? Is that it?
Super interested in https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386 as alpine linux is at the heart of a lot of docker images. We use ubuntu currently as our base image, but tried to use alpine recently and ran into some issues with musl.

Hopefully this version will work better.
So, if I listen to music for only ~2 hours (120 min) a day, and the average song is 4 minutes, that would be ~30 songs a day, which would be 30 cents a day. $0.30 * 30 days in a month is about $9/month...which is basically my entire subscription fee--probably more. Also, there's like 4 people per account if I remember correctly.
How we built paint.wtf, an AI game with 150k submissions that judges your art
> since authors and musicians are among the very few categories of workers with that privilege

Don't forget software developers. All of our various licenses (and even our work-for-hire for various companies) relies upon copyright as well.

There's also reporters, photographers, journalists, YouTube content creators, TV, and movies, just to name a few off the top of my head.
It does sound like he absorbed some of his toxicity from the community. It's definitely a self-inflicted wound, but it does sound as if he was handed a gun and had it pointed directly at his foot.

That won't be solved by fixing the community, which is an enormous boat that won't turn around any time soon. But it's hopefully a lesson to other people putting themselves in a similar position. The community also contains a lot of people pointing out the footgun.
My point being that since this is not an insignificant amount of work, it's odd that it's so often omitted. I've seen many videos like this but I've never seen it mentioned at all.
I agree, but I know first hand that the businesses I'm referring to pay a minimum salary of $45K and the vast majority of employees are above $55K. These businesses are IT service providers, providing their services to other small or medium businesses. The clients in this industry are very price conscious and wouldn't care that the staff unionized at one company, they wouldn't be able to justify a significant price increase for the same services / value.
Spotify is not the corporate middle man. The big record companies are. Any musician is free to not put their music on spotify and to not sell the rights to a record company. They can then let you stream a song for $50 on their website.

It's also absolutely ridiculous that you champion those who want to make more money while also saying that everyone on the other end who wants to spend less should "stop whining".
Better Perl: Using map and grep
OMG I'm old. I thought that Java 9 would be next version.
turboTax utilized regulations to capture the market.
If you:

- are content with a trial-and-error approach
- have friends/colleagues who can give you useful feedback
- don't mind making the odd [amusing] mistake

then I recommend going self-taught using a combination of "immersion therapy" (talk to friends/colleagues in as neutral an accent as you can without sounding contrived) and watching a LOT of British TV. This way is slower, but I found this quite fun, and it has the potential for better life stories.

If on the other hand, you:

- want something more structured and results-oriented
- don't have enough self-aware friends/colleagues across different British social classes
- are not in a position to have mistakes brushed off without consequences

then I'd suggest looking up accent coaching. (Although I couldn't possibly recommend any particular ones.)

I briefly knew a Greek girl who'd moved to London for a project management role in a large company here, and she sounded reasonably British middle class (RP) having done daily professional accent coaching for I think 8-10 months.

Sorry I can't be more concrete, but I hope this helps!
That’s silly. A single buyer doesn’t have to buy the entire supply in one shot. They could easily say “We buy the cheapest marginal salt in any quantity until our total capacity is met. You must beat $CANADA_PRICE + $IMPORT_PRICE, as well as $NY_PRICE + $TRANSPORT_PRICE or we’ll have to buy from them instead”.
What Is the Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice?
I know from a personal perspective, I've considered applying to YCombinator in the past, but would never to the Bay Area.

This is just one datapoint, but I'm sure there are many others like me. How many businesses never launched, because our society has insisted that startups must happen in a single, extremely unlivable part of the country.
How Google workers secretly built a union
People keep name-dropping telega but it isn't an official client. I am referring to the official QT client.
I don't think they can. They do notifications for users, but website visitors are anonymous. It doesn't make sense to add it to the landing page.

With that being said, I think a live demo is a great idea and would go a long way!
Nobody cares is an exaggeration, but correct spiritual point for the grandstanding a minority of HN users make about always leaving X or Y or never joining Z because of situations like you mentioned. Yet nothing actually changes in the real word because of how much of a niche minority these people are.
Install Enter Enter Enter Enter
TurboTax also lobbies against the simplification of the tax code
You comments have prompted me to start reading the book The Deficit Myth.

I am looking into this because people I respect are saying things that surprise me. I abjectly disagree with your sentiments and the core points of the book, so far. I'm looking to see if this book will change my mind.

It's hard to even pin down what MMT is saying. What I'm saying is that our national debt is productivity borrowed from our future, from our children, used for today. This translates into real investment, because I fully expect that our debt crowds out physical investment, like renewable energy or nuclear power plants in favor of plants with lower capital but higher operating costs. It's entirely possible to borrow from our children in terms of physical allocation of assets. While the debt is just some numbers in computers, it changes the way we allocate real productive resources.

I fully agree that we can, and should, step on the inflation pedal more. If our deficit were fully paid for by printing money, then I would not have a problem with it. I would hardly even consider it a deficit. This is miles away from reality. Issuing T-bills is not the same as issuing cash, and this book I'm reading (and commentators like you) are reckless with the distinction.

I also agree with the book's claim that we should increase taxes. This appears to be the opposite of what the MMT headline argument is, which is that deficits don't matter.
Can you compile single binaries for go that has C dependencies? But, yeah, I like the "all-in-one" executable thing and wish it was more prevalent.
Israeli experts announce discovery of more Dead Sea scrolls
The map data structure, not the map higher order function. As implemented, most map data structures will have a conditional in their lookup functions to handle the case of collisions or a key being absent from the map.
The salt becomes a liquid and then splashes all over the undercarriage of your vehicle, into crevices and between surfaces. It is definitely better to avoid driving if you can.

Undercoatings can help, too, but they generally need to be applied annually.
This naively assumes the person has a choice of other opportunities and that the those other jobs aren't also underpaid.
I agree with this. As much as I like the look of these coding lessons (I am easily distracted by the Shiny), when it comes to learning I find it much better to type out and run the code locally as I follow along with the lesson. A static presentation which highlights code changes is the simplest, most effective presentation for me.

It's also the approach I used for the lessons I wrote for my canvas library[1]. I could do with a tool to make developing these lessons a lot easier - currently I have no toolchain to help, which is why I haven't written more lessons in a while.

[1] https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/learn/first-lesson
I guess as a disclaimer I should say I am more of a progressive, and not from an American tradition.

But in the same generic "conservative / learning libertarian" tradition as Sowell, I vastly prefer people like Tyler Cowen and to a lesser degree Russ Robert to give two very famous examples.
Aww. Game over for the discussion, so you metaphorically flip over the table? Geesh.
We Got More Than 10k Students from 120 Countries to Embrace the Joy of Coding
Buildroot is much easier to get started than Yocto, I agree. You can hit the limits pretty quick with Buildroot though, and then things get ugly pretty fast.

Yocto has a much steeper learning curve. But the tradeoff is that you get incredibly precise control over all aspects of your build. Yocto builds are also much more composable, making it easy to have a "lots of variants that share some common configuration" kind of setup.
Many places in the midwest have actually switched away from using salt to melt snow because it does a lot of damage to concrete and vehicles. Sand is a popular alternative, but frequent ploughing is often enough to keep main roads clear. Raised vehicles like trucks and SUVs are also much more common in the midwest to avoid getting stuck in the snow.

> America tends to operate in just-in-time style inventory models instead of managing risk by storing surpluses of critical commodities

I don't think this a particularly fair criticism. Deicing salt works by absorbing moisture as it lands, before it can form a sheet of ice. It's useless if it gets wet before you use it. It's pretty dry in the midwest during the winter, but humidity spikes in the summer making deicing salt difficult to store in the off-season. Climate-controlled storage is expensive and deicing salt is quite heavy and bulky.
If this concept is new to you then check out Edward de Bono. He built a whole career out devising and/or documenting these kinds of creativity and thinking 'hacks'. His book "Lateral Thinking" is a classic.
How does someone get into that position? Are public schools so bad that people come out with no marketable unique skills that would give them natural job security?
Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
Peter Thiel has written about the "10x rule" for startups, where your innovation has to be 10 times better than the second best option [1].

Have you personally experienced such 10x improvements in your own interactions with software? What were they?

[1] - https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2015/07/13/the-10x-rule-for-great-startup-ideas/