skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really the crux of it. His "apology" boils down to "I'm on the spectrum, I'm not good with people stuff". Which would be fine, except what he did was a recurring theme throughout his career and belied sexist and misogynist attitudes. Maybe some people egged him on, but he chose to ignore the people who told him no and those who told him it made them uncomfortable or that it was abusive.

This isn't about not understanding social cues or lacking intuitive empathy, this is about actively choosing to ignore victims telling you what you're doing to them because your position allows you to get away with it.

This isn't the first time I've seen autism (or the implication thereof) being used to reframe gross sexual misconduct as naïve ignorance and it's simply disgusting and insulting towards other autistics who can't read emotions and are socially awkward but understand consent.

What he did went well beyond "locker room" jokes like the Emacs virgins thing or "tonedeaf" postulating about the age of consent. The reason he didn't understand that it was wrong wasn't that he's bad at social cues, it's that he didn't think of women as human beings.
absolutely correct, and let's not forget there is the whole spectrum of startups and mid sized growth companies that one can join in between.
You can argue that cash is also used for a lot of illegal activity and you would be correct, but that misses an important point, which is that cash has been with us since our country's founding and from a political point of view it would be nearly impossible to ban it, even if doing so would be a sensible policy. Cryptocurrency is still in the infant stages and banning it wouldn't entail nearly as much of a backlash.
Say nothing. That's what a competent leader would do. No one wanted RMS's take on Minsky (or pedophilia in general, which he also offered up).
I think this is a good lens to look through.

If you want the BIG payout and "f u" money, then forming your own company is now the highest odds way to make that result. The chance of abject failure ($0 payout) is still high but even that isn't necessarily true these days with the experience and learnings leading you to FAANG jobs (should you choose) anyways. You do fall behind your colleagues who started at those jobs earlier, but they won't reach that $1B goal that you had and now neither will you; the difference being you gave it a shot (and the highest odds shot).

PG's point might be simplified to say starting a company is the newest highest odds way to be super rich.
> namely that his works will be quoted beyond the lifespan of his contemporary readers

I have never seen PG quoted anywhere, not even on HN.
> all of these available within the same VPC (talking to each other without paying bandwidth costs).

That's one of the real key issues, I think.

If bandwidth is 10x cheaper, then maybe you decide it's fine if only half your inter-server bandwidth is free.
Do you really think that terror organizations like Isis use Bitcoin to buy weapons? No, they use goold old USD.
Ah, no no no.

Oh, God, what have I done!?

What I wanted to indicate was firstly, as a physical speculation the possibility of a universal field in the sense of the quantum field theory, which shows additional dimensionality with breaking of its symmetry in hierarchical levels and thus there is in a certain sense only one thing, the universal field.

Secondly, the question when something is considered as an independent 'thing', which is a philosophical question.

Third, the question of the interpretation of the relation of mathematical apparatus and reality.

What does the dimensionality of the mathematical model mean?
A scientific-theoretical question.

And the gluons of this all are just linguistics and semantics.

;-)))
Moreover, people seem to continuously forget the fact that half of all wealth in the United States is inherited by the top 5% wealthiest households, not 'earned' via value creation.

In general, I tend to agree with Rawls that this notion of 'deserving' is irrelevant to the question of how we ought to distribute goods/welfare in society.
These days, most games run fine out of the box with proton. As the parent comment stated, it's mostly games that rely on invasive anti-cheats that don't work. For example, PUBG, Due Process, Valorant, etc... aka competitive multiplayer games.

If one really wants to they can dual-boot with windows, but I've found the better option is to just play games that do run well on linux, like tf2, etc.
Do you have a recommendation for a countertop distilling machine? A back of the napkin calculation shows that it would be 50% cheaper for me to pay for the electricity and distill water myself than buy bottled water, but the idea had never occurred to me.
The people in power are balancing the business opportunities against their own loss of control over the issuance of currency and some financial market functionalities (with smart contracts, etc.). I think it's a given they will always choose their own power over the business opportunities of others.
> Wait until you hear about cash.

anecdote time: I once travelled to Vietnam for a vacation, people in vietnam prefer $100 bills because they're easier to use for hiding wealth, transporting cross border, and other slightly less than legal reasons. Additionally it's the preferred currency of criminals in the country too (so I heard). They will even pay higher exchange rates for ones in better condition or with more anti-counterfeiting features

So yeah, USD is used for a lot of crime globally.

EDIT: changed "anti-moneylaundering" to "anti-counterfeiting" by suggestion
> they've underestimated the amount of work required to package and distribute a product as complex as Elasticsearch

The bulk of the work thus far has been to strip out the non-OSS components ("X-pack") and the many references to it, nothing to do with packaging, distributing, or even maintaining and developing features.

https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/t/preparing-opensear...
The market is too big now to come after it.

Plus, if you use monero + vpn you are basically untraceable.
Yeah, I think Digital Ocean are really taking the piss there - proven by their existing $0.01/GB pricing, as you mentioned.

I reckon DO have seen the big providers getting away with it, and they want a piece. Why wouldn't they, when there is apparently so little pushback?
Good. So the VCs will go back to playing like in the old days of shareware software licenses. It'll be good.
I sometimes ask that question myself.

What "real name" means is almost never clear; it's another reason why I dislike most "real name" policies.

Many people go by a nickname IRL; in some circumstances, nicknames stick so closely that most of their friends don't even know their legal names.

Changing one's legal name can be a difficult process. Many (most?) trans people's legal names are deadnames [0]. Facebook and Google+'s loosening of "real name" policies was partly done to address this very valid concern.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deadname

The concept of a "real" name assumes that people typically go by one name, and it forces people to choose the "realest" version of themselves. Often, they're forced to choose a version of themselves that isn't their "realest".
The new name clashes with the Open Search Foundation.

https://opensearchfoundation.org/
Public domain software is particularly tricky situation for multi-nationals. Vetting an MIT licensed library is virtually a no-op, but some jurisdictions simply do not recognize PD licenses (let alone "do whatever the fuck you want" licenses people sometimes write while being clever). The one time I got stung by this it wasn't that hard to fix but things could have gone a lot different if we had more deeply leveraged either of the two PD tools that we had in our dependency chain. I swapped one for a slightly larger MIT licensed library, and set a coworker up to cleanroom the other, since I was already tainted.
There's still a bunch of questions around filecoin, but if you set aside the token and speculative nature, the it's the first realistic proof of storage system and represents (1) a departure from proof of work that's sucking up the power output of several countries for no good reason,
(2) a useful base for IPFS to store its bits persistently
and (3) perhaps funding Protocol Labs so they can continue to advance this state of art.
yeah, I think his adoptive dad was reasonably well-off though

I think "demographic distance" makes sense if you think of it in terms of "Coming from a family of at least moderate wealth". My family was pretty poor, and there's a lot they couldn't teach me about money because they just had no idea. Plus, my whole life I've had to set aside $X per month to keep the family afloat, so it's made it a lot harder to dink around with startups that aren't going so well.

I don't think I can get as rich as Bill Gates myself, but I'll bet I can get as rich as his dad, and give my kids a shot at becoming mega-billionaires
Could you expand on the last sentence a bit more regarding effective altruism? Are the uncomfortable questions related to the utilitarian nature of how the movement racks and stacks the causes they choose to support or not?
>> Owning a Tesla out of warranty is a pain in the ass, and expensive (my last maintenance cost 1400 euro’s, about double what I ever paid for my Audi’s, because there was just so much crap they needed to fix. Most of which they did not actually fix). A lot of things go wrong on Teslas. A nice example is the yellowing screens in the S/X and how Tesla is handling that these days.

Won't argue that out-of-warranty work isn't pricey, but is it really any better than other luxury cars? I've had plenty of friends with BMWs or Audis that had huge repair bills on out of warranty stuff. Your example of yellowing screens is a known issue that they're finally admitting to, and rolling out a fix. Your one anecdote here regarding Audi seems contrary to much of general consensus.

>> People always think their cars will ‘keep getting better over time’ due to the software updates, but ask any MCU1 owner how well that’s going. Basically: once your hardware is no longer the latest generation they put in new cars, you quickly start missing out on new features. And that’s after the software has slowed down over time on your old hardware because they probably only test in the latest cars.

How is MCU1 owners not getting the latest features different from literally any other car? Every other car gets no additional features the moment you drive it off the lot. Even getting map updates is something that is iffy and costs money.

>> As for the quality control: there were plenty of videos from bumpers falling off of Model 3’s after driving through puddles. Or rain leaking through the windshield of Model Y’s. Even die-hard Tesla youtubers still mention the panel gaps whenever they get a new Tesla. Btw: ever noticed that they rarely keep those Teslas for more than 2 or 3 years?

Again, how much of that is quality actually getting worse, or just the fact they're making WAY more cars, so the quality % is same/better but incident amount is up due to scale?

>> S and X had a lot of build problems, but the problems you’re seeing on 3’s and Y’s are much more severe IMO. Especially from a company that once claimed they were gonna teach Toyota a thing or two about auto manufacturing.

I don't think anyone truly thinks Tesla is going to have better build quality than Toyota. That said, there's plenty of reports of other manufacturers with lemons. Again, the question is quantity. Tesla's failures get press.
Can I ask a related question? Why all the focus on income/wealth "inequality"? Shouldn't we be looking at the absolute baseline quality of life? Hasn't it been increasing dramatically despite increasing inequality? Due to technological advances, hasn't the baseline quality of healthcare, education, sanitation, nutrition, shelter, comfort, convenience, etc. significantly improved from the 60s or the 80s? If so, why begrudge the rich, especially those who have driven this advancement, their fleets of yachts?
> 10x the median income just isn’t that much. If you have three kids, money is still tight. I’m arguing that we are all making less and that startups are making people rich because they’re actually getting paid what they produced.

The tradeoff here is that if you have 3 kids, you can't afford to work at or start a startup, because your income today will be less than at a BigCo. The number of startups that will pay you 10x the median income, today, is pretty low (they're all already unicorns, which means your upside is somewhat limited) and you need to be fairly senior anyway.
OpenSearch was once was an initiative founded at A9, Amazon subsidiary, to create a personalized, cross-service, search engine: https://archive.is/PCKWq

OpenSearch is from an era when Amazon and Google were covertly competitive. Google didn't get anywhere with Froogle and AppEngine; whilst Alexa and A9 didn't move any mountains.

Code: https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch
Clubhouse may figure out how to make it work long-term though I’m not convinced- but what is clear is the incredible speed that the larger social properties copy popular apps. Do they have dev teams just drop everything and get it done or do they have a team focused on copying the next big thing?
Lots of imported liquor was sold in "Berezka" - foreign currency shops opened to foreigners.
All submissions compete for attention.

Voting and commenting influence what submissions other people see too.
I thought we got rich spending all our time complaining about shit, burning and looting, and reading hacker news.
The point is that python3 was already in place, and the package on the official website only created the python executable, so the stub linked to the Microsoft Store wasn't overwritten.

This is no different than macOS. If you don't overwrite the existing stubs, you get the "install xcode" message when running git or cc.

But if Apple does it, it's OK because they're the good guys.
Flipr: Making changes quickly and safely at scale (Uber’s dynamic config system)
yeah, "saga for the backend" is an appealing angle to some folks (eg our Coinbase testimonial has that) but i'm not sure how many developers know about sagas so I've been hesitant to push that too hard (bc then we'd have to teach people an extra concept before they get to us).

i'd say something that is maybe hard to appreciate until you really get into it is just how much goes into making this ultra scalable with distributed transactions. If you have ~20 mins for it, I wrote this up recently: https://docs.temporal.io/blog/workflow-engine-principles
Satellites are the easiest thing to ban. Sure, the govt has the tech to jam/shoot them down, but they're also almost certainly associated with a real person with a real bank account and a real door they can knock on/down depending on their cooperation.
Just as a counterpoint - if you believe that the median person is about to get screwed (either by civil disorder, famine, inflation, corporate restructuring, housing shortages, rentier landlords, conscription, etc.), then it's worth paying a premium not to be the median person. Judging from social & news media these days, the median person believes that the median person is about to get screwed.

The "live like the median person, bank 86% of your income, and retire in 4 years" strategy works well in times of abundance, where the median person has a decent life. Once people start expecting shortages - where the median person ends up dead, or unable to complete life milestones they desire like having kids - it becomes less feasible. I've seen a large shift in expectations over the last 1-10 years (depending on how far down the income distribution you were), where more and more people are realizing that bad things might be on the verge of happening.
Oh this will not end well.
Chris Rock has a funny skit about being rich vs having wealth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We8P8J25OKQ
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Any true innovation, to be regarded as such, has to be adopted first by porn, then by pizza :)
Read the next sentence you quoted.

This is how the first sentence should read with correct parenthesization: "It’s worth noting that the pop-up will appear even (when Microsoft Edge is the default browser AND you’ve already pinned sites to the taskbar)"
> Wait until you hear about cash.

I'm always bothered by this arguement because most of the same people in government who want to see a crackdown on Bitcoin also seem to want cash to be eliminated.

I've been asked to do consulting on one of these digital cash replacement projects. The requirements included all the stuff you'd expect, like strict ID requirements for every account, and the ability to freeze funds at will. But they also wanted things like the contents of receipts getting uploaded to government servers, to allow real-time tracking of not only who was paying who, but what the funds were supposed to be for. My contact wouldn't tell me what government it was supposed to be for. But they did admit it was a dictatorship. Obviously, this would have been a very effective tool for cracking down on dissent.

Frankly, I kinda suspect what was really going on was the company that reached out to me was pulling a scam on that dictatorship and had no real plan to actually deliver a working product. But it's still a good example of the panopticon that authoritarians want to replace cash with.
Agreed and I'd go so far to say just 5 years at FAANG (assuming you join at a mid-level eng, not L3/L4 fresh university hire) would get you into the $1-2M NW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryozka_%28Russian_retail_sto...
This is incorrect. HN is run by Y Combinator; yes, PG started YC, but he retired from YC 7 years ago.
https://mixergy.com
you can't reliably opt-out of laws in the place where you physically reside, especially where money is involved.
Not really into Vi, but thank you for using this name for something better than whatever Google might want to do with it.
Maxwell was accused of directing Guiffre to have sex with Minsky by Guiffre in her deposition.

As far as I know there is no allegation from Guiffre or others that it actually happened, only that she was 'directed' to do so.

If I have missed sources that makes a clear allegation, I would appreciate hearing more.

Do you have actual sources saying otherwise, or are you inferring an allegation it actually happened from Guiffre's statement about the instructions she were given?
Thanks for this, very useful! I've been wondering about hosting that gives basic analytics [0], which is sadly absent without signing up and trying for most simple (static site) hosting ones I've seen.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26604015
In fact, the vector maps article contains this text:

> (Hmm, reminds me of my noteshrink project…)

...so the author did, in fact, explicitly consider this possibility.
The remarkable thing here is that it's not a chemical detection, but a nuclear one. Chemically, H2O and D2O are identical.

We knew that our taste buds (and smell receptors) are incredibly sensitive to small amounts of chemicals. It's somewhat unexpected that they could distinguish molecular weights.

It may tie in to the Vibrational Theory of Smell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction

The standard theory of odor is that it's a lock-and-key process, like the immune system (and related to it). But there are some odd holes in that theory, like why sulfur compounds smell "alike", even though they're different keys fitting different locks (and we can't even exactly say what "alike" means).

This one guy suggests that it acts like a spectroscope, sensing the way atoms vibrate within the molecule. It's a brilliant theory that explains a lot of stuff, except that it's completely insane and there's nothing even vaguely like a biological mechanism that would enable it to work. He tried testing it with molecules that substituted deuterium for hydrogen, which alters the spectroscopic signature -- but got mixed results.

Smell and taste are only distantly related as mechanisms (taste is actually several very different mechanisms, and that's well-documented). This suggests that there's even more to it than that. Does this bring Luca Turin back? Dunno. He seems to have abandoned smell research entirely.
The absolute claim, aside from being at home in a rant on HN, comes from a cursory glance at https://github.com/amzn, weighted by contributors and popularity, and compared to companies of similar size. Google, Microsoft and Facebook all build and maintain multiple open source projects that are hugely popular with people who use them outside of the company sandboxes. For example, people benefit from React without Facebook gaining much directly. (Facebook! If Facebook has any redeeming qualities, it's their open source contributions to the frontend ecosystem, although I promise you I could ascribe malicious intent to those as well...) Contrast that with Amazon. On their GitHub page, I see a few obscure projects amongst a bulbous array of AWS SDKs.

To the sibling comment that asked about Firecracker -- I think Firecracker is awesome, and I did mention that in my original complaint. They even created it themselves! Well, a team of amazing engineers in Romania did. I have no personal insight into the matter, but it seems like they operate relatively independently from the AWS profit machine. Good for them too, it's incredible software. But I'm sure if they were to tell the story of how they got buy-in at Amazon to open source it, the same themes would come up -- how does Amazon benefit from this? In the case of Firecracker, the more people test it / harden it / run Doom on it, the more value Amazon can provide on its serverless platform. So again, unlikely to be purely altruistic intentions... but that's not to say there's anything wrong with that. I just find it all a bit distasteful in aggregate.
It's still in Beta, but Jetpack Compose is really nice to work with IMO. If you have a real excuse for a greenfield rewrite, I'd give it a good look, especially if you can afford to wait at least a year before releasing for stuff like a11y to improve.
There's some nuggets of truth in here, but I am disappointed that this article sidesteps what I feel is the most important reason for startup success in 2020: easy and abundant access to cheap capital.

- Interest rates are at all time lows, borrowing is cheap

- The Fed's balance sheet is at an all-time high. The economy is flush with cash, particularly the investor / VC class

- This excess cash creates an (arguably artificial) wealth effect and drives an appetite for risk

- Large unicorn startups that are perpetual money losers continue to operate only because they are effectively subsidized by regular capital raises. Look no further than all the Silicon Valley darlings such as Uber, Netflix, AirBnb, Tesla, and so on. All of them would cease to exist without continued capital injection from secondary share offerings or VC raises

- These companies achieve growth and put pressure on the competition by offering their services below the real cost that would be needed to achieve profit, hence driving huge share price growth

- This share price growth attracts new investment from the momentum-chasing crowd, increasing appetite for subsequent secondaries, and then the cycle repeats

I don't mean to be cynical, but it's hard to see this ending well for some of the nouveau riche. Tech has been a great avenue to riches by offering real innovation in some cases, but the article's error-by-omission really gives the wrong impression.
The age of consent in some European countries is generally lower than the US, some as low as 14, most about 15 with some having 16¹. If we assume that the majority of citizens of such a country agree that their country has a reasonable age, would your response then be to “never associate or work with” anyone from that country?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent#/media/File:Age...