skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're a self described growth hacker

I don't describe myself as a "growth hacker" anywhere that I'm aware of.

> don't be surprised when a bunch of aspiring hackers/techies get annoyed when they see people who do bend the rules to their gain (financial or otherwise) despite having access to the worlds most prominent investors (read -> resources) and seemingly don't do their homework.

Not everything is so black and white. What is more likely is that some lawyer gave an opinion that Lambda School's offering could be interpreted as an educational loan and qualify as such (pretty clearly actually, given that the contract was written by a lawyer), and maybe even said that if they got sued here the remedy would likely be to just clarify the definition.

> Like does Lambda not have access to Wilson Sonsini lawyers like the rest of their cohort?

YC has in-house legal counsel now, and Lambda is an old enough company to have their own counsel. In any case, obviously a lawyer wrote the contract and gave an opinion that doesn't agree with your own expert legal opinion.

> Move fast and break things am I right?

Hopefully! We need a lot more of that in the world. More Zuckerbergs, more Travis Kalaniks. The more the better.
That's a recent edit: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1386810666221150210/
So, I'm getting the feeling that you might not be a regular at Waffle House.
How is that better than a wheeled drone dragging a giant orange extension cord behind it?

I'm not sure that's a great idea either, but flying brings more problems than it solves in this problem space.
The punch line is the public, unfortunately.
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Yes it's a big breakfast but if a normal diet is 2000-2500 calories per day, 820 for 1 meal doesn't seem that weird.
It seems to me that my comment you're replying to applies equally well in response to this...

I agree it's nice, painless, etc. I just wanted to be clear that it's not some novel ground-breaking GitHub feature, it's just a generic CI/CD SaaS feature. Not switch to/use GH Actions, but do this/have CI.
> The one I really don't like is "Always say less than necessary."

> I've never seen any good come from withholding necessary information.

Surely being selective with information is advantageous in negotiations?
If you put that on your CV, I’ll probably put your CV in the garbage. It’s one of the major red flags.

Along with: various flavours of monetization specialist; pimps; politicians; used car sales; basically all the same category of exploitation-oriented narcissists that will poison your brand and your culture, create nothing themselves, and ultimately destroy more intrinsic value than they vampire from others.

I’ve been around this industry for decades. Joe MacMillan is an archetype, not a parody character.
> They're not exactly the same as other public institutions, as SCOTUS has ruled numerous times.

I didn't say that they were exactly the same. Instead I am saying that there is not some "huge can of worms" that is opened on up this topic, if the supreme court rules in favor of the student in this case.

It is instead something that predictably might happen, and which will have predicable results that are in line with how things work in other examples.

So, in other words, the sky will not fall, and schools will not collapse under the weight of not being allowed to punish students for purely off campus speech.
The entire concept of evolution is built on survivor bias.
>Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical

"Oh, and while you differentiate, those of you on my warehouses don't forget to work 10 hour shifts and pee in bottles, so that I can get a few dollars more per hour from each disposable you while I offer my grand-man wisdom"
Decompression is another task equivalent to interpreting bytecode, and this similarity is well-known.
> "clean-living adults"

This is not an ordinary term-of-art in pharmaceutical research.
How so? It is the same thing as advertising. Roku is benefiting greatly from Netflix being on their platform as well. Netflix could ditch Roku and say they only support X other devices. But they both need each other and so they agree to something that makes sense for both parties.

Anyway it is pointless, because Roku actually charges companies to put a button on their remote[1]. They supposedly charge $1 for the button per customer.

https://mashable.com/article/roku-button-home-screen-adverti...
So if I can unlock my phone with FaceID + Apple Watch + Mask. Then in theory, wouldn't ANY person with a mask be able to unlock my phone? If you steal the phone at the right time, and unlock the phone while wearing a mask and still be in proximity to the victim wearing the watch. You will have an unlocked iPhone at your disposal. Quickly disable all of the security features, remove the SIM, and now you have a $1000+ item you can fence.
Note that "investors" in this case also includes massive pension funds. This isn't the type of entity that most people have in mind, but it's one of the most pervasive in California, especially in San Francisco.

I think the average person thinks of individual investors (flippers, rich foreign buyers) when they hear "investors". Some of the buyers belong to this group, but most don't.
>news articles synthesize about his statements as statements made by him

Musk promised the coast to coast drive in 2017:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13341100/tesla-self-driv...

Then admitted he couldn't do it in 2017:

https://www.autonews.com/article/20180208/MOBILITY/180209770...

This isn't the media delivering a dishonest commentary. These are his words.
> such as being asked to favor Google products in Roku search results.

Anyone else find it alarming that google has no problem with strong-arming partners into prefering their search results?

Kinda makes you wonder about what determines Google's own search results, right?

Does Google really want us wondering that?
Hard not to feel like we’re seeing a swoon in self driving like we saw in crypto back in 2017 and 2018.

They hype got ahead of the tech.
I won't presume the relative weighting of motivations, there's a notable blog post here [0] that elaborates on Moxie's dislike for federation. E.g.:

> So long as federation means stasis while centralization means movement, federated protocols are going to have trouble existing in a software climate that demands movement as it does today.

While my initial reaction was "omg, I hate it", I don't 100% disagree. I think one of the biggest drivers for adoption in Matrix world would be a streamlined on-boarding to a central server (matrix.org?), so that it "just works" by default. Like the front page of Reddit, get people in the ecosystem, then they can discover the subreddits and engage more deeply with the platform.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Why did it spread so much?
>A problem that can be solved with money is not really a problem.

He means money that you have and can spare.
The language was misleading because the law isn't clear. Lambda isn't in charge of which loans are and are not dischargeable in bankruptcy and it seems they thought that the type of loan they offered was not.

You should be asking why every school loan is not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
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The total ETH created does depend on the amount staked. Here's a table[1] and formula[2]. The total reward doesn't go up linearly with the number of validators, but it does go up. Lowering the incentive for attacks like you mention is a reason for that.

And while having fewer validators gives you a somewhat higher reward per validator, it's still that case that all validators get the same reward in any given block. Everyone is equally competitive. Someone who reinvests will get higher absolute rewards than they got before, but they pay the price of locking up more capital.

In the same way, a miner could reinvest profits into more mining equipment, but that doesn't make them more competitive, just bigger. Their profit margin will be the same (barring economies of scale that don't exist in staking).

[1] https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/ethereum-2.0/eth-2.0...

[2] https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/dev/specs/phas...
Here's a list of initdb-wrappers I've come across before:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hirsute/man1/pg_virtuale... pg_virtualenv (shipped with postgresql-common in Debian and Ubuntu)

https://crates.io/crates/postgresfixture (for Rust)

https://launchpad.net/postgresfixture (for Python)

https://github.com/tk0miya/testing.postgresql

https://github.com/TJC/Test-postgresql
Unfortunately for you we don't have time to care about your feelings. I've got a daughter who is going to have to live in this mess.
Passports are federal while driver licenses are issued through the state. If you're suggesting that the public key be linked to a passport, then I'm guessing quite a few states will oppose that on "state's rights" standing.
mRNA vaccines is already one of those
Security questions in general are a farce. I've started generating random passwords for answers and storing them in my password manager. that at least helps me feel slightly more secure about how ridiculous security questions are.
It seems like cameras with decent sensors start around $500, though most cluster around $700+. I sort of wonder if no one has had the chutzpah to test whether there's a market for $500 webcams. I was personally a little surprised when I went remote three years ago that a "premium" webcam only costs $200, and looks like shit. Based on the number of people with fancy mirrorless setups now, I suspect a $500+ turnkey webcam could do well.

For your specific situation, a used Panasonic G7 and a $20 Chinese capture card would probably work if you're interesting.
Link to the post: https://web.archive.org/web/20190703224616/https://news.ycom...

It's also weird that the post is still up, but the username was changed from austenallred to another user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502774
HN limits titles to 80 chars, so the submitter had no choice but to use a different title. The edit looks to me like it was done in good faith, i.e. was just trying to neutrally fit the limit. If someone comes up with a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Where did the post you reply to mention "racists and sexists"?

The post mentions people afraid to speak up, like Gen-X members educated by super progressive people from the real student revolts in 1970.

Except that this education is not sufficient to keep up with the arbitrary word games of rich elites, who incidentally do not care about worker's rights.
That's why there's two buttons labeled "Allow" and "Don't Allow".
>Have you read a single page of any IPCC report or any major climate science publication?

As a matter of fact I have, though not in a few years. The papers and the commentary are both far less certain in their assertions than you would ever guess judging by the common fervor against "denialists".

>Like, "plants like CO2 so more CO2 might be good" is naive, elementary school reasoning. You might as well say "cardio exercise is good for the heart, so maybe medically inducing tachycardia is good for me". It's a complete non-sequitur with no empirical grounding.

No, it's based on studies of modern [0] and prehistoric plants. The Carboniferous period for example had CO2 levels comparable to today's and an explosion of coal forming plant growth.

>The rhetoric you're spewing is uninformed and dangerous. Even if you are exactly right (and well-founded scientific arguments would suggest you are definitely not), you are speaking completely out of turn without any evidentiary basis.

The "rhetoric" I'm spewing is scientifically rational skepticism. The current science as practiced is one sided, primarily because of reactions like yours, which equate differing opinions with heresy. Climate science is far from settled and so called denialism is nowhere near the same level as flat earth/chemtrails/antivax skepticism to which it is dismissively compared.

Also you haven't made a single argument against my point that we are looking at a tiny fraction of a periodic signal and presuming a trend - and that's because there fundamentally is no argument against it.

0. https://www.noaa.gov/news/study-global-plant-growth-surging-...
Before that Period Tesla had low share growth, after 2017 there was catchup.

Also, revenue doesn't capture the whole story. Share price indicates something about longer run growth potential and margin development.
Do you have apps installed with notifications?
Can this be used with https://pgtap.org/? How well does they work in practice?
If you're going to flag my comments which are formatted in the exact same style and voice as the comment I'm responding to, please at least attempt to be consistent by flagging those comments as well.
There's a funny thing about articles like this. There is zero overlap between people who actually have any control over this matter and the people who hold this opinion by nature of the fact understanding enough about how businesses work to understand why this makes no sense is exclusive to to being in a role to implement this suggestion.

So basically it doesn't matter how many people believe this because the people who hold the opinion have zero overlap with the group of people who practically make decisions about CEO roles.

I guess maybe, although unlikely, temporarily there could be an overlap between the two groups but that situation would quickly resolve itself.
Same feeling for passenger-carrying drones/quadcopters/etc. Not gonna happen for decades in any commercially-viable way.
At least where I learned to drive, not only was stopping to look both ways at railroad crossings taught in driving classes at school, it was part of the written test to get a permit/license, as well.
I use one of those fancy video setups. It consists of a tripod, the camera body & lens, dummy battery for power, and USB-C cable from camera to the mac, no jerry-rigging required. It's a Canon EOS R (a mirrorless camera). Modern cameras have gotten extremely good at this, there's no need for HDMI video cap boxes and so forth anymore.
Given how ubiquitous your problem is, I would be suspicious that security alerts are going off because you have a real security problem. I've seen similar problems when a piece of malware keeps trying to inject itself into various things, and Gatekeeper is catching it. The variety of places where you're getting alerts is a testament to the persistence of the malware, and not the fact that everything is actually broken.
Not necessarily. The chain of trust doesn't require such a drastic deployment.

In Europe, it's common place to be able to subscribe to loans, or similar contracts online. However, the legislation is VERY strict about requiring very tough MFA-authentication.

Say for example you would want to subscribe to a new credit card. You would either have to go personally to do it (which means they can verify your identity), or you can do it from your Online portal. HOWEVER, if you choose to do entirely online, you HAVE to use your phone as a 2nd factor to authorize the operation.

I'm not saying there's no identity theft. There absolutely is. But they are extremely strict about authenticating each and every (considerable) move.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, a PKI for the US. government is not necessary (in fact, given the time and resistance it took to deploy SECURE ID, I'd say it's dead in the waters right now), and would only require legislators not in the bed with credit card companies, to setup and enforce strict rules for authenticating orders / proceedings.
If I get this straight you're claiming the war on drugs is chiefly a means of oppressing people of color. For fifty years. Over both Republican and Democratic presidencies and Congress and Senate's.

Do you think they're all racist and trying to oppress people of color or do you think maybe there's something else to it?

It's pretty obvious that can't be true right? Surely we can agree on that?
On the one hand, like you I don't really care for voice commands in a remote. In the other, I really liked (and miss now that I have an Amazon firestick device) the built in CEC control of TV volume, and also the headphone jack. I also liked that it had a bit more weight to it. It was easier to find in the covers/sheets of my bed when I would occasionally lose track of it.
The above response is a great example of spin, or if you prefer, this nice euphemism: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/polishing+a+turd
I don't think schools should get involved in off campus speech or activities. However, we are seeing more and more of it. This case isn't even that extreme compared to others. There are people being suspended from actual school for non-threatening photos with guns or even just liking a photo of a gun.

On the other hand, I don't see the problem with cutting a student from an extracurricular for actions that contradict its intended purpose or standards. If you're saying f the school and f cheerleading and the goal of the cheer squad is to promote school spirit and pride... (she wasn't suspended, given detention, or kicked off the softball team) I know I would have been benched or cut if I talked about throwing a game or not trying my hardest and those statements made it back to the coach. It's not like they were monitoring social media for this.

I'll probably get downvoted, but I guess that's the cost of exercising my free speech.
I.e., Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
One place I worked at had a politics channel, designed to keep the chat out of the general spaces. Mainly because the team worked across the world and politics were US-centric first and UK-centric second, and nobody wanted a ping on one of the global chat channels only to get a link complaining about a sleazy American politician or the debate on Brexit as if none of the rest of the world (and the politics there) existed.

As it happened, we noticed the few people with even vaguely right-wing opinions or ideals were dogpiled by a much larger contingent of left-wing people. It was an ugly sight, and I wasn't happy with that at all. It eventually settled down and the diversity of opinion opened up enough for people to have a sensible chat, but those first few months were utterly fucking shameful. It was about then that I stopped identifying as left wing and decided that there isn't a side to pick unless you've made it who you are.

I still disagreed with most of the conservative viewpoints, but disagreement is fine. A bit of healthy back and forth, get another drink, and then change the topic.
So... we have a half century of homogenous high quality temperature then. Does the good data we do have not support the same conclusion? Seems like it does to me.
I remember seeing this announced on Slashdot in 2004:

https://games.slashdot.org/story/04/04/15/1239203

It was an impressive feat. I remember a lot of people complaining that it wasn't very impressive because it used DirectX, so it "wasn't really 96Kb". I was just upset that it absolutely chugged on my computer at the time, speeding along at an entire frame per second if I was lucky. But it was still awesome. Playing it later on a more powerful machine, it was definitely a fascinating experience. I only skimmed the video so far, but I really can't wait to give it a proper watch tonight!
The reason that books for toddlers lack chapters is that authors believe that toddlers aren't ready to comprehend chapters, not that it is an immutable truth of the universe that humans can't handle a separated narrative structure in writing until they've orbited the sun five or six times. Soviet children started Pushkin right when they started school- when I asked my Russian teachers for good examples of Russian children's books, they said that the concept didn't really exist when they were children, because they started studying real literature pretty much as soon as they started school.

The idea that there are "basics" that can be safely ignored once learned is patently false. Everything I've read from great performers in any field- piano, cooking, mathematics, physics, etc- contains constant encouragement to return to and refine one's understanding of the fundamental skills of the practice. I did indeed spend a long time practicing addition before anyone informed me that it was time to "move on" to multiplication, and it wasn't until I graduated college with a degree in aerospace engineering that I had read a few books about the history of mathematics and found out that the manipulation of Arabic numerals via "addition" or "multiplication" was simply shorthand for counting, which itself is a fundamental mathematical art. What was taught to me as "multiplication" is actually "one particular algorithmic notation for representing the counting of multiple sets", not "objective mathematical law".

Had I disabused myself of the notion that there was any part of mathematics that I could "stop thinking about" because they were "little", I would have made a much better showing in school.
I'm starting to appreciate this sentiment. The way most ML success stories are presented, you'd think it really is all a case of finding enough data, and let the computer learn to extract something useful from it.

That is not the hard part.

The hard part, is finding a dataset that is amenable to the training process. Or at the very least, determining if a collection has any 'educational' value at all.

Then, by the time you get to that point, you're probably already looking at metadata, or a simple pattern that could possibly be encoded in a database query.

I have some faith in some of these new discoveries (Alphafold is a remarkable case study), but in many cases, the effectiveness of ML seems to be overstated.
Is Lambda the only school that's using this loan model?
iPad for Data Science (2021)
I couldn't agree more. The feeling you are describing is felt particularly acutely by individuals who are junior, or for one reason or another (low self esteem, flagging mental health, membership of a group that experiences disproportionate marginalisation in the workplace), and in my experience it subtly but profoundly warps developers' motivations and drives. Tasks can become all about rushing to get some progress made so you have something to say in stand-up or the weekly showcase, and not about actually patiently thinking problems through at whatever level of detail is appropriate at their org scale.
Those were already well underway.
The language violates the new California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL), which took effect this year

At the risk of being misconstrued as defending predatory practices, it sounds like they quickly reached an agreement to comply with legal stuff that probably didn't exist when they wrote the language that's being updated.
I've noticed this as well - for house rentals in my area, the size seems to scale with price, and there doesn't seem to be anyway to scale up quality (there are some exceptions to this, but it's mostly true).
Just wait until self-driving "personality" becomes part of a car company's brand identity. I suspect that we will see no lack cars that are designed to be terrible drivers. Of course they will call it "confident", "assertive", perhaps for some brands even "masculine". Cars could become even more civilian tanks thank that already are. I desperately hope that I'm wrong.
It is reasonable to assume bad faith, given that all available evidence is that Austen is a pathologically dishonest sociopath who PG has personally coached to ignore valid criticism unless the critics are white billionaires.

Lambda is bad. Austen is one of the worst motherfuckers on the planet. Captures far more value than his piece of shit “school” creates by tricking desperate people.

Fuck Austen, and fuck Paul graham for personally encouraging his dishonest sociopathy.

Worthless pieces of shit, both of them.