skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iran's proxies have fought against:

1) US, the illegal invader actively destabilizing the region for two straight decades+.

2) ISIS, the brutal Islamist neo-Caliphate birthed from the destabilization brought by (1).

3) KSA, currently bombing Yemeni civilian infrastructure into the largest humanitarian crisis in the world using weapons and support from (1).

4) Israel, the apartheid nuclear ethnostate that has abused a captive population for generations with the support and protection of (1).
The policy page you listed said no spamming. Your blog complaint says you spammed.
I understand the sentiment, but even with the bailouts 2.5 million people lost their jobs and we continue to see second order effects of the crisis, like deferred home purchases, declining birth rates, low or nonexistent retirement savings, and political instability.

Imagine how bad it would be if there was a total collapse of the financial system. That's what the situation was before the bail outs.
Right. And what does any of that have to do with work? I don't care what sex you like, what genitals you have or what you were born with. Keep it to yourself, please.

For the record, my politics are firmly left of centre so I don't appreciate getting the "right wing" rubber stamp that is so often dished out to silence people you don't like.
These machines are a complete joke for anyone doing “Pro” work. Endless thermal throttling driving CPU frequencies down to 2.4Ghz, low GPU performance, it’s utter bullshit.

I’ve spent $5k on maxed out machines for my engineers, and it’s been a complete mess. Half of them have had to switch to a Windows machine as their primary so they can work without staring at a compiler spinning its wheels.

Maybe an Mx Pro will live up to the legacy of the 2012 era, but Apple’s obsession with thinness and mediocre cooling doesn’t give me much hope for pro users.
It's really simple. California has a housing supply problem. If taxes are never raised, housing supply is even more suppressed. Owners have zero incentive to sell.

Here's an example. My mother inherited a beach house in Carpinteria. My grandparents purchased it for $14k in 1924. It's worth north of $10M. Annual taxes are under $5k. She can rent this out during summer months for over $50k/mo. Why on earth would she ever sell? She has an asset that appreciates at or above index funds and pays amazing dividends. This is an extreme example but it works the same at every level.

Prop 13 encourages people to accumulate housing / property and removes basic market economics. Artificially low housing supply leads to artificially inflated housing prices.
> I feel like you have to push back against things instead of just going with it.

In a bad startup you typically can’t ‘push back’ meaningfully. If the management doesn’t understand how to treat people well, people pushing back won’t educate them, and employees have to get work done to justify their presence rather than fighting battles all the time.
you’re making Bezos richer while you get rich yourself. the 2nd part is important
The Apple/Google Search Relationship as an Economic Template
> The incumbent homeowners voted themselves massive returns. And they felt self righteous while they were doing it to boot.

We'll see. They're millionaires on paper. If there's one thing about unsophisticated people and investments, they always cash out when it's too late.
Apple is just awful with external displays in general. I’ve yet to find a monitor/Mac combo that doesn’t have issues.

They really need to put some focus into it because Windows really makes macOS look bad in this regard.
Sign all emails with GPG. Display public keys of each recruiter on website.
I guess they are no longer a virgin.
tip: IIRC you can set partitions to specific "folders" rather than drive letters by using Windows' Disk Management tool.
The water/sewer/gas/electric service you refer to is frequently supplied by a co-op, even in urban areas. I get my own electricity from a co-op. Natural gas is provided by a private company but there are also co-ops offering it in the area. Water and sewer are traditionally handled by the city, but are funded through service fees rather than taxes—there's really no practical reason why they couldn't be provided the same way. I can see the attraction in bundling everything together in hopes of cutting down on administrative overhead, but having the same organization empowered to impose taxes and regulations also supply utility services creates a huge conflict of interest and stifles competition.
Thanks for the explanation. I was about to say everything you mentioned was circumstantial: the victim said he’d left, so someone seeing him enter and leave adds nothing.

I think you buried the lede:

> They even found moderate support for his DNA on the murder weapon.

Assuming the weapon was an old tool, it would be suspicious if there wasn’t DNA from third parties on it.
Mandatory mention to Louis Rossman right to repair campaign.

https://www.fighttorepair.org/
I understood it as: the channel was not dropped and recreated anew, but straight taken over.
Lumbar as a whole has minimally doubled during the last year[1]. A lot of people are moving to Texas, which raises demand, which raises prices. There is also a current lumbar shortage, which makes house building unpredictable when you have to plan 1+ years out.

You don't just go from 0 to a house. There is usually about a year of designing/planning which have to be approved and meet national and local code, numerous inspections, approvals and permits before ground is broken. Most people who move buy an existing house because they want to move "now." Out of all of the places you've lived, how many did you have custom built vs moving into an existing structure?

Prices are rising pretty quick in Arizona and Idaho as well. Idaho was the quickest growing state in 2020[2]. Those are also hotbeds of people moving to them. Most are trying to escape California, Chicago and NY. CA and NY lost population and even recently had their US House seats reduced as a result[3].

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/04/27/lumber-prices-are-up-232-and-...

[2] https://www.kxly.com/idaho-leads-country-with-amount-of-peop...

[3] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/20...
I’m UK-based (English, specifically) and definitely hear it on the second syllable in that usage
Regardless of the subject matter, I think it’s good policy to do what arXiv does with retractions: they become a new, empty version, alongside a corresponding explanation, but all previous versions remain on the record.
> you can't design real-world systems that way in OOP languages

In most OOP languages. Out of many different languages which implement various interpretations of how OO should work, I found Io to be the purest, and for some odd reasons the most practical, implementation of object orientation.

In Io, you get two primitives: objects with slots and messages (which are also objects, of course). There's literally nothing else in the language. There's a bit of syntactic sugar, or rather, there can be a bit of syntactic sugar if you want, because the parser is an object you can customize on runtime, but otherwise it's just objects and messages. Message contents can be passed by name (lazily), and you can transform messages in any way you want before they get send. Or after. Taken together, you get a run-time equivalent of Lisp macros (Io is also homoiconic, btw). Add to it the fact you can reify interpreter state as first-class objects, and you get incredibly expressive language based on extremely small set of concepts. I think allowing messages to be first-class values able to exist without specyfing a target is the key here. It's also what Erlang does, with the difference being the sending and receiving messages in Erlang is hardcoded in BEAM, while it's 100% customizable in Io.

My favourite example of the power of Io:

someObj someMsg(some, args)

this is a simple message send. It will try to look up `someMsg` slot in the target `someObj`, will traverse the prototype chain if needed, and will activate the content of the slot if it's a block of code.

someObj @(someMsg(some, args)) # outer parens optional

this also a simple message send, where the message name is `@`. `@` is defined in `Object`, root of all prototype chains, and it: suspends evaluation of `someMsg`, saves a pair of `someObject`+`someMsg` in a queue in a Scheduler object and returns immediately. In other words, this time the message is delivered asynchronously, and executed the next time some Coroutine (including main) yields. It's not a built-in primitive, you can implement `@` yourself pretty easily.

...anyway, when I hear about message passing, and think about it being "done right" it's "Io and Erlang" that come to mind. Very different implementations, but they both work exceptionally well.
All linguistic rules are arbitrary cultural distinction. They're used for error correction and conveying subtly different meanings.

In the "big red ball" vs. "red big ball" case it can be deliberately used to change the way the term parses. The "normal" one means a ball that is both red and big. The abnormal one implies that "big ball" is lexically a single object, perhaps a proper noun, and that the "red" modifier is being applied to it.
5/22 in stamps: Trevi Fountain, Wagner, Wright brothers granted patent, Hergé
"We chose this area because we believed it should be archeologically interesting based on XYZ. However, we searched through ABC methods and found nothing there" would be valuable for the future. Maybe XYZ isn't as good as we though, maybe ABC couldn't find it. Maybe now some other sod in the future won't try that location.

Not as valuable as a discovery, but very far off zero value. Yet the reward in academia would be near-zero.
I have personally not found the staff/principal level very enjoyable or satisfying. You end up being a hub for the larger team, helping everyone do their jobs. I'm not just referring to the coders.

It's very draining and I resent that the industry classifies this type of work as technical IC work. A small subset of these higher "IC" roles do get to focus on technical IC work, but for most people a staff/principal role is basically going to be that of a co-manager with no authority.

I've been considering down-leveling or getting into some software niche where technical expertise is actually valued and existentially necessary to the business.
Most confusing imho is Ctrl+C means Copy in one context, and SIGINT in another.
At the end of the day it is a lot harder to come up with an idea, find market traction, convince people to invest in you than it is to become the third employee.

Additionally, a 100M exit isn't always a win. It depends on how much money was invested / spent to get there as well.
It really depends on the city, but I'd say in most major metro areas in the U.S. average home price is going to be $300,000 or so.
Seriously. Even with one external monitor I get things like windows "disappearing" into some in-between land, wallpaper getting messed up... It's shocking.
The current speculation has nothing to do with it being created in a lab.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/lab-leak-t...
Show HN: Real Piano Keyboard
The roadmap code names (lake, cove, etc) are confusing. I have access to roadmaps, etc, via my employer and I can personally only recall the code names for a few generations ahead and behind.

The marketing names aren't much better. They sound like a frequent flier program (bronze, silver, gold, platinum) with seemingly meaningless numbers added. You'd think with so many generations and so many configurations, they could come up with a scheme that made sense. I'd name things like:

$GENERATION-$SOCKETS-$CORES-$FREQ

So for a 7th generation Xeon supporting 2 sockets worth of UPI, with 32 cores and a 2.9Ghz clock speed, you'd call it:

Xeon 7-2-32-29

Please Intel? Please?
Poverty is relative but those who are not poor tend to view it as absolute. So anyone who has any apparent trappings of being well-off, such as a car, mobile phone or a big TV, obviously isn't poor and is a scammer or criminal. Never mind that, in this day and age, a car and a cellphone are pretty much essential for getting work and a TV (big, small or in between) is the cheapest form of entertainment for filling your non-work time.
This is why the corporate punishment zealots should be kept in check by sane laws. Giving the state the power to execute people can, did and will go wrong and is too abusable.
For example, soon after the Iranian government was overthrown by the UK puppet "shah", within a year butchers who were regarded as brutes suddenly have been delegated to positions of executioners, killing previous government officials.

Death is irreversible and what would be the correct punishment for the judge or prosecutor here?

If you ever think judges, state attorney's and prosecutors are humans of elevated morals, then I know where you can buy bridges for a good price.

To use the state apparatus when sending someone to death row after interpreting "beyond reasonable suspicion" in such a liberal, reckless way is pretty much first degree murder.
Monetary fine will not reanimate the dead and is footed by taxpayer money.
The death penalty is a ridiculous and archaic concept, it is no better than blood feuds between families or gangs, just applied by the state instead.
It should have no place in a civil legal system.

Someone said Stalin and Hitler barely avoided execution. Sure thing, they were some monsters, but who elevated them to power? People with the same mentality who welcome the death penalty. Neither Hitler nor Stalin would have ever happened if they did not have wide support from coward and dumb citizens along with whatever financed them.
Stupidity and cowardice are not fixed via death penalty.
I decided to check on this, and it would appear that it was more of an ISIS thing that anti-Muslim Americans falsely projected out across the entire group. However, there have been at least a few hundred state-facilitated executions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran).

One thing I was not aware of before today is that Iran is second only to Thailand in sex reassignment surgeries, which I found very surprising. Apparently it may be done in some cases to avoid persecution of same-sex relationships, but the fact that it's not only tolerated but partly paid for by the state is pretty mind blowing. There's always more detail when you look closer at issues like this. Thanks for prompting me to look it up.
No, but if you're not poor, you can not live in an expensive urban area within walking distance of your minimum wage jobs. If you are not poor, you can buy 10lbs of potatos and store the excess in a cool, dark cabinet until you eat them rather than buying today's potato at the convenience store on your way home for a 100% markup. If you are not poor, you can renovate and install insulation so that you are not paying to heat or cool the neighborhood.

Metaphors can be tricky.
Amazon pulling down sellers after fake reviews exposed
This seems really obvious. People demand citations for bold claims, precisely because those claims are hard to believe.

The problem is that some fields don’t do replication studies. In such fields these highly cited papers with dubious findings are never debunked, because you know economists to pick on one specific group, don’t do replication studies.
> A good PE will help incrementally resolve/improve the above situations.

100% agree. What I posted above is an idealistic perspective in which you get to greenfield an application from zero. Most real world situations involve some degree of legacy domain implementations which must be bridged into the future.

Being able to rebuild the ship from the inside while it is sailing to the new world is an incredibly valuable skill set. Many developers get frustrated and demand a total rewrite (I used to do this). It would be really hard to make forward progress if you start off with a new ship in Spain every time you encountered the slightest bit of friction.
Haha, sorry yes you’re quite right, should be “despair”. I’ll blame autocorrect but it’s still quite funny.
> if someone needs to have this kind of availability, it means that something in the company is not working and needs to be fixed.

The crazy thing is, they think they can just throw manhours at bad planning and somehow make it work.

You can literally plan well, have a good life and still come out ahead of these chaotic organizations that make everybody run in circles out of pure panic.

I have seen this so often in film projects: people believe by exploiting themselves, their crew and their cast they somehow "extract" more value and magically make it work. And that one one the point, relexad, but well-planned project will always achieve better results. Because oh wonder: crews and casts that are not overworked and that use their maximum potential where it matters instead of spreading it out over the whole project will always produce better results.
Thunderbird is sadly not on par with the Mac alternatives. It has heaps of longstanding problems, and I didn’t even know it had a calendar.
Many of the things I think I would enjoy about working for a startup are actually the qualities I enjoy about working on a small team. Not at startups retain the small team mentality for long. Not all small teams are at startups.

Plenty of large companies build small teams for new ideas but they too have the problem of often not staying small for long. Empire building is a hell of a drug. But you can often see this coming and I’ve known a couple people who were very good at moving horizontally within a company every few years to avoid most of these sorts of problems.
I feel like you didn't read or listen to the content. Naval is not suggesting you have to be an investor to get rich.

But you do have to do something that gives you leverage, like starting a company. You're not going to get rich renting your time to an employer (unless you get lucky with stock options, or investing your income, but that's back to the point about leverage.)
I'm actually sort-of familiar with this, as I have family that lives all around there.

1) Prices have gone up, but not nearly as much as places where supply is much more constrained (i.e. the bay area or NYC metro area).

2) Even if there is 'unlimited land', the land closest to the city centers where most of the employment is located is still limited. A cheaper house 3 hours away from your job doesn't help someone all that much.

3) Texas absolutely has lots of policies that do things like limit housing density. Many of the huge suburban tracts being developed have home owner's associations that enforce a variety of policies like the ones discussed earlier (enforce uniformity in terms of lot size, minimum house size, parking, etc), as well as limiting your ability to do things like rent or subdivide your property

4) You just need the population to be increasing faster than the housing supply to have a 'supply issue'. This last year has both seen a lot of raw material supply issues (and labor issues) due to the pandemic, and a lot of people also trying to relocate (also due to the pandemic). Sometimes temporary housing prices increases are unavoidable while supply and demand adjust, but long term policy decisions can definitely limit supply and force prices higher.

Another commenter also pointed out that low federal interest rates generally promote asset price inflation (as buyers are frequently bidding based on their ability to carry a 30-year monthly mortgage payment, so lower interest rates can almost directly increase home values when people are bidding against each other).
Even then, if it had been executed flawlessly, you can only expect that search term frequency and violence remain correlated ceteris paribus, i.e., when all else is the same. The two time periods are clearly different, so how the hell did it even get published?
I guess you haven't worked at a dysfunctional startup.

Dude...there are all kinds of startups, as there are all kinds of other types of companies. Good and bad. With incompetent or competent bosses.

There are plenty of people who fuck around at startups. Plenty.
I personally as a BS holder only along with a (at the time) high school senior published a paper in a top 6 NLP conference. I had no help or assistance from any pH.d or institution.

Maybe not quite as prestigious as nature, but NLP is pretty huge and the conference I got into has average h index of I think 60+

Proof: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.argmining-1.1/
I've recently been listening to the "History of English Podcast". It's a deep dive into the evolution of the English language starting from its PIE roots onward. He does a great job explaining how many of the the odd rules of English came about. Highly recommended if you're into that kind of thing.
Is this in reference to something?

I did not ask for absurd. I asked what they thought was absurd.
Are there VC firms that invest labor instead of direct capital? It seems they could have a group of amazing, employed devs ready to hit the ground running, then continue on if the VC firm continues to invest. They could train the next tier of tech talent when the company could pay more competitive salaries, then step back to go to the next investment. This VC firm could give real equity in the firm to the techies, meaning the technologist could also benefit in the upside of whatever unicorns the firm invested in...
Cardano provides several important components for real life applications, e.g. identity solutions (Atala Prism).

Germany is seeking to set up a decentralized education system. Identity wallets will be part of such a solution. I tried to get in contact with the Cardano Foundation to participate in the prototyping phase but they didn't react. However, it's exactly a use Case for Atala Prism.

Germany's education ministry announcement (in German): https://www.bmbf.de/de/neue-bekanntmachung-zum-aufbau-einer-...

I see massive potential for Cardano based solutions. Hopefully the companies behind Cardano scale up their partnership departments.
> Why should a working persons age or living arrangement cause a devaluation of the work they are doing?

No, but their living arrangement does affect whether it's possible to live on that wage, which is what GP was talking about.
Here's another take by Wittgenstein from the preface of the Philosophical Remarks:

"This book is written for such men as are in sympathy with its spirit. This spirit is different from the one which informs the vast stream of European and American civilization in which all of us stand. That spirit expresses itself in an onwards movement, in building ever larger and more complicated structures; the other in striving after clarity and perspicuity in no matter what structure. The first tries to grasp the world by way of its periphery -- in its variety; the second at its centre -- in its essence. And so the first adds one construction to another, moving on and up, as it were, from one stage to the next, while the other remains where it is and what it tries to grasp is always the same."

I can't help but feel that this description of the "vast stream" captures the current trend in most of software development and academia quite well...
The correction helped me understand the comment. There may also be non-native speakers or people using translators.