skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8.8.8.8 - google's dns. More reliable, lower ping loss than cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 in my experience.
This is india specific, I chase startups which are best bet at implementing govt policy or is it a problem that I am facing.

1. One was recruiting phase as median age of India is low and adds overwhelming number of new workers every day. Google uses it.
2. Second one was a fintech during digital india phase.
3. SAAS with global sales and high scale (rpm)

All three were hard and very fullfilling. I made a lot of money with fintech one and learned a lot on engineering at scale with third one.

In the first one, I made lifelong friends and got to meet important people, attended VC talks and part of decisions like hiring PM as new grad, VC was very involved with CEO about it. Something my salary could not quantify.

If I were to do it again, do it well with patience rather than arrogance and anger against founders.
> what founders risk in terms of opportunity costs and lower wages is usually only slightly more than very early stage employees

Maybe this is different for others, but my co-founder and I spent 2 years bootstrapping before we got our first customer. We gave up 2 years of wages and consumed our savings to do this with no assurance of success, and even after that first customer it was another full year before we had any sense of stability.

Years of time and money. I consider that quite a bit more risk than our first employees who got stable income, healthcare, 401k's, etc. on day one.
Yes, society has chosen not to deal with poverty like an emergency. It chose.
And Australia can afford it. Money is just a construct! but seriously it is and feeding people is cheaper than building useless submarines for the navy and we're not stopping that.

And just on your point, the government has discretion over it's own spending, it didn't need to vote to give people money like in the states. The Australian government can turn on and off the tap when it likes it's not restricted as heavily as you'd think.
Of course it is a joke, it is Terry Pratchett after all.

But there is a serious problem behind it.

For example, with food, if you have enough money you can afford to buy large quantities and take advantage of discounts.

For rent, it you have money, deposits won't be a problem, and landlord may be more willing to give you interesting offers. Poor people are at risk of not being able to pay the rent, and landlords have to account for it. You may even buy and not pay the rent.

For utilities, if you have money, you can buy more efficient heaters and appliances, better isolation, maybe even solar panels and stuff like that which may be profitable after a few years.
Death penalty is barbarism.
Also it's impossible for me to tell whether my below market base salary startup offer from a seed/series A startup is at market or not. Especially the equity bit, is 1% equity enough for the second employee(and engineer)? Especially when I am taking a 50% cut on base salary in addition to losing some very real liquid stocks.
I believe you missed the “in good faith” part of his comment, and responded with vitriol and the implication that you were parent commentor’s moral superior. Tiresome: do better so we can all have a nicer website to visit.
I know some people that do low paid work as an extra, not to live on it. $280/week is over 10 times my salary at my first full time job and I was supposed to live on it. It's all relative, without enough context it is meaningless.
Fun with Maps and Code
I think this is a bit different. They’re exporting something that’s illegal to use locally. It’s like if the government of a dry county was distilling liquor.
JFK’s record with women and Trump’s are not too different.
Because it is ruled by a party that rivals Nazi Germany. Because they treat foreigners like trash, except if you’re white, and especially if you’re black. Because they are the most racist nation on Earth. Because once you get inside its borders, they will permanently have more data on you than Facebook and all social medias combined. Because your every move will be monitored, physical or digital. Should I go on?
People made vastly more money just sitting around in their houses in the past couple years than I made in my job as an "essential" worker over the past decade.

This is not an accident. It’s a result of deliberate policy choices. The incumbent homeowners voted themselves massive returns. And they felt self righteous while they were doing it to boot.
Intel's entire numbering & naming scheme is a disaster. It's time for a clean-slate marketing department.
"However, the test also "found moderate support" that blood on Lee's left shoe could have belonged to Reese.[17]"

They did find the victims DNA on Lee's shoe. That would need to be admitted as well.
Nox Archaist is a new RPG for the classic Apple II platform
They're securing the network and being rewarded for it. You might not like it, but it's hardly 'nothing useful at all'.
Automated tests.

The books by Harry Percival on this are good.

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It
It does to me.

Their support system and rigid structure is unparalleled for such a large scale in the US. Their funding church is very wealthy, and the discipline churns out people that are very effective in high growth industries, which is just a convenient side effect relevant right now.
I am not familiar with tooling designed to allow non-programmers to deploy. For a programmer, a single binary is trivial stuff. My point being you can drop a golang in any linux environment and it will just run. It doesn't get simpler than that.
The game is deeply connected to philosophy in China (Chinese philosophy), as in placing value of a mystical nature on mastering the game. AlphaGO made the pitch of deep wisdom can be found in go questionable. Just my take.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/in-the-a...
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d51544f3341444e/index.html
> Can we ban medium posts on HN already?

I've been asking this for years.
Serious question: How is this supposed to be used?

Are you supposed to print it out? (Any 'security' pointless)

Are you supposed to email it/upload it when booking tickets for travel? How is it being checked on the other end that it's real and not a mockup? (My guess: they're not)

Cryptographic document signatures are supposed to solve exactly this issue, but I'll eat my hat if they're being used in any meaningful way - even post 'fix'.

Edit: I'm half tempted to build a quick site to generate your own covid vaccine 'certificate' to print at home to highlight the issue...
'The Invisible Network' Pod: NASA LunaNet – a new architecture for lunar comms
Well, to be clear, this is a conclusion I've seen people explicitly draw - I'm not just making it up. There was a famous incident at Coinbase where a request to discuss an important political issue spiraled outwards and outwards, until a bunch of employees went on strike to demand the founder adopt their political slogan.

Often you can't talk about political issues in an adult and professional manner. Many issues have to do with deeply and passionately held beliefs; you can't expect people who believe that some law is taking their rights away, or that some war is an unjust slaughter, to discuss it in the same tone they'd use to discuss a project planning issue. You can make it work for some issues in some contexts, and I know plenty of people who successfully talk politics with groups of their coworkers over lunch. But companywide discussions about hugely controversial issues are almost never going to go well.
The death penalty is plain hypocrisy, because it strips away any supposed appearance of justice being about re-education and not about plain punishment. It is not also about preventing dangerous individuals from causing harm on other people because again, that is already plainly achieved by incarceration.

The death penalty is 100% state-mandated revenge against the perpetrators of heinous crimes. It is been known for centuries (at least since the 1700s) as being completely ineffective as a deterrent, and it has been shunned by most of the western world, the USA remaining the last holdout of such a barbaric practice.
Would have it be possible for the USA to keep executing prisoners if it wasn't the most powerful country on Earth? IMHO, probably not.
this is a really unconvincing example, at least to me. despite the name, bitcoin doesn't function much like a currency. that is to say, someone who would otherwise hold $1mm cash would probably not want to convert that to bitcoin, at least not for legal transactions. so if a meaningful amount of people would rather use BTC than fiat, the problem is not that people are allowed to buy BTC. the problem is that the government has failed spectacularly at issuing a stable currency, which is one of its main jobs.
> Am I a manager? No. [I] let the team self organize with my help

Isn't that what a manager is, or should be?
Problem is, how do you support this? You must have made a lot of money to both (a) support your family, and (b) pay for the childcare that your wife would have been too busy to help very much with. Either that, or you lived in a low cost of living area and were able to do some kind of price/salary arbitrage. And if the solution was "make a lot of money", then that again makes childcare doubly important, because if you also were focusing on work, then you wouldn't have had much time to raise your kids either. Right?

Ah. I've left out the obvious option: You don't have kids, and don't plan to?

I bring this up not to be snarky but because this feels like a very real Catch-22.

(Deleted weird coda with mythological references and stuff.)
I’m not sure if you mean the decision to have the kid for most kids was not data driven, or if you mean most high schoolers are not receptive to data when making decisions.

If the former, then I would say that is changing and see plummeting fertility rates in developed countries as proof.

If latter, then yes, teenagers can be extra prone to making non data driven decisions due to various reasons, but the hope is maybe it can instruct them in the future if not today?
Thanks! By the way if we are talking about people who got a hold of the problem Brin and Dalio are the first who did mention it in a public way but I am sure there are others.

Similarly I have to stress that what is happening with Musk right now is not normal, those are the type of exagerations and grotesque situations which happen when the stagflation and stasis is really inflicting its toll.

Richest man in the world can't be the CEO of a company on the constant edge of going under. In a world were everybody takes risks, the public would have not been captured by the rarity of such all-in endevours and the stock would have never propelled to 800B
At least you're candid that it's about taking money from people against their will. Most advocates couch UBI in terms like unleashing individual creativity and things like that.
Oh man this resonates in a weird way... I don't know jack shit about being poor. I grew up extremely well-off in the late 80s and 90s. My college education was paid 100% by my parents without a loan. We had nice cars and belonged to country clubs. Even in my first job where I was only making 35K/yr my parents gave me quite a bit of help so it was easy.

I have a few friends that are poor... I feel for their issues, I always try and help out when asked, but I also know to keep my mouth shut about problems the poor face or how I think they should solve the problem because my solutions are usually so detached from the reality of their grinding life that it comes off as patronizing and unempathetic.

My dad gets it, he grew up as a poor kid in an Italian immigrant household. First kid to college and then he did really well after that in business. He understands it in ways I'll never know. He mostly keeps his opinions to himself on the matter but I've never heard him rattle off any easy solutions or tropes like "they just need to work harder" because he knows his mother and father busted their butts and never stopped being poor. It was only when he became an adult and started making money that he could help them live comfortably.

My mother (love her) she grew up middle class during the American Dream years of the 50's and 60's and has never known poverty either, but she has strong opinions on it... always of the variety of they are "lazy" or need to "work harder", or the solutions are impractical or grounded in a reality that hasn't existed since the early 70s. I think my Dad has given up at this point changing her mind as they're both well into their 70s, but yea I never want to be like my mother.
https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/pattern-matching.htm...
Students protest mandatory Covid vaccinations at colleges
How to Name Files (2015)
I see this everyday at a local bodega. I watched a poor family essentially grocery shop at the corner store. Toilet paper, chips, soda, canned food, etc. Their bill was over $100. I could get 3x the items, at higher quality with a trip to Costco for the same amount of money.
This is most likely due to a selection process that favors either newsworthiness or trustworthiness. It’s a statistical artifact, see e.g. https://twitter.com/rlmcelreath/status/1396040993175126018?s...
Start with banning all non-essential private jets, then we'll talk.
How do you explain that Apple gets 100% of its margins on selling books, movies, music and any digital goods but anyone else must sacrifice 30% of those margins. For a subscription based offering, taking 30% away is surely going to kill any room for a healthy positive margin for most companies, rendering the business useless on the app store.

I see this behavior as fundamentally anti competitive but don't see this discussed in the trial too much. This should be illegal.
I'm actually very interested in the Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking protocol that is under development at Goddard. I've found a lot of resources on why it is needed and how it is helpful, but not much on the actual implementation.
> but nowhere in these lines does author elaborate how would those countries fare if they weren't offered credit in first place.

For one, in many/most economics textbooks you have the story (fairy tale?) of cultures going from barter to currency (special rocks, shells, etc). There is no sociological or historical record of a culture doing this. The point is reiterated in Money.
How the Algorithm Is Preventing Support for Mental Health
The only wrong thing you've said here is "I'm not a leftie".

Why do you reject that generally accurate label?

There are decades of propaganda in US society equating the left with dictatorships and totalitarian states. Only in the last few years have large numbers of young people realized that all the good things coming from society working together are being labelled as socialist: libraries, schools, firefighters, even roads and water systems. The view of the far right has narrowed the acceptable scope of government to national defense, enforcing contracts, and enforcing the existing social order via police.

If you want the US government to work on behalf of all the people, your natural allies are on the left.
That actually sounds pretty legit.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was apparently quoted as saying: "No well defended person receives the death penalty." One of the issues with death penalty cases is that they require special hand-selected judges and juries who favor the death penalty, and they have a very hard time finding competent defense lawyers.

In fact, an extension is "no well defended person gets convicted," which isn't quite as ironclad, but still works pretty well in practice. This is actually a good thing. Our system was intended to make it hard to convict people.
Upbraided. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upbraid#English
Being just worthy of your peers is often enough if a higher purpose eludes.
What I don’t understand is why can’t they at least use codenames like Ubuntu does. At least the alphabetical ordering makes it easy to tell which one is newer over roughly 13 years.
It's clever, but pretty much "standard" in compression. Earliest I'm aware of that used symmetry in the encoder and decoder to prevent explicitly transferring the parameters this way was LZ78 (Lempel, Ziv; 1978), but there could well be predecessors I'm not aware of.

LZ78 used it "just" to build a dictionary, but the general idea of using symmetry is there.

(A fascinating variant on this is Semantic Dictionary Encoding, by Dr Michael Franz in his doctoral dissertation (1994), that used this symmetry to compress partial ASTs to cache partially generated code for runtime code generation)
I was just musing about how the definition of 'startup' has changed. I've worked in a couple plus a few post-startup small companies, but they always involved a fairly expensive piece of boutique hardware. At best, stock options might mean a decent bonus after a few years and you work as long as they pay you. You take the job because it's interesting and because it's more fun to lay track than to fix it. Using folding tables is always better than dealing with some middle managers three ring binder of yearly performance review.

Seriously, just how many startups in the last ten+ years involve anything but some sort of internet service/social media/advertising software construct with (usually) the hope of selling the company? It all sounds kind of depressing.
I think that is true in the case of the growth startup I work at; probably 25% of the leadership started out as early individual contributors, and if things go as expected over the next few weeks, I will be making my first big step toward leadership after just six months at the company.

I never had any internal career growth at other jobs in larger or more established orgs.
>Follow your dream is actually terrible advice

"Figure out your life goals" sounds like the same thing.
At least Japan and the EU have higher debt to GDP ratio's, but the currencies of those places definitely enjoy a high level of trust in the world.
Absolutely. It really confused me when I first encountered objects in Turbo Pascal 5.5 in 1989. Until then I had been programming soft real time systems where messages really were messages. The sender put the message in the queue and the recipient did something with it and possibly sent a message back.

It took me days of banging my head against the wall to understand that in the object world messages were actually synchronous message calls and that the sender couldn't do anything until the object method returned.
I would focus on helping them find things to do in their city, friend-match based on that, and encourage repeated hangouts.

Why?

1. People usually make friends through engaging in common interests. This takes time.

2. Building a business takes time. Selling tickets to local events and products/coupons to local small businesses gives you have a sustainable revenue model whose incentives are aligned with your mission.

3. You could easily expand into being a dating app for married couples who are bad at planning date nights.
AOC doesn't need to buy it. Simply paying rent in NYC and DC is too much for a bartender with < $30k in family wealth
I miss the part where they show that the rich people's "choice mindset" is wrong? Are we just going to accept at face value that poor people have no choices whatsoever and are simply victims of society (and of course capitalism, I guess)? To me, that sounds a lot like religion.

Of course you can not assume that everybody could be equally rich, and only their choices are to blame if they are not. But the other extreme, that people are just born to be poor no matter what choices they make, is equally silly.

What if the "I have no choice" mindest of poor people is partly to blame for their predicament?
The math changes if you live in London/Europe where the big company salaries are much lower
The reasons you give against Bitcoin can be used also to against encryption.

We agree that hiring a hitman is illegal, and we agree that it will be easier for the police to solve the crimes if encryption is banned and the police can read all the emails/whastapp/whatever of all the people in the city.
Yes, maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like it should continue to work just fine until there is some significant change in how HTTP works.
I don't know what i would do with 80 cores. How much cache and memory bandwidth will this thing have?
I bought a squat rack, barbell, 280lbs in plates all from Titan Fitness. It's the perfect match between cost and premium. It has it's blemishes, but it's much cheaper than Rogue. I'm doing a PPL split for about 8 month and lost a lot of weight but also got a lot stronger.
The article is good but it’s missing a big point that equity in startups is tied to risk taken not to contributions.

Many people, including myself, make this mistake the first round at startups. The mistake of believing if you work hard the outcome will be good. I wrote an article a little while back on how this relationship works and how it follows a logarithmic and exponential relationship, risk and equity, and how human minds are terrible at understanding those scales.

For anyone interested:
https://louiebacaj.com/equity-and-risk/
You must know that Joe Rogan is a polarizing figure and posting him in any but a right-wing community is going to be a troll for reactions. That doesn’t strike me as “bizarre,” it strikes me as the obvious outcome for your choice.

You posted on good faith, but if so, you should reflect upon your reaction if a podcast from a thinker you despised was posted. In short I’m not sure you’re really engaging with a theory of mind, you’re falling into the trap we all often fall into of treating interlocutors as automatons.
As another moderator, that doesn't seem like a great approach; you're effectively punishing the readers of your sub for someone else's decision, somewhat arbitrarily. Your subscribers may not have hit that 4-article limit.
There are two types of options, NSO and ISO. You want ISO as an employee because it's better for taxes, but that has a 90-day exercise window set by the IRS. You can push for yourself paying higher taxes in exchange for more flexibility, but it's a tradeoff.

https://carta.com/blog/pte-90-day-window/
Hmmm.... I've been looking at real estate in the midwest — Kansas City, Omaha — and surprised by how much it has skyrocketed there as well.

At the same time (as seen on HN recently) they're "giving away" land in small-town Kansas and Nebraska.

No jobs.
You are responsibly for building the house.
Lots of other caveats.

I think a real-estate collapse or a sustained wave of affordable housing starts is more likely.
Are you American? Do you excuse the migrant holding camps, with its toddler separation? I can see your mind turning gears to come up with reasons why you think those are fine...

Where do we draw the line of what sort of "camp" is humane?
> instead of the US approach where a traffic stop can involve pointing your gun at the suspect...

Realistically though, for that to work the US needs a sweeping reform of drug and gun laws. Right now, if I'm a drug mule with a ton of meth in my trunk and get stopped on some lonely road, I have the choice between shooting the cop and maybe get away or getting a life in jail for the drugs.

Here in Germany, you usually get out after 5, 6 years as a simple mule, and our cops (unless you're on an international route where cops can claim Schengen border duty rights) can't simply demand to open your trunk unless they have reasonable suspicion - and it's really hard to get your hand on a gun. As a result, our cops don't have to be afraid for their life at a random traffic stop.

There's a reason why cops are so trigger happy in the US, and it goes way beyond shoddy training.
Not true, see Gaeron's direct reply in the thread you linked to, that's been the standard for 3 years and works like a charm - useEffect specifically is the hook for handling async functions ("impure effects").