skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here comes an unpopular opinion: Learn from it and act on it.

If you are young and smart, building a business is just so much more fun than doing a normal job.

Stop wasting your time. Go to twitter and search for '#buildinpublic'. Follow the journeys of other people for a while. It does not need a hundred million dollar company to outperform a regular job. It just needs a nice online product that brings in more than a job.

Check out this essay by Paul Graham:

http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html

His summary of life: "Don't be a cog".

You still have all the options to not be a cog.
> Can apple appeal in this case to a higher court not in Texas? (As I understand, a lot parent cases are brought to one small district in Texas)

Yes, appeals in patent cases go to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and then to the Supreme Court. Both are based in Washington, DC.

> And secondly can apple stop doing business in east Texas all together so that Rodney gilstrap no longer has jurisdiction?

Venue can be complicated. See recent SCOTUS ruling here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/16-341_8n59.pdf
I'm not sure if this can apply to the most commonly used software. A browser can't know in advance how much memory it would need. Same thing applies for audio, image or video editing software. Probably office suites too.

This might be feasible with some limited-in-features apps, like an audio/video player, an IM client, etc...
That's not at all clear.

A lot of people like strong border controls for instance, even if it means when they return to their country from abroad they have to go through more checks or present more documents to get in. Or consider large gated communities where you have to be checked by a guard to get in.

Many peoples seem fine with being distrusted as long as the distrust is part of a mechanism to weed out those who they feel really are not trustworthy and it is not too annoying for them to prove that they are not one of those people when they encounter a trust check.
Ah ok, that is very particular: tax havens and Spanish nationality. But thanks, I did not know that. And luckily neither applies to me!
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"Money and status are fleeting in the grand scheme of things"

Not for pretty girls.
Ok, what if you were married to someone who suddenly made millions but didn't share any of the wealth with you, but consumed it all themselves?

Even if you hate that you are jealous, would you consider it fair of them to put this much stress on your psychological well-being, thereby putting your relationship at risk?
That's not true. If you have an apartment in Croatia, or if your family lives in Croatia, you are a tax resident in Croatia even if you don't spend a single day there.

https://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/crs-implementati...
Hahahaha I faced this exact problem as well, very good friend of mine since high school, one of the blockbuster ipos last year. Guys a billionaire

Not sure if my advice will change anything or even help but this is sort of how I handled it

1. Recognize that it's only natural to feel that way. It's not that your not happy for him and want him to fail, but your more concerned with your own progress given where he is at life. I think that might stop you feeling like your a shit person for feeling bad

2. Your problem is you feel like your wasting your time so do something about it. If you do come to the conclusion that there's not much to be done, you'll probably feel better as well. Personally I spent a lot of time reflecting on what I was doing and quit my job for my own startup. Although it wasn't a complete failure, I'm definitely financially worse off than if I had stuck to my job, but all feelings of jealousy I previously had to my friends who struck it rich doing startups were gone, since you appreciate the opportunity cost they had to give up had they chosen to go for some high paying job like banking.
Its all about upside vs downside.

Seatbelt: upside > downside

Mask: upside < downside

>But it’s easy, and I like taking simple measures that help keep my family and community safe.

It is a simple measure but it doesn't do much(if any) for covid

While seatbelt really do save lives.
To be fair, this is exactly the type of thing you’d expect China to be good at, unilateral decision making.
And furthermore, "God does not play dice with the universe."
How about the government does my taxes for me - sends me a letter and I only pull out turbotax if I want to dispute what they calculated.

It's utter garbage the way we do taxes in the US. Push the burden of work on to the government and corporations - not individuals.
> Tech folks drastically overestimate how much the average person cares about privacy.

This is old thinking. In the 90s and 00s it was miraculous to trade in a little privacy for some awesome free service on the internet. Google, Facebook and others became huge, and everyone has been influenced / manipulated by them and people are getting tired of having a family dinner conversation next to their smart speaker and seeing ads for six weeks for Depends diapers because someone told a bad joke at the dinner table.
Yup!! It's not functional, and probably won't be. It's just meant to be looked at :)
> At the peak of the whaling industry, in the late 1800s

Yeah, if you start your article with a falsehood that you could have easily fixed with a cursory read of any history of whaling, I can't trust you enough to know what you're talking about.

Peak whaling was 1965-1970, have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_whaling#/media/File...
Why? The only people doing this are “journalists” seeking clicks (or attacking Tesla on behalf of unions or unionized auto makers) or TikTokkers making fake videos.
There are some very important points in this article which I agree with, specially this -

"Why do we put everything in our lives in service to work? Is that really the highest end?"
"where the C++ pieces can all recover from OOM and the Rust component cannot"

I would like to read about their successful test of their C++ pieces using the same (random fail small allocations) strategy. My impression from Herb Sutter is that on the popular C++ Standard Library implementations (for MSVC, Clang, GCC) this actually doesn't work, but of course Herb has a reason to say that - so it'd be interesting to hear from somebody who has a reason to believe the opposite.
We’re all on different journeys that have differing emotional, financial, physical, and spiritual characteristics.

Your friend just happens to have a journey with different finances than you.

However this person still needs all the other things during their journey that your friendship can give.
It’s not possible to watch Netflix on your Tesla screen when the car is not in park. If you want to construct a Rube Goldberg device on your steering wheel so you can watch Netflix on your iPhone in the passenger seat, you have bigger problems than crashing.
Launched my first course, earned over US $500k - AMA
Depends if you're developing to be a developer or developing to solve business problems. If you're doing the latter, your clients hire you to get their problems solved and couldn't care less about the tech behind it (but will be pleased to be paying $100/month for a server instead of $1000/month for various AWS services).
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I've been using Reddit for over a decade and I don't think I've ever used it to research potential product purchases. It doesn't feel very conducive to this purpose (and the article does outline why it isn't necessarily) but perhaps I'm missing out. This isn't a very useful comment, I'm just curious to how many other Redditors this comes as a surprise, and what about Reddit draws so much of that kind of activity. Is it that it's longer form than most other platforms?
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lol ask if he's hiring - for a friend, of course.

and if he's been in a different economical strata than you for a while and it hasn't changed things on his end, sounds like you have a real friend. don't screw that up over financial jealousy.
The Making of Running Time (1997)
Are any other call centers significantly better?
That is not the issue. There are many problems that do not have analytical solutions, but can be approximated numerically to any precision you would like.

The issue with the three-body problem is that it is chaotic, meaning any error will eventually grow to take over the entire solution, making prediction impossible, even in theory. Every chaotic system lacks an analytical solution, but not every system without an analytical solution is chaotic.
Thank you for pointing this out, I will start linking to the updated material.
Probably illegal here in Norway too. If not then I think would probably require the assent of the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet).
The "I'm Spartacus!" of torrenting

(For those who haven't heard the reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyiljKo0#t=0m40s )
Erlang does not implement the Actor model. The similarity is accidental.
I don't know, I thought some of them were great. "I thought my body had died without telling me", for example, I found surprisingly good, and some other parts I found insightful.

What did you find soulless? I wonder if you'd have the same opinion if you didn't know it's GPT-3.
Let's see if people will also shallowly dismiss Stephen Hawking saying the exact same thing you just said.

> If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

-- Stephen Hawking, https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nyn5i/science_ama...
It is a little bit more complex. If you don't change your residency you are still considered a resident and must pay taxes. If you live in a ship and sailed the world last year you still must pay taxes because you are considered a resident.

If you have assets or a wife in Canada they may declare you a resident even after a year.
I think it's more like a steady drip feed. I moved abroad, and I spend less than a tourist once I figured out how locals generally do it, but still considerably more than a local because I want to eat foods from other countries and get a nice coffee most days.
Thats easy, a sophon is just a quantum mechanical plot hole that evaporates instantanely with measurement.

Just look very closely.
I'd be a loyal user of Racket, if it was reasonably easy to use with an IDE similar to VS Code.

Emacs is too involved for a casual hobbyist like me, while Dr Racket feels a bit toyish.
How else is it supposed to be managed? When a mere 12 sources of disinformation can generate a wide panic, we have a massive problem that needs a sledgehammer to fix.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...
They default to the last residency location.
Why is the volume of a sphere 4/3πr^3?
It's even more particular, but in practice, it does affect a lot of funds, if not a lot of people - which is why they legislated. One can move to a no/low tax jurisdiction and not be a Spanish tax resident as long as they're covered by a double taxation agreement.
You mean into the local cache like youtube videos?
Try making a youtube to mp3 site and wait for the content industry to recognize it.
The motion isn’t deterministic if free will exists. Launching a rocket into space decreases earth’s rotation speed ever so slightly, which will have a small impact on the moon’s trajectory due to tidal interactions, and so on.
> “Tourists who stay for longer periods of time redistribute their money in the value chains generated by tourism,” Segura said.

Well that's not true. All this will do is further commoditize the housing market and price locals out of the very neighborhoods they grew up in. Digital nomadism aims to turn the whole of the global south into a company town for the benefit of the owners of Intellectual Property in the global north (plus the politicians who helped create these horrific Intellectual Property systems and laws), as well as the privileged knowledge laborers who work for them.

In other words; without access to the firewalled and 'IP protected' networks of scientific knowledge (the sum total of all human progress) the global south is perpetually blocked from growing, and has become a plaything of the global north elite, to be used and abused and plundered at will.
Suppose you have a reliable generator system and your own house's power has reliable uptime. Would the internet still function during power outages? (The upstream telco equipment might lose power during an extended outage.)

Another HNer mentioned Costa Rica's internet connections during power outages, hence my question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28169281
If you cfg(no_global_oom_handling) lots of nice things go away. Which is both appropriate - those nice things did in fact depend on global OOM handling - and hopefully likely to keep more people from erroneously believing they can't afford global OOM handling.

As an example, ordinarily on Rust this does what it looks like it does:

let mut lyrics = "Never was".to_owned();
lyrics += " a cornflake girl";

With cfg(no_global_oom_handling) this can't work, most importantly because the second line is an arbitrary concatenation and therefore allocates, but there is no possible way to signal if it fails.
That was a mistake on my part, definitely meant to include him! Very familiar with his work and it's all exceptional.
It’s astonishing to me that one can claim that any Linux-on-PC is beautiful, polished and easy to use. I have bought a Dell XPS for an employee, which is supposed to be the best mass-market laptop before System76s which are way more expensive; and the overall experience is appalling compared to Mac:

- Before even starting, you open the laptop, the bottom stays stuck with the lid, so you raise a little more and shake it and it smashes against the desk. It’s comically unpolished experience. It requires a decade of seniority as an engineer to know that it’s a criteria that you should include to your purchase, whereas with Apple you buy any of them and the quality is uniform.

- I’ve had my macbook for 8 years and still watching movies on batteries, not a single PC laptop can reach such performance.

- It would wake up at the office and play my employee’s music, and I don’t have his password and the sound buttons don’t work without login. Why oh why?

- The GRUB at startup and the workflow for full disk encryption… What is there to defend on the polishing of the various Linux experience?

If you have to be an expert to know that some distribution or another is better, then it’s not an expertise I want to be good at. My job is delivering experiences to my own customers, and software needs to get out of the way.
In what way(s) aren't PWAs as good, would you say?

Personally, I think >90% of all apps I've used could be implemented as a PWA, as nothing they do really require native performance.

The main issues I see are

1. The DX needs some improvement

2. Apple are dragging their feet implementing new web tech on Safari, and are therefore holding everyone hostage since you cannot install any other browser on iOS.
> Money and status are fleeting

Also in a literal sense. Many people cannot manage huge amounts of money - see top level sports people losing fortunes. Others don't know how to live a normal life or lose drive for creativity afterwards. (I think that's what happened with Notch? I can't find the article now...)
From Dark Scrum to Broken SAFe – some real problems of Agile-at-scale
Is this a trap question? I mean you can make 2 cases.

Firstly the noncontroversial part: covid is a virus, bubonic plague is a bacterium. In the covid case, infected people infect others. Stay away from people, especially in restaurants (so, probably, eating near an infected person is a strong vector), and there isn't much chance of infection. In the case of bubonic plague: enter a building where an infected person had a shit 2 months before ... there's a decent chance you get infected. It's a world of difference. Objects are safe, with covid. Streets are safe. Beds are safe. Public toilets are safe. Public toilets would be a death trap with the bubonic plague.

You ignore age? They're comparable in death rate.

You only count people under 40 (life expectancy, without bubonic plague, was only about 30-40 years when bubonic plague got it's big moment). So if you compare that to what covid does to people <40, it's much less than the mildest flu ...

Let's say you relax that by a lot and say, no people live to 70 in the 14th century, about double the real figure ... covid is about an average flu.

So ... like everything, it depends. If you make a case based on years lost, covid is an exceptionally deadly flu, but less than 1% as bad as the bubonic plague.

If you make a better comparison, and compare Covid to Tuberculosis, today, then for the first 4 months it got to about half as bad as TBC, then fell off a cliff. If you take an average over a year, TBC wins on all fronts: people infected, people killed, years of life destroyed, ... well, except on dollars spent.

BUT covid kills many rich old people in the west. Tuberculosis kills young poor adults, mostly in the third world. Tuberculosis produces orphans. Not that I don't think rich people in the west they have right to a few more years, they very much do. But you want to help humanity, it's the wrong target.

So Covid only really wins from even contemporary diseases in the "dollars resisting the deaths" department.
> 65k times more than the entire IPv4 space

Last week I was thinking about a system to automatically cut my hair the way I exactly want (precision up to the millimeter and per hair).
So, one way would be by using cheap microrobots*.
The

On average we have around 100K hairs on our heads. Let’s say you buy 100K microrobots to cut your hair. Each of these microrobots could have their own ipv6 (because, why not) so that you can control them via your phone. So, suddenly you have there one person using 100K ipv6 addresses.

So, whenever people say “ipv6 should be enough for now”, I always think “well, it depends on how they are used!”
> Money and status are fleeting

So is life. But you have only one, so it’s mind of natural to want it to be good.
I used to have that. Then all residential customers were put under a CGN, and you can ask for a dedicated, public IP, free of charge. I imagine 99.9% of users can't tell the difference so the ISP saved a lot of IP space, while customers are just as happy.
You are right; this app is even worse than iTunes, which was widely considered the worst app Apple ever shipped.

However, this app is almost like "Apple's home-made Electron". It uses web views for the majority of its UI, and doesn't even pre-fetch things either, so each new tab is an exercise of stoicism, and usually underperforms the actual web-page version of Apple Music (https://music.apple.com).
>But, I really don't like all of the negative consequences of uncontrolled community spread worse

Mask has nothing to do in regards spread or ICU being full

>If it's too dangerous for my kid to go to school in person

Good thing its not dangerous (in regards of covid). There are lot of more dangerous things for kids in school.
There are iterative methods/systems that stabilize over time. For example, symplectic integrators on tame problems oscillate lightly around the true energy of the system over time. The issue here is the properties of the underlying problem, not the set of solution methods.
I think you can be genuinely happy for someone, but still jealous.

I know I am. I don’t begrudge anyone earning half a million per year, but I still want that for myself.
Stewardship of Ourselves
Not really, if you spend 120-183 days in the UK, to not be a tax resident, you'd need to not have family there, not have a house/hotel for more than 90 days, nor work there for more than 40 days, nor have spent more than 90 days there the year prior and you'd need to have spent more time in another country. It's a lot of conditions!
Ok, let's wait until someone else discovers then.
Handling allocation failures on the STL is also only possible with exceptions.
I don't know.

Taking sledgehammer on human communication does not seem efficient and side-effect-less to me.

I grew up in late Communist Czechoslovakia. The party cracked down on unwanted information really hard. They had a 13,000 strong secret police with extensive powers to do that, and forty years of experience how to strangle dissent. Kids were schooled in the One and Only Correct Way of Thinking, up to and including university, where you had to clear several classes of Marxism-Leninism before being allowed to, say, build bridges. Things like Xerox machines were tightly controlled and subject to registration, to curtail spread of illegal leaflets.

And yet rumors spreaded within days of anything happening and distrust against the government and whatever the government said to the public was absolutely rampant.

If anything, at the end of the day they sledgehammered themselves.
I can't help but think that the answer will have the word "entitlement" in it. The more you consider you are entitled to, the unhappier you will be.
Companies use the term "Human Resources", literally. Without translation. Ridiculous if you ask me.
My phone is an extension of my brain, it is my most trusted companion. It holds my passwords, my mail, my messages, my photos, my plans and notes, it holds the keys to my bank accounts and my investments. I sleep with it by my bed and I carry it around every day. It is my partner in crime.

Now apple are telling me that my trusted companion is scanning my photos as they are uploaded to iCloud, looking for evidence that apple can pass to the authorities? They made my phone a snitch?

This isn't about security or privacy, I don't care about encryption or hashes here, this is about trust. If I can't trust my phone, I can't use it.
Its not personal preference, because using an IDE should improve your productivity. It's like saying that digging a hole with your hands vs using a shovel is personal preference.
That's a legal question and the answer in most countries is - they can't do that. From non-legal side - people don't have the same expectation from marriage and friendship.
Please define 'free will' before using it in a sentence about determinism.
https://vm.fi/en/the-budget

According to this, Finland's budget revenue for 2021 is estimated at €68.1 billion. €14 billion of it (20%) came from income and wealth taxes.

Your excise taxes alone are almost half of what income and wealth taxes bring in. VAT is 31% of the budget revenue.

With numbers like these I don't think it's unreasonable to do away with income taxes and replace them with other forms of taxation.