skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it started slow, and I spent my twenties working very hard, but by 30 I had a few million dollars and decided to take a few years off. I had never really traveled, so I spent most of the next few years living out of a suitcase and at one point hadn't been back to my home country for a couple of years.

I went from only having visited a few countries briefly to having seen quite a lot of around 70 countries. I did lots of mountaineering, skiing, diving, and tried my hand at quite a few other sports. I went to a bunch of tech conferences all over Europe and Asia, just for fun. I flew so much that I was in the air for over 2% of my total hours a couple of years.

After a few years of that I slowed down the travel some, and by luck I had just signed a year lease for a beautiful home overlooking the sea in a country I kept coming back to just a couple of months before the pandemic shut down air travel.

Since then I have been taking up the hands-on hobbies that I thought looked fun and just never had enough time/space/funds for when I was working. I had a daughter with my partner, and am incredibly glad for the joyous little being I'm starting to raise. I have even recently gotten back into doing some software engineering for fun.

About a decade ago I had an idea for something that felt too big to be what got me setup to pursue what I wanted early on. The project was too complex, too long-term, and there was too little existing ecosystem to tap into. In the intervening years the ecosystem has started to come together and I've managed to strike well enough to have my freedom elsewhere, so I'm looking at getting back to being a founder within a couple of years.
Wait, what? Did you just say that Facebook went down? Hmm, funny that I didn't even notice. Life seemed to continue, and such a blip didn't lessen the quality of my life.

By the way, yes, i do have a FB account, but no I do not check it much at all except for the rare "like" for a post from my mom, etc. Dang it, and now i exposed that my mom is on FB...there goes my ops sec! /s ;-)
Intel's switch to FinFET was equivalent to almost 2 node jumps. If they nail GAA, then it will probably be much better, but it will also be enormously more expensive to produce the chips.

Intel has loads of cash and would pay that money in a second, but I suspect that most other companies would rather hold off a bit longer in exchange for much cheaper products.
This is the real value proposition, Ben Thompson has a lot of good articles on the good and bad of Facebook. Radio and TV ads are expensive because they can only serve one ad spot at a time. Plus, my understanding from friends in advertising is that TV spots can become quite expensive as demand rises. You can get books which tell you roughly the cost of advertising for all different types of media.

Whereas at a single point in time, Facebook can sell many ad spots and allow individuals to target certain groups of people. Unsurprisingly, media thinks you can do very specific ad targeting but you can’t.. not to the level of doomsday-ness that people suggest. They’ve put limits on the min # of people you can target.

It is worth mentioning that FB’s ad bidding system is completely automated, so prices are almost entirely determined by demand and ad spots.

The other side is that, pizza business is not in the business of making a website or dealing with technology. They are in the business of managing a restaurant which is hard work. Anything that takes away technology work can be a huge plus for them, especially if they don’t have to manage it.

When I worked in a restaurant, it would be 12-14 hour shifts. Leadership would do those shifts nearly every single day putting out (non-literal) fires and keeping the ship afloat. You have to pick your battles carefully when running restaurant.

I find it painful when people say.. let’s just go back to the old form of advertising. Old form of advertising highly favored large conglomerates, because the ad spots were limited. Instead businesses had to rely on word of mouth.

But what if you are a small internet business making niche jewelry or whatever? Well, if you only rely on word of mouth you will probably saturate your customer base early. Instead if you could put out ads for your demographic cheaply across your entire country, now you are talking!

Does that mean FB is net good? I think that is up to the individual, I’m not going to tell people otherwise. But there is value there, and everyone should recognize that even if they don’t believe it is net good.
Yeah I saw this. Weird. A woman being a Private pilot is more unattractive than smoking? Uh ok.
I think (5) is the weakest point, and also the major reason for getting an MBA.

With respect to the other points:

(1) Most '20 year old aspiring tech founders' can hardly be thought of as either a specialist nor experienced, but that doesn't make it any less a valuable experience.

(2) Hiring is an extremely difficult process, and most startups can take risks on experience and tangible contributions primarily because they can fire more easily (and the applicant pool is self-selecting) when it doesn't work out. At a large company signals are proportionally more important because you can't rely on interviewers, etc. to have high accuracy in judging candidates (I recognize this should be improved, but it's not currently).

(3) This is generalizable to all schooling except for e.g. chemistry labs or other things requiring expensive equipment and not specifically to MBAs.

(4) I would argue that more African-Americans have demonstrated "leadership qualities" and "emotional IQ in social settings" than have excelled at algorithms, and their representation as VPs or SVPs of a generic corporate function is higher than their representation as quants.
Sorry, but the law says otherwise. If a school does not have a representative proportion of minority students, a court will rule it is segregated, and the school would be legally mandated to take desegregation measures including busing students in from out of district.
It would be interesting if these huge companies started funding the creation of new cities in Nebraska or something. Somewhere with tons of land, centrally located, they could fund some amazingly large airports to get anywhere…
Another approach is to use a main stream distribution in combination with the nix package manager. You can then always fall back to the distributions native packages.
> Unfortunately death by power point doesn't solve the problem of overworked sailors.

It really depends on who dies. Luckily, there are far better ways to solve the problem than by killing someone.
But having people working on potentially extremely useful moonshots that they are interested in for free is a huge win. I think it's really just a case of bad advice, and not all developers with 40+ years of experience are correct. In my opinion, it's better to have a motivated volunteer engaged and working on something with unknown impact that she is interested in, rather than get her to work on boring things with less impact.
I had some flagged submissions too:

"We Are All Cattle Now": https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/we-are-all-cattle-now

"An Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci (1988)": https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/05/28/an-open-letter-to-dr...
> some niche use case that only one guy understands

But that's where all the value is! Step 1 of being an exceptional worker is not to do unexceptional work if you can at all avoid it.

> at least if we read it literally

This is where it does fall down. There isn't an X that you can reliably measure 10 of, it's all very subjective.
Well a password is not really who you are. If anything due to password managers, a password is what the password manager is.
I'm pretty sure they meant that they tried it multiple times, but didn't like it.

Same with me. I try and get on the vim hype train. seems like a great idea, but i can never 'get' vim.
What a ridiculously disingenuous comment. You realize there's a whole Linux Foundation, right? And multiple enormous companies and a whole open source community that are the actual developers of the entire operating system?
Spend any amount of time greater than 0 reading books and articles which use the word segregate.

Segregation/segregate is defacto used as a noun/verb with intent behind it.
Jaybird 4.0.4 has been released
Joey's business is pizza, not making websites.
If you are privacy-minded, KDE (with the kuserfeedback) should put you off, due to the user data it collects and sends back. You can disable the sending back, but not the collection.

There are a number of packets that depend on this, so you can't just remove it. Although you can recompile it to disable data collection, it's not something everyone just does.
That is actually pretty impressive!
But...why crypto?

It feels like such a poor fit. A digital central bank currency, sure, excellent. What do you gain from adding a distributed ledger to this?
> However, I don't think most (any?) researchers are actually ignorant of those problems. They are actually doing research somehow, so they've figured out the game well enough

The problem is that "winning the game" is about publications, tenure, and (less important but increasingly also) popular recognition, rather than about the size of your contribution to valid research results (one hopes that publications and tenure correlate, and yet...).

So, getting results of dubious validity published, and covered in popular press, can be exactly "figuring out the game well enough", an end in itself, rather than a minor step toward a research program.

You are right that I don't want to assume bad faith in any individual instances, and yet... here we are, in aggregate.

What are the costs? I dunno, mis-education of the popular audience, for one, I guess. Maybe that doesn't matter, but, it kind of does? And the opportunity cost of all the scientific labor being spent on "easiest to publish the most times" instead of what might be highest priority to discover. And the aggregate collective effect of a scientific community enabling each other on that.
Covid hospitalizations were reduced to 1/6th. Are those the only kinds of hospitalizations?
> But modal editing is just a bad idea. We've known since the 70s.

My understanding was that the UX studies around modal editing showed it was hard for new users, which isn't quite the same thing as "bad".

Personally I think what really works about vim for me is the composition of action and motion in a sort of language.
Oh, long before that.

In addition to being a language that does almost nothing to encourage good development practices and discourage bad ones, compared to Python the R ecosystem's tooling is just so inferior in every area: IDE, unit/functional testing, ETL, deployment, dependency management, etc. etc.
This is hardly something to get angry about.
They're def keeping and growing Fremont (> 50%). I walked the floor last week.
Thank you for sharing.

It seems that we used to call prison "paying your debt to society", but now we as a society charge interest on that debt to insure it's never paid off. We're loan-sharking people's past mistakes, which is not justice.
I think it's more likely that we wouldn't have thought something like Doom to be possible until Carmack came along and squeezed oodles of math tricks and hacks into the game to let it run on hardware of the era. So it may as well have be an infinitely long development time for us.
SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale
Yeah seriously, LinkedIn? I can only deeply scoff at that lol
I believe that the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of your audience.

There is, unfortunately, no single best explanation for all audiences.

It all depends on the expertise, experience, level of English/other language of the audience.

For example, when teaching programming to students who have a solid background in math, it is quite easy to teach functions and recursion in an abstract manner. Students familiar with the Cartesian plane will find it nice to get started programming by doing graphics programming.
I don't know about fully online, but I've seen ads in business-type newspapers ( think FT, but local) for this type of service years ago.

And you can do that (almost fully) online with Estonia, but I'm not sure they can be considered a tax haven.
If you wanted to write Doom, starting in 1993, and take 10 years, your most efficient strategy would probably be to do something else for the first nine of them and wait for the technology to change around you.
What could go wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
> How long would it have taken you or me to write Doom, or Quake? How long would it have taken Carmack, if it'd just been him?

I'm not a games programmer. I doubt a median games programmer would take 10x the length of time that it would take any other games programmer. It just seems implausible, and I don't know why people want to defend it.
>Why is the government getting into banking?

Because you shouldn't have to pay $2 or whatever to get every paycheck you have cashed. Banks often have minimums in the hundreds to thousands of dollars for checking accounts.
I think that's because non-generated lines of code are a form of "incompressible human work". Sure, one person can write twice as much lines as another. Even 10! But when you have a codebase of 10 millions lines of code, this is going to take a certain amount of man-years, and there is no way to reduce that. This is in stark contrast to the programs we write, that can replace large quantities of human work easily.

Some other ways of looking at this: compilers are an impressive force multiplier. When you compare the size of the source and the size of the executable, it's easy to see how much work you avoid. Compilers allow one single person to create way bigger programs. That would also explain why some people are so insistent on Lisp: macros are compilers. If you can write your own compiler, you can increase even more your own productivity.

This raises the question of why not everyone uses Lisp. The answer is collaboration. Collaboration happens when people share a mental model of things. The bigger the language, the harder it is to find lots of people that share that entire mental model. This may be why you often hear programmers with a lot of experience that prefer "small and simple" things, like C or Go. It makes collaboration easier. Dynamic vs static typing might be the same. It's about "how much context you need in your head at all time". If you have a lot of context in your head, it's easy to think about things succinctly. But when people don't have the same context as you or you lose yours, understanding their short and full of context code might be very hard. Spaghetti programs are that, a mix of context. You can't take one spaghetti out. You have the same exact problem in parsing, context-free vs context-sensitive grammar.

I don't know if and how the context-free vs context-sensitive ideas translate in terms of people. If anyone really likes using Lisp or Go or Haskell, I would be interested in your opinion about my "theory", and if you think that preference for context-free or context-sensitive applies to other parts of your life or personality.
You don't need to use a kext. You can instead use IOKit to talk to the AppleSMC driver over a Mach port. Works even without root: https://gist.github.com/vagelim/dd5be2802ecb097b81cf07711f6a...

VirtualBox has code to do the above. But it also has code in one of its kexts to do it by talking directly to the hardware, in case (for whatever reason) this API doesn't work; it tries IOKit first and then calls the kext as a fallback. And, the kext doesn't solely exist to talk to the SMC, it does a bunch of other things too. I'm not sure whether VirtualBox works without its kexts, but if it doesn't, it isn't because of this reason.

(When I wrote my original comment above, I didn't know you could do this through the IOKit API, although I've since edited that comment to mention it.)
Ponzi has a pretty specific meaning..illegal banking scheme sure.
If you want to know how successful an MBA program is, look at how many people the school employs to raise donations from alumni. The bigger the alumni fundraising team, the bigger the pockets of their graduates.
There are two different threads to this argument to tease apart:

1. MBAs are useless, and should be ignored

2. MBAs are useless, and are ignored

On the first point, I don't think MBAs are useless, and in many fields, as the field becomes technical, the MBA becomes more useful. Marketing is more technical, operations are more technical, finance is more technical, and the MBA provides a sort of intro like getting a general medical degree before specializing.

It is true that a candidate should be judged on their merits and a non-credentialed candidate in any field may be superior to a credentialed candidate. That is a more general point about credentials. The counter-point is, how do you find such a candidate? If I interviewed 5000 people, perhaps the best one would not have a particular credential, but if being human I can only interview 20 then my chances of finding a good candidate are higher if I focus on the 100 or so credentialed candidates in the batch. In short, the credential provides some signal.

Finally, even if were useless, it doesn't appear that they are being ignored. Hiring is still strong, and salaries are only going up.
I made a lot of lifelong friends when my wife went to Kellogg, and drank a lot of beer. Wouldn't replace that experience with anything, but I guess I didn't actually have to attend class or anything.

I just wouldn't discount the experience at an M7. Though I guess a startling number of those friends do seem to generally either regret or are overall neutral on the experience, given the cost.
I worked on robotics, and I have to say this is sad.
> And HR depts are just fine with that? (taking 2-6 months off)

Another myth I see spread all the time. HR departments don't care about this. If they ask, it's only because someone told them it's a thing to be concerned about, and they're parroting what they heard. Make something up if you really feel like you need to address it and are afraid to tell them to fuck off. It's a stupid question that doesn't come from any legitimate business concern. In my 30+ year career, I was asked about a brief gap between jobs only one time, and that was decades ago. If a place actually cares about this, it's a good sign that you should find a job somewhere better. If you're really concerned, just leave the dates off your resume entirely, or at least leave the months off. Who cares about this stuff?
> Diversity means increasing representation. In a situation with limited resources, increasing representation for all means decreasing representation for some. This is the natural conclusion to pushing for equality/representation.

This is the natural result of equality of outcomes, which is achieved by dragging down the top to meet those who can't excel. That is not at all what most people mean by equality, and is frankly a perversion of the word.
What I really want is a drone with a robust recovery system. I want it to be able to hit tree limbs, fall to the ground, but then right itself and take off again.
The Next Web Publishes Storyblok
That's why you write “I DO NOT ACCEPT THE TERMS” as your signature. (Obviously not when you're trying to accept a contract, though.)
Here's a fun test when you get a High-DPI screen for testing: hook two screens to Windows, one high and one low-DPI. Then drag the Qt app from one window to the other.

Virtualbox's windows GUI is Qt and shows the problem pretty easily.
While I was a digital nomad for many years (including a full year stint with Remote Year), I discovered I mostly couldn't stand being around other digital nomads. This survey helps me to understand why, because while I fit the average in some ways, in most cases I break the mold. It's unfortunate my favorite city has made it into the top 5, it was basically devoid of travelers or visitors when I was there last and was better for it.

I don't intend to continue with nomading post-pandemic, and had pretty much stopped before the pandemic began anyhow. It was a great run though, and I recommend it to anyone who can structure their life to support doing it, although I don't think it's doable as a permanent lifestyle unless you're very much aligned with the average nomad. While everybody I met and traveled with were decent, smart people, at some level I just approach my goals of travel differently than most other people. I think a lot of digital nomads are subtly and unintentionally disrespectful to the places that they travel to, and this is something I really couldn't abide, which is why I ended up greatly preferring solo travel and avoiding coworking spaces or other nomad hotspots.
Eh, I don't think it's always obvious - for instance Visual Studio Code I would never have guessed was an Electron app.
> Cars do not need that skill.

As a driver, I can certainly sense my car smelling funny if something goes wrong :)
I pick my battles pretty judiciously these days. I've learned that a huge amount of what people talk about doing ends up going nowhere anyway, so why burn the energy and look disagreeable? A lot of people with bad ideas also aren't very good at getting things done.
> I'm starting to realize that my project's challenges don't lie within technology but are made of legal uncertainty?

Finally someone in the crypto space realizes that technology is not a panacea.

Semi-decent piece on the reality of the legal situation and prospects for the industry. The US can go after global companies and projects because 1) it's the 800lbs gorilla and 2) they have extradition treaties
Depends on the jurisdiction where you physically reside, but most likely your country can claim the offshore company is actually a company based in your country of residence and tax it accordingly.

If you have employees offshore, a director offshore, quarterly shareholders company meeting offshore and the income is not coming entirely (or, even better, not at all) from your country of residence, then maybe it will be just sheltering (subject to the laws in your country of residence that can change at any time).

I've been thinking of setting up a company in a low tax location (non blacklist, maybe 5-12%), receive payments for a group of contractors working with foreign companies in high tax jurisdictions (think, living in Spain for a US or UK company) and then keep a ledger of payments received, expenses and money paid out. Company shares could be granted among the contractors and the manager of the company based on how much the contractors brought into the company and invoices for work (and dividends) could be paid to the contractors who need some money to live.
The money left in the company could be invested for the contractors in whatever they prefer.
After a decade working and saving outside of your expensive jurisdiction you could move to some tax friendly location (Dubai, or Portugal under the NHR scheme) and extract all the profit you made over your career.

If the contractors were all shareholders and going to shareholders meeting in the offshore location, there may be enough substance to keep tax collectors at bay and having multiple people bringing income would make it hard for the authorities to claim they could tax the offshore company as a national company.

The price to pay would be trusting the managers of the company not to run away with your money and to respect the contract.
Even if no one paid, they would easily exist through ads and sponsorships. Paying a rich person for something free is just bad money management no matter how you rationalize it to yourself.
How is he a scapegoat? He is being tried for his own alleged actions.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scapegoat

I, for one, am pleased that the person being called a Nazi was actually a Nazi. That's unusual these days.
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Check cashing is a potentially risky business. If someone cashes a $1k check that bounces or was fraudulent, that's 200 fees gone.
Bushmeat could help us meet the world’s climate goals