skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a fundamental issue to society where businesses can set prices at levels that could never be profitable due to VC funding. This means that any business attempting to have a sustainable business model is pushed out of the market. This results in all businesses in our markets being forced to find ways to cost compete with the businesses to whom money barely matters, which has knock on effects on employment.

This isn’t to say Venture Capital money is always bad. Its good use is allowing a business that is slowly growing to quickly scale to meet demand higher than they are currently able to supply. It also allows new businesses to get through the first few years where lack of economies of scale mean profitability is impossible. But when you look at an Uber-style company that is using prices that could never be profitable to capture market share, there’s no real difference to the issue with monopoly price fixing we have long known is bad for an economy.
Like many blog posts, it's a "good start" rather than a full exposition.
It’s a good feedback, while not open an issue to give feedback on GitHub or better, create a PR?
An excellent article. Thank you for your insights. I used to run a software engineering practice and I must admit that almost all of your points resonated with me.

I'd like to add that one should catch oneself when falling into the "Perfect is the enemy of good" trap. As engineers, we would like things to be perfect, but sometimes at the peril of late delivery, little feedback, and development of features not required.
I already gave the two examples necessary to address this.

- Kissinger. He was Nixon's National Security Advisor, intimately involved in prosecuting the Vietnam War, a war which he fully supported on the grounds of containing the influence of communism. By awarding the peace prize to him, the prize committee shows that they don't think it's crazy for millions of Vietnamese people to die in order to protect the interests of global capital. No credibility.

- Obama. His prize was awarded nine months into his first term. This was based on essentially nothing. The prize committee treated it as little more than a Time Magazine Person of the Year style popularity contest. No credibility.

So there's no need to keep score on correct vs incorrect calls based on unreliable prognostication about future outcomes. These are concrete examples of times when, even just considering the information they had at the time, they made an absolute mockery of the prestige of the Nobel prize.
How to send a web form without code or any back end
I'd like to speak with him. We have some things in common, and I'd like to hear his perspective.
Has anyone done a mentor program like this? Or even this?
Virtually every statement in this post is wrong. There's plenty of consensus in scientific fields, that's the point of scientific work, building consensus by means of agreed upon methodology. The core of science isn't 'debate' whatever that means, but work within theoretic or empirical disciplines done by people trained in methods that have proven to produce results, i.e. 'scientists'. If there is disagreement, it needs to be justified and articulated in a way that meaningfully builds on the knowledge of the field in question. nobody in science pays attention to 'disagreement' from people who don't understand the body of knowledge they're disagreeing with.

Youtube commenters or video creators don't practice science, they commentate on science, and thus whatever banning happens there has exactly zero influence on the actual course of scientific work which is done by a small percentage of people educated enough to actually have anything to say of value and contribute to the actual body of knowledge that collectively is 'science'.

America as a nation is scientifically illiterate exactly because of the thing you're advocating, that every clown should have a voice simply because they can open their mouth and make noises.
The best code is no code; the second best code is high quality third party code; the third best code is your code; the worst code is low quality third party code, and that one is by a huge margin.
Wabi Lightning, Miche and White Industries drive train, Paul Cantilevers, Simworks peddles and stem, H+Son wheels.
>Maybe not, but if the business has higher margins [...]

does it? 15 minute delivery definitely costs more so you could argue that margin is lower, but at the same time you could argue that 15 minute delivery is a premium product that can command a higher margin.
I find it peculiar that astrology is listed as an attractive trait.

Also, how is being in a relationship an attractive trait?
Does that imply that nomads are mostly attracted to people who are in a relationship?
http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?forum-post=resear...
Why General Motors is full of shit. Claims calculated
Spam doesn't work, jk 1,6$m
One thing these companies aren't spending much time on: Engineers. Their software is hilariously bad, and full of ways to exploit their service
So what should UPS do? Open a box because someone claimed something potentially illegal is in the box? What if UPS does not have the tools or right to open the container and determine that the thing is actual illegal drugs, do they now need a drugs lab and drugs experts?

Isn't more simple and correct that you contact police directly, present the evidence, have the authorized person to decide if the thing you claim is illegal or that the evidence is convincing then intercept the package.
If you ever do come visit Austin, learn to love I-35.

It's a weird mix of nascar and bumper cars, but also rolling parking lot.

Edit: It's the main way you'll go North/South here. Often times I'll double the commute taking side streets just to avoid 35 - depends on the day/time/personal interest in sport driving.
> Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order

Sorry to nitpick, but spiders build the web and then cowardly hide and wait till a victim gets caught and is completely helpless. Not really a model of moral virtue.
At this moment you can deposit defi borrowed usdt into Coinbase pro, swap it for usdc there, and then swap the usdc back to USD and withdraw to your bank account. Then if tether collapses you'd be able to pay back the borrowed usdt for pennies on the dollar.
I don't think it's like that.

Ads are content with an ulterior purpose of, well, advertising.

And the suggestion to skip is precisely the opposite of "just watch whatever's on TV", it's more of "if you don't like that channel, why don't you switch to another one?"

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Regardless, the argument is not whether or not one should watch the behind-the-scenes content, it's the existence of the content in the first place. If the behind-the-scenes is there, you can skip it if you want, but if it is not, then the one who wants to know how it was filmed will be left with no options.

Of course it doesn't mean it has to all be on the same video, but the nature of social video platforms ends up requiring that, otherwise the BTS is monetarily inefficient (if the channel in question is in it for the money).
This is the kind of thing that would have been helpful to explain before using the notation. At least if your goal was to help others understand.
My buddy cashed out big 15 years ago. Immediately had to pick up something in another field - he chose construction. Bought lots, hired contractors to build on the condition he could be in the crew. Studied and apprenticed and became a competent carpenter.

So to each his own!
PBS News Hour (who has Zuckerberg up their ass) treatment has been very professional despite all the donations. They ran full pieces reporting on the outage and the testimony in the Senate. They stopped short of being judgemental though...unlike some of the other reporting where it is safe for them to do so. I was satisfied but not terribly impressed. They should be exploring the issue deeper but they do not. For obvious reasons. Nonetheless, they fulfilled their doctrinal duty.
These days I'm driving a Bugatti, swearing around potholes in India
Busting your ass as an immigrant is only a "golden ticket" compared to staying in the third world.

Meanwhile, the people pushing these changes all have graduate degrees and incredibly privileged backgrounds. It absolutely is persecution and punching down for them to be going after poor immigrants.
When I quit a job, I'm full of projects to do with all that time, and I am quite productive.

But I also get 1% lazier every day, and after 6 months it seems like I eat breakfast, and then the day is over.
Just a thought: I would love to have/start with a device which would track and show me were the mosquito is. This would make it much saver and still very helpful.
You mean to say Telegram is smoother than other apps? Will try it out. In general, would you say that Qt is supposed to work just as buttery smooth and native on Mac or iPhone as a native app? And will an OS built on Qt like Ubuntu Touch will be as smooth and beautifully craftable as iOS apps on iPhone?
If a pizzaria wants business, it makes sense for them to advertise and have a way for people to find them. There are many alternatives to Facebook to help businesses do that, just like there are many ad agencies for them to use to get their ads on radio and TV. Business of course want to keep costs low and FB is (AFAIK) "free" to get started on. But once they get on FB, don't they still need to expand their reach by using Facebook ads? Or is just having a page enough? (I don't use FB so I'm clueless how that works)
Conveniently timed too with the whistleblower testifying at the same time.
> I guess one man's privacy is another man's "lack of transparency".

A good example of this are jobs that post your salary online. Those are usually in government and some NGOs.

Interestingly, some Nordic countries allow people to see each others income tax info.
Please stop with the cultural appropriation bit. Humans invented it all.
I am not disillusioned about flaws of EU, the undemocratic mechanism (especially after reading Yanis Varoufakis)

However and especially since UK has... sorry had a lot of power in EU, why not work towards reforming those issues?

> The EU is a protectionist trade bloc.

Thats a pro not a con, EU protects internal markets from external ones. Overall its better for stability of the overall economy, sure you will find few outliers like cheaper fish example.

Anyhow, all of those examples are only going to be amplified for UK, as a single country. Its much easier to bully lone country as UK than whole EU block.

> I heard quite a few. Again I stress that I am not taking sides here or saying I fully agree with every point, just giving some examples of reasonable arguments for balance since arguments the other way have been widely discussed anyway.

I hate when this has to be done to avoid downvotes :/

Anyhow sadly those are the best arguments I heard for brexit. Though I dont think they are even close to justify all the shit brexit caused.

Thanks for you input.
>Consider that not all communication is about "getting ahead".

But you don't need to follow any advice if you do not seek to get ahead (i.e., better) in some sense. So, that doesn't make sense as a counterargument. OP's point is that you can become better at explaining, but that on its own does not add value. This is quite evident in scientific writing. Plenty of well-written papers are rejected if they do not provide sufficient value.
You don’t have to write a dissertation about it, but if your response to prices going down after they went up is to speculate about why the downswing might be fake, I think you have to seriously consider whether your position is falsifiable. Is there any evidence that, if found, would convince you the lumber shortage was in fact transitory?
You might find this actually surprising:

- The increases far exceeded what was lost. The dip in the social line was offset three-fold when you add up external, search and direct. They're not to be averaged.

- Unmentioned, but reflected in graph: people using facebook tend to share articles far more than they read them. As in social share count > pageview count. Sometimes by a factor of 100.
Yeah. I'm using Sway as a daily driver and it's pretty amazing. It's a shame that nvidia is what it is, though. Every ~month you'll get a crash which really shouldn't happen. Not really sure that nvidia will ever come around to working nicely on Linux, though. The best we seem to have from them on any open source front is nvidia-docker :/
Funny how much Breakdance hate there is.
> I have a side project in a domain where I pay about 15-20% for CC verification/foreign exchange/payout.

I wouldn't assume that cryptocurrency will solve that problem for you. That's a huge cut, and I suspect if you get a little creative, you could bring that cut down. (Remember that cryptocurrency has its own set of problems too.)

> to customers who hold no crypto and are new to crypto

> Customers do prefer to use CCs

IMO, look for a different credit card solution.
The introduction of the statutory Residence test changed that. If you spend over half the year in the UK, don't have a permanent home overseas as well as in the UK, or work here full time you are resident - and you have to declare all earnings.

Playing domicile and residence games isn't as easy as it used to be.
I wake up, go for a bike ride and land at a hotel lobby bar that has good coffee and fast internet, work from there till noon or 1, go for a bike ride, land at home, hang for a bit, work for a bit, finish work.
# 20 - Always strive to build a smaller system, is probably the most important one. The new generation of engineers have yet to learn (again) that complexity kills. The amount of resources spent maintaining unnecessary complexity is staggering. Your small thing does not have to be a distributed system.
Police, military and SAR have this already in helicopters.

With good equipment you can scan large areas using only one helicopter.
https://www.70millionjobs.com/ is from one of our own ( HN user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RBBronson123 )
Umm, I don't agree (with OP). Senior (or juniors, if it matters) engineers who have strong opinions about anything are, in my limited experience, very stubborn and difficult to work with. I find myself more and more answering with "it depends, give us more time to see what can be done/what tools we can use".
I love it. Partner and I have been in a different city almost every month this year. Mostly mid west and east coast. We might settle down next year or do the same thing on the west coast.
You shared moments of a finite life with them.Thus they are valuable. You read this comments, wasting expensive seconds of your life on it. Thus the relationship to a internet stranger was valuable.

All those connections are paid for in the most expensive currency that is.
> A perplexing 40 percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten

I hate when people bring up food waste like it's a bad thing. What would be the ideal amount going uneaten? A 40% surplus sounds like a great buffer. Zero food waste isn't some ecological utopia; it's a scarred hellscape where people are cracking open bones for marrow and killing each other for a loaf of bread.
> No, but price affects demand. So 2-day delivery doesn't have to drive down costs quite as hard to meet the required price (which is probably a bit lower but similar to the 15min service).

This argument only works if you consider 15-minute delivery as a different business unit as 2-day delivery, so they'll be fighting it out to gain market share. In reality, the same company is behind both options, so it doesn't really matter. They really don't care if you choose 15-minute or 2-day delivery, only that you bought it from them. If anything, they'll keep the 2-day delivery cost the same and charge a premium for 15-minute, because "how urgently you want it" is a pretty good price discriminator.
All claims about solving societal problems (like food waste, pollution, etc) sounds BS to me. But I do think it solves my problem, as a customer.

I am a happy customer of one of these companies, but I am not a hyper busy productivity-optimizing person. The problem it solves for me is not exactly the 30-minute trip to the supermarket. For me it is a substitute of grocery shopping planning.

When I am about to make my morning egg and notice I have no more butter. When I ordered a burger on delivery and realized I am out of coke (much cheaper to buy a 2L bottle than order a 350ml can in the burger place). When I already started cooking dinner and realized I am out of tomatoes.

Also, a last-minute desire for some chocolate or chips. Better for my health to buy one only when I really want it than keep a few around that I’ll eat just because they are there (here, being more expensive and hard to get is a feature , not a bug).
You obviously do not live in the black-and-white, propaganda-generated cartoon that some of these other fellows enjoy. Things are much simpler there.
I didn't use this, but a similar/related project that is for MacOS as host OS, https://github.com/knazarov/homebrew-qemu-virgl

Vagrant is an orthogonal tool to this, it is a VM orchestrator not an actual VM. What does this do: well, qemu doesn't have virgl support merged yet, so you need to go to some lengths to compile it for yourself.

All of the other stuff (spice, virtio) is for "it should be a nice user experience and perform well" above and beyond simply being fast enough to use. In other words, you should be able to copy and paste between the host OS and the guest. You should be able to slide your mouse across the border of the VM window and do some clicking around then simply slide it back out and use your mouse with native host-OS windows again. It should have all of the features you expect and not force you to read a bunch of tutorials to find the features you expect from your desktop VM.

These things are all not granted when you use qemu out of the box. I have this intense 25-lines "qemu" script for invoking qemu-system properly. It was enlightening but I'm not sure how much I was enriched by the process of actually figuring all this out.

Quickemu is, I guess, for making figuring out all this stuff and making it easier to do (and on Linux.)
All I could think of when seeing this was the Star Wars Mosquito Defense System parody from 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk
This is incredible !

1) Make a simulation of the world for monte carlo

2) Do complex processing for obstacle avoidance

3) Make the drones “learn” from only the internal states what to do

And voila, you teach a new robot old tricks
Oftentimes the way you are born affects the chances that "something you've done" is recorded on a permanent record. If one race is more likely to be punished with felonies then policies that discriminate against felonies are indirectly discriminating against race.
Tourists aren't that welcome anymore.

Tourists do things during the day, they dont sit behind a laptop all the time. They spend a lot of money each day then go home after a week or two.
The biggest issue so far is 90% of airbnbs say they have great wifi which turns out to be pretty shit wifi, or at least shit for two tech workers who are both having video calls at the same time during the day. A backup is pretty much required.
What is it about the wool being knitted that attracts the moths. Why are sheep not just covered in moths?
The relevant question is whether the peg can be broken long enough for the loan to get margin called (by someone else exploiting the smartcontract to liquidate collateral). Lasting for the length of a flash loan isn’t enough.
As Intel found out when they were unable to stop AMD naming their Intel 486 compatible CPU Am486, there's a certain threshold of creativity a name has to reach for trademark protection.

These short letter/number sequences aren't it.

Smaller companies than Cloudflare have used similar naming for S3 compatible services without issue, see Backblaze B2
Yep, that's why KDE is so smooth even on older hardware. But on Windows, some QT apps (GnuPG pinentry-qt for example) often have weird scaling issues where they de-snap and move out of their place.
> Activists have gutted admissions at Thomas Jefferson high school in Fairfax, VA, arguably the top public high school in the US because it had a high percentage of Asians. Lowell High school admissions in SF, a top 100 high school, underwent the exact same thing because of its high percentage of Asians. Now NYC is doing the same thing. At Harvard, the admissions department openly discriminates against Asians by saying they lack "courage" or less "likeable". Imagine the outrage if this happened to Blacks, but because it happened to Asians it's considered okay because Asians are unAmerican.

Also notable is that California is finalizing a proposal to eliminate faster tracking in mathematics, arguing that it is a promotion of white nationalist ideology. Calculus may only be taken in the senior year under these proposals, and Algebra is to be de-emphasized as the primary math target of middle school.¹

I found it quite striking that in a long proposal focused on racial justice in math, there is plenty of mention of white nationalism but exactly zero mention of the word "Asian".

[1]: https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
Seems there is a (very large) market for a legit version of Tether. What's stopping some other company from doing what Tether does with more traditional commercial paper / US based short term loans / govt. bonds / etc.?
I had this issue trying to buy a house. My bank was refusing to do the transfer because they "couldn't authenticate my signature". It turns out that one specific signature on one of the signup documents becomes your canonical signature and they match large transfers against that. Of course this random signature half-way through a 30 page agreement was really lazy and didn't look much like my "real" signature (which they have dozens of copies of by now).

I was sitting on my phone with bad connection during a camping trip trying to scribble a signature that looked like the magic reference signature (that I didn't know) so that my purchase didn't fall through.

What a stupid way to authenticate people.
For an example of when efforts to get people to get along are actively bad:

> It's hard to beat the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for the engineering of the profoundly undemocratic Oslo peace accords, that led one of the recipients to start the Second Intifada (i.e. a revolution against the deal that he himself had negotiated) and the assassination of the other and the rise of the deeply unsavoury Netanyahu. It's set back meaningful peace in the region by at least a generation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797736
Sub Brief is another good channel:

- how submarine systems work: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9K78gj2FP2fDVRu_Bkc...

- sonar acoustic signal analyses: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9K78gj2FP2D-EIZkYN1...

- overview of sub classes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9K78gj2FP0hID8jeOp_...
FTX has received nearly 30% of the $48,000,000,000 in tethers that have been "minted" in the last year. You are telling me if tether fails they aren't going to be affected?
They pay VAT at the very least
Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Seznam, DuckDuckGo, Runnaroo (dead but a very successful experiment, I found a number of local business through it, paid them over €100'000 in total and got great jobs done).
NIST's New Data Classification Project
Speaking of QT...I've wanted to switch to a QT-based DE for a while but I don't like lxqt or Plasma. It would be really cool if there was another option.
And HR depts are just fine with that? (taking 2-6 months off) I get the impression They prefer those who stay on the wheel, as they don't have to worry you will just decide you need to take a break from working again.