skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe the field would benefit to go more towards philosophy and logic, explaining it with words.

Interesting perspective.

I studied Philosophy and Logic in university:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols

Much of it was familiar to me because, earlier, I took a class my Physics professor insisted we should take, as he put it, "if you want to get out of the dark ages": Programming in APL.

AS it turns out many of the symbols used in APL come from Logic.

To this day I find it disturbing that Python uses "^" for bitwise XOR, because both in Logic and APL, this is the symbol for AND. Anyone who studied Logic instantly recognizes the APL logic operators.

I say "interesting perspective" because the reality of what you are asking is precisely opposite what you think the outcome would be.
What exactly is the comparison here?

Remembering my shell history for commands I run locally on a single computer, stored in a format I can control/edit, that is never transmitted to other people or used for advertising, that is fed into a simplistic history algorithm I have complete control over, and that I can toggle on and off at will even for individual commands -- that's the same as a 3rd party analyzing on remote servers everything I look at while I'm walking around the real world?
Yes, toward the end.
It will probably be more MMO and less RPG. More club penguin than WoW.
I can only repeat the top comment from the "8 years of Go" thread [1]: the team made a different set of priorities, and was hugely successful in implemneting them, which also brought a ton of popularity. Golang is not my cup of tea, but I very much see the large and underserved niche it filled.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671676
Wow, Brendan Eich is supposed to have had a whole 10 days to come up with JavaScript.
I have thought about the cargo cult every day for about a year and a half now, when people are still disinfecting everything constantly over a year after we learned that surfaces aren't how covid spreads. Will we even remember where this came from in a few years when we're still doing this stuff? Nope, just a cargo cult now.
Google and all the rest give users the impression that the comments section, or in the case of social networks the feed, is a sort of digital market square of organic conversations happening unhindered between participants. It is not and never was. It is only recent events of the last few years that have made this abundantly clear.
Go for what you want. The consultancy sounds fishy but that's just me. It might be a body shop for programmers. That being said working a real job for a few years can do a lot of self confidence and self sufficiency.

School will always be there but I think it is the better option if you can swing it financially you can find lots of interesting things to do and research projects etc... Take advantage of the opportunity the University program provides.
Thanks for this list. This may be useful for those interested in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's dietary practice to "only eat that which our ancestors ate 1000 years ago", aka the antifragile diet.

Among the oldest, no surprises to paleo/ancestral/traditional:

American bison---8,000BC

pigs, goats & sheep---7,000BC

lard---7,000BC

cattle domestication---6,500BC

milk & yogurt, & sour cream---5000BC

...but at the other end, these foods were older than I had expected, still over a thousand years ago (!):

loquats & flower waters---10th century

cod & nutmeg---9th century

spinach & sago---7th Century

eggplant---6th Century

pretzels---5th Century

lemons ---3rd Century

costmary & blood as food---1st Century
File under Tech Debt?
But your standard of living largely comes from people who step out of that comfort zone, work hard and take economic risk… Your local pizza guy or startup founder, are those the people you call “meat robots”?
Someone I know recently posted a photo of similar structures in use in Kiribati. They're made with rocks instead of wooden poles though.

https://twitter.com/mytagimoucia/status/1445189713535528961
That’s fediverse
In the metaverse the blockchain technology keeps track of your VR assets using non-fungible tokens where you interact with AI-powered IoT devices. You might even 3D print your own self-driving virtual-electric car!

I mean, the previous big things haven't even had the chance to become big...

When can we go back to hyping the wavelet transform?
I drink and I know things.
I've really enjoyed Neon Abyss - it's a platformer roguelike with procedurally generated levels, difficulty that scales from reasonable to impossible, and runs take 10-20 minutes so it really respects your time. There's a ton of variety in the items and power ups (and how they interact with each other), so runs end up feeling very different.
Libvf.io: Consumer GPU Virtualization Driven by YAML
Widespread asset devaluation is unlikely because central banks will inject cash to prevent declining asset prices.
Too bad it turned out that project to rid the theory of fields, which are invisible and extend everywhere through space, failed. However, I guess what's coming is that space and matter itself is defined by these fields.
Rich people ate the beef. Usually the normal folks would eat less desired cuts.

Overall, ranching and dairy are almost always two different businesses with different factors.

Chicken and eggs are similar. Traditionally, young chicken was rare as the economics of a traditional farm were such that eating chickens were akin to killing the golden goose. Likewise, keeping beef cattle around consumes a lot of grass that could have made butter.

Another factor to consider that as the British took over, their inheritance laws took over, so farm plots would get divided over time. Large herds became increasingly difficult.
700,000 Americans died. That is approximately 0.21%. Over almost 2 years. Not 1%.
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I'm starting to dive into the Path Integral formulation and this is taking me to turn things upside-down from what I thought of the order of what relies on what. I've started to get Baez's view [1] and given that, the question in [2] becames more and more important. But it's never too late to learn. An important element is to search the simplest cases posible, discrete better than continuous, finite beter than countable. If you think of a matrix as a number-labeled bipartite graph, and you glue the graphs of a sequence of matrices the only sensible way, then the product of the sequence is a "path sumatorial", look at here [3]. You sum productorials one for each path, the sum extending to all paths. That is readable in the original Feynman paper. That is for finite state spaces. For a continous state space (e. g. some real variables), the integral became a path integral, and you are integrating a functional over paths, so you need a Lebesgue measure on a space of paths to do a Lebesgue Integral. Baez has some old lectures that develop further.

[1] https://www.classe.cornell.edu/spr/1999-03/msg0015539.html

[2] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/553/why-isnt-feynman...

[3] https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-probability-graphs
i think this is called clickbait journalism.
At Antithesis we are pretty calm and working on very interesting stuff. (You would have to relocate to the DC metro area, though.)
Does nothing in Deadpool 2 qualify as gore to you? It's among several movies which depict man falling into a woodchipper. Does cutting zombies with a chainsaw not count as gore? Do videos of abatteur, butchers and surgeries count as gore?

Gore is subjective obviously, but if the above is not 'gore enough' for you, then you are comparing some extreme gore, of the kind that most people will (hopefully) never encounter in their life, with pedestrian portrayals of sex, something most people do encounter.

Jokes aside, let's flip your argument on it's head -> would you be concerned if someone you know recommended you a website where various kinds of gore are uploaded by the thousands every day, they are tagged and categorised for easy search? Are you concerned about pornhub to the same degree? I would probably refer to them to a mental health helpline immediately.

It's not actually hard to find Gore, it does surface on 4Chan and other places occasionally, it's just that mentally healthy people don't search it regularly the way they do porn.
Exactly…the packages that get reported on don’t get reported on for being the average or the median. They get reported on for being noteworthy.

The last good data I saw (which I believe was 2017?) had median founder ownership at large exit for VC funded startups as something like 11%
I see this term used a lot more by investors than tech people.

We already had, at least one, "metaverse" in Second Life, right? What's the difference this time?

VR? - not with the current delivery mechanisms. Too uncomfortable for extended use and not enough value provided. Another decade maybe. Did second life lose popularity because it wasn't a VR-first experience?

NFTs? - game developers are not going to spend their time recreating your NFT as a custom asset in their game world. There aren't great inter-op standards for taking assets between games. We have fbx as model format, kind of, but then how that's rendered is going to vary. There's also all sorts of potentially liability issues in regards to taking a random image / asset off the internet and injecting it into your game. Unless the game world itself is decentralised. I don't see this going anywhere. "Crypo-gaming" sure, some kind of "metaverse" no.

If the "metaverse" is some AR stuff with your phone then sure, that's coming - putting down virtual furniture in your home, trying on virtual shoes or clothing etc. But that doesn't sound anything like what Facebook is pursuing.

I'm not saying it's not possible and maybe this post will look archaic in five years but I don't see it on the horizon at the moment.
It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question
How often does the CEO of one company address management of its biggest competitor? How often can you even get said CEOs to public acknowledge the name of their competitors?

Elon started Tesla to bring about the EV revolution. He's not throwing dust in the face of the competition, but rather telling them how to catch up, because he wants their joint goal to be realized: ubiquitous EVs.
Maybe those who prefer a system like this should move to China instead of trying to bring the system to a country where most people are not in favor of such system.
>There are still many non-scarce things you can spend your extra money on.

>An example of what you can do: buying expensive cars.

Why are expensive cars not scarce? They're ultimately built using scarce resources (eg. steel, rubber, plastic, labor).
> As traditional as it seems, the Irish Soda Bread that you might be trundling out this weekend wasn't invented until 19th century, since baking soda wasn't invented until the 1850s.

Interesting fact: prior to the development of baking soda, ammonium (specifically, ammonium carbonate) was a commonly used leavening agent for cookies and crackers. It was obtained by distilling ground-up deer antlers, giving it the traditional name "salt of hartshorn".
This entirely obscure example, if anything, is the exception that proves the rule. Do you have an example that doesn't involve just 3e-6% of Americans, all of whom are politicians or their aspirants/sycophants -- mostly contenders for worst people in America. Maybe something a little more relatable than the system of elite influence that undergirds the Capitol?

The entire point of the argument is that transparency in pay creates incentive to argue your pay, and weakens the incentive to increase your output. Here, there is a strong, shared understanding that the compensation received is not the salary, and therefore one is not underpaid in a true sense.

Pay transparency wouldn't tell you much about the actual value of the job. If instead, your congressional rep helped a lazy coworker get placed at an extremely selective top lobbying firm, but only helped you (the hard worker) to get placed with the manure farmers of America -- then you might suddenly feel that you were unfairly treated.

Show me that level of transparency and I could change my mind.
Did you publish code?
American bumblebees have disappeared from these 8 states
JavaScript/TypeScript changes so much that a codebase will look very different from one year to the next. JS/TS has come a long way and needed to make substantial change, but I appreciate the slow moving, methodical nature in which the Go team moves the language and environment forward.
+1 paprika. Scaling up to double a meal and freeze the other half keeps the freezer stocked for easier dinner preps later.
> But there is also a good correlation between high death rate states and states where people are lax in taking preventative measures. That seems to be better than the obesity rate correlation. Florida, for example, is noticeably lower on obesity than the rest of the South, being more in line with most of the Northeast and the Northwest but is a leader in not taking COVID preventative measures, and has had terrible second and third waves compared to states with comparable obesity rates.

A better correlation according to who?

According to one report, the two greatest risk factors for COVID are age and weight[1]. Over 20% of the population in Florida is 65+, the second highest percentage in the nation, and Florida also happens to be the third most populous.

Florida isn't an outlier if you look at the age distribution of deaths: over 77% of deaths are in those 65+.

[1] https://www.worldobesityday.org/assets/downloads/COVID-19-an...

[2] https://theconversation.com/severe-covid-in-young-people-can...
This. The switching every 2-3 years are for those in somewhat typical companies that don’t really pay top rate and mostly plan around the fact that people will leave in that time frame. This allows the company to maintain their salary cap with new people that will start lower and cap out at about 2-3 years (salary wise and level wise). These companies are simply structured that way whether they know it or not.

But I’ll add, even with all that said, you don’t want one company on your resume. A track record of a few good companies is a strong signal that you have your career in order, so I’d still aim to leave no later than the 4-5 year mark.

Unless you are in leadership position, a serious one, not just a nominal one (you just got the title but still chump change at the place), stick to this type of plan.
Given it’s YC associated I wonder if YC themselves will launch an enquiry into how one of their products went down like a lead balloon on this very site.
You don’t actually have any offers on the table so you have no opportunities at the moment. Don’t get ahead of yourself, but don’t get discouraged either.

If the places you want to work at require higher technical skills, then getting a masters degree won’t help you achieve that. I don’t know why you would even consider going for your master’s at this point. Give 2 years of slave labor and take on massive debt just to get your name on a paper no one will ever read and stick your toe into various disciplines you’ll probably never revisit.

If you’re really set on data science then you will need a PhD to be competitive in that field. There are a small number of seats with many highly educated people trying to sit in them.

Don’t listen to the recruiter about why you didn’t get the engineering job. Recruiters are only useful for getting short-listed. They usually aren’t part of the hiring committee. The team probably just chose someone else with more working experience for less pay. You can never predict whether you’ll get an offer based on how you felt the interview went because you don’t know who else is interviewing and what rate they were submitted for.

Sorry if this advice sounds like a lot of “Don’ts.” The reason is because you’re doing mostly the right thing — hitting the pavement and maximizing your options. Keep doing that and eventually you’ll get an offer, ideally 2.
United Airlines employees bought the majority of the company in 1994. It was literally an employee owned airline so they had every incentive to keep customers happy and find ways to boost shareholder returns. But the unions managed to wreck the company (again) and never delivered any better service to customers.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-13-mn-15156-...
Maybe big oil and old-auto are the bigger competiton for Tesla, so it's best to have other automotive heavyweights going all in on EV.
Yes I think that's true. And I wonder how much of the background radiation of dissatisfaction in our field can be traced to many of us getting into it as the culmination of an early interest in (or obsession with) math and science, but then discovering that most of the jobs require a bunch of product work which is not actually very technical. For me, I still get satisfaction in the constant micro problem solving inherent in programming, but it's not the kind of big problems I dreamed of figuring out while reading Feynman late into the night as a teenager.
> also has permadeath ;)

Citation needed.
Is there good data on founder comp at different levels of funding? Both salary and equity across roles, and how funding changes that.

For example - I've heard founders getting bonuses or being able to sell stock in later rounds to stay focused on longer terms, and that CEOs typically get the same salary but more equity than CTOs (YC is unusual in that it encourages equal splits).
"Elon started Tesla to bring about the EV revolution." -- Nope.

1) He didn't start Tesla.

2) He only popularized it in the US. The rest of the world was already building EVs.
Tesla already tried battery swapping. Technically it is possible but there are some logistical issues and it's not cost competitive with fast charging.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols

Among all those symbols only ">" and "<" are somewhat intuitive, all the others you have to learn what they mean.

Even "=" is derivative of "<" and ">" because by reasoning you can understand that you get to it by rotating the 2 lines about 30 degrees after realizing that you are dealing with 2 numbers which are in fact the same and not one being bigger than the other
I just use ‘cpupower frequency-set’ to pin cores at their base clock speed for microbenchmarking.
Mosr people who think they are top performers and paid accordingly really aren’t paid better than others. They are just lied to by their managers.
>Robert Reich - "Unions are plain wrong about NAFTA causing the US to lose jobs"

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-07-14-930714...

whatever people like Reich or Krugman say, it's a pretty good bet to do the opposite
The "object-oriented programming" has no mathematical model support. So it cannot prove its scientificity.

My "The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Principle-based Warehouse/Workshop Model" is based on the simple, classic, and widely used in social production practice, elementary school mathematics "water input/output of the pool" as a mathematical prototype, Therefore, it is scientific.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
Poof and it's gone...

A perfectly normal word...
I think they’re doing this more in schools. I was helping a first grader with homework recently and I was surprised the math worksheet was essentially simple algebra but with a shape or a little picture to represent the variable instead of a letter:

> 3 + circle = 7

> 10 - cloud = 4

It seems like a perfectly reasonable exercise for a first grader. Clouds and puppy faces and circles. But I have to admit if I’d seen “x” in place of the symbols I’m not sure I would’ve thought it was so reasonable.
Yes...but it sounds to me mostly like a "change fast or die" signal to VW's hidebound and sclerotic executives.
For some stuff, the only incentive is money. Nobody's going to haul your garbage away because that's what fulfills them.
For later stage companies, these are likely in the form of RSUs over options. That makes it a lot closer to giving cash based incentives than stock, especially when compared to owning the company outright from an early stage.

If a CEO owns 60% from the beginning, that's already built into the cap table no matter how big the company gets. If they get RSUs as incentives later on, the company is still footing the bill for giving them an $500 million in stock - an asset the company owned that could have otherwise been converted to cash.

The article doesn't do a great job explaining why giving bonuses later is so much more expensive for the company and its shareholders
Doctor of Philosophy not Medicine I seem to remember from a previous reply.
similar phenomenon for different reasons on Reddit: anytime I felt compelled to write up a comment, within minutes I would receive a notification that my comment was removed since I wasn’t a regular member of the community. How to become a regular when I’m not allowed to comment is a mystery to me, without even getting into how every subreddit has a different auto-moderator working off some opaque spam/profanity filter.

how much content is produced but never published online, silenced by robots?
reliability is giving the right answer.
availability is being ready to give the right answer.

cloud services have poor reliability and good availability.
Because 8-16 bit cpu's are fine without. Eg baremetal AVR firmware comes without all the OS bloat, it does one thing only.
Stop using FAANG products and services. That's what will be most effective.
Yes, exactly. One of the things we had going for us as an industry is that our interviews might be BS but at least anyone had a shot. You didn’t have to go to Harvard. Now that’s ending.
The car market specifically has a lot of protectionist policies that gives local brands an edge (like the chicken tax in the US).

The other thing are brands that exclusively focus on niches. Volkswagen produces something of everything, but LandRover, Tesla and Maserati have a much more specific line-up. Even in luxury brands: a Rolls-Royce is nothing like a Bentley. This exists in the smartphone world (CAT phones) or the search engine world (duck duck go), but their market shares are tiny
Most of the pay gap between the top and bottom performers isn't much to do with direct negotiation, it's the cumulative effect of star performers being in high demand and therefore getting faster promotions, more and better offers, etc. If they get screwed on a promotion they can get another ten offers and pick the best one. Iterate over twenty years and you have a gigantic gap in comp between the top and bottom within the same industry.
I just wrapped up writing my own. I’ve been following a lot of projects such as Archivy and Obsidian for a while, but neither of them were what I needed. Wrote a flask app that does exactly what I need.

Obsidian’s business model is really smart: creating a knowledge management system that applies to the vast majority of use cases, add room for a little modularity, and monetize it.

However for those edge use cases, which on HN might be closer to a majority, it’s important to first hash out exactly what sort of features you need.

Do you need to link files as well as notes in a knowledge graph?

Do you need to use advanced search filters?

How much data are you dealing with?

Just some food for thought.
To help answer your first question, I would recommend reading Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. by K. W. Nicholls (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471778201) and A New History of Ireland, Volume II and III (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495293791 and http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299242437 respectively). As for your second question, I am not an expert enough to answer because I tend to study the earlier period before the Norman invasion.
I wish you so many upvotes for this comment.