skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Create a large number of worthless C-corp shares for a company with zero revenue
- Distribute 100% to the founders
- Onboard new investors through a series of progressively higher valuations, diluting less and less with each subsequent round
- Go public at a lofty, inflated valuation that leaves retail with little to zero chance at producing the 100x gains that early investors got to experience
- Profit!

Money is simply a representation of value. If you can create value out of "thin air", or even the perception of value out of thin air, then you can make a profit. That much has always been true.

What gives the C-Corp shares value, particularly the ones that trade at very high P/E ratios? Speculation on future growth, speculation on potential dividends, speculation on favorable market conditions, speculation on quantitative easing bringing yet more trillions flowing into stock market, etc.

What's interesting to me, is that people think our US Federal Reserve fiat monetary system is not an MLM scheme in the same way. We know who profits from the existing system: the older participants who got in early. We know who's been totally screwed by the current system: millennials and Gen Zers who can't afford housing, saddled with debt, living with their parents in their 30s:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
> That doesn't take away the fact that humanity managed to thrive without DST for thousands of years, so clearly it can be done.

They effectively did have DST. They just didn't implement at as a two segment step function like we do. They implemented it as a 365 segment step function (366 segments in leap years). I.e., they synchronized their activities to sunrise.
Divorce can't be easy because it often involves children, which are not easy. They are the reality check on life.
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Love the 2021 edition changes and also the fact that they are so minor!
Not inflammatory no worries, and I have. It's a head scratcher, and a lesson to me. It happened when I disconnected and reconnected a cable while the system was turned on. I thought maybe the HDMI port or chip broke because it is something that can happen, but the fact that I am able to get an initial picture with the help of a box tells me that the hdmi port is actually intact as is the graphics chip. So, maybe it's a HDCP thing. Could be that a HDCP chip is burnt out or something.. I have ordered a component cable and will take the system over to a tv that has component to see what happens, and if I can reset the hdmi if I am able to boot into component first.
It's better for society to adapt to people's biological clocks than to force DST on populations at different latitudes for commercial reasons. In reality, schedules would change every six or three months, not every month.

The logistics problem seems overstated, because countries that have different time zones manage fine.
There are a lot of ways that this comes off sounding like bullshit advice a la "make $300k a week with this one simple trick after taking my course" style advertisements. There are a million things that could go wrong over a ten year period with your perfect plan. I think there's a heavy survivorship bias among those who've managed to execute this kind of exit from work life.
Similar approach, but PLEX + Usenet plumbing (Sonarr/Radarr/NZBGet/friends).

I pay for ESPN+ because it is a convenient way to get some live sports content I like, and the quality of the service is really strong. Other networks make it harder, enforce blackouts, have terrible players that spin my fans up – and for that I use IPTV.
In the olden days, being a web developer might have meant pushing your PHP files to your server using rsync or SFTP and you were done.

Now a days, being a web developer means you run a Jenkins job to webpack your 1,000 JS libraries and deploy your React Docker container to multiple clouds.

Edit: Not to mention the legal team has to sign off on your cookie compliance strategy

I totally see the article's point about being alienated from your labor.
Sure, I think there are a million attack vectors for getting these "orbs" to send the same person money multiple times. Crafting a face that doesn't generate a hash collision (which would be the goal here) is probably an even easier problem!

I'm just pointing out that perceptual hashes do exist.
> Apple gets the exact same information for transactions completed with Apple Pay. Users have to opt in for Google to see this information. Once again, exactly the same.

Nope.

>Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/25/242717/google-no...

Buying a copy of everyone's credit card transaction data, no matter who they bank through, is not even close to the same.

>I don't have to use Google services on Android. iOS ties me to Apple's privacy nightmare.

Nope. Apple's cloud service is every bit as optional as Google's.

The difference is that Google has been scanning everything in Google accounts for the past decade.

Google and Facebook, as the pioneers of surveillance capitalism, are both privacy nightmares.
Wendell tweeted about LibVF.IO and it made my whole month haha:
https://twitter.com/tekwendell/status/1449054328766013440

Also I posted in the Level1Techs forum!
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/libvf-io-a-commodity-gpu-mul...
> Going into an Apple store and asking for (and buying) the computer that comes in the smallest box, which I had a good reason to want at the time

This seems fine, but I've found a better approach in this sort of situation is to—as much as possible!—explain your reason to the person helping you. It's not about seeming less stupid (although that is one of the outcomes) but about giving the other person room to help you with your actual goal. When somebody understands why you need the smallest box, they'll have no reservations about finding it for you, and they might have even better suggestions you didn't consider (eg "order this laptop online, the boxes they use for shipping are more efficient").
There are several islands in the world that have had the name Española. The one that is relevant to the discussion about syphilis is now more commonly known as Hispanola, home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Columbus visited in 1492/3 and supposedly brought back Syphilis in 1493. The Galapagos islands are in the Pacific, and were never visited by Columbus.
Agree this has potentially some merit, but I gave up looking at all the issues in depth after it turned out most of them were unreasonable. Which is sad, really.
Maybe you could sign up for a GitHub enterprise trial? At the least first few screens seem to be working.
Not at very low resolutions, <= 32 px. See sibling comment.
I pay for YouTube Premium - I have a more than average negative response to ads.

For me if I'm paying for something I don't want ads. If you charge me and then also double dip with ads I'll try to find something else that doesn't.
How is using the exact same logic of the initial argument in a different way hyperbolic? It simply shows the absurdity of the original in a different light.
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I think it’s more an issue of talking past each other. In order to build a program, you kind of need to specify the required capabilities, and then standard engineering practice is to decompose that into a set of solutions tailored to the problem. But intelligence is not just about a list of capabilities; they’re necessary conditions, but not sufficient.

This is what leads to the AI effect conflict. We describe some capabilities that are associated with intelligence, build systems that exceed human performance ability on a narrow range of tasks for those capabilities, and then argue about whether or not that limited set of capabilities on a narrow domain of tasks is sufficient to be called “intelligence”.

Recognizing faces, playing chess, and predicting the next few words in my email are all things I’d expect an intelligent agent to be able to do, but I’d also expect to be able to pick up that agent and plop it down in a factory and have it operate a machine; put it in the kitchen and have it wash my dishes; or bring it to work and have it help me with that. We already have machines that help me do all of those things, but none of them really exhibit any intelligence. And any one of those machines getting 10x better at their single narrow domain still won’t seem like “intelligence”.
So looks like the dogs have been rescued already by a mysterious group that calls themselves, the A-Team. Human footsteps have appeared in the rooftop where the dogs were and a giant banner was planted saying "Be strong La Palma. The dogs are fine. A-Team". No kidding!

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-10-21/mysterious-a-tea...
The whole point of time zones is to make it somewhat close to noon when the sun is at its peak, and do make midnight somewhat close to the middle of the night. Otherwise we should all just use UTC.

That's my main objection to permanent DST: it's really just shifting everyone one timezone to the east.

What I learned from this post is that one of the big reasons that permanent DST is appealing is that a lot of areas in the current timezones really ought to be one timezone to the east. For example (see https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/daylight-saving-time-gri...) Nevada ought to be in the Mountain timezone and Alabama ought to be in the Eastern timezone. And a lot of the states that split into multiple timezones probably shouldn't (at least if you focus only on optimizing sunrise and sunset times).
> Every job feels the same, pays the same, and really doesnt need you, you are a cog.

I find this provides me with a certain freedom. If I’m tired, I can just not do something. I am freed from pressure and high expectations as the worst possible outcome is I get fired and end up in the exact same type of place.
> I'll also argue that after 10 years as a software engineer, if you're still just putting buttons on a page or waiting for next feature to show up on your queue, you're doing it wrong.

Sometimes the job market doesn't provide people with fulfilling jobs and roles. They might not have any choice in doing it 'right' and just have 'wrong' as an option.
Why be mad at either party? They are both making rational choices given their circumstances.

I don't expect politicians to act on principles more than anyone else. They are just trying to keep their jobs, and they functionally depend corporate financing to do this, so they will naturally go to bat for the same people.

Intuit is a profit-making machine with side-effects that include creating a tax-filing product. The people running it are acting rationally to keep their jobs too.

This situation is a predictable outcome given the way the system works, and is one example of the failings and inefficiencies of the system to serve the common good.
Each neuron is unique though, you can't just replace them. So they are more than just switches and memory, they are a part of the brains "software" as you call it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_General_Semantics

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

"The map is not the territory."—Korzybski
Working as a software dev for a company is horrible in many ways (the ways being different depending on the size of the company and the industry), but good luck to the guy finding something significantly less terrible and soul-crushing and alienating that pays even 1/2 of what coding does

Of course, if you've been smart and wise, you can afford not to care after 10 years of software development
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Geez. She is still there? I remember writing her 16 years ago when I was at Stanford and had an issue. Of course neither she (nor her office) ever bothered to respond. Wow.
I recommend "git init --bare" and a $5 server on digital ocean
If the purpose of the vaccine is to stop covid-19, then hospitalization doesn't matter, only infection rate does.
Good time for a lunch break I guess
Ask HN: Who wants project feedback? (October 2021)
This is a monthly thread to give and get feedback on side projects.

Post a comment with instructions on how we can try your project. Be nice and try out other posters projects and leave feedback on their comment (especially if they tried your demo).

Please post links to working software that people can demo for free.

If you don't have a project but want to just give feedback thats also great.
Has anyone else been seeing an influx of timescale.com articles? I count around 10 in the last month.
I find it still very concerning that you need to trick management into a better system...
Edit: plus sacrifice an unpaid weekend of work for that.
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/acti...

When you active listen, even if the question might feel stupid, the feeling gets lost in the fact hat the other person is receiving your attention. This technique is also teach for other contexts like counseling, or debating using the Socratic method.
OK. So they are supposed to make money selling one of the most unprofitable commodities on earth...electronic hardware? The only company pulling that off is Apple...and probably just on the iPhone.

I paid $400 for a huge TCL TV. It probably cost $100 just to move it around the globe. There is no money for development or the platform/service in that price.
Such a sophomoric response to call a nuanced opinion like mine "racist".
Asking for the computer in the smallest box ruined the rest of the article for me... that isn't the same as asking a silly question when trying to learn, that's just making things unnecessarily difficult. There were otherwise good points though such as willingness to ask what a question means, but that first example really threw off the rest of it for me.
There was no pause? But look at the grandparent NOAA data. It’s not that “the pause was accounted for”, it’s “there is no pause now”.
The obvious factor behind this discrepancy is the distribution of resources in the real world, as well as the fact that organized violent drug crime is mostly operated out of black communities (again: poverty).

This allele you've identified as the genetic reason for white superiority is most common among Asian men.
What country/city? In Montreal I would say expectation got way higher. Positions with 85K CAD ask for 4 coding rounds and then just ghost you. On other hand one can land a 'municipal park manager' job with 125K CAD pay (of course if have access to such jobs). Also now it seems never ending scrums/ micromanagement are everywhere, exacerbated by covid-19 work from home.
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Well, I think it is because so many people don't use version control in the intended way nowadays. I always review my changes before committing / pushing, but I have the impression many developers nowadays just stage, commit and push, as if VC is some sort of simple storage mechanism. I have talked to numerous people over the past few years to ask them to disable auto-formatting and/or to check their changes before pushing, but alas not always with the intended result. In the end I decided to push for using auto-formatting commit hooks in some projects (even though I dislike it on my own code).

An unfortunate observation: the majority of these projects were bloated, frontend javascript applications. In complicated backend applications I seem to encounter a higher SNR, and thus no necessity for commit-hooks.
Hilarious that this isn't headline news.
Good for him and OpenSrc. I won't be signing up, but I wish them the best. The part about Truth.social claiming all src beining proprietary sounds disappointing, but then this is Vice covering Trump so who knows?

The outrage over Trump evading book burnings is more interesting than the event.
I appreciate the detailed analysis. The base of the letters and where they start, the A, is UTC. A is UTC +/-0. The idea isn’t the letters, which seem to be the main point in the comment, the idea is the rotating UTC (represented by letters to distinguish local from UTC times) instead of having am extra hand moving. An extra Hand moving will make the clock more complex to read. We’d have 4 hands moving. I think a rotating UTC makes it easier to read. As for the letters, it’s easy to change back to numbers which is then simply UTC itself. It’s an experiment with letters, if it doesn’t work, it can be changed.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the rotating UTC layer vs an extra UTC layer + hand.
No problems here. Everything is running fine in the UK and GitHub Actions seems to be up.

As always have a failsafe backup system or CI whenever a real outage happens.

Happy coding.
Can I have their job?
Yeah, embedded hardware is really cheap at scale, even with 4K video decoding.
There's a difference between willingness to look stupid and intentionally trying to flip the bozo-bit on others to figure out their boundaries.

You can actually make this a habit and it becomes hard to fix!

If you ever want to start a company, you have to make it a habit to look impressive.
Huh? Roku is "hardware you purchased". Sure, you could go out and purchase something else to replace it. I'm not sure why you think that means it doesn't impact the hardware you already have.
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Thank you for your first paragraph. I don’t know why even respected people like John Carmack will make huge Twitter threads, like are they not self aware it’s unreadable and looks like an unorganized mess
Thanks a ton for sharing that. This is -- so far -- the highest calibre of this debate I've seen.

I think both parties are talking passed each-other, having missed a very, very important statement:

> You recommended people read GG&S with a grain of salt, but the vast majority of casual readers lack that salt when it comes to understanding the flaws in the book.

Whether or not this salt is there seems like the addition / omission from which each side argues. With salt, it's a fine enough book. The broad strokes are close enough. Without salt -- as in "I'm a professional because I read this book" -- it probably gets really, really annoying.

I definitely agree that nuance is important, and the book should put more effort into not presenting itself as fact. But it's pop-history. It wouldn't be pop if it didn't, and what would be pop would be even worse IMO.
You don’t need much of any theoretical mathematical knowledge to understand monads. What you need is comfort and experience reading mathematical definitions. For most people, that means they’ve studied a lot of math. The famous John von Neumann quote is bang on here:

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

—- John von Neumann
You mean the one Adam Something was so enthusiastic about? /s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvK2i9Jxy5c

https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething/videos
> I highly doubt that the app disables emergency calling.

Well, I highly doubt that it doesn't. Given how little attention the company paid to these important details, who's to say they didn't simply brick the user's phone?

> They prevent the vehicle from being started, not stop them in the middle of the road.

Like I said, nobody will randomly disable somebody's car engine. These people at least have enough foresight to wait until it's safe.

> The police don't repo a thing.

They do where I live. Bank loans money with car as collateral, consumer defaults, bank seeks justice, judge authorizes police to repossess the car so the bank can sell it and minimize losses. Police can enter private property and even use force if necessary.

What is even the point of police if they aren't gonna do things like this? Outsourced to tow trucks? Really? When some random citizen reposseses property, it's robbery.

> if someone dies because of it, the only person whose conscience it is on is the person who bought a phone they couldn't afford and then didn't pay for it

No. The fact that person didn't pay for the phone doesn't matter matter at all. The company can always negotiate new terms or seek justice later.

What matters is the fact that in an emergency the only thing standing between the consumer and a call for help was the phone company. Worse, they got in the way on purpose, as if it was their job to punish the consumer. There is no defending this.

> Just like if someone died because the car got repo'd and they couldn't drive to a hospital.

Not really. If you don't have a car, you can still call emergency services. At least you would have been able to if some stupid company had not locked your phone.
That's not entirely true. I work for big corporations, and the reality is that they're paying big money not for the ability to code, but for the ability to manage projects (even when there is a separate PM). If you're good at making several people work towards a goal and make management happy with your projects, you'll make the money you mention. If you're just interested in coding, they will show you the door sooner rather than later.
As I master my 15th or so language, I can't help noticing how often I have to search online for the simplest of tasks whenever I switch languages now because it's all turned into a big jumble.

Does it need parentheses or not?

How are closure variables managed? Do I need to release things?

Do lambdas require scoping braces or not? What's the damn syntax for them again???

Do I need to use case(X), switch(X), when(X), something else?

Do cases fall through or not?

How do I concatenate strings in this language again?

How do I get lengths in this language again?

Is it -> or => or functions? Are functions even first class? Can they be anonymous?

How did this language handle async operations again?

Anyone watching me work would probably think I don't know a damn thing. And after 25 years in the industry, I sometimes wonder the same thing.
Is this based on experience? This post reads a bit like a student studying algorithms for the coding interview thinking that is the pathway to success.
Or LG WebOS is not a big enough market for Google to care about the experience to put their foot down, at that point they’d rather be on the device (and controlling other devices where it counts).

This is all hearsay though and it’s unclear if Google even made such demands to Roku.
I understand both sides, if you have an audience on Twitter and want to quickly throw out a thread, it works for quick feedback, but at the expense of readability. If the thread is just a few Tweets long it isn't too bad, but beyond that it's hard to read.

Shameless plug: I launched Glue this year which succinctly put is like Twitter and Medium had a baby [1]. Glue has your standard microblogging features, but you can "expand" into a full blog post if you want [2]. I specifically wanted to tackle the melding of a microblogging timeline, long form writing (blogs) and the ability to use your own domain if you wish.

[1] https://glue.im/noah

[2] https://glue.im/noah/the-story-of-twitpic
I unironically think GitLab is a better piece of software, but this type of situation arises way more regularly on self-hosted, so I fully agree with your point that this isn't really something to hold against GH
This is what I call a HackerNews problem. You refuse to buy both a $15 chromecast and a $14 Roku but you annually purchase iWatches each costing over $1000
How does the Orb handle people who lost their eyes?
IMO this is the hallmark of a good engineer. One of my absolute favorite engineers/mentors did this. Having just one of these people in the room can be a huge differentiator in problem solving in a group setting.