skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Limitless is the film version of Alan Glynn's book The Dark Fields. It was published in 2001, so it would've been written before or at most a year or two after modafinil got FDA approval, and long before modafinil was popularized by Wired, etc in the mid-2000s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Fields

The book is really, really good. Much darker than the film, however. The ending is completely different, particularly the implications of the last paragraph.

If you're on a Dark Fields kick, Ted Chiang's 1991 short story Understand is worthwhile. Geekier and not as philosophically weighty, but way more fun.
No, it is an unofficial mess that breaks very often.
I still get a gear ground when I remember what little information it takes to request a ballot and how much information was leaked in Equifax.
Be careful with this line of thinking. It can lead you to justify some extremely unhealthy habits. You'll justify it by saying it's fine, you're getting things done. But the cost will always be there, either physical or mental.
I do something similar except I just stub in comments with a description of the functionality I think may need to exist there. It really does feel like surgery and allows for more high level planning before committing to write a line of code.
It's crucial to retrain your brain not to have negative feelings toward those who have a lot of money. Otherwise you will subconsciously undermine yourself to ensure you never get a lot of money.
Because rational people like to think people are rational. Rational people then go on and write their great sci fi works.

People writing satire know people are irrational. Otherwise they wouldn't be writing satire, would they?

To quote George Carlin: Take an average idiot on the street, then realize half of people are dumber than them.
I have to agree, it's suspicious coming a couple weeks after another negative Stripe post that got a lot of attention.

And the timestamps on the HN posts he linked to are pretty damning as well. What's more likely: an established startup scrambling to launch a new product a couple hours after a small startup's blog post, or the smaller startup piggybacking off the more established startup's announcement?
Games have become less experimental and more streamlined in a chosen genre. Take Sc2: it has three games in it: arcade space combat, arcade planet exploration, and an adventure plot. Current gamemakers shy from such experimenting, and the resulting products are far less diverse, especially among big budget titles (too much risks, understandable, but still).
I thought it's Bolt, the European Uber (taxi, food delivery, etc).
There are two sequels. He didn't kill himself.
MacOS isn’t FreeBSD. I believe they forked the FreeBSD userland a long time ago but used GNU for their shell and toolchain (and the kernel etc is completely different.)
and to think some other people on the internet almost convinced me not to take a load of tax deductions....
I first heard "the shit" meaning "good, cool, amazing" in 1996, I think. Never knew the origin, I heard it from a Californian in Arizona, and not really from anyone else since.
See my reply to the sibling comment [0]. It is not the responsibility of the founders to tell you the truth, they do as they will. It's is always our responsibility to discern the truth from the lies, through what's actually written down.

Anyone, the world even, can lie to us, that doesn't mean we must believe them implicitly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30068708
If you any further evidence that Hollywood is very good at brainwashing people...
This was the most fascinating thing about David Brin's "Startide Rising". And I never forgot that book in my life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startide_Rising
GitHub pages is a good way. Here is how to do it https://pages.github.com/

Note I'm in no way associated with GitHub apart from that I use their git hosting solution.
Maybe it is to a quickly shrinking part of the population, but it's basically common speak to anyone in my life under the age of 45.
True, but relying on the current behavior when it is only one of many behaviors allowed by the contract prevents the author from changing the implementation, or may make porting the function to other platforms more difficult.
Coda 2 was released in 2012. Nova came out in 2020. Is eight years of free updates not “long term value”?
The non-discounted price still isn't outrageous (I think?), but it's disingenuous to advertise a temporary discount as the price of a service. Unless you intend to only use it for 3 years, I guess. Maybe the cost savings do justify that.
Star Control 2 (and 3!) influence is felt everywhere in Mass Effect games.
That's about the kind of (non-) answer I was expecting, actually.
I can think about stack overflow : https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc...

Linuxfr.org , some kind of small HN in French, is a non profit organisation that runs on a budget of like 100€ per year. The one or two servers, and the datacenter space, network, and electricity is donated to them.

https://linuxfr.org/news/association-linuxfr-et-site-linuxfr...
SwitchOS is not based on FreeBSD. It has a net stack forked from FreeBSD code but if that makes it a FreeBSD than Windows and Linux are both BSDs I guess.
> In video game design there is a saying: Show locked doors before you show a key

This is something I've tried putting into words many times.

I'll try to solve a problem and get to know its challenges deeply. Then a tool is introduced that brings it all together.
In these cases, I seem to quickly get a full grasp of the operation and essence of the tool.

I wish education was based around this principle. A bit like what Paul Lockhart advocated for in "A Mathematician's Lament" (https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....)
Thanks for commenting! I hope you can see the influence of dplyr & tidyverse here. Please let me know if you have any other feedback!
Well, it still doesn’t seem to have escaped the narrow community of “geeks who are into tech-related things”. I’d really like to see things that I don’t already see on places like HN (because for these things I’ll just use HN).
It is hard to say who will win in any case, but yes as you say and is known it would hard to win on those(or other) grounds which is why the case is weak.

Also to note Google/Youtube did not get sued in the case you cited. It was only the company which claimed infringement that got sued and lost.
I'm sure that you can get away with a less thorough "pre-op", but how many times have we all made changes to code and then realized our changes didn't work after-the-fact? Even in very complex systems I've worked with, I actually find that not spending enough time understanding the code tends to result in small errors rather than big ones: by the time I feel confident enough to write code, I can usually write something that's basically (but not entirely) correct. As I read it, the author is imploring us to practice putting in the time upfront to avoid these kinds of mistakes.
Shooting in the dark here, but I imagine dose size is an important variable in a study like this. At 500mg, I'm pretty sure a member of the LDS* could tell the difference between coffee and cocaine.

[*] I'm only calling out the LDS community here because they don't consume coffee, or cocaine, generally speaking.
Could we stop using the word isomorphic? We've had simple terminologies like "cross-platform" for decades before someone started using words like this
Second Draft of Waypoint for M&A
Apparently people don't know about the former Soviet satellite states?
You should lookup Morel by Julian Hyde for something similar as well.
Because most people know the documentation exists and people responding with RTfM aren’t doing so to be helpful but to be impolite. If you’re gonna respond with RTFM just don’t respond and it’ll have the same effect.
No, I want to get the last word in! If you're implying that I'm some Russian internet troll, then all I can say is lol.
This is the reason all modern systems sandbox JS. The amount of people that run with JS off is a tiny tiny fraction of a percent on the web.
let met try, for [a, b, c], and [d, e, f]

1. Take the log of all terms (allowed, because log keeps the sum monotonic):

log(sqrt(a)) + log(sqrt(b)) + log(sqrt(c))

2. pull out the sqrt from the log:

1/2 * log(a) + 1/2 * log(b) +1/2 * log(c)

3. factor out the 1/2:

1/2 * (log(a) + log(b) + log(c))

4. sum of logs can be rewritten as a log of product:

1/2 * log (a * b * c)

5. compute log of (a * b * c), and halve it.
Ditto with log of (d * e * f). This should give a number which is proportional to the original sum of sqrt.
Prado in Madrid is an interesting place to visit too. Most of the religious art didn't resonate with me, some other pieces more, but Goya - Goya was from another world. I am not sure how many talents comparable to Goya ever walked the Earth.
This time btc is down because the markets are down; when they up a bit, btc followed yesterday. One way we will see a real deep btc crash is when the recession comes; I can see it going close to 0; depends on how miserable the recession will be. All the rest is just normal (for crypto!) volatility. This can be the start of a real crash or just volatility. Time will tell.
The strange thing is how quickly peoples' perception of a company can flip flop. 5 years ago Stripe was the underdog startup, now they're the big evil corporation?
The real cheat code takes a page from Spathi's book: the most deadly ship in the game is the main ship, with one gun put in the rear slot. Add that guiding module, add some power modules, and you can rain homing projectiles at the enemy who is chasing you, without any risk of getting harmed. I rarely lost a crewmember ever, if only for a random collision with a planet.
> AVIC make planes not missiles.

In a post on Weibo on Monday, the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China said the PL-15E “has the ability to attack manned aircraft, unmanned aircraft, cruise missiles and other targets located more than 145km [90 miles] away”. [1]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3150623/new...
Not sure which rounds you are talking about but both Airbnb and Coinbase had hard time getting funding after YC. Airbnb because it was a crazy idea and with Coinbase lot of VCs didn’t understand or avoided crypto back in in 2012.

Only later, after they got their first investors and became more successful, lot of other firms flocked to them.
Having a policy is not same as a hard block, you would want spending alerts and escalations and reports, but do you really want a hard block on crossing a limit ?

Admittedly I don't have experience working with very many devops /SRE teams, however I have never seen any enterprise vendor relationships were spend is hard capped for b2b sales with centrally managed procurement.
YouTube’s Policy on Hacking Tutorials Is Problematic (2019)
PartiQL[0] is an open source library that is a superset of SQL that I really like. It supports querying nested structures inside columns, so if a column contains some JSON data you can use the standard dot notation to query nested JSON data directly

[0] https://partiql.org/
You can also write things which sound violent (when read literally) but are actually innocent.

My wife's cousin recently had a baby, and posted a photo on Facebook. My wife commented (something like) "She's so cute I'll have to kidnap her". Facebook locked her account for 24 hours for making a "violent threat". I am sure the mother wasn't threatened by the remark in the slightest. It just added to my wife's anger at Facebook for repeatedly giving her "warnings" over trivial or innocent things.

Not online, in person, but one of the teachers at our son's school sometimes "threatens" to "steal him" from us – her remarks don't worry us, because we know she would never actually do that, it is just a colloquial way of expressing affection.
Yes, that's a good example.

Indeed — often SQL doesn't know the column _names_, let alone the types. So for cross-column selection (e.g. `across`), this does become necessary.
Right, that's true. I think structs are inevitable, and classes is the way to get structs in Python.

But yes, the entire OOP-classes with namspaced methods and "self", that's not inevitable
Mass effect was clearly inspired by SC2&3.
Diversity job board Canvas.com ordered to stop using domain name
We all know the history.

It's the implication that these are somehow naturally "Russian" territories (and that the world just needs to step back and accept this fact) that I find kind of -- strange.
And also maybe stop sponsoring and doing business with oppressed regimes too (yes China too)? I'm baffled that Nord Oost pipe project is at the latest stages right now, and W.Europe is considering putting the energy shackles without any extra thought. In a similar vain I'm puzzled that Netherlands are just doing business with Russia like normal after what happened with MA17. I perfectly understand that sitting cozy in their homes is
what only matters to the most of people, but it's just sad that we are slaves of our own comfort and refuse to see a bigger picture.
The narrative did change though, passionate people or not.

Bitcoin was about permissionless digital cash initially, and then it shifted into a digital store of value. That's much less compelling to me and many of the early passionate people.

I know several early BTC people who are sitting on the sidelines now. If it were still about permissionless digital cash, they'd be more engaged. Maybe a bubble burst will help.
> Right, except that myocarditis is also a possible side effect of COVID, and the incidence as a COVID side effect is an order of magnitude larger than as a vaccine side effect.

Unless you're a male under 40 years old, then that particular risk is higher in the vaccines than covid. And way higher with Moderna.
I'm not sure about the others, but as a Deutsche Telekom customer I have discovered that they actually want to be paid for peering deals through occasionally extremely slow connections.
> As you said, the Directory wasn't elected

I did not say that.

I said they weren't directly elected.

They were elected by the Council of Ancients (upper house of the national legislature, which was itself elected) from a list sent by the Council of 500 (lower house of the national legislature, also elected.)

> The Directory itself was installed by a coup.

No, it wasn't. After the Constitution of Year III was adopted, the two councils were elected under it and then the Directory elected by the councils.
When you've been off them for a while, coke and fried chicken can be disgusting. Coke is sickly sweet with an unpleasant gaseous mouthfeel, and fried chicken is a greasy dry coating over pure protein. Coca-Cola in particular has a huge marketing budget.
True! I guess Alpha Centauri really stuck out because it is so unexpected to have something like that in a turn based strategy game, they tend to be pretty dry.
"a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion." [1]

That meaning is exactly that I was looking for. Many people, myself included, believe he's wrong. But what the hell do we know? It feels odd to be giving business advice to a self-made billionaire.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=contrarian+meaning
I believe what Nix really, really needs. Is to separate all the lib, builders and frameworks for languages need to be separated out of it (probably into separate repo, maybe even repos), and treat it like a stdlib is treated in any other language.

That means, it can't be just modified by anyone on a whim, all of changes need to be done through proper RFC mechanism. And anything in it must be documented.

Having all that done would greatly improve learning time, it would probably make it easier to maintain other packages as well.

It made sense that it was done this way originally, because initially no one knows what would be needed, but right now many things are solidified and don't change that much.
Someone observing Earth at distance might make a similar conclusion that humanity is made of humans and the apparent intelligence of humanity as a whole is solely the result of humans bouncing into each other.
Earlier discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778166
Presumably they thought you wanted to use it as it was and when you bought it.
1. Most of the top valued tech companies have some degree of unethical behavior, almost all of them are successful by leveraging market monopolies in industries that are too new to have faced regulation.

2. If you become large enough, you will end up doing some shady shit. The question then becomes, is most of the company shady? Is it the CEO who is shady and the culture permeates from that? And so on.

So its not surprising to have a neutral/negative attitude w.r.t to these companies.

None of this is hyperbole, btw. A lot has been uncovered about what actually happened within the companies v/s what they like to promote themselves as; mostly from lawsuits but also by some excellent, professional journalists examining these companies more closely than they would let on.
The main channel was the “Recorded Live” series, which was basically livecoding with me thinking out loud. That didn’t require any real prep, as I had enough experience with a previous livecoding show that it came out pretty well. The main thing I did was edit out pauses and gaps while I was thinking so that it flowed nicely. I would also announce a pause when I needed to go research something (which was fairly common) and edit a “fade to black” into the video.

The “Lessons Learned” channel was more elaborate. The video at objectplayground.com [1] is my most popular example. For those, I would make slides and animations in Keynote, then record while playing the slides. I had an outline, but not a script, as I felt that made the narration less stilted. Sometimes that resulted in minor mistakes going into the video. For more serious ones, I would record a new line and edit it into the video.

In all cases, I would edit out pauses, and if I misspoke or stumbled over my words, I’d just repeat myself and edit out the mistake. I got pretty good at editing—because there was no video of my face, I could make cuts that were basically invisible. My livecoding videos each had hundreds of cuts, typically just half a second or so. It would take a 20 minute recording down to a 15 minute final video. It took about 4 minutes of editing per minute of final video.

[1] The video on objectplayground.com isn’t showing up on my phone for some reason. You can find it here instead:

http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/comments/lessons_learne...
Good point - a useful phrase to look up would be "Nadir in American race relations". Um, this does not exactly bode well for your POV, does it? The point of that 'axiomatic' reasoning was to show how, in a counterfactual where urban politics increases in importance, the "nadir" can last longer and the stakes be higher. So it only gets harder to campaign for civil rights among urban voters, and the broad dynamic that led to the actual Civil Rights era has a much harder time getting established.

Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, arguably the most consistently pro-Black presidents during the "Progressive" nadir, were critically supported by rural, not urban voters.
Here is a site that I think was meant to show how bad it is, but could be condensed down if they wanted to actually help people.

https://www.vote.org/voter-id-laws/

The info here seems to contradicts your statements, so if you don’t agree, don’t yell at me, talk to the site.
If you want to influence the direction of the sequel to Star Control II currently under development it seems that you can do so on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/uqm2/
Postgres does this
VSCode’s speed and resource usage are not best class, but – on my relatively modern machine – are definitively good enough.
The counterargument that poll watchers themselves may be partisan seems vague. How does this not apply to anything? Maybe they manipulated the ballots, maybe they reported the wrong numbers etc..

There's always a bureaucratic apparatus involved in processing an election and mail voting doesn't strike me as particularly exceptional. Why does the author trust that the French civil service is non-partisan enough?

Here in Germany mail voting works exactly like described, outer ballot verifies identity, inner ballot contains the vote. There are always, I believe nine people required to be present when the envelops are separated to check on each other. To believe there is a systemic, effort across countless of voting regions with different demographics seems kind of conspiratorial.
Wine is important because Miles is using his love of wine as a cover for his alcoholism. For the first half of the movie Miles is a basket case while Jack seems to have everything together, but as the plot progresses we see Miles gradually starting to come out of his neuroticism and then the light shines hard on Jack's sex addiction. The movie is about the contrasts and dynamics that evolve from their respective journeys.
> Sounds that were missing from classical Latin are still not interoperable across languages using the Latin script.

Sure, but it's hard to blame that on the phonology of classical Latin. Sounds that were present in Latin are also not interoperable across languages using Latinate scripts. The sounds in a language change over time, and they do it much, much faster than the spelling does.
Heh almost forget the venerable 555.

Back in the day just out of high school, I was taking a course on Digital Microprocessor Technology in Jamaica and we used 555 chips on our breadboards wired up with a CPU (I forgot which one -- might have been a 6800), at the time the "College of Arts, Science and Technology".

I had no idea this course was for tech guys working in factories who needed to maintain and run the industrial control equipment. I was just interested in the stuff and decided to take that night course too.

That short course (and the 555) were what got me a true understanding from the ground up, of digital computer technology.

Which is why, we will hire computer science graduates from any country these days. That curriculum is very similar everywhere.
This guy is significant on HN because he and his partner, Richard Peery, literally bought up all the orchards and built the modern Silicon Valley. He also made billions doing it. Here's an article from 2014 that tells the career arc of a poor boy who went to college as a basketball player on scholarship at Stanford and became one of California's largest real estate developers.

https://fortune.com/2014/07/07/arrillaga-silicon-valley/
Missing the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse...
But this poster is also a HN "moderator" and has a very biased perspective in this conversation. Moderators are in place to ensure fairness, to act as a referee and prevent spam. It's PR that does the sort of "correct inaccuracies and misperceptions where possible" stuff of effectively using outsized leverage to control the narrative. It's PR that tries to deny that beliefs that are deemed "incorrect."

I'm sure that line between PR and "forum mod" can get blurred over the years, but that's exactly the OP's point. The YC community, as it has scaled, is no unbiased marketplace, and it has not handling scaling responsibly. Look at the founders who were ousted from bookface, or even some of the non-public discussions there. The OP's Stripe commentary might be over the top, but YC has yet to produce a mature response to any of these friction points.
I think that would be Michael Kirkbride. My understanding is that he is responsible for some of the more interesting elements of the lore.