skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any calculation of GDP losses due to climate change is based on completely flawed reasoning. Steve Keen has thoroughly debunked this nonsense, which has mislead many people into complacency: https://www.patreon.com/posts/climate-change-26594935
if you are going to treat a domain name owner like this, why would shareholders, and potential customers expect to be treated any better.

actions advertize louder than popups
would it be something like B2B SaaS [1]?

[1] to those uninitiated: Business to Business, Software as a Service. Basically renting Software.
The Mediterranean’s first offshore wind farm, off Italy, is now up and running
There is no way to win, for me, because it burns me out. I am/was a semi-perfectionist maintainer.

If I subject others to my standards, it's annoying for them.

If I hold my nose and merge it anyway, I feel the pressure to clean it up before the release. Which burns me out, so I avoid doing this.
"Why is it crypto people are so gross?"

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ot...

Because some people do not give a fuck. We're talking about people who support valuation of assets based on speculation with no actual economic value while pumping out oceans of CO2 and wasting copious amounts of energy to have computers, to simplify a bit, guess a number somewhere between 0 and 2^255 for the privelege.

Seems on brand.
But it's not a refutation at all
1. You're paying a subscription fee for _access_. It's irrelevant if you use the product.

2. It's insane to want the government to "protect" you from … not using Netflix. You seriously think it's okay for the government to force this?
Users exchanged $100M for the ability to mint an NFT on Ethereum. We can argue about NFTs, but I'm confident these users felt like they received something of real value in return.
It's because everyone wants to be the new Einstein and his special and general relativity theory were mathematically beautiful. Those theories prophesied new phenomena that were actually found to exist and are real and measurable.

I don't think any subsequent new big theory like string theory accomplished that and Einstein-emulation seems a dead end. However theorist don't give up on the approach and quite a lot of them seem to argue that beauty without testability is good enough, while that is really really iffy.
You've answered a different question. The question is: can you construct a sequence of dice-casts that an adversary can't distinguish from a real dice-cast? Answer: you can't.
The G5 was the desktop chip, it was Motorola's task to scale it down for laptops, which they were unable to do.
> In some cases, you can fix this by asking the sender to be, like, normal.

I was about to be tongue-in-cheek and ask why the “professional” way of asking that question might be.

… then I saw the very next sentence and chuckled aloud.

What a nightmare :/
I know the admissions percentages for the College has been consistently over 10% for a while now so a total College enrollment of 9.37% would imply a disturbing dropout/flunk out rate. I don't think that is happening. Instead, I think the difference is due to the College admissions statistics [0] not being as detailed; in particular, I bet many of the students listed as "two or more races" in the other stats identified as Black or African American during admissions (or the Admissions dept. simplified the data presented).

[0] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
It seems to me those job boards are not equivalent to yours - they have many, many, many more posts and many, many, many more eyeballs on those posts. If I'm your customer how do I justify paying quite a large up-front cost with no indication of what sort of results I can expect? At least if it was a relatively high per-job post charge I could maybe justify just using it once and dropping it as an experiment.
Yah. I can do better. But not when being awake for 23hrs, reading, reading, reading. Not doomscrolling. And switching to HN from time to time.

Good night :-)
Why the rich? Nobody got rich by providing services only to the rich. People get rich by providing services to the masses.
That’s astute. Also the exact reasons I use the magic trackpad instead of the magic mouse.
If you are unusually good at being an SDE 2, there's not really a way to leverage that into pay or recognition or harder projects. Until you get the promo you will just be doing the same borderline-menial work any SDE 2 can do, a fungible story points resource. Although it's great that the engineering IC ladder provides an alternative path to people management, there is no alternative path to being a professional meeting-talker. We do not allow unusually capable individuals to write code that the median engineer couldn't write (because then the median engineer definitely couldn't maintain it). Instead we ask them to supervise and direct the work of the median engineers.

I actually think the best way to leverage mostly-solo intellectual work into business results and recognition might be data science. Models and analyses are allowed to be arbitrarily sophisticated and as long as the rest of the org understands the inputs/outputs/performance characteristics, they're content to treat the internals as black box. So data scientists can really go all out intellectually on their technical artifacts in a way that engineers can't.
I don't think I can really articulate why but this smells a lot like the "real programmers use [neo]vim" or "real developers write C++" kind of gatekeeping that was pretty widespread and even expected/accepted a few decades ago, but really has no place now.

Being intimately familiar with HTTP is fine, reading a lot of RFCs is fine, but there are plenty of well respected, well compensated, influential engineers who do neither, and have no need for either one.
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Of course commenters can and do criticize any startup here, YC or no. Every regular HN reader knows that. You're not, however, allowed to derail discussion by inundating a thread with angry/obsessive posts and made-up sinister scenarios. That's what you've been doing in multiple threads now, including over 20 comments in this one. That's not curious conversation, which is what HN is supposed to be for.

We moderate HN threads less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the topic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). but 'less' does not mean we don't moderate at all. Until now we've moderated your comments much less than we would if you had been behaving this way about any other topic, but enough is enough.

Standard HN moderation practice, when users do this kind of thing, is to penalize and rate-limit their account. I'm going to do that now. (Edit: I changed my mind later. See the explanation below.) Since the reaction this will educe is predictable, I might as well answer it now: no, this has nothing to do with criticizing YC or YC startups. It's because you've been posting a plethora of low-quality off-topic comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines. This is standard HN moderation and the only thing different in your case is how long we held off doing it.

Actually, IIRC, you're rather a good commenter apart from this, so if you want to fix this, it shouldn't be hard.

Edit:

For some reason I realized later that I didn't feel good about penalizing your account. It's not that what I said about standard moderation practice was wrong or anything—I just have a feeling that you're a good HN user coming from a good place and that there's probably a much better way to fix this. So I'm going to go with that instinct, and have removed the rate-limit etc.
The double edged sword of remote work.
This is amazing :)
Hi, I would place it in the dislike list but for the wrong reasons: I have only seen the movie and read a chapter or two a loooong time ago and I am utterly fed up with 42 jokes so I am not going to get into it any time soon I think. I liked the reverse depressed robot in the move "I am so sad to inform you we are going to crash and burn \o/ :)".
The real crime here is making six figures and not being able to afford to buy a 1-bedroom apartment. Leftism.
That sounds like Google!
I think it's about understanding the tradeoffs. If you go for the grand unveiling you have something more complete, and fewer distractions while working on it. If your instincts are very good for what people want this is an advantage.

When you build in public (for context I do this within a private company so "in public" means in view of internal constituencies) the best outcome I've seen is early feedback from a few trusted early adopters. Stress on few and trusted.

So it is a continuum, I'd say the better question is whom do I show this to and when, based on what sort of transaction will result. At each stage of development, who is the audience for a mutually beneficial transaction?
It might be a cultural thing.

If you can casually tell someone they're acting like an idiot, it's (to me) a sign that you have a level of trust with that person and the ability to empathize/communicate with each other.

If someone comes to you in private and says, "Look man, you're really fucking up.", it hits different than "You might reconsider some of your recent behaviors."

It shows that you are emotionally invested enough to use empathic language, rather than make blasé/meek innuendos to avoid any chance of offending them. The point is "You need to hear this" and not "I want to avoid offending you", which feels more productive to me.
The system should have its own documentation though. It's fine if that documentation is basically just explaining all the interactions (especially if that's the bulk of your system). But that doesn't mean the individual components shouldn't have good documentation.
The free and horizontal scrolling benefits can also be found on much better mice. Logitech has some nice ones that allow both ratcheted and free scrolling with the click of a button.
const double ON_HOLD = -99999999699.99
It sounds like SFWA is doubling down on as PR based strategy for making Disney pay up. It hasn't worked so far. Doctorow mentions labor organizing - perhaps a page from labor is warranted and writers should strike against Disney.
They've pulled off major hardware transitions twice before without hiccups. But this time they make the whole platform which is quite impressive imo.
> Frankly, Google should fork C++ and create a new language without the warts and a new standard library.

That's how we got golang.
The problem was always placing importance on other people in the first place. You don't need to care about them or their problems. We are born into this world, we aren't responsible for it. As long as you can live with yourself, just ignore the bullshit, because there's nothing at all you can do.
I sort-of have a niche role working with common tech stacks. Typically specialized schema db query optimizations or designing distributed/multiprocess interactions. I don't really have a way of describing it other than get into a company and start doing it, or possibly if my past work at past is actually factored into a role.

The idea of a language or tech switch sounds really interesting and I'll keep that in mind.
I see what you mean, but you’ll note that I’m neither saying that it’s the only way, nor am I saying that it’s required. What I’m instead doing is trying to cultivate a deep understanding of one’s tools and protocols, which is absolutely the hallmark of a competent engineer.

I concede that this may superficially resemble the aberration you describe, but insist that it’s actually very different.
Right, but selecting for in the present tense (ie past 30 years) is going to have a negligible impact on population statistics.

Also, ruling out that kind of confounding -is- hard… as mostly practiced any measurement error in confounders reduces our ability to ‘control for’ them… but most epidemiology and all nutrition research just glosses over this.
> I have a colleague who just can't justify to themselves having an emergency fund while they still have debt to pay

Depending on the interest rates, and assuming they can keep the line of credit if they lose their job, this might make sense since it's a choice between reducing debt now vs potentially increasing debt later.

The second part is just silly, but it's probably the attitude they got them in debt in the first place.
> the most disturbing part.

Your natural reaction to this is based on sound moral principles, and I think those same principles were at work when the 3rd Amendment was written. Here's an article that tries to draw a parallel between mandating spyware and the quartering of soldiers in people's homes:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/22/third-amen...
10% of an Internet bill?

One latte per month? Go away kid, you bother me.
If someone said to me “As per my prediction, this outcome does not come as a surprise” I would not like them very much
Related serenity prayer.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference"

Even as an atheist, the sentiment is crucial for navigating a complex world full of both beauty and horror.
Let’s say it this way in another domain - no matter the rationalization, Mikey And Bob with Jerry is completely different than with John.

That’s all this is. Not that big of a deal, but without a doubt very different.
The current owner doesn’t want to sell because he doesn’t want to part ways with his current email address.

Couldn’t they simply add a provision for this in a deal? Like “we’ll own the domain but we will maintain a redirection for your previous email address to a newer address of your choice”?

Or the other way around “we’re buying ownership of certain DNS A records like “www” and “@“.

Has this ever been done?
> Look at what happened to the MacBook Pro, losing most of its ports and the thinness causing them to put a much worse keyboard in it that caused massive problems. Sacrificing a bit of thinness and going back on those changes with the newest iteration has been much better.

Adding a useless touch bar and losing F-keys also doesn't do much to win over fans, and it should be stressed that the infamous MacBook pro keyboards were a constant source of problems.
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Not to mention, they intend to compete with Apple on transistor density before 2024. Time will tell how successful they are, but I do get a laugh out of the people who are counting Intel out of the game right now. Apple doesn't sell CPUs, they sell Macs. They aren't even competing in the same market segment.
A very under-researched subject is the effect of stimulants on the cerebellum dopaminergic neurons. And conversely, the impact of the cerebellum in ADHD.

BTW ADHD drugs are extremely interesting philosophically speaking since they generally work in mammals and involve more or less the same regions and deficits than in humans despite the outcome being an impact on higher order cognitive functions such as the subjective state of eugeroytidue and the allocation of attention ~= the allocation of consciousness.
Despite the common yet ungrounded belief of non-human attention/consciousness being significantly different.
I'm not sure if "Not owned by Elon Musk" is a sufficient hook to get people to sign up. I mean that literally - it might be, or it might not be. But seeing as how technically Elon Musk doesn't actually own Twitter yet and this whole brouhaha only seems to have gotten serious a week or so ago, I'd say give it some time. Surely, no matter how good or bad Musk's ownership of Twitter turns out to go, somebody will start yet another alternate Twitter with that hook, and we'll all get to see if it works or not.
Rock star designers leaving big companies is nothing new. I happen to like "Bangled" BMWs like the original Z4, before it was watered down to a retro-ish design. But I also know I'm in the minority.

Apple's primary advantage is gaining unique capabilities and protecting them through domination of the supply chain. Not all of these succeed (vide large sapphire crystals) but these kinds of competitive moats are actually more important than unique designs.
Yeah I was one of them.

Unfortunately the Unix part seems to be very underappreciated by Apple recently so I've already moved on again. I was an early adopter of macOS and have 'converted' many more mainstream users that still use it. But for me it's become too locked down.
Bitcoin is hope. It sounds weird, but it's actually the solution to all of these problems. The corruption of centrally governed monetary systems corrupts all incentives in the world.

For example, if people are more conservative about consumption, it would lead to prices falling, i.e. CPI deflation. However, central banks have a mandate to keep inflation at 2%. They fix this by issuing more money, and lending it to those who consume more. This causes both climate catastrophe and wealth inequality, and is against the free will of people, who want to limit consumption to save the planet. Because of this, it's literally impossible to solve the climate crisis under the current monetary system.

Workers, billionaires, media, corruption.. It's all there to support the same fallacy of overconsumption and overproduction. It all starts from central banks. Poor people lose and billionaires who are close to banks win.

This system is fundamentally broken. We all vote for more of it, because of our own incentives. Bitcoin is the hard stop to this madness.
I would think this creates an issue.

Yes it’s complicated because it’s complicated. If it could have been simplied I would have done it already.

I would approach this like

I think this is overly complicated. Let’s see if we can simplify.

It’s direct. It says what I truly believe and it puts me on the side of having to do work to simply fit as a collective “we”.

Thoughts?
Spoken by someone who’s just a designer and never had to balance 10 different things in a startup.
I get a battery notification when the power is running low. That means I usually have a couple of days of usage before it's completely out. So then I charge it while I go to lunch or overnight.
This. I had doubts about Cook until the new M1 macs came out and I realised he’s doing just fine. Cook is no Steve Jobs, I think of him more as a Bill Gates figure - a relentless executioner. But Cook has made a better and more ethical company than Gates ever did.

It’ll all change when the AR revolution kicks in and it will all depend on how apple deals with it. If they succeed there again, then Cook will be one of the best CEOs in the business. He’s got his own way but underestimating him after the M1 chip and successful transition seems foolish to me.
Search engines can control your employment prospects.

As one niche dev to others, get involved with your niche language/tool online (web based community) and make sure the website advertises jobs.

A lot of recruiting companies go through agencies which only deal with mainstream tools and languages, so unless you produce your own 3rd party addons and get known that way in your niche tool/language, you need to come up with other ways of getting known as its very reputation based and it can be extremely clique even when the devs are sparsely populated around the world!

Fortunately Github is slowly increasing the number of languages it lists and Linked in is helping people get in touch, but you have to find ways to make your self known, its better today than it was a decade or two ago or even earlier.
> Wrapping everything in a euphemism does not make it more professional.

We may have very different definitions of "euphemism", but I do not see saying "I’m unable to add value to this meeting but I would be happy to review the minutes." instead of "That meeting sounds like a waste of my time" as a euphemism.

The benefit of the former is that you are signaling an openness to being wrong. The latter doesn't imply you're right, but nor is it signaling an invitation to disagree. In my experience, when people (including me) say the latter, they are wrong about 50% of the times - there often is something in the meeting that made it useful. Stating it is a waste of my time will come across as arrogant (justified or otherwise).

Even saying "I'm not sure there's value in meeting. What are you hoping to gain from this meeting?" is better than "I think it's a waste of my time".
My impression is that this is an opinion about the stdlib that many programmers concerned with performance share.
Nice! So, I think the UI must make these features more obvious.

Another thing I miss in inkscape (in case you know): I sometimes did some very interesting interactive live geometric demonstrations with Kig. Had inkscape had the same features, I'd use it.
Why would an email not be an agreement?
For me it's just the marketing and sales. I hate it so much. But to succeed it's essential. And I'm so lost and I don't know what to do. I feel helpless
Cartoon level evil, Mr. Burns class.
I think the biggest challenge is that we are dealing with a kind of butterfly effect justification. I suppose it is true that every aspect of our current society and economy is descended in some way to slavery. Everything is necessarily interconnected and a product of historical events and you can always draw a connection if that is your goal.

The challenge is, of course, trying to figure out just how much of an impact. What I was getting at with my earlier post is that it seems like the majority of Harvard’s wealth is recent rather than longstanding. And, if someone is looking at this through the lens of historical wealth that was gained directly from the activity of slavery, $100 million seems to be reasonable rather than not nearly enough of the total $50+ billion.
For the most part, no, I don't think most people need it. A boglehead lazy portfolio will be good enough. The tricky bit is what to do if you want to buy a house in the next few years.
There's an overlap in meaning between random, strange and unknown. "This random guy came up to me..." Keeping that in mind helps when talking to people about "random".
Hire API technical writers. Involve them in API design processes. A developer portal should not be an automated afterthought.
I try to help contributors to make it so their commits can be merged without any changes. For some this can be annoying in the beginning, but the goal is that they learn to write quality patches and that I will have less work getting their work merged. I hope that this is a win-win. There are times where I do some changes (rebasing, small fixes, rewording of commit messages), but I will try to ensure their name is in the Author: field in the commit messages.

As mentioned by sph: some projects have maintainers that have much stricter standards for outside contributors that for themselves. Speaking as a maintainer of a project that accepts contributions through PR requests, I am afraid I do indeed have such a double standard, although I try to avoid it as much as possible. I had to set some rules for myself:

- Contributors must fix outright bugs in their commits.

- Style issues are avoided by having a coding style enforced by a code formatting tool. This saves everyones time.

- If the commit is bug free (passes test suite and code review) and is a net improvement, accept it, regardless of my own plans for the project.

- If there is more that can be done to make it ideal, this can be done in a future pull request, or perhaps I will add those changes later myself.

I also try to hold myself to the same standards as I hold contributors to, and now often create a development branch myself for features so they get the same CI testing as pull requests, although I still sometimes bypass this for quick fixes.