skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true but wealth at that level is essentially relative anyway.

There's little you can do as a billionaire that you couldn't do as a hundred-millionaire when it comes to simply buying things for liquid cash. You can buy all the houses, boats, private islands, etc. that you want.

The only meaningful difference in wealth at that scale is buying fundamentally scarce things: specific real estate and private islands, favors from politicians, private time with other powerful people. For all of those, you are competing with other wealthy people to win them, so it's relative wealth that matters.
1. A developers job is not to write code. You happen to write code as part of your job, but your core responsibility is to implement solutions to business problems. Sounds simple, but it's harder to realize in practice. Case in point was a recent freelance job I took on. This client had paid some devs for months of work on a Stripe integration. They had built all this custom code on the front-end and back-end. I came in, read the docs since I was new to Stripe, and quickly learned that a custom solution puts the company on the hook for 300+ security requirements for PCI compliance. I scrapped all the code and directed users to Stripe's own checkout page. Not as nice of a UX, but that company's customers are now much more secure, there is less code to maintain, and the client is happy.

2. Your managers aren't perfect people, but their livelihood is in your hands. It's incredibly stressful to be a manager, so try to have compassion and empathy for the position they're in. They have to explain to the executive team the progress you're making, and if no progress is being made, they take the blame.

3. If you can't connect the dots between what you're doing on a daily basis, and the overall trajectory of the company, then something's wrong. There's a broken connection somewhere, and no one other than you is going to realize it. Speak up if you don't think what you're doing is useful.
There is a huge difference in whether one can actually reach that temperature, how quickly, and how much airflow it provides across the heating element and on target. A heat gun is a much more consistent tool for the uses for which it's designed.
e-bikes around here (Boston) seem to be mostly motorcycles with vestigal pedals. If the rider stopped pedaling, I'm not sure there would be any visible change in vehicle behavior. I may not like it but I prefer it to having more cars on the road.
“fall of civilizations” podcast episode 4 (https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/03/26/episode-4-...) has an interesting, and alternative, take on this but to distill it, like so many other episodes in the series:

climate change, man-made or otherwise, and the need to adapt pushed humans beyond the conventional borders of their tribes/clans. however, the precipitating event on the move from the mainland was a lot of murder.
Build better healthcare for your parents
It depends on how you do your accounting. The electric bike is more efficient than the pushbike, just as the pushbike + human is more efficient than the pushbike alone.

The carbon cost of a joule of food is higher than a joule of electricity, and joules are what get you where you're going.

You can make a case that it's nice exercise you needed anyway; I like bikes as well. But the claim you're making isn't obviously correct and I would say it's more false than true.
We'll also see laws flapping back and fourth between administrations. This already happens with some funding for NGOs and they hate it (funding for birth control and abortions in sub-saharan africa is one notable example). It's going to be very stressful.
Yes, exactly this. And since you aren't chummy with the VC, even if you had a business model, you would be rejected "because you don't have revenue" yet. Fuck that noise. The V in venture is supposed to mean you're supposed to take risks.

SV has lost its soul. A VC that respected tech nerds would see your technical idea, (maybe) discount the investment, and then get on the phone and help you find a business partner that will take you all the way (and give you first right of refusal on assholes).
Tastebuds probably?

Kidding aside that Chicago-style deep pizza looks delicious, but I wouldn't call it pizza.
to clarity just a tad, the Scala compiler does TCO out of the box and the annotation is added only to check that the method is in fact so optimizable
It's always a good time to buy if you're doing dollar cost averaging into index funds.

Trying to time the market is probably a fools game, much better spent trying to avoid total ruin.
Know that parents comment is /s but in truth, it really feels like interpretations of body language and text to indicate hawkishness/dovishness actually seems to matter.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/08/20/the-ipo-is-bein...

The E runs plenty of cautionary articles and they are good at hindsight

https://www.economist.com/business/uber-doordash-and-similar...

But aren't exactly leading the charge against financial corruption imo
The price may also decline just because borrowing is more expensive. The difference between 2 and 6 percent interest is huge.
If you're into this, also check out @bryanbraun's "Checkboxland", which was a huge inspiration for this project! :) https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/
Looks like the Ghost blogging engine with the Casper theme. More than just the theme, the images and graphics are great too.
TFA addresses the problems with outsourcing a significant component of public lands management to a private entity with a profit motive.

The site's UX is not at issue here.
Hindsight is always 20/20
This implies yield loss is mostly due to small delay defects and not stuck-at faults. Are you sure this is the case?
'The APL version we were using had dynamic scoping. TIL that there are multiple variations of the same language with totally different semantics!' - your own code uses localisation within tradfns! Dfns just do that by default.
usually companies have hiring freezes because of this reason, so this is not so easy
"Can't flag us all."
Your comment should be farther up. Thanks for the research!
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Sounds like GP basically walked out of a shop with goods in their bag and is now posting online how happily surprised they are it was free for a change. Yeah, if you don't go to the register then you don't pay. Until the day someone finds out.
Or people could be slightly more imaginative and flexible. I could be "on call" while a meeting is going on without having to attend if 99% of it doesn't concern me.

Obviously some work is synchronous, but it's not an excuse for the norm today, where time wasting is the default.

Most managers are lazy and bad at their jobs, and there is no accountability for that. So they prefer to waste lots and lots of other people's time in exchange for slightly more convenience for themselves.
"But I'm just an average developer what do I know. "

Usually more than the 'above average' founder or VC.
> A way to build second/third order reasoning systems...

I've been pondering about this problem for a while now[1], Could we build a collective intelligence through community submitted recipes for second-order decisions for various common activities via generalized schema?

I didn't think about addressing this for AI, But as an aid for us in multi-order thinking. But now that you mention it to be a barrier for AGI, It does make sense.

[1] 'Plan Second-Order, Third-Order consequences': https://needgap.com/problems/263
Do your homework, fuck. You can buy kits to test drugs for purity on those same black markets. It's playing with fire, use your judgment.

I would say fentanyl sounds disgusting, but OxyContin is even worse, because at least fentanyl you're not being tortured for ten hours a day. The dealer isn't gaslighting you about dosage. There are opioids that strong and there are like jeweler's scales you can use to mete them out.

So in particular I never had an interest in hard street drugs, just sounded highly unattractive. Like falling into a black hole. To feel happy? Come on.
This happens all the time. Your objection around competitors could equally apply to revenue growing areas of work.
you're right, I'm sorry. I'll just flag comments next time. Thank you for pointing that out.
If you've gotten used to paying $20 for a beer at Whole Foods, $5 may seem cheap until you realize the corner shop sells the same beer for $2.

Applying this analogy to our high inflation environment, those stocks seemed worth paying that high price per dollar of earnings, until the base interest rate started rising. Then you realized you can get the same return that your dividend yield provides by investing in a zero risk CD with no risk of losing the principle. Suddenly those stocks seem way too expensive for each dollar of earnings, and their price keep crashing until that price earnings ratio is something closer to the alternatives that the stock is now competing with.
While I was reading I was already thinking that. I can't believe how smart and an awesome developer she is.
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No, that's not legal. Trying to back out of this deal because market fluctuations caused the company to be worth less than he wanted would be very, very much against his contract.

He can only back out is Twitter's securities filings are so wrong that profit projections are more than 40% off (MAE standard) or he was unable to secure financing. Spambots being a bit higher than projected is not enough to break the contract, especially given that Musk waived due diligence and that the Twitter filings have always said that the bot number is an estimate. Elon Musk's lawyers are probably more than a bit panicked right now.
I think "weapons-grade autism" paints a most vivid image.
Oh agreed! Sorry about mixed terminology. Though they don't really provide "equality of opportunity" either :/ People w/ more privelege, at the starting line, will have more supposed 'merit' and therefore the CV-blindness only reflects existing inequalities from wider society. A different approach might be quotas and affirmative action.
I don't think people are going to starve if California stops wasting water on almonds.
I think there's another category:

5. Users with plausible names and a profile photo of a person that are bots

I don't remember the study but when there were studies coming out of believed Russian-controlled accounts supposedly amplifying misinformation, all the examples I saw were in category 5.

And this category is the most deceptive. Nobody cares what a Twitter egg says. People care about supposedly grassroots outrage / support / etc. from supposedly legitimate people.
What statement do you consider anti-advice?
Just as there are anti-patterns, what "advice" is more dangerous than helpful?
It looks to me like you've built a LinkTree but have targeted the links to only be to payment platforms. Is that correct?

The user signs up for paypal, gives a public wallet address for bitcoin, etc and then you're helping them manage a payment screen?

It could work, but what has struck me about LinkTree is that the users are non-technical (I think). Anybody with the desire could easily set-up a webpage and host their own list of links. LinkTree is saving them from doing that, and for somebody who is on insta, youtube, etc, but without their own personal website, LinkTree gives them the ability to quickly send users to their other platforms.

If this is an opportunity in the billing space, good on you, this could work.
However, for non-physical goods, Patreon, etc is already providing a billing platform.

If you are selling physical goods, you're probably using Shopify or something similar which already has a billing platform.

So who is the customer who does not have a platform where they are selling their goods, and therefore need a diverse list of payment methods.

I rarely use PayPal because I can't stand the company (I moved a lot internationally for a while, and they would keep blocking me from using their service, massive PITA).

For most people, doesn't PayPal serve the need, and Venmo in the US (not Amerrican, so don't know).

I'm not going to say it's a bad idea. I think it could be very good, but do you know the answers about who your customer is?
Elon Musk Trolls Twitter
So it seems it allows for optimization. If you know you don’t need everything, one of the steps can do less than the other.
It was odd, but my envisioned development window was about 3-4 months (planning for 6) and I had potentially high upkeep after launch ($500-$1000pm for production ready servers). I could have found a co-founder or two and funded them for that period as well. So it would have been just enough + a buffer. At least in my mind. I realize you need more runway than to just get to launch and survive 2-3 months now.

The idea is a service that could open the black box of online video content. Right now you search for something and get the whole video as a result; if it's a 3 hour long podcast you're going to be doing a lot of seeking for specific information. I want to index and enable deep visualized search through video libraries and in videos. Basically splitting videos into linguistically salient topics, keywords and entities. That would allow you to analyze and visualize content (YouTube channels, videos, etc.) to find interesting information. Good for researchers and people looking for something specific, or people wanting to find new content (relationship graphs).
they should start to fix previous stuff instead of adding stuff: remove _Generic, typeof, etc... which have nothing to do in C.

The proposed stuff is scary, I wonder if they understand that they should make writting a C compiler _easier_, not horribly _harder_ and _longer_ (look at this insanity which is c++).

All that has a taste of planned obsolescence.
What a poor title for something that amounts to a nothing-burger.
I've seen them, even rode some bikes with electric shifters, but still don't want the complexity. One of my bikes is over 20 years old with the same Ultegra shifters, I haven't done any maintenance other than lubing once a season and they still work fine. I'd be surprised if the battery on electric shifters lasts that long.
> There are no production series hybrids I am of aware of in automobiles

Would not the Chevy Volt count? The gasoline engine only serves as a generator, it is not mechanically connected to the wheels.
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It's a huge red flag, and it's a hugely common red flag.

A startup was peeved I valued their equity at zero when they wouldn't share. I got strong hints my equity was worth at least $100k in extra annual salary, but they wouldn't budge on disclosing anything I could hold them accountable to. I think they were being honest, but I didn't take the job.

I did take a previous job like that, and when the company sold, we were all surprised management was honest. Management gave a used-car-salesman vibe, which was just wrong. I think with transparency, people would have worked much harder.

I don't have insights as to the reason for the extreme opacity.
How much of Californian alfalfa is exported?
On the contrary, what do you think not voting is going to accomplish.
What is required to support TypeScript here?
>As an IC it's hard to get that birds eye view, but it's possible.

Unless you actually have a consultancy which is based on seeing the ways in which you may plug a hole in the dyke...

And IC should ADD value to the org, not just slurp off of a need the company needs to fill.
For years I was musing about a camping trip to Shenandoah National Park which is only a couple hours away from me. However due to family, busy work, and laziness I would start planning too late and saw most spots booked on rec.gov. I would usually blame myself for lack of organization

This year I decided to just pack my car with equipment and drive to SNP one very early morning. At worst I would spend hours in the car for a day hike. However it turns out that many camping spots are available on first-come-first-serve basis, and not online. Another group without reservations joined my camping spot bordering the forest and it was a fun hanging out and chatting with strangers. You can also find plenty of camping space near hiking shelters, or with a permit in the back-country provided you're aware of the regulations and bear safety.

After that first trip, I was kicking myself for forming a mental model of camping as severely constrained by space and crowds. I think that false model formed by relying on only rec.gov and some online articles about how crowded the Appalachian Trail has become. I hear the hiking crowds visit SNP in May-June, so we'll see how it goes.
It doesn't really make sense to talk about "SF Bay Area weather" given that most days there's a 10-30 degree difference between the coldest and warmest parts of the region. If you're near the coast in the summer, a typical "warm day" is mid-to-high 60s, while it's 75-80 in Oakland/Berkeley and 90s in Walnut Creek.

I lived in west SF (near Golden Gate Park/Presidio) for 2 years and I can count the days it was "uncomfortably warm" on one hand.

It's not really the same year round either. Summer is by far the windiest and foggiest season, which is why it feels cold despite a higher base temp (but again, depends where you are).
Lol, that was what I noticed first. All those employees but the people who actually built the site aren't even listed as team members.
Central banks have one hammer really: interest rates. Everything is a nail.
AMD is probably making more progress in server right now.
You mean rates won't get that high? Or that they will be much higher?
I would assume it doesn't matter where they were bought. If you sell crypto while falling under German tax law (due to residency etc.), the cited article 23 of the income tax law will apply.
"be yourself"
How old are you? My toy model is that age-related stiffening of the lens causes fatigue in the eye muscles through the day.
> Bikes handle much differently from diesel trains.

So, like, no nudging the right handlebar forward to turn right? Bummer!
> baring literal children

Baring literal children isn't legal!
Bringing Edinburgh into the mix definitely reinforces this take. "I want to live somewhere that's not total shit, but a bit shit... all the time"
The linked paper summary says "...we describe a bio-photovoltaic energy harvester system using photosynthetic microorganisms on an aluminium anode..."

How do they prevent the aluminum from oxidizing? Oxidized aluminum is an insulator, which should be a problem for a long lived battery?

I don't have access to the whole paper since it's behind a paywall.
> It might have vulnerabilities that a motivated attacker could discover by reading the source code.

I'm sure the flipside of that, that lots of people looking at the code will uncover the vulnerability and fix it, more than compensate for that.

> It might contain copied code that Microsoft doesn't have the right to distribute.

This is why opensourcing an existing codebase can be complicated, but, if you start something managing the licenses of included code, then it's not a huge issue.

> in a company whose main products are closed-source software, I'd expect some PM to make these objections.

I'm sure they'll never opensource Exchange, SharePoint, or SQL Server.
This seems gamechanging
Very good point.

Genuine note - if you remember me in 9 years, please shoot me a message! I'm sure even then I'd be very interested in what you've observed.
Quick question. How do engineers and tech writers use the "live editor" functionality that seems to be in the open source repo? Do you edit in the live editor and is it set up to update the underlying repo? Or do you just modify the markdoc files in the repo with your own editor?
Over a long enough time frame the stock market and even the whole economy behaves like a pyramid scheme as it is dependent on new generations to be more people than the previous one.
Why not ask your friends at work?
CFS to seems like a catch all when docs don't know what else to do.

Since gut and diet can have a huge effect on fatigue and docs usually don't ask about what you eat I would rule that out first. You can do this yourself by changing what you eat or limiting to certain foods for a few days and see what happens. In fact I would try to see if you feel better if you fast for just one day and drink only water, no sugar drinks.
And yet you've probably never seen my tweets, because I'm generally not replying to celebs' tweets. Bots (owners) are trying harder than most people to maximise their visibility before getting banned, so it's expected that you would notice a higher proportion than they actually represent. That's not to say I have any reason to think the bot share isn't higher, just I don't think it's possible for any single person to judge anywhere near accurately considering the huge scale of Twitter and that therefore any one of us users is only seeing a tiny, tiny fraction of the accounts/tweets being posted.
Mountain bike descents and road bike descents are dramatically different things.
> Again, all my bluetooth headphones work fine on my Mac, but on some (not all) of my Linux computers it sometimes work and sometimes doesn't.

The issue I'm currently dealing with is that my Bluetooth ZMK keyboard works flawlessly on Linux but won't pair with a Mac. I guess devices are nuanced.
The outsized influence of twitter largely has to do with the fact that basically every journalist, celebrity, politician, brand, influencer (original, pre-Instagram meaning of person on youtube/twitch/whatever who can accidentally/deliberately create trends just by wearing something or offhandedly mentioning something).

Having all of those people, plus pretty small proportion of "regular people", can make it really feel like everyone is on twitter. But the many of the heaviest "regular people" users are often actually those who are trying to promote some agenda, which can be one that is very not-representative of the public at large.

But this feeling of everyone being on there, means that if a small group of vocal participants who have an agenda can get something trending, especially if they can do with with only limited pushback from other groups, it makes it feel like something everyone cares about. Worse is that the algorithm tends to promote extreme views a lot because they get more interactions.

Now the influencers, politicians, celebrities, journalists, etc are not very much not immune to mistaking an artificially algorithmically inflated hot take by a tiny but vocal minority on twitter as representing a consensus of a huge group of regular people on twitter. The next thing you know, the current twitter outrage is on the news, and your favorite celebs are probably talking about it both on and off twitter.

This can cause people who never would have seen or interacted with the twitter controversy to become involved. Obviously if the news is talking about it, this is a big thing that a very sizable chink of the population is feeling, right? It could not possibly be not something initially stirred up by at most few hundred extremists of some form on Twitter, right? Wrong.
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I think you're missing what the above is saying, i.e. that the featured article uses staff in a different way than Larson and most discussions around "staff".
I wish there were “Good Guys” in government/politics/power/business. Unfortunately, if you find one, I can point out 10,000 that are not.
The universal criticism of things like this is 'you just codified your preferences and tried to make it seem scientific'

What's scary about that is 99% of social science is just that.
It bears repeating that there is no "what the house is worth" in the abstract. If you somehow know that other bidders will pay at most $X for it, then of course you'd never bid $X * 1.2 -- you'd bid $(X+1). And if lots of people are (or can be made) emotionally attached to a house and pay an apparently unreasonable amount, that is what it's "worth."