skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also want to bring Blackstone's Ratio[0] into the conversation. I think it resonates with engineers really well because it is essentially the legal version of failure design. You design failure into your programs, bridges, and whatever (does your safe fail with an open lock or closed?). Why? Because when the thing fails, we want it to fail in a specific way to do the least amount of harm. We all know how terrible bad error messages are and how hard they make our life. This is such a key principle to almost every subject that I'm not sure why it isn't discussed more or ingrained into our societal thinking (it was ingrained into many of our constitutions).

Blackstone's ratio is:

> It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer

This is failure design. The legal system will fail. So when it does, do you want a guilty person to be set free or an innocent person to be imprisoned. We, of course, want to minimize the failure, but we have to ask which mode of failure is preferable.

The same is true for speech here. Who decides what to censor? The people in charge change frequently and with opposing views. What is the threshold? Explicit or implicit speech? There are limits on speech in America but the limits are low because that was the mode of failure that was planned.

I think one thing to recognize though is that there's ways to stop speech we don't like without banning it[1]. You just have to be creative.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/18/neo-nazis-tric...
Because Elon probably spends max couple of hours per week on Twitter acquisition?

His modus operandi is taking quick decisions and backtracking if he is wrong.

Actually it's not only his modus operandi, SpaceX according to NASA evaluation is also working that way.

It's basically depth first search vs. breath first search.

Dr. Daniel Rasky, a NASA Senior scientist

https://youtu.be/MxIiiwD9C0E?t=1464 :

> I think there are some things and kind of going back to in some ways back to the Apollo days if you take a look at kind of the environment that NASA had in Apollo it was kind of what Elon has with his young engineers. you had you know people trying things and in what works and what doesn't work I think over the years we've gotten into a very risk-averse profile and we're I call it full matrix engineering that okay that all concerns that anyone can raise have to be chased down a hundred percent before you can make any decision. Okay, so yeah like a full matrix of all the things that may be pertinent to a certain decision and you have to fill that entire array before you can make a decision to go forward and there's times when that makes sense but it doesn't make sense for everything we do. SpaceX uses a sparse matrix okay 51% okay when do when we get to 51% okay enough we're gonna make a decision and then we're going to try it and move on.
Flying Goose is the way to go, they are made in Thailand and come in a variety of different tastes including Mayo, extra garlic and extra hot "Blackout".

https://www.flyinggoosebrand.com/our-range/
Throwing out grave insults because someone on the internet doesn't like your idea is a pretty good tell of the sort of character he is, even if it was 4 years ago.

Adding to the list of reasons to dislike him, there's him trying to get a lawyer who interviewed him for the SEC fired from his new unrelated job.
Looks like havenweb can be self hosted and posthaven doesn’t offer that.
It is an underappreciated part of the discussion. Fighting climate change also reduces the emission of contaminants to the air that we breath. Even if climate change were not happening, we would have to reduce pollution anyway.

I visited China a few years ago, the touristic potential is limitless, it has so many great cities to visit, natural parks, rivers, and many more. But, the air is so polluted that it is difficult to enjoy any of it.

There are a million reasons to reduce pollution, and only a very bad one to not do it.
A great use for zero-knowledge proofs
>Transaction reversal is indeed outright harmful to honest vendors, and is only really necessary for the legacy systems because the legacy systems have borderline zero protection against dishonest vendors retaining customers' payment information and pulling money from it

This isn’t the only form of dishonesty. There’s cases where you initiate an honest transaction, the vendor ships you something you didn’t ask for because they are trying to clear inventory, and then refuses to refund or exchange. Then you file a claim with Amex and get your transaction reversed in about a week.
> include values like positive energy

There is so many things wrong with a system like this. It's asking coworkers to rat on each other. This is dystopian.
While I'm sure that there's a lot of truth in this (and love the petition, as it focuses on shareholders, not the employees), the margins Coinbase was having for trading cryptocurrencies was unsustainable, and the company was overvalued.

Now the controversial part: Coinbase had a valuation of 100k BTC in 2012, and had the same valuation (100k BTC) at the IPO time. Unlike the internet where most of the valuecis captured over IP protocol, with Bitcoin I expect the base layer to capture most of the value, and not the companies on top of it.

https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/
Please don't confuse my criticism as hatred. Being critical of the government is a proud part of the American tradition.

If anything (at the risk of sounding extra American), these threads remind me that the US is still the place to be if you want to build something different.

There's a positive side to how the US works too. The few things we really commit to, like building our military, we really are the best at. Also, the lax regulation does let new technologies like driverless cars get tested on open roads. Hurray? I think so.

Somewhere has to be the test-bed for new ideas. When they fail, they'll be expensive and stupid and maybe even stick around for a lot longer than they should (can we please, please, fix the shoes thing with the TSA?). But all together, we do a lot of cool stuff first that changes the world.
That's a long and thorough list of all I hate about software development and hope to fix (at least a bit of it)...
Beetles are keeping the slug population under control in my yard.

Last research I saw on the subject, earthworms don't increase soil carbon... unless there is a healthy beetle population (predators) pushing the worms farther underground. Without predators, herbivores make a mess.
Agreed. I'm using a pixel 4a that I bought in 2020 probably, after someone stole the Oneplus 3 that I bought used on Craigslist. The screen is cracker down the middle, but otherwise I literally haven't thought about what I'd pay more for. In fact, by paying more for an ostensibly better phone within the same lineup, it would be bigger and more annoying to use, have no headphone jack, have potentially worse battery life, and cost me a couple hundred more. I knew when I purchased it that there was a high likelihood of the screen getting cracked within the first 2 years, or stolen, and therefore my risk is lower by buying the cheapest viable current variant.
> to grow your brand

Well, yes, if that is what you want to do. If you just want to be you online, and not 'grow a brand' it is best having a platform where you are in more control of doing so than these corporate advertising platforms that are indeed tailored to building brands.
Bannon? Is that you?
I think you'll find that many corporate lawyers disagree with that statement and prefer BSD/MIT style licenses.
My fee for sending money to another UK bank account with instant settlement is $0.00 (or £0.00)

Tell me more about the wonders of paying $1.62 plus currency conversion fees plus speculative asset volatility risk to send money to their bank account with eventually consistent settlement...
Ask HN: How can I get into tech sales with no sales experience?
Sorry but I'm disgusted with this thought process that has taken hold over the last several years. You decide the truth value of something and based on that you further decide that a topic is off limits. It's shockingly self-centered and leaves no room for the possiblity that you might be wrong about the matter, and that you are moving the goalposts for what is considered acceptable speech. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
That doesn't make sense though unless there's a directory of recommendation engine or search engine for interesting people. Otherwise it means that I'm supposed to follow people that I already know, which is ridiculous because I don't want yet another channel to see the same stuff I already see.

On HN there's the front page where interesting stuff is curated algorithmically and smart people that I don't follow or know perviously make interesting comments on that stuff. Mastadon doesn't seem to offer anything like that.
That is likely true.

I think people can also be misled and don't always think rationally - there has been a lot of "glorious empires" where the people were more invested in their country being "glorious empire" than actual prosperity and development of their country.

I'm honestly not 100 % convinced of all this. But I don't have better answer for "why are there so many people who support their dictator and let them do all those things".
That link links to MIT's summary, which in turn links to this original paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

(probably paywalled)

> Generally keeping houses warm with low evergy is solved, well insulated passive houses need little heating energy even in places with long cold winters.

What is your definition of "places with long cold winters" and how much energy do you think it takes (kwh) to heat a house in such climates during winter?
Now this made me laugh like crazy
>"we were crucified in a courtroom for crimes that we did not commit"

They don't mean for crimes they personally did not commit, but alleged "genocide" that plurality of UN members who has formal position on the matter states PRC did not commit. When the dominant narrative is PRC government actions in XJ is counter-terrorism/deradicalization, the anti-China racism being complained about is "false" western propaganda, i.e. completely opposing foreign policy. And TBH some of the past alleged racism is pretty apt, like posters of Chinese curlers throwing a corona virus for the Winter Olympics. Rest is just Chinese idpol finding their place on Western campus culture, foreign students protest over diasphora shit all the time. So why wouldn't Chinese play the racism card.
When we're talking about fundamental rights, I don't think we should treat foreigners any different than citizens. That's cruel. Is that really the country we want to be? Humane only to our citizens? We say that the mark of a man is how he treats those he sees as lower than himself. I think the same applies to countries.

Now I'm not saying being a foreign national you should have "the right" to open a US bank account, buy a house, or even get a job. But if we're talking about what we call "basic human rights," then that's a different story.

Of course, Universities are different, but I think the point still stands.
If there are people for whom a headphone jack is too complicated, but pairing Bluetooth headphones and keeping them charged is fine, then I have to admit I just don't understand Apple's customers.
To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling;

A liar, a flatterer, and Cramer were all hatched out of the same egg.

-- From The Undertakers
yes, that's the way the scam works.

* all the laws are to protect investors from issuers

* splash around money to incentivise securities fraud

* buy a pile of tokens

* if the SEC doesn't bust the issuer, the VC wins big

* if the SEC does bust the issuer, the VC gets their money back and doesn't lose

it also realises liquidity much quicker than the long and tedious process of backing a tech company that does things

So did YC buy the tokens, or buy equity in the company? If the latter, then they're part-owners and may claim to have been completely hands-off, but might need to show it.
During the first Covid lockdowns, when car traffic was down massively, our fruit trees bore so much fruit that branches broke under the weight.
>I personally pay less than $400 a phone and keep it for over three years. Paying $1000 for a phone just two years is not an improvement.

Either you aren't using your phone much or you are needlessly suffering with inferior product. Wearing cheap shoes for years when you could afford comfortable high quality shoes is not a virtue. Same goes with tools we use.
Zerodha makes good software (I’m a huge fan of a bunch of their projects, like Listmonk[0]), excited to check this out, even though I don’t use Go often.

Like their use of NATS as well.

[0]: https://listmonk.app
No they didn't. What's your point?

I never said what the Chinese did is justified.

My point is that emotions that launched the sterilization campaign is equivalent to the state of the US during 9/11. This doesn't justify genocide or actual war or does it? The US, on the other hand, thought sending soldiers to another country to kill more people was justified. China isnt doing that.

But that's besides the point. The point is how do you know you're brainwashed? When a person completely failed to even mention why china did what they did instead just said oh china sterilized a culture because of a "separatist movement." It shows bias, lack of understanding and over simplification of a complex situation.

White Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima effectively massacring an entire city with white fire. Does that make Americans evil? No it absolutely does not. Does that make the bomb justified? Also no.

The point is to not place people into caricatures of right/wrong or good/evil when reality is by far much more complex.

Why did china suppress the uhgyrs? If you can understand china but at the same time disagree with their actions then you have my respect. But if you can't do that... Then how are you different from a white supremacist who hates black people using over simplified reasoning and logic?

Nobody here is understanding why the Chinese students did what they did.
It's not just that TSLA drop.

If Twitter had gone through the current tech market drop, without Musk hanging over it, it could easily be down 60-70%, maybe even 80%.

Twitter is a terrible business on paper with the current board. It wouldn't have done well in this tech crash.

Musk must be pretty annoyed that if he had waiting about 30 days he could have gotten twitter for 60% less money.
Some sort of block chain, where you can also sell your votes to other employees, pegged to USD.
Ask HN: Working with Twitter Decahose
I have been following this discussion [1] & challenges on using datahose came up in few places. That leads me to earnestly ask:

We are a brand new research group with just a few hands. This Twitter data is enormous (45-50GB/day for E Asia in JSON).
We have limited experience & hence saving it out as daily logs in flat JSON files

For people using decahose, what kind of system architecture have you put in place for storing & searching such data. We explored AWS DynamoDB & MongoDB datalake but the cost seemed just too high. Feedback & suggestions needed.

[1] Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686055
This is how I think about a lot of things, also with consideration of the absolute price, but I try not to take it too far, because you do need to just enjoy your purchases some times. I try not to view my purchases now within the broader context of my entire life of what-ifs, and accept a certain amount of risk that I'll just need to sell some stuff or take a loss if major circumstances change. When I did do this, I ended up living in a 1 Bedroom + Den, except the den was empty because I couldn't rationalize buying any mid-tier furniture, since it was likely that it would either take forever to sell, or I'd need to just toss it, but either way it would be irritating. I do consider them in the context of the year or a few years, and the depreciation on whatever it is. When you break down the cost of a car for example, with an eye for both of these extremes, it becomes very challenging to rationalize the purchase, because it almost never works out.
I dunno, it only asks for a thumbs up or thumbs down - unless I misread it - which is a lot less invasive or "ratty" than most employee review systems I know.

I prefer human feedback to be honest. And I've only ever given negative feedback on a direct co-worker once, who was a right smug prick.
Looks like they stopped discussing external politics and went hardcore on internal politics. Lets see how “mission focused” Coinbase are now.
There's no simple answer to this. It depends on where you live, what languages and technologies are in demand in your area, and how strong you are with them. Years of experience don't mean anything - we've all worked with bad devs with long careers and good devs with short careers.

Check out job listings near you. Interview for a few of the better paying and more interesting sounding roles. See which ones you're well-suited to and take it from there - you're under no obligation to actually accept any of them if you don't want to go through with it.
Think they mean corporations. I.e. For all the illegal stuff they do and then don't get fined nearly enough for.
> Always think in absolute dollars and not in rates.

Technically, you should think in probability weighted log-dollars to maximise your economy over the long term. (The Kelly criterion.)

In some cases this is equivalent to thinking in terms of fractions of your total wealth -- this is how the Kelly criterion is popularly presented.

For small ("everyday", as Bernoulli put it) amounts, this is equivalent to absolute dollars. So you're right, but it's a special case of a more general principle.
That is not true, there have been cases where the national constitution had to be amended to follow the EU law.

An Example is the german law which did not allow women to join the millitary till 2000.
After that, they had to change the constitution because it does not comply with the EU law about the same treatment of men and women:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artikel_12a_des_Grundgesetzes_...

A country can only ignore EU law on the following grounds:
- It reduces a right set in the national constitution
- It goes against a right set in the national constitution(not if grants more rights or makes rights wider)
- It does not fall in the competency of the EU

https://fachinfos.parlament.gv.at/politikfelder/parlament-un...

That article talks about austria and germany specifically, but it should apply to other countries as well.
I don't understand how there can be such a push for a vote of no-confidence in three C-level people with no mention of the CEO that ostensibly chose, managed, and retained them.
In the US you only pay capital gains tax on stock when you sell.
So it can look like you made a big profit year after year if the stock you own goes up, and it looks like you didn’t pay any tax. But that money isn’t available to you until you sell, and that’s when the tax comes into effect.
This applies to everyone, and so it can look like a tax dodge, but it’s just the way things are accounted.
So, does he not want to buy, or not under current market conditions? :)
Let's assume Twitter and Musk are in deed playing this game here, then people and whether or not the data provided by Twitter is enough to detect bots is not the point. Whether or not the SEC, and courts at some point, see the shared data as sufficient for Twitter to fulfill transparency requirements is important.
Free speech isn't an absolute all or nothing. In fact, all countries that give the right of free speech, and the UN declaration of human rights, impose limits on it.

For instance, outright neo-Nazism is forbidden in most EU countries. Same goes for stoking racial or religious hatred, etc. Even in the US with their old constitution and "textualist" interpretations of it that really want to take it to the absolute, have restrictions on free speech (e.g. "obscenity", "speech that violates intellectual property law", etc.)

Absolute free speech is incompatible with a modern society of today. Maybe it isn't with somebody's utopia, but we're not there.

The paradox of tolerance, however, is real. You can see it in work the recent rise of mis and disinformation from far-right folks, Russia, etc. For instance in France there was a presidential candidate who was convicted of inciting racial hatred more than once, and wanted to deport all Muslims and migrants from France, of course with frightening stories about why that is necessary to save France from the Muslims/Blacks/Arabs/Jews/whatever.
Leetcode tasks are just a starting point for discussion. Okay, you wrote that SQL query correctly (if you didn't - stop whining and go learn SQL, it was a pretty easy query). So, if those tables will grow with time, where will the performance bottleneck be? How will you avoid it? What types of indexes do you know? What is the difference? When you would use which? What do you know about data partitioning? Sharding? How do you avoid data resharding on growing cluster?
Notably, the CEO was not mentioned in this petition. Putting on my tinfoil hat, could this be a ploy by Armstrong to continue purging the political activists within the company?
Man, every time I hear something about Dalio and Bridgewater I'm glad I didn't get that job.
I don't understand why any of this is even considered a crime. At worst it should be a civil liability for damages incurred. All they did was sell solutions that allow customers to overcome technical limitations of their own property that they legally own. We're supposed to be a capitalist society, why are we arresting somebody for selling a product that people want?

Imagine if Ford was suing companies that make aftermarket parts. This is ridiculous.
Too much sugar can be bad, for flavor and health.
Wouldn't the shareholders usually do something like this? I mean Coinbase's stonks have been going downhill for a long time now (mainly starting from Nov 2021), losing 4/5ths of its value from then. That's usually more than enough to dismiss / replace senior management.
But the US sent soldiers to another country to slaughter more people after 9/11. Which is better? Re-education or more slaughter?

Also what does the UK have to do with this? I'm comparing china to the us. Cornell is in the US.
Not dealing, but living with this, here in Mexico is a common practice even in small companies, everyone seems to be trying to "not doing". I'll read all the comments about this.
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Your happiness shouldn't change if ice cream input has a zero. Also it should be independent from the amount of ice cream. In other words if we have an ODE say

ddot y + 2 dot y + y = dot u - 2 u

As long as my input is pure C exp(2t) independent of C I see no happiness and it's not working on my mood. In your example input u effect is cancelled by decay of y cancelling the guilt. Making it not a zero.

In my personal case eating celery is a zero i see absolute no point eating it :) no harm and no benefit just pointless chewing
> Is this actually a problem with tesla marketing?

It is, definitely. How come they advertise it as FSD (and I know they very much circle around the exact wording, but a good Litmus test to see what is the actual expected output from the ads is to ask a random person on the street and they will definitely think that they are full self driving, while most other cars have some basic lane assist, etc)?

Their marketing is absolutely malicious, what else would keep up their massive hype bubble?