skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why do we need to keep growing gov't and adding more and more rules/programs/etc.?

Here's one good reason -- decades of underinvestment in infrastructure. The top tax bracket in the 1950's when the Interstate highway system was funded was 90% - now it's 37% and even that is mostly avoided by the most wealthy.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure

Another reason is the impending climate disaster -- former arable land will become unfarmable, many coastal areas will become uninhabitable or need expensive flood control, etc. This is going to cause huge costs and will almost certainly require government assistance.

And carbon reduction will also be expensive.
Maybe the classification cuts through a bunch of red tape keeping it open freeware
How do you measure the envy level of citizens such that you can control their income?
It isn't the most diverse cohort so a body such as the WHO might or might not choose to make recommendations based on this single finding.
Why stop at criticizing? Go prove people wrong and make a company that does things drastically differently. That's why people are tired with the "I'm just criticizing!" attitude. Instead of talking and telling everyone else they need to change, go show everyone that you know better.
Autohotkey. It's also the language of choice for cheating at games (it's good for mouse clicking and button mashing) so by trying to cheat they will learn without realizing it.

On youtube, search for autohotkey and filter by new you'll see 75% of them are just that. Find a game he plays and start learning.

Very strong, very deep user community.

(FWIW, Rust seems to be a strong second. Don't know why, don't know anything about Rust).
> I think if employees feel slighted by being fired, they're fooling themselves.

I'm going to be honest, it's pretty fucked up to tell someone who just got fired that they're fooling themselves if they feel slighted.
So you assert all words, including yours, ultimately derive from a ‘deterministically evolving wavefunction’?
Visualize profiles in Grafana with Pyroscope Flamegraph plugin
Seems quite relevant to the recent discussion about current AI sentience [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31716639
This realization hit me hard earlier this year.
There has been first party isolation from Tor Browser in Firefox for a while.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/first-party-i...

That addon has links with info and just twiddles an about:config setting. It can break things (for example some ways Paypal is used by websites, although other ways work fine). There has also been the ability to block third party cookies for a very long time, possibly as long as there have been cookies, but it can also break things. As I understand it Total Cookie Protection is similar to these but with some exceptions so that not much breaks that users would notice.
Anyone have a time marker of where in the 57:11 video one might view the invasive jumping worm doing their thing?
So I guess no one can criticize anymore? If my car is broken, then I have to make my own car?

It's a strawman and a diversion to just be talking about the general concept of fair compensation to CEOs and founders and then to just reply with "why don't you make your own company if you think the pay is too high"?
10M sqft is nothing....
I think “genociding” is being a bit pedantic. The shop keeper you are romanticizing was often a local inventory of goods. You were just a sale and they made a living on the arbitrage of goods. Not even all American made goods.

They weren’t always knowledgeable staff with a smile that remembered you and your family. I wish it was the case but I’m afraid it wasn’t.

So, not all shops are gone. How do we reconcile that? Is it that the ones that could not be replaced and/or provided more value than amazon have remained?
> If they just said: Elon makes $200 MILLION dollars a year, then the point would still be just as valid, and it wouldn't be a lie.

Obviously it would a lie to claim that somebody who doubled their net worth to >$200bn last year having earned all that fortune in quarter of a century, and who earned a $23bn performance bonus last quarter earns "only" $200m a year.

Whereas the $120bn appreciation in the value of Musk's assets the website highlighted might be unrepresentative of his typical annual earnings, it actually is how much he earned last year, unlike the much smaller number you made up.
The main factor in the drop of online poker was the USA crackdown on poker sites. It remains wildly popular in jurisdictions where it is still legal and is making a comeback in some US states that have since re-opened it.
Tombstones can preserve interesting information, for example the ~2 millennia old Seikilos epitaph.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph

"The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world."
I didn't mention #4 of also purging all that other stuff when the browser closes.

Honestly, try it with me - it's not so bad. 1, 2, 3, everybody now!
OOP is not the first thing I’d want to try and explain to a kid who is eager to see what programming is all about.
I think it's barbaric for boys too.
90% of the customers voted with their "ears" to listen to 1% of music producers. Nothing wrong with that.
These results from observational studies almost never replicate in randomized studies. It's because people who decide to take glucosamine (or not) also do lots of other confounding things, like visit the doctor more, or have higher salaries, or don't live with people who smoke etc. It's been shown many times you can't really adjust for these things. Epidemiologists love doing these studies, because they are comparatively easy. The hardest part is the data sharing agreement with whatever registry you are using. You don't even need to leave your desk to collect any data.
No, we have to turn a blind eye to completely ridiculous and obviously barbaric things out of "tradition."
It's not a strawman, you just aren't understanding the fundamental lesson in the idea of starting your own company. "Fair" is what the participating parties agree is fair when they form the agreement. You appear to be speaking from one side of the agreement (the employee side). Starting your own company will give you drastically different view about risks and costs that were previously hidden to you as an employee, and you'll come out with a better understanding of how "fair" is negotiated between the participating parties.
youre right they make money off volume, not price. but volume surges when price goes up and dries up when prices go down. (aka crypto winter)
The experts you are blaming are psychiatrist, so they would have on average ten years of university study. Please explain what your credentials are so we can weigh our opinions regarding your statements.
There are two kinds of commenters in a flame war. First, the people lead by their emotion, who pretend their emotions can be rationalized as factual and logical. Then, the people who are easily baited into telling them they're idiots.
> But what makes a pig optimistic? In 2010, researchers at Newcastle University showed that pigs reared in a pleasant, stimulating environment, with room to roam, plenty of straw, and “pig toys” to explore, show the optimistic response to the squeak significantly more often than pigs raised in a small, bleak, boring enclosure.

That... is dumb. They just chose whatever definition of "optimistic" was convenient for their experimental hypothesis and then used it to confirm their hypothesis. "What's an optimist pig? It's one that reacts to squeaks more often. How do we know a pig is optimistic? Because it reacts to squeaks more often!". Not only dumb, but also circular. Circularly dumb.
They tried https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
I agree it's not clear, but speaking specifically to japan, check out their income inequality https://twitter.com/jmschles/status/564624643781189632

It seems like maybe a datapoint in favor of the hypothesis I presented, at least. I can't get past the WSJ paywall, though, unfortunately.
Would they have anti-suicide nets like Chinese factories?
Shouldn't we want replication even if the sample size seems large, to rule out experimental errors or other flaws in the work?
(somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but not totally misrepresenting, either...)

Unfortunately almost nothing my org does is "full service", we rely on every functional group to figure out their own solutions to hosting, sysadmin, production support, software procurement, hardware procurement, platforms, security, etc... This makes it almost impossible to get anything done since every team starts from scratch on every one of these things, doesn't have a driving interest to cooperate or interoperate with other teams, doesn't have the expertise in-house as it's not a core part of their function, farms it out to high-priced consultants who then roll off at the end of their contract, taking any learning and institutional knowledge with them each time.
This was written by a VC who has no track record as an operator or founder.

The only consistent advice I have ever gotten from the most financially successful people I know (many worth >$100MM) has been to never give up. Some of them took decades to get to even moderate success.

The last decade has been an illusion of how quickly you can get rich starting a company. It can take years to see payoff and it is not always obvious.
Ask HN: Money in Five Days?
Hello HN.

I am a somewhat experienced developer and I have five days coming up where I would like to focus on building an income stream.

There is a lot I have on mind but I am sure there is a lot I don't know that I don't know.

What do you suggest I build that I can build in five days that can become an income stream. Did you do something that worked well?
Are these loans ever repaid or are you suggesting Bezos/Bill Gates etc have slowly accumulated loans to be paid in some long future. If so there must be some public info. about its stats
So you only like generic hot sauce like Tobasco and Buffalo sauce, very interesting.
Reading up in the python documentation, it seems to seed once from `/dev/urandom`, and then uses it's own generator to generate further random bits.

What's the purpose for this strategy opposed to deriving every single random value from `/dev/urandom`, simple performance?
Formal Proof Challenge: The Half-Collatz Theorem
Don’t mistake what you read in NYT for actual medical practice.

This change didn’t happen in 1987.
Looks interesting. Must be something in the air, there was Audioserve posted up the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31713047
It is a strawman because he brought in the personal by saying "why don't you start your own company if you think pay is too high?" Exactly the same as film maker just saying "why don't you make your own movie if you want to criticize mine?"

Same as crypto defenders "why don't you short crypto if you think it is a scam?"

Anyway, I'm repeating myself already, good conversation, Thanks.
It’s peak of popularity was several years ago, I’m not sure how you missed it.
Ford Recalls Nearly 49,000 Mustang Mach-E Cars, Stops Deliveries
Honestly, a resume, and apply for a higher salary position somewhere.
Zoning makes mixed-use development illegal in most places in any case
In 2021, Scotland's GDP per capita was estimated[0] to be about £30,000, or around €35,000 euros. This is hardly poor--even if economic output fell by half on independence, Scotland would still have a higher nominal GDP per capita than many EU members (such as Poland, Romania, and the Baltic States)[1]. I don't know how much independence would affect the economy, but a 50% decrease seems quite harsh.

Its population of around 5 million is comparable to other small EU member states such as Ireland, Slovakia, Finland, and Croatia[2].

[0] - https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publ...

[1] - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_08_10/def...

[2] - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tps00001/defa...
Show HN: Thoughts on Digital Sticky Notes
All the apps that allow you to put stickys on a board to manage progress are missing the point. Tasks to do tasks dont necessarily lead you to accomplishing your goals. I built a tool with my team that makes users align all work to their goals. No way around it. We call them missions. Let me know your thoughts! Roast it, love it, be confused by it...let us know! https://twigflo.com
Interesting. I‘ve been taking a glucosamine supplement for several years since I saw a study that correlates it with overall reduced mortality.
This is correct - in the '00s everyone was playing online, or playing after work, or knew someone who was playing. It was big - bigger than crypto is even now. It really was a fad that caught people's attention, combined with lax regulations enabling online play - it was a firestorm.

Which relatively quickly died off.
I have tried and tried to override this on a site-by-site basis

I tried setting:

privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains to the domain

privacy.resistFingerprinting.testGranularityMask -> 4

I still get utc in slack
>I don’t expect someone to be able to build a hashmap from scratch but I do expect an experienced engineer to have some basic idea of the pieces that go into building it as well as it’s properties (not necessarily ordered, O(1)ish sets/gets, collisions, etc). Knowing this kind of thing helps you understand when to use an object in JavaScript vs a map. Or how dictionaries differ between python 2 and 3. If you understand the underlying data structure, then you know what questions to ask.

Yeah, I'd say this is all in knowing how to use a hash. How to build one would go into the underlying data structure.
Some news here, but how does it not have the Coinbase layoffs, for example?
Genuine question: how would you go about simulating it in that manner? Are you suggesting that we might visualize or otherwise cognize an olfactory intelligence using those techniques?

It seems to me that much of human "intelligence" is our superior ability to perceive patterns in visual and auditory sensory input, and then to process those perceived patterns in some manner. In that light, what might an olfactory "pattern" actually represent?
Also, there is native support for nextcloud in mainstream linux desktop out of the box now (gnome), which covers contacts, calendar and files data.
it was today's https://www.kqed.org/radio/program/marketplace, somewhere in the middle/end
Ah well. It's gonna be a good 6 months for the haters
A politician says "once in a generation". In that time a lot of things can happen. Think back a generation (about 30 years) and of the big things that have happened. The SNP leaders, when making this statement, were all well over 30 and hence, knew that big things happen in that time.

That's why the changes you might say would lead to re-evaluation do not.
Or you could argue that they have too much capital and can't make productive use of it. Maybe taxation can help?
The bay area has a few employment options, places to shop, parks and no mosquitos, no humidity and milder summers and winters.
mine is https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a92acc2ad7a70017ed0dc5
It would have never seen the light of the day without the infamous top comment from the Dropbox launch.
And it’s explicitly unsupported on macOS at least.
Ok, a lot of people see them as the default retailer, but they still have a choice where to shop. They can and do still shop elsewhere. A default perception does not remove their choice. Still not a single example where consumers actually lack a choice.

Essay dumping is not conversation. Although it is also your prerogative to avoid conversation as well.
Everything is crashing.... Good luck
In a rapidly growing company you also have the new layer of managers jostling for position - if you get three new engineers (which we badly needed to keep the servers running) then I will want three new engineers to match (to do God knows what, but hell if I'm gonna let your headcount get bigger than mine).
Murders By Steam....
This is reasonable advice, especially for people with imposter syndrome. It is not universally applicable, some people might need the exact opposite advice.

Understanding your true worth and how it changes over time is an art that is difficult to master.
I still can't get away from this sensation that no matter how good IPv6 is, the ship has sailed. The inferior but indisputably cheaper technology won out over the technically superior one. VHS vs Betamax. Ethernet over Token Ring.
Geico may have to pay $5.2M to a woman who got an STD in an insured car
If you go to school or learn by yourself you are always self taught.

The quality of reviewable code from a cs student is not surprisingly not great but languages like python force some standards.

Neither prepare a student like a community college. Usually the most successful group in the job market.
We decided to persevere through hard times by mostly annually checking 'is tech X / market X / milestone X being reached?', and then ahead of time updating the same 'in 1 year, will...'. Beliefs got validated, we went from default dead to default alive, and now growing & hiring without really caring about the frozen capital markets beyond how to help our customers through their side of it. Especially in something like category creation and deep tech, this can be a long marathon.

But it also comes down to personal goals. If I was in it for the $, we would have been Google employees years ago and many m&a offers earlier. Shutting down can be the right move, so depending on the goals, different questions to ask.
Light as a fairy tale: What makes a feel-good film feel good?
There is a way to do this that doesn't involve (possibly unethical) knowledge hording, such as having skills in areas that the team you would typically be on wouldn't have. But skills that still enhance your role. For example, I've always been employed as a Unix (now Linux) sysadmin / engineer / devops whatever. Basically my team creates system build standards, installs and maintains infrastructure. However I also know systems level C programming for the past 30 years. What this means is that when a system is showing a high load, but tools such as top aren't pinpointing any given process, I can run strace on those processes and observe a lot of fork/exec short-lived child processes due to inefficient code. Then I can help the developers make the code better. Or, again using strace, diagnose why a third party vendor's license manager crashes on startup (it kept a few configuration related XML files opened read/write, and when disk full events happened one of the XML files went zero bytes which caused the app to crash on startup because it wasn't coded properly to handle exception conditions from the XML library it used).

I've also thrown out a few sorely needed web utility apps with Javascript, low level server-side code interfacing with specialty equipment, and various data conversion and analysis tools that were useful for specialized in-house software. Oh, and I used my C programming skills to let a developer know why their code went into an infinite loop when porting it from big endian to little endian architecture (they didn't account for a null terminator when copying a string in a loop, overwriting the counter variable on the little-endian machine but the bug went unnoticed on the original big-endian host).

Summary -- be a pinch hitter in addition to your day job.
Interesting recommendations. I like that it recommends some newer and some older used vehicles. OTOH, it would be better if it asked for how many seats you need. It showed me everything from a Jeep Wrangler through a huge Yukon. The latter holds 2x as many people as the former, and is definitely overkill (especially since I indicated that fuel economy matters).
The opening line says "Open source" , but they aren't. Source available is the correct term.
> Glucosamine has never shown significant health benefits, only minor ones

... This is a bit of a ridiculous argument to make when looking at the data. First of all, they only have 8 categories, only 2 of which have more than 2 studies cited. Second of all, imagine if you only studied the effects of aspirin on addiction. I'm assuming you'd find little to no effect. And if Examine had a list of addiction-related effects you'd also be like "look aspirin is weak, how can it suddenly be strong?". The listed effects on examine all have to do with pain relief which likely has little in common with the mechanism of action for lung cancer

> I find it extremely difficult to trust an all-Chinese research team

This is published in a (European) journal with an H-index of 255.[0] The journal is reputable so are you just asserting you can't trust Chinese scientists to study ingredients used in TCM?

> "TCM" is the invention of Mao

This is very false. Even the article you link only says Mao "heavily invested" in it. You know who else is heavily investing in traditional medicine? The World Health Organization. Which currently has a decades long plan to support and fund and increase the role that complementary medicines play in non-industrialized countries[1][2]

[0] https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=18458&tip=sid&...

[1] https://www.who.int/health-topics/traditional-complementary-...

[2] https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241506096
Yeah, I can imagine there are environments where exit interviews are actually meaningful, and yield valuable data. And that these are also the places that manage to attract managers who actually know what they are doing.

But I was thinking more average case, i.e. environments with non-high retention rates, and the usual "if we want you to have an opinion we'll give it to you" atmosphere that seems to rule the vast bulk of the corporate world.

Which is what keeps many people from being outspoken in the first place.
I agree. Mathlib (LEAN) is a great example of this.
No the CEO will just start their company outside the US.

I worked in Asia and had many conversations about where companies are founded and a lot (not all) came down to tax law.

If you have two equal choices and one has high taxes and one low, why would you start you company in a high tax jurisdiction?
I answered the idea of "fair" compensation, but you don't seem interested in talking about that.
It is truly insane the things that doctors routinely recommend without doing any sort of real review. Get any of the asleep-at-the-wheel health organizations to support your finding and plenty of doctors will recommend even the laziest of new ideas with passion. General downward trend in SIDS over a decade? It's probably because babies that wear footie pajamas are less likely to get bad humors. You're a bad parent if you don't get Shekol brand sleepers.
Big step. Anyone try it yet?!
TLDR:

> The company, in a letter to dealers dated Monday, said it is possible that the car batteries’ main contactors, or the devices for electrical circuits, could overheat and potentially lead to the car losing power or being unable to start...

The fix is a software update which the company is expected to start next month. Owners can also take their vehicles to a Ford or Lincoln dealership to do the update.
There are some pretty interesting procedures like MSE that aim to expand your skull internally by putting lateral outward pressure on your palate. The immediate effects are a new gap between your two front teeth and greatly expanded breathing capacity. Hopefully. People have various ways of describing the moment two parts of your internal skull bits separate, once described as "radiant pleasure without actual pleasure"
Even if it hasn't been said... There are already 1,397 comments so who the hell would see it anyway?
I'd say that if you don't wish to be held to a pledge like "once in a generation" then don't make it. If you're the sort of person who thinks words don't matter, that your promises and guarantees don't matter, then I get it.

Otherwise I would have to conclude that you simply wish your political goals to be made easier. We'd all like that.