skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you have to judge that there doesn't exist someone sufficiently threatened by it to do you or your interests any harm

There absolutely is someone who exists that would weaponize some of my posts against me. That's why it's private and will remain so, except for my son's eyes when he is older.
Very enlightening, this is a perspective on oral vs. written communication I never considered.
The problem with voluntary question and answer is that the loud kids ask questions.

The shy kids sit there and be quiet.

"Prompt" questions, like multiple choice, are a good way of encouraging reluctant students to come out of their shell."
By mom and pop shops you mean retail. I don’t think the aspiration of humanity (or a participant) should be to have a retail business. It’s neither the good being sold nor the person utilizing it. The retail shop itself was inefficient and often expensive with little selection and almost no reviewing mechanism. It’s sad sure, but it was replaced with something far better.

That replacement also drove costs down, and unlocked tremendous amounts of time spent “doing” retail shopping and as a society it’s our job to put that time and those savings to use. It’s also our job , in a moral sense, to make sure displaced industries/people like “retail” also find a new way of being productive.

Let’s not forget the investors that have reaped tons of benefit from this. They too have allocated those funds back to the market either via spend, investment, or tax. Even if the capital is idle, the bank has it which is also giving someone a job.
I don’t understand the underlying math. Musk’s net worth went up by $121B yet he couldn’t afford to buy Twitter for 1/3 of that?
Ive done basic research, even worked in a lab that was doing cancer related research.

Whatever you do now, anything, is not just your own genius but its the accumulated genius of society. It would be quite literally impossible for anyone that "cures cancer" to have done it on their own. Not only it is extremely unlikely that they could do all work just by themselves (though possible) but they will have to rely on the work others have put through out the years... Work that in most cases has been funded through tax money!

So why would one person at the end of the line get to benefit so much from the collective work put by all of humanity to that point?
This actually reminds me of how I 'found' many of my jobs:

Hung out spending free time at a home computer store run by my family, mostly Atari 8-bit. Someone asked if I could program an Olivetti PC--I had no idea but said yes. I had worked on a Xerox CP/M machine with dBase II before. Turned out it was even better/easier than expected. Worked all summer computerizing immigration forms for the Italian priest's business and developing a liking for cappuccinos.

My first car, an Alfa Romeo 75 (aka Milano) broke down on the highway, and I bought a used Volvo 850. The guy noticed my engineering ring and asked if I was software dev, yes, and if I'd be interested in a one-off contract job, yes. He showed up at my door with a laptop all loaded with dev env and project requirements--add printing to a Windows app. Read the W32/GDI docs got it done same weekend. He offered me a job, which I used to pay off the car loan.

Spent way, way too many hours on a submission for a "Think you can code" contest which was obviously a hiring stunt. I wasn't interested in applying but curious if I could place and win a prize. I also subverted the rules, playing by my own 'speed at all costs rule'. I self-assessed that I'd come in 2nd, which I did winning an iPad. It wasn't even the fastest, but it was the fastest that passed all blind unit tests. Went out for drinks after picking up my prize and took the job that got offered (when sober).

Somehow got to talking on the phone to the CTO of a company that used Rails. I had no interest. But I went in to their office out of mere curiosity. Liked the team, office, etc, so I then interviewed with them and when the job I'd lined up and got accepted for fell through because of a company-wide freeze took this one. Got hooked on working for startups.

My lesson learned: be open to fun, unexpected, or otherwise off-the-beaten-path activities and whatever may follow.
I realize the Plenoxels paper is already mentioned by the author, but 2 Minute Papers does a great overview of the concepts (for those wondering what makes this different from other techniques)

Here's the NeRF paper (2020)
https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf

And the more recent Plenoxels explainer (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yptwRRpPEBM

The original NeRF's novelty was the neural-net used to extrapolate the final images, but the newer paper shows that that's not really necessary. My understanding is that the secret-sauce is the 5D 'plenoxel'.
We evaluated a bunch of solutions and came to that conclusion as well. Everything we do is in code (Terraform) and will gladly pay for something that has friendly APIs and an already existing Terraform module. Conversely, we'll not engage with or throw away anything that doesn't have friendly APIs.
I've had good luck with Fedora, especially in the last 5 or so years.
I can't remember where I read or listened to it, but apparently giving away money isn't really that easy. I mean, sure, you can just straight up give away cash to random people, but that's not really what we need.

Finding trust worthy organizations that have a good mission, know what they're doing, and can efficiently distribute large sums of money without a significant portion of it going to "administration fees" is apparently rather difficult.
Here's their source. It seems like a pretty reasonable number.

https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i?income=...
I agree that video game modding (Java for Minecraft or Lua for Roblox) is also a great introduction/motivator for learning programming. The key thing is even though these languages may also be as complex as JS, using them for modding usually have a "happy path" to getting started with many complexities abstracted away or completely disabled for obvious security reasons.

Alternatively if they do not play those games, then maybe a visual programming language like Scratch would be suitable.
My point is that your statistic doesn't mean anything to the everyday reality of normal Americans. If I believe that I can achieve my goals, and the facts suggest that I'm right to do so, why should I care that someone else's parents left them their money?

Banging your drum even more loudly doesn't change the fact that you are off beat.
You can roll over your 401K into a Rollover IRA and even do options.
Leaving this here for other men who might stumble on this: Oral finasteride drives your DHT way down. However, driving DHT down is essentially the binary goal of stopping hair loss.

And that's all fine and good, but having 'just enough' DHT is important for good health. (Psychology, sexual function, etc)

If you're on finasteride, do yourself a favor and consult with a TRT ('low T') doctor, have your DHT level tested, and consider modulating your finasteride dosage according to its effect on your DHT level.

A good balance is worth working towards. Don't blindly take finasteride without keeping an eye on its effects to your DHT.
How is that different than the current situation? If I own a controlling share of a company, I don't have to sell my shares to the highest bidder, I can decide to transfer them to my grandmother. Why does it matter if money is exchanged or not?
Well, it's sorta my point that the inevitable direction of college sports is a consolidation of power schools into a federation where they can manage their own interests without worrying about arbitrary NCAA limitations, and it's likely to include more than just the FBS. UNC, Kansas, Duke, and Clemson are likely the next schools to make moves.
Could anyone explain how rounding the timing protects against just running the thing you want timed 1000 times to get microsecond precision?
> As ‘fetal anesthesia’ does not exist in standard medical practice, the law does not specify how doctors are supposed to administer anesthesia or analgesic in these situations.

Is it at all common in the first place for medical procedures to be codified in law?

I was under the impression that laws tend to speak in very broad and general terms, and how to actually carry them out is left as an exercise for the licensing boards, or for the practitioners themselves to reach some kind of consensus on. Because that takes actual medical expertise, something legislators rarely have. And every time a procedure needs to be updated because of some new research or technological advancement, it would waste a lot of time on legislators debating the changes while the patients risk suffering or dying because they can't have the benefit of the updated procedure. And that's if the amendment is even deemed important enough to debate.

I can't speak for the necessity of fetal anesthesia after week 20 since I don't have any medical knowledge, but those who are supposed to have it asking to be spoon-fed by legislators is not a good look, and sets a very dangerous precedent for the micromanagement of healthcare by politicians.
No, it doesn't describe reality, it is a model that predicts the results of some simple experiments. (Physicist here)
> how many startups do receive way, way more than that and fail?

There is always the assumption that people failed because they're stupid, and some people succeed because they're genius. This is nonsense. Of course Dr Evil, I mean, Bezos, has a strong work ethic, intelligence, and business drive, but this is not guarantee of anything. He was doing the right thing at the right time, period. He got billions of dollars to apply a business strategy that worked well for the market conditions, but this is not because he is so different from other business people.
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That's an excellent point which mirrors my experience as well. My parents are both recently retired civil engineers one which was working for the government/city, the other in a private company. Both very valued in their professional circles, and even outside just because of their reputations.

I've never seen them at home reading a law, bylaw or a "teach yourself how to design a bridge in 30 days". Whenever something changed in their profession (very rarely) be it law or similar they went to seminars about it. Some of the time they (or their "guild") were even consulted so that stuff ended in the law itself. Something really new in the industry (say some software tool or whatever), the company paid for the trip, and the training. The older they were, the more compounding experience and knowledge they had. With each year they were worth more to their respective companies.

Contrast this to my current company (previous were even worse), where my boss proclaimed that all new infrastructure is going to be in Terraform (I had no problem with that, but zero experience), hired a new guy almost straight out of school with 1.5 years of TF experience (and absolutely nothing else from what I've found out later) with much better pay than the rest of the team. Oh, and he said he'll expense us any TF book we want to buy. So here I am, on my 2 week "long" vacation reading a fat book about some technology X which we'll be abandoned in couple of years time.
I think it's a question of liquidity. If most of his wealth is in equities, he can't just sell $40 billion of TSLA without causing a huge price drop and losing voting power, etc. The way a lot of super wealthy people get liquidity is by getting loans against their less liquid assets. I think Elon did a combination of selling TSLA and getting loans to put together enough money to try to buy Twitter, IIRC.
I thought things are capped in California, that Under Proposition 13, the annual real estate tax on a parcel of property is limited to 1% of its assessed value. This "assessed value" may be increased only by a maximum of 2% per year until, and unless, the property has a change of ownership? No such joy in Texas (yet).
> Get rid of all the money, and you get rid of the undue power as well.

That's philosophically, historically and biologically incorrect. Not to mention that it is incredibly naive.

Fights for power happen everywhere in nature. Occasional imbalances are not the problem. The problem is when a certain group or individual manages to concentrate so much power that they get control over groups.

> That means they have their power through some means other than wealth accumulation; popular election or something.

Although I could challenge you on this idea (quick, tell me one "poor" politician who was elected and continued poor after taking office), this is not the type of "power" that we are talking about, is it? In any reasonable democracy, the only "power" from an elected officer is the one vested by the people, for the people. Any elected officer that abuses their position for their own personal gain should be removed from office.

The "power" we are talking about here is the power to do things uncontested, or to get other people to act in ways that are against their own interests and values. This is more visible with rich businessmen like Bezos and Musk, but it also happens via conglomerates like Disney that use their media and news properties to openly mold society in ways that serve them, or the Union leader who puts any of their opponents on a no-work list.
Same here..
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If you encounter something that has positive expected value that you like or don't mind doing, do it more often.
they also provide an experience with far larger externalities (e.g. a massive fleet of vans wandering around and polluting all day) that the customer isn't paying for. i wonder why they're so popular
Mom and pop shops selling everyday goods don’t belong in the future. A 2 day delivery window (same day where I am) for goods, with reviews, and accessible customer support is amazing. It’s every item you can want. A mom and pop shop never offered that.
> Just like we were forced to mass murder Chechens

Just like the US "was forced" to mass murder Iraqis because, in addition to fake WMD claims, the US intelligence was linking Saddam to Bin Laden.

I wonder how exactly you would characterise Khattab, among other "prominent" "freedom fighters", and his role in the Chechen wars. Would you be willing to accommodate similar kind of characters in your country of origin and, possibly, give them a freedom to attract and gather a following among certain kinds of radicals? Would the US be willing to accommodate Al-Qaeda in, say, Texas?
>>Musk and his ilk could single-handedly transform the economic prospects of whole communities in poor countries

So why can't governments do this? They own way more money than billionaires and it is theoretically their responsibility. Shouldn't your anger really be directed there? Musk is not really responsible for other people's well being.
The argument you're resorting to attempted mockery to oppose is not the argument that the comment you're responding to made.
The typical thinking is mandatory confiscation of assets by the government.
This has nothing to do with the GoG.

This applies to any charting library that forces you to provide both spec and unaggregated data to memory/cpu constrained clients (e.g. Javascript in the browser). This is done for implementation-simplicity (Vega, for example), but obviously doesn't scale to larger datasets.

I've implemented a system where the data part of the spec is munged in-database, and aggregated data is provided to the browser, along with hints for axes, scales, legends, etc. It requires a part of the GoG interpreter to be resident on the server-side.
arch and alpine edge.
Then why do we not incorporate those two drugs in assisted suicide prescriptions? That's my point. We stop the heart because we intend to execute and we need to be sure. We paralyze the muscles because stopping the heart hurts, a lot, and people would squirm. We hope that the anesthetic is dulling the pain of that drug, but just in case it isn't we make sure the condemned can't show how much it hurts.

I think we don't actually care if they hurt, and in fact we sorta do hope it hurts like hell. They're criminals, after all. We strongly deny, even in the face of pretty good evidence, that anyone innocent has ever been executed.

Truth is we could execute people quite reliably with a small dose of fentanyl. Or we could use the accepted protocol for assisted suicide -- after all, we kill a lot more people with assisted suicide than by lethal injection, so we have a good amount of experience getting it right. I wonder about the stats on that -- how many failed suicides (of the assisted variety) compared with botched executions?
> But why ask me? Why not ask Elon Musk

Why not both ?
Less than billions
Everybody with excess cash should be buying things with obvious scarcity and value, like land/gold/livestock etc. Companies are just doing the same.
Most of his wealth is not liquid, it’s his ownership of his companies. It doesn’t represent his pay.
it is poor argument. you cant see wifi but it exists.

if your friends are fine does not mean that there are no issues there. plenty of news articles were published about inhumane working conditions where people cannot go to toilet even.
There’s definitely doubt about another Amazon appearing!

Sure we might get a dominating e-store that sells goods, that’s easy to imagine. But that same company also creating the largest cloud provider, being the largest distributor, going international, creating the kindle, now property acquisition, and so on. Yeah I do doubt there’d be another Amazon.
Performance is great in parallels on a 14” MacBook Pro, at least for my use case. I can’t wait until it’s legit so I can use it at work.
Amazingly yeticoin is a thing and doesn't seem to be a joke.
Because you can't transact with your net worth.
I absolutely hate stuff like this.

My net worth has grown substantially in the last several years, however my income has actually gone down in that time.

So do I have an income of millions of dollars? I haven't sold anything that has appreciated (and I don't intend to).

Elon Musk's net worth may have increased, and most certainly Elon Musk is much, much richer than I am, and has a higher income, but this shell game of conflating "income" and "net worth" is just stupid.

There are examples here like:

"If you buy a donut, thats like Elon buying a dunkin donuts franchise!"

Yeah, except I don't sell property or land to buy donuts. How much money does Elon actually take per year in income is the relevant question here.
Yes they do have a choice. Information asymmetry does not remove choice, it's just an asymmetry. Are you really telling me you don't have a choice to shop beyond Amazon? Consumers can't know enough to find other ways to shop besides Amazon? Do you know a single person who thinks Amazon is the only possible shopping option, either online or in-person?

It doesn't matter if there isn't a direct Amazon competitor. All large companies compete on multiple fronts. It does not mean there is no competition in shopping.

I don't respond to essay dumps like this. If you want to say something, you're going to have to say it or quote it.
Is 400k/yr overpaid for a SWE?
I'm new to this field and always thought that SWE (at least the good ones) most definitely add value in exponential multiples over the 400k value but maybe I'm delusional by all the VC speak over twitter. Does he have a point and that we're mostly overpaid?
A quick search turns up tons of stories like https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-wa...

We’re not talking about improving the break rooms for corporate SWEs.
The wealth difference between Elon Musk and the rest of us is a historical anomaly that actually isn’t good for innovation. [1]

I’m also reminded of the line by not quite Steinbeck: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” [2]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

2. https://hellyesjohnsteinbeck.tumblr.com/post/23486952183/com...
In this case, it's not 'quietly' because it's sinister, it's 'quietly' because it's extremely embarrassing. The US used all its political might to force a global boycott of Russia. Now it's telling farmers to buy Russian fertilizer. I'm no expert, but even I know Russia is a (the?) leading source of fertilizer. And to do this when we were already suffering high inflation? It's a blunder at best.
A company like that would 100% outsource their customer service to the lowest bidder
Yeah but I wonder whether the users can tell the vendor under disclosure rules. It is really weird that they didn't tell AMD at the same time!
Common Lisp 3D graphics repo – very preliminary
I doubt either of those conferences would want to be stuck behind a paywall that is neither on terrestrial television or cable networks.

All they care about is the money. And Apple is one of the few companies that can write a check with enough zeros to make it happen.
I'm reading you want to try hard, measure up to your parents' expectations, and go to college. But, what are YOU wanting? What do you hope to accomplish by going to college? Why is all this important to you?
It does... but only in one statement.

String foo = "foo";
foo += "bar";

That is under the covers...

String foo = "foo";
foo = new StringBuilder(foo).append("bar");

But... if you do:

String foo = "foo";
foo += "bar";
foo += "qux";

that becomes

String foo = "foo";
foo = new StringBuilder(foo).append("bar");
foo = new StringBuilder(foo).append("qux");

So, you've still created the strings: "foo", "foobar", and "foobarqux" and also a pair of StringBuilders.

The actual code was more complicated (and bigger strings), but the issue is that each statement is its own StringBuilder.

That prompted me to explore it and I looked at the byte code invocations at http://shagie.net/2014/08/17/what-goes-on-behind-the-scenes-...
Or some kind of regulation limiting how much you can actually own. If we can regulate eg. radio spectrum (which is a limited resource too), why not land too?
I think it's all somewhat related, if a bit tangential.

I have a problem with the State. But I don't have a problem with community governance.I feel like much of 'crypto' is an attack on the latter. A tool for moving money outside of the purvey of the state, but also used to get around taxation, sanctions, and capital controls.

What 'crypto' and those 'truckers' have in common is a defiance of governance and assertion of selfish behaviour over and against community. The former to avoid taxes, finance laws, and money laundering laws.

It's pretty revealing that there's a contingent of libertarians that are arguing vigorously for the decentralization/degovernance/deregulation of financial instruments and currency and capital; but the same people are extremely quiet about the mobility of labour.

If capital can flow freely across borders -- why can't labour?
It's not so fringe, just Google it.
damnit, i wanted this to be in /ask
how do i delete this?
i'm new to this forum
What would you do differently? How do you know now that you were wasting your time?

These moments make you more powerful than ever to be able to articulate why those precious (auto corrected but worked) times were not the myths you heard.
The point isn't to compare if you took all your money out of the bank and put in your pocket vs Warren Buffett doing the same, it's that the proportional every day capital deployment/purchasing power that these people have compared to us is impossibly hard to conceptualize, so you have to start somewhere. This is almost certainly why the thought experiment focuses on menial, everyday purchases.
Almost no fetuses are terminated anywhere near the date of viability, much less afterwards. It is a non-issue. The vast majority of terminations happen before week 12, and no fetus is viable until sometime around week 22 (and only with heroic measures).