skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're explicitly contracting to rip off another app, and doing so by paying under the table with no taxes paid/collected on either end, and you think that's totally legit?
Do you sometimes like to eat apples and sometimes like to eat oranges?
Shipping companies seemingly taking a hostile stance towards tracking apps
> The federal reserve used cayman entities to send stimulus checks.

This is a heck of a claim given that stimulus checks were issued by the US Treasury, not the Fed.
> Much of what is said about Elsevier, the worst offender, is true to a lesser extent in other paywalls.

Honestly, I think it's a mistake reason about all paywalls from the example of Elsevier's paywalls. There are a lot of unique aspects to the production of academic work that are not present in other areas.

Revenue is needed to fund the creation of other kinds of work, such as news reporting, and for stuff like that, paywalls are needed because other free-access revenue models frankly didn't work.
Well done Sri & Brian, love a bit of cost management! Best of luck with this.
They were first round languages. When Python came out, it was largely a C / C++ driven world (Python predates Java by 3 years). It's original use case was around scripting C / C++ programs. If I recall correctly one of the biggest use cases for Python early on was doing test harnesses for C++ codebases in particular. Python's ability to basically be "wrapper for C / C++ libraries" is still its main strength, though clearly the language evolved since this time period. Pascal was a big player too back then, and has fallen quite substantially from developer mind-share. (in the 1980s, predating this era, there was a lot of work and energy around Objective Pascal and getting that on every platform they could. It almost worked. This is what Embarcadero[0] is all about via Delphi[1])

PHP was "easier" Perl. Perl was also ubiquitous at one time because of CGI and the web. PHP was one of the first languages to have the same ease of deployment story as Perl but a much easier syntax to deal with. Again, language space wasn't as crowded then. Certainly both were easier to use than C / C++.

It was easier to gain a foothold in the first round (web 1.0 era if you will) of software and development. There was simply less competition. Java didn't even come out till 1996.

The second era of languages, I think really starting with Go and continuing through to Rust, they faced a bigger uphill battle. There simply isn't the mindshare to capture as easily as there was back then.

Admittedly, I'm still not sure to this day why Ruby took off, other than it offered a great developer first experience as a language, from what I understand. It seems people who use Ruby tend to really like it. It seems it has a stickiness there that other languages don't, maybe? I've always been confused by this one, and I admit that's due to personal bias of not enjoying its syntax at all, however there are clearly lots of people who do. I just prefer one true way of doing things.

[0]: https://www.embarcadero.com/

[1]: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/object-pascal-ha...
It seems people are reading this in completely different ways. I agree with you, but some of the things he said were confusing/unclear. Guess we have to wait for the hit piece to see what the other side of the story is. I'm reserving judgment.
and purely by coincidence, it provides a solution to the ever-increasing use of VPNs for sidestepping geofenced services like TV Streaming.

I'm sure it's definitely just to weed out those bad actors and their dirty DDoS ways though.
Even for small freelance jobs in the US, I've always had to provide a social security number to get paid. Sure, as an individual, I could pay you some amount of cash under the table but a company can't really legitimately do that.

As others have said, that doesn't mean you can't go by a "pen name" if you like assuming the company is reasonably flexible with email addresses, employee directories, etc.
it's kind of the same thing with vaccination, until some threshold it doesn't matter if you are immune, that's why this also cannot be default
Millionaires are raising cash on fears that the Fed can’t tame inflation
Yes I agree. I'm totally in favour of married life and family life. However calling something by a name isn't necessarily the same as what the name superficially implies.

At the very least it's an interesting cultural phenomenon if 'dates' are transmuting from something people are supposed to do before they get married, in order to get married, into something they're supposed do after marriage.

Clearly 'date night' is more important to people than I knew. Partly for this reason, I doubt it will be sufficient to save or maintain marriage, the institution, beyond a generation or two. It reminds me of the concept of quality time which was introduced in the 70s/80s at the same time as divorce was skyrocketing and children were being increasingly neglected. Yet who can gainsay it? Who doesn't want more 'quality time'?

It's very sad and I'm sorry to have brought it up.
IMO it is a five-star disaster for this generation of particle physicists, not for physics.
> For instance, academic administrators and policymakers may want to ask, “How can we make postdoc positions more attractive?

They could start by firing a few administrators and spread the savings on better pay for the postdocs.
What should he be doing if he wants people to apply? Should he wait for the articles to spread the word that kraken isn't in a position to hire?
One of the major criticisms of contemporary digital work is that there’s very little tangible/ non-abstract evidence of work product.

Even if you just dig ditches, at least you can say “hey I dig these ditches that I now see” at the end of the day. This is very satisfying to our brains.

I predict a lot of future recreation will look like “visual evidence of accomplishment without needing the tedious labor required to do the same thing in the physical world.”

You can kind of see why Zuck cares so much about the meta verse from that angle, it’s just too bad that he’s so nuerodivergant he’s getting the details wrong.
I like the answers in the last part. I literally had an interview today where I quoted a professor of mine from about a decade ago. He was very upset with me about some incorrect types in my javadoc comments and told me "The only thing worse than no documentation is wrong documentation!" :)

For your answer on good documentation, that's a good general answer. As you say there are lots of layers to it. Some ideas just from my current viewpoint:
- From my forays into foreign language learning I picked up the linguist's Stephen Krashen's research after learning about it from my language exchange partner. One of the main themes of his research is the idea of "Comprehensible Input"(CI). CI is the idea that you acquire knowledge via exposure to new language that is at a difficulty level where you understand most of what's being said. Then you acquire these new smaller pieces of knowledge via context. I would say this is most closely related to what you mean by structure of the documentation. Obviously with some overlap with the content itself.
- There's also a stronger version of CI that adds an additional piece to this, the content must be of interest to the acquirer/learner. This property is I think the closest to what I think you mean in regards to content of documentation.

In my opinion reaching the first goal, Comprehensible Input, where knowledge is able to be acquired efficiently is step 1. Resources of this type can be created much more easily as there is less subjectivity about the content's style itself rather than simply the pacing of the concepts introduced. The second part is obviously the hard part :) Maybe style text style transfer will start to get really good without the possibility of it influencing the former?

[X] - Old video of Krashen explaining his central ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUc_W3xE1w

P.S. I specifically mentioned text style transfer because I noticed your team had an offer of bringing in trusted technical writers. What would be a very good deal for both you, doc writers(at the client side), doc consumers, and 3rd party writers is the ability for their style to be automatically transferred into anyone's technical writing. 3rd party writers can license their fingerprinted style, Client side writers get a neat assist on quickly changing their writing style, and readers get a choice of voice they identify with.
Soon(tm)

I'm reminded of a slide show on the metric system I watched in science class in the 80s. I have a vivid memory of hearing it say "soon everything in the US will be on the metric system" with a picture of a woman standing next to a speed limit sign in mph.
At this point all my from-scratch installs are usually Debian-based where they used to be Ubuntu-based.

Canonical seems to completely have lost touch with what the community wants, and with the non-free installer, I find Debian working equally well OOB as Ubuntu has done in the past.

The only machines I still keep on Ubuntu are the ones already running it where migrating them will be too much hassle.

For my latest laptop, out of curiosity, I also tried Arch. It seems to work fairly well, but I haven’t had enough experience with it yet to “dare” put it on servers.
Ok, thx.
No he's wrong. Python the language and Python the standard library are not separate things.
In my university the first part ("successfully proposing a dissertation to a specific committee") was called the preliminary exam ("prelim"). In principle, you should do this decently early in your thesis. In practice, many advisors would tell their students "Go do 90% of the research and when you're close to defending, do the prelim". They didn't want to commit to a project and later fail to achieve it.

So with those advisors, it was normal for people to graduate six months after the prelim (because the department required a minimum of 6 months between the prelim and the defense).
Yes, the article is arguing in favor of an iterated waterfall approach.

As usual, some times this is a good choice. Even more if you choose a good iteration size.
I just cashed my holdings out and transferred the cash to my bank. I'm done with crypto for the foreseeable future.
The costs are falling on white papers, not in actual storage projects. Unfortunately, we can't hook a white paper up to the grid :(
My friend who is a professor at a university aiming for tenure put it succinctly: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
From the tweet:

> We've got people in 70+ countries, speaking 50+ languages in the company, trying to build products for people in 190. Differing perspectives will be shared. That's DIVERSITY. It's not always easy. You've gotta be resilient, humble, open and highly tolerant of differing norms.
see PayPal, TransferWise, IBAN etc.
Hollywood has vastly overplayed the actual density of asteroid fields. It’s kind of disappointing.

If you build something in a vacuum then you don’t necessarily need a single continuous piece to create a vacuum. If you specced an accelerator a million miles in diameter, the diameter matters from a standpoint of whether we can accelerate the particle sideways fast enough to keep it in the track, but they are also saying they need 3.1 million miles of accelerator hardware. They are implying they can’t lay it out as a crazy straw, but is that because of the lateral acceleration, the interaction between the coils, or the limits of manufacturing?

What if you built a collider in a spherical arrangement, accelerating in three dimensions at once, but 1/3 the diameter? What if the accelerator were broken into sections to dodge asteroids, with a cumulative segment length that added up to the desired total? What if you laid it out like a Spirograph? What if you laid it out like a truncated Spirograph (just bits of the outer circumference)? What if you laid it out like a 3 dimensional truncated Spirograph?
It's not an arbitrary choice whether to treat a particular interaction as an employee or as a contractor - the nuances are a bit tricky, but in general it's prohibited to treat it as contracting if it isn't actual contracting but if someone is working what we'd call a standard full time job at a company.

The obvious way (mentioned elsewhere here) is that you can reasonably provide services as a business - non-anonymously, non-pseudonymously, disclosing the exact legal identity of your shell company instead of your personal details.
I used to think my goal was making a woman truly happy but now my goal is making myself truly happy and it would be nice if a woman who is trying to make herself truly happy were along for the ride.
Looks useful!
(former PhD in Particle Physics in QCD here, far from an expert)

> While the theory is incredibly powerful in its domain, we have been unable to unify it with gravity and other theories of matter. This is a problem because it's supposed to be a theory summarizing the fundamental building blocks of the universe and it should therefore describe _everything_.

I think this is a misunderstanding of what the Standard Model is and the scientific process that went into it. It is a model for describing the interactions of electroweak and strong force interactions, and that's it. This is based of years of experimental data and coming up with a consistent theory that fits the data. No one went out to come up with a "theory of everything", missed and ended up with the standard model.

The Standard Model is clearly a low energy effective theory of something more, almost by definition. The problem is we have absolutely no data to drive predictions of higher order theories (which could also turn out to be low energy effective theories themselves). Without data, there is a very real chance that the standard model is the best model we're going to have for particle physics.

> the theory is ugly. It's a mess with many parameters and weird interpretations all shoved together. Physicists don't like this. Not just for aesthetic reasons, but also out of experience. It reminds people of pre-relativity electrodynamics for example. Lorentz had what was essentially a working theory of relativity but it was a mess. People fear the standard model is the new lorentzian relativity, essentially correct but missing some key insight that is needed to fix it.

Ugly is a subjective term. A lot of people talk about stuff like 'naturalness' problems with the standard model, but is that really a problem? Who are we to say what numbers are the natural order of things. Gravity is orders upon orders of magnitude weaker than all the other forces, is that 'natural'?

I think comparing it to Lorentzian aether is a little harsh. If you compare special relativity to Lorentzian relatively, special relativity is just a simpler model (it doesn't need aether). I think it's extremely unlikely at this stage that given only the data we have right now, someone would be able come up with a theory that would be fully consistent with the Standard Model but is simpler and doesn't predict new stuff. It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely.

Actually I think the biggest problem with the Standard Model is how to go from the theory to real predictions. Formulating the lagriangian of QCD is the easy bit, converting that to real predictions (either on the lattice QCD end at large alpha_s or perturbative QCD at small alpha_s) is extremely difficult. It's almost laughably absurd where it is not unheard of for calculations of single processes to take a decade or more.
Have you heard about the Earn To Give movement?

Plenty of people live under their means and dedicate their extra money to effective causes.
This seems like the obvious thing to do with neural net problems... Not clear on what makes it hard/risky. Are we essentially saying, "Build a CPU of CPUs?"
There was an article here yesterday[1] about a study showing a correlation between Glucosamine and reduced lung cancer mortality. The top comment[2] challenged the worth of the study on the grounds that these sort of observational studies in large populations have too many confounders to be taken seriously.

There's truth to that point, but it's interesting to see which topics slide into skepticism and critiques of method, and which take results at face value and build a discussion on top of them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31746980
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31747822
Twitter Feature Sucks
But they are arguing in the source for more doctor supply?
“It's Open Source Within The Company” [video]
Due to interchange fees on the major processing networks it is not practical to charge less then $1. Fees per charge are something like 30 cents plus percentage of transaction.
> The official statement of the university is that the Ph.D. student must submit "an original contribution to knowledge worthy of publication".

> So, if a student believes that they have done such work, then they are free to, and maybe should, submit it for publication. When the work is accepted for publication, the student can then so announce to the professor, department school, and university.

For many fields, this would not work. My advisor required a journal publication to get the Master's degree, and several to get the PhD. He (and many others) would have failed any candidate's defense if they had just one paper if they were in their committee.

(Yes, it's crappy).
So he's not saying the N-word himself, but instead arguing that opressed minorities should not be allowed to reclaim slurs formerly used against them?

I really do not see how that is much better. The entire statement reeks of privilege.
As a long-time user of the Deliveries app for macOS / iOS, this is very disappointing. Other apps that aggregate shipping information from multiple package carriers also seem to be at risk, as shipping carriers apparently seek to strong-arm customers away from aggregation and into using their own, siloed apps.
Interesting to note: HN sometimes upvotes articles just because they want to shit on an idea. I'm not disagreeing here actually, the statement:

> don't doxx yourself for work

could (was?) generated by a Markov chain.
Very interesting, tempted to apply to the company as this sounds very promising and fun to work on...

I'm curious about the business side of things, to give some context, some open source models that startups use today are:

1. The "open core" model, Gitlab being a good example. They try to split features that are open or closed/enterprise depending on the buyer.

2. The AGPL model, Mongodb used to do this, today a popular example is Grafana and their collection of products.

3. The Apache + cloud backend model, the core being standalone working with Apache license while building a value added managed service. I think this is what Synadia is doing with NATS.

4. The "source available" model, not really open source, but worth mentioning as it's very popular recently. Examples Mongodb, Elastic, Cochroachdb and TimescaleDB. This is often combined with open source such that some parts are open source, others source available.

With this as a reference Nikita, how would you explain how Neon thinks in regards to licensing and eventually building a healthy business? It's obvious a managed database service is the money maker, but how do you think around compeditors taking the project and building managed services without or with minimal code contributions? I'm sure you guys have thought a lot about this, would be interesting to hear some thoughts and reasoning for or against different options.

(Note: This is not meant to be an extensive explanation of these business models just a high level overview. If I have miscategorized some company above feel free to correct me in a comment.)
And how will I know if an article was worth paying for until I've already read it? This might work with a site I frequent and have grown to trust but most of the views on most articles aren't regulars of the publication itself but probably got there because it was shared or came up as a search result
That's hilarious. But to be fair, if you are looking partners who want kids in the Bay Area, you better know how to invert a binary tree to land that FANNG job. :)
People are very resourceful, pretty good at swimming, the English Channel not particularly wide, and it might have been walked across.

The real trick is how monkeys got from Africa to South America about 40 million years ago.
I never recall anything mentioning how to do something in D1. Just ask on the forum, people are usually willing to help.
That tweet is nonsense. Let's talk concretely: should a queer person be expected to be tolerant of a coworker who believes that they should be beaten or killed for their sexual orientation?

This question has a yes or no answer.
Some of the writing feels like a cult (krakenites, the Mission, true believers) while the other seems like they're trying to pander to right-wingers. Perhaps they see the current climate of companies going all "woke", and want to appeal to those who feel left out?

Do they even realize how abrasive it comes out reading it in a corporate document and not some *chan site?
Boat. Next question!
Maybe your company/service can be the middle-man. Offer varying levels of checks that are optional for the employer to require or the Contractor to fill out.

Identity as a service.

Have things like "This person is authorized to work for U.S. Companies", "This person is certified in x."

Your company would check the verification and make sure it's valid but then delete the supporting documentation or anything identifying.

Never give any of the supporting documentation to the companies, just give them access to see basically checkmarks that show they fulfill x arbritrary requirements.

But only if the applicant actually applies to the job, to prevent metadata scraping.
Which is why there was a ballooning of crypto-market makers.

Thin markets and dozens of fragmented exchanges is paradise for a quant market maker. You setup a few dozen websockets and you get to charge some bitcoin miner 10bps per transaction for your “all-in-one API”.
Facebook feed will, like TikTok, recommend posts from unconnected people
Why Is AVX-512 Useful for RPCS3?
If the goal is visual evidence of accomplishment, then one gives you that while relaxing the other gives you that while bending over and tiring out your core/upper body.

I won’t make moralistic judgements on which is better, but I will say all else equal, a lot of people prefer physical passivity.
One of these things is socially acceptable but the other isn't.

Says who? you can most definitely filter by race on a lot of apps.
why was this flagged? I appreciate that it might not be the best forum for a reading club materials list, but it certainly isn't off topic as per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Instagram is changing the algorithm to discourage teens from obsessively viewing the same kind of content and also comparing themselves in looks to other people.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/14/23167233/instagram-nudge-...

Maybe this has something to do with that.
Occasionally, but not often; usually only if someone on my team is stuck on an issue they can't debug, I'll pair program with them through the debugging process until it's solved. I don't think I've ever done pair programming for implementation development.
The Dreams of Animals
with the market being as it is, actually very wise to have a lot of cash on hand :) we also operate this way. i could become unemployed today and we buffer enough so that it's not an emergency at all.
Or even working in countries with generally higher crime or weaker rule of law. I spent years living in a country where even saying/posting something seemingly innocuous could put your life at risk.
The interest rates were low during the entire existence of bitcoin + QE for the same period.

We don't know bitcoin and the rest of the crypto currencies will react to higher interest rates.
Apple invites families to create and learn together during Apple Camp