skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9/10 the problem I'm trying to work on isn't sufficiently broken down and feels impossible to even start on.

The more I break down a problem into small solvable problems (a pen and paper is all you need), the less obscure the issue / work becomes, then I can be there for 20 hours coding/designing whatever from the point I've understood what I need to do.

Also writing down where I finished and where I need to start from the next day helps me get back into work easily.

TL;DR you're probably overwhelmed and it's easier to watch sexy people doing yoga on Instagram than to actually build something.
> buying only like 10 tickets in their whole life

Did he reset his wealth, connections, etc. between each of those 'tickets'? No. Each one was built off the previous success. Without paypal there is no tesla (or at least not involving him). Without tesla there is no spacex. These are not independent events in the way that lottery ticket wins are. The analogy is not perfect, but the way it falls apart is not favourable to your interpretation.

And we will never know if those companies would have succeeded or been created without him. We can't test the counterfactual. His success is only evident in hindsight and the only proof that it's somehow unique to him is the fact that it happened.

> Who are you talking about? Tesla and SpaceX dominate the markets they operate in. He didn’t take some family wealth and just maintain it with a business. He grew multiple companies from sub million dollar values to hundreds of billions.

The claim here is that Musk is uniquely intelligent and that somehow explains his outsized success. That implies the people who don't have his success are not as smart as he is.

Unless... perhaps... there's more to this than intelligence or hard work.
And here I was thinking that it was just chemistry jargon, i.e. mercury fulminate.
Off for every meeting except weekly team meetings. Sometimes I turn it off then too depending on how I’m feeling that day.
Really though?
Never really worked? How do you think Meta/Facebook and Google got so rich? The television and media companies before them? Subscriptions can work too but you need a product people want that no one else can offer. Apple and Disney have that, but I doubt Twitter does.
> I'll go rewrite the relevant Acts of Congress in Rust if I have to.

Maybe start there - don't stick with a US jurisdiction. What was that country that was taken to the WTO and won against US copyright, and are now allowed to host any copyrighted material without penalty?
Don't forget R&D costs
Not when it correctly tracks 10.0.0.0/8
I never stop being amused by lazy oversimplification.
I never stop being amazed by the level of trust some have in lazily oversimplified media.
Meta is a city, not a person.
$100 + labour for assembly + testing to make sure the panel works + the cost of an extra DCDC converter + wiring to the roof + supply chain risk with all the above parts. Toyota tried it for a while, but I don't think any new Prius models have a solar roof.
Price targets and buy/sell recommendations are obviously rubbish. Regard them as PR.

You need to look at what people do, not what they say. And market prices are an aggregate of the former.

Btw, the efficient market hypothesis says that the current market price is basically the best 'price target' / forecast available. (Modulo an accumulation of interest and cost of carry etc.)

> Just look what most banks and funds were doing during the dotcom bubble

That's an interesting example to bring up!

If you had bought the Nasdaq composite index during that time, you would have done pretty already today.

We didn't so much have a dotcom bubble, as an irrational dotcom burst where tech stocks were perhaps irrationally underpriced for a long time.

Do keep in mind that I am not saying that market prices are a perfect predictor. Just that they are the best predictor we have.

In an efficient market, you would expect prices to look like a random walk. So prices going up or down isn't any evidence against EMH. (Someone consistently outpredicting the market would be evidence against EMH.)
The study on medical devices indicates that safety actually improves with deregulation, due to the combination of a larger market and litigation.

In any case it's obvious to me at least that in the long run, if medicine sees the same pace of innovation that, say, smartphones have seen, or even that the cosmetic surgery field has seen, we would have much safer medical products and services just by virtue of them being significantly more sophisticated, less invasive etc.

Finally - even if all this weren't true - without price reductions, it will be increasingly the case that the safest and most effective treatments will be out of reach of the masses, due to simple economics/scarcity. I would rather have some lower quality products/services available to the public, and the best quality ones be more accessible, than remove the lower quality offerings but also deprive the public of the best quality ones.
Flipping works great in a rising market. It's a lot harder when the market slows. All these companies got in just as the market was turning directions. Additionally, even in the best of markets you can't just buy,fix and sell at a profit. You have to pick the properties carefully.

I suspect a lot of the properties that were bought were bought to fill some kind of goal for the period rather than they having profit potential.

The better investment is buying, renting and then selling a decade later. The idea is that the renter pays the mortgage and other expenses for the property. But that's too long for most companies.
A Phd is a liability not an asset on wall street. Source: my brother was convinced to abandon his PhD ABD by two friends who did the exact same thing a year or two ahead of him.

The real "badasses" if you insist on calling them that, work about a dozen years for a fund, hit their number, and promptly retire to do whatever the hell they want for the rest of their life. You don't read much about them vs the obsessive people who keep playing the game for the high score contest though, because there's no drama to cover.
I'm all for e-bikes, and i'm all for Van Moof selling as many of their ugly bikes as they can, because at least they have built-in lights, but the idea that they, or anything, is going to transform any place into bike-friendly spaces is just fantasy.

just the latest example of "let's pretend we can get a whole lot of something for almost nothing".

if you don't have safe spaces for people to ride, they're not going to ride -- whether there is an 'e-' in front of the 'bike' or not.
Nope, but nothing stops you from creating an instance that does.
> No blockchain can ever guarantee there's any visibility or accountability

Visibility or accountability of what? Many blockchains are public.

I find you not only misinformed but possibly intentionally trying to mislead people.

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Paul Kedrosky
None of the things you mentioned are necessary conditions for good music.
If I care about some aspect of the thing to be done - even if it's just for my own ego - then sometimes I'll give myself less time to do it in, such that if I don't focus and it doesn't get done (or done well) then something I don't want to happen, will happen (be harshly criticized, lose money, let myself down).

Provided I value the thing, my body/mind will come around when demanded of, often slowly.

If I don't care that much, or the downsides don't feel so bad, then I try to practice giving up that thing (in whatever way I can) or just not doing it well.
The problem with only using markup to render websites is the lack of navigation.

We need something to show next/previous page (we have rel headers and tags for that) and something that shows a tree navigation structure for populating menus (not sure what exists for that)

The tree structure would need to be “crawlable” because for very large sites, the entire tree can’t be loaded. That could be solved by representing nodes on the tree as URLs that can be loaded by the client as needed.

I’d love to see this happen. I don’t think we need markdown per-se… maybe it’s a subset of HTML that leaves out css, JavaScript, and a lot of the other nonsense.

Is anybody interested in building this out? I have ideas for the server and formats, but would want help implementing the clients.
I've been curious about these kinds of services for a while.

Genuine question: do you not end up just chatting with your paired partner?
I didn't understand much of the jargon, but if banks don't lend out customer deposits, why are they gone when banks go bankrupt?

If they were not lent out, where did they go?
Good. Remote work is on it's way out across the industry. It causes people to not perform very well and causes slacking off (I know this of myself from personal experience). It also makes it harder for newer people to learn things and makes it feel less like you are a team and more like you're a bunch of independent people with no connection to the company.
To me, efficiency means achieving a desired goal while consuming a minimum of resources (time, energy, space, …).

If the goal is defined in a too narrow scope, i.e. your ‚dumb‘ definition of efficiency, the flexibility may be missing. Still, that particular goal may be reached efficiently.

So it’s not an issue with the definition of efficiency, but rather with scoping the problem. As the article states, it may not always be possible to scope the problem in an easily measurable way, hence optimizing for proxy targets.
For a static document markup language, Djot does a rather good job: https://github.com/jgm/djot

It's very similar yet much fuller-featured than commonmark, with support for definition lists, footnotes, tables, several new kinds of inline formatting (insert, delete, highlight, superscript, subscript), math, smart punctuation, attributes that can be applied to any element, and generic containers for block-level, inline-level, and raw content. In addition, it resolves ambiguities in the commonmark spec and parses in linear time with no backtracking.

Further discussion lower in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33553293

Quickstart for Markdown users: https://github.com/jgm/djot/blob/main/doc/quickstart-for-mar...

Some more in-depth examples, showing how Djot would be rendered into HTML: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jgm/djot/b...
> He also wants to recreate the place per his own vision

That's a bold assumption -- that there is a vision
PM here: I actually also got pretty excited reading this. The challenge is selling analyses with unknown outcomes to the bean counters who end up deciding. Blog posts like this help.
I'm not OP, but I'm pretty sure the point is the ritual of it, not the genre itself. Anything will work as long as it's specifically for working, and you don't play the music elsewhere. If you can get a subconscious link in your brain between that music and working, ideally you can be more focused when listening to it.
Elon Musk tells Twitter staff he sold Tesla stock to save the social network
Location: Turkey, Antalya

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

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I am a data scientist with a specific knowledge in medicine and retail. Have Kaggle competition expert status.
The CEO of FTX said "we tend not to have stop losses... I'm trying to think of a good example of a trade where I've lost a ton of money... I probably don't want to go into specifics with that"

https://twitter.com/ApeDurden/status/1590912098871435265

How did this place end up managing billions of dollars?
Does that image reveal anything of note?

If that were the reason, I'd imagine it wouldn't take much effort to compel the operators of Wayback to redact it.
Tesla to allow salvaged vehicles back on Supercharger network
> The blockchain also won't tell you the actual details of the deals this guy was making

Why should it?

Does your bank tell the world the details of what you shopped from the grocery store today?

Financial privacy either is or should be a human right. Banks fail to protect this right. Blockchains can protect this right.
Airlines would rather have more people in economy than to include cup holders.

You do sometimes see cup holders on private airplanes, but in commercial aviation the efficient solution is to avoid needing them.
Archaeology adrift?: A curious tale of Lego lost at sea
Elon's the #1 type there. He's been shown to be talking to a lot of people at Twitter to get a good understanding of how the product and company works and removing people as he finds it being unrelated to the future success of the company.
Nah - he sold Tesla stock because he doesn’t want MBS showing up on his doorstep with the bone saw.
Medibank criminal hackers trying to 'incite' fear as data dumps start
- Company owned by Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, or anyone who thinks those two represent good management.

- Anything to do with cryptocurrencies, NFTs, etc.

- Repeated ethical and legal violations, e.g. Uber, Wells Fargo, pretty much every Wall Street bank/fund.

- Companies with no customers or revenue where the founders only talk about pitch decks and funding rounds.
Wow, and here I thought he bought it with his pocket change.
IDK, we are talking about them compelling this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74g7wSTYUso
The network's only value is because it is publicly available.

Destroy that and there is no value to Twitter. Alternatives will grow & flourish & the chapter of greatness & success will close.

I don't see how you defend such a small view, of limitation & constraint & denial.
Whenever a person in their mental framework have a very high moral goal, it is easy for them to justify to themselves, less-moral actions. Almost impossible for it to not happen.
I think you and the parent comment are both correct. Engineers who are skilled enough to do this type of analysis are expensive and another VM/Instance is a few hundred a month at most.
I'm not sure it's obvious it conveys anything beside 'looks like everyone else'.

It's like the GP comment complaining about 'modernist, minimalist crap, indistinguishable from all the other modernist, minimalist crap' never ran across one of the most recognizable university press marks out there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press#/media/File:MIT_Pres...
Sadly humanity is susceptible to hate - it is so easy to vilify a marginalized group for cynical power grabbing
Although this is a common criticism of utilitarianism in the Bentham traditition, it is not in fact how utilitarian ethics work as a whole. For example John Stuart Mill would say that whether or not an act in a specific case is ethical can be decided by whether or not it is in violation of a general rule, and whether or not the consequences of the general rule are positive or not. Taking clients funds and using them to go double or nothing would clearly lead to lack of trustworthiness and the consequences of this would be clearly negative in general so this is very clearly unethical according to Mill.[1]

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/utilitarianism-philosophy
51GB for bookmarks? What am I missing here?
What are you trying to show? You seem to agree that the English spelling of /nt/ is "nt", the English spelling of /ŋk/ is "nk", and the English spelling of /mp/ is "mp". There is no possibility of "np", "nb", or "nm".

How would that suggest that it's reasonable to spell the Japanese word "dempa" as "denpa"?

For demonstrating lack of assimilation of /n/ to following bilabial, there are a couple distinct questions you might ask. It's very frequent for people to preserve the tongue gesture associated with /n/, because a bilabial stop doesn't use the tongue and so [n] is easily coarticulated. But that turns into /mp/ or /mb/ over time because the difference is not easy to hear. In contrast, for a word such as "impossible" where this process completed many hundreds of years ago, the tongue is not used at all in the pronunciation of /mp/. This is a kind of lack of assimilation.

You can also see lack of assimilation in the very people who go to special efforts to pronounce [n] in Japanese words where that is inappropriate.

Note that the English and Japanese phenomena you're talking about are very distinct. This is a fact about the historical development of sounds in English (and Latin...) that doesn't apply to current English, where a sequence like /ng/ will often be preserved across word boundaries. ("One ghost"; this is the only context in which such a sequence can occur at all.[1]) English maintains a robust distinction between /n/ and /m/ and a weaker one between /ŋ/ and the other two.[2]

In contrast, Japanese ん assimilates to whatever follows it, and in the case that nothing follows it it may (rarely) be realized as nothing more than nasalization of the preceding vowel. Word boundaries are not relevant. Japanese does not have a phonemic syllable-final /n/ or /m/ (or /ŋ/). It has a single sound (usually indicated /N/ by specialists, apparently, due to even more weirdnesses that it involves) that gets realized differently in different contexts.

So again - what would justify representing the Japanese sound as "n" regardless of context in languages where, unlike in Japanese, the distinction between "n" and "m" is meaningful?

[1] You say that most would-be /np/s are already spelled "mp", but this is false - the words that are spelled "mp" changed long ago, and do not represent attempts by modern speakers to pronounce an /np/ sequence. They represent attempts to pronounce an /mp/ sequence.

[2] Why weaker? /ŋ/ doesn't have the status the other two do; it cannot begin a syllable. And it makes for a less than perfect contrast with /n/ and /m/ because it has a fairly pronounced effect on the vowel that precedes it, which makes drawing a clean contrast difficult.
Here’s a few things that I have found really helpful recently:

1. Put your phone in another room and only check it at scheduled periods. For me, after breakfast I put my phone out of sight until lunch and then back in the other room it goes until 3:30 PM.

2. Try to keep separate spaces for entertainment and focus. For example at your desk only do productive work like development or paying bills. If you want to watch a youtube video then take your laptop to your couch and watch it there or just watch youtube only on your TV.

3. Check out this podcast from Andrew Huberman called Focus Toolkit on focus cycles, focus music and more.

Also don’t be afraid to take breaks (without a screen), we aren’t machines. Just walk around and daydream sometimes
I imagine something like "misconceptions about the ingredients of the COVID vaccine" would be appropriate.
Did software quality dropped significantly in last 2 years?

Yes, to me. As an Apple user, Apple software quality has dropped significantly in the last 2 years.

I’ve worked from home for 5 years and I don’t want to go back, but I recognise it’s easier to push devs to be more productive while at office.

You're probably one of the few disciplined enough to be allowed to permanently work from home, before covid. After covid, everyone got to work from home, without proving that they could and should.

In other words, you're biased.
I don't find this argument coherent.

Did someone pay you to come here and write these things?

Are you a lawyer?

Are you a crook?

> This is completely and utterly irrelevant and has not stopped anyone from performing massive fraud.

So is fiat currency.
So Apple is finally going to allow competing browsers on iOS and be held accountable for not doing it until now?
They're probably part of a group where North America is majoritary, so it all gets lumped up as North America depending on the zoom level
Says the parody of a CEO and decent human being.
Most of the blog posts I see that are this detailed are usually from larger companies.
> languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby™, or Swift®

Good choice, even when several better memory safe languages were left out. Such as Lisp, Ada/Spark, Pascal, Haskell, ...

Not Rust, as this is memory safe only in name, not in practice.

Null safe languages would be even better, or even languages with safe arithmetic.
I got you fam
> Yes, but this means you cannot claim 400 million infections as a denominator for a constant 0.2% IFR, because many of these are reinfections, so should have a lower IFR than whatever was estimated in mid-2020.

So you agree with him: as herd immunity builds, the IFR goes down as people get more resistant. In fact you pointed this out yourself in a previous comment.

> And the whole assumption of the Great Barrington declaration, of which Bhattacharya was an author and Ioannidis a sympathizer, was that the rate would drop considerably on reinfection, because herd immunity would protect the population.

And this is exactly what happened. COVID became less serious as the pandemic wore on, and dropped close to his estimate even before the release of the vaccines.

Infection fatality rates were vastly overestimated. I got lots of flak on HN for pointing to the German random testing data estimating an IFR of 0.37%. people were calling me a moron telling me this was an order of magnitude off. Jay's claim was less conservative, but still much closer to reality than the consensus at the time. Heck, even if you use the figure of 0.47%, Jay was still closer than most expert opinions.
Amazing to watch a guy troll his way into a corner. Men of privileged background really, really do not know how to deal with this alien to them thing called "consequence". It's just meltdown.
Pump and dump. Tokens are useless. Some tokens are even more useless, like FTT.

FTT is effectively dead. It cannot be used for anything because FTX is no longer doing any trading and will need to file for bankruptcy.
It's a democratic decision. Everyone agreed that chain is no good. Just like everyone agrees on the current state of the chain.
i think it would be nice to stay, but it rarely works.

why?

because the world sucks that way, i guess.

so, ask for the raise, don't get it, accept new job, go thru all background checks, agree on start date, give two weeks notice, get counter-offer (from current company), reject it, move to new job.

if current company counters will BIG offer like 85k or 95k, then maybe take a chance and accept it, else just go. new opportunity for growth is very important if she has the energy for it. can work two or three years, graduate to tech lead/pm, then get pregnant if you all want, etc., all without having to lose your job.
And at their scale, this makes sense. No one is going to do this work if if means they run 2 servers instead of 6.
iOS has not required launch images for every size for some time now (since iOS 8 in 2014). It requires instead a piece of UI called a launch storyboard [1], which scales using the standard UI layout system to the different sizes

However custom images can still be set for every possible size, if you really want

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/specifying-y...
I use the Pomodoro Technique. Given that it divides the day into 15 minute work blocks, it might work well for you too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

It's worth reading through the original Pomodoro Technique PDF, since planning and tracking is an important part of the process:

http://friend.ucsd.edu/reasonableexpectations/downloads/Ciri...
> Do you find there are lots of things you can’t find on Apple Music or Spotify nowadays?

No clue really, I am more “forceful” these days in terms of requiring software to be open if it is to set foot on my devices. Bandcamp is great and it is where I get the majority of my music these days.