skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the difficulty of running a company proportional to the technical difficulty of the problems it attempts to solve? I believe there's a lot more to running a company than finding a solution to a technical problem without killing anyone in the process.

I think it's fair to assume that Paul Graham, who runs a startup incubator, already knows that it takes more than that to run a company successfully. So what's the point of broadcasting this simplistic, condescending viewpoint to his followers?

If I was one, I would feel that he's looking down on me. "We smart, you dumb. We do thing good, so we also do other thing good. Shut up and clap for creator."
> I don't trust them to keep my data secure.

Encrypt it?
Same, migrated to self-hosted Joplin recently.

I fired up EN at one point recently. Wanted to add a note in a certain category and it took me like 20 seconds to get to the point where I can type in the actual note text. It wasn't even connected to the internet and still the app was slow. 5-10 second pauses for something that should be done in a millisecond. Useless popups.

WTF were they thinking?

I mean, I know exactly what happened. Everyone who cared about having a good app has left the company by this point.

Anyways, I really like Joplin. Android app works fine. Desktop app works fine. It even has a TUI mode. Server side for self-hosting (webdav) was pretty straightforward to set up.
Having worked with Java during the early 00's, I feel right at home. Java 2 v 1.4, anyone?
That’s assuming you have enough wealth to generate enough extra to live off of. That’s already what the rich/FIRE do
is that entropy not self inflicted by swes constantly reinventing the wheel with new languages, frameworks, and libraries? they may be better but constantly having new adoption means nothing ever really lasts long
Another banking chatbot success story
CaixaBank's virtual assistant has generated impressive numbers so far...
Huh, at first glance I thought they were runes, but then runes must've had predecessors themselves.
A lot of businesses have a goal to maximize work and minimize wages, and for those businesses…
Earlier this year, I started a job where I had to use a Windows desktop for the first time in a little over a decade. For a while, I did as little in WSL as possible, and leaned hard on PowerShell, MSYS2, and Scoop. After a few months, I abandoned the 'native' tools in favor of WSL due to performance and compatibility issues. I wish MSYS2 were the solution, because at least then there'd be one (WSL sucks too).
Is there a mass email software that supports this? I haven't seen it.

On a separate note, I'm sure that by now he's pretty much destroyed the entire culture there. So, while many folks will hang around for now, since economy, but most are possibly thinking of leaving. In the end only the most desperate will be left there, so yeah, pretty hardcore.
> but I'd rather install a VM

WSL is a proper VM, just managed very efficiently by Hyper-V.

> the filesystem has its (performance) limitations

It's a normal Linux filesystem, there's no difference in performance vs. a full-fledged Linux VM. (which it is anyway)

Are you referring to WSL1?
Not being able to access WSL from within an SSH session due to

"not possible to access wsl from session 0 (which is where the Windows OpenSSH server run)" [1,2]

is now a deal breaker for me to upgrade to whatever they called 1.0.0 version or released over Windows Store.

The old version (non-Store version) used to work, and now the upgraded / non-Preview version doesn't. I don't know how they dare remove that preview tag.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9059

[2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/a-preview-of-wsl-...
Isn't that their whole game? If you're going to fly them you should know it.

They have the cheapest fares, but they do that by upselling everything and any mistake will be expensive. If that's worth it to you (and sometimes the cost difference is big enough for it to be worth it imo) then it can be a reasonable tradeoff.

Flying an extreme lost cost airline that's entire existence is predicated on this model and expecting them to act contrary to that is confusing to me.
"wsl --update --web-download" will pull version 1.0.0
I agree with you: we aren't good at sales and design (we are software engineers btw).

But we do what we say: we have developed a technical hack to restore iOS tracking. And it works as a charm.
This is our today Facebook ADS Manager https://bit.ly/3TI44E2
I will say the morale improvement on my team when we switched to 4/10s was worth it alone. We couldn't swing the reduction in hours unfortunately.
Woah, that belt chain tensioner on the GPI... very nice solution to a common belt drive issue!

Thanks for the link, I'd never heard of these folks. Love seeing innovation like this in bicycles.
Some of these terms are indeed likely to be aimed at researchers, though I agree that journalism and politicians and charlatans seem to love pulling from shoddy psychology and making it even worse with their poor understandings of the field. For example, they give a number of papers that cite a p=0.0000 number, which is clearly absurd. p-hacking and dubious misuse of statistical testing aside, it shows a clear lack of understanding of what the p-value even is, and what it tells you, and this is obviously more relevant to researchers than reporters. I can also speak towards personal experience regarding "comorbidity", for a while I knew a grad student who accidentally attached a completely new, incorrect definition to the term by assuming it mean risk-factor. It's certainly a blend of really subtle, interesting mistakes that I can easily see a researcher unfamiliar with the history and philosophy of science making, and some pretty common tropes that are probably more often just stereotypes from the "science" section of popular magazines.
Finder has a breadcrumb you can enable. It's in View > Show Path Bar. It's for sure a discovery issue. MacOS assumes you've always been using it.
Inflation takes years to build up and years to resolve. Last time it took over a decade to get it under control [0].

[0] https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-inflation
In terms of ease of learning, extralinguistic factors are generally more indicative. For example, availability of intensive courses, quality of those courses, availability of materials/cultural output, willingness of speakers to interact with learners (either for reasons of inability of communication otherwise or for reasons of ideology), similarity of culture or cultural concepts between the learner's culture and the one of the language they are learning. All of these have as much or more impact on ease of learning than any index of grammatical complexity. (Edit: Basque has excellent courses run through AEK and Basque speakers are usually very motivated to talk Basque, so if you want to learn a language I would highly recommend it, oh and there is a mass of culture like music and films).
Let's say you have 100 tests that depend on the file being changed, but only 10 that depend on the method or line changed since last year run.

How many tests will your system run? That's the important question.
essentially no grammar change is a "simplification". every language has the same complexity in it's grammar, it mostly depends where that complexity lies

you might just be confusing complexity with big words or large tables of grammatical affixes. over time, languages tend to either get more synthetic (closer to a 1=1 correspondence between words and morphemes) or agglutinative (many more morphemes per word), and it wraps around at the end - premium synthetic languages then start tacking words together, some start making other constructions, and suddenly you're on the agglutinative side!
Then I'll pull it out as cash and they can fight me for it.
The alphabet is shared with other Iberian languages, with a couple of unique runes. It is most likely written phonetically but the underlying language is very different.

Nowadays Basque is similarly written phonetically in latin alphabet, and in terms of phonemes, it has almost the same sounds and vowels as Spanish.
+ international folks, who have no clue what American "football" is, where many of these terms come from.

The need to like/watch sports and be fluid in this vernacular has been the no.1 reason why I have been put off from any foray into management, tbh. Its so childish to hear grown men (its generally always men) engage in banter around sports. Just because its been the norm doesn't mean its ok.
> major TSA delays.

This infuriates me. Last week I was stuck in line for TSA for an hour and a half at Sea-Tac. The TSA clowns had one guy looking at the X-rays of luggage at the speed of molasses. Am I to believe that the TSA, FAA and airlines can't coordinate to determine when gluts of incoming passengers are expected? Bullshit. Why didn't they have more TSA workers on shift? Because they don't give a shit, nothing in the structure of the system gives the TSA an incentive to give a shit and do their job well. What do they care if people miss their flights? They don't, those smug pieces of shit don't care at all.

They even have signs plastered all over their checkpoint threatening you with federal charges and huge fines if you "verbally abuse" the TSA workers. In this country it is legal for me to call a traffic cop a fascist pig, but I can't say the same to a TSA agent? I hate them so much.
I guess the people who work there care more about their internal culture than their stock price.
The point of the speaker is that /in general/ these types of comparison amount to equivocation of the incommensurable, and this characteristic leads to progressively more unintuitive results as the breadth of application expands. The fact that the trolley problem intuitively suggests the opposite (it just makes sense!) is kind of the jumping off point for the interesting conversation.

This is a kantian imperative type concern. The question is: at the very highest level, should we use this principle /to restructure our society/. At the scale of influence of these schools of thought have the impact is unintuitive because it challenges the makeup of the normative fabric that society tacitly exists within. The more you apply the principle the less familiar notion of charity even becomes. The new thing that emerges is a purer and purer reflection of the ideological core of utilitarianism. As this slow move begins it seems wise to ask ‘do we want to move towards a society structured according to this principle?’.

The fact that the logic holds in a simple ‘charity is a fixed structure, I am already committed to giving X amount away, I am torn between two choices, equivocation and metric comparison is possible between these two similar options, an independent organisation has scored the effectiveness of these charities, which should I choose?’ Kind of does not relate to the complexity of the problem if you take the logic to the level of society wide acceptance as guiding principle.

I’m not saying EA really has the power to guide our /entire/ society but it is so enormously well funded that it is certainly a conversation worth having. It was the point of this podcast to discuss those more complex implications of utilitarianism in general which you have not considered noteworthy.
functional programming has the same use to a programmer as category theory does to a mathematician.

It is very good at describing the kind of objects we tend to care about, so it is sensible to consider the converse and ask what kinds of things is it good at describing.

how naturally we can express our code is a very strong measure of how well we understand it. Both in terms of what it can and cant do.

Imagine having blocks that stick together like legos, but you cant see the dot lattice because your vision is too poor. FP is about seeing the dots.
I tried a few alternatives and landed on Apple Notes. It's blinding fast, and while it's not exactly feature-rich, it does everything I need while being seamlessly synced to the cloud and my devices.
Extreme paywall bypasser doesn't work :(
Tether Confirms Zero Exposure to Genesis
I have a 35k$ worth Xray flat panel detector (still have >5k$ ebay value today), it runs embedded linux on an obsolete samsung ARM processor and uses telnet to talk to the console computer through a point to point ethernet link.

Apparently, it's impossible to migrate to ssh and why the ** I need to care about security here?
Would some of the open-source alternatives fit the bill? Something like SimpleNote?
I think inaccuracy is necessary for entertainment value. Ancient people for example made much around trying to predict astronomical phenomenon, before we were able to do that precisely. What is depressing about economics is that we don't really seem to be making progress towards accurate predictions like we have done with physical sciences.
> It's just that DoSomeTransformation() is not modifying the object, but instead returning a new instance of the same objects, with relevant fields having different values

I can't think of anything where I'd want that. Don't you end up needing infinite amounts of memory? Isn't it absolutely slow as balls copying all that stuff around?
Ah, awesome! That's a good step, I'll give it a try the next time I find myself on Windows.

I'm curious if the seemingly choppy display stuff continues, it has been quite a while.

As much as it pains me, I have to avoid Hyper-V generally for anti-cheat client compatibility
> It’s important to call out that up until v4 ESLint was vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service attack (ReDoS).

Oh my god, your vscode/text editor will freeze or crash if your code contain a specially crafted string. What a very import thing to call out.
Its crazy, I've gone in circles between WSL, dual boot win/linux, VMs, everything on windows, remote linux servers, containers in Docker Desktop. Right now I'm back to just using Windows and ignoring Linux altogether, which seems to work best with the exception of Python.
The solution to the PV problem is wind power. Wind generally blows more during the night and winter. That’s much cheaper and more efficient than generating and storing hydrogen and then turning it into electricity again.
> There's very limited area where banks can refund the transaction where they are at fault. It is not reversal.

If we're talking in general, no, banks can revert transactions when you pay for something and that turns out to be a scam, or goods/services are not delivered.

I don't know how it works in the case of P2P transactions, but I expect many of the protections to still apply.

> For reversing, they have to contact the receiving bank and person to send back the money

> You can do that with crypto too. Contact the person

There's a big difference between a bank contacting another bank to revert an incorrect or frauduent transaction, and trying to contact a stranger to send your money back.

> You also need police report and the sum has to be big enough for them to bother.

Compare this to crypto where if your money's gone, your money's gone, regardless of the sum or the intent.
But now you've got two versions of it that aren't the same. Why is that supposed to be good?
No one 'needs' more than like 1% of a house. I have lived for months out of a bivouac, about $100 worth of nylon.

A house is 99% crypto and 1% "need."

Crypto follows a similar trajectory. The vast majority is speculatory and un-"need"ed bullshit and a tiny slice is stuff where it has a comparative advantage to traditional finance/money.
Nuxt 3.0 Stable
The most valuable insights usually come from economists treating their discipline as history and not like some hard science with models that fail to capture the nuances of our reality.
Right, if you live in West Virginia, it is entirely possible to never have a break even point, as in, it will never save CO2 to buy an EV.
I don't need Twitter for marketing, just Facebook. It's definitely going to be weird to have suspended social media during advertising. I might end up removing the links from the website Footer.
Truflation
They are not free from criticism of it though.

The idea of a “wartime” person is anchored in machismo. It romanticizes, and excuses, really crappy behavior that is long-term destructive.

Calling something a “war” is a convenient justification for all sorts of terrible, foolish actions. The “war on drugs” or the “war on cancer” are good examples. Cancer doctors would try to one up each other in how extreme they could be in their treatment of breast cancer, and it turns out a lot of those tactics, such as literally tearing out pectoral muscles down to the bone, don’t actually help patient survival. But the “wartime” framing made that kind of action without thinking okay.

So I disagree that framing things as if they are war doesn’t hurt anyone. It has. And the framing deserves critical attention, so we can find a better framing for a challenging time that requires sacrifice and effort that doesn’t turn into “the ends justify the means.”

EDIt: More on [reframing the war on cancer](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8749321/) and why it can be harmful.
Has the US threatened to ratchet up fines in the past and not done so?
Those text-based buyers are always offering a hot 20-30% below market trying to catch out someone who hasn't been paying attention.

It's a scam sold in scammy "real estate get rich quick" schemes.
more cases doesn't necessarily make a language more complex, cases are just one way to communicate a piece of information about a noun. it isn't necessarily more complex to have a separate locative case than to say "in/on/at X"!
Kudos should go to the SO question that showed me it, then ;) But for some reason hidden under RoR.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66485783/923847
With WSL2 I got rid of VM's for local development.

Cross OS filesystem performance is poor. The solution is to keep everything within WSL. Code stored, built & edited in WSL.

VSCode + WSL extension makes it possible to "edit" from host without loosing performance.
Look at who the major contributors are to Linux.

They aren’t doing it to make the world a better a place. They are doing it for the same reason that most people go to work - to exchange labor for money to suooort their addiction to food and shelter.
I don’t understand how he has driven Twitter into the ground? It only feels even more active than before
> on the grid you want combined cycle gas turbines which are cheaper and more efficient

You don’t want gas turbines anywhere near the grid. It is a terrible strategic choice besides the obvious ecological effect.
It's not a bad metric. It's just not a perfect metric. And, more importantly, paying for time isn't a metric at all. It's just one of the legal ways to employ people. Paying for deliverables, which you describe, is another legal way to employ people.

Here are some downsides to paying for deliverables:

Any job that requires talking to other people will suffer, as they won't work at the same time. Some jobs this is okay (e.g. open source development is very asynchronous) but many are not.

If you move to deliverables, what happens if you don't deliver on time? Do you not get paid?

Who sets the deliverables? How are they paid, if they are the ones creating a nice deliverable structure for others to get paid for delivering bits of?

How do we measure the value of each deliverable, to pay accordingly?

How do we measure if you really delivered?

If the company decides the deliverable is no longer valuable and stops it halfway, do you not get paid? Do you get paid based on the estimated value (at the time the work was agreed) of the bits you did do? Do you have to negotiate that?

If you go on leave, should you not get paid?

If you deliver twice as fast, do you get paid faster?

How does "realisation of a function" work except based on time? If I'm at a service desk, should I be paid nothing if no tickets come in? Or should I be paid for... my time?

What I'm driving at is you've invented something that already exists: the fixed-price contract. Scope is agreed, lawyers get involved to approve it, and finance for its budget, you do the work, the scope slips in a way that the customer believes was implied all along, you bring in lawyers to fight, and you get paid at the end, or not, and the work at the end probably suffers quality-wise because you had a fixed-price deliverable, and the faster you do it the more money you get. I don't think many people are up for that; nor are many companies going to go through that pain per-employee.
They wouldn’t have needed so.

Being a millionaire is only “powerful” if there are people in poverty. If poverty didn’t exist, then being a millionaire wasn’t actually going to be that big of an increase in life quality.

We should seek to cancel out rent seeking behavior. The thing I hate about our economy is the amount of momentum money gives others while actively holding others back. If our economy was truly based around your abilities it wouldn’t be so annoying.

However, we should also remember that not everyone can work, but everyone deserves a high quality life in line with our powerful economy.
Aside from the communicative value, there's a socio-political angle to it as well. Speaking in nebulous terms like calling things 'crazy' without sufficient elaboration is a great way to alienate people as a new-to-the-org resource or as an embedded outsider (e.g. consultant).
And capital gains on houses are tax-free for a certain amount, but you cannot deduct a capital loss on a primary residence; fun times, eh?
> Once you’ve confirmed the tools are running as expected

Kind of glossing over what's often the hardest part. Sure, ESLint (the author's example) might be easy enough, but who hasn't seen a new compiler or key library cause problems? Bugs, including security bugs, can be introduced as well as fixed. Often these problems are hard to notice (until they bite you hard) and/or work around. While the solution to the easiest part is not unwelcome, software supply chain issues are much more complex and difficult than "once you've confirmed" would suggest.

Also: stealth advertising. :-P
this is a really good advice. I've this as well.
Dang, sorry to hear that. I do hope things improve for you! :)
I learned from the very similar ZX81 manual, and for a very long time still used it as my handy guide to Z80 mnemonics :-)
> let’s not pretend like everyone wouldn’t have hated them

The whole point of the nominal independence of the Fed from the political process is that they would be able to take unpopular decisions that may hurt in the short term but will further their dual mandate (maximum employment and price stability) in the medium and long term.

Seeing as they cannot do that, and these days are venturing further away from their mandate by assuming the mantle of fighting climate change as well as racial inequity, we might as well do away with it entirely. It's not like the financial history of this country hasn't been replete with one crisis after another even after the advent of the Fed, and one dollar at the time of the creation of the Fed is worth about $30 now, so prices have only been stable for a strange definition of price stability. (For comparison, the Swiss franc inflated about 10x in a similar time period.)
Don't most large office printers watermark all pages anyway? Our Ricoh did.
Cash is fungible. Unless you pull out all your money, they can potentially go after an amount equal to whatever you withdrew…