skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>BUT, if you decide to sell them, you can't just sell them to a specific person over the counter. You'd have to sell on a market so that anyone can potentially buy them and potentially outbid your intended investor.

So if I was looking for someone who would build a company with me, someone who would take on an entrepreneurial role, provide expertise, labour or personal connections, I wouldn't be allowed to do that. I wouldn't be allowed to give shares to employees in exchange for labour either. Nor would there be any family businesses.

>Nobody's Labour ever makes a difference. The success of any project is all about capital, political leverage and media exposure. Let's be honest here.

Capital is a factor that leverages and buys labour. Without labour the result of this equation is always zero. Without a product or service you have no customers, regardless of how much free media coverage you may be getting (for whatever reason).

>My strategy would be to only invest in small or medium-sized companies whose founders I can trust and who can manage their risk.

Good luck with that. Personal trust is not a replacement for limited liability though, especially not if shares are publicly traded.

How would a creditor decide how much to lend to a company if the personal assets of all shareholders are used as collateral?

If I owned shares in Microsoft, would I have to provide a payslip and a bank statement to Microsoft's bank? Would they do a credit check? And if I sold my shares, would Microsoft have to pay back part of a bank loan if the buyer's net worth was less than mine?

I don't think you have thought this through.
It depends on the culture of the company.
In the case of used car transactions, the “fair” value isn’t affected by either side’s financials. If a company or an individual has lots of free cash flow or a mountain of debt, the fair price isn’t affected.
Asserts are to make your code more sensitive to defects, for example, checking function invariants. Ideally the library has more, not less, since they show care and thought has gone in. They should never be used to handle errors.

Another feature of asserts is that `-DNDEBUG` disables them.
The harm to others is the broken trust. Every time someone willing spreads misinformation it makes people think less of other people and life in general.

The fact that we are reading about this now, shows that people were negatively affected by it. It wasn't a harmless activity.

People should be called out for intentionally spreading misinformation, and they should feel bad about it, and people shouldn't trust anything they say again for a very long time. Don't feel sorry for these assholes, and don't let them get away with it, because that encourages them to continue this sort of behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events

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

Citation:
The associated period of massive carbon release into the atmosphere has been estimated to have lasted from 20,000 to 50,000 years. The entire warm period lasted for about 200,000 years. Global temperatures increased by 5–8 °C.[21]

The hot-models Sabine referred to are in range of 4.8 - 5.6 if I'm not mistaken...
Absolutely, when gas doubled during the Great Recession I personally saw much less traffic on the roads in the major US city I lived in at the time. People were also much less aggressive on the roads. Unlike those days, people can now offset their use of oil for transportation with BEVs and PHEVs. See recent reports of oil/gas demand seemingly plateaued to decreasing.

When the price of something increases, energy included, alternatives become more attractive. Oil enjoyed strong price insensitivities for a long time, but those days are sunsetting.

Even China is seeing this with their “lying flat” movement. Dowries for a marriage are averaging USD 60,000(per The Economist). So instead men aren’t dating and aren’t doing the 996.

Russia is seeing it in European nations building LNG infrastructure at their major ports and taking deliveries from overseas. That’s a long term loss of business. And those same European nations are incentivizing their citizens to replace heaters with heatpumps and other means of reducing fossil fuel use.

When prices and costs increase people are incentivized to decide to go with alternatives.
If you want to go that far, acting like Pokemon did more than take animals and slightly twist them is bad faith. They're iconic designs because the Pokemon games were ground breaking for their time, not because they were truly original or innovative. That doesn't entitle them to own 'monsters based on real life creatures' in perpetuity.
I don’t think that’s what’s implied here at all - the focus on blamelessness is to get to the root cause of failure and prevent future occurrences rather than to punish existing failures without affecting any actual change.
> The idea of somehow putting blame back on Microsoft for this is similarly twisted.

Microsoft are responsible for pushing secure boot on PCs in the first place. They are absolutely to blame for all problems it causes for regular users that did not explicitly seek a computer with secure boot.

> Vendors shipping absolute shit implementation of SecureBoot that don't give the users authority over their own systems are the problem.

How convenient for Microsoft.
I do plan on using permaculture and similar small scale personal farming strategies.

I have not thought or planed t have a lot of machines running.
> computer science leaking out

Planck constant would like to have a word with you. But it is true that CS shines a light on the matter of mapping the infinite into bounded spaces.

This matter of ‘cognition’ is the entire matter (npi) of contention. What is the actual relationship between number and perceived phenomena? What is the deeper meaning of the concordance of mathematics and physics? Where do these magical constants come from and what does it all mean?

It seems we bring the ‘world’ into being by partitioning. See Genesis 1 for details.

> the world is continuous

Reality is actually a unified undivided unity without form and timeless & eternal - that is all we can say with certainty. The “world” is our perception of this reality. Our cognitive machinary is discreet, and a mapping of this reality into metric & temporal spaces of the mind.
Yes the general public often complains about lack of diversity then refuses to watch anything that doesn’t have a Hollywood star-actor.

It is what it is.

People will watch 1960s French movies and praise them “How wonderful etc”, “they don’t make movies like that anymore!” but if you tell them to watch French movies of the 2020s or more famously Korean movies and TV shows a lot of people won’t budge, even though Korea is clearly the alternative powerhouse in the industry right now and the “equivalent” let’s say to the French New Wave.
The scientists and engineers at JAXA ISAS branch came up with a novel landing scheme that uses cylindrical body as part of the landing leg structure, by strategically tripping over and settle sideways. This method saves significant amount of weight according to them.

In that sense, the probe on its head up in the sand is only sideways, not upside down. In the sense that the probe is oriented the way it supposed to while on the rocket(it's sitting on the edge of PAF attachment plane and two forward legs), it's right side up.

Nevertheless, IMO, "upside down" is a close-enough description of the situation.
I think OpenWatcom supports windows 3.x and it's quite a nice compiler if you are targeting older PC systems and don't require support for the latest versions of C or C++. You can easily use it to cross-compile from a modern OS and I used it a few years ago for a Hackathon where we implemented a simple demo that we built on Linux and ran in DOSBox with a CI-like pipeline (no Jenkins involved since it was just for fun).
Not at all, see f. ex.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect
And humor is not forbidden here, only low effort comments/jokes. And I think this one passes the bar .. (close probably, but I thought it was funny)
I have no idea what you're talking about in your first paragraph. I've put code in production in half a dozen languages, and ruby is, by a immense marging, the biggest offender on this. The only thing that comes close would be AOP in Java, that is bad but at least it's compile time magic with decent IDE support.

All the most heinous bugs I've had to deal with in my life were about magic in ruby. I've worked in 3 of the biggest rails codebases in the world, and in the end we had build checks to deny code with magic.

Software code should be optmised for reading and debugging, not looking nice for first time writes.
How Much Architecture Is "Enough?"
It's a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162499 and has been flagged by users. "Hacker News" isn't doing anything.
I think that the proper equivalent would be 35h/week for full time remote position. Like you said you can't possibly expect an employee in an office to do actual, raw 8h of work between 9 to 5. And when you do your remote work schedule, you can't expect yourself to work 8h without a break and be productive so requiring 40h is like 45h when translated to an on site job. I know there's no transit cost but it should not be an excuse to require more hours from remote workers.
And not that damn subpath searching on key press behaviour.

For a long time I joke that the Gnome/Gtk design decisions are made on mushrooms, it’s quite sad that it’s snot an unrealistic cause of this bizarre behaviour.
Yes, I was writing a similar comment about luck being a huge factor in success when I was beaten to the market by brazzy’s post :)
Interesting way of looking at it, although it aught to be clarified this is some sort of "mean average" success for capitalising on an idea, ignoring other definitions of success, non-standard paths to success (which are probably the norm for most), and luck factors etc.

Disagree on the leeches point, just because someone trades their time for resources in a convoluted way doesn't necessarily mean they're leeching.
I would say it's not realistic for the majority of people, unless they happen to be robots.

"The eight-hour workday is not based on the optimal number of hours a human can concentrate. In fact, it has almost nothing to do with the kind of work most people do now: Its origins lie in the Industrial Revolution, not the Information Age." [0]

"Would you like to have 4 hours workdays? That's the question really. We know that we're spending less than 40% of our workday actually working, but would you be willing to sacrifice what you do on that extra 60% just to end your day sooner? [1]"

"The 8-hour workday has been the norm for more than a century, but employee surveys suggest that most people are truly productive only for about three hours every day. This has led to calls for the workday to be reduced to five or six hours, with proponents saying it would increase employee wellbeing, and ultimately productivity." [2]

"Mexico—the least productive of the 38 countries listed in 2015 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—has the world’s longest average work week at 41.2 hours (including full-time and part-time workers). At the other end of the spectrum, Luxembourg, the most productive country, has an average workweek of just 29 hours." [3]

[0] https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...

[1] https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/varietate/the-9-to-5...

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/careers/clinging-to-an-...

[3] https://time.com/4621185/worker-productivity-countries/
Those data from measured ocean temperature needs to be readjusted:

Before about 1940, the most common method for measuring sea surface temperature was to throw a bucket attached to a rope overboard from a ship, haul it back up, and read the water temperature. The method was far from perfect. Depending on the air temperature, the water temperature could change as the bucket was pulled from the water. (1)

In the late 1970s ... tracking what was happening to Earth temperatures was at a relatively primitive state. Much of the relevant weather station data had not been digitized and what had been, was not widely available. Previous estimates of temperature changes ... had focused on the northern hemisphere, but that obviously missed half the planet. (2) interactive map: (3)

There is analysis showing differences in model temperature variation models and actual data from balloons and satellites since 1979. (4)

Those are few examples how our ability to measure things changes with our developing knowledge.

Rising temperatures is not new phenomena. Greenland ice core project (5) showing that there was about 25 dramatic climate changes in history. Its called Dansgaard–Oeschger event. (6), (7) and shows that for example during Younger Dryas (8) there was dramatic temperature decline and increase in few decades.

Making predictions on data since 70's are fragile and should be constantly reanalyzed.

(1) https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3071/the-r...

(2) https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/history/

(3) https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data_v4_globe/

(4) https://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/christytest...

(5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_core_project

(6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansgaard%E2%80%93Oeschger_eve...

(7) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/2%20He...

(8) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
What are thoughts, anyway?
What part of "so let’s just consider it an expensive learning opportunity to redesign the system so it can’t happen again" doesn't mean that it's happened, but let's see how we get there.

"It should not have been possible for one person to take the site down" - yes, and that's exactly what Zuck is addressing here? May be such controls are there across the development teams and some SRE did something to bring it down and now there needs to be even better controls in that department as well?
The band Incubus for me
From what I've gathered, things can be a bit more difficult if you have a more exotic identity document and either want to use one of the cheaper MVNO providers (which generally don't operate any physical stores at all), or aren't in a position to visit the physical branch of one of the major carriers (Telekom, O2, Vodafone).

In that case customer identification is commonly done via the post office's Postident system (either at a physical post office, or online via video) or via some alternative video chat system, and those might not work for all passports from all countries worldwide.
https://archive.is/myySr
Down under they call it numboriginality.
> It is this idea of "forcing your customer to obey by inflicting discomfort" that's puzzling me. I can't think of any other industry or product that would think this would be a good idea.

Telephones. The original UK ringtone was explicitly designed to be as irritating as possible (some really weird time signature, I think?)
They put all thrusters in now-spaceward direction, there is not a single RCS port not coupled less than 50% with that direction. With enough KSP flight hours you'll understand that that could do the job, except for this precise situation.
What's the benefit of using a font instead of vector primitives for rendering a line chart?
I draw from my 17 years of experience in the field, but I am well aware that people work differently.

There are the John Carmack types, whose output depends on how much time on they spend at keyboard, and the Rich Hickey types, whose output depend on how much time they spend on a hammock with their eyes closed (or under the shower in my case). I am afraid I am of the latter type. My best solutions are found away from the keyboard, as I have learned to simply depend on my subconscious to process and digest them while I'm doing other things.

Check out that talk still, it has deep insight on how the human brain operates.
Eventually you're going to get spoken down to.

Even if it's in a good-faith effort to make things looks fair to others at the company, it's still going to chafe the relationship.

Just make sure comp is fair.
It literally just rendered to a Canvas framebuffer. It's really not that crazy.

I mean cool, yes....but it wasn't generating DOM elements/complex HTML or anything like you're trying to sell it as.
Ask HN: I want to read long-form with strong, sound argumentation. Where?
I want to read long-form with strong, sound argumentation. Where do you go for those? The thinking style I'm looking for is the opposite of twitter/short form social media.

This is my experience:

Books
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Now I read books, but not even books fulfill this requirement of sound argumentation: some have lazy thinking (ie self-help, business advice) using barely anything beyond anecdotes as evidence for a point they present as generalizable.

The concept of 'useful books' by Robfitz is going in the right direction: a book that solves a problem.

Philosophy books often contain good examples of argumentation. One could read just philosophy books! The problem is that they are:

- Not well-written (or written for an audience who is not me!)
- Solving problems that are not immediately relevant to me (whether God exists, whether humans are rational, etc)
- Not using empirical evidence at all (the methods of philosophy are like this! Only recently there are some experimental philosophers)

Books that don't do what I want:
- Geopolitics
- Evolutionary psychology
- Self-help
- Non-fiction books designed to be a best-seller
- Books designed to upsell you on a product or service
- Technical books

Opinion pieces, blogs, substack
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In 2024, their writing style sounds very 'twitter' (provocative, hasty generalizations, predictions, very little in terms of argumentation). Example "PayPal was expected to “shock” the world. Instead, they shot themselves in the foot."
These opinions have almost zero usefulness for me.
More so if they are trying to make predictions.
Influencers on twitter make predicitions every other day and they rarely bother checking their track record for accuracy. And if they did, it would be very low.

News
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I realize I can only aspire to understand a handful of topics well-enough that I can follow the news and know when they are bullshit or not!

- Fact-checked (almost zero sources have this! And it's too costly to do the fact-checking yourself)
- Clearly-stated bias
- Showing you their data sources when they use data/graphs
Is this because things like regular moles are also technically a form of cancer/tumor? And a melanoma is a mole that evolved into full malignant your-life-is-in-danger cancer?
> Planck constant would like to have a word with you.

Do you want to flesh this out? Are you suggesting that because phase space is quantized, position space must be quantized as well?
Poke around as in, at least in my case, discussing and throwing ideas back and forth. this is not incompatible with hammock-driven development (big fan here). It's however a good way of "discussing" ideas and solutions, and has been working well for me as part of an overall strategy to solve my problems. (30 years of experience in the industry if we're counting)
The nature of the friendship needs to be aligned with the business. You need to share complementary passions and have the experience to follow through. You cannot take any of it personally.

Lots of people don't want to admit that their business model or ideas are bad, they lack the skills to be a good leader, they have too much on their plate otherwise, or that they are just generally too immature to handle serious responsibility.

That said, I had a decent experience at a startup while I was wrapping up my bachelor's degree. It wasn't always perfect, but no harm was done when some other people and I eventually left. The business was sold off years later. We helped build each other's careers and are all doing great now and still keep in touch.

Things are what you make them. We didn't exactly strike it rich, but didn't expect to either. Having the right expectations is key. I would do it again with the same or similar people and if the details made sense.
Explaining Tetris to a blind person doesn't sound like an intractable problem?!
The "underlying issue" often at stake in the debate is whether reality is a computer, since it would need to be discrete if so, and often whether a computer can be made to simulate it.

However, what's missed here is that discrete is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

Once you give any sort of plausible account of how reality could be discrete, as you've done here, you end up with non-computable aspects (eg., typically randomness). So the metagame is lost regardless: reality isnt a computer (/ no complete physical theories of reality are computable).

Though the meta-meta-game around "simulation" is probably internally incoherent in itself -- whether reality is a computer or not would really have nothing to do with whether any properties had by it (eg., mass) are simulated.

Since either you take reality to have this property and hence "simulation" doesn't make sense, or you take it to be faked. If it's faked, being computable or not is irrelevant. There's an infinite number of conceivable ways that, globally, all properties could be faked (eg., by a demon that is dreaming).
The ^community^ here are people like you - those who also have to pay bills but contribute anyways, in whatever way they can by using the software and occasionally contributing code.

While yes it would be great if a community could raise funds, that coordination job itself would have to become someone's not-paying-the-bills work.

As much as I love Open source/Free/Libre software and am grateful it exists (and contributing to it, when possible), I've a long held belief that it is the pursuit of the privileged. You need to have the privilege of free time and then the privilege of being able to choose to spend that free time on something that doesn't improve your standard of living and then the privilege of being able to do it consistently.
It should be equivalent expectations as in-office. Base performance on outcomes not hours. The problem is old school management that believe they need to see you to measure your performance, so they will push you to prove you’re working when at home.

I’m sure not all managers or companies are like this but it sounds like you’re experiencing it.
Show HN: Write the Perfect Wedding Speech
Do you know what the name for a baby cow is? It's: baby cow

and a male cow is called: a male cow
Don't San Francisco–Ize Clean Energy
http://archive.today/M1qtl
How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of 'Race'
Even speakers of Sinitic languages, where usage of measure words is grammatically required, are often not aware of all the "correct" ones, and commonly use more generic ones. Ain't nobody got time for that :)
Unless you live in the Final Destination universe.

Where the death-by-implausible-circumstances clock starts ticking.
Lords question legality of police facial recognition
Joining as employee is not the same as founding a company together.
The implicit definition of "success" from the article is probably navigating through the capitalist value system established by the market, and making a profit. It also implies that this "market-based" monetary value system is fair. There are much more complex and incomprehensible underlying social interactions that create this value system as it is. Your output as an individual is hardly ever proportional to success in that sense.

A successful CEO has climbed the corporate ladder and social hierarchy, and now their decisions are a force multiplier that mutates the values in that system. A busy carpenter is stuck doing chairs and desks, and the values of chairs and desks are dependent on everything else in the economy.
What is your point? My point is, there will be no escape for humanity with no regard to their contribution to the climate change... We are in this together, though 99% of the human population can't do a thing about it.