skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they do have a problem paying $90 or even $1000 for a piece of software they really need, they are free to ask one of their developers to write one in house from scratch and see how much this sunken time would cost them.

The sad reality is that costs are not distributed, most companies just grab whatever open source software they can and only contribute the least they can get away with, most of the times nothing at all.

Many projects survive just because of dedicated individual developers and maintainers spending their limited spare time, who end up being burned out.

In an ideal world open source software that brings significant value for companies should be considered as part of their stack, they should either hire or assign someone for supporting it, or pay the existing maintainers, and ideally this should be somewhat proportional to the value they get out of it.

Unfortunately donations as method of payment rarely work(usually end up being paid by individual employees from their own pocket), so the only option to get money from the company itself is to somehow get it charged.

They usually have no problem with being charged money, as long as the price is reasonable for the value it brings and less than would cost to write the same code in-house or to even have a meeting about acquiring it. It also should be significant, they wouldn't go through the bureaucratic procedures for a 10€ one off payment.

Developers don't expect to become rich out of this, they often would settle for less than their full time job, as long as they can work full time on the project they care about and still make a living. But because so few companies share the costs, they tend to be significant for those who do pay, so the prices will be higher at first but should decrease quickly as more companies share the burden.
Maybe through gps tracking and seeing that you two were near to eachother?
I just like the idea that a private company can _disrupt_ transportation in such an area where mass transit sucks.

Personally, I would be much more inclined to commute if I could use that time more effectively (Netflix, offline coding, even napping).
Really this video seems more like a statement that having a monopoly nullifies a company's incentive to care for the quality of their product (not like that really needs much elucidation).
And towing boats, or ATVs, or anything that won't fit in a small vehicle. Or going to Costco/Sam's Club and loading up on groceries. Sometimes I think many on HN live in an urban bubble without children, where everything is either ordered online or picked up at a bodega on the corner. For much of the US, life is nothing like that. There's a reason the Ford F-150 has been the most popular selling vehicle in the US for many, many years.
Gmail also had a big hand in the reduction of top posting, by hiding the quoted message by default (click the little '...' icon to see it).

This means that replies in-line, or below quoted text are instantly hidden and then you get complaints from the technically challenged who insist the email you sent was blank.

I tried to educate and fight back for a long time, but too many important things were lost to those who insist on writing right where the cursor appears instead of taking a moment to position it thoughtfully, and alas the rest is history.
Would love to hear some of the lessons learned...
Exactly, it was initially intended to be a core feature but after searching around (and from my experiences) I found out it is rarely done at the language-level.
What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? We Have More Guns
ESR has long confused "himself" with "hackers", which has had a negative partially-self-fulfilling effect on the community.
I don't understand this view of the world. I'd like to ask some questions to better understand. Not debate, understand. I spent a lot of time picking apart the various parts.

I largely see immigration issues as capitalist vs. socialist spectrum.
The capitalist wants little control over the flow of resources for a more efficient distribution of resources.
The socialist wants to control the flow allocation of resources for a fair distribution of resources.

So when you state the conservative position, I see that you want to control the flow of labor. What threats do you see from the flow of labor posing to the greatness and uniqueness of the US? Currently I see it as the opposite of imposing socialist tendencies impairing US companies from being able to compete with other countries that don't have the similar controls. Maybe we disagree on what makes the US culture unique.

With the liberal point of view stated, I can understand the parts about disruption and change as the capitalist point of view except for the claim about "there is nothing special about what we have, nothing that warrants preserving". I don't see how immigration jeopardizes 'specialness' nor how it harms the preservation of things. We already have a wide dirth of cultural diversity dating back over many centuries, my guess is there is something in particular you value.

I could look at things like Cinco de Mayo or St Patrick's day as examples of immigration both preserving special things as well as harming these through dilution and cultural appropriation.

Maybe what your trying to say in many words is liberals are pro-change and conservatives are anti-change? Which is kind of the dictionary definition of the words, but I digress...

I have more thoughts on how quick people are to throw 'racist' around, but that'll have to wait for another time. All I can say is that we're probably trying to preserve different things we consider great about our country.
For context, SQLite4 explored reimplementing SQLite using a key-value store on log-structured merge trees, like RocksDB and Cassandra.

I'd be interested to hear why they stopped. Presumably reimplementing SQL on a KV store was seen as not worth it, when applications that are satisfied with an embedded KV store backend (which is much faster and simpler to write!) already have many options.
‘Dumbphones’ with Basic Functions Growing in Popularity
I've seen a fair bit of criticism about said services in regards to the content, but never the character limit. Can someone who dislikes the limit on Mastodon or Gab explain why here?
>Highlights are below and in our additional blogs about our experimentation process, extensive data analysis, research, and design work.

Don't miss those:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

https://medium.com/twitter-design-research/looking-after-num...
But they did watch things similar to what a poster linked below (https://youtu.be/PFDKWbg2xjg), which, barring the uncanny valley component, I really see little difference between.
A perceptual hash set for scale/rotation/crop/colour invariant search? no. But that's presumably not all Facebook is doing and that is worrying. There isn't really any reason for them to have direct access to the unblinded data - all they need to be able to do is ask "does this image description sound familiar? here app on phone, here's a more detailed extract of the questionable image and here's the reference... are they the same?". There is no reason for Facebook to request these images for unhashed upload unless they have an ulterior motive or are lazy.
SpaCy v2.0 Released
I have no idea what the interviewers motive was. I'm certain he has a different story. From my perspective he asked me to show certain functionality and then shouted over me every time I tried. After 30 minutes I hung up.

edit: obviously it wasn't personal, there is no way we had ever crossed paths before. personally I think had no idea how to conduct a technical interview and thought he was being tough on me. anyways, its just one experience. obviously people make it through the procces. I do think they could try to be a little more responsible given that they just asked for a week of your time
The relevant change:

> This directory contains source code to an experimental "version 4" of SQLite that was being developed between 2012 and 2014.

> All development work on SQLite4 has ended. The experiment has concluded.

> Lessons learned from SQLite4 have been folded into SQLite3 which continues to be actively maintained and developed. This repository
exists as an historical record. There are no plans at this time to resume development of SQLite4.

https://sqlite.org/src4/artifact/56683d66cbd41c2e
Yeah I hear ya. I used to have a browser extension that let me have a fixed width font and use plain text mode in Gmail, but I think that stopped working a couple years ago. These days, if I am writing a long email, I usually just type it in vim first.
Optimize for the v8 engine and/or browser-specific errata like the way chrome handles composition or svg etc.
The term "Web 2.0" is an unfortunate choice and as a consequence it has been rarely used correctly. Funny enough I've been to a Web 2.0 Conference about 10 years ago where almost every speaker used it incorrectly.

Web 2.0 has nothing to do with a technical revision or change in the Web. It was used by Tim O'Reilly back in 2004 (and became popular) and refers to the rapid change in the way the web is used, more specifically the switch from static web to user generated content.

I'm sorry but your forum is all about UGC, and AJAX has nothing to do with Web 2.0.
This Is How Amazon Could Invade the Pharmacy Business
Doubt still exists... Does this mean 'concluded' as in "We've finished polishing the pre production code and are close to releasing it" or 'concluded' as in "We have thrown our hands up in the air and won't be working on this thing any more to bring it to production" ??!!??

EDIT Seeing as I am getting slammed by downvotes, my comment here was simply pointing out that the headline I saw on HN could be read in multiple ways. As a long time user of SQLite3, I was initially excited when I read the title as I had thought it meant something good coming from the SQLite team. Turns out not to be. That, to me, still entails doubt.
...So are they deleting the original image afterward? Are you now giving Facebook the right to advertise to you based on your nude images? What happens if someone breaks into your account? Are your nude photos of yourself visible to them? Also trusting a company expressly set up to data mine to help you prevent abuse is pretty much the fox guarding the henhouse. Facebook is meant to share. Let's hope they don't accidentally overshare.

Edit: I'm seeing the researcher saying they aren't storing an image but I'm not seeing where they say they aren't.

Edit 2: They are apparently storing a link to the image on the internet, but aren't storing the image itself, which again leads me to wonder how the hash is being generated. The image has to be uploaded to the servers at some point. Is it then deleted?
The Post Office isn't a publicly funded entity - it self funds thru user fees.
Elemental Haiku: An interactive review of the periodic table – with 119 haiku
>In fact, Firefox has increased in the amount of unwarranted telemetry and "experiments" a lot in the last years

I can understand "experiments" (Pocket comes to mind), but what are you referring to wrt "unwarranted telemetry"?
I use Yahoo finance and it displays after-hours stock price by default - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/snap
the post office isnt the government - its owned by the government, but is not part of the government.
Despite having an account for almost 8 years here, I can only post about 1 comment per 12 hours, so here is my response:

Do you think it is an unfair statement? Perhaps I should have said "despite the media frequently asserting that Trump is racist".

> * Can you cite a source that says Republicans did better in the black vote relative to 2012?

I compared the 2016 and 2012 CNN exit polls for this: http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls and http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president/

I know exit polls aren't perfect but the samples are large here and I don't see any reason to expect some kind of pro-Trump or anti-Romney bias in these.

What exactly is the Russian propaganda you're talking about? I've only read about them promoting both sides of contentious issues like BLM
I think it makes sense to include some of the advanced jargon in a list of this kind because they're words that people are likely to encounter in online discussions about functional programming.
From the commit:

> This repository exists as an historical record. There are no plans at this time to resume development of SQLite4.
The answer you seek is in the link, in highlighted green text.
Better capatilized than Waymo? Alphabet has over $100b cash with less than $4b debt and over 40% on shore.

Only Apple has more with about $260b cash but over $100b debt and over 90% offshore so tax liability yet to be paid.

What better capitalization are you speaking? Also realize Alphabet could also raise additional capital bpver easily. They are the only ones truly able to so level 4 and they are miles and miles ahead of everyone else literally.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...
The Numbers Don't Lie: Self-Driving Cars Are Getting Good - Wired
road rage will never be the same
I think the simpler explanation is: a social media monopoly replicated a smaller competitor's best features and let their dominance do the rest.

Let's not pretend it's possible to compete with Facebook on a level playing field.
Ask HN: Maker/Manager Cadence
What's the ideal alternation cadence between maker and manager mode as descibed by pg: paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Maybe it's ideal not to alternate at all but to lock in to one or the other because of the killer switching costs and killer specialization gains.

But for people, such as solo founders and others who must wear both hats, what alternation/cadence best practices have you found?
" Lessons learned from SQLite4 have been folded into SQLite3 which continues to be actively maintained and developed. This repository exists as an historical record. There are no plans at this time to resume development of SQLite4."

Right there on the web page. Highlighted in green even.
> Activation functions introduce nonlinearity so that deep learning methods can hopefully learn things linear methods can't.

I would just like to clarify: deep learning methods definitely DO learn things that linear methods can't.

Using linear functions, no matter how many layers, essentially boils down to the "perceptron" architecture. You can Google it and they will be mostly talking about it's limitations (for instance, it's famously unable to learn XOR, Google "perceptron XOR", essentially the issue is that XOR is not linearly separable, so it can only be expressed as a nonlinear function).

You can give a simple proof for this. If you examine what a neural network layer (without activation function) does, in matrix terms. You take the input vector X (1xn), the layer weights W (nxm), and the output vector O (1xm).

Then computing the layer output is simply O = WX.

Now we can envision what happens with two layers. W (mxn) and V(mxn). The output of running two layers then becomes:

O = V(WX)

However, matrix multiplication is associative:

O = V(WX) = (VW)X, and VW is just a matrix

So for every 2 layer linear neural network there is a 1 layer neural network that gives the exact same result. So there's no reason to have 2 layers.

A famous result proving this is the "deep" networks (with activation funcions) are universal function approximators (explained here: [1]). Note that this "deep" should be understood in the 1995 meaning of deep neural networks, which is essentially "at least 2 layers", and usually "exactly 2 layers", not the 2010+ one where one means 10 to 200 layer deep networks.

[1] http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap4.html
Totally. I would argue that React was successful not because of the declarative programming style that it enables, but because it integrates so easily into the imperative JS ecosystem.
Just to make one thing clear, you're just assuming. The guy clearly stated that he just tried out different things and never really intended to steal something. If you give out an API make sure that I can't break it by calling it, otherwise it's your fault not mine. The guy seemed also pretty nervous in the gitter channel, he asked if he really broke something and if he gets arrested.
This is a great example of an Apple-style solution vs a Dell style solution.

Just bought a laptop, and now you need to start hacking it up and changing the wifi-card so it doesn't cause interference to itself? What next, break out the soldering iron and go over all the cold joints?
The newspapers band together to blackout Disney in response to Disney blacking out the LA Times, but surprise surprise, it's perfectly OK for them to use the same tactics because, you know, they're the good guys.

Even if it's true, I am very suspicious when someone tries to sell me that these kinds of tactics are "right when I use them but wrong when you do".
We have matching anecdotes!
Interesting perspective. I am curious about why the country you are going to pays more than the one you are coming from in software.

Would it be too bold for me to say it has some cultural reasons? Perhaps the openness to innovation? or maybe the way people think about solving new problems? Why not try to instill these cultural mechanisms in the country you came from? I hope i'm not coming across as a cultural imperialist but I am genuinely curious.

Also I don't think people should migrate for purely financial reasons. There is a lot of rich and interesting cultures in this world - it would be a shame if people just abandoned them for the sake of money.
Below the fold even, after about 1000 other words of text. Would be better if the title had used 'cancelled' or 'terminated' instead of 'concluded' to explain the situation at the outset?
> Impressive displays of rhetoric and linguistic force are a good way to seem important and invite a particular kind of admiration, but they tend to silence dissent and discourage deeper modes of engagement.

An important lesson for those who advocate that a liberal education should focus on pretending to read Great Books.
Ah well, Mike doesn't do Byzantium, he started Revolutions instead... Robin Pierson was a podcaster who liked THoR so much that he decided to pickup where Mike left off.

I'm 60ish episodes in and it's pretty good, but not quite the same... Revolutions is pretty much the sameish format with Mike, but different kind of history.
There was a great Reply All episode about this just last week. It's about facebook, but a lot of the points would apply to google. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/

Short answer, no, they probably aren't listening. But they know enough other information about you that they don't need to.
Jesus, I didn't know there was such a huge disparity between India and China
From the article:

> But it did not work with Snapchat and Evan Spiegel, who seems to have turned down Facebook’s $3,000,000,000 without hesitation or second thought.

I think it did work out pretty well for Evan Spiegel and Snap Inc., since they're trading at around $18B on the stock market despite lots of concerns around their business...
Social media, HN, and tech related Slack communities. It's how I got a great job in less than a month.
So? Let’s just redefine what “mass shooting” means until we can reach the numbers we want.

You don’t like the 2A, move to another country. Seriously, just move. I’ll take freedom to own black rifles, carry a concealed handgun, and the minuscule probability of a mass shooting.
Even with italics, 2-3 emphasized words per sentence is way too much to take seriously
It really isn't, though - if you spend 270 million to combat homelessness, shouldn't some of that go to making sure people stay off the streets after you get them off?
Note: socket.io is stable; I mean the internal glue for using socket.io with server.js
>Yes, and I have completely lost faith in the US's ability, on a federal level, to staunch that failure, as long as the Republican party continues to exist.

The democrats have had control over the house or the senate for 62 out of the past 84 years, and both of them for 52 years (in total, not contiguously). There has also been a Democratic president for 48 of those years. If you're mad at the way things are, I don't think it makes sense to be mad at the Republican party, unless it's for constantly losing.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined...
The government also caps that debt they issue to $32k. Lots of students find themselves out of money by the third/fourth year if they didn't get scholarships, and are left hoping that Mom & Dad are going to be willing to cosign for a private loan.
Probably not. I assume they pay thousands of Southeast Asian "independent contractors" a few dollars a day to identify dick pics.
I was struggling to make rent last year. My landlord wasn’t very interested in my options.
“Voter fraud” is just a pretext. It happens at negligible rates whereëver it's been studied, and Republican legislators have actually been caught red-handed conspiring against likely-Democrat demographics, it's not just speculation.
Git Galaxy Stack Shift – Open Letter
Interesting factoid: Snap's current market cap ($18.1B) is lower than the price Facebook paid for WhatsApp ($19B). Snap is now "only" worth $4B more than Twitter.

Does FB wait for the price to fall and take them out for $10B? Or grind them to dust to make an example of any startup foolhardy enough to forgo an acquisition offer?
This is kind of the opposite of my point.
Hi guys, we just launched our new product on ProductHunt! Who wants to have a look? :)
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/flymble-live
> And if they're not, LaTeX is great.

And you can use pandoc to get the best of both worlds.
Thats a cost that occurs no matter the system (you drive, you own a self driving car, dystopian wasteland of ordering cars).
And yet, advertisers still have no meaningful ROI, because it's never in the platform's interest to overachieve on this count.

And, users are still very much annoyed by distracting, irrelevant, or overly-targeted ads.
Great point! I never stopped to consider it as an accessibility technology.
This translation is a new translation of The Odyssey, released today, currently #1 Best Seller in Ancient & Classical Poetry, and paper format is sold out.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0393089053
I'm not talking about Pocket.

I'm talking about A/B testing internal features exactly like Chrome, such as ip v4/v6 path preference, pipelining support, TLS faststart (and so on) according to a random cohort selection.
Javalin is better suited for smaller/simpler projects (the library is a lot easier to understand and easier to setup). Vertx is a lot more powerful. If I ever found myself in a position where I'd need to create a massive and performant service (10m+ daily users), I'd probably choose vertx.
It's a code revision, not an article. If you're a programmer the change is super obvious.
There's more wrong statements in the quote, like blockchain solving consensus (it's not, it's a document timestamping).
it is an announcement of the results of their test that started with your link.
Wow. I haven’t heard about that before but I’m not surprised.
Yes, that's why it's completely inappropriate to put a kidnapper in prison, right?
The comedy a capella group The Bobs did a song profiling such a situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgcu3OQX2SM

"There are no folk songs about bus disasters. Until now."