skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm it’s true that we’re mostly familiar with what problems need to be solved. And yet it’s either high failure rate or too little effort to address them. So I see the key being the founding team. I know that that is repeated ad nauseum, but it’s often as an instruction and no more (”Find a great cofounder!”)

Well, in real life, it’s hard to find a truly complementary cofounder - let alone a team - even if one has a great network. It’s not just talent, it’s other things like personality traits and leadership styles. The greatest ones like Jobs/Wozniak only comes once in a while, and that’s thanks to luck. So why not frame this as an actual problem statement? For example, for problem x, what’s the ideal makeup of the team to solve it? How do we find brilliant and passionate individuals and bring them together? How do we sustain that team energy and commitment to the vision?

So maybe, that’s something for startup incubators to think about. Basically a sort of recruitment, Avengers style.
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None of the 15" Precision series laptops linked from that page seem to be available with Linux on their dedicated sales pages... Weird.

Edit: they don't list Linux as being available until you go to "Customize and Buy".
// ignore this line, it just says hey Vue use the element UI

This tutorial is full of hacks, confusing comments, and questionable english. Also I wonder if the author knows he or she can use multi-line HTML comments.

I honestly don't see the issue with JSX when looking at "html" like this.
Parts of this presentation has some explanation: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit... (obviously you can ignore Intel x86 specific stuff like the ME).

OpenPOWER apparently does something similar, i.e. a minimal firmware that loads a Linux kernel + simple userspace from flash.
It's not fully automated. The drivers are very disciplined (https://youtu.be/xzkU6tmdImY?t=639) although I don't know to what extent they have automation helping them.
"pick a good technology going forward"

That's hard to pull off though. Who knows which technology will go out of fashion in a few years? It may become fashionable again a few years later but int he meantime you will have a hard time.
If you are dealing with numbers, then you can do this is true O(n) time with radix-select. (Basically do a MSB radix sort and only do subsequent passes in the bucket where you know k must be).
Just remove the ability to register fake accounts.
> They realized the couldn't "win" at servers, so backing out was the best bet for them.

The need for servers is there, or otherwise the "macOS Server" would not be in the App Store. It actually is really nice, it provides everything needed for a business: LDAP, file server, mail, calendar, webserver, TimeMachine centralized, print server, ... - but how am I supposed to recommend this to a customer when Apple does not have any kind of HA ensurance (dual power supply, remote management, auto power on after AC loss, proper SNMP support, Wake On LAN), a way to attach more than 4 disks (or a real RAID, not a software one like CoreStorage does, and they cut out RAID management of diskutil anyway) or actually hardware that I can mount in a rack without wasting immense amounts of (expensive) space?

For the small-business scale, Microsoft actually has the SBS Server licenses, which are not tied to any specific vendor and are exactly the same tools used at big companies so a company can hire any competent consultant/admin for management.

Hell, they could simply ask Dell, HP or whomever to sell a specific server as "macOS Server compatible", charge a bit of money for the OS and that's it - people would rush to buy it, and if only to run a CI/CD environment for mobile app building without having to run it on non-DC-grade hardware!
The Chinese smoked opium, which is a lot more addictive, than chewed it (as was traditional in the Indian subcontinent). This bill is seems to be because in some areas of India, it is already traditional to drink Bhang (ground marijuana leaves with milk and sugar) and chew poppy pods (by day laborers etc. for pain).
Property taxes tax the value of land plus buildings. I think the argument is that taxing only the value of the land aligns incentives a bit better, since it encourages the most profitable use of the land.
https://youtu.be/kcIMnRV665o
Worries about nuclear fallout are vastly overstated. If you detonate the weapons at the right altitude, they retain most of their destructive effect without creating long term catastrophic fallout.
The problem is if you tax both the land & the buildings, you are discouraging development on the land. A pure land tax avoids that problem. It may be a subtle difference but if you are looking to increase land tax rates above current levels you want to minimize disruption to economic activity.
Wow, what a simple solution. Why did nobody ever think of this before?
wasn't AT&T a regulated monopoly -- at least since 1913? FCC effectively barred competition and AT&T's pricing and policies required approval from gov'

I’m pretty sure you’ve got it wrong.

Firstly, AT&T was already a monopoly by 1913. The Kingsbury Commitment[1], which is what I’m guessing you’re referring to, was in essence an agreement between AT&T and the government by which the government would tolerate the monopolistic status of the company in exchange for some minor concessions. While this didn’t hinder AT&T much, it also didn’t help them.

The way AT&T became a monopoly to begin with is quite simple, and basically a textbook example of how a natural monopoly arises: Early and continued investment in a business which has large fixed cost requirements (that is the cost to build out infrastructure), but tiny marginal cost (the cost of serving one more customer). Unchecked, this eventually builds up to an insurmountable barrier of entry for new players. At the same time incumbent players are highly incentivized to merge or acquire each other, because the value of their combined networks is greater than the sum of them.

Without government intervention, AT&T would have stayed a monopoly for as long as its infrastructure remained relevant. Which it still largely is.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
That was what I was responding to. A person recommend that the proper way to install Windows on a new Laptop was to wipe the drive and install a fresh Windows. One person said it wasn't needed 5 years ago :)
Thank you for the links. I'll have to read your articles very closely later, but recent climate simulations by Alan Robock at Rutgers and analysis by Ira Helfand at IPPNW and others show that a nuclear autumn, created by 100 15-kT (Hiroshima sized) nukes could cause a famine that affects up to 2B people.

I wrote to Dr. Robock and asked him about his model (explicitly on the record, so I'm not disclosing a private conversation). I asked specifically why did the Iraq oil well fires from the Gulf War not inject soot into the stratosphere and cause climatic effects. He wrote back that the difference lies in the formation of firestorms. I draw from this by implication that he believes there remains enough combustable material to start a firestorm in enough places to matter. It's worth noting that while cities have changed a lot, a firestorm did develop in one of the two Japanese cities bombed. I'll have more to say about this in a month or so once I do more research and review your materials.

Here's a link to some of their work: http://ippnw.org/nuclear-famine.html
For anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqv11ScGsQ
learning about messaging-queues.
IIRC the relatives of people who commit suicide on Japanese railways are charged for the disruption caused.
Please, no. If we have learned anything from all this police violence, it's that police are not interacting with their communities enough, and seeing their fellow humans as even less human.

Making policing even less personal gets us further from that goal. We need MORE community engagement, more handshakes, more of all that.
There was a minor EARTHQUAKE when I was in Japan. A very apologetic lady working at the ticketing booth told me that there will be a delay.

I asked what the delay will be and it was something less than 2 minutes (1 minute and 20 seconds or something).
You forgot your "/s"
They won't be that person that pays for it and they're still against it! It is truly mind boggling.

If someone proposed a policy where everyone who makes under $1M gets a free sandwich, that everyone who makes over $10M pays for, the only people who sensibly should be against it are people who make over $10M or people who think they might one day make over $10M. Nobody else would ever have to pay for it--why would they be against it?
I bet companies would want that. They could detect if employee use drugs, etc. But this might become a privacy problem if it goes too far.
Here's one. https://imgur.com/a/Z5jwl
"My information is also not shared with some random seller with terrible security."

Take some comfort in knowing that no customer data is shared with third-party sellers.
> Come on, all reasonable ARM have NEON and VFPv3 (including cortex M) about the only place I saw something that didn't was an old internet router

ARM MIDP UI code in 2003-2004 - very interesting chip (ARM926EJ-S [1]) ... not that I ever invented anything new to do all this, all of what I did was learn & repeat tricks from 1980s arcade consoles.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle#BXJ:_Branch_to_Java
!!!!

"The best way to stop people from buying a gun, is to kill a puppy once each time is sold"
> Social networks are deliberately designed to be addictive

Social networks are addictive because if they aren't, they fail and cease to be adopted at scale. Somehow we seem to be OK with this happening to ourselves. It is only when it happens to our innocent children that we start to revolt.
> For beginners, without a trusted hand to guide them, its beyond intimidating. These systems must become more accessible to the average human.

They are not meant for beginners or average people. We have Windows and MacOS for that, once you get to a point where you are thinking about linux you shoudln't be soon 'green'. Just because we have an OS doesn't mean it's meant for everybody.
So true. I've felt all these pains. :)

About choosing one asset pipeline, what if the Vue could be the new ERB?

Here I have a question on the same. I would love to work on this.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43084499/replacing-rails...
One of the main things the British did was prevent the Qing government from taxing the product. We've seen with tobacco and alcohol that sin taxes can be very effective. You can also regulate marketing, which has also been effective with alcohol and tobacco. Arguably the root of current opiod crisis was a failure to regulate marketing of opiods which caused doctors to over prescribe them.
A map should show you the information you need, and hopefully look nice while doing so.

I strongly disagree with your position, which seems to be that a map should look nice, and hopefully show you the information you need while doing so.
In a way, its an iterated prisoner's dilemma. Sure, I can construct a "infinite beatdown deck" that you lose 99% of the time. And guess what? I'll win.

And that next game, they'll say "ditch that deck or you aren't playing".

These days, I play explicit decks that have a neat theme and good win conditions (I have 2 decks left). They dont use infinite combos (they win, but are unfun), and I play to have a good time. If I lose, it was because I had some good threats and a blast of a game.
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Converting 600k lines of code to TypeScript in 72 hours
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I think they're referring to: http://ask.metafilter.com/297591/Origin-of-the-term-Engineer...
> All electronic maps use heuristics to show street names because otherwise the map would be too visually cluttered. They tend to show the major streets and a few non major ones and change based on zoom level.

There are situations (not that uncommon in my experience) where you can zoom in all the way and Google maps will not show some street names.

It gets really infuriating, I am using a map, I want to know where I am at! That is one of the primary value props of having a map. I get that a lot of people can't even read maps now days, and that turn by turn directions are the norm, but in cities where people actually walk, being able to look at a map is very useful.

I've had times where I'd ask friends where they are at, and they could NOT get Google maps to tell them! Instead they had to resort to giving me a nearby store, and I'd use Google maps to navigate to that store. A serious design fail in grid based cities, where if I just knew they were on 73rd st and 142nd ave, I could just walk a few blocks over and find them instantly.

Once I see the route on Google maps I can close it down and just walk there, but I shouldn't have to cajole my maps app into being a map.
I have a 4 year old, and I have found most of the educational things that work well at a young age are crafts and STEM based kits.

I was looking at the apple app store today as we were waiting for an appointment. It is quite flooded with all sorts of educational apps, but most that I tried were of low quality. Performing a search for the best reading or math app did not improve much.

I think there may be an opportunity here, but it would take a team with diverse talents and not just a team of developers to build something good.
Additionally, in Case A, LVT will act as an incentive to further NIMBY-ize the current property owning citizens. Not only will additional growth cause issues with traffic, overcrowded schools, parks, restaurants, it may make their properties higher in value which will increase the likelihood they will be priced out of their property.
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It's always been about socioeconomic classes, but the best proxy for it is race (or how you look...). If there were something more obvious, such as giant face tattoos or being obese and wearing mismatched/sloppy clothing, then we could use that too to infer which socioeconomic classes they are in and how they are likely to act.
Chinese inventions and technology that western people like
Yesterday it was reported that "Some OnePlus devices, if not all, come preinstalled with an application named EngineerMode that can be used to root the device and may be converted into a fully-fledged backdoor by clever attackers."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oneplus-phone...
"Train 425 Dpt. Union Station (7:10) delayed 5 minutes."
"Message 'Train 425 Dpt. Union Station (7:10) delayed 5 minutes.' delayed 10 minutes"
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Or, to put it a different way, "You don't actually need to be racist in order to be racist."
> Were those Nazis that committed those acts, or wannabes?

Does it matter? If you throw up a symbol of the Nazis while burning down a synagogue (that is to say, performing one of their most memorable policies), what distinguishes a wannabe from a real Nazi? Enumerating the policies which Hitler campaigned with?
So, this is sort of a sticky situation. First and foremost, death threats, and even threats of violence are never okay. Full stop.

For someone who supposedly doesn't work at EA, this sure was a long con. I wouldn't put it past EA to be cagey about associating with a twitter account that the author admitted seemed to say things EA would not want coming from an employee account.

Finally, a side note: This is no simple "Game Feature". This is psychological warfare to extract money from people and sell them on unregulated, virtual gambling, often including targeting children. These companies are indeed taking out patents on methods for how to push people over the edge and nudge them more towards being comfortable taking out their wallet just to have fun in video games. As a gamer, I find this a disgusting perversion of a hobby I've had since a child. Some of you may argue that they've done nothing illegal, but from a more innocent viewpoint, they are taking the most popular themes and IPs and holding them hostage, squeezing them just to pad the bottom line.

Gambling can become an addiction, and feeding addictions (for a profit no less) rubs me the wrong way. It should not be acceptable to rationalize hurting your fellow man just to make another dollar
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I think the issues tatersolid has with linux aio is implicit dio. Thats really painful if youre working with hdd or high concurrent read scenarios. See my sibling comment for why.

That leads to people implementing “async io” threadpools in userland. Those threads then do “regular” blocking io which is able to use the page cache etc. having hundreds or thousands of blocking IO threads then causes lots of other perf/scheduling issues.
The problem with that view is that, in such a definition of racism, it quite simply is not an -ism.
You have a quibble with that one but not with defining it as "humanity doesn't go extinct"?
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> There are many poor people that own moderate/cheap homes on prime real estate in places like LA and San Diego.

Then they aren't poor.
Property taxes also tax improvements to (and structures on) the land itself. Land value tax does not.

So, an empty acre of land across the street from Central Park (I know, I know, but pretend it exists) is taxed the same, under an LVT, as that same acre sitting under a big mixed-use apartment/retail building. The building itself isn't taxed (though its presence will likely have a small effect on the overall rate in the area, provided it acts to increase the value of surrounding land).
There are hundreds of startup ideas in the Yellow Pages trending section: https://www.yellowpages.com/san-francisco-ca/trends/1
The US has never been a democracy.
Yes, form validation is a huge mess. I would say this would be one of the major reason, I even tried Vue for the first time.
Basketball coaches that would make me run a suicide for every minute that I was late to practice and not out on the floor ready to go, have forever instilled in me the habit of getting places at least fifteen minutes early.
I really wish I could create my own theme for the dev tools. I just can't get into the colors of the existing themes.

The dark theme is too dark/not enough contrast between background color and text colors (pastel fonts on dark bg).

The light and firebug themes are too light and don't have enough contrast between background color and text colors (pastel fonts on white bg).

The lack of bg/font contrast in the dev tools always drives me back to Chrome despite really wanting to be a Firefox user.
If that's true then that's just insane to call it "open source"; presumably like other religious bodies, it would only be open to people who'd want to hear their message. His plan is to get VC-free money through donations from AI professionals (that he will try to recruit grass-roots style) that he can convince to buy into his vision of a super AI that they will all then create "in faith" that will also apparently begrudge anyone who didn't help in its creation.

Its like a bad spin on Battlestar Galactica where he's trying to create favoritism with the yet-to-exist Cylons that he will simultaneously usher in.
I think that's fair. It's the same standard we set with alcohol and other intoxicants. I drink alcohol knowing that I can deal with its addictive properties. I don't think kids should be drinking alcohol not only because it could cause developmental problems, but because I don't think they can deal with something that addictive. I think social media is too addictive and otherwise psychologically harmful that we should keep children away.
Why not effective Internet safety education and a bunch of apps that block NSFW, set time limit etc? (An AI bot that hovers in one corner and highlights and teaches not-OK content, maybe ..?)

IMO a safe children’s social network is a bit of an oxymoron. You’re never going to make something safe, unless it’s a closed system!
You mean like this? ;)

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Debugging
Western countries are more heterogeneous, more individualistic, and that includes highly variable selfishness and cluelessness. Japan is an island nation, much more isolated, homogeneous, people are much more on the same page about things often even without having explicit conversations about it. Somewhere in between, Scandinavian countries.

I think it's helpful to say "move, sloth" when people stand on the left side of an escalator, for example. That would be really insulting in Japan, but also it wouldn't ever be necessary. Actually, it's not even necessary in say, London. But in the U.S. there is absolutely zero imagination that someone might want to walk up an escalator, it simply does not even occur to most people.

My favorite: train is full, some people have to get out in order make room for people to get out, and then a bunch of assholes on the platform try to get into the train before the people who got out to make room but intend to get back on. And then these freeloading morons get all pissy when called out for their bullshit. Yes, morons. Like really selfish clueless morons. Again, I sometimes find it useless to ask them if they're stupid. It's somewhat polite, I'm not calling them stupid, and in my delusions I think they might ponder whether they are in fact stupid. But deep down I know I'm wrong, they're so stupid, they will not reflect on their stupidity or ever improve.

shrug
>Why can't we treat people from outside our community as the same as people inside? If we better understand and critique what a community is and how it forms I think it's possible.

Your point is basically that we should destroy the very concept of community and ethnic identity. Groups and their corresponding identities are defined entirely by who is not in them.
I don't recall. I think I did add a sentence or two, but I don't think I changed it enough to change your read of tone.
Microsoft seems to currently be investing a lot of effort in making developing .NET server apps on a competitor's platform more capable, so I think it's not as cut and dried as that. If you develop a "good enough" LSP server for Kotlin, and have the "best of breed" tools in IntelliJ, then you potentially increase the pool of Kotlin developers, which creates network effects making Kotlin development more appealing, and then you see more IntelliJ use. There can be benefits to making your platform play well with your competitors, if you can still monetize the platform.
Exactly, my favorite flavor of those are the ones where the interviewer appears to not stop until they find what you cannot solve, which is perfectly fine for an interview, but they still seem to treat that failure as an inability to program. One place I interviewed at wasn't doing much more than crud, and we got into our 4th cs question of that day, and my 6th with the company so far after their phone screen. They gave me some question that was solved with a flood fill. I admitted I had never encountered that before and muddled through it getting an answer that could not handle a few edge cases which I pointed out before they even brought it up. After that point they cut that phase of the interview short and the next guy asked me some things that were answered off my resume and they said they'd call me back which of course they didnt.

I could easily have been denied for other reasons but it's one of numerous interviews where I go through 1-n cs questions and whenever I get to the first one I can't solve the interview is cut short. It's just a giant waste of everyone's time
Couldn't Amazon basically offer them a TurboTax like service and basically generate all of the filled in filing forms the seller needs? Then it would be up to the seller to review with their accountant and actually submit.
Many ideas in the list sound pointless, to be polite, but that one is downright depressing. The word "social" got abused to basically mean its opposite.