skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is rather unexpected and surprising to me. I wonder what it was about the business model that just didn't work?

When they opened the Chandler location here in the Phoenix area, I quickly signed up for a year's membership, but that turned out to be a mistake. I certainly didn't get my money's worth, but the mistake was on my end, not theirs: They were located in the east valley (where it seems all the cool kids are), and I live in the west valley; it was a good 100 mile drive round-trip for me to go there. I hardly ever went as a result, and the membership was wasted.

The space itself was amazing otherwise; had it been closer to my home I am sure I would have used it more often than I did for the tools I didn't otherwise have at home (like the laser cutters, for instance). I was always impressed how they had workshops for just about everything you needed to take an idea from a concept (CAD/design) to finished prototype.

There more more than a few startups that got their start at TechShop; one of the more famous examples was Square (they prototyped the original swipe reader thru TechShop).

I am now wondering what, if anything, this says (or what effects it will have) about other maker and hackerspaces. We don't really have very many in the Valley. For myself, I'll just continue doing what I've always done, and work from home or over at my friend's shop.
My company gets a minimum of six wrong numbers a day from people who got our phone number from Google. Google somehow thinks there are several thousand companies associated with our number.
Yep, I've done that.
It’s got electrolytes!
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Equifax's ubiquitousness is not a direct result or byproduct of the engineer's work.
First off, why are you assuming I'm saying that Google is responsible for my dog? You may want to re-read what I wrote. I never said I'm taking blind trust to what Google says.

However, for the average person, hearing an answer so confidentially from a Google product gives it integrity - whether you agree with it or not.

Think about it - millions of people Google medical questions and they trust "blindly" trust Google to provide them the right results.

Do you honestly not see the dangers of Google giving a single answer response to these types of questions?
There'd be nothing extraordinary about that, either. I've never worked for a company that could build something today that they released twenty years ago.
And they are still calling it GVFS -- a name that is already used by a prominent linux technology. https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/7
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Well, it blocks adds and collects money on the behalf of others without having permission to do so...
No. I'm the happiest I've been in my career and I'm almost 50. I'm a programmer, not a manager, not a tech lead, not an architect. I still love programming and I love solving problems. I just recently made a huge change that decreased load on our systems by 90% and I'm still stoked 3 days later.
There actually was an Android based device that did this years ago. 2011/2012, I think; you could connect the phone to an external device that gave you a mouse, keyboard, and screen. The only problem was that the external device was something like $300 on top of the phone.

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Dock-Motorola-ATRIX/dp/B004... - Motorola Atrix Lapdock
So the tires are acting like torsion springs then?
Plus the Google Home Max has two 4.5" woofers and the Home pod one 4". Depends how well done but the Max should have excellent sound and a much smarter assistant with better voice recognition than Siri.
At least the weight will be (measurably) consistent no matter how much charge is in the battery. That said, they still weigh more than diesel so I assume they'll pay more at the scales.
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Crisis Text Line is awesome, and was so kind to post this. Daniel and I are trying to see if we can apply the sharing economy approach to mental wellbeing & resilience. I'd love to hear the HN community's thoughts!
I actually do have kids.

I’ve been thinking long and hard about that. A lot of things try to sell perfect safety from the first day, smart mattresses that measure breathing, diapers or socks that measure pulse and oxygen saturation, gps trackers, name it. I admit that we all want our kids to be perfectly safe and it’s very hard to acknowledge that perfectly safe is only possible by packing the kid in a foam container and placing the container in a padded safe. As much as I sometimes would like to do that, that’s obviously not going to fly. So yes, it’s hard and it’s worrying from day one, but part of being a parent it coming to terms with this. Things will mostly be alright. I survived stupid things - and lord, I’ve done things that could have killed me - chances are my kids will survive as well. Statistics are on my side: Most kids survive to adulthood without permanent damage.
Wait... so they turned got into a centralized abomination and added access control to parts of the source tree (A feature that SVN had from the start but decentralized VCS cannot provide)? Is this correct?
> I just checked a medical textbok I had nearby (don't ask). YES, they do have such disclaimers

Most textbooks do not. Medical textbooks (and websites, etc.) often do because of special circumstances (legal and practical) applying to that field.
If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
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>Denise Young Smith, who was named vice president of diversity and inclusion in May, made controversial comments last month during a One Young World Summit in Bogotá, Colombia.

>“There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.

>“Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.”

>Her comments appeared to defend Apple’s overwhelmingly white and male leadership at a time when the company’s makeup is markedly uneven.

Wow what a shit show, even if she believes this nuanced, thoughtful view of diversity, she should have realized that she was hired for one reason only: racial extortion. Now apple can go out and hire the shakedown artist they deserve.
How do you deliver 1.6 MW, is the plan the same voltage as the supercharger (480V) or some HV system?
It's more that it provides more control on the centralized<->distributed spectrum. Git by default, yes, is fully distributed with every copy of a repo supposed to maintain full history, etc. GVFS allows you the option to offload some of that storage effort to servers you specify. Those servers can be distributed themselves (similar to CDNs, etc), so there's still distribution flexibility there.

You can think of it as giving you somewhat flexible control of the "torrenter/seeder ratio" in BitTorrent: how many complete copies of the repo are available/accessible at a given time.
Doh! When I said Chase I actually meant Citibank. Chase doesn't to my knowledge.

In my defense both start with C....
Yes, an Amiga. And it ALWAYS responded instantly to mouse input at least.

A Windows 3.1 PC from that era, not so much :)
I'm not anywhere close to 35, but from being on this site (HN) for a few years, I can guarantee you that if you read this site on a daily basis and 3 times a year complete a project based on the "trends" reflected on here you will be fine. The people on here are pretty ruthless, IMO.
The far left often misses how multi-dimensional concepts like diversity or privilege are but how can a team without minorities be diverse? By definition, it would be composed only of people who were in the majority on every dimension!

Her comment was almost certainly false, though public humiliation and firing after a 20 year career is a bit of an excess. Why not discuss the matter and ask for a gracious apology?
https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/7
Furthermore, does a shareholder then get a say in how the house's value-impacting decisions are managed?

Adding a deck, adding solar, painting it purple, or hooking up to public water, just for some examples. Do the shareholders vote on what the tenant/shareholder can do? Isn't this a lot like an HOA?
I'd only seen Rob Pike's stuff before so thanks for sharing this!
4000-5000nm is the limit in Formula 1 tech. Just for perspective
I think once you're checked out, you're still distributed as far as being able to make and push commits which modify the files you have. But obviously someone can't clone files from you which you don't yourself have.

See previous articles which discussions:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...
Are you seriously asking about what is less convenient about getting a check in the mail that can be deposited at any bank account in the world vs getting an email explaining the hoops you need to jump through in order to create an account to get access to a BAT tokens which can then be turned into cash by creating another account at some shady crypto coin exchange?
It’s just a pragmatic recognition that most files are going to stay unchanged relative to some “master” repository anyway. It maintains the same distributed semantics as vanilla git, but allows you to use less disk space if you choose to rely on the availability of that master repository.
I've seen parts of the site fail to update in sync or appear to revert from time to time, so something like race conditions or cache invalidation does appear to be an issue. Adding another complex graph with a tag system might be a serious drag on performance, with everything being limited to file read/write speeds and there being no separation between data and application AFAIK.

Of course, the answer for that is for HN to bite the bullet and actually integrate a relational database, if only to improve performance and scalability.

And as far as lobste.rs goes, the culture there seems to be more restrictive due to being invite only, and having a policy of banning not only offending users, but the users who invited them, and the users who invited them, as far up the (publicly viewable) graph as deemed necessary. This inevitably leads to far more posts than comments, and less diversity of thought or critical discussion, by design. Nevertheless, using tags doesn't seem to have interfered with any of that, so it shouldn't necessarily interfere with Hacker News' culture either.

HN, however, has open membership, and any tag system employed here would need to take the heterogenous nature of the community into account. Since politics is one of the more divisive topics here, a politics tag would probably be inevitable. Lobste.rs would just not allow anyone they consider too political to join in the first place.
I am but I don't monetize my channel, but know several people that do and have had videos go from monetizable to non-monetizable for what seems to be chimerical reasons. And the autonomous review process to address the situation seems laughable but this is on-par for Googles customer service department/process.
Well believe it.

The purpose is to test whether the claim that Trump is somehow worse than everyone else based on the mentioned examples of his bad deeds really holds up to a sanity check.

I think your last sentence much better illustrates who of us are in good faith here though.
> MP3 sound horrible compared to a FLAC and good equipment. Instead people wear Beats Bluetooth Headphones listening to streamed Audio.

A 1000 times this.

High bit rate (FLAC/DVD-Audio/etc.) sounds way better than standard CD Audio, even on mid-range ($3k) kit. Of course you DO need to listen to proper music on it, that uses real instruments[2], instead of all that bump-n-grind poplet-R&B stuff that kids like these days[1].

Modern 'pop' music is also mastered for MP3/Streaming nowadays anyway, so high bit rates of that stuff will never sound good no matter what you play it on.

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[1] Get off my lawn.

[2] No I don't just mean Classical, but good Rock/Metal also.
Wheezy is supported until the end of May 2018, so it still gets security patches.
You had better be an architect, manager or a kickass maintainer after 40. And you better keep your day job. Can be done but difficult.
Why Social Selling
That's the slippery slope logical fallacy. You've ignored the possibility that a meaningful middle ground exists.
Had the Echo since it first came out in 2014 and now several Google Homes. The Google Home is far ahead of the Echo in ability to understand natural language and much smarter in answering questions.
No. Open Source and walled gardens don't mix. MS wants to turn Windows into the later, obviously.
I've never seen Amish consuming pre-packaged anything. They have an abundance of home-grown food.

Cigarettes though.. the youth still love them.
I have not found any that have really helped me. On my own food side project, the best thing I have done is try to eat my own dogfood. See what works for myself and what is not working and try to fix that.
I sincerely hope no one is either - but why should Google even pretend to know the answer to something?

How is the average, non-technical person supposed to assume that Google won't give an accurate answer to a medical question?
I'm glad that most of the software development community seems to have settled on git. I get the feeling that I'll still have all of the source code for my projects in 20 years.

Redundant backups are especially important for software companies. It's scary to think how many startups give all cofounders and developers admin access to everything. It helps that git is distributed, but it's not hard to imagine a scenario where a ticked off former employee wipes everyone's laptops and deletes the hosted source code.

Even if you don't update the mirrors regularly, it's good to know that you have some copies of data in BitBucket/GitLab/Heroku/Google Drive.
Depends...

Public school? Probably not. Tech school? Absolutely.
We failed over but there was nothing there so we can't fail back -- eek, we're dead :-)
This is depressing. I'm 33 and still haven't really find a niche inside software dev that I'm willing to stay...

On the other hand, nobody asks doctors and lawyers if their are planning to retire at 35.
Until they are hacked and are used by others to listen in
36 here. I'm happier in my job than I ever have been.

I'm working for bigger names, on bigger projects, for way more money than even 5 years ago.
More on her comments: https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-j...

>Denise Young Smith, who was named vice president of diversity and inclusion in May, made controversial comments last month during a One Young World Summit in Bogotá, Colombia.

>“There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.

>“Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.”

>Her comments appeared to defend Apple’s overwhelmingly white and male leadership at a time when the company’s makeup is markedly uneven.

Wow what a shit show, even if she believes this nuanced, thoughtful view of diversity, she should have realized that she was hired for one reason only: racial extortion. Now apple can go out and hire the shakedown artist they deserve.
My point is that he has not recognized the dangers of his viewpoint.

It is dangerous to believe "oh, I don't care what an oppressive government does in order to stop Nazis" because a whole lot of people are being called Nazis these days.

The same exact thing happened during the red scare. It was not JUST the revolutionary communists who were literally trying to overthrow the government that got oppressed. A whole lot of other people who definitely didn't deserve it, got oppressed to.

Human rights exist for everyone for a reason.
Every single hacker news discussion these days seems to have a complaint about reusing a name.

Every name is taken. There is nothing to be done about it. It's okay. I mean, it's sad, and terrible, but it's also fine.
A great answer!

> I am not sufficiently familiar with the C world to tell you exactly which thing is defined in which part.

I've got some bits of knowledge here. I could be wrong, as it's not my expertise...

> Function calls have a "stack" and there's a "heap", and the language itself distinguishes between them.

I don't believe this is true or at least, not literally but the details are interesting! http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf is what I usually go by when talking about C11. Malloc is defined in 7.22.3.4, and says:

> The malloc function allocates space for an object whose size is specified by size and whose value is indeterminate.

In 7.22.3, the overview for all the memory functions, it says stuff like

> The lifetime of an allocated object extends from the allocation until the deallocation.

which restricts how you can implement it, of course, but it doesn't use the words "heap" and "stack" at all; "stack" is never mentioned in the document. 6.2.4 talks about storage durations, this is usually what we think about when we talk about "stack" and "heap" and such. "stack allocated" is more properly termed "automatic storage duration" and "heap allocation" is "allocated storage duration."

This is a side effect of the fact that C itself is defined in terms of a virtual machine! They call it the "abstract machine".

Anyway, all of this is in service of your point about history and such. Many people just assume all of this is how it has to be, rather than something that came to be thanks to history. It's all very interesting!

> C itself, IIRC, has no specification for threads whatsoever, IIRC

C11 added this, actually, but before that, you're 100% right.
I don't see anything new here, I thought we have known this about Orcas for years? What is the purpose of this article?
Once an hour GPS (as I suggested) is not the same as "privacy", and yes if the adults trusted with care of a six year old take them somewhere unexpected for a long time, the parents should be able to find out.

You could claim this is a slippery slope that leads to more kinds of tracking (and this may be true), but I am saying that very limited tracking can be a net positive.
I expected Remote Desktop to be on every system... it's really frustrating that I can't remotely see and configure my elderly mom's iPhone screen when she needs tech support.
"Do you see an x? Or is there something that looks like a backwards arrow? No? A less-than symbol? Or the word Back? No? Cancel? Maybe at the bottom?"
The place I often see this is in localization. If I had a $CURRENCY for every time I've seen people try to build their own translation layer rather than relying on whatever's built in to the framework they happen to be in... well, I'd probably have enough for a decent dinner, but that's still far too much.
> I think the general feeling is that the rich "got away" unpunished with the 2008 crash..

However, the rich did not cause the crash of 2008. The banks did. The rich took a hit in 2008; just like anyone. I know plenty of (previously) rich people who were wiped out because they were overleveraged at the time.

Their net worth did come back, because the government essentially gave a ton of free money away via QE, leading to massive asset price increases since 2008.
Whatever your views on diversity are, I think we can all agree that the subject is so politically charged right now that this job is going to be like the Defense Against the Dark Arts position at Hogwarts
Refusing to provide a free platform for them to publish their thoughts is not in any way, shape, or form equivalent to, or even similar to, the "extermination" committed by Nazis, and desired by their modern adherents.
What really annoys me is the slope of taxation in most developed countries and how it just suddenly stops going up after your salary exceeds around $150K.

If you earn less than $10K, you pay 0%; that makes sense, then if you earn $150K, you pay close to 50%... OK you could argue that this still makes sense. But then if you earn $200 million per year, you still only pay 50% tax - This makes no sense; the tax rate should follow a Lorenz curve which mirrors and offsets income inequality.

To earn $100K+ as a professional using nothing but your brain is bastard-hard. It takes a toll mentally.

Someone who owns stocks and is earning $500K+ per year from dividend payments while sitting around in their underwear all day doing nothing should be taxed at a much higher rate than someone who earns $150K by mutilating their brain every day. That seems extremely obvious to me.

The most infuriating thing about the current tax system is that the magical $150K number (where the tax rate suddenly levels off) is in fact the exact point after which earning money starts to get easier. This is exactly the point when the tax rates should start really sloping up - Not the point where they should level off!

Also, I think that the argument about protecting rich people so that they can have extra money to invest back in the economy is no longer valid. With innovations in crowd funding, large numbers of people can now easily pool their resources together to fund very significant and meaningful projects. Rich people these days are only interested in monopolising markets; not adding value.
I get it, and it's a good one..

But really, if you are at all worried about losing all your money in crypto, then you should only invest a little, and..
sell 50% once you 2x..
or sell 20% once you 5x...
depending on how worried/patient you are.

or any combination you're comfortable with so that losing "1x" will not put you worse than you started.

Can't afford a whole bitcoin? Buy a half, or a quarter, or an eigth and apply the same strategy..

Yeah, of course it could go to zero before you gain, but really, it's not looking like it. There has not been a better investment opportunity in our lifetime as what we're seeing now.

I think it's crazy that so many people who know about it are still hesitant to put even a modest amount in for fun.
Your estimations are probably very far off.

The Roadster was announced with a 200kwh battery, which is twice the capacity of the best Model S. Yet the Roadster is much smaller, and the 0-60/quarter mile times indicate that it is much lighter.

So, we can conclude that Tesla is accounting for some real technology optimization in their batteries over the next 4 years, which I'm sure the Semi will see as well.
The average incidence of diabetes in the US is about 8.3 %, not very different from the Amish. See https://www.everydayhealth.com/hs/type-2-diabetes/diabetes-a...
I would like to hear how to make it in software when nearing 40 :)
It seems like politics is elbowing its way into tech and entrepreneurship. I mean I wish people didn't have to worry about upcoming healthcare legislation when considering launching a new small business. But it's hard to talk about Apple as a company without mentioning the huge amount of money it's holding offshore. Tax policy has become a stand-out feature of big tech companies.
It's still distributed, just not entirely 100% distributed. It's like the difference in which IPFS nodes have which items pinned or how many seeders you have versus torrenters (and the subsequent file availability in that cluster) in BitTorrent.