skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The farmers would talk about struggling, but have a brand new semi-tractor sitting in a barn unused 10 months out of the year.

Your business having a illiquid depreciating asset that is required for the business to function can still be struggling. You can't eat a combine, you can't trade it away.

This is usually solved with coops owning the equipment and time sharing it to distribute the costs among the coop participants.

Farmers are indentured servants to the commodities markets, the land owner's they rent their land from, and John Deere.
I think if anything it can be traced to a fundamental misunderstanding about how fractions work (and less glibly, basic personal finance). Choosing to spend $150,000 on things you objectively do not need in order to not have to write a $30,000 check to the IRS and put $120,000 in the bank for next year is not a rational decision for all but the most extreme anti-government/anti-tax ideologies. It's the very definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Employees already jostle to position themselves on the projects they think the leadership values more.

That has nothing to do with whether leadership can accurately assess the value of the projects and applications that are developed in general (a point I agree with you on).
Or their fraud detection is just not very good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
What? The US has 96 out of 100 people owning guns? (24 X 4) I call bad math somewhere
Mystery weapons allow for all sorts of deniability. With snipers and stuff there's always a pretty clear starting point for investigators to (attempt to) trace back to the source. That's much harder with this mystery weapon. It's possible that whoever is using has determined that keeping US/Cuba relations frosty is high enough priority to use their 'secret' weapon.
Probably some kind of extorsion going on. E.g. Monsanto selling seeds for exorbitant prices. Financial constructs that farmers can't get out of, or other business practices that make farmers desperate.
I didn't say I wanted to offer you service, just your neighbor. He's more profitable. You don't get to benefit personally from all the interruption, but in order to have anything approaching a free/competitive market, you'd have to tolerate it.
You must be unfamiliar with laissez-fare soccer. Technically there's still referees, but they're worth triple points.
One way to deal with flooding is to build highways in a manner where they become channels in such events. Kuala Lumpur, for example, has their SMART tunnel[1] which acts as a roadway normally but can be turned into a stormwater drainage tunnels.

Houston had a prime opportunity in 1996 to do something similar[2] when I-10 W was rebuilt- and engineers recommended building a conduit under I-10 to carry flood water from the Barker and Addicks reservoirs to the ship channel. Alas, that proposal was ignored so West Houston flooded during Harvey.

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

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/harvey/2017/09/05/houston-gr...
Why do companies continue to under pay employees in lower cost of living areas by not paying them as much as their counterparts in higher cost of living areas?
That's not really a generational collector, and it doesn't achieve the main benefit of one: bump allocation in the nursery.
The funny thing is, not doing this is just kicking the can down the road. Chinese companies with their protected access to the gigantic and prosperous Chinese market, will eventually be "good enough" to crush all others, across virtually all markets.
That's what they now use, previously they did use zero knowledge.
How is this FUD? I'm telling you that I don't want that. A lot of people don't want that.

We have CEOs and government employees who have public salaries for the specific purpose of public accountability, not just because we're curious or because we're entitled to know the price of everything at all times.

Now, a world with perfect price transparency in the labor market might make sense, but two points:

1) We don't have that universal transparency now, so being the 1% of firms that does (or their employees) can put you at a disadvantage. Why do you think some places are passing labor-friendly laws that make it illegal to ask what previous salary was?

2) Price transparency doesn't have to mean that we get those prices from an "objective" formula that has no room for flexibility based on the facts and circumstances of each case, right? How is this different from mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines, or whatever?

I think that price transparency would probably help the average worker by bringing low performer salaries up and high performer salaries down, and it would probably harm overall productivity by harming incentives. But I'm not an economist.
HotSpot's memory fragmentation solution is superior, because it has a semispace copying collector in the nursery.
I can't figure out the reason for this stingy 1GB hash memory limit when using 64 cores. It pretty much negates advantage of 64 cores vs say 4/6 cores.

A nefarious suggestion would be that setting 1GB limit ensures that Alpha would always have the edge in depth as Stockfish would be forced to prune long lines to preserve hash memory.

Maybe someone who has read Stockfish source code can comment how Stockfish prunes hash memory.
The Problem with Muzak
I mean, inheriting a farm is inheriting a lot of money. Were family farmers perfectly rational economic actors, they'd presumably sell their inherited farm and use the proceeds to buy one more suited to the newer, locally grown, organic type farms that are more insulated from the economies of scale that are driving them out of business.

But obviously people aren't such rational actors, and farmers have emotional attachments to their farms, the rural areas they grew up in, etc. And so they keep trying to make the old model work, increase their debt loads and hope things will turn around until its too late.
Well given that their model was predicated on price movements being normally distributed and for around 100 years price movements have been known to be levy alpha distributed (alpha ~1.6 for the most volatile and usually ~1.8), I'd say it was dumb.
Don't forget that you get that $4.99 credited back to your account on first use.
They probably shouldn't be paying massive salaries and should leave SF, because they operate in one of the most expensive and competitive parts of the country, maybe world.
I got my house filled with motion activated lights at less than $10/piece
>At least if they would have went with s-expression syntax, they would have enabled metaprogramming and this would have solved some of the problems with missing features.

Interesting. Do you think having that syntax would help with developing generics for Go (a thing that I've read a lot of devs feel want to be there in it)?
Bron, I think your concerns are justified and understandable. Thanks for entertaining the idea.

I am one of those advocates and would enable such option if given. That said, I did have an instance when I had to call AWS support because of their own screw-up. I closed the AWS portion of my account but not the Amazon.com shopping portion. I later found out that I can no longer remove 2fa on the AWS portion because I no longer have it. I no longer have it because I already closed the account and thought it was safe to remove. However, because of their faulty system design, a closed account was enforcing 2fa on my Amazon.com portion preventing me from accessing it. In this case, the support agent helped me to regain access.

That support agent's ability to fix their faulty system design is both good and a potential liability. I wouldn't want a "I won't ever screw up" mode there.

In the case of email though, when certain conditions are met, it becomes a safer thing to do compared to getting screwed over by support staff.

The pre-conditions are:
1) The user is using custom domains only
2) The user has past emails backed up on his/her own devices

When these conditions are met, the user has complete control of their email destiny. In the case of losing FastMail account access, they can continue to receive email because they control the domain. They also have complete email history because they back it up.

That said, I believe your clearer response elsewhere in this thread is good enough for me personally. I was concerned before because of the vague responses. I think for FastMail, the risk perhaps outweighs the better security for me personally even if I would welcome it.
Allowing real estate development in basins specifically designed to capture storm-water during flooding was the case in Houston.

The bad idea is building in a place that was specifically designed to flood.

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs
Private Inflatable Habitat Will Stay at Space Station for at Least 3 More Years
The case was then settled out of court for an undisclosed amount that was reported to be around $20 million.

I know a medical malpractice attorney. He only takes cases he is absolutely sure to win. The gray areas he leaves alone. It is in these gray areas that insurance companies mostly try to get away with paying claims.

What I wrote prior was not irrelevant. You have a naive view of how markets work in the U.S.
<sigh> this is the third time I've seen this come up on HN. Because for some people the word "slave" has bad connotations. Therefore it is a cultural norm in the USA not to use the word slave, even though as you say it has been in common usage in engineering (e.g. Master/Slave flip-flop going back to the 1950s). To use the word shows cultural insensitivity in some cultures.

Like you I had not come across this issue when I landed as a fresh immigrant in California in 1996 to work on replication, but it only took a few minutes for someone to explain it to me and we carried on saying "supplier/consumer" or "origin/destination" for the subsequent 2 decades without trouble..
> we depend 100% on the user for it to have any value

or on the browser integration. If chrome/firefox decide to remove this distinction tomorrow, the whole business aspect of it will die.
In terms of pricing power for electronics I don't see it at this point. There are too many opportunities for shoppers to go elsewhere and everything gets arbitraged away via eBay extremely quickly.

That said, I also think that regulators should keep a close eye on what's going on in online retail, particularly when it comes to specific sections of the market like books/publishing.
Well, that sounds more like different employers than a "cost-of-living adjustment". Sure, you probably can't get a local employer to pay what a Bay Area employer pays, but if your employer is a Bay Area employer and they'd be willing to pay you 40% more if you worked remote from NYC than if you worked remote from Minneapolis, then yes, you should have more leverage there. Probably not enough to actually get the raise, but enough to make the conversation more interesting at least.
I think Berlin's approach is better for colder climates. It just makes sure the water lands in soil and stays there. Each new construction site must do the same. So the roofs are green with soil and the road's water goes into the soil and the buildings have a layer of soil on top of underground garages.
What Is Regularization in Machine Learning?
This is still ridiculous. It doesn't actually use WiFi communication and it cannot work reliably across variable environmental conditions.
Maybe CIA were testing their new weapon?
Diplomats working in Cuba would be the perfect subjects of those tests. CIA would be able to question the victims about the experience and get access to medical records without raising suspicions.
You are right, the "data structure threads", which we call servers, poll on requests in a busy loop. If your data structures aren't very busy, dedicating a thread to serving the data structures may not be a good trade-off, in which case you don't want to use delegation.

Note, however, that a single server can host any number of data structures, core counts are growing rapidly, and hyperthreading doubles the number of available hardware threads, making the trade-off easier to swallow.
That's just the headline to make it relatable to a big audience. What would you use instead?
Why is that? Simply because of the current distribution? That doesn't matter much, what matters is what the system incentivizes.

Fiat incentivizes bailouts and devaluing poor people's savings by printing (or QE'ing) money into gigantic financial middle-men.
No opinion on its microtransactions, but I couldn't believe it when that game became an esport. For one, I looked down on mobile games (is one of them really this good?). And you've got a casting team and studio audience to watch two guys sit and twiddle on tablets.
I’ve learned that having a presence in the Bay Area has had a significant impact on the success of my company. We raised tens of millions of dollars in funding with ease, scaled from 10 to 150 employees (half of which being software engineers) in 3 years, and were acquired by a multi billion dollar company (the company was involved in the original rounds of funding). The acquisition involves most employees continuing to live in the bay and simply driving to a new office location one town over. All of these things just don’t seem possible if the company didn’t employ people in one of the most expensive areas in the country.
This is the same article of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852007
Is there such a thing as a trivial fork in the bitcoin world? You'd have to get buy-in for most of the developers, and most of the users too, or risk splitting into two currencies. Again.
As someone who makes industrial electronics, it's frustrating when people redefine the term IoT. It originally meant anything on the internet that isn't a general purpose computer (or a phone), but now some people define it to refer only to a subset of consumer products.

That's given rise to the term IIoT (industrial IoT), but it's still troublesome since some discussions of IoT refer to both kinds and some don't, and because the exact same piece of hardware can be IoT or not IoT depending on whether it is installed in a home or a business.

Surely discussions of IoT security should refer to both industrial and consumer products!
It is very refreshing to see a website dedicated to classical music! Have you considered integrating with last.fm? At the very least scrobbling the listen history would be nice, but more advanced integration could be interesting to: synchronizing tags, etc.
Getting started with Turtl, an open source alternative to Evernote
I don't know anyone who would say "oh this ecommerce website must be legit because it has its name next to the green lock"
I agree with you, and I see that you get the normal responses I also get when I bring these things up (Just remember next time! Make a list! Buy two times as much then just remember you are running low!).

But when there is a technology that can make things better for us, allowing us to have to remember less and do less, why not?

I buy a specific brand of cat litter, laundry detergent, paper towels, and toilet paper. And all of them I often forget I'm low on until it's too late, and I need to run to the store for a single thing.

You can give me all the "solutions" in the world and i've probably tried them, this has happened my whole life.

But then a technology comes along and takes care of this for me, and people are upset that it exists!?

Yeah, the retailer the automation buys from could jack up the prices, if they do that I'll stop using it. Yeah, it could end up costing me slightly more for the convenience, i'm okay with that. Yeah, there are other solutions that work well for other people, they don't for me.

And besides, there are tons of other uses for this kind of thing. The software doesn't need to automatically order it if you don't want to, it could just make a list for you if you'd prefer.
Staticman supports GitHub PRs so you can vet/flag/delete comments as a PR and they don't end up in main branch commit history if you don't merge the PR. If you delete the PR branch eventually git gc in sync with GitHub's branch cleanup process will cleanup the dead commits, so there's a window when where that PII will be available, but it would eventually get tossed.
The assembly language that I learned in class was PDP-11.
It is an interesting architecture as the machine language is human understandable (to a point) such as the only difference between an add instruction and a subtract instruction is that one bit is 0 (for add) and 1 (for subtract).

Most of the unique pointer math of C happened because they mapped directly into PDP-11 assembly language, such as var++ or *var++ or --var etc.
What about this here :

https://i.snag.gy/1jPRFW.jpg
There are no sockets in ffwd - everything is done by shared memory within a single process. By "round trip", we refer to communication latency across the CPU interconnect.
But the question wasn't "why did TripAdvisor not catch this restaurant?", it was "why might a good fraud detection system not catch this restaurant?", because an answer to the second question is required for TripAdvisor to be able to claim that its system is any good.
I am a big fan of gitless. It shows how things could be better with the same underlying structure.

But the standard git interface can not realistically be avoided either. Whether IntelliJ or Atom git plug in, they are all closely modelled on the git commands.

We also have a considerable number of people working on Windows.

The disaster is that because the open source community has entirely embraced git, git is no longer optional. We could try to teach people two tools (pushing git off until later), and it's something we have considered, but that has obvious downsides, too.

It's still something we will investigate, but we are in an extremely resource strapped environment. Time, IT staff, etc...

On a technical note, a single DAG that you append commits to is vastly different from a number of DAGs (technically a directed acyclic forest) that interact in non-trivial ways. So no, the DAG is not the underlying database, it is just a part of it.

Failing to make this distinction is how we end up with millions of tutorials explaining the easy part, and plenty of smart users that still end up with messed up repos.
Clash Royale's system is set up so that the more money you spend to progress, the more money you need to spend to progress. That's because the cost to upgrade cards increases as they level up, so [purely as example because I don't know the actual numbers behind this] a dollar can get you to level 3 but it'll cost a thousand to get to level 10.

Most loot box games have this as a general concept because pure randomness ensures that the chance of getting a new unique item from a finite set decreases for each new item you get, but Clash Royale compounds this by geometrically increasing the number of each thing you need to get to upgrade it.
Amsterdam has this problem as well, it is now generally discouraged to pave your garden. Moreover projects using the "rain away tile" are popping up: http://rainaway.nl/
Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
We are a small 5-person enterprise software startup, operating in the data analytics/ML space. We are working on starting a proof-of-concept with a huge potential customer ($50+bn in revenue). We recently identified our first use case, and are ready to get into contract negotiations.

But then they got back to us with an odd request: they want to see our source code (likely upon completion of the PoC). Given that our core IP is our models and algorithms, we are reluctant to agree. Their justification is: "we want to see how your algorithms made their decisions."

We know that they have lots of resources and are building up internal data science team. And yet it was pointed out to me that their goal might not necessarily be to outright steal our IP, but rather to cover their bases. But we are still worried they might be "inspired" by the parts they see and get their internal teams to replicate across other sites or use cases. And we don't have the resources to litigate, nor any way of knowing they do this.

My questions:
1) Has anybody run into a request like this? How would you respond?
2) How likely do you think their goal is to genuinely "see what happens under the hood" as opposed to replicate in the future?
3) Are there any legal protections we can put in place to prevent them from not just copy-pasting our code, but also from "learning from it" or so?
If it's philosophical then it doesn't matter, it's just short sighted. They just see it as "The government taking my money" vs "at least I own this semi, even if it's useless it's mine"
I agree with this but I also recognize that if that separation is successful and we have the 'user' Macbook and the 'developer' Macbook, the latter may become more expensive still as it will have much lower volumes of manufacturing.
If there was, inexplicably, a comic universe about HN mutants, he'd be The Citation.

This is getting weird. But I'll allow it.
Same thing happens in Switzerland.
> Have you actually seen windows get worse over the last ~9 years since vista or is this an impression that's just too hard to shake?

If Microsoft put any effort into some tooling people could use (without taking a week off work to study to learn how they work, what claims in the documentation are true vs lies, etc) discover wtf is slowing down their system and why, they might get a bit more respect from the technical community.
They're all terrible. Here's some terrible from Monero:

[wallet 432JYE]: help
...
fee Print information about fee and current transaction backlog
...
set Available options: seed language - set wallet seed language; always-confirm-transfers <1|0> - whether to confirm unsplit txes; print-ring-members <1|0> - whether to print detailed information about ring members during confirmation; store-tx-info <1|0> - whether to store outgoing tx info (destination address, payment ID, tx secret key) for future reference; default-ring-size <n> - set default ring size (default is 5); auto-refresh <1|0> - whether to automatically sync new blocks from the daemon; refresh-type <full|optimize-coinbase|no-coinbase|default> - set wallet refresh behaviour; priority [0|1|2|3|4] - default/unimportant/normal/elevated/priority fee; confirm-missing-payment-id <1|0>; ask-password <1|0>; unit <monero|millinero|micronero|nanonero|piconero> - set default monero (sub-)unit; min-outputs-count [n] - try to keep at least that many outputs of value at least min-outputs-value; min-outputs-value [n] - try to keep at least min-outputs-count outputs of at least that value; merge-destinations <1|0> - whether to merge multiple payments to the same destination address; confirm-backlog <1|0> - whether to warn if there is transaction backlog; refresh-from-block-height [n] - set height before which to ignore blocks
...
[wallet 432JYE]: fee
Current fee is 0.000222060000 monero per kB
2 block (4 minutes) backlog at priority 1
1 block (2 minutes) backlog at priority 2 (current)
1 block (2 minutes) backlog at priority 3
No backlog at priority 4
[wallet 432JYE]: set priority 3
Wallet password: ***************************************

Me and my grandma: Priority? WTF is priority? Why does "priority" set the fee? It's all so bloody terrible. Friends messaging me to buy some IOTA. Guess what? It's very complicated to buy IOTA.
It's an astoundingly well-designed game.
Hacker News: where if the post isn't about SaaS absolutely no value can be found in it.
> you just backed from

that's a different poster.

> being "cozy", etc. is not so

it absolutely is... "access" is a form of currency, sometimes an extremely valued one.

the impact of access is such that the behavior of mainstream journalists can be manipulated toward one's preference through reducing or restricting it (or threatening to do so) - provided there is sufficient value in said access, of course.