skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but what happens when you take a look at the bigger picture?

What is ambition really? It's almost always some arbitrary personal or social goal (have $x in bank account, make startup with $y, get title z) that rarely has any bearing on personal happiness nor making the world better for others.

My happiest memories are waking up next to someone I love, or a barbecue with friends, or an outstanding meditation, or a really honest conversation with a family member. The cult of productivity seems like, ironically, a waste of my time on earth.
The dilemma is that heavy regulation tends to lend itself to monopolies and more government control which even the article admits hampers dynamism. The consequences of not following regulatory practice can be burdensome to new ideas, newcomers, and most importantly -- speed. Corporations know that federal regulations can be a tool to make it harder on its competitors. So I still think its better to err on the side of less regulation.
> But lots of times you want to look at the file view, find the line of code that looks like the problem, and then zoom out to the changeset. BK makes that trivial, Git makes that miserable to impossible.

This criticism doesn't ring true for me. What are you saying is missing in the Git experience?

In Git, I would use `git blame` to determine which commit contributed the problematic line in question. It displays the file along with the commit that most recently modified each line. At that point, I know which commit last changed the line (and the commit is the changeset). Aren't we done?

If I need more history, I can use `git log` on the filename to see what commits have changed that file over time, and I can inspect how each commit individually changed the file if needed. There are editor-integrated tools to walk back through this history easily.
This is all speculation and I have no idea of the actual roadmap for the specs. As I was reading this comment it gave me another reason to love component based architecture... I would think it would make sense just to allow users to self define stuff like that rather than try to do everything top down.

https://www.w3.org/standards/techs/components#w3c_all
I am not talking about auction thing here, just their regular dedicated servers offerings. They are bare metal and it is up to you to set it up, but savings are in the 5x - 10x range if you can avoid waste by underutilizing hardware (i.e. cases where you have to scale daily 1 to 100 instances might not be financially advantageous)
Those are basically unenforceable. You file a lawsuit, big co asks to squash to arbitration, judge says wtf no, this is potentially a class act.. continue.
the fact that you use the word "checkins" strongly implies that this has never happened to you.
> $800 isn't much to many of us on here but it is for a lot of people that want to be entrepreneurs in different fields from different backgrounds.

And, so, they start businesses as sole proprietorships, or general or limited partnerships, and reorganize as LLCs or corporations once they've proven the idea. They are exposed to more (and the public exposed to less) risk of unmet business liability, but they can still run a business.

We always see entrpreneurs praised for taking risk, why are we hearing so much complaint that California charges for the privilege of offloading risk on to the public?
I guess then in a way it speaks to how commercially "successful" youtubers have become for it to adopt "best practices" that are efficient and save money -> although it can be called clickbait, most artisan things tend to become more standardized and costs fall, etc. if they are commercially successful and expansive.
Unfortunately OS and Browsers never made the installation of SSL certs user-friendly. Also the requirement for a private key to be accessible by the PC we'd be using doesn't really help, generating OTP/keys on a separate device seems to be the way to go.
Software Used to Make “Life-Altering” Decisions Is No Better Than Random
When was the last time the military defended anyone in this country from an external threat? WWII?
edit

I’m saying that deterrence and defense are different words with different meanings, and you used the word, “defend” somput down the goal posts.
Interestingly, there's some suggestion that fasting does increase your intelligence, at least for a while (at least, as always, in mice): https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1C.t-1....
Nope.. not if they passed the bar or are otherwise a paralegal.
One of the things I've done to harden an app is to revoke all permissions other than EXEC on a particular schema, then make sure everything is done via paramatised stored procedures - no chance of SQL injection then.
If one forms an LLC as a holding entity for child C-Corporations, would that allow the C-Corps' access to financing or would investors see the parent LLC and be turned off?
Could you expand on that?

I really don't understand.
That's not necessary to realize that these senators do not.

Also yes, based on their questions and age, I do think most people have a better understanding. Just the expressions of the other audience members and staff in the room shows the frustration.
What if you need boxes closer to where your customers are? Latency is a big deal, especially in Australia / New Zealand.
For who? Also I'm asking about effectiveness, not necessarily the amount.

If they are not useful unless they are at a certain amount, then what would that be and why aren't they at that level already? And wouldn't that just mean that anything below that level actually is useless if it doesn't meet the minimum needed to do anything?
"In this post I'm going to show why bitcoin is yet worse than money by using mathematical theorems from papers of the field of economics."

Lost me right there.
Red Hat Confirms RHEL 8 Will Drop Python 2
> foreign actors

First it's Russia and now it's Cambridge Analytica. Unless you can trace CA's business activities to foreign hires or somehow devaluing the influence of the former for the latter, even though the Russian angle was what was being pushed around for a good while as The Reason Trump became so favoured (rather than actual failures of the Democratic party!), methinks it's just the alphabet agencies and co. looking for excuses.
$800 to obtain the privilege of operating in one of the world’s largest economies seems like a bargain to me. Were I one of those small businesses I would find some way to get that funding. A loan, a credit card, something. There are plenty of reasons people want to be in CA to do business, and that’s not that big of an expense for the value of operating there, in my opinion.

And by the way I’m not in agreement with most taxes; I am almost a Libertarian. I’m also not a Californian. I’m just saying, I think it’s not that big a deal in the grand scheme.
There's room for lots of ideas of this kind, and this reminded me of the fabulous EduBlock project https://edublocks.org by an amazing young chap Josh
libvpx, the VP9 encoder library used in this test, has no support for any hardware encoder blocks for VP9 [1], so it does everything in software. There are ways [2] to compile some support into ffmpeg-with-libvpx that makes it able to invoke the hardware encoder in newer Intel CPUs (Skylake or newer) [3][4] (using vp9_vaapi) but it's doubtful that this was used, since their command-line switches indicate nothing of the sort.

x264 is a software-only encoder that provides no hooks into hardware acceleration. Their ffmpeg command line indicates that no hardware acceleration hooks of ffmpeg were used.

[1] https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/blob/master/CHANGELOG [2] https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/24de2edef08866c3040805048... [3] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libva/commit/?id=fb57f5c15e72c3... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9#Hardware_implementations
>The only markets where you can short bitcoin are sketchy overseas exchanges

probably because no reputable country's SEC equivalent would let that happen

>low volumes

bitfinex is one of the largest exchanges by volume

>a history of problems both depositing and withdrawing money.

if this is happening, it's not happening with any of the major exchanges that support margin trading. any time depositing/withdraw issues appear on an exchange, prices quickly deviate from the rest of the market as the supply of fiat/crypto diminishes.
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I think it's actually two days. That's what they said on the CSPAN radio stream, anyway.
Lápiz sin batería que no tiene necesidad de recargarse cuya sensibilidad de presión es de nivel 2048, no hay corriente eléctrica proveniente del lápiz que interfiera con la señal
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Esta tableta de tamaño popular cuenta con un diseño de sólo 6 mm(la parte más delgada), proporciona un espacio de trabajo amplio.
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Define do business.

If an LLC, say software services, incorporated in DE provides some consulting to a firm in California, that counts?
Not when the buyer and seller are one and the same person.

There's extensive evidence to suggest wash trading, as it's known, is endemic in the crypto space.
There is also the culture of "making it to management". For some people being general staff is not prestigious enough, so some people pursue a managerial path and leave their programming skills behind.
Care to share a botched merge story of yours? I try to learn from others mistakes.
I'm not sure what you find disquieting about the idea. "More frequently used operators should be less verbose" seems reasonable to me. What I find a bit strange about Go is that if they have that mindset then it's still a fairly verbose language, syntactically -- at least compared to some other modern languages. It seems to hang on to the familiarity of C syntax with a few optimisations. Which, of course, is not necessarily a bad thing at all. It's just not doing everything it can to reduce verbosity.
Craig Wright accused of plagiarism
How long do expressed and implied warranties last though?
I have a third problem -- often times, the list of questions they ask are non-sense to me. "What is your favorite food?" I don't have a favorite, and can't think of anything that I'd remember later. "What was the name of your first pet?" I never had a pet. "What was the name of your high school sweetheart?" Gee, thanks a lot for stirring up bad memories.
Completely agree. Like real world personal KPIs drain the fun and dynamic nature of a team trying to solve problems together.

I recently started playing Sea of thieves and it is a breath of fresh air. There are no gameplay changing items, and no real purpose to grinding, meaning the journey and execution of your goals are the focus. Sure you are getting sweet loot, but when it boils down to it there is actually no real purpose for getting more gold in the game.

It really shifts the focus and also means there is no "perfect play" or wholy correct way to play the game.
> Tech minded people will always find a way to decide in favor of technology.

I’m pretty tech minded, and I fucking abhor Facebook and Google for the way they behave as a matter of business.

Don’t assume that because you might feel inclined to give tech a pass because it’s tech, that others would too.
But the reality is that is exactly what is happening when you delete a file. It sets a flag as deleted in the file system.

Sure, but no-one is testifying before a senior government committee that such files were "deleted" in a context where deletion is clearly understood to mean making permanently irretrievable. If the committee called any IT expert to give evidence and asked if data had really been deleted under those conditions, surely no-one who understood the technicalities would say yes.

Computers have worked this way since forever.

A lot of things have been done "since forever" in the computer age. The fact that some of those things might not be good ideas and public awareness has finally reached the point where something might actually be done about it is rather the point here.
The survey was a decoy. By taking the survey, you got a screen that asked if you wanted to allow the survey to have access to your profile. If you said yes, it got all of your data from your facebook account, including all of the data on your friends that your account has access to. The survey itself was basically a trojan horse and irrelevant.
shhhhhhhhhhhh, people are raving!
Unfortunately the Supreme Court disagrees with you

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/supreme-court-backs-...
But if the LLC can't afford it, no one will come after the owner's assets, right?

That is the basic idea of using an entity like an LLC in the first place.
Do you have any recommendations for resources to learn best database practices? I'm currently designing my first database and I'm not sure what information is worth storing (like calculations) and how to choose which data to group in tables.
Nah.. expert witnesses will show it was a failure elsewhere. Also the aftermarket exhaust will have design specs within tolerances of the OEM. You can run an engine with no exhaust just fine. It will be expensive to litigate that though, maybe more than the cost of the engine repair itself. They should probably include the aftermarket exhaust manufacturer in the suit as well. They have a vested interest in Audi not winning. After market parts have a long history of litigation especially with insurance company repairs. If they are effectively within spec your friend should be fine.
I respect the point that Steve is making. I also respect the fact that he was honest in answering his wife. If he had valued other things more than his job, I wonder whether we would know his name or read his posts.
No, I can't say that I've ever lost work in that manner in over a decade of using git. The first few times I made a mess of things while trying to do a nontrivial merge it admittedly took a while to figure out how to get back to my starting point, but I guessed (correctly) that it'd be worth spending that time to learn how to do it rather than giving up and throwing away work.
PlanGrid (YC W12) Is Hiring Front End and Back End Engineers
Language independence comes with a trade off though.

You either have to repeat yourself by implementing your data models and validation routines in all the languages your service consumers might use, or instrument some language agnostic way to specify your data models and possibly generate code for them and their validation routines/client libraries, for a myriad of languages.

At that point, your basically reinventing something akin to sql and/or database schemas and constraints without ACID guarantees. You can deploy something like apache thrift or google's protocol buffers, and maybe throw in some swagger.io (which are all great things). But they are yet more layers, that for many levels of scale, increases complexity, rather than reduce it.

Or you can just trust all the services to never have bugs or breaking changes for consumer applications...
I'd love the option to at least use Touch ID. Facebook is a huge example. I have a long complicated password, and when I switch Messenger accounts, it likes to ask for it. Why can't I just use my thumbprint and Touch ID? Same with Barclays. The app wants my password 2/3 of the time, even though I have it set to use Touch ID.

I'd at least like the option to use Touch ID/Face ID only.
I worked through one of his lecture series, I think it was this one but it was a while ago so I'm not 100% sure looking at the link. The focus was on algorithms which is why the "components" in the title is throwing me off a bit.

The series I watched was excellent though! Highly recommended, it's a lot of the same material as his book Elements of Programming but I found it more accessible in the lecture format.
1. I actually ran it, and ironically, `git log --oneline --reverse` runs faster than `fossil descendants` on the sqlite repository for new commits, and just as fast on old commits. perhaps fossil would do better on a large repository, but I doubt it. git has many flaws, but "insufficent optimization (compared to alternatives)" is not one of them.
When I left a stable job with good pay and excellent benefits for self employment, I underestimated the costs of buying benefits on par with my old job.

Also keep in mind your family may be used to a certain standard of living and paring that back can be a challenge. We were frugal work a high savings rate. I underestimated the mental stress in down months when more money was going out then coming in.

With that much coming in, you could start it on the side, easily pay someone or a few people to do some of the work.

But it really depends on you, your mental state, etc.
another provider of well-priced dedicated hardware is OVH - https://www.ovh.com.au/dedicated-servers/all_servers.xml

You can see there 64Gb boxes with NVMe drives startin around $160 USD per month. Not as much savings as with Hetzner, but still beats 1:1 price of AWS.
> i'm still waiting for a 100% compatible pypy implementation.

Then please donate!

https://pypy.org/py3donate.html

Building something compatible with modern Python (especially as new features and syntax seem to be piling up every month) is hard work.

> Anyone know where unladen swallow ended up?

Google killed it. Turns out it wasn't worth the effort.

Dropbox came to the same conclusion when they abandoned Pyston.
An argument between ‘basic’ and ‘fundamental’ is a semantic one, and bordering on pointless.

QED works quite well in most cases, but only if you don’t look too closely, and only if you ignore one of the fundamental forces. QED offers no explaination for gravity, which even non-physicists know exists.

What is gravity? What is a particle? What is space? These are all quite basic questions that were not even close to having complete answers for. QED provides a “good enough” explaination for how particles and space work, just as relativity gives a “good enough” explaination of gravity. But any physicist who’s being intellectually honest knows that we only have a rudimentary understanding of these concepts. The wave function is just an excellent tool we use to smooth out our lack of understanding. Your comment is a perfect example of the arrogance that pervades the scientific community, and the inability to acknowledge the limits of our own understanding. Which I think only inhibits the wider community’s ability to communicate effectively with the general public.
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Now that's a class action lawsuit. Find an attorney and collect.
Agreed.

I use them a lot and love how it makes some advanced stuff much easier (committing hunks, interactive rebases). They're also cross platform, which is great.

Still, it's incredible how crappier it gets over time. It feels like every year there's some kind of new major refactor or UI framework refresh that just destroys whatever little stability the application had, as if a new lead comes in and decides to start everything from scratch.

As an engineer I kinda understand the reasoning (using a nuclear bomb to get rid of tech debt), but it's pretty baffling from a product lifecycle standpoint.

I wish they had a more stable model and were charging for registration really. I'd gladly pay them $50 or whatever for some modicum of stability.
To them, yes, but not to the prostitutes they use.
Original face artwork that may have started this trend could be that orange backdrop, 40 year old virgin poster
Yeah it's a big deal and being litigated.
Visual Basic, notably, made 'Let' optional, but made 'Set' mandatory when assigning object references.
This post made me want to re-read "You Are Not a Gadget." One of Lanier's points in that book is that technology can both augment expression and bound it. The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up, whereas a simple textbox would let you note whatever you want about the content (text is also harder to monetize and analyze and control).

I personally have been noticing more and more how technology and algorithms seem to bounding expression online and off, particularly around content creation, but also with influencers and personal branding and so on. It feels like 90% of the shit being pumped out is super amplified to draw notice or for signaling, and while this is not a new phenomenon of course, it still feels weird to see ordinary people at restaurants taking pictures of their food, or sucking up to some corporation online for the chance to win a prize

I feel this pressure too. The pressure to get noticed. To tailor content to what will rack of the most views. To post that tweet that will make me look like a smart, funny guy who has something valuable to say and oh by the way you should totally follow me. And I hate it. And I try not to care about numbers. But it still feels really shitty when something you spent a month working on and genuinely find really cool gets a total of ten views while a picture of a goat in a sweater just when viral. And what if the audience is right?

There has to be something better. I hope that we can grow beyond changing ourselves to fit the algorithm, and re-focus on using technology to create new ways of sharing and expressing and relating to each other. One fun example of this that Lanier gave: creating technology that would let people communicate like cuttlefish (specifically the shifting skin colors and textures). That optimistic vision still feels as radical and fresh today as it did when I first read the book in 2010. I just hope it's not too late
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SSN isn't even a 'secret' number. Military folk have it on their ID tags and you're supposed to give it up if you're a POW. If you're supposed to give it to your enemies, then how is it private info?
I ended up getting a different Corp job. Wasn't worth the stress. However, I may try something else.

If nothing else, I leaned about the things I don't like to do and why.
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> everyone understands a different part of git and has slightly different ideas of how things should be done

This was a big problem that bugged me too, so for every team I've worked with I've created a few scripts for the team's most common version control operations.

Most devs, including me, are pretty lazy so they'd all rather run this script than go to Stack Overflow to figure out git arcania.

This helps standardize conventions too: Feature branches/linear DAGs/topic branches/dev branches/prod branches/whatever weird thing a team does they all just do that using the script so it's standardized.
Basic = simple

Fundamental = bedrock

QED works to the best ability of any test, down to one part in ten billion, so looking very close indeed. Then in order...

What is gravity? The geometry of spacetime.

What is a particle? A localized excitation of a field.

It may be that you don’t like or understand the answers, but they exist and allow people to make precise predictions, build machines that work based on said principles. Maybe you’re confusing scientific answers with philosophical ones?
At what point do you test these "cleanly separable" and "bisectable" patches? Do you do a second pass where you check out and build/test each of these commits?
> so their foreign workforce would not reflect the political views of SV nor the US.

However, at a minimum, the Facebook employees setting the polices those foreign workers follow will be in both the US and SV, so you can't assume their actions will be aloof from American politics.