skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's notable that Brent's son first was interested enough to ask him and then stayed interested as he explained.

You can't start telling your child about maths if they're busy doing something else. All you can do is wait for a moment when their curiosity spots something and try to feed that.

Even when you catch their interest it's easy to break it if you can't explain it, so los of kudos to Brent for navigating it perfectly.
> I like to believe that nobody creates anything for sole intentions of extracting consulting bucks

Sharepoint and BizTalk spring to mind... MS Dynamics (or whatever), too.

SAP and other "configuration heavy" systems bring it to another level.

> Most of the people adopting Kubernetes probably don't need it

If they geniunely don't need it then it will bite the in the ass.

On the other side: the absolute nightmare hodge-podge of half-baked non-integrated solutions that Kubernetes has murdered, and the promises it delivers on for cloud-native and cloud-first systems, are major strategic wins with clear ROI...

MS does not profile Google tech without cause. The largest virtualization supplier does not integrate competing Google tech without cause. Amazon is an easier mark here, but: the very fact there is a common, turn-key, orchestration platform across all major cloud providers is massive, and very hard to attribute to developer advocacy.
Pity they do not do enough of the right things with their influence.

We have enough major world wide problems they could tackle. And I am not just talking about charity - that is just passing the buck at most.
> They're already trying to change "bank fraud" into "identity theft"

Interesting - has anybody been vigilantly documenting this transition and its impact for consumers?

Have a link handy?

I've certainly noticed it in the common vernacular, but I haven't yet really considered what it means for bottom lines.
Stainless will sieze in aluminium much easier than plain steel due to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_corrosion . Anti-sieze copper paste recommended if stainless is used, and it's often not a bad idea in any case.
> Nothing one person could ever do could hold a light to the amount of carbon released by industries.

By far the best thing you can do for the environment is to not procreate.
Proper teaching and especially mentoring is hard work. So if they do not work, then they are not a teacher, right?

Remember that Zen likes to confuse people with logic to achieve better understanding.

(It also attacks defining people by their occupation a few times.)
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If one is disadvantaged, wouldn’t it be easier to move to a less competitive place, far from the dog-eat-dog daily life? Be part of a more “gentle” community for lack of a better word?
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It’s also not like there’s any requirement for reporting energy figures by miners. 2.8x seems, to me, a very good estimate for something with large errors inherently.
Cool idea. YMMV with this, though. The government accidentally assigned me someone else's SSN (had the same first/last name as me and was born in the same hospital) and it took about 2 years to rectify.
This isn't the first time he's pulled this. I remember the hostile takeover attempt against Ulrich Drepper back in the early 2000s.

Bottom line: Don't make your project a GNU project if you want control of it. Benevolent dictators aren't always benevolent.

The good news is that the devs can fork Glibc, which has happened at least twice before IIRC.

I've gone into a bit of detail on my view of the cultural/generational gap here: https://lobste.rs/s/ei9fcf/who_controls_glibc#c_lfucpv - but the bottom line is that RMS' values are very different to those of the project, and he's not going to change them. GNU's values were founded in the counterculture movements of the 70s, and the social issues of those times, which are different to those commonly adopted today.

As always, the Simpsons did it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik
I've watched the original Ghostbusters, so yes.
An advantage of flathead is that it is easy to unfoul the screw head. A minute with a utility knife or a flathead screwdriver will clear the channel of dirt or paint. I would not want to deal with a torx that has several layers of paint dried into it.
And if you cannot donate money, you might be able to donate time and work if you have spare.
Coincidentally a friend at University had a dad who worked at CERN. His number one goal was to not work at CERN.
...which didn't use to be a reason for war. I recommend watching Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake. The west has more involvement in shia/sunni split and hate than it'd like to admit.
yoga - everyone I know of that at least tried it, is enthusiastic about it. Flexibility + strength + relaxation, it changed my life.
I Don't know if we're talking about the same thing but I've found the format of man pages to be absolutely useless for me. Maybe I'm too dumb/noob to understand them, but then what's left for the folk who just switched to linux and wamts to learn about commands.
> and "smart contract" systems like Ethereum seems to still not show any productive output aside from scams and severe bugs in wallets and contracts that lose millions of dollars

Ethereum is a vibrant, growing ecosystem with many many ambitious projects that have or are nearing release (maker, golem, swarm, bat, you need to do some research because the list is extensive). the above statement is really ridiculous but unfortunately the kind of throw away comment that gets voted to the top of an hn thread. what a sad place this is!
Hi HN, I was tired of getting my IP address through the terminal so I made an app to get it faster.
True.

Recently I found a lcd tv outside, turns out one chip was partially failing, now it seems stable. Then my neighbor told me it was hers, which was a bit fun and awkward; but to be honest, had they ask me to fix it I would never have touched it. It's easier when it's considered trash and nothing to lose.
I think you're conflating the value of the real estate property itself with the GDP from the "industry", which has to do with property changing hands or tenancy.

(Those charts also fail to show how much of that income is from residential transactions/management versus commercial ones.)

It just doesn't stand to reason that if people entirely stop paying other people to buy and sell each other houses (even if it does account for the vast majority of that 13% of the GDP) that the economy would collapse completely.

However, if housing values collapse due to questionable (or worse) lending practices, as happened in the US around 2008, could collapse the financial system and thereby the economy. It might even increase the GDP of the real estate category, especially as a percentage, at the expense of the finance category.

More importantly, though, I don't think there are any voters that buy the notion that they could, for example, do away with their real industry, such as mining or manufacturing, and replace it entirely with selling each other their houses. Because of that, whatever conservatism they may hold would remain from that real industry, regardless of what category the statisticians put their income in.
Sounds like the departments are fighting over the responsibility of the accident. Correct me if I am wrong.
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>Affected? f(x) = 6 has a pretty obvious effect on all input other than 6.

It wasn't "what would the result be" that eluded the child (or those students).

It was the question "in what way is this an operation on x" -- which in their minds was intuitively, put x in and add/subtract/multiply by something(s) to get another result.

fx=K, fx=0, or fx=x didn't seem as substantial enough transformations (given the other examples) to qualify with their notion of a function.
Amen, sister.

The complaints that Kubernetes is "complex" are obviously comparing it to more targeted solutions and ignoring the aggregate system that arises in its place.

If you find a tool with a better fit to the problem, then yay for you do the smart and simple thing. In practice, though, for many shops there's a major hodge-podge of almost-there solutions which require much more specialization on much less popular frameworks with much less vendor support to compete with Kubernetes.

Kubernetes did not come into a vacuum: it's disrupted some mature solution ecosystems by being much, much, better.
Texinfo and man are different.

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

> "Notably, man is not available as an output format from the standard Texinfo tools. While Texinfo is used for writing the documentation of GNU software, which typically is used in Unix-like environments such as GNU/Linux, where man pages are the traditional format for documentation, the rationale for this is that man pages have a strict conventional format, used traditionally as quick reference guides, whereas typical Texinfo applications are for tutorials as well as reference manuals. As such, no benefit is seen in expressing Texinfo content in man page format. Moreover, many GNU projects eschew man pages almost completely, referring the reader of the provided man page (which often describes itself as seldom maintained) to the Info document."

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

They can take some getting used to if you're not familiar with them, but given how much documentation is available in these formats, it's worth taking a few hours to become accustomed to them. A lot of it is duplicated online as well, so you can often use your favorite search engine.
Yes Chevys do
The world is already overly car-centered. If cars can't see and stop for people, then they've become an expansion of that problem. I live in a place where, once you're off the curb on corners where there's no light, cars are required to slow/stop for you. Many people will voluntarily do that even if you're NOT off the curb yet. It feels like a courtesy.

The scenario you're describing, OTOH, feels even more alienating than what we're already suffering. What in the hell gives you, sitting on a seat in a car, more right to travel through a space than a walking human being?
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I remember exercise sheets at school (in the UK) like this - I think called 'number machines'.

I _hated_ it; felt patronised by the illustrations of these machines, so I rebelled by trying to come up with a different correct solution - aware that there were infinitely many answers given just a few example domain/range pairs.

But if anyone's interested in them for a car journey or some time you can't play this game aloud, there ought to be examples available online aimed at teachers.
I chose to stop reading after the first example document with tasteful light gray text on delicate light gray background
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You need a better, stronger lightning cable for your car. Apple OEM cables can’t take the wear and tear in a car. As long as my lightning cable is good, so is CarPlay. You can also go the wireless route as an alternative
"It's better to be young, rich and healthy than old, sick and poor" is probably not the most novel insight worth writing down for the benefit of others.
Ask HN: Are you a serial entrepreneur? What is your experience? Any advice?
Hi, my first HN submit here :)

According to businessdictionary.com, a serial entrepreneur is:

"An entrepreneur who continuously comes up with new ideas and starts new businesses. As opposed to a typical entrepreneur, who will often come up with an idea, start the company, and then see it through and play an important role in the day to day functioning of the new company, a serial entrepreneur will often come up with the idea and get things started, but then give responsibility to someone else and move on to a new idea and a new venture. This can be a good thing if the individual has lots of unique ideas and is the best one suited to get each one started, but can be a bad thing if the individual stops putting time into a company that needs his or her help, in order to try to move forward with a new idea that may or may not succeed."

I totally identify with this definition, although I have not managed to get any of my ideas to take off (this is another story). I know I could not dedicate myself for life to work on the same idea / product because my head does not stop having new product ideas and what I enjoy the most is the definition of the product and the development of the first versions.

My ideal job would be this: to develop new ideas from scratch, turn them into viable startups and hire people or sell them so that they continue to develop on their own.

What is your experience as a serial entrepreneur?
Their claim is that it's in order to listen to the conversations where a foreign person of interest is the other party. :)

Don't get me wrong, I don't like the surveillance either, but domestic terrorism isn't their job. Sure, if they notice something, they will pass it along, but it's not what they are looking for (I believe). If there's been a proverbial ball dropped, it's probably more accurate to blame the FBI than the NSA.
OTOH (e)mail has the advantage that it lands as a written record in your inbox and you are in control of it, not kept behind a service which might disappear overnight.
Where is your privacy policy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014113

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Ah yes, point taken.
We seem to have avoided catastrophe as a species a few times cutting it real close.
And those haven't been really big incidents either.

Anyway, Musk's strategy in making space travel cheaper is a right one. Throwing more money at it directly is likely to result in inefficient solutions. It requires time and work add much as some money.

Setting up a Bezos space university would be a good start. And figuring out education without (much) bureaucracy and sinecures.

Space travel (especially long range) is interesting in that tackling it rewrites solving a whole lot of ancillary problems. Social, political, educational, biological, agricultural, physical etc.
> A Pozidriv bit does not fit in a Phillips screw[citation needed]

A Pozidriv bit fits in a philips juuuust well enough for you to not notice it's the wrong bit.
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fun page. i tune my guitar differently, but same principle. i put ON distortion, and then pluck harmonics on different strings. if they are out of tune its really obvious due to the phasing, and you can adjust it untill it sounds like a clean note. same principe but much much easier / clearer to hear if it's exactly in tune with another string.

also if you tune, always tighten last. if you release tension then it might shift a little and be in shitty tuning again. if you tighten the last then it;s less chance of this de tuning suddenly while playing.

you can tune all strings using harmonics on the 5th/7th frets, where g/b set will need 4th / 5th fret or so. al the notes you need across the strings are around those frets anyway and it;s really easy to hear if you have the right ones.
>Your comment seems confused in exactly the same way as coldtea's. How are you imagining turning input 20 into output 6 without acting on the input?

Easily:

f(x) = 20

No action on the input -- discarding the input is not an intuitive action for a 6-year old that just got a handful of of ax+k and xk + n style examples.

>Nobody ever complained that the problem with Procrustes was that he didn't do anything to the guests in his bed.*

You seem confused. Procrustes operated on his guests, which is neither the identity (they would come of unscratched) or the constant function (in which the same person or thing would emerge out of the bed).

Their height in the end was the same, but that's not the argument to the Procrustes function -- their overall body was.

>And in the other direction, I don't understand why you want to characterize "multiply the input by zero" as an action that "doesn't do anything"? In what sense would that be true?

Obviously in the intuitive sense for a 6-year old -- which is what we're discussing, and which was based on some operation on the argument that resulted in a different value each time, not degenerate versions of functions like the identity, constant, 0, etc.

(That said, it "doesn't do anything to the input" in the sense that it's not dependent on the particular input. 2x gives you 4 and 10 if you pass 2 and 5. 0x gives you 0 whatever you pass it, so could just as well be a constant fx = 0).
This is essentially my viewpoint as well. To mitigate the effects during the transition period I imagine some kind of social service in place where people can spend a lot of time learning to adapt to this new lifestyle.
That's a losing strategy. The entire next generation would be raised by those who disagreed with you.
pozidrive is pretty easy to distinguish because it's got the little star point deals. Like this:

https://www.belmetric.com/images/MSOVAL5X50SS%20Machine%20Sc...

They are becoming more common; my latest ikea thing came with some, but it's pretty visually obvious, is all I'm saying. Once you know what they are, you aren't gonna get it mixed up.

JIS vs Phillips, on the other hand, is usually way less clear cut. I mean, JIS is supposed to have the dimple, but it doesn't always, and figuring out which of your screwdrivers is the JIS is even harder. (I personally am having a hard time finding JIS screwdrivers that are... decent. most of the sets I see that are clearly marked are really low end sets from Hozan (which is a fine tool company, it's just that the JIS screwdriver sets I see that are clearly marked as such are... pretty low end compared to my wera/whia/xcelite drivers.
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You can usually "improvise" with a torx using a flat head screwdriver - it it locks in place it will turn.
You can generally get replacement centre console surrounds that add DIN or Double DIN holes to cars that didn't come with it. I've done it to a few cars for friends. Search eBay for your car make/model + "double din". It's not available for every car, but it's available for a lot.

You can also 3D print your own. There's free downloadable models of the DIN slots that you can add to a 3D scan of your cars centre console. Then depending on your car's interior trim, fibreglass it, or trim it in leather/whatever you want. Or you can just buy the DIN/Double DIN housing, dremel out where your stock headunit is embedded, and mould it in. Plenty of people on car forums do this and there's lots of guides online.

Considering the absolutely insane premium prices for sub-par entertainment systems in modern cars, I've personally found the above effort completely worth it.

I'm currently adding a RasPi and 7" touch screen with GPS for Google Maps, 1TB SSD of media, Spotify (via Wifi tether to my phone), USB ports in glovebox for USB sticks of media or charging phones, and more, to a 2012 car that came with an embedded CD/MP3 player with no nav, no screen, and no DIN slot.
We'll have one up soon. But essentially no user accounts, and no logging on our servers for this service. Requested articles are cached for a few hours then deleted.
This is why we need carbon taxes. Not all travel is equally worthwhile, but people need to make their own decisions about what to cut back on.
It turns out that $110 million per day yield $350 billion in about 8.7 years – not too far from when TARP funds were distributed (around 9.5 years ago)

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=350+billion%2F110+mill...
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I have a question for you: did you create this account just to troll around?
I can only agree, Pozidriv is so much better! I recently bought specifically both philips and pozi head screwdrivers, and Ive generally had both before but it still a hassle to always select the right one.
Me not flying to my once-a-year vacation is going to make effect 50,000 less of that, and yet that's what Nature implies I should do if I believe them. But if people that can produce 50000x effect with only minor inconvenience to them don't do it, why should I do it for the price of very major inconvenience (forgoing long awaited vacation and never seeing other countries again ever)?
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> The first job of automated driving is to drive only on flat surfaces. Doesn't matter why it's not flat. Then you worry about where to go.

The old adage applies. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. In that order.
Which would not change the carbon emissions even by a bit, but sure, if you feel better this way, why not.
I find this to be really weird... Anyone who has worked on vehicles knows the importance of getting the exact right tool to unfasten a fastener (and the... consequences of using something that "almost works" - usually meaning you have to spend hours trying to get the fastener out)

I mean, sure, you need tools to open things up... but the right bit is about a thousand times more important than an expensive bit, and for $10, you can get a huge assortment of cheap bits that are good enough for the home gamer.

This always baffled me about the apple pentalobe haters... I mean, using a different screwdriver head is not the unfriendly part of taking an apple apart. The glued-in bits are the unfriendly part.
You're basically saying his values are wrong without any explanation of how you came to such a conclusion. You're also making wild statements about how he would react to some imaginary world.

Probably not the right way to have a discussion.
Just a little feedback, there's a small problem with The Economist. It just includes "get our daily newsletter" thingy. Also cool project!
> If what the OP said cannot be believed, even for the sake of argument, then there's no discussion to be had at all.

Disagree.

1) One can read a text with an eye toward the ways in which the narrator might be misinterpreting the situation and can hold in ones' head the possibility of that misinterpretation...while also making suggestions for how to grapple with the problem that the writer presents.

2) Taking as given the way OP presents their problem, you are correct that the co-founder is not acting in the best interests of the business. However, it is an unjustified leap to say that the co-founder does not care. There are a multitude of reasons why the co-founder could simultaneously care very deeply and be acting this way:

- The co-founder is mistaken on matters of fact about the problems.

- The co-founder is making a judgement call about maintaining product focus vs responding to customer requests...and making a mis-judgement

- The co-founder lacks skill at listening to and interpreting feedback[1].

- The co-founder is overcorrecting from making an opposite error previously in life/career.

- The co-founder is missing some other very important leadership skill.

Point is, it is possible for people to fail very badly and obnoxiously at something that they care a great deal about.

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On second read, I think you might be using the phrase "does not care" in a way that isn't making sense to mean. Could you expand on what it means for someone to think they care about something but to not actually care about it?

[1] This is a skill. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-W... is a good book on it.