skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does GitHub need to be acquired at all?

Do the costs of running the servers and hosting the free services not cover the revenue from Enterprise users?

I believe that any Enterprise users won't notice even a doubling of the subscription fee, if GitHub really needs it.

I don't know why there needs to be more than a handful of employees working at github, just don't break what's already there!
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Yes, thank you for saying that. The problem runs deeper than you may realize. Even very well meaning people would walk up to me and ask me "Are you homeless? What's your name?" They didn't volunteer their name, address or socioeconomic status when asking such questions.

They were trying to ascertain if I would need help. A much better question format that isn't so problematic would be along the lines of "I have X (clothes, blankets, whatever). Would you like to have that?" If someone isn't actually homeless but would be happy to have a free blanket, what do you care? Maybe that blanket will help prevent them from becoming homeless.
5 years is when maintenance and repairs start happening more regularly. Because these are labor intensive, if one lives in an area where labor is expensive, or if the opportunity cost of one's own labor/time is expensive, does this still make sense?

Also, there are some really modern features like rear-view cameras, sonar, etc., which are pretty cheap in newer cars but almost impossible to find in older ones
See also : atdn.net ; tfbnw.net ; cloudfront.net

In today's world of CDNs and IP anycast, I'm not sure how accurate it is to talk about these IPs corresponding to "a server". Obviously packets go to some NIC somewhere, but probably not the same one for each of us and likely not the same hour-to-hour.

Seems that Facebook, Yahoo/AOL don't seem to go along with the convention that endpoint IPs reverse resolve to a different domain -- elsewhere in this thread mentioned as a cookie-payload-leak countermeasure. Google and Amazon do.
As long as we're reporting issues, the language chooser at the bottom right is white text on a white background when I actually click it. Whichever one I put my mouse over becomes white on blue, and I can read it. This is while using Chrome on Linux.
California is a large state, the problems you're referring to are pretty local to relatively few specific city centers. I think it's at least a little disingenuous to claim the "terrible housing situation" is state-wide, it isn't.
Have they finally gotten rid of the persistent coil whine that plagued at least 4 generations of XPS laptops? Because that is number 1 reason why I would never recommend an XPS to anyone, if Dell can't get such a basic thing right.
It's probably because (it looks like) the initial target market is India and India uses UK spellings.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Windows 10's forced updates and telemetry say otherwise.
Same here, but for each one of us there was another who probably said 'screw it' and just put their stuff on github anyway.
Maybe they just want something to buy with the $100B+ cash they are sitting on?
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The point of naming convention isnt to be painfully pedantically correct, like this comment. It's to provide a useful guidepost to humans, who know LAX but don't know about SMO.

Why didn't you mention ICAO codes, they'd be more universally correct anyways, right? KSMO, KLAX?
Well, about 8M websites are already behind Cloudflare... if you add the top 50 hosting providers, that's probably 95% of the internet. Traffic is already relatively centralized.
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I'd like to know more about that. How was having the states appoint senators a fount of corruption?
No, the house is supposed to represent the population and the senate is supposed to represent the state. Each member of the house should represent the same number of people, the senate should not. That's not the case though. CA/TX/WA/NY reps represent more people than less populous states.
My apartment doesn't provide me free gas for my car either. They don't even have a gas pump on-site! I asked them about it and they said "uh sure, if you want to pay for it". Absolutely ridiculous. Unbelievable.
> leverage Github to promote other (licensed) MS software.

This is pretty much business 101. You have loss leaders, that are solely designed to drive traffic to different products.
Oh yes... i especially love it when my co-worker locks 10 000 files and goes on 2 week vacation... can't merge for days

I also love it how it detects changes on unchanged files ( they look at last modified timestamp) and you can't undo the unchanged unless you install TFPT and google for a bit for the command.

I also love it how when doing merges sometimes you have 10 000 conflicts even tho the files are unchanged :)

TFVC is bad and it should die... I'm glad they took up on git... now all i have to do is train my team on how to use git :)
It is really good, but there should always be alternatives. Right now I use iTerm, but both Terminal.app and Alacritty are viable alternatives I want to see improve.
Unfortunately the general rule with word etymology is the most sensible answer is usually wrong.
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They miss out on the social status a dislike can give. To be against something is easier for many then to be for something.
Except Tesla doesn't have the sensors and hasn't demonstrated the chops.

How many fatal accidents involving Waymo vehicles are there? Sales aren't even remotely associated. I support it based on "autopilot" versus true self driving systems. Which is safer?

"Fake analysis" won't matter when the NTSB bans all self driving systems because a few companies keep screwing it up. My hope is that they only target the egregious offenders - Tesla and perhaps Uber.
Google owns IPs that aren't used by Google services (e.g. all the customer IPs on GCE), it's useful to distinguish "Google" vs "hosted by Google".
Its a very good book. Today, one might question a company investing so much money into pure research but Bell Labs produced 8 Nobel Laureates, tens of thousands of patents, who knows how many papers, PhDs, not to mention inventions that directly benefited Bell's primary business in telephones. Some of those papers, Claude Shannon's, for instance, on information theory, are responsible for the creation of entire industries.
Feds seize 64-year-old man's life savings, without bringing any crime charges
>Not surprisingly the quasi-communists and Ayn Randians couldn't agree on anything and that attempt failed, but it goes to show how strange proportional representation can get.

That's a bit of a misinterpretation. One of the leading figures in the FDP party broke up the jamaica band when everyone was about to get together and form the coalition. (Naturally his party was pissed about this but because he won an election for them they just rolled over and went with that).

While the german government can sort of deadlock it's not a situation like in the US where everything shuts down. The government continues to function, although with minimized power, until the new parliament is formed. They can't put out any major new laws but they're not completely dead-in-the-water.

>Germany is ruled by a coalition of two parties that both lost votes in the last election, and whose leaders hate each other.

It's more complicated than that. The SPD-CDU/CSU coalition (which is three party not two depending on how you look at it) is getting a reputation with the voters, under this coalition Merkel has been chancellor for a long time now. They two sides (other than CDU/SPD resenting the CSU for sitting in the backseat of federal politics and screaming incoherent right-wing garbage (I'm bavarian, I know what I'm talking about here)) don't hate eachother but to my knowledge it's a mutual understanding that they cannot continue this coalition any further.

>because proportional representation results in lots of parties getting into power with none having a majority.

Note that Germany has a 5% clause for this; you need 5% of the votes to get into parliament, otherwise you have no say.

This is mainly a result of the previous government turning into the third reich after several parties deadlocked the parliament for real.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:5
Is there a truly decentralized peer to peer alternative to github or gitlab? And please no lectures about how git is inherently decentralized. Obviously there is something missing that causes us to rely on github etc.
Many of your criticisms may be justified, but this one reads a bit silly to me:

> monopoly on the media player and the web browser on the most used OS in the world

I know it's a trope to say that IE was a monopoly, but the longest view of these stats I can easily find comes from W3Counter[1] and at what appears to be its market peak in 2007, IE6 and IE7 had 50% and 17% of the market.

OK, so the combined share was downtrending since the actual peak in 2004, according to ADTECH data from Europe[2]...

Huh. There are stats that go way further back, to before IE was dominant, and Wikipedia says it actually peaked in 2002, with 96% of the market.[3] I stand corrected?

I started my reply to make a point, and upon doing the basic research found that it appears I don't know what I'm talking about. These stats are really interesting, though!

FWIW, I have not been primarily a Windows user since I was about 14 years old. That was in 1999, when Netscape was still a player in the market, and I began my switch to Linux. I guess I forgot (or blacked out, it was traumatic) the fact that there was a point in time in the Browser Wars when IE was effectively declared the winner. It's been a steady downhill trend since then!

[1]: https://www.w3counter.com/trends

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#AD...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Re...
do we know that it was IBM's mainframes that went down, or some VISA software update, or something else?
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First thing to know is that the system was _designed_ 200 years ago to have many of the "bugs" that we notice today. That is : this isn't so much a case of a system that was fine 200 years ago not suiting the modern world but rather a system designed deliberately to have deficiencies; for the benefit of a subset of people, from the beginning. Knowing this should make it more clear why the bugs haven't been fixed yet.
COPPA is frightening to web operators, at least in the abstract. The majority of web services online at least make a cursory effort to either ban users under the age of 13 from accessing the site or force them to give parental consent. Technically speaking, if you're under 13 you're not really supposed to be on sites like Twitter.

The equivalent reaction for GDPR would be if everyone either started making half-hearted efforts to block European users (which isn't what EU wants), or if everyone forced all of their users to agree to the same data collection before they signed up (which as far as I can tell is not legal).

From the law:

> However, an operator of a general audience site or service that chooses to screen its users for age in a neutral fashion may rely on the age information its users enter, even if that age information is not accurate.

This line is basically the entire reason why COPPA is generally not seen as a problem for US businesses.
According to: http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hpms/hpmslibrary/prd/prd2010.p...

California has 172,138 miles of maintained roads, 63,856 if we don't include "Local" roads.

There are certainly many stretches of road in the state that could use charging stations in order to be accessible by EV.
Here's the report from the FERC:
https://www.ferc.gov/market-oversight/reports-analyses/mkt-v...

relevant parts:
“In Southern California, lower-than-average hydro generation may create challenges as natural
gas-fired generation, the replacement for hydro production shortfalls in past years, may be
limited due to reduced gas storage capacity and local pipeline outages in the region."

"Limited operations at Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, plus state rule changes reducing
the rate at which natural gas may be injected and withdrawn from storage, may complicate
pipeline operations."

the sky isn't falling.

(the Daily Caller is a right-wing rag - Ann Coulter is a columnist, for chrissakes)
The "distributed all over the world" part would still be just as much of an issue; the speed of light puts a substantial lower bound on the total latency.
This would cement an alternate reality, where the growing of the QA team would become more difficult. Trust me, I am talking from experience of recruiting and onboarding hundreds of volunteers into FOSS teams (with varying levels of success and involvement). Recruiting volunteers to FOSS is insanely difficult and any addition of complexity will just result in more headaches.
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Thus far we've only seen ARM chips that can compete with the low end of Intel's offerings. An ARM processor in the 12" Macbook makes sense. I don't see Apple switching the MacBook Pro line to ARM in the next five years, though.
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14 pedestrians were killed in SF traffic accidents last year, all by cars. 0 by bikes

How many bike riders got themselves killed in intersections?

Bikers should indeed be very observant when approaching crosswalks and intersections. And they usually are, because if nothing else, their lives depend on it.

And yet, I keep on running into situations where I think to myself, "How in the hell do you think you can survive while doing that!?" Here's the thing. The level of lack-of-foresight that makes someone a cringey inconsiderate nuisance in a car is about the same lack-of-foresight that makes someone a likely organ donor on a bike.

Tongue in cheek tinfoil hat stuff: Maybe the bike trend is just a machination of aging oligarchs who want to ensure transplant organ supplies? Biking is popular in exactly the places where the population is healthier (better donors) and left leaning (more likely to donate.)
That's not how statistics works. "At my first job I wasn't supposed to be there for an interview but went along..." doesn't mean if you passed on this and got the next job you would be any worse or better off. Luck literally means random chance, which would mean that if you didn't take this job it would have changed your outcome vs. all the other possible outcomes if you passed on it.
Took 7 years until there was "Gmail" in Germany, might be harder for google in NZ though if there's a company and not just an individual who holds the trademark.
That's not a major problem long-term IMO. Solar power can be stored at home or at grid-level, charging can be scheduled to coincide with daylight hours before/after work, EV batteries are getting bigger every year so they need to be charged less often (which means more flexibility with what time they're charged), overnight also coincides with low-consumption hours for the grid which has its own benefits, V2G and V2V even allow parked electric cars to potentially become solar storage batteries for a smart grid and other neat things in the more distant future.
I don't know what this means. I have an EV also and the biggest barrier to EV adoption is charging infrastructure. I have a charger at home, but realize that many more people live in apartments and condos that require that infrastructure. Further, there are days when I forget to charge, and would really benefit from a quick 40-50 mile charging at a public location. Charging infrastructure is definitely a necessity.
Which begs the question, do they have a canary page?

In any case, it would be unreasonable to require logging for more than that... even a week would be too much data for many ISPs. Also, they have to have some logging to be able to even try and troubleshoot a problem.
Looks like a Google India initiative, which would explain the spelling.
Its certainly not hard to calculate but a if this index then this vertex coordinates, and so on, seems significantly simpler than having to calculate anything at all? It sure what be more verbose though.
I take it from your GitHub profile that you're an experienced C++ programmer, in which case you're probably correct.

Personally, I still find C++ to be effectively a black box, meaning that if I want to understand it or make changes, I'm at the mercy of the maintainers or willing colleagues.
A large set of such references are to be expected, of course. When a civilized people undertake killing on a large scale, you don't want others to think you act without justification. So you write serious administrative documents claiming your government actions to be justified and your military claims to minimize collateral damage.

But are such claims really true? Does the part of the military chain of command that actually does the killing take those claims to heart, as much as pentagon spokesmen do? Do the superiors of lieutenants and privates hold them to that standard, even when the laws of conduct become unenforceable by collateral victims, as in drone strikes?

In several US wars, such claim were not taken to heart. Vietnam became infamous in US history as lacking a sound casus belli, just as the 2003 Iraq War has. In messy wars like these, one of the principal casualties is often the enforcement of the rules of war, especially when it comes to laws of conduct that are still in the course of being written, such as the proper use of drones or AI.

This lack of enforcement becomes especially fraught when novel weaponry and its use is governed not by the military under its code of conduct, but by the CIA (who now runs most drone snipery), which AFAIK lacks an equivalent martial code of conduct.
The recent articles on the "incel" movement made me wonder whether pressures to encourage monogamy were the cause of modern civilization, by allowing a greater variety of male genotypes to reproduce.
Thanks.

This sounds very similar to the channels (Chan [1]) in Haskell, which I really loved playing around with.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.11.1.0/docs/Contro...