skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment reads like a criticism, but I don't see what anyone did wrong.

It's true that to have a thing, you either have to pay for it or pray for it, or make it onesself.

But before any of that, comes discussion if what would even be a good idea or not. Why does it bother you so much that people talk about what they would like?

Some developers actually want users to discuss what they would like, in order to know what to take a chance on building.

Also, it's a perfectly "rational reason" to build something to provide to the world, when you realize just how much you benefit from the world of things other people have built and given away already.

In fact, what is not very rational, is advertising that you don't consider it rational to contribute to community efforts.
I use vintage camera lenses a lot and hate collectors. They drive prices up so they can keep their perfect lenses in a room somewhere like this guy and his “do not upload” folder. To me it’s perverse. Thoses games could be being enjoyed by people but this guy has to squirrel them away.

I understand that it's their right to do whatever they want to with their "treasures" but the point of a lens is to take photos, the point of a game is to be played, the point of music is to be listened to.
Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
I dislike when questions are worded like that, because it could be interpreted in two ways:

a) Given an arbitrary case, is there a chance that modifying commits is considered a poor practise in that case?

b) Is the belief that modifying commits is poor practise held by the population at large?

The answer to a) is yes, the answer to b) is no.

Some people prefer a clean history, where you have to explicitly request the steps to get to it if you want them. Others want the messy steps to be part of the history you show up-front.
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To leverage the thousands of hours that went into it.
Even Stallman doesn't have anything against paying for software. Seth's point 1 is reasonable. Point 2 is about paying for support, not paying for the software itself. Point 3 is no point at all, it's just rephrasing point 1 (ie marketing is about the business, not the software).
> but this does not preclude imagining a p-zombie, any more than a knowledge of anatomy and aerodynamics precludes imagining a dragon.

It kind of does. The argument goes: if you can imagine a p-zombie, then in your mind it's possible that consciousness is not tied to physical qualities. Therefore, physicalism would necessarily be false.

It took me awhile to accept this, but the solution is simple: p-zombies can't exist because I can't imagine them. And this is because consciousness must serve a functional purpose, and so p-zombies would be distinguishable from humans.
Google stopped caring about search a long time ago. Nobody at Google gets promotions for 'keeping search good', only for adding unwanted features. So more and more unwanted features keep coming from all directions, and Google's core products keep getting worse and worse.

A similar thing happened to Microsoft back around the time of Windows Vista (and similarly poor mismanagement by management at the time), so we already know where this train is going.
In places with decent public transport, why not? In many countries, it’s free for people over whatever age to use public transport, and it’s obviously more practical for many elderly people than driving.
This can seem plausible until you ask yourself how we can be talking about consciousness and experience if these things don't influence our behaviour.
And run for it on foot
Why Quantum Computing Should Be on Your Radar Now – InformationWeek
I did it any highly recommend. Still 1 in 5 requests need to go through "!g" but the benefit of not seeing AMP is worth it!
This is probably one of the more complicated freeway cases--which otherwise are likely mostly easier environments than urban ones. It's not rare to have debris of various types in and around the roadway. The right action from braking to swerving/steering (or some combination thereof) depends on a whole lot of factors.
Possibly not showering is just more socially acceptable in the US or something? I dunno, I see this a lot on these discussions, but it’d be fairly rare that I encounter a notably smelly person on public transport here.

Being on a bus/tram/train with strangers never really bothered me, to be honest. When I walk down the street or onto a shop, I’m also surrounded by strangers; what’s the issue?
I'm not certain we can be sure that's where we draw the line for consciousness, actually, but to each his own.
As someone who was thankfully able to finish high school (though, being from rural Ontario, every school I attended in my home town was closed shortly after I attended), but wasn’t able to finish my degree in English, Linguistics and other mixed studies due to financial woes—

You’ve said it.

I won’t go into details now, but there is something to be said for sincere passion and interest in what you do. I’ve worked with a not insignificant number of CS and digital photography students who by default think they’re above practical work and (insert more snobby stuff here). I’ve been responsible for reminding people why they started those degree programs in the first place. Not due to ranting like this, but due to [foolish] added work I put on myself that came out of sheer interest that has bloomed into something really worthwhile— sometimes unbeknownst to them at the outset. Don’t get me started on the application of science and the scientific method and [oh god, the] politics.

There’s a lot of rambling I could do on this subject, and it’s too early on a Sunday to formulate my thoughts correctly. I do like the subject and I enjoy hearing from a variety of positions on it. I at the very least wish it was easier for kids to acquire higher education outside of the bindings of finances and legalism that have long been lord of institutions that claim that kind of authority.
why don't they'd partner with Waymo? They can build the cars and collect the data, while Waymo can provide the ML expertise. I'm sure Tesla+Waymo would be a hit among a certain type of crowd.
So provide an exemption for primary residences. There is a similar concern with stock sales causing tax payment, but in that case it's an incentive for longer term investment. You goose quote is really awesome.

On a related note, I think we need to stop providing incentives for housing prices to go up. Municipalities could put caps on the percentage of value they'll enforce a lean on. This would reduce housing costs to the benefit of people at the bottom.
That was more interesting than I expected! Good to test basic assumptions otherwise taken for granted
Right, mentioning Keynote and services like Dropbox (as done in the article) in the same way isn't quite right. Yes the marginal cost for another user on Keynote is zero but certainly not Dropbox or any other software as a service. If 2 people use Dropbox is may cost almost nothing but if thousands use it you either need a business model because costs could be significant or (like some of the big players) have another business group that subsidizes the running cost.
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> I was willing to get the job done, no matter what, is what made the difference.

Even if it means building something unmaintainable and generally against your principles of good engineering? Many people will do that, but I hope there are some out there who would value a reluctance to work like that.
30% on a single core and I have many cores. Kind of too much for a page, but nothing to worry about.
In a dense city with a lot of traffic, public transport will often be faster than cars because it has segregated (for trains, metros etc) or semi-segragated (most trams, many bus systems) routes.
Already made the switch. I can say this, you need to be persistent and ignore the urge to go back to google while are using DDG.
For polishing and drilling marble, for example. Not for polishing diamonds. The diamonds are different qualities.
>Tax capital gains as ordinary income. It's simple and fair.

It might seem like money is money: if you have $20,000 more than a year ago, due to making capital gains on something you've just sold, you're $20,000 richer (less taxes) than if you hadn't invested. If you make an extra $20,000 in income through a salary raise (you get a raise to $80,000 from $60,000) you are also $20,000 richer (less taxes) than if you hadn't worked for, argued for, and gotten the promotion or change of jobs. And if as a side gig you sell $20,000 of software as a service as a 1-person engineer with a web app, you're also $20,000 richer (less taxes) than if you hadn't been on that market and promoted it in the right way.

And yet these three are totally different sources of wealth in every respect, and taxing them equivalently would have a totally different effect on people's behavior, as well as produce wildly different amounts of tax revenue. They are also subject to different ideas of "fairness".

The main difference is risk structure.

There's a counterparty to most salary income which guarantees it in a way.

By contrast, capital investments can go up and down, so if you want people to make capital investments it makes sense to have a lower tax rate to incentivize it.

There's a risk when you make income, but it is basically limited to the chance that your employer will go bankrupt and not pay for one month of that income. (Or similar risks if you charge someone yourself.) These risks are absolutely minimal and a whole different kind than the idea that capital investment will not appreciate (or even go to 0!)

You can feel this difference yourself quite easily: if you had $1.25M in cash how much of it would you make as a capital investment, and into what kinds of investments (how risky) if capital gains were charged at 90%? (You could keep only 10% of the gains.) I think most people would make only exceedingly unrisky investments, basically keeping it as cash. Investment would be heavily disincentivized.

On the other hand would you stay at home or work for a $1.25M/year salary if it were taxed at 90%?

Most people would still work! And there are historical examples of this (where the marginal tax rate at the highest end was 90% or more.)

So saying capital gains = income is very dangerous from the point of view of incentivizing investment (fundamental to capitalism) and also ignores the risk structure.

The only time it seems similar is in a "bubble mentality". In other words, if you think that all capital investments always appreciate. For example if you thought this way: of course it's not risky; of course it will go up; of course I would put my $1.25M net worth into bitcoin, after it goes to $20M then even if I had to let go of 90% of my gains it still makes a lot more sense than keeping it as cash. The fact is it's no different than $18.75M of income from any other source.

I hope I don't have to tell you how irrational and bubble-like this thinking would be.

I believe that in sane capital markets, capital gains and earnings from other sources are entirely different kinds of things. Investment behavior responds extremely different to these things.
> 11 bytes, (max 24/min 12 cycles, assuming article cycle counts are correct):

Oops. Other numbers are correct, but of course the worst case takes only 18 cycles, not 24.
>But I think one of our blind spots as a culture is the assumption that nothing bad will happen if you drive a car correctly and follow all of the rules, and I think that assumption might prove to be wrong and that collisions are an inherent aspect of driving a car in an unpredictable world.

That assumption is clearly wrong. There are other drivers but even leaving that aside for the distant day when most vehicles are autonomous.

- Debris of various kinds

- Mechanical failures of vehicles

- Environmental factors, e.g. ice causing skids

- Road damage

- Animals

etc.
Yes, I agree with what you say.

I actually think the dual-licencing model seems the most realistic for many developers who are selling to a business. Ironically, it's because a strong copyleft licence like the GPL is unattractive to many businesses that they naturally turn to the commercial licence which allows them to make changes they don't need to release publicly.

I'm sympathetic to what Fair Source is trying to do, but even that garnered a lot of negative reaction among developers (at least if you read the discussion on Hacker News).
Just a note with this post's structure:

I'm surprised in this day and age of dealing with complex global economic systems that we'd upvote any post that starts with an absolute view "The correct solution..."
The thing is that Microsoft could not corner the market with Xenix the same way it could with DOS and Windows. They wanted a monopoly they could abuse.
A hundred times this. If your plan is make money by selling at a higher price, you're playing the greater-fool game. If you make your return via dividends, it is a direct reflection of the value of the company.
Check out Golang for the server, it's a statically typed language so it's fast and hard to introduce subtle bugs that can cause a lot of confusion. There is a ton of interest and mindshare moving towards Go and it's supported by Google so it's not going anywhere. Big projects like Docker and Kubernetes are written in Go.

For a web application I think most of the work will be in the frontend which basically means javascript. We've had a lot of success using Golang for the backend APIs and React for the frontend.
Who is signing away code they write in their own time? If you do that then that's your fault. It's not normal at all.
At the bottom of the README you’ll find the answer:

> To sum up: does popularity of technology on StackOverflow (SO) influence popularity of post about this technology on Hacker News (HN)? There seems to be a relationship between those two portals but I could not determine that popularity on Stack Overflow causes popularity on Hacker News.
How is the $500k profit calculated?
Why Microsoft's GitHub Deal Isn't a Sign of the Apocalypse – InformationWeek
Another aspect that has helped a lot is taking a b-complex vitamin every day. B-Complex has two major benefits: it aids in the energy recovery during food metabolism, maintaining one's energy level, but the major benefit for developers is the reduction in nerve sheath inflammation. There are times when I am doing some heavy, redundant motions, like when working on 3D animations, the repetitive mouse use for multiple days can wreak my wrist and that "mouse fatigue" spot in your upper back. When I know I'm going to be abusing my wrists like that, I make sure to have B-Complex each day and for a few days after - for the reduction in inflammation and the resulting continued wrist health.

I appreciate your thanks. I could write a book about my career and maintaining health in both physical and mental aspects - being a developer can be a hell of a mental game too. If I were not so busy writing code, I probably would. Developing my ability to live like this has taken decades, and now in my middle 50's I am peaking in multiple aspects: I know how to code an immense number of highly complex things, my mental game is such that I am coding like water pouring, and my work is offering me the freedom to use everything in the creation of a new flagship application for the company. I'm simply having too much fun and getting too much done to write about it at length. I do post on Quora.com quite a bit though.
TLDR: effective of Jan 1st, 2018 online platforms are required to delete posts without warrant under certain provisions. The law passed during German federal elections to counter "fake news" and "hate speech" (and also to counter foreign nations messing with the elections), even with obvious questions regarding its legality under constitutional and fundamental rights. Tomorrow it's going to be officially challenged before a lower court as a first step to take it to the German constitutional court ("Supreme Court").

Already discussed in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17108353 where this law was portrayed in a positive light by NYT, though
Maybe it is the correct solution?
I remember when a lost episode of Dad's army was found on a cassette because some guy happened to record it from the radio and never lost it.
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The line of thinking here deserves expounding. The discipline of economics is very important, but there needs to be some care about trusting the opinions of economists.

The opinions of an economist are worth very much, because listening to them sets up situations were it is easy for someone with an economics degree to push an agenda. But economists do have a lot to offer with observations like "this is very similar to the [suchandsuch incident] of [1887] in [Somewhere]", which is worth listening to. The limitations that surround economic 'experiments' are so severe it should be treated more like history and less like physics. Thomas Piketty with Capital in the 21st century is a great example of what I'm thinking - more history and data than theory, but some theory to provide structure to the data.

If science has a measure of quality, then that quality is the accuracy of its predictions. That ties in very closely to the ability to conduct experiments and collect accurate data. Economics as applied is a highly political process, which hampers both the perceptions and reality of how fair the experiments are.
I'm not telling you what to do, or saying you should quit your job and leave your life in ruins over company values.

I'm just telling you how perception by association works. Your choices are entirely your own.
The Unstoppable Progression of Object Storage – InformationWeek
I can't say much about long-term roadmap apart from the fact that the platform will be open source and that it will try to introduce features that will increase the productivity of data scientists.

For short-term roadmap, I am trying to work on stability, it's very hard to have default values since you don't know how it will be used, e.g. on Minikube or by a team scheduling a lot of parallel experiments, so what I am trying to do is at least having an automatic or simple way to scale workers responsible for scheduling, hyper params tuning, and monitoring.

For tuning, the platform will keep supporting some algorithms to automate the hyper params search, maybe introducing more priors for the Bayesian optimization, I also think more tests are needed to validate the behavior of the Bayesian optimization and Hyperband.

For visualization, currently, you can start a Tensorboard for any project created on the platform, but there are some problems with this assumption, if the project has a lot of experiments, Tensorboard becomes slow to irresponsive. Next release will introduce the possibility to create Tensorboard jobs per experiment or per hyper tuning experiment group, and possibly any collection of experiments to compare them.

The platform collectes already metrics from experiments, so a basic visualization is also planned to have a quick overview before diving into a Tensorboard.

And most importantly, I think there are some usability issues that need to be solved to make the experience better.

There are also a couple of ideas around team collaboration that will be introduced in the mid term.
Yes, it is opinion journalism - it does not claim to be objective. I am as confused as you are
I've found the opposite. Some cables I made where I just made sure the ends matched worked at 100 mbit, but would ping on GigE, but nothing longer. Took me awhile before I figured out it was the cables.
The user who posted that has a strong history of looking for, and loudly proclaiming, malice in many decisions reddit makes. They're not necessarily wrong, though, just slightly more deserving of fact-checking than the average reddit user.
In order to save the city we had to destroy it.

In order to save freedom of speech we have to curtail it.

In order to save democracy we have to put limits on it.
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Deep Learning Will Drive Next Wave of Chip Growth – EE Times
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It looks kind of lazy from the doodle creators since they could hide the whole functionality (canvas) behind e.g. a gif so it wouldn't use too much resources without activation.

*edit tested giphy.com's frontpage and it uses less CPU+GPU combined than that google frontpage
Often.. but for a lot of software businesses, the difference between being software or software as service is a choice, and cost is often a minor implication of the choice.
How does greediness create a poverty traps? I dont see it.
Nobody in Switzerland is investing in useless stuff and blowing it up, so its not relevant.

As long as economic activity is driven by individuals it is inherently better.
Your second point has made me realize that not having identity outside of work is the biggest source of my anxiety. Thanks!

I also can’t seem to stop thinking about work. Maybe it’s related to that point. I can’t enjoy anything since there is always “but you should be solving problem X” in the back of my mind. Maybe it’s the type of personality I have - if there is a problem, I can’t stop ruminating about it. It’s mostly work related since that’s why I do 95% of the time, but other problems too, especially when dealing with people.

I know I am not adding any value to the discussion - just wanted to thank you for your insights and to the person that asked the question.
Please don't generalise. I do think there are legitimate reasons to restrict and police people online and I'm certainly not alone. Who ever is?
The graphs shown are cumulative, which is defined by the README to be the sum of all the points up to that date (the most common definition). However, some graphs show a dropping number of points, like the one for Java, even in the non-standardized plot. (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgwozdz/HN_SO_analysis/mas...) Would this indicate some sort of error in the data collection, or did I miscomprehend the "cumulative" label?
What Made Mobileye's AV Run a Red Light? – EE Times
> Describing Silicon Valley billionaires, he said: “The phoniness irritates me - it’s, ‘I’m a hippy with a beanbag and, oh yes, there is my superyacht’.

Well, at least he got something right.
I think you're refering to systrace. It was removed in OpenBSD 6.0.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/
HNWatcher emails me whenever my blog is mentioned on HN.

I also use Google Alerts.

I don't have any like this for Twitter, but it would be nice to have. Currently I just watch a search query for the article title or url in the days after publishing. Or I create a standing query in TweetDeck, but that only works on desktop.

Aggregating the discussions across channels sounds interesting. Embedding that on the post page would be sweet.
He explains that when discussing HTML.

>Such a situation occurred due to greater number of downvotes than upvotes. This may be result of high number of duplicates since 2014 or the questions which were not formulated in a clear way or were not reproducible (and therefore were downvoted).
Tears ‘R’ Us: The World’s Biggest Toy Store Didn’t Have to Die
They are wrong. This was not about fractional vs full server banking. They are also wrong about what how fractional reserve banking works. The Swiss initiative (that I voted on an rejected) was only that the central bank would have to full control, it did not force 100% reserve banking.

Woods and Murphy follow the Rothbardian school and that is a minority even among Austrian Economists. If you want to see a more modern Austrian-Chicago critic on that, I would recommend George Selgin.