skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any word on how big their losses are, assuming they don’t make a profit? GitHub wasn’t making a profit anymore, but they also don’t provide as much for free as Gitlab (not that Gitlab is doing it purely to be nice. It’s a key differentiator for them). I’d imagine Gitlab’a financials are weaker than GitHub. IPO would probably be a lot weaker play than an acquisition. But I’m just guessing.
Patchwork / Secure Scuttlebutt are worth looking at
Yes - we don't yet support some of the more unusual types on the Archive (including "data" and "software")
After some reflection and a little trip down the existential rabbit hole, I think we both fell into the trap the author warns of (or at least I did) of viewing the article as wholely right or wholely wrong.

I found the presentation of the fact that we as people tend to create fictions (which I would prefer to think of as narratives) in order to give ourselves some 'meaning' to latch onto a profound one.

I also found it interesting to think of the current focus on fake news as a good thing.... In other words, we have become self aware enough to recognize what is happening at a macro level at least.

Tl;dr: I think your points have merit, I was just reactionary because I saw something profound and wanted everyone to see it too, falling into the same trap as always.
haha! I went back and edited it to avoid confusion. :)
Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system
I dont think I ever stated my "ideal" temp, I stated what is tolerable to me as I am aware that I work in a building with others so compromise is a must

When I have my own office with my own AC Zone/Controls it would be set to 62 Degrees. That is a significant difference from 78.

My current office building has shared zones and sets the AC at about 73, it is bearable most days provided I do not need to do anything more than use my computer, even then I have a desk fan blowing air at me continually while at my desk. I am not however sweating or overly uncomfortable, the fan is able to mitigate 90% of my comfort.

However it does not take much physical work in that environment to push me over the edge in to sweating.

as to "accommodate attire appropriate for the temperature" the thing is some people might like wearing shorts, sandals, and a beach shirt to work, I do not even own these things. I don't wear suits, but I wear long pants, I wear a button down shirt and that is it. I do not believe an office environment should look like everyone is going to the beach. I am sure that is old fashioned thinking however, i believe Professionals should dress professionally.
>but I've also known programmers who just don't care about striving toward perfect, bug-free code

This target moves too much in business to be able to efficiently target it.

I surely wouldn't take the time to make something perfect if I knew the business was going to turn around and add another feature that forces me to re-evaluate the thing entirely.

While 400 homes lost is certainly significant, don't forget the millions of homes it accurately kept track of. Imagine the amount of work and resources that would have had to be used to keep track manually and by paper.

Please don't worry about 2 steps back after you've taken several billion steps forward.
Wouldn't it make more sense for them to just take over Hulu? They are going to have 60% equity quite soon anyway
Of course it is, Javascript is what allows us to run significant code on the browsers without extensions or plugins or downloaded apps/peers, and its amazing how far its come as a language in the last few years. WebAssembly would probably work as well, but was far less developed when we started this project last year.
Breaking Even in PoWH3D and the Math Behind Curved Token Bonding
In IT there are some absolute gurus who learned that way. There isn't time to do much but Google things, because of the broad assortment of problems that crop up. What you're missing is T, the variable that gives these people the experience to start recognizing patterns in the snippets and building their own original solutions, building their own template libraries, frameworks, etc. You may not code that way, but like I said, people learn differently... Original logic vs. referential logic are like yin and yang; they eventually balance each other out no matter the starting point. You can just as easily point at those who write original code and say they are the ones with the perennial NIH attitude; to whom Googling is a misuse of the human brain, even if it could save hundreds of man-hours.
I thought the tone was reasonable - I don't think NYT said anything about donors spending the money on themselves later. Here are the issues it points out (I had posted this somewhere lower):

One issue mentioned by NYT is using DAFs to "obscure their political activity" since donations don't have to be made public and non-profits don't have to disclose donors.

Another issue is that the tax savings felt by the donors is tied to the original contribution's valuation and not the valuation at the time the money is used. So in the case of GoPro's Nicholas Woodman, he got a tax break based on $500 mil, but the shares have dropped around 93% so if they're used for charity now it's like he only donated a fraction of that amount.

NYT also reports that the fees for some of these DAFs can be significant and so a portion of these donations are going to e.g. Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and similar firms.
bogleheads.org -- DIY personal finance and investing discussion site.

Discussions can take you fairly far into the weeds but you learn a heck of a lot.
It reminds me of the old "protection" in Settlers: when using an illegal game everything would work as normal except the iron smith would produce pigs instead of iron bars. That'd be surely missed by early crackers but definitely not by users.
You're making that statement with the benefit of hindsight. The stock also could have gone up, in which case he would actually have cost himself some of the potential tax deduction by donating too early. The deduction is locked in at the value of the shares on the day they are donated. I doubt he was cheering for the stock to tank, just so that his tax deduction would be significant compared to the lower value of the stock years later. That would be insane, given that he only donated about 20% of his shares.

So yes, in this case, it didn't work out for the general public. That indicates no intention of wrongdoing, nor does it indicate that the system is broken. Equity values on the whole tend to rise over time, which means that charitable stock gifts overall (especially those that are held for long periods of time) are actually better for the public than cash donations.
Agreed. I'm not sure how many people that are the developer only type on here (non engineers or scientists)realize how nice the tooling can be in Mathematica. A corporation with basically 1 product, ~800 employees, and 3 decades of software development can do an awful lot. It ain't perfect though and the cost is crazy. It's good to have and know free alternatives (even if inferior) so you have fallback software to use if you want to leave your job and be a contractor.

My buddy is a GIS analyst/technician (master's degree in it) and a lot of experience in ESRI Arc-GIS, which is insanely expensive. Both he and several colleagues have QGIS installed and are learning it in case they go solo and don't have a client with an ESRI system.
That depends entirely on your definition of "science". Out of the fields of research usually bundled under the category "social sciences" psychology is certainly among those closest to "natural sciences"—and there's certainly lot of interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap.
Amiga community!
> What an object is, which is roughly equivalent to its observed behavior, should never depend on how it is declared.

This is actually a statement that strong typing should not exist. A "declaration" (really a type declaration) indicates the type, and if observed behavior cannot depend on the types there is not much point to types. Or stated positively: in a strongly typed language, the types are part of 'what an object is'.

Or, stated by example:

let a: Int = 3
let b: Float = 3
print(a/2) //prints 1
print(b/2) //prints 1.5

Both a and b are "the same" value, insofar as they are `==` and they model the same underlying mathematical concept. But behavior varies because they differ in type.

OP's snippet actually works quite a lot differently than the way you may expect; LazyGreeter.greet() and Greeter.greet() are two completely independent functions that share the same name. Name resolution is a complex topic in any language, but in Swift if you wanted to override another function you would say `override`, in which case the compiler will complain there is nothing you can override in `BaseGreeter` at which point you will understand the whole mistake.

There is actually no way to "pick" LazyGreeter's implementation of the unrelated function (as perhaps you expect). The only function we can call on a Greeter is Greeter.greet (or its overloads, and there are none). So if Greeter.greet did not exist, we would not get LazyGreeter.greet() but rather a type error.

I do think a case can be made that we need a similar `implements` keyword like `override` to check that we are implementing a protocol requirement.
It's widely assumed that Stewart made some kind of deal with Satan, sometime around the filming of Dune, whereby he traded his youth for immortality. He thus looked about ten or twenty years older than he was at the time, but promptly stopped aging altogether.
Are there any plans for JACK support?
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisionsx
Love Feyerabend. You don't by chance know any other people following up on his work?
Apple barely hits half of a $100B a year in profit overall. They aren’t going to do a trillion dollars of profit over the next 10 years. And are going to be insanely far from that profit level from iPhones in US or otherwise alone.
There's a video of the talk I did with Arkadiy (from IPFS) and Feross (from WebTorrent) at the Dweb Summit at https://archive.org/details/youtube-eO6pYYWZBs8?start=10447 it goes into quite a lot of detail about how it was implemented and the challenges we faced along the way.
The #startups irc channel on Freenode.
Yeah, I thought for about 15 seconds before choosing that date, but then decided it wasn't too important. Perhaps the better way to express it is, 'when did we not have the wrong physics'? When did we jettison alchemy and the rest forever in favor of modern science?

I'd guess earlier than 1900, but I don't know. And of course, there are many gray areas.
Most of those sorts of companies (both B2C and B2B) ultimately end up selling the user transaction data (or some derivative analytics thereof) to hedge funds. It's used (for example) to forecast the revenue of B2C companies in advance of equity earnings announcements.

NB: I don't have an issue with user data being mined for things like market research if it's a situation where the product is free and users can be easily made aware of it. But I find it dishonest if the company mining that data is doing so without direct user consent, or in a "backdoored" manner using their status as a downstream client's "affiliate" for T&C purposes.
In Paris, I commute every day with autonomous train. So, I think that it should be feasible :)
Along with that, the fact that the scaffolding isn't living cells means that they can likely preserve the lungs for longer periods of time for future recipients too. That should be a massive boon for transplants since they'll no longer need to be a "Get here in 30 minutes or the organ won't be viable long enough" kind of situation.
From a military perspective, Taiwan is a extremely important to China because of where it is located. Their fear is that the US would use Taiwan as a base of operation to refuel and attack China. It’s in their best interest to reclaim that land.

Like all politicians, domestic policies are usually harder to gain political points vs foreign policies. It is also much harder to fix when problems arise. This is why head of states like the US president have traditionally spent more time on foreign policy. All leaders think about their legacy. If Xi can reclaim Taiwan, he will be remembered for decades. That is powerful motivation for any leader, especially one that is elderly.

The US is currently run by a lunatic. Are you so sure Trump would impose sanctions? Most of his decisions are made in a fit of rage, rather than thoughtful thinking. The fact he met with Kim, should tell you something about his decision making. The problem is Americans has played this big brother role for the last 50 years, but now there is a potential contender on the playground. I am not sure the US can do much here considering China is cash rich to withstand any sanctions you impose on them. China can use Trumps playbook too if they wanted like subsidising farmers, but they haven’t cause they don’t need to.
If you're a professional or part of a professional organization, this is a small hurdle to clear and most would agree that the increased security posture for the end user is worth the inconvenience/price for developers.

If you're an amateur/hobbyist/tinkerer and just want to play with kernel driver development, then you can disable the signing enforcement.

Anyway I'm sorry for derailing from the actual point of this post - it's a very cool project!
Internet over DNS it is.
OpenAI bots competing against Humans right now
How does tiered voting stock donated to these companies operate? Does the owner of said stock still retain voting control even though the stock is now owned by the DAF?

There's also an issue with how these sorts charities are privately incorporated which aids in hiding them from public scrutiny regarding how and when funds are spent. For example, a 501(c)3 Organization requires tax forms to be disclosed and available to be audited in order to see all associated expenses. The cost of filing and completing the yearly form is minimal enough not to inhibit any undue stress in record-keeping to follow GAAP, even such that no outside advisors would need to hired in order to file.
There are a number of issues raised in the article. The lobbying for secrecy that has just been passed. The misaligned incentives and subsequently even more lobbying by the banking sector that gets huge management fees from DAFs. And the deceptive movement of funds from one DAF to another to give a misleading impression of disbursements per year. These are all games and have nothing to do with charity.

There are also other issues like the dollar tax benefits aligned to the high stock prices even though the stock today may be worth a fraction of its initial value, and the lack of transparency in disbursements which means funds can just be moved around with little accountability.
> due to lower interest

well, follow the money. why would they sell you a product that makes them less money if they have a material reason to deny it? Think like an insurance company: if you have a technical reason to deny paying a claim, you should absolutely do so, because it means less money for you (the ins. co).
I am a train geek. Waiting for the kid to become a teenager and start ignoring his father so I can be a volunteer at ABPF (Brazilian Railroad Preservation Society). Meanwhile, I go to places where there used to be railways or stations, take photos, write about these things and the history. Since it's been a long-neglected subject, people crave for any bits of information.
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945
Ask HN: Can we get funded by Y Combinator without a prototype?
We have a team and an idea but no prototype (it’s a hardware company and we don’t have the money to build a prototype) can we apply for YC this way? If not, how should we raise funds for our prototype?
(regarding the current title of this submission, in case it gets changed:)

>This 67-year-old retiree solved a math problem–using Microsoft Word

What does Microsoft Word have to do with this? The fact that the document was typeset in Microsoft Word instead of LaTeX does not really sound remarkable.
I think you mean:

set -euo pipefail
Humans lost. Would anyone care to comment on the conceptional design of the AI in play?

A comment from one of the OpenAI members: "The neural network in place is comparable to an ant brain". How would you quantify this, and what are the parameters?
Confessions of a Late Bloomer (2008)
If you post them somewhere, I'd love to read.
This make no sense. The regulatory threshold under Dodd-Frank is $75M in annual revenue. So it should be no harder now than it was 20 years ago for smaller companies to go public. And the SEC is changing this to $100M I think, so we should see a pop in public filings if there is some pent-up demand in midcap companies going public but for muh paperwork.
Decentralising the web: Why is it so hard to achieve?
25C but dry (what you get with an A/C) is a lot more pleasant than 25C and humid.
That game was just a warm-up with random audience members on the human team, up next is the best-of-three set with 99.95% skill percentile humans.
Thanks for finding that.

So it only took him about an hour, over three days, to get it worked out well enough to not immediately fall off, and an hour and a half over four days to get to 50 meters.

There's a comment in on the YT video from Destin saying "the RC helicopter pilot was able to learn it in about an hour but I don't think his brain is normal" - good point, the RC helicopter pilot has more experience understanding reversed input while the helicopter is flying toward him, also he had the opportunity to watch Mike learn first.

I reckon the learning process could be sped up even more by taking the pedals of, turning it in to a balance bike, learning how to ride it down slight inclines, get that sorted then putting the pedals back on.
I am from India. Can I apply for the positions?
Although they are caused by tech, these are all regional problems, not tech problems. Tech regions are characterized by economic migration and gender imbalance. Lifetime stable social structures like multi-generational families do not exist for all but the wealthiest, which results in social isolation, mental health problems, and alternative tribal identities.

In general, the person who gets angry about politics on either side is not a happy person. They need help personally, not politically. They need a sense of belonging that isn’t dependent on their beliefs or their clothes or their job or their money or their virtue signaling or their friends, because all those things can and will change. The thing that works for the vast majority of people is called a permanent monogamous family, despite however flawed that concept may be. I have tried and failed to find anything better.
Leaky vs. Punch-Through Abstractions
PulseAudio works on Windows? Last time I've tried installing it I didn't get very far.
>Mathematica, Fortran

Fellow theoretical physicist?
> Another issue is that the tax savings felt by the donors is tied to the original contribution's valuation and not the valuation at the time the money is used. So in the case of GoPro's Nicholas Woodman, he got a tax break based on $500 mil, but the shares have dropped around 93% so if they're used for charity now it's like he only donated a fraction of that amount.

Sure, but the reverse is true as well - the contribution could increase in value, which benefits the charity. And if that happens, he doesn't get to claim the difference as a deduction.

Furthermore, he gets the tax deduction based on $500 million because that's the amount he's giving up at the moment he makes the (irrevocable) decision to divert the funds to charity. (The alternative is for him to liquidate and hold onto the $500 million himself; he's getting a tax deduction for not doing that).
Also, I seem to remember that trains tend to be vastly more energy-efficient than cars, even if you factor in the occasional cost of a nearly-empty train.
Do you Bank with Wells Fargo?

I do. I’ve beeen gradually winding down my account, and will soon feel even better than I did when I got rid of Comcast.

Check out the Credit Unions in your area. They’re usually great!
No one is paying them to do it. That's the difference. Our society has drawn a line in the sand: if you're not getting paid for it, it's not work.

This is why people completely discount volunteering, childcare, elder care, community associations, and more when they talk about the economy. If it's not earning a profit for somebody, it's not considered work.
Inside a Huge PCB Factory [video]
OK, but I hope that you don't propose vilanizing any support helping US taxpayers because of it, as it was the purpose of the analogy to explore that. Are hospitals evil for providing healtcare to US citizens who are enabling NSA?
The article is not about the math problem itself, it's also about MS Word starting to be used and accepted alongside LaTeX.

EDIT: I am wrong, I misunderstood the article
First match is over, human pros got wrecked, and very fast.
They're doing some pretty impressive research, even in fields I think aren't directly related to their business.

Then again, they might speculate on them becoming related.

It seems like a very "new tech" (a la Google, Facebook, Amazon) approach to me.
From the article: "News of his donation sent GoPro shares tumbling as much as 14 percent the next day, as investors interpreted the move as a lack of confidence in the stock."

It's not about wanting the stock to do poorly; as the chief executive, he knows where he plans to go with the company, and if he doesn't see it going far, then at least he can save some money. The fact that investors interpreted the move this way indicates that it's not about hindsight, but a poor forecast.

Your point about values rising on average is a good one though - it means that though some of the rich may be getting away with more money, overall donations are still going to balance that. There are still some other issues though.
Exactly! It will be many more years before big mature projects like Kubernetes, Docker or CockroachDB would consider switching to Go.
Print? You mean like for art?
Interestingly, in Swift, you Cannot compare `a == b` as the compiler tells you the two types are incompatible.
Hey Ben, are these going to support arbitrary CUDA?
RC racing.

Early this year I joined the local RC racing club and bought I used 1/10th scale 2WD buggy kit. I found it amazingly entertaining, almost zen-like, to do racing. It is like a video game, but in real life. And to learn skills, see how you improve, learn more about the setup and technical parts. All in a great, helpful community with a mix of people from all backgrounds. You've got that awesomely fast 12 year old kicking the ass of a 35 year old CEO at the track...
Additionally the donor doesn't necessarily have to be human.

If pig lungs are a good enough a fit.
One of the longer running open knowledge communities still in existence today is the cannabis community. People are growing their medicine at home. How great is that?

There's a rather vibrant community of DIY cannabis growers on Reddit. Subforums include /r/microgrowery, /r/macrogrowery, /r/autoflowers, and a very niche /r/spacebuckets.

DIY growers cross-bred small lots over years and years, ultimately creating most of the 1000+ strains enjoyed today.
A while back, a small group of pot entrepreneurs registered the genetics of these strains in the public domain so that corporations couldn't patent them: https://opencannabisproject.org/
Stocking the Mesozoic Salad Bar
Despite your disclaimer, you are complaining. The scare quotes around charity, the cost and location of his house, his private jet, and his complaint about sycophants; none have to do with the NYT article, just an anecdote from you with your complaints.