skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perfect example of features hackers want which don't matter at all to anyone else.

- Nobody cares about Linux. They could drop Linux support today and it wouldn't matter in the slightest. I say as a 100% full time Linux user -- we get what we get.

- Users want persistent chat more than they don't. Spam isn't an issue for most people who are are running servers for their friends and coupling them with voice wouldn't really help anyway. Users want to be in a different chat than their voice coms

- Users don't even know what voice ducking is and would probably be surprised by it.

- Nobody cares about self hosting. Gamers clamour for dedicated servers to reduce lag more than than for P2P.

- Users want these features and their core service is best in class. There's a reason it basically killed their competition overnight. I haven't even seen a Mumble/Vent server in ages.
I wonder from whom they took the idea? f.lux has been around for YEARS (2009)
> If I were the FCC, I’d be shutting down YouTube.

Why? I get why public access would have a mandate to allow people with unpopular (imo hateful) opinions on the air, but not YouTube.

I was under the impression, they're a private network and under no obligation to allow you to post content they don't like. They are free to change their ToS at anytime and ban who they choose, right?
Facebook must be destroyed.
The whole point of owning part of a company is to collect dividends and/or sell your shares for more than you bought them for. But without going public, it can be difficult to do the latter.
I don't until I spend at least 6 months in a company. Is this company right for me? Where is the company going moving forward? Is the project I'm working on that exciting? Are people I've been working with great co-workers? Do I see myself rising within that organisation based on what I know now?

Your question should be, what would attract you to apply for a specific company? My answer to that question by order of preference - role, location, product, compensation, work life balance (that one is also hard to guess at that stage of the process).
interesting idea

will the general public get to see submissions in the tournament?

The bottlenecks around finding 'Lost Einsteins' (LEs) is an interesting problem

You have to make yourself known to potential LEs (NYTs & HN seems like good but not comprehensive start)

You have to have them make the connection that, yeah, they're the type of person you're looking for (difficulty unclear)

You have to make an offer that compels them to act

Once they act, you need a process for filtering them from the people you're not interested in having in your program

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idk, good luck
What an excellent comment. This is probably a naive question would it help on the leading edge of the fire? Maybe there is not such a thing. Large fires might not have a leading edge.

thanks!
http://detectportal.firefox.com/ -- seems like every browser is going to have its own :-)
>Call the columns the 4th and 7th is as arbitrary as calling them the 3rd and the 6th.

No, that's their ordinal position, and how 8 billion non-programmers would refer them as in any everyday setting.

That's also how programmers would refer to them if it wasn't for a historical accident.

What's more, that's also how programmers refer to them when they talk between then and not to the machine ("check the 3rd column" not "check the column at the index of 2").
Leibniz's Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (1701)
Prop 13 has nothing to do with it, the 1971 California Supreme Court decision mandating statewide equal per-pupil funding is the issue.

While obviously that court decision is unique to California, the broad idea of statewide funding equalization is not a policy that exists only in California, and, in fact, the vast majority of states have most school funding driven by state-set formulas.
Especially with the move to LED headlights, car lights have gotten significantly "colder" in color temperature
These are relatively new features, and they arguably wouldn't have been added if not for the popularity of flux ;)
One of my obsessions is that objects aren't the "right temperature", even if I intellectually know they should be.

This has led to many a burned hand throughout my youth as I would reach out and touch a hot stove or incandescent light bulb to make sure they were really hot like they should be.
I don't know about a source—a medical textbook? Those conditions are explicitly caused by the eye being squished out of the "proper" shape for focusing light by the way the skull and extraocular muscles end up developing.

I suppose you could develop myopia later in life as a result of inflammation of the extraocular muscles (orbital myositis), but this would be 1. temporary, and 2. not treated as its own disease, but rather as a symptom.
Larry Page is on record a few years back saying he'd give his fortune to Musk rather than donate it to charity [0].

I imagine Musk has a handful of billionaire friends he could probably hit up for cash. Throw in some money from SpaceX, and he could probably make the buyout price.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-elon-musk-2014-3
Norway. They've got a trillion dollars in their sovereign wealth fund and like to imagine they are rehabilitating their reputation as not being bad for the environment even though the basis of their wealth is oil extraction.
I don't know of communities, but I've done it since being diagnosed 4.5 years ago, and am still in the honeymoon period, so I haven't gone on insulin yet.

I don't know what I'll do once I actually do need to go on insulin.

(Note to anyone reading this - please don't take the word of a random on the internet - talk to your endo.)
By "citation dependence" I assume you mean that researchers are judged by how many citations their own work has received. This is an time-efficient, yet imperfect mechanism to measure the importance of a research work.

Are there more accurate ways to measure the importance/impact/relevance of research work?
https://web.archive.org/web/20180809171552/http://www.pincho...
I assume you mean the night light button in the action center?

If so I would argue f.lux does a lot more. For one thing you can choose the hue it goes to, but also unlike the Windows 10 one which (AFAIK) is simply on/off, f.lux will adjust based on a schedule which means that you don't typically notice the effects (as the change happens slowly). This, combined with the ability to change damn near every parameter it uses, makes f.lux significantly better.

Edit: apparently windows does have hue adjustment and sunset/sunrise activation/deactivation available. TIL.
A) The problem is not that this is hard, the problem is their are incentives to get it wrong. If you accept saving to much is a net benefit as it reduces future spending, then you can operate very safely.

B) This just comes down to discounting the pension properly or limiting retirement age to 65.

In the real world doing pensions correctly has not worked out. My point is simply they have an innate mathematical advantage not that it's directly applicable.
I don't see why what you've done couldn't in principle be done in a language with a static type system (except maybe with some difficulty the thing with verilog, which apparently needs access to the compiler at runtime?)

To get good performance with a static type system, you need generics. Which means longer compile times, as the libraries you use must be compiled as part of your project so that the code specialized for the types you're calling the library with is generated. You can't have piles of native code lying around just waiting to be used (like in the C world, for example).

But this is similar to how Julia does it at runtime, with the multi-methods being JIT-compiled for the types you're calling them with. So either way you pay the cost somehow (and yes, there are ways to reduce that overhead, of course).
If you are curious, the smallest doses where "blue light hazard" has been observed in humans (short-term exposure) are around 10 J/cm^2. International standards use around 2 J/cm^2 for a safety margin.

One example of this is hiking in fresh snow for hours, no sunglasses, meaning exposures well above 10,000 cd/m2 to "white light".

Computer screens are way dimmer - an hour of iPad use is .0365 J/cm^2.

http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v30/n2/full/eye2015261a.ht... is a good summary.

For long-term exposure (AMD risk) we have very little data, so understanding the mechanisms (such as above article does) can help.
Thank you! Our designer + engineers are very happy to hear that!

We created the animations ourselves with https://github.com/drcmda/react-spring.
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Ambitious, eager, and talented people that are likely already working on their own projects.

"Idea theft" is a thing that happens sometimes, but the far more common problem is "idea stillbirth", where people are willing to put ridiculous barriers up in front of themselves for fear of their idea being stolen.

If there's valuable help available that will improve the chances of turning an idea into a tangible thing, then people should accept it and let go of the fear that they're risking some kind of innate value in the idea itself.

I don't see that the ask from Pioneer is all that onerous either, although I'm not a cut-throat business guy. They seem to be pursuing people for whom this would be a fantastic opportunity regardless. I think HN is a being a bit quick to judge this through the lens of, "I already have lots of opportunities and this one just isn't good enough for me."
Thank you! You guys were one of our first customers! :)
I only read: build you own Mac.
and i'm all ready for, my screwdriver in hand :)
Probably not necessary to flatter oneself in such a fashion.
Checksummed but not signed.
agreed -- being able to verbally set timers is very valuable to me. Also I have Lifx bulbs in my living room and it is much easier to tell Alexa to turn them on/off/change brightness than it is to get out my phone. I only use the phone app for that when I want to set up some custom color thing (which is pretty rare tbh)
I agree and I disagree.

I agree if you're a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who knows they can raise a seed round together. If that's you, you shouldn't take our offer. Raise the seed round; you'll get great terms.

There are about 7.4 billion people who aren't Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs. Most of them do not have a convenient line to investors, because investors don't happily fund writing the next great American novel, working on a demo tape, trying to prototype out an undergraduate research paper, or running companies in their neck of the woods. Pioneer could potentially fund all of those things.

We're going to be making bets on folks substantially before they have the indicia of success that investors screen for... substantially before anyone could even say "This person will someday found a company." The math for this to be sustainable requires that the equity slice be higher than someone would ask for if they knew 100% of their investments were in high-potential companies.
The buyout at $420 would cost around $70 Billion. Maybe a bit less if they leverage things (aka: find another bank who is willing to loan them some money).

Larry Page doesn't have $70 Billion in cash. That's the other important part: $420 implies this is a cash buyout. Larry Page has tons of Google shares that he can offer, but that's not cash.

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Either someone (most likely a bank and/or international fund) has the $70 Billion that Mr. Musk alleges he has "secured", or Mr. Musk was lying on that tweet. That's really the only two scenarios here. Unfortunately, it will take a very long time for information to come about on this issue.
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So does Fedora, courtesy of recent versions of GNOME with "Night Light" feature.
How? (I work for Google, I don't work on Android)
Indentured servitude.
I've always found this a rather weak argument - he even implies that 2...12 is at least as clear (it being the starting point of the text).

I also thought I'd seen a longer text focusing more on the counting/indexing.

I still don't see the appeal of "element at zero offset" vs simply "first element".

I do agree that < vs <= etc can get messy. But outside of now fairly archaic programming languages I don't see the need. Just use a construct that handles ranges, like "for each element in collection/range/etc". (Or for math, "pattern matching" (or "for n in 1..m").
Agreed, this doesn't seem overly expensive by any means. But worth noting this is just one developer's cost. Doesn't including licensing/support costs for Domino/Notes itself, hardware to run it on, sysadmins for the servers.

(And I don't know what platform they're using, but it does run on all of IBM's OSes: AIX, i5 (i.e. OS/400), and z/OS. Wouldn't be surprised...)
I just went through the whole 4 minute tutorial. It was really amazing what I could achieve and everything in Retool worked perfectly.

This is incredibly polished and amazing and great. Well done!

Only thing I wanted was a dragger on the right hand side of the table so I could pull the table to be wider.

Also, I'm wondering, it looks and works so great, and the UI has so many parts, what did you build it in?
Ouch. "S3 bucket insecurity," combined with "AWS pricing model so complex it needed to be modeled" makes this just a tire fire all around.
Unless you bought your house 10+ years ago for a third the price. So one can make shitty modern react apps for $180k a year with a $300k home you nearly paid off.
I was watching live stream last night from the East coast and very impressed by the achievement by you scientists and grad students since 2012. https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5145

As a former physicist, I have been through the Numerical Recipes/F77 stage myself two decades ago. In the age of Big Data and Machine Learning, there are many ways to harvest the creativities in people who are not trained as professional engineers. Our software development mindset should be extended beyond the industrial "task oriented" products and platforms.

In the spirit of Turing machine and LISP where code is also data, we can even treat scientific computing ecosystems like Python/R/Julia etc. as models to capture creative scientific minds. It is AI at a high social level. The future is beyond our imagination.

We need more crazy meta programmers.
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze so I'm biased. :-)

> Backblaze is a low cost service for cheap customers. AWS and GCP are "enterprise" services.

I agree. This is accurate. Backblaze is a reasonable choice for customers who want to pay less. Plus "enterprise" means the vendor sucks up to the customer and makes them feel important, visits the customer in person, stuff like that. Backblaze saves money by skipping the on-site visits, and we pass on the savings to the customer.

Backblaze is more of a self serve product. Customers can just sign up in the middle of the night, pay by credit card, and use the service for 1/4th the cost of an "enterprise" experience.

> Backblaze is a joke while Google is backing up billions of android phones already and other stuff

It is true that Backblaze is not as large as Google or Amazon yet. Customers that sign up with Backblaze must be comfortable that. I'm biased, but I would suggest there are advantages of storing your data in both locations: both Amazon S3 and also in Backblaze B2. One advantage is that if Amazon S3 has an outage, you can still retrieve that data during the S3 outage from Backblaze B2. Also, data stored in both Amazon S3 and also Backblaze B2 is more durable than data stored in either location alone.

In the end, is it Ok for some customers to have an alternative choice to use Backblaze?
I don't hate on it to hate it. I hate on it because it's orders of magnitude more complex than it needs to be, has a history of being broken, and somehow managed to end up harder to use and more obtuse than the ancient wad of shell scripts it replaced.

Its like its designers set out to make it as un-intuitive and hard to use as possible. I say this as a 20+ year Linux veteran.
Well, almost exactly two years ago, Amazon bought Curse. I believe this is forming the basis of their Twitch desktop application. I haven't looked at it, but I imagine the intent is the same.. use Twitch network effect to build an install base, turn it into a distribution/store to take on Steam. That's what Discord had already been doing at the time, largely accomplished via the Twitch platform too.

They must have looked at Discord when they were evaluating Curse, given that they suggested the purpose of Curse was to help build community (though curse was originally a distribution mechanism for mods and add-ons that added community as afterthought, in my subjective opinion). I imagine someone at Amazon is kicking his or herself for the choice today..
A similar question one might ask is, before we offshore all of our labor do we have a decent, actionable plan to replace the jobs?

> The us has done a terrible job helping workers find new employment when their old factory or similar manufacturing jobs were lost to another country. I can't see that these tariffs can ever bring back many factory jobs to the us. We need a strategy to find new jobs and industries. The current plan is just not going to accomplish much of anything.

....and similar opinions identify a problem, but this manner of thinking where people say we'll "just" find new jobs (it worked out in the past few hundred years, therefore it is guaranteed to continue working indefinitely) is irresponsible, as is pointing out the simplistic isolated fact that "it's more efficient" to offshore jobs. Thoughtful, responsible leadership listens to all opinions, and considers all consequences, before rushing headfirst into incredibly transformative change in an extremely (on a relative basis) short period of time.

Indeed, many things are getting so much better for millions of people around the world. But if one takes a calm, unbiased look under the covers, some potentially very serious cracks are starting to appear economically and socially. I'm not a huge student of history, but I know enough that sometimes seemingly good and stable systems can destabilize very quickly.
What is this magical land you live in where signal jamming triggers a CAR alarm?
How much of the reason behind a failing school district is because of the the school and how much of it is because of the environment, home life, etc?

If another school came in the same environment with the same socio-economic issues would the outcome be that much different?

The whole charter movement at least in the south is an attempt to funnel public money into private either for profit schools or “faith based education”.
> people should be free to express themselves in whatever way they choose to, and this way of communication clearly works for certain groups of people

Sure. In non-professional capacities. But in professional areas, we expect a bit of blandness so everyone feels welcome.

While some groups might be comfortable mocking or using language that people deem derogatory towards minorities, women, different cultures, different sexual orientations, etc., we've decided that their preferred communication type does not trump the right of a person to feel safe and respected at work. If they'd like to be foul with their own sort outside of work, whatever, people who don't appreciate it can avoid them.

Quitting my job to avoid feeling attacked, on the other hand, is an unreasonable burden placed on someone just so some dude can say bitch, fggot, and/or ngger or comment on someone's physical appearance.
We often hear that may scientific advances happened as a byproduct of wars, could it be that in such times, patents become less of a priority or restraint.

Which brings me to the question - If Einstein was alive today, how would he fair in a World more curtailed by patent trolls and over-zealous application.

That in itself makes you wonder, what constraints do we have today that was less of a restriction in Einstein's times.
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Well, HTTP has zero security, and HTTPS has this big complicated security mechanism (TLS) that tries to ensure no one can snoop on your connection, alter the content, or pretend to be a server they aren't.

There's no subjectivity at stake, here: One is designed without security, the other is designed with security.

It's like saying the Atacama Desert is widely considered to be drier than a thunderstorm.
a = b[1..n]?
The card can already do that. It can connect to an AP and you can already push files thanks to Lua.
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honestly i was so skeptical of discord at the beginning because as someone who was a regular vent user it really struck me as a niche thing. But they've done a great job to branch into non-gaming communities to get enormous growth. I'm not sure if they're gonna "win" against steam or even make a dent but it will be interesting to see them try.
It's annoying, I use Twitter as my main social network outlet, and post there regularly, and it was always convenient to have the posts mirrored on Facebook, since many friends don't use Twitter. Twitter is more of a work related thing, I guess, so perhaps I'll just end up segmenting my posting into work/personal between the two sites, but there's plenty of overlap and things I want to automatically go both places...
AFAIK it's not user configurable, and the only way to enable it is to have a device without play services installed.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/balti...

Some context
You should also do weekly MRI's just to see if there's anything neurologically you might be able to notice/track.

Also, might be helpful to just download your consciousness into a synthetic brain
How do you guys plan to strategically and operationally adjust as you expand in to markets that far removed from economics and social drivers of SF?
> Don't Mozilla plan to replace Gecko in Firefox with WebRender from Servo anyway...?

No they don't, they're replacing pieces of firefox with pieces developed from servo but there are no plans to ever replace it wholesale.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum

That's probably why they're focusing on the VR/AR stuff, to put that into firefox once it's ready since it'll be a new set of features entirely and not have any legacy version they need to maintain bug compatibility with too.
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The video will likely be online soon.
> they conspired with an international terrorist organisation operating from their territory with their support and blessing

It's not clear that they conspired [0], though I suppose you could call them an accessory after the fact for refusing to extradite bin Laden.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Septemb...
Both macOS and Windows 10 has on/off now, scheduling, less/more warm adjustment. Windows 10 even has sunset to sunrise based on location.

EDIT: HN is becoming more like Reddit every day, I see. Ridiculous. Down-voted for pointing out the existence of helpful features. EDIT: might have been my fault.
How well will a state based funding system work in states like Mississippi?
And people use bats for things other than baseball but it's doesn't stop manufacturers from catering to the athletes.
Cool idea, thanks for the explanation.

The website doesn't give me a lot of information - The main page has a neat screenshot, but it wasn't evident that it shares the posts or has community about them.

Maybe you can add some information about that community element to the main page?
If only $36,000 of those 180k are going to rent, that's not a bad deal.