skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. And there's industry/combustion engines as well. All happily releasing nitrogen in one form or another. It's sad that a lot of nature conservation organizations' work is simply just mowing/removing mowed substance/repeat and then after a years of countering the influence of nitrogen they get a meadow which looks sort of 'natural', i.e. typical vegetation for specific type of soil which used to be common decades ago. And beautiful too. On a related note: where I live a millimetered lawn without any kind of plant which isn't grass still seems to be considered the summum of gardening. But as far as nature and biodiversity goes it's almost as dead as concrete. Still a lot which could be gained in those areas as well.
It's to reward employees who may need to sell stock based compensation to pay bills and other things that require currency.
I use Cython a lot, yet heartily welcome Julia. I think you are over reacting a shade here.

With some persistence Python-Cython-Numba can get the work done, but to me it has never felt like a consistent whole, usually a tagged on hodge podge. Numba is cherry picky on what it will and will not optimize, I totally understand why it is so. It has always been a 'will it or wont it" with Numba.

I think the potential that Julia offers that Cython and Numba doesnt is the option of a programmable syntax for the low level manipulation. Cython has improved, but for the longest time it was always a forced decision between operating at a the higher level of array/sub-array manipulation in Python or down to tedious index manipulation in Cython with nothing in between. Not to mention fighting the Cython compiler and Python's C API to get the 'yellows' out.
Not having the vocabulary to express certain concepts is one half of the Darth Maul lightsaber of hypocognition. The other end is not having the vocabulary to detect certain concepts. You are right, many people can still intuit something they do not have a concept for. But, not being hypocognitive of that thing to begin with would not only help them then express that concept but also initially understand it with more depth.
The README for that package [0] states:

> Note that FFTW is licensed under GPLv2 or higher (see its license file), but the bindings to the library in this package, FFTW.jl, are licensed under MIT. This means that code using the FFTW library via the FFTW.jl bindings is subject to FFTW's licensing terms.

If you have an idea on how to make that clearer, we would be happy to review a PR to the FFTW.jl repository.

[0] https://github.com/JuliaMath/FFTW.jl
It was because of this post I stopped playing with legos.
Your points are really interesting. I wonder how successful it would be to tax higher wage earners more. Many of the truly wealthy receive their money via means that are largely not subject to payroll taxes. Hence, we are only over taxing the upper "working class" who then might have less incentive for their high wages. Many higher wage earners and their employers are finding clever ways to avoid salary increases through the conferral of non-cash benefits. Though these are technically required to be taxed by reporting them to the IRS, I would bet many people aren't reporting the vacation their company sponsored or their gym memberships. Additionally, many contractors form corps and are using creative ways to reduce their payroll burden (among other tax relief.) The current wage cap is around $118k. What kind of cap do you think would be effective? Or are you saying we should remove caps?
From the site?
I could understand almost nothing.

Thankfully the T&C pdf does expalin it nicely:
https://sequence.work/static/terms.pdf

>The Company offers an on-site outsourcing solution for micro-tasks. These Tasks are submitted by the Clients and performed by Contributors through the Platform made available by the Company.
The Company offers a Project Management service, which includes the submission of the Project to the Platform, the distribution of Tasks, the selection of Contributors, and the quality control of the work performed on the Platform.

Not to be critical, but really it seems to me like there is nothing to suggest that you are better or cheaper or whatever distinguishing the site fom other similar ones.
If you are thinking about getting a PhD (in any field), you should be looking at an institution that guarantee's N (typically 4 or 5) years of funding. The best (and even the better) graduate schools do this, even in the humanities. It is much harder to get a job appropriate for a Ph.D. if you do not get into one of those schools that guarantees funding.
Were you under any sort of medication before?
Interesting. I was on grayscale for last couple of months, but didn't know I can reduce the white point also. Will try.
This article is entirely about the Play store and F-droid.

As a user, when an app claims to be 'secure', I expect the app itself to have made reasonable security tradeoffs. I don't however expect them to change my OS, my package manager, or anything else. The security of those other components isn't their concern.
"There are millions of records and roughly 150 databases built into the system, each designed to address different unit and personnel needs." - yeah, good luck replacing that for less than $90,000 a year.
Interesting environment.

One of the reasons I used Julia in academia was slurm manager ;)
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze.

> It took me like 2 fucking minutes to get working. It's ridiculously simple.

I'm so glad you said that, thank you! Our confidence is sometimes shaken when a customer says they would prefer it to be S3 compatible. It honestly isn't that hard, I always wonder what the disconnect in communication is.

> My concern is more that they'll be acquired by some shitty company

Backblaze is not for sale. And definitely not for sale to shitty companies. And even for non-shitty companies Backblaze is not for sale at prices any company would probably want to spend (or could justify to their board). I don't know if this is common knowledge but Backblaze is employee owned. We never took any significant VC funding, so the only people with voting rights on the board of directors are the original 5 Backblaze founders (including myself). We like what we are doing and we COMPLETELY control our own destiny and work environment. Literally nobody (except customers) can tell us what to do, how to price our products, or what features to build. Backblaze is a fun company to work at, and we all make a good living. So it would be inordinately expensive to buy us out just to put us out of business and dissolve our tight-knit group here and ruin all our fun. Our plan is to stay independent forever.

More background: the original 5 Backblaze founders have worked together for 19 years and have worked together at three startups. The first two starts were acquired by shitty companies. I do not want that to happen ever again, as long as I live. You know what it is like spending YEARS of your life building something beautiful, then hand it over to a shitty company and stand helplessly by while the beautiful product is first twisted, mangled, then withers and dies? It sucks. It sucks dead bunnies through a bent straw. So Backblaze was born different. Backblaze was born LEAN. The original founders and a few demi-partners going 18 months without salary, and another year on minimum wage, so that we wouldn't lose control of it. Employee-owned. Employee-run.

Not. For. Sale.
That's a loaded question that I can attempt to answer. The list below isn't by priority but it is the through process I go through.

1. Compensation - Would you be comfortable with that salary and can you do the things you want to do with it (vacation, hobbies, etc.).

2. Interest - Is the work that you will be doing at the company engaging to you? Are you interested in solving those problems? Would I be excited going into the office every day?

3. People - While interviewing, did you enjoy the conversations you had with your potential coworkers? Do you think similarly but do you also challenge each other to be better versions of yourself?

4. Size - Small companies don't have process and you'll have to wear many different hats. Large companies have more defined roles and your focus will be better planned by higher ups who set an overall strategy.

5. Location - The best way I thought of this is the commute. Count the minutes (hours) it takes to get to your new company. Will you be "time poor" but "financially wealthy"? Would you be okay with that?

6. Risk - Smaller companies naturally have more risk. I personally think we tend to over index on the risk (Prospect Theory) and forget about the lessons and professional development you learn at a start up.

7. Regret - This one helped me out the most. I ask myself "Would I regret not working at this company with its people and product X years from now?"
The post's URL actually includes links to the sci rep paper and the full text pdf paper is available from there for free for everyone. No sci-hub needed.

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28254-8

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28254-8.pdf
https://pioneer.app/

Looks like it's more of a popularity contest than anything else.
Anecdotally, six years in and I make just north of 40k salary (upper Midwest).
I find an ultra powerful visionary being childish and making fart jokes very funny.
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I would rather take a bus a half hour to school rather than get stuck in a poor school district with bad teachers and students in similar conditions. It would be nice to have the option to take your kid out of that environment.
> public education is chronically underfunded

It's not, though.

The systems needed to deal with the social problems outside of schools that create difficulties for schools are chronically underfunded (and often designed poorly, as well), and teachers in many districts have impossible jobs as a result, but education itself isn't underfunded.

But “the schools are broken” is a more mentally manageable idea than “the entire socioeconomic system is broken”.
It very well could be. I just dislike vague justifications that it actually is worth the cost. Give me numbers and details.
> Of course the SEC is looking into this. I can’t think of a thing that the SEC would look into more. If Warren Buffett was giving insider tips about accounting fraud at the Fed to Lloyd Blankfein so that he could help Donald Trump and the pope insider trade against the Illuminati, the SEC team investigating that would be scheming to get transferred to the Elon Musk team.

Obviously, this is a silly article. But the point remains: Mr. Musk clearly put himself at risk with that tweet. The core questions are:

1. Was Mr. Musk telling the truth about "secured funding" ?

2. What is the SEC's plan of action on investigating this matter?

The opinion piece otherwise doesn't contribute much information, aside from giggles and snide comments. It will be a mystery. Feds often don't like talking about pending cases, so it could be weeks, or even months, before any official action comes down from this. And who knows? Maybe Musk really is telling the truth about secured funding and there's no fraud involved.

EDIT: Yo downvotes: care to explain why you're downvoting a direct quote from the article? As I stated above: the opinion piece is clearly a silly piece of work that doesn't contribute much to the discussion. The core facts are still "at large" and we really won't get much information on this matter for weeks and/or months. That's really all there is to this story.
150-160... flyover state :)
> if you're worried about organized gangs replacing a thousand ballot boxes on your election day, you have more problems than voting systems.

The US certainly does. Should we throw up our hands and call it a non-issue? I don't think so.
The US Treasury puts out a financial report that paints a bit less of a rosy picture. So long as the dollar is the world reserve currency there is not going to be much appetite to make significant changes. Any shortfall in benefits after 2035 could likely just be financed with debt. If the appetite for US debt would ever change we would then see likely see changes in standard of living, but not in nominal benefits paid, as dollars would need to be created probably on the Fed's balance sheet. I could see some other mechanism coming along though that would actually handle the mechanics of creating large amounts of money. Given how far off any of this is likely to be I can't conceive of how spending could actually be cut on an absolute basis, or even just indexed to inflation. Ultimately healthcare is likely to be a larger driver of US debt than social security.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/finrep/fr/17fr...
> Computer & Network Consultants’s David Alonge, who is responsible for programming and maintaining all of the Police Department’s Lotus Notes applications, told The Sun that the software is “working wonderfully for the police.” He said it runs so smoothly that it isn’t necessary to bring in someone else to help manage it.
The core devs are in on the scrambling, too! This is now one of my favorite interactions on GitHub: https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl/pull/404
"or that the real financing is the friends we made along the way."

I love it every time this type of line is used.
It's observably true that public policy in the USA is for sale to the highest bidder[1]. A corollary is that campaign finance law is absolutely ineffective, because if it were then the current state of affairs would not hold. Furthermore the system is robust to political interference, since it absolutely controls the political process.

Public employee union dues are especially odious since the government is effectively collecting a payroll tax to bribe itself by way of a colluding intermediary. This is morally even worse than politicians being bribed by some private sector party.

Fun aside: given the empirical proof that only money speaks already given, the statement "If you deprive labor of a voice then only money speaks" is always true, regardless of whether or not labor has a voice.

[1]https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Not having played with it, I love the concept! I'd suggest making the docs more readily available from your frontpage, as it's somewhat difficult to find a link to them.

EDIT: signed up, ran through the tutorial, and I'm suitably impressed. This is a very polished product.

Will you support command-line tools? There's a few places where I can see my admin tools using command-lines to make things happen. Might be nice to be able to spin up a docker instance and run a set of command-line tools in response to an action, or to provide the contents of a table.

A few questions:

- Why is there only support for Google Sheets query on-premise?

- How many users can access an account in your free tier? This might be a way to better segment between free/first tier - add a limit of ~3-5 users before you need to start paying for the service.

- https://github.com/tryretool/retool_onpremise.git 404s for me - are you adding customers to that repo manually before they can clone it?
I actually think older americans in those expensive markets are relatively better off, assuming they own rather than rent.

At least at present, their homes are worth a considerable amount. Selling them off and moving to a comparable or smaller home in a low-cost area can make up for a significant amount of their failure to save adequately otherwise.

Obviously, that may not always be what they want to do, but at least they have an asset to work with. Those who are facing the same predicament and already live in the low-cost area, don't have that option.
Baltimore isn't exactly in a flyover state. There's upward salary pressure from all the money shoveled into the DMV area.
Is there a video of the talk somewhere ? (if that was the support for a talk)
This was listed as, I think, a positive but I see it as an extreme negative. Why invest in your company if you don't have the conviction that it will be worth more 3-6 months from now.

You are thinking as a potential new investor, and your interests are not aligned with employees and early investors.

Employees and early investors have had what is likely to be a large fraction of their net worth tied up in one company for a long time. They have a clear incentive to take some of that money out and diversify their risk. You, as an outside potential investor, are looking to put a small fraction of your net worth into a hopefully good opportunity.

Yes, you would like to believe that everyone who owns the stock believes in it with their heart and soul, and wants to invest in it forever. And yes, you would like to have the supply of stock limited as long as possible by keeping insiders out of the market. While you're continuing to wish, you'd wish that all employees were happy, and productive, with no desire to ever do anything by slave away creating value.

None of these wishes are reasonable from the point of view of real people who have sacrificed years of their life creating the company that you're looking at.

I think they are right but they really have no proof that they avoided the IPO pop discount. They actually opened trading at $165.90 and closed at $149.01.

You are trivially right that they can't PROVE that they would have had to pay a pop discount the other way, but the odds are that they would have. Typically the pop is 15-30% on the first day. That's a lot of money.
Because some people don't want to deal with ugly details of making a company profitable.
I wear computer glasses at all times when working, and highly recommend them. It greatly reduces eye strain, and filters blue light.

If anyone is looking for a good pair, I buy mine from Gunnar [0] (no affiliation).

[0] https://gunnar.com/
Awesome tool David!! FYI, I posted it to ProductHunt so feel free to vote it up there to get more users ;) https://www.producthunt.com/posts/retool-2

Just signed up!
These things are pretty interesting but they are quite slow/unusable in terms of transfer rate.

I wonder if that tiny antenna could be enhanced with a wire.
I love Discord and have been a nitro subscriber for a while now, but I'm disappointed at their responsiveness to bugfixing.

One of their latest updates added a really frustrating regression where emoji autocompletes are spellchecked on ios, correcting it nonsensical words. It took some digging to find their bug tracker and I noticed it's set to their lowest priority. Why was this allowed to be released in the first place?
hehehehe ooops sorry :D
An Overview of Privacy in Cryptocurrencies
Nothing wrong with opinion pieces on Hacker News.
I hope so. I'll wait until some reviews of the final release.
We desperately need universal basic income.
If hoaxing inevitably lands you on a loss, why would it be a hoax?
Who Should Determine Hate Speech?
A big part of anti-trust law in the US is that natural monopolies are permitted - you can build a business that dominates your market segment and not be subject to anti-trust proceedings, but you cannot use that natural monopoly to advantage your other lines of business by providing them with exclusive, preferred or other special treatment in said natural monopoly. This was the crux of US vs. MSFT.

The argument here is that Facebook is a natural monopoly and by only allowing Instagram to post automatically to a users timeline, they are leveraging that legal natural monopolies power to advantage Instagram.
Don't forget that the Model 3 was originally planned to be "Model E", but Ford owns the rights to that name. Also, there's a planned compact SUV which goes by "Model Y". U+1F644
Lol, a private company CEO should be more serious than USA president?! At least I didn't see from where Trump is not serious about his tweet.
Forgot to mention those two instruction will be disabled in flash protected mode.
Research will always be driven by the interests of whoever is financing it. It just happens that it's almost never the researchers themselves.

And one thing to consider: a researcher's mind is an inquisitive mind that will "dig" even in directions nobody really cares about, don't help humanity, etc.

The one upside of someone else giving the direction is that you can be sure that there will be some concrete benefit from it. The downside is that it's mostly about money and power...
I’m not missing the point: I’ve tried doing the same thing in Julia before as I do in Python, and it’s not a 10x difference. No language (relevant to this discussion) is ever going to cut down on lines of code required to do error checking, code gen, plotting etc. Sure, Julia is great as a high-level interface to LLVM, but so is Numba.

Python’s design leaves something to be desired performance-wise for those coming from JVM or native languages, but it’s a trade off, not an obvious win (for Julia), and the problem goes away as programmers get wise to performance strategies in Python.
Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment
That's not "less". That's way more.

Google prioritizing their offerings over other vendors on a search they control is far different than "Can't post on Facebook from Twitter".

Google has put itself forward as a fairly agnostic search. No one signs up to be indexed by Google. It works more like a common good. So when Google starts offering a service, then puts its own offerings before others in its search. That's dirty pool.

But that's not what's happening here. Facebook is a platform to connect with other people who are also on Facebook. It doesn't purport to be a central hub for anything but Facebook. It's just not allowing Twitter (and others) to post on users' behalf.
Whatever. You obviously have never read a regulation and tried to comply without a team of lawyers. Or never run a small business. Or have a team of lawyers (which the nyt does but still can't get it right). Or are in violation and don't know it. Way to kill the internet. Thank you EU.
I think we have 50 years worth of data, at the very, in the modern era to give at least some sort of evaluation of the usefulness of the money we are spending on math research.

Yeah, it's hard to quantify the value of research. I want research to be funded too. But I prefer some quantification over none at all.
Did anyone click the link to gaze on the vendor's beautiful website?

http://www.cnciweb.com/index.html
Mapping the Moral Domain (2011) [pdf]
Why Competition Matters Less in Software
> We could remove the cap on taxed income while either NOT removing the cap on benefits to high earners (or give them increasing benefits but not in relationship to how much additional tax they're paying).

Note that Social Security already has “bend points” in the benefit formula, so one or more additional bend points doesn't change the basic design.
I'm sure when an article like this runs, their IT department is getting bombarded by cold calls from vendors offering to upgrade them.
Hi dvdhsu, this looks great. At Thread we build lots of internal tools, but would like to be able to build more. We currently use ChartIO to build dashboards, but some of these have become almost like mini read-only apps that teams use, it would be great to make some of these into something a bit more useful and Retool sounds like it has the potential to be a good fit.

Some questions I would have as an engineer...

1. Where's the documentation - it's not linked to on the site.

2. What's your GDPR policy, we have customer data in our database.

3. Can this do Slack bots? We use them quite a bit for reporting, would be handy!

4. What sort of auth schemes do you offer? We provide limited access to some of our tools to third parties who aren't on our Google Apps domain.

5. What sort of APIs do you support. We have some basic JSON+HTTP things that require a session cookie to use because they are only used in web pages we run, and we have an authenticated GraphQL API. Would these work? How do you handle authentication on APIs?
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