skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey JT,

That seems incredible. I guess I just don't understand how you could custom brand and design a physical product, find manufacturers and fulfill their MOQ's, store all of your product and market it for $6,000. Either way, I understand you approached this sector with a technology first mindset, and it's been a really impressive business model.

I've approached similar D2C products in different markets using your method but the initial costs just to get a product to market before advertising is usually close to about 10 times higher.
Honestly I didn't even know suse still existed, Linux distros are dominated by Debian/Ubuntu and redhat/centos
Notable there is a tendency for VC's to start staffing up your company with their overpaid and under performing associates. Since you no longer have full ownership you can't fire them either. Often those guys real job is to serve as place holders for when the VC's push out you and your senior managers. So when the company is acquired they are the ones that get the retention bonuses not you.
That’s way too exciting !! Really fresh perspectives.

I once tried upgrading my Windows laptop while having very less space in C drive. Windows totally crashed. After that I used live bootable Ubuntu, but would still like to retrieve all of my windows data.

Do you know how can I do that?
It's an interrogation, plain and simple.

There's a contingent of very detail oriented people who believe they are introverts because they tire easily at this kind of persistent over-stimulation. These people will wash out of the process before the culture fit interview in the afternoon. All you've done is increased your odds of getting a bunch of coding cowboys.

The fact is that nobody in a real business situation should be put into this sort of pressure cooker situation on a regular basis. That you're selecting for this indicates a pretty gross failure of management to manage. And until people push back the problem won't get solved. Hiring more people that think that's okay? One way to look at it is that it's a public service you're doing for the rest of the industry by keeping people like that out of our hair. Except people do what they know and any junior folk will just think this is normal and okay. It's not okay and I wouldn't even say it's normal.

A pressure cooker interview tells me this place is high drama and they're looking for people with a high tolerance for bullshit. I want to get shit done and do it well (not perfect - well), and that's probably not happening at a place like this.
I'd imagine they have some pretty heavy duty air filters that could catch and remove that sort of particulate. Total speculation though...
They're not. Mad worked because any single use was substantial and unforgivable. For better or for worse, this does not apply to "AI war drones". We've already seen them drop bombs on caravans of civilians and miss their targets in asymmetric war zones, and they can only get more precise.

Any outrage we wanted to see hasn't just been there and can only decrease.
The article makes it super unclear whether or not you can steal the coins. Somebody is obviously trying to muddy the water, but I can't tell if it is McAfee or the researchers.

If it is McAfee, he is doing an excellent job, judging by the other comments in this thread.
Ah, got it! English is not my first language and sometimes I lose things in translation. Yeah, Velazquez is definitely more interesting and more refined than Archimboldo, it’s just that I got a soft spot for the latter even though his works might be seen as kietsch-y, can’t really explain why.
> Android is free but Google has iron grip over Android using play store

I think this is undeniable in practice, but Google could claim that because Android also has F-Droid and the like, it allows multiple app stores.
Can you provide some links for that?

I feel like this is a thing people repeat, specifically about KRACK and its been shown to be false multiple times (like here: https://lobste.rs/s/dwzplh/krack_attacks_breaking_wpa2#c_pbh...).
> They are pretty open about their policy of pushing their fix as soon as it's ready and not doing anything to obfuscate what they're fixing and why.

This isn't true at all. Please stop spreading misinformation.
Yes, literally every rational person.
That's not a magic phrase, it's something you negotiate with reporters in advance. You can't really make "off the record" comments in front of an audience at a conference.
I agree that they need regulation probably never should’ve been allowed to get as big as they are. The near total lack of oversight as they’ve come to control giant portions of the economy is pretty worrying.

That’s sad I can’t agree with Trump on this because I know that he’s doing it for completely the wrong reasons. He sees them as political enemies and he wants them suppressed/controlled. I don’t believe he actually cares how big they are. That’s just the excuse.

This isn’t a “stopped clock is right twice a day“ thing.

You could come up with other reasons that I don’t necessarily agree with, say “tax dodging“, that I wouldn’t mind. If I agree with the goal and reason is just, even if it’s not my reason, that could be fine. There was something relatively small Trump did that I agreed with on these lines, though I don’t remember what it was.

This is a pure authoritarian threat. You don’t tie my line so I’ll find some justification to make you’re life hell.
I'm not a big fan of where the tech giants have brought the internet... the internet today has become too much of a walled garden and there is not enough competition and there's not enough cooperation between entities. But we live in a rather chaotic time geopolitically and I think it's good to have these gigantic entities in our country that other countries are wary of crossing too much.
I'm with you. Short answer...pay cash.
Not to be rude, but you're saying you're 2m/6.5 feet wide?
For what it’s worth I did find that I adapted to long flights and jet lag. The first time I did the NYC to LON redeye I was a mess the first day. After doing it every other week for awhile it was no problem. Then I did a Dallas to Sydney flight and found I had no trouble. I moved my sleep around a couple days before so that I would sleep for the middle 8 hours of the 16 hour flight. Being awake for four hours on either side of a night of sleep and getting up to walk around a lot made it a breeze.
Say you went to a place where child sex traffic was legal, or the laws not enforced. This is illegal in several EU countries and the US, and you can be prosecuted upon return:

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexua...
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Not really they can lease the fiber to isp's for a price while keeping sufficient bandwidth for themselves.
I'm not saying he's wrong on the principle. I'm saying I wouldn't have the guts to risk $108,300 just for a chance to maybe win a moral victory over $700.
Yes for what it is worth I have god status on a single airline (and thus their alliance). I always put in for an upgrade, however most flights are getting quite full (full because the economy is doing well, so making money, but less seats). For the last year I have flown ~50 times and have been upgraded about 2/3 of the time. I work for a startup so business is out for everyone, CEO on down. We do pay for premium economy which on international is better with more room then economy. Of the 8 flights on this trip I have one confirmed upgrade and waitlisted for the others. My guess is I will maybe receive an upgrade on half. Now that being said I have used miles for family vacations (all in business) more then once so there is that. :)
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I've been replying to you, not attacking some strawman editorial, as you put it.

David Axe, the guy you linked to, has a long history of misunderstanding the F-35, like also, this piece.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/test-pilot-admits-the-f-35-...

You described that this was "covered up". You would have only gotten that idea if you read the piece I just linked to.
Don’t judge it while sitting on your butt with enough time to type out multiple paragraphs about how it could be more restrained. Judge it when you are leaving the office a little late and want to know if you can catch your bus if you hustle right now.

Big blocks of color are great. Big blocks of color are easy to read in a half a second while you’re walking through the crowds on the sidewalk.
"Maddening" implies discomfort. If people didn't virtue signal, it would eliminate that discomfort. You don't like the discomfort, otherwise you would have written that you find virtue-signaling being maddening an enjoyable experience. If it was neutral, you wouldn't use an emotional word to describe it. Since you don't find the feeling enjoyable or neutral, and because of the meaning of "maddening," that means you don't like it. Therefore, to prevent your discomfort, you support people not virtue-signaling.

What action are you taking to demonstrably promote the reduction of virtue-signaling?

It seems like much of the calling out of alleged virtue-signaling is virtue-signaling itself.
This is hardly the first outrageous thing google has done.
I'm planning to do this too, and did my own research.

I'm probably going to go with the Launch School (https://launchschool.com/) because of its focus on giving you the foundational skills to learn any language (after learning Ruby from them). I may or may not decide to do the Capstone project.

It seems you're only interested in front-end, not full-stack, so I'm not sure they'd be a fit. But I will say that as a software PM knowing about the back-end is probably useful.

Just my two cents.
Just wondering, how is immigration not merit based right now?
1. Stretching
I think you and Jacob are on to something when we realise that the R_2 sequence (and presumably R_D) loses some of its properties when it is naively stretched. I think if we solve this problem then we can make some real progress in the sphere problem.

2. Regarding rotations.
Yes, I agree. When i wrote 'rotations' i meant it very generally. Any direct transformations from one point on the sphere to another without requiring intermediate mappings such as on a Torus.

3. 6-tuples.
This is a really interesting idea, and sorry I missed it the first time. I will definitely explore this idea more.
Wasn't this "Web and App Activity" just this month found to keep its own location history when Location Services are disabled? Seems like they've loaded a lot of different behaviors into this one setting.
I disagree about objects being preferable to text in a shell. Text is very easy to reason about, and you can quickly determine what transformations you need to make based on visual feedback. Working with objects means spending a lot more time in the documentation learning what properties you have to work with.

In a programming language, it's obviously no context. But in a shell, I want to spend more time doing and less time reading.
I read an article recently on the behind the scenes lawsuits with these paid bloggers in the mattress review industry.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...

It seems like these guys generated a tremendous amount of money for themselves and orders for the businesses based on which company they gave the OK to.

You guys seemed to stay out all that, which I really respect, but it looked like some competitors really went to lengths to get that "edge" in this product category.
Eh, speaking as a very small man (5'2"), come on, there are many low-earning huge people, and better-than-economy seats can be bizarrely expensive.

(I will admit that I peak at "mild" empathy for this problem. But even mild empathy gets me to the response above.)
No one can, the job is too big.

But they have lots of advisors to help them understand that and recommend good policies.

Also the policies are based on real issues in the law and attempt to correct them.

Trump is a self-styled expert in everything (ESPECIALLY business) and doesn’t seem to like outside counsel if it contradicts him.

I can’t think of much in the way of “spite laws” that Bush or Obama tried to push. There was the rattling over encryption, but that was about it.

Trump has a very strong history going after anyone who disagrees with him or he thinks (correctly or not) makes him look bad.

Those two factors combined make all the difference in the world to me.
"anonymized"

100% deserves/needs scare quotes around that.

I mean just look at the snake-oil bullshit wording Google are using to describe what they do here:

"Before we launched this beta product last year, we built a new, double-blind encryption technology that prevents both Google and our partners from viewing our respective users’ personally identifiable information,”

I mean, I guess there are proper cryptographic means by which you could achieve something that matches that description.

But does _anyone_ trust the worlds biggest advertising company to be doing that???
Site owners were given freedom for a long time and they consistently chose to do the wrong things with no sign of ever stopping. Now browsers have to step in and moderate them.
> - Earth will have another 10,20,30 Billion people living on it

Unlikely.

> - These people, ... lots of kids, and more

Also unlikely.

> - Human will inhabit more parts of the Earth that are uninhabitable

Unlikely

> spending of billions of additional humans (iPhones, Televisions, etc)

Unlikely

> - New technologies will require orders of magnitude more energy, such as flying cars, space travel, etc.

Yes, likely.

World population is set to decrease. Birth rates in the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, China are all below replacement. This seems to be a general trend that happens when countries reach a certain level of development.

I think most models should show world population peaking, and then declining.

I agree that nuclear is probably our best bet. The high profile screw ups (like Fukushima) are annoying and decrease public trust. But we need to get better at creating/regulating safe nuclear solutions.
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O...kay...! Wow.

That did it; I fired off a report to GH, just to be sure. I decided some of my text veered somewhat off-topic, so didn't send the whole thing. Here's what I said, including the offtopic bit after the 2nd "---".

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Hi! You've probably gotten a few reports about this by this point, so this is just a redundant make-sure.

https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616 is a pull request that changed the license of a project with 11k stars and which (IIUC) is also a common Babel dependency. The license change basically extended the MIT to say "but this license expressly forbids the following random list of companies from using this" blah blah. (I don't think this person realizes GitHub is owned by Microsoft...) The rationalization was very political.

The whole debacle got reverted fairly quickly by https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1633, and the user was removed from the project. Yay (and whew)!

The license in question can be found in the user in question's repo, https://github.com/jamiebuilds/license, and it currently has 53 stars. I think it only had 20-30 yesterday. :/

Today, I woke up to https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/4141#issuecomment-..., which is reasonably inflammatory.

I have no idea what gets done in situations like this, and will watch with great interest. I say this honestly; I found this over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17872475 while reading a _completely_ unrelated topic, I have no association/involvement/investment in/with the project.

---

There are 1001 interpretations of course. Mine is that this person may be driving themselves into a frenzy of sorts with more and more outlandish actions. I hope I'm wrong! But unfortunately, because of the scale of the internet, the small number of people that are voicing their agreement with this person's views is large enough that it looks like this person has become completely convinced their mental models are accurate and well-founded.

On the one hand, the above is my rationalization for why I thought it might be a good idea to mute this user's account for a few days. I have nothing against them, but thought that maybe the chance to quieten down would mean they might not harm themselves or others, which I definitely would not want to happen.

On the other hand, I've realized that there's nothing to stop this user using email or Slack or whatever else to continue communicating so muting wouldn't have such an isolating (and hopefully calming) effect at all, and (as so often happens with banhammer situations) would instead probably rile them up and make them 1000x worse. So from a "quiet time" standpoint that wouldn't work at all. :(

---

I saw the 2nd block above is relevant but unneeded reading / commentary.
does it have a monopoly on people's online time and attention? Yes.
Nah, I'm intolerant of nazis, and that's not the same as being intolerant of jews.
>first being merit based immigration

Except that to him and his supporters, "merit" is really just code for "skin color". They don't want Hispanics, period. To the point where they are apparently willing to go after natural-born Hispanic citizens on the sketchy basis that they might be fraudulent (of course actually bothering to investigate isn't necessary).
I just made sent one:
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/chicago-169/canvas-database-sch...

The idea comes from [1], where like you say, a journalist/requester can work with the government IT folk to craft a SQL query. A big problem comes, though, from the burden and staffing required to write the query. To add to that, FOIA often requires cost estimates prior to starting a request - which, in the case of writing code, can muddle estimations... which have to be paid on the onset. My position is that if the requester understands the schema, then the burden required to write the query is essentially nullified. That way, the only cost would then be the review of the query, which is trivial in comparison to writing one from scratch.

There's a lot of prereq knowledge needed before submitting a request for code. That, and there's generally a potential for penalty against a public body that doesn't run a full search. So in many ways, there isn't really a need for a requester to submit their own SQL from the onset.

[1] http://illinoiscourts.gov/Opinions/AppellateCourt/2018/2ndDi...

(not a laywer, etc)
Maybe one day. :)
Yup, shape is the biggest thing you can control, then radar absorbing and reflecting materials.

One of the big anecdotes from the early days of stealth aircraft development in the 1970s is how at some wavelengths the Hopeless Diamond shape wasn't visible to range radars at all. During one test, the range radar guys went absolutely crazy trying to detect the shape -- which was a pole model, not even flying yet -- and were about to just give up, when suddenly, there it is on their screens, plain as day. Awesome, the Hopeless Diamond lost its stealth! Or not, because what really happened was a bird landed on the pole model.

That's the power of your aircraft's shape.
The rebate affects how much companies complain and lobby for changing the law though.
I use umatrix and it makes things way faster. The local news website can run with 30kb of JS but without umatrix it loads 9MB
Thx! We were definitely a special circumstance. We found a tiny mom & pop manufacturer who had the equipment and had capacity. We negotiated 30 net terms (this was hard to get) allowing us to fund with negative working capital... customers buy the product, we paid mfgt 30 days later.

My co-founder and I also have engineering/design/product backgrounds so we didn't need to hire anyone to build our initial dotcom or product. We ran it all for the first 1.5yrs before we could afford to hire our first customer service team member in 2014.

Marketing expense was also kept to almost zero, branded search primarily, until around 2014.. we had to rely on word of mouth/organic. This forced us to build in such a way to keep costs low while ratcheting up the value prop which has translated into an efficient process we still have now. Our spend of advertising as a % of net rev is estimated at less than half of our next heavily funded competitor.
Did you read Chaos Monkeys? What about Dragnet Nation? Both (of which are not new) peek behind the curtains you're concerned about. Both are recommended, and freightening. It's only going to get worse.

https://www.antoniogarciamartinez.com/chaos-monkeys/

http://juliaangwin.com/dragnet-nation-available-now/
Exactly. Some people think large software as programing language, compilers, GC etc can write itself. Or a few thousand dollar donation will be enough to pay to top engineers to keep working on it.

Oracle/Google/MS or Apple will continue to exert control on direction of languages they developed and open sourced because they continue to pay for majority of development expense.
This would be a cool place to try short-term "seat-swapping" rentals, a real "AirBnB" (ba-da-ching) as it were:

You buy a super-expensive bed-cube on a 20-hour flight, then register your flight and seat and mark a schedule when it's available for seat-swapping. "Guests" can book in 15-minute increments (on-demand if the flight has Internet). During their time, you swap seats and get to know their seat-neighbors.

Assuming an hour on each end for take-off/landing, and 8 hours you'd reserve for sleeping, that leaves 10 hours at $20/15-min = $800 recouped.
I was thinking about that part of my comment and I believe what I failed to convey was that there seems to be no real cultural or educational priority to question what you see communicated on the internet, at least to my limited understanding.
The problem is that that IS the article. This isn’t the justice department or group of bipartisan senators or someone like that saying they think there’s a big problem here.

This is 100% “Trump says X“. That’s the only reason this is an article, literally because he said it.

So to remove that from the headline seems very disingenuous.

(Yes, others have suggested the monopoly/abuse of power angle before, but that’s not why we’re discussing it today).
Yeah you could; you would probably place the batteries in the wing where fuel is located, which potentially has benefits.

I was pointing out that the reasoning was flawed. The engine is not the limiting factor in the design of the wing, and in fact can let you reduce the mass of the wing. An electric motor and airframe might be lighter than an engine and airframe depending on the design. However, you do need to compare the battery weight with the fuel weight, because the energy has to come from somewhere, and an airframe is designed with that reduction in weight in mind. It's hard to stress just how important energy density is for an aircraft.
That's not always an easy choice... Like if you have family overseas and you want to go home for a family event or illness.
The only thing I'd add to this is "commands", which executes a series of GDB commands when a breakpoint gets hit, and has been supremely useful for me for all sorts of debugging tasks.
Cheap android devices don't have free software drivers, and I thought some connection between those drivers and Google is what holds back a free Android.
I often use google to look up news when someone tells me on chat or in a twitch stream for example. However, this is for finding information on a specific event that might have happened in the last hour, which google is really good at finding.
No we're not
"double blind" == "dual ROT13" - of course!!!
How is it cynical to demonstrate that a specific claim -- put across with unreasonable certitude -- is in fact flatly false?

Let me ask you: is De Morgan's theorem political? Directly? Indirectly?