skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really worth thinking about the idea of not having filenames by default. They give a good example: if you take photos you don't want to name them, instead you want automatically collected metadata (like creation time) and some UI for easily searching by that metadata.

So it's basically a correct idea, but I want to know what is needed to make it work.

I remember the Palm Pilot tried to do this by pretending not to have files, and having "databases" instead. The result was that the palm-pilot database just became an obscure, inconvenient file format.

On the other hand, modern big giant internet storage service do a pretty good job of "freeing" you from filenames, letting you get photos, docs stuff.

On the other, other, hand, there might be something about the personal aspect of perkeep that makes it more like the palm-pilot.
I’m honestly shocked. I mean, it was the 80’s, but still, it’s Trek.
They're passengers, there to convey the experience to us still stuck on the ground for now. As Contact put it, "they should have sent a poet".

I'd expect crew will accompany them - they've batted around a 100 passenger number in the past - and it's likely to be highly automated as well.

The sculptor's certainly not gonna go hop out for a spacewalk to fix an antenna.
Not to mention the fact that people like me who get 2% cash back or points worth as much as 5-10% are going to want to keep using their same cards.
I would say 75-90% of hiring managers in the US are not even US citizens and couldn't give less of a shit about US laws. Execs are incredibly happy for people to break the law for them. If an expat gets in trouble, they just get sent home with a bag full of money. For jobs in India, "freshers" have to put their blood type and where their fathers were born on their resumes because discrimination is so bad.
looks nice, i'd work on the fluidity of the animation tho. I sat watching it quite a while.. it's kind of chunky/slow.
You can get credit specifically to solve for that issue, usually at reasonable rates. Short-term small business loan facilities exist. Another decent option if you're reasonably sure you'll receive payment NET30 are credit cards + an online bill-pay service like Plastiq.
Obviously I'm going to block them by filtering them mechanically, because nobody has a right to demand an argument or a "positive example" from me. With that answer in hand, can you refine your answer to my question?
We have a practical demonstration that email hosting for $50/year per person is "too expensive" for people who make 6 figure salaries per year while working in tech and needing email. There's no real market here.

ProtonMail and FastMail and other paid for competitors are picking up the long tail.

> 1) paying for stuff (always, no matter how wealthy you are)

and until this changes as the mindset one can be assured that he or she would be monetized via selling and influencing his or hers behavior information. After all, someone needs to make money to pay the six figure salaries to people who keep Gmail running and we are unwilling to be charged for it.
This looks pretty cool. Hopefully this project turns out to be less vaporware than taking Tesla private was.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17999775
(Disclaimer: I work on Legion)

Sequoia has been largely superseded by its spiritual successor Legion [1], another programming system by Alex Aiken. Legion doesn't focus so much on low-level memory hierarchies, but it does a very, very good job of scaling to very large machines, and taking advantage of heterogeneous processors such as GPUs. It is also incomparably better at working with dynamic programs, whereas Sequoia needed to know basically everything about the program up front (including what machine it will run on).

If you're looking for a modern version of Sequoia that actually runs on modern hardware, I would strongly recommend looking at Legion. (Or the language component of Legion, Regent [2].)

[1]: http://legion.stanford.edu/

[2]: http://regent-lang.org/
The individual take has yet to be demonstrated, but do some math. $80B gross USD (at least; the IAB said $88B) spent on digital in US last year, say across 250M people (with Dr. Augustine Fou of NYU estimating fraud took $16.2B, lots of bots too). That is $320 gross ARPU if spread evenly -- which it is not. (Note we are worldwide and build for Europe and Asia too, not just at the US.)

Many of Brave's users at this early stage are "lead users" (Eric Von Hippel, MIT) and represent off-the-grid prospects because they block assiduously, either in Brave alone or with Brave + uBO or another solid blocker. Lead users are worth much more due to their high usage of search, ecommerce, and paid services. I would not be surprised if our users can make $70/year as we bring the system up in 2019 -- when ad deals will be harder to come by and we'll subsidize revenue from BAT's User Growth Pool -- and climb by 2020 to above .7 * 320 or $224 net user revenue per year.

Let's find out! We aim to find the fair price for human attention after blocking all the fraud, arbitrage, and abuse in the current system, using the BAT ecosystem.

Note that by default, user revenue share flows back monthly and anonymously to each user's top/pinned sites and creators on YouTube, Twitch (and more UGC platforms to come). We expect most users to avoid the bank-like AML/KYC/anti-sanction/anti-fraud checks required to take out their revenue, but legit users are welcome to cash out (our partner Uphold, and more to come, can exchange BAT <=> many fiats and cryptocurrencies/tokens).

If we are right, then most Brave users, with their individual data sets and Brave instances/agents, will in effect replace the corrupt, crowded intermediary space using and abusing remote scripts to target and confirm ads today. After we have the model performing, it's on to other browsers, games, podcast apps, and so on.
This is an expensive, pointless stunt, and all you nerds have you're priorities screwed up if you think it's a good idea.
Yet electronic stability control[1] works far better than human control on snow, wet roads, or ice. If you don't believe it, try an obstacle course on an ice track with and without it sometime (a required part of driver's ed in Norway). Example: https://youtu.be/hd5JMQr4qe0?t=56s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_stability_control
Age Discrimination in Employment Act say discrimination doesn't become a problem until age 40, therefore 40+ is a protected class. below 40 is not.
Must we go through this constantly? It's not that hard to understand.

Blunt and direct are one thing. Needlessly personally offensive is another.

You are fine with people who act like this. You'd assume you deserved it or you'd even feel honored. You're entitled to feel that way.

Many others think there's no excuse for behaving in that way. We think it's destructive, and that Linus and Linux succeeded despite it. Many of us would never subject ourselves to such an environment.

I get disagreeing. But what is so perplexing about it?
If DST was abolished instead of made permanent, what is your plan to make everyone (including businesses, events, transport time tables...) move their hours by one hour earlier?

Making DST permanent "just" requires a singular change of legislation, and basically never switching the clocks back to "normal" time.

As has already been stated twice in a sibling discussion here, "changing an entire culture is hard", but I'm honestly interested in hearing your approach.
Life is an expensive, pointless stunt. What is your point?
https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask
- Co-founders didn't have enough domain expertise
- Poor execution on our mission which allowed peoples personal side interests to pull tech and development in every which way
- Many other reasons

What did I learn: Strong leadership = Strong execution
If you can't communicate you can't create.
The kernel was missing for quite a while, wasn't it? linus is the one who did it; and he enabled other people to contribute effectively.

Also: I was thinking he's remained the leader of this very successful project, for a long time - he deserves credit for that. But perhaps that's a part of software's durable unfair advantage, that e.g. made so much money for Oracle, Microsoft. Similarly, BDFL, as for perl, python, ruby etc tend to stay there. So, perhaps it's more just not stuffing it up, than special credit?

What do ypu think of how esr explained linus's success in the cathedral and the bazaar?
I applaud this man's courage to accept the importance of conducive conduct to future entrants, despite the fact that he was affected by such a move.

> "Every moment that is spent on modulating language...is a moment not spent on thinking about technical things, and therefore...a moment wasted."...But this common view is a limited, short term view.
I'd send denis villeneuve :)
I hope you realize the irony of complaining about the notion that viewpoints are equally worthy when you base your complaint in... your own viewpoint about what postmodernism means to you.

But no, I think you'll find practitioners of postmodernism are perfectly capable of making value judgments. They just make using different frameworks and different criteria than the the people who came before them.
Python-style decorators in Tcl
You must never have visited Hemet, CA, or driven anywhere it rains a lot sometimes, or has a real winter.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/03/its-basically-just-im...
Check out For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. It has magical realism elements, and half of it takes place in Japan. It definitely reminded me of Murakami.
You can always ask for a retainer, too.
Accept the idea that you have failed and will inevitably fail. Cherish that idea and hold it close. Move forward and try to have a graceful failure or not to fail, but with the knowledge that you have already forgiven yourself for when you do - not if you do. Then you shall have peace.
Man I would not trust the sandboxing on any modern game engine enough to allow that.
House Passes $1.275B National Quantum Initiative
The level of tracking they do is downright criminal. If someone makes a clear effort to avoid tracking and you track them anyways then you're a stalker. I've tried it all and I never use chrome unless I have no other choice. They track you anyways based on behavioral analysis across sites.

The answer is simple: criminalize their behavior. If you think that measure is extreme then you must not be aware of how dire the situation is. You shouldn't have to go through all these hoops and even when you do it's all futile.

A DNT request header should be treated as a digital court ordered restraining order,where violators get prison time(CEOs of the site).

This will solve sooo many problems without eliminating targeted advertising alltogether. A balance in favor of the people needs to be established.
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What to Do If Nuclear War Seems Imminent
I think you're mostly right; the only thing I'm more skeptical about is the availability and reliability of high def maps and semantic knowledge as you say. Maintaining such thing will be expensive and I wonder how it will scale country-wide as opposed to a few select cities. I bet using the self driving cars themselves to do the mapping and correct mistakes will be a big part of that.

Rough localization in a snowstorm (as in good enough to use prior knowledge of signs) or rain shouldn't be too hard. GPS still works in bad weather and lidar localization (scan-to-map matching) should be hampered but still usuable.
Our founder went off the rails and developed a substance habit.

It got so bad that he was taking money from company account paying for drugs. Eventually arrested, lawsuits followed and now he's sitting in jail. Just a genius that couldn't control himself...
It's got more credence coming out of Troy's mouth than, say, a random commenter's like mine, his somewhat bit too scathing snark notwithstanding, but on the "stripe.ian.sh" thread a few months ago I observed [1] that EV, or rather, people's mental model of the trust that EV confers is broken. People typically care about whether the site they arrived at was the one they were intending to visit, which the computer can't possibly know without additional input, but EV has attained a role of serving as a flawed signal of such, because the browser bar said something that doesn't look alarmingly different.

What we're seeing now is the convergence of forces that are pushing short-lived, automatic DV certs and players who are keen on de-emphasizing EV's imperfect role as a destination surety signal.

Big sites can get by with DV because people trust big sites by fiat, just by mental associations they already have to a URL. There's no benefit to Facebook having an EV cert, because literally everyone who'd want to visit Facebook knows Facebook's URL. User error about entering credentials on the wrong site -- accidentally due to typosquatting, or through leading such as phishing -- is better mitigated in other ways: multi-factor authentication (especially unproxiable such as U2F); not by making the high-profile site pay thousands of dollars for a text string in green, when there's users who fall victim to phishing from bizarre domains too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15904513#15909273
Thuốc táo bón Duphalac sử dụng chuẩn khoa học như thế nào?
How far from realistic is the amount needed?
This was about 7 years ago. It was bootstrapped. The site targeted US / US-based vacation destinations (Caribbean, Jamaica etc, not entire world).
Can it also predict wealth? Aren’t obesity and wealth correlated? Suspect green lawns and widely separated houses predict wealth compared to mobile homes in a barren lot packed together.
US House Passes Bill to Invest More Than $1.2B in Quantum Information Science
It's worth keeping in mind "Elon Time". 2023 is a "no earlier than" date. It's if everything goes to plan, no new problems arise.

I'd love to see it happen on schedule but I have doubts.
The market cap of an asset is virtually unrelated to the amount of money in circulation.
#yolo applied to an entire species
Turning off a customer and refusing to turn them back on until the wire hits the account solves all kinds of problems.
The movie for Woman in the Dunes is really great too!
> We are now a factor of 15 behind where we should be if Moore’s Law were still operative. We are in the post-Moore’s Law era.

Is this true? According to https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress it looks like we are maybe a factor of 2 or 4 off.
I hope the musician they choose isn't a pop artist like Justin Bieber or Cardi B. that would just be such a waste lol.
How Many of Your Memories Are Fake?
Interesting, so from a hosting POV you wouldn't be comfortable hosting your machine for others to game on?
After quickly glancing the IPFS document, I can't find the superiority over... say, BitTorrent with DHT and Magnet link(no tracker server or torrent file required.)

Save for data deduplication and IPNS maybe.

And isn't it rather contradictory? A gateway for P2P-based filesystem.
The reason for a filename is identity. This might be automatically assigned based on metadata (e.g. creator+date+index), but it's definitely necessary.
What is absurd is that one of the two largest smartphone ecosystems (Android/Google) is run by a company for whom their supposed "customers" are in fact also a product, with Google double-dipping by selling us off to a second set of customers (advertisers). It boggles the mind how... understanding... people are to Google's business practices; "well, they're an ad company, so it just makes sense they they'd want to put devices into people's hands that vacuum up as much personal data as humanly possible – I'll buy two please!".

I roll my eyes every time someone talks about the "premium price" of Apple hardware. Apple hardware is not all that much more expensive; it's just not subsidized via tracking/profiling (loss of privacy), and subsequent advertising, the way the competition is. This has always been the case with Android/Google, and more recently even somewhat true with Microsoft (Windows 10 and its multiple shenanigans).
did no one see armageddon, seriously?
> receive payment NET30 are credit cards + an online bill-pay service like Plastiq

I personally have helped out a few businesses with a 2% CB CC (which helps offset the Plastiq fees) that offers a 6-mo 0% APR term but the CL is the limit of the loan which limits the extent of the loan.

Most CCs don't have such gracious terms in which case you could be paying a hefty fee to gain that cashflow.

Having done this a few times, my conclusion is that this is a very bad practise and exposes a business with cashflow issues if this is a regular occurence.

A healthy AR is better than no AR but you know what's even better?

A healthy cashflow.
just because of churn. there’s sure to be an update very soon. not because i expect to actually run across the attack.
Predictive Analytics Is the Secret for Businesses to Survive Digital Darwinism
Read "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz.
The Readdle Story: Getting 100M Organic App Installs Through 32 Failures
I have had this fun idea for an odd architecture floating in my head for ages.

Lots of small processors with local work ram, cached ram, shared ram.

Each processor has a numerical id, communicates with each processor with one bit different in the id by optical link plus an additional link with to the processor complimenting all bits. They send messages and fill their caches from the pool of shared ram.

Place even parity processors on one board and odd parity processors on another board facing towards the first. Thus all processors have line of sight on their communication partners. Messages go back and forth with processors relaying messages by fixing one bit in the message address. All neighbours with a one bit better address are candidates for relaying. If any are busy, they have options to use another path.

This means the most number of hops a 2^19 core system would have to do is 9. If more than half of the bits are wrong then jump to the compliment.

So the example with half a million processors, each talking to 20 neigbours by optical links. Messages can be sent anywhere with a latency of up to HopTime*9. Filling a cache from anywhere in the shared memory pool would have a latency of twice that. If speed of light is the latency factor a 150ms latency would get you 9 hops across a 5 meter gap. Smaller is of course always going the make it better.

This is the sort of thing that would also probably need a new language. I'm not entirely sure you could come up with an appropriate language without at least a simulation of the architecture.
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Bingo. One of my favorite gotos. Any more ideas?

I size the prices with the retainers. Bigger the retainer, higher their priority and less the per project prices.
Planning on supporting AMD GPUs anytime soon?
And yet, you're here, commenting on Hackernews, when you could be donating your computer and time to the poor. Note how the authors stops at 'even millions' presumably, just shy of the order of magnitude of his own net worth. Funny how that tends to shake out: "Everyone richer than me is immoral for keeping their money".
Congress’s Quantum Science Bill May Not Keep the US Military Ahead of China
That's an excellent point.

But the problem may be that HR just processes nominal data, without considering nuances like that. So they end up firing experienced engineers, based on superficial (and perhaps outdated) data.

I'm not a software engineer, or familiar with relevant business practices. I get that physicians, for example, are certified for various specialties. But is there a formalized system like that for software engineers?

For some stuff, I know there is, based on ads I've seen. But what about particular programming languages, toolkits, etc?

Edit: coherence
That's horrible.

This and mental issues are some of the darker sides of startups that are not discussed a lot.
no need to RTFA! EV certs were nonsense from the start.
> being able to live with yourself

a bit too dramatic?
https://outline.com/ArCHfP
Not business meetings, no. However thats not what OP was talking about. OP was talking about spending 6 months in Canada and 6 months abroad and paying taxes to nobody while continuing to work for a foreign employer the whole time. That's completely different.

You do have to be careful, in the US it's not permitted to do anything other than business meetings on a B1. The UK is similar. If you do any engineering work at all you're in violation of your entry status. This is just the rules. If you do productive work and are renumerated for it by a foreign employer taxes may well be due. It doesn't often come up as you're not supposed to be doing it per visa rules.
Reminds me a little bit of this: http://www.povray.org/posters/
Not sure why you got downvoted. James Cameron makes a lot of sense, as he was the first person to pilot a sub to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
There's a lesson there about financial controls and auditing.
Might not work in all cases.

I have excellent clients who could not afford to pay for a consultation because they themselves were waiting on the client they were farming out jobs from.

They still work with me because they know I understand their cashflow issues.
Yeah. I suppose it depends a lot on latitude, but where I grew up, businesses and schools would need summer and winter hours so that activity reasonably matches daylight. Having everybody change at once seems much easier than letting everybody do their own thing. Especially given that computers are handling more and more of the clock-changing workload these days.
Morality has nothing to do with it, or at least shouldn't. It's a business with profit in mind. You think all these recent deplatforming/censoring has anything to do with freedom of speech or setting positive examples?

Nobody has time for that, especially businesses that are profit-driven and rightfully so. Everyone should have the right to speak their mind, but you don't get to violate the right of a private platform to exclude you based on rules they have set. You have a right to be heard, just build your own platform, nobody is stopping you.
I'm curious, how much would you have paid to be protected from this kind of risk and make sure you'd get your money?
> The answer they found: if the Earth’s oceans had twenty times more deuterium than they actually contain, they could be ignited by a 20 million megaton bomb (which is to say, a bomb with the yield equivalent to 200 teratons of TNT, or a bomb 2 million times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba’s full yield).

A factor of twenty in the elemental composition of hydrogen, and a factor of a million in the fission efficiency of uranium. We’ve been lucky with regard to untested physical constants so far, but there’s no promise that that will hold going forward!
CEO would disappear for months at a time, with the promise of returning with capital. We never really knew where he went, and he wouldn’t let anyone else talk to investors (including me, who was CTO). Eventually he stopped paying us, but promised that the money was just tied up in the parent company set up in the caymans.

After 2 months of not paying myself or any other employees, the COO and I drainked the remainder of the US account and paid out as much of what was owed as we could to the employees before helping them find jobs elsewhere. I didn’t get any of the money I was owed and was facing pretty bad debt, but the experience was enough of a resume boost that I didn’t have a problem making it up in my signing bonus.

What I learned is that a title doesn’t grant you any control, and that if someone can’t be transparent with their inner circle of friends and colleagues (in this case cofounders), then they have no business leading a company.

Also leaned to not fuck with the cartels.