skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $75B value and it still faces the most basic question. Makes me feel I don't understand business at all.

Business journalism really does a disservice when it pushes the "they have no revenue model" angle for these massively scaling traffic aggregators. It was a bit interesting when this was written of Yahoo, I guess, since we didn't have proof yet that online advertising was a viable business model.

In any case, the playbook is very well understood. Build a loyal audience numbering minimally in the hundreds of millions (Small audience pubs only achieve success with subscription-based models. Mid-sized audience aggregators may not have a viable business model at all). Demonstrate that the cost of building said audience is either free or pennies per user (e.g. unpaid viral audience growth). Make several dollars to tens of dollars per user per year by running advertisements to said audience. The more relevant or (lately) emotionally compelling the advertisements the more you'll earn per year per user.

Of those components, building an enormous audience is the hardest part, which is why every company that has followed this model, from google to snapchat, has focused on that long before building a corresponding revenue stream.

We've seen this model a dozen times and it's understood well enough that financiers are able to approximate the value of Bytedance future revenue streams rather confidently.
Yeah, The problem is so many normal activities are criminalized in our puritanical society. Recreational drugs, recreational sex.

So many "criminals" don't need rehabilitation cause they haven't done anything wrong, anything rehabilitable.

The actual dysfunctional people are small percentage.
A PN-Counter is a method of coordination. And if the writes were coordinated with the consistency time, that would be sufficient to implement consistent counters (or even a naive counter in a store given atomic operatons).
The US was once a leader for healthcare and education – now it ranks 27th
I hate when I see a sciency article from them. They are great with human interest stuff (if you like their spin) but the technical stuff is always lacking. You can tell where the writer hits their wall of undertanding and tries to fill it with quotes instead of working with someone knowlegable on the subject.
Indeed! It is quite the game of chicken...
you can block Zuckerberg. I had already blocked Zuckerberg and just blocked Chan to see if I could.
A sample template project using Nuitka if you want to play around with it: https://github.com/zedr/aiohttp-nuitka-docker
Source please on your claim that no sex before marriage leads to longer lasting marriages. That sounds like the kind of thing conservatives would make up without data to back themselves up. Also, even if it were true, longer lasting mariage doesn't mean happy marriage

Also I'm talking about nowadays, where people can have sex before marriage without having to become outcasts in their community or risk pregnancy (with protection. there is ofc still a risk, but it's much lower)

Getting married just to have sex when you could just have sex and then pick a partner when you really know them & not because you are horny seems like a wiser thing to do
This is kind-of painting with a broad brush here but the social change that the boomer's pushed hasn't been too kind to them. I have several women relatives who were taught by their mothers to stay home and be a good mother and wife (their words). So much so that when they got divorced, they didn't know what to do. They hadn't factored being a single parent into their life plans so they had to quickly and painfully learn things like how to manage finances.

I can't help but think that Gen X and Millenials saw/heard what their mothers and grandmothers went through and have chosen to educate themselves and secure their lives before getting married and having children.
Some people have interpreted this as evidence that millennials are more conservative than they seem, based on the idea that staying married is a conservative value. But I think it's just as easy to see this the other way: if staying married is a conservative value, then getting married in the first place surely is as well, and millennials seem less willing to do that unless they're confident it will work out.
WhatsApp Message Destroys 71% of Indian E-Commerce Firm’s Value
Fluke is one of those used-to-be-good now-abuses-their-reputation companies anyway. They're in a mode of milking consumer trust for what it's worth until it's gone.
Sex before marriage was pretty common before. It just got covered up. There were a whole lot of extremely “premature” babies being somehow born at a healthy weight, but this only ever happened with a couple’s first child.

These days, pretty much the only people who never have sex before marriage are religious extremists. Those people also tend to believe that you can be tortured for eternity if you get a divorce, which probably reduces the incidence somewhat.
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> Or people demanding more men veterinarians?

I was curious about this and it turns out that in the United States and Canada women have indeed become the predominant gender by far in this line of work, at least according to what I could find in this study (which is quite old, back from 2003): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340187/

> Veterinary medicine, previously a male-dominated profession, has experienced a significant increase in the number of women studying at veterinary colleges and practising in all fields of the profession. In Canada, and in the United States, women constitute approximately 80% of the veterinary college student population. Forty-three percent of practising veterinarians in Canada are now female, and women are predicted to represent the majority of the veterinary profession by 2007

It's curious because over here in (Eastern) Europe I'd say that men are at least as equally represented as women when it comes to being a veterinarian, I wasn't aware that in Northern America things had changed.
Its easy: Lie in your job interview ;) (not about how much you know or how much did you accomplished, but how naïve/hirable you are)
>The Leave voters will all call you undemocratic. That sentiment imposes a definite cost on you as well.

This is the same country that has the queen give "consent" for all legislation, correct?

What exactly is the point of the monarchy if they won't step in during this serious issue to act as the "adult in the room"?
> So is using a drone for a terrorist act, so by that logic, wouldn’t that negate the need for this system you propose?

No, I'm just noting that however we deal with this for aircraft might help here, since the same rules apply.

> To cover what area? If you mean something like the White House, sure, the cost would very likely be justified.

High risk locations. Dense metro downtowns, sports stadiums, government buildings, large public utilities (nuclear power plants), etc.

> If you are talking covering the entire United States, or even just everything important, you are insane (not meant to be rude, but a trillion dollars wouldn’t be unrealistic estimate there).

Assuming 10,000 locations across the U.S., and assuming 50 $50,000 average installation cost (which might be low, but we can scale it easily for ballpark costs after), that's $500 million. If we double locations and quadruple average install cost (which is supposed to account for locations with multiple towers, etc), that's still just $8 billion. That's totally doable when it comes to stuff tagged as national defense.

> I think a key point you are missing is what real threat a consumer grade drone is in reality.

Your prices and payloads are way off. A few grand ($3k-$6k) gets you 20 lbs of payload easily (and more if you need it), from multiple manufacturers.[1] $10k seems to get you like 40 lbs or more.

> For the realistic payload of something like an M67 grenade, the “kill radius” is only 5 meters.

Grenades are not optimized for damage. They are a compromise that takes into account explosive power, compact size, and delivery. The fact they are meant to be hand delivered to within a few tens of feet means a large blast radius is actually detrimental to their design. 10+ lbs of payload for something that would want the maximum blast radius and power, or the maximum directed penetration for hard targets, probably allows for quite a different set of compromises.

> The terrorism angle is in reality pure FUD and is used as an excuse to appeal to the uninformed masses.

There's a lot of FUD, but I don't think it's complete FUD. It's a real attack vector, and if there's no mitigations, I think it's possible it will have the best cost to benefit ratio (since the chances of finding the perpetrator would be virtually nil, and the cost is relatively low), and that's all it takes for it to be used.

1: https://filmora.wondershare.com/drones/top-heavy-lift-drones...
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I've gotten the impression (and that's all it is, could be totally wrong) that Apple's a little hesitant to go all in until ABI stability arrives in Swift 5. Even after that, I doubt they'll do much rewriting of old stuff; but I bet we'll see most new stuff being in Swift then.
Simplicity and C++? Like speaking of rope in the house of the hanged, as we say in Italy... Congrats for the effort though.
BBC, NPR, etc. are not for profit and receive some public funding yet fall into the exact same trappings. News requires resources to publish. Resources require money. You need to make money, or you're not going to exist for long. In times past the monopoly of the traditional media on news had the advantage of basically removing economic concern from the picture. Journalistic ethics come with a cost. One of the few examples of where a monopoly/oligopoly remained relatively benevolent. Of course on the other hand, it also opened the door to important issues being completely ignored - but it's hard to say if that was all that much worse than the vicious rat race that media has turned into today.

A really great article I always recommend on these topics is Robert Kaiser's "The Bad News About the News." [1] Kaiser was a 50 year veteran of the Washington Post working as both editor and reporter. He retired briefly after Bezos bought the paper. It's a great article that gives an insider perspective on the rise and fall of traditional media, and how they reacted and failed to react to the internet in time.

[1] - http://csweb.brookings.edu/content/research/essays/2014/bad-...
Deterministic Disappointment in C++
Local Presence: Handle with Care
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fSkpD51FKmy8VEO9P86j...

For some background about this talk, please check out Niall’s paper entitled “P1095R0/N2289: Zero overhead deterministic failure - A unified mechanism for C and C++” here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2289.pdf
Nim, Go and Crystal are garbage collected.
Is that not a good thing, though? Especially for the working class, breaking up via an expensive divorce, after an expensive marriage, seems objectively worse than breaking up a lengthy partnership, for all involved.
Yeah, how about he never to intended to livestream it in the first place and just said so to gain attention
Please no, don't add DRM in keyboards.
Liminal: Delivering Immersive VR Content via Its Innovative Platform
https://www.spyder-ide.org/

It's worth watching developments in Jupyter QtConsole [https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-qtconsole-4-4-81f2eaad5706].
Now my question is, can it damage SSD? Or interfere with my wifi?

Is it strong enough to alter my brain?
Ask HN: Twitter thread from last year on blockchain hype by female influencer
Last year there was a scathing long thread on why this particular person thought blockchain was stupid. All I remember was that it was long, funny, and that the person was a woman and they had impressive credentials to be talking about it.

Anyone remember a twitter thread that fits that description?
Ask HN: Examples of issues in OSS that would have been avoided/solved with a CoC
With the recent announcement of the new CoC of Linux, I've been wondering about how efficient it is, in terms of protecting communities from abuse.
And since I don't spend much time following the discussion around OSS communities, I don't have any good examples.

So do you have examples of problematic situations in communities without CoC where problems appeared, that would have been avoided and/or solved if the community had a CoC? I'm also interested in issues solved because of a CoC in communities that have one.
They're still in charge.
> > fellas

> Not just men! Men, Women, and everything in between.

fella (fel·la)
- nonstandard spelling of fellow, used in representing speech in various dialects.

So we follow 'fellow':

fellow (fel·low)
- a person in the same position, involved in the same activity, or otherwise associated with another.

And so we can conclude that this is completely fine. It can easily be reasoned that the GP was using it to refer to a generic group of individuals not just a single gender. By you drawing attention to it when it was a proper usage of the word, actually does more harm than good to your cause.
In the United States one has a right to a speedy trial in criminal cases. No such right exists for civil cases like this one.

> In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Too late. All your codebase are belong to us.
Hardly a "single manufacturing defect", more the failure of an expected miracle to arrive. Getting the process shrink to work has always required a whole load of minor innovations to line up, and we were always wondering when Moore's Law would fail to deliver them on schedule. Now it seems to be happening.
You seem to have restated the problem.

Surely the decision should be based on the likelihood of future criminal action. If a criminal past is accepted as an indicator of future criminal activity then we have rejected the concept of rehabilitation. If this is the only deciding factor we may also blind ourselves to other risks.
No, but "I was high and tweeted some nonsense" shouldn't be a standard either.

I'm not saying Musk should get off scot-free, but it'll be sad to see Tesla suffer, when companies like e.g. Uber or Equifax, for which dishonesty and negligence is standard operating practice, continue to function with no consequences. But then, I guess the universe isn't fair.
I agree with that list and I’d also add value types in structs. Getting rid of all the shared state that objects and reference types add has been a big win for stability and correctness in my apps. I’m getting out of iOS development in favor of the web but I’ll miss swift.
They're often filled with dark patterns too. I have to dig about seven pages in to turn of tracking to third parties in some of these popups.

Might be a difference with me being a European visitor though?
News aggregation is meaningless in China. However AI-based might make an English language version useful. But how does AI get rid of garbage? Is there any working product at all? I went to bytedance and it appeared pre-.
If you think that's when "evil" crept in, you really should think again how "evil" works - or, how would you implement and scale such a business model. Hint: long before they even started taking over the world of ads. The goals were defined at the beginning.
Yeah owning there only makes sense if you want to live there a long time.
Stop Confusing Jitter and Delay with This Helpful Infographic
Also Gen X. Everyone forgets Gen X though.
Nuitka does actually use libpython, so it should be expected to be highly compatible.
How true is this today?
Here is one that should reset your terminal after accidentally reading a binary file, in most cases. Some of these are different on linux vs. unix vs. mac. You could put these in a file in /etc/profile.d/ or in your ~/.bashrc

alias fix='reset; stty sane; tput rs1; clear; echo -e "\033c"'

List only directories:

alias lsd='ls -h -b --color=auto -d */'

List by size:

alias lss='ls -Ao --sort=s'

Hand dyslexia, or the alternate to installing "sl"

alias sl=ls
alias xit=exit
alias moer="more"
alias mroe="more"

Long PS

alias p="ps -Hefcwww"

Shorthand for disk and memory usage:

alias f="df -Ph;free -m"

Bash function to display colors:

function colors()
{
for fgbg in 38 48 ; do
for color in {0..256} ; do
echo -en "\e[${fgbg};5;${color}m ${color}\t\e[0m"
if [ $((($color + 1) % 10)) == 0 ] ; then
echo
fi
done
echo
done
}

Functions to do rot13 and rot47 to get around word filters

function rot13() { if [ -r $1 ]; then cat $1 | tr '[N-ZA-Mn-za-m5-90-4]' '[A-Za-z0-9]'; else echo $* | tr '[N-ZA-Mn-za-m5-90-4]' '[A-Za-z0-9]'; fi }
function rot47() { if [ -r $1 ]; then cat $1 | tr '\!-~' 'P-~\!-O' ; else echo $* | tr '\!-~' 'P-~\!-O'; fi }

A couple of memory stat functions

function memfree() {
free|awk '/^Mem/ {printf "%4.1f",($2-$4-$6-$7)/$2*100}'
}

function memperuser() {
ps aux | awk 'NR != 1 {x[$1] += $4} END{ for(z in x) {print z, x[z]"%"}}'
}
I host http://compellingsciencefiction.com statically from an S3 bucket. The thing scales remarkably well, never had a problem during spikes, and costs only a few cents per month.
That's like 14 hours per day.

You will be surprised how many people in developing and under-developed countries put in that kind of effort without breaking a sweat.

40 hour work weeks are the luxury of developed first world countries.
Northern Ireland is a colony of the UK if it is anything at all.
That's been symbolic for a long time. It would be a constitutional crisis if Her Majesty started getting involved.
Stability is good if you have kids.
SBCL on my 2012 Mac mini:

rjmacmini:~$ sbcl
This is SBCL 1.4.2, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* (defun fib (n)
(declare (fixnum n)
(optimize (speed 3) (debug 0) (safety 0)))
(if (<= n 1)
1
(the fixnum
(+ (fib (- n 1))
(fib (- n 2))))))

FIB
* (time (fib 46))

Evaluation took:
14.957 seconds of real time
14.947616 seconds of total run time (14.934818 user, 0.012798 system)
99.94% CPU
38,799,794,836 processor cycles
0 bytes consed

2971215073
* (SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE "/tmp/fiblisp" :toplevel (lambda (&rest args) (print (fib 46))) :executable t)
; in: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE "/tmp/fiblisp"
; (LAMBDA (&REST ARGS) (PRINT (FIB 46)))
;
; caught STYLE-WARNING:
; The variable ARGS is defined but never used.
;
; compilation unit finished
; caught 1 STYLE-WARNING condition
[undoing binding stack and other enclosing state... done]
[defragmenting immobile space... 643+15263+734+344+25029+16756 objects... done]
[saving current Lisp image into /tmp/fiblisp:
writing 0 bytes from the read-only space at 0x20000000
writing 848 bytes from the static space at 0x20100000
writing 1863680 bytes from the immobile space at 0x20300000
writing 11472480 bytes from the immobile space at 0x21b00000
writing 26542080 bytes from the dynamic space at 0x1000000000
done]
rjmacmini:~$ time /tmp/fiblisp

2971215073
real	0m14.785s
user	0m14.755s
sys	0m0.020s
rjmacmini:~$
The TV show Silicon Valley explained it all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
How I Found Myself Learning About Time Changes in the Western Soviet Union
You're right, although I was mostly talking about that part of the comment in isolation. There's definitely strategy in spending as well.
This idea of "alignment" is absurd, countries have non-transitive border arrangements all the time. It might bring the always-questionable idea that the EU ever had a "single market" under scrutiny, but that's weird ideological posturing not a serious obstruction to Irish access to the UK market and vice versa.
I was waiting for Gordon Freeman to emerge from behind the machine with his crowbar...
Well, one point made in the article I mentioned above was that thermal stress limits the life time of a reusable rocket. Plus the lost payload as you need fuel to land the rocket again. Also, and at least that part I can confirm, a missile is tube is not a lot more than a aluminium tube. So, there is my home work for the weekend: rocket science and LEO launch economics!
Yes, and if they can keep the project healthy, we can expect it to continue to increase in speed, in fact according to the authors the speed improvements are just starting.
Yes, investments involve risk. If you believe that another cataclysmic crash is coming to the real estate market, then stay out. If you think it's unlikely, it can be a relatively low risk investment for the returns.
"If you aren't paying, then you aren't the customer. You're the product."
> These days, pretty much the only people who never have sex before marriage are religious extremists

That's an incredibly ignorant and inflammatory thing to say.
Thanks for noticing! The templates on the page are adapted from the actual tools in the app. They use sample data that has dates that are updated whenever the page is rendered. It's all cached on the backend so it doesn't end up costing too much extra in load time.
What position? If you want to disclose.
When I used this library, I was impressed with how their design not only kept their own code clean, but made it incredibly intuitive and fun to write clean code on top of their API. Coworkers also looked at that code years later and went out of their way to give positive reviews of Lua.
I've never used Musica.ly myself, and I don't have any kids of my own, but I came across this video [0] where a Youtuber looked at clips from it. It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen, I can't see how it could be worth that much money. I wouldn't want any of my future kids anywhere near there.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmphkNDosg (NSFW language)
Its not. There rejection rate is higher, though. Still, a person who gets into Harvard is more likely to also get into Google than vice versa.

Google gets more applications per open position, so they also have to reject more. Lots of people think "Why not give it a shot and apply at Google." Very few think the same about Harvard. Also, I would say it takes more effort to apply to a university. They will require essays, SAT/GRE and letters of recommendations for a valid application.
There are a ton of implications here that I don't buy. I could just as easily claim you are far less likely to get divorced if you aren't really given the option. Socioeconomic dependence being what it is.

By all means, though, keep your ideological superiority.
That they don't share shadow data on request is already breaking the GDPR.

Even if they would get some lawyerish twist on it, sometimes grey scales isn't needed. Just give me my effing data - if you have it you have it.

It's a bit of FB meta-theme on HN right now, and I wrote something similar before in another comment, but I really wish we could have some whistleblowing considering the shadow data.
The sad history of the C++ throw(…) exception specifier
Back in 1995 warez demos were one of the things that most drove my interest in programming.

Tangent: 'BBS: The Documentary'. Great film, I only wish it were about 4 hours longer -- it seems much too brief.