skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I still haven't completely figured out yet is the difference in liability between a UG (Haftungsbeschränkt) and Einzelunternehmen in Germany. As an Einzelunternehmen, you (as the sole proprietor) are liable with your private assets for any outstanding bills etc, I get that part. But is there anything else you're on the hook for? Am I'm missing something?

Let's say I started a SaaS company as an Einzelunternehmen. What's the risk for me personally since I can always spin up and immediately cancel cloud resources with hourly billing as customers come and go. I don't see a lot of financial risk in terms of customer churn. Again: What am I missing?
So in D it's impossible to work with files if their filename is not Unicode?
THE US DANGEROUS VACCINES BANNED BY JAPAN WHAT WILL AFRICAN LEADERS DO ABOUT IT?
- avoid implicit/explicit biases

- respect privacy of individuals

- avoid personal identification

Overall don’t do anything with AI that is ethically wrong to do it by other means (for example, you can replace AI with expensive human labor to do it).
Author doesn't seem to care that there is a difference between Unicode the standard and utf-8 the encoding. While the changes on the fringes to the system are debatable, they are also in a way sensible. Internal to your application everything should be encoding independent (unicode objects in Py2, strings in Py3) while when talking to stuff outside your program (be it network, local file content or filesystem names) it has to be encoded somehow. The distinction between encoding independent storage and raw byte-streams forces you to do just that!

Stop worrying and go with the flow. Just do it as it is supposed to be done and you'll be happy.
Rshiny of R is something that Python doesn't quite have an equivalent. Recently dash from plotly is trying to become one. This is one of the usecases of how shiny can influence bringing R to masses.
I am very impressed by permaculture but I think it needs much more time that I have to spend. Is this your job or you work on that as a hobby?
I’m sympathetic but it’s tilting at windmills. These are the exact same things people were arguing about 20 years ago- if only everyone in the desktop Linux world would all agree to standardize on a bunch more high-level common things (package managers, desktop environments, etc.), then some form of desktop Linux would become a juggernaut that would steamroll Windows and take over the world.

Arguably Android has achieved the role of Windows in the mobile world, but not because the Linux community collectively all agreed to standardize on it. The fact that it’s Linux under the hood is almost incidental to its success. I don’t think that’s the kind of victory he wants though. 20 years ago there was a sense that desktop Linux would just magically converge, eventually, to effectively a single platform. But there’s never been a critical mass of support for any one distro or desktop that caused all competition to wither away.

There may absolutely still someday be a popular form of desktop Linux that can go head to head with the big players in terms of market share, but if so I don’t think it will be referred to as “Linux”, and most users won’t even know that they’re using a Linux/GNU/etc. system. Maybe ChromeOS can get there, who knows. But that’s likely not what he wants either, he wants what so many people thought was inevitable 20 years ago. I would never dissuade anyone from trying to make that a reality, but I personally lost hope many years ago.
Not sure I entirely get what the problem is. I am happy with my distributions NOT including stuff I don't want. I develop on Linux and maintain servers. I do not want anything unnecessary on those machines by default because it makes some developers life easier because he doesn't need to read the doc or search a nebulous error message to get dependencies anymore?
Feel free to ask me any questions, I'll try to answer them all.
Drove past a parking lot full of RVs next to the Amazon facility in Campbellsville Kentucky. Quite startling to see.
The Mod Coder Pack wasn't developed by Mojang. MCP is the work of the community to reverse engineer and deobfuscate Mojang's binaries. The whole point of creating the MCP in the first place was to get around Mojang's use of tools to break most Java decompilers and try and document and come up with sensible names for all of the classes.

If Mojang had simply compiled and released their game without obfuscating it first then there would be no point to the MCP in the first place.
Some configuration management tools already abstract package managers. For example: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.0/type.html#package.
But it often turns out there is more complexity in the problem that is ignored/forgotten in the solution. So the solution seems simple and complete at first but can never gain adoption beyond all but the most basic use cases, so it ends up useless as a standard.
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1. You found your call sign already, but if you're interested in upgrading, the https://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/ were very helpful for me becoming a general which lets you play in the world of HF radio. There are exams in almost everywhere about once a month http://www.arrl.org/find-an-amateur-radio-license-exam-sessi... and they're just multi-choice which aren't too difficult.

2. For me, three things. There are a variety of low-earth orbiting satellites that can be accessed with nothing but a Baofeng and a yagi built with some Romex copper elements, glue, and balsa wood (Google AMSAT FM). There's something awe-inspiring to me being able to talk to people contient wide with just a few watts and < $50s of walkie-talkie gear. Second, even though it's been possible since the 50's, it's still a rush to talk to people across the US or world over shortwave with just a long wire thrown up in the tree. I got started with the http://www.elecraft.com/KX2/kx2.htm although there are certainly more affordable entry paths. Some spare Ethernet cable, the ugly balum http://www.hamuniverse.com/balun.html and a few trees make a surprisngly effective means of communicating on 40 meters without that much power. Third, although ubiquitos cell service has lessend the usefulness, the distributed nature of being able to transmit your position and exchange txt messages with people around the world via APRS https://aprs.fi/ is still amazing to me.
You're right: "reek" does mean "smoke" in Scots.

In modern usage, by speakers of Scottish English, it means "smelly". I'm not 100% sure, but I'm confident that "reek" in this context was borrowed from Scots and the meaning has just drifted over time.

Its etymology is interesting, and it consistently means "smoke" or "smoking": https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=Reek

Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) and Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge, often just called "Irish") are both direct descendants of Middle Irish, which ultimately comes from a Celtic root. Gaidhlig gradually replaced Pictish, now extinct, about a thousand years ago.
Yes, but the greater gravitational pull is the Iraq War, which is a very different topic.
Thanks for the links, I do plan on investing some money on it and I hope I could get some of them back. I do buy bio groceries and it's much more expensive than normal food is.

I want to create a greenhouse like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBspR2p0YYM
The rear doors in my car can't open from the inside for the kid's safety. I always check the mirror on the passenger side and will ask my passenger to wait when necessary. My mother-in-law is notorious for throwing the door open wide without looking (often hitting parked cars). She can't be taught so I just put her on the back seat now.

I live in an area where the parking spots are on the left side of the road. I don't know how common it is for Dutch people to check the mirror for the passengers door. Maybe it just depends on your mother-in-law.
You mean "ownership is nine-tenths of the law"?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097661
IMHO security is a primary concern for only the founders/lead engineers during early days. When it reaches hundreds of thousands of users, there is little you can do about security. There will be several managers, dozens of developers and testers. It's pretty easy to hire someone who doesn't really care about your company and product, and ruin a lot of your hard work. I might be wrong but many breaches have occurred because someone working on a small module has made a laughable commit, and it has slipped from the hands of a lousy tester.
I am Dutch. My wife is a driving instructor. She says that drivers should be taught the Dutch Reach: hold the door with your left hand, unlock and open it with your right hand, look in your mirrors and through the door opening, if it's safe open the door fully and leave the car. Walk toward the back of the car so you are facing the traffic. (When entering the car you go around the front of the car for that same reason.). But it's not true that you fail the exam if you don't follow this procedure.

She also says many instructors do not give a f*ck and skip teaching these procedures.

The Dutch people claiming it's not a thing are either older or had a sloppy driving instructor.

EDIT: in the past people were taught the: "look in the mirror and over your shoulder" method. Many older instructors still teach this.
Visual Studio is great if you develop for Windows and less than useless if you don't. The vast majority of humankind does not need the full feature set of Office (most, in fact, would be quite happy with Google's or Microsoft's web based counterparts). As a developer, I don't need Photoshop or Illustrator - I can get away with Inkscape and Gimp - even when I work on a Mac, where the Adobe apps are available.

As for games... Well... Just buy a gaming rig or a PlayStation. I don't want games on my work computer.
I have a hard time imagining software companies benefitting from copyright extension. The vast majority of software is obsolete literally decades before copyright expires, in most cases the source code will be lost or otherwise unavailable even if the copyright expires, and the CPUs able to run the software will no longer be manufactured.

A movie or song might become a classic, but software just gets old.
The left is really feeding the fires on the right when they pitch fits about what people think an do on their own time. The mostly rural Trump supporters get a lot of laughing at when they say things like, "The big city liberals want to tell us what we are and aren't allowed to think."

But that's exactly what this looks like. I'm 100% opposed to Kavanaugh and pretty liberal on most things. I think we do have problems in this country, particularly with the way crimes against women get ignored.

People flipping out at work because a boss has a certain friendship or a political view need to grow the fuck up and get back to work.

There's a certain very tiresome and loud group on the left that really doesn't believe anyone has a right to disagree with them. If you do, you're a monster, probably a rapist thug, and a nazi, and only barely human.

They really aren't helping to promote policies and ideas that I generally support. It would probably attract even more unwanted attention for Facebook to fire them. But at any company not constantly in the spotlight, people filing complaints about what other people do in their own time would get shut down without question.

I'm very critical of facabook in general. I think they make a lot of mistakes and do a lot of shady things. But in this case, I think Zuckerberg telling them to basically fuck off was the right move.

We've seen what happens when you listen to the angry mob and let them get their pitchforks and torches ready. They won't stop until someone loses a job. We saw it with Brendan Eich, and there's no doubt in my mind that any other response from Zuckerberg would've led to an escalating situation where this guy had to leave. That's just not appropriate.

If people don't have a right to their political beliefs and to support their friends out of work, the left deserves people like Trump to tell them to shut up and leave people alone just because they don't agree with everything.

The militant mobs on the left need to stand down so that actual progressives can try and get some work done.
Thank you for your suggestion, they do have very good instruction on their knowledge base. https://kijanigrows.com/knowledgebase/
I don't really understand your point here? Why would you change the internal representation of the text storage type? This doesn't change anything.

Or if I read this incorrectly and you want to merge 'bytes' and 'string', but enforce 'utf-8', how would you ensure that conversion to 'utf-8' while communicating with strangely encoded content (files encoded in utf-16-be for example, or worse) would be enforced? I think you can't, it's the programmers job to ensure everything transitioned over to the correct encoding, which is exactly the purpose of 'string' being distinct and incompatible with 'bytes'.
Most of them aren’t stolen, just lost.
Thanks for the direct link. The questions started at around 20 minutes which were valuable for the quality of the talk.
This talk is not about Linux. Linux is a great platform that takes ABI and backwards compatibility seriously.

This is about the common userspace stack that we commonly refer to as Linux. There are two issues with this stack. One issue is that there is no major distribution that takes its role as a platform seriously [0]. The second issue is that there is a lot of common ground between the major distributions that is not standardized.

If different distributions have different ideas of package management, then that is one thing, and we can live with that difference. If different distributions have the same idea of using openssl, then they should do so in a compatable manner.

[0] I would go further and say that there is no distribution that even pretends to be a platform.
As I understand it, AI ethical principles relate to the development of a superintelligence. Talking about unethical usage of narrow AI is like talking about the unethical usage of any other tool - there is no significant difference.

The "true" AI ethical question is related to ensuring that the team that develops the AI is aware of AI alignment efforts and has a "security mindset" (meaning: don't just try stuff and repair the damage if something happens - ensure in advance, with mathematical proof, that a damaging thing won't happen). This is important because in a catastrophic superintelligent AI scenario, the damage is irreparable (e.g. all humanity dies in 12 hours).

For a good intro to these topics, Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark is a good resource. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom as well.

For a shorter read, see this blog post: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

For general information about AI ethical principles, see FHI's website, they have publications there that you could also read: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/governance-ai-program/
This seems to be a reference to James whats-his-name. He's really had a lasting impact.
I think you are missing one big point here. Not just someone working at FB went to support Kavanaugh. This person is the VP of global policies so technically he represents FB and the values of it and he did it without seeking any consultations from the company.

Nowadays it seems like everything remotely related to politics has to be discussed in left/right sides, no buffering area. People has to be left or right. What surprises me is the lack of sympathy, seeing things from other people's perspective in both sides. At first I felt like that some of my female friends were overreacting to this Kavanaugh case because Kavanaugh could be totally innocent but I then learned that some of the complaints/remarks are not even about politics. It's more about their personal experience related to sexual harassment. And they did soften their views on the Kavanaugh case when I explained my perspective to them. The point here is that people should communicate, not start internet fights. Sympathy is the key and face-to-face communication probably work better than internet. What I see mostly on the internet when it comes to politics, even on YC, is pointing fingers at each other and that drives people even further away, more extreme to their views.

Back to Facebook, I think it's one of the greatest companies in the world. Just how many companies in the world that would allow such discussion inside the company? Questioning one of the highest executives? Questioning the CEO/Boss? The opinion of every employee matters? And still function so well? Wow, unheard of. People in Silicon Valley is definitely leaning way more toward left than right, especially at big tech firms. However, such open communication inside the company is remarkable and it kind of mirrors the real word when it comes to US politics. Though such open communication can be biased, skewed to one-sided opinion but removing the open communication will not resolve the root problems. Open communication, even online fights, is better than no communication at all. I originally came from a country with complete dictatorship and any discussions about politics/government is banned completely online. It seems very "peaceful and stable" and does have quite a lot of advantages (with millions of problems lurking around) than democracy. However, I think in US it may seem very chaotic/annoying inside the company/country, but it performs well as a whole. The VP who supported Kavanaugh and Zuckerberg seemed to stand their original side and no stories of FB employees going crazy/quitting job coming out (yet?) after this. The point here is democracy, in my opinion, is a privilege and credits should be given to Facebook/Zuckerberg for cultivating such open and unique culture.

That's my two cents. Peace out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157047
It blows my mind how many Tesla apologists/fanboys are in this thread. Liking Elon Musk and thinking Tesla is heading for bankruptcy are not mutually exclusive. I think he's generally a force for good in the tech industry and greater world, but I've been pretty grim on TLSA for almost 3 years now. They are overvalued, under delivering, and Elon has seemed to be in the midst of a manic breakdown pretty much since his breakup with Amber Heard.
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In Python 2 it works almost the same, except you only get an error when encoding/decoding doesn't work out. So I see this as an improvement.
> Overall don’t do anything with AI that is ethically wrong to do it by other means (for example, you can replace AI with expensive human labor to do it)

Not sure I understand what you mean -- can you explain this?
It looks like an apology on the surface but I don't think it is one.

"I'm sorry for making you feel that way."

That's very close to the classical non-apology apology "I'm sorry you felt that way". [1]

He isn't sorry for his behavior, but sorry that his behavior caused certain feelings. The post he's responding to doesn't mention any feelings, so I assume he meant "Sorry for making you feel that you were pushed out of the scene". He's shifting the focus from his actions (for which he is responsible) to other people's feelings (for which he is not responsible, since he can't control other's feelings).

"If you want to talk, my email is in my profile."

Meaning: Please don't continue talking in public about this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
Let's see him actually introduce a bill first. (Nothing related shows up in Congress.gov).

When media talk about "a bill", if they don't state a bill number, don't believe that it actually exists.
Not every manufacturer is doing it. Purism does not.

User upgradeable, no planned obsolescence

Solid aluminum with regular screws—not screws designed to screw you and prevent user servicing, repairs or experimentation [0]

[0] https://puri.sm/learn/why-purism-computers-are-better-than-p...
They are replacing whole half of the notebook. It's everything except the monitor. So price is the same.
The Bazaar of Data
It is a personal preference but I would rather know one tool they is more versatile (especially for such a task)
That's why we developed a product which main feature is to aid in installation of Windows 7 to new PCs:

https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/install-w...

There's a growing community of users and developers who restrict themselves to Windows 7. Forever. Win7 EOL soon, so no updates from Microsoft? Fine. It's a feature. Updates from Microsoft are no good anyway.
Golang Implementation of Hierarchical Timing Wheels
The list of names is not impressive.

If you drill little bit into the background of people, the list is full of crackpots or confused old people. Last time it came up, I checked people from my country (Finland) and they were all crackpots.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17970112
Agreed although there are probably easier ways to achieve stable temperatures, e.g. a cellar.

The rest is definitely marketing hype. For remuage the sparkling wine bottles are slowly tipped from horizontal to vertical so that the sediment gathers at the cork end. The sediment can then be removed and the bottle recorked. There should be very little or no sediment in wine that's for sale.
I'd totally keep my heart in a jar on the bookshelf, or embalmed and framed, hanging from the wall.
Moreover, you'd think that such a "high profile" petition would be hosted on something a little bit more prominent than, you know, a Google Drive shared doc.
To expand on tinkertellers comments, a lot of ml based ai is based on historical data. For example, identifying factors associated with hiring a good employee may identify colinear features that correlate but do not contribute to being a good employee. Because historically women/ people of color/ homosexuals were discriminated against, identifying these latent features as them being “bad employees” may carry biases that you are not wishing to use for an ai hiring task.
In the case of Scots and Scottish English, there's a lot of blurring and the distinction is of questionable actual value -- though I would make that distinction personally. I speak Scottish Standard English, and have a parent whose first language was a variety of Modern Scots. I find it very hard to follow them when they've switched into it to speak with someone from their hometown. Due to the difficulty in parsing it, both in my case and in the case of the other parent after 40-ish years of marriage, I'd consider it more than just a dialect.

Both Scottish English and Scots descend from the same root Anglic, but there's been divergence since then -- in the same way Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are descended from the same root, are somewhat mutually intelligible, but are treated as two different languages. It's useful to make that distinction simply because there is a degree of unintelligibility.

Everyone on this website is speaking an Indo-European language, and I'd bet a majority of them have an Indo-European language as their first language. They're all from the same root, so are they all speaking dialects of Indo-European? Or are they speaking distinct languages? Where, exactly, you decide "this was a dialect, but now it's a language!" I can't say, but that point surely exists. It's obviously muddied by politics and national identity and a hundred other factors, but at some point, surely, a language ceases to be a dialect and becomes a language of its own.