skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! I studied the library by porting it to TypeScript.

https://github.com/birkir/csg.js/blob/patch-1/csg.ts
Every person I have met who said they work hard for minimal gains was either not working as hard as they thought or not eating enough. I was one of those people until I started tracking food and workouts.
If I sit down for a meal I always tip 20% (except for that one time the server was so very bad and only got 10%). Otherwise I always tip 0%.
Is that really what happens? I would hope that if enough votes to come within a margin of error of changing the outcome were thrown out, the ballots would be re-cast. Or is there enough anonymity to make that impossible?
The vortex may not have been observed since air is mostly transparent.
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> I also totally understand why virtual consoles almost all use BASIC or lua, but (for me, not for my kids) I wish there were an option with static types. The combination of not being able to see much code on the screen at once plus no static type checking is pretty uncomfortable for me

At some point the question becomes why not just use Unity, BFXR, Bosca Ceoil and ASE Sprite if you want no constraints and better tools with a similar Pico-8-ish aesthetic? That question is outside of the scope of the original post, but as I piece together your ideal fantasy console, it seems like not really a fantasy console but a simple general purpose game IDE with a statically typed language.

Edit: Btw, if what you want is a simple general purpose game IDE with a statically typed language that is somewhere in-between Unity and Pico-8 I suggest you make it or at least spec out your needs more formally! I'm definitely a fan of more people making game creation tools (and software development tools in general) that fit their needs\use cases.
Also makes a tempting target for the sales and marketing dept within the company or whomever buys them out.
Would love an early access code too!
One of the World's Oldest and Largest Organisms Is Dying
PhRMA: Drug list prices in ads would be confusing
I hear you. But just wait. You've already been on HN for four years. I remember discovering reddit, and then HN, and thinking similarly to you: "whoa, wouldn't it have been cool to have found this earlier?" And yes, it would've been cool. But hey, you found HN. You could've found it later. In a few years, people will be telling you how awesome it is that you found HN so early.

Similarly, I started going to Improv Everywhere events in 2006 (https://improveverywhere.com/2006/02/18/cell-phone-symphony/), just before they stopped doing every event as a massive cattle call. I was disappointed that I found it so late! But a few years ago, on a reddit AMA, the founder of Improv Everywhere himself told me that as a "longtime attendee", I should make the point of saying hi to him the next one I went to.

So wait! Be happy you didn't find it later, and think about how much history you have to discover.
>>> a wealth tax is very much needed

>> The wealthy pay the vast majority [...] already

> I don't get why this is always trotted out?

Surely the context of the conversation explains why.
Thanks for linking to the video, it was the most informative handling of the subject I have seen.

After watching, I have a question, please forgive if it is ridiculous or displays some fundamental problem with my layman's understanding of the subject.

If time becomes space-like, and space becomes time-like, can we think of black holes as "time stars"? Would every black hole within our observable universe contain information from all light cones within the observable universe? In other words, would different black holes contain different information?

Does my question make sense?
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Anyone interested in blockchain is going? Would love to talk to YC partners about their thought on blockchain
The title of this is oddly apropos.
Greplin returns!
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Solid point and the article has been updated.
You realize that you missed the point.

(Or maybe not. There are people who would have love homeopathy so long as the dilution instructions were open source.)
The dividing line is the Cascade Mountains. If you've ever seen both sides of those mountains in Oregon or Washington, you know why: very different climates.
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Yes, I believe that's half the issue.

Anecdote time. Say Shameless Joe A quit college, got a physical labor job at ok-ish wages, worked his way vigorously through the ranks, and fought each step of the way to secure a better future for his next-of-kin, which in his mind was bypassing the 4-Noon, tough labor conditions he had to endure. He is absolutely going to recommend college, or the military. Others who graduated in his frame of reference got to the six figures quicker.

Say there's Successful Joe B, who graduated from college, got that nice position at the too-big-to-fail company, in a time where the pension and the wrist-watch at 25 years was still a thing. Successful Joe is going to insist Maybe Successful Mark that 'college is the one true way to fulfill all his dreams and desires', despite what those dreams and desires are, because it worked in his frame of reference.

Are both wrong for hypothesizing the rational decision to insist on higher education in this light? No, I don't think so.

But. Now let's look at the money.

Shameless Joe A isn't going to help Most Likely Successful Luke with college. Luke knows this, hopefully. Luke is then forced into figuring out how to make it happen, if it's even possible. Likely Successful Luke is now responsible for funding his education. If he's a white male with parents who make decent enough money, who have some college experience, Luke realizes pretty quickly he is seriously screwed. Luke will likely a) insist / fight on not going to college, b) join the military and have them foot the bill, or c) accept fate, and be smart about his financial choices. Even with help from the state, rising education costs will put Luke in debt at least a bit right out the gates.

Successful Joe B is smart. He set aside a nice fat account for Maybe Successful Mark, and it's grown gradually over the years. Mark is looking at minimal impact to his bottom line given that this fund is huge - books, tuition, and 4 years living-on-campus huge, as long as it's expended through his university account. Mark is flying high as a kite - no debt! Mark after graduating with the same degree as Luke now has options: a) rapidly go into debt to get all the things, or b) see the gift-horse he received for what it is, and attempt to avoid debt at all costs.

At the end of the day there is advice and choice. Developing a sense of scrutiny and critical thinking is the aim of education. If either Luke or Mark don't develop that sense, they've expended resource for nothing, and should've avoided higher education altogether.
That's not how all the players view it.

Like it or not just because you feel justified in something doesn't mean that others will.
Which is cool until you find out that it's $350.
In Futurama, astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Its new name: Urectum.
Except for the fact that, you know, it's a Korean company... but sure.
Of course it's possible. Acquiring the breaths is the hard part.
Sort of. Discord is more like a recently played list, rather than an all-inclusive library.
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I miss all the different shapes. Nokia alone had so many different shapes in the early 2000s, different layouts, wide ranges of colour ect.

It's just rectangles now

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanthui/3881160306/
Just because you feel like something should be a certain way doesn't mean it is.

You are being unrealistic.
You could also criticize the fact that businesses have done 2 things in the sake of profit:

1. Outsource their labor and production, that could be done stateside
2. They're refusing to use local materials (A business has to spend money to make money.. the money isn't following back in the local economy)

They're doing to leverage poorer economies to get goods and services cheaper. (That should at least account for the portio of the homeless that want to work but can't find it)
For maths, here's a good starting point:

https://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.h...

For CS, check:

https://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/

For more maths, and other topics, see:

http://www.reddit.com/r/eebooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/physicsbooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/econbooks

For yet more on maths, see:

https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/
It's almost as if the government mismanaged this whole affair.
OnePlus 6 is a year newer. Essential was launched in August 2017, not 2018. Its competitor was OnePlus 5.
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If these incidents were covered up, why would you trust anything else they say?

They often claim after a crash that the vehicle was in manual mode. Do you trust that?

They need to come clean, they need to become more transparent, and most importantly, they need to be regulated with an iron fist.
Companies/organisations that expect you to behave more like cult members than employees.
This is essentially how the Directory managed to maintain power during the French Revolution when their party was set to lose a popular election in 1798. In departments where the Directory was expected to do especially poorly, they engineered electoral irregularities ahead of the vote that could then be used to invalidate the results. This became known as the Coup of 22 Floréal.
I don't think you can scale the filaments up. Scaling this up would mean adding small holes to a parachute and filaments around those... And then we would get into the task of folding something full of small filaments.
If someone even has to ask the question in the OP then they need a co-founder to handle the soft skills. I really think it's as simple as that. It's unreasonable to expect to be able to get good at everything.
Link (PDF) to the City's economic analysis of Proposition C: https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Econo....
Can somebody recommend an app for pitch recognition training for people who have the capacity to distinguish small differences in sound frequency but zero knowledge of music theory? E.g. an app that plays a sound and asks to name it doesn't qualify as I have no idea of how do musical notes and their varieties sound and am to be taught these from scratch. Of course I can find some examples and listen to them but that would take a fair amount of repetitions to memorize and I'd like the app to help with this too.
If you decide you are going to be a smartphone company, after you do sufficiently well on your first phone you do not go and decide to go into the market of connected home.
Like it! Do it in the blockchain and people will love it even more
If the EHT analysis of Sagittarius A* supported this theory, that would surely it would have already leaked? It seems like it would be simply too incredible not to start circulating amongst researchers and then get out into the wider world.
Because of how orbits work, I don't think you can really "focus" on an area by reducing the number of satellites without a corresponding decrease in availability and/or throughput. If you have a constellation that has consistent coverage over the US, you're also going to have simultaneous coverage over a good chunk of the rest of the world (although possibly not anywhere more northern than the United States).
Elcomsoft is in the business of FUD to sell their software. While they are not wrong by default, this is one of their statements that is simply false.
In other words, an unfortunate trade-off which exists due to a technical limitation. No one _wants_ a notch.
Not unless it gets scientists grant money. Cancer research is a great example of science not being able to change direction because the money is too good.
Arguably that's the exact same architecture Helm are describing. The EC2 instance your Helm box VPNs into is (arguably) "the server" - in that it's the "public service" endpoint. A good lawyer could eloquently argue that the Helm device on your residential internet connection is no more "running as a server" than the Dropbox or Google Drive apps on your laptop or phone...

(Note: I've been doing a similar home-rolled version of this, where I have a mail server under my couch that opens a reverse ssh tunnel and forwards port 25 and 465 from whichever transient EC2/Azure/DigitalOcean/Hertzner/CloudAtCost VPS Ive got listed as my MX records. A little bit of Route53 API automation, some Ansible to set up the ssh tunnelling, and some "canary" gmail and live.com email addresses to check outbound deliverability when I go to switch VPSs... It's been running pretty much untouched since 2014 or so...)
Those missing buttons are the only indication

That's a wonderful example and no, they aren't. To a contemporary Soviet reader (or a modern one with a bit more context), it's crystal clear who the 'they' knocking on the window in the middle of the night are. In fact, such readers would have a pretty good idea where things are headed the moment the new 'friend' Mogarich appears and is described. And after the knock but before the buttons, our knowingly winking omniscient narrator suddenly disappears, stops being omniscient and refuses to tell us what happened! The buttons are a nice detail at the tail end on which to hang an explanatory footnote, perhaps, but not some hidden clue, left in there for readers to suddenly slap their forehead and say 'Aha!'.

It's a multilayered work and, stylistically, Bulgakov is often a circumspect narrator. But the repression bits are not some particularly deeply hidden layer at all. You're barely a few pages in when Ivan suggests Kant be sent to the Solovki, one of the OG Gulags. The very title of the first chapter is a reference to the paranoia and legitimate fears of the period.
You can see that on a class-by-class basis by digging into funding data per class here: https://seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 (click on the "+" to expand each class)

In the most successful class (AirBnB in W09), the majority of companies went to $0. In the most successful recent class (W14), the median startup raised a seed round but nothing else in four years.
What about python for minecraft? I am not sure how accessible it is but I can see how it would appeal to kids, and they would learn a language that they can apply to other things.
> One of the primary properties of the tech boom (and, lets face it, almost all industrialized capitalism) is that it doesn't account for nor take responsibility for side effects of their overwhelming wealth.

How is the tech boom different from any previous period of explosive growth, in that regard?

Examine similar periods in the past, and you will find far more harmful consequences, that were given far less attention or caring by their progenitors.

Major developments in the past had far more disruptive and harmful consequences to affected communities, that were basically ignored and treated as "price of progress" by the people of the time.

How much negative impact does the current boom even have on local communities? It's very misleading to blame it for homelessness in San Francisco. The homeless of SF by and large aren't people who can't afford rent anymore so now they live on the street.
> I've been applying for everything from senior engineer to VP of engineering. Ever since I turned 60 last year, I'm getting no hits on my resume.

For senior engineer, the sweet spot is around 10 years of experience ( like early 30s ). Too young or too old or too little experience or too much experience, you're resume is going in the trash can ( or more likely just filtered by software ).

Your degrees and ICPC champion are not important for a senior engineer position. Nobody really looks at it. Domain knowledge and experience with tools ( current ) is more important.

For VP, I suspect you have better shot getting a position through your network rather than sending resumes. Ask people you worked with if they are looking for a VP and then try that route.

Think of it from a prospective employer, why would they want to hire you when you are going to be hitting retirement age? I don't think you'll get much success by just sending resumes.

> If you were hiring, can you tell me why you might not even do a phone interview? I need to know what (mis)perceptions I apparently need to overcome.

Everywhere I've worked, we've never hired any developer in the 60s. To be honest, we've never hired anyone over 30 through resumes. The people we hired through resumes are college grads or devs in their 20s. The people who were over 30 either started in the company in their 20s or got the job through word of mouth. Don't underestimate how much a good reference from a current employee matters to a hire manager.

Also, the tech/engineering sector is going through a "cultural" or "diversity" change. The execs/HR are encouraging managers to take in younger, female and minority workers and of course promote them. There is a push for a less white ( or asian male ) workforce and a more diverse and representative workforce. So if you are an older white or asian male, you are really facing headwinds.

I think your best bet is to ask your friends and co-workers.
They do offer a free API but it is nowhere near as full-featured as WU.

While I don't disagree with you that the NWS has thousands fewer weather stations than WU, it should be noted that the NWS has very strict standards for weather sampling and reporting.

NWS weather stations are set up in a particular way to ensure consistent, accurate data. WU, less so.

For example, last week I was in a part of the country where the only weather station for 80 miles was a PWS from WU. According to its data, there is a 40-degree (F) spike in temperature every morning around 7am. Clearly, this is a thermometer that is being affected by the sunrise. This doesn't happen to NWS equipment.
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This doesn't make sense to me. Everyone can distinguish relative pitch, that's how humans understand music. It was probably a crucial part of human evolution, somehow, as we all can do it. Tonal languages use relative pitch, not absolute pitch. Everyone can learn Cantonese regardless whether they have AP or not. If you claim tonal languages train you for AP that's citation needed, I don't think that's true (we would expect tonal language speakers to be more likely to have AP, a trend we haven't observed).
Try searching for "amusia". A long time ago I took a test at http://www.delosis.com/listening/summary.html. It's been down for years now, but some of the results/discussion/links are still up.
Hard West Turn
Some seeds have a small leaf attached, making them spin as they fall and slowing their descent for the same purpose. It's not about flying, just about prolonging the time spent in a moving body of air.
Most of all, don't hire a VP of Sales in hopes they'll solve the problem for you. Hire an organized and experienced midlevel person who will accompany you on calls and take care of follow up and closing.

And pay up for a top-quality mentor. An experienced sales exec can coach you and help you navigate the process. Have a call at least once every two weeks, and pay a lawyer-like rate. Who knows, they may become the VP of Sales as the company grows.
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As a product manager (technically "program manager" at Microsoft, but it's roughly the same as product managers across the industry), project management is one of the many things I do, in addition to the list above. But I am explicitly not a project manager in that I'm supposed to minimize time spent on that and share some responsibilities in that space with my engineering counterparts.
You are fully correct of course - excellent points!
A better way is stop doing stupid things. Many of us need to sleep in because we play around on our phones/games for hours before bed. I get up between 5-6 am every morning and go workout. Then I have super productive time for a few hours without interruptions. Come 9-10 pm I go to bed and am sleep in minutes from a full day.

I realized that when I used to stay up later I wasn’t very productive, and just wasted a lot of time.
I learnt event-driven programming, OOP and GUI toolkits architecture studying a "borrowed" Pascal Turbo Vision manual that nobody in my high school was using.

Later on I wanted to mess around with VGA mode X and direct memory access, but there was no internet at the time, and I had no books. So I just tried and tried, until it eventually worked.

In a way, being limited to just a few sources of high quality information forced the young me to learn how to study them in deep. This was helpful because it gave the foundations and the method, and made it possible to explore unknown fields without guidance.

Now that I wrote it down, I realized that this journey was so satisfying that it continues, in other forms, to the present day.

I would not be surprised if the OP was moved by a similar desire to offer this kind of experience to kids. If so, I definitely can understand why.
Is this a code error or a protocol error? If a protocol relies on a message from the client side to allow access, it's a protocol error!

It's unlikely that ssh - a protocol that powers large swaths of software, has such an error, but always good to hear from the experts that this is indeed a coding error.
Thank you. These are great leads.
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sure, but you counter research with more research not a personal anecdote.
Has been disproved my ass. Opposition speech are absolutey being censored.
That also doesn't make sense. You commonly have a heap but no runtime allocation under such circumstances.

MISRA, JSF C++, and even NASA code guidelines say no dynamic allocation after initialization.

If it's written in C or C++, that's also crazy town, and you're pretty much guaranteed to have dangling pointers as auto allocated objects are left behind on old stack frames.
Hey bootsz, when your connection is down, you'll still have a local cache of your messages, contacts and calendar events. Email has retry built in and sending servers typically retry for at least 48-72 hours. The hardware has no moving parts so it should last for a long time, but when there is an inevitable failure, there are encrypted backups that can be downloaded to a replacement device and decrypted using keys only you have access to.
You can keep pushing that view, but it is too narrow to be of use whatsoever.

The government here is structured to make public schooling answerable to local concerns and funded by local taxes. It's the barest minimum government you can apply.

Private schooling only amplifies the issues with this system. It has all the same problems, along with not needing to be transparent or accountable to the public.
If a kid can understand a for loop, I think the kid should be able to understand indentation.
I'm really not a fan of the entitlement attitude that we should just take money from the rich to fix our self-inflicted problems.