skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the only one puzzled by this namby pamby opinion piece.
I've been building a ssms clone for hive too. One of the biggest complaints from the business when we switched from SQL server to Hadoop is the terrible tooling.
At any business effort beyond hyper local markets, there is virtually no way to avoid tainted money or unethical markets. You're going to have to compromise somewhere. The question is, how and where do you draw the line?

At some point as a founder/fundraiser, you will cross paths with finance or supply chains that support exploitation, coercion, violence or illegality.

The most successful business people don't seem to care about these cases, and as long as they don't come with explicit connections that would be bad for business or can't be managed, the more the merrier.

At any scale of business that is globally impactful, it's fundamentally impossible to avoid these chains, so I'm not sure what the actual response should be.

I've thought through many approaches here, from realpolitik pragmatism to ethical fundamentalism but none feel correct.
It is shorthand for UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi - countries that are just a few of the handful remaining autocratic theocracies in the world with terrible human rights records
> low productivity growth

Low productivity growth, or low wage growth (and possibly, especially when compared to productivity growth)?

Do you believe those bitching have a legitimate grievance?
> that has found its way into the startup/tech sector over the last decade

That seems disingenuous "we stumbled upon some mountains of money"
This is fantastic. Do you get any different types of direction when on the water? I’m imagining the head scratching when a feature request comes in for tide and wind would seem helpful to be incorporated into travel time.
Syzkaller: unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
Given the impact of it and the reaction of visually impaired people, it's a great mark to reach
DKIM and/or SPF can be a liability if you want to accept everyone's email. Only use if filtering is more important.
The PBB crisis realy was astounding. My dad and the rest of our extended family lived in Michigan at the time. He developed type one diabetes in his mid thirties. We have no known familial history of the disease. I have always wondered if they were related.
I 100% agree with this approach and the pleasure at seeing the successful outcomes.

This is something more than continual encouragement or simply being a mentor or sounding board. This is looking at the universe of possibilities and, seeing a good potential, pushing a small stone down a steep angle of repose.

I'm a senior data scientist, and occasionally come across exceptionally bright but self-limiting people. If we get to know each other a bit, I've taken several under my wing and sponsoring their transition into statistics/data science activity. It's my absolute favorite thing to do as a mentor, both for selfish and selfless reasons.

I'm careful with this, of course. The antithesis to this notion is encouraging to work towards something then wasting your and the person you're encouraging's time. Much of this is self-selecting.
The underlying paper is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-018-0062-8 .

The JRDF statement seems to suggest that only a subset of the trial mattered. Can someone more familiar with the area comment on the sample sizes? (I have no sense if n=9 is actually laughably small from a set of 52)
My guess: that information could stifle entrepreneurship
I agree--my comment was tongue-in-cheek. Whether there is or isn't a market cycle, these folks haven't been around long enough to see it.
There is a box on the outside talking about scalars that is part of the line of reasoning for vectors. It probably should be moved. It looks logically out of place.

I had substantial math in high school. I am usually the mathiest person in the room in meat space. I don't bother to identify as mathy on HN because I'm not impressive for this crowd.

I have never before seen the terms vector and scalar for math. The explanation for what they are is insufficient for my needs and there is no explanation as to why you can't cross the two.

The layout places the word play part awkwardly. It would make more sense and be easier to follow if you grouped the vector (wordplay) and vector (math) explanations together instead of having them each on the far outside of the piece. They should possibly go under a single heading that splits or separate headings that are properly labeled to indicate (vector: math) and (vector: wordplay).

Your explanations have a history of assuming a high level of base knowledge while apparently being aimed at a lay audience. As noted above, I have a relatively strong math background. If I don't get it, you are shooting way above the heads of your (presumed) target audience. You need to provide more math background while keeping it succinct and conceptually accessible.

I know that's a challenge. I've done plenty of that while homeschooling my twice exceptional sons who had multiple years difference in ability in different subjects. And, hey, this seems to be your hobby (or whatever) for whatever reason. So if you really want to speak to a lay audience and not just other math majors, you need to up your game in that department, a thing I think I have more or less said to you previously.

I realize you can be sincerely working at it and not making much progress if you aren't getting meaty feedback. So there's some feedback for you.

(Okay, I have admittedly seen vector and scalar in GIS. That knowledge is rusty and I never felt I really adequately understood it for my needs, which may be why I am claiming I don't know these terms. They have always been essentially empty words to me.)

The title also needs work. It's a lousy title, especially for something you are submitting to HN.
My general feeling is that no one involved really wants to know how the sausage is made. Recent events have highlighted Saudi Arabia as a major investor and that's caused more focus but deep down I don't think engineers, executives, VCs and everyone involved is really committed to getting the most transparent view of money flows. Because at the end of the day it means less money overall.

I think regulation would have to come into play to enforce transparency, do firms disclose their largest investors when filing an S-1? Even if they do, is it possible to get down to the root of each dollar? Shell companies exist for a reason.
Ok got it. For a 1-bedroom in any western US metro (Seattle, SF, LA) that would be well below market.
just wondering, it would disclose a large part of their portfolio and so their investment strategy
I would be very interested in a source on this.
> A very careful, considered expansion of a few features in vi to improve its integration with outside script interpreters (Perl, Python, etc.) as well as language servers could've produced an extremely compelling editor.

Isn't this what neovim is for?
We have enemies who want to destroy us precisely because we are out destroying others and making enemies. You've got your causality wrong here.
South Korean Women Fight Back Against Spy Cams in Public Bathrooms
It’s about thinking through the repercussions of your work and the fruits of your labors.

This is not a new concept, but it’s nice to see people realizing that they have a responsibility their inventions. People in tech make things more efficient, easier, cheaper. When tech skills are applied to weapons systems, those systems start to get terrifying —the machine does more of the work and it’s better, faster and cheaper. If you make a weapon that makes it easier and cheaper to kill it will be used to do just that. Once the invention leaves the creators hands the inventor gives up the power of choice and can not control if it is used for good or for evil (putting aside for the moment, the question of if it’s possible to kill for good). Is that who you are? Are you a maker of terrible weapons?

I can only answer for myself. I have the aptitude, but that’s not who I want to be. I’m not a pacifist, I have anger and fear and the urge to escalate in response to perceived injustice just like anyone else.
But I make the conscious effort not to do violence, and not to create weapons. By doing that I decide that’s not who I am.

I don’t presume to answer for you, but I encourage everyone at least think it through and decide for themselves.
What's really interesting is that in 1930's, US had one of the smallest army/armed forces of developed nations. In 1939, which was three months before England declared war on Germany, US Army had about 180,000 men, ranked 19th in the world and smaller than Portugal’s".

Had there been no birth of communism and Nazism and Japanese militarism, it might have stayed that way. But those did come about, Britain's dominance (also France) of the globe was to be replaced, which turned out to be US and not communism/Nazism/other-ism. And I am personally mightily thankful for that.
>My understanding is that the IPCC estimates put the costs of climate change at ~2% of world GDP, and more aggressive estimates still have it under 10%.

Kind of like the initial Titanic captain's estimates after the impact with the iceberg?

The IPCC is a bureaucracy, it's job is to balance climate change control demands with requirements from businesses and governments to "not do much" because doing what's appropriate is bad for business and goes against the hysterics for "continuous growth" on which modern policy and economy is based on...
>However, voter registration does not include who a person voted for in an election.

Many include

1) Last time you voted

And

2) what your party affliction is
The Saudi Government Needs to Be Punished
There is fundamentally no way to do voting on the blockchain that limits one person to one vote and still maintains a system that isn’t completely reliant on trusting a third party at every important level. To start, and this is really important. The end users MUST maintain their own private key and choose their own software that interacts with the blockchain directly. If they use some common website or mobile app then the blockchain is providing nothing. That site / mobile app is already in the middle of 100% of the data. BUT, how we verify people and distribute private keys without again trusting a middleman? And if we don’t distribute private keys and instead have people register online, what stops someone from registering 2 times, 10 times, 1000 times, 1 million times? If some party is saying who can and can’t register for private keys for this blockchain then they are… what? A trusted third party.

What if I lose my private key? Can I just no longer vote for the rest of my life? If I can somehow reclaim my vote that means there is somebody that’s actually controlling that blockchain and it’s no longer trustless and reliable if some party has that power. If I lose my private key and lose my right to vote then that’s a bad system.

What if somebody starts paying people for their private keys? It seems like it’s illegal and immoral to let the practice continue but there’s no way of stopping it. Those private keys are either irrevocable which stays true to the blockchain and not trusting of a middleman OR there is some party the ability to revoke those keys and in that case… THAT’S a trusted middleman.

What happens if a user claims the vote they cast isn’t what the public ledger shows their public key/address as having voted for? What if a lot claim that?

What does the blockchain really provide in these kinds of imagined uses? That a certain set of private keys DID sign a certain set of transactions - assuming a 51% attack isn’t affordable enough for some party wanting to sway the election. That’s it. No connection to reality. Any non awful implementation of it involves inserting trusted third parties at every part of the process. And this isn’t because we’re ‘early’ and we’ll somehow figure these out. They’re fundamental to blockchain design.
The us spends money on everything. Charity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Giving_Index

Education: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

Research: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_researc...

Etc. Pick your stats and you can tell any story.
I'm in the middle of reading "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling, which does an excellent job of clearly demonstrating that not only are billions of people living better lives than they did 20 years ago, but that also we're conditioned not to believe that good news.

The world is a lot different than many people think.

I highly recommend it.

[1] Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - https://amzn.to/2CXPdCu
Racism and fear of change are always factors. They may not be the main factors here.
Lower level manager here for 20+ years, doing both with direct reports and my managers:
- with new hires, once a week. With experienced people, we align the frequency based on their interests and needs, but at least once a month
- agenda: by default the agenda is theirs. They put anything they want to discuss there and I have just a couple of small items.

My items are:
1. review of past period, work plan for the next few months with a focus on the period till our next discussion
2. formal feedback on what is going well and what not (informal feedback every time is needed or asked for)
3. every quarter only: career plans, training plans

It usually works, or at least it worked in this format for the past 10 years, never had any complaints, always had excellent relations with direct reports (this is what I believe and this is what they said, I cannot be 100% sure). I am in managerial positions for more than 20 years, in the first 10 I would rate myself as a poor manager.In the past 10 years all my direct reports were managers themselves and I treated them as such.

What did not work:
1. Focus on projects instead of the person. Project meetings, even with 2 people in the room, are not a 1 to 1 and not a replacement
2. Be very formal. I learned that by having 2 direct managers doing that, so I promised myself not to do with my team.
3. Focus on anything else than that person. The meeting is for that person, not for the manager.
4. Be political and evasive. It works for some people, but they will never be trusted by their teams, especially if there are lower lever managers in the team. I was always considered to be abrasive, it is a way to say "very direct and too honest". My team seems to like that, the others are not my problem.
Stillwell[1] discusses quaternions in chapters 1 & 2, although the meat and potatoes of the book is more generally about lie groups and lie algebras. It's pitched at a lower level than most books on this topic by restricting attention to the classical matrix groups.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Naive-Theory-Undergraduate-Texts-Math...
I don't necessarily share the commenter's criticism, but one of the characters was made "officially gay" in response to current political events.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-02-07

http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-02-08
The phrase "what Clojure did for Common Lisp" reads awkwardly for me. What did Clojure do for Common Lisp?

I think most of these are supported through generic functions. Though, I think moving beyond alists is something you probably only ever have to do once you are doing some heavy lifting programs. In which case, I am curious if elisp is the best place to write that program.
Statistically, humans have one testicle.

The world is getting better statistically, that's the good news. That doesn't mean that everyone experiences it even if they are part of that very statistics.
They should say that then. The gulf countries are not the same.
>>> 17) We’ve rapidly reduced the supply of nuclear weapons
>didn't know that, it looks much better than those anti-nuclear guys said to me last time. Good news indeed

On the other hand the "reduced supply" is irrelevant, since they're still more than enough to kill millions and impact the lives of billions. The important question is if we reduced the likelihood of them being used, not if they went from 1000 to 200 in some hangar...
I’m not so concerned with the fiscal costs, and I think it’s short-sighted to think of the problem as one that can be solved or ameliorated by moving dollars and percentages around. The human and environmental costs, dollars aside, are staggering and painful to think about. E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-...

37% of world population exposed to extreme heat waves and an additional 400 million people exposed to extreme drought at a 2 degree increase. And they’ll be angry, and they’ll either find somewhere else to go en masse or will suffer even more if they can’t leave.
Google now also treats doublequotes as suggestions now it seems.

On bad days (I'm assuming some A/B-testing going on) it also ignores the verbatim option.
> Moorish (Arab)

I thought the Moors were from Morocco / Mauritania (NW Africa), and Arabs are from Arabia (between NE Africa and Asia)?

I've played several games of CK2 starting in 1066 Spain, it's a real race to consolidate both the split northern Christian kingdoms and the smaller Muslim realms in the south. Marrakesh starts out small, but it's pretty good at consolidating too, and ends up being quite a problem to deal with...
Walmart accepts EBT and has cheap groceries. So, when the EBT refreshes you get quite the crowd there. A lot of money gets spent. For folks not going to Walmart, it is interesting to see what is on sale or what never goes on sale at the first of the month.

Now, the interesting thing is since Walmart is such a destination, you will find some interesting policing in some communities. I would love someone to do an actual study on who gets tickets at what times of the month. After all, kicking people when they are down is pretty safe.
One of my application running at work has a task of creating a user ordersheet made through the main app workflow and transposing it to an HTML document which is then converted to a PDF document by wkhtmltopdf and dispatched via email, etc.

I found this setup to be really stable and easy to maintain, so far it has produced around 70k orders per year and has been running for over 4 years now without any hiccups.

Before that I was using phantomjs but it wasn’t as fast and reliable for some reasons that I can’t quite remember now, since I havent touch that part of the app in a long time.

All I remember is that wkhtmltopdf was easier to tweak and compose with.
I found accidentally many of my digestive problems gone just after I stopped consuming milk-based products for a week. I wonder now how and why our diet has evolved in that way.
I would think it could be argued that the incredibly rich benefit more from public infrastructure.

Do you still agree with your statement if Amazon had to pay a toll for every shipment?
Why Mojave’s dark mode isn’t dark enough
All is nice and well... until you need to code with a screen-reader. That kind of sucks, as those IDEs obviously use some non-native controls and the only thing the screen-reader can see is a blank window with no usable content. I was once very excited about such projects, but I'm not anymore because I can't really use them in any way.

With normal languages like Java etc. You can just use a different, accessible IDE (i.e. Eclipse instead of Net Beans). That creates some problems, especially when working with a team, but in the end, it can be done if you try hard enough. Smalltalk and smalltalky things that try to be GUI only, no command line at all, are completely hopeless, though.
Looks from that source like things have improved enormously in Asia, improved slightly in Africa, and after a century of improvements, have started to reverse in the West.
For example many homeless people have smartphones but they can't get a bank account. It can be really hard to pay your bills if you don't have a bank account today.

Adoption wise we have very long to go but the tech is here.
I haven't been to one but (there was one yesterday close to where I live) but fixitclinic another option if there is no repair cafe close to you. I can't remember how I found it, but I was planning on try and check one out. It seems like pretty similar thing.

http://fixitclinic.blogspot.com/
Canada still has a lot of immigrants, if they wanted to be Canadian, they could go that route. But citizenship should be more than 'access to real estate and shopping malls'.

I'd simply make it so that residences (and real estate ownership), and maybe some other things like their financial positions (even like regular current accounts) are within the 'New Singapore' but otherwise they can go where they want and do as they please in Canada without any kind of border or whatever. And try to make a deal with US so that residents also have 'Canadian-like' access to the US, meaning visa free travel etc..

People who wanted to live in Van or Vic could apply for citizenship.
F# type providers just makes it easy to do certain things like data analysis on .CSV files right?

Or does it link back into the IDE & debugger in some way I don't know?
Check out moon reader pro which handles mobi/epub/pdfs/etc
Given the negative environmental impacts of growing cotton, why would we want to grow it just to eat the seeds when there are so many viable alternatives?
oh nice, I hope they dont take any Chinese money, any Russian money, any African money, US money, European money, I hope they dont borrow money from banks, from foreign banks.
BC has relatively low property taxes for the area. But you can't raise them now or all the current homeowners would revolt as their taxes goes to unsustainable levels. Nearby seattle's king county has a tax rate of %1, texas has rates around %2, while saanich is %0.4. The UK doesn't even really have property taxes, just council taxes which charge flat rates for things like garbage collection AFAIK.

http://www.saanich.ca/assets/Community/Documents/Property~Ta...

You also cannot just say 'recently foreign buyers pay a higher tax continuously' due to various obvious discrimination and unfairness issues as these people convert into citizens. So you get stuff like the unoccupied residence tax (which should triple IMO to make it exceed texas's property tax rates) and the foreign purchase tax.

I think fears of racism is what partly delayed a lot action that has happened recently. This has been an issue 10-15 years in the making at the least.

My goal would be to eventually raise property taxes to make them negative investments unless rented out on an active basis, and divert those new taxes into something like the singaporean HBD flats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
Integrating GitHub Pull Requests into VS Code
6,000 civilians in Syria and Iraq is probably a gross underestimate, but regardless, it is quite small a price to pay for fighting ISIS, which has wrecked far more lives.

The real issue was the conditions that created ISIS in the first place, in which US foreign policy played a huge role.