skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please advise.

I'd advice you to quit asking people to do your homework for you, spend some time using the HN search feature, Google, etc., and come back with specific questions.

See: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Seriously, everything you need is here in the HN archives, in the startupschool lessons, etc., but have you done any research of your own yet? If not, why not?

Take this: * I've been trying hard to find good ideas but that's proving difficult. How do I find ideas for one?*

This issue has been discussed ad nauseam here on HN. Use the search bar for crying out loud.

Or go to https://www.startupschool.org/library and/or http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html and start reading.
Woman here. I don’t find the name offensive or foul or exclusionary, though I don’t find it especially humorous either and could understand why it might make some people uncomfortable. With that in mind, I’d describe it as a bit crass; and in a career context, unprofessional. Not worth getting into a flame war over, either way.
In my freshman physics class (1972-73) that price was a brief ethical issue. The professor said that for a midterm we could use one page of written notes and a slide rule. One student asked if he could use a calculator instead of a slide rule. "Are you going to buy calculators for everyone else in the class, too?" the professor asked. He felt it would be unfair to give such a big advantage to those few who could afford an HP-35 at that time.
What do you think about perennial grains that sequester carbon underground, like Kernza?

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/could-perennial-grains-be-n...
In what way do you think the two questions are alike, aside from one being the syntactic reverse of the other? What is the implication of that similarity that made you point it out?

[edited for clarity - original post was "why is that?"]
By that logic why not run their own taxi and car rental companies today? Vertical integration can make sense but it also often doesn’t.
Several do - I'm not sure which offhand though. The docs for each backend (e.g. [1]) explain what is supported.

[1]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/azurerm.html
where are the ads that block 70% of the screen?
That was a fun theory 15-20 years ago. We've now got piles of evidence it doesn't work that way. JITs can accelerate slow languages, at a stiff RAM penalty, but they still remain noticeably slower than faster languages.

Claims to the contrary at this point will require concrete demonstration. Starting from the union of Perl 5 and Perl 6 is just about the worst starting point for that goal I can imagine. (Not necessarily because "Perl sucks", but because any such solution to that problem is probably going to require writing the language with that goal from day 1, not taking existing languages as a given. Or, like LuaJIT, cutting things that don't fit. And between Perl 5 and Perl 6, there are sooooo many "things"....)
Have you read transpiled TS before? It's sometimes almost identical to the source. It's as close as you can get to just removing the static typing. Variables have the same names, for example.

I used to have a problem where I'd be debugging the JS instead of TS file because visually, they were almost identical.
Oh I’m sorry, did that hit a nerve? I’d respond to your wall of text, but that would require reading it. Better luck next time.
Well, I certainly don't draw the line somewhere that makes 60% of the US population definitionally "rich", nor do I think being able to afford an Xbox and a "big screen TV" qualifies one as such.

Personally I would draw it at an income where someone living within their means can afford to raise a happy, healthy, well-educated family and provide all with proper dental and medical care, including responses to unforeseen and serious emergencies, without being financially destroyed, and go on to retire in relative comfort.

Beyond that, you and I have deep ideological differences that I hardly think are worth airing in an internet forum, and I'm not going to bother.
There is still a chicken-and-egg problem assuming you want to use Terraform to spin up the Consul+Vault clusters, though.
Good point, we definitely develop value systems as we get older as we move away from self-oriented to other-oriented thinking.

As far as which value system is better, I think the nature of developing a sophisticated value system is to be able to make judgments about values and come to these conclusions based on research, careful consideration, and testing against issues. So if you're spending time considering your values, you're inherently going to be judging those of others in the process, and altering your values until you get to the point where you feel yours are better. But of course, its also incumbent on you to remain open-minded to the idea you are wrong and to be honest in the face of new information.
"A virtual joystick for touch capable interfaces."

Tune out the Twitter peasants. The name is perfect.
> Probably the main people getting stiffed are the publishers who are offering real traffic

Unless you're a large premium publisher like say a NYT, a Techcrunch, or even a Forbes, more of your traffic probably wont be real, and you have little to no control over that. The online ad/traffic buying game is so mind-blowingly convoluted, you can be a small publisher (foo.com), having your site spammed, and what little revenue you've made via your supply completely wiped out (i.e., clawed back by your upstream partner - even large publishers don't operate by themselves), and your reputation takes a hit.

The main people getting stiffed are the web users, and the advertisers. But it doesn't seem like either of them care enough about it to do something that can have a lasting effect
The Neglect of High Functioning After Psychopathology: The Case of Depression
How often do you practice?

Do you use it even when not searching for a job?
It isn't limited like that.

As you can imagine, Circle maintains fairly sophisticated minting operations able to execute around the clock. All that is necessary for coins to be minted is for Circle to broadcast a properly signed transaction.

Now, of course, Circle can't just mint a limitless supply because we have a minting allowance set by CENTRE. While CENTRE itself can't mint coins, they do operate a minting allowance system with around the clock availability which can grant Circle a additional allowance per a ruleset to effectively manage risk.

This might seem to be getting into the weeds a bit but support for multiple minters (Circle and Coinbase here for example) is a significant differentiator between USDC and other reserve backed stablecoins.
Could this endeavour be detrimental to the environment?
(Please read my whole reasoning before calling me a Climate Change Denier or something like that)

I understand that humans are changing the Earth's environment, but with this we need to acknowledge that other organisms are doing it too. In particular plants have been taking CO2 from the atmosphere for ages and continue to do so. If you look at CO2 concentrations for long periods of time, you'll find that the levels of today are not very different from what has happened cyclically for hundreds of thousands of years.

The difference may be on the fact that now we are adding an extra influx of CO2 to the atmosphere, but in doing so we may be balancing greater concentrations of water vapour, which is a much more efficient greenhouse gas.
If doubling the concentration of CO2 increases the temperature of the atmosphere, in say one degree, to gain another degree you'll need to double the concentration of CO2 again, so the effect of concentration of CO2 on temperature is logarithmic. Water vapour is much more efficient and by decreasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere we may increase the amount of water.

This is because of how photosynthesis (and agriculture) works. A plant breathes air in through small pores on their leaves called stomata. Doing so allows water to evaporate through those same pores. If the concentration of CO2 in the air is low, the plant will need to evaporate more water to absorb the same amount of CO2. On the other hand, if the plant doesn't have enough water to evaporate, it will close its stomata and the result will be lower growth and poor yield, simply because of the lack of carbon. Since nowadays many agricultural plots are using water from aquifers and other underground sources, we are actually putting into the environment much more water than would have been without agriculture. If we decrease the amount of CO2 we may push even further the plant's need for water and produce more water vapour, pushing even further the warming, since water is much more effective than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

We may be fighting against the wrong enemy. And in doing so punishing unfairly the poorest of the world, who rely on fossil fuel for energy and those who will be the most affected when crop yields start falling and the water available becomes insufficient.

I haven't been able to find a global warming model that incorporates this effect, but if someone made it this far into this comment and knows of any model that does, I'll be very grateful to hear from it. If someone related to this project reads this, please discuss it. It may be a mute point because some reason that I don't know, but it may very well be an important one.
Show HN: C++ Http-Live-Streaming Server built with Oat++ framework
I went through this experience, learned enough to hard (very hard) way that I start the Sales for Nerds podcast[1] so that other technical founders would have an easier time. ;-) Don't worry, there's only one episode where it's just me, mostly it's other folks sharing their stories and strategies. It's basically all the stuff I wish I'd had earlier...

[1] https://www.salesfornerds.io
> Alice's measurement does not change the state of Bob's particle.

> There is no measurement Bob can perform on his particle which will tell him whether or not Alice has performed her measurement or not.

These statements are not equivalent.

> Actually, it is precisely zero.

I meant that it's zero as in "the probability of a random real number in [0 1] to be 0.5 is zero", but not as in "the probability of a random real number in [0 1] to be 42 is zero".

> What is true is that no measurement can distinguish the state of Bob's particle (B) after teleportation from Alice's original (C). But this does not mean that the particles are in the same state.

C was a pure state and now B is described by the same density matrix so it is necessarily the same pure state.

> But B is in the exact same (mixed) state after Alice's measurement as it was before.

B is in a different mixed state afterwards and the two-bit message enables Bob to distinguish between the four potential pure states and recover Alice's original pure state C.
Lenders Share Their Underwriting Secrets with Credit Karma
Yup; our 3 came with 2 cables for the 2 phone slots; 1 USB-A to lightning and 1 USB-A to USB-C (wait, now I'm doubting myself.. maybe the 2nd cable is USB-A to micro-USB).

Anyway, point is, it has one of each, so if you have 2 phones of the same type, you'll find an active community of folks trading one for the other.
Which is something I haven't yet had to do as it seems a lot of relevant people are picking up on this and there are mumblings going on of this person getting the axe soon.

There have been more than one occasion where I'd find a potential solution to an issue this engineer is having, send it over to them as a helpful gesture-and I'd watch as they pull up the link, scroll immediately to where the commands are, bypassing every bit of text that gives insight into what commands are about to be ran, dependencies to interrogate before, or considerations that may be unique to a specific instance, and start slapping away at the keyboard without a clue in the world what the command they're entering is actually going to do.

I think it's less a skills gap but an issue with someone who is baked into their ways and hasn't been shaken loose from them on a more functional team.
I have an XS, and a diagonal wireless charging stand on my desk. It's utterly fantastic not having to plug in/unplug my phone constantly. But the upright stand allows me to still see/use it nicely :)
Exact same issue. Trying all the SSDs on the shelf, and "What the hell port is this?!"
On the other hand those jobs generally pay poorly and come with extremely diminished job opportunities, room to learn and apply new things, and are in areas that are more conservative and frequently actively hostile to differences. Outside the valley isn't a wasteland but it's also not really comparable.
Unclog the pipes on server x, where assignee y does not have the required credentials yet would be almost literally the crystal key situation.

Or, more common and more depressing: talk to contrived API z, where the WIP canary would be pointing out that the documentation is still missing.
Overall production was great. There was very little noticeable CGI, they used miniatures extensively and all the in-aircraft shots were filmed in motion-simulators in front of a massive LED wall that apparently made most of the crew ill. Gosling was even coached by an X-15 pilot on what buttons to push during filming.

https://youtu.be/wZEcwrBcqGs?t=42 (see also about 8:40)
This is arguably less readable, because it's missing some delimiters for your eyes to latch onto.

It's also not realistically parseable- the Haskell/Ocaml-like removal of <>s and ()s relies on application being left-associative, and if you read this under that rule you've changed the meaning (e.g. `From &'a Str`).
Apple's iCloud services suffering extended outage
MXFusion: A Modular Deep Probabilistic Programming Library
The question is rather: would a unikernel or monolithic kernel have behaved differently?

Probably #1 (or a nefarious person being root), but you do have backups and redundant servers, right? I'd read SMART logs first. Back when my Death Star died some 20 years ago I remember it getting more difficult by the day to spin it up. But once it worked, it'd work fine.. until the machine tried to read from a bad sector (a good OS wouldn't have frozen on that but this was Windows 9x).

Here are some alternative possibilities:

3. Physical compromise; e.g. a cable got yanked.

4. Disable write caching and continue despite the driver or hardware being bad.

5. There is no quick way to get physical access.

6. A disk server isn't necessary to keep the system up. Goes well with #4.

If you look at how it all went, the massive redundancy of cheap commodity hardware won. Containers add further on that, and no doubt more bloat can be removed via a unikernel or microkernel (leading to smaller attack service but also more complexity). But that doesn't mean every aspect of such a machine needs to keep running, and it does imply a FOSS solution.
I am not offended by someone's personally held religious beliefs. I am, however, deliberately excluded if participating means adhering to a code of conduct that targets my beliefs.
One interesting tooling idea might be, in whatever issue tracking system you use, to attach a TTL to assignments, so if the task doesn’t move to “done” (or “in testing” or whatever) by a certain point, the task reassigns to the original requestor/reporter.

The main reason this doesn’t work is because one of the biggest use cases for such tools is to formally promise that you’re going to do something (see, your bug report/feature request is in our backlog, you can track this ticket!) with no intention of ever actually doing it.
What's crazy is that they also tag on a post-comment * to correct something they said, which means they read it through at least once and it made sense to them.
eh, they don't strike me as a company where some marketing doofus pushed this through to try and make an extra buck.

seems more likely that they wanted to see how far they could push the wattage and in doing so they found some pretty tight tolerances with respect to safety and reliability so they took care to ensure that it would only work in the tested configuration.

at the end of the day, it still supports the standard. would be nice to see them try to push the standard forward, which they still very well may do.
> Carbon Engineering's fuel costs about 25 per cent more than gasoline made from oil

Seriously?! If this is actually true, sign me up. I will absolutely pay a 25% fuel tax to make the world a better place and also not have to give oil companies more money
How is this not fear-mongering? Most people will be fine with a 5deg C global increase.
That sort of thing is what stops me from dismissing Bloomberg's reporting. Intelligence agencies have a long history of creating implants that seem fantastical for their era. Consider The Thing and the Selectric Bug.

An implant small enough to go unnoticed on a motherboard somehow compromising the BMC to exfiltrate data or control doesn't strike me as the least bit far-fetched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/
Seattle's minimum wage increase creates winners and losers
It's a shame he chose to let his guard down in a rare freeform interview that's the best insight (I'm aware of) at the man behind the name and this supposed irresponsible behavior is one of the main takeaways.
Saying we are recent graduates is a bit of a stretch (mostly PhDs), my wording could have been better.

I totally agree these salaries don’t represent the local startup scene or even the tech scene.

If you are not looking exclusively at Startups, there is plenty of companies, especially in finance, banking, actuary and insurance, that are looking for talent in AI/Data science and can offer excellent salaries in Montreal.

Working in a (very) corporate environment isn’t for everyone but Montreal is such a nice place, imho the trade off is absolutely worth it.
Ah yes sorry, I meant to say cable rather than charger.
The vast majority of people in dev positions earn much less than Bay Area wages. It is not relatively easy for them to save that much.
Immersive Linear Algebra
Here's an article of a developer who went through something similar: http://findingscience.com/ruby/2014/11/17/why-im-renaming-a-...

The bit that stands out to me is an e-mail he received from a female engineer:

> While the idealist in me would love to aim for a world where sex was treated more equally and openly, the unfortunate reality of tech is that it has been a haven for misogynistic men and the environment is heavily male dominated. While in an ideal world the name SexMachine would be something that both genders could joke about, the reality is that the tech community is not ready or capable of that today.
...very depressing to see this profoundly banal street view
Nor could you with Perl to Rust...
Both fiat backed assets as well as collateralized assets pegged to fiat money are called stablecoins, because they are meant to represent units of fiat money, and therefore "stable" relative to fiat. Fiat backed stablecoins fit the definition of an IOU better, since they are cryptographic promises to pay the bearer by centralized issuing entities. Whereas collateralized stablecoins are not IOUs, they are effectively loans on other cryptoassets you deposit in a smart contract (ether, in Maker/Dai's case).
In response to your last sentence.

Just wanted to mention that Ruby was highly inspired by Perl, particularly its regular expressions and it has a variety of perlisms. Kind of surprised you went to python and not ruby.

Your lisp mention reminds me of this: http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta...
The problem with +2° is, that we will be at +5° soon after. Phase III is an irreversible chain reaction.
Ruby has all of those perl features you mention, without a lot of the strange quirks from perl.
There were definitely proto-fascists clashing with communists then. Rosa Luxemburg for example was killed in 1919 by right wing militia.
As someone fairly knowledgeable about the Ethereum ecosystem I am pretty impressed by the mostly accurate portrayal of the social intricacies of the scene. I wonder how long this took to research.
+1 on Advent of Code. Particularly useful are the sample input/output values that provide excellent unit tests. For 2017 I took the first few days and am working on solving them using classic red/green TDD in as many languages as possible
Oh man, you responded the same as me at the same time.
I think that's the point.. Grow more trees and use the wood and the tables and books that are created are carbon that used to be in the air.
That's a reasonable concern; I'd expect anyone doing this large-scale would first investigate local environmental impact.

Presumably one could add olivine in areas of the ocean that are far from coastlines, and spread it around in a wide area so local effects are less extreme. I don't know if dumping it in the deep ocean where there's less life to disrupt is viable, but if so maybe that would mitigate negative impact.
time-arbitrage, another word for "stupidity".
Expensive, and looks like a military invasion to the outside world as compared to moving troops over a bridge. China isn't stupid, they built this bridge for a very good strategic reason.
Is that huge switch how it detects it is on your face? seems hugely inconvenient.
What I gather from the FIRE ideas:

It doesn't matter how old you are. If you have 25x yearly expenses, then you can retire and live off of investment returns. This assumes market trends don't deviate materially from past hundred years of historical data.
> Like I side, speculation is the only thing you buy BTC for

You've ignored the rest of the list in the comment you’re replying to.
Adding ?m=1 to Blogger blogs usually works. https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-tackles-new-a...
C++ HLS streaming server built with oat++ zero-dependency framework. (about oat++ see: https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp)

Features:

- Serve embedded video

- Serve HLS stream
you know why banks are so heavily regulated?

a distributed systems of ledgers, where banks attested to the amount of cash, in their vaults.

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Deep-dive tech analysis says Bloomberg spy chip claims are impossible at Apple
Code and tutorials:

https://github.com/amzn/MXFusion
I think most national currencies are based on religious-like beliefs and mass delusions to some extent. Take the USD for instance. With "in God we trust", and you have your great leaders and "prophets" i.e. founding fathers such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin printed on the back, governed by a government that is bound to the "commandments" i.e. the Constitution...

All the while, the Whitehouse mysteriously glows as the nation's printing press is busy churning out a few more batches of fiat in secret.
On the Electro-Geo-Chemistry page, there is an error here:

A 500 MW renewable energy power plant dedicated to negative-emissions H2 could therefore consume and store nearly 8 million tonnes of CO2 per day while generating a little more than 2 million kWh in the form of H2

As both the math and later text makes clear, such a plant would store ~21,600 tonnes of CO₂ per day - or 8 million tonnes per year. The 2 million kWh generated looks more like a daily figure but doesn't match up with the daily figure elsewhere in the article (it has 6 million kWh / day equivalent of H₂ generated for a similar sized plant) - it was probably supposed to be 2 billion kWh / year?