skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems the summary is that they will require them to be paid back through business profits as a result of it not aiming for VC-level returns. They also close the loophole of not showing much business profits on paper by defining profit as founder earnings. If your earnings from the company crosses a certain threshold, the investors tax your personal salary to get its return. What they are undecided on is whether they want to keep this forever, or until they actually get their capital + profit margin repaid.

I'm in their target market myself, so here's my two cents.

It's fair to offer some additional remuneration for a VC taking extra risk with ideas with smaller potentials, but this sounds a little draconian. It sounds a little like they're covering their bases (which is great!) but also putting themselves in a place where they might have to go after people's salaries, which is going to create a lot of resentment. It feels almost like an attempt to take something more risky, but try to do some legal finagling to push even more risk onto the founder just so that they can bring it down to regular VC-level risk for themselves.

It feels like almost by definition most all of the 'good' investment that they want to pursue will be able to make themselves eligible for normal VC funding by either no or little work, and the additional complexity and unknowns incurred by this untested agreement is more expensive than what a good company would accept. Because for much less work than that, they can go the traditional route. Since they're bootstrapping, they don't have the urgency of 'I have to find money in x weeks or the company goes bust' either.
So, it runs RHEL according to the link from another comment.

How many instances of the Linux Kernel is running in total? Is it only one Kernel instance for the entire machine?
>I'd rather a disposable battery that lasts for a year than a rechargeable battery that lasts a week

The science isn't quite there yet with those uranium batteries
of course aot exists, was just pointing out that java is not much of a use case in embedded sw, to the extent that once major features are now deprecated.
He sees free software principles as being on the same level as internationally recognized human rights. Sure, there could be certain cases where a right is "overridden": judicial gag orders, imprisoning convicts, eminent domain. But those should be exceptional, require justification, and follow predetermined rules.
All you have seen is correlation. Maybe it is a correlation, because I bet you didn't tried to gather data properly. Assuming that this is a correlation, it might be, for example, that people who for a some reasons cannot cope with their problems tend to escape from them to WoW, and if there were no WoW, they'd do it some other way.

I know it myself. I can run away from my problems by thousands of ways. Cut them all off, and I'll find two thousands more. I can play video games, read books, code some useless programs, engineer some useless devices, surf internet for interesting news, participate in flamewars, write this message, or at the last resort I can just sleep for 20 hrs per a day. If I cannot cope with my problems, then I cannot. My actual behaviour is just a simptom, not the cause of my inability.

It is just anecdotal evidence, for other people it can be the other way around, and maybe for them WoW is the cause of their inability to cope with their problems. What I want to say: don't make conclusions about causation on correlational observations.
If people think whales shouldn't be killed for moral/aesthetic/religious/whatever reasons, and can convince everyone else to agree (presumably at the level of nation states), that's fine even if they're not all endangered or critical to the ecosystem. I just want people to be honest about why they don't want it.
cgroups aren't for manipulating kernel parameters. It's for setting resource limits on pids, and retrieving information about resource usage of a pid or group of pids.
What's the probability that the very first extra-solar object is a light sail? Lets be real...
Wouldn't we have a robot steer the light sail as it got closer?

Genuine question, this is well outside my wheelhouse.
It's the addition of RAM that kills the price though. A jump from 32GB to 64GB is $800USD!
While my laptop was away getting fixed, I used an iPad Pro, Textastic and a linux instance on Digital Ocean to do a reasonable amount of Rust development. I was surprised how well it worked.
Depends on your volume. I don't know how much IT departments typically pay, but on Amazon, hard drives start at about $20-25/TB, whereas LTO-7 tapes are about $10-12/TB. That's a significant savings, but you need to be storing at least a few hundred TB before you recoup the cost of the tape drive.
Expect to see the 12" Macbook canned pretty soon.
Duly noted! I can't edit the post anymore, but I appreciate the correction.
I'm afraid the embedded world now is probably 10 to 20 time the size it was then.... the number of devices in corporating electronics and therefore software has skyrocketed.
When you're starting from a change in plugs and end up predicting shifts in CPU architecture ten years down the road, there's a pretty high chance it's just fitting noise into your pre-existing narrative.

FWIW: the death of the Mac has been predicted constantly since at least the original iPhone came out. If it takes another decade to happen, at least we can lay these accusations to rest that publicly traded companies are forced into short-termism.
The smallest binary rustc can produce is 148 bytes. You can get small binaries if that’s something you care about.
FFXIV's mechanic is that you swap gear and that swaps class or something to that effect (I'm not 100% sure). So if I leveled to 15 in ClassA, put on gear for ClassB, I'm a level 15 ClassB.

I'd prefer the job system where you switch to ClassB, but have to level accordingly. I'd hate to be max level of ClassA and then want to try another class and out level content to really practice the class properly (or be swamped with skills early) or end up being unable to help a group because skill in another class is inadequate.

So basically, FFXI but with soloable leveling (in FFXI apparently you could solo with beastmastery or something as a subclass, pet tanking I believe, but it wasn't a starting class so you'd have to work to get it).
Hey, cool project!

I haven't read the book. Is that possible to understand the idea without reading the book?
Area under the curve.
Because svideo is a terrible serial protocol.
That is interesting way of hassle-free thinking :) As a suggestion, two day plan may work better for social events with secondary option in case it couldn't get planned with exact people etc.
Nothing comes to mind, but take this quote from A Scanner Darkly: "Activity does not necessarily mean life, and motion that is circular is the deadest form of the universe."
It's for me! It's a new Mac, and it's the cheapest model. There's no big mystery.

It's not the fastest, but all computers are fast enough now that it doesn't really matter to me. It doesn't have a built-in 5K display or high-end GPU, but I'm not a graphics geek so I don't care. I've already got a pair of big displays and a keyboard and mouse and speakers that I like.

It's smaller than my Mac Pro, so it will probably save me a bunch on my power bill.

It's pretty portable so I can take it with me, if I need to. Compared to Apple's laptops, it's cheaper, and doesn't require adapters for HDMI, ethernet, USB-A, or audio-out (i.e., everything I run across in the field).

It probably supports Linux better than a MacBook, so when Apple stops supporting it, I can still make good use of it.

It doesn't have analog/digital audio input/output, like my Mac Pro, which is too bad, but I can solve that with a cheap "external sound card". Those features seems to be on the way out with their professional models, anyway.

The only real downside is that the hardware isn't very upgradable, but that's basically the case with all Macs today, so until it gets so painful that I leave MacOS for Linux again, I'll just have to live with it.

A new Mac Pro might be nice, but it could be a year before we see that, and nobody has any idea what it's going to be. My hunch is it'll be expensive. It hasn't been since the G4 days that the entry-level Mac workstation was $1500.
One glimmer of hope is this is in Monterey - where the Moneterey Bay Aquarium is. I understand they have a few programs directed at conservation efforts. Let's hope they take this up.
Maybe I'm wrong (or things changed since I looked at this), but if you use bcc you essentially depend from LLVM at runtime.

I guess you would probably want the (precompiled) eBPF program as a binary that you can load in some way instead, for "production".
That's an apples-to-oranges comparison. The "6.25TB" number for LTO tapes is assuming a fairly arbitrary 2.5:1 lossless compression ratio. The actual data capacity of the tape is only 2.5TB.
Still, it's funny to see Google beat Apple to the punch here and make ChromeOS a valid dev machine for most people before Apple. USB-C doesn't let me run Docker, VSCode or IntelliJ. I'd love to bring an iPad pro for the weekend when I'm on call, but it's still not anywhere near.
This, they have some nice ones with over 900Mbps now out pretty cheap and they work as expected.
This reminds me of stars complaining about paparazzi or fans harassing them.
A much more moderate example is Cologne's "Culture Tax", which adds a few euros to the price of a hotel room, but not for business travellers.

https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/steuern-ge...
Also, sometimes you are using a UI not designed for touch (e.g., remote desktop).
4 ex-Genentech scientists stole from biotech giant to help startup
Or pure marketing. Look for the asterisk that explains the workload.
What do you think would be a comparable migration in the US? I see three key distinguishing factors that make Sweden quite interesting as a test case:

1) The first is of course just sheer volume. Sweden has gone, in less than a single generation, from a mostly ethnically homogeneous nation to one where about 20% of the population is foreign born and that's only going to keep rising. The US is at record setting levels recently, with a foreign born population of less than 14%. And it's always been a rather diverse nation.

2) Relatively incompatible cultures. Large chunks of the migrants to Sweden are coming from backgrounds that hold very different cultural values on a wide range of fundamental issues. By contrast the vast majority of migrants to the US tend to hold quite similar cultural values.

3) Distorted migratory motivations. Throughout the US's history, migration has been about work -- in the past and present. People's motivation for coming here is to work. When the economy tanked in 2009, so did immigration. As it picks back up, so does immigration. Sweden, by contrast, is attracting people exclusively because they offer extremely generous benefits, particularly for refugees. They are attracting individuals that are only moving there because they can get more stuff from their government than they can from other nations. Ideally this could just be a liminal phase, but the current outcomes are far from promising. If people end up beginning to take the government handouts for granted, I think this would be a serious problem.
yes? OCR technology has come a long way, but there's a lot of cases where it fails badly, including historical (read: non-typed and sometimes damaged) artifacts.
Yep; here are live apps:

* Lightroom CC on iPhone/iPad: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/how-to/lightroom-mobile...

* Just recently announced Premier Rush: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere-rush.html

Planned/Announced:
* Photoshop: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photoshop-ecosystem.html
* Project Gemini (for drawing/painting/illustrating): https://theblog.adobe.com/introducing-project-gemini/
Microscopic debris impacts could have degraded it over its lifetime to its current state.
There is a difference between a function `f` and the expression `x + 2` in your example. In fact, `f` as a function completely hides the expression from which it was defined. Usually functions are considered equal if they have the same values at every point. The upshot is, you can define a function from two different expressions and they can end up being the "same" function. This is indeed the hiding of some information.

In the composition of functions, f . g (x) = f(g(x)), that there is a result of g(x) is hidden by the composition, which only allows examination of the first input and the final output.

There is nothing special about OOP here.
"Yes, you can have your own computer, but only if you build your own distro"
Since nobody else said it: Write efficient code using efficient software running on efficient hardware in efficient data centers.

It can really add up.
I do not understand the relevance of that tabloid article. It has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. I live in Canada. All my beef comes from Canada. The fact that people in other countries burn forests to graze cattle does not mean that Canadians consuming Canadian beef cause those other countries to burn forests. My beef consumption is 100% irrelevant, they will burn the same amount of forest regardless of what I eat, because they are not burning it to feed me.
Ubuntu might have been the first being supported on WSL, nowadays it is just an option among many.
No, you need to find another vulnerability to break from Lua sandbox.
And Arch Enemy is currently the best band in the world!
Yes, they reimbursed the lender whose gear was stolen - but only after the case got bad publicity.
> don’t accept anything with “in-app purchases”, and even struggle now to find the “Pay once and own” category

How do you expect the apps to make money if they can't show you ads or charge you money? Selling your data?
Yet plenty of companies do use it, go figure.
> it's hard and unpleasant to reconcile these two worlds

Couldn't disagree more. For the C types that tend to occur in bulk processing (bytes, integers, floating point numbers), C is great and Objective-C is...er...not so great ;-)

On the other hand, Objective-C is fantastic for hooking modules of these C-based data crunching methods together.

> Btw, what is the perf problem then? Refcounting, boxing?

Refcounting can be a problem, yes, but pre-ARC it was both much less so and pretty easy to avoid if you noticed it. Also the fact that NSObject and subclasses had no inline refcount, so went to an external hash-table for refcounting if it ever exceeded 1 (1 was implied by the object being alive).

More in the other answer, there isn't really "the" perf problem, there are various problematic implementations and habits promulgated by Apple, often without any good reasons.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10905432/usb-c-cable-fries...

The previous comment is refering to a relatively famous event a few years ago. Back then, some USB-C cable sold on amazon had the data-pins switched with the power-pins.

You CANT just trust random crap on Amazon. And its getting harder and harder these days now that fake-reviews are a thing.

I've been personally going to real-life locations to buy things. Walmart and Target sells stuff only a few bucks more than Amazon, but I can at least trust that it works.

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I don't necessary say it is Amazon's "fault" that fake products are getting fake reviews. But Amazon has known about this problem for years, and hasn't successfully done anything to stop the problem.

I'm sure the Amazon executives are working on the problem... but until they fix it... I'm taking my business elsewhere.
Ha! Surprisingly this is not the first time I have seen someone describe this to be the boundary for logistic regression.

(Btw agree with your other comment.)
I would guess that a lot of the sub-populations with the highest birthrates are disconnected enough from the global economy for money to be meaningless for them.
Does that mean if we introduce modified enzyme to circumvent this immunity - bacteries could steal it and become much more dangerous?
For Nomads it is actually a good way to work, too, because it is more secure for your clients in a way.
Ask HN: Do you have any backup plan?
Do you have any backup plan when things will go wrong - business, job, health, etc.?
I'm aware the jailbreak community often felt Apple was targeting them specifically, and perhaps they were, but every jailbreak was also exposing a security flaw. Personally, I've never been worried about jailbreaking voiding my warranty -- I just never got sufficient value from it to make it worth the drawbacks. (Both value and drawbacks are subjective measures, obviously.)

While I understand the "you must own your own device" line, that's more of a rallying cry than a useful description. (I have a similar pedantic complaint with "if you're not the customer, you're the product," for what it's worth.) It's interesting to think about a regulatory framework that mandates companies build software-driven devices with the ability for end users to do their own software loads, but figuring out how to do that in a way that doesn't let companies wiggle out of it and doesn't essentially mandate insecure back doors in all "smart" consumer electronic devices seems to me to be a non-trivial problem.
> should be something that favors gamers

Not sure. Don't game use only 2 of 5 fingers on each hand excessively ? ( Thumb and Index)
I feel it's most bad experiences when it was started at first - and on enterprise systems it never really got adoption because of bad RAID. I still remember some bugs with inodes that could not be deleted making me mad and forcing me to format my laptop with the more conventional XFS :)

But I guess if (big if?) FB uses it in production (without a lot of internal patches) it may be kinda stable now. Still, I don't see it as being useful for a lot of people nowadays, particularly if you sit on an "expendable" VM in a cloud.
Or that this was a relatively nearby civilization, and the light sail was intentionally headed toward our solar system (like a few of our proposed interstellar missions to Alpha Centauri).
Yeah, the actual core of the device is going to be roughly something like a chromecast.

Almost certainly no asics, so the cost is going to be dominated by commodity parts-- displays, audio-visual jacks and then there's the branded plastic case, graphics, labels.

There's an iFixit teardown of the chromecast here: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Chromecast+2015+Teardown/501...

Basically, 5 or 6 IC's and related trimmings--- BOM cost? I am going to guess around $35-- that's what google sells it for. Since they're making money not on the device itself but rather the online activity that becomes enabled from using the device, I expect the retail price would be roughly the BOM cost.

A little more money if you're looking at a proper set-top, I guess, though I haven't actually seen a cable box in a long time. Are they roku-sized now, or just huge mostly empty boxes?
r studio supports python? does it completion and stuff like that?
Ads are literally everywhere. If it were easy or possible to prevent kids from seeing ads, then I'd be able to avoid ads myself, but that's basically impossible. Nearly all manufactured products have logos on them, and that's literally just the beginning.
New iPhone Passcode Bypass Found Hours After Apple Releases iOS 12.1
Banking apps, e-commerce websites, stock exchange platforms, we interact with money daily. We also increasingly rely on technology to handle ours.

Yet, there’s no consensus around how to programmatically handle monetary values.

I wonder if the average person would find this frightening.
That makes sense, although it’s a little unfortunate. I would have preferred they update the Pro instead of releasing the new Air with a weaker processor and graphics.
Plenty of democratic countries have severely corrupted leaders or government doing crazy shit. It’s not like democracy alone can make these shit stoppable
Indeed. Just to be clear, I agree with you; I only meant to clearly state the OP's faulty assumption.
Having spent a decent amount of time learning to be a programmer while doing scientific image analysis in Matlab (shudders from the real programmers), and with a decent amount of time spent in Mathematica as well, I just can't seem to buy into the Jupyter/notebook based programming enthusiasm. The talk linked in the article explains it better than I ever could, but for me, when I am leaving data in memory, it is much more convenient for me to have a completely linear history, ordered by command execution time. In python I have found the best way to do this is writing standard python functions and scripts, and running them in an IPython environment with the %run magic. You have the linear history, git works well on standard .py files, and you can interactively work with the data in the IPython prompt without worrying that something is proceeding nonlinearly. What I find works best is to explore with the data in the live prompt, which gives you interactivity, and then build up slowly a master collection of functions and commands that when run, with a single command, can reproduce the results you got while exploring. Then to come back to the data at a later point in time, you have to run one script file on the raw data. Of course, this is kind of the point of the Jupyter notebook, but I find that often when I want to change parameters, the ability to jump around and redefine things means I do. By moving from IPython to a script/functions I run, I ensure that everything progresses linearly. Idk, just my two cents.
Running untrusted code to allow modding of games. Suddenly the fact that you have a standard library or a complex language with a large amount of features is no longer a benefit and instead is actually a liability often to the point that you disable the standard library in lua entirely and only selectively load parts of it and write your own modding API to allow modification of the game.

There are entire games built around modding via lua such as gary's mod which similar to a web browser has to download random code from a server. Then there are mods like computercraft/opencomputers for minecraft in which direct file access to the host doesn't make any sense at all because every computer has it's own filesystem.

I just looked up Python's sandboxing capabilities and I can't find anything. All I see is answers like [0] that suggest that it's not trivial.

What about other implementations like pypy that claim to have a sandbox? [1] I can see lots of warnings like "This is not actively maintained."

The lack of mature sandboxing for python makes it impossible to use for the usecases I've described above.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3068139/how-can-i-sandbo...
[1] http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/sandbox.html
External drives would be based upon Thunderbolt 3 using USB-C compatible physical connections, and those are basically PCI-e 3.0 x4 lanes with a little external sync overhead. Samsung’s T5 drive would go along very well with these new minis. Obviously a drive hanging off a machine is less attractive / practical for business purposes but this is the usual Apple price / market segmentation model at work. Going back to user replaceable RAM is a bit of a shock to me considering other changes that are user-hostile (the T2 chip comes to mind).
Based on my understanding of the Falcon Heavy launch and objectives this is an unfair characterization. The plan was never to put the car in orbit around Mars or hit the planet directly. The plan was to prove that Falcon Heavy can move a payload with the weight of the car at least as far as Mars. Shooting it into the asteroid belt demonstrates the capability of the rocket.