skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally refuse to respect you as a human being.
Which less people would have done if the headline said "Secondary Market"
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Definitely. One of his coworkers has a great thread about this, including on how he has hundreds of libraries in use:

https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/1067157915398746114

Many, many people treat open-source projects like consumer products. Except the paying-money part, of course. That they're happy to leave out.

This is a systemic problem, and blaming one guy won't solve anything. Especially since so many are blaming him for not doing enough free work to help them with their paid jobs. If open-source libraries are truly valuable, we need to find a way to jointly pay maintainers for their labor. I can think of many options (a non-profit build with hefty donations from tech companies, governments giving out tax-funded grants, places like NPM and GitHub making crowdfunding 10x easier). But the ideas aren't the problem. It's getting one or more of them done.
What do you call someone who was born Intersex (same commonality as natural redheads) then?
Amazon should know - can't it munge peoples shopping records to spot patterns.

Like mentioned in a sibling comment, I bet Amazon could very easily deduce that toner is sold a lot more often than actual printers.
I suppose that would have to start by identifying why it's necessary to record someone's "race" in the first place. Does it need to change, or can it just be removed altogether?
There are also time signal radio stations like WWVB, which are used by millions of devices to sync their clocks.
Ideally the same way we define an EC2 instance, perhaps bound directly to an S3 bucket resource defined in the same script. Ideally reading the config definition from an S3 file that we can update at will.
Zarf’s Interactive Fiction
That seems unnecessarily combative, given nothing else to build on but this very short opinion.
Worth noting that all four links in his thread are to the same paper.
Solution is easy: Once the outbreak is traced back to a particular farm, let them be sued. See how long they don't test.
cat **.js > myprog.js
You argued that consumer hostile monopoly’s don’t exist without government. When presented with direct evidence that they do exist you when back to theory.

Look, theory that does not apply in the real world is meaningless. And in the real world monopoly’s exist without government backing, making your argument invalid. That’s perfectly ok, but now it’s time for you to realize you made a false argument and think of some new idea of how things operate.
> You can't test your way to safety.

> "Testing only catches that if you target your testing program for it."

Seems like a contradiction to me.

That said, just because testing alone isn't good enough doesn't mean it's better than nothing.

The political argument always comes in the form of "regulation bad!" vs "safety good!" without much attention to the actual policies. Thank you for bringing our attention to some of the problems with the proposed regulations, but the real issue is that we're politicizing something that we should clearly do _something_ about.
I'm curious why you added "limited liability."

I think any liability is tied to the power of the State.

You are, after all, being found liable through the legal process (probably the courts.)

On your last point, one natural monopoly that thrived completely independent of any States, is the monopoly of force exerted by Warlords over their domains.

Given the choice between Warlords and a State Government, I chose a State Government, even with all its other problems. Hopefully the government is reasonably democratic, and a nation of laws.
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A competitor of this business is compare.com:
https://www.compare.com/

compare and cover seem similar. Both are short, common names that begins with a 'c'
This is absolutely not true, corporations in the absence of state power could simply hire paramilitary forces to do whatever is necessary to get ahead. Stateless capitalism would very quickly become something akin to feudalism.

Just because it's true that certain regulations create economic minimums that prevent new entrants into the market doesn't mean that this is the sole thing that causes monopolies, as immense vertical integration can lower costs to the point where only the largest organizations can provide services at said lowest margin. The problem only becomes bigger once they prevent new entrants, and begin to raise prices since there is no competition.
> That's not a decision WASM can unanimously make on behalf of others.

I literally linked to the commit where V8 is indeed unanimously making that decision. If you clear the indirect branch table when transitioning to and from all untrusted programs, what's your threat model again?

> I get WASM doesn't want to include malloc/free, but the problem is it didn't include paging-based allocation APIs. It used a nonsense linear growth heap design that doesn't match anything about how memory works on any platform and has been obsolete for 20+ years.

Go read the WASM spec. It's explicitly is designed for multiple linear regions, just how mmap works. It just didn't make it into the MVP.
Most of the questions are appropriate to ask when an offer has been extended (but not yet accepted). There are plenty of high paying jobs at companies that can answer these questions.
It's a pull request that hasn't been merged yet? Why share this?
It’s definitely possible to extract some internals as plugins, but not all currently.

It would make more sense as a collection of plugins, and perhaps exposed as a preset.

But the intent is to precisely remove the extra setup, when all you need to do is publish your Node.js codebase as a single file.
try those questions:

- do employees work overtime because they have to or because they want to?
- what do you do to keep your employees happy?
- whats the turnover rate?
In the entire history of the world -- not a single place where there was water utility competition? It seems that if such a thing were possible it would have happened at least once.
Correct. For parallel execution you can use parmap or a submodule of ocamlnet that I never remember
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things)."
Notice the president was mentioned in the article. Tells you everything you know about it.

This has very little to do with actual science, and more to do with hatred of Trump.
On a different note, StockX is a Detroit-based startup. It's awesome to see the area's tech scene begin to thrive.
Again, you are effectively arguing that it would be ethical for a doctor to try to experimentally create a glow-in-the-dark baby if asked to by the mother.

Good or bad science has nothing to do with the outcomes--that's good or bad medicine. There's plenty of 'good science' practiced on lab rats that would immediately become horrifyingly unethical if practiced on humans, but that has nothing to do with how well the scientific method is being applied and what can be learned.

Anyway, this discussion doesn't seem to be going anywhere productive, so I will bid you good day.
Why not require the animal farmers to irradiate all poop that they put into their lagoons?

For context, it is my understanding that E. coli breakouts are caused by those lagoons overflowing during rainstorms if they are not managed correctly.
Apple has cash and COULD move on Microsoft.

Buy Adobe to compete with Office.

Buy Salesforce to compete with Dynamics CRM.

Buy SAP to compete with Dynamics ERP.
Probably had something to do with the British Teddy Boy subculture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Boy
I think the author considered an IoT solution, but he did go for a simpler one (Arduinos by themselves can't connect to anything wirelessly).
Well the UGC I was thinking of is like http://www.openannotation.org mainly used to link to other papers and/or comment of draft papers. Also simple “Reviewed” tags, and other classification items.

Since any derived data would be signed and linked to the identity of its author a default filter removes anything that is not transitively included in your academic network.

Reviewed articles would just be “review count > N and reviewers in fieldNet”
Thanks, being a long-time lurker, I've just signed up now to say that's great. What a video - I've been writing software for the past 31 years, and I love the simplicity among ingenuity of this. If you've not read it already, you might like http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html
Here are my wild guesses

Automation is not spreading the wealth, I think you will see even less of a middle class and more extreme divisions of wealth between the classes.

The corporation seems to be the new power structure like the church use to be. You will see more concentration of power and less accountability with this new power structure.

In the US you will see a transformation of the demographic shift accelerate. You may also see a change in politics with a move more towards policies you see in Europe. However they will still not work due to the change in the power structures.

National debts will accelerate to make up for short falls in pension funding and retirement plans like social security. How this ultimately plays out, I have no idea.
Pandemics are scary.
Why should there be a legal definition of gender in the first place?
How is complying to another's pronouns harming you in any way whatsoever? Meanwhile, you're harming them greatly by misgendering.
I imagine that if one is being as technical as possible then sex is pretty unambiguous, i.e. egg/female sex cell producing -> female, sperm/male sex cell producing -> male.

Of course that leads to complications when you have to try and generally apply it, which is where the ambiguity comes from.
I tend to love the website aesthetics. It has some quirks but hierarchical presentation of information is hard to beat. The guy's writing style is amusing as well. Thumbs up for the great find.
Which ought to be just N - but notice the argument passed in is mysteriously renamed. It may be nothing - I'm not even sure what N is here - I just agree that it looks weird.
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Sure you can. That's what bottled water delivery is. We have that now.

I've been to places where the government doesn't or can't regulate water delivery and perhaps not coincidentally, you also can't drink the water.
> Come to Florida and checkout FPL post hurricane.

It looks to me like FPL is a utility heavily regulated in its rates and operation by the Florida state government. Seems like a lot of government involvement to me.

> Going to the state intervention and water pipes as an example, even if the state said anyone can join in and compete whenever they want, it begs the question of how that would be possible without the state being involved.

The roads could be built to facilitate expansion and competition. Roads could be avoided altogether through technology like directional drilling or tunneling. Competitors could get started by servicing new development first, then expanding into existing areas.

As it stands, existing cities were designed with centralized utilities in mind. It makes it hard to monkey patch competition on top.

> Do Tom, dick and Harry all get to rip up my yard and connect to my home without my consent?

They shouldn't, but utilities use eminent domain all the time.

> public roads get ripped up for every home that wants water connection from a new supplier?

I don't think roads should be public either, but that's for another discussion.

> The NFL May be such an example of a monopoly

Talk about a bad example. The NFL gets all sorts of subsidies including cities building their stadiums for them! The military uses the NFL as a main medium for advertising.
Amazon Web Services customers can now build applications for robots in the cloud
I couldn't agree more. Waking up early is how I built https://cloudbuddy.cloud. Learned a ton.
Probably rom the term teddy boy.
In my opinion, Loneliness & Global Warming are the most immediate existential threats facing humanity.
The terms "police state" and "decadent" in the US are only used to describe other countries. The sentiments carry over, they're just called "law and order" and "losers" here.
If you want your startup to run for more than a year (= roughly the time the effects of technical debt start to kick in significantly in my experience), you need to find a good way how to handle technical debt, and keep it in check.

I have seen my share of startups where a platform plagued with technical debt was the main limitation for growth, which is a very avoidable situation.
Aside from validating your dependencies, when you run the code ensure it can't phone home.

On AWS, lock-down outgoing traffic. The Node instance (heaven help you if it's in a browser) on the back-end shouldn't be able to get out to anything, with the necessary exceptions of your codes back-end data store, and, perhaps temporarily, your deployment store.
>Outside of the room, the Engineering team laughs at your questions, Operations and the CEO give each other quizzical looks before laughing too, and they go on to the next candidate.

This is such a short sighted perspective that it's laughable.

Good management will see that the candidate is thinking about joining the team as a long-term commitment and isn't just making a job change for a pay increase over their last/current role. It shows that candidate is showing up for the same reason the company exists -- to be fairly compensated for services rendered.

A leadership team that laughs at these questions are going to lose long-term, and should be avoided by potential employees and VC alike.

Edit: grammarz
I understand, please see clarifications in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537122
Unfortunately, it is important for medical personnel to know whether you are biologically male or female, which is yes, very real, and also very much grounded in science. There are serious implications to avoiding reality here. People could be mistreated and misdiagnosed.

I'm all for trans acceptance, but the people pushing for this stuff need to also learn to accept reality.
I am still shadow banned here on HN for questioning this narrative. Bang is encouraging us to make fake accounts by banning our long-held accounts without cause. He hides his personal political views behind the guidelines as if they are in support of his censorship, which they are not.
I have no feelings about coal mining because I know nothing about that industry. How is that relevant in a thread about agriculture?
Maybe for companies, to aim for fusion is asking too much.

But what about a commercial "DARPA" ?

I'm guessing that the innovations created by DARPA are a very good ROI in the value sense. If not, what is?

But like Xerox-Parc, the fear is that extracting money from that won't go well.

So one solution is creating a monopoly. But that's not ideal.

But what about some sort of insurance ? How would history look if Xerox-Parc was guarranteed to at-least break even?
Wasn't it a Tom Cruise movie?
>>> (I.e., error handling bugs are much rarer in Go than Python or JS or etc).

[citation needed]
One problem, that is alluded to but not really addressed in the article, is that so much is still offline--especially for those of us who don't live in the middle of major metros. I'm not even sure how much of this is really a technology problem.

I feel the general pain. There are a number of things I would be willing to write a check tomorrow to have handled at an even semi-reasonable price if I could just make a phone call and say "Make It So." Unfortunately my really good contractor retired and the last contractor I found (through Lowe's) did a generally good job in the end but was terribly uncommunicative and otherwise difficult to deal with.

I have various companies and individuals who do stuff for me but, in general, finding someone to do some semi-defined task for me is painful and I don't really expect that to change.
Birds can poop in the air at anytime. Takeoff is the most common one of course - but that isn't even an out as the birds are feeding in that field and thus landing.
Because they could have and should have just forked it.

I wouldn't want my name being forever attributed to something I stopped working on years ago. If I make a lib with my name on it it's my lib and my name's gotta stay on it forever. Feel free to clone it and do whatever you want with it, but this one should stay mine for no other reason than the one we're seeing today. Then link to the latest maintained fork in your README.
> New services rarely launch with CF support
Yeah I'm slowly learning that.

Thanks for the tip, at least it's a step in the right direction.
If there is ever ambiguity, the classification is not binary.
This is what I find impressive as well.

They have this absurd shape, because the algorithm says it works, and they say it contains plasma. It does.

They say they will test this to hold 10 - 12 seconds of plasma. It does.

They say they will work on this and expand this to hold 30 seconds of plasma. It does.

This just feels like really solid engineering or practical science. Those 30 minutes will happen without much delay.
It's in the call-out box in the source article for this thread.
As much as it's tempting to equate the Mirror to communist governments like East Germany, an article posted at least slightly tongue-in-cheek in a British newspaper is not the same thing as a guide provided to police in a police state.
> there are places ... with laissez faire governments

Not really

> Is there any place where I can buy a house with five different independent water delivery and sewage removal systems attached to it?

I never claimed that it exists. I claimed it was possible. A thing doesn't need to exist to be possible.

> The fact of the matter is that there is such a thing as a natural monopoly

Name some, then. Show me the evidence of all these natural monopolies which cropped up on their own, taking advantage of consumers, and resulting in the necessity of making them state utilities.
I will definitely give ncc a try. Our published npm artifacts on Artifactory are big, mainly because we are forced due to company policies to bundle node_modules into them. Npm installing them on our on premise instances are the main bottleneck of the deployment process.
Ncc handles bundling `node_modules`. Your suggestion also introduces problems by not respecting commonjs module boundaries. (They’re akin to function scopes)
No support for multi-core parallelism. Strings are sequences of 8-bit characters, so crappy Unicode support. Weak support for non-Unix OSes.
What do you mean the 'smart talk' is exactly what he said?

It's the idea that AI's achievements have to do with the automation and re-packaging of the output of human intelligence. That was one of the main points of his talk. (To his credit, that was from several years back.)

Inventing the chinese room argument is a point against taking him seriously.

From a technical point of view, it seems valid to dismiss it as an argument against AI. However, given that the science behind consciousness is incomplete, I'm not sure the entire idea has no merit. In a way, the Chinese Room scenario reveals something about our current cultural biases about what constitutes consciousness. For example, it can be taken as a gedankenexperiment showing we'd have a hard time overcoming our biases if we were confronted with a consciousness operating at a speed 6 orders of magnitude slower than our own. On what empirical basis can we dismiss our intuitions on the matter? How can we be so sure that the logic for our dismissing the argument isn't just a technocrat ideology?
We haven't built a base on the moon, but it's certainly possible.
Nice pet project, perhaps I'm in the minority or is there increasingly a disconnect between where we want to be and where we are as an industry?

At one end we are talking about autonomous intelligent robots and then you have what I and everyone I know is actually working on, which I suspect is the same sort of thing you reading this are working on. Oh we might have a thing where we bolt on tensor flow and call it AI, but thats about it.

Or is it just me?

I suspect its like social media, where everyone pretends they are dining at fancy restaurants and jet setting all the time, when really they are just bored.
I don't think loneliness is an "existential threat", it's just a crisis. I have a hard time imagining the human species being wiped out because we're lonely. I would think that would fix itself long before it got to that point.

Climate change on the other hand...
And what is the one-off equivalent of Spotify? Is it closer to the paid version Spotify than the free version of Spotify?
Gilbert Ling's work (http://gilbertling.org) on structured cellular water sounds similar in the sense of involving protein and phase as well as passivity (or lack) of membrane. Does anyone know if there's a generalization of these concepts into something like “statistical molecular mechanics”?
> Most ploughmen can’t imagine not ploughing. Why would they stop doing something they had always done? ... As a ploughman once said to me: “The plough’s been here for far too long for it not to be right.”

If the no-till movement is correct in its claims, they might be wrong about that.
> Talent, not time, is the enemy of quality.

What a refreshingly interesting perspective!

How did you come upon this?

Anyone care to disagree?
The plenary session of MICRO51 draws a big audience in October
I'm using Sublime Text for 5+ years. Only after your post I realize there's no File->Print feature, never needed it or just copy&pasted text into another editor like OpenOffice.

In https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/printing-from-sublime/281 I see there's a export-to-HTML plugin as work-around one can install. https://github.com/facelessuser/ExportHtml
> "We are a private company and don't share this information."

I'm on the management side (was CEO CircleCI, now CTO darklang) and we would absolutely answer all these questions. It's a complete red flag for any company that would recruit an employee without telling them what they're actually getting.

It's reasonable to keep the answers to Qs 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 until later in the hiring process when you're close to an offer, so long as you give directionally-correct answers first.

Personally, I would answer everything except 5 in a first interview (and that's only cause I'd have to look up the exact numbers).
You might run into problems with compositing window managers on that interface. Gnome supposedly has a pure-software fallback now, but it may be less than ideal.

Most systems assume a minimal level of 3D acceleration support for desktop use. Watching video, browsing the web, etc... could suck down a lot more CPU than you're used to.

NBD if you're using it as a server, but problematic as a daily driver desktop.
It doesn't have to be, but it can be, and preventing it from being a sum type because you might sometimes want a product type seems overly complex to me.
This is most definitely the case. I can't think of any other reason they'd do this.
This happens in reverse too. Teachers assume high achieving students will continue to achieve and give them more slack.

The trick to all my "writing" classes was to simply put the most effort in the first assignment. It was pretty clear that future marks were a function of prior marks, and I tested this hypothesis in different classes by modulating my effort on various assignments throughout the year.