skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea sometimes I believe the word "enterprise blockchain" makes about as much since as a "dry rain". Basically saying that the problems that blockchain solves are usually not problems that enterprises run into often, or can't solve using some readily available alternative (e.g., SQL). Blockchain clearly satisfies a need. It's just that the great majority of enterprises clearly don't have that need.
For some reason our office manager will only order stuff off Amazon which leads to funny scenarios where we'll get 12 pack of soda that was ordered from Amazon but was shipped from Costco with the Amazon sellers name on the billing but our office as the shipping. Down at the local Kroger the 12 pack was probably 15% cheaper...
I thought so too for a long time, but I have met a woman who confused in me that she will not date men if they have an Android phone. I doubt she’s the only one.
The funny thing is, I see more and more high quality and innovative software from the Chinese.

A very popular JS framework, Vue.JS, is Chinese made. These things used to be US made.

Also, Facebook is said to target TikTok by releasing apps and features to compete with them. It used to be the other way around.

The word is that Chinese are on the cutting edge of AI research too.

Nore and more it feels like the state of the art of Software is no longer tied to the Silicon Valley. Interesting times.
OT: My hope here, is that the integration with Github will also, as a side effect allow orgs using MS Teams to bridge the public channels... Letting an org use the more powerful MS Teams client internally, but still integrating with Spectrum without the need for yet another client for public interactions.
He's referring to imessage vs sms. People put weight into if you have an iPhone or not. If you're not a blue bubble, you're a lesser class in america (TO SOME PEOPLE).
Are you over 6’6”? I ask because my brother-in-law is, and has driven the Focus wagon we just sold - and owns a 1997 Passat. The key seems to be being able to drop the height of the seat.

Germans are slightly taller on average than Americans, and the Dutch are pretty well-known for it. Both are countries where the VW Golf is the median vehicle, and the Focus is one of its main competitors.

$6-7/gallon gas probably does cause people to put up with stuff that they wouldn’t if fuel were commonly $2.50, though.
Seeing as I'm being down-voted, I figured I should respond. We cannot measure anything without quantifiable measurements. Feelings cannot be quantified. This was my point.
>But this biases the playing field in favor of those graduating from American degree mills.

Undergrad is very expensive in the US, even at some public universities. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this put American graduates at a disadvantage?

If I attend a US public university and pay via loans, I'm now competing for a job with Indian and Chinese students who completed a graduate program (anecdotally, these candidates are preferred by HR and sometimes hiring managers). Alternatively, the US student can stay in school for a grad degree and take on more debt.

That's the general pattern I've seen at the big tech companies anyway. Person A is from some tiny school in the Midwest and wanted to work here but never even got an interview after graduating. Person B is from Hyderabad who just graduated with a masters CS degree and is a new hire on the team.

To be clear - I'm not arguing against immigration or blaming foreign students at all.

I have observed that people in the category B rank are willing to take less pay and deal with a ton more bullshit (politics, grind, etc.) because it's not as easy to switch employers on their visa status. Some of these kids are brilliant, others are extremely ordinary, but they got the interview and the kid from the Arkansas school didn't.
How did you register it? I was struggling with this, because I thought I needed a phone to register the SIM first (since you need to use the app, right?). Once you have it registered, you can swap the sim. Is that what you did, or a different method?
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I agree that France is not very representative of the general automobile market, but in Canada for example I would expect most households to start buying a CUV or SUV as their first car (possibly with AWD).

The point is that a classic three-box four-door sedan is not super practical as your only car, and I believe that's true for almost all markets. Americans still bought sedans because the alternatives (wagons, minivans, hatchbacks) were seen as uncool, but CUVs and SUVs don't have this problem at all.

So, yes, sedans will still exist but with a fraction of their previous market share, and in this sense sedans will be "dead" (since that's how the article uses the word).
Because there's no option to give someone 0 stars. It's 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.

I don't use Uber much; I'm mostly a Lyft person, so I'm not 100% sure how Uber does things, but here's how Lyft does it: if you open the app within 24 hours of riding with someone, it opens the rating screen, and you have to rate them in order to proceed. One star is the lowest you can rate somebody. If you want to proceed without rating them, you have to wait 24 hours before using the Lyft app. If you do, the screen goes away. It used to be that if you did this, their rating wouldn't be impacted at all; as far as the rating system is concerned, you never rode with them. But a few months ago, they changed it so that waiting 24 hours without rating someone will automatically rate them 5 stars. So if you try to give them no stars, all you'll end up doing is giving them 5 stars.

Again, I'm not sure exactly how Uber does it. I don't remember if it has the 24-hour window or if you just can't proceed at all if you never rate someone, and if it does have the 24-hour window, I don't know what happens when the window expires.
Big surprise! Another useful Google service gets put down. Why even bother launching products if you’re just gonna kill them after 2 years?
We've had to implement an internal table library with all of these features using React (and react-virtualized for scrolling). It's interesting and impressive to see such a large piece of UI code written without any library.
That's a cool idea--I would probably give it a try.
That's why there exist a variety of post-grant procedures to challenge the validity of issued patents. The examination system is a filter that balances cost with error rate, timeliness, accessibility, etc. A 'flawless' examination would be so expensive and lengthy as to be inaccessible to a vast majority of people, and we'd be here complaining about that.

The worst examples of bad software patents are largely behind us now, as they were a product of an era of rapid technological change and a dearth of qualified examiners in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. Many of those have been defeated in litigation or are starting to fall out of their 20 year windows of exclusivity.

And while this case may be frustrating for us to read, do keep in mind the ground truth of what has transpired. A person has completed a bureaucratic process with a government entity and received a piece of paper. Nobody has been sued by this patent (that we know of from this blog post) and the patent owner has not profited a dime (again, as we know of from the blog post. At this stage it seems premature to get all up in arms about it.
This is like every OK Cupid profile I see in SF.
You can conveniently audit the source code of (the current version of) an add-on by installing the “Extension source viewer” add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/) and then visiting the page of the add-on to inspect. I haven’t read through all the code of Google Container, but it only has 31 lines of JSON and 422 lines of JavaScript – smaller than most add-ons.
Can you let me know how these "private" blockchains utilize proof of X to determine consensus? E.g. proof of work, or proof of stake, or something else?

The thing I never understood with private blockchain tech is that the "traditional" blockchain (i.e. Bitcoin) relies on proof of work, and the only way this is viable is to have tons of resources working on these proofs so that you don't get a 51% attack (there have even been a bunch of articles about how smaller coins actually are very susceptible to a 51% attack by a decently funded attacker).

For a private blockchain, though, it never made sense to me as to who would serve the role of the miners with sufficient incentive to prevent a nefarious attacker. If on the other hand you are in a system where the participants agree as to how they will trust each other, well then you'd be back to a situation where the byzantine model isn't really necessary and you can just go back to a cryptographically signed ledger a la the Quantum Ledger DB that AWS just announced.

Would really appreciate someone explaining this one to me!
I can fully second this approach. We migrated away from a plain AngularJS application in 2016. The sheer number of bugs we have since been able to prevent by the (ever improving) strictness checks of Typescript is staggering.

And all that, with what I believe is excellent documentation and support. I mean you're getting a getting started comment from the lead managers on the project

Thanks Daniel!
This is pretty poor analysis on his part about why the game wasn't successful and what it means for the state of the VR market. From a talk at the Game Developer's Conference last March it was shown that the average Steam game makes about $30k in it's first year. That's non-VR.

According to the Steam hardware survey, about 1% of users own a VR headset. This paints a pretty grim picture about what an average VR game can expect to make on Steam.

However that's what you could expect an average game to make. You make exponentially more money the more standard deviations you are from the average.

A few things that push you in the direction of success: an obvious and interesting hook, a compelling trailer, some basic marketing, and quite obviously fun mechanics. I have not played his game, but I can tell from a glance that it is missing the majority of those requirements.

It may be survivorship bias, but I can back this up with experience. I made a good-but-not-great VR game that hit all those major success points, and combined the PC and PS4 have grossed us mid-six figures.
"then ended up with thousands of dollars of credit card debt a few years later because they got carried away. No thanks. "

That really isn't necessary. I haven't paid a single cent in interest in 18 years. Get the credit card, buy a few things, pay it off and throw the card away.

If you have a business you most likely have the discipline to not be stupid.
I had ported my phone number to Google Voice back when I was using Android phones. My wife insists on Apple products and eventually I switched to an iPhone myself. I ported my number back out but set up another Google Voice number.

Now, if I miss a call, it forwards to the GV number. So I get transcriptions (via email) which aren't perfect but better than anything else I've seen.

9 times out of 10, I don't need to call the person back. It's a reminder, it's somebody I'll see later that day, etc.

I do wish that GV would not send me notices that I have voicemail when the person (or more likely a computer) hung up when they heard voicemail.

The GV number is also useful for things that insist on SMS where I want a secure number. No way for a person to go into a store and insist on getting my number transferred to their phone.
Ok. Seems strange to award a gold star to a terrible experience!
Author complains about high barrier of entry to create a new index fund, but all solutions he list are just even more barriers of entry.

The common sense of not putting new laws until clear evil has been observed should be applied here.
Thank you for taking the time to write your comment.

That book looks exactly like what I am looking for. I will definitely look for it.

With regards to my scepticism, I think you captured a lot of it in your examples. I guess i am afraid of people taking the lazy approach of labelling and medicating anyone who doesn't fit into the system rather than questioning the legitimacy of the system in the first place.

My son only recently turned 6 and I also believed that with enough outside and physical play perhaps he would be better able to regulate his behaviour the rest of the time. However he goes to a very progressive school with no desks and all enquiry based learning through play yet he still struggles more than the others with self-regulation.

As I said I'm coming round to a diagnosis possibly being appropriate as I learn more about the condition. He will go for a full neurological and developmental assessment in the next month or two. I want to be informed enough by then to interrogate the results to ensure he receives treatment that is situated appropriate. Another commenter mentioned that the efficacy of stimulants is a strong signal in itself so that's something I want to keep in mind should we get to that point.

Thank you to all the thoughtful comments, much appreciated!
How an architectural competition site saved me $15,000
the Startup Engineering MOOC on Coursera taught by Balaji Srinivasan (CTO of Coinbase now, Stanford prof back then) was extremely valuable to go through, both from a technical and non-technical standpoint. It was kinda like the "How To Start A Startup" course going on right now except slightly more preparatory for the technical challenges involved

course page: http://online.stanford.edu/course/startup-engineering and http://startup.stanford.edu/

course videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL58C6Q25sEEFVyISrZc80....
You can't just keep signing up for credit cards and get benefits. They will decline you soon.
> in some cases an industry mutual doesn't exist, and the regulator doesn't want to manage the database. Then what?

If you're at the scale where broad co-ordination is a problem, you're at the scale where the big boys can arrange a meeting. Alternatively, if you're at a scale where someone can get everyone on a blockchain, you're at the scale to create an industry organization.
I had the same issue with the Facebook container tab on Firefox as well.
"I'm intrigued by this study but also suspicious... It seems a lot of "illicit" substances are being touted as possible depression aides, such as shrooms and MDMA."

I've done MDMA multiple times. I'm over 35. I did it recreationally with my spouse. I know the recreational doses and the theraputic doses are the same.

And boy, did it solve some stuff in my brain. All positive. I'm better equipped to deal with anxiety and depression than I was before. I was.. OK. With myself, with things, and so on. The next day and week or so after, it felt like by brain had been rinsed off, massaged, and gently put back in place. Now, this slowly lessened, but I was able to deal with stuff. It is really hard to explain: Like finally getting glasses and being amazed with how clear things were. I can only imagine how this would be in a clinical setting, with someone guiding your brain to deal with things you needed to deal with. Also, I found I like myself. That's not nothing.

Now, I've never done Ketamine, but I imagine results are similarly helpful for folks this is a good match with especially when you are in a clinical setting.
Sounds a bit like llcpp:

https://blapid.github.io/cpp/2017/10/31/llcpp-a-quest-for-fa...

Although that writes binary, not JSON.
Where's that? I have an old $15 plan for 3 mbit grandfathered in but I would like a little more speed. The only plan they are offering to me is $49 for 12 months which then goes up 70.
The Fire of Life
Great talk! I’ve watched a lot of Hickey’s talks over the years, and thought he might have "run out of steam" by now. But there are some new insights here that I enjoyed.

One of his main points is that Maybe is context-dependent, and other aspects of schemas are as well. This is a great and underappreciated point.

It’s related to a subtle but important point that Google learned the hard way over many years with respect to protocol buffers. There’s an internal wiki page that says it better, but this argument has spilled out on to the Internet:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31801257/why-required-an...

In proto3, they removed the ability to specify whether a field is optional. People say that the reason is “backward compatibility”, which is true, but I think Hickey’s analysis actually gets to the core of the issue.

The issue is that the shape/schema of data is an idea that can be reused across multiple contexts, while optional/required is context-specific. They are two separate things conflated by type systems when you use constructs like Maybe.

When you are threading protocol buffers through long chains of servers written and deployed at different times (and there are many of these core distributed types at Google), then you'll start to appreciate why this is an important issue.

(copy of lobste.rs comment)
There are a variety of formal consensus algorithms uses for enterprise blockchains, but they are all some variant of voting schemes based on validator signatures. Nothing like proof-of-work is needed to ensure that one bad actor, or a small number of bad actors, cannot break the network's consensus. If you have just one validator, like QLDB, then you're back to a centralized scenario.
Early intervention may in fact be able to mitigate the symptoms, support earlier development of compensating skills and possibly make future treatment unnecessary. That should be considered a success, not cast doubt on the original diagnosis.
> That's bad. I thought someone would be using a blockchain for some kind of back-end settlement system somewhere, but apparently not.

The problem in that area is not the previous lack of available technology, it is institutional inertia. You don't need a blockchain to speed up settlements, because the technology to do it did exist before. What you need is buy-in from a bunch of old and conservatively run institutions that do not particularly like change.

The primary fallacy of all these blockchain proponents is only seeing problems as technical in nature when they really lie somewhere else. The same applies especially to smart contracts.
> Having an iPhone isn't inexplicable. You can finance or lease a phone for $30-$40 a month. And given the extraordinary advantages having a smartphone provides, it would be inexplicable if they did not do so.

It's inexplicable when there are alternative phones available for 1/10 the cost. Why would you choose to take on a $40/mo expense when you could buy an entire fully functioning low end Android phone for $40?

> And so on and so on. I pay more upfront to save a ton down the line.

But my example is that I'm paying less upfront than my neighbors. They are the ones buying iPhones and name brand cereal with SNAP while I'm over here using cheap phones and eating generic brand cereal. It just seems paradoxical is all I'm saying.
American sedans are dead because the Big 3 American automakers never invested in making sedans. They always borrowed tech from other companies.

Just about every Ford sedan platform and engine was built on top of Mazda or Volvo designs. It's not surprising that Ford lost access to those designs when it sold off Volvo and then Mazda.

Similarly, GM designs were from Suzuki and Opel. They've been divesting from Suzuki and Opel for a better part of a decade now. It seems like they also reached the point where they've been cut off from platforms and engines.

Chrysler luckily still has Fiat to borrow car platforms and engines from. They also have partnerships with Hyundai group. So I think they'll keep making sedans, just because they still have access to that tech.

The American sedan is being killed off because they were never American in the first place.
The Model S launched in Canada at $64,500 in 2012. The cheapest Model 3 is now $60,100.
> As for parental wealth, well you'd be hard-pressed to find any trait in a child that isn't statistically more likely when their parents possess it. Are we to address poverty by forcing people to procreate by lottery?

You are being disingenuous by trying to argue that wealth is a genetically heritable trait. I don't think you're actually even engaging in honest debate here, just doing the standard right-wing gish gallop of disinformation and distraction. This applies to all of your comment, not just the above.

Noted and ignored.
I agree. But I haven't heard a plausible geoengineering plan proposed yet. This is the part where engineers should be able to provide an answer today, achievable with our existing technology. It isn't enough to wave one's hands and assume that a solution can be developed someday when we're in deep enough trouble.

With our technology, it's still considered a nation-scale accomplishment to build a bridge spanning 55 km, or a dam spanning 2 km. Those kinds of engineering accomplishments are currently the likes of which most nations can only dream.

All we can currently do on the planetary scale is resource extraction -- fishing, strip mining, and deforestation. And accidentally altering the atmospheric composition of course.

I guess we can try to cover the entire ocean in floating white plastic pellets, to increase its albedo? That would probably work.
I try a lot of games with both good and bad reviews. I am more likely to try a game with good reviews.

If you read the reviews for this specific game you will notice that they all point to very similar game breaking bugs which would make me even less likely to try the game. Why would I want to try a game that doesn't allow me to save more than once ever?

I have 500+ games on steam, I buy games I never play and this game is giving me every signal not to buy it.
This I agree with. The asymmetry is exploited by bad actors for far too long. But consider the alternatives. If we make it $250k to file a patent, then we'd all be here complaining that only the rich can afford to acquire patents. And that would kind of suck. And on the other end, most of the cost involved is in paying patent attorneys to make your case for you. What do we do about that? I'm not against the idea of having a dedicated class of highly trained and specialized people to argue these very important matters, right? It kind of comes back to a general argument about the fee structure of American litigation. Perhaps a fee-shifting arrangement where if a patent owner has a patent invalidated they have to pay the other side's fees? But being so unpredictable would still provide a barrier to entry to challenge patents. Should we have a government contingent of patent attorneys available to assist in patent validity challenges? Kind of like a public defender of sorts. Who would decide who gets their help? Who would pay for it? Is that public good (of ridding the system of bad patents) worth that cost? Interesting things to ponder.
It's a narrative game at that. They're incredibly niche even when they're not VR games.
“Nondisclosed-by-default research.” – MIRI
Nothing really to do with VR itself. If anything VR is more favorable for an indie developer as there are less titles on the stores and a more fervent / willing base of users (for desktop VR users), and more room to be creative with interactions versus leaning on visuals.

But making money from indie games is tough in general, it takes a long time, execution is difficult, and marketing is needed. Can even apply to just general making money from app stores or software. Need to have a good idea, execute, market, and stand out from the rest. App stores though give you some boost in discoverability.
Just get a VPN to another state.
How exactly can one calculate such risk? At best somebody put an Exel file with a model that was wrong but that looked impressive in a presentation. But I doubt that even that was done. Somebody just put vague words that everybody was doing that.

There are things that one should not do no matter how tempting it looks. Rusdian roulette can be very attractive as 5 out 6 persons who tried claimed that it was a harmless.