skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a tablet anymore. Hardly used the ipad I had.

Current laptop is a ASUS 15.6" TUF Gaming FX504GE Laptop. Generally, I just buy a $600-$900 laptop each time the hinges short out (~24 months)
I think this really means that while coding is hard it is the fun thing, it is a hard thing that is fun to do and easily can lead to flow states which we interpret as "fun". That's great, as you advance in your career though it turns out many times coding isn't the most valuable thing you can be doing with your time but rather things like explaining, teaching, guiding. Things that aren't so easily defined as fun. So coding is easy not as in the simple vs difficult way but in the "easy going" way.
On the other hand, this has resulted in something very good. Our (U.S.) space program has been err, lacking, for the last 45 years so it's not like there would have been much benefit to partnering with us. If China, or any other country, wants to take the leadership role we've abdicated and show the world how to do a space program, more power to them. And who knows, it might even give us the push we need to get back out there in a serious way.
Now: natural gas

Future: batteries, including those in electric cars, smart grid (appliances and factories)

Now & improving: pan-European grid averting our local fluctuations
Yes. I always turn my head before I switch lanes, but I much more frequently am just aware that I don't need to turn my head because there is someone beside me. And you gain continuous situational awareness that means you pretty much always know which way you can go if you have to.

I also have had more surprise cars coming up next to me than motorcycles, because they're so rare and they don't come ut in the winter.
In the words of Steve Balmer:

Developers Developers Developers Developers
What about rocketpack, to fit its current naming theme?

Or spiderpack?

Netpack?

Silkpack?
The second-system effect
No, I've contributed to the Linux kernel more than once and never received a job offer from Red Hat, SUSE or Canonical.
A bankruptcy is not a 'loophole' or benefit you can avail as a matter of course every year, but this misses the point. That was just an example, it could be anything, any 'financial innovation' not available to individuals.
I don’t see why a bounty wouldn’t work in this case either. Certainly would cost more than $50 to raise a monkey to kill for bounty, when the entire bounty pool would be barely $20k.

I doubt you need to even give a bounty though, just open them for hunting. Better yet give out a commemorative plaque.
For anyone wanting to dig deeper, GPML is the bible on Gaussian Processes: http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/

GP's are awesome. Usually, if you've got a few points, your first approach to "fitting a curve through them" would be to choose some parametric form and hope that you're not overfitting with e.g. too high a degree of polynomial. But what if you've got something piecewise, with unpredictable pieces? And what if you don't need a writable parametric form for your curve, but all you need is to answer the question "given my data, what's the probability distribution over the y value at x=5, 6, 7, 8, weighted over all likely curves that might fit my data based on how well they fit?"

Then a GP fit on your data will work wonders for you, as essentially an oracle for those kinds of queries. (And you can then just use the means of those distributions sampled at small intervals, if all you want is to throw a single curve on the screen.) Depending on your choices of priors and kernels, you can have it do magical things.
> ...more like brains

He did, he specified the synapses are like weights. I'll extend that a bit and say the collection of ion channels on the neuron's membrane, which regulate the surface potential, will act as the classifier. They form a non-linear classifier (voltage gradiant dissipates with r^2) but still a classifier.
> linux: great support if you are using the linux-surface kernel branch

Meh, whatever. Is there any ETA for hardware support when using the Linux mainline kernel?
I think you are mostly lucky in that you only need a limited subset of the full functionality. You were lucky with video, you probably don't need Thunderbolt, your charging needs are modest, and you don't care about peculiarities like USB 3.1 Gen 2 speeds. In that scenario things will usually work fine, assuming you don't save on cables.

But it's enough to just read the cable reviews to learn that things are not always fine.

Also, one thing which cannot be blamed on "crappy cables" is that the presence of a USB-C port on a computer does not mean much at all, because in general one has no idea what can be connected to it.
Out of interest I built the client, and ran `grin` and it says "mainnet not ready yet - use floonet". Does that mean it's in some kind of "test mode" where the "grins" are not real? How do things change over to mainnet?
Hopefully these facilities can consistently confront disagreeable and potentially unstable users and ensure they are discarding all needles that were used before leaving. Seattle's track record of enforcement in other areas makes me pessimistic, unfortunately.

One idea I've heard of is requiring more needles to be handed in before fresh needles are handed out as a means of incentivizing neighborhood cleanup.
have you applied and were rejected?
Nuclear waste can be buried away (relatively) harmlessly, while higher global temperatures and the extreme weather + fire they cause represent a large-scale potentially irreversible environmental alteration. I know which I'd pick.
I want a touch first drag and drop editor
Thanks for the model number. I wonder how the driver support is.

I had one at a job too. I remember really liking it. So much better than the wheel. When I said they didn't exist, I meant I couldn't find one on alibaba.. I should reread my posts so they are clearer...
You must be heavily invested.
As a bicyclist, I always drove so that even if a car had no idea I was there at all, I would be safe or have a plan to dodge. On a motorcycle, I have to think that any time I entered a car's blind spot I would alert and planning to leave. Even in a car I don't hang out there.
More nuclear waste please!

Nuclear waste is comparatively easy to handle. A single country is capable of handling its own nuclear waste and keeping it safe (as France does, for example). The same is not true of CO2 emissions and global climate, which require transnational concerted effort to manage.
The Amiga had 32 bit instructions and 24-bit address width (with a 16-bit bus width). The 1130 was 15-bit address space of 16-bit words.
The built-in data structures often force in-place mutation on code which wants to be in any way efficient.
Mainnet launch is Jan 15. Testnet mode until the genesis block is mined.
Doesn't this just mean adoption is easily farmed out to various communication protocols that do it better? (Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Threema). Basically handing them a ready-made drop-in cryptocurrency system ?
Destroy another startup.
Thanks for that link. Where would one find follow up, or similar, arguments of equal quality? I’m hoping the debate has continued these last 15 years since that was published.
Self driving cars do not represent a correlated risk. The situation you describe is completely fanciful. There is no plausible circumstance in which a large number of cars would simultaneously crash.
I was a Kickstarter backer, and have been developing experiments on it nearly full-time since it arrived about a week before Christmas. It was, amusingly, the first time I've tracked a package minute-to-minute since we used to watch Santa's progress via NORAD on Christmas Eve.

The crazy thing is that the hype was justified: it is pure magic. There's lots of negative peanut gallery elsewhere in this thread; they are just wrong and totally missing the point of what this team and device have accomplished, which is delivering a genuinely novel experience out-of-the-box, for about $500, with both a reasonable selection of samples on launch day AND a proper Unity SDK with good examples. It's one of those rare crowdfunded projects that shipped exactly on time (!), the drivers work, and the support forum is full of helpful people who reply to questions in a timely manner.

My only regret is that I didn't spring for the opportunity to buy a 15" for $2000 when I had the chance.
How does one get mainnet grin?
>I'm confident once we have them, it will conveniently become "discovered" that HSV has been quietly responsible for some prolific form of suffering like Alzheimers and/or Parkinsons all this time.

Not sure if you were making reference to a specific belief, but there's already some evidence that HSV1 may be part of the Alzheimer's cause puzzle [1].

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019841/
> since when is HN rampant with small sample generalizations?

Since always. I can't count the number of generalizations I've seen which begin with "in my experience," for which the poster's experience likely includes a sample of one at least, or half a dozen at most.

And to be perfectly fair, it seems to happen a lot when China or Japan come up.
Thinking about this further, I think that maybe this is a fundamental problem with taking performance and making it a competition. Competition demands an objective standard when the quality of a performance is really about the subjective qualities like showmanship.

I see the same thing when games/sports become professional. It becomes about winning rather and gamesmanship than the characteristics that make the game/sport fun/meaningful/significant to begin with. For example, e-sports that remove the random aspects that make a game exciting because they aren't "fair". Or Mayweather vs. Pacquinao fight where Mayweather won using a defensive strategy; effectively winning by not fighting.
It seems to me this is kind of how Linus Torvalds got his job. I could be wrong there, though.

HN comment:

"I've known many more or less unemployable people who started contributing to significant open source projects, and based on that got hired to well paid positions."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18378267
Both those car companies are facing serious long term issues. Yes, the numbers today look ok, but expectations are not looking good.

US MBW market share, is just one indicator.
2014	2.06%
2015	1.98%
2016	1.79%
2017	1.77%

They are also shrinking in Europe, though this is offset by emerging markets. But, relative to the industry they need a turn around.

TOYOTA: Car decline overshadows light-truck gain https://www.autonews.com/article/20181002/RETAIL01/181009878...

With a slightly down market:

Dominion Electric is 16.08
Proctor and gamble is 23.66

Proctor and gamble has some growth but it’s stock is up 50% in the last decade. It’s doubled in the last 20 years which is some growth but not much.
Now you've really tangled yourself in a big web.
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It's actually the other way around. The cost of dealing with all the downsides multiple version control systems is way higher than investing in tooling for the Mono-Repo. This is mentioned in articles by Facebook and Google.
React Native Firebase in 2019
This isn't sustainable. These new language features make for cleaner, leaner, even faster codebases.

Python 2 dinosaurs will need to come to with a Babel-style project to transliterate modern syntax —3to2, if you will— and rebase their code from that. It's going to be hell to maintain.
Cybercrimers stole $0.26M with 6 missed calls
I'm on iOS/Safari. I only get a black page with no content. Clicking reader mode shows text intermingled with ad text, I assume.

I gave up
There is nothing to invest, this isn’t an ico
> simultaneous other transitions that are not logically required for any reason other than the superficial sake of the monorepo

I don't see what's superficial about "everything everywhere is in sync", myself.

And I have absolutely seen PR race conditions. Assuming that everyone perfectly sliced up the polyrepo on the first go is optimistic.
> [these findings] provide strong support for the argument that non-cognitive development is a crucial determinant of the long-term success of child care programs.

Okay so non-cognitive development is important and clearly lacking in government supported child-care. I think the more interesting question is: Why is there such a difference between government supported child-care and parental care?

Not all stay-at-home parents are positive influences. And there are some great government child-care workers. Is it the parent-to-child ratio? Is it counter-productive programming? Is it oversocialization? And why don't these things affect the cognitive skill development just as badly?
A 0-day vulnerability in their OS, exploited ...
We have one large-ish repo that keeps showing "This repository currently has approximately 547 loose objects.”

We keep pruning and gc'ing with different flags, but pulls just seem far slower than other smaller repos.
that's behaviorism (not the same thing as experience) and as a theory was refuted in the 50s by chomsky: https://chomsky.info/1967____/
This is a useful site, but you should probably disclose on it somewhere that you're getting affiliate revenue from every person clicking through and signing up for Coursera courses through your links...
I've almost been hit by so many idiots who don't turn their heads and just trust their stupid mirrors, I want to have 5 minutes alone in a locked room with whoever wrote this article.
Complexity really is incredibly powerful. With it you can bury unspeakable evils in plain sight.

It has wide applications too: you can obfuscate everything from financial issues to political events. For example, pretend the article of the Charleston white supremacist mass murderer said the following:

"Roof was involved in the controversy of the events of June 17, 2015. After a flurry of media attention, he became the lead defendant in the trial United States v. Roof (2:15-cr-00472), which was noted for the request for a bench trial..."

The above is entirely correct, and written in a neutral, flat tone, but it completely misrepresents the situation. By noting tiny, irrelevant details like the request for a bench trial and the criminal number, the article both becomes uninteresting and hides the truth. If you read the snippet you wouldn't get the idea that he was a mass murderer.

I read something earlier by James Risen about the CIA covering up a number of horrible things. One quote I found very interesting:

"But after I filed the first story, it sat in the Times computer system for days, then weeks, untouched by editors. I asked several editors about the story’s status, but no one knew.

Finally, the story ran, but it was badly cut and buried deep inside the paper. I wrote another one, and the same thing happened. I tried to write more, but I started to get the message. It seemed to me that the Times didn’t want these stories."

They didn't even have to threaten to not publish it - all they had to do was obfuscate it! Throw in a few complex words and kick it off the front page and behold, nobody will read it, even if it contains explosive information.
So about 3 days of solid use on a single charge? I'm surprised, I've never heard any reviewers say anything about a phone that lasts that long.
Come again? Isn’t the more reasonable explanation simply that cars have to meet much more stringent auto safety standards which required thicker, more obnoxious A pillars?
> I am not sure what you are trying to say. [Couple paragraphs rephrasing what I said]

Yep, that's what I was trying to say. (Although I'd hadn't remembered that the Copy trait actually enforced bitwise-exact-copies-only, because why would you want (implicit) non-exact copies.)
I don't want to argue there are no violations of rights occurring at all. That's an extraordinarily improbable stance to hold.

But if you don't see something different about illegal immigrants detained in America, and what China is known to do... Then there's simply something morally wrong with you.
> Unmigrated semver breaking changes are a form of technical debt

Maybe you can clear my confusion. If Module B is dependent on Module A, then every version of B should refer to a specific version of A, correct? What is there to break? Development can continue on A without interfering with B, and then you can uptick B once it points to a later A.

I'm not sure what this has to do with the mono/poly discussion.
> However, here's what I will say: if you are in an organization, I think Bazel really shines. If you can take time to write some custom tools and rules and really integrate your software into Bazel, it can be an awesome experience. ... Another plus: it is Amazing having a build system that crosses languages.

This is pretty much what I think of when I want to like Bazel. I wish we had it on Cloud Foundry. Or, rather, I wish it had existed 5 years ago and had been used on Cloud Foundry from the beginning, because CF and its associated projects have hundreds of repositories and these have mostly been kept in sync through mountains of tests and oceans of automation. It works, but I know that in another universe it works better.
Thanks for the commentary. Do you think any cryptocurrency has applied effective monetary policy that addresses the issues described elsewhere in thus thread? Do you think token curated registries might be a reasonable context to explore game theory and monetary policy in a more iterative and experimental fashion?
> sales of this nature... signal bear market like a yield curve inversion does

How? How is this different from the treasuries the US sells every year?
That's up to you, I guess. I thought Yosemite Valley was gorgeous, even with toddlers around. You just gotta pay attention to the things you care about, and not get upset about the stuff you don't.
maybe another way to challenge your perspective is to think of a robot:

in the case of a robot, you can explain how it senses whats going on around it, learns things, and takes actions.

but is the robot conscious? is it ok to kill it? think about why it might be ok to kill the robot and not a person. because the difference between them is that the person feels; the person is conscious. it is the consciousness (what's left after all the other explanations) that is precisely the mystery that we seek to explain but have no idea how to do scientifically. that puts it into the domain of philosophy, but that doesn't mean it's not "much use". it's not much use yet, it will be some day. most of what we consider science now began in the past as philosophy. astronomy, physics, medicine, etc..
Ask HN: Capitalization, Piercing Corporate Veil, Loans
Undercapitalization is an often cited cause for piercing the corporate veil. Furthermore, some sources indicate that capitalization at time of company formation can be a critical factor in determination of inadequate capitalization.

That's why I don't understand the following remark on Clerky's website:

"Some founders are tempted to simply increase the purchase price of their common stock, to get the desired amount of capital into the corporation when they pay for their shares. Most startup lawyers recommend against this approach because it can affect the FMV of the common stock. The value of equity compensation for employees and consultants is tied to the difference between the common stock FMV at the time of issuance, and the price at which the equity is eventually sold. Therefore, startups typically try to avoid prematurely causing an increase in the common stock FMV, to maximize the value of the equity compensation."

“Instead, founders typically contribute cash to the corporation in the form of a simple loan. With a simple loan, the company would be obligated to repay the founder at a later time, along with nominal interest.”

Can a loan from a founder be counted as capitalization in the context of piercing the corporate veil?
A star pattern still has most of the downsides of the multirepo approach. Specifically, it has the problem of needing a parallel version control (e.g. SemVer) on top of your individual repositories. This creates fragmentation, where different applications have dependencies on different versions of the libraries which ends up in dependency hell, technical debt, and CI hell.
> You break it, you fix it.

I’ve seen this invoked so many times to shirk responsibility though. Someone piles up all kinds of crap in a tight little closet, complete with a bowling ball on top, and the next unsuspecting dev who comes by and opens it gets an avalanche of crap falling on them while the original author can be heard somewhere in the background saying “it’s not my problem.”

This winds up leading to more crap-stacking just to get the work done ASAP and you wind up with a mountain of tech debt.

I like the zero flaw principle where new feature work stops until all currently known flaws are fixed. Then everyone is forced to pitch in and responsibility is shared whether you want it or not.
> What would the better way have been for them to do this?

I don't know, off the top of my head (having been on the other side of this conversation, I am aware how frustrating that answer is). But I know I couldn't keep it straight when I was fighting Bazel and that I gave up. And anecdotally I am not alone: I have seen Bazel torn out of multiple projects, sometimes quite painfully.
Swapping the pakfile for a WebTorrent (or maybe a couple of them) wouldn't be crazy, but I guess there would still be some trouble in keeping that from holding things up.
One thing I don't see from the mainpage, who is the actual intended audience that will facilitate adoption?

All I see is 'everyone' and well that's rather vague.

What's the actual value statement other than anonymity? Because being more efficient at the same thing seems of marginal value if the same thing does not have significant demand otherwise...
Strange. iOS on an iPhone 6 here with no problems. It’s a perfectly normal looking blog page.
I have some real cognitive dissonance with the mixed desires for women to have complete equality in the workplace, and children who are perfectly cared for as though they were in their mother's arms, yet the children can't come to work in many cases for very practical reasons (highly intellectually demanding work settings, high risk work settings, etc). And at the same time, it's all men's fault.
Its not a silver bullet. Otherwise companies like Cisco could come back to the 500+ billion dollar market cap they had 19 years ago. There just isn’t demand for a company that expanded to its natural limits. It’s just throwing money away slowing down the decline.
They should have invested in new nuclear research too. Too bad that populism efficiently killed any future of nuclear power in Germany. I hope that France will be wiser.
> The only meme you presented was the idea that groups recognized as governments are a more respectable group to pay and secondly that their arbitrary levies are to be respected at any arbitrary amount.

That's a pretty anti-democratic "meme." Some "governments are a more respectable group to pay" because they're the collective us, not some arbitrary other.