skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the teaching union bosses in the UK said he’d start to care about pupils when they started paying union subs.
I wonder if some sort of little 4-way sticks could be used to make the keyboard more compact: each direction would correspond to a separate key.

Though I guess it would mean more moving parts to break.
I don’t know how this works in the US but what comes to mind is voting rights. It may seem unimportant now, but might come and bite you in the a later. It really depends on your relationship with this person.
Not very surprising. There is a problem with trying to fund urban transit by selling it as a service for those who use it. urban transit is a service which benefits every member of the community it serves , both individuals and corporations, by reducing congestion. In most places with an efficient transit network, fare revenue is not the biggest source of funding.

This is shocking for americans who grow up in the post Reagan era, but some things are easier done by governments.
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You just never bothered digging into Rails and going through at least the majority of the documntation. I tried playing around with Spring, guess what? It sucks, the amount of reading you have to do just to try and get a hello world is immense.
Agree about symbols though, that's not a good thing. Every language has mistakes though.
And yet those codecs still aren't in hardware devices or widely implemented in all browsers.

I wouldn't cite open source codecs as a success story ...

A GUI toolkit is probably more on point and of the correct scale, and those also demonstrate that without significant backing from somewhere, progress doesn't get made at that level of complexity.
Really? As a passenger, 777s are way noisier than modern jets like 787 or A380.
I always though that China's best strength was in "field applications" of technology than in institutional development.

China should, for once, stop chasing the West and develop its own strong sides.

There are already many things where China got genuine uncontestable lead over the rest of the world, but which most of Chinese themselves don't realise:

1. Excellent system of 2 year technical education

2. Highly experienced manufacturing specialists when it comes to "doing engineering at manufacturing site"

3. Industry that is much more eager to pick up new technologies than Western one.
You and me both. :(
I see what you mean. As an explanation of how a GPDR regulator would view things, what you say makes sense.
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas [pdf]
I share this opinion. I was so excited for Destiny (fun fact: it came out the same day Apple announced the Apple Watch - I remember playing Destiny then taking a break to tune into the keynote) but it was pretty unpolished on Day 1. I dived back in with The Taken King, which I really enjoyed.

I ignored Destiny 2 when it first came out, then picked it up on Black Friday last year with all the expansions. I basically treat it as a single player game and absolutely love it. The combat is so sharp and tight, the missions are enjoyable.

I know it has a lot to offer with raids and fireteams and all of that, but I just want a few hours of escapism and for that, it truly delivers.
This paper considers the taxation of top incomes when the following conditions apply: (i) new ideas drive economic growth, (ii) the reward for creating a successful innovation is a top income, and (iii) innovation cannot be perfectly targeted by a separate research subsidy — think about the business methods of Walmart, the creation of Uber, or the “idea” of Amazon.com. These conditions lead to a new term in the Saez (2001) formula for the optimal top tax rate: by slowing the creation of the new ideas that drive aggregate GDP, top income taxation reduces everyone’s income, not just the income at the top. When the creation of ideas is the ultimate source of economic growth, this force sharply constrains both revenue-maximizing and welfare-maximizing top tax rates. For example, for extreme parameter values, maximizing the welfare of the middle class requires a negative top tax rate: the higher income that results from the subsidy to innovation more than makes up for the lost redistribution. More generally, the calibrated model suggests that incorporating ideas and economic growth cuts the optimal top marginal tax rate substantially relative to the basic Saez calculation.
That is a living wage in their country.
Remembering the story in Myth and Myth 2, the music, and so on, still gives me major nostalgia. I loved the story of the Heron Guard in Myth 2, amazing.
On all displays. It matters less on Retina displays.

External displays are nowhere near the normal use case?
Because he should be paying human beings a living wage no matter where they are. Pretending that living costs in a developing nation is somehow magically non existent is immoral.

Pay people a reasonable wage to live their lives and provide for their families. Just because someone lives in another country does not give a person the moral authority to pay them an amount that does not allow them to properly feed and care for themselves and their family.
The 737 has the advantage of being able to spread it's design mistakes over a inordinate number of aircraft. You find and fix design holes and issues with maintenance every time one crashes.
It seems reasonable until you realize you could completely wreck their local economy.

If you start paying people to compile lists for you at a higher rate than they are paid performing important local services, then they will stop performing important local services and start compiling lists for you.

What needs to happen is slower growth.

So foreign businesses outsource to the Philippines, paying them low wages. Then other businesses see this as a good way to save and do the same, and then more businesses and so on. Soon the people in the Philippines have options, and their market starts to become competitive, and they start demanding more pay (which is good). During this whole process they are spending that foreign money into their local economy, allowing it to grow and keep up.

China is a good example.
RNG manipulations are among some of my favorite speedruns just because of the absurd lengths players will go to align absolutely everything perfectly. For example, Dragon Warrior at AGDQ last year was an absolute treat to watch [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgh30BiWG58
Someday........

I thought about using the "easy fit" floors that fitness centers use for a floor, and then adding a layer of ply on top of it to create flooring that can be taken away if needed without damaging the original floor.

Thanks for more inspiration to move my lazy butt and do something.
So considering that Chrome has what like over 50% market share you have to ask yourself what major problem is Firefox solving that Chrome isn't? I feel like Firefox has all of the people on payroll that just spend their days reinventing a wheel that rolls really good.
I loved, loved, loved the feeling I got from playing Marathon.

It's so hard to explain now but those games had a level of atmosphere and story that I still find almost uncomparable in gaming. I remember playing the Marathon 2 demo again and again because I loved it so much. Something about that feeling of being alone in a very mysterious world and getting sucked deeper into the story...
Neither is:

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So what's the problem with that? it's not like by delaying the repairs a few months that something worse will happen. Eventually when the government resumes, the telescope will be repaired. The only issue is that we may miss a few months of pictures (not saying that the Hubble is useless, just that by not working for a few months, nothing bad will happen)
Wonder how this compares to single shot with an SVM or nearest neighbor. 76% on MNIST is frankly embarrassing
I was going to comment the same; I lived in Tacoma and committed to Seattle for 4 years, and it was incredibly convenient, even with the traffic on I5. The seattle-tacoma route had more frequent intervals than the local Tacoma busses did and the transit was pretty nice. Usually full but never packed (except last bus of the evening)
Ouch, feeding probabilistic models training data scored with a gradient of truthfulness tags generated by humans and all their biases... surely this won't end horribly and simply serve as a method to algorithmically institute the tyranny of the majority.

If you really want to do this (You really don't, I assure you - you'll hate the end result), you've got to reach back through the AI winter and drag the granddaddy of NLP, propositional logic, into modern AI development. We'll see this employed by lawyers long before journalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempto_Controlled_English
So forgive me for not follwing along with news on the Quest, but is this basically just a GearVR that comes with (essentially) a samsung S8 (or similar) baked in to it from the factory?
> more robust and decentralized system than us all being atomized and being cared for by the state.

Decentralized, sure. Robust? No way. Unless they are wealthy and economically independent, your family are a small number of failures away from not being able to support you. A locally correlated failure ( i.e a plant or industry that employs many of them folds) can knock out the support system. Not to mention that unlike government programs, your family are under no legal obligation to help you.
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Reading that article made me realize that I should have been more vulnerable all along...I'm so embarrassed and ashamed that I had to read this article to make me realize that.
That's pretty much what Ubuntu Core and snaps aims to be. A minimal core distro with image-based containers to host applications.
I played my first NetHack games about 20 years ago and started with the GUI versions, but the game really hooked me when I tried it with the ASCII graphics. They are quite good and if you put a bit of time to it, you should be able to ascend in a couple of months.

Aye, good times...
Meanwhile, India seems to be going in the opposite direction - https://indianexpress.com/article/india/thirty-seven-academi...
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Exactly - I don't think it's reasonable, but I also don't think it's clear enough to make a business decision based on it.

I would also find it difficult to argue that it's _not_ "enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network" (given how broad it is), which is the first example given.
That was an interesting thread of rebuttals and counter-rebuttals.

Thanks for linking to it!
Don't be a scab!
Ask HN: Best resources for the legal/taxes side of starting a company?
There is a ton of great discussion here about the technical and product side of starting an online business - but I have been having trouble finding good resources on the legal and financial side of starting a business.

For those who have been through starting their own business before, what were the best resources to answer questions like:

When does a business actually need to be licensed?
Special considerations for internet/online businesses vs more traditional small businesses?
Any general tax advice for first time business owners?
Valid point. I was specifically thinking of people who earn a living by working on software or hardware or operating them.
Not really, I get my own on the respective OS stores or physical shops.
My point was that a malloc vs alloca in a full blown IO path, where you have sockets and posibly disk fsyncs is not all that significant, if at all. I understand that journald cares about performance. Micro-optimizations like malloc vs alloca are the least of your problems. Batching/buffering messages, an asyncronous model, plain O_APPEND, different files for logs/metadata etc like others and you have said ITT is what will matter. You can even use a sane dynamic string library with preallocation if you care that much. I haven't looked at the src, to be honest, but am I wrong?
Yes! Thank you, it was somehow impossible to Google this.
The controls and the gameplay.

Graphics were arguably better on the PC; higher resolution and better frame rate, but it was not well optimized.

So the PC version was definetly a port of a console FPS and it showed. Mouse aiming was awful (too slow without acceleration, and inaccurate with it). Weapon switching was very akward as well (tab? and only 2 guns?!?).

If you had just played Half-Life shooting headcrabs off the poor scientists, or let alone something like Deus Ex, it just felt very dumbed down
With current copyright law you basically can't agree with both of those statements as they are mutually exclusive.
Yes, even whole grains.
Ever since the famous twitter drop out of Ruby/Rails many new enterprises adopted it. Gitlab, Stripe, Coinbase, these companis are worth tens of billions of dollars. I'm not talknig about the older generation (Shopify, Airbnb etc), but new successful companies that chose Ruby or Rails in the last 5 years.
https://blog.planetargon.com/entries/18-companies-using-ruby...
The US M1 Money Supply has tripled since 2000 according to the St. Louis Fed:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

There have not been issues with high inflation.
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Sound similar to ConXion who I've used in the past to avoid paying airport parking.

For the Sunshine Coast > Brisbane Airport trip they pick you up at your door in a smaller 12 seater to meet up near the highway with the larger coach for the hour or so run in. They run hourly trips each way.
So, just a quick forecast (my personal hypothesis) of what this will lead to, short term: really bad, profoundly ugly drug epidemics.

And we have seen bad. We’re in the middle of a bad one.

But ten years down the line, we’ll see a new generation show up, pent up and ready to explode. And drug dealers will be there, ready to harvest some cash.

Every tightly wound miserable kid you see today is going to find a way to lash out or somehow escape tomorrow, and most of the time, with regular people, that takes the shape of getting annihilated as quickly and easily as possible. In part, self destruction as revenge for vicarious ambition on the part of authority figures. In part to literally render demanded performance an impossibility, whether for spite or not.

Probably nothing can fix this. The die is cast. Public schools in the United States are on a collision course with a transformative upheaval not unlike what we’ve witnessed with the decaying husk of the formerly behemoth United States Postal Service.

Actually, on second thought, we’ve been standing face to face with it, if you consider how school shootings mirror “disgruntled postal workers” “going postal” in the 1990’s, just prior to the sensational media coverage of school shootings in particular.

No end in sight. C’est la vie.
That's a good reason for going through all the struggle.
How much do you really know about that?
As someone who's completely unversed in game engines, will this result in better native Linux gaming support? That's honestly all I care about.
Agreed. That's why I think this is probably a mistake.
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I was thinking about that too. I can see Improbable’s complement ... but not so sure about Epic.

Then again, I remember the days of ZZT. It wasn’t an open source engine, but there were a lot of games made on that engine.

I guess making a AAA version of a good indie concept makes economic sense.
And where do you find clients with one off needs like that?
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Quest uses inside-out tracking (cameras on the device to perform feature-detection and SLAM) to give full 6dof headset and controller tracking. The GearVR and other current stand alone headsets only track rotation via gyroscope, which is much more limited
That SoM is well within KiCAD's capabilities. Layout is not the issue. The fraught part is designing the DDR4 interface -- a pro shop will pay out the nose for a signal integrity tool like Hyperlynx to do simulations. While in theory you could write your own sim tool, or somehow respin your way to working boards, I think either approach would be a challenge.
Other than the drop and the number of players, did PUBG really add that much _new_ to the film Battle Royale, which clearly inspired them (both in mechanics and skins)? It seems a little unfair to give them sole claim to the idea.
They could be charged by making sending pictures of themselves to themselves.
I would for sure order a finished product with some basic enclosure.
This seems like a really interesting approach and I think the numbers are promising. Given that it's an entirely different type of model-building than traditional methods, I think it's fine for it to just be up to par with a basic shallow model. If the constructive approach turns out to be comparable to current state-of-the-art models with sufficient refinement, it could be really valuable for low-compute applications like IoT devices, etc.

To be honest, I can't say I know enough about the math here to do anything more than vaguely follow their explanations despite my ML/NLP background. I'm curious - other ML researchers out there, how much of this are you able to understand? My impression is that this math is pretty far beyond what ML folks typically know, although I'm on the lower end of the spectrum as far as math knowledge goes, so I may be totally wrong (and need to spend more time reading textbooks haha). I wonder if the complexity may slow down progress if it does turn out that this kind of geometric construction can compete with iterative training. It sounds like this approach could potentially support more complex networks by working more on the geometric representation, so I certainly hope this paper serves its purpose of motivating people with the right skillsets to do further exploration.
We were boarding a Qatar Airways flight when the pilot literally came out of nowhere and took my three year old to see the cockpit.

I was like, could I have my child back please? While she enjoyed herself, I'm not sure she understood what the cockpit was for...

Things are way laxer in other parts of the world.
> The real solution, which has already been arrived upon, is to legally forbid pedophile felons from working with or around kids

That doesn't stop them, especially if they have not been convinced of a crime. Instead giving them the option to get paid to look at said images will make a lot of potential criminals get a job away from any children - plus they won't be getting PTSD from looking at them, unlike non-pedophile operators.

> Feeding their fantasies by paying them to look at pornography is the worst idea I've heard in a LONG time

Mind if I ask why? It's not like most of them are not already looking at CP.
I'm not saying UE4 isn't good, but I have a pretty long list of complaints.

First, their class reference documentation is very poor. The majority of classes and functions have either no description, or a description that basically repeats the function name in sentence form. For example, http://api.unrealengine.com/INT/API/Runtime/CoreUObject/UObj....

UE4 is fairly opinionated about what kind of game you're making. A lot of its core classes, like AActor, AGameMode, etc. are designed with a multiplayer fps in mind. For example, the basic actor class is much heavier than Unity's GameObjects. Every actor gets things like a built-in PointDamage and RadialDamage event so they can be damaged by guns and grenades.

There's a lot of minor issues with API/naming choices. ConvertTransformToRelative() has the Transform and ParentTransforms parameters backwards and instead gives you the ParentTransform relative to Transform. FBox.IsInside() should be named FBox.Contains(). As it stands, "if (MyActorBounds.IsInside(MyContainer)) { }" does the exact opposite of what you'd expect. The sin() and cos() nodes in materials don't take radians, nor degrees by default, but revolutions (so sin(0) == sin(1) == sin(2) == 0), even though the C++ FMath::Sin() function takes radians.

More importantly, we encounter engine bugs and crashes pretty frequently. Just recently, I was unlucky enough to encounter 3 separate bugs with OnAudioPlaybackPercent (it returns wrong values in various circumstances). Atmospheric fog started whiting out the screen after updating engine versions (still investigating this one). We've had tons of issues with child actors either becoming corrupt or losing their default values. I think we encounter some engine issue every week.

My favorite was when deleting a question mark from a comment in C++ caused everyone to be unable to compile. That had us scratching our heads. Any guesses why that would happen? (Hint: it's Unreal's fault.)

"Delete binaries and intermediate folders and recompile" is practically our unofficial office motto due to how often it fixes issues. Which leads me to, compiling C++ is slow. The near instant compile times of Unity are like a breath of fresh air.

Finally, the community and Asset Store for Unity seem much better. I wish we had something like FinalIK for Unreal. The Asset Store has 10x more content than the UE4 Marketplace. We usually look on the Asset Store for stuff like sounds or meshes, but it can be inconvenient, especially if they come with custom materials or code.
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Both forms are utter bullshit. Advertising is an assault on customer agency; it's hard to love it.
Thank you, you're not wrong! His recent stuff with molecular programming etc etc looks fascinating.

http://lucacardelli.name/index.html
my kingdom for a cross country wide body flight.

six hours on a 737 is hell.
Impossible? There's a company offering porting of Godot games to consoles.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/platform/conso...
A really interesting and honest write up by Don Syme on the goals and trade-offs required to get a functional language implemented on .Net, in pre-open Microsoft.

I use F# for anything critical and/or complex. It's a parsimonious way to represent domain models and a clear way to express computation.

My main regret with F# is that I didn't get into ML languages earlier in my career.

BTW a recent book, 'Stylish F#', is the best introduction to F# so far (no affiliation, just bought a lot of F# books over the years).

https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484239995
Right, but they now go by the name UpWork.

That the article uses the old name of oDesk from 4 years ago points to the need to add “(2015)” to the thread title.

https://www.upwork.com
I assume it is similar (but higher quality) to the LCDs in car instrument panels. Very bright, and angled such that sunlight rarely hits them.
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