skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I intend to announce an alpha test here on HN.

Some people at Battelle, etc. worked in information retrieval decades ago. A friend of my father's was involved. Those people concluded that key words could cover only part of search. My rough guess is 1/3rd. I'm going for the other 2/3rds.

The computing is pretty simple and fast. Given enough documentation, the code was easy to write.

The crucial core of the work is some applied math I derived based on some advanced pure math prerequisites. I got most of the prerequisites in my applied math Ph.D. So, to me, the project is mostly applied math with some cute data manipulations and a simple Web site user interface.

Maybe for a computer science audience, my work should do well giving people content with the meaning they have in mind. I know; I know: Writing code for much of anything having to do with meaning has been a challenge. Well, I derived some math.

Tonight the work is not very exciting: I'm writing some Rexx code making crucial use of some cute Rexx functions to correct the time-date stamps on the directories written by Microsoft's XCOPY. The time-date stamps written are usually not those of the source directories and, instead, are just the time, date when XCOPY created the copy. The files XCOPY writes DO retain the time-date stamps of the source.

For the correction, my idea is to set the time-date stamps of each directory to the newest time-date stamp of the files/directories in that directory.

Important is how the Windows NTFS file system does time-date inheritance: If create or change a file or create a directory, then the time-date stamp on the parent directory will within a few seconds be changed to time-date stamp on the new or changed file or the new directory. If the new directory has a file created in it, then, sure, that directory will have it's time-date stamp changed, BUT, surprising or not, the parent we mentioned will not have its time-date changed. I'm typing quickly; if this is unclear, complain and I'll be more clear.

This information is important: If the time-date inheritance kept feeding up the directory tree to the root, then the corrections I want would have to work essentially from the leaves of the directory tree up and in a 'breath first' way, with some tricky accumulation at each 'level' (distance from the roof) of some maximum time-date values, to the root. But with the way the inheritance actually does work, I can correct the time-date stamps as I mentioned on the directories in any order.

Not very exciting but has to be done.
Something Twice the Size of Earth Slammed into Uranus and Knocked It Over (2018)
I think Apple will continue to have FaceID at their Entry level / lowest pricing iPhone. FaceID is expensive, I just don't see it coming to lower tier in the next two years.
Fiber is often chosen specifically for its electrical isolation properties (runs between different buildings as just one example).

Your intuition that fiber doesn't support PoE is correct.
I get their argument, but what I say "X race deserves to die" and that politician should draft a law to support it? And I say it time and time and time again. Every other comment is mine, because I really believe that.
I don't know of a full implementation but SymPy has a simplified version of the Risch algorithm, called the Risch-Norman algorithm.

https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/integrals/integrals.ht...
I must say I am quite disturbed by this mindset. Just imagine if European countries back then rejected Industrialization due to massive externalities (Pollution, child workforce, etc), they would not survive the Great War (WW1).
In addition, while big tech companies might be not very appealing in terms of security and privacy, you better have those which can be easily influentable and molded. That wont be possible without indigenous tech giants
Sure, I was only mentioning that it is possible.

However with VC++ it doesn't seem to be that bad, when incremental compilation and linking are enabled.
KDE is considering a migration to GitLab
They could easily just serialise the info pages under page headings and have that as an additional manpage.
I've been working with -ftime-report, but unfortunately it reports times per cpp file. I'm looking for a way to get a summary across an entire CMake build. Right now reading 100+ -ftime-report outputs is not really useful, although deep down I know it's all template instancing anyway.
> Again, Apple has a more diversified revenue stream than Alphabet and it is growing.

Based on what?
Stock Options are just that - an option to buy a share of stock at a future date. They are a bet on a future outcome which contains lots of risk.

Restricted Stock Units are cash. They are new shares issued to you with restrictions on exercising them. Once they vest, there is no value in not selling them immediately. The tax consequences are the same if you hold them, and you gain the value of diversification by selling.

The above should tell you something about the calculation you are espousing. Yes, the very risky asset called stock options is much less likely to hold any future value. The risk implied should also tell you that for a rare good pick with lots of well managed influence to the outcome, you can succeed with fantastic gains where you cannot simply by holding public shares.

YMMV. The only way to win the startup lottery is to work very hard to influence the outcome. I can't think of any other lottery like that.
Agreed, I wouldn't really call this a "high-quality mathematics degree".
How to make sure your talk doesn't suck (2011) [pdf]
I am really amazed at how much we talk about that 3 act structure. Basically, it says, well, you have a beginning, and then a middle, and then the story ends. Not very helpful for writers, and it is not even descriptive.

If only it told you "well, your first third is the beginning, next third middle, last third ending", but no. Actually, the second act is usually twice longer than each other, as shown in the wikipedia article, and it is usually cut in two parts, as there is a huge event in the middle ("No, I am your father"-kind-of-event). OK, so, basically, you have 4 acts, right? Why not call it a 4-act structure? And you still don't know how to structure them.

OTOH, I like Lester Dent's famous master plot formula, written in the 30s for pulp fiction short stories: https://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html . It is written for action-packed short stories, obviously, but describes pretty well the structure of most Hollywood successes, too. And it can help writers, well, write interesting stories (although it must be adapted, obviously, unless you are writing a "must defeat the villain" story).
You probably don't need to update /etc/shells unless you really want to. chsh just won't let you switch to a shell that's not listed there without using sudo, which isn't a problem for most (generally single-user) Mac systems. You can also change your shell from the Users & Groups system preferences (in the advanced settings).
I don't think Amazon, MSFT, FB or Netflix has issued a Warning in Guidance ( yet ).

Not to mention Apple, compared to others had a very low market P/E, and it still fall. Stocks Market buys into Companies future, not present. And that is the problem, they have never seen much headroom for Apple, but lots of downsides.
or more realistically, your investors (dividends).
> Once you are financially secure, living in Germany makes no sense.
> How so?

A personal preference. The quality of life is not high, considering the bureaucratic hurdles you have to overcome on a daily basis - dealing with any Amt/Behörde(agency), Schools, Kindergarten, etc. And on top of that - you get penalized for working hard. There is this Goldschnitt situation(golden edge, breaking point), where the taxes get way too high and makes no sense to work above that level.

> They are going to have to be extraordinarily shitty to be worse than what I have already in the UK.

I spent a couple of years in the UK and the services in Germany are way worse. Banks are better in the UK, transportation is better in the UK, at least in major cities(options where you don't have to rely on your car), doing business is easier and cheaper in the UK. Maybe if we compare the NHS vs the german health system, Germany has a slight advantage, at least when it comes to waiting times.

> the insane apartment situation in any major city

Here again - bureaucracy and the car lobby, which gets in the way of any sort of public transport development/investment. So there is space, but people have to bundle around the well connected spots. For example: East Berlin is vast and empty, no transport connections developed for 30 years - only tram and the occasional buses.

> Shitty weather
> To me, constant heat and sunshine is shitty weather. I prefer a temperate/boreal climate. I find it far more pleasant.

It is 50/50 - I would not want to be in Spain in June, July, August and I don't want to be in Germany in January, February, March
Due to probabilistic nature of most PoW protocols, you don't actually need to have the chain with the most work. Attacker can keep trying till they are are lucky, with less than 50% hashpower.
Assuming you are talking German well, Fernuni Hagen offers excellent math studies.
Are those Unicode 9 and later? It looks like those were all supported since Unicode 3.2.
I seriously do not understand how Chinese mobile phones business works. Either they have access to lots of no interest capital, or they simply have other source of Finance. Many of those things simply don't add up.

I had often thought when these phones enter EU / US Market they will be subject to higher patents fees and will be $100 to $150 more expensive than Chinese Home Prices. But that didn't happen at all.
Either way, their existence (beyond founders that simply own lots of shares) suggests that public shares create governance problems that aren't explainable via principal-agent or some other traditional economic explanation.

I'm not sure I'd phrase it this way. Suppose option A earns you 5% and option B earns you 6%. But you, as a founder, really prefer option A to option B. Then you better not take your company public, because your personal preference doesn't match the market preference.

In your example, going to Mars earns less money than selling the satellites, and Musk really wants to go to Mars. I don't see this as a governance problem -- Musk's pleasure in going to Mars plus the returns from doing that exceed the public's pleasure from the returns only. So since this is a bit of a vanity project, it can't be publicly controlled and remain a Musk vanity project. That's not a governance problem, it's how governance is supposed to work.

But then you say that investors are happily buying these shares? Well, it's an expected income stream, so the shares are being priced. Happiness has nothing to do with it. A 5% return is still worth something, even if the share price would go up should the strategy change. In no model would the price of the suboptimal income stream be zero.

The real question here is what happens to the visionary iconoclast who knows that going to Mars will result in a higher return. For them, it's not a vanity project but some kind of private belief that is more accurate than the market belief. In that case, non-voting shares will outperform in the long run. We can say that Steve Jobs was such a visionary and maybe Musk is, too. But how much do you want to bet on that? And is that really an argument for one type of structure over another? That your average company is run by some visionary genius that is smarter than the market? Is that a governance problem? No, not at all.
IBM was the top patent recipient in 2018 for the 26th year in a row
Samsung follows Apple warning, Q4 profit likely sank 29% on weak China demand
There are a few factors that you are overlooking. A lot of startups (and small companies) aren't on the 'SV Unicorn Track', particularly so for startups focused on 'hard' problems. Energy, biotech, aerospace, etc.. These types of startups often have to cobble together funding from a variety of sources (grants, strategic partnerships/investments, niche VC firms). The pay is lower because it has to be, funding is limited and developing the product (and sometimes just a prototype) can take years, so there is little to no revenue.

Something to consider as well, is that while the salaries might be lower, they are often not that far off from what one would make in their respective industry. So someone working at a biotech startup will probably be making a lot less than a FANNG engineer, but would probably be pretty competitive with their peers in 'BigBiotechCo'.

And the other thing to consider is that engineers, and in particular programmers, tend to be pretty bad negotiators. Its possible that your co-workers would gladly take a 30% raise if they knew they were making that much less. I highly doubt they are 'trust fund kids' (those folks tend to found crappy startups, cause if you are set for life, why would you work for someone else?). And if they are older (as you imply) its also possible they were starting to feel the impacts of ageism in tech, and took a low ball offer as a result. Or perhaps they have saved up enough from previous jobs and just don't care that much if they are maximizing their pay, and are more focused on working on cool things and with non-toxic co-workers!
Pay your taxes, you mean?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/03/google-ta...
It's really not that difficult to avoid bashisms if you get yourself into the habit now, rather than later.
To give the server incentive to do a good job.

I don't like it. But also, I can't deny that table service sucks in Europe.
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Getting Started with Spring Development
>It is best not to speak with such authority/certainty that C++ is easier to use than Javascript.

Unless of course you have 30+ years of experience in the software business, have kept abreast of all the latest and greatest distractions from proper software engineering practices, have built a few hundred examples of such personally, and have no desire to throw more garbage at the fiery pile. As is my personal case. Node/Javascript are the Visual Basic of the 21st Century - this doesn't mean people haven't been productive with them as technologies, just that they've been productive in spite of them.
What's worse, site has multiple auto-playing pieces of shit, even after you dismiss the first piece of shit.
Increasing the number of confirmations is easy but it also slows down everything. People don't want to have to wait for days for their transactions to be accepted.

If I understand correctly this attack managed to reorganize hundreds of blocks. That's a lot of time to wait for confirmations.
When all you have is a Haskell everything starts to look like a monad
Lobby for a sane tax system that encourages re-investment.
The 2nd edition of K&R (ANSI C) is the only enduring tome on my bookshelf.

Assuming you have some solid knowledge, that should be all you need. I find reading [John Regehr's blog](https://blog.regehr.org/) is good to get the gist of under-specified behaviours by the various compilers and what to watch out for.

Having written that, C programs that I wrote 10-20 years ago, still work without any problems. So unless you are doing some tricky stuff, like kernels or advanced device drivers, I would think that K&R will suffice. Of course, it is always a very good idea to check the compiler's warnings and edit your programs to eliminate them.
Can I write an article on indiehackers.com not being an indie/single founder?
The question is, would the Stones be as popular today if they also split up after 7 years at the top? I'd argue they would since all of their best work (with the exception of Exile on Main St. - which was released in their 8th year) was released in this time.

Of course I'm not going to argue that anyone is as popular as the Beatles, but I'm pretty sure the Stones would also have had universal long lasting popularty if they had only been around for the same amount of time.

You also can't compare the wealth of McCartney to Jagger. Firstly, McCartney had a very successful solo career after the Beatles, during which time he released way more albums than the Stones in the same time period and did his own share of touring. Secondly, McCartney owns a significant music publishing catalogue and has other business ventures.
Bitbucket has supported Git for a long time now.
Unfortunately for us, this was a certified/approved EMV payment kernel, and about the only one we could get for our architecture, so we had to live with it.

Sometimes you don't get to choose or do it yourself, more's the pity!
From the FAQ: 'Indie Hackers is a place where the founders of profitable businesses and side projects can share their stories transparently, and where entrepreneurs can come to read and learn from those examples.'

Depends whether you are a founder/entrepreneur or not.

On a side note; it is generally a good idea to prepend questions with 'Ask HN:'.
That was the upgraded version :) the original came in the 2003 Prius Hybrid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Parking_Assist_Sys...
Or wet string: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42338067 / https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
Europeans will become a cheap labor in the next 50 years for Chinese and American conglomerates.
I take your point.

We're saying the same thing, but I see now that this was unclear.

The point of this sub-thread is that 51% doesn't give you a guarantee you'll mine faster than the 49%, just an edge, and that edge narrows as more blocks are required.

A casino with a 1% house advantage would have days when it was in the red, around 178 of them in fact. By analogy, you need to line up six days in the black, in a row.

The chance of doing that is lower than 51%.
PHP 5.6 reaches end of life  This could affect your website
- reasonably lightweight & fast – should stay open all times, ideally out of your way – invoke by keyboard

- text based storage

- markdown or similar, with inline markdown source preview – see Typhora, or ST/Atom/VScode

- hierarchical structure – see Workflowy

- tagging (bonus: hierarchical tags)

- edit locally, or at least back-up locally – in the way that Google Keep doesn’t

- mobile access (or compatible w 3rd parties)

I'm currently using nvALT on the desktop (synced w Dropbox) and Google Keep for quick mobile notes.

Some of the apps I've considered: https://notes.pinboard.in/u:pax/notes/d77078d915cf59841bb3
We run a health insurance company at my firm for some € 100 in cost per insured per year (the Netherlands). We do full bargaining with suppliers on our risk, give yearly premiums up front and have to accept everyone for a pretty much standardized premium. Dare say we even try to innovate in combination with other private insurances we offer like disability as well. Of course required for this to work is quite massive government intervention. They lay the backbone for proper risk equalisation and we try to work with that. 20% of total health spending would be about a 14-fold increase. (It gets a little murky since parts of health are outside of our market and the responsibility of local municipalities.)
If LinkedIn has a 'delete profile' button that works, and extensions let recruiters scrape profiles and thus keep records on deleted users, who do you think is in the wrong?
Thank you @ainiriand for sharing the `Ask HN:` note. I have updated with it.
It is partly a cultural thing - a kind of cult of narcissism.

But those attitudes are carefully cultivated by the media. They don't just happen.

Congress and the Senate are full of corrupt leeches, and both parties are equally guilty.

Votes make no difference. Corporate money buys political careers, and it pays for both sides.

There are a few exceptions, cultivated to maintain the appearance of representative democracy, but they're rarely - if ever - allowed anywhere near policy.
Crowdsourcing Innovation to Reduce Unemployment and Build Sustainable Economies
My main point was that to my knowledge there has never been a case of forced further distribution.

About termination, what you mention is kind of stopping further violation of the terms and maybe compensation for the past violations. What I wanted to mention (but wasn't at all clear about) is that after termination, you cannot even distribute if you intend to abide by the terms unless you are forgiven by the copyright holder. (In the case of the GPL version 3 there is some grace period during which for the first violation, if you abide within that period, you are explicitly permitted to resume distribution under the license terms.)
oh my sweet summer child, would that it were so easy.
Re-investment - like into things like providing your employees with free food, a fancy mobile app for your canteen menus and free cooking lessons?

Meanwhile ca. 850m people (1 in 8 of the world's population) are starving globally.
I read the article. I wasn't clear in my original post. The issue isn't the ablation of the containment wall and replacing the wall, the issue is how to properly manage the plasma as the containment impurities disperse throughout the plasma and how it impacts the fusion, magnetic, pressure, and temperature characteristics on both a local and macro level. Which is a common problem between the MIT and other tokomak reactors.
Moving Goal Post?

No one buys $2000 Desktop anymore. Majority don't. And you had to pick the most expensive 0.1% Market Desktop compared to A12X. The A12X here is a specific comparison, while the words "Desktop" is an generalisation. When I say my X Bike is comparable to Road Cars, Road Cars here means everyday cars, not your Lamborghini or Ferrari 455. Which we ALL KNEW would be faster than this Bike anyway.

But you had to nitpick on the word "Desktop". And then decide to use Similar price range as an argument which was never the intention nor what we started to compare it with.
> Meanwhile, I "fondly" remember having to have a USB stick on hand for Windows 7 installs because the default install didn't include wired (let alone wireless) NIC drivers for 90% of the laptops and desktops on which I installed it.

I worked in an IT support shop at the time windows 7 was released, and I imaged and installed hundreds of copies of windows 7 over the time I worked there. While you're right about wireless drivers being a crapshoot, I can not remember a single instance of missing wired NIC drivers on install. I'm not doubting that some were missing (there is lots of hardware, lots of manufacturers out there), but it was definitely not as huge a problem. The biggest issue was usually SD card readers and trackpads which required downloading from the manufacturer.

I've done a few linux desktop installs (same job) and the situation was definitely more painful. Issues with sleep/wake, webcams, network drivers (usually wireless), multiple displays were basically guaranteed, and the help process was usually "You're using the wrong hardware", which isn't really helpful.
They already are for American, and Chinese entering the market might actually introduce some fresh air to the stuffy atmosphere created by being at the absolute bottom of the American corporate outsourcing chain. Except in Germany and France - there they are cheap labour for domestic conglomerates.