skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I generally like to make a reverse calculation when evaluating such offers. To get $1 million out of this risk, the company has to exit for $1 billion if I have 0.1% stake. How likely is it? And that's before considering dilution, preference stocks, option exercise problems, etc.

Joining a BigCo can give $1 million (above startup salary) in 5 years with a very high probability.
I really enjoy Rose George's writing. I'd recommend her previous books on container shipping ('Deep Sea and Foreign Going') and toilets ('The Big Necessity').
Except it ain't free money. Especially when you have viable alternatives like BitBucket and GitLab that are able to operate just fine without ads (well, at least without ads for non-Atlassian products in the former case), the cost is people jumping ship, and git makes that easy to do.

Microsoft would only stand to gain (short or long term) if it's been engaging in its traditional EEE strategy this whole time and is ready to pull the trigger on that final E. Even if that's the case, I can't see any real benefit; it'd just be a middle finger to developers.
> If you asked people before the age of cars how to improve transportation, they'd ask for a faster horse.

This is a made-up quote, and what they would have asked for was a faster, warmer, safer carriage (which they got with cars), a faster cart (which they got with trucks), and a lower maintenance horse (which they got with motorcycles.) Nobody wanted horses; they used horses to move carriages, carts, and themselves.
Nice, It looks pretty good!
The current diseconomies of scale hitting solar panels is that we have a limit on the number of batteries we can produce, as we are expanding our battery production as fast as humanly possible. We can use solar cells to offset peak performance, but until the storage problem is solved we can't consider using them as a primary power generation at scale in markets demanding 24hr energy access.
GitHub new “PRO” badges is a joke?
Github show up today with new "PRO" banners bellow pictures in users profiles and also in miniatures after mouseover . Almost 80% of people i searched for have this banner. I just want to understand what kind of utility does new badge bring off to the community when there is only a "PRO" and no badge.
Yeah, except a good portion of the errors made in those 200k years at least had the excuse of being new.

Blockchain stands apart as repeating every single problem the financial system solved over the last 300 years, while being driven by a community best defined by their arrogant dismissal of that very financial system they are reinventing, piece-by-piece.

Turns out civil society (i. e. laws, courts, institutions, economics, shared fictions of value, and trust) cannot actually be replaced by an algorithm quiet as easily.
Not directly related, but this made me think of how different a "social network" built on version control is from a typical social network.

Github users are interested more in code than in people. Sure, you can use it to follow your favorite coders and technology people that you respect and look up to, but I have a feeling most people aren't doing that too much.

Like most developers, I use Github extensively to obtain open-source code that I use in projects. Sometimes, I explore Github to look for new things, or see what kind of projects are popular since I've last checked (maybe once or twice a year). Usually, it is the canonical source of information for large open-source projects; the code lives there and issues / bug reports live there. While using it in this manner, I don't look so much at who is posting comments / commits, as I do at the content of the commit or comments on issues, and whether the information is relevant to me.
Can I remove old docker images from the registry yet? Heck, I still can't order by date, which should have been the default all along. Why would anyone want to see the images ordered alphabetically?

It can take minutes to page through and find the most recent image buried among hundreds.
How makers can position themselves to sell to companies
It's really obvious once the new chain is broadcasted. "Honest" miners switch over to mine on the deepest chain as soon as they become aware of it. It's very rare to even see a 2-block conflict. When you see a large N-block conflict then it's obvious there's a 51% attack going on.
> In this case, accusing a specific police officer of being corrupt with zero evidence IS an awful thing to do.

I strongly disagree. A policeman is a representative of the state, he chose that job freely and he is getting paid for it, he can have personal insurance and legal support paid by the taxpayer. If libel is a routine professional hazard for policemen, they can request a raise and we as a society will pay more to hire such men, just as we pay more to hire people willing to risk their lives in the line.

A citizen on the other hand, has no such liberties and is paying for the whole show. The least he can do, when he feels he's being wronged, is to call out those who are responsible. I agree they should be liable for libel damages and I understand that might not deter some poor people.

But the idea that libel from homeless people against government officials is an awful affliction that must be stopped with criminal punishments - that must be rejected wholeheartedly.

> Note that the standard for criminal libel requires the person to know they are lying, and that has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

The article notes that is very little stopping a policeman to abuse a person while that criminal liability lingers. He can easily make that person spend a few nights in jail, can coerce them into self-incrimination and can even get a conviction out of lower status individuals with little power to defend themselves.

Nothing good can come out of jailing people that criticize public officials.
The original proposal was - UK gets the right to access all benefits of trading with EU, including services and passporting rights(I literally watched this on TV at the time in London)... but skip on the freedom of movement and customs union.

You know... Cherry pick which of the four core principles of EU UK wanted to participate in.

So... Maybe your Brexit mind wishes to ignore the fact of the matter, but just because you ignorantly assign a different meaning to single market - doesn't make your recollection any less of a falsehood.
Exactly. There are way too many people here jumping on the “evil Assange” angle while defending their pet media outlets, or only condemning the media they don’t agree with.

Like it or not, and whether this list is tacky or not, there are fundamental truths that should be the focus of this discussion. The media manipulated and lies and as a result we have a severely misinformed population. We probably would anyway, but that should be a choice not a manipulation.
This was also a small town USA case, and basically the same as you describe. The difference is the offended party challenged the action in federal court.

Anything is, in effect at least, legal if you choose to accept it and not challenge it.
Anecdote: I used both GitLab and a paid GitHub personal account.

I didn't opt to pay for GitHub until I needed to host some private config files in Git, and at the time (maybe a year, year and a half ago?) GitLab wasn't in as great of shape as it tends to be now: for me, it was slow, unreliable, and sometimes just felt "off" in ways I can't really quantify. I already used Github for open-source work and at my day job (and had been using it at work for years), so I paid up (given the alternative, with GitLab not being what I was looking for, was to pay up and host a Gitea instance, or use BitBucket, which was a complete non-option for me).

These days GitLab seems to be a lot more stable and able to handle day-to-day workflows, but GitHub still has the community factor, so all my public repos and forks live there. It made sense to continue to keep my private repos next to my public ones, so when my annual subscription renewed, I was cool with it.

Migrating fully over to GitLab/Gitea/flavour-du-jour is something that's perpetually on my "TODO: investigate" list, and never actually gets done, because despite any minor gripes I may have with it, GitHub tended to "just work", and it "just worked" ~$80/yr worth.
SoftBank Plans Reduced $2B Investment in WeWork
Being able to prove the truth of what you say ought not be a legal requirement. If you want somebody prosecuted for their speech, you should be forced to prove they were knowingly lying.
If the company is pre-emptively blocking comments for the politican, then it would depend on whether or not the politican was aware of the company's action.

If the company was doing it on behalf of the politican, it would still be illegal (though harder to prove). If the company was doing it as blanket policy as part of the product, or for all politicans, then yeah, that's probably a loophole.
so nothing can be done about bots posting near instant and often off-topic responses to every single one of Trump's tweet? not that it bothers me the slightest, but I find it to be a concerning case of double standard given all the allegations of Russian interference on social media.
I'm certainly not aware of any change. I continue to regard Anker as a reputable brand which seems to try to offer good quality products at a budget price.

I'm just playing devil's advocate here. Someone advanced a theory that it could be "submarine advertisement", another person said the explanation is just that the site is Chinese, and I said that doesn't refute the notion. I'm not trying to defend that position; I'm just trying to keep the reasoning sound once that the exploration of that hypothetical has started.
This naive view is why for centuries we haven't seen any improvement in the happiness of ghosts.
Humanity Has Managed to Change Places We’ve Barely Even Visited
I think if there is another segment for Apple to be as successful as the iPhone, it's not obvious yet, which product it is to be.

Another challenge is that there are markets to be disrupted, but they may not necessarily be a 1 trillion dollar market like smartphones have been.

Apple could disrupt an industry that people may absolutely love and flock to, but if its size is 50 Billion dollars, but that would be less than 10% of their current market cap. What would be a 50B dollar successful stand-alone business doesn't necessarily serve as the product that can get Apple to say a 2T market cap.

And it isn't like Apple isn't trying to find a product (e.g. apple car, watch, homepods, etc).
it’s probably that 30-year old copy protection is relatively easy to break using tools and computing power that did not exist 30 years ago

Even 30 years ago this would not have been strong at all. With 3 lowercase letters the keyspace is effectively 26^3 or 17576. Add digits and it's still just 36^3 = 46656. That's tiny. I suspect it wasn't made larger partly due to the crypto export regulations, and the fact that "big company" software like this mainly used protection schemes to keep honest users honest. The shareware/trialware of the time had far more devious techniques.
Supercritical CO2 turbines can be tiny.
(They can also be used to recover the energy from the waste heat of internal combustion turbines).
Just because its meat, doesn't mean you can sell me horse flank as usda filet. The differince is critical is some applications, even if overspec'd in others. Thats the point of having a standard. If you only need cat5e quality, you can just buy that, at signifigant discount.
A $20,243 bike crash: Zuckerberg hospital's aggressive tactics
I don't see VR replacing the white board any time soon. I see AR doing that.
I think that appeal of VR is to be able to use real world interaction techniques learned since birth to interact with computer programs without having to learn a new UI with another new app.

Biggest killer application of VR would probably be a new Internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPTfdO5hQUw
"working, but not up to spec" can mean "works today, stops working tomorrow when subjected to a bit more nearby electrical noise". 10GbaseT links frequently can't negotiate down, so your link can just stop working whenever.
While VR can be used for training in the use cases above I would think AR would be better and used much more often in their day to day jobs. Imagine a retail employee scanning everything with AR goggles or an airplane tech having AR to read manuals or display info while they are fixing stuff.
I am talking about whether Trump is theoretically guilty or not guilty of criminal defemation if 1(NH) or more (23) states claimed their jurisdiction applied and why that being discretionary in those states is therefore extremely problematic to our civic system.

I'm not sure why you are interested in civil defemation law.
I'm not convinced everyone here is interpreting the double negatives the same way.
Correct. The case came down to whether moderation of a Facebook Page run by a County Supervisor and promoted as a resource for the County was "done under color of state law", and the courts (both the lower and appeals courts) concluded the answer was "yes".

There's a specific fact pattern at play here though that may not be valid for other cases of officials moderating their Facebook pages.
And we aren't making as much plutonium-238 as we did in the cold war
So there were no homeless or drug addicts before the 90s?
While I love the Internet Archive, their search can be a bit of a mess. They often have several copies of the same work in varying qualities, with no easy way to find the best one, they have somewhat inconsistent standards in tagging, and they frequently have copyright-encumbered works inadvertently available. As people mentioned below Project Gutenberg is excellent for finding public domain books, but there seems to be no way to search for and watch most public domain films in a reasonable quality – or even high definition. Is anyone trying to fix that?
Those linked articles hardly make the case for blanket assertions about 'disability being the new welfare'.

Every man made system has fraud and abuse and yet reasonable people do not use these instances to attempt to discredit the entire system, no sensible person points to evidence of bank and corporate fraud to discredit the concept of banking and corporations? Even the church has fraud.

This article goes into great depth with documented evidence of serious problems, what is the connection to fraud in other regions covered in 2 articles covered way back in 2013 and how is it useful to this discussion?
I'm not sure how easy it would be for exchanges to implement variable confirmations depending on the amount transferred, but I would say that what you suggest is a very reasonable way to limit the risk of suffering such an attack. I would say that especially exchanges that support fringe coins would better look into something like that. Even if the exchange's potential loss is only a couple hundred or thousand dollars, it's worth doing in my opinion, even if only to avoid the technical or legal hassle that would otherwise follow.

I would say that most (other) fringe coins are not as easily attacked as ETC was. They have very illiquid markets, and you cannot really sell a significant amount of them before you basically just deplete the order books. And merchants are typically not accepting anything other than the major coins either. I guess ETC was still riding along on its partially shared name/history with its bigger brother.

Eventually, some more details on the double spend transactions might shed some light on who suffered a loss in this case. It might be an exchange, but most of them require KYC nowadays (so it becomes hard to get away with).
I'm not sure. I admittedly didn't go to a public school but we definitely had in-copyright books from John Hersey, Pearl Buck, James Hilton, Evelyn Waugh, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway. Maybe that qualifies as "maybe the best 50 books from the last 50 years from proper literary mavens" but, in general, I'm not sure that out-of-copyright was overrepresented for any reason but that they were Western canon. (And, in many cases, not very readable by high-schoolers.)

I'm all for shorter copyright terms of course.
Pro tip for making pizza at home: Use a food processor to knead the dough; it will come together quicker and prevent oxidization, resulting in much better flavor in the finished pie. Restaurants make large batches, exposing only a small surface area of the dough.
> private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account.

I mean, it costs them peanuts to run them, but a lot of people will cancel their premium accounts (including me).
Solar has a few problems for spacecraft, especially when talking about objects not in an earth-centric orbit.

1. The further the spacecraft is from the sun the less efficient solar panels are.

2. Solar panels are a pretty heavy thing to launch.

3. Solar panels have a tendency to degrade in performance over decades.
Almost certainly the latter. That's why people sued over getting blocked by Trump - it prevents folks from making themselves more famous via posting sick burns in the replies to Trump tweets. I'd be surprised if Trump reads any replies to his tweets whatsoever.
I've found usefull code snippets on github via google in the past.
There are lots of developers pretty happy with macOS and Windows at home.
TypeScript Promise.All lib with 100% test coverage
I guess people are different, and my own experiences are by no means generally applicable, but if you had been my parent, I'm convinced that you had me done a massive disservice.

I consider myself to be relatively successful, financially and otherwise. For example, I make significantly north of what you would consider a good salary even in the silicon valley (I do want to retire early), doing an interesting job that very few in the world have the opportunity to do, and have meaningful (and fun!) relationships to people. And I attribute a lot of this to the fact that I was able to be my own person and follow my own activities and passions in my childhood.

My parents were fairly mundane German parents in that they did raise me, set limits, instilled morals, sent me to school and all that, so they were by no means anti-authoritative. But in my free time after school and on weekends for example, I was freely able to choose how to spend my own time. By that I don't mean that I was able to do whatever I want, but that, within the limits of what was considered acceptable behavior by my parents, I was pretty much completely free-ranging.

On my own, I played inside and outside, I met with friends, sometimes I would just play video games for days, sometimes I would watch TV, and sometimes I would lock (not literally) myself in my room for days and tinker with computers or read technical stuff. I grew up discovering the world and having a great social life, with several deep-seated passions on top that shaped the life that I now have in my 30s.

On the other hand, I saw plenty of people growing up for which it was painfully obvious that what they did was out of some sort of obligation instilled by their parents, and it really wasn't a guarantee for success. You are never going to outpace someone who does what they do because they really like to do it, and if you could, to what end?

In my case, I am almost certain that your parenting would have make me hate the interests you force instead of thrive in them. But then I do realize that people are different. Some people, given the free time to do whatever they please, chose it to fill basically all of their life with World of Warcraft, so the correct answer for some person may not be the correct one for another one.

In my case, though, I will take my childhood as a successful model and will make sure that while my child grows up to be a well-adjusted, moral and (sufficiently) disciplined person, they have the ability to grow into their own.
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> Our customers for VR training

What sort of company do you work for, for what purpose are your customers getting VR training, and what are they (or their companies, if applicable) paying?

> VR probably won't have a place in every home, just as TV [...] I think the market can ultimate be as big as [that technology] however.

Nobody needs training to watch a TV.
The issue is whether any of the moderation activities for this Facebook "Page" were done under color of law (the courts held that they were), in which case those activities have to comply with the Constitution.
They're all in a google drive (hosted my Shirley). It was previously shared on HN.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14yayBb9XiL16lmuhbYhh...
I think AR for table top gaming could be huge, even turning Minecraft into a Lego like game. I'm not entirely convinced of many other use cases in gaming though.
Thanks for sharing - lots of detail on the process and the pictures look really helpful, although honestly I have no familiarity with pizza dough making to judge by. Great read regardless.

I love the idea of Github becoming a more popular place for recipes. I translate many of the recipes I end up cooking into Markdown files[1], and love that Github renders them in a way that I can still share with my relatives.

The real win though is that with git for VC, you can update these recipes with the smallest changes and notes each time you cook it, knowing that each time you're getting closer to the perfect version of each meal. I hope this idea catches on enough that people might one day submit issues / PRs for each others recipes much like we do with open-source code.

May try this dough out myself soon since I'm still on a baking kick from all the Christmas cookies. Will open a PR / issue if I have any suggestions from the experience!

[1]: https://github.com/rocheio/recipes
I always dream of being able to discreetly inform people of minor mistakes in their posts/comments in a way that would make it dead easy for them to accept the change. PRs sound very appealing!!
no longer need bitbucket
Without making a judgement on the seriousness of the charges, remember, the "rape" in this case is allegedly not stopping upon the tearing of his condom, not forced rape at knifepoint...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html
I totally agree with you. And to add to your point, the impact of having a dominance in the market of "personal project repos" extends far beyond individual developers paying money on their personal accounts and/or becoming paying customers when they start their own companies.

If you think about mid-sized software companies (~10-100 devs), if 80% of your developers have a strong preference for Github over Gitlab or Bitbucket, then that company is likely going to stick with Github or decide to move to Github eventually. I think this is where Github captures much more than that 12% revenue that they are giving up right now.
> The incentive for running these attacks for profit becomes higher as the market cap of these coins increases, making long-term 'investment' in these coins nonsensical.

I disagree that market cap is the primary indicator. Note that market cap (or really, price of ETC on major exchanges) has dropped dramatically in the past 3 to 6 months. So Market Cap / Price of ETC is a minor factor.

In contrast: the ABSOLUTE COST of a 51% attack drops each time the difficulty drops. That's what I personally think is the main contributor here, because the market-caps of all coins have dropped dramatically the past few months.

In effect: its not so much that the potential profit out of a hypothetical 51% has gone up (it hasn't: Ethereum Classic is way cheaper than it used to be). Its that the DIFFICULTY of ETC has dropped dramatically, finally making the 51% profitable.
Yes, until the First Amendment is modified to read "Congress and Facebook shall make no law..."
Treat a database as any other service. SQL is its API. Don't break the API contract of a view or procedure, create a new one and deprecate the old one. Not rocket science.