skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a trusted group of developers is in charge of dispersing funds, why involve a blockchain/smart contracts at all? You can just donate to the developers, and they can disperse funds according to some predefined terms. The DAO or whatever is exactly that, but with extra steps. In either case, you still have to trust that the people in charge of distributing the funds will do so according to the terms that were agreed upon(fixing bugs or adding features or whatever).
How wrong should you be?
There is no way I would get into the car. I personally avoid gig services for a number of reasons.

Seeing a mismatch? Yeah, never again.
It certainly is pricey for tinkering, but it requires a decent chunk of block storage and I was shocked how expensive that is when I looked the other day. It unlikely to be news to most, but I've been on private cloud and DCs for a long time and it seems everyone is charging huge amounts of money if you need large filesystems; not even slow but cheap options. Maybe Scylla needs to be backed by S3 rather than XFS :)
It's not that simple. Even when two codons map to the same amino acid, it doesn't mean they have the same implications.

One factor is that different codons translate at different speeds, and these can affect how the protein folds.

Another is that base pairs in DNA may have functions or implications apart from their function as part of a codon in a gene.

Simply remapping a codon to a new amino acid and re-writing all the genes in a cell's DNA to avoid that codon will cause many things to "break" in a cell's function. Life is a messy, inter-connected system without the clean modularity we like to have in software.
The quickest and easiest thing to add first is bounties.
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Why not put an IP camera on your pooch and front yard for the peace of mind and to verify they are actually doing their job?
> First off, you can't just pretend like 9/11 doesn't count in pre-TSA security stats. Four planes were hijacked within an hour of each other on 9/11 and zero have been hijacked in the last 17+ years?

Prior to 9/11, there were 14 years with no US hijackings (failed attempts are a different story) and 27 with no deaths on a commercial aircraft due to a hijacking. 17 years with neither hijackings nor hijacking related deaths is not a clear improvement that calls for credit anywhere. Since the 1980s, hijacking events have been so rare that it would take many decades under a give policy regime before and after a policy change before you couls have even remote statistical confidence that my quiet period

Really, since at least the 1980s, hijacking is so rare that it would take an extraordinarily long time to have even remote confidence that there was an increase in safety, much less of assigning a specific cause to it.

And, on assigning cause, if there was a reduction in hijackings post-9/11, well, there's a pretty good reason to think that al-Qaeda and the passengers of Flight 93 jointly might be responsible without any government policy as an intermediate cause.

Hijacking became something passengers would no longer be likely to accept as a “cooperate and noone gets hurt” event, which rendered it pointless as almost anyone has ever used it (even as al-Qaeda used it on 9/11, which while it doesn't factually fit that model clearly required for effect that people believed that it did.)
> Would it be nice to know who upvoted you?

No. Bad idea IMHO.

> So, would you be okay if I saw that you upvoted a comment of mine?

Please note this is a entirely different question. But still: no, it wouldn't be OK.

I fail to see how what you suggest could improve in any way the quality of the discussions.

It seems it would be an invitation to a "us-vs-them" attitude and other ad-hominem pseudo-reasonning.

One of the best parts of HN is that discussions are focused on ideas, and not on the people expressing these ideas.
> the skill and artistry which went into designing and making it

Well, sure there was skill and artistry involved. But there is skill and artistry involved in designing and building smart watches as well.

> FWIIW I also like 80s era calculators

Hopefully not to the point that you're carrying a $10000 TI-57 everywhere and swear that today's calculators just don't measure up to it...
One of the things I realized watching this was this stuff probably holds together in the US because.

Federal Social Insurance programs, Social security, Unemployment, food stamps, and other transfer payments. These substitute for states inability to print their own money. and set exchange rates or control the flow of capital.

The Banking system is backstopped by the Federal Reserve not individual states. See Texas and California during the S&L crisis.

And the lack of tribal attitudes. Europeans think Greeks need to pay back all the money their government borrowed from French and German Banks. No one in the US really feels that way about Puerto Ricans.
Secondly, not actually dealing with the trust problem very seriously limits the actual value the platform provides. Margins should be ultra thin.

Lack of progress on that front has been a big turn off for me. I generally do not make use of gig services.
Enid Blyton sustained an extremely high level of popularity [1] through three decades (the 40s, 50s and 60s) which only started to decline in the 70s. So 30 years against Rowling's 20 years so far. But again, very few children read Blyton's books now. I think it is too early to say that Rowling will enjoy a sustained popularity and it is my personal opinion that she won't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton#Commercial_success
I also agree with this. While I don't (yet, but about to) have my own project to take care of we mostly consult on the Apache Big Data ecosystem. These tools are used by thousands of companies in major internal programs (e.g. "we're moving the whole companie to an Event Driven architecture based on Kafka" or "we're building a Data Lake in Hadoop") but there are major and minor issues which we see at every single customer and which go unfixed.

Each individual customer is not willing or can't commit the resources (which can be hours to weeks of development time) to fund us to fix those. If they were to pool the resources it'd be easier.

But that's not how those companies work. They have their purchasing processes and kicking that off for minor things is often too much work, kicking it off for major things may take ages and strain budgets.

All the other models I've seen so far (Patreon etc.) don't really fit into the corporate world as we currently see it.

We've tried asking for sponsorship directly, in conference talks or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/opencore/status/1057939697413079040) but so far have not found any sustainable way that works.

I'm convinced that solving this single issue will do more good for the OSS projects (which in turn might lead to better lives for people as can be seen in the example of your project) than any other action anyone could do.

We're eager to hear any model that worked for someone else.
How is environment at your workplace?
Here, everybody just focuses on their work and interaction is almost 0%. We only speak at lunch time, lol, programmers. We use slack for work related discussion.

Being an introvert, I am happy :)
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The required acceptance level is one factor. But I guess an even more important factor is the „what are we actually voting for“ question.

I‘d have solved this by having two votes, one to start a negotiation about the exit terms. And then a second one, once an agreement on the terms has been reached. That way, everyone can know ehat they are actually voting for.
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Switching channel takes less than a quarter of a second, this is pretty impressive.
current gen skilled hobbyists grew up with fancying "physical" objects. a RPi is a physical object manipulating your data. a hosted VM(even if hosted on your own personal machine) doesn't have the same "tactility"
There is no such Federal law. Animal cruelty to a dog owned by a Federal agency would be a state statute.
That is my take too.

BASIC is fine. I won't language quibble on a nice free resource.
It's out of topic, I know, but there's something I've wondered for a long time: if a Spanish person immigrates to the USA, do they count as Hispanic?
The author of the book commanded a US Navy nuclear sub. At the time he assumed command, it was one of the worst performing subs in the fleet. The book is about the organizational and management lessons he learned as he transformed it into a top performing sub.
Maybe one day one of those "DumboDB" things will manage to reinvent MUMPS without dropping all of its good parts...
I would take even the tea Socrates has took, to avoid getting raped.
Tech has been synonymous with growth. That is why it was trading at a premium and that is why high growth tech companies continue to be priced at a premium while non-growth tech companies do not.

As a professional investor, I only care about three things:
- Long-term stabilized return on capital
- Pricing (P/E; EB/EBITDA)
- Long-term growth.

The list of companies that check all of those boxes are extremely small
Hmm. With all this stuff about the ultra high frequency 5G data not going through walls, how does it handle bad weather? My phone's already not great if it's raining heavily. I would hate for my home internet connection to flake out any time it rains.
Depends on the field.

Right now the ATO (Australian Tax Office) is undergoing a vast reengineering of how business and organizations deal with government. The project is SBR (https://www.sbr.gov.au/). There is a lot of LOB software that needs to comply and have this stuff retrofitted. Most of it is Java.
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I'm really torn on this.. That's typical settlement stuff. They are of course free to go to court and leave all the negative reviews they like?
This is the reason I still use a Pebble 2 smart watch, so I need to charge it once per week. For me the device is for displaying glucose values, so needing to charge it every day is not really an option.
Is it more likely that someone is lying on the internet about their dog being killed, with no one they know replying in the comments to call them out, or that a startup is catastrophically bad at PR and just basic human empathy?

The principle of Occam's Razor applies here.
Agreed that Postico is amazing. Totally worth the $40 or whatever it costs.
Rich is relative, depending on the cost of living. Right?
There was this really interesting discussion on a different thread [0] about how _any_ contact with child services drastically reduces the intelligence of a child.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760039
Dogs have been domesticated for millennia, and because of that, bringing them into an artificial environment is different than causing a wild animal to be in an artificial environment. There's absolutely nothing inappropriate about having a dog in an artificial environment. It's not the artificiality of the accident that's the problem, it's the harm that's the problem.

The fault in an accident, be it car and car, car and pedestrian, car and cyclist, cyclist and pedestrian, cyclist and cyclist, or even pedestrian and pedestrian, doesn't necessarily mean moral culpability. Dogs are never culpable because they lack agency, but considering them to be at fault in an accident for the purposes of determining recourse isn't too far-fetched.
When did that change? They were incredibly trying to cultivate and outright force mega cities.

Leaving behind mega cities that are empty. Hell if you want to play out a pretend version of "I am legend" you could get pretty close. (Minus the zombies)
I think the vast majority of people who want to make money building software don't start off by finishing a product and then trying to sell it. A much more common scenario is building software for someone from the start (or building a service, but let's focus on "pure software" for now). In that case the developers are paid for time spent, not copies licenced, so using a FLOSS licence isn't a roadblock for making money.
There is a system that does not auto-bill in Europe but solves your issue: there are apps in which you tag with your location and license plate information. You pay within the app and you can even “top up” from within some apps as well.

The only downside, as you would expect, is that you have a new app or two for every city you travel to. It works pretty well though, and it’s way better than having to hunt down a kiosk.

I’m actually pretty surprised that kind of thing hasn’t caught on more here. I’m sure there are at least a few cities in the USA that do it.
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Interesting story but someone I work with was actually severely rear-ended by an Uber driver heading to the airport, and she said the driver's insurance wouldn't cover the driver because the driver was acting as an Uber driver at the time of the accident. Don't know the insurance co., but I definitely remember being shocked by the fact that they wouldn't cover the driver for that reason
That would require them to be specifically tracking this questionnaire for that purpose and filing the results against your profile or shadow profile.

As I noted, it is possible to derive a reasonably accurate profile simply from the language a person uses, so if you're on Facebook, or use GMail they have enough data passing through their servers to profile you anyway.

Technology like this:

https://personality-insights-demo.ng.bluemix.net/
One of our dogs is a shelter dog and the other was given up on by it's original owner, but never made it to the shelter.

Both of them required training and care beyond what most people are prepared to give.

I love my dogs, but if I could have avoided the training to get them to where they are now I would have.

Yet if we adopt another dog it'll likely be from a shelter or rescue.
3 SQL GUI tools (Sequel Pro, Dbeaver, HeidiSQL) on the front page at the same time. Has this happened before?
Yeah the crashes in Mojave were driving me crazy. Then to my surprise I tried the test build here and its way more stable and even has multiple filters, a feature I've been wanting for years. https://sequelpro.com/test-builds
so one of the things not really covered here is how to deal with SD card failure.

Any application that requires any level of writing to disk will almost certainly die in short order.

I have a boatload of Pis, doing a bunch of things, and one of the annoying things is having cards die on me. Everything is in ansible, so its not that much effort to rebuild.

However having any important data living on a pi's SD card is a nono
I have a feeling this would be a bad idea for some reason I can't quite put my finger on but ... what if github added a sponsor/donate/pledge button and ran a service for doing such?

Some projects use Patreon. Why not just make it direct for those projects that are using github to host?

I think the harder problems are things like "who gets the money", "how is it used", etc... How to deal with scam clones. (once money is involved the scammers will show up)
This isn't an article. It's barely a company fluff piece. It has no more detail on what sounds like an interesting project than the title of the link.
The CO and XO shouldn't be sleeping while their ship is crossing a busy sealane

Why aren't these people "the best of the best", to quote the trite line from Top Gun?

According to Wikipedia, the US Navy has 282 deployable combat vessels. It employs a total of 325,673 active duty personnel plus 270,265 civilian employees.

So out of those 600,000 people, they can't find a few thousand who are willing, able, and capable of commanding a destroyer? The US Naval Academy alone graduates 1000 people a year. Where do they all go? What do they all do?

Really? I'm serious. My understanding is that the absolutely most prestigious military assignments are in "command" positions. Those assignments are the key to climbing the promotion ladder.

This whole thing makes no sense to me.
Let me preface this by saying I've never paid for a Lyft or Uber in my life and probably never will.

However, what you just described sounds like a typical taxi ride as well, i.e. with a professional driver.
It's extremely hard to engineer a situation in which no one ever experiences a negative outcome

True; nevertheless: good engineering practice dictates that you design a product, service or component in a way that it gracefully fails.

A good example is the regulator for scuba diving (the thing that enables you to breathe and which contains the main valve, through which you breathe and the second stage, referred to as octopus, which is conneted to the bottle and the gauges).
Any of those components could fail. The device, however, is designed in a way that if this happens it fails "safely" meaning that it's almost not possible that air flow is completely blocked, but that it flows unrestricted. Meaning you can still breathe, alas for a short time since the bottle empties rapidly and the flow is unrestricted.

This gives you a fighting chance and a way out by signalling the distress to your buddy so you can safely mount to the surface using techniques such as buddy breathing. Training for such emergencies is arguably the most important part of scuba diving training. There's still the possibilty that the thing blocks completely, but that's extremely rare and the base design of this equipment part is done in a way to minimize this possibility. [1]

Another example is a dead man's switch [2]. You don't anticipate that a train conductor is rendered incommunicado by, say, a heart attack. But this fail safe mechanism is nevertheless there in the extremely rare case when it happens. If the switch is not engaged, when it signals the conductor the train is stopped automatically.

I think that when you create something like a dog walking service it's almost rekless not to design your process flows with the consideration that an accident may happen and how to handle it. The question is not if, but when.

Wag's panic mode and the waving around of NDAs signals quite loudly that they obviously never thought about it and thus cannot be trusted to care for your animal. And this is actually the most charitable assessment of how they handled this disaster.

Chances that one of your consignees is hurt or killed are probably much greater than that your regulator malfunctions or that a train conductor is suddenly dropping dead

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_regulator#Malfunctions_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
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I have been on Facebook for a decade and can count on one hand the number of events I cared about that I was invited to on FB. Maybe this is because I'm "old" (late 30s). Or maybe some friend groups simply do not use FB in this way. Most events I'm invited to are via email, evite, or text.
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I would imagine that placing a camera on a dog in this situation would be pretty illegal in a lot of states, especially if their dog is being card for in another person's home.
Not really sure how to answer this because I am not sure how old you are. But your birthday example seems rather silly. Typically people either have big parties in which case one of your close friends will let you know there is a big party via text or WhatsApp as you say. This mimics exactly how Facebook works. Most of the time, a friend invites you to a big event, not the host. Otherwise, they don't want you at their private birthday dinner.
It will fall back to 4g so it doesn’t really matter.
They're not getting rid of it. They're selling an unspecified chunk of IP and the team that worked on it. They're still going to produce smartwatches.
We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables
It still means that with black cabs in London, but it's true that the concept of a professional driver was already lacking in most places before Uber/Lyft.
Texas is not on that list though.
Yeah, I hadn't considered that. Ultimately as with any online peer-to-peer marketplace, there would need to be some process for handling disputes.
I've considered using the command-line when I started using TLA+, but the manual discouraged it and I use it only occasionally so I didn't want to invest too much time on it.

I'd love to see a TLA+ package for vscode [1]. It seems there is more and more TLA+ adoption, it is surprising there aren't better environments to use it. The TLA Toolbox is awful (well, to be fair to the people that developed it, it does the job and maybe it's ok for some category of users).

EDIT: [1] there's one actually, https://github.com/TeamTilapia/vscode-tilapia
> The CO and XO shouldn't be sleeping

The Navy deliberately understaffs their vessels to meet unrealistic budgets. Overwork, fatigue, mistakes, and catastrophe are the inevitable consequence.

The only thing more predictable is the scapegoating of ship personnel and the untouchability of those who create the conditions which guarantee eventual disaster.
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Just to point out, Shelters are only really active in North America and a few European countries. Everyone else simply buys from the best breeders, and that’s mostly because lots of dog lovers are looking for something particular, like temperament, costmetic appearance, purity of bloodline, health history of the entire pedigree(mainly to know what kinda health problems to expect) etc. It’s good to know people “rescue” or “adopt” dogs from shelters and their payment in exchange for dogs isn’t considered “buying” but others like to know who exactly they’re adding to their family.
I haven't seen Amazon publish any, but various teams in AWS use TLA+ for critical parts of their infrastructure.

A service I worked for there used it for an "absolutely must not make a mistake" component. Even with the initial learning curve of TLA+, two engineers were able to define the application logic, identify bugs and come to a final model in comparatively short order. Once they'd got that final model they found it relatively easy to translate that in to the final service code.

By the time they were done, they realised they'd actually spent less time in total, TLA & coding, than they'd anticipated just building the component from scratch without TLA+.