skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you think "Blue Apron" and "Trello" solve real problems but that, say, Intel, Cisco, Seagate, Oracle, Adobe, NVIDIA, HP, and Google do not. That sounds, well, crazy. Adobe alone singlehandedly changed the nature of publishing in the U.S. Google revolutionized search. Intel made huge advances in CPUs. Oracle pioneered relational databases. Cisco pioneered routers and firewalls. Seagate made huge advances in storage. HP had enormous impact in research, operating systems, personal computers, printers, services. SUN invented java. Netscape invented the modern web browser (image tag + javascript + cookies). There's a little impact there, no? The list goes on.

Your opinion is really baffling. The impact on real world problems made by SV tech companies vs NY tech companies -- they're not even in the same universe of relevance. Look NYC dominates in publishing, in art, in finance. It's a great city. But it's a pimple on the butt of SV when it comes to tech.
The account eventually gains some level of recognition - while you have vocal haters, you also have people that upvote their content (likely based on the username) to the frontpage. Most of what gallowboob posts is garbage and I guarantee you that if it was coming from accounts with less karma or notariety it wouldn't reach the front-page. You have to consider that some of the people upvoting are people commenting on the threads.
Are you sure that code expresses the same pattern? It looks like Rust's COW can only transition from Borrowed to Owned by making a copy. Swift's COW works by dynamically inspecting the reference count.
You want to be real careful with the paint they use, it’s very far from green or healthy.
> Also: if you’re doing 2160p 10bit HDR, there’s no chance those Rokus are going to play them anyway.

I have some 10bit 2160p ATMOS remux movies that are huge 50GB MKV files and I stream them over my gigabit LAN to a no-name $80 Android box I got off some obscure Chinese marketplace and it plays them back perfectly with full HDR and my amp gets the atmos signal too.

If your device has hardware based x264/x265 chips it can decode them with very little processing power.
> Serious question - why get so bothered by it?

Same reason why many people refuse to visit nude beaches despite others not seeing any issue in said these beaches: personal values and principles.
Grumpy was actually forked and is still seeing development here: https://github.com/grumpyhome/grumpy
While I think you are right, I think a lot of it depends on the context of the meal. My parents are not amenable to vegetable only meals. My father is actively hostile towards vegetarians (which was a significant problem for me when I was vegetarian, as you can imagine). However, when they came to my wedding in Japan, my mother in law took them to a tofu restaurant. Nearly a decade later my parents still rave about that meal. They never realised that the meal was completely vegan (shoujin ryouri). I refrain from telling them because I feel that for my father at least, it would ruin his memory of the meal.

I love to cook and I used to do a lot of dinner parties when I as vegan. When I go out, I eat what I'm offered and am thankful for it (so I was never devoutly vegan). When I'm cooking, though, I cook what I like to cook and I almost never made any allowances for my guests' preferences (which is kind of selfish, but... oh well...) Generally people said they enjoyed the meals and many people who prefer meat told me that they were surprised that they could enjoy a meatless meal (for many people, eating at my house was the only time they ever ate vegetarian meals).

My idea was always to cook meals that were traditionally vegan and lean on centuries of refinement by master cooks rather than to try to do something of my own invention. When you eat food in the correct context, it's hard not to enjoy it as it is (as long as it is cooked well). I tried not to do any fusion until I felt that I really understood the basics of both underlying cuisines, which for me took years of practice.

Of course, your average person is not going to do this. I think that's really more the problem. People don't spend 2-3 years practicing Ethiopian vegan cuisine, but rather try a one off recipe -- and Ethiopian vegan cuisine is really hard to master. So the result is not so spectacular and they pair it with a seitan steak with teriyaki sauce, and a Caesar salad with the anchovies left out and you are just kind of left with culinary whip lash. It sounds really bratty for me to say it, but I don't like most vegetarian meals I can get in western developed countries.

I think over time, as more and more people choose vegetable based meals, we will see a western style vegetarian cuisine developing that people will choose to eat simply because it is delicious. I think it is slowly happening, but it's really not there yet IMHO.
Funny on my mobile phone I scanned for pricing and after not seeing it I bounced assuming it is either too new or not sustainable as a free product... I guess I should have kept scrolling...
But none of the things you mentioned are different between men and women. Parental leave is simply a risk factor on top of what you mentioned.

>If your business fails due to a parental leave of all things, let me tell you, you were probably severely delusional about its viability to begin with.

Let's take an extreme case: a 1 person business. If I, the business owner, take parental leave then my business is pretty much guaranteed to fail. The rate gets lower the more employees and capital you have, because you can mitigate the risk, but many businesses are susceptible to this risk, because they simply don't have the resources to mitigate it. That doesn't really tell you much about the viability of the business. It says much more about the resources the business had available. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
LitElement – A base class for creating web components
This looks great. Have been playing with Z3py for component selection for electronics, which has been a bit hard with currently available documentation.
I'm still reading through the article, but I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by QUIC and HTTP/3. I first learned socket programming around the fall of 1998 (give or take a year) in order to write a game networking layer:

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

Here are just a few of the immediately obvious flaws I found:

* The UDP checksum is only 16 bits, when it should have been 32 or arbitrary

* The UDP header is far too large, using/wasting something like 28 bytes (I'm drawing that from memory) when it only needed about 12 bytes to represent source ip, source port, destination ip, destination port

* TCP is a separate protocol from UDP, when it should have been a layer over it (this was probably done in the name of efficiency, before computers were fast enough to compress packet headers)

* Secure protocols like TLS and SSL needed several handshakes to begin sending data, when they should have started sending encrypted data immediately while working on keys

* Nagle's algorithm imposed rather arbitrary delays (WAN has different load balancing requirements than LAN)

* NAT has numerous flaws and optional implementation requirements so some routers don't even handle it properly (and Microsoft's UPnP is an incomplete technique for NAT-busting because it can't handle nested networks, Apple's Bonjour has similar problems, making this an open problem)

* TCP is connection oriented so your stream dropped by doing something as simple as changing networks (WIFI broke a lot of things by the early 2000s)

There's probably more I'm forgetting. But I want to stress that these were immediately obvious for me, even then. What I really needed was something like:

* State transfer (TCP would have probably been more useful as a message-oriented stream, this is also an issue with UNIX sockets, for example, could be used to implement a software-transactional-memory or STM)

* One-shot delivery (UDP is a stand in for this, I can't remember the name of it, but basically unreliable packets have a wrapping sequence number so newer packets flush older packets in the queue so that latency-sensitive things like shooting in games can be implemented)

* Token address (the peers should have their own UUID or similar that remain "connected" even after network changes)

* Separately-negotiated encryption (we should be able to skip the negotiation part on any stream if we already have the keys)

Right now the only protocol I'm aware of that comes close to fixing even a handful of these is WebRTC. I find it really sad that more of an effort wasn't made in the beginning to do the above bullet points properly. But in fairness, TCP/IP was mostly used for business, which had different requirements like firewalls. I also find it sad that insecurities in Microsoft's (and early Linux) network stacks led to the "deny all by default" firewalling which lead to NAT, relegating all of us to second class netizens. So I applaud Google's (and others') efforts here, but it demonstrates how deeply rooted some of these flaws were that only billion dollar corporations have the R&D budgets to repair such damage.
I wonder if anyone in the group of decision makers for the hire ever saw the cringey Currys Fives training video on Youtube
Oh, the egg thing! I've done that. It's great for that. Definitely brought mine to work to crisp up an entire porchetta. I want to try it on steak that's been reverse-seared, I wager that starting with a dry surface will work much better.
Tencent is leading the round, Reddit is one of the best places to get news trending. Is it concerning the Communist Party might have some control over what information the public views? Tencent is less beholden to the CCP than perhaps any major Chinese company, so that’s good. I don’t think it should be an issue, but it’s good to know.
Antergos. So clean and modern. Works pretty great too.
Does anyone figure this guy is connected and the third party contractors hired to program the kiosks were some student working from home in his off time?
Grumpy, Python to Go Transpiler (fork)
Check Valentin Petrov Limit Theorems of Probability Theory.

Here [1] is a CLT for RV with infinite variance, Prop 3.1.12, but notice the (larger) scaling coefficient (1/sqrt(n log n)).

Also see the second answer on SO here [2].

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~montanar/TEACHING/Stat310A/lnotes....

[2] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/169611/the-role-of...

EDIT to add: Having said that, the Lindeberg-Feller and the Lyuapunov formulation of the CLT do require finite variance, so maybe I was too quick in stating that that assumption can be relaxed.
Burning it down on the way out – how can non-tech founders protect themselves?
Hi all,

As the title suggest, I'm writing in hopes of assistance with solving a problem that many of us "non-technical" founders face -- a technical person has all the leverage to make a lot of crummy things happen to a business overnight.

People can put trust in their team members, but let's face it -- shit happens, and when it does, it would be nice to know that the owners are going to stay the owners and the IP/code stays with the company.

What should we do that doesn't seem accusatory and scream "the sky is falling"?

SO... Non-Technical Founders: What are some techniques that you have used / seen to help with this?

Technical Founders/Tech people:

What are some things that you've thought to yourself "These idiots don't realize I can just X,Y,Z" or "If they were smart, they would/wouldn't have done X"

What about legal things? Different tools/software? Procedures?

I couldn't find any information on this topic, so anything would be useful.
That is true, but looking at the whole picture which is you start with a lot, then you add a house, and now you have an improved lot with a house on it. That thing you end up with at the end, has a market value which can be compared with other houses in the area for their market value.

My home insurance covers the cost to rebuild my house in the event it is destroyed, but it protects the market value of my house because even if it is destroyed I can rebuild it to the same size and specification and have a house with possibly added market value because its made of newer material (and I would add more outlets than it currently has :-)

I agree that those two costs are very different things, but their linkage is, for me, inescapable.
How to get what you want by Raymond Hull
Free-market books like this actually just narrow your vision to a handful of economic problems that favors the plutocracy. Don't be a sucker.
Z3 is such a brilliant piece of software - we've been using it for some small scheduling problems - such a godsend.
I have an amusing archaeological anecdote about the bubble sort.

Around 1990, on my first real job out of college, I was assigned about 100K lines of C code to maintain. I was told that it had problems scaling up to larger networks (it was a network mapping system).

While going through the code, I discovered that it contained a bubble sort that had been commented out. The comments said that it had been replaced with hand-rolled sorting logic in 68K assembly for "additional speed."

So I found the assembly code for the new sorting logic. It was also a bubble sort!

In disbelief, I replaced all this nonsense with a call to the standard library's `qsort` function. The scaling problems disappeared :-)
Long (slow) touch on the spacebar to scroll the cursor does work on the SE (at least, it does on mine on iOS 12.1).

But you have to press-and-hold, since there's no force press.
It's a game, because why do you think everyone is going to follow the same rules?
Call for retraction of 400 science papers – organs came from Chinese prisoners
The end of alchemy, Mervyn King. There are several very interesting points and mental models in there. Eye opening for someone that did undergrad Econ.
Why is my perfectly good shell code not working?
You sound like a very cool person. Tip of the hat!
The directive is quite new, they first reached an agreement in janurary so it is not implemented yet. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2019...
And there’s huge open spaces too! Why not, I dunno, put out another table of computers? There is exactly one Mac mini on display in that entire store. God help you if some kid’s too busy screwing around on YouTube to let you actually shop.
Can I get a lam ns example of what z3 is and what it is?
Damn fine hypothesis. Juvenile mortality is naturally really high from the get-go [not just for humans, but practically all life forms] -- why not have them engage in the most high-risk experiments? I think that's brilliant.
Cannabis Smoking Associated with Higher Sperm Count, Study Finds
You don't have to be a corporation to hire people - think sole proprietorship.

I've been thinking that it might be an interesting experiment to apply some of the restrictions that we have only to corporations, but allow more leeway to individuals. So e.g. if you're a sole proprietor, you can arbitrarily discriminate in employment or service (it's your personal freedom of association), but if you register as an LLC, then that comes with the usual strings attached (since an artificial entity doesn't have proper personhood and any rights associated with that).

I suspect most businesses, even small, would still be LLCs.
>* Imagined Communities - the notion of a "nation" is only 300 years old and has no objective basis, only the fact that a group of people agree that it is a thing.

The Penguin History of Europe series is great for this, especially The Pursuit Of Glory, which details the time when states switched from being based on their king, to states being based on a 'unified set of people', i.e., an imagined community.

There's also the amazing Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, which is a bunch of essays, one on a forgotten European kingdom that ceased to exist, and no-one claims it as their heritage. It shows you how easily your identity of a citizen of a state can get lost and forgotten - your great-grandparents may have seen themselves as Etrurians, but that state is gone and now you think of yourself as an Italian, but nothing much changed about your family
I think you show that the intervention you're interested in performs not just above a passive control, but above an active control that may itself plausibly have an impact. So rather than a control that does nothing, you have a control group that does some other intervention. Of course there's still pitfalls, but my understanding is that trials showing positive effects vs. "active control" groups are often considered stronger evidence.
I don't think that's true; I think it's more accurate that she didn't do the right things to fix the problems created by her predecessor, John Browett. In a mere six months he instituted layoffs across the entire retail operation and alienated virtually everyone -- and while Apple seems to have fairly quickly recognized the damage, I don't think they've done what they needed to repair it. Ahrendts had a vision of Apple Stores as some kind of town square gathering space, and... what? I mean, if they want to put an espresso bar in a few flagship locations or something, that'd be fine. But we go to Apple Stores for specific reasons, namely, to buy Apple products, to buy accessories, or to get help with our Apple products. Ironically, I suspect a relentless focus on that would do a better job in fostering a sense of community, e.g., "we are mostly all here as happy Apple customers"; that's what the stores at least had an undercurrent of in the late 2000s.
I was referring to The Scene [1]. They stopped releasing in Xvid around ~2012. What you're talking about are known as "peer groups". These groups/individuals do as they wish (to put it kindly).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene
Everything you draw turns into a penis. Either 99% of people are a bad influence or the authors are trolling.
... or just plain impossible if you don't have a recent beefy desktop-class cpu.
You're right that this isn't practical but it was interesting to put together and thought it'd be interesting for other people with the same idea.
Indeed! Insects actually provide a non-negligible food source for many people today. Example : Chapulines
For actively exploiting a bug in a piece of software for personal gain, which is much less defensible than simply finding vulnerabilities.
> if your project is referencing un-merged pull-request as a submodule, there is something fishy

I did not mean incomplete pull requests, I meant master and release branches.
Though using unmerged stuff is quite common if the project is yet without an established release process, or not maintained well.
> if I wanted to learn homotopy type theory, would this have been easier five years ago, or will it be easier five years from now?

My experience (I'm late 60s) suggests you may find it harder later, but you'll have a higher return because your newly-won expertise will connect with a richer experience base. You'll see connections you might have missed earlier.

And I doubt you'll notice much difference in five years. More like 15 - 20, I think.
For me it was this free book available on https://www.core-econ.org/
It is an easy to approach economics book. It helped me understand how a few simple ideas like free markets, firms and technological innovation led to the creation of the amazing prosperity of our civilization.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. By "that country" I was specifically referring to Nazi Germany. Modern Germany, having been through occupation, division and reunification, with no continuity in the state, a different constitution, and different borders, is not really the same country.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes

Ancient human's may have more in common with schizophrenics of today than history would indicate. Religion may be a result thereof.

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

US History can be considered a function of large scale popular movements rather than decisions made by individuals (leaders).

Gun's Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond

Civilizations' success can be considered a function of base resources (edible grains, farmland, metals).
I think "following lies" is the thing that trips people up.

You can't "follow lies" literally -- I'm not sure what the figure of speech is here though. Metonymy?
Stupid Emulator Tricks: Making 40-year Old Apple II BASIC Pong 3D
> Rhizomatic vs arborescent

Roots vs trees? If these ideas have any merit, surely it should be possible to express them clearly, and without (gratuitous?) invocation of pseudo-scientific terms.
Basically, it solves the problem of finding a setting of variables that is compatible with some set of constraints. This is NP-hard but Z3 is in practice very fast nonetheless.

A case study/glowing review from a programmer at Microsoft is here:

https://medium.com/@ahelwer/checking-firewall-equivalence-wi...
This is a special case of production values going up, as also seen in movies, video games, and many other products. User expectations gradually rise until only large organizations of professionals can meet them.

On the other hand, we already live in this world. When was the last time you used a homemade CPU or graphics chip?

It's still possible for an indie scene to arise that values hand-crafted stuff, possibly at a different layer.
SCTP has port numbers, so NAT is not a problem. But because of the second point, why should someone implement it? (iptables can do it of course)
^ can confirm the above assertion about in-report tables being created as vector graphics to stymie scraping efforts
Female Brains Appear to Be More Youthful Than Male Ones
> you realistically need to scrap so much protection just to accommodate them.

And why not do so for them specifically? If you still have protections apply to larger companies, then it becomes a matter of choice for employees to choose small or large. But if you apply to everybody, and it kills small businesses, you're strictly worse off - if you can't land a job at one of those larger places, you're outright unemployed.
I can't possibly see how any student in certain subjects like engineering can do much reading ahead. I listened to the lecture, tried to study notes, did insane amounts of homework which always took hours, worked on projects, and then had to study for quizes and tests. I would've loved to check out a chapter before class, but what little time I had was for sleeping, eating, and a little socializing. Granted there are some people that are way smarter than me or especially if you had an easy program you might have been able to read ahead.

I like the concept of Notebooks a lot, but you have to be careful that students aren't getting slightly flashier presentations that come with confusing installation woes.
Doesn't that mean you're equally vulnerable to the bus factor?