skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The income from selling BeOS wasn't ever covering a significant fraction of R&D costs so who cares?

Be was losing about $10M per year from the outset. It never came anywhere close to breaking even. The idea was, either this takes off (in which case you can make money a lot of different ways even if you give the core product away) or the threat that it might forces Apple to buy the whole thing, either way you get your money back and JLG gets what he wants, which is and has always been to be "right" even when he's monumentally and obviously wrong.

[ JLG led Apple product development when it was failing, Be which failed, and the Palm spin out that made an OS so lousy even _Palm_ never bothered using it any products. The man is often cited as a "guru" presumably in the same sense as when some random guy is brought in by gullible actors or musicians who've got a lot of money suddenly ]

In the late 1990s it looked as though it would probably close its doors and the investors would get nothing (technically they'd get the source code, branding and so on, but those are basically worthless), which happens all the time with that sort of business.

But the dot com boom saved them. Not Be, the investors. An Offering was written which under normal circumstances would get laughed out of the room. Ha ha ha, you have a product that nobody uses, and you want a nine figure sum of money for a business with a failed Apple executive and a bunch of hackers, No. But at the time you could write blah blah blah "Internet" blah blah and people wouldn't bother reading past the bottom of the first page of your IPO because they already had their wallets open.

So now the original investors had their money back, and gradually the big institutional hitters (e.g. pension companies) could exit too, you take $50000 of BEOS and you sell it to a thousand Be fans for $50 per time, when it turns into $4 of cash five years later you're fine and they learn a valuable lesson about investment.

Be got a little bit of money left over. The idea was, pivot into making software for "Internet appliances". You know, the computer next to your stove, or that multi-purpose device in your gym which... oh right, yeah, no, those aren't a thing, the idea went nowhere and Be's business went down in flames. JLG got to go ruin Palm instead.
It's hard to avoid naming conflict, but there is:

V programming language https://www.vcode.org/
I use mine everywhere and yet I only have less than 80 advertisers there, a good portion of which I have registered on their website (Ubisoft, Airbnb, Bell, Candy Crush, Nintendo, Hilton, HP, Netflix, Particle, CBS, EVE Online, KnowRoaming, Seeed Studio, Uber Eats, Goodfood and plenty others...).
Laptop backpacks: How to buy the perfect one
By the time person has moved on to C from scratch I find it likely they would have acquired a less restrained computer. Likewise, the fact you can't easily reverse engineer a rasberry does not stop one from getting a less restrained computer.
Isn't this applicable to most of academia and science and not just psychology?
Pufferfish in China bred poison-free
>get into a decent college and choose a good major

If by good major you mean computer science, then this choice alone is already extremely special. Only 3% of students choose computer science.
thank you; the library is awesome.
Maturing is good. Marketting beta products as solutions to the problems you have right now isn't.

This problem doesn't exist in the PHP, Python or Ruby communities.

We get incremental improvements, sometimes a few innovative contenders show up, we evaluate it, then a winner appear, generally under a year.

With JS it's:

- a new wild pokemon appears !

- quick, everybody make 200 new pokeball models and throw them at it

- spend 3 years sorting said pokeballs, while the pokemon disapears
Then why do you use ad-supported services rather than going for the ones which do not collect your data and instead charge you money directly?
I definitely got a lot of songs from it that were spot-on, but I also got a ton that were not-as-enjoyable covers of songs I already had. I don't get why they keep doing that. It turned me off.
I thought this was about james halliday. https://github.com/substack
It would probably be a long party and psychodrama.
Intensely interesting to the participants, but we're not them.
Europe is using every institution available to hamper US companies, I wonder how the Eisenhower administration would have responded.

Edit: funny how here you get downvoted to oblivion for saying something negative about the EU even if it's verifiably correct.
This also helps Visual Studio.

I'd definitely just add exclusions though, rather than disabling it entirely.
> Is that proper english?

The rate of a rate is the acceleration, so it's valid English, but probably not what was meant.
Lightspeed POS Files for IPO
It'll be interesting to see if vegetation takes hold quickly enough to prevent rapid erosion.
For me, 700$ are still high end.

Time ago the high end was above 500$ and the price climbed during this time thanks to cryptomining.

With 200/300 you could buy a modest graphic card that could last 3 years playing top titles. Now in that price range you can just keep up one year and then it's completely trash
So which version worked for you better financially?
Ethereum Foundation Weighs $15M Bid to Build Randomness Tech
Depends what it's trying to argue: is mentioning other instances of a problem a counter-argument meant to suggest the original isn't such a big problem that needs resolving, or is it an extension of it that pushes for those other problems also being addressed? The problem is the former.
I live in a city of ~10k people about two hours east of Bentonville, AR. Interestingly, to my ear, they sound like something someone from Bentonville would say :)

I've lived in other, larger places, and it's interesting to me how much the differences between "us" and "them" are magnified to fit the scale of the discussion.
Developers could have used asynchronous interfaces for decades now and it would make the user experience substantially better with no kernel changes at all. There are reasons why they haven't but I don't see any reason to believe those will change with yet another real-time kernel patch.

> Any tasks that are critical to input on the system's console-like channel (whatever that is - it might be a serial console, UI graphics, a network connection or even an audio input subsystem plus some speech-recognition AI) should be running with elevated priority

This approach is prone to priority-inversion and it doesn't help with the underlying problem that programmers have written tons of synchronous I/O all over the place and the call chains are often highly non-obvious. For example, most Linux desktop environments will freeze if you use an authentication provider which isn't instantly responsive and that prevents things like interacting with menus, closing windows, etc. because various low-level libraries do things like check settings which at some point does something like getting your list of groups, which is normally very fast because it's cached. I got some patches into pam_ldap years ago to set socket-level timeouts so it would recover from something like a single socket error but the better solution would be fewer dependencies and interfaces which don't have tons of different things happening on a single thread.
I played around with Erlang back when people rediscovered it the last go around in ~2006, and I didn’t think the syntax was crazy, so I’ve never gotten too excited to learn Elixir. Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) on the other hand looked cool.

But Racket... oh, Racket. Every time I get to write Racket, I feel like it’s the past, present, and future.

I do like some of the immutable collection abstractions in Clojure, and I like that there’s always a library in Java that’ll allow me to mostly still write Clojure. But Racket is definitely my language sweet spot.
Should you use React Native to build your startup’s mobile app?
As they say, if it's free, then you're the product. I (as a European) have much more confidence in my ISP to guarantee my privacy than in a company which mostly makes money out of advertisement.
The largest bucket may have been 21-29 years at 39%. However, the next largest was ages 30-39 at 31%, and considering all ages 30+ you have 49% of respondents. Assuming only people aged 30+ had 11+ years of experience, that would only account for half of them (49% to 25%). That doesn't sound implausible.
QA on Non-Intel at Guix Days
A Default VirtualBox configuration does not allow direct host-> guest access, it's on some hidden VB-only NAT. You need to change the Network Interface type to Bridged or Host-only or something else to have access to the VM.
and one-size-really-does-fit-all clothes
The brain is analog.
Are Whales Smarter Than We Are? (2008)
Wow, you are completely misinterpreting what he said here. Either that or you're repeating what other idiots on the internet said. Any CS undergrad would understand that he was making a joke when he said that.
Having lived in the "greater Bentonville area", I think what he's commenting on is that SF seems like one giant un-ending city coming from there. This is especially true if he traveled there for work and didn't really have time to explore.
Really makes me wonder how much of today's internet would work in IE6
Ask HN: Where to find a partner / co-founder online for a side-project?
I'm a UX / front-end guy and I work on side projects in my free time. Usually I can't get these projects live, because my back-end skills are too limited to properly set up the back-end, which is sort of frustrating.

In real-life I hardly know any back-end programmers (who would be interested to work on such projects).

Do you have a suggestion where I could potentially find someone online to finish these projects with?

The problems are:
- There is no guaranteed revenue from these projects (it's validation stage after all)
- I can not officially give away equity at this point (it's validation stage after all, so it's not even incorporated)
- I would prefer someone, who is actually interested in the project and doesn't just want to make a quick buck (that's why I wouldn't like to hire a freelancer)

So basically I'm looking for someone, who would be willing to put ~10h a week into something, which might become something or might just not.

Where would you shout out to find someone like this?

Thank you
1 million hours ~= 114 years. At best, humans are still a factor of 10 better in terms of necessary training examples.
That's fair, I was referring to the business culture specifically, which directly reflects the values of the Chinese government.
Not clearly IMHO. If the VM being able talk to the host is not acceptable to you, even if you only activate that during runtime when you need it, then scp obviously isn't a solution.
CSS seems to be a real thing ...
This book was nice, and the author is earnestly trying to build a commercial-usage community around Racket:

https://serverracket.com/

EDIT: Oh, but just getting started:

- How to Design Programs 2nd edition (new to programming or structured reasoning about programs)

- Racket Guide (new to Racket)

- Racket Docs (for reference)

The docs are pretty great, but IMO there’s an opportunity for people to blog about production use cases.

Also, I dream of something like R’s tidyverse being written for Racket... maybe by me, but ideally by someone smarter and better.
I think so too, I would love to have entrepreneur leave. Having quite my job to start a business before, the main thought in my head is that 6 months is not anywhere near long enough for the vast majority of business ideas to get off the ground, let alone succeed. In order to have any chance of success in 6 months, you would need to have launched your product before starting the 6 month period. You’d want to have secured financing, get any partners and/or employees in place, finish all legal paperwork, set up a payment system, build the product and begin marketing, all before you leave your day job. Any one of those things can easily eat more than 6 months. My startup was a 2 person software service -- just about the easiest thing you can do business wise -- and it took a year after quitting my job before we could even take money, and 2 years before we made enough money to pay our operational costs.
But that's still an advantage humans have over AI isn't it? Humans have the capacity to transfer learned knowledge and behaviors to relatively unrelated domains with immediate utility. Show me an ANN which can do that.
They pulled the call! Wow, I’ve never been able to have that done
Fragile DNA Enables New Adaptations to Evolve Quickly
One nice aspect of DoH is that you can use it to circumvent local, lame DNS censorship. But ideally you will use a DoH server that is not run by for-profit companies known for data mongering.
Physics and Engineering doesn't have many things that will annoy the status quo.

While speaking against e.g. mainstream cultural tenets, or how we run society, or how we parent, etc., can lose you grants quickly, and those are all things psychology and sociology can get at.
What would be the argument against helping flora and fauna a bit? to seed plants to that island, that are native to the surrounding Tonga Islands - and helping its eco system speed up development a bit?
That is absolutely amazing. What a nice project. The snowflake demo is also very pretty. I got totally lost in reading all the old Digital documents, great picture at the bottom too.
Overall I think it's a good thing, but one problem is that systems like these are really starting to create two tiers of workers, as is discussed in the end of the article. Generally one has to have a permanent contract for programs like these (e.g. in Finland you can go to study for two years and get paid a nice fraction of your pay from the unemployment fund).

In theory this shouldn't be much of a problem because all jobs should be on permanent basis by default and fixed-term contracts should be only for very special purposes. In practice this is not enforced and especially for lower paying jobs (and some even higher educated fields, such as teachers or nurses) its quite common not to get permanent contracts at all.

Because of this, there's almost a new social class of permanent contract workers who have great benefits and programs, and beneath them a constantly growing underclass on temp contracts, shitty working conditions and little benefits. It's sort of absurd that some paper pusher can get paid for doing any studies they wish more than a cleaner or store clerk gets paid while working.

The systems were largely created before the neoliberal era started in Nordic countries in the 90's or so when employer protection was very strong across the board. But as the protection has crumbled for the "underclass", the system starts to at times look something like the olden privileges of the higher castes.
I do understand that women have a different experience than men in tech, and everywhere for that matter, regardless of age. I'm sorry for this, I didn't create the situation, but I live in it. I want to be part of that solution. That's not what I'm going to discuss next, though.

Working out with a bad knees and back is not that hard, and is really common with runners who started in high school. Extremely common in fact, especially with road runners. I see these people in the gym all the time lifting weights because it's so low impact, while at the same time being a primary defense against osteoporosis. Nothing that you do can replace it and I would strongly encourage it after talking to your doctor.
> Sounds like the utopian culture of the protagonists is surrounded by plenty of non-utopian drama.

You're not wrong, but the word 'surrounded' is significant.

Star Trek always felt odd to me because the non-utopian elements felt far too embedded in the utopian stuff. Not just the Maquis, where utopia is breaking down, but the constant presence of menacing rival powers and internal hierarchy. What happens if a captain loses their ship? It can't be trivial or the Romulans wouldn't be a threat. What happens if a private citizen asks the fabricator for a submarine instead of a hot dinner? Material/power/something is clearly bounded. And, yes, redshirts - quite a few people in utopia still get killed because no one knows how to keep them safe.

What I like so much about the Culture stories is that the drama is around their society. They're not just post-money but largely post-scarcity; one character's hobby is terraforming continents into custom residences, and resource limits don't seem to affect anyone much unless they're dealing with the sorts of energy costs associated with major spacetravel. Even when they go to war, it's from a truly foreign viewpoint. One (no-spoilers) conflict sees the Culture evacuate and destroy a space habitat for several billion people because they don't want to yield it to the enemy, and rebuilding it elsewhere is a minor concern.

The other appeal, less obvious from a summary, is seeing what the Culture does worry about. They're not the first post-scarcity civilization, and they're not entirely sure what's happened to the others...
Ask HN: Suggestions for a first Tensorflow project?
I would like to gain some experience by building an application using Tensorflow and deploying it on AWS servers. I was hoping for some suggestions as far as what to build. Feel free to be as detailed on general as possible. I imagine I will wind up doing a series of projects, adding different tools/techniques as I go.

One idea I had was to do handwriting recognition. A user could upload an image of handwriting and the application would return the text in the image. Maybe this is a reasonable place to start?

A note about my experience: I am an experienced "full stack" web developer with a Ph.D. in physics. I have a good deal of scientific programming experience but not much in the way of machine learning. I have some professional experience in my current job building the architecture around the models that our data scientists produce.
“Cold Case” at the Archives du Nord: bag found containing parts of 1730 trial
Do you have any studies tracking the sex of study participants in psychology? I know that in clinical trials, historically the majority of participants are male:

"After the tragedies caused by the use of thalidomide in pregnant women, the FDA issued “General Considerations for the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs” in 1977. This guidance document stated that women of child-bearing potential should be excluded from Phase 1 and early Phase 2 research, except if these studies were being conducted to test a drug for a life-threatening illness. If a drug appeared to have a favorable risk-benefit assessment, women could then be included in later Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials if animal teratogenicity and fertility studies were finished...In 1993, FDA reversed the 1977 guidance with another guidance document entitled Guidelines for the Study and Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs."

Also:

"In a study that evaluated the inclusion and analysis of sex in the results of federally-funded randomized clinical trials in nine major medical journals in 2009, researchers found most studies that were not sex-specific had an average enrollment of 37% women."

From "Women’s involvement in clinical trials: historical perspective and future implications" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800017/
Great tool to generate diagrams, interested as well to see how easy/hard is making them.

I suppose this will be a commercial product (probably a SaaS), but have you thought of making it open source with a commercial option also available (e.g. Ghost[0])

[0] https://ghost.org/
How many people would accept a new tax system where rich people can arbitrarily force poorer people to move?
Inheritance On-The-fly with Ruby on Rails
Going by Facebook's history .... what are the chances they abide by any of this?

Facebook has shown they're going to do what they want how they want regardless of public perception, deals with other companies, other company rules, and arguably laws already in place.
Wells Fargo suffers widespread outage of ATMs, mobile banking capabilities
It's digital and analog. At the level of the action potential, the brain certainly does seem to operate with discreet units of information. Everywhere else though is certainly analog.
Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (2018)
I have worked with CAN on spacecraft and it was always a great option for what we needed. It is used as the critical communications bus on the spacecraft where the real-time timing is needed. So systems that control telemetry, tracking and control (TTC) and attitude determination and control of the spacecraft are usually run on CAN or something similar.

But there is always a mix of communications standards. For higher speed data (such as from an imaging payload) then other standards such as Ethernet, LVDS, Spacewire, etc. are used.

For a critical communications bus in space there aren't that many good options. CAN and MIL-STD-1553 are probably the most common that you will find. I have worked with both and CAN is definitely much nicer to use.
we're generally not very good at environmental engineering - you wouldn't want to accidentally introduce an imbalance that caused unintended negative effects. Nature on the other hand is rather self-balancing if left alone.
This is worth a read and thanks for such a detailed explanation
Prettier for Ruby
"[...]a built in boot sound on your machine which felt so good on Macs[...]"

Ever since I got my first iBook in college I've had mainly negative associations with that sound. Too frequently you'd open the thing in the middle of a lecture with 100+ people in the room and the sound starts blasting. The only solution I found was plugging in headphones so that the sound would go there instead.
I used to take numerous steps to prevent my parents from ever accessing IE on their computers. I'd install Chrome or Firefox with adblockers, show them how much nicer the experience was, and leave the Chrome icon on their desktop, start menu, and quick launch panel. But the IE use persisted. So I then hid IE from the Start Menu and changed the default association for all .htm and .html files to Chrome. Still I found they were somehow using IE. To this day, I have no idea how. It occurred to me the other day that they may have been opening the File/Windows Explorer and typing a URL into the folder path, which would then switch it to IE, but I've never been able to confirm.

Fortunately they're both on Windows 10 laptops now, and seem to like Chrome well enough. But even if they somehow trigger one of Microsoft's inane hard-coded associations to open up a webpage in Microsoft's browser, at least it's in Microsoft Edge instead of IE.
I have to plug Angel, too: https://angel-dart.github.io/
>Why assume that either training or playing Go involves only conscious decision making?

The author doesn't -- assume that. They just state that "the measured performance of conscious processing is only about 50 bits per second".

Not only they do not make any explicit assumption that that (conscious processing) is the only processing going on, but also by spelling out that 50 bits is just the "conscious" part, they already imply that there's is/might be also subconscious processing going...
It was always my understanding that the appeal of well-prepared pufferfish was that it would still contain minute amounts of toxin to create a prickly/numbing feeling in the mouth.
I don't know if anyone really gains from speeding up the process. On the flip-side, science can benefit by watching the process play out naturally.

Here's a related article about scientists learning about water erosion on Mars by observing the island from afar:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42169466
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
If you think through, analog books are like paper tape. It is possible that future robots will be able to browse analog books and "program" themselves