skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where the reader’s imagination can fill in the gaps.

Paper will survive magnetic fields , heat, and rapid changes in temperature that traditional storage won’t. It’s also cheap and disposable. Maybe one or more of these is an issue when trying to cost-effectively get the initial programming into these things. We conveniently don’t really know how they work.
There is no objective measure of quality of life. It might well be that you personally would rather be poor there than here, but it's not an objective and verifiable statement, and it could easily go the other way. It depends on which factors that you, personally, rate highest.
It's such a shame; I've been following Alex's work for years now. It was his podcasts (specifically Planet Money) which got me into podcasts in the first place. Now it looks like he sold up to let his company die at Spotify.

I hope that we'll hear the full story eventually and, of course, that this will prove to be a move for the better.
Indeed. GP said exactly that!
Star Trek's society never made much _sense_, though. If you exclude all the utopian speeches given by Picard, and just look at the interaction of the Federation and Starfleet, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a military dictatorship.

(Pet theory; the Federation is a Soviet-ish military command economy. The episodes we see are in-universe propaganda produced by the state. That's why everyone is so heroic, and why all of the rival civilisations are mostly one-dimensional stereotypes.)

I think Banks' Culture is a better example of a utopia played straight, but most of the action in those novels takes place largely outside the Culture.
I still use TrackJS for primary error reporting, but FullStory happens to capture them as well and they show them inline with the viewing session in a mock console. It's a nice little feature and can be convenient.
But under this view how is talk therapy not more bullshit than research, or vs more evidence based psychiatry?
I suppose you also think people who leave a lawn gnome outside when they live in a high traffic area are just asking to be vandalized? Opportunity is no excuse for theft.
Whoa, don’t pull back the curtain too much.

But yeah, it’s definitely a plot convenience. In addition to your very good point it was also a way for Herbert to make transportation through space a monopoly. Technology can be stolen but without computers the Spacing Guild pilots were the secret sauce.
Some Thoughts on Facial Recognition Legislation
Alcohol also has the self-limiting property of consumption being marginally reversible. I can throw up a stomach full of vodka, but I can't throw up a vein full of heroin. Certainly alcohol poisoning deaths still occur, but far fewer of them occur than if throwing up weren't possible.

Even so, I think more regulation, not less, of the alcohol industry is a good idea. Hitting the alcohol industry with advertising bans as harsh as the tobacco industry has would probably do a lot of good. Regulations requiring plain packaging might also do some good.
> The idea behind Gumroad was simple: Creators and others should be able to sell their products directly to their audiences with quick, simple links. No need for a storefront.

Then:

> For the type of business we were trying to build, every month of less than 20% growth should have been a red flag.

According to what metric? This isn't meant to be snarky, but that type of growth rounds out to about 900% over the course of a year. Even if it meant that they'd grow 20% in the first month and had profits plateau immediately (i.e. 20% -> 16% -> 14% -> 12.5%), that's still 240% growth over the first year. What kind of business expects 900% to be the minimum growth over the first year?
Thank you for addressing the only point on this list which shows any promise - a renewed commitment to Trust Busting.

I have a similar take on technology - new industries are nice, but without some serious push, each is going to take time to get started. If we wait for the "market" to drive solar panel adoption by itself, foreign competition is going to choke out domestic firms.

This list lost me at more Supply Side "Economics". Both US political parties have been trying variations on this theme continuously since 1980. As far as Im concerned, this is the problem, not the solution. The same goes for disingenuous Corporate Libertarianism, German-style subsidies, and whatever other model you can invent to pretend this still works.

The real solution? Workers need to tell their bosses, "F%$k You, Pay Me." In all seriousness, driving for Uber or Lyft is just a way to devalue your vehicle for pay that rarely keeps pace with such and gas.

Inflation continues, even as workers see their pre-inflation average wages remain constant. Its almost like the economy doesn't really include us anymore.

Your economy is struggling? Maybe you should pay us enough to participate, boss.
Kind of. Usually these trope-filled stories make a mountain out of some small setback, but this story genuinely feels like the company had some major setbacks.
>Among their recommendations is preventing tech platforms from vertically integrating into different lines of business, where they can potentially favor their own services and harm rivals. In this view, Facebook shouldn’t be allowed to own Instagram.

Weird, I would argue that Facebook buying Instagram was a horizontal integration.

Amazon buying cloudflare is more something I'd think is vertical but it's possible I just don't understand the terms.
I love your story Sahil, it is so true that people equate 'wealth' with 'success' but that is short sighted. If you step back and look at the big picture, you're on this planet for anywhere from 70 to 100 years, and at the end of that time there are two metrics, the number of people you helped and the amount of wealth you amassed and held on to, which number is a better representative of 'success'?

Working on things you enjoy, making a positive impact on people's lives, and raising a new generation to carry on where you left off, that is success.

Stay focused there and you might accidentally accumulate so much wealth you have to work at putting it to use helping people like Bill does!
"inability to get enough people to know about it, and to understand how it would fit their needs?"

Just from visiting the landing page for gumroad.com, I wasn't clear about what the company did. Some questions that came to my mind:

By e-commerce, is it like shopify or like stripe? By audience-building software, is that SEO, marketing, or analytics?

Just writing the feedback I like to get from others. The features page answered most of my questions in general(I think its an online store platform for digital goods?).
Uber and Lyft are hardly Rosa Parks. They mostly use their size to bully around smaller localities that can’t handle the pressure.

If they truly believed that taxi regulations were onerous they’d fight them wherever they exist. Uber and Lyft left Austin in protest because they felt a fingerprinting requirement was too onerous, and they didn’t come back until Texas overruled them; but they already comply with such a regulation in New York! And this is before we get into their other controversies, like Uber India obtaining a customer’s medical report after she got raped in one of their cars.
For clarification, the entire process isn't done in front of a PC in the showroom and everything you do in the showroom you can also do from home.

In the showroom you customize your vehicle, place a reservation order, and pay an initial order amount (e.g. ~$3500 for the Model 3). You'll then receive two emails, the first confirms your order and the second provides you next steps you must perform.

The next steps are:

1 - Select Delivery Location

2 - Provide copies of Driver's License

3 - Provide proof of Vehicle Insurance

4 - Provide Payment Method

5 - Process Trade-In

The steps don't have to be completed in any particular order but I was instructed to wait on steps 3 and 4 until after I received a hard delivery date from Tesla.

It's all handled electronically and is relativity simple. The Payment can also be done upon delivery.
I have to say, this was a very pleasant read. I expected it to be a thinly vield ad for some new business, but it was actually very insightful.

Seems to me like the author's failure taught them a valuable lesson about what they actually valued vs. what they thought they valued.

I would like to see more tech companies like Gumroad; that is companies whose focus is not on IPO and quick aquisition, but instead, on the quality of their product/service and the prosperity of the customers/users.
If anything, I'd have said the opposite. There's a fair bit of hard-ish, no-ftl (and often even no near-light), no magic scifi around right now.
3.4 is EOL at the end of March, so we'll be seeing less and less of it.
This is a marketing article, but at least it's fun to read.
Some podcasts I've listened to recently have had local ads injected into them at the start/end. I can tell it's happening because it takes a few seconds for a download to progress after I start it.
You are able to browse anything? Mine tends to crash on most of the pages; luckily I can still use it for ebooks reading with Readdle's Documents since default app also has memory problems
Yeah, the example was a pretty poor one. Your quote about pricing wasn't far off from what Apple was trying to do; I heard somebody say they're realizing that the smart phone market is saturated and seeing how high they can pump the price before it matters; and you and I both think they found it.

> I just don't see it as such an exciting brand anymore

The stock market also doesn't see it as exciting anymore. The market has had this view since Steve Jobs was alive; where Apple's P/E places it below value and dividend stock (it trades at half the multiple of Duke Energy). In order for you, or Warren Buffet to think Apple is a good value investment, it only has to be ~1/2 as exciting as Microsoft or Duke Energy.
Ha, didn't expect to find my own comment there.

I also mentioned selling jQuery plugins (remember jQuery?) and advertising my own game engine (now free) in the thread. Feels like such a long time ago.

Gratz for pulling it off, Sahil!
Go has to be better than that. Java beats Python by a factor of 10, and C beats Java by a factor of 10. C is beating Python by a factor of 100. I would expect Go to be a bit faster than Java.
Let's not forget that while you added marijuana as an example of this, it's both not currently entirely allowed, and for a very long time was classified as highly dangerous. It's a good example of not only how the government can get this wrong, but how it is also is susceptible to being swayed by politics (both as a constituency wants something whether justified or not, and as a scapegoat for political ends). In that respect, alcohol is actually a counter-example to some degree as well, since it arguably causes quite a large harm to others every year through drunk driving, yet it's politically untenable to ban it (again).
They're not really congruent products… if anything Gumroad is more similar to Stripe. But to take your question seriously, I'd far rather hack together a shopping site and use Gumroad for payments than grapple with Shopify again, they give me a migraine.

Gumroad is also going to have some new opportunities if Patreon continues to struggle with their similar deal-with-the-devil.

+1 Gumroad, glad to see it's found a way to thrive.
I haven't check the wording of the diversity initiatives. I am just observing that there are no people with physical disabilities in the building.
I'm not only talking about technology, but also critical infrastructure and transportation, both of which had breakthroughs in the 20th century with the development of cars and planes, as well as the development of AC transmission and the electric grid.
Here's an analysis/walk-through of the Snowflake code:

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/snowflake-archeology
Having gotten particularly bored by pattern fitting algorithms, researches have now diverted their attention back to organic NNs.
> Why not have a simple `class` construct as in JavaScript? Keeping functions together in a class is very convenient and means you don't have to pass the struct as the first argument each time.

This already seems to have a way to associate functions with data structures, in the same way that methods are done in Go, via a "receiver" before the function name

Eg.

type Something{}
fn (self mut Something) method() { ... }

and calling the method with an instance

x := Something{}
x.method()
In heath care, education, etc. It is deliberate. Otherwise, it is due to the natural change in the economy. Prices will always rise as more money is in the country. In a theoretical free market, inflation always exists due to the money supply as more money is required. The Fed is tampering with the money supply to induce growth. Growth in money supply = inflation in a vacuum.
The US Military Is Chopping Up Its Iron Man Suit for Parts
Yeah, that was Paul Allen not Gates, and he wrote the bootloader on the plane. The interpreter was already finished.

Only full on Gates program I've ever heard of is Donkey.bas
Yeah, centralization against censorship is oxymoron.
Tips for running free dynos on Heroku in 2019
How to make your ex want you back badly
It's also an unsustainable growth rate. But of course, VCs know that. They just need something that can front load the growth like that and unload it on the public before that growth plateaus... or plummets.
If he stayed he might have ended up in an executive position, getting additional stock grants down the line.
I think the point was more that it shouldn’t be that easy to break a desktop.
Often its the hidden disabilities that get overlooked.
> The only real issue RSS has is that ads have to be baked in. Sadly I don't know if we could have an open system with personalized ads.

Who wants personalized ads? When you watch the Superbowl, or flip through a People magazine, or look around the terminal while waiting for the train - does the lack of personalized ads seem like a problem?

I can't think of anything that personalized ads have ever made better.
Combining multiple beams into a single white beam is an answer, but is horribly inefficient. A better (ie brighter) approach is to scan with multiple beams, overlaying them as necessary to create various colors. It would be more complex (3x moving parts, more alignment) but the net result would be faster scanning and a greater percentage of laser time being used.
Moore's Law and the Seven Devices
Top-End Products for Programmers – Develop in Style
If the cloud companies do not respond to you, what are you going to do?

Use another, without having to cancel my whole Internet service, just by changing a configuration.

That said, I think the ISP should probably be the default.
The GOP Is Introducing Another Fake Net Neutrality Bill
FWIW, the popular alternative to software I had in my mind is starting a restaurant. It's pretty hard to do that in 6 months and usually costs a lot more up front than software.

You have a good point. My wife started teaching piano lessons after I quit my job, and her studio was at full capacity before my business was making any money. She's been at it for a while, but like your friend she's also experiencing a loss of motivation to continue doing it.

You're right that single person & analog face-to-face services are very easy businesses to start. I have to wonder if those are the kind that Sweden is actually encouraging with their leave program. These kinds of businesses don't scale at all, there's a growth wall that most people never get over, even when they're among the few that survive the motivation problem. This is especially true when the business is initially launched as a personal service and needs very little planning or investment.
Both capitalism and socialism have been applied in the kinds of totalitarian contexts you are describing. The real question is more fundamental: for whose benefit does government exist? Is it for the powerful or the powerless?

There is a vast ocean of possibilities between paying everybody the same and regressive class-preserving exploitation disguised under lofty free-market ideals.
The GitHub Pull Requests extension for VS Code is really neat. It inlines a lot of the PR workflow into VS Code.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.v...

The extension is open source and the extension points it uses are all relatively well documented. I'm almost surprised there aren't more extensions doing similar things. (I don't believe that even the Azure Repos extension currently supports an inline PR experience like this.)
To be honest, for many purposes it is good enough. I love this machine. The Vega 64 inside the iMac Pro even has 16GB instead of the standard 8GB.
It is quite possibly one of the most ridiculous notions that we cannot track aircraft in a timely and accurate manner in 2019. It is hard to belive that we can tracks almost anything and anywhere a person does or goes, yet, airplanes disappear over the ocean.

While it is great to hear that this may be a thing of the past, it is embarrassing that this hasn't been solved decades ago.
AMD Radeon VII: A 7nm-long step in the right direction, but is that enough?
This is the book that inspired me to create a WebGL knot gallery (https://prideout.net/knotgl/) which I eventually rewrote using Filament (https://prideout.net/knotess/).
Startups. To choose a recent one that turned big, Facebook was approaching such numbers: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pict...
> “That's because the airline industry didn't return profits to investors; instead the vast value created by the industry accrued overwhelmingly to the public, because of competition.“

rhur?

competition is essential to capitalism; monopoly returns to investors are not. no one is even guaranteed a profit. you describe exactly how capitalism is designed to work.

this kind of basic misunderstanding is part of why we’re in the mess we’re in. economics and finance should really be required in high school.
Machine Learning and the Continuum Hypothesis
South Park gets it best: https://imgflip.com/i/2t3msg

From the episode of "Canada on Strike": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_h_HBzZnc
No individual statute can encompass all possibilities hence the need for case law to clarify the law - it's a distinguishing characteristic of common law systems and, at least with respect to interpretation of statutes, also civil law systems.
> at the end of that time there are two metrics, the number of people you helped and the amount of wealth you amassed and held on to, which number is a better representative of 'success'?

Let's not forget personal satisfaction. I'm a little leery of putting the entire assessment of my life onto other people (even though if I was going to, I could do a lot worse than number of people helped).

Hopefully helping other people leads to some amount of personal satisfaction for most people, and they'll have a fairly good life and good impact on others by the end. :)
I think a large part of this depends on how long you've been with the company and what the team dynamics currently are. If you're new, this may be seen as you trying to "make your mark" and the management may feel challenged. If you're an established, trusted member of the team, then present a data driven cost/benefit analysis that will support your case. Present it in their language - management may be persuaded that an MVP carries lower risk and the potential for quicker reward.
AMD Radeon VII Linux Benchmarks
If you sold them something then you should send them an invoice. Or, did you agree to their terms and conditions of using their website/mobile app voluntarily?

This makes no sense to me.
True, companies have so much money. Where that's money going! Paying off "creative accounting debt" and stock buybacks, which make shareholders happy but undermine the economy in the long run.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/123115/4-rea...
https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/does-a-stock-buyback-a...
You need to read more carefully. There are a series of "if" statements in the above comment, along with some statements expressing my unwillingness to argue some points. Only you can say whether the "if" statements apply to you. Only you can say whether you will try to argue any of those points.
My father had Muscular Dystrophy and enjoyed computer games that allowed him to do things he could never do. He was a particular fan of Microsoft Flight Simulator and we would spread out the big maps of airfields and plot courses and enjoy the virtual freedom of a city or country with the expansion packs.

I think if he were alive today, he'd probably have a VR headset.

Looking back I regret the times that I, in my ignorance, nagged him about still being on the computer and just gliding along the sky.
> "inability to get enough people to know about it, and to understand how it would fit their needs?"

It's a bit ironic that one of the main features of the product is "audience building for creators".
Probably a fraction of that. Dilution etc.

My guess is he’ll make more from Gumroad over the long run.
What makes her a moron? Do you have something of more substance than a personal attack?
This is a fantastic job with code analysis and Norbert, the author, helped me out with advice a lot. Highly recommended!
One can implement the pricing model used by Sketch, and do it via In-App purchases. Pay and get updates for a year. After that no new features work in your copy or any updates to your copy, unless you pay again.

https://www.sketchapp.com/pricing/
Wells Fargo Outage Map
When you join Fast Garden we try to make it clear which datasets are in demand and how they'll be used, for example, location data or purchase behavior. Because of this, payment from companies to sellers is quick. We're testing the details right now; should we pay people in monthly or weekly micropayments? or pay people in yearly sums that are larger? It depends on the goals of the people sharing their data. We've already gotten interest from people who are used to selling their information because unlike a platform like Survey Monkey, we'll create payment predictability for people who sell their information over time.
What are you talking about? The point of inflation is to encourage the spending and investment of money. It doesn’t really have anything to do with unemployment.
LM is doing something like this. See Lockheed Martin Verge:

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/verge.html
Maybe a future season of 'Startup' will cover it
>Who wants personalized ads?

Advertisers
I find it frustrating that this environmental package is tied in with left economic proposals that republicans will have a much harder time with.

although I personally support guaranteed jobs and single payer healthcare, I think the urgency of the climate situation means passing legislation to solve it without getting bogged down by non-climate related economic policies.
Hal Manifesto
Better: What can conferences do to attract speakers who want to speak and who are good at it?
Ad networks already have mechanisms for podcasts to choose timestamps, so they can be injected in the middle as well.
The Swingin' Lindy: Origins of a Legacy
Better loop mounting using NBD
And copying from mine, regarding binary size:

So, https://github.com/polachok/fahrenheit is a toy executor that's trying to emulate tokio. It's still not really written for size; it assumes you have an OS, so it's also a bit bigger than you might do for true embedded. Its server example ends up being ~300k.

I also tried https://github.com/mgattozzi/async-await-class, which doesn't work with the OS, and is pretty basic. It's a bit outdated (` nightly-2018-08-18 `), also not written for size, but it ends up being ~155k.

Finally, https://github.com/Nemo157/embrio-rs is explicitly for embedded. Its "hello" example weighs in at ~38k.