skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flower is most probably Beach Morning Glory, Ipomoea pes-caprae. Pes-cabrae means literally "goat's foot" (shape of the leaves) so is also called Goat's foot creeper and bayhops.

A good early coloniser and stabilizer of sand dunes in that case. Is not transported by animals as is said in the article; the plant is salt tolerant with floating seeds, able to cross the ocean alone with the sea currents

Ipomoea are normally poisonous (not eaten by most animals) but this species has some medicinal uses. Used as poultice from Brazil to Australia to alleviate cuts, it seems.

There is a second species also. Monocot in this case. I'm not able to identify it with that photo but Spinifex would be my first try (even better to fight against erosion and keep the soil in place).

Fascinating history.
Speed, Equity, and the Mobility Crisis: Ivan Illich in the Digital Era
IMHO net neutrality and zero rating are just the tip of the regulatory iceberg.

The really hard work of the regulator is to ensure that telcos don't abuse their access to spectrum and other resources. IMHO the best way to do this is to force telcos to give each other access to their infrastructure at a reasonable price. For example, when margins* are high enough, new virtual telcos must be able to start up with minimal infrastructure.

The consumer side does not need a lot of regulation. If there is enough competition, consumers will vote with their money.

Edit: Changed "prices" to "margins".
Maybe different settings for different regions, probably connected to GDPR. Directly translated the 3 info boxes I get say: Ads based on data from partners, ads based on your activity on Facebook Companies products (seems to be the one you have), and Ads based on your social activities (for instance pages you like). The 2 first can be set to not allow and the last to none.
All models are flawed. The question is not whether the market is efficient, but rather if it is useful to model the market as efficient for the purposes of economic research. Such a model does seem to work well in a lot of cases.
An Emirates A380 flies over my house on it's way to IAD most mornings as I'm walking to work.

It really is an amazing sight. It absolutely dwarves everything else in the sky.
I sense a touch of sarcasm, but yes it's a good idea to have a set of transparent, set rules that can be used to decide whether you will be able to repay, or whether you are set to enter into an ever increasing debt-spiral with a predatory company.
Are you based in the United States?

I'd check to see if there are barriers preventing someone with physical disabilities from actually getting a job at your employer.

This includes the physical building (is it ADA complaint? is there a ramp or wheelchair-accessible way through the front doors? are elevators in good working order and clean? are there wheelchair-accessible bathroom stalls in the bathrooms, or gender-neutral facilities that are big enough to turn a wheelchair around in?) as well as process (is the health insurance comparable or better to a megacorp? is the company established and financially successful? is there diversity in the age of folks working there? can people just leave in the middle of the day if they have a medical appointment and come back later?).

My experience at Google has been that folks care about all kinds of diversity: race (both PoC and white people), gender (women, men, non-binary, and so forth), sexual orientation, as well as physical and psychiatric/invisible/mental disabilities.

Your company is smaller, so it might be choosing to only focus on certain kinds of diversity that either helps the business grow in a certain area (say, recruiting), or helps the business in some other way (say, builds goodwill with the company's customers). If your company succeeds and grows, it may be later able to spend more money running more kinds of diversity programs.
To continue with the nitpicking: Although Doom was "originated" on NeXT the original NeXT implementation was only meant as debugging aid and did graphics output by essentially emulating VGA in user space and didn't support sound at all.

Also NeXT is more or less normal Unix workstation with m68k CPU and framebuffer and does not have convoluted architecture with tightly coupled various multimedia accelerators that Amiga has. And while the Amiga's architecture was good way to get impresive performance in 80's it is also the reason why Amiga could not keep up in the 90's as removing all the NTSC video related stuff would break backward compatibility.
While your comment is true, I'm not sure how it's relevant. `ToArray` is still operating on the `IEnumerable` produced by Select, which doesn't tell you that the Select is itself operating on an array.

The CLR does do some type checking to try to propagate the size if it can, but that's by no means guaranteed.

Edit: In skimming the source available on sourceof.net, it looks to me like the array doesn't actually get propagated far enough, so the construct in GP will in fact incur several unnecessary array copies.
Can Stoicism Make Us Happy?
The discussion is not so much about which encryption technology to use, but on whether browsers should silently redirect DNS traffic to big US companies.
I'm really surprised that Gumroad has such low gross margins. For April 2018 $65k gp on $273k revenue is 24% gm. It looks better in December $135k gp on $341k revenue is 40%, but still lower that what I would have thought. Is it credit card processing fees? Server costs? What am I missing?
The latest UI update on iOS moved the "Repeat" button to behind another menu, necessitating an additional tap. As someone who frequently toggles repeat, I now have an additional screen to tap through.
I thought that's for patentable stuff. Regular software should be owned by the creator if its created outside of work.
I agree that there is no 100% objective measure; however, that doesn't mean that we cannot look at common factors and get an overall idea.

Something along the lines of the degree to which one's life allows them to:
Meet their physical needs
Own a house/land
Raise a family
Have atonomy
Satisfy higher needs such as education, creativity, self improvement, etc.
Alcohol slowly destroys your liver even without poisoning.
> Comcast/Xfinity is illegally promoting their video services by delivering it over the same network, but zero rating their content, while charging customers overage fees for using 3rd party video services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video.

Given the repeal of federal net neutrality regs and California putting it's net neutrality rules on hold pending the result of a federal lawsuit, under what active law is the illegal?
I don't understand: is the author asking Apple and Google to ban "text messages" from the government?
Thats what my brain read it as well.
A VPN provider has a much better source of data to mine than just about anyone else. On top of that, figuring out which ones deserve to be trusted is near impossible.
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Prostitution in Haiti, during a major crisis, is bound to involve morally dubious or illegal things such as underage prostitutes, women being forced into it, and inadequate health care. Even in a best case scenario, it is debatable how free the decision is, when the alternative may well be abject poverty.
What do you mean class assignments? It may vary by university but at my school the studies we participated in were indeed being published. This also was not only for psychology majors but anybody who took 'psych 101' -- participation in at least 3 studies was required to receive credit for the class.

It was fun, but it was seriously disillusioning to see how absurd most psychology studies are. Two researchers talk to me for 5 minutes about women performing better than men on certain forms of math tests. They then sit me in a room alone for about 10 minutes presumably to try to make me nervous. Finally they give me a test, overtly handing me it on a pink sheet of paper instead of a white one. Then after the test they continually tried to get me to agree that I felt like I probably didn't do so well on the test. I refused - since I was certain I nailed it (it was a cookie cutter pre-sat math type test). They told me I'd receive my results by mail within 2 months. I never did. E-mails asking for such were ignored. The research got published and was of course some trite gender bias explains all difference in math paper.

At the time I just found the whole thing quite absurd. In hindsight, I think it was even worse. That study was prepped and ready for p-hacking. They were measuring and possibly varying a large number of variables there. There was the paper color, the isolation, the 'chat(s)', different sections of the test, were men/women over/under estimating their performance, etc. And they were actively trying to push people into agreeing with what they wanted to find. You're going to be able to find some sort of statistically significant correlation there, even if none actually exists.
So they didn't try them on random setup to determine whether bees are just good at "guessing" (i.e. sniffing out the right way)?
The only disappointment is that AMD's software stack is very lacking for compute. While, Nvidia commands absurd prices for 2080Ti with a mere 11GB GDDR6, Radeon's with 16 GB of HBM2 are closer to the memory spec of Titan V100.

OpenCL, while being a much cleaner API, suffers badly from the lack of quality libraries. The requirements aren't even that large for the killer application of DL - BLAS, a few convolution kernels, and random number generation. Darknet's {of the YOLO fame} interface to CUDA, for instance is composed of fewer than 10-15 functions.

AMD's efforts in this regards have not been very satisfactory IMO. Infact third party work such as CLBLAST are of much higher code quality than libraries like AMD's own CLBLAS (or it was). Sadly, AMD over the past few years has seems to have come under the belief that building a transpiler from CUDA bytecode to AMD's would be the magic bullet. It remains to be seen if this will suffice, but it does seem like a quixotic solution to a straightforward problem.

Had such a foundational software libraries (which mind you requires a lot of harware tailored optimization ) been perfected over the past few years (even while being multiple years behind NVDA), they could easily have turned the game, more so considering NVDA's shady tactics of banning GTX/RTX cards in the cloud.

I don't know what went wrong. It's not like AMD didn't have engineers working on ML applications; the direction seems misguided - AMD's engineers (unlike NVDIA's) seem to have focussed on porting frameworks onto low quality libraries, rather than securing the foundation. I'm afraid the ROCm effort will have the same effect.
I don't believe it does, at least not in a typical configuration.

The only true double-deckers are the 747 and the A380. Some other wide-bodies have been configured with a galley below the passenger deck, so flight crew have stairs but not passengers.

Maybe there's a variant with lavatories below deck? If so, it's not common.
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It is so much easier to get a refund in Europe if being stonewalled on support. The legal liability rests with the retailer (Certainly in the UK, I think it's EU wide), and there are the concepts of "merchantable quality" and "expected life" that vary depending on the product and cost. Plenty of case law establishing those as quite high bars. If they ever get problematic quote the magic words of the title of the Act. Refund usually agreed, even at 6 or 12 months, sometimes much longer.

That's after the UK took a step or two down in consumer protection in adopting the EU regulations.

Where we do less well, particularly among the younger generation, is a belief that 30 day return windows and other such fairy tales actually mean anything legally speaking. I think that might be thanks to reading so many US perspectives online.
Cool story! Makes me think I should write my own up someday.

However, one thing I find odd. The story talks about the creators and how important they are. But when I go to gumroad.com looking to see all these creators, I see how to sign up as a creator, but don't actually find the pages of other creators. Where are they all? After reading the article, I don't get how the business works, I guess. The article led me to believe it was similar to Etsy where creators sell their wares. Is that not the case here?
Scaling to a billion dollar company in that market was certainly attainable. Patreon started two years after Gumroad and now look where they are. Gumroad had a movers first advantage - so I really disagree with the quote. Had they continued to push feature development and tweak PMF they could have been a billion dollar company.

Don't take that as a slight to Gumroad either. Building a profitable business from almost going under and now generating close to $1m in annual profits is an incredible feat. But I do disagree with the point that the market wasn't ready (as clearly demonstrated by the success of others).
Jesus Christ. I've eaten crickets for the novelty, but now I won't until I'm absolutely sure they're not holding those huge parasitic worms.
I hope they force FB to destroy all information harvested on users in the past too.
Ah, that's probably the one I was thinking off. I second your non-recommendation. After all the hype, it was underwhelming.
>works really well

Yes it works, but the setup can get messy. It used to break Ubuntu for me (like beyond repair and needed a full reinstall).

I agree, I wish there was more consensus about how to lock down DNS traffic. It's surprising to me that it's taken this long to start getting mainstream recognition. DNSCrypt is probably best positioned to become a standard if anything. I'm going to give the latest version a try (the one that broke for me was a couple of years ago) hopefully it's better than before.
3.5 Tflops at double precision. The applied math/scientific computation people are going to love this.
I know some embedded/kernel devs and they don't take Rust very seriously. I don't think it has a lot of mindshare in industry among the kind of people who currently write C.

Even if all new code was written in safe languages we would still need to do fuzzing until all legacy code was rewritten -- operating systems, SSL libraries, browsers, load balancers, etc.
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It's similar, but far more resource efficient.
Due to the way Cassandra and Scylla works, the SSTables contain a specific token range and each node is responsible for a part of the token range.

sstable copying is possible, but the two clusters must have the exact same topology, with the exact number of nodes, and each node pre-configured to have the exact same tokens in their ownership.

That's rarely the case in practice. When it is, we always recommend copying SSTables.
you'd probably get around .1% as an early jr person. assuming a 4 year vest period, that .1% will have been diluted to maybe .05%, so assuming a $10b valuation it comes out to $5m. Still not bad, but a far cry from $200m.
It's crazy that you care about the money, being in your mid-20s with a company pulling in 60k USD net/month puts you squarely in the pretty much unlimited money category of the world.
It may not be illegal, but they're using their monopoly provider position (they are the only broadband provider in my city) to harm consumers, so it needs to stop.
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If you consider all finite sequences of positive integers with all values below some limit M, it might be the case that there are more arithmetic sequences than geometric sequences. I don't think that's relevant to the article, but might be where your head was when you made that post.
It's never too late! :) Those are 36-bit machines if I remember correctly and it would be very cool to play around with them.
It’s an interesting aircraft and nice to fly in, but commercially it was the wrong plane with the wrong technology at the wrong time.

Boeing got some flack at the time when they canceled their own superjumbo plans but history now shows they were spot on shifting their focus to the 787 and getting a head start on the efficient midsize long range jet market.
I'm torn; it's my least favourite of Culture novels, and I almost consider it an early trial, very different in spirit and nature than the rest; but I can see how it'd be an obvious choice for a movie/series: it has the most action/adventure feel and a simple linear storyline (even if you account for the "twist" of who the good guys / bad guys are). There's a single protagonist, we focus largely on him, and he goes out and has adventures in space.

Whereas something like Excession - that can never ever be a movie, really...:-/
Wells Fargo online banking and mobile app down
The bigger, separate issue, is that billion dollar companies fit a certain mold, not one you should ever strive for to be honest. Just do a quick manual analysis of the top companies of the world and you will pick up patterns in them that Gumroad would never have had.
Alcohol is an unusual case because it's so much easier to make than any other drug. You can even make it by accident, e.g. by leaving fruit juice out uncovered. When prisoners sometimes make "prison wine" without getting caught, you have little hope of enforcing a ban in the general population.
> So under socialism when people work, they work always and only for themselves or as part of a cooperative that they are an equal owner of.

The thing is that all new businesses start that way already. People, including workers, sell their shares in businesses to outside investors - sometimes even ceding their control into how the business is run, thus becoming "wage labor" at least to some extent - for all sorts of reasons. This does not make such transactions "non-voluntary"!
They kinda have to if they want it to appear that things will be business as usual with a new owner. Since Startup was the first Gimlet podcast and set the tone for the company and lineup, ignoring a story that would fit it so well would totally ruin that tone.
Germany just told Facebook to stop tracking users around the internet
The A340 in a few airlines (Lufthansa for sure, others probably too) has a set of lavatories below deck. So other than the 747 and A380 that’s the only other plane I can think of with stairs for passengers.
Soo... I thought this was a competitor to Yarn or NPM itself from the title... It's not. It's for publishing NPM packages. It'd be nice if the title of this was what they have on their site as it more accurately describes what this is: "npm package building, reimagined."
This seems like a non-issue since it supports changing the key combinations with environmental variables. Anyone who uses Ctrl-K regularly (which I imagine is not the majority of shell users) can override the combo in their shell's rc file.
Demolition Man had cars that were primarily self driving too.
Step 1: Convince everyone that the goals of anti-trust are low prices, not breaking up the consolidation of corporate power.

Step 2: Cripple the regulatory powers of the government by convincing everyone that government is the problem.

Step 3: Soak your now captive customers in a regulatory friendly / competion-free environment.
That doesn't look bad. I might actually want to write apps now.
It's present in some newer projects, notably Fuchsia.
For those with access to the BBC iPlayer, it’s available to watch at the moment.
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The unfortunate reality is that this is perfectly legal.

I feel you are out of the loop with the whole net neutrality fiasco (https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality)
"It'd be hard to give up my precious parentheses though."

Yeah, that's the "Lispiness".

Elixir does have macros, but I still don't think any macro system is as powerful or user friendly without S-expressions.

It's kind of the last step of a language becoming just another Lisp.
If it's an abuse of monopoly issue, the FTC is the venue you want.
You can check out my github repos: https://github.com/aap/pdp6, https://github.com/aap/pdp10, but best check out the group if you actually want to run something: https://github.com//pdp-10
The big question is: what is the reference?
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This is an excellent overview.
My biggest takeaway from this was that his parents refused to ever see him as anything other than a disabled child that played too many computer games.
Think Anandtech has made a mistake with the price of the Instinct card.
I've seen it on streaming sites before. You can definitely purchase it even now.

https://www.amazon.com/They-Shall-Not-Grow-Blu-ray/dp/B07KJV...
In the future, Eurasia will rule the world
Reading about a 19 year old kid, grinding through that incredible ordeal is just awe inspiring. I think his constant re-focusing on creating value for creators and employees first has been his guardrail against total failure in toughest of times - I'm glad to see he powered through.
Yes, that's right. DT can kill, a property alcohol addiction shares only with benzos to my knowledge.

There is something to be said however about the relative addictiveness of alcohol and opiods. Most consumers of alcohol don't experience any negative symptoms at all when they go weeks without drinking, because most people who drink alcohol do it with insufficient intensity and frequency to develop an addiction. Most people never experience the side effects of cannabis withdrawal for the same reason (which are physiologically terrifying but not physically dangerous.)

I know some people claim to be casual consumers of heroin. But I also know from personal experience that opiod addicts are liars. I've known one person killed by alcohol (a drunk driver, not DT) but three who were proscribed pain killers (two for workplace injuries, the other because his morbid obesity was causing back pain...) Before they wound up dead, each of these people turned into lying manipulators seeking more and more drug as their tolerance grew.

The medical industry needs a lot more regulation. A fat person never should have been prescribed opium derivatives to treat pain caused by the strain his obesity was putting on his skeleton. That man got himself into medical trouble in the first place by having very poor self control, and instead of treating that psychological deficiency or treating his weight gain, the doctor gives him powerful addictive pain killers to mask the pain? That doctor belongs in prison. I know three people who took doctor prescribed doses for no more than a few weeks and got hooked and eventually killed. The alcohol industry is bad, but it's not that bad. The pharma/medical industry is getting away with murder and few are critical of it.

EDIT:

> "The alcohol industry is bad, but it's not that bad."

I regret that phrasing. I believe on an individual level that opiods are more addictive than alcohol, but the alcohol and tobacco industries are scum on par with the painkiller industry and I would love to see them punished with very harsh regulation. Banning alcohol from television/radio/billboards would be a great start. I believe some countries also restrict tobacco to plain packaging, white cartons with black lettering. I'd like to see that brought to America and applied to the alcohol industry as well.

The corporate lobbying against such regulation would be intense, but I think it would be worth the fight.
NGO jobs are not better paid than equivalent jobs in industry. I have plenty of friends in those jobs, and each one of them could easily triple their salary by, for example, going to McKinsey instead.

To give more than anecdotes: it’s self-evident that more prestigious work can afford to pay less than competitors that are boring and get you spit at by your friends.